that didn't like directly to an overt conservative news site
Forbes
WUT?
Not only that, but the writer of the piece is from the Hudson Institute who, according to Wikipedia, "is a politically conservative American think tank". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute).
This basically means the Republican party is anti-American. Yeah they are starting to say people should get vaccinated, but is Nate silver pointed out on Twitter they didn't start doing this until the damage was already done in time for them to score some points for the midterm election.
Ooh ooh, also do President Biden and Kamala Harris spreading doubts about vaccines prior to the 2020 elections.
I am reposting part of my earlier reply, just to cover bases:
Kamala Harris *clearly* says that if the health professionals approve the vaccine she would take it, before ever mentioning Donald Trump. That seems sensible. Yes, the DT comment was a bit of a cheap shot, but that is politics. However, the primary message of her response was to trust the health professionals. I wish you (everyone, actually) would argue on the basis of facts and reasonable interpretation, but that is a vain wish.
I'm not actively trying to piss people off for fun.
I don't believe either of us is. I think you often suffer from confirmation bias: everything is evidence of evil Republicans, evil corporations, wealth disparity, etc. Yeah the Republicans are bad on the vaccines but the President and Vice President clearly tempered their enthusiasm for the vaccines--including safety questions--because that was the entirety of Trump's plan to deal with Covid. He had no Plan B, he only had the vaccines. If people were led to believe that yes, we were on the cusp of having safe effective vaccines like Trump insisted, then the election might not have gone the same. Or maybe it would have.
Donald said many things. I won't even detail his timeline which included ungrounded assertions that it would go away, it wasn't a big deal, etc. If a single comment he made can be constructed to be his entire position on a given issue, then he has no position on anything at all, because he says whatever happens to occur to him in the moment.
It does, however, make it easy to "refute" any criticisms of the man. It's just that those refutations are nonsense, basically.
Chip who? Here's President Biden and here's Vice President Kamala Harris spreading doubts about vaccine safety in the run up to the election. I wonder what possibly could have changed since then.
Okay. There was a comment just above this about posting links, asserting that it supported one's argument, and hoping people didn't click on the link and check for themselves.
In this case, Kamala Harris *clearly* says that if the health professionals approve the vaccine she would take it, before ever mentioning Donald Trump. That seems sensible. Yes, the DT comment was a bit of a cheap shot, but that is politics. However, the primary message of her response was to trust the health professionals. I wish you (everyone, actually) would argue on the basis of facts and reasonable interpretation, but that is a vain wish.
What the actual fuck? Not in regards to the fact that she can pass for a first year highschooler, but the accusations of faking ID. ~_~ Bloody hell, there's being a little suspicious or skeptical, and then there's just being a total moron.
I would get carded pretty regularly until I was at least 32. I think my last experience with that was when I was at least 36.
For most remote work 7meg down should be enough IF you're the only one using it... and IF the upload is at least 3-5meg. But I'm guessing your 7 down is DSL (or some local wireless) and you're rocking at best a 3/4meg upload. And when you're at the extreme low end of suitable speeds, low latency is pretty important too.
One word: Starlink
If we've already reached the tipping point then nuclear isn't going to save us. We need to evacuate to Mars immediately.
You must mean: "Get your ass to Mars", right?
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From there, they will not perish in line at the polls, the Georgia law specifically exempts self-service water from prohibitions on gifts or items of value. Go read up, and stop repeating a plain lie.
This is borderline disingenuous; perhaps you believed Josh Holmes on Fox, but he was incredibly misleading at best. The fact remains, if anyone hands a bottle of water to someone standing in line to vote in Georgia, that person is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by up 1 year in jail, and a $1000 fine. See: https://www.politifact.com/fac...
Might want to check your fake news sources on that one
cayenne8, you should at least acknowledge this correction. Show some integrity.
It's misleading to say they didn't take any money from the US. They did take money, and were given certain guarantees for compensation if they ramped up production on a product which ended up getting denied. They just didn't take some very specific R&D money under one particular program. But to address the original point, they've shown they really don't care about offending Trump, because unlike a lot of Liberals in the US they're aware that it's primarily Congress they need to "play nice" with. And that despite the daily Doomsaying from CNN and other Liberal News outlets, there's really not much damage Trump can do during the remainder of his term, and what little damage he can do will be pretty easy to reverse.
Hmm. From what I have found, this effort did not get any money from the US government. What it did get was a guarantee to buy 100 million doses at a set price (roughly $20 each) if a viable vaccine was developed. This almost certainly did not do anything to incent Pfizer and BioNTech, as there would be no problem selling all the vaccine doses they were capable of producing, once it was certified as effective. The references to "Liberals in the US" and the "Liberal News" are just gratuitous partisan negativity, in this particular case.
"really, this is TWO highly polarized views ? This kind of lazy, faux cynicism bullshit is the problem. Not "polarized views". one side wants healthcare for everyone, the other does not. one side thinks millionaires should pay more taxes than working people, the other does not one side thinks the environment should be protected. the other literally DOES NOT."
You trot out these oversimplifications and outright distortions to make your case? Really?
No one wants to deny healthcare to anyone. No, they do not. The argument is not about healthcare, it is about paying for it. Think that through before you knee-jerk the response that 'if you can't afford it...', because necessary healthcare is available to all in America, unless you can't physically get there, and that is solvable outside of the healthcare industry and debate.
Millionaires probably DO pay more taxes than 'working people', though let's agree that many millionaires are inf act working also, just more productively, for a variety of reasons. The top percentiles of income earners pay the overwhelming majority of income taxes in America. Maybe close to half of all taxpayers, the bottom earners, pay NOP taxes, and many even get Earned Income Credit returns having paid NO taxes... Share? Millionaires may or may not pay the same share of their incomes, nut that is indeed tax code. Change it. Or not.
And no one actually thinks our environment, our planet, should NOT be protected. This is specious. The argument, as it always is with the Left, is how, and who pays how much, and who gets excused from the consequences. And if you pay attention, that bastion of environmental protect, the Great State of California, is unable to actually protect their environment or themselves - forest fires, for instance, not only unnecessarily destroy forests, habitat, and wildlife, but also property, and are caused by and cause themselves power distribution system failures, the result of misguided and persistent mismanagment of those forests, and denying utilities the ability to maintain and improve their distribution systems, in the name of 'protection'. An example. This is what the Left wants for the rest of us.
Choose wisely,
Oy. I'm responding when the logical part of my brain is telling me not to.
Health care: when a Republican is some position of power or influence actually comes up with a relatively complete plan that addresses universal healthcare in this country, I will listen. Up until now, the Republican position has been to attempt to tear down what the Democrats have built, while saying that they have a plan, a good plan ready to replace it. I just haven't seen any evidence of that plan, so no, saying "I support healthcare, but we can't pay for it" is not supporting healthcare. Nearly every other Western country is able to do some in some fashion, and the US is a very wealthy country. We can pay for it.
Environment: most studies show that the cost of trashing the environment is higher in the long-run than spending some money now to avoid trashing the environment. However, like health care, I have yet to see Republicans put forth a comprehensive plan to address the myriad issues that fall under that rubric. The last one to do so was Nixon, with the EPA, and yet the two most recent (Republican-nominated and confirmed) administrators of that department are Scott Pruitt and Andrew Wheeler. They represent what the Republicans think of the environment.
I won't go into tax-code issues, mostly because that could be argued until the end of the world and I don't have that patience.
Once it becomes FDA approved and a patent is awarded, one of the big pharma companies will come in with a blank check to the patent owner and will immediately proceed to bury this knowledge and it'll never be used again, all in favor of high-priced chemotherapy.
TFA says that the bill for this one-time treatment weighs in at $475,000. That's probably even more high-priced than almost any chemotherapy.
I know that this is moving the goalposts a bit, but a very common treatment for leukemia is a stem cell transplant after intensive chemo. That can go well over $1,000,000 all told, more like $2,000,000. Again, that is the listed price, the insurance companies will pay less.
(Don't ask me how I know this...
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
