People are acting shocked-shocked, I tell you!-that the Trump/GOP strategy on coronavirus is essentially one of promoting herd immunity with the possible downside of as many as 2.5 million dead Americans.

We shouldn't be surprised. It's simply the logical extension of conservative policies on pretty much everything for the past 90 years-policies that have killed a hell of a lot more than just 2.5 million people.

Republicans simply don't believe it's part of the job of government to provide for the "general welfare" of the American people; instead, government-in their minds-should only run the police and the military, while maintaining a stable currency so business can function.

Read more here.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "An 'Awe Walk' Might Do Wonders for Your Well-Being" by Gretchen Reynolds.

Article: "Chris Christie still hospitalized with Covid six days after ex-New Jersey governor fell ill as condition remains secret" by Patrick Knox.

Article: "Trump's First TV Appearance Since Getting Virus" by Taegan Goddard.

Video: Donald J. Trump, Oct 8, 2020.

Article: "Vice President Mike Pence Abruptly Cancels Events to Return to DC" by Emily Bicks.

Article: "Pence's Red Eye Raises COVID Concerns" by Aaron Gould Sheinin.

Article: "Pelosi introduces bill under 25th Amendment for commission to evaluate fitness of future presidents" by Dylan Stableford.

Article: "Dr. Sanjay Gupta Alarmed by Trump's Hannity Interview Coughing: 'I Hadn't Heard That Before ... He Sounds Sick'" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Chris Wallace Hammers Trump, Says His Behavior Justifies Debate Rule Changes" by Justin Baragona.

Article: "Trump won't do next debate after it goes virtual; Biden schedules solo town hall in its place" by Nicholas Wu, Joey Garrison.

Article: "Here are the differences between the Democratic and Republican stimulus bills" by Katie Lobosco, Tami Luhby, Christopher Hickey and Janie Boschma.

Article: "New $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Bill Proposed-$1,200 Stimulus Checks, $600 Unemployment Benefits And More" by Zack Friedman.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett Signed Ad Supporting End Of 'Barbaric' Roe v. Wade" by Melissa Jeltsen.

Article: "WATCH: Michigan Sheriff Says Maybe Plotters Were Trying to 'Arrest' Whitmer in Jaw-Dropping Interview" by Leia Idliby.

Article: "Canada's September job gains top estimates, jobless rate falls" by Reuters.

Article: "Canada reports 1,795 new Covid-19 cases" by IANS.

Article: "Coronavirus: Anti-mask protesters charged by Toronto police with breaking Quarantine Act" by Global News.

Article: "Study Finds 'Single Largest Driver' of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Armed Man Who Allegedly Stormed Trudeau's Residence Appears to Have Posted QAnon Content" by Mack Lamoureux.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Trump's Covid Treatments Were Tested in Cells Derived From Fetal Tissue" by Apoorva Mandavilli and Nathalia Holt.

Article: "State religion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coughing Trump struggles to speak as he dodges Sean Hannity's questions about his COVID-19 tests" by Roger Sollenberger.

Article: "Bretton Woods system" by Wikipedia.

Article: "NATO" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%-And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer, David M. Rolf.

Video: Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good" Full Speech.

Book: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

Book: "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. "And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

Quote: "There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Maggie Thatcher.

Book: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman.

Book: Humankind by Peter Farb.

Article: "Did Glenn Beck's rhetoric inspire violence?" by Brad Knickerbocker.

Article: "George Tiller" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Manson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Twilight of Fox News" by Derek Thompson.

Hour Two: Issues of the Day
- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Trump says he will not negotiate on COVID relief until after election" by Alayna Treene, Zachary Basu.

Article: "Trump Agrees To $1.8 Trillion Stimulus Deal In Counter-Offer To Pelosi" by Terina Allen.

Article: "Net neutrality" by Wikipedia.

Site: Raw Story

Site: Daily Kos

Article: "25th Amendment" (presidential succession).

Article: "Armenian Genocide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "President Erdogan is 'trying to reinstate the Turkish empire' with 'terrorist attacks' supporting Azerbaijan in Karabakh, Armenian PM claims" by Charlotte Mitchell.

Article: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Camp of the Saints" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Simon of Trent" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Blood libel" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "More Americans have died from COVID than died in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea combined. The scale of this tragedy is unconscionable. Please wear a mask. Listen to doctors." by Ro Khanna.

Article: "White House not contact tracing Rose Garden event considered possible 'superspreader': report" by Brooke Seipel.

Article: "Fed's Main Street lending inches up as balance sheet holds above $7 trillion" by Reuters.

Article: "25th Amendment Section 4" "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..."

Article: "Health of Abraham Lincoln" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Where are all of the arrests?': Trump demands Barr lock up his foes" by Kyle Cheney.

Article: "If the President Had HIV He Could Be in Prison" by Laura Flanders.

Article: "Pence postpones plans to vote early in Indiana" by Brett Samuels.

Documentary: SiCKO - Michael Moore.

Article: "History of Canada's Public Health Care" by Canadian Health Coalition.

Article: "Rep. Khanna Introduces State-based Universal Health Care Act, Landmark Step Toward A National Medicare For All Plan" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "California Proposition 15, Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative (2020)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Trump Engineered A Sudden Windfall In 2016 As Campaign Funds Dwindled" by Susanne Craig, Mike McIntire and Russ Buettner.

Article: "Neo-Nazism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Enlightening CNN graphic re: Murders committed by domestic terrorists" by catbyte.

Article: "Wray: Racially motivated violent extremism makes up most of FBI's domestic terrorism cases" by Olivia Beavers.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'They're domestic terrorists': Michigan governor objects to calling men charged in kidnapping plot 'militias'" by William Cummings.

Article: "Coronavirus: Spike in stroke deaths in patients with only minor Covid-19 symptoms" by Ariana Eunjung Cha.

Article: "Here are 8 reasons COVID is so much worse than the skeptics think" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'We Need to Take Away Children,' No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said" by Michael D. Shear, Katie Benner and Michael S. Schmidt.

Article: "Christian Non-Profit Faces Scrutiny Over Government Foster Care Contract for Separated Children" by Dan MacGuill.

Article: "Public Health Insurance Option"(Public Option) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Warning Fundamental Rights and American Lives at Stake, 5,000+ Lawyers Urge Senate to Reject Barrett" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Renminbi jumps by most in 15 years as China returns to work" by Hudson Lockett, Eva Szalay.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Guardian view on herd immunity: yes it was 'part of the plan'" (UK) by The Guardian.

Article: "Mortality in the most affected countries" by Johns Hopkins.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Calvin Coolidge Takes the Oath of Office by the Light of a Kerosene Lamp" by New England Historical Society.

Article: "Oath of office of the President of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Republican Party is sociopathic: If you didn't know that already, the health care bill should make it clear" by Chauncey Devega.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obamacare on Nov. 10, a week after Election Day" by Tucker Higgins.

Article: "A covid-19 diagnosis, texts suggesting infidelity roil pivotal N.C. Senate race" by Pam Kelley, Rachael Bade and Paul Kane.

Article: "Thom Tillis' Ex-Wife Cites "Cruel and Inhuman Treatment" in Divorce Documents" by Chai Karve.

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