ChiGoose

Oh Prime Vision, how I have missed you. Best alternative broadcast out there

Yep. The filibuster isn’t some sacred thing. It’s an accident of history and it should be done away with.

Senate GOP does away with the filibuster when it inconveniences them. Senate Republicans invoke ‘nuclear option’ to change rules to confirm Trump nominees Feels like there may be a lesson in there somewhere…

It continues to remain a good time to avoid jumping to conclusions. "According to a preliminary internal report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal and local officials recovered ammunition with the rifle that appeared to be engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” "But a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information." (Source)

You know, they just *look* like Dems. If you know what I mean...

While I'm sure there are random a-holes making jokes about this, Dem electeds and leaders have by and large been condemning the violence. Which is a pretty marked distinctions from all of the jokes about the attack on Pelosi's husband from MAGA electeds and leaders. Best thing to do in these scenarios is to keep quiet and not speculate until there are hard facts. But that doesn't feed the media machine.

Oh, they caught the shooter?

Yeah, the numbers they were citing really didn’t make any sense.

There is no link because the study was unpublished. It was also heavily flawed. RFK Jr. ally’s ‘smoking gun’ study on vaccines and chronic illness is fundamentally flawed "The most glaring problem is detection bias, which occurs when one group gets examined more frequently than another, leading to more diagnoses regardless of actual disease rates. In the Henry Ford data, vaccinated children had substantially more health care visits than unvaccinated children. Conditions requiring clinical evaluation to diagnose — ADHD, learning disorders, speech delays, ear infections — will inevitably be recorded more often in the frequently seen group. Yet the authors never correct for this gap. Their only check was to drop children who never had a single encounter with a health care provider, which still leaves one group averaging seven visits a year and the other averaging two. That doesn’t level the playing field; it simply bakes the bias into the results. What they’re measuring is exposure to medical observation, not the effects of vaccines." "Take the claim of a six- to eight-fold increase in ear infections among vaccinated children. This is medically implausible but perfectly explained by detection bias. A child who rarely sees a clinician won’t have “otitis media” coded in their record, even if they’ve had ear pain. While untreated ear infections can resolve on their own, they subject children to unnecessary pain, potential hearing damage, and risk of complications like mastoiditis or meningitis. The study repeatedly conflates absence of diagnosis with absence of disease." The statistical red flags accumulate. The authors report near-zero cases of common conditions like ADHD and learning disabilities among thousands of unvaccinated children. Data show these conditions affect roughly 11% and 9% of children, respectively. Finding essentially none suggests these conditions went undiagnosed and unrecorded in children who rarely saw doctors. In several categories, hazard ratios can’t even be calculated because all cases occur in the vaccinated group — exactly what happens when diagnoses are missed in the comparison group. Properly conducted vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated comparisons look very different from the Henry Ford analysis. A 2014 meta-analysis of more than 1.25 million children published in Vaccine found no link between vaccines and autism. Denmark’s nationwide registry studies found no association with type 1 diabetes or autism. A study published in the Journal of Pediatrics confirmed these findings. Germany’s nationally representative KiGGS study of 13,453 children, including 94 completely unvaccinated, found no meaningful differences in chronic conditions when appropriate methods were used. Rinse and repeat: US vaccine hearing on unpublished study debates same myths Zervos and the other authors of the study were not present at the hearing. The study, which has never been peer-reviewed, is not currently available to the public as a pre-print or in any other form. Scott went on to explain that “the study reports zero ADHD cases among 1,000s of unvaccinated children. How is that possible with a national prevalence at 11%? That’s highly unlikely, unless conditions went undiagnosed.” Scott noted that the study also claimed a six to eightfold increase in ear infections among vaccinated children, but there is no plausible scientific explanation as to why vaccines would increase ear infections. This finding is consistent with past research showing that parents who do not vaccinate their children are also less likely to have their children treated for health conditions in the medical system. Conditions that were not diagnosed or treated would not have shown up in the study, which relied on medical records, according to hearing testimony. As a point of comparison, Scott referenced a Danish study published this July in Annals of Internal Medicine which investigated whether childhood vaccines were linked to 50 different conditions, including many of the same conditions from the unpublished study, like ADHD, autism, asthma, food allergies and eczema. The Danish study looked at outcomes in over a million vaccinated children and 15,000 unvaccinated children, while the unpublished study looked at 18,500 vaccinated children and 2,000 unvaccinated children, according to hearing testimony. The Danish study found no statistically significant increase in risk for any of the conditions investigated, and that vaccinated children experienced lower rates of certain conditions, like ulcerative colitis. Some graphics that Johnson shared left out critical information. For example, a line chart he introduced accurately showed that measles death rates had already begun to decline significantly before vaccines were introduced in the 1960s, due to other factors like improved sanitation, healthcare access and nutrition, but the chart stops in 1960. After vaccines were introduced and widely adopted, both measles cases and death rates declined to nearly zero. Measles was effectively eliminated in the US in 2000, but cases re-emerged when vaccine adoption decreased. There have been 35 measles outbreaks in 2025, according to the CDC. At least two US children and one adult have died of measles this year.

The individual who was arrested has turned out to not be the shooter

Just awful. I would caution against jumping to any conclusions at this time.

The guy Gen Z wants to lead Nepal did not participate in the protests because he felt he was too old for the movement. He was born in 1990. Lol. Nepali rapper turned mayor is young people's favourite in political crisis KATHMANDU, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah, an unusually youthful elected official in Nepali politics dominated by seasoned legislators, has emerged as a favourite among young people to represent them in an interim government. The capital's 35-year-old mayor, a former rapper who often appears on Instagram and in public wearing a dark blazer and sunglasses, is in the spotlight after deadly protests prompted the resignation of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, 73. "You should be our new prime minister," said Rewant Adhikari on X, one of many who have urged Shah to contest as prime minister and eventually replace Oli. "Long live Nepal!" This week's anti-graft protests that killed 19 people were organised by the group "Gen Z Nepal", which draws support from more than half the country’s 30 million people who are younger than 30, but often led by prime ministers twice their age. Shah should be among the Gen Z representatives who hold talks with President Ram Chandra Poudel to chart the next steps for the Himalayan nation, said Balaram K.C., a former judge of the Supreme Court and constitutional expert. Shah has offered no detailed response to the calls. Reuters could not immediately contact him as his mobile telephone was switched off, and his office declined a request to interview him. Popularly known as Balen, the structural engineer by training won the 2022 mayoral election as an independent candidate, defying Nepal’s traditional party system and becoming a symbol of political disruption. Among his rap tracks "Balidan", or "Sacrifice", released in 2020, stands out, with more than 11 million YouTube views for its critique of corruption, social injustice, and governance failures. On his Instagram account, followed by more than 800,000 people, the thickly-bearded Shah has consistently voiced his support for the protesters, calling Oli a "terrorist" who did not understand the "pain of losing a son or daughter". INTERIM REPRESENTATIVE A draft policy prepared by the Gen Z Nepal group names Shah as a potential representative of youth and protest movements on a Neutral Interim Authority Council proposed to restore law and order and guide Nepal toward elections in about 18 months. He will sit on the body alongside technocrats and civil society leaders, according to the document seen by Reuters. Shah has said he did not join the protests because they were mainly for people younger than 26, who saw him by comparison as an old man, but added it was necessary to hear them out. On Tuesday, he warned the protesters of the challenges in store. "Now your generation will have to lead the country!" he said. "Be prepared!" Born in 1990 in Kathmandu, Shah studied civil engineering in Nepal and completed a master’s in structural engineering in India. Time magazine listed him among its Top 100 Emerging Leaders of 2023. Analysts say Shah’s tenure as mayor has been marked by anti-corruption efforts, urban reforms, and a strong social media presence. He has improved pedestrian infrastructure, cracked down on accusations of tax evasion by private schools, and pushed for better oversight of public education. "The youth want you to step forward as a temporary spokesperson during this transition," young IT professional Pramod Kandel told Shah on X. "For the long term, we need you ... to work with, even work under, other non-corrupt leaders who have demonstrated competence, integrity, and love for the country."

It doesn’t matter what you think. They will defend a pedophile because they like defending pedophiles. They would rather support people who diddle kids than acknowledge they may have ever been wrong.

Not surprised. You consistently seem to have reading comprehension issues.

Polish armed forces say Russian objects have been 'downed', marking the first time the Nato country has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace since the Ukraine war started in 2022 I have a real hard time believing that Russia would take advantage of a weak US position to pressure NATO countries. I mean, who could have possibly predicted that?

This may shock you, but people can do two things at once. We can think the president being a pedophile is bad and we can think murder is bad. If you have to use one to distract from the other, you’re just telling on yourself, buddy. Seems like MAGA only cares about Ukrainian lives when they can be used as a cudgel against Dems. Refugees are bad and should be turned away, unless they can fit a political need for MAGA. MAGA just showing themselves to be the disgusting people we all suspected they were.

I do appreciate you proving my point that you’ll do anything to distract from the fact that you support a pedophile

Why do Republicans do everything they can to protect pedos?

State rights are paramount when the state is doing what they want. Federal rights are paramount when the state isn’t doing what they want.

“There are natural divisions between ‘us’ and ‘them’” “‘They’ are criminals, lawless in nature and in need of policing.” “‘We’ come from the rural heartland, the backbone of the nation. ‘They’ live in cities.” MAGA is speed running it at this point…

Seems like the usual crowd is working very hard to keep Epstein stuff from the top of the page. One would think that they would draw the line at supporting pedos, but I guess not. Gotta move them goalposts.

Some other entries in Trump’s buddy’s birthday book:

Oh no! Now I need to get rid of my Bill Gates hats, Bills Gates flags, Bill Gates bumper stickers, Bill Gates shirts, Bill Gates golden shoes, Bill Gates crypto, Bill Gates cologne, Bill Gates yard signs, Bill Gates NFTs, and Bill Gates bibles! I probably should delete my account on the Bill Gates social media site too…

Feels like the Supreme Court taking a hatchet to the Fourth Amendment would be considered a bad thing by the freedom crowd. But maybe, for some unexplainable reason, they are supportive of the state stopping people without reasonable suspicion so long as those people are presumed to be brown. Also, I don’t know how any district judge is supposed to deal with these unexplained orders that treat settled law as overturned without actually overturning the settled law.

I didn’t coin it and I rejected it the first time I saw it. But the evidence keeps piling up. I’m not sure what other conclusion one can reach at this point.