SaintsInDome2006

It’s Ukraine’s decision to fight. They’ve outfought & outperformed the Russians. They did the same thing to the Nazis, Stalin & Lenin. They can absorb a lot because it’s their land.

Hm, nope, but then I've never answered any poll. I don't do polls.

Good lord, actual useful information. Interesting. Thank you.

I don't think it's that hard. 2000 people were sick of the Clintons' scandals and had concerns about education and social security. Look at the exit polls.

A lot of it took place in red states under orders from governors but also Big Ag ownership. Egg laying chickens are typically crammed together, that's why they're more susceptible. Think of the cages in places like the live animal markets in China, it's cruel but they're jammed together and the virus spreads easily. What happened in places like Iowa and Virginia & Texas etc is the goal was to stop the virus by killing the chickens. We saw the same thing in the Covid epidemic when nations slaughtered all sorts of cute animals to stop the spread of Covid (ermines, badgers). This sadly is how it's done. Another step is to research and disseminate a vaccine, which after the population is culled should come next. Should.

Totally different issue. The question was what motivated people to vote for Biden in 2020 & whether it had anything to do with his cancer research program. (I think somehow this is supposed to be a comp for Trump repeatedly promising to bring down inflation).

Bird flu is more easily isolated and not as impactful in broiler flocks.

What's the generally accepted estimate of how many votes Trump got in 2020 - 105 million perhaps?

Biden got 81,286,454 votes. Another fair point as to causes (an uncountable myriad), but just IMO Biden's practice of accentuating positive programs like moonshot was part and parcel of what he was doing and it was successful.

Yes, I get it. I looked up the quote, yes he said it once in September 2020. It was a great program. The JFK/LBJ administration didn't make the moon landing in their terms either but the establishment of NASA made it possible.

That's fair. I think as read it as the issue of people voting for Y because one time a presidential candidate said he would make Y happen. But point taken.

This is pretty good stuff. I would really be curious if any of this will survive March of 2025.

You don't have to link it, people say Biden said it but I don't recall this. But if he did say it would be as preposterous as Trump saying he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours and people believing him. Mexico would pay for the wall, he would end inflation, etc, etc, etc. Biden made a massive investment in cancer research. Everyboy right left and center care about it but no one knows what has happened to that funding now.

Do you ever eat pastries? Cookies? Baked goods? Going out to eat in restaurants, get a burger maybe? Eggs are in a wide variety of food products.

Huh, interesting. So there's a lab nearby where this started, right?

Trump does some specific things that are so telling. There's a very good argument Ukraine is winning or is on the verge of winning. They occupy as much Russian land as Russia occupies theirs. They have drained Russian munitions, troops and supplies. The Russian ruble [was] looking shaky til Trump's intervention, same goes for the Moscow bourse. Several sectors of the economy have crashed or are near crashing. The Kremlin says there is no dissent yet they play whackamole with citizens online & in the public sphere who so much as call it a war. I don't want to argue or prove that point, there are arguments the other way too. But the only people who get upset to the point of raising their voice angrily at the notion that Ukraine is winning are in the Kremlin and their supporters. Thats' not a slur, that's the truth of it.

The US held an election excluding the seceded states. There was no US in the South and some states were also excluded in the 1868 and 1872 elections. And there was no conflict in any of the Union states at the time of the 1864, it was entirely held by the Union. Ukraine is different, Crimea is the only fully occupied province. Luhansk and Donetsk are only partially occupied and the governments are not recognized by anyone but Russia, and there is warfare across multiple northern border provinces. The Union also did not have to deal with ballistic missiles, drones, bombers, fighter jets & incoming artillery hitting on and around polling locations. It's like caviar & BBQ brisket, two totally different things.

It's like Pelosi said, paraphrasing, we'll find out when we find out.

- The Donald. The Treasury Fed Reserve in Atlanta is projecting a near negative -3% decrease in GDP. For this quarter.

I agree. There’s been so much hue & cry over the 4+ Trump years. But the reason I say sooner rather than later is they’re wheeling out the social security claims now, that stuff dissipates if not acted upon. They’re deploying it now because they intend it to use now. But as you say, I agree, we’ll see.

I agree but there’s no good time. IMO that’s a large part of what the joint address was about.

Ok back to the case in point - transgenic mice research being posed as ‘transgender mice’ with the reiteration that “this is real” in a nationally televised joint address to Congress. Interpose that with your comments above. I’m all ears.

We live by fiat now so we don’t know. Services like call centers, claims & hearings are already cut, that’s been reported. But it has to be done before midterms, so maybe next year, & IMO it will be wrapped into an initiative to privatize a whole lot of stuff, NASA, transportation, defense, prisons, education. Congress & the courts are appendages right now. There will be howling but no debate.

Covefe? (I did edit, I just do it usually *after I post).

2006 was a bipartisan bill to enforce border protections. Fencing, technology, manpower. Yes 2016 was something else.