Also, you will have people like JPW that dont know what she has accomplished and think she is just a face with a loud mouth.

You mean people who accurately assess reality?

I'm the one arguing against hysteria driven by mob mentalities. You're the one defending it.

My God, the level of self-righteous, self-unaware delusion present in this line is astounding.

You're "questioning" a procedure that has zero significant side effects but can prevent the permanent disablement or death of a newborn...because you're the smart, rational one? Pfffftt.

There's a reason your argument continues to be hyperventilating coozery like this line

"Think of the bleeding children!" Think of how many atrocities have been committed with hyper emotional rhetoric like that.

You'd think we were the ones pushing for a position that permanently maims and/or kills newborns.

What a f*&^ing idiot.

I've always said if the zombie. apocalypse happened, just give me a brick and an hour in a big apartment complex parking lot and I'll have enough guns to outfit a small army.
#20 | Posted by Miranda7

The most frequent crime that happens in my lily while suburb is kids from the city stealing cars and coming to the suburbs at night to rifle through random cars. They just jack a car, spend hours driving around random streets where two or three kids get out and check every car door handle on the street while the driver slowly cruises down the road after them. After a few hours, they drive back to the city, abandon the car and disappear.

Any car that's open gets tossed and anything of perceived value gets taken.

Reading the weekly crime blotter you would see, at least once or twice a week, reports of people leaving cars unlocked and losing computers, power tools, purses ect ect and usually at least one gun. Often ending with a sentence along the lines of "Victim reports doors were left unlocked." Times that by the multitude of suburbs in my metro area and you get a significant number of guns a year being easily obtained from unlocked vehicles.

It was infuriating and was what started my realization that the strongest anti-2A argument is your average gun owner.

I would love to cast a vote for, say, Mark Kelly for President

Honestly, Kelly is the one I'm hoping will run.

I doubt he will because he doesn't seem to want it, but that's the kind of leader we need right now. Someone with actual, real world leadership experience and intelligence who is hesitant to be the top of the heap, not some kid who got lucky to be elected to Congress and thinks they can do it because their social media likes lead them to believe they're capable.

AOC would make a great POTUS. She would have my vote!

#54 | Posted by moder8

Why? Beyond yelling into a microphone and providing soundbites, what has she done that shows she has the leadership chops to actually run a government?

Seriously, someone spell it out for me on why she wouldn't be the left's version of Trump - a cult of personality centered on a hollow, unqualified figurehead running cover for unknown, unelected accomplices that are actually running the show.

AOC is tapping into - alomg with whatever else she encounters - strong currents of progressivism. The socio-political climate seems to be getting prepped for transformative times.

#46 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

I'm sorry, but I disagree and this misinterpretation is what happens every single time the Dems gain some momentum.

What's growing is populism. The masses are tired of getting little to no benefit from their time, sweat and blood while paying ever more to satiate the greed of the ruling class.

The Dems are riding a swell of anti-Trump sentiment because as soon as he got into office, the mask came off and he showed the person behind it we, the non-MAGA morons, all knew was there - a greedy, self-absorbed pile of s*&^ working for the sole benefit of himself and the billionaire class.

They don't want progressivism, they want a government and country that actually works for and benefits THEM to the extent that they don't have to go to sleep hungry and anxious for what tomorrow will bring or whether rent will payable when it comes due in a few weeks or if their car will continue to struggle on long enough to get it fixed before it dies and they lose their job(s).

It's so nice that we have zero room for agreement or disagreement on anything, isn't it? The recommendations of the medical community must never be questioned, and anyone who does is "stupid" and "evil", whether we're talking about a rushed vaccine, surgical mutilations, or very rare non-communicable diseases.

Look at this hysterical cooze, getting all whiny because people think he's stupid for refusing a single vitamin injection that can prevent brain hemorrhages and death in newborns.

Oh, to be the poor persecuted rational one in the room, eh, SSentinel?

BTW as always, simply asking questions is good enough, sport. The questions have to be informed and worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just expressing ignorance followed by "?" instead of ".".

So in other words, prepare for world shutdown, mandatory masks, mandatory shots that don't prevent spreading or curing, cancel culture, denial of services for the deniers... the usual.

#4 | Posted by Petrous

Or, you know, increased awareness among medical providers and ED staff, testing of suspected cases and PSAs ensuring people know the symptoms and how to respond to them.

The kind of rational, everyday stuff that goes on behind the scenes without you ever knowing.

This strain, Andes virus, was discovered in 1995 and is still largely a roden/rat virus, which is the reservoir species.

This particular strain, unfortunately, is one that is most adept at passing to humans and, with close contact, from human to human.

My understanding is that it isn't anywhere near as infectious as say SARS-CoV-2, but I'm not able to find an R0 value as I don't think there have been large enough outbreaks for that to be determined.

The GOP expects to cheat and steal and therefore win, just like Trump expects to cheat and steal and win.
It's a zero-sum game devoid of competence or policy, and of course democracy.

#2 | Posted by Zed

And if that doesn't work, they'll turn to violence again.

with CEOs taking home an average total of $22.98 million in 2024

Given the complete and utter dysfunction present in our economy at the moment, this is entirely unjustified (never really justified, but that's a different argument).

These morons are basically extracting as much as possible before it all collapses under the bloat of their own greed and incompetence.

#21 | Posted by hamburglar

We need a bad one to shake this nonsense.

Something with a 40% mortality rate that hits young people and middle aged adults hard because it induced systemic inflammatory responses (ie 1918 H1N1).

One of the sad, overarching lessons of these last ten or so years has been that people only give two s*&^s when it affects them. We won't see real change until it affects enough of these idiots to change their minds (or it removes them from the pool entirely).