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RepublicJim's avatar

I'm just sitting back waiting to see if Brandon gets the infamous Paxlovid rebound. Now that the "experts" are all telling us repeatedly how effective the anti-viral is and downplaying any negatives (much like they did with some other experimental product fairly recently), it would be quite satisfying to see two out of two high-profile weasels suffer the same "rare" result. At this point I really hope he does get a second go-around of symptoms much worse than the first. After all the damage he's inflicted on our country, he deserves to suffer some more.

On a similar topic, has anyone figured out the logic of Fauci or Biden even taking Paxlovid? First they tell us that they are thankful they are "fully" vaxed and double boosted, so the symptoms are mild. Then they credit Paxlovid with preventing a severe outcome, completely ignoring that they just said that's what the four(!) jabs were supposed to do! So, which one is "effective", and which one is actually useless/harmful? Are they both so cowardly that they will simply take everything available (no matter how redundant) in an attempt to avoid serious illness? I have yet to see any reporter question them on that point of inconsistency.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers Biden saying he was feeling fine and symptoms were mild, but then he felt 'much much better' a couple days later.

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RepublicJim's avatar

Right on cue and totally predictably, he tests positive again! Of course, no symptoms yet, but hopefully that will happen soon. Now he and all the lapdog media are trotting out the tired "small percentage of cases" mantra. Like all their other carefully coordinated and endlessly repeated phrases ("safe and effective", "prevents severe outcomes", "thankful I'm boosted", etc.) it's a blatant lie. It should be obvious to anyone by now that the vast majority of vaxed people who take Paxlovid suffer the rebound. Calling it a "small percentage" does not change reality.

For the record, I don't wish Brandon to die from covid. I just want him to be really miserable for a while, as a reward for all the damage he has caused.

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Denise Chukker's avatar

Has anyone noticed that Biden always shakes hands with people after he coughs into that hand or touches anything with either one of his germ infested hands and others might touch the same thing…………anyone? It’s disgusting.

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John Raymond's avatar

Not as disgusting as him leaning into little girls, scared young girls. What are their parents doing????? I wouldn't let that sick disgrace of a human being near my daughter

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Denise Chukker's avatar

Perverted.

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Rikard's avatar

Magic the Gathering... have mate what used to be umpire at tourneys in Sweden way back. He played single-colour decks himself, as a personal challenge. Me, I always preferred Steve Jackson's Illuminati if it was cards, or Diplomacy if it was boardgames.

I think a very telling study would be to try and find out how many of the movers and shakers have or had card games, pen&paper RPGs, and/or board- and tabletop games as their hobbies.

With the follow up-study being who were munchkins, minmaxers, rules-lawyers, storytellers and so on.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Illuminati was the ultimate multiplayer card game. Long long ago we were playing in a pizza place (they let us play in the back room because of the constant food orders coming out of the back).

One day my buddy convinces somebody else in the group to go in half on a large pizza.

He then plays I Lied.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.911truth.ch%2Filluminati_card%2Fi_lied.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

We unanimously decided that this was completely legal and that the unlucky guy who agreed to the deal must pay for the whole pizza and split it.

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Rikard's avatar

Hahahaha, cheeky bastard he was!

One of the best Diplomacy games I ever partook of was ran by a mate who insisted on doing it PBM. As in, snail-mail. So week one he mailed out the state of the game, one page raw data on moves and states, the other one a made up as a newspaper frontpage: "The Times of Europe - Will the German-British alliance hold or fold'?", that kind of stuff. And any negotiations was made over the phone and then reported back to the GM, separately.

Good fun!

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Fat Rabbit Iron's avatar

Excellent article. My best friend of almost 30 years went full covidiot in April 2020. I've had some limited success discussing abstract principles -- medical freedom, freedom of speech, what the role of government should be -- but absolutely no success talking about data. We both think that the other is either fanatical or massively ill-informed. It's almost impossible to heal the divide, and this is exactly what our overlords want.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

And it's super strange your friend is 'immune' to the data. It's right there on official sites (or was until it got inconvenient)

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INTJ Architect's avatar

I appreciate that you are one of the few that seems to have gotten past the fake red/blue divide.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

― George Orwell

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Soyelcaminodelfuturo's avatar

I have an expression I revert to when judging reality based on conflicting claims from two parties: “there are three sides to every story”. It’s reliable!

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carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

Kim Iverson was the only reason anyone watched The Hill. i would have paid to see her interrogation of Dr. F

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AndyinBC's avatar

I suspect we all inhabit multiple realities. Everything we see, hear, or feel is filtered through our perceptual bias. My ex-rancher, ex college instructor, ex-contractor, very libertarian perspective is going to be different, (VERY different!) than that of some of the pathetic 'beta males' with whom I was forced to associate during my nearly two decades at the college.

Example: One spring, a student, (youngest son of a rancher friend of mine), brought his lovingly restored late 40's Triumph Roadster to school to show off. The Chair of the Arts Faculty, taking a shortcut through student parking, managed to run into the front end of the classic. Significant damage! The student had to be restrained (by his friends). Admittedly, he got a little loud. (I was a witness - had gone out to look at the car. The Dean pissed himself. And threatened the student with arrest, criminal prosecution, and expulsion from the college.

Punch line: For the next few days, the buzz on campus pertained, (exclusively), to the student's "unacceptable behavior". My view, as a witness, was that hundreds of hours of work were ruined by a fat old fool distracted by a couple of female students in short shorts. The perceived reality, in the faculty lounges, was that the young fellow was in the wrong. He should, at an absolute minimum, be terminated. Some opinions favored criminal charges - for threating (which he did not do!) NO consideration, of any kind, for the damage to his pride and joy.

Epilog: The young fellow dropped out of school, successfully sued the Dean for damages, and started a very successful antique auto restoration business. Which he still operates - 30 years on.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Exactly the case, and why it's so important for us to interact and compare our information!

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Excellent post, SimCom.

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

That interview on The Hill has reportedly caused Kim Iverson, who was the first person *I* knew to not only be anti-lockdown from day 1 AND warned back in Nov. 2019 that the repo market was acting strange and so something big and bad is probably coming, to quit the show. She was reportedly purposely prevented from participating in the interview of Fauci.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

This wouldn't surprise me and I made a mention of it in the article. Fauci is NOTORIOUS for demanding 'favorable' coverage and the answers ahead of time 'to be prepared'. There's no chance The Hill gets this interview if they are going to ask him difficult questions.

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

I'm surprised Kim lasted as long as she did on Rising.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Excellent.

I must say that over the last two decades I had not realized that Europe had become so dependent on Russian energy. But, I think things are now going to keep changing for the better, now that 1) Europe looks like it will become much more energy independent (at least from Authoritarian Socialists) in the long run, and 2) nuclear energy provides a good alternative to fossil fuels (as it always has, of course, but I think even environmentalists are waking up to its inevitability, if not its appropriateness).

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alexei's avatar

I'm glad you mentioned Al Gore - one who seems to have so far 'gotten away', like so many others.

Apart from his largely untruthful film "An Inconvenient Truth", it may not be generally well-known that Gore amassed a huge fortune from his “global warming” investments after he left the Vice Presidency. He invested $1 billion in 40 different firms and was the co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management co-founded with his partner, David Blood. It was literally Blood and Gore; you could hardly make it up!

MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen once predicted: “Al Gore wants to become the word’s first carbon billionaire.”

Having co-founded The Chicago Carbon Exchange, "Gore would have personally benefited even more if the carbon cap-and-trade bill he supported had become law, as all carbon trading would have had to go through it. The media failed to treat his Congressional testimony in support of the climate bills for what it actually was—a former vice president supporting legislation that would make him richer." And there's quite a few of like-minded politicians around ......

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Gore's cap-and-tax scheme always reminded me of the professional version of 'drug test welfare recipients at my cousin's drug testing facility'. Of course, with Gore's scheme we have to deal with him flying around on private jets all the time while telling us it's fine because he paid 'carbon offsets'. This is what the Bidens aspire to.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Man, I'm halfway through, but I can't keep my "right on!" shout out inside any longer.

Edit: Now the inpurrmission?!?! I have no time for that!

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Guttermouth's avatar

I don't know that there are a lot of "both sides" arguments in the examples you've given.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I was trying to think of some examples....WMD in Iraq? Saddam involved with 9/11? Certainly RECENTLY 'reality' has had a 'conservative' bias, but it wasn't always so. Ron Paul got railroaded for not toeing the line when it came to foreign policy stuff.

I suppose the 2020 election itself would be a good example?

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Guttermouth's avatar

A good example of both sides misrepresenting the situation?

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Guttermouth's avatar

In what way do you feel "the right" misrepresented the 2020 election?

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Sidney Powell overpromised bigly. In many circles, they claimed Donald 'had the goods' and would be declared the winner any day.

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Guttermouth's avatar

Oh yeah. I have to admit, it barely registered in my universe.

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Ki's avatar

It's called the Overton Window and it's getting stretched like Pelosi's eyebrows.

Now the entire discourse is a frothy soup of mis-truths, half-truths and pure fabrications.

Even Trump today said he "did the opposite of what Fauci said to do." No sir, no you did not. Is the Brandon Regime and the plague of pronouns worse? Yes, but both sides play the game daily.

Us plebs need to get our heads out over the trees and understand that we're being fed a diet of 99% sawdust, 1% electrolytes and we need to think and act for ourselves.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

"Us plebs need to get our heads out over the trees and understand that we're being fed a diet of 99% sawdust, 1% electrolytes and we need to think and act for ourselves."

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Exactly. There IS an objective reality. We CAN discuss facts in order to better discern what that reality is. This stupid game where everybody shouts past one another with (perhaps irrelevant) facts is helping nobody but the 'leaders' who are happy to duck all accountability for their actions.

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Rob D's avatar

SC, all I can say is: Goblin King 2024!! Great post.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Make Mountainwalk Great Again!

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