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curl-6 said:
AsGryffynn said:
curl-6 said:
AsGryffynn said:

OTOH, the Pfizer vaccine hasn't been extensively tested, so it's no different to the AstraZeneca crap. 

Both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are undergoing the standard 3-Phase human trials. They are being tested on thousands of people as per protocol, they simply haven't quite finished the final stage yet.

Well, you see... this wouldn't make a lick of sense in this thread. Why would the Pfizer vaccine change the election when the AZ one didn't. Trump would've needed a vaccine rolled out by June if he wanted to win. 

Pity he didn't have the foresight to go full China on initial quarantine controls. If he had the economy should have taken him upwards... instead, he decided to ape Sweden, where most people would self distance and isolate unlike the US. 

Also, I have no clue why people are acting like I'm a Trump supporter when I was the mastermind behind a plot to send Mariachis to the WH to serenade him during his defeat (and am well aware he was defeated and was aware as early as Wednesday... even going as far as telling people preparing for doomsday when he was ahead that the election was far from wrapped up). He does have options. Whether they work or not is not my business. 

I just... feel the US is shafted no matter what happens since socialism (read: decent human and social services for all) is going to pretty much be slain by guillotine instead of leading the cavalry against Trump. I cross my fingers AOC ends up fed up enough to at some point tell the rest of the party to go fuck themselves and the DSA formally registers early 2024... or the Dixiecrats get violently ejected during a power struggle. 

It's just after seeing Bernie essentially have the deck stacked against him twice, I lost all hope for a leftward lurch in US politics and feel anything at this point is just going to be a smokescreen. 

I forgot for a moment it was a thread about the US election and was simply responding to these vaccines being called "crap" that "hasn't been extensively tested." They are being extensively tested, with good results so far, that's all I meant.

Crap since there were people who were apparently reporting catastrophic side effects and AZ did something after that with their testing that took the hype over potential vaccines away. 

And Pfizer has apparently been tested on less than 200 people? 



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AsGryffynn said:
curl-6 said:

I forgot for a moment it was a thread about the US election and was simply responding to these vaccines being called "crap" that "hasn't been extensively tested." They are being extensively tested, with good results so far, that's all I meant.

Crap since there were people who were apparently reporting catastrophic side effects and AZ did something after that with their testing that took the hype over potential vaccines away. 

And Pfizer has apparently been tested on less than 200 people? 

The only cases of truly adverse events were investigated and determined to not be caused by the vaccine. The actual side effects were mild and harmless.

The Pfizer trials involved 44,000 people as of September.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer.html?smid=tw-share

Last edited by curl-6 - on 10 November 2020

Trump is twitter storming again. So much to unpack.

Current talking points are the vaccine people being mean by not getting him this "win" before the election.

Also, polling before the election is now "interference" and should be prosecuted.



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curl-6 said:
AsGryffynn said:
curl-6 said:

I forgot for a moment it was a thread about the US election and was simply responding to these vaccines being called "crap" that "hasn't been extensively tested." They are being extensively tested, with good results so far, that's all I meant.

Crap since there were people who were apparently reporting catastrophic side effects and AZ did something after that with their testing that took the hype over potential vaccines away. 

And Pfizer has apparently been tested on less than 200 people? 

The only cases of truly adverse events were investigated and determined to not be caused by the vaccine. The actual side effects were mild and harmless.

The Pfizer trials involved 44,000 people as of September.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer.html?smid=tw-share

Whelp, that's the last time I trust news from Spain's news channels.  



Pemalite said:
Zoombael said:
Cobretti2 said:
Pemalite said:

Congratulations to the United States, you tried someone/something different with Trump which resulted in a collapsing economy, insane levels of debt and hundreds of thousands dead and endless amounts of drama, blame shifting, narcissism, bigotry, division and hate.

And you used your democratic rights to boot him out and elect someone different and competent.
Hopefully Biden can mend some of the bridge Trump ruined with us by being disrespectful to our previous prime minister.

From a personal perspective, because Trump wasn't my president, I did enjoy his antics as a joke/free entertainment, so hopefully that class-act continues on in some capacity but doesn't impede progress in the USA.

Honestly I can't see Biden winning a second term and not because he is old and likely to die but because he wasn't really a great candidate to begin with. If Trump handled COVID better he would have won easily, now that is a scary thought lol.

Like you it has no impact on me being in Australia. The only thing I can conclude from the last two elections is America is a bigger mess than Australia where people take their political views too far almost cult like. We sometimes complain about our politicians but I think any of ours are a better option than what America has got atm lol. 

Covid and "systemic racism". Basically Biden was elected thanks to one big fat lie. Devious schemes are nothing unusual in politics, but this is on different scale. The socially disruptive one.

Need to give Biden an actual chance first before you start complaining on apparant lies... Because the world gave Trump a chance despite him lying about:

That massive wall that never got built and Mexico never paid for it.
Hillary never got jailed.
Didn't repeal and replace obamacare.
Didn't deport all immigrants.
Didn't fix the debt problem. (It actually got worst.)
Didn't ditch Nato.
Didn't reinstate torture.
Trump didn't invest heavily on infrastructure to repair and modernize the US's antiquated airports, roads and rail.
Didn't bring American troops home and end the "endless wars".

And lets not start on Trumps downplaying and lying about COVID since the start of this year either... Jesus christ, what a mess.
No wonder he got booted out on his ass, deservedly so.

Where did the world give him a chance? Were you high on scorpion venom? Trump was never given a chance from before the get go. Russian collusion scheme, a solid MSM anti-Trump front, social media and the public non stop ridiculing and chastising him. See all the threads in whatever forum. What about Bidens racist remark? Nothing. But Michelle Obama brining up the Charlottesville lie, or the Proud Boys lie and you're all over it. F'ing hypocrites.

And you want to tell me he was given a chance? Are you f'ing sh'ing me? What would it have looked like if the world would not have given him a chance? Grabing him at inaugeration day and throw him into a woodchipper?

And despite all this no land slide victory for Biden. O my... and maybe even voter fraud?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uErY5RJ76Os

Did i LoL when the phone was hung up...



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Zoombael said:
Pemalite said:
Zoombael said:
Cobretti2 said:
Pemalite said:

Congratulations to the United States, you tried someone/something different with Trump which resulted in a collapsing economy, insane levels of debt and hundreds of thousands dead and endless amounts of drama, blame shifting, narcissism, bigotry, division and hate.

And you used your democratic rights to boot him out and elect someone different and competent.
Hopefully Biden can mend some of the bridge Trump ruined with us by being disrespectful to our previous prime minister.

From a personal perspective, because Trump wasn't my president, I did enjoy his antics as a joke/free entertainment, so hopefully that class-act continues on in some capacity but doesn't impede progress in the USA.

Honestly I can't see Biden winning a second term and not because he is old and likely to die but because he wasn't really a great candidate to begin with. If Trump handled COVID better he would have won easily, now that is a scary thought lol.

Like you it has no impact on me being in Australia. The only thing I can conclude from the last two elections is America is a bigger mess than Australia where people take their political views too far almost cult like. We sometimes complain about our politicians but I think any of ours are a better option than what America has got atm lol. 

Covid and "systemic racism". Basically Biden was elected thanks to one big fat lie. Devious schemes are nothing unusual in politics, but this is on different scale. The socially disruptive one.

Need to give Biden an actual chance first before you start complaining on apparant lies... Because the world gave Trump a chance despite him lying about:

That massive wall that never got built and Mexico never paid for it.
Hillary never got jailed.
Didn't repeal and replace obamacare.
Didn't deport all immigrants.
Didn't fix the debt problem. (It actually got worst.)
Didn't ditch Nato.
Didn't reinstate torture.
Trump didn't invest heavily on infrastructure to repair and modernize the US's antiquated airports, roads and rail.
Didn't bring American troops home and end the "endless wars".

And lets not start on Trumps downplaying and lying about COVID since the start of this year either... Jesus christ, what a mess.
No wonder he got booted out on his ass, deservedly so.

Where did the world give him a chance? Were you high on scorpion venom? Trump was never given a chance from before the get go. Russian collusion scheme, a solid MSM anti-Trump front, social media and the public non stop ridiculing and chastising him. See all the threads in whatever forum. What about Bidens racist remark? Nothing. But Michelle Obama brining up the Charlottesville lie, or the Proud Boys lie and you're all over it. F'ing hypocrites.

And you want to tell me he was given a chance? Are you f'ing sh'ing me? What would it have looked like if the world would not have given him a chance? Grabing him at inaugeration day and throw him into a woodchipper?

And despite all this no land slide victory for Biden. O my... and maybe even voter fraud?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uErY5RJ76Os

Did i LoL when the phone was hung up...

Actually watched that entire video, what a colossal waste of time. Here are some of the claims:

14,000 dead votes in Michigan (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/08/fact-check-false-claim-14-k-dead-people-voted-michigan/6201900002/)

PA Senator in jail for electoral fraud (couldn't find anything on this, seems like the guy just made it up whole cloth)

And then they show Project Veritas videos as though they haven't already been shown to be untrustworthy. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/16/fact-check-project-veritas-no-proof-voter-fraud-scheme-link-ilhan-omar/3584614001/)

Next time could you please be kind enough to just list the dumbass claims from the video you want to share so I can google them directly rather than having to watch it myself?



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Torillian said:

Actually watched that entire video, what a colossal waste of time. Here are some of the claims:

14,000 dead votes in Michigan (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/08/fact-check-false-claim-14-k-dead-people-voted-michigan/6201900002/)

Next time could you please be kind enough to just list the dumbass claims from the video you want to share so I can google them directly rather than having to watch it myself?

I feel like this happens every two years, with Republicans screaming "Dead people are voting and here is the proof!", but if you give the proof even a quick once over, you can tell it is nothing but naked BS...

You'd think Republicans would start fact checking themselves if they didn't want to look foolish, but alas...



sundin13 said:
Torillian said:

Actually watched that entire video, what a colossal waste of time. Here are some of the claims:

14,000 dead votes in Michigan (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/08/fact-check-false-claim-14-k-dead-people-voted-michigan/6201900002/)

Next time could you please be kind enough to just list the dumbass claims from the video you want to share so I can google them directly rather than having to watch it myself?

I feel like this happens every two years, with Republicans screaming "Dead people are voting and here is the proof!", but if you give the proof even a quick once over, you can tell it is nothing but naked BS...

You'd think Republicans would start fact checking themselves if they didn't want to look foolish, but alas...

Yeah, one of my friends who support Trump was throwing up on her facebook the 14K dead voted.  I asked her who they voted for and how do she know it wasn't for then President Trump.  Once you start to have conversation with people that believe this stuff you find out that there is nothing based on any facts or evidence its just feelings.  Well I feel this is happening.  I believe this is happening but once you challenge them to provide any proof, they then say oh wait its all going to the Supreme court and will be revealed.  



theRepublic said:
Runa216 said:


The 2000 election had George Bush win as a republican, beating Bob Dole as a democrat despite Dole having 550,000 more votes

You mean Al Gore.  Bob Dole was a Republican and lost to Clinton for his second term (1996).

My bad. got the years mixed up. The point still stands, though.



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