Sunday, February 13, 2022

When you've lost the Washington Post!

First it was lockdowns that were debunked, now it is mask mandates. None of this worked. It was just Government control and liberals love being controlled.


To borrow from a famous political phrase: It's the Science Stupid. Like it or not the actual science was long on supposition and short on actual proof. Whenever we saw statistical evidence that mask wearing had minimal effect, our CDC would put together some silly study such as using mannequins sneezing huge amounts of flem directly in the face of other mannequins (masked and unmasked) as proof that masks work. The psychology of all of this led weak minded scared people (mostly liberals) to accept whatever they were told by authorities.  Why? Because they are weak minded scared people who were looking for a "mommy" to make it all better. Dr Fauci and the CDC because mommy for all practical purposes.

While the left screamed and hollered (and still do) about lockdowns and masks and how horrifying that some people are not following them, "history" will prove that all of this was a massive overreaction and a pretty good case study on a large scaled shared fear and how it can make people irrational.  

Right now the left is making their final stand on the vaccinations. Even as we can see the obvious science drift away here (it is not preventing people from catching covid or preventing them from spreading it) we are still demanding vaccine passports in many places. These are required in spite of there being no real obvious reason for it.  Sure, these vaccinations can reduce hospitalizations and deaths according to most all of the data (for now). But that is not the reason provided for mask mandates or the reason argued why someone needs be vaccinated to be allowed in an indoor facility.

There are quite literally people who still believe that an unvaccinated person is more likely to spread covid than a vaccinated person. While in a roundabout six step logical argument in the pre-Omicron versions of Covid, that might have held true (to a very small degree), it has no medical, scientific, or statistical validity anymore. 

On a personal note, I went to the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company's performance of the classic Romeo Et Juliett at the beautiful McCaw Hall theatre. I had to show a vaccine passport to get in and wear a mask at any time I was not downing a glass of wine pre-show or during an intermission  (they need to be longer than 20 minutes). This is the sort of city where this is not going away any time soon, even as the science shows it unnecessary. Yeah, the mandates might go away eventually, but I suspect that people will (as a means of virtue signaling) still be wearing masks long after all the mandate ends and there may still be businesses here who will demand proof of Covid vaccinations long after they are required to do so. It may even help their business depending on their clientele. 

104 comments:

anonymous said...

From the Wa Po.......Indickiative of Lil Schitty starting this POS thread with his inane opinion !!!!!!!!!!!!

Americans confideice in science has declined in recent decades, especially among Republicans, according to Gallup polls tracking such attitudes. The survey found last year that 64 percent of Americans said they had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in science, down from 70 percent who said that back in 1975. Confidence in science jumped among Democrats, from 67 percent in the earlier poll to 79 percent last year, while Republicans’ confidence cratered during the same period from 72 percent to 45 percent.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

When we first used them, they didn't have the same effects. But you ignore that they still recommend the 95 masking because it actually works now.


Anonymous said...

Roger, you should not have lied about buying Super Bowl Tickets, but you did.

Cd.

Why lie ?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I just found a classic example of right wing propaganda about CRT.

The path to remake schools begins with the word “diversity,” which means much more than simply increasing the number of students and faculty of color—referred to in these workshops as “Bipoc,” which stands for “black, indigenous and people of color.” DEI experts urge schools to classify people by identities such as race, convince them that they are being harmed by their environment, and turn them into fervent advocates for institutional change.

It's classic example of discredit scientific evidence, in this case climate change scientific evidence. And convince uneducated people to vote against Democrats.

Anonymous said...

Tatter head posted
Pure nonsense

"Roger AmickFebruary 13, 2022 at 2:54 PM

When we first used them, they didn't have the same effects. But you ignore that they still recommend the 95 masking because it actually works now."

The N95 mask protection never changed , idiot.

Anonymous said...

2022 Recession ?

More on the left think so.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

They believe that the teachers and teaching kids to hate white people. And engage in violence.

In workshops such as “Integrating Healing-Centered Engagements Into a DEIA School Program” and “Racial Trauma and the Path Toward Healing,” we learned how DEI practitioners use segregated affinity groups and practices such as healing circles to inculcate feelings of trauma. Even students without grievances are trained to see themselves as victims of the their ancestors’ suffering through “intergenerational violence.”.

Anonymous said...

Crazy Tatter Head.

Post all the changing subjects you want from 4th Street but house.

Enjoy the game on tv in the commons .

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Make sure that the next generation will not try to fight vote suppression.

All school messaging must be scrubbed of noninclusive language, all school policies of noninclusive practices, all libraries of noninclusive books. Inclusion also requires that all non-Bipoc stakeholders become allies in the fight against the systemic harm being perpetuated by the institution. In “Small Activists, Big Impact—Cultivating Anti-Racists and Activists in Kindergarten,” we were told that “kindergartners are natural social-justice warriors.”

Accept the status quo and don't move forward.

C.H. Truth said...

So what exactly is your point Roger?

Seriously...

You post these things. Not sure you don't believe there is "Racial Trauma healing" being done? Not sure if you believe it, but think is it completely acceptable? Or what the fuck your point is?


btw... intergenerational violence is the idea that someone who grows up around something like domestic violence is more likely to commit the same sort of violence. It has nothing to do with racial issues that ancestors dealt with. That would just be dumb.

C.H. Truth said...

Americans confideice in science has declined in recent decades, especially among Republicans, according to Gallup polls tracking such attitudes. The survey found last year that 64 percent of Americans said they had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in science, down from 70 percent who said that back in 1975. Confidence in science jumped among Democrats, from 67 percent in the earlier poll to 79 percent last year, while Republicans’ confidence cratered during the same period from 72 percent to 45 percent.



As it pertains to Covid...

If you have listened to the conventional science it has been pretty much proven wrong across the board. So you must be incredibly embarrassed to be part of the crowd that has accepted it without question... like the good little sheeple who listens 100% to authority that you are.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The bottom line is the liberal Democrat.

In sessions such as “Traversing the Long and Thorny Road Toward Equity in Our Schools,” “Moving the Needle Toward Meaningful Institutional Change,” “Building an Equitable and Liberating Mindset” and “Breaking the White Centered Cycle,” we learned that the only way to achieve equity and justice is to eradicate all aspects of white-supremacy culture from “predominantly white institutions,” or PWIs, as NAIS calls its member schools, irrespective of the diversity of a school’s students. Perfectionism, punctuality, urgency, niceness, worship of the written word, progress, objectivity, rigor, individualism, capitalism and liberalism are some of the characteristics of white-supremacy culture in need of elimination. In “Post-PoCC Return to PWI Normal,” DEI practitioner Maria Graciela Alcid summarized: “Decolonizing white-supremacy-culture thinking is the ongoing act of deconstructing, dismantling, disrupting those colonial ideologies and the superiority of Western thought.”


“Decolonizing white-supremacy-culture thinking is the ongoing act of deconstructing, dismantling, disrupting those colonial ideologies and the superiority of Western thought.”


summarized: “Decolonizing white-supremacy-culture thinking is the ongoing act of deconstructing, dismantling, disrupting those colonial ideologies and the superiority of Western thought.”



Discrediting white supremacy

C.H. Truth said...

Perfectionism, punctuality, urgency, niceness, worship of the written word, progress, objectivity, rigor, individualism, capitalism and liberalism are some of the characteristics of white-supremacy culture in need of elimination


Same question Roger?

Do you post this nonsense because you believe it? Because you don't believe it is being teached? What the fuck is your point?



and why are you not at the game?

anonymous said...

Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
2022 Recession ?

More on the left think so.
Really goat fucking asshole???? Why do you lie all the time???

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Though 2022 is unlikely to host a recession, 2023 and 2024 are extremely risky. The Federal Reserve will start tapering its quantitative stimulus soon, and sometime in mid-2022 it will begin raising short-term interest rates. The economy reacts with a time lag of about one year, plus or minus.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

She is an opinionist...

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

People like her and you is why people don't trust scientists


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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

A plan didn't get done yet

Faye Flam said...

Medical freedom or autonomy gives people the right to choose with respect to their bodies; physicians the freedom to do what is best for a patient; and bio-scientists the freedom to communicate with, well, everyone. 

Washington has denied Americans their medical freedom in this COVID crisis, causing economic devastation and needless deaths.

Regardless of dire, fear-inducing life-or-death warnings emanating from Washington about COVID, it is simply a new flu.

Implying that COVID is an existential threat comparable to the bubonic plague is ludicrous medical hyperbole.

COVID is simply a new flu. The risk of COVID death for the general population is approximately 0.17% and even lower for children. Only the small percentage of the population with multiple, life-threatening, pre-existing conditions, is at significant medical risk from COVID. Comparing CDC COVID data on case rates, hospitalizations, and deaths with the seasonal flu in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 confirms that COVID is merely a new flu.   

Claiming to protect all Americans from “deadly” COVID (SARS-CoV-2), the Biden administration took away medical autonomy with their tyrannical medical mandates for masks, lockdowns, and coerced injections. The Biden administration went against our Constitution, our laws, accepted moral codes, and proper public health policy.

The Fourth Amendment guarantees Americans the right “to be secure in their persons.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...


Ch said,
"While the left screamed and hollered (and still do) about lockdowns and masks and how horrifying that some people are not following them, "history" will prove that all of this was a massive overreaction and a pretty good case study on a large scaled shared fear and how it can make people irrational.

"All of this?" Including vaccinations? Nearly a million American deaths, a large majority of them unvaccinated people who listened to those saying masks and lockdowns and even vaccinations were not necessary or even dangerous --people who were unvaccinated and/or unboosted both before and after vaccinations and then boosters were made widely available -- and Ch can say that.

Really. He should have some sense of shame.

Anonymous said...

Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft is a communist.
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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He is a pathological liar.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ch said:
There are quite literally people who still believe that an unvaccinated person is more likely to spread covid than a vaccinated person.

Here is a FAR more important FACT:

There are quite literally people who now KNOW that an unvaccinated person is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more likely to DIE of Covid than a vaccinated person.

NO sense of shame... Incredible... And genuinely sad...

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ch spouts the usual right wing BS.

There is nothing wrong with a government that is supposed to be OF, BY, and FOR (emphasize FOR) the people attempting to HELP our people by encouraging us to get vaccinations followed by boosters which, it has been PROVED make it far, FAR, FAR less likely that someone who catches Covid (whether from a vaccinated or unvaccinated person) will actually DIE OF IT.

That is MUCH more important than whether the experts were entirely right or not about masks and lockdowns.

After nearly a million American deaths from Covid, by far a majority of them unvaccinated either before OR AFTER vaccines and boosters were made widely available, Ch and the other partisans responsible for the ridiculolus claim that "THE GOVERNMENT IS OUT JUST TO CONTROL YOU" nonsense should forever be ashamed. But no.

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Anonymous said...

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It will be a disaster for the Russians.

Putin would be the latest leader to join what historian Barbara Tuchman described as “The March of Folly.”

President Biden’s response has rested on three pillars, according to senior officials. First, he believes the rules-based global order would be threatened by an unprovoked Russian invasion, and that Putin must pay a severe cost if he takes this lawless action. Second, Biden is determined to avoid any direct military contact between Russian and U.S. forces, which would risk nuclear war. Third, he is convinced that, as in the Cold War, the security of the United States and its European friends depends on the unity and strength of the NATO alliance.

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Russia has assembled the forces for a pulverizing offensive. U.S. and European officials describe the order of battle: About 130,000 combat troops encircle Ukraine on three sides, with many more providing support. When the United States invaded Iraq, with a population and land area similar to Ukraine’s, it had a smaller combat force.

Russia’s ground forces are just the beginning. Scores of Russian bombers are being loaded with precision-guided munitions, and dozens of artillery batteries are ready, along with nearly a dozen missile batteries. Eleven amphibious ships ring the Black Sea coast, ready to disgorge marines onto Ukraine’s southern underbelly; airborne forces are prepared to land behind the lines, near Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv and other targets; and engineer battalions are preparing to build bridges across Ukraine’s crosshatch of rivers. Meantime, to check any NATO thoughts of intervention, Russian nuclear bombers, missile forces and submarines will be on alert this month in a hastily scheduled “exercise.”

The dirty part of this war would be fought by special forces: In the hours before an invasion, the “Spetsnaz” units of the GRU and the intelligence teams of the FSB might seize key targets in Kyiv and other cities, such as radio and television stations, power facilities and government installations. Assassination teams might target senior officials; Russian “false flag” operations that appeared to be Ukrainian would confound and confuse. Russia would seize control of the electronic-warfare space, so that it could jam communications by the Ukrainian government or military commanders. Ukrainian troops might want to fight, but they would have difficulty coordinating their actions with commanders.

Anonymous said...

"why are you not at the game?" CHAT

Roger= uhmmmm

anonymous said...

On a personal note, I went to the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company's performance of the classic Romeo Et Juliett at the beautiful McCaw Hall theatre. I had to show a vaccine passport to get in and wear a mask at any time I was not downing a glass of wine pre-show or during an intermission


BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!v I guess you think you have an enthralled audience who gives a fuck.......!!!!! It seems your mantra of complaining about wearing a mask was negated by your willingness to follow the rules to attend....That sure says volumes of the constant bullsit you post about pandemic misinformation you are so found of!!!!!! Did your child enjoy the show??????? lOLOLOLOL

Anonymous said...

Wall Street's go-to recession indicator is starting to get attention

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business

Updated 9:41 AM EST, Fri February 11, 2022


anonymous said...

And the goat fucker screaming for attention.........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Idiot!!!! Keep rooting for the disaster which was all brought to by trumps inaction!!!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

WELCOME THIS MORNING TO THE WORLD OF REAL REPORTING WITH TAEGAN GODDARD, NOT JUST CH'S USUAL BOMBASTIC, LYING PROPAGANDA:

U.S. Needs a Covid Forecast
February 14, 2022 at 7:25 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Experts say the U.S. needs clearer, more defined standards that will help the public understand when it’s safe to relax Covid restrictions — and when it might be necessary to bring them back,” Axios reports.

“Experts compare this need to a weather forecast or air-quality warnings: People are more willing to accept inconveniences if they understand the reasons why.”


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“Nearly 24 million taxpayers are still waiting for the Internal Revenue Service to process their tax returns from last year — a number far larger than previously reported by the agency — with many refunds being held up for 10 months or more,” the Washington Post reports.


Russian Invasion Peril Is Driving Oil Prices Near $100
February 14, 2022 at 7:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

“The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is shaking up a fragile global oil market, pushing prices closer to $100 a barrel as traders calculate that supplies will struggle to cushion the effect from any significant disruption in Russian fossil fuel exports,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Demand for oil has outpaced production growth as economies slowly rebound from the worst of the pandemic, leaving the market with a small buffer to mitigate an oil-supply shock.”


Trump’s Latest Political Obsession
February 14, 2022 at 7:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments

“Donald Trump has a new fixation: a Major League Baseball scion who hails from one of the country’s richest families — and who, unlike most other Republican Senate candidates, isn’t bowing to the former president,” Politico reports.

“During meetings, phone calls and impromptu chats, Trump has been peppering top aides and allies with questions about Matt Dolan, a wealthy Ohio Republican who accused the former president of ‘perpetuating lies about the outcome’ of the 2020 election and called the pro-Trump Jan. 6 Capitol riot ‘a failure of leadership.’”


GOP Says Biden Still Not Addressing Inflation
February 14, 2022 at 6:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments

Playbook: Republicans are baffled but grateful that Biden still doesn’t have a good answer to spiraling inflation.”

“Several of them pointed to the president’s interview over the weekend with Lester Holt: When the NBC anchor pressed Biden about his prediction last year that inflation would be ‘temporary,’ Biden called him a ‘wiseguy’ in response.”

Financial Times:
“Stockpiles of some of the global economy’s most important commodities are at historically low levels, as booming demand and supply shortages threaten to fuel inflationary pressures around the world.”


Ukraine Seeks Meeting with Russia
February 14, 2022 at 6:48 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

BBC:
“Ukraine has called for a meeting with Russia and other members of a key European security group over the escalating tensions on its border. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia had ignored formal requests to explain the build-up of troops. He said the next step was requesting a meeting within the next 48 hours for transparency about Russia’s plans.”

Reuters: “Russia could invade Ukraine at any time and might create a surprise pretext for an attack, the United States said on Sunday, as it reaffirmed a pledge to defend ‘every inch’ of NATO territory.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Putin’s Impending ‘March of Folly’
February 14, 2022 at 6:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard 34 Comments

David Ignatius:
“The world will be watching in horror if Russia invades Ukraine this week — but just watching. Ukraine will fight alone, as Russian tanks roll across the flat, frozen terrain; precision bombs destroy key targets near Kyiv and other cities; and the country becomes a killing field unlike anything Europe has seen since 1945.

“Russian President Vladimir Putin will quickly win the initial, tactical phase of this war, if it comes. The vast army that Russia has arrayed along Ukraine’s borders could probably seize the capital of Kyiv in several days and control the country in little more than a week, U.S. officials believe.

“But then Putin’s real battle would begin — as Russia and its Ukrainian proxies try to stabilize a country whose people largely detest them.”


Ambassador Bridge Reopens After Blockade Cleared
February 14, 2022 at 6:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments

“The Ambassador Bridge reopened late Sunday, nearly a week after demonstrators opposed to pandemic restrictions brought daily commercial traffic across the important trade link between Canada and the United States to a halt,” the Globe and Mail reports.

CBC:
“The bridge sees hundreds of millions of dollars in imports and exports cross it each day, and politicians on both sides of the border decried the economic impact of the protest.”


Inflation Falls Hardest on Low-Income Americans
February 14, 2022 at 6:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments

Washington Post:
“While inflation is rising everywhere, price hikes are particularly devastating to lower-income households with already tight budgets. Nearly all their expenses go to necessities — food, energy, housing — which have seen some of the largest increases at different points over the past year.

“Of the 10 categories with the highest levels of pandemic inflation analyzed by The Washington Post, lower earners spent a greater share of their total spending on most of them, from natural gas to beef.”


European and U.S. Leaders Race to Defuse Crisis
February 14, 2022 at 6:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

Washington Post:
“The high-stakes diplomacy over Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine is set to continue this week, as European and U.S. leaders race to defuse an escalating standoff that officials warn could lead to a barrage of Russian missile and bomb attacks on Ukraine within days.

“German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to Kyiv on Monday and Moscow on Tuesday, after weekend talks between President Biden and President Vladimir Putin of Russia — and separate discussions between the Russian leader and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron — again failed to yield a diplomatic breakthrough.”

Associated Press:
“U.S. officials have warned that Russia could attack this week. Moscow denies it has any such plans but has massed well over 130,000 troops near Ukraine and, in the U.S. view, has built up enough firepower to launch an attack on short notice.”

Financial Times:
Putin leaves the West guessing.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The vast army that Russia has arrayed along Ukraine’s borders could probably seize the capital of Kyiv in several days and control the country in little more than a week, U.S. officials believe.

“But then Putin’s real battle would begin — as Russia and its Ukrainian proxies try to stabilize a country whose people largely detest them.”

anonymous said...


Russian Invasion Peril Is Driving Oil Prices Near $100


Hey goat fucker.....what current policy's are driving this ????? The Keystone pipeline or trumps buddy Putin??????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Associated Press:
“U.S. officials have warned that Russia could attack this week. Moscow denies it has any such plans but has massed well over 130,000 troops near Ukraine and, in the U.S. view, has built up enough firepower to launch an attack on short notice.”

Financial Times:
Putin leaves the West guessing.

My comment:
Is that his real purpose? Just to create a massive bluff? But if it is, he certainly has taken drastic, highly expensive steps to make it seem real.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

My comment:
There has been much speculation, partly based on alleged interceptions of Russian military communications, that if the Russians are going to invade, Wednesday will be the day they do it.

Commonsense said...

My comment:
There has been much speculation, partly based on alleged interceptions of Russian military communications, that if the Russians


It's not your comment pastor. You're not saying anything that hasn't been said from administration officials and the military.

anonymous said...

Another Trump legacy that is driving the current inflation that the goat fucker et al blames all on Joe......this alone is a telling expose of trumps failure to lead that is now costing all!!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/13/us-china-trade-deal/

Commonsense said...


Is that his real purpose? Just to create a massive bluff? But if it is, he certainly has taken drastic, highly expensive steps to make it seem real.


No, his real purpose is to reconstitute the Russian empire and he'll annex the Ukraine to achieve that goal.

And I'm betting he pulls off the bluff. Biden has no stomach for a confrontation with Russia. Putin knows this.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

It is my comment, my opinion, based on those speculations. Others disagree.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Graham Says Childs Would Get More Than 10 GOP Votes
February 14, 2022 at 8:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) predicted that if President Joe Biden were to nominate South Carolina federal judge Michelle Childs to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Childs would likely win more than 10 Republican votes in the Senate, CNBC reports.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Rooting for Russia, aren't you?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

...he'll annex the Ukraine to achieve that goal.

He may find that the U.S. and our allies will make him pay a very high price if he does, and the net result could make his desire for a new Russian Empire even less likely.

Commonsense said...

said...
It is my comment, my opinion, based on those speculations. Others disagree


No, I heard pentagon and administration officials leak the information to the media.

You can't lay claim to somebody's opinion without attributing it to him.

Otherwise, it's plagiarism.

Anonymous said...

Rooting for Dead Americans is all the left does.

Say NO TO BRANDON'S WAR.

Commonsense said...

He may find that the U.S. and our allies will make him pay a very high price if he does, and the net result could make his desire for a new Russian Empire even less likely.

Given Biden's track record, he's not going to make Putin pay any price.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Wait and see.

anonymous said...

Rooting against the economy and Biden encompasses the goat fuckers total menial existence!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Peter Thiel Wants to Be the Right’s Kingmaker
February 14, 2022 at 8:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Mr. Thiel, who became known in 2016 as one of the biggest donors to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, has re-emerged as a key financier of the Make America Great Again movement. After sitting out the 2020 presidential race, the venture capitalist this year is backing 16 Senate and House candidates, many of whom have embraced the lie that Mr. Trump won the election.

“To get these candidates into office, Mr. Thiel has given more than $20.4 million. That essentially puts him and Kenneth Griffin, the chief executive of the hedge fund Citadel, in a tie as the largest individual donors to Republican politics this election cycle.

“What sets Mr. Thiel’s spending apart, though, is its focus on hard-right candidates who traffic in the conspiracy theories espoused by Mr. Trump and who cast themselves as rebels determined to overthrow the Republican establishment and even the broader American political order. These campaigns have raised millions in small-dollar donations, but Mr. Thiel’s wealth could accelerate the shift of views once considered fringe to the mainstream — while making himself a new power broker on the right.”
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America does not want a Republican "King."

Commonsense said...

Yeah, we'll wait and see.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Do that. :-)

Commonsense said...

America does not want a Republican "King."

So they are happier with a Democrat dictator?

anonymous said...


No, his real purpose is to reconstitute the Russian

Just like what trump did on 1-6 cramps???? Trying to remain in power after losing the election???????

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Maybe we're already beginning to see.
Are the Russians caving?

Russia’s Lavrov Urges More Time for Diplomacy
February 14, 2022 at 8:54 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday suggested to President Vladimir Putin that Moscow continue along the diplomatic path in its efforts to extract security guarantees from the West, as tensions soar over Ukraine,” Reuters reports.

“Lavrov told Putin the United States had put forward concrete proposals on reducing military risks, but said responses from the European Union and NATO military alliance had not been satisfactory.”
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Sounds like Lavron is really saying, "But keep trying, Mr. Putin, and not invading."

Commonsense said...

Just like what trump did on 1-6 cramps???? Trying to remain in power after losing the election???????

Well Trump didn't do the crimes you imagine he did. And the Durham investigation is showing you were all wrong about Trump.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump was more wrong about himself than we were about Trump. Perpetually lying.

anonymous said...


Well Trump didn't do the crimes you imagine he did.


BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! He did those and worse, cramps....Inciting an insurrection;.....fucking hookers is a crime......paying them to keep quiet borders on criminal behavior.....taking classified documents out of the WH......flushing documents down the shitter....and the constant lying are all well documented.....WHat is not documented is massive voter fraud you think affected trumps loss!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Myballs said...

Speaking of wrong about Trump, many indictments are coming to the Hillary campaign.

anonymous said...

And Ball Less wonder just suffered another stroke right on line......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Commonsense said...

Trump was more wrong about himself than we were about Trump. Perpetually lying.

The most successful president during the last four years was Donald Trump.

anonymous said...

Sad how being a nefarious money hungry schill runs in all aspects of Trumps family.......and you slurpers want another!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Officials have launched an “inquiry” into an upcoming Florida fundraiser featuring Melania Trump for a charity that isn’t registered in the state, as is required by law, The New York Times reported Saturday, and it isn’t clear whether the charity even exists.

Tickets are being sold to an “exclusive high tea” April 9 featuring the former first lady in Naples, Florida.

According to information from Trump’s office, the tea will raise money for the charity Fostering the Future, which is described as an initiative of Be Best, the anti-bullying mission launched by Trump when she was living in the White House. Money is supposed to fund computer science scholarships to young people who have been in foster care, according to the ticket sales site.

anonymous said...

successful president during the last four years was Donald Trump.



Yep....He's #1 in deficits, broken promises, covid misinformation! GDP failure!!!!!!!!! Yes cramps he is certainly #! in lack of vision!!!

anonymous said...

Melanie Trump event is being investigated after promising proceeds to a charity that doesn't appear to exist, report says

https://www.yahoo.com/news/melania-trump-event-being-investigated-165203183.html


And the slurping continues without interruption!!!!!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...


Flashback Quote of the Day
February 14, 2022 at 9:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments

“I thought it was a terrible thing when she ripped up the speech. First of all, it’s an official document. You’re not allowed. It’s illegal what she did. She broke the law.”
— President Donald Trump, talking to reporters on February 7, 2020, the day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped his speech after the State of the Union address.
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He really has rocks in his head. Ripping up a speech he just gave to all the nation is not nearly as "illegal" a breakding of law as ripping up top secret classified documents and maybe even flushing them down the toilet.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Even Former RNC chair Marc Racicot has been lost..

Ex-RNC Chair Rips the Current One

February 14, 2022 at 10:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former RNC chair Marc Racicot released a scathing letter to his successor, Ronna McDaniel:

“Although it is ever so neat and tidy to blame the defeat of the former president on the existence of decisive and widespread fraud, there is not even a scintilla of evidence, anywhere, to support such piffle. The former president didn’t experience defeat in 2020 because of fraud. The truth is quite the opposite. The defeat of the former president is explained by the fact that legions of responsible citizens, part of that Great Middle of America, voted the way they did because they embraced the very fidelity to their country and its Constitution that the RNC claims to embrace in its Party Platform.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Russians Don’t Think Putin Will Go to War
February 14, 2022 at 9:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments

The Economist:
“Over the past week The Economist has spoken to a wide range of diplomats, journalists, officials, economists and businesspeople in Russia. Few of them expected their country to go to war, and none of them wished for it. To a man and woman, they seem petrified by the consequences of such a step, were it to happen.

“Geopolitical tension is already hurting the Russian economy, with risk premiums reflected in bonds, stocks and currency markets.”
______

IOW, Putin is already more unpopular in Russia than ever before. If he goes to war, it could do him in politically.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Every single day fewer Republicans pledge fidelity to their former King

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

HEY, CH,
The Vaccines Are a Freaking Miracle

February 14, 2022 at 9:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Helen Branswell:
“Two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s easy to lament all that has come to pass. The devastating losses. The upending of what we regarded as normal ways of life. The sheer relentlessness of it all.

“But let’s stop for a moment and consider something else that may have escaped you:
You have witnessed — and you are a beneficiary of — a freaking miracle.
That miracle is the development, testing, manufacturing, and global distribution of Covid vaccines.”

rrb said...


IOW, Putin is already more unpopular in Russia than ever before. If he goes to war, it could do him in politically.


Imbecile,

This is a guy who murders his political enemies.

You think he cares about his popularity?

That's 'alky stupid.'


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

9:08, 9:13 That's TELLING IT LIKE IT IS.

AS MORE AND MORE REPUBLICANS GET UP THE INTESTINAL FORTITUDE -- OR THE BALLS -- TO DO THAT, TRUMP'S HOLD ON THE PARTY WILL FADE FADe FAde Fade fade fa...

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Every single day fewer Republicans pledge fidelity to their former King



Well genius, it's like I keep telling you and you're too stupid to comprehend...

Those who support Trump LEFT the GOP.

The GOP is a party of losers and turncoats who are content to settle for the scraps offered them by the DNC.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

if you think even a dictator can just get away with anything, YOU are the stupid one.

It didn't work for Trump.

rrb said...


You have witnessed — and you are a beneficiary of — a freaking miracle.
That miracle is the development, testing, manufacturing, and global distribution of Covid vaccines.”


A miracle provided by President Donald J Trump.

A miracle dismissed as "too dangerous to take" by our current president and his cum guzzling sidekick.

rrb said...

Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...

if you think even a dictator can just get away with anything, YOU are the stupid one.



So tell us imbecile, how exactly will Ukraine hurt Putin politically, and how exactly will his political opponents take him out?

This ought to be good...

Commonsense said...

AM
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
HEY, CH,
The Vaccines Are a Freaking Miracle


Courtesy of Donald Trump.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

I wasn't aware that Biden is now saying "Don't get vaccinated, it's too dangerous to take."

We will appreciate an up to date citation of him saying that.

We can wait.

rrb said...


Over the past month we have watched nearly 100 hours of leaked videos from 108 workshops held virtually last year for the National Association of Independent Schools’ People of Color Conference. The NAIS sets standards for more than 1,600 independent schools in the U.S., driving their missions and influencing many school policies. The conference is NAIS’s flagship annual event for disseminating DEI practices, and more than 6,000 DEI practitioners, educators and administrators attended this year. Intended as professional development and not meant for the public, these workshops are honest, transparent and unfiltered—very different from how private schools typically communicate DEI initiatives. These leaked videos act as a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the DEI playbook.

The path to remake schools begins with the word “diversity,” which means much more than simply increasing the number of students and faculty of color—referred to in these workshops as “Bipoc,” which stands for “black, indigenous and people of color.” DEI experts urge schools to classify people by identities such as race, convince them that they are being harmed by their environment, and turn them into fervent advocates for institutional change.

In workshops such as “Integrating Healing-Centered Engagements Into a DEIA School Program” and “Racial Trauma and the Path Toward Healing,” we learned how DEI practitioners use segregated affinity groups and practices such as healing circles to inculcate feelings of trauma. Even students without grievances are trained to see themselves as victims of the their ancestors’ suffering through “intergenerational violence.”

The next step in a school’s transformation is “inclusion.” Schools must integrate DEI work into every aspect of the school and every facet of the curriculum must be evaluated through an antibias, antiracist, or antioppressive lens. In “Let’s Talk About It! Anti-Oppressive Unit and Lesson Plan Design,” we learned that the omission of this lens—“failing to explore the intersection of STEM and social justice,” for instance—constitutes an act of “curriculum violence.”

All school messaging must be scrubbed of noninclusive language, all school policies of noninclusive practices, all libraries of noninclusive books. Inclusion also requires that all non-Bipoc stakeholders become allies in the fight against the systemic harm being perpetuated by the institution. In “Small Activists, Big Impact—Cultivating Anti-Racists and Activists in Kindergarten,” we were told that “kindergartners are natural social-justice warriors.”

Well, social-justice warriors function on the emotional and intellectual level of kindergarteners, so that makes sense.


https://instapundit.com/503203/

rrb said...

Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
I wasn't aware that Biden is now saying "Don't get vaccinated, it's too dangerous to take."


I didn't say that liar.

Hold your breath while you wait.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

You said the vaccines were '
A miracle dismissed as "too dangerous to take" by our current president and his cum guzzling sidekick.

Aside from the fact that your obscene reference is totally inappropriate, now give us the quote where Biden said that.

We can wait.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

We are patiently waiting, but definitely not holding our breaths as the clock ticks on and on and on, lol...

tick tock tick tock etc.

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Every entertainer at the halftime show was an African American entertainer.

rrb probably didn't watch the rest of the game !



Eminem is now black?

Huh. He's going full Shaun King/Rachel Dolezal, eh alky?

I guess we can start calling HIM Talcum X.


I watched the whole halftime show alky. Didn't see a lot of what I would consider talent. The San Quentin prisoners in their prison khaki's was a nice touch.

I kept waiting for at least one drive by in one of those Impala's. Oh well.

Of all of those who participated in the show as supporting cast... I wondered out loud just how many of them will still be alive for next years Super Bowl.

I suppose it checked all the right "woke" boxes.

It's a shame that NBC doesn't know that 'All Black folks don't look alike'

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fans-furious-when-nbc-confuses-mickey-guyton-and-jhene-aiko-at-super-bowl-lvi-all-black-folks-dont-look-alike-001227264.html

LOL.

And this was a real beaut...

The City of Santa Monica just posted an image of a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet believing the Russians will participate in the Super Bowl USAF flyover!

https://twitter.com/AdamMilstein/status/1493012277460561923

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

NO quote from Biden, then.
Thank you.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump Says His Endorsement Is Most Coveted In History
February 14, 2022 at 10:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former President Donald Trump pushed back on recent reports that his influence within the Republican party is waning,
The Hill reports.

Trump insisted that the power of his endorsement in races up and down the ballot “is much stronger today than it was even prior to” the 2020 presidential election.

He added:
“I am almost unblemished in the victory count, and it is considered by the real pollsters to be the strongest endorsement in U.S. political history”
______

Well, Mr. Ex-President LOSER devious Donald, your alleged "victory" is described by the former RNC chair Marc Racicot as not having "not even a scintilla of evidence, anywhere, to support such piffle.”

He went on to say:
“The former president didn’t experience defeat in 2020 because of fraud. The truth is quite the opposite. The defeat of the former president is explained by the fact that legions of responsible citizens, part of that Great Middle of America, voted the way they did because they embraced the very fidelity to their country and its Constitution that the RNC claims to embrace in its Party Platform.”
______

SIMPLE TRANSLATION: IT'S LONG PAST TIME FOR THE GOP TO GET AWAY FROM DEVIOUS DONALD TRUMP AND BACK TO ITS STATED ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that a quick song can feel as grand and sweeping as an album, or a novel, or a galaxy. Great rappers do a generous thing—give listeners a trove of phrases to obsess over, of inflections to imitate, of messages to absorb, and of observations to steal. When the music works, it seems effortless and impossible at once.


So the challenge facing the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show—to command the nation’s attention without compromising the art form’s complexity—was plenty formidable. It was made more difficult by featuring five equally billed headliners: Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Mary J. Blige (who represented R&B as well as rap). Each of them has a catalog that could easily fill up halftime by itself. Also daunting: Embarrassingly for the NFL (and really for America as a whole), this would be the first halftime show in which hip-hop played the starring role. Rather than shying away from the enormity of the assignment, the performers pulled off a dazzling, almost overwhelming, celebration.

The stage looked like no halftime show’s before. At the center of Los Angeles’s SoFi Stadium sat a strip of mock buildings: homes, businesses, a re-creation of Compton’s Martin Luther King Jr. memorial. The design was fitting for an art form rooted in a sense of place—and for a performance with three headliners from Southern California. It also ensured a remarkably horizontal show. No one was ever that much higher up than anyone else. Pop goddesses were not diving from the rafters, and guitar heroes were not casting elephantine shadows. Rather, the audience toured from room to room, from vibe to vibe, and from host to host. The spectacle felt—to quote Blige’s hit that proved itself still vibrant after two decades—like a family affair.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I wish I had bought one of Chevrolet Impala convertibles when they worth $3,000!

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that a quick song can feel as grand and sweeping as an album, or a novel, or a galaxy. Great rappers do a generous thing—give listeners a trove of phrases to obsess over, of inflections to imitate, of messages to absorb, and of observations to steal. When the music works, it seems effortless and impossible at once.



Huh.

I've always thought hip-hop sounded like shit.

Especially when some fuckstick is blaring it at a red light.


Commonsense said...

Former President Donald Trump issued a statement on Sunday claiming that Americans are "refusing" to take the coronavirus vaccine due to mistrust of the Biden administration, the media and the 2020 presidential election results.

"Joe Biden kept talking about how good of a job he's doing on the distribution of the Vaccine that was developed by Operation Warp Speed or, quite simply, the Trump Administration


See what Biden & Harris said about the Vaccines & the need for full trials, complete data & transparency, when they were candidates. See what they say now, despite lack of trials, data & transparency of Vaccines even now

He did say so.

Anonymous said...

Ontario drops back passport.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

He did say so.
___

Got quote?

Anonymous said...

PM Brenda is going to invoke "Canadian Emergencies Act, "

To crush the Truckers which Brenda called "fringe".

C.H. Truth said...

"All of this?" Including vaccinations? Nearly a million American deaths, a large majority of them unvaccinated people who listened to those saying masks and lockdowns and even vaccinations were not necessary or even dangerous --people who were unvaccinated and/or unboosted both before and after vaccinations and then boosters were made widely available -- and Ch can say that.

Sorry Denny...

But I listen to the science... not the rhetoric that makes you run screaming for slow Joe to save you like a little six year old girl.

Science has now shown that lockdowns didn't help, mask mandates didn't help, and the vaccines do not stop the spread of Omicron in the least.

Anonymous said...

The Super Bowl Entertainment did the USA a great Public Service Announcement.

"Ditch the Mask"

rrb said...

Science has now shown that lockdowns didn't help, mask mandates didn't help, and the vaccines do not stop the spread of Omicron in the least.


And most of all, politicization didn't help.

Anonymous said...

2 years of Crushing the US Economy was a huge mistake.

Anonymous said...

Today we get an update on Biden's make Putin richer plan.

Today's oil price $93.19
When Biden started his talk of War it was $30 less.

Commonsense said...

September 6, 2020: Kamala Harris says "I think that's going to be an issue" when asked if she would get an approved coronavirus vaccine.
July 28, 2020: Joe Biden suggests the coronavirus vaccine won't be "real" and may not be "safe."
August 6, 2020: Biden says the vaccine is "not likely to go through all the tests that needs to be and the trials that are needed to be done."
September 3, 2020: Biden asks "Who's going to take the shot? Are you going to be the first one to say sign me up?"
September 7, 2020: Biden said he would take the coronavirus vaccine "only if we knew all of what went into it."
Comments like these, directly contradicting public health officials, have endangered Americans' public health by severely undermining the public's confidence in the coronavirus vaccine.
Donald J. Trump, Campaign Press Release - FACT: Kamala Harris's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Anti-Science and Dangerous for Public Health Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project


Commonsense said...

Today's oil price $93.19
When Biden started his talk of War it was $30 less.


It was before Biden became president. (stole the presidency).

Anonymous said...

2021 Jan 21 $54.77
2022:today $93.19

Biden's plan is working great for Putin.