November 3, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, Gannan said: This. The idea that republicans somehow care about regular working people is laughable. They find hot button issues like masks , abortions, and gay people to dupe people into voting for the best interests of corporations and their political cronies. Considering the intelligence level of the "conservative" posts I read in CVON, is unsurprising that its so easy for them. No one said the GOP cares about regular working people. But Democrats at least used to pretend to give a sh**. They've given that up for woke insanity.
November 3, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, TEW said: They literally don't, and Virginia is a perfect example. They spend their time race hustling and focusing on whacko special interests like LGBTQ and environmental insanity. Unsurprisingly, soccer moms didn't want their children taught they were evil because of their skin before they got raped in a school bathroom by a tranny all while they were forced to spend $100 to fill up their gas tank because Democrats don't understand economics. What was Youngkin doing? Oh right, race hustling, but the kind you like.
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Toastrel said: What was Youngkin doing? Oh right, race hustling, but the kind you like. Seethe, Alzheimer's, seethe.
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Toastrel said: What was Youngkin doing? Oh right, race hustling, but the kind you like. No.
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, TEW said: No one said the GOP cares about regular working people. But Democrats at least used to pretend to give a sh**. They've given that up for woke insanity. Fair enough. I definitely agree that "defund the police" and "let boys use the girls bathroom" are losers. Phil Murphy's decriminalization of underage drinking in NJ has to be the dumbest move of them all.
November 3, 20214 yr 14 minutes ago, TEW said: They literally don't, and Virginia is a perfect example. They spend their time race hustling and focusing on whacko special interests like LGBTQ and environmental insanity. Unsurprisingly, soccer moms didn't want their children taught they were evil because of their skin before they got raped in a school bathroom by a tranny all while they were forced to spend $100 to fill up their gas tank because Democrats don't understand economics. Yes, they literally do. You just don’t see it because Fox doesn’t play it on repeat like they do with the woke stupidity. I agree that Dems need to never mention the woke garbage (unless it’s to condemn it) because it’s an obvious trap but to act like Dems don’t both talk about and push for policies that directly help the poor is a right wing fantasy. And, back to my original point, a booming stock market and abundant job market is a great thing for the vast majority of Americans.
November 3, 20214 yr Just now, VanHammersly said: Yes, they literally do. You just don’t see it because Fox doesn’t play it on repeat like they do with the woke stupidity. I agree that Dems need to never mention the woke garbage (unless it’s to condemn it) because it’s an obvious trap but to act like Dems don’t both talk about and push for policies that directly help the poor is a right wing fantasy. And, back to my original point, a booming stock market and abundant job market is a great thing for the vast majority of Americans. Dude, I live a few minutes drive from NOVA and I don't watch FNC (or any other cable news for that matter -- if I'm watching TV its sports or cinema). He is a microcosm of the current Democrat Party. Woke politics dominate everything they do now. Everything. And people Fing hate it. Of course it gets air play. You have school boards covering up a serial rapist because of a mental illness that Democrats have turned into a political crusade.
November 3, 20214 yr This could be a problem. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/sars-cov-2-seems-to-readily-jump-to-deer-spread-among-them/
November 3, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Talkingbirds said: This could be a problem. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/sars-cov-2-seems-to-readily-jump-to-deer-spread-among-them/ Yep. Was suspected for a while, but as more animal reservoirs harboring this are found, the chances for eradication go down and the higher the chances for increased mutations. Then again, delta's emergence basically squashed both of those hopes already, so additional animal reservoirs have only a marginally additive effect.
November 3, 20214 yr 32 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said: This could be a problem. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/sars-cov-2-seems-to-readily-jump-to-deer-spread-among-them/ we could use a thinning of the deer population.......
November 3, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, TEW said: Dude, I live a few minutes drive from NOVA and I don't watch FNC (or any other cable news for that matter -- if I'm watching TV its sports or cinema). He is a microcosm of the current Democrat Party. Woke politics dominate everything they do now. Everything. And people Fing hate it. Of course it gets air play. You have school boards covering up a serial rapist because of a mental illness that Democrats have turned into a political crusade. I have no idea what was said in the VA gov’s race but national Dems talk constantly about policies that effect the poor and lower middle class. Pre-k, child tax credits and paid family leave are 100% for that demo and are what Dems are arguing over right now in Congress. Again, you’re preaching to the choir about the fruitless stupidity of woke nonsense but that’s what gets the airtime despite the majority of their message and policy push going towards programs that benefit the poor and working class. Republicans have a cultural message that resonates with the poor but Dems have the policies that actually help them.
November 3, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: I have no idea what was said in the VA gov’s race but national Dems talk constantly about policies that effect the poor and lower middle class. Pre-k, child tax credits and paid family leave are 100% for that demo and are what Dems are arguing over right now in Congress. Again, you’re preaching to the choir about the fruitless stupidity of woke nonsense but that’s what gets the airtime despite the majority of their message and policy push going towards programs that benefit the poor and working class. Republicans have a cultural message that resonates with the poor but Dems have the policies that actually help them. There's a few problems with this. 1. The Democrats have no ability to curb their condescending nature. Instead of selling their policies to the working class, they mock them for being idiots and not understanding. Now...they are idiots. That's why they are poor. But coming off as condescending d-heads doesn't get you votes. 2. Democrats fundamentally misunderstand a basic tenet of the older working class (and I mean working here, not the entitled millennial morons) -- they don't all just want free stuff from daddy government. They want to advance and believe that is was based on their own merit. So messages about the game being rigged -- those resonate. Messages about making rich people pay their fair share so they can simply get a check won't work. People don't want to be told they need assistance because they hear it as having to admit failure. 3. The woke stuff is just too prevalent and dominates the rest. Especially when you involve their kids. Now this is all changing with the current generation of losers that is coming up, but the voting base is still made up of enough people who don't want to be told they need government to help them because they failed in life. The Democrats are pressing too hard -- their socialist dream is still 10-20 years away.
November 3, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said: Just booked two appts for my kids next Wednesday to get their shots. F'ing finally! Me too. We were able to get ours booked with their pediatrician before all of the evening appointments filled up. Will be fully vaxed by Christmas.
November 3, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, TEW said: Yes, weakened against what? He wasn't talking about exchange rates. He was talking about "average Joes." For average Joes, the dollar has weakened against consumer products. When someone says "the dollar is tanking" or "a weak dollar" I'm going to take it as exchange rates. Comparing inflation over 1 year is problematic right now because the market - especially fuel - was tanked 12 mos ago. If we take inflation from Jan 2020 through now, we're at 6%. That works out to be something just north of 3% / year, given that we still have 60 days or so left in the year. While higher than the 2% or so we'd been averaging before, it's not nearly as attention grabbing as a 5.4% annual number. And the majority of the reason inflation is rising recently is because supply is not keeping pace with demand. While inflation is always a concern, if you're going to have inflation because demand for goods and services is outpacing supply that's not the worst way to have it - especially if there is some confidence that the supply chain issues will eventually work themselves out. Not all inflation can be tied to these supply/demand issues, but the bulk is. I get that the average joe feels squeezed, and it's a concern. But I also get a bit incredulous when I see my blue-collar friends and acquaintances posting "let's go brandon!" about gas prices when I know demand for their services right now is through the roof. They are turning away jobs and charging a premium for the jobs they are able to take, and I know their income growth YoY is greatly outpacing inflation. Yet they complain about $3 gas and are willing to peg that on Biden without giving any credit for their station improving. That's not to say that I think Biden can be fully credited for the economic recovery such as it is, but it's disingenuous to blame him for gas prices he has little control over while not recognizing that you're going to be bringing in 15-20% more in income this year.
November 3, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, barho said: we could use a thinning of the deer population....... It's not that the deer are overpopulated; it's that humans keep sprawling development into woodlands that deer naturally inhabit. What we really need is a thinning of the human population
November 3, 20214 yr 45 minutes ago, Imp81318 said: Me too. We were able to get ours booked with their pediatrician before all of the evening appointments filled up. Will be fully vaxed by Christmas. My wife ended up talking to a neighbor whose sister is a pharmacist, so we booked appts with her for tomorrow and cancelled our ones for next week. Huge sense of relief when I got the first booking confirmation this morning. I checked CVS earlier and they were booked out until the 29th. Now we'll be able to get both shots in before the end of the month.
November 3, 20214 yr 28 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Good thing we promised to stop deforestation by 2030. 28 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: It's not that the deer are overpopulated; it's that humans keep sprawling development into woodlands that deer naturally inhabit. What we really need is a thinning of the human population
November 3, 20214 yr Not sure how many people know this, but Aaron Rodgers actually posts here under the screenname Procus
November 3, 20214 yr 4 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: When someone says "the dollar is tanking" or "a weak dollar" I'm going to take it as exchange rates. Comparing inflation over 1 year is problematic right now because the market - especially fuel - was tanked 12 mos ago. If we take inflation from Jan 2020 through now, we're at 6%. That works out to be something just north of 3% / year, given that we still have 60 days or so left in the year. While higher than the 2% or so we'd been averaging before, it's not nearly as attention grabbing as a 5.4% annual number. And the majority of the reason inflation is rising recently is because supply is not keeping pace with demand. While inflation is always a concern, if you're going to have inflation because demand for goods and services is outpacing supply that's not the worst way to have it - especially if there is some confidence that the supply chain issues will eventually work themselves out. Not all inflation can be tied to these supply/demand issues, but the bulk is. I get that the average joe feels squeezed, and it's a concern. But I also get a bit incredulous when I see my blue-collar friends and acquaintances posting "let's go brandon!" about gas prices when I know demand for their services right now is through the roof. They are turning away jobs and charging a premium for the jobs they are able to take, and I know their income growth YoY is greatly outpacing inflation. Yet they complain about $3 gas and are willing to peg that on Biden without giving any credit for their station improving. That's not to say that I think Biden can be fully credited for the economic recovery such as it is, but it's disingenuous to blame him for gas prices he has little control over while not recognizing that you're going to be bringing in 15-20% more in income this year. A friend was screaming about gas prices and i was embarrassed to have not even noticed. Why would I when my commission checks are coming in 30-40% higher?
November 3, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Dave Moss said: Now he has somthing in common with some of his shot taking brethren.
November 3, 20214 yr 22 minutes ago, lynched1 said: Now he has somthing in common with some of his shot taking brethren. You’re about five times more likely to get Covid if you’re not vaccinated
November 3, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Dave Moss said: You’re about five times more likely to get Covid if you’re not vaccinated How would you know that? If this treatment lessens severity than how would you differentiate between viruses without test? If my symptoms were any less I wouldnt have had any
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, lynched1 said: How would you know that? If this treatment lessens severity than how would you differentiate between viruses without test? If my symptoms were any less I wouldnt have had any I read it on the Internet.
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