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-Great Cultural Revolution
Cruz: Biden Administration Needs to ‘Fess Up' About Using Law Enforcement to Target Enemies
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  It goes a bit beyond the FBI Senator.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2022 2:19 Comments || Top||

#2  It is not likely the third term of the Obama-Biden will be questioned so long as Dems have the House and Presidency and a kind of weird shared power arrangement in the Senate. I'm not confident that even if the Pubs had the House, Senate and Presidency that they would be able to clean up the rot and corruption in Washington.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/13/2022 18:26 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia. Spring 1918. Before the start of the big intervention
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Airapetov

[REGNUM] The loss of control over Baku and Grozny deprived Russia of oil. Customs tariffs ensured the ruin of Russian industry by German imports. The payment of the indemnity was an additional blow to finances. Lenin linked all his hopes with the imminent arrival of a new wave of revolution. On March 7, in his report to the VII Emergency Congress of the RCP (b) on the political situation, he spoke about erroneous assessments of Germany's potential, that the belief that the Germans were not in a position to attack led to a worsening of the situation.

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Posted by: badanov || 01/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
IT BEGINS: HarperCollins Readying Release of Peter Schweizer Blockbuster Investigation
[Breitbart] Politico Playbook exclusively reported Wednesday that publishing giant HarperCollins is preparing to release the next investigative bombshell book by six-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer titled Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.

Red-Handed remains under a strict embargo until its January 25 release date.

The book’s cover, which Politico obtained a copy of, features photos of President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), LeBron James, Elon Musk, Henry Kissinger, and Bill Gates. According to Politico, Red-Handed will "expose bad actors on both ends of the political spectrum and their willingness to do China’s bidding."

Given the bestselling author’s investigative track record, the book’s subjects may have cause for concern. Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash sparked an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation. His last two books, Profiles in Corruption and Secret Empires, each hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after the trip.

Schweizer, who is the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a senior contributor to Breitbart News, also authored Throw Them All Out, which, according to left-leaning Slate, was "the book that started the STOCK Act stampede." The bipartisan STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) banned insider trading by members of Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The legislation received overwhelming support from both parties. One of the main figures featured in Schweizer’s Throw Them All Out, then-chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Spencer Bachus (R-AL), announced he would not seek reelection after the book’s reporting. CBS’s 60 Minutes did an investigative report on Schweizer’s revelations that won them the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based journalism.

According to Amazon, Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win numbers 352 pages in length.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2022 01:43 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK my 1st 3/4 day home since 12-29-2021. Wife still in ICU.

But have been following the usual Pee-On's (US) vs. Them (elite) dual justice system process.

As scary as I sound saying it.

Why we are still discussing or expecting any real Constitutional Justice?

They are playing US against US and never will see true accountability in any court system. Elite level royalty vs working Serf's. Serfs kept at that level with High Tax rates to keep advancement.

Read up a little on the Korean Joseon Dynasty or a dozen other countries where rich elitists used the same basic control processes.


Hell look no further than Dr. F (death) and his violations of INTERNATIONAL BIO-WARFARE laws? Where are the 5M charges for murder for his "test" projects in Wuhan?


Look at the shooting of Right Wing protesters WITHOUT criminal investigation. Murder of Police officers with the POS released on signature bonds. The store bought DA's.

But then add media deflection/propaganda writings to make heroes out of rapists, drug dealers, career Felons, and ped's. All which cause riots and the harm of innocent citizens and not the BLM/ANTI-FA criminals clearly assaulting VERY Sr. Citizens, looting $$$$$$$ stores, and burning things down.

MY OPEN QUESTION :
So how will justice be accomplished as long as $$$$$$ rules over law?



BTW: 1st cup of Coffee in over 10 days.... still tastes like crap. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/13/2022 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ "So how will justice be accomplished as long as $$$$$$ rules over law?"

Easily answered: NEVER !

Glad to hear about your recovery. Hope your wife is out of ICU soon. Always enjoy your comments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2022 8:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden Recounts Time He Was Arrested At A Civil Rights Protest For Wearing A White Hood
[BabylonBee] In a stirring speech in Atlanta this week, Biden recounted the time he was heroically arrested at a civil rights protest simply for wearing a white hood.

"There I was, outside a school protesting against school integration with my best pal KKK member Robert Byrd, and the cops were escorting black kids into the school," said Biden. "And then I said 'You won't turn my school into a racial jungle! I'm gonna wrap this chain around your head!' And then the cops arrested me and escorted me to their police car and bought me Burger King. It was delicious. Build Back Better! Universal mail-in voting! Yay!"

The audience seemed confused until several Democrat leaders instructed the audience to clap and cheer.

"Yay! Build Back Better! Universal mail-in voting!" they all cheered.

Biden's address has been hailed in the media as a "powerful call to America to be on the right side of history" and "a totally not racist speech."

Democrats have instructed black leaders to instruct black people that whatever the 80-year-old white racist said in his speech was a "good thing" and they should fully support it if they want "liberation and equality and all that stuff."

Republicans pounced on the speech, likely because they're racist.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/13/2022 11:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  😂
Posted by: badanov || 01/13/2022 14:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "Corn Pop was slappin' his ho around, but he ran and left me, Joe Bidet, to deal with the law and the busted up b*tch..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#3  thx to whoever added the [Bee] note. I spaced on it
Posted by: Frank G || 01/13/2022 16:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Think one should get a Triple Bee Score with Biden Says headlines; anything is possible.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 16:09 Comments || Top||

#5 
Federal takeover of elections: DOA.
Nuking legislative filibuster: impossible.
Private employer vax mandate: struck down.
Producer Price Index: surges to all-time high.
Consumer Price Index: highest since 1982.
Public support: craters to 33%

Time for a false-flag mass shooting at a school board meeting by an angry parent FBI contractor.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 16:18 Comments || Top||


Donald ‘no special side effects’ Sure


After our family member died from the spike vaccine, the neighbor wheelchaired for the rest of her life. WTH he's losing me. I don't care if he's playing to the media. There is no excuse. I'll vote for DeSantis.

Courtesy of M. Murcek:
Trump calls DeSantis ‘gutless...’
[Washington Examiner] I'm all done now. This guy really just does not know where to get off.
Former President Donald Trump ripped "gutless" politicians who refuse to say whether or not they received the booster shot for COVID-19.

Trump's comments came in an interview that aired on One America News Network on Tuesday night. While Trump did not mention any names, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has notably dodged questions about whether or not he took the booster shot.

"Many politicians — I watched a couple of politicians be interviewed, and one of the questions was, ’Did you get the booster?’ because they had the vaccine, and the answer is 'yes,' but they're not answering it," he said. "Because they’re gutless. You gotta say it, whether you had it or not."

Trump also said that he does not believe "young, healthy people" should take the vaccine. He cited his son Barron, 15, whom he said was barely affected when he was infected with COVID-19. The former president also said he did not experience any side effects when he got the vaccine and argued that it saved tens of millions of lives globally.

DeSantis, who said that he received the "normal shot" of the COVID-19 vaccine, avoided a question about whether he got the booster shot in a Fox News interview last December.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  i guess he had his time...
Posted by: 746 || 01/13/2022 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  End of an era. Step aside, OM. Thank you.

DeSantis - Carlson 2024
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/13/2022 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Many Americans are anti vaccine. Some politicians on the right do not want to step on their toes. You will never find a person who can get to the very core of such subjects like Trump can.

Desantis is a professional politician. Trump you is not.

Trump was elected TWICE because people are tired of professional politicians who all eventually corrupted. Even Desantis is being political about this topic as we speak.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/13/2022 3:27 Comments || Top||

#4  argued that it saved tens of millions of lives globally.

You can't prove a negative. Asserting that any particular person didn't die "because of the vaccine" is utter bullgarb.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 3:44 Comments || Top||

#5  THIS is why the Left never worries about the Right. People on the Right viciously turn on each other.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/13/2022 3:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, the right tends to toss out its sexual predators, mountebanks and poltroons while the dems circle the wagons until they absolutely must give up. Seems to me Trump is the one doing all the trash talking on other pubs. Do some of them deserve it? No doubt. Is it an honorable way to politick? Hell no.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 3:56 Comments || Top||

#7  (Commonwealth Fund) JULY 7, 2021 Deaths and Hospitalizations Averted by Rapid U.S. Vaccination Rollout.

People who spread false information by saying the vaccines are not effect are endangering the lives of others.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/13/2022 4:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Deaths and Hospitalizations Averted by Rapid U.S. Vaccination Rollout.

That can be asserted. It cannot be proved.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 4:07 Comments || Top||

#9  I stand with Trump.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/13/2022 6:27 Comments || Top||

#10  And the knives come out for Trump, because he listens to data not anecdotes.

This is why we lose -- your imaginary ideological purity is more important than your actual liberty.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/13/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Trump is in the high risk category. I don't blame him from doing it. He's adult enough to know the odds. He hasn't forced any mandates.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/13/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#12  He's a rough old bastid and a survivor. I thought everyone knew that. Personalities aside, at the end of the day, surviving is the key.

He knew what the Chinese were up to and did his best to bring back lost manufacturing. He also kept the Russian at arm's length. Iran and the Norks were never quite sure what steps he might take to totally fok up their day.

Like I said, he's a rough old bastid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2022 7:42 Comments || Top||

#13  I find myself thinking, it's a year after the introduction of the vaccines with no change in the overall death rate from covid per year.

THAT'S the data. And it strongly hints that the vax is useless.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/13/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#14  /\ THAT'S the data. And it strongly hints that the vax is useless.

If it serves as a confirmation, the VAX is in fact a gov't program.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/13/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#15  But telling a vax fanatic that it doesn't work is like telling some people you don't like dogs. they foam at the mouth and then start telling you that you aren't human and should die.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 8:21 Comments || Top||

#16  People who spread false information by saying the vaccines are not effect are endangering the lives of others.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454


What?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 01/13/2022 8:22 Comments || Top||

#17  Full-on parody at this point...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 8:25 Comments || Top||

#18  There is only one Savior.

Not Trump
Not Cotton Eyed Joe Bidet
Not Fauxi
Not Pfizer
Not Moderna
Not J&J
Not "Dr." Guabera at WHO
Not Shifty Eyes Walensky at CDC
And, no, Missy, not your dog either...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 9:25 Comments || Top||

#19  They're now admitting that the data was botched. Incomplete, inconsistent, inaccurate. 'With,' not 'from.'

Shifting definitions. No randomized trials with proper controls anywhere. Confounding variables all over the place.

None of the alternate hypotheses - high sugar / diabetes as the key co-morbidity for ex. - none of these were explored.

They suppressed effective treatments and vilified world-class experts who dared to point out any of the above inconvenient facts or suggest that maybe burning down the house to kill a rat was insane policy.

They have never, ever admitted that they do not have all the answers and that they've made grievous mistakes. Instead they said that criticism of them was tantamount to denying or attacking "science."

Fauci and the other COVIDian clowns are simply destroying us and our democratic republic. They have made every possible error.

They are mendacious clowns who deserve only scorn. And possibly prison sentences, or exile to a remote island.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/13/2022 9:42 Comments || Top||

#20  But if you abjure the sacrement (vaxx) and vestment (mask) of COVID, you are a murderer. No discussion, no reasoning. Pure, apoplectic fury.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#21  Many times, mass groups of people who become emotionally invested in a lie, upon the uncovering of the lie, they are not angry at the liar(s) but at the reality that exposed the lie.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#22  The bottom line is that we can trust none of their official data -- not for cases, not for fatalities, not for side effects, neither for the vaxxed nor for the unvaxxed -- none of it.

They are literally making this shit up as they go. Flying blind.

And we saw this coming back in March 2020, when they distorted and misconstrued the incontrovertible data from that quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship. That was a perfect controlled trial, with an elderly population in the most contagious environment short of an orgy, confined for two weeks, and the case fatality rate was exactly what the skeptics expected and what we now know is true: 0.3%.

This thing was never as deadly as they claimed. This whole farcical episode was a totally avoidable catastrophe of deliberate malfeasance. Worst in modern history. Fvck these clowns.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/13/2022 9:54 Comments || Top||

#23  ^ My point exactly. Assertions are not proof of anything. It's not even a case of "if they had proof." There's no way to prove that I did or did not die of COVID because I did or did not drink Mt. Dew. There's no way to prove or disprove that I am alive right now because of the vaxx. No. Way.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#24  And for those who say that sometimes logic and reason must be suspended, because reasons, I will not even dignify that assertion with a response.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 10:00 Comments || Top||

#25  In true tinpot dictator fashion they spread vicious, ridiculous lies about all the brilliant scientists who opposed them.

They're trying to destroy that skeptic who's one of their own -- the Nobel shortlist inventor of the mRNA treatment itself.

They slandered the man who gave the world science about science and alerted us to the ways that so many of modern biomedical conclusions are simply false, their methods faulty and their conclusions unreliable.

They created a vicious propaganda campaign which claimed that three world class epidemiologists -- from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford -- who dared to suggest that we should focus on the elderly and leave the kids alone were somehow "fringe" scientists.

They have ignored their own peers from Yale and Berkeley and across the elite world of academic epidemiology who've pointed out that this is endemic, not a pandemic, and that forcing anyone under 60 to take their ineffective jabs -- again and again and again, from here to eternity -- goes against every principle of wise policy.

Zero credibility and zero excuses at this point.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/13/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#26  ^ But, you are contradicting something Missy heard her dog say at 3 am. Murderer!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#27  Re: #25. Of course the ones who excelled at becoming administrative wh0res despise the ones that do actual science. Of course they are going to stomp them down in favor of good drones who bring in the grant money. And that gets us the results we are looking at right now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 10:14 Comments || Top||

#28  Never go to a doctor who has a medical and a law degree. Never use an investment counselor who got a JD and decided not to practice law.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#29  And the rest of all y'all can wait until 2028. We'll keep our governor for his full second term.

- Florida
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#30  So let me get this right....DeSantis, on his own accord and in line with how he views his health, has had some shots, but is not forcing people to have them?

Leading voice of the Free States isn't exactly gutless. Kind of the opposite really.

Not sure this is the right tack here Trump; really need to be all together here vs. Leviathan.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 10:47 Comments || Top||

#31  But when Trump agrees with Missy's dog, Missy is all-in.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#32  Trump can only serve one more term. the question is, would it be advantageous for Desantes to be VP for that term or better to keep being America's Governor.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/13/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#33  Considering the whole project could break up, we would rather keep him here in Florida, working for us.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#34  Fauxi now two points below Bidet in approval. A sign the man in the street is not stupid.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||

#35  You really are a know nothing. The vaccines do not prevent one from having COViD. The vaccines increase ones chances of surviving COVID dramatically.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/13/2022 13:14 Comments || Top||

#36  I know that's what they say. And, yeah, thanks for letting me know who you are with your lame insult.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 13:23 Comments || Top||

#37  There it is. I know nothing, because I don't buy the gummint line. Please see above: They can claim that the "vaccine" lessens your chance of being hospitalized or dying but they cannot prove that. Cannot. Prove That.

That's not emotional investment on my part. That's just a scientific fact. It isn't Science™ so it can be discounted by people who roll that way. But it does not change the reality.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 13:52 Comments || Top||

#38  Fauxi's approval is below Joe's today. Lot of know-nothings out there...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 13:57 Comments || Top||

#39  There was not enough time to gather evidence before the vax unrolled to make a decent qualitative estimate* about decreasing covid severities.

The only solid evidence we do have concerning less severe cases, is that all those most susceptible have run the gauntlet or have died, and they are no longer doing any of those activities. Therefore, it seems like new cases are less severe because those testing positive have a functioning immune system.

*and that information is so cluttered by number padding any deduction is sketchy

Just an observer here, not pro or anti vax. Whatever decision you make just remember, to riff the breakfast joke the other day, the TV people are involved, you are committed.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 14:09 Comments || Top||

#40  Also, the thick fog of mutancy bullshit. Didn't the flu tend to mutate once a year? Well, it's an old virus and not made in china. Who can say? Certainly not a know nothing like me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 14:14 Comments || Top||

#41  Remember when g(r)om used to call some of us childish? Good times...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 14:16 Comments || Top||

#42  Proud flat earth science! denier for 18 months now, accordingly. Also have a decent batting average IMHO. Difference is, I'm not hoping people die for I Told You So.

Know plenty of people who got the shot because they were In The Danger Zone. Some even got a booster, because some vaccinations need that.

By second booster lots of getdafukouttaheres. Third booster, lots of Did I Take the Wrong Interstate Exit? faces.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 14:37 Comments || Top||

#43  I took the first J&J shot and loaded to the safe limit on aspirin for 2 weeks afterwards because of clot worries. No damn way I'm taking any boosters. Because I know nothing!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 14:39 Comments || Top||

#44  I've always wanted to be a murderer. Now I get to do it without, you know, actually killing anyone. Not exciting, but I already notched my belt because CNN and USAToday said I could.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 14:41 Comments || Top||

#45  An informed medical decision based on needs and wants, as it should be.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 14:46 Comments || Top||

#46  What? You wouldn't prefer to just do it because of social pressure and derision from people who mistakenly believe they know something?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||

#47  SCOTUS says OSHA does not have authority to mandate vaccines. Missy's dog says "Please don't kick me again."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 15:04 Comments || Top||

#48  Let's not forget, OSHA's initial stand on mandatory shots was that if there were side effects, the employer was responsible for damages.

Then there started being reports about possible side effects, and Science! was like, nah, takes two weeks for immunity to set in, what you got is from Covid.

Now they are all OSHA gonna make you do it, and shots actually were always intended to lesson symptoms.

But nah, no credibility problems here.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 15:13 Comments || Top||

#49  SCROTUS said vax mandates for health care workers might fly. Ready to go to a hospital where a nursing school drop-out who was willing to take the vax to get a job is taking care of you?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 15:22 Comments || Top||

#50  Five no-nothings on SCOTUS, obviously...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 15:38 Comments || Top||

#51  The arbiter of who knows is absent for a while now. Scooping Missy's dog's poop, no doubt.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 15:40 Comments || Top||

#52  Time better spent asking the vax history of these decision makers.

AOC, where are her papers, eh?

And why they are not responsible for any shot side effects caused by federal mandates.

Asking for the early 40s regional EMT who died of unexpected heart failure....COD labeled Covid.

Don't give me the Oh they can just get a different job bull. This was a legally operating business from when they hired on until an hour ago. New people hiring on, guess they know the score, but me, I"d be like Jobu says up yours.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 15:47 Comments || Top||

#53  Perhaps the mildness of Omicron is not about vaccines or about Omicron.

Perhaps the mildness is just Covid (when you don't have 4 or so co-morbidities, the hospitals know what to do regarding a bad case, and the journalists and gov are no longer trying to scare the crap out of people because they hope to revive Biden's poll numbers).
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/13/2022 15:47 Comments || Top||

#54  ^ this

Omicron, n. = from Greek, "the sniffles"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/13/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||

#55  Even with the Science! cabal suppressing legitimate therapeutics, if you are diabetic, they will dietarily and otherwise minimize that co-morbidity. You can bet the sort of docs my dad used to call "intensivists" have some protocols in place now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 15:58 Comments || Top||

#56  They haven't banned insulin. Too much money involved compared to ivermectin and HCQ.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 15:59 Comments || Top||

#57  Ooooooh, where's that b(a)rnsmell?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 16:02 Comments || Top||

#58  You wouldn't prefer to just do it because of social pressure and derision from people who mistakenly believe they know something?

Guess I'm the poster child for doing everything wrong according to the CDC. Polite company I am a Control Group.

-does creepy Joe whisper-
I still shake hands. Never quit. Laughed at a guy trying to give me the chicken wing.
-normal-
Even talked face to face with those who were sick and tested positive. Without a mask. Less than 6 feet. Like a person instead of some leper. They were feeling bad enough, like they got The Black Spot socially, and that is square on the TV people and they can eat shit now that they are, like Billy Madison, all the cool kids do it.

Didn't tempt fate - washed hands before eating, kept hands off the T-Zone, washed up after visitors especially the pens and those who had sniffles and no self control. Just didn't let myself get shoved around and if you think grom was pushy, shit I have stories about my wife's thoughts. Broke her when I mentioned she was watching the news like a sports jock junky watches the super bowl event.

Ultimately, I did what was right for me, considering I thought I had already had it in February. And if not, go into it with a healthy lifestyle, good attitude, and active immune system.

Locking people in their house, living on delivered junk food, while broadcasting fear and shame on all media sources was just brutal to watch and I hope you all are at least half as pissed as I was.

We knew getting it wasn't much fun, even deadly. We also knew it was totally out of proportion and sure enough, the losers and petty tyrants took advantage of it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 18:59 Comments || Top||

#59  I do the fistbump after watching too many men leave the restroom without washing their hands...for the last 20 years. Not COVID-related, just common sense
Posted by: Frank G || 01/13/2022 19:32 Comments || Top||

#60  We're either already covered in piss, trusting a clean hand for a binding deal, or cut palms to share blood and go Pawnee on some motherfuckers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 19:47 Comments || Top||

#61  And use those Dyson hyperspeed hand dryers.

Me? I don't pee on my hand.
Posted by: KBK || 01/13/2022 19:51 Comments || Top||

#62  Meaning: Dysons areosolize virus.
Posted by: KBK || 01/13/2022 19:52 Comments || Top||

#63  Regardless Trump surfed over all the Vac deaths-murders and that is a fricking deal breaker for me.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/13/2022 19:54 Comments || Top||

#64  Trump was not the Messiah.
More like John the Orange Baptist.

His work is done here. Move along now. Maybe sell orange NFTs?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/13/2022 20:47 Comments || Top||

#65  Unprovoked own-goal, or Washington Examiner injecting DeSantis into this interview?

For those who have seen the entire interview: Was DeSantis mentioned outside of this 40 second clip, specifically before the clip or lead-up to the interview?

Seems Washington Examiner is referencing a December DeSantis interview and using stock wedge phrases.

Just trying to stay as lawful-neutral as when examining Covid problems as what is medical and what is political.


*Hand-shake culture out here, and calving season to boot, so we know from an early age to wash before eating or don't complain about getting a taint.

Fun game. If at a meeting, especially hand shakes before or expected after a meeting, wait for that one member, and there is always one it seems, to fiddle with every treat on the plate, look around to see who is disgusted and who grabs a treat afterwards. Its a good tell.

**Those air dryers are a contributing reason why touch screens have the taint. Second would be people diddling on their phones in the crapper, finishing the job, washing their hands proper, just to go touching their screen again. Remember waaaay back when The New Yorker tried to make a famous cover of an overworked nurse sitting exhausted, in full gown, playing on her touch screen?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/13/2022 20:57 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Some personal notes on ACE inhibitors
I'm sticking this in opinion because I'm writing it as I go along and it only seems appropriate.

I already linked one article today yesterday on the subject of the interaction of the virus with ACE inhibitor receptors, that was something I happened to run across this morning. Based on some stuff from yesterday, I decided it would help a little to recap some of the more important links regarding both fraudulent materials and other notes on the subject:

  • Slashdot: Retracted Covid Paper Lives on in New Citations. Way back in Spring 2020, the Surgisphere Corporation generated a huge amount of patient data out of whole cloth that purported to show that ACE inhibitors produced a negative outcome in Covid patients. It was published in the NEJM and then retracted when the fraud was discovered. Since then, it has been quoted a large number of times, and only about 1/6 of the papers referencing it have noted that it was fraudulent and retracted. See Med Page Today and the online cardiology news site tctmd for more information on this particular folllowup study.

  • In the meantime, other studies have shown that ACE inhibitors were actually helpful, even as their use among hospitalized covid patients was discontinued:

  • In the British Medical Journal: "Risk of severe COVID-19 disease with ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers: cohort study including 8.3 million people" showed:

    Abstract Findings: "Findings Of 19 486 patients who had COVID-19
    disease, 1286 received ICU care. ACE inhibitors were associated
    with a significantly reduced risk of COVID-19 disease (adjusted
    HR 0.71, 95% CI 0.67 to 0.74) but no increased risk of ICU care
    (adjusted HR 0.89, 95% CI 0.75 to 1.06) after adjusting for a
    wide range of confounders. Adjusted HRs for ARBs were 0.63 (95%
    CI 0.59 to 0.67) for COVID-19 disease and 1.02 (95% CI 0.83 to 1.25) for ICU care...

    ...Interpretation ACE inhibitors and ARBs are associated with reduced risks of COVID-19 disease after adjusting for a wide range of variables. Neither ACE inhibitors nor ARBs are associated with significantly increased risks of receiving ICU care. Variations between different ethnic groups raise the possibility of ethnic-specific effects of ACE inhibitors/ARBs on COVID-19 disease susceptibility and severity which deserves further study.


    In other words, we adopted a practice of taking patients off of a drug they were taking already that was helpful in combatting Covid as a matter of standardized hospital protocol for the first year and a half of the epidemic because of a fraudulent paper.

    And no-one with the nation's so-called intelligence agencies performed any sort of followup investigation into the fake science that convinced us to shoot our pandemic response in the foot. I guess it was just the hobby of the owner of Surgisphere?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  GIGO
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 4:12 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ I should elaborate. By that I mean the "medical community" found a narrative they liked and stuck with it even after it was debunked. Thing From Snowy Mountain's post is dead-on.

The left has been trying to politicize health care for generations. It's time to get gummint entirely out of health care. Maybe if the "medical community" spent more time policing its ranks than choosing a pony tail guy to wear a white coat while standing next to Bath House Barry, they could get results the public could truct.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 4:16 Comments || Top||

#3  It seems pretty much straightforward.

The COVID19 virus attacks via ACE receptors, because its "spike proteins" fit the receptors like a key into a lock.

The Ace Receptor Blockers (ARBs) occupy those receptors and reduce their ability to uptake the ACE2 enzyme. By occupying the receptors it would seem they should reduce the uptake of the virus as well.

One would expect that this reduced ability to uptake would results in a slowing of the spread and subsequent replication, giving the body more time to fight off the virus. It would also follow that by slowing the pace of the infection, it would also reduce the chances of a "cytokine storm" which is what causes the worst effects in the lungs resulting in hypoxia and death.

So why is there any question seeing that this research is the right way to go, and continue with ARB treatment, or maybe even add an ARB as a treatment for early stages of infection?

Is this another case of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine - where a cheap generic pill is ditched in favor of expensive antivirals like remdesivir, and expensive monoclonal antibody infusions?

Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 01/13/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/
“ Cannabinoid acids from hemp (Cannabis sativa) were found to be allosteric as well as orthosteric ligands with micromolar affinity for the spike protein. In follow-up virus neutralization assays, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid prevented infection of human epithelial cells ”. “ Orally bioavailable and with a long history of safe human use, these cannabinoids, isolated or in hemp extracts, have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2.”. You can buy gummies off of the net.
Posted by: Gpa Cooky || 01/13/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Not patentable by Big Pharma, therefor not to be allowed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Also: CDBA and CDGA are not found in gummies. They are biological precursors to CDB and CDG.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Apologies for the cross-post.

PSA To All Rantburgers:
Look up your vaccination code, then go to How Bad Is My Batch for a complete tally of adverse events compiled by the VAERS system for your particular vaccine batch.

No joke. No sarc. Per Malone on his substack today: "According to the website above, the data reported in VAERS, reproduced on the site, show that adverse events triggered by Moderna batches have varied widely.

"5% of the batches appear to have produced 90% of the adverse reactions

"Some Moderna batches are associated with 50 x the number of deaths and disabilities compared to other batches."


Again, this is actual VAERS data. I looked up my / my family's batch and we found only nine adverse events. Malone found 742 for his batch, along with 8 deaths, 16 disabilities, and 13 life-threatening illnesses.

Good luck,
MF

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/13/2022 15:44 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ That post deserves to get around. Thanks, Merrick.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/13/2022 15:45 Comments || Top||



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