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2021-11-14 l
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION XII

Let America Be America Again
(1935)

by Langston Hughes

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There’s never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”)

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one’s own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That’s made America the land it has become.
O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore,
And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came
To build a “homeland of the free.”

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that’s almost dead today.

O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

2021-11-14 k
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION XI
(This author agrees with most of Bernie Sander's policies!)

Now the reason I can’t support Sanders is his immigration and insane idea to let everyone in the world enter the US and get free everything. Sanders would be saying that Americans don’t have a home.

Because a home is defined by exclusion. If anyone can enter “your home”, then it’s not really a home. It’s a common space, and what happens to common spaces is it becomes a dump. Things you think of as nice commons are restricted and regulated. Even hippie communes had to kick people out who were abusing the commons. Sanders would make that impossible – deportations would stop under Sanders.

So you’re f’d. Anyone can come in (no border controls), and can do whatever they want (stop police brutality!), and can’t be kicked out for being horrible (no deportations, we’re all human beings!). How long would a commune last with this kind of membership policy?

In fact, Sanders has proposed flying illegals who were deported for a crime back into the United States.

In the past, people like me would parody you guys and say someday they’ll support something this crazy. But now, that’s literally what Sanders is saying.

To have a home-land means other people have to be excluded, otherwise it’s not a home-land, it’s just a land.

[...] But Sanders’ immigration policy is truly insane and divorced from consequence. That’s something which, once you’re out, if you’re out, that you’ll look back on in disbelief how you could possibly support that lunacy. (read more)

2021-11-14 j
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION X

[...] Biden is the epitome of the empty, amoral creature produced by our system of legalized bribery, those who built our culture of sadism. His long political career in Congress was defined by representing the interests of big business, especially the credit card companies based in Delaware. He was nicknamed Senator Credit Card. He has always glibly told the public what it wants to hear and then sold them out. He was a prominent promoter and architect of a generation of federal “tough on crime” laws that militarized the nation’s police and more than doubled the population of the prison system, the world’s largest, with harsh mandatory sentencing guidelines and laws that put people in prison for life for nonviolent drug crimes, even as his son struggled with addiction. He was a principal author of the Patriot Act. And there has never been a weapons system, or a war, he did not support. Nothing substantial will change under Biden, despite the hyperventilating about him being the next FDR.

The Biden administration resembles the ineffectual German government formed by Franz von Papen in 1932 that sought to recreate the ancien régime, a utopian conservatism that ensured Germany’s drift into fascism. Biden is bereft, like von Papen, of new ideas and programs. He will keep the machinery of repression well oiled, a machinery he was instrumental throughout his political career in constructing. Those that resist will be attacked as agents of a foreign power and censored, as many already are being censored, through algorithms and deplatforming on social media. The most ardent dissidents, such as Julian Assange, will be criminalized.

— Chris Hedges, American Sadism

2021-11-14 i
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION IX

Race, IQ, and Crime

"Racial differences in IQ probably explain a good deal of the Black-White crime gap, though not all of it."

This article will analyze the role that racial intelligence differences play in racial crime differences. First, I’ll review the national and individual level data showing that crime has a negative association with IQ which persists after controlling for all home environment variables. Second, I’ll show that the so-called differential detection hypothesis is false and that IQ probably has a causal relationship with criminal activity. Finally, it will be shown that a large proportion of the Black-White crime gap can be accounted for by controlling for IQ. (read more)

2021-11-14 h
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VIII
(Importing more blacks and Hispanics will hasten the bankruptcy of the US.)

Fiscal Impact by Racial Group (Billions)

(image source)

2021-11-14 g
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VII

Good vaccines are modeled to mimic natural infection and rely on ones own immune system to produce antibodies and provide protection.

Natural immunity is the gold standard.

CDC estimates that nearly 43% of the country has already been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and thus naturally immune. And that was all before the more transmissible delta variant took hold.

Living in a bubble of sterile conditions is counterproductive to everything we know about strengthening the immune system. It’s Immunology 101. To downplay the beneficial and protective powers of our immune system goes against the founding principles of immunology. Several studies about SARS-CoV-2 are validating that knowledge.

There is no documented case of a naturally immune person getting re-infected with severe disease or hospitalization, despite the first case reported nearly two years ago. In sharp contrast there are thousands of cases of severe Covid, hospitalizations and deaths in fully vaccinated people.

CDC now estimates 90% of Americans over the age of 16 have antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. But vaccine induced antibodies are only a small fraction of our immune responses.

Immune studies from the British Health Ministry suggests that Covid vaccines might interfere with the ability of our immune system to produce antibodies against other parts of the virus, [a] crucial aspect for developing cross protection. The spike antibodies are incomplete and cherry-picked stories.

Vaccine induced protection fell through 33 to 42% within 3 months. That is no different than the protection the unvaccinated have. Hence mandates to prevent spread by using spike antibody levels as the gold standard is gross misrepresentation of data.

It should not have taken the Massachusetts breakthrough infections this summer to discover that fully vaccinated people are just as vulnerable to being infected and transmit SARS-CoV-2 as the unvaccinated. Had the trials been stringent, had the phase II and III [trials] stuck to the protocols of follow-up, had the regulators enforced manufacturers to study prevention of infection in their clinical trials, this fiasco could have been avoided.

Instead, manufacturers configured these trials to study the prevention of mild symptoms and used pre-clinical models, such as the rhesus monkeys, in whom the virus does not cause disease. If all we can do is prevent symptoms and severe disease [then] we should be talking about drugs to treat Covid, not vaccines and mandates.

We lost the opportunity of discovering these major shortcomings by torpedoing the clinical trials. The placebo groups were eliminated just two months after the second dose. Instead, we are learning through trial and error on hundreds of millions of people. And, we insist on eliminating a very important control group by these vaccine mandates. There is no scientific study or experimental design in which we can learn anything of value without a control group. Certainly not about safety and efficacy.

— Dr. Aditi Bhargava

2021-11-14 f
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VI
(Illegitimate Biden regime wants to make the Marines diverse. Diversity destroys excellence. I predict many ghetto monkeys will be raping the white girls (even the dykes) and lack the smarts to be part of an elite fighting force.)

The Corps isn't racist when you first join up you're all maggots regardless of race, religion or creed. Once you complete basic you are all United States Marines. Members of a brotherhood. No diversity program needed, it's already in place.

— Phillip Ribbink (@ribbink_phillip) November 13, 2021

God help us. The Marines have gone woke under Biden's handlers.https://t.co/yROrJkTZ6O

— Geoff Simon (@GeoffSimonSays) November 10, 2021

You have to be kidding. The Marines do not need a "WOKE" adviser much less one making $144K a year. No government employee should make over $100K that is not an elected official. https://t.co/5ouewenw1L #FoxNews

— Brad Peters (@the_brad_peters) November 10, 2021

The reason why the US Marines were so unsuccessful at Tripoli, Chapultepec, Belleau Wood, and Iwo Jima was because of their lack of diversity.

Good thing we’re fixing that now. https://t.co/IAjb2dQCVM

— Brian's Red Hat (@returnofbrian) November 13, 2021

See also: The Marine Corps is reinventing itself to reflect America, says top general

See also: US Marines deny British commandos ‘dominated’ them during war games

2021-11-14 e
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION V
(Let them eat wedding cake.)

Ivy Love Getty’s lavish wedding shines a light on the hypocrisy of the San Francisco elite.

While San Francisco public school students have been instructed to wear masks between bites at lunch, Ivy Love Getty, heiress to the Getty Oil fortune, celebrated her nuptials last weekend in a flurry of sparsely masked gatherings with the San Francisco political machine, fading celebrities, and some stray European royalty. The ceremony, officiated by House speaker Nancy Pelosi, was held at City Hall. Vogue writes that “San Francisco’s City Hall is designed to inspire awe—a symbol of the city’s power and resilience . . . with its white marble detailing and soaring dome that looms more than 300 feet overhead,” but adds that the ceremony felt intimate and personal.

Do tell. City Hall is located in the Tenderloin neighborhood, ground zero of the city’s drug and homelessness crises. Ordinarily, the awe-inspiring symbol of rebirth is surrounded by syringes, excrement, and half-alive bodies. November 6, however, was no ordinary day. Police diverted traffic while red carpets covered the stairs. Vogue attests that the party proceeded as planned. No amount of human misery can ruin the matrimony of the local petroleum princess, certainly not the kind of misery that the political machine allows to persist right under its nose.

I’ve been waiting for two months to receive a new shower door for the bathroom I’ve been renovating, but the Gettys don’t have supply-chain problems. Ivy wore at least a half-dozen gowns during the various gatherings—Alexander McQueen, Emanuel Ungaro, John Galliano—and two pairs of Louboutins on her wedding day: one for the ceremony and another for the reception. The reception was held at the Getty mansion, which was adorned with, Vogue informs, “a museum-quality collection of European antiques, Venetian paintings, French textiles, and Russian chandeliers, . . . gold-framed Impressionist paintings,” and a rose garden. Honored by such guests as Gavin Newsom (his last public appearance before a mysterious sabbatical), Kamala Harris, Justin Bieber, and the princess of Greece, a girl has to do her best. (read more)

2021-11-14 d
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION IV

The ‘Build Back Better’ plan would be utter poison for a struggling economy

[Illegitimate] Veep Kamala Harris is the latest Bidenite to push the line that “Build Back Better” will fix the US economy. Hah! President Biden’s plan would hurt Americans whenever it passed, but with the economy in fragile shape, it’s hard to think of a worse time for it than now.

Consider: Washington has already OK’d nearly $6 trillion for “COVID-19 relief” since March 2020 — plus another $1.2 trillion just passed for infrastructure, all of it juicing demand. Generous handouts pushed by Dems, like unemployment bonuses, have made it easier for people to stay home from work, fueling a supply-chain crisis. And Biden’s anti-fossil-fuel policies have driven up energy costs.

The result: The worst inflation in more than a generation, rapidly eroding Americans’ purchasing power. More unfilled jobs than people seeking work. Bare shelves and consumers unable to get goods they need. Heating costs that may prove crippling this winter. Slowing economic growth — pegged at an anemic 2 percent annual pace last quarter. And, of course, soaring national debt.

All as the nation struggles to recover from the economic blows of the [fake] pandemic and lockdowns.

Americans now face the grim prospect of ’70s stagflation: a lagging GDP coupled with runaway prices. Yet somehow Democrats think this would be a swell time for more inflationary spending, more handouts, more growth-strangling taxes, regulations and Green New Deal-style boondoggles. It’s sheer lunacy.

Happily, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) is sounding the alarm: “From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans know the inflation tax is real, and DC can no longer ignore the economic pain Americans feel every day,” a clear sign he’s still leaning against BBB.

The bill’s potential for damage doesn’t end there. Existing entitlement programs are in danger: The [fictitious] Social Security trust fund [of worthless treasury securities] that pays retiree benefits will be bone dry by 2033, and ongoing payroll-tax collections will cover only about 76 percent of scheduled payouts. Medicare, too, is in trouble.

“Social Security and Medicare both face long-term financing shortfalls under currently scheduled benefits and financing,” a Social Security Administration report warns. Yet Biden & Co. have been looking to expand assorted benefits and entitlements.

Let’s face it: Biden’s Build Back Better scheme was never meant for today’s precarious situation. It was a left-wing wish list to transform the nation (and reward Dem allies) pushed by radicals like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez back in 2019, long before COVID, inflation and the supply-chain shortages. (read more)

2021-11-14 c
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION III

The media framed Kyle Rittenhouse — and won’t come clean even after the prosecution’s case falls apart

Media malpractice has come full circle in Kenosha, Wis.

Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial for the shooting deaths of two people and the wounding of another is nearing its end, with the jury expected to get the case soon. The shootings took place as riots, arson and looting shook Kenosha after police shot Jacob Blake on August 23, 2020. The violence fed off the nationwide riots and looting that followed the May death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

From the start, the media misrepresented the Blake case and ensuing riots. They portrayed Blake as an unarmed man who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, subjected to police brutality due to racism.

The truth was far different.

After an intensive investigation, prosecutors declared Blake’s shooting a justifiable use of force. The federal Justice Department reached the same conclusion. Contrary to media portraits, Blake was armed with a knife and was shot when he turned in a slashing motion at a policeman within arm’s reach.

While it wouldn’t be fair to say the media coverage caused the Kenosha riots, the press downplayed the mayhem and ramped up the hysteria. As with the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis and beyond, the mainstream media incessantly focused away from the violence, despite almost 20 related deaths and more than $1 billion in damage.

Perhaps the most notorious example is CNN reporter Omar Jiménez standing in front of burning buildings in Kenosha with the on-air chyron reading, “Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting.” The phrase “mostly peaceful” is now a popular internet meme used to mock distorted mainstream media coverage.

It’s happening again with the Rittenhouse case, which was born in the Kenosha riots. From the media coverage leading up to the trial, one would think Rittenhouse was a white supremacist militia member who traveled to Kenosha to shoot up peaceful protesters.

But as has been widely documented, the case is going poorly for the prosecution. While I’m not predicting an outcome, having followed the case carefully, I can say that Rittenhouse has a strong case for self-defense.

One of the deceased, Joseph Rosenbaum, was a clearly violent person who had threatened to kill Rittenhouse, chased him down and went to grab Rittenhouse’s rifle when shot. The other dead man, Anthony Huber, was beating Rittenhouse with a skateboard in a swinging manner when shot.

Gaige Grosskreutz, who was wounded, admitted under cross-examination that he ran after Rittenhouse and closed the gap (but denied he was “chasing” him) — and that Rittenhouse only fired on him when Grosskreutz lowered his loaded Glock pistol to point directly at Rittenhouse from three feet away.

Most of this evidence came out of the prosecution case. When the defense called him to testify, Rittenhouse stuck to the same story witnesses told.

With trial evidence inconsistent with the news’ narrative, there could have been a major media mea culpa. Instead, headlines and framing continue that pre-trial narrative, even if inconvenient facts appear deep down in the articles. As the editors who run these stories and draft the headlines know, many if not most people don’t get far beyond the headlines and opening paragraphs.

Thus, NBC News breathlessly headlines a news report about the prosecution’s forensic pathologist testifying that Rosenbaum was in a “horizontal” position, “suggesting the victim wasn’t a threat when he was gunned down.” It’s not until the bottom of the article that NBC acknowledges that same expert testified the wound positioning was consistent with Rosenbaum diving towards Rittenhouse. Left out of the story was his testimony that gunpowder residue was consistent with Rosenbaum grabbing the muzzle of the gun when he was shot, just as Rittenhouse and witnesses said.

The headline highlight of Grosskreutz’s testimony according to a Daily Beast report was that he “tried to surrender” to Rittenhouse. Similar misleading narratives frame the case at the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and elsewhere. Reading only these publications, it would be reasonable to believe the original story of Rittenhouse as a shooter run amok, despite the trial testimony to the contrary.

From the inception of the Blake shooting, to the riots and now to the Rittenhouse trial, media malpractice has framed a Kenosha narrative completely divorced from reality. (read more)

2021-11-14 b
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION II
(Letters like this might change some universities bent on self-destruction. The ones with huge endowments won't care.)

Goodbye, MIT

As the university increasingly caves to “wokeness,” two alumni explain why they are withdrawing their financial support.

We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago. MIT was academically rigorous, and it taught us our crafts and the essence of problem-solving, enabling us to thrive in our careers. We owe much to our alma mater and have donated to it regularly.

No more.

The current MIT administration has caved repeatedly to the demands of “wokeness,” treating its students unfairly, compromising the quality of its staff, and damaging the institution and academic freedom at large.

We object to MIT’s politically correct measures, including the firing of its Catholic chaplain. In the early days of the George Floyd protests, before the details of Floyd’s [fentanyl overdose] death were clear, Father Daniel Moloney sent a letter outlining his thoughts on the event to the university’s Catholic community. It was a sincere examination of conscience from a person whose job it was to examine conscience, yet it prompted his immediate dismissal. MIT’s leadership apparently took umbrage at his statement of these simple facts: that George Floyd “had not lived a virtuous life” (based on his multiple criminal convictions) and that “most people in the country have framed [Floyd’s death] as an act of racism. I don’t think we know that.”

Moloney did not present these statements as justification for Floyd’s death; to the contrary, his letter begins, “George Floyd was killed by a police officer, and shouldn’t have been.” But MIT found the letter intolerable and fired the chaplain. (We are not Catholic, by the way, but believe fairness transcends religion.) (read more)

2021-11-14 a
THE STATE OF THE DISUNION I
(I want to believe this is a parody. It's from a Bay Area writer for the far Left The Atlantic. If it is autobiographical, this emasculated hypochondriac is truly a bedwetting sissy. His disability must be in his genes. He tells us, as if it's a status symbol, that his 8-year-old is "non-binary." I'm guessing that means his son is effeminate.)

Getting Back to Normal Is Only Possible Until You Test Positive

I was ultracareful for 18 months. Then I got COVID.

When I first received the invitation to the wedding where I would eventually get COVID, I was on the fence about attending at all. My best friend had gone through a tough divorce and was remarrying. I was thrilled for him. His wedding had been put off repeatedly because of COVID, and this was the couple’s second try at a real ceremony. As a bonus, the wedding would take place in New Orleans, where my friend lives. I hadn’t seen him since before the pandemic. New Orleans is a miraculous place, and my favorite city to visit in America. The notion of a trip there shone out of the fog and dreariness of this whole era of history.

The downside, of course, was the risk of exposure to COVID. Sure, I’m vaccinated—two shots of Pfizer—and the wedding’s other attendees would all be vaccinated too. But breakthrough cases happen, and we’d be in New Orleans in October, a place where cases were still high and vaccination was inconsistent. One could not expect to not get exposed to COVID.

But then I reasoned both with myself and with my wife. COVID was unlikely to kill me, a vaccinated 39-year-old endurance athlete. I would be fine, and even if I gave the coronavirus to any of my family members, they too would almost certainly be fine. My wife is vaccinated, and our young children’s risk of serious illness, while not nonexistent, is very low.

I went back and forth, looking at flights and realizing that I’d probably have to travel through Las Vegas and have a considerable layover. I put off RSVPing one way or the other, and thought I would end up passively not going, the slow slide into a never-booked flight.

But for some reason, one morning in early October, I got the “last call” email about the wedding and I revisited the prospect. Everything was beginning to seem more and more normal. The [National Propaganda Radio affiliate] radio station where I host a show was encouraging people to come back into the office. I saw laughing, maskless people in my social-media feeds and in restaurant windows. The Delta-variant surge was easing in most places. Cases were coming down. The really vulnerable were getting boosters. Kid vaccinations were on the horizon. Filled with a surge of love for my friends and New Orleans and a sense that, you know what, I’m ready to nose out into a new tier of risk, I booked a flight; I’d be going solo.

As the day approached, my wife and I had not run through every scenario. I still was not precisely sure how the wedding would work, COVID-wise. My friend is a doctor, and I knew the crowd would mostly be New York and California people. There would be no anti-vaxxers among the guests, and the invitation said they’d follow the local public-health protocols. And I think I didn’t want to know too much. If I’m honest with myself, once I decided to go, it felt like I’d committed to taking on some risk. At the same time, my wife and I had been in lockstep on COVID stuff for so long that I don’t think I had the courage to really say: Hey, I want to go to this wedding, and it’s probably going to be maskless and … are we really okay with that? I don’t think she wanted to be the one to say no to seeing such good friends, if I was willing to do it.

And so I boarded my flight without the kind of real conversation and—as important—return plan that we should have made. I spent hours in an N95 mask in the Las Vegas airport and on planes before arriving in Louisiana and heading to the welcome drinks.

I walked in and saw that people were all inside, fairly densely packed in a big room. No one was wearing a mask. Everyone was celebrating like people who haven’t seen one another for a long time, ready for a wedding weekend in the greatest city in America. For some reason, I was shocked.

I don’t know why I didn’t expect it to look like that. Maybe I thought we’d be in a garden under some nice string lights, mostly keeping masks on, in that maybe it helps way. I almost turned around and begged off the night of drinks, figuring that the next day would be less risky. But I’d come all that way. Here were my friend’s family and closest friends, the woman he’d fallen in love with. I just couldn’t do it. And all the everyone is vaccinated reasoning started to play in my head. I ordered a tequila and soda, pushed breakthrough infections out of mind, made some new friends, and had a great time.

The wedding was maskless too. But in a huge, airy, gorgeous building. There was a second line through the streets, and people danced and waved white handkerchiefs with the names of the bride and groom. We wore tuxedos and listened to old-time music at Preservation Hall and made jokes and got a little drunk, mostly hanging around outside. When that part ended, a bunch of people went next door to a huge party spot, but I left as soon as I saw the piano-bar-and-club scene there.

My wife was rightfully getting worried. It seemed not unlikely that I’d get exposed to COVID. Had we really been thinking clearly? Had we really wanted to take on that level of risk? Honestly, once I’d been in the situation, the realness started to unfurl. Outside the wedding events, I’d followed our protocols from home, staying outside, masking inside, etc. But attending the wedding was much riskier than I’d wanted to admit before I’d done it.

Walking back across the city, the energy of wanting things to be normal was thick. I felt it too. After spending so much of my time studying COVID, being a part of the response with the COVID Tracking Project, and writing many stories about the pandemic, I was over it. I was done. I don’t know that I could have admitted that to myself, but I just wanted it all to go away. And there in New Orleans, for a few days, it seemed like it had. Just look at all those people singing at the piano bar, dancing to Lizzo, arm in arm with friend and stranger alike.

The next day, away from the wedding and visiting with my best friend, it became more and more obvious. My wife and I needed a plan for my return. I’d do a rapid PCR test at the airport. At least that would get me somewhere.

My kids were so happy to see me, and after my negative result came back, to hug me. Was I actually safe? No, I knew I was not. I should have quarantined. But I had stuck my wife with the kids for four days, and I wanted to get back in the mix and help. That seemed like the right thing to do.

On Monday, I felt fine, but I took an antigen test anyway (negative). I scheduled a PCR test for the next day. By the time my appointment arrived, I’d started to have some postnasal drip and what felt like a possibly psychosomatic tickle in my throat. Tuesday night—four days after the wedding—my PCR result came back negative, and despite having what felt like a cold, I figured I was pretty close to being in the clear.

The next day, my symptoms were about the same. I did an intense Peloton workout and it felt fine, though maybe my legs were a little slow. I wasn’t eager to test again; a negative PCR test seemed good enough. But my wife heard me cough—one of only maybe 20 coughs throughout my whole sickness—and said, “Couldn’t you take another antigen test?”

I was on the phone with a young geographer, talking about doing research at Bay Area libraries, and kind of absentmindedly did the swabbing. When I looked down a few minutes later, I had tested positive. Maybe a false positive? I immediately took another antigen test and the little pink line was practically red, it was so dark. Wrapping up the call, I packed my things quickly, texted my wife the result, walked outside with an N95 mask on, and waited for all hell to break loose.

I was able to find a long-term rental on our block thanks to an angelic neighbor. I set my bags down inside and tried to figure out what I had to do. The worst-case scenario that I’d imagined was that I’d get sick, mildly, as I did. I ended up taking one day off from work, and even that was more of a precaution. I felt pretty sick, like when you have a cold, but I’ve probably been sicker 15 times as an adult. As someone who has thought so much about COVID science, it was almost interesting to experience: Oh! That’s what losing your smell is like.

But the real worst-case scenario was everything that happened to the people around me. My kids had to come out of school and isolate with my wife. A raft of tests had to be taken by everyone I’d had even limited contact with. (I was one of at least a dozen people at the wedding who got sick.) I had been with several older people, including my mother-in-law. For my wife and children, the tests went on for days and days, each one bringing a prospective new disaster and 10 to 14 more days of life disruption or worse.

But for me, the very worst part was my children. They knew, cognitively, that I was vaccinated and unlikely to get really sick. That said, COVID-19, for them, is a terrible thing. The past year and a half of their lives has been disrupted by this virus. They take precautions every single day not to have this happen.

They reacted in different ways. My nonbinary 8-year-old was so mad and maybe so scared that they could barely look at me. My 5-year-old daughter proved her status as the ultimate ride-or-die kid. She brought a chair down the street so she could sit 20 feet away from me outside in her mask, as I sat on the porch in an N95. I’m not sure which reaction was more heartbreaking. It was as if one never wanted to see me again and the other didn’t want to let me out of her sight.

These vaccines are amazing. I was and am fine. But as The Atlantic’s Sarah Zhang described in her recent article “America Has Lost the Plot on COVID,” we have developed the least logical system around them. “The least vaccinated communities have some of the laxest restrictions, while highly vaccinated communities … tend to have some of the most aggressive measures aimed at driving down cases,” Zhang writes.

In the communities where ignoring the pandemic is the norm, COVID testing may not be standard—and even when testing takes place, the required isolation and quarantining procedures are sometimes ignored. As I’ve found, you really are on your own to set the limits of what you do. And given the requirements and difficulties of isolating, I can imagine that few people are willing and able to follow the letter of the law.

A positive test sets in motion huge hassles and anxieties for anyone you’ve been in contact with. This is how we slow the spread, right? It makes sense. And also, families and businesses and schools and event venues are trying to return to normal. Perhaps the risks of going into an office every day are far less than those of going to a wedding in New Orleans. But in the course of actual normal life in the places that have fought this virus the hardest, there will be more positive tests. Just in the past few weeks, I’ve seen more and more of them around me here in the Bay Area.

For people pondering edging back into normal life, or trying to jump in headfirst as I did, it’s easy to do the risk calculation only about physical health; that’s really what this was about for so long. But the vaccines changed that, and we need to update our mental spreadsheets. The life disruption—the logistical pain you cause those around you—is now a major part of any bad scenario. As I write this, I’m now 10 days past my first symptoms, but I continue to test positive on antigen tests, and so I have not returned home. I haven’t hugged my kids for 10 days. They missed a whole week of school, and my wife’s work life got turned upside down—even though they never tested positive or got sick. I blame no one but myself for this. We cannot will this pandemic to be over. Lord knows I tried.

I understand that my scenario is far better than could or would have played out in a pre-vaccination world. So many communities were hit hard. I have enjoyed tremendous privilege to keep my risk low before now. We got lucky that I didn’t infect anyone vulnerable. I’m so grateful my wife insisted that I take just one more test.

In social worlds like mine, though, where most people do work from home, where people have minimized risk and gotten vaccinated, we’re at a weird moment. Things aren’t likely to change that much for quite some time. Even after however many kids get vaccinated, there will still be breakthrough infections. Other variants could spread. Maybe we’re in this space for another year or two or three. One way to put the question of endemicity is: When do we start treating COVID like other respiratory illnesses?

I don’t know the answer. And I’m not even sure who should be trying to answer the question. There are many outstanding mysteries about long COVID. There are still so many unvaccinated Americans, and that number seems unlikely to shift a lot anytime soon.

Right now most policies appear designed to make life seem normal. Masks are coming off. Restaurants are dining in. Planes are full. Offices are calling. But don’t be fooled: The world’s normal only until you test positive.

Alexis C. Madrigal is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project, and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He is also a co-host of Forum on KQED.
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MEDIA MALICE IV
(The Ministry of Truth activates the Memory Hole.)

The Washington Post Begins Scrubbing and Deleting Prior Articles Using the Steele Dossier to Promote Trump-Russia Narrative

John Durham is providing evidence {Go Deep} showing how the “Trump-Russia” collusion story was created by Hillary Clinton and Democrat operatives like Dan Jones, Charles Dolan, Glenn Simpson and contracted operatives within Fusion-GPS; who then laundered their fake stories to Christopher Steele and his source Igor Danchenko for distribution to the FBI; and who then leaked the information to awaiting allies in the media. Those same media recipients are now scrubbing their participation:

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It’s an issue within the Trump operation that we have highlighted for years {Go Deep}. The media reports on media reports of media reports. Now, the collective system of the Washington Post writing about a New York Times article that is based on CNN reporting (using anonymous planted leaks from the DOJ/FBI) starts to collapse in reverse. CNN does a stealth deletion, causing the New York Times to stealth edit, creating a need for the Washington Post to rewrite their participation.

We asked years ago: “Think about a New York Times, CNN or Washington Post journalist now having to accept that every column inch they have written in the past [four years] was built upon a foundation of lies. Do we really think such a catastrophic level of flawed ideology could ever reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?” Of course not.

These guys are so corrupt, and they participated so completely in the willful distribution of false information, they are beyond redemption. They don’t even attempt to apologize, admit their errors or accept responsibility. Instead, they just start deleting the trail of their involvement. Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along.

Over a year ago, CBS News journalist Catherine Herridge obtained a 94-page spread sheet (pdf here) showing dates of media reports, dates of Steele reports on the same material, and the FBI effort to verify or validate the circular process in their investigation.

Michael Isikoff highlighted the level of how enmeshed media is with the Fusion team in February 2018 when he admitted his reporting was being used by the DOJ and FBI to advance the political objectives of the intelligence community.

Additionally, FBI investigator Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page were shown in their text messages to be leaking stories from the Clinton Investigation, the Trump investigation and the Mueller investigation to journalists at Politico, The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. –SEE HERE–

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was busted by the Inspector General leaking stories to the media and then lying about it to INSD and IG investigators. FBI Director James Comey admitted to leaking stories to the New York Times, and even hired his friend Andrew Richman (off-the-books), gave him access to FBI and NSA databases, and then leaked information to Richman along with another friend Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare blog.

Lest we forget, the IG report on how the FBI handled the Clinton investigation revealed that dozens of FBI officials were actually taking bribes from the media for information:

IG REPORT – “We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters. Attached to this report as Attachments E and F are two link charts that reflect the volume of communications that we identified between FBI employees and media representatives in April/May and October 2016. We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review.”

[…] We do not believe the problem is with the FBI’s policy, which we found to be clear and unambiguous. Rather, we concluded that these leaks highlight the need to change what appears to be a cultural attitude among many in the organization. (link to pdf – page xii of executive summary)

Madness.

This is an IG fact-based criticism of the institution of the FBI, not simply a few rogue officials within it.

But wait…. Perspective:

Later, it was revealed that Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller’s #1 special counsel prosecutor, was coordinating investigative efforts with the full support of four AP reporters who were giving Weissman tips. That’s information from journalists to use in his court filings and submitted search warrants. Make sure you grasp this: The AP journalists were feeding information to their ideological allies within the special counsel.

Nuts; simply, well, nuts.

[...] So Christopher Steele was meeting with journalists, the journalists were writing articles; the FBI was leaking to media and simultaneously citing those same articles as underlying evidence to support their counterintelligence investigations; and all of this was used to validate the investigative documents the FBI was receiving from Christopher Steele; who, along with the leaking FBI officials was also the source of the media articles.

FUBAR! This is exponentially bonkers.

This is a circle of information, all coming from Dan Jones and Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, who was the opposition research firm being financed by Hillary Clinton, along with FBI officials who were using their own strategic leaks to validate their own investigation.

Think about the scale of the reporting, and reporting on reporting, of anonymous leaks, false leaks, lies from “people with knowledge of the matter”, “government officials involved in the matter”, “people familiar with the matter”, “government sources” etc. all going in one unified and semi-coordinated direction – against the aggregate Trump administration.

[...] Tell me again how the media can possibly write about this now?

The problem is not just corruption with the U.S. Justice System, the DOJ and the FBI; the problem is corruption within the media.

We’re talking about thousands of hours of media TV pundits, thousands more columns written, and almost every scintilla of it based on originating intelligence sources -from the larger intelligence system- that are now being exposed as duplicitous and conspiratorial in the scale of their malicious intent.

This larger story line has traveled in one direction. The narrative has only traveled in one direction. Each thread converging on codependent trails for collective stories all going in one direction. One big engineered narrative endlessly pushed. Think about how far the collective media have traveled with this story over the past eighteen months?

[...] Now, over a period of FIVE years, it has become increasingly obvious the collective journey, using all that expended effort, was intentionally going in the wrong direction.

The media have fully invested themselves in five years of narrative distribution in only one direction. Not a single MSM entity has questioned their travel as a result of false leaks or false sources in the totality of time they have covered the DOJ and FBI story. They have even won Pulitzer prizes for writing stories about the lies and manufactured evidence.

Nothing within their collective need to will-an-outcome will change the media’s proximity to facts as the truthful story behind the DOJ and FBI corruption is finally exposed. The media are so far away from the place where this story ends, they have no inherent capability to even begin to travel in the opposite direction, toward the truth.

The only way they could align with the truth is to admit that virtually every scintilla of their reportage over the past four years was inherently false or manipulated by the “sources” distributing the material for their willfully blind reporting. There’s not a single media outlet capable of doing that.

Think about a New York Times, CNN, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, Yahoo News or Washington Post journalist having to write an article deconstructing a foundation of four years worth of lies they participated in creating.

Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?

EVER?

Impossible.

So what do they do?….

….. THEY SCRUB IT !!

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MEDIA MALICE III

Viral Twitter Thread On Rittenhouse Illuminates Dangers Of Media Disinformation

As the Kyle Rittenhouse trial carries on in Wisconsin, a viral Twitter thread has exposed how the disinformation peddled by corporate media doesn’t just distort reality, but recreates it in the service of leftwing political objectives.

Sarah Beth Burwick is a writer who runs the Substack page “Why The Left Is Losing Me,” which chronicles her journey as “a lifelong liberal turned politically homeless.” She recently remarked that “it was only today that I learned the Kyle Rittenhouse victims were white,” continuing to say that “My progressive bubble made this seem like a very different case than it is.”

I am highly educated and reasonably perceptive, and it was only today that I learned the Kyle Rittenhouse victims were white.

My progressive bubble made this seem like a very different case than it is.

— Sarah Beth Burwick (@sarahbeth345) November 11, 2021

Burwick even noted that her public recognition of the facts was enough to open her up to leftwing slander, pointing out that “If I still cared about being called racist, I would have been scared to post this. Because people would have somehow twisted it around to call me racist.”

This led to a number of other users detailing how their perception of events had also been warped by leftist corporate media. One user tweeted “I just learned his dad, grandma, aunts lived in Kenosha and he worked there. Media made it out like he had zero connection.”

Another user described how he was deemed a racist when he questioned the media’s official narrative, writing, “I went down a Twitter wormhole last summer during lockdown and BLM hype. I watched the YouTube footage of the people who ended up at the Gas station & tried to burn it. I was so shocked that when I explained what I saw to people in London they thought I was turning racist lol.”

One person noted that the corporate media’s refusal to honestly cover the violence of Black Lives Matter riots was highly problematic, saying, “Part of the problem too is that many believe that the riots in Kenosha were peaceful protests, and for that reason they can’t understand why someone would travel there w a gun.”

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes completely ignored the attack against Rittenhouse, and instead used his act of self defense as an opportunity to condemn gun rights organizations, asking on his program, “Do we want a society in which political conflict is settled on the streets between people with guns?” saying “that is the outcome that the pro-gun lobby … is bringing about.”

"Do we want a society in which political conflict is settled on the streets between people with guns? One in which everyone is armed and can therefore view the other people armed as a plausible threat?" says @chrislhayes. "Is that the society we want?" pic.twitter.com/R9yayJLzUu

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) November 11, 2021

Joe Biden also participated in the creation of this false reality when he, following a presidential debate, heavily implied that Rittenhouse was a white supremacist and that his acts of self defense were instead incidents of racially motivated violence and terrorism.

There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night. pic.twitter.com/Q3VZTW1vUV

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 30, 2020

Both leftwing politicians and those in the corporate media portrayed Rittenhouse as a crazed killer and blamed conservatives, all while completely overlooking the leftwing violence that ravaged Kenosha and the video that proves Rittenhouse acted in self defense when he wounded one attacker and fatally shot two others, one of whom was a convicted pedophile and the other a repeat domestic abuser. (read more)

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MEDIA MALICE II

The Feds Appear to Have Leaked O’Keefe’s Privileged Legal Communications to the New York Times

Someone from the Department of [In]Justice appears to have tipped off the New York Times about recent raids on current and former employees of Project Veritas, and leaked privileged communications between founder James O’Keefe and his lawyers to the paper.

These potentially illegal actions come amid a Project Veritas defamation lawsuit against the NYT that claims the paper’s coverage of a Veritas video was incorrect, defamatory and driven by resentment on the part of the newspaper’s reporters.

FBI agents raided the homes of O’Keefe, and several of his employees last week, in connection to the alleged theft of the diary of Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley.

The group considered publishing the sordid contents of the diary—which include Ashley Biden’s claims of being molested as a child, and taking inappropriate naked showers with her dad—but passed on the story because they were unable to verify the information. The conservative website the National File ended up publishing the entire contents of the diary in October of 2020.

Early Saturday morning, the FBI conducted a raid at O’Keefe’s New York home, seizing two of O’Keefe’s cell phones, among other items.

On Thursday, New York Times reporters Adam Goldman and Mark Mazzetti published a report based on leaked documents that show how Project Veritas consulted lawyers for legal opinions before using false identities in potential investigative projects—or as the biased reporters put it: “the conservative group worked with lawyers to gauge how far its deceptive reporting practices could go before running afoul of federal laws.”

Later that day, a federal judge ordered the DOJ to stop extracting data from the phones, granting a request from O’Keefe’s legal team. His attorney Harmeet Dhillon broke the news yesterday on Twitter:

BREAKING! The federal court has just ordered the DOJ to STOP extracting data from our client, journalist James O’Keefe’s phone, and ordered a hearing. Counsel for Project Veritas asked the court to do this yesterday! pic.twitter.com/nBrmf4myuj

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 11, 2021

In an interview on Fox News Thursday night, Dhillon called the NYT’s report as a “hit piece,” and suggested that the DOJ had leaked the confidential memos to the Times, which would potentially be a crime.

“I can’t say how the New York Times got this information, but they got it in a way that is illegal and unethical,” Dhillon told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.

“We have a disturbing situation of the US Attorney’s office or the FBI tipping off the New York Times to each of the raids on Project Veritas current and former employees,” the attorney said.

“We know that because minutes after these raids occurred they got calls from the New York Times which was the only journalism outlet that knew about it. And they published this hit piece today, which is really despicable. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything this low from the New York Times before, to publish people’s private legal communications,” she added.

“This is a scandal of epic proportions. Every journalist who is not worried about this should hang up their journalism card, and all First Amendment lawyers as well,” said Dhillon.

Dhillon said she was thankful that District Court Judge Analisa Torres halted the FBI’s alleged misconduct, calling it a “temporary victory.”

“We are gratified that the Department of Justice has been ordered to stop extracting and reviewing confidential and privileged information obtained in their raids of our reporters, including legal, donor, and confidential source communications,” she said. “The First Amendment won a temporary victory today, but Project Veritas has a long way to go to hold the DOJ and FBI accountable for their actions.”

(2/2): Journalists deserve to be protected from the thuggish and unconstitutional behavior that the #Biden administration and the DOJ have exhibited in this case. pic.twitter.com/rp0kV9Ns1A

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 12, 2021

The Times report quotes privileged and confidential legal advice that attorney Benjamin Barr gave Project Veritas about the laws regarding covert recordings and the use of false identities in various situations and jurisdictions. One example the paper cited involved a a potential sting of the FBI.

The documents show, for example, Project Veritas operatives’ concern that an operation launched in 2018 to secretly record employees at the F.B.I., Justice Department and other agencies in the hope of exposing bias against President Donald J. Trump might violate the Espionage Act — the law passed at the height of World War I that has typically been used to prosecute spies.

“Because intent is relevant — and broadly defined — ensuring PV journalists’ intent is narrow and lawful would be paramount in any operation,” the group’s media lawyer, Benjamin Barr, wrote in response to questions from the group about using the dating app Tinder to have its operatives meet government employees, potentially including some with national security clearances.

“If the New York Times has these memorandums – why wouldn’t it also have PV’s privileged communications that relate directly to PV’s lawsuit against the Times?” asked lawyer and co-publisher of Human Events Will Chamberlin on Twitter. “This is just a massive, massive scandal.”

If the New York Times has these memorandums – why wouldn’t it also have PV’s privileged communications that relate directly to PV’s lawsuit against the Times?

This is just a massive, massive scandal

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) November 12, 2021

Project Veritas on Thursday released a new video exposing former New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennet, who led the paper’s editorial department from May 2016 until his resignation in June 2020.

The video shows Bennet being deposed under oath in an ongoing lawsuit filed by former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin. who is suing The Times over an editorial that attempted to tie her Political Action Committee to the shooting of former U.S. Congresswoman, Gabby Giffords.

Bennett admitted during the deposition that “we did a very poor job” in vetting the editorial, which claimed “there was a causal link between political incitement and the shooting of Gabby Giffords.”

O’Keefe told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday that he woke up on Saturday to a terrifying pre-dawn raid with FBI agents banging on his door.

“I went to my door to answer the door and there were ten FBI agents with a battering ram, white blinding lights, they turned me around, handcuffed me and threw me against the hallway,” he told Fox News.

“They confiscated my phone. They raided my apartment. On my phone were many of my reporters’ notes. A lot of my sources unrelated to this story and a lot of confidential donor information to our news organization.”

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, said the FBI raid was potentially a violation of the Privacy Protection Act.

“I’m sorry, but this is worrying from a press freedom perspective—unless & until DOJ releases evidence Protect Veritas was directly involved in the theft. Because if there is none, then the raids could very well be a violation of the Privacy Protection Act,” he tweeted.

O’Keefe told Hannity that he wouldn’t wish what he was going through on any journalist.

“If they can do this to me, if they can do it to any journalist,” he said. (read more)

See also: FBI Raid of James O'Keefe's House Is a Blow to Press Freedom

See also: NYT's Stunning Revelation: Project Veritas Employs Lawyers to Make Sure It Doesn't Break the Law!

See also: The DOJ and FBI have combined to destroy Project Veritas

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The FBI is leaking attorney-client privileged files to a party adverse to Project Veritas in a civil lawsuit.

This is not a grey area.

It’s black letter criminal felonies committed by the FBI and the New York Times. https://t.co/Kgx98JWz5d

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 12, 2021

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MEDIA MALICE I

History Will Grind Out the Truth

As the second-century A.D. skeptic philosopher Sextus Empricus noted, eventually the truth emerges and cosmic justice is rendered: “The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”

"History will figure that out on its own.” That is what Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) recently replied to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In a heated congressional exchange, Fauci derided the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic was due to the leak of a dangerous virus, engineered in the Chinese Wuhan virology lab—and in part funded by U.S. health agencies, on the prompt of Fauci himself.

Fauci offered arguments from authority by citing his own expertise, as well as that of “card-carrying” specialists.

But in truth, there is little evidence that any animal species has been found infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or a close relative that causes COVID-19 or a similar illness.

Many federal health experts increasingly believe the virus was man-made. A number argue that it was likely a product of gain-of-function research that was funded in part by a U.S. government grant.

Others concede that Fauci and Dr. Peter Daszak—who was involved in gain-of-function research, often in cooperation with the Chinese—were not candid about the full extent of their ties to the Wuhan lab. But despite Chinese resistance to releasing pertinent data, history eventually will sort the truth out—as it does with most controversies of the moment.

Five years ago, the New York Times, the Washington Post, most of the mainstream media, and the majority of the bipartisan Washington. D.C. political and government establishments insisted that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 election.

In support of such conspiracy theories, they fixated on the so-called Steele dossier. It was a supposedly independent research effort detailing “proof” of Trump-Russian cooperation to rob Hillary Clinton of the election.

That supposed evidence was the unspoken groundswell for a 22-month, $40-million special counsel investigation of Trump conducted by former FBI head Robert Mueller.

For over 650 days, the country was consumed with “Russian collusion.” Cable news outlets, public television and radio pundits, along with high-ranking Democratic politicians, almost daily announced the impending end of the colluding Trump Administration.

They peddled rumors of Trump’s supposed obscene activity in Moscow. They spun tales of mysterious meetings between Trump’s family and Russian operatives, and of Trump surrogates’ supposed trips to meet with Russian colluding officials.

Christopher Steele, the architect of the “dossier,” had not been to Russia in decades. He was a rank partisan in the pay of the Clinton campaign—and for a time the FBI itself.

Five years later, history has almost sorted out the fable that the most powerful, wealthy, and influential Americans in the nation once foisted upon the public.

Special prosecutor John Durham seems to be slowly indicting the promulgators of the hoax. The earlier lengthy internal audit by Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited wrongdoing on the part of the Department of Justice and FBI.

The Mueller investigation failed to find any proof of Russian-Trump collusion. The 2018 majority report of the House Intelligence Committee came to the same conclusion.

The admission of false statements by former FBI interim director Andrew McCabe, along with the felonious altering of a court document by FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, were other elements of the warped and unprofessional behavior of the FBI.

Both Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey were unable to answer fundamental questions while under oath about the dossier and the role of its authors in spreading the collusion hoax. Mueller’s legal team and Comey himself habitually leaked rumors that fed the collusion hoax.

History, however, is slowly sorting it out—despite the approved narrative of the well-connected who misled the country to pursue their own political agendas.

Someday historians of public health will unravel the full costs of locking down most of America in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are now near-taboo topics—the vigorous natural immunity offered from prior infection, and the terrible damage done by the quarantines—earn cancel culture damnation, employment suspension, and media calumny. But soon they likely will become matter-of-factly accepted as truth.

The same will be said of the hysterical myths that surround the unfortunate January 6 riot at the Capitol. Five years from now history will show that there was no conspiracy, no pre-planned “insurrection”—as the FBI has already concluded.

The late Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick was not murdered as was alleged. Those “armed” inside the Capitol did not carry—much less use—guns. The one violent death, that of Ashli Babbitt, was of an unarmed female who was lethally shot by an officer [Lt. Michael L. Byrd] for attempting to enter through a broken window.

The solitary confinement, indefinite incarceration, and inhumane jail conditions accorded some of the accused will be shown contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America.

In other words, history eventually will sort it all out.

Or as the second-century A.D. skeptic philosopher Sextus Empricus noted, eventually the truth emerges and cosmic justice is rendered: “The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”
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THE COVID-CON XI

INVESTIGATION – Deadliest batches of the Covid-19 Vaccines were disproportionally sent to red Republican states across the USA

On October 31st we exclusively revealed how an investigation of the USA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) found extremely high numbers of adverse reactions and deaths have been reported against specific lot numbers of the Covid-19 vaccines numerous times, meaning deadly batches of the experimental injections have now been identified.

That investigation also led to the discovery that 130 different lot numbers of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine distributed to more than 13 states, harmed on average 639 times more people, hospitalised on average 109 times more people, and killed on average 22 times more people than the 4,289 different lt number of Pfizer vaccine distributed to 12 states or less.

However, the most shocking finding of the investigation was that 100% of Covid-19 vaccine deaths reported to VAERS with identified lot numbers had been caused by just 5% of the batches produced. But the deeply troubling findings don’t end there, because we decided to conduct further analysis of the VAERS data on the Covid-19 vaccines, and we’ve discovered that the majority of the deadliest batches were clearly sent to Republican controlled red states across the USA.

The data used in the investigation was pulled from the publicly accessible VAERS database which can be viewed here. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a United States programme for vaccine safety, co-managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The programme collects information via reports made by doctors, nurses, and patients about adverse events (possible harmful side effects) that occur after administration of vaccines to ascertain whether the risk–benefit ratio is high enough to justify continued use of any particular vaccine.

The investigation of VAERS data published October 31st included reports of adverse reactions and deaths within the VAERS database as of October 15th 2021, the findings of our further investigation into VAERS data include reports of adverse reactions and deaths within the VAERS database as of October 22nd 2021.

[...]

The top 8 States with the highest vaccination death rate are all Republican controlled red States, and 19 of the top 24 states with the highest vaccination death rate are again Republican controlled red States. Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia, Montana, Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Tennessee all top the list, with Florida placing 20th in the list of 51 states.

By calculating the vaccination / death rate, we’re also able to see that California has actually been the state least affected by the deadly lots of Covid-19 vaccine, not the most affected as it appeared to be at first glance without putting the vaccine death numbers into context.

The numbers show that the Republican controlled state of Kentucky has a 1,900% worse vaccination / death rate than the Democrat controlled California, suggesting the Republican state received 20 times the amount of deadly batches of Covid-19 vaccine than the Democrat controlled state received.

The numbers also suggest that the Republican controlled state of Florida received three times the amount of deadly batches of Covid-19 vaccine than the Democrat controlled state of California received, with its vaccination / death rate 200% higher than California’s.

Conclusion

This investigation of VAERS data reveals several concerning findings which warrant further investigation, but it also leads to questions of why authorities within the USA which are supposed to monitor the safety of the Covid-19 vaccines have not discovered this themselves.

Why is it that certain batches of the vaccine have proven to be more harmful than others?

Why is it that certain batches of Covid-19 vaccine have proven to be deadlier than others?

Why were the majority of the most harmful and deadly Covid-19 vaccines distributed to Republican controlled States across the USA?

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THE COVID-CON X

Life Without the Vaccine

It’s lucky they made me watch all those films about peer pressure in high school. Because I have never in my adult life—or even in high school—experienced peer pressure like this.

When the vaccine first came out, I wasn’t too eager to get it. I’m young and healthy. Statistics indicated that I was unlikely to get COVID and extremely unlikely to get a serious case of it. I wasn’t “opposed” to the vaccine—as though it were some political candidate with ideas I disliked—I just didn’t see a personal need for it. But I was willing to be convinced. And what happened next surprised me.

I’d expected the “pro-vaxxers” would try to show me that getting the vaccine was the best thing for my health. Instead, what I heard was: “It’s probably safe, but get it anyway! Society’s health is more important than your health! If you don’t get this shot, you want everyone to die!”

I’ve heard logical arguments before, and this isn’t one. I’ve also heard Marxist arguments before: Subordinate your will to the good of society, as directed by “the experts.”

The experts, in this case, are doctors, who recently have been promoted to godlike status. It is unfortunate then, that I couldn’t find a single pro-vax doctor willing to admit that we can not know what the long-term effects of a new drug will be until we’ve had a chance to observe the effects over a long term. This concept is so simple it’s tautological: We need a long time before we know what will happen over a long time.

But all I heard from doctors when I mentioned this was, “It’s safe.” When asked, “How do you know?” All I got was, “Because the FDA says so.” If pressed, they’d bring out the old “good of society” argument.

When I last wrote about the vaccine, I suggested that the equally high or higher viral loads among the vaccinated might cast doubt on the vaccine’s efficacy. A commenter pointed out that I was wrong: The vaccine is not supposed to reduce the viral load; it works by suppressing symptoms of disease in the recipient. It turns out this commenter was correct. And that is a hugely important piece of information:

The vaccine does not make COVID less transmissible. It simply makes you feel less bad when you’ve caught it. The only benefit this brings to society is making it less likely that our hospitals will be overwhelmed by COVID patients. And that hasn’t been a serious possibility for a year and a half.

As long as we don’t have to worry about maxing out our hospitals, getting the vaccine when you’re in a low-risk group is actually bad for society. You may still catch COVID, and you’ll be just as contagious as the unvaccinated. But because you don’t have symptoms, instead of staying at home and resting, you’ll go to work, you’ll hang out with friends, and you’ll spread the disease.

That the doctor I last discussed the vaccine with didn’t know this, or wouldn’t admit it, raises serious questions. First, is it possible that having a medical degree does not signify pope-like infallibility? Second, is it possible that doctors who have already recommended the vaccine, or more especially, have taken it themselves and administered it to their families, have a vested interest in wanting to believe the vaccine is safe?

Third, and most importantly: What are all these doctors going to do if it turns out in 20 years that they were wrong?

I know exactly what they’re going to do: They’ll scurry away from the responsibility like a pack of little rats. They’ll say, “Pfizer lied to us! They hid the data!” Never mind that despite attempts to bury data unfavorable to the vaccine there is plenty of it out there for inquiring minds.

The doctors will say, “We’re sorry you’ve got to take blood thinners for the rest of your life, but it’s not our fault!” And the government will say the same thing. Pfizer, et al., will point out that the government pressured them to skew their results to appear safe. There will be a huge public backlash—so huge that it may ultimately wreck Pfizer, despite the total indemnification granted to them by the government. But what about all those who took the vaccine in good faith? Or all the others who took it because their employers forced them to?

The damage will be done, and there will be no undoing it.

When the vaccine first came out, I was uncertain, but willing to be persuaded. Now I am persuaded: With each passing day, I’m increasingly relieved that I didn’t get the vaccine. This has caused other complications, of a societally imposed nature, especially while I’ve been in New York. I can’t go to museums, I had to cancel my membership to the gym, I can’t eat indoors in any restaurant in the city. I am experiencing life as a second-class citizen. (As Mayor de Blasio said, “if you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated.”)

But because I believe that getting vaccinated would be bad for myself and bad for society, I have chosen ostracization instead. It’s lucky they made me watch all those films about peer pressure in high school. Because I have never in my adult life—or even in high school—experienced peer pressure like this. No one is trying to persuade me that the vaccine is good for me. Only that I just need to take it or else. But I know how to handle myself when someone tries to force drugs on me: I just say no. (read more)

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THE COVID-CON IX

Natural Immunity Versus Vaccine Immunity

The way in which the CDC came to the conclusion that vaccines provided greater immunity than natural immunity is all but indecipherable, if not simply dishonest.

You never know when something you say will go viral. It has happened a number of times in my career, the latest being comments I made on my national radio talk show a few weeks ago when I had COVID-19. I said I had hoped I would attain natural immunity since science—evidenced, for example, in a major study from Israel, one of the most pro-vaccine and highly vaccinated societies in the world—strongly suggests that natural immunity provides more robust and durable protection against COVID-19 than the current COVID-19 vaccines have proven to provide.

Specifically, I said that I had hugged and taken photos with thousands of people from the beginning of the pandemic. I had two reasons for doing this: 1) I decided very early on that I would not live my life in fear, but instead live normally; and 2) if I did get the virus I had confidence that the prophylactic therapeutics and nutrients I had been taking for more than a year—ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc, megadoses of vitamin D, vitamin C and selenium (and a monoclonal antibody infusion once I tested positive for COVID-19)—would protect me from serious consequences.

Most importantly, I repeatedly said from the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 that I chose to live normally, not hide in my house. As much as I want to live a long life, I have always believed that the purpose of life is to live fully, not necessarily long (though, of course, I want that, too—just not at the expense of normal living).

My COVID-19 symptoms consisted of chills for three days, a cough and fatigue for about a week, and loss of taste for a day. I missed three days of radio but did not miss a speech (I flew from California to Florida to deliver a speech five days after testing negative).

From CNN to the Washington Post, I was mocked by much of the national mainstream media. Needless to say, not one of them bothered to interview me or invite me to respond either in writing or in person. That is how things now work in America: the media attack and mock those with whom they differ but offer no opportunity for the attacked party to respond. On the basis of a few sentences provided by a lie-based attack site (Media Matters), the Washington Post, for example, wrote an entire article on me and those comments. More on that in the next column.

Let’s begin with my premise—that natural immunity is more robust than a vaccine (or at least the vaccines we currently have). That is what a large study out of Israel—one of the most pro-vaccine and highly vaccinated countries in the world—reported.

On August 25, medRxiv published a “preprint” study by 10 Israeli scientists, all associated with an Israeli research institute, Maccabitech, in Tel Aviv. Among the 10 are three MDs, three professors of epidemiology, two professors at the Tel Aviv University School of Public Health, and an adjunct researcher at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The study’s conclusion: “This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity . . . “

On August 26, Science, one of the world’s most widely cited science magazines, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published an article on the Israeli study. Its opening sentence reads: “The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study . . . “

Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, confirmed the Israel study: “In Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease . . . “

A Cleveland Clinic study came to the same conclusion. Published on June 5, 2021, also on medRxiv, it concluded that “Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination . . . “

Even before the Israeli and Cleveland Clinic studies, a New York University study comparing vaccine immunity to natural immunity concluded that people who had had COVID-19 were better protected against the virus: “In COVID-19 patients, immune responses were characterized by a highly augmented interferon response which was largely absent in vaccine recipients.”

A Rockefeller University study published on August 24 concluded, as the Israel study did, that “a natural infection may induce maturation of antibodies with broader activity than a vaccine does.” The study immediately added that getting natural immunity entails contracting COVID-19, and “a natural infection can also kill you.”

But that valid warning does not negate its conclusion in favor of natural immunity. Nor does the study warn that getting the vaccine may also induce harmful consequences. To its everlasting shame, that is a taboo subject in America’s medical community despite the fact that the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists over 700,000 cases of suspected injury and more than 17,000 otherwise unexpected deaths temporally associated with COVID-19 vaccines.

Last week, the media reported that the CDC announced that vaccines provided greater immunity than natural immunity. But the way in which the CDC came to this conclusion is all but indecipherable, if not simply dishonest.

Here’s how Dr. Peter Hotez, a pro-vaccine spokesman and co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, summarized the Kentucky study:

The Centers for Disease Control in their ‘MMWR’ (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) published a very interesting study out of Kentucky comparing individuals who were infected and recovered and chose not to get vaccinated versus those who are infected and recovered and then got vaccinated in addition. And clearly, those who chose not to get vaccinated were reinfected at much higher rates, several times higher, than those who were infected and recovered and vaccinated.

Those comments are completely irrelevant to the issue at hand. The comparison I and others make is between natural immunity and vaccine immunity. The CDC-Kentucky study is not a comparison between natural immunity and vaccine immunity; it is a comparison between those who received a vaccine after natural immunity and those who did not receive a vaccine after attaining natural immunity.

NIH Director Francis Collins also used the Kentucky study to avoid the question of COVID-recovered immunity versus vaccine immunity. On August 12, he told Fox News:

There was a study published by CDC just 10 days ago in Kentucky . . . So, what was the protection level? It was more than two-fold better for the people who had had the vaccine in terms of protection than people who had had natural infection. That’s very clear in that Kentucky study. You know that surprises people. Kind of surprised me that the vaccine would actually be better than natural infection.

This CDC report and deliberate conflation by Hotez and Collins of two completely different groups—COVID-recovered (with or without vaccine) and vaccinated who never had COVID-19—are among the many reasons so many Americans no longer trust the American medical establishment. (read more)

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THE COVID-CON VIII

Why can't anyone explain how these 14 kids died after getting vaccinated?

On July 16, 2021, the CDC looked into the deaths of 14 kids in VAERS who died after vaccination. Their deaths are still unexplained to this day. If it wasn't the vaccine, what killed those kids?

In July, 2021, the CDC published an analysis of 14 kids aged 12-17 who died after being vaccinated. They listed the causes of death as: pulmonary embolism (two), intracranial hemorrhage (two), etc. and then changed the topic. No discussion. No nothing. The message they attempted to send was: “there is nothing to see here folks, move along.”

Wow. No analysis at all. Just move on. And not one peep from the mainstream medical community complaining about them completely glossing over these deaths. Stunning.

There is plenty to see in those 14 deaths… if you bothered to look

I wanted to document, for the record, that there was plenty to see there.

Let’s start with intracranial hemorrhage. In the entire 30-year history of the VAERS system, there are no reports in that age range dying from intracranial hemorrhage.

Read that again.

So it isn’t “background.” And if it wasn’t the vaccine that caused those deaths, then what did? The CDC is silent on that.

Shortly after the report came out, I published an in-depth analysis of each of those cases (I only located 13 of the 14); see this document starting on page 58 which includes links to each VAERS record.

My analysis of the VAERS records showed 5 of the 13 died of cardiac arrest. That’s not normal for kids. In a recent 5 year period (2015 to 2019), there have been zero deaths listing cardiac arrest in that age group (as you might expect). Zero deaths in 5 years! So the 5 deaths are both excess and suspicious and merit investigation. But not according to the CDC.

Unless there is a business card implanted in the body saying “killed by the Pfizer vaccine,” they won’t find causality.

We know for certain the CDC is inept at finding causality. One of the world’s top pathologists, Dr. Peter Shirmacher, looked at people who died after vaccination and determined that at least 30% to 40% died from the vaccine and the number could be close to 100% (there is only so much you can definitively tell from autopsies done after death for these vaccines).

For the CDC, Pfizer, and Moderna not to admit a single death to date is absurd. They are lying to you.

What caused the cardiac arrests if it wasn’t the vaccine (which is known to cause cardiac arrest based on other age ranges as well)? The CDC never tells us. Again, they are silent on the “true” cause.

There were two suicides. But the normal rate of suicides for that age group in VAERS is 0.2 deaths per year. So these deaths by suicide weren’t normal background; something caused these deaths. The circumstances need investigation; investigation that the CDC never did.

For example, we know that people kill themselves after vaccination due to unbearable physical pain, loss of a limb, or tinnitus that is so loud it is unbearable to name a few I’m aware of. And since none of the kids were insane, what sane person would vaccinate themselves right before killing themselves? It doesn’t make a lot of sense. So why did they die? We don’t know. The CDC never investigated. They don’t care.

For all the other causes of death, I looked at the statistics for what kids die of and determined these didn’t fit the pattern. I asked multiple doctors I knew and they said “no way” did these kids die of normal causes.

The CDC showed no statistics to show that these were just “expected.” They just changed the topic. That is irresponsible beyond belief. I have no words for this.

So what caused all these deaths if it wasn’t the vaccine?

The CDC skipped over answering that question. They don’t know and they don’t care.

But it wasn’t just 14 kids that died.

The underreporting factor for VAERS this year is 41 for serious events (like death). Of the 14 deaths, 1.6 are expected, so 12.4 deaths are “excess.” This suggests that the vaccine killed an estimated 508 kids (as of the end of July), and nobody knows what killed them.

That’s a lot of kids that died in vain. Nobody heard the message all these kids who died were trying to send. It’s tragic.

[...]

How many more kids must die of unexplained deaths before we figure out we’ve been lied to?

We are good at writing news stories about kids who died tragically. These stories typically never mention that the kids were just vaccinated. That way, nobody figures out the connection. They only get to observe, “wow, there are sure a lot more deaths in young kids" recently. They are never told when the kids were vaccinated. So nobody makes the connection. I documented many of these cases in the slide presentation I made at the October 26 FDA meeting. I asked the panel, if it wasn’t the vaccine that killed these kids, then what did? Nobody on the panel answered. They just ignored me (as usual).

Here are a few you can investigate yourself. What caused all these kids to die unexpectedly without warning shortly after vaccination?

[...]

Even the FDA admits the case for vaccinating kids is sketchy!

The FDA did 6 scenarios of benefit risk and to their credit admitted if cases were at their lowest it would tip against vaccination.

The problem with their analysis is that they assume that VAERS is fully reported and that there are no deaths caused by the vaccine. Once you fix these rookie mistakes, you get a completely different result.

Why aren’t we hearing more about vaccine deaths?

There was a memo sent out to doctors from the CDC. It was a short memo:

Death after vaccination is never a vaccine death. Death within 28 days of a postive COVID test is always a Covid death.

Get it?

Summary: nobody is willing to defend their position

Here is our team of experts. We are all happy to be proven wrong on all of this. None of us want to spread misinformation. But we remain troubled by the fact that no prominent advocate of vaccination is willing to explain to us how we got it wrong.

Nearly two months ago, TrialSiteNews called for a public debate on vaccine safety. Nobody on the pro-vaccine camp responded. Nobody. Zero. Zip. Nada. Not even Pfizer. The maker of the vaccine won’t defend its own product?!?

When Senator Johnson has an open discussion on vaccine safety, the only press that shows up is from The HighWire. The YouTube video of the event has only around 5,000 views (as of Nov 11, 2021).

The lack of transparency and willingness to be questioned should be concerning to every American. The public is only being told one side of the story. Mainstream media is suppressing the other side and they are not allowing an open debate on what the data shows. I wonder why...

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THE COVID-CON VII

Gavin Newsom was out of sight likely because he had Bell's palsy from his booster shot

They said he had personal issues to attend to... like half his face was paralyzed? Our best guess from all the evidence is vaccine-induced Bell's Palsy kept him from public view for almost 2 weeks.

Update Nov 11
My article was “fact checked” by Monique Curet at PolitiFact.

As usual, they do a shoddy job of fact checking and her report was no exception. The goal is to defame me (which is why she links to a hit piece for my background and then uses a broken link to point to this article). In particular:

She deliberately used the old original headline (GBS hypothesis) rather than the updated headline as I gathered more data

She never gave us her “expert” opinion of the difference between the before/after videos. Nor did she ask a neurologist about the differences. This is key evidence that she just ignored analyzing.

I offered to send her an email from someone who knows Newsom’s condition. I offered it under NDA to not disclose the source. She refused to see it.

I told her the neurologist I used didn’t want her name used for fear of retribution, but that if she couldn’t see the clear difference herself, I would find a neurologist who would go on record. She never asked me for the neurologist who would go on record.

I also suggested she choose a neurologist herself (instead of me sourcing it) and mention what her expert said. She didn’t do that either.

I also said she should ask the Governor’s office why he didn’t appear at the Climate conference by zoom. She didn’t ask them that either. Just the usual softball questions.

I said if she thought there was a hypothesis which better fits the facts (why there was no climate zoom call, clear left side facial droop and lack of frown lines on left side when he finally appeared), I’d be happy to update my article. She found no new evidence I wasn’t aware of that would change the best guess hypothesis.

Because the Governor’s office claimed there was nothing there, my article was rated “False.” She performed exactly as I expected from PolitiFact: refuse to investigate/validate the evidence offered with third-party experts and then launch into ad hominem attacks.

It’s been rumored that Gavin Newsom was out of sight for nearly 2 weeks since getting his booster on Oct 27 because he developed Bell’s palsy. This can happen within hours after getting his booster so this makes perfect sense since he disappeared shortly after the shot. This explains why nobody had seen him in public for nearly two weeks since he got the shot; anyone who saw him would instantly know.

On November 9, almost two weeks later, he appeared on a livestream at the California Economic Summit.

To the untrained eye, he looked “normal.” If you weren’t specifically looking for Bell’s palsy (and knew exactly what to look for), most people would think nothing had happened.

I had a neurologist look at the before/after pictures and video

I showed before/after videos to a neurologist who said “100%” he is recovering from Bell’s palsy due to lingering “telltale” signs. She had a dermatologist review as well who said the same thing. She said most people wouldn’t be able to tell, but this is her “bread and butter” so she knows exactly what to look for.

I expect a lot of people to be skeptical. If you don’t like my neurologist, please send the before and after video links above to your trusted neurologist and/or dermatologist and report in the comments on what they said.

Also, the explanation Gavin gave in the video (that he had a change of heart and wanted to spend Halloween with his kids) seems a bit odd since his press office said he was working in the Capitol, e.g., this NY Times article which says, “Last week Governor Newsom worked in the Capitol with staff”.

I have a good friend who is politically well connected who spoke with Newsom’s former staffers and they all thought it was a really weird explanation.

I never rely on any single datapoint, but all the datapoints I was aware of were consistent with a hypothesis of Bell’s palsy:

Bell’s palsy is #11 on our “highest elevated symptom” analysis, elevated by 1,533X over baseline
It’s common after Moderna (which is what he got) because Moderna has a large dose (see Brady Smith anecdote below),
It resolves relatively quickly (especially if helped along with special techniques) so it would enable him to nearly “fully recover” in 2 weeks and do the event today.
I know someone who would absolutely know for sure and my probe elicited a response consistent with Bell’s palsy.
A good friend knows people who are very close to the Governor who confirmed he was vaccine injured.
There is an article about it on the CHD website (archived here). I’ve found them to be a credible source.
All the other things I’ve heard from multiple sources were all consistent with a Bell’s palsy diagnosis (emails with doctors, lawyers, and also looking a speculation on Twitter).

For example, Brady Smith, a dentist in Camas, Washington, had two patients (of 10,000) who got Moderna (not administered by him) and both developed Bell’s palsy within a few hours after the shot. In both cases, the paralysis largely resolved with two days. This can totally explain how Newsom was able appear in public with no traces. As long as none of his doctors talk, nobody will know he was vaccine injured. All he has to do now is come up with a lame excuse for why he dropped from sight for nearly two weeks with no explanation. Simple.

Am I 100% certain? No. This is just my personal educated guess as to the most likely explanation piecing together the information (both from public and private sources) that I’ve gathered. It is the hypothesis that best aligns with all the clues that out there.

This Fox News article says: “Newsom press secretary Daniel Lopez said the governor worked at the state Capitol last week and would begin making normal appearances again sometime this week, according to a statement provided to SFGATE.”

Wow. “Sometime this week???” That means they are on a “wait and see” schedule, again, consistent with Bell’s that is not fully resolved.

And Lopez had no explanation for why he’s dropped out of sight for nearly 2 weeks and cancelled his appearance at the UN Climate Summit on Nov 1-3? Wow. He was a complete no show. Why would he not just appear for 30 minutes on Zoom? Again, if his face didn’t work, it would explain it. We have no other explanation.

Lastly, critical thinkers would wonder, “With all the concerns, why didn’t he do a quick video on Twitter saying that he’s fine and dispel the rumors?” That’s what most people would have done.

He was completely off the grid (except for a brief appearance at a Getty wedding where his face was covered by a mask; the perfect cover to conceal Bell’s palsy). And there are no close up shots of him.

Alex Jones did some digging and found a story that is consistent with a vaccine injury: Newsom was isolated in his home with doctors going in and out.

[...]

Did the vaccine cause Bell’s Palsy for Newsom? He was perfectly fine before the shot and within hours after the shot he’s reported to be paralyzed. Could be bad luck. But come on.

Why doesn’t he just admit the truth, that he got Bell’s Palsy from the vaccine? Perhaps because:

It would create vaccine hesitancy because it would be an admission that the vaccines aren’t safe like he claims
It would make him look silly for mandating very dangerous vaccines in California.
He doesn’t want to make the CDC look incompetent for never spotting the safety signal.

Newsom is still mandating that your kids get the vaccine. He’s even tweeting about it after being injured!

[...]

Hundreds of previously healthy kids will suffer neurological damage just like he did as a result of his mandate. The best risk-benefit analysis I’ve seen projects that hundreds of kids will die from the vaccine.

Bell’s is one of over 5,000 adverse events that are elevated by these vaccine. More troubling is that the risk-benefit analysis for 5 to 11 I’ve seen shows we will kill 117 kids to maybe save 1 kid from COVID.

Governor Newsom and the CDC don’t seem to care about that; there’s not even a CDC category for vaccine deaths.

Over 120,000 Americans have suffered from Bell’s Palsy after vaccination (you take the incidence rate from the table and multiply by the minimum VAERS underreporting factor (URF) of 41 which is calculated here).

A neurologist I know has over 2,000 clients with vaccine injuries (out of 20,000 client base). The neurologist never had any events before now in his/her practice caused by the vaccine. This shows you it is the vaccine causing the events, not “over reporting” as is claimed by the FDA. While there could still be overreporting regardless, there is no evidence of this (I address this topic in detail in the VAERS analysis).

When will it end?

I hope soon. But nobody in America likes to admit he was wrong. Even after they’ve been injured. (read more)

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THE COVID-CON VI

What is Luciferase?

How a firefly enzyme that glows might herald the end of the world

As most of my followers on social media and Substack must know by now, I have spent a considerable amount of time the last two years trying to discover the actual ingredients of the new COVID vaccines. The reason is simple: Big Pharma has gone to considerable trouble to hide them.

Do the Big Pharma companies want to submit the vaccines to independent analysis? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies want to disclose all the ingredients? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies have any liability for lying to the public about the proprietary ingredients in their vaccines? They do not.

We have a leaked copy of the legal agreement that Big Pharma companies (allegedly) have forced nation-states to sign in order to get the new COVID vaccines. These contracts include indemnification clauses that no sane human being would ever sign. This copy leaked from Albania:

One thing is certain: Big Pharma is not standing behind these products. They’re totally experimental and untested and so forth — so why are the world’s governments so hellbent on injecting their citizens with this stuff?

I received a tip regarding some of these ingredients, and so I did what nobody in American corporate journalism does anymore: I checked the primary sources.

Allow me to share my secret and very profound methodology:

1) I went to the MODERNA website.

2) I clicked to the PATENTS page.

3) I found PATENT US 10,703,789

4) I conducted a keyword search for something called: Luciferase.

Such are the complex technical skills which have been lost by corporate journalists. So what did I find there? Well, sitting on page 46 in table 4, you will see that I found something called Luciferase:

What’s Luciferase?

Luciferase is an enzyme that can produce bioluminescence. (It can make things glow, basically.) That’s why Luciferase is commonly used in the biomedical industry. It’s used to tag very tiny things like cells or proteins so that you can track them.

It tags things so you can track them.

Was Luciferase listed as an ingredient in the COVID vaccines by Big Pharma? No it was not. (You can check here at the CDC website.) So the next question becomes: why would Big Pharma not disclose that Luciferase is an ingredient in the vaccines - since it’s clearly listed (in at least one patent from one company) as being used?

The reason is rather ominous: Big Pharma has big plans for Luciferase and Big Government has big plans for it too. The U.S. military’s technology arm DARPA is currently fighting with Moderna over the ownership of the COVID vaccine because DARPA has “funded an implantable biochip” that could be used “to deploy” it:

Despite this, however, one obstacle to the deployment of Moderna’s vaccine is the method of delivery. While Moderna is developing its own system, it’s unlikely to get Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval any time soon. Enter Profusa, which is developing a nanoscale biochip that can detect symptoms of an infection.

Profusa’s biochip is made using a technology called “hydrogels” that were a product of the “In Vivo Nanoplatforms” (IVN) program that DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO) launched in 2014 to develop implantable nanotechnologies.

These hydrogels are soft, flexible nanomachines that are injected beneath the skin to perform monitoring. This hydrogel includes a specially engineered molecule that sends a fluorescent signal outside the body when it begins to fight infection. This signal can then be detected by a sensor attached to the skin that can then be sent to an app or even to a doctor’s website.

Why is the U.S. military working with vaccine companies to create micro-chips (that’s “hydrogels” or “nanotech”!) that will send a “fluorescent signal” (that’s Luciferase!) detectable by an app on your smartphone? When did DARPA get involved in public health policy exactly? That strange question leads to other strange questions like: why did the Pentagon fund the Wuhan Lab of Virology to “study” weaponizing bat coronaviruses? Neither DARPA nor the Pentagon are well known for being leaders in health care, to say the very least.

In fact, Big Pharma and Big Government have big plans for future vaccine shots that have “dissolvable needles” and quantum dot tattoos along with other amazing technology like embedding vaccine records beneath the skin of your children with invisible ink. According to one article: “Along with the vaccine, a child would be injected with a bit of dye that is invisible to the naked eye but easily seen with a special cell-phone filter, combined with an app that shines near-infrared light onto the skin.” That article was written in 2019: that’s just before the COVID crisis. That leads me to another thought: COVID-19 seems to be a very convenient “accidental lab leak” from China for introducing new technology.

Under the cover of vaccinating people, we are really preparing to tag and track people. The once free nations of the West are testing a new authoritarian system of total control under the guise of public health. Just look at Australia or New Zealand or Canada or Italy to see how basic civil rights have been suspended indefinitely and a pseudo-medical tyranny has been installed. The Great Reset is being implemented with the lie that it’s all about “protecting your health.” Our military and intelligence agencies are not confronting China — they're copying China. A totalitarian nightmare is being imported into free countries through surveillance technologies.

You don’t have to be a Christian to understand that such technology will be used to build a global surveillance state. The vaccine mandates have already led to vaccine passports. The vaccine passports are basically QR codes to track you by connecting to your smartphone. This will inevitably lead very soon to biometric ID embedded into your body. You won’t be able to enter restaurants or buy groceries or go to work without it. As the Bible says: no one will be able to buy or sell anything except those that have the mark. You will know the mark by its name, which is the name of the beast: the enemy of all mankind who, before he fell, was an angel of light named Lucifer. That’s why “Luciferase” should send a chill down your spine.

So I sent out the following tweet to my followers (with a video showing the Luciferase patent information) earlier this week:

This one tweet was sufficient, apparently, to get the word “Luciferase” trending on Twitter. (I didn’t notice at the time because I was busy covering the Glenn Youngkin victory on election night.) It was not until the next day that it became clear this one tweet had stirred up all the Big Pharma bots working remotely from Beijing.

The largest producer of misinformation in America, The Washington Post, ran a piece on my tweet where I was branded a “COVID conspiracy theorist.” The Daily Beast ran a piece and then ran a second piece. Something called The Hill ran a piece. The forgotten boomer finance magazine Forbes got involved. Vanity Fair, the perfume ad magazine, did a little column on it. Then it became an international thing with The Independent and The Daily Mail chiming in.

Now you have to ask yourself: are my tweets about vaccine ingredients really making headline news around the world? I checked with my husband first to see if I was indeed that famous. His response was disappointing. He told me: “At best, you’re semi-famous.” When corporate media outlets around the English-speaking world all start to scream in such coordinated fashion, you know you’ve hit a nerve. Why would they suddenly go crazy over the COVID vaccine ingredients?

It’s because Big Journalism is being paid by Big Pharma to not disclose the truth. In fact, Big Pharma is paying Big Journalism to actively hide the truth around the world. Why do you think the COVID journalist Alex Berenson got kicked off Twitter? Why did the corporate media unleash a hate campaign against feminist icon Naomi Wolf? Why isn’t ex-Pfizer chief scientist Dr. Michael Yeadon allowed to speak? How is it possible that the inventor of mRNA vaccines himself, Dr. Robert Malone, is not a household name around the world? You know the answer: they have all warned us about the dangers of the new COVID vaccines. They have been silenced by Big Tech and Big Pharma because they have all dared to tell the truth.

They are not alone. How many thousands have been banned or suspended already by Big Tech for questioning the COVID vaccines in our supposedly free nation? How many of your civil rights, your constitutional rights, can they trample before your very eyes? America is no longer a constitutional republic: it’s more like a corporate oligarchy where Big Pharma and Big Tech and Big Government tell you every day what you’re allowed to do on Zoom calls from the CDC with Dr. Fauci. They’re not even pretending anymore. This is something like Day 575 of “15 days to slow the spread.” Our so-called civil servants and elected officials are never going to give up their new “emergency powers” on their own. They mean to rule over us, and everybody knows it.

That’s why the COVID-19 pandemic is being used to force everyone to get the new vaccines. That’s why natural immunity doesn’t count to anyone in the medical community. That’s why religious exemptions have disappeared at your work, along with medical exemptions. That’s why Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine (and every other therapeutic drug) were swiftly outlawed. That’s why your 5 year old child will be “encouraged” and then coerced and then forced to take the jab, just as you were “encouraged” and then coerced and then forced to take the jab. That’s why the global vaccination campaign never stops when the already vaccinated start to get sick with COVID, or young boys suddenly die from heart inflammation, or world famous soccer players collapse on TV in the middle of games. That’s why health data (whether from Israel or Sweden or Florida or your local hospital) is totally irrelevant. The vaccine is being forced on everyone because the vaccine and the vaccine passport are the essential tools of a global surveillance system that will end everyone’s basic human freedom.

You have been warned. (read more)

See also: Luciferase Was Bad But It Gets Worse!

2021-11-12 e
THE COVID-CON V
(The fiction of "Long Covid" was concocted to scare the public to boost vaccination rates.)

Long Covid doesn't exist, volume one zillion

A huge French study shows BELIEVING you had Covid is associated with many later symptoms. But ACTUALLY having had Covid isn't associated with any (except loss of sense of smell).

The Journal of the American Medical Association has another stunning paper out, this one on post-Covid symptoms in almost 27,000 French adults.

Researchers asked people to report whether they had had Covid and whether they had any of 18 lasting symptoms like insomnia, fatigue, or cough. They found that self-reported Covid was very strongly associated with nearly every symptom.

But the scientists then went a step further.

They also had Sars-Cov-2 antibody test results for the people they had surveyed, so they didn’t have to depend on self-reported Covid. They knew who really had had Covid and who had not.

They then compared self-reported symptoms in people with antibodies - that is, people who had actually been infected and recovered from Covid - to the general population. And they found no difference in almost any symptom.

Covid was not a risk factor for chest pain, or breathing difficulties, or trouble focusing, or stomach pain, or any of the many, many other complaints that long Covid “patients” and interest groups say are real. There was one interesting exception; people with Covid antibodies did have a much higher rate of anosmia, losing one’s sense of smell. Because anosmia is a known and lasting side effect, it serves as a useful control of sorts.

The researchers also found that almost 60 percent of the people with antibodies HAD NO IDEA THEY HAD EVEN HAD COVID AT ALL. Meanwhile, more than half the people who said they had had Covid had no antibodies. (Welcome to the plague so severe most halfway healthy adults don’t even know they’ve had it.)

The study strongly suggests that many people are using previous Covid diagnoses - either real or imagined - to help explain away common physical symptoms such as joint pain or cough. It also suggests that actually being infected Covid is far less risky than thinking you have been infected with Covid for many people.

The researchers concluded by explaining that people who claim they have long Covid may need help “to identify cognitive and behavioral mechanisms that may be targeted to relieve the symptoms.” Which is a very polite way of putting the truth.

This study should slow, if not stop, the rush to medicalize long Covid. It is yet more proof that the illness is a group of squishy (if painful and difficult) symptoms looking for a name - and more importantly a billing code.

[Editor's Note: most symptoms of the alleged "Long Covid" sound like beri beri (vitamin B1 deficiency).]

But so many patients and physicians and public health experts are now invested (in some cases literally) in making long Covid real that the gravy train will likely roll on. (read more)

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THE COVID-CON IV
(The vaccines and boosters are meant to PERPETUATE the pandemic of lies, in addition to enriching the usual suspects.)

No (mRNA/DNA) vaccines, no epidemic

India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Indonesia collectively have 2 billion people... and essentially no access to advanced Covid vaccines.

They are among the world’s most densely populated and poorest countries - fertile ground for Sars-Cov-2.

So the epidemic must be out of control from Karachi to Jakata, right?

Let’s take a look.
[...]
It’s almost as if Covid-19 infection waves have a predictable natural course over a two- to three-month period - a sharp rise and nearly equally sharp decline.

It’s almost as if the virus then disappears as many, many people gain natural immunity - including many younger people who never knew they were infected at all because the coronavirus is barely dangerous to them.

It’s almost as if an English epidemiologist named William Farr noted the way epidemics waxed and waned more than 150 years ago.

Speaking of England, let’s take a look at the United Kingdom, which vaccinated more of its citizens with advanced vaccines against Sars-Cov-2 more quickly than any other big Western country.

The epidemic must be done there, right?
[...]
Well. This is weird.

Britain’s post-vaccination wave just doesn’t seem to want to end. New cases have been stuck at a very high level for five months. And deaths - although lower than they were at the peak of the winter wave - have not gone away and in fact are now rising.

It’s almost as if mass vaccinations of powerful but imperfect vaccines have made the epidemic worse in the United Kingdom (and across Europe and the United States) by interfering with the natural course of the epidemic and the development of natural immunity.

Almost.

I’m sure Pfizer and Moderna and the public health gurus have a better explanation, though. Roll up yer sleeves for that booster!
(read more and view data)

2021-11-12 c
THE COVID-CON III

CDC Admits They Have NO Records of Any Person With Recovered Immunity Ever Transmitting The COVID-19 Virus

This is a very interesting admission by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Accepting the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. health officials within the Health and Human Services Department [STORY HERE], the CDC admits they do not have evidence of a single case where a person carrying natural immunity ever transmitted the virus to another person. [Document Source]

“You would assume that if the CDC was going to crush the civil and individual rights of those with natural immunity by having them expelled from school, fired from their jobs, separated from the military, and worse, the CDC would have proof of at least one instance of an unvaccinated, naturally immune individual transmitting the COVID-19 virus to another individual. If you thought this, you would be wrong.” (read more)

(read more)

See also: The CDC Can’t Prove a SINGLE Instance of a Naturally Immune Individual Spreading COVID

2021-11-12 b
THE COVID-CON II
(The covidiots, mask-holes and bed wetting sissies will never be safe enough.)

[...] Snooping and snitching

Informing on one’s neighbor to the thought police is already pretty much the norm on commercial airliners, where passengers are encouraged to report anyone who dares to attempt normal breathing, even while asleep. (“Look! There’s a secret anti-masker dozing in the seat across the aisle!”)

But the snoop-and-snitch craze seems to be spreading. Now, whole school systems are using commercial software to spy on as many as 23 million U.S. children, monitoring their every keystroke and tracking their internet contacts.

According to a recent press report, while some parents object to this Big Brother-ism, others seem to feel that there’s too little surveillance of their kids, not too much. As for school administrators – many of them see nothing wrong with local bureaucrats doubling as thought police because “I’ve always felt that they [the kids] are already being tracked,” as one school principal phlegmatically put it.

Meanwhile, a recent and typical news story described, without comment, how students and/or parents reported a teacher to the authorities for the crime of being “unvaccinated” – and of having occasionally removed her muzzle while reading aloud to the class.

Sad to say, there was nothing unusual about that.

Hollywood snitches have busied themselves in recent months getting actors fired for expressing the wrong thoughts about such things as mandatory muzzling or manipulated elections. And what’s good for celebrities ought to be good for the rest of us, right?

The trend toward the destruction of privacy – which is the death knell for any democratic system of government – is all the more dangerous because it was gaining ground even before coronavirus hysteria created the perfect culture for its expansion.

“Think of our counterinsurgency wars abroad as so many living laboratories for the undermining of a democratic society at home,” wrote Alfred McCoy, the leading U.S. historian of surveillance and its political consequences, as far back as 2009.

McCoy presciently warned that technology used to repress dissent in, say, Iraq:

has proven remarkably effective in building a technological template that could be just a few tweaks away from creating a domestic surveillance state – with omnipresent cameras, deep data-mining, nano-second biometric identification, and drone aircraft patrolling ‘the homeland.’”

I think of those words every time I’m urged to install proof-of-“vaccination” software on my cell phone. Am I really supposed to believe that such a potentially powerful surveillance tool won’t be put to more intrusive uses?

It’s worth remembering that President George W. Bush tried to organize ordinary citizens into a massive, informal spy network as part of the “war on terror” nearly 20 years ago, while the federal government was compiling “electronic dossiers” on millions of Americans – a system that only got bigger under Barack Obama.

With Joe Biden, Obama’s Vice President, at the helm now, there can’t be much question about where we’re heading. Anyone who still believes in privacy is going to have to fight for it. (read more)

2021-11-12 a
THE COVID-CON I
(The pandemic of lies has been maintained by our mainstream (Pravda) media and the flood of false positive results from PCR tests yielding the fiction of "cases." The pandemic of lies grows this year with adverse reactions to the spike protein mRNA gene therapy shots and the off-the-charts viral load of the vaccinated.)

Protecting Pravda

Media censorship is really monopoly protectionism—and the “unfair competition” is you.

It is bitterly ironic how America’s current corporate media embrace censorship—for others, of course. After all, the First Amendment’s recognition and protection of the unalienable right to free speech and the freedom of the press have long been rightly and ardently defended by those making a living in the industry. Their rationale was elementary: an attack on the free speech of one citizen was an attack on the free speech of all citizens.

Today, however, many of the most strident voices for censorship and self-censorship—including calls for the First Amendment to be radically curtailed—come from the left-wing, spoon-fed, regime-succored Pravda media.

What changed? Some, rather charitably, believe the Pravda media are enraptured with their regressive leftist ideology—which must be proselytized and protected at all costs, including the adoption of “accountability” (read “biased”) reporting—which impels journalists to ditch objectivity. This in turn spurs demands for both censorship and self-censorship to dispense with ideological inconveniences, such as facts and truth.

But in actuality, it is best to recall the cardinal rule of politics: follow the money. When one does, the Pravda media’s ignoble motive manifests: censorship is their protectionism.

Protectionism is usually implemented to preserve manufacturing industries, like automobiles and steel. The industries claim to be economically pressed by what they declare is unfair foreign competition, and demand the government provide subsidies, tax breaks, and/or barriers to market entry for their unfair competitors through tariffs and other policies to protect their jobs and profits. The politicians who support these policies are rewarded with endorsements, contributions, votes, etc.

Now ponder our Pravda media. It is also an industry, manufacturing [CIA-approved] “content” and bent on shaping and changing American public opinion. Yet, in this age of the democratization of information, the corporate media is facing pressure from what they deem to be unfair competition that must be stopped through government and industry action. That competition is you; and you must be silenced.

One of the aspects the Pravda media most despise is how the democratization of information eliminates barriers to entry for Americans in all walks of life, allowing their voices to be heard and to influence public affairs and policies. After all, what good is a pricey journalism degree if the dirty uncredentialed can undo all your propagandizing with a few viral lines on social media?

But the Pravda media’s loss of their presumed power and warped self-image as opinion makers aren’t their only “losses” due to your “unfair” competition in the marketplace of ideas.The Pravda media is also hemorrhaging money and jobs, so they demand subsidies and barriers to your entry into the public square. The Pravda media then creates the duplicitously monikered “fact checkers” and other internal mechanisms to brand your speech as disinformation that is unsafe for public consumption. They then take this bogus determination to their cohorts in Big Tech and Big Government to censor and/or create a chilling effect regarding your “unsafe disinformation.”

For those in Big Tech and Big Government who support this protectionism through censorship, lavish Pravda media praise and protection follows. Those who oppose it face scurrilous innuendos. As for you, you get censored—and maybe even declared a domestic terrorist.

Thus, despite their hypocritical paeans to their presumed noble motives, the Pravda media constitutes a dying industry losing jobs and profits due to its own misconduct [driven by becoming stenographers for the Deep State]. Rather than reform, they vociferously and deceitfully demand to be protected from outside (but not unfair) competition by promising rewards to their fellow elitists willing to protect their jobs, profits, and elitist self-esteem. What happens to such rent-seekers when they become dependent upon the government for their livelihood?

A free press becomes Pravda; and you get silenced. (read more)

2021-11-11 j
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A GROWN-UP BLACK BOY

But despite [segregation and Jim Crow] there was a deep and abiding love for our country, and a firm desire to have the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship. Regardless of how society treated us, there was never any doubt that we were equally entitled to claim the promise of America as our birthright, and equally duty bound to honor and defend her to the best of our ability. We held these ideals first and foremost, because we were raised to know that as children of God, we were inherently equal and equally responsible for our actions . . ..

Whether deemed inferior by the crudest bigots [or] considered a victim by the most educated elites, being dismissed as anything other than inherently equal is still at bottom, a reduction of our human worth. My nuns at St. Benedict’s taught me that that was a lie. And to paraphrase Solzhenitsyn, we were not to live by that lie. [I]n God’s eyes, we were inherently equal, and that was the truth that permeated our home life as well—less with a focus on rights and more with a focus on what was required of us as children of God.

— Clarence Thomas

2021-11-11 i
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A GROWN-UP WHITE BOY

Columnists at the Guardian and woke progressives gaze upon us poor white boys as if we’re untameable pre-modern creatures, some uncontacted tribe daubed in the fiery sap of a plant to which we ascribe divinity.

It wasn’t always this way. Lefty intellectuals slicked dry their slimy obsession with the working class when it dawned upon them that we weren’t keen on doing their dirty work of a Marxist revolution.

The bohemian radicals turned their compassion toward convincing minorities and women that Western society is a Margaret Atwood novel, liberation from which lay in revolution. Hence the woke obsessions with race and gender and deconstructing a Western civilization never more opposed to discrimination.

As George Orwell observed, “The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.”

2021-11-11 h
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF AN IDIOTIC JEWISH MASTURBATOR

CNN's Zoom masturbator, Jeffrey Toobin says Kyle Rittenhouse is lucky it isn't "illegal to be an idiot." pic.twitter.com/QPhPNLt1Cx

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 10, 2021

2021-11-11 g
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A THINKER

If you are going to trust billionaires and bankers (who have created the environmental crises) to design a brand-new economic system because you think they care about the environment, you might as well hand them your brain in a bag.

— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) November 4, 2021

2021-11-11 f
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A FRAMER

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

— James Madison

2021-11-11 e
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A DRUNK LESBIAN

MY OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON “TAILGATE-GATE”

My staff has pleaded with me to hire a crisis-management PR firm for an incident that occurred on 10/30 at the UM/MSU football game. Instead, I thought I would just share the events which transpired that fateful day.

Before the big game, I attended a tailgate on an empty stomach. Much to my surprise, MSU tailgate’s tend to have more alcohol than food, so I thought it seemed like a good idea to eat 2 Bloody Mary’s, since as long as you put enough vegetables in them, it’s practically a salad. As it turned out, this was not a brilliant idea. Also, I might be a terrible bartender.

I proceeded to go to the game (which I’m told Michigan definitely won!) and started to feel ill. I laid low for a while, but my friends recommended that I leave so as to prevent me from vomiting on any of my constituents (polling consistently shows “Roman showers” to be unpopular among most demographics).

had a few folks help me up the stairs and someone grabbed a wheelchair so as to prevent me from stumbling in the parking lot. Like all smart people attending festivities where drinking occurs, I had a designated driver. I went home, fell asleep on the couch, and my wife threw some blankets on me and provided me with some water and Tylenol for what she knew would be a skull-crushing hangover the next day. (Best wife ever!)

So there. That’s the scandalous tale of the events which transpired at Tailgate-Gate.

— Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel

2021-11-11 d
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A DEMENTIA PATIENT

WATCH: Biden tells a story about “the great negro at the time” Satchel Paige.pic.twitter.com/zm3wUsBO6r

— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) November 11, 2021

2021-11-11 c
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A CREEPY EUGENICIST

Despite being one of the largest proponents of presently-available COVID-19 vaccines, Gates admits to the failure of the vaccine industry that he has worked so hard to prop up.

MORE: https://t.co/aw7PJZ86jM pic.twitter.com/lo9kKuImo9

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) November 9, 2021

2021-11-11 b
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A DEFEATED DEMOCRAT

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney Concedes To Republican Newcomer Edward Durr

The historic election upset is now official. New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, one of the most powerful elected officials in the state, has conceded his race.

Both candidates spoke out Wednesday. Sweeney says we have not seen the last of him yet, while the Senator-elect wants to bury the hatchet.

Sweeney lost reelection to Republican newcomer and commercial truck driver Edward Durr in South Jersey’s 3rd District.

An emotional Sweeney talked about his defeat at the statehouse in Trenton on Wednesday.

It’s the end of a 20-year run in the Senate and a 12-year tenure as president of the chamber.

The Democrat says his loss by about 2,000 votes was the result of overwhelming Republican turnout in his politically split district.

It serves parts of Gloucester County, Cumberland County and all of Salem County.

“I’m not going away. I won’t say what I’m doing, but I can tell you something, I’ve been a believer in making New Jersey affordable for a long time,” Sweeney said. “I’ve been the one who’s been through battles for pensions and health care costs for a long time. My voice has been consistent because it’s with the blue-collar workers that I see every day. They’ve got to be able to live here.”

“To Sen. Sweeney, I congratulate you on a long career. Who knows, maybe someday we can have a beer together,” Durr said. “Now the hard work begins. The voters have spoken. They don’t want government rule by a dangerous guy armed with a bunch of executive orders.”

Sweeney stopped short of saying whether he would seek election to the Senate again in two years or run for governor in 2025. (read more)

2021-11-11 a
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF A BABE

“ok yeah, I hope you all go to jail for doing this to me”

School board speech by Florida 2nd grader who was suspended 36 times for not wearing a mask:
Legend pic.twitter.com/SjEAhuQuP8

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2021

See also: https://www.tampafp.com/florida-2nd-grade-student-suspended-36-days-over-not-wearing-mask/

See also: https://myfox8.com/news/2nd-grader-suspended-38-times-over-mask-mandate-could-flunk-out/

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