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10/22/21 - Remembering Dick Lamm’s ‘How to Destroy a Nation’
I didn’t expect to be back to the subject of the border so soon, but a lot has happened since I last reported to you on the nation’s immigration crisis one week ago.
Since then, we learned Panama apprehended 52 people associated with al Qaeda Islamic terrorism who were headed to the U.S. southern border. They were among 100,000 people moving through Panama on their way north. There are separate reports of a caravan numbering thousands massing at the Mexico-Guatemala border, and 20,000 Haitians staging in Colombia to make the journey to the U.S.
It was also reported this week the Biden administration is secretly flying unaccompanied alien minors who crossed the border illegally to small airports around the country. The border patrol encountered over 18,000 such minors in July and another 18,000 in August - over six times as many as a year ago.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the secret flights, then proceeded to make a joke out of them. The flights are not in the middle of the night, she said, just “early” in the morning. The Biden administration and government agencies involved are keeping the details secret, and not answering basic questions like how many, why at night, where exactly, at what cost, or how long this will go on. Another good question: why isn’t the administration verifying the identities of the people picking the minors up at the airport?
lf the threats to national security, the migrant caravans, and the secrecy don’t bother you, maybe this will:
It was also reported this week the Biden administration believes tens of millions of people will be displaced by climate change over the next 20 or 30 years. The administration’s priority is “strengthening global protection for these displaced individuals and groups.” Indeed, the report said affording such protection is a “compelling national interest” and said the U.S. must prepare for a growing number of migrants in coming years. Translation: not just open borders. Open-ended open borders.
OK, so the Biden administration believes flying 18,000 minors around the country a month isn’t enough, catching 1.7 million illegal border-crossers a year isn’t enough, and the most generous legal immigration system in the world isn’t enough. We must open up our country to tens of millions more who will be trying to resettle here in coming years.
I’m remembering the video of Dick Lamm, the Democrat former Governor of Colorado saying, if you want to destroy a nation, start with no longer enforcing its immigration laws and turning it into a multicultural country full of people who won’t assimilate. I’m also remembering the economist Milton Friedman who said you can’t have open borders and an open welfare system at the same time, it can’t possibly work.
Thankfully, there are still people in positions of authority who view all of this as madness and are doing something about it. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced plans to send 5,000 National Guard troops to the border and a Texas sheriff is deputizing local citizens to secure his county’s border.
Some years ago, the Supreme Court knocked down Arizona’s efforts to enforce federal immigration laws on its own. Recently, liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke out against the Democrats’ court-packing plan. Let’s hope the Supreme Court and others have come to their senses and now oppose the Democrats’ country-packing plan. If not enough people come to their senses, we will surely destroy a nation.
10/21/21 - Government Created the Supply Chain Crisis
Products are disappearing from grocery store shelves. Government officials warn there will be problems with Christmas shopping this year - and NEXT - so be sure to shop early. The supply chain crisis didn’t have to happen. Government created this mess and the orders issued by Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom won’t get us out of it.
Dozens of ships are anchored off Los Angeles, waiting to unload their cargo at California ports. The delays are measured in weeks, some say months. What’s the hold-up?
The central problem traces back to the fateful day when the EPA allowed California to mandate stricter emission standards on, among other things, big trucks. Then the EPA gave California the power to prohibit trucks that fail to meet the state’s stiffer standards. This immediately wiped out half the available trucking fleet because, in effect, it meant trucks older than three years old could not be used in California. So it’s no surprise there’s a shortage of trucks to move cargo out of California’s ports just like night follows day.
Running the ports 24/7 as Biden ordered, and finding more land to store shipping containers as Newsom ordered, are irrelevant. As long as California says half the nation’s trucks aren’t good enough to run on California roads, California ports won’t be up to the job.
California made the perfect the enemy of the good and shot itself in the foot in the process. Its ports are losing business to East Coast ports like Savannah and Charleston, both of which are very busy. No, California, you are not just entitled to remain America’s fair-haired darling and to remain Nirvana forever. People and businesses are leaving your state in droves because of high taxes and excessive regulation and, like Elon Musk, moving to more business-friendly places like Texas.
So you can remain effete snobs and keep deluding yourselves you are creating a pristine environment and heaven on earth, but your arrogance will eventually catch up with you. Pride goeth before the fall.
10/20/21 - The Last Vaccine Mandate in America
OSHA has gone into full cover-up mode concerning adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. Late last month, Joe Biden told OSHA to hide information on vaccine injuries. Yesterday, it was reported OSHA’s website now states OSHA will not require employers to report adverse reactions from the vaccines among their workers. The reason OSHA gives is astounding: they don’t want to hear about adverse reactions because they don’t want to discourage workers from getting vaccinated. So much for the health and safety of the workers, which is the agency’s mission. Workers have been sacrificed on the altar of the Biden administration’s phony narrative that the vaccines are completely safe. Pravda has spoken.
But that doesn’t prevent adverse reactions from continuing to pile up. 7,000 people had died shortly after receiving COVID vaccines when I first started tracking official government numbers in July. The number of deaths has now passed 16,000 and the total number of adverse reactions - heart problems, blood clots, miscarriages, menstrual disruption, neurological symptoms, etc. - is approaching 800,000. These numbers are off the charts compared to all other vaccines combined since the reporting system began 30 years ago.
9,000 people in the U.S. have died after receiving a COVID vaccine in the last three months or so. There are obviously problems with the vaccines, including problems for pregnant women and the babies they breastfeed, but nobody in authority will talk about them. The same problems are happening in other countries. The narrative that the vaccines are safe is as phony as a three-dollar bill, but public health authorities don’t even try to make a case the vaccines are worthwhile in spite of the hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions. We only get from them silence, cover-ups, and shrill complaints that people like me are irresponsible for pointing out the emperor has no clothes.
Here’s what else the running dogs of COVID imperialism won’t talk about:
They won’t talk about the doctor in California who wrote the FDA and CDC about all the COVID vaccine injuries she is seeing - quadriplegia, organ failure, septic shock, and deaths. The agencies won’t respond.
They won’t talk about the physician assistant who blew the whistle to the CDC and FDA that her hospital won’t let her file adverse reaction reports on the COVID vaccines. Doctors are being pressured not to report, on pain of losing their job and never being able to practice medicine again.
Adverse reactions are only one of the problems with the phony COVID and vaccine narratives. The vaccines lose their potency after a few short months. Vaccinated people still get COVID breakthrough cases in high numbers. Vaccines cause the virus to mutate into other variants. Natural immunity is better than the vaccines - even Pfizer scientists will tell you that.
The case for the vaccines gets weaker by the day, but vaccine mandates are getting ever-more authoritarian. That’s a disconnect. The wheels are falling off the phony narratives. The truth will eventually win out, but not before a lot more people lose their jobs, get discharged from the military, and get treated like lepers and second-class citizens for no good reason and for trying to protect themselves from all the problems our leaders won’t talk about.
10/19/21 - China’s New World Order
The world has changed. The U.S. is no longer the military top dog in the world, and that’s not a good thing.
It was reported yesterday China is now able to launch surprise nuclear attacks anywhere in the world with hypersonic missiles launched from space. This renders any ballistic missile defense we had useless and sparks a new arms race. The U.S. and its allies must now develop directed energy weapons to counter China’s new capability and, in addition, acquire the same surprise attack capability China now has in order to maintain deterrence. It’s been pointed out it will take at least two years to do all this.
What I’m saying is not unique. Many commentators have been all over this in the last 24 hours. Some have blasted White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for saying she welcomes China’s new ability to launch surprise nuclear attacks as just “stiff competition”. [Gateway Pundit and the Hugh Hewitt Show 6 a.m. hour today]. Other commentators have focused on the fact that much of the technology in China’s hypersonic missiles came from U.S. companies and pointed out the more general problem that Wall Street and Silicon Valley has been facilitating China’s military technology build-up with absolutely no regard for U.S. national security. In short, we have been selling China the rope they will use to hang us. [Bill Walton on Secure Freedom Radio, 10/18/21]
I’m not just concerned with nuclear fallout. I’m concerned with geopolitical fallout, as well. It will take some time for the new world military order to sink in but, eventually, we will see China asserting itself even more aggressively on the world stage. We know about China’s debt diplomacy where it manipulates entire countries by loaning them money for infrastructure projects and calling the shots when the countries can’t pay back their loans. We also know about China’s Belt-and-Road initiative, the public purpose of which is to advance China’s interests in world trade but the real purpose is to help China establish military bases around the world. We also know China has aggressively been mounting influence operations through its Confucius Institutes, under-the-table payments to journalists, grooming of key policymakers, and other means in the U.S., Australia, and elsewhere. These operations are designed to alter foreign policy in those countries, including our own, to make them more friendly to Chinese interests. We also know China is aggressively trying to dominate international organizations like the United Nations. Chinese officials now head up many UN agencies. [h/t to Alex Newman who was the first to get on to this.] We also know China is pursuing an industrial policy designed to hollow out the manufacturing capabilities of other countries and dominate the global car industry, aviation, high speed rail, artificial intelligence, and other advanced industries.
This is not just ‘competition’, Jen Psaki and Wall Street, this is a threat, an existential threat. There has been a debate about whether China only wants to be a regional power or is seeking world domination and to displace America as the world’s lone superpower. I’m not the least bit confused. China’s leaders and generals have made no secret of their desire for world domination in a series of statements going all the way back to Mao who in 1956 said, “We must control the earth.”
If you admire the Chinese authoritarian system and want to converge with it, or think Chinese domination would be a good thing for the world, think again. We’ll start that conversation with China’s genocide of the Uighurs, its murder of targeted minorities for their organs, its imperial conquest of 56 nationalities including Tibet, and China’s one thousand forced labor camps for political prisoners. We should be more like China? You gotta be kidding me.
If you got up this morning thinking social justice is the most important thing in the world, think again. If you got up thinking George Soros and his globalist buddies are the biggest threat we face, think again. The world changed yesterday when China became able to launch surprise nuclear attacks anywhere in a defenseless world. The Democrats don’t want the U.S. to be a superpower. They are busy taking down the U.S. military with a bunch of woke garbage. They are undoubtedly chortling with glee at China’s new capabilities but, if you don’t want to have to learn Mandarin, you need to rethink your priorities, fast.
10/18/21 - Defunding the Police: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone
On Saturday, Joe Biden addressed the annual national ceremony in Washington honoring fallen police officers who were killed in the line of duty in the previous year. I’m surprised he was invited, given his calls to defund the police during the 2020 presidential campaign. He said funding should “absolutely” be redirected from police budgets, then his campaign later tried to pretend he never threatened to defund the police.
More evidence has come in about the devastating effects of defunding the police in places where it’s been tried, but first let’s review where things stood when I last reported to you on this subject in July.
By that time, New York City cut hundreds of millions of dollars from its police budget. St. Louis voted, at least preliminarily, to defund the police by $4 million. Riverfront Times Minneapolis went ahead with defunding the police, cutting the department’s budget $8 million. AP Seattle voted to defund the police. KTTH-770 In all, some 20 cities defunded the police in some manner. Newsmax Washington Times However, there was already buyer’s remorse by that time and Oakland, Baltimore, Minneapolis and Los Angeles all began to reverse course after crime predictably went up in their cities. New York City was starting to reverse course, too.
Since then, Austin also reversed course. The Austin City Council had previously voted to cut the police budget by a third and lost 150 officers. However, with homicides running at a record rate, the Council restored the funding in August of this year.
There’s no denying the defund movement was a factor in the 30 percent increase in the murder rate in 2020 reported in the FBI’s annual crime statistics. This was the biggest increase in 50 years, and translates to almost 5,000 more homicides than in 2019.
Another bit of research came out since my last report. It suggests that de-policing in June and July of 2020 resulted in more than 700 additional murders and 2,800 additional shootings “because of redeployment of law enforcement away from proactive policing.”
In addition, defunding the police in Portland, Oregon has resulted in dramatically increased wait times for 911 calls. Callers now wait on hold for more than 2 minutes before someone picks up. The national standard is 15 to 20 seconds.
To sum up, additional evidence has come in since my last report that defunding the police has caused major problems. Another city - Austin - has confessed error and reversed course. All of this is really not surprising. Defunding the police was an insane idea in the first place - brought to you by the same people who want to abolish all prisons, all cash bail to be eliminated, and prosecutors not to prosecute.
You have to ask yourself, in light of all the circumstances, what this crazy agenda is for. Whose interests does it serve? Who benefits when chaos is created and the ability of law enforcement to do anything about it is destroyed? Not the 911 callers in Portland waiting on hold for two minutes, or the murder victims or their families, that’s for sure. You might think about the disastrous effects of the Progressives’ last crazy idea before you fall for their next crazy idea.
10/15/21 - The Troubling Ramifications of the Aborted Baby Parts Scandal
I previously reported to you government documents show the federal government has paid the University of Pittsburgh at least $2.7 million in the last five years to become a central warehouse for aborted baby parts used in scientific research. Some of the documents at the University of Pittsburgh suggest late-term aborted babies are being delivered to the university alive, then being killed for their organs.
This week, pro-life leaders and state and federal lawmakers called for an investigation after new details about the research came to light. It’s a lot of money and a lot of aborted babies, hundreds a year. One experiment involved scalping aborted babies and grafting the scalps onto rats to study human immunity. It was also discovered the university has racial quotas for aborted baby parts which ought to make anyone who remembers the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on black men nervous. There are also questions about whether babies are being born alive, then killed for their organs and other parts for research. The university has admitted kidneys are harvested while aborted babies’ hearts are still beating. The university hired a law firm to review its research practices, but does not plan to make the results public.
This kind of research goes back at least as far as the Obama administration which purchased aborted baby heads at $500 apiece for experiments with so-called ‘humanized mice’, government records show. The purchases were stopped in the Trump administration.
My mother was the best political scientist I’ve ever known. She said two things I’ll never forget: “Civilization is a thin veneer” and “a society that does not respect life is in trouble.” America today does not respect life. Over 60 million babies have been aborted since Roe. The federal government thinks nothing of funding grotesque experiments using aborted baby parts, and dismissing objections by saying all rules and regulations have been followed. The university sees nothing wrong with killing babies and extracting their organs for research. Meanwhile, Pfizer has been trying to hide the connection between its COVID vaccine and aborted babies from the public. Assisted suicide numbers are increasing [here and here] and advocates are constantly trying to expand its use, especially in vulnerable populations like the aged, the mentally infirm, and the disabled. Articles appear in medical journals saying assisted suicide should be used for organ harvesting.
If we continue to go down this road, what’s at the end of it when there are no more lines left to cross? What are the consequences of saying aborted babies aren’t real human beings so there’s no problem harvesting their organs for research? Are you next? Maybe, if you’re aged, not quite right in the head, or disabled. If vulnerable populations can be steamrolled in the name of science, isn’t that just another way of saying ‘might makes right’? How long will we be able to hang on to our individual rights if the culture no longer elevates the individual or deems people worthy of having individual rights?
There are all kinds of consequences if a society won’t respect life. Civilization is indeed a thin veneer and barbarism is right around the corner if, by your standards, I’m not a real human being and if, by my standards, you aren’t either. The people in America today telling us all of this is OK may be wearing white coats, but Josef Mengele wore a white coat, too. Don’t come crying to me when they haul you away because they’ve decided your life is worthless and you must be sacrificed for the greater good. Ah yes, it’s always for the greater good, isn’t it?
10/14/21 - Replace the Great Replacement Theory, If You Can
Two new stories today show the Biden administration continues to expand its open border immigration policies.
DHS is drafting a plan to allow people who committed fraud in applying for U.S. citizenship to remain citizens, saying the important thing is for those pobrecitos not to have to worry about their future. Washington Times Meanwhile, leaked border patrol documents show the Biden administration has released more than 160,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. so far this year. OAN Those are just the ones we know about.
The cartels and coyotes are sending more. They send families with young children across the border in the morning. Then, when border agents are tied up with paperwork processing the families, the cartels and coyotes bring more people and contraband across in the afternoon in places along the border where agents are missing. [Secure Freedom Radio, 10/11/21)
What could possibly motivate the Biden administration to adopt policies they know result in the deaths of untold numbers of people trying to reach the United States? Policies that result in small children arriving here alone without their parents? Policies that alienate their fellow Democrats, border town mayors who are stuck with the tab for providing housing, healthcare, and other services to the masses of illegal aliens swarming their towns? Policies the administration knows create national security risks, like letting in fake refugees who are actually members of Islamic militia groups, and giving hostile nations access to our homeland. Democrat Tulsi Gabbard said the administration is lying when it claims the border is secure.
Today’s new stories, taken together with the slew of previous Biden policy changes opening the border, beg the question: are there any policies left that haven’t been loosened yet?
And to what end? Democrats mock people who articulate what Democrats call the Great Replacement theory - the idea that Biden is deliberately pursuing open border policies to change the racial mix of the country. The Democrats brand this as ‘white supremacism’ but a closely related theory holds the open border policies are being pursued to create a permanent political majority for the Democrats. Millions of illegal aliens will eventually vote for the Democrats when they eventually become citizens and no Republican will ever get elected again, the theory holds.
OK, fine. If you’re not trying to replace the population of the United States to marginalize white people or replace the current population with people who are more politically to your liking, what ARE you trying to do? To burden is on you to explain what all these policy changes are for. Are you trying to save the entire world? If you don’t want people believing the Great Replacement or permanent political majority theories, the burden is on you to articulate the true goal of your open borders policies. You have been undeniably and systematically opening the borders every which way you can. What for? Let’s hear it. I’m waiting.
10/13/21 - Transgenderism Is the Tip of the Spear
Never underestimate how far the Left will go to protect their phony narratives.
In May, a boy said to be wearing a skirt went into a girls’ bathroom at a high school in Virginia and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl inside. The boy was charged with forcible sodomy and arrested again later for a second sexual assault at a different school. It’s being reported the local school board covered up the first incident because it was trying to pass a transgender bathroom policy at the time.
The girl’s father showed up at a school board meeting in June to talk about the incident. A liberal activist told him the assault never really happened. This is called ‘gaslighting’, something the Left does all the time. The school board behaved no better, calling his story a ‘red herring;’ looking away, reading magazines, and scolding parents for clapping and booing. The father said he was told to keep quiet and was misled about how the boy was being monitored by law enforcement. The father was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Other parents complained they were not allowed to speak. The school board shut down the meeting and cleared the room.
I wish that were the end of it, but the father’s story ended up in the letter the National School Boards Association sent to the White House two weeks ago [at ftn. 13] which resulted in the Attorney General siccing the FBI on ordinary parents as ‘domestic terrorists’ for objecting to school board policies.
Much of the apparatus of the Left and the state is now arrayed against parents who object to the transgender narrative. If things stay on their present course, here’s what you can expect: Courts will throw out the First Amendment and require you to use transgender preferred pronouns. In other words, courts will control your thoughts and compel speech. This just happened in Canada where a tribunal ruled the government can punish people with huge fines if they don’t use preferred pronouns. A federal appeals court in the U.S. recently decided the other way, but you can bet the issue will be back. The Left never quits.
Here’s what else you can expect: more cover-ups of more rape cases so the transgender agenda can proceed unimpeded. It reminds me of England, where the police and complicit politicians routinely cover up rapes because the perpetrators are Muslim, giving women nowhere to turn for justice.
In the U.S., the transgender narrative is being protected, but to what end? California just passed a new law allowing children to get sex changes without telling their parents, so the transgender agenda is being used as a weapon to cut parents out of the picture and tear down the family. Then there’s the whole move to erase biological sex designations from official records, like driver’s licenses and even birth certificates. It’s to the point where even medical schools apologize for differentiating between male and female patients. But the insanity doesn’t stop there. According to transgender doctrine, men can get pregnant and need abortions. The point of all this insanity is to tear society down to ‘build it back better’ with totally new concepts that just so happen to serve a tiny subversive elite that seeks to control our thoughts and rule over us. This is a communist technique. In Russia, it was called ‘the New Soviet Man.’ It comes straight out of Marx who preached the utter destruction of absolutely everything with a constant barrage of new ideas that contradict previous ideas, including our founding principles. The process is called dialectical negation and it is the Left’s weapon of choice to destroy America as we know it. They will keep sending guided missiles like transgenderism into society until there’s nothing left and they can take over because people are confused and don’t know what they stand for, any longer.
That makes transgenderism a giant con job. The issue is never the issue. The issue is always wealth and power for a tiny elite. Women, you’ve especially been conned by transgenderism. You’re getting a rotten deal under the new orthodoxy. Your sports have been destroyed, your battered women’s shelters are no longer safe, and you can’t get justice if you’re raped by a transgender biological male. The authorities will cover it up, just like in Virginia. The patriarchy strikes again.
And we’re ALL being conned by transgenderism into believing male is female, up is down, and nothing that has been built in society up to this point is worth preserving. But it is possible to fight back and win, and that’s exactly what I encourage you to do, at school boards and everywhere else the Left is trying to control our thoughts and destroy life as we know it.
10/12/21 - America’s Leaders Are a Threat to National Security
While the Justice Department pursues ordinary parents as domestic terrorists for speaking out at school board meetings, it’s fair to say our leaders wouldn’t recognize a real threat to national security if it slapped them in the face.
The chief software officer of the Air Force just quit, warning China is winning the military cyber and artificial intelligence race, and there’s no time to waste. Other experts have called for a ban on AI transfers to China.
China has built three new missile fields, totaling almost 250 new silos bringing China to virtual parity with the U.S. in ICBMs. The commander in charge of U.S. strategic nuclear forces warns Russia is on the same path and our own outdated missile capabilities need strengthening. But Democrat Elizabeth Warren and her allies in the White House are pushing for us to disarm.
China now has advanced stealth drones that can fly for 20 hours and attack submarines. They also have smaller attack drones that have been called ‘flying grenades’. Moreover, China is steadily developing the ability to attack us from space, at a time when irresponsible Democrats in the House are moving to abolish the U.S. Space Force.
North Korea has new train-launched missiles, as well new long-range cruise missiles that might have nuclear capability. Iran blocked international arms control inspectors from its nuclear sites last month. In case you don’t know, Iran is pursuing nukes and ICBMs that can hit U.S. allies and interests.
So what are our leaders doing while challenges to national security continue to mount? Our woke Pentagon just made it easier for political appointees and congressional staffers to gain access to the crown jewels, the Defense Department’s most secret programs. They will no longer be asked if they have foreign associations or have gotten themselves into debt lately. Possible treason is not the only concern. A critic inside the Pentagon said get ready for leaks to the press of highly sensitive information, because they are surely coming. Meanwhile, a defense watchdog found the military is over-reliant on foreign pharmaceutical suppliers and can’t even be bothered to figure out where its medicines are coming from.
We are not being well-served by the chuckleheads in the Pentagon and the White House. It’s time we demand better. It’s time we demand our leaders get back to basics and focus on national security like they’re supposed to. If you think all the woke stuff and chasing after parents as domestic terrorists is what’s important, all I can say is the world is a dangerous place and I hope you have a country left to be woke in. But if you have any sense, start talking to your elected representatives about the importance of national security, and don’t wait until the next election to do something. It’s your Republic. Time for you to step up and maintain it, because our current crop of leaders won’t.
10/11/21 - The Democrats’ Next Crazy Ideas in Healthcare
Democrats on Capitol Hill are busy dreaming up ways to expand government intervention in your healthcare. Before we discuss their next crazy ideas, let’s review what’s going wrong with their last crazy idea - Obamacare.
Obamacare’s failures are legion. Obamacare:
They sold Obamacare by promising families would save $2,500 a year on insurance. That never happened. In fact, Obamacare premiums continue to rise faster than inflation in spots - as much as 21 percent in Iowa, and 11.3 percent in Minnesota.
The Democrats are crowing about how they recently got 3 million more people to sign up for Obamacare, but they could only do it by offering bigger bribes using temporary COVID relief funds and pouring millions into marketing. Despite all that, enrollment is still not anywhere close to what they promised when they were selling us the Obamacare bill of goods. There might be 12 million people now signed up for Obamacare, but we were promised 24 million.
Now the Democrats want to make the bigger COVID relief subsidies permanent at a time when the government is already borrowing money like crazy. But that’s not their only crazy new idea. They also want to add a new Medicaid program in states that refused Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, and lower the eligibility age for Medicare while ladling on more benefits like dental and vision when everybody knows Medicare is already going broke.
Each one of these ideas by itself would be crazy, but the Democrats want to do all three. That’s really crazy. These people are nuts. They live in la-la land where the government can give everybody everything and the bills never come due. That’s psychotic. And they think it will all turn out better than Obamacare did. That’s really nuts. The Democrats should seek professional help. As for the rest of us, we owe it ourselves to find out what’s gone wrong with the Democrats’ last crazy idea before we fall for their next crazy ideas.
I didn’t expect to be back to the subject of the border so soon, but a lot has happened since I last reported to you on the nation’s immigration crisis one week ago.
Since then, we learned Panama apprehended 52 people associated with al Qaeda Islamic terrorism who were headed to the U.S. southern border. They were among 100,000 people moving through Panama on their way north. There are separate reports of a caravan numbering thousands massing at the Mexico-Guatemala border, and 20,000 Haitians staging in Colombia to make the journey to the U.S.
It was also reported this week the Biden administration is secretly flying unaccompanied alien minors who crossed the border illegally to small airports around the country. The border patrol encountered over 18,000 such minors in July and another 18,000 in August - over six times as many as a year ago.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the secret flights, then proceeded to make a joke out of them. The flights are not in the middle of the night, she said, just “early” in the morning. The Biden administration and government agencies involved are keeping the details secret, and not answering basic questions like how many, why at night, where exactly, at what cost, or how long this will go on. Another good question: why isn’t the administration verifying the identities of the people picking the minors up at the airport?
lf the threats to national security, the migrant caravans, and the secrecy don’t bother you, maybe this will:
It was also reported this week the Biden administration believes tens of millions of people will be displaced by climate change over the next 20 or 30 years. The administration’s priority is “strengthening global protection for these displaced individuals and groups.” Indeed, the report said affording such protection is a “compelling national interest” and said the U.S. must prepare for a growing number of migrants in coming years. Translation: not just open borders. Open-ended open borders.
OK, so the Biden administration believes flying 18,000 minors around the country a month isn’t enough, catching 1.7 million illegal border-crossers a year isn’t enough, and the most generous legal immigration system in the world isn’t enough. We must open up our country to tens of millions more who will be trying to resettle here in coming years.
I’m remembering the video of Dick Lamm, the Democrat former Governor of Colorado saying, if you want to destroy a nation, start with no longer enforcing its immigration laws and turning it into a multicultural country full of people who won’t assimilate. I’m also remembering the economist Milton Friedman who said you can’t have open borders and an open welfare system at the same time, it can’t possibly work.
Thankfully, there are still people in positions of authority who view all of this as madness and are doing something about it. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced plans to send 5,000 National Guard troops to the border and a Texas sheriff is deputizing local citizens to secure his county’s border.
Some years ago, the Supreme Court knocked down Arizona’s efforts to enforce federal immigration laws on its own. Recently, liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke out against the Democrats’ court-packing plan. Let’s hope the Supreme Court and others have come to their senses and now oppose the Democrats’ country-packing plan. If not enough people come to their senses, we will surely destroy a nation.
10/21/21 - Government Created the Supply Chain Crisis
Products are disappearing from grocery store shelves. Government officials warn there will be problems with Christmas shopping this year - and NEXT - so be sure to shop early. The supply chain crisis didn’t have to happen. Government created this mess and the orders issued by Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom won’t get us out of it.
Dozens of ships are anchored off Los Angeles, waiting to unload their cargo at California ports. The delays are measured in weeks, some say months. What’s the hold-up?
The central problem traces back to the fateful day when the EPA allowed California to mandate stricter emission standards on, among other things, big trucks. Then the EPA gave California the power to prohibit trucks that fail to meet the state’s stiffer standards. This immediately wiped out half the available trucking fleet because, in effect, it meant trucks older than three years old could not be used in California. So it’s no surprise there’s a shortage of trucks to move cargo out of California’s ports just like night follows day.
Running the ports 24/7 as Biden ordered, and finding more land to store shipping containers as Newsom ordered, are irrelevant. As long as California says half the nation’s trucks aren’t good enough to run on California roads, California ports won’t be up to the job.
California made the perfect the enemy of the good and shot itself in the foot in the process. Its ports are losing business to East Coast ports like Savannah and Charleston, both of which are very busy. No, California, you are not just entitled to remain America’s fair-haired darling and to remain Nirvana forever. People and businesses are leaving your state in droves because of high taxes and excessive regulation and, like Elon Musk, moving to more business-friendly places like Texas.
So you can remain effete snobs and keep deluding yourselves you are creating a pristine environment and heaven on earth, but your arrogance will eventually catch up with you. Pride goeth before the fall.
10/20/21 - The Last Vaccine Mandate in America
OSHA has gone into full cover-up mode concerning adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. Late last month, Joe Biden told OSHA to hide information on vaccine injuries. Yesterday, it was reported OSHA’s website now states OSHA will not require employers to report adverse reactions from the vaccines among their workers. The reason OSHA gives is astounding: they don’t want to hear about adverse reactions because they don’t want to discourage workers from getting vaccinated. So much for the health and safety of the workers, which is the agency’s mission. Workers have been sacrificed on the altar of the Biden administration’s phony narrative that the vaccines are completely safe. Pravda has spoken.
But that doesn’t prevent adverse reactions from continuing to pile up. 7,000 people had died shortly after receiving COVID vaccines when I first started tracking official government numbers in July. The number of deaths has now passed 16,000 and the total number of adverse reactions - heart problems, blood clots, miscarriages, menstrual disruption, neurological symptoms, etc. - is approaching 800,000. These numbers are off the charts compared to all other vaccines combined since the reporting system began 30 years ago.
9,000 people in the U.S. have died after receiving a COVID vaccine in the last three months or so. There are obviously problems with the vaccines, including problems for pregnant women and the babies they breastfeed, but nobody in authority will talk about them. The same problems are happening in other countries. The narrative that the vaccines are safe is as phony as a three-dollar bill, but public health authorities don’t even try to make a case the vaccines are worthwhile in spite of the hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions. We only get from them silence, cover-ups, and shrill complaints that people like me are irresponsible for pointing out the emperor has no clothes.
Here’s what else the running dogs of COVID imperialism won’t talk about:
They won’t talk about the doctor in California who wrote the FDA and CDC about all the COVID vaccine injuries she is seeing - quadriplegia, organ failure, septic shock, and deaths. The agencies won’t respond.
They won’t talk about the physician assistant who blew the whistle to the CDC and FDA that her hospital won’t let her file adverse reaction reports on the COVID vaccines. Doctors are being pressured not to report, on pain of losing their job and never being able to practice medicine again.
Adverse reactions are only one of the problems with the phony COVID and vaccine narratives. The vaccines lose their potency after a few short months. Vaccinated people still get COVID breakthrough cases in high numbers. Vaccines cause the virus to mutate into other variants. Natural immunity is better than the vaccines - even Pfizer scientists will tell you that.
The case for the vaccines gets weaker by the day, but vaccine mandates are getting ever-more authoritarian. That’s a disconnect. The wheels are falling off the phony narratives. The truth will eventually win out, but not before a lot more people lose their jobs, get discharged from the military, and get treated like lepers and second-class citizens for no good reason and for trying to protect themselves from all the problems our leaders won’t talk about.
10/19/21 - China’s New World Order
The world has changed. The U.S. is no longer the military top dog in the world, and that’s not a good thing.
It was reported yesterday China is now able to launch surprise nuclear attacks anywhere in the world with hypersonic missiles launched from space. This renders any ballistic missile defense we had useless and sparks a new arms race. The U.S. and its allies must now develop directed energy weapons to counter China’s new capability and, in addition, acquire the same surprise attack capability China now has in order to maintain deterrence. It’s been pointed out it will take at least two years to do all this.
What I’m saying is not unique. Many commentators have been all over this in the last 24 hours. Some have blasted White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for saying she welcomes China’s new ability to launch surprise nuclear attacks as just “stiff competition”. [Gateway Pundit and the Hugh Hewitt Show 6 a.m. hour today]. Other commentators have focused on the fact that much of the technology in China’s hypersonic missiles came from U.S. companies and pointed out the more general problem that Wall Street and Silicon Valley has been facilitating China’s military technology build-up with absolutely no regard for U.S. national security. In short, we have been selling China the rope they will use to hang us. [Bill Walton on Secure Freedom Radio, 10/18/21]
I’m not just concerned with nuclear fallout. I’m concerned with geopolitical fallout, as well. It will take some time for the new world military order to sink in but, eventually, we will see China asserting itself even more aggressively on the world stage. We know about China’s debt diplomacy where it manipulates entire countries by loaning them money for infrastructure projects and calling the shots when the countries can’t pay back their loans. We also know about China’s Belt-and-Road initiative, the public purpose of which is to advance China’s interests in world trade but the real purpose is to help China establish military bases around the world. We also know China has aggressively been mounting influence operations through its Confucius Institutes, under-the-table payments to journalists, grooming of key policymakers, and other means in the U.S., Australia, and elsewhere. These operations are designed to alter foreign policy in those countries, including our own, to make them more friendly to Chinese interests. We also know China is aggressively trying to dominate international organizations like the United Nations. Chinese officials now head up many UN agencies. [h/t to Alex Newman who was the first to get on to this.] We also know China is pursuing an industrial policy designed to hollow out the manufacturing capabilities of other countries and dominate the global car industry, aviation, high speed rail, artificial intelligence, and other advanced industries.
This is not just ‘competition’, Jen Psaki and Wall Street, this is a threat, an existential threat. There has been a debate about whether China only wants to be a regional power or is seeking world domination and to displace America as the world’s lone superpower. I’m not the least bit confused. China’s leaders and generals have made no secret of their desire for world domination in a series of statements going all the way back to Mao who in 1956 said, “We must control the earth.”
If you admire the Chinese authoritarian system and want to converge with it, or think Chinese domination would be a good thing for the world, think again. We’ll start that conversation with China’s genocide of the Uighurs, its murder of targeted minorities for their organs, its imperial conquest of 56 nationalities including Tibet, and China’s one thousand forced labor camps for political prisoners. We should be more like China? You gotta be kidding me.
If you got up this morning thinking social justice is the most important thing in the world, think again. If you got up thinking George Soros and his globalist buddies are the biggest threat we face, think again. The world changed yesterday when China became able to launch surprise nuclear attacks anywhere in a defenseless world. The Democrats don’t want the U.S. to be a superpower. They are busy taking down the U.S. military with a bunch of woke garbage. They are undoubtedly chortling with glee at China’s new capabilities but, if you don’t want to have to learn Mandarin, you need to rethink your priorities, fast.
10/18/21 - Defunding the Police: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone
On Saturday, Joe Biden addressed the annual national ceremony in Washington honoring fallen police officers who were killed in the line of duty in the previous year. I’m surprised he was invited, given his calls to defund the police during the 2020 presidential campaign. He said funding should “absolutely” be redirected from police budgets, then his campaign later tried to pretend he never threatened to defund the police.
More evidence has come in about the devastating effects of defunding the police in places where it’s been tried, but first let’s review where things stood when I last reported to you on this subject in July.
By that time, New York City cut hundreds of millions of dollars from its police budget. St. Louis voted, at least preliminarily, to defund the police by $4 million. Riverfront Times Minneapolis went ahead with defunding the police, cutting the department’s budget $8 million. AP Seattle voted to defund the police. KTTH-770 In all, some 20 cities defunded the police in some manner. Newsmax Washington Times However, there was already buyer’s remorse by that time and Oakland, Baltimore, Minneapolis and Los Angeles all began to reverse course after crime predictably went up in their cities. New York City was starting to reverse course, too.
Since then, Austin also reversed course. The Austin City Council had previously voted to cut the police budget by a third and lost 150 officers. However, with homicides running at a record rate, the Council restored the funding in August of this year.
There’s no denying the defund movement was a factor in the 30 percent increase in the murder rate in 2020 reported in the FBI’s annual crime statistics. This was the biggest increase in 50 years, and translates to almost 5,000 more homicides than in 2019.
Another bit of research came out since my last report. It suggests that de-policing in June and July of 2020 resulted in more than 700 additional murders and 2,800 additional shootings “because of redeployment of law enforcement away from proactive policing.”
In addition, defunding the police in Portland, Oregon has resulted in dramatically increased wait times for 911 calls. Callers now wait on hold for more than 2 minutes before someone picks up. The national standard is 15 to 20 seconds.
To sum up, additional evidence has come in since my last report that defunding the police has caused major problems. Another city - Austin - has confessed error and reversed course. All of this is really not surprising. Defunding the police was an insane idea in the first place - brought to you by the same people who want to abolish all prisons, all cash bail to be eliminated, and prosecutors not to prosecute.
You have to ask yourself, in light of all the circumstances, what this crazy agenda is for. Whose interests does it serve? Who benefits when chaos is created and the ability of law enforcement to do anything about it is destroyed? Not the 911 callers in Portland waiting on hold for two minutes, or the murder victims or their families, that’s for sure. You might think about the disastrous effects of the Progressives’ last crazy idea before you fall for their next crazy idea.
10/15/21 - The Troubling Ramifications of the Aborted Baby Parts Scandal
I previously reported to you government documents show the federal government has paid the University of Pittsburgh at least $2.7 million in the last five years to become a central warehouse for aborted baby parts used in scientific research. Some of the documents at the University of Pittsburgh suggest late-term aborted babies are being delivered to the university alive, then being killed for their organs.
This week, pro-life leaders and state and federal lawmakers called for an investigation after new details about the research came to light. It’s a lot of money and a lot of aborted babies, hundreds a year. One experiment involved scalping aborted babies and grafting the scalps onto rats to study human immunity. It was also discovered the university has racial quotas for aborted baby parts which ought to make anyone who remembers the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on black men nervous. There are also questions about whether babies are being born alive, then killed for their organs and other parts for research. The university has admitted kidneys are harvested while aborted babies’ hearts are still beating. The university hired a law firm to review its research practices, but does not plan to make the results public.
This kind of research goes back at least as far as the Obama administration which purchased aborted baby heads at $500 apiece for experiments with so-called ‘humanized mice’, government records show. The purchases were stopped in the Trump administration.
My mother was the best political scientist I’ve ever known. She said two things I’ll never forget: “Civilization is a thin veneer” and “a society that does not respect life is in trouble.” America today does not respect life. Over 60 million babies have been aborted since Roe. The federal government thinks nothing of funding grotesque experiments using aborted baby parts, and dismissing objections by saying all rules and regulations have been followed. The university sees nothing wrong with killing babies and extracting their organs for research. Meanwhile, Pfizer has been trying to hide the connection between its COVID vaccine and aborted babies from the public. Assisted suicide numbers are increasing [here and here] and advocates are constantly trying to expand its use, especially in vulnerable populations like the aged, the mentally infirm, and the disabled. Articles appear in medical journals saying assisted suicide should be used for organ harvesting.
If we continue to go down this road, what’s at the end of it when there are no more lines left to cross? What are the consequences of saying aborted babies aren’t real human beings so there’s no problem harvesting their organs for research? Are you next? Maybe, if you’re aged, not quite right in the head, or disabled. If vulnerable populations can be steamrolled in the name of science, isn’t that just another way of saying ‘might makes right’? How long will we be able to hang on to our individual rights if the culture no longer elevates the individual or deems people worthy of having individual rights?
There are all kinds of consequences if a society won’t respect life. Civilization is indeed a thin veneer and barbarism is right around the corner if, by your standards, I’m not a real human being and if, by my standards, you aren’t either. The people in America today telling us all of this is OK may be wearing white coats, but Josef Mengele wore a white coat, too. Don’t come crying to me when they haul you away because they’ve decided your life is worthless and you must be sacrificed for the greater good. Ah yes, it’s always for the greater good, isn’t it?
10/14/21 - Replace the Great Replacement Theory, If You Can
Two new stories today show the Biden administration continues to expand its open border immigration policies.
DHS is drafting a plan to allow people who committed fraud in applying for U.S. citizenship to remain citizens, saying the important thing is for those pobrecitos not to have to worry about their future. Washington Times Meanwhile, leaked border patrol documents show the Biden administration has released more than 160,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. so far this year. OAN Those are just the ones we know about.
The cartels and coyotes are sending more. They send families with young children across the border in the morning. Then, when border agents are tied up with paperwork processing the families, the cartels and coyotes bring more people and contraband across in the afternoon in places along the border where agents are missing. [Secure Freedom Radio, 10/11/21)
What could possibly motivate the Biden administration to adopt policies they know result in the deaths of untold numbers of people trying to reach the United States? Policies that result in small children arriving here alone without their parents? Policies that alienate their fellow Democrats, border town mayors who are stuck with the tab for providing housing, healthcare, and other services to the masses of illegal aliens swarming their towns? Policies the administration knows create national security risks, like letting in fake refugees who are actually members of Islamic militia groups, and giving hostile nations access to our homeland. Democrat Tulsi Gabbard said the administration is lying when it claims the border is secure.
Today’s new stories, taken together with the slew of previous Biden policy changes opening the border, beg the question: are there any policies left that haven’t been loosened yet?
And to what end? Democrats mock people who articulate what Democrats call the Great Replacement theory - the idea that Biden is deliberately pursuing open border policies to change the racial mix of the country. The Democrats brand this as ‘white supremacism’ but a closely related theory holds the open border policies are being pursued to create a permanent political majority for the Democrats. Millions of illegal aliens will eventually vote for the Democrats when they eventually become citizens and no Republican will ever get elected again, the theory holds.
OK, fine. If you’re not trying to replace the population of the United States to marginalize white people or replace the current population with people who are more politically to your liking, what ARE you trying to do? To burden is on you to explain what all these policy changes are for. Are you trying to save the entire world? If you don’t want people believing the Great Replacement or permanent political majority theories, the burden is on you to articulate the true goal of your open borders policies. You have been undeniably and systematically opening the borders every which way you can. What for? Let’s hear it. I’m waiting.
10/13/21 - Transgenderism Is the Tip of the Spear
Never underestimate how far the Left will go to protect their phony narratives.
In May, a boy said to be wearing a skirt went into a girls’ bathroom at a high school in Virginia and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl inside. The boy was charged with forcible sodomy and arrested again later for a second sexual assault at a different school. It’s being reported the local school board covered up the first incident because it was trying to pass a transgender bathroom policy at the time.
The girl’s father showed up at a school board meeting in June to talk about the incident. A liberal activist told him the assault never really happened. This is called ‘gaslighting’, something the Left does all the time. The school board behaved no better, calling his story a ‘red herring;’ looking away, reading magazines, and scolding parents for clapping and booing. The father said he was told to keep quiet and was misled about how the boy was being monitored by law enforcement. The father was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Other parents complained they were not allowed to speak. The school board shut down the meeting and cleared the room.
I wish that were the end of it, but the father’s story ended up in the letter the National School Boards Association sent to the White House two weeks ago [at ftn. 13] which resulted in the Attorney General siccing the FBI on ordinary parents as ‘domestic terrorists’ for objecting to school board policies.
Much of the apparatus of the Left and the state is now arrayed against parents who object to the transgender narrative. If things stay on their present course, here’s what you can expect: Courts will throw out the First Amendment and require you to use transgender preferred pronouns. In other words, courts will control your thoughts and compel speech. This just happened in Canada where a tribunal ruled the government can punish people with huge fines if they don’t use preferred pronouns. A federal appeals court in the U.S. recently decided the other way, but you can bet the issue will be back. The Left never quits.
Here’s what else you can expect: more cover-ups of more rape cases so the transgender agenda can proceed unimpeded. It reminds me of England, where the police and complicit politicians routinely cover up rapes because the perpetrators are Muslim, giving women nowhere to turn for justice.
In the U.S., the transgender narrative is being protected, but to what end? California just passed a new law allowing children to get sex changes without telling their parents, so the transgender agenda is being used as a weapon to cut parents out of the picture and tear down the family. Then there’s the whole move to erase biological sex designations from official records, like driver’s licenses and even birth certificates. It’s to the point where even medical schools apologize for differentiating between male and female patients. But the insanity doesn’t stop there. According to transgender doctrine, men can get pregnant and need abortions. The point of all this insanity is to tear society down to ‘build it back better’ with totally new concepts that just so happen to serve a tiny subversive elite that seeks to control our thoughts and rule over us. This is a communist technique. In Russia, it was called ‘the New Soviet Man.’ It comes straight out of Marx who preached the utter destruction of absolutely everything with a constant barrage of new ideas that contradict previous ideas, including our founding principles. The process is called dialectical negation and it is the Left’s weapon of choice to destroy America as we know it. They will keep sending guided missiles like transgenderism into society until there’s nothing left and they can take over because people are confused and don’t know what they stand for, any longer.
That makes transgenderism a giant con job. The issue is never the issue. The issue is always wealth and power for a tiny elite. Women, you’ve especially been conned by transgenderism. You’re getting a rotten deal under the new orthodoxy. Your sports have been destroyed, your battered women’s shelters are no longer safe, and you can’t get justice if you’re raped by a transgender biological male. The authorities will cover it up, just like in Virginia. The patriarchy strikes again.
And we’re ALL being conned by transgenderism into believing male is female, up is down, and nothing that has been built in society up to this point is worth preserving. But it is possible to fight back and win, and that’s exactly what I encourage you to do, at school boards and everywhere else the Left is trying to control our thoughts and destroy life as we know it.
10/12/21 - America’s Leaders Are a Threat to National Security
While the Justice Department pursues ordinary parents as domestic terrorists for speaking out at school board meetings, it’s fair to say our leaders wouldn’t recognize a real threat to national security if it slapped them in the face.
The chief software officer of the Air Force just quit, warning China is winning the military cyber and artificial intelligence race, and there’s no time to waste. Other experts have called for a ban on AI transfers to China.
China has built three new missile fields, totaling almost 250 new silos bringing China to virtual parity with the U.S. in ICBMs. The commander in charge of U.S. strategic nuclear forces warns Russia is on the same path and our own outdated missile capabilities need strengthening. But Democrat Elizabeth Warren and her allies in the White House are pushing for us to disarm.
China now has advanced stealth drones that can fly for 20 hours and attack submarines. They also have smaller attack drones that have been called ‘flying grenades’. Moreover, China is steadily developing the ability to attack us from space, at a time when irresponsible Democrats in the House are moving to abolish the U.S. Space Force.
North Korea has new train-launched missiles, as well new long-range cruise missiles that might have nuclear capability. Iran blocked international arms control inspectors from its nuclear sites last month. In case you don’t know, Iran is pursuing nukes and ICBMs that can hit U.S. allies and interests.
So what are our leaders doing while challenges to national security continue to mount? Our woke Pentagon just made it easier for political appointees and congressional staffers to gain access to the crown jewels, the Defense Department’s most secret programs. They will no longer be asked if they have foreign associations or have gotten themselves into debt lately. Possible treason is not the only concern. A critic inside the Pentagon said get ready for leaks to the press of highly sensitive information, because they are surely coming. Meanwhile, a defense watchdog found the military is over-reliant on foreign pharmaceutical suppliers and can’t even be bothered to figure out where its medicines are coming from.
We are not being well-served by the chuckleheads in the Pentagon and the White House. It’s time we demand better. It’s time we demand our leaders get back to basics and focus on national security like they’re supposed to. If you think all the woke stuff and chasing after parents as domestic terrorists is what’s important, all I can say is the world is a dangerous place and I hope you have a country left to be woke in. But if you have any sense, start talking to your elected representatives about the importance of national security, and don’t wait until the next election to do something. It’s your Republic. Time for you to step up and maintain it, because our current crop of leaders won’t.
10/11/21 - The Democrats’ Next Crazy Ideas in Healthcare
Democrats on Capitol Hill are busy dreaming up ways to expand government intervention in your healthcare. Before we discuss their next crazy ideas, let’s review what’s going wrong with their last crazy idea - Obamacare.
Obamacare’s failures are legion. Obamacare:
- made health insurance unaffordable for people who don’t qualify for subsidies
- caused two million people to lose their workplace coverage and small employers to drop Obamacare coverage altogether
- created the narrow networks problem where people lose access to the best doctors and hospitals
- forced doctors to perform transgender surgery against their conscience
- guaranteed premiums will continue to rise because there’s no incentive to hold down costs, and
- Obamacare did NOT eliminate medical debt problem, like they promised.
They sold Obamacare by promising families would save $2,500 a year on insurance. That never happened. In fact, Obamacare premiums continue to rise faster than inflation in spots - as much as 21 percent in Iowa, and 11.3 percent in Minnesota.
The Democrats are crowing about how they recently got 3 million more people to sign up for Obamacare, but they could only do it by offering bigger bribes using temporary COVID relief funds and pouring millions into marketing. Despite all that, enrollment is still not anywhere close to what they promised when they were selling us the Obamacare bill of goods. There might be 12 million people now signed up for Obamacare, but we were promised 24 million.
Now the Democrats want to make the bigger COVID relief subsidies permanent at a time when the government is already borrowing money like crazy. But that’s not their only crazy new idea. They also want to add a new Medicaid program in states that refused Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, and lower the eligibility age for Medicare while ladling on more benefits like dental and vision when everybody knows Medicare is already going broke.
Each one of these ideas by itself would be crazy, but the Democrats want to do all three. That’s really crazy. These people are nuts. They live in la-la land where the government can give everybody everything and the bills never come due. That’s psychotic. And they think it will all turn out better than Obamacare did. That’s really nuts. The Democrats should seek professional help. As for the rest of us, we owe it ourselves to find out what’s gone wrong with the Democrats’ last crazy idea before we fall for their next crazy ideas.
10/8/21 - Hating Columbus
Monday is Columbus Day, which is still an official national holiday despite the Left’s best attempts to cancel it. We will probably be treated to the usual attacks on his statues, as well as the man himself.
The problem for the Left is that there is not a lot of evidence from contemporaneous historical accounts to back up claims Columbus was a rapist and genocidal maniac. It is said he brought thousands of natives back to Europe as slaves, but his ships were so small this could not possibly have happened. He was accused of rape, but the letter accusing him has since been shown to be fraudulent, mentioning temples that did not exist.
Primary sources do indicate he reined in the Spaniards who were with him on several occasions when they wanted to rape and pillage. Crimes committed by Spaniards - some perpetrated decades after Columbus died - were attributed to Columbus falsely. Some incidents occurred when Columbus’ crew were fighting off cannibals.
Today, we think of the trashing of Christopher Columbus as coming from the Left and anti-colonialist Marxists, but it originated in the 19th Century with anti-Catholic and anti-Italian groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan, which was an armed wing of the Democrat Party, worked to stop Columbus Day celebrations and to smash his statues. This prejudice was real. I’m part Italian. My own grandfather was a victim of the Ku Klux Klan. He came home one night to find a burning cross in his yard.
The motivation of today’s Left goes deeper than ethnic prejudice. They trash Columbus in order to tear down the country entirely, erase its history, destroy its self-confidence, and ultimately replace it with a new culture more amenable to domination by a tiny Leftist elite. The foot-soldiers who tear down statues might not realize they are acting in the service of leaders who are only in it for wealth and power for themselves, but that’s exactly what the recruits are doing.
Ushering in a tiny Leftist elite to rule over us is the true purpose of the movement to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. The problem with that is, the people considered ‘indigenous’ were not the first people in North America. The first to arrive here were southeast Asians, according to National Geographic magazine which slants Left. So I’ll be happy to give the country back to indigenous people if they’ll agree to give it back to the southeast Asians who were here first.
The impulse to tear it all down can be traced back to a Russian revolutionary named Nechayev. His philosophy, if you can call it that, stopped with the utter destruction of everything in society. He had no idea what to do next. Today’s Left is equally irresponsible - tear it all down? Then what?
You have to reach a certain age before the importance of cultural sustainability occurs to you. If you want to tear everything down, you are playing with fire and it WILL burn your house down. While working a booth recently, I met a young woman who told me she was a socialist, but denied being a Marxist. Her starting point was anticolonialism and the view that all white people are oppressors. Her heroine was the anti-imperialist Angela Davis, whom the young woman said was not Marxist. In fact Angela Davis was a committed communist and ran for vice-president twice on the Communist Party USA ticket. I told the young woman I had read an article in a socialist magazine where the writer admitted socialists have no idea how to govern once they’re finished tearing everything down. I asked her, ‘Why would I buy a house from people who freely confess to me they have no idea how to build houses?’ She had no answer, other than to say she wasn’t talking about houses. Ye gads!
Columbus and Western Civilization, which he represents, are looking better by the day.
10/7/21 - Coral Reef Claims Fail Under Scrutiny
A new report is out showing a 14 percent decline in the world’s coral reefs due to climate change between 2008 and 2019, but there are many reasons not to take the report at face value.
The report stated there is “a strong association between a decline in coral cover and progressively rising sea temperatures associated with climate change.” However, the report also blamed overfishing, coastal development, and declining water quality for stressing coral reefs. Therefore, anyone seeking to make grandiose conclusions about climate change based on this report would be disingenuous at best and lying to you worst.
But the grandiose conclusions and policy recommendations have already started. The report itself noted many reefs could recover if immediate action is taken to stabilize emissions and fight future warming. That’s quite a claim - pass the Green New Deal and the oceans will cool down just in time for the coral to bounce back - that’s fantastic! A NOAA official said, "It is possible to turn the tide on the losses we are seeing, but doing so relies on us as a global community making more environmentally conscious decisions in our everyday lives." That claim is even more fantastical - I can save the coral if I don’t pop the top on my soda can today.
Actually, they’re talking about far bigger changes. They’re talking about completely disrupting everybody’s lives in the name of stopping climate change. The report said, “It is clear that a reduction in global emissions is necessary to deliver a positive future for coral reef ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them.” How much of a reduction? The report doesn’t say, but other climate crackpots have: Carbon emissions will have to fall to zero by the end of the century if the coral reefs are to be saved, a government scientist claimed. Zero emissions - but that’s not all. New research from the University of Leeds in the UK says every American will have to cut their energy use by 90 percent if we’re gonna save the planet from burning up. Energy use will have to fall by half, the world over. The climate crackpots also want to limit your travel, only let you have 16 gallons of gas a year, cut your food consumption by almost a third, and allow you to buy only 9 pounds of clothing annually. Sign me up!
But wait! The coral reefs aren’t disappearing, after all. The report notes coral reefs rebounded in 2019, regaining 2 percent of their cover. Moreover, the Australian Institute of Marine Science found in July this year the coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is at a record high with no serious bleaching detected. Due to regrowth, coral cover there is now higher than at several points in the 1980s, the Institute found.
Finally, China has destroyed as much as 100 square miles of coral reefs in the process of building artificial islands and military bases in the South China Sea in recent years. Where’s the outrage? Where are the environmental groups? Why aren’t they up in arms about this?
I don’t believe coral is in crisis because the people who say it is don’t act like it. If they were serious, we never would have heard the end of them complaining about China destroying miles and miles of coral. What did we hear? Nothing!
So pardon my skepticism. Coral reef advocates can’t place the blame squarely in climate change, there are other factors, they themselves admit. Climate change advocates want to completely turn your life upside down based on politicized science that remains hotly disputed. And they can’t explain why coral reefs are rebounding when, according to them, climate change keeps getting worse and worse and worse and we’re all gonna die when the planet burns up in 10 years. They’ve hyped everything, so I believe nothing. Until somebody can show me otherwise, the supposed coral crisis looks a lot like other climate hoaxes, like the disappearing polar bears that didn’t disappear and the preposterous prediction New York City was going to be completely underwater by 2019. What a bunch of bunk. Why does anybody listen to these clowns?
10/6/21 - People Pushing Back on the Authoritarian Left - We’ve Had Enough
I’ve often warned the rise of the authoritarian Left is the central challenge of our time. The authoritarian Left got in our face again this week, but people are rising up - we’re not going to take it anymore.
On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland instructed the FBI to work with local officials to investigate parents who challenge local school board policies. His memo came just five days after the National School Boards Association wrote a letter to Joe Biden asking him to marshal a wide array of federal forces against parents who speak out against the leftist takeover of the public schools. The letter in effect called parents domestic terrorists. The letter also falsely claimed schools are not teaching critical race theory, perpetuating a Big Lie the Left has been telling for weeks, now. The fact of the matter is teachers rallied in 22 cities to support CRT and a teachers union adopted a plan to spend big bucks to oppose parents trying to get CRT out of their schools.
The reaction to the Attorney General’s memo was swift and broad-based. A parent’s group said, “It is shameful that activists are weaponizing the U.S. Department of Justice against parents.... This is a coordinated attempt to intimidate dissenting voices in the debates surrounding America’s underperforming K-12 education—and it will not succeed. We will not be silenced.”
A conservative group said the Justice Department’s move is “designed to scare parents, to punish them for speaking out for their children, and to shut down First Amendment protected speech and assembly.... Of course, no teacher or public official should face the threat of violence, but by the same token, no parent should face [government] profiling and FBI investigations for standing up against the racist indoctrination of their children.”
A legal foundation said, "The Biden administration's use of the awesome power of government to investigate, stifle, and silence criticism is the hallmark of totalitarian tyranny."
Governor Ron DeSantis promised to defend the free speech rights of Florida citizens against the feds.
Radio hosts called on local law enforcement not to cooperate with the feds. The case has not been made for federal intervention; nothing has been cited that can’t be handled by local and state law enforcement officers. That’s actually a good point. It’s standard constitutional doctrine that state and local officials cannot be commandeered to enforce federal government policies. If the feds want to harass parents for their political beliefs, they should have to do it all on their own.
A civil rights veteran pointed out it’s the parents who need protection from the school boards, not the other way around. School boards have shut down public comments and cleared the room when concerned parents speak against them. Teachers unions research dissenters and put parents on enemies lists. State PTA associations disband local PTAs that aren’t on board with all the woke craziness being shoved down students’ throats.
The authoritarian Left has lost the argument on critical race theory, so now it’s resorting to intimidation and coercion. If they can make money doing it, so much the better, right? It turns out that Merrick Garland’s daughter is married to the co-founder of a firm that sells controversial data mining and social emotional learning services to public school districts. So, if you follow the money, the Attorney General just instructed the FBI to investigate parents who might pose a threat to the financial well-being of his own family. Well, well, well, the swamp is deep and wide - who knew? But it’s like Lily Tomlin says, no matter how cynical I get, it’s never enough.
10/5/21 - Fourth Project Veritas Video: Pfizer Scientists Say Natural Immunity Better
Project Veritas released a fourth undercover video in its ongoing investigation of COVID vaccines. The fourth video shows three Pfizer scientists comparing their vaccine to natural immunity and admitting natural immunity from having had COVID comes out on top.
One talked about how the COVID vaccines only work with a single protein, prompting an antibody response only to that protein. But, “When somebody is naturally immune — like they got COVID — they probably have more antibodies against the virus…When you actually get the virus, you’re going to start producing antibodies against multiple pieces of the virus…So, your antibodies are probably better at that point than the [COVID] vaccination.” Another Pfizer scientist said, “You’re protected for longer” if you have natural antibodies compared to the COVID vaccine. By the way, a new study shows more than half of the protection from the Pfizer COVID vaccine is gone after just five months. Bottom line: natural immunity is better than the vaccine and lasts longer, to boot. One Pfizer scientist gave this advice: get vaccinated only if your natural immunity starts to wane.
So why all the hoopla about vaccines and threats against unvaccinated people, and people getting fired from their jobs? It’s like I always say: follow the money. “Basically, our organization is run on COVID money now,” one of the Pfizer scientists said. Another, admitting he works for an “evil corporation”, said several companies were given a ton of taxpayer money to produce vaccines and now they’re pushing them. Effective treatments like monoclonal antibodies are being shoved to the side because the big money is in vaccines. “It comes down to profits in the end,” one of the Pfizer scientists said.
Here’s the next undercover video I’d like to see - the one where journalists admit they are playing along with the vaccine thing because Big Pharma is paying them to do it. Does that sound far-fetched to you? If so, then you’re probably unaware media outlets have taken money from all kinds of dodgy sources in recent years - sources like the Chinese Communist Party, the avowedly left-wing George Soros operation, commercial interests and, yes, even the federal government pays journalists to slant their coverage.
So here’s my question: are journalists promoting the vaccine because they believe in what they’re saying, or because they’re being paid to say it? Pfizer pays lobbyists to push the vaccine on government leaders in Australia. Are they paying journalists to push the vaccine in America? Somebody needs to dig into this.
10/4/21 - Trump Pressing State Actor Theory Against Twitter in Court
On Friday, former President Trump asked a federal judge in Florida to restore his Twitter account. Trump was banned from Twitter after the January 6th incident at the U.S. Capitol. Trump is asking for a preliminary injunction allowing him back on the platform, arguing he is likely to succeed on the merits of the case when it is heard in full.
Trump is not the only one arguing in recent months the big social media platforms are not private companies but have become, at least in some instances, state actors. As extensions of the government, they are subject to free speech requirements under the First Amendment, the argument goes. [see The Daily Skirmish for 7/7/21].
Trump’s court filing cites previous cases establishing the state actor doctrine where private defendants act in concert or in agreement with government entities to deprive people of their constitutional rights. [pp. 12-13]. So it’s a valid theory. The question is whether or not Trump can make out a case on the facts that Twitter became a state actor by banning him from its platform. Trump argues the Biden administration and Democrat members of Congress encouraged and even coerced Twitter into banning him. We’ll see if Trump can prevail when his case is tried on the facts. [pp.8-9]
Meanwhile, other allegations of social media platforms colluding with government officials to deny free speech have surfaced in recent weeks.
Twitter blocked a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop after receiving information from U.S. intelligence officials, but the Federal Election Commission found Twitter blocked the story for commercial, not political, reasons. Senator Rand Paul said YouTube censored him because it was falling in line with Anthony Fauci’s approach to COVID, an approach Rand Paul has criticized repeatedly. A watchdog group found Facebook and the CDC closely coordinated to block information about COVID. Facebook is coordinating with the White House on this subject, too. The Surgeon General also wants Big Tech to block information about COVID he doesn’t want people to see. New York’s new Governor asked Facebook to censor information she didn’t like about the new abortion law in Texas. A consortium of tech companies is using lists produced by government intelligence agencies to police posts by white supremacists, militias, and other extremist groups.
Maybe suppressing information about COVID and white supremacy sounds like a good idea to you, but we’re not getting the straight story from government officials about either one. We need other information not filtered through government about both so that we, the sovereign people, can decide for ourselves what is true and what is not. Besides, Big Tech censorship doesn’t stop with these two subjects. Investigators found that Hunter Biden asked Facebook executives to take down accounts that presented unflattering information about him. Moreover, they found collusion between the Biden family and Facebook going back for more than a decade.
There is no reason unfavorable information about Hunter Biden should be suppressed, and no reason he should be in charge of what the public can and cannot see about him. I can’t think of anything worse than Hunter Biden being placed in charge of a Ministry of Truth about Hunter Biden. This is why social media companies that filter information for the government should be treated as state actors subject to the First Amendment, not purely private entities answerable to no one but themselves and insulated by law, unlike newspapers, from all legal liability for their editorial decisions. That’s too good a deal and the state actor theory might succeed in bringing it to an end.
10/1/21 - Fighting Back Against the Left’s Insanity
Some people have had enough of the Left’s insanity and are fighting back.
It was just reported school teachers in New York who are refusing the COVID vaccine have asked the Supreme Court to block the state’s COVID mandate set to take effect today. Weekly testing is no longer good enough for the state.
New York teachers are not the only ones fighting vaccine mandates. Hospital employees in St. Louis displayed a massive sign over the interstate informing drivers the workers are being fired for refusing the jab. They might have been heroes last year for saving lives, but the goalposts have been moved and now they’re considered a menace who shouldn’t be let anywhere near patients. Florida will fine any local government in the state that makes vaccination a condition of employment. A county in Tennessee told Biden the county will not comply with his federal mandates. Dozens of bus drivers quit in Chicago rather than get jabbed. School kids in Michigan openly defied mask mandates. Healthcare workers, educators, state troopers, and others have filed suit against vaccine mandates in Massachusetts, Washington state, Virginia, New Jersey, Oregon, and the U.S. military.
Good. Now public health authorities are going to have to prove their assertions that the science supports them when traditional clinical trials have not been conducted, that natural immunity is not good enough, that no one should be exempt for religious reasons, and that forced vaccinations in light of all the adverse reactions and injuries do not violate due process. Go ahead, try to make that case, you’ll fail. People have had enough of your tyranny, and the price of maintaining your phony COVID narratives is going up. The insane leftists in charge of public policy would rather pay parents thousands of dollars for transportation costs when bus drivers quit and call in the National Guard to replace healthcare workers than allow anyone to escape their mandates. We’ll see how long you can keep this up when the facts don’t support you.
Fighting back is not limited to COVID mandates. A black woman in New York City parted company with Black Lives Matter and the other crazies who want to defund the police. She’s writing thank-you letters to every member of the New York Police Department thanking them for sticking with it through all the violent demonstrations and destruction the Left caused in the city during the riots last year.
A professor who was removed from the classroom for refusing to use race as to skew his grading curve sued UCLA for breach of contract and virtue signaling that curbed his free speech.
An angry parent in Texas, like so many others now throughout the country, stood up at a school board meeting and objected to what her kids are being taught in school. Anal sex for middle schoolers - really? If you think that’s perfectly OK, why did the school district pull the book? We call that ‘confession of error’. Angry parents in California filed suit over those notorious Aztec prayers their kids are being forced to recite. A family sued a Catholic school in Florida to get its million-dollar donation back after the school went woke, told its kids they were too white, and attempted to pass off leftist social justice drivel as Catholicism.
A med student thrown out of medical school in his fourth year for opposing abortion is suing the University of Louisville for discrimination and retaliation.
Finally, hats off to the pro-life movement. They never quit after Roe v. Wade and they are endlessly inventive. They got 60 pro-life laws passed in the states this year. Others on the Right could learn a lot from them.
So, to all you Leftists out there, especially in government, if you want to see us copying you by bragging about how we’ve become the “resistance” and “ungovernable”, you just keep it up. You can push us around, but there’s a price to pay. Hope you’re ready to pay it. Your ideas stink and you’re screwing up the country. We’re Americans and we’re not going to stand for it. You can count on us to bloody your nose. You’re going to have to bleed for every inch - figuratively speaking, of course.
Monday is Columbus Day, which is still an official national holiday despite the Left’s best attempts to cancel it. We will probably be treated to the usual attacks on his statues, as well as the man himself.
The problem for the Left is that there is not a lot of evidence from contemporaneous historical accounts to back up claims Columbus was a rapist and genocidal maniac. It is said he brought thousands of natives back to Europe as slaves, but his ships were so small this could not possibly have happened. He was accused of rape, but the letter accusing him has since been shown to be fraudulent, mentioning temples that did not exist.
Primary sources do indicate he reined in the Spaniards who were with him on several occasions when they wanted to rape and pillage. Crimes committed by Spaniards - some perpetrated decades after Columbus died - were attributed to Columbus falsely. Some incidents occurred when Columbus’ crew were fighting off cannibals.
Today, we think of the trashing of Christopher Columbus as coming from the Left and anti-colonialist Marxists, but it originated in the 19th Century with anti-Catholic and anti-Italian groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan, which was an armed wing of the Democrat Party, worked to stop Columbus Day celebrations and to smash his statues. This prejudice was real. I’m part Italian. My own grandfather was a victim of the Ku Klux Klan. He came home one night to find a burning cross in his yard.
The motivation of today’s Left goes deeper than ethnic prejudice. They trash Columbus in order to tear down the country entirely, erase its history, destroy its self-confidence, and ultimately replace it with a new culture more amenable to domination by a tiny Leftist elite. The foot-soldiers who tear down statues might not realize they are acting in the service of leaders who are only in it for wealth and power for themselves, but that’s exactly what the recruits are doing.
Ushering in a tiny Leftist elite to rule over us is the true purpose of the movement to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. The problem with that is, the people considered ‘indigenous’ were not the first people in North America. The first to arrive here were southeast Asians, according to National Geographic magazine which slants Left. So I’ll be happy to give the country back to indigenous people if they’ll agree to give it back to the southeast Asians who were here first.
The impulse to tear it all down can be traced back to a Russian revolutionary named Nechayev. His philosophy, if you can call it that, stopped with the utter destruction of everything in society. He had no idea what to do next. Today’s Left is equally irresponsible - tear it all down? Then what?
You have to reach a certain age before the importance of cultural sustainability occurs to you. If you want to tear everything down, you are playing with fire and it WILL burn your house down. While working a booth recently, I met a young woman who told me she was a socialist, but denied being a Marxist. Her starting point was anticolonialism and the view that all white people are oppressors. Her heroine was the anti-imperialist Angela Davis, whom the young woman said was not Marxist. In fact Angela Davis was a committed communist and ran for vice-president twice on the Communist Party USA ticket. I told the young woman I had read an article in a socialist magazine where the writer admitted socialists have no idea how to govern once they’re finished tearing everything down. I asked her, ‘Why would I buy a house from people who freely confess to me they have no idea how to build houses?’ She had no answer, other than to say she wasn’t talking about houses. Ye gads!
Columbus and Western Civilization, which he represents, are looking better by the day.
10/7/21 - Coral Reef Claims Fail Under Scrutiny
A new report is out showing a 14 percent decline in the world’s coral reefs due to climate change between 2008 and 2019, but there are many reasons not to take the report at face value.
The report stated there is “a strong association between a decline in coral cover and progressively rising sea temperatures associated with climate change.” However, the report also blamed overfishing, coastal development, and declining water quality for stressing coral reefs. Therefore, anyone seeking to make grandiose conclusions about climate change based on this report would be disingenuous at best and lying to you worst.
But the grandiose conclusions and policy recommendations have already started. The report itself noted many reefs could recover if immediate action is taken to stabilize emissions and fight future warming. That’s quite a claim - pass the Green New Deal and the oceans will cool down just in time for the coral to bounce back - that’s fantastic! A NOAA official said, "It is possible to turn the tide on the losses we are seeing, but doing so relies on us as a global community making more environmentally conscious decisions in our everyday lives." That claim is even more fantastical - I can save the coral if I don’t pop the top on my soda can today.
Actually, they’re talking about far bigger changes. They’re talking about completely disrupting everybody’s lives in the name of stopping climate change. The report said, “It is clear that a reduction in global emissions is necessary to deliver a positive future for coral reef ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them.” How much of a reduction? The report doesn’t say, but other climate crackpots have: Carbon emissions will have to fall to zero by the end of the century if the coral reefs are to be saved, a government scientist claimed. Zero emissions - but that’s not all. New research from the University of Leeds in the UK says every American will have to cut their energy use by 90 percent if we’re gonna save the planet from burning up. Energy use will have to fall by half, the world over. The climate crackpots also want to limit your travel, only let you have 16 gallons of gas a year, cut your food consumption by almost a third, and allow you to buy only 9 pounds of clothing annually. Sign me up!
But wait! The coral reefs aren’t disappearing, after all. The report notes coral reefs rebounded in 2019, regaining 2 percent of their cover. Moreover, the Australian Institute of Marine Science found in July this year the coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is at a record high with no serious bleaching detected. Due to regrowth, coral cover there is now higher than at several points in the 1980s, the Institute found.
Finally, China has destroyed as much as 100 square miles of coral reefs in the process of building artificial islands and military bases in the South China Sea in recent years. Where’s the outrage? Where are the environmental groups? Why aren’t they up in arms about this?
I don’t believe coral is in crisis because the people who say it is don’t act like it. If they were serious, we never would have heard the end of them complaining about China destroying miles and miles of coral. What did we hear? Nothing!
So pardon my skepticism. Coral reef advocates can’t place the blame squarely in climate change, there are other factors, they themselves admit. Climate change advocates want to completely turn your life upside down based on politicized science that remains hotly disputed. And they can’t explain why coral reefs are rebounding when, according to them, climate change keeps getting worse and worse and worse and we’re all gonna die when the planet burns up in 10 years. They’ve hyped everything, so I believe nothing. Until somebody can show me otherwise, the supposed coral crisis looks a lot like other climate hoaxes, like the disappearing polar bears that didn’t disappear and the preposterous prediction New York City was going to be completely underwater by 2019. What a bunch of bunk. Why does anybody listen to these clowns?
10/6/21 - People Pushing Back on the Authoritarian Left - We’ve Had Enough
I’ve often warned the rise of the authoritarian Left is the central challenge of our time. The authoritarian Left got in our face again this week, but people are rising up - we’re not going to take it anymore.
On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland instructed the FBI to work with local officials to investigate parents who challenge local school board policies. His memo came just five days after the National School Boards Association wrote a letter to Joe Biden asking him to marshal a wide array of federal forces against parents who speak out against the leftist takeover of the public schools. The letter in effect called parents domestic terrorists. The letter also falsely claimed schools are not teaching critical race theory, perpetuating a Big Lie the Left has been telling for weeks, now. The fact of the matter is teachers rallied in 22 cities to support CRT and a teachers union adopted a plan to spend big bucks to oppose parents trying to get CRT out of their schools.
The reaction to the Attorney General’s memo was swift and broad-based. A parent’s group said, “It is shameful that activists are weaponizing the U.S. Department of Justice against parents.... This is a coordinated attempt to intimidate dissenting voices in the debates surrounding America’s underperforming K-12 education—and it will not succeed. We will not be silenced.”
A conservative group said the Justice Department’s move is “designed to scare parents, to punish them for speaking out for their children, and to shut down First Amendment protected speech and assembly.... Of course, no teacher or public official should face the threat of violence, but by the same token, no parent should face [government] profiling and FBI investigations for standing up against the racist indoctrination of their children.”
A legal foundation said, "The Biden administration's use of the awesome power of government to investigate, stifle, and silence criticism is the hallmark of totalitarian tyranny."
Governor Ron DeSantis promised to defend the free speech rights of Florida citizens against the feds.
Radio hosts called on local law enforcement not to cooperate with the feds. The case has not been made for federal intervention; nothing has been cited that can’t be handled by local and state law enforcement officers. That’s actually a good point. It’s standard constitutional doctrine that state and local officials cannot be commandeered to enforce federal government policies. If the feds want to harass parents for their political beliefs, they should have to do it all on their own.
A civil rights veteran pointed out it’s the parents who need protection from the school boards, not the other way around. School boards have shut down public comments and cleared the room when concerned parents speak against them. Teachers unions research dissenters and put parents on enemies lists. State PTA associations disband local PTAs that aren’t on board with all the woke craziness being shoved down students’ throats.
The authoritarian Left has lost the argument on critical race theory, so now it’s resorting to intimidation and coercion. If they can make money doing it, so much the better, right? It turns out that Merrick Garland’s daughter is married to the co-founder of a firm that sells controversial data mining and social emotional learning services to public school districts. So, if you follow the money, the Attorney General just instructed the FBI to investigate parents who might pose a threat to the financial well-being of his own family. Well, well, well, the swamp is deep and wide - who knew? But it’s like Lily Tomlin says, no matter how cynical I get, it’s never enough.
10/5/21 - Fourth Project Veritas Video: Pfizer Scientists Say Natural Immunity Better
Project Veritas released a fourth undercover video in its ongoing investigation of COVID vaccines. The fourth video shows three Pfizer scientists comparing their vaccine to natural immunity and admitting natural immunity from having had COVID comes out on top.
One talked about how the COVID vaccines only work with a single protein, prompting an antibody response only to that protein. But, “When somebody is naturally immune — like they got COVID — they probably have more antibodies against the virus…When you actually get the virus, you’re going to start producing antibodies against multiple pieces of the virus…So, your antibodies are probably better at that point than the [COVID] vaccination.” Another Pfizer scientist said, “You’re protected for longer” if you have natural antibodies compared to the COVID vaccine. By the way, a new study shows more than half of the protection from the Pfizer COVID vaccine is gone after just five months. Bottom line: natural immunity is better than the vaccine and lasts longer, to boot. One Pfizer scientist gave this advice: get vaccinated only if your natural immunity starts to wane.
So why all the hoopla about vaccines and threats against unvaccinated people, and people getting fired from their jobs? It’s like I always say: follow the money. “Basically, our organization is run on COVID money now,” one of the Pfizer scientists said. Another, admitting he works for an “evil corporation”, said several companies were given a ton of taxpayer money to produce vaccines and now they’re pushing them. Effective treatments like monoclonal antibodies are being shoved to the side because the big money is in vaccines. “It comes down to profits in the end,” one of the Pfizer scientists said.
Here’s the next undercover video I’d like to see - the one where journalists admit they are playing along with the vaccine thing because Big Pharma is paying them to do it. Does that sound far-fetched to you? If so, then you’re probably unaware media outlets have taken money from all kinds of dodgy sources in recent years - sources like the Chinese Communist Party, the avowedly left-wing George Soros operation, commercial interests and, yes, even the federal government pays journalists to slant their coverage.
So here’s my question: are journalists promoting the vaccine because they believe in what they’re saying, or because they’re being paid to say it? Pfizer pays lobbyists to push the vaccine on government leaders in Australia. Are they paying journalists to push the vaccine in America? Somebody needs to dig into this.
10/4/21 - Trump Pressing State Actor Theory Against Twitter in Court
On Friday, former President Trump asked a federal judge in Florida to restore his Twitter account. Trump was banned from Twitter after the January 6th incident at the U.S. Capitol. Trump is asking for a preliminary injunction allowing him back on the platform, arguing he is likely to succeed on the merits of the case when it is heard in full.
Trump is not the only one arguing in recent months the big social media platforms are not private companies but have become, at least in some instances, state actors. As extensions of the government, they are subject to free speech requirements under the First Amendment, the argument goes. [see The Daily Skirmish for 7/7/21].
Trump’s court filing cites previous cases establishing the state actor doctrine where private defendants act in concert or in agreement with government entities to deprive people of their constitutional rights. [pp. 12-13]. So it’s a valid theory. The question is whether or not Trump can make out a case on the facts that Twitter became a state actor by banning him from its platform. Trump argues the Biden administration and Democrat members of Congress encouraged and even coerced Twitter into banning him. We’ll see if Trump can prevail when his case is tried on the facts. [pp.8-9]
Meanwhile, other allegations of social media platforms colluding with government officials to deny free speech have surfaced in recent weeks.
Twitter blocked a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop after receiving information from U.S. intelligence officials, but the Federal Election Commission found Twitter blocked the story for commercial, not political, reasons. Senator Rand Paul said YouTube censored him because it was falling in line with Anthony Fauci’s approach to COVID, an approach Rand Paul has criticized repeatedly. A watchdog group found Facebook and the CDC closely coordinated to block information about COVID. Facebook is coordinating with the White House on this subject, too. The Surgeon General also wants Big Tech to block information about COVID he doesn’t want people to see. New York’s new Governor asked Facebook to censor information she didn’t like about the new abortion law in Texas. A consortium of tech companies is using lists produced by government intelligence agencies to police posts by white supremacists, militias, and other extremist groups.
Maybe suppressing information about COVID and white supremacy sounds like a good idea to you, but we’re not getting the straight story from government officials about either one. We need other information not filtered through government about both so that we, the sovereign people, can decide for ourselves what is true and what is not. Besides, Big Tech censorship doesn’t stop with these two subjects. Investigators found that Hunter Biden asked Facebook executives to take down accounts that presented unflattering information about him. Moreover, they found collusion between the Biden family and Facebook going back for more than a decade.
There is no reason unfavorable information about Hunter Biden should be suppressed, and no reason he should be in charge of what the public can and cannot see about him. I can’t think of anything worse than Hunter Biden being placed in charge of a Ministry of Truth about Hunter Biden. This is why social media companies that filter information for the government should be treated as state actors subject to the First Amendment, not purely private entities answerable to no one but themselves and insulated by law, unlike newspapers, from all legal liability for their editorial decisions. That’s too good a deal and the state actor theory might succeed in bringing it to an end.
10/1/21 - Fighting Back Against the Left’s Insanity
Some people have had enough of the Left’s insanity and are fighting back.
It was just reported school teachers in New York who are refusing the COVID vaccine have asked the Supreme Court to block the state’s COVID mandate set to take effect today. Weekly testing is no longer good enough for the state.
New York teachers are not the only ones fighting vaccine mandates. Hospital employees in St. Louis displayed a massive sign over the interstate informing drivers the workers are being fired for refusing the jab. They might have been heroes last year for saving lives, but the goalposts have been moved and now they’re considered a menace who shouldn’t be let anywhere near patients. Florida will fine any local government in the state that makes vaccination a condition of employment. A county in Tennessee told Biden the county will not comply with his federal mandates. Dozens of bus drivers quit in Chicago rather than get jabbed. School kids in Michigan openly defied mask mandates. Healthcare workers, educators, state troopers, and others have filed suit against vaccine mandates in Massachusetts, Washington state, Virginia, New Jersey, Oregon, and the U.S. military.
Good. Now public health authorities are going to have to prove their assertions that the science supports them when traditional clinical trials have not been conducted, that natural immunity is not good enough, that no one should be exempt for religious reasons, and that forced vaccinations in light of all the adverse reactions and injuries do not violate due process. Go ahead, try to make that case, you’ll fail. People have had enough of your tyranny, and the price of maintaining your phony COVID narratives is going up. The insane leftists in charge of public policy would rather pay parents thousands of dollars for transportation costs when bus drivers quit and call in the National Guard to replace healthcare workers than allow anyone to escape their mandates. We’ll see how long you can keep this up when the facts don’t support you.
Fighting back is not limited to COVID mandates. A black woman in New York City parted company with Black Lives Matter and the other crazies who want to defund the police. She’s writing thank-you letters to every member of the New York Police Department thanking them for sticking with it through all the violent demonstrations and destruction the Left caused in the city during the riots last year.
A professor who was removed from the classroom for refusing to use race as to skew his grading curve sued UCLA for breach of contract and virtue signaling that curbed his free speech.
An angry parent in Texas, like so many others now throughout the country, stood up at a school board meeting and objected to what her kids are being taught in school. Anal sex for middle schoolers - really? If you think that’s perfectly OK, why did the school district pull the book? We call that ‘confession of error’. Angry parents in California filed suit over those notorious Aztec prayers their kids are being forced to recite. A family sued a Catholic school in Florida to get its million-dollar donation back after the school went woke, told its kids they were too white, and attempted to pass off leftist social justice drivel as Catholicism.
A med student thrown out of medical school in his fourth year for opposing abortion is suing the University of Louisville for discrimination and retaliation.
Finally, hats off to the pro-life movement. They never quit after Roe v. Wade and they are endlessly inventive. They got 60 pro-life laws passed in the states this year. Others on the Right could learn a lot from them.
So, to all you Leftists out there, especially in government, if you want to see us copying you by bragging about how we’ve become the “resistance” and “ungovernable”, you just keep it up. You can push us around, but there’s a price to pay. Hope you’re ready to pay it. Your ideas stink and you’re screwing up the country. We’re Americans and we’re not going to stand for it. You can count on us to bloody your nose. You’re going to have to bleed for every inch - figuratively speaking, of course.
9/30/21 - Trustees Again Warn Social Security and Medicare Are in Trouble
The Democrats want to add trillions in new spending and expand Medicare, but Americans should know our existing social insurance programs are in deep trouble.
The latest Trustee reports show Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits a year earlier than previously projected and Medicare insolvency is only five years away. These projections are under mid-range assumptions. Things could be better or they could be worse.
The Trustees are appointed by the federal government to assess the health of these programs. They estimate Medicare will be insolvent in 2026 and Social Security will follow in 2033. Costs are rising faster than revenues, revenues being payroll taxes, individual premiums, and interest on the so-called trust funds. Insolvency isn’t the same as bankruptcy. You can operate at a loss for a while before going bankrupt.
A senator said Social Security benefits will have to go down 25 percent when the program becomes insolvent. Another observer said the choice for Social Security is either a 21 percent benefit cut or a 27 percent tax hike. The longer the country waits to deal with the problem, the harder it becomes to fix, the Trustees said again, as they always do.
Highlights from the Trustees 2021 Medicare Report indicate expenditures for the Hospital Insurance (HI) portion of Medicare exceeded total income in 2020 and the program is under-financed for the next 10 years. The Trustees expect a small surplus in 2022 but deficits thereafter until the so-called ‘trust funds’ are depleted in 2026.
It’s important to point out there are no real Social Security or Medicare trust funds. People think the money was set aside, but the money was spent long ago. There’s nothing in the trust fund accounts but government IOUs. The upshot is these are essentially pay-as-you go programs.
We get similar warnings from the Trustees every year, but the warnings never seem to make any difference in people’s lives or get Congress to do anything about the problem. That’s because it doesn’t hurt bad enough yet. I attended every meeting of the Kerrey-Danforth Entitlement Commission in the ‘90s. The programs were in trouble even then. The wisest thing that was said was ‘ain’t nothing gonna happen until there’s a crisis.’ In other words, we will not summon the political will to fix anything until then. Here it is almost 30 years later, and the observation is still true.
There’s no shortage of proposed fixes, starting with raising the retirement age. When Social Security was instituted, people lived an average 61 years. Life expectancy has increased 17 years since then, making the program unsustainable on the face of things. Another reform proposal is to give people the option to put a portion of their payroll taxes into a private account. Research shows private accounts would generate higher retirement payouts, despite the ups and downs of the market.
Medicare is the bigger problem and there aren’t any easy fixes. But two things are certain: a crisis will be upon us in five years if nothing is done, and the Democrats’ current proposals to lower the eligibility age and expand Medicare benefits will only make things worse. Those proposals are completely reckless and should not even be considered until problems with the existing programs are fixed.
More here:
- Trustees 2021 Social Security Report
- Trustees 2021 Medicare Report
9/29/21 - Parents, Get the Hell Out of My Way
The vengefulness of the authoritarian Left was on full display at the gubernatorial debate last night in Virginia. Democrat candidate and former Governor Terry McAuliffe actually said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” He elaborated, “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions.” So if the school wants to shove pornographic novels and Marxist critical race theory down kids’ throats, that’s perfectly OK with Terry McAuliffe and his authoritarian chums.
I guess that means if teachers want to fly the Antifa flag in their classrooms, have kids pledge allegiance to the rainbow flag, and recite Aztec prayers, it’s all good and parents should have nothing to say about it. Heaven forbid, parents should make their own decisions about what’s best for their children or try to protect them from corrosive influences. We can’t have that, if we’re going to succeed in turning kids into good little Leftist robots unable to think for themselves and totally dependent on government. If you object to this, the authoritarian Left will sic the teachers unions on you, do research on you, and put you on an enemies list. If you get candidates elected to your local PTA that oppose the craziness, the authoritarian Left will get the state PTA to swoop in and disband you.
McAuliffe’s comment puts it all out on the table, doesn’t it? To the authoritarian Left, your children are state property and you have no parental rights. And don’t try to argue parents fund the public schools through their tax dollars and should have some say in how those dollars are spent. To the authoritarian Left, not only are your children not your children, your money is not your money. Your money belongs to the authoritarian Left. If you like this line of thinking, I hope you’re ready for what’s coming next - regular visits from government child welfare agents who will rummage through your house and your life and determine whether you are doing a good enough job raising your children to be allowed to keep them. Sound far-fetched? It’s already underway in Scotland where the authoritarian Left is in control.
Let’s see how else the authoritarian Left is torturing people lately, in their quest for absolute power. The Biden administration issued a mandate forcing doctors to perform transgender surgery against their conscience. Another Biden rule forces doctors to perform abortions against their will. A med student in Kentucky got kicked out of his school for opposing abortion. The authoritarian Left wants to deny insurance coverage to people who won’t get the COVID vaccine. Colorado is forcing a website designer to create websites carrying messages about marriage that violate her religious beliefs. This is called compelled speech and it’s unconstitutional. City officials in California conspired with left-wing agitators to deny venues to members of Congress who wanted to hold rallies, showing another way the authoritarian Left has become the enemy of free speech. Here’s a third way: a New York Times reporter said Trump supporters should be labeled “enemies of the state” and handled as “national security threats”. A U.S. soldier talked about shooting American citizens if they disobey orders under martial law.
These people are sick and getting sicker. Psychologists are finally waking up to the pathology of the authoritarian Left. A recent study found that authoritarians on the Left are no different than authoritarians of other stripes when it comes to their “preference for social uniformity, prejudice towards different others, willingness to wield group authority to coerce behavior, cognitive rigidity, aggression and punitiveness towards perceived enemies, outsized concern for hierarchy, and moral absolutism.”
So here’s my question for all you every day Democrats out there: Why would you support these crazies? Why would you support a tiny group of people who are trying to take over absolutely everything and tell everybody what to do? Why would you do anything that grows the authoritarian Left’s megalomaniacal desires for power when you know they will come for you first? If you grow the government, you shrink the citizen and you mushy middle Democrats will not be spared. The authoritarian Left wants your votes, your money, and your support to shrink the citizen until there’s nothing left but total robotic obedience to the whims of a tiny elite. Think about that the next time you pull out your checkbook to support a Terry McAuliffe who wants a chokehold on your kids, and other authoritarian Progressives in the Democrat Party who are just like him.
9/28/21 - Third Project Veritas Video: J&J Workers Say ‘Don’t Buy Our Vaccine’
Project Veritas released a third video exposing the problems with COVID vaccines and the official narratives coming out of Washington on the subject.
Two Johnson & Johnson employees were caught on tape trashing the vaccine their company makes and saying they would never get it and others should not, either. One said he got the Moderna. The other was worried about the blood clots reported with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. One said babies who don’t go outside don’t need to be vaccinated and the other said kids in general should not be vaccinated.
They said some people are getting the vaccine because of the pressure that is being applied, not for their health. The unvaccinated are being turned into second-class citizens, they said, with some being threatened with the loss of their jobs and others under restrictions on what businesses they can visit and where they can travel. It’s all about politics and money, the employees said, not public health. They were also clear that the media is not to be trusted on this subject.
They discussed the fact there may be unknown long-term repercussions from these vaccines. It’s too soon for longitudinal studies - no one knows what will happen to the vaccinated 30 years from now from what is more accurately called gene therapy. As one employee put it, “There’s nobody who’s thirty years in, who said, ‘Hey, I had the vaccine and I don’t have a third eye ball.’”
Their views are reinforced by unfavorable news stories about the vaccines now appearing on a daily basis.
A doctor warned vaccinated people have a higher level of virus and now pose a risk to the unvaccinated. Whistleblowers at an assisted living facility said residents are being tricked into getting the vaccine by being drugged or being told it’s just a flu shot. They also said signatures on required forms are being forged. The CDC claims the vaccines are 90-95 percent effective, but published a study showing 74 percent of fully vaccinated people studied in Massachusetts tested positive for COVID. Joe Biden said his vaccine mandates are under the authority granted to OSHA but, it turns out, OSHA has yet to start a rule-making process on the subject. Jen Psaki said the Biden administration is very happy employers are moving ahead with their own mandates without waiting for Washington. Trickery and sleight-of-hand, forged signatures, breakthrough cases - the wheels are falling off the official fairy tales we ae being fed about these vaccines. And they still won’t talk about the deaths and other adverse reactions we know are coming from the vaccines.
If authorities knew what they were doing, maybe their tyranny and shenanigans could be justified, but they don’t what they’re doing. Joe Biden just moved the goal posts again. They used to talk about herd immunity being established when 60 percent of the populations is exposed or vaccinated. Then Fauci started talking about 85 percent. Biden just said 97-98 percent of the country needs to be vaccinated before things can get back to normal. Where’d he get that number from? He didn’t get it from Fauci. So is Joe following the science or his own lust for power? I don’t know and I don’t care. All I know is they can’t keep their stories straight and there’s no reason to trust them, not when - as the Johnson & Johnson employees said on video - it’s all about politics and money, not public health. Some people are benefitting from the status quo. We’re starting to get a clearer picture of why ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ has turned into an all-consuming preoccupation that will never end, until we put a stop to it.
9/27/21 - They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
I believe the longer minority students sit in their seats, the whiter they get.
I believe the more men give birth, the more manly they become.
I believe there’s a racist behind every bush and we need an inquisition to root them all out. People should be hauled before Congress and asked, “Are you now or have you ever been a racist?”
I believe heterosexuality is a tragedy, a real tragedy, and somebody should have told my parents that.
I believe 8-year-olds should be able to choose their gender and get drugs from rich psychiatrists without their parents knowing. If parents object, I believe judges should terminate their parental rights. Who needs parents and families anyway? What a stupid old idea. Everybody knows it takes a village to raise a child and change their gender.
I believe we only have 12 years left before the planet turns into a cinder and we all burn up from climate change. Oh wait, two years are gone already, so we only have 10 years left. Better start using those old gift cards now. Time is running out.
I believe we should all have as small a carbon footprint as we possibly can, except when we’re rioting and looting and burning cities to the ground. Then the bigger the footprint, the better.
I believe healthcare is a basic human right unless, of course, you’re not vaccinated for COVID, then you shouldn’t get any healthcare at all, even if you’re bleeding out right in front of me. That’s what I believe.
I believe we shouldn’t have borders because we shouldn’t have countries or nation-states in the first place. I say we save the whole planet and let everybody in, all 7 billion of them. We’re all global citizens now. How do I know? Because my local school board told me so. None of them are parents, but they’re experts - they know what’s best for everybody, especially children, that’s what I believe.
I believe there are no facts and there is no truth. Even if that last statement can’t possibly be true if there is no truth. ... I’m getting confused. No matter. I believe if somebody jumps off a 30-storey building and goes splat on the sidewalk below, they didn’t really go splat, it was just a matter of perception. That may sound like post-modern gibberish to some, but it’s still rock-n-roll to me.
I believe there is no bias in the media, even if they themselves have told me four dozen times they are biased. I believe everything should be evidence-based, except when I don’t like the evidence, or I need to lie to make my point. Especially when I need to lie to make my point. That happens a lot. But that’s OK, because we’re good people and you’re not.
I believe Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ has got to go! We need to stop dating our years from the birth of Christ. You think it’s the year 2021? No way! It’s 104 USSR, 104 years since the birth of the first communist state. Let’s get our priorities straight here, OK? While we’re on this subject, why are we still using Monday through Sunday for the days of the week? Those names were invented by dead white Europeans because of their stupid religion. I believe all religion is stupid, especially yours. We should toss those names out because all old ideas are stupid. We need living, breathing ideas. We need to make 57-day weeks, and give the days new names to honor each one of the 57 genders. I believe corporations will give me millions of dollars to promote this idea and, given what they’re funding lately, who’s to say I’m wrong?
I believe everything you say is wrong. And because you’re wrong, you have no right to say it. So shut up and listen to me. I’m not finished!
I believe I belong to a small group of people who have secret knowledge that will bring about heaven on earth. Only we know how to do this because we’re special. Everyone else is deplorable. It’s our secret and we’re not gonna tell you, because you wouldn’t understand it. We know how you should live your life better than you do. We know how to spend your money better than you do. It’s not your money anyway, it’s ours, because YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT, we did. If you can’t see that, you’re stupid, and we’ll just force you to do what we say. You hear me? We’ll FORCE you. So, get used to it, you stupid ninnies, because we’re taking over soon, whether you like it or not. We’re taking over absolutely everything. We’re creating a paradise for you, right in your front yard, and we will use any means to get there, even if we have to steal elections to do it. It’s for your own good, after all. Why can’t you see that? It’s as plain as the nose on your face.
Hmm... I hear sirens in the distance. Wait, somebody’s knocking on my door. They’re wearing white coats. See you next time. What am I saying? Time? What is this ‘time’? I’m getting confused again. Up is down and down is up. Do you think they’ll give me a padded cell this time?
9/24/21 - China Buying Swamp Creatures
Joe Biden is meeting with Australia, Japan, and India today to see what can be done about the inroads China is making in the Asia Pacific region. Maybe he should worry about the inroads China is making in Washington.
Former senator and U.S. ambassador to China Max Baucus has become a talking head on Chinese propaganda outlets where he criticizes the U.S. rhetoric on China as something out of the McCarthy era or Nazi Germany. Baucus has a consulting firm with Chinese business clients and board ties to Chinese companies. I guess he knows where his rice bowl is buttered.
Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to Poland took $1,000 for making a speech from an advisory group for communist China’s ruling Central Committee. Critics wonder how effective he will be in coaxing European allies not to be drawn further into the Chinese orbit. He is on record praising China for trying to change the international order and for railing against people whom he says are “demonizing” China. Oh, and he also has a consulting firm with regular business in China where, his website says, he is frequently welcomed as a featured speaker. Other Biden ambassadorial picks also have ties to China.
A Biden EPA official is on leave from his employer, a Chinese-controlled university in Hong Kong. Observers worry the fact he didn’t resign signals he intends to return to the university after he leaves the EPA. They also worry his science policy work will be skewed as the Biden administration works to advance climate change solutions that benefit China.
Progressive Democrat state and local elected officials have been collaborating extensively with a Chinese propaganda ministry set up to “neutralize opposition” to China and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.” The officials have taken trips to China paid for by the People’s Liberation Army. China has targeted them because they are considered future swamp creatures, i.e., rising stars in the Democrat Party.
A former Treasury Department official is now a lobbyist for a Chinese surveillance firm on the Pentagon’s blacklist of companies owned or controlled by the Chinese military.
Starting to get the picture? You might recall a video from some months ago showing a Chinese professor bragging about how U.S. elites have teamed up with China to take control of America.
Thomas Friedman and others admire communist China and say we should become more like them. If that means authoritarian rule, genocide, and walling off the Internet from the world, no thanks. The screechings of Washington swamp creatures who are in China’s back pocket need not be taken seriously. As I say so often, follow the money.
9/23/21 - COVID Vaccine Blitzkrieg (New Project Veritas Video)
Today, it was reported the Biden administration strongly opposes a bill in the House that would require honorable discharges for departing military personnel who refuse to get the COVID vaccine. Preventing honorable discharges is not the only way this administration seeks to punish people who won’t willingly lie down in front of Panzer tanks.
Project Veritas just released another video, this one showing an FDA employee calling for forced COVID vaccinations and a registry for all unvaccinated Americans. In the video, he talks about how authorities should use drones and shoot darts filled with vaccine at black people and others who refuse to get it. “l don’t care about your bodily autonomy,” the employee says. But black people don’t have to worry just yet. The employee wants to go for white people first, starting with video campaigns, so the feds can’t be accused of racism.
That’s not the half of it. He also wants federal Stormtroopers to go around sticking needles in people’s arms who won’t comply. “I’m gonna go door-to-door and stab everyone,” he says. Ah, but how to find them? “[T]here needs to be a registry of people who aren’t vaccinated. – Although that’s sounding very Germany” by which he meant Nazi Germany. So here we have a Biden administration employee who knows exactly where his ideas are coming from, including the use of state-sponsored propaganda to steamroll people and the singling out of a particular minority for a ‘final solution’.
The Biden administration is very far down the rabbit hole with this vaccine business, but the facts don’t support its forced mandates, wrong-headed beliefs, and phony narratives on the subject.
States with some of the highest vaccination rates - Maine, New York, and Vermont - had the highest increase rates in COVID cases last week, according to Johns Hopkins data. That’s not supposed to happen, but the same thing is happening in Israel and the U.K. Public health authorities know there’s something wrong with the vaccine picture, because they are moving the goalposts on what constitutes herd immunity. They used to say 60 percent, but now Fauci talks about 85 percent. These people are supposed to know what they’re doing. Apparently, they don’t and make things up when things don’t go their way.
Meanwhile, the CDC is playing games with the numbers. They count people who get COVID after getting the vaccine as unvaccinated unless 14 days have passed since receiving the first injection. This allows them to overstate the number of unvaccinated people who show up at the hospital and claim the persistence of the pandemic is all the unvaccinated’s fault. It also allows them to hide the number of people who are dying from the vaccine. If they die before the 14-day mark, they are counted as unvaccinated. That level of propaganda would make Goebbels proud.
Joe Biden told OSHA to hide information on adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. In addition, based on numerous interviews, a media outlet concluded the medical community is colluding with the federal government to tell people with neurological adverse reactions to the vaccines - like headaches, tremors, and brain fog - they are just having anxiety or panic attacks. Some patients who complain are even being put into psych wards. Medical licensing boards and regulatory agencies are telling doctors not to talk about adverse reactions to vaccines or they could lose their medical license. That’s one way to enforce a phony narrative.
I’ve often said the rise of the authoritarian Left is the central challenge of our time, and we’re seeing it play out in COVID vaccines. How bad’s it going to get, folks, and how much are you going to put up with before you tell the goose-stepping jack-booted thugs in the Biden administration to shove it.
9/22/21 - Woke Pentagon: Get Thee In Front of Me, Satan
The U.S. Army used a PowerPoint slide listing the seven tenets of Satanism to justify Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for the U.S. military. The Army confirmed the slide was real but said it wasn’t approved by Army leadership. The explanation is as bizarre as the slide itself. Satanism? Wow, the Pentagon has truly lost its way. The tenets sound really sweet - “act with compassion and empathy toward all” - but the Tibetans have a proverb: Beware of honey offered on a sharp knife.
A lieutenant colonel recently resigned from the Army in part over the vaccine mandate but also to protest what he calls “an ideologically Marxist takeover of the military and United States government at their upper echelons.” He said he is joining “those who have served before me in pledging my Life, my Fortune, and my Sacred Honor to continue resisting the eternal and ever-mutable forms of oppression and tyranny.” He forfeited his pension. Talk about pledging your fortune, and putting your money where your mouth is, wow.
He follows in the footsteps of former Space Force commander Matt Lohmeier who was stripped of his command, kicked out of the military, and denied his pension for writing a book exposing the Pentagon’s wokeness. The book documents what is in the military’s new indoctrination program:
Speaking of the service academies, the Biden administration has moved to purge and reconstitute their congressionally chartered advisory boards along ideological lines. Those overseeing the education of our future military officers must agree with Xi Jinping, oops, Joe Biden Thought. All of this is prelude to the complete politicization of the military, which was once respected for its nonpartisan professionalism.
Back to Mark Milley for a moment. Everybody’s heard of the traitor Benedict Arnold. But do you remember what he did? He entered into secret negotiations with the British and agreed to turn over the U.S. post at West Point in return for money and a command in the British army. That sounds a lot like Milley’s secret phone calls to the Chinese assuring them he would give them advance notice if the supposedly crazy Donald Trump ordered an attack on them. Lots of people have called Milley’s calls an act of treason, but what else would you expect from the leader of a Pentagon that has gone woke and believes that the America it is charged with defending is a horrible, rotten place that needs to be completely ripped apart and fundamentally transformed. Milley presided over the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, a complete disaster leaving Americans behind, which many have called no accident. Somebody should be undertaking an in-depth examination of Mark Milley and his strange beliefs before they get us into more trouble. Get thee behind me, Mark Milley.
9/21/21 - Project Veritas Exposes Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines
I have put out two previous commentaries based on official government data pointing out that more than 14,000 people have died from adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. I have been accused of spreading misinformation, but there has been no substantive response to my arguments from health policy analysts on a listserv in Washington or elsewhere. One of my accusers called my second commentary “misleading and irresponsible” but he did not even attempt to address my arguments. His boss told me to ‘F*** Off’ and that I was blacklisted, meaning they will not accept any more emails from me. Why all the hysteria over official government numbers? Why all the silence about adverse reactions? Why won’t anybody address my arguments?
Unfortunately for my critics, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas just put out a video in which a registered nurse at a federally-run hospital blows the whistle on all the adverse reactions she’s seeing to the COVID vaccines, including the death of a colleague. She calls the entire effort by government agencies to cover up the adverse reactions “evil at the highest level.” (at 2:50) The whistleblower spoke up after watching one of her co-workers die after taking the vaccine. The co-worker didn’t want the vaccine, but felt coerced into taking it, and now she’s dead.
The whistleblower is seeing “a lot” of vaccinated people get sick with side effects but “no one is writing the VAERS report because it takes a half an hour to write the damn thing.” This indicates that the government numbers I’ve been using are actually understated, making the case worse for my critics who claim the numbers are overstated. Doctors are required by law to report adverse reactions to vaccines, as I’ve documented, and is further documented in the video, but they’re not doing it.
A doctor secretly recorded in the video said the federal government is not publishing information about adverse reactions, because those studies are not being done. This is exactly what I suspected and wrote about in my second commentary. The federal government will not do adverse reaction studies unless someone forces their hand because they know the results would contradict their phony COVID and vaccine narratives they’ve been feeding us.
The whistleblower makes an interesting point along these lines. The CDC and FDA are supposed to be protecting us, but if they won’t do the adverse reaction studies, how can they say the vaccines are safe and approve them for general use when the clinical trials are over? I’m getting more than a whiff of corruption here.
So I say to my critics, including the ones who told me to ‘F*** Off’: OK, if the vaccines aren’t killing people, let’s remove the liability shield the manufacturers enjoy under federal law and see what they do. I would bet they stop manufacturing the vaccines immediately because they know they would get sued for all the deaths, heart problems, blood clots, miscarriages, and other adverse reactions caused by the vaccines as shown by official government numbers.
There are more Project Veritas videos to come on adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines. Hopefully, this will finally force the issue out into the open and we will finally get the open and honest discussion of adverse reactions from public health authorities and from all the others working to silence people like me and sweep the now hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions to COVID vaccines under the rug.
More here and here.
9/20/21 - Biden Expels Haitians, But His Insane Border Policies Remain
The U.S. is beginning to expel the mostly Haitian illegal aliens massed at the bridge camp at the Texas border. Let’s not forget it was Joe Biden’s disastrous open borders policies that created this mess. How disastrous are those policies? Let’s just look at some of the other border news from recent days.
A 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy - siblings from Honduras - were found abandoned at the Rio Grande. A 6-year-old boy from El Salvador was found abandoned at a Walmart in Texas. It’s common for such children to be abandoned with the names of U.S. relatives written on their clothing.
Biden’s policies encourage unaccompanied alien minors to cross the border alone. The Biden administration deliberately stopped turning them away. Recently, it was reported the government stops tracking the welfare of such children - who number in the thousands - after they are turned over to sponsors. There have been stories in the news of such children being forced into labor or otherwise abused.
The seizures of fentanyl by border agents have nearly doubled from last year. Most of the seizures are at the southern border. West Virginia sued the Biden administration in August for ending the remain-in-Mexico policy. The action caused a flood of fentanyl to come across the border, addicting more West Virginia residents, the suit says.
Which brings us to Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Biden administration flew many Afghan evacuees to the U.S. before they were vetted. Vetting has begun, but observers say many will evacuees be released before vetting is completed. They also say those who fail vetting and are thus shown to be security risks will not be sent back but will remain in the U.S. National security experts warn it’s only a matter of time before loose immigration policies produce another 9/11 jihadi attack on U.S. soil. Al Qaeda has safe haven in Afghanistan once again and is reconstituting. The Taliban released thousands of prisoners, many with ties to Al Qaeda and Islamic State, and experts predict some will find their way here.
I predict we won’t hear much about jihadis from Afghanistan coming across the border from the Biden administration. The administration’s inclination is to shove bad news under the rug. They tried to hide the bad conditions in alien child shelters, but enterprising journalists smuggled out the story. Just last week, the administration banned drones from filming the Haitian bridge camp in Texas after video appeared on TV showing just how big the problem was becoming. I’m going to keep bringing things like this to your attention because Biden’s insane border policies guarantee there is nothing but trouble ahead.
9/17/21 - COVID Vaccines: The Dog Is Chasing Its Tail
I have questioned the integrity of public health officials concerning their pronouncements on COVID many times in previous commentaries. I have asserted the whole subject has become completely politicized and we’re not getting the straight story. I’ve given you story after story about how the number of COVID cases is being overstated. I’ve questioned why authorities continue to push masks when masks have not been shown to be of much use. I’ve talked about the now over 14,000 deaths in the U.S. from adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. With respect to the latter, I’ve been accused of misusing the data and spreading misinformation, but I wrote a rebuttal to my accusers [Daily Skirmish - 9/1/21] and nobody on a health policy listserv or my other accusers answered. As of this moment, my rebuttal stands unrebutted.
And so it is I have concluded we’re not getting the straight story about the vaccines, either. In the first place, there are recent reports immunity from vaccines can wear off after six months. When they said ‘get vaccinated and you can go back to a normal life’, they didn’t say, ‘and, oh by the way, it’s just for six months,’ did they? Secondly, a published medical doctor is sounding the alarm about “vaccine chasing”, the idea that mass vaccination causes new variants to emerge, just like the overuse of antibiotics causes antibiotic-resistant strains to emerge.
Dr. Richard Fleming writes there is “no statistically significant difference in the number of people who died who were un-vaccinated compared with those who received the vaccines.” Then, in discussing breakthrough cases after vaccination, “there was no statistical difference in the number of people who were diagnosed with COVID independent of whether they were vaccinated or not.” This is true for Pfizer and Moderna. Johnson & Johnson did a little better, but the comparatively good results shown at 14 days disappeared by 28 days after vaccination.
For all that trouble, in 33 countries - notably Israel and the U.K. - Delta and other new variants emerged after mass vaccination. As a result, the overall number of cases did not decrease in any of those countries despite mass vaccination. So, mass vaccination is basically a failure. Not only that, Fleming writes, there are concerns the vaccines are causing vascular disease and neurological symptoms. Then comes the kicker: “There is of course also the mounting number of deaths associated with the use of these Drug Vaccine Biologics,” Fleming writes, referring to the same government data for which my detractors came after me.
Fleming sums it up this way: “As we continue the Mass Vaccination program of using these Drug Vaccine Biologics, that according to the EUA data itself fail to show a statistical reduction in COVID-19 cases or death, with an increasing number of adverse events including death; we are simultaneously producing a Pressure Selection of Variants that will produce what appears to be a never ending cycle of Pressure Selection-Vaccination.”
A never-ending cycle, like a dog chasing its tail. The more we vaccinate, the more variants we get. The more variants we get, the more vaccines we need. Meanwhile, the people pushing the party line on vaccines are getting rich, careers are being made, and public health authorities get to feel oh, so important.
And now you want to tie me down, stick a needle in my arm, and tell me I can’t work or travel out of state if I don’t comply? Stop this train, I want to get off.
[Dr. Fleming discussed his work further on Secure Freedom Radio on 9/16/21.]
9/16/21 - The Woke and the Miserable
In a video that went viral this week, a Virginia high school teacher criticized the state’s school disciplinary guidelines as an exercise in white supremacy. “[I]t’s things like making sure that you’re following directions, making sure that you’re sitting quietly and you are in your seat and all these things that come from white culture,” the teacher said. “The idea of just sitting quiet and being told stuff and taking things in a passive stance is not a thing that’s in with many cultures. So if we’re positively enforcing these behaviors, we are by extension positively enforcing elements of white culture, which therefore keeps whiteness at the center, which is the definition of white supremacy.”
I’m sure it will come as a big surprise to school kids in India, Africa, and Japan who sit quietly in their seat, follow directions, and do better in math and science than American kids that they are now white.
I feel sorry for the teacher, Josh Thompson. It must be horrible to get up every day and live in the systemically racist heteronormative cis-gender patriarchy. I can’t imagine the mental suffering this teacher must go through every day. My heart aches for you, Josh. What a horrible, rotten country we live in.
I’m being facetious, of course, but let’s look at some other unhappy people who have made themselves miserable recently with woke crazytalk.
A professor at Syracuse University defended the Islamic 9/11 jihadi attacks on America as a laudable blow against America’s “heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems.” Take that, General Motors! I guess that means that the hijackers shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ all the way down until Flight 93 smashed upside down into the field in Pennsylvania didn’t have anything to do with it.
Then there’s our beloved State Department, you know, the one that told Americans left behind in Afghanistan they were on their own. We just went through a humiliating botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and all the State Department can worry about is how many women will be in the troglodyte Taliban government.
Anyone who uses capital letters in their writing needs to be decolonized. Using upper case means you have internalized colonialist oppression. You must use lower case to show your resistance to the hierarchical power structure. Here’s my question: if you really believe that, why are you using English at all?
Pregnant women who hold gender reveal parties are just falling for all that ‘heteronormative BS that ruins lives.’ Wow, these woke people are really killjoys, aren’t they? Now they’re going after ‘birthing persons’ and take all their fun out of life.
America’s racist past keeps black people from taking nature walks and enjoying the great outdoors today. Uh-huh, sure, I buy that.
Sorry you’re so unhappy, woke folks. But you know what? It’s not my fault and I don’t care. I do care that you’re helping a tiny leftist elite gain wealth and power for themselves by spreading their woke garbage for them. I’ve got news for you. They don’t believe it themselves; they’re only in it for the money and to beat everybody else into submission. Don’t come crying to me when, one day, their boot is on your neck.
9/15/21 - Climate Change Wars Heating Up
A recent newspaper article summarized a peer-reviewed study finding that solar activity, not carbon emissions, might be behind global warming. The article was attacked by a scientific fact-checking website, and the study authors wrote a rebuttal to the fact-checkers. The arguments are highly technical and hard to follow, but some things are clear which I will lay out at the end of this commentary.
The peer-reviewed study was written by 23 scientists from around the world and published in a scientific journal. It agrees the earth is warmer than it was in the late 19th century. The authors found, depending on which data is used, that solar activity and not human activity can account for the warming. For example, NASA satellite data explains almost all the warming as attributable to the sun, but this data is ignored by the UN IPCC climate panel and others heavily invested in the human CO2 theory of climate change. One of the authors of the study, Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, accuses the IPCC of fraud in ignoring solar activity to pursue pre-selected political goals. Moreover, a number of IPCC reviewers have, over the years, dissented from IPCC conclusions. One noted they “still predict more storms even though they are declining,” and “they still report accelerating sea level [rise] when that does not exist.”
The fact-checkers called the newspaper article “incorrect” and “misleading”. They point to a “very large consensus of scientific evidence showing that human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause of current climate change,” a consensus built on thousands of scientific papers produced over decades. Satellite data was not ignored but was considered by many of the studies cited in the IPCC’s report. They argue real-world observations do not back up the claim solar activity is responsible for global warming. Solar activity has gone down since 1980 while the average global temperature has gone up. They also argue, if the solar theory were correct, the temperature of the entire atmosphere should change at the same time but data shows temperatures at high altitudes falling while temperatures at low altitudes are rising, consistent with the greenhouse gas theory of global warming. They wrap up by pointing to scientific findings human activities account for just about all of global warming with solar activity playing a very minor part.
In their rebuttal, the study authors said the fact-checkers “cherry-picked a particular subset of the datasets we had considered to claim he had proved our analysis of the full set was ‘incorrect’.” Further, the original satellite data was ignored and only adjusted satellite data - massaged to fit political goals - was considered. They go on to say the fact-checkers inaccurately claim the IPCC is mandated to consider all scientific knowledge when there is no such mandate and the IPCC is merely reinforcing political goals the UN pre-selected many years ago.
All the back and forth aside, some things are clear. First, the fact that scientists disagree is important. It destroys the notion the science of climate change is settled and a scientific consensus agrees human activity, specifically CO2 emissions, cause global warming. Over 31,000 American scientists have signed a public statement saying: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate.” The claim ’97 percent of scientists agree human activity causes climate change’ has been debunked.
As for the number of studies backing up the carbon theory of climate change, this is just as easily taken as proof of the existence of the climate change industrial complex as it is of climate change itself. A lot of careers and pocketbooks are heavily invested in climate change. It’s not surprising climate science been politicized, as the study authors point out.
In any event, scientist Willie Soon believes global temperatures may decline in the coming decades, due to changes in solar activity. Time may be running out for the climatistas, which may explain why they are getting more hysterical by the day and pushing ever harder to lock in the Green New Deal and other policy changes that will benefit the climate change industrial complex and handsomely reward all the people in it. Follow the money, and everything will become clear.
9/14/21 - Black White Supremacist Slave Governors - Huh?
California’s recall vote is today. The leading Republican candidate Larry Elder, who happens to be black, was recently called a white supremacist by one of the speakers at a Gavin Newsom rally. Welcome to the fantasyland of the Left where men can give birth and black people can be white supremacists, even if they’re violently assaulted by radical white Leftists wearing insulting monkey masks as Elder recently was. Hold certain attitudes and you are no longer black, the thinking goes. This is obviously crazy. People who hold these beliefs should seek professional help.
So should the people who believe slavery still exists in America today, like it was 1861 or something. They’re now using the term ‘slavery’ very loosely to make their phony case, sweeping in all kinds of stuff that isn’t slavery, like blacks not doing as well economically as whites, on average. Nice try, but that’s not slavery.
Real slavery really does exist in the world today, and that’s one of the points made by Candace Owens in a recent video for PragerU. She is a conservative black and, therefore, a white supremacist, so says the delusional Left. At least 700,000 people are enslaved in Africa today, Owens says, subjected to forced labor and human trafficking. Slavery today is practiced almost exclusively in non-white countries, she goes on to say.
Her video makes other excellent points about slavery, taking down the persistent lie slavery is just a white thing. The history of slavery goes back at least 5,000 years to Egypt where slaves built the pyramids. It continued in ancient Greece and Rome, and was a big part of life in many parts of the world. There is a long history of Muslims enslaving white people. Blacks were sold into slavery in Africa by other black people.
If truth be told, whites were the first to end slavery, starting with England in 1833, followed by France, then the 13th Amendment in the United States in 1865.
If Larry Elder is elected today, will he be the first slave Governor of California, or the first black white supremacist Governor, or both? That’s what happens when the Left spins too many narratives and trips over them. I’m getting confused, but I’m sure the Left can straighten it all out for me. They’re so clever with words.
9/13/21 - Another Black Eye for the Media
USA Today issued a correction after running a supposed ‘fact check’ denying that Joe Biden checked his watch during the ceremony at Dover Air Force base honoring the 13 fallen soldiers killed while the U.S. was leaving Afghanistan. A small story perhaps, but it’s illustrative of what’s wrong with the mainstream media today.
The fact checker and others in the media made the ridiculous claim Joe Biden checked his watch only AFTER the ceremony. I say ridiculous because I had seen a photograph of Joe Biden checking his watch while Jill Biden still had her hand over her heart. If the ceremony was over, why would she be doing that? Who was I supposed to believe - the fact checkers or my own lying eyes?
Gold star families saw Biden check his watch during the ceremony, not just once, but several times. USA Today deservedly caught heat for implying they were lying. USA Today changed its headline from ‘Biden Checked His Watch Only After the Ceremony’ to ‘During the Ceremony’. The fact checker expressed regret, claiming he made a simple mistake.
I don’t think it’s that simple. I’m sitting here with four dozen admissions from mainstream journalists themselves they are biased in favor of liberals and against conservatives. The latest I saw was a CNN columnist admitting CNN is no longer tolerant of conservative views. Admissions against interest are the strongest type of evidence used in court. So admissions are the strongest kind of evidence and I’m sitting here with four dozen of them. If you think I don’t have the goods, just try me. Supposed simple mistakes by fact checkers are more likely the product of their bias against the political Right. They rush to judgment and write stupid stuff without getting the whole story, or they misperceive the facts because they so desperately want to score political points.
There are other problems with today’s media. The economics of the news business have deteriorated, leading even mainstream outlets to take money from dodgy sources. Recently, it was discovered that the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune were taking money from the Chinese communists to print Chinese propaganda. Other financial support for so-called journalism has come from Google, the Rockefeller Family Fund to trash fossil fuels, and George Soros to downplay voter fraud.
Then we have the shaky ethics of today’s media. The Society of Professional Journalists removed the rule against opinion and bias in news stories from its ethics code 25 years ago. The results are plain for all to see. Things have only gotten worse since then, to the point where NPR now says it’s OK for its reporters to actually take part in demonstrations and activist events where this had previously been frowned on throughout the journalism profession. So, under today’s ethics, it’s perfectly OK for reporters to inject their personal opinions into news stories, and to jump right in to demonstrations and still keep a straight face while claiming to be honest brokers of the news.
If you’re a default liberal, live in a bubble where your side is always right and virtuous, and accept whatever line your leaders are putting out, none of this matters to you. But if you’re a thinking person who likes to draw their own conclusions about things, you need to dig deeper and consult a variety of sources before you swallow ridiculous claims like ‘Joe Biden didn’t check his watch’ from dishonest, hyperpartisan, and delusional so-called fact-checkers.
9/10/21 - Diving Off the Twin Towers
Reposted at The United West
The Washington establishment and complicit media are desperate to change the conversation about the September 11th Islamic jihad terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 Americans in 2001. They want to pivot to the poor suffering Muslims who are the supposed real victims of that terrible day, victims of hate speech and discrimination. Never mind that hate crimes against Muslims are down 42 percent, according to the latest government figures.
The Virginia Department of Education put out a video instructing public schools that the focus of the day must shift to stamping out what the video calls “anti-Muslim racism”. The line being put out is that Muslims are the victims here, victims of the American response to the attacks. Teachers are to leave out Islamic extremism and terrorism when teaching about 9/11. Heaven forbid you teach about how many people died that day.
This is in line with recommendations for classroom instruction from the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR, which is Hamas in America and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case. Top of mind for CAIR is anti-Muslim bigotry and bullying in school. Its classroom resource guide recommends not associating 9/11 with Islam or Muslims at all and steering classroom discussion, instead, towards bigotry and hate crimes against Muslims.
Leftists recommend we skip 9/11 entirely and deflect attention right away to the big bugaboo of white supremacy. 9/11 is out; January 6th is the only thing worth talking about, according to this false narrative. This game has been going on since at least 2018 when a Muslim employee of the FBI kept deflecting attention away from domestic Islamic terrorism and toward white supremacy at a community relations event in Detroit.
The narrative keepers want us to believe that the 9/11 hijackers were just dissatisfied with American foreign policy, or what they did was not real Islam or, in the immortal words of Ilhan Omar, “some people did something.”
Here’s the truth: the 9/11 attacks would not have occurred but for the standard Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad, as shown by Arabic-language sources of Al Qaeda messages at the time. Moreover, in 2009, five masterminds of the 9/11 attacks including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - calling themselves the “9/11 Shura Council” - wrote that the 9/11 attacks were an “act of Jihad”, jihad being “a great duty in our religion.” They quoted numerous verses from the Quran including the infamous ‘Verse of the Sword’ - “fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them.”
This is real Islam, which is the real meaning of the 9/11 attacks. ‘Why do they hate us?,’ George W. Bush wondered after the attacks. They hate us because their religion commands them to hate us and no amount of official deflection to white supremacy can change that fact. I said at the outset the Washington establishment is desperate to change the conversation about 9/11. This is how desperate they are: the people in charge of the domestic terrorism TEVUS database changed the race of the 9/11 hijackers from ‘Arab’ to ‘white’. They’re cooking the books to minimize Islamic terrorism and puff up white nationalism. Similarly, the people who want to rewrite history and change 9/11 into just another day of service do a disservice to the nation. It’s time to have an honest national conversation about the standard Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad. I currently have a case in federal court against the FBI aimed at doing just that. More on that as the case progresses.
9/9/21 - Arizona Election Report Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
A grassroots canvassing project found 173,000 votes in Maricopa County, Arizona were discarded and 96,000 were cast by someone other than the true voter. The 2020 presidential election in Arizona was decided by just 10,000 votes. Gateway Pundit Grassroots Canvass Report While the report does not prove election fraud, it does indicate serious problems with the election process that enable fraud to occur.
Dedicated volunteers went door-to-door verifying registration and other voter information. Most of the residents voted by mail but, somehow, their votes were not reported or counted. As for the 96,000 cast in the wrong name, current residents said in many instances the people had moved away. The report also found many mail-in votes cast from vacant lots, votes recorded from residents who had not actually voted, and other problems.
The report recommends doing away with mail-in voting entirely. Before you dismiss this as the ravings of wild-eyed lunatics, you should know that a bipartisan commission headed up by Jimmy Carter and James Baker recommended the same thing in 2005. The commission recommended other common sense reforms like voter ID - which today is supported by most voters; no ballot harvesting by third parties - outlawed today in some states; and cleaning up the voter rolls by removing dead voters, etc. - which is about as common sense as you can get.
Half the country thinks the 2020 election was stolen. I can’t get to the bottom of that here today, but I can tell you a lot of problems need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again. The problems in the 2020 election prompted a great flurry of activity and brought many worried people into the political process for the first time. The Arizona canvassing project is just one of hundreds of projects to shore up our elections underway all across the country. Activists are gathered into statewide networks and multistate teams. State networks are underway in Virginia and Michigan with my help. Activities include pushing for forensic audits, finding and training poll watchers and election officers, and focusing on absentee and mail-in ballot counting during the entire election season, not just election day.
All of these efforts are to be applauded. Efforts to stop them, like the audit in Arizona - the results of which are expected soon - should be viewed with suspicion. Why did the Democrats try so hard to stop the audit in Arizona? What’s that about? There’s only one reason to oppose audits and common sense election reforms like voter ID - you’re trying to steal elections.
Thankfully, a lot of people have woken up and are working very hard to prevent that. Some years ago, a Tea Party friend of mine took a look at Virginia’s election code. He quit after he found a hundred ways cheating could occur. So all the holes will never be plugged and you can bet the Democrats will always come up with new ones in every future election. This is where my personal efforts are devoted these days - to providing an early warning system of how the Democrats and their friends on the Left will try to game future elections. More on that another day but, for now, any well-intentioned person will recognize we are all better off if we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
9/8/21 - There’s Never Enough Money for Single Payer
‘Read my lips’, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in effect in 2019, ‘no new taxes.’ But now he wants higher taxes to help pay for the increasing cost of Britain’s National Health Service. Britain’s single payer system has been bleeding money and calling for more funds as long as I’ve been tracking it. Chronic funding shortfalls have led to staffing shortages, long waiting lists, and withheld surgeries. This means, among other things, that cancer patients are left in the dark about treatments and side effects, newborns die at high rates, and people with lifetime medical conditions like cystic fibrosis are short-changed. Fixing the wait time crisis alone in the UK would cost an astronomical amount of money.
Yet, the American Left has been trying to bring UK-style single payer national healthcare to the United States for the last hundred years. They won’t quit. Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal may have put their push for Medicare for All on the back burner a few months ago, but this was just a tactical retreat. Jayapal and some 125 co-sponsors just introduced a bill to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60. The idea is to salami-slice their way to single payer if they can’t get the whole enchilada in one bite. (How’s that for mixing metaphors?)
In New York, it was reported the Democrats had enough votes in the legislature at the beginning of the summer to pass single payer and override any veto. This was despite warnings the plan would hike payroll taxes by $253 billion, more than the entire state budget. Critics also pointed out the proposal would kill jobs, and lead to long wait times for medical care just like in the UK and Canada. At the end of last year, almost 30,000 people were waiting for surgery in the Canadian single payer system. More were waiting an average 22 weeks just to see a specialist. It’s called ‘death by waiting’ and that certainly is one way to keep costs down. Pressure groups run around cheerleading for single payer in the U.S., but most Americans would find these wait times completely unacceptable.
At the federal level, we could double all corporate and individual income taxes and that still wouldn’t cover the cost of single payer. Critics also point out doctors would get paid 40 percent less under single payer and this would eventually cut the supply of new doctors. Nine in ten hospitals would run chronic deficits, which hardly sounds like a sustainable system to me.
People who push single payer don’t have the sense they were born with. People with any sense at all will realize that anything that is free at the point of service will generate escalating demands that can never be met. Free at the point of service is the fatal flaw of single payer and that’s why there’s never enough money for single payer. Single payer is pie-in-the-sky and let’s hope it stays that way. I guarantee you, you don’t want the pain of single payer inflicted on you or your loved ones.
9/7/21 - Liberal Policies Hurt People (cont’d)
They’ll tell you they’re saving the planet. They’ll tell you anyone who doesn’t agree with them is deplorable. But the truth is liberals and progressives wreck everything they get their hands on. Their policies, far from making things better, actually hurt people.
We start in California. Businesses are fleeing the state, and the pace is picking up. The rate doubled in the first six months of 2021. They’re fleeing high taxes, overregulation, excessive litigation costs, unaffordable housing and, last but not least, soaring energy bills due to government policies. Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are among the companies that have left.
It’s not just businesses leaving. The latest taxpayer migration data showed California lost more tax filers than any other state - 165,000 in a recent two-year period, representing $8.8 billion in net adjusted gross income. The data shows California residents of all ages and incomes are leaving. People are voting against high state taxes with their feet.
California isn’t the only place progressive insanity reigns supreme. That pretty much describes the entire Democrat Party. Take Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, for example, a Democrat who wants to increase the capital gains tax in the name of the progressive’s new/old pet cause, “equity”. Socking it to those evil rich people sounds great on the surface, but a study was done showing Van Hollen’s bill would, over the next 10 years, kill 745,000 jobs, trim almost a trillion dollars off gross domestic product, cause investment to decline by over $600 billion, and R&D to go down more than $6 billion dollars. Households would lose almost $9,000 in income over the same period, the study showed. Democrats and progressives are always looking to redistribute income, but they don’t understand wealth has to be created before it can be redistributed. Hiking the capital gains tax is a sure-fire way to damage innovation, job creation, economic activity, and household income.
There are other ways Democrats and progressives are out of touch with reality. A common criticism of minimum wage laws is that they kill jobs, but these laws also cut workers hours as employers maneuver to avoid paying fringe benefits to keep total compensation constant. In California, raising the minimum wage $1 an hour led to five fewer hours of work. Minimum wage hikes also make work schedules more irregular, making it more difficult for employees to coordinate childcare and a second job.
In April, the House passed a bill to require employers to show a business necessity for paying individual workers different wages. If this bill were to become law. overall wages would go down and performance pay would be eliminated. Women would suffer because employers would scale back on flexible schedules - which women like - keeping everything standardized out of fear of litigation. A similar law in Denmark was found to decrease the gender wage gap, but by lowering men’s wages, not by raising pay for women.
Yes, liberal policies hurt people. You’ll notice in each one of these instances, the impulse of the progressive is always to make more people do more things - pay higher taxes, jump through more regulatory hoops, pay higher wages. Can all this really bring about heaven on earth when it means people are no longer free? The Democrats are veering off into authoritarianism and they will eventually find people won’t sit still for it.
9/3/21 - COVID Quackery Continues
Serious questions continue to pile up about the way public health officials are handling the COVID pandemic.
First, they continue to cook the books and overstate the number of COVID deaths, as I’ve documented many times before. Most recently, a study showed the CDC abandoned its previous data collection methods and employed new methods resulting in the overstatement of COVID fatalities by 1,600 percent. A county in California cut its COVID death count by 25 percent after a review showed many deaths were “clearly not” caused by coronavirus. Stanford researchers found the number of kids hospitalized with COVID has been overstated by hospitals counting kids who are admitted for other reasons as COVID admissions if they test positive for COVID but have no symptoms.
Public health officials continue to push masks, even though officials in the U.K., the WHO, and some even in America say masks provide little to no health benefit. The CDC recommends universal masking in K-12 schools even though the science is equivocal at best and other countries have concluded mandatory mask-wearing in schools is not justified. Ask yourselves a question: If masks are so effective at preventing COVID transmission, why did some places empty their jails instead of just requiring prisoners to wear masks?
Then we come to the inanity of employers and others requiring proof of vaccination even from people who have already had COVID and recovered. This turns hundreds of years of science about immunity on its head. People who have had a disease have antibodies that help them ward off future bouts of the disease. Vaccines mimic this dynamic, but some people no longer believe in natural immunity built up from previous exposure to the disease. The situation reminds me of the movie “Idiocracy” where people in the future buy a green fluid from corporations because they’d forgotten that water makes crops grow. Hate to break it to you, but antibody levels drop 20 percent in two months in people receiving a second dose of a COVID vaccine.
Which brings us to Ivermectin. The media loved scaring you to death about rampant COVID cases and deaths in India earlier this year, but the story went away after the widespread introduction of Ivermectin there. Similar good results have been obtained more recently in Ivermectin countries in Africa. The results from other countries are so good, the Tokyo Medical Association just announced it is recommending Ivermectin for Japan. There is scare-mongering about an animal version of the drug, but the version for humans won the Nobel Prize in 2015 and has been shown to be safe after 3.5 billion prescriptions worldwide. What is going on with Ivermectin is similar to what went on with hydroxychloroquine, another safe drug recommended early in the pandemic by 6,000 doctors worldwide but trashed here at home for political reasons. Anthony Fauci actually claimed hydroxychloroquine was dangerous, but he was already in possession of information showing it was effective.
COVID is dangerous, but so was Trump Derangement Syndrome, as we now see. Also dangerous are public health officials who continue to play politics with people’s lives.
9/2/21 - ‘911 - What Is Your Emergency?’
Late last night, the Supreme Court declined to block a Texas law banning abortions after 6 weeks, at least for now. That’s very good news because, among other things, it means there will be fewer botched abortions in Texas in the immediate future. Do you know how many botched abortion stories have been in the news lately? I’m about to tell you. This is gruesome stuff but don’t flinch, don’t turn away. I want you to know exactly what you’re supporting if you support abortion.
An abortionist in Maryland attempted to use a first-trimester method to abort a late-term baby, leading to massive blood loss from the mother covering the abortionist and attending staff in blood. Mother and baby were transferred to a hospital for emergency surgery where surgeons found the baby’s head still barely attached to its body. The mother had to be given a full hysterectomy to save her life.
A woman in Michigan was still bleeding an hour after her abortion. She suffered “abnormal uterine and vaginal bleeding” after abortionists cut her uterus and could not control the hemorrhaging. It was much the same story for women in Illinois and California who were bleeding out after botched abortions. In Illinois, luckily, the ambulance got there in three minutes.
These women were among the lucky ones. Botched abortions killed two women in Nigeria and another in India.
Twenty women in ten years had to be transported to hospital emergency rooms after botched abortions at a particular facility in Cleveland.
Around 450 women in all have died in the U.S. from legal abortions. Why is it abortion advocates never talk about this fact? Why do they deliberately downplay the risks?
OK, so you’ve had your abortion and there weren’t any problems. You think you’re out of the woods. But did you know your abortion can still reach out and kill you weeks later? A British mother died of sepsis four weeks after her abortion.
Sepsis is a complication of infection. Infection is one of the risks disclosed on a Planned Parenthood abortion consent form. Other complications disclosed include blood clots, tears in the cervix, perforations of the uterus and other organs, hysterectomy, abortions that fail to kill the baby and require repeat procedures, excessive bleeding, and death. The form goes on to state that parenting, foster care, and adoption are alternatives to abortion. If you don’t like the prospect of bleeding out in an ambulance or dying of sepsis, it would be a good idea to look into one of those.
9/1/21 - The Government Needs to Stop Hiding the Ball About COVID Vaccine Deaths
Reposted at LeoHohmann.com
My commentary on Monday talked about the more than 13,000 deaths in the U.S. and thousands of other adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. My commentary was based on official government numbers. It has since been drawn to my attention that the government has placed disclaimers on those numbers. Media stories accuse people like me who rely on the numbers of misinterpreting the data and spreading misinformation. After reading the disclaimer and reviewing the arguments, I conclude the situation is actually worse than I thought it was, not better as the accusers claim.
The disclaimer states, “Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to the system.... In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary....” That’s not true. Healthcare providers are required by law to report adverse reactions, according to the government’s own website.
Falsely claiming the system is largely based on self-reporting insinuates that the public is submitting fake reports of adverse reactions and that throws the numbers completely off. In the first place, adverse reaction reporting has been going on for at least 30 years. There are severe penalties for making false reports. If fake reports were such a huge problem, we would have heard about it by now and the data would have been yanked from public view long ago. But the numbers are still there. Anybody can click on a link and see them. Moreover, the element of self-reporting from the public could mean the numbers might actually be worse than reported. Undoubtedly, some members of the public do not know to report adverse reactions, leaving an untold number unreported.
The disclaimer goes on to say adverse reaction reports might be inaccurate or unverifiable and, therefore,” cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness." The disclaimer also says the raw numbers are not suitable for scientific purposes.
Fair enough, but the disclaimer goes on to say the numbers “provide an early warning of a safety problem with a vaccine ... and further studies can be done ... (to) assess health risks and possible connections between adverse events and a vaccine.” The disclaimer also says the public only gets to see the raw numbers and “amended data are not available to the public.”
That leaves people in the dark when making the personal decision whether or not to get the COVID vaccine. The public has no way of knowing what the follow-up studies show or whether they’re being done at all. This does not inspire confidence. So the CDC official who claims there have only been three deaths from the vaccines, not 13,000, and the vaccines are safe comes off sounding like Baghdad Bob - the bombs are not falling when they obviously are.
If public health officials want us to believe these vaccines are safe, the burden is on them to show us the data that they put out publicly is so bad nobody should rely on it for anything. The burden is on them to show this is not Russian roulette and people getting vaccinated don’t have a significant chance of dying from the vaccine. I would love to hear them make that case. In fact, I would love to hear them break their silence and address the question of adverse reactions at all. 13,000 deaths versus three - that’s a big difference and it needs to be explained. If you want to inspire confidence, release the amended data. My bet is they won’t - either because there are no follow-up studies or the studies show the raw numbers are basically correct. There is a doctrine in the law - adverse inferences can be drawn against the party hiding evidence. So to public health officials I say, put up or shut up. The uncertainty you have created makes it worse for you, not better.
If they’re going to leave the raw data out there for 30 years, they have only themselves to blame when people like me get alarmed by the impression created that these vaccines are killing people by the thousands. Until public health officials make their case, I am perfectly comfortable warning people about the 13,000 deaths and thousands of other adverse reactions these vaccines have apparently caused, according to the best publicly available official government data we have. If that’s misinformation, I’ll eat my hat.
The Democrats want to add trillions in new spending and expand Medicare, but Americans should know our existing social insurance programs are in deep trouble.
The latest Trustee reports show Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits a year earlier than previously projected and Medicare insolvency is only five years away. These projections are under mid-range assumptions. Things could be better or they could be worse.
The Trustees are appointed by the federal government to assess the health of these programs. They estimate Medicare will be insolvent in 2026 and Social Security will follow in 2033. Costs are rising faster than revenues, revenues being payroll taxes, individual premiums, and interest on the so-called trust funds. Insolvency isn’t the same as bankruptcy. You can operate at a loss for a while before going bankrupt.
A senator said Social Security benefits will have to go down 25 percent when the program becomes insolvent. Another observer said the choice for Social Security is either a 21 percent benefit cut or a 27 percent tax hike. The longer the country waits to deal with the problem, the harder it becomes to fix, the Trustees said again, as they always do.
Highlights from the Trustees 2021 Medicare Report indicate expenditures for the Hospital Insurance (HI) portion of Medicare exceeded total income in 2020 and the program is under-financed for the next 10 years. The Trustees expect a small surplus in 2022 but deficits thereafter until the so-called ‘trust funds’ are depleted in 2026.
It’s important to point out there are no real Social Security or Medicare trust funds. People think the money was set aside, but the money was spent long ago. There’s nothing in the trust fund accounts but government IOUs. The upshot is these are essentially pay-as-you go programs.
We get similar warnings from the Trustees every year, but the warnings never seem to make any difference in people’s lives or get Congress to do anything about the problem. That’s because it doesn’t hurt bad enough yet. I attended every meeting of the Kerrey-Danforth Entitlement Commission in the ‘90s. The programs were in trouble even then. The wisest thing that was said was ‘ain’t nothing gonna happen until there’s a crisis.’ In other words, we will not summon the political will to fix anything until then. Here it is almost 30 years later, and the observation is still true.
There’s no shortage of proposed fixes, starting with raising the retirement age. When Social Security was instituted, people lived an average 61 years. Life expectancy has increased 17 years since then, making the program unsustainable on the face of things. Another reform proposal is to give people the option to put a portion of their payroll taxes into a private account. Research shows private accounts would generate higher retirement payouts, despite the ups and downs of the market.
Medicare is the bigger problem and there aren’t any easy fixes. But two things are certain: a crisis will be upon us in five years if nothing is done, and the Democrats’ current proposals to lower the eligibility age and expand Medicare benefits will only make things worse. Those proposals are completely reckless and should not even be considered until problems with the existing programs are fixed.
More here:
- Trustees 2021 Social Security Report
- Trustees 2021 Medicare Report
9/29/21 - Parents, Get the Hell Out of My Way
The vengefulness of the authoritarian Left was on full display at the gubernatorial debate last night in Virginia. Democrat candidate and former Governor Terry McAuliffe actually said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” He elaborated, “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions.” So if the school wants to shove pornographic novels and Marxist critical race theory down kids’ throats, that’s perfectly OK with Terry McAuliffe and his authoritarian chums.
I guess that means if teachers want to fly the Antifa flag in their classrooms, have kids pledge allegiance to the rainbow flag, and recite Aztec prayers, it’s all good and parents should have nothing to say about it. Heaven forbid, parents should make their own decisions about what’s best for their children or try to protect them from corrosive influences. We can’t have that, if we’re going to succeed in turning kids into good little Leftist robots unable to think for themselves and totally dependent on government. If you object to this, the authoritarian Left will sic the teachers unions on you, do research on you, and put you on an enemies list. If you get candidates elected to your local PTA that oppose the craziness, the authoritarian Left will get the state PTA to swoop in and disband you.
McAuliffe’s comment puts it all out on the table, doesn’t it? To the authoritarian Left, your children are state property and you have no parental rights. And don’t try to argue parents fund the public schools through their tax dollars and should have some say in how those dollars are spent. To the authoritarian Left, not only are your children not your children, your money is not your money. Your money belongs to the authoritarian Left. If you like this line of thinking, I hope you’re ready for what’s coming next - regular visits from government child welfare agents who will rummage through your house and your life and determine whether you are doing a good enough job raising your children to be allowed to keep them. Sound far-fetched? It’s already underway in Scotland where the authoritarian Left is in control.
Let’s see how else the authoritarian Left is torturing people lately, in their quest for absolute power. The Biden administration issued a mandate forcing doctors to perform transgender surgery against their conscience. Another Biden rule forces doctors to perform abortions against their will. A med student in Kentucky got kicked out of his school for opposing abortion. The authoritarian Left wants to deny insurance coverage to people who won’t get the COVID vaccine. Colorado is forcing a website designer to create websites carrying messages about marriage that violate her religious beliefs. This is called compelled speech and it’s unconstitutional. City officials in California conspired with left-wing agitators to deny venues to members of Congress who wanted to hold rallies, showing another way the authoritarian Left has become the enemy of free speech. Here’s a third way: a New York Times reporter said Trump supporters should be labeled “enemies of the state” and handled as “national security threats”. A U.S. soldier talked about shooting American citizens if they disobey orders under martial law.
These people are sick and getting sicker. Psychologists are finally waking up to the pathology of the authoritarian Left. A recent study found that authoritarians on the Left are no different than authoritarians of other stripes when it comes to their “preference for social uniformity, prejudice towards different others, willingness to wield group authority to coerce behavior, cognitive rigidity, aggression and punitiveness towards perceived enemies, outsized concern for hierarchy, and moral absolutism.”
So here’s my question for all you every day Democrats out there: Why would you support these crazies? Why would you support a tiny group of people who are trying to take over absolutely everything and tell everybody what to do? Why would you do anything that grows the authoritarian Left’s megalomaniacal desires for power when you know they will come for you first? If you grow the government, you shrink the citizen and you mushy middle Democrats will not be spared. The authoritarian Left wants your votes, your money, and your support to shrink the citizen until there’s nothing left but total robotic obedience to the whims of a tiny elite. Think about that the next time you pull out your checkbook to support a Terry McAuliffe who wants a chokehold on your kids, and other authoritarian Progressives in the Democrat Party who are just like him.
9/28/21 - Third Project Veritas Video: J&J Workers Say ‘Don’t Buy Our Vaccine’
Project Veritas released a third video exposing the problems with COVID vaccines and the official narratives coming out of Washington on the subject.
Two Johnson & Johnson employees were caught on tape trashing the vaccine their company makes and saying they would never get it and others should not, either. One said he got the Moderna. The other was worried about the blood clots reported with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. One said babies who don’t go outside don’t need to be vaccinated and the other said kids in general should not be vaccinated.
They said some people are getting the vaccine because of the pressure that is being applied, not for their health. The unvaccinated are being turned into second-class citizens, they said, with some being threatened with the loss of their jobs and others under restrictions on what businesses they can visit and where they can travel. It’s all about politics and money, the employees said, not public health. They were also clear that the media is not to be trusted on this subject.
They discussed the fact there may be unknown long-term repercussions from these vaccines. It’s too soon for longitudinal studies - no one knows what will happen to the vaccinated 30 years from now from what is more accurately called gene therapy. As one employee put it, “There’s nobody who’s thirty years in, who said, ‘Hey, I had the vaccine and I don’t have a third eye ball.’”
Their views are reinforced by unfavorable news stories about the vaccines now appearing on a daily basis.
A doctor warned vaccinated people have a higher level of virus and now pose a risk to the unvaccinated. Whistleblowers at an assisted living facility said residents are being tricked into getting the vaccine by being drugged or being told it’s just a flu shot. They also said signatures on required forms are being forged. The CDC claims the vaccines are 90-95 percent effective, but published a study showing 74 percent of fully vaccinated people studied in Massachusetts tested positive for COVID. Joe Biden said his vaccine mandates are under the authority granted to OSHA but, it turns out, OSHA has yet to start a rule-making process on the subject. Jen Psaki said the Biden administration is very happy employers are moving ahead with their own mandates without waiting for Washington. Trickery and sleight-of-hand, forged signatures, breakthrough cases - the wheels are falling off the official fairy tales we ae being fed about these vaccines. And they still won’t talk about the deaths and other adverse reactions we know are coming from the vaccines.
If authorities knew what they were doing, maybe their tyranny and shenanigans could be justified, but they don’t what they’re doing. Joe Biden just moved the goal posts again. They used to talk about herd immunity being established when 60 percent of the populations is exposed or vaccinated. Then Fauci started talking about 85 percent. Biden just said 97-98 percent of the country needs to be vaccinated before things can get back to normal. Where’d he get that number from? He didn’t get it from Fauci. So is Joe following the science or his own lust for power? I don’t know and I don’t care. All I know is they can’t keep their stories straight and there’s no reason to trust them, not when - as the Johnson & Johnson employees said on video - it’s all about politics and money, not public health. Some people are benefitting from the status quo. We’re starting to get a clearer picture of why ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ has turned into an all-consuming preoccupation that will never end, until we put a stop to it.
9/27/21 - They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
I believe the longer minority students sit in their seats, the whiter they get.
I believe the more men give birth, the more manly they become.
I believe there’s a racist behind every bush and we need an inquisition to root them all out. People should be hauled before Congress and asked, “Are you now or have you ever been a racist?”
I believe heterosexuality is a tragedy, a real tragedy, and somebody should have told my parents that.
I believe 8-year-olds should be able to choose their gender and get drugs from rich psychiatrists without their parents knowing. If parents object, I believe judges should terminate their parental rights. Who needs parents and families anyway? What a stupid old idea. Everybody knows it takes a village to raise a child and change their gender.
I believe we only have 12 years left before the planet turns into a cinder and we all burn up from climate change. Oh wait, two years are gone already, so we only have 10 years left. Better start using those old gift cards now. Time is running out.
I believe we should all have as small a carbon footprint as we possibly can, except when we’re rioting and looting and burning cities to the ground. Then the bigger the footprint, the better.
I believe healthcare is a basic human right unless, of course, you’re not vaccinated for COVID, then you shouldn’t get any healthcare at all, even if you’re bleeding out right in front of me. That’s what I believe.
I believe we shouldn’t have borders because we shouldn’t have countries or nation-states in the first place. I say we save the whole planet and let everybody in, all 7 billion of them. We’re all global citizens now. How do I know? Because my local school board told me so. None of them are parents, but they’re experts - they know what’s best for everybody, especially children, that’s what I believe.
I believe there are no facts and there is no truth. Even if that last statement can’t possibly be true if there is no truth. ... I’m getting confused. No matter. I believe if somebody jumps off a 30-storey building and goes splat on the sidewalk below, they didn’t really go splat, it was just a matter of perception. That may sound like post-modern gibberish to some, but it’s still rock-n-roll to me.
I believe there is no bias in the media, even if they themselves have told me four dozen times they are biased. I believe everything should be evidence-based, except when I don’t like the evidence, or I need to lie to make my point. Especially when I need to lie to make my point. That happens a lot. But that’s OK, because we’re good people and you’re not.
I believe Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ has got to go! We need to stop dating our years from the birth of Christ. You think it’s the year 2021? No way! It’s 104 USSR, 104 years since the birth of the first communist state. Let’s get our priorities straight here, OK? While we’re on this subject, why are we still using Monday through Sunday for the days of the week? Those names were invented by dead white Europeans because of their stupid religion. I believe all religion is stupid, especially yours. We should toss those names out because all old ideas are stupid. We need living, breathing ideas. We need to make 57-day weeks, and give the days new names to honor each one of the 57 genders. I believe corporations will give me millions of dollars to promote this idea and, given what they’re funding lately, who’s to say I’m wrong?
I believe everything you say is wrong. And because you’re wrong, you have no right to say it. So shut up and listen to me. I’m not finished!
I believe I belong to a small group of people who have secret knowledge that will bring about heaven on earth. Only we know how to do this because we’re special. Everyone else is deplorable. It’s our secret and we’re not gonna tell you, because you wouldn’t understand it. We know how you should live your life better than you do. We know how to spend your money better than you do. It’s not your money anyway, it’s ours, because YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT, we did. If you can’t see that, you’re stupid, and we’ll just force you to do what we say. You hear me? We’ll FORCE you. So, get used to it, you stupid ninnies, because we’re taking over soon, whether you like it or not. We’re taking over absolutely everything. We’re creating a paradise for you, right in your front yard, and we will use any means to get there, even if we have to steal elections to do it. It’s for your own good, after all. Why can’t you see that? It’s as plain as the nose on your face.
Hmm... I hear sirens in the distance. Wait, somebody’s knocking on my door. They’re wearing white coats. See you next time. What am I saying? Time? What is this ‘time’? I’m getting confused again. Up is down and down is up. Do you think they’ll give me a padded cell this time?
9/24/21 - China Buying Swamp Creatures
Joe Biden is meeting with Australia, Japan, and India today to see what can be done about the inroads China is making in the Asia Pacific region. Maybe he should worry about the inroads China is making in Washington.
Former senator and U.S. ambassador to China Max Baucus has become a talking head on Chinese propaganda outlets where he criticizes the U.S. rhetoric on China as something out of the McCarthy era or Nazi Germany. Baucus has a consulting firm with Chinese business clients and board ties to Chinese companies. I guess he knows where his rice bowl is buttered.
Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to Poland took $1,000 for making a speech from an advisory group for communist China’s ruling Central Committee. Critics wonder how effective he will be in coaxing European allies not to be drawn further into the Chinese orbit. He is on record praising China for trying to change the international order and for railing against people whom he says are “demonizing” China. Oh, and he also has a consulting firm with regular business in China where, his website says, he is frequently welcomed as a featured speaker. Other Biden ambassadorial picks also have ties to China.
A Biden EPA official is on leave from his employer, a Chinese-controlled university in Hong Kong. Observers worry the fact he didn’t resign signals he intends to return to the university after he leaves the EPA. They also worry his science policy work will be skewed as the Biden administration works to advance climate change solutions that benefit China.
Progressive Democrat state and local elected officials have been collaborating extensively with a Chinese propaganda ministry set up to “neutralize opposition” to China and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.” The officials have taken trips to China paid for by the People’s Liberation Army. China has targeted them because they are considered future swamp creatures, i.e., rising stars in the Democrat Party.
A former Treasury Department official is now a lobbyist for a Chinese surveillance firm on the Pentagon’s blacklist of companies owned or controlled by the Chinese military.
Starting to get the picture? You might recall a video from some months ago showing a Chinese professor bragging about how U.S. elites have teamed up with China to take control of America.
Thomas Friedman and others admire communist China and say we should become more like them. If that means authoritarian rule, genocide, and walling off the Internet from the world, no thanks. The screechings of Washington swamp creatures who are in China’s back pocket need not be taken seriously. As I say so often, follow the money.
9/23/21 - COVID Vaccine Blitzkrieg (New Project Veritas Video)
Today, it was reported the Biden administration strongly opposes a bill in the House that would require honorable discharges for departing military personnel who refuse to get the COVID vaccine. Preventing honorable discharges is not the only way this administration seeks to punish people who won’t willingly lie down in front of Panzer tanks.
Project Veritas just released another video, this one showing an FDA employee calling for forced COVID vaccinations and a registry for all unvaccinated Americans. In the video, he talks about how authorities should use drones and shoot darts filled with vaccine at black people and others who refuse to get it. “l don’t care about your bodily autonomy,” the employee says. But black people don’t have to worry just yet. The employee wants to go for white people first, starting with video campaigns, so the feds can’t be accused of racism.
That’s not the half of it. He also wants federal Stormtroopers to go around sticking needles in people’s arms who won’t comply. “I’m gonna go door-to-door and stab everyone,” he says. Ah, but how to find them? “[T]here needs to be a registry of people who aren’t vaccinated. – Although that’s sounding very Germany” by which he meant Nazi Germany. So here we have a Biden administration employee who knows exactly where his ideas are coming from, including the use of state-sponsored propaganda to steamroll people and the singling out of a particular minority for a ‘final solution’.
The Biden administration is very far down the rabbit hole with this vaccine business, but the facts don’t support its forced mandates, wrong-headed beliefs, and phony narratives on the subject.
States with some of the highest vaccination rates - Maine, New York, and Vermont - had the highest increase rates in COVID cases last week, according to Johns Hopkins data. That’s not supposed to happen, but the same thing is happening in Israel and the U.K. Public health authorities know there’s something wrong with the vaccine picture, because they are moving the goalposts on what constitutes herd immunity. They used to say 60 percent, but now Fauci talks about 85 percent. These people are supposed to know what they’re doing. Apparently, they don’t and make things up when things don’t go their way.
Meanwhile, the CDC is playing games with the numbers. They count people who get COVID after getting the vaccine as unvaccinated unless 14 days have passed since receiving the first injection. This allows them to overstate the number of unvaccinated people who show up at the hospital and claim the persistence of the pandemic is all the unvaccinated’s fault. It also allows them to hide the number of people who are dying from the vaccine. If they die before the 14-day mark, they are counted as unvaccinated. That level of propaganda would make Goebbels proud.
Joe Biden told OSHA to hide information on adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. In addition, based on numerous interviews, a media outlet concluded the medical community is colluding with the federal government to tell people with neurological adverse reactions to the vaccines - like headaches, tremors, and brain fog - they are just having anxiety or panic attacks. Some patients who complain are even being put into psych wards. Medical licensing boards and regulatory agencies are telling doctors not to talk about adverse reactions to vaccines or they could lose their medical license. That’s one way to enforce a phony narrative.
I’ve often said the rise of the authoritarian Left is the central challenge of our time, and we’re seeing it play out in COVID vaccines. How bad’s it going to get, folks, and how much are you going to put up with before you tell the goose-stepping jack-booted thugs in the Biden administration to shove it.
9/22/21 - Woke Pentagon: Get Thee In Front of Me, Satan
The U.S. Army used a PowerPoint slide listing the seven tenets of Satanism to justify Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for the U.S. military. The Army confirmed the slide was real but said it wasn’t approved by Army leadership. The explanation is as bizarre as the slide itself. Satanism? Wow, the Pentagon has truly lost its way. The tenets sound really sweet - “act with compassion and empathy toward all” - but the Tibetans have a proverb: Beware of honey offered on a sharp knife.
A lieutenant colonel recently resigned from the Army in part over the vaccine mandate but also to protest what he calls “an ideologically Marxist takeover of the military and United States government at their upper echelons.” He said he is joining “those who have served before me in pledging my Life, my Fortune, and my Sacred Honor to continue resisting the eternal and ever-mutable forms of oppression and tyranny.” He forfeited his pension. Talk about pledging your fortune, and putting your money where your mouth is, wow.
He follows in the footsteps of former Space Force commander Matt Lohmeier who was stripped of his command, kicked out of the military, and denied his pension for writing a book exposing the Pentagon’s wokeness. The book documents what is in the military’s new indoctrination program:
- “that the country was founded by racists, that the country has always been racist,
- “that the Constitution’s ratification codified white supremacy as the law of the land,
- “that whites are inherently racists (whether they realize it or not), and that the country must transform and become something altogether different than what it was and is.”
Speaking of the service academies, the Biden administration has moved to purge and reconstitute their congressionally chartered advisory boards along ideological lines. Those overseeing the education of our future military officers must agree with Xi Jinping, oops, Joe Biden Thought. All of this is prelude to the complete politicization of the military, which was once respected for its nonpartisan professionalism.
Back to Mark Milley for a moment. Everybody’s heard of the traitor Benedict Arnold. But do you remember what he did? He entered into secret negotiations with the British and agreed to turn over the U.S. post at West Point in return for money and a command in the British army. That sounds a lot like Milley’s secret phone calls to the Chinese assuring them he would give them advance notice if the supposedly crazy Donald Trump ordered an attack on them. Lots of people have called Milley’s calls an act of treason, but what else would you expect from the leader of a Pentagon that has gone woke and believes that the America it is charged with defending is a horrible, rotten place that needs to be completely ripped apart and fundamentally transformed. Milley presided over the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, a complete disaster leaving Americans behind, which many have called no accident. Somebody should be undertaking an in-depth examination of Mark Milley and his strange beliefs before they get us into more trouble. Get thee behind me, Mark Milley.
9/21/21 - Project Veritas Exposes Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines
I have put out two previous commentaries based on official government data pointing out that more than 14,000 people have died from adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. I have been accused of spreading misinformation, but there has been no substantive response to my arguments from health policy analysts on a listserv in Washington or elsewhere. One of my accusers called my second commentary “misleading and irresponsible” but he did not even attempt to address my arguments. His boss told me to ‘F*** Off’ and that I was blacklisted, meaning they will not accept any more emails from me. Why all the hysteria over official government numbers? Why all the silence about adverse reactions? Why won’t anybody address my arguments?
Unfortunately for my critics, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas just put out a video in which a registered nurse at a federally-run hospital blows the whistle on all the adverse reactions she’s seeing to the COVID vaccines, including the death of a colleague. She calls the entire effort by government agencies to cover up the adverse reactions “evil at the highest level.” (at 2:50) The whistleblower spoke up after watching one of her co-workers die after taking the vaccine. The co-worker didn’t want the vaccine, but felt coerced into taking it, and now she’s dead.
The whistleblower is seeing “a lot” of vaccinated people get sick with side effects but “no one is writing the VAERS report because it takes a half an hour to write the damn thing.” This indicates that the government numbers I’ve been using are actually understated, making the case worse for my critics who claim the numbers are overstated. Doctors are required by law to report adverse reactions to vaccines, as I’ve documented, and is further documented in the video, but they’re not doing it.
A doctor secretly recorded in the video said the federal government is not publishing information about adverse reactions, because those studies are not being done. This is exactly what I suspected and wrote about in my second commentary. The federal government will not do adverse reaction studies unless someone forces their hand because they know the results would contradict their phony COVID and vaccine narratives they’ve been feeding us.
The whistleblower makes an interesting point along these lines. The CDC and FDA are supposed to be protecting us, but if they won’t do the adverse reaction studies, how can they say the vaccines are safe and approve them for general use when the clinical trials are over? I’m getting more than a whiff of corruption here.
So I say to my critics, including the ones who told me to ‘F*** Off’: OK, if the vaccines aren’t killing people, let’s remove the liability shield the manufacturers enjoy under federal law and see what they do. I would bet they stop manufacturing the vaccines immediately because they know they would get sued for all the deaths, heart problems, blood clots, miscarriages, and other adverse reactions caused by the vaccines as shown by official government numbers.
There are more Project Veritas videos to come on adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines. Hopefully, this will finally force the issue out into the open and we will finally get the open and honest discussion of adverse reactions from public health authorities and from all the others working to silence people like me and sweep the now hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions to COVID vaccines under the rug.
More here and here.
9/20/21 - Biden Expels Haitians, But His Insane Border Policies Remain
The U.S. is beginning to expel the mostly Haitian illegal aliens massed at the bridge camp at the Texas border. Let’s not forget it was Joe Biden’s disastrous open borders policies that created this mess. How disastrous are those policies? Let’s just look at some of the other border news from recent days.
A 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy - siblings from Honduras - were found abandoned at the Rio Grande. A 6-year-old boy from El Salvador was found abandoned at a Walmart in Texas. It’s common for such children to be abandoned with the names of U.S. relatives written on their clothing.
Biden’s policies encourage unaccompanied alien minors to cross the border alone. The Biden administration deliberately stopped turning them away. Recently, it was reported the government stops tracking the welfare of such children - who number in the thousands - after they are turned over to sponsors. There have been stories in the news of such children being forced into labor or otherwise abused.
The seizures of fentanyl by border agents have nearly doubled from last year. Most of the seizures are at the southern border. West Virginia sued the Biden administration in August for ending the remain-in-Mexico policy. The action caused a flood of fentanyl to come across the border, addicting more West Virginia residents, the suit says.
Which brings us to Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Biden administration flew many Afghan evacuees to the U.S. before they were vetted. Vetting has begun, but observers say many will evacuees be released before vetting is completed. They also say those who fail vetting and are thus shown to be security risks will not be sent back but will remain in the U.S. National security experts warn it’s only a matter of time before loose immigration policies produce another 9/11 jihadi attack on U.S. soil. Al Qaeda has safe haven in Afghanistan once again and is reconstituting. The Taliban released thousands of prisoners, many with ties to Al Qaeda and Islamic State, and experts predict some will find their way here.
I predict we won’t hear much about jihadis from Afghanistan coming across the border from the Biden administration. The administration’s inclination is to shove bad news under the rug. They tried to hide the bad conditions in alien child shelters, but enterprising journalists smuggled out the story. Just last week, the administration banned drones from filming the Haitian bridge camp in Texas after video appeared on TV showing just how big the problem was becoming. I’m going to keep bringing things like this to your attention because Biden’s insane border policies guarantee there is nothing but trouble ahead.
9/17/21 - COVID Vaccines: The Dog Is Chasing Its Tail
I have questioned the integrity of public health officials concerning their pronouncements on COVID many times in previous commentaries. I have asserted the whole subject has become completely politicized and we’re not getting the straight story. I’ve given you story after story about how the number of COVID cases is being overstated. I’ve questioned why authorities continue to push masks when masks have not been shown to be of much use. I’ve talked about the now over 14,000 deaths in the U.S. from adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. With respect to the latter, I’ve been accused of misusing the data and spreading misinformation, but I wrote a rebuttal to my accusers [Daily Skirmish - 9/1/21] and nobody on a health policy listserv or my other accusers answered. As of this moment, my rebuttal stands unrebutted.
And so it is I have concluded we’re not getting the straight story about the vaccines, either. In the first place, there are recent reports immunity from vaccines can wear off after six months. When they said ‘get vaccinated and you can go back to a normal life’, they didn’t say, ‘and, oh by the way, it’s just for six months,’ did they? Secondly, a published medical doctor is sounding the alarm about “vaccine chasing”, the idea that mass vaccination causes new variants to emerge, just like the overuse of antibiotics causes antibiotic-resistant strains to emerge.
Dr. Richard Fleming writes there is “no statistically significant difference in the number of people who died who were un-vaccinated compared with those who received the vaccines.” Then, in discussing breakthrough cases after vaccination, “there was no statistical difference in the number of people who were diagnosed with COVID independent of whether they were vaccinated or not.” This is true for Pfizer and Moderna. Johnson & Johnson did a little better, but the comparatively good results shown at 14 days disappeared by 28 days after vaccination.
For all that trouble, in 33 countries - notably Israel and the U.K. - Delta and other new variants emerged after mass vaccination. As a result, the overall number of cases did not decrease in any of those countries despite mass vaccination. So, mass vaccination is basically a failure. Not only that, Fleming writes, there are concerns the vaccines are causing vascular disease and neurological symptoms. Then comes the kicker: “There is of course also the mounting number of deaths associated with the use of these Drug Vaccine Biologics,” Fleming writes, referring to the same government data for which my detractors came after me.
Fleming sums it up this way: “As we continue the Mass Vaccination program of using these Drug Vaccine Biologics, that according to the EUA data itself fail to show a statistical reduction in COVID-19 cases or death, with an increasing number of adverse events including death; we are simultaneously producing a Pressure Selection of Variants that will produce what appears to be a never ending cycle of Pressure Selection-Vaccination.”
A never-ending cycle, like a dog chasing its tail. The more we vaccinate, the more variants we get. The more variants we get, the more vaccines we need. Meanwhile, the people pushing the party line on vaccines are getting rich, careers are being made, and public health authorities get to feel oh, so important.
And now you want to tie me down, stick a needle in my arm, and tell me I can’t work or travel out of state if I don’t comply? Stop this train, I want to get off.
[Dr. Fleming discussed his work further on Secure Freedom Radio on 9/16/21.]
9/16/21 - The Woke and the Miserable
In a video that went viral this week, a Virginia high school teacher criticized the state’s school disciplinary guidelines as an exercise in white supremacy. “[I]t’s things like making sure that you’re following directions, making sure that you’re sitting quietly and you are in your seat and all these things that come from white culture,” the teacher said. “The idea of just sitting quiet and being told stuff and taking things in a passive stance is not a thing that’s in with many cultures. So if we’re positively enforcing these behaviors, we are by extension positively enforcing elements of white culture, which therefore keeps whiteness at the center, which is the definition of white supremacy.”
I’m sure it will come as a big surprise to school kids in India, Africa, and Japan who sit quietly in their seat, follow directions, and do better in math and science than American kids that they are now white.
I feel sorry for the teacher, Josh Thompson. It must be horrible to get up every day and live in the systemically racist heteronormative cis-gender patriarchy. I can’t imagine the mental suffering this teacher must go through every day. My heart aches for you, Josh. What a horrible, rotten country we live in.
I’m being facetious, of course, but let’s look at some other unhappy people who have made themselves miserable recently with woke crazytalk.
A professor at Syracuse University defended the Islamic 9/11 jihadi attacks on America as a laudable blow against America’s “heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems.” Take that, General Motors! I guess that means that the hijackers shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ all the way down until Flight 93 smashed upside down into the field in Pennsylvania didn’t have anything to do with it.
Then there’s our beloved State Department, you know, the one that told Americans left behind in Afghanistan they were on their own. We just went through a humiliating botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and all the State Department can worry about is how many women will be in the troglodyte Taliban government.
Anyone who uses capital letters in their writing needs to be decolonized. Using upper case means you have internalized colonialist oppression. You must use lower case to show your resistance to the hierarchical power structure. Here’s my question: if you really believe that, why are you using English at all?
Pregnant women who hold gender reveal parties are just falling for all that ‘heteronormative BS that ruins lives.’ Wow, these woke people are really killjoys, aren’t they? Now they’re going after ‘birthing persons’ and take all their fun out of life.
America’s racist past keeps black people from taking nature walks and enjoying the great outdoors today. Uh-huh, sure, I buy that.
Sorry you’re so unhappy, woke folks. But you know what? It’s not my fault and I don’t care. I do care that you’re helping a tiny leftist elite gain wealth and power for themselves by spreading their woke garbage for them. I’ve got news for you. They don’t believe it themselves; they’re only in it for the money and to beat everybody else into submission. Don’t come crying to me when, one day, their boot is on your neck.
9/15/21 - Climate Change Wars Heating Up
A recent newspaper article summarized a peer-reviewed study finding that solar activity, not carbon emissions, might be behind global warming. The article was attacked by a scientific fact-checking website, and the study authors wrote a rebuttal to the fact-checkers. The arguments are highly technical and hard to follow, but some things are clear which I will lay out at the end of this commentary.
The peer-reviewed study was written by 23 scientists from around the world and published in a scientific journal. It agrees the earth is warmer than it was in the late 19th century. The authors found, depending on which data is used, that solar activity and not human activity can account for the warming. For example, NASA satellite data explains almost all the warming as attributable to the sun, but this data is ignored by the UN IPCC climate panel and others heavily invested in the human CO2 theory of climate change. One of the authors of the study, Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, accuses the IPCC of fraud in ignoring solar activity to pursue pre-selected political goals. Moreover, a number of IPCC reviewers have, over the years, dissented from IPCC conclusions. One noted they “still predict more storms even though they are declining,” and “they still report accelerating sea level [rise] when that does not exist.”
The fact-checkers called the newspaper article “incorrect” and “misleading”. They point to a “very large consensus of scientific evidence showing that human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause of current climate change,” a consensus built on thousands of scientific papers produced over decades. Satellite data was not ignored but was considered by many of the studies cited in the IPCC’s report. They argue real-world observations do not back up the claim solar activity is responsible for global warming. Solar activity has gone down since 1980 while the average global temperature has gone up. They also argue, if the solar theory were correct, the temperature of the entire atmosphere should change at the same time but data shows temperatures at high altitudes falling while temperatures at low altitudes are rising, consistent with the greenhouse gas theory of global warming. They wrap up by pointing to scientific findings human activities account for just about all of global warming with solar activity playing a very minor part.
In their rebuttal, the study authors said the fact-checkers “cherry-picked a particular subset of the datasets we had considered to claim he had proved our analysis of the full set was ‘incorrect’.” Further, the original satellite data was ignored and only adjusted satellite data - massaged to fit political goals - was considered. They go on to say the fact-checkers inaccurately claim the IPCC is mandated to consider all scientific knowledge when there is no such mandate and the IPCC is merely reinforcing political goals the UN pre-selected many years ago.
All the back and forth aside, some things are clear. First, the fact that scientists disagree is important. It destroys the notion the science of climate change is settled and a scientific consensus agrees human activity, specifically CO2 emissions, cause global warming. Over 31,000 American scientists have signed a public statement saying: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate.” The claim ’97 percent of scientists agree human activity causes climate change’ has been debunked.
As for the number of studies backing up the carbon theory of climate change, this is just as easily taken as proof of the existence of the climate change industrial complex as it is of climate change itself. A lot of careers and pocketbooks are heavily invested in climate change. It’s not surprising climate science been politicized, as the study authors point out.
In any event, scientist Willie Soon believes global temperatures may decline in the coming decades, due to changes in solar activity. Time may be running out for the climatistas, which may explain why they are getting more hysterical by the day and pushing ever harder to lock in the Green New Deal and other policy changes that will benefit the climate change industrial complex and handsomely reward all the people in it. Follow the money, and everything will become clear.
9/14/21 - Black White Supremacist Slave Governors - Huh?
California’s recall vote is today. The leading Republican candidate Larry Elder, who happens to be black, was recently called a white supremacist by one of the speakers at a Gavin Newsom rally. Welcome to the fantasyland of the Left where men can give birth and black people can be white supremacists, even if they’re violently assaulted by radical white Leftists wearing insulting monkey masks as Elder recently was. Hold certain attitudes and you are no longer black, the thinking goes. This is obviously crazy. People who hold these beliefs should seek professional help.
So should the people who believe slavery still exists in America today, like it was 1861 or something. They’re now using the term ‘slavery’ very loosely to make their phony case, sweeping in all kinds of stuff that isn’t slavery, like blacks not doing as well economically as whites, on average. Nice try, but that’s not slavery.
Real slavery really does exist in the world today, and that’s one of the points made by Candace Owens in a recent video for PragerU. She is a conservative black and, therefore, a white supremacist, so says the delusional Left. At least 700,000 people are enslaved in Africa today, Owens says, subjected to forced labor and human trafficking. Slavery today is practiced almost exclusively in non-white countries, she goes on to say.
Her video makes other excellent points about slavery, taking down the persistent lie slavery is just a white thing. The history of slavery goes back at least 5,000 years to Egypt where slaves built the pyramids. It continued in ancient Greece and Rome, and was a big part of life in many parts of the world. There is a long history of Muslims enslaving white people. Blacks were sold into slavery in Africa by other black people.
If truth be told, whites were the first to end slavery, starting with England in 1833, followed by France, then the 13th Amendment in the United States in 1865.
If Larry Elder is elected today, will he be the first slave Governor of California, or the first black white supremacist Governor, or both? That’s what happens when the Left spins too many narratives and trips over them. I’m getting confused, but I’m sure the Left can straighten it all out for me. They’re so clever with words.
9/13/21 - Another Black Eye for the Media
USA Today issued a correction after running a supposed ‘fact check’ denying that Joe Biden checked his watch during the ceremony at Dover Air Force base honoring the 13 fallen soldiers killed while the U.S. was leaving Afghanistan. A small story perhaps, but it’s illustrative of what’s wrong with the mainstream media today.
The fact checker and others in the media made the ridiculous claim Joe Biden checked his watch only AFTER the ceremony. I say ridiculous because I had seen a photograph of Joe Biden checking his watch while Jill Biden still had her hand over her heart. If the ceremony was over, why would she be doing that? Who was I supposed to believe - the fact checkers or my own lying eyes?
Gold star families saw Biden check his watch during the ceremony, not just once, but several times. USA Today deservedly caught heat for implying they were lying. USA Today changed its headline from ‘Biden Checked His Watch Only After the Ceremony’ to ‘During the Ceremony’. The fact checker expressed regret, claiming he made a simple mistake.
I don’t think it’s that simple. I’m sitting here with four dozen admissions from mainstream journalists themselves they are biased in favor of liberals and against conservatives. The latest I saw was a CNN columnist admitting CNN is no longer tolerant of conservative views. Admissions against interest are the strongest type of evidence used in court. So admissions are the strongest kind of evidence and I’m sitting here with four dozen of them. If you think I don’t have the goods, just try me. Supposed simple mistakes by fact checkers are more likely the product of their bias against the political Right. They rush to judgment and write stupid stuff without getting the whole story, or they misperceive the facts because they so desperately want to score political points.
There are other problems with today’s media. The economics of the news business have deteriorated, leading even mainstream outlets to take money from dodgy sources. Recently, it was discovered that the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune were taking money from the Chinese communists to print Chinese propaganda. Other financial support for so-called journalism has come from Google, the Rockefeller Family Fund to trash fossil fuels, and George Soros to downplay voter fraud.
Then we have the shaky ethics of today’s media. The Society of Professional Journalists removed the rule against opinion and bias in news stories from its ethics code 25 years ago. The results are plain for all to see. Things have only gotten worse since then, to the point where NPR now says it’s OK for its reporters to actually take part in demonstrations and activist events where this had previously been frowned on throughout the journalism profession. So, under today’s ethics, it’s perfectly OK for reporters to inject their personal opinions into news stories, and to jump right in to demonstrations and still keep a straight face while claiming to be honest brokers of the news.
If you’re a default liberal, live in a bubble where your side is always right and virtuous, and accept whatever line your leaders are putting out, none of this matters to you. But if you’re a thinking person who likes to draw their own conclusions about things, you need to dig deeper and consult a variety of sources before you swallow ridiculous claims like ‘Joe Biden didn’t check his watch’ from dishonest, hyperpartisan, and delusional so-called fact-checkers.
9/10/21 - Diving Off the Twin Towers
Reposted at The United West
The Washington establishment and complicit media are desperate to change the conversation about the September 11th Islamic jihad terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 Americans in 2001. They want to pivot to the poor suffering Muslims who are the supposed real victims of that terrible day, victims of hate speech and discrimination. Never mind that hate crimes against Muslims are down 42 percent, according to the latest government figures.
The Virginia Department of Education put out a video instructing public schools that the focus of the day must shift to stamping out what the video calls “anti-Muslim racism”. The line being put out is that Muslims are the victims here, victims of the American response to the attacks. Teachers are to leave out Islamic extremism and terrorism when teaching about 9/11. Heaven forbid you teach about how many people died that day.
This is in line with recommendations for classroom instruction from the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR, which is Hamas in America and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case. Top of mind for CAIR is anti-Muslim bigotry and bullying in school. Its classroom resource guide recommends not associating 9/11 with Islam or Muslims at all and steering classroom discussion, instead, towards bigotry and hate crimes against Muslims.
Leftists recommend we skip 9/11 entirely and deflect attention right away to the big bugaboo of white supremacy. 9/11 is out; January 6th is the only thing worth talking about, according to this false narrative. This game has been going on since at least 2018 when a Muslim employee of the FBI kept deflecting attention away from domestic Islamic terrorism and toward white supremacy at a community relations event in Detroit.
The narrative keepers want us to believe that the 9/11 hijackers were just dissatisfied with American foreign policy, or what they did was not real Islam or, in the immortal words of Ilhan Omar, “some people did something.”
Here’s the truth: the 9/11 attacks would not have occurred but for the standard Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad, as shown by Arabic-language sources of Al Qaeda messages at the time. Moreover, in 2009, five masterminds of the 9/11 attacks including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - calling themselves the “9/11 Shura Council” - wrote that the 9/11 attacks were an “act of Jihad”, jihad being “a great duty in our religion.” They quoted numerous verses from the Quran including the infamous ‘Verse of the Sword’ - “fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them.”
This is real Islam, which is the real meaning of the 9/11 attacks. ‘Why do they hate us?,’ George W. Bush wondered after the attacks. They hate us because their religion commands them to hate us and no amount of official deflection to white supremacy can change that fact. I said at the outset the Washington establishment is desperate to change the conversation about 9/11. This is how desperate they are: the people in charge of the domestic terrorism TEVUS database changed the race of the 9/11 hijackers from ‘Arab’ to ‘white’. They’re cooking the books to minimize Islamic terrorism and puff up white nationalism. Similarly, the people who want to rewrite history and change 9/11 into just another day of service do a disservice to the nation. It’s time to have an honest national conversation about the standard Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad. I currently have a case in federal court against the FBI aimed at doing just that. More on that as the case progresses.
9/9/21 - Arizona Election Report Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
A grassroots canvassing project found 173,000 votes in Maricopa County, Arizona were discarded and 96,000 were cast by someone other than the true voter. The 2020 presidential election in Arizona was decided by just 10,000 votes. Gateway Pundit Grassroots Canvass Report While the report does not prove election fraud, it does indicate serious problems with the election process that enable fraud to occur.
Dedicated volunteers went door-to-door verifying registration and other voter information. Most of the residents voted by mail but, somehow, their votes were not reported or counted. As for the 96,000 cast in the wrong name, current residents said in many instances the people had moved away. The report also found many mail-in votes cast from vacant lots, votes recorded from residents who had not actually voted, and other problems.
The report recommends doing away with mail-in voting entirely. Before you dismiss this as the ravings of wild-eyed lunatics, you should know that a bipartisan commission headed up by Jimmy Carter and James Baker recommended the same thing in 2005. The commission recommended other common sense reforms like voter ID - which today is supported by most voters; no ballot harvesting by third parties - outlawed today in some states; and cleaning up the voter rolls by removing dead voters, etc. - which is about as common sense as you can get.
Half the country thinks the 2020 election was stolen. I can’t get to the bottom of that here today, but I can tell you a lot of problems need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again. The problems in the 2020 election prompted a great flurry of activity and brought many worried people into the political process for the first time. The Arizona canvassing project is just one of hundreds of projects to shore up our elections underway all across the country. Activists are gathered into statewide networks and multistate teams. State networks are underway in Virginia and Michigan with my help. Activities include pushing for forensic audits, finding and training poll watchers and election officers, and focusing on absentee and mail-in ballot counting during the entire election season, not just election day.
All of these efforts are to be applauded. Efforts to stop them, like the audit in Arizona - the results of which are expected soon - should be viewed with suspicion. Why did the Democrats try so hard to stop the audit in Arizona? What’s that about? There’s only one reason to oppose audits and common sense election reforms like voter ID - you’re trying to steal elections.
Thankfully, a lot of people have woken up and are working very hard to prevent that. Some years ago, a Tea Party friend of mine took a look at Virginia’s election code. He quit after he found a hundred ways cheating could occur. So all the holes will never be plugged and you can bet the Democrats will always come up with new ones in every future election. This is where my personal efforts are devoted these days - to providing an early warning system of how the Democrats and their friends on the Left will try to game future elections. More on that another day but, for now, any well-intentioned person will recognize we are all better off if we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
9/8/21 - There’s Never Enough Money for Single Payer
‘Read my lips’, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in effect in 2019, ‘no new taxes.’ But now he wants higher taxes to help pay for the increasing cost of Britain’s National Health Service. Britain’s single payer system has been bleeding money and calling for more funds as long as I’ve been tracking it. Chronic funding shortfalls have led to staffing shortages, long waiting lists, and withheld surgeries. This means, among other things, that cancer patients are left in the dark about treatments and side effects, newborns die at high rates, and people with lifetime medical conditions like cystic fibrosis are short-changed. Fixing the wait time crisis alone in the UK would cost an astronomical amount of money.
Yet, the American Left has been trying to bring UK-style single payer national healthcare to the United States for the last hundred years. They won’t quit. Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal may have put their push for Medicare for All on the back burner a few months ago, but this was just a tactical retreat. Jayapal and some 125 co-sponsors just introduced a bill to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60. The idea is to salami-slice their way to single payer if they can’t get the whole enchilada in one bite. (How’s that for mixing metaphors?)
In New York, it was reported the Democrats had enough votes in the legislature at the beginning of the summer to pass single payer and override any veto. This was despite warnings the plan would hike payroll taxes by $253 billion, more than the entire state budget. Critics also pointed out the proposal would kill jobs, and lead to long wait times for medical care just like in the UK and Canada. At the end of last year, almost 30,000 people were waiting for surgery in the Canadian single payer system. More were waiting an average 22 weeks just to see a specialist. It’s called ‘death by waiting’ and that certainly is one way to keep costs down. Pressure groups run around cheerleading for single payer in the U.S., but most Americans would find these wait times completely unacceptable.
At the federal level, we could double all corporate and individual income taxes and that still wouldn’t cover the cost of single payer. Critics also point out doctors would get paid 40 percent less under single payer and this would eventually cut the supply of new doctors. Nine in ten hospitals would run chronic deficits, which hardly sounds like a sustainable system to me.
People who push single payer don’t have the sense they were born with. People with any sense at all will realize that anything that is free at the point of service will generate escalating demands that can never be met. Free at the point of service is the fatal flaw of single payer and that’s why there’s never enough money for single payer. Single payer is pie-in-the-sky and let’s hope it stays that way. I guarantee you, you don’t want the pain of single payer inflicted on you or your loved ones.
9/7/21 - Liberal Policies Hurt People (cont’d)
They’ll tell you they’re saving the planet. They’ll tell you anyone who doesn’t agree with them is deplorable. But the truth is liberals and progressives wreck everything they get their hands on. Their policies, far from making things better, actually hurt people.
We start in California. Businesses are fleeing the state, and the pace is picking up. The rate doubled in the first six months of 2021. They’re fleeing high taxes, overregulation, excessive litigation costs, unaffordable housing and, last but not least, soaring energy bills due to government policies. Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are among the companies that have left.
It’s not just businesses leaving. The latest taxpayer migration data showed California lost more tax filers than any other state - 165,000 in a recent two-year period, representing $8.8 billion in net adjusted gross income. The data shows California residents of all ages and incomes are leaving. People are voting against high state taxes with their feet.
California isn’t the only place progressive insanity reigns supreme. That pretty much describes the entire Democrat Party. Take Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, for example, a Democrat who wants to increase the capital gains tax in the name of the progressive’s new/old pet cause, “equity”. Socking it to those evil rich people sounds great on the surface, but a study was done showing Van Hollen’s bill would, over the next 10 years, kill 745,000 jobs, trim almost a trillion dollars off gross domestic product, cause investment to decline by over $600 billion, and R&D to go down more than $6 billion dollars. Households would lose almost $9,000 in income over the same period, the study showed. Democrats and progressives are always looking to redistribute income, but they don’t understand wealth has to be created before it can be redistributed. Hiking the capital gains tax is a sure-fire way to damage innovation, job creation, economic activity, and household income.
There are other ways Democrats and progressives are out of touch with reality. A common criticism of minimum wage laws is that they kill jobs, but these laws also cut workers hours as employers maneuver to avoid paying fringe benefits to keep total compensation constant. In California, raising the minimum wage $1 an hour led to five fewer hours of work. Minimum wage hikes also make work schedules more irregular, making it more difficult for employees to coordinate childcare and a second job.
In April, the House passed a bill to require employers to show a business necessity for paying individual workers different wages. If this bill were to become law. overall wages would go down and performance pay would be eliminated. Women would suffer because employers would scale back on flexible schedules - which women like - keeping everything standardized out of fear of litigation. A similar law in Denmark was found to decrease the gender wage gap, but by lowering men’s wages, not by raising pay for women.
Yes, liberal policies hurt people. You’ll notice in each one of these instances, the impulse of the progressive is always to make more people do more things - pay higher taxes, jump through more regulatory hoops, pay higher wages. Can all this really bring about heaven on earth when it means people are no longer free? The Democrats are veering off into authoritarianism and they will eventually find people won’t sit still for it.
9/3/21 - COVID Quackery Continues
Serious questions continue to pile up about the way public health officials are handling the COVID pandemic.
First, they continue to cook the books and overstate the number of COVID deaths, as I’ve documented many times before. Most recently, a study showed the CDC abandoned its previous data collection methods and employed new methods resulting in the overstatement of COVID fatalities by 1,600 percent. A county in California cut its COVID death count by 25 percent after a review showed many deaths were “clearly not” caused by coronavirus. Stanford researchers found the number of kids hospitalized with COVID has been overstated by hospitals counting kids who are admitted for other reasons as COVID admissions if they test positive for COVID but have no symptoms.
Public health officials continue to push masks, even though officials in the U.K., the WHO, and some even in America say masks provide little to no health benefit. The CDC recommends universal masking in K-12 schools even though the science is equivocal at best and other countries have concluded mandatory mask-wearing in schools is not justified. Ask yourselves a question: If masks are so effective at preventing COVID transmission, why did some places empty their jails instead of just requiring prisoners to wear masks?
Then we come to the inanity of employers and others requiring proof of vaccination even from people who have already had COVID and recovered. This turns hundreds of years of science about immunity on its head. People who have had a disease have antibodies that help them ward off future bouts of the disease. Vaccines mimic this dynamic, but some people no longer believe in natural immunity built up from previous exposure to the disease. The situation reminds me of the movie “Idiocracy” where people in the future buy a green fluid from corporations because they’d forgotten that water makes crops grow. Hate to break it to you, but antibody levels drop 20 percent in two months in people receiving a second dose of a COVID vaccine.
Which brings us to Ivermectin. The media loved scaring you to death about rampant COVID cases and deaths in India earlier this year, but the story went away after the widespread introduction of Ivermectin there. Similar good results have been obtained more recently in Ivermectin countries in Africa. The results from other countries are so good, the Tokyo Medical Association just announced it is recommending Ivermectin for Japan. There is scare-mongering about an animal version of the drug, but the version for humans won the Nobel Prize in 2015 and has been shown to be safe after 3.5 billion prescriptions worldwide. What is going on with Ivermectin is similar to what went on with hydroxychloroquine, another safe drug recommended early in the pandemic by 6,000 doctors worldwide but trashed here at home for political reasons. Anthony Fauci actually claimed hydroxychloroquine was dangerous, but he was already in possession of information showing it was effective.
COVID is dangerous, but so was Trump Derangement Syndrome, as we now see. Also dangerous are public health officials who continue to play politics with people’s lives.
9/2/21 - ‘911 - What Is Your Emergency?’
Late last night, the Supreme Court declined to block a Texas law banning abortions after 6 weeks, at least for now. That’s very good news because, among other things, it means there will be fewer botched abortions in Texas in the immediate future. Do you know how many botched abortion stories have been in the news lately? I’m about to tell you. This is gruesome stuff but don’t flinch, don’t turn away. I want you to know exactly what you’re supporting if you support abortion.
An abortionist in Maryland attempted to use a first-trimester method to abort a late-term baby, leading to massive blood loss from the mother covering the abortionist and attending staff in blood. Mother and baby were transferred to a hospital for emergency surgery where surgeons found the baby’s head still barely attached to its body. The mother had to be given a full hysterectomy to save her life.
A woman in Michigan was still bleeding an hour after her abortion. She suffered “abnormal uterine and vaginal bleeding” after abortionists cut her uterus and could not control the hemorrhaging. It was much the same story for women in Illinois and California who were bleeding out after botched abortions. In Illinois, luckily, the ambulance got there in three minutes.
These women were among the lucky ones. Botched abortions killed two women in Nigeria and another in India.
Twenty women in ten years had to be transported to hospital emergency rooms after botched abortions at a particular facility in Cleveland.
Around 450 women in all have died in the U.S. from legal abortions. Why is it abortion advocates never talk about this fact? Why do they deliberately downplay the risks?
OK, so you’ve had your abortion and there weren’t any problems. You think you’re out of the woods. But did you know your abortion can still reach out and kill you weeks later? A British mother died of sepsis four weeks after her abortion.
Sepsis is a complication of infection. Infection is one of the risks disclosed on a Planned Parenthood abortion consent form. Other complications disclosed include blood clots, tears in the cervix, perforations of the uterus and other organs, hysterectomy, abortions that fail to kill the baby and require repeat procedures, excessive bleeding, and death. The form goes on to state that parenting, foster care, and adoption are alternatives to abortion. If you don’t like the prospect of bleeding out in an ambulance or dying of sepsis, it would be a good idea to look into one of those.
9/1/21 - The Government Needs to Stop Hiding the Ball About COVID Vaccine Deaths
Reposted at LeoHohmann.com
My commentary on Monday talked about the more than 13,000 deaths in the U.S. and thousands of other adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. My commentary was based on official government numbers. It has since been drawn to my attention that the government has placed disclaimers on those numbers. Media stories accuse people like me who rely on the numbers of misinterpreting the data and spreading misinformation. After reading the disclaimer and reviewing the arguments, I conclude the situation is actually worse than I thought it was, not better as the accusers claim.
The disclaimer states, “Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to the system.... In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary....” That’s not true. Healthcare providers are required by law to report adverse reactions, according to the government’s own website.
Falsely claiming the system is largely based on self-reporting insinuates that the public is submitting fake reports of adverse reactions and that throws the numbers completely off. In the first place, adverse reaction reporting has been going on for at least 30 years. There are severe penalties for making false reports. If fake reports were such a huge problem, we would have heard about it by now and the data would have been yanked from public view long ago. But the numbers are still there. Anybody can click on a link and see them. Moreover, the element of self-reporting from the public could mean the numbers might actually be worse than reported. Undoubtedly, some members of the public do not know to report adverse reactions, leaving an untold number unreported.
The disclaimer goes on to say adverse reaction reports might be inaccurate or unverifiable and, therefore,” cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness." The disclaimer also says the raw numbers are not suitable for scientific purposes.
Fair enough, but the disclaimer goes on to say the numbers “provide an early warning of a safety problem with a vaccine ... and further studies can be done ... (to) assess health risks and possible connections between adverse events and a vaccine.” The disclaimer also says the public only gets to see the raw numbers and “amended data are not available to the public.”
That leaves people in the dark when making the personal decision whether or not to get the COVID vaccine. The public has no way of knowing what the follow-up studies show or whether they’re being done at all. This does not inspire confidence. So the CDC official who claims there have only been three deaths from the vaccines, not 13,000, and the vaccines are safe comes off sounding like Baghdad Bob - the bombs are not falling when they obviously are.
If public health officials want us to believe these vaccines are safe, the burden is on them to show us the data that they put out publicly is so bad nobody should rely on it for anything. The burden is on them to show this is not Russian roulette and people getting vaccinated don’t have a significant chance of dying from the vaccine. I would love to hear them make that case. In fact, I would love to hear them break their silence and address the question of adverse reactions at all. 13,000 deaths versus three - that’s a big difference and it needs to be explained. If you want to inspire confidence, release the amended data. My bet is they won’t - either because there are no follow-up studies or the studies show the raw numbers are basically correct. There is a doctrine in the law - adverse inferences can be drawn against the party hiding evidence. So to public health officials I say, put up or shut up. The uncertainty you have created makes it worse for you, not better.
If they’re going to leave the raw data out there for 30 years, they have only themselves to blame when people like me get alarmed by the impression created that these vaccines are killing people by the thousands. Until public health officials make their case, I am perfectly comfortable warning people about the 13,000 deaths and thousands of other adverse reactions these vaccines have apparently caused, according to the best publicly available official government data we have. If that’s misinformation, I’ll eat my hat.