Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/us/nyc-vaccine-mandate-teachers/index.html

It will come as a surprise to some that I think this is overreach, although it does appear near the bottom of the story that exceptions for medical issues may be offered.

I don't object to requiring COVID-19 vaccination for employees who interact with others (e.g.: the public - especially children), but there almost always have to be exceptions of some kind...

There has to be a balance between legitimate public health needs, the wishes and beliefs of employees, and those same employees' own health! Failure to accommodate special cases is egregious... on all sides!

Over the weekend, none other than Donald Trump himself urged his supporters to get the vaccine (source)... he was booed by many of those same supporters!

Yes, Virginia - this is me @bi4smooth - making a PRO-Trump statement!

Today (pretty much, as they promised), the FDA formally approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for all people over the age of 12. (source)
Like dominoes...:

• The US Armed Forces has now officially required all troops to get vaccinated... "that's an order"
• Multiple US City governments have already changed their polities to require vaccination because it is now FDA approved
• Multiple US Corporations have already announced policy changes to require proof of vaccination of their employees now that it is fully FDA approved

But it doesn't stop there... this is a WORLD-WIDE conspiracy, after all:

• Canada recently announced that COVID-19 vaccinations are required for all federal employees, as well as air, train, and cruise passengers! (Unvaccinated US cruise passengers better not leave the ship in a Canadian port! They may not be allowed back onboard!)
• Fiji (that bastion of Trump haters) has forced unvaccinated government workers to take leave (paid if they have earned it, otherwise unpaid). If they are still unvaccinated come November, they will be fired!
• Indonesia has made COVID-19 vaccines mandatory - individual fines for non-compliance start at 5-million Rupiah (about US$350)... but public flogging is also an option (no, really!) (What did you expect from this autocratic country?)
• In Italy, all healthcare workers, including pharmacists and paramedics, be vaccinated or be suspended indefinitely without pay.

This is a very partial list, but with the FDA full approval now behind us, this list will grow quickly...

Mind you: all of these requirements have certain exemptions... but those exemptions have to come from a licensed physician (medical Dr), not a politician (and not an ophthalmologist in KY! - although that may change if some new variant of COVID-19 starts causing cataracts! LOL)

School Boards in TX and FL continue to rebel against their idiotic Governors' absurd overreach in banning mask-mandates state-wide.

Mind you: I'm not so much in favor of mask mandates as I am in favor of letting each district decide on its own what its needs are!
Schools in rural areas with light COVID spread shouldn't be held to the same standards as urban districts ON-FIRE with COVID!
A basic tenet of real Conservatism is to put control in the hands of the most-local authority as it makes sense to do so... and state-wide control over mask mandates ain't that! Federal control would be even worse, but so-far Biden hasn't proposed national mask mandates.).

• In TX, one school board completely side-stepped their Governor's anti-mandate edict by simply putting mask-wearing into the school dress-code (ingenious!)
• In both FL and TX, School Boards are already processing changes to attendance requirements to include COVID-19 vaccination (along with Chicken Pox, MMR, and the handful of other vaccines already required).
• In TX, school superintendents are issuing mask mandates without board approval because the idiot who wrote the TX only provided penalties to school board members who violated the Governor's order
• In FL, at least 4 - including the 2 largest - school districts have openly defied their Gov's order prohibiting mask mandates, and threatening to withhold their pay if they vote otherwise... one Miami-Dade county SB member said it clearly: if the choice is a paycheck or to protect our kid's health, I'll forego the money!

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And to the moron who keeps positing that TB is more deadly than COVID - it took me a while to locate the data, but let's go:

For the State of Florida:

• There were just 413 incidents of TB in all of 2020 (source)
• There were 21,000+ new cases of COVID-9 on average EACH DAY for the past week (e.g.: 7-day average) (source)
• Those 413 incidents of TB in Florida in 2020 resulted in 34 deaths (source)
• There were nearly 240 deaths EACH DAY for the past week (e.g.: 7-day average) (source) from COVID-19

For the country (USA):

• There were 7163 cases of TB in the US for the entire year of 2020 (see above: we get 3-times that number of new COVID-19 cases per day in Florida alone!) (source)
  NOTE: It should be noted that 7163 is a sharp decline from 2019's 8909 - largely attributed to COVID-19: both in the reported numbers being skewed due to similar symptoms, but even more so to the use of masks - which also protect against TB spread. But the overall trend in the US has been downward since a spike in the early 1990s
• There have been 37.5 million new cases and 625 thousand deaths (source) in these United States from COVID-19... in the past 30 days

So, as has been reported less formally here before, there is no reasonable comparison to the rates of infection or death from TB and COVID-19... and now it is backed up by hard data.

I will grant you: if you believe in the theory of there being a world-wide conspiracy to inflate the numbers of COVID-19 - a conspiracy that includes IRAN in cahoots with ISRAEL, North and South Korea, Russia and the US and China, -- even Dogtown, MO and Los Gatos (translation: The Cats), CA -- that are all (independently) conspiring to get you to wear a 50-cent mask and take a vaccine made by one of some 25+ manufacturers (world-wide)...
Well, if you believe in that conspiracy, you won't believe the above data... and I give you that! Mr. Darwin? Over here!

@lololulu19 said in Search Engine modification...:

@lololulu19 HA! the system already converts multiple spaces to one space!

Feel free to submit your resume to the Moderators so you can start re-programming the search function. Mind you, all positions are UNPAID.

Thank you for your time and effort!

@nikgl said in Seeding issues (((:

Ok, I created a torrent file, then uploaded and filled everything to the Upload page.
Then I re-download the recently uploaded torrent file and launch it to start seeding. But the torrent program (Folx) doesn't start checking the folder with files to start seeding.
What's the problem? Could you help me please??

So, there are 2 options:

1. The torrent client ALREADY HAS the torrent (some do that when they CREATE the torrent. Because it was already there, and because it's a "private" torrent, the trackers aren't "merged" so only the original (useless) one remains.
   TO FIX: Delete the torrent (being CAREFUL to NOT DELETE the DATA!) in your client, then re-download from the site

2. The torrent client does not see the files that makeup the torrent in your default download location... you need to tell the torrent client WHERE the file(s) already exist. Otherwise, it thinks this is a new download.
   TO FIX: Delete the torrent (being CAREFUL to NOT DELETE the DATA!) in your client, then re-download from the site - and point your client to the RIGHT location of where you file(s) actually exist!

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I wonder why OnlyFans is doing this?

MSM is covering this extensively - the pressure is coming from banks & credit card processing.

@raphjd said in Liberals are silent over NYC ID mandate:

@bi4smooth

I fully agree with you on the cost of ID.

I think you are being extremely hyperbolic with the rest.

Hyperbolic on the list of ID requirements?
That came directly from the State of Florida HSMV (our version of a DMV)... here Read for yourself!

Certainly there are those who want to ignore the racial component of these "requirements" - I'll grant that the Jim Crow nature is reasonably well hidden (the Civil Rights Act of 1960 required a LOT of Jim Crow laws be re-written to HIDE their intent... but the effect is the same.

As for the comment about "poor-white-trash"... that was hyperbole in the form of sarcasm....

What? Me? Sarcasm? -- NEVER!

@raphjd said in Liberals are silent over NYC ID mandate:

@bi4smooth

In the UK, we're getting to the point of being required to have constant booster shots to be "full vaccinated". This is especially true in Scotland.

Under the I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO section, the Scottish government is working on making all the temporary powers permanent. They also want to create new powers that strip us of our rights. There will be no checks and balances on these powers. Gov Ministers can enact these powers when and as they see fit without any oversight, under the new plans.

Our medical system has ground to a halt, so much so that even politicians are starting to complain that they can't get treated.

Even though I'm the Chairman of my royal borough, I'm too low on the political scale to get any consideration which is why my hand is still messed up nearly 11 months later, with no end in sight.

Well, the Medical System in Fla right now is EQUALLY at a halt. Yesterday, every single hospital - public and private - in Hillsborough County was in "bypass mode" at one level or another. This is the county that is home to the city of Tampa. If you were in an accident in Tampa yesterday - you had to be taken to another county for life support. Our hospitals are FULL - and they're not full of TB cases, or HIV cases, or FLU cases... and over 95% of the people filling these hospital beds DID NOT receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

But to the point about needing an ID... you write as-if one ID is as good as any other, or that all of these services require a Government ID that would also suffice to be your ID to vote... that is just not true. The ID that you need to show to use your SNAP (Food Stamps) card is not the same ID you need to vote. The ID you need to use your public bus system pass is not the same ID you need to vote.

YES, a State ID card could be used for all of these things, BUT the State ID card isn't REQUIRED for any of them... others IDs can be used. In many cases, there are 20-somethings and even thirty-somethings still using their High School ID cards - which don't expire. (In the US, most kids graduate High School at either age 17 or 18, and those cards are free for students!) And those cards could be used to get other kinds of ID - food stamps, public housing, public transportation...

But, in Florida at least, those IDs CANNOT be used to get a State ID. For that, you must have 3 things:

• Proof of Identity
• Proof of Social Security
• Proof of residency

For ID, a certified copy of your Birth Certificate (not a hospital copy: a government-issued, certified copy - it costs $35-50 to get such a copy, depending on where you go), or a US Passport ($110 minimum fee), or several other forms - all of which cost significant sums to obtain....

For Social Security, you must have a paper copy of your Social Security card (that's free!),

Fro residency, this gets funny: consider this list from the perspective of a poor person, say living on your friend's couch looking for a job (and remember, you need TWO!):

• Deed, mortgage, monthly mortgage statement, mortgage payment booklet or residential rental/lease agreement; (all of my poor friends are property owners - most are confused by this requirement: do they need to bring just 1 property deed, or ALL of them?)
• Florida voter registration card (seems easy enough - until you look to that site and realize you need a Florida Gov't ID to register to vote - a complete Catch-22!)
• Florida vehicle registration or title (as with the mortgage requirement, my poor friends wonder how many of their many cars do they need to bring the registrations for? Oh, and to register your car in our county, you have to have a Florida ID.... another Catch-22)
• Utility bill (and specifically excluded? Cell Phone bills!)... because all the couch-surfers I know get the power and gas bills put into THEIR names!
• A utility hook up or work order dated within 60 days prior to the application - come on...
• Automobile payment booklet
• Selective service card - HEY! If you're a GUY, here's a FREE ID you can use! Except that the Federal Government stopped issuing Selective Service (Draft) cards in the 1990s... damn!
• Medical or health card with address listed (all my poor friends have FULL health insurance - from their non-existent employers... Oh, they could use their Medicaid card? - Oh, those don't have addresses on the cards... not acceptable
• Current homeowner insurance policy or bill - for all those properties you poor people own!
• Current automobile insurance policy or bill - for all those cars you poor people own
• Educational institution transcript forms for the current school year - ROFL - your school transcripts for the current year... which the schools require you to pay for, but until you've graduated, only for PRIOR years! DOH!
• Unexpired professional license issued by a government agency in the U.S. - I wonder if they issue PE (Professional Engineer) licenses to people with no Government ID? - No... another Catch-22.. you had to have the ID to get the license, and now you need the license to get the ID!
• W-2 form or 1099 form - from ALL your jobs! Because poor people get regular paychecks!
• Form DS2019, Certificate of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor (J-1) status - Great! If you're a legal IMMIGRANT (not eligible to vote), we'll give you an easy one...
• A letter from a homeless shelter, transitional service provider or a half-way house verifying they receive mail for the customer. The letter must be accompanied by a Certification of Address form - Because Florida has "permanent" homeless shelters (they don't - they are all "transient" - you show up before a certain time (often mid-to-late afternoon), or you don't get in
• Mail from financial institutions including checking, savings or investment account statements - I wonder if my poor friend's 401k plan statements would suffice
• Mail from federal, state, county or city government agencies or FDLE registration form completed by local sheriff’s department... HA! Just get yourself arrested and you'll have the forms you need! Just be sure it's not a felony... felons can't vote in Florida!

See? We make is SO SIMPLE for EVERYONE to get a Government ID (well, everyone with a Job, a House, & a Car!)

Let's call a SPADE a SPADE: these requirements and the Catch-22 nature of many of the documents "allowed" are deliberate attempts to prevent poor people from getting Government IDs - least of which is the Voter ID card... Here in the American South, these are called Jim Crow Laws - and are targeted against minorities... but, of course, to legally target the minorities, they target the poor... and some whites get entrapped there too... but, come one, who cares! They're poor-white-trash living with other minorities! They aren't important... are they?

I repeat that the FIX is to make IDs FREE (and if you can show that you need another government-issued document IN ORDER to GET your ID, that should be FREE too!)

Funny story (in an ironic sort of way):

• I took my 15 y/o daughter into the local Tax Collector's office (where you get your Driver's Licenses and State IDs here)... they didn't like the copy of her birth certificate we had (the seal was worn)... so we had to walk over to a different counter, pony up $85 for another copy of her birth certificate, then go back and pay $110 for her ID (not even a DL! Just an ID!). They also gave me a hard time because her last name isn't my last name - but I was prepared: I had brought with me the certified adoption order from the court.
• The worker went to get a supervisor because they weren't going to accept THAT either, but I literally pulled out my cell phone and was calling the adoption judge - I was going to get a court order to issue her an ID! The judge was on the line with me and I was reading off the names of the workers I was dealing with, when the supervisor asked me who I was talking to... I said "Judge G***" and he said: "Please hang up - we'll issue the ID"

Now, while I may have had the wherewithal (and experience from so many prior foster and adopted children) to "get it done", put yourself in that position when you're poor (can't afford that $85 BC copy, much less the $110 fee for the ID to start with!), homeless (no mortgage, no utility bill, no car registration), and otherwise powerless...

The "system" needs to be fixed to allow poor people to get Government ID (appropriate for voting) AT NO COST....

@samoht05 said in Hung Young Brit Torrents?:

I can't find any Hung Young Brit torrents on the sits, but I remember downloading some in the past. Did they all get taken down? They're not in the banned list.

No, they're not banned - but the owner DMCA's them rather quickly (I've posted a few, but they never stay up long).

Just a reminder to all: This is a CLOSED, PRIVATE tracker... when a post gets DMCA'd, it's almost always due to a user (registered user) "turning it in"...

IMHO, if you're worried about DMCA laws, why are you even here?

• Just Sayin' -

@perro2492 said in Only fans will BAN SEXUAL CONTENT in october.:

This marks the 3rd thread on the same topic...
Redundant and duplicative... also the same as the others...

@lololulu19 said in Liberals are silent over NYC ID mandate:

Here's something ironic.. will voters ultimately have to show their ID to vote because of the Kung Flu? Their nasty little strategy has backfired.

I'm just spit-balling here, but I think the issue with the IDs is that some southern states charge a significant fee to get a Government ID (like a DL)...

Here in FLA, it can cost over $100 to get a "new" DL - you have to pay for the ID part, you have to pay separately for the written DL test, then you have to pay AGAIN for the driving test. Of course, you have to have a copy of your birth certificate with you... and if you don't have that, it can cost $50+ to get the "certified copy" you must have.

I agree with some who propose to "de-fang" the anti-ID folks by simply proposing that people on Food Stamps (or other government assistance) get their Government-Issued ID (ID card, DL, or whatever) FREE OF CHARGE!

I have no problem charging people who own cars to register, inspect, and otherwise "pay to play" to own a car... but an ID is a must-have, and to charge the poor to have it is to (in the case of Voter-ID) disenfranchise them... a legitimate complaint - but one that has an EASY fix! (as noted above)

The problem I have with these "VAX Passports" as people are calling them is that the goalposts are changing - and they will continue to change!

We thought in April we were "coming out of this" and "getting back to normal"... then, lo and behold! Delta arrives and we're back into the sewage - deeper than before! We thought 2-shots were going to make it... now, there is going to be a 3rd! Maybe later there is a "Theta" variant that needs a whole different shot?

The definition of "fully vaccinated" will always change over time... Thus, not really a "workable" system...

BTW: The NYC "mandate" is (IMHO) gross governmental overreach... you can recommend that restaurants require (or separate) patrons who are provably vaccinated from those who are not... but a mandate (in this case, an UNFUNDED mandate!) is too far.

So, even it it falls under the realm of "public health" - which I can buy, MAYBE - but I'm no there yet... if you want to REQUIRE restaurants to become "vaccine cops", then you (Government) pay for the extra employees needed to enforce it!

IMHO: that makes 2 strikes against the NYC ordinance (sure to fail in court)...
But, like Biden's eviction moratorium, it'll take time to "defeat" in court - and until then, it's the "law of the land"...

I should point out though that I also think the FL and TX laws RESTRICTING people from requiring masks or vaccines is government overreach in the OTHER direction! If a cruise company wants to require everyone to get a FLU SHOT (much less a COVID one!) before coming on board, that's their right! If you don't want the shot, don't get on the boat! If there is sufficient demand for cruises without the shot requirement, then those will become available! You do not have a RIGHT to go on a cruise!

@lololulu19 said in I see the list of files from the .torrent files but cannot download:

@justanedflan it looks like Qbittorrent is able to download that torrent without renaming the files first. I know from experience that Utorrent chokes on filenames like that. Even though it DOES work.. I still suggest renaming those files so that when you seed them, your seeds work with people who are using torrent clients that are not accomodating to "special characters"
I have suggested that GTRU should automatically replace "special characters" with normal ones.

So there is a basic problem with what you propose there:

• GT.ru is a tracker, not an originator, of content.
• GT.ru cannot change the content of uploads, except for the "metadata" (thus, they can change the tracker address, but not the folder name)
• Only the USER can change the folder and/or file names... but even so, only on their local end!

So the example above, where someone suggested changing the names on your end to help out others.... not so much: The filename on your end is the new/corrected/simpler filename, but the filename in the torrent remains the same as what the uploader provided.

One final comment: sometimes these special characters arise out of translations from a user's system having been set to, say Korean language... Then the torrents show the filenames in the character-set that is "normal" to your system.

Long story short: use your Torrent Client (qBitTorrent or uTorrent have been mentioned here) to change the filenames on your system so that you can use the files more easily locally, and yet STILL seed the torrent and maintain your ratio!

@ledbear said in Bad news for Reno Gold.. good news for us!:

Only fans is the new tumbrl XD

If by that, you mean "headed for the dust bin of failed Internet companies who tried to "fix" a formula that worked?

Yup!

And for those who say "they're realize the error of their ways and put things back" - that ship usually sails pretty quickly...ask MySpace how they recovered from the "advance" of FaceBook... By the time they realize their HUGE mis-calculation, the "masses" will have moved on...

That's the beauty of the Internet... the barrier-to-entry for startups is nearly ZERO... and with most cloud providers, you can "pay as you go" - so if your new gizmo website hits gold, you can grow as fast as you need to (so long as you can pay the bills as you grow!)... The key isn't getting the best technoolgy (that's an IT guy's perspective and it's a false narrative)... the key is (and is ONLY) getting the user-space to USE it!

People have built "better" facebooks - but not SO MUCH better that folks have left FB for it...
People have built "better" twitter (conservatives would point to Parler) - but not SO MUCH better that folks have ditched Twitter for it...

There will be new gizmos (who'd have thunk TikTok would have caught fire like that!)... and those new gizmos will be replaced too...

The key to BUSINESS success is to "ride the wave" as long as you can, and DON'T try to switch surf-boards mid-wave!

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Anyway.. since OnlyFans defines incest as having any family members on camera at the same time with ejaculation.. then they have violated their own policies. As Pompidou would say "that's naughty.. NAUGHTY.. very NAUGHTY!"

@lololulu19 said in I would like to hear your opinions on gay "incest" and Onlyfans "sex trafficking":

@lololulu19 It's interesting that Reno Gold just put out a circle jerk video with the Delgaty brothers. Seems to me that violates OnlyFans policy on "incest". Incest is defined as being SEXUAL INTERCOURSE with a family member. Nobody is having intercourse if no vagina is involved. Bill Clinton was famous for pointing that out when he got a blowjob from Monica Lewinsky on the desk of George Stephanopolous and came on her dress. Billy insisted that it ain't sexual unless there is VAGINAL penetration - and his was oral (although.. I think he did stick his CIGAR in her vagina).

Anyway.. since OnlyFans defines incest as having any family members on camera at the same time with ejaculation.. then they have violated their own policies. As Pompidou would say "that's naughty.. NAUGHTY.. very NAUGHTY!"

No offense, but calling attention to it will only INCREASE the speed at which OF will find the "violation" and remove it...

Kinda like folks HERE who insist on adding the studio name, and full model names, and sometimes even "episode" (or scene) titles to torrents from studios who do a LOT of DMCA reporting... Your "helpfulness" is resulting in people being denied access to it!

@raphjd said in Dem City Councilman, 5 Others Charged With Election Rigging In Race Decided By 1 Vote:

@bi4smooth

You voted for Honest Joe, so you are just as at fault.

Just as every German was prosecuted for all of their war crimes after WW2, and every Japanese citizen was just blown up with atomic weapons... yeah, that's what I call Justice, bitch!

I still don't understand your extreme hatred for Trump. All you can come up with is "Orange Man Bad" just like every other liberal.

You keep saying I hate Trump, I keep telling you I don't (and didn't)... I just thought he was bad for the Presidency and bad for the Country, so I voted against him. No hatred, just disagreement!

I guess I'm back to:

This is not the STRAW MAN you're looking for...

In one discussion, you whined that Trump is self-promoting while ignoring that Biden has been doing it for the last 50 years. Trump has never pretended to have had every job known to man. Trump has never taken credit for laws he voted against.

Trump isn't just self-promoting - every Presidential candidate (much less the winner!) has to be. No, Trump went WAY BEYOND self-promoting. Trump put himself before the Country. Trump made decisions FOR the Country that monetarily enriched himself and his family. Way more than a self-promoter, Trump was (remains) an ego-maniac!

Trump never said that my sister, niece, and brother-in-law are not black.

Neither did Biden - he never mentioned them by name, once!

That said, what he said was stupid... but Trump never said anything stupid? (Drink a lot of bleach lately have you?)

News flash - people say dumb things... then they take them back.

The list is never-ending, but Trump is the bad guy and Biden is the good guy.

Biden is far FAR from a good guy... and given this Afghanistan thing, maybe he's even WORSE than I feared... but in 2020, I chose to NOT re-elect Trump! I cannot change that any more than you can! Mind you, in 2016, I chose NOT to elect another Clinton into the WH... at least I got THAT one right! LOL

While I never really had high hopes for Biden, I didn't think he'd fuckup as bad as he has in Afghanistan... what an embarrassment - and we have another 2-weeks or so of it while they continue to try to get everyone out!

@raphjd said in 'Let them die,' Washington state middle school teacher says of the unvaccinated:

@bi4smooth

I never said that, so don't lie.

I have always said that do-nothing swampies and warhawks need to be chucked out so we can get some people who actually want to do good for the country.

You like Kinzinger because he hates Trump as much as you, and he, like you, is Pelosi's bitch.

You like Mitch and the "can't be bothered to do a fucking thing" crowd because they let the DNC do whatever they want.

Yup... Mitch "No, we won't even consider Merrick Garland for SC justice at the end of a Presidential Term in 2016, but we'll DAMNED SURE push one through in 2020" McConnell certainly does the Dem's bidding... he's a fucking pansy for letting them... oh wait...

Nevermind...

@raphjd said in 'Let them die,' Washington state middle school teacher says of the unvaccinated:

@bi4smooth

You are Pelosi's bitch.

Of course, those 2 won't switch parties, they want to destroy it from within.

Kinzinger is a TeaBagger.

Mitch is a useless old twat that refuses to do anything about anything.

We need better leadership than we currently have. I'm sick of do-nothing swampies, warhawks, and all the other scumbags you worship.

Why do you care about the RNC, you have Honest Joe the terrorist lover running your party.

I understand. Only Trump can save us. Only Trump can "save" the Republican Party. Only Trump's followers are "real" Republicans. Any member of the Republican Party that disagrees - in any way - with Trump is a RINO by definition!

Message received.

Message rejected as authoritarian, fascist, and totally un-American - on its face!

@raphjd said in 99.7% Survive, so why a vaccine when TB kills x1000:

@bi4smooth

You are such an idiot.

It may be illegal, just like Hillary Bit Bleaching 33k emails that were under congressional subpoena. But some asshole FBI agent can ignore it.

FBI agents can illegally alter emails from the CIA.

FBI agents can lie to the FISA court.

Any of this sound familiar?

Of course, it doesn't sound familiar because Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the liberal media losers didn't tell you about it.

The FBI agents who were caught doing those things were themselves arrested and charged. Working for the FBI (the same as being elected to office - apparently, other than the Presidency) is not a "get out of jail free card" - FBI agents can, and are, arrested for breaking the law! Some of those go to prison, but most plead out... with the repercussions virtually always including leaving Government Service and giving up all pensions and other benefits.

Like it or not, the Government is full of PEOPLE. Largely with mildly incompetent people (at all levels)...

People make mistakes! Sometimes, they're honest mistakes. Sometimes they're incompetent mistakes. Sometimes they're intentional, illegal mistakes...

@lololulu19 said in Dem City Councilman, 5 Others Charged With Election Rigging In Race Decided By 1 Vote:

I would add that these fraudulent elections.. like those that resulted in the stolen Presidential election of 2020.. are not really being won by one vote. They (and by they I mean the crooked liberals) calculate how many votes they need to win, and produce that many fraudulent votes and try not to have any more. So.. if we have two hypothetical candidates named "Joe" and "Don" and Don is ahead by 10,000 votes, they produce at least 10,001 fake votes, and try not to have any more because that risks being caught. For instance.. if Don was ahead by 10,000 votes and they produced 1,000,000 fake votes for Joe.. that would be a clear indication that fraud was involved. But.. in 2020.. the election was stolen, everybody knows it was stolen, but it can't be PROVEN because the precincts refuse to turn over all the data and the courts refuse to litigate it. So.. they got away with it, and we now have a senile pedophile bankrupting the nation, taking away all our rights, and destroying not only the USA - but indirectly, destroying the world. Even the democrats are now realizing what a disaster #senilejoe is.. having handed Afghanistan back to the terrorists to train more terrorists to terrorize the entire world. Trillions of $$ pissed away over the past 20 years to prevent terrorists from taking over Afghanistan.. and Joe screwed that up in just 2 days!

The idea that - in the US, with a 230 year history of running elections, and with a thoroughly de-centralized electoral system - someone could "hack" all of these systems - undetected - and change votes (in spite of the fact that, in a vast majority of cases, there are paper ballot "backups" -- paper-trails, if you will - is completely ludicrous!

There are no "standards" for making absurd claims... but there ARE standards for making claims in a court of law! Show me a lawsuit where these claims were even admitted as evidence! (It doesn't exist - at least not yet!)

As for Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan fiasco - well, what did you expect? It was a going to be a shit-show no matter when we withdrew (that's a foregone conclusion held by previous presidents who, seriously, just didn't want it "on their watch" - because it literally couldn't end WELL)... but Biden showed true skill in making it FAR WORSE than anyone could have imagined!

• Intelligence breakdown
• military planning breakdown
• diplomatic breakdown
• COMMON SENSE breakdown

If this had been an "at-bat" in baseball, he'd have "struck out the side" with one plate appearance, it was so bad! (If you don't know Baseball, you won't get the analogy... but his performance is outside-the-rules bad!)

But to think this shit-show is over is to be delightfully delusional! There will be another 2-weeks or so of this "open demonstration of American incompetence & hubris".

The timing of this was setup by Trump... what a great present to his successor, but he truly never expected to lose... and it's well documented that I have had little regard for Trump's "competence" in the Oval Office.... but I can't imagine Trump fumbling this operation this badly - not even Trump, not in a million years!

I am embarrassed as an American for America.

@lololulu19 said in I would like to hear your opinions on gay "incest" and Onlyfans "sex trafficking":

Incest refers to a male having sex with a female that they are related to. The reason incest between related males and females is forbidden is because when they produce a baby, that baby gets two copies of the same gene - one from the male and one from the female. Everyone has some defective chromosomes, but since every chromosome comes in a pair.. the dominant one takes over and the defective one gets ignored. When the male and female are directly related, it is extremely likely that the baby will wind up with TWO defective chromosomes in the pair - resulting in severe birth defects. For instance, in the 23rd pair... if the pair is an XY chromosome.. the result is a male baby because the dominant Y chromosome takes over. BUT if the pair is made up of two XX - then something horrifying happens.. the baby is born WITHOUT a penis!!!

Since homosexual sex does not result in babies, the concept of incest is irrelevant in homosexuals. Statistically, 35% of identical twins admit that they have had sex with their twin.. and I am sure that percentage is much higher than 35% in reality.

As far as Onlyfans goes.. they seem to have an unwritten policy against sex of any kind.. which is why we see nothing but oral sex out of performers like Reno Gold and Xleox (Leo Stuke) and many others.

I would add a personal note about Onlyfans. I have subscribed to Onlyfans a couple of times. and every time, I had to cancel my credit card because it got billed for several thousand $$$ by criminals.

Also, it is curious that Onlyfans bans Sex Trafficking. Sex Trafficking is being paid to have sex. So, anybody having sex on Onlyfans, that is charging money for it.. is sex trafficking.. and breaking the rules of Onlyfans.

Ok, so a few corrections here:

• In the human genome, females have an XX gene pair, and males have an XY gene pair.
• You get one from each parent, so you're DEFINITELY getting an X from your mother, and you may get an X or you may get a Y from your father.
• You are technically correct... if you get an XX chromosome pair, you WILL be born without a penis... but isn't not exactly horrifying... it is actually a little over 50% of the world's population.... they're called FEMALES!
• You are almost correct when you talk about genetic anomalies (or "errors") - but the odds aren't what you're proposing, and it depends on what the genetic "error" really is...

Let's say your (shared) mom has a recessive gene for a digestive disorder:

• The boy has a 50/50 chance of getting that defective gene from mom
• The girl likewise has a 50/50 chance of getting that defective gene from mom
• Brother & Sister's children have a 25% chance of NOT getting the defective gene
• Brother & Sister's children have a 50% chance of getting just 1 of the defective genes
• Brother & Sister's children have a 25% chance of getting TWO COPIES of the defective gene - virtually guaranteeing a problem!

There are more "holes" than you provide here in the "incest illegal solely because of genetic issues" theory. As you point out, brothers having sex does not have any potential for genetic anomalies (same goes for sisters, but I assume you thought of that too)... but, adopted siblings (that is, adopted by the same parents, but with completely different biological parents) are still prohibited from having sex by incest laws as well. Also, biological siblings, raised in different households are not barred from sexual contact.

Far from ideal, but what else could they do 1000 years ago when those laws were first codified?

As for OnlyFans, I'm not a fan (pun intended)... most of the content is "worthless" for any purpose other than truly stalking the person (5-second cell phone clips? really?)

@raphjd said in Dem City Councilman, 5 Others Charged With Election Rigging In Race Decided By 1 Vote:

https://conservativebrief.com/charged-48591/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=DJD&fbclid=IwAR0krSBKK3_4HS8t87i8WowDSumZ-pDqgy6bqmsgXTNaOopfLw8vbWrQAmQ

Read the whole article.

There's more voter fraud listed further down.

No, there are more voter fraud CLAIMS further down... claims like "7000 affidavits of voter fraud" (those are people who simply sign a form that says they think someone voted who shouldn't... would it surprise you to find that, in any general election, Supervisors of Elections in Florida process an average of 10,000 claims of election fraud... my local SoE once showed a local TV station one of those... it simply said: "She is black - there are no black people in our neighborhood. It had to be fraud"

Yeah... investigate that one fully!

Was there election fraud in 2016? Yup!
Enough to make Hillary the rightful President? No way! Not even close! (Thankfully!)

Was there election fraud in 2020? Yup!
Enough to make Trump the rightful President? No way! Not even close! (Thankfully!)

Will there be election fraud in 2024? Yup!
Enough to sway the election? Unlikely - the trend remains sharply downward (that is to say there was markedly LESS fraud in 2020 than there was in 2016)... but eliminated? no... not reasonably possible! Make improvements, yup! Get it perfect? Nope!

This is the same website that tells us that Ben Carson has invented a drug that eliminates memory loss (but he forgot what it was! LOL No, not really) and that the FDA is blocking it because of Politics!

Yeah... right... And I have the cure for hair loss and small penis sizes... and for just a small payment of $100 (in BitCoin, please) I'll share them with you!

(hint: wear a wig and get a prosthetic penis! Now pay up, please!)

If you want to be taken seriously, reference a better source!
If the questionable source references the LA Times, find the LA Times article and reference that instead... But seriously, how can we trust or relate to that bullshit site you pointed us to?