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Old 01-05-2023, 09:00 AM
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Jordan Peterson says he’s been told to submit to social-media communication retraining
https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2023/...on-retraining/

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Originally Posted by xturner

Jordan Peterson says he’s been told to submit to social-media communication retraining
https://twitchy.com/amy-313134/2023/...on-retraining/

why not post the source?







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Remember when Texas Democrats fled the state -- refusing to participate in their sworn duty of democracy -- and they were perceived as heroes in the media and donations came piling in?

Weird the media and others are portraying 20 republicans who are actively engaged in democracy as terrorists...

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comment of the year:



It better learn at a young age to hold the weight of it's own head. It's a white child. It's going to have to grow up and support the entire world.
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Originally Posted by xturner
Jordan Peterson says he’s been told to submit to social-media communication retraining
Did they just assume Jordan Peterson's gender?
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watch yo black ***, white supremist.

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we've been through this:

in Oct 2021, a dumb lib read the word "hulk" in vaers data, therefore the whole thing is to be ignored because real-life events did not match the official narrative of "100% safe and 100% effective" at the time.

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There is also at least one case of "turning into the incredible hulk" reported through VARES. Would you believe it is a completely self reported and unmaintained (unverified) dataset (e.g. used initiate investigate into serious side effects, not as the data of record)?
No there's not. STFU. You're completely mischaracterizing these adverse events.

There are 5 results with the keyword Hulk:

"approximately 5"" after receiving injection, headache developed. Progressively got worse within 30"", rated 6/10. described as ""felt like the Hulk was squeezing the back of my neck"". Returned back to CVCU and coworkers commented on how red he looked- ""face and arms were red like he had just ran a marathon, but not blotchy or rash"". HIs entire arm began hurting and has been hurting and waking him up every night and needing repositioned several times throughout the night. L arm shakes/tremors, constantly - described incident where he was holding a plate at home a few days after injection and his left arm involuntary shook, uncrontrollably."
Fever 101, nausea, very cold (had to turn up the heat to 80 degrees and lay under 4 quilts), muscle aches worse than flu, headache, brain fog, severe fatigue, arm felt like I was slugged by the hulk, later when fever broke, extreme sweats.
"left arm was sore; muscle spasm in her left arm; arm twitching; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 39-year-old female patient received bnt162b2, via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Left arm on 05Apr2021 09:50 (Lot Number: ER2613) as 1st dose, single for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included Migraine, orthopedic issues. The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. Patient experienced twitching muscle spasm in her left arm post-vaccination (Apr2021). The twitching was on and off at the beginning but has been persistent for the last 8 days. She added she took Ibuprofen, used deep tissue massages, and contracted her muscle. She stated she is now looking into using lidocaine patches. She said she contacted her doctors office. She said she was not having a lot of pain, but the arm she had the COVID-19 Vaccine injection in was having twitching, muscle spasms. She said it is like her arm muscle was dancing. She said the twitching, muscle spasms were not painful, but she has had the twitching, muscle spasms going on 8 days now. She said her left arm twitching, muscle spasms were more of an annoyance. Patient asked what she could do for the twitching, muscle spasms, and how long would the muscle spasms last. She had tried to relax her left arm muscle as much as she could. She said she had alternated ice and heat, and had done frequent deep tissue massage to her left arm. She said she tried to ""Hulk-out"" (contract) her left arm muscle, and that didn't work for the twitching, muscle spasm. She said she took 3-4 generic (Brand Name) Ibuprofen (Expiration Date: Jul2020) 200mg tablets at a time. Reported she had not used any other over-the-counter products to treat her left arm twitching muscle spasms. Reported when she spoke to her doctor, she had mentioned she would like to try placing a Lidocaine patch on her left arm to see if that would stop the twitching, muscle spasms. She said her Lidocaine patches were used for other orthopedic issues, and her doctor told her to give the Lidocaine patch a try, if she had a Lidocaine patch available. She said she hadn't tried the Lidocaine patch yet. She said she wanted to talk to Pfizer first before she tried the Lidocaine 750mg patch 5% (Expiration Date: May2009). She said the Lidocaine patch was a prescription. Reported her left arm was sore the first day she received her COVID-19 Vaccine (05Apr2021). She said within 24 hours of getting her COVID-19 Vaccine, her left arm pain went away, and the twitching muscle spasms in her left arm started on and off. She said her left arm twitching muscle spams had become more persistent now. She said her left arm twitching muscle spasms were more of an annoyance. The outcome of the event vaccination pain was recovered on Apr2021, other events was not recovered. No follow-up attempts are needed. No further information is expected."
​​​​​​​ Day one was headache as expected and right arm pain. Day two I had bad headache (9) joint pain in my shoulder and hips, loud ringing ears. shortness of breathe, left lung pain. This repeated for three days so I tested by BP and found it to be 160/130. Past day 3 I started with adrenaline spikes where heart would race up and I felt like hulk and blood pressure spikes out of the random. 5/24/21, I saw my family doctor and since my BP was so random high and then low she did not want to give me meds since it could drops too low at time. For my difficulty breathing and lung pain she gave me an prescription inhaler. As of today I still have the ringing left ear, shoulder joint pain like a pin stuck in it and unable to raise over my head without using my left arm to support, high BP on average 140/132. 167/151, 126/89, 122/91,110/87, 126/84 are some examples. These at the lowest is 10+ point higher than my normal range of 120s over 70s. Headache continues but may be due to the higher than normal BP.
​​​​​​​ Arm was swollen ,gigantic, humongous like the incredible hulk,; Can put their hand around it.; Cold and sweating; Couldn't sleep; Felt sick; Pain in their entire body; Headache; Fever; Arm was hurting; This spontaneous case was reported by a consumer and describes the occurrence of PERIPHERAL SWELLING (Arm was swollen ,gigantic, humongous like the incredible hulk,), MOVEMENT DISORDER (Can put their hand around it.), NASOPHARYNGITIS (Cold and sweating), INSOMNIA (Couldn't sleep) and MALAISE (Felt sick) in a 60-year-old female patient who received mRNA-1273 (Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine) (batch nos. 004f21a and 078cz1a) for COVID-19 vaccination. The occurrence of additional non-serious events is detailed below. No Medical History information was reported. On 13-Aug-2021, the patient received first dose of mRNA-1273 (Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine) (unknown route) 1 dosage form. On 09-Sep-2021, received second dose of mRNA-1273 (Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine) (unknown route) dosage was changed to 1 dosage form. On 09-Sep-2021, the patient experienced NASOPHARYNGITIS (Cold and sweating), INSOMNIA (Couldn't sleep), MALAISE (Felt sick), PAIN (Pain in their entire body), HEADACHE (Headache), PYREXIA (Fever) and VACCINATION SITE PAIN (Arm was hurting). On 11-Sep-2021, the patient experienced PERIPHERAL SWELLING (Arm was swollen ,gigantic, humongous like the incredible hulk,) and MOVEMENT DISORDER (Can put their hand around it.). The patient was treated with NAPROXEN ongoing since an unknown date for Adverse event, at an unspecified dose and frequency. On 11-Sep-2021, NASOPHARYNGITIS (Cold and sweating), INSOMNIA (Couldn't sleep), MALAISE (Felt sick), PAIN (Pain in their entire body), HEADACHE (Headache), PYREXIA (Fever) and VACCINATION SITE PAIN (Arm was hurting) had resolved. At the time of the report, PERIPHERAL SWELLING (Arm was swollen ,gigantic, humongous like the incredible hulk,) had not resolved and MOVEMENT DISORDER (Can put their hand around it.) outcome was unknown. Concomitant product use was not provided by the reporter. it was reported Paitent arm was still gigantic. This case was linked to MOD-2021-295327 (Patient Link).

covid-19 events nearly 50% of the entire database since 2000:


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Looks like a particularly difficult bowel movement...


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Looks like a particularly difficult bowel movement...

If this is what it takes to change Congress back from Pelosi's Imperial rules then I don't care if he passes a cactus.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
If this is what it takes to change Congress back from Pelosi's Imperial rules then I don't care if he passes a cactus.
Ok, I literally laughed out loud on that one.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
If this is what it takes to change Congress back from Pelosi's Imperial rules then I don't care if he passes a cactus.
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They want a vote on term limits
They want to read bills before voting on them
They want to be able to add amendments to a bill
They want bills to only have items in them that are germane to the main bill
They want a single congressman no-confidence vote for the speaker
They DON'T want laws to be left to the executive branch to flesh out

All of these things would absolutely slow down the legislative process....and what's wrong with that? Several members have stood up to say that this is the first time in their tenure that they've debated in front of their peers, or met and talked with them live about the merits of an issue. Usually the House floor is an empty room because everything is being decided by party leadership ONLY. No representation by OUR representatives.

As with all power--when you're in the cat-bird seat, you don't wanna give it up. Both sides of this uniparty do it.

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Serious question: How many times does this twit get to call a vote before he is ineligible to be speaker? Can't someone nominate someone (anyone!) else, and get on with it?
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Originally Posted by rleete
Serious question: How many times does this twit get to call a vote before he is ineligible to be speaker? Can't someone nominate someone (anyone!) else, and get on with it?
The democrats are calling the votes in order to embarrass the republicans, and the MSM goes along with it. They don't talk about how long these 20 guys have been talking to McCarthy about rules changes, or how the dems ended these rules so they could push through pork legislation easily, while holding committee assignments and donor cash over the rest of their House members.
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Can't someone nominate someone (anyone!) else, and get on with it?
Serious question:

Do you WANT Congress to get back to operating as normal?

From my point of view, the more time they spend dithering amongst themselves, the less time they have to abridge our liberty and waste our money.
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Originally Posted by rleete
Serious question: How many times does this twit get to call a vote before he is ineligible to be speaker? Can't someone nominate someone (anyone!) else, and get on with it?
Trump was nominated yesterday.

this has gone over two months and 133 votes before...
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