wxman91
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58 minutes ago, homer said:
Environmental policy unveiled by Biden yesterday leans more toward AOC/far left demands. Might be tough to swallow for families and states relying on income from energy, logging and coal. Also will drive up cost of manufacturing in US as the demands to meet increased emission regulation is a huge percentage of component cost in equipment and automobiles. Can be done much cheaper overseas.
The biggest energy states are generally not competitive anyway, and if it hurts him in TX the race is already in his favor. I have not looked at it, so I won't give my opinion.
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59 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Not surprisingly, 70% of the staff at Fargo schools want to do virtual learning or hybrid style this year. But I am sure they want to get paid the same amount.
The parents were roughly 50/50 between all in classroom vs hybrid/all online.
What is the Fargo hybrid plan?
In my suburban DC district our option is 2 days in person (hybrid option) or 4 days online. For the in-person version, they are filling in with other online materials, and probably homework for the older kids. Selection ends today and the current tally is 53% choosing hybrid and 47% choosing online. The teachers are about inverse, 54% online vs 46% hybrid.
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39 minutes ago, petey23 said:
Wall Street already killed her campaign. I could see him having her in his administration but I don't think that is a name he floats prior to the election. Also, the Massachusetts Governor is a Republican(a squishy Rino) and would probably appoint a Rino to her seat.
Yeah, I think Warren is staying in the Senate.
1 hour ago, homer said:A bunch of the recognizable names he could put in his cabinet have gone so far left in their beliefs/promises I would welcome that.
Well, he's not choosing AOC. LOL.
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2 minutes ago, petey23 said:
This will likely bring Biden down a bit in the polls.
Right now it appears his maximum capabilities are to shakily deliver a 5 to 10 minute scripted message.
I am interested to watch how it plays out and how the Democratic Party will try and limit and control the debates or even come up with a reason for them not to take place.
I, unfortunately due to personal family experience am able to recognize the signs and symptoms all too well.
---his wife grabbing his arm/elbow for reassurance
---watching him know what he wants to say but being unable to verbalize those thoughts which leads to frustration and anger
---the far away, sometimes confused look
---Whatever you think of Biden, he was always confident and cocksure of himself. Those qualities are in a pretty diminished state right now.
The absolute smartest thing Biden could do is come out and state that he is only planning to serve one term. He could pitch it as a reset from the Trump era. Maybe in his nomination acceptance speech. And then float the names of all of the people who are in consideration for cabinet spots, etc. Show that he will be surrounded by capable people.
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41 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
I think you are overvaluing how good Biden is really doing but we will see. The silent part of the country is quite numerous.
I will also revisit these posts in early November.
I mean that sincerely as a righty, MAGA, Trump lover who hates everyone but white people (did I do that right?)
I’m not overly confident and I’ve said multiple times that Biden could lose. However, reading in between the lines on the current polls shows that Trump has an amazingly narrow path to victory. The % who say they will absolutely not vote for him is extremely high. Independents are strongly against him. In states such as Texas, the R senate candidates are out performing Trump by a decent margin. And as I’ve noted before, most people have already settled on their choice.
Of course, due to our electoral system, neither of our votes matter in the least (presuming you are in ND).
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40 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
Non sequitur, but I'm actually of the opinion that Biden will win. Broad characterization of people who vote for Trump isn't helpful at all and IMO is the reason he got elected in the first place.
That was a special throw-in for this forum who think that mask-wearers are sheeple.
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7 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Twitter has about 2% of our population as users, IIRC. Those using social media as abarometer for the election are going to be disappointed. The unsilent minority represents very few in actuality.
I worry a bit that the right is in complete denial about Trump’s overall status in this country. On some level, I find it a bit humorous that they are clinging to (and overstating) what happened in 2016 while ignoring 2018, but it becomes much more concerning when you think about how Trump will cry voter fraud and how his sheep will follow. Make no mistake, if the election were to be held today, it would be a bloodbath. There is certainly time for Biden to screw it up, but the denial by some on the right is eye-opening.
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6 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
I already admitted I misspoke. But that doesn't nullify that fact that free speech and the foundations of this country are absolutely under attack. BLM is chanting abolish capitalism at all of their rallies. If you don't think that undercuts the foundations of our society, nothing I say will convince you so I'll stop wasting my time.
Twitter and facebook and google have the ability to influence elections based on their censorship, would you be ok with that if a right leaning company wielded that power? It doesn't bother you because it isn't your ox being gored...yet.
FoxNews influences elections every night.
By the way, I let the conservative censorship opinion of yours go the first time, but now I’ll challenge it. I call bull$%!#. Kicking off Milo and Laura and fact checking lies from the President are not censorship.
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23 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
1. You're correct, I misspoke, it is protected by the first amendment. But if it is up to our left leaning friends that will soon be a thing of the past.
2. Public college campuses do not get to decide who speaks beyond time, place and manner restrictions. This is public property, absolutely a first amendment issue.https://www.aclu.org/other/speech-campus#:~:text=Of course%2C public colleges and,campus on their own initiative. It is people who have been invited by students who have been not allowed to speak, to be clear.
3. This assertion is being rightfully challenged vigorously. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/. They have far too much power as a 'forum' to be allowed to censor in this way.
4/5. Though they may not have been arrested they were treated very differently than the protests involving BLM. A better example would have been churches being forced closed and pastors arrested during lockdown.
To #1, 15 seconds on Wikipedia would show you that the last two hate speech cases that got to the high court were decided 8-1 and 9-0 as protected by the 1st Amendment. In other words, you are full of crap.
To #3, make the internet a regulated utility and then we can talk.
The Michigan militia was cheered by the right and the protesters by the left. What was the difference?
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10 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
First amendment has already been nullified with the use of the term "hate speech" being legally enforceable. Public college campuses have become bastions of censorship. Twitter, facebook, instagram and google are knowingly and admittedly censoring conservative posts. During Covid, the right to peaceably assemble has become a crime, unless you are protesting. But you have to be protesting for BLM, if you protest for being able to open your business at the state capital it's against the law.
There is a reason they wrote this one down first, without this one, the rest don't matter.
Whole bunch of wrong in here.
- Hate speech is constitutional
- College campuses can decide who to invite or not invite to speak, not a 1st amendment issue
- Social media is private business, not a 1st amendment issue
- Court challenges to the Constitutionality of COVID restrictions have been thrown out - see: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10451
- How many of those protesters in Michigan that showed up like a militia were arrested?
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46 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
I realize the "just leave if you don't like it" comments in our country have been vilified as racist and xenophobic over the years, but I believe it's important to discuss what most people I've heard say that actually mean when they say that.
The United States is flawed, but it is also the most prosperous, equitable, self improving, welcoming, innovative(I could go on) society in the history of the known world. Note that I didn't say perfect, but what other country would even try the way we do?
Our system of governance was developed by geniuses who saw the flaws in each and every other system around the world and built the United States to be different. Fast forward 250 years later and we have people who seem to want to change our country into a type of system that the people who built this country specifically avoided because they simply don't allow the types of freedoms they hoped to create for citizens of the United States. So why are we allowing people to dismantle our country from within when a free person who wants to live under certain types of laws or have a certain way of living can move there. Those systems already exist elsewhere. Live there if you want to live that way, don't ruin this amazing country.
People scrimp, save, pinch every penny and scheme for generations figuring out how to get to the United States and live in this great society so they can change their life and the lives of their descendants and we are allowing it to be absolutely ruined from within. It's awful.
What exactly is being ruined?
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18 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Meanwhile in Europe...
https://medium.com/@vernunftundrichtigkeit/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong-fce6db5ba809
There might be some interesting information in there, but I just can’t get past the comparison between COVID and the common cold. Especially the “dying off in summer” aspect. How does the author ignore what is happening outside of Central Europe?
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3 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
so obama commuted a bunch of people caught up in "mandatory minumum sentences"...wonder who wrote the laws that made those....it's like dems/commys/losers don't even know joe's greatest achievement.
Joe has received a lot of crap from the left for his crime efforts a couple of decades ago. There is a lot of hesitation about Kamala due to her prosecutorial background. It is not unnoticed.
Last two polls in from Texas are Biden +5 and Trump +1. I don’t think Biden is winning and I think he will lose Texas by at least 3, but the interesting part of the Trump +1 poll was that almost everyone was locked in to a decision. People know Trump and they either love or hate him.
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16 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
i voted for gary johnson bc in ND it's going Red anyways but would have voted for Donny if i was in swing state...i'm sure taht the majority of Gary's 4million plus votes (iirc) would have gone red.
You may be right that if forced to state a preference, there would be more Ls that choose the 2nd amendment and tax side of the Rs. However, I seriously doubt that there is going to be a large movement of Johnson to Trump voters considering the L platform of open borders, legalized drugs and prostitution, unrestricted abortion access, opposition to the death penalty, opposition to gerrymandering, etc. Unless they want to vote for JoJo in 2020, I'd wager that most would sit it out rather than vote for Trump.
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58 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Tell me more about the popular vote?
She was predicted to win comfortably by almost everyone and lost by 74. That's pretty f-king bad.
Don't backtrack. You said Hillary got killed. She lost by less than 1% in the states that tipped the election (MI, WI, PA). That is not getting killed, that is as close as it comes. And it shows how little Biden has to improve on Hillary's performance to win.
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1 hour ago, Bison Dan said:
By the end of his second and final term on January 20, 2017, United States President Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant the executive clemency—that is, "pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve"[1]—to 400 individuals convicted of federal crimes. Of the acts of clemency, 1715 were commutations (including 504 life sentences) and 212 were pardons.[2][
I'm not sure how this is a response to anything. Obama commuted or pardoned a lot of non-violent drug offenders that were caught up in mandatory minimum sentences. It was pretty bipartisan.
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18 minutes ago, SiouxBoys said:
Going to assume you had this same energy and outrage when Obama pardoned James Cartwright? How about Chelsea Manning? Don't even get me started on Oscar Lopez Rivera either.
War criminal Eddie Gallagher is the better corollary to Lopez Rivera, except Lopez Rivera actually served 36 years for his crimes.
Trump’s commutations of his buddies is unmatched by Obama.
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20 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Right but at least you know everything on everything so we're fortunate you post! I'll take that as a compliment as it puts me in the same category as Birx, Fauci, Walz, Adams, Redfield and I could go on and on.......
I’ll admit to having blanks spots in farm policy and I cannot tell one rifle from another, but yes, I find it important to stay as informed as possible on a wide range of topics.
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3 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
306 to 232. And that's having California and New York in the bag before it even began. That's getting killed.
No, that means that there were several electoral-rich states right at the inflection point.
If Biden were to do 1.5% better across the board than Hillary, a historically unlikable candidate, he would flip back WI, MI, PA, and FL and win 307 to 231. So, what you are saying is that slight movement in votes would result in Trump getting “killed”? I don’t think you understand our election system.
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2 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Bookmark this post for November. IMO, Trump isnt going to get thumped when election day comes around. He may not win but he isnt gonna get killed like Hillary did.
“Killed like Hillary did”? She won the popular vote and lost due to extremely small margins in three states. It was one of the closest elections ever.
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:
I thought groups in rooms was a bad idea. Now it’s more dangerous to not have groups in rooms? MUYFM.
The best data at this point shows that kids are not efficient transmitters of COVID. What the CDC is saying is that the risks of sending kids to school are more than balanced by the risks posed by kids missing school (education, mental health, etc). This is not a change in argument and doesn’t say anything about adults in close proximity.
And it is a shocking twist that Oxbow fails to comprehend anything related to COVID:1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:CDC = Can't Decide Crap
What a collect group of dogs chasing their tails
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22 minutes ago, petey23 said:
Not so sure. He had what should have been a easily winnable election in 2012 and he basically took a knee.
He was certainly a less than compelling candidate as a challenger, but he is exactly the steady rudder candidate that would be coasting to victory right now. Imagine a good economy, scandal-free presidency, and a national non-partisan strategy to defeat COVID. Against Biden he’d probably be up 10 right now. Instead, we have the most incompetent, corrupt politician possible who is on the verge of getting thumped and probably turning over the presidency, House and Senate to the Dems.
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1 hour ago, UND1983 said:
My condolences
I’m really glad Romney is not president right now. He would be more difficult to defeat in November.
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3 minutes ago, Goon said:
Yep. Little thing called the 10th Amendment and states rights.
It is a fine answer. If Rs think that nothing can or should be done to help, that is your prerogative. But you can’t then turn around and criticize Blacks from voting for Ds and blaming D policies for the state of the Black community.
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No comments yet on Walmart requiring masks?
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/507431-walmart-to-require-all-customers-to-wear-masks