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That would be three

"Seventy-one percent of Americans are willing to be vaccinated, up from 63 percent in September, according to a survey released this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Still, the survey found that Republicans were the most likely to be hesitant, with 42 percent saying they would probably not or definitely not be vaccinated, as compared with 12 percent of Democrats." Just Darwin's theory working on the trump mob of misfits, ne'er-do-wells and delinquents.

Yet "The share of Americans who say gun laws in the U.S. should be made stricter has increased from 52% in 2017 to 60% this year, according to a survey conducted in September 2019." PEW study That not how statistics work you don't add up the same subsets to get a larger overall group. "Three-in-ten American adults (30%) say they personally own a gun, and an additional 11% say they live with someone who does," Which is 41% Which suggests that every other American surveyed wants stricter gun controls. The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology is a peer-reviewed, student-run academic journal More than 40,000 dead per year, There are approximately 115,000 non-fatal firearm injuries in the U.S. each year. Gun violence costs the US $229 billion annually: Report Easy to find why don't you look in some of the other threads in this forum. The figures for all western countries have been cited in SC before. Number of guns, country, fatalities, etc. The feigning of ignorance in debate doesn't help your credibility.

It appears as if the largest security breach in the history of America has taken place. Naturally although trump has been fully briefed on it. He has said and done nothing. "According to SolarWinds S.E.C. filings, the malware was on the software from March to June. The number of organizations that downloaded the corrupted update could be as many as 18,000, which includes most federal government unclassified networks and more than 425 Fortune 500 companies. The Russians have had access to a considerable number of important and sensitive networks for six to nine months. The Russian S.V.R. will surely have used its access to further exploit and gain administrative control over the networks it considered priority targets. For those targets, the hackers will have long ago moved past their entry point, covered their tracks and gained what experts call “persistent access,” meaning the ability to infiltrate and control networks in a way that is hard to detect or remove. The actual and perceived control of so many important networks could easily be used to undermine public and consumer trust in data, written communications and services. In the networks that the Russians control, they have the power to destroy or alter data, and impersonate legitimate people." "The size of the hack, which began as early as March, remains unclear. SolarWinds said up to 18,000 of its more than 300,000 customers had downloaded the compromised software." Now trump has suspended security briefings to the incoming Biden administration. I guess his friend Putin has to be protected. Next step pardon for Putin.

The GOP and the rule of law: Two teen brothers refused to see their dad. An Ohio judge locked them up during a pandemic The Family Court Judge Who Threatened a Mother With Contempt of Court for Getting Her Child a COVID-19 Test "Ohio juvenile court Judge Timothy Grendell thought coronavirus precautions were overblown, and made sure people knew it. In one case he forbade a mother from getting her children tested for COVID-19. Then, one of them had to go to the emergency room.... At a protest rally in May, just steps away from where he presides over family court, Grendell proclaimed that public health restrictions to contain the pandemic were unconstitutional and “we should be allowed to get back to our lives.” The following month, he testified to state lawmakers in Columbus that health authorities and a “drumbeat” of media coverage had “created an atmosphere of fear” surrounding the virus.... he referred to the pandemic as a “panic-ademic” in the midst of a custody proceeding in his courtroom in Geauga County, outside Cleveland. And he has claimed that 15 mothers in his court have used the virus as an excuse in custody cases to “mess with” their exes’ parenting time. Yes its the same judge, yes he's a GOP appointee.

With all the safety that guns bring to America it should be the safest place on earth. 'They're not forgotten': America's other epidemic killed 41,000 people this year "CHICAGO – In a downtown plaza typically filled with the smell of bratwurst and shoppers bustling among Christmas stalls, a different kind of tree illuminates the solemn square this holiday season: a black cloth tree bearing the names of 672 Chicagoans who were fatally shot in 2020....Americans are also remembering the more than 41,000 people who died in gun violence this year. " As compared to the 2430 US troops killed in all military operations in Afghanistan. You seem to build straw houses without roofs.

There is alot of racism mixed in with religion. US evangelicals as an example.

"Education is needed", yes. Your education. "The lack of mental health resources and addressing poverty are not new issues." The US is not a poor country. The US has no worse a mental health situation than many other developed western countries. So whats your explanation for the misuse of guns, gun crimes and suicides. You can load this tidbit in your revolver of something you learned today. "A mandatory gun ownership law in Kennesaw, Georgia, caused the town's crime rate to plummet. Snopes... Mostly False.

and praying on his knees with his eyes closed. His head tilted to the heavens and thinking of his God, trump.

"Parler, which is funded by the billionaire Mercer family who bankrolled right-wing news site Breitbart and disgraced data firm Cambridge Analytica, is inundated by porn spammers." Buzzfeed has a good story "Fake GOP Leaders Are Selling CBD Oil On Parler" Like FOX Parler seems to attract the most gullible of the gullible. i.e. trump supporters. Porn spamming and fake news intermixed with scams.

As long as weddings, cohabitation, or any actions that could lead to reproduction don't take place.

Time...time...it all takes time.

Why get upset, Darwin was right.

"Joe Biden lost millions of manufacturing jobs"(@ 1:28) LIE FACT: "Manufacturing across the U.S. is still down 720,000 workers from February despite gaining 29,000 jobs in August, with the pandemic more than wiping out the overall modest gains of 500,000 from Trump's first three years in office — about the same pace of growth as under President Barack Obama. It was not an improvement over prior years — nor did it manage to restore more than a fraction of the jobs lost in the previous decade, according to an August analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. "Joe Biden lost Veterans Lives" Lie Joe Biden has never held office yet trump has killed Trump Death Clock 181,907 "Joe Biden Lost America"s Respect" LIE trumps disapproval rating is +15% "Joe Biden lost our trust when he sold us out to China". Joe Biden isn't the president yet. trump is the one that called Xi Trump: "Xi and I will always be friends" I'll stop now because every representation is a lie.

Parler is likely a petri dish for future psy studies of the Dunning–Kruger effect.

So you read him right. "The nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that the percentage of those surveyed who expressed "no confidence" in Trump (64%) was a mirror image of the 64% who expressed confidence in President Barack Obama in a survey published in June 2017."

Thats why you call them swing states. Its not because the residents jump from bed to bed. Not because of the style of dance originating in the 1920s.

Sooner or later the absence of the pulpit of the presidency will degrade trump's message. The absence of trump-Miller presidential directives feeding the worst of their ideology. Will cause a backbone to form in the GOP. The trump PAC cash fund doesn't help. But C-19 has a vaccine. trump is out January 20. So celebrate a 2021.

FIFY

These results? Donald Trump: As of the end of FY 2020, the debt was $26.9 trillion. Trump added $6.7 trillion to the debt since Obama's last budget, a 33.1% increase, In his FY 2021 budget, Trump's budget includes a $1.566 trillion deficit, representing a projected 5.8% increase over 2020.10 FY 2020 - $4.226 trillion FY 2019 - $1.563 trillion FY 2018 - $1.272 trillion10 In addition these debts are not included in that total: At the close of its 2019 fiscal year, the federal government had accrued roughly: $10.1 trillion ($10,084,000,000,000) in liabilities that are not accounted for in its publicly held national debt, such as federal employee retirement benefits, accounts payable, and environmental/disposal liabilities.[22] $35.2 trillion ($35,205,000,000,000) in unfunded obligations for current Social Security participants.[23] [24] [25] $42.3 trillion ($42,300,000,000,000) in unfunded obligations for current Medicare participants.[26] [27]

I concur on Ron, but only some of trump's followers are starting to see the giant con for what it is. "For Eric Metaxas, a prominent evangelical public intellectual and Christian radio host, knowing that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is like believing in Jesus. He just knows in his heart that it is true. During a prayer call with evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump on Tuesday night (Dec. 2), Metaxas said that God is on Trump’s side in the fight against a “stolen” election. “It’s like somebody saying, ‘Oh, you don’t have enough evidence to believe in Jesus.’ We have enough evidence in our hearts. We know him and the enemy is trying harder than anything we have seen in our lives to get us to roll over, to forget about it.” Once a Trump doubter, Metaxas has become one of the most devout Trump followers. “I’d be happy to die in this fight,” Metaxas told Trump earlier this week, during a call with the president broadcast on his show. “This is a fight for everything. God is with us.” In recent days, Metaxas has become a chief evangelist for conspiracy theories about the 2020 election on his daily radio show and social media feeds — assuring his audience that Trump will triumph because Jesus is on the president’s side." Above from Dec,3 2020 Religion News service. I found it amusing that he is considered a "public intellectual" emphasis above mine. When he peddles the trump line. But there is an entire area of classical religious study that even awards PhD's to thumping the bible, koran, etc! It should be noted that this religious broadcaster has the bully pulpit of radio. He also uses the same language that Ron uses: God, trump and we are in this together and its a "fight for everything".

While trump took time off from his busy golf schedule on the weekend to take a helicopter flight over his demonstrating supporters in Washington.Some of those fine people visited several Black churches to vandalize and set fires. "Police on Sunday said they were investigating the incidents at the Asbury United Methodist Church and Metropolitan A.M.E. Church as potential hate crimes, which one religious leader likened to a cross burning." Intimidating Blacks, churchgoers, etc. is all a part of the GOP election and post election playbook. Sen. Kelly Loeffler's (R-Ga.) took time to have pictures taken with her supporters: Chester Doles, a reported former leader of the Klu Klux Klan who was sentenced to prison for the 1993 beating of a black man, according to The Baltimore Sun. The AJC reported that Doles also has ties to the Hammerskins, also known as Hammerskin Nation, defined as the "best organized, most widely dispersed and most dangerous Skinhead group"

Yes, many of trump's tribe believe he is untouchable and they desire the same walk in life. “Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them.”. deals with these issues. Although the book was authored in 2013 before the trump phenomenon. "Trump’s blatant bigotry, misogyny, and incitements to violence make him completely unacceptable to liberals and moderates. And, thus, his comments function like gang tattoos. He’s not merely saying things that his supporters want to hear. By making himself permanently and unequivocally unacceptable to the opposition, he’s “proving” his loyalty to their side. This is why, I think, the Republican base trusts Trump like no other." quote from author of that aforementioned book. Like women who see the ideal mate as a tough biker dude on his Harley although they have never personally known one. Many of his base like the ideal of a middle index finger in the face of the government, of liberal elites who tell them what to do and how to act. aka trump talk. Reason is for someone else because emotion is the formulator of decisions for them. The entire romance novel industry is based upon such story telling. People(read women) are swept away from their meaningless lives by a hero/savior. Religion is similar and although trump has delivered nothing. His tattooed tribe, AR-15s at the ready deems his failures to deliver a theft from him and them. Evangelicals continue to pray for their day of deliverance. trump tribalists pant in anticipation of their unrealized victory over liberals. I'm sure for them there is a sexual domination of liberal women somewhere in that thinking because: "Recall Trump’s advice to Charles Foster Kane, the protagonist of “Citizen Kane,” a favorite film of his. When the documentarian Errol Morris asked the future president in 2002 if he would give any advice to the fictional Kane, a man torn apart by hubris and his obsession over his own work and legacy, Trump’s response was simple: “Get yourself a different woman.” Trump couldn’t have been less interested in psychoanalyzing Kane as a proxy for Orson Welles, or a metaphor for unchecked power and ambition. Kane merely served as a lens through which Trump could implicitly present himself as the savvier, ideal version of the fictional tycoon. (After all, he’s followed his own prescription for Kane twice now.)"

Thats poorly stated. I would not use Stephen Miller to define any center of political views. Not that Lippy had that view. Other than Miller has certainly managed to draw out the worst of the trump right. Then redefine it as GOP/Mitch McConnell/trump.

So Miller is your standard. Enough said.