No, I haven't contracted the virus (I don't think), thanks for asking. Reason? Luck. I spent the first week commuting to work on a train. But I have since then taken cover and I work from home now. I still go to the store to get food and twice a week I go to band practice, just four of us, six feet distant, so I attribute my social distancing as another factor. Oh, and I wash my hands like a racoon that just ate a bag of coffee beans.

I do remember you telling me about breaking posts up, but I also remember telling you why I do that. A lot of the arguments I respond to draw conclusions from erroneous or questionable statements and it's less confusing to interject responses directly to those statements than to try and relate reponses at the end.

Even more so in cases where I am responding to a rant because rants are basically long lists of disconnected statements and the people I tend to argue with are very prolific ranters, which explains why a lot of my posts are so long. Taking rants seriously enough to respond with logic - that's my insanity.

There's a pattern I've noticed that strikes me as being more prevalent on the right, where people seem to think they can make up for a lack of a good argument with long lists of stated "facts" or links to stories or long lists of names... or well, a list of fabulous things that Trump has done. ;)

I won't get nit-picky about each one... in fact, I'm just going to say this. Yes, Trump is taking action, at a glance it didn't seem like there was anything on the list I could actually say is false. But what frequently gets left out of these long glory lists is context... and relevance. Given the scale, a lot of those items are too little but I am grateful for whatever they can provide. Given the timeline, a lot of those actions are late, but it's better late than never.

So EmilyD, thanks for the box of band-aids.

So, is 19,000 for the Dow higher or lower than
6,000
It looks to me to be 13,000 more than the 6,000 bush 43 left Obama
This continued to 26,000 where it is at today. Wouldn’t it upset you if you just built your own house and in the last 5minutes of work
Trump shows up to proclaim to the world
“ look at this house I just finished building,
It’s great isn’t it, beautiful, just beautiful, and I built it, we had some problems along the way but now it’s done and it is marvelous, just marvelous, and did I mention I just finished building it?”

The republicans would not cooperate with Obama. The republicans believe it or not were not pass any bills that might’ve benefited you. This is why I am so puzzled by your hatred of Obama he was trying to get healthcare for you too.
Why would you not think that was a good idea?
What’s wrong with me???
Dude!
I’m on the outside looking in!!!!

Milo, surely you must be joking.
A fascist government is run by a military or police force, after disarming the populace, sometimes it takes a couple of generations for the entire population to go bankrupt and overthrow their masters. That pending collapse would include all of socialist governments and communist governments today.

You retorted to Tug484, "Yet you are always right there to rale on the commie Dems who are in essence also fighting for you. You have nothing in your pocket because the 1% don’t want you to have anything in your pocket."

Just who do you suppose the "1%" is with 100 billionaires contributing to the DNC?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/11/18/here-are-the-billionaires-funding-the-democratic-presidential-candidates/
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Here Are The Billionaires Funding The Democratic Presidential Candidates

Go ahead, just pull u the list of Bilderberg galloping globalist billionaires subsidizing the Democrat candidates.

Your progressive socialist Democrat president, Woodrow Wilson, backed by the KKK, created the Federal Reserve System, its 12 "private" banks eventually nationalized by FDR during the Great Depression's 1933 Emergency Banking Act (Glass-Steagall) and the 1935 Banking Act creating the FDIC and Comptroller of the Currency. These 2 bills you really aught to read to comprehend the government's huge takeover of our monetary system.

The Federal Reserve bank has bailed out countless "fascist" despots, socialist sand communist dictators since funding the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Hitler's NAZI National Socialist Worker's Party, never having been audited since its inception in 1913. The Fed prints counterfeit money way beyond our GDP, devaluing the dollar's purchasing power to 3 Cents since its inception. You would think with the advent of the Industrial Revolution and mass production, the cost of living would come down, not go up!

So, where the hell is the money going? Oh, let's check the records of the Export-Import Bank, the Federal Housing Authority Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Overseas Pacific Investment Corporation, and the Fed itself, draining every brick of gold out of Fort Knox by 1930.

the testimony of whistleblower, House Banking Chair, Louis McFadden in 1934.
https://archive.org/stream/CongressmanMcfaddenOnTheFederalReserveCorporation/CongressmanMcfaddenOnTheFederalReserveCorp_djvu.txt

And then there is another gem, Woodrow Wilson's Marxist progressive income tax, the more you make, the more the government takes, making it impossible for the poor to work their way out of poverty and small business to rise and compete with the entrenched monopolies. Every step on the ladder to success is further and further apart as one tries to work their way up. "Tax the rich, tax the rich." you commies call. You commies are picking your won pockets, like mad dogs chasing your own tales.

"Each according to his ability, each according to his needs" What the hell does that mean?

You don't have to have a PhD to figure out Marx's bait and switch scheme of socialism, promising something for nothing, and nothing is what you get. It is the biggest hoax in all human history.

Just like the millionaire lawyers union and other private unions could donate to the Democrats no matter what their membership preferred. I have no problem with private unions. that is between an owner and their employees. I have a huge problem with public employee unions that lobby congress and get paid with tax payer dollars. I see no difference between this and citizens united. You don't want to argue facts with me bumpkin. I have an advantage. I trust no politicians while you are blindly partisan.