Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

I thought Trump DID win the election. Didn’t he?

"Orlando, a hub of fantasy theme parks, was the perfect setting for last weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The event showed that Republicans remain stuck in a looking-glass world of upside-down values.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more Americans than World War II. But not a word of reproach was directed to the ex-president who presided over the nation’s COVID-19 debacle. Instead, conservatives gave South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem a standing ovation when she jeered at Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Presidents who fail to win reelection usually have the decency to drop from public view and let their successor take the wheel. But in his closing speech to CPAC, Donald Trump pretended that the 2020 campaign never ended. He repeated the “rigged vote” lie that inspired the Jan. 6 assault on Congress and slurred President Biden with a farrago of false claims.
Even as conservatives boisterously cheered the man who actually did try to defraud U.S. voters, CPAC devoted no fewer than seven panels to “ballot security,” by which Republicans mean making it harder for the “wrong” Americans to vote."
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/541023-magaland-in-orlando

Interesting read on Japan defense forces escorting and protecting US planes and ships even when Donald Trump was denying it...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/asia/japan-us-mutual-defense-intl-hnk-ml/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Nope you think it was a fraudulent election? Or nope, Trump lost, Biden is the legitimate president, and all Trumps claims to the contrary are full of bull excrement? There is no proof of voter fraud unless you have some compelling evidence that hasn’t been shot down in court. Do you?

Court? He don't need no stinkin court. He watches MAGA media like the rest of 'em and that's enough for all of 'em...

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Ron, you seem a bit upset. TFB!

First of all, my name is Rod and not Ron.  And if you bothered to read the link in the initial post, you'll see it's people in the state of Texas that are upset. Why don't you tell them TFB?... 

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Yes, teacher's unions and other leftists.😆 TFB.😂

The virus and its variants aren't partisan, Darian. And it's like Abbott to do something like that the day after the head of the CDC said, "Now is not the time to let our guard down"...

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, it's time for things to get back to some degree of normalcy. It's being done in Florida, now Texas. It wouldn't surprise me if other states don't follow suit.

Doing it by removing the mask mandate is not the way...
PS: –Florida added 7,179 coronavirus cases Tuesday to bring the cumulative total to 1,918,100. 305 new hospitalizations
Of note, this is the highest single-day increase reported in hospitalizations since Feb. 16.
https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/florida-coronavirus-state-reports-7179-new-cases-305-new-hospitalizations/

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Who said anything about wearing a mask for life? Only you. It sounds like you see mask wearing as something you either don't do at all, or do forever. What a strange position to take. 

That seems to be the position maskholes take along with wearing them below their noses if they have to wear one or choosing a useless piece of cloth to defeat the purpose of using one in the first place. In other words, it's a major reason why the good 'ol USA has fared as badly as it has in the global pandemic....

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, it's obvious that if you wear one, you might lessen your chances of catching a cold, the flu, etc., sometime in the future. So since you like wearing one, you might consider it a lifelong practice.

Darian, it's obvious we're not talking about a cold or flu here; we're talking covid19 in a global pandemic. But if I were sick with a cold or flu, I have worn a mask in these cases as have other health care providers I have known. It's not something one has to like to do, it's a matter of stopping the spread of disease. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Jim, I guess everyone is not endowed with virtue to the extent you are.

Then maybe, just maybe, there needs to be something known as a mask mandate in place to compensate for those less virtuous individuals who don't know or care enough to do what they ought to be doing in a global pandemic...

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Brian, as more and more states open up, we'll just have to see what happens.

Like what we're now seeing in Florida? Note the uptick in positivity rate for new cases: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/03/03/florida-reports-6014-new-covid-19-cases-132-resident-deaths-wednesday/