In response to the Supreme Court ruling putting the American worker at risk for disease.

I think business "gets it." They know if they are a vehicle of a mass spreading with more than 100 employees, there will be consequences in the real world that does not translate well for their business.

January 13, 2022

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has postponed its return-to-office plan (click here) for U.S. staff by another two weeks as COVID-19 cases in the country flare up, largely fueled by the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant.

The bank's employees were told they could delay returning to office to Feb. 1, a spokesperson said, after having previously allowed workers to work from home until Jan. 18.

Goldman, which had been one of the most aggressive banks in bringing staff back into offices, has been forced to alter plans because of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus....

The finanical investment firm is also seeking diversity in their investments, which is long overdue. 

January 12, 2022

Margaret Anadu of Goldman Sachs (click here) speaks with Yahoo Finance Live about how the bank is providing support to Black women and improving communities of color through its One Million Black Women initiative.

BRIAN SOZZI: Goldman Sachs revealed today a suite of 17 new investments partnerships and grants as part of its One Million Black Woman initiative. Launched in early 2021, Goldman's One Million Black Women initiative reflects its intention to spend more than $10 billion over the next decade to advance racial equity and economic opportunity in Black women....

Cancer deaths are down in the USA.

Twice I beat a cancer and it was solely early detection and the best decision making going forward. The doctors had alternatives, but, I always chose the one with the best odds. 

For women, if they are facing a cancer or a neoplasm of their uterus, they need to consider a complete hysterectomy and not a partial. Partial hysterectomies leave the cervix and a woman is left wide open for a hormone sentitive cervical cancer that will absolutely mastisize. It is not good.

Total hysterectomies are not the end of the world. Good skin care, regular exercise and a healthy diet can be just as healthy and wonderful.

January 12, 2022
By Claire Thorton

A new report says 3.5 million cancer deaths (click here) have been prevented in recent decades, thanks to declines in smoking, advances in treatments and improved early detection.

But the cancer statistics paper published Wednesday, a companion to the American Cancer Society's 2022 annual report, cautions pandemic-related impacts to cancer detection and treatment aren't yet known. The scientific paper also calls out racial disparities in cancer rates that have long persisted.

The report says cancer diagnoses and treatments were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as access to health care was limited for many Americans. But data to quantify the problem won't be available for years. 

“We are all ... anxious about what this report is going to look like … in February 2024," said Dr. Deb Schrag, the Department of Medicine Chair at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center....

Perhaps, COVID testing sites can be linked with cancer awareness education and referrals to those that have not had their regular FREE preventive annual exam.

Health professionals should take every opportunity to keep America healthy. A little general wellness education at the testing site is a good reminder.

Racial disparities are simply not allowed. There needs to be an anthropegenic study to find out what it is about the culture and lifestyles of some Americans that do not stress annual check-ups and preventive measures.

President Biden could probably task this to HHS with some funding for independent evaluators and consultants. We need to do something in the regulations that seek out racial issues and bring those Americans in to the understanding about health and preventive measures.

The conservative justices live in cloud city.

The six justices that voted against the adminisration's OSHA regulations took the decision of medical competence out of the hands of doctors and advisers to OSHA and made up their own rules.

I would be surprised if any business would open themselves upto lawsuits if people became ill. Businesses need their brain trust and if they fall ill and have adverse outcomes the businesses will not only pay in sick leave, but, their treasuries, even if the Supreme Court gave them a pat on the back for doing so.

The AMA did not agree with the Supreme Court.

January 3, 2022

...The AMA said that, *click here) backed by science and rigorous clinical testing, the use of COVID-19 vaccines has proven to be the safest, most effective way to prevent viral spread in high transmission areas such as the workplace....

President Biden can ask for voluntary compliance with the vaccine mandate and/or testing and mask alternative. I think the mandates have worked. All the statistics point to it.

January 13, 2021

By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko

...“OSHA has never before imposed such a mandate. (click here) Nor has Congress. Indeed, although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the COVID–19 pandemic, it has declined to enact any measure similar to what OSHA has promulgated here,” the conservatives wrote in an unsigned opinion.

In dissent, the court's three liberals argued that it was the court that was overreaching by substituting its judgments for health experts. “Acting outside of its competence and without legal basis, the Court displaces the judgments of the Government officials given the responsibility to respond to workplace health emergencies," Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a joint dissent.

The vaccine mandate that the court will allow to be enforced nationwide covers virtually all health care workers in the country.

More than 208 million Americans, 62.7% of the population, are fully vaccinated, and more than a third of those have received booster shots, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All nine justices have gotten booster shots....

People are incapable of governance if their first allegiance is to Wall Street.

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (click here) and Joe Manchin III, both Democrats who oppose altering the filibuster, take an elevator to the Senate chamber in September. 

That is the case of the Republicans, Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema. Sinema stated she does not see the path to passing legislation she approves of and wants to see into law. Sometimes people see the world differently.

I think what might be at play with Sinema is the problem we now witness with the Supreme Court. The Democrats could not get judges approved in the US Senate during the Obama era. The rules for a 60 vote demand was changed. Then when Trump/Russia was elected, the Republicans had a field day with Supreme Court judges like Kavanaugh. I think she may be skeptical of changing the filibuster realizing it could come back to cause problems for Democrats yet again.

There isn't anything preventing the Republicans from passing their own voting reform if they take a majority in 2022. So, why do this only to have it destroyed next term of the US House?

What Democrats need to ask is why aren't there Republicans that want to secure the US Constitution and preserve voting rights in every state of the United States. 

Perhaps that is the election issue Democrats need to pursue. What is the problem with incumbant Republicans in preserving "The Vote?"

Democrats need to keep their seats in the US House and Senate. Next term may be the charm. They should add one or two Senate seats and it will be done, hopefully.

In the meantime, the DNC needs to get on top of the voting changes in the states and end the vicious rules that inhibit free access to the voting booth.

Class 3 senators were last elected in 2016, and will be up for election again in 2022.

All 34 Class 3 Senate seats are up for election in 2022

Class 3 currently consists of 14 Democrats and 20 Republicans.

The time to defeat Republicans and maintain Democrats is now. In the US House some voting districts are changing and some now favor Democrats. This is a race the Democrats have to win and there are plenty of reasons as to why, including the Child Tax Credit.

When Republicans are in majority, women do not do well. They are far from treated in esteem.

October 9, 2021

By Jane Porter

North Carolina’s family values (click here) Republicans have really been crushing it in Congress recently.

First, Mark Meadows ignored multiple complaints of his chief of staff sexually harassing women subordinates. And now married-to-someone-else Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is—allegedly—sexing Kevin McCarthy (also married to someone else.)

We don’t want to get sued, or receive cease and desist letters from Ellmers’ lawyers, so we’ll emphasize that there is a RUMOR going around that Congresswoman Ellmers and Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy— the presumed successor to House Speaker John Boehner, until he announced Thursday that he wouldn’t run—have been having an affair since 2011.

McCarthy's wife's name is Judy and she is lovely. See below right. 

Here’s everything we know:

Kevin McCarthy was widely expected to be elected the next Speaker of the House, but he called a conference of House Republicans yesterday to announce that he wasn’t, in fact, running to be the next Speaker of the House. There was something about the GOP needing a fresh face in order to unite or whatever, which is kinda odd, since McCarthy hasn’t even been in Congress for ten years.

Anyone remember this by the way?

Huffington Post reports that Chicago-based GOP donor and ultraconservative insider Steve Baer sent emails to dozens of people in Congress, including McCarthy and Ellmers, with the subject line “Kevin, Why not resign like Bob Livingston?”...

Kevin McCarthy changed his story to lie to protect Donald John Trump. The January 6th committee needs to get McCarthy's testimony even if he is subpoenaed. McCarthy cannot be allowed to manufacture his own truth. It needs to be on record.

He seems comfortable with lies.

April 26, 2021

By Eric Lutz

A week after armed supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, (click here) Kevin McCarthy laid blame for the deadly insurrection at the feet of his party’s leader. “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” he said in a floor speech. “He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.” The scolding was ultimately meaningless, considering the House Minority Leader—who’d promoted the president’s election fraud claims—still voted against certifying the election and later against Trump’s impeachment. But it seemed to reflect a fear, on the part of McCarthy and other GOP leaders, that the party could bear a political cost for the attack if it didn’t at least pay a little lip service to contrition.

But the bill never came due, and now, four months later, McCarthy and other Trump allies are seeking to rewrite the history of January 6 instead of taking responsibility for it. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, McCarthy was repeatedly pressed by Chris Wallace about Trump’s reaction to the violence. Had he, as Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler claimed, begged Trump by phone that day to call his supporters off, only for Trump to shrug that “these people are more upset about the election than you are?” McCarthy wouldn’t say. But as he tied himself in knots trying to dodge Wallace’s questions, he offered this account of how Trump responded to the Capitol attack:

“I was the first person to contact him when the riots were going on. He didn’t see it,” McCarthy said. “What he ended the call with saying, telling me he’ll put something out to make sure to stop this, and that’s what he did. He put a video out later.”

The ladies of Pop. We miss them and their sound.

"Not one word of thanks"

The Prime Minister has gotten into a bit of hot water because he held a BOB Party as the country was locking down with COVID-19.

Thank you means a great deal because the people carry out measures to end the spread of this virus and it is a sacrifice to many if not all.

 

"Don't wreck this now." I simply believe the Brits speak with clarity and this is excellent.

There is a problem at the University of North Dakota, a public funded university.

The North Dakota Catholic Conference represented by Christopher Dodson is seeking to be a policy maker that will refuse gender equality to students. There is no place for clergy on the Board of Trustees and therefore should not be pressuring the public to discriminate on a public campus.

January 12, 2021
By Adam Kurtz

UND will hold a press conference on Friday, Jan. 15, (click here) to respond to a letter penned by Christopher Dodson, executive director and general counsel of the North Dakota Catholic Conference, about the university’s proposed gender inclusion policy.

The letter, dated Jan. 10 and posted on the Catholic Conference’s social media page , was written by Dodson on behalf of Bishops David D. Kagan and John T. Folda. It urges parents with children set to attend a university to consider “the campus environment and whether it is conducive or hostile to not only the Catholic faith, but also the truth about the human person,” when choosing which school to attend.

The letter singles out UND due to a proposed policy that would require students, administrators and others on campus to use names, gendered references and pronouns that match a person’s stated gender identity.

Previously the Herald reported on the proposed policy , which would make intentionally misgendering a person to be an act of discrimination.

I hope Homeland Security is taking a look at this.

Business isn't the only priority for national security. I doubt the school programs come with security software. It is time to protect the kids. Who knows what will show up online.

January 12, 2021
By Matthew Reisen

An ongoing cyberattack on Albuquerque Public Schools has led (click here) officials to cancel all classes districtwide for Thursday and possibly Friday.

APS Superintendent Scott Elder said the attack was discovered Wednesday morning “when teachers tried to log onto our student information system and were unable to gain access to the site.”

“This is the first time we have dealt with this situation and we are doing everything to address it that we can,” he said.

Elder said all APS classes are canceled Thursday and possibly through Friday. He said the situation is still developing.

“APS is working with local and national law enforcement as well as teams of cyber specialists to as quickly as possible limit our exposure to this attack, to protect all systems in our network and ensure a safe environment to return to school and business as usual,” he said. “I want to make clear that the closure of all APS schools tomorrow is not in anyway tied to the pandemic.”...

I hear there are shortages of some food items.

I don't have empathy for shortages of dry pasta, cream cheese or refigerated cinnamon rolls, they all have substitutes if people are willing to look for them. 

Dry Pasta can be substituted with fresh pasta from a pasta makers (click here). When there is a pasta maker in the kitchen all kinds of pasta can be made and eaten, like whole wheat and some vegetable puree with carrots or green vegetables. It all depends on the palate.

Not having cream cheese for bagels can be disappointing but bagels taste good with any type of spread, even butter or any substitute. There may be local dairies that also create their own and if not they can be asked if they would consider it. If they have a store front. Many dairies that cater to the public sometimes have the ability to create more and better products if there is a demand for it. The large dairy producers, I am confident, are doing all they can because there is a high demand for milk. 

If there is a shortage of milk and it is due to the processers and not the farmers, there needs to be some kind of priority on temporary laborers. This is an interesting time in the USA. The global pandemic has reshaped many household incomes and earners are finding better paying jobs. That is creating a shortage of workers in areas where they were abundant before. There is no reason to apologize for people that make better wages and are able to move up in quality of life, but, where there is a demand in the food supply there needs to be some priority placed on that either at the state or federal level.

This isn't the best example because previous to WWII women didn't really work outside their homes, but, during WWII when manufacturing for the war supplies was a primary focus of the country, there were rationing of food for those products that were in demand. It is better for everyone to get some of what they need if these dynamics continue. Governors should be taking inventory of their industries and the laborers that are within the state. If there needs to be a shift to faciliate the food supply it may be a priority. If every Governor reported to the federal Department of Labor about labor shortages that are vital such as the food supply, the US Department of Labor could be tasked to recommend answers. 

I don't see the US Department of Labor tasking recreational issues, but, simply vital areas such as the food supply to the country. There are somethings that cannot be substituted like baby formula. 

Another item people are complaining about is refrigerated cinnamon rolls. I only have one reply, "Really?" The solution is called a mixer, ingredients and an oven. My, my, how soiled are we?

I hear there are cats missing their favorite cat food. There are substitutions in the human food chain (click here). My cats loved having an egg for lunch. Hard boiled. It got to the point where I could hardly bake a cake when they heard the crack of an egg. They were a lot of fun.

But, Americans might find making their cat food will get them closer to understanding what the cats like and what they don't like. It could be fun and educational. So, it is time to muster up some ingenuity and decide what best is good for your cat in the absense of cat food.

But, the other most demanded product that is in short supply are cold remedies. It is completely understandable now that omicron has made it's debut. All, I can say is to be flexible in what type of cold remedies that will make a difference. If the favorite of the household is gone from the shelf, try another with similar or even better remedies. There are also household remedies such as a steamer in the bedroom to add humidity. Physicians should be placing advise on their offices webpage. Drug stores can advertise their products and availability. Cough drops and/or throat lozenges can provide relief as well.

This is a difficult time. The federal government might have to step in to be sure there is no hoarding. But, the stores can limit the number of items one person can purchase at a time.

Other than that, Americans have to put their thinking caps on and decide about substitutes. Ask Grandpas and Grandmas what they used before all these modern solutions.

Americans can do this. 

Yes, we can. 

Stop complaining and get busy.

This is the ideal circumstances for health mandates, legislative rather than executive.

But, when legislative branches of government are playing politics with the country's health, the executive branch must act. Congratulations to San Jose on a cohesive government with a resolve to keep people healthy.

January 12, 2021
By Maggie Angst

Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the omicron variant, (click here) San Jose is about to become the first city in California to require all of its employees to get a booster shot in addition to the initial vaccine doses mandated earlier.

The City Council on Tuesday night also adopted a new ordinance requiring visitors of large, indoor events held at public facilities such as the SAP Center and San Jose Convention Center to show proof they received a booster shot — or at least submit a negative COVID-19 test — before entering.

While other jurisdictions like Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties have enacted booster mandates for certain frontline employees such as first responders and health care workers, San Jose’s order will apply to its full workforce of approximately 7,000 people, as well as any new hires....

Magnificent speech by President Biden. Long overdue. Democrats are best when they are truth tellers.

Rank Paul should have his medical license revoked.

I am glad we at least have a Chairwoman that stands up to the radical right. Everyone should remind her there is also a Sargent of Arms.

Dr. Fauci's death threat is the exact reason there needs to be financial liability to those in power when these paradigms are not only brought about, but, enforced to enhance their politics and donations.

 

Sometimes the truth hurts.

This is a "Huge Issue?" Really. Why are Republicans wasting time with this? I guess they don't care about voting rights for their constituents. That is truly an American shame.

Marshall is inappropriate. He is jealous of the salary of the highly qualified and dedicated Dr. Anthony Fauci. 

The US Senate Republicans have nothing else to do with their time, except, to try to cut the budget by firing the best of the best at the NIH. Amazing. They don't care. They do not care about the well being of Americans and excellence in governance.

Go get 'em, Doctor Fauci.

2020

As 12,000 medical doctors, (click here) research scientists and public health experts on the front lines of COVID-19, the infectious diseases community will not be silenced nor sidelined amidst a global pandemic. Reports of a campaign to discredit and diminish the role of Dr. Fauci at this perilous moment are disturbing.

Despite the nation’s vast resources and abilities, more than 135,000 people in America have died from COVID-19 – more than any other country, and the numbers keep rising. Every day now brings a new high in the number of newly infected people and deaths. This is a full-blown crisis unlike any America has ever faced and it needs to be treated as such.   

The only way out of this pandemic is by following the science, and developing evidence-based prevention practices and treatment protocols as new scientifically rigorous data become available.  Knowledge changes over time. That is to be expected.

If we have any hope of ending this crisis, all of America must support public health experts, including Dr. Fauci, and stand with science.

-IDSA President Thomas File, Jr., M.D., MSc, FIDSA

 

Cryptocurrency can never work.

IT REQUIRES ENORMOUS AMONTS OF ENERGY TO SUSTAIN IT and as a result petroleum and coal sales are increasing.

Crytocurrency is a wet dream that is assisting in the high prices of energy and completely unsustainable while conflicting with the best outcomes for Earth and it's people.

...The Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index (click here) estimated that one Bitcoin transaction takes 1,544 kWh to complete, or the equivalent of approximately 53 days of power for the average US household.

To put that into money terms, the average cost per kWh in the US is 13 cents. That means a Bitcoin transaction would generate more than $200 in energy bills.

Bitcoin mining used more energy than Argentina, according to an analysis from Cambridge University in February. At 121.36 terawatt-hours, crypto mining would be in the top 30 of countries based on energy consumption....

The UK shuts down Cryto mining operations. They cause too much strain on the grid while being completely unsustainable in the real world attempting to end the climate crisis.

China has rejected cryptocurrencies and that could conceivably be a win for a greener country.

This is why Vladimir Putin and is ideology of reconstituting the Soviet Union is grossly corrupt and dangerous.

Vladimir Putin is a confused man. He attempted to create his own economic power engine by linking with other countries of the old Soviet Union. Then for the countries still autonomous from the communists, Putin destroys their economy as if it is not necessary.

Putin destroys economies while attemptiing to reconstitute the old Soviet Union and building an economic powerhouse. He does not realize it is over for the old Soviet Union and the communists he is dedicated to in his elections have no concept of why destruction of a country's infrastructure, both physical, people and economy is a bad idea.

Vladimir Putin is an illegitimate president that was corruptly returned to office so the Russian communists can carry on with reclamation of Former Soviet states. IT DOESN'T WORK!  GIVE IT UP!!

In Kazakhstan the Russians are leaving today. They came, they killed, maimed and destroyed and now they are leaving. They have accomplished nothing except to destroy the Kazakhstan economy. Of course Putin is going to take credit for saving the country of Kazakhstan while people bury their dead, but, in fact he is a maniacal dictator that sows destruction in the name of a long dead Soviet Union. The Soviet Union feel because IT DIDN'T WORK.

A country with borders can exist because people live there, but, that doesn't automatically make the people happy, healthy, employed with a quality of life that provides promise for the future and future generations. Invading a country with people that are rightfully upset about the lack of economy that allows for increased energy prices is nothing but brutal and insane. The people now dead in Kazakhstan were good people. They weren't overthrowing their government, they were protesting a huge impact on their ability to take care of themselves and their family.

Vladimir Putin needs to be removed from his post at the top of Communist Russia to end the killing spree he sees as legitimate. He is hurting people and countries and setting their ability to be civilized and competitive in the global market place back decades.

How many people now dead in Kazakhstan were valuable to the country's economy? ALL OF THEM! How many were educated to contribute to the brain trust of the country? Most likely many of them. Putin is a danger to the world and every country weaker than Russia's military within it's reach.

January 9, 2021

By Isabelle Lee

It's been days since thousands of protesters (click here) stormed the streets of Kazakhstan to express outrage against the rising prices of liquefied petroleum gas, which means it's also been days since the internet was shut down nationwide, compromising the safety and security of many businesses and residents.

Among the sectors that were hit hardest was bitcoin mining, a burgeoning industry in the Central Asian nation.

Kazakhstan last year became the world's second-largest center for bitcoin mining after China clamped down on crypto activities, according to data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.

Hours after the internet was cut off Tuesday evening, bitcoin's hash rate dropped by 12%, Larry Cermak, VP of research at The Block, said in a tweet. Hash rate is a key measure of how much computing power is required to support the network and to create new bitcoin....

Executive Bonuses need to be docked from future paychecks.

This is an outrage. The Executive employees since DeJoy have lead a corrupt and devastating raid of the best public post office in the world. The monies provided as executive bonuses must be based in any profit the entire postal system recognized. This must end until the US Post Office which is protected by the USA Constitution is back to normal.

November 16, 2021
By Alexia Fernández Campbell

The U.S. Postal Service (click here) paid its top executives more in bonuses and perks last year than at any other point in the past decade, adding up to $370,622 in extra income for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and four of his deputies, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of the agency’s financial disclosures.

DeJoy got a $75,000 performance bonus in fiscal year 2021, plus about $56,000 in other perks, which includes membership in two airline clubs, retirement counseling and financial planning services, according to the Postal Service’s newly released 10-K report. DeJoy earned this in addition to his $305,681 salary, the highest ever paid for the top job at USPS. In all, DeJoy earned about as much as President Joe Biden....

I have never seen such a devoted President to return the USA back to it's status.

Both domestically and internationally the ideas of a USA supreme status is being brought back by President Biden at every turn. President Biden isn't turning his back on reality when addressing voting rights. 

January 10, 2021
By Nicole Chavez

A coalition of voting rights groups (click here) in Georgia announced Monday that they will not attend events surrounding President Joe Biden's expected visit to Atlanta.

Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, and representatives of several voting rights groups are urging Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to remain in Washington on Tuesday if they don't have a clear plan to advance voting rights legislatio

n."We don't need even more photo ops. We need action, and that action is in the form of the John Lewis Voting Rights (Advancement) Act as well as the Freedom to Vote Act, and we need that immediately," Albright told reporters on Monday.

Some of the groups urging Biden to skip his Atlanta trip are the Asian American Advocacy Fund, GALEO Impact Fund Inc. and New Georgia Project Action Fund....

President Biden has a keen sense of fairness. The fact voting rights in the states. The Republicans are going to have to stop cheating and lying in order to win elections.

The US Senate filibuster is simply wrong. It has no place in law no matter it's form. Returning the Senate filibuster to it's HISTORICAL parameters is the correct thing to do at this time. A TALKING filibuster allows the Senate minority to be heard. That was the original purpose of the Senate filibuster. The minority wanted to voice their points when attempting to defeat any bill brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

Today, the changes of the Senate filibuster that allows unlimited pressure on the Senate rights to pass effective legislation for the country is a violation of the Rule of Law. A US Senate filibuster should never have more power than the USA Constitution and it currently does.

The current US Senate filibuster erases the right of the Rule of Law. US Senate rules are supposed to enhance the practices in the US Senate to do the people's business. The current form of the filibuster is not a worthy instrument and prohibits the purpose of the Senate and it's ability to pass laws to benefit the country.

I support President Biden and his willingness to establish sound practices within governance that supports the will of the people to bring fairness to US Senate proceedings.

January 11, 2021
By Katie Rogers

President Biden (click here) will endorse changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights protections during a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, the most significant step he will have taken to pressure lawmakers to act on an issue he has called the biggest test of America’s democracy since the Civil War.

Mr. Biden will not go so far as to call for full-scale elimination of the filibuster, a Senate tradition that allows the minority party to kill legislation that fails to garner 60 votes, according to a senior administration official who previewed the speech. But Mr. Biden will say he supports a filibuster “carve-out” in the case of voting rights, the official said.

Citing “repeated obstruction” by Republicans, Mr. Biden will endorse changing the Senate rules, the official said, and the president will contend that the filibuster has protected “extreme attacks on the most basic constitutional right.”

“The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a turning point in this nation,” Mr. Biden will say on Tuesday, according to a preview of his remarks provided by the White House. “Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over injustice? I know where I stand.”...

The Senate Republicans don't want the filibuster to be returned to it's original purpose because they like to bring OBSTRUCTION to the practices of the US Senate and that is simply unethical.

"The Big Lie" had its beginning before Trump was elected in 2016.

January 9, 2022

By Peter Wade

Update - Responding to Rounds’ comments, (click here) former President Trump released a lengthy screed berating him as “crazy or just stupid.” In the statement, Trump wrote that Brown “went woke” when he claimed the election was fair. “The numbers are conclusive, and the fraudulent and irregular votes are massive,” Trump said. (The numbers are

 conclusive. Biden won, and no massive fraud took place.) “The only reason he did this is because he got my endorsement and easily won his state in 2020, so now he thinks he has time, and those are the only ones, the weak, who will break away. Even though his election will not be coming up for 5 years, I will never endorse this jerk again.”...