2020 Politics Thread - Enter At Your Own Risk - RULES IN OP

[JustinVerlander07]

Originally Posted by babyfaceposey

So I was right. My wife tested positive for the antibodies at work yesterday. We were sick at Christmas. This was in the country way before it was reported.

My mom, brother and myself all were really sick during the same timeframe. I have not been tested, but definitely believe all 3 of us had COVID. I didn't feel well for about 2 weeks, got better for a couple weeks then ended up getting the flu. It was a brutal stretch.

[mnvikingstwins]

Originally Posted by GOWIFB

I am really sick of these morons who are still out after curfew. I suspect most of these people are not there to loot or riot but they are contributing to the problem tonight just because they feel like they want to defy authority. Really think the National Guard needs to move in right now and start breaking up these crowds while it is still daylight. If that happens I would think most of those who are not there to riot will actually go home and then tonight they can focus on the thugs.

The curfew is meaningless since they're not bothering enforcing it. Need to start arresting people, even if it's a small peaceful group

[GOWIFB]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

My mom, brother and myself all were really sick during the same timeframe. I have not been tested, but definitely believe all 3 of us had COVID. I didn't feel well for about 2 weeks, got better for a couple weeks then ended up getting the flu. It was a brutal stretch.

Really hope that I already had it, I had a somewhat similar experience in early March. I was sick with what I felt was the cold for over a week when it usually only lasts 5-6 days. Then I got better but then a week later I started to get a runny nose and was sneezing alot for about 4-5 days. Never had that happen before right after I got over a cold.

[NeedChapmans]

Originally Posted by SleeperCards

Hope so.

Well, we've got two in space now that will be OK.

[GOWIFB]

Originally Posted by mnvikingstwins

The curfew is meaningless since they're not bothering enforcing it. Need to start arresting people, even if it's a small peaceful group

Agreed, they need to stop this now. If they start arresting people now it will clear the streets so they can arrest more later. Otherwise if you let all these people just stay out for hours then they will have no way to get to the people that are causing the destruction.

[Athey49]

Originally Posted by trixstar

https://twitter.com/pgarapon/status/1266885414016688134

I mean, what are they supposed to do? If you have an emergency to attend to and these rioters are throwing objects at you and blocking your path, what do you do? Stay in the vehicle, put it in park and camp out? Get out and risk more violence towards you, which if you retaliate will somehow paint a bad picture for them anyways? Roll down the window and tear gas them? They're screwed no matter what in terms of how the media is going to report it

[trixstar]

Holy hell

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/statu...216823814?s=20

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/statu...548860419?s=20

Not sure he's a cop or not but he knows what hes doing lol

[babyfaceposey]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

My mom, brother and myself all were really sick during the same timeframe. I have not been tested, but definitely believe all 3 of us had COVID. I didn't feel well for about 2 weeks, got better for a couple weeks then ended up getting the flu. It was a brutal stretch.

Probably had it. Wasn't a normal flu. Never had body aches from being sick.

[preakness]

Originally Posted by GOWIFB

I am really sick of these morons who are still out after curfew. I suspect most of these people are not there to loot or riot but they are contributing to the problem tonight just because they feel like they want to defy authority. Really think the National Guard needs to move in right now and start breaking up these crowds while it is still daylight. If that happens I would think most of those who are not there to riot will actually go home and then tonight they can focus on the thugs.

Parents should ground them

[rman112]

Originally Posted by charnick

I stand by what I said, and I'll tell you why. And we're closer in beliefs than you may think. I am also not a member of any political party and I've never voted for a D for President in my life and my first vote for Ross Perot and my last was for Gary Johnson. So I'm not nearly as partisan as you may think. That being said, I feel the time for equivocation has passed. I posted what I posted, and it should be as easy as pie for anyone to immediately say that stuff is complete garbage and throw it in the trash. Except I get attacked, with nothing being said about the content of my post, just straight to accusing me of messing with my profile and casting aspersions on me. Supporters of the president *revel* in distractions (like the number of bankrupcies Warren Buffett has had some how has anything to do with the current president's performance!). They obfuscate and distract and say nothing when confronted about the extreme beliefs of those who support their guy the most.

I don't care about who on the left may be doing the same thing. I'll keep the focus where it belongs, on the words and actions of this president. He could have said anything, *anything* try to and bring peace to this situation, and dividing the people is all he can muster to do. His statement is gun powder on an already volatile situation, and his supporters here not only don't see a problem with it, they will go out of their way to rub your nose in it.

This is not a binary either. It doesn't have to be that if you're a Trump supporter you are a white supremacist, no, of course not. Just like it doesn't have to mean I'm some sort of leftist either. But when the president says divisive things, and refuses to help heal a wounded nation, then you bet, I'll point out the extreme beliefs of some of his supporters, and how others, like some of those here remain silent instead of driving that element out of the current R party.

1. You did.

2. "Not as nonpartisan as you may think"

3. No words were going to bring peace to this situation, or stop the riots from happening.

[GOWIFB]

Reporter on local CBS station said he has been out since 2pm and still hasn't seen a single police officer anywhere, unreal

[babyfaceposey]

Originally Posted by trixstar

Holy hell

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/statu...216823814?s=20

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/statu...548860419?s=20

Not sure he's a cop or not but he knows what hes doing lol

Probably military or something has that authorative voice. Good for him. Kid didn't know what he had in his hands.

[rman112]

Originally Posted by trixstar

https://twitter.com/pgarapon/status/1266885414016688134

Like seemingly everything else going on, two wrongs don't make a right. Would the cop have gassed it like that if the "protestors" didn't start escalating by throwing water bottles and a bag of garbage at the car? Probably not.

[JustinVerlander07]

Originally Posted by babyfaceposey

Probably had it. Wasn't a normal flu. Never had body aches from being sick.

Whenever I've gotten a cold, flu etc, I've never had a cough until this year. Had trouble breathing, so it's all the COVID symptoms. Several co-workers had the same thing in the same time period. So yea, I'm a firm believer that that was the first wave in December/January and this was the 2nd wave.

[trixstar]

Originally Posted by babyfaceposey

Probably military or something has that authorative voice. Good for him. Kid didn't know what he had in his hands.

Yea that dude saved a lot of lives for sure.

[rman112]

Originally Posted by NeedChapmans

I mean seriously people ... Flatbush NY.

"Covid Matters" media story is officially dead. RIP.

[NeedChapmans]

Originally Posted by rman112

"Covid Matters" media story is officially dead. RIP.

40 million Americans out of work; but for the liberal cause ... throw all the rules out the window.

[JustinVerlander07]

Originally Posted by NeedChapmans

40 million Americans out of work; but for the liberal cause ... throw all the rules out the window.

Whitmer released a statement for Michigan today talking about supporting the right to protest. It's like wait, haven't you been criticizing all the protests at the state capital (which I personally do think was dumb) saying it would spread the virus? Now it won't? Why am I still at home unemployed again?

[ilovethelakings]

Originally Posted by trixstar

Yea that dude saved a lot of lives for sure.

You know somebody will paint him as a villain though.

[rman112]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

Whitmer released a statement for Michigan today talking about supporting the right to protest. It's like wait, haven't you been criticizing all the protests at the state capital (which I personally do think was dumb) saying it would spread the virus? Now it won't? Why am I still at home unemployed again?

:: Checks which "protests" are literally burning cities to the ground ::

Oh, OK. That makes sense. Wait.. nevermind?

[charnick]

dont feed the trolls

[GOWIFB]

Finally State Patrol has arrived and here comes the teargas

[NeedChapmans]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

Whitmer released a statement for Michigan today talking about supporting the right to protest. It's like wait, haven't you been criticizing all the protests at the state capital (which I personally do think was dumb) saying it would spread the virus? Now it won't? Why am I still at home unemployed again?

Three months of go outside and die nonsense and then all of a sudden ... poof ... it's like none of it matters anymore. For weeks you heard about where the spikes would happen, how 100 people protests, in person voting, going to the beach was a bad idea and governors were allowing death by letting people outside.

I've got stickers on the floor of everyplace in America to tell me where to stand, but on a Friday and Saturday night, I can get together with hundreds of thousands of other American friends, run around, spit on people, and it's all cool.

#*!*

[rman112]

Originally Posted by charnick

1) I have NO IDEA what you’re talking about but if a mod has a log of this supposed change, I’d love to see it. Either way, please stop being so creepy with this obsession of yours about this, it’s genuinely concerning.

2) I don’t answer to you, so quote me all you want.

3) Yep, so why bother, right? What do we even have a president for anyway?

1. Your profile was public. Now it's not. It happened right after you got called out in the baseball thread. It took me a little to figure out how to do that. User CP --> Edit Options --> Use Invisible Mode. I tested it on my own profile to make sure that's how it was done.

2. Because you know you're full of it. Am I the oppressor? Lol.

3. Again, nothing was changing. Were Obama's words not nicer? Yet we still had similar situations.

[rman112]

Originally Posted by charnick

dont feed the trolls

Because you know I'm right.