Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 17 March 2024

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 17 March 2024 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[rodguy911]

I think there is, not sure if the old Winn Dixie in Tavernier is now Aldi owned but it has shown some progress.

[patriotspride]

Faux had a great interview with Netanyahu this morning. While watching I told my wife he should compare the attacks on Israel to our 9 11.

Boom he does just that and calls out Schumer and Biden as hippocrits re their recent speech and support.

He clearly states 80 % of Americans support Israel. A very real and clever way of telling them you are out of touch with Americans

[Deplorable American1776]

In this Deplorable household it is - Walmart, Winn-Dixie, Publix/Greenwise (Greenwise is Publix organic market. We visit Greenwise twice a month for beer (Me and Craft sodas for Mrs D and the kids). They are tearing down an 11 year old Publix to build a new one.), Aldi and Sav-A-Lot.

[Alas Babylon!]

Netanyahu: Schumer Calling for New Elections in Israel ‘Totally Inappropriate’

Think about how nuts the democrats were when Hillary made up the Russian collusion hoax on President Trump. No one, they said, should "meddle" in our elections!

If it wasn't for their rank hypocrisy, the democrats would just be rank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was “totally inappropriate” when he called for a new election in Israel.

Anchor Dana Bash said, “Let’s talk about what happened here in the us this week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a pivotal speech and said you have lost your way and called you an obstacle to peace. Take a listen.”

On the Senate floor, Schumer said, “The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7. Now I believe that holding a new election, once the war starts to wind down, would give Israelis an opportunity to express their vision for the post-war future.”

Bash said, “Chuck Schumer is the highest-ranking Jewish elected official here in America, a staunch supporter of Israel. What’s your response?”

Netanyahu said, “I think what you said is totally inappropriate. It’s inappropriate for to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there. That’s something that Israel, the Israeli public does on its own. We’re not a banana republic. I think the only government that we should be working on and to bring down now is the tourist tyranny in Gaza, the Hamas tyranny that murdered over 1,000 Israelis, including some dozens of Americans. And is holding Americans and Israelis hostage, that’s what we should be focused on. As far as what Senator Schumer said the majority of Israelis support our government. 82% of Americans support Israel instead of Hamas.”

[rodguy911]

I hope I survive the day. LOL! ........................ can't post for a while my daughter is in the hospital and we are getting new info.

[Alas Babylon!]

You left out Dollar Tree, Dollar General and Family Dollar.

Us rural folks are guaranteed to have a dollar store even in the remotest places. Going to the Walmart is a bigger adventure!

[norwaypinesavage]

Kurtz is unwatchable. He bobbles around more than the bobble doll on a dashboard on a gravel road. I’ll admit that he occasionally sounds cogent when I can’t see him, but that’s very rare. My controls always go to OFF when I hear the name.

[kabar]

I paid $34 for a 2.5 lb brisket. Thankfully, Yellin says inflation is down.

[Alas Babylon!]

This pi$$es me off!

Pelosi: We Have to Win This Election Because Trump Is ‘Predicting a Bloodbath’

President Trump was absolutely talking about the destruction of the American auto industry. Not Americans, you lying botoxed, stretch-faced beeyotch!!!

Bash is an actual DNC propagandist to allow that to stand without correction.

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Democrats had to win the election because former President Donald Trump was “predicting a bloodbath.”

Saturday, at a rally in Dayton, OH, Trump said, “If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars as now we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”

Pelosi said, “But we have, we just have to win this election because he’s even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean? He’s going to exact a bloodbath? There’s something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American people and their goodness, but how much more do they have to see from him to understand that this isn’t what our country is about? Praising Hitler praising the Russians — honestly, I didn’t condemn our soldiers for losing or dying in war or being captured in war. He said he was wrong with Russia. They defeated Hitler. What about the millions of Americans who risked or gave their lives? What about him saying that soldiers buried in Europe? He didn’t want to visit them because they were losers.”

[Alas Babylon!]

Who is the worst propagandist?

Pelosi, who knows she’s lying, President Trump was talking about a bloodbath for the American Auto Industry. He never said buried soldiers were losers—NOBODY would say that...

OR

Dana Bash, for sitting their stone-faced and not correcting Pelosi on any of it, but thanking her for getting up so early in the morning?

CNN is such a cesspool.

[norwaypinesavage]

I have abandoned Bing and edge because of Co-Pilot and their AI. Their searches are useless anymore. My wife can’t even find recipes anymore with it. Every technical issue I’ve ever tried on it has been dead wrong. It can’t even integrate acceleration to get displacement right. It says: “apply cumtrapz” as one of three methods. The other two give wrong answers.

Hello Duckduckgo.

[kabar]

Harvard Tramples the Truth--When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, Veritas wasn’t the university’s guiding principle by Professor Martin Kuldorf

Great article by a renowned scientist and former professor at Harvard. Kuldorf is part of the suit, Missouri vs Biden, that is being argued before SCOTUS on Monday.

I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story—a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic.

On March 10, 2020, before any government prompting, Harvard declared that it would “suspend in-person classes and shift to online learning.” Across the country, universities, schools, and state governments followed Harvard’s lead.

Yet it was clear, from early 2020, that the virus would eventually spread across the globe, and that it would be futile to try to suppress it with lockdowns. It was also clear that lockdowns would inflict enormous collateral damage, not only on education but also on public health, including treatment for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health. We will be dealing with the harm done for decades. Our children, the elderly, the middle class, the working class, and the poor around the world—all will suffer.

Schools closed in many other countries, too, but under heavy international criticism, Sweden kept its schools and daycares open for its 1.8 million children, ages one to 15. Why? While anyone can get infected, we have known since early 2020 that more than a thousandfold difference in Covid mortality risk holds between the young and the old. Children faced minuscule risk from Covid, and interrupting their education would disadvantage them for life, especially those whose families could not afford private schools, pod schools, or tutors, or to homeschool.

What were the results during the spring of 2020? With schools open, Sweden had zero Covid deaths in the one-to-15 age group, while teachers had the same mortality as the average of other professions. Based on those facts, summarized in a July 7, 2020, report by the Swedish Public Health Agency, all U.S. schools should have quickly reopened. Not doing so led to “startling evidence on learning loss” in the United States, especially among lower- and middle-class children, an effect not seen in Sweden.

Sweden was the only major Western country that rejected school closures and other lockdowns in favor of concentrating on the elderly, and the final verdict is now in. Led by an intelligent social democrat prime minister (a welder), Sweden had the lowest excess mortality among major European countries during the pandemic, and less than half that of the United States. Sweden’s Covid deaths were below average, and it avoided collateral mortality caused by lockdowns.

Yet on July 29, 2020, the Harvard-edited New England Journal of Medicine published an article by two Harvard professors on whether primary schools should reopen, without even mentioning Sweden. It was like ignoring the placebo control group when evaluating a new pharmaceutical drug. That’s not the path to truth.

That spring, I supported the Swedish approach in op-eds published in my native Sweden, but despite being a Harvard professor, I was unable to publish my thoughts in American media. My attempts to disseminate the Swedish school report on Twitter (now X) put me on the platform’s Trends Blacklist. In August 2020, my op-ed on school closures and Sweden was finally published by CNN—but not the one you’re thinking of. I wrote it in Spanish, and CNN–Español ran it. CNN–English was not interested.

I was not the only public health scientist speaking out against school closures and other unscientific countermeasures. Scott Atlas, an especially brave voice, used scientific articles and facts to challenge the public health advisors in the Trump White House, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, and Covid coordinator Deborah Birx, but to little avail. When 98 of his Stanford faculty colleagues unjustly attacked Atlas in an open letter that did not provide a single example of where he was wrong, I wrote a response in the student-run Stanford Daily to defend him. I ended the letter by pointing out that:

"Among experts on infectious disease outbreaks, many of us have long advocated for an age-targeted strategy, and I would be delighted to debate this with any of the 98 signatories. Supporters include Professor Sunetra Gupta at Oxford University, the world’s preeminent infectious disease epidemiologist. Assuming no bias against women scientists of color, I urge Stanford faculty and students to read her thoughts."

None of the 98 signatories accepted my offer to debate. Instead, someone at Stanford sent complaints to my superiors at Harvard, who were not thrilled with me.

I had no inclination to back down. Together with Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford, I wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for age-based focused protection instead of universal lockdowns, with specific suggestions for how better to protect the elderly, while letting children and young adults live close to normal lives.

With the Great Barrington Declaration, the silencing was broken. While it is easy to dismiss individual scientists, it was impossible to ignore three senior infectious-disease epidemiologists from three leading universities. The declaration made clear that no scientific consensus existed for school closures and many other lockdown measures. In response, though, the attacks intensified—and even grew slanderous. Collins, a lab scientist with limited public-health experience who controls most of the nation’s medical research budget, called us “fringe epidemiologists” and asked his colleagues to orchestrate a “devastating published takedown.” Some at Harvard obliged.

A prominent Harvard epidemiologist publicly called the declaration “an extreme fringe view,” equating it with exorcism to expel demons. A member of Harvard’s Center for Health and Human Rights, who had argued for school closures, accused me of “trolling” and having “idiosyncratic politics,” falsely alleging that I was “enticed . . . with Koch money,” “cultivated by right-wing think tanks,” and “won’t debate anyone.” (A concern for those less privileged does not automatically make you right-wing!) Others at Harvard worried about my “scientifically inaccurate” and “potentially dangerous position,” while “grappling with the protections offered by academic freedom.”

[kabar]

PS from the Kuldorf article

"At the behest of the U.S. government, Twitter censored my tweet for contravening CDC policy. Having also been censored by LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, I could not freely communicate as a scientist. Who decided that American free-speech rights did not apply to honest scientific comments at odds with those of the CDC director?"

This is what is at stake in Missouri vs Biden

[rodguy911]

Great stuff great comparison.

[rodguy911]

Put in perspective if the deep state wants to Cloward Piven us and destroy the country in the midst everything they are doing is exactly what does that. It’s all designed to take us down.

[rodguy911]

duck is OK,google lite, but brave is better none of them are free of bias.

[kabar]

TikTok

The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on Phones in the U.S.--Financier Jeff Yass made a big bet on the app, and he’s a top donor to lawmakers who support it

TikTok now has many more friends, with something in common: backing from billionaire financier Jeff Yass. They’ve helped stall attempts to outlaw America’s most-downloaded app.

Yass’s investment company, Susquehanna International Group, bet big on TikTok in 2012, buying a stake in parent company ByteDance now measured at about 15%. That translates into a personal stake for Yass of 7% in ByteDance. It is worth roughly $21 billion based on the company’s recent valuation, or much of his $28 billion net worth as gauged by Bloomberg.

Yass is also one of the top donors to the Club for Growth, an influential conservative group that rallied Republican opposition to a TikTok ban. Yass has donated $61 million to the Club for Growth’s political-spending arm since 2010, or about 24% of its total, according to federal records.

Club for Growth made public its opposition to banning TikTok in March, in an opinion article by its president, at a time when sentiment against the platform among segments of both parties was running high on Capitol Hill. Days later, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) stood up on the Senate floor and quashed an attempt to fast-track a bill by Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) to ban downloading of the TikTok app.

“We will be acting like the Chinese government if we ban TikTok here,” Paul said around that time.

In June, Yass donated $3 million to a political committee backing Paul. Including that contribution, Yass and his wife, Janine Yass, have donated more than $24 million to Paul or committees that support him since 2015, according to federal records. Club for Growth has given a Paul-supporting political committee $1.8 million since 2020.

[DanZ]

A prominent Harvard epidemiologist publicly called the declaration “an extreme fringe view,” equating it with exorcism to expel demons.

And so history repeats itself

Galileo and the Church

The 1930s Nazis did the same to the spineless Church

[rodguy911]

Great stuff bud,
Your post echoes what Dr. Pierre Kory stated in his interview with tucker. He says as far as jama goes it’s about 50% instead of 95% where it should be. The fix is in. We have known it here for a few years. But, the rest of the country is blindly trying to figure it out without doing any research. And, digging on the web gets harder day by day as the powers that be keep killing link after link.

[DanZ]

Be careful what you wish for - Banning TikTok - looks like the SAME Trojan horse as the Bush’s post 9/11 legislation that now gets you groped at the Airport and allows the likes of the FISA blackrobed monkeys to issue warrants to spy on any U.S. citizen