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Not sure if it is well known in Canada but in the US we all realize Breitbart is NOT a legitimate news outlet. It is among the worst.

1. He got the US back in the Paris Accords 2. Biden has successfully appointed 40 new federal judges 3. There was a big ticket deal with Australia for submarines (kind of pissed off the French) 4. Paused Federal Executions (maybe not as big a topic in Canada but America still struggles with how we feel about killing prisoners) 5. Has helped to start re-uniting the immigrant families the Trump administration broke up 6. Last I checked, before Omicron, the US stock market was still very high and doing quite well. Trump not just "mishandled" COVID but grossly so. It was largely his rhetoric that kept people from taking the vaccine or even wearing masks here. He repeatedly tried to pawn off quack remedies. Yes "WarpSpeed" was under his watch. Pfizer apparently didn't need any of the US money for development of the first vaccine. But I'm willing to say Trump got ONE thing correct on COVID by simply standing out of the way. Meanwhile he was actively making it worse. Biden is working to clean up the mess that Trump left and many Trumpists are helping to ensure COVID sticks around longer That is not correct. It is a well known metric that shows Dem and Liberal voters have higher levels of education. Not really. The current state of things in the US is no longer just a simple disagreement of means. It is a fundamental disagreement on reality vs ideology. The Right are far in the anti-reality lead. (YOu may not know it but in America the Right is where most of the people who don't believe in Evolution reside. It's also where the majority of people skeptical of climate change also reside.)

No it is not. It is far more subtle and nuanced and involves a SIGNIFICANT amount of blame to go to the Right as well. In the US today we are faced with two political parties: the Dems who play a much softer version of the game. They may speak harshly but they seldom do much. The Republicans, on the other hand, have morphed into a party that is systematically denying science coupled with adherence to more and more bizarre conspiracy theories. You may have missed the years 2016-2020. The guy in the White House then ACTUALLY DID incite violence to overthrow a free election. The guy in the White House GLADLY offered to pay legal fees of his followers if they beat people up. The guy openly mocked the disabled and the US soldiers who died or were captured in wars. Racism against white people isn't really a thing per se here in the US.

Not really. The howl over CRT here in the States is mostly from folks on the Right who have almost no real understanding (willfully ignorant in many cases) of what CRT actually endeavors to do. CRT is little more than a critical re-branding of basic concepts. America DOES need to teach its children MORE about the horrors of slavery and the continuing systemic racism that followed it. We are too busy patting ourselves on the back for simply not being as horrible as the slavery days. But we work hard to ignore what replaced it. Jim Crow morphing into the current school-to-prison pipeline. We have study after study after study showing that there IS still some systemic racism we are not facing or dealing with effectively. The current calls for white people to be mindful of the advantages that have come to them simply by merit of birth are perfectly reasonable. In order to fix a problem we must first understand that there IS a problem. And that's what's riling everyone on the Right here in the US now.

The Right in America ironically demonized Carter but that was based not just on political bias but he was in office for several years. Biden has been in office less than a year and the same sturm and drang are rising up about how Biden has "failed". It's nothing more than plain old political silliness. Biden's term has been rough, we are in a once-in-a-century pandemic that was grossly mishandled by Trump and we have a large enough percentage of Americans who would rather risk death than take a vaccine or even wear masks to help stop the spread of it that the pandemic will continue on. The economy here is doing better than any rational being could expect (and sometimes it is doing well enough in some sectors as to make it seem irrational itself). Biden isn't perfect and his tenure so far has not been absolute perfection, but it isn't as bad as "advertised" on some US media. This blather about Biden as a failure is nothing more than sore-loser Trumpists kvetching from the sidelines hoping that more disinformation will swing a few more low-information voters in the mid-terms and possibly in 2024.

Would you be able to point me to an actual legitimate source of information on that? There's risks in all things, especially medicines. I have not, yet, heard of "thousands of deaths" from the vaccine.

There is a very good reason that professionals in public health and epidemiology consider this disease to be a serious concern. It's called "knowledge of the science".

If you go onto the journal's website you can see that the study is already getting critiques from professional researchers: In this letter to the journal there are questions raised about the methodology: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00817-6

There is a strong relationship between atmospheric CO2 and oceanic CO2 and that is integral in the science behind anthropogenic global climate change. It is already part and parcel of it since the ocean represents a significant reservoir for dissolving CO2 but also for releasing it. One of the greats in oceanography, Roger Revelle, upon completing some studies on CO2 dissolution in the oceans (along with Hans Suess) became concerned about the added CO2 in the atmosphere in the late 50's and he picked up the earlier developed hypothesis about global warming (going back to the late 1800's) and started to investigate it further. Yes anthropogenic global climate change is very real. And the oceans plan an integral part in it.