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Hey Al, you know .... if Amazon required proof of vaccination in order to buy anything online ....
we'd be at herd immunity in 3 weeks
Don't worry Al, when the next massive outbreak occurs, you wont be asked to show any papers to go anywhere .....
you'll just be quarantined to your property ....
or maybe sent to non-vaccinated-person "welcome center".
Hi arizona1, it's not my fault that the dictionary agrees with me .... and disagrees with you.
But it wouldn't be the first time the progressive world mislabeled something as part of their Orwellian mind control tactics.
Now New York -- that was a coup !
Not just in my mind. In the minds of anyone who can read.
I understand that brainwashing is involved in you being upset that it was an attack and not a coup.
Let's review this - they attacked the capitol, encouraged by the president. So this is a bad bad thing. And yet you're not satisfied with this accurate description of this event.
Interesting.
coup - a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government
And as usual, the dictionary makes it clear that i'm correct and you are mistaken.
No one has ever seized power from a government using bear spray and cell phones.
Even if the worst had unfolded - and some members of congress had been lynched, the mob would have been mowed down by the national guard and plenty of other law enforcement agents and the remaining members would have counted the electoral votes and Biden would have been declared elected (again, since it really happened on Dec 14th).
No seizing or even attempted seizing would have occurred.
Hi Ayock, I'm pretty sure my credibility isnt based on believing what you believe.
But we definitely need to do something about the gross wealth inequality in the US. Or the top 1% will have a "Marie Antoinette" experience.
Trump should have called off his spinning eyeballs mob as requested by his Republican colleagues who knew and understood that he orchestrated the attack...
National guard troops should not have been delayed/withheld by internal traitors.
I agree completely.
Your refusal to call it a coup by a cult of MAGA supporters and the leader himself is laughable.
It was definitely an attack. But I think you need to check a dictionary for the definition of a coup. You thinking storming the capitol with bear spray and cell phones is the same as taking over the entire US government is laughable.
How about storming a Federal Courthouse - repeatedly ? By your definition, that's a coup too.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/18-arrested-facing-federal-charges-after-weeknight-protests-federal-courthouse-portland
Just one of the benefits of having a large Asian population.
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccination.aspx
Hi Ayock, i'm just pointing out the irony that apparently you insisting people take personal responsibility for their actions isnt distributed evenly across our nation's population.
Hi arizona1, i'm not sure what this has to do with anything. I'm just pointing out that the angry mob who attacked the Capitol werent very well armed for a coup given how well armed the people protecting the Capitol were.
And yes, the Capitol Police definitely f'ed up. They should have shot tear gas and rubber bullets into the mob as soon as they crossed the 1st set of barricades.
Hi Ayock, better be carefully using the "A" word .... BLM might find out and "cancel" you.
First coup attempt in history where the weapons of choice were near spray and cell phones.
While the defenders had guns.
Hi bbotcs, I'm not sure where you're going with this ....
as far as the government having a list of its citizens ... the census does a pretty good job of compiling that list. As does the IRS and SSA
As for anchor babies ... if they go to school, then they are known. and I suspect their numbers dont have much effect on the 331 million population count.
https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-and-demographics/#population-data
But you have no problem with the Government recording phone calls without a warrant?
Hi bbotcs, I never said that. The Patriot Act is to record/overhear calls to/from non-US citizens. It does not give NSA/CIA/FBI the right to record/overhear US Citizens talking to each other.
Hi bbotcs, But should intelligence agencies tape ALL of our phone calls and read our emails without a warrant? AND, the big one--listen in on our calls.
Hi bbotcs, by law they arent allowed to do this. Only calls that they think might be placed to someone or someplace linked to international terrorism.
Now - are they obeying the law ? It's tough to tell, isnt it. Personally, I'm not sure how much storage it would take to record all conversations. Or how many people it would take to listen to even a fraction of our calls.
But what they can easily get is the record of who you've called or who has called you. If its suspicious in nature, then they can get the Title III court order to listen in.
I'm pretty sure at this point the bad guys dont use unencrypted phone communications to communicate. So recording and listening to phone calls from ordinary citizens is probably a big waste of time and money.
hi bbotcs, I'm not a Democrat, I'm a Reagan era Republican. Sadly, that party no longer exists. It is now the party of My Pillow Guy and people who can't count votes. So I'm not represented well by either party.
As for surveillance, our privacy is an illusion. as long as you have a credit card, bank account, and a smart phone, the government can figure out what you've been up to any time they feel like it.
but if you're asking if government tends to be way too involved in trying to control our everyday lives then the answer is yes. and the social justice left is bent on thought control, which I have serious issues with. the far right is doing a pretty good job with mind control too. so I want nothing to do with either group.
Hi Al, and its not fake news. My big question:
Can non US citizens not living in the US cast votes in US elections too ?
Personally I think non US citizens not living in the US should pay US taxes. maybe I should write an NYT op-ed on that.
hi bbotcs, that's an interesting theory, I hadn't heard of it. but I did drive past comet ping pong pizza on Connecticut ave yesterday.
hi Ayock, unbrainwashed people know that 78% number is meaningless.
I'm not sure why you are going out of your way to demonstrate the extent of your brainwashing.
that's right Arizona1, they're nuts too. but that doesn't absolve progressives from believing stuff that's totally false as well.
Let's talk about gender pay inequality .... it doesnt exist. Especially when you factor in things like how much more women take advantage of health insurance than men do. When you factor that benefit in, they make more than men.
Health Spending Average by Gender During time period of age 18 to 44, health spending for females is 84% higher than men for years. Yes, much of this is due to the expense of childbirth, but from age 44 to 64 spending for women is 24% higher than for men.
And that doesnt even include how much money men spend on women as is our custom.
Women in the controlled group make $0.98 for every $1.00 a man makes. - which means they basically make as much as men.
https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap
Hi Ayock, all you've done is proven my point. You believe the facts you want to believe and dismiss the ones you dont want to believe.
Kinda like QANON believers do.
Hi Ayock, youre just proving my point that what you think is reality is only PART of reality. You choose, or are brainwashed to, ignore the full reality.
Let me help:
- We're not a country based on systemic racism
- Women dont make less than men, in fact you could easily argue they make more than men
- The US is reducing its CO2 output and has been for over 16 years. all the global warming problems we're seeing are entirely China's fault
Florida may be a leader in mass shootings, but democratically controlled Chicago and Philadelphia are leaders in everyday shootings. Blue state America is considered the worst place to retire.
https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/the-worst-states-for-retirement-in-2021
So posting a meme with cherry picked stats is proof that I'm in touch with reality and you ..... arent.
I'm pandering to reality, Ayock.
And the reality is what I said it is.
It's true, Ayock ....
Educated people prefer to be misled by CNN and MSNBC.
As you know what everything in the US is really all about is:
Affluent, educated ten percenters who benefit from an technology, information, and financial services economy as well as obscene federal deficit spending and can enjoy the American dream
vs.
Rural less educated Americans for whom the American dream is increasingly out of reach and who can tell their way of life is heading for extinction - like in the next decade or two.
Hi bbotcs, Fox News seems to think so too.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/russian-bots-sow-social-upheaval-across-us-using-facebook-twitter-experts-say
I dont think there's any question that Chinese and Russian interests are on social media to polarize Americans.
Not that we need their help.
Hi Al, it may seem like a double standard but like I said, sexual orientation is protected by law from discrimination.
Mask and vaccination "orientation" are not.
And I'm pretty sure you can't catch "gay-ness" or possibly die from it just by standing near a gay person.
You know, the British made enormous personal sacrifices for 5 years to prevent being conquered by the Nazis. And here we are arguing over whether or not to wear masks off and on for a year or two.
Well Al, businesses have enormous latitude when it comes to dress code. As for vaccinations, most universities require students to be vaccinated for meningitis, so there's plenty of precedent for vaccination requirements.
As for the man refusing to make a cake for a gay couple - sexual orientation discrimination is against the law - discriminating against unvaccinated people or non mask wearers is not.
But apparently a persons religious views have value and the supreme court sided with the baker. I didnt even reember that.
Lots of stories about younger people seeing their unvaccinated friends being put on ICU ventilators ... are now getting vaccinated.
So I guess the antimask anti vax pundits (and their Russian and Chinese helpers) need to work harder. :)
Hi Al, and when you add the added costs of running a restaurant now, going out for lunch or dinner will put you in sticker shock.
Hi Al, the Bee must know some of my friends, lol.
“We found of the 24 boxes that were sent, 20 had perfect matches,” Moore said. In fact, Moore said the Cyber Ninja numbers and the counties matched 99.9% of the time. “If you extrapolate that to the full 2,089,563 count, they would be off by 124 ballots,”
The fact that we still have yet to hear of any substantial miscounting is more proof that the voting fraud narrative is nonsense.
https://www.abc15.com/news/arizona-election-audit/some-state-senators-having-second-thoughts-on-election-audit
Even my liberal friends think the border needs to be closed.
The irony is that our border with Canada is the one that's closed. A fun fact - I helped built the fingerprint system that helps the Border Patrol figure out which illegal border crossers are harmless and which ones are criminals.
And yes we're fans of ATK. We havent watched it recently but we've seen a lot of episodes. I'm more into the travel shows, but as you can imagine there havent been any new ones made for the past 2 years.
lol Keep those Bee satires coming
Hi Al, 2 weeks ago my county put out an announcement that almost 90% of our population was soon to be vaccinated.
So my progressive leaning friends in our neighboring county saw this and criticized their county for only being 50% vaccinated - implying there were lots of science denying ignorant anti-vaxxers living there.
But wait.
Soon isnt the same as now. One dose isnt the same as fully vaccinated.
So it was an apples to oranges fake news comparison which my progressive friends fell for.
The real numbers: the progressive county is at 64% fully vaccinated. The neighboring county: 58%. Both counties have upper 70% first dose.
Way different than 90% vs. 50%.
Welcome to the new America where even people with graduate degrees often lapse in their critical reasoning ability.
'Once in a thousand years' rains devastated central China, but there is little talk of climate change
Cuz China is the country most responsible for the climate we're experiencing for the past 15 years !!
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/china/china-flood-climate-change-mic-intl-hnk/index.html
Hi Al, I'm gonna have to score this one as fake news.
As of a month ago, only 4 people in Scotland have died from vaccine side effects.
https://guernseypress.com/news/uk-news/2021/06/16/four-deaths-caused-by-adverse-effects-of-covid-vaccine/
So there's no way 5500 people have died from the vaccine in just a month.
But I'm sure there are people who believe it. Maybe they'll come down with the Delta variant and die from that instead.