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What the last 5 or 6 years have taught me: Assume anything can happen. -If you asked most voters 2013 or 2014 whether or not Trump would ever be a serious candidate for president they would have said no. Yet… -If you asked most voters —independent, dem, rhinos, or R—if Biden would ever be a serious candidate for president given the totality of his political private life, they would have said no. He was a career buffoon, acknowledged as such by the party as he ran and got bounced out when he wasn’t rocking pudding in the cranium. Yet… -If you asked most voters the likelihood of another Clinton presidency, they likely would have speculated the odds quite high. She was popular with rank and file, her past on display for all to see, and she was the heir apparent to the Obama legacy, hand chosen and teed up. Absent her playing fast and loose on the internet with national security she likely WAS president. If nothing else, mainstream Dems like the status quo. Yet…, I’m not so sure about Biden not running again. While Richard Nixon’s 5 o’clock shadow helped derail his chances of an early ascension to the crown, it has been revealed the standard is much, much lower these days. Biden had a major eye bleed on National television (likely from concentrating very diligently on not saying something racially insensitive or referring to the leader of England as Margaret Thatcher), had significant cognitive issues on full display and generally wandered around like an old man, and he was that too choice for millions. What would make one think he’d suddenly realize he has lost a step? More importantly, why would the folks behind the curtain think suddenly Biden supporters would pick up on his deficiencies? All that needs to happen is he makes it far enough in the game, offers to pay off a mortgage or car loan for select the perpetual victim class, and he’ll be the nominee.

You’re done a good job swimming upstream on these issues. I enjoy your posts. A couple things were obvious to me from this past November: 1. Once the ship sailed, Biden was going to be president. The reasoning was simple…not enough time, not enough money, not enough facts/evidence readily available to convince enough the average American, and whole buncha ra’tards repeating the talking point “most secure ever”. As you said…. Based on what? Career insiders/folks with the ability to put the thumb on the scale telling us so? To boot, after the govt came for Trump, it was highly unlikely a hero would emerge to spill the beans. Too dangerous to ones health and family. 2. The notion that rank and file govt agencies have access to state of the art gold standard voting software and that no corporation or special interest might influence the outcome is silly. Govt is notoriously behind the curve on such things. 3. As I said, Sens Warren et al raised serious concerns in December 2019. You’re telling me the govt fixed all the issues she was concerned about in the 11 mos that followed, with the vast majority of govt workers staying home? At a minimum, you’d think political leaders would be out reassuring Americans that her concerns, and those of DJT were addressed and the steps undertaken to fix the issues. You’d think a major media outlet would do the expose, but that’s a lot to ask. I have no doubt—zero, none, nada, zilch that actors (foreign, domestic, public and private) sought the influence the outcome and likely did. That said, when all is said and done, the old geez in steep cognitive decline is the prez. He’s been a player in the game for 50 years, but all that really happened was after a glitch in the machine in 2016, the program was corrected and the insider installed.

Elizabeth Warren, Amy Kloboucher and other prominent dens express serious & significant concern about election security, it’s news. No hand wringing about the death of democracy, the chilling effect of a political leaders words on the ability to trust election officials. 11 months later, the same sentiment is echoed by the other party and its reported as the most egregious affront to humanity since New Coke. The only difference is the concern that Donald Trump might continue to upset the apple cart of painfully entrenched ruling class.

Thanks for sharing. I’m in the keep pushing forward column. As we heard many times during the Trump is Russian days, if there is nothing to fear, there should be no concerns from the players on the other side of the audit. It is striking that no Dems are in attendance, and that subpoenaed routers continue to be withheld from investigators.

Or they could consider their options, decide the course of action they choose to follow, and if they get sick, avail themselves of all available medical options. I think they think my solution is much more fair.

So I’m 59, height and weight right on target. Blood pressure, cholesterol managed, pay attention to my diet, get regular exercise and have what the ladies call “bedroom eyes”. I am concerned about the necessity of the vaccine, concerned about some of the stories about adverse reactions and the like. I realize the risk is low, but someone always draws the short straw and so I ponder. I’m not a conspiracy guy, get the flu vaccine regularly, but am bright enough to know that I have no comorbidities, am not necessarily in the danger zone for Covid death, but also recognize I could be the guy who draws the very short straw and ends up sick and dies. At the same time, I’ve watched the people in the know pimping the vax as something necessary, noble and just absolutely disregard protocol that we’ve been assured was required to keep us safe, bandying about unmasked, undistanced, traveling in spite of their restrictions and begging forgiveness when exposed. To boot, they shout to the rafters about following the guidelines for the complaint and whistle past the super spreader mass protests last year, not a thing about noble just and necessary protocol during that time. Your positioning is that it’s incumbent on me to disregard what I know, read, and vax up because the people who ignore the last 4 or 5 decades of research on the perils of obesity, drug addiction, smoking, alcohol in excess, reckless driving have a reserved spot in front of me? That seems exceptionally unreasonable, and I’m vaccinated.

So, on this note.,,we’re back to choice, actions and consequences. Until there is a National referendum on obesity, drug addiction whatever…we’re right where we are with people who choose not to vaxx.

You’re framing the argument in wholly unproductive way. No one chooses to “skip the vaccine, get sick and die in (a) hole..”. You can keep repeating that over and over, it simply isn’t true. If your hot button issue is use of health care resources, welp, I can understand. Personally, I support the right to make an informed choice about one’s own health care.

The challenge here is they don’t think they’re going to die, they think the numbers support that analysis, and they think folks like you are presumptuous and a bit weak in the shorts for allowing yourself to be manipulated. They don’t think they’re selfish, they don’t care about your preferences, and aren’t worried about how you view them. Patrick Henry’s quote regarding freedom has endured for nearly 250 years: “Give me liberty, or give me death!” What people don’t remember is that his second cousin, Octavious ‘O’ Henry also made a declaration in 1775, albeit in private eating a bowl of lukewarm gruel he scrounged from the garbage outside the local redcoat officers quarters. He said “Liberty sounds scary, and geesh—-what will the neighbors think?!”.

I feel like this isn’t the correct answer, but my gut tells me to go with 26%. 26%?

Pressure on politicians to f#$& with the economy again by requiring vaccinated people to wear a mask indoors (or at all)? Many of the polis didn’t mask up when the crisis was running amok. It’s one of the reasons that some people think the vaccine is unnecessary. We have a fragile balance right now, people getting vaxxed, others exercising the right not to. Why confuse the issue further? Disclaimer: I know the answer—COVID, masking, and lockdowns for the complaint were treated like political fodder, and the same sh*tbirds who f*cked it up the first time are still in charge.

In those crazy early days of the virus, where the Fauc and his crew were pimpin' lockdowns and 3 people from 2 different apartments sharing the same air would kill the world, it was completely understandable that we really, really, really, really, really, really, really needed to wait for the data on whether or not CSPVH (Cause-specific Polysystic Virus Hover) was a real thing. Of course we knew the virus hovered over the tens of thousands of people crammed together on a block in Minneapolis--that was obvious obviously---but now we know that not every group and every social cause will benefit. CSPVH is real, so mask up freedom fighters, protest virtually, and flatten the curve--or stand next to a dem politician, a BLM protest or one of Biden's grandchildren.

Don’t you have some bully’s homework to do?

Hold on!! I thought consent was assumed in all “Would ya” posts? This is scandalous!

Putting yourself out there—very cool. I’ll watch more later, but this begs the question. If you played it, did you practice Santeria?

I’m not disturbed in the least by that outfit, but something about a fitness model posing in a filthy airport bathroom on a floor where p**** hair is the most abundant cash crop absolutely disturbs me. I’d power through it, probably, but firemen and police officers are the real heroes.

I think the problem is when you attempt to engage, he vomits questions that he sees as the Holy Grail of irrefutable arguments and ends up looking silly. Case in point. “How many White Supremacists dressed up in Antifa-face….” Etc. So, the response of zero, six, fourteen, leventy-leven, Infinity is proffered, all speculation, solves nothing and certainly does not address the fundamental question for @BillStime…why does it even matter? I offered up that if WS were the root cause of the suffering they are part of the problem at the Capitol or across America as we saw last summer. Old Billsy seems to be all about victimizing only the right types of people, and it’s only ok if the victimizers carry out their deeds under his flag. I've said it before, you put a guy with that sort of attitude and Intolerance in 1950s America he’s finding someone to hate—Italian, Irish, Jewish, black and he’s a hop skip and a jump away from carrying the gas can to the cross burning.

I understood the question, I’ve addressed the question and my thoughts on extremists of any sort attacking, injuring/killing law enforcement officers and citizens in general. You seem hyper-fixated here, but that’s an issue for you to noodle on about, I can’t help you there. God bless and prayer up.

I encourage you to ask any question you choose, I’ll disregard those that make no sense to me in context. That seems a fair middle ground, wouldn’t you agree? I’m unclear on your position. You seem to be advocating for the MSM to protect antifa members or white supremacists acting as antifa/BLM supported when they attacked enforcement officers at locations other than the Capitol. At the same time, you referred to an unknown assailant beating a police officer as “sick”, perhaps because it’s at the Capitol. I agree that the video is disturbing and sick barely covers it. When I see an individual assaulting an officer, police officers being maimed and killed, read about gang assaults and see them play out on our streets, I find them equally disturbing. Do you? I mentioned earlier antifa mobs (or deftly clothed extremists of another stripe) assaulting citizens on the street. Some of the video is quite graphic. There is a ton of video for riots where businesses were set on fire, people losing their livelihoods. Do you find that sort of thing sick as well, even if the victims are folks you despise (officers, Trump supporters, postmen, delivery people etc)?

The issue with police officers being targeted, as portrayed in the video link you shared, is the issue at hand. I’d think if that bothered you or made you sick to your stomach (and for the record, I don’t think it bothered you in the least), the much larger issue is that officers are being targeted in part because they’ve been made out to be the target, usually by MSM talking heads and intolerant leftists. If you feel that the discussion should be expanded to include extremists including white supremacists that target the police, you’ll find no argument from me. I guess I’m still left to wonder why you support these officers and callously disregard officers and citizens targeted by the people you support.

Here’s the issue, law enforcement officials face this sort of danger on almost a daily basis. The riotous behavior of folks acting just like this, or worse was largely ignored by the msm all last summer. Officers are being ambushed, shot, wounded and killed, yet we hear about mostly peaceful protests. A guy like Michael Brown, who met his fate in a way that was tragically quite predictable is a martyr, the officer who shot him portrayed as a villain. In the world of leftists, these a$$holes are typically described as “unarmed”. Btw, video is readily available showing gangs of masked antifa scumbags assaulting people on the streets, broad daylight, with nothing being done about it. The video you shared is sick, the videos of other people being assaulted fall directly into that category as well.

“Admins take sockpuppets seriously”? Take a step back, think of yourself as a younger man reading that someone posted “Admins take sockpuppets seriously man” and tell me you wouldn’t have laughed at the absurdity of what was written. Oh and: FREE THE RHINO! And: WE’RE ALL RHINO!

I supported the officer at the time, recognized that the inherent danger of acting as she did that day, and the likelihood of a tragic outcome when someone behaves as such. I don’t understand the secrecy and lack of transparency thereafter. We can quickly find the name of virtually every officer who has discharged his/her weapon and had a full scale investigation into Michael Brown’s demise after he assaulted an officer and presumably would have killed him given the chance. After a while, it’s natural to question what might have happened here, who the officer is, and what his/her background is.

More out of context speakery from foreign lands.

He now says he was taken wildly out of context when he said it's the government's business to know who is vaccinated. I'm not sure how that happens.