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Right GR, blame Trump. That will move us forward.
I would have expected a more cogent analysis of the disproportionate impact theory with respect to this policy. Whether you like it or not, is it likely to have a disproportionate impact on disadvantaged minorities?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“Minorities or women”
So you just put your business in your wife or daughter’s name. Suddenly you are just like a minority.
government is stupid.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)We can’t fight for other people’s freedom against their neighbors. Helping in a civil war ultimately undermines the ones we help and creates dependency.
On this one Biden is right.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Wow. That’s scathing. I’m really quite surprised he wasn’t enough of a bully to suppress this. It shows that not only is he a pig, but he manages via fear. Neither is a surprise based on what I’ve seen of him.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The “Republican strongholds” trope is a smokescreen. The “largest” group of unvaccinated might be white people in red states, but the highest proportions of unvaccinated are minorities across the board. When we look at population concentrations, and overall rates of vaccination, the focus on minorities is a good one.
A few facts that matter:
- “Case counts” as a metric does NOT have the same meaning it had a year ago. A year ago, people were dying at a much higher rate than now and we had no treatments. What we should be focusing on is deaths, but that’s too touchy.
- Whites are more vaccinated than AA in pretty much every state of the union. Whites are more vaccinated than Hispanics in most states.
- The largest group of vaccine-resistant folks are white, rural dwellers.
- Blaming Republicans for the surge ignores the highest proportions of unvaccinated populations also tend to live around larger cities, and likely have higher risk of transmission.
My hunch is that if you promoted vaccination among rural whites like is happening among urban minorities, you’d see a lot more vaccination activity by targeting these “largest groups” but you would lose the virtue of focusing on “disadvantaged groups.” Politicians are in a pickle.
https://www.vox.com/22587443/covid-19-vaccine-refusal-hesitancy-variant-delta-cases-rate
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah. Can’t wait until the government can slander private citizens for “wrongthink.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have flown for the past few weeks on American and haven’t had terrible disruptions since I generally fly between big hubs. My teams have flown into smaller airports and have been hosed with ridiculous delays (e.g., arrivals at 2am).
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That’s a feature, not a bug.
The reality is that there is a humanitarian crisis that is not going on at the border, it’s going on within the communities that the immigrants are being released into. Just wait.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
actually a very prescient take when it comes to the current iteration of Covid, which is about like the flu for anybody with the vaccine. Yet we are talking about shutting down the economy…again.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)She dropped from the all around.
One of the greatest gymnasts of all time gets a case of the yips in the middle of the biggest competition for the sport and withdraws completely. No sarcasm at all: That’s just fascinating.
Gymnastics isn’t a warrior sport and Biles has certainly earned her position as one of the greatest. The nastiest interpretation is that she realized she couldn’t win and so withdrew to protect her “brand.” It would be like Ali withdrawing from the foreman fight just before the opening bell. Kinda smudges the “GOAT” label.
Maybe a better example is Tyson biting off Holyfield’s ear to end the fight. Self sabotage.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Simone Biles drops from the team competition due to stress.
It will all be explained away, but somewhere Kerri Strugg should be rolling her eyes.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Who said it? Curious. Doesn’t matter. Truth no matter who.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I keep my misogyny mysterious.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think “America First” is a fair and sympathetic summary, though I do think it’s fair that Trump never did enough on infrastructure or legal immigration to truly invest in America.
What I was commenting from was an article that had a pundit saying “Trump may be gone, but Trumpism is here to stay.” I found that to be pretty silly, in that a summary of Trump from a policy perspective is remarkably benign. Trump the man was the problem, not Trump the policymaker. If he was a problem, then what policies has Biden done away with immediately that have improved the country?
Not immigration, that’s a bigger mess now than in 2019.
Not trade, we still have tariffs on China.
Not Covid, nothing has changed on COVID policy: Get immunized, leave the hard decisions to state and local government (oh, by the way, that’s because the President CAN’T do those things).
Not on foreign policy, we are still withdrawing from Afghanistan, and if anything have taken a more dangerous approach to the middle east under Biden.
Not on fiscal policy, Biden wants to spend more money than Trump ever recommended.
Not on energy. Energy markets may love Biden, but consumers are going to hate him.
The only difference is Biden is making more concessions internationally than Trump ever would have. Nord Stream 2 is a good example: Trump, who was in Russia’s pocket, supposedly, never moved to allow it. Biden drops U.S. opposition within 6 months of taking office.
The country really struggles with its definition of “leader.” I see this all the time in business: A guy who looks good and talks nicely but who never delivers is considered a leader, while the guy who makes people feel challenged and perhaps just short of adequate but who delivers the goods is considered un-promotable.
A bias for nice people is a good thing, right up until it leads you down the road to ruin.
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