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 But few people get it. I remember an interview with Thomas Sowell in which he said, not a direct quote, but close: "We expect our presidents to be economists, generals, spiritual leaders, businessmen, philanthropists, educators...it would be funny if it wasn't so tragic."
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Greg Utas wrote: We expect our presidents to be economists, generals, spiritual leaders, businessmen, philanthropists, educators
Well they are.
Just not always good ones.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: "tell it like it is savior"
He has taught us all a lesson with that concept. If you tell it like it is and, in fact, it isn't, then tell something else. His true believers are just that - believers. "Double Think is real" - there was a song, once upon a time: "Cult of Personality[^]".
I remember the background video[^]- Sometimes it was showing the band - other times . . . . let's just say "other things" (SFW).
Next step: HOUSES OF WORSHIP WITH A LARGE 'T' ON TOP.*
* Some of you will understand - other take it only literally.
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Well, no. What he does is makes people look at things.
He says "massive outbreak" and everyone runs to say it was only a double handful...which caused the country to be shut down.
And we all laugh at NZ.
Everyone falls for it every single time. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Not clicking that, please provide a synopsis of the salient points. |
The usual...take Trump out of context, lie about what he actually said then use absolute figures to compare a country with 5m people to one with 328m.
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I don't know what he said and honestly don't care, but I bet he didn't pick out NZ for it's number of new cases / day! If that was the criterion, he should have picked out other countries that are currently faring a lot worse than the USA!
Anyway, there is no reliable way to make an objective comparison, as each country uses different ways to test subjects and register new cases. Some just don't test (enough), some just don't report (accurately), and Russia does neither.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: The usual...take Trump out of context, lie about what he actually said
You are so right!
EVENT TRUMP LIES ABOUT WHAT HE SAID - AND MORE OFTEN THEM ANYONE ELSE.
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His exact words:
"Every time there's a good country, they like to compare, 'cause we've done an incredible job. You look at our mortality rate, you look at all the things, but they like to compare us to others, so they were talking about New Zealand. New Zealand! It's over! It's over for New Zealand. Everything's gone. They're beautiful. They had a massive breakout yesterday."
"Yesterday" on the day he gave this speech refers to NZ's FIVE new cases.
5 new cases is 0.000001% of the population. A total of 11 cases in the last 3 months.
In the US, the 46,000 new cases we had on that day is 0.00014% of the population. Over the last 3 months, we've added over 1.6M cases, or 0.005% of the population. We're the ones with the massive outbreak, not NZ.
Who's taking this out of context?
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If the US's cases increased at the same rate as NZ that would be 200,000 new cases, so NZ's rate is increasing at a rate 20 times more than the US's rate. Funny how comparing massive countries with small ones is only a valid strategy when it makes Trump look bad.
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You're seriously going to go that route? The "rate of increase" over a couple days is all you've got?
Over the last few days, NZ went from 0, to 6, to 5 new cases. In the US, we went from 37240, to 39794, to 43798 daily new reported cases.
So, in NZ's case, the daily reported cases is declining, where in the US, they are going up.
Funny how you'll twist the numbers in any way to make Trump look good.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Funny how you'll twist the numbers in any way to make Trump look good
No, I'm using your own arguments against you to show you how ridiculous they are.
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Wow. You're failing at it.
TDS is the syndrome where Trump supporters will go to any lengths to defend him, not accuse him.
Would you be going through the same lengths is Hillary was in office and had these numbers?
I wouldn't change a thing on my side. I'd be denouncing her all the same if this was the result of her response.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: You're failing at it.
You were quite exacerbated by my stats so I'd say it worked quite well.
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By your invalid stats.
If you're just here to get under the skin of people, you might want to find a new hobby. Yours is rather disgusting and pointless to anyone else except yourself.
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You're a fool for:
1. Still being surprised by what nonsense comes out of his mouth.
2. Sharing his nonsense, if you had to share all of it you'd have a full time job.
3. Posting politics in the Lounge!
Anyway, off to quarantaine with you, I just read you're a liability 
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He probably thinks New Zealand has a population of 20 humans and 5 million Tasmanian devils.
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Close enough.. they got a lot of sheep over there! 
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The fool is the one who misunderstands and then judges based on that misunderstanding.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well.. you have to give him that he is quite entertaining!
I never watched American politic so hard since he came into power! The ratings are huuUUuuge man!
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I told him I wanted to get rid of my fear for ghosts.
He said "that's the spirit!"
I nearly sh*t myself.
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Exercise will help
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Did you sit in the shade until you calmed down?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I would have expected him to offer some spirits so you can get used to them
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Sander Rossel wrote: I nearly sh*t myself.
That haint [^] good enough - modify your post when the deed is done.
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At least you didn't give up the ghost...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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