There were few states in which the majority of eligible voters did vote and one of the candidates won the majority of those votes.
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There were few states in which the majority of eligible voters did vote and one of the candidates won the majority of those votes.
Who is Bill DeBlasio?WiseOne wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:07 pmWhether or not the story is true....seriously, who cares? People are too busy packing up and moving out of cities beset with riots, crime, and overzealous COVID restrictions. The real news, *I* would think, is Bill DeBlasio saying he could solve all these problems if only he were allowed to impose high taxes on "the wealthy" - however he defines that - in order to distribute it to his favorite minorities. Actually I have no idea who he would distribute it to. His friends in City Hall are probably a safer bet.
If you compare something Trump maybe said years ago that was not in the best of taste to something bad enough to make you leave your home, I'd say the latter would be more important to most people. Plus, people already KNOW that Trump says stuff that's not in the best of taste. Another spate of news articles about that isn't going to shock anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the past 3.5 years.
I speak of course of the man who in 2001 changed his name to “Bill De Blasio” and who is now mayor of New York City. A modern-day red-diaper baby whose parents were both communists (like him); who left college to help the Nicaraguan communists in the ’80s (proving that he must have been influenced at some point by the Jesuits); who joined the “Nicaraguan Solidarity Movement” that sought to destroy capitalism and replace it with socialism; who honeymooned in Cuba (Bernie Sanders already had done the Russia honeymoon thing); and worked for both Clintons.
The people who elected this numbskull communist as their mayor are now packing up moving vans by the thousands and moving to YOUR city and YOUR state. Good luck with that.
Wow, the story of DeBlasio’s father, linked in the Rockwell piece, is very tragic.I Shrugged wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:38 pmhttps://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/ha ... d-for-all/(Lew Rockwell) wrote:
Who is Bill DeBlasio?
I speak of course of the man who in 2001 changed his name to “Bill De Blasio” and who is now mayor of New York City. A modern-day red-diaper baby whose parents were both communists (like him); who left college to help the Nicaraguan communists in the ’80s (proving that he must have been influenced at some point by the Jesuits); who joined the “Nicaraguan Solidarity Movement” that sought to destroy capitalism and replace it with socialism; who honeymooned in Cuba (Bernie Sanders already had done the Russia honeymoon thing); and worked for both Clintons.
The people who elected this numbskull communist as their mayor are now packing up moving vans by the thousands and moving to YOUR city and YOUR state. Good luck with that.
I know this is totally politicized, but who is "the other side?"Kbg wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:24 amI think the counterpoint is that there are probably just as many Americans who think the other side has way overreacted and it's hard to argue the data is not bearing that out now. The tragedy of this whole thing is how it could have been very different if it wouldn't have been politicized by both parties. Cuomo and Trump I think both get Fs for politicizing it initially...and they both surely did.
You do have to give the man one thing, he knows how to tap into strong undercurrents.
The other side is the Democratic party who has not been driven by the science either. (Personally I'll give any government official a pass for not having it figured out in March or April but not after that. It's completely irrational to think that any government or individual has anything complex all figured out on day 1 of a crisis.)Simonjester wrote: related https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... covid.html
I watched and agree the goalposts and talking has shifted to cases vs. deaths. It is so frustrating, but you just CAN'T bring that up at any level, because you WILL get your head chewed off by some people who are still terrified. We still get daily updates on the news of IL latest cases and death, and deaths lately have been in single digits for the state, in a state where the average deaths/day last year were about 300.WiseOne wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:06 amThere are plenty of people on the "other side", Cortopassi. Yes there are many who are deathly afraid of contracting COVID because of the steady drumbeat in the news about increasing cases and trumpeted single case reports of people who have died. But as time goes on, this effect is wearing off. People are noticing that the high caseload is not translating to hospitalizations or deaths - as is well described in this video describing what's happening as a "casedemic":
I *love* shaking hands when meeting someone.
I think people will put it out of mind once the media onslaught abates. Or maybe, as more and more people get fed up and stop clicking on those stories, they'll hit some critical mass and switch to some other type of programming, and then the rest of the people will move past it.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:21 amAs for # of kids, that was just a statement. 20 is more reasonable, but my concern is more centered on will desks be placed back to normal distances? Will people be able to stand tightly in any kind of lines for anything without freaking? For food, sporting events, etc.
via Tyler Cowen.Using data on the reopening decisions of 835 public school districts in the United States, we find that school districts in locations with stronger teachers’ unions are less likely to reopen in person even after we control semi-parametrically for differences in local demographic characteristics. These results are robust to four measures of union strength, various potential confounding characteristics, and a further disaggregation to the county level. We also do not find evidence to suggest that measures of COVID-19 risk are correlated with school reopening decisions. link
I laugh at my friend when she washes what she takes out of my garden. I don't use any pesticides on anything. I generally do not wash what I take out of my garden. It's basically completely organic. All my fertilizer is from leaves on my property.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:25 amSpeaking of, I just listened to Joel Salatin on JRE, and he was talking the gross things he does to keep his immune system in working order ("I haven't had any kind of illness in 20 years"), like drinking 'clean' (his words) water out of the beef watering trough that they'd been slobbering in, sticking his hands in the compost pile, and eating a bit of dirt with his asparagus that he just harvested out of his garden.
I'll admit I probably eat more dirt than the average American, the backyard garden being to blame, of course.
I can't remember if someone on this forum posted this article a while back (if so, my bad), but I was interested to learn recently that one of the big reasons why mask-wearing became so common in East Asian countries was due to the historical influence of Taoism:
https://qz.com/299003/a-quick-history-o ... in-public/The underlying reason could be philosophical: All three countries [Japan, China, and Korea] have been broadly influenced by Taoism and the health precepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in which breath and breathing are seen as a central element in good health. “‘Qi’ is a central concept in Chinese cosmology—and thereby physiology—generally having to do with energy and vapor,” explains Michelle M. Ching, a board certified practitioner of acupuncture and herbal medicine based in Los Angeles. “Qi has numerous meanings in Chinese including ‘air’ [kong qi], ‘atmosphere’ [qi fen], ‘odor’ [qi wei], which is perhaps another reason masks are so necessary in China!, ‘strength’ [li qi] and ‘pathogen’ [xie qi]. When bodily qi is depleted, or its movement deranged, pain and disease develop. So breathing is critical in order to maintain good qi in the body.”
Meanwhile, the intake of “feng,” or noxious wind, is considered the most potent and common of TCM’s “Six External Causes” of disease. “Think about wind,” says Ching. “It can blow open doors, blow cool air off a body of water to the land surrounding it, or fire from one part of the forest to another. The door analogy relates to TCM’s understanding of how exposure to wind can weaken our body’s defenses.”(Perhaps as a permutation of these ideas, East Asia has numerous ancillary superstitions about air and wind, the most notable of which is a deathly fear of sleeping in rooms with running electric fans, a belief that has its epicenter in Korea, where “fan death” phobia remains rampant even today.)
The bottom line is that in East Asia, the predilection toward using face-coverings to prevent exposure to bad air is something that predates the germ theory of disease, and extends into the very foundations of East Asian culture. In recent years, however, mask-wearing has become rooted in new and increasingly postmodern rationales.
Curiously, some people seem to think the end of Western Civilization is an acceptable trade-off.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:15 pmYou don't have to like Trump.dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:37 amI’m not sure how Trump is doing, but Tim Pool is right: the rioters may as well be out there campaigning for Trump. The democrats aren't doing enough to stop them. They've gotten me to hate them more than republicans. This is going to make voting for a D or an R very difficult this year.
But if you don't want riots, you have to vote for Trump.
In fact, if you want Western Civilization to survive, you have to vote for Trump.
Those are the stakes.