Mrs Roops

Jeez, idiocy is still alive and well. After falling flat on his face from the debacle of his last bacofoil-clad theory, the OP has not learned from past lessons and we now have an equally demented punter revisiting his "germ theory" in which there is no such thing as communicable disease, only 'bad chemistry' from within. My employers have sent me abroad to bang some heads together and am not too sure when I'm back so unfortunately I don't have much time to get stuck in.

Indeed, its always amusing seeing two butt-hurt punters seeking mutual solace and reassurance. As I always remind myself, never underestimate the petulance of middle-aged men. Oh yes.

This spat started because you were baselessly asserting transgressions, but noted - all you had from the outset was petulance...

Let's see now...you initially made a lazy and entirely erroneous assertion that groups and individuals were more scrutinised than others and that moderation decisions were applied unequally. You also asked me to "ponder" four recent 'likes' as if that was some form of validation. But look at you now! After giving off the air of someone who was above scrapping "l'm not King Billy", here you are resorting to LCD misogony like the rest of them, so I'm wondering who's having the meltdown?

Well, that didn't last long... "and, and, count my likes" - yeah right, precious little pratt.

Given that I receive a ton of invective from the more feeble-minded punters on a daily basis without any retaliatory red or yellow card waving on my part, I'd say your pious finger-wagging is somewhat moot, more so when one considers that I have never pulled rank mid-debate. As for your secondary whinge, Rule 13 was introduced for reasons of forum practicalities rather than any personal politics. Before Rule 13 the site was was flooded with nonce accusations by punters who probably thought their repartee was being original and devastating.

No, your previous fatuous response had a reply that was deserved, so behave.

You never said anything about your selective amnesia either but I'm going to stick that on you as well.

You're being precious. FWÌW, its a bit sad to view 'likes' as a measurement of validation in my opinion. Incidentally, all cliques, huddles, circle jerks and individuals are treated equally. As for being offended by punters you deem to be "unfunny" simply use the 'ignore' function, preferably without making a song and dance about it with some grand announcement. It's not that difficult.

Maybe, but we know the subtext intended.

Punters trying to be smart arses by alluding to noncery, no matter how oblique, should cease and desist. Now. @Snowy, I don't appreciate my quote being taken out of context either. My quip alluded to four bods (including yourself) and not the four you've referred to.

There's no doubting La Summer's talent and voice but her breakout song leaves me cold. While she may well "feel the love", one cant help thinking this is about feeling the love of the paycheck for this by-the-numbers performance. OTOH Ms Strean looks like she is enjoying herself and goes on stage to entertain.

Still grubbing around for crumbs from the 'gotcha' barrel I see... Billy, what have I previously told you? I told you that this is a subject too complex for a man of your obviously limited abilities and that you should drop it. I also said that you don't learn from past mistakes. I'll come back to this in a minute. The answer to your question is no. The first product was mRNA-1440 which specifically targeted Influenza type A, sub-type H10N8. Let me explain in the broadest terms possible so that even a half-wit will understand; Seasonal influenza has always been problematic not only for pharma developers but also for public health authorities who are responsible for deciding which type of vaccine to order months in advance based on best guesstimate as to which variant of influenza will hit the populace come winter. Seasonal influenza vaccination programmes are essentially an exercise in catch-up which explains why in some winters the influenza death rate spikes despite a comprehensive vaccine roll-out to designated vulnerable people. There are four types of influenza - types A, B, C & D. Each type are sub-divided into strains. The answer is to inoculate with bivalent, or even better, with quadrivalent vaccines which cover several (best guess) anticipated variants in one shot. These are already available with the traditional range of vaccines but mRNA shots, with its statistically proven safety record and much lower rejection rates, is preferred. Fast forward a decade and we have all the major players in a race to develop not only a quadrivalent Seasonal Influenza vaccine but a vaccine that combines an influenza prophylactic which also deals with whatever version of covid is currently prevalent. Your story, which you seem to creaming yourself over is about Moderna's prospective bivalent Seasonal Influenza vaccine which has hit a snag in Phase 3 trials with the Type 'B' virus. Billy, yet again you found a highly localised story and have used it totally without context. Your tiny mind not only tries to use the story to define the anti-vax position but also attempts to validate all the bollox you've spewed out for the past 2-3 years. "Stay stupid" indeed. Stay warm

...and yet not a peep out of you about the destruction your seven-point fairy tale concerning the WHO assuming executive powers from 194 willing and compliant nations? Nor was there any defence of the lies spewed by you for the past couple of years? Instead you scrape the gotcha barrel by hanging your thimble-sized hat on some spurious inference about distribution. Clearly you have no idea how modern business and manufacturing works. Moderna is essentially a commercial research entity. The business makes its money by monetising it's intellectual properties and patents. Formed in 2010 they initially did research work for the larger pharmas e.g Astra Zeneca and Merk. Their reputation in mRNA development and application grew to the extent that they easily obtained $600+ million when the firm went public. On the strength of Moderna's first product, a mRNA vaccine for influenza, they received a further billion from a public-private partnership to develop a covid 19 vaccine and a further $5 billion from the US govt to produce the vaccine on an industrial scale. Moderna outsourced the manufacturing to Lonza - nothing wrong with that, Lonza have similar contracts with GlaxoSmithKline. I presume that had you known this you would have refused your dentist's prescription for Amoxil to deal with the infections caused by rotting teeth - you certainly never used Aquafresh, another GSK product. Outsourcing manufacturing and distribution is standard practise these days. No doubt when trundling down the motorways in your employer's Sherpa van you've noticed a Kellogg's artic overtake you. The lorry is owned by TDG, who handles Kellogg's logistics and distribution. It appears you have outsourced your critical thinking, opinion development and fact-finding to the Slackjaw News Service and should chose a more reliable source. Drop the anti-vax thing - its a complex subject waaay beyond your cerebral abilities. I think you said you were an expert on all things American especially the politics so perhaps you could give us your take on how Sleepy Joe Biden, in between naps and falling over, completely out-manoeuvred the GOP on the hoo-ha apropos the debt ceiling and budget. Try not to run to Sid Slackjaw for advice - he has only double the brain cells you have. Stay Warm

So the event on 22nd May 2022 as predicted by you didn't happen then? As for your pile of steaming ordure here is The actual Zero draft of what you pretend to know about but clearly have not read which once again reveals your stupidity and stubborn refusal to actually know what you're talking about before opening your gob. Still "glad [I've] bought this up"? Please, pretty please - where on this document is anything that resembles your piece of abject falsehoods? I won't bore the puntership senseless with a blow by blow dismantling of your post but I'll give one example of your idiocy, namely point 2, "require the surrender of intellectual property and technologies." In fact the document acknowledges and reaffirms the TRIPS agreement (Part of the WTO regulations that cover copyrights, patents and intellectual property). Clearly you have done your thing about railing against MSN yet blindly accept any old bollox uploaded by Sid Slackjaw of Shitsville, USA. You just don't learn from past mistakes. Insane. It makes your admonition to "stay warm" look very silly, you utter plonker spastic. Oh yeah, stay warm.

Perfectly normal to wonder if your nonsense was true. The fully approved Covid vaccine was not Moderna's first rodeo, it does not have immunity from all civil damage liability, and didn't earn "tens of billions of dollars of top secret contracts" otherwise you're spot on 👍

Indeed, compare and contrast an octogenarian President tripping over a sandbag to a middle-aged N.Irish proddy blowhard of limited intellect, no teeth and paunch who repeatedly trips head first into a vat of dried egg powder...

That's actually quite funny, or so my GPT-4 tells me

Not sure what this gibberish has to do with a serial bankrupt, convicted fraudster, grifter, liar, sexual abuser, insurrectionist and two-times Presidential popular vote loser who nonetheless became President thanks to the idiosyncratic and archaic American Electoral College vote system. Nevertheless you (and it has to be said, so did many others) were beguiled by the orange man-child's BS and hung on to every word he said. The rest of the world saw through his inherent narcissism and were grateful his fuck-ups were largely confined within the U.S borders. Understandably, your Trumpian hero-worship has been somewhat muted lately hence your paragraph of self-serving deflection. I'll leave it to others to judge whether your post is simply trolling or you are simply gullible and stupid. I suspect its a bit of both. -o0o- Anyway, lets summarise your finest moments apropos the Covid saga:- Firstly forget your assertion that Covid-19 and the mRNA vaccination programme is a WEF inspired conspiracy to rule the word. These days such tin-foil nonsense is only taken seriously at sixth-form debating society level. Its worth noting that this year only one G7 leader (Germany) is attending Davos as the event's importance has diminished to that of a place for billionaires, wannabe movers & shakers and the hangers-on wanting to be seen and grandstand, that's about it. FYI, the annual COPfest is the real deal. Let's recall your other howlers:- "Covid-19 doesn't exist" "there is no pandemic" "mRNA vaccines alter your DNA" "mRNA vaccines alters liver cells" "The King Billy recommended vaccine is Novavax 'cos its not funded by Bill Gates" (actually he provided $473 million seed money) The list goes on but the conspiratorial cherry on the foil-encased cake was, "the leaders of 194 nations are meeting on the 22nd May 2022 to sign over emergency executive powers to the World Health Organisation" Despite many requests, you never came back to supply an update on that one. Never mind Muggsy, one day, between now and never, you'll get something right. Stay warm.

Sad to so see an utterly destroyed punter reduced to playing "I know you are, but what am I?" Way to go, Muggsy. Stay warm.

Yeah, right. Only a fortnight ago you tried it on with a patently absurd "bait" trope, now all you've got is an equally absurd strawman tantrum. Mug.

@Shitpipe Sid, you appear to have gone on a Rule 13 rampage yesterday. I think we'll call it a day and kick you off the site. Cya.

Do you know who James Comer is? Take a look at a recent image of him... Mr Comer is the latest of a very long line of people who have mugged you off. Mr Comer has realised that MAGA morons, the gullible and otherwise feeble-minded people will not only swallow hook, line, sinker and the whole goddam boat but some of them will advocate on his behalf any old cack that he cares to impart. Mr Comer is the Chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee and a Trump stooge. Comer has form for political innuendo, cherry picking data and twisting narratives. He spent months teasing the Washington bubble that he had a high level security informant who would blow the Biden case wide open. The problem was the big reveal was always going to be next day/week/month. Eventually he was forced to go on air, that is the friendly Fox News, and furtively announce that his informant was err... "missing". Even the Fox journalist was incredulous when Comer explained that his informant was in "the spying business" and one could not expect him to to stay in the open for too long. On other occasions when pushed, Comer said that he had identified $10 million dollars received by the Biden family but tacitly agreed that no illegality had taken place. Some of the money had been paid by Romanian Gabriel Popoviciu to an associate of Hunter Biden, the optics of which appear unseemly. In the same period Popoviciu also paid money to Rudy Guiliani who at the time was Trump's lawyer. Comer could not give any explanation why the Trump connection was never mentioned in his interim report. Nor could Comer give any satisfactory explanation as to why he was investigating The Biden family earning Ten million dollars during Joe Biden's tenure as vice president but was ignoring the $640 million earned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump whilst serving as White House aides to President Trump. Stay warm, Muggsy.

Well, thank you for your ode to wishful thinking but if you had half a brain you'd realise that you have merely confirmed the premise of the thread's title. We'll assume that after years of your noise you now concede the Presidential election was not, after all, stolen. Its a pity that you don't have the cojones to admit that. As for the foil-wrapped issue of the Biden laptop conspiracy even you must admit the MAGA Moron element of the GOP have, despite plenty of promises, delivered only rhetoric and not evidence. Pesky stuff, evidence, the lack of which has been your Achilles heel ever since you've been running your idiot mouth off at The Corner. "Stay warm" indeed...

Sailing close to the wind, Decs. Cease and desist