You've done a lot of harm over the last few decades by invading countries, kicking out existing governments that weren't to your liking and leaving behind a destabilised mess that's worse for everyone long term.
That’s what happened to how many Central and South American countries, again?
If you’re trying to make me feel guilty enough to slash my own wrists under the weight of my own despair? You’re not trying hard enough. I’m well aware of how shitty my country is; that fact doesn’t scare me. So try harder to kill me or fuck all the way off.
It’s not a licensing screw-up. See, Squenix caught a fair bit of shit for the “stunt double” versions of the Avengers in its Avengers game — i.e., for trying to replicate the general look of the MCU!Avengers without actually casting the MCU!Avengers. (And judging from the dialogue, they also wanted to replicate the feel of MCU writing.) My guess is that after hearing all those criticisms, Squenix took them to heart and decided to give this version of the Guardians some distance from their MCU counterparts.
A similar issue happened with Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, in that Marvel apparently wanted the game to draw inspiration more from the MCU than from any other influence (including past MvC games). That led to similar “stunt double” issues and the exclusion of popular recurring characters (e.g., X-Men characters such as Wolverine). Those issues, in concert with several others, kept MvC:I from becoming as successful as its predecessors.
I get that people might want to play as the MCU versions of Iron Man, Captain America, etc. But unless a company has the money to cast Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, etc., that company is better off not trying to do Great Value versions of those characters. Squenix learned that the hard way. Apparently, so did Marvel.
Suggestions for solving that specific problem aren’t something I can provide. But “let’s just let China do whatever to whomever” can’t be a viable solution, let alone the only viable solution.
Do you want to undermine public confidence and trust in the police and the courts as institutions? Because this is how you undermine public confidence and trust in the police and the courts as institutions.
I am continually in awe of how much of a shithead Steven Biss appears to be — and how much worse he seems to get as this case drags on. Even judges are probably looking at him being on the docket and saying “son of a Biss” to themselves.
your argument here is that people who make bad games need to be allowed hide them from people so they can trick people into buying a bad game instead of being able to view everything that interests them and making a value judgement?
In its rebroadcast of the Square Enix E3 presentation, Twitch’s /twitchgaming channel aired a version of the trailer and the gameplay footage for Guardians with the original licensed music removed. (Funny thing is, the replaced music kinda worked better for the trailer than did the licensed song, which was “Holding Out for a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler.) Squenix had to put that together with Twitch before the broadcast, so they are definitely aware of the DMCApocalypse and are willing to work around it somehow.
Last reply to you on this; I’ve better things to do — like jerk off to softcore Skinemax porn.
So every major not-right-leaning news outlet declared the virus natural with no evidence at all, was right.
Nope.
But saying the virus came from a lab, leaving out the long winded “every existing piece of evidence show that” is wrong.
Also nope. And I’ll tell you why.
The evidence of the origin of COVID-19 thus far may lean in the direction of a laboratory, but that evidence is far from conclusive. The chances of COVID-19 being a lab-developed virus are equally as likely as the chances of COVID-19 being a natural mutation/evolution of a coronavirus. Neither theory is explicitly right or wrong until we have more evidence that proves one true and the other false.
But until we have that evidence, acting like the lab theory is a certified fact as if you have the omniscience of God Herself is a fool’s move. Don’t be a (bigger) fool, Lodos.
So reducing the number of potential infection vectors is a bad thing?
I don’t respond to otherwording.
The President attempted to close off the source country, and known hot spots.
Even if he had succeeded in a timely fashion, the chances of his being able to wholly prevent COVID-19 from reaching the States were small enough that the effort would likely not have been enough to stop the disease from arriving here.
Using your logic the Biden administration shouldn’t have halted travel from India because we can still get if from other places?
India is the current epicenter of the Delta variant of the virus; it makes sense to prevent travel from (and to) the hotspot of a deadlier/more contagious strain of COVID-19. But considering how the Delta variant is becoming a dominant strain here in the States, that travel stoppage is something of a “too little, too late” scenario.
The logical progression is to first close travel. Then allow carefully controlled travel to commence with testing and quarantine.
Yes. But by the time the closing of travel happened, the virus had already reached the states. It was ostensibly the right move — but it was still too little, too late.
It a business wants to be open to mask users that’s their choice. If they want to be mask free that’s their private business choice.
Of course you don’t give a fuck about public health, given you’re a libertarian. You probably think the idea of “public health” is a conspiracy meant to rob us of our freedom to make other people sick for shits’n’giggles.
If I use a mask and you don’t that’s your choice. Be happy, be dead. Idgaf!
Again: Of course you don’t give a fuck about public health.
The reason mask mandates and business shutdowns happened was because Americans are, by and large, a stubborn group of people who have been taught by American culture to be rugged individualists instead of part of a broader community. The only way to keep the assholes from infecting even more people was to mandate mask usage indoors and shut down non-essential businesses. “IDGAF” assholes like you likely would’ve made the pandemic even worse if you’d gotten your way vis-á-vis making masks wholly optional and barring shutdowns from ever happening.
Next time you say “IDGAF” in this context, append “about people dying and getting sick”. It’s far more accurate — and honest.
Your making such a statement suggests you believe there would have been a difference if Gore was President.
There absolutely would’ve been. What difference that would be is knowable only to a omniscient supernatural deity that can see all possible timelines.
The difference is much of Clinton’s potentials [were] Obama hold-overs. [Swine flu] was [a] disaster. So we have a logical example to base a conclusion on.
Per Wikipedia and based on the CDC’s own data: “From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, the CDC estimates there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3 - 89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086 - 402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868 - 18,306) in the United States due to the virus.”
Also per Wikipedia and based on CDC data: “More than 33.5 million confirmed cases have been reported since January 2020, resulting in more than 600,000 deaths, the most of any country, and the twentieth-highest per capita worldwide. As many infections have gone undetected, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that, as of March 2021, there are a total 114.6 million infections in the United States, or more than a third of the total population. The U.S. has about one-fifth of the world's confirmed cases and deaths.”
Compared to COVID-19, the swine flu epidemic was handled far better. I wonder if that has something to do with a competent leader being in the Oval Office instead of an elderly game show host. 🤔
How many direct transcripts do I have to post to show you it simply didn’t happen.
You can keep posting the transcript, but you’re forgetting the context that he said this directly after a presentation that pointed out how household disinfectants — including, yes, bleach — were effective at killing the COVID-19 virus. The leap in logic from the “bleach is effective at stopping the COVID virus” presentation to Trump mentioning the injection of disinfectants into people’s lungs meaning “injecting bleach into people” isn’t that hard to make, especially since Trump is…not exactly a complex and nuanced thinker, to put it nicely.
You invented a quote Trump never said. Placing it in quotes gives it factual meaning. This is how misinformation spreads.
“You invented a false quote”, he says. “You gave it meaning”, he says. “You’re the cause of all misinformation,” he says.
See how exaggeration and paraphrasing works? No, of course you don’t, because you’re a fucking idiot. And I don’t like to use that word these days, so rest assured that for as much as I’m kicking myself for using it, I’m also absolutely certain that it’s the only accurate descriptor for you. Now fuck off; I’ve got porn to watch.
I’m not God, nor do I believe I’m God, so I can’t. But I can take educated guesses.
While knowing the true origin of COVID-19 and shutting down travel might have prevented COVID-19 from becoming a bigger pandemic within the United States, it’s equally likely that the pandemic still would’ve been as deadly as it was/is even with that knowledge and those restrictions. By the time the first case of COVID was confirmed in the States, it’s entirely possible (and incredibly likely) that the disease could’ve spread exponentially before that case was confirmed. Given the gestation time of the virus and the fact that some people could be asymptomatic carriers, shutting down travel might have been wholly ineffective in stopping the virus from spreading in the U.S.
Our President had information stating that the source was a laboratory.
Incomplete and unconfirmed information, since the source of the virus has yet to be conclusively proven (and you’d do well to remember that, lest you look like a brainwashed Breitbart barfbag when you assert the lab theory as a certified fact).
Trump continually instructed, guided, and ordered, further follow up, and to approach it as he had seen.
No, he didn’t. He sat on his hands and kept saying “the virus will go away” (no that’s not a fucking direct quote you pedantic dipshit) until he couldn’t ignore the fact that people were dying of COVID and he had to actually be a leader instead of a celebrity.
He was ignored continuously.
Remind me, who was in charge of the federal government from the 20th of January 2020 and the 20th of January 2021? Because I don’t think it was Democrats, and I’m pretty sure Trump installed enough loyalists in the government to ensure that his wishes would be granted.
Failures in containing the virus are exactly because the government bureaucracy made it possible to ignore him.
Oh, I see now! The failed response to COVID-19 in the United States wasn’t Trump’s fault for being an incompentent leader — it was everyone else’s fault for not immediately bowing down to his every whim no matter what and making sure he could do whatever to whomever for any reason whatsoever! Gee, why didn’t anyone tell me this before~? 🙃
It was deployed by local police before the visit by the President was discussed
Again: I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don’t trust in coincidences.
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I stand corrected, thank you for the citation.
I didn’t vote for Tucker Carlson nor donate to him.
By your own admission, you voted for Donald Trump. I rest my case.
The majority of the seated Republicans when he came in were never-Trump.
Yet they voted in line with him anyway because of partisan politics. And Trump rarely tried to negotiate or compromise in good faith with Democrats — any time he didn’t get exactly what he wanted from them, out came the preschool playground insults aimed only at Democrats. (Sure, he aimed a few at Republicans, but he saved his greatest ire for Democrats because “own the libs at any cost” was and currently still is the GOP mantra.)
That’s what happens when people don’t negotiate. How many times did this happen under Obama, bush, Clinton,…?
Two shutdowns happened under the presidency of Bill Clinton. Both shutdowns were related to his veto of Republican-penned appropriations bills, which he vetoed because of objections to funding cuts that would’ve affected education, the environment, and public health. The shutdowns lasted a total of 26 days between the 14th of November 1995 and the 6th of January 1996.
One shutdown happened under the presidency of Barack Obama. This one occured as a result of a disagreement between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate towards the contents of the 2014 Continuing Appropriations Resolution bill — primarily, the funding for the 2013 Affordable Care Act. The shutdown lasted 16 days.
In the Obama and Clinton shutdowns, blame fell largely on the GOP.
No shutdowns happened under the presidency of George W. Bush.
That’s not something Trump created.
He wasn’t able to stop it from happening twice under his watch, either — and the second one was the longest shutdown in U.S. history, to boot.
a violent uprising against the authority.
Yes, that’s what it was: a violent uprising against the legitimately elected President-elect and those tasked with the Constitutional duty of confirming the results of a free and fair election. What, did you think they were chanting “hang Mike Pence” for shits’n’giggles?
Didn’t happen. They we’re not armed and not violent.
They did far less than than any of the BLM riots. By choice.
That isn’t exactly an argument in your favor, seeing as how paramilitary white supremacist organizations like the Proud Boys were in attendance that day. You’re basically saying that they didn’t get “too violent” because they didn’t want to look like a bunch of…well, I think you can guess how the Proud Boys would end that sentence.
Trump did not once call for violence. Not once for insurrection.
The following are quotes from Donald Trump himself; they come from his speech on the 6th of January, just before the insurrection:
Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with: We will stop the steal.
We will not let them silence your voices. We're not going to let it happen, I'm not going to let it happen.
We're gathered together in the heart of our nation's capital for one very, very basic and simple reason: To save our democracy.
You're stronger, you're smarter, you've got more going than anybody. And they try and demean everybody having to do with us. And you're the real people, you're the people that built this nation. You're not the people that tore down our nation.
Republicans are, Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. It's like a boxer. And we want to be so nice. We want to be so respectful of everybody, including bad people. And we're going to have to fight much harder.
[Y]ou'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.
We will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we've been forced to believe.
You will have an illegitimate president. That's what you'll have. And we can't let that happen.
The radical left knows exactly what they're doing. They're ruthless and it's time that somebody did something about it.
The Republicans have to get tougher. You're not going to have a Republican Party if you don't get tougher. They want to play so straight. They want to play so, sir, yes, the United States. The Constitution doesn't allow me to send them back to the States. Well, I say, yes it does, because the Constitution says you have to protect our country and you have to protect our Constitution, and you can't vote on fraud. And fraud breaks up everything, doesn't it? When you catch somebody in a fraud, you're allowed to go by very different rules.
We must stop the steal and then we must ensure that such outrageous election fraud never happens again, can never be allowed to happen again.
The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.
Now, I’m sure you’re going to mention all the times he brought up marching peacefully and whatnot. Don’t bother; I’ve skimmed enough of the transcript to know those parts exist. Instead, I want you to read each of those quotes, and notice some of the verbs/verbal phrases he uses: “stop”, “save”, “fight”, “take back”, “get tougher”, “show strength”, “protect”. Then look at the overall gist of those quotes: “we’re fighting to stop the steal”, “we have to get tougher on the fraudsters”, “we’re here to save democracy”, “we need to do something about this”.
He isn’t explicitly calling for violence, no. But between his planting the idea that his “patriots” must stop the steal by showing strength and doing “something” about the Democrats/“weak Republicans” to save the country, his talking for months about how the election would be fraudulent only if he lost, and his continual(ly rebuked) efforts to overturn an election he lost both electorally and popularly, those quotes — his words — become a form of his mob boss–esque stochastic terrorism. He didn’t need to directly call for violence; all he needed to do is make his wishes known and let his followers do the rest.
Take a bunch of people who have already been manipulated by right-wing media and Donald Trump into believing the election would be/was stolen. Tell them that the literal last line of defense against the stolen election is a Vice President who has already sworn himself to the duty of his office (i.e., to confirm Joe Biden as the President-elect). Gin them up further by referring to them as true patriots, telling them to toughen up and show strength, and implying that they alone can save American democracy itself. What do you get as a result of all that?
Well, knowing the virus was created in the early days could have helped in developing Safeguards even faster.
Considering Trump threw out the safeguards already developed — e.g., the pandemic playbook and the pandemic response team — I don’t see how the response from one of the worst federal administrations of this generation would’ve improved with the knowledge of where the virus originated.
we could have put far more pressure on getting the research from the lab
Again: Until you know for an absolute fact that the virus came from a lab, stop acting like the assertion — no matter how probable — is a fact.
Closing travel as the virus spread was exactly what should have been done. Starting with the source country. Then others as it became necessary.
And by the time we shut down travel from other countries, the virus could’ve still made it into the United States. One case is all that is necessary for the virus to spread. Think in terms of a simple doubling sequence: One person infects another (two), those two infect another two (four total), those four each infect another (eight total), and so on.
But given international travel patterns and modern socialization, the possibility of one person only infecting one other person is incredibly low. So let’s jack up the initial infection after arrival to, oh, let’s say five (six total). Those six infect five more people each for a total thirty-six infected people, and they all infect five more people each for a total of 216 infected people. Within five generations of infections, we’re looking at at least 45,000 infected persons — and that could be well before the Patient Zero of this situation even starts showing symptoms.
Shutting down travel would’ve worked if we could’ve guaranteed that infected persons could either be prevented from entering the country or quarantined upon arrival. But given the gestation period of the virus, it was impossible to know who had been infected until they started showing symptoms — which could’ve happened well after they reëntered the country and before a travel shutdown occured. You can’t guarantee that shutting down travel would’ve completely prevented the virus from hitting American shores — or stopped it from being as deadly as it became.
Every person who fought travel restrictions is directly responsible for the spread.
So, then, is every person who fought mask requirements, shutdown mandates, and every other measure meant to prevent further spread of the virus in the name of public health — and that includes Donald Trump. If’n you wanna play the blame game, you’re only going to get a tie at best.
What the hell nonsense are you on about?
Read the comment again, but this time commit yourself to understanding me instead of misunderstanding me.
Less cases to spread reduces chances to spread.
One case would’ve been enough, as I’ve outlined above.
We’ll never know how much the impact could have been reduced.
We’ll never know how much better it could’ve been with a competent leader in the Oval Office, either. Ain’t life a bitch.
You went from it’s fact to exaggerating.
Oh, no, he suggested injecting disinfectants into people as a potential treatment for COVID — that’s a stone cold fact. My characterization of how he said it is the exaggeration/paraphrasing.
Or else people will call you out for your false quotation.
oooh i’m so fucking scared someone get me my security blankey and a flashlight~
Quite foolish AND hypocritical to preach about truth while making up quotes.
I didn’t “make up quotes”, you dipshit, but I should’ve expected you to commit to misunderstanding concepts like exaggeration and paraphrasing.
I’ve grown tired of dissecting your fictional narrative.
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That’s what happened to how many Central and South American countries, again?
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what the fuck are you even on
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If you’re trying to make me feel guilty enough to slash my own wrists under the weight of my own despair? You’re not trying hard enough. I’m well aware of how shitty my country is; that fact doesn’t scare me. So try harder to kill me or fuck all the way off.
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Bite harder; maybe I’ll feel it next time.
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It’s not a licensing screw-up. See, Squenix caught a fair bit of shit for the “stunt double” versions of the Avengers in its Avengers game — i.e., for trying to replicate the general look of the MCU!Avengers without actually casting the MCU!Avengers. (And judging from the dialogue, they also wanted to replicate the feel of MCU writing.) My guess is that after hearing all those criticisms, Squenix took them to heart and decided to give this version of the Guardians some distance from their MCU counterparts.
A similar issue happened with Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, in that Marvel apparently wanted the game to draw inspiration more from the MCU than from any other influence (including past MvC games). That led to similar “stunt double” issues and the exclusion of popular recurring characters (e.g., X-Men characters such as Wolverine). Those issues, in concert with several others, kept MvC:I from becoming as successful as its predecessors.
I get that people might want to play as the MCU versions of Iron Man, Captain America, etc. But unless a company has the money to cast Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, etc., that company is better off not trying to do Great Value versions of those characters. Squenix learned that the hard way. Apparently, so did Marvel.
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I don’t respond to otherwording.
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Suggestions for solving that specific problem aren’t something I can provide. But “let’s just let China do whatever to whomever” can’t be a viable solution, let alone the only viable solution.
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“It’s too hard to fight and we can’t guarantee victory, so we should give up.” That’s you. That’s you right now.
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Isn’t that basically what happened in the Breonna Taylor situation?
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Do you want to undermine public confidence and trust in the police and the courts as institutions? Because this is how you undermine public confidence and trust in the police and the courts as institutions.
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Having $100 in your bank account is better than having $0, but it ain’t the same as having $100,000.
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I am continually in awe of how much of a shithead Steven Biss appears to be — and how much worse he seems to get as this case drags on. Even judges are probably looking at him being on the docket and saying “son of a Biss” to themselves.
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Having a right to do a thing (e.g., enforce copyright at the most strict levels possible) doesn’t make it the right thing to do.
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Hey, it worked for Atari (until it didn’t).
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Something to note:
In its rebroadcast of the Square Enix E3 presentation, Twitch’s /twitchgaming channel aired a version of the trailer and the gameplay footage for Guardians with the original licensed music removed. (Funny thing is, the replaced music kinda worked better for the trailer than did the licensed song, which was “Holding Out for a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler.) Squenix had to put that together with Twitch before the broadcast, so they are definitely aware of the DMCApocalypse and are willing to work around it somehow.
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Last reply to you on this; I’ve better things to do — like jerk off to softcore Skinemax porn.
Nope.
Also nope. And I’ll tell you why.
The evidence of the origin of COVID-19 thus far may lean in the direction of a laboratory, but that evidence is far from conclusive. The chances of COVID-19 being a lab-developed virus are equally as likely as the chances of COVID-19 being a natural mutation/evolution of a coronavirus. Neither theory is explicitly right or wrong until we have more evidence that proves one true and the other false.
But until we have that evidence, acting like the lab theory is a certified fact as if you have the omniscience of God Herself is a fool’s move. Don’t be a (bigger) fool, Lodos.
I don’t respond to otherwording.
Even if he had succeeded in a timely fashion, the chances of his being able to wholly prevent COVID-19 from reaching the States were small enough that the effort would likely not have been enough to stop the disease from arriving here.
India is the current epicenter of the Delta variant of the virus; it makes sense to prevent travel from (and to) the hotspot of a deadlier/more contagious strain of COVID-19. But considering how the Delta variant is becoming a dominant strain here in the States, that travel stoppage is something of a “too little, too late” scenario.
Yes. But by the time the closing of travel happened, the virus had already reached the states. It was ostensibly the right move — but it was still too little, too late.
Of course you don’t give a fuck about public health, given you’re a libertarian. You probably think the idea of “public health” is a conspiracy meant to rob us of our freedom to make other people sick for shits’n’giggles.
Again: Of course you don’t give a fuck about public health.
The reason mask mandates and business shutdowns happened was because Americans are, by and large, a stubborn group of people who have been taught by American culture to be rugged individualists instead of part of a broader community. The only way to keep the assholes from infecting even more people was to mandate mask usage indoors and shut down non-essential businesses. “IDGAF” assholes like you likely would’ve made the pandemic even worse if you’d gotten your way vis-á-vis making masks wholly optional and barring shutdowns from ever happening.
Next time you say “IDGAF” in this context, append “about people dying and getting sick”. It’s far more accurate — and honest.
There absolutely would’ve been. What difference that would be is knowable only to a omniscient supernatural deity that can see all possible timelines.
Per Wikipedia and based on the CDC’s own data: “From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, the CDC estimates there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3 - 89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086 - 402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868 - 18,306) in the United States due to the virus.”
Also per Wikipedia and based on CDC data: “More than 33.5 million confirmed cases have been reported since January 2020, resulting in more than 600,000 deaths, the most of any country, and the twentieth-highest per capita worldwide. As many infections have gone undetected, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that, as of March 2021, there are a total 114.6 million infections in the United States, or more than a third of the total population. The U.S. has about one-fifth of the world's confirmed cases and deaths.”
Compared to COVID-19, the swine flu epidemic was handled far better. I wonder if that has something to do with a competent leader being in the Oval Office instead of an elderly game show host. 🤔
You can keep posting the transcript, but you’re forgetting the context that he said this directly after a presentation that pointed out how household disinfectants — including, yes, bleach — were effective at killing the COVID-19 virus. The leap in logic from the “bleach is effective at stopping the COVID virus” presentation to Trump mentioning the injection of disinfectants into people’s lungs meaning “injecting bleach into people” isn’t that hard to make, especially since Trump is…not exactly a complex and nuanced thinker, to put it nicely.
“You invented a false quote”, he says. “You gave it meaning”, he says. “You’re the cause of all misinformation,” he says.
See how exaggeration and paraphrasing works? No, of course you don’t, because you’re a fucking idiot. And I don’t like to use that word these days, so rest assured that for as much as I’m kicking myself for using it, I’m also absolutely certain that it’s the only accurate descriptor for you. Now fuck off; I’ve got porn to watch.
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It’s still tear gas either way. Your pedantry isn’t making your point any stronger.
And what do you think they were trying to do with the protestors — help them throw a rave?
Again: It’s still tear gas.
Get a better argument.
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I’m not God, nor do I believe I’m God, so I can’t. But I can take educated guesses.
While knowing the true origin of COVID-19 and shutting down travel might have prevented COVID-19 from becoming a bigger pandemic within the United States, it’s equally likely that the pandemic still would’ve been as deadly as it was/is even with that knowledge and those restrictions. By the time the first case of COVID was confirmed in the States, it’s entirely possible (and incredibly likely) that the disease could’ve spread exponentially before that case was confirmed. Given the gestation time of the virus and the fact that some people could be asymptomatic carriers, shutting down travel might have been wholly ineffective in stopping the virus from spreading in the U.S.
Incomplete and unconfirmed information, since the source of the virus has yet to be conclusively proven (and you’d do well to remember that, lest you look like a brainwashed Breitbart barfbag when you assert the lab theory as a certified fact).
No, he didn’t. He sat on his hands and kept saying “the virus will go away” (no that’s not a fucking direct quote you pedantic dipshit) until he couldn’t ignore the fact that people were dying of COVID and he had to actually be a leader instead of a celebrity.
Remind me, who was in charge of the federal government from the 20th of January 2020 and the 20th of January 2021? Because I don’t think it was Democrats, and I’m pretty sure Trump installed enough loyalists in the government to ensure that his wishes would be granted.
Oh, I see now! The failed response to COVID-19 in the United States wasn’t Trump’s fault for being an incompentent leader — it was everyone else’s fault for not immediately bowing down to his every whim no matter what and making sure he could do whatever to whomever for any reason whatsoever! Gee, why didn’t anyone tell me this before~? 🙃
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To-may-to, to-mah-to.
Again: I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don’t trust in coincidences.
I stand corrected, thank you for the citation.
By your own admission, you voted for Donald Trump. I rest my case.
Yet they voted in line with him anyway because of partisan politics. And Trump rarely tried to negotiate or compromise in good faith with Democrats — any time he didn’t get exactly what he wanted from them, out came the preschool playground insults aimed only at Democrats. (Sure, he aimed a few at Republicans, but he saved his greatest ire for Democrats because “own the libs at any cost” was and currently still is the GOP mantra.)
Two shutdowns happened under the presidency of Bill Clinton. Both shutdowns were related to his veto of Republican-penned appropriations bills, which he vetoed because of objections to funding cuts that would’ve affected education, the environment, and public health. The shutdowns lasted a total of 26 days between the 14th of November 1995 and the 6th of January 1996.
One shutdown happened under the presidency of Barack Obama. This one occured as a result of a disagreement between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate towards the contents of the 2014 Continuing Appropriations Resolution bill — primarily, the funding for the 2013 Affordable Care Act. The shutdown lasted 16 days.
In the Obama and Clinton shutdowns, blame fell largely on the GOP.
No shutdowns happened under the presidency of George W. Bush.
He wasn’t able to stop it from happening twice under his watch, either — and the second one was the longest shutdown in U.S. history, to boot.
Yes, that’s what it was: a violent uprising against the legitimately elected President-elect and those tasked with the Constitutional duty of confirming the results of a free and fair election. What, did you think they were chanting “hang Mike Pence” for shits’n’giggles?
You may want to rethink that assertion.
I mean that.
That isn’t exactly an argument in your favor, seeing as how paramilitary white supremacist organizations like the Proud Boys were in attendance that day. You’re basically saying that they didn’t get “too violent” because they didn’t want to look like a bunch of…well, I think you can guess how the Proud Boys would end that sentence.
The following are quotes from Donald Trump himself; they come from his speech on the 6th of January, just before the insurrection:
Now, I’m sure you’re going to mention all the times he brought up marching peacefully and whatnot. Don’t bother; I’ve skimmed enough of the transcript to know those parts exist. Instead, I want you to read each of those quotes, and notice some of the verbs/verbal phrases he uses: “stop”, “save”, “fight”, “take back”, “get tougher”, “show strength”, “protect”. Then look at the overall gist of those quotes: “we’re fighting to stop the steal”, “we have to get tougher on the fraudsters”, “we’re here to save democracy”, “we need to do something about this”.
He isn’t explicitly calling for violence, no. But between his planting the idea that his “patriots” must stop the steal by showing strength and doing “something” about the Democrats/“weak Republicans” to save the country, his talking for months about how the election would be fraudulent only if he lost, and his continual(ly rebuked) efforts to overturn an election he lost both electorally and popularly, those quotes — his words — become a form of his mob boss–esque stochastic terrorism. He didn’t need to directly call for violence; all he needed to do is make his wishes known and let his followers do the rest.
Take a bunch of people who have already been manipulated by right-wing media and Donald Trump into believing the election would be/was stolen. Tell them that the literal last line of defense against the stolen election is a Vice President who has already sworn himself to the duty of his office (i.e., to confirm Joe Biden as the President-elect). Gin them up further by referring to them as true patriots, telling them to toughen up and show strength, and implying that they alone can save American democracy itself. What do you get as a result of all that?
You get an insurrection.
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Considering Trump threw out the safeguards already developed — e.g., the pandemic playbook and the pandemic response team — I don’t see how the response from one of the worst federal administrations of this generation would’ve improved with the knowledge of where the virus originated.
Again: Until you know for an absolute fact that the virus came from a lab, stop acting like the assertion — no matter how probable — is a fact.
And by the time we shut down travel from other countries, the virus could’ve still made it into the United States. One case is all that is necessary for the virus to spread. Think in terms of a simple doubling sequence: One person infects another (two), those two infect another two (four total), those four each infect another (eight total), and so on.
But given international travel patterns and modern socialization, the possibility of one person only infecting one other person is incredibly low. So let’s jack up the initial infection after arrival to, oh, let’s say five (six total). Those six infect five more people each for a total thirty-six infected people, and they all infect five more people each for a total of 216 infected people. Within five generations of infections, we’re looking at at least 45,000 infected persons — and that could be well before the Patient Zero of this situation even starts showing symptoms.
Shutting down travel would’ve worked if we could’ve guaranteed that infected persons could either be prevented from entering the country or quarantined upon arrival. But given the gestation period of the virus, it was impossible to know who had been infected until they started showing symptoms — which could’ve happened well after they reëntered the country and before a travel shutdown occured. You can’t guarantee that shutting down travel would’ve completely prevented the virus from hitting American shores — or stopped it from being as deadly as it became.
So, then, is every person who fought mask requirements, shutdown mandates, and every other measure meant to prevent further spread of the virus in the name of public health — and that includes Donald Trump. If’n you wanna play the blame game, you’re only going to get a tie at best.
Read the comment again, but this time commit yourself to understanding me instead of misunderstanding me.
One case would’ve been enough, as I’ve outlined above.
We’ll never know how much better it could’ve been with a competent leader in the Oval Office, either. Ain’t life a bitch.
Oh, no, he suggested injecting disinfectants into people as a potential treatment for COVID — that’s a stone cold fact. My characterization of how he said it is the exaggeration/paraphrasing.
oooh i’m so fucking scared someone get me my security blankey and a flashlight~
I didn’t “make up quotes”, you dipshit, but I should’ve expected you to commit to misunderstanding concepts like exaggeration and paraphrasing.
Ah, so it’s both. 😁
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