We’re here to discuss a monumental national achievement. From the instant the coronavirus invaded our shores, we raced into action to develop a safe and effective vaccine at breakneck speed. It would normally take five years, six years, seven years, or even more. In order to achieve this goal, we harnessed the full power of government, the genius of American scientists, and the might of American industry to save millions and millions of lives all over the world. We’re just days away from authorization from the FDA, and we’re pushing them hard, at which point we will immediately begin mass distribution.
O'Reilly was a draft dodging coward, no better than Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, or any of the other chicken hawks who hid behind a 2-S college student deferment while the real men got sent to the southeast Asia meat grinder. Couldn't pay me enough money to read any of his trash books!
Pray tell, what dishonor is there in refusing to go to fight and kill people in a foreign country that poses no threat to your country and is separated from us by an ocean they have no ability to cross?
What honor was there in submitting to being sent to a "southeast Asia meatgrinder"?
Before it was over our soldiers started fragging their officers and USN sailors were seriously disabling their own ships.
Personally I had better things to do as a derrick man and roughneck on a drilling rig during the time they were trying to draft me. It was probably as dangerous as soldiering and I was paying taxes and have been since I was 15.
The government lied to us time and again. The Tonkin Gulf Incident was what got Johnson the authority to increase troop levels in 1964. The Tonkin Gulf Incident was a lie, the destroyer Turner Joy was not attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats.
The Communists won the war, and it proved that the Domino Theory was a lie. The rest of the Pacific didn't go Commie.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
You think the way you do. I guess that's your privilege. I'm not going to a foreign country and killing people that aren't threatening me.
By the way. What was our mission, what did we accomplish, did all that napalm, agent orange, bombing, and death prove to be of any benefit to this country? Other than the ones making money off of it?
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Pretty much everyone with any education supported the vaccine program. For many, if not most, it looked like vaccination was the right thing.
John I ain’t trying to get down in the mud here but your statement doesn’t sit well with me because it’s flat out WRONG!…
Try to get over it
This is a book thread. Nobody cares about your education. Nobody who counts cares anything about who's vaccinated, pro-vax, anti-vax, or mutant...
It is flat out wrong and you doubling down makes you look like a buffoon. Thanks for clearing that up once and for all. Just because you think you're smart and fell for it doesn't mean everyone else did. What a pompous ass.
Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young.
