December 2020 Current Events: Rue Britannia! Waive the rules!

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Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Eason the Fifth posted:

I know it's cool to say that 2020 sucked, but folks, I gotta opine that this whole god drat decade was pretty much just flaccid, turgid rear end

This millennium's been a huge letdown so far OP

# ¿ Dec 8, 2020 00:10

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 19:40

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1336400902098444291

A bit more good news

quote:

In response, Houlahan crafted an NDAA amendment that at first barred the use of unidentified security officials during invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807. That act, which Trump threatened to exercise, empowers presidents to use the military in extraordinary domestic circumstances. The Pentagon leadership, after first wavering, rejected an active-duty role in suppressing the protests.

Accordingly, Houlahan and her allies broadened the measure. It now requires identification of all security forces by name or unique identifier and �the armed force, Federal entity, or other organization by which such individual is employed� under all circumstances when �a member of the armed forces (including the National Guard) or Federal law enforcement personnel provide support to Federal authorities to respond to a civil disturbance.�

# ¿ Dec 8, 2020 23:32

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

stackofflapjacks posted:

Can someone draw ~~Pete Buttigreg~~ John Fetterman driving a Sherman down the interstate.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 03:40

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1338307153816211456?s=20

Sure would be cool if the US did this so I could donate blood they don't want my blood since they have enough A+

Not quite that (

) but apparently the FDA finally relaxed most of the restrictions on folks who were deployed in Europe over 1980-1996 (minus the UK) earlier this year:

https://www.fda.gov/media/124156/download

FDA posted:

1. Donor Deferral for Geographic Risk of BSE Exposure

FDA developed a quantitative risk assessment based on a global geographic risk-ranking model (Ref.32) that estimated the contributions of donors potentially exposed to BSE in various countries. The model evaluated both risk reduction and donor loss resulting from the current geographic donor deferral policy compared with alternative deferral options. The model also evaluated the potential additional risk reduction afforded by leukocyte reduction of RBC. The model indicated that U.K., Ireland, and France, the three countries with the most attributed vCJD cases and BSE-related risk, contributed 95% of the total risk exposure in the U.S. Estimating that about 95% of RBC currently transfused in the U.S. are leukocyte-reduced, the model predicted that deferring donors only for time spent in the U.K., Ireland, and France would maintain a predicted level of blood safety similar to that achieved with the current policy (Ref. 32). Based on these results, we recommend indefinite deferral only of donors who spent time in the U.K., Ireland, and France.

We maintain the recommendation in the 2016 guidance to defer prospective donors who report receiving a blood transfusion in France or the U.K. We also recommend deferral for transfusion in Ireland from 1980-present to align the deferrals for blood transfusion with the geographic deferrals for time spent in the U.K., France,and Ireland (Ref. 32).

We recommend that donors previously deferred for geographic risk for time spent in other European countries can be assessed for requalification using the revised recommendations for vCJD geographic deferrals and may be eligible for reentry.

2. Donor Deferral for Potential Exposure to U.K.-Sourced Beef on U.S. Military Bases

In the 2016 guidance, we recommended that prospective donors should be deferred based on cumulative time spent on U.S. military bases in Europe from 1980-1996. The deferrals were first recommended in 2001 because some U.S. military bases in Northern Europe sourced beef from the U.K. between 1980 and 1990 and military bases elsewhere in Europe between 1980 to 1996 (Ref.33). During this time, over 4.4 million military personnel and civilians might have ingested beef obtained from the U.K. on military bases in Europe; however, there have been no reported cases of vCJD in the intervening 20 years. This observation supports that the risk associated with time spent on U.S. military bases in Europe is different from the country-based risk calculations for time spent in the U.K., France, and Ireland that was based on the number of BSE-related vCJD cases in those countries. Therefore, we no longer recommend deferral of individuals for time spent on U.S. military bases in Europe.

We recommend that donors previously deferred for time spent on military bases in Europe can be assessed for requalification and may be eligible for reentry.

Haven't been able to donate for years even though I'm a universal donor since I spent a couple years in Germany as a kid in the late 80s.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2020 03:48

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

90s Solo Cup posted:

This feels like the spoils system all over again. Cabinet picks based on how loyal or likeable they are to Biden and/or the party. I was afraid of this, but I had high hopes of Biden's picks having a....civil service-minded bent to them.

That's how it's always been.

To tie back to the Carter mentions, in hindsight one of his biggest missteps was filling most of the key inner circle White House positions with folks he brought along from his days a Georgia Governor, none of whom had any experience with how to work with Congress to accomplish policy goals. The friction between the Democratic Congress and the 'Georgia Mafia' ended up costing Carter a lot of his early legislative agenda and is probably one of the big reasons he ended up being a one-termer.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2020 13:33

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Will anyone be able to say that with a straight face?

e: "A name chosen by space professionals, for space professionals". Come the gently caress on.

Aren't there still, like, 4 or 5 servicemembers total in Space Force?

# ¿ Dec 19, 2020 00:01

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

The funny thing is that a way more appropriate name for Space Force would have been 'operator' (since they're largely sitting at a terminal operating satellites in orbit), but then the SOF community would have gotten all butthurt.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2020 17:52

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1341843088273248258?s=19

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1341843479962521602?s=19

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1341844513950740480?s=19

If only people's lives didn't hang in the balance of all this dumb poo poo, I'd be laughing my balls off.

Override votes next week!

Those leopards can't help themselves once they start going to town on all those delicious faces :sad:

# ¿ Dec 23, 2020 22:06

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 19:40

Terrifying Effigies: Oct 22, 2008; Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

LingcodKilla posted:

I escaped 2020 fuccckkkkkk yooouuuu!

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# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 00:08

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