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NEW: Meijer, Republican who impeached Trump, defeated in primary
NEW: Meijer, Republican who impeached Trump, defeated in primary https://t.co/xq7iPUrNNa pic.twitter.com/fGN4Ixg7Ht
— The Hill (@thehill) August 3, 2022
Tudor Dixon speaks after winning GOP nomination for Michigan governor
U.S. economy just had a 2nd quarter of negative growth. Is it in a recession?
The U.S. economy shrank in the last three months by 0.9%.
This is the second consecutive quarter where the economy has contracted. In the first quarter, GDP, or gross domestic product, decreased at an annual rate of 1.6%.
While two consecutive quarters of negative growth is often considered a recession, it's not an official definition. A nonprofit, non-partisan organization called the National Bureau of Economic Research determines when the U.S. economy is in a recession. An NBER committee made up of eight economists makes that determination and many factors go into that calculation.
The White House has pushed back against calling the current economy a recession. It is no doubt aware of the role the economy is going to play in the midterm elections.
Can it be a recession if there are so many jobs being created?
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen noted in a recent appearance on NBC's Meet the Press that while two consecutive quarters of negative growth is generally considered a recession, conditions in the economy are unique.
"When you're creating almost 400,000 jobs a month, that is not a recession," she said.
Still, either way you cut it, the economy has weakened.
The GDP report showed that businesses had retrenched. Undoubtedly, borrowing has become more expensive with the Federal Reserve ratcheting up interest rates. So there's less money to invest. The key worry is whether that will start hurting jobs growth.
What happens when people want all the air fryers and then, suddenly, they don't
Retailers had a glut of inventories to work through, so those businesses were also spending less. And housing, which has been running hot during the pandemic, is starting to cool with mortgage rates rising.
However, there were bright spots. Wages continued to rise and people were treating themselves by going out to eat at restaurants and also traveling. Income overall rose.
But fears of recession have grown considerably as the Fed continues to hike interest rates aggressively to fight high inflation.
And the economic data has been quite mixed.
The Fed's mission improbable: Beating inflation without causing a recession
In the run-up to previous downturns, for instance, the economy was shedding jobs. But the U.S. economy has been adding jobs month after month, as Yellen noted.
"This is not an economy that's in a recession," Yellen said. "A recession is broad-based weakness in the economy. We're not seeing that now."
Yellen also pointed to consumer spending, which has remained strong and she highlighted positive data on the credit quality of Americans.
The Joe Biden great recession has officially begun.
You post a letter from a GOP Senator to the DOJ and FBI Complaining that they have not made public every letter alleging derogatory information about Hunter Biden. SMHLMAO. The DOJ and FBI are not in the business of publishing the derogatory letters they receive about US citizens. They investigate. And if they find crimes were committed they prosecute.
If they haven't yet prosecuted Hunter Biden, then they have so far concluded that they don't have enough evidence to convict him of a crime. BTW Hunter Biden is Joe Biden's son not his brother and he is not Joe Biden and, unlike Ivanka Trump and Jerrod Kushner, has never worked for the US government.
Lets Go Brandon
The White House's latest response to Americans not being able to afford food with inflation is literally
'you're doing great because it's not famine.'
The White House's latest response to Americans not being able to afford food with inflation is literally 'you're doing great because it's not famine.' 🤦♂️
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 27, 2022
FUCK THESE PEOPLE. pic.twitter.com/TXjuZeNIBH
nice post, this is a keeper and thanks for playing..
and all you have are allegations of derogatory information
not being made public by the FBI and DOJ
BTW, The source for that Covid Vaccinr information was ...
Comparing the differences between COVID-19 vaccines
LMAO All you got there is a letter from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley demanding information from the FBI.
BTW, In case you missed it, Hunter Biden is not Joe Biden. So far, there have been no indictments against Hunter Biden and all you have are allegations of derogatory information not being made public by the FBI and DOJ (gee, did an ex-girlfriend call him an asshole?)
Can you name a time that we've ever had a recession and record low unemployment and record high hiring at the same time? If not, then you can't call our current situation a recession.
It just goes to show, that's what you get when you totally rely on politicians (like Trump) instead of scientists and doing your own research for accurate medical advice. Check everything out with the CDC and FDA not some quack who posts tweets on the internet. Had you done that you'd have gotten the correct information i.e. that you might still get Covid but that your chance of dying from it or going to the hospital was reduced by roughly 90%. Moreover, just like the flu, the effectiveness decreases over time so booster shots are recommended. That's all that you can expect from any vaccine. In fact the Covid vaccines are more effective than the flu shots you get every year ever were.
dropdeadfred, No PM or president should ever, in warning the country there is much covid misinformation around, tell their people their government will tell the truth as they know it. Is that what you are saying. Of course you and others sharers of misinformation and misinterpretations and disingenuousness would pick on any and all possibly poor choice of words, but are you really saying Ardern shouldn't have warned her voters against people like you. Wouldn't surprise.
1. Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement, "We will continue to be your single source of truth"?
Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN (Prime Minister): I stand by my statement in its entirety. Some weeks ago, I was asked about rumours and speculation that had emerged across social media on COVID-19 that could have caused harm to New Zealanders. My full quote reads, "I've been watching for some days—and this is not unique to New Zealand—that, in the midst of what is a global issue, as you would expect, there are a number of rumours that circulate. I am present on social media; I see it myself. I cannot go round and individually dismiss every single rumour I see, as tempted as I might be. So, instead, I want to send a clear message to the New Zealand public: we will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as a source of that information. You can also trust the Director-General of Health and the Ministry of Health. For that information, do feel free to visit at any time—to clarify any rumour you may hear—the covid19.govt.nz website. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth. We'll provide information frequently. We will share everything we can. Everything else you see—a grain of salt."
[...]
Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: Look, I actually stand proudly on the record of New Zealanders and their response to COVID-19, and this is a response that would not have seen New Zealand having one of the lowest death rates relative to other countries, some of the highest testing rates, some of the highest compliance, and just today some of the highest compliance with technology solutions as well—we should all be proud of the efforts of New Zealanders in this global pandemic, because, whilst it surges globally, we have continued to take a process of elimination that puts us in the best position to protect New Zealanders' health, and the best position for our economy to recover. I for one am very proud of that.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20200902_050580000/1-question-no-1-prime-minister
I wouldn't be surprised if that video was doctored in some way as i know you are suspect at all times, and the Daily Wire could be at times .. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-wire/ .. too.
Putin's Right-Wing Shills And why they matter.
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Ben Shapiro’s Candace Owens has not only defended Putin’s position, she has also suggested that we should be be invading Canada instead:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=167960623
See also:
rooster: "dailywire.com" LOL, how do you manage to come up with such Bull Shit sites!!!!
"The Daily Wire are unverified, and that The Daily Wire often misstates facts to advance a partisan view.[8][9] It has been a prominent publisher of false and misleading claims denying climate change.[10][11] Its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as "junk health news".[12]"
h/t hookrider - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169021791
your people have spoken today..
"We will continue to be your single source of truth… Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth."
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern:
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 25, 2022
"We will continue to be your single source of truth… Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth."https://t.co/WV7ZfdP2RR
The Biden family is everything the media spent five years telling you the Trump family was.
The Biden family is everything the media spent five years telling you the Trump family was. https://t.co/GI9sxkD6cx
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 26, 2022
It’s exactly what they said. You are disinformation
they never said that
Remember when fake news tried to portray Ray Epps as a victim last week - and the entire country laughed their ass off.
Remember when fake news tried to portray Ray Epps as a victim last week - and the entire country laughed their ass off.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 25, 2022
Clown World
NOW - White House declines to define
what a recession is.
NOW - White House declines to define what a recession is.pic.twitter.com/FnhQDGE7Qo
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 25, 2022
They said youre not going to get covid if you get vaccinated...
Priceless pic.twitter.com/tngaAs6uRH
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 24, 2022
tell me about this smart technology and how it's working please
I just don't like to see right wing GOP misinformation and conspiracy theories left unchallenged. People start believing lies when they are repeated ad infinitum and no one refutes them.
you clowns..
It was always a theater
It was always a theater 🎭pic.twitter.com/il4g5qcJhe
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) July 22, 2022
stated on January 10, 2022 in a White House press briefing:
“You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/12/jen-psaki/data-suggests-unvaccinated-are-20-times-more-likel/
Madison Czopek
By Madison Czopek
January 12, 2022
Data show the unvaccinated are 20 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT
And if you are an aging Trump supporting anti-vaxxer, it may very well be.
October data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who are vaccinated and boosted.
Researchers in Texas reached the same conclusion looking at September data.
CDC data from November also indicated that unvaccinated people were about 17 times more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than those who are vaccinated.
Data from the omicron variant-fueled surge in December and January is preliminary and incomplete but early reports from New York City and Seattle suggest a continued and significant gap in the experiences between vaccinated and unvaccinated who become infected.
Our ruling
Psaki said "You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die," compared to people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The most complete data available from the CDC and research from Texas support this claim. While those studies are based on data collected prior to omicron variant spreading in the U.S., early data from New York and Seattle in December and January continue to suggest a significant gap between the experiences of the unvaccinated and the vaccinated who become infected.
We rate this claim True.
Believing anything that Tuckyo Rose says is only a minor problem of yours, as you are on some other level of believing conspiracies and junk science. Let me guess, his propaganda blast was during the 1/5 hearing broadcast to give you idiots some pablum to soothe your butthurt. The only redeeming thing about the whole deal is that the shitgibbon is such an abject failure that he even failed at a coup on the government he was in charge of. Had he been competent at anything, we would probably be fighting a civil war now. He is being exposed daily as the one who caused the insurrection and all you do is watch Tuckyo Rose for some debunked propaganda? Sad, actually.
good luck
Tucker just went SCORCHED earth on vaccine harm and VAIDS.
— Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower (@Perpetualmaniac) July 22, 2022
If you didn't fall for the greatest personal psyop in history, pat yourself on the back. pic.twitter.com/Kw7vtwrO4S
you're trying to reason with a mentally ill person. Kind of fruitless don't you think?
No vaccine company has ever claimed that their vaccine would completely prevent Covid. To say otherwise is a deliberate lie. Their approval by the FDA was always based on a statistically 90%+ decrease in deaths and corresponding decrease in hospitalizations. Thanks to the vaccines, instead of filling hospitals to capacity and straining a country's health care system, getting Covid, for most vaccinated people, is becoming not much worse than getting a bad flu.
When Trump got Covid he was seriously ill and had to be hospitalized for several days. Biden just got Covid and he's working from home in the White House. Are you willing to say Biden is a much healthier person than Trump or will you admit that the vaccine is keeping him from being more seriously ill.
You should be ashamed for all of the unnecessary deaths that your lies have caused...
This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn't have to.
In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in the state had gotten vaccinated. In Ohio, that number is 15,875. Nationally it's nearly 319,000, according a new estimate.
These figures come from an analysis released Friday by researchers at Brown University and Microsoft AI Health — shared exclusively with NPR — that estimates the portion of vaccine-preventable deaths in each state since COVID-19 vaccines became available at the start of 2021.
In early 2021, when the vaccines were widely distributed, there was huge demand. At the peak of the vaccination campaign in the spring, 4 million people got vaccinated in one day. That demand dropped off by summer. A year later, many states are still barely north of 50% of people fully vaccinated.
How many lives would have been saved if that slump in vaccine demand had never happened? To answer that question, Brown and Microsoft researchers calculated the peak vaccination rate for each state, and then imagined that rate continued until all adults in the state were fully vaccinated.
The total for the country is stark: Many of the nearly 1 million COVID deaths took place in 2020 before the vaccines were available. But of the more than 641,000 people who died after vaccines were available, half of those deaths could have been averted – 318,981 – had every eligible adult gotten vaccinated. And those numbers are even more striking in certain states where more than half of deaths could have been avoided.
"The vaccine rollout has been both a remarkable success and a remarkable failure," says Stefanie Friedhoff, a professor at the Brown School of Public Health, and one of the analysis's authors. It was a success, she says, in the sense that "the United States was first in getting those vaccines developed and making doses available at high numbers quickly to the public."
A lot of money and energy was invested in the logistics of the rollout – the supply side of the equation. Much less was invested in encouraging vaccine demand, she says.
"We did not start early on with information campaigns about why vaccines are important – what do they do for us?" she says. "We underestimated dramatically the investment it would take to get people familiarized with vaccines because, by and large, we haven't had a deadly disease like this, so people have become estranged from the important impact of vaccination."
Red state, blue state
The map of states with the most preventable deaths shows a sharp political divide – as NPR has reported, people living in counties that voted for then-President Trump in the 2020 election were three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people who lived in counties that voted for President Biden.
According to the analysis, West Virginia, Wyoming, Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma had the most vaccine-preventable deaths per capita. Washington D.C., Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, Vermont and Hawaii had the fewest.
The analysis is accessible in an interactive dashboard showing different scenarios to estimate the impact of vaccines state by state, such as a vaccination rate of 85% or 90% instead of 100%.
The national number of vaccine-preventable COVID deaths calculated by Brown and Microsoft exceeds an earlier analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which put that number at 234,000. Cynthia Cox, director of the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker and a co-author of that analysis, tells NPR that differences in methodology may explain the discrepancy.
Unlike the KFF analysis, the new analysis included data on how many Americans were boosted — so the vaccine-preventable death total includes people who never got vaccinated, along with those whose vaccine protection had waned and who had not received a booster.
Of the Brown research, Cox says, "I think this is a really clear way of demonstrating both the effectiveness of vaccines and also the need to continue to vaccinate more people and to make sure that they're up to date on those vaccines."
She notes one limitation is that the calculations may be overestimating the impact of vaccines, since the mostly Republican-led states that had lower vaccination rates also underused other pandemic-fighting tools, such as mask and social distancing requirements.
'A map of trust'
One state that stands out in the analysis is West Virginia, says Dr. Thomas Tsai, a surgeon and professor at Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of the analysis with Friedhoff.
Early on, West Virginia's vaccine rollout was celebrated as other states struggled to take a stockpile of vaccines and get them into people's arms.
"There was a very, very early push to get vaccinations out, but a lack of resources to see it through the course of the year," Tsai says. "West Virginia could have ended up like Maine or Vermont, but ended up being more like Wyoming or Idaho – not for lack of effort, potentially, but for lack of resources."
A. Toni Young runs a public health outreach organization in West Virginia called Community Education Group, that has worked to vaccinate people against COVID-19 across the state. From her perspective, the drop in the vaccination rate came when the voices of local pharmacies and physicians were overpowered by national voices denying the seriousness of COVID-19 or saying that herd immunity was imminent.
"Folks started to have a conversation within their social networks, and had a real attitude of, 'Well, someone else has been vaccinated, I don't need to be vaccinated.' They also started to see people, particularly in a younger age cohort, get COVID and survive," Young says.
"I think that we could have had more trusted leaders doing the messaging in West Virginia," Young adds.
"All of this comes down to trust – whether the political leadership creates the climate of trust in the public health agencies' efforts, in the science, in the ability of the health care system to deliver," Tsai says. "To me, this is a map of trust."
A senior White House official speaking with NPR on background pointed to work the administration has done to invest in community-led vaccination efforts, and said that trust-building was a key part of what the Biden administration is asking Congress to fund.
But the push for more federal COVID-19 funding appears to be stalled. The White House has been asking for $22.5 billion – when Congress got close to a funding deal in April, it would have been for less than half of that. Federal officials warn that this delay could affect Americans' access to booster shots in the future. Funding for free COVID-19 vaccination, testing and treatment for people without health insurance has already run out.
The patterns found in the Brown analysis could well continue with future COVID deaths piling up in places where vaccination access is poor and hesitancy is high, cautions Friedhoff.
Immunity both from vaccines and prior infection appears to wane over time and further booster campaigns could well be needed to save lives.
"We're at a point where we have 1 million deaths, but also very little investment and interest in continuing vaccination campaigns and continuing the support for vaccination," she says. The data underlying this tool is real, she notes – the people who actually got vaccinated and the people who actually died. "The basis for this dashboard is what actually happened, and it can show us – in spite of all the narratives – how many people didn't have to die."
It provides evidence and incentive, she adds, to try and support more people in the decision to get vaccinated.
again, you're a clown living on your flat earth...
Reporter to Jha: "Isn't time to realize that masks may not be as effective as we try to make them out to be?"
Jha (basically): 'High-quality masks work, so don't be thinking otherwise even though Biden wears a high-quality mask and still caught Covid.'
Reporter to Jha: "Isn't time to realize that masks may not be as effective as we try to make them out to be?"
— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) July 21, 2022
Jha (basically): 'High-quality masks work, so don't be thinking otherwise even though Biden wears a high-quality mask and still caught Covid.' 🤡 pic.twitter.com/glhpxz4Cdt
from one clown to another clown.. this is funny
PROTESTERS: "Your husband is the worst President we ever had, you owe us gas money"
JILL BIDEN: “Thank you for your support”
PROTESTERS: "Your husband is the worst President we ever had, you owe us gas money"
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 22, 2022
JILL BIDEN: “Thank you for your support”
pic.twitter.com/Y2wPZ9h0Zg
This is the biggest LIE you tell yourself and I laugh at you..
A couple of years ago not much at all was known about the virus. About a year ago many would have hoped a vaccination would prevent one from catching covid. Biden's comment would have been based on the best expert evidence he had then.
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I'd like to establish a forum where World politics and the Power of wealth can be discussed.
What is the motivation?
What will make it all better?
It's my belief that we have all the answers.
Whether it be to our financial markets or political and social questions.
I'm doing this for my own education and having fun doing it.
My very basic ideas of the mechanics that drive our society:
1) Wealth is power. Political influence is power. Capitolism as a means to betterment in a fair market.
2)The greater good, the idea of sacrifice and an obligation to advance the human well being to make a difference in the human cause should be empowering.
Balancing the two ideals should be our goal.
Can we rise above the need for Kings and accept the responsibility of self rule ?
Democracy requires independance from the crutch of leadership and freedom respects the rights of others. Money is just a tool for trade.
We can rely on the lessons of our parents?
The traditions of our ancestors?
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