But when we have natural disasters under a Democratic President that our media tends to question the local officials (especially if they are Republican). In the case of the Texas snow storm and power outage, the press has actually chosen a Federal Senator to apparently blame for everything, since apparently it was his duty to not leave the state for even a day.
On the flip side our President has barely been in contact with Texas, has only tentative plans to go down this week (now that the weather has turned and power has been nearly 100% restored). It took the Administration until yesterday (a full week after the storm hit) to even issue the obligatory Federal Emergency to even start to get Federal help.
According to what we do know, the President has been playing Mario Cart and having his handlers "put a lid" on his days, many times before noon. This is how the new President handles a domestic crisis. Video games and nap-time. Where is anyone from the mainstream media as it pertains to demanding any accountability for what appears to be a complete lack of caring? I actually read a headline from the Washington Post that described his lack of interest to be a "low key approach" that has won praise? Won praise from whom and why? Apparently doing nothing during a disaster is actually a praise worthy "low-key approach" if you are a Democrat.
This are the dishonest times we live in.
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This is how the new President handles a domestic crisis. Video games and nap-time.
This might not be a bad thing. I don't want this dumb fuck making any substantive decisions at all. Four years of video games, 9 AM "lids" and nappy time? I'm good with that.
Roger,now that Pres. Trump Literally saved your life , when will you stop WEARING a mask?
Roger prediction is by April 30th, 2021 we return to these pre-pandemic levels across the board under The Dark Winter President.
"The jobless rate for Hispanics hit a record low of 3.9% in September, while African Americans maintained its lowest rate ever, 5.5%. The unemployment rate for Asian Americans was 2.5% in September. The jobless rate for adult women came in at 3.1%. " CNN
Biden's handling of the Covid crisis is going remarkably well. See the post I put in the "funnies " next thread down.
Also, it has been noted that cases of flu this year are far, far down, much further than anticipated.
A long time ago, Dr. Fauci suggested that if we stopped shaking hands in America, the spreading of the flu might greatly decrease.
So could wearing masks and not shaking hands and keeping more distance from one another have other healthful benefits as well? Could be.
Think I'll start refusing to shake hands forever.
No it's not going remarkably well. Millions are locked out of getting appointments and those who can are scheduled 2 months out. Not sure what you thinks so remarkable about that.
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Biden's handling of the Covid crisis is going remarkably well.
so well that an 85 year old woman I know has to wait until March 17th for her vaccine.
Roger Kimball describes in reverse reality Scott lives in. Objectively is invalid.
In the Gospel of St. John, we read that “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” However we decide to understand that, it is clearly a very different sort of thing from the kind of truth involved in the statement “Snow is white” or “2 + 2 = 4.” Presumably, the strategies involved in deciding whether it is true are very different as well.
Or consider the 19th-century Danish philosopher Kierkegaard. Rebelling against the pretensions of German idealism and its claim to have achieved “Absolute Knowledge,” Kierkegaard declared that “truth is subjectivity.”
Inured to believing that, whatever truth is, it has something to do with getting beyond our subjective point of view, most of us will agree that Kierkegaard’s polemic at least has the virtue of novelty.
But even if subjectivity is truth, the problem of justification, of knowing what to answer when some asks you to explain, remains as pressing as it ever was. The history of speculation about truth has prominently included what we might call a school of impatience that, instead of trying to solve the problem, has endeavored to dismiss it.
All the varieties of skepticism belong to the school of impatience, as do pragmatists like the American psychologist/philosopher William James who defined truth as “what works.” (The 20th-century Australian philosopher David Stove spoke in this context of “the American philosophical tradition of self-indulgence, or to give it its usual name, pragmatism.”)
The school of impatience tends to flourish in cynical ages, and so it is not surprising that it is immensely popular in our own age.
2+2=4 is substantial in his world.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/20/can-the-truth-set-us-free/
He has spoken to the governor many times but you ignored the fact because your subjective perspective alters your reality universe
2+2=4 is substantial in his world.
and it's also RAY-CISS. as is having to show your work to illustrate how you arrived at "4".
RAY-CISS. all of it. RAY-CISS. systemic.
RAY-CISS, RAY-CISS, RAY-CISS.
lather, rinse, repeat to keep the con and the grift rolling, and the Benjamin's a flowing...
it beats working.
This will trigger a nuclear post! Masking is a Democratic hoax!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022 even as the country relaxes other restrictions to combat COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said on Sunday.
While daily infection rates are coming down dramatically, thousands of Americans still die every day from the virus, and less than 15% of the U.S. population has been vaccinated against it. (Graphic: https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRENDS/dgkvlgkrkpb/index.html)
President Joe Biden is trying to accelerate the campaign to vaccinate most American adults as local governments clamor for more doses to prevent the highly contagious illness that has claimed nearly 500,000 lives in the United States.
Fauci, Biden's top medical adviser, told CNN that the approaching deaths tally was "a terribly historic milestone in the history of this country."
Asked if Americans should expect to still be wearing masks into next year, Fauci said: "I think it is possible that that's the case," adding that it depended on the level of the virus in communities and potential virus variants.
"Obviously, I think we are going to have a significant degree of normality beyond the terrible burden that all of us have been through over the last year," Fauci said.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press", Fauci said it was too soon to pinpoint when the United States might reach herd immunity.
"We want to get that baseline really, really, really low before we start thinking that we're out of the woods."
He told "Fox News Sunday" that whether people in the United States will later need a booster shot depends on the path the South African variant takes.
While the currently available vaccines appear protective against the UK variant that has appeared across the country, they are less protective against the South African one, which so far is not dominant, he said.
"If in fact this becomes more dominant, we may have to get a version of the vaccine that is directed specifically against the South African isolate," Fauci told Fox, saying studies were already underway.
(Reporting by Michael Martina, Susan Heavey and Linda So; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Especially because of some viruses are changing
spoken to the governor "many times", alky?
well if that were true it would be reported all over the fucking place.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press", Fauci said it was too soon to pinpoint when the United States might reach herd immunity.
of course.
'herd control' trumps 'herd immunity' forever, baby.
tyrannical democrats are fucking loving this shit and have no intention of taking their jackboot off our neck anytime soon.
the founders would be shooting by now.
President Biden visited former Sen. Bob Dole Saturday, days after the longtime Republican Senate leader said he has been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.
Mr. Biden arrived late Saturday afternoon at the Watergate complex in Washington, where Mr. Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, have an apartment. The White House, which hadn’t announced the visit ahead of time, said Mr. Biden was “visiting his close friend, Senator Bob Dole.”
Mr. Biden attended Mass after the visit. As he exited Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, he was asked how Mr. Dole was doing
He said that he was doing fine.
The Wages of Woke
How Robin DiAngelo got rich peddling 'white fragility'
https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-wages-of-woke-2/
'herd control' trumps 'herd immunity' forever, baby.
Another concept that eludes you......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!@!!!!! Dumb fuck!!!!
It was a failure of leadership Scott.
In world’s Energy Capital, Houston, just suffered one of the greatest energy failures in America with 4.4 million people left to face arctic temperatures with no heat, no light, little food, and freezing water lines. All of this is happening amid a pandemic.
The Texas Blackout of 2021 was primarily a human failure, not a technology, regulatory, or market failure that can easily be fixed with innovation, legislation, or policy changes. Texas needs new energy leadership.
We often take for granted how much of our daily lives depend on a massive complicated electrical grid that is simultaneously invisible and, on every power pole and in every room, visible with a light switch and electrical outlet. Behind this massive grid failure is a system that operates in real time, feeding off countless smart meters pulsing data in 15-minute intervals.
As a young law student in 1990, I clerked at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under Texan Martin Allday, who was quick to point out that all other industries rely on the energy industry. Providing fuel for our lives and livelihoods in an economical and sustainable manner has been my passion and has taken me from FERC, to the Clinton-Gore White House, to the Department of Energy, and finally to Houston where I bring solar power plants to life and review financing of energy efficiency retrofits.
As the lights slowly come back on, what did and did not happen is being revealed. Texas has a unique grid, mostly independent from federal oversight, that blends various regulatory mandates with market forces. It runs through America’s oil patch while creating a benevolent environment for renewables. Texas is the sixth largest producer of wind power in the world, producing twice as much a California. Texas simultaneously rivals Saudi Arabia in petroleum production
Wind Turbines Icing Did Not Cause the Blackout
Let’s dispel some ideological myths about what caused this mess. Many anti-renewable conservatives were quick to blame a few wind turbines in north Texas for failing to produce their scheduled quotas and plunging Texas into the dark. This included Gov. Greg Abbott and Land Commissioner George P. Bush, who both reflexively blamed solar and wind, and praised fossil fuels. Abbott went as far as deriding the Green New Deal, which has not even passed Congress and was not embraced by President Joe Biden during his campaign.
The Texas grid operator, the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) expects wind generators to produce 7% of the grid’s winter needs. Abbott and Bush latched on to an iota of truth. Some turbines did ice up and go off-line because they did not have heating packages like wind turbines in more northern climates. However, the strong arctic winds meant that the turbines that did run exceeded expectations. During parts of February 15, wind actually doubled its expected contribution to the grid. Unfortunately, ERCOT needed six times that amount to meet demand.
Fossil Fuel Generators Failed to Winterize.
As impressive as Texas wind production may be, wind is only 24.8% of ERCOT’s energy generation capacity. By comparison, ERCOT is dependent upon natural gas generation which is responsible for 51.0 percent of generation capacity.
There are a variety of ways freezing temperatures can foil gas generators, including not having equipment protected from freezing temperatures, but the inability to obtain pipeline supplies was the biggest problem during this disaster. Most natural gas is stored in the ground, though it can also be stored in pipelines through what’s called packing. Freezing temperatures can cause wellheads to shut, moisture in pipelines can freeze, and pumps often rely on electricity to move the gas
Furthermore, gas generators compete with businesses, homes, hospitals, and others who use natural gas to heat their structures in the winter. This competition does not exist during the hot Texas summers when air conditioner demand on the grid is typically high.
The link will follow
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/02/20/texas-blackout-of-2021-was-primarily-a-human-failure/
Since the day after he rolled down the escalator, the Republican party became a threat to the United States of America. It had been rolling toward authoritarian philosophy for years.
We don't need the Republican party to survive as a democratic Republic.
If the Democratic Party were made up purely of devotees of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one could see space for a center-right party. But contrary to GOP propaganda, that is not the case. A center-left nominee won the presidency. The Senate includes many moderate Democrats, including Warner, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Robert P. Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania.
All of that is to say that there is no particular reason to hope for a revived Republican Party insofar as we are looking for a vehicle for an exhausted ideology. If we need a second or a third party, the possibilities are endless. There are socially conservative but economically progressive parties in Western Europe that embrace a strong social contract. There could be a need for a centrist party if the Democrats go off the deep end.
However, as we think through this next era in politics, we should abide by one core principle:
A right-wing, populist and authoritarian party should not be allowed to hold power. It has proved to be dangerous, racist and fundamentally un-American. Everything else should be up for debate.
Jennifer Rubin and Roger Amick
Well Roger...
By that logic Katrina was largely a human error, since New Orleans leadership failed to build a levee tall enough to stop the flooding. The human error allowed the natural disaster to flood the city, which could have been avoided by better planning. More to the point, the disaster in that case should have been expected, long before a massive snow storm would be expected in Texas.
But Katrina wasn't blamed on either the local planners or the natural disaster itself.
Pretty sure back then lack of local planning that caused massive issues with expected hurricane....
Was all blamed on Bush.
Now wasn't it?
Please explain why?
Was all blamed on Bush.
Now wasn't it?
Please explain why?
Because now shut up
Hi, Roger.
@70 years old and having only a room, WiFi & a tv, do you see why you are a failure in Life?
Roger begs for a response.
But , he did not get a "This will trigger a nuclear post" response at all.
Cheating Roger of what he craves, attention.
Here Roger I will throw you a bone.
"like" feeling better?
James applauded this under The Dark Winter President.
"Nearly 100,000 in U.S. Died from Coronavirus in Biden’s First Month in Office"
James called it "just thinning the herd".
The Green New Deal is the second coming of The Great New Deal.
Lying in Ruin
The difference between then and now goes a very long way toward explaining why Mr. Abbott is railing against a policy plan that, as of now, exists primarily on paper. In a crisis, ideas matter — he knows this. He also knows that the Green New Deal, which promises to create millions of union jobs building out shock-resilient green energy infrastructure, transit and affordable housing, is extremely appealing. This is especially true now, as so many Texans suffer under the overlapping crises of unemployment, houselessness, racial injustice, crumbling public services and extreme weather.
All that Texas’s Republicans have to offer, in contrast, is continued oil and gas dependence — driving more climate disruption — alongside more privatizations and cuts to public services to pay for their state’s mess, which we can expect them to push in the weeks and months ahead.
Will it work? Unlike when the G.O.P. began deploying the shock doctrine, its free-market playbook is no longer novel. It has been tried and repeatedly tested: by the pandemic, by spiraling hunger and joblessness, by extreme weather. And it is failing all of those tests — so much so that even the most ardent cheerleaders of deregulation now point to Texas’s energy grid as a cautionary tale. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, for instance, called the deregulation of Texas’s energy system “a fundamental flaw.”
In short, Republican ideas are no longer lying around — they are lying in ruin. Small government is simply no match for this era of big, interlocking problems. Moreover, for the first time since Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s late former prime minister, declared that “there is no alternative” to leaving our fates to the market, progressives are ready with a host of problem-solving plans. The big question is whether the Democrats who hold power in Washington will have the courage to implement them.
The horrors currently unfolding in Texas expose both the reality of the climate crisis and the extreme vulnerability of fossil fuel infrastructure in the face of that crisis. So of course the Green New Deal finds itself under fierce attack. Because for the first time in a long time, Republicans face the very thing that they claim to revere but never actually wanted: competition — in the battle of ideas.
The Republicans are losing the battle of normality.
The Republicans don't like getting minority people to get the vaccine, because they endorse "thinning the herd"
Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal https://nyti.ms/2NJqXuy
Frozen windmills exposes a failed oil infrastructure??
So does the cost of tea in China.
Lindsey Graham Is All In on Trump
1:30 pm Taegan Goddard quotes The Washington Post:
“Graham is set to visit the former president’s gilded Mar-a-Lago Club on Sunday to spend two days golfing and dining with Trump. He has spoken to the former president nearly daily since Jan. 6 — more frequently than any of his Republican colleagues in the Senate — and served as an informal adviser to Trump’s defense team during his Senate impeachment trial this month…
Said Graham: “If he ran, it would be his nomination for the having. I don’t know what he wants to do. Because he was successful for conservatism and people appreciate his fighting spirit, he’s going to dominate the party for years to come. The way I look at it, there is no way we can achieve our goals without Trump.”
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If he ran, AND if the GOP were stupid enough to nominate him, he would be soundly defeated AGAIN.
Graham is making a mistake and so is the GOP if they don't realize they have to just "get over"
Trump or face disaster.
But go ahead and sink yourselves. :-)
12:11 are lies.
Filed under irony
James tells Republicans to get over Trump while continually posting about him.
LOL James also invites them NOT to get over him.
I agree with . at 12:48.
Well Reverend...
Trump won once and was the classic 21,422 vote swing away from winning again. Considering the massive amounts of one-time rule changes (such as mailing out ballots, not checking signatures, providing extra time, not purging voters) that will no longer be in play, as well as massive amounts of counting issues (that will not happen in four years), as well as issues with preventing Green Party candidates from being on the ticket (that will be revisited) - that margin seems pretty slim.
Add to the fact that redistricting will add some ECV to red states (Texas, Florida, Montana) and take them from blue states (New York California, Illinois)j - that provides the GOP candidate with more ECV making the math slightly different.
If nothing else changes and the election was re-held with regular laws, regular counting, and Green Party candidates... Trump would win. So the Democrat will actually have to "improve" upon the 80 million plus voters to win again.
Meanwhile, four years from now, people will not feel so much angst for Trump (just as they no longer feel angst for Bush after he left office). People always look back on previous Presidents more fondly once they are gone from the public eye.
You know, the public eye that will eventually start to look at Biden.
But ultimately, it will all boil down to how the country is doing and who the Democrats nominate to replace Biden (who almost certainly will not run in 2024).
Donald Trump Jr.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1363489982464348162
The Democrats made the rules I’m just playing by them. 100,000 deaths in Joe Biden’s first month where is the CNN death count take her? Where is the main stream media questioning each and every decision?
And with how they assign "covid" deaths to with covid rather than by covid unless they change this as more and more people have been exposed to covid this will continue.
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
1984
bow to our enemies
It'll be Harris in 2024 and anyone who opposes her will be racist
President Trump was the most popular President ever after his first four years in office. This showed in car rallies, truck rallies, boat rallies, and signage across the country.
The Gateway Pundit.
No fucking way.
Most Republicans are racists.
But the former's base is very racist.
The proud Boys etc. are racist assholes.
Your not a racist but you ignored the fact that the former won in 2016 because he scared enough suburban women, it didn't work last year.
Roger , are you sticking with your prediction of Bidenomics will have the US Economy back to pre-pandemic levels across the Board by April 30th?
Yes
Or
No
Suburban women as well as suburban men are the demographic that is most pissed off about schools not reopening and the Democrats catering to the teacher's unions. These suburban voters will change on a dime. I should know, I live with them.
Several election prognosticators (including 538) have discussed how this is likely to affect 2022 midterms (especially without Trump on the ballot). It could definitely lead to the GOP picking up the handful of seats they need to make turn Pelosi into the minority leader.
Most Republicans are racist?? You ignorant prick.
Roger Amick said...
President Trump was the most popular President ever after his first four years in office. This showed in car rallies, truck rallies, boat rallies, and signage across the country.
Alice
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/themodalice/status/1363147557652688897
Massive crowd of 3 show up to welcome Kamala Harris to her home in Los Angeles
ROFLMFAO !!!
Shit 500,002 Americans have died
Several election prognosticators (including 538) have discussed how this is likely to affect 2022 midterms
Donks are going to get *shellacked
*h/t Obunghole
I said that opposite asshole
I'm not going to predict, but, if the country opens up and the economy continues to grow quickly, the Republicans will lose more seats in both side
Replying to Scott above. I remember when you used to argue before the Obama - Romney race
that Obama's being only a little above 50%
PART of the time
and lower than that
SOME of the time
indicated that he had a poor chance of winning against Romney.
Yet Obama won all the states he won the first time, except for NC.
Now we are talking about a possible candidate who has NEVER been above 50% on the RCP aggregates, but almost always considerably lower.
Never!
Yet you claim he has a good chance of winning?
Roger I read the same way Balls did, you have a hard time expressing yourself in a cogent manner. Maybe it’s the Alkyfill
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/biden-democrats-still-running-scared-stealing-election-will-never-hold-open-event-american-people/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/biden-democrats-still-running-scared-stealing-election-will-never-hold-open-event-american-people/
I miss typed.
Most Republicans are not racists.
But the former's base is very racist.
The proud Boys etc. are racist assholes.
Your not a racist but you ignored the fact that the former won in 2016 because he scared enough suburban women, it didn't work last year.
I miss typed.
Most Republicans are not racists.
But the former's base is very racist.
The proud Boys etc. are racist assholes.
Your not a racist but you ignored the fact that the former won in 2016 because he scared enough suburban women, it didn't work last year
Roger has been calling Republicans Racists for as long as I have known of him.
20 years now.
He has gotten dumber and poorer.
Roger picture is next to this quote on investopedia.
"fool and his money are soon parted"
Except in Alky's case it wasn't his money, poor Lydia, cheated out of her life saving by a self-admitted abusive spouse .
Interesting what you remember, Reverend.
Because my spreadsheet projected every state correct in the Obama Romney match-up. In those two Obama elections I only got North Carolina in 2008 incorrect (which had a margin of 0.4%).
Romney was never in any real danger of winning that election and I knew of almost nobody who thought he would win. 2012 was still a time when polling could be trusted to be accurate (and it was).
Either way...
Doesn't change the fact that Trump was just a few thousand votes from winning reelection in spite of a large "popular vote" deficit.
Claiming or saying (as a matter of rhetoric) that it was a large victory for Biden is fine... from a rhetorical standpoint. But from a practical standpoint of how close Biden was to losing, it was razor thin and could turn on a dime. That is especially true if things don't come back economically after Covid.
Trump winning the 2024 nomination and a country disillusioned with the state of affairs in 2024 is your worst nightmare.
Because my spreadsheet projected every state correct in the Obama Romney match-up. I
NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR ANCIENT SPREADSHEET LIL SCHITTY!!!!!! Trump not going to jail for his incompetence will be a just reward!!!! Sorry sport, trump won by an RCH as did biden.....but 7 million less votes is a significant number....you as a statistics expert knows what that means!!!!!!!
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