Abortion Clinics were deemed as "essential", but anyone needing a cancer screening, a minor procedure or regular doctor visit?  Nope, all deemed "non-essential".

 Also, in Michigan Whitmer deemed a gay bathouse as essential while forcing other businesses closed.

So reading the old order there's a whole list of procedures and regular visits that were excluded. Cancer being one of them. Scrolling through it seems that only cosmetic procedures were banned. You could even get braces under the order since that was to restore function.  Every section also has a caveat that a doctor can override it if it is to preserve the health and safety of a patient. You could even get cosmetic surgery if it was due to trauma.

That club was shut down last week after ignoring shutdown request.

I hate that im playing devils advocate for such policies but theres plenty of room for criticism without hyperbole.

The senile presumptive presidential nominee seems interested in gretchie whitmer as his running mate.

She is the one that banned ALL church services while leaving gay bathhouses and abortion clinics open.

If falcon thinks that is moving toward betterment, then he needs a new drug test.

I tried finding the bathhouse thing but the only thing I found was them shutting a gay club down for the covid thing. Abortion is a legal medical procedure so I'm not sure why they would shut those down, unless they are shutting down other doctors offices as well.

While courts generally defer to the state on issues of public health if the church service ban stays in place too long I imagine courts would intervene.   So I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing so much as an opportunity for the system to work.  State would likely lose and religious freedom would be further enshrined.

There are times I think you are blinded by your willingness to rationalize anything, and others when I think you are a classic troll.

On a macro level not a whole lot changes. Just running numbers from what we'll call the modern presidency Reagan to present. Looking at many metrics not a whole lot changes. HC cost per capita more or less follows the same trendline. Military spending had a spike in the mid 80s but has more or less leveled out 3-4% of GDP.  Military engagements every 2-3 years that trend goes way back to ww2. Budget deficits  as a percent of gdp run about 3-4% with spikes for the reagan buildup and the 08 depression and a giant spike for covid. Even immigration there wasn't a whole lot of deportations related to illegal immigration till Bush2, spiked under obama, and back down under trump.  Federal taxation rates have remained almost the same for  40 years as a whole about a 1.1% variance, top 2 quintiles likewise. There is a slightly larger variance among the middle quintile peaking with reagan before dropping. GDP per capita outside of 84 and 09 hovers around 4% per annum.  Even real median HH income doesn't follow a party line.

Theres a quote in the Bible from solomon along the lines of "there is nothing new under the sun" while I believe he meant it as a lament I kind of apply it to our system of government. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.  The last 40 years have been remarkably stable. Even when the parties or courts change things semi drastically it generally seems to follow the cultural zeitgeist .

Not to say something crazy can't happen, look at wilson, roosevelt, or some of the corrupt  scandals from the 1800s 1900s but in the end things worked themselves out. Politics today is remarkably stable and slow changing despite what the new national religion  of politics seems to portray.   


So if we get a Biden presidency yes some things will change but the big picture not so much.

So Trump thinks its his decision to open up the states if i read that correctly... Right....
I dont think theres really anything in our federalist system that would allow that.

You’ve said that twice but the article said in several places they were separate “graduation ceremonies.”  That sounds a LOT different than a gay kegger (Stella Artois?) in the College Union.

I guess my understanding is its under student affairs and each student union  is responsible for their own shindig.

They aren't in lieu of the cap and gown commencement ceremony rather some extra stuff put on by student groups you can attend if you feel the need to.

I guess I just don't see much of an issue if a student groups wants to do something for themselves in addition to the main event, the only thing VAT is contributing is hosting.

So not sure the crying foul is warranted. The events are open to all and any student can register for none or as many as they like. They seem to be put on by student groups as separate celebrations of graduations. Everyone still goes to the same graduation ceremony VT just host these afterparty type get togethers.   /shrug

FYI he didn't say a lot of that.  The transcripts are openly available if you wanna see what he said in the interview.