Is the pandemic taking us down the sad road towards communism?

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  1. ECA

    ECA Well-Known Member

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    Ah yes...the Biden hand off to Harris talking point. That one never gets old.
     
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    Well, under normal circumstances with another candidate, I would actually agree with you that the VP nom. isn't as earthshaking as this potentially could be. But it's this VP candidate and this visibly-worsening man she intends to follow if anything goes wrong. And please don't insult us by denying she intends to.

    Factually, Biden's age is more of a concern as he would be the oldest President ever --- IF he completes a first term. All posturing aside here, Biden is now of an age where a whole lot of men who took equally good care of themselves are still going for dirt naps. It's not unreasonable to wonder if he WOULD finish a four-year term of guaranteed stress.

    Factually, Biden has also mentioned being a one-term president only (but not getting trapped into a firm commitment to that). For a sitting President to step aside and leave it to his VP to pursue that second term for a departed administration is not farfetched. Even if Harris changes every word of Biden's policies, she will use the 25th to get that power to do it.
     
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    You have quite the imagination
     
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    Trump is 74; Biden will be 78 at end of November. How can you be sure that Biden will die first?
     
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    I did not say that but it's a fair question we can apply equally to Biden and Trump --- until Trump's reelection is confirmed and Biden goes away the happy warrior, Hubert Humphrey style, standard bearer for lost causes.

    It is well documented DJT is a nonsmoker and nondrinker --- he doesn't GET drunk, he CAUSES them. It would be reasonable Trump would live just as long as Biden has already and complete a second term.
     
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    Only about what greatness lies ahead in Trump's inevitable second term. MAGA!
     
  7. ECA

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    And yet you keep going on about what you think will happen if Biden wins. Odd.
    I agree...the election is Trumps to lose.
     
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    1) You think homeless people are just waiting for a job? Seriously? Meantime, agree they have addiction and other issues, and agree their families should be providing care to them. Of course those who don't accept the care (IOW homeless people who turn down places in shelters and family homes because they don't like 'rules') should lose access to it. No family should be expected to waste resources on someone who won't help themselves .. and DEFINITELY no tax payers should be expected to pay.
     
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    you think all homeless people want to be homeless, seriously?

    end the war on drugs and families may care for some of them again, right now they fear the law coming after them if they do
     
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    1) Of course they do. Have you any idea how many empty beds there are in shelters and other housing resources in which there are rules? There's some very good and safe, newly developed resources in LA which are working at only 70% capacity, while outside there are an ever increasing number of people living in squalor and complaining about their lot. And lets not forget all those families who initially try to help, but give up because the person continues to misbehave. The vast majority of homeless people are homeless because they don't want to live in any situation where they're required to behave.

    2) This 'war on drugs' only applies to people who take drugs. If people don't want to end up homeless, perhaps they shouldn't do drugs, or associate with people who do drugs. Choices!
     
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    yes, not all the homeless are there because of drugs, I agree with this

    some are homeless due to the Trump economy, some have health\mental issues, ect...
     
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    1) Well over 90% of the homeless have addiction issues. Anyone claims to care but denies rife addiction, is plainly dishonest. And their refusal to be honest about the cause, means they're actively invested in perpetuating homelessness.

    2) The significant increase in homelessness happened in the first 15 years of this century. COVID exacerbated it recently, but the biggest increase happened before. Almost all of it is a result of terrible long term local policies - and the same is happening in most "Progressive" cities, both in and outside of America. The blame is one hundred percent upon state and city leadership. Those with local policies attractive to the dissolute, the lazy, the grifter, the addict, the illegal alien, etc.
     
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    many homeless did not have drug issue until they became homeless either... we should get these people help
     
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    And I agree it's Trump's to lose.

    Why do I go on about what I think will happen if Biden wins? It ain't odd --- Democrats are involved. The virulent open hatred expressed by people here on this board and throughout the blogosphere has utterly convinced me of the probability Dems will cheat to try to get their way. Hatred is pathological with them. I've never seen anything that insidious to a nation.
     
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    While you clearly have nothing but love for Dems.....oh the irony
     
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    Wikipedia requires referencing/annotating of any assertion of fact, and if it isn't, Wiki will post that fact as unsubstantiated.

    That disproves your BS claim, which is unsubstantiated.
     
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    Lyndon Johnson lied to get us into the Vietnam War and got millions of men drafted, millions of families affected, and about 68,000 of us killed all for a lie...and you ask me why I hate Democrats? The party that condoned the deaths of more than 60 million unborn American citizens, depriving them of their constitutional rights? The first bunch to tell us how to live and what we can not say or write in a free country? THAT bunch?
     
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    Let me know when they don't apply that to your submissions.
     
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    Ah...so because of what you think LBJ did you hate all Dems...yup....that's rational.
    So you believe only Dems have abortions? That's cute
    The govt is tell you what you can't say or write? Do tell
     
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    Facebook and Twitter both are censoring right-wing posters. PayPal is defunding them. Massive internet censorship is underway taking down search-engine links to right wing sites. It's not the GOP doing that.

    Do not ever put words in my mouth about the Dems' open-throated support for abortion. That despicable weasel Perez demanded you can't be a good Democrat unless you support infanticide.

    But as for hating all Dems only for LBJ? Nah. Not even close. I just paid closer attention to a party of lies and doublecrosses, of vacuous promises and empty threats. The party of Joe and Hunter and James Biden.
     
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    But they won't take us. Americans Need Not Apply!!!
     
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    Facebook and twitter do no such thing. If you violate their terms you are subject to punishment.
    Any perceived “taking down of sites” is not Dem doing it. Unless you think Nancy Pelosi is adjusting search engines...ha
    The reality is you need to hate people who don’t share your views. That’s a sad way to go through life but hey...it’s your life so rock on.
     
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    I was incorrect. It's Instagram and Facebook.

    https://nypost.com/2020/10/06/facebook-instagram-banning-all-qanon-accounts/


    Just liberals who hate Trump. Damn near the same thing.

    Well, let's start with a party that doesn't keep its promises to its own voters. Dems vowed for YEARS they would get student loan forgiveness into a plank of their party platform, and in 2020 again reneged on that promise. Meanwhile Biden vows he will make Roe v Wade the law of the land if it's overturned in the Supreme Court. That's a guaranteed legal feedback loop good for entertaining an entire next generation.
     
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    Never mention the word hand and Joe-joe brain bleed!
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    Hahaha...do you believe Repubs have always kept their promises? Both sides lie, both sides break promises, both sides suck ass as far as I'm concerned.
     

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