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It's the internet and I'll be damned if I am going to fact check this so take it like it was reported by CNN.

My bad, the Mark Dice tweet was supposed to go in the media bias thread. I might need to get tested to see if I have Bidenvirus.

I am loathe to give any credit to Mark Dice for anything. He is an attention whore whose top priority in his videos always seems to be to make sure his smarmy face completely overshadows any point he is trying to make. However he has a point here.

Okay, so I screwed up a decimal point somewhere in my math and fouled up my entire point. So I will use a different analogy and instead of playing Rene Descartes I will instead play David Attenborough to make my point. Every year millions and millions of wildebeests migrate across Africa following the rains in search of fresh grass to graze on. Each year thousands and thousands of these wildebeests meet their end along this migration via lions, crocodiles, and other predators. The majority of the eaten are old or sick wildebeest. The wildebeest that finish the migration are rewarded with fresh grass to eat and the herd as a whole is strengthened. Now the wildebeest could just stay where they are at at the start and avoid all the lions and crocodiles that are waiting ahead of them. However they know that there is no grass to eat where they are at and they will all eventually starve (and the old and the sick will be the first to starve). We are the wildebeest. Coronavirus is the lions and crocodiles and the grass is the economy. Fresh grass is an open, thriving economy. Dead grass is the economy in its current state. We can stay in the dead grass and keep the old and sick from being eaten by the crocodiles and lions. However the entire herd is eventually going to metaphorically starve by doing so (starving being a metaphor for poverty). And the old and the sick will be among the first to fall down this mineshaft of poverty our present actions are putting us on a course for. We are trying to save the old and the sick by starving the entire herd which will result in the old and the sick being among the first to die anyway. This completely defies logic.

So we are shutting the entire country down for a disease that kills 1 out of every 250 people it infects (assuming there has been no one wandering around out there with it who hasn't been diagnosed which is kind of like assuming the Detroit Lions are going to the Super Bowl). We are a country full of morons.

If there were anything in the intelligence briefings that Schiff could have used against Trump politically it would have been leaked to The Washington Post or New York Times instantaneously.

Considering some of those intelligence agencies and officials were involved in a secret plot to spy on his election campaign and later tried to frame him for colluding with Russia over the election I can't understand for the life of me why he wouldn't trust every thing they tell him.

Oh Jesus Christ these fuckers can't make up their minds. They've gone from Trump understated the impact of this to he knew the death total would be less than the models predicted all along. Chris Hayes@chrislhayesThe most cynical interpretation of all this is they rolled out the model showing 100k deaths after they knew it would be less than that so they could anchor everyone to that # and take a vicotry lap when "only" tens of thousands died.

You folks make Alysso Milano look like Jeanne Kirkpatrick.

I haven't seen a wall of text that long and indecipherable since Fiona Apple's second album.

Your epitaph is going to be "Everyone that disagreed with me was a troll."

I'd blow you a kiss but, you know, social distancing and all that stuff.

Is this coming from a member of the swarm defending Hunter Biden being paid $600, 000 per year by an Ukranian natural gas company? Or the millions and millions of "donations" made to the Clinton Foundation before 2016? The Borg on this forum calling anyone else brain dead is like Keith Richards accusing someone of living an unhealthy lifestyle.

I think people that call activists scientists don't understand what a scientist is either.