Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@SombrLiz  
what does that have to do with anything? Whoever runs is in the CDC should overall be pretty apolitical, dedicated to the job, but currently it, like any government agency, wastes money.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
Your “sources” are science-hating Republicans (a conservatist pressure group that occasionally engages in racist fear-mongering and a climate change denier respectively), I don’t trust them any further than I can throw them.

@Ereiam  
“I’ll just attack the aource instead of addressing the content” Yeah ok, keep ignoring wasteful government spending.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
No need. As soon as I spotted the words “nanny-state” and “behavior modifying agenda” in the text, I knew this was just the usual fiscal conservative schlock.
 
You should be keener on attacking the over-bloated defense budget, rather than public utility services that are crucial to keep the society healthy.

@Ereiam  
Oh I oppose the wasteful DoD as well, they’re so trash the GAO doesn’t know what do with them.
 
https://www.gao.gov/mobile/products/GAO-20-315R?utm_campaign=usgao_email&utm_content=topic_govops&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#summary
 
Doesn’t mean I am going to support another agency’s wasteful policies just because people think it does good work, so therefore it can’t be wasteful.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
Slashing the CDC budget in the middle of an outbreak is about as smart as pulling the control rods from a nuclear reactor core in operation.

@Ereiam
 
To be fair, only dumb people choose to be sick. Smart people choose to be not sick.
 
So as long as you pull yourself up by the bootstraps you have nothing to fear from the Coronavirus.

@Dustcan  
Bet: someone uniron— nah, never mind. You’re already aware that someone is dumb enough to think that.

Right Wing trolls are harassing undergrads at my university.
 
Apparently, a number of people have been making fraudulent calls and emails to international and immigrant students claiming to be from immigration services, ICE, or the IRS.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
so your solution is clearly to privatize the CDC and have the free market kill the poors because the money is more efficient that way?

Even the granddaddy of capitalism was against free market control of healthcare.

@Vivace  
honestly convinced this dude is a paid bloomberg shill

@dissociativity
 
@dissociativity  
Your making strawman arguments and complaining about shills when someome disagrees with you. Stop living in a fantasy world.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
You’re the one living in a fantasy world if you sincerely think further cuts into the already ill-funded CDC budget constitutes a solution in any way.
 
And since I don’t see you coming up with any alternative solutions to handle the epidemic, I’m gonna assume that, like the rest of the fiscal conservatives, you also buy into that “muh free markets” dreck.

@Ereiam  
As I’ve said, the CDC is wasteful, even gave links to show. Not my fault you want to pretend otherwise.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
What links?

@Ereiam  
the two links that you chose to ignore because you didn’t like the sources.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
You mean the two links to hopelessly biased, outdated sources that got scrubbed because you don’t know how to hyperlink or follow the thread rules on blind-linking?

@Ereiam  
“I refuse to look at your sources because they oppose my world view, instead I will whine about them”
 
Keep living in your bubble.

@Background Pony #AF6C  
“I only post disingenuous sources that confirm my bias, and ignore the more legitimate ones that disprove it.”
 
Don’t worry about me, because fat chance I step into yours. Ignorance is a sureway to make it burst-proof anyway.

Amy Klobuchar is now out as well.

@09MurphyM
 
I expected her and Pete to drop out after Super Tuesday, as did a lot of pollsters.
 
This changes the dynamic of the race greatly.
 
Now, it all depends on Bloomberg. If he saps a lot of Biden’s voters, itll be a rough contested convention.
 
If he face plants in California and Texas, and if Pete and Amy’s voters rally behind Biden, it’ll be a much closer convention.
 
 
There is also the possibility that Biden may now be able to get a majority. While he’ll suffer a bit in some of the big Super Tuesday states, he has advantages over Sanders in many of the late March through April states.
 
Seems the race is back on.

@Zincy
 
Like in 2016, it’s “Bernie or bust” for a lot of people (unless Warren secures the nomination), so unless the democrats want to lose again, they may want to rig it in favour of Warren or Sanders. Granted, unless Trump fucks up big time with the coronavirus stuff, I think that none of the Democratic candidates has what it takes to topple the orange menace.

@Ebalosus
 
They’d NEVER rig it in Sanders’ favor. They’d literally rather Trump win than a [thunder crack] [ominous music] Socialist win.

I feel the main problem is not Bernie Sanders himself but his supporters.