All_Pro_Bills

Spoken like another mouthpiece for the elite establishment ruling class. Maybe all the inner city poor can move to the Knob Hill neighborhood in San Francisco? Or the upper East Side in Manhattan or vacation in the Hampton's? I hear they looking to improve their diversity profile by bringing in some poor folks.

So shouldn't the people in the community have some input on how government funding, which I'm 100% certain is needed to settle people, is going to be spent and allocated in their community? Along with who is going to be settled into their communities. After all, its not like the citizens in these poor communities are living so large that they couldn't use some additional help. Or are they just there for the elites and establishment politicians to crap all over when required? What I hate more than fake do-gooders is fake do-gooders that push all the consequences of their fake virtues on to somebody else.

As a consistent advocate for the elite establishment you should already know that none of the refugees will be allowed to settle in their gentrified and upscale neighborhoods or gated communities nor will their children be enrolled in the private schools the elite attend so they'll never know how it all works out.

We live in an arbitrary and dysfunctional system ruled by confirmation bias managed by like-minded idiots disconnected from reality from the same backgrounds and educational institutions approving and endorsing the ideas of other like-minded idiots disconnected from reality from the same backgrounds and educational institutions. As I've concluded its impossible to reason with the idiots its approaching the point in time where there's really only two solutions to the problem. Get rid of the idiots the easy way or get rid of the idiots the hard way.

Worried? Hardly, because there is no truth beyond the fact some protesters got out of control and they need to answer for their behavior. So I'd say I'm amused and slightly entertained by the pageantry of it all. But by all means let's devote a lot of time and expense to find out who broke a couple chairs and a window or two. I sit here riveted to my screen awaiting the next episode of the critically acclaimed award winning drama "The Committee". In the next episode we find out who "illegally" used the House chamber rest room as they are charged and sentenced to 50 years in prison for their heinous act of not flushing or washing their hands. An act that threatened the very core of our democracy! House speaker Pelosi decried the act vowing never to use stall #2 in the rest room ever again!

Are you still holding out hope that this dog-and-pony show is going to reveal some sort of conspiracy or some organized attempt to occupy the Capitol? Because from the looks of things so far you've got to be disappointed. Just some plea bargain deals on minor charges like in municipal traffic court. And more money and resources well spent by our government.

Or maybe only vaccinated people can vote? Hey why not. No booster, no vote. For your safety..

So companies see their margins fall or they pass on cost increases to customers. And then their customers have to make purchasing decisions. What do I need? And what do I want? Given a constant income the rational decision is I'll continue to buy what I need but cut back on things that I want. So the company that makes things people "want" but don't need, consumer discretionary goods see a drop in their sales. Things like vacations or maybe deciding to squeeze out a year or two more out of that car you drive. Pretty soon they don't need to produce as much. So they lay off workers. And then more companies lay off more workers. Pretty soon everyone notices unemployment is rising. And the economy slows. But workers that still have jobs will want wage increases to keep up with the cost of living. And those on public assistance or unemployment will need more money to keep even with price increases. So there will be calls for more government spending. Which means more borrowing and national debt. Which causes the dollar to fall and makes imports more expensive. Imports which we depend on. So what does the Fed do? Well normally they would print or create more money to juice the economy. But that will stoke already high inflation. So if they do that inflation will go higher. If they don't the economy will continue to shrink. Long story short we're screwed.

The protection argument misses the point. I can dream up all kinds of "protections". Like a Lion in a 6 foot cage we all can be as safe as possible. The issue here is under our system of Constitutional rights and legal due process are any of these edicts valid and legal? And is there any implicit or explicit authority to change the concept of "rights" granted by the Laws and the Constitution to the concept of "privileges" granted by government officials? The other issue is that almost every single one of these proclamations are generated from the executive level or some agency and not any legislative body. Without due process. And I was always led to believe the legislative branch at all levels debates, passes, and creates legislation. From where I sit the CDC or some other agency or Mayor, Governor, or some other public official has no authority to cancel or repeal my Constitutional rights. Pandemic or no pandemic.

Perhaps. But when I hear and see and him on the interview circuit I hear Sympathy for the Devil playing in the background. He looks and acts the part perfectly. Taker of Souls..

My question was explain away the results in India with some other factor that caused cases and deaths to plummet? Don't have one? Don't worry. Pfizer is working on a 3CL Protease Inhibitor anti-viral that will soon start clinical trials. And I'm certain it will get accelerated approval which is more than I can say for about 1/2 dozen treatment applications the FDA is currently sitting on. Functionally their protease inhibitor has properties consistent with medications like Ivermectin but you can be assured it will be a lot more expensive to produce and use. So soon Twitter and Facebook will authorize you to believe and defend what I just stated as "information" and "fact" which is the vaccine program needs to be augmented by an effective anti-viral treatment.

One thing our official clown car scientific community, or the slow-witted media and other self-proclaimed experts, can't explain is how the early and aggressive outpatient treatment of households and family units with Ivermectin in India coincided with a 97% reduction in cases in Delhi over a 28 day period this past May. Other States using the protocol also showed improvement and conversely those that did not saw cases rise. Could something else be responsible? Perhaps, but to this point there is no reasonable or "scientific" explanation to suggest anything other factor drove down Delta cases. The country went from the worst outbreak to being out of the conversation today. This is a country with very low vaccine rates. Even after all these cases and deaths piled up the US still has more cases and more deaths even with the benefit of our expensive and bloated healthcare system. But here in the U.S., cheap and readily available solutions not producing Big Pharma revenues and profits just don't reside in the DNA of America's decision makers. Their flippant arrogance to dismiss anything outside of the box they reside in is a pathetic substitute for the science they claim to follow. The only thing worse is the close minded idiots who continue to defend it.

Fauci needs to resign or be fired. Facts have proven him to be a liar. He lied to Congress, he lied to the public. This isn't a political issue. Its one of credibility. How does anyone expect the public to line up and support policy if the mouthpiece for it all is a fraud. And perhaps a guy that had a hand in unleashing COVID on the world? Sadly, a resignation or firing is unlikely as our leadership is both clueless and unaccountable. Over time the government and almost every other social institution has become dysfunctional and ineffective. Fauci is symptomatic of that dysfunction. And traditionally in our Constitutional form of government the government exists solely for the purpose of serving its citizens. If its not doing that then it has no purpose. We're getting real close to that point where a different vision of where the citizens exist solely for the purpose of serving the government is taking hold. The last one looks to be where all these officials and would-be dictators with all kinds of restrictions and edicts are lining up. Which one you believe tells which side of the struggle you sit on.

For the record, I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. And I generate my own conclusions using inputs from various sources of information. Some of which I agree with and some which I don't. And given my job I have access to what's likely the largest private collection of health care data and analytics including about a year and a half of COVID patient information. I'd say that makes me pretty well informed along with searching and researching publicly available sources like the CDC. One of several government and private organizations my work team happens to support. Also for the record I am vaccinated but I'm also aware of the limitations that provides. And apparently the CDC agrees with me as they have determined vaccinated people can spread the virus, have high viral loads, become infected, and get sick just the same as the un-vaccinated. I have yet to see any study or data that specifies the viral load reduction in vaccinated and un-vaccinated so if you've got a source I'd be interested. I'm not arguing against vaccines here. Or any specific measure. What I am arguing about is inconsistent and ineffective social and medical policies that conflict with known facts and the officials that refuse to adjust their edicts based on the availability of new information. As I've concluded vaccination alone will not stop the outbreak (look at Israel for example) I can only conclude they care more about getting everyone vaccinated than they do with stopping the virus.

Yes, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made that admission on a CNN news interview a few months back. This from MSN. "The viral load of vaccinated people with breakthrough cases is the same as in unvaccinated people, the CDC said Friday." So where's the logic in restrictions on just the un-vaccinated? Playing the odds maybe? Or just shooting in the dark? Or has the goalpost been moved and rather than keeping vaccinated people from getting sick the goal is now to keep them from getting seriously sick? Has there ever been such a thing with vaccines ever before? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-report-shows-vaccinated-people-can-spread-covid-19/ar-AAML2bE I keep preaching it over and over and over that we what's needed is an effective anti-viral to complement the vaccines but that idea seems to have little support among the people making all the rules here. More than being oblivious to the concept they appear to be resisting it. Protecting the host from severe inflection while allowing the virus to multiple and mutate using the host isn't going to get the job done. Unless the vaccine stops the virus from replicating, which apparently these vaccines don't, then vaccinating everyone isn't going to end this or get it under control without a lot of unintended consequences like ultimately producing some killer variant.

The problem here is all these policies are based on false assumptions or premises. False premises known to organizations like the CDC. False assumption #1. Vaccinated people can't get the virus. Fact is they can and they do either because the vaccine did not "work" for them or the immunity it provided is wearing off over time. False assumption #2. Vaccinated people can't spread the virus. Fact is they can because the vaccines are not good at controlling viral load. And an individual with a viral load, vaccinated or not vaccinated, is a potential spreader.

It appears to have worked in India. Curiously, the demise of the Delta variant there coincided with the use of the cheap, plentiful, and easy to produce medication. In Indian States where it was used the case rates plummeted while in States where it wasn't they continued to rise. The course of treatment was when a family or household member tested positive all the household members would be put on the treatment. To prevent the infection more than to treat it. Evidence and results suggest that strategy may have been the solution there as the Delta outbreak is under control. Not so much in the U.S. it seems. But who gets rich off a 50 cent solution to the outbreak? Not the exec's at Pfizer that's for sure. Or the big hospital systems. Or the politicians spreading fear to gain power. Now I don't know for sure whether the "horse de-wormer" turned the tide of the outbreak in India or if it was some other factor. But what's funny is how in the U.S. all the low cost potential solutions are so easily dismissed and discredited while the most expensive and complex solutions are always pursued. In the investment world the concerns about the vaccine producers was that the revenue and profits were one shot events because after everyone is vaccinated that's it. But now booster shots! Problem solved! And apparently all the useful idiots, being the least informed people on the planet, would prefer to mock and casually dismiss potential solutions and advocate for the big pharma companies and continue with all sorts of social restrictions rather than take a serious look at alternatives. I find the lack of curiosity and willingness to entertain alternatives disturbing. Along with a conclusion that we're being led by narrow minded intellectual bigots and idiots. If we had leaders that were capable of actual intelligent thinking the problem would be over by now.

Or ask Clinton or Gates. We can go on naming names of people involved across the political and social spectrum but that's not my point. This issue transcends politics and shouldn't be trivialized by it.

The question with Epstein isn't about involvement of Trump or Clinton. The question is why is the media and the legal community, both private and public prosecutors, taking such a "hands off" approach to what is clearly sexual abuse and exploitation of young women? Where is the Me Too movement on this? Feminist groups and women advocate organizations? Where are the investigations? Hearings? Leaks of names on "the list"? Questioning and arrest of others involved? Why is Epstein untouchable even in death? Was it true that he was a Mossad operative blackmailing US officials and powerful men? I hear more about the Brittaney Spears legal battles with her father than I do about this topic. This all seems quite suspicious. The fact heads aren't rolling is telling. Who's giving the orders to bury the subject?

The way the question is phased obviously biases the survey (would anyone approve of a botched plan?) but overall I'm still trying to process the idea that anyone paying attention to what transpired here can in any way "approve" of the way the withdrawal was performed or rationalize that it was executed well. I expect a better question is "do you think the withdrawal event will have any adverse consequences for US foreign policy and its relations to its allies and foes going forward"? IMO the way it went down makes the U.S. look weak and feeble. Which is perhaps a reflection on our current leadership. For me this marks a clear beginning of the end for the Empire and everyone should prepare accordingly.

Truth is "fact checking" is a polite term for censorship. Anything that conflicts with the consensus view of experts or the censor's disposition on the topic is false. Which logically is absurd. It assumes they somehow know all absolute truth and facts. More BS. As most censors are clueless idiots motivated by politics or some ideology. The idea that critical thinking, discovery, investigation, and additional knowledge can change the known facts and conclusions is somehow lost. Go back several hundred years. The expert view was the Earth was flat, all objects in the Solar System revolved around the Earth, and the Earth was the center of the Universe. Somebody posts a tweet the the Earth is a sphere, all the planets revolve around the Sun, and the Earth is not the center of the Universe. The poster's account is suspended and labeled as "This is mis-information that conflicts with the prevailing expert consensus view".

If you're an Australian just throw your iPhone in the garbage. Tracking problem solved. Buy a burner with cash and use that to communicate. All that should be legal, right? At least for now..

What I'm eager to hear about is the thought process behind the idea that a Summer high school trip to Afghanistan was a good idea. Pandemic, unstable government, war zone, those kinds of things. I suspect its the "nobody could have seen this coming" excuse.

Well, now that CNN has given Biden a severe tongue lashing they can get back on message about the real menace.. the white supremacist threat fantasy. With delusional statements like "White supremacist and anti-government extremists have expressed admiration for what the Taliban accomplished, a worrying development for US officials who have been grappling with the threat of domestic violent extremism." US officials meaning the imbeciles and idiots running policy. I guess if you consider expressing contempt and disgust at the less than stellar evacuation conducted by the administration then sure, let's call it "admiration". Of course the Prez cites the extraordinary efforts of the administration and the military in carrying out the mission. Some of which is true but given their own incompetence in creating the need for an emergency evacuation mission its a situation hardly worthy of praise. Like somebody started the house on fire and managed to put it out after just burning up the kitchen. By this definition they're a real hero..

Good points. I need to remember to never under-estimate the value of bribe-able and corrupt third world political leadership (or maybe political leadership in general?).