BullBuchanan

They absolutely did not, in either case. The only goal, and thus only achievement of the republican party is the destruction of things built by Democrats. As someone that's not a Democrat, and did not vote for Obama, it was insane to watch it all take place. They took credit for his administration's achievements when they wanted to and dismantled what they didn't. There's absolutely no need for the republicans to do anything on healthcare as, again, they have no interest in improving it - only in making it abject worse. In my lifetime, the Republican party has not made anything better for the working/middle class and they've never even proposed a policy that would actually do so. The best they've been able to muster is a $1200 one time tax credit in exchange for trillions of dollars in tax reduction for their corporate criminal friends. At the end of the day, all that does is screw the middle/working class.

In support of literal destruction of the environment, historically unqualified appointments, an economic and national health nightmare, fitting as many kids in cages as possible, forced hysterectomies of asylum seekers, and violence and kidnapping against civil rights protestors? Pray tell, how exactly should they have been working with this? They did the only thing they could/should have done, which is stall.

That's ridiculous. We already tried this experiment in 2014. Republicans did nothing but obstruct and tear down for the last 6 years and no one held them accountable for it this year. The worst of them coasted to reelection the last two years. I would much rather force all of the republicans out and then expose who in the Democratic party is actually a Republican with a blue tie. A balance between center-right and alt-right is not what this country needs. All want handouts for the top 0.1% and half of them want open civil war on the rest.

Hardly. We've been over this again and again. America is a very nonintegrated county. You have vast swaths of the landmass of this country filled with nothing but white people and cows. There's a really strong chance that many of these people never met or saw a black person that wasn't on television and probably never met a latino that wasn't performing migrant labor. I grew up in a place like this and traveled all across the country working in other places just like it. These places are all politically aligned to be republican and they support policies that openly harm minorities. Cities are where some measure of diversity exists, but even then it's often not well integrated, with minorities often relegated to the lesser parts of cities. Democrats don't do the working class or the poor very many favors either. It really comes down to whether an empty platitude is better than getting kicked in the stomach. I went to college in a STEM field and we had roughly 800 students. Of those, 8 were women and 4 were black. Raising up communities requires a diversity of options. Not everyone is able to turn a wrench and not everyone is able to perform a surgery or code a phone app. When companies say "we don't discriminate based on x,y,z" it may be true, it may be not. What's clear however, is that not enough people are positioned and prepared to take advantage of those opportunities. The cause for that can be traced back to secondary education, which can be traced back to primary education, whose failures can be traced back to policing & legal representation, living conditions and generational poverty. Make no mistake, the USA ***** on poor people of all colors and genders. I grew up around white people who didn't have a person in their family tree that wasn't poor. That's not ok in country that's the richest nation in world history. The biggest difference is they didn't have to battle the extra factors that other people do. I believe that education and economic reform help the most amount of people with the least amount of change needed and that a lot of the social issues we have will sort themselves out by fixing those two things.

I guess the real Silent Majority were Biden voters.

Mahomes, Wilson, Rodgers, maybe Watson

It's over: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7331957-Judge-Brann-Decision.html In other words, Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more. At bottom, Plaintiffs have failed to meet their burden to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Therefore, I grant Defendants’ motions and dismiss Plaintiffs’ action with prejudice.

Over the top? The only thing that's changed with regard to COVID is the population's numbness to it. We're entering a period now where infections and deaths are going to surpass the highest they've ever been. You know that thing that everyone was worried about in January that already happened and was a global catastrophe? Well, it's happening again, and it's likely going to be much worse. The blame for what's happening ultimately lies with the stupid, selfish, and greedy people that inhabit this third world country. Nothing like going bankrupt and dying of a disease we could have mitigated just to own the libs. I get it, Karen is bored. I don't care. Stay the ***** home and let's end this thing instead of dragging it out for another 2+ years.

listen ######. Deaths is a variable outside of anyone's control and it's a lagging metric. If you took your graph timestamp a couple weeks ago it would paint a much different story, just as it's extremely likely to a couple weeks from now. Once people get COVID, there's not that much different any given American doctor can do to measurably change the likelihood of death assuming everyone is getting quality care. Trying to assign a victory to slightly less deaths with cases trending on the same moving average is taking credit for variance.

"A severe flu" that just so happened to kill an extra quarter of a million Americans. Rest assured, if the flu killed 7,8,9,10x as many Americans per year as it currently does, we wouldn't be brushing that off either.

How many times are you going to keep showing your ass with bunk data?

Innocent child? Give me a ***** break. The kid's still a scumbag.

I mean, it wouldn't be Big Blitz if he didn't completely destroy his own argument.

"stating completely false information" is going way overboard in the opposite direction. If you read the article, there really isn't much that's "false" there. It includes statements from the parties and a reporting of events. Regardless of that they went and added further context and redactions, as they always do. Integrity is being able to admit when you were wrong and not letting emotions get the best of you. The reason that the NYT is a gold standard of journalism is for those reason among others, including their dedication to research and evidence based approach to writing. The difference between media that caters to the right wing and everybody else is that you'll never see them do that. You'll very rarely even see them say a negative thing about their own team. Fox is doing it lately, but like I mentioned previously, that's probably a gambit. They position themselves, and by extension the people that consume their content, as an "us against the wonder" proposition. I understand that you may feel that other media outlets are biased because of how negatively they report on Republicans. Be assured, they report negatively on Democrats and Independents as well, but I don't think you appreciate how many awful things that Trump, McConnel and the rest of the Republican party do on a regular basis. If you're deep in it, it can be hard to gain perspective, but for those of us that aren't in the MAGA cult, it's been a nonstop horrorshow. Every single day for the last 4 years has been chaos, and I'm just happy that we'll soon get back to normal.

The last time a Democrat “won” the presidency while his party sustained a double-digit loss in the House was in 1960, during an election tainted by probable vote fraud in Illinois and Texas. Still, we’re expected to believe that Joe Biden achieved the same feat in 2020 with no skulduggery? Moreover, as Juan Williams admits in the Hill, “President Trump set a record last week by attracting the highest percentage of the non-white vote of any Republican presidential candidate in the last 60 years.” Yet we are expected to believe that, despite the worst showing among minorities of any Democratic nominee since JFK, Biden surpassed Barack Obama’s record-breaking turnout by 10 million votes? Biden’s “victory” seems even more implausible after an audit of his performance in remarkably predictive bellwethers. The Wall Street Journal reports that Biden had a nearly perfect record of losses in counties whose election results have presaged presidential winners for decades: “From 1980 through 2016, 19 of the nation’s more than 3,000 counties voted for the eventual president in every election. Only one … backed President-elect Joe Biden last week.” So, a candidate who campaigned from his basement lost 95 percent of these counties yet won the election? What of the fabled bellwether Ohio? Last month, the New York Times advised that if Trump didn’t win there it was over: Well, not so much. President Trump trounced Biden in Ohio, winning the state by 8.2 percent. Suddenly, AP demoted the state to a bit player in presidential politics: What we are expected to believe here is that the bellwether counties discussed by the Wall Street Journal and the Buckeye State have been left behind by the rest of the nation in the long march toward the mandatory lockdowns and mask mandates that Biden wants to impose on the electorate. In reality, Trump won Ohio and the vast majority of these counties because absentee ballots were managed transparently according to long-standing and coherent guidelines in place long before the election. The only bellwether county out of the 19 that Biden won is located in Washington state, which long ago went to all mail-in ballots and one-party rule. We are expected to believe that this is a coincidence. This brings us to ground zero for election fraud — Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth illegally changed its election rules before and during the voting process. Essentially, the Commonwealth Court and the Secretary of the Commonwealth ignored the General Assembly and the U.S. Constitution to rig the election on behalf of Joe Biden. The American Spectator’s Paul Kengor and Jeffrey Lord have covered this chicanery here, here, here, and here. We are expected to believe that such stories are conspiracy theories, despite videos showing Democrat election officials evicting Republican election observers from vote-counting locations and erecting physical barriers to prevent them from watching. Finally, we come to the Smartmatic/Dominion software that was used to tabulate votes in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. As this Fox interview with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani reveals, this software was developed in Venezuela and banned from the U.S. a decade ago. It’s now been brought back into the country under the aegis of a subcontractor. Its major design feature is that it allows the vote counters to calculate how many votes they need to win. Jeffrey Lord has more here. The Democrats want you to believe this is a conspiracy theory. It isn’t. The Democrats knew they couldn’t beat Trump honestly, so they’re stealing the election. In the end, to accept Joe Biden as our legitimate Chief Executive, we must believe the voters hammered the Democrats in congressional, state, and local elections, yet decided to elect the “leader” of their party president. We must believe that he dramatically underperformed among minority voters, yet received 10 million more votes than Barack Obama. We must believe that virtually all of the reliable election bellwethers were wrong. We must believe that all of the elections in the swing states were conducted honestly and that the Venezuelan software used to tabulate the votes was secure. All of this beggars belief. Joe Biden may be inaugurated in January, but he certainly wasn’t elected president. The only thing you need to believe is that 306 > 232.

Can you help me find the false reporting here? As we've seen from Borat, it's entirely possible for Rudy to be a disaster completely unrelated to Biden.

Who's a liberal? Did they correct the story when they got more information? Edit: they did. There are no lies or dishonesty here. This is what a credible news source looks like. Read an article from Fox about Breonna Taylor or find me a Trump quote where he said he was wrong. "Interviews and additional video footage have offered a fuller picture of what happened in this encounter, including the context that the Native American man approached the students amid broader tensions outside the Lincoln Memorial. Read the latest article here." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/covington-catholic-high-school-nathan-phillips.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

You have it exactly backwards. Masks are a mitigation tool, like the aforementioned chainsaw guards or contraceptives. If you use them within the parameters that they are effective (e.g. socially distanced, around other mask wearers, in open air, do not touch them without sanitizing) then they are undoubtedly effective at limiting the speed and distance that air & droplets can pass from one person to another. This is known science, is easily reproduceable and shouldn't be in any way controversial. HOWEVER, limiting the speed and distance at which a person moves air into their surrounding environment is one, ONE, variable in a sea of other variables regarding how COVID is transmitted. Viral load, adherence to hygiene, washing of surfaces, interactions in the home, transmission via mucus membranes in the eyes are a handful of others that also have impact on not only if people get sick, but potentially how sick they get. Part of the reason that transmission in the home is going to be a complicated problem to solve is because of the amount of rampant misinformation about the virus, like the information you believe. If you have 2,3,4+ people living in a confined space and one or more of them have dangerously incorrect notions about the virus it's highly likely that those people are exposing themselves to higher than necessary risk. Once that person does something that brings the virus into the home, it's going to be much easier for others to get it, even if the person that brought it in doesn't. So you wore a mask to the grocery store, cool. But you just grabbed the bags from the cashier with your bare hands that the stock boy touched that hundreds of people breathed around and then you opened your car door and took your mask off without sanitizing before or after, and maybe you wipe your nose because it's runny from the mask & cold temperature. When you get home you touch the door handles and open the pantry and put away the goods you bought without washing them, where your roommate/wife/child grabs them and start eating. 2 weeks later everyone's got COVID and all you can do is throw on a Pikachu face and say mAsKs dOnT wOrK! Do you mean the place where 15,366.1 people live per square mile?

I bet you didn't even notice in all of your ravings how you admitted that masks work. Thanks for coming around, sport.

Good catch I forgot that part when I was trying to keep track of all the flaws. bUt mY hAlLoWeEn!!! I can't wait until we celebrate the pilgrims killing the Native Americans by giving each other a deadly disease next week. At least there will be turkey.

Alt-right: Orange man lost must be conspiracy. Americans: ***** Trump. Alt-right: FRAUD!

Funny you mention no dead people lying in the streets. Police had no problem letting David McAtee lie in the street for 14 hours after they murdered him while he was serving food from his restaurant. And meanwhile, Trump's administration claims the equivalent of 75 9/11's in deaths from a hoax. I wonder how high the numbers would be if they didn't report to him?

I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. Sighh... You didn't actually read the study, did you? If you did you may have (probably not) discovered a few things: Mask wearers had a lower covid rate than non mask wearers: 1.8% to 2.1% Participants were not on a controlled environment. They were not required to wear masks in their own household. They were not restricted from having people in their household. Their behavior out of the household was not regulated beyond the suggestion that they wear a mask. The only verification that masks were worn was via self report. The peer reviews on the link you supplied tore the study to shreds for even more reasons related to the poor structure and control of the experiment. Science is a process, and it requires that processes be carefully controlled, measured and analyzed in order for valuable evidence to be derived. Well run experiments are so specific that proving something as broad as the efficacy of masks should not really be possible. Putting a kickback guard on a chainsaw doesn't prevent you from cutting your arm off if you want to.

Well that's straight up wrong, but I really don't expect you to come armed with facts, so carry on.

My favorite Lee Smith fact In 16 Games played in 2019, Lee Smith had 4 receptions for 38 yards. He also had 8 penalties for 51 yards He made 3.5 million dollars in 2019 and is making 3.25 million dollars in 2020 An absolute ***** legend and my personal hero.