I just got an email saying I’ve been refunded $12 for the vinyl purchase with no explanation. Anyone else get this or know why?

Edit: NM. Management has heavily discounted the costs of physical media on the site. Wonder why

Those who want to admit millions of third world economic refugees whose carbon footprint would increase exponentially in the US aren’t really concerned about climate change either.

Mitch, it’s an objective truth that Biden’s cognitive abilities have declined. He often is unsure of who he’s talking to or staying in topic. This is easily verifiable by observing any public speech of his as a long tenured Senator, or even his time as VP, and contrasting it with any engagement from the past 8 months. For all the hyperbole and venom tossed at Trump’s off the cuff and ever present style, you’re incapable of pointing to any domestic or foreign issue Biden has not only handled better than Trump, but spoken on the topic more eloquently.

You admitted your criteria for comparing Trump and Biden is the lack of personal angst you feel with the current occupant. Good for you, but it’s not an intelligent or a discussable position.

Biden’s mental acuity is absolutely a discussion point and something that matters. The major networks almost daily had some psychologist diagnosing Trump without ever having interacted or engaged with him. Maybe you don’t know anything about medical ethics and specifically psychological ethics, but that was bottom of the barrel behavior for a board licensed psychologist.

Biden’s voice is completely absent from the infrastructure debate, his handling of migrants is abysmal and the images are vastly worse than anything the media snapshotted against Trump (even the Obama cages), and he’s done far more damage to NATO and European trust in the US than any of the vitriol put forth by the Atlantic or other journals.

Clinton’s lawyer was just indicted for lying about the Steele Dossier that you and millions of others thought was a smoking gun while Brennan and even Comey disgraced themselves with ambiguous and provacative rhetoric to make book sales. That’s the reality of our shared history.

And you think calling Biden “dementia Joe” due to his complete absence from public questions and repeated demonstration of an inability to speak coherently, is a partisan attack.

I mean, c’mon. This man is the worst President since Carter and more  Americans are growing to dislike him daily according to every poll available. But you’re just an informed defender, while I’m the clueless partisan who can only point to objective truths to qualify his claims

This has been my argument for 20 years. My position on socialized medicine has changed in favor for it over the past decade, but that means no more fat fucks or chronically unhealthy people through personal actions. If we’re declaring the government is responsible for our health, that extends beyond the hospital. Cardio, diet and drug screens should all be mandatory for government care. And yes, death panels too. Your 90 year old dementia grandmother doesn’t need a third hip. She needs to be compassionately euthanized. But the moment you call for any personal accountability or sacrifice, you’re labeled a Nazi.

I mean, more children died of the flu in the US in 2019 alone than children dying from Covid for its entirety. Yet getting a flu shot was something less than half of this forum does. More children of color have been murdered than children dying from Covid this year. After a year of riots and protests for change, you’d think they’re be a bigger focus on protecting both children and minorities from the real dangers of the real world.

Cloth masks don’t work and every academic peer reviewed study has shown not only that, but wearing the same cloth mask repeatedly increases your risk of an illness (the masks are filthy if you don’t wash them daily and none of you are). But so called experts who parrot what media “experts”who flip flop on the science every few weeks consider themselves the most informed.

The entire medical community was exposed as grossly uninformed on what aerosol versus airborne transmission means based on a TB study done in the 1940s out of Harvard because they just kept parroting the same study until someone in HHS and some academics tried to validate the original 1947 study and realize the micron threshold was completely inaccurate.

Most people have no interest in reading the published studies and are all too eager to regurgitate whatever someone on TV showed them. I linked the CDC site for months where they stated cloth masks do nothing for COVID, but that page was mysteriously and conveniently updated 2 months ago with no explanation or link to a study showing their efficacy. Unless you think a phone survey from a hair salon in St Louis makes a sound qualified study.

It’s just terrifying to me how many people are willing to accept what people in front of a camera tell them without 20 minutes of effort to validate those comments with any kind of research. It’s even more terrifying how many confuse that research with finding a headline from a fear based media outlet (Fox, CNN or anything else owned by a corporation) and think the headline alone makes them educated.

Natural Covid antibodies appear to be just as protective as the mRNA ones, but this scientific reality is dismissed as partisan propaganda.

We just have a bunch of people who’ve avoided any vaccine as an adult now feel they’re morally superior because they finally joined the 50% of us who get annual vaccines. But in the same breath make it known they’ve never got a flu vaccine nor do they plan to now, but claim to act on the benefit of the unvaccinated.

It’s a complete failure to not only not have any intelligence to their risk assessment, but take actions in direct conflict of the media declared risk narrative.

Covid is the new flu. It’s here to stay, and like the flu, it’ll only be a real threat to the unhealthy and elderly. If you care, you’ll get your booster along with the flu shot each fall. I guess we’ll see how many people follow the science and how many follow the corporate media or the politicians asking for more power to save you.