I don't for a moment believe that the ruling would in any way protect a Democrat

The idea is to create a situation where it gets tied up in lower courts until after Trump is inaugurated again, at which point, everything Trump does is an official act, and he can't be held responsible for anything, while also leaving room fro the courts to hold Biden and future Democrats responsible for innocuous acts.

Except that he's not a Republican, so the royal perogative isn't allowed by the courts

No paywall, just registration. Use a throwaway email

Registration wall, not money

Trump substantially closed the funding gap

The outcome of the election is very much in doubt, and the reality is that Trump could win and put in place his dream of a thousand years of rich rapists

They were asked, and Trump just gave blather which didn't respond to the question. Biden responded to his blather

And here I was thinking "crime" in public surveys meant "I see people with darker skin than me sometimes" rather than any kind of actual criminal behavior.

Not entirely though actually getting anything past the courts is going to mean something like expanding the court to disempower the Republicans there.

That's probably become increasingly untenable. So he just responds with nonsense instead of a meaningful answer.

Yes, once the anti-vax anti-mask folks got their footing, it was pretty much guaranteed that we'd see a lot of deaths.

But what does "has to" mean anyways? The reality is motivated judge can rule pretty much anything as "ambiguous"

The debate has had a remarkably slight impact on public opinion to date. It's not clear that it'll shift things in any kind of meaningful way.

Getting something done means having enough Democrats in the Senate who want to change the rules. That's a tough lift

There are things we could have done better; the US isn't some island of perfection, but it was on the whole, a decent response after Biden took office.

Smallpox is a disease where vaccination once protects you for life.

The current round of vaccines for COVID protect you for several months.

There's a difference in outcomes because of that. I'll also note that a big chunk of China didn't get vaccinated either, and that we have a really active anti-vax contingent in the US with the support of Trump and the other Republicans.

It's not the end; it's not something that ever ends, in the same way that influenza still kills people.

But vaccines got us from a disease that was killing an awful lot more people to one where it's one that kills a few.

Yes actually — he started sabotaging pandemic response as soon as it became known that in the absence of vaccines, the disease would disproportionately harm minority communities which have less access to care.

If you're in the US, the basic answer looks like this:

• Talk to people about what they're actually doing and what's going on.
• Check your voter registration so you can actually vote against them
• volunteer when you can
• provide what financial support you can to both the Presidential candidate and to those downballot.

It means his team arranged for actual delivery, federal payments, and not just dumping it on the system, which weren't prepared