Wednesday, February 03, 2021

The End of Doomscrolling

A browsing technique emerged on Twitter and news media over the past four years, called doomscrolling. This is where you go to your phone or computer every half hour or so and scroll furiously down the screen to see what insane or atrocious thing the President or his team have just done. Journalists found new ways to say, "We thought we had seen the craziest, stupidest thing possible, but he has outdone himself," and then they would describe some boorish or ill-considered decision or outburst, and by the time you read it the President and his crew had broken their own record and you had to scroll again to find out about the newest Worst Thing Ever. Pitching paper towels in Puerto Rico, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, "Lock her up..." I could go on for a long time.

We don't doomscroll now. Occasionally the White House press secretary gets off a mild zinger, but these are easily defensible statements of values and assurance that the US has changed directions. The President is not shooting gotchas at his enemies, he is meeting with them and trying to work out deals. And if they don't want to contribute something, he has both houses of Congress and will go ahead with the agenda he was elected to implement. The Republicans have their reasons for hoping he doesn't do too well, y'know, and sometimes he's got to roll past them. There's no time for their malarkey, man.

People are liking this. No poll has had Biden's popularity under fifty percent since he was inaugurated -- you might remember, Trump never got up to fifty percent. And as for his policies, Yahoo conducted a survey:

When asked about the 20 policies that define President Biden’s agenda, more Americans support than oppose all 20 of them, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

The margins are decisive. The majority of Biden’s proposals garner at least twice as much support as opposition. Nearly half are favored by more than 60 percent of Americans.

The biggest issue facing the country right now is the coronavirus pandemic. During Trump's term it appeared he was intentionally undermining the United States, and he left us in bad shape. The previous administration lied about having reserves of vaccine. Their statistics were sabotaged to make the epidemic look less deadly than it actually was. They muzzled the scientists, hijacked the protective gear -- the State Department literally overruled the CDC to bring infected people into the country and release them to wander around and infect others. The actual plan was to let Americans get sick and die until there was nobody left to infect. There was no strategy for distributing vaccine, even with a year to figure it out.

It is frustrating now to see the government scramble to get vaccine made, to see the logistical difficulties of getting "shots into arms" of people (I hate that phrase), but everybody knows the situation. It's going to take a little while to recover from Trump's attempt to bring our country to its knees but progress is visible. Each state still has its own approaches and quirks, with "good governors" turning into "bad governors" and vice versa from day to day, but it is very complicated to chase down an invisible enemy, disrupting everyone's lives, figuring out how to prioritize fairly while still giving the rich and powerful their expected special treatment. There are rumors about the vaccines, some are borderline-credible and some are borderline-schizophrenic, but a good percentage of people are afraid to take the stuff. It's hard to reach people, hard to keep records, hard to transport the medicine... there are competing layers of complexity in every aspect of this task.

There is a thing that I told my kids when life dealt them difficulties, like for instance a knot in their shoelaces or a friend's sudden change of heart: It's just a problem, and all you have to do is solve it. You can freak out, you can blame somebody, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can deny they exist, but you will inevitably encounter problems, and the way to get past them is to solve them. So Biden's administration is taking the coronavirus problem and breaking it into its components -- statistics and prevention, informing the public, subsidizing a stalled economy, vaccine production, deployment, etc. -- and figuring out how to solve each of the sub-problems. It may seem overwhelming but it's not actually the end of the world, it is a big problem and it will be hard to solve but at least the President is doing that. He doesn't have to blame China or brag about what strong and great measures he has taken, he needs to boost vaccine production and put supply chains into place to get the stuff to the people, and he's doing that.

So you don't have to doomscroll these days. There might be a breakthrough today, or a setback, but generally you know where this is going. We citizens need to stay home, wear masks, avoid crowds, wash our hands, and hold on while they figure it out. You will eventually get a phone call or email telling you how to schedule an appointment for a shot, and while that is not the end of it, you can at least relax a little knowing that your life has been saved. The end of this catastrophe is in sight.

It will make a lot of difference to have competent leadership in this country. There are still big issues to resolve, especially in some of the states, but these are just problems, and all we have to do is solve them.

263 Comments:

Anonymous BeaverTales II said...

Trumpists Will Likely Win the War For Control of the GOP

...But normal political calculations no longer apply to the Republican Party, because the Republican Party does not operate by traditional political incentives. The GOP is continuing on a pathway to radicalization that began as far back as Newt Gingrich, if not Ronald Reagan and even Richard Nixon.

Trumpism is merely a stepping stone on that journey that began with dependence on the Southern Strategy to smash the FDR coalition and win white supremacist support, and continued via an unholy alliance with conservative infotainment from AM radio hosts to Fox News to Breitbart. The GOP also depends for continued power on efficient geographic distribution in gerrymandered districts and rural states that maximize white evangelical power. All of these factors ensured that the GOP would continue marching rightward with increasingly devastating consequences.

Evangelical, patriarchal white supremacists have grown increasingly extremist as their numbers have declined and the culture has turned against them. The culture that made Red Dawn a summer blockbuster in 1984 has lost its hold on mainstream America, and the nation is becoming ever more diverse and secular. Meanwhile, the overreliance on conspiracy propaganda infotainment to contain the GOP base in an alternate reality bubble has given the monster control over its former master.

Today, Fox News no longer serves as a media arm of the Republican Party; rather, the Republican Party serves as the legislative arm of Fox News. And if Fox News won’t give its audience the dopamine hits they crave, their viewers will switch over to even more extremist networks like Newsmax or OAN that will tell them what they want to hear.

Thus, while the party’s institutional incentive as a whole may well be to jettison Trumpism in order to compete for majoritarian support, the actual incentives for its elected officials remain tilted toward further extremism. GOP voters continue to support Trump and want him to be the 2024 nominee–nor is it clear that even Trump going to jail would change that dynamic. Most GOP politicians are under far greater threat of being primaried from the right for not supporting Trump strongly enough, than they are of losing to a Democrat for hewing to him too tightly.

Conservative voters are increasingly locked into wilder and wilder conspiracy theories. Many rural red states are only getting redder, and Republicans depend for control on ever more gerrymandered districts that minimize the possibility of moderation–and where Republican legislators operate in Biden-voting districts, the polarized environment means they need to appeal to base turnout more than crossover votes.

February 03, 2021 3:57 PM  
Anonymous gender has consequences said...

the new Dem dodge:

anyone who calls them to account is the equivalent of the handful of nuts that stormed the Capitol

sorry, Andrew

no get out of jail free card for you!

February 04, 2021 1:08 PM  
Anonymous gender has consequences said...

A top adviser for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lashed out Wednesday at a group of House Republicans after they called on the Justice Department to subpoena the Democrat following the release of a report that found that the state undercounted coronavirus deaths among nursing home patients.

Seven Republicans from New York, led by Rep. Elise Stefanik, submitted a letter to the Justice Department seeking a subpoena to force Cuomo and his administration to hand over documents related to nursing home deaths.

Rich Azzopardi, a top adviser to Cuomo, responded to the letter in a statement to the media, calling Stefanik a “QANON Trump puppet” and member of the “treason caucus.”

Azzopardi asserted that the Republicans “helped foment” the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

“It’s a naked ploy and New Yorkers see right through it. Maybe someone should investigate what she and the rest of the Trump enablers knew about the organizing and planning of this riot,” Azzopardi said.

On Friday, New York Attorney General Tish James issued a report that said the Cuomo administration drastically undercounted the number of nursing home patients who died from coronavirus.

The report also said that an order that Cuomo implemented on March 25 led to an “increased risk of harm” to nursing home residence.

February 04, 2021 1:10 PM  
Anonymous Hey, want some Hydroxychloroquine? said...

So... Republicans want to hold a Democrat to account apparently for minimizing Coronavirus deaths.

How interesting.


“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”

“We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

“I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.”

“Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”

“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

“CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”

“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

“We're going very substantially down, not up.”

“Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.”

"This is a flu. This is like a flu."

"One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

“We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”

“You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”

“I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”

“Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”

“When we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”

“We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”

"You know, you see what's going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that's what we've done. We've stopped it."

February 04, 2021 1:53 PM  
Anonymous fortunately, Obama and Garland were stopped so we have a terrific Supreme Court now!!! said...

Trump was mostly repeating what Fauci said

Fauci originally said it would be no big deal

now Fauci says, "yeah, I knew it would be big but I thought we could handle it"

lying to us for our own good is part of his arrogant MO

but optimism didn't cause any deaths

when Fauci told everyone that wearing masks wouldn't work: that caused deaths

also, what Cuomo did directly caused deaths

and he lied to cover it up

NY needs a recall just like California

then, we'll see how Biden is doing after a few months

February 04, 2021 3:23 PM  
Anonymous hi, rememba me?, it's Merrick Garland again. just checking to see if I can get out of going DOJ, I was hoping for SCOTUS! said...

first, he stacked his cabinet with homosexuals

now, he's interfering in the affairs of other countries and adding QI to LGBT

How deep into the alphabet will this go?

there's only 26 letters!

https://www.aol.com/news/biden-calls-expanded-efforts-protect-040958168-151030781.html

Biden is outta control!

February 05, 2021 1:56 PM  
Anonymous Another GOPer announces retirement said...

Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), a fixture of the Senate who chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee, announced Monday that he will retire when his term ends in 2022.

Shelby, 86, was first elected to the House in 1978 as a Democrat and won election to the Senate in 1986. He switched parties to become a Republican in 1994.

Shelby has been a master of steering projects to his home state and also adept at cutting deals with Democrats. He becomes the fourth Senate Republican to announce his retirement in 2022, and the race to replace him will become another test for the direction of the GOP in the post-Trump era.

“Today I announce that I will not seek a seventh term in the United States Senate in 2022. For everything, there is a season,” Shelby said in a statement.

“I am grateful to the people of Alabama who have put their trust in me for more than forty years. I have been fortunate to serve in the U.S. Senate longer than any other Alabamian,” he said.

February 08, 2021 2:00 PM  
Anonymous Amy Coney Barrett...LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! said...

decent of someone that age to retire

a couple of others who should move on:

Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden

February 08, 2021 2:08 PM  
Anonymous A needless delay said...

"decent of someone that age to retire"

But the 86 year old intends to wait 2 more years to retire.



February 08, 2021 3:36 PM  
Anonymous for millennia, society has known that two genders are necessary to make a marriage said...

Anthony and Joe will probably retire before that

February 08, 2021 7:12 PM  
Anonymous I wonder if there is any part of the Constitution that TTFers feel they can live with... said...

2020 saw the biggest increase in the homicide rate in history. The victims were disproportionately African American. The most feasible explanation is the "defund the police" movement. Yet, you rarely hear about this racial disparity in the media. Truth is, the failure to protect black inner-city neighborhoods is racist and the BLM "defund the police" movement is systematic racism.

February 09, 2021 6:32 AM  
Anonymous WRMVE -- The latest alphabet soup said...

White Racially Motivated Violent Extremists

"2020 saw the biggest increase in the homicide rate in history."

Rump and his WRMVE supporters must be so proud of such statistics during his last year in office.

February 09, 2021 7:24 AM  
Anonymous WRMVEs make America worse said...

2020: As Asian Americans around the country experience racist attacks tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City officials say there’s been a surge in local reports of anti-Asian harassment and discrimination: 105 reported incidents since February, compared to just five during the same period last year.

2021: Actors Daniel Dae Kim, Daniel Wu and Gemma Chan are calling out the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes amid the pandemic and demanding that law enforcement, the media and the American public not ignore them.

Speaking in an interview on MSNBC on Sunday, Wu pointed to an increase in racist, verbal and physical assaults reported by Asian Americans nationwide since the COVID-19 pandemic began, saying, “We’re not going to take this anymore.”

A 91-year-old man who was violently shoved to the ground in the Chinatown neighborhood of Oakland, California, in late January.

An 84-year-old Thai man shoved and killed in San Francisco late last month.

“We are in a moment of reckoning,” activist Amanda Nguyen told MSNBC, calling on people to denounce anti-Asian hate crimes. “Silence erases our humanity. Yet it roars through the head of every Asian American as they step out the door and are afraid.... How many more people need to be killed?”

When former president Donald Trump was in office, he repeatedly made racist remarks, calling the virus, which is believed to have originated in Wuhan, China, the “Chinese virus,” the “China virus” and other offensive terms.

Starting in March, a group of Asian American advocacy groups called Stop AAPI Hate began collecting reports of racist incidents in an online database — and by the end of the year, they had received more than 2,800 reports from Asian Americans who had been called racial slurs, spat on, physically assaulted and more. The data is likely an undercount as the database is self-reported and voluntary.

February 09, 2021 7:43 AM  
Anonymous Republicans don't care about the Constitution as long as a White Nationalist is President said...

"I wonder if there is any part of the Constitution that TTFers feel they can live with"

If Republicans were REALLY worried about the Constitution, they would be urging their senators to vote to impeach the Insurrectionist in Chief.

Obviously, the GOPB (Grand Old Proud Boys) don't care about democracy and the right of Americans to choose their leaders by voting.

Rather than teach the Orange Authoritarian a lessen and vote to keep him out of office forever, it looks like Republicans will just let him slide... again.

If you don't condemn insurrection, you condone it.

Mainstream Republicans have the chance to take their party back from the White Nationalists and conspiracy theorists once and for all, and show the country that they really do stand for "law and order."

Their recent votes show they don't have enough spine... or balls.

The longer they let this cancer grow in their party, the more dangerous it will become for democracy.


February 09, 2021 8:46 AM  
Anonymous for millennia, society has known that two genders are necessary to make a marriage said...

"White Racially Motivated Violent Extremists

"2020 saw the biggest increase in the homicide rate in history.""

I hate to be the one to disabuse of your delusions, but that increase disproportionately involved African American victims who weren't the victims of white racists

because of the abuse hurled at police without discrimination and calls to defund the police, law enforcement suffered in inner city black communities

hence, BLM is an oxymoron because the group that uses it is responsible for more black deaths than any other party

white redneck racists are a menace and stiff law enforcement is needed to combat them, but they are a fringe and not what's driving the homicide rate

"Rump and his WRMVE supporters must be so proud of such statistics during his last year in office."

I hate to be the one to disabuse of your delusions, but law enforcement is local

no Americans want a national police force

the increase is taking place in large cities that have been run by Democrats for half a century

"2020: As Asian Americans around the country experience racist attacks tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City officials say there’s been a surge in local reports of anti-Asian harassment and discrimination: 105 reported incidents since February, compared to just five during the same period last year."

that's ridiculous but I've not seen much of it

Asians are broadly assimilated in this country and virtually everyone can distinguish between the actions of the scariest Orwellian regime is history and people who have fled that regime

"2021: Actors Daniel Dae Kim, Daniel Wu and Gemma Chan are calling out the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes amid the pandemic and demanding that law enforcement, the media and the American public not ignore them."

Daniel, talk to BLM

they think they whole concept of law enforcement is racist

"A 91-year-old man who was violently shoved to the ground in the Chinatown neighborhood of Oakland, California, in late January."

can you tell us who did that?

why do you say it was racially motivated?

"An 84-year-old Thai man shoved and killed in San Francisco late last month."

again, not enough details to substantiate that it was racially motivated

"When former president Donald Trump was in office, he repeatedly made racist remarks, calling the virus, which is believed to have originated in Wuhan, China, the “Chinese virus,” the “China virus” and other offensive terms."

the name is appropriate

China's role in this catastrophe should be long remembered

"If Republicans were REALLY worried about the Constitution, they would be urging their senators to vote to impeach the Insurrectionist in Chief."

he's already been impeached

btw, the Constitution doesn't require impeachment

it's up to the discretion of Congress

"Obviously, the GOPB (Grand Old Proud Boys) don't care about democracy and the right of Americans to choose their leaders by voting."

someone lied to them and told them the election was fraudulent

they are nuts but not everyone who says the election had fraud is

"Rather than teach the Orange Authoritarian a lessen and vote to keep him out of office forever, it looks like Republicans will just let him slide... again."

the Dems will get a chance to make their case

but we need to teach you how to spell "lesson" first

if you ban Trump, he'll just have Don Jr run in 2024

"If you don't condemn insurrection, you condone it."

it's already been roundly condemned

a censure would do the trick as well, and you could probably get enough GOP votes

"Mainstream Republicans have the chance to take their party back from the White Nationalists and conspiracy theorists once and for all, and show the country that they really do stand for "law and order.""

law and order? you mean like BLM and defund the police?


February 09, 2021 12:16 PM  
Anonymous Just ask Trump how to pronounce "Yosemite" said...

"Law and Order"

As in - if you have evidence that someone committed a crime, arrest them and put them in the back of the police car, book them, and give them a court date to see a judge - not kneel on their neck or choke them until they suffocate to death.

Or "Law and Order"

As in - protest if you like, but don't don't storm the capital and try to overturn the will of 81 million voters because you let yourself be gas-lit by a guy that can barely read.

If cops made a habit of treating white people like the do black people, white people would be yelling "defund the police" as well. White people can't even take having to pay fees to graze their cattle on federal land without taking over a federal building and camping there with a big stash of guns and ammo.

February 09, 2021 2:24 PM  
Anonymous gender has consequences said...

"As in - if you have evidence that someone committed a crime, arrest them and put them in the back of the police car, book them, and give them a court date to see a judge - not kneel on their neck or choke them until they suffocate to death."

yes, as you well know, even if you can't spell, only one rogue police officer did that

it was an unspeakable crime but doesn't mean we should stop protecting black people from other crimes

and those who exploited that tragedy for purposes of their long-held call of destroying our police are despicable

"As in - protest if you like, but don't don't storm the capital and try to overturn the will of 81 million voters because you let yourself be gas-lit by a guy that can barely read."

yes, as you well know, even if you can't spell, only few hundred fringe nuts did that

it was an unspeakable crime but doesn't mean we should disenfranchise anyone who didn't vote Democratic

and those who exploited that tragedy for political purposes of achieving their long-held "progressive" agenda are despicable

"If cops made a habit of treating white people like the do black people, white people would be yelling "defund the police" as well."

all cops don't have such a habit

you are demonizing a group based on the actions of a few rogue actors

hence, you are despicable!

February 09, 2021 3:01 PM  
Anonymous Despicable Me said...

"not kneel on their neck or choke them until they suffocate to death."

"yes, as you well know, even if you can't spell, only one rogue police officer did that"

Even though you can't properly capitalize or punctuate, or grasp how the conjunction "or" affects that sentence, allow me to refresh your memory:

George Floyd died with an officer kneeling on his neck.

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in the New York City borough of Staten Island after Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.

The man, Daniel Prude, 41, died on March 30, of suffocation in Rochester, N.Y., after police officers who were taking him into custody put a hood over his head and then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released by his family and local activists on Wednesday.

That comment wasn't intended to be an exhaustive list of the ways cops kill black people before, during, or after an arrest. It was intended to remind folks of why black people aren't happy with cops. A lot of them are shot. They don't deserve to die either, but you entirely missed the point.

"all cops don't have such a habit"

No where did I ever say "all cops" behaved like that. You're setting up a straw man argument to knock down, since you obviously can't address the issue in any meaningful manner.

"you are demonizing a group based on the actions of a few rogue actors"

Well, as I stated above, I never said anything about "all cops." I said "if cops" - a prelude to a sentence in the subjunctive mood. You've had problems with sentences like that before. I recommend going back to middle school and re-taking English classes so you can keep up with the conversation. It wouldn't take "all cops" doing that to be a problem - one is too many, and these types of incidents occur all over the country.

"you are demonizing a group based on the actions of a few rogue actors"

Like the way you demonize all gay people because some of them got AIDS.

You shouldn't complain about something you do all the time - it undermines your own argument.

"hence, you are despicable!"

I'll take "despicable" over "deplorable" any day. But keep calling me names like a spoiled fourth grader - it really highlights the erudite nature of your arguments - "bigly."

February 09, 2021 4:32 PM  
Anonymous Ted Cruz said...

Things have been moving fast, and I wanted to touch base today.

I’m sure you saw the news. The Pelosi Democrats have delivered their new article of impeachment against former President Trump to the U.S. Senate.

Now, this Trump Impeachment 2.0 trial is underway.

We must stand united as conservatives against this post-presidential impeachment. It’s VINDICTIVE and WRONG.

<<>>

I have said for the past few weeks to not be surprised when the Democrats overreach.

This drive to impeach President Trump, as a now-private citizen, is just the beginning.

I'm leading the effort to stop this ridiculous and vindictive show trial. And right now, the numbers look promising to ensure a NOT GUILTY verdict is found. But we know the Democrats are going to apply all the pressure they possibly can to get a two-thirds majority of the Senate to vote to convict.

Make your most generous possible STOP IMPEACHMENT contribution today.

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February 09, 2021 5:11 PM  
Anonymous systemic racism is a conspiracy theory said...

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about conspiracy theories. Obviously, the former US president has provided a Trump Tower-sized target for his critics after telling his supporters that Democrats rigged an election he actually ‘won by a landslide’. Congresswoman and Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has also said some very wacky things, expressing support for the QAnon theory about a cabal of Satanist paedophiles and blaming wildfires on space-based lasers managed by Jewish businesspeople. The Democrats have a wacky fringe as well, represented perhaps most notably by Ilhan Omar, who has famously opined that US support for Israel is due to Jewish money (‘It’s all about the Benjamins’), and who downplayed 9/11 as ‘some people did something’.

Almost forgotten amid the justified mockery of comments like these, however, has been the extraordinarily extensive prevalence of a different sort of conspiracy theory.

The narrative behind movements like Black Lives Matter contends that hundreds – if not thousands – of black Americans are murdered by the state on an annual basis, that harassment and abuse of blacks by whites is constant, and that virtually all gaps in performance between racial groups must reflect hidden racism. These claims are almost universally false. But they have been accepted as conventional wisdom.

The pervasiveness of these ideas – despite the fact they are presented as ‘radical’ and ‘rebellious’ – is truly striking. The infamous (and entirely false) claim that an unarmed black male is ‘murdered’ by US police roughly once a day has been repeated by numerous BLM activists. A book called Open Season: the Legalised Genocide of Coloured People has become a bestseller.

February 11, 2021 6:10 AM  
Anonymous systemic racism is a conspiracy theory said...

The ‘all gaps stem from racism’ point has made the career of Dr Ibram X Kendi, author of such works as How to be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby. Kendi specifically contends that any large-group performance gap has to be due to racism. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently gifted Dr Kendi with a $10million bequest, to help him share arguments like this with an even larger audience.

With all due respect to Dr Kendi, it is simply not the case that any gap in performance (such as SAT scores) between two populations has to be due to racism. In fact, while no one denies some bigotry endures, it is remarkable that an argument so demonstrably untrue has reached such an uncritical level of near-global acceptance. As Thomas Sowell pointed out literally decades ago, groups which vary in terms of major traits like race (or sex) also often vary in terms of almost everything else. One group might simply study more for the SAT than most others, for cultural reasons – and adjusting for this sort of thing almost always reduces or eliminates the massive gaps which some would like to attribute to racism.

Exactly this sort of adjustment has been done, often and well, in the context of race in the US. Thirty years ago, economist June O’Neill unpacked a well-known ratio of 82:100 for the earnings of black vs white men. Less technically put, black guys made about 80 cents for each dollar that white guys earned. This gap was – then as now – almost universally attributed to racism. But O’Neill pointed out that simply adjusting for variables like median age, where someone lives and years of education closed the gap substantially.

The most common age for a black person in the US is 27, while the most common age for a white person is 58, and blacks are far more likely than whites to live in the south – where wages are lower for everyone.

Adding tested IQ to the equation closed the ratio to 95.5:100, and adjusting for years of work experience (which is closely related to age) closed it to 99.1:100. O’Neill followed up this research in 2005, finding similar results. Controversial as it sounds in our hyper-politicised society, people of different races with the same qualifications succeed to roughly the same degree today. While few would deny that proportionately more black Americans are poor today because of past conflict and oppression, the effect of contemporary racism seems to be in the order of a few percentage points.

February 11, 2021 6:11 AM  
Anonymous systemic racism is a conspiracy theory said...

The body of further evidence supporting the conclusion that group performance is not largely a result of racism is truly massive. Perhaps most obviously, most of the highest-performing groups in the United States are not white. As per the 2019 American Community Survey, the wealthiest group of Americans is not Anglo-Saxon ‘WASPs’ – or Jews as is often claimed – but Indian Americans, with a median household income of $135,816. Taiwanese Americans come in second place, at $102,405. All in all, seven of the 10 highest-earning groups – Indians, Taiwanese, Filipinos, Indonesians, Pakistanis, Iranians and Lebanese Americans – are not ‘white’ as this term is generally conceptualised. Another Top 10 group – South Africans, with $98,212 – consists of white and black immigrants, who both seem to do quite well away from their homeland’s quarrels.

In fact, quite a few black or majority-black groups are ahead of the average income for US whites ($65,902). Ghanaian Americans bring home a healthy $69,021 annually, Nigerians earn $68,658 and Guyanese Americans make $67,772 on average.

A number of black groups, while not high earners, earn more than some large and mostly (if not entirely) white groups like Cajuns ($52,866) and those who identify their race simply as ‘American’ ($58,601). Remarkably, the average income for Ghanaian Americans, a group composed largely of recent immigrants, was roughly $26,000 higher than the average income ($43,862) for native-born African-American households.

The figure for Cajuns illustrates another critical point that the conspiracy theorists seem to avoid actively: incomes vary by up to 300 per cent just among white groups. In 2019, the highest-earning white group (perhaps surprisingly) was Australian Americans, who made $100,856 per household per year. In contrast, the poorest – with Scots-Irish ‘Appalachians’ not separated out – was the sizable but insular population of Pennsylvania Dutch Americans, who averaged roughly $49,000. The low incomes of Dutchmen is down to their isolation, faith tradition, educational performance, and so on – and those things matter for all people, regardless of race.

February 11, 2021 6:12 AM  
Anonymous systemic racism is a conspiracy theory said...

Wonky data aside, a second problem with the ‘hidden evil’ narrative is how incredibly insulting it is to most Americans. The complaint that ‘microaggressions’ and ‘implicit bias’ contribute to racial oppression implies that many or most of my fellow citizens are extraordinarily bigoted, and are either lying to me about this while pretending to be my friends or are completely lacking in self-awareness. But, aside from the self-serving, worthless results of implicit-bias tests, there is very little evidence that this is actually the case.

Social scientists have been designing good surveys on this for decades now, and we have a very solid idea of how prevalent racism actually is. At the most basic level, a good way to find this out is to ask people anonymously about their views. One fairly typical result comes from a well-known 2015 Gallup poll, which asked people whether they were put off voting for election candidates based on their race. In response, eight per cent of Americans said they would never vote for a qualified black candidate for president, even if he or she represented their favoured party. That’s awful, to be sure. But seven per cent would not vote for a Roman Catholic, eight per cent would not vote for any woman, nine per cent would not vote for a Latino or a Jew, and 19 per cent would never vote for a well-qualified Mormon. This discrimination cuts across racial boundaries.


Another obvious point (though it is taboo to say it) is that we have massive, society-wide programmes of positive discrimination to compensate for even residual racism of this kind. For all of today’s incessant talk about ‘white privilege’, institutional campaigns of affirmative action, designed to counter the lingering effects of discrimination, have been in place in the US since 1967’s Philadelphia Plan. A (non-Asian) person of colour applying for an academic slot or Fortune 500 job very often has a measurable advantage over an equally qualified white guy, when we compare apples to apples.

This is not some vague, theoretical point. In 2017, mean-average scores on the American SAT were 941 for black Americans, 963 for Native Americans, 987 for Latinos, and 986 for Samoans and other Pacific Islanders, but were 1,118 for whites and 1,181 for Asian Americans. Assuming each group took the test proportionately, these results would logically give a black applicant a 177-point edge over a white applicant, and a remarkable 240-point edge over an Asian applicant when seeking admission to any university that wants a campus that ‘looks like America’.

Racism obviously exists, but affirmative action of this kind obviously exists as well, and US income figures show that plain hard work is rewarded across a whole rainbow of different groups. Perfection is not possible, and the word ‘utopia’ itself means ‘no place’. But when we put the wilder speculations of the left and the hard right aside and look at the data, it really does seem that most people in America are rewarded for how well they perform.

Crazy conspiracy theory, I know

February 11, 2021 6:13 AM  
Anonymous homosexuality never produces life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage said...

"allow me to refresh your memory:

George Floyd died with an officer kneeling on his neck.

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in the New York City borough of Staten Island after Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.

The man, Daniel Prude, 41, died on March 30, of suffocation in Rochester, N.Y., after police officers who were taking him into custody put a hood over his head and then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released by his family and local activists on Wednesday."

there are examples of white people who died in a similar manner

it's bad all around, and reform of police tactics and training and certain attitudes are called for

still, these problems all are the worst in inner city police departments that have been run by Dems for decades

and they aren't racist - police treat people who act a certain way the same way

they are simply trained to believe it is more important to assert their authority than anything else

it's why you get examples of someone getting shot dead by police for running away from them when being pursued for a petty crime

"That comment wasn't intended to be an exhaustive list of the ways cops kill black people before, during, or after an arrest. It was intended to remind folks of why black people aren't happy with cops. A lot of them are shot. They don't deserve to die either, but you entirely missed the point."

the media simply focuses on individual cases that fit the narrative they'd like to see

this all began to be ramped up when Obama became President

people starting saying that since a black has now achieved the highest office in the land, the need for governmental intervention in inter-personal relations has ended

this panicked Dems, since they could never win an election without 85-90% support of African Americans

so their PR branch, the MSM, starting hyping every case of a cop killing a black guy

the truth is, more whites are killed by the police than blacks every year

yes, it is disproportionate to their share of the population, but not so far off that it may be explained by factors other than racism

February 11, 2021 6:28 AM  
Anonymous homosexuality never produces life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage said...

"No where did I ever say "all cops" behaved like that. You're setting up a straw man argument to knock down, since you obviously can't address the issue in any meaningful manner."

you said:

"If cops made a habit of treating white people like the do black people, white people would be yelling "defund the police" as well."

you didn't qualify "cops" in any way

truth is, most police do treat white people like the do black people

indeed, racial injustice is more prevalent in the court system than law enforcement

and the fact is, most people in black communities want police to insure their neighborhoods stay safe for their kids

the BLM idea that the whole idea of "policing" is to protect white privilege works against them

"defunding the police" is racist

"Well, as I stated above, I never said anything about "all cops." I said "if cops" - a prelude to a sentence in the subjunctive mood. You've had problems with sentences like that before."

yes, I have

they are generalities

for example, OJ Simpson murdered his wife and Michael Jackson molested kids

if someone were to say "if blacks would stop murdering their spouses and molesting children", I'd object

saying "if cops would stop strangling blacks" is a similarly offensive remark

you are offensive

and your support of defunding the police hurts black communities and is racist

"I recommend going back to middle school and re-taking English classes so you can keep up with the conversation."

thanks for the recommendation

is that where you learned to spell?

"Like the way you demonize all gay people because some of them got AIDS."

no, I demonize the behavior of the gay community in the early 80s that allowed AIDS to become prevalent in our society

that behavior was celebrated by the liberal-Dem-entertainment complex of the time

"I'll take "despicable" over "deplorable" any day."

well, congratulations!

you've achieved your goal

you are, in fact, despicable

"But keep calling me names like a spoiled fourth grader - it really highlights the erudite nature of your arguments - "bigly.""

actually, when I call you a name, it's nothing like a spoiled fourth grader

I give you examples to back it up

for examples, you are despicable because you support policies that have lead to the deaths of innocent people in black communities

and you continue to argue after you've been shown that

how often do you see a fourth grader do that?

btw, all fourth graders aren't spoiled

you have a tendency to denigrate groups by the use of generalizations

that's really despicable

February 11, 2021 6:55 AM  
Anonymous Here you go, troll, just for what you claim to be, a conservative, not a trumpet said...

(Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.

The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.

More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of "principled conservatism," including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.

The plan would be to run candidates in some races but also to endorse center-right candidates in others, be they Republicans, independents or Democrats, the people say.

Evan McMullin, who was chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election, told Reuters that he co-hosted the Zoom call with former officials concerned about Trump’s grip on Republicans and the nativist turn the party has taken.

Three other people confirmed to Reuters the call and the discussions for a potential splinter party, but asked not to be identified.

February 11, 2021 10:39 AM  
Anonymous the king of 2021 said...

interesting development, and encouraging

Dems have some similar issues and could take the opportunity to divide without much risk

let's face it, the Squad is...

btw, I'm a libertarian

it's a whole nother universe, not easily breakable into the lib-conservative dichotomy

for example, I favor marijuana legalization and ending the death penalty

on the hand I favor lower taxes, ending abortion, and ending seat belt laws

February 11, 2021 2:40 PM  
Anonymous Hemant Mehta said...

Christian Nationalist Bills Filed by Iowa Lawmakers

In response to a slew of Christian Nationalist bills making their way through the legislature, the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers have put up three digital billboards around Des Moines hoping to draw attention to the problem:

IAF officers Cory Gillespie, Jason Benell and Robert Cook explain in the Des Moines Register why they’re worried about this attempt by the government to shove religion in citizens’ faces:

… Judging from their actions so far this session, what they want is to push their Christian beliefs into Iowa laws, at everyone else’s expense, demolishing the wall of separation between church and state.

These conservative legislators talk a good game about how persecuted they are, but the bills they continue to file have more to do with preserving religious — specifically Christian — privilege than protecting their rights. They argue that their religious freedom entitles them to special benefits, tax-funded support, and exemptions from civil rights laws.

They call out three bills in particular, though they are by no means the only ones. House File 170 would allow Christian business owners to discriminate against LGBTQ people. Senate File 159 would send taxpayer dollars to private Christian schools at the expense of public secular ones. House File 272 would eliminate gender identity as a protected class under the state’s civil rights laws.

Given the one-party control of the legislature, there’s a good chance these bills will become law.

This is what Christians in the legislature are doing with their power: They’re using it to hurt and oppress other people in the name of their God. This is what conservative Christians always do when they have power. You can’t expect them to be decent human beings when they constantly show the world they’re incapable of it.

Meanwhile, the atheists aren’t trying to hurt Christians at all; they just want the government to provide a fair, protected playing field for everyone. The atheists are the heroes of this story. But in a state like Iowa, you can fully expect there to be backlash for stating the obvious.

February 11, 2021 2:58 PM  
Anonymous trangenderism is sexist and anti-woman: a gangrene on society said...

Hemant (aka Randy paste) is at it again

in Iowa, apparently there's an "attempt by the government to shove religion in citizens’ faces"

how, you say?

1. opposing special discrimination laws to benefit homosexuals

2. giving funds for their children's education to Christian parents, just like all other students

"Meanwhile, the atheists aren’t trying to hurt Christians at all;"

unless you think discriminating against them is "hurting"

if He-mant had his way, Christianity could not be expressed anywhere outside the home

sounds like "hurt", Hemmie!

February 11, 2021 4:10 PM  
Anonymous Amy Coney Barrett...get used to it said...

A month ago, there was a Tweetstorm written by a woman who had worked as a “reproductive health assistant” at Planned Parenthood for about 18 months prior to March 2020. If you assumed that the employee had abortion on her mind, then your knowledge of Planned Parenthood is outdated. Planned Parenthood is now one of the largest providers in the United States of cross-sex hormones like testosterone to females seeking medical gender transition.

The employee’s responsibilities included screening patients, taking down their lists of medications and medical histories before the nurse arrived to treat. (Later, I was able to interview her and verify her employment from an old paystub.)

The employee insisted (both on Twitter and during our interview) that she was reluctant to say anything critical of Planned Parenthood because she believes in its core mission.

“[T]hey still provide vital services for women,” she wrote on Twitter, and anti-abortion activists “will jump at any opportunity to smear them.” But she went on to write: “Having said that, their recent roles in trans activism are abhorrent, and they’re digging their own grave.”

The Planned Parenthood clinic where she worked was located in a small town of roughly 30,000. Abortions were the clinic’s “bread and butter,” something this employee fully supports. But, she noted, “trans identifying kids are cash cows, and they are kept on the hook for the foreseeable future in terms of follow-up appointments, bloodwork, meetings, etc., whereas abortions are (hopefully) a one-and-done situation.”

How significant is this revenue stream? I’ve never been able to obtain numbers on that, though the Planned Parenthood website for Central and Western New York states that: “Nationally, Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of Gender Affirming Hormone Care.” It seems reasonable to conclude that hormone treatments—pricey as they are—now contribute materially to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line.

February 11, 2021 4:11 PM  
Anonymous Amy Coney Barrett...get used to it said...

According to the employee, based on her recollection, 1-2 new biologically female teen patients seeking testosterone would arrive per day. A few reasonable assumptions and some arithmetic reveal that a shocking percentage of the town’s teen girls came through the clinic over just a few years.

There were no doctors at the clinic where she worked. Nurse practitioners were the professionals with the highest medical training, she said. The clinic employed a gender counselor who had “no actual professional credentials or formal training other than being MtF” (that is, a male-to-female transgender person). Adolescents would come and speak to this gender counselor and Planned Parenthood would then forward the counselor’s “notes to an actual licensed mental health professional somewhere off-site, and rubber stamp approve the patients to begin their transition. This is basically how they circumvented the requirement to speak to an actual counselor,” according to the employee’s Twitter post.

Whether patients received specific treatments—a course of testosterone, say—was decided by the “clinic manager,” with “no prior medical experience” whose prior job was “managing a Wendy’s,” the employee wrote.

Each day, new teen girls would present at the clinic (sometimes with mom). They often arrived in groups of girlfriends, all claiming childhood histories of gender dysphoria and asking to be put on testosterone. Did she believe their testimonies? “I think they were telling what they perceived to be their authentic history to them at the time. Like, I was a 13 year old girl, you know. Everything is very dire, everything needs to be remedied immediately,” she said.

In any case, the script Planned Parenthood instructed her to read from didn’t grant much room for evaluation of patient histories. “The questions that we asked were like, very closed ended…It would be, ‘you know, at what age did this start’? Boom that is it. ‘What kinds of dysphoria do you feel’? Boom that's it, you know? ‘What do you want out of your transition’? ‘Do you want top surgery?’ ‘Do you want bottom surgery’?”

In taking their histories, the employee did discover that these girls seemed to be suffering from a great deal of emotional pain. “A lot of them have serious emotional issues, a lot of them had a history of abuse and baggage.”

Anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder were ubiquitous. Often, the employee said, they had visible “self-harm scars” and even “fresh self-harm marks.” But, she said, the medical professionals were never supposed to address those marks. “We just move on exactly the issue at hand”—that is, affirming the adolescents’ self-diagnosed dysphoria and proceeding to a course of treatment.

This treatment—testosterone—carries serious risks for adolescent girls, particularly at the doses at which it is administered, ten to forty times what their bodies would normally handle. Risks include deepened voice, enlarged clitoris, increase in red blood cell count and greater risk of heart attack, infertility, vaginal and uterine atrophy, endometrial cancer—as well as all the unknown risks the come with any major and novel intervention.

She would present the girls with pages that listed a series of medical risks and obtain signatures indicating their “informed consent.” Did any of the girls ever seem troubled by these risks? “I can say anecdotally that I never saw anybody read it,” she said.

February 11, 2021 4:12 PM  
Anonymous Amy Coney Barrett...get used to it said...


Most interesting to me was the fact that, according to the employee, the girls would often arrive to the clinic with a group of friends. (For what other medical treatments do girls arrive with peer group in tow?) It smacked more of the gleeful trips teen girls once took to the mall for ear piercings than the sober medical treatment of a genuine mental health disorder.

What was the mood in the waiting room among these friends? “Super cheerful, giggly. It’s a fun thing,” she said, a touch of cynicism whetting her tone.

I asked her if she and the other nurses and reproductive health assistants didn’t think there was something suspicious about girls’ showing up in groups of friends for treatment—whether it didn’t cross the employees’ minds that peer influence might be at play. “It's kind of one of those things where you just roll your eyes.” She told me. “The extent of our intervention” was to grant “their requests to start the hormone therapy.”

Did she ever feel like she was participating in something wrong, I wondered. These were, by her own estimation, a notably vulnerable group of girls: they were on all kinds of medications for anxiety and depression and even anti-psychotics like Abilify and Clozaril. “I’ll tell you, I struggled with the morality and reconciling of our actions in giving these kids testosterone and estrogen and stuff. I struggled with that more than I did being in operating room for like a 20 week abortion. It’s a lot to see these kids, like, interpret their feelings in such a way that they end up being confused about their gender,” she said.

Did she or other staff members voice their misgivings about whether they were giving these girls the best treatment? “Yeah. Every day,” she said, before adding: “I mean, it would be one of those things that would be a conversation among professionals. You know, we’re nodding our heads, we’re doing this thing. And then we clock out at the end of the day because we cannot bring it up in discussion with management or the clinic directors or anything because they have these directives from administrators upstate.”

As far as she knew, did any of the girls asking to start a course of testosterone ever get turned down? Perhaps some were sent for psychiatric evaluation before proceeding with testosterone treatment? “None of the girls,” she said. “One of the boys who did confess that he smoked so much weed that he was doubling up on his estrogen… We did end up ceasing his therapy until he saw—I think it was like a substance abuse counselor or something like that. But other than that, we never turned away anybody.”

According to the Planned Parenthood employee’s testimony, in affirmative care clinics like this one, for teens seeking fast medical transition—the medicine cabinet is fully stocked, the customer is always right, and the light is always green.

February 11, 2021 4:13 PM  
Anonymous the king of 2021 said...

Earlier this week, Lucasfilm severed ties with "The Mandalorian" actress Gina Carano after a hyperbolic social media post in which she compared current political imperiousness and cancel culture in the United States—and the treatment of "wrong-thinking" Americans who hold views at odds with those of ruling class elites—to the 1930s-era treatment of German Jewry by the then-ascendant Nazi regime. "Most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews," Carano wrote in her now-deleted post.

Let's first stipulate that Carano's post (which, it must be reiterated, is now deleted) was over-the-top. As bad as cancel culture is in the United States in the year 2021—and it is very, very bad, and will only get worse—it is both rhetorically inflammatory and dishonorable to the memories of exterminated European Jews to compare the present plight of us American conservatives with the nightmarish regime of Kristallnacht (to say nothing, of course, of the Shoah itself).

The American Left has spent large swaths of the past four years hysterically comparing then-President Donald Trump, whose daughter is an Orthodox Jew and who is likely the most aggressively pro-Jewish president in American history, to Adolf Hitler. It would be trite, not to mention impossible, to enumerate all the examples. The armchair sloganeering and rote analogizing were truly ubiquitous across CNN, MSNBC and the other myriad bastions of progressive media or cultural clout.

But even more egregious was then-President-elect Joe Biden's post-Capitol riot comparison of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)—brilliant constitutional attorneys in their previous careers who, in challenging part of the 2020 Electoral College results, did something Democrats have done each time a Republican has won the presidency this century—to infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, a man who arguably has more Jewish blood on his hands than anyone besides Hitler and Heinrich Himmler themselves. Speaking two days after the Capitol riot, Biden expressly invoked Goebbels' name and accused Cruz and Hawley of helping to spread the "big lie." (Cruz, it should be noted, is by word and deed likely the single most philo-Semitic and pro-Israel member of either house of Congress.) The smear was quickly parroted by other national Democratic leaders.

Biden's slur was, in a nutshell, revolting. It is, or at least ought to be, far beneath the dignity of the leader of the free world to casually besmirch high-ranking political foes as active, literal Nazis. But Biden's remarkable Freudian slip did not occur in a vacuum; rather, it was the natural culmination of a years-long leftist campaign, which commenced in the pre-Trump era but rapidly accelerated during the 45th president's tumultuous tenure, to equate conservatism with Nazism. Perhaps some on the Left earnestly believe this, and some believe it to merely be tactically helpful. It is unclear.

What is clear is how deeply shameful the whole spectacle is. And not just shameful, but deeply hypocritical, to boot. Just ask Gina Carano, who was canceled for a post that was relatively subdued compared with Biden's abhorrent slander. Conservatives might be forgiven for wondering if Biden himself should be canceled next.

February 12, 2021 5:45 AM  
Anonymous Impartial jurors my ass! said...

Trump’s Senate allies Graham, Lee and Cruz huddle with defense team

February 12, 2021 8:04 AM  
Anonymous the king of 2021 said...

"Trump’s Senate allies Graham, Lee and Cruz huddle with defense team"

think that's bad?

one guy, Patrick Leahy, is both judge and jury

why?

the Supreme Court wanted no part in this

this is not a criminal trial, it's a political one

so the actions of Graham, Lee and Cruz are appropriate

the purpose of impeachment is not for retribution but to protect the public

btw, I've been watching all the arguments

if I were a Senator, at this point, I'd think I'd vote to convict

Trump was clearly watching the internet activity leading up to this

he knew what would happen if he used the rhetoric he did

he should be disqualified from future office

February 12, 2021 12:03 PM  
Anonymous lock 'em up! said...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.

The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.

“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”

In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”

“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.

February 12, 2021 12:19 PM  
Anonymous no use jivin', no use jokin'. everything is broken said...

Censorship is something we’re used to seeing in China, but we should be shocked when we see signs of it in our own backyard.

As authoritarian rule in China reaches new heights with the Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of a social credit system, the United States should do everything in its power to resist following the same path.

China’s social credit system, designed to track every Chinese citizen’s social and economic behavior, is the CCP’s attempt at total control over its citizens’ lives. While the United States might not have an official social credit system, the radical left – through cancel culture and censorship of ideas – has created something that’s eerily similar.

Totalitarians of the past kept their lists of dissidents in paper files, but the CCP keeps records on all citizens digitized, complete with facial recognition, biometric material and intensive data tracking.

More than threats of physical force or imprisonment, China’s social credit system uses social shaming and ostracization to ensure total control of citizens. Anything from jaywalking, traffic violations, smoking in a non-smoking area, missing a payment or disturbing neighbors is used to determine one’s social credit score.

"Bad" behavior lowers a person’s score and can make it difficult for them to buy, sell, travel, get loans or send their children to college. "Very bad" behavior, such as political dissent, can get someone and their family members blacklisted, making it difficult for them to function in society.

China’s social credit system is about power and conformity. It’s an attempt to shape citizens into the CCP’s ideal subject: don’t ask questions, disobey or think for yourself.

It’s easy to look at China’s repressive regime and think that it could never happen here. Yet after hearing demands from the far left to silence conservative voices, and after watching big tech and big business band together to deplatform conservatives, I’m beginning to think America could be like a frog boiling slowly in a pot.

What are the signs that the U.S. has its own social credit system? What else do you call it when a Democrat senator demands Republicans be put on a no-fly-list for how they voted, or when an editor is forced to resign for allowing a Republican to publish an opinion piece in the editorial section of his newspaper?

The push by the left to censor viewpoints that do not conform with liberal orthodoxy is dangerous and antithetical to the freedom of speech and free exchange of ideas our country holds dear.

February 12, 2021 2:59 PM  
Anonymous no use jivin', no use jokin'. everything is broken said...


Big tech has increased its censorship of those they disagree with as well. Before the election, Twitter suppressed the New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden, YouTube removed two videos from a Senate hearing about COVID treatments, and in another instance, Google blocked ads from a legal group against court packing. Then Amazon, Apple and Google exercised their monopoly power to deplatform Parler, the biggest conservative alternative to Twitter.

And this is just the beginning of the left’s activity to silence dissent.

A PBS lawyer was caught on camera calling for reeducation camps for the kids of conservatives, and numerous political pundits have called for cable companies to deplatform Fox News.

The push by the left to censor viewpoints that do not conform with liberal orthodoxy is dangerous and antithetical to the freedom of speech and free exchange of ideas our country holds dear.

Regulating the thoughts of citizens is something that has, until recently, been left for repressive regimes that want subjects, not citizens. Cancel culture in the U.S. might not be as far advanced as China’s social credit system, but it has a similar aim – ensuring conformity to one ideology. Unlike moderate liberals of earlier days, today’s woke radical leftists won't be satisfied until there is one party rule in America and every dissenting voice is silenced.

China has married economic and social standing with the political approval of the CCP. In its own way, cancel culture is doing the same thing in our country today.

Demanding total submission to one orthodox view is not freedom, nor is conformity true unity. Intolerance of opposing ideas will only lead to resentment, not agreement.

Threatening to crush a person’s career, demonetize them or ostracize them from the public square might scare people into silence, but it will not convince them. It’s time to stand up for freedom – we have no time to waste.

February 12, 2021 2:59 PM  
Anonymous Yep, rump should be impeached said...

Trump was clearly watching the internet activity leading up to this

he knew what would happen if he used the rhetoric he did

he should be disqualified from future office

February 12, 2021 3:39 PM  
Anonymous the king of 2021 said...

dude, he's already been impeached

he should be convicted, although the Dems have made a terrible case

February 12, 2021 3:56 PM  
Anonymous Oath are for suckers and losers said...

Lead rump attorney Schoen says House Impeachment managers wanted screen time all to themselves. He also says showing ”that tape” over and over again does nothing for healing.

And we all know by now if there’s one thing Trump cannot abide, it’s divisiveness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_easOFGduw

Schoen’s insistence that the manager’s case is offensive has been echoed by Trump’s most loyal henchman Lindsey Graham, R-SC, and he, along with Sens. Mike Lee, R-Ut, and Ted Cruz, R-Tx, met with the impeachment managers on Thursday night to help them with a strategy in advance of their presentation today. One might think that’s a little bit unusual since they took an oath to be impartial but this is Donald Trump’s impeachment trial so oaths are obviously for suckers and losers.

February 12, 2021 3:56 PM  
Anonymous the envious ones, George..the suckers said...

"One might think that’s a little bit unusual since they took an oath to be impartial"

obviously, at some point, the impartial has to render a judgement

perhaps, they'd reached the conclusion, after three days of testimony, that the Dems were wrong

Pelosi and Schumer discuss strategy on this

Pelosi is the prosecution

Schumer is a juror

the truth is, this a political trial, not a criminal one

February 12, 2021 5:55 PM  
Anonymous Schoen again said...

“They’re using rhetoric that’s just as inflammatory [as Trump's use of "fight" 20 times in his 1/6/21 speech], or more so,” Trump attorney Schoen said of the Democrats. “The problem is, they don’t really have followers, you know, their dedicated followers and so — you know, when they give their speeches.”

We can read between the lines: The Democrats’ language was “just as inflammatory” but “the problem” they had — apparently preventing them from seeing their supporters lose control — is that they don’t have “dedicated followers.”

This probably isn’t really what Schoen was hoping viewers would take away from the discussion. He was on Hannity and probably just trying to score some points by dinging the Democrats for not having the same fervency in their base that Trump does. Which is broadly true, of course. No politician has a base as energetic and large as Trump’s — though probably no politician has worked as hard to rile up his base as has the former president.

But that’s the point, of course. The difference between Trump saying “fight” Jan. 6 was not that his supporters heard that particular word and, like an unwitting assassin in a bad action flick were suddenly triggered to push toward the Capitol. The problem was, instead, that Trump had actually conditioned his base of support for months to believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and he insisted that morning that the final opportunity to avert that theft was at hand.

In the aftermath of 1/6/21, we know Schoen’s right. Democrats used language similar to that used by Trump — and the crucial difference lay in who heard it.

February 13, 2021 7:01 AM  
Anonymous HE'S INNOCENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! said...

Donald Trump on Saturday was acquitted by the Democratically-held U.S. Senate in his second impeachment trial in 12 months.

The Senate vote fell nine short of the majority needed to convict Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection after a five-day trial.

Trump left office on Jan. 20, so impeachment could not be used to remove him from power. But Democrats had hoped to secure a conviction so they could bar him from ever serving in public office again. They are very scared of having to face him in future elections.

Looks like their worst nightmare has come true!

The senate also acquitted Trump in the Feb. 5, 2020, vote in his previous impeachment trial.

Trump, 74, continues to hold a grip on his party with a populist appeal and "America First" message. The wealthy businessman-turned-politician is likely to run for president again in 2024.

Trump is only the third president ever to be impeached by the House of Representatives, as well as the first to be impeached twice and the first to face an impeachment trial after leaving office. But the Senate still has never convicted an impeached president.

Democrats forged ahead with impeachment to overshadow the glaring weaknesses of the early weeks of Biden's presidency.

During the trial, nine House lawmakers serving as trial managers, or prosecutors, urged senators to convict Trump to hold him accountable by preventing him from running in the future.

Trump's crack defense lawyers accused Democrats not only of trying to silence Trump as a political opponent they feared facing in the future but of attempting to criminalize political speech with which they disagreed and aiming to cancel the voices of the tens of millions of voters who backed him.

Trump's lawyers argued the trial was unconstitutional because he had already left office and that his remarks were protected by the constitutional right to free speech. The words Trump used, they argued, were no different than those regularly employed by Democrats.

By acquitting him, the Senate has tacitly agreed.

Impeachment, once a rare occurrence, has become more commonplace during America's era of poisonous political polarization in recent decades. In the 209 years after the first U.S. president, George Washington, took office in 1789, there was only one impeachment.

Since 1998, there have been three, including Trump's two. Andrew Johnson was impeached and acquitted in 1868 in the aftermath of the American Civil War and Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 and acquitted in 1999 of charges stemming from a sex scandal.

Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 rather than face impeachment over the Watergate scandal.

February 13, 2021 5:04 PM  
Anonymous Republicans need to stop trying to destroy democracy said...

Republican Senators made it so there is no longer 3 co-equal branches of government.

They proved that the President is above the law and that Congress can do nothing about it.

If you thought Jan 6th was bad, Trump's next grab for power will be even worse. Now he knows he can get away with it.

Republicans had the perfect opportunity to preserve their party, and the country by rebuking Trump in the most vociferous terms possible. Instead they proved that preserving democracy takes a back seat to their desperate grabs to maintain power.

Had Barack Obama fomented BLM protesters to storm the Capitol like Trump did, there is no doubt that Republican senators would have gleefully convicted him of insurrection and recommended he be put in front of a firing squad.

If you can't convict the guy who incited a mob to storm the Capitol and steal an election, you have no right claiming that you stand for democracy any more. You don't deserve to call yourself a patriot any more.

When the history of the aftermath of this is written, those people will be called "accomplices."

February 14, 2021 10:24 AM  
Anonymous why do Dems lie said...

when the GOP takes the House in 2022, Obama will be impeached for lying to the FISA court to obtain approval to spy on the opposition political campaign

open and shut case

February 14, 2021 6:35 PM  
Anonymous 2022 will be 1994 all over again said...

The Biden era is off to a catastrophe.

It has been one tough week for the left.

Impeachment for political theatre was squashed, the Never Trump Lincoln Project further imploded when it was reported its leaders knew about the sexual harassment allegations against co-founder John Weaver, and the petition to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom D-Calif. reached 1.5 million signatures to likely trigger a special election.

The Donald Trump Charlottesville rhetoric lie was debunked again, and now, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y. is facing bipartisan flack from lawmakers after a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) request showed as many as 9,000 COVID-19 infected patients were sent to nursing homes under his directive, resulting in one of the nation’s worst COVID scenarios.

February 14, 2021 6:54 PM  
Anonymous the scandals of the blue governance era have only just begun said...

SACRAMENTO — Omitted doses, uploading errors, lag times and software mishaps. California’s vaccine rollout has been plagued by data issues, leaving the state unable to keep track of how many doses of the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine are available at any one time.
The implications are far-reaching: Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed to speed up inoculations, in part because the state’s data appeared to show vaccine providers were sitting on doses, prompting the governor to threaten to take supplies from those not moving quickly enough. Now county officials say they are worried the data accuracy issues will cause future allotments to be curtailed based on flawed conclusions from faulty figures.

“We’ve been pointing out that their data is bad since the end of December,” said Fresno County Supervisor Ernest Mendes.

After being pushed to make public more information on the progress counties were making in their vaccination efforts, the state published a dashboard to “make vaccine data transparent and accessible to all Californians.”

But the dashboard was so riddled with errors — including displaying a handful of doses from counties in Arizona and other states — that Kat DeBurgh, executive director of the Health Officers Assn. of California, said she initially told the state it should be taken down

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the COVID-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents, attacks that challenge his reputation for straight-shooting competency and could cloud his political future.

State lawmakers called for investigations, stripping Cuomo of his emergency powers and even his resignation after new details emerged this week about why certain nursing home data was kept under wraps for months, despite requests from lawmakers and others.

Top aide Melissa DeRosa told lawmakers the data was delayed because officials worried that the information was “going to be used against us” by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice.

The new salvos from Cuomo’s fellow Democrats mark a stark turnaround from the early days of the pandemic, when Cuomo’s daily briefings helped cement a national reputation for leadership. The briefings, in which he promised to deliver “just the facts,” won him an International Emmy and helped lead to his book, “American Crisis.”

“He stepped in it, more than a little bit. It would be bad enough if this had come out and he had not been publicly sort of celebrating, and been celebrated, for his handling of the pandemic,” said Jeanne Zaino, political science professor at Iona College. “But putting that aside, it doesn’t get more serious than this. You’re talking about the deaths of 15,000 people.”

Oh, and Biden rejoined WHO, and resumed its funding by US taxpayers, but now has had to acknowledge Trump was correct about the organization:

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the United States is troubled by the way the World Health Organization has conducted its COVID-19 investigation and called on transparency from China.

Sullivan released a sstatement Saturday that condemned the WHO's communication and investigation into exactly how the coronavirus arose.

“We have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the COVID-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them. It is imperative that this report be independent, with expert findings free from intervention or alteration by the Chinese government,” Sullivan said.

February 15, 2021 6:01 AM  
Anonymous it's Mardi Gras time! said...

Donald Trump took in the win at Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by friends and family. His lawyers celebrated with hugs and smiles. One joked, "We’re going to Disney World!”

Now acquitted in his second Senate impeachment trial, Trump is preparing for the next phase of his post-presidency life. Feeling emboldened by the trial's outcome, he is expected to reemerge from a self-imposed hibernation at his club in Palm Beach, Florida, and is eyeing ways to reassert his power.

Trump remains popular among the GOP base, but many deep-state Republicans in Washington have cooled to him. Never before have so many members of a president's party — seven GOP senators, in his case — voted for conviction in a Senate trial.

Undeterred, friends and allies expect Trump to resume friendly media interviews after weeks of silence. He has met with political aides to discuss efforts to help Republicans try to take control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterms elections. He remains fixated on exacting revenge on Republicans who supported his impeachment or resisted his efforts to overturn the results of the November election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

“I imagine you’ll probably be hearing a lot more from him in the coming days,” senior adviser Jason Miller said.

In a statement after the vote, Trump offered few clues, but was defiant as he told supporters their movement “has only just begun.”

“In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people,” he said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, who spoke with Trump on Saturday night, acknowledged that Trump is “mad at some folks,” but also “ready to move on and rebuild the Republican Party” and “excited about 2022."

February 15, 2021 6:08 AM  
Anonymous hi, rememba me?, it's Merrick Garland again. just checking to see if there are any openings on the Supreme Court said...

Things are not looking good for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. After receiving an Emmy "in recognition of his leadership" and writing a bestselling book called American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the toll Cuomo's leadership has taken is finally emerging. On Thursday, the the story broke that Melissa DeRosa, one of the governor's top aides, apologized to Democratic lawmakers for fudging the number of nursing home deaths from COVID for fear of being investigated.

Such an investigation was long overdue. One of the biggest scandals of the pandemic has been the number of nursing home deaths in New York City, many of them possibly linked to a March 25 directive from the Cuomo administration forcing nursing homes to take in people even if they had tested positive for COVID-19. It would prove a death sentence for thousands of seniors. And to fend off an investigation, the Cuomo administration underestimated the number of nursing home deaths by 40%. The true number was 15,000, not 9,056.

But this isn't just a government scandal. It's a media scandal. For while the Cuomo administration was sentencing seniors to death, the media was busy fawning over Cuomo in a series of softball interviews, many of them conducted by his own brother.

Cuomo has been a television mainstay throughout the crisis, particularly on CNN where his brother, Chris Cuomo, is a host. But it wasn't just his brother who fawned. A June interview with CNN's Chris Cilizza provided Cuomo an opportunity to tout his performance while criticizing that of then-president Donald Trump and Republican governors who had not gone along with economy-crushing lockdowns. Cilizza was more than happy to assist.

"We tested both theories," Cuomo told Cilizza. "We have the evidence. It's numbers. It's irrefutable. Why don't we pause and recognize the undeniable reality of the situation?"

"On the numbers, it's hard to disagree," Cilizza dutifully wrote. "On April 9, New York had almost 10,000 coronavirus cases in a single day, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. On Friday, it had just 673 cases statewide."

There would be no follow-up article when New York would hit over 14,000 cases in January. No review of what went wrong in Cuomo's "undeniable reality." No comparison to states that found a different "undeniable reality of the situation" and have objectively handled the COVID crisis better.

Cilizza glossed over other numbers: New York had had the most overall COVID deaths of any state, a number only recently surpassed by California, which has nearly double the population. New York spent the pandemic swapping the number one spot of most deaths per capita with New Jersey. On the numbers, it was actually quite easy to disagree with Cuomo's self-assessment that he had done a great job.

But few in the national media landscape would.

February 15, 2021 7:27 AM  
Anonymous hi, rememba me?, it's Merrick Garland again. just checking to see if there are any openings on the Supreme Court said...


It wasn't just Cilizza and it wasn't just CNN, though CNN egregiously led the way in the fawning coverage of the governor. The network had a penchant for handing off interviews of the governor to his adoring brother. They had spent the spring months joshing about big noses, who their ma liked best and whose hands looked more like bananas. It had its charm, but as the pandemic wore on and the interviews continued, it should have been a red flag to anyone concerned with good journalism or a separation between government and the press which is supposed to cover them impartially.

"Obviously, I'll never be objective. Obviously, I think you're the best politician in the country," Chris Cuomo said during a June 24 brotherly interview.

This embarrassing lack of objectivity had spread well beyond family ties. Cuomo-love affected almost all of the governor's coverage. On MSNBC in May, Stephanie Ruhle ever so gently asked about the nursing home death count, and then let the governor ramble on about how his biggest flaw is doing too much, asking no follow-up questions.

Cuomo's June media tour also featured a spot on Good Morning America where hostess Amy Robach referred to him as "homecoming king of this crisis," talked about his love life and urged him to run for president. He did not receive questions about the nursing home deaths.

A March 25 directive issued by Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo placed 9.056 hospital patients recovering from COVID-19 into nursing homes. The number is 40 percent higher than previously reported by the state health department and comes nearly 10 months after the directive was rescinded amid worries of increasing COVID-19 infections in nursing homes.

And this was all before his book was released in October, becoming an instant bestseller. Few in the media seemed to think it was a problem that Cuomo touted his own leadership while the pandemic still raged.

On ABC's The View in October, Sunny Hostin did mention the nursing home controversy, but she allowed Cuomo to get away with denying he ever sent a directive at all—before they went back to discussing his love life.

And anyone who tried to buck the trend was denounced. Fox News Meteorologist Janice Dean lost both of her in-laws in nursing homes following the Cuomo directive and became an outspoken activist, trying her best to find out the truth about what happened. She suffered abuse from the Cuomo administration, including Cuomo's top advisor Rich Azzopardi, who told the Daily Mail, "Last I checked she's not a credible source on anything except maybe the weather."

But Dean turned out to be more credible than Cuomo. New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report in January which found that the Cuomo administration undercounted nursing home deaths. The story, of a Democratic Attorney General targeting New York's Democratic governor, was the first crack in the media narrative.

Back in early April, when the sirens were shrieking nonstop throughout the city, responding to sick COVID-19 patients and keeping New Yorkers up all night, Cilizza recorded a segment for his video series called "The Point" where he gushed that in his daily press conferences, Cuomo alternates between "cheerleader, psychologist and stern but loving parents." He then told the governor to run for president.

"Life has a way of changing your best-laid plans," Cilizza concluded his Cuomo campaign video.

With the latest news of cover-ups and lies in the Cuomo administration, let's hope they do. But it's not just Cuomo who owes New Yorkers an apology and a commitment to do better and to be more honest. It's the media who covers him.

February 15, 2021 7:28 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Republican Senator Cassidy: “I Voted To Convict Because Trump Is Guilty”



From an op-ed in the Baton Rouge Advocate:

Rather than defending the Constitution, President Trump was actively subverting the peaceful transfer of power, which is a bedrock principle of the Constitution. I voted to convict former President Trump because he is guilty. That’s what the facts demand.

I have no illusions that this is a popular decision. I made this decision because Americans should not be fed lies about “massive election fraud.” Police should not be left to the mercy of a mob. Mobs should not be inflamed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and I take that oath seriously. This was, is, and will remain my commitment to you.

Read the full column.

February 15, 2021 12:38 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Right wing authoritarians Wyatt and Regina Hardiman said "gender has consequences".

What they mean by this is that they want to coerce or force harmless transwomen to live according to their irrational religion. That's why Republican politicians are trying to pass laws to prevent us from using the public bathroom we fit best in instead of trying to stop coronavirus or Trump.

February 15, 2021 12:42 PM  
Anonymous foreign transgenders are running amok on America's blogs, spreading lies and propaganda like a virus said...

"Rather than defending the Constitution, President Trump was actively subverting the peaceful transfer of power, which is a bedrock principle of the Constitution. I voted to convict former President Trump because he is guilty. That’s what the facts demand."

unfortunately, Dems didn't charge him with "actively subverting the peaceful transfer of power", which he was probably guilty of

and they didn't adequately develop that case

"I have no illusions that this is a popular decision."

perhaps no tin Louisiana

down South, you can only be found guilty of what you are charged

"I made this decision because Americans should not be fed lies about “massive election fraud.”

lying about the election isn't illegal, and, again, was not what he was charged with

"Police should not be left to the mercy of a mob. Mobs should not be inflamed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power."

I couldn't agree more

as Mitch McConnell pointed out, Trump should be tried in a criminal court, not Congress

felons are not eligible for office, we don't need Congress for that

"I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and I take that oath seriously. This was, is, and will remain my commitment to you."

you need to familiarize yourself with it

as you said, you have an oath

btw, thanks for voting for originalist judges

Right wing authoritarians the king of 2021 said "gender has consequences".

"What they mean by this is that they want to coerce or force harmless transwomen to live according to their irrational religion."

actually, Darwin is the one who thinks biology is destiny, not any religion

"That's why Republican politicians are trying to pass laws to prevent us from using the public bathroom we fit best in instead of trying to stop coronavirus or Trump."

transgenders started this by trying to force business owners to let anyone who says they are a girl use the girls' room

now, you're complaining about the backlash?

seems like you have enough cheese to go with your whine!

February 15, 2021 1:01 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "as Mitch McConnell pointed out, Trump should be tried in a criminal court, not Congress"

The founding fathers never meant the ability to impeach to be toothless, they intended it to be able to actually remove a corrupt president from power. If Trump is not corrupt enough for the Senate to remove then no one possibly could be. Republicans violated their oath to fair and impartial justice, they decided before the proceedings this would all be charade for them with their votes predetermined. Most Republicans are just as corrupt as Trump and in favour of a right wing dictatorship.

Right wing authoritarians Wyatt and Regina Hardiman said "gender has consequences".

What they mean by this is that they want to coerce or force harmless transwomen to live according to their irrational religion.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "actually, Darwin is the one who thinks biology is destiny, not any religion".

Nonsense, evangelical christians insist biology at birth is destiny.

Don't be shy, if you think "gender has consequences", what are those consequences then?

This will be good!

I said "That's why Republican politicians are trying to pass laws to prevent us from using the public bathroom we fit best in instead of trying to stop coronavirus or Trump."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "transgenders started this by trying to force business owners to let anyone who says they are a girl use the girls' room"

Its absolutely harmless for us to use the women's bathroom. There's no rational reason for businesses not to accommodate this.

February 15, 2021 1:28 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "trangenderism is sexist and anti-woman: a gangrene on society".

Nonsense. Me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman harms no one.

Research shows bigotry like yours harms the mental health of transpeople as well as yourselves.


Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Hemant is at it again in Iowa, apparently there's an "attempt by the government to shove religion in citizens’ faces" how, you say?

1. opposing special discrimination laws to benefit h*sexuals"

Anti-discrimination laws protect christians, they should protect harmless lgbt people too - that's equality, not special rights like christians now have.


"2. giving funds for their children's education to Christian parents, just like all other students"

Christina parents have the same right to public school as everyone else - no special rights for christians!

Hemant Mehta said "Meanwhile, the atheists aren’t trying to hurt Christians at all;"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "unless you think discriminating against them is "hurting""

How are atheists discriminating against christians? (this will be good!)

February 15, 2021 1:40 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

After spending their lives promoting anti-gay aggression its now too painful for Wyatt and Regina Hardiman to admit they've been morally wrong all this time so they double down on their bigotry instead - better to keep living the lie than to face the truth that you've been unjustifiably hurting people all your lives.

February 15, 2021 1:54 PM  
Anonymous hi, it's Andrew Cuomo. should I run for President? said...

"The founding fathers never meant the ability to impeach to be toothless, they intended it to be able to actually remove a corrupt president from power."

Trump was gone before his trial could begin. Your point is pointless

"Republicans violated their oath to fair and impartial justice, they decided before the proceedings this would all be charade for them with their votes predetermined."

the Dems announced weeks ago that the evidence was already publicly apparent

it was no violation to reach a conclusion under such circumstance

"What they mean by this is that they want to coerce or force harmless transwomen to live according to their irrational religion."

you can live any way you want

but keep your transgender ideas to yourself

they are a gangrene on society!

"Nonsense, evangelical christians insist biology at birth is destiny."

virtually everyone thinks your gender is determined at conception

thy even have gender reveal parties!

that has consequences

"Its absolutely harmless for us to use the women's bathroom. There's no rational reason for businesses not to accommodate this."

its absolutely harmless for you to use the men's room

business owners shouldn't be prevented from having harmless policies

women don't want guys like you in the girls' room

"Me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman harms no one."

your delusions are harmless and you can do what you want in the privacy of your own home

but aggressively pushing sexist notions are harmful

transgenderism is a gangrene on society

"Research shows bigotry like yours harms the mental health of transpeople as well as yourselves."

sounds like propaganda "research"

transgenderism is a refusal to accept reality

that is a mental illness

"Anti-discrimination laws protect christians, they should protect harmless lgbt people too - that's equality, not special rights like christians now have."

religion is both protected and discriminated against but it's not from legislation

it's the Constitution

"Christina parents have the same right to public school as everyone else - no special rights for christians!"

when the government pays for schooling, they have no right to discriminate against religion

February 15, 2021 11:05 PM  
Anonymous Laura Clawson said...

Texas is being battered by a winter storm, causing rolling electrical blackouts while unplowed streets have people trapped at home without heat or water. At least 2.5 million people don’t have power in the state, several times the number that lost power during Hurricane Harvey, with record winter demand in the cold weather and turbines and other equipment freezing.

In response, President Biden has approved an emergency declaration, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency “to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures,” with 75% federal funding.

Oh. So this is what it’s like to have a president who considers himself responsible for the whole country, not just the states that voted for him.

By contrast, Donald Trump repeatedly delayed disaster aid to parts of the country he didn’t think were sufficiently pro-Trump. After Hurricane Maria, in 2017, Trump repeatedly whined about disaster relief funding for Puerto Rico, assailed Congress for passing too much funding—when in fact it was inadequate—and only changed his tune as the election approached. When Puerto Rico was hit by an earthquake in early 2020, Trump again forced the island to wait for needed aid, while imposing harsh restrictions on how aid could be spent.

California, too, bore the brunt of Trump’s contempt for anyone outside of his own base. In October, 2020, he initially rejected a request for disaster assistance as California fought six major wildfires, before reversing course days later. That came after a 2019 threat to cut off disaster funding related to wildfires. And after a similar threat in 2018. And a January 2019 attempt to cut off aid to victims of the 2018 wildfires.

Puerto Rico waited years, and never got the relief it needed. California got its aid in more timely fashion, but under constant threat and abuse, with the ever-present fear that Trump would really follow through on his threats. Texas got its emergency declaration basically as soon as Gov. Greg Abbott requested it. Because, as Biden repeatedly said during his campaign and in his inauguration speech, he wants to be a “president for all Americans.” Even the ones who didn’t vote for him.

Of course, it’s not just Trump. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Cornyn (R-TX) were right out with a letter echoing Abbott's request for aid—yet another reminder that both Cruz and Cornyn voted against relief funds for Hurricane Sandy in 2013.

It’s important to understand that while this is weather that for many parts of the country would not be a particularly big deal, it’s truly a serious problem in an area that does not have the infrastructure to handle significant amounts of snow or very low temperatures. This is absolutely an emergency. It’s a good thing the United States now has a president who will respond appropriately, without threats and tantrums. It’s unfortunate Texas still has senators who won’t return the favor next time the state asking for assistance is one they find it convenient to level culture war attacks on.

February 16, 2021 6:47 AM  
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February 16, 2021 1:31 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I said "The founding fathers never meant the ability to impeach to be toothless, they intended it to be able to actually remove a corrupt president from power."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Trump was gone before his trial could begin. Your point is pointless".

Irrelevant. People can be impeached and prevented from running for office again regardless of whether or not they are still in power.

Traitor Mitch McConnell conned the public again by saying he wouldn't hold the senate trial while Trump was still in power because it needed more time. Then when he delayed it until Trump was out of office he dishonestly changed his position and now said Trump couldn't be held accountable because he was no longer in office. If McConnell and Republicans really believe Trump was guilty of incitement they have a responsibility to hold him accountable when given the opportunity rather than letting him escape consequence free because he might be criminally convicted.

I posted "Republicans violated their oath to fair and impartial justice, they decided before the proceedings this would all be charade for them with their votes predetermined."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the Dems announced weeks ago that the evidence was already publicly apparent it was no violation to reach a conclusion under such circumstance".

They never said any such thing. Republicans took an oath to do fair and impartial justice, they corruptly decided before the trial that there was nothing that could make them vote to convict.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Gender has consequences"

I said "What they mean by this is that they want to coerce or force harmless transwomen to live according to their irrational religion."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you can live any way you want but keep your transgender ideas to yourself they are a gangrene on society!".

I have the right to free speech and I can't live how I want as long as bigots try to prevent me from using the women's public bathroom, changing my birth certificate to match my gender identity, and from changing my birth name.

February 16, 2021 2:16 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "actually, Darwin is the one who thinks biology is destiny, not any religion".

I posted "Nonsense, evangelical christians insist biology at birth is destiny."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "virtually everyone thinks your gender is determined at conception thy even have gender reveal parties!".

So, you admit you lied when you said no religion thinks biology is destiny. Thanks for showing who you are.

I posted "Its absolutely harmless for us to use the women's bathroom. There's no rational reason for businesses not to accommodate this."

Wyatt/Regina/Bad anonymous said "its absolutely harmless for you to use the men's room business owners shouldn't be prevented from having harmless policies".

Wrong, its harmful to the mental health of transwomen and many men have stated they will attack any transwoman they see in the men's bathroom. There is no rational reason for businesses not to accomodate us.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "women don't want guys like you in the girls' room".

Polls show the vast majority are okay with transwomen using the women's bathroom - no woman has ever opposed me using the women's bathroom but I sure got a lot of shocked looks when I was still using the men's public bathroom - obviously a serious threat to me.

I posted "Me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman harms no one."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "your delusions are harmless and you can do what you want in the privacy of your own home".

I am also free to do whatever I want in public as long as I am not hurting others. Me living publicly as a woman and society treating me as a woman harms no one, there is no rational reason to oppose this.

February 16, 2021 2:17 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "but aggressively pushing sexist notions are harmful".

I don't do that, YOU do. You try to deny women bodily autonomy, I support women having control over their own bodies.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "transgenderism is a gangrene on society".

Me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman harms no one.

I said "Research shows bigotry like yours harms the mental health of transpeople as well as yourselves."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "sounds like propaganda "research"".

You consider all research that doesn't fit with your religious beliefs "propaganda". You consider reality propaganda - look how you repeatedly claimed it was laughable that Trump was an authoritarian seeking to become dictator.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "transgenderism is a refusal to accept reality that is a mental illness".

It does not interfere with our abilility to live an happy and fulfilling live so it is not a mental illness.

I said "Anti-discrimination laws protect christians, they should protect harmless lgbt people too - that's equality, not special rights like christians now have."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "religion is both protected and discriminated against but it's not from legislation it's the Constitution".

Religion is not discriminated against in the law while being lgbt often is.

There is all manner of legislation giving christian special protections harmless lgbt people don't have, like all the "Religious freedom restoration" laws which give christians exemptions from anti-discrimination laws and legal superiority to all others.

I posted "Christian parents have the same right to public school as everyone else - no special rights for christians!"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "when the government pays for schooling, they have no right to discriminate against religion"

And they don't. Christians can put their children in public school just like non-christians can.

February 16, 2021 2:18 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Bigots like Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous would force transmen like Shawn Stinson to use the public women's bathrooms.

They pretend to be concerned about biological women being uncomfortable with transwomen in the women's public bathroom but then demand scary transmen like this be forced in there - its completely irrational.

February 16, 2021 2:32 PM  
Anonymous let's thank Hillary & TTF for Goresuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett said...

"Irrelevant. People can be impeached and prevented from running for office again regardless of whether or not they are still in power."

There's a case to be made for that but that's not what you said. Why don't you try a little consistency? Your therapist would be pleased.

"Traitor Mitch McConnell conned the public"

McConnell says Trump is accountable to a court of law, not the Senate. Nancy Pelosi sat on the impeachment articles before sending but it doesn't matter. There wasn't time.

"They never said any such thing."

Yes, they did. Try to stay informed.

"I have the right to free speech and I can't live how I want as long as bigots try to prevent me from using the women's public bathroom, changing my birth certificate to match my gender identity, and from changing my birth name."

You have the right to free speech. You don't have the right to control what everyone thinks of you. Doesn't work that way.

Women don't want you in the women's room. All I'm saying is businesses have a right to make their own policies. You can either find one that allows the kind of circus you suggest, or use the men's room.

Remember, you said that "gender has consequences" was "gonna be good"

LOL!

"So, you admit you lied when you said no religion thinks biology is destiny."

Did I?

I said everyone thinks you are the gender your biological profile says.

Yes, religious people are a subset of everyone, but it's not a religious idea. Christian scripture is charitable to trans. Read Acts 8 and the story of Philip and the eunuch.

"Wrong, its harmful to the mental health of transwomen and many men have stated they will attack any transwoman they see in the men's bathroom. There is no rational reason for businesses not to accomodate us."

there are no examples of guys attacking guys who think they are girls when they use the men's room

as for mental health, try counseling

it's harmful to the mental health of women to allow guys dressed like girls in the girls' room

"Polls show the vast majority are okay with transwomen using the women's bathroom"

I doubt that but even if it were true, even one woman objecting is enough

"I sure got a lot of shocked looks when I was still using the men's public bathroom - obviously a serious threat to me."

so now, you, a confessed tran, feel you are entitled to not have anyone look shocked when they see you?

do you suggest criminal penalties for giving you a shocked look?

"I am also free to do whatever I want in public as long as I am not hurting others. Me living publicly as a woman and society treating me as a woman harms no one, there is no rational reason to oppose this."

so you are fine with sexism, then?

"It does not interfere with our abilility to live an happy and fulfilling live so it is not a mental illness."

the misspelling indicates nervousness

the inability to distinguish reality is mental illness, even if it appears harmless

"Religion is not discriminated against in the law while being lgbt often is."

really?

a public school teacher can advocate for homosexuality but not Christian belief

that's discrimination

February 16, 2021 4:49 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I said "Traitor Mitch McConnell conned the public again by saying he wouldn't hold the senate trial while Trump was still in power because it needed more time. Then when he delayed it until Trump was out of office he dishonestly changed his position and now said Trump couldn't be held accountable because he was no longer in office

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "McConnell says Trump is accountable to a court of law, not the Senate."
McConnell lies, Trump is accountable to the law and Congress which has a lower burden of proof. McConnell refused to hold Trump accountable in the Senate where he could more easily be blocked from office instead to roll the dice that a Democratic attorney general could charge and convict him without Republican interference.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "There wasn't time.".

There was plenty of time, Republicans could have rammed it through like they did with Amy Barrett's confirmation to the supreme court - they just didn't want to hold Trump accountable. The "no time" excuse was just to delay it until Trump was no longer in office so they could then con the public by saying he could no longer be convicted.

I said "I have the right to free speech and I can't live how I want as long as bigots try to prevent me from using the women's public bathroom, changing my birth certificate to match my gender identity, and from changing my birth name."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "You have the right to free speech. You don't have the right to control what everyone thinks of you. Doesn't work that way.".

Never said I did. Allowing me to use the women's public bathroom, change my birth certificate or name doesn't control what anyone thinks of me. You don't have a right to control how I live my public life.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Women don't want you in the women's room."

That's a lie, most women believe I should be allowed to use the women's public bathroom. No woman has ever opposed me being there.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "All I'm saying is businesses have a right to make their own policies. You can either find one that allows the kind of circus you suggest, or use the men's room.".

The rights of businesses like all rights are not absolute. You don't have the right to harm me by preventing me from harmlessly using the women's bathroom.

I said "So, you admit you lied when you said no religion thinks biology is destiny."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Did I? I said everyone thinks you are the gender your biological profile says.".

Obviously, yes. You said no religion thinks that way and then said everyone thinks that way (which is also false).

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Yes, religious people are a subset of everyone, but it's not a religious idea. Christian scripture is charitable to trans. Read Acts 8 and the story of Philip and the eunuch.".

What your bible says counts for nothing when you religionists want to prevent me from living as a woman by keeping me from using the women's public bathroom, changing my birth certificate or name and by referring to me as a male which increases the rate of suicide amongst transwomen. You're a liar, there's nothing charitable about your religion, you seek to harm innocent people like me.

February 16, 2021 6:24 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I said "Wrong, its harmful to the mental health of transwomen and many men have stated they will attack any transwoman they see in the men's bathroom. There is no rational reason for businesses not to accommodate us."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "there are no examples of guys attacking guys who think they are girls when they use the men's room".

Transwomen don't use the men's bathroom thus identifying them as trans and making us a target and most attacks on transpeople are never reported - your not hearing examples means nothing, we are not risking our safety to satisfy your bigotry.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "it's harmful to the mental health of women to allow guys dressed like girls in the girls' room".

Right, just like it harms the mental health of bigoted white women to use the same bathroom as black women - you're full of it.

My need to use the women's public bathroom in safety greatly outweighs any bigot's trivial thrill they get from preventing me from doing so.

I said "Polls show the vast majority are okay with transwomen using the women's bathroom"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I doubt that but even if it were true, even one woman objecting is enough".

Just like one white woman objecting to sharing the bathroom with a black woman is enough, you bigot. Besides, no woman has every objected.

I posted "I sure got a lot of shocked looks when I was still using the men's public bathroom - obviously a serious threat to me."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "so now, you, a confessed tran, feel you are entitled to not have anyone look shocked when they see you?".

Confessed? This isn't a crime as much as you'd like it to be. They were shocked because they didn't expect to see a woman in the men's bathroom. No one is surprised when they see me in the women's bathroom.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "do you suggest criminal penalties for giving you a shocked look?".

My point is that I'm very out of place in the men's room and being there is a risk to my physical safety.

I said "I am also free to do whatever I want in public as long as I am not hurting others. Me living publicly as a woman and society treating me as a woman harms no one, there is no rational reason to oppose this."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "so you are fine with sexism, then?".

There is nothing sexist about me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman - no one is harmed. Sexism is trying to force women to give birth.

I posted "It does not interfere with our ability to live an happy and fulfilling live so it is not a mental illness."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the misspelling indicates nervousness".

LOL, do you have a citation to back that up :) Really folks, this is the level of absurdity these people dispense day in and day out.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the inability to distinguish reality is mental illness, even if it appears harmless".

You mean like believing in a just and loving god that eternally tortures people for rejecting him, just like a wife beater?

I posted "Religion is not discriminated against in the law while being lgbt often is."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "really? a public school teacher can advocate for homosexuality but not Christian belief that's discrimination".

If the christian belief you want to advocate for is that gayness is a wrongdoing, you are the one initiating the discrimination and you are rightfully not allowed to do that in a public school. If you want to advocate for the christian belief of "love your neighbour" I'm sure that won't be a problem.

February 16, 2021 6:25 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

And here's a 2019 poll showing majority public support for allowing transpeople to use the bathroom of the gender we identify with. Its a little confusing so either 54% or 50% in favour depending on how you read it.

Not the "vast majority" I thought it was, but a majority nevertheless with women being more accepting than men.

February 16, 2021 6:39 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Note how Wyatt and Regina are again quoting bible verses at me and then later when someone points out their religious beliefs are the source of their bigotry they'll lie and say "I don't believe I have spoken about my religious beliefs here" or "I haven't discussed my motivations for demonizing and oppressing lgbt people".

Conservatives compartmentalize their thoughts so they can hold contradictory beliefs in their minds without suffering from cognitive dissonance and being forced to choose one belief over another.

February 16, 2021 6:55 PM  
Anonymous VRCOOPER said...

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February 16, 2021 8:48 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Biden job approval rating - 62%

Trump never got above 50% during his entire term. And yet Republicans kept claiming he had a mandate to push policies the American public overwhelmingly rejected, like ending protections for those with preexisting health conditions or appointing a majority of conservatives to the Supreme Court.

February 16, 2021 10:31 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

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February 16, 2021 11:52 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Earlier Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous made the false claim "there are no examples of guys attacking guys who think they are girls when they use the men's room"

They've often claimed there is no danger to a transwoman using the men's bathroom but their own comments show they don't believe that themselves - in this thread at January 14, 2016 12:12 PM they said ""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get a special swirly welcome".

A swirly is having your head forced in a toilet possibly filled with feces and urine.

Contrary to their often made claim Wyatt and Regina actually believe transwomen will be assaulted in the men's room. That's what they want, that's what they mean when they say "gender has consequences" - they want to violently punish us for not living according to their harmful religious beliefs.

These evil, deceitful people, motivated by blind loyalty to their anti-gay religion wage an unjust war on harmless lgbt people like me.

February 16, 2021 11:55 PM  
Anonymous remember, safety first! said...

Randy, when you repeat verbatim every comment before making a new one, I don't think anyone reads it

the whole "first I said, then they said" thing is really psycho

"McConnell lies, Trump is accountable to the law and Congress which has a lower burden of proof. McConnell refused to hold Trump accountable in the Senate where he could more easily be blocked from office instead to roll the dice that a Democratic attorney general could charge and convict him without Republican interference."

Randy, you don't understand the purpose of impeachment. It's not a criminal justice process. It is merely to protect the public in case a person is elected who doesn't uphold his oath. It's to protect the republic, not to deliver retribution.

Trump is gone. The threat is over. Criminal courts will try him for his alleged role in the insurrection. In America, criminal conviction should have a high burden of proof. Until proven guilty, in America, you are innocent.

You should gain an understanding of the American system of justice before mouthing off about a country you are not part of.

"There was plenty of time,"

no reasonable person believes that

Pelosi waited a week to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate

"Republicans could have rammed it through like they did with Amy Barrett's confirmation to the supreme court"

thanks for reminding us of that major victory for pro-life forces

btw, ACB wasn't the fastest SCOTUS approval in history

it's just the one that will drive the lunatic fringe crazy for decades

"That's a lie, most women believe I should be allowed to use the women's public bathroom. No woman has ever opposed me being there."

according to a poll you posted, about half of women have bought in to that

that leaves the other half very uncomfortable with guys like you in the girls' room

it's uncharitable to shock people

you should be considerate and use the men's room

"The rights of businesses like all rights are not absolute. You don't have the right to harm me by preventing me from harmlessly using the women's bathroom."

you are not harmed at all

you can either use their men's room or go to another business

since you say half want you in the girls' room, you should have no trouble finding businesses that will indulge your delusions

"Transwomen don't use the men's bathroom thus identifying them as trans and making us a target and most attacks on transpeople are never reported - your not hearing examples means nothing, we are not risking our safety to satisfy your bigotry."

LOL!

back when some people said guys dressed like girls would attack girls in rest rooms, you said there has NEVER been a report of such a thing

now, we are to believe guys dressed as girls will be attacked when they use the men's room

even though they are NO reports of such a thing

and we know you spent hours yesterday scouring for those reports

everyone is laughing!

"My need to use the women's public bathroom"

you have no such need

men's rooms have all you need

"I'm very out of place in the men's room and being there is a risk to my physical safety."

you are in no danger at all

there is no evidence you are

February 17, 2021 6:52 AM  
Anonymous remember, safety first! said...


"There is nothing sexist about me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman - no one is harmed. Sexism is trying to force women to give birth."

transgenderism is sexists because it defines gender by gender stereotypes

"If the christian belief you want to advocate for is that gayness is a wrongdoing, you are the one initiating the discrimination and you are rightfully not allowed to do that in a public school. If you want to advocate for the christian belief of "love your neighbour" I'm sure that won't be a problem."

a public school teacher can promote transgenderism and not religious belief

that's discrimination

"quoting bible verses at me and then later when someone points out their religious beliefs are the source of their bigotry they'll lie and say "I don't believe I have spoken about my religious beliefs here" or "I haven't discussed my motivations for demonizing and oppressing lgbt people""

you were attacking religious belief and I was pointing out you aren't even familiar with what you're attacking

knowledge of the Bible alone doesn't imply belief

I haven't stated my beliefs here

"I have always been curios about Brett Kavanaugh and how he came to be."

you aren't so much curios (LOL!) as you are desperately motivated

Dems in the Senate were similarly desperate

why didn't they bring up the issues you allege?

I guess they just didn't try hard enough

LOL!!!!!

if all the issues you bring

"Biden job approval rating - 62%

Republicans kept claiming he had a mandate"

Trump was elected on certain issues

mandates don't come from famously unreliable opinion polls

"Blogger Priya Lynn said...
This comment has been removed by the author."

hardcore psycho

"They've often claimed there is no danger to a transwoman using the men's bathroom but their own comments show they don't believe that themselves - in this thread at January 14, 2016 12:12 PM they said ""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get a special swirly welcome"."

five years ago?

so sad

so psycho

swirlies are something JDs and bullies in grade school do

don't worry

no grown man will give you a swirly

you are perfectly safe in the men's room

if you think you are in danger being in the same rest room with men, why do you want to subject girls in the girls' room to being in the presence of men dressed as girls?

girls in girls' rooms are entitled to their privacy and shouldn't have fake guys there when they are using the rest room!

February 17, 2021 6:52 AM  
Anonymous Girls have privacy said...

In local public schools and many public buildings, girls rooms have individual stalls which provide privacy.



February 17, 2021 12:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fascinating

keep the fakes out

February 17, 2021 1:38 PM  
Anonymous Girls have privacy said...

Keep your hate out.

Girls don 't want it.


February 17, 2021 2:22 PM  
Anonymous Ding Dong the witch... said...

Looks like the troll is having a bad day. He must be sad Rush Limbaugh died.

Don't worry troll. There are young obnoxious conservatives to take his place. Maybe they won't be a drug addict like him.

February 17, 2021 2:45 PM  
Anonymous Republicans are trying to destroy our democracy said...

"Trump is gone. The threat is over."

No Rump is not gone:

“I know Trump can be a handful,” Lindsey Graham told the Fox News host, “but he is the most dominant figure in the Republican Party. We don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of taking back the majority without Donald Trump.”

As long as Rump can run for office or is a major influence in the Republican party, he is a danger to the Republic. Jan 6th proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Even Mitch McConnell even stated:

"This was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories orchestrated by an outgoing president who seemed determined to either overturn the voters' decision or else torch our institutions on the way out. There is no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. A mob was assaulting the Capitol in his name. These criminals were carrying his banners, hanging his flags and screaming their loyalty to him."

Yet even after saying all that, Moscow Mitch said he wouldn't vote to convict because he was out of office - apparently hoping no one would remember he specifically delayed the proceedings until after he was out.

Mitch loves being King.

"Criminal courts will try him for his alleged role in the insurrection. In America, criminal conviction should have a high burden of proof. Until proven guilty, in America, you are innocent."

Sure Rump can be tried in a criminal court. And as soon as he loses, he will start appealing the decision until he gets to a court - possibly even the Supreme Court (that he and Mitch have stacked with conservative toadies) - that acquits him.

The Republican strategy for the past ten years has been to do everything they can to ensure Republican party rule. Single party rule. Like Russia... or China.

Republicans aren't stopping Trump, they're enabling him, blind to the fact that they are destroying democracy along the way.

February 17, 2021 3:05 PM  
Anonymous the king of 2021 said...

"Looks like the troll is having a bad day."

I know. Randy the troll seems to be taking the day off to recuperate.

"He must be sad Rush Limbaugh died."

You may be right. Randy probably secretly loved listening to him.

February 17, 2021 3:08 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you don't understand the purpose of impeachment. It's not a criminal justice process. It is merely to protect the public in case a person is elected who doesn't uphold his oath. It's to protect the republic, not to deliver retribution.".

No, its about both protecting the public AND retribution so others don't get the same idea - no one said its a criminal justice process which has a higher burden of proof and is less likely to keep Trump from running again. Republicans had the best opportunity to protect the public from Trump and they chose not to because they are still loyal to the authoritarian.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Trump is gone. The threat is over."

The threat most certainly is not over, Trump could run again in 2024 and tens of millions of right wing authoritarians will vote for dictatorship. This has set a disastrous precident that the president is above the law, a president could do anything in the last month of his term and never be held accountable. No way did the founding fathers intend that.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Criminal courts will try him for his alleged role in the insurrection. In America, criminal conviction should have a high burden of proof. Until proven guilty, in America, you are innocent.".

There is no guarantee Trump will be convicted in a criminal court and that is far more difficult than a conviction in the Senate was. McConnell said Trump was guilty and like the traitor he is he refused to hold Trump accountable when he had the opportunity, instead giving Trump yet another chance to avoid accountablility.

I said "There was plenty of time, [to convict Trump while in office]"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "no reasonable person believes that"

ALL reasonable people know that. Republicans rammed through Amy Barrett's confirmation in a few days, willing Republicans could certainly have convicted Trump just as fast, they wanted him to escape consequences, they still support the wannabe dictator.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous Pelosi waited a week to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate".

You lie, it was only a few days. Republicans could easily have convicted Trump, they just didn't want to do so. McConnell wanted to push it off onto the Biden Justice Department so they can pretend charges against Trump are biased and partisan.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Women don't want you in the women's room."

I said "That's a lie, most women believe I should be allowed to use the women's public bathroom. No woman has ever opposed me being there."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "according to a poll you posted, about half of women have bought in to that"

Less than half.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "that leaves the other half very uncomfortable with guys like you in the girls' room"

That's a lie. No one has ever been uncomfortable with me in the women's public bathroom, not one single complaint. Bigoted biological women are virtually never aware they've shared a bathroom with a transwoman, it simply isn't a problem.

February 17, 2021 3:17 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "it's uncharitable to shock people you should be considerate and use the men's room"

People were shocked when I used the men's room, not the women's (as you already knew but had to be a troll). If you don't want me to shock anyone I need to continue to use the women's bathroom where I fit in best.

I said "The rights of businesses like all rights are not absolute. You don't have the right to harm me by preventing me from harmlessly using the women's bathroom."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you are not harmed at all you can either use their men's room or go to another business"

I am harmed. Holding it too long causes health problems. Research shows transwomen have higher rates of suicide when we are not accepted as women. Not to mention that you voiced support for males attacking transwomen in the male bathroom so spare me the lie that you don't believe I will be attacked - you are thrilled by the prospect.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "since you say half want you in the girls' room"

No, the poll said the majority of women want me there.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said " you should have no trouble finding businesses that will indulge your delusions"

Republican bigots are trying to pass laws that make it illegal fro transwomen to use the public women's restroom, so yes, you are making it trouble, big trouble. There's no reason to do this.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "back when some people said guys dressed like girls would attack girls in rest rooms, you said there has NEVER been a report of such a thing".

I think I said "virtually unheard of". If not, I retract that there was "never" a report and say its virtually unheard of. The handful of incidents were anti-trans bigots trying to prove this would be a problem by them entering women's spaces while not trans. It is unethical to punish transwomen for the crimes of anti-trans bigots.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "now, we are to believe guys dressed as girls will be attacked when they use the men's room even though they are NO reports of such a thing".

There are no reports because virtually all transwomen use the women's bathroom with no problem. A woman in the men's bathroom is going to shock the men there (as I did) and out her as a transwoman many men want to assault or even murder.

I said "My need to use the women's public bathroom in safety greatly outweighs any bigot's trivial thrill they get from preventing me from doing so."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you have no such need men's rooms have all you need".

Research shows transwomen have higher suicide rates when we are not allowed to live according to our gender identity - I have need of using the women's bathroom for both my psychological and physical well-being.

"I'm very out of place in the men's room and being there is a risk to my physical safety."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you are in no danger at all there is no evidence you are".

You're obviously don't believe that given you said ""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads pushed in the toilet]"."

Clearly you seek to violently punish transwomen for living publicly. That's what you mean when you say "Gender has consequences".

February 17, 2021 3:18 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I said "There is nothing sexist about me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman - no one is harmed. Sexism is trying to force women to give birth."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "transgenderism is sexists because it defines gender by gender stereotypes".

That's the exact opposite of the truth. Being trans means not accepting and living by gender stereotypes based on sex assigned at birth. Its christian bigots with the damaging gender stereotypes they try to force everyone to live in.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "a public school teacher can promote transgenderism and not religious belief that's discrimination".

If your religious belief is that being transgender is a wrongdoing, you are the one initiating discrimination and you are rightfully not allowed to do that in a public school just like you are not allowed to promote the religious belief that black people aren't human.

I said "Note how Wyatt and Regina are again quoting bible verses at me and then later when someone points out their religious beliefs are the source of their bigotry they'll lie and say "I don't believe I have spoken about my religious beliefs here" or "I haven't discussed my motivations for demonizing and oppressing lgbt people""

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you were attacking religious belief and I was pointing out you aren't even familiar with what you're attacking".

I'm all too familiar with it. You oppose me living publicly as a woman and think forcing me to use the men's bathroom and get assaulted or murdered is funny. Nothing your bible says supercedes your attack, it is simply a lie that " Christian scripture is charitable to trans.". If that was true you wouldn't be seeking to harm us.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "knowledge of the Bible alone doesn't imply belief I haven't stated my beliefs here".

You've repeatedly stated your beliefs here, for example: "every year, Priya starts making this same post, thinking it somehow demoralizes Christians but it just shows that the biblical concept of man's total depravity is true it's just another proof of the existence of God"

A clear statetment that you believe this. So, stop already with this childish and deceptive "I haven't stated my beliefs here" - you most certainly have.

February 17, 2021 3:20 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...



I posted "They've often claimed there is no danger to a transwoman using the men's bathroom but their own comments show they don't believe that themselves - in this thread at January 14, 2016 12:12 PM they said ""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get a special swirly welcome"."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "if you think you are in danger being in the same rest room with men, why do you want to subject girls in the girls' room to being in the presence of men dressed as girls?"

Transwomen present no threat to biological women. Non trans males present a threat to both transwomen and biological women. Just like the injustice your bible teaches you want to punish transwomen for the crimes of non trans males.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "girls in girls' rooms are entitled to their privacy and shouldn't have fake guys there when they are using the rest room!".

You accept the lack of privacy when you use a public bathroom. No one has the right to prevent another from using the public bathroom.

Obviously this is not a genuine concern on your part or you wouldn't be demanding that transmen like Shawn Stinson use the women's room. Obviously biological women will be far more comfortable with me than they will with him. But this isn't about what's right and best or women not wanting men like Shawn Stinson in the women's bathroom, for you its about violently punishing transwomen for being in public. That's the "charity" for trans people you get from your bible.

February 17, 2021 3:20 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I know. Randy the troll seems to be taking the day off to recuperate."

Let's see an example of what you think is me trolling (this will be good!).

You on the other hand made it obvious you're a troll when I told you men were shocked by my presence in the men's bathroom and you dishonestly replied as though it was me shocking the women in the women's room. Clearly you knew you were lying but you couldn't resist because you are a troll.

Research shows internet trolls like Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous are sadists

It takes a sadist to "joke" about wanting to assault, imprison, and execute harmless lgbt people.




February 17, 2021 3:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Conservative troll keeps obsessing over where trans people pee hoping they will ignore how much better Biden is doing handling CV-19 than the Rumpster did.

Biden hasn't even been in office a month yet and already new cases are down to about 1/3rd (maybe less) than the peak under Captain Clorox.

No wonder he's sitting at a 62% approval rating.

February 17, 2021 4:23 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Good anonymous said "Conservative troll keeps obsessing over where trans people pee hoping they will ignore how much better Biden is doing handling CV-19 than the Rumpster did."

And its so disingenuous, if they were really concerned about biological women being uncomfortable with men in the women's bathroom they wouldn't be demanding men assigned female at birth use the women's bathroom.

I mean, look at transman Shawn Stinson. They're obviously not at all worried about women being afraid of "men" in the female bathroom when they want to force him to go there.

February 17, 2021 5:20 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous, you really should stop attacking gays, its going to make you die years sooner:

Anti-gay people die younger than those who are accepting

February 17, 2021 6:08 PM  
Anonymous the smartest fella in the room said...

"Conservative troll"

you are so close-minded that you think anyone who expresses a conservative thought is, by definition, a troll, because conservative thought is so shocking they must trying to be provocative

maybe if you got your head outta your arse, you could see the big world of ideas you are ignorant of

or is that too controversial for the little buttercup?

"keeps obsessing over where trans people pee"

I'm afraid Randy brought that topic up

doomscroll up and you'll see I'm right

"hoping they will ignore how much better Biden is doing handling CV-19 than the Rumpster did."

I've got no objection to Biden's handling of the pandemic so far

he has a lot more sense than state and local Dems like "Grim Reaper" Cuomo and "party like it's 2019" Gavin Newsome

Trump handled things well until distribution time came around

after the election, he lost focus, desperately trying to alter the inevitable

kinda like Randy and gender

February 17, 2021 7:27 PM  
Anonymous I wonder if there is any part of the Constitution that TTFers feel they can live with... said...

that's true

Randy is just like Trump

can't accept the inevitable

February 17, 2021 9:04 PM  
Anonymous homosexuality never produces life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage said...

they are two peas and very odd!

February 17, 2021 9:06 PM  
Anonymous tick..tick..tick..... said...

ALBANY — The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn have launched an investigation that is examining the actions of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's coronavirus task force in its handling of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the pandemic.

The probe by the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of New York is apparently in its early stages and is focusing on the governor's task force, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter who is not authorized to comment publicly!

February 17, 2021 9:10 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Good anonymous said "Conservative troll keeps obsessing over where trans people pee hoping they will ignore how much better Biden is doing handling CV-19 than the Rumpster did."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you are so close-minded that you think anyone who expresses a conservative thought is, by definition, a troll, because conservative thought is so shocking they must trying to be provocative"

Nonsense. You are considered a troll because you post that trans people are a gangrene on society and when I say men were shocked to see me in the men's room, like the troll you are respond as though I said it was women who were shocked I was in the women's room. That's what makes you a troll, you lie to antagonize others. We don't do that.

Good anonymous said "Conservative troll keeps obsessing over where trans people pee"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I'm afraid Randy brought that topic up doomscroll up and you'll see I'm right".

Liar! You first brought up the topic in the second comment of this thread when you said "gender has consequences", that's what I responded to. So typical of you to lie like this, as trolls do.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Trump handled things well until distribution time came around".

Utter nonsense. Over 400,000 people died under Trump's watch because he did nothing and encouraged half the country to oppose mitigation measures like wearing masks and social distancing.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "after the election, he lost focus, desperately trying to alter the inevitable".

He was no different before the election than he was after, he totally ignored the pandemic and opposed mitigation measures.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "h*sexuality never produces life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage".

Right, just like an infertile heterosexual couple ain't ever a marriage.

February 17, 2021 9:47 PM  
Anonymous Conservatives, always creating problems where none existed before said...

Wyatt and Regina are ignoring my rebuttal of their demonization of transwomen because they know their claimed concern we will scare non-trans women in the public bathroom is proven fake by their simultaneous demand physically intimidating transmen like Shawn Stimson use the women's bathroom.


Religious bigots like Wyatt and Regina are causing terror in women's public bathrooms by passing laws to force people to use the bathroom of their sex identified at birth rather than the one they fit best in. Their bigotry creates the very problem they claim to want to avoid:

A transman in North Carolina forced to use the women's bathroom has been terrifying biological women due to their anti-trans bathroom law.

February 17, 2021 10:12 PM  
Anonymous Republicans aren't the solution. Republicans are the problem. said...

"you are so close-minded that you think anyone who expresses a conservative thought is, by definition, a troll, because conservative thought is so shocking they must trying to be provocative"

Not at all. I have plenty of conservative thoughts myself, and I wish the people who called themselves "conservatives" would get back to real conservative values - like balancing the budget, separation of church and state, conserving the environment - like Nixon starting the EPA, and not starting coups in other countries - or our own, and individual rights.

But that's not what conservatives are about these days.

Today Republicans are a white grievance party out to "stick it to the libtards," reduce taxes "to get [government] down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub" without regard to the debt crisis it will inevitably create, and blithely shove billions more towards the Pentagon and unending wars each year to feed the military industrial complex that another Republican - Eisenhower - warned us about.

Instead of building a stronger America, conservative's favorite past time has become hating on minorities - be they of race, immigration status, religion (Muslims, in particular), or LGBT people.

What would be shocking to me would be if you stopped haranguing the liberals here and got back to some actual conservative values instead of spinning facts around until they are no longer recognizable.

February 17, 2021 10:21 PM  
Anonymous Republicans are sexist and anti-woman said...

Pentagon Delayed Promotions For Female Generals Over Fears Trump Would Interfere With Those Promotions



The New York Times reports:

For then-Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the tricky part was that both of the accomplished officers were women.

Mr. Esper and General Milley worried that if they even raised their names — Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost of the Air Force and Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson of the Army — the Trump White House would replace them with their own candidates before leaving office.

So the Pentagon officials agreed on an unusual strategy: They held back their recommendations until after the November elections, betting that if Joseph R. Biden Jr. won, he and his aides would be more supportive of the Pentagon picks than Mr. Trump, who had feuded with Mr. Esper and has a history of disparaging women.

February 17, 2021 10:49 PM  
Anonymous Katha Pollitt said...

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted - anything! - the Ten Commandments have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been if he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife beating, stoning, treating women - or anyone - as chattel or inferior beings.

February 17, 2021 11:11 PM  
Anonymous Mark Follman said...

Rather than address the challenges associated with rapid growth, the state's elected leaders have preferred to focus on various lib-owning initiatives such as the menace of transgender athletes and whether or not NBA games feature the national anthem.

I'm Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas

The state's power outages have revealed the difference between performative governance and actually governing.

theatlantic.com

February 17, 2021 11:16 PM  
Anonymous foreign transgender trolls are running amok on America's blogs, spreading lies and propaganda like a virus said...

"Liar! You first brought up the topic in the second comment of this thread when you said "gender has consequences", that's what I responded to. So typical of you to lie like this, as trolls do."

Randy, anyone reading this knows you are lying. Yes, I said gender has consequences, You ae the one that started the discussion about bathroom usage. I didn't.

This is a common tactic of the lunatic fringe. Bring up a topic and then, if anyone disagrees with your point of view, accusing them of being "obsessed". It's how the whole bathroom usage controversy started. There weren't any laws about bathroom usage. Businesses did what they wanted and most trans would go into the restroom that conformed to however they looked. No problem.

Then, the lunatic fringe started pushing for laws requiring that business owners let freakish looking guys use the girls' room. And, if anyone disagrees, they are accused of trying to ban trans from the bathroom. It's the lunatic fringe that wanted the government involved.

"Utter nonsense. Over 400,000 people died under Trump's watch because he did nothing and encouraged half the country to oppose mitigation measures like wearing masks and social distancing."

Trump eased the way for the production of multiple vaccines. If he hadn't, millions would have eventually died.

Anyone who decides how to keep themselves safe by looking at statements of Trump, or Biden, for that matter, is a moron.

There are people and places in America where people think the trade-off of having a normal life is worth the risk of getting a disease that most people under a certain age recover from without problems. Trump simply played for their vote. You've got your chickens and eggs mixed up. Psychos often do that!

"Right, just like an infertile heterosexual couple ain't ever a marriage."

No, they are a marriage because they are involved in the type of union, a heterosexual one, that produces life.

Homosexuality never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER produces life!

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER

"causing terror in women's public bathrooms by passing laws to force people to use the bathroom of their sex identified at birth rather than the one they fit best in"

the lunatic fringe initiated this whole issue

the are restless unless they are constantly trying to alter society to normalize homosexuality and transgenderism

they will never run out of issues because no matter what laws you ram through, people will never consider homosexuality and transgenderism normal

the lunatic fringe will continue their totalitarian tactics until a backlash develops and society will decide they can no longer indulge this foolishness

you'd be better off to simply to lay low and appreciate all the special privileges you enjoy

February 18, 2021 6:42 AM  
Anonymous wind turbines freeze shut and people die in Texas because of reliance of green alternative energy said...

Something is rotten in the state of New York. And, as in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it starts at the top. For the past year, New York governor Andrew Cuomo, with the aid of a credulous and adoring media, has touted his performance in combating Covid-19 and chided other states for their comparative deficiencies. He was rewarded with a lucrative book contract and an Emmy for providing “reliable information” in his news conferences. The cover has finally been blown on a prolonged and concerted effort by Cuomo and his associates to hide his policy mistakes.

Between March 25 and May 10, 2020, an advisory from Cuomo’s Department of Health (DOH) compelled nursing homes to readmit hospitalized Covid-19 patients without checking if they still had active infection. Health experts cautioned that the policy could lead to additional deaths by introducing infected people into closed facilities where those most vulnerable to the disease—the elderly and infirm—live. Cuomo’s responses ranged from the devil—aka the Trump administration—made me do it; to we didn’t force anything—facilities had discretion to turn down admissions; to “nothing to see here”—the policy didn’t increase the number of deaths; to “who cares” where they died.

Cuomo repeatedly and falsely claimed that the policy was directed by federal guidance.

February 18, 2021 7:00 AM  
Anonymous dorkamatic TTFer said...

"Homosexuality never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER produces life!

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER"

are you saying homosexuals don't have babies?

that's a good point!

I never thought of that!

February 18, 2021 7:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Apparently conservatives have never heard of artificial insemination under the rocks where they live.

Somehow, I'm not surprised.

February 18, 2021 11:07 AM  
Anonymous for millennia, society has known that two genders are necessary to make a marriage said...

Artificial insemination is not homosexuality, moron. Heterosexuality produces life. Homosexuality doesn't.

Andrew Cuomo, and his brother, Fredo, are mafia-style bullies. They are also TTF heroes!

A New York state lawmaker said he was bathing his children last week when a ‘loud’ and ‘angry’ Governor Andrew Cuomo called him and threatened to ‘destroy’ him unless he helped him cover up the nursing home scandal.

Assemblyman Ron Kim said the governor made threats as part of an effort to get him to ‘cover up’ for a top aide who admitted that his administration concealed the real number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19.

'The governor called for about ten minutes, it seemed like one hour,' Kim told CNN.

He accused Cuomo of 'berating' him in order to pressure him 'to issue a statement that invalidated what I heard. He asked me to lie to cover up for his staff.'

Kim said the phone call left his family traumatized.

February 18, 2021 11:12 AM  
Anonymous hi, rememba me?, it's Merrick Garland again. just checking to see if there are any openings on the Supreme Court said...

"Artificial insemination is not homosexuality, moron. Heterosexuality produces life. Homosexuality doesn't."

huzzah!

bravo!

and

bibbidi-boppidi-boo!

heterosexuality produces life and deserves special preferences!

February 18, 2021 12:23 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...


I said "Liar! You first brought up the topic in the second comment of this thread when you said "gender has consequences", that's what I responded to. So typical of you to lie like this, as trolls do."

Wyatt/Regina/Bad anonymous said "anyone reading this knows you are lying. Yes, I said gender has consequences, You ae the one that started the discussion about bathroom usage. I didn't." [spelling error shows they're nervous according to W&R)]

No, you started it by saying "gender has consequences" by which you mean you want to force transwomen to use the men's room so we can be assaulted and murdered. Then even though we harm no one, you deceitfully said "trangenderism is sexist and anti-woman: a gangrene on society" before I said a word on the topic. Your whole issue with transwomen is trying prevent us from using the women's public bathroom. Anyone can check and see, you started this in the second comment on the thread, you are obsessed with transwomen peeing.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "There weren't any laws about bathroom usage. Businesses did what they wanted and most trans would go into the restroom that conformed to however they looked. No problem. Then, the lunatic fringe started pushing for laws requiring that business owners let freakish looking guys use the girls' room. And, if anyone disagrees, they are accused of trying to ban trans from the bathroom. It's the lunatic fringe that wanted the government involved.".

Wrong. Republicans started trying to ban transwomen from the women's bathroom as soon as trans people started becoming visible. Regardless, a law giving us that right is in no way justification for then trying to deny us that right - we aren't hurting anyone. Now biological women are being harrassed in the women's room because of bigots like you.

I said "Utter nonsense. Over 400,000 people died under Trump's watch because he did nothing and encouraged half the country to oppose mitigation measures like wearing masks and social distancing."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Trump eased the way for the production of multiple vaccines. If he hadn't, millions would have eventually died.".

Pfizer created its vaccine with no help from Trump. In the meantime the U.S. has 4% of the world's population and 25% of its coronavirus deaths. Hundreds of thousands died needlessly because Trump failed and none were saved by his insignificant efforts.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Anyone who decides how to keep themselves safe by looking at statements of Trump, or Biden, for that matter, is a moron.".

Biden advises masks and social distancing, Trump opposes them. Certainly anyone taking Trumps advice IS a moron, but that's 70 million voters. If Trump had advised them to mitigate hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved

February 18, 2021 3:10 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "h*sexuality never produces life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage"

I said "Right, just like an infertile heterosexual couple ain't ever a marriage."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "No, they are a marriage because they are involved in the type of union, a heterosexual one, that produces life.".

No they aren't, they're infertile, they are not in the type of union that produces life so not a marriage by your logic.

A large percentage of gay couples have children, if you were genuinely concerned about children you'd demand those children have married parents to support them.

I said "Religious bigots like Wyatt and Regina are causing terror in women's public bathrooms by passing laws to force people to use the bathroom of their sex identified at birth rather than the one they fit best in"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the lunatic fringe initiated this whole issue"

You're the ones forcing women to be terrorized with trans men like this in the women's restroom. YOU are responsible for the very thing you claim to want to prevent.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the are restless unless they are constantly trying to alter society to normalize h*sexuality and transgenderism" (note the misspelling, Wyatt/Regina say that shows they're nervous)

Gays and transpeople are normal. Look at man in his natural hunter-gatherer state - all tribes have had a respected position for us. Acting on the false idea that we are not leads to poor decision making, like forcing muscle bound transmen to use the women's public bathroom.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "they will never run out of issues because no matter what laws you ram through, people will never consider h*sexuality and transgenderism normal"

Hate to break it to you sweetheart, but polls have been moving farther and farther towards acceptance over the last few decades. The majority of the population does consider us normal and that percentage grows every year. Your bigotry and privilege is dying out. You're like Trump, you won't accept reality.

February 18, 2021 3:10 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the lunatic fringe will continue their totalitarian tactics until a backlash develops and society will decide they can no longer indulge this foolishness you'd be better off to simply to lay low"

And there's another veiled threat of violence from the people on the wrong side of history - you are the totalitarians. That's what Regina and Wyatt mean when they say "gender has consequences", its a threat to violently assault transwomen for using the women's bathroom.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "and appreciate all the special privileges you enjoy".

Wyatt and Regina say they want to force lgbts to live in society's shadows and then like the sadists and trolls they are they call this "special privileges".

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Artificial insemination is not h*sexuality, moron. Heterosexuality produces life. H*sexuality doesn't.".

Gays and lesbians often sire children in the ill-advised heterosexal marriages you pressure them into, moron. And then they raise them with their same sex partner. If marriage is about children then gays raising children must have the right to marry.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "heterosexuality produces life and deserves special preferences!".

Gays raise children (discarded by heterosexuals) and deserve the same rights heterosexual parents have.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous aid "wind turbines freeze shut and people die in Texas because of reliance of green alternative energy".

Not true. Only a small part of the power shortage is due to renewable energy, 95% of the shortage is due to natural gas powerplants failing and Texas isolating its power grid from the rest of the country so they don't have to follow federal regulations. Those wind turbines could have been prepared for freezing weather and still be working but this is what you get when your ideology is to cut government with no concern for the consequences.

February 18, 2021 3:12 PM  
Anonymous Looking for Darwin to thin out the stupid people said...

"Artificial insemination is not homosexuality, moron. Heterosexuality produces life. Homosexuality doesn't."

Artificial insemination doesn't involve any sex moron.

It involves test tubes and syringes, with appropriate material coming from two different people who may be straight, gay, or otherwise.

Zygotes produce life, after the fusion of (usually) 2 haploid gametes. These may be frozen for years before implantation into a uterus. Ice, ice, baby.

Then of course, there is cloning, but most people frown on that when it comes to humans.

February 18, 2021 3:29 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

You may be aware of the anti-transwoman tirade Harry Potter author JK Rowling went on.

What bothers me most is not her bigotry and the harm she is doing, its her lying and saying she's supportive of transwomen while she tries to force us to use the men's room where we will be assaulted or murdered.

JK Rowling deceitfully said “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so.”

Its a lie from one end to the other. She obviously doesn't respect us when she's trying to prevent us from using the women's bathroom. She certainly doesn't stand with us when we are discriminated against, she's the one doing the discrimination!

And no one said it was hateful to say her life has been shaped by being a female. She is hateful because she wants to ignore our safety and well being to prevent us from using the bathroom of the gender we identify with.

NO, JK Rowling, you don't get to claim to not be a bigot when you seek to prevent us from living in a way that "feels authentic and comfortable". You don't get to claim you stand against people discriminating against us when YOU are doing the discriminating.

You have made yourself our enemy, how dare you falsely claim to be our friends! Eff you JK Rowling!


February 18, 2021 3:34 PM  
Anonymous They're talking about Trump and conservatives here said...

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dark-personality-sadist-psychopath-coronavirus-175343946.html

Research has suggested that people who exhibit psychopathic traits are likely to ignore lockdown restrictions.

Other “dark triad” personality attributes such as narcissism and Machiavellianism could also impact people’s willingness to comply with social distancing rules, a study suggested.

The research hinted that people with such traits may even have played a larger part in the spread of the virus, by ignoring restrictions such as social distancing, said Dr Pavel Blagov of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

Blagov’s study suggests that people with psychopathic personality traits such as meanness are less likely to comply with lockdown restrictions.

Those with psychopathic traits such as poor impulse control were more likely to boast of behaviours that put others at risk, Blagov told Psypost.

February 18, 2021 3:44 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

LGBT people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to experience violent victimization.

February 18, 2021 3:46 PM  
Anonymous Dem monopoly control of inner cities has led to poverty and racism said...

"No, you started it by saying "gender has consequences" by which you mean you want to force transwomen to use the men's room so we can be assaulted and murdered. Then even though we harm no one, you deceitfully said "trangenderism is sexist and anti-woman: a gangrene on society" before I said a word on the topic. Your whole issue with transwomen is trying prevent us from using the women's public bathroom. Anyone can check and see, you started this in the second comment on the thread, you are obsessed with transwomen peeing."

Randy, I know you're already under psychiatric care but you need to look for a new doctor. You really need help. Before, it's too late.

No, when I used "gender has consequences" and "trangenderism is sexist and anti-woman: a gangrene on society" as screen names, I wasn't thinking about bathroom usage. Didn't even cross my mind until you brought it up.

Transgenderism is a mental illness that is detrimental to society because of its foundation is gender sterotypes.

"a law giving us that right is in no way justification for then trying to deny us that right - we aren't hurting anyone."

it's the natural response to your offensive position

"Pfizer created its vaccine with no help from Trump."

actually, he paved the way regulatorily and guaranteed purchase regardless of the end product

and, even had Pfizer hadn't been around, several others were produced and they are all needed to vaccinate the world

"In the meantime the U.S. has 4% of the world's population and 25% of its coronavirus deaths."

we're the epicenter of the world, everything that happens, happens more here

of course, not all America is the same

in Florida, with no mask mandate and few closures in the last year, death rates are in the lower half

meanwhile, states that ignored science and tried overkill were a disaster: NY, NJ, MA, CA

"Hundreds of thousands died needlessly because Trump failed and none were saved by his insignificant efforts."

talk to your friendly blue state governors

try to get ahold of Cuomo quick, before he's sent to jail

"Biden advises masks and social distancing, Trump opposes them. Certainly anyone taking Trumps advice IS a moron, but that's 70 million voters. If Trump had advised them to mitigate hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved"

no one in America decided how to handle their personal safety relying on anything Trump said, and, at this point, Biden is even more irrelevant

"No they aren't, they're infertile, they are not in the type of union that produces life so not a marriage by your logic."

you can deny facts all you want

truth is, if heterosexuality is considered preferential, that leads to life

"its her lying and saying she's supportive of transwomen while she tries to force us to use the men's room where we will be assaulted or murdered."

there are no reports of any tran being assaulted or murdered in a men's room

it's a complete fantasy

"Its a lie from one end to the other. She obviously doesn't respect us when she's trying to prevent us from using the women's bathroom. "

"She is hateful because she wants to ignore our safety and well being to prevent us from using the bathroom of the gender we identify with."

you guys just can't let go of the whole bathroom thing

it's kind of psychotic

"NO, JK Rowling, you don't get to claim to not be a bigot"

yeah, she does get to do that!

"Eff you JK Rowling!"

how puerile!

"LGBT people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to experience violent victimization."

they have a tendency to assault each other

February 18, 2021 5:46 PM  
Anonymous government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem said...

Gov. Ron DeSantis likely won't win many awards, from Hollywood or otherwise, for his handling of COVID-19 despite the fact that his state has arguably weathered the pandemic far better than nearly any other in the country.

Despite the best efforts from Democratic politicians, activists, like one who donned a Grim Reaper outfit and patrolled the state's beaches, and many in the media, Florida has emerged as an indisputable leader in balancing public safety with economic security during an unprecedented health crisis.

The facts speak for themselves: Florida's coronavirus death rate sits at 136 per 100,000 people, the 27th lowest in the country and substantially lower than states such as New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. That rate has recently spiked due to a surge of cases in January and February. From August until the end of December, Florida was witnessing a seven-day death rate as low 12 per 100,000 in some instances.

Unlike other states, however, Florida was uniquely challenged by COVID-19 due to over a fifth of its population being over the age of 65. No other state, save Maine, which has a 0.1% greater senior population, houses such a large elderly population.

Elderly COVID-19-related deaths per 100,000 are also higher in California and New York than in Florida. Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's leadership, 1,066 per 100,000 seniors have died from COVID-19 related illnesses, compared to the national average of 666.

Florida's senior death rate is nearly 100 lower than California's at 474, and 38 other states rank higher for senior COVID-19 mortality.

Florida's per capita mortality increase of 14.8% from 2019 to 2020 remains well below the national average of 16.9% as well. Both California and New York remain above that national average as of Feb. 10, with New York's at 30.1%.

In total, 34 states had a higher rate of all-cause mortality from 2019 to 2020. Officials in Florida attribute these to "lockdown deaths" and point to their state's policies of keeping schools and businesses open.

And as 99.8% of all Florida students have access to in-person learning, Florida has seen fewer pediatric COVID-19 cases than states such as Illinois and California, where students can only access virtual instructors.

Keeping schools open has remained a point of personal pride for Republican DeSantis, and he has committed to keeping all public education facilities open as more studies are published demonstrating the damage to mental health millions of school children are suffering from due to virtual learning.

“What the CDC put out, 5:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, I wonder why they would do it then, was quite frankly a disgrace. It would require, if you actually follow that, closing 90% of schools in the United States,” DeSantis said Tuesday in reaction to new federal guidelines on school openings. “We are open, we remain open, and we are not turning back.”

February 18, 2021 6:04 PM  
Anonymous homosexual marriage is an inherently sado-masochistic arrangement that should be discouraged by any civilized society said...


Along with its schools, the state's economy remains healthier than the rest of the country. With an unemployment rate of 6.1% as of the end of December, compared to 6.7% nationwide, Florida has seen significantly fewer residents thrown out of work compared to the four other largest states in the country.

California, in contrast, suffered one of the worst blows to its unemployment rate in the country, with 9% of its working-age population still out of the labor force. New York's sits at 8.2%.

Florida's relatively strong unemployment rate has transferred to real economic growth, despite the hit the state took with various resorts temporarily closing down due to a lack of tourism. Average price of homes have steadily risen since January 2020. In December of last year, the average price of a home sold in Florida sat at over $300,000, compared to $250,000 in 2019.

Much of that rise in home prices can be attributed to a great migration of sorts taking place from the north, with Florida placing third in the country for the number of one-way U-Haul rentals to the state. California placed in dead last, with New York ranked the 42nd lowest.

DeSantis's results have caught the eyes of several vocal members of the GOP, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who, in a recent interview, blasted Cuomo for not following his state's lead.

"[It's a] tale of two governors," Gaetz said in an interview on Monday, extolling DeSantis's policies of mandating in-person school instruction and keeping COVID-19-positive nursing home residents in separate facilities. "Whereas in New York, they've destroyed small businesses, they've destroyed education. And then, the folks they were supposed to be taking care of the most, they put in the most peril."

The Florida governor's office points to a number of crucial steps state leadership took at the beginning of the pandemic to explain their success.

In order to avert the kind of catastrophes seen in New York and New Jersey, DeSantis created 23 COVID-19 specific nursing homes throughout the state early on in the pandemic. These facilities house seniors and needing long-term care who tested positive, helping contain the virus to specific hot zones.

"The mainstream media was so desperate to vilify the Trump Administration and Governor DeSantis that they emboldened lockdown states like California and New York," a statement from the governor's office reads. "Turns out, Governor DeSantis was ahead of the curve with his actions early on during the pandemic to protect the state’s most vulnerable and his actions saved lives."

The establishment of these nursing homes also helped put less strain on the state's hospital system, which rarely ever ran the risk of reaching full capacity.

Even when presented with these data points, many on the Left seem incapable of handing DeSantis any credit. During an interview on MSNBC, a COVID-19 adviser for President Biden deflected when asked why California's infection numbers "aren't that different" than Florida's, despite the two states' radically different policies.

“There’s so much of this virus that we think we understand, and we think we can predict, that’s just a little beyond our explanation,” Andy Slavitt said Tuesday. “What we do know is the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance, and the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away, and the less it spreads.

February 18, 2021 6:06 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "No, when I used "gender has consequences" and "trangenderism is sexist and anti-woman: a gangrene on society" as screen names, I wasn't thinking about bathroom usage. Didn't even cross my mind until you brought it up.".

Bullsh*t. Every time you bring up transpeople you rant about how you can't stand the thought of us using the women's bathroom. This is obviously an obssession with you, look at how you've gone on and on about it in this thread. If you weren't obsessed with where we pee you wouldn't have replied again and again and again.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Transgenderism is a mental illness that is detrimental to society because of its foundation is gender sterotypes.".

The exact opposite is true. Transpeople are outside of gender stereotypes, you hate us because we don't adhere to your gender stereotypes, you think men shouldn't be feminine and women shouldn't be masculine, that men should only marry women, etc. Those are the attitudes that cause mental illness and harm society.

I said "a law giving us that right is in no way justification for then trying to deny us that right - we aren't hurting anyone."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "it's the natural response to your offensive position"

Bigotry is natural all right, just as it is destructive. No one has been offended by me using the women's bathroom. You're in the moral wrong here. You seek to harm me though I harm no one.

I said "Pfizer created its vaccine with no help from Trump."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "actually, he paved the way regulatorily and guaranteed purchase regardless of the end product".

He did nothing regulatorily, he violated regulations by ordering the vaccine to be approved by the FDA "ready or not". Purchase of the end product was always guaranteed, had nothing to do with Trump.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "and, even had Pfizer hadn't been around, several others were produced and they are all needed to vaccinate the world".

Would have happened anyway, past experience had all the drug companies already knowing basically what was needed, that's why Pfizer created the vaccine in record time.

I said "In the meantime the U.S. has 4% of the world's population and 25% of its coronavirus deaths."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "we're the epicenter of the world, everything that happens, happens more here".

An idiotic non-sequitur. The fact is the U.S. had a disproportionately high number of deaths because of Trump's failure to act and convincing his followers to aggressively oppose mitigation measures.

February 18, 2021 6:57 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "in Florida, with no mask mandate and few closures in the last year, death rates are in the lower half meanwhile, states that ignored science and tried overkill were a disaster: NY, NJ, MA, CA"

Utter nonsense, its just one lie after another with you. The research is unimpeachable, mask mandates reduce infection rates. Florida governor Desantis fabricated infection and death numbers and then fired the woman managing the database when she refused to go along with it.

I said "Hundreds of thousands died needlessly because Trump failed and none were saved by his insignificant efforts."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "talk to your friendly blue state governors".

Blue state governors didn't promote opposition to mitigation measures and hold one mass spreader event after another like Trump did. Trump was the national leader, it was his job to get it under control hundreds of thousands died needlessly because of his failures.

I said "Biden advises masks and social distancing, Trump opposes them. Certainly anyone taking Trumps advice IS a moron, but that's 70 million voters. If Trump had advised them to mitigate hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous aid "no one in America decided how to handle their personal safety relying on anything Trump said, and, at this point, Biden is even more irrelevant".

That's utter B.S. and you know it. Trump supporters absolutely took him at his word that masks and social distancing were a bad thing, they made it a point to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump by aggressively opposing mitigation measures, even going so far as to rip the masks off people's faces and scream spittle into their faces. This is why hundreds of thousands died needlessly.

I said "No they aren't, they're infertile, they are not in the type of union that produces life so not a marriage by your logic."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you can deny facts all you want".

You're the one denying facts. If couples that don't produce children aren't a marriage then infertile heterosexual couples aren't a marriage - you can't have it both ways.

February 18, 2021 6:59 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "truth is, if heterosexuality is considered preferential, that leads to life".

Banning gay marriage harms gays and society and does not benefit heterosexuals in anyway - there's no justification for it.

I said "its her lying and saying she's supportive of transwomen while she tries to force us to use the men's room where we will be assaulted or murdered."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "there are no reports of any tran being assaulted or murdered in a men's room it's a complete fantasy".

Stop lying. First, there aren't reports because we aren't stupidly using the men's room and most assaults aren't reported or murders recognized as a hate crime. Second, you said YOU believe non-trans males will assault transfemales in the male bathroom: ""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads forced into a toilet filled with urine and feces".

Look at how this man got violent when a father took his five year old girl into the men's room. And now you want to absurdly suggest he wouldn't have attacked a transwoman if he encountered her in the men's room?! Eff you.

Look at how this man was attacked for being gay in the mens room of the city I live in. And you're trying to tell us he wouldn't have assaulted a trans woman if he encountered one? Absolutely absurd. Transwomen are the minority group most disproportionately targeted for violence - its a certainty many will be assaulted and killed if we use the men's bathroom. Which is of course what Wyatt and Regina want, that's what they mean by "gender has consequences".

"Its a lie from one end to the other. [JK Rowling who claimed to support transpeople ] obviously doesn't respect us when she's trying to prevent us from using the women's bathroom. She is hateful because she wants to ignore our safety and well being to prevent us from using the bathroom of the gender we identify with.
NO, JK Rowling, you don't get to claim to not be a bigot"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "yeah, she does get to do that!".

Of course, she can lie like you do all the time. She can't honestly make that claim - that was my point.

I posted LGBT people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to experience violent victimization."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "they have a tendency to assault each other"

What evidence do you have to support your suggestion that this is due to lgbt people assaulting each other? You don't want people to think you're just a lying troll posting that, do you?

February 18, 2021 7:03 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt and Regina have yet to apologize for repeatedly telling this lie:

"I haven't stated my beliefs here."

Just at Crismas they stated "every year, Priya starts making this same post, thinking it somehow demoralizes Christians but it just shows that the biblical concept of man's total depravity is true it's just another proof of the existence of God"

Wyatt and Regina Hardiman, why do you lie like this so often when you're so easily proven wrong? They must be mentally ill. Get help, you two.

February 18, 2021 7:10 PM  
Anonymous systemic racism is a conspiracy theory said...

"They must be mentally ill. Get help"

LOL! wonder where you got that...

Randy, we've have been here any times before.

You're a liar and you're obsessed with me.

to start off this Randy rant, you told this lie:

"Every time you bring up transpeople you rant about how you can't stand the thought of us using the women's bathroom."

never happened

I couldn't care less who uses what bathroom

I just defended the rights of business owners to have control over how their property is used

and I have defended women who would prefer that guys not be in their restroom

and you end with a bit of hypocrisy:

"What evidence do you have to support your suggestion that this is due to lgbt people assaulting each other?"

after making myriad assertions without any evidence, you have the nerve to say something like that?

no point in addressing your comments

you're now persona non grata

all the similar wretched scum and viilainy no doubt welcome you back

have fun mumbling to yourself like Gollum in his deep, dark cave

don't eat too much fish guts!

February 18, 2021 8:48 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "You're a liar and you're obsessed with me.".

Give us some examples (this will be good!).

You're trying to harm me and people like me, of course I'm obssessed with people like you, just like you're unjustifiably obsessed with us given we aren't trying to hurt you.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you told this lie: "Every time you bring up transpeople you rant about how you can't stand the thought of us using the women's bathroom." never happened"

LOL, one just needs to review this thread to see how you've ranted about how you can't stand the thought of us using the women's bathroom. Wy do you lie like this when you're so easily proven wrong?

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I couldn't care less who uses what bathroom".

Clearly that's not even remotely true given how you've ranted on and on about it and how angry this makes you.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I just defended the rights of business owners to have control over how their property is used".

Business rights as to how they use their property are not absolute, they also need to behave morally and there is no justification for harming us psychologically and physically by preventing us from using the women's bathroom.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "and I have defended women who would prefer that guys not be in their restroom".

No, you're causing the very problem you claim to want to avoid by forcing physically intimidating transmen like Shawn Stinson to use the women's bathrooms. Read about how this transman has been forced to terrorize women in the women's bathroom due to people like you "defending" them.

I said "What evidence do you have to support your suggestion that this is due to lgbt people assaulting each other?"

Wyatt/bad anonymous said "after making myriad assertions without any evidence, you have the nerve to say something like that?".

I provided evidence, links to the research that mask mandates work, links to the psychological harm caused to transwomen by a society that won't let us be women, links to proof that LGBT people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to experience violent victimization. Its you who has provided NOTHING to back up your claims.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "no point in addressing your comments".

Because you know you can't refute them and I'm making you look like the bad people you are.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you're now persona non grata".

LOL, if I had a nickle for every time you said that and insisted you weren't going to talk to me anymore.

February 18, 2021 9:35 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Folks, the truth is no woman is harmed by the rare possibility she will share a public bathroom with a transwoman, in those rare cases they never know we are there. We however are severely harmed by not being able to use the women's bathroom. A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater liklihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens. Aside from our physical safety our psychological well being is harmed when our gender identity isn't respected by preventing us from using the women's public bathroom or by misgendering us.

Numerous studies have shown that actively misgendering trans people leads directlty to the suicidality rate in the trans community. A 2018 study by the University of Texas published in the journal of Alison Health found that trans youth that were gendered the way they wished to showed 71% fewer symptoms of severe depression and 65% decreases in suicide attempts and a 34% decrease in suicidal thoughts.

The Williams Institute of UCLA also found that trans people who are misgendered showed higher rates of suicide attempts including being 50%-54% more likely to attempt suicide if they were harrassed at school for being trans, 60% more likely if it ws done by a doctor or health care provider and 57-60% more likely if ti was done by a government worker or a person in a position of institutional power. There are many other studies that have found the same thing.

As a study by the Massachusetts General Hospital found, 90% of transgender adults who were denied these puberty blockers faced suicidal ideation in their lifetime because they had to go through a puberty they didn't want, an experience that is really horrible for many transpeople.

"Again, this literature search did not identify any evidence supporting a link between women-only spaces being inclusive of transgender women, and non-transgender men falsely claiming a trans identity to access these spaces and commit sexual violence. Other sources included in this search reiterate a lack of any evidence to support this claim (Dunne 2017, Eckes 2017)."

So when Wyatt/Regina dishonestly assert I've made claims without any evidence you can see I have provided evidence and they have provided none. I'm honest, they are sadistic liars.

Any discomfort a non-transwoman might feel knowing she may on rare occasions share the public bathroom with us is a trivial imposition on her compared to the massive impact banning us from the women's bathroom has on us. Holding it too long causes health problems and research shows forcing us to use the male bathroom results in assaults and harms our psychological health. A fair and just society and a fair balancing of needs requires we be allowed to use the facilities of the gender we identify with. Don't force muscle bound transmen assigned female at birth like Shawn Stinson into the women's bathroom.

February 18, 2021 9:37 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Anyone who wants to force transmen into the women's bathroom because they were assigned female at birth is obviously not concerned in the slightest about women feeling uncomfortable with men in the women's room.

Wyatt and Regina Hardiman are hurting the non-trans women they falsely claim to want to help. This is acceptable collateral damage to them in their war on harmless lgbt people.

February 18, 2021 9:42 PM  
Anonymous heterosexuality is how life is perpetuated and it has a privileged status said...

if I had a "nickle" for every time Randy misspelled a common word, there's a "liklihood" I could buy a yacht!

HAHAHAHAHA!

Randy has regurgitated a lot of lousy diversion from the fact that he claims he will be assaulted if he uses the men's room and THERE IS NO PROOF THAT IS TRUE AND THERE ARE NO EXAMPLES OF IT

he might get punched out in a redneck bar because of his loudmouth blather but that's just as likely out in the open as in the restroom

truth is, most people want to get as far away from him as possible, not assault him

he, like many homosexuals, has fantasies about being assaulted

that's why they do it to each other

hint: if you don't want to be assaulted, stay out of redneck bars

the lunatic fringe started this whole controversy about restrooms as part of a quest to force society to treat them as normal

the government should stay out of bathrooms

if a business owner wants to segregate his restrooms by gender, he should have that right

if a business owner wants to let everyone use any restroom they wish, he should have that right

if Randy's polls are right, he'll have no trouble finding a place that will let strange guys use the girls' room

but remember when you read Randy rants, that he is a liar

he said: "Every time you bring up transpeople you rant about how you can't stand the thought of us using the women's bathroom."

that's never happened and he can't find an example of it

he's lying

that's why he's persona non-grata




February 19, 2021 6:04 AM  
Anonymous Jim Hendren said...

Jim Hendren
@JimHendren1

Since releasing my statement about leaving @GOP today, I’ve heard from dozens of my former military brothers and sisters. Turns out, like me, insurrections don’t go down well with them either.

9:34 PM · Feb 18, 2021


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A longtime Arkansas legislator and nephew of the state’s Republican governor said Thursday that he’s leaving the GOP, citing Donald Trump’s rhetoric and the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by the former president’s supporters.

State Sen. Jim Hendren’s announcement closes the door on him seeking the party’s nomination for governor next year, but he said he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of running as an independent. Hendren said that decision is on the “back burner” as he focuses on an organization he formed aimed at helping independent candidates.

Hendren, the nephew of Gov. Asa Hutchinson, had been more willing than other Republican figures in the state to criticize Trump. In a nine-minute video announcing his decision, he cited Trump’s insults about immigrants, women, and John McCain, as well as his false attacks on the election’s legitimacy leading up to the Jan. 6 riot.

“For me, that day was the final straw,” Hendren said. “I asked myself, what in the world would I tell my grandchildren when they ask one day, what happened and what did I do about it?”

February 19, 2021 10:09 AM  
Anonymous everyone called Jim the Coward of the Country said...

“For me, that day was the final straw. I asked myself, what in the world would I tell my grandchildren when they ask one day, what happened and what did I do about it?”

if you had any guts, you'd stay and fight for the principles you believe in, assuming there are any

now, you will have to tell the grandkids you're a coward and left the GOP because you were afraid of Trump

maybe their grandfather on the other side will be someone with a little courage

btw, when you formed an organization "aimed at helping independent candidates", was when you really left the GOP

there wasn't a last straw last week

February 19, 2021 1:52 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "heterosexuality is how life is perpetuated and it has a privileged status".

Banning gay marriage does nothing to help heterosexuals, harms gays and their children and thus society - there is no justification for it.

Wyatt/Regina/Bad anonymous said "Priya has regurgitated a lot of lousy diversion from the fact that she claims she will be assaulted if she uses the men's room and THERE IS NO PROOF THAT IS TRUE AND THERE ARE NO EXAMPLES OF IT"

THERE ARE EXAMPLES OF IT, YOU DISHONESTLY IGNORED THEM:

A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens.

Here's a guy who got violent because a girl was in the men's room, obviously he'd assault me in there too.

This man was assaulted in the men's bathroom for being gay. Obviously he wouldn't hesitate to assault a transwoman. Wyatt/Regina's claim that I'm certain not to be assaulted in the men's room is obviously false.

Aside from our physical safety our psychological well being is harmed when our gender identity isn't respected by preventing us from using the women's public bathroom or by misgendering us. We need to use the women's public bathroom.

Wyatt and Regina repeatedly said themselves they believe I will be assaulted in the men's bathroom:

"if you don't want to be assaulted, stay out of redneck bars"

""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads shoved in a toilet filled with urine and feces]"

"She might get punched out in a redneck bar because of her loudmouth blather but that's just as likely out in the open as in the restroom" - they just admitted I might be assaulted in the men's bathroom even as they claim there's no chance of that.

You can see how Wyatt and Regina feel about transwomen like me, the thought of us being assaulted gives them great joy, that's why they lie and say I'll be fine in the men's room, they want me to be assaulted or murdered and they expect that to happen.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "she, like many h*sexuals, has fantasies about being assaulted".

Where's your evidence for that? You don't want people to think you're a lying troll. Again we see Wyatt and Regina demonizing gays to promote aggression against them.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "that's why they do it to each other".

Where's your proof? You don't want people to think you're just a lying troll.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the lunatic fringe started this whole controversy about restrooms as part of a quest to force society to treat them as normal".

We are normal, just like left-handed people. Like Trump you can't accept reality. We didn't start this, you did when trans children became visible and wanted to use the girls bathoom in school for our physical and psychological well-being - totally harmless, but you couldn't have that, you had to make life as hard as possible for us.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the government should stay out of bathrooms"

That's not your concern at all, this is all about you wanting to punish transwomen. The government should ban discrimination based on harmless characteristics like skin colour and gender expression.

February 19, 2021 2:42 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "if a business owner wants to segregate his restrooms by gender, he should have that right if a business owner wants to let everyone use any restroom they wish, he should have that right"

Letting us use the women's bathroom in no way harms any business, they neither need nor deserve the right to discriminate against us. We deserve the same rights christians have.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "if Priya's polls are right, she'll have no trouble finding a place that will let her use the girls' room"

Just like black people could always find someone to serve them in the Jim Crow south - an obvious lie.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "but remember when you read Priya, that she is a liar".

You have yet to give an example of that, unlike you who have yet to apologize for repeatedly telling this lie:

"I haven't stated my beliefs here."

Just at Crismas they stated "every year, Priya starts making this same post, thinking it somehow demoralizes Christians but it just shows that the biblical concept of man's total depravity is true it's just another proof of the existence of God"

Wyatt and Regina Hardiman, why do you lie like this so often when you're so easily proven wrong? They must be mentally ill. Get help, you two.

I said "Every time you bring up transpeople you rant about how you can't stand the thought of us using the women's bathroom."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "that's never happened and she can't find an example of it she's lying".

Why do you tell such obvious lies like this? You've ranted on and on in this thread about how you don't want transwomen in the women's bathroom. Eveyone can see you're obsessed with where I pee:

"I have defended women who would prefer that [transwomen] not be in their restroom" - (they've actually made it so women will be distressed by men in their restroom like Transman Shawn Stimson or this transman forced by bigots like W&R to terrify women in the women's bathroom)

"gender has consequences"

"[preventing transwomen from using the women's public bathroom is] the natural response to your offensive position" - (not one woman has been offended by me using them women's bathroom)

""Women don't want you in the women's room." - (most actually do)

"even one woman objecting is enough [to ban transwomen from using the women's bathroom". - (just like one white woman objecting to black women in the bathroom is reason enough for "whites only")

Obviously Wyatt and Regina haven't fought me tooth and nail for decades on transwomen's need and right to use the women's bathroom because they "couldn't care less who uses what bathroom". Punishing transwomen for living freely in public is obviously one of their greatest desires. Its obviously not about biological women "not wanting" us in the women's bathroom or they wouldn't be supporting laws that force transmen in there who terrify both biological women and transwomen. And its clearly not about the rights of businesses to set their own policies because they are in favour of anti-discrimination laws that force businesses to serve christians (but not lgbt people).

The physical and psychological well-being of transwomen means we need to use the women's public bathroom. No one has ever been harmed by me doing so.

February 19, 2021 2:45 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

While we are talking about Wyatt and Regina Hardiman lying, let's revisit some whoppers:

At December 28, 2020 5:24 PM Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I never said I oppose h*sexuality to minimize the spread of HIV that's a Priya projection!" and at December 28, 2020 6:32 AM they said "I never said I "oppose gays to minimize AIDS" or "demanded a ban on gay sex"

But the truth is they said those things over and over:

"how many will have to die before h*sexuality is shutdown to wait for a vaccine"

"35 million people have needlessly died from AIDS, it's time to shut down h*sexuality until a vaccine is found"

"the elimination of h*sexual behavior would be in society's best interest"

They lie like this over and over, just as they have in this thread when they falsely claimed they are not obsessed with where transwomen pee while ranting on and on about it.

And they admitted trying to ban gay sex would just make HIV infections worse when they said "Having broken societal taboos against sexual activity with those of their own gender, it's hard for [gays] to think of any compelling reason to follow any of society's other little rules [against promiscuity]."

In other words, when you set the unrealistic boundary of never having sex with someone you are attracted to there is no further social disincentive to engaging in promiscuity.

February 19, 2021 3:01 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

And most of the 35 million people who died of AIDS were heterosexual and yet deceitful Wyatt and Regina blame it all on gays.

February 19, 2021 3:04 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina sounded pretty hot under the collar in that last post of theirs. Deep down inside they know I'm right. That makes them scared of the truth which makes them angry in a bid to try to continue to compartmentalize those contradictory thoughts in their heads. Like "I'm a good person" and "lgbt people should be forced to live in society's shadows".

February 19, 2021 3:12 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina, you two should really go back to ignoring my posts, clearly the stress of dealing with the truth I post is getting to you - your post going on and on about me being assaulted, its pretty clear your anger is getting the best of you.

February 19, 2021 3:19 PM  
Anonymous RainbowPhoenix said...

Facts have a liberal bias.

February 19, 2021 3:32 PM  
Anonymous for millennia, society has known that two genders are necessary to make a marriage said...

I guess we can't blame Randy for ranting

he's just an excitable boy!

don't worry, he can dress up like any type of girl and still not get assaulted in restrooms

people will try to stay as far away as possible

I think some homosexuals and trans have a fantasy about sexual assault in bathrooms

like this:

"A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens."

so, if a guy wants to sexually assault a homosexual, that would be because that guy is a homosexual

February 19, 2021 3:47 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I missed this veiled threat earlier by Wyatt and Regina Hardiman:

"the [lgbts] are restless unless they are constantly trying to alter society to normalize h*sexuality and transgenderism...

the lunatic fringe will continue their totalitarian tactics* until a backlash develops and society will decide they can no longer indulge this foolishness

you'd be better off to simply to lay low
and appreciate all the special privileges you enjoy" (In other words "You think you got it bad now, just wait and see how bad it will get if you don't stop seeking equality)

Clearly their anger is getting the better of them, they are now threatening me/us.

They also said in that quote "they will never run out of issues because no matter what laws you ram through, people will never consider h*sexuality and transgenderism normal"

This is a statement of tribal loyalty and identification. What they mean is that "OUR group will never accept you as normal".

This online book on right wing authoritarians like them is the most important thing I have ever read. You can see how throughout history religious conservatives have made scapegoats out of hated minorities and sought to unjustly punish us.

I hate to break it to you Wyatt/Regina, but science is true whether you admit it or not - man in his natural state is a group of hunter gatherers and if you look at all those societies they all had a respected place for lgbt people. We have always existed, in every society, we are as normal as left handed people are.

*I make rational arguments and they see that as "totalitarian tactics"

February 19, 2021 4:01 PM  
Anonymous Republicans aren't the solution. Republicans are the problem. said...

"if you had any guts, you'd stay and fight for the principles you believe in, assuming there are any

now, you will have to tell the grandkids you're a coward and left the GOP because you were afraid of Trump"

If the Republican party had any principles left, they never would have embraced and sucked up to the Orange Menace in the first place.

Now they're enabling the Insurrectionist in Chief.

Hendren is right not to waste time on a lost cause.

No use kicking a dead elephant.

Best of luck to him.

February 19, 2021 4:41 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

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February 19, 2021 4:43 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

What Wyatt and Regina don't want to talk about is the psychological damage it does to trans people to have society reject our gender identity, particularly by trying to force us to use the bathrooms aligned with our birth sex.

Numerous studies have shown that actively misgendering trans people leads directly to the suicidality rate in the trans community. A 2018 study by the University of Texas published in the journal of Alison Health found that trans youth that were gendered the way they wished to showed 71% fewer symptoms of severe depression and 65% decreases in suicide attempts and a 34% decrease in suicidal thoughts.

The Williams Institute of UCLA also found that trans people who are misgendered showed higher rates of suicide attempts including being 50%-54% more likely to attempt suicide if they were harassed at school for being trans, 60% more likely if it was done by a doctor or health care provider and 57-60% more likely if it was done by a government worker or a person in a position of institutional power. There are many other studies that have found the same thing.

Society cannot justify doing this massive harm and injustice to us just to allow some to feel the trivial thrill of knowing they've punished us. The need of biological women to not have us in the women's bathroom is trivial and insignificant compared to our need to be there. We are no imposition on biological women.

February 19, 2021 4:53 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "millennia, society has known that two genders are necessary to make a marriage".

You mean for a few thousand years some societies falsely believed that. For the past 300,000 years humans have been forming pair bonds/marriage with lgbt people. This bigotry of yours is a drop in the bucket of the time for which modern humans have existed. It goes back tens of millions of years back in evolutionary history amongst animals and our ancestors.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "don't worry, She can dress up like any type of girl and still not get assaulted in restrooms".

You're contradicting what you said earlier:

"if you don't want to be assaulted, stay out of redneck bars"

""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads shoved in a toilet filled with urine and feces]"

"She might get punched out in a redneck bar because of her loudmouth blather but that's just as likely out in the open as in the restroom"

That's the conservative compartmentalization of contradictory thoughts so they can avoid the cognitive dissonance that would require them to chose one over the other. You can read about it in the online book The Authoritarians

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I think some h*sexuals and trans have a fantasy about sexual assault in bathrooms like this:"

The misogyny in you two is sad and destructive, the old "You were asking for it". "You were dressed provocatively", etc. It doesn't get any more sexist and anti-woman than not believing victims of toxic masculinity.

I posted "A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "so, if a guy wants to sexually assault a h*sexual, that would be because that guy is a h*sexual".

No.

Note 19 year old trans female actor Josie Totah. She certainly appeals to me as a biological female, not at all as a male. And you'd force her to use the men's room - "if even one woman objects that's enough", eff you. Obviously any heterosexual rapist would be attracted to her.

February 19, 2021 4:59 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Go ahead Wyatt/Regina, ask some of your alleged gay male friends if they'd be attracted to transwoman Josie Totah. We'll wait.

I can tell you right now no man exclusively attracted to men is going to be attracted to Josie Totah, or any transwoman.

February 19, 2021 5:04 PM  
Anonymous up in Canada, they have a sad sack of trash lying in the street, and on the computer said...

"Clearly their anger is getting the better of them,"

gee, interesting little lie

I'm not the one frantically making multiple posts and furiously deleting the ones they don't seem ti be the work of art you were visualizing

"they are now threatening me/us"

I didn't threaten anyone

I told you how society will view you and your special privileges if you keep it up

I actually don't control society

"What they mean is that "OUR group will never accept you as normal"."


no, I mean everyone

"This online book on right wing authoritarians like them is the most important thing I have ever read."

that's sad

you need to visit a library

"science is true whether you admit it or not - man in his natural state is a group of hunter gatherers and if you look at all those societies they all had a respected place for lgbt people. We have always existed, in every society, we are as normal as left handed people are."

that's not science

it's fake history

"Hendren is right not to waste time on a lost cause."

I'm sure he's thrilled to have your support!

"Blogger Priya Lynn said...
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hardcore psyho

"don't want to talk about is the psychological damage it does to trans people to have society reject our gender identity, particularly by trying to force us to use the bathrooms aligned with our birth sex."

in other words, your going to hold your breath until you pass out unless you get your way!

pretty childish...

"Society cannot justify doing this massive harm and injustice to us"

by not allowing you in the girls' room?

oh dear........

"You mean for a few thousand years"

that would be the definition of millenia, yes

"It goes back tens of millions of years back in evolutionary history amongst animals and our ancestors."

in other words, when man was more like an animal, he had no problem with homosexuality

gotcha!

February 19, 2021 6:18 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I said "they are now threatening me/us"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I didn't threaten anyone I told you how society will view you and your special privileges if you keep it up I actually don't control society".

It obviously was a thinly veiled threat combined with the lie that we have "special privileges" like christians have:

"Gender has its consequences....the lunatic fringe will continue their totalitarian tactics* until a backlash develops and society will decide they can no longer indulge this foolishness you'd be better off to simply to lay low and appreciate all the special privileges you enjoy" (In other words "You think you got it bad now, just wait and see how bad it will get if you don't stop seeking equality)

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "they will never run out of issues because no matter what laws you ram through, people will never consider h*sexuality and transgenderism normal"

I said "This is a statement of tribal loyalty and identification. What they mean is that "OUR group will never accept you as normal"."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "no, I mean everyone".

Obviously not given that you know most people do accept us as normal. That was just a primal scream in the face of slow and inevitable defeat: "I'm loyal to my tribe and my tribe will never accept you as normal!".

I said "science is true whether you admit it or not - man in his natural state is a group of hunter gatherers and if you look at all those societies they all had a respected place for lgbt people. We have always existed, in every society, we are as normal as left handed people are."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "that's not science it's fake history".

Check it out for yourself, check the "berdache" of the indigenous Americans, or any other hunter gatherer tribe that has not had contact with the modern world. You're afraid to research it and see the truth.

I said "Wyatt/Regina don't want to talk about is the psychological damage it does to trans people to have society reject our gender identity, particularly by trying to force us to use the bathrooms aligned with our birth sex."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "in other words, your going to hold your breath until you pass out unless you get your way pretty childish...".

Note how Wyatt and Regina think causing trans children to kill themselves and us being assaulted or killed is a joke - yep, "Your lives don't matter at all". Trans lives matter, you bigots.

They tell us not to fear being attacked but then trivialize our need for psychological and physical safety in a way that encourages others to attack us. Their animus is their life. You can see over the decades here that the sum total of their lives is an attempt to bring harm to innocent lgbt people. What a waste of human potential.

I said "For the past 300,000 years humans have been forming pair bonds/marriage with lgbt people. This bigotry of yours is a drop in the bucket of the time for which modern humans have existed. It goes back tens of millions of years back in evolutionary history amongst animals and our ancestors.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "in other words, when man was more like an animal, he had no problem with h*sexuality".

And for virtually all of the 300,000 years modern man has existed. The last few thousand years of bigotry amongst some people is the exception to the rule.

* I give them rational arguments and to them it feels like "totalitarian tactics"

February 19, 2021 7:15 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I actually don't control society".

You obviously thought you did when you said "no, I mean everyone" in response to me pointing out you saying "people will never consider h*sexuality and transgenderism normal" is a statement of tribal loyalty that "OUR tribe will never accept you".

Wyatt and Regina's posts are full of contradictory statements like this. Its part of what makes them so dishonest...and angry.

February 19, 2021 7:22 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt and Regina constantly accuse me of lying but they never have any examples.

Meanwhile, hundreds of times a year, they tell the lie that lgbt people have "special privileges".

There are no rights that lgbt people have that everyone else doesn't. The only group with special rights are christians who get exemptions to anti-discimination laws everyone else has to follow and unconstitutional favouritism in goverment.

One of the viciously dishonest evangelical christian claims is that the right to same sex marriage is a "special right" because "everyone had the same right to an opposite sex marriage" (the same argument regarding race was rejected by the supreme court in Loving vs Virginia)

The bigots deceptively claim the new right to a same sex marriage is a "special right" because it didn't exist before. That's a lie because any heterosexual person can enter into a same sex marriage if they desire, its not restricted just to gays - gays and heterosexuals still have equal rights.

Wyatt and Regina and Tony Perkins know this. They know they're lying and they do it non-stop.

This is not a case of two equally valid viewpoints. One side is right and the other is wrong. We're in the right and that's why these unscrupulous people lie constantly. The can't make a convincing case for their bigotry by telling the truth.

February 19, 2021 7:52 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

And Wyatt/Regina, humans are still animals. You'd do well to think about that when you're thinking about human nature.

February 19, 2021 7:56 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...


When I posted about the psychological harm it causes transwomen to be banned from the women's bathtoom Wyatt and Regina said "in other words, your going to hold your breath until you pass out unless you get your way pretty childish..."

Clearly those are NOT the words of someone who "couldn't care less who uses what bathroom". Those are the words of someone who wants to convince others our needs and concerns using the women's bathroom are trivial and should be ignored.

Clearly Wyatt and Regina want to prevent transwomen from using the women's bathroom. And yet they'll keep repeating this lie that they "couldn't care less who uses what bathroom" . They regularly falsely accuse me of lying when the truth is there is I am vastly more honest than them. Dishonesty pervades their every post and claimed beliefs.

February 19, 2021 8:49 PM  
Anonymous Brett Kavanaugh...LOL!! We got something to laugh about! said...

wonder why Randy has been suddenly screeching about where he can take a piss?

they are some significant scandals involving the people Randy has idolized

who are crashing into scandal

-Andrew Cuomo is about to be impeached

-turns out one of the founders of the Lincoln Project was a homosexual predator, luring young boys with promises of career help and then luring them into lurid homosexuality, and all the rest of them knew about it

-Gavin Newsome is heading straight for a recall

meanwhile, Randy whines about the sexual harm he suffers if he's not allowed to hang out in the girls' room

maybe he should just be considerate, for once in his miserable life, and give the girls a little privacy

February 19, 2021 10:15 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "maybe she should just be considerate, for once in her miserable life, and give the girls a little privacy".

Your "concern" about girl's privacy is fake. You seek to force physicaly intimidating transmen like Shawn Stimson to use the women's bathroom and support bathroom laws that force transmen to terrorize biological women in the women's bathroom. If you had any real concern for the privacy of females you wouldn't be trying to force everyone to use the bathroom of their birth sex. You're creating the very problem you falsely claim to want to avoid.

There's never been a complaint about me in the women's bathroom, no female has ever been worried about their privacy. Transwomen on the other hand are psychologically harmed by not being able to use the women's bathroom and at high risk for assault in the men's room.

Wyatt and Regina should show a little consideration for once in their miserable lives and stop opposing us doing something we need that harms no one. They won't because they are unconditionally committed to making our lives as miserable as possible.

This isn't about women's privacy or the alleged rights of businesses, its about punishing transwomen for living in a way they don't approve of. You can see that in the anger they showed by talking on and on about me being assaulted and making veiled threats of violence against me/transwomen and expressing no concern for the fear they cause biological women by forcing transmen in the women's bathroom.

February 19, 2021 11:00 PM  
Anonymous Ron DeSantis in 2024! said...

"There's never been a complaint about me in the women's bathroom,"

the last thing anyone wants to do is engage you in any way

they want to stay as far away as possible

it's your secret super-power

"no female has ever been worried about their privacy."

how would you know that?

females, as a rule, prefer not to have someone named Randy hanging out in the girls' room

"Transwomen on the other hand are psychologically harmed by not being able to use the women's bathroom"

notice how, not being able to provide an example of a guy dressed like a girl being attacked in a men's room, Randy has pivoted to unverifiable "psychological" harm

you might say anyone that can't get what they want because other people have rights too, is displeased and that displeasure could be called "psychological" harm

you can't always get what you want, Randy

if that is psychologically unbearable, see your psych

their job is to help you cope with reality, not change it

"and at high risk for assault in the men's room."

if there was a "high risk", there would be examples

lunatic fringe homosexual advocacy groups wouldn't just look the other way

it hasn't happened

of course, public rest rooms are hidden places and so we all take some risk using them but trans probably less than others since they make people cringe and everyone tries to avoid them

"doing something we need that harms no one"

you don't "need" to hang with the gals while you urinate

you "want" to, that's different

a large swath of women don't want you there

you can take care of your "needs" in the men's room

again, Randy is distracting everyone from the issues of the moment:

1. I have been saying for almost a year that Andrew Cuomo caused more COVID deaths than any other person and Randy has been treating him like a hero

now, he's about to be impeached for covering up his crimes

2. Randy has been talking up the RINOs in the Lincoln Project

now, it turns out that one of them was a homosexual predator of young men

and the rest of them were covering up for him

3. Randy has been acting like severe lockdowns were the answer to the pandemic

now, as the virus raged in California, who had the severest lockdowns of all, their governor is facing a recall referendum over his handling of it

4. Florida, which never had much of a lockdown, and no mask mandate, has some of the best numbers in the country

so, get the government out of the bathroom and open up our economy

February 20, 2021 7:23 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You two both need help.

I suggest you get it ASAP.

February 20, 2021 8:37 AM  
Anonymous the king of 2021 said...

LOL!

February 20, 2021 11:04 AM  
Anonymous homosexual "marriage" is sado-masochistic said...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says the main obstacle standing in the way of reopening schools is "the rich, powerful unions that donate huge sums to Democrats and get a stranglehold over education in many communities."

A leading GOP candidate in this year's Virginia gubernatorial contest launched a campaign with ads promoting the #OpenOurSchools hashtag.

And House Republicans think school reopenings may be their winning issue in key races in the 2022 midterm elections that could help them recapture the chamber.

"As soon as we started last month, I made a big deal out of the fact that messaging has to be about schools as we go forward," said Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "It's the teachers unions that want to keep the schools closed. Democrats are ignoring the science, and they're standing with their special-interest donors instead of the students."

Republicans have a clear opportunity to begin winning back the suburban voters they lost under Donald Trump's presidency by capitalizing on widespread frustration with pandemic life and directing it at an old enemy: teachers unions.

Seeking to protect members, particularly older teachers, from contracting Covid-19, some teachers unions have pushed for no return to in-person learning until teachers can be vaccinated, while others have demanded additional safety measures — ranging from better ventilation to increased cleaning — before agreeing to a return.

Attacking the unions as standing in the way of educational progress is a classic conservative tactic that helped Republicans win over frustrated parents in Democratic-leaning states such as New Jersey and Wisconsin the last time they were locked out of power in Washington in 2009. It both unites the fractured GOP and is sowing division in some corners of the Democratic Party.
Reining in teachers unions is favored by many Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, who was hung in effigy in a struggling Rhode Island school after he called for firing all its teachers.

The frustration over shuttered schools, kids being kept home and other Covid-19 restrictions are real and even some progressives say the unions are overreaching. (Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot accused them of wanting to "take over" not just the schools, but also the city.) And Republicans think they can channel that anger into a grassroots uprising to drive a wedge between suburban voters and the Democratic Party.

"I can tell you I have countless stories, both direct and anecdotal, about couples who are trying to pay the bills, who are trying to work their jobs. At the same time, they're also trying to be the teachers ... at home. And it's impossible," Emmer said.

"These people are, they're saints as far as I'm concerned," he added, referring to parents. "And by the way, their anger is growing."

In California, national bellwhether, parents demanding schools reopen have sued Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is himself embroiled in a fight with the unions, while the city of San Francisco has sued its own school district to restart in-person learning.

"This is the suburban parent revolt," said Corry Bliss, a leading Republican consultant. "One of the reasons why I think the suburbs are back in play for Republicans is because the Democrats are simply unwilling to stand up to the teachers unions."

February 20, 2021 11:25 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The hate group Alliance "Defending" Freedom issued a press release on the lgbt Equality Act legislation:

"Our nation’s laws should respect the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of every American citizen. All of us — regardless of sex or any other classification — deserve better than the profound inequality that the conscience-crushing, deceptively titled ‘Equality Act’ reintroduced by Congress today promises.".

You seek to violate those constitutionally guaranteed freedoms by banning marriage equality and supporting laws that ban discrimination against christians but not lgbt people. You're the bad guys here.

"This proposed legislation punishes and marginalizes people who hold decent and honorable beliefs about marriage or dare to believe the scientific evidence regarding the physical differences between men and women."

This oft-repeated deception needs to stop, no one is punished for what they believe, they are only punished for discrminatory actions. You are free to believe as your bible commands that gays should be put to death, you are not free to act on those beliefs.

"Many in our nation respectfully disagree on important matters such as marriage and human sexuality."

There is nothing respectful about promoting the oppression of harmless lgbt people and making us second class citizens under the law.

"Unfortunately, the Equality Act criminalizes these fundamental beliefs held by major faith groups since the dawn of time and, instead, demands absolute uniformity of thought."

An outrageous lie intended to pervert the correct moral judgment of the American people. You are free to believe whatever evil things you want, no one is punished for that. What you can't do is act on your evil beliefs and harm innocent people.

"The freedom to live peaceably according to our beliefs is a fundamental right, resting in our human dignity and codified by the First Amendment. "

You are not living peaceably, you're waging a war on harmless lgbt people. You're violating the First Amendment by making laws that enforce the religious oppression of lgbts. Your dignity does not require oppressing lgbt people, our dignity requires equality.

"The Equality Act dares to treat reasonable people as hostile to the state and unfit to participate in the marketplace. Our nation can and must do better."

You seek to harm innocent citizens, you ARE hostile to the state.
Being required to provide goods and services to lgbt people does not require that you engage in sex or gender expression you find objectionable, your objection is that it is sinful for others to do so. Thereffore the interference with the right of anti-gay bigots to act in accordance with their religious beliefs is trivial or insubstantial, in that it is interference that does not threaten actual religious beliefs or conduct.”

Speaking of guaranteed freedoms, the ADF has advocated for criminalizing gayness in the United States and provides free legal support to foreign anti-LGBT groups seeking to retain such laws in their own countries.

February 20, 2021 2:22 PM  
Anonymous Mommie Dammit said...

Hmmm... where have I heard that line of argument before... oh, yes, I remember...

“Christianity was proslavery,” said Yolanda Pierce, the dean of the divinity school at Howard University. “So much of early American Christian identity is predicated on a proslavery theology. From the naming of the slave ships, to who sponsored some of these journeys including some churches, to the fact that so much of early American religious rhetoric is deeply intertwined . . . with slaveholding: It is proslavery.” Some Christian institutions, notably Georgetown University in the District, are engaged in a reckoning about what it means that their past was rooted in slaveholding.But others have not confronted the topic. “In a certain sense, we’ve never completely come to terms with that in this nation,” Pierce said.

Some theologians said it was providence that had brought Africans to America as slaves, since their enslavement would allow them to encounter the Christian message and thus their eternal souls would be saved, said Mark Noll, a historian of American Christianity.

Some preachers encouraged slave owners to allow their slaves to attend worship services — though only in separate gatherings led by white proslavery preachers. They had to be seated in the back or the balcony of a segregated church. Those men of God argued that the sermons on the injunction in Ephesians and Colossians, “slaves, obey your earthly master,” would promote docility among enslaved workers. Washington’s Museum of the Bible displays a “slave Bible,” published in 1807, which removed portions of Scripture including the Exodus story that could inspire rebellious thinking.

Some ministers promoted the idea that Africans were the descendants of Ham, cursed in the book of Genesis, and thus their enslavement was fitting. “That biblical interpretation is made up of whole cloth in the 15th century,” Noll said. “There’s just no historical record of any seriousness to back it up. It’s made up, at a time when Europeans are beginning to colonize Africa.”

Tell me again about how "decent and honorable" your beliefs are...

February 20, 2021 2:23 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I said "There's never been a complaint about me in the women's bathroom, no female has ever been worried about their privacy."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "how would you know that?".

There's never been any complaints about me in the women's bathroom, can't you read or are you just stupid?

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "females, as a rule, prefer not to have someone named Priya hanging out in the girls' room".

That's certainly not a rule, the majority of women are happy to have transwomen in the women's room.

Stop pretending to be concerned about women in the bathroom, you seek to force transmen like Shawn Stinson and this transmen to terrorize women in the public bathroom, you obviously don't give a damn about how women feel in the bathroom.

I said "Transwomen on the other hand are psychologically harmed by not being able to use the women's bathroom"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "notice how, not being able to provide an example of a [transwoman] being attacked in a men's room, Priya has pivoted to unverifiable "psychological" harm".

You've told this lie repeatedly, that's what evil people do. Here's your examples of the danger to transwomen for about the fifth time:

A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens.

Here's a guy who got violent because a girl was in the men's room, obviously he'd assault transwomen like me or Josie Totah in there too.

This man was assaulted in the men's bathroom for being gay. Obviously he wouldn't hesitate to assault a transwoman. Wyatt/Regina's claim that I'm certain not to be assaulted in the men's room is obviously false.

And the psychogical harm most certainly is verifiable:

"Numerous studies have shown that actively misgendering trans people leads directly to the suicidality rate in the trans community. A 2018 study by the University of Texas published in the journal of Alison Health found that trans youth that were gendered the way they wished to showed 71% fewer symptoms of severe depression and 65% decreases in suicide attempts and a 34% decrease in suicidal thoughts.

The Williams Institute of UCLA also found that trans people who are misgendered showed higher rates of suicide attempts including being 50%-54% more likely to attempt suicide if they were harassed at school for being trans, 60% more likely if it was done by a doctor or health care provider and 57-60% more likely if ti was done by a government worker or a person in a position of institutional power. There are many other studies that have found the same thing."

February 20, 2021 3:21 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous "you might say anyone that can't get what they want because other people have rights too, is displeased and that displeasure could be called "psychological" harm".

If you were a seeking an excuse to harm innocent lgbt people and ignore the damage you are doing you would say that. No one is harmed by me living as a woman and society treating me as a woman.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you can't always get what you want".

There's no valid reason why we can't get what we want and need in this case. A desire to be cruel and harm innocent others is not a justification for bathroom laws.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "their job is to help you cope with reality, not change it".

Research shows transwomen are happier and less suicidal living as women, there is no reason to prevent this.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "of course, public rest rooms are hidden places and so we all take some risk using them but trans probably less than others since they make people cringe and everyone tries to avoid them".

The truth is LGBT people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to experience violent victimization. Wyatt and Regina falsely claim we are less likely because they like that we are disproportionately targeted for violence and not only do they not want that changed, they want to make it worse - look at how angry they got and went on and on about me being assaulted and made a veiled threat that there would be a "backlash to this foolishness" and "You better lay low". And then they tried to justify violent attacks on innocent lgbt people by saying we want to be assaulted! These are truly hateful people who get pleasure out of harming others.

February 20, 2021 3:22 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I have been saying for almost a year that Andrew Cuomo caused more COVID deaths than any other person and Priya has been treating him like a hero".

Really? Give us an example or two of me treating him like a hero. You don't want people to think you're a lying troll.

The truth is Trump was the president and it was his job to step up and handle it if any of the states weren't doing a good job, and most Republican states weren't. He refused to do so, instead encouraging tens of millions of Americans to viciously oppose any mitigation measures like mask wearing or social distancing. The blame for those 400,000 needless deaths rests squarely on the national leader with all the power and resources of the federal government behind him, former president Trump.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "now, as the virus raged in California, who had the severest lockdowns of all, their governor is facing a recall referendum over his handling of it. Florida, which never had much of a lockdown, and no mask mandate, has some of the best numbers in the country".

This is another typical lie by Wyatt/Regina. Research is unequivocal, mask mandates work. Wyatt and Regina claimed Trump wasn't responsible for any Covid deaths because no one took his advice to refuse to wear masks, and here are Wyatt/Regina taking Trump's advice and promoting the deadly idea that masks don't work.

The death rate is 137 per 100,000 people in Florida and 122 per 100,000 in California - Florida has done worse than California, not far better as Wyatt and Regina Hardiman tried to con us into believing . And that is not taking into account Governnor Desantis fabricating the Covid death numbers to make them look artificially low. He fired the woman managing the states Covid database because she wouldn't fabricate the numbers for him.

February 20, 2021 3:24 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt and Regina get angry when people say they are obsessed with where transomen pee, but its true, look how just can't let this go. This is obviously one of the most important things in their lives.

Promoting hate and violence against harmless lgbt people is clearly almost entirely who they are. What a shame.

February 20, 2021 3:32 PM  
Anonymous Elloreigh OakWood said...

Anti-lgbt hate group Alliance "Defending" Freedom said "Many in our nation respectfully disagree on important matters such as marriage and human sexuality."


She and ADF aren't among them though. There is nothing at all "respectful" about the desire to discriminate. There is nothing at all "respectful" about the desire to criminalize the consensual, private behavior of adults who don't believe the same things the ADF folk do.

Think about that for a moment. They want the "right" to interfere in the most private aspect of our lives, while whining that having to treat us with minimal respect in the arena of doing business with the public is somehow horribly persecutory.

So this is how much respect I have for what they want: They can take their non-existent "respectful disagreement" and effin eff right off back to the "dawn of time".

February 20, 2021 3:43 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Like the sadists they are, Wyatt and Regina keep telling the lie that transwomen are perfectly safe using the men's room.

I posted some examples earlier of the violence trans and lgbt people face in the men's restroom. Beyond that, Wyatt and Regina have said themselves trans females are in danger of being victims of a hate crime in the men's public bathroom room:

""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads shoved in a toilet filled with urine and feces]"

"She might get punched out in a redneck bar because of her loudmouth blather but that's just as likely out in the open as in the restroom"

I present proof we are in danger in the men's room, but no matter how much, its never enough or it's "they want to be assaulted, its okay if they are", or they just repeatedly lie as they did in their last and other posts and say I haven't presented any evidence.

On the other hand they keep insisting with no evidence that we are harming biological women by being there and insisting we treat those evidence free allegations as fact even though research shows its false:

"this literature search did not identify any evidence supporting a link between women-only spaces being inclusive of transgender women, and non-transgender men falsely claiming a trans identity to access these spaces and commit sexual violence. Other sources included in this search reiterate a lack of any evidence to support this claim (Dunne 2017, Eckes 2017)."

Its always one impossibly high bar for liberals and no bar at all for bigots - constant bad faith argumentation. No amount of evidence is good enough for them to accept what we are saying is true but we must accept their fantasies as fact with no evidence whatsoever.

Wyatt and Regina are as dishonest as Trump with his 30,000 lies and a have a sadistic desire to hurt innocent people. Yet, in a unprecedented display of hypocrisy, they pretend they are the moral superiors of harmless lgbt people.

February 20, 2021 6:48 PM  
Anonymous JPM in the Desert said...

Historians have ample evidence that when Christianity started, it drew a lot of attention and was mocked throughout the various areas of the Roman Empire because it had a singular negative, obsessive focus on sex (especially homosexual acts) and dietary restrictions (many of the early Christian groups carried over the dietary restrictions of Judaism). And there are a lot of surviving writings from that time from Rome itself, Greece, Egypt and other parts of the empire. One famous Greek writer of the time joked that Christianity was reduced to the kitchen and the bedroom, because they didn't seem to care about anything that happened anywhere else.

It is also very well documented that when the Christian missionaries first arrived in Japan, China and the Americas, among other places, they were dismayed by how widespread and accepted gay sex was in those places, and this was much more recent than the Roman Empire.

So it is extremely well documented that the desert monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) created and spread their homophobia wherever they went. And they have blood on their hands for what followed after that. It does NOT go back to "the dawn of time." Not even close.

February 20, 2021 7:33 PM  
Anonymous gender has consequences said...

homosexual activity was illegal in China until 1997

in the Mao era, it was strictly forbidden

I've heard Mao was an atheist

"keep telling the lie that transwomen are perfectly safe using the men's room"

there have been no reports of guys dressed like girls being attacked for using the men's room

indeed, everyone stays as far away from them as possible

you actually need to get close to someone to assault them

LOL!!

but, I guess, it's hard for gays and trans to let go of the fantasy they have of being attacked in a men's room

have you heard about the homosexual predator that started the Lincoln project?

how about blue state governors Cuomo and Newsome, being impeached and recalled, respectively, over their handling of the pandemic?

it's true

lunatics are doing everything they can to distract from these blue state scandals...

February 21, 2021 12:32 AM  
Anonymous TTF, teaching tomfoolery! said...

"Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?

In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.

Now add people getting vaccinated. As of this week, 15% of Americans have received the vaccine, and the figure is rising fast. Former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimates 250 million doses will have been delivered to some 150 million people by the end of March.

There is reason to think the country is racing toward an extremely low level of infection. As more people have been infected, most of whom have mild or no symptoms, there are fewer Americans left to be infected. At the current trajectory, I expect Covid will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life."


Dr. Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, chief medical adviser to Sesame Care, and author of “The Price We Pay.”

February 21, 2021 12:27 PM  
Anonymous Republicans aren't the solution. Republicans are the problem. said...

While Sen. Ted Cruz was dealing with the fallout from his trip to Cancun, two of his Democratic political nemeses -- Beto O'Rourke and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- raised money and offered resources to Texans hit hard by this week's winter storm.

Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congresswoman from New York who has frequently sparred with Cruz, launched a fundraiser on Twitter and raised $1 million by Thursday evening.

"Wow. We officially raised $1 million for Texas relief at 9:17pm.," she tweeted. "Thank you all so much. Folded hands I'm at a loss for words. Always in awe of movement work."

By Friday, she tweeted, that figure had risen to $2 million and she announced she was going to fly to Houston to join with Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia to distribute supplies. Ocasio-Cortez is using Act Blue to fundraise, a Democratic fundraising tool that helps her build an email listserv as she receives donations.

Meanwhile, O'Rourke, who unsuccessfully challenged Cruz in the Texas 2018 Senate race, ran a virtual phone bank to contact senior citizens in Texas, to connect them with resources during the disaster.

"BIG THANKS to the volunteers who made over 784,000 phone calls to senior citizens in Texas today," he tweeted. "You helped to connect them with water, food, transportation, and shelter. And you made sure that they knew we were thinking about them and that they matter to us."

The efforts came after Cruz flew to Cancun as a winter disaster unfolded in his home state, leaving millions without power and water.

After the publication of this story, Cruz's office insisted he worked to help the people of Texas ahead of the storm by communicating with local and state leaders before traveling to Cancun.

After returning to Houston on Thursday afternoon, Cruz told reporters outside his home it was "obviously a mistake" and that "in hindsight I wouldn't have done it."

"Of course, I understand why people are upset. Listen, we're in a strange time where Twitter's been going crazy and the media is going crazy and there's a lot of venom and vitriol that I think is unfortunate frankly on both sides," Cruz said. "I think everyone ought to treat each other with respect and decency and try to understand each other more particularly at a time of crisis."

No, you don't understand why people are upset Teddy. This isn't a "both sides" or "Twitter goin crazy thing."

That was you, acting like a typical sociopath Republican and leaving everyone to fend for themselves in the cold and dark while you went on vacation to sunny Mexico.

Meanwhile, a "bleeding hart liberal" and ex-bartender from New York raised $2 million to help make lives better in YOUR home state.

I'm betting some of them are wishing they could vote for her the next time you're up for election.

February 21, 2021 1:08 PM  
Anonymous Republicans aren't the solution. Republicans are the problem. said...

"Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?"

It hasn't been ignored. It's just the we now have a President that doesn't take credit for every single good think that happens - he's been too busy fixing the problems - stating on his very first day:

The new OMB guidance is part of the administration’s efforts to implement President Joe Biden’s new mask mandate executive order.

The order, which the president signed on his first day in office, requires all federal employees, contractors and members of the public to wear a mask while inside executive branch buildings or on federal lands.

Don't worry, I give credit where it is due - the Insurrectionist in Chief has done his part to help too - he is no longer holding rallies with thousands of unmasked fanatics creating super-spreader events:

Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say

President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, according to a new paper posted by researchers at Stanford.

Researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following each event. They compared the counties where the events were held to other counties that had a similar trajectory of confirmed Covid-19 cases prior to the rally date. Out of the 18 rallies analyzed, only three were indoors, according to the research.

The researchers found that the rallies ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19. They also concluded that the rallies likely led to more than 700 deaths, though not necessarily among attendees.

The researchers said the findings support the warnings and recommendations of public health officials concerning the risk of Covid-19 transmission at large group gatherings, “particularly when the degree of compliance with guidelines concerning the use of masks and social distancing is low.”

“The communities in which Trump rallies took place paid a high price in terms of disease and death,” said B. Douglas Bernheim, chairman of Stanford’s economics department and a lead author of the paper, wrote.

February 21, 2021 1:34 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I said "Like the sadists they are, Wyatt and Regina keep telling the lie that transwomen are perfectly safe using the men's room"

The trolls Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous have no cogent arguments and so just repeated that lie "there have been no reports of [transwomen] being attacked for using the men's room".

I've posted those reports several times and quoted you saying you expect me and other transfemales to be attacked in the men's bathroom.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "but, I guess, it's hard for gays and trans to let go of the fantasy they have of being attacked in a men's room"

You're the one trying to force transwomen to use the men's room, it's obviously your fantasy about us being attacked in the men's room. With Wyatt/Regina/Trump every accusation is a confession.

February 21, 2021 6:19 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt and Regina Hardiman, rape apologists - toxic masculinity on display.

"She wanted it"

February 21, 2021 6:24 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Gender has consequences".

What they mean by this is that they want to force transwomen to use the men's bathroom to be assaulted and murdered.

I want to maximize the happiness for Wyatt and Regina, they want to see me bruised, bloodied, battered and dead. To hate this much someone who does you no harm you've got to really be hating yourself.

Research has consistently shown people who hate gays are aroused by gay sex.

February 21, 2021 6:40 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The disaster in Texas is the perfect example of what happens when Republican governments go on deregulation binges.

88% of the power shortage comes from natural gas plants that weren't winterized because private industry cares only about the bottom line, not about reliability. Worse yet, many consumers who had power throughout the shortage received electricity bills of thousands of dollars a day, again due to the price gouging a completely deregulated private industry is allowed to engage in.

Let the Texas experience be a warning against deregulation. Government protects you from the incompetence and greed of private industry.

February 21, 2021 7:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/homophobic-maybe-youre-gay.html?_r=0

When it comes to conservatives being caught up in sex scandals, the reason could be traced to what Sigmund Freud called the "reaction formation." The concept, as Freud coined it, signifies a hostile fight against outward symbols of inward emotions that are being stifled -- in other words, self-repression. As it relates to homophobic leaders cheating on their wives with other men, a study from a 2012 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology make shed some light.

The researchers discovered that individuals who identified as "highly straight" but had latent impulses for sex with other men were far more likely to favor anti-gay policies. In addition, those men were also more likely to call for stricter punishments against people who commit petty crimes if they were presumed to be gay; and to express greater implicit hostility toward gay subjects. Thus our research suggests that some who oppose homosexuality do tacitly harbor same-sex attraction.

February 21, 2021 7:08 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

To have the best possible society everyone's highest priority has to be maximizing the happiness for all in an equal and fair way. Wyatt and Regina destructively put their religion ahead of that.

February 21, 2021 7:56 PM  
Anonymous how did we ever get such a great Supreme Court? said...

"While Sen. Ted Cruz was dealing with the fallout from his trip to Cancun,"

hard to see the issue

he's not the governor

"It hasn't been ignored. It's just the we now have a President that doesn't take credit for every single good think that happens - he's been too busy fixing the problems - stating on his very first day:"

it's not a matter of credit, the point is that it is time to begin relaxing restrictions

those who have power over others tend to resist giving it up

Fauci, in particular, suddenly became a celebrity

he wants to maintain that as long as he can

today, he gave an interview saying we'll need masks through 2022

"President Joe Biden’s new mask mandate executive order.

The order, which the president signed on his first day in office, requires all federal employees, contractors and members of the public to wear a mask while inside executive branch buildings or on federal lands."

completely pointless

all those places already required masks

"President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, according to a new paper posted by researchers at Stanford."

they are wrong

the events were all in the open air

cases were rising until inauguration day, months after Trump's rallies

there was no connection

"I've posted those reports several times and quoted you saying you expect me and other transfemales to be attacked in the men's bathroom."

there are no reported case of a guy dressed like a girl being attacked in a men's room

the risk of using a public restroom is no greater for trans than anyone else

"What they mean by this is that they want to force transwomen to use the men's bathroom to be assaulted and murdered."

as I've said repeatedly, that didn't cross my mind when I said gender has consequences

The disaster in Texas is the perfect example of why global warming theory is a farce

"When it comes to conservatives being caught up in sex scandals,"

sex scandals are more common among liberals

currently, we have the founder of the liberal Republican group, the Lincoln project, who has been discovered to be a homosexual predator of boys

"To have the best possible society everyone's highest priority has to be maximizing the happiness for all in an equal and fair way"

girls would be happier if mentally ill men didn't hang out in the girls' room

right there, is one of the many examples of how you don't want to maximize the happiness of others

it would be considerate and polite if you would use the restroom assigned to your gender and stopped trying to make girls unhappy

February 21, 2021 11:53 PM  
Anonymous Republicans aren't the solution. Republicans are the problem. said...

"hard to see the issue
he's not the governor"

Of course it's hard for you to see the issue. Like many other Republicans, you have an abundance of sociopathic tendencies, and don't believe Republican government officials have any real responsibility to look out for the well-being of their constituents in times of crisis.

"completely pointless
all those places already required masks"

No they didn't. Trump certainly wouldn't have allowed that to take place under his watch.

"they are wrong
the events were all in the open air"

No, you are wrong again, my reading challenged friend:

"Out of the 18 rallies analyzed, only three were indoors, according to the research."

You are also under the mistaken impression that once someone is outside, they can no longer get CV-19 from someone else. "Outside" doesn't magically work that way. Just ask the people that caught it during Rump's Rose Garden event. All it takes is time, proximity, and a lack of masks.

"cases were rising until inauguration day, months after Trump's rallies
there was no connection"

Wrong again. You really don't understand how the virus spreads.

Trump was holding rallies all the way up to election day, and lead an insurrection on Jan. 6th.

It can take 2 to 3 weeks after someone is infected to even show symptoms. During that time they can spread it to other people even while they are asymptomatic. And it can easily be a month before someone gets ill enough to see a doctor - if they reach that point. Meanwhile the people they have unknowingly infected are busy spreading it to other people, who will get sick several weeks later. That's the mechanism by which this whole thing became a pandemic. This is not a secret. It's hard to understand what you don't grasp about that.

The report only covered Jun - Sep, so it doesn't even account for the ones leading up to November.

Rump is responsible for a whole cascade of CV-19 cases - he couldn't even keep it out of the White House, or his own family. Don't you find it odd that there were more Republican office holders that came down with the virus than Democrats? Ever wonder how that happened?

"those who have power over others tend to resist giving it up"

Yeah, we noticed that with the Cheeto Benito. But you never really seemed too concerned about that. You seem fine with authoritarianism as long as it's of the right-wing variety.

I'm pretty sure we don't need to worry about Biden or Fauci inciting a mob to overrun Congress.

February 22, 2021 12:29 AM  
Anonymous Citzens for Ethics said...

The Trump family is taking 12x more protected trips than the Obama family

In one year, the Trump family took more trips that required Secret Service protection than the Obama family took in seven

February 22, 2021 1:23 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous lied again "there are no reported case of [transwomen]being attacked in a men's room the risk of using a public restroom is no greater for trans than anyone else".".

Yes troll, we've heard your lie several times. The truth is there are many reports:

A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens.

Here's a guy who got violent because a girl was in the men's room, obviously he'd assault transwomen like me or Josie Totah in there too.

This man was assaulted in the men's bathroom for being gay. Obviously he wouldn't hesitate to assault a transwoman. Wyatt/Regina's claim that I'm certain not to be assaulted in the men's room is obviously false.

Wyatt and Regina said themselves they believe trans females will be attacked in the male bathroom:

""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads shoved in a toilet filled with urine and feces]"

"She might get punched out in a redneck bar because of her loudmouth blather but that's just as likely out in the open as in the restroom"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "Gender has consequences".

What they mean by this is that they want to force transwomen to use the men's bathroom to be assaulted and murdered.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "as I've said repeatedly, that didn't cross my mind when I said gender has consequences".

As you've repeatedly shown in this thread, you lie about what you believe all the time. You made veiled threats telling me I should "lay low", you talked multiple times about scenarios where I get assaulted, that's obviously what is on your mind when you say "gender has consequences", my dear little sadists.

February 22, 2021 1:53 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "The disaster in Texas is the perfect example of why global warming theory is a farce".

This is a perfect example why you're stupid/dishonest. The global average temperature is what determines if the planet is warming, not a brief localized short term cooling. And the average global temperature is undeniably going up, regardless of occasional localized cold spells.

The disaster in Texas is the perfect example of what happens when Republicans go on deregulation binges.

Good anonymous posted "When it comes to conservatives being caught up in sex scandals, the reason could be traced to what Sigmund Freud called the "reaction formation." The concept, as Freud coined it, signifies a hostile fight against outward symbols of inward emotions that are being stifled -- in other words, self-repression. As it relates to homophobic leaders cheating on their wives with other men, a study from a 2012 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology make shed some light.

The researchers discovered that individuals who identified as "highly straight" but had latent impulses for sex with other men were far more likely to favor anti-gay policies. In addition, those men were also more likely to call for stricter punishments against people who commit petty crimes if they were presumed to be gay; and to express greater implicit hostility toward gay subjects. Thus our research suggests that some who oppose gayness do tacitly harbor same-sex attraction."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "sex scandals are more common among liberals".

Where's your evidence? You wouldn't want people to think you're just a troll who makes sh*t up on the spur of the moment.

February 22, 2021 1:55 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "sex scandals are more common among liberals".

As is usually the case when Wyatt and Regina make up a story on the spur of the moment the truth is the opposite of what they say:

Sex scandals are more common amongst Republicans

Results: Republicans were involved in 61% of sex scandals in the past 10 years, whereas Democrats were involved in just 39%. Moreover, 34% of the total number of scandals were gay scandals (i.e, involving an ostensibly straight politician and a same-sex partner), with Republicans accounting for 78.5% of all gay scandals. Republicans were also involved in 66% of the underage scandals.

You can see with the constant repetition of lies I've debunked Wyatt and Regina Hardiman are mentally ill.

Homophobia linked with psychoticism and dysfunctional personality traits

Homophobic attitudes have been linked with psychoticism, a psychological trait present in several severe conditions that can also contribute to heightened states of hostility and anger. (Wikipedia defines psychoticism as a “personality pattern typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility.”)


You can sure see that in those two!

February 22, 2021 2:31 AM  
Anonymous for millennia, society has known that two genders are necessary to make a marriage said...

"The truth is there are many reports:"

the truth is you haven't cited any

After several days of frantically scouring the internet, here's what you came up with:

"A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens.

Here's a guy who got violent because a girl was in the men's room, obviously he'd assault transwomen like me or Josie Totah in there too.

This man was assaulted in the men's bathroom for being gay. Obviously he wouldn't hesitate to assault a transwoman."

the last two aren't examples of guys attacking guys dressed like girls

just examples of what is "obvious" to a hardcore psycho

as for the Harvard study, you have to provide examples

you may remember that a Commission led by Jimmy Carter found that mail-in voting is the greatest potential for voter fraud and Randy didn't care what that study said

"they believe trans females will be attacked in the male bathroom:

""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads shoved in a toilet filled with urine and feces]""

I was talking about kids

you may have noticed the phrases "girls" and "boys"

truth is, kids are too young to start with this whole transgender thing

they should come to school dressed appropriately for their gender

"What they mean by this is that they want to force transwomen to use the men's bathroom to be assaulted and murdered."

no, I've said that isn't what I mean

only hardcore psychos think they "know" that people meant something other than what they say

"This is a perfect example why you're stupid/dishonest. The global average temperature is what determines if the planet is warming, not a brief localized short term cooling. And the average global temperature is undeniably going up, regardless of occasional localized cold spells."

here's how a hardcore psycho thinks:

whenever there's a localized drought or hurricane, where such things are common, it's proof of global warming

whenever there's a localized freezing weather where's it's usually warm, that's nothing

"Where's your evidence?"

well, let's start with John Wayne Gacy, a guy active in Dem politics, who sexually assaulted and murdered young boys

and let's end with John Weaver, who founded the liberal Republican Lincoln Project and preyed on young men

February 22, 2021 6:27 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your stupidity about science and fixation with gender and sex are appalling.

Deplorable even.

No wonder your party of Rump lost the presidency, the House and the Senate.

February 22, 2021 7:43 AM  
Anonymous The GOP's "hero" said...

Remember when Trump says the coronavirus is the Democrats’ ‘new hoax’"?

It was a year ago, February 2020.

Today that "hoax" he expected would, "like a miracle" disappear, is on the brink of claiming half a million American lives.





February 22, 2021 8:00 AM  
Anonymous trans are safe because everyone avoids them said...

"Your stupidity about science and fixation with gender and sex are appalling.

Deplorable even."

you might want to be specific about science

right now, blue state politicians and their followers are the biggest science deniers

they are trying to please powerful teacher unions

"No wonder your party of Rump lost the presidency, the House and the Senate."

I happen to be a registered Democrat

true, I haven't voted one for President since Carter

and, btw, I was a campaign worker for Carter

and do consider Reagan the best President of our times

but, the GOP's ever-changing platform doesn't reflect my views

I'm actually a libertarian

many of you accuse me of being pro-Trump because I didn't support your Trump Derangement Syndrome antics

but, personally, I never have liked him

"Remember when Trump says the coronavirus is the Democrats’ ‘new hoax’"?

It was a year ago, February 2020.

Today that "hoax" he expected would, "like a miracle" disappear, is on the brink of claiming half a million American lives."

the hoax was that we needed to shut down all activity when only certain categories had a risk more significant than flu, and they we could only be safe through draconian government regulations

the country should have taken the same approach as Florida

right now, rates of infection and death are plummeting and no one knows why

it's like a miracle

February 22, 2021 9:25 AM  
Anonymous states across America are banning abortion is waiting for the challenges to reach her. justice for the unborn is coming! said...

Last Friday, during President Biden’s G7 debut, he announced a $4 billion program to assist in the distribution of coronavirus vaccine to poor nations. This is more than a little ironic, considering the chaotic vaccine rollout over which he has presided in the United States. It is particularly so in view of the ineptitude with which Biden’s fellow Democrats in blue states have managed their distribution programs, which have been far less efficient than their red state counterparts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, West Virginia has delivered twice as many full (two-dose) vaccinations per 100,000 residents than has California.

Indeed, according to news reports, the Golden State’s disorganized vaccine distribution rollout is an important reason the initiative to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has continued gaining momentum. Inevitably, Newsom blames former President Trump for his own incompetent vaccine rollout, but this is just as preposterous as the whoppers Biden and Vice President Harris have told about the vaccine distribution plan they inherited from the Trump administration. The reality is that Democrats at both the state and federal levels are better at making promises than making things go. Meanwhile, the efficiency of West Virginia under the leadership of GOP Gov. Jim Justice, has been noted even by the Washington Post:

West Virginia has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the United States — along with some of the highest levels of chronic illnesses — but it has been among the most prolific in protecting its residents against the novel coronavirus … the governor has closely managed the process of determining who gets priority while giving counties far less leeway than in other states to make their own rules … That ethos has helped propel his state to a position that much wealthier and healthier states can only envy.

West Virginia is no outlier. As of this writing, the CDC reports that, under the leadership of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has delivered more full vaccines (6,896 per 100,000) than have perennial blue states like New York (6,004 per 100,000), New Jersey (5,746 per 100,000), Massachusetts (5,335 per 100,000), Illinois (4,422 per 100,000), Michigan (6,485 per 100,000), Minnesota (6,105 per 100,000), Washington (5,402 per 100,000), Oregon (6,302 per 100,000), and of course California (4,997 per 100,000). Only three blue states have managed to outpace Florida on vaccine distribution per 100,000 residents: New Mexico (9,289 per 100,000), Connecticut (7,595 per 100,000), and Vermont (7,214 per 100,000).

Despite the obvious success of Florida’s program, Democrats and the media have relentlessly criticized Gov. DeSantis for his handling of the vaccinations. The Sunshine State is home to a large percentage (20.5 percent) of people over 65, yet his critics insist that his policy of prioritizing seniors is politically motivated. The real problem, of course, is that his state is outperforming blue states. Morever, Florida and West Virginia aren’t the only red states whose rollouts are embarrassing their blue counterparts. The best-performing state in the union is Alaska, the only state to exceed more than 11,000 full vaccines per 100,000 residents. This is no mean accomplishment considering its geographic and transportation challenges:

February 22, 2021 9:39 AM  
Anonymous states across America are banning abortion is waiting for the challenges to reach her. justice for the unborn is coming! said...


Bigger than Texas, California and Montana combined, Alaska is a vast, sparsely populated, and largely roadless state, with only a handful of main arteries. To distribute vaccines, doctors and nurses statewide have had to rely on a wide range of transportation modes.… Alaska’s vaccine process is distinct from other states, in that it’s built on an existing immunization program (used predominantly for flu and childhood vaccines) that allows the state to redistribute doses.

Note that phrase: “built on an existing immunization program.” This is journalese for “they were prepared.” Alaska’s GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy, rather than spending his time on CNN chatting with his brother or writing a self-aggrandizing book, has actually been doing his job. A week ago, while the Democratic governors of New York and California were attempting to evade responsibility for their incompetence and negligence, Dunleavy released a COVID-19 transition plan that “begins the process of moving Alaska to the path to normalcy while still effectively managing the virus.” Meanwhile, back in the lower 48, yet another Republican governor has presided over a successful COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

South Dakota’s GOP Gov. Kristi Noem, like her Republican counterpart in Alaska, began planning for the rollout early and didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Instead of improvising a slapdash distribution system using the bureaucrats of the county health departments, or relying on federal “help,” Gov. Noem took advantage of the management expertise and decision-making processes already in place in its existing private health-care systems. Consequently, South Dakota has reached 8,559 complete vaccinations per 100,000 residents, far ahead of its upper Midwest counterparts. This earned Gov. Noem the cringe-worthy appellation “Vaccine Queen” from James Freeman at the Wall Street Journal.

In the end, it may not matter that blue states bungle their vaccination programs. Dr. Marty Makary of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health writes in the Journal that COVID cases have dropped 77 percent in six weeks and that we may reach herd immunity by spring. In other words, no matter how awful the Democrats are at public health, we are approaching the point at which natural immunity will reduce coronavirus to the quotidian status of the flu. But our new president warns that life may not return to normal this year due to the ravages of COVID-19, and we know he “follows the science.” I mean, the president wouldn’t exploit a pandemic for political reasons, would he?

February 22, 2021 9:39 AM  
Anonymous Another GOPer lie said...

"right now, rates of infection and death are plummeting and no one knows why"

Bullshit.

National Geographic reports:

"UPDATED FEB. 22, 2:34 A.M. E.T.

It’s been another week of good news for the nation, which is beginning to see the effects of vaccine distribution on cases and death counts.

It’s been another promising week in the United States. New cases of the disease have declined for the fifth straight week, dropping by 23 percent. Each region of the country has also recorded “substantial declines” in hospitalizations—although the total number of people hospitalized remains higher than at the peak of previous surges last spring and summer. Deaths related to COVID-19 have also fallen by nearly 21 percent.

Some of this good news can be attributed to the nationwide vaccine rollout, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Based on their data, nursing homes and long-term care facilities have recorded fewer COVID-19 deaths—and now account for a smaller percentage of U.S. deaths overall—which seems to correlate with vaccinations among this vulnerable group. In Texas, however, case counts are artificially low and vaccination has slowed as the region grapples with severe winter weather and power outages. Also, concerns remain high as coronavirus variants continue to spread across the country. The more contagious variant first spotted in the U.K. (B.1.1.7) has now been detected in 42 states. The variants initially spotted in Brazil (P.1) and South Africa (B.1.351) are for the moment confined to four and 10 states, respectively."

Got your vaccine yet?

February 22, 2021 10:53 AM  
Anonymous Joe Biden and his family are not above the law said...

"Bullshit."

actually, you're a bunch of happy horsecrap!

the numbers started to fall before the vaccine program had advanced far and most scientists think that's only a small part of it

a few weeks ago, an Anthony Fauci, desperate to maintain his moment of celebrity, said the British variant will be dominant in March

doesn't look like he's right

surprise

this is a guy who told us at the beginning, that he didn't think it was very contagious and that masks don't worrk

Trump's biggest problem is he got information from this moron

now, Fauci is saying we'll be wearing masks in 2022

however, a real scientist, at Johns Hopkins, said this weekend that the pandemic will be over in April

"Got your vaccine yet?"

no, I don't qualify yet

I know many people who have though

how about you?

did you pull some happy horsecrap and leapfrog people who need it more?

Joe Biden's dubious nominee for DOJ, Merrick Garland, will appear Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be grilled over his history of sloppy legal work!

The SCOTUS ruled that the NY prosecutor can look at Trump's tax return but he will face criminal contempt charges if they are leaked to the press

February 22, 2021 11:33 AM  
Anonymous Dem monopoly control of inner cities has led to poverty and racism said...

that Merrick Garland hearing is not going well

he'll have to go back to Dancing with the Stars!

February 22, 2021 12:06 PM  
Anonymous A Johns Hopkins professor predicts the US will reach herd immunity by April, but many experts aren't so optimistic said...

The US's daily coronavirus cases have declined 65% in the last month — a record drop in the course of the nation's outbreak. New cases reached an all-time high of 312,000 on January 8. Since then, they've fallen to a weekly average of around 73,000 per day.

Dr. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, suggested in The Wall Street Journal that the most likely explanation for the decline is that the US could be close to reaching herd immunity.

In a Thursday op-ed, Makary predicted that COVID-19 would be "mostly gone" by April.

He wrote that infections have likely been far more widespread than data suggests — so much so, in fact, that the US will soon hit a threshold beyond which the virus won't be able to pass easily from person to person.

"The consistent and rapid decline in daily cases since January 8 can be explained only by natural immunity," Makary wrote. "Behavior didn't suddenly improve over the holidays; Americans traveled more over Christmas than they had since March."

He added that vaccines "don't explain the steep decline" since early January, because "vaccination rates were low and they take weeks to kick in."

But many other doctors and public-health experts continue to caution that herd immunity is still a long way off in the US — particularly as more contagious variants spread.

"We're nowhere near community immunity or population immunity or whatever people want to call it at this point," Dr. Cindy Prins, an epidemiologist at University of Florida, told Insider. "We're nowhere near that yet."

February 22, 2021 12:22 PM  
Anonymous Vaccines come from science said...

As a person in the 1C category, I do qualify for vaccine, however, there are insufficient numbers of vaccines to have already vaccinated all of the members in categories 1A and 1B and I will not jump ahead of others who need it more than me.

February 22, 2021 12:32 PM  
Anonymous TTF .... LOL!! said...

"But many other doctors and public-health experts continue to caution that herd immunity is still a long way off in the US — particularly as more contagious variants spread.

"We're nowhere near community immunity or population immunity or whatever people want to call it at this point," Dr. Cindy Prins, an epidemiologist at University of Florida, told Insider. "We're nowhere near that yet.""

the only one of these "other doctors and public-health experts" you name is some lady from Univ of Fla. I think, if it's a a matter of dispute, the guy from Johns Hopkins is from a more prestigious institution

and what's this term "caution" about

we'll find out if Makary right in a few weeks

there's no steps we have to take to be "cautious"

another difference between Makary and Prins is that she simply makes an assertion that she expects us to accept because of professional authority while eh actually explains his reasoning

another reason to give him more credence

Researchers generally estimate the coronavirus' reproductive value — that of the original strain, at least — to be between 2 and 3 in the absence of vaccines or public-health measures. That means that to achieve herd immunity, around 50% to 67% of a population would need to have some immunity to the virus — whether through vaccination or natural infection.

"In theory, the numbers are around 70% — some say 65%, some say 75%, 80% — but it's generally around those numbers. So it takes a while before you can get there," Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, deputy director general at Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital, told Insider in January.

But Makary's op-ed suggested that "observational data" indicates the US is close to the herd immunity threshold.

Assuming testing only captures 10% to 25% of infections, he said, about 55% of Americans would have natural immunity already, based on the number of tests reported. Add to that 15% of Americans who have been vaccinated so far, he wrote, "and the figure is rising fast."

February 22, 2021 12:46 PM  
Anonymous Ignore all the facts you want but continue wearing your mask, social distancing etc. said...

"scientist, at Johns Hopkins, said this weekend that the pandemic will be over in April"

As we can see, your JHU scientist made no such declarative statement.

He said "the most likely explanation for the decline is that the US could be close to reaching herd immunity. In a Thursday op-ed, Makary predicted that COVID-19 would be "mostly gone" by April.

Prins is not the only other scientist to disagree with Makary.

"Makary's viewpoint has been disputed by other experts like Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Wallensky, who said on Wednesday that the U.S. has not vaccinated nearly enough Americans to reach herd immunity.

During the briefing, Wallensky attributed the decrease in COVID-19 cases to the lack of travel and large gatherings that were more common over the holiday season.

On Thursday, White House COVID adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said that it would well after the summer until things return to "normal."

Fauci said if normal means "getting back to a situation where you can have theaters that might be able to have below capacity, that restaurants, indoor dining can be happening, but with moderately diminished capacity," then "that's going to be somewhere between the fall and the end of the year."

Makary wrote that his prediction was based on data and science as well as anecdotal evidence. He said that, in private, some medical experts agreed with his outside-the-consensus view, but had warned him against discussing it lest he inadvertently encourage members of the public to become complacent, fail to take precautions or refuse to receive the vaccine.

One particularly worrying strain, first identified in the U.K., is doubling its presence in the U.S. every 10 days, according to a study published earlier this month.

While the study found that the strain was circulating at low absolute levels, it supported modeling produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that predicted the strain, known as B.1.1.7., could be the dominant strain in the U.S. next month.

February 22, 2021 1:16 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "for millennia, society has known that two genders are necessary to make a marriage".

Clearly not, there are millions of gay marriages and same sex bonding/marriage have been going on for the entire 300,000 years of mans existance. 3000 years some being bigots doesn't count at all.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous lied again "there are no reported case of [transwomen]being attacked in a men's room the risk of using a public restroom is no greater for trans than anyone else".".

Yes troll, we've heard your lie several times. Here's the truth:

A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "as for the Harvard study, you have to provide examples".

That's absurd. The study concluded there were examples, no rational, honest person needs them listed to accept that they exist. You're like Trump, you can't accept reality

I posted "Wyatt and Regina said themselves they believe trans females will be attacked in the male bathroom:

""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads shoved in a toilet filled with urine and feces]"

"She might get punched out in a redneck bar because of her loudmouth blather but that's just as likely out in the open as in the restroom""

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I was talking about kids".

You said kids were certain to do this, your suggestion that magically they'll all stop being abusive as adults and refrain from assaulting transwomen in the bathroom is preposterous on the the face of it. Not to mention that you also said I was likely to be assaulted in the men's room.

Wyatt/Regina posted "gender has consequences"

What they mean by this is that they want to force transwomen to use the men's bathroom to be assaulted and murdered."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "no, I've said that isn't what I mean".

You've given no alternative plausible explanation for what you mean, there's a reason for that - it is clear from the context of your posts in this and other threads that that's exactly what you mean. You went on about your fantasies of me being assaulted and made a veiled threat of a "backlash to this foolishness" and said I should "lay low".

February 22, 2021 2:45 PM  
Anonymous Wyatt and Regina Hardiman are mentally ill said...

Research has consistently shown people who hate gays are aroused by gay sex.

Homophobia linked with psychoticism and dysfunctional personality traits

February 22, 2021 2:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Right, because why else would the keep repeating the same debunked lies?

February 22, 2021 2:48 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said the cold snap in Texas is proof that global warming is a hoax.

I said "This is a perfect example why you're stupid/dishonest. The global average temperature is what determines if the planet is warming, not a brief localized short term cooling. And the average global temperature is undeniably going up, regardless of occasional localized cold spells."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "here's how a hardcore psycho thinks: whenever there's a localized drought or hurricane, where such things are common, it's proof of global warming whenever there's a localized freezing weather where's it's usually warm, that's nothing".

That's the "Straw man" logical fallacy - we say no such thing. What we say is that the yearly average of temperatures taken all over the world for the past 100 yeas show the planet is warming at an ever increasing pace. Brief localized cold snaps haven't changed that reality.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "sex scandals are more common among liberals"

I said "Where's your evidence?"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "well, let's start with John Wayne Gacy, a guy active in Dem politics, who sexually assaulted and murdered young boys and let's end with John Weaver, who founded the liberal Republican Lincoln Project and preyed on young men".

Listing two anecdotes is in no way proof that sex scandals are more common amongst liberals. You know that, but as a troll you lie to antagonize people debating in good faith.

Plus I listed a survey that showed sex scandals are more common amongst republicans - that's proof, not a couple of cherry picked anecdotes.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I'm actually a libertarian"

There's no important differences between "libertarians" and conservatives/Republicans, its just a pathetic dodge so people like you falsely claim not to be Republican.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "many of you accuse me of being pro-Trump because I didn't support your Trump Derangement Syndrome antics but, personally, I never have liked him".

And there's the gas lighting at full blast. You defended and praisedTrump and his dictatorial moves tooth and nail, lied for him at least as often as the 30,000 lies he told and defended Republicans refusing to hold him accountable for the insurrection. You're "not pro-Trump" just like you "couldn't care less who uses what bathroom". You are clearly mentally ill.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "the country should have taken the same approach as Florida".

You falsely claimed Florida was a big success and California was a big failure. The death rate is 137 per 100,000 people in Florida and 122 per 100,000 in California. And that is not taking into account Governnor Desantis fabricating the Covid death numbers to make them look artificially low. He fired the woman managing the states Covid database because she wouldn't fabricate the numbers for him.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "right now, rates of infection and death are plummeting and no one knows why".

Right, they're plummeting after Biden became president and no one knows why - lol!

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "scientist, at Johns Hopkins, said this weekend that the pandemic will be over in April".

You told us the pandemic would soon be over back in June "It will soon no longer be a pandemic" and that only 60,000 people would die - you have zero credibility on what's going to happen.

February 22, 2021 2:49 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina and evangelical christians are suffering from lgbt derangement syndrome. We don't harm them in any way but they can't stop obsessing over where we pee or what we do in our bedrooms.

February 22, 2021 2:53 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I'm not a Trump supporter"

When you lie and defend Trump's record on coronavirus and refuse to criticize his turning half the public against wearing masks and social distancing you are undeniably a rabid Trump supporter and an existential threat to the USA.

February 22, 2021 3:12 PM  
Anonymous Back to Cancun, Cruz said...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Raised More Than $5 Million In Relief For Texas Amid Storm Crisis

February 22, 2021 3:14 PM  
Anonymous what kind of President would be 82 at the end of his first term and 86 at the end of his second term? answer: none, he can't win said...

more and more, Randy's comments are making me laugh

well, let's look at the stuff in order

"Makary predicted that COVID-19 would be "mostly gone" by April."

sounds over, to me

no ever envision a smallpox-type eradication

indeed, we're nearing the anniversary of when we shut down everything because the CDC said we needed two weeks to flatten the curve

the goalpost has been moved regularly since, as blue state governors and mayors have discovered how they love having dictatorial powers

""Makary's viewpoint has been disputed by other experts like Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Wallensky, who said on Wednesday that the U.S. has not vaccinated nearly enough Americans to reach herd immunity."

look at the subtle way TTFers lie

Makary didn't say we've reached herd immunity

he said we will in April

explained why too

you won't catch other scientists doing that

"On Thursday, White House COVID adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said that it would well after the summer until things return to "normal.""

we'll only get back to normal when Fauci gets tossed on on his petard

"He said that, in private, some medical experts agreed with his outside-the-consensus view, but had warned him against discussing it lest he inadvertently encourage members of the public to become complacent, fail to take precautions or refuse to receive the vaccine."

yeah, Fauci used that as representation for many of his lies, as well

credibility problems have arisen, leading people to distrust scientists

"millions of gay marriages and same sex bonding/marriage have been going on for the entire 300,000 years of mans existance."

too funny

only Randy thinks that saying cavemen did justifies normalizing homosexuality

"we've heard your lie several times. Here's the truth:

A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens."

still waiting for examples

even Harvard has to make their case

"You said kids were certain to do this,"

I never said "certain"

not all kids are bullies

What they mean by this is that they want to force transwomen to use the men's bathroom to be assaulted and murdered."

no, I've said that isn't what I mean

"You've given no alternative plausible explanation for what you mean,"

I don't need to

"the cold snap in Texas is proof that global warming is a hoax"

no, I said it shows that the California drought wasn't proof of global warming

here's how a hardcore psycho thinks: whenever there's a localized drought or hurricane, where such things are common, it's proof of global warming whenever there's a localized freezing weather where's it's usually warm, that's nothing

"Plus I listed a survey that showed sex scandals are more common amongst republicans - that's proof, not a couple of cherry picked anecdotes."

not all Republicans are conservatives

"There's no important differences between "libertarians" and conservatives/Republicans,"

there are a ton of general and specific differences

"You falsely claimed Florida was a big success and California was a big failure."

that's not false

death rate rate rise as a percent was lower in Florida than most blue states

"Right, they're plummeting after Biden became president and no one knows why - lol!"

that is funny

as a matter of fact, they began declining two days after Biden was inaugurated

can you provide us with a few yuks and tell us why?

"evangelical christians are suffering from lgbt derangement syndrome."

this is funny!

does that replace HOMOphobia?

"We don't harm them in any way but they can't stop obsessing over where we pee or what we do in our bedrooms."

I couldn't care less about either

February 22, 2021 3:40 PM  
Anonymous government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem said...

this is number 199

next is 200

I won't respond it

it will likely be Randy ranting about the same thing he did above

if you want my response, see above

February 22, 2021 5:26 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "sounds over, to me".

You said the same thing back in June and that only 60,000 would die. You have no credibility.

I said "there are millions of gay marriages and same sex bonding/marriage have been going on for the entire 300,000 years of mans existance. 3000 years some being bigots doesn't count at all."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said"only Priya thinks that saying cavemen did justifies normalizing h*sexuality"

Like being left-handed, its normal for a minority of people. Oppressing gays harms gays and society and makes HIV infections worse, there is no justification for it its bad for eveyone including you two who will earlier due to your homophobia.

I posted "we've heard your lie [that there is no reason to believe transwomen will be harmed in the men's bathroom] several times. Here's the truth:

A 2019 Harvard study found that policies restricting bathroom access by birth sex were correlated with a greater likelihood of sexual assault for trans and nonbinary teens."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "still waiting for examples".

The study concluded there were examples, that's good enough for any honest rational person. Nothing I could provide you would ever be enough, being anti-gay is part of your tribal identity.

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "even Harvard has to make their case".

They did, you just won't accept reality. If you weren't so obsessed with trying to harm trans people you'd admit it.

"You said kids were certain to do [assault trans females in the men's room".

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I never said "certain" not all kids are bullies'.
Certain, is a fair and accurate paraphrasing of what you said:

""girls" with guy parts don't belong in the girls' room they belong in the boys' room, where they will get [their heads shoved in a toilet filled with urine and feces]"

The phrase "they will" leaves no room for doubt about this happening, you said it was certain.

And again, your suggestion that magically they'll all stop being abusive as adults and refrain from assaulting transwomen in the bathroom is preposterous on the the face of it. Not to mention that you also said I was likely to be assaulted in the men's room of a bar. You obviously don't believe your own B.S. that transwomen are safe in the men's room.

I said What they mean by this is that they want to force transwomen to use the men's bathroom to be assaulted and murdered."

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "no, I've said that isn't what I mean"

I said "You've given no alternative plausible explanation for what you mean,"

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I don't need to".

You mean you don't have one. If you an innocuous explanation for repeatedly saying "gender has consequences" you would have posted it by now. Your attacks and calls to ignore and harm innocent lgbt people show that's exactly what you meant. You have posted approvingly of harmless lgbt people being assaulted, imprisoned, and executed.

February 22, 2021 6:00 PM  

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