American Politics

[CheckMate1]

Yet again the point has gone flying over your tiny NPC mind.

Someone from the Trump administration asked Twitter to take down a hateful insult directed toward the President of the United States. Twitter refused. The End.

They didn't attempt to "make it illegal". They didn't collaborate with twitter, the FBI and the rest of the deep state. They simply pointed out that Twitter deleted a huge amount of what it called "hateful" insulting tweets, so would they consider doing it here. Twitter didn't, as was their right, and nothing more happened.

Compare that to the Hunter Biden laptop.

Here we have a vast trove of information detailing corruption in the Biden Crime Family, just weeks before an election.

Where Twitter had refused to remove the anti-Trump tweet, they now did the opposite for Biden. They (and other Big Tech) completely censored and blocked all mention of the laptop, to the point of suspending the account of the New York Post among others.

See the difference? Refuse to remove a hateful anti-Trump tweet, but ferociously block and censor important information about Biden corruption and criminality.

What's worse is that it was not only the Biden campaign and democrats involved in the coverup, but also the FBI and the rest of the Washington deep state. All working in tandem with big tech and the fake news media to block information and create disinformation and fake news.

Up to 50% of people say that they would have switched their vote away from Biden had they known about the contents of the laptop. Its censorship was the clearest and most egregious election-meddling in American history.

The entire media political alphabet agency big tech wall street deep state swamp and their globohomo Agenda (best summarized as "Open Borders and Open Buttholes") is a scam and fraud against the American people. I look forward to the day it is swept away, one way or another.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".

-The media (FOX, MSNBC, ABC, Washington Post (ie Amazon), etc).

-Social media (FB, Twitter, IG, etc).

-Business news (CNBC, FOX Business, Motley Fools, etc).

These are private businesses (not state owned) and can or can not publish whatever they wish, and are NOT related to First Amendment free speech protection. ALL Businesses are PROFIT seeking entities. Now, if you are for or against regulating businesses, then that is a debate. So if an individual such as Trump or Biden petition a business to remove a quote or story, the business entity will evaluate whether it is good for their bottom line or not.

On the value of ifs and shoulds about the past, too many times people post a lot garbage on the internet for clicks with their own agenda of gaining following, etc. Things like Hunter's laptop or that Trump is guilty as eff, etc. There's a system in place designed by our forefather, it's call the Judicial System. Bring your cases, if you have them to court, and present your evidence. Someone will judge it, and there are appeals available up to the end, with the 9 Justices to provide the final verdict.

Too many times, we get into the habit of debating sh (stuffs) that we have partial picture of. Let it play out, whether it by timeline and reportings fill out the puzzle, or by court verdicts. One thing holds true is that LIES will always get exposed in time. But we are too impatient, and want to have OUR opinion validated now. Life doesn't work that way.

-advice-.

DON'T be angry when things don't pan out the way your mind wants it.

DON'T let BUSINESSES dictate if you should be angry with a person or group because they don't share your view politically, spiritually, or otherwise.

DO enjoy the ladies that your with, and the buddies that are with you.

ENJOY everything while you can. Because in a few years, we will ALL share the same fate (Thanos).

CM.

[Elvis 2008]

China and Eastern Europe were banished from playing a regular part in the world BCOS they were left wing. So of course, they suffered.

No, China's #1 trading partner in 1966 was Japan. China traded oil and coal for finished goods from Japan. Americans would buy premium products like Stoly vodka and Beluga caviar in the 1980's as well. They were not excluded from the "regular part" of the world.

And TK, I was shocked when you went to Venezuela and thought the Americans were responsible for the decline. You completely bought the Chavez bullshit. Truth is Venezuela had and may still have the world's largest oil reserves. The country was the richest in South America and should be today if they got their shit together.

Venezuela's turn to shit was because when Chavez came into office he loaded up the Venezuelan oil companies with his cronies. Oil production in Venezuela is similar to Canada, and there was a massive migration then of engineers and workers from Venezuela to Canada.

Then Chavez went back on his contract with Exxon. Exxon sued in world court and win. I expect you to say the world court is rigged in Exxon's favor, but there were Venezuelans who studied the contract and said Exxon was right to win.

And then you had the American telephone company that wired all of Venezuela, GTE. GTE was bought out by Verizon, and under Venezuelan law, Verizon was forced to pay out 50% of its profits in the form of dividends, and it did so. Thing is Verizon owned 25% of the company and got those dividends too. I was at a share holder meeting and every shareholder was screaming at management to screw over Verizon.

So what you call socialism I call theft. And what follows? Chavez dies. He steals billions and gives it to his family. They live in Florida, the great Satan nation that Chavez always griped was the reason for all of Venezuela's problems. Venezuela destroys its currency. They try crypto, then gold based currency, and no in their nation wants it, so what do they use now? The USA dollar. Now why is that TK?

And you think this was just with the USA? No, Morales and Bolivia stole the natural gas wells from Brazil. Sure, Bolivia did great in the beginning. After stealing said wells, the first thing Morales did was raise the price on the gas Brazil was paying, but production in Bolivia was stagnant for decades.

I invested a little in both nations. I made out when Chavez scared the crap out of everyone when he bought the phone company. He paid $18 a share for a company worth 5 X that. I put $1500 into Bolivia into a general mutual fund there and it went to zero. I invested in an Argentine company that was flat when the price should have gone through the roof but management was hoarding all the money through an options scheme. Meanwhile, I killed it when investing in Colombia and Chile, and which economies did the best in the twenty years since? Chile and Colombia have kicked the crap out of Argentina, Bolivia, and Venezuela.

The difference between Venezuela and Colombia was as stark as Western Europe and the old Soviet Union. Anyone going into the USSR by train could see how organized Western Europe was and what shit the USSR was. Anyone going from Venezuela to Colombia to find work? They should be. Venezuela SHOULD be a richer country.

And the first thing this socialist dickhead in Colombia said he was going to do was to quit drilling for oil. Oh brother. The best thing you can do for the environment is to get people up to $5,000 per person with regards to GDP. Only then do the poor think long term about the environment. So this socialist MF gets in there and says the first thing he is going to do is quit expanding Colombia's #1 export business and the country is instantly 20% poorer because their currency crumbles. In fact, he assures the poor stay poor because the way you get people out of poverty is clean water and cheap electricity, and he just took out Colombia's cheapest method to get cheap power.

That is the talk of the dumb shit Dems. They are going to save the planet by bankrupting the poor with "green" energy.

I grant you that Lula is socialist and his version of socialism did help Brazil, but you miss the point. When you have your "owned by workers" fantasy, that does not mean the workers own things but people who claim to be for the worker. And for every Lula, I have seen dozens of Chavez's.

There are a very precious few pols who will not be tempted to stuff their pockets while in power. Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders, and even Trump do not rule for their personal gain. That is four people out of how many American pols? Hell, even Lula's hand picked successor was corrupt. For all the red-blue clashing, McConell and Pelosi have both made out like bandits while in office.

In reality, what concerns me the most is private property rights, and I see the leftists / socialists time and again having no respect for them. Doesn't "worker owned" mean stealing from those who have wealth?

[JustTK]

A third excellent post on this subject. I think the ISG Brain Trust has a better handle on the spread of HIV in Africa than the UN and WHO. Seriously. Thanks for an enlightening discussion gentlemen.

No problem Tiny. Next time your in Africa give me a shout. I will give you a tour of the mines, and we can go meet some local service girls. Am sure you will be well protected in your Darth Vader suit and other redundant medications.

[Elvis 2008]

Interesting link, thanks. It looks like only about 2500 heterosexual males in the USA came down with HIV in 2019. That's not very many. And that number may be high as I imagine some men may have lied about their sexual preferences.

The way that number was created was just by asking men. The idea behind it is why would they lie, but two of the most common things people are going to lie about is if they are gay or do drugs.

Studies showed the rate of transmission for heterosexual transmission was one in half a million to zero. So now Xpartan is creating a straw man (I wish you guys would not quote him LOL). I said when the rates of transmission are that low guys should not worry about HIV now with normal sex, especially given its current prognosis. In making that statement, Xpartan has no clue with regards to the prognosis with HIV, no clue what the rate of latex allergies is, and no clue as to how quickly a latex allergy can take your life. But he swears he is on a mission of safety when the truth is he is an uneducated dumb ass who puts people at greater health risk if he is listened to. Unsurprisingly, he swallowed up all the government's Covid crap too.

Using condoms for pregnancy prevention is rational. Using condoms for HIV protection is just stupid if you really know what the risks and benefits are. Again, we all know nothing is likely to happen with condom use, but latex allergies are surprisingly common and cause itching and rashes. And in some people, you can go from a rash to full blown anaphylaxis with each subsequent use of a condom.

Do you have any idea why the number of heterosexual males in Africa infected with HIV is so much higher? I'm wondering if there's something going on health wise that could account for it. Or alternately maybe there's a bigger stigma associated with being gay in Africa, so people won't admit to it. I suspect that's less likely.

It is covered in the article I linked. If you read the article I linked, granted it is long, the testing in Africa for HIV is shit, the data in various countries is so poor to the point of not being believed, and like with Covid, many deaths were shoved into the AIDS category.

The author thought people in the coffin business would be booming with the AIDS "epidemic" when in fact they were going out of business. He went to what was called ground zero for AIDS expecting to see a ghost town and saw a city where the population nearly doubled. He then looked into the business of death and thought it would be pristine and it was just as corrupt as any other enterprise.

And who was the lead actor in promoting the AIDS "epidemic"? That fucker Fauci. AIDS is real and so is Covid, but that self serving mother fucker massively exaggerated the risks of both for his own fame and financial benefit.

[PVMonger]

Yet again the point has gone flying over your tiny NPC mind.

Someone from the Trump administration asked Twitter to take down a hateful insult directed toward the President of the United States. Twitter refused. The End.

They didn't attempt to "make it illegal". They didn't collaborate with twitter, the FBI and the rest of the deep state. They simply pointed out that Twitter deleted a huge amount of what it called "hateful" insulting tweets, so would they consider doing it here. Twitter didn't, as was their right, and nothing more happened.

Compare that to the Hunter Biden laptop.

Here we have a vast trove of information detailing corruption in the Biden Crime Family, just weeks before an election.

Where Twitter had refused to remove the anti-Trump tweet, they now did the opposite for Biden. They (and other Big Tech) completely censored and blocked all mention of the laptop, to the point of suspending the account of the New York Post among others.

See the difference? Refuse to remove a hateful anti-Trump tweet, but ferociously block and censor important information about Biden corruption and criminality..

You missed the point. Period.

You complain about censorship and Donnie the Dumbass did exactly that. He or someone in his administration asked Twitter to remove a post he didn't like.

That's censorship.

You didn't know that, of course, because FUX Snooze didn't report it. That doesn't mean it didn't happen. What it means is that FUX Snooze didn't want you to know.

[Tiny 12]

Poverty is the root cause. Partly leading to low condom use, poor education, but also importantly poor diet and therefore compromised immune system.

Poverty also causes husbands to go work away from home in mines. They stay away from home for months on end, in 'barrack' like accommodation on site. When they are away from home for so long, they tend to use local hookers that service the mines. Since polygamy is common place, a guy can get infected in the big cities, then take it back to his brood of wives, and infect them all.

A third excellent post on this subject. I think the ISG Brain Trust has a better handle on the spread of HIV in Africa than the UN and WHO. Seriously. Thanks for an enlightening discussion gentlemen.

[JustTK]

To try to keep this relevant to American Politics, I believe like illiteracy, poverty, and crime, AIDS is more common among Democrats.

Poverty is the root cause. Partly leading to low condom use, poor education, but also importantly poor diet and therefore compromised immune system.

Poverty also causes husbands to go work away from home in mines. They stay away from home for months on end, in 'barrack' like accommodation on site. When they are away from home for so long, they tend to use local hookers that service the mines. Since polygamy is common place, a guy can get infected in the big cities, then take it back to his brood of wives, and infect them all.

[Tiny 12]

Why is HIV so prevalent in hetero males in Africa?

Poverty is the prime reason IMHO. When you're poor, you don't spend money on condoms. When you're poor, you don't spend money on anti-viral treatments. Additionally, if the women involved in the issue don't demand that the man wear a condom, she can become infected. And then she passes the infection on.

Sub-Saharan Africans have a higher level of sexuality. Banging is just normal and expected behavior for them. Their women don't get headaches, and they don't often play dumb mind games like western women do. That's why it's a fun place to visit!

But it obviously does mean there are higher rates of STDs. So stock up on rubbers and prep beforehand.

Excellent points gentlemen. Just really excellent points. (I'm trying to get Tooms to change my nickname from "Good Points Tiny" to "Excellent Points Tiny.")

Since I started wearing condoms religiously, I haven't been reading up on HIV in third world countries. The old explanations were that ulcers on ones penis and STD's like herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhea made people more susceptible to HIV infection. And there were more untreated STD's in Africa. Another explanation was that there was some kind of variant of the virus in Africa that was more infectious. But honestly your explanations make more sense to me.

I'll add one, a variation on what PVMonger said. If you don't have enough money for condoms, maybe anal sex is more common, for birth control. I don't know if that's necessarily a good theory for heterosexual men who are the givers and not the receivers. It could help explain higher rates among women though.

And, no, your flights of fancy into marathon topic-changing conversations here having virtually nothing to do with American Politics, clearly not your expertise, won't distract or misdirect anyone from that uncomfortable truth either.

To try to keep this relevant to American Politics, I believe like illiteracy, poverty, and crime, AIDS is more common among Democrats.

Just kidding! And even now that it's not a death sentence, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

[Chris P]

So you agree that President Trump (or his minions) demanded that Twitter take down a post that he didn't like.

Yet again the point has gone flying over your tiny NPC mind.

Someone from the Trump administration asked Twitter to take down a hateful insult directed toward the President of the United States. Twitter refused. The End.

They didn't attempt to "make it illegal". They didn't collaborate with twitter, the FBI and the rest of the deep state. They simply pointed out that Twitter deleted a huge amount of what it called "hateful" insulting tweets, so would they consider doing it here. Twitter didn't, as was their right, and nothing more happened.

Compare that to the Hunter Biden laptop.

Here we have a vast trove of information detailing corruption in the Biden Crime Family, just weeks before an election.

Where Twitter had refused to remove the anti-Trump tweet, they now did the opposite for Biden. They (and other Big Tech) completely censored and blocked all mention of the laptop, to the point of suspending the account of the New York Post among others.

See the difference? Refuse to remove a hateful anti-Trump tweet, but ferociously block and censor important information about Biden corruption and criminality.

What's worse is that it was not only the Biden campaign and democrats involved in the coverup, but also the FBI and the rest of the Washington deep state. All working in tandem with big tech and the fake news media to block information and create disinformation and fake news.

Up to 50% of people say that they would have switched their vote away from Biden had they known about the contents of the laptop. Its censorship was the clearest and most egregious election-meddling in American history.

The entire media political alphabet agency big tech wall street deep state swamp and their globohomo Agenda (best summarized as "Open Borders and Open Buttholes") is a scam and fraud against the American people. I look forward to the day it is swept away, one way or another.

[Chris P]

Why is HIV so prevalent in hetero males in Africa?

Poverty is the prime reason IMHO. When you're poor, you don't spend money on condoms. When you're poor, you don't spend money on anti-viral treatments. Additionally, if the women involved in the issue don't demand that the man wear a condom, she can become infected. And then she passes the infection on.

Sub-Saharan Africans have a higher level of sexuality. Banging is just normal and expected behavior for them. Their women don't get headaches, and they don't often play dumb mind games like western women do. That's why it's a fun place to visit!

But it obviously does mean there are higher rates of STDs. So stock up on rubbers and prep beforehand.

[EihTooms]

Well, I already refuted your "facts" during the first two weeks I started posting in this thread. I don't see a reason to do it repeatedly. Here are some links from that period.

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2743042.

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2743466.

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...ms#post2744753.

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...ms#post2745982.

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...ms#post2747252.

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...ms#post2747260..

So your substantiation links to show you refuted the facts I have posted with full substantiation take us to previous posts of yours where you couldn't refute my facts with any substantiation links.

LOL. Perfect. Can't beat that for pro Repub Bothsider / Neithersider reasoning.

[Chris P]

The truth is, when you take a more comprehensive and complete understanding (and not a cherry picked one), the state of Maryland, which Baltimore resides in, is one of the top 10 states for education and has some of the best public schools and has the fourth-highest education attainment in the U.S. in 2023.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/st...-for-education

The truth is, the state of Maryland, which Baltimore resides in, was the 2nd best educated state, 2018 and continues to be in the top ten states.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/the-...s-in-2018.html

When you examine education at the state level, you'll see that Maryland is one of the best states to get an education. Sure you'll get pockets of areas that aren't up to par, but that's analogous to most of the country.

What I propose to you is that the funding (which doesn't seem to be a problem, as you put it) for the state of Maryland, leads me to believe, that the funding needs to be better distributed to address the educational resource needs of schools, in areas of lower-income families.

You just made my case stronger.

Maryland as a whole has good educational results. Yet the data I presented shows that Baltimore city, not Maryland, has the fourth highest spending per student in public schools of any area in the country.

So the part of Maryland whose schools receive the highest funding per student also have the worst results (23 schools without a single student testing to his age level proficiency in math, and I believe another 20 or so in which only 1 or 2 students in the entire school did so).

Funding is already distributed far more generously to Baltimore city than the rest of Maryland, which debunks the usual leftist canard, but educational results are far worse in this heavily democrat-controlled area despite this extra funding. Why do you think that is?

[PVMonger]

Interesting link, thanks. It looks like only about 2500 heterosexual males in the USA came down with HIV in 2019. That's not very many. And that number may be high as I imagine some men may have lied about their sexual preferences.

Do you have any idea why the number of heterosexual males in Africa infected with HIV is so much higher? I'm wondering if there's something going on health wise that could account for it. Or alternately maybe there's a bigger stigma associated with being gay in Africa, so people won't admit to it. I suspect that's less likely.

Why is HIV so prevalent in hetero males in Africa?

Poverty is the prime reason IMHO. When you're poor, you don't spend money on condoms. When you're poor, you don't spend money on anti-viral treatments. Additionally, if the women involved in the issue don't demand that the man wear a condom, she can become infected. And then she passes the infection on.

[Chris P]

Of my list of 10, all were invented in the private sector, except for the internet, which Al Gore invented

ROFL! I'm sure that's on Eihtooms's totally accurate list of great democrat party achievements.

[PVMonger]

And here you go again with all the name calling. What is with you guys and Trump? You cannot quit him. As to your point, it already has been addressed better than I ever could by Matt Taibbi himself.

I did not see the story about Trump until yesterday. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...banned-twitter.

However, as Taibbi notes, House hearings were held last week, at which one witness told a story about Donald Trump asking to remove a mean tweet by Chrissy Teigen.

The press went bananas. Now that was big news!

And so, Taibbi throws down the gauntlet in the latest 'Twitter Files', "purely to show the bankruptcy of media in this area".

If a president freaking out about one tweeter is news, surely a USA Senator finking on three hundred-plus of his constituents also must be?

The fact that mainstream outlets ignored the Schiff story but howled about Teigen shows what they're about.

Responses like this are designed to keep blue-leaning audiences especially focused on moronic partisan spats, obscuring bigger picture narratives..

So you agree that Donnie the Dumbass (or his minions) demanded that Twitter take down a post that he didn't like. Thanks for agreeing with me.

See, this is exactly what "the right" does. You complain how "the left" and "the media" censor "the right" but when things get too heated for "you people", you do the exact same thing that you accuse the other side of doing. You censor them.

"The right" makes a big deal about how government ought to stay out of a company's business, but as soon as a company makes a decision that "the right" doesn't like, "the right" screams for legislation to make it illegal for the company to make that same decision again.

"The right" makes a big deal about how government should be smaller, but as soon as some policies that they don't like are implemented, they are first in line to want to expand government to take control of those same policies.

"The right" is quick to believe Donnie the Dumbass' lies about how the 2020 election was stolen and FUX Snooze and media on the right pushed those claims to the max. And they still do. And the sheep on "the right" believed every word. And now, the Dominion trial has brought to the forefront the fact that FUX Snooze and the rest of rightwingnut media lied to you and made fun of Donnie the Dumbass and his claims in private. All for ratings. The most unfortunate thing, though, is that you won't believe a single word of what has, or will, come out of the trial. You will believe the "out of context" lies, even when Dominion's lawyers present entire emails.

And, by the way, how many times have you called anybody who doesn't subscribe to your worldview "douches" or some similar term? Do you not consider that "name calling"? Evidently not since I have never seen one word of apology from you. At least Chrissie doesn't chastise folks for calling the one-term, twice-impeached former guy Donnie the Dumbass while yelling "globohomo" at the top of his lungs.