Democrats are in the majority because they have 50 seats and the ability for Vice President Harris to break a tie. Luján’s absence leaves them at 49 seats until he returns, with his office saying he’s expected to make a full recovery. 'It's just a reminder that in a 50-50 Senate any unexpected development could be a challenge to our moving forward on an agenda that the Democratic caucus shares,' said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who said he was very optimistic that the 49-year-old Luján would make a full recovery."
I suppose the Democrats are working hard at understanding how to be properly discreet as they endeavor to will a Luján resignation into being. Of course, I hope the poor man does well, but I can't believe the Democrats intend wait for his return.
ADDED: In New Mexico, the governor would name a new senator if there is a vacancy. The governor is Michelle Lujan Grisham, and, in case you're wondering, "Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ben Ray Luján aren’t cousins."
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When was he boosted, and did he have any prior cardiac issues?
First question pops into my head now whenever I hear of a sudden cardiac event.
"Underscoring the narrow majority, Democrats on the Commerce Committee, which Luján is a member of, almost immediately yanked three nominations that were expected to get votes on Wednesday. An aide noted that the agenda was being "recalibrated to take into consideration the need for all Democratic votes in order to move certain nominees forward."
Good. Fuck these assholes. When you try over and over to cram stuff down the throat of your opponents, nobody you're trying to run over will care about your adversity.
Me, too, Daskol. I am assuming that a press release will deny any connection to the vaccines without actually telling us when the Senator was last boosted.
daskol said...
First question pops into my head now whenever I hear of a sudden cardiac event.
Doesn't even matter if it turns out to be true at this point.
Pfizer is hiding the trial data.
The other big corporations are censoring discussion.
The government is forcing you to take it.
The blow back on this is going to be impressive.
Just like the press release about Betty White's death.
Teddy Kennedy died at an inconvenient moment but Harry Reid was equal to the task.
COVID causes strokes too. That's why they tell you to take an aspirin daily for a couple of weeks after you recover.
This (or any other of the many older senators dying or being hospitalized) leads to interesting SCOTUS scenarios/speculation.
I particularly enjoy the stress/crazy it imposes on the leftists.
This or any senator who can’t make it or DC for the vote causes them delay. Hate to lose 50-49.
Lose a senator, any senator, causes a delay while that state elects/appoints a replacement.
Lose one from a state with a Republican Governor/State Government and you may lose the senate majority altogether.
Should be another fun season to watch these shenanigans.
Having a 50-50 Senate and the ability to break the tie made Democrats drunk. They made a lot of stupid mistakes that they wouldn't have if they hadn't imagined that they were gods of all creation.
Three doses till thrombosis!!!
They had to do decompressive surgery. Doesn't sound minor.
Will this be the "look down" that causes the Democratic Party's Wiley E. Coyote attitude and imagined mandate to crash to earth?
* Two failed impeachments and 1,000 failed attacks on Trump didn't do it.
* A weak showing in the 2020 election against Trump didn't do it.
* A shocking poor showing in 2021 in Virginia and New Jersey maybe half did it.
* Manchin's tag-teaming with Sinema and Gabbard in calls for party sanity hasn't done it (yet).
"Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ben Ray Luján aren’t cousins."
That's an oddly specific denial.
Now Now Now! 49 year olds have strokes... ALL THE TIME!!
At Least they do, if they've been vaxed
For some reason I'm thinking of the scene in Godfather 2 where an assassin comes to the hospital and uses a pillow...
I can understand pressuring Breyer to resign. He wasn’t getting any younger. But this Senator is in his 40s and is expected to fully recover. Pressuring him to resign is ghoulish, to put it charitably.
"First question pops into my head now whenever I hear of a sudden cardiac event."
Vascular disease is the most common cause of death in the US. The first event often occurs without prior warning.
"Of course, I hope the poor man does well, but I can't believe the Democrats intend [to] wait for his return."
You can't believe that? Seriously? This is the Democrat Party we're talking about. The ones who would throw both their mothers and grandmothers over a cliff if it meant getting more power.
"Pressuring him to resign is ghoulish, to put it charitably."
That's why they will need to be discreet so we don't see anything ghoulish. But the Democratic majority is about to be gone, and they need to use it while they can. The next few months are important.
gilbar said...
Now Now Now! 49 year olds have strokes... ALL THE TIME!!
At Least they do, if they've been vaxed
A friend in Atlanta had one back in 2010 or so when she was about that age. Her husband and daughter realized something big was wrong and got her to the hospital quickly so the long term effects were mild. She's an ultra-runner and besides that generally mentally and physically healthy. Based on her experience I believe the senator should be able to resume his duties in 10 to 12 months.
"Of course, I hope the poor man does well, but I can't believe the Democrats intend [to] wait for his return."
No, of course they won't wait. This is the Democrat Party we're talking about. The ones who would throw both their mothers and grandmothers over a cliff if it meant getting more power.
No need to pressure Senator Luján to resign. Senator Collins and Murkowski are easy Republican votes to confirm most of the nominees Biden might pick. And, though the replacement senator will get to participate in the fun of the 50-50 Senate for a few months, they’ll be up for election in the midterm this fall. Luján won by 6% in 2020. It would be a relatively easy target for Republicans to pick the seat up from an appointed senator, a type whose track record in winning their own election isn’t great.
campy said...
"Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ben Ray Luján aren’t cousins."
That's an oddly specific denial.
But probably true. I've met quite a few Lujan's here in Arizona, even worked with a couple at various times. None of them ever seem to be related.
“The blow back on this is going to be impressive.”
There also appears, maybe, to have been an explosion of cancer too. If so, the mechanism may be the crash of killer T Cells after 2nd and subsequent jabs. One doctor has found hundreds of percent increases in some cancers over the last year. What is often forgotten is that our immune systems hold many cancers at bay, as well as viruses, like herpes and shingles that are hidden deeply enough that we never completely get rid of them. Our immune systems are,usually, finely tuned machines, and these gene therapy “vaccines” were intentionally designed to short circuit some of their mechanisms. One way that you can look at their effects are direct and indirect. The heart, lung, and brain issues are more likely due to the toxic spike proteins migrating to where they shouldn’t be, while the indirect primarily involve significantly degrading our immune systems for a period of time. The first jab primes the immune system, while the massive dump of spike proteins in 2nd and subsequent jabs can cause it to overreact.
I think that the demand by Dems for COVID-19 vaccinations will, in fairly short order, start to massively rebound against them. They appear to be killing parents and grandchildren, in order to protect their grandparents from dying of the virus - except that these vaccines don’t even do that.
You can be dead and still be a senator, or almost dead: Kennedy, McCain.
You can be close to brain dead and still be a senator: Tim Johnson, who was in a coma, Patty Murray, Maisie Hirono, Joe Biden.
“Now Now Now! 49 year olds have strokes... ALL THE TIME!!
At Least they do, if they've been vaxed”
They are now having a lot more heart attacks (including myocarditis) too, so no surprise. And probably cancer too. Anyone paying attention should be really worried about these “vaccines”.
The next few months are important.
Good thing they didn't waste months and months pressuring Manchin and Sinema when there was no hope of them flipping on the BBB monstrosity.
Apparently those months weren't important.
I hope the Senator makes a full recovery. I also think a person who has had a stroke should evaluate everything in their lives and make necessary adjustments. Someone in their 40s has plenty of life yet to live.
The caveat about the non-relationship seems bizarre to me -- would a similar thing be done if their names both included 'Smith'?
>Howard said...
They had to do decompressive surgery. Doesn't sound minor.<
It is not minor. It indicates a fairly large stroke. Mortality rate after the decompression is about 30%. In the other 70% significant neurologic deficit is common. He's young, and statistically that will help him.
His recovery course if he's in the 70% could drag out. I'll leave it to you to guess which group lots of Democrats, in their heart of hearts, are hoping for. Myself, I don't have much trouble making that guess.
tim in vermont said...
COVID causes strokes too. That's why they tell you to take an aspirin daily for a couple of weeks after you recover.
What are your sources for this?
Well here is hoping he takes his time. takes his rehab seriously and spends lots of time with his family after this scare. He could have been gone.
Say about a 10 month or so convalescing and making sure he and his family are loving and cherishing each other.
That sounds about right.
I would expect the democrats would support that, I mean buttigieg had what, a 2 month paternity leave during a supply chain crisis.
Family is important. Stay hone and love each other.
But the Democratic majority is about to be gone, and they need to use it while they can.
These seem mutually exclusive...'and'? DO you mean it's going to be gone in November?
Sounds like it could be gone already...
"For some reason I'm thinking of the scene in Godfather 2 where an assassin comes to the hospital and uses a pillow..."
And the body was immediately cremated without an investigation or even an autopsy? Oh wait, that was a conservative Supreme Court Justice. Nothing to see there, move along.
I think that one of the major differences between the D's and R's is that the D's are relentless and merciless. When it seems like they are down they will move forward in any way they can, legal/moral or not. The R's still make a show of playing by the rules and can be easily bought with vague promises. If, as expected, the R's take the House and Senate the D's won't change anything. They will just push forward using any lever that they can. They are like a slow moving viscous alien that eventually engulfs an object and devours it. I have always liked being on the side that plays by the rules but sadly now think that the D's have to be crushed somehow to save the country for the next generation. To do that the R's must be tactically smart and take what victories they can and accumulate overwhelming political and cultural power over time. Smart, focused and patient.
Interesting. A stroke in a healthy (I assume) 49-year-old. Was he double vaxxed and boosted?
Who will resign first?
Ben or Joe?
If the clock is ticking why hasn't Chicom Mitch been using Schumer's delaying tactics. Remember who Chuch Schumer slow-rolled every Trump nominee and held up every piece of R legislation in 2017-2018?
Why hasn't Mitch been doing that?
Answer: Because Mitch WANTED to slow-roll and hamstring Trump. The only thing he cared about was cutting taxes for the Rich Donors and getting R judges confirmed (also pleasing to the Rich Donors).
"Underscores the fragility", as if it was always there from the beginning and they only just noticed.
Normally, Senators have to be in the Capital Building to vote. But there's no reason Schumer can't make an unprincipled exception in this case, and allow the NM Democrat to vote from his Hospital Bed.
Or perhaps Mittens or Collins or Lisa Murky will consider it "Unfair" to hamstring the Democrats due to an illness and "match" their vote and just vote "Present".
BTW, why are we writing people's names with an accent over the vowels.
I thought this was America.
The strokes associated with COVID vaccines are thombotic in origin (blood clots). The lab tests to check for this are readily available but one of them (anti-PF4 antibodies) might take a few days.
However, the Senator had decompressive surgery which would be likely for either a SDH (subdural hematoma) or a SAH (sub-arachnoid hemorrhage), both of would very unlikely to be related to COVID or vaccine. Since the decompression was cerebellar, he likely will have to deal with coordination and balance rehabilitation, but cognitive function would be intact.
Would releasing the Senator's lab tests, CT/MRI scans, and angiogram put speculation to rest or just make for more detailed ghoulish speculation?
They lose the massive support of the public that they claim if they lose one vote and the Republicans gain the massive support of the public instead.
It's not ghouslish to pressure him to resign, nor even hoping for his death. It's not actually hoping for his death only that he's out of the way of that single vote. Nobody cares about him personally one way or the other. He's only a politician. You can buy one for a thousand dollars, no money at all these days.
The Lord sure works in mysterious ways, don’t He? On a personal note. I wish the junior senator from my state a full if ambiguously speedy recovery.)
Michael K. notes that Teddy Kennedy died at an inconvenient time, but Harry Reid was equal to the task.
I've seen Harry Reid--and Chuck Schumer is no Harry Reid.
But I don't wish strokes on any person, or any party. Here's hoping Senator Lujan has a good outcome.
When your "majority" is hanging by a thread of one Senator (any one Senator), you are in trouble. The smart move would have been to make your power grab a bit less obvious so that one or two of the other side's less reliable members (cough-Romney-cough) could vote with you without looking like a total sellout. Since they didn't do that, every vote is going to be a close call.
'I suppose the Democrats are working hard at understanding how to be properly discreet as they endeavor to will a Luján resignation into being.'
Actually, they're desperately scouring the country for a doppelgänger...
Q: Can the coronavirus (COVID-19) cause a stroke?
A: With what seems like an ever-growing list of problems COVID-19 can cause, you might also wonder if the coronavirus can cause a stroke.
While researchers are still studying exactly how COVID-19 affects the brain, the evidence does suggest it could increase stroke risk. But these strokes caused by blood clots appear to be impacting younger people.
It’s not a classic situation of stroke. We’re actually seeing young people who don’t have the traditional risk factors for stroke like high blood pressure, or other problems. These are young, healthy people, who are coming in with big, big strokes.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/can-covid-19-cause-a-stroke/
Note that the date of this article is prior to the approval of the vaccine.
Bruce Hayden said...
“The blow back on this is going to be impressive.”
There also appears, maybe, to have been an explosion of cancer too. If so, the mechanism may be the crash of killer T Cells after 2nd and subsequent jabs. One doctor has found hundreds of percent increases in some cancers over the last year. What is often forgotten is that our immune systems hold many cancers at bay, as well as viruses, like herpes and shingles that are hidden deeply enough that we never completely get rid of them.
I hadn't found that one yet.
They had me when the insurance company CEO announced the 400% increase in total mortality rate. 12 sigma deviation used to be considered impossible.
When we are done with the regime then China is going to pay.
rcocean said...
BTW, why are we writing people's names with an accent over the vowels.
I thought this was America.
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If it's good enough for Egbert Souse', it's OK with me.
Just out of curiosity, I went to Drudge - for the first time in years - to see how he was playing this.
The Senator's stroke was a tiny item on the bottom left. The gigantic news, in his world at least, is the Zucker resignation.
Go figure.
"When we are done with the regime then China is going to pay."
Why? Fauci still has his job, and you can buy Fauci. action figures in certain blue states.
She's an ultra-runner and besides that generally mentally and physically healthy. Based on her experience I believe the senator should be able to resume his duties in 10 to 12 months.
Based on Ben Lujan being a lazy fat fuck I think your friend's experience tells us nothing. Did she also need decompressive surgery?
Let me just add "10 to 12 months" is also past the midterms and nothing will get done during that period if they are still down a man. Althouse is right. Their only hope is to have him "decide" to retire ASAP. Conversely Mitt needs to man up and get back to work. He's out TWO WEEKS with COVID after all the boosters he's had? Really!
" The heart, lung, and brain issues are more likely due to the toxic spike proteins migrating to where they shouldn’t be"
Facillitated by lipid nanoparticles, themselves inflammatory.
A twofer!
That's why they tell you to take an aspirin daily for a couple of weeks after you recover.
What are your sources for this?
Baby aspirin. That's what the COVID Kit the Mexican government sends out if you're symptomatic, along with Ivermectin, vitamin D, a Z-Pack and maybe one other therapeutic. Doing this from memory because I didn't like Achilles' tone. I don't always agree with Tim but when he's right he's right.
You people are completely insane and traitors to the American people. It was a bleed, not a cloth you fucktards. I love it how you self proclaimed Patriots are buying into and actively spreading the biological China virus by embracing promoting and spreading foreign intelligence disinformation.
The real problem is you are beta and gamma males who think like dumb women.
I suppose the Democrats are working hard at understanding how to be properly discreet as they endeavor to will a Luján resignation into being. Of course, I hope the poor man does well, but I can't believe the Democrats intend wait for his return.
Well, yes, that's the Democrat's problem.
Personally, I wishing him a long, slow, but eventually full recovery. Say two weeks after the Nov election, since R Warnock (D GA) both loses his seat in the Senate as soon as he loses his election.
So, they either need him to recover quickly, or they're going to have find some rich Democrat to offer him a lot of money to quit.
And since being a Senator is a big money gig, it's going to take a lot of money
See Adult aspirin as part of FLCCC early treatment protocol
The post viral inflammatory stage (day 8ish +)is where pulmonary microclotting contributes to oxygen sat dropping.
Easy solution:
Send Hilary to visit with the senator alone.
All those big, fluffy pillows just laying around.
You do the math...
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
That's why they tell you to take an aspirin daily for a couple of weeks after you recover.
What are your sources for this?
Baby aspirin. That's what the COVID Kit the Mexican government sends out if you're symptomatic, along with Ivermectin, vitamin D, a Z-Pack and maybe one other therapeutic. Doing this from memory because I didn't like Achilles' tone. I don't always agree with Tim but when he's right he's right.
So your source is the Mexican Government? I cannot find much searching for various combinations of Mexico COVID treatment aspirin ivermectin etc.
That would be lose dose Acetylsalicylic acid? Is it 81mg daily? This would be the standard dosage that is fairly widespread right now.
I will leave the "tone" of your comment alone for now.
People like Tim who have been wrong about everything and sanctimonious bad faith assholes about it earned the lack of respect that they get.
Howard said...
You people are completely insane and traitors to the American people. It was a bleed, not a cloth you fucktards. I love it how you self proclaimed Patriots are buying into and actively spreading the biological China virus by embracing promoting and spreading foreign intelligence disinformation.
The real problem is you are beta and gamma males who think like dumb women.
Hitting the bottle a little early Howard?
It must be humiliating for you right now.
Your heroes are all bare and naked in front of the world to see and you look stupid as fuck for supporting them.
But at least you helped Pfizer earn some record profits.
In 2001 the Senate was 50 - 50, with Cheney the tiebreaker giving the GOP control
When Jumpin Jim Jeffords switched to the Dems, all the Senate Committees switched to having Dem Chairs, and a Dem became the Senate Majority leaders
So, until Lujan gets back, McConnell should be the Senate Majority leader, GOP Senators should become the Chairs of every Committee and Sub-Committee, and the GOP should now have subpoena power
With Majority Leader status comes the ability to schedule votes. So time to make the Dem Senators up for re-election in November have to make a bunch of painful votes.
The Senate Dems have spent the last year screwing the Senate GOP. There should be no reservoir of good will here.
Time to screw back
Howard said...
You people are completely insane and traitors to the American people
You sure you want to be legitimizing those kind of charges, Howard?
Accent grave over the "E."
Egbert "Sou-say. "
Egbert Sousé: My uncle, a balloon ascensionist, Effingham Hoofnagle, took a chance. He was three miles and a half up in the air. He jumped out of the basket of the balloon and took a chance of alighting on a load of hay.
Og Oggilby: Golly! Did he make it?
Egbert Sousé: Uh... no. He didn't. Had he been a younger man, he probably would have made it. That's the point. Don't wait too long in life.
>Howard said...
You people are completely insane and traitors to the American people. It was a bleed, not a cloth you fucktards.<
Really? Do you have a cite for that? Because I've read about a dozen articles on Lujan's stroke, none of which stated that it was hemorrhagic. That is a possibility of course but you should note that intracranial bleeds produce clots (that often need to be surgically evacuated).
Your fate depends on chance. Simena and Manchin were safe because they would be replaced by Republicans.
The opportunity is now present for Biden to do what GW Bush did, let an opposition party member write a hugely impactful law, then get both parties to support its passage. No Child Left Behind, Ted Kennedy's staff's wish list for education, has no parallel in Democrat administrations.
Why is crossing the aisle allowed and applauded only from R to D, and any D failure to support D legislation, let alone cross the aisle to support R proposals, maligned as criminal? How about Biden ask, say, Sen. Blackburn to write a federal law on firearms or corporate taxes?
Here indirectly is some of the military data that came out in a hearing, in response to questions by your (WI) Senator Ron Johnson
1). Alarming vax side effects reported by military whistleblowers. This story made a few waves last week when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) included a mention in his five-hour Senate hearing. The information came from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), a mundane accounting tool used to track all medical diagnosis of military personnel and dependents for insurance billing purposes. DMED did better than the CDC’s ineffective Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Following is a summary of the most alarming vax side effects:
Myocardial infarction (heart attack) -- 269% increase
Cancer diagnoses -- 300% increase
Miscarriage -- 300% increase
Bell’s palsy -- 291% increase
Congenital malformations (for children of military personnel) – 156% increase
Female infertility -- 471% increase
Pulmonary embolisms -- 467% increase
Neurological issues -- 1,000% increase
Why hasn't gov gropey Grisham received the Cuomo treatment? And can someone like that appoint a senator
rcocean said...
Or perhaps Mittens or Collins or Lisa Murky will consider it "Unfair" to hamstring the Democrats due to an illness and "match" their vote and just vote "Present".
You people really don't understand corruption, do you?
If you sell yourself once, you get a much lower price than if you sell ourself "one off" many times.
So none of Mittens, Collins, or Murkey has ANY incentive to help the Dems keep their majority. Being the Chair of a Senate Committee is a valuable f'ing thing. The graft that comes their way from being able to squeeze the Dems? Immense
And it's an election year for Murkey. No matter how much of the Democrat vote she gets, she needs a good part of the GOP vote to win.
Selling out the GOP to help a President whose "approval" rating is in the 30s, or lower, in her State?
That's a quick path to losing
COVID can increase risk of stroke in the near term after infection. So did he have COVID recently?
The mRNA vaccines can increase risk of stroke in the near term after injection. So did he have an mRNA shot recently?
Silence = vaccine
Note that he checked into a local hospital last Thursday, but the news broke just yesterday afternoon. And he is at UNM, not the local hospital. I'm sure that's just because he's an important man and even a minor stroke in such an important person needs to be handled at the best hospital in the state.
"So none of Mittens, Collins, or Murkey has ANY incentive to help the Dems keep their majority. Being the Chair of a Senate Committee is a valuable f'ing thing."
What are you talking about? The seat isn't disappearing. If Mr. accented last name dies or is disabled, then the D Governor of NM will appoint another Democrat. And as long as he's in the Senate, the D's have the majority.
Damn what a Dumbo!
Bruce,
Reportedly DMED has responded by claiming the data PRIOR to jabs was faulty, so a bit O'fixin is in order.
Stay tuned.
Howard said...
They had to do decompressive surgery. Doesn't sound minor.
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also read he checked himself in for imbalance so he was not incapacitated
"Silence = vaccine"
And no prior condition...
If you cannot imagine the democrats actually waiting for this guy's return, imagine how they would view the unborn.
You people are completely insane
Is it possible to be incompletely insane? (#BanUselessAdverbs!)
A new addition to the list!
What Kind of Moron Am I:
(1) Who is funding all this shit?
The Koch Brothers (+1)
George Soros (+2)
(2) What is the objective?
White Supremacy (+1)
Complete Marxist takeover (+2)
(3) Which election was "stolen"?
2016 (+1)
2020 (+2)
(4) How did they do it?
Gerrymandering & Russian hacking (+1)
Chicoms, Krakens, & violations of Benford's Law (+2)
(5) How can we stop it?
Take down a pizza-loving pedophile ring (+1)
Find the pee tape! (+2)
(6) Who are the traitors? <----NEW!
Sinema & Manchin (+1)
Romney, Cheney & Murkowski (+2)
Scoring:
0- Sorry, you are not a moron.
1 and greater- Congratulations, you are a run-of-the-mill moron.
Greg: "Selling out the GOP to help a President whose "approval" rating is in the 30s, or lower, in her State?
That's a quick path to losing"
Were you even paying attention when the usual GOPe suspects bailed out the dems on the debt ceiling?
When Mittens went out of his way to offer praise to Biden as Bidens #'s began falling? The same Mittens who marched with BLM?
Those guys LIVE to sell out the republican base.
Howard: "You people are completely insane and traitors to the American people."
"the Anerican people" are the ones the democraticals are seeking to replace and have been seeking to replace for decades.
Any comment on the Bidens sucking up $31M from their ChiCom masters? I mean, since you brought up traitors and all..
The real problem is you are beta and gamma males who think like dumb women.
That doesn't sound like Howard. Anyway women think with feelings, which are not part of thinking in males, beta or not. That's why males make better Supreme Court justices.
So everyone here can plead insanity to the charge of treason. Howard the auto-troll.
People like Tim who have been wrong about everything and sanctimonious bad faith assholes about it earned the lack of respect that they get.
Wow, you sure are mad that I checked your link yesterday, and then today backed up my statement about COVID and strokes from a medical site and an article that was published before the jab was even approved, when there was no way to blame the sudden increase in strokes among the young on it, since, wait for it.... the jab did not yet exist.
I am waiting with an open mind on the Ivermectin study, and look forward to reading it. I don't trust the US medical establishment, as they have proven to be dishonest, for instance when they declared racism a public health issue, and therefore large gatherings for demonstrations should be allowed, you know, as long as the medical establishment approves of their political message. Among myriad other dishonesties, so I am looking forward to a Japanese study, where protecting Fauci and Joe Biden will not play into the analysis.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-tells-schumer-make-sinemas-life-as-difficult-possible
New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a new swipe at Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a moderate Arizona Democrat, and told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to make her life "as difficult as possible."
Keep Hounding her! said the Occasional Cortex, There's NO PLACE in our party for someone like her
And The quicker she realizes it, the Better!!!
Other democrats told Occasional Cortex, "Put the pipe DOWN Sandy! You've smoke enough
You people are completely insane
Is it possible to be incompletely insane? (#BanUselessAdverbs!)
moderately insane?
partially insane?
mildly insane?
somewhat insane?
(oh i got it!) A Little Bit Crazy!
i remember when the dems were on pins and needles over strom thurmond, when he would keel over,
Good work, Howard. I think you got an insult every six words and, at the end there, you managed to insult half the men and all the women in the country. I like to see a solid job. Are insults the way to go? For the Dems with their slim majorities and Biden's terrible polling, I would say - yes.
An Admirer
rcocean said...
What are you talking about? The seat isn't disappearing. If Mr. accented last name dies or is disabled, then the D Governor of NM will appoint another Democrat. And as long as he's in the Senate, the D's have the majority.
Damn what a Dumbo!
ProTip: It's a bad idea to call someone else a "Dumbo" when you're being clueless.
As long as he's not available for votes, the Dems do NOT have a majority (at least, not once the 3 GOP Senators "with Covid" get out of quarantine).
However, if he resigns and someone new is appointed, that someone new has to win a vote at the next Statewide general election.
As 2022 is shaping up to be a bad year for Democrats, they're going to not want him to resign before the election cut-off data (sadly, I can't find out what that is)
Don't worry. Romney, Collins, or Murkowski, or even Graham, will conveniently become unable to attend any hearing due to sympathy pains.
Drago: Just like Jordan Peterson, I refuse to comply with compelled speech. Rabbit holes are for rodents like yourself. We all know how much you miss Chuck, but get a grip on it, man. It's unseemly. Ask Meade for his number and take your issue offline
Drago: Just like Jordan Peterson, I refuse to comply with compelled speech. Rabbit holes are for rodents like yourself. We all know how much you miss Chuck, but get a grip on it, man. It's unseemly. Ask Meade for his number and take your issue offline
Blogger wildswan said...Good work, Howard. I think you got an insult every six words
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Howie's trolling has really grown since his 4 word sentence beginnings.
tim in vermont said...
People like Tim who have been wrong about everything and sanctimonious bad faith assholes about it earned the lack of respect that they get.
Wow, you sure are mad that I checked your link yesterday, and then today backed up my statement about COVID and strokes from a medical site and an article that was published before the jab was even approved, when there was no way to blame the sudden increase in strokes among the young on it, since, wait for it.... the jab did not yet exist.
You want me to go back a year or so when you and Ken B. Were calling us murderers and deniers?
This has nothing to do with asking about the link. This is about your completely illiterate ramblings about "exponential" growth. This is about you calling people who opposed lock downs immoral murderers. This is about you running around with CDC lies and attacking people who noticed ivermectin and Hydroxycholoroquine worked in other countries.
You are not going to get to run away from your douchbaggery. Until you formally apologize for being a douche for the last 2 years you are a douche.
"This is about your completely illiterate ramblings about "exponential" growth."
LOL. What was wrong about my take on exponential growth?
What do you call this? https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm
I think it's far more likely that you didn't understand my take on exponential growth than that I said anything incorrect about it. The first part of the curve is dominated by the exponential term, and over time, as immunity grows, and the virus runs out of victims, the curve begins to collapse, then does collapse. Overall, it's called "logistical growth" but at the beginning, before the second term comes to dominate, the difference between logistical and exponential is very small.
Maybe I misunderstood you. You don't seem to be an idiot. Ken said a lot of stuff I never agreed with, but there was a lot of denial going on, and still is. I will own that.
BTW, I opposed lockdowns from the beginning. You will find, if you look, posts that say that the lockdowns only shift the burden from those who can afford to stay home and have everything delivered to those who have to go to work delivering stuff. I even once linked a study that Steve McIntyre did that showed that the lockdowns in Toronto had no overall effect, and only shifted the burden to lower income people.
I opposed shuttering schools. I said that they should allow teachers over 50 to take early retirement and keep them open. I quoted a friend of mine who is a middle school teacher that she said that going to remote learning was devastating to the kids' educations.
I always said that I wouldn't take the jab, were I under thirty, that kids shouldn't be jabbed, that the jab never should be mandated, and most especially should not be mandated for children due to lack of risk and lack of knowledge, and that it made sense for people over 50 or even 60, who were the only ones really at risk, for the most part. I don't see anything wrong with that take.
I pushed masks as the policy alternative to lockdowns, and still don't see why people get all emotional about them.
Scott Adams points out on his Twitter feed that a lot of people hallucinate positions for him that he never espoused. I sympathize with him. It's OK if you don't like me, I don't care if you think I am an asshole, but you should try to be careful to root emotion out of your thinking, since you seem to desire to do analysis, I would think you would want to avoid the common pitfalls. You should google up "Attribution Bias," it's kind of the father of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the wikipedia article has suggestions on how to avoid it in your own thinking.
"Until you formally apologize for being a douche for the last 2 years you are a douche."
So no response to the fact that strokes in the young precede the jab until I formally apologize fo stuff I never said, or stuff you misunderstood?
I still like to read your posts Achilles, and I still will, even without an apology from you for calling me a "douche" and an "asshole."
I also said that children should not be required to wear masks, as they were not that big a threat to spread the virus.
tim in vermont said...
I pushed masks as the policy alternative to lockdowns, and still don't see why people get all emotional about them.
Because their positive effect is minor at best (and their best effect comes from wearing them at home, which means they're not a real "policy alternative to lockdowns"), their negative effects are severe (see harm to children's development from not seeing faces), they have to be massively uncomfortable to have any positive effect, and once the Democrat politicians who were imposing the mask mandates started violating the mandates themselves, they became a class war "elite" vs "peasant" signifier.
To put it another way: once the first Democrat politician / left wing celebrity got caught violating the mask mandates they claimed to support, and got away with it, masking stopped being a viable "solution". And once Fauci was photographed at the National's game sitting and chatting, unmasked, with someone not in his "bubble", and was allowed to keep his job, that told all the rest of us that any claim to believe in the positive effects of masking were utter bullshit.
It's like with global warming: Al Gore sold out to a petrostate, bought a big house with a swimming pool, and didn't bother to even put in solar heating for his swimming pool until people on the Right called him out on it.
When the bigwigs claiming to believe in something get away with violating that something at no cost to themselves, it tells us that what they claim to believe in is bullshit.
And when the supporters don't rip the apostate leaders to shreds, that tells us even the "supporters" don't really believe in it, that it's a matter of social identity and signaling, not a matter of science and reality.
tl;dr: If when Fauci was photographed unmasked at the National's every single masking supporter had immediately called for Fauci to be fired, and if he had been fired, that would have kept masking as a viable option
Once that didn't happen, masking became clear political BS theater
cfs said...
Don't worry. Romney, Collins, or Murkowski, or even Graham, will conveniently become unable to attend any hearing due to sympathy pains.
What's in it for them to do that?
Other than Collins, are they utterly corrupt douchebags who prefer the people on the other side? Yes, they are. (Collins is the mirror image of Manchin, but with actual integrity (see the Kavanaugh vote). She's from a solid Dem voting State whose voters keep on putting her back in office because they trust her not to screw them over. Unlike the others mentioned, she's the best that we could expect to get from a Maine Senator)
However, utterly corrupt douchebags like the extra graft they get from being a Committee Chair, rather than teh "ranking minority member".
Stop being so desperately eager to lose
Y'know who wants to lose? Mitt Romeny, collins, and Lisa Murky. And Cheney and Bush. They did everthing possible - short of outright campaigning for Biden- to defeat Trump and his agenda in 2016 and 2020.
They were literally smiling when Biden won in 2020. They supporting impeaching Trump in 2021. They joined with Pelosi and Schumer AGAINST the rest of the party. Because they wanted to help the Democrats.And Chicom Mitch is still rattling on about Jan 6th.
Everytime they can these Republican establishment types "reach accross the aisle" and try to destroy those to their Right. Sorry, all this "We Must band together to defeat the D's" is horseshit as long as these traitorous characters are in the Republican party.
tim in vermont said...
COVID causes strokes too. That's why they tell you to take an aspirin daily for a couple of weeks after you recover.
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They also tell you to get vaccinated, or boosted if you’re already vaxxed. And they are very careful to break the data down into “fully vaccinated” and “not vaccinated,” the latter category dishonestly including people who have received at least one shot of the vax.
I wonder why they do this?*
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*For the intelligence impaired:
Original Mike said...
Vascular disease is the most common cause of death in the US.
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This is not true, unless you’re redefining “vascular.” Heart disease, cancer, and lower respiratory disease all kill more Americans.
What Are the 12 Leading Causes of Death in the United States?
Coronavirus is in the news, but what do most Americans die of?
rcocean said...
Y'know who wants to lose? Mitt Romeny, collins, and Lisa Murky. And Cheney and Bush. They did everthing possible - short of outright campaigning for Biden- to defeat Trump and his agenda in 2016 and 2020.
I don't believe Collins did. The rest certainly did.
So what? Weren't not talking about them helping Trump here, we're talking about them pulling more power for the GOP so they can improve their ability to get graft
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