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    Who's Been Vaccinated?

    Except so far they're getting away with the medicare mandate and based on how SCOTUS ruled they might very well get away with the federal contractor mandate.
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    Is a Red Tsunami in 2022 a Sure Thing?

    I hope I'm wrong too. But I haven't turned out to be much of a pessimist for these past few years.
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    Is a Red Tsunami in 2022 a Sure Thing?

    But 'in the first place' the president was supposed to enforce the laws passed by Congress, not create his own via executive order. The Senate bill to overturn the "vaccine" mandates shows pretty clearly that they weren't coming from Congress. So while in theory a non-2/3 majority Congress...
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    Is a Red Tsunami in 2022 a Sure Thing?

    Not talking about a filibuster, I'm talking about overturning a veto. Without that Congress can't really do anything since whoever is whispering in Biden's ear will just tell him to veto it. The Constitution requires a 2/3 majority to overrule a presidential veto - while I grant the Dems ignore...
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    Is a Red Tsunami in 2022 a Sure Thing?

    It doesn't need to go over very well. It doesn't need to go over at all in "Blue" areas - those are already good little serfs who vote the way the Dems want (though many of them will adopt the desired methodology anyway - but that's just icing on the cake). Nor does it need to go over in deep...
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    Is a Red Tsunami in 2022 a Sure Thing?

    Agreed that a mail-in-only election is more probable, though why assume it would take martial law? Let's assume for a moment that it would require martial law to make suspending the election legal - I still say, so what? How many of the current administration's executive orders have been legal...
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    Is a Red Tsunami in 2022 a Sure Thing?

    You hit the nail squarely on the head there - and I think we can be pretty sure that the 'powers that be' in the Republican Party aren't going to do anything since they didn't even bother trying for investigations into what were clearly suspicious results even at the time (and have since been...
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    Biden intends to run for reelection in 2024

    https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/20/democrats-prepare-to-dump-joe-biden-now-that-hes-served-his-purpose/ "When The New York Times begins publishing op-eds saying Joe Biden should not run again, and that he should announce it soon, then the gig is officially up. Biden is a lame duck. Perhaps...
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    Who's Been Vaccinated?

    Any thoughts on the 5th Circuit's stay on the workplace mandate EO? I'm pleased to see it, but can't convince myself that this administration would even pay attention to a court ruling it didn't like.
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    Who's Been Vaccinated?

    Good point, I'd forgotten the soda wars. On the "risk to others", we need to talk about tradeoffs. "Anything you can do can kill you, including doing nothing." It holds for your interactions with others too. A variety of studies have pointed out that suicide rates have skyrocketed during the...
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    Who's Been Vaccinated?

    Around here the first responders were never widely talked about as heroes. The grocery workers got all the credit (and the proposals for state-boosted wages). I actually got yelled at by one of the Woke for proposing that first responders deserved more credit than grocery workers. Hopefully my...
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    Who's Been Vaccinated?

    I respectfully suggest it isn't about risk, it is a three way tradeoff: risk vs. cost vs. reward. I will cheerfully grant that the odds of me needing a firearm to defend myself are very, very low. Furthermore the cost (the pistol itself, holster, training, ammo...) is non-trivial... but I enjoy...
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    Ameteur Radio, Anyone?

    I picked up a technician license in college and have renewed since, but I've only been on nets other people were running.
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    Alec Killed a Guy

    True. On the other hand, when the news reports the exact opposite of what is possible ("the police called to report an accident...") I'm rather confident that the reporters are the ones who are wrong.
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    Alec Killed a Guy

    A lawyer I follow actually made the point that its highly unlikely he'll even be charged - not because he isn't guilty (the lawyer believes this would be a case of negligence that a first-year law student could win on its merits in a fair court - paraphrase of his words) but because the media is...
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    Does anyone regret their vote for Joe Biden?

    That's why we (supposedly) live in a constitutional republic, not a democracy. (Yeah, I'm pretty sure you know that.)
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    OSHA

    Well, another one for the "I didn't predict that!" list: https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#vaccine "...OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904's recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination..." I guess worker safety isn't important if...
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    Alec Killed a Guy

    I think if the MSM is reporting it, we've proved it wasn't factual. ;-) Seriously, some reporter might have picked it up from the same source you did, and not bothered fact-checking. That happens all the time. Your source might still be right, of course, but that it has been widely reported...
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    Where's Your Line In The Sand?

    Such people needs facts, preferably with links to supporting data. All they're going to learn from watching someone argue with a troll is that said person is smarter than the troll.
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    Thought Experiment

    Well, can't argue with that.
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