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Hi Jerry, This has come up quite a bit on the Herman Cain Awards site. These aren't my thoughts, and I'm paraphrasing the actual comments, but I think they summed it up well. It's partially that he simply wasn't capable of doing it. For the pandemic, he downplayed the seriousness of it, mainly to try to protect the economy and the stock market (which took serious hits) at the expense of the pandemic taking off. He also saw that it was affecting 'blue' areas more, and minimized it knowing it would hurt his opponents more (and it did at the beginning). Remember how he stated that aid would go to states where the governors were nice to him? He has no ability to care about anyone else, or anything that doesn't affect him directly. But that was only part of it. Don't forget his supporters. The ones who cheered when he called Mexicans rapists and Muslims terrorists. The ones who cheered when he mocked the disabled reporter. The ones who ate up all the 'mean tweets' If Trump had been able to do things like encourage people to take precautions, had tried to get aid and supplies to 'those people', had done anything the 'experts' said to do, his base would have gone bananas. Keep in mind that these are the same people who booed him when he said he was vaxed & boosted and told them they should be too (note that he hasn't told anyone to get vaxed since then). So in part, it would have been impossible for Trump to 'do the right thing' because he couldn't, but also because his base would have attacked him viciously if he had. And he knew it.

She's more qualified than Kavanaugh, and she doesn't have a history of abusing people. Wendy P.

I just had my retirement request approved. Come Dec 1, I'll be joining the club!

New episode out now! https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-cooper-was-not-a-lizard-alan-r-warren/ Enjoy!

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If you can’t think of anything else to say about her, just go with ‘Peppermint Patty’. Conservatives love going after women for their appearance.

Not by enough, apparently. They're also short on pragmatism. This will go over like a turd in the punch bowl but some of us, including me, need to be ready to concede to some of Brent's arguments. None of those regarding whether climate change is either happening or salubrious, on those he's dead nuts wrong. But we ought not be as anxious as we are to kill the goose that lay's the oily egg. When the facts change........

Bigun's frustrations with this war is equal to many who understand what war means. SC deals mainly with politics and "War is the continuation of politics by other means.". Is likely the most famous concept of the link between Realpolitik and naked aggression. I abhor the idea of sending young people in harms way for useless political ideals. I'd agree you're on point for the anti-Americanism voiced by SkyDekker on occasion. I could point out that "On December 5, 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Britain and the United States signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state" Whereby Ukraine gave up about 1700 nuclear weapons together with the delivery systems to place those weapons in every capital of the world. But that's moot. With the exceptions of the Baltic states. Nobody has done more to defend Ukraine in the latest aggression from Russia than the US. By supplying it with lethal aid. Needless to say Russia would never have invaded Ukraine in 2014 had they possessed those 1700 warheads. Furthermore the UK has been noticeably absent from its signing obligations attached to the Budapest Memorandum.

The exact quote was: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?

And this is where the Republicans proved that they see governing as an exercise of power, not as how they serve the country. The completely chickenshit charade around the “too fast” confirmation of Merrick Garland vs. the much faster charade around ACB indicates that shoving “beating the opposition” is more important than the service of the people. Yes, one could say that they think they’re serving better by serving up situational judgments if when something is OK and when it isn’t (kind of like the police and driving while Black), but that’s bullshit. Laws should be followed, and enforced, consistently and blindly. As in blind to who is being judged. Judge the actions, not the person. Decide your course of action based on the current situation, but then treat it like the precedent it is, and be open to question if you diverge Wendy P.

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Hi John, I used to have this t-shirt that said: I may grow old but I'll never grow up. Jerry Baumchen

Hehe...yes it is. I'm reminded of this meme.

She was tested for President and the results came back negative. Actually, the results were quite positive. More Americans voted for her than for her opponent.