Politically, the GOP has a lot to gain from the response to Covid-19. But if Republicans want voters to take this issue seriously, voters have to see Republicans taking it seriously themselves.
The Repubicans aren’t going to fix anything. Case in point: they had the house, the senate and the presidency but they couldn’t even get rid of 0’Dumbocare.
They’re a flaccid, feckless circle of jerks. No plan, no vision, no guts, no glory. Just a bunch of gray apparatchiki whose ambition goes no farther than their own personal enrichment (with exceptions that can be counted on one hand).
As el gato malo wrote earlier today, you don't get something from nothing, and the GOP offered nothing. They will likely do nothing in the next two years also. Change has to come from the local level or grassroots level like Moms for Liberty did. It's up to us, Team Reality.
Oh, congrats Michael on getting mentioned in Neil Oliver's monologue recently!!
Lee Zeldin just lost to Kathy Hochul in NY. He sprinted up from behind on the last lap and I actually had hope that he would prevail.
He recently announced that he would eliminate all Covid vax mandates.
Except for NY Post coverage about that pledge, I never saw this tenant mentioned in any other news media coverage as part of his platform. Was it media censorship or a choice on his part to not be more vocal about that? Was there a fear of disenfranchising voters?
I know many people who did not want to get vaccinated but chose to in order to keep their jobs.
If they were made aware of that pledge despite being Democrats would that have led them to the R side?
I was a life long die hard Democrat prior to the Covid debacle.
I ran to vote for him based solely on No Mandates, it was my rallying cry.
When I mentioned this vow from him to others, they had no idea about it.
While Mr. Senger is right about what R's should do, virtually all of them believe the state has the "right" to threaten force against honest, peaceful adults. Until they promise to fully support individual rights and sponsor appropriate legislation, they deserve to lose.
Well, given that Republicans have probably taken as much money from Big Pharma as Dems, especially the leadership of the party, it's laughable that anyone could think that Republicans are going to push for Big Pharma accountability.
Unbelievable.
They'll toss Big Pharma, and its money, under the bus ONLY to protect themselves.
My impression after 2+years of 'plandemie' is that Donad Trump &co were mislead in their decision by the Fauci &co, who we know now that mislead entire planet with their fake 'science'!!! if we say "I am not a doctor or scientist and I trust the science"..I think Trump also had trust in his adviser, since he is not a doctor! I think that those fake scientists & co managed to trick Trump in 2020 and still continue to do so in 2022, since they aproved the vaxx to kids ! INCREDIBLE!!!! time to a hard wake up !!!! I appreciate your posts !
How long can he pretend to be an idiot, when he's really a shill for big corporations and the security state.
Also, if he really was an outsider, the RNC would have done to him what the DNC did to Bernie and others. It's not that difficult in this rigged duopoly.
I think that's letting him off his responsibility too easily. Most of us weren't doctors either but that didn't stop us seeking to further inform ourselves with the available and developing science.
As for his own chosen "advisors", given his history of continually replacing them - suggesting he realized belatedly he'd chosen them inadvisedly, he should at some point have learned from his own mistakes by selecting more carefully. His whole approach to appointing his advisors seemed hasty and unsound.
It would appear from the election results, the Trump connection has not been such a positive benefit as many of his supporters continue to believe.
If Trump's "not a doctor", and can't be expected to know truth from fiction, then he should have done what all of us do for medical diagnoses and car repair: get a second opinion.
His failure on Covid, along with his lies and failures on the Budget, Continuing Resolutions, and the Summer of Burn disqualifies him from ever being POTUS again.
He had his biggest issues and botched them one after another from January 2019 - November 2020.
Try to wake up Trump. All he cares about is himself. His behavior running up to the midterms ended any respect I had for him. He raised a ton of money and spent almost none on the nominees he foisted upon us. I live in PA so am bitter. A seriously disabled man beat Oz, and the Qanon follower was creamed by a very liberal Dem. i do think some of Trumps were very good - i.e., Blake Masters and JD Vance. But he really screwed PA.
Both parties love power and want to tell you what you can and cannot do with your own body.
I refuse to support either of the fascists and we see now that more and more people are seeing what a sham this so called democracy pretends to be.
Civil rights are the hardest thing for these narcissists and psychopaths to figure out, because they see freedom of choice as something that they have no power over. So, instead they try to divide this, essentially saying "some are more equal than others".
So true. It would seem that all over the world politics are seduced by finger pointing at opposition for mistakes made by either or both parties. They continue to treat JOE PUBLIC with total disrespect as though we cannot see the politics for what they are.
Having said that we continue to endorse a system that is clearly broken.
The problem in Australia is slightly similar..all the bat shit crazy left wing states Like Victoria(locked down longer than any other state in the west) and used rubber bullets and truncheons and pepper sprays on end mandate marches(but left the BLM to do whatever they liked)...are showing strong polling and will more than likely be returned..
We didn`t have any political opposition (at either federal or state)to the savagery...
The masses in the US and Australia...are possibly too brain washed for any form of redemption?
And meanwhile in Sweden, it was the left that was anti-lockdown, while the right was pushing in vain for more and more restrictions. Ironically, the only mandatory restriction on the general public was a ban on public gatherings above a certain size, first 500, then 50 for a while, then 300 for events with numbered seats, then down to 8, and back and forth. Private residence gatherings were exempt. And interestingly protests, whether BLM or otherwise, were NOT given an exception, unlike in other countries.
And in Nicaragua, the leftist Ortega government not only did NOT impose lockdowns or gathering restrictions, but they actually ENCOURAGED mass gatherings from the beginning.
I would argue that instead of destroying our economy(which we have..it will never recover..we will continue to print borrowed money and sell immigration visas to a country already crowded)...we should have had let more people die..
I agree, not that I want more people to die, but because I believe in "first, do no harm". And lockdowns and related restrictions and mandates, by definition, clearly impose harm on non consenting people against their will. While Covid deaths are arguably from natural causes (even if it was made in a lab) once the genie was out of the bottle. Even the most extreme utilitarian cannot honestly deny that. And lockdowns themselves actually kill people as well, both directly and in the long run, to say nothing of the jabs. Thus, in the long run, it's not lives versus dollars, it is ultimately lives versus lives.
And of course, deliberately irreversibly destroying the economy is never justified, as that ultimately harms and even kills people too.
In any case, Australia (and of course NZ, the other outlier) of course was VERY LUCKY that they were a wealthy isolated island nation that was able to seal themselves off from the world just in time, and until the 90% less deadly Omicron strain finally broke through. Most countries would not have been able to pull that off. Either it would have been too late, or they were too interconnected with the rest of the world to do so. Or in the case of Global South, too poor to do so for long enough. In terms of excess deaths, Sweden outperformed most other peer countries, and Nicaragua was no worse than their neighbors on average. Ditto for Belarus, Tanzania, and the 12 US states that eschewed lockdowns.
In 2020, I began paying attention to the White house coronavirus press briefings in February then watched the videos of them from January. The 15 days to slow the spread purpose was for hospitals to implement their influenza outbreak protocol. California's Newsom was the first governor to implement lockdown. Other governors followed Newsom except Noem. For decades hospitals promoted their influenza outbreak protocol. I think the Nevertrumpers(GOP & Dems) & the CCP were desperate & cleverly outwitted Trump. The nevertump gop won't acknowledge the lockdown catastrophe because it got the result they wanted
No doubt! I don't know of but a literal handful of "Republicans" who even mentioned the last 2.5 years of hell. None of them gave me a reason to support them. At this point in the game, if a politician isn't speaking out about what's going on in our world, they are in on it. I can't vote for people that evidently like, support, or ignore the hellscape that is being created for us.
There were actually 12 governors who did not implement lockdowns. Noem had the least restrictions of all, while the other 11 had some restrictions but stopped short of a full lockdown.
As someone who lives in Europe, there is a similar situation where the "opposition" (be right or left) has remained strangely silent on all topics related to mandatory vax, lockdowns, restricted measures of freedom of expression, and freedom of choice on covid treatment outside the nomenclature , etc... How not to question the CCP financial power on Italy to impose a lockdown just like in China knowing it would weaken the whole economy and spread through the media fear-mongering towards all Europe ? Just looking at all the companies bought by Chinese in Europe over the past 2 years https://thecritic.co.uk/the-italian-model/
Don’t be so sure. CNN reported on exit polling not matching the voting results. Things were very much in favor of Republicans. First time they have seen this discrepancy. When was the last time actually and no CNN didn’t cover this aspect? The Bellweather counties and Trump. Folks we got played here.
The Repubicans aren’t going to fix anything. Case in point: they had the house, the senate and the presidency but they couldn’t even get rid of 0’Dumbocare.
They’re a flaccid, feckless circle of jerks. No plan, no vision, no guts, no glory. Just a bunch of gray apparatchiki whose ambition goes no farther than their own personal enrichment (with exceptions that can be counted on one hand).
I wouldn’t even feed them.
Great comment.
As el gato malo wrote earlier today, you don't get something from nothing, and the GOP offered nothing. They will likely do nothing in the next two years also. Change has to come from the local level or grassroots level like Moms for Liberty did. It's up to us, Team Reality.
Oh, congrats Michael on getting mentioned in Neil Oliver's monologue recently!!
Thanks Birdingmom! Agreed.
Lee Zeldin just lost to Kathy Hochul in NY. He sprinted up from behind on the last lap and I actually had hope that he would prevail.
He recently announced that he would eliminate all Covid vax mandates.
Except for NY Post coverage about that pledge, I never saw this tenant mentioned in any other news media coverage as part of his platform. Was it media censorship or a choice on his part to not be more vocal about that? Was there a fear of disenfranchising voters?
I know many people who did not want to get vaccinated but chose to in order to keep their jobs.
If they were made aware of that pledge despite being Democrats would that have led them to the R side?
I was a life long die hard Democrat prior to the Covid debacle.
I ran to vote for him based solely on No Mandates, it was my rallying cry.
When I mentioned this vow from him to others, they had no idea about it.
A pity.
The Republicans just HAD to mess with Roe in 2022. Because reasons. That basically gave the Democrats the advantage at the polls this year.
I say this as someone who is pro choice on both issues, reproductive rights AND the jabs/mandates, and I am thus political homeless.
I hear you… the turnout of single moms and college students voting was dramatic.
The Roe decision when it came down I felt was the death knell for Republicans.
Which, depending on one's perspective, is either "HALLELUJAH!" or "Rue the day!"
I think there's about 5 to 10 percent of Republicans that would be worth keeping in Washington. But that's better than the zero percent of Democrats.
Accurate.
While Mr. Senger is right about what R's should do, virtually all of them believe the state has the "right" to threaten force against honest, peaceful adults. Until they promise to fully support individual rights and sponsor appropriate legislation, they deserve to lose.
‘bit of a disappointment’ = understatement 😿
Well, given that Republicans have probably taken as much money from Big Pharma as Dems, especially the leadership of the party, it's laughable that anyone could think that Republicans are going to push for Big Pharma accountability.
Unbelievable.
They'll toss Big Pharma, and its money, under the bus ONLY to protect themselves.
Both corporate duopoly parties are on the take from Big Pharma. Grifters gonna graft.
My impression after 2+years of 'plandemie' is that Donad Trump &co were mislead in their decision by the Fauci &co, who we know now that mislead entire planet with their fake 'science'!!! if we say "I am not a doctor or scientist and I trust the science"..I think Trump also had trust in his adviser, since he is not a doctor! I think that those fake scientists & co managed to trick Trump in 2020 and still continue to do so in 2022, since they aproved the vaxx to kids ! INCREDIBLE!!!! time to a hard wake up !!!! I appreciate your posts !
Trump still pushes the jabs and boosters.
How long can he pretend to be an idiot, when he's really a shill for big corporations and the security state.
Also, if he really was an outsider, the RNC would have done to him what the DNC did to Bernie and others. It's not that difficult in this rigged duopoly.
I think that's letting him off his responsibility too easily. Most of us weren't doctors either but that didn't stop us seeking to further inform ourselves with the available and developing science.
As for his own chosen "advisors", given his history of continually replacing them - suggesting he realized belatedly he'd chosen them inadvisedly, he should at some point have learned from his own mistakes by selecting more carefully. His whole approach to appointing his advisors seemed hasty and unsound.
It would appear from the election results, the Trump connection has not been such a positive benefit as many of his supporters continue to believe.
If Trump's "not a doctor", and can't be expected to know truth from fiction, then he should have done what all of us do for medical diagnoses and car repair: get a second opinion.
His failure on Covid, along with his lies and failures on the Budget, Continuing Resolutions, and the Summer of Burn disqualifies him from ever being POTUS again.
He had his biggest issues and botched them one after another from January 2019 - November 2020.
No thanks.
yes, he also introduced hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin but the machine was against him. He also brought in Dr. Scott Atlas
Try to wake up Trump. All he cares about is himself. His behavior running up to the midterms ended any respect I had for him. He raised a ton of money and spent almost none on the nominees he foisted upon us. I live in PA so am bitter. A seriously disabled man beat Oz, and the Qanon follower was creamed by a very liberal Dem. i do think some of Trumps were very good - i.e., Blake Masters and JD Vance. But he really screwed PA.
Both parties love power and want to tell you what you can and cannot do with your own body.
I refuse to support either of the fascists and we see now that more and more people are seeing what a sham this so called democracy pretends to be.
Civil rights are the hardest thing for these narcissists and psychopaths to figure out, because they see freedom of choice as something that they have no power over. So, instead they try to divide this, essentially saying "some are more equal than others".
Two sides, same coin. Two wings, same bird.
So true. It would seem that all over the world politics are seduced by finger pointing at opposition for mistakes made by either or both parties. They continue to treat JOE PUBLIC with total disrespect as though we cannot see the politics for what they are.
Having said that we continue to endorse a system that is clearly broken.
“No sides, no Sunnis, Shiites, Republicans, Democrats, just haves and have nots.”
-6-term Senator Charles F. Meachum
There is no DEEP STATE, only “THE STATE.”
-Edwin
The problem in Australia is slightly similar..all the bat shit crazy left wing states Like Victoria(locked down longer than any other state in the west) and used rubber bullets and truncheons and pepper sprays on end mandate marches(but left the BLM to do whatever they liked)...are showing strong polling and will more than likely be returned..
We didn`t have any political opposition (at either federal or state)to the savagery...
The masses in the US and Australia...are possibly too brain washed for any form of redemption?
And meanwhile in Sweden, it was the left that was anti-lockdown, while the right was pushing in vain for more and more restrictions. Ironically, the only mandatory restriction on the general public was a ban on public gatherings above a certain size, first 500, then 50 for a while, then 300 for events with numbered seats, then down to 8, and back and forth. Private residence gatherings were exempt. And interestingly protests, whether BLM or otherwise, were NOT given an exception, unlike in other countries.
And in Nicaragua, the leftist Ortega government not only did NOT impose lockdowns or gathering restrictions, but they actually ENCOURAGED mass gatherings from the beginning.
True..but the devil in the detail is this.
I would argue that instead of destroying our economy(which we have..it will never recover..we will continue to print borrowed money and sell immigration visas to a country already crowded)...we should have had let more people die..
But No politician would have chosen that :)
Excess Deaths per 100K
Australia Apr 6th 2020-Jul 31st 2022=. 53
Sweden Apr 6th 2020-Jul 31st 2022= 153
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker
I agree, not that I want more people to die, but because I believe in "first, do no harm". And lockdowns and related restrictions and mandates, by definition, clearly impose harm on non consenting people against their will. While Covid deaths are arguably from natural causes (even if it was made in a lab) once the genie was out of the bottle. Even the most extreme utilitarian cannot honestly deny that. And lockdowns themselves actually kill people as well, both directly and in the long run, to say nothing of the jabs. Thus, in the long run, it's not lives versus dollars, it is ultimately lives versus lives.
And of course, deliberately irreversibly destroying the economy is never justified, as that ultimately harms and even kills people too.
In any case, Australia (and of course NZ, the other outlier) of course was VERY LUCKY that they were a wealthy isolated island nation that was able to seal themselves off from the world just in time, and until the 90% less deadly Omicron strain finally broke through. Most countries would not have been able to pull that off. Either it would have been too late, or they were too interconnected with the rest of the world to do so. Or in the case of Global South, too poor to do so for long enough. In terms of excess deaths, Sweden outperformed most other peer countries, and Nicaragua was no worse than their neighbors on average. Ditto for Belarus, Tanzania, and the 12 US states that eschewed lockdowns.
In 2020, I began paying attention to the White house coronavirus press briefings in February then watched the videos of them from January. The 15 days to slow the spread purpose was for hospitals to implement their influenza outbreak protocol. California's Newsom was the first governor to implement lockdown. Other governors followed Newsom except Noem. For decades hospitals promoted their influenza outbreak protocol. I think the Nevertrumpers(GOP & Dems) & the CCP were desperate & cleverly outwitted Trump. The nevertump gop won't acknowledge the lockdown catastrophe because it got the result they wanted
No doubt! I don't know of but a literal handful of "Republicans" who even mentioned the last 2.5 years of hell. None of them gave me a reason to support them. At this point in the game, if a politician isn't speaking out about what's going on in our world, they are in on it. I can't vote for people that evidently like, support, or ignore the hellscape that is being created for us.
There were actually 12 governors who did not implement lockdowns. Noem had the least restrictions of all, while the other 11 had some restrictions but stopped short of a full lockdown.
As someone who lives in Europe, there is a similar situation where the "opposition" (be right or left) has remained strangely silent on all topics related to mandatory vax, lockdowns, restricted measures of freedom of expression, and freedom of choice on covid treatment outside the nomenclature , etc... How not to question the CCP financial power on Italy to impose a lockdown just like in China knowing it would weaken the whole economy and spread through the media fear-mongering towards all Europe ? Just looking at all the companies bought by Chinese in Europe over the past 2 years https://thecritic.co.uk/the-italian-model/
Don’t be so sure. CNN reported on exit polling not matching the voting results. Things were very much in favor of Republicans. First time they have seen this discrepancy. When was the last time actually and no CNN didn’t cover this aspect? The Bellweather counties and Trump. Folks we got played here.