Out of curiosity do you have any studies or comparisons for the claim that countries that handled covid better (less deaths I assume as the quality we're looking at for better) have had smaller economic impacts? It's something that makes sense to me but I'd love to have somethin to point to when questions about it later. 

2018 had the worst goods and services deficit since 2008 and the worst goods deficit of all time. 2019 was second place in both of those categories.

It is far from just the coronavirus which has caused this absolutely terrible run for our trade balance. It is also somewhat worth noting that all of the years that beat 2018 in terms of goods and services deficit occurred under George W Bush.

That's just a semantic argument based on how you phrase it.

If you say the right in question is to marry someone of the opposite gender... then I guess.

If you say the right in question is to marry a man, or to marry a woman, then the result is different. A woman has the right to marry a man. A man does not have the right to marry a man.

Instead of of focusing on the abstract, lets use a concrete example. Milena Vayntrub (Lily from AT&T) and Elijah Wood both want to marry me. They both want to engage in the same exact same action. Why should the government allow Milena to do so, and not Elijah? Two people want to do the exact same thing, but one is prohibited based purely on their sex. How is the law treating them the same? And desire doesn't explain it, because they both desire the same thing, this sexy hunk of man right here.

Don't insult feces like that.

Source?

I didn't see the debate because even if Mike Pence were an amazing leader, it wouldn't matter if Trump won't listen to him, and Trump doesn't seem to listen to anyone around him. And I don't like Pence anyways.

I'd be skeptical of any polls that quickly done. 

But whoever won this debate, I don't think it will matter much to the election. Honestly I think it's more relevant to their political futures, particularly Harris.

Yeah but... source? I can't find any polls from anywhere reputable.

First one's actually at 50% at this point. And you have assholes like me who just vote for their candidate whether or not they even saw it. Second's only 1000 nonrandom people. So, I'm not really too concerned.

I don't necessarily know if I'd make that assessment of Bush. I don't think he's a stupid man, just not capable of the kind of thought needed for the president. There are many smart people who, once they come to an opinion, simply won't budge on it. I think Bill O' Reilly sort of first into this category. And you need to be mentally flexible.

As for common decency, I don't think Bush is a bad person. I think he made some terrible fucking decisions... but I don't feel like they were made purely for his own self interest, at least in his mind. Like, maybe he had a personal motivation driving him to go to Iraq and that bias led to a disastrous decision, but I don't think it was willful. I think due to his bias and inflexible thinking, he just convinced himself it was the right thing to do.

Whereas with Trump, I think he's a genuine sociopath, who does not consider anything beyond what is to his personal benefit.

That being said I fucking wish so badly that Bush would have some balls and endorse Biden. To be fair, Bush has been relatively quiet after leaving office (whether that's due to him feeling that his time is done, or simply republicans not wanted to really associate themselves with him), but there are strong indications that Bush does not support Trump, and his anti-endorsement could actually help put an end to this.

TL:DR Bush was a terrible President. Trump is a terrible human being.

In Bush's defense, I think he was just very homely and a bad speaker. I never got the impression he was stupid, just that he was rednecky and terribly when it came to public speaking. He also seemed to genuinely care about the US people even if he was going about most of it the wrong way.