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Biden at his (or should we say "it's") best!

[URL]https://news.yahoo.com/why-biden-now-less-popular-100037176.html[/URL]

This is from USA Today / Yahoo. I could refer some more informative Fox news, OAN or Newsmax article / video, but libtards will say that's biased even without trying to learn the facts. That said, good news is that liberals with some brains left, and a lot of independents with learning and thinking capacity are now accepting that voting for Biden was a mistake, much worse than avoiding the mean tweets.

[QUOTE=Golfinho;2666176]These vaccines were in the can and ready to go well before Trumptime. Big Pharma was just waiting for the moment to cash in, and when opportunity knocked they were all over it, with their media scaremongering shills leading the charge. Brought to you by Pfizer. It was actually a perfect storm for the drug pushers as they got government funding, immunity from liability, plus the Democrat Party hacks were all aboard as the covid could be used to torpedo Trump's reelection.

Oh, and do the vaccines work? Let's get everyone vaxxed, I. E. Eliminate the control group first. Then, Pfizer can get everyone signed up like a subscription service for their semi-annual -- Ka-Ching! -- booster.[/QUOTE]Yes, it is true that vaccines for coronavirus had been researched, tested and were waiting for the need to arise in order for manufacturers to swing into action, preparedness for the inevitable, going back to the Obama years.

In fact, the whole rapid emergency vaccine development apparatus that Trump merely branded a cute and somewhat stupid name after his stock market crash forced him to temporarily abandon his mass murdering "it's a Hoax and will go away without a vaccine"! Self-serving con was entirely conceived and set up by Barack Obama and the Obama-Biden administration:

[B]Obama's science advisors outline plan for faster pandemic vaccine | CIDRAP August 19, 2010[/B]

[URL]https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2010/08/obamas-science-advisors-outline-plan-faster-pandemic-vaccine[/URL]

Trump had even less to do with that than Reagan had with reversing the direction of inflation beginning in March 1980. LOL.

To be clear, those 2 "researchers" just happened to enroll at Johns Hopkins University at some point. The headline suggests it was a research study produced and endorsed by the highly regarded university.

Nope.

In fact, the report had to include that the university itself had nothing to do with it.

You know just their researchers but not their whoors in the Admin office that are all about $$.

"The report had to include", and also because of the anti free speech censors at FB and google?

Why doesn't the university produce data disputing it instead? LMAO.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]Elvis, I was vaxed in early January, 2021 thanks to President Trump's operation warp-speed and the scientific breakthroughs from Pfizer & Moderna. At that point, January 2021, I was determined not to let Corona fuck up another year like it did 2020.[/QUOTE]I was the same way. The only pause I really took was in like January 2021. At the time, there were like 300,000 cases. Really one dose of the vaccine is enough and antibodies kick in after 11 days. That waiting period was really the only time the pandemic put my life on hold.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]I don't know how they did it, but all the SP Clinicas remained open during the entire code red lockdown. In any case, ALL the girls I met were fucking amazing. I was simply blown away with their beauty and sexual passion. Brazilian girls really aimed to please.[/QUOTE]When it comes to sex and soccer, it is like Brazilians are at a different level. Every BJ I had there was amazing. BJs always feel good, but with these women, I would moan involuntarily. I was like, "Do they teach women this in high school?

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]So, I returned home a happy traveler and as 2021 progressed I fondly remembered all of my Brazilian girls while SE Asia remained closed. Thus I flew back down to RJ & SP in October / November 2021 for my 2nd visit. This time everything was open including the joints that had been closed on my previous trip IE the boates, the restaurants, and the termas. As a result I spent 90% of my time this 2nd trip at the boates and termas and cut way back on the call girls and clinicas. Man, did I have a good time at Scandallo and Bomboa in SP and 4 x4 and Solarium in RJ. I went to these bordellos so often that the folks (girls and staff) at these clubs began to recognize me and they treated me like a VIP.[/QUOTE]You are a man after my own heart.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]I also enjoyed eating out in great restaurants that had been closed during my 1st trip. Traffic had noticeably increased, but it was not much of a problem since I did not head out to the bordellos until 9 pm at the earliest. The girls were just as fucking amazing and passionate as on my 1st trip, but this time I knew what I was going to get, so their impact on my psyche was not as great. You are only a cherry boy one time. Ha Ha. Still, 2 girls in particular on the 2nd trip gave me some of the best sex I have had in 20 years and another girl had the finest a-hole I have ever had in my life. I am not kidding.[/QUOTE]I know you are not. The women there love sex and are great at it. The knock on Brazilian women is they cheat. It is nothing for them to kiss you, praise you, and then be off kissing another guy in 5 minutes.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]Anyway here we are, it's February 2022 and most rational people realize that lockdowns, mandates, and masks did not work. The more rational approach would have been to isolate and protect the vulnerable and to let the rest of us go about our lives unimpeded. Live and learn, hopefully, or maybe not. Looking at recent events in Canada or the way the Thai Gov't is still playing games with their entry requirements and shutdowns does not give one much reason for optimism about future Government policy for the next pandemic. But I have no desire to play along with these idiots.[/QUOTE]Totally agree. The other side of the coin is that you can make lemonade out of the lemons like you did. AH, it worked out well for me in the end. I focused on Colombia and getting deeper connections there. Brazil was just too far to have a sugar baby in. It is a great place for a sex vacation, but I was kind of done with that.

It is funny, AH. The guys who only see hos get offended when I say sugar baby sex is way better than ho sex. Thing is all the women who have had sugar babies agree. That is why I am kicking myself about Brazil. I cannot imagine what sugar baby sex would have been like there.

In my case, I met a government worker in Colombia who was furloughed with Covid who IMO is a 10 in and out of bed. Without Covid, I might not have met her. We are exclusive now, something I thought I would never say again in my life.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]I really miss a few of my favorite Thai girls who I have remained in touch with throughout our forced separation. Hopefully I will see them again in the not too distant future. Sadly, however, I have lost connections with a couple of great Filipinas and an outstanding Burmese girl.[/QUOTE]I have not investigated that part of the world all that much. My understanding is that the Asian women make themselves into sugar baby or GF types focused on the long term. The Latins do not have that reputation, but my gal has been like that since day one. I like the Filipinas but the Thais and many Asian women just did not turn me on at all. I have been to Thailand only once and that was when I was really married.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]Oh well, that's life under the God damn Chinese pandemic, but in 45 days I will be heading back down to Brazil for trip #3. I know it is going to be a memorable 7 weeks. I have not made any plans for October or November 2022, but it has been over 20 years since I was in Medellin & Bogota. I realize a lot has changed, but I liked both of those cities back in the day. Maybe I will go to Colombia in the fall or Brazil #4 or maybe Thailand if all quarantine and in-country Covid testing is abolished.[/QUOTE]Kazeu, an ISG member here, and I met in Bogota and we became friends. I was there for a short stay and had a bigger budget than he did as I was on vaca. Still, he got on SA / seeking and found himself a GF like I did. The response rate for SA was unreal and no shit, I actually did go out with three beauty queen winners there. He and I walked Santa Fe many times, and he said that of all the times he went, he never saw higher than an 8. The quantity of women in Santa Fe and price there are amazing, the quality not so much.

As for the P4P, Colombia is no Brazil. I actually think Mexico is better than Colombia for P4 P. Unlike in Mexico and Brazil, the 10's in Colombia are hidden. Still, Colombia has more 10's IMO than any Latin country save Brazil.

I was like the first guy who really did SA / seeking in Colombia and posted it here. I actually argued with guys about the sugar baby approach and now it is not controversial.

What I wonder about is using SA / seeking in Brazil. I have not seen anyone do it yet, and the hit rate when I was online was unreal as was the beauty of the women. I was taking to a woman who was stunning who was an investment banker. And I also was talking to women who were hot but were engineers and lawyers. I just wonder what might have been.

My other regret was not checking out the medium size cities in Brazil. I have always liked women who were not the big city types. My gal is from Cartagena and she told me going to Bogota was culture shock.

The women in Brazil are a different breed. Maybe you could make a Scandallo girl into a sugar baby. When I was there, I took out a boate girl who had a car and drove me around. Being a ho there does not carry the shame like it does here in the sex prison.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]Stay safe, rock on, let's go Brandon..[/QUOTE]Absolutely man. You know how you can now tell a Democrat from a Republican? Their squinting eyes. Democrats have spent so much time in the basement during the pandemic, they are still not used to the light.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2666194]To be clear, those 2 "researchers" just happened to enroll at Johns Hopkins University at some point. The headline suggests it was a research study produced and endorsed by the highly regarded university.

Nope.

In fact, the report had to include that the university itself had nothing to do with it:[/QUOTE]It's even worse. Two out of the three authors have nothing to do with Hopkins. Like nothing at all. Talk about fake news.

And they're economists, not medical professionals.

And it's a working paper. Meaning not peer-reviewed.

And one third of the "studies" they analyzed were working papers as well.

[QUOTE]Of the 34 “studies” included in the review, 12 of them were actually working papers. In fact, 14 of the “studies” were actually from economists with only one being from epidemiologists. This is odd since most of the key NPI research studies have been conducted by epidemiologists, medical researchers, and other public health experts. To qualify as a meta-analysis, a study needs to fulfill established criteria, which includes demonstrating that you’ve included all of the studies that have been published. Without providing clear evidence that you have done so, instead of “A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on Covid-19 Mortality,” would a better title of this working paper have been “Stuff that We Selected to Support Our Point of View?”[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/02/06/did-so-called-johns-hopkins-study-really-show-lockdowns-were-ineffective-against-covid-19/?sh=7890261b1225[/URL]

Gee, how do these people read? And do they really?

Next.

[QUOTE=Golfinho;2666176]These vaccines were in the can and ready to go well before Trumptime. Big Pharma was just waiting for the moment to cash in, and when opportunity knocked they were all over it, with their media scaremongering shills leading the charge. Brought to you by Pfizer. It was actually a perfect storm for the drug pushers as they got government funding, immunity from liability, plus the Democrat Party hacks were all aboard as the covid could be used to torpedo Trump's reelection.

Oh, and do the vaccines work? Let's get everyone vaxxed, I. E. Eliminate the control group first. Then, Pfizer can get everyone signed up like a subscription service for their semi-annual -- Ka-Ching! -- booster.[/QUOTE]That was brilliant, just brilliant!

You nailed them!

Big fucking Pharma just waited for one-in-a-hundred-years pandemic, and then ka-ching, just like you said.

What a great business model! And you've figured that out all by yourself. Kudos!

So first, build something to deal with a catastrophe. Then all you have to do is just wait for the said catastrophe to occur. And ka-ching!

Blows my mind! You should be on TED. Like totally.

They are talking about data, quantitative data. So the heavy hitters would be those with a background in mathematical physics, many of whom would be in economics / finance as that is where the money. And a lot of data. Is.

Proper peer reviewed articles take years to get published and that is often done now just for the record. They have this new fangled thing called the Internet. Academic journals are actually a scam as they have academic libraries by the balls (bet you know what they are). That is where mega spy Robert Maxwell made his first fortune. Like you and yours, Maxwell was a bully. And an ignoramus.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2666261]It's even worse. Two out of the three authors have nothing to do with Hopkins. Like nothing at all. Talk about fake news.

And they're economists, not medical professionals.

And it's a working paper. Meaning not peer-reviewed.

And one third of the "studies" they analyzed were working papers as well.

[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/02/06/did-so-called-johns-hopkins-study-really-show-lockdowns-were-ineffective-against-covid-19/?sh=7890261b1225[/URL]..[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2666267]That was brilliant, just brilliant!

You nailed them!

Big fucking Pharma just waited for one-in-a-hundred-years pandemic, and then ka-ching, just like you said.

What a great business model! And you've figured that out all by yourself. Kudos!

So first, build something to deal with a catastrophe. Then all you have to do is just wait for the said catastrophe to occur. And ka-ching!

Blows my mind! You should be on TED. Like totally.[/QUOTE]However, to add to my previous post substantiation that, guess what, the rapid emergency vaccine production apparatus conceived and promoted by the Obama-Biden Administration at least a decade before Trump's disastrous decisions, cowardice and lies plunged the world into Trump's Pandemic, every variant that followed and all of the consequent deaths, economic destruction, massive job losses, international supply chain collapse and inflation is in fact what Trump simply "branded" and stupidly named Project Warp Speed and he otherwise had absolutely nothing to do with it, there is this:

Guess what, it was also the Obama-Biden Administration that promoted and funded the effective coronavirus vaccine research studies that so well positioned companies like Moderna to quickly produce the successful vaccines that were required to be invented and mass produced at emergency speed due to Trump's disastrous decisions, cowardice and lies creating Trump's Pandemic to begin with and, most disastrously, that he spent nearly that first critical year insisting no one needed to bother inventing or taking a vaccine.

[B]Ivanka Trump Praises Her Dad for Vaccine Research Started Under Obama[/B]

[URL]https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/11/ivanka-trump-moderna-vaccine-trump/[/URL]

[QUOTE]In short, Trump didnt swoop in to launch the Moderna-NIH COVID vaccine partnership. Rather, his administration piggybacked on an ongoing collaboration whose initial agreements were signed in, checking the fine print, November 2015. Maybe Ivanka should have added, Thanks, Obama.[/QUOTE]Yeah, it's one thing when dipshit Ivanka gets it wrong in a desperate but failed attempt to find something positive for which to praise her daddy in the midst of still more Americans dying from his Pandemic.

But, as far as we know, Trump is not the daddy of anyone here.

So you Trump cultists can stop thanking Trump for anything regarding the vaccines for Trump's Pandemic other than that it was his disastrous decisions, cowardice and lies that made your needing to get vaccinated for it in one damn hurry in the first place and start thanking Obama, Biden and their administrations for the advanced research and invention of the vaccine as well as the brilliantly successful distribution and administering of the vaccines when called upon.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2665989]Elvis, I was vaxed in early January, 2021 thanks to President Trump's operation warp-speed and the scientific breakthroughs from Pfizer & Moderna. At that point, January 2021, I was determined not to let Corona fuck up another year like it did 2020.

[/QUOTE]Glad you're enjoying the hobby!

Let me start by saying that at the start of this Fauchidemic I was in Asia and on the last EVA aircraft out of Vietnam. Right after that I participated in a super-spreader rally without a mask and resided in one of the most infected states in the US wearing a mask only when entering stores. Still breathing!

Like you, I too took the jab in early 2021 hoping that one shot and everything will soon go back to normal. Didn't work that way as we all know. The goal post kept getting further and further away on the whim of people with Napoleonic Syndrome and political ambitions all in the name of science. Then boosters, then Pharma CEO's peddling their products and how dare you questioning them, then second boosters.

No one dares questioning the actual death count. When asked CDC recently said those numbers take days to get updated. No numbers yet. No one questions why you cannot sue Big Pharma if anything goes wrong. No one questions why details will not be released for 95 years. If the vaccine is so "SAFE" why not release it? A close relative developed difficulty in breathing after taking the booster and not been able to shake it off since.

All that have dissuaded me to take the next step and mistrust the Government and anyone involved in this conundrum. Thankfully as SE Asia opens up only require proof of Vaccination for now and from what I read some South American countries only need PCR test 72 hrs prior.

Indeed Let's Go Brandon!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2666209]Maybe you all can stop quoting the Dems so I do not have to read them. LOL. You are right Canada. PVMonger is demented. He is engaging in mental masturbation with his Covid posts.

He thinks his one term, twice impeached thing gets us. In reality, it pisses us off. It shows you how much these DDs hate democracy and how much they love the swamp. Many of us feel Trump is one term because the Dems cheated their asses off, and all the impeachments were utter bullshit. There is no point in arguing it.

These morons elected someone in 2020 who was not Trump and did so just out of spite. Did anyone want Biden? He did not win the Democratic nomination; it was handed to him. The Dems won in 2020 but are going to get slaughtered in 2022 and 2024. The Bill Maher episode showed that three Dems could not even get along or agree on anything. It turns out "Trump sucks" is not a viable or productive policy.

And after we have seen that the swamp has no respect for Democracy, Trump is the only guy I can see who can clean it up and even with him, I know I will be underwhelmed..[/QUOTE]I'm glad that my "one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy" moniker pisses you off. It was meant to. The fact that you are pissed off means that the term is true. The Mango Mussolini was one term. He was impeached twice. He was a fake president.

The fact that you feel that the election was stolen is hilarious. The fascist Republican party will go to any lengths to come up with reasons why. The judges. Chinese thermostats. The voting machines. Fake ballots. You name it. Each idea is more looney than the last but you keep doing it. What it all boils down to is "we have the proof but the dog ate it. " It would be laughable if it weren't so sad.

And, of course, you say that Democrats blame Trump for COVID. We don't. What we blame him for is for [B]covering it up[/B]. We blame him for [B]lying about it[/B]. We blame him for [B]thinking more about his re-election than the well-being of the American people[/B]. That's what we blame him for. I remember the Rose Garden event sometime in mid-March, 2020. The Orange Buffoon said that 1,700 Google engineers were working on an application that would show where you could get a test. There was even a flow chart. The next day Google said that it was all news to them. But, sure, keep up with the fantasy that the Orange Fruitcake never lied about anything and that we blame him for COVID.

And sure, let's lie and portray Moderna's vaccine as the reason their stock is down and not the fact that [B]Moderna's stock is down because of Omicron[/B].

One day you fascists will come to realize that telling the truth is better than lying. But I won't hold my breath.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2666209]Maybe you all can stop quoting the Dems so I do not have to read them. LOL. You are right Canada. PVMonger is demented. He is engaging in mental masturbation with his Covid posts.

He thinks his one term, twice impeached thing gets us. In reality, it pisses us off. It shows you how much these DDs hate democracy and how much they love the swamp. Many of us feel Trump is one term because the Dems cheated their asses off, and all the impeachments were utter bullshit. There is no point in arguing it.

These morons elected someone in 2020 who was not Trump and did so just out of spite. Did anyone want Biden? He did not win the Democratic nomination; it was handed to him. The Dems won in 2020 but are going to get slaughtered in 2022 and 2024. The Bill Maher episode showed that three Dems could not even get along or agree on anything. It turns out "Trump sucks" is not a viable or productive policy.

And after we have seen that the swamp has no respect for Democracy, Trump is the only guy I can see who can clean it up and even with him, I know I will be underwhelmed.

The pandemic showed us the elites want to end democracy. In country after country, legislatures and the people were bypassed. Sweden resisted this and was pummeled in the press. Senile Joe, he is moving kind of slow, just extended his emergency powers. The climatic part now is if he will ever give them up. The nightmare would be if he died and Kamala got in with these powers. That is fucking scary..[/QUOTE]Great post. You hit all the facts. I totally agree with you.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2666202]Trump's disastrous decisions re Trump's Pandemic wiped out millions of jobs, businesses and shut down the country for at least a year while few Americans were going to jobs, driving anywhere, doing anything, spending any money.

That is the primary cause of Trump's Pandemic Supply Chain Destruction Inflation today during Biden's roaring economic recovery.

Thanks to Biden's brilliantly effective distribution of the vaccines that Trump spent that critical year discouraging anyone from inventing and taking, the country is open for business some 10-20 times more than it was under Trump.

That means many, many, many more people, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, are out on the streets, in offices, at schools, engaging, meeting, shopping, buying, gathering, partying, dining out, driving to jobs and for pleasure under Biden than under Trump.

Which means there are also many, many, many more people exposed to and transmitting Trump's Pandemic Virus today under Biden's open society than there were under Trump's closures and lockdowns. Even as those who are vaccinated thanks to Biden are many times less likely to die from it.[/QUOTE]Trump decisions were the same as every other leader in the world. And he even stopped the Chinese from continuing to infect USA by banning flights from China against the democrats wishes who called it racist. Yes people died in USA just as they did in every other country in the world. But now we have Biden who campaigned on his plan to end the virus by June and here we are 8 months later and he is still killing more Americans than Trump. Incompetence? Probably. When you do nothing it is a gamble. Just remember as bad as you say Trump was at handling the Chinese virus Biden has been much worse. So every time you criticize Trump it makes Biden look even worse. Congratulations.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2666372] We blame him for [B]thinking more about his re-election than the well-being of the American people[/B]. [/QUOTE]Under Trump I was not muzzled up whenever I went to the store or anywhere else. Still am now. I moved around free without worrying about neighborhood takeovers or getting suckered punched.

My groceries then cost much less that it cost now which they blame on the supply chain and have not done anything about for the last year. Yes I heard the argument about the "It's the meat packers fault" and to debunk it, the same four major meat packers that exist now were the same four supplying us when Trump was president.

I'm Done.

Keep on mongering!

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2666372]I'm glad that my "one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy" moniker pisses you off. It was meant to. The fact that you are pissed off means that the term is true. The Mango Mussolini was one term. He was impeached twice. He was a fake president.

The fact that you feel that the election was stolen is hilarious. The fascist Republican party will go to any lengths to come up with reasons why. The judges. Chinese thermostats. The voting machines. Fake ballots. You name it. Each idea is more looney than the last but you keep doing it. What it all boils down to is "we have the proof but the dog ate it. " It would be laughable if it weren't so sad.

And, of course, you say that Democrats blame Trump for COVID. We don't. What we blame him for is for [B]covering it up[/B]. We blame him for [B]lying about it[/B]. We blame him for [B]thinking more about his re-election than the well-being of the American people[/B]. That's what we blame him for. I remember the Rose Garden event sometime in mid-March, 2020. The Orange Buffoon said that 1,700 Google engineers were working on an application that would show where you could get a test. There was even a flow chart. The next day Google said that it was all news to them. But, sure, keep up with the fantasy that the Orange Fruitcake never lied about anything and that we blame him for COVID.[/QUOTE]The only lying that I saw was the democrats telling us it didn't come from China.

Biden has given Russia free rein to invade Ukraine. Just like Obama and Biden drawing a line in the sand in the Obama presidency and then doing nothing is exactly what Biden is doing with Putin. Claiming he will put sanctions on Russia if they invade. Germany gas already stopped the Russia pipeline that Biden took Trump sanctions off and other European countries are putting sanctions on Russia before invasion but Biden does nothing but make idle threats that Putin knows he won't follow through on. A weak USA president is ideal for dictators like Putin. Iran and North Korea will be next to take advantage of Biden. Didn't happen under Trump presidency and wouldn't happen now if we actually had a president with balls.