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Near Dylan
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This is gonna be like watching the Harlem Globetrotters play a nursing home basketball team.
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PatrickKn


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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Near Dylan] 2
#26617729 - 04/21/20 12:55 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I thought the Harlem Globetrotters were a nursing home basketball team.
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pirate-blues


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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Near Dylan]
#26617739 - 04/21/20 01:00 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Near Dylan said: I still have such a hard time wrapping my head around wtf the DNC was thinking... I genuinely think that this is a mass Republican conspiracy. Some of those candidates really couldve given Trump a run for his money. Biden is the last guy who would ever stand a chance.. It's exactly what trump wanted.
If something seems too perfect...
But thats a story for the Biden thread.
Oddly enough, my folks are centrists(voted Romney, but then voted Hillary in 2016 with great reluctance) and are super relieved Biden won the nom over Bernie. They think that Bernie wouldn't have a shot in hell.
I disagree a little, but I'm not so sure. I really just don't know. Didn't then, and I'm even more unsure now.
I think Biden will get the vote of a lot of centrists and moderate republicans that dislike Trump, but would not pull the trigger for someone as far left as Bernie. I don't know that he'll be able to mobilize the millenial vote - but Bernie wasn't able to either - for the primary millenial turnout was like 13% or something stupidly low. It's infuriating.
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Near Dylan said: This is gonna be like watching the Harlem Globetrotters play a nursing home basketball team.
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PatrickKn said: I thought the Harlem Globetrotters were a nursing home basketball team.

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Near Dylan said: I still have such a hard time wrapping my head around wtf the DNC was thinking... I genuinely think that this is a mass Republican conspiracy. Some of those candidates really couldve given Trump a run for his money. Biden is the last guy who would ever stand a chance.. It's exactly what trump wanted.
If something seems too perfect...
But thats a story for the Biden thread.
Oddly enough, my folks are centrists(voted Romney, but then voted Hillary in 2016 with great reluctance) and are super relieved Biden won the nom over Bernie. They think that Bernie wouldn't have a shot in hell.
I disagree a little, but I'm not so sure. I really just don't know. Didn't then, and I'm even more unsure now.
I think Biden will get the vote of a lot of centrists and moderate republicans that dislike Trump, but would not pull the trigger for someone as far left as Bernie. I don't know that he'll be able to mobilize the millenial vote - but Bernie wasn't able to either - for the primary millenial turnout was like 13% or something stupidly low. It's infuriating.
No doubt! I think that no matter who was put up against trump, they will lose. It seems like the country wants a repub in no matter what for another term and they will do anything to make it so.
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I think Trump supporters are going to be more likely to risk their lives to vote because they really think it's overblown. That being said I think it's important not to lose sight that Trump never won the popular vote in the first place. If we had Obama vs Trump I think Obama would mop the floor with him. Joe unfortunately seems like a wishwashi knockoff of Obama and that's going to make it very hard to win votes. All that being said I do think Trump will win so my attention gets diverted into what Trump needs to do better to save the country.
In every opportunity to look like a hero it's double the chance of looking like a colossal ass hat. Although a lot of the supporters don't really care if he does something bad or not cuz they like what he is doing. Problem with that is, the bad choices right now could trigger a true pluage event. Fauci just went on GMA and was asked about the protesters and he's been saying what 60% of America thinks, that is if we were rushed to open up any state we are going to set ourselves back economically much much more than if we took a little extra time to get contact racing and more testing done. The question is do we listen to the science and common sense or get so frantic that we make a monumental mistake opening too quickly.
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Edited by Seriously_trippin (04/21/20 01:15 PM)
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Near Dylan
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I think the fact of the matter is that Joe Biden is running on nothing.. The one and only thing that he basing the entirety of his campaign on is 'anyone but Trump'. Well, bernie wouldve been running against trump too, and he actually had shit that he stood for. Moderate pussies wouldve reluctantly voted for bern like hillary just off the 'anyone but trump' premise, and people who actualy give a fuck about leftist change would've voted for him as well. But Biden doesnt get that latter half, only the first. Bernie wouldve had both. But idk. I dont have any stats to support that assumption. Just seems like common sense to me.
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Near Dylan]
#26617775 - 04/21/20 01:13 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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This could be biden's theme song, lol! (love the ramones hair don't, lol)
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Niffla



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pirate-blues said:
I think Biden will get the vote of a lot of centrists and moderate republicans that dislike Trump
The one plus IMO about Biden is that he seems more willing than many of his counterparts to sit down and work with the other side. In fact I remember reading things in the past where Biden actually took heat from his own party for having the nerve of actually being "too friendly" with some republicans.
See that shows how divided this absurdity is, it's so utterly divided to the point that just sitting down with the other side and being a mature adult and trying to work on meeting towards a happy medium is actually frowned upon by some. And seen as weakness. Both sides of guilty of this of course. Both sides are guilty of a ton of things for that matter.
Anyways I honestly don't care who wins the presidency, I don't care what party they belong to -- I just want someone who is willing to sit down and actually at least try (legitimately try) to work with the other side, because we need to work together...not against each other. Two sides at war with each other is obviously horribly counterproductive.
By the way I'm not saying that I think Biden would step in and magically start getting these two sides of juveniles to actually work together -- in fact odds are if he won things would be largely the same as they've always been, but...the one thing I do like about him is that he seems to be (on the surface anyhow) less divisive and a little more willing to work with others than your average candidate these days.
Downside of Biden though is that he seems awfully...idk, out of touch at times. Like his age is seemingly starting to really show.
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pirate-blues


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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Niffla] 1
#26617888 - 04/21/20 01:57 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah he is definitely slowing down. My family was reading recent quotes by both Biden and Trump out loud last night, and while Trump is markedly more erratic..Biden is really not that much more articulate or with it. We were laughing our asses off, but only because that's really all you can do at this point .
I'm still voting Biden, but certainly not happily. And it's exactly for the reason you just stated. It sucks that we're in this position, but I genuinely believe he'll be better for the country. At this point I'm voting based on who I'd rather have lead during a pandemic, and imo, I think Biden will do a better job simply because he's willing to listen to people who are smarter than him.
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Niffla] 3
#26617895 - 04/21/20 01:59 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I see Biden as a figurehead very much like the role that the Queen pays in the UK. Meaning some other party will be using his aloofness and senility and whatnot in a way that just makes America rot from the core.
Seems delusional when I say it, but I just don’t see any substance to the guy. Not saying Trump is mr. Substance or anything, but he’s consistently predictable and has made several really good moves for the US internationally and the economy did alright during his stay. I’m anti both those guys if there’s a third choice that’s sane and adaptive.
Btw, since I’ve been alive, we’ve always been in this position come presidential elections. I like my local elections much more.
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Seriously_trippin
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@ PB That's pretty much my thoughts on it too.
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pirate-blues


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The Blind Ass said: I see Biden as a figurehead very much like the role that the Queen pays in the UK. Meaning some other party will be using his aloofness and senility and whatnot in a way that just makes America rot from the core.
Seems delusional when I say it, but I just don’t see any substance to the guy. Not saying Trump is mr. Substance or anything, but he’s consistently predictable and has made several really good moves for the US internationally and the economy did alright during his stay. I’m anti both those guys if there’s a third choice that’s sane and adaptive.
Btw, since I’ve been alive, we’ve always been in this position come presidential elections. I like my local elections much more.
I disagree with pretty much everything you've said about Trump being predictable and doing good for the economy(I think it was already pretty good prior to Trump, and survived in spite of Trump - especially with those fucking tariffs, and the general market volatility).
But I'm so sick of arguing about politics, so we can agree to disagree there
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hes been pretty fucking predictable
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pirate-blues


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Predictably terrible.
I did not predict him trying to incite riots in the face of a pandemic anytime soon.
But I guess I'm not that surprised, and that in and of itself is concerning
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How's about some predictions from the gang about how all this virus malarkey is gonna go so we can get a break from the American politics for a while?
Or basically anything COVID related at this point.
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pirate-blues


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Fair point.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/home-covid-19-test-approved/index.html
Some good news is that we will be able to take COVID tests at home in the next couple of weeks and mail out the samples to labs. It's just been FDA approved.
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Jokeshopbeard said: How's about some predictions from the gang about how all this virus malarkey is gonna go so we can get a break from the American politics for a while?
Or basically anything COVID related at this point.
1-2 years.
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people are going to really riot when the checks stop coming and there will be a second wave that hits half the population
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The Blind Ass
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but according to the legislature - the US taxpayers are only going to receive this 1 stimulus package (basically $1,200 per person) just one time right?
As in, there hasn’t been another bill in the works for say, the rest of the year, right?
Because, more or less life as it is now, is our new life- minus if reopening small pockets of the US economy over time proves wise in the end.
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cannabinated said: people are going to really riot when the checks stop coming and there will be a second wave that hits half the population
I'm on the fence about the rioting thing. I kinda hope it will happen for such things generally enact real change but a bigger part of me just doesn't think it'll happen over this.
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