Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229158)

Yes I will cheer. But most of it is because of the economy opening up after covid.

Unemployment was 3.5% - better than 3.6% - in January and February of 2020, until we shut the economy down.

I have said that whoever won the election in 2020 was going to be dealing with gas price hikes and inflation no matter what they did. It' snot all Bidens fault.

By the same token, whoever was elected in 2020 was going to see unemployment drop like a stone as the economy opened back up.

To the extent that gas price increases are caused by covid waning, that's not Bidens fault. To the extent that unemployment decrease is caused by covid waning, that's similarly Biden's doing.

You want it both ways. You want credit for everything that gets better, and zero blame for everything that gets worse. Biden didn't create these jobs, as much as they were recovered from shutting down the country. Him saying that he created these jobs, is the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. He was just there when it happened, he didn't cause it to happen.

Originally Posted by scottw (Post 1229154)

weren't we still in a pandemic and partially shut down trump's last month in office?

Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229161)

Look at deaths in Republican and Democratic states over time, the info tells a sad story.
Pretty hard to cut deaths when you have fools like DeathSantis saying don’t worry you don’t need masks or vaccines.
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Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1229162)

Not surprising bc D states spend more on healthcare than R states but what is surprising (but I guess shouldn't be) is that R counties have higher covid death rates than D counties within each state.

Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229163)

And D's are richer than R's, that may have something to do with it?

You guys really think EVERYTHING is a function of how much money the government spends. The choices that people make, have nothing to do with it.

Do rich liberals in FL, have a shorter life expectancy than rich liberals living in CT, because CT spends more money? Do you really think that?

When a blue state has a good statistic, it's because of the state. WHen a blue state has an ugly statistic, you keep taking different snapshots of different levels, until you find the result that tells the story.

And without fail, 100% of the time, the story is liberal=good, conservative=bad.

Paul, why do so many New Yorkers winter in FL, instead of doing it in southern CA? Is it possibly because they know they aren’t negatively impacted by the fact that the state of FL spends less money?

Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229168)

This is a friendly reminder that Ohio House Republicans are advancing a bill to teach BOTH SIDES OF THE HOLOCAUST.
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Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1229166)

I would bet that the average life expectancy of a rich liberal in CT is prob. the same as one in FL and that the average life expectancy of a rich conserv. in CT is prob. the same as one in FL. However, I would bet that the average life expectancy of a poor liberal in CT is prob. higher than one in FL and that the average life expectancy of a poor conserv. in CT is prob. higher than one in FL

Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229170)

Why aren't the poor people all flocking from FL to CT? There's gotta be a reason. If liberal states hold the fountain of youth, why are people fleeing?

Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229169)

Now the GOP are anti-semitic, and the democrats are the side of the Jews.

That tin foil hat of yours is squeezing tighter and tighter every time you exhale, like a python.

Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1229171)

Bigots like being together???

Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229172)

I didn’t write the bill or vote to advance it, that was a vote to get it out of committee at a minimum.
It took more than one Ohio Republican
Don’t worry, sooner or later they’ll come for the people who approve of gay marriage.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229179)

Your jerks never, ever get tired of playing that card, do you? which side want to abort blacks out of existence, and which side wants more black babies being born? remind me?

how about the “retards” you hate? they’re probably all in red states too, since they’re also aborted out of existence by the loving, tolerant, evolved, superior left.
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Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1229182)

Yes I used the word retard once well over 2 years ago to make fun of the people who supported Trump and had no problem with him mocking a handicapped person and tried to talk it away by saying he had done it to a non handicapped people so it's okay. I had no idea you had a special need child but I should have guessed because you said at one point that you supported more funding for Special Olympics when I pointed out that Trump had tried lowering funding. I should have realized you're a typical Republican who the only time has compassion for anyone less fortunate than themselves is when it effects them whether it's Special Olympics , homosexuality or abortion, Etc.

So you use the word imbecile here. If someone called your son an imbecile I guess you would have no problem with it.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229185)

it’s not just that trump
said he’d done it to non handicapped people. It’s in video. That video has been posted here when this topic comes up. He has irrefutably used that gesture many times in the past to mock non handicapped people
who have disagreed with him.

Why are you claiming it’s just trump saying he did that? Yes Trump did it to non handicapped people but he did it to insult them like they were mentally handicapped.

Imbecile isn’t a term associated with people with Downs.

Don’t take my word for it. Go to a special olympics event, tell
all the dads that you use the word “retard” to describe Trump
supporters. Report back the response you get. You’re acting like it’s just me who hates that word. Really bc if you use the work imbicile at a oly. event it's not going to go over very well.

You’re in a very very small slice of the population who think that word is ok. I never said that so don't lie. You still just can’t admit it was mistake to use that word. like you can’t admit that your side is doing a poor job running the country. Everything is someone else’s fault. I've always said Biden won't get re-elected if inflation isn't low. It is what people vote on whether it is his fault or not.

Everyone is wrong, and you’re right. Must be nice to be that much smarter than everyone else.
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Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1229187)

I guess I am or I don't post it threads where I don't think I'm right.

Originally Posted by PaulS (Post 1229187)

I guess I am or I don't post it threads where I don't think I'm right.

Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229180)

so teaching about the existence of nazis is bad.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229196)

Elucidate further on the other side of the Holocaust, I suppose there were good people on both sides and Hitler built the Autobahn.
Then you can tell the other great things that result from other cases of genocide.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229197)

do you have any reason to believe they’re defending nazis? or just teaching who they were and what they did.

news flash…the anti semitism in on the left.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229200)

NEW poll of the Ohio Senate race:
Tim Ryan (D) 48%
JD Vance (Moscow) 46%
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229204)

Remember that because something *can* happen does not necessarily mean it *does* happen a lot. Possible and probable are not the same thing and it is important to remember that, especially when thinking about risk.


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Originally Posted by scottw (Post 1229212)

you are talking to yourself...right?

Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229213)

to the voices in his head, yes.
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Originally Posted by scottw (Post 1229214)

searching for the next bombshell....:laugha:

Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229205)

The Chairman of the Oklahoma College Republicans has been arrested for lewd and indecent proposals or acts to a child and sodomy - victim under 16. The Oklahoma GOP tells me we’ll be getting a statement from the RNC later tonight.

It's like they think by calling enough people groomers no one will notice that the GOP molests children.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229205)

The Chairman of the Oklahoma College Republicans has been arrested for lewd and indecent proposals or acts to a child and sodomy - victim under 16. The Oklahoma GOP tells me we’ll be getting a statement from the RNC later tonight.

It's like they think by calling enough people groomers no one will notice that the GOP molests children.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229205)

The Chairman of the Oklahoma College Republicans has been arrested for lewd and indecent proposals or acts to a child and sodomy - victim under 16. The Oklahoma GOP tells me we’ll be getting a statement from the RNC later tonight.

It's like they think by calling enough people groomers no one will notice that the GOP molests children.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229205)

The Chairman of the Oklahoma College Republicans has been arrested for lewd and indecent proposals or acts to a child and sodomy - victim under 16. The Oklahoma GOP tells me we’ll be getting a statement from the RNC later tonight.

It's like they think by calling enough people groomers no one will notice that the GOP molests children.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229205)

The Chairman of the Oklahoma College Republicans has been arrested for lewd and indecent proposals or acts to a child and sodomy - victim under 16. The Oklahoma GOP tells me we’ll be getting a statement from the RNC later tonight.

It's like they think by calling enough people groomers no one will notice that the GOP molests children.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1229205)

The Chairman of the Oklahoma College Republicans has been arrested for lewd and indecent proposals or acts to a child and sodomy - victim under 16. The Oklahoma GOP tells me we’ll be getting a statement from the RNC later tonight.

It's like they think by calling enough people groomers no one will notice that the GOP molests children.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1229221)

pete, to the non - deranged, this is the main event, by far. Study estimates that inflation is costing the average american family over $700/month. Those people don’t care what the president of the Iklahoma college republicans is doing. This is what happened to bush during the subprime mortgage crisis. What goes around…

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/in...635-each-month
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Originally Posted by wdmso (Post 1229222)

Study estimates that inflation is costing the average american family over $700/month.

Total bs the avg American family didn’t have an extra 700 a month before inflation

Inflation costing Americans an extra $300 per month, analysis says more realistic

I doubt if your house hold income is over 100k your far from suffering

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