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The most depressing polling response I can recall – politicalbetting.com
The most depressing polling response I can recall – politicalbetting.com
Yes, and looking very possible – maybe even likely – to kill meaning American democracy for the next decade or two. It's awful.
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Ah.
But you have to be druid to know how to harvest it.
The problem is that if you were to expect an outbreak of a natural bat virus from the Wuhan area, it would be in Wuhan anyway. So how would you know which route it took?
You'd need to do a very detailed phylogenetic analysis of the RNA sequence and plug in known isolates and what the lab was working on.
Can't be bothered watching any more, going for a walk instead.
Nick Cannon ‘expecting seventh child, having had four within six months with three different women’
https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/22/nick-cannon-expecting-seventh-child-having-had-four-within-six-months-14628472
https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1396341098155552768
LOL - what a tossser
I'm sure someone has mentioned the latest INSA poll from Germany:
CDU/CSU-EPP: 24% (-1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 23% (-1)
SPD-S&D: 17% (+1)
FDP-RE: 13% (+2)
AfD-ID: 12%
LINKE-LEFT: 6% (-1)
The continuing rise of the FDP is of note as is the fact a Green-SPD-FDP coalition commands a majority and might so even better if Linke drop below the 5% threshold.
Would they be able to raise enough money to make a go of it?
You would have thought the Chinese would be really keen on finding this link ASAP to shut down any talk of it being a lab leak and say see it was just one of those things that happened in nature.
The first case was not at the wet market
Incidentally I see that Dr Antony Fauci of the CDC has changed his mind, after dismissing the lab leak theory for a year. Suddenly it’s totes plausible
‘Fauci 'not convinced' COVID-19 developed naturally
Fauci’s recent remarks show an evolution in the doctor's beliefs on coronavirus origins over the past year’
How strange
https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/1396446141449973763?s=21
Many still bleat on about a "steal" and continue to allege fraud on an industrial scale which makes our worries about a few postal votes seem entirely spurious.
The Republicans have identified a problem with mail-in ballots - the problem is most people who use mail-in ballots don't vote Republican. Others may not see that as a problem.
The Republican solution to an unsubstantiated fraud is to create a legal fraud via the deliberate disenfranchising of opposition voters.
That's the problem with democracy - it's fragile and all too easy to manipulate or subvert whether via legal restriction or money or influence or whatever. The other side of the problem is if one side sees legal subversion to its advantage is the answer, so inevitably will the other.
Petition against the bizarre decision to attempt to tighten rules around amateur singing as everything else is relaxed:
https://petition.parliament.uk/signatures/112779362/signed
Note - these are guidelines only, not laws, and they can be ignored, but they are still ridiculous guidelines and appear to be the result of a personal domestic dispute involving a senior official. Which is pretty outrageous.
I’ve signed the petition and I would be grateful if others could too.
Although if AOC continues to behave like a tinpot fascist with a massive ego, I don’t know where the Dems are headed either. But hopefully she will never hold power within them.
Like this:
‘[in the NYT] Wade points out that the “consensus” that Covid must have an entirely natural origin was established by two early pronouncements, one in The Lancet in February 2020 and the other in Nature Medicine in March 2020. These were op-eds, not scientific papers. Both spoke with certainty about matters which it was impossible to be certain about. Wade writes: “It later turned out that the Lancet letter had been organized and drafted by Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York. Dr Daszak’s organisation funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If the SARS2 virus had indeed escaped from research he funded, Dr. Daszak would be potentially culpable. This acute conflict of interest was not declared to the Lancet’s readers. To the contrary, the letter concluded, “We declare no competing interests.”’
The Lancet has been poisonous throughout this crisis. A devalued journal
https://twitter.com/rogerpielkejr/status/1396460393157980169?s=21
These muppets need to be flogged in public.
"Millions 'unwittingly tracked' by phone after vaccination to see if movements changed
A report revealed that data from one in ten peoples' phones were tracked in February"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/05/22/millions-unwittingly-tracked-phone-vaccination-see-movements/
They’re in with a chance in Georgia, Arizona and Colorado, but Pennsylvania and North Carolina will both be under pressure and Florida is one where the Dems have at least a shout if a Trumpite stands against Rubio.
Tragedy in Northern Italy as cable car plunges to the ground killing 12
Which isn’t good, but isn’t as bad as what you are saying.
BBC News - Covid: Restaurants get creative in bid to plug staff shortage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57218978
I think Brexit is terrible. I disapprove of the Tory government. But it would never cross my mind to deny their right to win majorities, and I've always thought most people on the centre-right agree - and in Britain, I think they do. But in the US, about a quarter of the electorate are willing to put up with anything to get their way.
The virus probably came from the lab. So a guy that funds coronavirus research at the lab, in his panic, sent a deceptive letter to the Lancet, hoping to close down all investigation of the lab, and divert attention. And for a year he was successful, only now does it all crumble
This isn't some small conspiracy either. This is an attempt to hide the truth about the greatest human crisis since World War 2. This is jailtime territory.
That seems to have been completely dismissed by anyone independent who has reviewed the vaccine.
But.
No Safety Car. Again!
(Not even a VSC either!)
The lone highlight of an otherwise wasted couple of hours...
If the Republicans have both houses of Congress at the next election, but lose the presidential election I think there's a very real chance that the result is overturned. At this point, why wouldn't they?
Similarly, I think there's going to be a lot more scope for Republican anti-democratic behaviour at state level as officials who didn't back the electoral fraud theories are primaried out.
I wonder if there’ll be an updated version released of this
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01839-y
I don't think you grasp how intense the Woke agenda is, in the USA, and how it is being forced on a lot of unhappy people. The right think the Left is trying to destroy the country and remake it in a Woke style. A kind of cultural coup is underaway, and whites, Republicans and "patriots" are the target
If you believe there is a coup against your democracy, then democracy can go hang, for a while. First you need to fight and WIN
I'm not justifying this stance, of course, but I think this explains the poll above
God knows.
Let us hope the GOP turn away from this darkness before it is too late.
Do you not think people should be held responsible for the plague, if there is evidence? We hold people responsible for nasty tweets. Facilitating the death of 10m people is worse than a nasty tweet
Mr. Sandpit, aye, a good call. Likewise Mr. B on Sainz each way (think he went for both Ferrari drivers).
Putin and China are licking their lips.
This is a verrrrry long but very compelling analysis
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
This guy Daszak, who funded the lab, seems like a nice chap
"One can only imagine Daszak’s reaction when he heard of the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan a few days later. He would have known better than anyone the Wuhan Institute’s goal of making bat coronaviruses infectious to humans, as well as the weaknesses in the institute’s defense against their own researchers becoming infected.
"But instead of providing public health authorities with the plentiful information at his disposal, he immediately launched a public relations campaign to persuade the world that the epidemic couldn’t possibly have been caused by one of the institute’s souped-up viruses. “The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure baloney. It’s simply not true,” he declared in an April 2020 interview."
And don't get me started on India.
Now we can say whether one side is worse than another.
But the gerrymandering etc does take place from both sides.
What I would say the GOP certainly has a problem with is its lack of ideas and the fundamental problem that having supported a reduction of tax and regulations on the rich and big business (plus an over-eagerness to engage in warmongering) it now struggles to reconcile that with the voters it has.
The U.K. should be thankful for the electoral commission and boundary commission - even those the former has skirted the line of impartiality in recent years, ask Darren Grimes.
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2021/05/monaco-post-race-analysis-2021.html
Read that long article linked below
"The bat coronaviruses of the Yunnan caves can infect people directly. In April 2012 six miners clearing bat guano from the Mojiang mine contracted severe pneumonia with COVID-19-like symptoms and three eventually died. A virus isolated from the Mojiang mine, called RaTG13, is still the closest known relative of SARS2.
"Much mystery surrounds the origin, reporting and strangely low affinity of RaTG13 for bat cells, as well as the nature of 8 similar viruses that Shi [the chief scientist at Wuhan], reports she collected at the same time but has not yet published despite their great relevance to the ancestry of SARS2. But all that is a story for another time. The point here is that bat viruses can infect people directly, though only in special conditions.
"So who else, besides miners excavating bat guano, comes into particularly close contact with bat coronaviruses? Well, coronavirus researchers do. Shi says she and her group collected more than 1,300 bat samples during some eight visits to the Mojiang cave between 2012 and 2015, and there were doubtless many expeditions to other Yunnan caves."
Also this:
"Steven Quay, a physician-researcher, has applied statistical and bioinformatic tools to ingenious explorations of the virus’s origin, showing for instance how the hospitals receiving the early patients are clustered along the Wuhan №2 subway line which connects the Institute of Virology at one end with the international airport at the other, the perfect conveyor belt for distributing the virus from lab to globe."
His conclusion:
"People round the world who have been pretty much confined to their homes for the last year might like a better answer than their media are giving them. Perhaps one will emerge in time. After all, the more months pass without the natural emergence theory gaining a shred of supporting evidence, the less plausible it may seem. Perhaps the international community of virologists will come to be seen as a false and self-interested guide.
"The common sense perception that a pandemic breaking out in Wuhan might have something to do with a Wuhan lab cooking up novel viruses of maximal danger in unsafe conditions could eventually displace the ideological insistence that whatever Trump said can’t be true.
"And then let the reckoning begin."
If they had an "impartial" electoral commission like us then both sides would be seeking to stuff the electoral commission with their own partisans.
It would be like Grimes but on steroids - and the problem then is once you've stuffed with your own lackeys it can be hard for the other side to reverse that. See: SCOTUS.
I really fear for the country. So polarised. Social media must take a lot of the blame
The solution is a moderate Republican president. To calm the Right, but make peace with the Left. Doesn't seem likely
insisting there’s an IED onboard. Eventually the crew was forced to send out SOS (literally moments before the plane would've left Belarus airspace). MiG-29 took off and escorted it to Minsk. Security services entered the plane and arrested Protasevich. (2/2)
https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1396446650718117890?s=20
https://twitter.com/SteveRightNLeft/status/1396449618985168898?s=20
The reason it runs in the Bulletin is because of the enforced and absurd virological consensus that "it has a natural origin" - so mainstream medical journals, which have been pushing the wet market bullshit for a year, cannot suddenly and easily volte face, by publishing this.
I suppose he could have tried to get it in The Lancet?
Anyway the Consensus of Stupid, including you, has now been blown out of the water. Good
It looks increasingly likely that no more than a few thousand people will have to add to herd immunity the hard way.
Ultimately "systems" alone aren't enough to do the job, if people don't want the system to work they will find a way.
The reality is, that there probably needs to be a constitutional amendment upon this stuff, to restore any semblance of normality to US politics.
We will really know, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Sadly this is what happens when politicians stop trying to do what is right and instead just go mining for votes in the deepest cesspit because being in power is patriotism as the opposition are traitors.
In many ways Trump, while being deranged and corrupt, was more moderate than the traditional GOP.
When people started going on about the India virus there were 991 people in hospital, there's now 908.
That's a reduction of nearly 10%.
For example, in the UK, the local courts and elections were run by the Squireachy. As was local law enforcement.
So, in the US, they had elected judges and sherifs instead.
https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1396484882637983744?s=20