American Politics

[EihTooms]

Now the demonstrably Repub-leaning RealClearPolitics' Generic Ballot Midterm Election poll of polls shows a scant 1. 3 percentage point advantage for Repubs with a normal MoE+/- being about 3. 5 points. That's down from something like 10+ points not long ago.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...vote-7361.html

Yes, we all know Dems could have as much as a 5 percentage point lead over Repubs in these polls and still lose a few seats in Congress thanks to the extreme gerrymandering / cheating done by the Repubs and Trump's America-hating unprecedented manipulatIon of the recent census count.

Yes, we all know Repubs have spent the last 2-3 years installing America-hating, election-denying QAnon loons in state and local ballot-collecting and vote-counting positions, proudly poised to throw out and not count how ever many likely Dem ballots and Dem votes to make sure their beloved Repubs win no matter what so they can get back to their Party's primary mission to shit on America, destroy its economy and wipe out millions of jobs.

Yes, we all know with the Party not occupying the White House winning Congressional seats in 37 of the 40 midterms since the Civil War, all the Repubs need to do is sit down and STFU for the next few months and they'll probably come up "winners" this time around with no cheating, no "murderous caravan heading for our border" tales, no "CRT" nonsense, no "wokeism" junk, no fabricated "defund the police" crap, etc required.

But with Oil / Brent prices falling 15-20% in just this past month, the electorate's attention therefore shifting a bit to the aforementioned by others existential threat, clear and present danger to American Democracy posed by the Repub Party, all coincident to the tightening of those Generic Ballot Poll numbers, Repubs now might actually have to put in some rare and uncharacteristic work trying to explain just why on earth anyone not an America-hating QAnon loon should vote for them in November.

[JustTK]

To use an example from a recent post, Ted Kennedy. the 1965 Immigration Act. He promised the American people that it would not change the demographics of the country, despite knowing that it would, and it was the beginning of the Great Replacement that we are seeing now.
He and other leading leftists lie because they know that the majority of people do not want to be part of their vision. Open borders; mass third world immigration; homosexuals performing sex acts upon each other in public parades; child trannies; anti-white quotas and discrimination; fourth wave feminism; and "hate speech" laws.
The right, by contrast, simply wants to maintain the basic values and population that built and made America great in the first two centuries of its existence. Not much need to lie about anything, because that is what most regular people want too.

I am not sure who Ted Kennedy was. I will take it as correct that he was / is a leftist. I will also accept that he lied. But what I cannot accept is that "this is the reason leftists lie". I say that bcos we all know that right wingers lie for similar reasons too. So it is not a case of a 'reason why leftists lie', it is why all politicians lie. So that to me is gaslighting. Creating a false dialogue to blame and create anger at leftists.

The policies you mention. Unfotunately I do not know many people at all who are for open borders. Left or right. And the other policies. Well, there is a wide range there. I am not sure if they would be left or right wing policies. BUt I do get your last comment, about wanting to marginalise and oppress minorities. It is a common theme when one's own policy preferences lead to outcomes that are self-defeating, to look to strike out and blame the innocent minorities. So an example. Right wingers want free trade, lower state interference. That leads to replacing replacing higher paid labour with cheap foriegn labour. So then they decide they no longer want free trade, now they want protection from immigrants. They look back to "the golden years" when free migration allowed their ancestors an opportunity at a better life, when they could exploit and oppress other minorities of that time. But now they want to change the laws again and deny others those same opportunities.

This short video explains it very well. The bigotry, selfishness and hate encompassed in the Great Replacement Theory. Why facism is riising again among the among ignorant racists. Take a look. Its quite interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzR8aoDQ8W8

[MarquisdeSade1]

If a crooked, unprincipled, America-hating "fighter" Repub so-called potus could have done what you think Biden is too weak and old to do, Trump would have saved time, not waited for a SCOTUS justice to die and would have DONE it.

But he didn't because he couldn't.

Not even the craftiest, most highly motivated and determined America-hating Repub Senator of all time, Mitch McConnell, could get the SCOTUS packed the way you and some "whiny" joutnalists expect Biden to do if he had another America-hating Repub in the White House and only 48 America-hating Repub Senate seats.

Considering Biden's connection and knowledge of the Senate, he probably knows better than any POTUS since LBJ who and where he has any chance of votes on both sides of the aisle to get anything done, which battles can be won and which battles will just go down in counterproductive defeat.

The last thing I'd want the only people standing between America and Trumpistan to do is listen to the opinion and advice of typically pro Repub Mainstream Media journalists and pundits for anything.

You want the country run by America-hating "fighters" whose overall results throughout most of their entire existence have been, not surprisingly, the absolute worst of all time, by all means don't vote for Dems. Vote for Repubs.

That's what the Repub Party is there for.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/...ed-narratives/

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/...-planet-earth/

[PVMonger]

DINO wingers Manchin and Sinema are not in the White House.

Please explain how Joe Biden or anyone else in the WH does what you suggest with 48 Senate votes.

RethugliKKKans are in love with the math that says that 48 is greater than 60.

[PVMonger]

Yeah, and this is why fools like you should not be quoting anything medical.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditio...-patients.html

A study published this week in The Lancet showed a high mortality rate described to the media as "horrific" by the study authors among older patients, particularly those with underlying conditions. The study itself looked at critically ill patients with a median age of 62 who were treated at two New York City hospitals in March and April. Looking at those over age 80 who were put on a ventilator, the authors found that more than 80 percent did not survive. By comparison, no patients under the age of 30 died at the two hospitals, and only a small number in that age group had to be put on ventilators.

In April, another study published in the medical journal JAMA looked at the outcomes of 5,700 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the New York area, finding that only 3. 3 percent of 1,151 patients who required ventilation had been discharged alive as of April 4, with almost a quarter dying and 72 percent remaining in the hospital. This is a significantly higher death rate than what's usually seen for patients put on ventilators for other reasons in the past, such as bacterial pneumonia or collapsed lungs.

And this is why you and V are so stupid. You guys claimed ventilators are good when they in fact were killing people right and left. Cuomo says that he needed 30,000 ventilators, and you just assumed they were needed. Truth is they were not needed and we wasted all that money on ventilators that were put in mothballs but hey for you dumb Dems, that was "doing something". And you both stupidly focused on oxygen like doctors did early on.

The main reason people with COVID-19 have required ventilators is that they developed a condition known as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), inflammation in the lungs that makes it extremely difficult to breathe. But there's a specific subgroup of patients known as "happy hypoxics" who may have different

You were the person who said that the problem with COVID was low oxygen, not ventilation. Ventilators pump oxygen into the body. If the body needs oxygen (in other words, the person needs help breathing) you put them on a ventilator in order to provide more oxygen. Ventilators do not "ventilate" the body like by poking holes in it.

Now you are using recent studies to say that what doctors did two years ago was the wrong approach. Wow. Or that 80-year-old people required ventilators and lots of them died and 30-year-old people didn't require ventilators and they lived. Another classic Elvis post hoc ergo propter hoc argument. That's why you shouldn't post about anything medical. Your analysis is similar to "I ate Wheaties instead of Corn Flakes for breakfast yesterday and later in the day I wrecked by car. So Wheaties caused me to wreck my car".

The fact that doctors now know more is what science is. When you know more, you make changes to your approach. But anti-science RethugliKKKans don't see it that way because they take the "a broken clock is right twice a day" approach. Your approach is "Let's blame doctors for the approach they took two years ago because they know more now. ".

If you were smarter, you'd be Trump

[EihTooms]

Look, reports from reputable media and honest journalists indicate there is nothing short of a clusterfuck in the White House right now. I wish I could share your optimism, but I don't. I know crackpots will be happy with this admission, but hey, they have all the rights to be happy anyway, as they obviously stand to win big this fall.

There is an incredible SCOTUS assault campaign on the very basic constitutional rights going on right now, and it shows no signs of slowing down. And Biden's way of dealing with this ongoing catastrophe is doing nothing.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...86b_story.html

Seriously? Who the fuck is going to elect whiny bitches who aren't even trying to fight back?

Pack the courts. It's easy and can be done. Just kill the filibuster. Kill the filibuster for one particular vote. There is a short window of opportunity that will close in November, probably for at least another decade.

Something needs to be done, because this ain't a judicial branch anymore. It's a right-wing All Terrain Attack Vehicle.

Do you believe for one second that if the situation was reversed and republicans were in power, they would hesitate for one second?

But let's forget the sneaky SCOTUS for a moment. There is an even bigger issuer.

Biden has done a lot of good things in the last two years, but he's a tired old man who doesn't seem to have any fight left in him. It's time to retire and give the reigns to Kamala so she at least has a fighting chance in 2 years. He's not going to be any younger in 2024.

And DeSantis will be more dangerous than Trump ever was. He's a smart Trump. He's capable of causing much more damage than the Red Menace.

If a crooked, unprincipled, America-hating "fighter" Repub so-called potus could have done what you think Biden is too weak and old to do, Trump would have saved time, not waited for a SCOTUS justice to die and would have DONE it.

But he didn't because he couldn't.

Not even the craftiest, most highly motivated and determined America-hating Repub Senator of all time, Mitch McConnell, could get the SCOTUS packed the way you and some "whiny" joutnalists expect Biden to do if he had another America-hating Repub in the White House and only 48 America-hating Repub Senate seats.

Considering Biden's connection and knowledge of the Senate, he probably knows better than any POTUS since LBJ who and where he has any chance of votes on both sides of the aisle to get anything done, which battles can be won and which battles will just go down in counterproductive defeat.

The last thing I'd want the only people standing between America and Trumpistan to do is listen to the opinion and advice of typically pro Repub Mainstream Media journalists and pundits for anything.

You want the country run by America-hating "fighters" whose overall results throughout most of their entire existence have been, not surprisingly, the absolute worst of all time, by all means don't vote for Dems. Vote for Repubs.

That's what the Repub Party is there for.

[EihTooms]

Look, reports from reputable media and honest journalists indicate there is nothing short of a clusterfuck in the White House right now. I wish I could share your optimism, but I don't. I know crackpots will be happy with this admission, but hey, they have all the rights to be happy anyway, as they obviously stand to win big this fall.

There is an incredible SCOTUS assault campaign on the very basic constitutional rights going on right now, and it shows no signs of slowing down. And Biden's way of dealing with this ongoing catastrophe is doing nothing.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...86b_story.html

Seriously? Who the fuck is going to elect whiny bitches who aren't even trying to fight back?

Pack the courts. It's easy and can be done. Just kill the filibuster. Kill the filibuster for one particular vote. There is a short window of opportunity that will close in November, probably for at least another decade.

Something needs to be done, because this ain't a judicial branch anymore. It's a right-wing All Terrain Attack Vehicle.

Do you believe for one second that if the situation was reversed and republicans were in power, they would hesitate for one second?

But let's forget the sneaky SCOTUS for a moment. There is an even bigger issuer.

Biden has done a lot of good things in the last two years, but he's a tired old man who doesn't seem to have any fight left in him. It's time to retire and give the reigns to Kamala so she at least has a fighting chance in 2 years. He's not going to be any younger in 2024.

And DeSantis will be more dangerous than Trump ever was. He's a smart Trump. He's capable of causing much more damage than the Red Menace.

DINO wingers Manchin and Sinema are not in the White House.

Please explain how Joe Biden or anyone else in the WH does what you suggest with 48 Senate votes.

[Xpartan]

The demonstrably Repub-leaning RealClearPolitics' Generic Midterm Ballot poll of polls now has Repubs with only a statistically insignificant 2 point lead over Dems with a typical MoE+/- 3. 5 points:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...vote-7361.html

The more poll-inclusive FiveThirtyEight site Generic Midterm Ballot poll of polls now has Repubs with only a 1. 6 point lead:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/

I'm sure the trend is frighteningly obvious to Moscow Mitch and Spineless Kevin.

With the Party not in the White House winning seats in 37 of the past 40 midterms since the Civil War, Repubs are struggling to make a case for why on earth anyone would want to vote for them this year.

Look, reports from reputable media and honest journalists indicate there is nothing short of a clusterfuck in the White House right now. I wish I could share your optimism, but I don't. I know crackpots will be happy with this admission, but hey, they have all the rights to be happy anyway, as they obviously stand to win big this fall.

There is an incredible SCOTUS assault campaign on the very basic constitutional rights going on right now, and it shows no signs of slowing down. And Biden's way of dealing with this ongoing catastrophe is doing nothing.

By overturning the abortion-rights decision Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Courts conservative majority has added fuel to calls among some Democrats to change the court itself. Some want President Joe Biden to pursue the idea of expanding, or packing, the court beyond its current nine seats. Others would replace the life tenure of Supreme Court justices with fixed terms to guarantee each president has equal opportunity to shape its makeup. In December, a commission appointed by Biden reported back on these ideas, among others. By all indications, Biden seems unenthusiastic about pursuing such radical steps.

In 2020, while a candidate for president, he ruled out term limits for justices, saying, Its a lifetime appointment. Im not going to attempt to change that at all. He also said hes not a fan of court-packing, which years ago he dismissed as a bonehead idea. To Americans angry about the Supreme Courts composition and rulings, Bidens response has been that they should elect more Democrats to Congress.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...86b_story.html

Seriously? Who the fuck is going to elect whiny bitches who aren't even trying to fight back?

Pack the courts. It's easy and can be done. Just kill the filibuster. Kill the filibuster for one particular vote. There is a short window of opportunity that will close in November, probably for at least another decade.

Something needs to be done, because this ain't a judicial branch anymore. It's a right-wing All Terrain Attack Vehicle.

Do you believe for one second that if the situation was reversed and republicans were in power, they would hesitate for one second?

But let's forget the sneaky SCOTUS for a moment. There is an even bigger issuer.

Biden has done a lot of good things in the last two years, but he's a tired old man who doesn't seem to have any fight left in him. It's time to retire and give the reigns to Kamala so she at least has a fighting chance in 2 years. He's not going to be any younger in 2024.

And DeSantis will be more dangerous than Trump ever was. He's a smart Trump. He's capable of causing much more damage than the Red Menace.

[MarquisdeSade1]

To use an example from a recent post, Ted Kennedy. No, not Chappaquiddick, where the motive for his lies were more obvious, but the 1965 Immigration Act. He promised the American people that it would not change the demographics of the country, despite knowing that it would, and it was the beginning of the Great Replacement that we are seeing now.

He and other leading leftists lie because they know that the majority of people do not want to be part of their vision. Open borders; mass third world immigration; homosexuals performing sex acts upon each other in public parades; child trannies; anti-white quotas and discrimination; fourth wave feminism; and "hate speech" laws to imprison anyone who criticizes it. All these and more form the core of the vision of left that many are calling Globohomo.

The right, by contrast, simply wants to maintain the basic values and population that built and made America great in the first two centuries of its existence. Not much need to lie about anything, because that is what most regular people want too.

https://stormer-daily.rw/texas-count...rder-invasion/

[EihTooms]

Take Trump out if the picture, and Biden polls are in the high teen's at best. It is over for the Dem. 's.

The demonstrably Repub-leaning RealClearPolitics' Generic Midterm Ballot poll of polls now has Repubs with only a statistically insignificant 2 point lead over Dems with a typical MoE+/- 3. 5 points:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...vote-7361.html

The more poll-inclusive FiveThirtyEight site Generic Midterm Ballot poll of polls now has Repubs with only a 1. 6 point lead:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/

I'm sure the trend is frighteningly obvious to Moscow Mitch and Spineless Kevin.

With the Party not in the White House winning seats in 37 of the past 40 midterms since the Civil War, Repubs are struggling to make a case for why on earth anyone would want to vote for them this year.

[EihTooms]

Biden's approval ratings are lower than Trump's despite the entire mainstream fake news media literally promoting him, memory holing his gaffes where he collapses on steps / falls off bikes / shits himself / forgets where he is / humiliates America against a bunch of goatherds in Afghanistan / gets inflation up past 10% and gas past $7 / opens the border to illegals (with full welfare gibs) / and much more.

If the media were even-handed, it wouldn't even be close. Which, of course, is why they have to be so egregiously biased. Fortunately, the effect of their lies is wearing thinner every day.

Yeah, even I like Trump better out of office, incapable of promoting and passing any legislation, facing potential criminal indictment and so on.

However, among the actual leadership and entities elected to clean up the colossal across-the-board mess Trump made of everything and left behind, Biden is still approved and favored highest.

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.rt.com/news/558433-amlo-...liberty-biden/

[Chris P]

Which leftists do you refer to?

And why do you think leftists, and only leftists, would experience some particular impulse that would make them lie? Or are you just gaslighting?

To use an example from a recent post, Ted Kennedy. No, not Chappaquiddick, where the motive for his lies were more obvious, but the 1965 Immigration Act. He promised the American people that it would not change the demographics of the country, despite knowing that it would, and it was the beginning of the Great Replacement that we are seeing now.

He and other leading leftists lie because they know that the majority of people do not want to be part of their vision. Open borders; mass third world immigration; homosexuals performing sex acts upon each other in public parades; child trannies; anti-white quotas and discrimination; fourth wave feminism; and "hate speech" laws to imprison anyone who criticizes it. All these and more form the core of the vision of left that many are calling Globohomo.

The right, by contrast, simply wants to maintain the basic values and population that built and made America great in the first two centuries of its existence. Not much need to lie about anything, because that is what most regular people want too.

[PVMonger]

No, they didn't. But who did lie, on a more important and indeed existential matter for the country, were Senator Edward Kennedy and his cohorts who sponsored the 1965 Immigration Act. They assured the American people that the Act would not change the demographics of the nation. That was a flat-out lie, as we can now see.

Sadly they are mostly dead so cannot be tried and executed for treason, though I wouldn't be opposed to digging up their corpses to hang them. More importantly, the effects of these lies must be reversed, and the demographics of the country returned to the state that they promised it would remain, IE the mid 20th Century when America was still Great.

Every one of the so-called SCOTUS "justices" nominated by the one-term, twice-impeached, POtuS when questioned about Roe v. Wade said something to the effect of "Roe is settled law. Roe is also precedent and should not be overturned. " In what world is that not a lie? I guess it isn't a lie in tRUMPworld where lies are "alternative facts."

And the rest of your bigoted rant? Why don't you just put on your KKK hood and be done with it.

[Elvis 2008]

"The problem with Covid was low oxygen not ventilation / high carbon dioxide.".

The purpose of a ventilator is to pump oxygen into the body. Web MD says: "A ventilator mechanically helps pump oxygen into your body. " https://www.webmd.com/lung/coronavirus-ventilators#text=Continued, do%20 it%20 on%20 your%20 own.

Sheesh.

Yeah, and this is why fools like you should not be quoting anything medical.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditio...-patients.html

A study published this week in The Lancet showed a high mortality rate described to the media as "horrific" by the study authors among older patients, particularly those with underlying conditions. The study itself looked at critically ill patients with a median age of 62 who were treated at two New York City hospitals in March and April. Looking at those over age 80 who were put on a ventilator, the authors found that more than 80 percent did not survive. By comparison, no patients under the age of 30 died at the two hospitals, and only a small number in that age group had to be put on ventilators.

In April, another study published in the medical journal JAMA looked at the outcomes of 5,700 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the New York area, finding that only 3. 3 percent of 1,151 patients who required ventilation had been discharged alive as of April 4, with almost a quarter dying and 72 percent remaining in the hospital. This is a significantly higher death rate than what's usually seen for patients put on ventilators for other reasons in the past, such as bacterial pneumonia or collapsed lungs.

And this is why you and V are so stupid. You guys claimed ventilators are good when they in fact were killing people right and left. Cuomo says that he needed 30,000 ventilators, and you just assumed they were needed. Truth is they were not needed and we wasted all that money on ventilators that were put in mothballs but hey for you dumb Dems, that was "doing something". And you both stupidly focused on oxygen like doctors did early on.

The main reason people with COVID-19 have required ventilators is that they developed a condition known as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), inflammation in the lungs that makes it extremely difficult to breathe. But there's a specific subgroup of patients known as "happy hypoxics" who may have different needs.

These are people who show up in the emergency room with terrible oxygen levels, whose X-rays reveal severe pneumonia, but are still able to talk and whose only real complaint is some shortness of breath," she explains. For these patients, although their vital signs indicate they should be on a ventilator.

Instead, doctors now try giving these patients less invasive treatments, such as very high doses of supplemental oxygen, either through a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, the same machine used to treat sleep apnea, or through a supercharged oxygen system known as a high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC).

A paper published on April 22 in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine found that when hypoxic patients were given these types of supplemental oxygen and positioned flat on their bellies, only about a quarter ended up requiring ventilation. Kaplan says this approach not only appears to improve patient outcomes, but has also prevented the overuse of ventilators, averting the ventilator shortage physicians had originally feared.

End of link. What the article has wrong is that there were not just a "subgroup" of happy hypoxics but all patients with Covid, and putting 25% of patients of hypoxic Covid patients on a ventilator did not happen in the future as doctors got more comfortable watching these patients. Subjectively, it was when patients said they doctors considered ventilators. And objectively, elevated carbon dioxide in the blood was a marker that someone was with impending respiratory failure and was likely needed to be put on a ventilator.

Putting a hypoxic Covid patient on a ventilator solely for "pumping oxygen into the body" was committing malpractice. Period.

OTOH, if you and Viliany have low oxygen levels and Covid, by all means tell the doctors how smart you are and request to be put on a ventilator. Just tell me before hand so I can buy a life insurance policy and cash in on your demise.

I get what you are saying sounds good and makes sense, but it is totally, totally, totally wrong.