In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.
“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
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Hat tip: This Ain’t Hell …
Edited to add Hat Tip.
uuuuhhh….it is way past the ‘start’…
As heard on another radio show,
the (marketed) big fib, IS the big fib.
The (Marxist etal) Big fibby , some say big lie… (there was no election fraud, and there was an insurrection at capital by dt upon innocent politicians)
is
the (marxist) Big FIB (there was elect fraud being ignored, and not dt,, but others were the provoker’s and bad actors (figuratively, and actually) etc
of bad actors in an otherwise peaceful walk along dc )
– and (mis) leaders are obfuscating, slow walking the truths (again)…
But like natural milk from a natural cow,
the cream (truth) does ride to the top of the milk, over time. (all of the time…which is why some work to stir, spin, mix it up…).
Love thy neighbors…
imho
Antifa was busy in porkland last night destroying businesses, and harassing and beating people in a preplanned event that was posted on tweeter. The few that were arrested were released without bail.
Meanwhile those who just walked into the capitol through open doors, or allowed in by cops are still sitting in jail as political prisoners….as far as I know, because there are no stories about them.
https://t.me/Andy_Ngo/727
Catalina Lauf just did a segment on local TV channel 32 (Flannery Fired Up) and she bombed. They were discussing immigration. She said “idiotic immigration policies of the past/Obama years”. When asked to name one she couldn’t. She flat out couldn’t name one and asked the host not to air this portion of the interview. She screwed up royally. Not ready for prime time.
I know she worked on POTUS campaign but still. I remember reading something during the summer about how she used her leftover campaign money for candidates in Georgia. It was a local article. Anyway proceed with caution. I’d love to find today’s clip and post it here.
Politics 101 – develop good talking points to discuss those subjects that you run on and are concerned about.
If the discussion isn’t on your radar, don’t say much about it.
Easy button.
What a shame…I was so excited about her, too…she sounded good in her introduction video.
Maybe she will learn that she needs real knowledge, to fight this fight.
Julia Letlow, who is running to replace her dead husband, did the same thing in her first big local radio interview. She was asked her opinion about $15/hr minimum wage and she said she would have to talk to her people first. The Jindal machine is backing her and I’ve only seen glossy mailers, no events since.
Name one: “Catch and Release”
Name one: “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA”
Citing Racial Inequities, Boston Public Schools Suspend New Advanced Learning Classes
February 26, 2021
https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/02/26/citing-racial-inequities-boston-public-schools-suspend-advanced-learning-classes
“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.”— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., “Harrison Bergeron”, 1959
Took the thought right out of my head Gipper!
Was thinking of Kurt Vonnegut and his Harrison Bergeron immediately upon seeing this post.
Love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher had a good response to a socialist on “Equality.”
Thatcher: “But what the honorable member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.”
I admire the foresight of a number of authors of old but then I remember, all we have to do is study history to accurately predict the future. Therefore the rewriting of history is inevitable so the “new” policies can be instituted to bring about a society that has already been proven a failure many times over. The names and faces change but we can’t get rid of that pesky underlying fallen nature of mankind.
One of my all time favorite short stories!!! Worth a read–or a reread–if you have the time!
What these idiots always get wrong is that they want an equal outcome; whereas, we want equal opportunity!!
How terribly short sighted and what a profound disservice to any bright young mind regardless of race or ethnicity. I am so sad for our nation that this mentality has permeated our decision makers. God help us!
IMO, it is a continuation of their -far sighted- plan to achieve academic equality by tearing down the achievers.
Same way that the communists achieve economic equality, get rid of the high achievers.
This all boils down to twisting the Constitutional principle of Equality of Opportunity to mean Equality of Effect.
These policies are DANGEROUS to LIBERTY and FREEDOM. Essentially this ridiculous policy is designed to suppress individuals who EXCEL so that everyone can “feel equal”, so that no one is “offended” that another is achieving at a higher level.
Not surprised at all that this is being done in my Sick, Gulag of a State.
The dirty secret is that these gifted programs/classes exist, in most districts, to provide what used to be considered a standard education. This is admittedly anecdotal but I have friends and family in TX, FL, MD, VA, NC, and AZ in multiple schools/school districts within those states whose children were all placed in some sort of advanced/gifted classes (not discussing AP here).
And while these kids are bright enough only one of them are what anyone would call “gifted.” The parents themselves have told me the kids have to be in these advanced classes because the general ed classes are so bad.
Or do like Hitler did in Poland when he shot all the PhD’s.
In 1982-1984 I worked with people who fled Communist civil wars in Central and South America. One family from El Salvador became my friends. The father was a professor at a university….wife worked at a store, two daughters, one son all in college. The Communists were killing the educated. The family fled with what money they had and nothing else. The son was killed helping the family escape…… horror stories.
A knew a woman who was born in the Netherlands and lived under Nazi occupation….. horror stories.
A son of my parents friends who was sent to Vietnam, was captured, tortured to death.
My doctor telling us of life in the Soviet Union….no one could excel, people were told what occupation they would work at, the state decided everything. She warned people of the corruption in DC and how far left things were being pushed after Obamination Care was illegally forced on us……she actually thought about going back to Russia. She may already be gone by now.
I have never forgotten the horror stories. And now it’s happening in the USA.
Every time I watch this 51 minute documentary on life in a small Siberian village on the Yenisey river, I wonder what it’d be like to move to a similar place in Siberia.
This is a very interesting video. Unbelievably harsh and dangerous conditions. Perhaps at least, these Siberians don’t have any political correctness to deal with. No mask Nazis, no white privilege hassles, or bathroom confusion . . .
Thanks for the video. I have also wondered what it would be like to live in a remote area of Russia.
I read that 9 million USA citizens live outside the USA. The majority still have employment with a USA based company and do their jobs via Zoom / other ways. Others are employed by a business/company based in the country they live in. Many retirees are in Central/South America.
There are 30 somethings who were fortunate to keep their jobs, who admitted to moving to Central/South America because of the political climate…yep, they are hard core leftists.
That was Stalin who ordered the Russian Army to murder 10,000 Polish Military Officers, university professors and doctors in the Katalin Forest after Poland surrendered. Oddly, it was the German Army that exposed the atrocity and conducted the investigation to expose what happened. Hitler had nothing to do with order to kill them!
“While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
– Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Mirage Of Social Justice
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I want pro basketball cancelled. It’s not fair to short white people.
Great Comment! I thought of the Sports Teams too – funny, not, that they get a pass!
Yes, social justice requires that there be a 6-foot high hoop, with a diameter twice as large, for only short white people to shoot into during the NBA games. Plus, every ‘basket” in the Short White Justice (SWJ) basket counts 4 points.
Short Asians and Hispanics can use the SWJ basket, too.
My three-year-old has started teaching himself to read. Children who really want to learn, will learn – especially when unleashed to do so.
My daughter was a gifted student. Left high school when she was 15 so bored, so depressed. Went to the local technical college, got an Associates Degree. Then on to a 4 year university for Bachelor and Master degrees, graduated at 19.
Do you know what’s going to happen to gifted students as they become bored and depressed with no outlets ? Drugs, alcohol, wasted lives, suicide. Beside those costs to humanity and society, we will be losing our best as we compete with the rest of the world. What sane nation would do this, do you think China is suppressing their best and brightest ?
Well I’m pretty sure they’d be happy to suppress OUR best and brightest.
What is really happening is that the progs don’t want you to know what we all know….or actually, they don’t want you to TALK about what they and we know: intelligence and the economic and educational success that highly correlates with intelligence vary greatly from individual to individual.
In the past, it was okay to talk about that, but 80 years of psychometric testing, 80 years of the improvement in the testing by controlling for culture, language, social status, opportunity, and 80 years of subjecting the results to repeated scientific scrutiny have revealed what scientists call “uncomfortable truths.”
Those truths are STILL argued and rejected by three classes of people: 1) by today’s progs (the progs of the 20s knew this and talked about it, thus their “eugenics” ideas; 2) by the ignorant, meaning those who have never read or at least familiarized themselves with the huge body of scientific research and 3) by the perennially politically correct, particularly most in that horrible of horrible college “discipline,” sociologists. The honest are actually banned from appearing on almost all networks.
That evidence and the conclusions 80years of testing has rendered if this: just as intelligence varies greatly between individuals, it varies among population groups as well. Those population groups are widely referred to as races.
The mean IQ of 5 population groups in the US range from approx 80-100. That range has broad real world consequences, and no, I’m not talking lack of opportunity. That has been controlled for in the studies. Outcomes of education vary widely as a result. Outcomes of economic success vary widely as a result. Outcomes of social behavior vary widely as a result.
The groups, listed alphabetically are as follows: Amerindian, Asian, Black, Hispanic, (Mestizo….not people fr. Hispania which comprises Portugal and Spain), White.
Libs and progs can’t hide the wide discrepancies any more. For decades, after the trillion dollars spent on poor kids of all races in the Head Start program, after programs that reduced the teacher: student ratio significantly in places like DC (Bill Gates funded that program) , outcomes remain widely disparate.
So now, the progs and libs figure they have to obscure things a bit more and they’ll destroy what little remains of a decent public education.
All because no one wants to talk truth and think quantitatively.
The question that should be asked is, “Then how do we best educate an individual who is not able to achieve the outcomes of most or many of his classmates?”
Answers may vary. Ideas may vary, but surely throwing in the kid whose scores show him lacking in either verbal acuity or math/spatial potential is not the answer.
Is the economy improving? Here is a paragraph from Clarice Feldman’s American Thinker article, “No Rose Garland”:
“New orders for durable goods increased for the ninth straight month. The economy is growing faster than predicted,” and “the Biden ‘inheritance’ from predecessor Donald Trump was a strong 4.1% annual rate of real economic growth in our 45th president’s last full quarter in office.” The jobs market is also improving, with new claims for unemployment benefits: ”falling to the lowest level since November.” Hiring is picking up.”
It is noteworthy how capitalism can keep an economy thriving, despite government efforts to implement full socialism.
This is what the oligarchs are trying to force on the world…
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1365630031427428352
The Madness Of King Klaus.
Schwab and Gates need to be arrested and confined for the good of Humanity.
Don’t forget to add the Evil Midget Fauci to that group.
Hang em High !
He can kiss my monkey
The message to the world: “Imprisonment at home is good for the earth, good for our cities, good for you, and good for world peace.”
Hence the new ideology “ZERO COVID” – as ridiculous and unscientific as anything mankind has ever attempted (The common cold is after all a Corona Virus), and so far it’s proved rather tricky to tame. BUT we now have the totally un-trusted and discredited “experts” telling us that this is something we should aim for – shame, shame, shame on them – Doctors and scientists – my ass. So to your optomistic tone – yes given the space we will be able to claw ourselves our of their deliberately planned destruction, but I don’t see them backing off from their overall plan – which is the destruction of the self reliant, small business, middle class. I expect 3rd 4th “wave” or even a financial “shock” if necessary. Sorry, there is nothing to tell me that the “plan” is not proceeding as per schedule.
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And some other virus will rise up. They always do. We might even have an enormous large pandemic of some ordinary flu. You know… because people who would have had it one or two years ago allegedly did not catch it because masks, distancing, etc. so now so many more are susceptible. They will come up with something.
Not sure how long this will be available before it is removed.
CPAC 2021 Rush Limbaugh Tribute
Thx. That was beautiful.
So powerful.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9307203/Coronavirus-jab-help-fight-cancer-chronic-pain-Alzheimers.html
FTA “It seems ludicrous – a vaccine designed to protect against one virus can, somehow, improve other totally unrelated elements of health.
Most readers guess the jab – or infection itself – caused the immune system to leap into action and attack other, niggling health problems. And they might well be right. Scientists have documented unexpected benefits of vaccines for decades – known medically as ‘non-specific effects’.
Scientists are unsure as to the exact mechanism. Some indeed suggest vaccines can ‘train’ the immune system, strengthening it. ”
Is this the modern day version of the “traveling medicine shows” during the 1800s selling/peddling miracle cures and elixirs? Interesting how these anecdotal cures are touted by the corrupt leftist media but any anecdotal deaths from the Covid-19 vaccines with mRNA in them are ignored? I’m going to pass on these experimental vaccines. By the way whatever happened to Regeneron’s Covid monoclonal antibodies that cured President Trump and Dr. Carson? If there’s a cure who needs a vaccine? Just wondering?
You make a good point Bubby. Plus, how in the world can they already predict added benefits for other chronic diseses from a vaccine they just started using 2 months ago?
How can ‘the immune system’ attack Alzheimers? Or the other ‘niggling’ health problems like CANCER? Cancer and Alzheimers ARE deadly diseases. The Wuhan Flu has 99.5% recovery rate IF it isn’t treated at all.
If there’s a cure who needs a vaccine?
“There ain’t no money in the cure, the money is in the medicine. That’s how you get paid, on the comeback.”
– Chris Rock
Language Warning
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Are we going to be seeing a rise in all kinds of deaths come spring from cytokine storms that won’t be reported as vaccine-related?
Yes. They will be reported as Covid 19.
“Dr. Sherri Tenpenny explains how the Covid depopulation vaccines will start working in 3-6 months.”
https://www.brighteon.com/872c17bc-f125-4db6-8464-cdca06071398
IMO, anyone in President Trump’s acquaintance was given hydroxycloroquine-zinc protocol as recommended by Dr. Zelenko. Remember the dimmtard congresscritter for thanking PDJT for recommending it? Or Brazil’s President? India relied on HCQ. However, another inexpensive drug, ivermectin, is now favored by many over HCQ.
https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf
I’m not taking the vaccine.
I do have a prophylactic dose of HCQ, zinc, and vitamins on hand, even though MSM, big pharma, and a lot of government agencies have threatened doctors and pharmacists with loss of license for prescribing/dispensing it.
How much power are we going to allow the Federal Government ?
Right now the people who are willing to take the vaccine are being vaccinated and no pressure is being applied by the Federal Government. Next up will be the people who are sort of reluctant, perhaps they will acquiesce with the application of peer or media pressure.
Then come those of us who are hard core resisters – how far will we allow the Federal Government go to force an unwanted vaccine into us?
Or this: What if we manage to get our State Legislatures to put comprehensive well thought-out election rules in place that guarantee election integrity before the 2022 elections. And in response the members of Congress try to enact laws that nullify our State’s will thought-out rules. As an example they pass a law that all States must allow mail in ballots, or must only rely on electronic vote counting ?
Could the 10th Amendment help us out here?
Just saw an interview with some tourism big wig regarding the vaccine passport requirement. Here is the logic – people will only fly if they feel comfortable that everyone else has been vaccinated, and anyway what’s the big deal, many countries require inoculations etc, this will just be universal, and required – everybody’s happy. So for many by now “softened” by the propaganda, and fear, this many sound pretty reasonable. EXCEPT – they somehow “forget” to explain that since even after we have the vaccine, we can STILL carry and transmit the virus, just not as potent, and will still need to mask up, social distance etc etc, just to be safe, for the children and granny of course. The big smelly elephant in the cabin is thus – how the hell is having some “mark” on a databse going to help the rest of your sardines in the plane????
I remember – shortly before the Installation of the corrupt administration we now labor under, Secretary Azar of HHS – while still Secretary – stating that Regeneron was being offered across the Country for those aged 65 years and older.
It was also stated- I believe by Azar, that one would need to ask their doctor for it.
Maybe it’s only being used for sicker patients (and 65 years or older) due to – I think anyway – it must be administered in a hospital/hospital setting?
My wife’s cousin in his 80s was given Remdesivir and it didn’t work and he died of Covid-19 there was no Regeneron available to him.
Is This Why “New COVID Cases” Are Crashing?
The scary red numbers are all going down. Check any newspaper or covid tracking website you want. Cases. Deaths. Hospitalisations. They’re all going down, sharply, and have been for weeks, especially in the US and UK.
Further, the drop is happening simultaneously in different countries all around the world, and not every country is vaccinating at the same rate or even using the same vaccine. So no, the “vaccines” are not causing the drop.
IT’S NOT LOCKDOWN EITHER
Another suspect is the lockdown, with blaring propaganda stating that all the various government-imposed house arrests and “distancing” measures have finally had an impact.
That’s not it either.
Sweden, famously, never locked down at all. Yet their “cases” and “Covid related deaths” have been dropping exactly in parallel with the UK:
As you can see, the global decline in “Covid deaths” starts in mid-to-late January.
What else happened around that time?
Well, on January 13th the WHO published a memo regarding the problem of asymptomatic cases being discovered by PCR tests, and suggesting any asymptomatic positive tests be repeated.
This followed up their previous memo, instructing labs around the world to use lower cycle thresholds (CT values) for PCR tests, as values over 35 could produce false positives.
Essentially, in two memos the WHO ensured future testing would be less likely to produce false positives and made it much harder to be labelled an “asymptomatic case”.
In short, logic would suggest we’re not in fact seeing a “decline in Covid cases” or a “decrease in Covid deaths” at all.
What we’re seeing is a decline in perfectly healthy people being labelled “covid cases” based on a false positive from an unreliable testing process. And we’re seeing fewer people dying of pneumonia, cancer or other disease have “Covid19” added to their death certificate based on testing criteria designed to inflate the pandemic.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-new-covid-cases-are-crashing
I have been trying to tell people about the high number of false positives due to the unreliability of the PCR tests and the CT being set too high since last June. A few people listened but most just rolled their eyes at me and made snide comments about conspiracy theories….
It is an unfortunate fact of life today that most people are not interested in looking into anything beyond the headlines that they are told by the “experts” (like Fauci and Birx) that are paraded across the MSM, where no one ever asks them hard questions!!
I too had seen that way back and watched for news that the testing protocols had been changed. Of course, I never saw any such change made.
So my next question becomes, who on the President’s Covid Team had knowledge of this fact and failed to follow through on a change. I would like to see each member of the team questioned. I have doubted the CDC officials from the beginning, in spite of PDJT’s praise of them. I think they are simply part of the NWO.
If we run of the mill readers saw it, why did the illustrious names on the covid team miss it? Just as they missed the weakness in arguments dismissing HCQ and failure to assess Ivermectin.
Testing protocols changed right around the time of the 2021 inauguration, 2 things:
Changed the cycle times to 30 from up to 40 depending on the lab
Changed the definition of a positive case from one positive test to a required 2 positive tests in a short period (5 days?) AND symptoms.
More than enough changes to get the plunge we’re seeing – which was never as high as indicated in the first place. Bastards!
cycles reduced from 40 to 30 … (each cycle is a doubling of the possible dead virus)
so a test at 40 cycles is 1,000 times more sensitive than a test at 30 cycles …
dead corona rna fragments are everywhere at this point … you most likely breathe in some every single day … doesn’t mean you are infected but you could pop positive on a 40 cycle test …
I don’t have the link at the moment, but a quick search (qwant or swisscows) will get you to the WHO and/or CDC site where the new testing protocols are spelled out.
Print them out; if anyone rolls their eyes show them the actual WHO documentation. I printed out a couple copies to leave in the local coffee houses with the newspapers.
Great idea! I have saved various articles about it, including one that the New York Times actually ran last October, and have sent those to various people but printing it out and leaving it in public places might just reach a whole other group of people!
The zerohedge article that Joe links to above has links to the WHO memos that “clarify” pcr cycles and the use os pcr tests as diagnostic tools.
For those who believe WHO more than their own common sense.
I remember when I heard in the news that the PCR tests were adjusting their cycles, because they were too high and giving too many false positives — it was not long after the election. And I thought, Isn’t that interesting — they announce this and make adjustments right AFTER the elections, which means Biden will get credit for dramatically lowering covid cases… Funny how that works:
https://welovetrump.com/2021/01/21/who-admits-high-cycle-pcr-tests-responsible-for-covid-false-positives-get-ready-for-joe-biden-to-earn-credit-for-ending-pandemic/
Oh yeah! We all saw that coming but I think right now they are torn between wanting to give Joe credit for lowering the numbers but at the same time needing to keep them high enough to force everybody to get their damn vaccine!
Yes, this makes logical sense.
I will say this – in my case – and obviously I can only speak to my own – the tests did seem to be accurate. I’m tested every week – prior to that it was every two weeks – at work due to my employer is a hospital. We have been on this testing schedule for a couple months shy of a year now.
My tests were always negative, until the time I was not feeling well and tested positive. Definitely had COVID – started with a very bad headache that felt like an oncoming sinus infection.
So whoever is performing our tests seems to be working to identify actual cases and not simply to inflate “case” counts.
Great plain English explanation of PCR; what it was meant to do, what it can’t do, and why it can’t.
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/questioning-unreliable-pcr-testing-is-hardly-trivial
FTA
PCR tests detect viral fragments from nasal or throat samples using cycle thresholds (amplification). If viral fragments are found at lower thresholds (1-30), that indicates a lot of the virus is likely present because it was found quickly. But if cycle thresholds cycle beyond 30 times, it means the viral fragments are so few that they are impossible to detect. Instead, a microbial piece of dead virus or nucleotide is detected and easily mistaken for the virus fragment, as explained by Dr Fauci during an interview with This Week In Virology, July 2020. (See Fauci’s observations in Question #1 of “Dr. Katz Answers 11 COVID-19 Questions.”)
Kristi Noem, CPAC superstar
At the CPAC conference of conservative activists, quite a few stars of the GOP have come out to shine. Compared to the Democrats, conservatives have a surfeit.
One stood out yesterday, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, under whose leadership, her state came out among the best on the COVID response.
Looking like a million bucks, she spoke of freedom, constitutionality, liberty, state’s rights, fiscal discipline, and cited the facts and figures of her gubernatorial record
But perhaps the second-best part was when she compared her record to that of the Democrats’ fallen Lucifer, New York’s Gov Andrew Cuomo, who seeded nursing homes with COVID patients and ended up with the world’s second-highest death rate, a failure all around who was praised in the press and is now going down.
Better still was the last part of her speech, her personal story — a story of being dumped into the management of a ranch after the sudden death of her father in a farming accident, being overwhelmed and bewildered, and then discovering a tape in his truck of his best farming instructions, and calling it a gift from the Lord looking after her. It was beautiful. It was original. It was the kind of story people like to tell. It was far from the canned ‘personal stories’ Democrats always begin their speeches with, because it came off as very real. Noem spent her early 20s managing a huge farm ranch, developing early leadership and responsibility skills, and marking the person she’s since become.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/kristi_noem_cpac_superstar.html
Her speech was perfect and that part, she saved it for last, was the best part.
She was smiling it up at Biden’s installation. No thank you.
Maybe she was laughing at the idea of him getting elected, like most of us here.
that sort of anger is poison on your soul … you’ll start being just like liberals soon …
I would add that kind of responsibility gives one great confidence in themself. Also, physical labor teaches an essential and basic work skill that gives satisfaction for a job well done and completed.
I tell my son all the time that if he does his best at something he wont need affirmation from another person
it may be nice but he will already know his work is good
esteem through craftsmanship and effort is a missing part that was once an American standard
When I mouse-over on the thumbs up to see the names I get a pop-up that shows the “number of guests” and “view all” and thats it……no names. Sometimes it dosen’t even even give me that much = it doesn’t open.
Does anyone have a trick or is it useless?
That is all I get as well. Kudos to SD and the team for their great work getting us back on line, but I feel the “conversation” aspect of the site is greatly reduced by no notifications, and no knowledge of who thumbs up.
Maybe it just isn’t practical on this site, but hopefully it is coming as a downstream update.
aha! Thank you SO much mimbler. I really appreciate your feed back!! I don’t have to try to figure it out any longer….yay!
It must have been a monumental feat to get the transfer done and as quickly and seamlessly as they did.
Do you remember when we were with WordPress and had the awesome notification feature on the right side bar? Now that was all time g.r.e.a.t !!!!
I assume it is not available on this new set up. I loved that so much! Someone could reply to something you wrote any time anywhere and you would immediately be notified and just click on their avatar or name and bam you were right there with their comment even if it was months back. It is going to take me some time yet to get accustom to not having it losing something after 8-9 years is a bit tough.
How bout that edit button, eh! Fantastic.
Anywho even tho we have a “limited” two way communication it’s better than nothing. And I am appreciative.
Again thank you for getting back to me. 😉
I figured it was just me not knowing the ins and outs. I didn’t want to ask and look like a goober.
I suspect that is a feature to protect our identity which I personally support. After all, really who cares or should care who “likes” something. We share ideas and information in an environment that is somewhat protected from those who would suppress such discussion or seek to hurt those that hold those opinions. The team behind this works t keep the discussion civil. I have a very high regard for SD and the whole treehouse team.
As to “who cares or should care”, when I am at lunch with friends and conveying something important, I like nearly everyone in the world look at the people I am talking to and notice their reactions. It lets me know who is following, who disagrees, and who might have missed what I was saying.
If I am replying to a post, and that person agrees with what I wrote with a thumbs up, I know I successfully conveyed my info. But if I get 3 anonymous thumbs ups, I have no idea if I conveyed my idea well. So yes, it makes a big difference to those of us who enjoyed the conversational aspect of the previous site.
Exactly. Thank you, Retired.
“…really who cares or should care who “likes” something”
I will tell you. On the previous page 7-8 ppl “liked” a comment where an individual who calls himself Vito Romano told me, in bold,
“GO F*** YOURSELF”
I would like to know who these 7-8 individuals, who agreed with him, are so that I can avoid them I certainly do not want “associate” or be pleasant with such individuals.
Without knowing I am suspect of everyone. I’ll give this some thought as to how I’ll proceed. At this point I don’t think I can comfortably stay.
https://twitter.com/Denlesks/status/1366051721953247236
After Kavanaugh’s recent judicial cowardice, it would be more likely that he would have been a victim.
Like those weaklings in the old Charles Atlas ads.
There should be class actions for wrongful death filed against cuomo. He greatly exceeded any ‘crisis authority’ by imprisioning vulnerable older citizens, and forcing gthem in contact with covid-transmitting patients. There were centers set up for covid patients (eg, the javits center) that cuomo did not use. I think a jury will believe that cuomo intended to raise covid deaths to cause fear. Cuomo knew the infection results, because he removed his own mother from risk he caused.
Any curtailment of Constitutional rights (eg, imprisonment in nazi-like death camps, taking of jobs and property without due process and compensation, freedom of assembly, etc) requires the minimal interference necessary. It was not necessary to imprison vulnerable people with covid-infected patients to reduce the spread/risk of the corona virus to that of an ordinary flu season (which is not a Constitution-negating threat).
So, why has there been no class action suit against cuomo for wrongful death and denial of constitutional rights under color of law?
coumo is going down in infamy. IIRC, WhiteBoard on this site supports a march on DC against deaths caused by coumo, but not a class action against coumo and the state of New York that would produce discovery, and likely jury award.
Dear Big Tech: Freedom Will Triumph in the End
Even in the face of mass censorship, we cannot lose hope.
Socrates ran afoul of Athenian democracy, such as it was, and paid for it with his life. His student and admirer Plato learned the lesson and was more politically prudent. He did not lack greatness for that, nor did he repudiate Socrates’ method and message. Rather, through his efforts, we have a vivid and compelling picture of the man and what he stood for, both of which continue to inspire. Only a few classical scholars know the names of those who persecuted Socrates; even fewer are influenced by those persecutors’ thoughts.
When Thomas Jefferson and John Adams declared that all human beings have unalienable rights coming from Nature and Nature’s God, that did not mean that those rights would be immediately and easily recognized by those holding power. By the time independence was declared, the war for independence had already begun. King George and Lord North did not just have an “Aha!” moment and wish the rebels well. The Founders knew they were in for a difficult struggle.
But what technology gives, technology can take away. When those who control the electronic public spaces came to an agreement that their cyber baby had been used by those they didn’t want to win a presidential election, they decided that freedom was secondary to achieving the political results they desired. Thus began a process of ever-increasing control of the new platform for public discourse, which has resulted in massive expulsions from today’s public square and vigorous further efforts to make sure that unapproved political choices no longer exist to be debated. They intend that the approved position win by default.
It is not because of technology that the cause of freedom will triumph. Technology does not supply any guiding morality to its power, and it lends its might to tyrants as easily as to lovers of freedom.
Freedom’s source of strength is rather in the soul. Those who are alive to their own true identity will recognize freedom in the end and devote themselves to its cause.
Our real defiance is not of other people. We have the deepest faith in the power of truth to overcome every suppression and that our message will find a way, however long and difficult, to triumph. Our strategic target is the heart, mind, and soul of our fellow countrymen. Let us devote every effort of our lives to bringing our message where it needs to go.
https://spectator.org/big-tech-censorship-freedom/?utm_source=LibertyNation
Thank you Joe.
hahaha……
FAUCI IN HOT WATER
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LRoSWHzNsj85/
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I can’t stand headlines like this. The little old fart has been feted in all the major media and on top of his #1 salary in the federal gov’t, was just awarded a million dollars. And still I stupidly clicked, in the hopes that some DA had opened an investigation of him or there actually was some kind of “hot water”.
It would be an interesting survey with the question: “Do you think Dr. Fauci is a snake-oil salesman?”
Maybe this get some traction……….wait and see I guess.
“Fire Fauci was trending on twitter”
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain is under fire today after she called for President Biden to remove Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Now, many viewers are calling for McCain to be replaced on the show. She is angry that the leading infectious disease expert said Americans need to continue taking precautions after being vaccinated.
She doubled down on her remarks, saying “I represent the feelings of many Americans.”
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Whoopi Goldberg Shuts Down ‘The View’ After Meghan McCain Argues Biden Should “Remove” Dr. Fauci
Feb 22, 2021
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On Monday morning, The View‘s longtime moderator refused to interact with Meghan McCain, who insisted that the Biden administration should remove Dr. Anthony Fauci and replace him with someone who “understands science.”
Rather than engage with McCain’s budding rant, Goldberg threw the show to commercial, interrupting her co-host mid-sentence. That’s one way to prevent a meltdown.
After Joy Behar pinned the bulk of the blame for the U.S.’ poor COVID-19 response on former President Trump, McCain insisted that the Biden administration must take steps to alleviate Americans’ frustration with the “inconsistent messaging” regarding the virus. “
https://decider.com/2021/02/22/whoopi-shuts-down-the-view-meghan-fauci/
But of course….that’s a no thinker. Advertisers have been paying mega bucks for air time for ages there’s a reason for that.
Silly ppl don’t use their critical thinking at times.
Glad you posted it rondo. thx. 😎
Nothing shows the hypocrisy of the Left/Demo Commies like this latest story about Killer Cuomo.
They don’t care that the heartless sociopath killed over 10,000 innocent old people. But all hell will rain down on him because he made passes at some of the women on his staff.
Murder- not important.
Alleged sexual improprieties – a capital offense. No punishment too great.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9309401/Biden-wants-Cuomo-probe-Jen-Psaki-says-president-supports-review-sexual-assault-claims.html
Yup – Perfect encapsulation of what is, and is not, Important to “Them”.
Anyone with half a brain should easily be able to see this – but many will choose not to.
EXPLOSIVE UPDATE!
Top WHO Official Caught on Video in December 2019
Revealing Coronavirus Manipulation at Wuhan Lab Before Pandemic (VIDEO)
For nearly a year now The Gateway Pundit has been reporting evidence that the COVID-19 Virus originated in a Wuhan, China laboratory. Our first report was back on April 9, 2020 when we confirmed Dr. Shi Zhengli ran the coronavirus program at the Wuhan lab AFTER her program was shut down in the US due to…
At 29:52 mark of the video the WHO official says, “coronaviruses are pretty good… you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily… the spiked proteins drive a lot about what happens. You can get the sequence you can build the protein, we work with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this, insert into the backbone of another virus and do some work in a lab.”
This is an explosive development.
Via Taiwan News:
https://youtu.be/IdYDL_RK–w
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/huge-update-top-official-caught-video-december-2019-revealing-coronavirus-manipulation-wuhan-lab-pandemic-video/
I am wondering if this newest “round” was manipulated to include the loss of taste and smell? That was one of the “warning signs” that we were told about last summer and now suddenly, I know a LOT Of people who have gotten hit with some type of “Coronavirus” and that is one of the main complaints they have. It seems to last for anywhere from two weeks to two months and I know a few people who still don’t have back after three months. It just feels like we are all guinea pigs, doesn’t it?
Yes it does, and it’s been a long time coming. Learning how to boost our immune systems so that our immunity fights it off easily, and completely is key.
We eat so much junk food. Our immune systems are constantly under attack by chemicals and poisons, including all the hand sanitizers we are forced to use. Horrible. Masks, Drl Judy Mikovitz says, will show up as cancer in a few short years. Masks have impeded our expiration of toxins from our bodies.
I thought Andrew Cuomo’s #metoo moment deserved the Shakespeare treatment, and it also permitted me to excerpt the under-appreciated poem, The Rape of Lucrece. That poem and Venus & Adonis launched his career, and he remained more famous for those poems than for his plays, since the theater was considered a bit low class at the time..
So here’s a mashup of the @metoo Cuomo news and excerpts from Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece. The parallels are all too clear: https://abardseyeview.com/for-light-and-lust-are-deadly-enemies-governor-cuomo-and-shakespeares-rape-of-lucrece/
perhaps why shakespeare has now been banned from universities?
Folks, its taken me a bit, but after a couple months of thinking, I fully endorse Sundance’s statement that we need a third party. I wish my endorsement meant more but such as it is, I say it loud.
Crazy Nancy angling for a Whitewash… (oops… is that racist?)
“Democrats don’t trust GOP on 1/6 commission: ‘These people are dangerous'”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/540779-democrats-dont-trust-gop-on-1-6-commission-these-people-are-dangerous
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said her proposal to install a Democratic majority on the investigative Jan. 6 commission is rooted in historic precedent and the simple prerogatives of sitting presidents.
Then it goes on to say how all the members of the Clown Party “don’t feel comfortable” in the presence of those who are not members of the Clown Party. I guess when you’re a Clown, you gotta stick together with your fellow Clowns. Safety in numbers and all that.
First it was “9/11-Style Commission”. Then she figured out that everybody knows what she knew ahead of The Day That Shall Live In Infamy… Sorta. So now it’s “prerogatives of sitting presidents”.
Ummmm…. WHAT?!?!?
We need some very loud voices to challenge their insanity. This is a very dangerous situation. It’s bad enough being cancelled, voices suppressed, career ruined. If there is no push back, the Democommunists will become further emboldened, fines, imprisonment, and yes, physical punishment up to and including death.
On the plus side… a totally partisan “commission” will have not only dubious legitimacy, but negative eleventy bajillion legitimacy. They couldn’t even fake legitimacy without at least partisan makeup, if not going outside the government altogether… which itself would still require non-partisan makeup, not to mention weeding out Never Trumpers.
Translation: you can throw whatever “commission” they come up with on the stack of failed, phony recent endeavors… phony impeachments (multiple), phony “whistleblowers”, phony Special Counsel investigations, etc. etc.
not even gangster nancy trusts the Trump-hating GOPe congresscritters to attack the innocent MAGA DC rally attendees
She’s covering up her crime. Means, motive, and opportunity. Check, check, and check.
When Pol Pot took over Cambodia one of the first things he did was persecute all the educated people. Look how that turned out. Lessons of history, actual history no longer being taught in our corrupted “education” system.
That old saying:
Keep ‘em dumb & keep ‘em democrat”
…didn’t get to be an old saying for nothing.
Pol Pot was not the first homicidal / genocidal maniac to run that well-worn play.
if anyone in cambodia wore glasses, it meant they could likely read, so needed to be killed
I used to do laps in the pool where they threw the bodies of the executed cabinet ministers when the KR took Phnom Penh. Gave me something to think about.
I hope they cleaned out the pool BEFORE you began your laps!!!
I have been there myself elected years ago as union president a factory worker on the floor myself, only to be removed in a short time from small minor issues infated etc to the protest of the workers!! In the 2020 election Crooked joe had lowest votes for counties only 17% and never got black support like President Trump. Yet Alzheimer Biden got avalanche of black voters in states neede to get the electoral votes . In rest of country he did not get this his vote count relly small. I recall Trump saying before midnight that Biden was so far behind etc then it was shut down and all these votes strted like crazy to go Bidens way. Even witnessed on television reversal of votes then Trump losing previous vote amounts But they say no fraud happened along with useless Supreme Court refusing to examine logs of voting machines Then allowing for further fraud to occurr. All this with now an illegitimate thief president who is unfit to hold office and be better positioned in a nursing home before he causes major recession!!!!
Alexandra Henrion-Caude’s cry of alarm must be heard at all costs. During our long phone conversation, she tried to explain to me what worries her so much about the accelerated vaccination campaign in Israel, and how it might affect the entire Israeli people and their future generations.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.tribunejuive.info/2021/02/25/yves-lusson-vaccination-en-israel-la-geneticienne-alexandra-henrion-caude-nous-confie-ses-inquietudes/&prev=search&pto=aue
I have no medical background other than a lifelong curiosity about how the human body works and a serious skepticism of any “magic bullets.”
I wish there was a single, lay person friendly site to go to that would provide straight information and not play vaccination cheerleader or doomsday ” they are trying to kill humanity” naysayer.
Lacking that, what I have found from the most rational sources I’ve come across is that the new mRNA technology MAY prove to be a significant game changer in cancer treatment or other diseases with significant fatality rates.
For Covid 19, which to the most at risk population has a survival rate of more than 95% (give or take a percent from numbers I’ve seen), mass inoculation of people with a truly experimental “vaccine” whose long term safety profile is completely unknown and whose long term genetic consequences are also unknown is mind boggling.
There is also very little information I would trust on who should NOT take the mRNA vaccines.
What about:
autoimmune diseases
people taking medications that supres the immune response
people with known allergies to other medications
For those who truly fear the consequences of contracting the virus for their own personal reasons, I’m glad an experimental vaccine has been made available.
But shame on our leadership and media for creating such an atmosphere of fear that healthy people at minimal risk feel they need to be part of a global science experiment to protect themselves and their loved ones from this virus.
I am trying to figure out it the Johnson and Johnson one is better.?
I read the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a traditional vaccine, like all vaccines we have had in the past decades…. need only one dose/shot.. …..nothing like the Pfizer and Moderna where the vaccine uses mRNA.
While having coffee with the missus and discussing the evil foisted upon America…specifically discussing Dr. Rachel Levine….a pediatrician no less, and her/his take on puberty blockers and sexual surgery for children at her/his confirmation hearings in the senate, I would like to paraphrase a dude we all know…”The Democrats need to be crushed once and for all, so that they never rise up again” David Plouffe. I might of mixed up his original meaning with the word substitution, eh?….but that is what we need to to do.
CPAC SUNDAY: Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue Declares Trump the “Legitimate and Still Actual President” (VIDEO)
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CPAC SUNDAY: Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue Declares Trump the “Legitimate and Still Actual President” (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/cpac-sunday-goya-foods-ceo-robert-unanue-declares-trump-legitimate-still-actual-president-video/
We gonna keep buying goya then.
Ack, liked the image I posted, but it broke the board.
What Time Is Donald Trump Speaking Today at CPAC: How To Watch and Livestream
Feb 28, 2021 at 10:20am
https://decider.com/2021/02/28/what-time-is-donald-trump-speaking-today-at-cpac-today/?utm_source=DeciderTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow
This is pretty cool.
https://live.conservative.org/
And THIS is very cool>>>>>
What is Conservatism?Conservatism is the political philosophy that sovereignty resides in the person.
We believe that the Constitution of the United States is the best political charter yet created by men for governing themselves.
It is our belief that the Constitution is designed to guarantee the free exercise of the inherent rights of the individual through strictly limiting the power of government.
Read From Our Founding Charter
https://www.conservative.org/about
President Trump is active on Gab endorsing candidates
https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump
For those in Rio Linda; Address the 2020 fraudulent election now, Trump is President now. Don’t address the 2020 fraudulent election, Trump will not be President 2024.
It doesn’t matter how many new Political Parties started, how many new Trumpers, how many bad people thrown out or how many masks we wear. Unless election fraud is eliminated we will remain a Communist-style dictatorship.
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1366067900654751744
How very convenient for Andy that he gets to select his own person to investigate himself. Nyers take note of your criminal, immoral Gov. doing what he does best, controlling the agenda. Look at her credentials. Andy has this in the bag, lol.
Children, children, children…. c’mon stop it. Good grief——don’t be a follower….think for yourselves.
Don’t be defensive. Start questioning them over their need to silence others opinions. Question them why they are afraid of transparent reviews of irregularities.
That boycott thingy did not work last time. ?
Daniel F. Baranowski
@DanHarvard
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This is awesome news! These Soros installed State & City AGs must go! They’re not serving law abiding people & they’re certainly not serving Justice!
Crime is up in every location they’ve been planted by Soros!
America is NOT FOR SALE!
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/02/28/recall-begins-for-soros-backed-los-angeles-d-a-george-gascon/
When criminals vote they don’t vote for the law and order candidate!
This one with Biden is too good not to share but it is kind of scary how videos can be manipulated these days. Sorry, it is a tweet.
That’s funny, the future of AI will completely change the very understanding of ‘what is the truth’.
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Wow, Rich, straight and to the point! Thanks!
Ok, that’s funny.
https://www.thesportster.com/basketball/15-nba-players-who-went-broke-almost-immediately-after-retiring
“About 60 percent of NBA players file bankruptcy within five years of retirement after making more money in 1 year than most people make in a lifetime.”
New Equipment
Sidney Powell LIVE: “There Is More than Enough Evidence in the Public Now to More than Reverse the Election in at Least 5 States” (VIDEO)
https://rumble.com/embed/vbjz7l/?pub=4
Link to Article
You’ve seen this before, but we need to keep it front and center. The forensic analysis of the
voting machinescheating machines in Antrim County, Michigan.Yes – where the analysts actually got to investigate when they won in court.
https://www.deepcapture.com/2020/12/antrim-county-computer-forensic-report/
Trump is going to be on Steve Hilton in a few minutes!