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SleepingGiantFan

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  1. Agree about everything you've said. And the current situation differs considerably from 1861 in many ways, foremost among them is that there isn't a moral chasm as big as slavery to be considered. Americans can stop the growing political divide if sufficiently motivated but it's clear from this board that at least some people have no interest in doing so.
  2. +100 I see you and various others here in the same light as I've seen lawlorfaithful for many months. Although you guys lean right politically whereas I lean left, we're moderates who are open to considering the opinions of others. However, for the several years I've participated in this forum to varying degrees there has always been a small cadre of folks who seem to accept everything the Republican Party or Democratic Party tells them. Such immediate acceptance of the party line is becoming increasingly dangerous as the leaders seem more and more interested in trying to make the other side look bad than in compromising so as to do what's best for our country.
  3. Growing income disparity and diminution of the middle class are tearing our country apart. No one thing is going to resolve that problem but things like compelling those who couldn't spend all their money in half a dozen lifetimes to pay more in taxes - which would also help lessen the national debt - and helping to bring back manufacturing by revoking some of the legislation which encouraged corporations to move it overseas and south of the border would be a good start. (And don't bother pointing out that I therefore agree with Trump to some degree on the trade deficit with China. Although I definitely do and support him for making an effort, as with virtually everything, he's been inept in so doing.)
  4. Judging from the political philosophy of Idahoans on this board, there would be no purpose in the Left Coast states leaving if we had to take you guys too.
  5. I'm down. Pretty sure Nevada would want in too. Oh and I'd also be good with building a wall to keep far-right loons out.
  6. Right, I meant the nineties and although Reagan wasn't president, Newt and his crew ran Congress. BTW, just how much did cutting the capital gains tax help the middle class compared to the filthy rich?
  7. Hey, many of us in California would be perfectly fine with having our own country. Seriously.
  8. At least 50% as it was after the Reagan tax cuts. The reduction to 36% or whatever it became after the laughable Contract With America cuts in the mid-eighties is ridiculously low and not even half what the super-rich paid in the fifties when our country had a legit middle class.
  9. We can't ever implement the kind of tax increases on the super-rich that many Democrats have advocated. Absolutely cannot. That would be devastating! Because if we raise their taxes that way, the top 1% may only have enough money to allow their great, great, great, great, great grandchildren to sit on their asses every day for their entire lives.
  10. The American Exceptionalism thing is such a crock that I can't blame anyone in Canada or three dozen or so other countries where the standard of living is just as good as it is here, if not better, when they tacitly point out that concept's absurdity.
  11. Can't wait for Hannity's inevitable diatribe against non-Trumpers and how American Exceptionalism allowed the prez to handle this pandemic better than anybody.
  12. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-intelligence-warned-trump-of-pandemic-in-january-2020-3
  13. So Mr. Grumpy goes and asks the same kind of smart ass question that he got pissed about being asked himself.
  14. You and I are voices in the non-right wilderness who risk being labeled supporters of Mr. Grumpy for saying that. Do the rest of you Never Trumpers actually believe people are still going to be required to stay in their houses through June into July?
  15. I don't know but didn't he have a measured dick and the consensus was about 2"? Erect?
  16. JFC. Was this predictable or what? The stupidity of so many Americans is not only depressing, it's downright scary.
  17. Neel Kashkari opined on 60 Minutes Sunday night that Trump is continuing to err by just talking about the Defense Production Act rather than fully implementing it. Kashkari said that just when the economy had fully recovered from the 2008 market crash, we get this. In his opinion, although Covid-19 can't be stopped, it can be mitigated and fully implementing the DPA while conservatively allowing people to gradually return to work a month or so from now is economically essential.
  18. Yes it appears that people under 65 can be quite susceptible. However, unlike South Korea, the US is woefully lacking in contact tracing and we do not have any significant data on underlying medical conditions caused by younger people themselves. See this, for example: https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/how-vaping-causes-serious-lung-disorder
  19. From my less than full understanding of this stuff, you're wrong because it's too soon for that. At a minimum we need to ramp up testing to a vastly greater degree and from what I understand, that's going to take at least another couple weeks.
  20. Not in the spring during the "first wave" of the disease. Not until Germany surrendered in early November and the troops came home from Europe did the complete shutowns occur. Before that, the government simply issued masks and mandated that people wear them and that was very ineffective because the masks were too porous to prevent the virus - which was initially wrongly believed to be a bacteria - from getting into people's respiratory system.
  21. "I've been right a lot." Suuuure you have. (It WAS sort of a smart-ass question however.)
  22. Yes. A guy said it well today on Quora Digest: "When histories and memoirs of the Covid-19 outbreak are written a big question will be why Western countries told their people to wash their hands and not touch their faces and cough into their elbows and therefore took on the tsunami of the infections piling up in buckling hospitals while Asian countries were reducing the infection rates by massive testing and aggressive contact tracing." Just have to smh at how much more effective the government of South Korea, a country which has only recently been considered first world, has handled this.
  23. You've just become one of probably several million Americans who could have received near immediate piece of mind but for our government's snailian approach to providing tests for those with symptoms of the disease. Get plenty of rest, consume plenty of liquids and take good care generally and I trust that you'll start feeling better in a few days.
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