wow! Good thing he was able to get SOOOOO much taxpayer money as his income or he would have been closer to 2.6 billion.
I thought he donated it.
Not really, it was actually push back from the extremists who were hijacking COvid 19 and making it a boogeyman by making people "think" that if they got infected many people around them would die (including them). We have a virus that has not taken even 1% of the lives of the country it would need to get over 3 million people and we have a party that acts like it is taking 50% out there and shutting everything down such that the fraction of a percent of deaths could likely be surpassed by suicides and other long term life shortening illnesses. COvid is contagious and can be deadly to a few but not a death sentence and we have had it ramped up so bad that people have accused those not wearing a mask of MURDER. Shutting down everything was a good choice to get the hospitals and health care systems up to speed but keeping things shut down ruins the lives of a great percentage of people for a tiny percentage of people that many of which would possibly die of other means in the very near future anyway.
Not to mention I doubt he and his wife got 30 million dollar book deals regardless if they made any money like the Obamas did as a "reward" for their "efforts" in Washington. It is likely Biden and his wife would get book deals too but then Biden probably isn't "Mental" enough to write a book so the folks pulling his strings will have to write one for him to get his 30 million.
Well, he OWNS the golf course. Almost all the recent presidents spent significant amounts of time on the golf course. And why not? We cannot expect men under such pressure to have no outlets for quiet and relaxation. Biden just watches TV in his basement and doesn't perform as president even half the time that President Trump did, so that's supposed to entitle him to a pass from you? Strange logic there.
I'm sure they are arranging for a visit to Texas soon as it is too good of an opportunity for negative press for Biden vs a chance to bash Republicans there and promote some sort of federal "oversight" of power grids across the country making it easier to force green energy on everyone.
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I agree. I wonder why Obama didn't receive the same amount of Grace? I also wonder why Trump, who comes closer to doubling Obama, is now seen as a non issue.
1) Proof?
And when Pelosi and Biden did WORSE in the early days of C19 it wasn't awful?
At what number do lives suddenly matter? There are a lot of people dying of everything everywhere it is a fact of life do we not allow nobody to risk death anywhere in the US because "someone could DIE if we allowed them to do so? It is a give and take and claiming the moral high ground based upon some arbitrary number for political profit is WORSE and MORE uncaring than balancing the risk and letting people choose as much as reasonably possible. If we could shut down the country all year, lock all the borders and no flights and save another 120,000 people would you approve of these actions? Would you approve of the government padlocking your door and shoving tv dinners every day through your mail slot so you won't die of C19?
The problem is that what is considered truly essential? Is quality of life essential at all? Once could say that staying alive is essential and NOTHING else. When you ruin peoples ability to support themselves you take away their essential way of living and this HAS happened. a LOT more than 1% of the people in this country have lose essential incomes because of lockdowns to save how many people who could have theoretically died if not done so. People's lives are being ruined on theoretical thinking not allowing them to take risks that aren't huge statistically to keep the 500k deaths from going to 600k perhaps. It sounds heartless but there are a lot of risks in lives allowing highway speeds above 30mph in the logic presented KILLS more people but we allow it everywhere and deal with the increase in mortality instead of locking down throttles on vehicles.
some states have pulled operating licenses, harassed and shut down businesses and the media has shamed people who didn't comply. In California they couldn't open a hair salon months after I got a haircut here and we have in my state opened most businesses although restricting capacity and many blame a spike in infections on anything and everything that they disapprove of. People can wisely choose if they want to go into a place that could be a higher risk of infection or not, shutting down services to slow C19 can greatly reduce the quality of life and doing so for not coming onto a year now isn't most people's idea of temporary now.
What is the difference from being in a prison behind bars to being free in a society where all the businesses are barred from you entering... the bars are still there just a larger prison now where you have more privileges but still are not allowed to do what you could do before C19 because the same government(s) are now limiting your life because they want to prevent you from being a "murderer" via C19 infection.
One would think the "pro-choice" crowd who often use the excuse to terminate a life that they cannot survive on their own without the mother's assistance you see that the C19 deaths didn't survive even with some assistance and that many will be "aborted" from this life by the virus and we shouldn't concern ourselves because it is a "choice" of some sort. The 500k that died of C19 could easily be replaced several times over if there were a lot fewer abortions but instead of protecting lives that could have 70-80 years ahead of them we protect lives that already have 70-80 years behind them.
Well, he's been taking a bath for quite some time. How do you end up bankrupting a casino?
Ted Cruz went to Texas... no, Cancun, then Texas. Trump would have done a flyover since none of the good golf courses were open, yet.
But Obama didn't just play less golf! You raised the issue of golfing so I responded that that.
