"A Republic, if you can keep it."

Dutch Uncle said:
Why is it interesting? Human history is written in blood. Only an idiot thinks we, the human race, are still not vicious apes with really cool tools.

Thanks for your bullshit answers on slavery. It tells everyone everything anyone needs to know about you.

What freedom do you want that you are not getting? I support you getting it. What I don't support is having to pay for your 16th Century French Art degree, "Old Trapper".

You should be free to do what you with whom any consenting adult(s) you desire. As Auntie Mame said, "Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

Freedom is being able to exercise your inalienable right to live your life as you please without interference.

There is only one rule: don't harm anyone. Thoughts?
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Ahhhh yes, the usual ignorance, and asinine comments from the one with a peanut brain. But tell me foo, you said that the "ideals of the Founders were to grant greater freedoms for all." Now tell me slug, just how does that apply to the slaves who were denied the right to own property, vote, etc.? Why not try to answer that instead of avoiding the obvious?

Here is another POS demonstrating your "intellect": "Freedom is being able to exercise your inalienable right to live your life as you please without interference." Now, in order for that to even be close to true one would have to do away with all laws. Then too, it raises the question as to how does that apply to slaves?

And BTW dumb f**k, I never answered any questions on slavery, and neither have you.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Flash,



The stimulus payments were not part of any entitlement program. Nobody was entitled to those checks. They were appropriate because many were impacted greatly by the business closures and cut-backs.

It certainly helped those who needed it, but many got checks who didn't really need them at all.

I still think a better response would have entailed some planning. There was time to do that, but it was wasted by the denier who refused to tell the nation there was a problem.

The best idea was to put the economy on pause, not shut down.

Pay employers to keep their workers on the books, on the payroll, and on their health care insurance plans. Also include payments to businesses for expenses.

This way, workers didn't need to lose jobs, businesses did not need to go belly up. Planning for this could have been begun when it was apparent the pandemic was coming, but had not yet hit hard.
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Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

SNIP> Soon after McConnell made his playbook comment, Ronald Klain, the White House Ebola response coordinator from October 2014 to February 2015, tweeted out a link to a document titled “Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.”

The document, originally unearthed in March by Politico, is a 69-page National Security Council guidebook developed in 2016 with the goal of assisting leaders “in coordinating a complex U.S. Government response to a high-consequence emerging disease threat anywhere in the world.” It outlined questions to ask, who should be asked to get the answers and what key decisions should be made.

Nicole Lurie, another Obama administration official, confirmed to us the existence of the NSC pandemic playbook and also said similar documents were created for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“To say there was no playbook was ridiculous,” said Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS during both terms of the Obama administration.

“We absolutely did leave a plan. It was called a playbook.”​

The playbook lists types of infectious disease threats that could emerge. “Novel coronaviruses” were among pathogens flagged as having potential to cause heightened concern.

Lurie said that there were tabletop exercises, which included planning for a pandemic-like situation, during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations. (The Trump administration also conducted an exercise — known as “Crimson Contagion” — in 2019.)

Other Obama-era officials offered similar stories in interviews this week with CNN:

“They were extensively briefed, to the extent that they paid attention to these things during the transition,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, who directed USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.

“We absolutely did leave a plan. It was called a playbook,” said Lisa Monaco, former homeland security adviser to President Obama. The goal, she said, was to share the lessons learned during the Ebola and Zika outbreaks.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
are those capitalists keeping those laborers as slaves?????? or is there an agreement between employer/employee to produce something for an agreed upon price?
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They act with great class-solidarity to pay as little as possible, though most people describe it as simple greed. Agree or starve, eh? Marvelous bloody deal!
 
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Hello Bill,

Bill said:

Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

SNIP> Soon after McConnell made his playbook comment, Ronald Klain, the White House Ebola response coordinator from October 2014 to February 2015, tweeted out a link to a document titled “Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.”

The document, originally unearthed in March by Politico, is a 69-page National Security Council guidebook developed in 2016 with the goal of assisting leaders “in coordinating a complex U.S. Government response to a high-consequence emerging disease threat anywhere in the world.” It outlined questions to ask, who should be asked to get the answers and what key decisions should be made.

Nicole Lurie, another Obama administration official, confirmed to us the existence of the NSC pandemic playbook and also said similar documents were created for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“To say there was no playbook was ridiculous,” said Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS during both terms of the Obama administration.

“We absolutely did leave a plan. It was called a playbook.”​

The playbook lists types of infectious disease threats that could emerge. “Novel coronaviruses” were among pathogens flagged as having potential to cause heightened concern.

Lurie said that there were tabletop exercises, which included planning for a pandemic-like situation, during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations. (The Trump administration also conducted an exercise — known as “Crimson Contagion” — in 2019.)

Other Obama-era officials offered similar stories in interviews this week with CNN:

“They were extensively briefed, to the extent that they paid attention to these things during the transition,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, who directed USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.

“We absolutely did leave a plan. It was called a playbook,” said Lisa Monaco, former homeland security adviser to President Obama. The goal, she said, was to share the lessons learned during the Ebola and Zika outbreaks.
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It is mind-boggling that all this work was done to prepare for just such a threat and the Trump administration simply threw it away.

How incredibly foolish.

Much of the work was already done FOR THEM. All they had to do was use it and take credit.

He never deserved a second term.

He should have been convicted of abusing his power and removed from office.

Republicans dropped the ball.
 
Iolo/Penderyn said:
They act with great class-solidarity to pay as little as possible, though most people describe it as simple greed. Agree or starve, eh? Marvelous bloody deal!
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wow. it's almost as if liberal policies to create a sense of 'safety', by requiring permits, licenses, insurance, etc. make starting ones own business extremely prohibitive.....................wonder why that is?
 
PoliTalker said:
We are the UNITED States of America.
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This is true only on a titular basis. The "united" part is an absolute lie. I personal view the desire to maintain the union as indifference to the unnecessary misery it causes.
It's a character flaw from my perspective.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
wow. it's almost as if liberal policies to create a sense of 'safety', by requiring permits, licenses, insurance, etc. make starting ones own business extremely prohibitive.....................wonder why that is?
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I wouldn't know, matey - my Great-grandfather was the last Liberal in my family! I don't think he needed many licences! :)
 
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PoliTalker said:
Hello Bill,



It is mind-boggling that all this work was done to prepare for just such a threat and the Trump administration simply threw it away.

How incredibly foolish.

Much of the work was already done FOR THEM. All they had to do was use it and take credit.

He never deserved a second term.

He should have been convicted of abusing his power and removed from office.

Republicans dropped the ball.
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Can't disagree there. Trump's Presidency was initially resisted by the Republican leadership, but when Trump allowed those ranks to be decimated in the 2018 midterms based on who supported and who opposed Fearless Leader, the surviving Republicans had a choice; bend the knee and suck the cock or resign. Ted Cruz proved himself to be the biggest cocksucker in Texas. Sad.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
Iolo/Penderyn said:
What the fuck has your silly history, or the silly history of the Sais to do with me, you silly foreign bugger?
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seems it has everything to do with it........otherwise, why would you be on here whining about American politics?
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I'm wondering too. Why the interest in American politics by foreigners, regardless if they are Left or Right.

BTW, who are the Sais? The "Shot heard round the World" is still being heard today.

FWIW, most Euros have a long history of antisemitism. It's why most of them support the Arabs wiping out the Israelis. ;)

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