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None of this is true.

Commented: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 2:17 pm By: Big Bob

Thanks Big Bob, but ... Are you an idiot politician behind that alias?

You did answer somewhat facetiously "We love you too."

Commented: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 1:31 pm By: Stan Deatherage

No problem Big Bob: I learned to "live" and work with idiot politicians decades ago.

It still does not diminish the fact that they are idiots, and more now than in the past, I realize just how utterly useless they are ... and that is me being kind in respect to this manner of my current lexicon.

Commented: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 9:14 am By: Stan Deatherage

Mayor Sadler is lying through his teeth to voters about taxes. When asked about LAST YEAR's tax increase, he starts talking about THIS YEAR'S attempted tax increase and says there was no tax increase, that he did a storm water fee increase instead. That is a half truth because it is correct about his attempt to raise taxes AGAIN this year, but implies he did not raise taxes LAST year which, in fact, he DID.

We don't need a double talking crooked politician like Donald Sadler.

Commented: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 8:55 am By: Conservative Voter

Federal Employees, outside of soldiers (which needs to be increased), must be cut by a minimum of 10%, and we should start with Non Patriot Leftists sucking hard on the Public's teat.

This is how you slash the cost of governing is cutting waste, like this employee. There is truly nothing to stop this process if we elect the right people to govern going forward.

Commented: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 6:41 am By: Stan Deatherage

Mike Pence is a good man, a smart vice president; however, he would have been well served politically to have found a theoretical different approach to the January 6th conundrum.

Commented: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 4:48 am By: Stan Deatherage

Voters are responsible. We vote. Politicians live with outcome. It's pretty simple.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 9:50 pm By: Big Bob

I think you did, Stan The voters, voted. You don’t like what they voted for. That’s your right, but call them dumb at your own peril.
SR, you are so down a rabbit hole i feel kinda bad. Get the vaccine or don’t. I’m just reminding people it’s better to medical advice from someone other than you. You are just not qualified to be giving such advice.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 6:05 pm By: Big Bob

What really injected politics into Covid response was the change at the World Health Organization (WHO). The director of WHO during the Covid era was Tedros of Ethiopea, the first non-physician to head the WHO ever. Throughout its previous history, all directors had been physicians but Tedros was a politician and bureaucrat. He liked to call himself "Dr. Tedros" but that degree was an academic PhD (public administration or political science or the like) not a medical MD. Politicking by Communist China won the position for Tedros over a much better qualified British physician.

When it was led by professional medical people, WHO had devised a pandemic emergency plan that relied on herd immunity, but after Communist China adopted the lockdown strategy, their WHO apparatchik Tedros followed suit and junked the well prepared herd immunity strategy. That was all about politics, not about science or medicine. The few places that stuck to the original WHO plan of herd immunity, like Sweden, did much better on battling Covid than those who followed the new WHO Chinese lockdown plan.

The first western country to fall for the lockdown plan was the UK, and that was all politics, too. The best epidemiology and viroloty minds in the country from Oxford and Cambridge proposed a herd immunity plan and that is the way the government was headed until a lesser light from Imperial College London used a PR campaign with blatant scare tactics delivered through the media to stampede the government to move to a lockdown strategy instead.

Fauci just followed in their footsteps.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 5:56 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Are you talking to me Big Bob, because I did not call the "voters" dumb? I did, however, say, "the Non Patriot Left used Covid to elect the stupidest, most incompetent, the most corrupt president in United States history, including the most incompetent cabinet, and the most corrupt bureaucratic agencies - DO(in)J and FBI in the history of our Republic."

By the US of A being a Representative Republic: Are implying that because "the Non Patriot Left used Covid to elect the stupidest, most incompetent, the most corrupt president in United States history," that these voters are of similar character as well?

Wait just a minute Big Bob: Did you not also imply you were done with this thread?

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You mean the American people. Last time I checked, the American people vote in our elections. Never a good idea for a politician to call the voters dumb.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 2:44 pm By: Big Bob