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    bb.king reacted to Wideleft in US Politics   
    I beg to differ.
    By  Lena H. Sun May 10, 2018 at 3:32 p.m. CD   The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton. The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.
    Ziemer’s last day was Tuesday, the same day a new Ebola outbreak was declared in Congo. He is not being replaced.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/
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    bb.king reacted to do or die in US Politics   
    One admitted his error and stated it was "on him"
    The other, well....
     
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    bb.king reacted to Wanna-B-Fanboy in US Politics   
    I see your Cuomo and raise you a Desantis. 
     
    One made a mistake at the beginning of the pandemic when little was known about the virus,; the other willfully disregards the science and endangers countless people by ignoring the pandemic and spits in the face of evidence based decision making. I know which of the two I would crown with the title of "biggest error in judgement on Covid response"
     
     
     
     
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    bb.king reacted to JCon in US Politics   
    Again, we don't have to look very far to see that white supremacy is spreading in Canada. F*** Trump and all his supporters. 
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    bb.king reacted to 17to85 in US Politics   
    No? He was sued in the 70s by the justice department for discrimination in his renting practices against African Americans... he took out full page ads in newspapers calling for the execution of black people who were already exonerated of the rape/murder they were accused of... he campaigned on the idea that Mexicans were criminals and then went about putting Mexican immigrants in concentration camps ripping families apart and even going so far as genocide. He won't denounce white supremacists, what do you think the dogwhistle about saving the suburbs is really about? 
    The man is a racist and shows it constantly. Don't handwoven away the constant dog whistling he does. 
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    bb.king reacted to HardCoreBlue in US Politics   
    You lost me after stating you don’t see any racism.
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    bb.king reacted to Wideleft in US Politics   
    Not at all.
    Harper tried to use the power of government to discriminate against Muslims before Trump did (Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotline) He refused to speak out against anti-Muslim violence before Trump had the opportunity to ignore it. Harper muzzled scientists before Trump did Harper government removed the word "Environment" from the Environment Canada website.  Trump admin has removed climate change references from gov websites. Harper called the Kyoto Protocol a "socialist scheme" before Trump started talking that way. The Harper government gutted protections for fresh water before Trump could do it. Tell me how Trudeau is more like Trump than Harper was, because your simple assertion does not make it so.
     
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    bb.king reacted to Wanna-B-Fanboy in Space is the Place   
    Cool fading supernova caught by Hubble:
     
     
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    bb.king reacted to bustamente in US Politics   
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    bb.king reacted to 17to85 in US Politics   
    what point is that? Here is the problem, speedflex made some claims, he was asked to back them up and then he and you got pissy about it. 
    Open minded people don't react that way to being asked to prove their points. That is what closed minded people do because they don't want to risk being shown they are wrong.
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    bb.king got a reaction from JCon in Wrestling   
    I still remember the first time I saw the Road Warriors when I was a kid, wrestling as heels. That was when I realised that the heels were way cooler than the faces.
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    bb.king reacted to Goldkobra in Wrestling   
    I remember being 7 years old and beating the hell out of a kid in Sunday school for saying the Fabulous Ones were better than the Road Warriors. He was wrong then and he's still wrong today. RIP Animal. 
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    bb.king reacted to FrostyWinnipeg in Wrestling   
    https://sports.yahoo.com/wwe-legend-road-warrior-animal-dead-at-60-133908910.html
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    bb.king got a reaction from wbbfan in Diversionary topic of the week: Your Top 3 Best and Worst Bomber memories   
    Best:
    1984, second game of the season and first home game. They beat the Argos by two points after a disappointing season opening lose to Calgary at a time when the Bombers rarely lost at home. In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t that significant of a game, but it was the first Bomber game I ever attended. I was a teenager and my Dad had no interest in going to football or hockey games, so I never went any Bomber or Jets games. But an uncle was going with one of my cousins and had a spare ticket, so he took me. It was a big thrill for me to finally get to attend a live game. 1988 Grey Cup. After the 1987 season where the Bombers were dominant but lost the East final this was an unexpected win as Tom Clements had retired. But somehow, they managed to win it. During the 1983 season when Dieter Brock was traded to Hamilton for Tom Clements. Brock had already said that he wanted out and wasn’t playing. In the pre-internet days, I remember watching TV when a ‘breaking news’ story scrolled across the bottom of the screen. It said something like ‘Winnipeg Blue Bomber quarterback, Dieter Brock, has been traded to Hamilton for…’, and when I saw that I immediately was thinking ‘Tom Clements, Tom Clements’! Worst:
    1994 Eastern Final loss to Baltimore. When it finally seemed like it would be third-time’s-the -charm with Dunigan and the Bombers. 2002 Western final loss to Edmonton. After the 2001 Grey Cup loss and then this one, it just seemed like it was destined not to happen with this version of the team, despite everything they had going for them. Not an on-field disappointment, but in the mid-90’s when they dropped the royal blue uniforms and traditional ‘W’ logo for the scheme they wore for the next 20 years. I hated those uniforms and that logo! Bonus positive memory is when they finally switched back a few years ago.
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    bb.king reacted to johnzo in comedy stuff   
    this is pretty funny I think.
    he gets all het up about St. John / St John's.  Wait until someone tells him about Roughriders / Rough Riders.
     
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    bb.king reacted to Wanna-B-Fanboy in The Star Wars Thread   
    This is the way:
     
     
     
     
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    bb.king got a reaction from Bigblue204 in Diversionary topic of the week: Your Top 3 Best and Worst Bomber memories   
    Best:
    1984, second game of the season and first home game. They beat the Argos by two points after a disappointing season opening lose to Calgary at a time when the Bombers rarely lost at home. In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t that significant of a game, but it was the first Bomber game I ever attended. I was a teenager and my Dad had no interest in going to football or hockey games, so I never went any Bomber or Jets games. But an uncle was going with one of my cousins and had a spare ticket, so he took me. It was a big thrill for me to finally get to attend a live game. 1988 Grey Cup. After the 1987 season where the Bombers were dominant but lost the East final this was an unexpected win as Tom Clements had retired. But somehow, they managed to win it. During the 1983 season when Dieter Brock was traded to Hamilton for Tom Clements. Brock had already said that he wanted out and wasn’t playing. In the pre-internet days, I remember watching TV when a ‘breaking news’ story scrolled across the bottom of the screen. It said something like ‘Winnipeg Blue Bomber quarterback, Dieter Brock, has been traded to Hamilton for…’, and when I saw that I immediately was thinking ‘Tom Clements, Tom Clements’! Worst:
    1994 Eastern Final loss to Baltimore. When it finally seemed like it would be third-time’s-the -charm with Dunigan and the Bombers. 2002 Western final loss to Edmonton. After the 2001 Grey Cup loss and then this one, it just seemed like it was destined not to happen with this version of the team, despite everything they had going for them. Not an on-field disappointment, but in the mid-90’s when they dropped the royal blue uniforms and traditional ‘W’ logo for the scheme they wore for the next 20 years. I hated those uniforms and that logo! Bonus positive memory is when they finally switched back a few years ago.
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    bb.king got a reaction from Noeller in Diversionary topic of the week: Your Top 3 Best and Worst Bomber memories   
    Best:
    1984, second game of the season and first home game. They beat the Argos by two points after a disappointing season opening lose to Calgary at a time when the Bombers rarely lost at home. In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t that significant of a game, but it was the first Bomber game I ever attended. I was a teenager and my Dad had no interest in going to football or hockey games, so I never went any Bomber or Jets games. But an uncle was going with one of my cousins and had a spare ticket, so he took me. It was a big thrill for me to finally get to attend a live game. 1988 Grey Cup. After the 1987 season where the Bombers were dominant but lost the East final this was an unexpected win as Tom Clements had retired. But somehow, they managed to win it. During the 1983 season when Dieter Brock was traded to Hamilton for Tom Clements. Brock had already said that he wanted out and wasn’t playing. In the pre-internet days, I remember watching TV when a ‘breaking news’ story scrolled across the bottom of the screen. It said something like ‘Winnipeg Blue Bomber quarterback, Dieter Brock, has been traded to Hamilton for…’, and when I saw that I immediately was thinking ‘Tom Clements, Tom Clements’! Worst:
    1994 Eastern Final loss to Baltimore. When it finally seemed like it would be third-time’s-the -charm with Dunigan and the Bombers. 2002 Western final loss to Edmonton. After the 2001 Grey Cup loss and then this one, it just seemed like it was destined not to happen with this version of the team, despite everything they had going for them. Not an on-field disappointment, but in the mid-90’s when they dropped the royal blue uniforms and traditional ‘W’ logo for the scheme they wore for the next 20 years. I hated those uniforms and that logo! Bonus positive memory is when they finally switched back a few years ago.
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    bb.king reacted to bustamente in US Politics   
    Not the first time he has disparaged Canada, guys a bottom feeding hack
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    bb.king reacted to 17to85 in US Politics   
    Support a racist you are ok with racism. 
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    bb.king reacted to Wanna-B-Fanboy in US Politics   
    Why not? If you support a racist sexual predator... doesn't that mean you are ok with the racism and rape?
     
    I mean... if someone was a David Duke supporter... I think it's fair to lump them in the racist group... I dont think there is a group for, "I'm not racist, but i condone racism and support this racist person" group. Some people think there is that group, but its really just the racist group.
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    bb.king reacted to JCon in US Politics   
    If you support openly racist people because you agree with their racist policies, you may be a racist. 
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    bb.king reacted to Mr Dee in US Politics   
    👁‍🗨 A somewhat long but hard hitting article on:

    The Unraveling of America  

    In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional and incompetent government largely responsible for death rates that added a tragic coda to America’s claim to supremacy in the world....

    Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets. The three richest Americans have more money than the poorest 160 million of their countrymen....

    The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led the world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, was reduced to a laughing stock as a buffoon of a president advocated the use of household disinfectants as a treatment for a disease that intellectually he could not begin to understand....

    The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom....
    The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055...
    For the moment, we have only the kleptocracy of Donald Trump. Between praising the Chinese for their treatment of the Uighurs, describing their internment and torture as “exactly the right thing to do,” and his dispensing of medical advice concerning the therapeutic use of chemical disinfectants, Trump blithely remarked, “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” He had in mind, of course, the coronavirus, but, as others have said, he might just as well have been referring to the American dream...

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/

     
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    bb.king reacted to do or die in US Politics   
    Why jump into the ring, when your opponent is busy punching himself in the face?
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    bb.king reacted to TrueBlue4ever in US Politics   
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/crooksandliars.com/2020/06/trumps-walk-shame/amp
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