Think about the American beginnings of selfishness...the ultimate selfishness, i.e. slavery. Understand that American conservatism began in that culture and that the conservatives who came after that evil institution was abolished have contrived to continue through other means such as Jim Crow. We think because we are in 2021 that those concepts are no longer the basis for their politics, that's because we lie to ourselves because it is more comfortable than recognizing the raw truth.

"I can understand this as personal FREEDOM is that last thing that lefties {i.e. Control FREAKS} believe in."

Except for one important fact that right wing idiots can't understand; when they refuse to wear a mask they don't just affect themselves. They could very well be asymptomatically infected and not even know it but they don't think that is important for everyone else around them. Conservatism has one basic belief system, selfishness. They honestly don't care if their selfishness results in your death. Tell me that isn't true right wingers, lie all you want but it is absolutely the truth whether you like to recognize it or not.

"Voter suppression.
Control of female bodies.
Suppressing LGBTQ rights.
Making certain that the truth is suppressed in history."

Equals: conservative ideology.

Paul Krugman perfectly expresses that which many of us have known for decades but we didn't have an audience, he does. Not that I think his ideas will penetrate the thick skulls of conservatives, tax cuts bought their belief systems long ago. Without the huge tax cuts, which were and are an attempt to destroy the New Deal, none of their ideas would have any support at all because they are all bad ideas. If you are rich, in a rich country, but object to paying tax rates that will still allow you to be rich then you basically don't care about the rest of society. That is the basic flaw in the conservative argument, that tax cuts encourage freedumb and success for the economy of average Americans. That lie has been proven wrong over and over, since the days of President Hoover. It never works, never has worked, it is a totally failed philosophy exemplified by Nazi Germany. Pretending that supporting wealth for the few while ignoring the needs of the majority is a path to success is a failed ideology.

What if you are a responsible parent but your kids go to class with the children of complete a******s? Your kids may get COVID because of the irresponsibility of those other parents. There should be a way to sue those other parents for infecting your kid. I suspect that if there were an economic penalty the idiots would be forced to act more responsibly. Ron DeSantis should be sued for his irresponsible leadership or lack of such. I didn't hate him when he was first elected but I have watched his actions since and, believe me, I do hate him now. He is absolutely willing to sacrifice the lives of school children for partisan points. What a piece of filth he has proven to be.

DeSantis obviously has political ambitions that he thinks emulating Trump will reward. That is his only motivation. He doesn't really care how many kids will get COVID because of his OE to prevent mask mandates. Trust me, his kids got to a school where mask mandates are allowed. He is an evil political hack who puts his career ambitions ahead of the welfare of the people of Florida.
I wouldn't spit on him if he was on fire.

Sorry Louisiana but we tried to warn you that your leadership simply does not care about your health and welfare. If you're going to be dumb you better be tough. Well, right now you are facing the tough part which could have been avoided by not listening to leadership which doesn't actually value your health or your life.
Republicans take for granted the support they get from "poorly educated Americans." The "poorly educated" need to finally understand what the Republican party is doing to them and their families, friends and associates.
That party absolutely does not care how many of you folks die, they just use false ideas, such as vaccinations are violations of your freedumbs, to build consensus based on totally false concepts.
Fox News is a big offender. If the less educated were smart they would be attacking that company and destroying it, it is absolutely responsible for the deaths of millions right here in America. The Nazis in WWII Germany couldn't kill as many as fast as Fox News is doing right now. The people like Tucker Carlson will eventually be killed by his own followers who finally realize how evil he is.

"yay a new reason to hate repub;icl0wns."

AS the new variants affect millions we don't need a new reason to hate Republicans. It's still the same old reason, they don't care how many people die as long as they can use things like "vaccine hate" to generate votes in the idiotic red states. Just look at Florida today. Any normal person would look at Ron DeSatanist's leadership here is despicable but right wing morons still idolize him as the lesser Trump. Doesn't even matter to them if members of their own families will die because of his non-leadership. I hate to say this but I feel it is appropriate to say to a man who opposes mask mandates for school children in Florida, I hope his kids attend a school where reasonable thoughts like a mask mandate teach him how dangerous such a foolish idea can result in.
I do not wish any harm to his family but I just wish he were as considerate of all the rest of our families. He won't not because of scientific facts but only because of political advantage among the stupidest voters in our nation.....just like his hero Donald Trump.

In seventeen seventy six we went to war to throw off the power of corporations but now two hundred years later we still let the corporations and the wealthy aristocracy have outsized power> We need to remember the principle of "one man one vote" and reject the ridiculous concept put forth by Mitt Romney and other Republicans that "corporations are people my friend."
We need to make that a basic principle of democracy, corporations are absolutely not people, never have been, never will be and the entire concept behind that is dangerous to democracy.

"There's something Trump and I have in common.'Cluelessness? Imaginary omnipotenece. Just being f*****g crazy? I don't know you choose.

I can't stand the guy but, at least, he credits the vaccine for his mild symptoms too bad he won't speak out about others of his party, who have nen vacinated themselves, but still won't. When he grows a pair, and speaks out agains't against an evil regime like trump, then and only then will I have any respect or sympathy for that piece of filth. REalize, thousands, more accurately millions will die because of his partisan hack style of politics. If ye doesn't die of Covid, he should die in prison.

When he announced his Executive Order it seemed more like a campaign rally. Politics is more important than the health of school children.

If I were a defense attorney looking for a fair trial for my client I would reject EFFETEPOSTER during jury selection.

For those who remember the great Neil Rogers, he was a friend of Ron's and had him on his show several times. They guy was perfectly fine laughing about his over the top style and seemed like a very likable person.

#3 maybe some folks aren't ready for serious actions such as of murderous governor DeathSantis but millions of the rest of us realize we need very serious actions if we are to ever get a real handle on this.

The Pandemic is the ultimate IQ test and so many Americans are scoring far below 100. Then they are demanding that their Governors, like DeathSantis, to govern according to the expectations of the dumbest people in our state. It is a source of pride for many Republicans to fly their IQ score flags on their pickup trucks. Their scores are spelled TRUMP. TRUMP = IQ of 80 or less.

MIRANDA7 is just wrong> Before trUMP sHUT DOWN TOURISM TO Cuba just to win the votes of S. Florida's right wing Cuban community there were many small restaurants set in people's homes. It is said that doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. By that measure American foreign policy towards Cuba is insanity.

That fat old ----- calling the Capital Police what he demonstrated with his own behavior when called up for the draft....simply disgusting. And yet, we have some here who still kiss his fat ass here every day. What does that actually make them?

I applaud President Biden for this appointment. I hope it ruins Donald Trump's day, oh and there I did it again Phester and I will continue to do so.

I have honest concern for kids going to school who sit in the same classroom with other kids whose parents are unwilling to have them wear masks. Such a little thing to ask but these a*****e parents are so ridiculous that they feel that their "freedumb" is being diminished by taking reasonable precautions to keep their kids healthy and are even willing to jeopardize the health of other people's kids just to show off their stupidity.
Never try to diminish the stupidity that a Trump supporter feels the need to show off.

"Would you like me to post from infowars? I'm trying to play nice and post from the soy boys liberal rag."

I'd be embarrassed to have a relative like Bellringer, well actually I do have three brothers like that. I haven't any of them in years and that is my choice and it will stay that way for more years.

I've loved Dolly most of my life and still do love her music. Whitney's loss was tragic. Losses like hers just break my heart. Nice to see some very successful musicians using their wealth to do good for others. When I was a young teenager, it the early days of the Beatles, much to the ridicule from my brothers who were older I was a big fan, every Sunday of Grand Old Opry. I didn't even understand what was so funny about it but my brothers sure thought it was. I think I inherited my Mother's love of country music and my kids inherited their love for it from me.

"I will take the blame. I am the one who was wrong. I should have said 'Trump pressured the DOJ' (not Barr)I will take the blame. I am the one who was wrong. I should have said 'Trump pressured the DOJ' (not Barr)"

Conveniently timed resignations like Barr's do not lessen his duty to do his job especially without any real comment about Trump obvious attempts to invalidate a free and fail election. It was obvious to anyone with a heart beat what Donald Trump was trying to do, we just can't, at this time, give him some sort of an excuse just because he resigned several days earlier. That should not enable him to have a stay out of jail card at all, it was and is obvious what he was trying to do and, so far, we don't even have knowledge of his conversations with Trump at that time. This administration is, as others here have said, the most corrupt administraion in our nation's history.

"Mexicans, Central Americans and Afghans are welcome, Cubans, not so much.
- senile Joe Biden."

And just why are Cubans a special class or refugees? I once sat with a few young Cuban American refugees who proceeded to tell me why Cubans are virtually superior to all other people from South and Central America. I listened politely but rejected every statement they made.
Now rich Cuban Americans who took their wealth and left Cuba years ago and who were given huge amounts of aid when they got here demanding America send troops to Cuba basically to restore the wealth they were too cowardly to fight for before they left.
I want Cuba to be free but I am honest enough to realize the way to get there is through allowing American tourism and letting Americans go there and spend money in small enterprises set up by Cuban people.
The idea of sanctions, and embargos have failed for 60 years. No, if you want to turn Cuba into a Market economy as East Germany is today, end embargos and sanctions. Let them discover the concept of profit which America pretends to believe in as the cure for poverty and, sometimes, rightly so.
It is not my opinion but instead a fact, successful revolutions do not begin in the poorest classes, no, they begin with the successful middle classes but if you use sanctions and embargos you kill the middle class and thus prevent any successful revolution.

"Y'all are blinded by your obsession."

Yes we are obsessed with obeying the absolutely proven true will of the people not the wannabe dictator. Et Al has lost all credibility on this site in this one thread. Nothing he posts in the future will have any validity.

And thank you Et Al, putting me in that list with Twin Pac is a great honor but I do question why Gal Tuesday wasn't include too.
Et Al is a genius in his own mind but doesn't actually understand the legal system he pretends to know. I actually have never had much respect for him and now I know I was right all along.

I may not be a legal scholar but I do know right from wrong. Wannabe dictators fall into the wrong category though Et Al doesn't seem smart enough to understand that.