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Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:29 pm
one thing, he trusts USA Today a lot more then any other news source and based on them, he is satisfied the stuff like the Russia connection is untrue. give me more USA Today articles and I'd forward them to my dad if they do say anything incriminating. But ultimately, he will only be convinced of someone's guilt is a judge in an actual court of law, says so.
and my Dad does disapprove of some policies of the Trump Administration like limiting abortion rights, the military transgender ban and cutting funding to special needs programs.
From the pages of USA Today:
Paul Manafort was 'a grave counterintelligence threat,' Republican-led Senate panel finds
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/18/senate-details-paul-manafort-ties-russian-intel-officer-kilimnik/3390437001/
WASHINGTON – Paul Manafort's role as chairman of the Trump campaign, his longstanding ties to people affiliated with Russian intelligence services and his willingness to share information with them "represented a grave counterintelligence threat" during the 2016 presidential race, according to a new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Donald Trump's ties to Russia go back 30 years
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/15/donald-trumps-ties-russia-go-back-30-years/97949746/
Trump's business network reached alleged Russian mobsters
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/28/trump-business-past-ties-russian-mobsters-organized-crime/98321252/
4 men, 4 takeaways from the monster Senate intelligence report on Russian election meddling
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/18/senate-intel-panel-offers-playbook-russian-interference-2016/5603001002/
I guess if you're the sort of person who only reads what they want to read and forgets the rest...
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Okay, I've come up with one. You want a reason to vote for Biden? He helped put together the federal pandemic response team that 45 dismantled. The pandemic team that could have alerted us, could have started testing earlier, could have shut things down earlier, could have slowed the spread earlier, could have started on a vaccine earlier, could have done so many of the things we utterly failed to do.
A vote for Biden is a vote for not choking to death on your own fluids!
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
I was going to say this before but put it off, It seems my dad and I have come to an understanding about not voting for Trump based on something that would effect me directly. those articles, I could still send to him though, just in case. though, he has told me that the CDC themselves show that the pandemic isn't as bad as the media says it is.
Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:05 pm
I was going to say this before but put it off, It seems my dad and I have come to an understanding about not voting for Trump based on something that would effect me directly. those articles, I could still send to him though, just in case. though, he has told me that the CDC themselves show that the pandemic isn't as bad as the media says it is.
Total predicted number of excess deaths since 2/1/2020 across the United States: 192,767 - 252,307
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Figure updated weekly.
Again, I'm providing articles and facts here. These are the sources your dad is apparently using, this is what they say - in their own words. You can do with them as you will. IMHO, I have seen most media using the lower figure of 190,000 - but as an updated weekly figure, any time you take a snapshot you've taken a fixed image of a moving target.
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Months ago I had someone on Facebook poking at the CDC and came across their criteria for corona related deaths. They too were having a fit about covid being correlated and not determined to be the determined cause in each case.
On the other hand it's generally understood that fatalities are on the rise, which is all that really matters for determination.
and I have considered telling my dad to consider if he is the only non-right winger who doesn't like Trump, maybe he's the one who is wrong but I don't know that will completely convince him.
it's not like he's a stanch Republican though, he voted for Democrats at least three times and is ideologically opposed to the Republican Party on at least three major social issues but he is convinced that both sides of the news media are all lying about everything. and he's been equally disgusted about the Right going after Democrat Presidents in the past, too. On the other hand, I have seen some of Trump's speeches, not sure how people say it is so obvious he's a racist and fascist when he doesn't talk like Hitler.
but I don't know if he read those USA Today articles, either.
Well, I've learned something actually, genuinely GOOD about Biden's platform.
He's planning to make marriage legal for disabled people and to raise the limits on how much assets they can own without losing their benefits forever.
We currently have messed-up rules in place that presumes any disabled person should be taken care of fully by their spouse, so if you get married, or even ACT like you're married, you should lose your disability benefits instantly.
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Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:31 pm
he is the only non-right winger who doesn't like Trump
I think there's a problem here.
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BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:54 pm
Months ago I had someone on Facebook poking at the CDC and came across their criteria for corona related deaths. They too were having a fit about covid being correlated and not determined to be the determined cause in each case.
On the other hand it's generally understood that fatalities are on the rise, which is all that really matters for determination.
The problem - such as your mate on Facebook - is that people do not seem to be able to comprehend the idea that if someone with cancer catches Covid and then has their resistance to their chemo reduced as a result, then whilst TECHNICALLY it was the cancer that killed them, Covid was still a massive contributing factor to the point that it might as well have been the cause of death. And we are learning that Covid can suppress your immune system for months afterwards.
BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:54 pm
Months ago I had someone on Facebook poking at the CDC and came across their criteria for corona related deaths. They too were having a fit about covid being correlated and not determined to be the determined cause in each case.
On the other hand it's generally understood that fatalities are on the rise, which is all that really matters for determination.
The problem - such as your mate on Facebook - is that people do not seem to be able to comprehend the idea that if someone with cancer catches Covid and then has their resistance to their chemo reduced as a result, then whilst TECHNICALLY it was the cancer that killed them, Covid was still a massive contributing factor to the point that it might as well have been the cause of death. And we are learning that Covid can suppress your immune system for months afterwards.
I feel he was a bit over-speculative, yes.
He kind of started a blog about corruption in the CDC. Not conspiracy theory status, but a lot of heavy sniffing for the average person.
I mean I'm personally of the mind that corruption exists at potentially ANY bureaucracy for a socially regulated agency, and it's practically not much different than a lot of other cesspools. Nonetheless he's not the type to not provide detailed reporting on the event, so I love him all the same. It's also like most of his commentators seem pretty paranoid as well as you'd expect a FB group to be. I know how this all sounds but I can't really judge him considering he does more footwork than I can appreciate to speculate upon just to argue with libertarians.
