KNOCK, KNOCK, anyone home?

This is HOW you twist things, dude!


Notice It was SIGNED in 1992!!!!???? I stand behind my comment: IT WASN'T CLINTON! CLINTON wasn't in office in 1992. How much simpler do I have to make it for you to understand?
Why can't you comprehend the distinction between when it was SIGNED and when it was RATIFIED? Yes, signed and ratified both mean a signature was applied but the difference is BUSH SR SIGNED the agreement!
Clinton ratified it.

Braindead Republicans want to BLAME Clinton for it without understanding the underlying process - It was a Republican initiative!

You right-wing nutjobs want to BLAME NAFTA on Clinton as did tomtom in the very beginning of this NAFTA related post... and then he disappeared from the conversation.

My comments FROM the BEGINNING was that NAFTA was the brainchild of Reagan, Bush signed the deal with Mexico and Canada. It was then RATIFIED by Clinton BECAUSE the House and the Senate agreed to it and put in on Clinton's desk for signature! MORE Republicans supported it than did Democrats.

I NEVER ONCE said or implied that Clinton didn't sign it.

To complain about a bill and blame the president who signed it is stupid, especially when it was your party that wanted the bill passed in the first place!

Maybe YOU should read something more that Rambo comic books!

The real title of this article should be, "How stupid can you possibly be?"
Republican Heather Scott actually said, “I mean that’s no different than the N**i Germany, where you had government telling people, you are an essential worker or non-essential worker and the non-essential workers got put on a train,”

For you Republicans waiting for your Trump welfare check, the site is free. It is the NY Post and is owned by Conservative Rupert Murdoch.

BTW, I am assuming you know how to read.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/idaho-representative-compares-lockdown-to-n**i-treatment-of-jews/

Well, let's see...

First, I would fire the entire p******c team. (2018)
Then, I would constantly try to defund the CDC.
Then, I would call the v***s a h**x, perpertrated by Democrats in an effort to destroy the country.
I would then close access to the country from China but still let 300,000 people (from China) to enter.
Somewhere in there, I would complain that no one is giving me credit yet.
I'm pretty sure I would call people derogatory names as we went along.
I would say "I take no responsibility for any of this".
I would tell all of America that this is just the flu... people die every day, so what.
I'd d**g my heels and refuse to organize and lead (after all, I AM the "leader" of this country) any effort to help states with supplies... not my problem.

How am I doing so far?

Oh.. I forgot! I would incite civil disobedience within the states and continue to call people derogatory names.

I give up!

You took over for tomtom, claiming that NAFTA was Clinton. I gave you FACTS that NAFTA was the brainchild of Reagan and Bush signed it. Clinton simply ratified it.

Then, you try to blame it on the Democrats to which I provided the numbers, broken down by party as to who supported it... it was overwhelmingly supported by the Republicans.

IF the Republicans had NOT passed it, it would NEVER have made it to Clinton's desk for signature! You don't GET IT! Clinton signed what the Republicans wanted!

THEN, to TOP that off.... you say I lost this argument!

When they came up withe saying "When they passed out brains, you thought they said TRAINS" - They were referring to YOU!

I'm thinking Chump mated with your mother cuz he's a self-appointed genius and the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree!

Rural, conservative-leaning states have so far been spared widespread outbreaks of C****-**. But experts say that they’re simply behind the curve of denser, more urban states like New York and Florida. The New York Times reported this week that “many communities that watched the p******c unfold in faraway places are now experiencing the crisis firsthand. More than two-thirds of rural counties have confirmed at least one case.” Forty-two states now have over 1,000 confirmed cases of the disease, and many red states are among those conducting the fewest tests.

We know red states are vulnerable to rapidly spreading outbreaks in large part because of political polarization. Polls consistently find that Republicans–especially those who watch Fox News regularly–are more likely than Democrats to believe that C****-** is similar to the seasonal flu, and that the media and Democrats are hyping the seriousness of the p******c to harm Donald Trump’s prospects in November. While most of them have so far practiced social distancing and taking other measures to avoid infection despite those beliefs, this week’s spate of f**e grassroots protests against various governors’ shelter-in-place orders highlights the problem.


But there’s another reason to believe that red states are likely to be hit hard as the v***s spreads: Many of them are leading the country in risk factors for severe illness and death from C****-**.

According to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 17 of the 20 states with the highest rates of smoking are red. Two are swing states and one, North Carolina, has only become blue in the past couple of cycles.

Twelve of the 15 states with the highest self-reported rate of diabetes are red.

Thirteen of the 15 states with the highest obesity rates are as well.

Of the 15 states with the largest share of their populations reporting being in “fair” or “poor” health, one is blue, two are swing states and the rest are solidly Republican.

Among the 15 states with the highest rates of death from heart disease, four are swing states but none are blue states.

Red states also tend to have long underinvested in public health agencies and have poorer healthcare infrastructure overall. According to The Times, “many rural doctors, leaders and health experts worry that…they will have fewer hospital beds, ventilators and nurses to handle the onslaught.” Of the 20 states with the highest rates of uninsured, 16 are safely Republican.

These factors explain at least in part why eight of the 10 states with the highest rates of death from pneumonia and influenza in 2018, the most recent year for which data are available, were heavily Republican.

Hopefully, all of this talk of reopening local economies before we have sufficient capacity to test and isolate the infected and trace the people they’ve been in contact with is just political bluster, and wiser heads, looking at the mounting death toll in places like New York, New Jersey and Louisiana, will prevail. Because with poorer underlying health, on average, weaker health care systems and a lot of citizens who believe Trump and the bobbleheads on Fox News over epidemiologists and public health experts, conservative communities may be facing a perfect storm of serious illness and death.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/red-states-may-be-facing-a-perfect-storm-of-illness-and-death-from-c****-**/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4340