I probably didn't even know that it happened.

AMDG

I'm sort of watching for that to blow up. I know a couple of people who are huge and I mean huge fans of the play and also old leftists. They seem to feel (I'm guessing, and I haven't seen the play) that one of the cool things about the play is that it shows the universality of the founding principles. But it's exactly that idea that's being attacked by the more, um, advanced.

Maybe the young Red Guards aren't paying attention, though.

But if you search for "hamilton problematic" you get some complaints.

That's an exaggeration, but at least in Alabama, it's actually not so very far off, depending on how seriously you take "totally harmless." Hospitalizations between 6 and 7%, deaths around 2%.

But it doesn't matter anymore. If he'd said 93%, or "the vast majority," or if he had had used the most precise and widely accepted nationwide number, you wouldn't think any better of him, and his committed supporters wouldn't think any worse if he said 99.99%.

At this point it's only reasonable to disbelieve the mainstream media on Trump. Not just to be skeptical, but to assume there is some major inaccuracy or distortion. His speech last week is a case in point. News stories should not state as if it were simple fact that a speech is "dark and divisive." But that's small potatoes compared to saying he defended Confederate monuments etc, which apparently is a total falsehood. I say apparently because I didn't read the whole speech and am taking the word of people who are generally trustworthy and are not especially pro-Trump.

I love it that his rally in Oklahoma MAY have been the reason for the surge in Covid cases there.

AMDG

Mainstream media were directly quoting the executive director of the Tulsa Health Department:

President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of participants and large protests “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday.

Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday. By comparison, during the week before the June 20 Trump rally, there were 76 cases on Monday and 96 on Tuesday.

Although the health department’s policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gatherings “more than likely” contributed to the spike.

“In the past few days, we’ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,” Dart said.

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-says-i-dont-want-americans-to-die-nyt-quotes-as-i-want-americans-to-die

The site definitely looks dodgy. Pretty much screams it, really. The Craiglist ad does look real, but that doesn't mean it represents a serious plan (as opposed to just sort of trolling) or that anyone actually carried out the plan.

I laughed at this line in the Newsweek story: "Critics say much of their content is, at best, misleading." Pots and kettles.

Don: :-). I guess you know Snopes has published "fact checks" of the Bee several times.

I’m out of town and can only tap out comments on my phone. So I’ll just say yeah, I know. It’s a shame the whole pandemic thing is all tangled up with the political conflict.

I would certainly not take those articles as definitive. I see a number of very debatable assertions there put forward as simple fact. Which in my limited experience is typical for Vox. They are quite partisan, not disinterested arbiters of truth.