The 2020 USA POTUS election politics, the civil war, and the world war (Part 1)

Of course he does. They both play hardball and no one likes to have to play down to their competition, except, seemingly Democrats. And they don’t play down. They just keep doing the same 'ol that they’ve been getting away with for 3 decades.

That’s the main reason for their, and others’ (not calling anyone a name), vitriol against Trump. He plays the way they do, and they can’t stand competition. It’s not the Socialist way. They would prefer to give him a participation trophy and shut him up.

Expand your mind, and the rest will follow. I thought you were a fiction writer. Your other posts certainly exhibit a great imagination.

Oh no! We’re now going to have to listen to desperate people who want to be relevant screaming “global cooling”.

Wow! My laugh meter gets pegged twice in the same morning.

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But you need to be an expert to know that a drone doesn’t fire a cruise missile. Just kidding.

I don’t, but will for the right price. :grin:

Please don’t dismiss it as speculation. The campaign certainly wasn’t as coordinated as it is today, but it was frequently spoken about and there lots of supposed “scientists” who stated, with certainty, that we were heading into a period of global cooling which, if not prevented, would, without a doubt, lead to another ice age. I heard it regularly in the very late sixties into the drug hazed early 70’s.

It finally died because there were lots of other social “causes” that were more valid, more relevant or got better press coverage. Just as today’s social “cause” is get rid of Trump, we haven’t heard much of the horrendous flooded islands and drowned refugees that Algore promised would occur years ago.

Thank you for admitting correlation does not imply causation. Thus the correlation being pretty means what?

Define climate, please.

Contemplate Devil’s Island, which @shinobi may have done some construction work on before the lid blew off. :grin: He did say he was old, right?

Not really profound, but I’ll bite. Some things are going to happen regardless of what we do (either action or inaction). Although I’m not known for my humility, I don’t consider anything I, or hundreds of millions of others do, will affect the weather one way or another. In fact, if I were trying to create global cooling or warming or whatever’s next, I would have a hard time doing it.

Just to make myself feel better, I’ve quit smoking two packs a day and feel like the planet owes me big time. I’ll take a 20+ dolphin on medium-heavy tackle as payment.

Finally, thanks for putting in a few posts. You require more thought than argbend.

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Woo Hoo!! Spectacular news this morning for the good guys:

Today’s Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll has our hero at 51% approval!!

Guys, if Trump can hold onto that approval number, or even a point of two short of that number, there is no way in heck he will lose in November. As of right now Mr. Biden is in serious trouble. It’s bigger trouble than he can solve from his basement. That said:

Reporting with regret that Vice President Biden will, indeed, carry the state of Delaware. Delaware is his home state. It has a grand total of three electoral votes. Delaware also has three counties. Will Biden win in all three counties? I dunno. He might have a problem in Sussex County. But New Castle County is in the bag for the Vice President. You can take that to the bank!

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Speaking of which, on a personal note:

Lewes, Delaware, which is in Sussex County, is the western terminus of the Cape May-Lewes ferry. I’ve made the trip a couple of times across Delaware Bay and enjoyed it very much. I recommend that ferry trip to you if you want a pleasurable experience. :smiley:

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It has merit of providing incentives to save for low-income earners but the main issue is that a lot of these do not have disposable income to start with so I’m skeptical that it’ll boost savings much.

The other risk is the potential shift to Roth contributions for high-income earners which in the short term may make the revenues much nicer but are just a kicking the can scheme. But in the meantime, it may make tax revenues inflate and lead to the government spending it frivolously while it’s there with little concern over planning for the expected reduced tax revenues in the future.

Either way, it’s a platform proposal so I wouldn’t lose sleep based over it because even should Biden get elected, and even with Dems flipping the senate somehow (both possible but not guaranteed by any means), there is little way that the bill would be get enough bipartisan support to be fillibuster proof.

There has been other coronaviruses outbreaks before. SARS and MERS outbreaks were both caused by coronaviruses so claiming there was little to lean on is not accurate.

Educated guesses in science are called hypotheses. That’s how we’ve made discoveries for centuries. Based on previous knowledge, postulate an hypothesis and then test that hypothesis. Besides, what’s a better alternative to educated-guesses based on the best currently available knowledge? Random guesses with no basis?

Yet we were continuously reminded that this was a “novel” coronavirus, as justification whenever their guesses ended up being off. “Oh, how could we have possibly known?!?!?”

Besides, what’s a better alternative to educated-guesses based on the best currently available knowledge?

But this is about science “knowing” or “not knowing”. A guess is not knowing. Guesses often are wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying you think the science is wrong, or “doesnt know”.

There’s nothing wrong with making educated guesses. There is something wrong with calling someone an idiot for not buying into those guesses as being gospel.

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I agree with that. Even the best educated guesses should be tested and confirmed and not taken for granted.

I think the blurry line is weighing when to act on those educated guesses. Ideally, you’d always have tons of time to make your decision so that you can take it with full certainty of the reliability of the science. But take the COVID-19 vaccine, should we wait a few years until we’re sure it’s safe before making it available or decide that at some point the benefits may outweigh the risks. Of course the latter, but deciding when we reach that point is not an easy task but one I feel that should be rooted only on science currently known.

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This survey of opinion of the US around the globe is pretty depressing even if not totally unexpected.

I’d be curious to see the reactions in the middle east after today’s peace deal between Israel and UAE and Bahrain. Hopefully more positive - aside from in Iran I imagine.

But still, not a ton of good will in countries that have traditionally been strong allies. And having our POTUS less trusted than dictators like Putin or Xi seems wrong to me.

Basically, now Nixon looks like he was cheated out of his presidency. he needs another 4 years.

From your link, basically all of the charts look like this:

Trump Admits He Had to Be Stopped From Assassinating Assad After Years of Denying It

He blames Mattis for not getting it done.

Just posting what Trump and his administration actually say and do.

But is that a result of the media pushing the narrative of mistrust? American media has a huge influence on forming the globe’s opinions on the subject, for many it’s their only exposure on which to form an opinion. And the media are the ones pushing the “he told everyone to inject bleach!” story, not the “researchers are exploring the potential for injectable disinfectant-type treatments” story.

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Right… sure, they’re “Exploring that”. In other words, people in the room nodding and burning a hole in the floor so they aren’t fired.

Except, yeah, your not. Yet again.

“I would’ve rather taken [Assad] out. I had it all set. Mattis didn’t want to do it.” Asked if he regretted not killing Assad, the president said: “No, I don’t regret that. I could have lived either way with that. I considered [Assad] certainly not a good person. But I had a shot to take him out if I wanted but Mattis was against it.”

What part of that is saying he ordered it? It’s actually, and surprisingly clearly (for Trump), saying that he listened to his military advisors and made an informed decision, regardless of what he would’ve impulsively done. I mean, isnt that how it’s supposed to work, and entire opposite of what y’all keep claiming Trump does?

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That’s because you’re not paying attention. There are nation-islands in the Pacific where people are being displaced because of the rising ocean. There are areas in Florida that have more frequent flooding on the streets (Florida is pretty flat and sits on porous rock, so the water rises up with the tide or storm surge even in areas far from the beach).

An impact of a single individual is minuscule. Whatever we do or don’t do, we do it as a group. So we’re all contributing to the problem by driving 7mpg gas guzzlers to the grocery store that’s 1 mile away, keeping all the lights on in our mostly coal-powered home, buying plastic-wrapped groceries, throwing all our trash in landfills, and flushing drugs and letting corporations flush poisonous runoff into rivers and oceans. The problem was not created by us as consumers, but by the industries that enable this behavior, and regulators who don’t regulate. As consumers we could choose to spend our money more consciously, and vote for people who want to solve these problems instead of letting them get worse.

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Trump Administration Has Yet To Pay USPS For COVID-19 Postcard Issued In March

"The Trump administration has yet to pay the U.S. Postal Service for a postcard it sent out in March prominently displaying the president’s name alongside a series of guidelines for combating COVID-19, according to a report from USA Today.

The cost of producing and sending the postcards to an estimated 138 million addresses across the U.S. was $28 million…

Aside from not paying the USPS for the postcard, Trump said in August that he was blocking much-needed funding for the Postal Service to prevent mail-in voting ahead of the November elections"

Does anyone think this is good? A smart thing to do? Or maybe something to be corrected?

Trump tweet September 12, 2020:

“Was Andy McCabe ever forced to pay back the $700,000 illegally given to him and his wife, for his wife’s political campaign, by Crooked Hillary Clinton while Hillary was under FBI investigation, and McCabe was the head of the FBI??? Just askin’?”

The donations were to the failed 2015 Virginia state Senate campaign of McCabe’s wife, Dr. Jill McCabe. The donations were all to her, not to her husband.

Further, the contributions were legal, none came from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and McCabe was not “head of the FBI.”

Does anyone think the President of the United States should be factual and accurate when he makes statements?

Yeah - the $700k came from the PAC of one of Clinton’s closest allies and totaled a whopping 1/3 of the total contributions to that campaign. And McCabe was the head of the DC field office while the DC field office was conducting the Clinton investigation.

But naw, move along, nothing to see here. He’s just making up baseless stuff again.

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Well, yeah, it’s something they’ve been researching for years. And Trump didnt even state it as being the cure. He said “who knows, maybe they’ll come up with…”, as in, the eventual cure could be just about anything, an example of something that isnt down the path of traditional treatment methods.

But no, all that came out of is was “go drink bleach”. Oy vey.

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‘Like somebody turned off a switch’: Small businesses say USPS delays are hitting them hard

“Customers have contacted his company to ask about the progress of a package, and in some cases, asked for refunds. Sales have softened since the delivery delays began this summer, which Cortese suspects are due to weakening customer confidence that they’ll receive packages on time. The culprit, he believes, is change put in place at the Postal Service by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who stepped in the role in June.”

For rural businesses like NobleSpirit, the USPS is a lifeline, says Polly Cortese.

“It’s a business issue,” says Cobb, the owner of the hobby company. “When a customer forces me to give a refund because their package has been stuck in a facility for 30 days, it definitely impacts the bottom line.”

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