American Politics

[EihTooms]

Eih, is Maher lying in that episode, knowingly or not? If so, where?

If he's not lying -- then, well, he's a comedian. He's not a Democratic operative. He has the right not to like everything Dems are doing and talk about it loud and clear.

And he even has the right to be wrong about it.

If he unwittingly influenced nudged some folks to stay home on the election night or even vote for the opposing candidate, well, it happened. What is he supposed to do if he feels a certain way -- lie? Keep his mouth shut?

And come on, at least Donald Trump is not on him. That's just wrong.

I guess, we'll have to agree to disagree here.

Oh, he's lying in damn near every "joke" that looks and sounds a lot more like a fired up, holier than thou, phony outrage Repub campaign speech than a comedy routine.

Two of the more topical ones that certainly have not aged well;.

So Dems passed laws or forced book sellers and libraries to remove Dr. Seuss books, did they?

Nope.

https://apnews.com/article/dr-seuss-...f443594c174513

The publisher decided to stop publishing them. A free-market Capitalist business decision. Nothing to do with Dems.

Which now begs the question; how much did Bill Maher's pro Repub campaign talking point "joke" provide cover for his beloved Repubs who are now in fact and indeed passing laws to ban books?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/polit...tis/index.html

So beloved Repub Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is held up as a shining example of good ol' traditionally mislabeled "Law and Order" Repubs while apparently all Dem pols everywhere, randomly choose any Dem candidate for any office, are "legalizing shop-lifting" and especially in California, huh?

Nope.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-160551360299

However, it is a fact that California comes in 2nd with the highest per capita robbery rate. But oh look! Texas is not meaningfully far behind at 6th place. And, a Texas bonus, Texas has a higher violent crime rate than California does. As does about a dozen other Repub Red States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ent_crime_rate

https://247wallst.com/special-report...bberies/?amp=1

Oh, and as long as Bill Maher is comically campaigning on the premise that having Ted Cruz in the Senate is so much better for America's rule of law and avoiding lost wealth and value than apparently any Dem, since that pro-Repub, Dem-Bashing comedy routine aired his shining example of Law and Order, Ted Cruz, voted to let Donald Trump go scott free for inciting and leading a violent cop-attacking, cop-maiming, cop-killing Insurrection in an effort to overturn a free and fair election, overthrow American democracy and, most pertinent to this particular point, set him up to run for so-called potus again so he can once again add to his and his Party's legacy as the Masters of producing one horrific downturn, massive jobs destruction and the wiping out of Trillions in USA household wealth after another.

There should be no doubt why Bill Maher is the new Repub Party Phony Outrage Talking Points Darling. Oh, and he repeats those easily debunked Repub campaign talking points with such learned conviction before his predominantly Dem audience too.

[MarquisdeSade1]

"I agree that KN95 and N95 masks worn correctly and consistently can provide good protection. I wore a mask as recently as today, when I was on an airport train and when someone in a plane next to me was coughing. In addition to wearing a mask from time to time, I've been vaccinated and boosted three times, and never to my knowledge have gotten COVID.

I also wear condoms, mainly for the reason you describe above, in bold text. I don't want to pick up a disease and then pass it to a woman I sleep with. The repercussions of a STD if your date happens to be in a committed relationship can be severe. Not to mention that women can get STD's like chlamydia, never know it, and then become sterile. HPV is another big one, that can be life threatening when it leads to cancer.

So yes, I'm going to wear masks, but I'm not going to tell the Marquis that he should. That's his business. Good quality masks are readily available and those of us who want to protect ourselves can.

Similarly, I'm not going to tell you to wear a condom. That's none of my business either. Presumably you and your partners know the risks and accept them. ".

I was probably one of the first people vaxed in the world in 2020 yet I don't wear masks, not even on planes flying to and from South America during the global CCP virus.

Question came to mind ET is extremely virulently opposed to using condoms.

Yet hes pro mask? Why because its part of the sham that stole the election in 2020 and hes hoping to repeat it in 2024.

BTW Fauci is the same scumbag that also brought us condoms if anyone remembers him from the HIV sham in the early 80's.

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Take a look at the video link Tooms kindly provided, starting at 2:25. Gee, those wacky Democrats are a barrel full of laughs!

Yes that's why ET calls social issues sucker issues, yeah they are if you're a loser on the left that buys into them all (or you live 10000 miles away from the carnage of the 24/7 crime wave sweeping across Dirty Joes America).

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainm...ar-to-the-kkk/

I used to be a member of the ACLU when in college in the 80's you know when they stood for things like free speech FOR EVERYONE not just them.

The ACLU fought in court and won for the right for Nazis to March thru Skokie Illinois an all Jewish suburb of Chicago full of Holocaust survivors in 1977.

Imagine the ACLU doing that today.

Instead this is what they spend membership dues on.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ld-murder.html

Thats why ET never wants to discuss these things, even Bangkok Bob cannot defend the indefensible.

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/bid...tical-disaster

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...id=CNR-01-0623

[EihTooms]

I agree that KN95 and N95 masks worn correctly and consistently can provide good protection. I wore a mask as recently as today, when I was on an airport train and when someone in a plane next to me was coughing. In addition to wearing a mask from time to time, I've been vaccinated and boosted three times, and never to my knowledge have gotten COVID.

I also wear condoms, mainly for the reason you describe above, in bold text. I don't want to pick up a disease and then pass it to a woman I sleep with. The repercussions of a STD if your date happens to be in a committed relationship can be severe. Not to mention that women can get STD's like chlamydia, never know it, and then become sterile. HPV is another big one, that can be life threatening when it leads to cancer.

So yes, I'm going to wear masks, but I'm not going to tell the Marquis that he should. That's his business. Good quality masks are readily available and those of us who want to protect ourselves can.

Similarly, I'm not going to tell you to wear a condom. That's none of my business either. Presumably you and your partners know the risks and accept them.

I agree with that and your condom analogy is appropriate.

Widespread recommendations, purchases and use of condoms has clearly not prevented pregnancies and childbirth from occurring. And if it was easy to determine that most people bought crap condoms that would be more useful as a spaghetti strainer, only wore them one out of 5 fucks and in that 5th fuck quickly removed them between the first and second squirt then plunged back into action for the third, well, it would be reasonable to state that "as a whole", condoms aren't working as advertised.

However, it would be malpractice for a responsible medical professional, a scientist, to declare that "an individual" who buys a good quality condom, wears it properly and keeps it on from the moment of erection until his lady trots to the bathroom afterwards is wasting his time, money and effort because condoms "don't work" to prevent pregnancy.

However, although it might be wrong to demand someone else wear a mask, in the case of many employers, private property owners and so on, they often do have the right to demand "no mask, no entry or no service", the same as a sex partner has the right to demand "no condom, no sex. ".

[EihTooms]

Eih, is Maher lying in that episode, knowingly or not? If so, where?

If he's not lying -- then, well, he's a comedian. He's not a Democratic operative. He has the right not to like everything Dems are doing and talk about it loud and clear.

And he even has the right to be wrong about it.

If he unwittingly influenced nudged some folks to stay home on the election night or even vote for the opposing candidate, well, it happened. What is he supposed to do if he feels a certain way -- lie? Keep his mouth shut?

And come on, at least Donald Trump is not on him. That's just wrong.

I guess, we'll have to agree to disagree here.

Of course he has the right to say anything in that regard. But that litany is at least 90% of the Republican Party Campaign Platform since Reagan's second term run. Maybe add Hunter Biden's nothingness laptop and which stalls trannies ought to pee in since then.

Maher elevates those Repub sucker social issues to a level apparently "Bothsides" equal in his mind and hopes he can make it so in our mind to every Great Repub Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction and Trump creating Trump's Pandemic. Essentially only a bit more than a coin flip decision for which side deserves our vote. About as pro Repub of a "Bothsider" position as it gets.

No Dem leadership has seriously proposed or offered legislation for almost any of the silly Repub Campaign talking points he repeats almost every week on one or both of his shows. But the typically crap results of Repub stewardship, all the Great Depressions and Great Recessions and Massive Jobs Destruction and none of the historic positives under Repubs for almost 100 years is inarguably, irrefutable real in the data, historical facts snd record of results.

[Tiny 12]

Fauci is saying the wearing of masks did not and would not be expected to prevent Trump's Pandemic from spreading "as a whole" but that an individual person could better protect himself and others around him if he wore a mask.

Of course, the Wingers who edited his response cut away as he was about to elaborate on the response.

But I would surmise he might have gone on to explain the vast majority of mask wearers likely will not be wearing effective ones, wear them properly in order to get the most out of them or wear them consistently in higher risk situations for the "as a whole" wearing of them to prevent Trump's Pandemic from spreading far, wide and fast enough to still kill a lot of people directly because of it and even more due to the depletion of medical staff, facilities, equipment and rooms in hospitals due to so many people being infected in a short amount of time.

However, that "an individual" determined to wear a good quality mask, wear it properly and wear it consistently would be expected to lessen his chances of spreading it if he happened to be infected knowingly or unknowingly, which is the greater purpose of mask wearing BTW, or being infected by it from others.

Wow. Really? That is too complex a concept for Wingers to understand? And that is the kind of weak brain trigger that drove them to the point of wanting to lynch Dr. Fauci? LOL.

I agree that KN95 and N95 masks worn correctly and consistently can provide good protection. I wore a mask as recently as today, when I was on an airport train and when someone in a plane next to me was coughing. In addition to wearing a mask from time to time, I've been vaccinated and boosted three times, and never to my knowledge have gotten COVID.

I also wear condoms, mainly for the reason you describe above, in bold text. I don't want to pick up a disease and then pass it to a woman I sleep with. The repercussions of a STD if your date happens to be in a committed relationship can be severe. Not to mention that women can get STD's like chlamydia, never know it, and then become sterile. HPV is another big one, that can be life threatening when it leads to cancer.

So yes, I'm going to wear masks, but I'm not going to tell the Marquis that he should. That's his business. Good quality masks are readily available and those of us who want to protect ourselves can.

Similarly, I'm not going to tell you to wear a condom. That's none of my business either. Presumably you and your partners know the risks and accept them.

[Tiny 12]

https://deadline.com/2022/01/bill-ma...ed-1234922380/

Take a look at the video link Tooms kindly provided, starting at 2:25. Gee, those wacky Democrats are a barrel full of laughs!

[Xpartan]

Read or watch Bill Maher in the link below repeat a litany of easily and routinely debunked Repub Party sucker social issues campaign talking points that they run and often win elections on that, even if they were true, which they are not really, offer absolutely nothing to refute the inarguable fact that Repub policies and stewardship overwhemingly result in historic disaster, massive jobs destruction and skyrocketing deficits while Dem policies overwhelmingly result in historic job gains, economic expansion and more balanced budgets.

Sure, Maher does not appear to even realize he is spouting and lending credibility to those classic nothingness Repub campaign talking points for lack of anything of real value for them to run on. So what. The result is he is elevating their nothingness to a level of "real issues" worthy of casting a vote on.

Rush Limbaugh could not have conjured up a more effective way to reach as many Dems and potentially suppress enough of their votes in order to place spectacularly destructive Repub loons like GW Bush and Donald Trump at the helm.

https://deadline.com/2022/01/bill-ma...ed-1234922380/

Eih, is Maher lying in that episode, knowingly or not? If so, where?

If he's not lying -- then, well, he's a comedian. He's not a Democratic operative. He has the right not to like everything Dems are doing and talk about it loud and clear.

And he even has the right to be wrong about it.

If he unwittingly influenced nudged some folks to stay home on the election night or even vote for the opposing candidate, well, it happened. What is he supposed to do if he feels a certain way -- lie? Keep his mouth shut?

And come on, at least Donald Trump is not on him. That's just wrong.

I guess, we'll have to agree to disagree here.

[Tiny 12]

I feel a little too confident after a coupla' three drinks -- that's when I will blithely ask, at a nice dinner party, where the shitter is!

Re: Mexicanisms vs Castellano. The word everyone uses for fuck in Mexico is coger, which sounds incredibly weird in Spain. Alternately, Mexicans are shocked, shocked when they hear a spaniard talking about having to hurry to the airport to fuck his flight.

Haha! Yeah, I knew about that one. My Mexican girlfriend told me to stop using the word.

[John Clayton]

Damn Clayton, you're better than Dickhead! Dickhead used to be a frequent contributor to ISG and Argentina Private, and he lived and taught language in a number of Latin American countries. His knowledge of Spanish was second to none for a Gringo...

I feel a little too confident after a coupla' three drinks -- that's when I will blithely ask, at a nice dinner party, where the shitter is!

Re: Mexicanisms vs Castellano. The word everyone uses for fuck in Mexico is coger, which sounds incredibly weird in Spain. Alternately, Mexicans are shocked, shocked when they hear a spaniard talking about having to hurry to the airport to fuck his flight.

[Tiny 12]

Pretty sure the most common translation of surgical mask is "mscara quirrgica". En Espaa the face coverings we wore during Covid were mascarillas, for sure. In Argentina, Peru, Bolivia barbijo! I've heard tapaboca somewhere. Nasobuco in Cuba. I'm sure I've heard plain old mascara = surgical mask somewhere, just can't say where. Spanish has a lot of regionalisms -- ask for a bathroom in some countries and they say, "you want to take a bath? Then you ask for the toilet in the next country and it turns out you just asked, "where's the shitter at?

Damn Clayton, you're better than Dickhead! Dickhead used to be a frequent contributor to ISG and Argentina Private, and he lived and taught language in a number of Latin American countries. His knowledge of Spanish was second to none for a Gringo.

Cubreboca is used in Mexico. When you say mascara they think about something you might wear for Day of the Dead, or what the bad guys use in lucha libre (professional wrestling.) I've definitely heard and read mascarilla and I bet it was in Spain, as I was there for a couple of weeks during COVID.

"Where's the shitter at" reminds me of something that happened to me years ago. In the classroom I learned that "lengua" meant language. I was speaking with a bilingual hottie I worked with who was kindly letting me practice Spanish with her, and I asked "Te gusta la lengua?" I was trying to ask her if she liked the Spanish language. She got mad as hell and slapped the shit out of me! I'd forgotten that lengua also means tongue! So she thought I asked her if she liked the tongue (DATY). She was Mexican American. I suspect if she'd been from Spain, where I believe "lengua" is used more commonly to mean "language," I'd still have all my teeth.

[EihTooms]

https://dailystormer.in/watch-fauci-...ually-they-do/

Fauci is saying the wearing of masks did not and would not be expected to prevent Trump's Pandemic from spreading "as a whole" but that an individual person could better protect himself and others around him if he wore a mask.

Of course, the Wingers who edited his response cut away as he was about to elaborate on the response.

But I would surmise he might have gone on to explain the vast majority of mask wearers likely will not be wearing effective ones, wear them properly in order to get the most out of them or wear them consistently in higher risk situations for the "as a whole" wearing of them to prevent Trump's Pandemic from spreading far, wide and fast enough to still kill a lot of people directly because of it and even more due to the depletion of medical staff, facilities, equipment and rooms in hospitals due to so many people being infected in a short amount of time.

However, that "an individual" determined to wear a good quality mask, wear it properly and wear it consistently would he expected to lessen his chances of spreading it if he happened to be infected knowingly or unknowingly, which is the greater purpose of mask wearing BTW, or being infected by it from others.

Wow. Really? That is too complex a concept for Wingers to understand? And that is the kind of weak brain trigger that drove them to the point of wanting to lynch Dr. Fauci? LOL.

[MarquisdeSade1]

OK Marquis, I'm going to tell you the only useful thing you'll ever learn from the American Politics thread. The word is cubreboca, not mascara. If you tell someone "no mas mascaras", you may get an ass kicking. He could think you're saying his face looks like a Halloween mask. Or if he believes you're speaking English or Spanglish, you're calling him a trannie. Best to use cubreboca.

Me get my ass kicked? Doubtful, not around here at least LMAO.

Google translate says mask = mascara.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/...utm_term=third

[John Clayton]

OK Marquis, I'm going to tell you the only useful thing you'll ever learn from the American Politics thread. The word is cubreboca, not mascara...

Pretty sure the most common translation of surgical mask is "máscara quirúrgica". En España the face coverings we wore during Covid were mascarillas, for sure. In Argentina, Peru, Bolivia barbijo! I've heard tapaboca somewhere. Nasobuco in Cuba. I'm sure I've heard plain old mascara = surgical mask somewhere, just can't say where. Spanish has a lot of regionalisms -- ask for a bathroom in some countries and they say, "you want to take a bath? Then you ask for the toilet in the next country and it turns out you just asked, "where's the shitter at?

[Tiny 12]

Por favor no mas mascaras

https://dailystormer.in/watch-fauci-...ually-they-do/

OK Marquis, I'm going to tell you the only useful thing you'll ever learn from the American Politics thread. The word is cubreboca, not mascara. If you tell someone "no mas mascaras", you may get an ass kicking. He could think you're saying his face looks like a Halloween mask. Or if he believes you're speaking English or Spanglish, you're calling him a trannie. Best to use cubreboca.