@manhandler said in Fauci put flies that laid maggots in Beagle's brains.:

What a piece of trash that guy Fauci is. Through FOIA requests, it was revealed that Fauci was given half a million dollars to put flies that were highly infectious to humans into the nostrils of 28 Beagles, where for 3 months, they laid eggs that grew maggots, and the flies devoured their flesh, and the maggots devoured their brains, they yelped out in pain, and then they were exterminated to collect their blood. PETA should be on this. We will see. This is pure evil. How can you trust someone like that? Despicable nasty filth.

Yeah, we'll have to wait and see on that one...

If accurate (and that is - given your track record - highly debatable) PETA will make quite a stink about it - publicly (they're not easily silenced!).

Yeah, we'll have to wait and see on that one...

But I will also point out (once again) that Fauci is the DIRECTOR of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH - and in that role, I seriously doubt that he himself has sufficient time to do any actual research or experimentation.

This is just as absurd as the left-wing-nutjobs (AOC anyone?) who made it seem like Trump himself ordered, supervised, and personally assisted in separating children from their parents at the Southern border in 2020... yeah... he took time off from "being President" to personally process some illegal immigrants... just, so, you know, he could get his hands dirty... YEAH! THAT'S THE TICKET!

Fauci hasn't personally conducted research or run medical experiments in, I'm guessing here: about 30 years (since he's been the Director of NIAID since 1984 - He certainly outlived the President (Reagan) who appointed him!)...

Just sayin... sometimes you have to take reports like these and put them to the "smell test"... (e.g.: does it even SEEM possible or plausible, or do you just wish it was true?)

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth No, you're an idiot. These are NUMBERS. By NATIONS. Official. You cannot answer. All you can say is, "you're an idiot." Germany says over 1/3rd of it's deaths are from VACCINATED people. Period. To ignore that means you are a shill. That's all.

The idiocy isn't from the numbers... (which I do not accept as factual)... nah, you're entitled to accept other people's made-up "facts"... and your believing them doesn't make you an idiot (gullible, perhaps, but not necessarily stupid...)

No, the proof of your idiocy comes from your absurd conclusion that they're actually dying of the vaccine.

@raphjd said in Fact-checkers are fake news:

So called "fact-checkers" are dirty as fuck.

I was fact checked over something I posted on FB. It was decided that I was posting false info.

Here's the situation;

I posted an official statement from the Arizona Senate about the election audit of Maricopa County.

Maricopa County, without proof, said nah-uh.

Instead of saying it was disputed, they claimed that the Arizona Senate was lying. Case closed. Maricopa County, without proof, is telling the truth.

Shit like this constantly happens in favor of the liberal narrative.

Tim Pool has done several videos on how fact-checkers do this, as well as other dirty as fuck tactics.

You hate it when I point this out, but freedom is a double-edged sword!

Facebook isn't a news site - and they can make all the rules they want about the content they'll let you put on their site! It's not a Government-run site, it's Zuckerburg's site! The fact that it's popular doesn't change the "rules" (which are: it's a privately-held website, free under the 1st Amendment to make whatever rules it wants! And to enforce them however it sees fit! ... at least when the enforcement is limited to their site... just covering my ass for some hyperbolic, out-of-left-field, wildly misplaced and unrelated "what-about" response you'll have...)

You like to say I support "Big Tech" - but that's not true... I support freedom! And that includes your (actually, it's Mike Lindell's - or, the My Pillow guy's) right to claim that 24,000 votes in a single county in Iowa were changed by Chinese hackers in 2020.

The problems with his claims are numerous, but let's start here:

• There are only 17,000 registered voters in that county, and there were only about 12,000 votes cast in the 2020 elections there.
• The only electronic balloting done in that county is done by inserting the ballot into a machine that reads it, then deposits it into a locked container. The ballots themselves are hand-marked on paper ballots.
• The machines in question are not ever, and are incapable of being, connected to the Internet.
• The manual recount - done 3 times at the request of different entities - involved human beings examining the paper ballots themselves, and came up with ZERO discrepancies. Not a single mis-read vote (Mind you, in election terms, 12,000 votes is a minuscule sample-size... a certain ERROR rate is to be expected, but the key to using the electronic counters is that the error rate is significantly lower than the HUMAN error rate!)

So the claim is factually bereft of even a hit or whiff of truthfulness - but he's been on CNN making those claims (why he agreed to an interview with CNN is beyond me... dumb move on his part!), and it is his right to self-publish those baseless claims anywhere that will let him!

However, the folks at CNN would have been within their rights to have censored his baseless claims, and even to have decided, editorially, not to run the interview at all... Though, in this case, they did run the interview - without editing his ridiculous claims.

I am certain that Fox News, as well as Gab, MeWe, Telegram, and Parler, have edited their sites for content they found "unbecoming" of their "brand" as well! (And if they haven't so be it - and good for them! But, it is within their rights to do so! And that is the point!)

I am a true believer in freedom... even when it is not in my favor. But as the owner of a small business (with an Internet presence), I do not want the Government telling me - beyond some wide, broad-brush strokes, like: not suborning hatred, violence, or the overthrow of the Government itself - how to run my business (or my Internet site). And I happen to think that the same goes for other non-Governmental Internet sites - big & small - as well!

Where I DO support Government Regulation is realm of the the ISP's - especially in areas where there is only 1 (or 2) provider(s). In most US jurisdictions, ISPs enjoy a Government-subsidized and Government-created monopoly on being an ISP for high-speed Internet.... and "regulated monopolies" need to be regulated! (My ISP should not be allowed to block my connection to GT.ru, nor to throttle my torrent client connections!)

Create an "open and free" marketplace for ISPs (as exists in many other countries), and the problem goes away... people like me can simply choose an ISP that doesn't do the things I object to! But, as you've heard me quote before: 'This ain't that'

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth

Today Germany's Chief Pathologist reported that 30-40% of the nation's deaths are occurring in the vaccinated. That's 30-40% of people dying in Germany right now, are dying FROM the vaccination, not heart disease, not TB, not cancer, not obesity... over 1/3rd of the nation's deaths are happening in the Vaccinated. So we can add Germany to the list. Are you getting nervous yet?

https://www.newswars.com/sunday-live-democrats-prepare-to-lock-down-america-while-they-party-at-obama-super-spreader-event/

Also in the news today, a former Pfizer employee who worked with the executives in the company quit, and came out with documents showing that the vaccine is in fact a bioweapon. You don't know any of this stuff because you're not watching the real news.

https://banned.video/watch?id=610b15ec4b401c2c26621b15

You. Don't. Know. What. You. Are. Talking. About.

And yes, the Democrats are making it political. They want a permanent lockdown, and a passport so they can tell you that if you don't get their deadly vaccine, you don't get to buy or sell, you don't even get to get on the bus. That is identical to the Mark of the Beast. Makes sense, as Bill Gates' vaccine patent #060606 hooks you up to the grid through 5g. It's not a conspiracy, it's an actual patent. Wake up! Stop being a dummy. We're not taking the jab. When it has a 99.7-9% survival rate. It's stupid! There is no reason to worry about "Covid" (the common cold).

You're an idiot. Plain and simple.
Darwin? Over here please!

@flozen said in OIC soft on animal abuse:

@raphjd Punching a horse -- what an awful thing to do -- they should have booked that coach a flight home the next morning.

I'm not a horse owner and haven't spent much time around them, but I was invited to the Belmont Stakes this year and I enjoyed everything -- except the whipping of the horses, particularly down the home stretch.

Certainly it must hurt to some degree. If they prohibited whipping, wouldn't all riders still have an equal chance? It would probably mean fewer new time records, I could easily live with that.

The whipping -- it would be hard to change something that's been part of that sporting culture for centuries. But for comparison, the much worse cruelty of bullfighting is being slowly wiped off the planet, so these positive changes can be realized.

I agree with both of you that animal cruelty should have no place in "SPORT" - but as someone who has ridden horses (tho certainly not in any kind of competition), I can say that there are legitimate uses for the riding crop (it's more of a flexible stick than a whip)... and within those limits, there is virtually never any injury to the horse.

Skipping ahead: sadly, as much as I'd like to agree with @flozen that Spanish-Style Bull-Fighting is "slowly being wiped off the planet", it is just not the case - and this is far from the first time the "sport" (and I use the term lightly and hesitatingly) has come under fire. (See ancient Popes & Kings in Iberia!) Unlike horse-racing, rodeo, or Olympic modern pentathlon: the bull virtually never survives, and neither is its death in anything even approaching a humane manner.

So, back to the Olympics: Let me say ahead of time that I do not agree with what the coach did, but your characterization here - without details - is more inflammatory than it deserves to be... and your castigation of the IOC (or even Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee) is misplaced.

The sport in question here is "Modern Pentathlon" - and in this event, the horse and rider are literally introduced to each other just prior to the event. The point of the event is for the human contestant to bond with the new* horse, and complete a set of tasks in the ring.

The German rider in question here was leading in the event up to this moment, the last of 10 parts... but the horse she drew just wasn't having it! The rider was (clearly visible in the video) crying badly, and that was also upsetting the horse (making a failing situation worse, and making a horse "in trouble" literally fearful of its surroundings.

In the part of the video I saw on YouTube (from a German source, not the Twitter link above, although it is also in German), the crying rider was having GREAT difficulty controlling the horse... clearly sobbing, she was kicking and otherwise TRYING to "subdue" the upset horse. In a few seconds, it (the horse) came over to the edge of the arena - where the coach was screaming at her (the rider) to strike the horse HARD - and then, she (the coach) reached over the fence and "punched" the horse on the hind quarter. Not particularly hard, but enough to spook the horse even more.

If you know anything about horses, you have to know that at that point, the chances of that horse, in that moment, coming under full-control of that rider... was nil. Absolute nil. Had the person who struck the horse been the actual trainer or owner of the horse in question, the outcome might have been different: horses WANT to please their humans! But these two (rider and coach) were both new to the horse, and their approach/reaction by this point was just doomed.

Still, both the coach and the rider were literally watching their Olympic dreams go up in smoke - in their minds, because of this horse (side note, though not altogether germane: the horse, named Saint Boy, had reacted similarly to another rider the day before... so, there is something to be said about their Olympic Dreams being lost to the "luck of the draw"...)

Nevertheless, the coach got in trouble for many infractions:

• encouraging the rider to over-use the crop on the horse
• reaching into the arena to interfere with the horse or rider during the "ride"
• touching the horse (much less hitting it) during the "ride"

The German coach was expelled from the Tokyo Olympics for her violations - not by the IOC (because that's not how the Olympics works!), but by the UIPM - the world governing body for the sport of Modern Pentathlon.

It is the role of each sport's international governing body to "police" their events and their participants - and the UIPM did so, quickly and firmly - issuing what the sport calls a "black card" to the coach - expelling her from the entire competition, and subjecting her to "further review" by the sport aftweward.

Additionally, world-wide media outlets have been pretty tough on both the coach and the rider... who, unsurprisingly, failed to medal in spite of her lead up to that point.

So, if you watch the video, the horse was not "abused" by the "punch" of the coach, so much as by the rider and circumstances overall. It was a bad situation made worse by the humans to be sure, but the horse was not injured by the "punch" - and it clearly wasn't the intent of the coach to injure the horse - though, as someone "just a little" familiar with horses, I could legitimately ask "what was she thinking?"...

And, to also be clear: I do not support the actions of the humans in this incident... but, this is not what the original posting represented itself to be, and the blaming of the IOC (which actually does not have jurisdiction) is just plain wrong.

@raphjd said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth

Umm, it was the WHO and China that played politics. Maybe you were too busy in Chinatown with Pelosi back then.

It's still strange that you claim to be a libertarian, yet you demand hivemind crap.

LOL - hivemind is what you propose, with your deep state conspiracies! (As-if all 2.2 million Federal Employees are united in their opposition to your wacky ideas! The truth is, there are 2.2 million unique minds in the US Federal Employment database... and about the same ratio are Democrat/Republican as the nation is divided as a whole.)

If actual Governments (of all kinds) were only HALF as competent as you propose the deep state is, there would be no hunger in this world - and no freedom (Governments - of all kinds, even Democracies - are tools to control people).

In the REAL WORLD Governments are inherently, and incurably incompetent. To find a Government that is not, is to find a Government so small as to be insignificant.

Does that mean we shouldn't expect more? no... just that we shouldn't be surprised when Governments do dumb things...

And, more importantly, while not always the case, certainly it is usually the case that when Governments do dumb things, it's due to incompetence and mismanagement, not conspiracies....

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

You are a liberal because you worship liberal policies.

As always, you are high as hell on Pelosi's panty fumes.

And you are a fascist, nazi trumpite because you think He is all-but-infallible, should rule with absolute authority, and others who disagree should be "canceled" (even jailed!)....

@raphjd said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

@bi4smooth

Fauci is a proven liar.

The WHO, CDC, and NIH are all purely political.

I can't get my hand fixed, because of C-19, despite my area having very low numbers. No matter how much pain I am in, the NHS says I need to fuck off because of C-19. Our local hospital is far from overflowing with C-19 patients, but people are being told that we need to fuck off until C-19 is over and even then it will take "many, many years" until things get back on track.

The temporary "Nightengale hospitals" were empty and people were arrested and prosecuted for videoing them showing they were empty, despite government claims of how full they were.

Even the Mayo Clinic is saying that getting the vaccine will prevent you from getting C-19. Clearly, it's a blatant lie.

The WHO isn't preventing you from getting your "hand fixed" - that's the British NHS, and that's a totally different argument. Perhaps the United (really? ask Scotland about that) Kingdom should look to their former colonies for better plans (both Canada and AU do it better)

As for there being pop-up hospitals that are empty, you shouldn't confuse incompetence and mismanagement with a conspiracy to mis-inform.

As for the Mayo Clinic, I can say with certainty (because my daughter is a patient) that they are not claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent the COVID-19 virus - they ARE saying that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent serious illness from the COVID-19 virus.

I posted elsewhere about this: only a complete moron would believe that a vaccine could prevent the virus from getting into your body... there is no "barrier", just an immune system (your immune system) that is pre-prepared to fight the virus when it gets inside you.

The same as every other vaccine discovered by mankind

This is also why vaccines do not help protect immune-compromized people (like many cancer patients): they have either no immune system, or one not strong enough to make the vaccine effective.

So for all you anti-vaxxers in South Carolina (US), my aunt's leukemia-fighting husband (I don't consider him an uncle - I barely know him) has a message for you: F--K YOU and Thanks for nothing! He's been on "lockdown" for what will far-too-soon be a second year now, thanks the the recurring waves of COVID-19, and his inability to get a vaccine that would work for his immune system (or what's left of it). He has 2 new grandchildren he has only seen by video, and fears he will never EVER see in person....

yeah, this isn't always a macro-health issue, sometimes it gets rather personal...

@raphjd said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth

Umm, your party has made it political.

Mayor Beetlejuice is "kicking it" with celebs, unmasked while demanding that everyone else wear masks. Well, unless they want to riot and loot under the banner of BLM and Antifa, that is. If they want to peacefully protest against the mask mandates and lockdowns, your beloved police get out the heavy gear to crush the dissent.

DNC mayors, Govs, etc across the country are doing the same kinds of shit. DC's mayor did that massive unmasked wedding.

Your queen bee, Pelosi, while screeching about lockdowns and mask mandates sneaks off to get her hair done. Once caught, she claims she was tricked by the salon into doing it and she is 3rd in line to run the country.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Durbin, and countless other Dems have been photoed/videoed wearing the World Economic Forum's "Build Back Better" lapel pin. They have even made speeches in front of the BBB banner.

You see similar things across Europe, as well.

Covid-19 is purely political across the globe.

As a Fascist, NAZI, Trumpite, you have a predictably infantile knowledge about parts of the world that are not English-speaking! (For the record: I am no more a Democrat than you are a NAZI - but so long as we're slinging "extremist" labels...)

To be clear: The US is the origin of the politicization of modern medicine & more importantly public health. That "poison" has affected other countries - but mostly (though, certainly not limited to) English-speaking ones.

But many countries have avoided this poison: S. Korea, Japan (trying to avoid the Communist/Milary-controlled governments here - that's not fair: they don't fight against the Gov't because doing so is usually lethal), New Zealand, large swaths of Africa, and most of Northern & Eastern Europe - all have no significant political in-fighting about vaccines (except getting them faster) or masks.

We (Americans) are the stupid ones making this a political thing

And we are infecting the rest of the world with our stupidity...

So I'll say it again:

• Wear masks, or don't...
• Get a vaccine, or don't...
• either way, you are participating in a Darwin-esque change (edit) to the Human Genome... and removing the genes of the incredibly gullible and otherwise stupid from the Human Genome shouldn't be considered all bad...

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

Trump is not the first Repub that I voted for. Sorry to burst your fake Repub bubble.

I voted for Repubs if they weren't homophobes. I never voted for a homophobe. I voted for Repubs as my US Rep.

Just because I don't like scumbag warhawks, doesn't make me a liberal. Hell, you and Peolsi are warhawks. Maybe you should start the Warhawks Swampies political party and see how many from both parties join.

Does your brother drink the DNC Koolaide, like you, that Honest Joe is the "good" guy?

OH! So, you can choose to vote non-Republican and still consider yourself a Republican, but if I choose to vote non-Trump, I can no longer be a Republican...

As long as I understand the rules.

As a Fascist, NAZI, Trumpite - I should have expected nothing less.

Aside: Quick question: in the 80's, 90's and 2000's, the Dems all claimed we (Republicans) were the warhawks (or worse, war-mongers!)... now it's our turn? Your warhawk claims against non-Trumpites are historically and factually ignorant.

Finally, as I made clear in my earlier post: my brother is an anarchist. But to clarify for you even more: if Biden was "creating havoc and chaos" and making all the "corrupt politicians pull their hair out", then my brother would be for him. Actually, he (my brother) was quite disappointed in Trump: he thought he'd "sold out" in the end... that Trump had "started being just another corrupt politician" by the end of the 2020 campaign. He (my brother) chose not to vote in 2020 (like he used to do, before 2016). Who knows how many others like him there are...

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

I have noticed that our resident fake conservative has derailed this conversation in order to protect his beloved "big tech" from being criticized for being politically biased.

The topic, he doesn't want us talking about, is that YouTube suspended Sky News Australia for posting factual news, at the time of posting, but has now changed according to the WHO, CDC, and whatnot.

YouTube has not done this with liberal outlets that posted the same stuff.

So, why is SNA guilty of spreading false information, the same information that liberal outlets posted at the time, but the liberal outlets are not equally guilty?

SNA posted the "correct" info as the "facts" changed, just like liberal media outlets.

Typical liberal hypocrisy.

As a Fascist, Nazi, Trumpite, you should know by now that I am not the straw-man you're looking for...

I know this will be a shock to our outside readers, but to make sure it is clear:

I, personally, have no role in the decision-making in Google-owned YouTube

With that out of the way, let's look at the facts:

• Sky News Australia was not banned from YouTube. What really happened is that one channel of the network was suspended from YouTube for one week for claiming that COVID-19 in Australia "was not serious" and that "lockdowns have not worked."

NOTE: It's hard to find reliable, factual sources for the exact content of the video(s) that triggered the action (called a "strike" by YouTube - it takes 3 strikes in a 90-day period to get you actually banned!)

This would be the equivalent of YouTube temporarily blocking a YouTube re-broadcast of Tucker Carlson (sorry, I'm just picking on him because I know it will inflame @raphjd LOL) for a week.

Sky News Australia is a cable news channel (owned by the same parent company as Fox News in the US, and closely affiliated with the British Sky News network - all Murdoch-family owned outlets).

Losing access to YouTube is far from "canceling" the channel... they still have a small handful of cable-tv (and because things are different in Australia) over-the-air viewers... (he said sarcastically)...

IMHO, YouTube is treating this as a public-health issue, not a free-speech or political one. (Akin to the traditional: yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is illegal because of the extreme danger to public health, not because of a desire to stifle speech about rapid, incandescent, oxidation.)

What's more, by treating Sky News Australia the same as the guy in his garage claiming that "the vaccines are re-programming your DNA so that the deep-state can read your thoughts" - is far less hypocritical than ignoring it - because it's a large news outlet - would have been.

@raphjd said in CDC: 397 Children Suffered Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccine:

@hubrys

AH, so the change was fairly recent.

I mean, they for some reason, could not make it clear for the previous year.

Let's not forget that the WHO has also played politics with C-19.

I'm sorry, but your characterization of the NIH, CDC, and WHO as making many of their public-health decisions based entirely for political reasons is myopic, cynical as f**k, and hyperbolic. - In other words, just like most of your other preposterous claims! LOL

All 3 of these organizations are primarily staffed (though not necessarily LED) by SCIENTISTS who are seeking facts and truth, not political points. The politicians they support are the ones that give them the money to do their research. Most of these scientists are so focused on the science - not the politics. And sometimes they actually DO overlook the bad ways their discoveries can be used - because to them, knowledge is the goal... the ONLY goal.

I will repeat: the Moderna mRNA technology was being developed pre-COVID-19 as a potential treatment or vaccine against HIV. That research continues, and so - with the extreme success rate seen with the re-tooling for COVID-19 - the hope for something that works as a defense against HIV is there and palpable.

Of course, those results will be politicized - but while the politicians argue, the scientists will go back to work figuring out the NEXT BIG THING.... because that is what they do!

@raphjd said in CDC Eviction Moratoriums are illegal says US Supreme Court:

@hubrys

Stop being a clown.

Trump did not go against the SCOTUS ruling on EMs, Biden did.

Until your dying breath, you are going to blame Trump for everything.

You keep proving you are nothing but a total political hack.

Once again, since you are a liberal.

SCOTUS ruled on the case AFTER Trump was in office.

Biden decided to violate that ruling.

@raphjd You are such a tool of your right-wing conspiracy sources...

1 - There was no opinion in the case you constantly refer to here, just a finding that a specific law did not apply to a specific case. Nothing - nothing - was written to explain their finding, nor to create a precedent. The finding was that they couldn't agree to overturn the lower court, so with a 4-4 tie, the lower court (appeals court) ruling stood.

2 - With no explanation, there is no way to "interpret" the finding in the above case, except in the instance for which it was found. This is "unsettled law".

3 - It was Trump's CDC rule that was found to exceed what was authored in the original law - a law that has been re-written and re-passed since.
NOTE: It doesn't mean Trump's CDC rule was good or bad, just that their legal basis for their rule was an "overreach" in the eyes of an appeals court judge (or, possibly a panel)... and SCOTUS couldn't agree enough to say either way!

4 - Biden's CDC (which is arguably, the same as the Trump CDC) issued a new rule to stop evictions. I don't agree with the rule (as I noted: where the f**k are the landlords supposed to get the money to pay the taxes, mortgage, repairs, etc.?? Many of the landlords I'm speaking of are INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE, not corporations with deep-pockets... in many cases, this was people's retirement plan - and not only is the cash flow gone, but the "principal" is too! They've been foreclosed on - in many cases by the TAX-MAN!)

5 - In response to an earlier post: NO, the NIH is not entirely political - but they have, in recent history, been dragged into political arguments. Also, as the HEAD of the CDC is a political appointee, there can sometimes be overlap.
That is a LONG WAY from being entirely political

Indeed, I would propose that the CDC (and NIH) are mostly a-political, but their findings get used by politicians when it suits them.

Is the new moratorium on evictions (for non-payment of rent due to COVID-19) a political rule? Or a public health one? If you asked me to, I could reasonably argue either way.

And that is the true nature of humanity - most things are NOT clear-cut, binary observations. There are usually nuances...

@up4 said in 3rd Capitol Cop who responded to 6 Jan commits suicide:

@raphjd That is very kind of you to say. But all my life's experience tells me otherwise. I'm one of those ungrateful angry gay misanthropes that still don't trust the state, the police, the people's majority or anyone pretending they have a say in how I live my life. Like you maybe, I don't know. But that anger almost killed me. I don't want to fit in anymore. I can't fit in anymore. I'm allergic to the city, to the very idea of being a citizen, of being in the world. I have to take medication to prevent my heart from litterally exploding when I'm exposed to the stupidity that drives the weaks' will to power. The best decision I ever made was to make a full Thoreau: run for my life to the woods as a hermit and only allow near me the very few men not afraid to think for themselves. Masturbation is a hermit's best friend in that it prevents him from giving his time and energy to the hordes of unworthy virgins that come begging for attention.

It is our loss - regardless of your point of view, you write well.

@raphjd said in CDC Eviction Moratoriums are illegal says US Supreme Court:

The US Supreme Court has previously ruled that eviction moratoriums are unconstitutional.

The non-political CDC, as liberals claim, has repeatedly violated this ruling. Anyone enforcing these illegal EM is also guilty of violating the constitution.

I would like to see a liberal justify this, without being a hypocrite.

Even Biden has said he doesn't think the CDC moratorium is legal... but, in spite of your supreme knowledge regarding US Constitutional Law (your awards on this subject are awe-inspiring and truly impressive), that doesn't mean that people who enforce the matter are violating the Constitution.

• You don't decide what is (and isn't) Constitutional
• I don't decide what is (and isn't) Constitutional
• Biden doesn't decide what is (and isn't) Constitutional

Judges (US Judges) decide what is (and isn't) Constitutional

And when different judges disagree, it goes eventually to the Supreme Court.

I wouldn't call this "settled law", but I would also say that the likelihood that it stands is very small. IMHO, they know this, and this is a "legal trick" to delay while the Congress is on Summer Break - the Dems are going to come back in the Fall and try to pass another eviction moratorium law. (Just what the F are the landlords supposed to do for money?)

However, until a judge rules it illegal (or unconstitutional), it is the law (ok, it's actually a rule/policy - not quite the force of law)...

@raphjd said in 3rd Capitol Cop who responded to 6 Jan commits suicide:

@bi4smooth

Your ID is like crack or meth to a cop.

They aren't interested in helping you, they want to criminalize you.

They are either liars or idiots when it comes to ID laws, despite ID laws are the most common laws police use.

In all but 4 states, you do not have to identify unless you are lawfully arrested. Most cops will unlawfully arrest you for not IDing.

"You are being suspicious" is not a crime, no matter what the pigs claim.

There was a shooting of a young woman, where the police hid the body cam and other evidence for over 2 years. This is not a one-off or an accident. It's a constant problem.

The FBI is extremely dirty, as we saw with the Hillary and Trump cases. Not only that, they have Absolute Immunity and fully believe they are above and beyond the law. Their "Professional Standards" is a fucking joke. You can break someone's arm because you don't like that that person is engaged in lawful activities.

You can be dirty as fuck and the world knows it, but you can always get another job at another PD.

Arizona's Brady law, while a good concept, is useless because dirty cops don't always get put on it, even for the most blatantly dirty one, and "good" cops quite often get put on it in retaliation for whistleblowing.

Policing is the 3rd most common profession for psychopaths, after law and medical.

It's not hard to find evidence of bad cops. But there are also some GOOD cops
But, yes: if you want to find pedophiles, look for jobs that put the sicko's in charge of children!

• teachers
• coaches
• summer camp counselors
• priests (specifically, youth pastors)
• Scout leaders (Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, you name it)

That doesn't mean they're all pedophiles, just that the jobs are going to be attractive to pedophiles!

Lots of pyromaniacs become firemen - and some of them actually become fire-starters!

And the same goes for bullies and psychopaths: they're drawn to professions where they are given power and authority over others:

• Policing
• Security Guards
• Social workers

You get the point...

• There are GREAT teachers out there.. but there are some pedophiles out there too
• There are GREAT firemen out there... but some are SETTING the very files they fight
• There are GREAT policemen out there... but there are some abusers out there too

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth You are just lying. The facts are in.

Sydney Australia reported last week 141 people hospitalized with Covid, 140 were vaccinated.
Israel reported that 95% of the hospitalizations were already vaccinated.
Norway reported that 500 hospitalizations were all already vaccinated.
Singapore reported that 85% of hospitalizations were already vaccinated.
And these are the most vaccinated places on Earth. The same goes for Iceland and the State of Maine, the most vaccinated State in the US. You either are totally ignorant of the actual facts or you're just lying.

I think if you don't acknowledge these facts, you're just lying. You just don't know what you're talking about. Even if this virus does exist, the "experts" have claimed from the beginning that only .26% who CAN be infected (not the young) die. That's not a pandemic. That's just bullshit. More people die every year of tuberculosis, x1000 in fact. You acting like this is so doom and gloom and we all need to get vaccinated for something that's not even deadly is just ridiculous and theater. You are a drama queen and nobody gives a shit. You can take that jab and stick it right up your ass.

Not to mention Big Pharma is posting billions in profits. While small business suffers. They wouldn't lie! Get real. They have lied and been sued in court for billions. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you had stock in these companies. they do not care about you or your family. They are not run by scientists. They are rum by corporate boards that only care about money. Quit being a dimwit cheerleader for those kinds of people.

Yup - The US health infrastructure is lying about the makeup of their ER's. If you look PAST the news reports, the ER's are empty and the ICUs are too... no COVID here really, it's just a SCAM to make money.

Really?

I don't know about other countries, but the 3 vaccines in the US are all purchased by the US Government. They funded the research (under the Trump Administration), and part of the funding agreements is this little clause: the US Government gets to buy all the vaccine it wants - AT COST. (Trump DOES know how to structure a contract for his own benefit!)

Maybe now you understand why the stock prices of Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J haven't gone through the roof!

As i stated in another thread: I'm tired of arguing about the politics here. This shouldn't be political, it should be medical.

Test or don't
Mask or don't
Vaccinate or don't

Choose the wrong one, and you will likely get sick and you may even DIE.
Go 3 for 3 and you've got a really good chance to not die.

Those who are dying in the US are nearly-all un-vaccinated. While they aren't polling, they stastically are mostly Republican voters.

Continuing to fight this politically... is political suicide for Republicans! not for political reasons, but for population reasons.... MATH reasons.

Mitch McConnell held a press conference and urged EVERYONE to get vaccinated!
Republican Governors are telling anti-vaxxers "You're the problem - this is your fault" (clearly not my Governor - Florida's Governor thinks this will all blow over... He's a moron, and despite his being a Republican, he deserves to lose next November)

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

And yet, you have not seen a liberal policy that you won't defend.

You said that a Republican always votes for the Republican candidates, regardless. Then you proved that you aren't a Republican because you voted for Honest Joe, not the Republican candidate.

Being a liberal, I know you are too thick to get it.

I've never said you had to have a 100% Republican voting record to be a Republican... but I do think that if you're over 30 and the FIRST - nay, the ONLY - Republican Presidential Candidate you've ever voted for is Trump, then you're not a Republican, you're a Trumpite.

Those aren't mutually exclusive terms - many Republicans support Trump, but not all Trump supporters are actually Republicans.

Look, my older brother is a Trumpite - in part because he's an Anarchist (believes that ALL kinds of Government are inherently corrupt and bad.) He's not a Republican - and doesn't claim to be - but he still supports Trump (and also believes The Big Lie)... (you can't choose your family!)

I will also add: my brother also believes Trump is corrupt - he just appreciates that he's so open about it! But more importantly, he loves the chaos Trump caused (still causes?)

@raphjd said in CDC: 397 Children Suffered Heart Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccine:

@bi4smooth

The WHO has said that NO ONE UNDER 18 should be given any of the current vaccines. We have discussed this here before. The WHO and the CDC/NIH conflict on this, so whose science do we follow? Ring any bells?

We talked about the guy who pioneered the mRNA vaccine who got scrubbed from LinkedIn for siding with the WHO, not the CDC.

Clearly, you have no idea how the NHS works. We get the doctor they assign us. Sometimes you get the same doctor all/most of the time and other times you get whatever random doctor that is available.

The UK's NHS is not what I'm talking about, and is a clear example of why the US should NOT adopt that model. The issue you raise with the British NHS is exactly why the Dems kept saying "You can keep your Dr" in all the Obamacare debates (even tho it was - at least partly - an absolute lie (they weren't just wrong, they KNEW that MANY people would NOT be able to keep their Drs!).

Shocker! Stop the presses! Politicians LIED!

However, you should read a little farther in the WHO report: they say children under 18 (12-18 in the US) shouldn't get the shot... not because they won't work, or are dangerous - but because the WHO wants those vaccines distributed to other countries where more at-risk people are dying.

Not a medical question, a Public Health one - and the NIH/CDC are focused on the US issues, not the world-wide issues... no shocker in those reports.

Once again, you've screamed FIRE! ... and we've discovered little more than a match.

@raphjd said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

@bi4smooth

I'm not saying C-19 isn't real, but I do think it's been extremely exaggerated.

I have noticed that politicians around the world have used the "build back better" slogan, lapel pins, backdrops, and whatnot. Why are politicians using the World Economic Forum's slogan? You know the one where they said that we need something like a pandemic for the Great Reset? Or have you forgotten about all that already?

Have you forgotten all the examples of those in supreme power not wearing masks? You can riot and loot because that doesn't spread C-19, but protesting the lockdowns does. You can party at a music festival maskless and that doesn't spread C-19, but going to the corner store without a mask does. A massive maskless wedding won't spread C-19, but getting a coffee without a maks will. A party for 700 maskless people won't spread C-19. A massive maskless party for over 200 people won't spread C-19. Going to the pub maskless won't spread C-19, but popping to the shop for some milk without a mask will.

The BBC spreading doom and gloom about C-19, while no one in their offices wears masks.

The Biden White House wears masks for show. Have you forgotten the video of the guy walking in to give the press conference, who was videoed coming into the room without a mask, stopping to put it on behind the pillar to put it on?

Test or don't test.
Mask or don't mask.
Vaccinate or just pray.

Follow the politics - and just die... go ahead, it's a free country, after all.
Follow the medicine and maybe live.

Politics and medicine don't mix. Never have. This is no different.
Politicians get mixed up in medicine and people die.

Go with the politicians... the ones who are left will be better for the future of the human race.