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He'd still caucus with the dems. That said, I don't think it's happening. I think it's a political ploy that will allow him to back some version of the BBB bill at some number between 1.7 and the 3.whatever, while showing a 'I'm very concerned about the debt' that a good portion of his state apparently cares about again.

There is no real comparison and your second statement says it all. I could go on all day about how AOC is the perfect definition of the things I've always disliked about the democratic party. She has big grand ideas and IMO, but no policy that will actually achieve it. Then you have Greene, she has no big grand ideas, she has no policy. She claims everyone should have a right to speak, but then only wants her voice heard. She spends more time playing pre-school with her staff, drawing up signs that she can hang outside her office to ridicule her colleagues. If there was a game where you had to defeat a bunch of Karen's, MTG would be the final boss Karen at the end. She brings no actual value to congress, but the Trump right love her because she can be entertaining.

Bill Kristol tweeted this out with nothing but "Big, if true". Never thought of him as a funny guy, but that was gold.

Fixed that for you, and based on his recent statement regarding Colin Powell he's the far left leaning radical kind that bitches at Ellen for being nice to evil people like Bush.

I want their thoughts and recommendations taken seriously by our elected officials.

https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(21)00506-7/fulltext Interesting findings. High enough percentage to make it clear that good governance matters, but IMO, somewhat backs up what I've said in terms of simply putting everything at the feet of Trump. This was going to suck regardless of who was president. I will say, I do tend to be wary a bit at their conclusion. I don't necessarily want health officials making public health decisions, just as I don't want Generals making all decisions related to defense, bankers making all decisions related to the Fed...etc. Piggybacking a response I just made in the Biden thread about Trump though, if Trump defers the handling of Covid to Fauci. Let's Fauci be the face of that, and says he's going to continue to focus on the Economy and try to keep that as strong as possible, it's clear we're at least 8% better in terms of Covid numbers and likely have next to nothing in terms of deaths since the beginning of summer.

If Trump would have named my 11 year old daughter his campaign director, and listened to her, he's still president today. He was actually a worse candidate than he was a president.

Not really, Great Lake states and the Northeast have gone up roughly the same time since this started. There definitely is something based on weather (IMO), we just don't understand it yet. Right now, Michigan does appear to be a going up while others in the above regions were going up too, but appear to have plateaued.

AT&T/Comcast here, and add in a running joke about the need for a fruit market in the area. Occasionally, and one of my favorites, is when someone asks for recommendations for home improvement. Every time someone mentions their company you get someone that complains about them, followed by supporters of the company. Go to the NextDoor app for more of that fun-ness.

This is a very 'ewsieg' comment of you to make. Do you not realize that Trump and the MI GOP is the reason why MI has a high infection rate. Every stat in the last 18 months that has shown low infection rate, is because Whitmer's policies. Any time it increases, it's Trump and the GOP's fault, you should stop posting any data that could question that as Trump is no longer in power.

I actually agree with you here. Pfife mentioning W and Obama did better with pandemics, like we can point to a single thing Obama did right which prevented millions of deaths because of Ebola? And this is where you lost me. IDK, maybe wear a mask, understand and encourage precautions. Additionally, don't play politics to the point that when a vaccine comes out (which politically you could claim as a win and tout), your folks decide to become stupid liberal hippy idiots that don't want anything 'unnatural' in your body.

Do you think that number is too high, or too low? Additionally, it might be skewed based on a different "GOP" pool now. In 2015, I would have answered a poll that I was a republican. I wouldn't answer that way today and thus, wouldn't have been counted, even though I'm far from a democrat. My mom, who would vote for Trump again, is even telling us she's an independent now.

Buddy of mine told me to watch 'Old', so I did a few nights ago. Turns out he only told me to watch it as he wanted someone else to be tortured. Just an awful movie.

First single off an upcoming album. His first album with the Night Sweats was great, the follow up album was alright. I think I dig this. I'm a sucker for a band with horns though.

Absolutely agreed, as you appear to agree with though, wish instead of 'they all do it', they all would pay a price for it.

Sounds more like he surprised the one guy. From that point on, sounds like the soldiers treated it like a civilian issue, and simply worked to stay safe until civilian law enforcement dealt with it. My guess is if he was able to gain access to where these guys were hunkered down, it wouldn't have ended well for him. All that said, my brother served in the DMZ in Korea and said he'd get sent out without ammunition as they didn't want to risk the first shot coming from the US. So very possible, especially during training in the US, they weren't armed. A guy with a sword can do quite a bit of damage quickly.

Exactly, nor does it show any real 'gotcha' moment. I think her politics suck and I think she's a fraud that doesn't care about her constituents, so trust me, I would love to see something that validates what I already know from her and possibly could hurt her chance to continue to get elected. But this is a fake 'gotcha'. The mask issue is widely overblown by the right. The left is simply trying to set an example. My son has his learners permit, when i'm driving with him in the car I'm much more conscious about what i'm doing. I tend to be an aggressive driver, lately I'm more relaxed. I try and force myself to keep both hands on the wheel and not push the 5-10 over based on what road i'm on. These are all things my wife tells me I should do while driving in the past, but instead of pointing it out in front of my son as a 'gotcha', she's an adult, realizes i'm trying to set an example. (...and then before we go to bed, out of earshot of our kids, she comments how I'm driving better, lol)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/retail-traders-follow-nancy-pelosis-stock-moves-to-find-winners-163943788.html Might want to follow Pelosi's husband's stock moves and join in. Apparently his history of making great decisions is finally getting some press.

Who cares if the source is biased. She's outside and fully vaccinated. Of course the only reason why she's wearing a mask in that situation is because she's sick and tired of the 'gotcha' crowd. More proof of the GOP moving away from policy and more into a 'anything to own the libs' platform.

I assumed, based on what I was hearing out of the CDC, that it was imperative not only to ensure testing was available, but also ensure response times on those tests were shrunk. As mentioned, possibly before you joined on this site, I was advised to get my daughter tested with an over the counter one to rule out if she had a cold or covid. Thinking I could find one set me back a day as I drove around my area to certain sites that listed them in stock only to eventually just start calling and than realize I needed to schedule a test through the local pharmacy. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/19/923972496/covid-19-test-results-get-faster-but-still-too-slow-to-help-slow-disease-spread Absolutely not happy at all. How is Trump the guy you don't like in this scenario and not the bad candidate? The division in this country was there before Trump, but he is directly responsible for the boiling over aspect of now. He is directly responsible for the insurrection, which I saw you playing down. Far right folks on the middle east - turn that sand into a sheet of glass. Far right folks on riots in city streets - bring in the national guard and shoot to kill. If they don't care about their property, why should we. Far right folks on a regular Tuesday - I'm so patriotic i'm going to head to the grocery store with my Trump flag attached to my car. Far right folks when the police kill someone that broke any law whatsoever - serves right. Far right folks when folks beat up cops, break into the Capital, destroy property within the Capital, steal notebooks from congressman that may/may not have sensitive material on them and shoot a women that is repeatedly being told to get back - we demand to know who shot that women! You can point to some specific things, gas prices, energy prices, fear of inflation, etc, but 1) A portion of that has nothing to do with who is president and 2) Covid has a role in that and what has Trump done with that which makes you think Biden would be the 'bad candidate' when it comes to that.

Testing appeared to be pretty good there for awhile. IMO, folks assumed everyone would get vaccinated and testing didn't need to happen as much. The result is, testing isn't where it was even 1-2 months ago. Overall my want/need for a test two weeks ago is much different than testing was needed (and lacked) early on. It resulted in a few days of missed school. My daughter was out of school most of last year because we couldn't adequately test. So in no way am I defending Trump over Biden, but IMO, there is some legitimate valid criticism in taking the foot off of the pedal when it comes to testing. At this point, a much more structured testing policy would be great. Maybe standardizing regular testing of specific occupations/students to help control outbreaks, etc.

That just sucks, and yes, cancer sucks. Very glad to hear it was caught early.

Please elaborate <insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn meme> Fauci has been very careful not to jump to conclusions, some of that has appeared to make it look like he has contradicted himself. Some folks in the media have made sure to use certain cuts to emphasize this. I do think he's managed to get the majority of the media on his side. I suspect in time, especially if this is traced back to the lab in Wuhan, there will be some eye opening information down the road. That doesn't mean he's not an expert nor that we shouldn't be listening to him in how to deal with this.

We can agree on that, just like how Clinton get a little bit of credit too for his job numbers, but we all know he was riding H-dubs coattails from last year of his term.

Oversaw a very successful vaccine distribution rollout. Bipartisan Covid relief bill. He got us out of Afghanistan. Even as some generals subtly blasted him this week by stating they advised to keep troops in, which Biden somewhat deserved for lying to us, they also pointed out Biden was right about the war, we lost, we needed to accept it, get out, and get on with life.