jacksonsprat22
Verified User
I will be watching the convention. I actually care about our nation.
The 2020 Democratic Convention
- Thread starter Dutch Uncle
- Start date
I will be watching the convention. I actually care about our nation.
I missed the beginning but it's replaying later on CNN so I'll record it.
The Democrats laid pretty thick the implication that Trump is personally responsible for over 160,000 COVID deaths.
Kasich is speaking well.
The Democrats laid pretty thick the implication that Trump is personally responsible for over 160,000 COVID deaths.
Kasich is speaking well.
So far it is. Also a lot of deliberate tear-jerking for people who died from COVID.
Dude, Cypress isn't falsely claiming to be Buddhist, dukkha/anatta/etc is the one who is lying, misdirecting and employs blatant exaggeration.
The good news is that, despite being 90% political BS, the "convention" is moving along quickly due to no applause, pauses to change speakers, etc.
Yup, just like Trump is a Neo-Nazi pointy-hat wearing Klan Wizard. You betcha!
Michelle Obama's speech wasn't too bad until she brought up the "popular vote" meme.
If you want to get to heaven
Over on the other shore
Stay out of the way of the long tongue liar
Oh good shepherd feed my sheep
PmP quotes scripture too then runs around calling anyone who doesn't agree with him a "demmycunt". You're a fucking Putin sympathizer and everyone knows he sure as shit isn't Buddhist.
Ebola wasn't contagious.
"What's more, Ebola is much less contagious than many other more common diseases. The virus, much like HIV or hepatitis, is spread through blood or bodily fluids and is not airborne."
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20140806/ebola-virus-how-contagious#1
You've had this pointed out to you before. There is NO comparison between the two. Quit trying to make one.
Not even close. He is a blue collar guy. He is the equivalent of white bread, and that's what America wants right now. Comfort food. Not chaos. The socialism tag isn't sticking. No one but the rabid base even mentions it. Trump has no agenda other than to attack and divide. In normal times, that can be effective. Autocrats use fear of the other. In this case, the 'other' is the virus, and Trump has proven he can't handle it. His campaign has no message.
Dyam, boy! You just proved what 30 years of science-denying produces.
Ebola is not only contagious but has a fatality rate of about 50%.
There is not statement in your own link that says Ebola isn't contagious: What's more, Ebola is much less contagious than many other more common diseases. The virus, much like HIV or hepatitis, is spread through blood or bodily fluids and is not airborne.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ebola-virus-disease
- The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. CasKey facts
- Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a rare but severe, often fatal illness in humans.
- The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.
- The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks.
- Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks.e fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks.
Trump said Obama should resign even when only two people died from e bola.
Also, until recently on this very board, Deplorables complained about Obama's handling of the 2009 H1N1 flu virus. Which killed 12,000 people over it's entire cycle. Compared to what is happening now, in hindsight it looks like Obama's response to H1N1 and e. bola were reasonably successful.
I chalk it up to having a president who trusts science and scientific expertise
A follow up: last spring your merry band of Deplorables were saying COVID was no worse than the common cold, the risk it posed was a Democratic hoax, and face masks were for wimps.
That is quite a pivot for you to tacitly imply that the risk of COVID is now recognized as an extreme national health threat
Correct. Their backpedaling and continuously changing story has been the funniest part of a deadly pandemic and what may prove to be the most costly epidemic in US history.
FWIW, I've been watching Fox news since 6AM to see their response and, predictably, they've gone nuts over the convention. Jim Jorden jumped in with his own comments, all of which are predictable like most of the convention itself.
One thing Fox mentioned is that the McCloskey''s will be speaking at the Republican convention. That should be pretty interesting to see.
Trump has been solidly proved to be a hypocrite. His defenders will dance around that fact just as they attack LWers who don't follow CDC guidelines but defend RWers who don't.
CNN is going ga-ga over Michelle Obama's Convention speech. It also explained that Michelle recorded it before Harris was named as VP which is why Harris wasn't mentioned in the speech. While it was a good and very well done speech, it wasn't "flawless" as some have claimed.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/michelle-obama-convention-speech/index.html
Former first lady Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention was not just a powerful condemnation of President Donald Trump's record and handling of the pandemic, it was an appeal aimed at the heart and conscience of every American who has watched the chaos of the last four years and yearned to make things right.
Reprising her role as "the closer" -- this time for former Vice President Joe Biden on the convention's opening night -- Obama spoke as the wife of a former President who has seen "the immense weight and awesome power" of the presidency up close. She spoke as a mother trying to teach empathy and instill "a strong moral foundation" in her daughters. And she spoke as an American pained "to see so many people hurting" at a time when the coronavirus has claimed more than 170,000 lives in the US and cast millions into unemployment.
On a night when many convention speakers, including four Republicans, tried to convince Americans of all political persuasions that they should choose country over party, Obama urged them to choose right over wrong, reminding her audience that she hates politics and asked all of her listeners to "close out the noise and the fear" and open their hearts. Those who do that, she said, "know that what's going on in this country is just not right."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/michelle-obama-convention-speech/index.html
Former first lady Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention was not just a powerful condemnation of President Donald Trump's record and handling of the pandemic, it was an appeal aimed at the heart and conscience of every American who has watched the chaos of the last four years and yearned to make things right.
Reprising her role as "the closer" -- this time for former Vice President Joe Biden on the convention's opening night -- Obama spoke as the wife of a former President who has seen "the immense weight and awesome power" of the presidency up close. She spoke as a mother trying to teach empathy and instill "a strong moral foundation" in her daughters. And she spoke as an American pained "to see so many people hurting" at a time when the coronavirus has claimed more than 170,000 lives in the US and cast millions into unemployment.
On a night when many convention speakers, including four Republicans, tried to convince Americans of all political persuasions that they should choose country over party, Obama urged them to choose right over wrong, reminding her audience that she hates politics and asked all of her listeners to "close out the noise and the fear" and open their hearts. Those who do that, she said, "know that what's going on in this country is just not right."
I was pretty sure e. Bola was contagious
I would much rather get COVID than e bola, and it probably took swift, decisive, and aggressive preemptive measures to contain e bola and only have two people die from it
You are correct. RB 60 was just proving to everyone how little he knows about science and medical issues.
Agreed on COVID over Ebola even though the former is more contagious than the latter.
jacksonsprat22
Verified User
Trump: I am incompetent. Let me hang around.