Scholarship table
what makes you and your cabal of sycophants think you are right? i have a viewpoint, you have yours.
As you know, my opinion is all of congress and white house (incoming and outgoing for both) should get it so we can have a continuation of government, and they get be back in session face to face in Jan.
Agree completely. Every member of Congress, the White House, and other high-level governmental employees (federal AND state) should be in the first wave with front-line providers. To me, the reason is twofold: (1) to get back to the day-to-day running of our country ASAP, and (2) to serve our national security interests, as healthy leaders are essential to crisis management.
And (3) we don't need anymore confusion or "room for opinion" on whether to take the vaccine or when is the most moral time to take the vaccine. Regardless of intention, anyone in leadership not taking the vaccine immediately when offered clouds what should be unanimous messaging for their own political gain and to the detriment of the country.
This is where I am at. I’m even more concerned if any go down the antivax talking points or now create a brand new lens to judge people.
Exactly. If my health care provider calls me tomorrow and says I am eligible to take the vaccine, I am not going to engage in some moral back and forth about whether or not I am worthy at this point in time. I am going to take it because I trust the process and by taking it I am helping society recover. But no. Instead of being seen as progress for the sake of the common good, it’s been politicized.
He routinely posts bullsh*t that's easily swatted down. If he doesn't want to be "pushed down," he should post stuff that is more than a simple talking point.
Hey man, I get it, but at some point we have to rehab these people who are constantly lied to and then repeat the lies. Rocky's approach was positive. That's all I'm saying. Negative slapping (I'm extremely guilty of this) just pushes people into corners or back into the open arms of what they're used to.
What if those people aren't repeating lies but intentionally trolling?
"I have extremist viewpoints because someone on the MU message boards wasn't nice when he explained how wrong I am"
Hey man, I get it, but at some point we have to rehab these people who are constantly lied to and then repeat the lies.
While it is a nice, optimistic thought, it simply ain't happening. There is no rehabbing these people who so gladly swallow easily proven lies and will fight tooth and nail to defend those lies in the face of every fact.It would be nice if it were possible, but sadly it isn't.
I disagree. I don't think Biden is perfect. I could do 500 words on votes of his I disagree with. But, if he keeps the 'Uncle Joe' thing going and stays focused on common sense solutions and pragmatism, there is a percentage of people whom you write off who will recognize competence and realize that they were in a MAGA haze. What percentage? I don't know. But enough. Not all. There are closed minded extremists of both ilks who will never be won over by common sense.
Exactly.
Yeah, that isn't what i was alluding to at all. If you want to have these folks never wake up, keep treating them like crap. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
I have read a hundred articles and heard it on TV dozens of times that the left needs to reach out to trump supporters. I have seen zero articles and zero comments on TV that trump supporters need to reach out to the left. Until I do, they can all get screwed.
I never said reach out. I said when they reach out, don't spit in their face. That's it.
So you shouldn't do the right thing for the most people because it won't convince the hardest core of the opposition party? Do the virtuous thing anyway. Let the haters hate.
So, do the virtuous, right thing and don't concern yourself with the fringes.
If you lower yourself to their bat crap level, what exactly have you accomplished in the big picture and what have you done to yourself? Be the difference.