Terminal 5 deserted. When does it end?
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Well seems like everybody keeps parroting the same thing of a “new normal” that’s coming as a result of this. Which I thought was weird because everything will calm down and go back to the way it was, but their agenda doesn’t allow us to go back to the way things were. They have other plans apparently.
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Well seems like everybody keeps parroting the same thing of a “new normal” that’s coming as a result of this. Which I thought was weird because everything will calm down and go back to the way it was, but their agenda doesn’t allow us to go back to the way things were. They have other plans apparently.
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The $600/mo federal is not income based. I have seen social media posts reminding people “if you have 1 cent in qualifying earnings you get $600/week too!”
Just throwing it out there that with that kind of money on the table (to do nothing) sets up a sort of moral hazard re: reopening the economy.
Plenty of baristas out there are getting $1k a week to watch Netflix and play with their phones. It might seem short-sighted to many of us, but imho the average hipster isn’t exactly biased towards all the Starbuckses reopening right now if only for that reason.
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I’m convinced. After years spent developing a nuanced view of the myriad issues we face as a society and the moral, philosophical and practical implications of the various potential solutions, when considering the historical record and available data, I believe random opinions on an anonymous message board are the most reliable foundation upon which to build the structure of one’s worldview. Now off to social media to spread the news!
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The left-right paradigm is false. However, the Democrats have really outdone themselves to make it easy to group themselves into one efficient package of evil. I could give you a laundry list of RINOs also but the Democrats are far more dangerous since they all blackmail each other into being complicit with their socialist/communist ideology. Why is Trump a dope?
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Biden sounds like your grandpa that can't remember what year we are currently in, placing him in charge would be tantamount to elder abuse.
Trump sounds and talks like a lot of Americans, and that (despite all of his faults, and there are many) is what connects him to a large portion of the population, so when the Left/Dems/Media just repeatedly call him stupid, ignorant, and dare I say it, deplorable, well a large portion of America feels that is actually a slight directed to them personally. This has allowed Trump to connect with Americans/supporters in ways the Republicans haven't in quite some time .
In the past, when the Media/Dems/Leftists called Romney, or Bush racists, dolts, war criminals and, evil minded people, the average public didn't identify with them as they were basically elitists who happened to disagree with Democrats. Many more people relate to the way Trump talks, expresses himself in an unconventional way, doesn't "play by the media's rules". Older Repubs would cowtow immediately to any accusation by the media, not so in the present administration.
While the Left/Dems have enjoyed a near takeover of all mainstream media sources, I'm not sure in the end this will be to their benefit as much of it leaves a very bitter taste in many American's psyche.
Not to fret for the Leftists though as they have continually moved the goal posts to the point where over the last few decades, even the republicans are pushing/agreeing to things that decades ago would have been considered wildly out of bounds by the federal government.
Who would've thought in 2016 that we'd elect a "Republican" president, house for two years, and Senate for the next 4 yrs and, despite would could be described as one of the best economic times in the previous 50 yrs, would STILL be running a deficit of over $1Trillion PER YEAR!
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which is interesting since there is a ton of post about trump, orange man as one guy was calling him (is it ok to refer to someone as a guy or will they get triggered?)
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