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[planomateo]

Meanwhile gun sales

 

[RollllTide!]

@BamaBoyJosh your arguments really sound compelling until you see the sources. POTUS doesn't trust the media. They lie. If a media source or channel tells me a lie. I just tune it out. At this point he is doing a good job fighting this thing. Can't go back. The only one that didn't make mistakes died 2020 years ago. I haven't seen the star in the east lately.

 

[Rolltide24]

I look for any excuse to add to the arsenal. What do the say, the gap between want and enough never seems to close.

Heck, they’re releasing criminals, and the police forces are also suffering from absenteeism in places. And they have to worry about keeping people sheltered in place. I just want to be adequately protected. Here in town the interesting thing is the demographics of the gun buyers. It’s not the make up you’d expect. It’s mostly been folks from lower income and crime ridden neighborhoods that are looking for protection. At least according to my buddy that owns a store. It’s not the middle aged to older Caucasian with an arsenal already in the safe at home.

 

[planomateo]

I would guess those who have guns weren't the majority of those buying guns.

 

[XXL TideFan]

An effort to thin the herd and shed some resource negative people perhaps. Just my gut feeling I but think that we are about to see an economy reduced to 1970s size with lots more people. This could very well lead to a flavor of national socialism arising. Globalism spread and made it worse. Dems shit their pants when xenophobic prez shut down travel from China. People are going to scream and demand order from chaos and the demand will be met. Gonna get ugly. Waiting to see what the reaction is to 24hr home confinement.

 

[XXL TideFan]

Get some good tidbits @ Asia Times

China Seizes Advantage

 

[planomateo]

An effort to thin the herd and shed some resource negative people perhaps. Just my gut feeling I but think that we are about to see an economy reduced to 1970s size with lots more people. This could very well lead to a flavor of national socialism arising. Globalism spread and made it worse. Dems shit their pants when xenophobic prez shut down travel from China. People are going to scream and demand order from chaos and the demand will be met. Gonna get ugly. Waiting to see what the reaction is to 24hr home confinement.

Montana has engaged the guard to help screen the airports for travelers from infected areas.

 

[planomateo]

Case in point @BamaBoyJosh

 

[JoshB]

@BamaBoyJosh your arguments really sound compelling until you see the sources. POTUS doesn't trust the media. They lie. If a media source or channel tells me a lie. I just tune it out. At this point he is doing a good job fighting this thing. Can't go back. The only one that didn't make mistakes died 2020 years ago. I haven't seen the star in the east lately.

This is exactly why he gets away with all of his bullshit. He is the biggest liar on the planet but he just shakes his head like a toddler and goes "UN UH! YOU'RE THE LIAR" and people like you eat it up. All media sources are liars unless they slob all over him. Yall don't want actual freedom of the press, you want state run media. Fox News, Breitbart and OAN give you plenty of it to enjoy.

 

[JoshB]

Case in point @BamaBoyJosh

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There needs to be one. Not today, not in two months but there definitely needs to be one unless its going to end up like the 9/11 Commission and nothing is done about it anyway. You can argue that the Dems just wanted to impeach Trump, that's whatever but that has nothing to do with his own lies, his own incompetence. This idea that "oh if the Democrats would have just shutup and not care about Trump's corruption maybe he would have been able to concentrate on a pandemic that he was warned over and over about" is beyond silly. He wasn't so concerned that it every interfered with his thousands of hours of Fox News watching or Tweeting, or the countless lavish parties he's thrown or his bazillion golf trips during that time.

And I will quote a "wise man" who once said "Leadership: whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible."



Of course, that is, when he's the one in the leadership role...

Heck I thought this was being blown out of proportion until about 3 weeks ago. I have a general disposition of distrust what is being reported by the media and the politics behind it. I would be one of those slower to act until I had better proof backed with data that I trusted. There are different personality types that view events and information differently.

Yes you did and many people did because the President of the United States was saying it. Just like he says "don't trust what the media tells you, it's all lies" when he is the biggest liar there is. The point is he is the President, he has access to everything we don't. People were begging him to take it seriously. He did not. Just like members of Congress got briefed on it and then turned right around and publicly said it was nothing, while a the same time selling off their stocks because they knew what was happening.

 

[planomateo]

If they didn't know, then there is a much bigger problem in the US.

And yes, fully agree there needs to be a massive lessons learned on this. From my perspective this was mismanaged from the very beginning.

But doing it now is a political move, which is just another misstep by the Democrats.

I stopped listening to Martin Houston in the morning because of his ignorance on this topic early on. He minimized this just like others did without any data. Haven't listened to him since.

 

[planomateo]

 

[rick4bama]

Sorry about you that have been misplaced in the workforce. Our granddaughter has been marked as essential, the only reason is she low on the totem pole. She work at the deli and is one to closed up the place. But she has a card to show the police if she stop.

 

[JoshB]

If they didn't know, then there is a much bigger problem in the US.

And yes, fully agree there needs to be a massive lessons learned on this. From my perspective this was mismanaged from the very beginning.

But doing it now is a political move, which is just another misstep by the Democrats.

I stopped listening to Martin Houston in the morning because of his ignorance on this topic early on. He minimized this just like others did without any data. Haven't listened to him since.

Agreed, that's the problem with politicians. Most of them see this as a way to fund raise, shit on the other side and clout chase for themselves (and I def. have no problem putting Schift in that). But I find it very, very hard to be outraged or even roll my eyes at the call for a commission when the leader of the free world stands up in front of millions everyday bragging about "his" ratings and approval numbers. The entire system is one big cringe.

Then there was this:

 

[BamaFan334]

This is exactly why he gets away with all of his bullshit. He is the biggest liar on the planet but he just shakes his head like a toddler and goes "UN UH! YOU'RE THE LIAR" and people like you eat it up. All media sources are liars unless they slob all over him. Yall don't want actual freedom of the press, you want state run media. Fox News, Breitbart and OAN give you plenty of it to enjoy.

Come on dude, even your boy Obama was a massive liar. You spent eight years defending him and pissed off at everyone, now you've almost spent four years pissed off at Trump and everyone that shows a tid bit of liking him. When do you realize this shit ain't worth it? No politician is worth the anger and combativeness from either side of the aisle. More than anything, I can't believe you or anyone else actually trusts the government in any way, shape, or form regardless of who is in office.

If they told the American public the truth and were just honest, 80% of the citizens in this country would collapse and die of shock. It's all a game. I thought the movie The Matrix was stupid and nerdy when it came out, basically because I couldn't understand it, but more than ever today do I realize this world we live in is just that, the real world, and the manufactured world we live in and that so many believe in.

 

[planomateo]

To be honest, any Democrat speaking out at the moment I'll have little to no trust in.

One of the better political leaders died last week from prostate cancer, Tom Corburn. Too bad we don't have more like him.

 

[planomateo]

 

[JoshB]

Come on dude, even your boy Obama was a massive liar. You spent eight years defending him and pissed off at everyone, now you've almost spent four years pissed off at Trump and everyone that shows a tid bit of liking him. When do you realize this shit ain't worth it? No politician is worth the anger and combativeness from either side of the aisle. More than anything, I can't believe you or anyone else actually trusts the government in any way, shape, or form regardless of who is in office.

If they told the American public the truth and were just honest, 80% of the citizens in this country would collapse and die of shock. It's all a game. I thought the movie The Matrix was stupid and nerdy when it came out, basically because I couldn't understand it, but more than ever today do I realize this world we live in is just that, the real world, and the manufactured world we live in and that so many believe in.

Nothing you said in your first part is true, so I have no clue how to respond to it. Obama is not "my boy." I didn't spend eight years "defending him and pissed off at everyone." I'm sorry if you feel like pointing out BS claims about his birth certificate and "he a muslim" nonsense is me just "defending him and being pissed off at everyone." I also have not been "pissed off at everyone that shows a tid bit of liking him." By the way, "XXX was a liar too" is not an excuse.

 

[planomateo]

Unemployment numbers are alarming, 6.6 million this week and 3.3 million from last week. Almost 10 million in two weeks.

 

[planomateo]

Alarming if true, 280 million masks were exported earlier this week.

As I shared earlier, my sister is an ICU nurse. Something I didn't share, she's wore the same n95 mask for at least 4 shifts. She's using the same mask for a COVID-19 patient, presumed positive patients, and negative patients. Essentially she's putting others at risk due to the shortage.

How is this issue not addressed?

I Spent A Day In The Coronavirus-Driven Feeding Frenzy Of N95 Mask Sellers And Buyers And This Is What I Learned

For a day I watched the psychology of market pressures play out in an ultra-fast game of finding and selling masks in a pandemic-driven market. My assumptions going in changed after getting an embedded view of what's really going on.

www.forbes.com

I was floored when I listened to the presser yesterday. They actually spoke about our war on drugs, the US Coast Guards efforts and the border wall. Dumbfounded.