If this means we should abduct children from their parents and strap them to a chair to inject them with vaccinations, that’s going to be a strong no.
Idk either. Fair enough, this statement was borderline for me, but coupled with the other strong pro-vaccine statements he made, I’m not too worried.
He said nothing remotely approaching what Rick Kitchen claimed. How surprising.
Ah… Texas… :smack:
Governor calling on judges scorned by voters
We don’t want “the political winds of the day” to blow any Democrats into office.
I will illustrate through example and the power of song. First, the original:
Big Wreck - Mistake
Now, Nickelback’s effort:
Nickelback’s version sounds like they’re playing a song they all know but have never rehearsed.
gasp Heavens! Is that what we do already?
Of course not. There are many around here who seem to think that saying we should continue the status quo is akin to an anti-vax position.
Jerome Corsi (with Larry Klayman as his lawyer) is suing Alex Jones for calling him “extremely mentally degraded.”
I gotta ask: is it defamation if it’s true? 
I wonder if it has to do with religion, which can selectively degrade critical thinking skills. I was thinking about this yesterday after reading a Facebook post from a cousin of mine. She was born and raised in a red state, with a very conventional religious upbringing.
Apparently a few days ago she had some car trouble and pulled over to the side of the highway. She out of her car to investigate and accidentally locked herself out of her car. Her phone was inside the car. And it took a long time before she could get anyone to stop and help her, although someone finally did.
Her takeaway from this experience was that God loves her and was watching out for her. Because she put on her coat before she got out of her car. And she would typically NEVER put on her coat in that situation. She emphasized that repeatedly, although I was wondering just how often she pulled over and got out of her car to investigate car trouble.
Of course, logic might indicate that God wasn’t that crazy about her, since he let her get car trouble and lock herself out of her vehicle. But she’s been so conditioned to look for only the good I’m sure that thought never crossed her mind.
And although I don’t know her political affiliation, the logical inconsistencies seemed reminiscent to those of some Republicans, especially Trump supporters.
The mayor of Lewiston, Maine has resigned after his ex-girlfriend produced racist texts he sent to her.
GOP Mayor Resigns After Racist Texts And Email Leaks Revealed By Girlfriend - TPM – Talking Points Memo?
I would guess that most people of average-or-above intelligence, hearing that story, would smile politely. But they’d be thinking (basically) what you did—that the story of “God’s love” is rather unconvincing. The story makes God seem like a rather sadistic character: letting her forget her keys and her phone but ‘reminding her’ about the coat.
Of course folks with below-average mental equipment might just take the story at face value, in much the same way that Trump fans take his pronouncements (even the self-contradicting ones).
So, wait, the only way to decrease the number of vaccinated unwashed little monsters around is to abduct them? That’s the only possible way? No excluded middles here? Abduction or nothing?
In that case let’s do it. Clearly there are a lot of kids out there who could benefit from a good abduction.
The columnist was already on this vindictive path long before AOC ended up on her radar. Her real gripe is that that Girl Scouts aren’t made up of nothing but bible-thumping flag-humpers.
I have a van…
The prospect of easier and fairer voting terrifies Republicans
My bold.
Well, we kinda knew that, but good of Mitch to come out and admit it.
Oh, goody, a rematch…
Alabama’s Roy Moore is ‘seriously considering’ a 2020 Senate run
Maybe this doesn’t belong under “stupid” ideas; there’s a case to be made that he’ll have better prospects in 2020. For instance, by then some of his girlfriends will be old enough to vote…
Someone tweeted in response to this that they really hoped that at some point AOC had bought a gun.
It’s one thing the Democrats can point at next year and say “See? Look what we want to do, and look how the Republicans don’t want it to happen. If you want these policies enacted, and who doesn’t, you have to put is in the Senate and the White House.” All they need is a few dozen more decent resolutions to die in the Senate so as to give McConnell and his lot more chances to let the hoi polloi see the colour of their laces.
The child abduction part is simply bullshit, and you know that.
Not allowing a child to participate in large crowded events if they have not been vaccinated is not abducting them, and suggesting that that it is simply makes you look like a completely and utter moron.
But, that’s not what I wanted to address. I still am not sure what the deal is on the “strapping children to tables/chairs” thing. What is that all about, is that to create some sort of emotional pleading?
It is not up to the child, it is up to the parent. The child will either receive their shot while sitting calmly, or while screaming and strapped to a table, no matter how much the parent wants them to get their shot. When I got my shots as a kid, occasionally I flinched a bit. When my sister got shots, it took several nurses to hold her down.
Is it wrong to strap a child to a table with parental permission in order for them to receive proper medical care, or does the 2 year old child’s wishes in this instance override that of the parents?
If it is the case that the 2 year old child’s wishes do not override that of the parents, then the “strapping children” argument is completely based on trying to create emotional outrage, rather than being based in any sort of rational argument.
Do you , in your uber libertarian leanings, believe that a 2 year old child is better able to make life choices than the parents of that child?
Ah, guilt by associating, always a favorite page from the republican playbook.
Unless those resolutions are to protect the rights of the voter and the security of the vote.
“Vote for the Republicans in 2020 and you may never get the chance to vote again. We want you to vote, H.R. X proves it. They don’t want you to vote, their refusal to even consider H.R. X proves that. It’s in the interest of every American who cherishes their franchise to support us.”
McConnell and his pirate crew lose if they pass such legislation, and they hand Democrats more shot for the next sortie if they don’t.