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  1. 2 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    This is so disingenuous, but I'm going to continue to engage anyway. If Trump issued a mask mandate in March when absolutely no masks were available, then I wouldn't have complied because it would have been impossible. If Trump had used his powers to ensure adequate supplies of masks early on, (1) Faucci would have had no reason to tell the public not to wear them, and (2) I would have definitely worn them. I didn't fucking leave my house from basically March 15 to the end of May 2020 anyway. Why on earth would you assume that myself and others similarly situation would have had an issue with wearing masks? Literally you're creating a hypothetical, and a hypothetical response to that hypothetical, that completely ignores what actually happened.

    Here is where you are getting confused. You think that because people like yourself see the world only through the lens of Democrat policies, bad, Republican policies, good, that everyone else sees the world the same. It just isn't the case. As an example, Trump did a few decent things, for instance picking a very good administrator for NASA.  If Trump had been a competent leader during this crisis, I would have given him credit. I wouldn't have liked him. But I would have given him credit. But that didn't happen because not only did he fail at being a competent leader, he actively interfered with others who were trying to help. 

    This is an extremely rational and reasonable response. I think you and I would get along just fine in real life, because we appear to think the same way. I'm also capable of seeing the good and the bad on both sides of the aisle. I've just been playing Devil's advocate in this one conversation. The problem is; the majority of our country don't think that way. Too many people see everything as Left=good, Right=bad or vice versa. Just because a few of us would have been able to approach this thing rationally regardless of who the president was, doesn't mean the vast majority of the country would have. 

  2. Just now, HornOnTheBayou said:

    Trump is a fucking wanna-be dictator. Masks are a common-sense measure to keep people safe when they go out in public. Anyone with two functioning brain cells can see that these statements are not mutually exclusive. I would have still worn a mask because it provides a decent level of protection from the spread of a dangerous virus while of course still trying to fight against Trump and his attempts at trying to emulate Daddy Putin.

    If you hate him so much, it seems weird that you'd rather take medical advice from him than a doctor. But hey man, you do you. 

  3. 21 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Let's dive into the implications of this question:  why would you assume Trump would automatically push back on whatever Fauci's advice was?  Why shouldn't the POTUS in general trust his senior medical and scientific leadership, given the fact that said POTUS has no medical or scientific training himself?

    I wish Trump had backed up Fauci and the rest of the scientific community all along.  He didn't.  Your question pretty much implies that it would not shock you for Trump to simply be anti-science instead of anti-lockdown, etc.

    I think you're completely missing my point. I'm not "assuming Trump would automatically push back on whatever Fauci's advice was". I'm saying we know Fauci started off by telling everyone not to wear masks. That's a verifiable fact. I am adding the hypothetical situation of Trump telling everyone to wear masks at that time, because everyone that blames Trump for the 600k dead has said that he should have pushed masks from the beginning. So my point is; had Trump pushed masks from the beginning, he would have been going against what Fauci was saying, and most people would have told him to fuck off with his mask mandates. Everyone that was already convinced he wanted to be a dictator would have had a field day with him trying to force everyone to wear face masks while Dr. Fauci was telling us we didn't need to. Thus proving my point that no matter who was in charge at the very beginning of this whole thing; it was never going to go well in America because of how passionate we all are about who we want to listen to. 

    The funny thing is; none of my posts on this topic have been controversial. I've never dogged the left or the right. I've just stated that the polarization of this country was always going to prevent us from handling this pandemic as well as some other countries. The fact that I've gotten pushback on that idea is actually doing nothing but further proving my point. 

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Oh fucking horseshit. Just another conservative bullshit talking point. If nothing happened to support our point, let's just make something up. 

    Do you care to elaborate? Do you REALLY think that if Trump had suggested a mask mandate at the same time that Dr. Fauci literally said "You don't need to wear a face mask. It won't protect you from this virus", that everyone on both sides of the aisle would have sided with Trump on that one? 

  5. 7 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    Again, America did and does respond to national crisis when well competently led (without malign obstructionism from the opposition party).

    Fair point, but I just think that's an impossible scenario. The majority of the country is too set into their ways (as far as left vs right is concerned). As I mentioned before in a different post, if Trump had come out super early and suggested the lockdowns and mask mandates, every democratic leader would have used that to further push their point that Trump wanted to be a ruthless dictator. 

  6. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Conservatives never would've listened to a President Hillary. But most of them would have listened to Trump if he'd told them it was bad, it was airborne, and to sacrifice for America or whatever by social distancing, masking, and cooperating with tracing efforts. And because liberals and conservatives aren't actually two sides of the same coin. Liberals also would've done the same because we don't actually politicize everything; we took the pandemic seriously because it was a fucking pandemic, not because we thought doing so made Trump look bad.

    Man, I just don't know if I agree with that. I can't flat-out say you're wrong, because there's no way to know what would have happened in a hypothetical situation. But I have a hard time believing that Hillary supporters would have been accepting of Trump coming out and saying "Look, I know there are only 6 active cases of this virus in our country right now, but if we don't lock everything down and start wearing face masks when we step out into public, over half a million people are going to die!". I have a feeling most people on the left would have said "See?! I told you he was Hitler!". 

  7. I'm no Trump-apologist, but I'll play Devil's advocate here:  Many of you have stated that Trump should have pushed for mask mandates, lockdowns, contact tracing, etc. immediately in February 2020 when the virus first emerged and he found out how bad it could possibly get. I won't argue with any of that; because hindsight is 20/20, and hindsight tells us that had we done all of those things back in February 2020, many lives probably would have been saved. 

    So now let's pretend Trump lost the 2016 election and Hillary was in charge back in February 2020. For the sake of the argument, let's say as soon as Hillary found out about the virus in February 2020, she did the "right thing" and came out and said that we shouldn't leave our houses unless it was absolutely necessary and that we should all wear masks if we did absolutely have to go out into public, etc. etc. Does anyone here really think the vast majority of Americans would have just abided by all of those things? Seriously. Close 600k Americans have died of Covid as of today, and there's still a huge chunk of our population that refuses to wear a facemask. There's no way people were going to wear them back when there were only a handful of active cases in the country, regardless of who was telling them to do it. 

    The reality is; no matter who was in charge when this whole thing first started you were going to have half the U.S. population wanting to do what the president said, and you were going to have the other half the population saying "SEE?! That's why I didn't vote for this crazy fucker!" Sure, the person that was actually in charge when this whole thing started could have done many things better and more efficiently, but the bottom line is that the American people were never going to handle this thing as well as some other countries. I think we can all probably agree on that.

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  8. 12 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    We need pic's what?

    The frequency with which apostrophes get misused these days infuriates me. Maybe I'm just being ridiculous, but I feel like the rules really aren't that difficult to remember, and any functioning adult with a brain should be able to get them right. In general: 

    • You do not use an apostrophe to make a word plural. You wouldn't say "I have two basketball's", so why the hell would you say "We need pic's"? Another common example is when people say "I hate Monday's" or "Merry Christmas from the Smith's!!"
    • Also, only plural words that end with an S should be made possessive by adding an apostrophe with no S at the end. Texas is not a plural word, so the possessive form of Texas is not Texas'. It is Texas's. 

    /rant

     

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  9. On 5/6/2021 at 2:11 PM, mininghorn88 said:

    Acho has been making the rounds on TV promoting his recent book and by chance I have caught a few of the interviews.  I know that he is trying to make a point but IMO, some of his examples about how he has been treated is some sort of humble-brag.  The prime example that he refers to is that people say, "You are too smart to be black".

    My favorite one was the story he told about crashing his bike into a lady just because she didn't hear him coming up behind her and move out of his way. Very strange. 

  10. 5 hours ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

    A head coach has to be scary. Someone even the big men have to worry about. Someone who might just haul off an cold-cock them just for the hell of it. Tom Landry. Bill Belichick, Bill Parcels, Nick Saban. Strong looked the part, but did he ever blow up on the sidelines when things went south? By the time Mensa realized this, he'd kissed too many players and too many asses. He lost the players' respect.

    Haven't seen enough of Sark to know how he'll come down, but he kinda looks like someone who'd put some cement shoes on you and drop you in the river if you cross him. Watching Saban for 4 years couldn't hurt, and he's been through the wringer himself. I doubt if he took all that came his way lying down. I suspect he's capable of knocking heads. Pete sure looks the part. Hope to see some passion out of our coaching staff in the coming years.

    This is one thing that always infuriated me about Herman. I never once saw him chewing someone's ass on the sideline after a bonehead play and/or penalty. You can't expect those kinds of mistakes to stop happening if the players aren't scared of what might happen if they do something stupid. 

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  11. 1 minute ago, Lou_Sassle said:

    Suck a dick. That dude fucking blows major ass as a coach. Did you watch ANY of BlowU's defense under him? I dont want that dude anywhere near the field. 

    Can you not read? I literally mentioned two of his accomplishments as OU's DC (National title, Sugar Bowl victory over Alabama). But thanks for asking, I guess. 

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