I thought you left.

I haven't claimed anything. I complimented someone's handling of another's nonsense. I never stated my affiliation nor addressed anyone besides @bi4smooth. Some folks don't even need to state it, I find typically that the blame projection game and complete absence of irony recognition is pretty automatically a guaranteed Trumper.

"YOU'RE a THIS, YOU'RE a THAT and YOU'RE NAME-CALLING."
I'm done. This got old before it began.

Bye Felicia.

"YOU'RE a THIS, YOU'RE a THAT and YOU'RE NAME-CALLING."
I'm done. This got old before it began.

@bi4smooth

Marxism is the utopian liberal concept and communism is the reality.

Of course, you are too dumb to know that.

Silly twit - you understand Marxism about as well as you understand Buddha.

Marxism is a concept designed to understand the basis for, and the success of, certain socioeconomic forms. I has no direct tie to Communism, and was rejected by the USSR and Chinese governments (the 2 largest experiments in Communism in recent history).

Marxism doesn't "pass judgement" on Capitalism - but does predict its ultimate demise as the "rich get richer and the poor get poorer" and assumes that the Capitalist societies can only maintain themselves by continually propagating military conflict.

Of course, the US is no more "purely" Capitalist than we are "purely" democratic (small d)... and we've done quite well, in spite of Marxist predictions.

Once again, your 3rd-Grade understanding of "adult words" shines through! Good work!

Marxism is the utopian liberal concept and communism is the reality.

Of course, you are too dumb to know that.

@bi4smooth said in Where's the liberal C-19 outrage?!:

@raphjd said in Where's the liberal C-19 outrage?!:

@bi4smooth

Blah, blah, blah

You are a fake-ass Libertarian, unless they decided to support hivemind bs, that you demand.

Mitch is a do-nothing, useless swampie.

BTW, dumb ass, communists are on the left.

Sad that your 1st Grade Education felt that that was in error! However, SOCIALISM is what's leftist, not communism... Google is your friend, ask her!

The point was that it didn't matter where your position was on ANYTHING except Trump... if you don't agree with Trump, you're a Liberal!

AH, so you decided that communism is on the right, so it must be.

I asked Google and she said you're a clown.

Moron: communism is an ECONOMIC system, not a political one.

Communism is the opposite (in current systems) of CAPITALISM... it is neither Liberal nor Conservative...

Socialism, on the other hand, is a political system where the state generally takes care of everybody...

5th Grade Civics class anyone?

@raphjd said in Where's the liberal C-19 outrage?!:

@bi4smooth

Blah, blah, blah

You are a fake-ass Libertarian, unless they decided to support hivemind bs, that you demand.

Mitch is a do-nothing, useless swampie.

BTW, dumb ass, communists are on the left.

Sad that your 1st Grade Education felt that that was in error! However, SOCIALISM is what's leftist, not communism... Google is your friend, ask her!

The point was that it didn't matter where your position was on ANYTHING except Trump... if you don't agree with Trump, you're a Liberal!

AH, so you decided that communism is on the right, so it must be.

I asked Google and she said you're a clown.

@bi4smooth

Blah, blah, blah

You are a fake-ass Libertarian, unless they decided to support hivemind bs, that you demand.

Mitch is a do-nothing, useless swampie.

BTW, dumb ass, communists are on the left.

Sad that your 1st Grade Education felt that that was in error! However, SOCIALISM is what's leftist, not communism... Google is your friend, ask her!

The point was that it didn't matter where your position was on ANYTHING except Trump... if you don't agree with Trump, you're a Liberal!

Blah, blah, blah

You are a fake-ass Libertarian, unless they decided to support hivemind bs, that you demand.

Mitch is a do-nothing, useless swampie.

BTW, dumb ass, communists are on the left.

@kinkyrican

Funny how you do what you claim not to like.

I smell a liberal.

Don't worry, @kinkyrican - to @raphjd, EVERYTHING non-Trumpite is a Liberal...

• Libertarians are liberals (it's almost in their name!)
• White Nationalists who do NOT follow Trump are Liberals
• Communists who do NOT follow Trump are Liberals
• Corey Lewandowski (Trump Campaign Manager who "turned on" Trump) is now a Liberal
• Mitch McConnell (who voted with the Dems on this latest Infrastructure bill) is now a Liberal

If the political spectrum were to be drawn with Trump at a 10, and AOC at a 0, anything less than 9.9999999 would be a Liberal! (You are allowed to not like Trump's ties - nothing more tho!)

Funny how you do what you claim not to like.

I smell a liberal.

No discussion, just name-calling.

Says everything about you.

• I know you are, but what am I?

• I'm rubber, you're glue ...

• etc

McCain was nothing special, unless you are a warhawk.

You support Romney, who is clearly a RINO.

You love all the liberal causes.

Your posts in this thread just might be the most sound argument and sane perspective I've heard a Republican voice since McCain died.

Thank you for the kind words of support. I seldom get any support at all in here, so it is genuinely appreciated!

Careful though! @raphjd is certain that I am a faker... nevermind a 40-year history being registered in the Republican party (tho, admittedly, I do not always vote Republican - it depends on the candidate!)...

But, I'm not a Trumpite, and so to him (and some others), I'm no longer welcome to call myself a Republican... When their opinion matters, I'll break out the tea - because there will be ice all over hell!

Hmmm... let's see...
Someone lights a match...
You shout FIRE
I walked over and said: Yup, that's a match!
And now you're upset that I said "yup" instead of "FIRE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
I understand... but it's still just a match... fire, to be sure, just not the forest fire you want it to be!

Your posts in this thread just might be the most sound argument and sane perspective I've heard a Republican voice since McCain died.

@bi4smooth

I'm not surprised you can't see your downplaying of any of this, because you are a liberal, Warhawk, swampie.

Hmmm... let's see...

Someone lights a match...
You shout FIRE
I walked over and said: Yup, that's a match!

And now you're upset that I said "yup" instead of "FIRE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

I understand... but it's still just a match... fire, to be sure, just not the forest fire you want it to be!

I'm not surprised you can't see your downplaying of any of this, because you are a liberal, Warhawk, swampie.

@bi4smooth

Once again, you can't condemn a liberal.

BTW, nice Whataboutism, dragging Trump into this topic. Now you can drop the "but I'm a Republican" crap.

LOL - I can't support made-up, or incorrectly focused facts...

If you had the ability to read big words you would know that I most-certainly lambasted Obama above, and ALSO blamed him (at least partly) for the increase in CIVOD-19 cases in Martha's Vineyard...

I literally wrote: Obama was a solipsistic MORON (look up solipsistic if you must... though I'm certain you can relate to the word MORON already)

Once again, I wrote in support of your underlying argument, but decrying your use of hyperbole, misinformation, and fake-facts to make it! (Though, in this case, your numbers weren't made up, they were actually LOWER than the MV health department actually reported... but your characterization of them WAS hyperbolic and mis-appropriated: the COVID-19 cases are for all MV residents, not Obama guests)

I'm sorry you disagree, but I affirm my belief that:

• I am a Republican - and have been for decades
• Trump is a RINO, having re-joined the party in 2009 (being a Democrat from 2001-2009)

Once again, you can't condemn a liberal.

BTW, nice Whataboutism, dragging Trump into this topic. Now you can drop the "but I'm a Republican" crap.

According to reports, at least 63 of Obama's birthday party guests got C-19.

Let's not forget how liberal media said that would be exempt from getting C-19 because they are "sophisticated", but I can't go to my corner deli without a mask or 600 trillion people will get it.

One again, you can't help but see a match and scream FIRE!

Obama was a solipsistic MORON for still having the stupid birthday party while Delta was exploding COVID-19 all over again. (Wasn't so unreasonable when it was planned in May, but it got so - extremely unreasonable - by August!)

That said:

• The report is that 74 people in Martha's Vineyard tested positive for COVID-19 (that's even more now than you reported),
• That is not the same as 74 guests of the Obamas.
• Martha's Vineyard wasn't immune from COVID-19 pre-party, it's just that this was a spike
• While the official reports are that (according to a Tisbury health agent and boards of health spokesperson) 'At this time we're not aware of any cases connected to the Obama party', this too falls under the "likelihood" cause of Occam's Razor:
  Shortly after a huge birthday party, where the host flew in HUNDREDS of people for his magical birthday soiree, there is a spike in COVID-19 infections in MV... could it be that it's just a coincidence? Sure! and it could also be a coincidence that protesters stormed the Capitol on the exact day and time of the Electoral College count... sure, it was just a coincidence! OR maybe, just maybe the obvious causality is actually true, and you just don't want to see it...

To be clear: I join your outrage against the whole giant Obama party in August idea... I just don't share your willingness to distort facts to make things out as worse than they are... the REAL facts are sufficient to make the results of the party tragic and abominable.

BTW: This isn't January, 2021... having a positive COVID-19 test doesn't mean likely hospitalization, or a 1-5% chance of death from the disease. Fully vaccinated people can still CATCH COVID-19, they just won't get AS SICK from it! While it's no excuse, MV residents have a rather high COVID-19 vaccination rate (source)

But let's not mince words: while Obama may have culled the guest list significantly, there were still hundreds of people flying into MV to either attend, or to attend to the bash... that is: guests and workers... To think that none would be COVID-19 positive - even if they did rapid-tests on all of them - is inexcusably stupid!

This is, however, a classic example of how one person's hubris can affect the lives of others around him. Obama, in his hedonistic, self-serving way, failed to follow even simple guidelines (like inviting few-enough guests that social distancing would be reasonable, or requiring masks - of guests and workers - throughout the event)

And while I share your outrage that politicians continue to think that because they write (or enforce) the law, that they are above the law, this is not a liberal/conservative thing... it's a politicians are crooked bastards thing! And the higher up they go, the more they think they are above the law. (Obama is not really different from Trump in this aspect!)

One final point - to the follow-on post:

• Groping women without their consent is a potentially criminal act
• Not wearing a mask and not setting a good example is not - no, not even in areas that have "mask mandates" - you don't get arrested solely for not wearing a mask