johnpetersen

3 hours ago, Logosone said:

Hardly, the hordes of leftists are not an imagination of Trump. The destruction the ANTIFA led mobs caused were not an invention of Trump. The division of US society is a reality. 

 

The majority of Americans want to celebrate their culture, history and forefathers, and a small, violent, criminal, loud and obnoxious minority want to attack the very core of American history.

 

This is a Godsend for Trump and could enable him to be re-elected despite the poor performance of the US in the Covid 19 pandemic.

"The destruction the ANTIFA led mobs caused were not an invention of Trump."

Well, then, who did invent that destruction that these ANTIFA led mobs caused? Because not even the Dept. of Justice claims that mobs were led by ANTIFA.

24 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Yes, you view is to let someone else decide .

I just wondered what your own personal opinion was .

If you dont have an opinion , I suggest you join bluespunk in just reading and pulling faces at posts 

Because this is an online poll?

49 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

Couldn't agree with you more. I am very surprised, however, that the usual suspects (i.e. the Trump devotees and anti-environmentalists) on this forum are not out in force and haven't jumped on this topic to bitch and moan about how the bleeding-heart liberals and snowflakes are hurting the economy and causing people to lose their jobs.

If there's been less of them it's because the facts are now overwhelming. Oil companies are writing down the value of their assets in recognition of the fact that the reserves that are more expensive to access are probably never coming out of the ground. The cost of renewables has been plunging way ahead of what was expected just a few years ago. Capitalism is making fossil fuels obsolete.

15 minutes ago, mommysboy said:

Have we had any definitive studies that prove paper masks offer any significant protection?

 

All I see are a few graphs/diagrams which explain what we knew already.

 

It's probable they are of modest benefit imo- perhaps more so indoors.  Every little bit helps I guess.

 

(One anomaly in my eyes: it's scientifically accepted that paper masks are not much good at protecting against pm10 in air pollution, so why would they be any good with tiny viral particles?  Perhaps pm10 is smaller- I don't know....)

There have been several epidemiological studies and the consensus is yes. I think one of the problems with the way people think about masks is that they defend the mask wearer from breathing in virus bearing droplets. But what's more important is that they impede the passage of such droplets from the mask wearer.

https://www.livescience.com/face-mask-visualization-droplets-covid-19.html

5 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Except your facts are wrong. Go research it to prove i am right.

Yes, you would think after spending months of trawling a huge number of websites, Krataiboy would be inclined to share just a few of his resources with us. Does seem strange. Not that we would ever doubt that he or she has in fact spent months trawling a huge number of websites.

10 minutes ago, A1Str8 said:

Obviously it's airborne. That's why such a virus was released. Otherwise how are you going to tell people, stay home blah blah and bring the global economy to it's knees. 

Airborne in this context doesn't mean what you think it means. Which is entirely understandable. Larger droplets of liquid expelled from the lungs are not considered to be airborne. They're more like projectiles that will soon fall to the ground if they don't hit anything on the way down. Very small particles though, can be sustained for a long time in the air. It's the significance of these that are in question.

21 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

A total reversal of what I said, which was to do their own research (my own is based on months of trawling a huge number of resources and condensing my findings into easily digestible factbites) and challenge me with any which disputes the conclusions I have reached.

 

Kao jai?

You'll find that the mods disagree with you on this one for obvious reasons. Not that i'm going to do anything about it.

39 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Rewriting history?

 

Where has history been rewritten?

 

Unless of course you mean all the facts are being discussed?

 

I can see why that might upset some of the maga crowd...the rest of your post is just hyperbolic inaccuracies. 

Well, maybe if someone is illiterate or dyslexic then they might need to learn history via the visual aids under discussion.

6 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

I heard a joke that the left now want to ban pianos. More white keys than black = clearly racist. Once it would have been amusing. Now it pales in comparison to the mindless actions they take on a daily basis. That Trump opponents find rewriting history a la 1984 to be "awesome" it is a tiny step from where we are now to more extreme measures(yet oh so necessary in the name of PC)such as all whites being chemically castrated, and all their assets being seized and given to street gangs. A truly sad time to be alive seeing great civilizations under attack from the ignorant and jealous.

You definitely have a point if that tiny step leading to the chemical castration of whites and having all their assets confiscated was a stumble that caused someone to fall down and get a concussion that resulted in a state of psychosis that featured the consequences you touted. Otherwise, not so likely.

29 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Yah, I think your Trump angle is not going very far, even Virginia Roberts said she never saw Trump engage with any of the girls. Same for Clinton.

 

Epstein kept all the sexual goings on hidden from his famous guests. All the supposed talk of Epstein keeping videos of famous people having sex, like Sarah Ransome claimed at one point having tapes of Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton, all pure lies. Not a single video has ever surfaced. Not one.

Just pointing out the general trustworthiness of Fox News. This is the 2nd photographic fraud stunt they've pulled off recently.

9 minutes ago, Susco said:

Buffett paid $4 billion for the pipeline assets only, not for the company, so why would he pay for a pipeline that has no future

Dominion has lots and lots of pipelines. That was just one of many.

What Berkshire Will Get

The deal would transfer more than 7,700 miles of natural gas transmission lines from Dominion to Berkshire, including about 20.8 billion cubic feet per day of transportation capacity, 900 billion cubic feet of operated natural gas storage with 364 billion cubic feet of company-owned working storage capacity, plus partial ownership of a liquefied natural gas export, import and storage facility.2

Additionally, Berkshire Hathaway Energy will acquire 100% of Dominion Energy Transmission, Questar Pipeline, and Carolina Gas Transmission, plus 50% of the Iroquois Gas Transmission System. The deal does not include Dominion's Atlantic Coast Pipeline. However, it does include 25% of Cove Point LNG, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export, import and storage facility in Maryland that is one of only six LNG export facilities in the U.S. Dominion will retain a 50% ownership stake in Cove Point, while Brookfield Asset Management will continue as a 25% owner.2

https://www.investopedia.com/buffett-s-berkshire-buys-dominion-natural-gas-assets-for-usd10-billion-5070491#:~:text=Berkshire Hathaway is buying natural,is scheduled for Q4 2020.

14 minutes ago, Susco said:

 

So I wonder why Buffett paid $4 billion for the whole lot of abandoned pipeline.

 

Scrap metal can't be worth that much

That's just a small part of Dominions holdings in natural gas transmission.

16 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Believe what you like.

 

I'm certainly not going to mollycoddle you by citing the numerous sources of the information I posted. Do your own research and I'm happy to debate facts you come up with which dispute mine.

Honorable people back up their claims.

And once again the evil MSM tries to pull a cover-up:

Fox News says it 'mistakenly' cropped Trump out of photo featuring Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

7 hours ago, johnpetersen said:

Maybe instead Trump should run on the virtues of the USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA. Because it's going to be a huge boost for a lot of workers. HUGE. Just not for American workers.

Japan auto companies triple Mexican pay rather than move to US

Trump hailed new NAFTA as American job generator, but higher prices appear in offing

The new North American free trade agreement that goes into effect Wednesday was touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as an engine of American job creation. But Japan's automakers are largely opting instead to keep operations in place and pay Mexican workers more or even just pay tariffs.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Japan-auto-companies-triple-Mexican-pay-rather-than-move-to-US

Personally, I think it's great that Mexican workers are getting a big boost in wages. It's long overdue. I'm just not so sure that Trump supporters will be thrilled about it. After all, Trump was counting on the deal to repatriate auto production to the USA and create American jobs.

Now these are some Mexicans who might illegally vote in America. But it would be for Trump, out of gratitude.

6 minutes ago, DefaultName said:

I'm not American, so my opinion means nothing really.

Here it is anyway;

He has 2 things in his favour;

1. He isn't a career politician, they have a vested interest in the status quo - and change is needed.
2. He isn't one of "them", the ruling elite who run things to benefit their class at the expense of all others.

So,

Go Kanye.

Not just that. No one has a clear idea of where he stands on the issues. So he can be whatever you want him to be. A Rorschach candidate. 

1 hour ago, Krataiboy said:

A few salient facts to counter the ongoing fear-mongering.

 

1 Face masks are not obligatory in countries which understand the science which says a mask offers little protection against viruses and can cause potentially serious harm to the wearer.

 

2 The COVID 19 virus is hardly a threat at all to 99.5% of the population, while the average age of death is two to four years longer than the average lifespan.

 

3 There is not a single verified case of reinfection in the world, which implies that immunity is easily acquired and, so far, sustained. Latest research shows that herd immunity may be achieved when as few as 30 percent of a given population have survived infection

 

4 There are no vaccines against rapidly evolving coronaviruses like SARS-cov-2, of which there are already more than 100 strains. In any case, if proper, rigorous testing is done, it can take two years to bring a COVID vaccine to market - by which time the present pandemic will be history.

Thank you for sharing that  information with us. Nothing inspires confidence quite as much as anonymity of sources. Please do not share that information with us. I want to believe.

Here is an excerpt from and a  link to an excellent article from nature.com.

Nature is one of the world preeminent publishers of scientific research

The World Health Organization says the evidence is not compelling, but scientists warn that gathering sufficient data could take years and cost lives.

"When public health officials say there isn't sufficient evidence to say that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne, they specifically mean transported in virus-laden aerosols smaller than 5 micrometres in diameter. Compared with droplets, which are heftier and thought to travel only short distances after someone coughs or sneezes before falling to the floor or onto other surfaces, aerosols can linger in the air for longer and travel further...

And if SARS-CoV-2 is transmitting in aerosols, it is possible that virus particles can build up over time in enclosed spaces or be transmitted over greater distances."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00974-w