As Washington DC Faces Coronavirus Spike, Secret Military Task Force Prepares to Secure the Capital

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  1. Pycckia

    Pycckia Well-Known Member

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    But women were happier back then.
     
  2. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Yes, why not? You started staying at home easy enough. Might take a week or so to get back into it just like before. What's your difficulty anyway?

    People like me, I'm retired and still getting a Coronacheck, God knows why. We will make out like bandits.

    And no, I'm not giving it back, it's going to my favorite charity, this old man I know.
     
  3. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Not happy enough by your standards, they still had the vote

    And the darkies weren't back on the Plantation either, singing spirituals in the evening while Old Massa sipped his julep on the front porch

     
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    Ive had one day off since this started. I’m essential I’m told.

    I will get time off after this, so adjusting will be easy for me when the economy opens.

    But take Disney World and the 40,000 people who work there. Imagine just trying to get that up and running from a dead stop with everyone on furlough.
    Just one example.

    We could talk for hours about the supply chain alone to reopen the economy. It’s incredibly complex. Much more so than you seem to think.
     
  5. Pycckia

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    You should read this:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20dowd.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=blue is the new black&st=cse

    It is just one of those inconvenient facts that feminism has lessened women's happiness.

    The worst thing, from the feminist's point of view, is that men are happier.
     
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    scarlet witch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Being prepared and having no confidence are two different things. Nobody will revolt as long as they are fed. Anyone will revolt if they are not.
     
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    No one would be naive enough to see perfection in any era .. But there was more positives than negatives. Societnegatineganegatives if societal order and personal responsibility has any importance .

    Women had rights but the culture , western culture was different in regards to women. They were apt to be homemakers which they had been since the rise of civ. Today people act like that was a curse! Imo what really drove women into the workforce was economics . Wages from the husband was no longer providing the standard of living it once did. Hell I watched it happen! To my family and almost to everyone else in my area.

    You act like all women were oppressed and under the husbands thumb . My mother would not tolerate that crap .

    I recall being in Milwaukee in 1970 and seeing a women's right march who in protest were all going braless! Womens Liberation ! There was a brisk fall wind coming off lake Michigan and blowing down Wisconsin Ave. Downtown .

    The braless protestors were all young lasses probably from Marquette Univ. Hundreds of them . It was a sight to behold for a young man in the military!

    And they had our full support. For we were products of the 50s. .The best time to grow up in america!

    You should have been there . The youth of today have little hope given what has happened to this culture and the economic disembowelling.
     
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    Wasnt the tax code the same under Truman ? 91 percent income tax and 51 percent corporate tax

    Jfj then dropped tax rates to try to get ahead of the cyclical business cycle that led to recession ..

    No one paid those high rates unless an idiot. Lol But the tax code incentivized investing which brought the tax rates down . Pro growth tax codes . For we invested in America back then and didnt invest in communist nations.
     
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    This is interesting, because someone who I usually find reliable said that 3 people that he knows in Washington, said that some of Trump's powers have been taken away. One of them is the military. Is there a coup going on?
     
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    If the POTUS lost control of the military we are not going to find out about it from your friend.
     
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    The American colonies revolted even though they had the highest standard of living in the world, so I'm not sure you're right.
     
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    Who made the claim that the colonies had that? In the mid 1700s, that’s not even something that could be accurately measured.
     
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    Most these leftists WAILING that we should stay shut down for many more months to come apparently think just that. Somehow during their years of education they either were never told or they utterly failed to grasp how interconnected all businesses are with the economy.

    In order to build 'A' you often need businesses 'B' through 'Z' up and running because you need supplies and support staff and your suppliers need supplies and support staff and they in turn need suppliers and support staff and all these support staff needs office supplies and banks and barber shops and toy stores and grocery stores and they need trucks and big rigs and they need mechanics who in turn need mechanic shops and they need equipment and their equipment needs servicing and that servicing requires trained experts and . . . it never ends because it's all interconnected.

    You take out enough in one or two places and you can seriously cripple the entire chain. So, no, it's not as simple as flipping a switch, but I have yet found ANY leftist poster capable of being convinced of that reality. They seem determined to live in a forking damn dream world in which WISHING makes . . . it . . . so.
     
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    Great post.

    I'm knee deep in the supply chain of food and retail goods daily at work. 20 of the last 21 days I've worked, not at home but at work. I see and live the chain daily.

    Anybody who thinks this is going to come back on like a light, or even close to that is a ignorant on how it all ties together and how it works.

    Meanwhile as they continue to insist we keep the economy closed down they are causing things like this.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...pandemic-un-warns/ar-BB131Rt8?ocid=spartandhp

    That death count will be many times worse than C19 even had we not done a moment of social distancing. Fear leads to bad short sighted decisions that almost always turn out worse than whatever the fear is based upon.
     
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    Well said.
     
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    Ya know, it always seems bad events occur in multiples. Place crashes often seem to come in 3's.
    Imagine if about now some other major disaster struck....compounding the problems we already have.

    A tragic military miscalculation or over reaction for example. The world seems to be a volatile place at the moment.
    I wish Disney would reopen.
     
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    One of my biggest "hopes" is that all of this leads to far less dependence on China and US corporations bringing it back home.
     
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    Makes you wonder how it all got started anyway. It's almost as if businesses grow up all by themselves whenever there's demand.
     
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    You know the Pentagon is going to prepare for the worst, even if likelihood is not that great that they will ever have to act on it.

    But, if it does become necessary, I hope they'll manage to "forget" the Trumps when they move everyone out of DC. ;)
     
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    In addition to parts to drive a manufacturing or service economy, you need customers.. The possibility exists that there would be no customers because no one has jobs making stuff but no one can get a job making stuff until there are customers..

    We're walking a very fine line. Our current food supply is a great example and I talked about this almost on day one of the virus (but with humans, not with the computer). As soon as a food worker gets the virus, food workers quit going to work. Then water and power workers can't get food.. and/or, water and power workers get the virus and quit going to work..

    This entire thing has snowballed out of control and, in my opinion, for no good reason... Sure, it would be terrible if the dead were twice what they are but there's no evidence that would have happened. Short of a cure or a vaccine, neither of which exists, everyone is going to get the virus. Locking everyone in their homes is not going to change that but it is very likely to cause the collapse of our economy. There are already predictions that 2020 becomes the year that China's economy becomes greater than that of the US. We're no longer the leader of the world, free or otherwise.. in fact, the entire world likely ends up in the "otherwise" category.
     
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    Very true.

    Newest numbers, 26 million have filed for unemployment. That's not a "what it" or "could be" prediction like the screaming heads have for what C19 "could" do. Nor is it a inflated number like the death rate they tout based on faulty math to fit their narrative. Its a cold hard number, no debate no variance. From record employment to record unemployment in a month. And people think we can fix that quickly?
     
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    I feel sorry for the women whose lives have been damaged by feminism.
     
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    I read it, and why not considering the abundant land and resources?

    "...In addition to the high affluence of the average American colonist, there was also a comparatively higher quality of life. Due to the land resources, food was comparatively plentiful and wood, which served as a prime energy source, was cheap and abundant. The population density was low, which lessened the spread of diseases. This high quality of life led to high birth rates and lower death rates than Europe, which led to a strong population growth of 3 percent per year..."

    https://www.theodysseyonline.com/american-colonists-heightened-affluence-and-living-standards
     
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    No, we were not.
     

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