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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I'd start with their governor being a shithead.
     
  2. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Chattahoochee County mostly consists of Fort Benning. I suspect that is skewing the numbers, particularly if the vaccination site is on that side of the line instead of neighboring Muscogee County (home to Columbus).
     
  3. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    I got a Facebook notification yesterday that it was the birthday of a friend from childhood. So when I offered the obligatory “Happy birthday!” his profile appeared and I noticed a couple of his Facebook friends who I haven’t thought of in 30+ years. First one I click on has a feed composed of at least daily memes about Dr. Fauci. He’s a communist, he’s conspiring with the Chinese, he’s made over $100 million this year, etc.

    Hard to combat this kind of stupidity.
     
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  4. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

  5. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

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  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    "You only cover us when we do stupid things."
     
  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    My governor is a shithead. EVERY governor is a dipshit to one degree or another. Whoever got elected governor had no bearing on my decision to get a vaccine.

    Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the ghosts of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Van Buren don't play into why I do 99.99 percent of the things that I do.

    I think that their governor being a shithead is a reflection of who they are, not causative of who they are. We are a nation of fucking idiots.

    I don't mean to jump on you in particular, but this happened throughout Trump's presidency. Everyone blames (or credits) someone elected (who should have little power over our lives in actuality) as the cause of something that politician has little impact over; because our lives are largely about our OWN decisions and the degree of personal responsibility we accept. In Trump's case people made his moronic behavior into the reason for everything wrong. But I think he was the absurd natural progression of what I am talking about, a farce of a president demonstrating that the country is largely populated by uncurious, unthinking idiots who have been conditioned to take little responsibility over their own lives and decisions.
     
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  8. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    And your life doesn't change by the man that's elected -- The Avett Brothers
     
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  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    That's certainly true as far as it goes. There are many things that are badly wrong with this country that can't be laid at the feet of any particular politician - an incurious public who is skeptical of the value of education, the rise of Fox News and outright propaganda posing as news, so many others. That said, I would submit that leadership matters and can change things if the effort is made, at least sometimes. Biden is a far better president than Trump, and the change at the top has had an effect. Is he going to cure everything? Of course not, some of what ails us is systemic and has built over generations and some is partisan politics as the enemy of the common good.

    The guy is still a shithead, but that's hardly exclusive group, particularly among GOP governors.
     
  10. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    Anderson Cooper touched on it when he was interviewing Kinzinger one night - we are not meant to be walking billboards of our views. That's not what citizenry entails.

    You have low-information people who have decided this is their life's work, to be representations of their ill-thought philosophies. This is their ministry.

    I had a flea guy over at my mother's house one day who started going into all this. Dude - I didn't ask, I don't care what you believe.
     
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  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Flea guy. Little fella? Bring a bass with him? Possible nihilist?
     
  12. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Come on, @Octave. Give it away. Give it away now.
     
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