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by JohnStOnge
Sun May 28, 2023 6:58 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

Writing with some updated numbers for those who think Florida has done a good job with COVID-19. Note that Florida's governor has appointed out of the mainstream public health officials who undermine confidence in the vaccines and has, himself, also worked to do that. As of the day before the first ...
by JohnStOnge
Mon May 22, 2023 6:19 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

I don't do that at all. I look at the data for patterns just like I look at environmental data while doing my job. The idea is that you look at the data and ask yourself if you would see anything to suggest a change if you didn't already have some idea as to why there might have been a change. And ...
by JohnStOnge
Mon May 22, 2023 6:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

Any substantive rebuke from a legitimate source of the Lancet Journal’s findings. You obviously haven’t read up much on the whole history of Mann’s research and litigation. Apply the same scrutiny you show with defending Trump and Putin but again, use unbiased sources. His work was validated quite ...
by JohnStOnge
Mon May 22, 2023 5:20 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 9047
Views: 971547

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Saw the graph below from the article at https://www.axios.com/2023/03/09/biden-budget-government-spending-charted presented on TV tonight to illustrate the facet that, since 1980, spending has tended to increase at a more rapid rate when Republicans were President than it has when Democrats were Pre...
by JohnStOnge
Mon May 22, 2023 4:47 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

About right. Twitter monkeypox "experts" analysis. Quote below is not from the study, but gives you the bottom line. Inaccurate claims were 4.6X more frequent than accurate ones and when adjusted for follower count this led to 974X more exposure for false claims. Let that one sink in. if ...
by JohnStOnge
Tue May 16, 2023 2:58 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

This will not affect SeattleGriz. He will just say, again, the you can't trust mediabiasfactcheck. But I do consult mediabiasfactcheck. And I thought the rest of you may be interested in what it has to say about the source SeattleGriz chose to rebut the modeling study on COVID-19 vaccinations: https...
by JohnStOnge
Tue May 16, 2023 2:39 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

As i've typed many times before, Trump did not juice the economy. The economy was pretty much the same economy as it was under Obama. i've provided numerical evidence of that assertion many times before but I will do it again. Here are some numbers: https://i.ibb.co/Ydphs3P/Screen-Shot-2023-05-12-a...
by JohnStOnge
Fri May 12, 2023 5:59 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

Blast from the past in the form of a graphic I've used before. This is a graph showing US Real GDP growth for the years 2009 - 2020: https://i.ibb.co/vXdgr6g/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-12-06-20-PM.png As I've typed before: There is no way any objective person could look at that and say, if they were ...
by JohnStOnge
Fri May 12, 2023 5:42 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

i'd have to expend more effort than I want to right now to find posts I made about it but I did interpret polling back then to indicate abortion would be a big issue in the mid terms. it was not showing up as the TOP issue but it was up there. Now, I will say that polling understated it. We found t...
by JohnStOnge
Fri May 12, 2023 5:38 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

I didn't say Trump was anti-globalist. I said he had a national economic plan that was more focused on Making America Great Again than establishment candidates. The interesting piece to me is that I don't think Trump was able to get any big measures through (tax cuts were a freebie though), but was...
by JohnStOnge
Fri May 12, 2023 6:43 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

The other day i saw a polling result indicating public opinion that Trump would be better on the economy than Biden. That is consistent with what I usually see. For some reason, people tend to think Republican President means better economy and more fiscal responsibility. I've always thought that ma...
by JohnStOnge
Fri May 12, 2023 6:24 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

i think we are in a serious situation. I think that, with respect to how far we are from the next election, Trump is in better position this time than he was at the same point in 2019 looking at the 2020 election. The Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of polling hadn't started yet at this point las...
by JohnStOnge
Fri May 12, 2023 6:24 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

i think we are in a serious situation. I think that, with respect to how far we are from the next election, Trump is in better position this time than he was at the same point in 2019 looking at the 2020 election. The Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of polling hadn't started yet at this point las...
by JohnStOnge
Sat May 06, 2023 6:30 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Debt Ceiling
Replies: 0
Views: 1245

Debt Ceiling

I think what the Republicans are doing is horrible. I think it's an example of behavior illustrating why it was foolish for people to vote to put that Party in control of any aspect of our elected government. The outlook for the future would be much, much better right now if the Democrats had retain...
by JohnStOnge
Sat May 06, 2023 6:20 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 560
Views: 15987

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

i think we are in a serious situation. I think that, with respect to how far we are from the next election, Trump is in better position this time than he was at the same point in 2019 looking at the 2020 election. The Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of polling hadn't started yet at this point last...
by JohnStOnge
Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:44 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

Now for why I came tonight. It's to document the fact that people qualified to know never thought that you can not be infected, cannot develop COVID-19, and cannot die if you are vaccinated. Instead, the idea is that the risk is reduced. First there are the clinical trials. Here is the Moderna clini...
by JohnStOnge
Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:18 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

I don't know if his analysis is incorrect. I'm questioning whether he should have unilaterally made those changes. I'm also asking if he's shown where the data from the study backs up his analysis and changes. I could care less what color Lapado's skin is. I'm skeptical of science/medical administr...
by JohnStOnge
Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:16 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

https://www.fda.gov/media/166159/download Dear Dr. Ladapo, Thank you for your letter regarding COVID-19 vaccine safety. We appreciate this opportunity to address your questions and we would like to correct the associated misinterpretations and misinformation about the data from the Vaccine Adverse E...
by JohnStOnge
Wed Apr 26, 2023 6:12 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

Lapado is not credible. Good grief I can't believe I come here and see his nonsense being cited. One story on the situation: https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-surgeon-general-cut-data-covid-19-vaccine-safety-study-2023-4 This is the same kind of thing we've talked about before. We have an over...
by JohnStOnge
Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:36 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 9047
Views: 971547

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

This is really sad: https://www.abcactionnews.com/.../gop-poll-fighting-woke... GOP poll: fighting woke ideology more important than protecting Social Security from cuts Seriously? Have people bought into this ''anti-woke'' demagoguery to THAT extent? Websters defines ''woke'' as ''aware of and acti...
by JohnStOnge
Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19
Replies: 17698
Views: 1351323

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19

There was never a consensus that vaccination meant you could not be infected, couldn't spread it, could not get ill, couldn't go to the hospital, and couldn't die if you got vaccinated. The consensus was that vaccination would reduce the risk of those things. And it has done that. Also, everyone un...
by JohnStOnge
Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:35 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 9047
Views: 971547

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Good chance this is already posted somewhere but I'm too lazy to spend time looking so: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/20/mike-lindell-prove-wrong-contest/ MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in Aug...
by JohnStOnge
Wed Apr 19, 2023 4:21 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1701
Views: 97408

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

The Race Baiter in Chief trying to inflame black/white racial divisions https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1626381322976460800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1626381322976460800%7Ctwgr%5E4a97a418e7af81a189b2f249253ab04dc261ed81%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredst...
by JohnStOnge
Wed Apr 19, 2023 3:58 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1701
Views: 97408

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

In a roundabout way he's not wrong: Has trump discussed bringing back hangings, firing squads and the guillotine? Is the percentage of black people convicted of violent crimes disproportionately higher than their percentage of the population? If trump brings back hangings, are blacks more likely to...
by JohnStOnge
Wed Apr 19, 2023 3:51 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1701
Views: 97408

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

Just for fun, here is a relatively recent historians' ranking of US Presidents and it's the first one to include Biden: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/presidents-ranked-worst-best/ FDR is top ranked (1), Andrew Johnson brings up the rear (45). Biden is 19th. Trump is 43rd. So Biden is rated better...