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Post by SSHoya on Jul 7, 2021 5:28:07 GMT -5
Have we beaten the HoyaTalk Republicans over the head with enough facts to show correlation between political identification and anti-vaccination irrationality yet? Should we shout it or use a "demented whisper"? It's truly amazing how much in denial the HoyaTalk Republicans continue to be. According to analysis from Harvard University’s Geographic Insights team, Greene’s district is one of the least densely vaccinated in the country. It seems safe to say that Greene is among those who’ve rejected a dose of the vaccine. But that the vast majority of the least-vaccinated districts are represented by Republicans, often far-right Republicans like Greene, is not a surprise. There’s a strong correlation between politics and vaccination rates — stronger than any other metric. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/06/third-white-conservatives-refuse-get-vaccine-refusal-shown-both-polling-real-world/
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Post by Elvado on Jul 7, 2021 7:03:37 GMT -5
Have we beaten the HoyaTalk Republicans over the head with enough facts to show correlation between political identification and anti-vaccination irrationality yet? Should we shout it or use a "demented whisper"? It's truly amazing how much in denial the HoyaTalk Republicans continue to be. According to analysis from Harvard University’s Geographic Insights team, Greene’s district is one of the least densely vaccinated in the country. It seems safe to say that Greene is among those who’ve rejected a dose of the vaccine. But that the vast majority of the least-vaccinated districts are represented by Republicans, often far-right Republicans like Greene, is not a surprise. There’s a strong correlation between politics and vaccination rates — stronger than any other metric. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/06/third-white-conservatives-refuse-get-vaccine-refusal-shown-both-polling-real-world/Barring a contra-indication from a licensed physician, ANYONE who refuses the vaccine is, in my humble opinion, an imbecile.
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Post by tashoya on Jul 7, 2021 8:39:47 GMT -5
Have we beaten the HoyaTalk Republicans over the head with enough facts to show correlation between political identification and anti-vaccination irrationality yet? Should we shout it or use a "demented whisper"? It's truly amazing how much in denial the HoyaTalk Republicans continue to be. According to analysis from Harvard University’s Geographic Insights team, Greene’s district is one of the least densely vaccinated in the country. It seems safe to say that Greene is among those who’ve rejected a dose of the vaccine. But that the vast majority of the least-vaccinated districts are represented by Republicans, often far-right Republicans like Greene, is not a surprise. There’s a strong correlation between politics and vaccination rates — stronger than any other metric. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/06/third-white-conservatives-refuse-get-vaccine-refusal-shown-both-polling-real-world/Barring a contra-indication from a licensed physician, ANYONE who refuses the vaccine is, in my humble opinion, an imbecile. I don't think you'll get much push-back on this.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 7, 2021 9:42:21 GMT -5
Barring a contra-indication from a licensed physician, ANYONE who refuses the vaccine is, in my humble opinion, an imbecile. I don't think you'll get much push-back on this. Put another way, 47% of Republicans are imbeciles. Sounds about right. OTOH, the other 53% of Republicans may be imbeciles because they believe in the Big Lie, that 1/6 was just tourists or an antifa false flag operation, or have authoritarian and anti-democratic leanings. But while 6 percent of Democrats say they aren’t likely to get vaccinated, 47 percent of Republicans fall into that camp, with 38 percent of Republicans overall saying they will definitely not get shots against the virus. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/post-abc-poll-biden/2021/07/03/54e95b6e-db43-11eb-8fb8-aea56b785b00_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_12
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 7, 2021 10:37:17 GMT -5
The CIR - Comparative Imbecility Rate using anti-vaccination as the metric.
6% for Dems, 47% for Repubs ~ 8:1 imbecility ratio in favor of GOPers.
IOW, if you identify as a Republican, you are 8 times more likely to qualify as an imbecile than if you identify as a Democrat. 😁 Seems about right.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 8, 2021 19:49:39 GMT -5
According to at least one Republican representative, Biden is the head needle Nazi.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 10, 2021 16:03:53 GMT -5
This is funny. He thinks he can login from home as the Social Security Commissioner. I guess it hasn't occurred to him that the SS IT folks have probably already disabled his access and account? Maybe he's as delusional as the sociopath? He thinks he remains in office? FFS. But Saul said in an interview Friday afternoon that he would not leave his post, challenging the legality of the White House move to oust him. “I consider myself the term-protected commissioner of Social Security,” he said, adding that he plans to be back at work on Monday morning, signing in remotely from his New York home. He called his ouster a “Friday Night Massacre.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/andrew-saul-social-security-/2021/07/09/c18a34fa-df99-11eb-a501-0e69b5d012e5_story.html?itid=hp-top-table-main
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Post by Elvado on Jul 10, 2021 18:08:16 GMT -5
A truly sad statement of the thought processes of those who applauded. The vaccine issue should not ever be partisan. Sadly, it is.
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Post by EasyEd on Jul 10, 2021 19:11:42 GMT -5
I did not tune in nor hear the reported specific comment nor the reported applause so I am not sure how to react. If the applause was made in response to a comment that Biden had seen many failures while in office, including messing up the border crisis, failing to respond to Russian ransom attacks, failing to meet his vaccination goals, and other things, then I could understand applause. If the applause was in response to a pointed reference to the United States failure to reach Biden's goal, then if it was only a small minority of those present, shame on those in that small minority; but if a large majority, then shame on all of them.
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I did not tune in nor hear the reported specific comment nor the reported applause so I am not sure how to react. If the applause was made in response to a comment that Biden had seen many failures while in office, including messing up the border crisis, failing to respond to Russian ransom attacks, failing to meet his vaccination goals, and other things, then I could understand applause. If the applause was in response to a pointed reference to the United States failure to reach Biden's goal, then if it was only a small minority of those present, shame on those in that small minority; but if a large majority, then shame on all of them. You could have just listened and found out but you choose to pretend this anti vaccine stuff isn’t huge on the right. It’s funny but if you go by the books Obama was way better than Trump on protecting the border. He just didn’t thump his chest and orphan thousands of children to do it. www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-trump-has-deported-fewer-immigrants-than-obama-11564824601Trump spent 4 years defending Russian hackers, even going as far as to blame other countries like China and Ukraine for it. I’d rather Biden get it right than react quickly to say he did something,wouldn’t you? I also don’t see any scenario where failing to meet vaccination goals ( by .3%) is an applause line. Also this. The Delta variant is racking up an unnecessary death toll among people deluded not to get VAX'ed by people like this because they would rather play politics than help people.
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 11, 2021 12:24:54 GMT -5
I did not tune in nor hear the reported specific comment nor the reported applause so I am not sure how to react. If the applause was made in response to a comment that Biden had seen many failures while in office, including messing up the border crisis, failing to respond to Russian ransom attacks, failing to meet his vaccination goals, and other things, then I could understand applause. If the applause was in response to a pointed reference to the United States failure to reach Biden's goal, then if it was only a small minority of those present, shame on those in that small minority; but if a large majority, then shame on all of them. You could have just listened and found out but you choose to pretend this anti vaccine stuff isn’t huge on the right. It’s funny but if you go by the books Obama was way better than Trump on protecting the border. He just didn’t thump his chest and orphan thousands of children to do it. www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-trump-has-deported-fewer-immigrants-than-obama-11564824601Trump spent 4 years defending Russian hackers, even going as far as to blame other countries like China and Ukraine for it. I’d rather Biden get it right than react quickly to say he did something,wouldn’t you? I also don’t see any scenario where failing to meet vaccination goals ( by .3%) is an applause line. Also this. The Delta variant is racking up an unnecessary death toll among people deluded not to get VAX'ed by people like this because they would rather play politics than help people. In Ed’s fantasy world, Trump was tough on Russia and didn’t side with Putin over US intelligence agencies.
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Post by EasyEd on Jul 11, 2021 13:16:58 GMT -5
You could have just listened and found out but you choose to pretend this anti vaccine stuff isn’t huge on the right. It’s funny but if you go by the books Obama was way better than Trump on protecting the border. He just didn’t thump his chest and orphan thousands of children to do it. www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-trump-has-deported-fewer-immigrants-than-obama-11564824601Trump spent 4 years defending Russian hackers, even going as far as to blame other countries like China and Ukraine for it. I’d rather Biden get it right than react quickly to say he did something,wouldn’t you? I also don’t see any scenario where failing to meet vaccination goals ( by .3%) is an applause line. Also this. The Delta variant is racking up an unnecessary death toll among people deluded not to get VAX'ed by people like this because they would rather play politics than help people. In Ed’s fantasy world, Trump was tough on Russia and didn’t side with Putin over US intelligence agencies. I'm amazed how many people feel free to say how I feel. You don't know me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2021 14:21:19 GMT -5
In Ed’s fantasy world, Trump was tough on Russia and didn’t side with Putin over US intelligence agencies. I'm amazed how many people feel free to say how I feel. You don't know me.
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 11, 2021 14:21:51 GMT -5
In Ed’s fantasy world, Trump was tough on Russia and didn’t side with Putin over US intelligence agencies. I'm amazed how many people feel free to say how I feel. You don't know me. I know what you say on here. As you’ve only commented on Biden’s dealing with Russia, I assume you were fine with how Trump managed it. The fact that you mentioned it in the post as a “failing” peculiar to Biden doesn’t make that a far-fetched assumption. Care to admit you were wrong about the whole COVID anti-vaccine movement among Republicans, or are you still waiting for more info? Were the countless links on here not enough to convince you? It’s pretty clear you don’t bother on watching/reading the links before you comment so I’m not too sure.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 26, 2021 13:25:40 GMT -5
Max Boot, former Republican. Lyin' "Republicans" just keep on lyin'! In the real world, President Biden is governing from the center-left with the support of the majority of the country. His biggest legislative achievement — the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan — is so popular that some Republicans are claiming credit for it even after voting against it. In the right-wing world, however, Biden is either a dangerous left-wing radical or a senile tool of dangerous left-wing radicals — take your pick. At a Phoenix rally on Saturday, former president Donald Trump castigated the “radical left Democrat communist party” and warned that “we are becoming a communist country.” Making these charges stick would represent the triumph of rhetoric over reality. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/26/biden-tough-on-cuba-but-republicans-dont-want-to-admit-it/
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Post by tashoya on Jul 26, 2021 17:19:20 GMT -5
Max Boot, former Republican. Lyin' "Republicans" just keep on lyin'! In the real world, President Biden is governing from the center-left with the support of the majority of the country. His biggest legislative achievement — the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan — is so popular that some Republicans are claiming credit for it even after voting against it. In the right-wing world, however, Biden is either a dangerous left-wing radical or a senile tool of dangerous left-wing radicals — take your pick. At a Phoenix rally on Saturday, former president Donald Trump castigated the “radical left Democrat communist party” and warned that “we are becoming a communist country.” Making these charges stick would represent the triumph of rhetoric over reality. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/26/biden-tough-on-cuba-but-republicans-dont-want-to-admit-it/They don't have to pick when the people that continue to support them have no core values to speak of and they'll believe any stupid lie and rally behind it because they don't care about facts, they care about winning at all costs. If the price is dissolution of American democracy, they're totally cool with that. All the while, they'll whine about socialism and authoritarianism, neither of which, apparently, they understand at all. Maybe graduating high school or, at a minimum, paying attention in class would have been a good idea.
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