Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "CNN" channel.

  1. Are we supposed to support a blatantly unconstitutional law because MTG opposes it? 😂
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  2. ​ @USEismydream  The bill is unconstitutional.
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  3. ​Talking bs is protected by the First Amendment.
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  4. Telephone only
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  5. That sounds weird but it's true. There are no thought crimes, and speech that isn't a true threat or a call to violence or conspiracy to commit a crime is usually protected by 1A.
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  6. Kanye is a genius. It makes me sad that people treat him as though he weren't intelligent. I don't agree with him, either. That's not the point.
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  7.  @MarkMphonoman  Do you feel sorry for the vaccinated people who are hospitalized?
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  8.  @kellyfowler6426  Did you actually believe most unvaccinated people are nuts? Has the media convinced you of that?
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  9. When I watch that January 6th clip, I have to wonder to what degree oxycontin played a role.
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  10.  @Time4me2change  Honestly, hating on someone in the hospital!
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  11. ​@Mixedworld.58 is young. Think about what the Carters were doing 40 years ago. Jimmy was 59, actually, and Rosalynn 56.
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  12. Antisemitic speech is constitutionally protected unless (1) it rises to the level of a threat or incitement to violence, when it can be a crime; or (2) occurs in a workplace in violation of Title VII, or in a classroom or dorm in violation of Title VI, when it can be a tort. This is very simple.
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  13. If most of these people never bother their hideous heads over how old a teenage girl is, and whether she is of age yet, would not shock me in the least. They consider themselves entitled. Everything Gaetz himself says shows it.
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  14. @justinstephenson9360  The definition of incitement is very narrow, and the US has no thought crimes, or prescribed personal associations. Its laws against discrimination apply to the workplace, school, public spaces, means of transportation, and so forth. You can say whatever you want -- you can even agitate for repealing Title VII and Title IX. That's your First Amendment right.
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  15. Does anyone wonder exactly how reporters and camera crews get into patients' rooms? What sorts of consent are needed? We still have HIPPA. Is there an incentive offered to waive all privacy protections?
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  16. In most states, I know that once you have probable cause to arrest, you can obtain a court order directing him to submit to a DNA test.
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  17.  @bloppysloppy2283  Not even a software engineer. Just someone with a nose for business whose mom was serving on a board with a top IBM exec. BTW, when Paul Allen developed a highly treatable form of cancer, that software "engineer" tried to shove him out of his job.
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  18. This law is blatantly unconstitutional.
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  19.  @squamish4244  He kept saying he was only speaking for himself, but we all know it does not come across that way. If he were only speaking for himself, he could keep the (essentially private) information with his next of kin and call it a day.
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  20. @Ashnesss  "She must be . . . " stop right there.
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  21. "I don't know if a no-fly zone will bring a nuclear war." --- that's a humanitarian message? No wonder video game images were passed off as coming from this war.
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  22.  @bmell1252  I know a woman who has decided to decline the vaccine, and has volunteered for a COVID monoclonal antibody study which starts September 3. She is not being unfair to you. EDIT: She herself has been a cancer patient. I forgot about that.
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  23. He seems irrational. Supporting a no-fly zone even if it risks a nuclear war? Delirium! An immediate cease-fire needs to be negotiated.
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  24.  @martinpike803  The power plant wasn't bombed.
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  25.  @Roller_Ghoster  Of course my statement makes sense. Look at what OTHER countries are doing. I heard an interview with Dr. Eric Topol, one of the most pro-vaccine, activist doctors around, and HE called the US approach overly "vaccine-centric." I learned from him that Germans and Dutch just go to their pharmacies and pick up home COVID testing kits, for free, and that they have tracing protocols. I like Dr. Topol, he's clearly really smart and an honest guy. He might be right, he might be wrong, but he sure isn't lying. Look, a lot of other countries are doing better -- or lying. Don't you want to know what's going on with this? Look at the numbers in other parts of the world. Many places with lower vaccination rates have less disease, and many places with high vaccination rates have a lot of breakthrough infections. This is no time for more dumb politics.
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  26. Who said they haven't?
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  27.  @iClone316  Read the EUA vaccination release form, slowly, then tell me whether a healthy person under 30 is clearly wrong in wanting to see full FDA approval first, AND getting tested weekly in the meantime, etc. If I had a teenager, it's what I'd probably suggest to them.
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  28. Now that one vaccine is FDA approved, certainly reevaluate and be willing to take it.
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  29.  @gcelosegui  Precisely. You're also free to talk about it in most contexts, too.
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  30.  @subobing3551  That's not the point. Actually, it occurs in one of America's finest poems: Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead." Black stand-up comics use it, too.
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  31.  @happilydivorced7777  WOMEN support each other?? That's the biggest gaslighting in the world.
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  32. @erincoco612  If a gag order is needed to protect legal process, then obviously absent the order, the speech is NOT prohibited.
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  33. The videos where Hotez FLATLY contradicts HIMSELF repeatedly and acts as a political shill instead of a doctor seal the deal for me.
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  34. ​@steelcom5976 RFK Jr is willing to debate conspiracy theorist Peter Hotez , of course.
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  35. @maggiemaloney8599  Because Brandenburg v. Ohio. Because Watts v. United States. Because Virginia v. Black. Because it is absolutely settled law that you cannot criminalize even the most odious speech unless it constitutes a true threat of imminent harm or incites imminent violence. You can't even ban cross burning or calling for revolution unless it meets one of those criteria, evincing intent to cause an imminent breach of the peace or to intimidate a particular person or group of people who are present when you said those words, or performed those acts (for symbolic or expressive conduct). It's not a gray area. It is unconstitutional.
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  36. @maggiemaloney8599  There is no contradiction between complaining of discrimination and not wanting it criminalized. I've been discriminated against plenty of times. It never crossed my mind to want someone charged with a crime over it. How ridiculous. If I have a viable lawsuit, it's my job to bring it.
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  37. Johnson & Johnson was phased out in my region.
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  38. Thank you for this. Of course there is a time when certain diseases should not be treated aggressively, if at all. That time is not age 75 for all forms of cancer. Good lord!
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  39.  @Viconius  Agree. You can see what happened to these people. They are unwell. Remember, this was done to them, too. This was forced on all of us, and not everyone can resist such incessant fear-mongering. Not everyone is psychologically strong. If I had had a living elderly parent, I would have been sucked in, too. I know that. I have mercy for these people. I just wish they would get help, instead of still hectoring the rest of us.
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  40. A lot of people don't. They do not understand how cutting a tape can completely misrepresent what was said.
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  41. The bill is blatantly unconstitutional. It's not even close. Congress is ignoring its oath to support the Constitution. This law is a shameless fundraising gimmick.
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  42. Yes, but what if someone whacky like MTG is against it? Don't the Cool Kids have to be for it? 😂
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  43. Well, but talking about MTG is so much more important. I mean, what's an amendment here or there?
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  44. @erincoco612  The First Amendment certainly does prohibit government from making hate speech illegal:  Brandenburg v. Ohio; Watts v. United States; RAV v. City of St Paul; Virginia v. Black --- those are just a few of the cases that say so. It is absolutely settled law that you cannot criminalize even the most odious speech unless it constitutes a true threat of imminent harm or incites imminent violence. It's not a gray area. It's unconstitutional.
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  45. @erincoco612  I just cited four Supreme Court cases. In two of them, cross burning could not be prosecuted under local laws prohibiting it, in Virginia and in St. Paul, Minnesota. That's because the law as written or as applied was struck down as unconstitutional.
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  46. I am sick to death of all of these politicians grandstanding. We need real science and real answers, and I no longer expect to see either.
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  47.  @wyskass861  WHO takes Putin's word? THIS ISN'T A GAME.
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  48. What is the source of this?
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  49. Columbine was 25 years ago. The students who survived are in their 40s. Columbine was not first.
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  50. There's a very important reason why that is objectively true: your marital partner is your next of kin. If anything happens to you and you can't make decisions for yourself, guess who does? They better love you, or like and respect you, and have ethics.
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  51.  @bmell1252  Wow, just wow.
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  52.  @bmell1252  Keep reminding me why I'm emigrating. Deadline, 2025. Decided in 2019, proud to say. Still, I was surprised by the hate. Now I know to expect no better.
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  53.  @kellyfowler6426  Me, too. Also getting tested regularly, now that community penetration of delta is at about a 6% positivity rate.
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  54. That's why he's rich.
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  55. Why don't the Smart People and the Cool Kids know this law is unconstitutional? It sounds like I'm kidding, but actually . . .
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  56.  @adolfolerito6744  I also agree that it's likely that the people having severe reactions to the vaccine would probably have had the same reaction to COVID, if they caught it -- the same or worse. I think you are right about that, and I think that's why doctors have downplayed the vaccine issues. I have NEVER seen a vaccine like this one pushed on people before. No other vaccine causes this much reactivity. People who've had COVID and recovered are having the worst reactions, to both shots. This vaccine is no joke, either.
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  57.  @Roller_Ghoster  No one but American politicians are asserting that not getting vaccinated is putting others at risk. I looked at what other countries' ministries of health had to say on the issue, so I know what I'm talking about. At this point, vaccination is giving too many people a false sense of security, giving them permission not to wear masks, etc.
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  58. Well, we aren't laughing. Most of the people you see in this video are heavily armed. And no one in our political class is qualified to lead.
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  59. @TriggaTrey361  The problem is that civil rights advocates and peace demonstrators are also accused of spreading hate. That is a problem. I consider it a very serious problem, and a false accusation.
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  60.  @aymanzaky3432  They must have signed elaborate release forms. Was that incentivized in some way?
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  61. So . . . a person cannot state what happened to them without declaring their support for the vaccine and urging others to do what they themselves should not have done. Got it.
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  62.  @wyskass861  We need people of real stature to find a way to get to a cease-fire as soon as possible. Beating the war drum will get more innocent people killed. It is that simple. There is nothing to be gained from escalation, nothing.
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  63. Thank you. You are the voice of reason. The pro-vaccine and the con are all exhausting. FTR, I did not get vaccinated for the exact reason you just gave. My concerns were never addressed. I probably had COVID, was not very sick (but it was weird -- unlike any flu I've ever had) and recovered fully in March 2020, but I could not get a definitive diagnosis. (An antibody test with a very high rate of false negatives came up negative 100 days later, but my white blood count was still typical of someone who had had COVID. My insurance declined to pay for better testing.) That was just the beginning. I have lost a lot of my trust.
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  64. ​ @maggiemaloney8599 The fact that she voted against a bill doesn't make it a good law. Even she can't do that.
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  65.  @maggiemaloney8599  I hope they let you see my reply. Two, actually.
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  66.  @jebus9303  Yes. That's why I stated "waiver." A person can waive Fourth Amendment protection if they wish, or Fifth Amendment rights, or their right to a trial. So of course they can waive HIPPA (and no, their NOK cannot do it, if they themselves are awake, oriented, and able to speak to the journalist). My question is then, was waiver incentivized? How? Not hard to grasp.
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  67.  @lazypops3117  No. It's all the people who say the unvaccinated deserve to die, good riddance, etc., and all the positive remarks they receive that I call "hate." Disbelief doesn't come close. Who cares about that?
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  68.  @christian1834  This is what worries me. I was just telling two of my dearest neighbors that they should never allow the jerks who are pushing vaccination to influence them against it. The propaganda should have ZERO influence on you, either way. Propaganda is not information about anything, except the mentality and character of the propagandist.
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  69.  @kellyfowler6426  That's fine. I don't disagree with you. But concerning mitigation, don't you wonder why the US has handled this pandemic worse than just about any other country? Those in positions of responsibility are using the media to turn people against each other and make COVID into yet another blame-the-individual game. That always happens. Haven't you noticed? An unvaccinated person who tests weekly (like most Germans do) and wears a mask is less of a threat to you than someone who got vaccinated and refuses to take precautions. Their vaccine protects them, not you.
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  70.  @jip4408  Well what a nice thing to say! Thank you, I will. She won't know whether she'll end up getting a placebo, unless the monoclonal antibodies cause marked side effects. She is a great human being, true.
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  71.  @gc3117  Thanks for making my point. Beware of passive voice, no agent in times of peace, much less now. And what, exactly, is a "projectile?" How does that translate to "was bombed?" That doesn't even support "was shelled."
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  72.  @didhethough7304  Do you know nothing about Sean Penn?
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  73. Wow you're mean.
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  74.  @ジェームズ-d8r  Not so. EVERYONE has HIPPA rights that they themselves must waive, and be competent to waive. No one can invade anyone's medical privacy for a "public service message."
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  75.  @Roller_Ghoster  So, if nothing works as well as vaccines, then we should have vaccines or nothing? Even doctors who urge vaccination above all disagree with that obviously illogical and unethical position.
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  76.  @adolfolerito6744  I like having the actual information laid out like this. But notice, for example, in my state, 11% of the total population had a confirmed case of COVID that came to the attention of state health authorities. By now, it could be higher, so let's say 12%. (The true number could be much higher, 20 to 30%, but that is not known, and most of those cases were undoubtedly mild.) Of those 12%, under 2% died (roughly 1.85%, but let's go with 2%, which mirrors the US as a whole). So, 0.24% of the people in my state have died of COVID since the very start of the pandemic. This is a huge number; after all, 0.1% of one million is 1000. But that puts a different spin on it. The fact that so many people who had moderate COVID had organ damage and other problems, including major depression, is a better argument to take the risk of vaccination -- if it works. But that's starting to look questionable as well. More and more fully vaccinated ARE contracting moderate COVID. It is only fair to ask: is vaccination giving people a false sense of security? Maybe we better be less "vaccine-centric." Maybe other avenues, like better prevention and treatment, need to be found, in addition to vaccines.
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  77.  @margokerby1533  A person has to ask whether they got paid for their stories. I frankly hope so. Giving up such important privacy rights for free is a scary thought.
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  78.  @Roller_Ghoster  That's not what I questioned. I questioned whether it plays a central role in protecting OTHER people, not the vaccinated person themselves. But go on, why don't you? Now everyone is as illogical as Americans. Don't you teach Bertrand RUSSELL any more?
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  79.  @Roller_Ghoster  My mask protects you more than me, your mask protects me more than you. With vaccines, it is very much the opposite. And with vaccinated people getting breakthrough infections, they will probably be fine but they are contagious. They may unknowingly spread COVID to someone else, believing they can't because they're vaccinated.
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  80.  @Roller_Ghoster  Do you get high? Is that it?
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  81.  @Roller_Ghoster  Your thumbnail is a specimen at any rate. You answered my question on Russell, BTW. 😃 Blocked.
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  82.  @miketaylor4993  Yes, Dr. Topol is very pro-vaccine, entirely open about it, yet he was not comfortable with the idea of mandating vaccines, especially those without full FDA approval -- and, obviously, even with full approval, we still need options such as weekly testing. You can't just exclude everyone who declines vaccines from society. I appreciated his take on the risks of an "overly vaccine-centric" approach.
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  83. I'll tell you how that happens for real: you have to look within, to find what you truly loved to do, and that felt natural to you, when you were a preteen and young teen. Pursue something that is strongly related to that love. That is where you will meet people. Don't think this is just a story. I swear it is not. Also, have no-screen-time days. Have reading or music or art days. Let me know in 6 months how it goes. I mean it.
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  84.  Sam Morris  "What does it matter?" How many shootings have we had? Do you hear how these people sound? Would you want to be in their vicinity when the news they don't want to hear reaches them? Your theory couldn't possibility be true, since we have one of the most profoundly rude societies in the developed world. https://www.newsweek.com/gun-sales-rise-amid-election-2020-mass-shootings-track-rival-2019-1546188 https://theconversation.com/mass-shootings-in-the-us-have-risen-sharply-in-2020-why-150981
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  85. ​ @lorraineclark2307 It's blatant fundraising.
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  86. Rich people go to private schools with exceptional security.
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  87.  @JadeoftheGlade  I'm so sorry. I wish you did not have company, and it hardly helps you that you do -- but you do. Also, people with "long COVID" become depressed as well. :/
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  88.  @SoniaGonzalez-cs2yl  Yes, this is exactly how the flu vaccine works. You might catch the flu, but it will feel like a cold. Unfortunately, you can spread it to others, who might get very sick. All the approved vaccines in the world prevent serious COVID, and prevent hospitalization. That's all we know with high certainty. We don't even know how long our resistance lasts. Not great.
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  89. @TriggaTrey361  "Accountable" in what way? And to whom? Your freedom of association gives you the right to avoid anyone whose speech you find reprehensible. I know I do. Do you think passing highly divisive laws will solve divisiveness? We're in need of new crimes, we don't have the largest prison population in the world already?
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  90.  @LD86  You will look back on this and be ashamed.
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  91.  @stevencaseymiller8376  The head of the CDC just admitted before the Senate that she does not have the numbers of severe adverse events from the vaccine, and that VAERS is not reliable. I believe her that VAERS contains false reports of severe adverse events, but she cannot provide accurate reports. Therefore the question is not settled.
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  92. ​ @benschlotte8242  Wasn't that the school shooter in Georgia? I honestly don't know, I'm asking.
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  93.  @CursedCommentaries  I did not endorse that. I explained how it worked.
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  94.  @erincoco612  Hate speech is very much protected. Brandenburg v. Ohio is chock full of it. Counterman v. Colorado has plenty, too.
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  95. No. Hate is legal. Hate based on race, creed, color, etc., as a motive for an actual crime increases the sentence, and could make you guilty of both state and federal offenses --- just like __ your spouse for insurance money or to hide fraud is worse than out of jealousy. The press never explains this well. America doesn't have thought crimes.
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  96. Most Russians are Eurasian. And??
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  97.  @CortexNewsService  Sure. Free speech!
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  98.  @cagneybillingsley2165  Worse.
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  99.  @wyskass861  Supporting a no-fly zone even if it risks a nuclear war? That was what he said. That is for the benefit of others? Ask the Japanese what they think.
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  100.  @wyskass861  I was not quoting Putin, or crediting him, or discrediting him. I was quoting Sean Penn based on what he said in this video. Which was unhinged. No one seems to think they need to be responsible and sober, or to tone down their rhetoric. They are bloviating for their own perceived benefit and nothing more.
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  101. @jefft5152  Why would I? I would never vote for a Republican. You think it's news that they are vile, and have been thoroughly vile since the Southern Strategy?
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  102.  @jefft5152  This isn't the only video of his testimony before Congress that I've watched.
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  103. @jefft5152  Yes, other videos that compare what Hotez had to say in 2020 about the danger in rushing a vaccine, especially against a coronavirus, with what he had to say when the "mot d'ordre" became vaccine mandates. You well know that posts with live links are removed from these boards, unless the person posting knows a way to hide such links from the algorithm (which I don't). The idea is that live links are too difficult to monitor for TOS violations. But you knew that. Your strategy is to ask anyway, for obvious reasons. Blocked for wasting my precious time. If your memory is poor, I hope it's not from some medical intervention. 🤣
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  104. Uh huh. Now explain to me why this is the time for senile candidates and drag queen story hours. Right, it isn't. Get serious, will you?
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  105.  @BigBadJerryRogers  Thank you. When my state was shut down for all of May, after we expected to come out of the harshest restrictions on May 1, I doubled down on precautions. Of course. This has become impossible.
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  106. Wait. You think he knows history? In NYC, he might have picked up some buzz. Montenegrins are known to brag that they resisted the Ottomans.
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  107. ​ @chanalAnims 💯
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  108.  @xbox360blows  🤣
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  109. The bill is blatantly unconstitutional. The First Amendment protects stupid speech and stupid religious beliefs. No, I'm not kidding.
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  110. @user-tw3kr9if1f  It means whatever the lobbyist with the most money says it means --- just like "reasonable gun law," which even Sandyhook and Uvalde can't get us to come to an agreement about.
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  111.  michael828  LOL, he deserved that.
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  112. Not since 9/11!
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  113. There's no money in it, silly.
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  114. ABC News interviewed the mastermind of the terrorist cell that committed the Beslan school seige and massacre.
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  115. ​ @markhockman1368 What has Assange been convicted of?
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  116. It is no longer available in my area. I don't believe it was withdrawn, but it is "disfavored."
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  117. You sound French. Seriously, that's what Paris was like. Just like that.
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  118.  @jennahopkins8189  Not in the US there aren't.
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  119. Everyone should look at Tyre's web page with his photography. It's remarkable. He was very gifted.
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  120. I'm amazed he's a man.
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  121.  @tinamiller9599  Supporting a no-fly zone even if it risks a nuclear war? That was what he said. No, he is not more upstanding than the rest of us, or doing anything "for humanity" with his rhetoric. What is needed is a cease-fire, not an escalation. My GOD. When did everyone lose their minds?
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  122. The videos where Hotez FLATLY contradicts HIMSELF repeatedly and acts as a political shill instead of a doctor seal the deal for me. Hotez wanted to deprive everyone with perfectly legitimately concerns about the COVID vaccines of their civil rights and civil liberties. If the discussions with RFK Jr would be so unproductive, have one and show us.
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  123.  @bmell1252  BTW, blocked. Blech.
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  124.  @lazypops3117  Okay you're right.
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  125.  @kellyfowler6426  I asked a question. I assume, now, that your answer is no. Great. Thanks.
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  126. ABC News interviewed the mastermind of the terrorist cell that committed the Beslan school seige and massacre.
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  127.  @khenderson6689  I don't agree with that approach. People have to really love each other, then if children come into their lives, wonderful. A LOT of people find out for one reason or another that children are not in their future. If you plan to treat a woman like a mandated breeder, then expect to be interviewed and scrutinized. That's where that comes from. What else do you expect?
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  128. Here's a woman's perspective: the last guy seriously interested in me made sure to flash his money (talked about his stock portfolio), said weird racist stuff about the people who were moving into the city, not realizing the same things could have been said about my own parents, then put words in my mouth that were of the same tone, which was scary, and THEN acted like he needed to "let me down gently," when I couldn't stand him. It was ridiculous. It was also clear that he felt sex was "dirty." He's divorced, in case you haven't guessed. This is creepy stuff. I hope no guy here would consider a woman with these traits. Yuck.
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  129.  @dahliafiend  That's FUNNY. She was a nut.
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  130. @BigSnipp  Yes women are dying in childbirth. Check the stats. They went up a little in 2020, then soared in 2021. CDC numbers. Go look.
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  131.  @billjameson1254  Oh shut up.
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  132. @billjameson1254  1. You're right, you don't understand. 2. He wasn't rich. Nor do I care. It's crass to talk about money. That's the last thing I ever cared about. A capacity to deal with the world such as it is is essential, certainly. Money hoarding and money worship are not; it's a turn-off. 3. If you READ carefully, you'd have gleaned that he said racist things that could apply to my own family. That's an ugly discourse. Who delves into that? On a date?? 4. Then the stuff about sex -- at best, he has no ideals, and at worst he has issues, to put it euphemistically. 5. People of all different ages are here, including divorced people. Are you a gatekeeper? 6. I'm well past the age where a new life partner is important to me, and I'm culturally non-Western. I could never get along with the type of person I just described. 7. Not all women care about money. You think I should have played up to a lout? Why? 8. This one never got a kiss. 😅 As I said, no man should feel they have to put up with a woman who has the same traits as this guy. I hadn't thought of him in years. I do remember his first name, though. It took a moment.
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  133. Masks protect others from infection much more than the wearer. Vaccines protect the vaccinated person from serious disease much more than they protect others.
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  134. ​ @mjc42701  I got the translation with one click. 😂
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  135. Get some sober people to drop the nonsense and negotiate an immediate cease-fire. "Fight . . . Whatever happens" means only one thing, more death. Chris Hedges was a war correspondent, listen to him. "Plummeting up a cliff?" "I don't know if no-fly zones will cause a nuclear war?" Insanity.
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  136. Frank Zappa was almost right: "life is high school with money," except now it's 7th grade.
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  137.  @MarkLewis-qe4pj  YES IT IS See Brandenburg v. Ohio Watts v. United States Virginia v. Black RAV v. City of St. Paul Start there
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  138. No it can't. Columbine was in the last century, and it was not the first mass shooting. This is as "good" as it gets.
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  139. @bismarck9  So, we have to keep records on this now??
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  140. @SentinalSlice  It's clear that you haven't studied the legal issue. "Hate speech" is not a category of unprotected speech under the First Amendment by any stretch. A business office or other private or restricted speech forum can ban it, but that's different. It's still free speech. You might be confusing it with "hate crime," which requires a predicate crime, and then looks to motive -- not unlike the difference between killing a spouse for insurance money, as opposed to having been battered weekly for two decades and then one day you snap.
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  141.  @gc3117  I don't know that it's even true. Reports of flares causing that fire may or may not be accurate. They call it the fog of war for a reason.
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  142.  @Nazman06  Well. What is your opinion of what he said?
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  143.  @earvetta  Everyone has HIPPA rights. The EUA vaccine release forms all say that if, after reading them, you decline the vaccine, YOUR MEDICAL CARE WILL BE UNAFFECTED.
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  144.  @shidfard  Never let these people influence you for or against vaccination. Tune them out. They deserve none of your precious time. If you are against taking these vaccines for now, remain ready to change your mind.
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  145. @Plodding Dream Do people really not know that you have a federally protected right to privacy in the hospital? There are pages of permissions, waivers, hold harmless forms that must be signed. Did you think a camera crew can just show up, "in the public interest?" It's not in everyone's interest to be on television like this. They might lose a job, or not get hired, etc. This is not a favorable report!
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  146. @Plodding Dream Okay you're right.
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  147. @Plodding Dream Law offers protections, including privacy protections, for everyone. Supposedly. Well, it used to. Okay. Never mind.
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  148. 90 is not 75. I agree with you --- not him!
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  149. @jtomczak100  If this feels weird, just wait until they start divorcing. Hope not to find out the details -- trust me, you don't want to know.
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  150.  @PolyMadd  It's extremely important to find a job where there are smarter people than you. If you don't, you will suffer every day. That's just how it is.
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  151.  @margyrowland  A woman I knew tried church. Married a closeted gay guy who got arrested for peeping. She thought he respected her. There are no simple formulas.
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  152. @PolyMadd  My GREs put me there. I had that when working with top lawyers, but nowhere else -- true.
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  153.  @PolyMadd  It was such a relief, too. A lot of other people disliked all of us, come to think of it, but in very smart, hardworking people, I easily forgive quirks, no problem.
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  154.  @Yomel123  Don't worry. Not you. 😂
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  155. Trump MUST be held responsible for what he did.
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  156. What were the "conspiracy theories?" Funny label, from a network that assured us any questions about a laboratory accident were racist and that vaccines would halt the transmission of the virus -- all from a network that somehow led people to expect a 15% infection fatality rate, and is now trying to get parents to vaccinate their toddlers, which no European country with a solid public health system is doing. (In the meantime, cha ching.)
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  157.  @oigioioivn  How large is large?
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  158.  @Dolphinsz  Good for you, hon! You WILL be fine.
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  159. I think this is an absolutely disgraceful hit piece. This post is an embarrassment. RFK Jr is his mother's first cousin, hence the relationship is similar to uncle and nephew. He could present his reasons for opposing RFK Jr without sounding worse than Trump.
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  160. Too late for a vaccine for him.
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  161. PERFECT. Thank you. I am sick to death of all of these politicians grandstanding. We need real science and real answers, and I no longer expect to see either.
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  162.  @cynthianaylor9514  Keep them safe? With what, an EUA vaccine that does not prevent illness or stop its spread? This cat is long out of the bag. Do you know who Clementine Autain is? She is a far-left French politician. Back in 2021, she talked about the irrationality of having her "vaccine passport" allow her to enter anywhere, while she was positive for COVID. France soon made it illegal to ask anyone under 18 about vaccine status. You cannot ask a child there whether they got vaccinated against COVID. The left spearheaded the law.
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  163.  Sam Morris  I don't have a televison. So I don't watch CNN regularly, and don't subscribe. Do you suggest this video is false? And are you, by contrast, a Fox devote(e)?
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  164.  @niclewis9610  The one who just got arrested for murder.
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  165.  @stuartdryer1352  💯 thank you
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  166. @stuartdryer1352  Counterpunch just posted a series of Christmas cards sent out by politicians showing their entire family carrying firearms. This is the power of NRA money.
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  167. @anthonywilson4181  "Assault weapon" is a journalistic term for a rifle that is intended to be used in combat rather than in hunting, and is optimized for use in combat. No law restricting such weapons can be vague. Criminal laws generally have to be carefully crafted, or they won't apply. (That's why Kyle Rittenhouse's gun charge had to be dropped: he was a minor, but the law wasn't sufficiently clear that he had to be in a hunting zone during hunting season to legally carry a rifle. This is how criminal laws are supposed to work: they have to be clear and unambiguous, or else no dice.) Needless to say, there are ways to write these laws. (Legislators have to work and stuff, but that's a different discussion.) See? We do know.
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  168.  @BIENLEBONJOURDANDRE  What left?
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  169. @karenturner4888  Yet no one came to UCLA to stop it, when counterprotesters turned up heavily armed. Law enforcement stood down, just like on January 6th. The hate that is taking place is in Gaza: Fifty years of American diplomacy and coalition building against terrorism down the drain. Maybe you should start listening to what Bernie Sanders has been saying about it, if this show isn't to your liking.
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  170. Nonsense. They are not factfinders. If no set of facts here could result in liability, then there is no point to seek out more facts. If some facts could make him liable, then zero in on them and do it. Here's an idea: win against Trump at the ballot box.
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  171. Very few. That's just it.
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  172.  @blueknight07  You mean like when people say the majority opposes racism? I can see that. Maybe we need better leaders.
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  173. @bonitahobbs2374  No. He did get an annulment from his first wife to marry her, but after she committed suicide, he was free to remarry. You don't need an annulment when your spouse or ex-spouse dies. That's obvious. I think Trump, and before him Reagan, opened the door to tumultuous marriages. I have to say I regret it, but at the same time refuse to judge anyone's personal life. You should have been around to see how they trashed President Carter. He was thoroughly decent. Ford and his wife were cool, too. It should be more appreciated.
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  174. Pfizer just got full FDA approval, but only for 16 and up. Sounds like a good sign, perhaps they refused to bow to pressure. Now parents of kids not yet through puberty (ages 12 to 15) have a solid reason to wait, generally. This is science-based guidance, for a change. Enough with pressuring people to take EUA vaccines.
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  175. What is WITH these people???
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  176. He last called or communicated with his parents in early October 2020? What does that have to do with vaccines? There were no vaccines available then, for anyone. This was about a month before the election. Someone is surprised that a young person, isolated, and with mental health issues, would do anything to bail? Quite a few billionaires advertised that they were quarantining on their yachts, and quite a few were panic-stricken by COVID as well. This sounds like the poor man's version.
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  177. When you start off with a statistical falsehood, why should we listen to anything more? "Average lifespan" is meaningless if length of life is not a normal curve -- if the deaths are concentrated during the first year of life and again in childbirth. Plato lived to 80, and Sophocles to 90. The human lifespan has been what we know now for thousands of years. Saving young children, lowering maternal mortality, improving emergency care of accidents and reducing death from infection is what has made a long life available to so many. The business about people not being productive after their early sixties is also ridiculous. And I'm saying that as someone with less fear of death than anyone I know personally.
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  178.  @TriggaTrey361  Is BLM "hate speech?" Is CRT? See the problem?
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  179. Of course.
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  180.  @fmbar00  The actual videotapes have been played constantly. You must not be paying attention.
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  181.  @fmbar00  Who cares? I voted La Riva. (So, am I vaccinated, or not? ;)
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  182.  @anthonyhadsell2673  You actually don't know? Then it didn't happen.
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  183.  @The_MES  You never say a show was "taped," even though we all know no tape was used? It was in 2020, before the election, and during "Operation Warpspeed." Also, if you make fun of a comment, do you get a kewpie doll, or your own personal facts? Or both? I wouldn't know, I stick to verifiable claims. No prize for me.
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  184.  @anthonyhadsell2673  It did. Kamala Harris said so, expressing concern over whatever Trump was pushing, Biden said he would only consider vaccination with assurances of safety. Pelosi said absolutely no mandates, which I grant is not the same. All were statements made prior to the election, and before any vaccine was approved. You know full well that links are shadowed because they are too hard to monitor for TOS violations. Hence you say someone else cannot prove up a claim, knowing full well why they cannot link the proof. That's called bad faith.
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  185.  @anthonyhadsell2673  BTW, blocked. I have no use for bad faith actors.
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  186. But why are the Cool Kids passing flagrantly unconstitutional laws? For . . . Fundraising? Maybe.
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  187.  @lindahammond7759  First, please, PLEASE don't worry. Don't listen to fear-mongering, pro vaccine or con. Just don't. The chance that it is either nonsense, or simply inapplicable to your case, is very high. Second, stay as well informed as you possibly can. From now on, first do no harm. Certain things you can do right now, involving nutrition and exercise, are safe and beneficial, and the standard advice on reducing inflammation is very important. Third, find the right doctor -- that is not going to be easy! Don't let these people get you down. You are going to be fine. Take it slow.
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  188. Nothing is ever done. Those who complain will need to find other jobs. That's the norm.
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  189.  @LD86  So what? She died.
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  190. Cruelty. It's called cruelty.
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  191.  @changingoftheguard7256  Shame on you.
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  192.  @Anthony-xe2pz  Thank you and bless you.
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  193.  @Sopheann168  Hi!
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  194.  @lldavidbanks8701  Trump wasn't there. Was he?
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  195.  @Stopfascists0204  Often, she is, yeah. 😂
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  196. But why is Congress voting for a law they know is unconstitutional? A performance to gain more campaign funding for the fall, maybe?
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  197. We supported the systematuc killings of ethnic Russians in the Donbass for 8 years, carried out by neo-Nazis infiltrators into the Ukraine military. Putin's invasion is likely to have strengthened their influence rather than weakening it, so far at least, and contrary to his declared intentions but predictable enough.
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  198. In 2020, pretty much all 20-year-olds were at home with their parents, and hunkering down to make sure they could afford basic necessities. A lot of college students did not return to school, which was online only in most places. We had just come out of massive shutdowns four months prior to the last time his parents heard from him. This had a terrible effect on a lot of young people, especially those who already suffered from mental health issues. Is all this already forgotten?
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  199. The happiness on Dr. Cercek's face is wonderful.
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  200. No, there are idiots this big. Hard to accept, yet true.
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  201. If an attorney decides to become a foreign agent and represent foreign governments, they should cease practicing law, meaning representing individuals. If they don't, then they will risk compromising client confidentiality and attorney-client privilege. Laughing off attorney-client privilege, like this report, does is a disgrace. That's not the problem.
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  202.  @danielsoto8601  Er . . . There is this thing called irony. I bet you can look it up and everything, and find out what it's about.
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  203. @danielsoto8601  There is this thing people don't want you to know about called irony.
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  204. @danielsoto8601  As soon as I write i r o n y, everything gets dark.
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  205. @erincoco612   The First Amendment certainly does prohibit government from making hate speech illegal:  Brandenburg v. Ohio Watts v. United States Virginia v. Black RAV v. City of St Paul It is absolutely settled law that you cannot criminalize even the most odious speech unless it constitutes a true threat of imminent harm or incites imminent violence. You can't even ban cross burning or calling for revolution unless it meets one of those criteria, evincing intent to cause an imminent breach of the peace or to intimidate a particular person or group of people who are present when you said it, or did it (for symbolic or expressive conduct). It's not a gray area. It is unconstitutional. The real question is, why don't you know? You should know.
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  206. @erincoco612  Sure, because absent the gag order, you can trash talk about a witness or juror. See how that works? If it were illegal, you wouldn't need the order in the first place.
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  207. @justinstephenson9360  I'm talking about the bill they passed, prohibiting certain speech. They are welcome to define things to their heart's content, and to deplore what they find worthy of being deplored --- that's free speech, too. Moreover, NO other country has the robust free speech rights that the United States has, enshrined in its constitution. So international standards are of no legal importance here. See, e.g., Nadine Strossen on that whole subject. This has nothing to do with whether one agrees with the speech they prohibited, or are trying to. Absolutely nothing.
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  208. @justinstephenson9360  I had a great-grandparent die in the Holocaust. I know about this stuff.
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  209. @erincoco612  You clearly haven't read anything. Right now, people are trying to hold BLM leadership liable for exactly that -- their rhetoric lead to riots, supposedly. Have you ever seen a Supreme Court case? Do you know they are all published?
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  210. @erincoco612  Because of Title VII. And because absent a union contract, an employer can usually fire anyone they want.
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  211. @erincoco612  Why don't you put down your phone and read about what "true threats" are? Do you know people are suing to try to hold Black Lives Matter responsible for riots and make them pay for the damage? You didn't hear about that? See, because rhetoric. Bad words.
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  212. @erincoco612  What do you think of the cases against organizers of the George Floyd protests? Plaintiffs are seeking money to pay for the damage from the riots. I think their speech was protected. The rioters, and the police, are responsible for their actions. The protests were protected by the First Amendment.
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  213.  @erincoco612  You can be fired even if they believe you said it. You don't have to say it. Workers without unions have very few rights.
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  214. @erincoco612  I'm trying to inform you that people who organized protests after George Floyd are being sued now, because their free speech supposedly led to violence and property damage. I'm getting posts removed for that. I think the protests were fully protected speech and assembly. How about you?
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  215. @erincoco612  You see the category "hate speech" in that list? It's not a legal term. Remember the protests that took place in the summer of 2020? Some people are trying to hold the organizers liable for property damage, on the bogus theory that their protected speech led to riots.
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  216.  @erincoco612  I'm being censored here, I'm going to stop. Hate speech is not one of the narrow categories you listed. It's a journalistic term, not a legal category.
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  217. @erincoco612  Some people call BLM "hate speech" and are suing them right now. See where such nonsense can go?
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  218.  @erincoco612  I'm being repeatedly censored now. So I'm out of here.
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  219. @erincoco612  There is no amorphous category in the law called "hate speech." Your employer can prescribe your speech generally, while you're at work. That's nothing new, and has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Your boss isn't Congress, passing unconstitutional laws to control everyone.
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  220.  @lindahammond7759  Please don't be. Just stay informed, take meticulous care of yourself, and be more prudent. You'll be fine. FWIW, I've had to eat perfectly, exercise, and so forth, because I was born with a heart murmur. You can do it! The information on anti-inflammatory diets and so forth is out there.
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  221. ​@jmacaulay4406 ABC News interviewed the mastermind of the terrorist cell that committed the Beslan school seige and massacre. That's what journalists do. When Russia protested, the US State Department told them we have a First Amendment.
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  222. Does anyone have a list of all the people who have perished like this, at the hands of police? No one could remember this, there are too many, and it doesn't stop. We need a written list. Make it visible.
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  223.  @OfftoShambala  That prediction was an incorrect translation of a quote from the eminent French virologist, Luc Montagnier, who was the first to discover the HIV. He won the Nobel Prize in 2008. He was skeptical of the origin story of the COVID virus, and felt certain it was engineered in some respect, he was leery of the vaccines, and he supported trying various off-label treatments that were banned here. But he never said that people would drop dead en masse within two years. He was critical enough of the response, no need to exaggerate.
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  224.  @raymondblake5765  Which study is that? I have been keeping up, and have heard of no such study. We only barely have two years since the first vaccines were administered, and those were reserved for the oldest and most vulnerable. As for Luc Montagnier, he was against the rush to vaccinate but he never said that people were likely to be dropping dead left and right. I'm with Montagnier, by the way. I didn't get vaccinated because my concerns were never addressed. There was more than one way to avoid the more dangerous variants, and the current variants are simply not as dangerous as the COVID that emerged in January 2020. The first to contract it were the unlucky ones, as is generally the case with a new virus. Getting vaccines and refusing vaccines both carry risks. Informed consent should be the watchword. It wasn't. That worries me more than the vast number of viral illnesses we might come in contact with.
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  225.  @beewalk34  Trump was telling people to get the vaccine. He is bragging that he is responsible for it, because he is the one who oversaw Operation Warp Speed, and the libs are trying to steal credit away from him for his accomplishment. Get your talking points straight.
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  226.  @beewalk34  clicky blocky goody bye bye
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  227.  @athleticguy15  Dr. Fauci has admitted prevaricating about masks. He does not come across as frank. The public health officials in my state (who happened to be women) were far better. One of them did a mini-class on statistical reasoning for the public. Fauci's routine smacks of authoritarianism and showman-light, like he's been affected by spending too much time with Trump.
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  228. They tolerate vaccine mandates, mass surveillance, colonies of homeless, human feces in the street, and evidence of genocide in a war they are arming.
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  229. Of course most Russians are Eurasian. And? Asian-looking blue-eyed people trigger you much?
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  230. I expect they will be sued.
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  231. @@user-ov7nq3wr2n No. It needs to be sued. This supervisor was repeatedly reported. They understand money, don't they? Every political side's money is green.
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  232. The stupidity is par for the course.
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  233. People who have been against flu shots since 1976 die from the flu all the time. No one mocks them, or believes a flu shot would have been sure to save them. I oppose politicians pushing or opposing any medical treatment, including the woman who died. She was not a doctor. Let the real doctors speak.
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  234. Imagine. If you call something a "vaccine," it magically becomes safe, effective, and life-saving. This is called Science. The label itself has politicized the issue. The fact that this new type of "vaccine" has some key features of a traditional, proven vaccine does not mean it will have any of the other, desirable features, of a vaccine. It's not clear this should be called a vaccine, rather than immunotherapy or some other thing.
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  235.  @sandralewis2050  Well, my parents met in a refugee camp, and I have volunteered to take in Ukrainian refugees if needed, so this cheap rhetoric and call for escalation (to sound pretty on television?) is repulsive to me. How many veterans are you close to? I don't know one who would be so irresponsible. Have you all lost it?
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  236.  @sandralewis2050  You are talking about escalating a war. You have no idea of what you are concretely talking about. Of COURSE I'm not going to support your delirium, because that is what it is. Get a grip. "Pitiful, pathetic, resiliency, courage, democracy" --- these are just words to you at this moment. They help no one, and have no bearing on anything that can bring actual peace, which needs to come now. Get a GRIP.
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  237.  @sandralewis2050  Every week, people prove to be even crazier than I thought they were. I expected hitting new lows to end when Trump finally left. Well, I still have hope. I guess recovery will take time.
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  238.  @Mas_zeppelin  Find a new sports bar.
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