Is this a war that we can actually win or is this an unseen enemy that we will eventually have to accept and work to mitigate?
Not saying that fighting Covid is not a worthwhile endeavor. Fighting drug use was a worthwhile endeavor as well. Just that after so much time of unsuccessfully implementing the same strategies with limited return on that investment, will we ever look at trying a different tactic? It seems like everytime we end whatever draconian strategy we are using, the virus comes back just as strong when we end them and start to restore normalcy to our lives.
Now that the latest variant of Covid might have mutated into something closer to the common cold (or even mutated into some form of Covid and the common cold) are we better off eventually looking at a herd immunity that does not come from vaccines and boosters?
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A better analogy than the war on drugs is what the feds have done to toilets, incandescent light bulbs, and gas cans.
In each case had the government done fucking NOTHING, everything right now would be fine with each. It was only when the government decided to "fix" all three did they fuck them all up.
My, my,
it sounds like Ch, who was expecting Omicron deaths to start showing up, as he made clear in what he said, is now backtracking and DEMANDING "it might have mutated into something resembling the common cold."
Opinion by Bob Dole
December 06 at 12:16 PM PST
Bob Dole, who died on Sunday, represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1996, including as Senate majority leader, and was the 1996 Republican nominee for president. This column was drafted early in 2021 to be published around the time of his death.
Shortly after I was elected Senate majority leader in November 1984, a friend stopped by the Capitol to offer his congratulations. We toured my office, reviewing pictures of past majority leaders and admiring two portraits of personal heroes: Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Something about the place, steeped in such distinguished history, touched a common nerve in us. We fell silent for a time, when a smile crossed my friend’s face. With wonder, he said, “Imagine a kid from Russell, Kansas, having an office like this.”
My home at birth was a three-room house. I grew up during the Dust Bowl, when so many of us helplessly watched our livelihoods blow away with the wind. I have always felt humbled to live in a nation that would allow my unlikely story to unfold.
Many nights during my time as majority leader, I would step out on my office balcony overlooking the National Mall and be reminded of what made my journey possible. Facing me were monuments to our nation’s first commander in chief, the author of our Declaration of Independence, and the president who held our union together. In the distance were the countless graves of those who gave their lives so that we could live free.
That inspiring view came back to me as I watched the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. I imagined the view of those monuments and headstones obscured by clouds of tear gas. I thought about the symbol of our democracy consumed by anger, hatred and violence.
There has been a lot of talk about what it will take to heal our country. We have heard many of our leaders profess “bipartisanship.” But we must remember that bipartisanship is the minimum we should expect from ourselves.
America has never achieved greatness when Republicans and Democrats simply manage to work together or tolerate each other. We have overcome our biggest challenges only when we focused on our shared values and experiences. These common ties form much stronger bonds than political parties.
I cannot pretend that I have not been a loyal champion for my party, but I always served my country best when I did so first and foremost as an American. I fought for veterans benefits not as a Republican but as someone who witnessed the heroism of our service members firsthand. I advocated for those with disabilities not as a member of the GOP but as someone who personally understood the limitations of a world without basic accommodations. I stood up for those going hungry not as a leader in my party but as someone who had seen too many folks sweat through a hard day’s work without being able to put dinner on the table.
When we prioritize principles over party and humanity over personal legacy, we accomplish far more as a nation. By leading with a shared faith in each other, we become America at its best: a beacon of hope, a source of comfort in crisis, a shield against those who threaten freedom.
Our nation’s recent political challenges remind us that our standing as the leader of the free world is not simply destiny. It is a deliberate choice that every generation must make and work toward. We cannot do it divided.
I do have hope that our country will rediscover its greatness. Perhaps it is the optimism that comes from spending 98 years as a proud American. I grew up in what others have called the Greatest Generation. Together, we put an end to Nazi tyranny. Our nation confronted Jim Crow, split the atom, eliminated the anguish of polio, planted our flag on the moon and tore down the Berlin Wall. Rising above partisanship, we made historic gains in feeding the hungry and housing the homeless. To make a more perfect union, we swung open the doors of economic opportunity for women who were ready to rise to their fullest potential and leave shattered glass ceilings behind them.
Our nation has certainly faced periods of division. But at the end of the day, we have always found ways to come together.
We can find that unity again.
In 1951, when I was newly elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, a reporter asked me what I had on my agenda. I said, “Well, I’m going to sit back and watch for a few days, and then I’ll stand up for what I think is right.” In 1996, when I left public office for the final time, I announced the same plans, to sit back for a few days, then start standing up for what I thought was right.
After sharing these thoughts, I plan to once again return to my seat to sit back and watch. Though this time, I will count on tomorrow’s leaders to stand up for what is right for America. With full optimism and faith in our nation’s humanity, I know they will.
I grew up in what others have called the Greatest Generation.
I wonder how many of the Greatest Generation got triggered because of a statue they didn't like or demanded a teacher get fired for teaching something that upset them.
Actually I don't wonder.
The answer is zero.
Which is why they were a great generation and why our current generation is a bunch of pansies who will either have to change dramatically or be responsible for a mass meltdown of society as we know it.
Thank you for your service Senator Dole. And thank you for inspiring me to not vote at all in 1993.
The field of candidates of which you were part, truly SUCKED that year.
In 1951, when I was newly elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, a reporter asked me what I had on my agenda. I said, “Well, I’m going to sit back and watch for a few days, and then I’ll stand up for what I think is right.” In 1996, when I left public office for the final time, I announced the same plans, to sit back for a few days, then start standing up for what I thought was right.
45 years of sucking from the taxpayers. Impressive.
Sounds like you were part of the fucking problem all along.
POLITICO Opinion
Bob Dole Endorsed Trump. But Would Today’s Party Even Consider Him a Republican?
Jeff Greenfield
He was a Republican whose party loyalty was immutable; so much so that in 2016, he was the only one of the five living previous GOP presidential nominees to endorse Donald Trump.
In the 1976 vice presidential debate, he referred twice to “four Democrat wars” in the 20th century, provoking Walter Mondale to say that he “has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man.”
Bob Dole, who died in his sleep overnight Sunday at age 98, had a career often seen as a testament to absolute fidelity to the Republican Party. But it was also a testament to just how large the distance has grown between the Republican Party of his heyday and now.
The moment that crystallized this most perfectly might be his farewell to the Senate he led and loved. On June 11, 1996, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee announced he was leaving the Congress in which he had served for more then 35 years, a move designed to demonstrate his total commitment to his presidential run. (Today, of course, candidates run without ever giving up their safety net in the Capitol.) In an address that lasted more than 40 minutes, Dole celebrated a type of collaboration and get-things-done spirit that now would mark him as a “RINO,” or worse.
He talked of his partnership with Sen. George McGovern, the famously liberal Democrat: “We worked together on food stamps. And I'll confess, when we first — when I made my first tour with George McGovern, I said, this guy's running for president. I wasn't convinced. There are a lot of skeptics in this chamber, probably some on each side. But you can't have pure motives, it's always something political. But after being on that trip about two or three days, I changed my mind.”
He celebrated the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act—a cause particularly meaningful to Dole, who came back from World War II with injuries serious enough to require years of rehabilitation. (The story is unforgettably told in Richard Ben Cramer’s “What It Takes: The Way to the White House.”) And it was Democratic senators he credited.
“And I'm forever grateful. I know Sen. [Ted] Kennedy and Sen. [Tom] Harkin and others are. Have you ever seen so many wheelchairs at the White House at a signing ceremony? Never,” he said. “And now more and more Americans with disabilities are full participants in the process. They're in the mainstream.”
He reached back to the bipartisan effort to rescue Social Security from financial distress.
“I remember 1983, and I know [Democratic Sen.] Pat Moynihan remembers. We were standing right over in this aisle. We had a bipartisan commission on Social Security. We had met week after week, month after month, and it was about to go down the drain. … And Sen. Moynihan and I, I think just by chance or fate or whatever, happened to meet in this aisle on my right. And we said, ‘We got to try one more time to rescue Social Security — one more time.’ It wasn't a partisan issue. And we did.”
He cited his friendship with liberal icon Hubert Humphrey, the special bond he felt with Daniel Inouye and Phil Hart, both survivors of serious World War II injuries; the mutual trust he had with Democratic Senate leaders Robert Byrd, George Mitchell and Tom Daschle.
If it is not exactly likely that either Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell would express such a sentiment about politicians across the aisle, consider the probability that a party leader in Congress would say this:
“I always thought the differences were a healthy thing, and that's why we're all so healthy—because we have a lot of differences in this chamber. I've never seen a healthier group in my life.”
Dole’s comments in his Senate farewell, remember, came from a figure who was regarded as one of the more partisan “attack dogs” of his era—a figure portrayed by Dan Aykroyd on “Saturday Night Live” as a dour, brooding grievance-collector.
What they reveal is something telling about politics then and now. For Dole, the partisan battles were surface skirmishes; the underlying point of politics was to ease the afflictions of the people who had put him into office. For any number of today’s office-holders, that must seem so 20th century.
SO UNLIKE THE REPUBLICANS OF DOLE'S TIME,
TODAY'S Republicans Are Trying to Destroy Democracy
December 6, 2021 at 3:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
Jeffrey Goldberg:
“Stating plainly that one of America’s two major parties, the party putatively devoted to advancing the ideas and ideals of conservatism,
has now fallen into autocratic disrepute is unnerving for a magazine committed to being, in the words of our founding manifesto, ‘of no party or clique.’
"Criticism of the Republican Party does not suggest an axiomatic endorsement of the Democratic Party, its leaders and policies. Substantive, even caustic, critiques can of course be made up and down the Democratic line.
“But avoiding partisan entanglement does not mean that we must turn away from the obvious.
"The leaders of the Republican Party—the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.
"This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly.”?
More theatre of the absurd posted by Lil Schitty.....comparing drugs to covid is even a reach for a dumb fucking child stealing loser like you!!!!!
The second coup is already here
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Dems plot escape from Biden’s poll woes
The party’s own polling has the president in the red. Lawmakers know they need to get better at selling his agenda to avert midterm disaster.
Most Democrats are worried that Biden’s flagging polling numbers — with an approval hovering in the low 40s — will lead to a thrashing at the ballot box. With historical headwinds and a GOP-dominated redistricting process already working against them, they fear that unless Biden pulls out of his current slide, Congress will be handed to the Republicans in next year's midterms.
Even the party's own polling has the president in the red. A poll from House Democrats’ campaign arm earlier this month showed the president down in battleground districts across the country, with 52 percent of voters disapproving of the job he’s doing, according to three party members briefed on the data.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/democrats-biden-polling-woes-523719
Heh.
Meanwhile - "Oh Noes! Trump is coming at us with his 9th coup attempt and he really means it this time!"
Governments around the world took drastic measures in 2020 in hopes of slowing the spread of COVID-19, in many cases locking down economies and confining people to their homes for months on end. The extent to which these measures actually helped contain the COVID-19 pandemic is highly dubious. But the death toll from the unintended consequences of lockdowns continues to mount.
The World Health Organization (WHO) just reported that pandemic measures delayed and disrupted medical care for the global malaria crisis, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths. An astounding 14 million additional malaria cases were recorded in 2020 compared to 2019, the WHO says. So, too, we saw 69,000 more malaria deaths in 2020 compared to 2019, 47,000 of which the organization says are directly attributable to disrupted diagnosis and treatment stemming from government pandemic restrictions.
That’s right: In their ultimately ineffective efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world inadvertently fueled the threat of another infectious disease.
https://fee.org/articles/47-000-more-people-died-of-this-disease-in-2020-due-to-lockdowns-world-health-organization-reports/
The current Republican party doesn't have a soul.
But the recently deceased Republican did.
Jeffrey Goldberg: “Stating plainly that one of America’s two major parties, the party putatively devoted to advancing the ideas and ideals of conservatism, has now fallen into autocratic disrepute is unnerving for a magazine committed to being, in the words of our founding manifesto, ‘of no party or clique.’ Criticism of the Republican Party does not suggest an axiomatic endorsement of the Democratic Party, its leaders and policies. Substantive, even caustic, critiques can of course be made up and down the Democratic line.”
“But avoiding partisan entanglement does not mean that we must turn away from the obvious. The leaders of the Republican Party—the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly.”
Bob Dole to Lie In State at U.S. Capitol
December 6, 2021 at 2:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that former Sen. Robert Dole will lie in state in the United States Capitol Rotunda on Thursday.
Even though he voted for......
Kamala Harris Staffers Point to VP as “Soul Destroying” Toxic Boss
No less than 19 present and former staffers and personnel associated with Vice President Kamala Harris have spoken negatively of Harris, according to reporting of the Washington Post published last week.
Accounts of Harris staffers have pointed to laziness and callousness on her part, as well as a willingness to behave in an abusive manner towards staff. “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” one former staffer said. “With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”
continues:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/kamala-harris-staffers-point-to-vp-as-soul-destroying-toxic-boss/
whatever the dems accuse you of they are actually doing
it's the law
* curious that the Bezos Washington Post is apparently working to get her out...
Well Roger...
Here is a serious question for you. If the GOP is in such as sad state of affairs, why are they polling ahead of Democrats in pretty much every category from the economy, to security, to foreign policy and actually ahead in the generic ballot (which almost never happens).
I mean how bad does the Democratic Party have to be to be seen as inferior to the horrible GOP (as you see the GOP in your mind)?
Trump starting media company. I predict it right here. Rep Nunes retiring to be CEO.
Classic example of gaslighting or propaganda..
If anyone criticizes any of the officials of the CDC, the FDA, or the National Institutes of Health, he or she criticizes science! Listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH:
Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science. All of the things I have spoken about, consistently, from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science. Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people.
That implies that science is always perfect, never subject to mistakes of any kind and always free of any possibility that data might be misinterpreted or erroneously gathered. In truth, what is actually inconvenient to the discussion of COVID-19 is the realization that Dr. Fauci has lied repeatedly to the American people, stoking unnecessary fear in the population..
Science is not perfect. We didn't know that time is relative to speed!
We didn't know about uranium.
They use that to change the minds of low level educated people.
The same thing applies to your post above me and Biden and Kamala Harris Harris and the 81 million Americans who voted for Biden.
Highly educated and highly intelligent people vote for Democrats..
Because they understand enough to make up their own minds.
The Democrats have a tough path forward but they have a plan that most people support the BBB.
If they get it done before the new year, in a year the unemployment rates will fall enough.
The Democrats have a tough path forward but they have a plan that most people support the BBB.
Actually barely a majority supported the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The BBB bill is opposed by a majority of Americans who believe that another 1.7 trillion or so will just add to inflation and won't do anything to specifically help them.
Roger, you said by Oct. 2021 that Biden would have the Economy back to prepandemic levels.
Why are you wrong, again?
The age of the moderate Republican – the conventional Republican, the straight-laced Republican – now may be officially over.
Mr. Baker had stratospheric approval ratings, tying him with GOP Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming as the nation’s most popular state chief executive, according to a Morning Consult survey – although Mr. Baker, unlike Mr. Gordon, was far more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. Indeed, he was facing a challenge from the right from a former state representative, Geoff Diehl, who has the support of former President Donald J. Trump. The governor did not vote for Mr. Trump in either 2016 or 2020, essentially leaving his ballot blank.
Mr. Baker’s statement, issued with his lieutenant governor, Karyn Polito, included the usual proud-to-have-served rhetoric and recitals of their accomplishments, which included a cut in the state income tax and a boost in the state’s reserve fund.
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Taxes are cut and reserve funds bolstered every few years across the country, but a megastar governor doesn’t vanish from public life every day. Two of his gubernatorial predecessors, Michael Dukakis and Mitt Romney, were presidential nominees.
Mr. Baker’s withdrawal came in the same week that a range war broke out among House Republicans after Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina criticized a colleague, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, for suggesting that a third lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, appeared to resemble a terrorist. Ms. Greene then described Ms. Mace as “the trash in the GOP conference.” That same week, Ms. Greene introduced legislation to give the Congressional Gold Medal to Kyle Rittenhouse, recently acquitted after employing a semi-automatic weapon to shoot three people, killing two of them, during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Democrats, not wishing to disrupt a moment of opportunity for themselves, simply watched the contretemps escalate. They have their own difficulties, with a progressive wing of the party constantly at odds with a more conservative strain.
But for a few days, the Democrats’ woes were sublimated by the Republicans’ disputes, and the withdrawal of Mr. Baker seemed to underline the other identity crisis in American politics.
The new Republicans, inspired and motivated by Mr. Trump, bear almost no resemblance to the Republicans of a generation ago, who were inspired by Ronald Reagan, whose battle against communism abroad and big government at home was the leitmotif of the age. Nor do they bear the faintest resemblance to the Republicans who arrived in Washington before Reagan and who – sometimes eagerly, more often reluctantly – adapted to the new Republican regimen.
These Republicans – Howard H. Baker Jr. and Bob Dole, for example, two men who both were for a time Senate majority leaders and then presidential candidates, with Dole winning the party’s nomination in 1996 – were conservative but had an instinct for compromise. Mr. Dole was no reluctant partisan pugilist, but he was more comfortable with his identity as a dealmaker, a political figure who won results rather than debating points.
John F. Kennedy courted Rep. William M. McCulloch of Ohio to win GOP support for his civil rights legislation, which eventually passed after the 35th president’s death. “You made a personal commitment to President Kennedy in October 1963 against all the interests of your district,” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wrote Mr. McCulloch years later. “When he was gone, your personal integrity and character were such that you held to that commitment despite enormous pressure and political temptations not to do so.”
In Massachusetts, moderate Republicans such as John A. Volpe (1961-1963 and 1965-1969), Francis W. Sargent (1969-1975), William F. Weld (1991-1997), Paul Cellucci (1997-2001) and Mr. Baker were popular governors in a state that voted for a Democrat in 16 of the last 20 presidential elections.
But that strain of Republican has disappeared, and there is no stronger evidence of the fading of that genus and species of the GOP than the recently published journal of Rep. Barber B. Conable Jr., the 11-term lawmaker from New York and longtime ranking minority member of the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Conable personified the Republicanism of the old school: conservative, but not unwilling to compromise.
He was a leading figure in the 1982-1983 effort to preserve Social Security. In the pages of his journal, he wrote he was “personally convinced that if we did not have that issue behind us, it might be the end of the two-party system when Republicans, who handled [the Social Security] issue so badly, went onto the presidential election advocating something that could be interpreted as a cut in benefits.”
Then he added a sentence no American politician would write today:
“In short, I do not see this as a victory for moderation over extremism, [but] as a true political compromise achieving a very necessary settlement of an issue too emotional to be handled comfortably or even safely by the Congress.”
Mr. Conable, who lived in the tiny western New York town of Alexander, died in 2003. It is not too much to say we will not see his like, or Charlie Baker’s, again anytime soon.
David M. Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The new Republicans, inspired and motivated by Mr. Trump, bear almost no resemblance to the Republicans of a generation ago, who were inspired by Ronald Reagan, whose battle against communism abroad and big government at home was the leitmotif of the age. Nor do they bear the faintest resemblance to the Republicans who arrived in Washington before Reagan and who – sometimes eagerly, more often reluctantly – adapted to the new Republican regimen.
These Republicans – Howard H. Baker Jr. and Bob Dole, for example, two men who both were for a time Senate majority leaders and then presidential candidates, with Dole winning the party’s nomination in 1996 – were conservative but had an instinct for compromise. Mr. Dole was no reluctant partisan pugilist, but he was more comfortable with his identity as a dealmaker, a political figure who won results rather than debating points.
Dole said the same thing a few days before he died.
They are better writers than I am but they are exactly correct. But you are gone.
Look forward to reading a post from Roger that he actually wrote.
People like you can't comprehend English or science.
Science is not perfect. We didn't know that time is relative to speed!
We didn't know about uranium.
We didn't know how many planets for thousands of years.
People like you would believe that the world is flat, if T..... said it is flat..
They use that to change the minds of low level educated people.
The same thing applies to your post above me and Biden and Kamala Harris Harris and the 81 million Americans who voted for Biden.
Highly educated and highly intelligent people vote for Democrats..
Because they understand enough to make up their own minds.
The Democrats have a tough path forward but they have a plan that most people support the BBB.
If they get it done before the new year, in a year the unemployment rates will fall enough that they might hold the majority in the Senate and House of representatives...
How can you teach children the truth about slavery, native genocide, red scares, and other ugly episodes from our past, and yet also teach them that the United States is the greatest country on earth?
Because this is what the CRT warriors really care about. They care about our children learning to love their country like they taught me in the 60s.
I couldn't believe it...seriously he is not sane.
Misremembering Pearl Harbor
The tactically brilliant but strategically crazy attack on Pearl Harbor unleashed incalculable furor against a once sophisticated Japanese empire, which foolishly attacked the United States at peace.
By Victor Davis Hanson
December 5, 2021
Most Americans once were mostly in agreement about what happened on December 7, 1941, 80 years ago this year. But not so much now, given either the neglect of America’s past in the schools or woke revisionism at odds with the truth.
The Pacific war that followed Pearl Harbor was not a result of America egging on the Japanese, not about starting a race war, and not about much other than a confident and cruel Japanese empire falsely assuming that its stronger American rival either would not or could not stop its transoceanic ambitions.
On an early Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Japanese Imperial Navy conducted a tactically successful, but strategically imbecilic, surprise attack on the U.S. 7th Fleet—while at peace and without a declaration of war.
I have never seen anyone say that !
We didn't egg the Japanese government in order to have a war with Japan!
One way you get children to love this country is to convince them that we are an honest people who truthfully admit their shortcomings as well as appreciate and are proud of our strengths. Unlike the politicians in those countries that only spew out propaganda.
We used to be able to say that even about a lot of Republicans.
Today, not so many.
THE NEW YORK TIMES IS STILL REPORTING:
Omicron Is Fast Moving, But Maybe Less Severe
December 6, 2021 at 6:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 123 Comments
“The Covid-19 virus is spreading faster than ever in South Africa, the country’s president said Monday, an indication of how the new Omicron variant is driving the pandemic, but there are early indications that Omicron may cause less serious illness than other forms of the virus.
“Researchers at a major hospital complex in Pretoria reported that their patients with the coronavirus are much less sick than those they have treated before, and that other hospitals are seeing the same trends. In fact, they said, most of their infected patients were admitted for other reasons and have no Covid symptoms.”
CH is SO disappointed. This makes it even harder to blame everything on Biden.
Doctor Fauci and the President has gaslighted 83%
A vast majority of voters said they would likely take some form of COVID-19 treatment if one existed, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds amid lingering hesitancy to coronavirus vaccines among the U.S. population.
Eighty-three percent of registered voters in the Nov. 29-30 survey said if they got sick with COVID-19, they would likely take an available treatment, including 50 percent saying very likely and 33 percent saying somewhat likely.
Only 17 percent said they are unlikely to take a coronavirus treatment after they got sick.
CH is SO disappointed. This makes it even harder to blame everything on Biden.
In OCTOBER, 'Trump counties' had OVER 3 TIMES MORE COVID deaths than 'Biden counties', according to a new report
Bryan Metzger Nov 8, 2021, 10:15 AM
"Trump counties" had over 3 times more COVID deaths than "Biden counties" in October.
It's probably because Republicans and Democrats have taken the vaccine at different rates.
Prior to the availability of vaccines, there was not a consistent partisan correlation in deaths.
People are now dying from COVID-19 at a rate 3 times higher in counties where former President Donald Trump won at least 60% of the vote than in counties where President Joe Biden won a similar percentage, according to a New York Times analysis of the data.
And that partisan gap — which didn't emerge until the widespread availability of vaccines in the spring of 2021 — has consistently widened over the last 5 months.
The gap, according to the Times, accelerated at its fastest rate yet in October, coming out to
25 COVID deaths per 100,000 residents
in counties where Trump won more than 60% of the vote,
versus 7.8 deaths per 100k in counties
where Biden did the same.
A late October poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation's COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor found that
39% of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, while just
10% of Democratic adults said the same thing.
It's a stark departure from the beginning of 2021, when the COVID death rate in so-called "Trump counties" was only slightly higher than in "Biden counties," and where the death rate was highest in counties that neither candidate swept overwhelming.
Prior to vaccination, both Republican-affiliated groups like older, white, rural voters and Democratic-affiliated groups like Black and low-income voters in urban areas had risk factors that could lead to higher likelihoods of death, including attitudes about masking and the effects of racism on health outcomes.
The Times has highlighted this same divide before, finding the emergence of correlation between vaccination rates and case rates in June and underscoring the role that right-wing media is playing in keeping down vaccination rates among conservatives in September.
It's possible that the partisan gap could be hitting it's peak, according to the Times. That's because of the potential forthcoming availability of a "COVID-19 pill" antiviral treatment that's been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89% in high-risk patients, as well as the build-up of natural immunity in more conservative areas.
I GUESS CH WILL NOW START TELLING YOU NOT TO TAKE THAT "DANGEROUS" PILL BECAUSE IT'S JUST ANOTHER GOVERNMENT PLOT TO CONTROL YOU BY KEEPING YOU OUT OF THE HOSPITAL... ER... UH.... WAIT A MINUTE...
CH WILL CALL HIM A RINO AND A TRAITOR.
Mitch McConnell is hatching a plan to avert future government shutdown — but it would give credit to Dems
Sarah K. Burris
December 06, 2021
CNN's Manu Raju reported Monday evening that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is at work on a plot to avert the next government shutdown.
The plan, however, would have Democrats cast a vote to raise the debt ceiling. It's something Republicans did three times under former President Donald Trump, adding over $7.8 trillion to the deficit. McConnell assumes that the vote would be toxic for Democrats, but the reality is that shutting down the government would be toxic for Republicans.
To accomplish his goal, Raju writes that Republicans will need to cooperate under the Senate rules, and break the filibuster. That would mean McConnell would have to find ten Republicans that would agree to allow the debt ceiling bill to come up and then vote against raising it.
The report also says that McConnell has been working behind the scenes with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for weeks.
"The country is never going to default," McConnell promised, speaking to a Wall Street Journal event Monday. "We frequently have drama associated with this decision. But I can assure you the country will never default."
According to Raju, Schumer and McConnell are working on a deal that would allow the debt ceiling to be raised by just 51 votes in the Senate without a filibuster. It would then give both sides the ability to weaponize the vote even further. The crisis is a relatively new one, created by Congress and could easily be eliminated by Congress to avoid future government shutdowns.
Time for Trumpsters to storm the Capitol Building shouting "Hang Mitch McConnell"!!!!
So much for living up to your posting name
As we continue on the path toward endemic COVID, we may see more local surges every time the coronavirus finds a pocket of susceptible people, other epidemiologists have told me. But it may be hard to predict exactly when. You might think of it like a fire: The dry fuel is out there, though precisely when a spark of the coronavirus will find it depends on chance. “You can get lucky for so long with this virus, and you can get unlucky,” says Jessica Metcalf, a demographer at Princeton who studies infectious disease. “There’s something very erratic about transmission going on.”
The more inherently transmissible the virus is though, the quicker it will find the rest of the susceptible population and reach endemicity. The coronavirus has already significantly upped its transmissibility from the original Wuhan strain to Alpha to Delta. We don’t yet know where Omicron sits. The emergence of new variants has been hard to forecast. Early in the pandemic, scientists thought the coronavirus mutated rather slowly—until these variants with a huge number of mutations suddenly appeared and rewrote the rulebook. “Nobody had predicted that. That’s totally out of the box,” says Elizabeth Halloran, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a co-author, with Antia, the evolutionary biologist at Emory, of a paper modeling the transition to endemicity.
How our immunity changes over time will also influence the length of this transition period, Antia adds. So far, immunity to infection is waning, but immunity to severe disease still looks rather durable. Will immunity to severe disease ever wane? Will multiple exposures to the virus, either through boosters or infections, strengthen immunity permanently? All this affects the speed at which we reach equilibrium, and where that equilibrium lands. Further complicating matters, the virus is also adapting to evade the immune system. Delta has some ability to do this; Omicron might be even better at it, given its 30-plus mutations in the spike protein. Considering all of the complexity here, the final endemic equilibrium of COVID is hard to describe clearly. We might know we’ve technically reached endemicity only in retrospect, Antia says, when we’ve seen COVID follow a regular seasonal pattern year after year.
Instead of trying to gauge how far we are from this still-hazy future, we might turn instead to figuring out how to live through this uncertain transition period. We may be stuck here for a while yet. Even as the long-term picture remains unclear, we can make decisions for the short term based on what’s happening today. This requires a willingness to alter our behavior, switching precautions on and off as needed. We have a precedent for this, says Bill Hanage, an epidemiologist at Harvard. When cases were low over the summer, he felt comfortable going maskless indoors—knowing full well that masks might be needed again if cases went back up. “Let’s just be straight with people,” he says. “Rather than saying, ‘Oh, we just need to get to this, and then it’ll be over.’ Just say, ‘You know what, this is a marathon, not a sprint.’” Given how quickly COVID fortunes have shifted with Delta and might now shift again with Omicron, our strategies also need to evolve to suit the situation at hand. It’s not flip-flopping to change course. It’s facing reality.
Although this virus and our immunity shape the possible futures of endemic COVID, the ultimate burden of the number of cases and deaths we tolerate is up to us. Will we permanently alter our behavior to suppress respiratory illnesses? Wear masks in winter? Improve building ventilation? Isolate at the slightest sign of illness and be allowed to take sick days from work and school, no questions asked? Like herd immunity, endemicity is a bit of technical jargon that has been refashioned as shorthand for the threshold when science supposedly says we can stop worrying about COVID. But that isn’t up to science alone. We decide when we stop worrying about COVID. How far we are willing to go to prevent how many more cases is a question with social and economic trade-offs.
For now, we are truly living through unprecedented times. SARS-CoV-2 is the first virus modern science has ever seen emerge and march toward global endemicity. We’ve never watched this process play out before in such detail. We won’t know what endemic COVID looks like until we get there. But we do have to figure out how to live with the coronavirus, now and into the future.
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Only 17 percent said they are unlikely to take a coronavirus treatment after they got sick." Roger
What is the "treatment"?
This could be the most important issue in his Presidency.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to warn Vladimir Putin during a video call Tuesday that Russia will face economy-jarring sanctions if it invades neighboring Ukraine as the U.S. president seeks a diplomatic solution to deal with the tens of thousands of Russian troops massed near the Ukraine border.
Biden aims to make clear that his administration stands ready to take actions against the Kremlin that would exact “a very real cost” on the Russian economy, according to White House officials. Putin, for his part, is expected to demand guarantees from Biden that the NATO military alliance will never expand to include Ukraine, which has long sought membership. That’s a non-starter for the Americans and their NATO allies.
“We’ve consulted significantly with our allies and believe we have a path forward that would impose significant and severe harm on the Russian economy,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday in previewing the meeting. “You can call that a threat. You can call that a fact. You can call that preparation. You can call it whatever you want to call it.”
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The leader-to-leader conversation — Biden speaking from the Situation Room, Putin from his residence in Sochi — is expected to be one of the toughest of Biden’s presidency and comes at a perilous time. U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia has massed 70,000 troops near the Ukraine border and has made preparations for a possible invasion early next year.
The U.S. has not determined whether Putin has made a final decision to invade. Still, Biden intends to make clear to the Russian leader that there will be a “very real cost” should Russia proceed with military action, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.
Biden was vice president in 2014 when Russian troops marched into the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and annexed the territory from Ukraine. Aides say the Crimea episode — one of the darker moments for former President Barack Obama on the international stage — looms large as Biden looks at the current smoldering crisis.
The eastward expansion of NATO has from the start been a bone of contention not just with Moscow but also in Washington. In 1996, when President Bill Clinton’s national security team debated the timing of membership invitations to former Soviet allies Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, Defense Secretary William Perry urged delay to keep Russian relations on track. Perry wrote in his memoir that when he lost the internal debate he considered resigning.
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were formally invited in 1997 and joined in 1999. They were followed in 2004 by Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the former Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Since then, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia have joined, bringing NATO’s total to 30 nations.
A key principle of the NATO alliance is that membership is open to any qualifying country. And no outsider has membership veto power. While there’s little prospect that Ukraine would be invited into the alliance anytime soon, the U.S. and its allies won’t rule it out.
Five minutes ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/620914/
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-sports-business-jen-psaki-vladimir-putin-3c17d207917eb90adeac03d5ccb31268
moment as a key test of Biden’s leadership on the global stage.
Biden vowed as a candidate to reassert American leadership after President Donald Trump’s emphasis on an “America first” foreign policy. But Biden has faced fierce criticism from Republicans who say that he’s been ineffective in slowing Iran’s march toward becoming a nuclear power and that the Biden administration has done too little to counter autocratic leaders like China’s Xi Jinping, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Putin.
“Fellow authoritarians in Beijing and Tehran will be watching how the free world responds,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “And President Biden has an opportunity to set the tone when he speaks with Putin.”
Trump, who showed unusual deference to Putin during his presidency, said in a Newsmax interview on Monday that the Biden-Putin conversation would not be a “fair match,” describing it as tantamount to the six-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots facing a high school football team.
Ahead of the Putin call, Biden on Monday spoke with leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy to coordinate messaging and potential sanctions.
The White House said in a statement that the leaders called on Russia to “de-escalate tensions” and agreed that diplomacy “is the only way forward to resolve the conflict.”
Ahead of the Biden-Putin faceoff, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter that he and Blinken “agreed to continue joint & concerted action” and expressed his gratitude for the U.S. and allies providing “continued support of our sovereignty & territorial integrity.” Biden himself is expected to speak with Zelenskyy later this week.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Blinken “reiterated the United States’ unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity in the face of Russian aggression.”
The Kremlin has made clear that Putin planned to seek binding guarantees from Biden precluding NATO’s expansion to Ukraine. Biden and aides have indicated no such guarantee is likely, with the president himself saying he “won’t accept anyone’s red line.”
Psaki stressed “NATO member countries decide who is a member of NATO, not Russia. And that is how the process has always been and how it will proceed.”
Still, Putin sees this as a moment to readjust the power dynamic of the U.S.-Russia relationship.
“It is about fundamental principles established 30 years ago for the relations between Russia and the West,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, a leading Moscow-based foreign policy expert. “Russia demands to revise these principles, the West says there’s no grounds for that. So, it’s impossible to come to an agreement just like that.”
Beyond Ukraine, there are plenty of other thorny issues on the table, including cyberattacks and human rights. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said U.S.-Russian relations are overall in “a rather dire state.”
Both the White House and the Kremlin sought in advance to lower expectations for the call. Both sides said they didn’t expect any breakthroughs on Ukraine or the other issues up for discussion, but that just the conversation itself will be progress.
If the Russians don't invade Ukraine almost immediately, this could be a complete reversal of the former President's isolationist strategy.
Keeping Putin off stage will be the victory for The United States of America.
The Bottom line
The early signs may prove misleading, and we will know more within a few weeks.
For now, vaccinated people can reasonably continue to behave as they were — but many should feel urgency about getting booster shots. Older people and others who are vulnerable, like people receiving cancer treatment, should continue to be careful and ask people around them to test frequently.
Unvaccinated people remain at substantial risk of serious illness. About 1,000 Americans have been dying each day of Covid in recent weeks, the vast majority of them unvaccinated. To me that is the most important issue. Doubt about vaccine injections effectiveness could be causing most of the 1,000 lives per day.
Have a wonderful day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/briefing/omicron-variant-need-to-know.html
Considering the fact that Biden could not have fucked up Afghanistan any worse than he did, and the fact that he granted Putin the pipeline he so desperately needed pissing away any leverage Biden might have had over him, there's no reason to believe that Biden possesses the ability to prohibit Putin from doing whatever the fuck he wants, whenever the fuck he wants.
Putin, Xi, and Iran's mullahs are certain of one thing -
Our president is an imbecile. A shell of a man in serious and permanent cognitive decline whose daily routine revolves around making it through the day without shitting himself. And the person waiting in the wings ready to assume the mantle of leadership is AS unaccomplished, AS incompetent, and AS vulnerable to being rolled by our greatest adversaries. Or worse.
This is arguably one of the most dangerous times in post-war American history, yet it's one that we fully deserve for being so fucking stupid as to install this idiot in the white house because we just couldn't handle mean tweets.
If Russia/Ukraine & Chine/Taiwan turn to complete shit for us, we will undoubtedly deserve it.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If the Russians don't invade Ukraine almost immediately, this could be a complete reversal of the former President's isolationist strategy.
Keeping Putin off stage will be the victory for The United States of America.
You idiot - Putin does what he wants, when he wants. Stop acting like we have leverage here because WE DO NOT.
Same with Xi and Taiwan.
The situation with the Ukraine was called perfectly by Trump, and you TDS-infected asswipes impeached him for it.
THWAP!!!
It takes a true mentally ill assclown to take covid advice from the NY Times. And then to plagiarize it as their own.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/briefing/omicron-variant-need-to-know.html
This Dec. 7 marks 80 years since Japan declared war on the United States and Great Britain after attacking the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the Asia-Pacific region into World War II. In the United States, we often remember this event as a juncture in a conflict between two great powers, the United States and Japan. The attack on Americans justified full mobilization for war and, eventually in 1945, dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of the war.
The Greatest Generation saved the world.
Another lie from the goat fucker put away.......Seems to me Biden and company are very proactive with new drilling permits, something the goat fucker says is not happening and driving prices up!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! We chuckled at the line about Politico journalists in HBO's “Succession” last night. But first:
Biden is approving more drilling permits on public lands than Trump, analysis shows
(The Washington Post)
The Biden administration has approved more oil and gas drilling permits on public lands per month than the Trump administration did during the first three years of Donald Trump's presidency, according to an analysis shared exclusively with The Climate 202.
The report by Public Citizen, a liberal advocacy group, illustrates that President Biden has been slow to reverse Trump's fossil-fuel-friendly agenda, despite his campaign promise to push for “no more drilling on federal lands" because of climate change.
What we forget when we ‘remember Pearl Harbor’ not woke ness
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/07/what-we-forget-when-we-remember-pearl-harbor/
Great catch on kputz's goat's pussy
Biden has made some flashy moves on oil drilling, like revoking the permit for Keystone XL, the pipeline project perhaps most infamous among environmentalists. But that same month, Biden approved Enbridge Energy’s Line 3, a slightly less well-known pipeline project that Indigenous and climate advocates have been fighting for seven years to stop — often putting their bodies on the line in the process.
In November, the Interior Department recommended raising the fees that oil and gas companies have to pay when drilling on federal lands. This change was panned as trivial by climate and environmental activists, who noted that the fees would likely do little to prevent companies from seeking new drilling projects — especially considering the trillions of dollars in subsidies that the fossil fuel industry receives from governments each year.
Halting permits for drilling projects is critical to stopping the advent of the climate crisis. Earlier this year, the often conservative International Energy Agency said in a report that if international powers are to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or less, governments must stop permitting new fossil fuel extraction projects this year. Climate advocates have also said that new drilling projects should stop immediately, adding that fossil fuels that have already been extracted shouldn’t be burned either.
The amount of drilling permits granted by BLM under Biden shows that the president isn’t serious about tackling the climate crisis, advocates have said. “At precisely the moment when we must be forcefully rejecting new drilling, fracking and pipeline infrastructure, Biden isn’t just tolerating fossil fuels – he’s uplifting them,” Wenonah Hauter wrote for The Guardian.
The administration’s fossil fuel regulators have shown little interest in taking the recommendations of climate advocates seriously. Earlier this year, a landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warned of extremely dire consequences for the climate if action isn’t taken soon. But the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) wrote that the report “does not present sufficient cause” for the agency to reconsider its drilling permit practices.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-administration-is-approving-oil-and-gas-drilling-at-faster-rate-than-trump/
If we had to defend against a Pearl Harbor - style attack today, we'd have Gen. Milley Vanilli out there in heels and a short skirt swinging his purse at Yamamoto, hoping not to break a manicured nail in the process.
Like the 'French Mistake' bit from 'Blazing Saddles':
"You brute, you brute, you brute, you vicious brute!"
https://movie-sounds.org/western-movie-quotes/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-blazing-saddles-1974/you-brute-you-brute-you-brute-you-vicious-brute
Over the past several weeks a hard truth has become undeniable: The United States of America is no longer the all-powerful superpower it has been since the end of the Cold War. Far from it. The strategic implications of this state of affairs are profound, for both the United States and its allies.
A nation's position in the global pecking order is based on two things -- its capabilities and its credibility. America's capabilities have diminished in a stunning way relative to its superpower competitors. And so has its credibility. . .
. . . Together with its allies, the United States is still the most powerful nation on earth. It can still defeat, or at a minimum massively harm, all of its enemies. But whether it is dealing with Iran or China, Russia or Afghanistan or beyond, America's strategic credibility is in tatters. Neither its allies nor its enemies take its commitments or its threats seriously. Consequently, as it lags behind its adversaries in space weapons, the United States projects a weakness of intent that invites aggression against itself, against its interests and against its allies.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/china-and-russia-race-ahead-america-caroline-glick/
we'd have Gen. Milley Vanilli out there in heels and a short skirt
Hey asshole rat....Gen Milley could kick your ass into next week.....Amazing an Ag school drop out is soooooo critical of others who have had massive successes while he sits in his basement post drivel and stupidity!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Massive successes BWAA?
Name a war he's won.
He's 'failed up' his entire career, and I suppose a leftist would label that a 'success.'
Name a war he's won.
Name a single fucking thing you accomplished asshole!!!!!! How long have you served your country other than complaining about everything!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
GOP at war in Georgia as Sonny Purdue announces run for governor challenging Kemp in a last man standing arena......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Trump has endorsed Purdue!!!!!! Wonder how that will work out especially after his senate endorsement losses!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL. Stacey will have a target enriched environment to run and become a first in the country!!!!!
Morning Joe finally admits GOP 'radicalization' is ongoing racist backlash to Barack Obama aka Olinski Obama
December 07, 2021
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has finally come around to admitting that Republicans' radicalization was a racist backlash against the election of Barack Obama.
The "Morning Joe" host, a former Republican himself, said he had long been skeptical of that notion, but he said the evidence had become too obvious to deny.
"I have been a skeptic for quite some time that the election of Barack Obama was such a shock to so many white Americans that they just never got over it," Scarborough said. "I was always a skeptic of that. I saw his election, even though they didn't agree with him ideologically on a lot of things. I saw that as a moment that all Americans -- Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals -- could stop and go, 'Wow, okay, the United States of America is the first majority white country that elected a Black man as their leader,' something to celebrate."
READ MORE: 'He's a madman': Obama privately blasted Trump as a 'racist lunatic' according to new book
"I must say, 13 years later, I'm just running out of explanations for the radicalism that has swept the Republican Party," he added, "and I, sadly, am coming to the point where I have to admit. I know there is always underlying strands of racism in that party, just like there was in the Democratic Party for 100 years. But the further we get into this, the more we try to explain the radicalization of the party, I'm just not so sure historians 20, 30, 50 years from now will talk about this demographic change that we've all known it has been coming for 30 years, that we've all known was going to change American politics. But I'm not so sure that Americans won't look at the eight years of Barack Obama and say that was a triggering point for white Americans who were either racially insensitive or racist to bolt away and embrace radical form of politics and lying -- unending lying, lying about everything that they can under the sun, just to untether Americans from the truth."
The Republican's addiction to conspiracy theories goes back To Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. I met a man who was there at the VFW center in Rapid City South Dakota. My father Ivan was a veteran.
But the crazy conspiracies nuts are a cultist.
Misremembering Pearl Harbor
The tactically brilliant but strategically crazy attack on Pearl Harbor unleashed incalculable furor against a once sophisticated Japanese empire, which foolishly attacked the United States at peace.
By Victor Davis Hanson
December 5, 2021
Most Americans once were mostly in agreement about what happened on December 7, 1941, 80 years ago this year. But not so much now, given either the neglect of America’s past in the schools or woke revisionism at odds with the truth.
The Pacific war that followed Pearl Harbor was not a result of America egging on the Japanese, not about starting a race war, and not about much other than a confident and cruel Japanese empire falsely assuming that its stronger American rival either would not or could not stop its transoceanic ambitions.
On an early Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Japanese Imperial Navy conducted a tactically successful, but strategically imbecilic, surprise attack on the U.S. 7th Fleet—while at peace and without a declaration of war. The assault—synchronized with subsequent bombing and invasions of the Philippines and British-controlled Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and some Pacific Islands—did not just ensure an existential Pacific theater war between Japan and America. It also prompted the entry of the United States on December 11 into the European theater of World War II, after both Italy and Nazi Germany first declared war on America. Had the latter not done so, it is arguable that the United States would have instead concentrated on Japan alone and might have knocked it out of the war even earlier.
Revisionists often cite conspiracy theories that the Roosevelt Administration lured Japan into the war by previously limiting oil exports to Tokyo (a mere five months before Pearl Harbor) or by foolishly moving the 7th Fleet from San Diego to a deliberately exposed and not so well defended Pearl Harbor.
Such contrarian views fail to persuade because the one-sided source of tensions had been clear to all for a decade. Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931. It resumed its war with China by invading the mainland in 1937. In September 1940, it absorbed French colonial Indochina. The idea of a Japanese Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was informally circulating by 1940, as a blueprint of consolidation of the planned Japanese imperial wartime acquisitions of China, and the former British, American, French, and Dutch colonial territories.
The mercantile system was envisioned as a sort of Asian version of a would-be Napoleonic Europe but based on the supposed racial superiority of Japan and the propagandistic and cynical notion that even harsher Japanese imperialism would be less resented by Asians in the Pacific than then current nation-building colonialism of Western powers. Such crude propaganda was never taken too seriously outside of Tokyo, given the Japanese mass civilian killings of conquered Asians in Nanking, China and the massacres that followed from the takeover of Singapore.
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It makes zero sense.
NSBA update:
Since the NSBA accused concerned parents of being domestic terrorists, 17 state affiliates representing 40% of their revenue have cut ties with them.
Everything biden touches turns to shit.
Nobody is teaching this
The Pacific war that followed Pearl Harbor was not a result of America egging on the Japanese, not about starting a race war.
Roosevelt didn't lure the Japanese to attack the United States.
If your child was a teacher, and people were sending them threatening emails or in public hearings, calling them fucking communist, you would not think that they were not terrorists?????
The radical right is turning into a terrorist organization.
Those 17 States believe in the big lie.
Remember that when he was growing up in New York City, the Mafia was still in power. He learned how to be a con artist and he's doing the same thing today.
Judd Legum digs into former President Donald Trump’s new social media company and finds its mostly smoke and mirrors.
Similarly, Matt Levine concludes there is “almost no sign” that Trump’s new company “is actually building a social network or a streaming platform or anything else.”
He conned millions to get elected, and he still is!
Bullshit. Tell that to the Moms and Dads who were bring doxxed, put on lists by school boards, had their daughters raped and then told to sit down and Shut up.
The fact that Rep Nunes will retire to become CEO is certainly a sign.
On January 6th in 2025 the slow motion coup will succeed.
Republicans are promoting an “independent state legislature” doctrine, which holds that statehouses have “plenary,” or exclusive, control of the rules for choosing presidential electors. Taken to its logical conclusion, it could provide a legal basis for any state legislature to throw out an election result it dislikes and appoint its preferred electors instead.
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The question could arise, and Barrett’s vote could become decisive, if Trump again asks a Republican-controlled legislature to set aside a Democratic victory at the polls. Any such legislature would be able to point to multiple actions during the election that it had not specifically authorized. To repeat, that is the norm for how elections are carried out today. Discretionary procedures are baked into the cake. A Supreme Court friendly to the doctrine of independent state legislatures would have a range of remedies available to it; the justices might, for instance, simply disqualify the portion of the votes that were cast through “unauthorized” procedures. But one of those remedies would be the nuclear option: throwing out the vote altogether and allowing the state legislature to appoint electors of its choosing.
The American dream will die
Myballs said...
Bullshit. Tell that to the Moms and Dads who were bring doxxed, put on lists by school boards, had their daughters raped and then told to sit down and Shut up.
roger has gone completely bat-shit insane.
remember when someone would post 2 or 3 articles from the old Drudge report and roger would go ballistic ?
Now we have 20 or 30 posting a day from the political_lire blog and roger actually adds to it.
and repeats
He is beyond hope, the left is left with shouting and stamping their feet
and being hypocrites
with their constant stream of hoaxes
* stomping
LOL: The alky's newest and most favorite relic of the past has been deemed too offending since Junkie Floyd -
The American Museum of Natural History has covered up a monument to the past.
A statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has stood on the front steps of the Manhattan museum for more than 80 years is now blocked from view, photos taken by The Post show Monday.
The bronze effigy to the nation’s 26th president, criticized for glorifying colonialism and racism, is being sent to North Dakota on a long-term loan to the upcoming Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
Just two weeks after the move was announced, the statue is already completely hidden from view, covered by scaffolding and a tarp, The Post’s pics show.
The removal, being carried out by the museum with help from the city, is expected to take “several months” to complete, officials said when announcing the deal.
Opposition to the statue mounted in recent years, especially after the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis cop in May 2020.
In June 2020, officials at the museum — which is privately run but sits on public land — proposed removing the statue amid a nationwide movement to remove public works honoring Confederate leaders.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/theodore-roosevelt-statue-in-nyc-covered-ahead-of-move/?utm_campaign=applenews&utm_medium=inline&utm_source=applenews
World-class fuckwit, Jan. 6 chair, and 'Bell Curve' case study Bennie Thompson says that invoking the 5th Amendment is an admission of guilt.
If that doesn't tell you that the outcome of the Jan 6 commission is pre-ordained nothing will.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Bullshit. Tell that to the Moms and Dads who were bring doxxed, put on lists by school boards, had their daughters raped and then told to sit down and Shut up.
The alky will tell you that all of that is not only acceptable but is simply the cost of doing business as democrats seek a path to permanent power.
Stocks jumped for a second day, continuing their rebound from a recent rough patch, as investors grew less fearful of the potential economic impact from the new omicron coronavirus variant.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 461 points, or 1.3%. The S&P 500 added 1.9% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 2.6%.
“The market certainly — and this morning is another indication — is kind of looking past the [omicron] variant as something that’s going to be slowing down economic activity, but we’re still not completely out of the pandemic,” David Solomon, Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Tuesday morning.
Chipmaker stocks were the early winners, with Intel leaping 6% and NVIDIA up 2%, following news that Intel is planning to take its self-driving car unit, Mobileye, public in mid-2022.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said new data shows its monoclonal antibodies treatment is effective in treating the omicron variant. Its shares rose slightly.
Casino stocks also were hot, as Las Vegas Sands rose 2%, while cruise lines also gained on the enthusiasm that omicron may pose less of a threat than feared. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings jumped about 4%.
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR REPORTS:
Indiana GOP Faces Backlash Over Vaccine Mandates
December 7, 2021 at 9:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Republican legislative leaders in Indiana “announced they are canceling their one-day legislative session originally planned for Monday after fierce backlash to their proposal to severely limit private companies’ abilities to mandate vaccines,” the Indianapolis Star reports.
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So private companies don't want Republican government telling them they can't mandate vaccines? Interesting...
Glenn Greenwald
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1468213684212219909
Media corporations meeting in secret with WH officials to discuss how to present a more optimistic view of Biden's economic policies seems to me to be a bit like . . . . . . state TV.
But I'm glad (and unsurprised) to hear from CNN that the "conversations have been productive."
Oliver Darcy
Some news in @ReliableSources: Senior White House and admin officials have been holding briefings with major newsrooms over past week as they try to reshape economic coverage. https://cnn.it/3rJo9zo
Joe Biden's America
FAKE NEWS
state media
1984
* interesting
Senator John Cornyn
https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1468225651324989440
“Honestly, I would just can this whole bill,” Tesla’s Elon Musk, appearing virtually at the WSJ’s CEO Council Summit, said of the roughly $2 trillion social-spending and climate package championed by President Biden https://wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-comes-out-against-federal-electric-vehicle-spending-11638847587?
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So private companies don't want Biden spending trillions of dollars including on electric vehicles and green energy which they support. Interesting...
* well actually Tesla is a public company...
Joe Biden's America
FAKE NEWS
state media
1984
Or -
PRAVDA
1933
30 day DOW chart:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI
Crawling it's way back to EVEN.
Every president is a hostage to fortune, but every president makes his own luck. The George W. Bush presidency was redefined by the 9/11 attacks and ruined by its response. The crash of the markets in 2008 pushed Barack Obama ahead of John McCain in the polls. The Democrats’ choice of Hillary Clinton in 2016 was their misfortune and a gift to Donald Trump. Would Joe Biden have won in 2020 without Covid-19 closing the global economy?
The first year of the Biden presidency ends as it began, only with less luck. Biden tells us that the sky is falling and that legislation can heal the planet, but his administration cannot organize a vote in Congress. Through the fall, Biden’s wild spending plans were held hostage by the Squad in the House and by Democratic moderates in the Senate. He blamed the Republicans, of course, but he was quite clearly the prisoner of his own side, and in particular the ideological excesses of the far left. The good news is that the Green New Deal is going nowhere. The bad news is that this administration has gone into paralysis as the global economy reopens.
The administration tells us that the way out of the pandemic is to take a third shot of an experimental, rush-released Covid-19 vaccine.
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The administration tells us that it has restored harmonious relations with allies, but it left them in the lurch in Kabul and approved of the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that makes Germany, the key EU power, dependent on Russian gas. As for rivals, relations with China continue to worsen. Twice this year, Biden ad-libbed that the US would fight a war over Taiwan. Twice, some anonymous handler advised the press that the president hadn’t meant it. We must assume that similar messages were sent to Beijing. They should have been. Wars have been started by less.
The secretary of state, Antony Blinken, describes himself on his official Twitter account as “husband, dad, (very) amateur guitarist, and the 71st Secretary of State serving under the leadership of @POTUS Biden.” We are supposed to commend this humble-brag sequencing of responsibilities, and overlook the missing comma that implies Biden has got through seventy secretaries of state so far this year. The rest of the world, however, sees only a (very) amateur diplomat who has received the runaround from Iran in the Vienna talks and a public dressing-down from China’s diplomats when he tried to ambush them in Alaska.
There is a bum note of Nineties nostalgia about Blinken. Tony Blair liked to relax with an ax, and Bill Clinton liked to blow his own horn too, but we are in a different, less harmonious age. As in Congress, the administration is spinning its wheels in the world, then blaming its lack of traction on the other side. Yes, an incoming administration is hostage to the circumstances it inherits. And yes, the rise of China is the kind of challenge that would have tested the most able of American presidencies. But this administration inherited a promising position. It’s building on it that’s the problem.
The Trump administration broke the taboos of post-1990 foreign policy and disavowed a failed, quasi-imperial overreach. Biden could have continued the development of a grand strategy for the twenty-first century, and without the political costs that might have accrued. Instead, he has combined gestures of Trumpian retrenchment with imperious guff and quaint grandiosity. The gap between ideals and reality is widening, and the US’s rivals are probing that gap more and more boldly. It would be most unfortunate if we tumble into it.
Biden is hostage to the Democrats’ self-serving environmental mania for the same reason that his foreign policy is hostage to the rivals it seeks to contain. He is not driving events. His policies are driven by ideology, his responses by the kind of pique that the Democrats called unpresidential when it came from Donald Trump. As prices rise and inflation creeps up, the administration chides us for lacking confidence in its abilities but seems unable to act competently. Always generous in supplying visual images of his ineptitude, Biden puffed up the end of the world for the UN’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, trumpeted the US as the eco-redeemer of the planet, then fell asleep in front of the cameras when he got there.
Biden responds to the rebuffs of reality with disconnection and coldness. This is curious, for his long career is a record of compulsive emoting and the kind of adroit flexibility that would impress Simone Biles. Perhaps it is his bad luck that he reached the office too late in life. Perhaps the office, as it does with weak presidents, is working him, rather than the other way round. As hostages to his misfortunes, we must hope that our luck holds in 2022.
This article was originally published in The Spectator’s December 2021
What Republican presidential candidate said this??
If there’s anyone who has mistakenly attached themselves to our party in the belief that we are not open to citizens of every race and religion… the exits which are clearly marked are for you to walk out.
Why are we going to do to stop the authoritarian press?
While there were news anchors and reporters that tried to be impartial, the majority were not. Walter Cronkite was portrayed and feted as “The Most Trusted Man in America.” Yet, he almost single-handedly convinced a politically consequential chunk of the populace that what was, in reality, a significant victory by the American Army in Viet Nam, the Tet Offensive, was instead an overwhelming defeat and embarrassment, thus denigrating the valor of the soldiers and turning public opinion against the military. Across the spectrum, his reporting, abetted by what stories the network chose not to cover, skewed significantly toward the Democrats, and sympathy with authoritarianism.
The authoritarian leanings of the mainstream media have not been limited to international affairs. At home, they have unabashedly promoted the transformation of the nuclear family, secularism, the elimination of federalism, socialist economic policies, and a permanent one-party oligarchy with themselves at the table.
The preponderance of the current generation of so-called mainstream journalists are more ill-educated and steeped in left-wing ideology than their predecessors. These useful idiots have a platform constructed over the last eight decades to unabashedly promote leftist social and economic policies.
Unlike some of their more balanced predecessors, they no longer attempt to hide or obfuscate their agenda or bias as the goal of transforming America is within reach -- with what they view as a temporary setback in the election of 2016. A catastrophic event that precipitated a renewed determination by the American Left to obliterate conservative or Republican opposition by any means possible. The mainstream media being the spear carriers in that effort.
Could President Trump in 2025 implement the fairness Doctrine on the media's internet services like we did when television networks had to provide balanced information??
I enjoying reading Roger because of how spectacularly wrong he is every day.
Could President Trump in 2025 implement the fairness Doctrine on the media's internet services like we did when television networks had to provide balanced information??
I certainly hope not. Whenever the government intervenes and tries to make things "fair" they always fuck it up. Every single time.
Reagan had it right when he shitcanned the Fairness Doctrine. And since then, the conservative message has flourished, while the leftist message has either failed - Air America, or required massive and perpetual taxpayer subsidies to survive - NPR & PBS.
And I enjoy waiting for the goat fucking loser to pat himself on his back while never posting anything that is correct!!!!!!!!!
Oh look Roger's Rectum shit himself.
CNBC Woke.
"Biden's Inflation crushing Main Syreet"
"Small business confidence is back near an all-time low, according to the CNBC|Momentive Small Business Survey for Q4 2021.The small business demographic skews conservative and Republican respondent views of a Democratic president and economy are expected to be low, but independents are the primary reason for the decline, with support for President Biden slipping among these key swing voters.Concerns about inflation and the supply chain continue to rise among America's small businesses...."
Why is it that the asshole rat looks for the source of some of rogers posts.....declares them plagiarized while ignoring his boy fucked up to do he same bullshit with out question.....as in the last post was a lift from American Stinker without credit.....why is rat such a giant ass wipe?????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
On a break from working the Golden Corral men's room glory hole lunchtime rush, BWAA?
Heh. From CH's link:
Another data set, this an average of favorability polls, shows that as recently as early March Biden's unfavorability among voters averaged about 36%. Today, it's close to 52%, and rising.
Because of Biden's health issues and declining popularity, some already speculate that Biden won't get a second term, and that two of his administration's top officials — Harris and Buttigieg — have already begun butting heads to become his anointed successor.
"The worst kept secret in Washington, DC is that Joe Biden is a one-term president — whether he knows it or not," wrote Stephen L. Miller in the American Spectator three weeks ago.
Meanwhile, Democratic pollster Brian Stryker recently issued a stark warning to Democrats about next year's midterm elections and beyond: "We’ve got a national branding problem that is probably deeper than a lot of people suspect. Our party thinks maybe some things we’re saying aren’t cutting through, but I think it’s much deeper than that."
https://tippinsights.com/i-i-tipp-poll-stunner-just-22-of-americans-want-joe-biden-to-run-for-president-again/
Too funny RRB
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/the_leftwing_legacy_of_the_mainstream_media_.html
These people are out of their minds, just like the racist rodent bastard and kputz.
What Republican presidential candidate said this??
If there’s anyone who has mistakenly attached themselves to our party in the belief that we are not open to citizens of every race and religion… the exits which are clearly marked are for you to walk out.
What Republican presidential candidate said this??
If there’s anyone who has mistakenly attached themselves to our party in the belief that we are not open to citizens of every race and religion… the exits which are clearly marked are for you to walk out.
What Republican presidential candidate said this??
If there’s anyone who has mistakenly attached themselves to our party in the belief that we are not open to citizens of every race and religion… the exits which are clearly marked are for you to walk out.
Bob Dole
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