Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 384: Manchins of Madness

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https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1473136424283041796?s=21

This is genuinely deranged.

well we know where privatebiscuit has been recently

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1473136424283041796?s=21

This is genuinely deranged.

Wow. Yeah pretty messed up

I guess Kyle is going to be a politician soon. He's not eligible for a House seat until he's 25 though.

What does he even talk about on stage?

I'm sure he just reminds them that it was the worst experience in his life and how he hates events that will force him to relive it.

/s

By god.

That's Kyle Rittenhouse's theme music.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

By god.

That's Kyle Rittenhouse's theme music.

You joke, but Trump style politics do seem designed to mimic pro wrestling

When I want to be weird at parties, I sometimes talk about how pro sports train people to be irrational in politics. I should probably be adding pro performances like WWE to the list

They did a two-syllable chant for a one-syllable name.

I don't respect it.

Trump straight up did a couple storylines in WWE, for anybody who might've missed that

HaRRicH posted...

They did a two-syllable chant for a one-syllable name.

I don't respect it.

Kyle?

Mr Lasastryke posted...

well we know where privatebiscuit has been recently

Hey now, you should be happy for him. Im sure it was the best moment of his life and hell never wash his hand again that almost sorta not really touched Kyle.

That video's absolutely gross

The Rittenhouse theme song is straight up hilarious

Mr Lasastryke posted...

well we know where privatebiscuit has been recently

Those paragraphs of posts talking about how Rittenhouse was some poor misunderstood kid aren't looking too hot right about now

https://twitter.com/mstratford/status/1473361814071226370?s=21

Yeah I figured all the blowback was going to make them backtrack.

I'm suddenly starting to think I was giving Rittenhouse too much credit that he didn't commit murder

Don't worry, he isn't capable of being as bad a person as the people he killed.

That not guilty verdict, although correct, is going to suck for the discourse of this country for awhile.

First confirmed American death from the Omicron variant was an unvaccinated Texas man who had contracted COVID before.

https://www.businessinsider.com/first-american-omicron-variant-death-unvaccinated-covid-19-officials-say-2021-12

DoomTheGyarados posted...

That not guilty verdict, although correct, is going to suck for the discourse of this country for awhile.

It would be better if he weren't appearing to be basking in his situation and would at least pretend like he was really broken up by what he was forced to do in the situation he did not belong in.

UltimaterializerX posted...

The right to self defense, especially from armed child rapists, is not some huge debate.

Douchebags can do legal things.

Yeah, for somebody who just wanted to move on and not relive those moments, he sure seems to love having not moved on at all and constantly reliving/glorifying those moments.

DoomTheGyarados posted...

That not guilty verdict, although correct, is going to suck for the discourse of this country for awhile.

We need a new potential verdict, something like Not guilty of a crime, but extremely stupid/immoral

Your honor, the jury finds that this kid sucks ass

Well, to be fair I bet he's making a shit ton of money and banging a different weird ropy blonde woman every night

To followup on the tweet Jakyl posted:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/student-loan-pause-biden/index.html

If the left can keep pressuring the administration to get the to cave on their worst ideas like this, things will be slightly less bad than they could be!

Zero chance student loans are restarted before 2023 now. They can't do it before midterms

https://twitter.com/mrtoodamnchris/status/1473842677321981959?s=21

https://twitter.com/kimpossiblefact/status/1474118039905857557

Never thought I'd see the day Ben Garrison turned on Trump.

Of course he does so the literal single time Trump is right about something...!

https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1474103343828156419?s=21

To be fair, would it have really mattered either way? The problem is people that won't vaccinate, won't test, won't wear masks, etc.

You do stuff like send tests to everybody, and you still only have the people willing to vaccinate and wear masks and so on doing it, anyway, whereas the people that won't still won't.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1474103343828156419?s=21

Fake outrage story?

Or are we glossing over the part where all of the approved rapid tests were manufacturing at capacity?

I dunno, even at my extremely right wing company in Trump country Florida, we have people testing for Covid and quarantining when they get symptoms.

They may not vaccinate, but if tests were free and readily available at home, at least people could know if they have it faster.

red13n posted...

Fake outrage story?

Or are we glossing over the part where all of the approved rapid tests were manufacturing at capacity?

Part of the proposal was funding an increase in manufacturing?

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I dunno, even at my extremely right wing company in Trump country Florida, we have people testing for Covid and quarantining when they get symptoms.

They may not vaccinate, but if tests were free and readily available at home, at least people could know if they have it faster.

Even in extremely left wing California, we had people show up to work sick refusing to get tested.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Part of the proposal was funding an increase in manufacturing?

Just going by the story here, they were manufacturing at capacity.

Rather than try to increase that capacity, the administration went with speeding up the approval of more tests.

Seems near equivalent.

Youre right Red, an administration that openly mocked the idea of giving everyone free tests did nothing wrong

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I dunno, even at my extremely right wing company in Trump country Florida, we have people testing for Covid and quarantining when they get symptoms.

They may not vaccinate, but if tests were free and readily available at home, at least people could know if they have it faster.

That still relies on people being willing to test/caring if they have it, which sadly isn't a guarantee.

By all means, I'd love the government to be doing more. The sad reality is that that "more" relies on people actually... Taking part.

We've learned a lot of this country if full of fucking morons.

The administration is giving everyone free tests.

Which is a nice gesture, but also mostly worthless, tbh.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Youre right Red, an administration that openly mocked the idea of giving everyone free tests did nothing wrong

I think the point of that is that... Okay, they send free tests to everyone. Who takes the tests? People already willing to vaccinate/take tests/etc. Who doesn't take the tests, and thus wastes them? People already willing to refuse tests and not get vaccinated and so on.

It changes pretty much nothing, in the grand scheme of things. Testing is already free. You aren't going to get people to test that otherwise refuse to test just by sending it to them.

Also I can tell you one thing, a large part of testing surge is people getting tested to get into venues/airports/etc.

And as someone that works in a large venue, if you bring us an at-home test we are going to tell you nicely to go fuck yourself and go fork over the money at our testing site because sure as fuck dont trust you.

red13n posted...

Fake outrage story?

Or are we glossing over the part where all of the approved rapid tests were manufacturing at capacity?

A big part of the problem is that the FDA hasnt approved a lot of the tests that are in widespread use in, e.g., Europe (and my understanding is that its because they have to test them against the PCR tests, which is not actually a fair comparison due to the times over the which each test is supposed to come up positive). In general the FDA has been super slow to approve a ton of shit the whole pandemic, not sufficiently modifying their ordinary procedure for an extraordinary situation.

LordoftheMorons posted...

A big part of the problem is that the FDA hasnt approved a lot of the tests that are in widespread use in, e.g., Europe (and my understanding is that its because they have to test them against the PCR tests, which is not actually a fair comparison due to the times over the which each test is supposed to come up positive). In general the FDA has been super slow to approve a ton of shit the whole pandemic, not sufficiently modifying their ordinary procedure for an extraordinary situation.

Uhh if you read the story that is exactly how the Biden admin approached the problem by working on speeding up the FDA.

Don't get me wrong, having easier testing for people willing to take them is great and important.

But it wouldn't stop a holiday surge, since said surge is going to predominantly be fueled by people who wouldn't test to begin with.