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The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE -- By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
-- By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
-- By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC's *own data*
2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter's secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform's rules to accommodate their own political desires. 3. What we have yet to cover is Covid. This reporting, for The Free Press, @thefp, is one piece of that important story. 4. The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19. 5. Internal files at Twitter that I viewed while on assignment for @thefp showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform's pandemic content according to their wishes. 6. At the onset of the pandemic, according to meeting notes, the Trump admin was especially concerned about panic buying. They came looking for "help from the tech companies to combat misinformation" about "runs on grocery stores." But . . . there were runs on grocery stores.
7. It wasn't just Twitter. The meetings with the Trump White House were also attended by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others. 8. When the Biden admin took over, one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on "anti-vaxxer accounts." Especially Alex Berenson[.] 9. In the summer of 2021, president Biden said social media companies were "killing people" for allowing vaccine misinformation. Berenson was suspended hours after Biden's comments, and kicked off the platform the following month.
10. Berenson sued (and then settled with) Twitter. In the legal process Twitter was compelled to release certain internal communications, which showed direct White House pressure on the company to take action on Berenson.
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
https://t.co/CHt0s7ZqfQ pic.twitter.com/dFgRmyRB3z
11. A December 2022 summary of meetings with the White House by Lauren Culbertson, Twitter's Head of U.S. Public Policy, adds new evidence of the White House's pressure campaign, and cements that it repeatedly attempted to directly influence the platform. 12. Culbertson wrote that the Biden team was "very angry" that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts. They wanted Twitter to do more. 13. Twitter executives did not fully capitulate to the Biden team's wishes. An extensive review of internal communications at the company revealed employees often debating moderation cases in great detail, and with more care than was shown by the government toward free speech. 14. But Twitter did suppress views--many from doctors and scientific experts--that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.There's an expanded report about this at The Free Press. This expanded bit on AI demonstrates that AI is just built up from human stupidity. When they claim "The Algorithm" made something happen, they're trying to evade responsibility -- they program "The Algorithm," and they program their AI to search for what they consider disinformation. I'll quote the expanded article instead of the Twitter files for this section:
But Twitter did suppress views--and not just those of journalists like Berenson. Many medical and public health professionals who expressed perspectives or even cited findings from accredited academic journals that conflicted with official positions were also targeted. As a result, legitimate findings and questions about our Covid policies and their consequences went missing. There were three serious problems with Twitter's process. First: Much of the content moderation on Covid, to say nothing of other contentious subjects, was conducted by bots trained on machine learning and AI. I spent hours discussing the systems with an engineer and with an executive who had been at the company for more than a year before Musk's takeover. They explained the process in basic terms: Initially, the bots were fed information to train them on what to look for--but their searches would become more refined over time both as they scanned the platform and as they were manually updated with additional chosen inputs. At least that was the premise. Though impressive in their engineering, the bots would prove too crude for such nuanced work. When you drag a digital trawler across a social media platform, you're not just catching cheap fish, you're going to snag dolphins along the way. Second: Contractors operating in places like the Philippines were also moderating content. They were given decision trees to aid in their process, but tasking non-experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate. The notion that remote workers, sitting in distant cube farms, were going to police medical information to this granular degree is absurd on its face. Embedded below is an example template--deactivated after Musk's arrival--of the decision tree tool that contractors used. The contractor would run through a series of questions, each with a drop down menu, ultimately guiding them to a predetermined conclusion.
Back to the Twitter files.
Third: Most importantly, the buck stopped with higher level employees at Twitter. They chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees. They determined suspensions. And as is the case with all people and institutions, there was both individual and collective bias. At Twitter, Covid-related bias bent heavily toward establishment dogmas. Inevitably, dissident yet legitimate content was labeled as misinformation, and the accounts of doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.
21. Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.” pic.twitter.com/lq9QOP8h27
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
23. After Twitter took action, Kulldorff’s tweet was slapped with a “Misleading” label and all replies and likes were shut off, throttling the tweet’s ability to be seen and shared by many people, the ostensible core function of the platform: pic.twitter.com/Qa1HpaEray
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
25. A tweet by @KelleyKga, a self-proclaimed public health fact checker, with 18K followers, was flagged as “Misleading,” and replies and likes disabled, even though it displayed the CDC’s *own data.* pic.twitter.com/8ABQzYGpXf
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
26. Internal records showed that a bot had flagged the tweet, and that it received many "tattles" (what the system amusingly called reports from users). That triggered a manual review by a human who-- despite the tweet showing actual CDC data--nevertheless labeled it "Misleading" 27. Tellingly, the tweet by @KelleyKga that was labeled "Misleading" was a reply to a tweet that contained actual misinformation. Covid has never been the leading cause of death from disease in children. Yet that tweet remains on the platform, and without a "misleading" label.
29. Andrew Bostom, a Rhode Island physician, was permanently suspended from Twitter after receiving multiple strikes for misinformation. One of his strikes was for a tweet referring to the results from a peer reviewed study on mRNA vaccines. pic.twitter.com/Q65KlRwrqs
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
30. A review of Twitter log files revealed that an internal audit, conducted after Bostom's attorney contacted Twitter, found that only 1 of Bostom's 5 violations were valid. 31. The one Bostom tweet found to still be in violation cited data that was legitimate but inconvenient to the public health establishment's narrative about the risks of flu versus Covid in children. 32. That this tweet was not only flagged by a bot, but its violation manually affirmed by a staff member is telling of both the algorithmic and human bias at play. Bostom's account was suspended for months and was finally restored on Christmas Day.
This is amazing: Trump saying "Don't be afraid" was claimed to be a "covid misinformation" violation by... disgraced FBI Russiagate conspirator and then-Twitter head counsel James Baker.
34. In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy. pic.twitter.com/SxvOKcvaT7
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
35. Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of Trust & Safety, had to explain that optimism wasn't misinformation. 36. Remember @KelleyKga with the CDC data tweet? Twitter's response to her is clarifying: "we will prioritize review and labeling of content that could lead to increased exposure or transmission." 37. Twitter made a decision, via the political leanings of senior staff, and govt pressure, that the public health authorities' approach to the pandemic -- prioritizing mitigation over other concerns -- was "The Science" . . . 38. Information that challenged that view, such as showing harms of vaccines, or that could be perceived as downplaying the risks of Covid, especially to children, was subject to moderation, and even suppression. No matter whether such views were correct or adopted abroad. 39. What might this pandemic and its aftermath have looked like if there had been a more open debate on Twitter and other social media platforms--not to mention the mainstream press--about the origins of Covid, about lockdowns, about the true risks of Covid in kids, and much more? 40. Thanks to @ShellenbergerMD, @lwoodhouse, @lhfang and the team @thefp for their help reporting this story.
Twitter didn't just "rig" the Covid "debate," as this Twitter Files claim. As Jay Bhattacharya explains below, they ended 90% of all public debate and hid what little debate had occurred so that the public was never even aware that top scientists, with far more credibility and training that Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, disputed their claims. And by stopping/hiding that debate, Twitter (and all other social media monopolies) permitted true misinformation-- Fauci and Collins misinformation -- to affect the public and as a result, people died.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2022 12:02 PM (CsVWE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2022 12:04 PM (CsVWE)
Posted by: Orson at December 26, 2022 12:04 PM (fQW3j)
Someone knows more than Fauci, the science god? Laughable. Risible, even.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 12:04 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: JT at December 26, 2022 12:04 PM (T4tVD)
Local story
Asked and answered
Old news
Debunked
Right-wing conspiracy obsession
Focused on the needs of hard-working Americans
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:05 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2022 12:05 PM (0fVbu)
Now shut the fuck up and eat your bugs.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:05 PM (aFKim)
Let a thousand flowers bloom, so long as they lean Left.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 26, 2022 12:06 PM (SJsWC)
The Comments, however...
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:06 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Mayor Pete! at December 26, 2022 12:06 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Infidel at December 26, 2022 12:07 PM (ZEa+g)
Pol Pot got some things right.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:07 PM (aFKim)
I don't know about you, but I'm increasingly enthusiastic about driverless cars. They'll all stay in the left lane.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 12:07 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2022 12:07 PM (IOu4z)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:07 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 26, 2022 12:07 PM (im7mX)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 12:08 PM (fs1hN)
To repeat, "...and other social media platforms..."
Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2022 12:08 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:08 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 12:08 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 12:08 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at December 26, 2022 12:09 PM (3Or4S)
But, Putin.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:09 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:09 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2022 12:09 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:09 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Flat Earthers at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (DhOHl)
-- Low-info Lefty twitterer demanding citation for anything that challenges the covid narrative
Ah, you remove anything they could be linked to then the Science(tm) is Settled!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (im7mX)
Then more recently, I forget exactly what it was, but he was blasting Musk for something related to all this nonsense.
I'm not saying the guy is part of the opposition, but the guy is part of the opposition.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 12:08 PM (nfrXX)
On twitter anyway, I see more Brits, Spaniards, and Italians angry about this than Americans
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (/Z2qP)
Posted by: The Flu at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (DhOHl)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (Z9LVO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (bs+z0)
Robert Barnes is convinced that he's a CIA operative. I'm not gonna argue with Branes on that one.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (aFKim)
They don't fear being watched the way we do.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (SJsWC)
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Phrenologists at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (4IClK)
____
I wonder if they have a criteria on what constitutes a "vax denier". Didn't get the 8th booster? Expressing concern that their otherwise healthy friend keeled over within a week of receiving the booster may be related?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (fs1hN)
I'm not saying the guy is part of the opposition, but the guy is part of the opposition.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (QBaJw)
other than covid he is a flaming liberal
Posted by: It's me donna at December 26, 2022 12:13 PM (bs+z0)
Maybe it's better this way. The veil has been lifted.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 26, 2022 12:13 PM (Xrfse)
"Yawn, been there, done that."
-- Obama Administration
Remember "Attack Watch?" That was one of 3 different citizen-reporting programs Obama created, IIRC.
https://tinyurl.com/4st9t278
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:13 PM (im7mX)
Baker was NEVER off the FBI payroll. ALL of these 'ex' Feds are working both sides of the street.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:14 PM (aFKim)
Toldya.
Posted by: Flat Earthers at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (DhOHl)
+1
Posted by: Phrenologists at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (4I/2K)
__________
Vindicated at last.
Posted by: Geocentrists at December 26, 2022 12:14 PM (MoZTd)
They don't fear being watched the way we do.
They don't fear being watched the way we do.
Posted by: Ignoramus
The Brits? That's unlikely.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 12:14 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (aFKim)
One would assume he has a list of everyone who donated to his "legal defense."
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (3Or4S)
____
We're under constant surveillance. Except for this one b&b in the prole sector.
Posted by: Winston Smith at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:11 PM (aFKim)
I never regarded Berenson as a plant or as controlled opposition. However, for someone who had been very critical of The Narrative up to that point, he was oddly dismissive of the election fraud evidence in '20-'21. Not saying that disqualifies his other stuff, but it is eyebrow-raising.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: The Grassy Knoll at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (DhOHl)
Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (SJsWC
I felt watched last evening. I am hardly a big twitter player and I usually delete all my followers. Last night I posted a comment on a nearly 2 year old thread about the Nashville explosion. In less than 5 minutes I had well over 500 views and a wave of new followers, most of them using Chinese characters and the rest with military pictures, largely navy uniforms. THere is no such thing as a "dead thread" on twitter
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (Zzbjj)
____
We're under constant surveillance. Except for this one b&b in the prole sector.
Understood, but the Brits are even worse.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 12:16 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: banana Dream
I had some amazing schwanza last night.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2022 12:16 PM (Wy1BU)
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:09 PM (Zzbjj)
Given Americans turned in neighbors for suspicion of having too many people in the house, Queensland may have just mimicking the totalitarianism up here.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:16 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:17 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2022 12:17 PM (4IClK)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:18 PM (im7mX)
Ugh, that's a little cynical for the day after Christmas.
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 26, 2022 12:18 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (QBaJw)
other than covid he is a flaming liberal
Posted by: It's me donna at December 26, 2022 12:13 PM (bs+z0)
I don't have a problem with liberals. They want things to be better, just not necessarily the things I want to be better.
It's leftists I can't abide.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:18 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 26, 2022 12:18 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Harry Reid's desiccated soul at the right hand of Satan at December 26, 2022 12:19 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 26, 2022 12:19 PM (MkuC5)
Agreed. They've done a marvelous job of stifling dissent. Disagreement yields incarceration.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 26, 2022 12:19 PM (Xrfse)
Woke Las Vegas bail fund backed by Richard Branson, John Legend and Danny Glover closes after being sued for freeing serial criminal who tried to murder Asian waiter six days later
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:19 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 26, 2022 12:18 PM (ftFVW)
And so close to Pride Month. And George Floyd's funeral.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (QBaJw)
And if you let your kids get stuck, you're dead to me.
Posted by: trev006 at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (igJSL)
Then more recently, I forget exactly what it was, but he was blasting Musk for something related to all this nonsense.
I'm not saying the guy is part of the opposition, but the guy is part of the opposition.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (QBaJw)
He's ... complex. Former NYTimes reporter and anti-marijuana crusader, but he quit to write spy fiction (disclosure: I enjoyed his John Wells books and thought they were well-written) and has been anti-vax since COVID hit.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (SJsWC
I felt watched last evening. I am hardly a big twitter player and I usually delete all my followers. Last night I posted a comment on a nearly 2 year old thread about the Nashville explosion. In less than 5 minutes I had well over 500 views and a wave of new followers, most of them using Chinese characters and the rest with military pictures, largely navy uniforms. THere is no such thing as a "dead thread" on twitter
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (Zzbjj)
The problem is you cannot tell if that was the Chinese communists or the totalitarians here trying to make you look like you are in league with the former.
It can't be emphasized enough: social media is more than a cancer. It is dangerous. Get off.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty
this is almost as catchy as 'Zimmerman Flew, and Tyler Knew. Turk182'
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:19 PM (MoZTd)
Those three should be left penniless
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (Zzbjj)
Idjits.
Posted by: Surrounded by sheep at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (DhOHl)
It's leftists I can't abide.
In reality, what's the distinction? Politically, they lie in the same bed.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 26, 2022 12:21 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: banana Dream
I had some amazing schwanza last night.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2022 12:16 PM (Wy1BU)
BIGLY
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:18 PM (im7mX)
Ooooh my!
Posted by: George Takai at December 26, 2022 12:21 PM (0fVbu)
Turns out it was "The Emperor Has No Clothes."
Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 12:22 PM (5FPX4)
____
We're under constant surveillance. Except for this one b&b in the prole sector.
Understood, but the Brits are even worse.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 12:16 PM (eOEVl)
____
I was going with the Orwell reference with the sock. Ah well, I should get back to my day job.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 12:22 PM (fs1hN)
@AuromMacintyre
Levels of dystopian propaganda so evil it would make the politburo blush
This is like a cartoon that a califate would run about western degeneracy to increase recruitment but they don't have to because it's just the average everyday announcement from the US government
https://tinyurl.com/25ez485w
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:23 PM (im7mX)
the public was never even aware that top scientists, with far more credibility and training that Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, disputed their claims.
But could they play the guitar and sing stupid songs like Collins?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 12:23 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 26, 2022 12:23 PM (DhOHl)
It's leftists I can't abide.
In reality, what's the distinction? Politically, they lie in the same bed.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 26, 2022 12:21 PM (Xrfse)
Both are unhinged religious fanatics. The liberals just aren't as prone to murder and mayhem unless whipped up into a frenzy. Leftists are always ready to go there.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:24 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: "Admiral" "Rachel" Levine! at December 26, 2022 12:24 PM (KCOCK)
BUT the DC Cartel/Junta won't ask forgiveness, they will threaten any that expose their criminal/treasonous regime. The Junta will continue to run their color revolution, and terrorize the good people that rise up against their tyranny.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 26, 2022 12:24 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:20 PM (KSNKu)
IMO the Chinese communists and our totalitarians are working in concert. My main question was why, after 2 years, is Nashville such a sensitive topic for the powers that be. Interestingly, the post I left a comment on suggested that the three letter guys are responsible for the explosion (the had a video showing that the explosion was on the opposite side of the street, not in the RV) and that we're being lied to about Nashville and Vegas
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:24 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Thesokorus at December 26, 2022 12:25 PM (1ais2)
Are bots being used NOT for reducing the work to monitor tweets but instead to give these people deniability for their censorship?
It wasn't US that banned you it was our ALGORITHM. It just happened automatically.
Taking this to another level: King Leftist (or whoever TF runs the uni-party) says it wasn't US censoring you, it was Twitter. I guess Twitter and their algorithms just don't like you.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 12:25 PM (roH4R)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 26, 2022 12:25 PM (kFrCu)
LOL nah, by this time next year we'll be living in windmill powered concentration camps
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:25 PM (VTu1l)
We're a banana republic, and if people don't realize that by now, I don't know what to say.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 26, 2022 12:25 PM (d2bW3)
Crowder got banned from YT (in mid-2021?) for his co-host Gerald quoting the CDC website on Kung Flu transmissions in children. The CDC changed the website immediately afterwards, but I wonder if the CDC did that after Crowder got banned or as proof shown to YT to get him banned. Either way, the whole thing was shady and unethical.
Posted by: pookysgirl remembers more than the gov't wants her to at December 26, 2022 12:25 PM (XKZwp)
Thumb drive - > PackMan Code - > Insert drive into tally machine.
DON'T CHEAT, NULLIFY
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (jmn+9)
Posted by: banana Dream
I had some amazing schwanza last night.
Posted by: Madamemayhem
If it was like at my house - that's about 7 minutes worth.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (qoGsy)
She had a C19 booster the day before.
We had a (small) argument over her getting a booster. I have declined any others.
She is now red pilled on the subject.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (jTmQV)
Controlled Opposition has entered the Chat.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Head puddi at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (7gP12)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat
Truth. ^
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (d2bW3)
If only we could put those responsible in windmill powered electric chairs. "Intermittent" electrocution. Heh.
Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 12:27 PM (5FPX4)
Turns out it was "The Emperor Has No Clothes."
Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 12:22 PM (5FPX4)
Call me when "The King, the Mice, and the Cheese" becomes the new reality.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 12:27 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 26, 2022 12:27 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Flat Earthers at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (DhOHl)
+1
Posted by: Phrenologists at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (4I/2K)
__________
Vindicated at last.
Posted by: Geocentrists at December 26, 2022 12:14 PM
You aren't real.
Posted by: solipsist at December 26, 2022 12:27 PM (dTFZY)
Toldya.
Posted by: Flat Earthers at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (DhOHl)
+1
Posted by: Phrenologists at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (4I/2K)
__________
Vindicated at last.
Posted by: Geocentrists
I dunno, you conspiracy theorists frighten me. Like that rumor about evil lizard men living at the center of the Earth, just biding their time until they can burst forth and conquer the world. Total nonsense, but a surprising number of people believe that drivel.
Posted by: Totally not The Vril at December 26, 2022 12:27 PM (n+4am)
This is a law enforcement issue. Not saying it will be easy. But it has been done and can be done.
"Facts are stubborn things."
Posted by: Thesokorus at December 26, 2022 12:28 PM (1ais2)
Posted by: Lizzy
Hahahaha, it thinks there is still a high degree of trust for doctors. Um, not so much. I'm more suspicious of healthcare workers than ever. It used to just be the default to medicate that I assumed was driven by pharma, now they're obviously an arm of big gov.
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 26, 2022 12:28 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 26, 2022 12:29 PM (Xrfse)
Controlled Opposition has entered the Chat.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (aFKim)
Thanks man.
Posted by: Thesokorus at December 26, 2022 12:29 PM (1ais2)
how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate
This is David Zweig's longer-form version of the twitter entries.
Posted by: m at December 26, 2022 12:29 PM (1vmZ4)
She had a C19 booster the day before.
We had a (small) argument over her getting a booster. I have declined any others.
She is now red pilled on the subject.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM
Terrifying. Thank God you were there to save her. Bless you both.
Posted by: solipsist at December 26, 2022 12:30 PM (dTFZY)
Posted by: CN
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Concert in as much as Concert Master conducting the players.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 26, 2022 12:30 PM (jmn+9)
I hope I still have a job after that
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:30 PM (VTu1l)
One. That was funny.
Two. Your handle isn't one I recognize at all.
Otherwise there would have been some wink and/or nod involved in landing of said joke.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:30 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 26, 2022 12:31 PM (FoiGh)
*******
What in the actual fuck O___O
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:31 PM (VTu1l)
And that background selection -- wtf is that? People surrounding an alter? The whole thing is dystopian and weird AF.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:31 PM (im7mX)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (d2bW3)
Whether we like it or not, AoS is social media too. We laugh about Bob from NSA, but we're being monitored here, too, and have been for a while.
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:32 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: gourmand du jour
Holy crap -- how absolutely frightening
Hope she's OK for the long term.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:33 PM (im7mX)
It's cute!
Posted by: Dancing TikTok Nurses at December 26, 2022 12:33 PM (Xrfse)
One. That was funny.
Two. Your handle isn't one I recognize at all.
Otherwise there would have been some wink and/or nod involved in landing of said joke.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:30 PM (aFKim)
I am low volume poster. My politics are idiosyncratic and insane.
Posted by: Thesokorus at December 26, 2022 12:33 PM (1ais2)
Cross-country skiing “is the whitest and least diverse sport I have ever been part of,” says POC Nordic co-founder Nazanin Ghoddousi, who started skiing four years ago. “That was getting really discouraging for me. With 2020, people had time to access the outdoors like never before, but it’s also feeling comfortable and safe being a woman, then being a queer person, then being a person of color.”
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Jäger, an alternative high school teacher who is part of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, also says she strives to bring more Indigenous people to the mountains.
“I had to take out some of that colonizer mindset and remember who this area is for: We are on stolen Indigenous land. Why aren’t there more people of color in these places? How do we take a sport that’s been so inaccessible and uninviting and make it more accessible?”
Posted by: The Struggle Is Neverending! at December 26, 2022 12:33 PM (KCOCK)
Good Lord! Glad she's ok.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2022 12:35 PM (2h0ek)
No, really.
Ok, not really shocked or saddened.
What have they not lied about?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2022 12:35 PM (R/m4+)
Cross Burning has them beat.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:35 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: setnaffa at December 26, 2022 12:35 PM (WgEgc)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (Vwz3I)
**********
I think it was Minneapolis but there was a... ceremony(ritual) of doctors where they forgoed doing the hippocratic oath and instead pledged to suck and taint lick the mighty ass of BLM or some such shit
If a doctor youre thinking of seeing got his degree from Minnesota, make a hard pass
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: The Holy Office of the Inquisition, 1633 at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:24 PM (Zzbjj)
I have the same suspicion. The part after "or" never gets completed when warnings are issued to China over Russia. I have a strong belief there is an agreement between D.C. and Beijing about dividing up Russian resources at some point, for example. I don't know the details of the Nashville bombing enough to make a judgment there but it would be absolutely no surprise to learn the FBI was behind it.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (KSNKu)
I no longer trust doctors.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Jay in PA at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (i7Q7S)
"LOL nah, by this time next year we'll be living in windmill powered concentration camps"
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's solar farm no more.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (VTu1l)
Fvck them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (kYv0l)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (FoiGh)
Posted by: andycanuck
Mike Pence? Ummm... Pence isn't white, he's clear.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (Wy1BU)
Fear IS the policy.
A fearful population is so much easier to manipulate than a calm, reasonable populace. Why do you think leftists ALWAYS stoke fear and rage and passion when they want to get something done? And to the contrary, why do God's messengers so often begin with, "Do not be afraid"?
Posted by: red speck at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (KSNKu)
Someone is still very interested in any conversation about that event. And it can't be because it was caused by that man who was all upset about 5G
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:38 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Caliban at December 26, 2022 12:38 PM (w+mxH)
Wow.
Peddling Russian Disinformation.
On the First day Of Kwanzaa.
157 Days from Pride Month.
I hope your mother is real proud of you, Mr. O'Spades.
Posted by: Auspex at December 26, 2022 12:38 PM (j4U/Z)
Doctors are mechanics.
Now.
Ask yourself how hard is it to find a good and trustworthy mechanic?
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:38 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Flat Earthers at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (DhOHl)
+1
Posted by: Phrenologists at December 26, 2022 12:12 PM (4I/2K)
__________
Vindicated at last.
Posted by: Geocentrists
I dunno, you conspiracy theorists frighten me. Like that rumor about evil lizard men living at the center of the Earth, just biding their time until they can burst forth and conquer the world. Total nonsense, but a surprising number of people believe that drivel.
Posted by: Totally not The Vril at December 26, 2022 12:27 PM (n+4am)
You said it, mate!
Posted by: Not Fake Replacement Paul McCartney at December 26, 2022 12:39 PM (KLPy8)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 26, 2022 12:39 PM (RoQjZ)
First, so what? I could get all bent out of shape about hip-hop being "the blackest and least diverse music" blah blah blah. Different cultures have developed different pursuits, and yeah, there's not a lot of cross-country skiing enthusiasts in, say Africa and Saudi Arabia -- that's not racism, it's culture and environment.
And for heaven's sake, if you're worried about safety, you best be focused on furry predators in the woods not white skiers you will com across on the trail.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:40 PM (im7mX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 26, 2022 12:39 PM (RoQjZ)
That's misinformation.
Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 12:40 PM (AwYPR)
**********
Also, the good one's are being whip sawed by govt constantly changing regulations, coding, amt of paper required, oversight, reduced payments.
There are only so many hours in the day and Dr.s are forced to spend less and less of them with their patients.
They are emotionally and physically affected by this crap too.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 26, 2022 12:40 PM (jmn+9)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (jTmQV)
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Welcome to the party, pal ... and I no longer trust any institutional agent as now all all are de facto corrupt and eager participants in the Marxist Death Cult and its long Frogmarch of of us to Mass Graves.
You'll get the Zero Trust response you engendered in me from now on, good and hard ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 26, 2022 12:41 PM (S3ur0)
The Chinese are just buying Africa for the minerals.
Posted by: JEM at December 26, 2022 12:41 PM (8erNz)
I am low volume poster. My politics are idiosyncratic and insane.
Posted by: Thesokorus
I'm low volume. never seen you before.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:41 PM (3CCua)
She has lost driving privileges. That seems to be the only ill effect so far. It was the right thing to do.
Both of us are past our "best by" date, LOL.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 12:42 PM (jTmQV)
*****************
I'm usually the only white boy playing basketball
who do i complain to about this utter lack of diversity?
Also the net needs to be made lower for us height alternatives who identify as being tall
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:42 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:32 PM (Zzbjj)
Yeah, but we make them *work* to track down our IP addresses and any identifying information. It's easier for them to track people who put that info out there, and have you ever known a government employee take the hard road instead of the easy one if they have the choice?
Posted by: pookysgirl has known more than a few gov't folx at December 26, 2022 12:42 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM
Liability insurance is expensive. They are covering their asses.
Posted by: huerfano at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (dTFZY)
Posted by: CN
Oh, I have no doubt. I assume they are monitoring every conservative on social media, bloggers, streamers, etc. And it happens because Americans have become soft in the past few decades.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (roH4R)
The divorce is already finalized, she already has custody of the kids, she took your 401k in the settlement, 90% of your friends know that you're a cuck, and she's remarried to a new dude that bought her plastic tits.
But you're reading the letters saying "Aha! I knew those used condoms in the trash can weren't mine! I never use condoms and we didn't even have sex the last two years! Hey everyone come look, I have proof that my wife was cucking me out!"
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (EBaE+)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (VTu1l)
I liked this part:
There was a time in the not too distant past when workers at high-profile media companies could go public on Twitter with complaints about what they considered to be the sexist, racist or other otherwise unfair practices of their employers and still keep their jobs.
Yeah, workers at social media companies could criticize their companies - but only from the Left.
Be a Twitter employee, and say that Twitter has too many unqualified diversity hires, and you would have been bounced very quickly.
This happened to an Apple employee who said in a book:
women in the Bay Area are "soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit."
Only criticism from the Left is allowed.
https://tinyurl.com/2rvbdckz
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 26, 2022 12:44 PM (KCOCK)
Doctors are mechanics.
Now.
Ask yourself how hard is it to find a good and trustworthy mechanic?
Posted by: garrett
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Put in perspective.
How hard is it to find a good mechanic at a dealership?
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 26, 2022 12:44 PM (jmn+9)
Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2022 12:44 PM (0OP+5)
I find "Merry Christmas" highly offensive.
The holidays cause stress, depression, and mental health issues for 25-40% of people. It's like a "merriness contest" on social media to force happiness, and a Western subversion of every other culture. What's a non-offensive greeting?
-
So "Wallow in self pity" is the kinder greeting?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 12:44 PM (FVME7)
A fearful population is so much easier to manipulate than a calm, reasonable populace. Why do you think leftists ALWAYS stoke fear and rage and passion when they want to get something done? And to the contrary, why do God's messengers so often begin with, "Do not be afraid"?
Posted by: red speck at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (gS3OW)
Trenchant observation - I have never thought of things that way before. Thanks for it.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at December 26, 2022 12:45 PM (v23vE)
To repeat, "...and other social media platforms..."
Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2022 12:08 PM (SYTee)
Seems the Trump Administration's main request was to try to suppress panic buying, which is a laudable goal, and really not contrary to common sense.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2022 12:45 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Madamemayhem
If it was like at my house - that's about 7 minutes worth.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (qoGsy)
Huh. It takes that long?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy Now With Twice The Crazy at December 26, 2022 12:45 PM (Zvtjl)
These are same the Leftist scum that are outraged at the Catholic Church with Galileo.
____________
The more you look at it, in the context of the time, the better the Church comes off.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:45 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Guy arrested for paddleboarding at December 26, 2022 12:46 PM (nfrXX)
I am low volume poster. My politics are idiosyncratic and insane.
Posted by: Thesokorus
I'm low volume. never seen you before.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:41 PM (3CCua)
My strategy appears to be more successful than yours then.
Posted by: Thesokorus at December 26, 2022 12:46 PM (1ais2)
The holidays cause stress, depression, and mental health issues for 25-40% of people. It's like a "merriness contest" on social media to force happiness, and a Western subversion of every other culture. What's a non-offensive greeting?
'Kill Yourself'
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:46 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 26, 2022 12:46 PM (aGGj6)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:36 PM (KSNKu)
Someone is still very interested in any conversation about that event. And it can't be because it was caused by that man who was all upset about 5G
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:38 PM (Zzbjj)
I do recall that the alleged bomber was "known" to local and federal authorities because, of course.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:47 PM (KSNKu)
Much more to The Twitter Files: Covid Editon than this introductory thread.
Follow-up piece to come next week, featuring leading doctors & researchers from Harvard, Stanford & other institutions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2022 12:47 PM (ZLI7S)
'I'm low volume. never seen you before.'
I've seen him before. He even laughed at one of my jokes and that's the gold standard of credibility to me.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 12:47 PM (roH4R)
I just saw that 4 hospitals in FLA reduced deaths by 50% with ivermectin in a 2020 study, from 80% deaths in sick elderly to 39%.
Study was NEVER allowed to be shared on Twitter.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2022 12:47 PM (BRHaw)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 12:44 PM (FVME7)
Ok...let's talk about your mom.
Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 12:47 PM (AwYPR)
********
Go fuck yourself?
Go fuck your mothers dick?
So many possible greetings...
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 12:48 PM (VTu1l)
This is what murder before and after the fact trials are about. Hang them all.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 26, 2022 12:48 PM (u4CEu)
IF you are just a fair weather poster, post more. Not everyone here is asshoe, like me.
We used to have De-Lurker Threads to encourage this.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:48 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 12:49 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Caliban at December 26, 2022 12:38 PM (w+mxH)
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During one of his weekly "Fireside Chats", Dennis Prager was asked last month by a young man "Between left and right, how do you know which side isn’t telling the truth?"
[This of course is common sense to we who've graduated beyond age 29 -- and his simple response (about which he wrote a column):] "With rare exceptions, the party that calls for censorship is lying. People who tell the truth can deal with dissent and different opinions. In fact, truth-tellers welcome debate."
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 26, 2022 12:49 PM (S3ur0)
I find "Merry Christmas" highly offensive. The holidays cause stress, depression, and mental health issues for 25-40% of people.
___________
It causes stress and depression to me, but that's my problem and I deal with it without trying to make everyone else miserable too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:50 PM (MoZTd)
I find "Merry Christmas" highly offensive.
The holidays cause stress, depression, and mental health issues for 25-40% of people. It's like a "merriness contest" on social media to force happiness, and a Western subversion of every other culture. What's a non-offensive greeting?
-
So "Wallow in self pity" is the kinder greeting?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 12:44 PM (FVME7)
I think "Go Fuck Yourself" works nicely in this particular case.
On the upside, I noticed a lot more, a lot more people wishing "Merry Christmas" this year.
And even most of those who said "Happy Holidays" were glad to answer back "Merry Christmas" when I Merry Christmased them.
TechLead is behind the times.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2022 12:50 PM (KLPy8)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 26, 2022 12:50 PM (sJHOI)
Robert Groubert (America's Untold Stories) attributed his Red-Pilling to this.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:50 PM (aFKim)
I wanna wish you a Merry Schwanza!
From the bottom of myyyy shorts!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 26, 2022 12:50 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 26, 2022 12:28 PM (ftFVW)
Smart lady.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 12:51 PM (XIJ/X)
The hilarious thing about the woman who is a member of the "Citizen Potawatomi Nation", is that that is a Midwestern tribe. Culturally, she should know nothing about mountains, and she is just as much a colonizer on "stolen" Northwest land as anyone else.
There is a "professional" Indian who gets named to all sorts of boards and commissions in Portland who is Cherokee - i.e. she has nothing to do with Northwest tribes.
No matter.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 26, 2022 12:51 PM (KCOCK)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 26, 2022 12:26 PM (d2bW3)
Whether we like it or not, AoS is social media too. We laugh about Bob from NSA, but we're being monitored here, too, and have been for a while.
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:32 PM (Zzbjj)
No doubt true. Social media casts a wider net, though, so it is watched more closely. But anything we write here, no matter how anodyne, also puts a potential target on our backs.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 12:51 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 26, 2022 12:51 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Thesokorus
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If you're considered insane in an insane world, doesn't that make you sane?
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 26, 2022 12:51 PM (S3ur0)
Posted by: free tibet at December 26, 2022 12:51 PM (C0SBS)
So "Wallow in self pity" is the kinder greeting?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 12:44 PM (FVME7)
________
"Remember, brother, you too must die."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 12:52 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 26, 2022 12:52 PM (zm+d5)
You might try pointing out to them that the government demanding private companies censor information the government doesn't approve of is not just the fascist behavior they are always whining about but blatantly illegal. The founders made the 1st Amendment the right of all Americans to exercise free speech without government intervention the most important amendment for a reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2022 12:52 PM (ZLI7S)
He's also a Leftist who despises Trump.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 26, 2022 12:52 PM (mR6Gs)
Other than "extremist fringe sites" like the HQ, most people in the U.S. seem to have no idea that the TV networks are a wing of the commiecrat/DC insider cabal and that social media is very censored and they aren't going to see most links to facts inconvenient to big brother. A few will be left up for monitoring purposes. And big brother fibber agency will toss up some fake links that don't even have actual facts to bait folks.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 26, 2022 12:52 PM (83y/e)
I wanna wish you a Merry Schwanza!
From the bottom of myyyy shorts!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 26, 2022 12:50 PM (Vwz3I)
LOL.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy Now With Twice The Crazy at December 26, 2022 12:53 PM (Zvtjl)
Posted by: Thesokorus
i'll go slow so you can understand it, then. most of the regular posters recognize me. several have met me in person to person events.
you, on the other hand, are glowing you're so unknown.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:53 PM (3CCua)
I find "Merry Christmas" highly offensive.
>>>>
I think "Go Fuck Yourself" works nicely in this particular case.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2022 12:50 PM (KLPy
I think you are being over-polite.
I am through with this sort of shit.
"You don't like America and its traditions?
Fine.
Leave."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 12:53 PM (XIJ/X)
A fearful population is so much easier to manipulate than a calm, reasonable populace. Why do you think leftists ALWAYS stoke fear and rage and passion when they want to get something done? And to the contrary, why do God's messengers so often begin with, "Do not be afraid"?
Posted by: red speck at December 26, 2022 12:37 PM (gS3OW)
Trenchant observation - I have never thought of things that way before. Thanks for it.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at December 26, 2022 12:45 PM (v23vE)
^^^ THIS
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 26, 2022 12:53 PM (Mzdiz)
The Natives had NO CONCEPT of ownership. Right?
They taught us all this bullshit early on. Right up there with 'every part of the Buffalo'.
Therefore, they had no lands to steal.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:53 PM (aFKim)
I'd kind of love to see any letters they sent to Ace or CBD about misinformation. LOLOLOL.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 26, 2022 12:54 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: Hillary! at December 26, 2022 12:54 PM (CaJIi)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 26, 2022 12:54 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 26, 2022 12:28 PM (ftFVW)
Smart lady.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I haven't been to one for several years. And I probably won't go for as long as possible.
*types*
*deletes*
You really don't want to know what I think about routine screening tests, bloodwork and imaging.
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 26, 2022 12:55 PM (U2p+3)
People lack the media training to distinguish between Correct and Incorrect Views. That's why they need experts like myself to tell them what are Correct Views, and why we need to censor Incorrect Views.
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz, American Stasi! at December 26, 2022 12:55 PM (KCOCK)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (z0DEK)
Maple Syrup is actually fantastic on French Toast.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (ZLI7S)
And so, so few of them will get it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (xcxpd)
That poor guy, trying to explain his weekly summaries to his boss...
Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (yZlY6)
Posted by: BifBewalski
Amazing how many new name show up during the holidays.
Posted by: Infidel at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (ZEa+g)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (xhxe8)
I find "Merry Christmas" highly offensive.
The holidays cause stress, depression, and mental health issues for 25-40% of people. It's like a "merriness contest" on social media to force happiness, and a Western subversion of every other culture. What's a non-offensive greeting?
"May Christ be with you."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 12:57 PM (EBaE+)
"Yawn, been there, done that."
-- Obama Administration
Remember "Attack Watch?" That was one of 3 different citizen-reporting programs Obama created, IIRC.
https://tinyurl.com/4st9t278
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:13 PM (im7mX)
I did NOT remember that, Lizzy. Thank you!
Posted by: m at December 26, 2022 12:57 PM (1vmZ4)
The divorce is already finalized, she already has custody of the kids, she took your 401k in the settlement, 90% of your friends know that you're a cuck, and she's remarried to a new dude that bought her plastic tits.
But you're reading the letters saying "Aha! I knew those used condoms in the trash can weren't mine! I never use condoms and we didn't even have sex the last two years! Hey everyone come look, I have proof that my wife was cucking me out!"
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (EBaE+)
One of the best, most insightful things I ever read here
Posted by: JoeF. at December 26, 2022 12:57 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:53 PM (3CCua)
Hmmm....maybe...maybe not.
A bit of the benefit of the doubt might be appropriate.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 12:58 PM (XIJ/X)
It's interesting that any number of Indian neighbors turned the Diwali lights back on and added reindeer and other objects. One has an eight foot tall Indian Elephant inflatable with a Santa on top. In the neighboring town, the Indian mayor added fireworks to the Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
I also enjoy the music and general spectacle
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:58 PM (Zzbjj)
The fake TV commercial where the announcer just kept saying "Attaaaaaack Waaaaaatch!" was hilarious.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 26, 2022 12:59 PM (zm+d5)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (ZLI7S)
You probably put it on oysters too.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 01:00 PM (XIJ/X)
***********
Dear Bob
fuck you
love,
Fuck You
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 01:00 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: JoeF. at December 26, 2022 12:57 PM (mR6Gs)
Seconded. It is more detailed, informative and accurate than the horse leaving the barn cliche.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 01:00 PM (KSNKu)
That poor guy, trying to explain his weekly summaries to his boss...
Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (yZlY6)
___________
"Boobs remain the single most popular item of discussion. Garrett's crocs, after a few quiet weeks, have shown a resurgence...."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 01:00 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 12:40 PM (im7mX)
Since cross-country skiing was invented by Norwegians, who are whiter than a clothesline filled with freshly-bleached KKK robes, any POC attempting to do it is guilty of cultural appropriation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2022 01:01 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 26, 2022 12:46 PM (aGGj6)
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Wikipedia also can't understand why people don't donate to support their site
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2022 01:01 PM (nUbuH)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 26, 2022 01:01 PM (mtQXG)
The analogy would work better if everyone was married to her.
Assuming that everyone knew what we did is a very big mistake. Most people have no idea what Twitter is let alone how powerful it has been for setting narratives and debates in the media. That's why the msm is so pissed off, Twitter is where they went to get their talking points.
Only a tiny percentage of the country was aware of the censorship that has been going on in social media and even a large percentage who do know what social media is all about claimed that censorship was a rightwing lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2022 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)
at least in my family, probably yes
so Christmas here was back to pre-COVID normal so I was pretty happy and trying to just get along with everyone. my family is very very Leftist and many work in govt.
all went well for three out of four parties but last night my husband (rrrr!) decided to get into it with my aunts about COVID and vaccine injuries, I suppose on my behalf (I didn't want this kind of attention).
it went really really badly. he was shocked. they CANNOT accept that people were injured by the Magic Vaccines. they SHANNOT.
no matter who it is.
I hid for a while then found the wine. also noted that several cousins also have sudden-onset joint pain and inflammation since around Spring of 2021. funny that.
I am back on Ivermectin and hoping it works again. not sure if it is the weather change or another viral exposure or just the way it's going to be, but all my joints are very inflamed and I have a painful rash on my "vaccine arm" again
Posted by: BlackOrchidIsNotAmused at December 26, 2022 01:02 PM (w0NJk)
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I want Santa to bring me a matched pair of howdah pistols!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 26, 2022 01:02 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2022 01:01 PM (tkR6S)
Good. And I want Whoopi to stop using Goldberg, too
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 01:02 PM (Zzbjj)
***************
While fuckhead lefties here were wishing me happy holidays, to which they can take that greeting, dash it with salt and choke on it, a coworker living in India wished me a Merry Christmas
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 01:02 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2022 01:01 PM (nUbuH)
I love those nagging popups. Are they fvcking insane? There is no way that I would consider contributing to Wikipedia as long as they are rabidly against pretty much everything I believe, and manipulate their entries to further that world view.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 01:03 PM (XIJ/X)
'Wikipedia also can't understand why people don't donate to support their site'
I'd like to pretend it's some moral stance but it's mainly because I'm cheap.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 01:03 PM (roH4R)
Regrettable, yet true, edit.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 26, 2022 01:04 PM (e6UQI)
"Own" Land?
As P.J. O'Rourke once pointed out, if you live in a state with property taxes, you're only renting from the government.
Posted by: Auspex at December 26, 2022 01:04 PM (j4U/Z)
Thinks, dang, and this is a holiday Monday, not a normal crappy one...
Posted by: Nova local at December 26, 2022 01:04 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: JoeF. at December 26, 2022 12:57 PM (mR6Gs)
I'm sorry, but there IS a hidden but well known clause included in the Deluxe Cardboard membership that 'insightful' thoughts or writings are specifically prohibited to be posted in the comments!! Only the Sooper Dooper multilayered cardboard membership permits such behavior. Signed by Ace.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy Now With Twice The Crazy at December 26, 2022 01:04 PM (Zvtjl)
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"Boobs remain the single most popular item of discussion. Garrett's crocs, after a few quiet weeks, have shown a resurgence...."
"Also, I've been thinking that maybe we should switch back to .45s"
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 01:05 PM (nfrXX)
OK. That's freaking awesome.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 01:05 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2022 01:05 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 01:02 PM (Zzbjj)
Yeah...what was wrong with Karen Johnson?
Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 01:06 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2022 01:06 PM (EZebt)
The divorce is already finalized, she already has custody of the kids, she took your 401k in the settlement, 90% of your friends know that you're a cuck, and she's remarried to a new dude that bought her plastic tits.
But you're reading the letters saying "Aha! I knew those used condoms in the trash can weren't mine! I never use condoms and we didn't even have sex the last two years! Hey everyone come look, I have proof that my wife was cucking me out!"
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (EBaE+)
One of the best, most insightful things I ever read here
Posted by: JoeF. at December 26, 2022 12:57 PM (mR6Gs)
I concur. I haven't even been following the TwatterFiles directly, focused on my immediate situation. These revelations are a sideshow and a shitshow.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 26, 2022 01:06 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (EBaE+)
We are on stolen Indigenous land--
Who did they steal it from?
Posted by: free tibet
In the game of cosmic musical chairs we sat down on the last chair as the music stopped.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (63Dwl)
If you don't read the CDC's own publicly available VAERS database and see that the vaccines have caused more reported deaths and injuries than all other vaccines combined and cumulatively since 1922, well, it probably doesn't exist.
Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (Sv58p)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (QRdjz)
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I wish there was a contact form where i can tell these grifters to fuck right off to fuckoff island
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (VTu1l)
Avoiding panic buying. Preventing panic in face of unprecedented *nominal* public health emergency. A mundane normal responsibility of all guvamint.
Oh.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (OTzUX)
I wonder if this time of year if Jewish people think "The lights are pretty and I like the songs and pageantry, but it's hard to believe all these idiots got tricked by a false, huckster that claimed to be Messiah".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Obama?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 01:08 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (xhxe
Completely. My SIL is a case in point. It's horrible to challenge the narrative, but it's A-OK to call people who do, "nazis" and connect them with mass murderers from the 40s. I told her that I found her "Republicans are no better than Nazis" comments to be far more offensive than anything Trump ever said, or any criticism of the vax propaganda. The left has no awareness of how hate filled they are.
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 01:08 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Thesokorus
i'll go slow so you can understand it, then. most of the regular posters recognize me. several have met me in person to person events.
you, on the other hand, are glowing you're so unknown.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:53 PM (3CCua)
I feel like a cat in a box being bombarded by dangerous invisible things. Dreading and desiring the opening of the lid.
I ran into Terry Davis once though. There is that.
Posted by: Thesokorus at December 26, 2022 01:08 PM (1ais2)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at December 26, 2022 12:15 PM (3Or4S)
Oh, God, that is so horrible.
Posted by: m at December 26, 2022 01:09 PM (1vmZ4)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat
My favorite analogy to What We Do Here is being tied to the railroad tracks, and researching the oncoming train until we have a schematic level detailed description of the train, right down to the engravings on the controls and the chemical composition of the paint.
We're still tied to the tracks. That train is fascinating in its details, though. And how the engine gleams!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 26, 2022 01:09 PM (YJwUM)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 01:00 PM (MoZTd)
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"Worst of all, boob references are running 99.99% female to male -- with Tom Nichols being the only exception. If that doesn't constitute a hate crime ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 26, 2022 01:09 PM (S3ur0)
That poor guy, trying to explain his weekly summaries to his boss...
Posted by: t-bird
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Boss: "What's with this high incidence of comments about 'Otters'. Is that a code of some kind?"
Bob: "Well, it's hard to explain..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2022 01:09 PM (sN4fh)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (EBaE+)
Nope.
I really enjoy Christmas. As I mentioned in a recent post, my only interest in Jesus is as a historical figure, but that doesn't mean that I do not respect Christianity.
Besides, it's an excuse to drink champagne with our Christian neighbors...who are from Texas!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 01:09 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 26, 2022 01:09 PM (ufFY8)
Pretty much. But. Cultists are gonna cult.
As long as they aren't harming anyone, no foul.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 01:10 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (EBaE+)
I don't feel that way, at all. If God can part the sea for the Israelites to flee Egypt or kill their first born, what can't be done?
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 01:10 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2022 01:01 PM (nUbuH)
I love those nagging popups. Are they fvcking insane? There is no way that I would consider contributing to Wikipedia as long as they are rabidly against pretty much everything I believe, and manipulate their entries to further that world view.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 01:03 PM (XIJ/X)
IIRC Wikipedia is a Soros run op.
Let the fat, old Nazi pay for his own propaganda.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2022 01:11 PM (KLPy8)
This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Muslims Everywhere at December 26, 2022 01:11 PM (DhOHl)
'The left has no awareness of how hate filled they are.'
My condolences for having her as a relative.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 01:11 PM (roH4R)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 01:12 PM (roH4R)
This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Muslims Everywhere at December 26, 2022 01:11 PM (DhOHl)
____________
There's a better historical basis for Jesus than for Mohammed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 01:13 PM (MoZTd)
She can cook me food any time.
Sharon showing a little been in a white top, and Abby is wearing a shoulder less dress that looks like it will fall off.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 26, 2022 01:13 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 01:07 PM (EBaE+)
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Ha! And great jello molds.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2022 01:13 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: free tibet at December 26, 2022 01:14 PM (C0SBS)
Yeah...what was wrong with Karen Johnson?
Posted by: BignJames
Whoopi got tired of Johnson and decided to switch.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 01:14 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 01:11 PM (roH4R)
My husband's sister. She lives in a donk bubble in Suffolk County. Fortunately I rarely see her as she's 84 and my husband in 81. Neither feels up to the drive, but she calls from time to time.
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 01:14 PM (Zzbjj)
---
High above Cholula, an ancient game plays out between two friends:
[Xipe Totec punts a nicely rounded head of a Conquistador over to Quetzalcoatl who juggles it on his knees for a while showing off.]
Xipe: Hey Cabran weren't you supposed to devour the sun, bring a river of blood, etc.. already? Like years ago Q.
Quetzalcoatl: Mano si, I was but I'm waiting on a sign. [Quetzalcoatl kicks the head back to Xipe Tote]
Xipe: [bouncing the head around on his own head] claro, what's the sign?
Quetzalcoatl: [recalling] "The end shall be heralded by disappointed ebony skinned dikes on skis", very odd no? it may never happen.
Xipe: [stops, the head drops to the ground] Yo yo, I have some news for you!
Posted by: banana Dream's handy myths at December 26, 2022 01:14 PM (0fVbu)
Have a list of dozens of accounts I read daily, which helped me refine and substantiate my initial sense that most of the C19 response was without scientific basis. Some of them are now well known SubStack people, some have written their own books on the whole thing, one works for America's best governor in a related function.
So somehow the bots and idiots missed a whoooole lotta very good "dissidents".
Posted by: rhomboid at December 26, 2022 01:14 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 26, 2022 12:28 PM (ftFVW)
Smart lady.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I haven't been to one for several years. And I probably won't go for as long as possible.
*types*
*deletes*
You really don't want to know what I think about routine screening tests, bloodwork and imaging.
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, dammit! at December 26, 2022 12:55 PM (U2p+3)
*fistbumps*
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 26, 2022 01:15 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (S/NWs)
You go looking for a problem, you are gonna find one.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (aFKim)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 01:14 PM (63Dwl)
Hah!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (tkR6S)
Adding up the enemy action to take down Trump before he even took office, the stolen elections, and the US funded gain of function actions ... the Agenda 21 crap, the dangerous mRNA experiments forced on even children (and the grooming or mutilation of children) --
One could start to conclude it is all deliberate genocide, and war against the middle class (which represents the proles rising up to a better life). The dysfunctional elitists hate being challenged by the accomplished middle class.
But DeepState/globalists are not a banana republic, they are a globalist cartel with all the powers and an advanced info technology that actually can spy on and punish every individual (e.g. social credit scores, health cards, IRS attacks).
Posted by: illiniwek at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (Cus5s)
Just wait until their idol messiah comes along. Gonna be a real fun time.
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (S/NWs)
Man, that post makes *me* look like an optimist. And I think "hope" is a word to be treated the same as a cuss word!
Posted by: pookysgirl, hardened cynic at December 26, 2022 01:17 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (S/NWs)
IOW, he is promising a full revival of "failure theater", casting himself as Alex Guinness
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 01:18 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: free tibet
___
And some of us just have no clue how to get along.
Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 26, 2022 01:18 PM (TeRxL)
I've already got my box seat picked out.
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:18 PM (S/NWs)
So, how many people do you know of, who in the last 2 years
Died Suddenly
(if curious, on Rumble)
Posted by: Ju at December 26, 2022 01:19 PM (aTmM/)
Don't tell me he had no choice. We all have a choice. We can speak the truth or parrot the line.
Timshel.
Posted by: creeper at December 26, 2022 01:19 PM (cTCuP)
It's like getting a free roof inspection from a roofing company.
Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2022 01:19 PM (dNNCD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2022 01:06 PM (EZebt)
Not exactly your point, but to me the most important aspect of Covid (and Trump, the Ukraine War, etc.) was how clarifying it was. People I would not have suspected, some highly intelligent otherwise, became straight-up automatons. No one I personally know, I think, became a snitch but they were ubiquitous. We were forced to acknowledge how broken our society was and is. The country has been in bad shape in the past but at least the people were functional. That no longer is the case.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 01:19 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: free tibet at December 26, 2022 01:14 PM (C0SBS)
Yeah, I'm constantly surprised by how vicious some family get-togethers of friends, etc are.
Honestly, if you can't just shut your yap and be pleasant around family for at most 3-4 days once a year. What the fucking hell good are you?
If I had to deal with that, I'd just exclude the offending parties until they learned some manners.
Bu-u-u-ut, fortunately I don't.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2022 01:19 PM (KLPy8)
Is it possible to make a passable mole' sauce for leftover tamales from leftover semisweet dark chocolate candies and chili powder?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 01:20 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 01:20 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2022 01:21 PM (gxCa3)
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (S/NWs)
In the most recent episode of The Chosen, Jesus just told the people of Nazareth He was the Messiah. He also said He would not be welcomed in His home town. Peeps were upset, lol.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 26, 2022 01:21 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 01:21 PM (aFKim)
'she's 84 '
I hate to put it this way, but it's a bit of a short-term problem. Sometimes, I think my mom is clinging to leftism to ease my grief when she passes.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 01:22 PM (roH4R)
@stillgray
Admiral Rachel Levine calls for tech companies to censor all gender related so-called “misinformation” to protect the “health equity of sexual and gender minorities.”
https://tinyurl.com/3urn78af
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2022 01:22 PM (NpAcC)
Is it possible to make a passable mole' sauce for leftover tamales from leftover semisweet dark chocolate candies and chili powder?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 01:20 PM (nfrXX)
I don't know, but that sounds like someone I'd totally try if I had leftover tamales here!
Posted by: Nova local at December 26, 2022 01:22 PM (exHjb)
It's cause he's Jewish, isn't it?
Are you talking real world people or people in the show?
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:23 PM (S/NWs)
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (S/NWs)
Is that the same FBI McConnell just gave $600 million to spy on his political enemies? Has ol' Kev uttered a single word about how utterly corrupt and acquiescent the GOP senators are? Naaaahhh?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 01:23 PM (KSNKu)
Posted by: Nova local at December 26, 2022 01:23 PM (exHjb)
Moles are usually hibernating this time of year. You can coax them out with a piece of cheese.
Posted by: That guy who always says... at December 26, 2022 01:23 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (S/NWs)
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Out: Failure Theater.
In: Strongly-Worded Letters.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 26, 2022 01:24 PM (S3ur0)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 01:22 PM (roH4R)
Yeah, except for the fact that her kids and grandkids are ardent leftists, too. But then again I don't have to pick up the phone.
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 01:24 PM (Zzbjj)
I got several of those links from you, and they were great. But they were complex enough that they didn't reach a broader audience (imo). And I wonder if they may have been shadow banned to a degree, so it limited their reach even more.
But yes, a lot of info was still available, for those like AoS people willing to work and study a little.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 26, 2022 01:24 PM (Cus5s)
He was mostly upset they didn't let him be in charge of the vote, I think.
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:24 PM (S/NWs)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 26, 2022 01:24 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:16 PM (S/NWs)
Oh goody!
Posted by: Trey Gowdy, Nothing Burger King at December 26, 2022 01:25 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2022 01:26 PM (up/3i)
Honestly, if you can't just shut your yap and be pleasant around family for at most 3-4 days once a year. What the fucking hell good are you?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2022 01:19 PM (KLPy
This implies that such people are capable of introspection... which they aren't.
Posted by: pookysgirl, amateur sociologist at December 26, 2022 01:26 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 26, 2022 01:26 PM (TeRxL)
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Also, his twitter account would have been cancelled.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2022 01:26 PM (gxCa3)
The answer to both is 'ell if I know. Just grocery store chili powder and Dove chocolates.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 01:27 PM (nfrXX)
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Given the documented damage the jabs have caused and greater potential, I'd say people are still dying, and will continue to die, in great numbers, for quite some time to come.
Posted by: Methos at December 26, 2022 01:27 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:23 PM (S/NWs)
Characters in the show.
They take Him to the edge of a cliff, ready to push Him off, for blasphemy, but Jesus says "It is not time yet," and walks away.
He just sent his disciples off to spread the word two by two, which we will see in the next episode Sunday night.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 26, 2022 01:28 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: just the punchline at December 26, 2022 01:28 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: pookysgirl, hardened cynic at December 26, 2022 01:17 PM (XKZwp)
Lol.
I'm sorry. I do have hope, just not in people.
I just ordered The Gulag Archipelago from Thrift Books to start reading. Hopefully that will cheer me up and improve my outlook on life.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 26, 2022 01:29 PM (EBaE+)
Posted by: Jimco Industries at December 26, 2022 01:29 PM (buTO7)
She was in a tight red dress last week.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 26, 2022 01:29 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at December 26, 2022 01:29 PM (z7W9M)
You'd be better off with mostly Cocoa Powder and some additional spices. Mole has a pile of spices in addition to Chili Powder.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 01:29 PM (aFKim)
And yes, it took a little bit of effort and brain push-ups to find and absorb the info or analysis, in some cases. Though not all - the fantastic use of novel datasets like "social mobility", based on mobile phone use/tracking, by some observers to debunk, in real time, the efficacy of all "mitigation" efforts (lockdowns) - was elegantly obvious, simple, and unanswerable.
But what you point out is just the yuuuge, over-arching issue - there is no press, there are few if any competent/legit/honest institutions any longer, there is nowhere for a busy regular person who is busy doing their own vital part of the social and economic process to go for reliable info or analysis.
It's always been imperfect, to bad, but I think the situation now if fundamentally different, and worse. And all, of course, during an era when info is available like never before.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 26, 2022 01:29 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2022 01:21 PM
Well, the guy is crazy, but is he so crazy he does not believe those 'guys' that groomed him to 'maxwell silver hammer' Pelosi, has a similar plan for him?
Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2022 01:30 PM (0OP+5)
Yeah. That would be hard to listen to. Surely, you get some kind of grace or karma for the times you do listen to them (If you don't, you should). If they can't agree to disagree then they can at least agree to be polite. I'm pulling for you.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 01:30 PM (roH4R)
Posted by: torabora at December 26, 2022 01:30 PM (s3ZJA)
Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 26, 2022 01:30 PM (TeRxL)
They have footnotes to journalists who said so!
Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 01:31 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 26, 2022 01:31 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Methos at December 26, 2022 01:27 PM (kOpft)
Hell, even the mask nonsense drove many folks over the edge never to be seen again.
Insanity.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2022 01:31 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 26, 2022 01:31 PM (S3ur0)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2022 01:31 PM (VcRkh)
It's like getting a free roof inspection from a roofing company.
Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2022 01:19 PM (dNNCD)
It's like being married.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 26, 2022 01:31 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: banana Dream's handy myths at December 26, 2022 01:32 PM (0fVbu)
I've tried to watch a few episodes. Can't really get into it. Not opposed, though.
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 01:32 PM (S/NWs)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2022 01:32 PM (D4TsQ)
I hope everyone had time to relax. Various relatives came for late lunch yesterday, including my SIL. She's not doing well, but she enjoyed being someplace rather than home.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 26, 2022 01:32 PM (yKPAy)
That would require a trip to the store. If I'm gonna do that, I'd just buy a jar of sauce while I'm there.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 01:32 PM (nfrXX)
The answer to both is 'ell if I know. Just grocery store chili powder and Dove chocolates.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 01:27 PM (nfrXX)
So, here's what you might be trying to do...simple and fast - I'd ignore the cocoa powder for more chocolate pieces, since you have them...and if there's nut in your chocolate, I'd ignore the nut butter - but this might work for a "simple, not really traditional" on point recipe...
https://www.cottercrunch.com/chocolate-mole-sauce-recipe/
PS - I never made this, but people seem to like it...so, chef beware...
Posted by: Nova local at December 26, 2022 01:32 PM (exHjb)
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Cocoa-Puffs and scotch-bonnet peppers!
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Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 26, 2022 01:37 PM (lz5hY)
Thanks; bookmarked for later. I think I have most of those things on hand.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 01:38 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 26, 2022 01:38 PM (3cGpq)
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Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 26, 2022 01:37 PM (lz5hY)
It is uninhabitable, therefore they cannot charge rent for it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2022 01:44 PM (XIJ/X)
The worm has turned. Now I'm the one afraid. What organisms are these people harboring in their bodies? Are any of the conditions suddenly surfacing transmissable? Am I now at risk?
I was never afraid. Suddenly I'm terrified. Worst of all, I know this is planned. They want us dead.
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Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 26, 2022 02:25 PM (ZSK0i)
Dr Mike Yeadon, former CEO of Research at Pfizer, says that the jabs are all about digital, biometric ID technology, enabled and tracked by satellite and 5G.
Cashless societies are easier to control by government and banksters, who will monitor everyone for compliance with *their* dictates on climate, social justice, carbon footprints, and food, to name a few.
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One of my favorite songs in Church used to be "Be Not Afraid".
Be not afraid. I go before you always. Come follow me, and I will give you rest.
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