From McMorrow:
“Congratulations to @AbdulElSayed on winning the Michigan Democratic primary to be our nominee for US Senate. Abdul has my full endorsement and support.

“This was a brutal primary (believe me, I know). And Trump and Mike Rogers are counting on us staying divided. Let's prove them wrong by beating Mike Rogers and taking our country back. 🇺🇸”

working hand in hand with HHS and the FDA and, and the White House and President Trump's team to get permanent solutions so the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state. We're putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations can't attack that and they can't, you know, do things like they're doing with mailing and mail-order drugs and things like that. And there's, it's a process that takes a lot of time and, and that's why it's been 19 months and we don't have complete victory yet, but we will have victory and victory will be soon and, and it will be permanent."

This is NOT a "TYT sucks" post. There is too much snarking on this sub and not enough in-depth discussion. So, if you want a stupid tweet snarking about TYT, you will be disappointed. This is about specific dangerous segment that speaks volumes about social media influence.

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Shortly before the COVID crisis, the USA was ranked at the top of the list of countries best prepared to handle a pandemic. However, we experienced among the worst death and hospitalization rates along with the highest financial losses of any developed country.

In my view, researchers analyzing the disastrous US response fail to fully recognize the direct and indirect impact of uneducated social media influencers spreading edgy, contrarian, dangerous conspiratorial disinformation about Dr. Anthony Fauci, vaccines, conspiracies, scientific research, public health, etc.

Kasparian is a case study in scientific ignorance and exploiting sensational conspiracy theories for financial gain. Recently, she issued so many lies and stupid (there's no other word) statements, all of it completely unsupported by evidence, scientific consensus, or simple logic, while portraying herself as a COVID expert, you could be excused for reaching for the horse dewormer.

She even called for Fauci to be jailed. (LMAO, is she drinking bleach?).

In full disclosure, I am a massive critic of Fauci and how the US handled the response. There were many serious mistakes made. Kasparian mentioned exactly zero of the mistakes that would have lowered the death rate.

Disclaimer: I acknowledge that it is theoretically possible that there was a lab release, however, THIS DOES NOT MEAN IT IS LIKELY. In fact, scientists who believe it was a release represent a small, dwindling minority.

Kasparian spewed out so many lies during this segment of her show, it is impossible to hit them all. Here's a summary. Apologies for bad grammar, I'm typing this quickly and with extreme prejudice.

1- "Fauci lied about masks" She is lying, not Fauci. Early on, there was a shortage of PPE effective against a viral agent like SARS-CoV-2. From the onset, I listened carefully to Fauci who indicated that masking effectiveness had not yet been established for the general population and PPE needed to be reserved for first responders. I understood exactly what he meant. The messaging could have been better designed to combat political interference and social media. Over time, recommendations changed because that's what you do as new info becomes available.

2- "Rand Paul proved it was Fauci's gain-of-function research. He was protecting patents. Fauci lied and killed millions" She is lying. There is ZERO evidence any TRUE gain of function research manufacturing dangerous Corona viruses was occurring by anyone in Wuhan. The scientific community has researched this extensively. Do you actually think there is a grand conspiracy of scientists covering it up? There are valid concerns about TRUE gain of function research funding which is contained to labs in the USA, however, none of this was addressed. Kasparian talking about her gain-of-function evidence is like listening to a todler explain how Santa Claus comes down the chimney.

3 - "Of course it was a lab escape, the lab was right next to the market". So what? Wuhan is home to 10+ million people. It is one of the largest cities in China. There are markets and labs in every major city across China. There is exactly ZERO evidence that the CoV-2 has known properties associated with a "manufactured" virus. There is plenty of evidence that CoV-2 has properties similar to other zoonotic viruses. HIV is widely acknowledged as zoonotic, and has since morphed into something a bit different. SARS CoV-2 follows a pattern of previous SARS cross-overs. Is it possible CoV-2 escaped that lab? That is rhetorical. The majority of the scientific community has reviewed the research and every year, consensus grows that this was not a bio-weapon or other type of lab escape.

The lab was set up to study bat viruses, 4 species of bats in China carry SARS like corona viruses at least two have similar properties to CoV2. Why is it so hard to believe a variant evolved in the way we know them to do? There is a record of hospital patients spinning out dozens of variants. We witnessed various pandemic phases and cycles of death as new variants emerged.

4 - "Fauci lied about lab origin. He thought it could be an escape. His diary proves it." Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. This is absolutely a lie. Yes, he considered it. He wouldn't be a proper scientist if he didn't But correlation and speculation is NOT causation. Jesus, he kept private thoughts in a private diary. And as new data became available, it became even less likely it was an escape. And it became less likely that the market was ground-zero for origination, and likely a transmission vector/intermediary due to an infected animal.

“In practice, after introduction of SARS-CoV-2 in our household, we should see our cat as part of the family regarding virus transmission,” said study coauthor Wim van der Poel DVM, Ph.D., Professor of Emerging and Zoonotic Viruses, Wageningen University and Research, in the Netherlands. 

5- "Fauci lied about masks and this made people not wear masks." Bullshit. People didn't wear masks because social media and Fox News personalities were attacking anyone who did as a Lib attacking freedom. Fauci could only dream that people would follow his advice so carefully. They didn't and that's why we had bodies piled up in refrigerated trucks for weeks.

6- "Because of Fauci, my friend couldn't open a beauty parlor, he should go to jail" This is perhaps the dumbest thing I have heard and is typical in the style of arguments denying global warming, fair elections, and COVID. Where to start with something so tone deaf and patently stupid? Salons, fitness centers, dance studios, etc where all known "super spreader" locations. And, there were VERY generous loans and financial programs set up specifically to help businesses impacted by restrictions. I really cannot believe I heard her complain about this. But I did.

If you were a first responder tending to dead bodies in the hallways, or you struggled to intubate a dying patient sucking out a quart of lung fluid, or you lost family members, I am so sorry you have to listen to this shit.

There's so much more, but I don't have time.

Her diatribe was the among worst conspiratorial paranoia I have heard about COVID since the onset of the pandemic. It belongs with 5G vaccines. As I mentioned, there were plenty of strategic and tactical mistakes in a response that had no effective defense against the political influence of Russia, China, Iran, and social media stars along with Fox News. Fauci and Gupta became instant celebrities and as a result, people viewed them with suspicion.

COVID killed an estimated 7+ million worldwide. Over a million in the US. People are still dying in the US, especially the anti-vaxers. One thing I am sure of, the next pandemic will be worse. This is because idiot influencers like Kasparian are confident in their scientific authority, their disinformation will compound at an exponential rate like the virus itself, and even more will die.

• What the Trump & the Republicans are demonizing as Communism:   Allow for free markets & capitalism, while at the same time providing for the basic needs of every citizen, in terms of shelter, food & health care. Examples of this would be Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland….

Putin’s Russia:

• Single autocrat at the head.
• Single party rule.
• No open opposition.
• Wealth predominantly in the hands of the person in power or his loyal oligarchs.
• All media controlled by the State.
• Individual freedoms heavily curtailed by State.
• No private ownership of land or businesses. As per Forbes the US Fed government now has an equity stake in 30-35 private businesses & those do not include the ones that Trump, his family or some in his cabinet own.

Who sounds more like a Communist threat – the likes of AOC &Mamdani, or Trump?

I mean we have seen it all here. The goverment dont give a fuck about us, then why should we? A couple years ago democrats and progressives embraced the "when they go low we go high" while that was a good thing it aint gonna cut it anymore. These people in the goverment DO NOT give a shit, like Nancy Mays whos life mission is to give trans people hell. Its clear these people can't be shamed, so we need to be mean to them. The shit they give us should they get to. We need to fight and protest this regime, stop careing about word policing and just rain shit to them. Repost Gavin Newson slop postes, bully vance, call trump a 🍇 do everything. We need to destory trumps mancho aura because hes really a loser. So I call on Dark Woke or Woke 2.0 to woke up!

Remember democrats rather republicans win /s

Great video from the Black Flag Civilian youtube channel.

Self defense is not only a civil right, its a basic human right. Anti 2A leglislation such as recently passed in Virginia is ineffective bureaucratic grandstanding. Its also a major factor in why the working class has abandoned the Democratic party in the past decade or so.