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The electoral college was created for 2 reasons. 1) less populated states get say disproportionate to their population. WY gets 3 electoral votes with 581k people (1 vote per 200k peeps) while CA gets 59 with 40 million (1 vote per 675k pe…
The electoral college was created for 2 reasons. 1) less populated states get say disproportionate to their population. WY gets 3 electoral votes with 581k people (1 vote per 200k peeps) while CA gets 59 with 40 million (1 vote per 675k pe…
"Still fighting yesterday's battles, I see..." 14 months ago I was villified for saying we'd be closer to 2 million dead over a 2 year pandemic than vabeach's semi-expert (he works in the field) prediction of 2k dead and covid run its cour…
"3 million people worldwide" Unless you trust University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which yesterday released a study which put the worldwide number at 7 million.
Fun4two... And the Mexican army was there to end the Texans from illegally practicing slavery. Hurray for a heroic immigrant population rebelling against government to protect the right to own other people.
And when poor people spend money, it ceases to exist.
"refuse to wear (masks) because they are self absorbed, petulant, childish assholes. This wouldn't bother me nearly as much if they weren't such a bunch of whiny bitches about it.” It goes way beyond just being psychopaths. The Republican…
Hft, The Tucker Carlson quote, and your repeating it, is based on pure ignorance. We know the vaccines are about 90% effective at preventing a serious case from the original strain. What we don't know is how effective it is at preventing a…
"This is why I think you are going to see a migration of people." Arizona is seeing a massive influx of people from California. Sell a house there for a 200k profit then come here and buy a house for cash... well that was a few years ago.…
"would it have been such a large percentage of the population?" You would have to go back to the 1980s at least, as that is when we all stopped watching the same news, getting our facts from the same place, and started watching boutique "n…
"500,000 death later" Except the official number is 600,000. Excess deaths last year were 500k back when the official number was 350k so the official number is at least 150k short. Those experts at University of Washington's Institute for…
"My employer may be different than most in that we own all of our buildings, so there is not really as much of a financial incentive to have us work from home." Utilities, insurance, janitorial. The cost goes far beyond the building.
I was work-from-home for 6 years before covid. Changed jobs last July and new was supposed to be in office but had been redesigned to 100% remote. New employer (top 5 insurance company) is going from 60% in office, 20% remote, 20% hybrid t…
Looking for someone to give me $2 billion.
"We can't pay the interest on the National Debt. " Of course we can. We just have to tax the rich, whom we owe most of the money to. For every dollar of debt, there is a dollar somewhere in the economy that was created from that debt. (Wel…
"The article goes on to say that all major insurance companies have seen their profits double." Yes, and if the pandemic lasts forever, with the federal government picking up the tab from an endless flow of stimulus bills, the profits can…
"It makes no sense to us, why you wouldn't want to protect yourself against a virus that so clearly can cause irreparable harm" It is part of a general rejection of "experts". Imagine you have a lot of beliefs that experts keep telling you…
"even huge chain stores like Walmart or Home Depot wouldn't be able to enforce AND VERIFY this for shoppers." Hell, Home Depot i was in yesterday still has "masks required signs" all over, but only about 1/ 4th of customers were wearing on…
The biggest change to the healthcare industry under Medicare for All would be who pays. Instead of paying based on the cost of covering you, based on age, gender, etc, it would be based on income. The actual costs are like $2k for kid, $4k…
"Yes, healthcare for all. I didn't think about it years ago until I realized the Lawyers and Insurance companies are ripping us off." Yes, eliminate those and we may be able to reduce the per-person cost from $11.5k a year to $11.4k a year…
Yes. I was born and raised Republican. Was 4 months too young to vote Reagan in 1984. Did vote Bush, Bush, Dole. Was a Rush Limbaugh ditto-head, though I could see through his shtick on many non-economic issues. I was a big believer in the…
The problem with mandatory vaccine is it is too easy to forge the cards and half of the states will refuse to issue harder to forge ones. People will just lie and cheat to "prove" they are vaccinated.
OH, There are issues with the site for sure. Used to be email and better chat client. In the effort to move from web site to phone ap, the owners of the site really fucked it up. No email and lame chat. Bad combination. Add in the ease of…
"The Biden definition is technically correct. " Accurate but imprecise as it doesn't fully describe the sub-group we are speaking of. Why not just call them mammals or vertebrates if precession is unimportant?
"Speaking of data, how are those COVID predictions treating you?" Context you fucking asshole! Someone said the virus had already muted to a less deadly form and predicted 2000 Americans dead from 400k cases with the entire epidemic done b…
"Then why are you so adamant about dehumanizing these ppl with that term? Why not a more positive label? " It is not dehumanizing to point out they are not legally allowed to be in the country. Illegal does not mean sub-human. I think the…
Child molester says "I call bullshit on your assertion you are an "ardent liberal Democrat."" Actually, you're right, I did misrepresent. I should have said, "as someone that strongly leans Democrat until they wander off policy proposals t…
AZ opened up to all over 16, 3.5 weeks ago. It was hard to get an appointment. I got my 2nd shot at 1:45am. We are now over 50% of the population has had at least 1 shot, and over 35% have had 2... But we're starting to see appointments go…
But I was not talking about single people looking to meet their one special person. I am talking about couples that play with single men, that have a collection of single men (and couples) they play with, but haven't played with anyone for…
"My congratulations to President Biden and his administration for advocating a new policy that its administration with not use the word "illegal alien"" As an ardent liberal Democrat, I call bullshit. "Noncitizen" is a larger group that in…
And don't forget that it is a very awkward time right now with the phase of the pandemic. Many of us haven't played in over a year, and are just starting to dip toes in again. Having not played with regulars, not looking aggressively to ex…
No matter how perfect you are as a candidate, there is still a supply/demand problem. There are like 100 single men for each couple looking to hook up with a single male. Same problem couples looking for single female have, except there it…
"Actually the government program that provides free phones was started by Reagan..." Sort of. (I worked at MCI when it was a thing, so know some history of telephony) It actually goes back to the days of the telegraph where each message se…
"Her is the typical swinger: tattoos, ride motorcycles, drives an RV’s, lives in the boondocks, no career Or future." Neither my wife nor I have tattoos. We own quads for riding the dunes; does that count as motorcycles? We have a travel t…
Got our 2nd vaccination couple weeks back, so last night was our first trip to Discretions in 14 months. Dozen couples and couple dozen single guys. Not much public play, but a few couples paired up and went off to private rooms. Not pre-p…
Clyde: Johns Hopkins Study. In Spite of COVID, No More Deaths in 2020 Than In Prior Years. I think you mean, "let me prove the OP's point about misinformation" Article in the student newspaper, not "study"... and it didn't say that there w…
AZ has been sitting at 90% ICU bed capacity for weeks, even though cases, hospitalizations and deaths are skyrocketing. How? Seems they are counting unstaffed beds. That is, the bed is there, but no nurses or others to actually care for pa…
More official covid deaths yesterday than died in 9/11 terror attacks, for the first time. How is this possible? It is a hoax to make Trump lose!
We have fundamentally altered the mechanism that had been providing housing to poor people. For 50 years (1940s to 1980s) average new house size grew 200 sqft per decade. From 1000 sqft to 2000 sqft. This meant a constant move-up, leaving…
"I've tried to engage you several times on these issues, but you are too busy trying to be right to stop and try to understand." All you have ever done is call me names, lie about what I have said, and told me to shut up. Nuance this... th…
No, let me direct it for you EA. A 17 year-old thug decides to give a beatdown to a guy with a gun and get a bullet through the heart in response. Police investigate, prosecutor says no charges. The Martin family goes to lawyer after lawye…
BG.... thanks a lot. Now I can't get the Borat 2 scene out of my head. Ugh.
"- a virus that has taken nearly 64 million lives worldwide." Ahhh. NO! 64 million total officially reported cases. 1.5 million officially reported deaths.
"Jeff Zucker the big boss at CNN was taped saying don’t normalize ANY Trump behavior" Wrong. He said don't normalize any of Trump's unhinged behavior. Sure, "All Trump behavior" and "All Trump unhinged behavior" are pretty much the same th…
"Quadriplegic boxing..." The pedophile chiming i with his standard MO. Nothing of value to add to a conversation, just personal insults, stated in a way that sounds elevated, but really just shows there is something seriously wrong with hi…
6% of the population (black males) commit 50% of all violent crimes. Half of all murders, 60% of armed robberies, half of reported stranger rapes, half of aggravated assaults. Knowing that doesn't make me a racist. 40% of people killed by…
"The NAACP, Malcom X, MLK, SCLC, SNCC" So those were all the PR firm of a lawyer, that shows up when the family hires the correct lawyer, then went away once the lawyer got paid? Wow, looks like I got lied to in history class.
"Your response is a textbook example of racism." Really, care to name a text book that gives an example of "racism" as someone wanting better schools, better jobs, higher wages, healthcar, daycare and better opportunity instead of wanting…
I agree with the Trump lawyer that Republicans should skip voting in the runoff election unless the candidates help Trump try to steal the 2020 presidential election. "They have not earned your vote". Ditto what he said!
"Was there fraud in this election? Yes, some instances have been proven in court." Care to name such a case? I have been unable to even find a single filed case where fraud was alleged. The 44ish cases filed by the Trump Campaign legal tea…
"Of course they have, but it is not your perception of what their agenda should be" So what is BLM's agenda to improve the lives of black people? If you use some meaningless drivel like "celebrating black joy" or "creating space" you bette…
You mean all the swamp creatures like Steve Bannon and neo-Nazi Steven Miller that Trump brought to DC. Sure.
Clyde i have a question for you. If there never is a big reveal of all this fraud, will you then accept that you are being lied to... Like, you know, when every whack-conspiracy was telling you Obama was going to declare martial law, use U…
Yes, that is how the Russia investigation went... except you left off Trump pardoning all the rats. Election... decades of bullshit about fraud to justify voter suppression. Proof of fraud is database of 2000 cases of 20 over years, 1000s…
So I say BLM doesn't have a socio-political agenda that would actually improve the lives of black people, and exists to use angry mobs to help a lawyer get cash from cities. People have repeatedly said that is false, and yet they can't tel…
Except Australia never said covid is a China bio-weapon, but most of the rest. China is trying to expand its control of Southeast Asia, and Australia (one of the largest suppliers of raw materials to Southeast Asia) is cutting deals with o…
"I am not in the habit of repeating myself to adults." You repeat yourself all the time. You call me racist OVER AND OVER providing no justification. You say I never admit I was wrong, OVER AND OVER, despite all the times I have done so. Y…
So, anyone not seeing the evidence is being spoon fed from places that actually fact check, and to see the evidence, you have to go to places where they spew unsubstantiated bullshit. Wow, I could not have said it better myself. If there i…
"Racists never think they are racist" The question is, why do you think I am a racist? Because you can't tell me what BLM's agenda is, beyond getting paid? You constantly make the assertion I am a racist. Based on what? As for calling you…
It was not a hearing. That would require people being sworn in and perjury laws applying. It was 7 of our 90 state legislators, in a hotel ballroom, listening to Crazy Uncle Rudy say 5 million of AZ 7.3 million residents are illegals, and…
"CCP had the capability to take down any of our aircraft without sending up a single plane . " What is your "reliable source" for your information.
"Dems are harmless. All bark and no bite." Except the guy that shot up the congressional baseball practice was Dem. Michael Reinoehl who shot patriot prayer guy in Portland was Dem.
In Arizona, each county counts its votes and submits results. Then there is a 5 day waiting period when anyone with credible evidence can file a challenge in court. If a judge finds the claim credible, certification will be held until the…
Sorry Clyde, you must be having trouble keeping all your insane claims straight... From page 1, like 10th post of this thread... "bonnieandclydect 2123miStr Bi6 bonnieandclydect Him: Straight ,50 Her: Bi ,53 DOJ has to wait 10 days after a…
Name a single false narrative i spew, with data and source to back up your claim. Stop projecting why you are here onto me.
What if they raised you taxes 10%, then spent the money, then the extra money on the economy grew the economy, increasing employment, and made you income go up 15%? Would you still hate taxes? Think them unfair? So, what of we cut taxes, t…
"Being fiscally conservative and worrying about taxes makes sense to me, " What gives money value? Usefulness. And what is that Usefulness? It can be used to pay taxes and debt. Death and taxes. No one likes them, but both are necessary. O…
The court filing on the 221000 (all mail in ballots from 2 most democratic leaning counties) is not an accusation that anyone committed fraud, but rather yet another an attempt to find a technicality in the procedures used. They are real p…
If Bill Bar is in on the sting, which was going to be wrapped up 10 days after the election... 17 days ago... then why did he just hold a press conference saying there was not widespread fraud?
Selling health insurance across state lines is so that there will be a race to the bottom on least regulation by the states, then all insurance companies will move their headquarters there, just like happened with credit cards after inters…
"Bill Bar is playing the game , he is in on it" Think about how insane that sounds. Trump's hand picked lackey that shut down all investigations, lied about the finding of the Muller investigation to falsely claim no evidence... That Bill…
In AZ you have to show proof of insurance to register the car or if you are pulled over. However, you can pay for a month of insurance, then register the car for 2 years, then cancel the insurance. The ticket for driving without insurance…
"Why is Biden not challenging any of Trumps lawsuits ?" Like One Hell said, because in the legal filings so far, they are trying to get legit votes tossed on minor technicalities, and the states respond. There has not been a cade filed ale…
" . I guess also nobody cares if we become socialist as long as their guy wins ." Socialist and capitalist are two end points on a vast spectrum of possibilities, and every country on the planet right now is somewhere between these endpoin…
Here in AZ, no alcohol in the clubs... but can take your drink to the outside smoking area in the parking lot since no smoking in indoor businesses here (except casinos and smoke shops). If you happen to take your solo cup of coke to your…
Took 2 mins on Google. The ballots requested number is the primary, then the number returned is the general. Not fraud for more people to return general election ballots than requested primary election ballots. You think if this was legit…
"auto insurance covers medical and rehab insurance in my state anyway" And in my state, 12% of cars on the road are not insured. It is well above 50% for people that also don't have health insurance. Also, auto policies have caps on how mu…
"People are ok with fraud when their guy wins" I wish I could argue against this, but evidence proves it correct. Go back to 2000 when Gore lost to Bush Jr. Dems legit tried to steal that election by recounting JUST the counties they were…
" Did you see proof on Russian collusion?" There was never a claim of Russian collusion. There was a claim of illegal contact between members of Trumps campaign and Russians, and dozens of people were charged in actual court, citing actual…
"I have watched this hearing all day and too many people saying the same thing ." There were actual people showing up, being sworn in, subject to perjury charges if they lie??? Because all I heard about were anonymous claims. Now the orang…
Show me the evidence.
Rudy testified in front of 7 AZ state legislators at a "not a legislative session" at a downtown hotel ballroom that 5 million illegal immigrants in AZ (we only have 7.3 million people, so by his reconning, 80% of AZ's population are illeg…
"People should get paid what the Employer thinks and the employee agree to. Not what the government bean counter says." Nice philosophical argument, but I prefer to live in the real world and examine the effects of policy. Economics has th…
But if you came in without insurance, you wouldn't have gotten heart surgery at all, unless you could pay upfront or you were dying without it. By far the biggest chunk of those "dying without immediate surgery" are trauma. 6 million car c…
AZ upped our minimum wage to $10. Despite predictions of doom and glum by opponents, prior to covid, each increase in minimum wage increased employment as people that didn't bother to work at the lower pay found it worthwhile to get a job…
I was confused by the charge of warehousing and pouring alcohol. When we were on NYC all 3 clubs we went to allowed people to bring in alcohol as long as you checked it in at the bar and let the bartender pour. Were all clubs violating liq…
When wife and I were in NYC couple years ago, this was by far the nicest of the clubs, but it is pretty far out from out from Manhattan for the subway and cab visitors. 80, while seems a lot, is probably 25% of their pre-covid crowd. 2 big…
The reason ER visits are so expensive is trauma, not chronic conditions they choose to cover. If you are brought in after an accident and need emergency surgery, weeks in an ICU bed, and even with insurance your cost can be $10k. Many simp…
My wife works for the largest hospital chain in AZ. If you walk into the ER without insurance with a diagnosis or cancer, you aren't getting chemo through them. Depending on the type of cancer, you may or may not be able to find a provider…
Glad to see that the fucking asshole that never had anything to add to a conversation other than baseless ad hominum attack hasn't yet been arrested for his self admitted pedophilia. His definition of racist: anyone that can see BLM has no…
"Don't complain when your job is just outright eliminated because the minimum wage is too high and your employer can no longer afford to stay open or even pay you." One-dimensional, microeconomic thinking about macroeconomic situation. Mon…
"All of you who voted for Biden better own it for the next four years if he wins (it's looking like he may). · I don't want to hear you complain about your taxes going up " Actually, my taxes went up significantly under Trump due to elimin…
" To demand justice by rioting, burning & looting is preposterous." Wrong. The lawyer got paid didn't he?! The only thing preposterous is those pretending that BLM is about something more than a lawyer getting paid.
"What happens here is you pay X for an insurance that gives you special privileges . You choose your doctor you choose your hospital you choose your services . Now an illegal must go to where they give free care and these places are out th…
"Ever wonder why Walmart doesn’t have security officers patrolling the store? It costs money. Instead of having a security person walking the floor they catch at the end and then call cops. " One of my daughters works "loss prevention" at…
"He knew they were an intricate part of our labor system. So did his millionaire and billionaire buddies." I personally think it had more to do with battling the baby bust than the labor market. In the 1970s, the pill, legal abortion and w…
When I was a kid, racists like my dad would say "we should wall in the inner cities, pull out the police, and let 'those people' kill each other off." This was such a common refrain that 2 movies were made on the premise, "Escape from New…
"I'd AGAIN explain here that when corrected for income, opportunity and so on, there IS no racial disparity in who commits violent crime. " Exactly. Which is why it is so important to understand that BLM is not working to actually make liv…
"What is a fucking fuck?" A pussy. An asshole. A dick. Someone that goes out of their way to be an asshole. Someone that takes joy from making people want to punch them in the face.
"Yeah, keep on believing that bullshit. " It is right out of deptnof justice crime statistics, and has been consistent under Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump. Half of murder victims are black? Why, because blacks commit half of all murders, and…
