Well...Dem policies ARE bringing back things like Typhus, and - coming soon - Bubonic Plague! Just look at SF, LA, Portland...all the tent cities really ARE bringing back long-dead (or at least dormant) mass diseases.
This is just her and her party laying the groundwork to blame it not on their "leadership"...but on our "abuse of the planet".
It's actually the most credible thing she's said. Obscure diseases long since conquered in industrialized Western countries are making a come back from uncontrolled immigration, and the return in California to premedieval standards of public hygiene.
Apparently, the leaders of that state are victims of really poor education, and never learned the greatest advance mankind has made against disease is sewers. Not defecating in the streets is a clear dividing line between civilization and barbarism.
Which is unfair to many cultures called Barbaric. Most of them understood the concept of out houses or toilet facilities. Even the most ancient. I admit medieval Europe really did go backwards in the Dark Ages, which were partly caused by Climate Change.
And modern transportation has spread Ebola to cities, and it's only a matter of time before there are outbreaks in Europe and here. Luckily Ebola is tropical, and not very hardy in cold weather, & is actually very hard to pass from person to person.
Some unknown but deadly virus released from the ice to lay waste to civilization? Possible. And there's no need for Global Warming. Glaciers flow! The icebergs that fall into the sea once were miles & thus centuries or millennia old by the time that ice reaches the sea. The mystery would be how the disease ended up in the ice. The oldest glaciers predate the last Ice Age, so it's possible nomadic tribes were in the wrong place & left such a legacy.
Although I'd bet that a lost city in central America, Africa, or Southeast Asia, is a more likely scenario for ancient plague. We imagine we've explored the planet by now, but orbital pictures keep revealing lost villages under forest canopy & in deserts using multi spectral analysis.
Europe really did go backwards in the Dark Ages, which were partly caused by Climate Change.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I usually am)...but wasn't that a COOLING period that brought about the dark ages?
It's actually the most credible thing she's said. Obscure diseases long since conquered in industrialized Western countries are making a come back from uncontrolled immigration, and the return in California to premedieval standards of public hygiene.
Apparently, the leaders of that state are victims of really poor education, and never learned the greatest advance mankind has made against disease is sewers. Not defecating in the streets is a clear dividing line between civilization and barbarism.
Exactly my point - and her spouting that "it's from the glaciers because of global warming" is the Dem (lying) way of covering up the truth, that these diseases are back because of their inability to govern or manage...well...ANYthing.
Correct. The Dark Ages were a Cold Bad Times phenomenon. The Danube river froze solid and the Germanic tribes, with push from starvation & further East tribes invading, poured across until they took Rome. Then malnutrition, plague, breakdown of transportation & governance, all the Cold Bad Times ills, continued for generations.
Climate wasn't the only factor, Rome was in bad shape. They'd de-emphasized patriotism and service, the sons of the aristocracy weren't joining the service, so the Legions became filled with mercenaries, with no cultural connection to the Empire. Or real loyalty. There are several good books detailing the Fall. Decadence, perversion, a higher & higher percentage not gainfully employed, politicians exploiting the ignorant with free food & promises of free everything... Sounds familiar?
Then Europe without the Empire to maintain the roads and patrol the seas, went down hill, economically, fast. And stayed down. Pretty much until Warm Times returned, growing crop yields allowed a population explosion, and increased leisure time grew the arts. Hard to paint masterpieces when 18+ hours a day are busy trying not to starve or freeze to death come fall.
Your analysis of Sandy's honesty & rationality is correct as well.
I know that these threats can be traced back to their senders. And since it's an interstate crime, the FBI should be investigating. Are they too busy being investigated?
Posted on Saturday, September 14, 2019 - 11:45 pm:
Actually I bet she gets many threats. Foolish idiots. And it might be interesting to know their politics, since I'd also bet there are a few right and left wing loons. Nancy Pelosi fans, Trump fans, some guy who's upset that she thinks cauliflower is racist.
I don't want anyone killed for politics. I was afraid that someone would assassinate the previous Prez, I read Tom Clancy.
Crazy people shot at the White House, cashed planes on the lawn ( although that appears to be a crack & booze fueled suicide attempt with delusions of glory ) and we had that multiple assassination attempt on the R Congress softball team.
I don't know the percentage of threats to attacks after a threat, I just know it's not zero. I guess it to be fairly high in Domestic conflict cases, and artificially low in the case of celebrities, because of body guards, security, and a higher probability to be actually investigated.
Today, I'm actually more worried about the new flash mob persecution attacks being uses as cover for a crazy. When someone posts an address of someone's home and urges a mob to go protest.
That someone might be a CNN reporter trying to get profitable footage...or an internet pundit, of any kind, paid by some organization or free lance. They don't have to show up, or be in the same hemisphere.
Flash mobs, as interesting as a study might be, are obviously groups, not the general public. It's people that follow someone on social media, or go argue politics, or ride bikes. I've watched, over the years as Badweb generated small, friendly, flash mobs at BBQ joints, etc. So they are not bad, by nature. Some are ART! funny as heck, and some quite moving, when a bunch of musicians, or dancers, or cosplay organize a spectacle, or joke, in a public place. There are some awesome videos & ideas. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic =814
But they've been used to rob stores too. I don't know what kind of circle/group has members that are willing to go loot a store. The circle/group that goes and screams at someones's house to get on tv? ?
I worry about the guy who gets so worked up that he tries to kill because Someone on TV told him Senator Foghorn or Soccer Mom Julie, was destroying the environment by eating puppies while burning a Koran as she takes away all their rights by calling for plastic bag recycling.
I think one of the original flash mobs was Dead Heads. I used to live across the road from Safeway just down the road from the Shoreline Amphitheater. When the Grateful Dead came to town the Dead Heads would mob the Safeway and carry out whatever they wanted.
Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 09:24 am:
“a culture that is inherently hostile to people like me”
You mean idiot socialists who’ve somehow managed to attain a position of power? Rhetorical. She means brown people. It’s always the race card. Put it back in the deck, sweetie; it’s all worn out.
Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 10:41 am:
A request for comment was not returned by Ocasio-Cortez’s office.
Of course - that's their modus operandi. Spout bullshit at the top of their lungs, knowing full well that its bullshit, then vanish when they get called out on it.
Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 04:07 pm:
Typical. If a non brown man had said it, no one would have batted an eye. You people are white nationalists and Nazis. People like her just can’t get out from under the white patriarchy. It’s oppressive.
Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 05:49 pm:
My question at this point is who's paying for to to romp around the country doing her "fact finding". It's bad enough she's already avoiding paying her taxes, but if out taxes are paying for this stupidity, we should all be pissed off.
Fake, but a logical progression for those comfortable with mass murder. Kids are bad for the environment. They’re a renewable resource. There’s plenty. Hell, we throw thousands of them away every year. May as well use them for something. Soylent green is babies!
To clarify, the “let’s eat babies” bit was exactly that - a bit. She’s a right wing plant there to embarrass them. If she hadn’t said “let’s eat them” the room would have continued to agree with her craziness. Which I think was the point.
Is she? I don't know that she isn't. I also don't know that she is. AOC certainly didn't react as though she was a plant. AOC's reaction is kind of awesome either way. You could see her thinking "you can't come right out and say that!"