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2 hours ago, Archie said:
Its unbelievable to me that people hate a person so much they refuse to see what really happened. You can't compare covid to anything in Bush or Obama's terms. Covid is comparable to Spanish flu pandemic in the early 1900s. What was Trump or anyone supposed to do with covid that would have fixed it?
I actually agree with you here. Pfife mentioning W and Obama did better with pandemics, like we can point to a single thing Obama did right which prevented millions of deaths because of Ebola?
2 hours ago, Archie said:You want to place the blame then let us know what was supposed to happen to prevent covid deaths and infection of virus?
And this is where you lost me. IDK, maybe wear a mask, understand and encourage precautions. Additionally, don't play politics to the point that when a vaccine comes out (which politically you could claim as a win and tout), your folks decide to become stupid liberal hippy idiots that don't want anything 'unnatural' in your body.
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4 hours ago, pfife said:
About the 44% support for him running in the GOP, I totally and thoroughly do not believe that number. I get that polling is probably the best we can do to measure this sort of thing, but before 2020 I was a proponent of the notion that there is hidden support for Trump that is not reflected in polling and that was totally true... by a lot. I am to the point now here I treat any polling regarding Trump with a huge grain of salt and always assume it is underestimating.
I don't mean to denigrate polling in any way - I spent the beginning of my career at a prestigious survey institute. I buy into it. But something clearly isn't right with respect to polling on Trump and it's obvious.
Do you think that number is too high, or too low?
Additionally, it might be skewed based on a different "GOP" pool now. In 2015, I would have answered a poll that I was a republican. I wouldn't answer that way today and thus, wouldn't have been counted, even though I'm far from a democrat. My mom, who would vote for Trump again, is even telling us she's an independent now.
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Buddy of mine told me to watch 'Old', so I did a few nights ago. Turns out he only told me to watch it as he wanted someone else to be tortured. Just an awful movie.
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First single off an upcoming album. His first album with the Night Sweats was great, the follow up album was alright. I think I dig this. I'm a sucker for a band with horns though.
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10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:
But we aren't allowed to impune the actions of a spouse to an office holder anymore. Mitch and Elaine (not to mention Clarence and Virginia) have already paved that road.
OK - personally I think that sucks - conflict of interest rules should apply to households, not just individuals, but we can't do that because women now have to have the same right to indendently graft that men have always had.
Absolutely agreed, as you appear to agree with though, wish instead of 'they all do it', they all would pay a price for it.
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On 10/2/2021 at 10:00 AM, chasfh said:
Seriously, how does one cosplaying guy with a sword overpower several presumably-armed special ops soldiers?
Sounds more like he surprised the one guy. From that point on, sounds like the soldiers treated it like a civilian issue, and simply worked to stay safe until civilian law enforcement dealt with it. My guess is if he was able to gain access to where these guys were hunkered down, it wouldn't have ended well for him.
All that said, my brother served in the DMZ in Korea and said he'd get sent out without ammunition as they didn't want to risk the first shot coming from the US. So very possible, especially during training in the US, they weren't armed. A guy with a sword can do quite a bit of damage quickly.
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10 hours ago, Archie said:
Who cares if it is or isn't. The video doesn't lie.
Exactly, nor does it show any real 'gotcha' moment. I think her politics suck and I think she's a fraud that doesn't care about her constituents, so trust me, I would love to see something that validates what I already know from her and possibly could hurt her chance to continue to get elected. But this is a fake 'gotcha'. The mask issue is widely overblown by the right. The left is simply trying to set an example.
My son has his learners permit, when i'm driving with him in the car I'm much more conscious about what i'm doing. I tend to be an aggressive driver, lately I'm more relaxed. I try and force myself to keep both hands on the wheel and not push the 5-10 over based on what road i'm on. These are all things my wife tells me I should do while driving in the past, but instead of pointing it out in front of my son as a 'gotcha', she's an adult, realizes i'm trying to set an example. (...and then before we go to bed, out of earshot of our kids, she comments how I'm driving better, lol)
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Might want to follow Pelosi's husband's stock moves and join in. Apparently his history of making great decisions is finally getting some press.
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2 hours ago, pfife said:
Free Beacon is biased. No sale.
Who cares if the source is biased. She's outside and fully vaccinated. Of course the only reason why she's wearing a mask in that situation is because she's sick and tired of the 'gotcha' crowd. More proof of the GOP moving away from policy and more into a 'anything to own the libs' platform.
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On 10/4/2021 at 11:32 AM, pfife said:
Biden took the foot off the pedal for testing? I got 40 tests while Biden was president.
I assumed, based on what I was hearing out of the CDC, that it was imperative not only to ensure testing was available, but also ensure response times on those tests were shrunk. As mentioned, possibly before you joined on this site, I was advised to get my daughter tested with an over the counter one to rule out if she had a cold or covid. Thinking I could find one set me back a day as I drove around my area to certain sites that listed them in stock only to eventually just start calling and than realize I needed to schedule a test through the local pharmacy.
QuoteIt's not just delays in test results that are stymieing public health efforts. Many respondents report obstacles in getting tested to start with. Thirty-five percent of people in the August and September surveys had to wait at least three days between deciding to get a test and actually getting the test, the researchers found.
The average person who got tested in the August and September surveys was tested within 2.5 days and waited 3.7 days for the results of the test. That means it took a total of 6.2 days between deciding on a test and receiving results, the researchers wrote.
"So even with the improvement in results, people are waiting about week. And by that point much of the harm that could occur in spreading through that person's social network has already occurred," Lazer says. "What you want to do is cut that to within 24 hours to 36 hours."
The reasons people have trouble getting tested varied. One-third of people did not know how or where to get a test, 23% said the testing site was too far away, and 14% said the test was too expensive.
The delays between deciding to get a test and getting final results were worst for Black respondents. The average white person surveyed waited 5.7 days for results after seeking a test. The average Asian American, Hispanic or Black respondent waited 6.1, 6.9, and 7.4 days respectively.
On 10/4/2021 at 11:41 AM, Archie said:So are you happy with the state of the country right now?
Absolutely not happy at all.
On 10/4/2021 at 11:41 AM, Archie said:I've said it before and will repeat it, I'm not Trump supporter and would rather see someone else run. However, voting for Trump in 2020 was better than going with what we have now. I refuse to vote for the bad candidate because I don't like the other guy.
How is Trump the guy you don't like in this scenario and not the bad candidate? The division in this country was there before Trump, but he is directly responsible for the boiling over aspect of now. He is directly responsible for the insurrection, which I saw you playing down.
Far right folks on the middle east - turn that sand into a sheet of glass.
Far right folks on riots in city streets - bring in the national guard and shoot to kill. If they don't care about their property, why should we.
Far right folks on a regular Tuesday - I'm so patriotic i'm going to head to the grocery store with my Trump flag attached to my car.
Far right folks when the police kill someone that broke any law whatsoever - serves right.
Far right folks when folks beat up cops, break into the Capital, destroy property within the Capital, steal notebooks from congressman that may/may not have sensitive material on them and shoot a women that is repeatedly being told to get back - we demand to know who shot that women!
You can point to some specific things, gas prices, energy prices, fear of inflation, etc, but 1) A portion of that has nothing to do with who is president and 2) Covid has a role in that and what has Trump done with that which makes you think Biden would be the 'bad candidate' when it comes to that.
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On 10/1/2021 at 4:18 PM, pfife said:
My experience with testing is exactly the opposite. I have about 40 instant tests from the health department at my house. For comparison, I had 0 instant tests at my house when the guy you're choosing to defend was presidon't.
It was trumps standard to give trump credit for trump's economy, not mine. He did it for 3 years, then he memory holed the last year and continued to brag about the economy before he trashed it.
Testing appeared to be pretty good there for awhile. IMO, folks assumed everyone would get vaccinated and testing didn't need to happen as much. The result is, testing isn't where it was even 1-2 months ago. Overall my want/need for a test two weeks ago is much different than testing was needed (and lacked) early on. It resulted in a few days of missed school. My daughter was out of school most of last year because we couldn't adequately test. So in no way am I defending Trump over Biden, but IMO, there is some legitimate valid criticism in taking the foot off of the pedal when it comes to testing. At this point, a much more structured testing policy would be great. Maybe standardizing regular testing of specific occupations/students to help control outbreaks, etc.
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That just sucks, and yes, cancer sucks. Very glad to hear it was caught early.
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12 minutes ago, Archie said:
How is that different than what the Biden Admin (I will call it the Biden Administration because Joe doesn't have the mental capacity to steer the ship) is doing when he is withholding covid treatment from red states and sending to blue states?
Please elaborate <insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn meme>
12 minutes ago, Archie said:Fauci is supposed to be the subject matter expert but he has contradicted himself so many time he has no credibility left.
Fauci has been very careful not to jump to conclusions, some of that has appeared to make it look like he has contradicted himself. Some folks in the media have made sure to use certain cuts to emphasize this.
I do think he's managed to get the majority of the media on his side. I suspect in time, especially if this is traced back to the lab in Wuhan, there will be some eye opening information down the road. That doesn't mean he's not an expert nor that we shouldn't be listening to him in how to deal with this.
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12 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:
Oh, Trump reduced that from 4.2% to 3.5%, so he gets a little bit of credit too. Although, he did NOT change Obama's trendline from pre-2017, so... all he was really doing was riding Obama's coattails.
Which everyone knows.
We can agree on that, just like how Clinton get a little bit of credit too for his job numbers, but we all know he was riding H-dubs coattails from last year of his term.
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4 hours ago, Archie said:
Sorry but you haven't provided anything BIden has done good yet. I'll keep waiting🙂
Oversaw a very successful vaccine distribution rollout.
Bipartisan Covid relief bill.
He got us out of Afghanistan. Even as some generals subtly blasted him this week by stating they advised to keep troops in, which Biden somewhat deserved for lying to us, they also pointed out Biden was right about the war, we lost, we needed to accept it, get out, and get on with life.
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16 hours ago, pfife said:
For instance, how much better would we have been if he ENCOURAGED Covid testing instead of DISCOURAGED covid testing?
Over the little motownsports downtime our household had a situation where we needed testing. I incorrectly assumed, mostly based on the belief that Biden was handling this issue now, that it wouldn't be a problem. No over the counter tests are available, 3-5 day response on a PCR test. My daughter lost at least 2 additional days of school because of a lack of testing. She lost an additional day because I was confident I could find an over the counter test that our pediatrician said to use. This is not to say Biden is handling this pandemic worse than Trump, but I do wonder how much better we might be right now and going into this fall if Biden was still pushing, and putting resources into, testing.
16 hours ago, pfife said:I guess if you want to defend him you can, but that's weird given it's obvious he sucked. I guess he's super rad if he inherits a good economy then never has to deal with any adversity.
This is what gets annoying about me pointing out that you can't look at a specific statistic alone. If I put a poll up asking if presidents get too much credit for a good economy, and too much flack for a bad one, I'm confident that most, if not all, would agree to that. That's all i'm saying with a job growth number.
16 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:Obama had higher job growth in his last three years than Donald Trump's best year so Trump was worse on the economy even before COVID.
We also had record unemployment under Trump. It's tough to create new jobs when you can't find people to work them. To my theme though, I would gather the record unemployment was a long time in the making and Obama should receive credit for that too.
15 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:I'm trying to wrap my head around how a president who claimed COVID was a hoax was better at handling it? Canada didn't have nearly as many cases and deaths per capita because Trudeau didn't believe it would just go away like a miracle by Easter.
I don't believe I ever said Trump was better at handling it. My point is that on average, pick any stat(s) you feel is/are the best to determine how a country handled Covid, and i'm going to be able to point to massive and in most cases, record job losses.
If Trudeau faced re-election at the same time as trump last year, there is a good chance he may have lost. he than would have had 3 million job losses hanging over his head while the conservative person that won would have had the benefit of the 2.7 gain that Canada has already seen come back.
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3 minutes ago, pfife said:
Trump literally has the worst job numbers of any president in the past 100 years. I'm not sure what qualifies as "screw it up to bad" if that doesn't.
He also was the only president in the last 100 years to deal with a global pandemic that was so bad, that not only did we see massive shut downs by economies all over the world, we even saw the NCAA choose the welfare of their athletes over money. Yes, that bad.
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21 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:
So we're talking about the $8 TRILLION that Trump added to our debt?
Correct?
We certainly are.
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2 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:
Funny since Republicans ended the filibuster on Supreme Court nominations and rammed through Amy Coney Barrett after holding up Merrick Garland's nomination for 9 months.
Indeed, and even with that, they didn't get rid of the filibuster altogether.
As a point of clarity, i'm not arguing that if the dems do it, once the republicans have control, than they'll do it. Well, I guess that is what i'm saying, so to clarify. If the dems don't do it, and we end up with republican control in 2024, I certainly wouldn't put it past them in doing it.
What I am arguing is that the GOP is so close from never being able to win a national seat in it's current form. IMO, give them another 4-6 years and they'll struggle in congress too, but i'm getting sidetracked. In 2024, they do still have a good chance of having control of the house and senate. So it's imperative not to let them get one last shot at the White House. To Pfife's point, getting rid of the filibuster alone wouldn't give Trump or one of his lackey's a chance IMO, but if the filibuster is removed and progressive dems decide to push for and overrun Biden, every gain progressives might take, could be wiped out soon after.
The overreach I see progressives wanting to do would, at worse, put a burden of debt on the back of our kids. (What's a few more trillion at this point.)
The overreach I could see this current GOP do if given a shot, would jeopardize our standing as a democracy.
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14 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:
And then there's this as well...
These never tell the whole story though. H-dub made some economic decisions that Clinton (to his credit, our detriment) kept going and he benefited from them. Some of those decisions also led to the 2008 economic strife that W took the hit on and gave the recovery numbers to Obama, propping his numbers up.
As for Trump, he inherited a decent economy and for the most part, didn't screw it up to bad. As for Covid, can't think of too many countries that escaped a harsh economic hit, regardless if they were perceived to be successful against Covid or not.
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1 hour ago, pfife said:
You mean when they go ahead and destroy the filibuster themselves? Or are you talking about how they've already exempted their main two priorities (SCOTUS & Tax Cuts) from the filibuster altogether?
I'd be interested to see what GOP nonsense is getting blocked by filibuster.
Legit point. My fear is destroying the filibuster will look like an overreach, especially if the dems start passing laws that aren't wildly popular. These infrastructure bills would be fine, folks want them, it's what after that which could be an issue. History already says the house and likely senate will be controlled in 2 years by the GOP. Overreach (and no Trump) is about the only thing I could see giving the GOP a shot at POTUS. Based on how Trump is destroying the GOP, that puts a bunch more MTG types running the show in the house, McCarthy more than happy to go along as he's in power, McConnell who cares about wins more than the country, and in my scenario DeSantis who you could argue is worse than Trump, because he knows better and goes along anyway.
42 minutes ago, Archie said:A few decades ago Republicans and Democrats basically had the same goals but they just had different ideas how to get there. I don't think their goals are close anymore and playing politics is more important than ever.
I'd argue it was this way as recent as 2015. Like you say, vast differences in how to get to the same place, but overall goals were close. I think individually that is still the case, but it's clearly easier than we probably all thought it could be in getting swept up. Right now you have only one party that even has goals. The other party just wants to 'own' the other side, there is no policy, no goal, no substance.
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5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:
What? Cabinet sec's that don't do what they are told or do what they are told not to get fired. That's the whole reason we worried about Trump. If we really had 15 fully independent governmental departments we wouldn't need to bother electing a President. The Const vests all executive authority in the elected guy.
I've been told you're wrong, see below.
1 hour ago, pfife said:I'm going to go ahead and assume that there's some sarcasm/trolling interweaved, but maybe it's just me, I have a hard time following your actual argument when that is weaved through.
No trolling, but yes, heavy on the sarcasm.
To be technically correct, Biden has no authority to put a vaccine mandate in place. (POTUS probably had that ability before until an evil GOP legislature took it away just to screw over a democrat at some point in the future) He worked within his administration to identify a legal way to do this and the person with the authority, then took the steps needed to move forward with implementing it.
Ironically, this is exactly what Whitmer could do if she wanted to put a mask mandate in place in Michigan. Yet for some reason, instead of asking if or why she's not talking about it, the correct response to that question is that the GOP took away all her power and anyone that says otherwise is a liar. Stop blaming Whitmer, start blaming the GOP. End of story.
I don't understand the difference. Mind you I'm not the brightest, so there is that.
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22 minutes ago, John_Brian_K said:
I do not really follow College football, but I watch and listen etc...why is everyone so afraid of this game? Seems like a pretty solid win for UofM is in order here.
UofM has put up some monster rushing yards, but there is always a question of the competition this early in the season. The football powerhouse known as Rutgers managed to slow down that rushing attack. Wisconsin's loss to Notre Dame looked horrible on paper, but it was a close game before they gave up a kick return and had two pick 6's against them. They had pressure on ND the entire game and limited ND to 3 yards rushing. Even if you take the sacks out of that stat, ND's lead back only had like 30-40 yards.
Apparently it's going to be wet too, Not really sure if that benefits one team more than the other though.
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1 hour ago, romad1 said:
"His party" by which you mean a schizophrenic senator from Arizona.
Or the 50 or so members of the house that are threatening not to take the bird in hand (bipartisan infrastructure bill).
Speaking of Sinema, sounds like progressives are talking about primarying her. Apparently as much as they hate Trump, they think the same way. Best way to ensure that flips back to a GOP is to put a progressive up against the GOP there.
I understand Sinema and Manchin are the obstacles from getting everything the progressives want and desire. But they appear to be the only ones concerned about what that could entail a few years from now, let's say if we have a DeSantis as POTUS, McConnel leading the senate, and McCarthy leading the house.
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This is a very 'ewsieg' comment of you to make. Do you not realize that Trump and the MI GOP is the reason why MI has a high infection rate. Every stat in the last 18 months that has shown low infection rate, is because Whitmer's policies. Any time it increases, it's Trump and the GOP's fault, you should stop posting any data that could question that as Trump is no longer in power.