transplantbillsfan

Are you having a conversation with yourself? Is this supposed to be a direct response to what I said? Or are you talking to the voices in your head? That month off did a number on you. Yes to your last statement. The next few months will continue to get worse as we have an utterly incompetent President and people like you double, triple, and quadruple down on your loyalty to him. But then he'll lose in November and it will get better. So that is quite accurate.

Have you looked around? We're in deep ***** right now thanks to our current President. Biden, at the very least will pull us into the shallow end of the ***** pool. That's how low Donald Trump set the bar for the next President.

Uh. You should ask all your pals the same question. @Deranged Rhino thinks the same thing--he's a moron thinking this, but he thinks it nonetheless--in terms of Trump winning. Heck most seem pretty damn entrenched on their sides actually. I hear the same confidence brimming from the likes of @Buffalo_Gal, @Foxx, @leh-nerd skin-erd and others, so why make a statement like this? Of course, Biden is winning and anyone believing Trump is a shoe-in at this point--which the 4 previous posters have stated in this forum, and of course they should correct me if they've now changed their minds--is absolutely foolish. If you were a better in Vegas, ALL the smart money is on Biden, who probably has nearly 70% odds to win at this point.

How is it that more of the regulars in PPP aren't here crucifying the OP for a ***** ridiculous thread? Because you can goddamn well bet they would if someone here started a thread like "Is Donald Trump responsible for all protest violence?" Someone starts that thread, suddenly all the Trump lovin trolls come out in defense of their beloved leader with any number of one-line mindless zingers. But a friggin stupidly ridiculous thread like this that's probably something Donald Trump is going to be supporting himself next year when he's out of office...

Drinkin a glass of Cragganmore12 in my day-after-a-hurricane-misses-us celebration. I got this from my father in law for my birthday and I'm surprised how much I like it because there's actually a good amount of the band-aid character I associate with Lagavulin, but just a little lighter. Drinking this bottle actually makes me want to retry Lagavulin 16.

Who?

Your claim was that he won't be the chief executive and will outsource decisions. That's what you claimed was unamerican and I asked you for a link to exactly what he said. I even referenced it in the following sentences after I make my request. You're all over the map. Your forced vacation made you rusty. I'm not the President, but it's notable that you're acknowledging that Trump views Congressional Democrats as enemies.

Is Biden hiding? Who chose to show up publicly and pay his respects to the first Black lawmaker to lie in State in American history? Donald Trump chose to hide in the White House, while Oh and another thing. Please link the exact remarks that you think are "unamerican." Is there really a moment where Biden says that decisions don't actually go through him? Elected officials have ALWAYS relied on unelected experts/officials that they ultimately choose in order to determine policy. But the policy still goes through that elected official. That's the way a Republic is supposed to work. Yep. He's a helluva lot better than the dingleberry we currently have in office. Uh. Yeah. I just said that. I said that because I knew you'd be doubling and tripling down and trying to convince you of reality is about as useful as banging your head against the wall to try to get rid of a headache. So yeah, these 90 days will be frustrating for that reason. But after those 90 days will be sweet sweet relief and I'll be able to enjoy it even more as I provide you with your brand new awesome avatar.

I'm glad you're back. The next few months will be frustrating for me because you don't just double down and roll snake eyes you keep on going as you bet your own mortgage along with your parents' retirement. Biden and the campaign are doing the smartest thing ANY campaign could possibly do at this point: Stay out of the spotlight and let the incumbent destroy himself. You're inevitability going to come back with some ridiculous retort arguing "No chance Joe" has... well... no chance--gee, you're so darn clever--which is why the next few months will be so frustrating. Because I really, truly and honestly wish you would just see the light already. But in the end, the avatar I give you will be enough for awhile. Either that or he saw what a disaster Trump was and understood reality: Mission accomplished You're so weird. Is this the kind of stuff you watch all day? So this really is you then?

Wait. They honestly put Josh Allen in the top 100? As one of the biggest Allen homers here I gotta say I'm a bit surprised. But it's players voting. That tells you they look at him as a tough out, that's for sure.

There. Was admitting that your initial statement--which is what began this entire meandering discussion in the first place--was wrong really that difficult? This is a rather indirect way of admitting it, but I know it was difficult so I accept it. At times it felt like pulling teeth, but I'm proud of you for finally making that admission

You love your logical fallacies, especially onfuscation. You said red areas are "doing great at limiting Covid." Those few areas I point to have more deaths that 189 countries. And that's just a fraction of the red areas in our country. You were wrong. Just admit it. Then we can move on to the separate conversation your trying to have as you continue to deflect, because like I said, you love your logical fallacies.

Yeah, because just over 86,000 cases and 6,000 deaths in those 2 countries combined vs over 4.2 million cases and 148,000 deaths are even remotely comparable, idiot

@Buffalo Timmy is STILL running away from his initial claim that the Republicans "are doing great at limiting Covid." Those were literally your words. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/16/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s North Dakota, Mississippi, Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky are the 5 states with the highest percentage increases in Covid cases in the last 2 weeks. Want to claim that it's all the Republican counties that "are doing great at limiting Covid?" Orange County is a traditionally very red county in California. They have 556 deaths. That's great? Tarrant County in Texas is also a very red county. They have 329 deaths. That's great? Can you honestly find anything other than red areas in Mississippi? They have 1,463 deaths. Alabama has 1,438 deaths. That's great? In Georgia Cobb, Gwinnett and Dougherty Counties combine for 655 deaths. It's notable that Dougherty's population is only about 100,000 people and they have 160 deaths. That's great? By the way, Hawai'i, maybe the most blue state in the country, has over 1.4 million people and 26 deaths, by contrast of Dougherty county. Your stubbornness is getting the better of you. Those handful of areas I just mentioned would fall at 26th in the entire world just ahead of Iraq at limiting Covid. That's just a small handful of deaths in Republican areas. Number keeps going up with every single one added and that's a fraction from the country. What we see from these areas you gloat about are far from great. If you want to keep making this argument. Prove it. Right now the Republican areas of the country are 26th worst in the world if they were combined as a country. If you believe I cherry picked, compile the numbers for all the Republican areas vs all the Democratic areas. I will bet you a billion dollars that once you add it all up, those Republican areas added up end up higher than the 26th they are now. And at that point, out of 215 countries being tracked, are you honestly going to continue your laughable argument that Republicans are doing great at managing Covid? If so... oy... I know you don't teach science or math

What you and your pals here are missing is that telling a student they asked a dumb question is more difficult than it is to not do it. If you think I just throw that statement out there gratuitously, you're sorely mistaken. I spend a great deal of time building an honest relationship with the students in the classroom. Once I have that, I can tell them it's a dumb question. I don't feel the necessity to defend my own pedagogy at this point. I don't spend hundreds and thousands of words critiquing you at your job or @Chef Jim at his. I'm very, very comfortable in my teaching ability. I love the job more and more every year and keep getting better in the classroom. I will guess you'll take this statement personally even though it's not my intention, but you really don't have any business telling a teacher how he/she should run his/her classroom as long as that teacher isn't doing or saying anything outrageous if the product coming out of the classroom is smarter and more disciplined. Nothing I do or say in the classroom is even approaching outrageous. Stay out of the classroom and away from kids. It's the best place for them.

And I find being clear works with detailed elaboration when necessary. You love desperately moving goalposts. It's probably because you're desperate to be right. There are more deaths and cases overall in liberal areas because more densely populated areas--aka cities--are traditionally blue. When you live in a rural area where you're a mile away from your nearest neighbor, that's surely a place where the TOTAL number of cases and deaths will be less. But as another poster stated, the virus doesn't discriminate and is hitting those densely populated red areas just like the blue ones. Find your more densely populated cities that vote Republican (I know, there aren't nearly as many) and you'll find Covid problems. Again, your very premise that red areas have leaders or citizens doing a "great job" on their own separate from the circumstances of their geography is simply incorrect.

I let them know they're asking a stupid question, for one reason or another. If you think people shouldn't be informed when they're saying something stupid despite knowing better, you must be a lazy manager. You mean where you immediately ignored my challenge of not making a personal attack by beginning with one? Yeah. Great job with that. You might know something about managing adults. You know very little of teaching kids... or kids in general, for that matter. Yet, your choice very oddly is to define what the profession should look like. You clearly NEVER interact with kids. That kid isn't the one asking for clarification. That kid is the one who wasn't paying attention or was sleeping or daydreaming or... That's the kid I described before. The fact that you didn't actually get that tells me you've spent little to no time with teenagers. And I pity the student who gets a teacher like you who clearly has no business teaching kids because he clearly hasn't the foggiest idea of who they are. You're right. Stay away from kids.

Shocking. This will also inevitably negate much of what's to follow: You have zero clue what my teaching or management skills are. Frankly, I'm not even explaining anything more about my classroom to you because clearly you believe whatever world you've created for yourself without the need to interact with kids is everyone else's world. What's disappointing is that I was hoping you'd engage in a civil discussion as I answered a question you asked and I answered with zero hostility. You didn't. I don't know you personally--or care to know to--but that says something about you. Task was explained well and is written concisely and clearly on the whiteboard. I really question how much you interact with people and how much you actually pay attention to them. High levels of empathy and patience. You're 100% right. You're missing what else a teacher really is, though. And I'm more and more surprised as I read your posts. You coddle too much. But then again, you work with adults. I work with kids ages 15-18. Big difference. I'm not even going to judge that you always think that question warrants an answer.

Maybe you meant something different from what you said. Maybe you just don't communicate your thoughts very well. You directly state that, and I quote "we are doing great at limiting Covid" if not for those damn liberals--last part was my own interpretation, admittedly, but was it wrong? You're talking in the present. You're talking about how well we're controlling a disease that gripped our country. For that reason, the overall numbers matter much less than the recent numbers because of the present participle you chose to use. Are you with me so far? Did you mean something else? If so, let me know. But because of that statement, I responded because you've apparently been sleeping under a tree. It's simply a fact that MORE Republican states are seeing steady to alarming rises of both Coronavirus cases AND deaths over the last couple months than Democratic states. So your initial implication--if this is what you actually meant because it's what you said--that Republican states have everything under control while liberal states have let things fall apart is patently false. But keep doubling down. As do you, my friend

Seriously? Sure seems that's what you imply I do with this little rant that follows the initial question. If the people you work with are snowflakes, maybe you need to work harder solidifying your relationship with them so you can be more intellectually honest with them if they say or ask something dumb.

Depends on the student or situation. Sometimes it's the simple roll of the eyes. Sometimes I'll tell his/her neighbor to tell him/her. Sometimes I will simply say "stupid question." Let me ask you something. I challenge you to answer honestly rather than make a personal attack: If you provide instructions on a task to be completed both orally and in writing on a whiteboard and modelled an example of how to do said task with the class, do you think the question "wait, what are we supposed to do?" from a capable learner without any learning disabilities warrants an answer?

Red state Covid increases don't support this claim. As for your initial claim that I first responded to. Since you seem to have forgotten it and others didn't even bother reading it, here's what you said: If you take out of the deep blue sections of country we are doing great at limiting Covid This is what you said. And it's incorrect, plain and simple. Again, as an example, I don't think ANYONE believes Mississippi, Alabama or South Carolina are liberal Bastilles by any definition. Those 3 states had a combined 159 deaths yesterday, which is almost 5 times more than NY, NJ and Massachusetts combined despite those 3 states being liberal and MUCH more populated than the 3 aforementioned deeply red states. Florida, Texas, Arizona and Georgia combine for over 1 million cases and 16,668 deaths. Only 9 countries in the world have more deaths since this Pandemic began than those 4 states. Feel free to admit you were mistaken about your false statement at any point

You're doing the exact same thing @Chef Jim did. I won't call you an idiot, but I will say very nicely: Please go back and look at the conversation and particularly at what @Buffalo Timmy stated rather than imply that I don't get that the virus is non-discriminatory. I swear to God some of you are just all over the place.

Now look at the last month. Why did you move thr goalposts? You said this is a liberal problem and that red states have it under control, yet in the last couple weeks NY, NJ and Massachusetts (all mentioned by you) have seen daily deaths below 30 for a few weeks whereas places like Florida, Texas and Arizona are consistently seeing deaths 3, 4, 5 times that amount daily for weeks now. Today there were 202 deaths in Texas, 56 deaths in Arizona, and 81 deaths in Georgia, 64 deaths in South Carolina, 61 deaths in Alabama, 34 deaths in Mississippi. That's 498 deaths in pretty clearly red areas historically. And I don't have the specific death rate in front of me over the last month, but I think you're conflating death TOTAL with death RATE. Population centers are always going to have higher totals in the long run... NYC ensured that at the beginning of all of this... but when the death total of South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi in a day are several times the death total in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts despite having a minuscule population in comparison to those 3 liberal states, you clearly seem to be missing something.

Today alone our country had over 70,000 cases and 1,200+ deaths. That's significantly worse than what we had in March. Your last paragraph is hilarious. I guess you know better than anyone. Here. I think you should read this: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge/dp/0190865970/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T9VWM9XHUEPA&dchild=1&keywords=the+death+of+expertise&qid=1595478723&sprefix=The+death+%2Caps%2C317&sr=8-1