Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Transcript of Trump's word-salad response when asked if he's spoken with families of anyone who has died in the pandemic. If you think this is an isolated one-of case you are absolutely wrong. If you are fine with this response, yet have problems with Biden's stutter, you may have a personal bias.


Q: Mr. President, you’ve spoken about your friend who passed away. I was wondering if you’ve spoken to the families of anyone else who has lost loved ones to COVID-19, if there’s any particular stories that have affected you?


A: Well, I have. I have many people. I know many stories. I’ve spoken to three, maybe, I guess, four families unrelated to me. I did. I lost a very good friend. I also lost three other friends, two of whom I didn’t know as well, but they were friends and people I did business with and probably almost everybody in the room did.


It’s a bad death. It’s a bad thing. It grips onto some people. Now, we found out that young people do extraordinarily well. That’s why I think we can start thinking about schools, but of course we’re ending the school season, so you wouldn’t be back for too long. I noticed where Purdue University, a great school in a great state, wants to open and have students come in. I think that’s correct. Some colleges, I think, I saw Harvard wants to have students come back in the fall. I would hope
that they’d have students.


I think that the whole concept of computer learning is wonderful, but it’s not, telelearning, but it’s not the same thing as a being in a classroom in a great college or a college of any kind. College, university, there’s nothing. You can’t replace that. Hopefully they’re going to be coming back. Young people do very well with this horrible scourge. They do very well.


I am going to see you tomorrow and we’ll have other things to talk about. We have a lot of interesting things. I don’t think we should have a news conference today because this is a news conference. In addition, it’s a celebration of these incredible people that have done such a good job and I think we found a couple of stars in this room today. I won’t tell you who, but there are a couple.


This guy right here is the biggest star in the room. Right? We’ll all agree he’s the … I vote. I vote for you. Great job you’ve done and I really appreciate it. I appreciate you being here. Couldn’t have done better.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Speaking of Rich - doesn't this immortal Calvin and Hobbes strip, copyright June 17, 1990 by the legendary Bill Watterson, capture Rich perfectly!

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Darian,


There have been over 86,000 deaths and close to 1.5Mn infections in four months, and that is with extreme non-pharmaceutical interventions nationwide. No one can reasonably deny that without the stay-at-home orders, school closings, and other social-mitigation efforts that those numbers would be significantly higher. The death-rater from COVID-19 is higher than the only two other biggest killers of Americans cancer and heart disease.

Even if you do choose to ignore or dispute the deaths, it's impossible to ignore the economic damage caused by this world-wide pandemic. It's not a hoax. It's not a liberal-media invention designed to harm Trump. It is doing real harm, and it's frankly a little unbelievable that you seem to think there is no disaster unfolding in front of you.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

All it takes is one asymptomatic person to turn any public gathering into a super-spreader event. 

Coronavirus Ravaged a Choir. But Isolation Helped Contain It.

One sick singer attended choir practice, infecting 52 others, two of whom died. A study released by the C.D.C. shows that self-isolation and tracing efforts helped contain the outbreak.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/health/coronavirus-choir.html

This was on March 10th.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Speaking of the media.....how many times do they have to get caught with their hands in the cookie jar before they stop with the lies and propaganda?

The bottom photo is clipped from the movie World War Z........Do not accept ANYTHING from the media at face value.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

So are you saying you dont believe they ever get caught manipulating the public using false or misleading facts? Perhaps this one is false.....I will take your word for it since you did name a source.....

There have been many cases of pretty much the same thing that have proven to be factual.....for instance images captured at a testing ground in Kentucky being represented as having been attacks in the ME. That by one of the big 3 networks....their response when called on it? Ohh we are sorry LOL

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Its too bad that your leftist news sources don't follow that advice.  

Here's the criteria they use regarding any story about Donald Trump

Question #1:  Is it factual? 

A. Yes
B. No

Question #2:  If not factual, does it hurt Trump?

A. Yes

If answer to question 1 above is A, then print it.

If answer to question 1 above is B, then print it.

If answer to question 2 above is A. then print it.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I wasn't arguing against what you did not say.  

I was making a point that those like you, with you cavalier attitude, who don't speak up and out, against what is going on in this nation are part of the problem.

Tyranny can only succeed when good men do nothing. 

That's a bastardization of the saying, however I don't care, it fits many in this country including you IMO.  Note that I'm saying IMO, Okay.  

You've really never spoken up at all in the last year or so about anything that the left is doing that is SO damned destructive to this nation.  

You never said one word about Comey and the railroading of General Michael Flynn, nor did you pipe up at all about the outrageous impeachment of this President which was wholly unfounded and without a single merit.  

I just wonder why that is?  

I don't need a response to that question above, it was simply rhetoric on my part.  
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BTW, have you said one single word about Judge Sullivan and his outrageous refusal to dismiss the case?  

Maybe I missed it.

IMO, he should be referred to the Judicial conduct board for ethics violations.  

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

I guess we'll just really never know how he contracted it.🤔

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

So did the Democrats who attended John Lewis's funeral practice Social distancing?  

No hypocrisy there eh?  

Yet, the leftist governors all over the place are shutting down church services because they say that only 1/4 at best of the people who want to attend church are able.

Yet there were most likely HUNDREDS of leftist Democrats right there in a church paying their respects to their hero John Lewis.  All right next to each other NOT practicing social distancing.

I guess you don't have a problem with that do you?

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