Garrett Ard

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@Chocomoosi1 @jsurratt895 @NYCMayor No, it's all in that hogs head.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@ABC It's staggering how openly MAGAs admit their ignorance of how the judicial system, the constitution, and our government work in their comments.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

3 rescheduled deliveries (despite taking off work and changing holiday travel plans), being lied to by customer service about a delivery date, being hung up on when asking for answers and not putting up with more run arounds. Stay away from this company!

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@ValueCityFurn Should be ashamed of your shitty company and even worse customer service.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@ValueCityFurn Your 'customer service representative" just hung up the phone on me when I complained about the THIRD reschedule of my delivery. This was after another customer service person LIED to me about a previous delivery date. I will NEVER be doing business with this sham of a company.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

The people who say, "You could NEVER make Blazing Saddles today," are the kind of regressively minded people for whom Blazing Saddles still seems transgressive, revolutionary, or otherwise still boundary-pushing.

They're just telling on themselves.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@Smith_WessonInc I really want to like the new Bodyguard 2.0, but the recoil spring assembly broke when I first fired it, and now the new recoil assembly you sent won't actually let me lock the slide back to reassemble the firearm.

This is exceedingly frustrating.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@kimdhendrix @7Veritas4 Way to chime in with the most preschool level analysis ("This post is about flags. Flying them upside down is WRONG. What about OTHER people who do things with flags that I don't like?!") You're a fucking idiot.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

You mean that making money for investors doesn't translate into better health outcomes for sick people??!?!??!!

Color me not shocked at all.

Private equity ownership of hospitals made care riskier for patients, a new study finds https://t.co/QE5p86O0zd via @JournalStarNews

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

RIP Norman Lear, a truly great man.

And the bonus that he outlived a certain famous war criminal.

https://t.co/dgybDJnYaL

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

Of course they’re just looking for approval from their internet daddy here, but imagine how these boys are are actually going to treat girls, LGBT kids. The genuine suffering redpill influencers spray out into the world

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@benshapiro "Whatever you think of the Trump indictments..."??

For someone who constantly refers to his legal training, that is a dodge of epic proportions, and flies in the face of said training. The facts are pretty darn important to any analysis. Also, what don't they care about?

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

For example, to prove my point, I opened the podcast (https://t.co/a4TeapBKM2) and skipped forward to a random location, around 37 minutes into the thing (I can't bear to watch all 3 hours and debunk point by point).

At this point, he's talking about a "Lazarus Report" that said 1 in 37 people had an adverse reaction to vaccine. I'm pretty sure he means this:
https://t.co/gYVrUzXWWl

This is the sort of things that live, I can't rebut, but written, I can.

I googled, I found the thing, I read the thing. It doesn't say what RFK claims it says.

The way VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting system) works is that you should report any event after a vaccine that happens 30 days after. This includes things that couldn't possibly by related to the vaccine, such as a pedestrian getting hit by a car.

This floods VAERS with garbage, where 99.9% of the reports have nothing to do with vaccines, because on average, within 30 days, things happen to people.

In other words, 1-in-37 is the same chance that in the next 37 months, you'll have one of the 890 conditions that VAERS wants reported: falling down the stairs, getting a cold, severe headache, ingrown toenail, and so forth. This is normal.

If you get a placebo vaccine instead of a real one, there's a 1-in-37 chance in the month after you'll have some event that VAERS wants reported.

The point of VAERS isn't the absolute numbers but relative numbers. There's a spike in the number of people getting ingrown toenails after a new measles vaccines, something so totally unexpected, this system will help find it.

During the pandemic, lazy doctors who did a poor job reporting to VAERS suddenly got diligent, and the number of VAERS reports shot through the roof -- including all 890 categories, including getting hit by a car. It didn't mean covid caused anything, because almost all 890 categories went up mostly equally. It's how we know myocarditis was actually a problem, because those reports went up more than the rest.

The point is that you really can't debate this sort of thing live. I'd never heard of the "Lazarus Study" before, though I have researched VAERS thoroughly, so I wouldn't be able to debunk it. Conversely, RFK just brings it up out of nowhere and misrepresents it. Moreover, the RFK/Rogan audience have such low levels of education, they simply can't follow the complex explanation debunking it.

You can't live debate crazies. It just won't work.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Anyone falling for the extreme far-right's Target backlash — and framing it as a both-sides debate — are not doing their journalistic duty.

They're repeating a harassment campaign that was telegraphed in public months ago. That is not your job as reporters.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@AJK4UM @lenoreingram @ringetteref @jerrydoby_ @Emerfav86 @CalltoActivism The burden of proof isn't reversed, but it is lower for the plaintiff in a civil case (preponderance) than it is for the prosecution in a criminal case (beyond a reasonable doubt). Preponderance means "more likely than not," which is often explained as 51%

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@thomasjprater @jrmorenojorge @njmike731 @ericareport I like how you try to "Actuallyyyy..." me, and then turn around and acknowledge my point. He, and others suck at the government teat...that's the f#cking point! He's not some bootstrap-pulling business genius. He's an opportunistic shill failing upwards because he was born rich.

[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

@jrmorenojorge @njmike731 @ericareport What are you talking about? He's taken billions in government subsidies.

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

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[Garrett Ard @GarrettArd]

But who stops the "good" guys with guns?? https://t.co/Q16z1kU26z

[Right Wing Cope @RightWingCope]

critical race theory is when black person