What's the best summary of the past year in the United States?

[goaded]

Biden's speech

Garland's speech to the DoJ

Abhor-rent

All of them equally

Something else/see results

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I really meant which of these videos is the best summary...

This one also works:
https://youtu.be/ElKYKO4UKIU

[OddBeMe]

I mean, Trump getting booed for espousing vaccines was pretty iconic.

[msc545]

Bad but not as bad as 2020

[goaded]

If you don't have much time, the Abhor-Rent video is the shortest and most fun.

[jshm2]

This is the best summary of Murica, this past year

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2021/may/18/drone-footage-shows-fire-and-scale-of-massive-train-derailment-in-us-video

[goaded]

I totally missed that when it happened. Terrible. I suppose you think it's a metaphor for a government brought to its knees by 100% of Republicans and 2 Democrats.

[bolverk]

Looking at it from outside of the US - a Monumental Cluster Fuck!! which is ongoing.

[exitseven]

The best summary of the past year is the last bill I got from my fuel oil dealer.

[goaded]

Which has nothing to do with the global price of oil, of course.

[exitseven]

No, it has more to do with the domestic price of oil.

[goaded]

You really think they're unrelated?

[exitseven]

Not totally but what you do in your own backyard has a huge impact on what happens there.

[goaded]

So, it is Biden's fault that oil prices in Germany are about 50% higher than they were in 2019? Or nearly twice the price of 2020? Back to almost exactly 2013's levels, in fact. Similar to the price increases of 2010, 2011, as the world came out of recession.

[exitseven]

No it is Biden's fault we are not producing our own energy which made fuel prices drop to their lowest level in years.

[goaded]

No it didn't. The pandemic did.
tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gasoline-prices

[exitseven]

the pandemic is over. THe Keystone pipeline had been shut down and oil leases have been cancelled we are no longer energy independent and have to buy expensive oil from foreign countries.

[goaded]

"the pandemic is over" Not quite, but it's on its way out, which is why the fuel prices have gone up. Just like they did as the recession receded ten years ago.

[exitseven]

The pandemic was worse in late summer/fall of 2020 yet fuel prices did not start to rise until Feb 2021, coincidence?

[goaded]

" The pandemic was worse in late summer/fall of 2020 yet fuel prices did not start to rise until Feb 2021, coincidence? "
No. When the pandemic was bad, there were fewer people travelling. Once things improved, people wanted more fuel, so the prices went up.

[Juxtapose]

Boot lickers licking the boot stomping on the neck of the common man.

[goaded]

Yes, because Trump has a great deal of empathy for the common man.

[Juxtapose]

Don't worry I know he sold out to big pharma too.

[goaded]

Ah, yes, nobody's ever said vaccines are good in order to save lives, only to make money.

[LightOfTruth]

I find it funny when liberals hate Trump but like vax that Trump pushed and promoted.

[goaded]

@LightOfTruth Any president would have done that, it's a very, very low bar. Why are Republicans so against a vaccine that their president had developed and recommends? (And don't tell me it's mandates, they weren't getting them before the mandates, either, otherwise there would have been no need for mandates.)

[LightOfTruth]

Lol he is not my president. I don’t think he is many republicans president anymore. Free thinker but nice to meet you.

[Juxtapose]

The idea, according to Fauci, was impossible.

“If someone refuses the vaccine in the general public, then there's nothing you can do about that. You cannot force someone to take a vaccine," he said at the time.

www.google.com/.../...-cannot-force-212300017.html

[goaded]

You can't. And the mandates don't. There may be consequences, but they're not imprisonment or death.

[LightOfTruth]

Tell that to the Australians.

[Juxtapose]

If you prevent somebody from feeding their family, you are blackmailing them into it.

[goaded]

@LightOfTruth Australia's been in the very different situation of having avoided the virus almost completely. Anyone breaking quarantine could potentially cause tens of thousands of deaths instead of the 2,367 they've had all pandemic. That's 91 per million compared to roughly 2,000 for other developed countries like the US and Europe.

[LightOfTruth]

Lol ok if you say so. But my point is still made. Your going off what you think I am using facts.

[goaded]

@LightOfTruth Isn't it a fact that Australia has had fewer than a million cases and 2,367 deaths (as of today)? That makes them better off than 166 other countries in terms of deaths per capita. It's far better than the 50,000 that European levels of infection and death would have meant.

[LightOfTruth]

Ok if you say so 😐

[LightOfTruth]

“In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are “police power” functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society,” CDC stated on their website.

[LightOfTruth]

I feel more like it was care home

[LightOfTruth]

Ok liberal redneck

[goaded]

I didn't get what you meant with your original opinion. Liberal Redneck is brilliant, though!

[IncognitoBandito]

And then, Depression set in.

[goaded]

Garland's speech gives me hope, at least. And it's about time Biden pointed out that there's a battle going on to save democracy. The other one's more fun, though.

[CuriousMufuxka]

3rd generation SARS, riots, and fake news.

[Cubus]

"Gerontocracy"

[joeldalton]

Lmao.

[goaded]

https://youtu.be/ElKYKO4UKIU

[joeldalton]

They were just dying to ask AOC out. What’s the big deal