Overwhelmed?

Rel... are you kidding? Lies... Joe was awarded four pinocchios (by a liberal newspaper) for his untrue statements about Georgia's voting laws. Ineptness... Joe's reversal of border policies has created a crisis at the border. Corruption... Joe has set aside the science and not pushed for opening schools while knuckling under to teacher unions who are holding America hostage. BTW... which candidate received the largest share of campaign contributions from teacher unions last year? Joe Biden...

Those are facts, Rel... not feelings.

So Mr. Economist aka Rel, not only are you intellectually dishonest, you are to lazy to search for Joe Biden lies. ROTFLMAO

https://www.learning-mind.com/intellectual-dishonesty-signs/

Well Ray, let us address your facts and mostly opinions. Biden's 4 pinocchios were given for a false statement made by a doctor in the CDC who was summarily dismissed for speaking subsequently for the CDC. A falsehood corrected immediately by the administration - who knew it could be done as we have not seen this happen for 4 years!

Biden reversed the Draconian policies of sending orphaned children back over the border by exercising common humanity. However, he set the same 15K cap on immigrants set by Trump and was immediately blasted for it. Did Biden create the immigrant crises? Hardly. 4 administrations have been kicking this can down the road. Biden certainly does not have the answers on immigration, but it far past time for Congress to set policy on this problematic issue.

As to opening schools. How is this corruption? Joe has not set aside the science, he is following it to prevent an uptick in COVID, which, if you have been following the news, children are now the leading spreaders. On this issue, and many more, we need to practice patience, not patients.

Rel

This is the last time I will do your homework for you...

You said: Biden's 4 pinocchios were given for a false statement made by a doctor in the CDC who was summarily dismissed for speaking subsequently for the CDC. Nope. The Washington Post issued four pinocchios for Biden making false statements about Georgia's new voting law.

You said: Biden reversed the Draconian policies of sending orphaned children back over the border by exercising common humanity. Nope. Reversing previous policies has caused a mass migration and surge of border crossings that is approaching a 20 year high with more than 15,000 unaccompanied children being detained by US authorities. Those children are housed in over crowded facilities and the press was blocked from reporting on the horrible conditions inside the detention centers. From a BBC report, "Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said these camps, which are often compared to jails or warehouses, are 'no place for a child.'" Is that your definition of "exercising common humanity"? Have you seen the video footage of preschoolers being dropped over the border fence and abandoned? We'll never know how many children were assaulted or left to fend for themselves by coyotes. But it doesn't stop there... drugs and gang members are also making the border crossing. You asked: Did Biden create the immigrant crisis? Yes, Biden did create the current immigrant crises.

You said: Joe has not set aside the science. Nope. The WHO said in December that schools can safely reopen. The CDC said in January that there is little evidence that COVID-19 is spread in schools and that schools can safely reopen before educators are vaccinated. The CDC had already prepared guidelines last summer for reopening schools (updated in February 2021) re: how to resume in-person instruction without causing undue risks to educators. Didn't look like Joe was following the science. During this time, what was the administration's response? First, it was most schools will be reopened within Biden's first 100 days. That sounds good. Oops... that didn't include high schools. Then, 50% of schools can open one day a week. Uh... that's not what the experts were saying. Joe's explanation? Well, we've got to certify ALL ventilation systems before schools can open. But Joe did not press schools reopening partly because teachers unions would not allow their members to teach until they had been vaccinated. There were other demands. All this is transpiring while private schools are already back to teaching in person.

How is this corrupt? When you are the biggest beneficiary of campaign contributions from teachers unions and you acquiesce to their demands to the detriment of millions of American children... that's corrupt.

Say "hello" to Tin Woodman and Scarecrow the next time you go to wherever it is you get your information...

Ah Rel,

You are amazing. After giving Ray the bat with which to beat on you like a sweet filled piñata, you pick yourself up off the floor so he may float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Thanks!

Thanks, Wilfredo

The title of this LTE is "Overwhelmed." I think it also describes Rel.

Whoa, cowboy! Going backwards? Hardly...

In the other "political" LTE in the DJ today... I mentioned the major media outlets and social media ditching the Hunter Biden story. That was six months ago... hardly an item for the history books. In fact, Hunter himself has breathed new life into this story over the past week or so with an admission that the mysterious laptop from six months ago belongs to him... remember left leaning investigative journalists calmly stating that ownership of the laptop had not been unverified and therefore not worthy of coverage? (Isn't it part of their job to try and verify the ownership of a laptop that has implications for a presidential election?)

Rel asked for examples of lies, ineptness and corruption associated with the Biden administration. I gave him some... they are current. I didn't have to mention Hunter's resurrection of the financial "improprieties" and the Biden family... that's a triple header... it's got lies, ineptness and corruption all rolled into one.

If you didn't like the travel restrictions put in place by the Trump administration four years ago... you can still not like them... but going back again and again to things you do not like about Trump serves no purpose in the current discourse about what's happening now. And it's only been 87 days...

Ray,

I guess great minds think alike. We have cowboys and horses today.

Maybe I should have phrased it differently. My point is not about whether Biden lied, I said he did the other day. My point is the right ignored Trump's lies for four years and now Biden lies and it's a big deal. Where is the consistency? Or is it hypocrisy?

I get it... it's nearly impossible to discuss current events without considering the past... it is a continuum. However, going backwards instead of engaging in a dialog focused on today is just ackamarackus.

Let me ask you... do you know of anyone who continually harangues right leaning DJ readers with screeds that go something like... Trump's a liar, Trump's a conman, Trump supporters are unpatriotic and uneducated, Republicans have made the US a laughingstock around the world ad nauseam? How effective are those screeds?

So, instead of going backwards... what about those pinocchios, the border, and going eyeball-to-eyeball with teachers unions and blinking?

Oops... I forgot to comment on the hypocrisy...

The Donald fired a US attorney out of New York... presidents do that these days, unfortunately... there was a liberal media firestorm. Hmmm... Uncle Joe fired a US attorney out of Illinois who was a Trump appointee and known as a corruption fighter. Here's the crazy thing... BOTH Democratic Party senators from Illinois disagreed with the firing, but Joe did it anyway. Where's the firestorm?

Ray,

Re: Trump being a conman, liar etc. comments. I remember reading those (maybe even added one or two myself) on the same pages I remember reading that Democrats were communist socialist pedophiles following a Muslim terrorist named Obama. Are we any farther ahead on either side with those comments?

You DO talk a lot about 'it'.

No... it's not just you. Thanks for your encouragement. Yeah, I almost always laugh out loud when reading Wifredo's comments. He's a treasure.

I did make some comments re: today's LTEs, but due to low energy from my meds... I'm pretty much done. Someone else can play "Whack-a-Mole" with Rel.

No worries... Dirk is in the bullpen.