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06-14-21 21:24 #3431
Posts: 1044Originally Posted by GDreams [View Original Post]
2. https://nypost.com/2021/06/02/fauci-...neered-emails/ - "Dr. Anthony Fauci was warned that the coronavirus had possibly been "engineered" and appeared to be taking reports about it seriously — at the same time he was publicly downplaying the notion of the virus being created in a lab, according to his emails. Andersen also noted that he and others "all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory" ".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dy-claims.html - "COVID-19 'has NO credible natural ancestor' and WAS created by Chinese scientists who then tried to cover their tracks with 'retro-engineering' to make it seem like it naturally arose from bats. The paper's authors, British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr. Birger Sørensen, wrote that they have had 'prima facie evidence of retro-engineering in China' for a year. But were ignored by academics and major journals."
Are you seriously trying to tell us that of all the places in all the world, the virus just *happened* to occur, completely naturally, right next to the only virology institute in China, and one of the biggest in the world? LOL. It's like finding a little kid with chocolate all over his face, and his mom asks him where the chocolate bars went and he's like "I don't know".
3. British Medical Journal: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n521 - "Closing schools is not evidence based and harms children. School closures have been implemented internationally with insufficient evidence for their role in minimising covid-19 transmission and insufficient consideration of the harms to children. Accumulating evidence shows that teachers and school staff are not at higher risk of hospital admission or death from covid-19 compared with other workers."
You really are absolutely full to the brim of fake news shit, aren't you.
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06-14-21 20:28 #3430
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by Vagabundo1 [View Original Post]
The reality is the financial backers of the Democratic Party chose this former prosecutor who had been soundly rejected by the voters. She has no political base, and apparently no policy of her own. She can, in other words, be counted on to follow her marching orders, much as Obama had done. It's a shameless sign of our times that both candidates and voters are exploited on account of their skin color and gender.
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06-14-21 20:06 #3429
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
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06-14-21 19:18 #3428
Posts: 1993Anti-Semites always need an enemy
Originally Posted by Golfinho [View Original Post]
It's funny, how both left-wing and write-wing nutheads have fallen in love with Counterpunch, a willing disseminator of Kremlin bot propaganda.
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06-14-21 16:24 #3427
Posts: 1604Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
No wonder republikkkans believe that trump won, that the vaccine changes your DNA, etc. Why not say the earth is flat? After all, it must be since all pictures from space only show one side.
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06-14-21 16:23 #3426
Posts: 1068Biden G7
Originally Posted by Beno69 [View Original Post]
1. Interrupted Boris Johnson twice because he forgot what Boris said. Has to be corrected by Boris.
2. Broke protocol with the queen.
3. Got Syria and Libya mixed up 4 times.
4. Congratulated by Putin for helping Russia energy while destroying USA energy.
What a fool!
Trump looks awfully good right now in comparison to this clown.
I wonder how the idiots on here are going to spin Biden incompetence at G7?
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06-14-21 16:16 #3425
Posts: 1604Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
"Children are not vulnerable to covid". Just stop with the lies. Less vulnerable? Sure, but not "not vulnerable". https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019.../symptoms.html.
"Hydroxychloroquine is effective". Only in the warped minds of republikkkans. Not one randomiszed, double-blind study has proven that it is effective. But kkkonservatives would rather believe that because it "worked" on your cousin's boyfriend's uncle's plumber, IT IS A CURE. Stop listening to Tucker.
Ahh, the republican't "open border" argument. Please include one source where any Democratic politician from anywhere used the term "I support open borders."
Racist and republikkkans hate critical race theory because they can't handle the truth. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...lained/618828/.
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06-14-21 15:50 #3424
Posts: 753Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covi...ace-ethnicity/
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06-14-21 15:21 #3423
Posts: 287Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
But I don't know what repeating the Trump Mafia fake news here have to do with mongering?
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06-14-21 14:54 #3422
Posts: 2286Tech censorship
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...o_society.html
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed signing a bill he said will protect state residents' ability to access and participate in social media platforms and allows them to fight back against de-platforming and censorship during an interview on FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures. ".
GOV. RON DESANTIS: What they censored was actually true. They called it a conspiracy theory if you said this may have leaked from the lab. They were also censoring around the same time last year any criticisms of lockdowns. And we know now lockdowns didn't work. States like Florida that were open were better off for it.
And so you often hear people say, hey, these are private companies, they can do what they want, yadda, yadda, yadda. But here's an example of working with Fauci where Facebook, you could argue, is essentially acting as an arm of the state, because they're suppressing what the government wants suppressed.
And so I think this issue with big tech is unlike anything we have seen. They have massive amounts of power. These are monopolies that are much stronger than the monopolies of the early 20th century. They control, in effect, a handful of companies, a huge percentage of the political speech in this country.
And so I think, when you have a situations, they're not just censoring based on partisanship. Obviously, we have seen conservatives be censored. But when they're censoring things about some of the most important issues that we have ever addressed, how COVID started, whether lockdowns work. You know they're really doing damage to society.
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06-14-21 13:46 #3421
Posts: 1068Vaccine
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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06-14-21 13:45 #3420
Posts: 1068Canada
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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06-14-21 13:39 #3419
Posts: 1068G7
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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06-14-21 13:34 #3418
Posts: 1604Originally Posted by Golfinho [View Original Post]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...s-vaccine-poll
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/u...-vaccines.html
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/202...e-anti-vaxxers
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...ed-blue-divide
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06-14-21 10:41 #3417
Posts: 2286Kamala is a gift to Republicans, Desantis 2024
https://www.economist.com/united-sta...he-republicans
Here is what the millions of Americans who take their opinions from Fox News and related outlets have been hearing about Kamala Harris. The vice-president was put in charge of the southern border because she "has brown skin". Her picture book, "Superheroes Are Everywhere", was issued to migrant children, maybe corruptly. ("Is she profiting from Biden's border crisis?" tweeted Republican supremo Ronna McDaniel.) Metropolitan elites worship her; Vogue, which ignored lovely Melania Trump, put her (her!) on its cover. Her entrepreneur niece, Meena Harris, is an anti-white racist queen of cancel culture.
In other words, while the mainstream media soberly cover Ms Harris's efforts to win Joe Biden's trust and master her portfolio (which includes Mexico and Guatemala but not the border, where her book has not been issued to anyone), she is being relentlessly defined on the right as a dishonest member of the corrupt elite with an agenda alien to white America. Tucker Carlson—who during the election campaign refused to pronounce Ms Harris's Hindu name correctly—has neatly synthesised these two slanders. "She's a globalist superhero. Just like Voldemort, you can't really know how to pronounce her name."
So far, so predictable, you might say. But Ms Harris is no ordinary vice-president. As the first non-white, female vice-president of a party that has made diversity an organising principle, she is the presumptive next Democratic presidential nominee. It is hard, even at this early stage, to imagine her being denied. Given the 78-year-old Mr Biden's age, her elevation could be only three years off. And the election that would ensue—the Republicans' worsening derangement suggests—may well be as crucial as the one just past. This raises the question of whether she has what it takes to rise above the right-wing slanders and appeal to middle America, as Barack Obama did, or whether she will be destroyed by them, as Hillary Clinton was. And it is making senior Democrats nervous. "Everyone is saying, 'Oh God, Kamala is next and then we're in trouble' says a Democrat close to the White House.
Oratory aside, Mr Obama's success was based on an ability to reassure white Americans that was rooted in his intimate knowledge of them. The son of a white woman, brought up by his white grandmother, he promised better times for all and rarely mentioned race unprompted. Ms Harris is a different case. She is the daughter of South Asian and Jamaican immigrants, brought together by the civil-rights movement, who brought her up as black. Though nothing like the vindictive race-warrior of Mr Carlson's fevered imagining, she leans into black identity politics more than the former president did.
This is a good way to win elections in California. It would be a disastrous general-election strategy, as shown by the white backlash to Mr Obama, notwithstanding his carefulness, and by Ms Harris's failure to impress even black voters during her hapless presidential bid. African-Americans tend to support the Democratic candidate who seems likeliest to appeal to white voters, on which basis they preferred Mr Biden. And her Hail Mary effort to turn things round by accusing Mr Biden of racial insensitivity during a televised debate ("I do not believe you are a racist but.") only confirmed them in their choice. Polls suggested that black voters found it cynical and insincere.
The coverage of her current job has also been mixed. She has been accused of failing to carve out a well-defined "Veep" role or hire a sufficiently politically savvy staff. This is probably unfair. Her pressing need is to do whatever Mr Biden (with whom she had some making up to do) wants in order to make his administration successful. And she appears to be doing that. She was involved in the recent Middle-Eastern diplomacy. She is due to visit Mexico City next week. Though inexperienced in foreign policy, she is a polished front-woman who espouses Mr Biden's internationalist views. The criticism of her seems rather to reflect not only the underlying anxiety about her ability to succeed him, but also the unusual nature of her position.
Ever since Walter Mondale upgraded the vice-presidency in the late 1970's, most of its occupants have spent four years trying to make themselves useful; then a second term, if it transpired, laying the groundwork for a presidential run. The carping suggests Ms Harris is expected to do both things at once, which is unrealistic; and indeed she would be castigated if she tried to.
There is one political task she cannot delay, however. That is to understand why her presidential campaign failed, which was not mainly to do with her race or gender, however much of an electoral burden they may be. Her stump speech sounded like group-written marketing spiel (something about wanting to "prosecute the case against Donald Trump" Her promise—quickly rescinded—to scrap private medical insurance suggested a politician who had no clear idea where or what she stood for: whether on the left, with an emphasis on expanding the government, or towards the centre, with more focus on enterprise and opportunity. This was why the pundits and donors who at first flocked to her quickly moved on. It was in turn why she resorted to playing the race card against Mr Biden. No wonder she makes some Democrats nervous.
Kamala chameleon.
She should reflect on the fact that the centrist Mr Biden won as Mr Obama had before him: by promising hope, opportunity and togetherness for all. There is no evidence that Democrats can get round Americans' mistrust of government and vexed racial politics any other way (however they may hope to govern). Mr Obama, a big admirer of Ms Harris, must believe she can pull off the same trick. Talking up her vice-presidential credentials was one of his two big political calls last year. The other was his initial dismissiveness of Mr Biden. It would be a terrible shame if the former president turned out to be wrong on both counts.