As I can appreciate AOC who I would not vote for, for being an attractive lady... Tulsi is definitely good looking (if you don't get too good a look at her skin -- gads). But she's on the take from Vladdie as much as any American politician was including Mike Flynn, Jill Stein, Dana Roherbacher.
A lot of the Columbus appreciation was designed to regard and celebrate the achievements of Italian Americans. Its sad they had such a lousy avatar. Most great figures of history have some baggage.
RE: the refs. Was briefly listening to the Indiana broadcast on Siruxm and they referred to a bad call by the refs who said something to the effect of "you know why Indiana got that call, because its that type of game" which indicated that the refs were so obviously putting their fingers on the scale that it registered with the homer radio crew.
In most things I think Xi is reading the Party Congress waiting for his coronation for his third term. That should be happening soon. China's National Day/week is just about over.
Edit: that begins on 16/OCT
Not disagreeing that they suck and are bad at this... but, scarily to consider...How many votes do they need to take back the US House of Representatives and install their stooges as defacto Speaker
[begin posts with Hindenburg, Pearl Harbor, End of WWII, Cuban Missile Crisis, Space Shuttle Disaster, End of Cold War, 9/11, Obama election, Covid]
Sorry had to do it