Subj : Re: Biggest Crash Ever! To : Gregory Deyss From : Dan Cross Date : Mon Mar 16 2020 03:19 am On 15 Mar 2020 at 08:41a, Gregory Deyss pondered and said... GD> DC> If it's just being over-sensationalized, why did the GD> DC> president declare a national state of emergency yesterday? GD> DC> Why is he getting tested? GD> GD> Curious, do you not watch the news or is it that you are many hundreds GD> of miles from the USA and therefore are not aware of what happens here? First of all, I'm actually a proud American. Unlike you faux-conservatives, I actually love my country. But what does where I live have to do with my question? If you think it's being over-sensationalized, why did he declare a state of emergency? Why, a week ago, was he saying it's no big deal and people with it should go to work? Why has the GOP blocked congressional efforts to provide relief bills? Why has Mitch McConnell gone on a long weekend instead of staying to deal with this crisis? GD> The President was not going to be tested, but his advisors probably GD> convinced him that it would be a very good idea because of the Fact that GD> he was sitting next to a Brazilian leader who has the corona virus, they GD> even shook hands. The President had no ill effects but was tested as a GD> precaution. According to Rush Limbaugh, who you've admitted you listen to, it's just the common cold. So what's the big deal? GD> My office was closed Tuesday and Friday, because on Wednesday 3/11 GD> management called for a office wide meeting, we were all told that there GD> is an employee who pre-quarantined herself at home. Sounds like it might be a bigger deal than you fake conservatives tried to make it out to be, huh? GD> Several inaccurate statements. GD> The wall has nothing to corona virus. It was built to stop the hordes of GD> freeloaders from coming into the USA. You know what else this wall has a GD> door. Known as ports of entry. Ah, I see you cannot parse a metaphor. I'm not surprised. What's your level of education? The reason I put "travel restrictions from China" in parenthesis was because that's a metaphor for a wall: Ie, the flawed logic that keeping the infected out will protect us. The rest of your drivel is debunked nonsense. GD> Restrictions on Travel is smart it is not xenophobic and it has saved GD> many hundreds of lives. It was in fact the right thing to do. However, the only real effect it would have had was buying us time to prepare. But Trump, the idiot that he is, squandered that opportunity. In other words, and this is where you and the rest of the right-wing noise machine are just plain wrong, travel restrictions by themselves don't work: they only buy you time. So while it was a good idea to put in the restrictions, the necessary follow-through wasn't done because it would have made Trump look bad. You and the rest of the sheep continue to bleat about what a great idea it was without acknowledging that the other more important opportunity it _could_ have afforded us was squandered. GD> Again you wrong, everything you have within the 5 above lines is reversed GD> from what you indicated. How, precisely, am I wrong? GD> It's the Democratic Party that has an issue with the American Flag as it GD> is not seen in abundance at the Democratic Debates. First of all, I'm not a Democrat, but.... The American Flag is _not_ the country. If you loved our Constitution, you'd understand that it is an American's right not to display it if they don't want. But right-wingers can't understand that, because they lack the mental capacity to distinguish between the symbol (ie, the flag), and the thing that it symbolizes (ie, the nation). If your metric is how many flags are displayed, then you're just wrong. This is America, not Nazi Germany. GD> The Democratic Party uses people like pawns, they hand out free shit, to GD> bribe them for their vote. Oh really? What free shit are they handing out? This ought to be amusing.... GD> Think I am wrong? I don't think, I know. GD> Then take a good hard look at San Francisco, California. GD> People defecating in the streets. Drug needles in the streets by the GD> hundreds. You would not live among this filth for 5 minutes, people do GD> though. I've been to San Francisco. Yeah, one screwed up city is obviously an indictment of more than half the country. How about we look at the right-wing rural areas? Lack of industry, chronic health morbidities including obesity, high-blood pressure, diabetes; unemployment; lack of education; chronic substance abuse; crime; domestic violence; high rates of STDs and teen pregnancy; lack of access to healthcare; a megachurch on every corner with some idiot preacher spouting a hateful perversion of whatever is in the new testament; the list goes on and on and on. I can step over the feces in San Francisco, but the problems in the red states are backed into generations of ignorance and inbreeding. GD> DC> You aren't even really a conservative; you're just a GD> DC> cruel loser who wants to lash out at those who are GD> DC> better, smarter, and more successful than you. GD> GD> If you have to brag, then your not even remotely those things. You're not much on reading comprehension, are you? GD> You sound very much like your hammering keys within a white castle on a GD> top of hill. (when in fact your probably in your pj's or underwear in GD> your mom's basement.) Clean yourself up, your a disgrace. Well, we know YOU can't be in your mom's basement because most double-wide's don't have basements. GD> Someone like Obama, perhaps? who did not stop travel and what happened GD> thousands died. No thanks, I will keep my President who is a business GD> man, not a clueless black man, who was a community organizer. Ah! It FINALLY comes out! You were just mad that Obama is black. Well, thanks for admitting it. Compare Obama's reactions to both H1N1 and Ebola to Trump's inaction on COVID-19. Who disbanded the pandemic response team on the NSC? Trump is a joke. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/12 (Windows/32) * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100) .