Fixed. Felt the need to confront that bullshit with currently relevant facts though.

I thank you for that. But currently relevant facts mean nothing to the Kool Aid drinkers. They have Alternative Facts.

go ahead with the relevant facts indeed, but don’t normalize the utter bullcaca by rebroadcasting it.

that is in fact what beauregard does here, broadcasting propaganda then saying “i was just quoting”. doing the goebbels work of repeating lies till the stupids believe them.

so, friends, don’t be involuntary beauregards.

anyway, the orange beast is heading back to murder white house staff, huh? moloch must be hungry for more human sacrifices. the price of propping up a sick criminal.

Oh, the full-on Kool Aid drinkers are too far gone, I'm aware of that. When I confront BS, I'm now thinking of those that are considering taking a sip, but aren't quite sure yet. It's a "Don't listen to this crap, here's what is happening right now.". But maybe it's a bit of a tall order. And yeah, I agree that quoting that stuff may have an adverse effect. That's why I've taken back the quote. Normally, it shouldn't be that way, but looking at the last few years, I guess you're right. Hammering verbal doodoo into people's heads often enough that they'll take it for the gospel truth, does indeed seem to work somehow. At the same time, I don't wanna leave shit like that standing as is. But I guess I'll leave the addressing be from now on. It is indeed bad enough seeing it posted once.

It pains me to think that this is what's happening when you're actively trying to refute and combat BS by confronting it head-on. But I guess you're right. It's that "no publicity is bad publicity" element of publically canonized media-affectation that turns ridiculous lies into something internalized and even cherished by some if repeated ad-nauseam. Point well-taken. It's sad though. What a fucking time we're living in.

I could be wrong, but I've been here long enough to remember when certain people did not seem to be so full of Kool Aid. They changed. They succumbed. At some point down the road, they began to rely solely on ultra-stupid right wing garbage sites for their "information".

i even saw the other day a formerly intelligent guy come out in support of the ramblings of a self-declared psychotic as if such nonsense was proven fact. an apparent case of “garbage in, garbage out” if i ever saw one, because i’ve never thought him stupid, so he must be getting his info from some sewer.

CNN Meltdown As Our President Departs Walter Reed

Townhall tweet (split video)
“After stepping off Marine One, President Trump walked up the White House stairs, removed his mask, and saluted.“

Welcome Back Mr. President (video)

Wow.

Like Trump, you can never count on these two to have reached rock bottom. I guess I'm officially a bad hombre from a shithole now, huh.

Pinochet, schminochet. Not all authoritarians need a military coup (shout out to Henry Kissinger!) to become their nations' "leaders" or gain extra powers once they're already in the top spot. In fact, several ones (and many of those, recently) have done it through legal means: Trump, Putin, Xi, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Erdogan. But hey, no need to turn to Trump's contemporaries - how about Adolf fucking Hitler, you dipshits.

"President Trump's in the hospital from COVID, and I just want to say, my heart goes out to COVID." —Chris Rock, October 3

As for "not having skin in the game", is whatever little grey matter you have left oozing out of your ears? The United States' actions have a MAJOR repercussion ALL over the world - your government left the JCPOA and the Paris Agreement, destroyed any chance of a two-state solution between Palestine and Israel, left the Kurds to be massacred by Turkey, emboldened dictators around the planet, and is leaving the World Health Organization in the middle of a lethal global pandemic about which it has spread unbelievable amounts of disinformation. I care about the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and worry about people in the U.S. getting their right to vote supressed and women in the U.S. potentially getting stripped of their right to have control over their own bodies the same way I care about Jamal Khashoggi getting chopped up and dissolved in acid, Alexei Navalny getting poisoned with Novichok, Rohingya children getting thrown into the fire by Myanmar's military, the Arctic melting at a rate previously "scheduled" for 2070, biodiversity shrinking by the second, and yes, a kid in my own city being thrown into a river by the local police, which The Economist (a publication hardly known for any left-leaning bias) called "brutal, corrupt, and incompetent". Why? Because I may be just another mook from a small country, but ultimately I happen to be a human being who cares about the EARTH, which is far more than I can say about you, you chauvinist FUCKS.

must spread more vino tinto around before etc

I don't really drink alcohol, but thanks. I am, however, a HUGE fan of one of capitalist USA's biggest exports, the mighty Coca-Cola. :D

Jokes aside (although I do drink tankers of that stuff, you should see me ;)), I love the United States, I consider it my spiritual home, and while not by ANY stretch of the imagination I could compare myself to artists like Woody Guthrie or Ornette Coleman, they knew that loving their land deeply meant not to blindly follow the "leader"'s line (and lies) but acknowledging their country's flaws and injustices, to recognize when the time had come to change laws and behaviors once considered sacred, to fight to achieve true freedom, the kind that belongs to and benefits everybody.

Roe vs Wade being overturned is a frightening thought. No religion should be able to dictate what any human being can or can not do with their body. Forcing someone to have a child is awful and mean spirited, especially if they are unfit to provide. Just as frightening as Roe vs. Wade being overturned, would be seeing my city being destroyed in some protest which wouldn't actually resolve racism at its root. That shit is too deeply sewed into our social structure here in the states. It's really sad. I'm glad I live far away from all that madness. I also think the 'ACAB' talk is a overly hyperbolic. Our cops are obviously flawed and should go through more rigorous training/screening, but this whole 'defund the police' thing seems very dangerous.

Wishing death on anyone as a result of Covid is screwed up though, especially when it's the president of my country. I didn't vote for him, and I understand why everyone hates him. People should just vote him out. He got into the position he's in because that's what Americans wanted. It is what it is.

I don't know. Soup Nazi has me blocked anyhow. I guess I'm a centrist deep down. I try and look at each issue independently. I'm not the sharpest peanut in the turd, but I have my thoughts.

He got voted in because of the electoral college. “Americans” voted against him.

Just seen the footage of Trump standing outside the white House yesterday. He's absolutely fucked. He can barely breathe yet he's banging on about how well he feels. Plus the fact he flim flamming around the white house whilst contagious. The guy is a total melon.

you have just insulted all melons!

Can you imagine someone such as Jerry Sinefeld saying, “my heart goes out to swine flu” if Barack Obama was hospitalized during his presidency with that virus?

Can you hear the people gathering outside Walter Reed chanting, “hope he dies,” if Barack Obama was hospitalized??

Of course you can’t!


What Soup and so many others fail to consider is this isn’t a normal election cycle between Democrats and Republicans who have minor disagreements. This is a REVOLUTION against the left for the soul of our country. A full fledged war against the Democratic Party who has become consumed by the Marxist revolutionary movement —BLM— with the goal of transforming the United States into a communist dystopia!



During the presidential debate one week ago tonight, Joe Biden dismissed Antifa as “an idea” when asked to condemn the left-wing violet extremism. The anti-fascists are operating as a political force whose beliefs and practices would fall far left of that of your parents and grandparents Democratic Party!

Politics wasn’t always polite or fair when your parents/grandparents voted, but the two parties always found a way to come together for the betterment of our country......that hasn’t happened this time!

Instead, our previous President and Hillary Clinton used their official office, influence and power to try and overturn the last election. President Obama and Hillary Clinton were conspiring with the Russian’s in a desperate attempt to frame Donald Trump.

Joseph Stalin: “America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”

Ronald Reagan: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Those of you here at SYG, are you going to be the generation that throws it all away?

The same Joe Biden that lied to your parents and grandparents is lying to you!!!

Dinesh D'Souza, a convicted felon.

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I love life

When Donald Trump tweeted: “Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu”, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy responded, also on Twitter with: “This is a lie. The flu doesn’t kill 100,000 a year.”

The United States has the world’s highest death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 209,000 deaths. By comparison, influenza typically kills between some 22,000 and 64,000 people a year in the United States.

Trump just told his Republican aides to stop negotiating for Coronavirus relief for the American people until post election. Tell me how we shouldn't wish this man harm when he continues to enact it with every possible opportunity on his part. Vote this motherfucker out, so the American people can not have to constantly be hurt by a president who cares nothing for the people.

Aww Stephen Miller has it. Poor baby total fucking asshole who denied it when his own grandmother died from this.....

Imagine being such a brain-dead deluded bigot. I (and everyone with a modicum IQ) could demolish every single stupidity posted by you there, but enough is enough. Life isn't only too short, it's already too fucked up to waste it on little bitches several sandwiches short of a picnic. We have real problems to worry about.

Opinion piece in The Guardian, which I'm posting now because if I don't smile I'll vomit:

Another one of those "I don't get how anyone can defend this move". Certainly doesn't benefit him saying it anyway.

Opinions
I’m a former Secret Service executive. The willingness to put agents in danger is inexcusable.

Opinion by Joseph Petro
Oct. 6, 2020 at 2:46 p.m. EDT

Joseph Petro is a former special agent and senior executive with the Secret Service.


I served as a special agent and senior executive in the Secret Service for 23 years, including in supervisory roles under President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Dan Quayle. During my time with Reagan, we required the agents to wear protective vests whenever they accompanied the president outside the White House. These vests were very uncomfortable, but everyone understood and accepted the need to wear them. On a number of occasions, I asked the president to wear one. His response was similar to that of the agents, but he never refused to wear the vest.

We did this because the safety of our agents and those we were protecting was always our highest priority. Today, it seems, that is not always the case.

The most recent example is President Trump’s decision over the weekend to take a ride in a Chevrolet Suburban around Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the sole purpose of waving to those gathered along a street. Given the president’s covid-19 infection, this was a gratuitous and dangerous political exercise that needlessly exposed his Secret Service agents — as well as their families — to the potentially deadly novel coronavirus. Where was the Secret Service senior management? Did anyone resist this potential danger to these agents and perhaps their families? It was an avoidable risk, and someone should have objected.

That was by no means the first time Secret Service agents have been put in danger. Our nation’s health professionals have consistently advised that wearing protective masks in public places is the single most important protection against covid-19. The president, however, has politicized compliance with this recommendation. He has refused to wear a mask on nearly all occasions, and his staff and most attendees at his rallies follow his example. The inevitable result has been the surge in positive cases among the president’s staff and other associates.

I have noticed that the Secret Service agents assigned to the president have also not been wearing protective masks. This is very disappointing. I can tell you from experience that wearing a protective mask is not nearly as uncomfortable as wearing a protective vest. The unfortunate irony is that an agent is much more likely to be exposed to someone with the coronavirus than to a bullet being fired toward the president.

I hold the management of the Secret Service responsible for this inexcusable lack of concern for the lives of the agents and their families. These agents attend a presidential event surrounded by staff members, including the president, and thousands of attendees not wearing protective masks and then return home that night, potentially exposing their families and their local communities to this deadly virus.

The Secret Service has had the responsibility to protect our president since 1901, when it began protecting Theodore Roosevelt in the aftermath of the McKinley assassination. In all the years since then, the agency has recognized the importance of training agents to keep them safe. What has happened to that commitment?

I would hope the Secret Service would reflect on the decades of effort made to protect the agents in the performance of their important duties and require them to wear masks. The Secret Service cannot protect the president from himself, but its management has a solemn responsibility to protect those agents who put their lives on the line every day to protect him. It should not be that hard to do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-joseph-petro/

USA Today publishes nifty opinion pieces from time to time. And by conservatives, at that. Whoulda thunk.

"Prove it / Just the FACTS / Confidential..."

Almost four years into this psychotic horrorshow (plus the campaign!), it's still remarkable how these people remain so incompetent that they can't even get their bullshit together. From FactCheck.org:



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That’s a nice doctors note the president wrote for himself.

He would know:



So much for the "sudden outbreak"...

^ In a little more detail:



In all the deluge of stupidity I actually missed the fact that Rand-o was the first senator (that we know of, at least) who tested positive, way back in March 22. Asshole used the private senators' gym, where he swam laps in the pool on that very day's morning — until he received the results of his coronavirus test sometime after his workout, meaning he was already waiting for his results at that point. And the guy's a fucking doctor! And later he had the nerve to try to fuck with Fauci! You really cannot make this shit up...

He's a Republican doctor!

Worse: he's a Libertarian Republican doctor! :D

It's a bit early in the evening to be talking about "viral loads", you flirt you.

We have such an exponential growth in infections (see the graph on the bottom left) that as of tonight we're going back into partial lockdown for three weeks