American Politics

[Spidy]

Aaand {...drivel, drivel, drivel...}

But really, what are the Repubs doing to for better gun control laws?

Why Republicans arent likely to budge on gun control
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/28/polit...sis/index.html

Also still waiting on the homicide study / chart committed by a Dem vs. Repub by weapons of choice?

[EihTooms]

"Keeps losing" - is blindingly obvious to anyone that doesn't feel butthurt bcos they got accused of twisting someone esle's words.

Keeps losing has a very different meaning to 'always loses', which is what you wanted it to mean.

"I am so fed up with my favourite team. They keep losing games that they should have won". This does not mean they have lost every game this season and are bottom of the log.

The dem party keeps losing elections. That is transparently clear by looking at how many Rep president there have been and always will be until the USA finds a party that represents the people.

Oh maybe you mean Dems haven't dominated both houses of Congress like they did prior to their passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yeah, LBJ predicted such an outcome at the time.

It was still the right thing for them to do.

If that isn't what you meant then I don't see how the oldest POTUS candidate ousting an incumbent, a black Dem winning a critical Southern state Senate seat, twice, Dems sweeping in Michigan for the first time in decades, Dems presiding over one of the best first midterm results for an In The White House party of all time, not to mention the first black POTUS winning the vote and the EC, twice, as well as the first POTUS ticket with female, a black female at that, winning by 7+ Million votes qualifies as "Keeps losing" elections they should have won.

But you go ahead and define "Keeps losing" any way that feels comfy to ya'.

[JustTK]

Yeah, I do. I read the first link, and it wasn't convincing. They only have low to moderate confidence in their conclusions, and their data is mostly drawn from influenza studies. You may recall that the CDC's and Fauci's reason for telling us masks weren't useful initially was because that's what the influenza studies indicated. OK, yes the reason probably really was they didn't want the public using masks while there was a shortage among health care workers. And they figured the public could just stay home and not work or go to school anyway, haha. Anyway, the reading I did a couple of years ago indicated good quality masks worn correctly did help prevent COVID 19 and SARS transmission.

I will continue to wear KN95 masks when in crowded settings where nobody knows me. (I don't like being a laughingstock.) And I'll continue to get boosters until such time as there's evidence sufficient to convince me they're a bad idea. I don't see the downside in either, and I see a lot of upside. I've only gotten a cold once since COVID kicked off. I used to get about 3 a year. Part of that is probably from wearing KN95 and N95 masks correctly (with a good seal) when appropriate.

You are welcome to believe your own anecdotes as evidence Tiny. I have noted that a few times now. The issue is that, even if we agree that these research studies are not conclusive in favour of 'masks don't work' - you have zero evdience to support your case that masks DO work! You sound like a religious believer that, when asked why they beleive in god, says, 'bcos it makes me feel better'.

Anyway, if you ever visit Colombia, I would love to meet you. I will recognise you as the Darth Vader lookalike walking down the street.

[JustTK]

It is coming out now how utterly destructive and wrongheaded the covid scamdemic was on so many levels.
The masks didn't work, the vaccines didn't work, the lockdowns didn't work.
Or rather, they didn't work in their stated aims. What they did do was destroy centuries-old liberties, cripple businesses and the middle class, add trillions to the debt, retard kids' development, and lead to an awful lot of #DiedSuddenly. .

One good thing that may well come from all this is. It has really shone a bright light on some huge failures of modern society:

- how corrupt the government is. In this case, in league w Big Pharma (but usually its defence / banks / finance etc).

- how the government should never be allowed to censor free speech, nor use big tech to influence / censor people that think differently to them.

- how the majority of normal people can be lead off the cliff edge (once again) by psychological manipulation for the cause of a Big Lie.

[JustTK]

You mean "Keeps losing. On a regular basis"
I assume from your original whine that you were talking about Dems "losing" the actual support of Americans by their supposedly bad ideas and lack of connection with Americans and not just about "losing" due to an undemocratic Repub-advantaged rigged Electoral College system, right?
So please untwist my words and meaning and explain how Dems have "Kept losing" votes to Repubs "on a regular basis" since 1988. Or have you twisted the meaning of the words "losing" and "on a regular basis" to mean something more like "winning more than" and "way back before 1988"?

"Keeps losing" - is blindingly obvious to anyone that doesn't feel butthurt bcos they got accused of twisting someone esle's words.

Keeps losing has a very different meaning to 'always loses', which is what you wanted it to mean.

"I am so fed up with my favourite team. They keep losing games that they should have won". This does not mean they have lost every game this season and are bottom of the log.

The dem party keeps losing elections. That is transparently clear by looking at how many Rep president there have been and always will be until the USA finds a party that represents the people.

[EihTooms]

Now, I guess I'm just a dumb Dem voter but this just does not look like the devastating, horrible, no good, really bad Great Biden Economic Crash / Downturn that smart Repub voters assured us would start happening mere minutes or days after Biden won the election back in 2020. Or that it was already happening sometime in 2021. Or was it 2022. Well anyway it was almost certainly going to happen within a year or two of that yield curve thingy and so on.

Jobs report shows increase of 517,000 in January, crushing estimates, as unemployment rate hit 53-year low

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/jobs...ndroidappshare

"Todays jobs report is almost too good to be true, wrote Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. Like $20 bills on the sidewalk and free lunches, falling inflation paired with falling unemployment is the stuff of economics fiction.

Well, not really "fiction. " After all, the historical data is quite clear that Dem POTUS Jimmy Carter shouldered all of the heavy lifting and assumed all of the political risk to set that exact same golden combination of results in motion almost a full year before Reagan became president.

And it continued until Reagan's idiotic Repub policies reversed the jobs creation trend Carter handed him and the unemployment rate began to skyrocket into double digits late in his second year in office and stretching well into his third. Oh well.

Of course, those same smart Repub voters would want us to understand that the only reason so many jobs are being created instead of millions upon millions of jobs being wiped out, as is always their preferred result, is because evil Dems sent $5. 1 Billion in stimulus money to one grade school to be spent teaching budding Drag Queens that white skin is bad and black skin is good. Or something like that.

As one of their smart top elected Repub Party Oversight and Accountability Committee Members told us:

Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked for Claim School Received $5.1B for CRT

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-ta...theory-1778372

[PVMonger]

Another good post.

Everyone living in reality knows that violent crime is massively higher in black urban areas.

These dem douche leftists who attempt to deny it with idiotic twisted arguments are like the pro-tranny lobby who say "I know this woman who is 6 feet tall, or that woman who can bench 200 pounds, therefore there is no difference between men and women".

Or like cutting a highlight reel of every Tom Brady interception and sack, then showing it to people and trying to argue it proves he's a terrible quarterback.

BTW thanks for the memories Tom the GOAT. A shining example of old school American manhood for us all to look up to.

Actually, all Dems know that there is a difference between men and women.

What we also know is that some males are born into female bodies and some females are born into male bodies. If they decide later in life that their gender is wrong, they may make the effort to remake themselves into the gender that suits them. These people also know that virtually everyone who identifies as a Repub will deny that gender mistakes happen. They will also deny that homosexuality (male and female) is victimless and that it doesn't harm anybody.

And everybody knows that Repubs have no clue how to prevent urban crime. Well, the only clue they have is to arm everybody and turn the streets of every large city into the wild west.

[PVMonger]

As I don't want you gentlemen to waste a huge amount of time on a losing proposition, here are the ten counties in the USA with the highest homicide rates in 2017, from the source linked below, and the margin by which Biden won each in 2020.

1. Orleans Parish, Louisiana 68.2%.

2. Coahoma County, Mississippi 42.9%.

3. Phillips County, Arkansas 19.3%.

4. tie St. Louis City, Missouri 66.2%.

4. tie Baltimore City, Maryland 76.6%.

6. Petersburg, Virginia 76.5%..

So you agree that Repub governors are absolutely useless in getting the murder rates in their "urban ghettos" (a favorite Chrissie term) under control. They are very good, however, in trying to pass legislation dictating what women can do with their bodies, but seem curiously obtuse when confronted with urban gun violence. Maybe the are simply hopeful that all of those responsible for all that violence will simply kill themselves off.

Of course, people of a Repub bent will call the above analysis bogus but how else can one explain it? The simple facts are that the availability of firearms is the culprit. Where do the firearms come from? They come from straw buyers, from gun shows, from being stolen and they come from outside the state where gun laws are more lax (assuming the state in question has tougher gun laws that neighboring states). Evidently Repub governors, who have the power to convince their Repub-controlled legislatures to enact tougher legislation re: the issues raised above, think the situation in their states is just fine. But if a "Saturday night special" that costs $50 on the street of any large city anywhere now starts costing $1000 because they have become impossible to get, it becomes a loosing proposition to buy a $1000 handgun to stick up a bodega to get $100.

[Elvis 2008]

Anyway, the reading I did a couple of years ago indicated good quality masks worn correctly did help prevent COVID 19 and SARS transmission.

The NFL kept track of people really well, and they had some intriguing data. If a Covid + person talked to someone without Covid, the masks helped to prevent getting the disease, but this was before omicron. Still, people did transmit Covid if they were wearing masks, but this was pre-omicron. After omicron hits and it is so contagious, the NFL stops most if not all preventative measures with Covid because they know those measures do not work. The studies you looked at were not when omicron was around.

I will continue to wear KN95 masks when in crowded settings where And I'll continue to get boosters until such time as there's evidence sufficient to convince me they're a bad idea.

A lot of doctors are not getting the boosters.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...-booster-shots

"I have taken my last COVID vaccine without RCT (randomized control evidence) level evidence it will reduce my risk of severe disease," Dr. Todd Lee, an infectious disease expert at McGill University, wrote on Twitter.

Moderna presented efficacy estimates for a different bivalent, which has never been used in the United States, during a recent meeting. The company estimated the booster increased protection against infection by just 10 percent.

Lee was pointing to the lack of randomized clinical trial (RCT) results for the updated boosters, which were cleared in the United States and Canada in the fall of 2022 primarily based on data from experiments with mice.

The USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to updated boosters, or bivalent shots, from Pfizer and Moderna in August 2022 despite there being no human data.

So the current boosters have not been proven to work, and they have no safety profile.

As for harm, that comes from immune imprinting. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...id-19-vaccines#Immune-imprinting.

This article is very pro-vaccine but it is honest about immune imprinting.

While many of us will be able to stage an immune response to SARS-CoV-2 that we would not have been able to 2 years or even 1 year ago, the individual response may vary considerably between people, depending on the nature of previous exposure.

"Some people want to be very exotic and sort of biblical about it, call it 'original antigenic sin,' you know, the idea that your immune system is born with some sin on board already, and you can't go change it back to a blank sheet. So that's not the kind of academic nuance, that's a real thing and a big thing," Prof. Altmann said.

And there was this shocking statement: This was because attempts to develop variant-specific vaccines showed that it was not possible to develop them quickly enough to be of use in each wave.

So we are Omicron like version 7 now, but let us say you had alpha Covid and then the vaccine. You have primed your body to fight Alpha. So when omicron Covid hits your body and your body is used to making antibodies against Alpha, that is what it is going to do, and studies showed that those previously vaccinated or infected with one variant of Covid do worse than people who have not had any vaccine or exposure.

And the one certainty about the virus is that it will keep mutating.

[Chris P]

Rant all you blablabla

Do you deny it? A simple yes or no will suffice. Thanks.

[Chris P]

Really, last I checked, they (Repubs)....

Aaand more of the same obfuscation.

We've established that most Republicans are in favor of the Second Amendment. Democrats / fake media / hollyweird / alphabet agencies (aka the deep state) are not.

So, why do the people who are opposed to gun ownership not focus their considerable efforts on the areas where the vast majority of gun crime exists: urban ghettos and handguns?

Why do they ignore the vast majority of gun crime (committed by, shall we say, democrat voters in urban democrat areas) to endlessly attack. Via legislative efforts, hollyweird movies and shows, fake news reports and more. Comparatively law-abiding people in suburbs and rural areas who own rifles and commit a tiny fraction of the total gun crime?

This is the 4th time I've asked, so let's see if you answer the question this time.

[Chris P]

Thank you Brother Chris. Converting Democrats is hard, thankless work. I appreciate the encouragement.



Yes Chris, our Democratic friends here, who are smart people, are not blessed with mathematical or analytical skills equal to their writing abilities. I'm probably on a fool's mission, trying to teach them about Simpson's Paradox.



We were discussing Switzerland earlier, where citizens are issued rifles. The homicide rate there is around 0.5 to 0.6 per 100,000 per year. That's among the lowest in Europe.

It's about 5 in the USA, and in the range of 25 to 43 for the counties in the table I linked to below.

Another great post. The only thing I might take issue with is our Democratic friends being smart.

As for Switzerland, the fact that there is universal gun ownership with near zero gun violence shows that the most important factor is what kind of people have guns. As we see on the streets of south Chicago and other urban ghettos every week, sadly.

[EihTooms]

Reminiscent of the recent unanimous vote by House Republicans to Defund the Police, one of the new Redrawn Districts Pink Tinkle Repub House Majority's first legislative acts led by Squeaker of the House Kave-in McQarthy was to increase crime re theft of American Tax-Payer money, most egregiously by wealthy Repub Party donor tax cheats, and increase the Trump / Repubs' record high deficits by $100+ Billion:

House Republicans vote to strip IRS funding, following pledge to repeal nearly $80 billion approved by Congress

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/hous...-funding-.html

Known as the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, the new House Republican measure would increase the budget deficit by more than $114 billion through 2032, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

No question about it; the Repub Party has proven over and over again that it is the Pro-Crime and Pro-Skyrocketing Deficits With Nothing To Show For It Party.

[Spidy]

Thank you Brother Chris. Converting Democrats is hard, thankless work. I appreciate the encouragement. ...

Yes, Pastor Tiny 12, it would seem your tireless work for the "ministry" is indeed a marvel to behold. (Just kidding!)

Keep up the good work. Your posts can be interesting. Although I do enjoy a good debunking.

[Xpartan]

Why do you think so many wealthy and influential Jews and Jewish groups in media, hollywood, finance and politics push so strongly for open borders and mass immigration in the West

Gee, I don't know, because they don't and you won't be able to back up this garbage?

Do you deny that black people, particularly black males aged 15 to 35, commit vastly more violent crime than other groups?

Since when do you lot need crimes to hate anybody? How many crimes do Jews commit?