Biden is the constitutionally elected President of the United States. I'm not a Trump fan and I remember when I criticized Trump people would say, "But he's the President, you have to be loyal to the President." That was just for criticizing his actions (I don't trust Trump, he flies whichever way he thinks will get him power). If you're loyal to the USA, you have to be loyal to the President. Not subservient. Not in agreement. Just loyal.
Biden is the elected President of the US. I see a lot of conservatives are more loyal to Putin.
Why? I'm not a Biden fan. I don't like Biden. I have never liked Biden, just like I never liked Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton. Didn't like any of them. But I'm loyal to the USA and the founding document is the Constitution. Biden is the Constitutionally elected President of the United States, sort of the embodiment, the chief executive of this nation called the United States of America. If I wasn't loyal to him, I'd be a traitor.
That doesn't mean I have to agree with him or his politics generally. But at a time when the USA is on the verge of war, when it is a possibility, anyway, shouldn't we be loyal to Biden?
What's the World Economic Forum got to do with it?
Biden is the elected president of the United States. Every patriot should be loyal to him, even when we disagree on politics. By loyal, I don't mean we have to always AGREE with him. We don't have to trust him. I didn't trust Bush when said Iraq had weapons program. In fact, I was arrested on the day he invaded for inciting an riot. Of the 17 people arrested in my city, I was the only one convicted. But I was LOYAL to the United States. I wasn't loyal to Saddam Hussein. I was a longtime supporter of the Kurds and supported the establishment of an indepedent Kurdistan. I hated Saddam Hussein. I opposed the war because I knew we were lied to and that it would lead to a long, drawn out occupation due to the complicated regional politics. I didn't want US soldiers to die in such a useless endeavor based on a false premise.
If you're going to say Biden wasn't elected, I have yet to see any evidence that he wasn't elected by the American people. I've asked on this site many times for someone to post evidence of election fraud. There isn't any. Just like all those walls of links that "prove" vaccines don't work or they kill you or that COVID isn't real,etc, etc. Open any link and read it and the argument falls completely apart. same with election fraud. There wasn't any. The biggest cases of election fraud and vote harvesting have been by Republicans, not Democrats. That should be embarrassing.
So, in the absence of evidence, Biden is the elected president of the United States. Just like Trump was before him. In elections just as fair and free of fraud.
So to say you aren't loyal to Biden at a time when we are a hair's breadth away from war with Russia is, frankly, treasonous. Don't you think?
Where do people stand on this? I don't know why there's not more concern about this here.
This is going to be very uncomfortable for the fascist wing of the Republican party.
What? Not loyal to the President of the United States at a time of dire conflict with a foreign power?
So more likely Putin?
I didn't ask who we should trust or idolize. I asked, who should we be loyal to?
Reporter is exactly right.
There's no Vitamin D shortage.
They are protected there by the UN guarding the rim of the Earth.
Why are you afraid of mRNA vaccines?
Who is "they?"
Let's take it easy on the hype. Treatment has same success as other types. It's not a conspiracy. Viruses mutate.
Well, we assume she is in heaven.
Totally relevant. The ark is buried in the ice in Antarctica, guarded by UN forces.
Cranberries gets an upvote.
Pretty sure it's in a Smithsonian warehouse with "top men" about to study it.
Ok, so heads roll. Then what?
It's good to question Pentagon claims. That was true under Trump, as well. Don't weaponize this for political points. If you care about Syrian civilians, then what course of action do you support? It's a mess of factions with intertangled interests, with Russia and Iran supporting the Assad who is fighting both ISIL and SDF and other factions. The US is fighting ISIL and somewhat aligned with SDF, but isn't aligned with Assad and Russia.
And if you are concerned about Syrian civilians, how about granting them refugee status so they can come here? That could save a lot of lives. The war has already cause 130,000 to 200,000 civilian deaths. We could help some of them by giving them refugee status.
If anybody bothers to go through these lists of "studies," you'll find they don't actually say what the op claims they say or they are completely bogus. I've done this several times. It's a rabbit hole. You debunk, they pop up with another one. I'd be willing to bet there is no legitimate study that finds:
a) vaccines are more dangerous than the virus itself b) the virus doesn't exist c) the virus is a bioweapon d) ivermectin is effective vs COVID in dosages safe for humans e) the virus is no more dangerous than the flu
I can see right now just from a title on one in the "continued" part here just below where I am typing:
On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination PDF
I can already guess the fallacies. First and foremost, confusing correlation with causation. That some people die after receiving the vaccine is not proof that the vaccine was the cause of the death. When hundreds of millions get vaccinated, many of them elderly, there will be thousands of people who die after receiving the vaccine. On the other hand, 800,000 people have died while having COVID from symptoms directly caused by COVID.
It's all bogus. Use your rationality and don't follow these false leads.
EDIT: Yep. Just as I expected. The very first study I looked at, selected by random placement (happened t be the first listed on the post directly below where I type, lists 15 deaths, most of them older (average age is 70, only one was below the age of 50). Time of death after vaccine ranged from 7 days to 6 months with two listed as "unknown."
So this "irrefutable proof" has cherry-picked 15 cases of mostly elderly people dying up to 6 months after receiving the vaccine, out of a total of (what?) 200 million people?
Come one, please understand the math here. This is completely absurd. It's literally embarrassing that the OP thinks this should be included in a list and presented as "irrefutable evidence." There isn't even a hypothesis presented, let alone tested, as to how the vaccine caused these deaths.
Please. Use logic and common sense. Stop believing these bogus lists. I could go down all of them. What 3 studies here are the absolute best? One million bogus studies won't trump even 1 gold standard study. Tell me what 3 are the best?
Here are some things on trans
Yeah. I imagine there are regrets sometimes. On the other hand, what about the ones who are satisfied and glad they underwent the surgery?
But this doesn't compare to outcomes if you deny sex change to people with sexual dysphoria. Also, what it recommends is improved care after transition:
"Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group."
This one is an opinion piece.
One thing I've noticed with these lists of links people give is that 1) usually the person doing the linking doesn't know what it says (for example, when a site listed abolishing child labor as an indication we were becoming communist, which you disagreed with_ or the person linking isn't very good at evaluating sources.
This source says, "hundreds of trans people regret" but then only relates two anecdotes. It just isn't a very good source. I do not doubt that there will be people with regrets, but the process is designed to minimize those regrets with lots of check points before getting to a point of irreversibility (as I showed previously).
So if proper medically approved steps are followed a person who actually undergoes sex change operation has gone through all this:
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a determination by mental and physcial health professionals "that surgery is medically necessary and would benefit the patient’s overall health and/or well-being."
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that clinicians approve genital gender-affirming surgery only after completion of at least 1 year of consistent and compliant hormone treatment, unless hormone therapy is not desired or medically contraindicated.
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5.4. We recommend that clinicians refer hormone-treated transgender individuals for genital surgery when: (1) the individual has had a satisfactory social role change, (2) the individual is satisfied about the hormonal effects, and (3) the individual desires definitive surgical changes.
5.5. We suggest that clinicians delay gender-affirming genital surgery involving gonadectomy and/or hysterectomy until the patient is at least 18 years old or legal age of majority in his or her country
I think, as the newsweek article says, we have to very careful about this. But if after all this, adults still want to go through with the reassignment process, then it's sort of on them. One of the people in that article who says he wanted the change after a mental breakdown shouldn't have qualified for the change. It could be the process is more developed now then it was at that time.
Here's the recommendations for receiving the surgical procedure:
5.4. We recommend that clinicians refer hormone-treated transgender individuals for genital surgery when: (1) the individual has had a satisfactory social role change, (2) the individual is satisfied about the hormonal effects, and (3) the individual desires definitive surgical changes. (1 |⊕OOO) 5.5. We suggest that clinicians delay gender-affirming genital surgery involving gonadectomy and/or hysterectomy until the patient is at least 18 years old or legal age of majority in his or her country. (2 |⊕⊕OO). 5.6. We suggest that clinicians determine the timing of breast surgery for transgender males based upon the physical and mental health status of the individual. There is insufficient evidence to recommend a specific age requirement. (2 |⊕OOO)
Which heads? And how will that ultimately change anything? I don't think this is a personal problem, but a systemic problem.
So you want the USA to be destroyed?