Coronainsanity

[sggatecl]

The high mucks at NBC sided with Jay.

The interest in Conan from the viewing public as the host to watch on TV was very different than interest to watch him live in studio.

I wasn?t even paying attention at the time.

Imagine my surprise when I got the call from the booking company to come back and work on booking the Tonight Show with Jay Leno again.

?Wait...what??

I loved Letterman's response(s) to that whole debacle. That's where the real gold was.

 

[Spartanmack]

It doesn't fit at all because I'm not trying to refute a point or make an argument. I stopped trying to do that in this thread a long time ago, everyone's heels are dug in on one side or the other. It's a waste of time.

I simply made a snarky comment in jest. You can save your scarecrows for the people that actually still take the time to debate with people that embrace downplaying Covid. They're wasted on me.

it fits because you boil the opposition argument down to something no one ever said whether you think you're trying to make a point or not. Same with your virtue signaling about how hard your wife is working. No one is denying COVID is real, at least not in this forum but your wife's overtime doesn't refute the opposition or validate the data we're being fed.

 

[sggatecl]

it fits because you boil the opposition argument down to something no one ever said whether you think you're trying to make a point or not. Same with your virtue signaling about how hard your wife is working. No one is denying COVID is real, at least not in this forum but your wife's overtime doesn't refute the opposition or validate the data we're being fed.

Typed a few things out. One was a nasty retort, one actually tried to be reasonable. Realized neither would be productive if you think using my wife's/household's experiences this last year is just virtue signaling. I'll go back to ignoring this thread, it's for the best.

 

[Spartanmack]

Typed a few things out. One was a nasty retort, one actually tried to be reasonable. Realized neither would be productive if you think using my wife's/household's experiences this last year is just virtue signaling. I'll go back to ignoring this thread, it's for the best.

what would you call it when someone consistently uses a personal anecdote that doesn't address arguments made in order to silence debate?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Common sense proves it came from the wuhan lab, and there will be zero consequence to anyone culpable or helped fund it, trump will be indicted in the SDNY which will prevent him from being able to run again and overshadow coming stolen election audit evidence. Tomorrows news today.

The SDNY would be doing the GOP a solid if this were to happen, thereby vanquishing the loser, something that party might not currently have the intestinal fortitude to do itself.

 

[Michchamp]

I've seen a couple people comment in articles on the Wuhan lab leak theory that there's speculation it actually leaked from the Army's biological weapons lab at Ft. Detrick.

that would explain why US corporate/state media suddenly decided to start speculating it was the Chinese again. Yahoo news published an article that documents all the speculation... supposedly Ft. Detrick was closed in July 2019, and there was what was called - at the time - a flu outbreak in the surrounding area.

of course... that's just what the Chicoms would want you to believe!

 

[sggatecl]

what would you call it when someone consistently uses a personal anecdote that doesn't address arguments made in order to silence debate?

I'd call it just that. A personal anecdote. It just so happens that our experiences don't line up with some of the theories in this thread. I'm not attempting to take a moral high ground, I've just stated on a few occasions that they differ. Sometimes I do it in a joking or snarky manner. That's all.

Your attempts to label my posts as strawman arguments, virtue signaling, and who knows what's next is odd behavior to me but you do you. If labels make you feel more comfortable, have at it.

 

[sggatecl]

The SDNY would be doing the GOP a solid if this were to happen, thereby vanquishing the loser, something that party might not currently have the intestinal fortitude to do itself.

Eliminating Trump without actually having to denounce Trump would be a boon for the GOP. There's a large contingent that clearly wants to move on but would like to do so without alienating his voting bloc. It would also potentially reenergize that group for the next elections because they'd been cheated, canceled, etc. Probably best-case scenario for the GOP really.

 

[Gulo Blue]

The SDNY would be doing the GOP a solid if this were to happen, thereby vanquishing the loser, something that party might not currently have the intestinal fortitude to do itself.

This is just speculation, but I suspect if you want to get through the GOP primary, you're going to have to commit to pardoning Trump.

 

[tigermud]

Future president Candace Owens just introduced a new phrase to the lexicon

?Medical segregation?

 

[Michchamp]

This is just speculation, but I suspect if you want to get through the GOP primary, you're going to have to commit to pardoning Trump.

yeah, I don't think they're going to get rid of him that easily. Trump's pseudo-populist rants against the establishment really opened a can of worms that's going to be impossible to close, at least while he's still alive.

And regardless, I doubt very much any of the NY investigations of Trump Inc. amount to anything, because the 1% (and those aspiring to be part of the 1%) do not want to see white collar crime start getting prosecuted in America... beyond the token occasional conviction of someone who takes things to "parody levels" like Martin Shkreli, or themselves starts scamming the 1%, like Bernie Madoff. Neither party wants that.

 

[Spartanmack]

I'd call it just that. A personal anecdote. It just so happens that our experiences don't line up with some of the theories in this thread. I'm not attempting to take a moral high ground, I've just stated on a few occasions that they differ. Sometimes I do it in a joking or snarky manner. That's all.

Your attempts to label my posts as strawman arguments, virtue signaling, and who knows what's next is odd behavior to me but you do you. If labels make you feel more comfortable, have at it.

No, you're not just making the point that your personal experience differs. You've used the anecdote with a heaping dose of righteous indignation on several occasions to belittle or dismiss people who challenge the popular narratives around COVID. If you don't like the "labels" too bad. Since you rely so heavily on the same tired story that doesn't make the case for the popular narrative or dispute the opposing arguments, you can expect to be called out for it or if you prefer, "labeled" for what it is.

 

[Spartanmack]

Those fringe wackos at Johns Hopkins are adding their names to the list of anti-science scientists. I wish everyone would just trust the experts but these nut jobs with their MDs and their research are going to get millions killed - so irresponsible.

 

[Michchamp]

Those fringe wackos at Johns Hopkins are adding their names to the list of anti-science scientists. I wish everyone would just trust the experts but these nut jobs with their MDs and their research are going to get millions killed - so irresponsible.

Whoa... is THIS a straw man argument? Who is arguing that there's no natural immunity from COVID-19?

I seem to recall documented cases (one last summer) of repeat COVID, so the question is not if we get natural immunity from it, it's how long does that immunity last.

 

[Spartanmack]

No idea why this isn't being covered by western media other than the NYP and Daily Mail. It's a real head scratcher. Seems odd considering the source of the study is two European doctors. That reminds me of a joke our family doctor told my kids...If you're American when you go into the bathroom and you're American when you come out of the bathroom, what are you when you're in the bathroom? European - get it? You're-a-peein'?

 

[Spartanmack]

Whoa... is THIS a straw man argument?

No, but this is...

Who is arguing that there's no natural immunity from COVID-19...

It seems the more you try, the worse you get at discerning what is and isn't a straw man and then you immediately follow up your attempt with a straw man. But don't let you're consistent failures get you down. Don't give up, don't ever give up.

 

[Michchamp]

No, but this is...



...

LOL, okay fine.

you posted an article about natural immunity to covid in an argumentative tone, but I should have known better than to respond in good faith to something you posted. my bad. done with this BS for today.

enjoy your circle jerk with zyxt and mud about how antifa is increasing the murder rate in portland or whatever.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Those fringe wackos at Johns Hopkins are adding their names to the list of anti-science scientists. I wish everyone would just trust the experts but these nut jobs with their MDs and their research are going to get millions killed - so irresponsible.

This is right.

I got the jab; I said it before, I?m in a risk category and my doc who knows my medical history deemed the Covid a higher risk than the jab.

Now, back in the day I put much more dangerous shit into my body that had zero potential positive health outcomes than the jab, so I decided ?fuck it.?

Chances are neither the Covid nor the jab would or is going to have much of an effect on me.

But one would think that there are going to be people who will die from the jab - or have another bad outcome - who wouldn?t have died or had a bad outcome from the Covid.

It inconceivable to think there won?t be (see what I did there?).

It?s all a matter of statistics and probabilities.

Today I could win the lottery.

Today I could be run over by a bus.

Or both.

In no particular order.

 

[Spartanmack]

LOL, okay fine.

you posted an article about natural immunity to covid in an argumentative tone, but I should have known better than to respond in good faith to something you posted. my bad. done with this BS for today.

enjoy your circle jerk with zyxt and mud about how antifa is increasing the murder rate in portland or whatever.

misrepresenting my post with garbage like

Who is arguing that there's no natural immunity from COVID-19...

isn't responding in good faith. Even you're not dumb enough to think anyone is making that argument so you have to misrepresent what's in the article and what i'm saying so you argue against is and pretend you won the argument. That's the very definition of a strawman.

I am enjoying interacting with people who aren't dumb enough to think what's happening in Portland is caused by group of outsiders travelling all the way to Oregon to start riots every night for a year - the white supremacist boogeyman theory. It's comically stupid for you to think you're in a position to accuse other people of being conspiracy theory whackos when you desperately hang on to such moronic positions.

 

[tigermud]

The SDNY would be doing the GOP a solid if this were to happen, thereby vanquishing the loser, something that party might not currently have the intestinal fortitude to do itself.

B Owens/C Owens 2024