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03-18-2021, 12:21 PM
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My honest opinion;
The person appointed to be the next VP when Harris becomes president will be non-male and non-white and not too elderly.
No Bernie, no Pelosi, no Bloomberg, no Elizabeth Warren, no current Senator because the majority in the Senate is razor thin.
Once Harris becomes president ............ the true power behind the Democratic party doesn't want to have the worry of potentially having to replace the VP in the next 6 or 7 years so no old farts (Pelosi, Bernie, etc.).
The democrats will need to suck up to the ultra-liberal left wing so no middle of the road or white male.
Since Harris is from California the will probably pick somebody from the North East to help shore up the re-election that is coming up in three years.
My thought is that AOC is seriously in the running for VP.
The person appointed to be the next VP when Harris becomes president will be non-male and non-white and not too elderly.
No Bernie, no Pelosi, no Bloomberg, no Elizabeth Warren, no current Senator because the majority in the Senate is razor thin.
Once Harris becomes president ............ the true power behind the Democratic party doesn't want to have the worry of potentially having to replace the VP in the next 6 or 7 years so no old farts (Pelosi, Bernie, etc.).
The democrats will need to suck up to the ultra-liberal left wing so no middle of the road or white male.
Since Harris is from California the will probably pick somebody from the North East to help shore up the re-election that is coming up in three years.
My thought is that AOC is seriously in the running for VP.
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03-18-2021, 12:22 PM
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A: I moved this post from the GenWu thread to the politics thread. I don't know why this one specific vaccine has become so strongly politicized (as opposed to, say, the flu, polio, measles, tetanus, hepatitis, etc), but it clearly has.
ii: I honestly cannot figure out why Brainey has become so anti-vax all of a sudden. But not understanding why isn't the same as being surprised by it, given that fully 47% of people who claim to support Trump also say that they will not get vaccinated against Covid. (source)
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03-18-2021, 12:32 PM
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Don't you remember them calling Trump racist and saying to enjoy Chinatown while Trump was trying to close the borders? Don't you remember "two weeks to flatten the curve", how's week 52 treating you? Don't you remember anti-lockdown protestors being horrible people and denied their right to assembly, then two weeks later you were a racist if you weren't in the streets "peacefully protesting" for BLM?
The Democrats lied too much about covid, Republicans are rejecting their ideas on principle at this point.
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03-18-2021, 01:15 PM
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ii: I honestly cannot figure out why Brainey has become so anti-vax all of a sudden. But not understanding why isn't the same as being surprised by it, given that fully 47% of people who claim to support Trump also say that they will not get vaccinated against Covid. (source)
And I don't see the point getting an experimental vaccine for something I have a 99.98% survivability rate for. I've had worse hangovers than what Covid would do to me.
I already have a 5G phone, I don't need to communicate to Bill Gate's servers when I'm sleeping too.
The virus was politicized the day China released fake videos of people "dying in the streets" from it in Feb of 2020. Then stopped reporting "deaths". Then went back to normal like nothing ever happened, but probably increased GDP selling shitty pointless masks by 1000%.
Not to mention everything we were told about the virus and forced to do was a joke, a lie, or didn't work. The only thing it did was transfer huge amounts of power to people with only a little. And it was essential in the election of Joe Biden.
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03-18-2021, 02:03 PM
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A: Who is being forced to get the vaccine?
B: Are they the same people who are presently required to be vaccinated against Hepatitis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis and Varicella as a condition of attending school or holding certain types of employment?
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03-18-2021, 02:13 PM
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1. Some people actually believe one statement at face values with no proof or factual basis; only bigotry.
2. Other's actually have proof that support's the validity of the position.
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03-18-2021, 02:18 PM
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TRUMP WILL START WWIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aHHHHHHHHHHHHH REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysi...22u4Ndbu8ALgvc
After Biden lied about his prowess with Putin in a sickly sweet interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Putin pulled his ambassador out of Washington. It’s a pretty big move from Putin out of the blocks. Usually, if you fear a nation and its leader, you don’t start by pulling your ambassador. This is Putin’s telling the Biden regime: “We don’t need you, and we don’t fear you.”
It’s quite a stark difference from the Trump administration, which sanctioned Russia while engaging in diplomacy. The media chastised Trump for attempting to avoid a pointless conflict with Russia. That’s the same press that is now fawning over Joe Biden’s kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party.
As an aside, Stephanopoulos never pressed Biden on how his son Hunter Biden was compromised by a Putin-friendly Moscow woman’s $3.5 million money transfer, as reported by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last September.
I documented what happened at Joe Biden’s one and only meeting with Vladimir Putin in my book Joe Biden Unauthorized. I can attest that the title of my chapter on the incident – Bitch Slapped in Moscow – is the actual truth.
Biden got bitch slapped, and he’s pretending he didn’t.
Putin knows what happened. He was there. He knows he compromised Joe Biden, who appeared unprepared to deal with the ruthless, former-KGB agent. Regardless, Joe continues to perpetuate his “I was the tough guy” lie.
As Joe Biden’s White House stenographer, I stood directly behind Putin at a distance of five feet. Biden, seated across from Putin at an elegant conference table, was about 12 feet from me.
About 10 minutes into the meeting, Vice President Biden attempted to start lecturing about his decades-old part in U.S.-Russian negotiations with the dreaded phrase, “I’ve been around a long time. The first time I was here…”
And… cut.
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Biden gives ONE interview ever, as president, and royally ****'s up diplomatically with a nuclear country…
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysi...22u4Ndbu8ALgvc
EXCLUSIVE: Putin Humiliated Biden In Moscow Meeting, Reveals Obama-Era White House Stenographer.
Vladimir Putin and his staff sought the almost ritualistic humiliation of then-Vice President Joe Biden, who commanded very little respect on the world stage during his tenure as veep. If it can be believed, he commands even less, now. Ever since that moment I witnessed, Joe Biden and his staffers – with the help of Washington’s press corps – have been spinning the story 180 degrees away from how it actually happened.After Biden lied about his prowess with Putin in a sickly sweet interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Putin pulled his ambassador out of Washington. It’s a pretty big move from Putin out of the blocks. Usually, if you fear a nation and its leader, you don’t start by pulling your ambassador. This is Putin’s telling the Biden regime: “We don’t need you, and we don’t fear you.”
It’s quite a stark difference from the Trump administration, which sanctioned Russia while engaging in diplomacy. The media chastised Trump for attempting to avoid a pointless conflict with Russia. That’s the same press that is now fawning over Joe Biden’s kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party.
As an aside, Stephanopoulos never pressed Biden on how his son Hunter Biden was compromised by a Putin-friendly Moscow woman’s $3.5 million money transfer, as reported by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last September.
I documented what happened at Joe Biden’s one and only meeting with Vladimir Putin in my book Joe Biden Unauthorized. I can attest that the title of my chapter on the incident – Bitch Slapped in Moscow – is the actual truth.
Biden got bitch slapped, and he’s pretending he didn’t.
Putin knows what happened. He was there. He knows he compromised Joe Biden, who appeared unprepared to deal with the ruthless, former-KGB agent. Regardless, Joe continues to perpetuate his “I was the tough guy” lie.
As Joe Biden’s White House stenographer, I stood directly behind Putin at a distance of five feet. Biden, seated across from Putin at an elegant conference table, was about 12 feet from me.
About 10 minutes into the meeting, Vice President Biden attempted to start lecturing about his decades-old part in U.S.-Russian negotiations with the dreaded phrase, “I’ve been around a long time. The first time I was here…”
And… cut.
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Biden gives ONE interview ever, as president, and royally ****'s up diplomatically with a nuclear country…
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03-18-2021, 02:19 PM
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So, two things:
A: Who is being forced to get the vaccine?
B: Are they the same people who are presently required to be vaccinated against Hepatitis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis and Varicella as a condition of attending school or holding certain types of employment?
That seems like an irrational decision. But then, people in general are not known for always making rational decisions.
A: Who is being forced to get the vaccine?
B: Are they the same people who are presently required to be vaccinated against Hepatitis, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis and Varicella as a condition of attending school or holding certain types of employment?
That seems like an irrational decision. But then, people in general are not known for always making rational decisions.
There's nothing irrational about the decision, opposing people who constantly lie to you and disregard anything you say is pretty rational in my opinion.
You know you've been writing in a very "journalist/media personality" way lately, did your boss find your account?
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03-18-2021, 02:47 PM
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A person who knows that they have HIV (or herpes, or whatever) and continues to have unprotected sex with other people, that person is an *******.
My tone of writing hasn't changed, it's still very centrist and objective. The rest of the sociopolitical landscape has simply become more polarized. People are more accustomed to being in echo-chambers today than in the past, so anything which does not conform to their beliefs, or assumes the role of the devil's advocate, seems more radical than it did previously.
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03-18-2021, 02:56 PM
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You've just aged yourself. HIV and Herpes is no concern to anyone anymore.
PrEP commercials blast here all day long on select channels (typical with black/gay programming)
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03-18-2021, 03:00 PM
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The recall Gavin Newsom effort has collected 2,117,730 signatures.
1.5 million were needed to trigger the recall.
It’s typical to gather about 10-20% more signatures than are necessary because that’s about the average rate of invalid signatures.
They will now be scouring these signatures with a fine toothed comb to try and invalidate them, but it’s unlikely they’ll get enough tossed out to account for 600,000+.
Gavin has begun preparing for a campaign to try and win the recall election.
If this succeeds, it would be the second time in less than 20 years that California has recalled a democrat governor.
Some interesting details in the numerical breakdown of the signatories.
25% had no party preference.
Almost 50% were women.
And mailed were not sent to democrats, so the 9% of democrats that signed it, actually went out of their way to sign it.
1.5 million were needed to trigger the recall.
It’s typical to gather about 10-20% more signatures than are necessary because that’s about the average rate of invalid signatures.
They will now be scouring these signatures with a fine toothed comb to try and invalidate them, but it’s unlikely they’ll get enough tossed out to account for 600,000+.
Gavin has begun preparing for a campaign to try and win the recall election.
If this succeeds, it would be the second time in less than 20 years that California has recalled a democrat governor.
Some interesting details in the numerical breakdown of the signatories.
25% had no party preference.
Almost 50% were women.
And mailed were not sent to democrats, so the 9% of democrats that signed it, actually went out of their way to sign it.
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03-18-2021, 04:31 PM
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I wasn't aware of PrEP until you mentioned it. This area, surprisingly, isn't much of an AIDS hotspot. At least not compared to y'all in DC, where it's 39 per 100,000.
Here's a fun list, The top 20 US cities in terms of overall STD infection: https://www.insider.com/us-cities-wi...lamydia-2020-1
Oh, and this being the politics thread, I'd be remiss if I did not attempt to put a political spin on HIV. Here are the top ten US states in terms of HIV infections per 100,000 residents. I've color-coded it according to how that state voted in the 2020 election:
No big surprise seeing Florida at the top. Something about that state magnetically attracts the mentally ill.
The surprise is everything else on that. Straight 50/50 split. There appears to be zero correlation between HIV infection rate and the outcome of the various state-level 2020 Presidential elections.
Unless, as you continue to assert, the election results were fraudulently altered in order to favor Biden. In that case, Republican-voting states have a higher rate of HIV infection than Democrat-voting states.
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03-18-2021, 06:43 PM
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So, this is interesting.
Vladimir Putin has publiclychallenged invited Biden to a live, online chat. In Putin's words:
“I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States. (...) I don’t want to put this off for long. I want to go the taiga this weekend to relax a little, so we could do it tomorrow or Monday. We are ready at any time convenient for the American side.”
Sadly, I doubt it will happen.
Vladimir Putin has publicly
“I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States. (...) I don’t want to put this off for long. I want to go the taiga this weekend to relax a little, so we could do it tomorrow or Monday. We are ready at any time convenient for the American side.”
Sadly, I doubt it will happen.
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