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well.. the time has arrived where people need no more education in life other than to know how many packets of ketchup to put in a paper bag with the french fries.

Interesting that both Hitler and Schwarznegger are from Austria.

@raphjd said in CNN Participates in $200k Go Fund Me Scam Failing to Vet Childless “Single Mother”:

@bi4smooth

The same truth that allows you to use mental gymnastics to defend liberal policies at every turn while keeping your extreme TDS.

Where was your indignation about all the blatantly fake "news" stories by your beloved liberal media? I don't remember you speaking out against CNN and Chris Cuomo faking him being on his death bed with C-19, only to be caught out fighting with a cyclist because Chris had to jog in the bicycle lane, because he's special.

I don't remember you saying anything when CNN was caught faking the protest in London, thanks to the local businesses filming them faking it.

You don't like conservative "spin" but you are silent on liberal lies.

You are a moron:

I said months ago that Gov "Kiss me" Cuomo in NY was in trouble, and while I could not care less about how CNN covered it, they did - and in the days BEFORE his resignation, they highlighted other DEMS asking him to resign and lambasted his stipid and ill-advised responses and counter-claims. I said months ago that Biden's wild-ass spending would spur inflation like we haven't seen since the 1970s - and its starting, and CNN (again, only because they're your own personal whipping-boy) seems to be agreeing: see for yourself

Mind you, I didn't say that Cuomo was the worst Governor since George Wallace - just that he was an abuser and that his personal behavior was going to cost him his position. I also didn't make shit up, like claiming he repeatedly RAPED these women, or that he ENSLAVED them for his sexual games... no, just the facts: women made claims that he kissed them and groped them without clear consent, and that he TRIED to gain their consent to go further and failed.... but given the power imbalance, even his unwelcome touching and kissing was too much - and in the me-too world, it was enough to get him out. (Mind you: he was just following in the footsteps of his heroes: JFK was a serial molester, and we all know about BFClinton & his attraction to interns!)

While we're at it, ALL of the MSM is after Biden for this Afghanistan thing - most are likening it to the Vietnam pullout!

Doesn't that run counter to your claim that they basically suck his dick because he's a liberal?

You meant they have ordered 5 years worth of the vaccine. The vaccine has a very short shelf life, so there is no way they could stockpile it. In fact, when the vaccines in the USA were quite scarce and being rationed by priorities, there were often situations where people were getting the vaccine even though they did not qualify it because they had vaccine available that was close to it's expiration date. They had to either use it or throw it away.

@bi4smooth

You also believe, from your previous posts that it's not wrong to abuse animals, if there are no obvious injuries.

YES, the Friday incident is supposed to be the same person.

@serenity

So, you trust fact-checkers who list something as FALSE when it is DISPUTED.

We've discussed the various dirty deeds of fact-checkers.

Tim Pool on YouTube has done several videos showing how fact-checkers blatantly lie or in many cases distort the claims so they can call them False.

You have every right to believe proven liars.

@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...

@raphjd Back on the FDA slide...

Funny that even now, the tweet is semi-banned as "adult content" - can't see it if not signed into Twitter & 18-over.

No idea why or how...if the tweet author set it that way... or an old Twittercensor or who?

But the importance of the slide, I find difficult to measure.

Remember:

Every medical intervention is unnatural, basically poison and will have an undesired effect on somebody

the FDA's job is to look closely for undesired effects

the FDA will use its experience with past vaccines, like if last year's flu vaccine activated Epstein-Barr in 33 people then add it to the list

So, the slide-itself is fine. FDA doing its job, using past experience to get ready for what could maybe might happen.

The scandal is that, AFTER some bad effects started happening in the real world, the FDA didn't publicize it and didn't pull the covid vaxx operation or at least restrict to the "most vulnerable".

They were set up to monitor & act................then did nothing.

Except to J&J. J&J got the traditional "good" FDA treatment, FDA saying Hey, after rollout, your product is pretty good but not good enough / we have to stop it for the general population.

FDA should have done that & worse to Pfizer & Moderna, when their bad effects showed up in the general population.

But FDA didn't. Instead they went "Let's vaxx kids!"

Crappy second-rate mRNA vaxx got bizarre special protection, today even pushed on kids.That's the scandal.

@bi4smooth

I know all that.

So we are agreed, the Mayo Clinic lied.

Also, in a few previous discussions, people have said that literally, no one was saying that.

My oldest brother.. who tried and failed to steal my house with forged documents last year.. Is EXTREMELY liberal. In his entire life, he has intentionally taken the opposite position on everything that is rational. His idol was Mike Stivic (Meathead) on "All In The Family" portrated by Rob Reiner who is much more liberal than his character Mike Stivic.

My theory is that white liberals tend to be people who reject common sense, and believe they have some superior knowledge that supercedes reality.

The Biden DOJ has the joined the fight on the side of the wahmen.

I guess equality means more special rights for wahmen.

@bi4smooth

Agreed.

@kekkaishi said in C-19 and the liberal hivemind:

That's the definition of NPC

@raphjd said in C-19 and the liberal hivemind:

This picture only shows 5, but there are more than 100 such posts on the Twitter.

Notices they aren't retweets.

Likewise with Facebook.

Nearly identical quotes from supposedly different people?

Not hardly...

Certainly there are break-thru cases of COVID-19 - the same as kids who have been vaccinated against measles can still get a slight case if someone in their school get it! The danger (in school) isn't that it starts spreading because one kid gets it... the danger is that, even though nearly everyone WILL get it if it is brought into the school environment - and some of those kids (and adults) will not have been vaccinated, and so will get very sick (and possibly die)....

Vaccines don't stop you from getting the virus, they simply prepare your body so that when it is invaded by the virus, you don't get so sick (or possibly even sick at all).

Did none of you take Biology 1 in High School?
Did they not teach you how viruses and infections spread?
Geez!

@serenity said in Trust the science:

@bi4smooth I don't think that "science" change, but the results do, when we get smarter. And what is wrong about getting smarter. Some people have always had a problem with science, because it conflicts their world view. It has been that way for centuries.

Absolutely science changes... Heisenberg changed how we measure things. Newton changed our understanding of mass vs. weight (they are NOT the same). Hawking changed how we think of and measure time.

But separate from how science itself changes, the conclusions we make from scientific studies changes... especially when we base our conclusions on limited data... and we got that in spades with COVID-19: everyone was clamoring for answers, so the scientists gave them what they had: knowing the data was incomplete. And that made them wrong... wrong far more often than we like hearing that scientists are wrong!

There is an acronym often used in computer science: GIGO
Garbage in / Garbage out

When you have small sample sizes, your conclusions can be thrown off by the smallest of anomalies... but that is the beauty of science - we LEARN from our mistakes! We (scientists) challenge our assumptions and SEEK to prove our theories WRONG! (You can seldom prove a theory is valid, but you can often prove it wrong! The more people try - and fail - to prove a theory is wrong, the more accepted as "probably right" it becomes!

@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!