OT: The Official COVID/Omicron Variant+ thread

[Clyde_Style]

To be specific, the inside traders were Kelly Loeffler and Richard Burr. An inquiry into their activities was shut down by Barr, but could be re-opened by the current DOJ. I’d love to see that happen. The amount of profiteering done on the back of the pandemic was truly gross

I don’t agree with Pelosi, but I’m pissed at the lies being spread about her on Faux News and the even more virulent shock jock outlets. I have overheard Trumpers in Florida multiple times call Pelosi an inside trader, so it is already embedded in the minds of the sheeple. Don’t facilitate right wing propaganda

This is not a right/left issue it's about everyone playing on a level field.

Insider and several other news organizations in 2021 identified 54 members of Congress and at least 182 high-ranking congressional staffers who've failed to properly report their financial trades as mandated by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, also known as the STOCK Act.

While lawmakers who violate the STOCK Act face a fine, the penalty is usually small — $200 is the standard amount — or waived by House or Senate ethics officials. Ethics watchdogs and even some members of Congress have called for stricter penalties or even a ban on federal lawmakers from trading individual stocks, although neither has come to pass.

J

Did I not say I don’t agree with Pelosi’s stance on this issue?

[HarthorneWingo]

To be specific, the inside traders were Kelly Loeffler and Richard Burr. An inquiry into their activities was shut down by Barr, but could be re-opened by the current DOJ. I’d love to see that happen. The amount of profiteering done on the back of the pandemic was truly gross

I don’t agree with Pelosi, but I’m pissed at the lies being spread about her on Faux News and the even more virulent shock jock outlets. I have overheard Trumpers in Florida multiple times call Pelosi an inside trader, so it is already embedded in the minds of the sheeple. Don’t facilitate right wing propaganda

This is not a right/left issue it's about everyone playing on a level field.

Insider and several other news organizations in 2021 identified 54 members of Congress and at least 182 high-ranking congressional staffers who've failed to properly report their financial trades as mandated by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, also known as the STOCK Act.

While lawmakers who violate the STOCK Act face a fine, the penalty is usually small — $200 is the standard amount — or waived by House or Senate ethics officials. Ethics watchdogs and even some members of Congress have called for stricter penalties or even a ban on federal lawmakers from trading individual stocks, although neither has come to pass.

J

Did I not say I don’t agree with Pelosi’s stance on this issue?

Pelosi’s stance? She had to be dragged to this position. You can still see her claw marks on the wall. She’s pissed as hell.

[HarthorneWingo]

Dems are in big trouble.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/opinion/gallup-poll-democrats.html

According to the Gallup organization, 47 percent of Americans now identify with the Republican Party and 42 percent with the Democrats. That sounds ho-hum: one party doing a tad better than the other. But the Gallup numbers may portend a political earthquake.

Republicans seldom lead on measures of party identification, even when they are doing spectacularly well in other respects. Since Gallup began tallying party identification in 1991, Democrats have averaged a four-point lead. Republicans did lead in the first year the poll was taken — the year of the first Iraq war. But since then, even when Republicans rack up midterm wins at the voting booth — the year after 9/11, for instance, or in the aftermath of the unpopular Obamacare bill eight years later — they tend to run roughly even with or behind Democrats.

Between 2016 and 2020 the Democratic advantage swelled to between five and six points. When Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump a year ago, Democrats held a 49-to-40 advantage. From nine points up to five points down in less than a year — it is one of the most drastic reversals of party fortune that Gallup has ever recorded.

The analysis site FiveThirtyEight shows a parallel collapse in Mr. Biden’s own popularity. He entered office with higher approval (55 percent) than Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush did, but has since tumbled to 42 percent, lower than any president at this stage in his tenure except his immediate predecessor, according to data that go back to World War II.

How did Democrats get into so much trouble so quick?

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[Clyde_Style]

This is not a right/left issue it's about everyone playing on a level field.

Insider and several other news organizations in 2021 identified 54 members of Congress and at least 182 high-ranking congressional staffers who've failed to properly report their financial trades as mandated by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, also known as the STOCK Act.

While lawmakers who violate the STOCK Act face a fine, the penalty is usually small — $200 is the standard amount — or waived by House or Senate ethics officials. Ethics watchdogs and even some members of Congress have called for stricter penalties or even a ban on federal lawmakers from trading individual stocks, although neither has come to pass.

J

Did I not say I don’t agree with Pelosi’s stance on this issue?

Pelosi’s stance? She had to be dragged to this position. You can still see her claw marks on the wall. She’s pissed as hell.

The penalties should be stiff. Is that clear enough for you?

[DOT]

I'd like to point out this is the Covid thread, not a general politics thread

Please keep discussion to Covid, thank you.

[HarthorneWingo]

Time for Wingo to make his move on Cheryl who will most likely be getting a divorce.

For those you aren’t up on this, her husband is Bobby Kennedy, Jr. (son of RFK) and he’s a staunch anti-vaxxer from years back before COVID. Timing is everything in life. She probably thought his rants on vaccines would be nothing more than nuisance. Psyche!

Watch on YouTube

Is Cheryl Jewish? Didn’t she vet this guy first?

Read on Twitter

?s=21

[Jethrobodine123]

Time for Wingo to make his move on Cheryl who will most likely be getting a divorce.

For those you aren’t up on this, her husband is Bobby Kennedy, Jr. (son of RFK) and he’s a staunch anti-vaxxer from years back before COVID. Timing is everything in life. She probably thought his rants on vaccines would be nothing more than nuisance. Psyche!

Watch on YouTube

Is Cheryl Jewish? Didn’t she vet this guy first?

Read on Twitter

?s=21

I had no idea she was married to this guy. You learn something new every day. He's been an anti-vaxer for a long time, what happened to him anyways? She's essentially saying that's on him I'm not like that.

J

[HarthorneWingo]

Time for Wingo to make his move on Cheryl who will most likely be getting a divorce.

For those you aren’t up on this, her husband is Bobby Kennedy, Jr. (son of RFK) and he’s a staunch anti-vaxxer from years back before COVID. Timing is everything in life. She probably thought his rants on vaccines would be nothing more than nuisance. Psyche!

Watch on YouTube

Is Cheryl Jewish? Didn’t she vet this guy first?

Read on Twitter

?s=21

I had no idea she was married to this guy. You learn something new every day. He's been an anti-vaxer for a long time, what happened to him anyways? She's essentially saying that's on him I'm not like that.

J

She should go back to Larry David. He’s a walk in the park compared to this loon. Interesting because Bobby’s also a big proponent of protecting the environment.

How does one square this apparent dichotomy in a human? I have to wonder how he decides on which set of scientific principles to believe in. Weird.

[dakomish23]

Fantastic reporting done on COVAX & worldwide vaccine shortage by TYT. I'll post the video once it loads later but it's live right now on YouTube / Twitch.

[dakomish23]

Time for Wingo to make his move on Cheryl who will most likely be getting a divorce.

For those you aren’t up on this, her husband is Bobby Kennedy, Jr. (son of RFK) and he’s a staunch anti-vaxxer from years back before COVID. Timing is everything in life. She probably thought his rants on vaccines would be nothing more than nuisance. Psyche!

Watch on YouTube

Is Cheryl Jewish? Didn’t she vet this guy first?

Read on Twitter

?s=21

I had no idea she was married to this guy. You learn something new every day. He's been an anti-vaxer for a long time, what happened to him anyways? She's essentially saying that's on him I'm not like that.

J

She should go back to Larry David. He’s a walk in the park compared to this loon. Interesting because Bobby’s also a big proponent of protecting the environment.

How does one square this apparent dichotomy in a human? I have to wonder how he decides on which set of scientific principles to believe in. Weird.

The second paragraph is exactly the issue. Ppl have made this political b/c in no other scenario have we seen this level of stupidity.

Anyway, have you noticed how Rs make excuses for disgusting GOP scum comparing vaccines & mask mandates to the holocaust?

Exhibit A:

Asked if he would apply those standards on his Republican colleagues in taking action against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgian Republican, who has issued a torrent of remarks and tweets deemed antisemitic since she was elected to Congress in 2020, Blakeman suggested she was not doing it from a standpoint of being hateful but a lack of education.

Earlier this year Greene compared vaccination and mask requirements to the Nazi rule during the Holocaust. She apologized and visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. after widespread condemnation and a threat to be censured, but later made more Nazi references and embraced the Nation of Islam — a group whose leaders have regularly trafficked in antisemitic tropes — in her fight against coronavirus vaccinations.


Blakeman said he draws a distinction between intentional antisemitism and “stupid” remarks. “I think in our party’s case, we don’t have people that we feel, by and large, are antisemitic,” he said. “But when they are, we call them out on it. And if they don’t educate themselves, and if they don’t change their behavior, we throw them out of our party.”

He described Greene as someone who is simply “uneducated” about the gravity of the Holocaust. “If she was educated, and she still continued to say and do things like that, then I would have to be concerned about whether or not they were hate motivated,” he added.

https://forward.com/news/480259/bruce-blakeman-nassau-county-first-jewish-executive-interview/

[B8RcDeMktfxC]

I'd like to point out this is the Covid thread, not a general politics thread

Please keep discussion to Covid, thank you.

lol

[thebuzzardman]

I had no idea she was married to this guy. You learn something new every day. He's been an anti-vaxer for a long time, what happened to him anyways? She's essentially saying that's on him I'm not like that.

J

She should go back to Larry David. He’s a walk in the park compared to this loon. Interesting because Bobby’s also a big proponent of protecting the environment.

How does one square this apparent dichotomy in a human? I have to wonder how he decides on which set of scientific principles to believe in. Weird.

The second paragraph is exactly the issue. Ppl have made this political b/c in no other scenario have we seen this level of stupidity.

Anyway, have you noticed how Rs make excuses for disgusting GOP scum comparing vaccines & mask mandates to the holocaust?

Exhibit A:

Asked if he would apply those standards on his Republican colleagues in taking action against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgian Republican, who has issued a torrent of remarks and tweets deemed antisemitic since she was elected to Congress in 2020, Blakeman suggested she was not doing it from a standpoint of being hateful but a lack of education.

Earlier this year Greene compared vaccination and mask requirements to the Nazi rule during the Holocaust. She apologized and visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. after widespread condemnation and a threat to be censured, but later made more Nazi references and embraced the Nation of Islam — a group whose leaders have regularly trafficked in antisemitic tropes — in her fight against coronavirus vaccinations.


Blakeman said he draws a distinction between intentional antisemitism and “stupid” remarks. “I think in our party’s case, we don’t have people that we feel, by and large, are antisemitic,” he said. “But when they are, we call them out on it. And if they don’t educate themselves, and if they don’t change their behavior, we throw them out of our party.”

He described Greene as someone who is simply “uneducated” about the gravity of the Holocaust. “If she was educated, and she still continued to say and do things like that, then I would have to be concerned about whether or not they were hate motivated,” he added.

https://forward.com/news/480259/bruce-blakeman-nassau-county-first-jewish-executive-interview/

This reply may be leaning a little too political in its discussion of Covid.

[Clyde_Style]

She should go back to Larry David. He’s a walk in the park compared to this loon. Interesting because Bobby’s also a big proponent of protecting the environment.

How does one square this apparent dichotomy in a human? I have to wonder how he decides on which set of scientific principles to believe in. Weird.

The second paragraph is exactly the issue. Ppl have made this political b/c in no other scenario have we seen this level of stupidity.

Anyway, have you noticed how Rs make excuses for disgusting GOP scum comparing vaccines & mask mandates to the holocaust?

Exhibit A:

Asked if he would apply those standards on his Republican colleagues in taking action against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgian Republican, who has issued a torrent of remarks and tweets deemed antisemitic since she was elected to Congress in 2020, Blakeman suggested she was not doing it from a standpoint of being hateful but a lack of education.

Earlier this year Greene compared vaccination and mask requirements to the Nazi rule during the Holocaust. She apologized and visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. after widespread condemnation and a threat to be censured, but later made more Nazi references and embraced the Nation of Islam — a group whose leaders have regularly trafficked in antisemitic tropes — in her fight against coronavirus vaccinations.


Blakeman said he draws a distinction between intentional antisemitism and “stupid” remarks. “I think in our party’s case, we don’t have people that we feel, by and large, are antisemitic,” he said. “But when they are, we call them out on it. And if they don’t educate themselves, and if they don’t change their behavior, we throw them out of our party.”

He described Greene as someone who is simply “uneducated” about the gravity of the Holocaust. “If she was educated, and she still continued to say and do things like that, then I would have to be concerned about whether or not they were hate motivated,” he added.

https://forward.com/news/480259/bruce-blakeman-nassau-county-first-jewish-executive-interview/

This reply may be leaning a little too political in its discussion of Covid.

Politics Bad, Covid Good

[dakomish23]

She should go back to Larry David. He’s a walk in the park compared to this loon. Interesting because Bobby’s also a big proponent of protecting the environment.

How does one square this apparent dichotomy in a human? I have to wonder how he decides on which set of scientific principles to believe in. Weird.

The second paragraph is exactly the issue. Ppl have made this political b/c in no other scenario have we seen this level of stupidity.

Anyway, have you noticed how Rs make excuses for disgusting GOP scum comparing vaccines & mask mandates to the holocaust?

Exhibit A:

Asked if he would apply those standards on his Republican colleagues in taking action against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgian Republican, who has issued a torrent of remarks and tweets deemed antisemitic since she was elected to Congress in 2020, Blakeman suggested she was not doing it from a standpoint of being hateful but a lack of education.

Earlier this year Greene compared vaccination and mask requirements to the Nazi rule during the Holocaust. She apologized and visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. after widespread condemnation and a threat to be censured, but later made more Nazi references and embraced the Nation of Islam — a group whose leaders have regularly trafficked in antisemitic tropes — in her fight against coronavirus vaccinations.


Blakeman said he draws a distinction between intentional antisemitism and “stupid” remarks. “I think in our party’s case, we don’t have people that we feel, by and large, are antisemitic,” he said. “But when they are, we call them out on it. And if they don’t educate themselves, and if they don’t change their behavior, we throw them out of our party.”

He described Greene as someone who is simply “uneducated” about the gravity of the Holocaust. “If she was educated, and she still continued to say and do things like that, then I would have to be concerned about whether or not they were hate motivated,” he added.

https://forward.com/news/480259/bruce-blakeman-nassau-county-first-jewish-executive-interview/

This reply may be leaning a little too political in its discussion of Covid.

Covid related!

[Pointgod]

You can see Joe Rogain’s brain melt in real time when actually confronted with facts outside of his bubble. Look how quickly he moves the goal posts when he does a simple Google search. This is problem with antivaxxers, they’re wrong a lot and rarely question their sources.

Watch on YouTube

It takes a certain arrogance to believe that you know more than people who have spent their lives researching these subjects.

Read on Twitter

[HarthorneWingo]

The second paragraph is exactly the issue. Ppl have made this political b/c in no other scenario have we seen this level of stupidity.

Anyway, have you noticed how Rs make excuses for disgusting GOP scum comparing vaccines & mask mandates to the holocaust?

Exhibit A:



https://forward.com/news/480259/bruce-blakeman-nassau-county-first-jewish-executive-interview/

This reply may be leaning a little too political in its discussion of Covid.

Covid related!

But I’m allowed to look at it right? Will I get suspended?

[Jethrobodine123]

You can see Joe Rogain’s brain melt in real time when actually confronted with facts outside of his bubble. Look how quickly he moves the goal posts when he does a simple Google search. This is problem with antivaxxers, they’re wrong a lot and rarely question their sources.

Watch on YouTube

It takes a certain arrogance to believe that you know more than people who have spent their lives researching these subjects.

Read on Twitter

Love that meme, that is so true.

COVID
I'd like to check out the Rogan clip because I used to catch his podcast all the time, mostly because of the MMA content, he could be out there on some subject matters but he was just a knuckle head so what harm could he do, right? But Spotify went and made him an offer of what was it, like $100 million dollars, so now he's just trying to get clicks, it's all about the clicks, if he says something that the right likes, he gets clicks, if he says something that makes him look stupid, he gets clicks. It's all about getting eyeballs or ears to his channel and he's making a fortune doing it. He's a grifter which seems to be the constant theme with these jerks.
COVID

J

[8516knicks]

This reply may be leaning a little too political in its discussion of Covid.

Covid related!

But I’m allowed to look at it right? Will I get suspended?

No, thibs will just put you behind Sims on the depth chart!

[HarthorneWingo]

Covid related!

But I’m allowed to look at it right? Will I get suspended?

No, thibs will just put you behind Sims on the depth chart!

I'll that NBA rookie salary and some free Knicks merch. I won't squawk about playing time either.

[NowWHYcee7]

I don't like Bari Weiss but she spoke for a lot of people there.....it's only online where I see all these weirdos who are sooooooo petrified of covid. People in real life are over it.