@geobear40 said in MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan: non-Muslims and atheists are 'cattle,' compares gays to incestuous pedophiles:

@raphjd

That network is fine with hate speech and racism as long as "white people" aren't the ones spewing it.

MSNBC is in the same camp as Newsmax and, to a lesser extent, FoxNews.... in fact, it was CREATED to be a "liberal alternative" to FoxNews!

IMHO, MSNBC isn't nearly as "polished" as FoxNews, but they're all (Newsmax too) about political messaging, vs actual news reporting.

All of them feature some awful people as "reporters" (or commentators-posing-as-reporters). HOW awful they are depends mostly on your own political views...

It doesn't take a rocket scientist (note: I say that often because I was one, working in Range Safety at Cape Canaveral Air Force [now, Space Force] Station for 7 years in the 80's and 90's) to see how the lockdowns failed.

1. for the lockdowns to have truly been effective, you'd have had to have STAYED locked down for an entire "incubation period" - THEN, you'd have to have effective measures in place to prevent the re-introduction of the virus into the population. BOTH were untenable: we couldn't stay locked-down for that long, and since the rest of the world wasn't so locked down, the virus came back as soon as we let people out!
2. lockdowns in areas where there was no virus was a waste of time and resources. If we've learned ANYTHING about medical emergencies and pandemic responses, it's that IT'S ALL LOCAL!!
   Did NYC and SF need a lockdown? YES!
   Did Des Moines and Green Bay need a lockdown? NO!
3. As a result of taking such a drastic action (which IS what the scientists told Trump to do!), even in areas that had not yet seen a single COVID-19 case, we "lost the confidence" of most of middle America... if they never saw a case, and then were told to hide in their homes (from the boogey man), and no one got better or worse from that hiding, then the idea that it was a "hoax" wasn't so hard to believe!
   By the time the virus DID get there, the idea that it was all a hoax was ingrained. Add on top of that the politicization of the whole virus-response system, and yeah - we set ourselves up nice and pretty for this complete shit-show of a pandemic response!

Keep in mind:

• When you tell a politician they were wrong, they fight back and try - with everything they can muster to prove that they were either NOT WRONG, or were misled...
• When you tell a scientist they were wrong, they ask to see the data, file it away, and move on... mistakes are how science makes progress! Mistakes are "part of the gameplan!"

Science is mainly "educated guessing" - and when you realize your guess was wrong, you learn from it! Rarely, you may guess wildly and discover you were actually right (like the discovery of penicillin) - but usually, you guess 3000 times and finally find one that kinda-sorta works, so you try to find out WHY it works so you can guess better (and faster) next time!

In this case, we haven't seen a pandemic like this in 100 years, so we kinda discarded many of the things they learned from "back then" - we shouldn't have. But, we did have a 2-decade+ head start on mRNA vaccine research, and this virus was "tailor made" for that kind of vaccine - which allowed us to get a useful vaccine in RECORD TIME!

Did anyone else catch the news release about Novavax requesting EUA from the FDA for their new COVID-19 vaccine? It was developed using the OLD SCIENCE ways - the way most other vaccines were.

Why is that important? Because:
a) it took a YEAR longer to get a vaccine "the old way";
b) now we can compare the results of old vaccine tech and new vaccine tech; and
c) had we NOT had the new vaccine tech, the Delta variant likely would have added upwards of 2-million more deaths in the US alone

We're approaching 900-thousand deaths in the US now, in early 2022

For what it's worth, I don't agree with the law either... conflating alcohol sales/availability with vaccination status makes absolutely no sense to me.

That said, you claim that "science says so" is just plain dumb... idiotic dumb...

Science didn't tell those Aussies to pass that dumb law... Science just said "get people vaccinated. It saves lives"

Idiot lawmakers decided one way to convince people to get the shot is to make their access to alcohol dependent on it... dumb logic, but that wasn't science's position... science didn't say HOW to get people vaccinated, only that it was needed!

@raphjd said in Because the science says so:

@geobear40

I think he's saying to punish the business for following the corrupt law.

Laws are laws - you don't "fight" a law by ignoring it, you fight a law by protesting it, and working to elect representatives to CHANGE the law...

So - if I'm reading you right, you're not just an authoritarian (when Trumpty Dumpty is in power), but you're an anarchist when he's not!

Yer a reel prowd Merikan!

Might want to write the helpdesk to be sure, but I believe that, if you use some logical blocking and each "collection" stands on its own, you should be good - ESPECIALLY if you put a link in the description that people can find it all in one place at the original torrent location (and keep seeding both sets!)

So, for example: you posed a 4TB site rip of Sweet & Raw (used as an example because they don't exist an longer)...

Most people do not have 4TB to spare, but if you broke it down into individual years (2008-2015 in this case - 8 separate torrents), I think that'd "pass muster"

@geobear40 said in The truth about liberal media:

@bi4smooth said in The truth about liberal media:

You got one letter right...
I'm not butt-hurt (for that to be true, I'd have to give at-least a partial shit about what you think)...
No, the right b-word is...
Bored

You presence on these boards would not be missed.

Curiously, your absence from these boards wasn't noticed

@geobear40 said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

@bi4smooth said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

You are paranoid and pathetic.... you know, your church was once let by a pedophile... so that makes you a pedophile supporter! Rot in hell!
(Just using your own sick, twisted logic! - I don't actually know anything about your church - if there even is one!)

Next you will be calling me Racist.

Like a child your feelings got hurt and you lashed out.

Maybe social services should look into your family. You are very obsessed with pedophilia and incest.

ROFL - as a licensed Foster Parent, I've been investigated plenty of times (it's called a License Renewal!)... And I was a speaker at a national conference on adoptable children - about parenting children with special needs (in my case, Asperger/Autism Spectrum kids)....

And no, you're not likely a racist... just a clueless fool and a classless idiot

@geobear40 said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:

@bi4smooth said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:

The PROBLEM with any kind of mass vote fraud is that you have to find ways to beat the system... only there are over 3,000 separate "voting systems" spread across the US, and some 175,000 different voting precincts (most of which have DIFFERENT ballots (because of local races)!

That mean 3000 different ways to cheat an change election outcomes.

Yeah! Because that one County in PA is enough to sway the whole thing...

Your grasp of simple math and elementary statistics is staggering! Your Kindergarten teacher is embarrassed on your behalf....

@raphjd said in Dan Bongino permanently banned by YouTube for challenging COVID-19 narrative:

@bi4smooth

You clearly love Mitch, so that proves he's shit.

Thanks for clearing it up for us.

Yeah, we should've replace McConnell a long time ago - worked with the Dems when Obama was in office, let Merrick Garland get his vote in 2016, and held off on Judge Amy - let the NEW President choose!

That would have been awesome! 2 extra Liberal Justices!

Yoo Hoo!

You keep going, dudette... keep showing us how well you understand actual (non-Trumpian) politics!

Can't wait!

@raphjd said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

@bi4smooth said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

@lololulu19 said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

@lololulu19 I just checked.. he is 53.. So Pelosi must have still been having children when she was 60.

Paranoid, pathetic, and completely without class...

You're what makes 'Merika Great!

More childishness from our resident Pelosi Republican.

Oh, that's right - you're a Scot 'Merkan! You go boy!

We're all yawning here... tired old retread....

@raphjd said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:

@bi4smooth

Ok, dearie.

You admit voter fraud, except when it affected Trump.

You wrongly, thanks to your worship of the "honest" liberal media, claim that Trump himself filed countless lawsuits. He did not. Most of the lawsuits were from other people, which is why they were thrown out on standing.

Oh, so now you understand statistics, but won't let it apply to Trumpster Dumpster?

You silly twit, the Trump Campaigns files those lawsuits - the "organizing committees" in each State... exactly who would need to file them.... you REALLY do not understand how Presidents are elected in this country, do you?

The cases were not thrown out for lack of standing, they were thrown out for lack of evidence!

The one case that was thrown out for lack of standing was when one State (TX?) tried to sue another (PA?) over their voting laws...

@raphjd said in The truth about liberal media:

@bi4smooth

But clearly, I am, since you did reply.

Funny how you feel it's ok to insult others but get butt hurt when it's thrown back at you.

You got one letter right...

I'm not butt-hurt (for that to be true, I'd have to give at-least a partial shit about what you think)...

No, the right b-word is...

Bored

@bigfella said in Hello from Canada:

@bi4smooth hi I'm.Bigmac in London

Welcome Big Mac from London... hope your neck of the woods are doing right by you these days!

@raphjd said in NTSB to investigate Pittsburg bridge collapse just hours before Biden visit on BBB plan:

@bi4smooth

"You clearly don't follow any liberal news outlets (I follow liberal, conservative, and moderate media!)..."

If you followed anyone other than Joy "I was hacked" Reid, The Root, Slate, and Salon, you would not have said that Kyle Rittenhouse killed 3 black men, especially after the court case. Where you got the insane idea that it happened in Chicago, is anybody's guess. Prior to the court case, all your gods in liberal media were claiming he killed 3 black men, but most stopped this lie once the court case started and it was impossible to maintain the lie.

You also DO NOT watch conservative news because if you did, you would know for a fact that all the liberal media darlings spouting Russian Collusion on TV, said the exact opposite in Shifty Schiff's secret bunker hearings. You even refused to watch the video I posted where Tucker showed the video clips of them saying one thing and then read from their sworn testimony saying the complete opposite. If you went to the video page on YouTube, there was even a link to the government site where you can actually read their sworn testimony.

Yup, you're back to your childish stage... Guessing your Russian handlers haven't been feeding you any new material lately...

yawn...

@raphjd said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:

@bi4smooth said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:

@raphjd said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:

https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/black-lives-matter-sent-millions-to-canada-charity-m4bj-for-mansion/

BLMers are as marxist as Bernie.

Yet another NY Post hyperbolic and misleading story...

So, the person (not the group) who finagled this abuse of not-for-profit-organization money (doesn't matter if it's a liberal cause or a conservative one - it's a NFP organization!) has already resigned as a result of these things coming to light... resigned last year, and others involved are also either resigning or being forced out.

A legit story, yes - sure - in 2020 and maybe in 2021!
A little "old news" for 2022 tho...

This just in: famed Presidential dog Checkers has died...

Says the man who gets his news from Joy "I was hacked" Reid, The Root, Slate, and Salon, all of whom lied about Kyle Rittenhouse even after the court case claiming he murdered 3 black men. I'm still not sure where you heard that it happened in Chicago though, but it's probably something you just made up in your head.

The only person more infallible than the Great and Powerless @raphjd is the Orange and Fat One himself - yes, only He Who Must Be Named is more flawless than @raphjd!

Yes, I conflated 2 different stories... I said my mea culpas... weeks, no months, ago!

Now go Google "mea culpa" so you know what I said!

@lololulu19 said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report:

@lololulu19 I just checked.. he is 53.. So Pelosi must have still been having children when she was 60.

Paranoid, pathetic, and completely without class...

You're what makes 'Merika Great!

@raphjd said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:

@bi4smooth

You do love voter fraud when it's against Repubs, don't you?

I guess your real name is Brenda Snipes or one of the dirty bitches she replaced in Broward County.

You're entering into one of your "childish" periods again...

No one is in favor of voter fraud, but you make childish, absurd conclusions out of literally nothing!

• Yes, there were isolated cases of real, and sometimes just attempted, voter fraud.
  I don't care what election you point to: 1876, 1976, 2020, 2022! Yes! There is/was/will be some attempts at vote fraud... and some will even be successful!
• BUT that doesn't mean that voting is a waste of time, nor that it cannot be trusted!
• Statistics matter!

In 2016, Dems correctly pointed out that 50,000 mis-cast ballots in just 3 states could have tilted the election!

• Were there 50,000 ballots that could have been vote fraud? sure - that sounds about right! For the whole country, but not for those 3 States.
• If there were 50,000 ballots that could have swung the election, what are the odds that they'd ALL have been FOR Trump instead of Clinton? INCREDIBLY LOW!!
• The fact is, vote fraud isn't PARTISAN! -- by which I mean that neither Dems nor Republicans have any significant edge in vote fraud schemes! They both have pretty much the same number of idiots who think their double-vote or forged ballot is going to make the difference... which means that about 40% of vote fraud favors Republicans, and about 40% of vote fraud favors Democrats - and the rest (about 20%) is non-partisan (like Judicial races) or are about 3d-party candidates.

The PROBLEM with any kind of mass vote fraud is that you have to find ways to beat the system... only there are over 3,000 separate "voting systems" spread across the US, and some 175,000 different voting precincts (most of which have DIFFERENT ballots (because of local races)!

So, think of it this way: you hack into the Dominion voting system, and insert codes that say voters who chose "slot 2" get counted less... only in some areas of the country "slot 2" is the Democrat, and in others it's the Republican... so you have to individually hack hundreds of machines in different locations to make a statistically significant "bump" in the results...

But then, you ALSO have to make it so your efforts go unnoticed! If Trump suddenly wins - even only by a hair - in places like San Francisco, CA - well, alarm bells will go off, and you'll get caught!

And then there's the problem with the "paper trail" - those computers that do the counting don't have printers in them... and some statistical sampling is always done, where they "validate" the machine count with a hand-count...

Holy smokes, it's almost like some really smart people actually thought through these things!

Almost....

@raphjd said in The truth about liberal media:

@bi4smooth

Sorry, but you are the moron.

Really? Back to the "I know you are, but what am I?" responses? You're not worth the time!

@lololulu19 said in Dan Bongino permanently banned by YouTube for challenging COVID-19 narrative:

@raphjd True, but Bitch McConnell is 79... and Lindsay Graham already told Bitch that if he doesn't shape up.. he's done as being the Senate leader.

Ohhhhhh....

I'm certain that Mitch McConnell is crapping his pants over that one! He's only been the top Republican Leader in the Senate a few months now, and Lindsay Graham is a REAL POWER BROKER there! (For the record, as it's now Feb 2022, Mitch McConnell has held the top Republican post - that is, Marjority Leader or Minority Leader) for only about 181 months... )

Give him a break, he's still learning!

Of course, McConnell is scared SHITLESS of Trumpy Dumpty, too! That old queen might even try to get him primaried!! (McConnell is up for re-election in 2026, and his last one was a real "squeaker" - he actually lost 3 of 120 counties!)

You tweakers don't have a clue about actual Party Politics...

@geobear40 said in Dan Bongino permanently banned by YouTube for challenging COVID-19 narrative:

@raphjd
And even Fauci claimed it was a lie to protect scares supply.

You poor guys....

I get it... your Source For Science (the all-knowing, Lord Dumpster... I mean, Darth Dumpster... no, I mean His Lowness the Dumpster... damn, I'll get it... Ford Trumpster?

Anyway...that fascist guy... He Who Must Be Named Often has been wishy-washy on masks all along...

• Feb 29, 2020: Do not buy a mask
• Mar 30, 2020: We must wear a mask, but it will not be for a long period of time
• Apr 2, 2020: wearing a mask should be a personal choice, but people should wear them
• May 21, 2020: I wore a mask earlier, but I'm not wearing one now because I don't want the press to see me wearing a mask
• July 21, 2020: "America's youth will act responsibly, and we're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask. Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact. They'll have an effect. And we need everything we can get."
• July 31, 2020: Wear a mask when you cannot avoid crowded places or socially distance.
• Aug 3, 2020: [from Campaign email flyer] "We are all in this together, and while I know there has been some confusion surrounding the usage of face masks, I think it's something we should all try to do when we are not able to be socially distanced from others," the email reads. "I don't love wearing them either."
• Aug 9, 2020: Wearing a mask is patriotic
• Sep 10, 2020: (behind in polls, asked about golfers who joined him who did not wear masks) "They don't have to. It's a political activity. They have exceptions,"
• Oct 2, 2020: (slipping more in the polls, asked about masks and Joe Biden) "I don't wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from it, and he shows up with the biggest mask I've seen,"
• Oct 11, 2020: The Trumps test positive for COVID-19

In the meantime, REAL scientists started telling us to wear masks in April, 2020 (prior to then, we/they really didn't understand how much the virus was spread by aerosol and not by contact (Remember wiping down your groceries? Remember using hand sanitizer every 15-minutes because you touched something? Remember the public service ads telling you to wash your hands 5x more often than usual?)

And they haven't stopped since then.

No whiplash for those of us who follow real science.

You want to know what's even more curious?

Once he lost the election, other than being against mask MANDATES, Dumpy has been all-but-silent on the subject. ... and truthfully, that's in part because no one cares! LOL