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[Phys-L] Now, now; let's be civil. Was Re: Ex: Re: media trustworthiness, or lack thereof (was VSL)





Wrong, he apologized, and I, if younger, woulda replied similarly. More correctly, sometimes I am intemperate.



I’m in the JM, JD crowd, but ...



On 2021/Feb/08, at 10:40, John Mallinckrodt <ajm@cpp.edu> wrote:

who completely abandoned any effort to address a raging pandemic ...


was not the success of “Warp Speed” due to the Twerp? (I’ve received the first Moderna “jab” and in the not better state.)


bc … If he’s read correctly, thinks that and getting outa Afghanistan are Twerp’s only good policies.


And yes we are lucky his incompetence, WRT Covid, etc. was what, I think, enabled JB's win. And I’ve read that we are lucky he’s so incompetent, as he could have overthrown our “democracy”. [1]



BTW, some elected democrats inherit failures of the previous republican, viz., FDR, Clinton, Obama, and Joe B. For FDR it was an opportunity, but Clinton failed, I think because he as “new Labour” thought to win must out republican the republicans. Obama’s stimulus was too weak. [2] I’t’s obvious JB has learned from the predecessors. Another example: Much earlier he attacked the entitlements (social security). https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-03/biden-social-security <https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-03/biden-social-security>


[1] The scare quotes, because we don’t have a democracy, and never will, because the constitution was written by the wealthy, and slave owners. Well, similarly maybe if the SCOTUS was packed W/Sanders types, perhaps, but unlikely permanent. Making DC and Puerto Ricco states will improve our democracy.


[2] http://cleyet.org/political%20and%20cultural/The%20lesson%20of%201937.pdf <http://cleyet.org/political%20and%20cultural/The%20lesson%20of%201937.pdf> and: http://cleyet.org/political%20and%20cultural/IMG%20why%20we%20haven't%20recovered.jpg <http://cleyet.org/political%20and%20cultural/IMG%20why%20we%20haven't%20recovered.jpg>