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

@bi4smooth

AH, so you don't believe in equality.

Your fellow liberals support cancel culture, but you (all you liberals) are against calls for liberals to get a dose of their own medicine.

A guy that raised over $4mil because of a viral video has destroyed you liberals had to go hunting for something to ruin him. You dug up a post he made when he was 14, that's more than a decade old.

Yeah, let's protect a black guy who has a history of making racist and anti-semtic posts on his blog.

Anyone got a straw man? I need a straw man!

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

@bi4smooth There is no room for the "other Republicans." They are traitors and liars. Mitt Romney is one of them. These people are a disgrace.

I'm not sure which "these people" you are referring to, but let me make myself clear: Mitt Romney is a brave, patriotic man who believes in our Democracy as much as anyone. I was proud to vote for him in 2012, and would support him for President again.

But don't take that to mean that I think these Trumpites on here are a disgrace! Most of them are also patriots - however, they are being deceived by leaders (and media outlets) who ARE disgraceful, and who DO NOT have the best-interests of our Country at heart! But these are people that they have come to trust - and it is going to take an awful lot for them to realize that trust has been misplaced.

This is precisely why teachers and coaches have such an out-sized influence on young adults (teens especially). And why the dearth of rational, conservative voices on college campuses is resulting in a new wave of liberal, rainbow-farting kids from colleges these days!

I've said it before - I am not angry with Republicans who continue to follow Trump - I pity them... they're going to be judged by history in much the same way as the German citizens who supported the Nazis nearly 100 years ago were after the war was lost.

Finally, for @raphjd: Let's use an analogy here...

• Your mother and your sister get into a knock-down, hair-pulling, biting, and scratching brawl! You do what you can to calm them down, but they both scream and shout at each other.
• You aren't aware that your neighbors have burned crosses on their lawn and painted a swastika on their front door, because you've been trying to keep your mother and sister from burning down your house!

Now... in that allegory: my mother and sister represent the Trumpites and other (non-Trump supporting) Republicans (and the house represents the larger Republican Party as a whole). The neighbors represent the Deomcrats - whom, while there is a war on in my house, I'm not paying all that much attention to... with a 50/50 Senate, the only real damage they can do is spend too much money!

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

@bi4smooth

More than 1 article said he was moved to Head of STEM.

As a liberal, of course, you don't want a liberal canceled. Liberals are total hypocrites on the matter.

As a compassionate, flawed human being, I don't want liberals, conservatives, (not even Trump!), women, men, whites, blacks, latins, asians, ...

anyone!

canceled because of a mistake.

You can't seem to get this very simple formula through your head:

• Punished: yes
• Canceled: no

case in point:

• Matt Gaetz - if proven to be into ephebophilia, and paying for young girls (let's assume, for now, that all were over 18)... should lose his committee assignments (for this term) and be censured by the house... and if he's re-elected, he gets to keep his seniority AND get is committee assignments back in the next term... he should not be expelled from the house (canceled) without a "trial".
• Mario Cuomo - if proven that he sexually harassed these women - WHILE Governor - should be impeached. (Reminder: that's like saying he should be charged, not necessarily convicted - ala Trump's impeachments). If convicted, he should be removed from office ad charged criminally. If not, he stays Governor and the criminal and civil trials will have to commence after his term ends. (Same as happened with Trump).

In both cases (a liberal and a conservative) - face trial (even if a political trial, like an impeachment) and the punishment handed down by that trial... not be forced to resign (canceled) without evidence from all sides and/or a trial.

@manhandler said in Where is the Conservative Outrage?:

@bi4smooth I would like to ask if you voted for Hillary, because if you did, I'd say you have very poor judgement... And everything you say henceforth is lame. You know she did that Haiti thing right? With 1 billion raised, and kept 90%... You know about that right?

I don't know squat about Hillary Clinton - the 2016 election was, for me at least, very similar to the 2020 one: more about avoiding the known danger of letting (Hillary in 2016, Trump in 2020) get back into the White House!

I long for the days when I could cast a vote for President FOR a candidate instead of against one!

• John McCain would have been a President to be PROUD OF!
• Mitt Romney would have been a President with MORALS, HONOR AND DIGNITY

Hillary was the candidate to avoid at all costs in 2016, and how ironic that Trump became that same thing just 4 years later!

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

@bi4smooth

So, you are gonna ignore how your fellow liberals publicly refused to take the vaccine until Biden was sworn in.

Now they are claiming that anyone refusing to take the vaccine is the enemy of the world.

Of course, liberals are too stupid to realize they caused a lot of the hysteria over the vaccines.

Your revisionist history is truly amazing!

Trump's administration is SOLELY responsible for funding and pushing the vaccine through the fastest-ever vaccine development!

Biden and his ilk came into office and pretended like it was just a natural thing.. "Hey, look! We have a vaccine! It's magic! It's OUR vaccine now!"

Bullshit!

Say what you will about other parts of Trump's administration's piss-poor efforts at preventing the spread, and the anti-science rhetoric... He got the job done in getting a vaccine developed and approved.

The dumbass Dems will claim "we distributed it better!", which is total bullshit too! When there are only 20 million doses available, distribution is very different from when there are 500 million doses available! So, no shit the Biden Administration administered more vaccines! They had to make them, and this shit was BRAND NEW!

But, now that the Dems are in charge, what do you Trumpites do?

Lay claim to a true triumph of the Trump Administration and keep the Dems from claiming it as their own?

Aw hell no!

Let's claim that the vaccines have super-computers in them, that they're a secret Government weapon designed to control our brains, and you can tell when the computer in the vaccine is working, because it makes your whole body magnetic!

Morons

If "Are You Being Served" is too "out there" - what's to become of the likes of Monty Python?

Irreverence and borderline offensiveness is the backbone of British comedy!

@jsl76 said in 3 States Touring the AZ election audit today, Georgia, Alaska, Colorado.:

Biden won. I don't like it, but facts are facts.

These "audits" are nothing more than a clown show. These elections have been audited in detail in November and December according to statute -- and, in many cases, by Republican clerks and Republican elections boards.

A class of grifters, sucking up to Trump's anus like remoras, is peddling a demonstrably false claim of a stolen election. Every chance they've come before the courts, they've been dismissed -- including by Trump judges.

You are lying. Stop it. People like you are undermining our democracy, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out that you're not really an American but rather a Russian troll somewhere in the Moscow suburbs engaged in disinformation campaigns on behalf of cruel dictator Vladimir Putin.

Article 13 of the US Constitution states that Presidents can be restored to office AFTER their term expires under certain circumstances.
Section 6, Paragraph 6, Bullet 6 clearly states that when the Electoral College gets it wrong, the PRIOR President re-takes office until the next election cycle.

Also, because the 25th Amendment doesn't specifically revoke Article 13, it still stands... and under that Article, Nosferatu can be re-installed as President!

All that has to happen is that the conditions of Article 13 have to be met:

• Hell freezes over
• Dogs and cats become bilingual and overthrow humans as the dominant species on the planet
• Dolphins & Grizzly Bears become strict vegans
• The Sun starts rising in the West and setting in the North

@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!