Newsmax CEO Credits Biden with "Good Job on the Vaccine" and "54% approval rating"

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Originally Posted by willy

I was a Republican my whole life until about ten years ago. Now they're nuts.

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I know right, imagine wanting secure borders, energy independence and more jobs for americans. It’s nuts.Imagine not wanting government running our lives, making decisions for us and spying or suppressing speech they don’t agree with. Completely nuts. Wait we still talking about government or you for last 10 years Tom?

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Originally Posted by Fire Goodell

Not everything is so black and white. That's like saying every Republican is with QAnon, which isn't true

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Exactly. The far-right weirdos are as disliked among conservatives as the far-left ones are by you. The difference is that the right and the Republicans kind of push their weirdos away to arm's length, but the Democrats embrace them and make them the centerpiece of their "movement."

Of course, the left-wing propagandists would have you believe the opposite, but it's just not even close. Make no mistake about it, you are throwing your lot in with the crazies, whether that's what you meant to do or not.

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Originally Posted by steelreserve

Exactly. The far-right weirdos are as disliked among conservatives as the far-left ones are by you. The difference is that the right and the Republicans kind of push their weirdos away to arm's length, but the Democrats embrace them and make them the centerpiece of their "movement."

Of course, the left-wing propagandists would have you believe the opposite, but it's just not even close. Make no mistake about it, you are throwing your lot in with the crazies, whether that's what you meant to do or not.

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Not to mention the far left weirdos are the ones running the party. Look at cackling kamala or piglosi

Is Marjorie Taylor Green a weirdo or not? She seems pretty front and center...plus Jewish space lasers might be real!

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

Is Marjorie Taylor Green a weirdo or not? She seems pretty front and center...plus Jewish space lasers might be real!

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Marjorie rocks!

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Originally Posted by silver & black

Marjorie rocks!

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And that is how you know that the Youtube algorithms radicalized you.

A woman who literally believes that a cabal of international Jewish folks used space lasers to start western wildfires is someone to be taken seriously...it was within my lifetime that such a person would have been laughed at and hounded out of the public square whether they were left, right, or center. Now...we are elevating them to prominent positions...just insane.

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

And that is how you know that the Youtube algorithms radicalized you.

A woman who literally believes that a cabal of international Jewish folks used space lasers to start western wildfires is someone to be taken seriously...it was within my lifetime that such a person would have been laughed at and hounded out of the public square whether they were left, right, or center. Now...we are elevating them to prominent positions...just insane.

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I didn't know anything about space lazers and fires...lol. I just like her because she stands up to Democrats and Republicans alike.

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Originally Posted by silver & black

I didn't know anything about space lazers and fires...lol. I just like her because she stands up to Democrats and Republicans alike.

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OK...but you are supporting a woman who believes/claims/imagined that the fires across the western US were caused by Jewish owned lasers firing from space.

All part of some bizarre online rant she went on in like 2018 or something: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucele...h=511e7130e44a

But I suspect it isn't that she is standing up to anyone or any party - it is that she is bonkers more than anything else. Crazy isn't a solid political affiliation.

I do think it is telling that the people I keep being told represent "real America" and "fight hardest" for the "average person" have so far been this lunatic and dude who appears to have paid underage girls to party with him. This keeps repeatedly happening...one has to wonder why...it is almost like y'all keep getting conned. The last real American hero has apparently been simply pocketing each of your donations while playing golf in Florida.

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

OK...but you are supporting a woman who believes/claims/imagined that the fires across the western US were caused by Jewish owned lasers firing from space.

All part of some bizarre online rant she went on in like 2018 or something: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucele...h=511e7130e44a

But I suspect it isn't that she is standing up to anyone or any party - it is that she is bonkers more than anything else. Crazy isn't a solid political affiliation.

I do think it is telling that the people I keep being told represent "real America" and "fight hardest" for the "average person" have so far been this lunatic and dude who appears to have paid underage girls to party with him. This keeps repeatedly happening...one has to wonder why...it is almost like y'all keep getting conned. The last real American hero has apparently been simply pocketing each of your donations while playing golf in Florida.

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I don't donate to any politician. She might very well be crazy, but I like that she doesn't cow tow to anyone in Congress. I suppose Sen. John Kennedy is also crazy because he does the same thing?

To be fair, I like Joe Manchin too. I support any of them that have a back bone.... no matter the party.

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Originally Posted by silver & black

I don't donate to any politician. She might very well be crazy, but I like that she doesn't cow tow to anyone in Congress. I suppose Sen. John Kennedy is also crazy because he does the same thing?

To be fair, I like Joe Manchin too. I support any of them that have a back bone.... no matter the party.

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I don't know alot about Kennedy, but what I do know is that he has not repeatedly said things that used to get people checked into the funny farm.

Taylor repeatedly says things that are well out on the lunatic fringe and I mean that in a non-political way. Like if a person said the same thing to you in a bar, you would laugh, walk away, and avoid them for the rest of the night.

Manchin is a feckless coward. He finally gets in a position of influence and power and he can' t manage do do anything with it. He's useless to either party. Joe Manchin has one single goal and that is further Joe Manchin's hold on political office. He certainly doesn't seem to actually use his office to get anything done but keep his name in the papers.

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Originally Posted by silver & black

I don't donate to any politician. She might very well be crazy, but I like that she doesn't cow tow to anyone in Congress. I suppose Sen. John Kennedy is also crazy because he does the same thing?

To be fair, I like Joe Manchin too. I support any of them that have a back bone.... no matter the party.

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Anyone who defends QAnon is branded crazy in my book

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Originally Posted by Fire Goodell

Anyone who defends QAnon is branded crazy in my book

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I don't support QAnon in any way. I don't really "support" MTG. I do like that she flies in the face of the establishment... and the Progressives.

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I don't support QAnon in any way. I don't really "support" MTG. I do like that she flies in the face of the establishment... and the Progressives.

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So you don't support Qanon in anyway -- except that many of the websites, politicians, and other internet links you tend to provide are all known to support Qanon. You don't "support" MTG -- except when you do because trolling the libs is great!

C'mon. You're trying to paint yourself as this reasonable guy that only supports the reasonable parts of the crazy. That is the thing...with crazy you are either all in or all out. They don't care about your conditions.

Whether you like it or not, you are propping up QAnon, MGT, and the craziest elements of the American Right by clicking on links, watching increasingly extreme partisan news sources, going down YouTube rabbit holes that push the page views and algorithm hits up for the most hard-core crazy parts of the GOP. That's how this all works. Clicks and eyeballs equal exposure and then cash. Once you get some cash...then you are in the political "mainstream".

Despite your claims that you don't support these more radical elements, you are very much supporting and encourage them.

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A majority -- 55% -- of the public say they are pessimistic about the direction of the country, a marked change from the roughly one-third (36%) that said the same in an ABC News/Ipsos poll published May 2. In the early May survey, Americans were more optimistic than pessimistic by a 28-percentage point margin. Optimism is now under water by 10 points. Looking ahead to the next 12 months, fewer than half -- 45% -- now report feeling optimistic about the way things are going, a significant drop from about two-thirds (64%) in the May poll.

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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/americans-...110100639.html

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

So you don't support Qanon in anyway -- except that many of the websites, politicians, and other internet links you tend to provide are all known to support Qanon. You don't "support" MTG -- except when you do because trolling the libs is great!

C'mon. You're trying to paint yourself as this reasonable guy that only supports the reasonable parts of the crazy. That is the thing...with crazy you are either all in or all out. They don't care about your conditions.

Whether you like it or not, you are propping up QAnon, MGT, and the craziest elements of the American Right by clicking on links, watching increasingly extreme partisan news sources, going down YouTube rabbit holes that push the page views and algorithm hits up for the most hard-core crazy parts of the GOP. That's how this all works. Clicks and eyeballs equal exposure and then cash. Once you get some cash...then you are in the political "mainstream".

Despite your claims that you don't support these more radical elements, you are very much supporting and encourage them.

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Well, I don't personally support "radical" on either side. I can't say that I worry about any video I watch being connected to radical nut cases... I just watch/read/listen to what interests me.

I would say the left is more radical than the right, but we see things differently, so...

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Originally Posted by Dwinsgames

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/americans-...110100639.html

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Pandemic related apparently according to the yahoo article you quoted:

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The optimism-pessimism flip comes as Americans give Biden his lowest approval rating for his handling of the pandemic yet in ABC News/Ipsos polling. A little over 6 in 10 (63%) approve of the president's response to the coronavirus, according to the poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel.


Although still a majority, it's a nine-point drop from late March -- the high for Biden. It likely reflects the growing concern that lockdowns could be reinstatedand already vaccinated Americans could need a booster shot as the highly contagious delta variant now is estimated to account for 83% of all new coronavirus cases in the United States. As of Friday, according to Health and Human Services data obtained by ABC News, the United States' daily case average was up 47% compared to the prior week, and on Wednesday, the nation recorded its highest single-day new case total since April.

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The answer, get vaccinated.

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

C'mon. You're trying to paint yourself as this reasonable guy that only supports the reasonable parts of the crazy. That is the thing...with crazy you are either all in or all out. They don't care about your conditions.

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Some pretty self-damning words coming from a liberal Democrat.

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Originally Posted by steelreserve

Some pretty self-damning words coming from a liberal Democrat.

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I have never extolled the virtues of anyone who has claimed that lasers from space started forest fires. I do not support individuals who claim diseases are caused by digital signals floating in the ether. I have never posted materials, links, or information from content producers that support that type of nonsense.

People can view each end of the spectrum as too extreme or whatever. However...there are certain claims and actions that aren't even on the spectrum.

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I have never extolled the virtues of anyone who has claimed that lasers from space started forest fires. I do not support individuals who claim diseases are caused by digital signals floating in the ether. I have never posted materials, links, or information from content producers that support that type of nonsense.

People can view each end of the spectrum as too extreme or whatever. However...there are certain claims and actions that aren't even on the spectrum.

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Nope, you said yourself, no conditions on crazy. You accept any of it, you are ALL-IN. The violence of the radical left, the racism, the authoritarianism, the outright foolishness, all of it. No backtracking just because it's you. And don't lie, you've shown a bit more than passive support for the left-wing crazies, a lot more than just clicking on a link and the other behavior that you just gave the big tut-tut to. What an outrageous hypocrite. But this is nothing new.

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Nope, you said yourself, no conditions on crazy. You accept any of it, you are ALL-IN. The violence of the radical left, the racism, the authoritarianism, the outright foolishness, all of it. No backtracking just because it's you. And don't lie, you've shown a bit more than passive support for the left-wing crazies, a lot more than just clicking on a link and the other behavior that you just gave the big tut-tut to. What an outrageous hypocrite. But this is nothing new.

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https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic...15306825_0.jpg

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Originally Posted by steelreserve

Nope, you said yourself, no conditions on crazy. You accept any of it, you are ALL-IN. The violence of the radical left, the racism, the authoritarianism, the outright foolishness, all of it. No backtracking just because it's you. And don't lie, you've shown a bit more than passive support for the left-wing crazies, a lot more than just clicking on a link and the other behavior that you just gave the big tut-tut to. What an outrageous hypocrite. But this is nothing new.

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You're conflating things to make yourself feel better again.

This has been argued repeatedly if the right doesn't include white supremacists and other criminal elements than you can't have it the other way around when you want to characterize the left.

This is not as difficult as you make it out to be.

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

You're conflating things to make yourself feel better again.

This has been argued repeatedly if the right doesn't include white supremacists and other criminal elements than you can't have it the other way around when you want to characterize the left.

This is not as difficult as you make it out to be.

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See, the difference is that the hate groups and the racists on the right are extremists who are held in contempt. Whereas the left has made hate and racism into part of their mainstream ideology and just tried to give them clever labels and new names. The modern left is really nothing more than a poorly disguised hate group, whose more "moderate" members are either in denial, or are uncomfortable and deflect it with bullshit, like pointing fingers and saying both sides are the same. But no, they're not. It's not both sides doing it, it's just you.

Just to recap for the slow people: I am not saying anything here to make myself feel better. I am saying it to make you feel like the asshole that you are.

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Well, you can't spell "Shit Barometer" without T-O-M.

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It's a huge reason why I couldn't get behind Trump. It's one thing to be full of shit (all politicians are to some extent), but another thing when you're flat out wrong, and not admit being wrong, but doubling down on it. Integrity matters to me a lot, and that man has none.

In any case these last 2 elections were shit, our choices were basically dumb & dumber

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I can get that, but the key this last election was to look past Trump's ego. Everyone knows his is gigantic. But take a second and go back and look at how many times people said he was dead wrong and then a year later when the truth finally comes out he was right from the beginning. COVID19 is a perfect example. He said it was created in a lab and released by China. He was called a xenophobe by almost the entire media. Then two months later every Democrat that were encouraging people to go out to eat at Chinatown were accusing him of the opposite.

But when it came down to it who would you rather have in the White House right now? The guy that can't remember his fucking name with a VP that couldn't even get ONE stinking primary vote (from her home state) or the guy that was brash but didn't take shit from anyone? Do you really think inflation would be what it is right now if Trump and his team were still in office?

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

And that is how you know that the Youtube algorithms radicalized you.

it was within my lifetime that such a person would have been laughed at and hounded out of the public square whether they were left, right, or center. Now...we are elevating them to prominent positions...just insane.

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I remember when just 10 years ago if a parent stood up at a Presidential town hall like that woman did at Biden's and said my 8 year old SON wants to be GIRL that the country would lock her up for child abuse. But now we have the Democratic party and most of the media telling us it is completely normal for an 8 year old to want to changes their gender/sex? I mean Google it the support the media gave that woman is disturbing. Allowing an 8 year old to do that is pure child abuse.

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Originally Posted by EzraTank

I remember when just 10 years ago if a parent stood up at a Presidential town hall like that woman did at Biden's and said my 8 year old SON wants to be GIRL that the country would lock her up for child abuse. But now we have the Democratic party and most of the media telling us it is completely normal for an 8 year old to want to changes their gender/sex? I mean Google it the support the media gave that woman is disturbing. Allowing an 8 year old to do that is pure child abuse.

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It's disturbing indeed! Pedophiles will be protected soon.

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Originally Posted by EzraTank

Do you really think inflation would be what it is right now if Trump and his team were still in office?

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that’s an interesting question - would we be in the same inflationary shit storm if trump were president? We had super low interest rate policy and government handouts during trumps term also, just seems team Biden is continuing where trump left off,

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that’s an interesting question - would we be in the same inflationary shit storm if trump were president? We had super low interest rate policy and government handouts during trumps term also, just seems team Biden is continuing where trump left off,

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Yes but Trump wouldn't have ended all the energy independent programs he had put in place. Trump would still be holding China's feet to the fire on tariffs and fair trade. The reason our gasoline is $3.50/gallon (and climbing) is because of all the shit Biden (well his handlers really) did on Day #1 for the Green new deal bullshit.

Yes we would still be experiencing inflation because of what you said about hand outs but I really think if Trump had won and didn't have a reelection hanging over his head he would have pushed much harder to reopen things.

Again just my 2 cents ... I could be completely wrong.

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Yes but Trump wouldn't have ended all the energy independent programs he had put in place. Trump would still be holding China's feet to the fire on tariffs and fair trade. The reason our gasoline is $3.50/gallon (and climbing) is because of all the shit Biden (well his handlers really) did on Day #1 for the Green new deal bullshit.

Yes we would still be experiencing inflation because of what you said about hand outs but I really think if Trump had won and didn't have a reelection hanging over his head he would have pushed much harder to reopen things.

Again just my 2 cents ... I could be completely wrong.

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Inflation seems to be taking place primarily in areas that are incredibly tied to supply and demand. Does the POTUS and/or government spending have much influence over that? With inflation taking place in housing, airline travel, and automobiles because there is not enough to go around due to materials and labor shortages...what impact does government policy have on that? For instance, clothing and food prices went up by a fraction of a percent, while cars went up by over 10 times that and housing continues to soar. My super basic and limited understanding of all this is that if inflation was taking off, we would be paying a ton more for everything...not the slight increases we see in everyday consumer items that have no supply issues.

Not being snarky...honestly just talking it through.

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Originally Posted by EzraTank

I remember when just 10 years ago if a parent stood up at a Presidential town hall like that woman did at Biden's and said my 8 year old SON wants to be GIRL that the country would lock her up for child abuse. But now we have the Democratic party and most of the media telling us it is completely normal for an 8 year old to want to changes their gender/sex? I mean Google it the support the media gave that woman is disturbing. Allowing an 8 year old to do that is pure child abuse.

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Well...that would have been an ignorant and wrong-headed response. What is the harm in a kid wearing "odd" clothing choices and playing with some toys and not the others?

As has been discussed on here before...no reputable doctors or clinics are going to chemically or surgically treat a child that young for gender dysphoria. So it would totally be a lifestyle thing at that point - meaning completely non-permanent if the child wishes. So...big deal?

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Yes but Trump wouldn't have ended all the energy independent programs he had put in place. Trump would still be holding China's feet to the fire on tariffs and fair trade. The reason our gasoline is $3.50/gallon (and climbing) is because of all the shit Biden (well his handlers really) did on Day #1 for the Green new deal bullshit.

Yes we would still be experiencing inflation because of what you said about hand outs but I really think if Trump had won and didn't have a reelection hanging over his head he would have pushed much harder to reopen things.

Again just my 2 cents ... I could be completely wrong.

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I agree he would’ve tried to reopen things but I think the dems and the CDC would’ve fought him on that. Maybe like you said without an election he’d have more success. I don’t know if that would’ve been enough to help inflation if interest rates were still rock bottom - with the gov printing money like crazy and cheapening the dollar value - maybe if the government stopped giving out stimulus checks and lifted moratoriums more people would be forced to work for a living and companies wouldn’t have the opportunity to pass labor shortage costs onto the consumer - I could see maybe trump curbing the rate of stimmy checks

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I agree he would’ve tried to reopen things but I think the dems and the CDC would’ve fought him on that. Maybe like you said without an election he’d have more success. I don’t know if that would’ve been enough to help inflation if interest rates were still rock bottom - with the gov printing money like crazy and cheapening the dollar value - maybe if the government stopped giving out stimulus checks and lifted moratoriums more people would be forced to work for a living and companies wouldn’t have the opportunity to pass labor shortage costs onto the consumer - I could see maybe trump curbing the rate of stimmy checks

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If there wasn't an election, the Democrats never would have ever in a million years attempted lockdowns, mask mandates, or any of the other illegal things that they did. Governors, mayors, and health officials would have faced criminal charges and prison time if they'd done them. Likely the same for those public officials who aided and abetted rioters, looters, and arsonists.

But the whole idea was that because it was an election year, the instant the federal government did anything to prevent these activities, the Democrats were waiting to pounce on it like a pack of hyenas, and denounce it as heavy-handed authoritarianism, and scream "Dictator! Dictator! See? Dictator!" like they had been doing for years. Or, the alternative was to let them get away with murder, literally and figuratively. The Democrats go all-in on it, and if they manage to grab power, they get off scot-free.

That's the worst part. None of it was necessary. At BEST - if you give these people the benefit of the doubt - it was a massive, unprecedented overreaction, brought about by an overlawyered and PR-obsessed system that ran away from itself and snowballed out of control. The worse, and more likely case is that they knew it was unnecessary and did it anyway, and put you and everyone else through that completely for selfish reasons.

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The worse, and more likely case is that they knew it was unnecessary and did it anyway, and put you and everyone else through that completely for selfish reasons.

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I'm fairly sure that is exactly how it was/is.

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If there wasn't an election, the Democrats never would have ever in a million years attempted lockdowns, mask mandates, or any of the other illegal things that they did. Governors, mayors, and health officials would have faced criminal charges and prison time if they'd done them. Likely the same for those public officials who aided and abetted rioters, looters, and arsonists.

But the whole idea was that because it was an election year, the instant the federal government did anything to prevent these activities, the Democrats were waiting to pounce on it like a pack of hyenas, and denounce it as heavy-handed authoritarianism, and scream "Dictator! Dictator! See? Dictator!" like they had been doing for years. Or, the alternative was to let them get away with murder, literally and figuratively. The Democrats go all-in on it, and if they manage to grab power, they get off scot-free.

That's the worst part. None of it was necessary. At BEST - if you give these people the benefit of the doubt - it was a massive, unprecedented overreaction, brought about by an overlawyered and PR-obsessed system that ran away from itself and snowballed out of control. The worse, and more likely case is that they knew it was unnecessary and did it anyway, and put you and everyone else through that completely for selfish reasons.

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It does look excessive, they didn't impose lockdowns for the 18, 57, or 1968 pandemics because they didn't want to kill the economies and cause panic.

Where there elections in all these countries?

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Lockdowns compared: tracking governments’ coronavirus responses

Updated JUNE 24 2021 by FT Visual & Data Journalism Team

Curfews and other restrictions on daily life aimed at curbing the virus' spread remain a reality for millions around the world.

Governments have been cautious about easing lockdown measures after the lifting of restrictions over the summer led to new waves of the virus. For many, optimism generated by rapid progress in the development has been partially offset by concerns over slow rollouts and their efficacy with new, highly transmissible variants of the virus.

This page provides an ongoing visual representation of the worldwide imposition and relaxation of lockdown measures. It uses the Covid-19 government response stringency index, a composite score developed by researchers at Oxford university, to compare countries’ policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

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https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-lockdowns/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbggLX4qKo

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It does look excessive, they didn't impose lockdowns for the 18, 57, or 1968 pandemics because they didn't want to kill the economies and cause panic.

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Well, for that matter, a number of countries didn't impose lockdowns for this pandemic, either by choice or because they effectively had no way to. And they did not have a noticeably worse outcome than the ones that did.

The word "lockdown" should not be in the government's vocabulary; it is so abhorrent that it should not have ever even been worthy of consideration. Not even for the second coming of the black plague. If it is worth taking those same precautions, people can see that and don't need to be told. You don't destroy the whole world's economy because there's a nasty bug going around.

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If there wasn't an election, the Democrats never would have ever in a million years attempted lockdowns, mask mandates, or any of the other illegal things that they did. Governors, mayors, and health officials would have faced criminal charges and prison time if they'd done them. Likely the same for those public officials who aided and abetted rioters, looters, and arsonists.

But the whole idea was that because it was an election year, the instant the federal government did anything to prevent these activities, the Democrats were waiting to pounce on it like a pack of hyenas, and denounce it as heavy-handed authoritarianism, and scream "Dictator! Dictator! See? Dictator!" like they had been doing for years. Or, the alternative was to let them get away with murder, literally and figuratively. The Democrats go all-in on it, and if they manage to grab power, they get off scot-free.

That's the worst part. None of it was necessary. At BEST - if you give these people the benefit of the doubt - it was a massive, unprecedented overreaction, brought about by an overlawyered and PR-obsessed system that ran away from itself and snowballed out of control. The worse, and more likely case is that they knew it was unnecessary and did it anyway, and put you and everyone else through that completely for selfish reasons.

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Uh huh:

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Originally Posted by Mojouw

Inflation seems to be taking place primarily in areas that are incredibly tied to supply and demand. Does the POTUS and/or government spending have much influence over that? With inflation taking place in housing, airline travel, and automobiles because there is not enough to go around due to materials and labor shortages...what impact does government policy have on that? For instance, clothing and food prices went up by a fraction of a percent, while cars went up by over 10 times that and housing continues to soar. My super basic and limited understanding of all this is that if inflation was taking off, we would be paying a ton more for everything...not the slight increases we see in everyday consumer items that have no supply issues.

Not being snarky...honestly just talking it through.

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I could see things like building supplies or things that had supply chains disrupted by workers not being able to work but the gasoline/energy supplies were DIRECT results of Biden's handlers and their decisions.

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Well...that would have been an ignorant and wrong-headed response. What is the harm in a kid wearing "odd" clothing choices and playing with some toys and not the others?

As has been discussed on here before...no reputable doctors or clinics are going to chemically or surgically treat a child that young for gender dysphoria. So it would totally be a lifestyle thing at that point - meaning completely non-permanent if the child wishes. So...big deal?

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Wow, really? I'm not talking about letting your eight year old dress like a girl. These wackos want to start giving them puberty blockers to prevent them from becoming what they biologically are going to become because of NATURE, not their feelings. If you do not think giving a kid who hasn't hit puberty, puberty blocker drugs is child abuse then we do not live on the same planet. And I do have to disagree with you. I don't know if you have kids but I do, and I would never allow my children to think it is normal to act like that. I would take them to a child psychiatrist before playing along and acting like it is normal.

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.................................................. ... but the gasoline/energy supplies were DIRECT results of Biden's handlers and their decisions...............

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How is that?

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The are two factors that have driven up the price of oil. One is that demand collapsed last year as pandemic measures were implemented and people stopped traveling. The price of oil plummeted. That, in turn, ended up idling 3 million barrels per day (BPD) of U.S. oil production relative to a year ago.

As the end of the pandemic nears, oil demand is bouncing back. Supply doesn’t respond as quickly, and therefore that puts pressure on prices. If you think Biden is responsible for hastening the end of the pandemic, then you can place some blame for the rise in oil prices on him. But that’s because the economy is beginning to recover, which is a good thing.
Second, unlike a year ago, OPEC and Russia recently decided to cooperate by extending most of the current output cuts. Despite some recovery in demand, Saudi Arabia kept in place a 1 million BPD cut. That decision sent oil prices sharply higher, and will likely ensure additional gains in gasoline prices.

Factor 2: Loss of Refining Capacity

Beyond oil prices, what other factors can impact gasoline prices? One of the most significant is any event that limits refinery capacity. If the crude oil can’t get refined, then gasoline supplies will start to run low. That, in turn, will cause gasoline prices to rise. This often happens when a hurricane is churning through the Gulf of Mexico, but it also happened last month when the winter storm swept through Texas.

During the first two weeks of February, refinery utilizationin the U.S. was at 83%. Then the winter storm negatively impacted about a dozen refineries in Texas. By the last week of February, refinery utilization had plunged to 56%. Once again, it’s hard to pin that on Biden.

There are only a couple of mechanisms by which a President could have a short-term impact on gasoline prices. If they signed legislation changing the gasoline tax, which currently accounts for about 21% of the cost of gasoline, then that would quickly impact gasoline prices. Or, if a President announced a major release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, that could cause oil prices to temporarily dip and might impact gasoline prices short-term.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier...h=33d93c52329c

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Originally Posted by willy

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Come on Tom, where's the chimp picture? You afraid or something?

It's pretty clear willy is tom444 ... yet no banning.