The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(12-11-2020, 09:06 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-11-2020, 06:37 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-11-2020, 06:26 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-11-2020, 07:45 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Somebody predicted Trump wouldn't like Time magazine's person of the year.  That would be Biden and Harris?  Good prediction.  

Is that it? I expected the greatest political duo that mankind has ever seen to receive more than just that award. I expected an Emmy, an Oscar, a Noble Peace Prize, the medal of honor and whatever else is readily available to give them in advance. You have to be appealing to the blue youngsters and the elders who become more childish (blueish) with age. Other than sitting around dreaming and wishing they were more like the Cavaliers or pretending to be Cavaliers or trying to convince the youngsters they are Cavaliers who are better then the Cavaliers, what else do the round heads do with the abundance of time that they all seem to have these days.

I believe the agenda includes curing the pandemic, fighting racism, reducing the imbalance of wealth and saving the planet.  I could add flying to the moon, but the poor economy is putting that on hold.  

Obama's peace prize was early.  People of the year feels more right.  

The pandemic has already been cured and its just a matter of waiting for the delivery of the cure at this point. So, are the Democrats willing to kill thousands while their dragging their feet trying to make Biden look great? I wouldn't put it past them at this point. As far as fighting racism, what's racism look like to you guys these days? A video of  white cop suffocating a black crook during a struggle that took place during an arrest. Is that all you need to see to call it racism and trigger large scale riots and looting and unleash quasi socialists on missions to deface and destroy symbols related to American greatness/progress and attacks institutions associated with American law enforcement and divide a country that you need to remain intact in order to pay all the bills and meet all the obligations and so forth . If you want a war Bob, if you want to wake up and learn every digit is either gone or worthless and we've got the cash, the gold and silver pretty much locked up  then you just continue being stupid and talking stupid, clucking like chickens as you say  and doing what the monkeys are doing so to speak. As far as saving the planet, sucking up and going along and playing patty cake China and trying to out bid Chinese supporter among the UN ain't going to be able to  save the planet.

No, we seem to be at or near "peak death", with the equivalent of a 9/11 attack every day. We have lost the equivalent of such a city as Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, or St. Louis in less than one year from one infectious disease. We are losing the equivalent of our usual annual deaths from motor-vehicle collisions (including with pedestrians) in a week and a half. Considering that much of the road construction or reconstruction now done has the reduction of vehicle collisions and resulting deaths and crippling injuries as an objective and that much of the work of the police is to deter or stop dangerous driving, we do much to keep the vehicle death toll down.

Americans across the political spectrum were angered with 9/11, and rightly so. When the death toll from a disease that we used to believe did not happen in advanced industrial societies came to kill us in large numbers, and the President of the United States gave a catastrophic failure as a response... if one isn't angry about this, then something is terribly wrong with us. If an enemy missile with a hydrogen bomb blasted such a city as Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, or St. Louis and incinerated its people in a few minutes, would you not be calling for war?

OK, OK, OK... you may have never been in any one of those cities. As you know I have been using city populations as measures of the death toll.   Cincinnati is #64, St. Louis is #65, and Pittsburgh is #66. 

OK. I have already mentioned such places as South Bend (#305), Fort Wayne (#77), Toledo (#76), Ann Arbor (#236), Lansing (#240), and Grand Rapids (#113), cities with which I have much familiarity. I hope to hit you hard with a reminder of what city is #63 on the list:







You ought to know this place fairly well. You should know its skyline. I wouldn't, as I have never been there. But it is nothing to sneeze about. It is St. Paul, Minnesota. I assume that you have been there. It has about 308,000 people.   

People are still dying of COVID-19, and dying slowly on a respirator is a lonely way to go. That is how people usually die of COVID-19. The chance of coming back to a full healthy life while on a respirator is surprisingly slight. 

I would not want to experience envenomation from a rattlesnake bite, but I would have a better chance of recovery from that than I would from COVID-19. I turn 65 on Monday, and I am not going to throw away what could be fifteen reasonably-good years just so that I can go around without a mask for a year or so.

Oh... Wikipedia tells me that blacks and Hispanics have been more likely to contract and die of COVID-19. Black lives matter, and COVID-19 has killed far more black people (one of them the country singer Charley Pride) than police brutality. Let's all treat this infernal infection with the brutality that it so deserves, even of our Coward-in-Chief hasn't!