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Let's say hypothetically we're in a third world country and there really is massive voter fraud going on and an election is actually stolen.
And audits? What's to audit? The Democrats didn't make accusations of voter fraud. The accusation was that the election was stolen by Facebook ads Russia paid for that influenced people to vote against Hillary. The election was stolen by a picture of the devil and Jesus arm wrestling and Hillary being made out to be on the side of the devil. The election was stolen by Russia doing in our elections what our government has done in elections all over the world, trying to influence them. And we collude with one side or another too, sometimes probably even multiple parties at the same time. Obama himself publicly attempted to influence elections in both Israel and Britain. There's video proof of it. And no Democrat had any problem with that. There isn't even an international law that says people of one country aren't allowed to express a public opinion through advertisements or other ways about elections in another country. The whole idea was preposterous but the Democrats used it anyway, feeble and weak as it was, to undermine our election process and the duly elected President, to accuse him of stealing the election. And they're still proud of it too. No regrets, no remorse, but of course not much mentioning of it anymore either because now that they won it's no longer acceptable to question elections. In fact, now it's treason.
Even if you are garunteed to get it,
the severity can be drastically reduced by vaccination and boosting.
QuoteFormer President Donald Trump plans to hold a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort on January 6, seeking to co-opt the first anniversary of the attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol to push his false claims of election fraud.
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I had it as well (pro tip: everyone's gonna get it) ...
Omicron was first detected in South Africa. Do we know that that's where it emerged?
"... said CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen."
If I'm not mistaken she is one of those who thought that it was premature for Biden to be saying that the vaccinated (and people who self-identify on any particular day as vaccinated) can safely take off their masks.
Of course now we'll never know but it's entirely possible that if we had kept masks on in the first place we wouldn't be having so much trouble with these variants that get selected to spread specifically because they are the ones best able to avoid the protection of the vaccines. This is exactly what experts warned us about, the people like Wen who Biden says don't exist.
Long delay in my response as well.Quantum mechanics kind of disagrees. At the smallest scale particles and their opposite pop into and out of existence all the time. They just annihilate each other shortly after. Relativity and quantum mechanics are strange physical laws. We "understand" them mathematically. Some of the consequences of each are hard to reconcile with our observed reality. There is a somewhat intuitive way to view general relativity as curved space. The practical interpretation of quantum mechanics has been debated by physicists and philosophers for the last 100 years. So looking at Descartes "demon" for an argument of how understandable the universe is a bit outdated to our current understanding of physics.
Quantum Mechanics is still under development, and the Broglie-Bohm hidden variable interpretation allows for quantum mechanics to be deterministic.
But it doesn't matter. The sort of causality I am describing here does not entail determinism. A cause only needs to make an effect intelligible, it does not need to do so deterministically. Quantum mechanics shows us that the quantum world is intelligible.
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We see the pushback now coming from Democrat mayors and governors who understand the wisdom of returning to mando-masking. That's the kind of leadership that should be coming from the top but Biden can never admit making a mistake, a character flaw he shares with Trump and most other politicians. The Democrats God bless them, who see their constituents filling up ICUs and dying have consciences that won't allow such arrogance to get in the way of saving lives.
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Either way, Trump would have been better and also better in another way if more Republicans would be willing to get vaccinated under Trump. Not sure if that's the case but it's possible. It could also be turned around so that more Republicans took the Trump vaccine while more Democrats, after listening to their leaders like Harris, decided not to.
Ephrem Moseley
not sure I follow: Are you saying that a company should accommodate you (or anyone) because you have a 'physical' revulsion to working with someone who is trans?
A new statewide mask mandate in California took effect Wednesday. At a moment when health authorities are warning of the fast spread of the highly infectious omicron variant, states with mask mandates — just nine according to the Kaiser Family Foundation — are outliers.
This is true in places with huge surges, like Michigan, where there's no mandate and hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. There's none in Ohio, where the legislature has taken away the governor's authority on mandates.
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And the best way to do that is to keep cases as low as possible, and that means having a mask mandate in place.
Pete at Home would understand
But inspiring the crowd with inflammatory language is a far cry from a conspiracy, which is the characterization under discussion. Otherwise we might hold all BLM leaders responsible as conspirators for destruction and mayhem that followed one of their speeches. We could call the leaders of the antiwar Vietnam movement responsible for a conspiracy to cause a riot. Any of these groups bear some measure of responsibility for not keeping their followers peaceful, but that doesn't make them conspirators.
1. The universe exists and is intelligible. That is to say, things exist and we can see that there are reasons for why things exist. Things don't pop in and out of existence for no reason.
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It's nice to know though that state governments are so anti-mask that they are willing to cover up the data proving that they are effective. Nice to know so hopefully they can be held to account and voted out, the people willing.
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His plan doesn't include emphasizing masks either, and the only mention of it is for transportation. We're going to keep doing what we've been doing and we're going to keep getting what we've been getting. Failure.
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Less than three months later, amid rising cases driven by the delta variant and more breakthrough coronavirus infections, Biden was forced this week to back away from that proclamation. The administration issued new guidance Tuesday that encourages fully vaccinated Americans to wear masks indoors in places with substantial infection levels, encompassing more than 60 percent of the nation’s counties."
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Yeah, new guidance. The problem is nobody is listening to the new guidance. Unlike in Madrid, people are unmasked everywhere because Biden couldn't put that toothpaste back in the tube.
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I wonder why Meadows decided to testify?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-former-chief-staff-mark-181710196.html
Now lets hear all of the calls that he was a never Trumper and a RINO.
Certainly not very many. I suppose we might dig up one quote from somebody who only wanted to delay certification, but that wasn't any message promoted at the rally. I mean, they didn't call it "delay the steal".
If the judge feels the case hasn't been made I am pretty sure in most jurisdictions the judge can dismiss the charges with prejudice. If the judge really thinks Rittenhouse is not guilty he can say so and have the trial be over. That's different from a mistrial which could lead to another trial.
Ok, but what if (let's say) a judge is corrupt and has been bribed to let someone off even though the evidence is compelling. In this case the prosecution can appeal a not guilty verdict?
I see, so nullification is only in the direction of not-guilty. So what the judge is saying appears to mean that the chances for the prosecution to try to argue for mistrial has been timed out on purpose, i.e. that the judge is so adamant that the defendant is not guilty that he won't even 'allow' a mistrial to be declared?
Point being, this individual did not strike a cop, didn't hurt anyone and his sentence is heavier than the guy who did. You're claiming that it was inappropriate because of politics. But meanwhile you're complaining constantly about law and order, stiffer penalties, and not letting anyone get away with anything.
I really wonder what Trump is trying to hide. His suite to block the info using Executive Privilege is doomed to failure. If he has nothing to hide, if he and his people did nothing wrong, why work so hard to hide the info?
"A New Jersey gym owner who punched a police officer during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. Scott Fairlamb's sentencing on Wednesday to 41 months in prison
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Lamberth said Fairlamb's actions struck at "the heart of our democracy." He had pleaded guilty, avoiding a trial."
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That's cool. People who punch police officers should get prison time, definitely. Over three years though?
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The important thing though is to send a message that questioning the integrity of our elections will not be tolerated. So for the guy who punched the police officer, he gets 6 months for that and then the rest is for thinking that there might be more voter fraud than is caught, also known as treason.
Trump staffers at the time are sure they killed Herman Caine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/killed-herman-cain-trump-staffers-181542040.html
The most cited thing from NYC is "white privilege" which of course as a concept is not at all CRT. Those denying that white privilege exists are uneducated. Numerous studies have demonstrated white advantage based only on an applicants name. Policies discriminating against traditionally black hairstyles exist. Wanting your kids to not be taught that is willful ignorance. If the concept of white privilege triggers you, that too is an example of white privilege.
One of the worst bits of disinformation is the current idea that the wild west was a time of gun-slingers and criminality. In fact, it was the most peaceful of times, because everyone carried (largely to protect against snakes and other wild animals, and armed citizens ensured peace.
Unarmed Babbit was shot by a Dem hireling, who has been protected and hidden away. Name an incident where police were attacked by GOP protestors. Yes, there were some Dem agitators identified in the crowd - but just without Tiki Torches so the lame brain media couldn't identify them to their satisfaction. Even the few protestors arrested and thrown in jail without a trial have never been charged with violence.
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A New Jersey gym owner who punched a police officer during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. Scott Fairlamb's sentencing on Wednesday to 41 months in prison
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Lamberth said Fairlamb's actions struck at "the heart of our democracy." He had pleaded guilty, avoiding a trial.
Over 650 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 riot, including more than 100 accused of assaulting law enforcement officers. More than 120 defendants have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors that carry a maximum of six months imprisonment.
Does anyone else smell the odor of the real reason Republicans are making a big deal of critical race theory here?
All of these elections were rigged. I mean Trump didn't get any votes. How could that be? How could he drop from 74 million votes to none? There is no statistical way that can happen. So there must have been transfers of votes behind the scenes. Trump won every election across the country.
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What happened to that guy? He had one thing going for him and he threw it away for no good reason.
Abbot and DeSantis didn't betray me because I never trusted them on masks. Biden I trusted and you can only be betrayed by the people you trust. That's what really hurts. And in this case kills.
And again those are the guys controlling the mask mandates with have always been state or local. The CDC underestimated the stupidity of those guys and the unvaccinated. It was an idiotic mistake because it was entirely predictable. But mayors and governors where always the ones who created and had the power to keep, remove, or in the case of the worst offenders prevent mask mandates.
What is your hypothesis on FL currently having the lowest cases in the country per day, per capita in the country, despite preventing mask mandates?
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What happened to that guy? He had one thing going for him and he threw it away for no good reason.
Abbot and DeSantis didn't betray me because I never trusted them on masks. Biden I trusted and you can only be betrayed by the people you trust. That's what really hurts. And in this case kills.
The only thing we know for sure is that if it was true most of the press would gladly collude with the administration to clean it up and cover it up just like they're doing with all the other messes this guy is making.
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Overall, 58% said they trust elections in the country either a great deal or a good amount.
But while almost 9 in 10 Democrats and 60% of independents said so, just a third of Republicans agreed.
"The CDC ended its mask mandate for vaccinated individuals as a way to encourage people to get vaccinated..."
But whose bright idea was that really?
We'll never know of course but I'm not going to believe it originated with the CDC especially with the enthusiastic way Biden took that victory lap. Everyone else is free of course to believe whatever they want.
I know y'all will hate to hear this but at some point the apparent lack of evidence of ANY DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD AT ALL is even more damning than if we saw some evidence of it but it wasn't all that much.
In other words, it's easier to believe that there was overwhelming undetectable Democrat voter fraud than that absolutely none existed.
Of course it's probably somewhere in the middle but the apparent lack of ability of our fraud detection systems to find any Democrat voter fraud at all doesn't give most people the confidence in our elections Democrats seem to assume, and even demand.
It's more important to get the rest of the world vaccinated than to refresh our own vaccinated people. Though boosters might still be appropriate for high risk people, especially those likely to be superspreaders.
That doesn't seem like equivalent arithmetic to me. Meaning, when weighing the relative safety for an American of 100,000 American people getting a booster, versus 100,000 Indian people getting a 1st vaccine, I would find it hard to believe the actual day-to-day safety is equivalent. It seems like almost a no-brainer that Americans getting a booster is better for Americans. The only question is whether Americans would be satisfied with a somewhat reduced safety margin in order to help other countries (and perhaps in the medium-term, the supply chains that they rely on).
Okay, that is not a good look for the McMichaels. I still don't trust the media to tell the whole truth and we saw that with the Zimmerman case, the case in Ferguson, and many others, but if they just saw a black man running past their house and decided to chase him down and perform a citizen's arrest on him then I'm starting to lose interest in defending the McMichaels in the court of public opinion. I'm not seeing where the McMichaels called the police either, just the neighbor.
I could say some not so nice things like I wonder if the thefts around the neighborhood, if there were any, stopped, but I won't speculate on that. Even if they did it wouldn't mean Arbery was responsible and even if he was the way some of the citizens handled it does expose them to the possibility of legal trouble. Well we'll see how it goes.
Snap over someone cutting across your yard? You've got mental problems if that triggers you so badly.
And then you eventually get sued when someone has a trip and fall incident on your property resulting in a lasting injury because of something left out in your yard.
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As was pointed out weeks ago - he did not clearly and unequivocally lie. By one widely used definition of 'gain of function' including that used by the NIH - his statement was accurate.
LR, he literally told Sen. Paul to his face that he didn't know what he was talking about. He didn't just say, "well, it depends on exactly the definition, so by some standards yes, and by other standards no." He definitively and firmly said it was no, full stop, with no possible way around it, no matter what Sen. Paul said to him. This was a blatant and direct lie.
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As the fear of warming is publicized, you don't hear of the benefits coming from it. Basically, the warmer it gets, the more food can be grown to feed people. The nay-Sayers pretend the warming would produce desert conditions - but that is not a real threat.
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Yes, another severe drought is sweeping across the western United States. California is now two years into a deep drought after suffering from its worst drought in 1,200 years between 2012 and 2016.
It may seem obvious: Heat kills. Wildfires burn. Flooding drowns.
But the sprawling health effects of a rapidly warming world can also be subtle. Heat sparks violence and disrupts sleep. Wildfire smoke can trigger respiratory events thousands of miles away. Flooding can increase rates of suicide and mental health problems. Warmer winters expand the range of disease-carrying mosquitoes and ticks.
A new report from the medical journal The Lancet finds that human-caused climate change is worsening human health in just about every measurable way
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We can even wonder if Arbery had won that fight and taken that shotgun away and then killed those two guys, would that have been self-defense? There's a very good argument for it.
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"Re: How broken does a justice system have to be before vigilantism is moral?"
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You're going to get stuck paying the $500 deductible and nobody is going to care and nobody is going to do anything. If your community did care and had some kind of neighborhood watch and confronted thieves during crimes in progress or right afterwards then you're going to get people hurt and killed as a result just like we saw with Arbery. Let's say the police did catch Arbery. Would they have done anything? Almost certainly no, nothing at all. We're already passed the point anyone really relies on the law to protect them particularly when it comes to property crimes. The vast majority of people just give up and live with it.
Can anyone blame people who get fed up? Yeah, Democrats can. Just stop whining and suffer your fate.
https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/florida-police-officer-28-killed-in-overnight-confrontation-with-teenage-suspect/article_91aa467f-454b-5d55-a48e-3f527e4375e7.html
So here's a case. A guy was just riding his bicycle. Sure, he's pulling on car door handles but is that a crime? Nobody saw him go into any of the cars so he did less than Arbery. Nobody saw him take anything.
Now would a neighborhood watch or concerned citizen be within their rights to ask him, "Hey how's it going, wat'cha doin' pulling on those car door handles?"
They don't need to be armed for that do they? They don't need a shotgun out or a pistol, right?
Well, the guy shot and killed a police officer so maybe they would need to be armed after all.
And the suspect is an 18 year old kid just out for a bike ride.
I'll even stipulate, if you see someone commit a crime, actually witnessing it, I'll take back most of not all of my objections. Report it FIRST. then if you want to follow, ask, confront, maybe even detain, it makes a whole lot of sense.
The media lied about him not doing anything illegal. Trespassing is illegal.
