American Politics

[PVMonger]

The Democrats had their priority: get Trump out of office. The pandemic was such a gift to them; what's a little collateral damage when most of the dead were probably Trump voters anyway. You have to give the Dems credit for not letting such a fine crisis go to waste.

The QOP is the only political party in recorded history to support a policy that kills their supporters. In team sports, "addition by subtraction" often works, but it doesn't work in politics. And yet the QOP sheep keep falling for it, skin, baloney and all. Smh.

[Member #4733]

Any hesitancy in closing the borders on Trump's part was due to the fact Democrats would have instantly accused him of racism and immediately demanded all flights resume.

True, Trump is such a whiner.

[Spidy]

Since when did Trump ever shy away from endearing himself to his Repub base with a racist move or comment?

Yep! Par for the course for Agent Orange. Always at the ready, with Bible in hand and never one to waste a good opportunity to rise up and bombastically bloviate on right-wing dogma, misogynistic or racist tropes.

[Golfinho]

Since when did Trump ever shy away from endearing himself to his Repub base with a racist move or comment?.

The Democrats had their priority: get Trump out of office. The pandemic was such a gift to them; what's a little collateral damage when most of the dead were probably Trump voters anyway. You have to give the Dems credit for not letting such a fine crisis go to waste.

[EihTooms]

Any hesitancy in closing the borders on Trump's part was due to the fact Democrats would have instantly accused him of racism and immediately demanded all flights resume.

Since when did Trump ever shy away from endearing himself to his Repub base with a racist move or comment?

And we're all still waiting for the links showing Pelosi, Biden or the Dems in general demanding that Trump lift the flight restrictions (there was neer a ban) regarding Covid. It is talking so long I'm beginning to suspect there are none and all the repeated claims of such a thing are just, you know, bullshit.

[PVMonger]

Mail-in voting, particularly in democrat-run cities known for corruption and dysfunction, is a joke. Even the likes of Jimmy Carter and Elizabeth Warren said so: Carter in his 2005 bipartisan commission on voter fraud, which concluded that mail-in ballots were unsecure; and Warren just a couple of years back when she warned of the risk of vote-switching in the Dominion machines.

Of course now that it's their side which has capitalized on the above fraud, they've changed their tune and say it's all dandy. LOL.

Running a secure election is incredibly simple. Citizens register to vote if they wish to do so. They show up at the polling station on election day (all stations should be open from 7 am to 10 pm, so anyone who cares can find time to go vote) with a photo ID to verify themselves. They go into a private booth and mark their choice on a paper ballot which they push into a secure box..

I am glad that you brought foreign countries into this discussion.

While I don't have experience in voting in the countries you mentioned, I am quite familiar with how voting goes in our southern neighbor, Mexico. And I guarantee that Mexico has policies that the QOP would hate.

Yes, Mexico requires a photo ID to vote and, yes, Mexico does not offer wide-spread vote-by-mail. But, to be fair, Mexpost is a joke anyway. So the QOP would love that.

But the QOP would hate the rest:

The Mexican version of the Federal Election Commission (the INE) issues voter IDs. IDs are free and there are even mobile ID centers. Yes, you need to provide identification but you can bring 2 witnesses if you don't have sufficient ID. Mexico makes it as easy as possible to obtain a voter ID card because it is the primary ID for almost everybody. The QOP would be apoplectic over all of this.

INE controls the voter rolls. The QOP would hate this.

By law, there is 1 polling place per 750 population. The QOP would really hate this.

By law, election day is on Sunday and it is a national holiday. The QOP would hate this.

By law, gerrymandering is illegal. The QOP would never stand for this!

So, how about the US implementing the Mexican system? Not a chance because the QOP would never win another election.

[EihTooms]

WTF? Seriously? If this is satire, as I suspect your whole shtick is, you've gone beyond the fringe now.

Have you looked at a map of the world? The USA is 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population. The virus, such as it is, started in China, and spread throughout the world early in 2020. How in the name of Kamala Harris's roasty stinkhole was the president of the United States, whoever he would have been, supposed to prevent that?

We have already established that if there had been a democrat in the White House, they would *not* have stopped flights from China in January when Trump did so, despite having the same intel.

(Pelosi was Speaker and thus privy to intel briefings when she was touring San Francisco's Chinatown in February 2020 encouraging tourism, telling everyone to hug a Chinaman, and calling Trump xenophobic for blocking entry from China for all non-citizens).

So the virus would have penetrated far more quickly in January and February 2020 under a democrat than it did under Trump. Yet somehow, according to your brilliant logic, this imaginary democrat president would have single-handedly stopped the spread not only in the 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population over which he is the executive; but also the remaining 94/96% too!

Incredible. In the literal sense of the word.

Trump dramatically defunded the CDC and pulled all of their representatives from the job of monitoring to prevent and respond to evidence of viral spread in those Chinese labs in 2018 against all expert advice and warnings for him not to do something so
foolhardy, dangerous and stupid.

Then, when it was made clear to him by the provided intel in early 2020 that the worst fears of his stupidity were indeed coming into reality, instead of admitting his historically disastrous mistake and quickly announcing significant measures to try to correct it, he compounded the damage he created by lying to the world about the seriousness of it, the virulent human-to-human spread and all while mocking and denigrating the known mitigating measures to prevent it from spreading even more.

Thus is how a so-called potus can and did convert a likely manageable endemic mostly confined to one region of the world into the Trump's Pandemic it became.

Just 2 or 3 dots there. Not very complicated. I'll bet even you can connect them.

And every QAnon Repub Trump Clone now and in the future would without a doubt and without exception do exactly the same foolhardy, dangerous and stupid things regarding the next endemic virus, the one after that and the one after that.

Have you heard the con man artful way Trump "denies" being the major contributor in creating this Pandemic? LOL. He doesn't. He can't. The evidence against such a denial is overwhelming. The art is in avoiding the exceedingly uncomfortable but key detail entirely by deflection and diversion. He hopes no one even considers the topic or asks that critical question.

He only says, "This virus came out of China! I didn't bring it here! China did!" Which is true. But notice he has nothing to say about who made every possible foolhardy, dangerous and stupid decision from the most powerful position on the planet to turn it into the Trump's Pandemic it is today.

[Spidy]

The funny thing is that without affirmative action and Willie Brown, Harris would have been one of those hookers.

What with your pathetic and putrid accounts of actual p4 p and / or hooker reports, I doubt you would even know what a hooker looks like, unless she was wearing a t-shirt that said "MAGA lovers screwed by Trump, get to fuck for free" ..kkk

[Golfinho]

WTF? Seriously? If this is satire, as I suspect your whole shtick is, you've gone beyond the fringe now.

Have you looked at a map of the world? The USA is 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population. The virus, such as it is, started in China, and spread throughout the world early in 2020. How in the name of Kamala Harris's roasty stinkhole was the president of the United States, whoever he would have been, supposed to prevent that?

We have already established that if there had been a democrat in the White House, they would *not* have stopped flights from China in January when Trump did so, despite having the same intel.

(Pelosi was Speaker and thus privy to intel briefings when she was touring San Francisco's Chinatown in February 2020 encouraging tourism, telling everyone to hug a Chinaman, and calling Trump xenophobic for blocking entry from China for all non-citizens).

So the virus would have penetrated far more quickly in January and February 2020 under a democrat than it did under Trump. Yet somehow, according to your brilliant logic, this imaginary democrat president would have single-handedly stopped the spread not only in the 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population over which he is the executive; but also the remaining 94/96% too!

Incredible. In the literal sense of the word.

Any hesitancy in closing the borders on Trump's part was due to the fact Democrats would have instantly accused him of racism and immediately demanded all flights resume.

[PVMonger]

WTF? Seriously? If this is satire, as I suspect your whole shtick is, you've gone beyond the fringe now.

Have you looked at a map of the world? The USA is 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population. The virus, such as it is, started in China, and spread throughout the world early in 2020. How in the name of Kamala Harris's roasty stinkhole was the president of the United States, whoever he would have been, supposed to prevent that?

We have already established that if there had been a democrat in the White House, they would *not* have stopped flights from China in January when Trump did so, despite having the same intel.

(Pelosi was Speaker and thus privy to intel briefings when she was touring San Francisco's Chinatown in February 2020 encouraging tourism, telling everyone to hug a Chinaman, and calling Trump xenophobic for blocking entry from China for all non-citizens).

So the virus would have penetrated far more quickly in January and February 2020 under a democrat than it did under Trump. Yet somehow, according to your brilliant logic, this imaginary democrat president would have single-handedly stopped the spread not only in the 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population over which he is the executive; but also the remaining 94/96% too!

Incredible. In the literal sense of the word.

The US has 4% of the world's population, that's true. What percentage of the world's COVID deaths do we have? 14.6%.

Yep, the former guy sure did a great job! Republicans still tout the speed at which the vaccines were developed yet most unvaccinated Republicans think the vaccines are worthless. Or contain magnets. Or tracking chips. Or some other useless argument.

[ScatManDoo]

The funny thing is that without affirmative action and Willie Brown, Harris would have been one of those hookers.

Now she rules over you.

[Chris P]

one Repub with less than a majority or even a plurality of the American vote can and did turn a likely manageable endemic in one geographic location into a Pandemic that destroyed economies worldwide, killed millions of people...

WTF? Seriously? If this is satire, as I suspect your whole shtick is, you've gone beyond the fringe now.

Have you looked at a map of the world? The USA is 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population. The virus, such as it is, started in China, and spread throughout the world early in 2020. How in the name of Kamala Harris's roasty stinkhole was the president of the United States, whoever he would have been, supposed to prevent that?

We have already established that if there had been a democrat in the White House, they would *not* have stopped flights from China in January when Trump did so, despite having the same intel.

(Pelosi was Speaker and thus privy to intel briefings when she was touring San Francisco's Chinatown in February 2020 encouraging tourism, telling everyone to hug a Chinaman, and calling Trump xenophobic for blocking entry from China for all non-citizens).

So the virus would have penetrated far more quickly in January and February 2020 under a democrat than it did under Trump. Yet somehow, according to your brilliant logic, this imaginary democrat president would have single-handedly stopped the spread not only in the 6% of the world's landmass and 4% of the world's population over which he is the executive; but also the remaining 94/96% too!

Incredible. In the literal sense of the word.

[Chris P]

Tell your sob story about how Trump kept you from being able to find hookers you can afford -- tell it to Camala Harris.

The funny thing is that without affirmative action and Willie Brown, Harris would have been one of those hookers.

[EihTooms]

What's completely shameful, is your blatant misrepresentation of her quote and completely taken out of context, when you only provided as a partial quote.

HARRIS on VACCINE: "If Donald Trump Tells Us to Take It, I'm Not Taking It"

and then immediately said;

"If the Doctors tell us that we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it, absolutely." "But if Donald Trump tells us to take it, I'm not taking it.".

I for one, wouldn't believe a fucking word out of Agent Orange's Clorox bleach mouth, let alone take medical advice. Have at it, if wish to take medical advice from the "Orange Pied Piper".

Thanks for pointing out the lie by omission he tried to float. Right up there with the deceptively edited videos of Biden where they cut it off when he takes 5 seconds to make sure he asserts something accurately and clearly as "evidence" of dementia. Lol.

Of course, the whole premise that some surgically extracted half a statement by Kamala Harris at a V.P. debate that 0.001% of Repub Trumpsters even watched, if that many, is the real reason the Freedumb From Vaccines and Masks loons are violently opposed to taking the vaccine their lord and savior spent almost a year assuring them "It's a Democrat Party HOAX! This will go away WITHOUT a vaccine!" etc etc etc while also mocking the mitigating measures is hilarious.

Certainly, those Winger Loons and their QAnon Repub Governors and Representatives in Congress snapped to and are obediently following and clinging to that half statement by Dem Harris virtually none of them actually heard in real time above all else. Lol.

[GDreams]

Mail-in voting, particularly in democrat-run cities known for corruption and dysfunction, is a joke. Even the likes of Jimmy Carter and Elizabeth Warren said so: Carter in his 2005 bipartisan commission on voter fraud, which concluded that mail-in ballots were unsecure; and Warren just a couple of years back when she warned of the risk of vote-switching in the Dominion machines.

Of course now that it's their side which has capitalized on the above fraud, they've changed their tune and say it's all dandy. LOL.

Running a secure election is incredibly simple. Citizens register to vote if they wish to do so. They show up at the polling station on election day (all stations should be open from 7 am to 10 pm, so anyone who cares can find time to go vote) with a photo ID to verify themselves. They go into a private booth and mark their choice on a paper ballot which they push into a secure box..

Poor republicans, how can they possibly win if they can't restrict polling booths in democratic areas so you have to queue for 5 hrs while in republican districts there is no wait. You will just have to cut down the number of post boxes and delay mail deliveries, oops already tried that. How can you possibly cheat if everyone has easy access to vote. I guess just complain how badly you lose when people are allowed to simply vote. Maybe come up with policies that work!