@raphjd said in Peng Shuai's Olympic 'forced confession': Communist minders are caught lurking in the background.....: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10484213/Chinese-tennis-star-Peng-Shuai-speaks-time-foreign-media.html Autocracy sucks, eh?

@geobear40 said in Seattle planned to transfer police precinct to Black Lives Matter during the deadly autonomous zone: @bi4smooth said in Seattle planned to transfer police precinct to Black Lives Matter during the deadly autonomous zone: Back to the main topic - DAMN! Seattle was a real shit-show back then! Back Then? Yes, you shit-for-brains... Seattle is (as are most American cities) a beautiful place. During times of crisis, things can get hairy - as it did for Seattle during the George Floyd protests. Austin, TX is a beautiful city (and I love their downtown areas, and once even saw the Jim Cullum Jazz Band live!) - but it's a shit-show right now, what with the freezing temps, the rolling blackouts, and now the boil water warnings! As with Seattle, they'll work through it... We Americans rarely fail COMPLETELY! Rather, we often fall on our faces, get up, brush ourselves off, and get back to work! THAT'S why I'm proud to be an American - EVEN when the country is being led by Democrats! EVEN if we're doing some DUMB things right now (to be fair, the Dems aren't the ONLY ones being DUMB right now... but they ARE the ones in power, and with power comes responsibility - and that means taking the blame...) (Virtually ALL of the city leadership - even Police leadership - are different now. Less incompetent? Where they all fired or voted out? Many resigned, some retired, and a couple were term-limited out. None were voted out that I could find. As for fired? They're usually allowed to "retire" or "resign to seek better opportunities" - so who's to say which ones were really fired. That's not the point tho - the leadership was shown to be lacking... at the top, as well as the next layer... so they've done the right thing & brought in new leadership. No way to know until another crisis comes! Sure lets just cross our finger and hope for the best Barring another emergency - which is unlikely to be just like this one - how would you propose to know how they'll do? Your crystal ball isn't even glass! It's a fucking bowling ball and you can see into the future as well as none of us! Nice work by the paper to uncover just how discombobulated City leaders were during that month! Dicombobulated! is that a nice word for corrupt? No, but since you're so inept as to even be unable to look up the definition of a word, try here. Geez - you'd have thought you'd have learned how to use a search engine by now! DON'T tell me what I mean. You speak for yourself and I will speak for me. If you listen to others you may learn something new instead of thinking you know everything. Indeed, Humpty Dumpty - your words mean just what YOU mean them to, the English Language be damned! For what it's worth, I listen to other people often - and usually learn a great deal from discussions with other intelligent people... However, I don't generally listen too closely to clowns for advise... they're just there for the entertainment... In case you were not aware, at least to me, you are a clown: nothing to be taken seriously, just enjoyed for the entertainment value

@geobear40 said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators: @bi4smooth When the majority of votes in the state come from the county you bet. And if cats had wings, they'd fly...

@geobear40 said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report: @bi4smooth said in Nancy Pelosi’s son linked to five shady companies probed by feds: report: ROFL - as a licensed Foster Parent, I've been investigated plenty of times (it's called a License Renewal!)... And I was a speaker at a national conference on adoptable children - about parenting children with special needs (in my case, Asperger/Autism Spectrum kids).... You are right every foster parent is perfect and has never harmed a child in anyway. Again with the I am an expert because I did ________. Most foster parents are wonderful, caring people. Most cops are wonderful, caring people. Not all foster parents are wonderful, caring people. And when they misbehave they are investigated - and if found to be inappropriate to the job, they are dismissed. Not all cops are wonderful, caring people. And when they misbehave they are investigated - and if found to be inappropriate to the job, they are dismissed. If you want absolutes, move to Russia! They love Western immigrants! (Just DON'T tell them how much better things were back in the US... they HATE that!) I honestly think you'd fit in better there! And, they'd LOVE to have you!

@geobear40 said in MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan: non-Muslims and atheists are 'cattle,' compares gays to incestuous pedophiles: I bet you have never seen either network and are just going off of the opinions of others. If you mean to say I don't watch these "hyper-partisan" channels often, you would be correct. I also only go to the dentist once a year.... that doesn't mean I don't know what's in store for me at the dentist's office every year!

@geobear40 That's correct.. and my comments to her had nothing to do with the fact that she is a female. So, why did you interject that word?

@lololulu19 I totally agree with you

@geobear40 said in Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths: @bi4smooth said in Johns Hopkins Researchers: Lockdowns Had Little Impact on COVID Deaths: When you tell a politician they were wrong, they fight back and try - with everything they can muster to prove that they were either NOT WRONG, or were misled... When you tell a scientist they were wrong, they ask to see the data, file it away, and move on... mistakes are how science makes progress! Mistakes are "part of the gameplan!" I guess that makes Fauci a politician not a scientist. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (note: I say that often because I was one, working in Range Safety at Cape Canaveral Air Force [now, Space Force] Station for 7 years in the 80's and 90's) to see how the lockdowns failed. What's with the this? Do you think it means you are an expert? Did NYC and SF need a lockdown? YES! Did Des Moines and Green Bay need a lockdown? NO! Where is your evidence to back this up or are you talking out your ass again? Science is mainly "educated guessing" - and when you realize your guess was wrong, you learn from it! Rarely, you may guess wildly and discover you were actually right (like the discovery of penicillin) - but usually, you guess 3000 times and finally find one that kinda-sorta works, so you try to find out WHY it works so you can guess better (and faster) next time! Science is not your strong suit. The core elements of scientific activity involve articulating hypotheses, laws, or models, designing experiments or empirical investigations that test these ideas, collecting data, and using data as evidence to evaluate and revise them. Why is that important? Because: a) it took a YEAR longer to get a vaccine "the old way"; b) now we can compare the results of old vaccine tech and new vaccine tech; and c) had we NOT had the new vaccine tech, the Delta variant likely would have added upwards of 2-million more deaths in the US alone We're approaching 900-thousand deaths in the US now, in early 2022 a) it would have taken tell 2033 according to the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-covid-vaccine.html b) in a decade or two we will have enough data to claim one is better than c)Where did you get that number? Of the 900-thousand how many are because of Covid and how many are with Covid? We will never know for sure. They are no longer reporting Covid deaths directly to the CDC on a daily basis. I guess now they don't want people to know the truth since it doesn't fit the Liberal narrative. Where to start... a) Fauci is a scientist / puppet whose strings are being pulled by politicians.He's admitted (that politicians sometimes tell him what he has to say) as much in public before. You can vilify him, I actually feel sorry for him. He didn't sign up for this. b) I reference my work experience as evidence that I am a bona fide scientist. (I don't just play one on GT.ru) As a scientist, I know (unlike some, hint hint) that there is far more that we DON'T yet know, than the pittance that we DO know... What's more, I also know that a LOT of what we "think we know" is wrong! Not wholly wrong, but at least a little-bit wrong. (That is: we don't know EVERYTHING about ANYTHING!). And lastly, I also know that the RATE at which we - as a species - are learning is accelerating... quickly! ... And some of the answers we're coming up with are scaring the pants off of some people (like you, @geobear40! Thus, your constant attacks on anything like science!) c) Google is your friend... or DuckDuckGo, or Bing, or any other search engine... when we did the lockdowns, NYC was FLUSH with infections! Their hospitals were being crushed. Des Moines had yet to see a single case. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to do simple research - but it does take someone willing to actually TRY! d) OK, smartypants... what's a synonym for hypothesis... I'll give you a hint: it's an educated guess ROFL True, a hypothesis embodies more than JUST an educated guess - there's a reason for the different wording - but since I knew my audience, I chose phrasing that they would understand. I should have to point this out, but YOU (@geobear40) were not the sole member of the intended audience. e) Let's see - the NYTimes hypothesized that it might take a decade to develop a vaccine in 2020, and I cited a case where it was actually DONE (well, at least as far as EUA goes)THIS MONTH... Did you pay attention to your own pathetic attempt to explain the scientific method? The hypothesis (in this case) was that it might take a decade (using the old methods)...the actuality was that it only took a YEAR... unless, of course, you want to claim that NOVAVAX is a hoax... you would... f) Not reporting COVID deaths daily is not the same thing as not reporting deaths at all! Hospitals report to the Government on EVERY death - pandemic or not! That's how they spot trends early on...

@bi4smooth said in California to turn San Quentin's death row into a 'positive, healing environment': @geobear40 again astounds me with his deeply thoughtful, logical, insightful responses... Does it make your feel warm and fuzzy to make such comments? They don't affect me at all. I find it interesting that you have to try to put people down in order to make yourself feel important.

@bi4smooth Do you really lack morals and how do you live with yourself and "I don't know how you keep from putting a gun in your mouth!"

@raphjd College education is a way to get into debt

@raphjd If it is true I would not be surprised Socialism at work

@raphjd said in Dan Bongino permanently banned by YouTube for challenging COVID-19 narrative: @bi4smooth Actually, they do. Ask MTG, Jim Jordan, and many others. Dems rewrote the rules to allow your supreme goddess and gin supplier to choose who Repubs can assign to which committees. No, you incompetent twit, they didn't re-write the rules... what they did was violate the "norms" of the House Rules. The House Rules have always said the Speaker has to approve of all House Committee appointments... what has always been the NORM is that the Speaker delegates and accepts the appointments of the minority party by the minority leader. Pelosi violated that norm for the Jan 6 investigation committee because McCarthy tried to appoint people to the committee who had already tipped their hands that they thought the Committee was a farce. Truth is, it's just another "shot" across the bow of the long-held American norm of a "loyal opposition"... the Parties - for over a century - generally worked together. When one was in the majority they still worked with the other side - and remained cordial and even somewhat deferential... after all, if there's one constant about American Politics, it is that the OTHER GUY will eventually be in charge again! Sadly, the end of this "loyal opposition" phase of our Political History started in 1995, when Newt Gingrich took over as Speaker and refused to work with or support any Democrat supported legislation - even amendments. And thus began the slow decline of civility between the sides in our Federal Government... It truly DOES make it SUCK ASS when you're in the minority... Good news: The Dems will be in the minority soon Bad news: The Dems will be in the majority again too... I don't know how it ends... but I don't think it ends well.

@bi4smooth You are such a dumb ass. Show me any law that Ted Cruz made, then directly and repeatedly violated. Did Cruz do the wise/right thing? NO. Of course, you are gonna defend the nephew of your gin supplier.

@raphjd said in ‘Transracial’ Influencer Wants Penis Reduction Surgery So They Look ‘100 Percent’ Korean: @bi4smooth So if a person hates American blacks, they aren't racist because they are indifferent about blacks in other places? It's racist in that he thinks Koreans have tiny dicks. You still don't get it... if he derided Koreans for having small dicks, THAT would be racist. If he discriminated AGAINST Koreans because "they have small dicks", THAT would be racist... But he wants to BE one of them! There isn't any of the negative connotation of "racism" in his actions - quite the opposite: he practically worships them! Again, I'm not defending him - just saying that your use of the term "racist" is misplaced.

@raphjd said in Neil Young - follow the money: Yeah, that's it! Neil Young has a LONG HISTORY of doing things "for the money" - no social activism in HIS past! Delusional much?

@raphjd It is not childish to speak the truth.@bi4smooth is not mature enough to respond in an adult manner. Regardless of his level of education he is still quite immature.

@bi4smooth Don't lie, we all know where you got your "news" on Kyle Rittenhouse, because you spouted the exact same thing they said. I guess you mean you conflated Kyle Rittenhouse murdered 3 black men with some murder in Chicago.

This would definitely be a bad thing. I say "would," because implementation of this change (by the United Conservative Party-led government) is on hold for a few months. It is possible (but in my opinion unlikely) that this $50/$150 scheme will be turned back. It's worth noting how this crept in: Last year a similar approach was applied to impaired-driving cases, following an approach taken in British Columbia. When this came up in Alberta, few people objected because nobody wanted to be seen as "soft" on impaired driving. Unfortunately, that opened the door to applying this barrier-to-due-process scheme to a wider set of offences. The argument given by those in favour of this measure is that the courts are overburdened with hearing traffic cases, and that this will stop frivolous challenges--especially by "rural repeat offenders." Having due process available to people can seem inconvenient and expensive, but losing it would be much more costly in a broader sense. For an example editorial in opposition to this plan (written before it was put on hold), see https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-ditching-traffic-court-denies-justice .

@eobox91103 There is a Lush at the West Edmonton Mall. It's not uncommon for MSM not to carry a story if they don't like the narrative. Sometimes they totally ignore a story and sometimes they wait until they get too large to ignore. That's not to say that the story is real or not, but MSM talking about it doesn't make it real either. Hunter's laptop was 100% Russian disinformation per 50 former and current Intel Service bosses. Adam Schiff has 100% absolute proof of Trump colluding with Russia, that he's never released.