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See, it's not hyper-partisanship, or whatever they want to call it. Sometimes, the ideas are just WRONG, and it's OK to disagree with WRONG ideas if you want your society to survive, thrive. Biden's version of "bipartisanship" is you nicely agree with whatever my cabal has introduced. That's dumb. People on the American Left right now basically have zero idea about how a successful society functions and constructs itself, that much is clear. As they drag their idea structures so much further left, then shout "Partisanship", they're using that word to prevent the dissent of their bad ideas, which will doom our society in the end. At a minimum, as we're witnessing by their pathetic attempts to "fight the inflation they've caused" by brow-beating OPEC, then foisting the FTC on American Greedy Oil Companies, they are beginning to realize their awful proscripts actually hurt the people they are pretending to help, or else they wouldn't bother with those fumbling actions. It's not partisanship if the other side just keeps throwing terrible ideas out. Similarly, the Infrastructure bill is not some "BIPARTISON ACCOMPLISHMENT"...the freaking $550B fund to fix stuff had run dry and they simply doubled the funding since our country is falling apart. That's just a decent idea.

Correct, Narratives matter. What country we once had is lost.

Trump CRUSHED many wealthy taxpayers in NJ/NY/CT/CA etc with SALT...Democrats really are just dumb people. The world has turned upside down in the last 4-5 years.

111 container ships are now floating off California ports waiting to be unloaded, a new record. Let's see, what's changed here? Cranes breaking down? Piers collapsing into the sea? Well, no. The only difference is Democrats scaring workers that they'll die of Covid-19 and paying them exorbitantly to not work because they want to create equal-er outcomes.

So exciting, we have the latest Global dictatorship in Nicaragua and, SURPRISE(!), once again we have said oppression arising from a Leftist government. I really can't understand it...Cuba, Russia, China, Venezuela, yadda yadda But the American Left thinks Donald Trump is a Fascist...you know what, forget it, I'll concede Donald Trump is a petulant child who had no business being President (though he actually brought some good ideas we are still benefitting from), fine. But this incessant lurch Leftward against ALL evidence to the contrary, through history and in front of our very faces, defies all logic. Once again, the failure is in Education. Or, more appropriately, the problem is brain-washing of half the population by the Means To An End Party. The trick's been played, and we lost, unfortunately

So Naive They'd be fine "Intellectual" Leftists are going to destroy this place Why does blocking not work on here? I acknowledge I violated my own protocol

Yep, its certainly inappropriate to call out negative Leftist trends that have sunk EVERY Civilization in the history of humanity. How tragic...

Its the Means to An End Party at work, they are quickly becoming Monsters, which of course is what happens when societies lurch Leftward as has occurred throughout history.

CNN was just embarrassing tonight talking about Aaron Rodgers and the Vaccine. They are dumb and have no shame.

I truly hope Leftists keep popping off about the Racism factors for the next 10 years. It's a losing argument. To everyone except sniveling Leftists.

I don't think you grasped the concept here, so discussion may be futile, but very clearly I'm arguing that policies and procedures and rules put in place in response to deaths would be radically different from those prisms. For example, you wouldn't cancel every event for 20 months, make kids wear masks in schools, etc etc

The Left is just incapable of reviewing data, particularly cause of death data, in context...primarily because they have an agenda to assert They view "COVID Death" through a prism that starts with zero deaths ever happen, when in fact people die all the time. For example, today's "CNN Update" reveals the horrifying prediction that "500,000" people could die from COVID this Winter... Um, so what. Europe has close to 800m people...500k people is 0.000625% of the population...far more people will die "of something" in Europe this winter, 4 of the 12 months this year. In 2016, in just the EU which comprises a smaller population than the 800m referenced, 5.5m people died. That implies that 1,833,000 people died in the EU (again, just a fraction of the 800m referenced) the Winter of 2016...and guess what?! They are likely Old People who are ill and die of....SOMETHING. Currently we label that viral contagion COVID, but in every other year its Flu or whatever. I'm more convinced than ever that this is a Global Psy Op executed perfectly to prey on a weak-minded and exceedingly Gullible Western population.

Means To An End Party

This probably isn't the place for this, but it's pretty interesting how utterly human and pretty awful Bill Gates is proving out to be, with all of the new revelations coming out in the last several months. And who knows what else there is lurking behind the curtain... Point is we anointed him Society's savior and benefactor, when really he's just a run-of-the-mill Software code-writer with the same predilections (actually worse) than the rest of us.

OK, fair, I apologize. Hospitals have been stressed for various reasons, but NOT because of COVID patients over-running their facilities.

There are zero hospitals stressed anywhere, and there really haven't been during this entire 20 month hysteria

Tiberius and the other Leftists on here clearly are just not smart about real world things. Fairly obvious by now

The more one thinks about it, it will be REALLY interesting to see where common Police Departments and the Military fall down on the Leftist gov't Control Mechanisms side of the fence. Will they arrest people simply daring to ask questions and "dissent"? We know where the FBI is, seemingly. See how the rest of those in authority with the weapons respond.

It's just human nature, it's the natural progression of Civilizations through all time. The US Founding Fathers were actually very smart and set up this government exceptionally well to navigate the changing times. I'd argue that succeeding/surviving for 245 years is an incredible achievement given all that's happened in terms of Technological and Societal development. Rome lasted 1,000 years but didn't face nearly the challenges that the US has (although Geography certainly helped in the first 200 years of US existence). But the usual Leftist jealousies and infighting and inflaming and redefining always end up taking place, and they always end up imploding said successful civilization over time. Look at it this way: what sustained the United States for the last 60 years? Geographic isolationism and extreme Military technologic advancement are very, very high on this list of reasons. Perhaps the top two reasons. Yet, those are things that today's US Leftists despise. And so, successful civilizations succumb to self-loathing, bribe its own citizens to give the nation away (today's $7T of "packages" being worked on by our Leftist overlords to make things "better") Please note, I'm not arguing that ALL Leftist policies are wrong. There are many that are good, such as openness and inclusion, some economic shock absorbers, etc etc. It's just that when they get rolling they tend to sink the ship. And so, this vitriol you're seeing is what happens...the anti-ship-sinkers vs. the give-the-farm-awayers Edit: I would add, that what really happens is these societies pacify existence to the point that its citizens forgot what got them there. You can successfully manage a frontier fort for example, amidst a dangerous environment, so long as you operate within a framework that enables that. However, when the denizens of the fort get too comfortable, and start operating in a different way, with a different mind-set, THAT'S when the external forces break through and slaughter all inhabitants

"SEVEN lives were lost in the city areas surrounding the building in which the extremists marched of natural causes unrelated to the storming but were in the vicinity so nevermind..."

What a joke this nation has become... Gen Colin Powell (RIP), a Multiple Myeloma patient, dies "with complications from COVID" Um, MM actually kills the blood's T & B cells and destroys the Immune system He died of complications of Covid-19, his family said in a statement, adding that he had been vaccinated and was treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., where he died. Mr. Powell had undergone treatment for multiple myeloma, which compromised his immune system, a spokeswoman said. What are top causes of death from MM: The most common cause of death related to multiple myeloma is infection, with pneumonia being the most common fatal infection. Other common causes of death are bleeding (from low platelet counts), complications of bone fractures, kidney failure, and blood clots in the lungs.

The Chinese have a very patient, long-term approach...and they figured out some of the buttons to push to up-end the fragile American minds of the 21st century. In a way, you can imagine they were just waiting for the advent of phones & social media to spring their trap... I will go back to late Feb, 2020, when my colleague who is a Fin News channel on-air contributor (CNBC and the like) and thus probably viewed as a thought leader overseas, was receiving tens of videos from Chinese users showing videos of people just walking and falling over dead on the streets in China. Of course, we now know that's not at all what occurs with this disease. Begs the question, WHY was that happening? I'd submit to sow fear and create and accelerate/accentuate the societal reaction. It actually led us to misdiagnose and mistreat patients in the first several months, as people who's blood-oxygen levels dropped temporarily were placed on ventilators which only made things worse and ultimately killed thousands of people. (Remember the rush to find Ventilators? wrong move). And now it's led to the change in leadership they'd wanted, one that will hamstring Western Democracies and ultimately lead to their demise. And the genius part...the story-line will be that those Western Democracies failed BECAUSE they lacked the autocratic philosophies, tendencies and systems that persist in China! An important salving internal message for China's own oppressed people. Over 22 months, close to 6,000,000 Americans have died, as always happens every 22 months. Some 650,000 of them died with this virus, apparently. I would say China's won this one.

No, you're being intentionally obtuse. We've shown you, definitively, that the Democrats can lift the Debt Ceiling with the stroke of a pen(s), given their relative positioning right now. The point, that you're being obtuse about, is they are SIMULTANEOUSLY embarking on a Nationally embarrassing legislative disaster to crank another $5-7T into an economy that doesn't need it, borrowing dollars that would make even the terrible Trump administration blush, with the intent (quoting now) to "fundamentally change" an economy that shouldn't be fundamentally changed. It's the greatest economy in the world for reasons. This administration and Leftists everywhere don't like those reasons. They are wrong. Leftists won't even acknowledge that they were told what bad things would happen if they embarked on certain things...they did those things...and now those repercussions are coming home to roost. So, going along and just raising the debt ceiling, which would apply some normalcy to what is happening, would be the wrong strategy for the Republicans to take on. The Leftists' policy proscriptions, led by Biden-Harris-Pelosi-Schumer-Sanders-Squad-AOC-Warren (my goodness look at how collectively DUMB that leadership is) leave the Republicans no choice. To answer your question, your speaker Ms. Psaki explained exactly why the Republicans are doing what they should be doing...because the Leftists want to fundamentally change what is the Greatest system in the world's history, that has lifted the most people out of poverty ever... It is the proper strategy to not allow these people ANY wins such that they'd lead us into further chaos...

Just from Wikipedia, maybe some moronic Right-winger mistakenly updated it: Congress can pass up to three reconciliation bills per year, with each bill addressing the major topics of reconciliation: revenue, spending, and the federal debt limit.

It's just the Global Leftist Cabal's joyous creation of their Dependence Class, which they dream and envision will eventually include...all of us