Yahrtzeit on January 6th

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The defense of BLM and the woke initiatives that stem from the BLM mindset is the greatest threat to democracy that exists in this country.

In principle I’m strongly in favor of getting rid of the filibuster. Politically, I hope the Democrats fail to get rid of it (just like Trump couldn’t get rid of it). And when Republicans control all three levels of government again, the Republicans get rid of the filibuster, all while gleefully telling the Democrats that 49 out of 50 of you leftists supported getting rid of it a couple years ago so take your hypocrisy elsewhere. And then Republicans pass on party-line votes 75 years worth of Republican desired legislation, including reversing all Democrat programs since FDR.

ujm, what is your principle? There is a clear difference here: either you trust majority and then you are in favor of pure democracy, or you want to be more conservative and create various entities and slow-down rules that require super-majorities and agreement across different geographic areas and social groups for law-making. There was even an original proposal to introduce the same in the executive (3 co-presidents representing north, middle, south). Polish seim used to have a veto system – where one member was able to block legislator and this eventually failed the country, including due to foreign (Russian) influence who could always buy off a couple of members.

So, if you are looking for a middle ground, you need to look at it empirically – did we go too far in one or another direction? Looking over 200+ years, US seems to be doing not bad comparing with peers. Looking more at the downside – US escaped a lot of social turmoil that grappled Europe and corrupted government of South America. Maybe England, Canada, and Australia have comparable success, but they can’t defend democracy in the world lately without US. Is the secret simply in speaking English and being separated y water from Europe?!

Dear User,

The BLM mindset was heavily probed by some really bright people. There was no solid take on what it is, before history ran it’s course and it became it’s own sustainied movement. So please tell us, what is the BLM mindset? And do you even try to make sense with it being a threat to democracy?

Dear Always,

Your little story is gobbledygook. Get the name. It could easily have been said by someone who is very pro the constitution.

You seem to think that the insurrection took place long ago😜.

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n0 > It could easily have been said by someone who is very pro the constitution.

if you mean the professor story, I had to re-read it thrice to make sure he is saying “blame the constitution” as a call for action.

according to google trends, this year Jan 6th interest was over by 3pm Eastern on Jan 7th and the peak was 5 times lower than Sep 11. Sounds like heavy promotion in the media did not ignite any passions and probably is finished – probably until a new revelation what kind of beer Trump was drinking while watching Fox on Jan 6th.

another trends: interest in Trump became more than in Obama in June 2015 and nobody googled Obama after Jan 2017 except him family, perhaps. Same date for Hillary. Interest in Biden overcame Trump for the first time was Jan 17, 2021 for a week and from time on, both presidents generate about the same interest.

RebE > They were elected in 1932 to fight the left

exactly. Every extreme action on the left becomes a fundraising letter on the right and vice versa. They feed off each other. That is why we need to find solutions that unite reasonable people. It does not have to be 50-50 on every issue as “no label” people suggest, but at least each should get some reasonable people from the other side. Maybe combine measures attractive to both sides – give more money to poor people, in the form of school vouchers

coffee addict, are you real?

“147 Republicans voted to overturn the election results. That was after the riot.
What if all the Republicans joined ?“

In 2016 democrats did it to trump

Democrat Congresspeople in both the Senate and in the House certainly have voted to not recognize the Republican president who won the electoral college in election years prior to 2016.

jackk, did you have a question for me? Are you finding quotes from my posts in his speeches? (one of the speechwriters first said something himself and a week later put it into President’s mouth)

Jackk do you have any statistical evidence that those who “listened to the CDC” fared any better than those in red states? NY and Florida have a similar amount of covid deaths, while Florida is one of the oldest states age-wise. The only difference between blue-red states is that those in red states didn’t lose their freedoms, their jobs, and their mental health. Lockdowns don’t work, they never did. There’s no “getting rid of covid”, we are going to have to live with covid. Simply took democrats a lot longer to figure that out. Democrats did however assist Big pharma in shutting down alternative cures such as Hydroxychloroquine.
Reb E-0. Trump promoted early medications, he didn’t shut it down.

Trump down played the virus.

Reb E-Without getting into how democrats did the same thing, can you please explain how “flipping out” over the virus would have helped anything? What everyone would have started locking themselves in their house earlier? By now it’s clear that lockdowns help absolutely nothing, by locking down you are helping to stall the virus, you aren’t getting rid of it. The only things that could have helped early on is medications such as Hydroxychloroquine, but Trump suggested it was good so at all cost (the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives) it must be bad.

jackk > Biden is not responsible for people not listening to the advice of the CDC

I am not sure. At the end of Trump’s term, vaccine reluctance was about the same by party. During Biden’s time, Republicans became more reluctant. Maybe it was supposed to be given that R-s have this large segment who do not trust any government no matter what, but surely Biden’s general ineptness and lack of credibility did not help. Remember how he claimed initially that Trump left him no vaccine stockpiled. He could have said – thanks to Trump for developing vaccines, now we will rump up production. He then dismissed the whole Op Warp team without cause, preferring to rely on his official team, and now, one year later, Dr Walensky talks about a need to re-organize the process. It is clear that Trump’s approach of developing multiple new approaches worked better.

TVOP > I’d rather get infected and not lose my job. A statistic you might want to bring would be deaths.

I know this would be better number. I do not work for either CDC or KGB. This was from the phone opinion survey, and those of your interest are hard to reach that way, unfortunately. Deaths would be proportional to infections only if age distribution were similar, and we do not know that. Still, this one variable was the most predictive of everything else they cited. Tzarich yiun.

Re: lockdowns. Good question. I think initial lockdown was justified by the fear of unknown. It was clearly something extra-ordinary. There were no tools to measure anything. There was also initial hope that lockdowns will prevent entry into the country. Note that AU, NZ, and some other islands used lockdowns successfully. As to reduced mobility and SD overall, it continues helping. This not only shows up in cases, but also in severity. There is some research that confirms the obvious – the more people are exposed initially, the more severe the disease is. If that is true then short exposures give immunity at small risk, while longer ones carry more risk. So, any kind of caution matters. It is literally as Rambam says – imagine the world being 50% on a good side, and your one decision matters (a difference between exponential propagation factor R0 being 0.99 and 1.01 – same as difference between a nuclear reactor and Chernobyl).