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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 22, 2020, 12:00:26 AM »
Flag- burning laws are always the last bullet in a losing arsenal.

They don't have to be.
Burning the flag should be a serious crime. The first bullet in a winning arsenal.

And to hell with Freedom of Speech.

Why should it be a serious crime?

Burning the flag is not words/speech.
The flag represents the nation...burning it, is like burning the nation.

Really?  Doofus.  The prescribed way to dispose of worn and tattered flags is.......Burning.

Go tell it to the US Marines.

That is different from protesters burning the flag in public.

Oh, the protesters should burn it privately.  You are even dumber than I knew you to be.
that's your quota from me.
Back into your cave you go.

You're just playing dumb.
You know exactly what I mean.
You know exactly what protesters are doing by burning the flag in public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch2HnyAdeG0

They're doing something that is legal and ought to be legal.

Go manage your own fucking country, Bambi. According to you, it needs it.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 11:54:11 PM »
Trump is;

. Australia's only hope.

If so, Australia is doomed and deservedly so. Relying on a con man is never a good idea. I speak from experience.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 11:52:33 PM »
For consistency, Kid, I assume you are opposed to what is going on in those southern states.



What's the question?

Why should I ask you a question?

I stated some problems. You made your fatuous statement about consistency and how I felt.

I responded, despite your failure to address my post. Perhaps I am mistakenly assuming you read the post to which you posted your assumption.



So, for consistency, Kid, I assume you are opposed to what is going on in those southern states.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 10:39:29 PM »
OTOH, Trump has remembered a campaign promise and has the DoT putting together a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal intended to boost the economy.

But some of his external advisors think this is fool-hardy, not out of opposition to infrastructure, but with the quite accurate understanding that none of that money would actually be spent until a year or so from now, at best!

I am impressed with Jim DeMint. This is the best analysis I've ever seen from him.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/17/spending_hawks_balk_at_trumps_new_infrastructure_plan__143467.html

I happen to disagree on the need for the package - Trump's promised infrastructure was poorly designed in it reliance on other people's money, but the need is real and far beyond what either candidate promised in 2016. Nor has it gotten cheaper or less needful in the interim.

But it won't provide economic benefit now, which is what the president needs and what the country needs.

If only Trump would look at a way to do it that was not all about reelecting the president.


Fuck Jim Demint

He’s one of the main reason we don’t have the best healthcare system in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHV4nDS501Y

I have more ire for Joe Lieberman, who was supposedly on our side, back then.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 09:40:20 PM »
Somehow, Trump thinks this makes him look better!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/trump-niece-book-nda/index.html

Trump says niece set to publish book had signed a nondisclosure agreement

He says therefore she can't write a book.

Somebody should tell him... she already did

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 07:15:00 PM »
How clueless are the (white) justice system folks in Minneapolis?

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/minority-officers-allege-discrimination-over-chauvin-booking/2146729/

Chauvin is coming in to the prison. I know! Let's tell all the Black employees that they are not permitted to guard him.

For their own emotional sake, of course. But we'll save the explanation for after they complain.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 06:51:53 PM »
And even Trump doesn't seem to think last night went well.


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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 06:39:36 PM »

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 06:13:59 PM »
For reasons that escape me, while Real Clear Politics includes the IPSOS/Reuter polling for Trump's approval rating, they don't use it for their average Biden v Trump comparison.

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2020-06/2020_reuters_tracking_-_core_political_presidential_approval_tracker_06_17_2020.pdf

Regardless, Biden is up by 13 points among registered voters and less for all adults.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 05:36:11 PM »
The less fenceless  gaps in the borders the better.

No, you ignoramus! Fences and walls like that make zero difference. Any smuggler can see where a fence is and where a fence isn't.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 05:04:42 PM »
Nope

None of that heard last night.  Though Mexico was in fact mentioned.  As was the 212 miles of wall completed.

Of course none of that was heard last night.

That's because your claim that he's consistent is bullshit.

And the wall that Mexico isn't paying for? 212 miles out of 1,954 total miles. Boy, that will stop those smugglers! Of course, the goal is currently 450 miles. Oh, so much better, right?

yes
every mile counts.

Bambi's idea of security:

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 05:01:46 PM »
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/us/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html

More young people across the South are testing positive for coronavirus, officials warn

US officials warn of Covid-19 'shifting in radical direction' toward those in 20s and 30s


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In Mississippi, where one health officer called adherence to social distancing over the past weeks "overwhelmingly disappointing," officials attributed clusters of new cases to fraternity rush parties.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said last week that people under 30 made up a majority of new coronavirus cases in several counties. He said that increase in young infected people could be related to Memorial Day parties, visits to bars or other gatherings.

And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that the median age was 37 for newly diagnosed coronavirus cases over the last week. In the state, 62% of new cases for the week of June 7 are under 45 years old, he said.

"That is a big change from where we were at the end of March and the beginning of April. It was skewing much older at that time," he said.

For consistency, Kid, I assume you are opposed to what is going on in those southern states.

Snort!

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 04:51:26 PM »
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I can’t believe people are celebrating Father’s Day today. All parents matter.
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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 04:41:31 PM »
We have a couple problems, folks.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/news/mutation-of-coronavirus-is-significantly-increasing-its-ability-to-infect-336067?fbclid=IwAR2FAfVP_AQVkbitDGq2kF9TMIm852L5vxWjjm6nv6QvGG-t4tlRXVmip5E#.Xued9nrVt0c.facebook

That one's from June 10th.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/19/880912184/younger-adults-are-increasingly-testing-positive-for-coronavirus

Previously, the profile for COVID-19 patients has been of older people. Is this going to change for illness and deaths or just for cases? We don't know. But we do know this... Our understanding of what does and does not occur with the virus is changing - for example, we knew that diabetics had a 1 in 10 chance of dying from COVID-19 if they got it. Now we know that COVID-19 can cause the blood sugar spikes we associate with Type 1 diabetes and then kill.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/health/teen-death-coronavirus-wellness-partner/index.html - this is about an April case.

More recently, this:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-pasco-county-boy-coronavirus-20200621-kkq52lhrnbe67k6uytj4yqjlzu-story.html


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As of June 21, nearly 6,000 Florida kids under the age of 18 have been infected with COVID-19 since March 1. About half of them are in the 12-18 age group.

The first teenager (in that age group) died on June 18th.

If more kids are catching it, then it is likely that more will die from it. This is not a matter of increased testing.

So if consistency is to hold, you are opposed to what is happening at CHOP.

If consistency is to hold, you will reliably not respond to what has been posted, but bring up something else in an effort to throw shade.

"what is happening at CHOP" has what, exactly to do with either the 12-18 year olds' increased susceptibility or the generally more contagious virus that is in some parts of the country/world?

I'm opposed to people being shot. I am in favor of shot people being transported to a hospital and to an ER when appropriate. I am opposed to people jumping the gun on blame. I am in favor of the vast majority of people there having chosen to wear masks and practice social distancing.

I'm opposed to what has happened all over the country, with anti-BLM folks ramming their cars into the peaceful demonstrators, but which seems not to have drawn your attention. I am soooooo surprised.

I am opposed to mass shootings, like in Syracuse and smaller incidences of shootings, like in Minneapolis. I am opposed to terrorist stabbings, to bombings, to armies causing 20 people to die unnecessarily. I am opposed to Boku Haram's killing 81 in Nigeria, about which you had absolutely nothing to say.

I am opposed to the failure of the FEDERAL government to handle issues of PPE acquisition and dispersal. I am opposed to their changing the EPA policies in a way that will kill at least thousands as well as countless animals.

If you were consistently caring about deaths of people, you would care about something more than "Look, a Black person killed somebody here, too!"

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: June 21, 2020, 04:16:29 PM »
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GvO7vDn-whr4Os7KZAOxiW4GW1gckjUb/view?]fbclid=IwAR2dLQviMi135hH7UJCbasv9iR8ly9_dYUSrTx3INHfDOXOsstMw3-A99-c

In theory, this is John Bolton's book. My computer has not yet managed to load it from there, but I have a terrible signal.

Let me know if it works for you!


Google removed it as in violation of its terms of service. Must have been the real thing!

This will work:
https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/The%20Room%20Where%20It%20Happened%20-%20John%20Bolton.pdf

Ignore the sign-up link and scroll on down.


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