A silly parlor game debate rule
[QUOTE=Golfinho;2564912]There you go -- breaking Godwin's Law 2. 0: bleating out anti-semitism and referencing ADL as your authority. LOL.[/QUOTE]Godwin's Law is nothing more than a silly parlor game debate rule. Godwin should have apologized for conjuring up such a stupid idea 10 minutes after he came up with it.
We should have been making comparisons to Hitler/Nazism and what has now become of the Republican Party early and often at least for the past 15-20 years when it really took a turn for the worse (if that was even possible).
Perhaps if we had been justifiably doing that without the slightest concern about breaking Godwin's silly rule then less than 1.5% of the voters in just two states, Florida and Michigan, would have used their better anti-Nazi judgement and switched their votes for Trump to votes for Clinton in 2016.
Then we would not have suffered the loss of 550,000+ Americans, Recessions in the manufacturing sector, agriculture sector, a big one across the country later, two Bear Market Crashes, millions upon millions of jobs wiped out, trillions added to the deficit for no noticeable improvement in the economy, the emboldening and strengthing of our enemies and adversaries, the pity and well earned derision of our allies, the possible end of traveling freely around the world to fuck and get blown by sweet girls in their 20's for practically nothing and the deadliest attacks on American democracy since the beginning of the country.
In all probability, the most annoying squawking we would have to endure from the wannabe Nazi Q-Anon Repub Party today would be their endless calls for hearings to get to the bottom of "Why did President Hillary Clinton dither and wait TWO WHOLE WEEKS to send our wonderful Pandemic Prevention and Response systems team to Wuhan, China in December 2019 and thereby caused the death of 543 poor Chinese during that terrible regional endemic of late 2019?!"
"Benghazi!'
Lol. Can't you just hear them coming up with some crap like that? I sure can. But that would be many, many, many times better to endure than what we got instead. Fuck Godwin's Law. If ever there was a time and place in history to "break" it as a valuable reminder, these past 15-20 years have been it.
No links for that Biden and Fauci stuff?
[QUOTE=ChrisP;2565107]This from a guy whose party were downplaying and ignoring the disease well into 2020, with Nancy Pelosi going around hugging people in Chinatown and Biden saying that Trump's blocking of flights from China was "racist". Imagine how many more Americans would have died if Trump hadn't stood up to the fake news and democrats in enforcing his ban. Thank God for Trump's strength in the face of leftist lies.
The idea that the Chinese Communist Party would have let the US Government send a team of operatives into Wuhan is so ridiculous and idiotic as to be hilarious, in line with most posts from the wokerati in here.
And now from the Fauci emails released today we discover that he knew that the virus was man-made early in 2020. He also knew that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment, as President Trump said, but refused to say so. Many more revelations in there, detailing how Fauci and the rest of the establishment were entirely incompetent and mendacious, focused more on attacking the president than saving lives. Fauci lied, thousands died.[/QUOTE]The earliest statements and behaviors by Pelosi, Fauci, you, me, everyone that turned out to be mistaken to the point of deadly were the result of our then so-called potus, who we knew had gotten intel unlike anyone else on the planet about it, lying to us about what he knew about the risks, human-to-human spread, the proper mitigating measures to prevent infection, etc, etc, etc. That is pretty much the point I have been making about Trump's cowardice and lies being the main reason 550,000+ Americans died from the virus and that it developed into a Pandemic in the first place.
"There is one case out of China, 15 cases here and soon to be near zero. We've got this under control."
Remember?
Biden never said that Trump's too little too late restriction of some flights from China into the USA was "racist."
Also, have you got a link for your claim that Fauci "knew the virus was man-made" and that "hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment" for coronavirus/Covid-19?
And on your dismissal of the well-documented disastrous Trump economic decisions as early as 2018 (and several more in early 2020) that contributed mightily to turning a likely manageable endemic in an area of China into the Pandemic it became and how you just can't imagine there would be that much USA influence in China in that regard:
[B]Exclusive: US slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronvirus outbreak[/B]
[URL]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv-idUSKBN21C3N5[/URL]
[QUOTE]WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.[/QUOTE]
Bad news for fans of fake news
[QUOTE=ChrisP;2565233][URL]https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/here-are-the-top-rated-cable-news-shows-for-april-2021/477372/[/URL]
"Tucker Carlson Tonight is No. 1 for April 2021, not just in average total audience, but also among adults 25-54."
[URL]https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201216005919/en/FOX-News-Channel-Smashes-Records-With-Highest-Rated-Year-in-Cable-News-History-Across-Total-Day-and-Primetime-Viewership[/URL]
FNC Finishes 2020 as Most-Watched Basic Cable Network for Fifth Consecutive Year, Becomes First Cable News Network Ever to End Year with [b]More Than Three Million Viewers in Primetime.[/b]
FNC Remains the Number One Television Network in Weekday Primetime, Outpacing all Broadcast Networks in Total Viewers Beginning in 2 Q'2020.
"Hannity" Tops Cable News for Fourth Year in a Row with Total Viewers, Besting All-Time Record for Highest-Rated Year in Cable News History.
"Tucker Carlson Tonight" Delivers its Highest-Rated Year Ever, Finishes as Most-Watched Cable News Program in 25-54 Demographic.
Two Dozen FNC Programs Deliver Largest Audiences in Network History; FNC Telecasts Make up 41 of the Top 100 Cable Telecasts in 2020".
Shush.[/QUOTE]Wow. More than 3 million viewers in primetime?
Real evening news programs on the regular broadcast networks, not just on cable, routinely get 2 to 3 times that viewership. Each. You know, the network news programs that "cable news" Fox likes to characterize their "us against them" adversaries?
Even worse for those desperate to believe more Americans get their news from Fox than any other network, that NBC Nightly News program is just fine with competing for viewership ratings against its company's own MSNBC programming and vice versa!
[B]World News Tonight Tops Again In 2020 Amid Boost In Evening News Viewership Overall[/B]
[URL]https://deadline.com/2020/12/world-news-tonight-david-muir-2020-1234662907/[/URL]
[QUOTE]World News Tonight averaged 9.61 million total viewers for the year, compared to 8.29 million for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and 5.92 million for CBS Evening News with Norah ODonnell.[/QUOTE]
Btw, did you ever stop to wonder why Fox does not have an evening news program on their regular broadcast network as does CBS, NBC and ABC? lol. Think about that a while and let us know what you come up with.
Not just US CDC teams in China
It's bad enough to see how Trump left the USA practically bare ass naked to prevent or respond quickly and effectively to the inevitable and (to him) forewarned risk of a possible devastating virus spread thanks to his idiotic economic decisions. But it is even worse to consider the unavoidable conclusion that one of his motivations for those spectacularly bad decisions was because former POTUS Barack Obama's name and fingerprints were on those proven systems set up to prevent just such a deadly and economy devastating outcome. And to some degree, so were former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's.
[B]How Trump Gutted Obamas Pandemic-Preparedness Systems.
Former officials: Trumps reshuffling of positions and departments, focus on business solutions, downgrading of science, left the country dangerously unprepared for an unprecedented pandemic.[/B]
[URL]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-obama-coronavirus-pandemic-response[/URL]
[B]Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised[/B]
[URL]https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-virus-outbreak-barack-obama-public-health-ce014d94b64e98b7203b873e56f80e9a[/URL]
[B]Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm[/B]
[URL]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-team-left-pandemic-playbook-for-trump-administration-officials-confirm[/URL]
[B]Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner[/B]
[URL]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trump-fired-pandemic-response-jared-kushner-coronavirus.html[/URL]