Not on my early morning subbing or grandkid school shuttle driver schedule.
Still think the mask was a small price to pay during a pandemic. Firing people for vax refusal is where I have had a change in viewpoint.
I'd like to see Fauci have a Hannibal Lecter leather job sewn permanently onto his stupid face. With a ball gag underneath, so it would shut him up for good.
The San Quentin prison special edition presents this yrs Juliet in our upcoming fall play
I was always with you on the anti-mandates train. Have years of posting to support that. Even suggested it could be a rare moment of bipartisanship to work on the creation of bodily autonomy rights. But all that being said, temporary measures are occasionally needed, and some of the covid measures were examples of that working. We aren't all masked and 6 feet apart today. I understand the argument it was silly to do then too, but honestly the government freely giving up temporary emergency powers is a great example of the system working. The alternative is using those temporary powers as a power to grab to make them permanent, which has happened with oppressive governments all too often throughout history.
Same thing that created the Creator. Neither creation myth addresses the First Cause paradox.
It's two sides of the same coin. A circular debate. Impossible to prove or disprove.
I still have a Class B CDL, with passenger/bus certifications. Just saying...
Yeah I see that type of independent Creator as a moot point. If something created all this and then stepped back to watch, it's basically the exact same as if they aren't there at all. The only way a creator God would matter is if they directly interfere in their creation.
I mean I do, I see your argument that the executive was flexing. But you have to see mine as well that the judicial smacked them and that's the entire point of our system of separation of powers and checks and balances. Each branch jealously guards their power and exercises it, which balances the others, keeping them in check. I would even argue many of our modern problems actually come from the legislative branch not following that and freely surrendering more and more of its power to the executive and judiciary. Most things are done through EO and injunctions and rulings nowadays, hardly anything actually gets legislated except what to name a park.
Yeah, I'm saying from our perspective. If He doesn't ever intervene and 'help' us, then He is just the natural universe. Physical laws. Science. If a human made an ant farm and walked away it's exactly the same as if a God made the ant farm, or a goat, or anything else. They're irrelevant to the frame of reference of the ant from in the farm. It's their world. Now if the person starts pouring water in the farm and drowning all the ants then they obviously matter, but not if don't they exert influence.
Blech...
Especially when those regulatory agencies are bought and paid for by the industries they're supposed to be regulating. And that's why I can navigate this thread full of political opinions vastly disparate from my own, I've tried them all on. Anarchist, libertarian, communist. Part of my childhood was out West where BLM doesn't mean Black Lives Matter it means the Bureau of Land Management who control the whole goddamn world and will make your life hell if you walk your cattle across a stream. Politics is a very complicated business as it's basically a proxy for all human interaction. There are no ultimately right or wrong answers. We've just got to keep plugging away at reforms.
I believe most of the states that did that during the pandemic are not this time. I'll have to research to find out exactly which. Regardless though I'm not going down an election denial rabbit hole with you on this as I support increasing voting opportunity, not decreasing it.
