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[quote quote=5387]rodgepodge: I suppose you should ask Mick why he chose to politicize it. I was responding to him when he implied it was Biden’s fault that cases had risen and made a snide comment about Psaki. You think this post from Mick wasn’t political?
I didn’t say a word about Covid for months until he posted this. You don’t like my KFF numbers, but I also cited Gallup. The latest Pew poll has similar results. And anecdotally I’ve seen many clips and heard of many conservative talking heads pushing an anti vax agenda. I haven’t come across that on the left, except for some fringe folks. I mean your own post finished by explaining how vaccinations aren’t so important for many people… So yes, I believe the ~90% number. And I also believe the much lower number for conservatives. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, don’t. Good luck to you.[/quote]
Huh. Calling the President to account for bad COVID policy means that what, we start the blame game? AND you’re saying it’s a one variable problem? Quit pushing a narrative that 1) isn’t solving the problem, and 2) only demonstrates that you’re unusually susceptible to accepting political polarization and blame, rather than looking at the underlying data for a complex problem and trying to find a solution.
You keep citing survey results, but the actual data on who is vaccinated tells a different story that is correlated with political affiliation, but significantly more strongly correlated with other factors. Then you throw out the “cherry picking” argument? Are you serious?
No leftist vaccine hesitancy? You mean this:
Here’s a mashup of VACCINE MISINFORMATION from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Does Jen Psaki want Big Tech to CENSOR this?pic.twitter.com/vqnucmZjnj
— Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) July 16, 2021
or this (reinforcing my point about the overeducated):
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/what-do-lefty-anti-vaxxers-do-now/620092/
Also, don’t indulge in the Orwellian conflation of “anti-vax” and being against vaccine mandates.
“If you don’t want to get vaccinated, don’t. Good luck to you.”
Nice ad hominem, so I’ll return the favor. You clearly lack reading comprehension. I said in my post I have vaccine antibodies as confirmed by blood tests. If your defense is oh, I meant everybody, not you, then why do you care to try to blame conservatives? My point is that we need to quit using divisive language (political or otherwise) and enact good COVID policy to get people vaccinated, to protect the people who need to be protected, and get life back to normal. We don’t need to trample on civil liberties and the Constitution to do it.
When Trump was President, the media would post things like, “X number of deaths under Trump.” Or COVID has now caused “X number of 9/11s.” I didn’t see you being critical when that was happening. Now that the parties have shifted, now you don’t like the casualty counting? Have you watched Psaki struggle / deflect lately? You never made a snarky comment about Kaleigh McEnany (who to her credit at least was well prepared). Maybe you have buyer’s remorse because you (and the American people) were sold vague solutions to a complex problem, and now that it turns out even with three vaccines and better therapeutics, the administration hasn’t “shut down the virus,” and in fact things have gotten arguably worse?
in other news, keep in mind this investigation is into WFT, not jon gruden. no telling what else is gonna come out.
here's what i'm curious about: what comes up in that file of emails when you search for "robert griffin?"
— bomani (@bomani_jones) October 12, 2021
The NFL got Gruden out with the leaks; mission accomplished.
But the public/fans/media is going to want to know more about these 650,000 emails.
Wasn't this case about the toxic workplace of the Washington Football Club?
This feels like this is just the beginning, not the end.— Andrew Brandt (@AndrewBrandt) October 12, 2021
Someone from the NFL took these e-mails and leaked them. Not sure if there’s a protective order (there should have been). I guess in this day and age, there aren’t going to be any repercussions from taking something produced pursuant to an internal investigation into sexual harassment / misconduct by the WFT and turned against someone who wasn’t working for them at the time (and hasn’t been accused of sexual harassment / misconduct). There are 650,000 e-mails, as the two commenters have said. I wonder who else’s e-mails will get leaked. Anyhow, Jon Gruden should be on the phone to a lawyer.
BTD, why don’t you quit pushing the political aspect of vaccination and work on what will actually get people vaccinated? If it was truly a political issue, you’d see 90-10 splits both ways, not a majority of Republicans vaccinated.
The Kaiser Family Foundation? Who has been pushing this political polarizing angle despite knowing that the correlation was garbage compared to age, income, education level (both ends), and other factors? You mean these guys?
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs//totals?id=D000039180&cycle=A
Also, have you seen the non-KFF data (instead of survey numbers) for the young, the uneducated (and overeducated), union members, and minority communities (other than Asians)? Compared the R coefficients to political party? And, given your understanding of how these majority unvaccinated groups voted, do you really believe the 90+ number? You know what Democrats are really good at? Virtue signaling to strangers in a survey.
The messaging from the governments has been counterproductive garbage. Trying to get minorities vaccinated with animated raps and celebrities? Telling people the unvaccinated are a danger to the vaccinated? What does that tell the unvaccinated? That the vaccine doesn’t work. And then the vaccinated who believe that the unvaccinated are a danger to them… well, then the vaccinated are a danger to them, as are their kids, as are… everyone (except undocumented migrants). All stick and no carrot isn’t getting the unvaccinated vaccinated. The messaging has to be clear, the vaccines reduce the chances of hospitalization and death. You and your family get vaccinated, you can go places without a mask. Is it 100%? No. But will it allow you and your family to have Thanksgiving and Christmas together. Also, quit listening to Fauci. His ego (and Disney+) is writing checks his brain can’t cash.
You going to bring up science? Then why mandate that people with natural antibodies get vaccinated? There’s no scientific basis for trying to trigger an immune response in people who have superior protections for… no reason? The only logical reason for mandating vaccines and not accounting for natural antibodies is because they want to eliminate the control. Also, we can test for natural antibodies, so it can’t be faked. (My blood tests distinguish between my vaccine antibodies and natural antibodies). So why not exempt the already infected from the vaccine? (By your logic, by the way, more Republicans got infected / died pre-vaccine, anyway).
The known side-effects are treatable, with the proper monitoring and are better than the cytokine storm that leads to hospitalization and death. We have better therapeutics, and know more than before. Things are looking up, and will improve with your help.
Don’t forget the Afghans, brought over here because they were let out of Bagram’s prison or the Kabul prison, and managed to push SIV holders and real translators out of the way. No vetting, just chaos.
BREAKING: Gen. McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, to announce no ISIS-K fighters killed in U.S. drone strike in Kabul Aug 29. 10 civilians killed, including 7 children in Toyota. No disciplinary action expected, officials say. US military stands by intel leading to strike.
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) September 17, 2021
No discipline expected. Stands by… getting fed back a target by the Taliban, possibly stolen from the biometric database…. Grand.
“Blinken deletes tweet saying US would ‘stand with people of Hong Kong’ & posts watered-down version.”https://t.co/sB1OrUr2Po pic.twitter.com/rbfVoMi20o
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) September 17, 2021
Gen. Milley can claim that he was just doing his job all he wants, but the fact of the matter is, he emboldened the Chinese. He’s even on another call telling the Chinese that, “Democracy is messy sometimes.” That’s true, but it’s also a signal of willingness to accommodate an enemy regime. He’s at best an idiot who doesn’t understand threats (or the Chinese, apparently), and at worst a compromised traitor who attempted to lead a de facto coup by asking for the loyalty of the military outside the civilian chain of command.
Taiwan's air force scrambled on Friday to warn away 10 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defense zone, Taiwan's defense ministry said, the day after the island announced a $9 billion boost to military spending to counter the threat from Chinahttps://t.co/6ml01XMtXc
— Peter Martin (@PeterMartin_PCM) September 17, 2021
Just doing his job?
My guess is he had no evidence for deciding to go all Alexander Haig, other than Gen. Milley has shown that he’s unusually susceptible to propaganda. He’s more interested in being Gen. George McClellan than he is in defending the Constitution or exhibiting military competence.
You’ve seen his Congressional testimony, especially when he interrupts questioning of Sec. Austin to affirmatively state that Bagram Airfield has no strategic value. He’s a guy who gets promoted because he’s good at self-promotion, and when he sensed the wind was blowing a certain way, he threw any principles out the window to save his own a–.
I agree to some extent. When a person isn’t just collecting data and putting it into a tracker, but is being consulted about policy, being cited as an authority on causation and correlations, and commenting on policies (masking, super-spreader events, etc.), then credentials begin to matter. Iowa has been okay, on the whole, but like Rebekah Jones, this woman is being quoted as an expert, and followed on Twitter as a source for news regarding forecasting outbreaks, when she has no qualifications for doing so other than inputting government data into graphing software. Otherwise, it’s just another way the media confirms its priors and manufactures “evidence” for things that aren’t supported by the data.
USC 28 – Stanford 17. Link above explains why.
STANFORD at USC (FOX, 10:30 p.m.)
Home team has won and covered last four in series.
David Shaw was on a 3-12 spread skid before covering his last three games of an exciting yet reduced 2020 schedule, then dropped 2021 opener vs. K-State.
Shaw was 1-5 as dog in 2019 but 2-1 in role LY. Shaw was 13-5 as dog from 2011-18.
Note SC just 9-14 last 23 as chalk for Helton.Tech Edge: Slight to SC, based on series home trends.
As skeptical as I am about the NY Times editorial staff, their video team and some of their international team do good work.
From the investigative team’s tweet:
A Times investigation of video evidence, along with interviews with more than a dozen of the driver’s co-workers and family members in Kabul, raises serious doubts about the U.S. version of events.
They have video evidence from his neighborhood, his NGO’s security cameras, and interviews with men who were in the car with the victim prior to the strike (when loading and unloading laptops at the NGO and filling up water containers that are consistent with the interviews. In addition, even the previous reports indicated that this was likely the case, and the likely victim of the drone strike.
This is what war crimes looks like: pic.twitter.com/3guIyZkxuT
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 10, 2021
The “one child” policy was based on the Paul Ehrlich “Population Bomb” theory that human beings’ need for resources would eventually overwhelm the supply, and create scarcity for everyone. It was part of the Malthusian school of thought. Now, of course, it created sex imbalances (because of sex selection and the cultural preference for boys), a potential pensioner / GDP ratio issue, and all sorts of other problems. Communism, eh?
The Polymatter channel has a pretty good three part series about why the Chinese are so desperate to create a hegemony now. If you want to read about what may be the beginning of the debt problem, look up Evergrande on any financial website (or in the news).
https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/tree-of-life-synagogue-disputes-joe-bidens-claim-he-visited/
It’s becoming more and more clear that President Biden only thinks of himself. The plagiarism – self-aggrandizement. All the fabricated stuff (facing danger, South Africa / Nelson Mandela, visiting the Tree of Life synagogue), self-aggrandizement. Your son / daughter died because of my poor decisions, let me tell you about me losing my son [to cancer].
I ask that you consider something worse than that he can’t remember… that he does remember, but he doesn’t care.
I’m not an apologist for this administration’s complete failure to plan for a withdrawal from Afghanistan, but there have been worse. Specifically, 1) the retreat of the Macedonians after Alexander the Great’s death resulted in a civil war, and the Greeks massacring the Macedonians settlers who revolted, and 2) the retreat of Lord Elphinstone after the First Anglo-Afghan war. The 1842 retreat is eerily similar (those who don’t study the past are doomed to repeat it?) to what happened. A technologically superior force comes in, defeats the local warlord, who retreats into the mountains and regroups. Then he begins defeating the occupying force using guerilla tactics and capturing materiel, until he overruns Kabul. Lord Elphinstone then negotiates for safe passage to Jalalabad, under the “protection” of the warlord. Accounts vary, but apparently the warlord either goes back on his promise, or doesn’t control the passes the British will take (ISIS-K?). About 4,500 British soldiers, with arms and cannons, and about 12,000 men, women, and children (mostly servants and translators and collaborators) set off for Jalalabad. 1 British combat surgeon survived (along with about three sepoys, or servants from India). The remainder were killed in daily raids, frostbite / exposure (January in Afghanistan), summarily executed, or kidnapped and sold into slavery.
As pathetic as the speeches were over the last two weeks, the media will still run cover (they already are… have you read the Washington Post?).
The same playbook is being used by Klain and others in the administration to distract from Americans being stranded in Afghanistan. https://t.co/lkZyhCw8UB pic.twitter.com/l85018WOJ2
— Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) August 31, 2021
The Iran deal all over again. This administration, and these clowns (Jake Sullivan was Ben Rhodes’ aide) flat out told Israel they’re entering the Iran deal again, and now want to negotiate potential non-humanitarian aid to the Taliban to “incentivize” them to behave. Idiots.
Don’t forget the $500M spent on phantom masks from China that turned out to be useless. What about lack of forest management, leading to more forest fires? What about the homeless policies that made San Francisco what it is today, that he spread to the rest of California (and Austin, TX, by the way)? What about him kneecapping charter schools at the behest of the teacher’s unions (which caused former Democrat majority leader Gloria Romero to endorse Elder)? What about him going forward with decommissioning Diablo Canyon when it’s been proven that renewables aren’t going to be able to satisfy our demand for electricity (especially if we transition to all-electric vehicles)?
He’s good at pushing political priorities, but he lacks any actual leadership skills. Unlike last time, he’s vindictive enough that no prominent Democrats put their hat in the ring to replace him.
We can discuss his messaging, which is a complete failure in my opinion, but he deserves to lose big.
If I were president, and I had put our country into the current situation in Afghanistan, I would tell America, our allies, our enemies, and the world, something like this…https://t.co/cDCXxzI9F4 pic.twitter.com/4pp5FYCizN
— Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) August 23, 2021
