Moonlight Graham

Trump literally attempted a coup d'etat. Trump was arrested and charged for it in a southern Republican state which has a GOP Governor and fully GOP-controlled state legislature in both House and Senate. He and his lawyers literally tried to create a fake group of Electoral College electors in several GOP-friendly states and have them forge fake election documents to pass to Pence for him to count during the Jan 6 confirmation and make Trump the winner. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66503668

Fact: She conceded the election and did not attempt a coup. Fact: Trump still hasn't conceded and attempted a coup.

Democrats are now the only major party that concedes POTUS elections and doesn't attempt coups.

Thank God.

Yes that's fine, it took me a while to get back to your post because of summer stuff happening.

What are you calculating to get these numbers? I'm on table 6 and don't see what you're seeing. What I do see is a significant reduction in deaths via COVID by those getting the vaccine, especially for adults. I also see a lower rate of non-COVID deaths among the fully vaccinated in all age groups including children. The stats are unequivocal showing the significant vaccine effectiveness in lowering mortality rates across every age group.

Democrats have voted for Biden and GOP have voted for Trump. Dumb country, dumb candidates.

Stay classy!

My favorite source for vaccine science are the scientists on this forum. I ignore my doctor, who is trying to kill me.

My favorite climate scientist is Donald Trump, who's yours?

Anyone who isn't a scientist need to STFU. Self-edited for language: Non-scientists pretending to scientists. Please stop embarrassing yourselves.

1. I think the public has a general sense of what and when things are dysfunctional. But elections give them very limited options to fix them, thus their power to change things is limited. Their choices are a handful of parties at best, all of the ones that do govern are corrupt and filled with self-serving sociopaths, and the others that don't govern don't because their ideas are bad. 2. Well, the market of ideas has never, ever been more free. Everyone can have an opinion online and its free, there's no "gatekeepers" like news companies and MSM, book publishers etc. Some people are not very smart though, so they can believe anything that confirms their biases, and social media like twitter and youtube is filled to the brim with scummy con artists pushing lies. I would suspect the overwhelming majority of all twitter posts that aren't from legit news outlets/journalists are lies or manipulated half-truths.

But Trump is a threat to our democracy. He tried everything in his power to steal the last election, continually lie to the public about it, and made nonsense lawsuits.

Project Mental Illness Toronto conservative! 🙂

1. No, I said it typically changes slowly, slow to a point where it doesn't generate much of a news cycle to spur discussion compared to other issues and stories on a daily basis. 2. The people would vote to approve trade deals.

Problem is even though i care about these issues and have discussed them at length, these issues don't change, so there isn't much to discuss after a while, it gets boring to repeat the same arguments when nothing is done about them. There's always some fool doing something woke or chud to complain about. People like discussing news and current events because its fresh and generates new discussion. I think people know there's an issue with these more important things, the challenge is getting our incompetent and corrupt politicians to act on them in our interests. I see this as a systemic problem with our political system which doesn't do enough to force politicians to act on our behalf. I'd explore direct democracy, skip the middle man, give people direct power What would be left is propaganda trying to convince people of this or that when they vote on a particular issue, but propaganda happens now anyways.

Unless literal political saviours comes along to fix countries and reform our systems, many major problems aren't going to be fixed given the corruption, selfishness, and short-term thinking (for electoral reasons) of our politicians. I predict some kind of uprising. Hopefully not violent, just people taking to the streets demanding change. Politicians today are increasingly sociopaths. They care about their own power over people, seemingly more and more. It makes me so sad, to see our countries crumble from corruption and selfishness. This isn't going to get resolved without hitting rock bottom and people demanding change. Young people can't afford homes without having parents with a lot of savings. In Canada we have a healthcare crisis. A lack of doctors and nurses. ER waits are insane, and many millions can't get a family doctor. Many elderly are becoming homeless in the US. The baby boomers will keep aging and will reach an age where longterm care homes are necessary for many, and there won't be enough space because proper preparations weren't made to a problem easily predictable because politicians spending our money for short-term vote gains is more important to them than acting in our best interests. At some point the masses are going to rise up and it probably won't be pretty.

DEI is probably going to erode many things in society, because merit takes a backseat to PC virtue. Trudeau's ENTIRE security detail are non-white. I find that odd. Hopefully they are highly qualified. About 40 years without someone getting a shot off at a POTUS, right? Not a streak you want broken.

Women who are just as qualified as men to be SS should be allowed. But there's not a lot of SS, so it would be extremely rare for a woman to be the most qualified to be a SS over the most qualified men. Feminists should accept these truths, instead of the lies of "women are just as capable as men" in the physical realm. They support delusions so they don't have to "feel bad". Get over it and deal with reality. Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable. Many didn't want to accept Galileo and Darwin's theories either.

Political correctness erodes society. Merit should trump "virtue". Merit over identity is the backbone of liberalism and liberal democracy, of MLK's philosophy. Society has become far too soft. Everyone's feelings are hurt. We need to stop giving everyone's feelings so much attention. Good intentions but bad results. Truth > feelings.

Here's how social science works: You make a claim (thesis), and you need to support it by presenting evidence. If the evidence doesn't hold up strong enough to support the thesis, the thesis can be rejected.

Why is it a lie?

Quoted for truth.

He's not Hitler but he did make every attempt to steal a democratic election that he knew he rightfully lost. So he's an authoritarian dictator at the very least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

A democratic society says the state has a monopoly on violence via laws and police enforcement. That's a random tweet, not exactly evidence.