The Democrat cartel

[Tiberius]

2 hours ago, Doc said:

 

Moron.  Just another attempt to deflect from people's behavior and make it seem like they have no control.

Everyone that diets loses weight? really? 

[B-Man]

1 minute ago, Tiberius said:

Everyone that diets loses weight? really? 

 

 

 

 

NO ONE said that

 

 

 

 

 

Really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[BuffaninSarasota]

2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Everyone that diets loses weight? really? 

Blaming obesity on genetics ..... really ?

 

Many factors influence body weight-genes, though the effect is small, and heredity is not destiny; prenatal and early life influences; poor diets; too much television watching; too little physical activity and sleep; and our food and physical activity environment.

 

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-causes/

 

 

[Tiberius]

1 minute ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

NO ONE said that

 

 

 

 

 

Really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cute

 

But she is right, some people just are going to be fat. Maybe they lose it for awhile but not long term  

 

 

1 minute ago, BuffaninSarasota said:

Blaming obesity on genetics ..... really ?

 

Many factors influence body weight-genes, though the effect is small, and heredity is not destiny; prenatal and early life influences; poor diets; too much television watching; too little physical activity and sleep; and our food and physical activity environment.

 

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-causes/

 

 

She asked, if you diet you lose weight. Not true. Even the source sites undercuts the argument, it points to prenatal and early life influences. Dieting isn't reversing that. 

 

 

And I'm not fat, I just am a work out nut and know people that just can'y lose wight and I know they try 

[BuffaninSarasota]

16 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Cute

 

But she is right, some people just are going to be fat. Maybe they lose it for awhile but not long term  

 

 

She asked, if you diet you lose weight. Not true. Even the source sites undercuts the argument, it points to prenatal and early life influences. Dieting isn't reversing that. 

 

 

And I'm not fat, I just am a work out nut and know people that just can'y lose wight and I know they try 

I was referring to whomever it was that Lesley Stahl was interviewing, who claimed that genetics are the main reason for obesity. This fallacy was rebutted by the Harvard School of Public Health article I cited.

 

Generally speaking, most people would agree diet & exercise can promote weight loss (...although not in all cases).

[Tiberius]

3 minutes ago, BuffaninSarasota said:

I was referring to whomever it was that Lesley Stahl was interviewing, who claimed that genetics are the main reason for obesity. This fallacy was rebutted by the Harvard School of Public Health article I cited.

 

Generally speaking, most people would agree diet & exercise can promote weight loss (...although not in all cases).

That sounds crazy to me that genetics are not the main cause. But yes, people that don't do anything to care for themselves can up fat, yes. Still, I wonder if Tage Thompson tried to get fat, he might not even be able to. And I know people like that also. 

 

If that women's message stops people from even trying, that's not good. but some people need to understand that not matter what they do they will be big. Still, the right food and exercise are important to feel good and be your best 

[BuffaninSarasota]

2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

That sounds crazy to me that genetics are not the main cause. But yes, people that don't do anything to care for themselves can up fat, yes. Still, I wonder if Tage Thompson tried to get fat, he might not even be able to. And I know people like that also. 

 

If that women's message stops people from even trying, that's not good. but some people need to understand that not matter what they do they will be big. Still, the right food and exercise are important to feel good and be your best 

I agree, the bolded comment is exactly my takeaway as well. Americans definitely don't need an easy, ready-made excuse to not exercise & eat right

[Doc]

58 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Everyone that diets loses weight? really? 

 

Weight gain or loss is a matter of calories ingested versus calories burned.  To say it's all because of genetics and you can't do anything about it is disingenuous if not dangerous.

[Tiberius]

20 minutes ago, BuffaninSarasota said:

I agree, the bolded comment is exactly my takeaway as well. Americans definitely don't need an easy, ready-made excuse to not exercise & eat right

So the video we saw was clipped and was not in correct sequence 

 

Here is full video 

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/weight-loss-obesity-drug-2023-01-01/

[Tiberius]

6 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

Weight gain or loss is a matter of calories ingested versus calories burned.  To say it's all because of genetics and you can't do anything about it is disingenuous if not dangerous.

No, I just don't agree. There are thick people and thin people. Sure, we can all do our best but some people just are thin and some get fat eating a eating like a mouse. Its only humanly possible to starve yourself so far  

[Doc]

13 hours ago, Tiberius said:

No, I just don't agree. There are thick people and thin people. Sure, we can all do our best but some people just are thin and some get fat eating a eating like a mouse. Its only humanly possible to starve yourself so far  

 

It doesn't matter if you agree or not.  It's impossible to add weight without ingesting more calories than burned, unless you have a medical condition that causes you to retain water and that's a different matter.  That's not to say it's easy but it can be done.  Trying to say "well, you have no control over it" is a terrible message.

[Tiberius]

9 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

It doesn't matter if you agree or not.  It's impossible to add weight without ingesting more calories than burned, unless you have a medical condition that causes you to retain water and that's a different matter.  That's not to say it's easy but it can be done.  Trying to say "well, you have no control over it" is a terrible message.

Some bodies soak up calories much faster than others. Genetics is destiny! 

 

But eating right and exercise can mitigate some of that 

[Doc]

2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Some bodies soak up calories much faster than others. Genetics is destiny! 

 

But eating right and exercise can mitigate some of that 

 

It can mitigate all of it.  It's extremely hard but it can be done.  But no one is saying everyone needs to look like a fitness model.  Just not be class II obese (BMI 35) or higher.

[Tiberius]

1 minute ago, Doc said:

 

It can mitigate all of it.  It's extremely hard but it can be done.  But no one is saying everyone needs to look like a fitness model.  Just not be class II obese (BMI 35) or higher.

Oh no no no! That BMI is bull. If you lift weights that thing will label you as obese. It's bull **it. I have a moderate level of fat, but since I have lifted weights since forever I have some muscle on me so it says I'm fat. 

 

So let's stay away from the BMI 

[B-Man]

 

 

For Lord's sake, back to the thread.   

 

 

JIM GERAGHTY: The Stray Voltage of George Santos.

 

Way, way back in the mid 2010s — a pre-Trump era that might as well be ancient history in U.S. politics — the Obama administration deployed the communications strategy of “stray voltage.” Major Garrett of CBS News laid out the approach in 2014:

 

This is the White House theory of “Stray Voltage.” It is the brainchild of former White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe, whose methods loom large long after his departure. The theory goes like this: Controversy sparks attention, attention provokes conversation, and conversation embeds previously unknown or marginalized ideas in the public consciousness. This happens, Plouffe theorizes, even when–and sometimes especially when–the White House appears defensive, besieged, or off-guard. . . .

 

As a theory, “stray voltage” exists in a kind of strategic void. It can’t be dismissed or embraced as workable because creating controversy for the sake of controversy is, well, achievable. Like getting soup from the White House mess. It’s also self-reinforcing and internally didactic. Everyone looks around and says, “See. There’s controversy. It’s working.”

* * * * * * * *

 

 

But you can see why Kevin McCarthy might find it worthwhile to let the gears of the consequences for Santos turn slowly. A Washington press corps that is obsessed with Santos’s incessant lying and potentially shady connections isn’t spending as much time insisting that the House GOP is the root of all evil.

 

Sooner or later, the consequences of Santos’s voluminous deceptions will catch up to him. But between now and then, he’s a glasses-wearing, nervous-looking lightning rod, and the more lightning that strikes him, the less there is to strike the rest of the GOP House majority.

 

Santos is also a daily reminder that he’s far from the only DC politician with plenty of lies on his CV:

 

[B-Man]

 

Schumer lies ?   Say it aint so.

 

 

Chuck Schumer Get Nailed for Lying by Twitter, Then Elon Joins In

By Nick Arama 

 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was on Twitter already spreading lies about a “Fair Tax” that has been floating around. It’s not even clear that Republicans are on board with the proposal, but that didn’t stop Schumer from lying about it.

 

 

So many things wrong there, where to begin? It’s the Democrats refusing to negotiate to address the debt ceiling. They just want to keep spending us into oblivion and ignoring the point of having a “debt ceiling” to begin with. Then the tax proposal isn’t a “national sales tax on EVERYTHING”; it’s a sales tax on new products and it’s combined with eliminating the income tax, payroll tax, estate tax, and the IRS, which means you would get to keep 100 percent of your money. Then as some already explained it’s not 30 percent, it’s 23 percent, at least according to one proposal, as even Joe Biden acknowledged. There are also rebates for family size and poverty.

 

Now there are positives and negatives to the idea, it would likely be better to go with just a flat tax rather than a change to the national sales tax. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has already said he’s not for it, yet that isn’t stopping Schumer and the Democrats from lying about the Republican positions.

 

Tax reduction advocate Grover Norquist called out Schumer’s lies.

 

 

But this is all about Democrats deflecting from addressing their profligate spending and negotiating the debt ceiling. It’s about spinning an attack and refusing to come to the table to reduce spending. They just want to keep spending and hiking inflation higher.

 

Then Twitter owner Elon Musk weighed in, cutting right through Schumer’s bull and nailing him on what this was all about. He pointed Schumer to McCarthy’s call

for negotiation on the debt ceiling, “May I suggest a DM chat?”

 

 

Elon Musk, like most Americans, wants Democrats to take spending seriously. But Schumer doesn’t want to concentrate on that because that would spotlight how much they continue to hurt us with their spending. He’d rather lie about a bill that isn’t going to go anywhere.

 

Reminds of Billsy's thread about the nonexistent April 2022 GOP tax increase....... 

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/27/chuck-schumer-get-nailed-for-lying-by-twitter-then-elon-joins-in-n694640

[Doc]

Schumer being a lying windbag?  Shocking.

[B-Man]

 

 

 

                                                

 

 

 

 

[BillStime]

👆🤡

 

tHe DeMoCrAtIc CaRtEl

 

[Doc]

Systemic stupidity.

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Whoopsie.

 

 

DNC ousts Iowa and New Hampshire as the lead primary states in major 2024 election shake-up aimed at boosting black vote
and benefitting Biden : South Carolina will now take the first spot

Associated Press, by Emily Goodin *

 

The Democratic Party ousted Iowa and New Hampshire as the lead states in a major shake-up of its 2024 presidential primary aimed at boosting the black vote and benefiting Joe Biden's expected bid for a second term. At its annual meeting in Philadelphia, the Democratic National Committee approved a new primary calendar - backed by Biden - that will see South Carolina hold its 2024 presidential primary first on Feb. 3, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on Feb. 6, Georgia on Feb. 13 and then Michigan on Feb. 27.  The new system, Democrats argue, gives better positioning to states whose demographics better reflect the base of the Democratic Party.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11713371/DNC-ousts-Iowa-New-Hampshire-lead-primary-states-major-2024-election-shake-up.html

 

 

 

Iowa, New Hampshire lawmakers lament ‘disappointing’ DNC calendar shift

The Hill, by Jared Gans

 

Iowa and New Hampshire lawmakers are lamenting the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) move to adjust its primary schedule and remove both states as the first to cast their votes, calling the decision “disappointing.” (Photo) DNC members approved by voice vote the schedule that will have South Carolina become the first state to vote in Democratic primaries.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/iowa-new-hampshire-lawmakers-lament-disappointing-dnc-calendar-shift/ar-AA17760i

 

 

[B-Man]

 

Prayers up for his recovery.

 

 

Sen. John Fetterman Rushed to Hospital During Democrat Retreat.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/02/09/sen-john-fetterman-rushed-to-hospital-during-democrat-retreat-n1669288

Edited February 9, 2023 by B-Man

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was known last fall, but you were "anti-handicapped" if you pointed out the obvious.

 

 

 

[Doc]

43 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was known last fall, but you were "anti-handicapped" if you pointed out the obvious.

 

What a shock!  You mean a guy who was still severely impaired 6 months after his stroke wasn't magically going to get better?  PA is a clown state.

[Steve O]

On 1/26/2023 at 9:37 AM, Tiberius said:

Oh no no no! That BMI is bull. If you lift weights that thing will label you as obese. It's bull **it. I have a moderate level of fat, but since I have lifted weights since forever I have some muscle on me so it says I'm fat. 

 

So let's stay away from the BMI 

So I'm late to the party on this one, but want to relay something I was told decades ago. My co-worker was pushing 60 at the time, told me his HS freshman football coach (early to mid 50's for a time frame) told him not to worry about where he fell on the weight-height chart. He was going to see a lot of these charts during his life, don't pay attention to any of them! 

Just shows that if we look hard, there's things we can all agree on. 

Edited February 10, 2023 by Steve O

[B-Man]

follow-up

 

Sen. John Fetterman is released from hospital

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/senate-fetterman-hospital-release/

[B-Man]

 

 

Weak Men Embolden Evil

By Kira Davis |

 

 

If evil seems unusually visible and abundant these days, that is because we are being led by weak men.

 

The Chinese communist regime has been waltzing across our skies with impunity for at least the last week, but surely much longer than that. The Russian communist regime has invaded Ukraine in an aggression that is heading into another “endless war” scenario despite massive infusions of cash and arms from the United States to the Ukrainian government. Fentanyl streams across our borders in amounts massive enough to kill every citizen in the country. Indeed, the drug has been killing an extraordinary amount of Americans already, and added to the skyrocketing rates of crime and homelessness in nearly every major American city.

 

This is all because we are now living through the weakest administration in American history. I thought we couldn’t look any more ridiculous than Obama bowing to tyrants in the Middle East. I was wrong.

 

Joe Biden is the reason the world’s worst dictators are rattling sabers and taking casual strolls via spy crafts through American airspace. His weakness emboldens evil men.

 

Clearly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not the least bit worried about Joe Biden or the American response to blatant disrespect of our sovereign territory. Last week’s spy balloon incident may have been just business as usual for the Chinese, given how many other “objects” have been caught floating around our air space since then; and also given that the Department of Justice tried to excuse the incident by suggesting those same balloons were floating around during the Trump administration too. Perhaps that is true (although I am not inclined to believe much that is coming out of this administration these days). Even still, if the CCP was not already aware of the feckless nature of our current leadership, they certainly became aware once everyone in America learned of their spy balloon hovering far above, and Biden’s administration still did nothing until it had already traversed the entire span of the United States.

 

{snip}

 

The consequences of weak character are so universal they can be applied to almost every level of human interaction.

 

Right now, evil is enjoying a very weak moment in the history of the strongest nation on earth, and it shows.

 

Joe Biden is barely there, a man so weak he often can’t find his way off a stage and whose stride speaks volumes about the amount of strength left in his body and mind. He speaks when he shouldn’t and says nothing when he should. He oozes weakness out of every pore, and the free world is feeling the consequences.

 

His weakness has brought on the winds of war, and we will not turn back those winds until we have a leader who can pursue “peace through strength.”

 

https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2023/02/14/weak-men-embolden-evil-n703473

[B-Man]

 

 

SAD: Sen. Dianne Feinstein appears unaware of her retirement announcement during reporter gaggle. 

 

“According to multiple reports, a Feinstein staffer quickly notified the senator that a statement had already been made on her retirement, prompting her to say she was unaware the information had been released.”

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dianne-feinstein-appears-unaware-retirement-announcement-reporter-gaggle-reports

[Doc]

Sadly, I'm not surprised.

[B-Man]

 

 

 

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Delusional Democrats think Fetterman and Feinstein still fit to serve. And Joe Biden.

 by Glenn Reynolds

 

 

“Once upon a time we mocked the Soviet Union for its gerontocracy. Aged party leaders, bundled up in overcoats and fur hats to the point of near-unrecognizability, would be wheeled out to sit, immobile, as parades passed or party congresses opened. Their withered, stale leadership was emblematic of the decaying USSR’s withered, stale ideology — and industrial base. But now the joke’s on us.”

 

And by “think,” I mean “pretend.”

 

https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/democrats-think-fetterman-and-feinstein-still-fit-to-serve/

[Doc]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Delusional Democrats think Fetterman and Feinstein still fit to serve. And Joe Biden.

 by Glenn Reynolds

 

 

“Once upon a time we mocked the Soviet Union for its gerontocracy. Aged party leaders, bundled up in overcoats and fur hats to the point of near-unrecognizability, would be wheeled out to sit, immobile, as parades passed or party congresses opened. Their withered, stale leadership was emblematic of the decaying USSR’s withered, stale ideology — and industrial base. But now the joke’s on us.”

 

And by “think,” I mean “pretend.”

 

https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/democrats-think-fetterman-and-feinstein-still-fit-to-serve/

 

You'd have to be a moron to think Fetterman and Feinstein are fit to serve.  I wouldn't say "still" because Fetterman never was (after suffering the stroke) and Feinstein hasn't for years.

[BillStime]

 

ThE dEmOcRaT cArtTeL

 

[B-Man]

 

 

Democrats Are Oozing Flop Sweat Over Release of J6 Surveillance Video.

 

“Schiff and the other J6 false narrative pimps are likely sweating the fact that there is nothing in the tens of thousands of hours of footage that’s been kept from the public that will back up the Democrats’ claims of an insurrection.    Because there wasn’t one.

 

The public has been told for over two years now that the United States government was in danger of being overthrown by a handful of people led by drunk dude wearing a novelty hat with horns on it.”

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2023/02/21/the-morning-briefing-dems-are-oozing-flop-sweat-over-release-of-j6-surveillance-video-n1672292

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

Being in the minority isn't as fun.

 

 

It’s a D+12 district, so Democrats shouldn’t have too much trouble keeping the seat, but special elections can sometimes produce surprising results.

 

And this likely signals pessimism among House Democrat ranks about prospects for recapturing the House in 2024.

 

Stay tuned for more retirements

 

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/02/21/hmmm-first-house-dem-retirement-comes-early-n532207

[B-Man]

 

 

 

I nominate Jonathan Turley for the column of the day in today’s New York Post. Professor Turley documents the confederacy of louts denouncing the Covid lab-leak hypothesis as, well, you know what. This is how he puts it (slightly edited) in what I nominate for quote of the day:

 

For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racist or racist conspiracy theorist.

He moves on to the related mandate for suppression and censorship. But what about the evident conspiracy of hacks and morons circulating the epithets in unison?

 

Now there is a conspiracy to contend with. Professor Turley cites the analogues:

 

The categorical rejection of the lab theory is only the latest media narrative proven to be false. The Russian collusion scandal, the Hunter Biden “Russian Disinformation,” the Lafayette Park “Photo Op” conspiracy, the Nick Sandmann controversy, the Jussie Smollett case, the Migrant Whipping scandal.

 

This is the moral he draws from the story:

 

Censorship does not, as President Biden claims, save lives. It is more likely to cost lives by protecting approved views from challenge. It does not foster the truth any more than it fosters free speech. Whatever the origin of COVID-19 may be in China, the origins of our censorship scandal is closer to home.

 

Other morals can and should be drawn. His column gives us a lot of raw material with which to work.

 

Whole thing here.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/26/covid-lab-leak-is-a-scandal-of-media-and-government-censorship/

 

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/a-confederacy-of-louts.php

 

 

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[BillStime]

lmao -  tHe DeMoCrAtIc CaRtEl

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

On 2/21/2023 at 12:39 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

Being in the minority isn't as fun.

 

 

It’s a D+12 district, so Democrats shouldn’t have too much trouble keeping the seat, but special elections can sometimes produce surprising results.

 

And this likely signals pessimism among House Democrat ranks about prospects for recapturing the House in 2024.

 

Stay tuned for more retirements

 

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/02/21/hmmm-first-house-dem-retirement-comes-early-n532207

Oh look another multimillionaire congressman.  This one appears to be leaving to run a “non profit” with $1.5 billion in assets.  
 

And neat-o! His pops was defense attorney for mafia and they were cozy with the Kennedys… 

 

excellent… Progress!! 

[B-Man]

 

 

Bipartisan decision.

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

New Outfit.

 

 

 

 

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