If being covered in rage-drenched, fecal spittle constitutes "losing an argument" with you, then, yes; no one has ever lost an argument with you.

(From a posting in Quora)

Why do people hold such a bad view of Republicans?
Let me introduce you to my brother…

Extremely conservative who will never v**e for anyone without an 'R’ beside their name…

Extremely religious 'right', as in my god is the only real god, and my book of faith is the only true book of faith…

Retired after 30 years as a California Highway Patrol officer, which has given him a penchant for the 'Authoritarian’ leader he found in trump…

Multiple gun owning and extremely 2nd Amendment conscience…

Only gets his 'news’ from 'christian’ sources that are not christian (The Epoch Times), 'conservative' sources that are not conservative, and any swinging dick who comes up with a conspiracy theory and posts it on an extreme right wing blog (but absolutely no swinging vaginas because that would undermine his manhood)…

Thinks trump was a great president 😂, a christian 😆, and the only one who will return his “christian values" to US politics 🤣 because, hey, only christians should live in the United States (separation of church and state? Pfft…christian theocracy is fine, but Islamic theocracy is against god)…

Thinks Democrats will turn the United States into a socialist/c*******t/godless/Muslim/ Black L***s M****r nation and is currently 'proving' that Joe Biden is a c*******t (and about as successful at that as Mike Lindell was successful in proving that China flipped millions of v**es through D******n v**e counting machines from trump to Biden at his cyber symposium, something my brother also believes)…

Has a father (same as mine) who was a dark skinned, dark featured, first generation immigrant from the Middle East for whom English was a second language; has a Lily white skinned mother (same as mine) who was a Baptist farm girl from Texas; who (like me) got the white skin of our mother and (unlike me) fully assimilated into 'white' culture; rants and raves about all the i*****l i*******ts who are coming here to: 1) Steal everyone's job (he's retired, no job to steal); and 2) to live off of welfare and suck the American people dry of money (well, which one is it? To him, it's both…at the same time…); all the while paying his Mexican housekeeper (who he absolutely adores) $350 every Saturday (under the table, I might add) to come clean his house (7 hours at $50/hour? I need to become a fucking cleaning lady!), even though she freely admitted to being an i*****l i*******t from Mexico in the 1980s and took advantage of the Reagan Amnesty program at some point in the 1990s before Clinton cancelled the program…

Believes that masks are useless to prevent the spread of C****-**, yet wears one every time he goes outside because, you know, just in case they actually do work…

Got both P****r v******tions (same as me) but believes no one in the government should tell anyone what to do concerning their own health, except for…

He is extremely, like to the maximum, anti-a******n (yet has been a party to 2 a******ns in the past), but his supposed 'pro-life’ stance only extends to making young girls and women have babies they either don't want for the many various reasons that abound or are a threat to the mother's life, and that if they didn't want to get pregnant, they shouldn't have spread their legs (and when he gets really worked up about it, he includes even rape victims, who he says are always asking for it);

supports the death penalty; and doesn't want any of his taxes used to help out all those children he wants women to have instead of getting an a******n because, ya know, it's their responsibility…

S**t. After introducing my brother, I now find that I forgot what the question was. Let me scroll back up and read through it again…

…here it is…

Why do people hold such a bad view of Republicans?

Let me introduce you to my brother…

I guess it's because I have no memory left at my advanced age.

You're a "patriot for Trump"?

If you're against a******n why don't you just say it instead of writing this obfuscatory legalistic stuff?

(From a shared Facebook posting)

From someone who teaches AP US History:
If you are confused as to why so many Americans are defending the confederate f**g, monuments, and statues right now, I put together a quick Q&A, with questions from a hypothetical person with misconceptions and answers from my perspective as an AP U.S. History Teacher:
Q: What did the Confederacy stand for?
A: Rather than interpreting, let's go directly to the words of the Confederacy's Vice President, Alexander Stephens. In his "Cornerstone Speech" on March 21, 1861, he stated "The Constitution... rested upon the e******y of races. This was an error. Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great t***h that the negro is not equal to the white man; that s***ery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral t***h."
Q: But people keep saying heritage, not h**e! They think the purpose of the f**gs and monuments are to honor confederate soldiers, right?
A: The vast majority of confederate f**gs flying over government buildings in the south were first put up in the 1960's during the Civil Rights Movement. So for the first hundred years after the Civil War ended, while relatives of those who fought in it were still alive, the confederate f**g wasn't much of a symbol at all. But when Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis were marching on Washington to get the Civil Rights Act (1964) and V****g Rights Act (1965) passed, leaders in the south felt compelled to fly confederate f**gs and put up monuments to honor people who had no living family members and had fought in a war that ended a century ago. Their purpose in doing this was to exhibit their displeasure with black people fighting for basic human rights that were guaranteed to them in the 14th and 15th Amendments but being withheld by r****t policies and practices.
Q: But if we take down confederate statues and monuments, how will we teach about and remember the past?
A: Monuments and statues pose little educational relevance, whereas museums, the rightful place for Confederate paraphernalia, can provide more educational opportunities for citizens to learn about our country's history. The Civil War is important to learn about, and will always loom large in social studies curriculum. Removing monuments from public places and putting them in museums also allows us to avoid celebrating and honoring people who believed that tens of millions of b***k A******ns should be legal property.
Q: But what if the Confederate f**g symbol means something different to me?
A: Individuals aren't able to change the meaning of symbols that have been defined by history. When I hang a Bucs f**g outside my house, to me, the Bucs might represent the best team in the NFL, but to the outside world, they represent an awful NFL team, since they haven't won a playoff game in 18 years. I can't change that meaning for everyone who drives by my house because it has been established for the whole world to see. If a Confederate f**g stands for generic r*******n or southern p***e to you, your personal interpretation forfeits any meaning once you display it publicly, as its meaning takes on the meaning it earned when a failed regime k**led hundreds of thousands of Americans in an attempt to destroy America and keep black people ens***ed forever.
Q: But my uncle posted a meme that said the Civil War/Confederacy was about state's rights and not s***ery?
A: "A state's right to what?" - John Green
Q: Everyone is offended about everything these days. Should we take everything down that offends anyone?
A: The Confederacy literally existed to go against the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the idea that black people are human beings that deserve to live freely. If that doesn't upset or offend you, you are un-American.
Q: Taking these down goes against the First Amendment and freedom of speech, right?
A: No. Anyone can do wh**ever they want on their private property, on their social media, etc. Taking these down in public, or having private corporations like NASCAR ban them on their properties, has literally nothing to do with the Bill of Rights.
Q: How can people claim to be patriotic while supporting a f**g that stood for a group of insurgent failures who tried to permanently destroy America and k**led 300,000 Americans in the process?
A: No clue.
Q: So if I made a confederate f**g my profile picture, or put a confederate bumper sticker on my car, what am I declaring to my friends, family, and the world?
A: That you support the Confederacy. To recap, the Confederacy stands for: s***ery, w***e s*******y, treason, failure, and a desire to permanently destroy Selective history as it supports w***e s*******y.
It’s no accident that:
You learned about Helen Keller instead of W.E.B, DuBois
You learned about the Watts and L.A. R**ts, but not Tulsa or Wilmington.
You learned that George Washington’s dentures were made from wood, rather than the teeth from s***es.
You learned about black ghettos, but not about Black Wall Street.
You learned about the New Deal, but not “red lining.”
You learned about Tommie Smith’s fist in the air at the 1968 Olympics, but not that he was sent home the next day and stripped of his medals.
You learned about “black crime,” but white criminals were never lumped together and discussed in terms of their race.
You learned about “states rights” as the cause of the Civil War, but not that s***ery was mentioned 80 times in the articles of secession.
Privilege is having history rewritten so that you don’t have to acknowledge uncomfortable facts.
R****m is perpetuated by people who refuse to learn or acknowledge this reality.
You have a choice. - Jim Golden”

That's a really clever picture. Took me a few seconds to figure out his bandolier.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/15/17117298/mike-pompeo-trump-secretary-of-state-politics-battle-evangelical-holy-war-christian

"In other speeches, he’s characterized American domestic politics as a similarly apocalyptic struggle between good and evil, in which other (non-Christian) faiths and political views were signs of cultural decay. He cited a sermon previously delivered by Pastor Joe Wright in front of the Kansas state legislature: “‘America had worshipped other Gods and called it m**************m. We’d endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.’” Sources inside the CIA told Foreign Policy that Pompeo’s speeches within the CIA are no less loaded with explicitly religious language."

Keep going; you're batting a thousand.

Evangelical Pompeo.

Here is the conclusion of one review study: " Overall, the reliable evidence available does not support the use of ivermectin for treatment or prevention of C***D‐19 outside of well‐designed randomized controlled trials (RCTs)."
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD015017/information?cookiesEnabled

And here is the conclusion of another review study: "The findings indicate with moderate certainty that ivermectin treatment in C****-** provides a significant survival benefit."
https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/08000/ivermectin_for_prevention_and_treatment_of.7.aspx

I will add that the Cochran Review is very well known and respected ("The constant work of the Cochrane Collaboration to reduce sources of bias in their reviews also means they have rightly become one of the most trusted sources of evidence we have for our remedies and management plans in clinical practice. The knowledge produced by Cochrane reviews informs the guidelines that shape our responses to clinical presentations in general practice.") while the American Journal of Therapeutics comes in at #44 out of 54 medical pharmacology journals rated by https://www.scimagojr.com/aboutus.php
(The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. Journals can be compared or analysed separately. Country rankings may also be compared or analysed separately. Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject category (313 specific subject categories) or by country. Citation data is drawn from over 34,100 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers and country performance metrics from 239 countries worldwide. The SJCR allows you also to embed significative journal metrics into your web as a clickable image widget

This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator (PDF), developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.

SCImago is a research group from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares, dedicated to information analysis, representation and retrieval by means of visualisation techniques.

As well as the SJR Portal, SCImago has developed The Shape of Science, the SIR (SCImago Institution Rankings) and the Atlas of Science. The Shape of Science is an information visualization project whose aim is to reveal the structure of science. Its interface has been designed to access the bibliometric indicators database of the SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal.The SIR is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility. The Atlas of Science project proposes the creation of an information system whose major aim is to achieve a graphic representation of IberoAmerican Science Research. Such representation is conceived as a collection of interactive maps, allowing navigation functions throughout the semantic spaces formed by the maps.)

How about lying Trump who made the claim that the State Department was missing six billion dollars?

Republican pollster Frank Luntz says Donald Trump hit the bull's-eye during the debate when he attacked Hillary Clinton for “losing” $6 billion while at the State Department.

Luntz, who ran a focus group that watched the Wednesday night debate, said the group’s members gave Trump very strong ratings for the attack.

What a shame, then, that the accusation was untrue.

No auditor has ever claimed that Clinton “lost” $6 billion while she was secretary of state. The accusation doesn't appear in the inspector-general report, nor the underlying audit documents, that Trump and others cite.

Alas, the audit says only that State Department contracts worth about $6 billion were missing some paperwork — and that’s out of a total budget over the same period of $200 billion. In some cases, the files were missing personnel disclosures, or regular performance updates, or technical data. Some were missing “property clearance reports,” “termination dockets,” a “Contracting Officer’s Representative Completion Certificate” or a “Small Business Administration contract completion form.” Others were missing supporting documents. In others, there was inadequate review of overall contract performance. In some egregious cases the relevant contract files were empty.

To conflate this into $6 billion “lost” requires some extraordinary assumptions, plus a good head covering of tinfoil.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-did-hillary-lose-6-billion-at-the-state-department-2016-10-20

How does a study published in an internationally available scientific journal get suppressed here but not anywhere else? Or are these studies rejected by valid scientific peer reviewed journals because of they're being crap?

This link works:
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/c****av***s/yale-study-of-bangladesh-shows-the-effectiveness-of-masks

Click on the pdf.

"Liar," your favorite word. It takes one to know one.