muh gubment wrote:
Lol more great news by our Dictator in Chief - Biden just removed a Trump executive order that rolled back outdated restrictions on doctors prescribing Buprenorphine - a Trump decision that was widely celebrated by doctors within the field. Seriously, how do people delude themselves into supporting this guy?
Based on the last 4 years, most people would take anything at this point. Biden could try to be the worst president in history and he couldn't overtake #45.
Has the creepy, corrupt and senile old man saved us yet?
Make China Great Again!
clown world out there wrote:
2 weeks into Biden’s Dictat—er—Presidency, and he’s issued over 30 Executive orders and been constantly surrounded by military protection.
Going to be an interesting 4 years.
That's amazing! Trump told us Joe hadn't done anything in 48 years and never would.
the media is corrupt wrote:
Has the creepy, corrupt and senile old man saved us yet?
Make China Great Again!
We already went over this on January 25th:
Equality posters only wrote:
the media is corrupt wrote:
Has the corrupt and senile old man saved us yet?
Dementia Joe will Make China Great Again!
I’m not sure you have “thoughts” so much as a few childish phrases bouncing around an empty flesh-drum.
Virus trends pretty much on the same trajectory.
US cases down 37%
UK cases down 52%!!!
Israel cases down 22%
Deaths not materially falling much...down 6% in Israel which is something I suppose.
Interestingly, France, a country with extreme anti-vax sentiment, does not have a recent decline in cases. Cause? Effect? N=small, but interesting to watch.
US vaccination is steady at 1.2 million per day, down a little from the peak of 1.4 million/day.
Sorting out the JnJ and AstraZeneca vaccine news seems to be key...sounds to me not ideal but not a disaster. Unless the South African variant spreads around the world, then we're in trouble unless we can science the sh/t out it it quickly. JnJ is still 100% effective at stopping death with just one shot. THe hard part may be to get people to take JnJ, the weaker of the three. Maybe it will be shipped to poor countries that dont' have a choice.
agip wrote:
Unless the South African variant spreads around the world, then we're in trouble
It will, because there's nothing really stopping it, the question is when not if. Hopefully vaccines will reduce the severity of this variant even if they do not outright prevent it and updates to the vaccines can be rapidly approved.
Life is looking better already! The US can now go forward and once again be a leader in the free world.
My Teammate Wrestled Jim Jordan for the NCAA Championship in 1985 at Oklahoma City.
A Little known fact Jim Jordan was a good Wrestler in High School and College as was his brother Jeff who Coached St Paris Graham High School in Ohio to 19 State Team Championships including 18 in a row, Jim Jordan has a son named Isaac who was good as well, and Jim Jordan has 2 Nephews (Jeff's sons) Bo and Micah who were both All American and another nephew Rocky who is on the Ohio State team, The Jordan's are almost like a Wrestling Family Dynasty in Ohio, Another little known fact President trump personally knows the Jordan Family, I don't know why everyone thinks Jim Jordan does not have a good Work Ethic? How do you win 2 NCAA Individual Wrestling Titles in Wrestling without a Good Work Ethic? I don't buy the Extreme Right Winger Label as I heard the Whole Family is Religious goes to Church Regularly and are law abiding, normal, reasonable, respectable people, I heard Bo Jordan can do over 60 Good Pullups consecutively, how do you do that WITHOUT having a Work Ethic. Maybe Biden can challenge Jim Jordan to a pushup contest?
douglas burke wrote:
My Teammate Wrestled Jim Jordan for the NCAA Championship in 1985 at Oklahoma City.
A Little known fact Jim Jordan was a good Wrestler in High School and College as was his brother Jeff who Coached St Paris Graham High School in Ohio to 19 State Team Championships including 18 in a row, Jim Jordan has a son named Isaac who was good as well, and Jim Jordan has 2 Nephews (Jeff's sons) Bo and Micah who were both All American and another nephew Rocky who is on the Ohio State team, The Jordan's are almost like a Wrestling Family Dynasty in Ohio, Another little known fact President trump personally knows the Jordan Family, I don't know why everyone thinks Jim Jordan does not have a good Work Ethic? How do you win 2 NCAA Individual Wrestling Titles in Wrestling without a Good Work Ethic? I don't buy the Extreme Right Winger Label as I heard the Whole Family is Religious goes to Church Regularly and are law abiding, normal, reasonable, respectable people, I heard Bo Jordan can do over 60 Good Pullups consecutively, how do you do that WITHOUT having a Work Ethic. Maybe Biden can challenge Jim Jordan to a pushup contest?
Yeah, because the "Religious Right" and/or "Moral Majority" are so incredibly under-represented among the Extreme Right Winger crowd!
Also, being an excellent wrestler definitely makes one a good person.
Your "thoughts" are funny.
Hardloper wrote:
agip wrote:
Unless the South African variant spreads around the world, then we're in trouble
It will, because there's nothing really stopping it, the question is when not if. Hopefully vaccines will reduce the severity of this variant even if they do not outright prevent it and updates to the vaccines can be rapidly approved.
No chance the South African Variant makes it to the USA, Biden has already stopped travel from South Africa and since we know it could be a major problem any one trying to enter our borders will have to go through EXTREMELY extensive testing, the chances on anyone stepping foot on USA Borders who has that Variant, being how great our Border Security is is about Nil, Small Pox existed for THOUSANDS of Years before it ever got to USA soil, and we have much better Border Security now (Back then there was None) Small Pox killed MOST People in Europe and Asia and North Africa, and then each generation became more immune, eventually it became so it meant just getting sick, but because it had been kept out of the USA, Indians were NOT IMMUNE so it killed 95% of the Indians who had not built up resistance to Small Pox. We Will NOT make the same mistake, if we do, it is on us, This is actually a blessing for us as because Border Patrol and Ice will have the full support of all 330 Million Americans to make sure the South African Variant does not get here, when they do the EXTREMELY Extensive testing on each and every person who tries to come, we will stop Drug Dealers and Other Criminals from Coming in as well, and all that will be coming are good solid nice people who want a better life in the USA than they had in the inferior countries from which they came, They will be an asset to our Country and we will ALL be happy to have Wonderful People from every Country on the globe all united in trying to make a better life for everyone, and their love for THE USA and its values and proud history.
Real Obvi wrote:
douglas burke wrote:
My Teammate Wrestled Jim Jordan for the NCAA Championship in 1985 at Oklahoma City.
A Little known fact Jim Jordan was a good Wrestler in High School and College as was his brother Jeff who Coached St Paris Graham High School in Ohio to 19 State Team Championships including 18 in a row, Jim Jordan has a son named Isaac who was good as well, and Jim Jordan has 2 Nephews (Jeff's sons) Bo and Micah who were both All American and another nephew Rocky who is on the Ohio State team, The Jordan's are almost like a Wrestling Family Dynasty in Ohio, Another little known fact President trump personally knows the Jordan Family, I don't know why everyone thinks Jim Jordan does not have a good Work Ethic? How do you win 2 NCAA Individual Wrestling Titles in Wrestling without a Good Work Ethic? I don't buy the Extreme Right Winger Label as I heard the Whole Family is Religious goes to Church Regularly and are law abiding, normal, reasonable, respectable people, I heard Bo Jordan can do over 60 Good Pullups consecutively, how do you do that WITHOUT having a Work Ethic. Maybe Biden can challenge Jim Jordan to a pushup contest?
Yeah, because the "Religious Right" and/or "Moral Majority" are so incredibly under-represented among the Extreme Right Winger crowd!
Also, being an excellent wrestler definitely makes one a good person.
Your "thoughts" are funny.
If you work hard and are law abiding you are a good person, and you don't win NCAA titles without hard work, ask Dan Gable if you don't believe me. Tell Gable you want to win NCAA in Wresting, but don't want to work hard at it, Even Gable will tell you without hard work you wont win NCAA.
douglas burke wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
It will, because there's nothing really stopping it, the question is when not if. Hopefully vaccines will reduce the severity of this variant even if they do not outright prevent it and updates to the vaccines can be rapidly approved.
No chance the South African Variant makes it to the USA, Biden has already stopped travel from South Africa and since we know it could be a major problem any one trying to enter our borders will have to go through EXTREMELY extensive testing, the chances on anyone stepping foot on USA Borders who has that Variant, being how great our Border Security is is about Nil, Small Pox existed for THOUSANDS of Years before it ever got to USA soil, and we have much better Border Security now (Back then there was None) Small Pox killed MOST People in Europe and Asia and North Africa, and then each generation became more immune, eventually it became so it meant just getting sick, but because it had been kept out of the USA, Indians were NOT IMMUNE so it killed 95% of the Indians who had not built up resistance to Small Pox. We Will NOT make the same mistake, if we do, it is on us, This is actually a blessing for us as because Border Patrol and Ice will have the full support of all 330 Million Americans to make sure the South African Variant does not get here, when they do the EXTREMELY Extensive testing on each and every person who tries to come, we will stop Drug Dealers and Other Criminals from Coming in as well, and all that will be coming are good solid nice people who want a better life in the USA than they had in the inferior countries from which they came, They will be an asset to our Country and we will ALL be happy to have Wonderful People from every Country on the globe all united in trying to make a better life for everyone, and their love for THE USA and its values and proud history.
The most psychotically Panglossian and rambling two sentences I’ve ever read.
douglas burke wrote:
Real Obvi wrote:
Yeah, because the "Religious Right" and/or "Moral Majority" are so incredibly under-represented among the Extreme Right Winger crowd!
Also, being an excellent wrestler definitely makes one a good person.
Your "thoughts" are funny.
If you work hard and are law abiding you are a good person, and you don't win NCAA titles without hard work, ask Dan Gable if you don't believe me. Tell Gable you want to win NCAA in Wresting, but don't want to work hard at it, Even Gable will tell you without hard work you wont win NCAA.
So, you're saying that the Extreme Right Winger crowd (aka, the Trumpettes) have no hard workers among them? It would be convenient for me to buy into that - just one more thing to mock the Trumpettes about, lazy ass fvckers!
But that would be too easy. I am sure that many of the Trumpettes are hard working. Which pretty much leaves you with no point at all.
Don'tReallyCare wrote:
agip wrote:
Lead or get out of the way, politicians.
Clearly industry is going to help get us out of the climate problem, and the GOP has to step aside and stop the 'Climate accords are stupid so don't even try' idiocy.
Green energy is coming, republicans. You can't stop it, although I know you have to be against it because the libs like it.
GOP didn't do anything to stop this. Climate accords are stupid BTW.
Fracking has helped us reduce carbon emissions. Democrats oppose it. Nuclear helps reduce carbon emissions... Democrats oppose it.
Fracking probably has not reduced greenhouse emissions at all. Natural gas (methane) does produce 50% less CO2 than coal when it is burned. However, that is only accounting for what is called Scope 1 emissions. When you account for Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions, you get basically the same greenhouse effect from natural gas as from coal. The problem is that natural gas is, well, a gas. It's very hard to extract and transport the methane without lots of leakage. And methane traps 20 to 100 times more heat than CO2.
Existing nuclear plants need to keep operating as long as possible, but new ones won't be built because of cost.
The obvious solution is wind, solar, and batteries. It's the cheapest power already and it will only get cheaper.
Stop fracking now!
Harambe wrote:
Why don't we just commit $200 billion a year to fusion research?
Fusion power is only 20 years away. I swear, this time it's true. 20 years. Just wait.
Paradoxical wrote:
agip wrote:
subtext is that just this week Biden signalled a push to get all federal vehicles to be electric.
That kind of government support of new tech is key...it will guarantee demand so GM and others can take some risks to get the job done.
Biden is leading, in other words. Good.
Wow, big surprise, Biden subsidizes Chinese-made cars, that use Chinese-made lithium batteries sourced from Africa using child-slave labor. How woke!
Biden has pledged to support American-made cars with this initiative. EV's assembled in America come from:
Tesla
Nissan
GM
Volkswagen
Lordstown
Lucid
Rivian
The batteries are also made in the US and their chemistries are eliminating cobalt from Africa. Batteries are extremely heavy and expensive to ship. So it always makes economic sense to have battery factories close to manufacturing instead of importing them.
comedyre1i3f wrote:
Let's be honest. Democrats are not fans of nuclear:
Among my liberal activist friends, we are split on the matter.
Some think nuclear needs to be dead and buried because we don't have a solution for nuclear waste.
Others, like me, are more practical and say that nuclear needs to keep going until we can build out solar, wind, and batteries.
But it really doesn't matter because the economics of nuclear mean that new facilities won't get built and old ones will eventually be retired.
comedyre1i3f wrote:
Dr. Racket wrote:
Stagflation was caused by Nixon after he broke off from Bretton-Woods to continue fighting a losing war in the jungle. As for oil and gas - there's so much of it that we can barely store it.
Democrats didn't kill coal. The free market killed coal when it decided that paying 6-figure salaries and 8-figure insurance premiums on coal workers just to get a barely mildly efficient energy source wasn't worth the cost anymore. Add in the fact that pretty much no bank wants to do business with coal mining companies because of the bad optics and damage to local environments and you get what you see today. Sucks to suck, technological innovation towards efficiency is Capitalism with a capital C.
You do want to beat China, don't you?
So your idea of how to beat China is to pay more for power, pay more for labor (via an increased minimum wage, increased regulations on employers, union friendly labor regulations, etc.), and pay more for raw materials (via increased environmental regulations and a Paris climate accord that adversely affects us and benefits the very nations where we are exporting jobs to at our own expense). Worked wonders for Jimmy Carter (look at the economic impact his policies had during the second half of his presidency: high inflation, high unemployment, etc.).
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
Solar and wind are already the cheapest forms of electricity. Once we get the infrastructure built out for solar, wind, and batteries, marginal electricity cost becomes essentially zero. The faster we get to that point the more competitive we will be on the world stage.
Equality posters only wrote:
the media is corrupt wrote:
Has the creepy, corrupt and senile old man saved us yet?
Make China Great Again!
We already went over this on January 25th:
Equality posters only wrote:
I’m not sure you have “thoughts” so much as a few childish phrases bouncing around an empty flesh-drum.
Hahaha ... happy to see I’m striking a nerve.
Dementia Joe and his gang of totalitarian Democrat leftist thugs will Make China Great Again!!!
Don’t cower to the totalitarian leftist thugs fellow conservatives. They control the media and academia, so they want you to think you are a small minority. We’re half the country. Stay strong. Resist, even in the face of their Gestapo tactics.
Equality posters only wrote:
douglas burke wrote:
No chance the South African Variant makes it to the USA, Biden has already stopped travel from South Africa and since we know it could be a major problem any one trying to enter our borders will have to go through EXTREMELY extensive testing, the chances on anyone stepping foot on USA Borders who has that Variant, being how great our Border Security is is about Nil, Small Pox existed for THOUSANDS of Years before it ever got to USA soil, and we have much better Border Security now (Back then there was None) Small Pox killed MOST People in Europe and Asia and North Africa, and then each generation became more immune, eventually it became so it meant just getting sick, but because it had been kept out of the USA, Indians were NOT IMMUNE so it killed 95% of the Indians who had not built up resistance to Small Pox. We Will NOT make the same mistake, if we do, it is on us, This is actually a blessing for us as because Border Patrol and Ice will have the full support of all 330 Million Americans to make sure the South African Variant does not get here, when they do the EXTREMELY Extensive testing on each and every person who tries to come, we will stop Drug Dealers and Other Criminals from Coming in as well, and all that will be coming are good solid nice people who want a better life in the USA than they had in the inferior countries from which they came, They will be an asset to our Country and we will ALL be happy to have Wonderful People from every Country on the globe all united in trying to make a better life for everyone, and their love for THE USA and its values and proud history.
The most psychotically Panglossian and rambling two sentences I’ve ever read.
I think I had a seizure reading that to verify but you're right - two sentences! Honestly I'm not even mad, I'm impressed