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Is it any wonder she is a Democrat?

Are these 47 people in jail or are they running around due to the no bail rule, with no intention of showing up in court?

It is amazing some people still think ideas are conspiracy theories after they prove to be fact. Indoctrination is strong there.

People need to wake up to the fact the pandemic is not what caused any of the problems we deal with now. The way the governments of the world handled this pandemic is what is causing all of the problems we are dealing with now. We have had pandemics before, but never allowed the governments of the world to totally control our lives because of them. The extent people allowed their lives to be ruined this time is unprecedented. And for all that were oppressed, the results were as bad as they have been for every prior pandemic in the past. Now ask yourself how much of the way they handled it was to increase their power and control, rather than help the citizens. If you think the problems the governments of the world create are bad, wait until you see the solutions they plan to force on you.

With the money the govt will give them after settling the class action lawsuit in their favor. The govt probably advised them to file the suit.

Time after time, mandate after mandate, the government's directives were misguided and misapplied. Douglas Andrews There are many lessons to be drawn from our ongoing battle with COVID-19: Never ever trust the communist Chinese, for example. But one lesson that gets lost in all this is to be aware of the ever-encroaching, Liberty-sapping tyranny of the administrative state. The administrative state: the multitude of executive branch agencies run by unelected bureaucrats who are vested with the power to create, adjudicate, and enforce their own rules without any legislative oversight. As Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at George Mason University's market-oriented Mercatus Center, put it: Hindsight being what it is, de Rugy's observation makes sense in the wake of one pandemic-related government misstep after another. But she wrote that in 2018. She had no idea what was coming, nor how many additional Americans were killed by the deadly decision-making in blue states like Andrew Cuomo's New York and Gretchen Whitmer's Michigan, where bureaucrats routinely returned elderly COVID-positive patients to nursing homes and long-term care facilities, and thereby allowed the virus to spread like wildfire. Nor do we know how many COVID-19 patients were denied hydroxychloroquine, a time-tested and supremely safe anti-malarial drug, because Donald Trump endorsed it. But we do know that Trump-deranged governors and state-level bureaucrats wouldn't allow it — and, therefore, doctors wouldn't prescribe it, and pharmacies wouldn't carry it, and hospitals wouldn't administer it. One infectious disease specialist, Dr. Stephen Smith, estimates that perhaps 100,000 lives were lost as a result. Think about that. As for the bureaucratically driven COVID-19 rules that ended up hitting us square in the face, two in particular have been in the news lately: the masking disaster and the stay-at-home disaster. Pointing the finger at the demonstrably incompetent Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the past 36 years (and, remarkably, our nation's highest paid federal employee), the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins calls the mask mandate "a colossal disaster for public understanding." He writes: Fauci, you'll recall, is the guy who told the nation in January that wearing two masks is "common sense." As for being a barrier against receiving the virus, wearing one of those ubiquitous masks was like trying to keep mosquitoes away from your back deck with a chain-link fence. And yet those who protested the mask mandate were demonized. President Joe Biden was the worst and most public symbol of this hysteria. As the Washington Examiner reports: "When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican face of COVID reopening, lifted his state's mask mandate in early March, Biden chastised him for 'Neanderthal thinking.' Within two months, however, Texas reported zero COVID deaths." And yet Joe Biden's CDC was telling us that children as young as two were required to wear masks in public, despite the difficulty it caused in breathing and despite the very low risk of children spreading the disease. For a violation of this mandate, whole families were being kicked off passenger planes. Where was the science? Worse than all of this, though, were the stay-at-home orders — both socially and economically. Numerous studies have shown how ruinous these lockdowns were, including a brand-new one, using data from 43 countries and all 50 US states. As Brad Polumbo writes at the Foundation for Economic Education, "Lockdown orders may have had lethal unintended consequences in their own right, such as increased drug overdoses, worsened mental health problems, increased child abuse, deadly delays in non-COVID medical care, and more." And yet the study's authors found no evidence that the shelter-in-place orders saved lives. In fact, they report that mortality actually increased in the weeks following the lockdowns. "The takeaway here," as Polumbo concludes, "is not just that stay-at-home orders are an ineffective public policy. It's that politicians will always claim they can solve our problems if just given enough centralized power." Put another way, our suspicions of government and of the administrative state are well-founded.

I wonder if it has anything to do with Democrats being in charge for a long time.

You get leaders that reflect the makeup of the city. If your city is full of idiots, you get elected idiots.

"You'll never beat the government with just guns," says party that also believes government was almost toppled by unarmed mob on January 6

HUH?? Never saw this coming. https://www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/arizona-bans-trail-cameras/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR19k9tCZpkR7w-cFAZwxvMkS5m6WcCBxhnPSQMoTFIn5qvewjju_w1NLQ4

The money that is made with illegal drugs is the impetus for the crime surrounding illegal drugs. Life means nothing to dealers seeking their fortunes. Dead addicts mean nothing to pushers either. The "dope" is the person who uses illegal drugs. Re: The Left: "Crime is a problem all over America. It's going to get worse as some of it is driven by gangs and drugs, which are pouring across the border in record numbers. But it is most prominent in places where the left is in complete control. At some point the voters of these cities have to wake up. By the way, I couldn't help but notice the irony of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declaring racism a 'public health emergency.' Not only is this the same bigoted mayor who refuses to grant interviews to white journalists, she had the audacity to declare: 'At almost every single point in our city's history, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color — especially those who are Black.' Well, Democrats have dominated Chicago for decades. So, I guess we know who's to blame for the city's history of racism." —Gary Bauer

Among leftists, yes.

No people who assume things like that are the worst. People who form an opinion based on analysis of all views and their flaws, have objectively looked at all sides and rejected some. Unlike the folks who swallow what they're handlers tell them to.

The concern about lead ammo on the watershed lands seems to be speculative. Those lands have been hunted with lead ammo forever. Is there a lot of lead in watershed water now? If not, why is there a concern there will be? Seems more like an abusive power grab to burden Catskill area hunters with such a ban, when there is little evidence it is more of an issue there than in the rest of the state.

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation DEC has proposed several rule changes that will affect deer and bear hunting this fall. The changes are designed to improve deer management, simplify big game hunting, expand hunting opportunity, and increase hunter safety. DEC is proposing to: - Extend legal hunting hours for deer and bear to begin 30-minutes before sunrise and end 30-minutes after sunset; - Increase hunter safety by requiring all hunters pursuing deer or bear with a firearm to wear a solid or patterned fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink hat or vest or jacket; - Increase antlerless deer harvest by establishing a 9-day firearms season in September for antlerless deer in certain WMUs; - Allow hunters to harvest deer of either sex during the early muzzleloader season in three northern New York WMUs; and, - Simplify bear hunting in the Adirondack portion of the Northern Zone by extending the regular firearm season to cover the entire hunting period. Written public comments on these proposed regulations will be accepted through August 8, 2021.To view the proposed regulations and provide comment, visit DEC's Fish and Wildlife Proposed Regulations page: https://on.ny.gov/3gATyOA.

None are so blind as those who refuse to see.