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BD66 comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Hedge funds made billions today. The little guys lost billions. This was a classic pump and dump scheme, and millions of small investors were burned. Many people lost their life savings. This is nothing to celebrate: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME?p=GME&.tsrc=fin-srch https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMC?p=AMC&.tsrc=fin-srch

From the Trump country in the South

BD66 comments on Feb 2, 2021:

You can't argue with that!

Anything's possible in America today...

BD66 comments on Feb 2, 2021:

No Spring No Peace!

Yall should change this group's name to conservative in name only with all the liberals in this ...

BD66 comments on Feb 2, 2021:

That's OK. That gives us an opportunity to convert them.

The world can be a very dystopian place...

BD66 comments on Feb 1, 2021:

100% correct.

Jesus use me PLEASE !!

BD66 comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Vintage Transvestite Gospel Music.

BORDERS: (link:) [united-cats.com]

BD66 comments on Jan 30, 2021:

I'm right on the border of the New Confederacy and the Great Lakes Republic. It's a tough call whether to join the rednecks of the New Confederacy or take on the burden of supporting the wastelands of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, etc.

Redditors broke Wall Street! [cnet.com] [cnet.com]

BD66 comments on Jan 28, 2021:

They broke themselves: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME?p=GME&.tsrc=fin-srch https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMC?p=AMC&.tsrc=fin-srch They are kind of like the Texans at the Alamo.

If you do the math about 2% of the world population has died from covid19.

BD66 comments on Jan 28, 2021:

1.4% of the worlds population has contracted Covid-19. 0.03% of the world's population has died from Covid-19. 2% of the people who contract Covid-19 die from it, not 2% of the people on Earth have died from it.

SCHUMER IS NOT PUSHING FOR SENATE TRIAL HARD Chuck Schumer said today that the Senate will ...

BD66 comments on Jan 26, 2021:

Trump's Senate trial - Almost any GOP Senator who votes to convict Trump will lose the next Republican primary, so Trump Impeachment 2.0 is just for show. Some in GOP are eager to throw him out of the party - Probably true, but if Trump left, he would take half the Republican voters with him so the next election would be 50% Dems, 25% Republicans, and 25% Trump party. The Republicans are stuck with him.

Just finished watching this miniseries.

BD66 comments on Jan 23, 2021:

I watched it several years ago. I was well done.

Biden order offers hope to transgender student athletes: [theguardian.com]

BD66 comments on Jan 22, 2021:

This is just stupid:

Winston Churchill was probably the greatest leader of all time.

BD66 comments on Jan 22, 2021:

Churchill was the right man to get the UK through the war, but he was an imperialist. His meeting with Stalin in 1994 to carve up the Balkans goes against everything the USA stood for after WWII. Obama's family lived under the British Empire for several years after the war, so you can understand why Obama made that decision. I would suspect someone else is making the decisions for Joe Biden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentages_agreement

Should we keep track: Day 1 of liberal control so far the Portland porch monkeys have had the worst ...

BD66 comments on Jan 21, 2021:

Boys can play on girls sports teams, and change in the locker rooms with them as well.

You can never take too many precautions! :-D

BD66 comments on Jan 21, 2021:

My vote goes to the guy on the right.

We return to our pre Trump programs, do not adjust your sets

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2021:

What will CNN do now?

Math, logic, and other magic...

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2021:

That: Explains Cancer. Does not explain Autism. "Why is there more disease" is 100% false and therefore can/should not be explained.

If I could run FB for just one day...

BD66 comments on Jan 19, 2021:

Face Palm is the most needed.

I’ll wait a bit longer

BD66 comments on Jan 19, 2021:

Keep trying!

Somebody should tell them...

BD66 comments on Jan 18, 2021:

Brilliant!

The scale of logic is difficult with this one.

BD66 comments on Jan 17, 2021:

Several million people have already been vaccinated. The side effects are much less severe than Covid-19. I'm taking the vaccine, and I'm getting my pre-Covid life back.

Some concepts are just too complicated for this crowd.

BD66 comments on Jan 13, 2021:

It actually makes perfect sense. Fascists and Communists have been bitter enemies since Day 1. Just look at the Spanish Civil War, and WWII, which was mostly about Fascism (Hitler and Mussolini) vs. Communism (Stalin), until the Japanese went and bombed Pearl Harbor.

Best explanation ever?

BD66 comments on Jan 12, 2021:

Or Sasquatch hiding in the woods.

This guy is a badass

BD66 comments on Jan 10, 2021:

Terrible President. Fantastic Ex-President.

One had chemical weapons used on them for protesting police killing citizens and the other they ...

BD66 comments on Jan 10, 2021:

It's pathetic that the US Government does not have multiple modes of non-lethal crowd control to protect the Capitol. Other countries use that all the time. I think a couple of water cannons spraying down the January crowds when the temp was in the mid-30's would have cooled them down right away.

Georgia Senate: Trump Responsible for Avoidable Defeat | National Review

BD66 comments on Jan 7, 2021:

The Senate Republicans played a big role in it too. They approved a stimulus package full of pork. Then when Trump and the Dems wanted bigger checks to the American people they said "No" So the choice was simple "Vote for the GOP and get a $600 check" or "Vote for the Dems and get a $2000 check"

FFRF asks Biden to drop religion in presidential oath & Inaugural - Freedom From Religion Foundation

BD66 comments on Jan 6, 2021:

That would be awesome.

Ok America, you can have ONE humanist. [pewforum.org]

BD66 comments on Jan 5, 2021:

I suspect there are many more agnostics and atheists than what those numbers show. They have to say they are religious in order to get elected.

Janice Bryant Howroyd. First black lady in America to own a billion dollar business.

BD66 comments on Jan 2, 2021:

It worked for Kamala Harris.

Bahahahaha.

BD66 comments on Jan 1, 2021:

XL still isn't bad.

You just can't escape them...

BD66 comments on Dec 31, 2020:

They probably got the make, model, and year wrong.

Not so smart after all.

BD66 comments on Dec 31, 2020:

My mother has so many "smart" devices that set off alarms that it drives me nuts when I'm over there. The worst are the ones that go "ding" about once per minute. You hear the "ding" a few times, try to investigate and find out where it is coming from then wait 1 minute for each "ding". It takes a long time to figure out what is going "ding" and turn off the silly alarm.

Question to atheists and agnostics: Are you sure no god exists that you believe in?

BD66 comments on Dec 29, 2020:

Here is the definition of agnostic: ag·nos·tic /aɡˈnästik/ Learn to pronounce See definitions in: All Religion Computing noun a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.

$600 is a lot of money, we can't have people wasting that money on ass wipe and oatmeal when ...

BD66 comments on Dec 22, 2020:

I think this issue has briefly united many Democrats and Republicans. Both sides of the political spectrum can see the stimulus bill is BS.

God’s Not Dead 4, a Film No One Asked For, Will Begin Filming Next Month | Hemant Mehta | ...

BD66 comments on Dec 22, 2020:

It's probably even worse than Jaws 4. If you can believe a shark that rears up out of the water and roars like a lion, you can probably believe in God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFNJpn6EHA

So much for moral absolutes.

BD66 comments on Dec 20, 2020:

Forgive me, I haven't been to church, so I'm a little rusty on my Jesus quotes. I don't believe Jesus ever recommended taking money away from some people at gunpoint (or under the risk of imprisonment), then giving it to other people in order to buy their votes. Jesus was more into giving your own assets to the poor.

Ohio Man Arrested After Having Sex With A Van A 35-year-old Dayton, Ohio man named Michael ...

BD66 comments on Dec 17, 2020:

Look at that smile on his face. Maybe he knows something we don't!

Absolutely beggars belief really!

BD66 comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Stalin was worse than Putin, Trump, and Johnson combined.

This one is excellent! Where do you fit in?

BD66 comments on Dec 16, 2020:

6 and that's a terrible definition of Agnostic.

This one is excellent! Where do you fit in?

BD66 comments on Dec 16, 2020:

6

In India, Muslims Are Being Arrested for Allegedly Committing “Love Jihad” | Hemant Mehta | ...

BD66 comments on Dec 15, 2020:

This is a good story for a facepalm emoji.

When a third of voters say Biden's win isn't legitimate, democracy is at risk

BD66 comments on Dec 14, 2020:

If you combine all the people who said: 1. GWB stole the election in 2000. 2. Trump and the Russians stole the election in 2016. 3. Biden and the Democrats stole the election in 2020. You probably have a majority.

How did the treatment of Native Americans leave a moral stain on the United States?

BD66 comments on Dec 14, 2020:

The Europeans who colonized the United States behaved pretty much the same as the Europeans who colonized the rest of North America, South America, Africa, and Australia with respect to how they treated the people already living there.

Can't argue with that...

BD66 comments on Dec 10, 2020:

Millions have been killed because the killers believe a slightly different fairy tale than the persons being killed.

Worst case of morning after regret ever!

BD66 comments on Dec 8, 2020:

He was too busy playing with his Mickey Mouse watch to care.

Virologists wear this

BD66 comments on Dec 7, 2020:

Those suits are 99.999% effective at stopping the spread of a virus. If a mask is 80% effective, that's still fantastic. Wearing masks will save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Isn't capitalism great

BD66 comments on Dec 5, 2020:

That Alternative:

Makes ya wonder.

BD66 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

My guess is some form of sales. He got first-class upgrades from his frequent flier miles.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist.

BD66 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Inherit the Wind exposes William Jennings Bryan as a fraud.

The conservatives need to start impeachment proceedings against Biden on January 20.

BD66 comments on Dec 1, 2020:

They can't do it. They don't control the House.

How to create projectile vomitting - ?

BD66 comments on Nov 30, 2020:

That sums up the Catholic church about as well as can be done.

Dear Sirlexa....

BD66 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Tip #1: Never date women in succession who have names that rhyme. I called Denise, "Felice" at a very bad time. :-(

‘Jeopardy!' resumes filming Nov. 30 after Alex Trebek's death; interim host is Ken Jennings

BD66 comments on Nov 25, 2020:

Ken Jennings might get too frustrated with the contestants and their inability to answer what to him are simple questions.

The whole Adam and Eve story is just hilarious.

BD66 comments on Nov 24, 2020:

What about the olive leaf? Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.12And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.… The earth was covered with salt water, but somehow an olive tree was growing? What's up with that?

It's the world as we know it...

BD66 comments on Nov 24, 2020:

That's a good chart!

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BD66 comments on Nov 23, 2020:

Dick Durbin is the only one who reported Trump using the term "shithole", so I'd say there is better than a 50% chance he never even said it.

People need to stop calling trump a murder! As much as I can't stand him, it's not fair to call him ...

BD66 comments on Nov 18, 2020:

If you look at how he has used the military, you would have to go all the way back to Jimmy Carter to find a President who caused fewer deaths than Trump.

A serious thought for a brief change of pace...

BD66 comments on Nov 12, 2020:

The explains Ministers and politicians both.

Hate-Preacher: Girls Who Look Like Rachel Maddow Are “Repulsive” to “Normal” Men | Hemant ...

BD66 comments on Nov 11, 2020:

I don't find Rachel Maddow repulsive. However, I don't find her attractive. I'm pretty sure Rachel Maddow doesn't find me attractive either.

Why was the popular vote so close in the US presidential election?

BD66 comments on Nov 6, 2020:

Polls rely on people to voluntarily comply to give information to the pollster. Trump supporters tend to not trust government, and they tend to not trust pollsters. Then there is the "busy factor". I received multiple calls from pollsters while I was working, and I just hung up the phone. A retired grandmother who sits home watching CNN all day listening to anti-Trump propaganda is more likely to spend the time talking to the pollster about her opinions than someone like me who is running 2 businesses.

many of you have successfully tracked down old classmates etc. by searching the Internet?

BD66 comments on Nov 5, 2020:

My first roommate in college graduated in 1985, got married, moved to St. Louis, and I didn't see him for 33 years. Then I went online and found out he lived 2 blocks away from me!

We are all anxiously waiting!😬😳

BD66 comments on Nov 3, 2020:

And they are guaranteed to get one form of STD or the other form of STD.

Looks like that meme template was much older than imagined

BD66 comments on Nov 3, 2020:

The guy's nose is a bit suggestive too.

Pastor Rick Joyner, Who Said the U.

BD66 comments on Nov 2, 2020:

And he's going to defeat it with prayer! :-)

Earned my first block from Joanne who claims not to be marxist, yet supports all marxist policies.

BD66 comments on Nov 2, 2020:

A higher minimum wage makes it harder for unskilled US workers to compete with unskilled foreign workers.

Have you ever listened to a Trump speech and thought to yourself....

BD66 comments on Nov 2, 2020:

Sounds like professional wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkghtyxZ6rc

sometimes we have to be cheesey ... [agnostic.com]

BD66 comments on Oct 28, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSeKHnB_k8

What the Duck McDonald's!!! [ca.news.yahoo.com]

BD66 comments on Oct 24, 2020:

Ronald doesn't look like he has eaten many of those fries.

If you insist...

BD66 comments on Oct 19, 2020:

My great-great grandfather walked off his Missouri farm at age 50 to go fight in Sherman's army.

Deroy Murdock: Trump vs.

BD66 comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Here's the problem. If you repeat a lie often enough, most people will believe it. That's why the majority of people in this county believe they have a friend in the sky. That friend is a 2000 year old Jew who had a mother who was a virgin and a father who created 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. If they can believe that, it's easy to convince them of bad things about Trump as long as they feed them that information over and over again.

I love snide remarks.

BD66 comments on Oct 15, 2020:

Jesus caused a lot more trouble over 2000 years than those other 2 ever could.

I'm just curious to see what the community thinks about this.

BD66 comments on Oct 14, 2020:

It's an absolutely fantastic time in human history. Better than 2010. Better than 2000, Better than 1990. You should read Enlightenment Now and stop watching the BS on nightly news.

Not sure how to caption this...

BD66 comments on Oct 12, 2020:

It boggles the mind.

Political humour.

BD66 comments on Oct 9, 2020:

VP Pence might not even understand what he meant by that.

You caption it...

BD66 comments on Oct 9, 2020:

I'd prefer Miley Cyrus.

But of course you have.

BD66 comments on Oct 8, 2020:

100% guaranteed that Trump has the absolute best strain of Covid. :-)

Trump's latest mistress exposed....

BD66 comments on Oct 7, 2020:

Yikes!

If they were a band, what would you call them? Please share your suggestions

BD66 comments on Oct 7, 2020:

Get Off My Lawn!

Chastised for wearing a mask at church: My brother has a friend who went to church wearing a ...

BD66 comments on Sep 27, 2020:

Don't argue with the result.

Trump nominates Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court- [thefederalist.com]

BD66 comments on Sep 26, 2020:

I hope the Democrats tear into her the same way they did Kavanaugh and alienate all the female and religious voters.

From the time I spent on Slug, where people were constantly decrying Marxism (and defining every ...

BD66 comments on Sep 26, 2020:

You can look at like a progression from: Almost no government control: The best example would likely be the USA before the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to Complete Government Control: Best examples would be the old USSR during Stalin or the PRC during Mao's time. The conservatives are saying each increase in taxes, government regulation, and government control is taking us from minimal government control (19th century USA) to complete government control (Stalin's USSR or Mao's PRC). Conservatives believe we need to go back the other way and move in the direction of the 19th century USA.

Truth from Mr Clemens that is still poignant & meaningful after all these years...

BD66 comments on Sep 26, 2020:

That was before the Sherman Anti-trust act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890

The common flu kills about 50,000 people per and to date year COVID 19 has allegedly killed 200,000 ...

BD66 comments on Sep 24, 2020:

The big difference is that people can get vaccinated for the common flu, so each year we achieve pretty good herd immunity without any deaths from the vaccines. There is currently no vaccine for Covid-19, so we're faced with social distancing or a whole lot more than 200K deaths to achieve herd immunity.

Big Pharma strikes again....

BD66 comments on Sep 23, 2020:

Want some crazy dreams? Try singulair: The generic pills are only about 10 cents each and the dreams beat paying $10 to see a movie. https://www.rxlist.com/singulair-side-effects-drug-center.htm

It's just mind boggling. 😑[youtube.com]

BD66 comments on Sep 22, 2020:

Has AOC ever heard of email?

I think I can answer this one....

BD66 comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Maybe smart people have too much going on in their heads to hear want God is saying. No problem with most of these people. :-)

What make one decide whether there is s God or not?

BD66 comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Reading the Bible.

We told them the wealth would 'trickle down'.

BD66 comments on Sep 19, 2020:

It’s best to look at the issue in terms of supply and demand. During WWII, almost every industrial country in the world had its infrastructure bombed out. The countries were almost bankrupt as well. The United States was the most notable exception. We emerged from the war with a large portion of the world’s investment capital, a large portion of the world’s industrial infrastructure, and only 5% of the world’s labor. In terms of supply and demand, there was a huge demand for US labor and a small supply of US labor, thus US laborers enjoyed a standard of living they never had before and never will again. During that time, (the 1950’s), a kid in my home town could drop out of high school, get a job at CAT operating a drill press, get married, buy a house, buy a car, raise a family, then retire at age 50 with a pension and healthcare benefits for the rest of his life. What killed all that was the Marshall Plan and our obsession with winning the Cold War. If US Corporations had been allowed to keep more of their profits, they would have had more money to pour back into their factories, so the demand for US labor would have continued to grow, but The Marshall Plan and Cold War related spending took most of the profits from running factories and industries in the United States and sent those profits overseas to countries like Japan and Germany to help them build their factories, and it also sent the profits into the defense industry so we could defend the entire “Free World” By the early 1970’s you started to see VW bugs, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, and Honda cars on the road. You also started to see Sony consumer products in the home. That would not have been possible so early if the US Government had not taxed US companies at such extremely high rates and sent that money overseas to be invested in foreign factories. By the late 1970’s there was so much foreign competition it took away almost all collective bargaining power of US unions. When CAT workers went on strike in 1978 and 1983, CAT management crushed the unions. Similar things happened in the same time frame in the auto industry. There was already enough labor that could be tapped in foreign countries that it was no longer possible for US workers to demand a huge premium over their foreign counterparts. Now move forward to the end of the Cold War. When the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain fell, the labor of people in Eastern Europe, the USSR, China, Vietnam, and India became available to anyone who had money to invest. The world’s supply of free-market labor increased by a factor of about 5, while the world’s supply of capital did not increase by much at all. So with much more labor and only a little bit more demand for that labor, the price of industrial labor...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at age 87- [kwtx.com]

BD66 comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Trump will get to appoint another Supreme Court justice.

Why he is called "The Last Great Republican..."

BD66 comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Another very simple example to explain how completely insane the 2nd point is. Assume you have two companies. Company A and Company B. Both companies make $1,000,000 per year in profits. Company A is taxed at 90%, so at the end of each year, after paying taxes, Company A has $100,000 to reinvest back into growing the business. The takes the taxes from company A and 50% goes to defense, then 40% goes to Company B. So at the end of each year, after paying taxes, the money each company has to reinvest back into its business is: Company A: $1,000,000 (- 90% taxes) = $100,000 Company B: $1,000,000 (+40% subsidy) = $1,400,000 If Company B has competent management, it will grow much faster than Company A because Company B has 14 times more money to reinvest back into growing the business each year. Now assume all Company A's are in the United States, and all Company B's are in Japan and West Germany. I have described exactly what happened in the 1950's when US companies were taxed at 90% and Japanese and West German companies were heavily subsidized. That's why we started to see so many Toyota, Honda, VW, Mercedes, and BMW cars in the road by the early 1970's.

Why he is called "The Last Great Republican..."

BD66 comments on Sep 18, 2020:

I will explain why the second one is completely insane. It’s best to look at the issue in terms of supply and demand. During WWII, almost every industrial country in the world had its infrastructure bombed out. The countries were almost bankrupt as well. The United States was the most notable exception. We emerged from the war with a large portion of the world’s investment capital, a large portion of the world’s industrial infrastructure, and only 5% of the world’s labor. In terms of supply and demand, there was a huge demand for US labor and a small supply of US labor, thus US laborers enjoyed a standard of living they never had before and never will again. During that time, (the 1950’s), a kid in my home town could drop out of high school, get a job at CAT operating a drill press, get married, buy a house, buy a car, raise a family, then retire at age 50 with a pension and healthcare benefits for the rest of his life. What killed all that was the Marshall Plan and our obsession with winning the Cold War. If US Corporations had been allowed to keep more of their profits, they would have had more money to pour back into their factories, so the demand for US labor would have continued to grow, but The Marshall Plan and Cold War related spending took most of the profits from running factories and industries in the United States and sent those profits overseas to countries like Japan and Germany to help them build their factories, and it also sent the profits into the defense industry so we could defend the entire “Free World” By the early 1970’s you started to see VW bugs, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, and Honda cars on the road. You also started to see Sony consumer products in the home. That would not have been possible so early if the US Government had not taxed US companies at such extremely high rates and sent that money overseas to be invested in foreign factories. By the late 1970’s there was so much foreign competition it took away almost all collective bargaining power of US unions. When CAT workers went on strike in 1978 and 1983, CAT management crushed the unions. Similar things happened in the same time frame in the auto industry. There was already enough labor that could be tapped in foreign countries that it was no longer possible for US workers to demand a huge premium over their foreign counterparts. Now move forward to the end of the Cold War. When the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain fell, the labor of people in Eastern Europe, the USSR, China, Vietnam, and India became available to anyone who had money to invest. The world’s supply of free-market labor increased by a factor of about 5, while the world’s supply of capital did not increase by much at all. So with much more labor and only a ...

Why he is called "The Last Great Republican..."

BD66 comments on Sep 18, 2020:

#2 is completely insane and the reason why American workers have such a low standard of living today.

The things I find....a whole potato....lmao...

BD66 comments on Sep 18, 2020:

This looks like an Onion article.

Spock always makes sense:

BD66 comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Never knew Spock was a Libertarian.

While this is amusing, it belies the reality of what an asymmetric "civil war" would be like.

BD66 comments on Sep 16, 2020:

My brother spends a lot of time wading up and down creeks and rivers fishing. He said this year, he's heard more gunfire than ever before. After they saw the WalMarts they shop at vandalized and looted, the rural folks have stocked up on guns and ammunition, and they are improving their marksmanship.

Refugees from socialist countries warn Americans: Don't let it happen here

BD66 comments on Sep 16, 2020:

I know a bunch of Silicon Valley Russians who got out of Russia as fast as they possibly could after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. They are just shaking their heads in stunned disbelief at the all the collectivism nonsense they see in California.

SPANISH - aDIOS means bye but GOD IN SPANISH IS DIOS. Still its just a word.

BD66 comments on Sep 15, 2020:

It literally means "Go with God"

Be careful guys! Rosecute1982 is ascammer !

BD66 comments on Sep 14, 2020:

What did she scam you out of Val? :-)

What spices are in your pantry?

BD66 comments on Sep 10, 2020:

Kicken Chicken Montreal Steak

So tell the truth how many of you could read this article without laughing so hard you pissed ...

BD66 comments on Sep 9, 2020:

That Covid-19 is one hell of a virus: It spreads like crazy at motorcycle gatherings, small businesses, and polling places! It doesn't spread at all at WalMart and Social Justice protests!