Not celebrating

Two golfers

Tell me why!

Unlimited breadsticks

From the Babylon Bee:

HYATTSVILLE, MD—An exasperated waitress at a local Olive Garden restaurant was forced to ask Senator Bernie Sanders if he was just gonna sit there all night eating free breadsticks or if he was going to order something, sources confirmed Monday evening.

Sanders walked in and the waitress asked if she could bring him a basket of breadsticks while he thought about what he wanted to order. Sanders' eyes went wild. "Free bread? Oh, I think I would like that very much."

"You mean---you'll just bring breadsticks I can munch on while I mull over the menu?" he asked. "I don't have to stand in a line for them or anything? Great, bring 2 baskets---no wait, make that 3!"

The senator also ordered a water to sip on and proceeded to examine the menu carefully for the next three hours. "You know what the problem with places like this is?" he asked his frustrated server 30 minutes after the restaurant closed and he still hadn't ordered anything. "There's too much selection. I don't want to live in a world where we have 14 different varieties of chicken alfredo. Selection, choice, abundance---all evils of late-stage capitalism!"

About an hour later, Sanders reportedly attempted to escape out the bathroom window to avoid paying for anything, but his tufts of hair got caught on the window sill.

At publishing time, Sanders took to Twitter to rant against the evils of capitalism after Olive Garden attempted to charge him $4.99 for the unlimited breadsticks.

Will Trump be given credit?

Matt Margolis writes in PJ Media,

There are ten countries that have more than 100 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, but the United States has the smallest infection rate per capita of all of them by a significant margin.

According to figures provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), the ten countries with 100 or more cases, as of Thursday, are as follows:

China: 80,523 cases
South Korea: 5,766
Italy: 3,089
Iran: 2,922
Japan: 317
France: 282
Germany: 262
Spain: 198
United States: 129
Singapore: 110
Taking population into account, the United States has a per capita infection rate of 0.0000388 percent. The next highest per capita infection rate is Japan's, which, at 0.0002526 percent, is eight times higher than the United States' rate. South Korea and China have the highest per capita infection rates at 0.0111237 percent and 0.0057763 percent respectively.

Last month health experts begrudgingly admitted that Trump's strategy for dealing with the outbreak saved lives. Trump was quick to ban travel with China, despite opposition from WHO. Trump has also had to deal with Democrats shamelessly politicizing the outbreak, even though Trump's response to the coronavirus has been far more effective than Obama's was for the H1N1 virus. As CNN reported, Obama didn't declare the H1N1 virus a national emergency until "millions of people in the United States [had] been infected," and over 1,000 had died.

The number of cases and the infection rate for coronavirus are likely to increase, but it's clear from these numbers that Trump's strategy for containing the spread of infection has been extraordinarily effective, and he deserves credit for that.

The worst that can happen!

This has to be one of Tucker Carlson's best opening segments!

Why is Assange being prosecuted, but not the Washington Post, New York Times, or Guardian, all of whom published the same information that Wikileaks did?

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters: "Assange redacted names so no one was put at risk. Recently, the CIA has owned up to that fact. The Guardian actually named names."

Assange faces espionage charges in the U.S. based on his work in obtaining and publishing secret documents.

I admit I am completely uninformed on this issue. I could not even name a Pink Floyd song! Apparently, there is a video of a "collateral murder" in which American airmen killed some unarmed people, including two Reuters cameramen in the street.

Assange is locked up 23 hours a day in a bullet-proof glass cage in the UK's highest security prison on a minor bail infraction, a misdemeanor!

Neil Smeltzer is a United Nations specialist in torture. He wrote a report supportive of Assange and offered it to the media mentioned above, but none of them would report it!

I want to learn more!

The DNC wants Sanders to be defeated this month.

Sundance explains in the Conservative Treehouse that the DNC wants to get Bernie Sanders out of the race this month. Read it here.

"...cull just the really bad opinions and then stop when just the good viewpoints are left."

From the Babylon Bee:

WORLD—There’s good news for the internet: studies show it’s now just a few bans away from finally only having good opinions on it. Much of social media had become dominated by racism, conspiracy theories, and people who are just plain wrong about things, but by simply kicking off people who pretty much everyone agrees is bad, studies show soon only good discussion will dominate the internet.

“There are literal Nazis on social media now,” said researcher Douglass Simmons, “but we have a tool the Nazis didn’t have: banning unpopular speech. By applying and expanding this tool, we can make the internet a place everyone—everyone who is left, anyway—can enjoy.” This new internet is made by a coalition of liberals and their natural ally: large corporations. Together they plan to work together to cull just the really bad opinions and then stop when just the good viewpoints are left.

As for the people with unpopular views, they’ll be further marginalized and, presumably, react by getting better opinions—though researchers admit it will be hard to know for sure as now no one will ever hear from them again.

The move to eliminate bad speech from social media has been mainly met with wide approval, but there were some detractors initially. After some more culling, though, the move was met with unanimous approval.

"No explanation!"

From the Babylon Bee:

AKRON, OH—According to witnesses of the miraculous event, an amorphous clump of cells was instantaneously transformed into a beautiful, fully formed human baby the moment it was delivered at Grace Hospital Wednesday afternoon.

“Our little bundle of joy is so precious,” mother Hannah Bramer told reporters as she held her baby boy for the first time. “It’s hard to believe little Ashton was an unrecognizable blob of tissue just a few minutes ago.”

“I have no idea how this happened, but I am so happy,” she added.

Doctors who witnessed the occurrence claim it was nothing short of a medical miracle.

“The baby you see was indeed just a part of that woman’s body, moments ago,” the doctor who delivered the child said. “He is now clearly a separate, unique human being—just like that. We’re all fascinated, honestly. It’s astounding. We have no explanation.”

A red flag order for Schumer

In The Truth about Guns, we learn

In the wake of Senator Chuck Schumer’s threat against two Supreme Court Justices…

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you, if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Gun Owners of America have sent a letter and “red flag” order application to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo requesting a Temporary Extreme Risk Protection Order for the Senator.

Read more here.

The Threatener!

"He's a walking, talking effigy of Democratic corruption and amorality."

In the American Thinker, J.B. Shurk writes,

Beware the wounded animal. In pain and desperation, it will do violent things. It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Joe Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon. The Democrats and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness. In his best days, Joe Biden was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his adversaries in the back. When he wasn't using his position of power for financial gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family line their own pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling shell of an unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife does his fighting for him. If you've ever wondered what happens to the shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic swindler, just cast your eyes upon Old Joe. He's a walking, talking effigy of Democratic corruption and amorality. He's what the Democratic Party usually keeps far off the main stage for the back-alley entertainment; now he's the main event, but no amount of stick-prodding by Donna Brazile or Tom Perez is going to turn Joe Biden into Fred Astaire. He's a freak-show carnival attraction at best, amazing onlookers by his ability to occasionally jumble audible words together into a sentence. The Democrats needed a man who could command a movement; all they got was a man who can barely control his own.

I'm not saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag. Far from it. We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to take down an American president. The Democratic Party has most of the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe, global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump from the White House. In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence agencies and clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of history. After orchestrating a coup against the American president, however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each night. The corporate news media and institutional government have spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.

So, no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on November 3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege. All I am saying is that Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion for resurrecting their oligarchic power. They wanted a formidable presidential nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly inspiring. Instead, they're settling for a politician past his expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and more soused in crème de menthe. The Democratic Party may depend on dead voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing altogether.

So just because the cable news anchors and Carville clones are all high-fiving each other and cheering for managing to narrowly prevent a communist disciple of Stalin and Castro from sewing up the Democratic nomination for president by the beginning of March, don't forget how disappointed they are at heart. If Biden goes on to clinch the nomination, the Democratic Party will have managed to take all the aloof, plain, manila-folder blandness of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness and energy of a nursing home after pill rounds. This is the one whom the commentariat is celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked from running in 2016 because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when he was four years younger. The vice president during the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, the wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being strangely "articulate" for a black guy, and the obtrusive shoulder-rubber whose chief political instinct was to sniff the hair of the wives and daughters of White House officials and visiting dignitaries. Imagine being in such dire straits because the previous Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by losing over a thousand elected officials across the country during his time in office that the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just hoping to make it to bed each afternoon before saying something so inappropriate or illogical or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's Dear Leader by default. For every minute of his few wakeful hours, his handlers have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice in Biden's head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with wonderful-smelling hair." "Comeback Joe"? More like "Come back, Joe!"

The Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration while preventing the current one from achieving too many victories. Considering that Brennan and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling, they've been remarkably successful. But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to an end. If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay, regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the past. And standing in the gap as their last-ditch prospect to save them from President Trump's re-election and spare them from long-delayed judgment is none other than Corn Pop's archenemy. The one "reasonable" Democrat in the race who has already burnished his "moderate" credentials by fully embracing Bernie's Green New Deal, Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun confiscation. Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat" like "D'oh!" Biden's full-tilt toward Marxist socialism. No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him. That's what small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.

More signs of malfeasance at jail where Epstein did not kill himself

From Ace of Spades:

No Big Deal, But Investigators Just Found a Smuggled Loaded Gun in the Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Did Not Kill Himself
—Ace
Oh is that all?

No? You actually found more signs of malfeasance and worse?

Read more here.

Hillary was asked to comment.

President Trump tours tornado-damaged parts of Tennessee

Trump campaign has lawsuits pending against the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN.

When the Trump campaign hired Jenna Ellis as Senior Legal Adviser to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., I knew there would be an increase in the campaign's legal activities. Jenna was a frequent guest on Andrew Klavan's Daily Wire podcasts. Fox News tells us about her latest activities:

EXCLUSIVE: President Trump’s re-election campaign filed a libel lawsuit against CNN on Friday for publishing “false and defamatory” statements about seeking Russia’s help in the 2020 election.

"The complaint alleges CNN was aware of the falsity at the time it published them but did so for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign while misleading its own readers in the process... the campaign filed this lawsuit against CNN and the preceding suits against The New York Times and The Washington Post to hold the publishers accountable for their reckless false reporting and also to establish the truth,” Senior Legal Adviser to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Jenna Ellis told Fox News.

Fox News obtained the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia where CNN is located. It states in part that CNN claimed Trump’s campaign “assessed the potential risks and benefits of again seeking Russia’s help in 2020 and has decided to leave that option on the table.”

The complaint said that CNN was well aware the statements were false “because there was an extensive record of statements from the Campaign and the administration expressly disavowing any intention to seek Russian assistance” but promoted the claim anyway.

The complaint said that Trump’s legal team sent CNN a request to retract and apologize last month but CNN executives refused. The Trump campaign now seeks “millions of dollars” through litigation.

“The Campaign therefore was left with no alternative but to file this lawsuit to: publicly establish the truth, properly inform CNN’s readers and audience (and the rest of the world) of the true facts, and seek appropriate remedies for the harm caused by CNN’s false reporting and failure to retract and apologize for it,” the complaint said.

CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump has long feuded with CNN and regularly refers to the network as “fake news.” Ironically, CNN president Jeff Zucker helped increase Trump’s fame when he greenlit “The Apprentice” while overseeing NBC years before Trump entered the world of politics, but the two have since had a public falling out.

The article referenced by the complaint was published on CNN.com on June 13, 2019.

Larry Noble’s CNN story, headlined “Soliciting dirt on your opponents from a foreign government is a crime. Mueller should have charged Trump campaign officials with it,” was labeled as an opinion piece and featured a disclaimer that Noble is a CNN contributor but the commentary is solely his own view. However, the piece states that Trump’s campaign “assessed the potential risks and benefits of again seeking Russia's help in 2020 and has decided to leave that option on the table” as a fact and was still on CNN’s website as of Friday afternoon.

“The Defamatory Article claims, among other things, that the Campaign ‘assessed the potential risks and benefits of again seeking Russia’s help in 2020 and has decided to leave that option on the table,’” the complaint said. The Defamatory Article does not cite to any facts or reasoning in support of this claim. The Defamatory Article is false.”

The complaint notes that the Trump campaign “has repeatedly and openly disclaimed any intention to seek Russian involvement in the 2020 election” and “examples of this are too numerous to fully enumerate.”

Trump recently filed similar lawsuits against The New York Times and Washington Post.

Read more here.

"the last men left standing are an unreconstructed Marxist and a drooling buffoon."

So concludes Oregon Muse in his Morning Rant in the Ace of Spades blog.

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If I were a Democrat right now, I would be asking myself, 'how did we get to the point where our only choices are an unreconstructed Marxist and a drooling buffoon?'
Well, I think it's kind of like how they pick juries. The jury selection process is not so much a question of the prosecution and the defense trying to agree on who would be the best jurors, but rather, they start out with a large jury pool and they start tossing out the ones they don't like, for whatever reason. And whoever is left, that's who gets to be on the jury.

Yes, our election process works the same way.

Kind of frightening, isn't it?

So let's take a look at the discarded jury pool rejects:

Amy Klobuchar -- I don't think anyone could figure out why she was in the race to begin with.

Beto O'Rourke -- Classic case of peaking too soon. The novelty of his fake Hispanic schtick wore thin before the election season ever really got started. The fact that he blew through a crap ton of money on a fruitless race against Ted Cruz probably didn't help, either.

Andrew Yang -- Even though I didn't agree with pretty much anything he said, of all the Democrat candidates, Yang struck me as a guy I wouldn't mind sitting down and having a beer with. In other words, he seemed like a normal guy. That's a big handicap in today's Democrat Party.

Pete Buttigieg -- The dirty little secret here is that flaunting his gayness cost him bigly. Yes, I know the Democrats pride themselves on their tolerance and diversity, and only evil Rethuglicans would refuse to vote for a guy only because he's light in the loafers, but the Democrats don't like to admit that homosexuality is the bridge too far for many black and Hispanic voters. The number of votes from minorities Pete received was near zero. Plus, the other thing he liked to flaunt was his Christianity, which anyone could've told him is political suicide in a party where godless, Christ-hating progressives constitute a major voting bloc.

Mike Bloomberg -- I don't think anybody could figure out what to do with mini-Mike. When he was mayor of NYC, he was a Republican who wasn't really a Republican, but now, he's a Democrat who isn't really a Democrat. Also, Trump labeling him 'mini-Mike' hurt him a lot more than you might think. It's one of those nicknames that sticks no matter what, and I believe that even many Democrats got a chuckle out of it in the voting booth as they pulled the lever for someone else.

Elizabeth Warren -- Another 'why is she even here?' candidate. She was sort of Bernie lite, but with Bernie in the race, why would any self-respecting progressive vote for a watered down commie when they could vote for an actual, crazy-ass commie? Plus, I think a lot of men looked at her and thought, 'Do I really want the country to be run by a bossy librarian?' Nancy Pelosi said that there was an 'element of misogyny' in Warren's loss, but she knows that it's mainly Democrats that vote in Democratic primaries, right?

...and so this is why, after all of the weeding-out process is completed, the last men left standing are an unreconstructed Marxist and a drooling buffoon.

Which will it be?

SUPERCUT: Democrats, choose your fighter! pic.twitter.com/9HEmTMcfyT

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 5, 2020

Biden ad

At the top of their profession!

Want to go to college, but afraid you might have to pass a math test? Major in journalism! It is obvious from this video that no math is required in journalism school. Here we have an MSNBC anchor and an editorial board member of the New York Times.

MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million"

NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing”

It's $1.53 per person pic.twitter.com/dIiwCESgh8

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 6, 2020

"She'll pardon him!"

So I pretty much predicted this. It’ll be #Biden and #Hillary as his vice presidential candidate. He will eventually “gracefully” resign as his dementia worsens and... Voila! #MadamePresident at last! (and in case he gets indicted for his Ukraine corruption, she’ll pardon him... pic.twitter.com/rNbvHyepbi

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 4, 2020

So what happened to Elizabeth Warren?

"Almost nobody saw this coming!"

What will Liawatha do?

In the Conservative Treehouse, Sundance expresses this opinion:

A most likely scenario for Liawatha is a non-endorsement of Sanders without an overt endorsement of Biden and the Big Club; simply because a non-endorsement of Sanders is a covert endorsement of Biden and her limo-liberal alliance.

Read more here.

President Trump tweeted:

What must each do?

Sundance writes about Biden vs. Bernie and what each must do to enhance their chances of becoming the Democratic nominee here.

Iran releases 54,000 prisoners temporarily to stop coronavirus spread

John Hayward reports in Breitbart,

Iran on Tuesday ordered the temporary release of more than 54,000 prisoners, representing about 20 percent of its imprisoned population, to slow the spread of the coronavirus in its notoriously overcrowded and unsanitary jails.

Read more here.

Mitt Romney's foreign policy adviser sat on the Burisma board of directors with natural gas expert Hunter Biden!

Headline in a story by Ace of Spades: Mitt Romney: The Investigation Into Hunter Biden "Appears Political" and Therefore Must Not Be Undertaken by the Senate. And No, I'm Not Going to Explain Why I Supported the Obviously Political Investigation Into Trump in the Senate.

Maybe there is another reason why Mitt does not want that investigation. See the paragraph below.

Burisma faced a money-laundering investigation and questions over how it had obtained some of its licenses to drill for natural gas. In spring 2014, the company appointed Hunter Biden and a former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, to its board. Three years later, Burisma added Cofer Black, a former CIA official and foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, to the board.

Read more here.

Managing his anxieties

Premiering Friday on Hulu is a four-part documentary entitled Hillary. In it, Bill Clinton finally admits to a sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky. Watch the trailer and read more here.

Schumer stirring up the radicals to commit violence against Supreme Court Justices

The Daily Mail has the story of Chuck Schumer threatening Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Story and video here.

Warren quits, but no endorsement today

From the Daily Mail: 'Not today': Elizabeth Warren refuses to endorse Biden OR Bernie after she quits presidential race - as Trump twists knife and says she has 'probably cost Bernie the nomination' by not stepping down before Super Tuesday. Read more here.

Accepting her banishment

From the Babylon Bee:

CHEROKEE NATION—Having dropped out of the presidential race, Elizabeth Warren rode in solitude back to her reservation, having failed to take the land back from the pale faces.

"I am sorry, my people. I have failed," she said somberly, a single tear rolling down her cheek. "The white man still holds our land, and the very trees cry out against them. May Great Spirit grant us another chance in 4 harvests." The Cherokee people looked confused, so she clarified: "That means years according to the Indian talk book I picked up."

The Cherokee expressed mixed emotions at seeing Warren return, from "Who are you?" to "How many times do we have to tell you that if you're not gonna play some slots at the casino, then you're gonna need to leave?"

Warren nodded, accepting her banishment from her once-great place among the Cherokee people. "I accept my punishment and vow never to return until the sun once again never sets on the Cherokee Nation. As I depart, let me simply ask you if you have ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon? Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grins?"

"Wait, now you're just quoting Pocahontas," one tribal security guard said. "Alright, lady, let's go. The buffet is having crab legs tonight but other than that you're gonna have to scram."

At publishing time, Warren had sought advice from Grandmother Willow as to who it is that she should endorse.

“You literally can’t look at our paper and find anything on the right, or even the center anymore—exactly how a good, unbiased newspaper should be.”

From the Babylon Bee: NEW YORK, NY—The New York Times announced Monday that going forward its papers will be printed only on the far-left side of the page, moving its news, opinions, and commentary from the center as far left as possible.

Subscribers receving a copy of the Times will now receive a mostly blank newspaper, with all the content smashed up against the far-left margin of the paper.

“We want our paper’s format to best represent the slant of our team of writers and editors,” a representative for the Times said. “If we printed in the center of the paper, or even to the center-left, that would be misrepresenting our views. Only the very far-left edge of the paper is worthy of our bizarre, progressive worldview.”

Monday’s edition was the first to utilize the new format, and received “very positive” reception from the Times’ readership, according to the editorial board.

“We’ve received a ton of positive comments praising our objective reporting that is now entirely written in a far-left perspective,” the rep said. “You literally can’t look at our paper and find anything on the right, or even the center anymore—exactly how a good, unbiased newspaper should be.”

Kellyanne on Biden

Isn't it interesting how President Trump and Kellyanne have stood by each other, despite the hateful attacks on Trump by Kellyanne's husband?

How to take precautions re: Coronavirus

Tamar Lapin reports in the New York Post on how to tell if you might have the coronavirus. She says fever, cough, and runny nose, like the common cold, are present,

If your symptoms are more severe — a fever that won’t go away, shortness of breath and lethargy — then it’s time to call your doctor.

...Importantly, to prevent getting sick at all, the CDC recommends avoiding people who are showing symptoms; avoiding touching your eyes, nose, and mouth; and washing your hands thoroughly and frequently. This means washing with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not readily available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.

Read more here.

Big Tech Manipulation

Selwin Duke writes in part in the American Thinker,

If you could transport yourself back to the Middle Ages and tell people that living things too small to see can cause disease, they’d think you were crazy. Seeing is believing and, quite often, not seeing is not believing. Tragically, this phenomenon is also operative with the virus in our political system called Big Tech bias, which is, unseen by most and with no paper trail, killing Republican electoral chances and remaking our nation.

What if I told you that Big Tech could have been responsible for President Trump’s impeachment? What about the credible expert who warns that Big Tech can shift up to 15 million votes in November? Note here that over the last eight elections and 32 years, no president has won by more than 9.5 million votes. Shifting 15 million is easily enough to turn most any modern election.

...Conservatives understand vote fraud — a subject I’ve reported on for years — and are wary of it. But after studying Big Tech manipulation, I can tell you that vote fraud is small potatoes in comparison.

The aforementioned expert, Dr. Robert Epstein, a Democrat-favoring liberal who is the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, has warned for years that “Big Tech companies now have unprecedented power to sway elections.”

I know what you may be thinking: “No tech nerd can change my vote.” Heck, I hear all the time from conservatives who won’t even use Facebook or Twitter. But it’s not about you. It’s not about me. We’ll vote our passions regardless. It’s about swaying undecided voters — and a majority of Americans now get a good percentage of their news from Big Tech.

Roughly speaking, approximately 35 percent of the electorate will vote Democrat and 35 percent Republican regardless. It’s the 30 percent in-between who’ll “decide” the election. Capturing a majority of them will likely win you the day.

Now, these are people who, like so many others, often make emotion-based voting decisions. They have no firm party allegiances and choose who they perceive is the best candidate. So, if you alter their perception, you alter their vote. This is what big Tech does.

...Worse still, Epstein reports that if the whole of Big Tech favors the same candidate, it can shift up to 15 million votes in November. I mentioned earlier how significant this figure is, and it’s why Epstein wrote last month that Trump can’t win “[n]o matter which weak candidate the Democrats ultimately nominate.” I myself wouldn’t be so sure; then again, maybe Epstein knows something I don’t.

...Big Tech will win the Democrats millions of votes in November.

Read more here.

"China suppressed Covid-19 with AI and big data"

David Goldman reports in Asia Times,

In addition to draconian quarantine procedures, which kept more than 150 million Chinese in place at the February peak of the coronavirus epidemic, China used sophisticated computational methods on a scale never attempted in the West.

With more than 80,000 cases registered, China reported only 126 new cases yesterday, compared to 851 in South Korea and 835 in Iran, out of a total of 1,969 new cases worldwide. Chinese sources emphasize that the artificial intelligence initiative supplemented basic public health measures, which centered on quarantines and aggressive efforts to convince Chinese citizens to change their behavior.

Chinese government algorithms can estimate the probability that a given neighborhood or even an individual has exposure to Covid-19 by matching the location of smartphones to known locations of infected individuals or groups. The authorities use this information to use limited medical resources more efficiently by, for example, directing tests for the virus to high-risk subjects identified by the artificial intelligence algorithm.

All smartphones with enabled GPS give telecom providers a precise record of the user’s itinerary. Smartphone users in the United States and Europe can access their own data, but privacy laws prevent the government from collecting this data. China has no such privacy constraints, and telecom providers have used locational data for years for advertising.

A Chinese bank executive reports that his company purchases locational data from telecom providers. “If you have walked by an auto dealership three times in the last few weeks, we send you a text advertising an auto loan,” the executive said. “We wouldn’t be allowed to do that in the West.

Read more here.

No Secret Service protection?

Jill Biden protects her husband from a vegan protesting dairy products. This article says Joe doesn't have Secret Service protection, If not, why not?

Will Tulsi Gabbard be allowed to participate in the next debate?

Where is Tulsi Gabbard? She won one delegate from American Samoa yesterday. Does that mean she will get back on the debate stage? Jeff Reynolds asks that question and more in PJ Media here.

You don't think her lawsuit against Hillary Clinton is keeping her off the debate stage, do you?

Partly reporting the news

In PJ Media, Robert Spencer reports,

St. Louis resident Alicia Clarke says she feels as if she has been “failed by the system” and is now “not feeling safe,” and she has good reason to feel this way. After she was savagely beaten and stabbed by her neighbor, her attacker walked free. The court considered it decisive that he has an IQ of 49. He is also a Muslim migrant, which may explain both the reluctance to prosecute him and the scant and incomplete coverage this incident has received.

St. Louis’ KSDK reported Monday that Clarke went out for a run near her home; when she returned, her cell phone was missing. Tracking it with Find My iPhone to her neighbor’s backyard, she went to get it, and told her neighbor, “I know you did this and I’m calling the police!” At that point the neighbor, whom KSDK describes only as a “6-foot teen,” attacked her.

“He knocked me down, pulling my hair, kicking,” Clarke recounted. When he finally stopped the attack, Clarke called the police. But then he returned: “I am on the phone with St. Louis police dispatch,” she said, “making my way to my backdoor, when he comes back with a weapon. He is on top of me. There was blood everywhere. I was literally fighting for my life at that point.”

The neighbor stabbed Clarke in the head and face with a screwdriver. Finally she was able to get away, and the thug was arrested. But after that, Clarke was assaulted again, this time by the criminal justice system. A juvenile court quickly dismissed the case against her attacker. “The most hurtful thing of all of this, is the dropped charges,” said Clarke. “That was much more hurtful than the physical assault.”

According to KSDK, “a juvenile court official said a staff attorney dropped the case before even going to the judge. The courts weren’t able to comment specifically on this incident, since it involves a juvenile. Clarke said she was told her accused attacker was found incompetent to aid in his own defense because he has an IQ of 49.”

No wonder Clarke feels as if she has been failed by the system.

And it gets worse. Alicia Clarke’s sister, Andrea Clarke Flatley, wrote on Facebook that the attacker gave his sister a broken nose, and that Alicia Clarke now also has “staples in her head and stitches to the puncture wound under her eye” as a result of the attack. Flatley noted that the attacker, whom she named as Hassan, “is a 15 year old refugee from Somalia who lives with his family. He is 6’ and approx 175lbs, much larger than my sister. He has broken into Alicia’s car 3 different times and broken into another neighbor’s house. The police were involved every single time and reported that nothing could be done since he was a minor. Surely this time would be different, though.”

It wasn’t. Because Hassan has an IQ is 49, he was found incompetent to defend himself. The prosecutor in charge of the case, Sakina Ahmad, then formally dismissed the charges. Said Flatley: “We never entered a courtroom, saw a judge, nothing. Hassan was able to go home with a family member. He likely left the building as a free person before we even learned all the above information.”

Flatley added: “The prosecutor sympathized with our frustration and explained that because he is a mentally handicapped, juvenile refugee, every safeguard available is to his benefit and to Alicia’s detriment. She went on to tell us, VERBATIM, that even if Alicia had been KILLED, the outcome would be the same and that this case would be dismissed.”

She noted later, however, that “it only took the kid 4 days to violate the restraining order” and that “SLMPD and SWAT stormed his house and took him back into custody.”

That’s good, but it doesn’t change the fact that Alicia Clarke was failed not only by law enforcement authorities, but also by the establishment media. The KSDK story contains no hint of the fact that the attacker was a Muslim migrant. It was left to the victim’s sister to reveal that on Facebook. It is clear from KSDK’s refusal to note this detail, which could be important to the case in establishing motive or in other ways, that Muslim migrants are a protected class in America today, at least among the media elites. The establishment media avoids reporting on anything that might reflect poorly upon them.

Was a concern to protect the image of migrants also part of the authorities’ considerations in dismissing the case? That’s what the KSDK reporters should have been asking. Instead, they completely whitewashed that aspect of the story. They seem more interested in fostering complacency regarding mass migration than in anything else, including reporting the news.

Thug Schumer threatens Kavanaugh and Gorsuch

Mary Margaret Olohan reports in the Daily Caller,

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Wednesday remarks were Schumer’s “dangerous” and “threatening statements.”

Schumer spoke Wednesday at a rally in front of the United States Supreme Court where justices heard June Medical Services v. Russo, a case in which an abortion provider is challenging a 2014 Louisiana state law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility.

“I want to tell you Gorsuch,” Schumer said, video from the event shows, “and I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”

“You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” the New York Democrat added.

Roberts denounced Schumer’s comments in a Wednesday afternoon statement, according to Bloomberg Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr.

“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said.

“All members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter,” Roberts added.

The senator’s comments referenced the political price Republicans “will pay for putting them on the court,” as well as “a warning that the justices will unleash major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision,” Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman told the Daily Caller News Foundation before Roberts produced a statement.

Schumer did not yet respond to a request for comment regarding Robert’s remarks.

Read more here.

Using the intelligence apparatus for political purposes

Rand Paul and Donald Trump say no more! "Nothing is going to be passed without real reform!"

"...as the club gets everyone to fall in line."

In the Conservative Treehouse, Sundance analyzes Super Tuesday results.

The key takeaways from the Super Tuesday results so far… Joe Biden won significantly, and it looks like those wins were by design. The media are amplifying a strong Biden narrative on behalf of the professional political class within the DNC Club.

(1) If you accept the Club objective to keep the progressive Sanders vote split, and then assemble the non-Sanders vote – all proportional states, the Club was very successful.

(2) As a result of coalescing within the moderate lane, the withdrawal of Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg helped Joe Biden achieve wins in states he never even campaigned in.

(3) If you align Elizabeth Warren votes with Bernie Sanders (progressives) and Michael Bloomberg votes with Joe Biden (Club “moderates”)… Elizabeth Warren staying in the race cost Bernie Sanders wins in Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts.

(4) Extending the math, the delegate impact from Warren staying in the race was a net negative to Bernie Sanders and a net positive to Joe Biden. Without Warren Bernie would have had larger delegate wins in Utah, Colorado and California.

(5) Joe Biden winning Texas was arguably the biggest surprise.

(6) Without Warren in the race Bernie would have won seven states: Minnesota, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Colorado, Utah and California. Biden would have also won seven states: Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Texas.

(7) If you accept the Club goal was to diminish Bernie Sanders, the plan for Klobuchar and Buttigieg to exit the race and Warren remaining in the race did exactly what was intended.

(8) Despite winning some delegates Michael Bloomberg did not negatively impact Joe Biden. Biden’s wins in North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas would have been larger; but the resulting delegate additions would have been less than the delegate additions Bernie would have received from Warren’s exit.

...Team Bernie will now have to try and withstand an absolute blitz of pro-Biden media as the Club gets everyone to fall-in-line.

Read more here.

"Mistakes were made!"

Here ya go, Joe! You can use my massive campaign system until you get control of all those guns!

Sundance writes in the Conservative Treehouse,

Billionaire Mini-Mike Bloomberg spent more than $700 million in an effort to win the Democrat presidential nomination. He won American Samoa. Today mini-mike announces he is suspending his campaign and immediately endorses Joe Biden.

Bloomberg has a massive campaign system behind him, including thousands of campaign workers and a nation-wide network from his political committee activities around gun control. It is virtually certain Bloomberg will use a legally permissible independent expenditure and put the very expensive apparatus into play behind Biden.

Read more here.

"Two-edged sword"

JJ Sefton writes in part in his Morning Report,

...despite the proclamations and protestations about socialism by James Carville, the erstwhile Chris Matthews and all the others, their grip on power is what the opposition to Sanders is really all about. Joe Biden as sacrificial lamb preserves that, and just as crucially their control over the House. The delusion is that Joe Biden wins it all, but with the mental agility at this point of a small brachiopod with advanced BSE he would essentially be the public face of the third term of Valerie Jarrett, Bill Ayers and Nazi collaborator George Soros. But that ain't happening, coronavirus-fueled Wall Street sabotage or not. Just thought of this as I was about to post: don't think the Ukrainian bribery and shakedowns with Biden, his son and others are going to be ignored by Trump or perhaps even the Sanders team if the latter starts lagging behind or he loses the nomination. Two-edged sword.

"Warren wins zero states, comes in third in her home state, and vows to continue!"

Read more here.

Sanders wins California

CA exit super for Bernie. I had him beating Biden by 12% and winning 65 more delegates, with Bloomberg breaking the threshold. The exit has him winning by about 15% with Bloomberg below the threshold. If the exit is right, Bernie will get 85-100 delegates more than Biden from CA.

— Henry Olsen (@henryolsenEPPC) March 4, 2020

Results of San Francisco's no arrest policy

San Francisco’s no arrest policy has anarchic results. pic.twitter.com/3FqauPHUaM

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 3, 2020

Biden has won Minnesota and Arkansas.

Read more here.

The way it's done in New York

Thomas Friedman advises Democrats to have all the establishment heavies get in a room tomorrow and coalesce around Michael Bloomberg, who is helping to fund a museum is wife is building. https://t.co/N4IgrSKgr1

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) March 4, 2020

Biden has won five states

Stephen Green is drunkblogging tonight's Super Tuesday results. He just reported that Biden has won Tennessee and Oklahoma, but NPR is calling Colorado for Bernie early. Sanders is soft in Maine and Minnesota, but no final results in either.

Mark Dice this morning

Warren is currently a distant third in her home state!

Elizabeth Warren is not doing well anywhere tonight, including her home state of Massachusetts. Biden is leading there with Sanders second and Warren a distant third, just ahead of Mike Bloomberg.

Biden doing well early

Biden has won Alabama. That gives him Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia, with Sanders winning Vermont and Bloomberg winning American Samoa. No, really!

Bloomberg doing really well in American Samoa

Don't count out Mike Bloomberg. It looks like he is winning American Samoa!

Biden wins Virginia and North Carolina. Sanders wins Vermont.

It is Super Tuesday and three states have been called. Daily Mail reports in part,

Joe Biden won a decisive first blow on Super Tuesday, unexpectedly being declared the winner in Virginia within seconds of polls closing then scooping up North Carolina half an hour later.

The victories in the two states with 209 delegates between them was a huge psychological boost for the former vice president and was far more rapid than had been expected.

Bernie Sanders, however, took the other state where polls closed at 7pm, his home state of Vermont, which has just 16 delegates.

None of the margins of victory were immediately declared.

Read more here.

"Mexican immigrant who was released by Chicago authorities despite ICE telling them not to 'went on to rape a three-year-old girl in a McDonald's bathroom as she cried 'daddy, daddy''

Amelia Wynne has the story in the Daily Mail here.

Biden drops out...endorses Biden!

Before the Babylon Bee, there was Scrappleface. Scott Ott has brought Scrappleface back just in time to help us understand what is happening in the world.

(2020-03-02) — Following disappointing performances in early primaries and caucuses, former Vice President Joe Biden today suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and announced he’ll throw his support behind the winner of the South Carolina primary, the former Delaware Senator, Joe Biden.

“A man’s gotta know when he’s whipped,” Biden told a tearful crowd of supporters. “It’s time for me to skedaddle, and make way for that Biden fella — God love him. He’s got the Joe-mentum now, and I’m yesterday’s newspaper, stained filthy with bird droppings and cat urine.”

The three-time presidential contender said he was moved by the selflessness of Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, who each dropped out the race this week and plan to endorse Biden.

“If they can put aside their own ambitions for the good of the country,” Biden said, “so can Old Joe.”

After nearly a year as the presumptive frontrunner, the Biden campaign fell off an electoral cliff in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, supplanted first by the youthful energy of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and then by the late-blooming Biden campaign.

Thanks to a tailwind from the Biden endorsement, Joe Biden says he thinks “Democrats will finally come together around the one candidate who can beat President Eisenhower.”

More here.

Biden plans to ask Beto O'Rourke to help him "take care of the gun problem!"

In PJ Media, Tyler O'Neil writes,

No fewer than three former 2020 Democrats rallied around former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday: former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn), and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas). Beto dropped out of the presidential race after becoming ever more radical and foul-mouthed, to no avail. Among other things, he promised to uproot Americans from their homes and to strip the tax-exempt status of churches that disagree with him on same-sex marriage. Yet his most notorious statement came last September, when he said, "Hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15."

If Joe Biden really were the moderate candidate the Democrat establishment and legacy media bill him as, you might expect him to minimize Beto's radical past. Perhaps he'd accept the endorsement, say some kind words about anything other than Beto's claim that he was "born" to run for president, and rush the radical off the stage.

But if you're expecting that, you don't really know Joe Biden. When it comes to digging himself out of holes, he seems to have a compunction to just dig deeper and deeper.

Right after Beto introduced Biden at the rally on Monday, the former VP effectively endorsed O'Rourke's gun confiscation plan in all of its divisive glory.

"I want to make something clear. I’m going to guarantee this is not the last you’ve seen of this guy. You’re going to take care of the gun problem with me, you’re going to be the one who leads this effort," the establishment Democrat declared.

He continued to sing Beto's praises, perhaps forgetting just what an obnoxious radical he was physically and rhetorically embracing.

"I’m counting on you, I’m counting on you. We need you badly, the state needs you, the country needs you, you’re the best," Biden said.

Sure, some of this is hyperbole. Biden was accepting Beto's endorsement, after all.

Some of this is smart political calculation. The establishment Democrats' chosen messiah knows that he needs to placate some of the radicals to chip away at Bernie Sanders' support.

Even so, this is terrifying. Biden said that a candidate who wants to use the IRS to ram a government religious belief on marriage down church's throats is "the best" and "badly" needed for Texas and for America. He said that a candidate who insisted on a "right" to live close to work — which involves forcibly removing Americans from their homes in pursuit of social justice — is a needed political leader.

Worst of all, he said that the Democrat who clearly threatened to take guns away from law-abiding Americans is "the best" — and the right person to "lead" the effort on "the gun problem." He said this a few months after good parishioners with guns took down a shooter at a Texas church last December, once again illustrating that guns themselves are not the problem.

Biden may not really be a radical. He may not believe everything he has been saying for the past few years — although it's dangerous to assume he's lying. He may really be a moderate in extreme leftist's clothing. But that doesn't really matter if he's going to be selecting the most radical former 2020 candidates to lead up major "reforms" like gun confiscation.

Rather than taking a truly moderate tack, the former vice president has lumped himself in with one of the most radical candidates in the 2020 cycle. Sure, Biden didn't honeymoon in the Soviet Union or say nice things about Fidel Castro, but he seems to be working hard to minimize any difference between himself and the open socialist he's running against.

More here.

"Visibly crumbling before our eyes"

Andrea Widburg writes in part in American Thinker that our media

are trying to tell us that a man who is visibly crumbling before our eyes is fit to be the president of the United States, the most powerful country in the world. The media are always dishonest and frequently ignorant.

At this point, Biden's gaffes are legion: he often has no idea where he is, he picks fights with audience members, he insults people, he forgets what office he's seeking, he gets confused when he tries to pander to black people, he imagines that half the country was killed by guns in the last 13 years — and that's just the short list.

On Monday, Joe outdid himself, when he completely forgot what the Declaration of Independence said and ended up calling our creator "the thing," like some creature out of a Godzilla movie.

Read more here.

Today is Super Tuesday!

As you know, today is Super Tuesday. In the Conservative Treehouse, Sundance reports,

Today is Super Tuesday where 14 states and two territories vote in the presidential primary (listed below). There are a total of 1,320 delegates up for grabs representing 34 percent of all available delegates. Approximately 40 percent of all American voters will be voting today. At the end of today we will likely have an even better idea of whether the DNC will end up with a brokered convention.

Bernie Sanders is hoping for at least 50 percent of the total available delegates with a heavy focus on Texas, California, Massachusetts and Minnesota. Club Favorite Joe Biden is hoping for a strong showing in southern states, and second-place proportional delegates in Texas and California. Biden and Bloomberg are hoping to block Bernie. Mini-mike has staked his reputation and spent $500 million to win delegates today from anywhere.

However, Elizabeth Warren is hoping to become a very important king-maker by gathering just enough of the delegates Bernie needs & then entering talks with both sides.

Below you will find a list of states voting today along with the number of delegates for each state and territory. If you are voting today feel free to share your ground report. What’s the turnout like in your local precinct?

Go here to read about the number of delegates from each state voting today and more about the process in each state.

The first Alzheimer nominee?

Ace of Spades reports,

"You Know, The Thing:" Joe Biden Suddenly In Position to be the First Alzheimer's Nominee
—Ace
FiveThirtyEight claims that while it's still 61% likely that no one gets a majority of delegates in the Democrat primary, Biden has upped his odds of getting a majority to 30%, while Sanders falls to 8%.

Read more here.

Super delegates for sale!

Did you know that the Democratic Super Delegates are allowed to accept bribes from candidates? Andrew Kerr, an investigative reporter in the Daily Caller, has uncovered these payments made by Sanders, Biden, and Bloomberg.



Read more here.

"The times they are changin'"

Does a candidate's religious faith matter to voters?

Rich Lowry reports in part in the New York Post,

...The nonreligious are Bernie’s base. A Pew survey in January found that Joe Biden’s most supportive religious group was black Protestants at 44 percent followed by white Catholics and white evangelicals at 37 percent each. Bernie’s best groups were agnostics (36 percent), atheists (30) and the unaffiliated (28).

In New Hampshire, Sanders lost to Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg among voters who attend religious services once a week or more and won among voters who never attend. Bernie didn’t have many bright spots in South Carolina, except beating Biden soundly among voters who never attend church, 36-24 percent.

...The Sanders phenomenon is another indication of the weakening of American exceptionalism. When the social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about American exceptionalism decades ago, he underlined religiosity and resistance to socialism. If he captures the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders will test how much either still matters or applies.

Read more here.

Chris Matthews leaves MSNBC

Chris Matthews signed off MSNBC for the last time today. He says he reads the papers every morning and then is gung ho to get to work. What papers do you think he reads? The New York Times and Washington Post would be sure bets. Go here to read why he resigned.

Will Benghazi come up?

Sundance takes advantage of today's court order for Hillary to sit for a disposition. He has published a long article reporting his investigation into Benghazi here.

I knew it!

Biggest one day surge of the Dow in history today! Too bad I don't have any money to invest! (Or, maybe it is a good thing!)

Thanks to Sundance

Hillary has 75 days to sit for deposition: live questioning under oath by Judicial Watch!

Ace of Spades reports,

Federal Judge Orders Hillary Clinton to Sit for Deposition About Her Use of Illegal Private Server
—Ace
Within 75 days.

Oh, and also, Hillary Clinton has scheduled the judge to die by suicide within 60 days.

Ace links to Josh Gerstein's article in Politico:

A federal judge has ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to sit for a sworn deposition for the first time in connection with her use of a private email account during her State Department tenure.

U.S. District Court Royce Lamberth issued the order Monday in connection with a five-and-a-half-year-old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the conservative group Judicial Watch filed seeking emails related to the deadly 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

Clinton was previously required to submit a sworn written statement about her email use, but the deposition—if it takes place—would be the first time she has had to submit to live questioning under oath on the subject.

Read more here and here.

Biden today in Texas: “All men and women created by you know, you know the thing.”

Biden decided to go to Texas today before tomorrow's big Super Tuesday vote. He thought it would be a good time to cite the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” Biden said. “All men and women created by you know, you know the thing.”

As I was watching this, my son came in and satirically said, "Yeah, sure, that's the man who is going to beat Trump?"

You can’t make this up...
pic.twitter.com/Hq6dLUbXLC

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 2, 2020

"The unfortunate decision to evacuate infected people to this country, against President Trump’s explicit wishes, provided the media with the opportunity to combine its attacks on Trump with the coverage of the coronavirus for ratings gold."

Daniel Greenfield writes in part in FrontPage Magazine,

President Trump had been told that nobody with the coronavirus would be flown to America.

The State Department decided to do it anyway without telling him and only made the announcement shortly after the planes landed in the United States.

According to the Washington Post, as unfriendly an outlet to the administration as there is, "Trump has since had several calls with top White House officials to say he should have been told, that it should have been his decision and that he did not agree with the decision that was made."

Who in the State Department actually made the decision? That’s a very good question.

...Dr. William Walters is still on duty. In 2017, Walters was boasting of prepping more Ebola evacuations even over President Trump’s opposition to the practice. And he was once again at the wheel now.

“The question was simply this: Are these evacuees?” Walters explained the decision to evacuate coronavirus patients to the United States. “And do we follow our protocol? And the answer to that was yes on both accounts.”

Consulting President Trump was not part of the protocol even on a major national security issue.

In a Congressional briefing, Walters boasted that, “the Department executed the largest non-military evacuation of U.S. citizens in its history. The safe and efficient evacuation of 1,174 people from Wuhan, China and people onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan is a testament to the agility, proficiency, and dedication of our workforce to accomplishing our core mission – advancing the interests of the American people.”

And the triumph of the administrative state and its bureaucratic protocols over the President.

At a State Department briefing, Walters stated that, “The chief of mission, right, through the U.S. embassy, is ultimately the head of all executive branch activities.”

That is the problem. Right there.

Walters got his job in 2011. He’s a relic of the Obama era. That doesn’t mean that his politics are those of his former boss. But this is not about him. It’s about the reality that the White House doesn’t make many of the most vital decisions and doesn’t even know that they’re being made until it’s too late.

And what that means, beyond the politics of the moment, is that the people don’t decide.

You can vote one way or another and the real decisions that matter will still be made by the head of a directorate that is a subsection of a bureau that you never heard of, but that has a budget in the hundreds of millions, a small army as its disposal, and will follow whatever the protocol is.

This is how the country is really run. And that’s the problem.

The underlying problem with our government is that it’s too big to control. Voting in an election or even sitting in the Oval Office doesn’t mean you’re in charge. The problem goes beyond the current obsession with the Deep State. The real issue has always been the Deep Industry or the administrative state.

If the coronavirus becomes a critical problem in this country, the blame will go back to an obscure arm of the State Department, but it will never be placed there. Whatever happens a year from now, no one outside a small professional class will have ever heard of the Directorate of Operational Medicine.

The media will spend all its time bashing President Trump, Pence, assorted cabinet members, and perhaps the CDC, without ever drilling down to the facts, even though it has them at hand. The media’s rule of thumb is that natural disasters and disease outbreaks are always successfully managed by Democrats and mismanaged by Republicans. Katrina and Maria were disasters, but Sandy was a success story. The coronavirus is a catastrophe, but the Ebola virus was brilliantly handed by smart people who are handling the coronavirus response. But it’s different because the guy in the White House is.

The truth is that all of these were mismanaged by the same agencies, many of the same people, and by a government infrastructure that excels at drawing up big budget proposals, but is inept at solving problems when they actually emerge, and just follow whatever protocols will cover its collective asses.

All the rest is a matter of the uncontrollable, the innate qualities of the storm or the disease, and the story that the media chooses to tell about the disaster in the service of its political agenda.

Even during the dying days of impeachment, the media was forced to realize that there was more interest in the coronavirus than there was in its attacks on Trump. The unfortunate decision to evacuate infected people to this country, against President Trump’s explicit wishes, provided the media with the opportunity to combine its attacks on Trump with the coverage of the coronavirus for ratings gold.

And if the stock market goes on falling, and the economy declines, it can even pull off a narrative coup.

Just as after Katrina and Maria, watch for the outpouring of lies, the claims that New Orleans had reverted to cannibalism and that everyone in Puerto Rico was dead, will be matched and exceeded.

There will be a cure for the coronavirus. But there’s no cure for the spread of viral fake news.

There is however a cure for the decisions that led to a coronavirus problem in the United States.

It’s called the Constitution.

America was meant to have a small government under the control of the people, not the bureaucrats. The real disease is bigger than the coronavirus. It’s a fatal illness called big government. Unlike the coronavirus, it has a total mortality rate. No society that has succumbed to it has ever survived.

Read more here.

Buttigieg and Klobuchar end their campaigns and endorse Joe Biden!

Before being embarrassed by tomorrow's SuperTuesday vote, both Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have ended their campaigns and offered their endorsement to Joe Biden.

"Ultimately, they are going to trade Jewish votes for Muslim votes!"

Andrew documents the three years of panic the media has tried to create when referring to the Trump presidency.

Then, he interviews Ben Weingarten, who has written American Ingrate about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. The book documents how Omar's ingratitude led to animus, as it always does. This woman sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee! Bernie has made this antisemitic person the co-chair of his Minnesota campaign! A progressive Islamist! Both are totalitarian! Their common adversary is Judeo-Christian western civilization! Ultimately, they are going to trade Jewish votes for Muslim votes!

China's cover-up of the Wujan Coronavirus

Sara Dorn reports in part in the New York Post,

Chinese scientists knew about the coronavirus and its deadly effects as early as December — but were ordered by government officials to suppress the evidence, according to a report.

In late December, several genomics companies tested samples from sick patients in Wuhan — the center of the coronavirus outbreak — and noticed alarming similarities between their illnesses and the 2002 SARS virus, the Sunday Times of London reported, citing Chinese business news site Caixin Global.

The researchers alerted Beijing of their findings — and on Jan. 3, received a gag order from China’s National Health Commission, with instructions to destroy the samples.

Rather than hunkering down to contain the virus, Wuhan officials went ahead with their annual potluck dinner for 40,000 families.

The alleged cover-up continued when representatives from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention visited Wuhan Jan. 8, where officials intentionally withheld information that hospital workers had been infected by patients — a telltale sign of contagion.

News of the virus’ highly contagious nature didn’t surface publicly until Jan. 20. Wuhan was locked down and a mass quarantine ordered three days later.

Read more here.

Who is financing Bernie?

Daniel Greenfield reports in FrontPage Magazine,

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Their employees are three of the top 4 Bernie donors. Apple is in fifth place. These dot coms are not exactly organizations known to employ members of the proletariat. Google software engineers have sent thousands of dollars, individually, to Bernie.

Geographically, Bernie's top dollar zip code is 94110 in San Francisco. The average household income in this part of the Mission District, specifically the Inner Mission, the Bernal Heights area, is $166,302. The median home value is around $1.5 million and the median rent is almost $5,000 a month.

Bernie’s campaign is powered by the very concentrations of power and wealth that he condemns.

...The 2020 election will be a test of wills between Americans and the 0.001% living in Park Slope, Echo Park, the Mission District, and Haight-Ashbury. After eight years of hipster rule under Obama, is the country ready to bow it heads and let a handful of wealthy young radicals run their lives again?

Read more here.

"how massive multi-billion multinational corporations and institutions are aligned against President Trump."

Sundance writes in part in the Conservative Treehouse,

President Trump is up against an entire world economic establishment.

♦The biggest lie in modern economics, willingly spread and maintained by corporate media, is that a system of global markets still exists.

It doesn’t.

Global markets have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations who control the products formerly contained within global markets.

Influential people with vested financial interests in the process have sold a narrative that global manufacturing, global sourcing, and global production was the inherent way of the future. The same voices claimed the American economy was consigned to become a “service-driven economy.”

What was always missed in these discussions is that advocates selling this global-economy message have a vested financial and ideological interest in convincing the information consumer it is all just a natural outcome of economic progress.

It’s not.

It’s not natural at all. It is a process that is entirely controlled, promoted and utilized by large conglomerates, lobbyists, purchased politicians and massive financial corporations.

Bulletpoint #1: ♦ Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national elements of developed industrial western nations.

Bulletpoint #2 ♦ The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks.

Bulletpoint #3 ♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation-state(s).

Bulletpoint #4 ♦ With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation-states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.

The ‘America First’ Trump-Trade Doctrine upsets the entire construct of this multinational export/control dynamic. Team Trump focus exclusively on bilateral trade deals, with specific trade agreements targeted toward individual nations (not national corporations).

‘America-First’ is also specific policy at a granular product level looking out for the national interests of the United States, U.S. workers, U.S. companies and U.S. consumers.

Under President Trump’s Trade positions, balanced and fair trade with strong regulatory control over national assets, exfiltration of U.S. national wealth is essentially stopped.

This puts many current multinational corporations, globalists who previously took a stake-hold in the U.S. economy with intention to export the wealth, in a position of holding contracted interest of an asset they can no longer exploit.

Perhaps now we understand better how massive multi-billion multinational corporations and institutions are aligned against President Trump.

Read more here.

115 times since we elected him!

Real journalist Sharyl Attkisson has compiled a list of 115 times the media has reported false claims about something done or said by President Trump. Read it here.

Both Buttigieg and Steyer have dropped out of the Democratic race for the presidency.

Read more here.

Fraud!

In PowerLine, John Hinderaker writes in part,

I look forward to the time when there is a single Democratic Party politician who is not an utter fraud. But that day is not this day.

He is referring to AOC, who boasted to Ted Cruz that she had won a MIT award. It was actually second place in a high school science fair! Read the whole thing here.

...when the state is the master and the individual is merely a subject. "

Regie Hamm writes in part in his blog,

...I was witnessing the kind of maximum, almost brutal efficiency a society must develop when the state is the master and the individual is merely a subject. Why would a Communist country not have an effective FDA? Because who are you going to complain to if you get tainted food? The government? They don’t answer to you. The press? They are owned by the government. And again, they don’t answer to you.

So what if you don’t like the conditions in the hospital? Where else are you going to go? This hospital is the last (and only) stop. You can’t opt for another place and then just pay out of your own pocket. The government has capped financial upward mobility. There is now “income equality.” And that means nobody has the means to buy their way into a different (or better) situation. And even if you could, one doesn’t exist. The state provides it all. You’re stuck.

In every one of those places I described (especially the hospital), there were uniformed guards posted everywhere. The government was literally on every corner. And yet it didn’t feel like help. It felt like surveillance.

“Yes, communism is bad, Regie. We get it,” I hear you saying, through your screen. But it is much deeper than surface ideology for me, personally. As our group was sloshing through the stuff on our shoes, we all speculated as to what new viruses we might be bringing back to the States with us. Well, even during SARS, none of us brought any viruses back. But my family did bring back one of the rarest genetic disorders on planet earth. My daughter was carrying, in her beautiful little self, a messed up sequence of genetic code. She was missing a piece of her 15th maternal chromosome. It brought with it dozens of different symptoms, one of which was seizures.

As for me, I’ve seen what happens when the choices are taken away. And what happens ends up being a place where new viruses can spread too easily, to too many people, and aren’t contained quickly enough.

And that ultimately affects us all.

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Clarice Feldman is a writer whom you can always expect to be thorough and comprehensive. She writes today in part in the American Thinker:

I’m phlegmatic by nature. It gives me an edge up when mass hysteria seems to take up so much space in the news and the pronouncements of Democratic leaders. Looking at the best information available to me, I find it beyond question that the President has taken the right steps to deal with this variant flu; that few people in this country will perish from it; that while there may be some economic consequences of the supply disruption from China, the fact that we’ve been decoupling ourselves from China under this administration means they are likely to be smaller and more short-lived than the market manipulators would have us believe.

1. What is the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and How Does it Compare to the Flu?

The most informative reports I can find on this are from Johns Hopkins Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Director of the CDC.

CDC Director Robert Redfield this week said CDC official Nancy Messonier, (sister of Rod Rosenstein) misspoke when she said an epidemic outbreak of COVID-19 in this country was inevitable.

Redfield’s clarification is in accord with an editorial last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, which speculated that this virus “Could turn out no worse than a ‘severe seasonal influenza’ in terms of mortality.”

Citing an analysis of the available data from the outbreak in China, the authors note that there have been zero cases among children younger than 15; and that the fatality rate is 2% at most, and could be “considerably less than 1%.”

Those who have died have been elderly or were already suffering from another illness--as with ordinary flu. The underlying data suggest that the symptoms vary, and fewer than one in six of the cases reported were “severe.”

The authors note that coronavirus looks to be much less severe than other recent outbreaks of respiratory illnesses:

[T]he overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.

The vast majority of patients recover, and among those who are hospitalized, the median stay thus far is 12 days.

Coronavirus, they note, does spread easily, and the average infected person has infected two other people. That means the U.S. should expect the illness to gain a “foothold.” But they note travel restrictions on China (imposed by President Trump over the objections of some critics) “may have helped slow the spread of the virus.”

...In his press conference to transparently inform us of the situation and the best means to prepare for it (a conference CNN broke away from to cover a Bloomberg town hall), Trump detailed the health status of Americans confirmed to have the virus, our preparedness for it, confirming that “our great sanitation, access to excellent medical care, and good diet” doubtless play a role in recovery and make it less deadly than elsewhere.

...Maybe we should be bothered that we are running out of things to worry about. Nah. The Democrats and media are creative in finding new and more original ways to manufacture angst.

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