Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Hannibal]

I wonder why we didn't shoot any of these people. They also tried to stop a lawful process.

I swear, it's almost as if what really made the Ashli Babbitt case special was the fact that she was a Republican.

[Kapture1]

This is a common thing going around. There's currently only about 40 people being held in jail until their trial. Nearly all of them are charged with violent or more serious crimes.

Last I heard, not a one of those charges are for sedition or treason. or conspiracy to commit sedition, or treason. It's almost like the leftist media is full of shit.

[Kapture1]

I just don't like the selective outrage when it comes to rioting.

That is propaganda. The people who minimize the riots are no different that those minimizing Jan 6.


If you are outraged over Jan 6, then you should be outraged over Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, and anywhere else rioting has taken place.

Correct.


The problem is, in one instance The Party benefitted. In the other, they did not.

Neither party benefitted from the criminal behavior. That is right wing disinformation.


The MSM is the official voice of The Party, and that is why Jan 6 is considered to be much more evil.

Tell me how FOX, the self proclaimed propaganda arm of the GOP, is the voice of the Democratic Party. As the network with the largest viewership, it must clearly be part of the "MSM" - unless MSM means broadcasters not FOX.

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something something Fox News Bad!!!

[lineygoblue]

Sorry to use a Fox link, but they're the only outlet covering this particular story.

Apparently AOC was moved to tears yesterday after she changed her vote on funding Israel's Iron Dome defensive shield. She was ready to vote "no", when at the last moment she changed her vote to "present". Some are speculating that she changed her vote because she has eyes on defeating Chuck Schumer in the Democratic primaries for NY Senator. Another possibility is that her seat is being redistricted, and may be adjusted to include a large Jewish area of NY called Riverdale. As if the Jewish folk in that area don't already know her views on Israel.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-crying-israel-iron-dome

[Mike]

Nominate her for an Emmy! Then again her true wishes were for more Jewish women and children to be blown up by Palestinian rockets. So maybe the tears were genuine.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Oh, it's a tough life being a progressive. Torn between proposing really stupid shit and being rational. Life sorta sucks like that on a lot of levels.

[lineygoblue]

I guess its difficult waking up each day and not knowing what you believe until you get the Democrat Socialist talking points fax.

[Mike]

Torn between proposing really stupid shit and being rational.

Oh, so like college football!

[Kapture1]

Universal mail in voting with drop boxes and zero chain of custody. What could possibly go wrong?

[iam416]

I think it was noted upstream, but the Chairman has doubled down the outright lie of the "border whipping" because, well, the Ds must continue their Big Lie on race. I know the Chairman is pretty much for open borders, but I wasn't quite ready for him to side with illegal immigrants against his own border patrol and, well, the facts.

Honestly, he's worse than I expected. I mean, he's incompetent. And that means, in retrospect, our choice in 2020 was evern worse than we knew. That probably aligns me only with Mike on this forum -- as the Ds here have fully swallowed the Big Lie on race and dutifully follow all demands of The Party, and the Trump folks think he was a great choice.

So, ummm, Mike...pass me a Banquet Beer and some of them nachos. It's just you me, pal!

[AlabamAlum]

Ahem.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Your Pfizer boosters are here ...... well for some, not all; available for vaccine skeptics who are unlikely to go along with this step in the fight to dampen the spread of SARS2. My take was that boosters should have been authorized with shots beginning in July. I've read the research papers. The two most striking from Israel were balanced in their conclusions but between the lines, as I've offered you have to be attuned to in scientific papers, boosting the Pfizer vaccines with a second dose was a no brainer.

Something important in this kind of government vaccine policy approach is that, sure, the Pfizer vaccine is still good at preventing serious illness and death but, at this point, you want it to be good enough to keep as many people as possible from catching it at all and then spreading it. In this case, the Pfizer product wasn't getting it done (down to as low as 50% in some contexts, especially. where viral presence is high, e.g. parts of the US SE. BTW, so far the Moderna and J&J vaccines are outperforming Pfizer's in this particular circumstance. So, to me, the US waited to long to start the Pfizer boosters reflecting our government's poor capacity to react more quickly to facts on the ground in a crisis. Nothing new here.

BTW, a golf clap for Walenski who went against the advice of the independent panel and broadened the groups of people eligible for the boosters to include teachers, first responders and people 50-64 with "underlying conditions." That's just about anything and in the sign up process for people in this group at places like CVS or Walgreens, check that box on whatever from you're filling out and get the Pfizer booster. It is my experience that no one checking you in or administering the shots will ask any questions - at CVS, I am aware that it is policy to not ask so as not create any barriers to getting any of the recommended vaccinations.

What's not getting a lot of press is the development of a DNA vaccine and approval of it for use in India. This is another game changer in the fight against viruses and a multitude of other diseases. Traditional vaccines work by turning a virus against itself. A significantly weakened or inactivated form of the virus is injected into the body, training the immune system to act rapidly against the real virus, should it attack. It's time consuming and hard to manufacture, especially if it keeps mutating. This led to the experimental development of genetic vaccines, both mRNA and DNA vaccines obviously, the mRNA vaccines are already on the street and working well.

While the Indian DNA vaccine is already being used in India there ae dozens of others, both mRAN and DNA vaccines in the developmental pipe line, The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, use messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), a molecule that carries the instructions for how to make a spike protein from a cell’s DNA in the nucleus to the molecular factories. But DNA vaccines, such as ZyCoV-D, begin one step back in the process. Developers start by finding DNA that will develop the spike protein and carry it into the cell. The DNA is then transcribed into mRNA which instructs the cell to make the target viral protein, priming the immune system.

One of the good things to come out of this COVID shit storm is interest and $$$ to develop this genetically based stuff. Heretofore, governments or investors weren't interested in them. Now they are. Big time. Expect anti-vaxer's heads to explode. You're going to inject what into me? DNA? My (insert body part) will fall off or we'll mutate ourselves into extinction. OK. There's no convincing the skeptics. Through history, there are dozens examples of the folks rejecting new technologies that improved the human condition. These genetic vaccines are one of them, perhaps the most significant in the last century.

[Jeff Buchanan]

I'll take those. Count me in.

[iam416]

Welcome to Team Sanity, AA and Buchanan. But, sadly, a world in which Mike is amongst the few sane people around is a world that's way to far gone. My plan -- accrue a fuckton of debt getting a ton of nice shit, declare myself a two-spirit and wait for the Progs LGBQTAA+STWS Debt Forgiveness Bill to come down the pike.

[Mike]

A great irony in all this is I feel like I got swindled into buying a timeshare by not supporting Trump.