"Biden could have fulfilled the promises that he made during his campaign and set himself and his party up for a successful 2022. He could have ignored the hollow passions of Twitter and cable...and delivered the quiet, limited, competent leadership that he promised..."
"Instead? Well, instead he did precisely none of that. Instead, he ignored all evidence to the contrary and concluded that he was a world-historical figure. Instead, he began talking about “transforming” the country."
"Instead, he proposed the largest spending program in modern American history...Instead, he embraced every ridiculous neologism that progressives saw fit to throw at him: “Latinx,” “BIPOC,” “birthing person,” the lot."
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Exactly. So: 1. Vax. 2. Personally decide what safety/mitigation measures would make you feel safe. 3. Vax. 4. If you feel sick, get tested, consider therapeutics quickly. 5. Get vaxxed. 6. Get vaxxed. 7. Get vaxxed.
We need to get on with our lives, protect the vulnerable as much as we can, but also realize that there is a cost with every measure we take, and some of those costs are extremely high...and not just in dollars and cents.
We can talk about 'gun control' all you want. But there are many people across the societal spectrum suffering from severe mental disease, and we are failing them.
- School shootings
- Drug epidemic
- Suicide epidemic
- Homelessness
All of these are PRIMARILY issues of psychiatric illness. They are all the same problem, and we keep trying to solve them in different ways.
"DeSantis wants to resurrect Florida State Guard, a WWII force disbanded in the late 1940s. Unlike the Florida National Guard, the FSG would answer solely to the Governor. No federal deployments. No federal missions. No federal dollars."
1. This is far less important than you think. 2. States like NY, NJ, MI, CT had massive NATURAL IMMUNITY building up all through early 2020...one of the big reasons they are doing better now. That isn't exactly ideal.
"A SWAT team responded after a man was killed...Police officers responding to a call about 10:30 a.m. saw four people get out of two cars and begin firing toward a house...People inside returned fire and hit one of the gunmen, police said."