Here you go you can move to these countries. Many have strict gun control and socialized medicine. https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-most-freedom-in-the-world-2018-4?amp Or just move to a country with basically no laws like Somalia. Better bring that AR15 too you’ll need it!
The fires are "being supercharged" by global warming he said. He was probably talking about what things are being done to transition to cleaner energy to reduce global warming. But I'm sure that wasn't the point of the 1 min video. It's yet another short snippet aimed at stupid people.
did he say anything about people building houses too closely in the arid West, and then when the arid West begins behaving like the arid West, people become irrationally pissed off at the arid West? that's the Joe Biden speech I'd love to hear
If your want to watch the whole talk rather than the limited clip you supplied, you can have a look here. But... it's longer than a minute so it's probably beyond your attention span.
It’s good to have a normal President. He gave a pretty personal coherent speech (vs the last guy that rambles on things you barely can understand) to the people there and mentioned the windmill as an example of technological advancement of what we can do. Of course the right wing nutz needs to project for their team and try to create a false narrative around that.
I don't often respond to cartoons but this does show the mindset of the anti-vax set and why the US is having such a difficult time dealing with this. Wearing a mask, sanitizing your hands and getting vaccinated are very mild steps. Most vaccine requirements in the US are private businesses. Yet we are seeing these being claimed as "Government Oppression". In Singapore everyone was required to use a tracing app on smart phones to track where you go. The app also holds your vaccinated status. Failure to use your app in public could lead to fines, and or imprisonment. In the PRC they have shut down the city of Xi'An which has a population of over 12 million with the same measures they took in Wuhan in 2020. IN some cases they are welding shut the doors of some people who don't comply. That some Americans are literally willing to take up arms over relative mild restrictions and in the vast majority of cases not the action of Federal government but local governments and private businesses just shows why we have the worst COVID-19 numbers of every industrialized country.
I don't believe "government oppression" is the real target of those experiencing covid response fatigue. I think people feel the covid emergency has run its course and that we should now be figuring out how to manage covid as a long-term problem instead of a short-term panic requiring heavy-handed governmental mandates that at this point are mere theatrics, e.g., masks, widespread testing, and the like. Keith Whittington captures the mood pretty well I think: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/07/looking-for-an-off-ramp-on-covid-policy/ Looking for an Off Ramp on COVID Policy KEITH E. WHITTINGTON | 1.7.2022 12:10 PM The Omicron wave of COVID has many institutions scrambling. Depressingly, many are acting as if there have been no advances over the past two years. Despite requiring that everyone on campus be fully vaccinated, including boosters, my own universitycontinues to impose aggressive masking requirements, comprehensive asymptomatic testing, extended isolation for asymptomatic individuals who test positive, and draconian restrictions on normal campus activities. In an effort to create some modicum of quarantine conditions, students are prohibited from leaving the countyexcept when engaged in university approved activities. Some of those decisions are being driven by government policies. Princeton is hardly alone in partying like it is 2020. Enough already. Two years ago, I thought that even libertarians should endorse some pretty intrusivepolicies early in the pandemic. When confronted with a novel airborne respiratory infection that was fairly contagious even in asymptomatic stages and frequently fatal and for which there were no effective vaccines or therapies, the government had an important role to play in trying to limit the spread of the disease. But I also warned That was two years ago. The scientific community has responded to the pandemic in incredible ways. Extraordinarily effective tests, vaccines and therapies have been developed at a miraculous rate. The government has responded in pretty terrible ways. Public health officials have demonstrated that they must be kept on a short leash and are too often willing to let their personal political preferences and risk aversion affect their policy judgment. Public health institutions have done more to impede and confuse than to facilitate an appropriate response to the pandemic. The FDA and the CDC are due for some fundamental reform. Executive branch officials have demonstrated that they are more than happy to make policy by arbitrary diktat. Politicians and the media have contributed to polarizing issues that should not be polarized and stoking fear for short-term gain. Goalposts are constantly being moved, when there are any goalposts in evidence at all. We are well past the point when political and institutional leaders need to explain the exit strategy. It is now clear that COVID will remain with us well into the future, and it is also clear that we can reasonably manage the damage with vaccines and therapies and taking appropriate steps to accommodate the most vulnerable when infections are surging. There are plenty of opportunities to take full advantage of an information economy to support remote work when appropriate, and not just for the sake of minimizing the spread of workplace illnesses. It is past time to be doing the cost-benefit analysis on marginal policies. I am no COVID skeptic and through personal experience understand just how devastating the disease can be. It was ridiculous to say that COVID was like the flu in 2020 when there were no vaccines, no therapies, lots of unknowns, and bodies being stacked in the hallways. I lined up for a vaccine as soon as it was available precisely because that was the obvious path for putting the crisis behind us (and, you know, reducing the risk of slowly suffocating to death). But it no longer makes sense to maintain emergency measures for a routine situation. It is no longer 2020, and we need to be prepared to say what normal life is going to be like going forward. Normal life should be focused on mitigating the prospects of death, not minimizing the prospects of getting a positive test result. "Government oppression" refers to the over-the-topness of pointless measures. Epidemiologists where I work argue that "everyone's going to have covid by April" whether they wear masks or not. Among the vaccinated the impact will be minimal. So there is a legitimate argument to be made that we should get over the March 2020 mindset and move on to a new less theatrical mindset for March 2022.
Extreme individualists are selfish jerks that care about no one else. Once upon a time, that altitude is not too harmful when society was sparse and the impact of one on another is limited. Today that's not the case. We now live in a very dense society with interconnection at every level. That reality doesn't gel well with extreme individualism. What's worse is extreme individualism now has support from Republican political leaders to the point of supporting violence - the threats against school board members to taking up arms over something as easy as masking. With a major political party going this extreme, it pulls the whole nation, which is individualistic to start with (but has had a good sense of support for each other), toward that extreme - we as a society are literally teaching our next gen that being selfish jerks is a value.
End Stage Covid Craziness in New York https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-1-9-end-stage-covid-craziness-in-new-york excerpt: I thought the whole idea behind getting vaccinated for Covid-19 was to put the societal disruption behind us. Yes, the vaccines may not be perfect; but then, nothing in this miserable world is perfect. Still, with the vaccines we should surely be able to go back to work, go back to school, hold sporting events and theater and concerts and political rallies and everything else where people gather. And for God’s sake get rid of the masks. Right? That’s the way it works in Florida. But this is New York. Here, we are engaged in end-stage Covid craziness. Most office work is still suspended, and theater and concerts are 50/50, with endless protocols. But my favorite is the masking. Over the summer and fall, masking was gradually declining — finally! But then came Omicron. On December 10, new Governor Hochul seized the moment to feel the thrill of ordering 20 million people around for no discernible reason, and imposed a state-wide mask mandate for all indoor venues. Suddenly, mask requirements came back almost everywhere, particularly in stores. (Restaurants thankfully got some kind of a pass by checking vaccination passes every time you enter.) What is the point behind this? I would say nothing whatsoever. But a huge percentage of the population here in New York has been convinced that they are saving themselves from certain imminent death by wearing a mask and insisting that you wear one too. *** Supposedly Governor Hochul is going to re-evaluate the mask mandate on January 15, and possibly end it. I’m betting that it gets extended. It’s just too much fun for our newbie Governor to exercise these great powers of the office. more at the link
He stutters. What he doesn't do is randomly go on a tangent about Oprah in a conversation about nuclear arms.
If you actually watch the video you would see that it was completely coherent. But you are a willful victim of propaganda and projection for the trump team so you can’t.
Don't know what is more embarrassing... going with a youtube as his proof, or going with a ny post video on youtube where bizarre is misspelled.
You're an embarrassment to this country and it's education system. or "Your" so you can understand it better. DD
