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Something to understand what nurses think about re the Current News and their opinions!

1 hour ago, subee said:

Uh-oh.  The Duh ball has landed in my court!  Is Mr. Weyler mentally ill or is he a Republican typical to MTG, Rand Paul or any other of the wackos in the Republican party who get all the press attention? I don't know where the line is between ill or wormholed is anymore.  When the Repubs allow these people to flourish in their party, I am led to believe that the nuts are serving some purpose for  the silent majority - if there even is a silent majority.

The plonker at least had the decency to resign today, thankfully! 

Maybe the lizards communicated to him by Jewish lasers or Hillary had a word with him ????

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By Devlin Barrett

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/durbin-report-trump-pressure-justice/2021/10/07/b51712d4-2769-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html

The Senate has outlined Trump's internal efforts to use the DOJ in his attempt to seize the power he lost in the election. 

The report itself is linked in the article. I cannot copy and share from the PDF of the report. 

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17 hours ago, nursej22 said:

 

It does irritate me that some posters automatically classify all Republicans as Trump supporters. I do wish more, meaning elected Republicans,  would speak out.

I wanted to revisit this uncomfortable position for conservatives who don't support Trump. 

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Two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they would like to see former President Donald Trump continue to be a major political figure for many years to come, including 44% who say they would like him to run for president in 2024, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Sept. 13 to 19.

Support for Trump had actually grown among conservative voters since 010621. 

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The share of Republicans who say Trump should continue to be a major national figure has grown 10 percentage points – from 57% to 67% – since a January survey that was conducted in the waning days of his administration and in the immediate wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

And those supporters are not interested in party support of politicians who do not support Trump. 

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A 63% majority of Republicans say their party should be not too (32%) or not at all (30%) accepting of elected officials who openly criticize Trump, according to the new survey. Just 36% of Republicans say the GOP should be very (11%) or somewhat (26%) accepting of officials who do so.

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The share of Republicans who say their party should be accepting of elected officials who openly criticize Trump has declined since March. Today, 36% of Republicans say it is at least somewhat acceptable for Republican elected officials to openly criticize Trump, down from 43% earlier this year.

The GOP is in trouble.  

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How about some examples of the fiscally conservative behaviors of the Trump cabinet members? Oh wait, they weren't fiscally conservative...they were an odd assortment of grifters and opportunists.

Tom Price at HHS was a classic example.  He needed to use tax payer money for private jet travel.  

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In April 2017, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services grappled with an urgent request: how to get Tom Price from D.C. to a conference at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif., after bad weather delayed the secretary’s planned flight aboard Delta Air Lines.
“Secretary needs to go to LA today, and leave by 3 p.m.,” one travel specialist wrote in an April 6, 2017, email obtained by The Washington Post through a Freedom of Information Act request. The travel aide was seeking a colleague with access to a government purchasing card. “Do you have someone who can PCard a charter aircraft on short notice?”
Officials quickly secured a $29,000 charter flight — which also had to be scuttled, as tornadoes plagued the D.C. region. But the day’s events left a scar on Price’s top aides, who vowed that the Trump Cabinet official would never again wait on a commercial airline’s schedule, and foreshadowed a five-month travel sprint in which the health department spent $456,000 in taxpayer money on Price’s charter flights across the United States.

The best part is that Price is a Tea Party fiscal conservative by his own description.  

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As a Georgia congressman and member of the tea party caucus, Price positioned himself as a fiscal conservative, rising to chair the House Budget Committee in 2015 with a vow to slash wasteful government spending. The surgeon, an early supporter of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was rewarded with a Cabinet post; Trump praised Price as “exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare.”

 

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By Dan Lamothe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/10/06/marines-aav-accident/

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But the Marine Corps, which prides itself on being ready to respond to crises on short notice, provided a unit of amphibious assault vehicles for the deployment that had not completed required training, including for how to escape a sinking vehicle, investigators found.

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Mundy wrote in his report that “associated reverberations” from a coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier that became crippled while deployed early in the pandemic, “compressed and complicated available training opportunities” for the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Mundy wrote that the Marines had a number of other “non-standard” missions at the time that strained resources and time, including assignments at the U.S.-Mexico border in support of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and to provide security for the USNS Mercy, a hospital ship that was deployed off the California coast to assist civilian hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.

I hope there's going to be a broader investigation into the decision making within the military. 

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58 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

By Devlin Barrett

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/durbin-report-trump-pressure-justice/2021/10/07/b51712d4-2769-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html

The Senate has outlined Trump's internal efforts to use the DOJ in his attempt to seize the power he lost in the election. 

The report itself is linked in the article. I cannot copy and share from the PDF of the report. 

I don't understand this country and the disassociation re how dangerous what happened was to our futures? 

This consummate criminal and the republican party are really trying to make us into a banana republic! 

I mean how vulnerable are our checks and balances that such an inveterate moron can so easily upend and almost succeed in destroying the fabric of our success as a country? 

And it's not stopping. He's now challenging Congressional subpoenas by encouraging his people to not appear for hearings and he's not even in power! How weak is Garland that he's not arrested trump immediately? You can't encourage a bank robbery in public and the police won't step in! 

This is not going to end well. We need to secede and divide this country. These people are inherently dangerous and will kill a lot of people deliberately or not! Covid is an omen of exactly how republicans will handle future problems! 

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

I wanted to revisit this uncomfortable position for conservatives who don't support Trump. 

Support for Trump had actually grown among conservative voters since 010621. 

And those supporters are not interested in party support of politicians who do not support Trump. 

The GOP is in trouble.  

Only a little more than half of Democrats think they should accept elected officials who openly criticize Biden.  Down from 67%.  Not exactly stellar.

And, then there is this troubling find from the same survey:

"About four-in-ten Democrats (41%) say their party should be accepting of elected officials in their own party who call GOP officials evil, with 13% saying their party should be very accepting of this. Among Republicans, 46% say their party should be accepting of officials who call their Democratic counterparts evil, including 18% who say the party should be very accepting of these officials."

 

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On 10/5/2021 at 11:25 PM, toomuchbaloney said:

People ARE making their own decisions and choices about vaccination.  

Yes, that's what you asked. 

In the context of a discussion about mandates vs freedoms, you stated that conservatives are making decisions based on a lack of information and/ or false information.  I then asked if the government knows better, and should be making decisions for us?

Kudos... you were the only one with the courage to answer, but your reply is a deflection.  Perhaps the biggest one that's been seen in these threads.

And, your assertion is false.  Many people are not making their own decisions about vaccination.  Not unless you think choosing between your job and a vaccination counts as "making their own decisions."

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40 minutes ago, Beerman said:

 

Kudos... you were the only one with the courage to answer, but your reply is a deflection.  Perhaps the biggest one that's been seen in these threads.

In your view answering your question is a deflection...that's telling.  

 

41 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Many people are not making their own decisions about vaccination.  Not unless you think choosing between your job and a vaccination counts as "making their own decisions."

"Choosing between your job and a vaccination" is, indeed, a choice and an example of "making their own decisions".

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2 hours ago, Beerman said:

In the context of a discussion about mandates vs freedoms, you stated that conservatives are making decisions based on a lack of information and/ or false information.  I then asked if the government knows better, and should be making decisions for us?

Kudos... you were the only one with the courage to answer, but your reply is a deflection.  Perhaps the biggest one that's been seen in these threads.

And, your assertion is false.  Many people are not making their own decisions about vaccination.  Not unless you think choosing between your job and a vaccination counts as "making their own decisions."

Right. Because people can choose not to work. I guess they choose not to eat or take care of their kids. ....

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2 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

In your view answering your question is a deflection...that's telling

LOL...you didn't answer my question.

I'll make it simple.  The government should make decisions for us, because our elected officials know what is best for us.  Yes or no?

2 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Choosing between your job and a vaccination" is, indeed, a choice and an example of "making their own decisions".

Interesting take from someone who says a woman who has sex without taking prophylactic measures is being "forced" to be pregnant if she can't have an abortion. 

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6 minutes ago, Beerman said:

LOL...you didn't answer my question.

I'll make it simple.  The government should make decisions for us, because our elected officials know what is best for us.  Yes or no?

Interesting take from someone who says a woman who has sex without taking prophylactic measures is being "forced" to be pregnant if she can't have an abortion. 

And chastise every person for "choosing to have a different opinion than him! 

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