Jihad never ends.

TimTuolomne comments on May 7, 2020:

Satan is Allah, the Principality of the Air, and Mohammed was his disciple. Islam is the word for "submit." The "religion of peace" teaches its followers to lie and murder, making peace a lie, only justified when no Christian is left. Only then will true believers of Islam realize their fate to ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 7, 2020:

@Tati. My apologies for taking your words to mean you had not read the Bible or the Koran. I am mistaken, however not very much. You put words into my mouth and are incorrect when you state that I have "hatred" for Muslims. If you knew me and knew my writing, you could not say such a thing. And you did not read my post very well, so I will forgive your interpretation of both the Old Testament and the Intent of the Koran. You speak like a militant Muslim, trying to sound reasonable, so I have no doubt you are employing Taqiyya in that effort. Readers, please take notice.

Jihad never ends.

TimTuolomne comments on May 7, 2020:

Satan is Allah, the Principality of the Air, and Mohammed was his disciple. Islam is the word for "submit." The "religion of peace" teaches its followers to lie and murder, making peace a lie, only justified when no Christian is left. Only then will true believers of Islam realize their fate to ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 7, 2020:

@Tati, From your reply, I can discern that you have not read either the Koran nor the Bible. Hadith 9-5, among many other places in the Koran, calls for the displacement or death of infidels. A bit like the Christian "Old Testament," that tells us who WE are, and is filled with violence. The New Testament is our CURRENT call, the "New Covenant," that tells us who God is, and ONLY calls for us to love one another. Hadith 9-5 is among Mohammed's last words, and is the CURRENT active call to Muslims. And Taqiyya is their call to lie to promote of Islam. Islam has killed more human beings in history than any other force, disease, philosophy, dictator or country. Sharia Law is itself a declaration of war on our Constitution, so ALL faithful Muslims must be deported. Not only “jihadi” Muslims are dangerous!

Coronavirus: If like me you are concerned by the Imperial colleges modelling that was used as the...

Header comments on May 7, 2020:

Yep deception at every corner now! Not only vaccines but MS programming of this plandemic, way to much money to pass up on this scam by the academia! Agree - all academic epidemiology be defunded, As this is the bases of this money corruption! Well detailed article Sue Demin!

TimTuolomne replies on May 7, 2020:

I agree Header. And the Bayh-Dole Act of 1970 was the camel's nose under the tent that is now full-on driving government directed research and results. That means politics driving "science," not science informing politics.

I did not like any of the Disney Star Wars movies either.

Header comments on May 7, 2020:

This is how stupid Canada and some of its people are! TDS is alive in Canada and love dumbass Truedope! It’s upside down man! I swear USA citizens do not let this happen to your country! We lost due to all the immigrants the Liebreals brought in then changed the law so they can vote in the last...

TimTuolomne replies on May 7, 2020:

True. And I fear we are lost in the US too. I have studied history, and by the time nations get to this point, they do not survive as before. Their systems change, or they get carved up by other nations. Buckle up. Its going to be a bad ride. The Leftists will only realize they have repeated history after it has gone on long enough - better part of a generation. Meanwhile most of us who knew better will suffer and die. But also every one else will too; even the Leftists, which will come as a big surprise to them. They will no longer have conservatives to blame.

We humans are not the be all and end all of the universe.

Bay0Wulf comments on May 6, 2020:

“We humans are not the be all and end all of the universe.” WHAT!?!? Speak for Yourself there PandOro ... I am the be all and end all of MY universe ... One day I will wake up and You will be gone ... I try not to abuse others who wander into my dreams ... If there were no Humans to ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 7, 2020:

@Bay0Wulf, Thank you for defending us.

Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’ ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 4, 2020:

I have stopped using Amazon for more than a year now. Bezos is as Stalinist as they get. I refuse to support a seditious, immoral and hypocritical guy like Bezos, and Amazon. I encourage all Constitutional Americans to drop Amazon until it goes out of business. And if you are ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@dd54 "Slander is the only recourse when the argument is lost." - Socrates.

So, it's true.

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

Its far less of a threat than even the nerd thinks. Here's why. Geneticists who have analyzed the gene sequence of SARS COV2, which causes COVID-19, are confident of three facts: 1. There are no markers which are unavoidable when genes are spliced (engineered). 2. The forensic path clearly ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@dd54. I made no comment about those with COPD being smokers. You were saying? By the way, this site https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientists-say-theyve-identified-mutated-covid-19-strain-and-issue-a-dire-warning-about-new-contagion asserts that a mutation of COVID-19 has already occurred.

So, it's true.

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

Its far less of a threat than even the nerd thinks. Here's why. Geneticists who have analyzed the gene sequence of SARS COV2, which causes COVID-19, are confident of three facts: 1. There are no markers which are unavoidable when genes are spliced (engineered). 2. The forensic path clearly ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@dd54, If you read my post carefully you will find "99% of those the virus kills are smokers and people of any age with serious pre-existing conditions." and cited https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-coronavirus-infographic-datapack/ I did NOT say it kills only older people, and I did NOT say it kills all smokers. (One of your previous complaints) And I have seen no credible papers on comparative rates of mutation, only speculation.

So, it's true.

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

Its far less of a threat than even the nerd thinks. Here's why. Geneticists who have analyzed the gene sequence of SARS COV2, which causes COVID-19, are confident of three facts: 1. There are no markers which are unavoidable when genes are spliced (engineered). 2. The forensic path clearly ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@Hanno, Not correct. I am not insulting you. I am asking legitimate questions. And you have answered one of them, as well as made an incorrect assertion about testing, which will be proved soon enough. But feel free to try to insult me, instead of engage the discussion.

Michael Moore’s new movie — surprisingly — exposes renewables like wind, solar and biomass as ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

"Humans bad" is the Leftist mantra for greater government control. Humans are a small part of the animal kingdom that are part of the planet. THERE IS NO STANDARD OF WHAT THE PLANET SHOULD BE, because it has been in the state of change since it was a dust mote around the Sun, and will continue to...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@GeeMac. Yup. Like a version of feminism against men, socialism against personal rights, and atheism against gratitude. Leftism is against everything, including the good.

If it’s legal to force people to wear a face mask for “public safety “ will it also be legal ...

FOTD13 comments on May 6, 2020:

To answer your question. Yes, that is a huge stretch. Is it that much of a burden snowflake? John McCain spent seven years being tortured and starved for his country. He came back and served his country again. So man the f*ck up and serve your country by wearing a f*cking mask.

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@FOTD13, Nice coverup by Admiral McCain. LOOK IT UP. McCain dumped fuel into the afterburner while on the deck to "flash" the plane behind him, which triggered the rocket. The rocket destroyed McCain's plane and McCain ejected safely , while the crew attended to the dead and injured and spent hours putting out the fires. The stuff you say betrays your willingness to stack the truth with something else. Oh yeah, we call that a lie.

Michael Moore’s new movie — surprisingly — exposes renewables like wind, solar and biomass as ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

"Humans bad" is the Leftist mantra for greater government control. Humans are a small part of the animal kingdom that are part of the planet. THERE IS NO STANDARD OF WHAT THE PLANET SHOULD BE, because it has been in the state of change since it was a dust mote around the Sun, and will continue to...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@GeeMac. I'm with you on that GeeMac. I think its a kind of mental illness.

We humans are not the be all and end all of the universe.

Bay0Wulf comments on May 6, 2020:

“We humans are not the be all and end all of the universe.” WHAT!?!? Speak for Yourself there PandOro ... I am the be all and end all of MY universe ... One day I will wake up and You will be gone ... I try not to abuse others who wander into my dreams ... If there were no Humans to ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

I like your sense of humor, but consider a different name. Beowulf was a guy who let himself die rather than be a risk to his people.

If it’s legal to force people to wear a face mask for “public safety “ will it also be legal ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

Practically everything that has happened since the first of March has been unconstitutional without sufficient demonstrated cause to justify any exception. Our leadership has responded only to our panic. Now that the virus is known as no true threat, leaders like Trump are willing to restore the ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@Bay0Wulf, That's backbone, and often the best we can do. Thanks for your service to keep us all free. In politics, we can often be a bit more direct.

If it’s legal to force people to wear a face mask for “public safety “ will it also be legal ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

Practically everything that has happened since the first of March has been unconstitutional without sufficient demonstrated cause to justify any exception. Our leadership has responded only to our panic. Now that the virus is known as no true threat, leaders like Trump are willing to restore the ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@Bay0Wulf, I applaud that you are not motivated by power. Those who are, know that controlling others is the exercise of power. (I also know it, even though I am motivated by justice.) That means psychologically speaking, they actually ARE happy to violate our rights. I hope you never have the misfortune of looking someone in the eye who is exercising that power over you, and you both know its wrong, and you understand that the person is deeply satisfied and delighted to see you feeling powerless.

So, it's true.

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

Its far less of a threat than even the nerd thinks. Here's why. Geneticists who have analyzed the gene sequence of SARS COV2, which causes COVID-19, are confident of three facts: 1. There are no markers which are unavoidable when genes are spliced (engineered). 2. The forensic path clearly ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@Hanno, So you can't do the math, and because some places are pretty isolated, you think that violates the general fact. Neither thing disproves what I have said, which if you bother to learn the math, and the definitions regarding r-nought, you would know. And do you know anyone who was healthy who actually has died of COVID-19? I don't. We basically agree, so I wouldn't be quibbling in areas beyond your expertise if I were you.

Coronavirus: Medical Researcher on “Verge of Making Very Significant” Coronavirus ...

NonAgrssvMight comments on May 6, 2020:

Direct from Hollywood or what?

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

Probably.

If it’s legal to force people to wear a face mask for “public safety “ will it also be legal ...

FOTD13 comments on May 6, 2020:

To answer your question. Yes, that is a huge stretch. Is it that much of a burden snowflake? John McCain spent seven years being tortured and starved for his country. He came back and served his country again. So man the f*ck up and serve your country by wearing a f*cking mask.

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@FOTD13, Sorry to butt in, but McCain was responsible for sailors dying on the Forrestal because of a prank that destroyed a bunch of aircraft and put the Forrestal out of commission for months. His Admiral father hushed it up. In captivity, McCain was trusted by fellow American soldier prisoners to get their messages out, and he turned those messages over to the Viet Cong for privileges. Most of them did not survive the retribution for trying to get messages out. He was a cowardly, despicable traitor. Ask those who knew him in the service. Look it up. Its easy to verify. And McCain repeatedly set up Republicans in the Senate by agreeing to support bills, then broke his promises, eventually proving that he was a two-faced Democrat posing as a Republican, and probably paid off for it. Nice hero. Next, there is no viral threat. Only a terrified little girl would believe there is. You've already proved in other exchanges that you need someone to tell you what to think, like you can't trust conservatives, so you believe a bunch of other unproven nonsense as well. So man up, do the research, and if I were you, I would do my best to stop embarrassing myself.

Mitch McConnell is an abhorrent career politician who is not representing the people.

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Taxpayers should be alarmed beyond the sense of the country being invaded, by any proposal to spend more government money it can only get by obligating every man woman and child in the US to MORE than the $67,500 due in taxes in some form eventually to cover the 23 trillion of government debt we ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@FOTD13, No that is not what I meant to say. Interesting interpretation of the facts. We disagree completely. And history demonstrates endlessly that what you describe is pretty much impossible. I'm not surprised that someone who is willing to put words in my mouth can't tell the truth.

[youtu.be] We need that here

TimTuolomne comments on May 6, 2020:

I am one who recognizes that my senses do not give me much of a view of the Universe, and my mind is not well equipped to understand even what I can sense. So I will not be assuming that what I know does or doesn't work in this World or beyond suits anyone else, I surely won't be criticizing those...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@Pand0ro, Perceptive. I have my own view, yes, but I am not about to demand that anyone else accept them.

Just so you know the news is lying if they say they have swastikas and nazi flags at a trump rally ...

angelo comments on May 6, 2020:

The enemedia and leftist Dems will stoop at nothing to paint Trump and his supporters as Nazis and redneck deplorables.

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

The dumber half of the country actually has been convinced by the Dems that the Dems didn't actually create the KKK. And they believe that a capitalist who has been elected President believes in socialism - as in government ownership of industry (definition of NAZI) - which make no sense. But that doesn't matter when you can't think for yourself and need someone to tell you what to think AND that you can't trust Constitutionalists to tell you what is true. No wonder their little worlds are totally at sea.

What Hating Jordan Peterson Tells You (about yourself) | Annette Poizner | The Blogs

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Can't download it.

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@APoizner, I don't know about much of that. I happen to be a fan of Dr Peterson. And as far as I know, he isn't demanding that his fans give all their wealth to the cause, or some other cult-like behaviour. And I enjoy his posts because they seem to support what I have learned from the Great philosophers, and my belief in personal responsibility. Do I believe that there are a very large percentage of the population who are emotionally unintelligent and have no idea about their responsibility to maintain their own boundaries and respect those of others? Absolutely. I find I must stay away from most of them for my own safety and peace of mind.

Mitch McConnell is an abhorrent career politician who is not representing the people.

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Taxpayers should be alarmed beyond the sense of the country being invaded, by any proposal to spend more government money it can only get by obligating every man woman and child in the US to MORE than the $67,500 due in taxes in some form eventually to cover the 23 trillion of government debt we ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@FOTD13, The point, is that we are about to pay more than the Swedes; way more, and get nothing back. No paid vacations, no parental leave, nothing. Its been spent by Obama and his predecessors, and Obama had the worst economy in the history of the US. Where did it go? Good question. Do you trust government? Or is it something that should be watched with great care and no one left in charge for more than two terms? We are in big trouble as a nation, and the spending must stop now, or we go down the tubes forever. Anyone who thinks the government gets its money from any place but the taxpayers is an idiot. And how much tax is the government getting from the taxpayers right now? And when do the Democrats want to reopen? Next year? Two years from now? Ever? What do you think happens to the government and to us when the government cant borrow any more - which is dangerously close to to that point right now???? Anyone???

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN NURTURED BY A JESUIT?

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Satire I assume. For those of us who try to live by Scripture, we do not require that anyone else live by Scripture. We hope they will be so inspired if we provide an sufficiently credible and decent example. And to do that we must follow the Great Commission. And we honor everyone's free ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@Zteph, Get thee behind me Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Mitch McConnell is an abhorrent career politician who is not representing the people.

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Taxpayers should be alarmed beyond the sense of the country being invaded, by any proposal to spend more government money it can only get by obligating every man woman and child in the US to MORE than the $67,500 due in taxes in some form eventually to cover the 23 trillion of government debt we ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

@BikerPetehall70, Dang right Pete! And the mortality rate is probably way lower than .03% anyway. More like .0002; far lower than the common flu, and far lower than riding your bike.

Viruses are made [vm.tiktok.com]

angelo comments on May 6, 2020:

Like everything else in the cosmos. Viruses evolve and mutate from other matter. Was the " *black plague* made?

TimTuolomne replies on May 6, 2020:

Fact. Makes you wonder why people post stuff like that, doesn't it?

Those of you who think "woke" sarcasm is intelligent (It isn't.

FrankZeleniuk comments on May 5, 2020:

I find that sometimes my only option is to be a nuisance, as well.

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

Yes, but there is a difference. If we answer with facts, not speculation, it is unbeatable - especially against the Left, which must lie, because the truth is insufficient. Its the difference between a hand grenade and civil discussion. The first is pure destruction. The second has the POTENTIAL for constructiveness. “Be a nuisance where it counts. Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action. Be depressed, discouraged, and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics—but never give up.” ~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

Covid-19 shutdowns expose the new class divide- [thefederalist.

Header comments on May 4, 2020:

Exactly had this same discussion with a friend last week! No we are not in this together and just as stated: those crying for the shutdown to continue until we have a vaccine, can we ask this? Sitting in your home office, well supplied with all the necessities by untouchable delivery people, ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

There is no threat beyond what we endure any given year from the flu and other pathogens. This was a gross overreaction by the public to the media fear-mongering, driven more harshly than usual by the fact that they are so distrusted by the public that they are about to go under. We still can't trust them. Of the dozens of flu viruses that express in any given year, there is usually only a vaccine for one, because it is so expensive to develop. They are not all covered. So we could develop a vaccine for this microbe only to have it evolve as they typically do, into something less virulent or more virulent than COVID-19, but that the vaccine would no longer touch. This is an invisible "threat" which the numbers prove is less dangerous to healthy people than driving your car. So those like the media benefit from taking advantage of its invisibility and asserting that it is dangerous, social distancing and masks are necessary, and that shutting down the economy is appropriate. Someday it will be clear how wrong that was.

Coronavirus - China and the Scottish Economy - YouTube

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Geneticists who have analyzed the gene sequence of SARS COV2, which causes COVID-19, are confident of three facts: 1. There are no markers which are unavoidable when genes are spliced (engineered). 2. The forensic path clearly shows a very old gene sequence consistent with a path through bats ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

@Xtra Dr Li Wenliang warned his colleagues on their professional site that he had a scary case of pneumonia that presented on 17 November. Dr Li was arrested 6 weeks later and signed a statement recanting his announcement, on threat of prison. He died of the virus 7 February, because he had not been allowed to set up safety protocols. That tells you that Chinese officials could not have decided amongst themselves that there was a serious threat until sometime between the arrest and the death of Dr Li, around the time Taiwan warned of the virus in late December. The World Health Organization was still claiming there was no human to human transmission at the end of January. It could be that China directed that stand as long as possible, given the Secretary's rapport with Chairman Xi. I read one report saying that in the first week of February, the Chinese "admitted" that the virus "might" be transmissable human to human.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN NURTURED BY A JESUIT?

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Satire I assume. For those of us who try to live by Scripture, we do not require that anyone else live by Scripture. We hope they will be so inspired if we provide an sufficiently credible and decent example. And to do that we must follow the Great Commission. And we honor everyone's free ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

@Zteph, No, I am a fervent, yet poorly faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Your comment does not sound very charitable, for someone asking if I have a sense of humor, leading me to wonder if the intent of your "satire" may also be mean spirited. So who is the follower of the Lord of Sirius, if not actually occupied by him???

Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’ ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 4, 2020:

I have stopped using Amazon for more than a year now. Bezos is as Stalinist as they get. I refuse to support a seditious, immoral and hypocritical guy like Bezos, and Amazon. I encourage all Constitutional Americans to drop Amazon until it goes out of business. And if you are ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

@dd54. What? Are you asking if I am anti-capitalist? The answer would be no. I am pro-Constitution and anti-Leftist. Amazon is an organization that is run by an ambitious businessman, who has translated his amazing success into the belief that he is above the Constitution, including the spirit of the anti-trust laws, and should violate our rights just because he can. When I find those links I will provide them. Does that answer your not-quite-clear question?

onenewsnow.

mccarthy comments on May 5, 2020:

1. The article with the exact title is available online. 2. The "Dead In It s Tracks" is most certainly an interpretation by the Journalist. 3. It s become clear these past 2 weeks that many on the Christian Right want Fauci replaced. Now that the critical period of all this is moving into...

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

God is truth, so any group that purports to be Christian has first an obligation to truth. Slander is not what Christ would do. And any group that needs to lie to be persuasive, is not a group I will follow.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN NURTURED BY A JESUIT?

TimTuolomne comments on May 5, 2020:

Satire I assume. For those of us who try to live by Scripture, we do not require that anyone else live by Scripture. We hope they will be so inspired if we provide an sufficiently credible and decent example. And to do that we must follow the Great Commission. And we honor everyone's free ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

@Zteph, No, not the wrong group, but maybe not in great taste either, unless you are among Bible bashers. I may not be laughing, but I'm sure many others are. God bless you.

Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’ ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 4, 2020:

I have stopped using Amazon for more than a year now. Bezos is as Stalinist as they get. I refuse to support a seditious, immoral and hypocritical guy like Bezos, and Amazon. I encourage all Constitutional Americans to drop Amazon until it goes out of business. And if you are ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

@dd54. Sorry, I no longer seem to have access to those articles which led me to choose other resources. If I run across them again, I will post them here.

The great white hope.... Amhaaaaaazing [youtu.be]

Edgework comments on May 5, 2020:

“But... but... it’s so... unseemly. All that rowdiness. Is it really necessary? Why can’t he just make his point without being so... nasty?” (The wailing of the nearly extinct professional conservative, showing why they are nearly extinct.)

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

Yes. The Left's lack of civility brought a direct man like Trump to office. They should congratulate themselves, if they could even get that.

WOW! Watch Term Limits Advocate SHRED Congress! - YouTube

TimTuolomne comments on May 2, 2020:

Time for consequences for those who shut us down and attempted to unlawfully take our rights.

TimTuolomne replies on May 5, 2020:

@FOTD13, Dr Fauci has access to the same papers we all have. He knows the R-nought value of 5.7 in 2.5 days, which tells me, and should tell him, that the entire globe was exposed to the virus long before the West was even aware of its existence in China. And that means social distancing was an attempt to prevent exposure that had already happened. Furthermore, 99% of those the virus kills are smokers and people of any age with serious pre-existing conditions. Its possible that the remaining 1% also have pre-existing conditions that are undiagnosed. So with a case base that could be 2000 times greater than reported right now, that makes the virus 2000 times less dangerous - far less than the common flu. SARS-COV2, which causes COVID-19, is less dangerous to those of us who are normal than driving. Dr Fauci should know this. Some doctors think no disease should be acceptable. And as medical doctors, they may be ignorant of the consequences of political decisions. Does COVID-19 kill people? Yes. The same people who doctors like Dr Fauci should expect to be taken out by the flu and pneumonia, etc, because of other infirmities, every year. 2,046,549 people died last year of all causes except suicide. 65,000 are now listed as dying of COVID-19, almost all of whom could have been listed as dying of their pre-existing conditions. Dr Fauci knows this. Still trust him now?

‘No Sign of Recovery’ for Chinese Economy as Virus Cripples Export Orders.

MaskedRiderChris comments on May 4, 2020:

I've no sympathy for the CCP, here, but I feel bad for the Chinese people being affected by this situation. It's a shame that some governments sometimes never seem to include people in the equation.

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

Yes the cost of instituting that authoritarian society was maybe 100 million souls. The cost of throwing it off would undoubtedly be far higher.

The Impact of COVID-19 on America’s Economy.

MaskedRiderChris comments on May 4, 2020:

Oof. Sounds painful. My pressing question is, is it even possible to pay off that kind of debt, regardless of who is in the White House?! Whether it's Donald Trump or not? I knew I'd be working until I dropped dead, but this is confirming it and that's scary. Unless we can pull off some kind of ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

You are among the few who get this, and that is why it is so dangerous. No one understands what is going to happen. I think the President does, but Congress has the power to address this, and they are not exactly in a supportive mood toward the President's policies. Democrats in Congress are all about power, not the Constitution, so they couldn't care less. They believe there will always be a place for the power brokers, no matter which system. Those of us concerned about the continuation of our Constitutional Republic are very concerned about the economic precipice that we are approaching.

The International Republican Web ???

Tati comments on May 4, 2020:

I don’t know... this site is about thinking and questioning. Liberals don’t do very much of that, do they? There are other progressive people though.

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

I agree Tati. Open mindedness is the hallmark of this site. So why put up with those who only state what someone else told them to think? I mean, this is a free site, but I don't have to respond when they do that.

The International Republican Web ???

govols comments on May 4, 2020:

What's a moderate?

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

All things to all people. Actually, that defines the Democrat platform.

The International Republican Web ???

FrozenSoul comments on May 4, 2020:

I’m a Nationalist. I support universal healthcare Sexuality freedom 👍 Believe should be a License to Parent What s that make me?

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

As far as I'm concerned, you get to define yourself here by what you say. But here is something to ponder: “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.   What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.  The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.   When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend is the end of any nation.  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” - Dr. Adrian Rogers. And I would add, why not require that EVERY citizen pass the citizenship exam before qualifying to vote? Cheers.

Bloomberg gun control group aims at TX lawmakers in new ad... [bearingarms.com]

samm comments on May 4, 2020:

Of all the states, they actually think that they can disarm Texas???😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

Remember "Boris" in "GoldenEye" who said "I am invincible," then was frozen by liquid nitrogen? That's the Left. They are almost comical. They look so stupid that some of their true believers are already defecting because they can't stand the embarrassment. Many Democrats either have no shame, or no mind, so they will not defect, but it won't matter. They can't stand to lose anyone, because they can't steal or buy enough votes to make up the difference. But Bloomberg? Vote for Biden?? Really??? Most people are decent and won't stand for the kind of corrupt nonsense they are selling.

Coronavirus: Delingpole: 'Absurd, Dystopian, Tyrannical' Lockdown Must End Soon - Says Rebel Tory...

TimTuolomne comments on May 4, 2020:

Let this be our rallying call throughout the West, to set these socialists back 100 years. If we fail, we, our families and our friends may have to rip back our freedom at gunpoint.

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@dd54, I don't suppose your name is McDougal. (DD54)

Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’ ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 4, 2020:

I have stopped using Amazon for more than a year now. Bezos is as Stalinist as they get. I refuse to support a seditious, immoral and hypocritical guy like Bezos, and Amazon. I encourage all Constitutional Americans to drop Amazon until it goes out of business. And if you are ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@dd54, Are you unaware of Amazon's tracking methods and surveillance of their customers?

Some cops excessively enforcing against peaceful lockdown protest stand down after citizen’s ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 4, 2020:

Niestzsche on Leftists: "Your most secret ambition is to be tyrants and shroud yourself in words of virtue." They are "murderous and tyrannical beyond belief."

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@Dr-Striper, Sounds to me that you may be more well read than I, and maybe as intelligent or more. It is a pleasure to exchange views sir.

NYT reporter calls Americans who want to open economy 'dumbest people'- [redstate.com]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Not that complicated. The R-nought value for SARS COV2 is well-known now. Its 5.7 over 2.5 days. If you can do the math, you know that over 10 billion people would be infected in 5 weeks. So not only did the Chinese have zero chance of containing it by the time they realized it was a problem, ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@The_Q. Exactly sir. You are not alone in suffering the random iniquity that the public's media inspired fear-driven frenzy has caused. God help us when a REAL deadly and infectious virus finally tests humankind.

Sky News Australia. "Is Hillary Ready To Swoop In As Biden Stumbles?" [youtu.be]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Ya think??? But this time the Democrats will have bought and stolen at least twice as many votes as 2016, and that was 5 million.

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@mccarthy, Yup. Welcome to Stalinist Amerika.

Prager U. "Social Justice Isn t Justice." [youtu.be]

JacksonNought comments on May 4, 2020:

Good thing we (who live in the USA) have a Constitution and a First Amendment with Freedom of Religion. That means it doesn't matter what it says in the Bible - we don't need to follow it. So starting with that is pointless, why bring it into the equation at all? You immediately disenfranchise ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@JacksonNought, At last we agree - at least in principle. Religious symbology and text has no business in government. Even though the Constitution is silent on the matter, Thomas Jefferson warned that there must be a "wall of separation between church and state", as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802, as a matter inextricably entwined with First Amendment rights. I was not aware of the laws in various states about discrimination against religion (in which I include atheism.) However those laws are probably Constitutional, as Constitutional power resides in the States, not the Federal Government, and the Constitution is otherwise silent about religion. However, although I may philosophically agree with you about separation of church and state, as a practical matter of preserving States Rights, I will have to side with the States right to restrict what should probably be free.

Some cops excessively enforcing against peaceful lockdown protest stand down after citizen’s ...

cRaZyTMG comments on May 4, 2020:

It's ok to meet violence with violence. It's not ok to use violence against peaceful people. Rebellion does not equal violence.

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@JacksonNought, Fair question and I asked first and you answered. I seek original sources, and obviously have found a very different picture than you. Frankly I hear a bunch of preconception in your narrative, and you no doubt see the same in mine. Lets leave it at that, shall we?

Some cops excessively enforcing against peaceful lockdown protest stand down after citizen’s ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 4, 2020:

Niestzsche on Leftists: "Your most secret ambition is to be tyrants and shroud yourself in words of virtue." They are "murderous and tyrannical beyond belief."

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@JacksonNought, speaking of cherry picking, I guess you missed the part where he is setting up his appreciation of Christian Faith in his way by describing how it seems to the average man, such as yourself. No wonder you like that. Nietzsche was brilliant and understood the Bible well. Keep reading. You may find what I am talking about. And you may miss it too. After all, he was an atheist.

Recent Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks that can take over your computer by "brute force.

MaskedRiderChris comments on May 4, 2020:

I would imagine that this would happen regardless of OS? I use Linux and am not as worried about viruses and malware as MacOS and Windows users are, but I suspect that this crosses borders, as it were?

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

I don't know Masked Rider, but if I had to guess, I would say that these brute force kernels are specifically targeting weaknesses in Microsoft, and may not be finding Apple and Linux so easy to compromise. For one thing, Microsoft and Apple designers love to build in "secret" key combinations to override their OS, but Apple has historically had better security for those little tricks. Microsoft's hierarchy leaks like a sieve, so its out there.

Some cops excessively enforcing against peaceful lockdown protest stand down after citizen’s ...

cRaZyTMG comments on May 4, 2020:

It's ok to meet violence with violence. It's not ok to use violence against peaceful people. Rebellion does not equal violence.

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@JacksonNought, yeah, we disagree on that completely. But if you get your information from the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, etc, you can be forgiven for being brainwashed. Try seeking original sources to learn what is true instead of relying on the media to tell you what to think. The New York Times proudly reports that 87% of the media are Democrats. Do you think that might affect what you see?

Prager U. "Social Justice Isn t Justice." [youtu.be]

JacksonNought comments on May 4, 2020:

Good thing we (who live in the USA) have a Constitution and a First Amendment with Freedom of Religion. That means it doesn't matter what it says in the Bible - we don't need to follow it. So starting with that is pointless, why bring it into the equation at all? You immediately disenfranchise ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@JacksonNought, anyone using the Bible to promote hatred (which I would have to ask, as I would not dare to assign that kind of judgement of someone without their permission) would be to endanger their eternal soul. Many claim to be Christians, but to fail to make the effort be restrain their impulse to judge others, places them squarely at odds with the Great Commission, and places their eternal soul in jeopardy. And to be frank, I have read many cases of discrimination against Christians in public office - including one recent in the news who was fired for placing a Bible verse on her Facebook page, but I have NEVER read of any discrimination against an atheist. Furthermore, even though we are all called to do our best, the Bible acknowledges the inevitability that we will ALL fail, so it does not call for our condemnation of any of the relationships you mention, only that we all seek to be better in every way possible OURSELVES, and leave others to choose to work on themselves, or not. That is FREE WILL, guaranteed by God for us to choose or not choose to be better OR to be faithful. So the truly faithful to Scripture will also unconditionally honor your choice to not accept God. This is what Scripture says, and it is not what people say it says, if not that, "Christians" or not.

Some cops excessively enforcing against peaceful lockdown protest stand down after citizen’s ...

cRaZyTMG comments on May 4, 2020:

It's ok to meet violence with violence. It's not ok to use violence against peaceful people. Rebellion does not equal violence.

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

Yeah, unless you are Antifa or a Leftist, who have intentionally incorporated violence against the peaceful as a way of intimidating them into accepting the Leftist point of view.

Prager U. "Social Justice Isn t Justice." [youtu.be]

JacksonNought comments on May 4, 2020:

Good thing we (who live in the USA) have a Constitution and a First Amendment with Freedom of Religion. That means it doesn't matter what it says in the Bible - we don't need to follow it. So starting with that is pointless, why bring it into the equation at all? You immediately disenfranchise ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

First of all, anyone can use the Bible as a prop for their own point of view, so I agree that its place is not in politics. I disagree that the groups you mention need any special consideration beyond the protection we all enjoy under the Constitution. Maybe you weren't saying otherwise. For me personally, not politically, the New Testament, which is the current call to Christians in the Bible, gives the Great Commission, which simply says we are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and this law exceeds all others. This would seem to make it wrong to single out anyone for bashing. I am often amazed what people think the Bible says, when almost no one has read it.

NYT reporter calls Americans who want to open economy 'dumbest people'- [redstate.com]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Not that complicated. The R-nought value for SARS COV2 is well-known now. Its 5.7 over 2.5 days. If you can do the math, you know that over 10 billion people would be infected in 5 weeks. So not only did the Chinese have zero chance of containing it by the time they realized it was a problem, ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@angelo, I agree that the NYT is not even good for that.

NYT reporter calls Americans who want to open economy 'dumbest people'- [redstate.com]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Not that complicated. The R-nought value for SARS COV2 is well-known now. Its 5.7 over 2.5 days. If you can do the math, you know that over 10 billion people would be infected in 5 weeks. So not only did the Chinese have zero chance of containing it by the time they realized it was a problem, ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@MrShittles. No. You missed just about everything. Again. For one thing 5.7 people are infected by every one person in 2.5 days. And apparently you have no idea how to do the math. And again you missed that EVERYONE ON THE PLANET was infected before you and I ever heard of it. Finally, the latency of the disease is among the highest known, almost certainly surpassing 30 days, which means asymptomatic silent carriers (you and I) can transmit the disease for a very long time after being infected. And that means the numbers on the charts and graphs are still catching up with reality, and won't confirm what you can get from R-nought for months. I'm going to save your projections, which I will show you if you're still on this site in 6 months, and you can explain it then.

How Evil Thinks To understand reality and the problems of man we need to understand how people ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

You didn't distill it, so I will. There are those who understand that the Constitution protects individual freedom, and those who believe socialism only sacrifices individual freedom for order. However the history of socialism shows that it always fails to deliver without violence, ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@Edify, You can say that choosing to believe in socialism is "evil" and illogical, and unChristian, and be correct, however it does not make my description wrong. You have a way of looking at it that is valid, however not persuasive to the evil or illogical. Those who I know who have awakened from the socialist dream have only done so by recognizing their current path as equivalent to paths chosen by others in history. Using dialectic arguments only allows them the Marxist wedge to be applied to your simple statement of the morality of property ownership, with which they simply disagree without qualification - Which is Marx's only piece of wisdom: No argument was necessary to be persuasive; only Marxist assertion, and logic could be discarded entirely. Of course this is why socialist regimes fail. They are not based in reality.

NYT reporter calls Americans who want to open economy 'dumbest people'- [redstate.com]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Not that complicated. The R-nought value for SARS COV2 is well-known now. Its 5.7 over 2.5 days. If you can do the math, you know that over 10 billion people would be infected in 5 weeks. So not only did the Chinese have zero chance of containing it by the time they realized it was a problem, ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 4, 2020:

@MrShittles. The mortality rates you are quoting depend on assumptions of only the recorded cases of COVID-19. Several reports now predict that the actual number of infections may be between 50 and 85 times higher - meaning that the mortality rate is 50 - 85 times lower than the .5% you quoted, which reduces it to less than the common flu. Even the 7% mortality rate based on reported cases in Italy (not actual infections) becomes about the same as the common flu. Also I guess you missed the part about the latest R-nought value being 5.7. Basically that means unless someone had absolutely no contact with anyone, EVERYONE ON THE PLANET was infected in 5 weeks. For one thing, that means that failing to social distance is not "foolhardy." It is ineffective because everyone is already infected. You did get that right? And that drops the mortality rate to about 300 times less than the common flu. You can see by the reference I provided that the new virus kills almost no one except the very sick and dying (and a percent or so of people of any age with undiagnosed preconditions.) The countries with the greatest number of old people have the highest number of fatalities. You should pay attention to when some of those numbers are updated on the reference I provided. Some are updated often. Some not since originally published, such as hospitalization rates. This will take a while to be reflected in the data pages, and the media, and others like them benefiting from the chaos, who will naturally continue to claim a hazard exists when it doesn't. Are you one of those?

No one could have predicted that the King of the Woke, Michael Moore, would spark a worldwide ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

"Humans bad" is the Leftist mantra for greater government control. Humans are a small part of the animal kingdom that are part of the planet. THERE IS NO STANDARD OF WHAT THE PLANET SHOULD BE, because it has been in the state of change since it was a dust mote around the Sun, and will continue ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@GeeMac, I'm relieved to learn that you were talking about what others say about climate change, not that you agree that it is a real issue. Almost no one seems to be aware that CO2 has been declining for the last thousand years and is nearly at the extinction value for plant life on Earth. Humans have actually delayed the loss of plant life by boosting CO2 by 30% or so. The sad truth is that if we don't find a way to release sequestered CO2 from the Earth soon, all plant life will perish in a few generations. When those generations read history of us trying to reduce CO2, they are going to think we were morons.

No one could have predicted that the King of the Woke, Michael Moore, would spark a worldwide ...

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

"Humans bad" is the Leftist mantra for greater government control. Humans are a small part of the animal kingdom that are part of the planet. THERE IS NO STANDARD OF WHAT THE PLANET SHOULD BE, because it has been in the state of change since it was a dust mote around the Sun, and will continue ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@GeeMac. Economist Says Global Synchronized Growth ‘Very Likely’ in 2020. “A shocking statement was made by a United Nations official Christiana Figueres at a news conference in Brussels. Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism. She said very casually: “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.” She even restated that goal ensuring it was not a mistake: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

Sky News Australia. "Is Hillary Ready To Swoop In As Biden Stumbles?" [youtu.be]

Centrist comments on May 3, 2020:

Lmao. So, ya got any evidence for that statement?

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

Hey, you either get or you don't.

Sky News Australia. "Is Hillary Ready To Swoop In As Biden Stumbles?" [youtu.be]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Ya think??? But this time the Democrats will have bought and stolen at least twice as many votes as 2016, and that was 5 million.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@Serg97, truly.

Moody's report to show viability of Paycheck Guarantee Act [twitter.com] [jayapal.house.gov]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Giving "cooking the books" new meaning. % per job takes no account of the future cost of money, the risk of failure to the economy of 100b/mo (which is greater than the GDP of 180 of the 195 countries in the World.) and the willingness of taxpayers to add $3,500 to the $67,500 already obligated to...

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@cRaZyTMG, ya know, I have no idea what you are arguing, but it has long since ceased to be about the cost of debt to the taxpayers. I have no idea why you are an exception, nor do I care, because it doesn't matter. Exceptions never disprove the rule. I only engage in discussions in which I might learn something. I shall learn nothing from you.

Moody's report to show viability of Paycheck Guarantee Act [twitter.com] [jayapal.house.gov]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Giving "cooking the books" new meaning. % per job takes no account of the future cost of money, the risk of failure to the economy of 100b/mo (which is greater than the GDP of 180 of the 195 countries in the World.) and the willingness of taxpayers to add $3,500 to the $67,500 already obligated to...

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@cRaZyTMG, Wake up eh. And how would I know that genius? I hope you are retired and living on your rewards of a life of a strong work ethic, but from your easy and baseless condemnation, I doubt it. You either did pay it, or you are a drain on society, and clearly don't care if others taxes go up. Good for you.

The lawsuit grin [youtu.be]

johnlondon comments on May 3, 2020:

Loon, goon, Cheap, Creep and Peep.... Feminism greatest lie of the 20th century and 21st....

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

Yes, but the impulse to control others is timeless.

Moody's report to show viability of Paycheck Guarantee Act [twitter.com] [jayapal.house.gov]

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

Giving "cooking the books" new meaning. % per job takes no account of the future cost of money, the risk of failure to the economy of 100b/mo (which is greater than the GDP of 180 of the 195 countries in the World.) and the willingness of taxpayers to add $3,500 to the $67,500 already obligated to...

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@cRaZyTMG, I love it when I speak of the obvious and someone says "prove it." What percent of your income are the taxes you pay bucko? Want to bet that they are going up??? Hey, it ain't rocket science, but you are clueless that you are even paying it. Hilarious.

Coronavirus was 'not manmade or genetically modified': U.S. spy agency - Reuters [reuters.com]

jakuboj comments on May 2, 2020:

I call bullshit.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@jakuboj, we agree on that.

Coronavirus was 'not manmade or genetically modified': U.S. spy agency - Reuters [reuters.com]

jakuboj comments on May 2, 2020:

I call bullshit.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@jakuboj, So smart that an authoritarian regime allows wet markets, which the entire World holds in contempt? And if they are so smart, how did they become so desperate? Desperation is the hobgoblin of convicts and fools.

Coronavirus was 'not manmade or genetically modified': U.S. spy agency - Reuters [reuters.com]

jakuboj comments on May 2, 2020:

I call bullshit.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@jakuboj, If you read SunTsu, and understand that the CCP follows his principles, they would never play a gambit this destructive. They are pretty good at leveraging trade, espionage, pressuring our strategic allies and maneuvering into favorable positions. The virus would be something more like the Soviets might have tried. But not the Chinese.

Nostradamus predicted pandemic.

timon_phocas comments on May 3, 2020:

New Amsterdam (AKA New York) was founded in 1624, 38 years after Nostradamus' death. Poor guy's cryptic prose has been accused of foretelling everything from JFK's assassination to my collie's first litter.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

Yeah, he predicted tons of other stuff that didn't happen. Can't miss if you predict everything. Only an idiot would miss that.

Coronavirus was 'not manmade or genetically modified': U.S. spy agency - Reuters [reuters.com]

jakuboj comments on May 2, 2020:

I call bullshit.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@jakuboj, None of that changes the fact of the incompetence of the release if it were intentional. Sure there are a bunch of agencies who who are an axis which will and are doing their best to control the damage, and make it into a propaganda opportunity as best they can. But if you had to prosecute this as a case the DA would laugh at you.

Children learning Gun Safety in Elementary School, 1956 Guns have not fundamentally changed since...

TimTuolomne comments on May 3, 2020:

That's right. Civility died when socialists learned they could not be persuasive except by shouting down and viciously slandering opponents. We didn't stop them and now everyone is angry.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@NonAgrssvMight, actually it started with FDR. He unconstitutionally threatened the Supreme Court with removal - for which he should have been impeached and removed from office. The American public didn't bat an eye, and in 1942, the unaccountable Federal bureaucracy was born in the SCOTUS decision Wickard v Filburn, which invalidated the Commerce Clause of the Constitution; the most destructive event in American history. Crickets. In 1981, Republicans in Congress and the public were asleep when Democrats passed the LRRA, "regulating" insurance companies. 276 insurance companies went out of business, competition disappeared, and insurance rates quadrupled. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Chuck Schumer voted for it. I remember. Do you? Not a peep. By then almost no one remains aware that the Federal bureaucracy is running their lives, as if it has always been that way. So when Democrats pass the explicitly unconstitutional Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), almost no one realizes that it is literally the death knell of the United States Constitution, and those of who warn so, are vilified as "right wing extremists," - especially by the media, which the New York Times proudly proclaims are 87% Democrat. So do I like the chances for the Second Amendment? No. Unless the public wakes up now, the Republic is finished.

'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 ...

SupraLibrix comments on Apr 30, 2020:

These are the people that keep dictators in check. You should be very thankful.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@Finch, Agreed.

Back to the Dark Matter Crud.

808scotty comments on May 3, 2020:

Electric Universe theory explains it much better than dark matter, here is some info. https://youtu.be/E4pWZGBpWP0

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

Good one Scotty! I learned some things I had not seen before. I'm super grateful! An electric Universe makes so much sense, that its almost a mystery that none of us saw it before now, isn't it? And as you probably know, electric and magnetic energy is equivalent to mass on scales of the Universe.

So it’s pretty obvious that what with everything that’s going on, and what is inevitably coming,...

WilyRickWiles comments on May 1, 2020:

You have a blind spot. Socialism (or at least social democracy--i.e. Fed policy that provides capital to smaller businesses and individuals--not just large corporations) is part of the solution!

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@Tati. There are no better spokespeople against socialism than those who have suffered, or have family who have suffered under its yoke. Most Romanians I know think American socialists are idiots, and I agree with them.

Facebook ban?

TimTuolomne comments on May 2, 2020:

Only the unintelligent are left on Facebook; their perfect, moldable market.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@JVIP-WTPNN. Yup. Nancy Pelosi defends them, so they have tacit approval, and have made it their communication network. Thank you so much Steve Zuckerberg, who deleted my posts when his fake "fact checker" disagreed with them. But vicious murderers? No problem.

Coronavirus was 'not manmade or genetically modified': U.S. spy agency - Reuters [reuters.com]

jakuboj comments on May 2, 2020:

I call bullshit.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@jakuboj, we disagree. Dr Li Wenliang posted that the first case was 17 November, and he was arrested 6 weeks later. He recanted his discovery under threat of prison, and that leaked out on social media. He died of exposure to the virus 5 weeks after that. For one thing, if this was a tactical release, Dr Li would never have had a chance to release anything to social media in an authoritarian regime like China. And he would have disappeared immediately. Not to mention that US intelligence has noticed chatter that seems to point to Chinese industrial espionage aimed at learning if we have invented a vaccine. If this was a weapon, they would have had the vaccine first before inflicting it on their own population, and would not be spending millions on resources to discover what we have. None of that sounds like any kind of reasonable tactical plan for controlled dispersement of a biological weapon. And SunTsu would say that releasing a weapon that might destroy your own nation before it harms anyone else would guarantee defeat. The CCP is well-known to follow the concepts of Sun Tsu. The well-known R-nought value of the virus causing CoVID-19 is 5.7 in 2.5 days. If you do the math, it means the entire country of China was exposed to the virus before Dr Li was even arrested. The media of the West did the most harm, and except for approving of Communism, they were not under the control of China, and most were kicked out of China. Bad idea if you are using them and want to direct them. Finally, as a biological weapon, it is a very poor one. It is highly infectious, but is so toothless as a pathogen that it only takes out the sick and dying. If that was a plan, it was executed by the Keystone Cops.

I like to remind people that partisan politics are what is tearing our country apart by causing ...

iThink comments on May 2, 2020:

I very much prefer partisan politics to monolithic governance

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@iThink, I agree that a monolithic government is anti-Constitutional in every way, and the value of our Constitution depends on that distinction. However, fat and happy voters, utterly unconcerned about the founding principles or who is minding the store, such that the majority no longer bothers to vote, can not be overcome by any system. By definition such an irresponsible, apathetic electorate, dooms the system to monolithic function, no matter how inspired it may be. Thomas Jefferson warned us.

'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 ...

SupraLibrix comments on Apr 30, 2020:

These are the people that keep dictators in check. You should be very thankful.

TimTuolomne replies on May 3, 2020:

@Finch, for not quibbling, I think thou dost protest too much. Fine, if you want to split hairs, my pointy eyebrows makes me a different race. I think such distinctions have taken the argument beyond any practical value.

I like to remind people that partisan politics are what is tearing our country apart by causing ...

iThink comments on May 2, 2020:

I very much prefer partisan politics to monolithic governance

TimTuolomne replies on May 2, 2020:

One half of the partisan political discussion is not playing fair.

I like to remind people that partisan politics are what is tearing our country apart by causing ...

timon_phocas comments on May 2, 2020:

We already have term limits. They're called elections. Term limits haven't made California less corrupt. They haven't made Colorado less corrupt. They've made appointed bureaucracies and political machines more powerful.

TimTuolomne replies on May 2, 2020:

That is the fault of voters allowing the Constitution to be crippled by Wickard v Filburn, the LRRA, Obamacare..... When that stuff is repealed, bureaucratic rule will cease, Constitutional protection will resume, and term limits will mean something. Time for a Convention of States to get this done.

Abuse of power?

TimTuolomne comments on May 2, 2020:

Soon, the facts will be known about this version of the common cold, and everyone who did stuff like this will look like an idiot. REMEMBER THEM! Don't let them tell you conservatives did this. Call them on it! Make sure they know you believe they are the liars they are!

TimTuolomne replies on May 2, 2020:

@SpikeTalon, This gets bad enough, and if we don't get wasted first by these lunatics, that might be a reasonable reaction by the surviving freedom-loving majority.

'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 ...

SupraLibrix comments on Apr 30, 2020:

These are the people that keep dictators in check. You should be very thankful.

TimTuolomne replies on May 2, 2020:

@Finch...in which case the value in such "discrimination" ( which I would instead call discernment) is in consciously deciding whether or not to apply such discernment. Unconsciousness about the matter makes it destructive.

Coronavirus was 'not manmade or genetically modified': U.S. spy agency - Reuters [reuters.com]

jakuboj comments on May 2, 2020:

I call bullshit.

TimTuolomne replies on May 2, 2020:

My brother is a geneticist, and all his colleagues agree that the gene sequence for SARS CoV2, which causes COVID-19, shows none of the markers necessary for gene splicing, and shows a clear forensic path through bats some time ago, and pangolin just before jumping to humans. These are the experts and know what they are talking about. I don't believe what some uninformed opinion maker says who has no idea how to sequence genes.

Brit Hume: Collateral damage from lockdowns 'is extraordinary' - WND

TimTuolomne comments on May 1, 2020:

Not that complicated. The R-nought value for SARS COV2 is well-known now. Its 5.7 over 2.5 days. If you can do the math, you know that over 10 billion people would be infected in 5 weeks. So not only did the Chinese have zero chance of containing it by the time they realized it was a problem, the...

TimTuolomne replies on May 1, 2020:

@NonAgrssvMight, 17 November to be exact, according to Dr Li Wenliang. No, that kind of R-nought is far too fast for anything but lockdown within 2 days of discovery. Dr Li was arrested 6 weeks later. That is the very first time officials could have responded. By that time, not only was the virus all the way across China, the 60,000 who fled Wuhan into the World, had spread it to the entire World. Just because you THINK is should be possible to contain it, doesn't make it so. The math proves it.

Another excellent expose from Micheal Moore with over 5million views in a week [youtu.be]

TimTuolomne comments on May 1, 2020:

I never trust anyone who has proven to have lied to me. Moore was such a malicious liar in "An Inconvenient Truth," that I have no interest in anything he has to say - especially if it is the mentally ill proposition that humans are bad for the planet. In the future, that will be seen as one of ...

TimTuolomne replies on May 1, 2020:

@Nide, Humans are part of the planet, just like all of the plants and animals. And there is no status quo of what the planet is "supposed to be," that isn't a concept of some human. To buy into anything else is sheeplike.

Beware the Contact Tracers - YouTube

RegnadKcin comments on Apr 30, 2020:

Am curious if other apps which use location can be manipulated to collect similar data. Strongest defense: leave the phone at home or use a Faraday box.

TimTuolomne replies on May 1, 2020:

Simple. Turn off your location reporting. Turn off your phone when you are not using it. Configure your computer to delete all cookies and history when you turn it off, and turn it off when not using it. If someone really wants to find you and they know how, they will anyway, but at least those measures prevents them from having a trail to follow. And for heaven's sake, if you think someone is trying to track you, be immediately proactive and turn it back on them. If they are tracking you, there's a pretty good chance they are in violation too!

UK.

TimTuolomne comments on May 1, 2020:

If you do the math for COVID-19, its R-nought is 5.7 over 2.5 days. That computes to the entire planet infected in 5 weeks. China was not aware in time, so its entire population was infected, the West was not even aware of the virus for 9 weeks after the first recognized case on 17 November, and...

TimTuolomne replies on May 1, 2020:

@mccarthy, It is not age related. If you look at the chart on pre-existing conditions, you can see that young people who smoke are at high risk. https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-coronavirus-infographic-datapack/

Nancy Pelosi Appoints Only Democrats To House Select Coronavirus Committee | The Daily Wire.

ScottforKing comments on May 1, 2020:

If Pelosi was a leopard, would you expect her to change her spots?

TimTuolomne replies on May 1, 2020:

Right. We are all motivated by one thing. For some of us it's love. For some its justice. And for those like Pelosi, its power, and whatever it is, does not change for any of us.

'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 ...

SupraLibrix comments on Apr 30, 2020:

These are the people that keep dictators in check. You should be very thankful.

TimTuolomne replies on May 1, 2020:

@WilyRickWiles, discrimination is discrimination, whether it is based on cultural differences or whatever, and it is nothing new. Every "tribe" thinks its neighbor are idiots, and because not everyone can be right, no one is. Basically anyone who blames someone else is the idiot.

'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 ...

SupraLibrix comments on Apr 30, 2020:

These are the people that keep dictators in check. You should be very thankful.

TimTuolomne replies on May 1, 2020:

@WilyRickWiles, There is no race among homo-sapiens. The human genome has been sequenced for 20 years now and we know for sure, except you I guess. That makes you the racist, because everyone else who knows better wouldn't claim it exists.

Powell: More Evidence Shows FBI Set Up Lt.

ScottforKing comments on Apr 30, 2020:

It reaffirms what the Republican constituents resolve but does it make an impact on the Democrats?

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 30, 2020:

Not yet. There are cases being made. Hundreds of them. When they are airtight, you will see them prosecuted, one by one.

Proof that the elites in America are coming for all of us.

ScottforKing comments on Apr 30, 2020:

I think that the problem the conservatives face when making their case for greater freedom is that so few have any idea what freedom is in a culture where so few have it.

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 30, 2020:

Right. Freedom only comes from the Constitution, and Conservatives are the only defenders of the Constitution, although some have still not read it, nor the philosophies on which it is founded. No Democrat has probably ever read it, let alone grasp it, so they believe that government can make things more fair than the Constitution, even though the only alternative they can come up with is socialism, so they have to ignore its history, and that takes Olympic class denial.

'America In the Age of Trump': Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to Covid-19 ...

SupraLibrix comments on Apr 30, 2020:

These are the people that keep dictators in check. You should be very thankful.

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 30, 2020:

@WilyRickWiles, and there it is. Racism; yours.

Fake News 101: The same rule applies to almost every other media narrative about Trump...

TimTuolomne comments on Apr 29, 2020:

That isn't the only thing they can not discern.

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 29, 2020:

@iThink, right! As well as some who couldn't recognize a cogent argument if it surrounded them.

Fake News 101: The same rule applies to almost every other media narrative about Trump...

TimTuolomne comments on Apr 29, 2020:

That isn't the only thing they can not discern.

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 29, 2020:

@GeeMac, I know many who can write and speak with perfect grammar, and totally miss the concept at hand.

He was executed in bed while sleeping. This happened in March and we are only hearing about in now?

TimTuolomne comments on Apr 29, 2020:

I posted it here the day it happened from an article in either Breitbart, the New Paper, Conservative Times, or the Epoch Times.

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 29, 2020:

@FEWI, the problem with everyone being comfortable living their lives, is that no one is keeping an eye on the foxes in the henhouse. Yes, we may well be past the point of no return, beyond which the Constitutional Republic of The United States of America, may cease to exist. Those who drove us to this will probably live to regret what they have done.

China Is Using Fentanyl as ‘Chemical Warfare,’ Experts Say. [theepochtimes.com]

jakuboj comments on Apr 29, 2020:

I don't think if China wanted to do another bioweapon attack, they would target one of our weakest segments of society.

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 29, 2020:

Now that's good thinking!

Wouldn’t call myself an SJW, but here’s something to think about. What do you think?

TimTuolomne comments on Apr 29, 2020:

Gender confusion always takes a terrible toll. Most of us experience some of that as teenagers, and roughly 98% of us grow out of it. For those who don’t and fail to benefit from therapy, the result too often is suicide. So if I had a loved one so afflicted, I would do everything in my power ...

TimTuolomne replies on Apr 29, 2020:

@Tati. I don't know about most parents, but if I had a daughter, I would enforce her safety in emergencies, however I would encourage her to make her own mistakes, with the benefit of my advice, if she so chose to seek. Any notion of control beyond emergencies is unconstructive, and illusory anyway.