Rhaedas

FUBAR. Look what he did with a government that still had some checks and balances to prevent or limit disasters.

Economy goes brrr. He needs a special circle of hell. And perhaps if not him it would have been someone else, but he was the one who brought upon consumerism, planned obsolescence, and the whole “keeping up with the Jones”.

If… sorry, I mean WHEN this is used as a benchmark for future pandemics, we’re going to really be in trouble. I love how there was no mention of why initial findings and spread wasn’t controlled very well compared to past outbreaks of other diseases thanks to cuts by President Trump to a pandemic early warning program (Predict) in 2018 which finally ceased three months before the COVID news. Why would he cut such an effective tool, one that was initiated by a Republican (G.W. Bush). Oh, right…it was actually started in 2009 by Obama, so yet another vengeful move with no regard to why things exist.

That’s how MIKE was discovered in “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. He was playing subtle pranks throughout the Moon bases that appeared as weird glitches, and the tech who figured out MIKE existed had to teach him about humor. What was funny every time, what was funny once, and then the jokes that seemed funny to a computer but could get people killed (like a malfunctioning airlock).

The parallel is with not having great choices against him, as well as an established GOP who could pull the votes when they need them. Outside of that, the problems and crimes, and the level of insanity were different.

What about Reagan? Same parallel of weak opposition, for a much longer time since Bush followed, and Clinton was more centrist. Perhaps that’s a start of the movement to the center.

Elected, but they didn’t say who elected him.

I mean yes, good point, we’ve had rough times before. But this also sounds like a setup for a “hold my beer” meme.

The NC GOP state congress has been infamous in the past about doing things like that to try and pass their bills. Secret votings or waiting until enough Democrats were literally out of the building before having a vote. Rhetorical: why do Republicans seem to need to cheat in anything they do?

Before I go on an attack on anyone I’d like to know what the actual bill said. I can read the title, but it’s the text of the bill that’s important, and it’s not showing on Congress.gov. What’s really odd is the split between more progressive members who normally would side together. Has to be more than “these members have something to hide”.

So not cancelling voting just yet.

It was rushed, with approval, because people were dying. I wonder if there’s death projections on what-ifs where we waited to get full trials, or we just didn’t do anything. I seem to remember people who believed vaccines did actually help were in favor of quick action.

They are all about trying to pin Biden on mistakes made, maybe even some that are legit. Do they say anything about the President who set things in motion to allow the pandemic to occur to the world? I doubt it.

Literally waiting for the world to say something.

I’m hoping that this is just a start and won’t be a single action. I can unfortunately see the side of everyone’s opinion on this, good and bad, which is why it needs to be today’s headline only because Trump hasn’t put some other loyalist in a position today yet.

You should be more angry at the throwaway society we’ve become to create so much trash, rather than rant at the person who might be the sole employee until someone else comes in to do the regular morning cleanup duties.

So you think some full trash cans cause people to head out to the interstate and only then throw shit out their window? Guess they’re making a statement or something…

You tried, but your tone and wording was off. Some people would state all that fully believing things can continue and we’ll tech out way out of trouble. And we WILL absolutely jump to geoengineering to try and preserve status quo, cost or not. The alternative is to change society dramatically, and that won’t happen voluntarily. And the great news is once we start geoengineering, we dare not stop because the reaction will spike things even worse.

Not just the loss in cheap labor, but also in “free” social security taxes (that such workers don’t end up claiming).

They will cause a cooling effect, but it won’t be a “fix”, just a temporary pause, and once settling occurs heating will bounce back even faster. Nothing will reverse climate change in the sense that we can go back to previous conditions, it’s an ongoing transition into a different climate (even if there was some magic way to permanently cool).

“I was going to go vote blue down ticket, but…”

God damn. “I’m not done yet, bank over there.”

I understand the match, but I seem to recall both Beavis and Butthead have some morals. Seems unfair to them.