American Politics

[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2568972][URL]https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article251878483.html[/URL]

I believe that the first porno with a "kamala" Femdom theme will be a multi millionaire![/QUOTE]With Willie Brown as the male talent.

[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2568966]Even though he has selected crazed leftists for many of the positions in his administration, choosing Harris may have been his worst appointment. Harris is a total embarrassment who has never succeeded in any position throughout her political career.

As a presidential candidate, Harris departed the race early after a series of pathetic performances in debates. Her fundraising collapsed and she exited several months before the first presidential caucus.[/QUOTE]That's what happens when the only reason you got your job is your ability to swirl your tongue at 90 rpm on your boss's balls and ride him cowgirl till his cock falls off. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of wh0 res (why else would I be on this board) - just not in the position of vice-president of the USA.

[QUOTE=Beno69;2569013]Still continue with the big lie and try to change the voting rights / rules in GOP counties with big Black and Latino communities to make voting for them very difficult. Even bring some voters in the line a drink would be a crime. [/QUOTE]Translation: create equal voter ID regulations for all potential voters regardless of race. Anyone who has a drivers license, has cashed a check, has opened a bank account, has flown on a plane, has bought liquor or cigarettes, has rented a house, or has done various other simple and everyday things will already have a satisfactory photo ID. For the microscopic minority who haven't done any of those things, they can get one for free in a day. If they don't care to get one, that's fine. Voting is not mandatory and many people have no interest.

Almost all other democracies have similar photo ID rules; many of them more stringent.

[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2569007][URL]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/06/13/florida_gov_desantis_big_tech_censorship_doing_damage_to_society.html[/URL]

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.[/QUOTE]Excellent post, and good on Governor DeSantis for his strong pushback for free speech.

The left needs to censor the right because the left's arguments are so weak and ludicrous. Open borders; tranny kids; BLM riots; shutting down American drilling, mining and manufacturing, and many more. Even with the censorship they still lose elections. If the right were able to get their ideas, arguments and policies out fairly, the left would barely win another seat.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2569075]...disseminator of Kremlin bot...[/QUOTE]Zzzzzzzz. The Russians under the bed!

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2569024]"Florida and Texas, both open for business, are doing better than New York and California, despite the latter having brutal and unconstitutional lockdowns. " Wrong. Again. [URL]https://news.yahoo.com/lockdown-states-like-california-did-better-economically-than-looser-states-like-florida-new-covid-data-shows-153025163.html[/URL][/QUOTE]Wait, the fake news is claiming that lockdown states did better *economically* than free states? HAHAHA! I thought you were ridiculous before but you've really jumped the shark now. Thanks for the laugh.

[QUOTE=GDreams;2568915]There is no evidence that Covid came from a lab. There is no evidence it has been manipulated. Even if it did what are the consequences? The consequences of Trump claiming it was a hoax and would be over in no time at all is 600,000 dead and growing.[/QUOTE]I post again and again the Democratic leaning Stanford University research that showed that lockdowns did not work. NPI means non-pharmaceutical intervention.

"In summary, we fail to find strong evidence supporting a role for more restrictive NPIs in the control of COVID in early 2020," the study concludes. "We do not question the role of all public health interventions, or of coordinated communications about the epidemic, but we fail to find an additional benefit of stay-at-home orders and business closures. The data cannot fully exclude the possibility of some benefits.

Implementing any NPIs was associated with significant reductions in case growth in 9 out of 10 study countries, including South Korea and Sweden that I'mplemented only lrNPIs (Spain had a nonsignificant effect). After subtracting the epi-demic and lrNPI effects, we find no clear, significant beneficial effect of mrNPIs on case growth in any country. While small benefits cannot be excluded, we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs. Similar reductions in case growth may be achievable with less- restrictive interventions.

So tell me, douche, were there Covid restrictions under Trump? If not, then you have a point. If Trump implemented ANY restrictions and he did, you are just a lying piece of shit.

You can make fun of all the dumb things Trump said, calling it a hoax, saying it was going away in the summer, injecting bleach but tell me WTF does that have to do with a virus spreading? What has been proven to have worked that Trump did not do? You have nothing. You blamed him for the pandemic unfairly and between that and the cheating, parlayed an election victory.

Now to the second half of the claim where the virus did not come out of a lab.

For all the claims of intelligence you have, you Democratic douches are really communists, and you take fucking marching orders from the Democratic powers that be. You do not critically think about anything that happens. There is no proof that the presidential election was manipulated right? I can show you the fraud in Arizona, the video of Fulton County Georgia, but it means nothing. If it is not in the NY Times or Washington Post or MSNBC, it is not real to you.

If you used your brain and were critical of what the WP was saying versus what they were doing, which clearly you are not capable of, you would see a conflict. For example, Jeff Bezos, the majority owner of Amazon and the WP, is not allowing Fauci's book to be sold. I would ask your opinion as to why, but seeing as how you have not been given a reason by the WP / NYT / MSNBC, you do not have one.

As for the video linked with this blog, [URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/video-live-bats-wuhan-lab-reveals-daszak-lied-now-deleted-tweet[/URL], your response is predictable. Zero Hedge is stupid. That the 16 minute video is there horrifical and damaging to Fauci, Daszak (who is he right? The WHO, and China is of no consequence to you because in your words, there is no proof the lab leak theory is true. What you really mean though is the NYT, Washington Post, and MSNBC have not said the lab leak theory is true and being the good communist you are, that is good enough.

As your fellow Democratic douche PV Monger said, youtube videos do not count, and this, a news video on a trash blog site like [URL]Zerohedge.com[/URL], has to not count either.

Thing is the book that Australian journalist is writing, Sherri Markson, is being presold on Amazon, and IMO Bezos got a draft of it, read it, and spread word to his fellow Democratic leaders in the tech community that Fauci was lying his ass off to them. That is why IMO there was the sea change with regards to censoring the lab leak theory.

They have made up their minds already what is to be done with Fauci, and that is to get him canned, blame Republicans for his ouster, and give him a heroic sendoff. For those Democratic douches and for you GDreams, nearly 4 million dead was a small price to pay for getting rid of Trump.

Because of the red-blue divide, those truly responsible for the pandemic escape punishment. That is the thing with you Democratic douches. You get all worked up about Roger Stone and General Flynn who hurt no one but with these scientists and the Chinese, they get a pass. No one on the blue team can be found guilty of anything these days even the death of nearly 4 million people.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2568863]This from the guy who defends Carter and supports Barack Hussein Okenya, the only president in American history never to have a full year of growth above 3%. LOL.[/QUOTE]And this was before Trump's disastrous economic decisions came to full horrific bloom in 2020...

[B]Trumps Economic Growth Is Slower Than Obamas Last 3 Years[/B]
[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/02/01/trumps-economic-growth-is-slower-than-obamas-last-3-years/[/URL]

Um...you must have only heard Team Trump's too soon crowing about hitting 3% annual GDP growth but missed the later, uh, downgrade.

[B]Oops: Trumps Historic Economic Growth Downgraded To Meh[/B]
[URL]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/trump-revised-economic-growth[/URL]

Seriously. Repubs, "Bothsiders" and other pro-Repub factions should stick to claims of saving Mr. Potato Head and steer clear of ANY discussion of important issues like the USA Economy, USA jobs creation, the stock market, deficit and debt, national security, foreign policy, border control, etc.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2569194]Um...you must have only heard Team Trump's too soon crowing about hitting 3% annual GDP growth but missed the later, uh, downgrade.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.bea.gov/news/2019/initial-gross-domestic-product-4th-quarter-and-annual-2018[/URL]

"During 2018 (measured from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2018), real GDP increased 3.1 percent".

Um. Nobody believes your, uh, fake news.

[QUOTE=Golfinho;2569097]Who cares what the mainstream media says about Kamala Harris. It's entirely predictable.

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.[/QUOTE]Obama was at least, with the help of the fake news media who promoted his campaign endlessly in 2008, a reasonably charismatic figure with some semblance of a popular movement behind him. Harris was literally forced to drop out of the presidential primaries before a single vote was cast, such was her incredible unpopularity even with her own side! Beto O'Rourke lasted longer, which is as big a political insult as you can give.

Harris is a dim, smug, untalented, unlikeable, cackling mediocrity who encapsulates the very essence of the term "diversity hire". If not for her race and the fact that she worked married 60 year old San Francisco mayor Willie Brown's cock like a starving WG in wartime, she would be chasing up unpaid parking fines in Reno. If she runs for president in 2024, the deep state are going to have to conjure up a whole lot more fake ballots than however many millions they needed to get Joe's husk across the line last year.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2569112]1. [URL]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33042552/[/URL] - "Hydroxychloroquine is effective, and consistently so when provided early, for COVID-19".

2. [URL]https://nypost.com/2021/06/02/fauci-was-warned-that-covid-may-have-been-engineered-emails/[/URL] - "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" ".

[URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9629563/Chinese-scientists-created-COVID-19-lab-tried-cover-tracks-new-study-claims.html[/URL] - "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 Srensen, wrote that they have had 'prima facie evidence of retro-engineering in China' for a year. But were ignored by academics and major journals..[/QUOTE]1. A review of studies found on Google. Underwhelming.

2. As I said no proof just conjecture. This is a virus that has developed 4 major strains in 1 year and I'm guessing many more that were outcompeted. Just like all the low IQ republicans you cannot differentiate between opinion and fact. Is it possible it has had man altered DNA, yes, is there any proof, no. Could it have escaped from a lab specifically set up to study viruses collected from nature, yes, is it proven, no. Will it likely be proven, no because the Chinese will not cooperate. Where does that leave you? Drivelling nonsense conspiracy theories as though they are facts.

3. I didn't offer either of these as a reason. Schools are spreader environments for many contagious diseases. The issue is not how sick the students get or the teachers but the parents, grandparents, other family members and all the other multitudes op people that children interact with. Also as I pointed out above there are now 4 strains. The more hosts the more strains develop, ones which are more contagious and have greater impacts such as vaccine resistance.

As I said previously you can't swallow enough of the bullshit.

[URL]https://twitter.com/i/status/1404665481886195717[/URL]

"I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science. Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science," Stewart said after Colbert asked how he was feeling about the scientific response to COVID-19.

"Do you mean perhaps there's a chance that this was created in a lab?" asked Colbert, adding "There's an investigation."

"A chance?" shot back Stewart. Kicking the door open.

"Oh my god, there's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab. That's just a little too weird, don't you think? And then they asked those scientists. They're like 'how did this. So wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab. How did this happen?' and they're like 'mmmm. A pangolin kissed a turtle?' and you're like 'no. The name of your lab! If you look at the name! Can I. Let me see your business card. Show me your business card. Oh. I work at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan. Oh, cause there's a coronavirus loose in Wuhan. How did that happen?

'Maybe a bat. Flew into the Cloaca of a turkey and. Then it sneezed into my chili. And now we all have Coronavirus."

Stewart landed one final joke as Colbert desperately tried to control the situation;.

"Hold it, hold it! What about this, what about this. Listen to this! 'OH MY GOD, there's been an outbreak of chocolately goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened?

'Oh I don't know, maybe a steam shovel mated with a cocoa bean?

"Or. It's the fucking chocolate factory! Maybe that's it!" Stewart screamed.

"Can I say this about scientists?" Stewart said after the break. "I love them and they do such good work but they are going to kill us all."

This was an epic rant, and the libtards on Twitter called Stewart a racist calling for hate on Asian American and spewing conspiracy theories. You cannot make this shit up!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2569140]I post again and again the Democratic leaning Stanford University research that showed that lockdowns did not work. NPI means non-pharmaceutical intervention.

"In summary, we fail to find strong evidence supporting a role for more restrictive NPIs in the control of COVID in early 2020," the study concludes. "We do not question the role of all public health interventions, or of coordinated communications about the epidemic, but we fail to find an additional benefit of stay-at-home orders and business closures. The data cannot fully exclude the possibility of some benefits.

Implementing any NPIs was associated with significant reductions in case growth in 9 out of 10 study countries, including South Korea and Sweden that I'mplemented only lrNPIs (Spain had a nonsignificant effect). After subtracting the epi-demic and lrNPI effects, we find no clear, significant beneficial effect of mrNPIs on case growth in any country. While small benefits cannot be excluded, we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs. Similar reductions in case growth may be achievable with less- restrictive interventions.

So tell me, douche, were there Covid restrictions under Trump? If not, then you have a point. If Trump implemented ANY restrictions and he did, you are just a lying piece of shit.

You can make fun of all the dumb things Trump said, calling it a hoax, saying it was going away in the summer, injecting bleach but tell me WTF does that have to do with a virus spreading? What has been proven to have worked that Trump did not do? You have nothing. You blamed him for the pandemic unfairly and between that and the cheating, parlayed an election victory...[/QUOTE]Why is it that you are too scared to provide us with the actual link to the Stanford research?

Once again, like a good trump supporter, you call anything that doesn't support your position fake news.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2569201][URL]https://www.bea.gov/news/2019/initial-gross-domestic-product-4th-quarter-and-annual-2018[/URL]

"During 2018 (measured from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2018), real GDP increased 3.1 percent".

Um. Nobody believes your, uh, fake news.[/QUOTE]Yeah, that 3.1% thingy was the initial estimate. See where it says "(Initial Estimate)" in your link? Then, as is always done, it got revised as more data came in.

In Trump's case, it was revised downward to below 3%. By his own Commerce Department. LOL.

When numbskull Trump and his fellow congressional Repub numbskulls flushed $2.5+ Trillion down the shitter with their one and only significant economic legislation in December 2017, he sold that worthless crap to the American public by predicting we would get "4%, 5%, maybe 6% annualized GDP growth" from it.

We didn't even get one annualized GDP growth year better than what Obama got.

From FUX News Channel Murdoch's Wall Street Journal:

[B]Economic Growth Didnt Hit 3% Mark Last Year, Revised Data Show.
President Trump has promised to boost growth to 3% or more through his policies[/B]
[URL]https://www.wsj.com/articles/economic-growth-didnt-hit-3-mark-last-year-revised-data-show-11564144200[/URL]

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2569207]Obama was at least, with the help of the fake news media who promoted his campaign endlessly in 2008, a reasonably charismatic figure with some semblance of a popular movement behind him. Harris was literally forced to drop out of the presidential primaries before a single vote was cast, such was her incredible unpopularity even with her own side! Beto O'Rourke lasted longer, which is as big a political insult as you can give.

Harris is a dim, smug, untalented, unlikeable, cackling mediocrity who encapsulates the very essence of the term "diversity hire". If not for her race and the fact that she worked married 60 year old San Francisco mayor Willie Brown's cock like a starving WG in wartime, she would be chasing up unpaid parking fines in Reno. If she runs for president in 2024, the deep state are going to have to conjure up a whole lot more fake ballots than however many millions they needed to get Joe's husk across the line last year.[/QUOTE]Well stated, Chris. Expect more mud-slingling, however.