US Politics

Don't Kill Bill said:
I am not saying any of this is wrong but,

I think it has a third part though. Fauci is talking to the public he is paid by, to inform them, he knows there is a common misconception about a term like gain of function he should make that clear.

Sexual relations as per Bill Clinton. Saying well we never defined the term and legally I'm in the clear doesn't mean he wasn't avoiding the point. Yes its embarrassing but also its important if you want to be believed.
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I'll take the smallest of breaks from my self imposed COVID talk ban to just say that while I don't disagree I do not think that setting is/was the appropriate place. He has to respond to the questions asked by the senators and they are able to cut him off at any time (that "reclaiming my time" bullshit). He should come out and give an interview where he walks people through the terminology.

Ok, ban reinstated.
 
WI_Red said:
I'll take the smallest of breaks from my self imposed COVID talk ban to just say that while I don't disagree I do not think that setting is/was the appropriate place. He has to respond to the questions asked by the senators and they are able to cut him off at any time (that "reclaiming my time" bullshit). He should come out and give an interview where he walks people through the terminology.

Ok, ban reinstated.
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Sorry if I have forced you back into the mire.
I know its all partisan and spun to a ridiculous level so I do cut him some slack and I would not want his job at all.

If you think about the number of instances now, where really important issues like for example the banking crisis are well beyond common understanding it is more important than ever, that the people we pay to look out for our interests in their fields of specialty do so openly and without equivocation. It might even help if they admit more often that they can't be sure so we at least understand that there are uncertainties.
 
WI_Red said:
I'll take the smallest of breaks from my self imposed COVID talk ban to just say that while I don't disagree I do not think that setting is/was the appropriate place. He has to respond to the questions asked by the senators and they are able to cut him off at any time (that "reclaiming my time" bullshit). He should come out and give an interview where he walks people through the terminology.

Ok, ban reinstated.
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Don't Kill Bill said:
Sorry if I have forced you back into the mire.
I know its all partisan and spun to a ridiculous level so I do cut him some slack and I would not want his job at all.

If you think about the number of instances now, where really important issues like for example the banking crisis are well beyond common understanding it is more important than ever, that the people we pay to look out for our interests in their fields of specialty do so openly and without equivocation. It might even help if they admit more often that they can't be sure so we at least understand that there are uncertainties.
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No worries. I made the mistake of venturing into the mains and getting into it in the "should the squad get vaccinated" thread. Between that, dealing with the anger/depression of family in the medical community who are losing patients, and general day to day conversations I just need a break from it in the one place no one can force me to engage. :)

I would agree in principle with your statement, but I would add that in science, like in any other field, you can always find an "expert" to agree with your point of view. In this sense Fauci and pretty much anyone trying to explain why Rand Paul is an ass clown in this case, beyond his usual ass clownness, is a losing position because Paul will trot our his experts who claim it is GoF and that will be the narrative on the right and Fauci saying its not will be the narrative on the left. The truth is not in the middle, but verrrrrrry left of middle.
 
O’SULLIVAN: Have you been vaccinated?
DENNIS: No.
O’SULLIVAN: Why not?
DENNIS: Not going to.
O’SULLIVAN: Any particular reason?
DENNIS: God gave us natural immunities to everything. Why would you wanna interfere?
O’SULLIVAN: You’re an older man than I am. You’re probably in the — what the government would say is the risk category.
DENNIS: Well, who come up with that?
O’SULLIVAN: The scientists and the doctors.
DENNIS: Who told them to say that?
[…]
O’SULLIVAN: Even though it’s the Trump vaccine, the doctors, the scientists–
DENNIS: That ain’t a Trump vaccine. He did it to please everybody that put the pressure on him.
O’SULLIVAN: He got the shot himself.
DENNIS: Who says he got the shot? He got fixed up.
O’SULLIVAN: He got the shot. He got it in January I think before he left the–
DENNIS: I don’t think he got the shot. I think he got some stuff to make him better.
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-rep...he-government-would-say-is-the-risk-category/
I think this is pretty much the perfect encapsulation of the USA in 2021
 
With all the bullshit going on I am going to post this. It is off topic but it made me grin for a solid minute, which is saying something. I guess to make it on topic I can say that sports is one of the few remaining refuges away from politics here in the US.

 
I'm sure all politicians agree that they'd never ever act on any insider information, so this legislation would achieve is to ban an inferion alternative to cheap index funds. I predict a bipartisan consensus.
 
NotThatSoph said:
I'm sure all politicians agree that they'd never ever act on any insider information, so this legislation would achieve is to ban an inferion alternative to cheap index funds. I predict a bipartisan consensus.
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It’s legal for Congress people to buy and sell on insider information, which they do.
 
Beans said:
It’s legal for Congress people to buy and sell on insider information, which they do.
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Meanwhile I regularly get annoying messages from my bank just in case I've recently befriended someone important. I'm not that social, you don't have to check in every fortnight.
 
NotThatSoph said:
Meanwhile I regularly get annoying messages from my bank just in case I've recently befriended someone important. I'm not that social, you don't have to check in every fortnight.
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Who is your bank and why are they messaging you about PEPs and HIOs? :lol:
 
Raoul said:
This is better than SNL

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It's weird, I'm actually finding him hard to watch. I usually have no problem watching these kinds of people make absolute fools out of themselves (which is why I usually watch the GOP Primary debates), but watching this guy makes me feel almost like I'm watching a particularly good cringe-inducing episode of The Office.
 
nimic said:
It's weird, I'm actually finding him hard to watch. I usually have no problem watching these kinds of people make absolute fools out of themselves (which is why I usually watch the GOP Primary debates), but watching this guy makes me feel almost like I'm watching a particularly good cringe-inducing episode of The Office.
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Lies. You are watching Hornblower again.
 


Starve the poor like animals by cutting welfare so they will be greatful and motivated by hunger for shit jobs
 
Surprised this is barely being covered. Maybe the media doesn't want to interrupt their "We never should have left Afghanistan" narrative?

 
Drifter said:
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I looked this guy up and in doing so stumbled on a holy feck of gerrymandering. I was mystified how a district that includes Athens, GA (home of UGA) could be in a district that is +15 R, especially when Athens would make up 1/5th of the whole districts population. How? They. Split. The. County. In. Half! They completely nullified a progressive city/county by splitting it.
 
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