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Gern Blansten

Bentleyspop said:

https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1503936754427973637?t=HBICZZd-cnyIH3K7nzg8Mw&s=19

wow....I love how she launches into the bs at 1:07 about main stream media.  Whenever they are caught in a trap they all do that same thing.

Halifax2TheMax

dankind said:

static111 said:

mrussel1 said:

static111 said:

cblock4life said:

Because democrats are ok with a republican?  

Because we have entered a phase of politics in which we are in need of people that come from families as despicable as Darth Cheney's, to combat 70 million + americans that have been failed by our public education system and would rather vote their way to authoritarianism because they don't have a real idea of what freedom is.  The bar has just been set so low that even scum suckers like the Cheneys can be seen as heroes in comparison to the alternatives.

Haha.  Darth Cheney.  

I used to use the name Darth Rumsfeld as a handle back in the day. 

pretty sure i lifted darth cheney from my buddy H2TM

H2TM has a buddy?

Nah, that’s crazy talk, yo!

The Juggler

mrussel1 said:

Bentleyspop said:

https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1503936754427973637?t=HBICZZd-cnyIH3K7nzg8Mw&s=19

She’s terrible at using words.

And with making decisions apparently. 

The Juggler

Your Republican party, folks:

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1504615074497011715?s=20&t=g6QtZYY493nA5C19UGE2oA

mrussel1

The Juggler said:

Your Republican party, folks:

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1504615074497011715?s=20&t=g6QtZYY493nA5C19UGE2oA

She's a "prophetic dreamer" and her son is a "seer. What good luck they had. 

Halifax2TheMax

The Juggler said:

Your Republican party, folks:

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1504615074497011715?s=20&t=g6QtZYY493nA5C19UGE2oA

Over/under on how many votes she gets?

Halifax2TheMax

mrussel1 said:

The Juggler said:

Your Republican party, folks:

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1504615074497011715?s=20&t=g6QtZYY493nA5C19UGE2oA

She's a "prophetic dreamer" and her son is a "seer. What good luck they had. 

Selective breeding will get you that.

mrussel1

Halifax2TheMax said:

mrussel1 said:

The Juggler said:

Your Republican party, folks:

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1504615074497011715?s=20&t=g6QtZYY493nA5C19UGE2oA

She's a "prophetic dreamer" and her son is a "seer. What good luck they had. 

Selective breeding will get you that.

Just ask Hitler

Halifax2TheMax

Someone who has the sweet baby Jesus hanging out in their closet should be aiming a little higher than California Secretary of State, dontcha think?

The Juggler

Weirdos like that are trying infiltrate state level positions all over the country. 

HughFreakingDillon

Jesus came out of the closet? I thought that would be bigger news. 

Halifax2TheMax

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jesus came out of the closet? I thought that would be bigger news. 

Ha! 

Bentleyspop

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jesus came out of the closet? I thought that would be bigger news. 

It was crowded in there with Tom Cruise

Lerxst1992

Is Maggie mainstream….in AMT?

gimmesometruth27

Bentleyspop said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jesus came out of the closet? I thought that would be bigger news. 

It was crowded in there with Tom Cruise

r kelly must have pulled out his gun and threatened to cap them both..

Halifax2TheMax

gimmesometruth27 said:

Bentleyspop said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jesus came out of the closet? I thought that would be bigger news. 

It was crowded in there with Tom Cruise

r kelly must have pulled out his gun and threatened to cap them both..

Good thing Kanye was there to keep the peace.

mrussel1

Bentleyspop said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jesus came out of the closet? I thought that would be bigger news. 

It was crowded in there with Tom Cruise

I love South Park jokes

Halifax2TheMax

Meanwhile......

Opinion: Living in red America can be life-threatening

It should come as no surprise that the highest rates for covid-19 deaths and murders are found mainly in red states. A political mind-set that prioritizes racial resentment, anti-science zealotry and manufactured cultural wedge issues is not likely to be conducive to long, healthy lives. Indeed, antagonism toward “elites” (e.g., experts) often impedes common-sense measures that save lives.

Steven H. Woolf, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, writes in the Journal of American Medicine: “Disparities in health across the 50 states are growing, a trend that began in the 1990s. For example, in 1990, life expectancy in New York was lower than in Oklahoma, but the trajectories separated sharply in the 1990s and, by 2016, New York ranked third in life expectancy, whereas Oklahoma ranked 45th.” Moreover, “the widening gap cannot be explained by changes in the racial and ethnic composition of states, because the same trend occurred within racial and ethnic groups.”

Instead, Woolf says the politics of red states is killing their residents. “Conservative governors increasingly use preemption, the authority to override local governments, to block liberal health policies (e.g., indoor smoking bans),” he notes. “States have preempted local regulations on nutrition (e.g., menu labeling, food deserts) and, as of 2013, 45 states had enacted statutes to limit local firearm regulations.”

This is also true of public health measures to address covid-19, making residents in red states more likely to die of the disease than others:

Some elected officials made a political issue out of challenging scientific evidence, embracing dubious theories, and labeling public health safeguards as infringements on personal freedom. Conservative governors used preemption to reverse efforts by mayors and school districts to control local transmission rates.

These policy choices may have been associated with increased COVID-19–related morbidity and mortality. States that rushed to curtail lockdowns in the spring of 2020 experienced more protracted surges in infections and disruptions to their economies. In 2021, excess deaths were disproportionately concentrated in states where resistance to COVID-19 vaccination was prevalent. For example, excess death rates in Florida and Georgia (more than 200 deaths per 100 000) were much higher than in states with largely vaccinated populations such as New York (112 per 100 000), New Jersey (73 deaths per 100 000), and Massachusetts (50 per 100 000). States that resisted public health protections experienced higher numbers of excess deaths during the Delta variant surge in the fall of 2021. Between August and December 2021, Florida experienced more than triple the number of excess deaths (29 252) as New York (8786), despite both states having similar population counts (21.7 million and 19.3 million, respectively).

Eight of the 10 states with the highest covid death rates adjusted for age have Republican governors: Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Arkansas and Indiana. (Nevada and Kentucky are the exceptions, coming in 6th and 10th, respectively.) Similarly, nine of the 10 states with the worst vaccination rates — Wyoming, Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio, West Virginia and North Dakota — have GOP governors. Of these, only Louisiana is led by a Democrat, and all of them voted for defeated former president Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020.

The same divergence between red and blue states exists with respect to murder rates, as well. The center-left think tank Third Way reports: “In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.” Even more dramatically, “8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.”

The right-wing media racket would have you believe this is a problem of blue cities, but, as Third Way reports: “Beyond the top 10, we looked at the 2020 murder rates in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump and compared it with the murder rates in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden. The 8.20 murders per 100,000 residents rate in Trump states was 40% higher than the 5.78 murders per 100,000 residents in Biden states.”

Opinion | Living in red America can be life-threatening - The Washington Post

JB16057

Halifax2TheMax said:

Meanwhile......

Opinion: Living in red America can be life-threatening

It should come as no surprise that the highest rates for covid-19 deaths and murders are found mainly in red states. A political mind-set that prioritizes racial resentment, anti-science zealotry and manufactured cultural wedge issues is not likely to be conducive to long, healthy lives. Indeed, antagonism toward “elites” (e.g., experts) often impedes common-sense measures that save lives.

Steven H. Woolf, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, writes in the Journal of American Medicine: “Disparities in health across the 50 states are growing, a trend that began in the 1990s. For example, in 1990, life expectancy in New York was lower than in Oklahoma, but the trajectories separated sharply in the 1990s and, by 2016, New York ranked third in life expectancy, whereas Oklahoma ranked 45th.” Moreover, “the widening gap cannot be explained by changes in the racial and ethnic composition of states, because the same trend occurred within racial and ethnic groups.”

Instead, Woolf says the politics of red states is killing their residents. “Conservative governors increasingly use preemption, the authority to override local governments, to block liberal health policies (e.g., indoor smoking bans),” he notes. “States have preempted local regulations on nutrition (e.g., menu labeling, food deserts) and, as of 2013, 45 states had enacted statutes to limit local firearm regulations.”

This is also true of public health measures to address covid-19, making residents in red states more likely to die of the disease than others:

Some elected officials made a political issue out of challenging scientific evidence, embracing dubious theories, and labeling public health safeguards as infringements on personal freedom. Conservative governors used preemption to reverse efforts by mayors and school districts to control local transmission rates.

These policy choices may have been associated with increased COVID-19–related morbidity and mortality. States that rushed to curtail lockdowns in the spring of 2020 experienced more protracted surges in infections and disruptions to their economies. In 2021, excess deaths were disproportionately concentrated in states where resistance to COVID-19 vaccination was prevalent. For example, excess death rates in Florida and Georgia (more than 200 deaths per 100 000) were much higher than in states with largely vaccinated populations such as New York (112 per 100 000), New Jersey (73 deaths per 100 000), and Massachusetts (50 per 100 000). States that resisted public health protections experienced higher numbers of excess deaths during the Delta variant surge in the fall of 2021. Between August and December 2021, Florida experienced more than triple the number of excess deaths (29 252) as New York (8786), despite both states having similar population counts (21.7 million and 19.3 million, respectively).

Eight of the 10 states with the highest covid death rates adjusted for age have Republican governors: Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Arkansas and Indiana. (Nevada and Kentucky are the exceptions, coming in 6th and 10th, respectively.) Similarly, nine of the 10 states with the worst vaccination rates — Wyoming, Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio, West Virginia and North Dakota — have GOP governors. Of these, only Louisiana is led by a Democrat, and all of them voted for defeated former president Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020.

The same divergence between red and blue states exists with respect to murder rates, as well. The center-left think tank Third Way reports: “In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.” Even more dramatically, “8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.”

The right-wing media racket would have you believe this is a problem of blue cities, but, as Third Way reports: “Beyond the top 10, we looked at the 2020 murder rates in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump and compared it with the murder rates in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden. The 8.20 murders per 100,000 residents rate in Trump states was 40% higher than the 5.78 murders per 100,000 residents in Biden states.”

Opinion | Living in red America can be life-threatening - The Washington Post

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Halifax2TheMax

JB16057 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Meanwhile......

Opinion: Living in red America can be life-threatening

It should come as no surprise that the highest rates for covid-19 deaths and murders are found mainly in red states. A political mind-set that prioritizes racial resentment, anti-science zealotry and manufactured cultural wedge issues is not likely to be conducive to long, healthy lives. Indeed, antagonism toward “elites” (e.g., experts) often impedes common-sense measures that save lives.

Steven H. Woolf, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, writes in the Journal of American Medicine: “Disparities in health across the 50 states are growing, a trend that began in the 1990s. For example, in 1990, life expectancy in New York was lower than in Oklahoma, but the trajectories separated sharply in the 1990s and, by 2016, New York ranked third in life expectancy, whereas Oklahoma ranked 45th.” Moreover, “the widening gap cannot be explained by changes in the racial and ethnic composition of states, because the same trend occurred within racial and ethnic groups.”

Instead, Woolf says the politics of red states is killing their residents. “Conservative governors increasingly use preemption, the authority to override local governments, to block liberal health policies (e.g., indoor smoking bans),” he notes. “States have preempted local regulations on nutrition (e.g., menu labeling, food deserts) and, as of 2013, 45 states had enacted statutes to limit local firearm regulations.”

This is also true of public health measures to address covid-19, making residents in red states more likely to die of the disease than others:

Some elected officials made a political issue out of challenging scientific evidence, embracing dubious theories, and labeling public health safeguards as infringements on personal freedom. Conservative governors used preemption to reverse efforts by mayors and school districts to control local transmission rates.

These policy choices may have been associated with increased COVID-19–related morbidity and mortality. States that rushed to curtail lockdowns in the spring of 2020 experienced more protracted surges in infections and disruptions to their economies. In 2021, excess deaths were disproportionately concentrated in states where resistance to COVID-19 vaccination was prevalent. For example, excess death rates in Florida and Georgia (more than 200 deaths per 100 000) were much higher than in states with largely vaccinated populations such as New York (112 per 100 000), New Jersey (73 deaths per 100 000), and Massachusetts (50 per 100 000). States that resisted public health protections experienced higher numbers of excess deaths during the Delta variant surge in the fall of 2021. Between August and December 2021, Florida experienced more than triple the number of excess deaths (29 252) as New York (8786), despite both states having similar population counts (21.7 million and 19.3 million, respectively).

Eight of the 10 states with the highest covid death rates adjusted for age have Republican governors: Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Arkansas and Indiana. (Nevada and Kentucky are the exceptions, coming in 6th and 10th, respectively.) Similarly, nine of the 10 states with the worst vaccination rates — Wyoming, Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio, West Virginia and North Dakota — have GOP governors. Of these, only Louisiana is led by a Democrat, and all of them voted for defeated former president Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020.

The same divergence between red and blue states exists with respect to murder rates, as well. The center-left think tank Third Way reports: “In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.” Even more dramatically, “8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century.”

The right-wing media racket would have you believe this is a problem of blue cities, but, as Third Way reports: “Beyond the top 10, we looked at the 2020 murder rates in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump and compared it with the murder rates in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden. The 8.20 murders per 100,000 residents rate in Trump states was 40% higher than the 5.78 murders per 100,000 residents in Biden states.”

Opinion | Living in red America can be life-threatening - The Washington Post

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