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Cal88
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The Shoe Lady turned 97 yesterday



^And her family is still running the Philippines.
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DiabloWags said:

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I'm still waiting for my $500 DOGE check.



I'm still waiting for Biden to get $15 minimum wage passed, create a public health insurance option, forgive at least $10,000 in student loans to all borrowers, codify abortion rights into federal law, ban assault weapons, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.



PS. Biden's Executive Order 14026 raised the hourly minimum wage to $15 starting in 2022 for employees working on or in connection with covered federal contracts.

Thanks.



Cool story. He promised while campaigning to get a nationwide $15 minimum wage passed. I'm still waiting!


I bet you're still waiting for that $500 DOGE check and the $2,000 Tariff Rebate.

That's ok.
You're not alone.




Definitely still waiting on Biden to get a public health insurance option up and running.


Here, let me help you understand why it never happened.

The providers (think hospitals and Healthcare systems) would have the most to lose if there was a public option. They have one of the most powerful lobbys on Capital Hill, spending over $130 million a year to protect their interests ... which means OPPOSING a public option.

I'm surprised you are unaware of this.



I'm not unaware, Biden ran on and promised it would happen. I'm still waiting.
DiabloWags
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BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

I'm still waiting for my $500 DOGE check.



I'm still waiting for Biden to get $15 minimum wage passed, create a public health insurance option, forgive at least $10,000 in student loans to all borrowers, codify abortion rights into federal law, ban assault weapons, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.



PS. Biden's Executive Order 14026 raised the hourly minimum wage to $15 starting in 2022 for employees working on or in connection with covered federal contracts.

Thanks.



Cool story. He promised while campaigning to get a nationwide $15 minimum wage passed. I'm still waiting!


I bet you're still waiting for that $500 DOGE check and the $2,000 Tariff Rebate.

That's ok.
You're not alone.




Definitely still waiting on Biden to get a public health insurance option up and running.


Here, let me help you understand why it never happened.

The providers (think hospitals and Healthcare systems) would have the most to lose if there was a public option. They have one of the most powerful lobbys on Capital Hill, spending over $130 million a year to protect their interests ... which means OPPOSING a public option.

I'm surprised you are unaware of this.



I'm not unaware, Biden ran on and promised it would happen. I'm still waiting.


I bet you're still waiting for Trumpcare too.
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DiabloWags said:

BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

BearlySane88 said:

DiabloWags said:

I'm still waiting for my $500 DOGE check.



I'm still waiting for Biden to get $15 minimum wage passed, create a public health insurance option, forgive at least $10,000 in student loans to all borrowers, codify abortion rights into federal law, ban assault weapons, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.



PS. Biden's Executive Order 14026 raised the hourly minimum wage to $15 starting in 2022 for employees working on or in connection with covered federal contracts.

Thanks.



Cool story. He promised while campaigning to get a nationwide $15 minimum wage passed. I'm still waiting!


I bet you're still waiting for that $500 DOGE check and the $2,000 Tariff Rebate.

That's ok.
You're not alone.




Definitely still waiting on Biden to get a public health insurance option up and running.


Here, let me help you understand why it never happened.

The providers (think hospitals and Healthcare systems) would have the most to lose if there was a public option. They have one of the most powerful lobbys on Capital Hill, spending over $130 million a year to protect their interests ... which means OPPOSING a public option.

I'm surprised you are unaware of this.



I'm not unaware, Biden ran on and promised it would happen. I'm still waiting.


I bet you're still waiting for Trumpcare too.



Nope. Didn't vote for Trump for that.
DiabloWags
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It's ok.
Lots of Trump voters feel betrayed.

Looks like that whole America First promise was a lie. Same with lowering the cost of living on Day 1, or ending the War in Ukraine, or eliminating the budget deficit.

Trump voters were duped.
Just like my brother.
He admits it.

It's ok to admit that you were duped by a bunch of campaign "promises" made by Trump that never happened.

movielover
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Industry coming back home, border closed, energy booming.

The EU, NATO, and England (according to Promethean) being obsessively pro-war is a sticky wicket.

They can't beat Russia; in fact, Russia has unveiled several new non-nuclear weapons we can't match. We can't match their industrial production. Drones may be a pesky distraction as Russia continues to advance, and the EU has no massive standing army.

What's their play, provoke Putin into attacking the EU, and then call on Uncle Sam? All bc the EU wants Russias $75 Trillion in mineral wealth?

BTW, Russian drones now allegedly acting like a swarm (flock of birds) using AI to pick targets, and they've unveiled rocket-propelled drones making them harder (impossible?) to shoot down currently.
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movielover said:

During Covid, Lancet published a biased or fake study to take down ivermectin.

Caught, they then crafted a study to purposefully make ivermectin fail - there were well-known protocols most doctors used prescribing the 'horse paste'. It was part of a cocktail treatment which included zinc, vitamin D, etc. And the sooner it was started, the better. (Some doctors also added steroids.)

Lancet's study eliminated all of these protocols. (If I recall correctly, ivermectin injects zinc into the cell to stop the Covid virus replication.)


Huh?

Lancet doesn't conduct any scientific studies.
They are merely a platform (like NEJM) that publishes studies.

You might be interested in reading this study from Lancet from February of 2021 to better inform yourself:

The effect of early treatment with ivermectin on viral load, symptoms and humoral response in patients with non-severe COVID-19: A pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial - eClinicalMedicine

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Major, high-quality, randomized double blind platform trials conducted globally including the TOGETHER Trial in Brazil, the ACTIV-6 trial in the U.S., and the PRINCIPLE trial in the UK have all concluded that ivermectin does not reduce hospitalizations, shorten recovery times, or prevent death from COVID-19.

Both the FDA and the Mayo Clinic state explicitly that ivermectin is an antiparasitic medication and is not authorized or safe as a treatment for COVID-19.

Early in the pandemic, several small, poorly designed, or un-peer-reviewed papers (preprints) claimed ivermectin dramatically reduced COVID-19 mortality. Some of the largest influential studies supporting the drug were later found to contain fabricated or deeply flawed data and were formally retracted.
However, because those papers circulated widely online, the initial "miracle drug" narrative took root and survived long after the science was debunked.

Ivermectin became heavily politicized, transforming from a medical debate into a culture war. Proponents often leverage a conspiracy theory that a "medical deep state" or wealthy pharmaceutical companies are intentionally suppressing a cheap, generic drug (ivermectin) to maximize corporate profits on more expensive, patented treatments like vaccines or Paxlovid.
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movielover said:

Stephen A. Smith shook that the Los Angeles Lakers top three players are White. Says hoops isn't golf.

Jason Whitlock calls it racism.

DEI?
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Yup, you found it. One dose, and omitting the crucial cocktail treatment, zinc being key.

Ivermectin was used as part of a cocktail approach, likes AIDS treatment. Dr. Mary Bowden inTexas reportedly treated over 3,000 Covid patients without a single death.

This cocktail approach can include zinc, vitamin D, and steroids. This study was one dose, no cocktail, some say designed to fail.

Ivermectin is a well-known anti-parasitic medication that gas wiped out river blindness.

Interestingly, Africans who weren't overweight, took Ivermectin (river blindness), plenty of Vitamin D (sun) and many weren't vaccinated, didn't get Covid.
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TDS?

DiabloWags
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I recall that some anti-establishment types took Ivermectin during Covid and didn't consider that the anti-parasitic used for horses needs to have the dose adjusted for the weight of a human, and not a horse.

They died.
movielover
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Good story, never heard that fable.

Some seeking ivermectin used a like product, Quercetin - a natural bioflavonoid - for a similar effect. Ivermectin also being studied to treat cancer.
movielover
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New Pfizer antiviral drug mimicked... ivermectin - which won the Nobel Prize in 2015. (This video is from four years ago.) Blunt conclusion. Ivermectin uses multiple pathways, new Pfizer drug one pathway.



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movielover said:

Good story, never heard that fable.

Some seeking ivermectin used a like product, Quercetin - a natural bioflavonoid - for a similar effect. Ivermectin also being studied to treat cancer.


Not a fable.
I post FACTS.

You really need to do your homework.
Instead of simply reading tweets you agree with.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40983056/
movielover
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According to Dr. Campbell, it is quiet safe, we've used it for decades, we understand the safety profile, and it's being investigated by many researchers as a promising cancer-fighting drug. But it's out of patent so Big Pharma can't make Millions on it.

Your own linked study about the Nobel-prize winning drug Ivermectin (IVM) is quiet telling.

"Ivermectin is a classic antiparasitic drug that is widely used around the world. After the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019, many studies have reported the potential effectiveness of ivermectin against coronavirus disease 2019; ... We report a rare fatal case of ivermectin misuse with a review of recent literature. ... Many recent in vitro studies have shown that ivermectin has the potential to become a new anticancer drug."

There are 'rare' cases of people dying from all kinds of odd accidents, ingestion, etc. It's estimated the Covid vaccines killed 400,000 US citizens per year, over several years, based on extensive insurance actuarial tables.

Deaths per year (USA)

1 case of Ivermectin overdose
5 cases of water intoxication or hyponatremia
10 - 12 high school deaths from football
15 - 40 skate boarding deaths
100 aspirin overdoses
4,000 - 4,500 drowning
5,000 - 5,500 choking (primarily food)
6200 Motorcycle deaths
8,300 Emphysema deaths
400,000 Covid vaccines
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bearister
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This is the reason AI will not provide support for the claim that Ivermectin is a viable treatment for COVID-19.

AI models do not have personal opinions or beliefs. Instead, they recognize patterns in the vast data they are trained on. Because the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed literature, public health guidelines, and clinical trial results state that ivermectin is ineffective against COVID-19, the AI synthesizes this weight of evidence to provide a factual, safety-first response.

*AI can't be used to provide support for any of the misinformation on MAGA's Greatest Hits, which get rolled out like comfort food every time Trump steps on his dick.
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DiabloWags
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Oh, ok . . .




https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/why-trump-s-great-american-state-fair-in-washington-looks-so-empty?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MzE3NTIwOSwiZXhwIjoxNzgzNzgwMDA5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSEs4SUdLR0lGU0QwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0QTE0NjgyRTVEQjI0RDgyOEVGOTIxMzA1M0U4NzhDMiJ9.cfIRalnIf26sUO7f7MGpybAEvq0BVnNaVh48YZ3GXIk
DiabloWags
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Can't wait for Trump's speech!

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Lmao.



Everything Going Wrong at Trump's Great American State Fair
BearlySane88
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Seven Trump posts on different topics before 8 am by one individual, but you know TDS isn't real they say.
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Happy 102nd, Eva Marie Saint!
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Happy 102nd, Eva Marie Saint!

thanks for noticing and reminding us, confirmed, she's still living

a list of EMS features, ordered (as one does) by the number of imdb votes received..
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bearister said:

This is the reason AI will not provide support for the claim that Ivermectin is a viable treatment for COVID-19.

AI models do not have personal opinions or beliefs. Instead, they recognize patterns in the vast data they are trained on. Because the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed literature, public health guidelines, and clinical trial results state that ivermectin is ineffective against COVID-19, the AI synthesizes this weight of evidence to provide a factual, safety-first response.

*AI can't be used to provide support for any of the misinformation on MAGA's Greatest Hits, which get rolled out like comfort food every time Trump steps on his dick.


It's been configured and trained to give you the "right" answers, no different than Google or other search tools that can be trained according to their owners or stakeholders standards.

Here is an analysis of EVERY scientific study published on ivermectin as a cure for covid, 106 studies from around the world, proving beyond any doubt its effectiveness.

https://c19early.org/ivermectin-covid-19-meta-analysis.pdf



The other aspect about ivermectin that uninformed idiots will parrot is that it is unsafe, despite the fact that it has been an over the counter drug in many countries that has been administered billions of times.

Ivermectin is a safe and effective treatment against covid, this has been proven without any doubt by over 100 scientific studies.



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No, there are not 106 rigorous scientific studies involving 200,000 patients proving ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19.

While those specific numbers circulate widely on alternative data-aggregation websites (such as ivermectin-focused meta-analysis trackers), the claim is scientifically misleading. Independent medical authorities and rigorous peer-reviewed analyses have repeatedly debunked the assertion that ivermectin is an effective COVID-19 treatment.

The reality behind the numbers and the scientific consensus breaks down across several key areas:

Flawed Data Aggregation
The website aggregating these "106 studies" reaches its high patient and study counts by pooling low-quality data. Including:

Weak Evidence:
The count includes unreviewed preprints, observational studies, anecdotal reports, and small, poorly designed trials.

No Quality Controls:
It blends data together regardless of whether the individual studies adhered to strict scientific standards.

Medical Fraud and Critical Errors

When independent scientists and organizations like the Cochrane Library reviewed the trials making up the bulk of the pro-ivermectin narrative, they found severe issues:

Fabricated Data:
Several major, early studies claiming massive reductions in COVID-19 deaths were retracted or exposed as completely fraudulent (such as the Elgazzar study).

Systemic Flaws:
Over a third of the primary pro-ivermectin trials contained critical calculation errors, duplicated patient data, or a total lack of true randomization.

Bias Impact:
Meta-analyses show that when you remove the studies with a high risk of bias or fraud, any statistical benefit of ivermectin completely disappears.

Large, Gold-Standard Clinical Trials

When ivermectin was put to the test in massive, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials the gold standard of medical research it consistently failed to show a clinical benefit:

The TOGETHER Trial:
This large trial found no significant difference between ivermectin and a placebo regarding hospitalizations or emergency room visits.

The ACTIV-6 Trial:
Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this study tested thousands of patients and concluded that ivermectin did not improve recovery times or prevent hospitalization.

The PRINCIPLE Trial:
Conducted by the University of Oxford, this large-scale study confirmed that ivermectin does not provide clinically meaningful benefits for COVID-19 recovery or mortality.

Official Regulatory Stance

Major global health organizations have explicitly advised against using ivermectin to treat COVID-19 outside of controlled clinical trials. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization maintain that extensive clinical data does not demonstrate the drug's effectiveness against the virus in humans.
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Thank you for highlighting how bogus those "studies" were.
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Trump pardons 6 unnamed people for violating the CLEAN AIR ACT by tampering with the emissions systems on commercial trucks.

Trump said that these people were persecuted by the Biden Administration for "working on their car".

The DUMBEST PRESIDENT in my Lifetime.

Bwahahahahaha!

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/us/politics/trump-pardon-clean-air-act.html

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DiabloWags said:

Trump pardons 6 unnamed people for violating the CLEAN AIR ACT by tampering with the emissions systems on commercial trucks.

Trump said that these people were persecuted by the Biden Administration for "working on their car".

The DUMBEST PRESIDENT in my Lifetime.

Bwahahahahaha!

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/us/politics/trump-pardon-clean-air-act.html

gotta hand it to him, the b*st*rd, he's absolutely great at monetizing his day job
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Where did you copy / paste this from, and where's the link?

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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movielover said:

Where did you copy / paste this from, and where's the link?

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

AI
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movielover said:

Where did you copy / paste this from, and where's the link?

my guess was a neutral AI inquiry/grab, not entirely wrong.
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smh said:

movielover said:

Where did you copy / paste this from, and where's the link?

my guess was a neutral AI inquiry/grab, not entirely wrong.


Neutral AI? Which one would that be?
bearister
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Because mainstream academic and scientific consensus frequently contradicts populist or right-wing narratives, the AI's standard "factual" response is often interpreted as a partisan attack.

In other words, facts constitute a partisan attack on misinformation.
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Neutral AI? Which one would that be?

well, the goood one, duh
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