Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Biden dropout debate EXPLODES: "Biggest DISASTER in party history"" video.

Oh yeah I got that. She's the classic self righteous ivory tower academic who knows stuff. She thinks being right about some things makes her right about everything. As for academics and their "empirical data" how many scandals involving data manipulation odes it take before they STOP using those sorts of claims.
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@mcorrelje Who are you saying that to her or me? Simply put its people like her who have helped maintain the status quo of the upper ranks of established parties is WHY democracy is failing everywhere. The great advantage of democracy is that you can (on a regular basis) get rid of people who are NOT doing their job well enough. THAT HAS BEEN SUBVERTED in the last 20 or so years by these established elitists WHO THINK they know better and the rest of us are problems to be managed.
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@keenannorris3309 GREAT and IMPORTANT question: Empircal data is fantastic until you get people FILTERING IT and MAIPULATING IT to suit their agenda or narrative. Here's a perfect example and sorry if this takes explaining. Yale educated Economist Gigi Foster who's based in my country Australia made some famous claims during COVID. She was adamant that lockdowns were wrong and we should do the Swedish thing. She famously said on 60 Minutes Australia "They'll die anyway" in reference to older and infirmed people. She was panned by other staff from UNSW where she works and especially those who work in microbiology and health care. BUT SHE NEVER LET UP. In 2023 on a public discussion panel (ABC Australia's QandA) she made the claim that the Australian Governments response to COVID had saved at most 10,000 lives and she had the "Empirical Data" to prove it. She really slammed down everyone on that panel and in the audience with the "I have the data you don't and I am right!" routine. THERES A PROBLEM and I hope one day to ram this down her disgusting arrogant throat publicly. I know the data she was using and I know how she manipulated it. I was watching the COVID stats for the world via worldometers(dot.com) and they had the data from every government agency on a single page. For many countries like Australia, Canada and America you could also access their data state by state. What Gigi Foster did was make that claim based on the world average and at the time she made that claim the world average of COVID deaths per million people compared to Australia's stat said we could have had 20,000 more dead when we had around 10,000. HOWEVER when you check the Swedish Data and Sweden was the example she cited again and again AT THE SEWIDH fatality rate we would have had over 60,000 dead. So her claim on having and presenting Empirical Data was MANIPULATIVE, FALSE, MISLEADING and a clear case of ACADEMIC FRAUD for which she has never been held accountable. And this illustrates something with the way people use and manipulate data and in fact any data. WHAT FILTERS and AVERAGING and STATISTICAL manipulations are they using. There have been many many scandals out of Academic research over this and they will continue so long as people can make money or get their research funded OR WORSE there is a political angle they can push. Sorry for the long reply but I hope that answers your question because it is actually a very valid question.
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YEAH but if COVID hadn't made a monkey out of Trump and Biden was forced to leave his basement what would have happened? ALSO DO NOT FORGET THAT the Dems (overall) lost seats in the house, they DID NOT win an outright majority in the Senate which Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have exploited for their own interests AND the Dems (in general) were slaughtered in the state legislatures. Biden actually won because a lot of Republicans hated Trump and either voted for Biden or NOT at all as regards POTUS. That was what really got under Trumps skin. There were a lot of Republicans who still voted Republican for the House, Senate and State seats BUT DID NOT vote for Trump and that rejection cost him the election. Go and look up the stats and see in how many places there were FEWER votes for Trump that for the other GOP candidates down ballot. If that happens to Biden where people still turn up and vote for Democrats down ballot but then don't vote for Biden he could lose JUST LIKE THEY DID IN 2016
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@mscom-w9d And she is pulling EVERY standard Democrat EXCUSE that resulted in Trump getting elected in the first place and then allowing SCOTUS to become the disaster that it is. How many times do these people have to FIAL before you will wake up? WHEN WILL YOU PEOPLE REALISE THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE A SHlTFEST?
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