Apparently science is just whatever the Biden Administration and Dr Fauci tells them it is?
And you don’t have to look far to see it. Just last month, Issues & Insights reported a poll it conducted with TIPP, the most accurate predictor of the last five presidential elections, regarding people’s feelings about COVID. The survey found 65% of Americans think COVID policy in the United States is “driven by politics,” with only 21% believing it’s “driven by science.”
So our so called science was wrong about lockdown, our so called science was wrong about mask wearing, and our science overestimated the long term effects of the vaccines. Apparently 21% believe that extending the mask requirements for public transportation while simultaneously ending the Covid related ban on border crossings is "science driven".
There is no accounting for stupid.
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Is he still the kingmaker The Guardian is the most independent source.
He has long held that the true measure of a man is his TV ratings. So perhaps it came as no surprise when Donald Trump endorsed a celebrity doctor for a US Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
“They liked him for a long time,” Trump said of Mehmet Oz at a rally in Pennsylvania last week. “That’s like a poll. You know, when you’re in television for 18 years, that’s like a poll. That means people like you.”
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Trump stunned his own party by his decision to back Oz, who is struggling in the real polls and far from certain to win the Republican primary.
It was one among dozens of risky bets placed by Trump on extreme candidates. The upcoming primaries – votes in states and districts to decide which Republicans will take on Democrats in November’s midterm elections – are shaping up to be a referendum on his dominance of the party.
Next month could be pivotal. Defeat for Oz by David McCormick in Pennsylvania on 17 May, followed by defeat for Trump-backed David Perdue against incumbent governor Brian Kemp in Georgia a week later, could deal a huge blow to Trump’s status as party kingmaker.
A defeat for Mehmet Oz could deal a huge symbolic blow to Trump’s status as party kingmaker. Photograph: Joe Marino/UPI/REX/Shutterstock
Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, said: “Donald Trump is like a reckless gambler that’s gone into a casino and put his stack of money on one number. Right now the roulette wheel is turning and, if he’s wrong on a number of these, you’re going to see increasing defiance.
You really have lost your mind!!!!
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci has addressed attacks made on his career and reputation by notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who last month released the book “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”
Speaking to Yahoo News, the director of the NIAID said, “it really is a shame that he is attacking me in my career,” when asked about RFK’s book not being “a flattering portrait of” his
“I think if you look at my career there are not a lot of people that would be attacking my career, but he seems to do that,” Fauci continued in the comments published earlier this week. “It’s very unfortunate because I don’t think he is inherently malicious. I just think he’s a very disturbed individual. And I … I don’t like to have to say that, but it’s very, very clear. And it’s a shame because he comes from such an extraordinarily distinguished family, many members of whom I know personally, and I was very close to Senator Ted Kennedy, who was such an extraordinary person and a real warrior for public health. And to have RFK Jr. just spouting things that make absolutely no sense.”
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Fauci said that RFK’s comments, which have included unfounded and unsupported claims like Fauci is an investor in Moderna, something RFK claimed to Newsweek earlier this year, and which Fauci called “unequivocally and completely incorrect,” have a wider impact than on just the doctor.
“And the thing that makes it even more painful about it is that ultimately that is hurting people, that will cause disease and lose lives for the things he’s saying,” Fauci added. “So, I’m so sorry that he’s doing that not just because he’s attacking me – that seems to be the rage among some people – but because ultimately it is going to hurt people. So it’s really unfortunate that he’s doing that.”
Fauci’s comments came after he addressed a previous comment from RFK, Jr. that he met and spoke with Fauci at the Donald Trump White House in 2017.
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“Well, I did not speak with RFK Jr. at the Trump White House. We invited him to the NIH, and he spoke to me and he spoke to Dr. Collins, the NIH director and several of us and gave a presentation that really was … just full of inaccuracies and distortions,” Fauci said.
There is no accounting for stupid.
True, but these people are not stupid. They're evil and they know exactly what they're doing.
All of this was never about controlling the pandemic. It was always about controlling US. And with the mid-terms looming, it's about using Covid to cheat their way to avoid the impending massacre.
Look for a electorus interruptus Covid variant to hit the US in late August, early September. And with that a pivot to vote-by-mail to keep us all "safe."
You cannot put anything past these thieving cocksuckers. They're fucked and they know it, so with nothing to lose they're basically electoral suicide bombers. They'll blow it all to fucking smithereens and say they did it to "save Democracy as we know it" or some such fucking horse shit.
The Washington Post’s Max Boot was swift out of the blocks. ‘I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter’, Boot tweeted. ‘He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.’
On an even more demented note, Robert Reich, veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, essentially argued that Musk buying Twitter would put us on a fast track to fascism; that Musk’s vision for an ‘uncontrolled’ internet was ‘the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron’.
Reich wasn’t the only one gripped by this interesting idea that dictators love free speech and that more of it online will bring the Third Reich back. New York University journalism professor Jeff Jarvis had this poetic response to Musk’s bid: ‘Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.’
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Elon Musk will not save free speech online. Even if his intentions really are good ones, the scale of the problem goes beyond one platform. And free speech online is too important to rely on the benevolence of billionaires. But his attempted takeover of Twitter has already done us a great service, in revealing how important censorship now is to America’s permanently hysterical elites.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/15/why-elon-musk-has-rattled-them/
The best part of the Twitter/Musk fiasco to me is the tacit admission by the left that they REQUIRE the ability to silence their political enemies because their ideology cannot stand serious inquiry and any subsequent challenge.
It reminds me of a forward in Krauthammer's first book. He abandoned the left because none of their positions had any empirical evidence to substantiate them.
And they never will. Hence the total reliance upon silencing the right.
Ultimately this is all very satisfying.
Harvard not right wing nuts like you.
Observers of conservative politics say it’s perfectly logical that Trump fans so willingly accept his counterfactual statements about the pandemic and go along with efforts to discredit scientists in order to delegitimize politically damaging statistics. For years, Republicans have successfully seized upon a larger cultural trend of diminished faith in experts around issues like climate change.
“We think expertise is this very exclusionary idea, which it is, because it’s supposed to be: Not everybody gets a vote on how to fly the plane,” said Nichols, who wrote about the trend in a 2017 book, “The Death of Expertise.” In the pandemic, “This rejection of science and of expertise [has] become [a] demonstration of political loyalty. That’s the part I didn’t expect — that there would be an entire political movement, led by the president of the United States, to basically disavow science.”
In a recent interview, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that because science still holds a place of esteem and authority in the wider culture, it has become a proxy for those who want to lash out against authority figures. It’s a view Nichols shares.
“At the end of the ’60s and ’70s, the right won the economic war. The American economy is structured just the way conservatives want. But the left won the culture war, and that just annoys the [expletive] out of conservatives,” said Nichols, a former Republican who left the party in 2018. He is now part of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action group of mostly lapsed members of the GOP.
“Think of that biker rally in [Sturgis,] South Dakota: ‘We’re all gonna show up on our Harleys, and then we’re … gonna get sick and die. But we all felt really good for a minute.’ That’s mostly a howl against the fact that the conservatives basically ceded the culture war to the American left,” he said.
Prior research into religious conservatives’ views on climate science is helpful in understanding today’s COVID and science skepticism on the right, said Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. It isn’t that religious conservatives were unaware of science or rejected scientific findings, the studies found, “It’s that they resent the use of experts as political authorities. And I think that is exactly what we see here.”
The part I didn’t expect — that there would be an entire political movement, led by the president of the United States, to basically disavow science.”
And his brainwashed IED victims like you and Mark Shippers.
Scott people who exhibit symptom after they were vaccinated, almost never die from the COVID 19.
The people who don't get vaccinated die almost every time.
Unlike recent infectious disease outbreaks, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted widespread hostility, threats, and even violence directed at government, public health officials, even store employees over requests to don face masks and adhere to social-distancing guidelines. In addition to serving as a coping mechanism, Lerner said, anger also promotes a feeling of certainty and energizes people, which drives risk-seeking behavior.
“That risk-seeking behavior and that anger will help people feel more of a sense of empowerment. It automatically will give that sense of control, when in fact a lot of control has been taken away,” she said. “It isn’t the case that acting out in anger makes us less angry. Acting out in anger actually can fuel anger. So then you get into a cycle of anger and risk-taking, anger and risk-taking.”
IED in your case
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/what-caused-the-u-s-anti-science-trend/
It isn’t that religious conservatives were unaware of science or rejected scientific findings, the studies found, “It’s that they resent the use of experts as political authorities.
Well alky, except for the fact that the majority of the fucking "experts" were not just a little wrong, but wildly and hilariously fucking wrong, I support that if I squint really hard I can see where Captain Harvard is coming from.
Remember this fucking "expert?"
Prof Neil Ferguson has quit as a government adviser on coronavirus after admitting an "error of judgement".
Prof Ferguson, whose advice to the prime minister led to the UK lockdown, said he regretted "undermining" the messages on social distancing.
The Telegraph reported that a woman he was said to be in a relationship with visited his home in lockdown.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was "extraordinary" and that he "took the right decision to resign".
He told Sky News that it was "just not possible" for Prof Ferguson to continue advising the government.
Mr Hancock said the social distancing rules "are there for everyone" and are "deadly serious".
Scotland Yard said Prof Ferguson's behaviour was "plainly disappointing" but officers "do not intend to take any further action".
No 10 said the prime minister agreed with his decision to resign but Prof Ferguson was not told to do so and made the decision himself.
"Social distancing regulations are there for a very clear purpose," the prime minister's spokesman added.
Prof Ferguson's modelling of the virus's transmission suggested 250,000 people could die without drastic action.
This led Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce on 23 March that he was imposing widespread curbs on daily life aimed at stopping the spread of the virus.
Under those measures people were told to go out as little as possible, with partners who live separately later being told they should "ideally" stay in their own homes.
In a statement, Prof Ferguson said: "I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of action.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-52553229
Fuck you and fuck your "experts", alky.
'Two weeks to flatten the curve' turned into two fucking YEARS. And the 'experts' STILL got most everything wrong. But we just had to rid ourselves of a very bad very orange man.
Shipper's not the insane one, alky. YOU are. And when you slander him with your accusations it's all just another bout of your psychological projection.
Instead of focusing on this very real threat, Republican politicians—to justify Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law—have cited QAnon conspiracy theories about public schools being overrun by child predators who are “grooming” children to be gay. A spokesperson for Governor Ron DeSantis reframed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill as an “anti-grooming” bill. But if QAnon Republicans really cared about white children, then they would be worried about white-supremacist grooming. This is the grooming that parents of all children should be worried about.
Grooming white kids—usually males—in white supremacy can involve inciting them to commit acts of physical and verbal violence. Against kids of color. Against girls. Against Jewish kids. Against Muslim kids. Against trans kids. Against queer kids. Against other white kids. Defending kids against white-supremacist grooming keeps all kids safe. And Doctors like Doctor Fauci.
LOL. Henry "X" Rogers. alky?
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/white-supremacy-grooming-in-republican-party/629585/
Back in 1975, according to the Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in science. Last year, that number had slipped to 64 percent. Why? Politics. The percentage of Democrats who expressed confidence in science went up 12 points. But the percentage of Republicans declined by an eye-popping 27 points. In 2021, only 45 percent of Republicans said they had a lot of confidence in science, down from 72 percent in 1975. Think of it: Most Republicans no longer have confidence in scientific knowledge. “People start questioning the science, questioning whether or not we really know what we’re doing — questioning, you know, ‘Am I going to have to do this every six months?’” another medical expert said. The answer is very likely, yes.
That answer is not very popular politically. Which is why scientists like Dr. Anthony Fauci have become a target for conservatives. As the science changes, his advice changes. Ten-day quarantines used to be recommended. That recommendation has been shortened to five days.
Most voters see lack of certainty in leaders as a weakness. President Biden, for example, is often criticized as a weak leader because he doesn’t have the certainty of a Ronald Reagan or a Donald Trump.
Even Trump has run into trouble with his supporters because he has wavered on vaccinations. It used to be the case that Republicans opposed government vaccination mandates. Now they are turning against vaccination itself. One of President Trump’s strongest supporters, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), tweeted that she spoke to former President Trump and “I have President Trump’s permission to tell you all that he is 100 percent AGAINST the mandates, but he still encourages everyone to get the vaccine and booster.” That produced boos from some Trump supporters and criticism from far-right figures like Alex Jones who called Trump’s words “nothing but a raft of dirty lies.”
One reason for the partisan divide over COVID is the growing “diploma divide” in American politics. Voters with college degrees are becoming more Democratic while non-college white voters are becoming more Republican. And Republicans are deeply resentful over what they see as condescension toward them.
Just because Lil Schitty has turned into Dr No of the right.....does not mean he understands how masks do work in slowing transmission....as for his editorial about lock down.....he is entitled to that opinion because it is politically driven by his idiotic belief trump won;.....which I am still wondering where his proof of massive fraud is!!!!
As for floriduh....they are more interested in morality of their own instead of working for the people....My home insurance went up almost 3x this year and in the panhandle 3 insurance firms have closed shop leaving the poorest section of the state struggling with massive increase or no coverage at all!!!!! In the meantime....desantis picks a fight with Disney and gay kid and making sure no one teaches youngsters what it all means......State is going to hell in a hand basket and the morons think this shit is more important than the outrageous cost to live in the state!!!!!! The GOP is just out to keep power by trolling the base with abortion laws and gay bashing.....yep....the entire GOP is circling around the boogey man of the rights need to push their religion down everyones throats!!!!!
Roger the blame for Biden's failure is his policies.
They have failed at every turn.
Stop with the excuses.
cd
Own this Motherfucker and his Affirmative Action dumb VP.
She really is a simple minded cunny.
All of this was never about controlling the pandemic. It was always about controlling US." RRB
Yep, now the left is hyping the just in time for fall election Vivid Variant 2.0.22
All over the world, billions of people live in nations where those who organize against the government are treated like traitors. The first order of business for any authoritarian nation is to arrest or kill the political opposition.
According to a 2021 report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, “Democracy is at risk. Its survival is endangered by a perfect storm of threats, both from within and from a rising tide of authoritarianism….
The Global State of Democracy 2021 shows that more countries than ever are suffering from ‘democratic erosion’ (decline in democratic quality), including in established democracies. The number of countries undergoing ‘democratic backsliding’ (a more severe and deliberate kind of democratic erosion) has never been as high as in the last decade, and includes regional geopolitical and economic powers such as Brazil, India and the United States.
More than a quarter of the world’s population now live in democratically backsliding countries. Together with those living in outright non-democratic regimes, they make up more than two-thirds of the world’s population.”
In the United States, it has long been considered normal that there will be a formal, organized, regularized, and intuitionally recognized attempt to unseat every elected official at every scheduled opportunity. This competitive system of party politics, however flawed, sits at the foundation of our democracy. The idea of a legitimate opposition at its core is the belief that our differences on policies, no matter how profound, do not make us enemies.
Until very recently, politicians and parties of every stripe understood that if they lost an election, they would accept the results, dust themselves off, and try to win the next one. Sure, there might be court challenges, but until 2020, never had a major presidential candidate refused to accept the results of an election or thrown into doubt the legitimacy of an elected president (and this includes some pretty suspicious elections, 1876, 1960, 2000). Indeed, even the white men who seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy in 1860-61, never questioned the legitimacy of Abraham Lincoln’s election.
But thankfully some Republicans have pulled away for the big lie.
Two Republican members of Congress repeatedly pressed former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for evidence of widespread voter fraud before turning skeptical of former President Trump's election conspiracies, texts reported by CNN reveal.
Why it matters: The texts from Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in the aftermath of the 2020 election highlight the winding road some Trump loyalists took to opposing election objections on Jan. 6.
Spokespeople for both lawmakers confirmed the authenticity of the texts to Axios. "The messages speak for themselves," said Roy spokesperson Nate Madden.Lee Lonsberry, a spokesperson for Lee, said, "The text messages tell the same story Sen. Lee told from the floor of the Senate the day he voted to certify the election results of each and every state in the nation."
But sometimes things happen unexpected.
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. border authorities arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to cross the border with Mexico in March, the highest monthly total in two decades and underscoring challenges in the coming months for U.S. President Joe Biden.
The March total is a 24% increase from the same month a year earlier, when 169,000 migrants were picked up at the border, the start of a rise in migration that left thousands unaccompanied children stuck in crowded border patrol stations for days while they awaited placement in overwhelmed government-run shelters.
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Biden, a Democrat who took office in January 2021, pledged to reverse many of the hardline immigration policies of his Republican predecessor, former President Donald Trump, but has struggled both operationally and politically with high numbers of attempted crossings.
Republicans, who hope to gain control of the U.S. Congress in Nov. 8 midterm elections, say Biden's rollback of Trump-era policies has encouraged more illegal immigration.
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If this happened if Trump had won rrb would be cheering no more beaners
Instead of focusing on this very real threat, Republican politicians—to justify Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law—have cited QAnon conspiracy theories about public schools being overrun by child predators who are “grooming” children to be gay. A spokesperson for Governor Ron DeSantis reframed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill as an “anti-grooming” bill. But if QAnon Republicans really cared about white children, then they would be worried about white-supremacist grooming. This is the grooming that parents of all children should be worried about.
What delusional disinformed crazy person with a wild imagination lied to you about this?
Just curious...
too many words in a row that make sense proves it's not your own writing.
Back in 1975, according to the Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in science. Last year, that number had slipped to 64 percent. Why? Politics. The percentage of Democrats who expressed confidence in science went up 12 points. But the percentage of Republicans declined by an eye-popping 27 points. In 2021, only 45 percent of Republicans said they had a lot of confidence in science, down from 72 percent in 1975. Think of it: Most Republicans no longer have confidence in scientific knowledge. “People start questioning the science, questioning whether or not we really know what we’re doing — questioning, you know, ‘Am I going to have to do this every six months?’” another medical expert said. The answer is very likely, yes.
Blah blah blah..
What matters here?
The science that you followed WAS WRONG.
That is why smart people will trust it less.
again, 2/3 of our country believes that Covid guidances are political not scientific.
The real question is simple.
What sort of person "increases" their trust in someone or something that actually got it wrong? Can you explain why that makes any sense.
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