The uselessness of the vaccine is such that it straight up is not designed to grant immunity, despite the news talking about how many people need to get it for herd immunity to kick in. It was made as a preventative treatment to lessen symptoms if you do get infected. When they say it's 95% effective, they mean it reduces the number of people who get hospitalized by 95%, not that it stops 95% of people from getting sick. It was neither designed for nor tested to see if it reduced infection rates.

I don't really care why so long as we don't set a precedent you can impeach out of office. Democrats have already fucked up the constitution enough, and everyone should realize by now that even C-Span would cut to commercials and talking heads in order to not show Trump's team laying out evidence if they ever got their day in court..

The more it goes on and the more the media hypes up the risk and especially the concern that the national guard might flip, the more I worry they're laying the groundwork for a big false flag.

Yeah so whatever happened to Twitter CEO saying under oath that they didn't have a bunch of topic suppressing tools that they did turn out to have after all when they got hacked? It's technically arguable that they were only trying to stop the incitement of violence when they purged 70k people. It's objectively provable that they lied about site tools they were using to manipulate discussion.

There are still local ballot issues,

Apparently they're convinced Trump was holding them back from reaching wider support..

Washington reps live in a 100% mail vote state. Anyone trust mail votes after this year?

I mean, that people would flood to sites like theirs when the twitter ban happened was foreseeable. I just don't think anyone foresaw twitter purging that many people at once.

They shut down attempt for Gab was years ago. They already rebuilt with their own infrastructure.

I mean, there's a reason I never used the facebook, twitter, or parler apps.

If I remember, some political hopeful running for British office got banned off twitter and announced she would be on Parler, and a bunch of people followed her there.

Let's be fair here: we know one was shot and one had a history of heart issues and died of a heart attack. The other two's causes of death, at least as far as I've seen, haven't been reported on.

We know they shot one, and that's already one too many. We don't need to politicize the other three before the facts are out.

Or it was something they've wanted to do for a while, and Trump being near the end of his term and thus less likely to drive news-related traffic removed any reservations while the capitol occupation gave them the excuse.

Gonna take this chance to pitch Minds as well. Doesn't require as much personal info to set up an account as parler did and the site owner's personal page is basically nothing but bashing other sites for not being free-speech.

Continued resistance. Shutting down venues for communication impedes organizing.

I feel like this happens every election? Or am I just thinking about online petitions?

How many PA lawmakers? A lot of PA legislature seems just as bad as federal GOP.

The fact that people could admit on live TV that they lied to the president about the number of troops overseas after he ordered them home and no one was penalized for that is insane.

Wait! Waitwaitwaitwaitwait.

You mean to tell me that the guy who voted to make student loans immune to bankruptcy isn't interested in the struggles of those with student loans? How could anyone have foreseen this outcome?

For every 10 pages a bill contains, there should be a mandatory grace day for everyone to vote one it so they can read it and think over the implications. Every time its revised. Any bill this stupidly long has to sit and stew, unedited, for 500 days between when it's introduced and when it's voted on. That'll allow for more complex or interwoven issues to still be voted on in one go while anything that people are under pressure to release quickly can't be tied up in bullshit like this.

Upvoting the tweet and not the post title. Cruz is a great PR guy but I don't trust him with as much power as he's already got.

So it did. That explains how they got so many sane people to show up.

Because there was such an immediate backlash to the pittance they offered Americans while shipping money overseas, and in saying they'll fix it they hope people will forget this happened, be happy to get $2000, and not notice when they cram the next bill full of pork as well.

This is Portland Oregon. Not a lot of 20-somethings there who aren't either card carrying members of or else vocal supporters of Antifa. I'm honestly impressed they got this many people to protest against the lockdowns, and suspect a fair few are from the non-crazy parts of Oregon (also known as the entire rest of the state).

I "love" when people who fled Cuba are like "Here's all the ways living under a communist regime was terrible" and some cushy upper-middle class twat is like "Um, actually, I vacationed there and it was lovely and my tour guide was horrified when I told her about our healthcare."