@jayschmi1 said in Still trust Fauci on Vaccines, after he lied about experimentation in the lab?:

I don't have any problem with the vaccines. I think they are perfectly safe (the mRNA ones are the safest and most effective vaccines in the history of mankind - strictly going by the numbers and data we have)

I think the the issue with Fauci is he's been wrong repeatedly, and instead owning up to it, he brushes it off or claims he was always right. He also fell in love very quickly with his national image and media spotlight. It's obvious the guy loves himself a little too much, and he's all too willing to be a tool of the media nutcases if it furthers his national profile.

Covid-19 vaccines make you magnetic!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=vaccines+make+you+magnetic&qpvt=vaccines+make+you+magnetic&FORM=VDRE

@raphjd said in BBC bans "Are You Being Served":

BBC bans "Are You Being Served" because Mr Humphreys was "too camp".

Apparently, they got complaints from liberals saying they are offended.

We live in an age where you can do and say anything you want, as long as it's liberal, but you can't be gay and play a camp fag on TV.

The internet and entertainment is full of camp fags, including on the BBC, but they are ok.

OMG - that's awful (and cancel culture at its worst!)...

I LOVE "Are You Being Served!" (I've watched a lot of old British comedy: Faulty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served... just to name a very few)... and I'm a big Dr. Who fan as well (tho I've fallen behind... WAY behind! But my favorite Dr is David Tennant - I know I'm a minority there )

Fortunately, there is the Internet... nothing dies on the Internet anymore!
I did a quick search - at least the first 10 seasons or "Are You Being Served" are easily available on public torrent sites...

@eobox91103 said in BootieJizz is a fraud:

@lololulu19 said in BootieJizz is a fraud:

@eobox91103 Raph is probably the only admin who would NOT ban you. If I was an admin, you would be "Gone With The Wind" and frankly my dear.. I don't give a damn!

Can't tolerate a different opinion? Sounds like arrested development to me.

By the way.. since you supposedly love facts.. there is actual video of BootieJizz packing his tricycle into an SUV.

There was no video in the posting, but you're probably pointing to one that was taken outside the West Wing of the White House, as Buttigieg's bicycle was being unpacked before he got on it to ride back to the DoT office.

Yes, I do care about facts. They are important, and much better than mindless conspiracy theories.

When facts don't meet your chosen narrative, they're "fake"...

Once again:

• listens to facts, challenges (and changes) conclusions and positions based on facts = SCIENTIST (Note: I am a card-carrying Computer Scientist - or at least my 2 degrees say so!)
• will not listen to facts unless they support your already-held conclusions and positions - regardless of how many sources provide proof otherwise = IDEOLOGUE

@manhandler said in Keep that mask on your face you dirty human.:

@bi4smooth Yea, Biden sucks, dude. You're trying WAY to hard. The Truth is simple.

LOL - If you'd take off your "Trump Blinders" and look beyond the SPIN of both parties, you'd realize that both sets of extremes have legitimate gripes and legitimate goals... the problems with both extremes is that their "solutions" are usually over-reaches and violate the concept of freedom.

Freedom is not only my right to carry a gun, it's also your right to shoot back!

@raphjd said in Judge Joe Brown says Biden called Black People "Cockroaches.":

@bi4smooth

At best, you are a Swampy.

Clearly, you never, ever get your news from an outlet that calls out the shit your side says/does.

Your "news" would never compare the lies your fellow anti-Trumpers say on TV and what they said in Shifty Schiff's hearings in the bunker. You don't want to know the truth.

You are more interested in finding something more to demonize true conservatives than you are in finding out the actual truth. This is why you hate Tucker because he proved the people you got your "facts" from on liberal media lied to you.

"My side" is the Republican Party - which is why you always complain that I don't know what the liberals are up to!

And again, you're the delusional one: I don't hate Tucker Carlson - though I do think he's overly partisan: he is to the Trumpists what Rachel Maddow is to the Liberals. And they're both completely wrong much of the time...

@manhandler said in Joe Biden WRECKS the Economy:

@bi4smooth One of the big problems is all that nickel poisoning the environment from battery powered cars. And all that oil and gas required to put solar together, and even Bill Maher can't get a license to operate his solar panels in Commiefornia! of all places. That tells you right there something. That they talk all about "green," and yet Bill Maher can't even get permission to run his own solar panels... This is because they don't actually care about going green... they care about charging out the ass for electricity that they control. Imagine Nancy Pelosi in front of a giant switch saying to her friends, "Should we give them a few drops? The peasants..." If I were a cartoonist...

You're a wonder in your own mind!

• Batteries in electric cars are not nickel-based. (almost all of their batteries Li-ion based, not NiMH)
• I couldn't begin to think why you'd need a license to "operate" solar panels (they're stationary).. but here in Fla, about 1/3 of my neighbors all have solar - and where I pay about $500/mo for power, they each pay less than $50/mo.
• The cost of solar is up-front... it'll take my neighbors YEARS to pay-off the $20k investment... but at $400-500/mo in savings, it won't be that long! But there is maintenance - it's not "set it and forget it"...
• $0.00 of the cost of the solar setup went to the Government, or the power company... and there is a $0.00 /mo fee to the solar company.

I don't know where you get your information, but the kids on "Kids Say the Darndest Things" seem to know more than you about how the world works... and they're in it for the laughs!

@raphjd said in Google's Head of Diversity - Oh My!!!:

@bi4smooth

If he was white, it would have taken 2 seconds for him to have been canceled. Only an idiot or liar would claim otherwise.

It's how your media outlets either keep claiming "white supremacy" or totally ignore black on asian and black on jew violence.

It's like who black lives matter, except when blacks murder blacks. David Dorn's life didn't matter because he was murdered by black looters/rioters.

BTW, he went from head of diversity, to head of STEM. Yeah, that sounds like a demotion.

I'm neither an idiot or a liar - not everyone in this world (White, Black, or anything else) overreacts to every fart...

And I think you got that wrong - I don't think he's "head" of STEM.

If you are indeed right, I would agree that more should be done... but I stand by my mantra...

• Punish, yes
• Cancel, no

@raphjd said in Where is the Conservative Outrage?:

@bi4smooth

Europe, excluding the former Soviet Bloc. That better?

You have the mental illness of extreme TDS. You would rather have a freak like Honest Joe, despite how much of a POS he is.

NOPE, I get my news from many sources.

But you said you don't watch TV to get your news. I find it strange how you know everything about Tucker, but nothing about the scandals from your side's media. It's like how you know everything QAnon says, but you don't know the lies your own side has been proven to have said.

How would you know what conservatives believe?

You repeatedly claim I've said hateful things about Tucker Carlson... I don't watch the man, I don't mention him in this forum...

You do!

I know what Conservatives believe because, pre-Trump I was a bona-fide Conservative... I'm the FIRST to admit that, under the influence of Trump, I'm re-considering that label ... I may have to go straight "Libertarian"... but I'm not ready to give up on Republican yet... I'm certain there *will be a Republican Party once Trump kicks it and there is an actual grave for people to piss on...

@raphjd said in Google's Head of Diversity - Oh My!!!:

@bi4smooth

Ah, once again our resident fake conservative is against a liberal getting his own ideology used against himself.

It's not 1 mistake, but several, according to screen grabs of his blog.

As I said, in liberal clown world, he has black privilege to be anti-Semitic as he wants to be and not be canceled, but white privilege would have gotten him fired within seconds of the discovery of the blog.

So... Mr. "Dems are in favor of Cancel Culture" - wants to "cancel" this guy...

Like I said earlier:

• Punish, yes
• Cancel (fire), no

Your straw-man objection to his being black notwithstanding, Google did the right thing by quickly demoting him and re-assigning him.

@manhandler said in Joe Biden WRECKS the Economy:

@bi4smooth Oh please, you act like the transportation cost being paid by the other side isn't figured into the cost. It's like "Happy Hour," but the company isn't losing money. You're paying for it. And I think the Pipeline that Whitmer shut down simultaneous to the hack hadn't had a leak in it's 65 years... far as I am aware.

Most pipeline leaks are detected and repaired relatively quickly - there are sensors built into the pipes themselves. That doesn't mean leaks don't happen, it just means the industry has used advanced technology to keep them out of the headlines! (Which is good!)

However, I think you mistakenly read my notion that your arguments against stopping the pipeline projects are scientifically, economically, and even common-sensically wrong as an indication that I'm anti-pipeline! I am not!

I am anti-hyperole - facts don't need to be blown up to be convincing
I am anti-propaganda - facts don't need to be invented to make Democrats look bad (they're pretty good at it all by themselves!)
I am anti-alternative facts - you don't have to lie to make liberals look stupid and wide-eyed... again, they do that pretty much without prompting!

The pipelines in question were designed to move oil & natural gas (different pipelines, not both in one pipe!) to our ports for export, or to refineries to make gasoline - also for export. While that means they weren't destined to help fix our energy distribution infrastructure issues, there are plenty of good reasons to support their use in getting these materials to the ports for export!

For one: while not designed to help the distribution of energy in this country - so not a direct affect on local gasoline prices/availability - by increasing the global availability of oil & natural gas, we can keep GLOBAL energy prices lower and KEEP (take?) more of that GLOBAL spending on energy right here at home!

@manhandler said in Judge Joe Brown says Biden called Black People "Cockroaches.":

@bi4smooth Yea dude, you're just pretending. You're not a good actor for those of us who can read between the lines. Although you do understand the middle view a little more than the radicals so I'll give you a pass because at least you have a level of discernment higher than the general population.

Being a good Republican does not require one to support Donald Trump

If you believe the lies Trump spouts, if you buy into the ultra-right-wing conspiracy theories, then you're a fool and a tool.... history will judge... and harshly, I dare say....

As for your definition of a Good Republican - I care about that opinion about as much as I care about Trump's opinion about the roundness of my ass...

@manhandler said in Keep that mask on your face you dirty human.:

@bi4smooth Biden is not better. He's worse in every way possible. He doesn't know where he is. Nobody voted for him (you can tell because he had 3 people at one rally), so it makes the country look like there is no country anymore. Very bad, the way this affects people's spirit. He's destroyed the economy by cutting off the pipelines, which will make the cost of gas go up meaning the food prices as well. It's more polluting to ship it overseas. He's done nothing about the border (nothing), so all those kids have ended up in the hands of pedophiles and the drugs pouring over will make the coyotes richer and more powerful. Mexico is the second most dangerous country in the world because it's got gangs, and Biden's policies are enriching them. Let me count the ways. That Democrats are worse.

Wow ... Biden is bad - especially for our economy, but I don't have to make stuff up, be hyperbolic, or use a straw-man to prove my point:

• Biden's mental capacity is no better or worse than Trump's -- DRAW
• If you argued that most of the 80+million who voted for Biden were really voting against Trump, I'd buy it! (That's where I fall!) But it's hard to ignore 80+million votes....
• I'm clueless what you mean by "it makes the country look like there's no country anymore"... how many people show up to a rally is a measure of how interested people are, not how many people there are...
• The gas and oil pipelines Biden has put a stop to are/were not for local distribution - they're for getting oil & natural gas to the ports for export. It won't affect our gas prices, at least not directly. BUT that's not to say gas prices won't go up! All this federal spending and stimulus is putting extreme pressure on prices overall... inflation is here! Look at gas prices, true - but also look at home prices (hard to pin that on pipelines), food prices, equipment prices.... all are going up fast and Biden IS the root-cause, with all the extra cash flowing into the economy - especially cash with high velocity (which comes from giving it to the people directly).
  NOTE We DO have an infrastructure/distribution problem in this country - but the pipelines Biden has shutdown weren't for that.... We have a TON of "deferred maintenance" problems with our infrastructure... but since we've just pumped $2T in cash into our economy, ALSO spending what's needed on Infrastructure at this time will just exacerbate the inflationary pressures we're already seeing!
• Pollution from shipping is a minuscule DOT in the oceans when compared to the RAW SEWAGE our major cities dump into the waterways, and the floating "seas" of garbage out there... I agree it all adds up, but if you owed someone $100 million, would you spend your time counting $1 bills?
• The border was a mess, it's still a mess. It's going to remain a mess until we find a way to stop people from coming here. It's like the illegal drug trade: so long as people want it, they'll find a way to get it (whether the "it" is cocaine or to live in Miami)... people are inventive as hell! Sadly, the idea of a border wall is 15th-Century thinking to solve a 21st-Century problem!
• Kids that were being held in prison-like conditions are indeed being released to families - foster families around the country. Not pedophiles.
• Mexico is indeed a problematic neighbor - but pointing a finger and shouting "bad boy" is not going to solve anything! We can't kick them out from being our neighbor! We need to try to help them gain control over their own country - and one way to do that would be to find a way to eliminate the extremely lucrative illegal drug trade... legalize (but control) recreational drugs, and you take away their money-line. But that's only one facet of the shit-show that is Mexico these days...
• Biden's policies are bad, in most cases, IMHO... but he is applying his political beliefs to the problems (and not ignoring them). Do I look forward to voting him out of office in 3 years? YES! But only if the Republican nominee is someone other than Trump!

@manhandler said in Fauci emails released by FOIA, bad news for Fauci:

@sosofly It wasn't a lie, and now the number is much higher. It's called the VAERS - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System... thousands dead after getting vaxxed. Tucker didn't lie, this is recorded in the public reporting system. And the injuries are in the tens of thousands at least reported by those who know to report it.

This is ridiculous... As has been reported before: the percentage of people who die within 2-months of getting a vaccine is about the same as the percentage who die everyday, vaccine or no. Statistically there is no increased chance of death from getting the COVID-19 vaccines.

But let's get something straight here:

Being wrong is not the same as lying!

When you say "I have $30 in my wallet" and then actually take out your wallet and find only $20 there are 2 options:

• You knew the actual amount in your wallet all along... you LIED
• You honestly thought you had $30 in there... you were wrong

And finally, let me leave you with this:

• Someone who continually gathers facts and alters their opinions/conclusions about those facts based on the new data gathered is a SCIENTIST
• Someone who draws conclusions and then defends them, ignoring new data as it becomes known is an IDEOLOGUE

Dr. Fauci is a Scientist - he's never been (prior to Covid-19) a political person, and if you believe his interviews, he's professionally embarrassed that he's become political - even though he has tried to remain apolitical throughout. He has served under 7+ Presidents now... and when he's been wrong, he's admitted it! Why? Because he's dumb? No! Because he's a Scientist in a field where new data is being discovered every day - and some of that data is radically changing medicine as we know it today!

@raphjd said in Where is the Conservative Outrage?:

@bi4smooth

For the most part, Europe is to the left of the US. A European conservative would be comparable to a center-right American. I've lived here for the last 20 years.

Treating all of Europe as one, even similar, block is ludicrous - like combining the Deep South and New England would be in the US...

TDS is Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Trump is a sad-sack, self-aggrandizing loser.... but I don't think he's deranged.

I don't limit myself to a single viewpoint.

I would disagree - almost all of your posts come straight out of Conservative, Trump-Centric media... you're being spoon-fed this crap, and it shows.

You hate Tucker, but you admit you don't watch him, and yet you call him a liar. How would you know?!

I've never claimed to hate Tucker Carlson. I've called him out when he's said some dumb stuff, but then - anyone on live, unscripted TV for as many hours a week as he is would be bound to say some dumb stuff now and then (I think he's "hitting above average" in the obvious propaganda department, but that's what he's paid to do!

Tucker is a "new media" kind of news personality - its not about the news being right or wrong, it's about propaganda and ratings. But more than that, it's also about the "host" becoming the news...

As they say: There's no such thing as BAD publicity

It's funny how you think that my posts are about Trump, when in fact they are mostly anti-liberal. Obviously, anyone with as an extreme case of TDS reads Trump into everything.

Actually, you tie almost everything back to Trump. At least in the postings I reply to... as I've noted before, when your postings are in-line with my Conservative beliefs, I nearly always do not reply, unless it is to remark (as I have a few times now) that we agree about something.

@raphjd said in Liberal hysteria and 6 Jan 2021:

@bi4smooth

You don't know what your side is doing because your liberal media doesn't talk about how fucked up liberals are.

Your extreme TDS makes you think that supporting Trump means we worship him.

Hell, you voted for a corrupt, racist, homophobe and his disgusting cunt of a VP.

The more outrageous (and disgusting) your language, the more others will see you for what you are...

@raphjd said in Judge Joe Brown says Biden called Black People "Cockroaches.":

@manhandler

Biden has made many, many comments about blacks, which liberals have ignored.

As we see with our fake Repub, they will excuse any and everything Biden does because he isn't Trump. They would rather destroy the country than have Trump.

Assuming you mean me with your "Fake Repub" label (my voter registration would easily prove you wrong there... I'm a true Republican, just not a Trumpite Republican... and if the Trumpites don't lighten up and make room for the other Republicans in the party, they're going to see that 25-30% simply cannot win any elections!)

But you (shockingly!) didn't get my views on Trump and the destruction of America right... (Actually, what's shocking is that you continue to try to explain what other people think when you do so poorly at explaining what you, yourself, think!)

I/we (non-Trump Republicans who voted against him) believed the country would have been destroyed (or come much closer to destruction) with Trump.

I don't impugn your motives in blindly following a proven loser. I actually assume most Trump supporters believe themselves to be true patriots for standing up for their President... that they're being fooled is on their leaders more than on them!

Still, I would request that you return the favor and not impugn my motives, or the motives of other people who voted against Trump - the vast majority of whom also think of themselves as true patriots for standing up for what they believe in.

The fact that it's at odds with what you believe does NOT make them EVIL or anti-American... it makes them believe differently than you...

That's all!

Your "smoking gun" is a water pistol. The email most people are talking about is an email from someone at the Wuhan lab thanking him for saying that the virus probably came from an animal-to-human cross-species transmission.

So, if I send an email to Donald Trump thanking him for all of his service to Mother Russia, does that make Trump a Russian agent?

No!

In both cases, it's an email TO the concerned party - it could say ANYTHING! There's no collusion with Fauci & Wuhan, any more than there was with Trump and Russia! (It'd be different if the email was FROM Fauci saying something like: I hope you liked it - I did what you said and deferred blame from you. When can I expect the funds?)

At the time of the email, Fauci had made those comments - and there is no evidence of any trail back to Wuhan BEFORE then... so he said something that they liked... and they thanked him for it... that doesn't mean there was a prior arrangement, just that they were thankful for his comments!

Did Fauci reverse course on masks over time? Sure! So did Leonardo DaVinci on the possibility of flight... so did Trump supporters on the value of the COVID-19 vaccines! (Pre-Election they were all for them! Trump was a SAVIOR for steamrolling the whole process through in RECORD time!... but POST-Election, it's suddenly a Democrat ploy to inject you with super-computer chips that will control your mind and allow the government to just turn you off, like a machine.)

COVID came at us fast and furious... we were learning a LOT about it in a very short time. Remember at the beginning when you were supposed to wear gloves and use hand sanitizer when you brought home your groceries? We thought it lived on surfaces (turns out, that was wrong)... At that time, we also didn't think it was spread by aerosol... (turns out, that was wrong too)... but that's the beauty of the Scientific Method - you test your theories, and the ones that hold up you cling to, and the ones that do not, you discard! (And if you happen to have one of those theories that has held up for decades - or even centuries - and you prove it is wrong, you discard it! Truth is truth!)

But in the early days of COVID-19, we didn't want to wait for test results, we wanted to know NOW what the experts THOUGHT! Tested or not! So, the politically stupid scientists gave us what we wanted!: The unproven theories of the moment. They foolishly believed that, like any good scientist, you'd understand that some of them would prove to be wrong.

Look, there were a LOT of mistakes made in early 2020 when this first started to hit... Trump made many of those mistakes - but he's not to blame (any more than Fauci is) - we used the info that we had! We did what we thought was best at the time, given VERY LITTLE actual scientific research/results. And, predictably so, a lot of it was wrong.... hindsight is 20/20!

BUT this (mid-2021) ain't that!

We know a LOT more now than we did then - including the fact that COVID-19 does not live for long on surfaces (in fact, once the water droplets they're in evaporate, the virus dies rather quickly!), and the fact that it spreads MOSTLY by aerosol, and that masks - even simple cloth ones - do an EXCELLENT job of "knocking down" the water droplets infected with the virus and thereby SIGNIFICANTLY reducing the area around us where exhaled breath droplets (potentially COVID-19 infected) can spread.

So a year ago, Fauci and his ilk got some COVID-19 facts wrong. So did a LOT of politicians (Trump, yes, but others too... virtually ALL of them to tell the truth!).

That people got things wrong isn't the question - it's what they did/do when they find out they're wrong that is what's important! Do they admit it and correct themselves? Or, do they cling to the information (that they now KNOW to be wrong) because they don't want to admit (or look like) they were wrong.

Scientists do the former. Politicians do the latter. (Apparently even politicians who are scientists, sadly).

@eobox91103 said in The left is eating itself.:

@bi4smooth said in The left is eating itself.:

So...

• 4" of water in my cup is good! (I know it is!)
• 4" of water in my kids' playground or ball field is bad?
• 4" of water in my living room is bad, too?

I think you're on to something! You are able to see the difference between your cup and your living room. While this might be obvious to many people, there are some who can't tell the difference.
(Note that I did not make a comment about being unimpressed by 4". )
(Note that I just did.)

If only there were people who could explain this to us... someone who knew science...

Oh, but you can't trust those science-ists: In order to do their work, they often use "arithmetic." This can lead people to believe that 81 million votes is more than 74 million votes, or that 306 electors is more than 232 electors. The consequences of that would be for the Dear Leader to move to Florida and no longer have a pulpit. (But fear not, his cult members will continue to worship him. When he leaves this mortal coil, perhaps they will have him embalmed and displayed in a glass case, like Lenin, Mao, and the elder Kims. His family will probably trademark the word "Trumpsicle" and try to get royalties from it to pay off their legal bills.)

Trumpsickle - I'll say right now, I'm not licking one!

@raphjd said in Google's Head of Diversity - Oh My!!!:

Kamau Bobb

Terrible that people "with a history" are appointed to these positions without proper checks.

That said, I do not agree that he should be fired (removed from the role as Diversity Chief? hell yes - fired? not for that alone...)

Insisting that he be fired is cancel culture... punished, yes... fired, not necessarily.
Maybe - if there are other egregious examples of bad decision making or extremist views - but one mistake shouldn't cost him his job. However, in this case, he apparently apologized and agreed that it was wrong of him to make the antisemitic claims he did.

Does an apology let him off "scott-free"? No! He's being punished... But people make mistakes, and need to be given an opportunity to atone for them and "recover" from them.

@eobox91103 said in The left is eating itself.:

@manhandler said in The left is eating itself.:

@eobox91103 It's not difficult information to find:

https://www.climatecentral.org/news/study-finds-plant-growth-surges-as-co2-levels-rise-16094

Go to the first reference that this article cites, from GRL. The abstract of that paper states, in part, "The role in this greening of the “CO2 fertilization” effect—the enhancement of photosynthesis due to rising CO2 levels—is yet to be established."

I'm not familiar with climatecentral.org, so I don't know how much to trust them. I did find, though, an interesting page at https://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-flooded-future-global-vulnerability-to-sea-level-rise-worse-than-previously-understood. Here's part of what that page says:

Global warming has raised global sea level about 8 inches since 1880, and the rate of rise is accelerating. Rising seas dramatically increase the odds of damaging floods from storm surges. A Climate Central analysis finds the odds of “century” or worse floods occurring by 2030 are on track to double or more, over widespread areas of the U.S.

But wait! Water is good! (Just like CO2 is good!)...
and water is necessary for life (just like CO2 is necessary for life)...

Are you saying that MORE (too much) water is bad? I'm confused...

So...

• 4" of water in my cup is good! (I know it is!)
• 4" of water in my kids' playground or ball field is bad?
• 4" of water in my living room is bad, too?

And...

• CO2 on the bushes is good!
• CO2 in my facemask is bad?
• CO2 in the upper atmosphere is bad too?

How am I supposed to tell the difference?

If only there were people who could explain this to us... someone who knew science...
To know they were smart, we could call them Science-folk... or Scientists... or some other word!

So long as they voted for Trump, I'll believe them! LOL