US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Danann]

So I just heard RFK denied the production of a polio vaccine, and of course, it seems like liberals are making it that it'll make polio into a nationwide pandemic again....
You guys think this was deserved or not, cause I'm on the side it is because vaccine trust has been destroyed with COVID-19's vaccine (definitely on purpose) being both so gatekept and so pushed.

 

[Booby Jones]

wait what? hospitals do that?

I literally only have insurance so that if i get cancer or something i can use it. I just dont go to the doctor. ever.

My insurance will probably ass rape me if i get cancer or something anyway so idk what im paying for

In my state you can sign a paper asking to be sponsored and then it's free. I've never been denied, so I'm pretty sure everyone can do it here.
Gosh it feels good to be an uninsured CHAD. Dental is a bitch though. 300 dollars for a composite filling is shit.

 

[The Ugly One]

I added my own bold for emphasis. They are telling us that illegals pay more in taxes and pay more into the system than citizens. I call bullshit on this.

No, they're doing a fantastic sleight of hand where they lump all "foreign-born people" together and take the average. This is what they said:

The JEC report contests that logic, citing a Brookings Institution report that found foreign-born people pay on average $1,300 more in annual taxes and over a lifetime pay $237,000 more in taxes than they receive in services from federal, state and local governments.

Think about some of the prominent foreign-born people who pay a lot of taxes. Elon Musk was born in South Africa. Sergey Brin was born in Russia. Jensen Huang was born in Taiwan. What do these guys have in common with Guatemalan migrants? Well, they weren't born in America! That makes them all basically the same! The next Elon Musk could be one of those Haitian boat people!

You think you hate these people enough, but you don't.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

What Trump would do: Immediately have a Press Conference, blame China for it (who else could possibly do this stuff?) Announce he’s directed the military to find and destroy any suspicious drones. Say a bunch of shit that the media freaks out over.

Sometimes I love that crazy bastard.

Shit like this makes me fucking mad. I know this is in Europe, but they have always been the beta-testers for shit like this that will most likely also happen here in the states as well.

"oh this will be used to track fraud and illegal immigration" they say as they try to hide their laughter. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows this will be used as another gateway to invade your privacy and track what you're doing. Basically policing you even more than they already do, including whatever you do online.

We all have that shit happening all the time anyways, as far as I can tell.

 

[John Badman]

Veggie Tales is more political than Captain Planet.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

"Economic fallout from Trump mass deportations could eclipse Great Recession: Report" (archive)

Not a fucking word on how labor shortages drives wages up do to competition for workers. I'm sure that was totally an accidental oversight on their part.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

So I just heard RFK denied the production of a polio vaccine, and of course, it seems like liberals are making it that it'll make polio into a nationwide pandemic again....

So he got "his lawyer" to ask FDA to rescind approval of the Polio vaccine. Nothing has happened yet.

It's also unlikely to come back because polio is borderline extinct, except in specific backwards turd world countries.

You guys think this was deserved or not, cause I'm on the side it is because vaccine trust has been destroyed with COVID-19's vaccine (definitely on purpose) being both so gatekept and so pushed.

I think its dumb, because Polio is an actual serious disease (unlike the weak sauce COVID) that can actually kill or maim in significant quantities/percentages.
Polio vaccines are also proven methodology: e.g. live virus or inactivated virus - rather than novel/prototype mRNA shit like the COVID vaccines.

But like I said above, it's the foreshadowing of maybe a happening down the road, it hasn't actually happened yet. And polio is pretty much extinct in the West anyways - so if we get a return of polio its not RFK or anti-vaxxer's fault, its because of the people importing infinity turd worlders without vetting.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I could see the polio thing being a 6d gnip gnop
get the media to fall all over themselves to screech about the occasional polio and then accidentally mention that the armpits of the world are miserable bags of disease
get the THEM! to fall all over themselves to screech about the rich and trustworthy history of polio and then art of the deal "okay, well let's just look at the recent ones then since you think the history is what matters"

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Veggie Tales is more political than Captain Planet.

FDR was a communist and he just plowed through and everyone just went along with it because MUH WAR!
God crippled him for a reason...

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

There's a lot of vaccines that aren't like the ones when we were kids, my fellow Kiwis.

The Polio vaccine? Totally different than the version we lined up in the gym at school for.
The smallpox vaccine? They don't do that anymore.
MMR vaccine? Completely different than the one you got in the gym in your underwear, wondering why the girls had underwear on their chests.

The amount of vaccines they hand out is insane now. It isn't the handful of shots you got in grade school with a booster about 9th grade. No, it's every fucking year.

AND some of the modern polio vaccines require boosters now. Remember the old one? Bam. You won't get polio like that kid in English class in the wheelchair, not today, not forever! Nope, not any more. You have to get boosters all the time.

Check out the modern vaccines compared the ones just twenty or thirty years ago.

Check out how many kids get and in what time period.

Things are different now, my fellow Kiwis.

 

[mlanguishi]

The amount of vaccines they hand out is insane now. It isn't the handful of shots you got in grade school with a booster about 9th grade. No, it's every fucking year.

The only vaccine I've gotten regularly since I've been an adult is tetanus. I recommend that one. Otherwise, the occasional MMR and TDAP seem to be ok too. They better not screw with those. After 60 or so you're supposed to get viral pneumonia ones too, and I've never heard problems with those.

I could understand smallpox and so on, even though those left a perm dime-quarter size scar in the shot size on everyone that got ones upper arm. Now they even do them on kids for chickenpox and other fairly harmless diseases.

 

[GlupShitto]

The media's trying to pretend that they were always on Trump's side, but we CANNOT afford to forget that they've been pushing degeneracy for over a decade now. Every last "journalist" who's spent the past decade criticizing Trump and celebrating degeneracy should be rounded up and shot.

 

[glue eater]

It might put the FBI into legal jeopardy if they made a fake hate group which explicitly set out to associate themselves with a political figure. Even in Charlottesville, the "Unite the Right" op didn't try to go tiki torch -> Trump flag -> tiki torch for their spook march. It's a tell.

Implying feds give a fuck about breaking the law themselves.

 

[net and yahoo]

>conservatives and some dems fleeing to red states in droves from dem strongholds
>blue states lose their electoral college votes
did you ever doubt the plan??


>Total:
Republican +12
Democrats -12

>Adjusted 2024:
Trump 324
Harris 214

Tweet/Report

 

[teriyakiburns]

"Man in jail shoots himself" is one hell of a misleading headline. Far too specific to be a mistake.

Those headlines are generated by apple's LLM.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

Shit like this makes me fucking mad. I know this is in Europe, but they have always been the beta-testers for shit like this that will most likely also happen here in the states as well.

Link
Available in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, and Puerto Rico.
More states to be added:
"Apple said in 2021 that Connecticut, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Utah were also committed to support the feature"
9to5Mac.com has a webpage that stays up to date on Apple Wallet digital IDs.
They have a list of airports you can use the digital ID for TSA.

"oh this will be used to track fraud and illegal immigration" they say as they try to hide their laughter. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows this will be used as another gateway to invade your privacy and track what you're doing. Basically policing you even more than they already do, including whatever you do online. Nothing is sacred anymore, and the fact that more people don't get pissed off about this and tell the government to fuck off is mind-blowing. Nothing good has ever come from having the government be the parents or watchdogs or security of anything because they always find a way to fuck it up by not only taking a mile when they are given an inch, but using these things in the most nefarious ways possible to control the plebs that they are secretly scared shitless of

DHS, TSA are testing digital identity systems, assessing ‘liveness’ of selfies
“Our goal has always been a future of travel that’s fully digital and secured with biometric identification”—Nick Careen, IATA Senior Vice President for Operations, Safety and Security, October 2023

I guess he gets points for honesty.

According to the DHS “Digital Identity and Trust” portal, “The ability to establish and verify an individual’s identity enables the Department to perform risk-based decision making that is tailored to the individual. Such decision making may involve determining whether an individual is eligible to receive specific services or benefits or ascertaining if an individual is a known or suspected threat.”

“Digital trust enabled by new capabilities, such as digital credentials (e.g., mobile driver’s licenses (mDL)) and zero trust architecture, are critical to the Department of Homeland Security successfully deploying and operating 5G communication systems, critical infrastructure, government services, and many other Department missions.”

Will a judge and jury be involved to determine if a person is allowed services or benefits? Is this going to be implemented in a fully Constitutional way? It's not just going to be some 300 pound negress informing me I am being detained while I pass through a "secure screening area" with locking gates, right? Right?

Hey, what does 5G have to do with this?

US government transitions Veteran’s Affairs, IRS to Login.gov or ID.me
Pitched in a release as a simplifying measure that is part of the Biden-Harris administration’s “comprehensive efforts to safeguard and protect veteran data and that of their beneficiaries,” the shift to digital is only optional for now. After January 31, 2025, My HealtheVet user ID and passwords will be invalid for signing in to VA websites or apps. After September 30, 2025, DS Logon username and passwords will also become invalid.

Login.gov or ID.me accounts require multi-factor authentication, for which touch or face biometrics are an option. Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer Kurt DelBene says “modern accounts like Login.gov or ID.me enhance the existing security and safety of online interactions, offering a robust defense against unauthorized access and identity theft.” Digitization is “all about putting the veteran first.”

Putting veterans first... for the face scanning digital tracking system. How nice of them.

IRS is next on this system it seems.

Forget any of this information being secure either... more and more dumbfucks are being hired for high-end internet security jobs that can't tell the fucking difference between a phishing scam and a legit email so of course all that information is going to get hacked and leaked easily with a snap of a finger. "Everyone's Doxxed, OOPSEY DOOPSEY!!!"

The National Public Data breach exposed 270 million users
The stolen data was said to include social security numbers, full names, family information, as well as current and previous addresses.

At this point I assume anyone willing to spend money can acquire anyone's "private" data. Maybe the ultra wealthy can avoid this fate, but I think they mostly rely on security teams and damage mitigation.

These people that support these ideas should be publicly hanged while people pelt them with stones and other shit they find laying around the streets.

Careful with the 'uigi-posting. Wouldn't want them to decide you no longer deserve services or benefits. Or you could end up with a $100,000 bail like that florida-woman.

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When you realize the customer of the hospital/pharmacy is the insurance company, an uninsured are just noise, it all makes sense. You can probably get the same medicine for $5 if you’re a horse.

We are all "one species". I see no reason to discriminate between being a horse, human, fish, chicken, or any other creature. Unrelatedely, apple is one of my favorite flavors.
Maybe we can get some of those cheap Canadian drugs if we just annex Canada.

You used to be able to get catastrophic insurance which would payout (even today they have a maximum for a few million usually) for cancer or whatnot but anything else you were on your own.

That was made basically illegal by ….. the ACA.

It’s such a fucking scam. You can actually price shop shit …. If you’re uninsured. If you’re insured, they won’t talk to you lol.

Obamacare is what you create if you want a system where the insurance and pharmaceutical industries rob everyone. Of course Romney would be the first to devise such a plan.

The solutions are blatantly obvious, but they (lobbyists) don't want it fixed. Almost any economic problem with increasing costs and worsening conditions is caused by "rent-seekers". Anywhere in the system that has monopoly or choke-point is going to attract a "rent-seeking" troll who will put up a toll and extract every penny of anyone forced to pass by.

 

[demicolon]

If Trump comes out and says "These are Chinese drones" then the entire nation will know within 48 hours that it was actually a test of some FBI surveillance platform or some such stupid shit.

Does the 2nd ammendment cover weaponized autism?

 

[GettrGriftr]

The smallpox vaccine? They don't do that anymore.

I could understand smallpox and so on, even though those left a perm dime-quarter size scar in the shot size on everyone that got ones upper arm.

I still have my scar. The Wife's is much larger than mine. And that vaccine we got is way too old and is now worth bupkis should we, under some bizarre set of circumstances, be exposed to smallpox (which still exists, if only in CDC labs).

 

[FILTH Tourist]

>conservatives and some dems fleeing to red states in droves from dem strongholds
>blue states lose their electoral college votes
did you ever doubt the plan??
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>Total:
Republican +12
Democrats -12

>Adjusted 2024:
Trump 324
Harris 214

Tweet/Report

It's only going to get worse for them once Trump changes things so only CITIZENS count towards house and electoral representation.

 

[General Disarray]

The only preventative medicine that matters is not being fucking fat.

Pretty much this. When I went in to my GP just for basic bloodwork and to establish a relationship, the hijabi doctor didn't even come around from sitting in front of her computer reading my blood results. No listening to my heart or breathing, getting my history, nothing. Said I had slightly elevated cholesterol and wanted me on a script. No discussion about lifestyle or diet. Just throw the pill at me and schedule the next appointment. Waste of both of our time.

I eliminated seed oils and incorporated more red meats, and cut down on carbs. I refuse to get on that drug carousel where one is given, then another to combat the side effects of the original one, then another... it's ridiculous.