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12-21-22 19:49 #11219
Posts: 3353Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
Covid causes blood clots or more correctly it causes the immune system to make blood clots and yes, the process is often like lupus. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2027508.
In their letter to the editor, Bowles et al. (July 16 issue) 1 report on a study in which 20% of the patients with Covid-19 had a prolonged activated partial-thromboplastin time (aPTT), and in 31 of 34 patients, evidence of lupus anticoagulant was detected by means of plasma-based laboratory methods. These findings provide support for a phenomenon described by Wenzel et al. , who found evidence of lupus anticoagulant in 52% of critically ill patients (before the Covid-19 pandemic).
So if you taking a vaccine and "activating the immune system" which fights Covid, wouldn't you expect blood clots? To me, you would have to prove not that the vaccine does produce clots but that it does not.
And yeah, all the data the doctor in that video lists supports the idea that yes, the vaccine does cause a dramatic and often deadly increase from blood clots.
And yes, if the vaccine manufacturers were not given blanket immunity, they would be bankrupt right now from all the lawsuits.
FWIW, TK, covid has been making a comeback but it pares in comparison to the influenza A and RSV being seen now. Of these three virus types, patients with Covid are the least sick by far.
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12-21-22 18:57 #11218
Posts: 1823One for Elvis
Elvis has been banging the heart risk drum for a long time. Whilst I agree on the corruption in pharma and the stupidity of the vax mandates, I have been ignoring the heart issue.
But this chat is very interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3MPnBpfrRk
Don't worry, you won't see it on mainstream TV, bcos alternative ideas are censored in the west.
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12-21-22 18:18 #11217
Posts: 3353Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
He Minerals Management Service (MMS) estimates the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains between 66.6 and 115.1 billion barrels (10.59109 and 18.30109 m3) of undiscovered technically recoverable crude oil, with a mean estimate of 85.9 billion barrels (13.66109 m3).
At $100 a barrel, that is $8. 6 trillion worth of oil and to be clear TK, that is with current technology. Guys in the oil industry I have spoken would easily double that 86 billion barrel estimate. And if you assume better technology and drilling, you could get to $30 trillion and that is just one American asset.
And our government owns huge portions of the Western States, 2. 27 billon acres worth trillions of dollars as well.
The American Midwest has the most productive farm land in the world. Our canal system has more river waterways then the rest of the world combined. Our transportation system, though not without flaws, is also the world's best and of course, we have the strongest military with trillions in equipment.
If you look at the debt in and of itself, which is what everyone does who wants to call the USA's downfall imminent, it is scary, but they always compare it to other things. Countries tend to default when 30% of their total revenue goes to paying down debt. In the USA, last I looked, that number was 7%. And looking at debt without looking at assets is a fool's errand.
Cryptocurrency / bitcoin was supposed to be an antidote to the endless American money printing as was gold. One has gone tits up while the other has done nothing. If a Colombian held his savings in dollars versus pesos over the last 3 years, he would be like 50 or 60% richer today.
Anyone thinking China is going to overtake the USA has not looked into China much. They have the mother of all real estate bubbles and the debt they have accumulated at the local level is at nose bleed levels. Comparing the USA to 1920 Germany is literally insane.
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12-21-22 16:41 #11216
Posts: 1604Excellent post
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
Another thing they are excellent at is "projection". I won't bother to describe what "projection" is and certainly not with a source for the reason mentioned above.
Repubs are also excellent at misusing terms. For instance, they love calling the "National Socialist German Workers Party" "socialist" because the title contains the word "socialist". They rage against ANTIFA and forget that, depending upon their age, their fathers or grandfathers, uncles, etc. Fought AGAINST fascism 80-some-odd years ago.
Repubs have yet to explain how their "red wave" of 2022 turned into a "pink trickle" other than to say, without evidence of course, that various elections were "stolen".
There's a reason that I call them the Moron Brigade.
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12-21-22 16:21 #11215
Posts: 406Can't you read?
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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12-21-22 09:13 #11214
Posts: 1139QAnon / Repub's obsession with bad "metal boxes"
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
This reminds me of something funny, I heard recently. Someone asked, what's with the QAnon/Repubs, weird obsession with "secure metal boxes/containers"?
So, whether it's Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, wanting to removing mailboxes around the country, or various red/swing states removing and banning drop-off boxes or QAnon/MAGA vigilante creepy stalker drop-box watchers, the Repubs, look even more half-witted and crazy, as they demonize and blame those bad "secure metal boxes" for their election loses and their voting numbers.
It is just so comically hilarious, as they continually sell the idea of the bad "metal boxes" ploy, to their gullible base, as means to avoid the hard truths & real problems within the party.
Instead of asking the tough questions: ie.
• Did you run a good candidate?
• Did you properly vet your candidate?
• Did you put forth good ideas, polices and/or messages?
• Did you run a good campaign?
• Was your campaign relevant/specific the needs your constituency or just more Trump election denial rhetoric?
• Did you talk to your constituency?
• Are we putting out a product that a majority of Americans want? Or just more hard line Repub dogma?
And finally, if blaming those bad "metal boxes", isn't enough, the QAnon/Repub spectacle of pantomime and theater, will get out and parade around in nonsense about election fraud, in an attempt to please their base and the pretense of doing something meaningful.
Nope, QAnon\Repubs would rather blame bad "metal boxes", than to introspectively examine party ideology and policies.
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12-21-22 06:18 #11213
Posts: 1139Down the MAGA rabbit-hole
Originally Posted by Elvis 2008 [View Original Post]
But just for fun, laughs and giggles, let's follow Elvis' unhinged logic for a moment, down the rabbit hole.
Notice, that in the magical world of Elvis logic, he and the 75 million supports bleed "orange" and anything negatively said in the media, about Agent Orange, (for reasons unknown) is internalize and projected on one's self, and seen as a real and a personal affront.
So since Donnie "the devil" Dummkopf (aka.Trump, aka.Agent Orange) has behaved very badly and has been called out by the media, for such transgressions, according Elvis' logic, by extension, that would make him and the the 75 million supporters (which are really only just temporary voters), personified as being:
• Lairs
• Pussy Grabbers
• Tax cheats
• Grifter
• Losers
• the Orange Baboons
• Donnie Dumbasses
• Putin's Puppets
• Racists
• Incompetent
• Clowns
• Narcissists
• Bullies
• Ignorant
• Idiots
Welcome to the political magical world of Elvis logic. No political "fairy dust" necessary, to conjure up delusions of MAGA self-loathing!
Donald Trump called ‘the devil’ by Mexican economic minister
https://www.breitbart.com/border/201...-nafta-stance/
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-devi...rtation-501375
According to Elvis logic, all Mexicans, are now racists? Perhaps you shouldn't monger there anymore?
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12-21-22 04:53 #11212
Posts: 5532Not really
Originally Posted by ChuchoLoco [View Original Post]
Clearly, they were so weary of hearing the myths you repeated here repeated everywhere for so many decades that they decided to devote an entire section of their site to debunking them and officially set the record straight once and for all.
LOL. Whenever the topic of "What meaningful accomplishment have Repubs done for America in the past 20,30, 50 or 100 years" comes up, some poor ill-informed pro-Repub soul inevitably races to that "Eisenhower gave us the Interstate Highway System" myth.
But he didn't.
Oh, no doubt that mythical spin on it probably began in 1956, almost 20 years after the hard legislative work and planning began, just to make it look like some great Ike idea and accomplishment. Mainstream Media were no less pro Repub then than they are now.
The Federal Highway Administration simply got sick of being asked about it so often to settle bar bets or whatever that they finally had to include the fully debunking of that myth as well as a couple of others you tried to float here right on their website.
And, mind you, if you scroll down that page you will see the information was updated in 2019. That was a time when the latest Repub in the White House had already flushed Trillions down the shitter with nothing but fewer jobs created and zero economic gain to show for it. And it was also an administration chock full of the most and biggest liars in USA potus administration history.
So if there was ever a time when Repubs could have gotten into the government data bases to re-write and revise history, twist and spin it to make it at least appear that, yep, once upon a time in the past 100 years a Repub really did do something meaningful for America, that was the time for it.
But they couldn't.
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12-21-22 04:19 #11211
Posts: 5532Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
As a DINO, she voted to help the wealthy get wealthier at the great expense of everyone else just like ALL of the Repub Senators did.
My portfolio is doing fine without my hourly, daily, weekly or monthly attention, thanks.
How was your portfolio doing at this same point in Trump's presidency when you apparently didn't short the market at his election or inauguration yet it is likely the stock market will have done better by now under Biden than it did under Trump?
Maybe your trusted formula actually should have been based on which Party won the White House rather than that yield curve thingy. It would have worked out better for you at this point in each of the two most recent presidencies. And it would have worked out much, much, much better for you if you had done it that way in the previous 5-6 presidencies!
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12-21-22 02:25 #11210
Posts: 3353Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
And as you say, the Democrats are the rich, and we got a first hand look at where that Covid stimulus money was going in the Twitter files.
While regular businesses with hard working people were shut down, we saw the gobs of money tossed to the Twitter censors and their FBI overloads. That was "essential" labor donchaknow.
And I know that Dems are richer than Republicans because the new game is taking over government and making sure government money flows to the companies which support the Democrats. I repeat, look at where the stimulus money went and who it benefitted the most.
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Oh, yeah, I forgot. You do not check it. It is probably doing great.
2023 cannot be any worse. I mean, look who is in office right?
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12-21-22 02:06 #11209
Posts: 3353Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
So sorry, Spidy, the only thing less surprising than your outrage is how clueless you are about yourself. You are acting like a KKK member offended for being called a racist.
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12-20-22 18:06 #11208
Posts: 406Sources are worthless
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/history.cfm but you need to type it.
This is the perfect example of why sources, in this case the same one, are worthless. You can look and find a source to back up whatever.
Funny about tee time. Definitely agree on that one.
P.S: I was a math wiz in my much younger days and math has nothing to do with this discussion. You took my original post the wrong way and started with the wise ass remarks and I followed with same. Enough said about everything.
Ps2: same hook, line and sinker that you swallowed.
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12-20-22 06:28 #11207
Posts: 1139Just to be clear on prejudices...
Originally Posted by Elvis [View Original Post]
examples/proof of said scurrilous infractions, from the accused BMs.
But no doubt and true to form, much like your QAnon\Repub election denying brethren, who continually make up false claims about election fraud by the Dems, without proof and substantiated evidential facts, you only serve to incriminate yourself of the very thing you are accusing other of being.
Just for the Record:
For the record, when you say "...there are against people who vote Republican.", it couldn't be further from the truth. Unlike the Repubs, who insidiously and maniacally plot to subvert, suppress and deny Americans the right to vote, I love Americans who get out and vote, period.
What now? You lost me on so many levels with, "Again, PVM, Tooms, and Spidy are the most prejudiced people...". Really? Compared to whom? How would you know? Is Tiny 12, really supposed to believe that?
Just because we (Dems) provide opposing arguments, counterpoints and disagree with (what I often consider, IMHO) political Repub rhetoric or right-wing dogma, you call us "the most prejudiced
people" and "there are against people who vote Republican."Really!? Is that really what you think?
Just to be clear:
TO BE CLEAR, I don't care (or give a flying f#cK,), if you vote for the Dems, the Repubs, or for the Independents. I care about the ease of access, available, seamless and uncomplicated voting; and of course, the right for ALL eligible Americans to VOTE! PERIOD!!!
TO BE CLEAR, I'm HERE to argue the governing politics and policies of Dems and Repub political parties, or politics from the World at large, as it my pertain to the US. And of course those politicians, placed in office to "dutifully", "responsibly" and with earnest "accountability", deemed to carry out and serve the will of their respective constituencies.
TO BE CLEAR, I'm mostly "against" the boneheaded, knucklehead, wrongheaded, misguided, bias, unfair, unjust, discriminatory and partisan policies and laws that go against rights, wishes of the majority of Americans, be it Dems or Repubs. It just so happens, Repubs fall into this category more often than not.
TO BE CLEAR, while I suspect YOU, Elvis, may take the discussion here personally, I DO NOT! ...IT'S NOT PERSONAL for me! (Truth be told, it actually been fun, time permitted!)
TO BE CLEAR, you continue to be you. I wouldn't have it any other way. Continue to call me names, if that makes you sleep better at nights, as I'm a big-boy and can take it (figuratively speaking). But don't project your biases, bigotry or prejudices on me, without providing examples of me committing said infractions.
TO BE CLEAR, (although you and Tiny 12 may think otherwise), it's not a "Dems good" and "Repubs bad" thing either. I just happen to think and believe, by and large, Dems do a way better job in office, servicing the needs of most Americans, than when Repubs are in office. Heck, if Repubs made better polices and stood for more just & equal rights and laws for Americans, I'd vote Red.
TO BE CLEAR, (for Tiny 12 and other BMs reading this), Elvis, I know you posted/responded to Tiny 12, but I just wanted to MAKE IT CLEAR, I am not attacking Tiny 12. Tiny 12 has always been respectful in his posts (and has made his arguments, without the "D-bag" type name calling and childish antics, towards other BMs) and has always pretty much, stuck to providing good counterpoints to the topics of political discussion.
Clear enough?
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12-20-22 02:13 #11206
Posts: 5532I'll bet this is a response you didn't preduct
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
And how does the fact that ALL of the other 50 Senators did absolutely nothing for their taxpayer-funded paycheck and did not support the tax on the wealthy either give them a pass on what was in the bill? Since when?
Oh, by the way, Democratic voters drive and produce the vast majority of the USA economy, accounting for 70% of the country's entire GDP by 2020.
And that is up from 64% when Hillary won the most votes in 2016:
Democratic counties represent 70% of U.S. GDP, 2020 election shows
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/elec...s-economy.html
KEY POINTS
The 2020 elections, chaotic and marked by races too close to call, have nonetheless reaffirmed that, at least in Washington, the two parties now speak for markedly different segments of the U.S. economy.
President Donald Trump carried 2,497 counties across the country that together generate 29% of the American economy, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution.
President-elect Joe Biden won 477 counties that together generate 70% of U.S. GDP.
These differences, if they persist or worsen, could result in partisan gridlock for years to come, a researcher wrote.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/lat...TTc2xxNr7NITHY
So whatever Repubs, Pro Repub Bothsiders, Pro Repub Neithersiders or whatever think they know about a complex national economy like that of the USA is practically irrelevant.
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12-19-22 21:54 #11205
Posts: 1823Economic decline
Superb presentation on economic decline of USA, with parallels to 20th century Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-eCnCneyA