"Expressive individualism"

Ben Shapiro writes in The Daily Signal,

there will be no normalization for those who have made pandemic paranoia a feature of their identity. That’s because the public health establishment Stephen Greenhas now successfully cultivated a large group of people who measure their moral value by just how compliant and panicked they remain over COVID-19.

Fully 68% of people fully vaccinated with boosters remain very or somewhat worried about getting sick from COVID-19 in the next year, compared with just 39% of those who are unvaccinated. This is the precise opposite of what the public health authorities should have achieved—but expressive individualism has won the day once again, conflating one’s feelings with one’s identity group.

Read more here: https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/26/covid-19s-impact-of-expressive-individualism/ Hat tip Stephen Green

Race and gender only count if you are a judicial leftist!

Ian Hanchett reports,

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham contrasted President Joe Biden’s vow to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court to replace outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer with then-Sen. Biden’s opposition to and multiple filibusters of the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the federal bench by then-President George W. Bush in 2003 and 2005 and remarked that “race and gender, they only count if you’re thought to be a committed judicial activist, judicial leftist.”

Here is Brown's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Rogers_Brown Read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/26/ingraham-biden-opposed-and-filibustered-janice-rogers-browns-nomination-race-and-gender-only-count-if-you-have-left-wing-beliefs/ Hat tip Glenn Reynolds

Woman sneaks Ivermectin into hospital and gives it to her husband, who then recovers from Codis!

Kevin Downey Jr. reports,

Florida families of severely ill COVID-19 patients are flocking to Dr. Eduardo Balbona.

Florida hospitals, like the Mayo Clinic, have a COVID protocol for their patients with the Bat-Stew Flu, and ivermectin isn’t part of it. Balbona is a big believer in ivermectin. He alleges he has saved “dozens and dozens” of people suffering from the Chinese Sneeze using the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) recommendations, with a few modifications based on each patient. The FLCCC treatment calls for, in part, ivermectin.

But hospitals receive federal money for treating COVID patients IF they use treatments outlined in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Ivermectin isn’t a part of that treatment.

Families have gone to court hoping a judge will side with them and allow ivermectin to be used with their loved ones, most of whom are seriously ill (death panels, anyone?). Sometimes that works out. When it doesn’t, some have resorted to sneaking ivermectin into hospitals and administering it themselves.

An anonymous woman recently contacted Dr. Balbona regarding her husband who was hospitalized with COVID.

“The husband was very ill,” Dr. Balbona told the Epoch Times. “He’s in his 50s, a big strong guy. She called me desperate because they [the hospital] gave him remdesivir and she made them stop it, and he started getting worse and worse. And his oxygen demand went up.”

Balbona told the woman he could care for her husband once she got him out of the hospital. He wrote her prescriptions for the meds she would need. She filled them out, snuck them into the hospital, and gave them to her husband. That was on Friday. By Tuesday he was well enough to be discharged from the hospital.

Twenty-two countries have approved ivermectin for use against the Wu-Flu. Seventy-six studies worldwide have shown that ivermectin offers “statisticly significant” improvements.

Read more here: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/01/26/woman-sneaks-ivermectin-into-hospital-saves-husbands-life-n1552952 Hat tip Stephen Green

Canada and Australia try Communism!

Kevin Downey Jr. reports,

Step aside, Australia, because Canada has decided to embrace some western communism as well.

In Canada’s latest pinko move, Quebec now requires shoppers have vax passports to enter stores larger than 16,000 feet, (think Costco, Walmart, etc.).

As if that isn’t bad enough, there is a humiliating little exemption. The unvaxxed are allowed to shop in these big box stores for food and medicine, but only with a store escort, whose job is to make sure you don’t shop for anything else.

Canadian authorities admitted to secretly tracking the movement of 33 million cell phones during the nation’s COVID-19 lockdown. Canada’s current population is roughly 38 million people.

Here is another clown-slap to the unvaxxed, Quebec’s Premier (think governor) François Legault recently hit the unvaxxed with a fine. An unvaxxed tax.

Canadians are fighting back. Tens of thousands of truckers are convening in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, in the province of Ontario. They are fed up with COVID-related mandates, specifically, the rule that Canadian truckers returning from the U.S. need to quarantine for 14 days. This has all resulted in even more supply chain issues.

If you haven’t been watching the commie chaos in Australia, another former English Dominion, you should. Riots rage frequently. Police are using brutal, violent tactics against their own citizens, including kids. COVID camps are a real thing in Australia. Canadians would be foolish to think it can’t happen to them, and Americans need to realize we don’t need communism in North America.

Read more and view videos here: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/01/26/sacre-bleu-the-commie-battle-for-canada-has-begun-n1553347 Hat tip Stephen Green

How much do you care about the slaves who pick the cotton that you wear?

Avi Ackermann writes,

It is terrible to realize that again, an ethno-religious minority is the target of a totalitarian government that seeks to destroy it. At the moment, the methods of choice are forced assimilation and sterilization; this alone should be enough to demand unceasing Jewish outrage. We know what comes next. The Chinese state has ruled out total physical annihilation — for now — in favor of ‘cleaner’ solutions to the “Uyghur Question.” We must not wait for it to abandon the pretense.

Read more here: h Hat tip Ed Driscollttps://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/never-again-means-standing-up-for-chinas-uyghur-minority/ Hat tip Ed Driscoll

Should we be sending athletes to the Chinese Winter Olympics?

A "burner phone" is a cheap, prepaid mobile phone that you can destroy or discard when you no longer need it. In popular media, criminals often use burner phones to evade detection by authorities. You might use a burner phone for privacy reasons, as a last resort, or during an emergency. Roger Simon reports,

In an email from his CAVPAC political action committee, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo writes: “That Team USA is telling our athletes to use burner phones and to avoid surveillance by the CCP is no surprise to me. That’s exactly what my team and I did when we traveled to China to protect America’s interests. But you have to ask: if our athletes have to use burner phones when visiting a country, then why on earth are we sending them to that country in the first place?”

Read more here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/hell-no-we-shouldnt-go-to-the-olympics_4238701.html?slsuccess=1

Do you think you are the best judge of whether you are safe to drive after smoking marijuana?

Brian P.Dunleavy reports,

Smoking marijuana impacts adults' ability to drive safely, yet most who use the drug believe otherwise, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry found.

Adults in the study performed "significantly" less well on tests designed to assess their driving abilities, including reaction times 30 minutes and 90 minutes after smoking marijuana, the data showed.

They also had "borderline" declines in driving performance 3 1/2 hours after using the drug. By 4 1/2 hours after use, driving performance returned to normal levels, the researchers said.

However, nearly 70% of marijuana smokers expressed willingness to drive within 90 minutes of smoking marijuana, and had confidence in their ability to do so safely, according to the study.

Read more here: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/01/26/marijuana-impaired-driving-study/7961643206498/ Hat tip Glenn Reynolds

Climate change? Don't expect Communist China to lead that fight!

Rick Moran reports,

Xi and China have a huge problem: Their economy is growing faster than their electrical grid. Last year, there was a power outage that affected millions of people, and the coal shortage that caused it was also affecting industries. Despite China’s carbon pledges, they are building 43 coal-fired plants this year—more than the rest of the world combined.

China’s commitment to fighting climate change is about as real as its commitment to promoting human rights. It’s part of a propaganda campaign to make gullible left-wing Westerners put pressure on their governments to leave China alone while it pursues its agenda.

Read more here: httat tipps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/01/27/china-wont-disturb-its-citizens-normal-life-to-meet-carbon-goals-n1553600 Hat tip Stephen Green

Community after community desiccated

"This is our last offer!"

Ann Coulter asks,

Doesn’t the public have a right to know how big Epstein’s sex/blackmail club was, who among America’s ruling elite were compromised, and to what end?

Maxwell’s brother soon announced to the press — and to anyone else who might be interested! — that his sister was no snitch. She wouldn’t rat out any of Epstein’s fellow child molesters in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Unfortunately, these are the same prosecutors who just did everything in their power to blow the case against her. My prediction of their next conversation with Maxwell: This is our last offer: 30 hours of community service — and we’re not kidding! OK, 20 hours. Damn — you’re one tough negotiator.

Read more here: https://www.takimag.com/article/the-great-epstein-cover-up-part-2/

Obesity in American women

Steve Sailor writes about obesity and race:

Even among American women these days, African-American women are particularly obese. In the most recent federal NHANES study from 2017 to 2018 (NHANES periodically measures the girth of Americans so the clothing industry can know how much to inflate their sizes), 57 percent of black women were classified as obese (BMI of 30 or greater), compared to 44 percent of Hispanic women, 40 percent of whites, and 17 percent of Asians.

Read more here: https://www.takimag.com/article/fit-to-be-fat/

Fauci and Collins' personal liability conflict of interest!

Ace of Spades asks,

Why did Fauci and Collins not recuse themselves from the question of the virus' origins, as they had a clear personal liability conflict of interest?

So these are the Norms we're eager to Restore? The Norms of DC insiders abusing their offices to pay off henchmen to change their testimony and to mount publicity campaigns using an allied corrupt media to attack anyone pointing out their culpability?

Read more here: http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397408

Return abortion to the states?

streiff writes,

Abortion has poisoned our political life for way too long. It is far past time to recognize it for the hideous and criminal undertaking that it is. All the actions taken by the Supreme Court in these two cases indicate that a majority of the Justices may have decided that not only is abortion wrong, but having to address abortion as a federal Constitutional issue is corrosive to the credibility of the Court. The way to free itself is to do what should have been done in 1973 and return the matter to the states.

There are two major abortion cases before the Supreme Court. You can read about them and more here: https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/01/25/does-justice-sotomayors-intemperate-rant-at-her-colleagues-indicate-that-she-knows-roe-v-wade-is-about-to-be-overturned-n512467

Peter Schweitzer's new book outlines how China, Russia, and Ukraine all have compromising intelligence on the Biden family!

Eyes opening!

Athena Thorne writes,

I’ve only been a full-time journalist for a few months. Before I came to work at PJ Media, I labored away at a desk job in various companies and industries for a couple of decades. But I was always interested in current events, both reading and writing about them. Matt Drudge’s 1998 revelation — Newsweek had spiked the perfectly salacious scoop that the married President of the United States was schtupping a young, lowly intern in the Oval Office — opened my eyes to two things: the level of deception we’d all been subject to until that moment; and the potential of the internet to expose the stories the left didn’t want us to know.

Two other luminaries of the new media further shaped my outlook. The late, great Andrew Breitbart encouraged everyday citizens to use the phones they already carried and their internet access to become journalists, and he taught them that citizen-journalists were every bit as legitimate as the arrogant idols of the legacy media. And James O’Keefe showed the world that citizen-journalists could expose the hypocrisy Big Media tried to cover up — and make a real difference — when he partnered with activist Hannah Giles to reveal corruption at non-profit ACORN and get them defunded.

Just ten years ago, it seemed like the gatekeepers had finally been bypassed and the gates to unlimited news and perspectives had been flung open. But then, Big Tech slammed them shut again, using algorithms, unevenly enforced rules, and leftist censors to suppress anything contrary to the approved narratives. I’m pretty savvy and I thought I was still finding the real news, but coming to work at PJ Media showed me how much information I was actually being denied.

Did you know that … … Mark Zuckerberg, Google, and other rich leftists flooded local election offices with paid operatives during the 2020 election “to take over election offices and use local government apparatus to turn out Democrat voters?” I never even knew that had happened before I came to PJ and started catching up on what I’d missed.

… The Biden administration flew at least 70 planeloads of illegal aliens from the Mexican border into Florida last summer? What madness is this? I learned about that governmental malfeasance when I was researching my own story about “ghost flights” — planeloads of illegal aliens that the Biden administration flies into small airports in the dead of night to hide what they’re doing.

… Globalist financial companies — likely including your own bank or brokerage — are assigning “ESG scores” to institutions and individuals alike as they lay the groundwork to simply cut off anyone or any company who doesn’t toe the globalist-communist line. I learned that from reading this terrifying PJ Media article, which also thankfully outlines a way to stop it from happening.

Read more here: https://pjmedia.com/columns/athena-thorne/2022/01/26/ive-learned-some-wild-stuff-since-i-came-to-pj-media-n1553149 Hat tip Stephen Green

Hundreds of Covid patients left in the lurch

Kaylee McGhee White writes,

The Food and Drug Administration suddenly decided to withdraw its emergency use authorization of two COVID-19 antibody treatments this week, leaving hundreds of patients who depend on them in the lurch. The monoclonal antibody treatments made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly have proven invaluable in fighting off hospitalization and death from the virus, especially against the delta variant. I would know: My grandmother was one of the patients in Florida who benefited from this treatment. Fully vaccinated and boosted, she tested positive for COVID-19 last month and was able to receive an antibody infusion within a few days. It improved her condition dramatically, and she has since recovered. But she might not have if she did not have access to this treatment.

At the very least, the FDA should have kept its emergency use authorization in place and left the decision to doctors and their patients. Not everyone will need an antibody transfusion, but individual practitioners familiar with their patients’ particular needs are much better equipped to make that call than the federal bureaucracy.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-fda-is-wrong-to-pull-life-saving-covid-19-antibody-treatments Hat tip Glenn Reynolds

Only four states have regained all the jobs they lost during Covid pandemic. All are run by Republicans!

What do these four states all have in common? Well, for one thing, they’re all run by Republicans, and had less-harsh COVID-19 restrictions than many blue states.

Read more here: https://www.based-politics.com/2022/01/19/only-4-states-have-regained-all-the-jobs-lost-since-the-pandemic-theyre-all-run-by-republicans/

Russian crude exports to the United States

spglobal points out how under Biden we have become more and more dependent on Russia for our oil and gas needs. Read the whole thing here: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/012122-russian-crude-exports-to-us-highlight-risks-to-ukraine-talks-for-biden Hat tip Glenn Reynolds

Military Whistleblowers May Blow Up the COVID Vaccine Narrative

Stacey Lennox reports,

On January 26, thousands showed up in Washington, D.C., to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The protest received little if any coverage in the corporate media. To try and give the clinicians and researchers fighting the vaccine mandates more coverage, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) held an all-day panel on Monday. This panel is one of several he has hosted since 2020. After suffering from Covid, Johnson became a tireless advocate for early treatment and the vaccine injured.

Read the whole thing and be sure to watch the short video of an attorney representing military whistleblowers: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2022/01/25/military-whistleblowers-may-blow-up-the-covid-vaccine-narrative-n1552966

A better environment for kids

Glenn Reynolds links to a Fox interview with Karol Markowitz showing that Florida is doing right by kids: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6293420838001?fbclid=IwAR2qO0m5-m24C3K8LgW_DZrSJHeKLi9UWmqVLvzUneqESgbQ_nahY_54dqg#sp=show-clips

It's the best he can do!

hat tip Glenn Reynolds

"Tariq tried to explain through interpreters that his conduct was acceptable in his culture."

William Cole reports,

An Afghan refugee has been convicted of sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl at Quantico Marine Corps Base following their evacuation from Afghanistan.

Tariq was arrested in September at Camp Upshur in Quantico after Marines observed him fondling the girl, who was not related to him, above her clothes on her private parts.

Both Tariq, the victim and her family had recently been evacuated from Afghanistan and brought to the United States during the country's takeover by the Taliban.

According to court papers, Tariq tried to explain through interpreters that his conduct was acceptable in his culture. Efforts to have his statements suppressed were rejected by the judge.

Read more here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10436961/Afghan-refugee-convicted-assaulting-girl-3-Quantico.html

Mexican cartel uses drones to drop bombs on another cartel!

This is unbelievable!

Mexican drug cartel uses drone equipped with mini bombs to attack the camp of an other drug cartel (to destroy the drug storage). pic.twitter.com/T9U4yH1IoM

— Info Warrior - 1821 (@InfoWarriorNews) January 13, 2022

hat tip Glenn Reynolds

Myocarditis after vaccination

Glenn Reynolds links to this report in JAMA:

Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccination in the US From December 2020 to August 2021. “In this descriptive study of 1626 cases of myocarditis in a national passive reporting system, the crude reporting rates within 7 days after vaccination exceeded the expected rates across multiple age and sex strata. The rates of myocarditis cases were highest after the second vaccination dose in adolescent males aged 12 to 15 years (70.7 per million doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine), in adolescent males aged 16 to 17 years (105.9 per million doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine), and in young men aged 18 to 24 years (52.4 and 56.3 per million doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine and the mRNA-1273 vaccine, respectively). . . . Based on passive surveillance reporting in the US, the risk of myocarditis after receiving mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines was increased across multiple age and sex strata and was highest after the second vaccination dose in adolescent males and young men. This risk should be considered in the context of the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination.”

Glenn adds,

This is particularly significant since adolescent males and young men are at low risk of death or serious illness from Covid.

Read more here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788346?guestAccessKey=87c5550a-62ee-4cdc-a341-3027ff0f2c3b&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=etoc&utm_term=012522&fbclid=IwAR0PR6qYrHycMGZo9y0tHrFRyMRJiQteHbpGnY3NonSG9Ac5FAgwM7NuInw

Justice Breyer retiring

True!

According to Joe Biden...

Why the delay?

Rick Moran wants to know

Why is the Biden Administration Delaying December's Border Arrest Numbers?

Members of Congress are asking the White House why the Customs and Border Patrol has not released the numbers of border apprehensions in December.

Border numbers are routinely released in the first two weeks of the subsequent month, although November’s figures were released on Dec. 17 of last year.

On Jan. 14, a court filing in Texas v. Biden revealed 178,840 migrant apprehensions in December, an increase from 173,620 in November. A spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon that a report would be released “soon” but never said why the report was delayed in the first place.

The court document also reveal there were 55,626 migrants released into the interior of the United States that month.

The numbers alone would embarrass the Biden administration. But when you consider that half of those illegals released into the interior of the U.S. aren’t showing up for their court appearances and that DHS has lost all track of them, “embarrassing” doesn’t begin to describe the stupidity of the policy.

Read more here: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/01/25/why-is-the-biden-administration-delaying-decembers-border-arrest-numbers-n1552638

Has Joe Biden always been a nasty bully?

Joe Biden has always been a nasty bully. pic.twitter.com/mlwp42S3KD

— Maze (@mazemoore) January 25, 2022

Can a president fire himself?

Various media people are talking and tweeting about Biden's putdown of Peter Doocy, Ace writes,

The story is the angry snapping at a reporter, which the media claimed was a Hate Crime from 2015 to just 24 hours ago, and which Biden himself said he would never, ever do.

In fact, Biden vowed that he would "fire on the spot" anyone he saw treating anyone else "with disrespect" or "talking down to someone:"

Read more here: http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397560

The FDA has revoked the authorization status of monoclonal antibody treatments!

Sundance writes,

This is some next level sketchy, borderline evil, stuff from the U.S. medical establishment. The FDA has revoked the authorization status of monoclonal antibody treatments [Announcement Here], effectively shutting down the treatment option for patients exposed to COVID-19.

The FDA gave no advanced notice of their arbitrary decision; they just issued a press release Monday evening and immediately revoked the Emergency Use Authorization.

The result was that no states were given any time to prepare for the shutdown or cancel the scheduled appointments of their patients.

On the surface the FDA justification is essentially that monoclonal antibody treatments are “unlikely to be active against the omicron variant,” so the monoclonal treatment option is revoked. However, below the surface it looks like the FDA reason for the revocation is to push the Pfizer and Merck pills as the primarily authorized therapeutics. The problem with the pills is they are hard to find and in short supply.

If public health was really the driving factor, why wouldn’t federal public health officials make every effort to have all treatments available, and then let your doctor decide which is right for you?

Read more here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/25/without-notice-fda-revokes-monoclonal-antibody-treatments-for-covid-promote-difficult-to-find-pfizer-and-merck-pills-as-replacements/#more-225955

Talent and excellence

Jordan Peterson writes,

Finally, do you know that Vladimir Putin himself is capitalizing on this woke madness? Anna Mahjar-Barducci at MEMRI.org covered his recent speech. I quote from the article’s translation: “The advocates of so-called ‘social progress’ believe they are introducing humanity to some kind of a new and better consciousness. Godspeed, hoist the flags, as we say, go right ahead. The only thing that I want to say now is that their prescriptions are not new at all. It may come as a surprise to some people, but Russia has been there already. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs, and not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society. The destruction of age-old values, religion, and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family (we had that, too), encouragement to inform on loved ones — all this was proclaimed progress and, by the way, was widely supported around the world back then and was quite fashionable, same as today. By the way, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of opinions other than theirs.

“This, I believe, should call to mind some of what we are witnessing now. Looking at what is happening in a number of Western countries, we are amazed to see the domestic practices — which we, fortunately, have left, I hope — in the distant past. The fight for equality and against discrimination has turned into aggressive dogmatism bordering on absurdity, when the works of the great authors of the past — such as Shakespeare — are no longer taught at schools or universities, because their ideas are believed to be backward. The classics are declared backward and ignorant of the importance of gender or race. In Hollywood, memos are distributed about proper storytelling and how many characters of what color or gender should be in a movie. This is even worse than the agitprop department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”

This, from the head of the former totalitarian enterprise, against whom we fought a five decades’ long Cold War, risking the entire planet (in a very real manner). This, from the head of a country riven in a literally genocidal manner by ideas that Putin himself attributes to the progressives in the West, to the generally accepting audience of his once-burned (once (!)) twice-shy listeners.

And all of you going along with the DIE activists, whatever your reasons: this is on you. Professors. Cowering cravenly in pretence and silence. Teaching your students to dissimulate and lie. To get along. As the walls crumble. For shame. CEOs: signalling a virtue you don’t possess and shouldn’t want to please a minority who literally live their lives by displeasure. You’re evil capitalists, after all, and should be proud of it. At the moment, I can’t tell if you’re more reprehensibly timid even than the professors. Why the hell don’t you banish the human resource DIE upstarts back to the more-appropriately-named Personnel departments, stop them from interfering with the psyches of you and your employees, and be done with it? Musicians, artists, writers: stop bending your sacred and meritorious art to the demands of the propagandists before you fatally betray the spirit of your own intuition. Stop censoring your thought. Stop saying you will hire for your orchestral and theatrical productions for any reason other than talent and excellence. That’s all you have. That’s all any of us have.

Read more here: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-why-i-am-no-longer-a-tenured-professor-at-the-university-of-toronto

The Iron Curtain

Karen Kataline writes,

We are living in an America where un-elected bureaucrats call out “anti-Authoritarian Idealogues” as “a danger to democracy.”

America was BUILT by anti-Authoritarian Ideologues and now citizens in that tradition are being called dangerous for doubting or disagreeing with the state.

Will we be looking to the former communist countries of Hungary, Czechoslovakia or Poland to get the truth of what’s going on in America? In some cases, we already are.

Radio Free Europe was created by the United States government in 1950 to provide information and political commentary to the people of communist eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In the absence of unbiased media in the communist countries, Radio Free Europe provided its estimated 35 million listeners with news from around the world and, more important, from their own countries. Because of its largely successful efforts to outwit communist censors and reach its listeners on a daily basis, Radio Free Europe is credited with having contributed significantly to the demise of communist regimes throughout Eastern Europe.

Read more here: https://thebluestateconservative.com/2022/01/24/is-an-iron-curtain-closing-around-america/

Deals

Emma-Jo Morris reports,

The Biden family scored $31 million from five deals in China, all with individuals with direct ties to the Chinese spy apparatus, according to a bombshell new book.

“In sum, each deal the Bidens secured in China was via a businessman with deep ties at the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. And in each case there appears to be little discernible business or professional service that was rendered in return for the money,” Schweizer writes.

In the infamous “Laptop From Hell,” a 2019 text was recovered from Hunter Biden to his daughter Naomi, where he writes, “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years … It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike Pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

“Beijing should certainly be happy with the overall posture of the Biden administration. The talk is tougher, but the main tenets of the foreign policy that Beijing wants Washington to pursue are secure: no radical reduction in the transfer of technology or capital from America to Beijing, no fundamental challenges to the Chinese regime, and mild criticisms over human rights accompanied by excuses for their conduct,” Schweizer writes.

Read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/24/bombshell-biden-family-scored-31-million-from-deals-with-individuals-with-direct-ties-to-the-highest-levels-of-chinese-intelligence/

Oh, yeah, that judge will surely be fair to Sarah!

Cassandra Fairbanks reports,

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has tested positive for COVID-19 on the day that her lawsuit against the New York Times was heading to trial.

Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff, who is presiding over the trial, told the courtroom about her positive test.

The judge stated specifically that “she is of course unvaccinated.”

Read more here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/sarah-palin-tests-positive-covid-19-defamation-trial-new-york-times-set-begin/

Disturbing Covid vaccine data

Andrea Widburg reports,

Israel, which was so terrified of having COVID shut it down, thereby leaving it vulnerable to the genocidal organizations and nations around it, embarked upon the most aggressive vaccination program in the world. Now it's the nation with the world's highest per capita COVID rate, per a weekend report:

...That kind of news report tells me that the vaccines don't work as vaccines. That is, they do nothing to stop people from getting the disease. This runs counter to our 200-year-old understanding of what a vaccine is — namely, the single dose of a substance that triggers the body's natural immune system ensuring that the person will never get the infectious agent that is the vaccine's target (e.g., smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, etc.).

Indeed, the CDC's Rochelle Walensky has conceded that the vaccines stop people from neither catching nor spreading COVID. The new rap from the CDC is that the shots formerly known as vaccines are now therapeutics. Oh, and there's no end to the number you'll have to take to get that vax pass for working, shopping, traveling, education, etc.

from Daniel Horowitz: Scottish data shows that the COVID-19 age-standardized case rate is highest among the two-dose vaccinated and lowest among unvaccinated! It further shows this trend of negative efficacy for the double-vaccinated persisting for hospitalizations and deaths. Something is very wrong here, and together with other data points, it raises concerning questions about the negative effect of waning antibodies, constant boosting, and the consequences of a leaky vaccine with narrow-spectrum suboptimal antibodies against an ever-evolving virus.

Read more here: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/theres_disturbing_vaccine_data_coming_from_scotland.html#.Ye58yg4ntr1.twitter

Monkey business?

Sundance has a story about

a vehicle crash in rural Pennsylvania last week involving a truck transporting 100 monkeys to a CDC quarantine facility. {Story Here} Three of the monkeys escaped in the crash and a search was conducted to locate them. According to the update all of the missing monkeys have now been accounted for. The three escapees were euthanized.

Read more here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/23/monkey-business-pennsylvania-crash-resulting-in-research-monkey-escape-ends-with-cdc-monitoring-residents/

Biden calls Fox's Peter Doocy a "stupid son of a bitch" after Doocy asks a question about inflation!

HOT MIC: Biden calls Peter Doocy a “Stupid Son of a B*tch” for asking a question about inflation. pic.twitter.com/q5LQIb1KpL

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 24, 2022

At least with the Cold War, though, Americans realized we were in it!

Ira Stoll reports,

Peter Schweizer’s new book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” lays out how, as the book puts it, “elites, from Washington to Wall Street, for Silicon Valley to academe, have been coopted and are helping the regime while in some cases even bolstering China’s military and intelligence complex.”

Mr. Schweizer recommends banning lobbying on behalf of Communist Chinese military- and intelligence-linked companies, keeping such companies off American stock exchanges and passing a new law to prevent American universities and businesses from aiding Chinese military and intelligence projects.

Elbridge Colby, a Trump administration defense department official, has also written a recent book, “The Strategy of Denial,” that focuses on the China threat. He recommends a strategy for containing it that involves reducing American forces in Europe and focusing instead on bolstering the Asian nations that hem in China — Japan, Australia, the Philippines.

David P. Goldman, reviewing Mr. Colby’s book in Law & Liberty, proposes instead a trillion-dollar U.S. investment in military technology.

Better than a costly conflict would be a Cold War-style victory in which domestic and international pressure forces the collapse of a communist dictatorship. At least with the Cold War, though, Americans realized we were in it.

Read more here: https://www.nysun.com/foreign/what-might-awaken-americans-to-the-war-with/91965/ hat tip Glenn Reynolds

Carnage in crypto, in stocks, in bonds, and commodities!

The market was frothy and everyone knew it. We just didn’t know where. However, when you look at the carnage in crypto, in stocks, in bonds, and commodities there is nowhere to hide from it. By the way, neither gold nor bitcoin is an inflation hedge. Otherwise, they’d be rallying.

Don’t look to corporations for leadership. They have gone soft and a large percentage of them embraced being “woke”. Woke people can’t lead. All they do is complain and shout and stamp their feet. Companies that are focused on equity and ESG aren’t going to make shareholders money since shareholders are taking a backseat. In some companies they don’t get the backseat, they get put in the trailer.

Read more here: https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/the-daily-stock-market-crash?justPublished=true

It is better to be tried by twelve than carried by six!

Jack Dunphy writes,

Even if the public reached a consensus this very day that they have had enough with the soft-on-crime policies now in place in so many cities, so entrenched are the people who have brought those policies about that it will take years to fully reverse course to the point that violent crime will start trending downward once again. In the meantime, how can the law-abiding citizen protect himself?

But be warned. Yes, it’s better to be tried by twelve than carried by six, but the risk of facing criminal charges after using deadly force in self-defense has never been greater. Los Angeles district attorney George Gascón would gleefully charge someone who acted even in obvious self-defense if the politics of the situation demanded it, which is to say if the racial calculus met certain criteria. The same is true of Kim Foxx in Chicago, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, and any of the other “progressive” prosecutors holding office across the country

Fellow citizens, consider the risks, and act accordingly.

Read more here: https://the-pipeline.org/better-to-be-tried-by-twelve-than-carried-by-six/?swcfpc=1

Here we go again!

We're just going to make leaving Americans in war zones an ongoing thing, huh. https://t.co/LtDdPwJjUy

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) January 24, 2022

A basic question!

Who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020?

— Steve Ferguson (@lsferguson) January 23, 2022

Moderna stocks plunge!

Jonathan Ponciano reports,

Moderna stocks plunged on Friday during the market selloff this week. The company has lost $130 billion in value this year over the lackluster COVID vaccine results with the new Omicron variant. The stock is down 67% from its all-rime high last year.

Read more here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/moderna-stock-crashes-losses-top-130-billion-stock-67-highs-last-year-following-lackluster-covid-vaccine-results/

DC protest against vaccine mandates!

NOW - Thousands gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to protest against vaccine mandates.pic.twitter.com/rlDXSr1xpN

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 23, 2022

Imagine!

Imagine thinking that you have a chance of winning a war against Russia when you lost to a bunch of child sodomizing goat herders, gave them all your weapons and flew a bunch of their citizens into your own country without even conducting a background check on them.

— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) January 23, 2022

Now that China’s growing power exposes their incompetence, the establishment strategists will risk nuclear war with China to save their reputations.

Spengler writes,

None of the tit-for-tat in the South China Sea means anything: If the US Navy tries to stop China from seizing Taiwan, and China destroys US capital ships, we go straight to a nuclear exchange. In plain-text translation, this means the following: The United States cannot defend Taiwan by conventional means—not against 1,300 missiles on 350 launchers with ranges up to 3,200 kilometers, 60 very quiet submarines, hundreds of surface ships, the Russia-built and highly effective S-400 air defense system, and roughly 1,000 air superiority fighters.

But China would be fighting on its coast with short logistical lines, and America would be attempting to project power 7,000 miles from San Diego. Any conflict therefore would instantly escalate to the level of nuclear exchange.

Now that China’s growing power exposes their incompetence, the establishment strategists will risk nuclear war with China to save their reputations.

Read more here: https://asiatimes.com/2022/01/epidemic-of-insanity-strikes-americas-leaders/

The solution? Stop putting up with it!

Yesterday's March for Life in D.C.

The 5G rollout

Adam Wilson reports,

The Biden regime’s first year has been an abject failure. With the economy in a shambolic state, chaos at the border, and the President’s foreign policy consisting of a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and bringing us to the brink of war with Russia, the President has very little to brag about. His Transportation Secretary, failed Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, has failed to do his part to fix the supply chain crisis. One potential accomplishment him and Biden could have touted was the rollout of 5G across the country, but major industry leaders have already said that is failing as well. The Daily Mail Reports–

“The president of Emirates has slammed the 5G fiasco as the ‘most delinquent, irresponsible’ mess he has seen in his 50-year aviation career and has blamed the Biden administration and Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who failed to see it coming or prevent it.

AT&T and Verizon launched their 5G network across America on Wednesday morning, switching on 4,500 towers to bring faster wireless to their customers. They had to hold back on ten percent of the towers – 500 – that are near airports because the frequencies the towers emit could interfere with the signal on some planes.

The 5G frequencies that AT&T and Verizon are emitting from the towers is stronger than what is used in other countries, where 5G rollout has been a success. It has triggered travel chaos, with airlines canceling some flights due to safety fears then rushing to resume them once AT&T and Verizon agreed at the last minute to hold off on the airport towers.

In total, 239 flights to, from and within the US have been canceled so far. It’s unclear if all have been scrapped because of 5G, but the network launch is causing major issues.”

Read more here: https://100percentfedup.com/boom-president-of-major-airline-slams-biden-regime-for-5g-rollout-failure/

A pandemic of bureaucracy!

They will use an extra big font!

Katabella Roberts reports,

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has demanded the full and immediate release of all data related to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, saying it is in the public’s interest to do so.

“Today, despite the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, the anonymized participant-level data underlying the trials for these new products remain inaccessible to doctors, researchers, and the public—and are likely to remain that way for years to come,” BMJ said. “This is morally indefensible for all trials, but especially for those involving major public health interventions.”

BMJ also accused pharmaceutical companies of “reaping vast profits without adequate independent scrutiny of their scientific claims,” pointing to Pfizer, whose COVID vaccine trial was “funded by the company and designed, run, analyzed, and authored by Pfizer employees.”

Meanwhile, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had asked a judge to give it 75 years to produce all the data concerning the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine.

However, a judge earlier this month ordered that the FDA make public 12,000 pages of the data it used to make decisions regarding approvals for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the month. The FDA must also release Pfizer’s vaccine data at a rate of 55,000 pages a month until all of the requested pages are public.

Read more here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/british-medical-journal-demands-immediate-release-of-all-covid-19-vaccines-treatments-data_4227341.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-01-22-4&utm_medium=email&est=bi23Fd7h1u3rrvFhSAFU%2BYbwddoTKikYge0jJxvARSxlzMDeHo9johIkG7g9EYt%2B66mOfA%3D%3D Headline contributed by my son.

How does your state compare?

Truckers on the way to Ottawa

Sundance covers the story of hundreds of truckers on their way to Ottawa to protest Trudeau's vaccination mandate.

A massive convoy of truckers is headed toward Ottawa, Canada, to protest the vaccination regulations of the Trudeau administration against Truckers and all Canadian citizens. The scale of the Freedom Convoy has now garnered the attention of the ruling class, and it looks like a predictable conflict is looming.

Read more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LJlpDvvbI

Socialism, or leftism in its modern form, always creates scarcity!

Sundance informs us that the Mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser,

asks residents in/around her region to enter a phase of voluntary rationing. What comes after the voluntary phase is the part many have been studiously preparing to avoid.

In the bigger picture… I find it rather revealing that only when leftist policies are followed to their natural conclusion do you see officials in the leftist economic system they created, a system not coincidentally always based on the outcome of scarcity, asking people not to engage in economic activity.

Chasing socialism always creates an outcome where the expressed intent from government is NOT to buy stuff, rationing. Socialism, or leftism in its modern form, always creates scarcity; it is the diametrically opposite outcome of a free capitalistic society.

Read more here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/22/dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-asks-residents-to-begin-voluntary-rationing-of-food-at-grocery-stores/

Battered Conservative Syndrome

Sundance writes,

The high-minded, reach-across-the-aisle crew can continue bleating philosophically about how we must grow our ranks by accepting the newly found recalcitrance of those who have carried out this nonsense. However, the constant granting of benefit to those who abuse us is the epitome of battered conservative syndrome.

Perhaps the political left will discover that we perceive their deception the way a long-term battered spouse absorbs the blow in the hours prior to the pre-planned exit; with purpose.

Americans are still tolerant and patient people, the most compassionate and generous people in the history of all mankind, but we are also very purposeful. They could have stopped with us, but they did not. Instead, they came for our children.

Read more here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/22/professional-leftists-begin-trying-to-retreat-from-the-consequences-of-their-covid-nonsense/#more-225749

Hat tip Sundance!

Seeing eye to eye!

She missed that one!

Giving the okay to a "minor incursion!"

Here we go again!

Both Drudge and Ed Driscoll link to a Fox News story saying that the Biden administration is telling Americans to be ready to evacuate from Ukraine as early as Monday.

What is a woman?

Megan Fox tells us that Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh asked that question on the Dr. Phil show recently.

Destroying the narrative that men can identify as women and actually become women, Walsh put one very simple question to the opposing debaters who outnumbered him three to one. “What is a woman?”

Walsh had no problem defining what a woman is when asked. “An adult human female,” he said. “When you’re a female it goes right down to your bones, your DNA. So that’s why if someone dies, we can dig up their bones 100 years from now and we have no idea what they believed in their head but we can tell what sex they were because it’s ingrained in every fiber of their being.”

Then Walsh dropped the bomb from which these panelists will never recover. “What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into basically a costume that can be worn.” That was straight fire. As a woman, I’m offended when a man puts on a dress and pretends to know what my struggles have been as a biological woman. The hell you do. A woman is biology. It is experience. It is not a costume. And any man attempting to put on that experience without having lived it is appropriating my sex. We are told that cultural appropriation is wrong and racist. Appropriating the appearance of a woman and then gaslighting other women to accept you as one of them is sexist. Get out of here with that. Stop trying to take over women-only spaces. We need protection and safety from men. We need places to go where no men are allowed. Our girls need their sporting events to be segregated for their safety and fairness. Enough of this madness already!

Read more here and watch video: https://pjmedia.com/culture/megan-fox/2022/01/19/watch-matt-walsh-destroys-woke-gender-narrative-with-one-simple-question-n1551089

In the name of equity!

One of the words we hear a lot from our woke betters is equity. Most agree that equity means being just, fair, and impartial. Michael Barone, though, brings us some thoughts on the subject from California.

“California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity.” That’s the headline the Ventura County Star put on a column by Zocalo Public Square’s Joe Mathews . “Want true equity?” the San Francisco Chronicle headlined the same column three days later. “California should force parents to give away their children.”

Read the whole thing here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/abolish-parenthood-no-family-trumps-equity

Creating a national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition!

Sundance writes about how

a new Fourth Branch of Government was quietly created.

Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.

The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus. However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology. The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.

I am going to explain how the Intelligence Branch works: (1) to control every other branch of government; (2) how it functions as an entirely independent branch of government with no oversight; (3) how and why it was created to be independent from oversight; (4) what is the current mission of the IC Branch, and most importantly (5) who operates it.

Read the whole thing here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/20/prominent-democrat-publicly-critical-of-joe-biden-border-policy-gets-a-visit-from-fbi-jackboots/#more-225613

"He looks like a hippie, but he talks like a fed!"

RT @HowardStern @sternshow @TuckerCarlson: Howard Stern used to be incredibly brave and courageous. But now, he's become a coward. pic.twitter.com/AijpxZRdNq

— Fred (@Fred01476509) January 21, 2022

You cannot fool a dog three times. What is the limit for humans?

This small business owner in Portland is being forced to close his restaurant because of constant break-ins by homeless addicts. He says crime is rising not despite progressive policies but because of them. He’s right. pic.twitter.com/Hkm1YSejG1

— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) January 18, 2022

A man very much worth listening to!

This small business owner in Portland is being forced to close his restaurant because of constant break-ins by homeless addicts. He says crime is rising not despite progressive policies but because of them. He’s right. pic.twitter.com/Hkm1YSejG1

— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) January 18, 2022

How about you?

The sophistication of fascism

Jack McPherrin writes,

it is the leftist alliance with Wall Street and corporate stakeholders, as evidenced by the advent of ESG scores and the institutionalization of corporate social responsibility, that provides the greatest cause for concern. It is eerily reminiscent of the corporatism inherent to Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

In the aggregate, this alliance represents nothing less than a centralization of power from all corners of society, on a scale similar to, yet greater than, that perpetrated by the Nazis 80 years ago. This overarching cohesion is working to create a totalitarian political religion, one that is bent on destroying economic freedom and individual liberty.

In conclusion: socialism, fascism, it makes no difference. The latter is, and has always been, simply a more sophisticated extension of the former. That sophistication is what makes fascism so much more dangerous. That sophistication is why it took the combined might of the entire free world to combat fascism in history’s most devastating war.

Read more here: https://humanevents.com/2022/01/20/fascism-socialisms-smarter-brother/

They are not just "soft on crime," they are pro-crime!

Buck Throckmorton writes,

Being soft on crime was politically destructive for Democrats a generation or two ago. Their current pro-crime stance might prove to be suicidal.

Absolute lawlessness is now the rule in many major blue cities. New York’s “no bail” laws put hardened criminals immediately back on the streets. California has effectively decriminalized shoplifting. Soros-funded DAs in Philadelphia and Chicago have helped those cities achieve horrific levels of murder and other crimes by offering hardened criminals easy pleas that keep them out of prison. Shortly before Darrell Brooks committed mass murder by driving a car into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, a Soros-funded DA had just put him back on the street, by giving Brooks a negligible bail after a domestic abuse arrest.

Read the whole thing here: http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397490

Time to talk about the vaccines!

Vinay Prasad reports,

Ivermectin has not shown persuasive evidence of benefit in randomised trials to date. Of course, a randomised trial cannot prove that a therapy can never work under any circumstances, just as you cannot prove that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. But the burden is on proponents to show when and how their therapy helps, and they have not met it.

Rogan, Malone and McCullough are wrong to claim that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are known to be secretly effective, but they are correct that these drugs have been unfairly demonised. The truth is that they are neither particularly dangerous nor effective. The media labelling ivermectin a “horse drug” or “horse dewormer” was particularly absurd. Ivermectin is a well-known drug taken by humans all over the world.

Malone, Rogan, and McCullough are all correct on one topic: there is an effort to suppress information and censor debate on social media. The clearest example is that for more than a year, Facebook banned all discussion of the lab-leak hypothesis, until articles by Nicholson Baker, Nicholas Wade, and Donald McNeil broke the dam. This was a remarkable suppression of free speech.

Previously, I investigated the mechanism by which Facebook polices pandemic “misinformation” through third-party investigators. I found, in several cases, that the expert designated to fact-check a claim had already stated their opinion on it prior to being selected. This is a deeply problematic mechanism, as the person who selects the fact-checkers can scour the Internet to an expert who agrees with them, and there is no external review, appeal or oversight.

Finally, in the modern world, where the censor is so often a giant technology company, there is tremendous potential for abuse. The same tools used to suppress scientific “misinformation” may someday be used to solidify political power and stifle dissent.

Read more here: https://unherd.com/2022/01/we-need-to-talk-about-the-vaccines/

Rejuvenating Therapeutics

Michael Eisenstein reports,

Rejuvenation by controlled reprogramming is the latest gambit in anti-aging

Above all, those pursuing rejuvenation therapeutics know about the need to manage expectations. “This message needs to be clear — it’s not about extending the lifespan,” says Sebastiano. “What we care about is increasing the healthspan of people … and that you don’t have to live for a long time in a condition of frailty.”

Read more here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-022-00002-4

EU Parliament appears to stand up to Chinese Communists

🇪🇺EU Parliament condemns Beijing’s assault on press freedom in Hong Kong and calls for urgent actionhttps://t.co/81xD52HPO7

— Hong Kong Watch (@hk_watch) January 20, 2022

Enes Kantor Freedom is for real!

Hey @YaoMing
I heard that you are inviting me to China this summer.
Ok, I accept your invite,
I will be coming to China this summer,

But on this trip, pic.twitter.com/Q6qufuhDPL

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) January 19, 2022

This government freefall is overseen by a tragically bewildered, petulant, and incompetent president

Victor Davis Hanson writes,

Hard Left “woke” ideology has all but obliterated the idea of a border. Millions of impoverished foreigners are entering the United States illegally — and during a pandemic without either COVID-19 tests or vaccinations.

Who could have believed a year ago that America would now beg Saudi Arabia and Russia to pump more oil — as we pulled our own oil leases, and canceled pipelines and oil fields?

This governmental freefall is overseen by a tragically bewildered, petulant, and incompetent president. In his confusion, an increasingly unpopular President Joe Biden seems to believe his divisive chaos is working, belittling his political opponents as racist Confederate rebels.

Read more here: https://pjmedia.com/columns/victor-davis-hanson/2022/01/20/is-america-heading-for-a-systems-collapse-n1551120

Biden issues weak replies to Putin, hasty and unprepared!

Stephen Green writes,

Biden could have spent the last year reducing the risk of war by taking the diplomatic initiative with NATO and the United Nations. Instead, Biden allows Putin to make moves — to take the initiative, to test the waters — and then Biden issues weak verbal replies, hasty and unprepared.

There’s something to be said for doing your damn homework and being prepared, especially when little things like world peace are at stake.

Read more here: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/01/20/first-barack-obama-now-joe-biden-mumbling-our-way-into-war-n1551190

"Joe Biden has sown the wind. Now we await the whirlwind."

Noah Rothman believes

We Will All Pay for Joe Biden’s ‘Minor Incursion’ Mistake!

The fruits of what one analyst feared was Biden’s policy of “sleepwalking into a reset with Russia” are now ripening. Far too many eerie indications suggest that Russia’s buildup of troops along Ukraine’s border is no bluff. The time has come for the West to not just cajole but compel Moscow to abandon its designs on that country by raising the costs of such an adventure to unacceptable levels, lest it risk a new land war in Europe and all the risks to Western security that would entail. But Joe Biden has not done that. Not only has the president failed to deter Putin, he has communicated—in terms no practitioner of statecraft would fail to recognize—that the West lacks the will to stop Putin from doing his worst.

“It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do,” Biden ruminated. “But if they actually do what they’re capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine.” With this, Biden exposed deep divisions within the Atlantic Alliance over precisely how or even whether to respond to a calibrated violation of Ukrainian sovereignty. The reporters present picked up on the permission structure Biden had erected around a deniable invasion of Ukraine and asked the president to clarify his remarks. The clarification was worse than the original comments.

“Are you saying that a minor incursion by Russia into Ukrainian territory would not lead to the sanctions that you have threatened?” one reporter asked. “That’s how it did sound like, didn’t it?” Biden acknowledged, suggesting he was gearing up to issue a more unequivocal ultimatum. But nothing unequivocal was forthcoming. “So, the question is, if it’s a—something significantly short of a significant invasion,” Biden continued. “It’s very important that we keep everyone in NATO on the same page,” he said. “There are differences in NATO as to what countries are willing to do depending on what happens.” The president went on to note that harsh sanctions against Russia impose economic costs on Europe and America, too, and he implied that the Alliance would fracture over whether to punish Moscow if Russia’s aggression took a form more familiar to observers of geopolitics.

The president’s words and actions carry more weight than any half-hearted statement walking them back. Courtesy of his performance in Afghanistan, Putin has all the evidence he needs to conclude that Joe Biden will blink in defending American interests against an aggressor if he thinks the costs of such an effort are too high to bear. Biden has exposed the very real and now fully confirmed tensions within the Atlantic Alliance over how to respond to Russian aggression, if there is any response at all. All the tough talk in the world cannot undo that. Joe Biden has sown the wind. Now, we await the whirlwind.

Read more here: https://www.commentary.org/noah-rothman/we-will-all-pay-for-joe-bidens-terrible-mistake/

Truckers plan major protest in Canada

Sundance reports,

The truckers north of the border are planning a major protest to draw the attention of Canadian citizens who continue to keep their head buried. #TruckersForFreedom. What they are trying to avoid, is soon to be unavoidable.

(MSM, CANADA) – In Canada, where as much as 90% of the country’s fruits and vegetables come from the US during the winter, a vaccine mandate for truckers is slowing down food shipments. Drivers who aren’t fully vaccinated against covid-19 have to quarantine for two weeks after entering Canada. Just about half of US truckers are vaccinated, according to industry estimates.

The mandate adds to the already strained supply chains in Canada, which have been subject to worker shortages, transportation bottlenecks, and recent storms. These factors are pushing up food prices globally.

The price to bring food across the border has doubled on some routes due to the scarcity of available truckers, Alex Crane, an operations manager at Paige Logistics, a freight broker in British Columbia, told Bloomberg. As a result, some shipments are just sitting in warehouses. The US is set to impose similar rules on Jan. 22, which could worsen the cross-border food trade. (read more)

Read more here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/20/supply-chain-ominous-headline-from-canada-brace-for-impact/#more-225602

The new segregation!

Christopher Rufo writes,

the new segregation is slowly embedding itself in every domain of public policy. The gambit, for the progressives who support it, is to establish a new status quo—so-called “antiracist discrimination”—and to use their superior cultural power to intimidate the majority into acquiescence.

For now, they appear to be succeeding. Conservative groups, such as the Southeastern Legal Foundation and Parents Defending Education, have challenged the new segregation on legal grounds, but those cases will take years to wind their way through the federal courts. Meantime, progressives are likely to solidify their position and continue to normalize the policy of “segregation for social justice.” If they succeed, they will send the country backward, reviving old antagonisms and hollowing out the Constitution’s civil rights protections.

Read more here: https://www.city-journal.org/woke-segregation-and-the-ghost-of-jim-crow

The "Vax-only" policy being followed by the U.S. government against Covid 19

Kim Iverson delivers a truth-filled rant against the public health establishment in this video.

Healthy, but miserable!

Why?

Daniel Greenfield reports,

Biden Frees Alternate 9/11 Hijacker and Military Base Truck Bomb Plotter

After Obama’s obsession with freeing as many Islamic terrorists from Gitmo as possible, the ones who remained were the absolute worst of the worst. Now Biden is setting them loose too.

5 Islamic terrorists, Al Qaeda and allies, have been scheduled for release from custody.

Read more here: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/01/biden-frees-alternate-911-hijacker-and-military-daniel-greenfield/

More good advice from Tulsi Gabbard

The first Black woman on a U.S. quarter

The American Women Quarters Program is a four-year initiative that will issue several coins featuring prominent women in American history, spanning the areas of "suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts" and with attention to "ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse backgrounds," according to the program's website.

The U.S. Treasury issued the first coin in its new, special collection honoring notable American women, rolling out a new quarter featuring famed poet Maya Angelou on Monday. It's the first time a Black woman has appeared on the coin in its centuries-long history.

Read more here: https://mashable.com/article/maya-angelou-first-black-woman-quarter

There is no Democrat "voting rights" bill!

There is no Democrat “voting rights” bill in DC. It does not exist. It has never existed. It is not being voted on. There is *only* legislation making it easier to vote under a false identity, harvest illegal ballots, vote as noncitizen, or to otherwise perpetrate criminal fraud.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) January 19, 2022

Oregon Muse will be greatly missed!

The main reason I visited the Ace of Spades blog every day was to read what Oregon Muse brought to the discussions. Co-blogger CBD announced today that Oregon Muse died yesterday. He had been fighting Covid 19. Among 774 others, a commenter named Dr_No wrote today,

Of the Muse, it could be said he was a man always to be found when wanted, and always to be trusted when found. His knowledge, kindness, and humor will be greatly missed.

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397453

CBD's thoughts are posted here: http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397453

Time to mask up?

Megan Fox brings us the story of one person who has avoided personal responsibility and another person who refuses to coddle her. Both happen to be Supreme Court Justices. Read more here: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/01/18/media-meltdown-over-justice-sotomayors-failure-to-cope-with-the-risk-of-living-n1550487

Embrace 2022 and leave 2021 behind!

"Illegal?"

Richard Nieva reports,

Mark Zuckerberg And Sundar Pichai Allegedly Signed Off On Illegal Facebook–Google Ad Deal

Newly unredacted claims from a 2020 antitrust lawsuit say that Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai personally approved an allegedly illegal 2018 advertising deal.

Read more here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/facebook-and-google-ceos-signed-off-on-a-secret-advertising

"All this is as pathetic as it is fatal to the survival of the American project."

Historian Victor Davis Hanson reminds us,

Current Vice President Kamala Harris boasted during the summer 2020 riots that such organized violence would go on and on, and would and should not cease:

"They’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop. And everyone beware because they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop before Election Day and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that. They’re not gonna let up and they should not."

Had Trump voiced Harris’ encouragement of street violence, he would now be indicted.

In investigating a supposed conspiracy, why does the committee conspire to ensure that thousands of hours of videos are not released that might give a more accurate picture of the culpable who prompted the Capitol riot, who participated, and the reaction of the Capitol police?

Why conspire not to force the attorney general and FBI director in closed session to list all FBI informants involved in the riot, or any intergovernmental law enforcement communications about their use?

The military failure in Afghanistan and its diversity, equity and inclusion cannibalism have stirred China and Russia to recognize an opportunity. In tandem both now increasingly salivate over Taiwan and Ukraine.

We are lectured that “democracy dies” if the Democrats lose elections and “voter suppression” requires drastic counteraction—even as the Left goes after the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, the filibuster, the 50-state union, and the constitutional primacy of states to set voting laws.

All this is as pathetic as it is fatal to the survival of the American project.

Read much more here: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/16/conspiracies-as-realities-realities-as-conspiracies/

Sharing

Don't just teach your children how to be successful, teach them how to respond when they are not successful, teach them how to handle failures and learn from their mistakes. pic.twitter.com/ADo8Pg80Oc

— Jina will (@jonawill15) January 18, 2022

Treating Covid 19

Wayne Allen Root reports,

Justus R. Hope, M.D., and others report that in India, the government ended the worst COVID-19 outbreak anywhere in the world by handing out free packets of ivermectin plus vitamins. They report that COVID-19 went away literally overnight, and deaths dropped to virtually zero. That's exactly what America should have done and should be doing right now.

There are dozens of studies around the world that demonstrate the efficacy of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as antivirals versus COVID-19.

Read more here: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/01/my-debate-icu-doctor-about-possible-dangers-covid-wayne-allyn-root/

Congratulations to Virginia voters for their new Governor, Lt. Gov. and Attorney General!

WATCH: Democrats refuse to applaud when @GovernorVA @GlennYoungkin tells parents they “have a fundamental right, enshrined in law by this General Assembly, to make decisions with regard to your child’s upbringing, education and care. And we will protect and reassert that right." pic.twitter.com/TMTVLkI5U4

— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) January 17, 2022

"Stay safe!"

The F.B.I. had a different dream!

Tristan Justice writes,

The FBI paid tribute to civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday after it spent a decade trying to destroy him.

King, the FBI wrote in a memo highlighted by a new documentary out last fall, was “the most dangerous Negro in America,” and warranted the “use [of] every resource at our disposal to destroy him” after King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.

After then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called King the “most notorious liar in the country,” during a 1964 press conference over King’s criticism, the agency sent a letter to King with tape recordings of the civil rights leader’s promiscuity in a D.C. hotel. The letter said that with a 34-day deadline “before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation,” King ought to kill himself to save from embarrassment.

Read more here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/17/this-mlk-day-remember-how-the-fbi-targeted-him/

Far-Right Extremist Suggests Treating People Of All Races Equally!

Yes, today we recognize Dr. Martin Luther King Day. Here is the Babylon Bee:

U.S.—A dangerous, far-right extremist has suggested that we treat people of all races equally, shocked and horrified sources confirmed Friday.

Read the whole thing here: https://babylonbee.com/news/far-right-extremist-suggests-treating-people-of-all-races-equally

Djokovic deported from Australia on the eve of the Australian Open!

Serbian Novak Djokovic has been the number one tennis player in the world for the last 356 weeks! He was deported from Australia this week just before the Australian Open began today. Sundance explains the differences between Australians and Americans regarding tyranny.

When an American sees a person fighting Australian tyranny (Djokovic), our gut instinct is to support him (we would if his confrontation was inside America – his location is irrelevant). We support the freedom fight, because we see the underlying reason for him fighting -his medical and health freedom- as having merit.

However, most Australians, who would fight for the type of freedom defined by their version of democracy, see Djokovic fighting for a specific freedom their mob democracy has already conceded and lost.

The anti-vax movement, writ large, does not independently support Djokovic on principle, because Djokovic is not acquiescing to the same rules they are subjected to.

The Australian system of government is based on a pure democracy. Extreme democracy. As soon as 50% plus one is achieved, the other 50% accept the rules of the majority, regardless how small that majority position might be. This is why everyone in Australia is required by law to vote.

The concept of minority rights or individual sovereignty, restrictions on the mob’s ability to interfere in your life, is unfathomable to Australians. Once a law is passed by majority consent, they all agree to follow it. That is their social compact.

Read more here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/16/australian-government-deports-unvaccinated-tennis-player-novak-djokovic-citing-his-threat-to-social-cohesion/#more-225356

When you need an I.D.

Beating a dead horse

Demagogues of the left weaponized disinformation about China’s culpability, vaccines, useful drugs, lockdowns, racial preferences, and long-care facilities.

Victor Davis Hanson writes,

Cuomo’s policies of steering infected patients into long-term-care facilities doomed over 10,000 of the elderly. Now, New York is illegally using race to grant preferences in the allotments of tests and new drugs.

The rhetoric of the media-progressive nexus that mandatory, massive lockdowns were necessary all but destroyed a booming Trump economy and denied critical medical care to millions. Emphasizing therapeutics, natural herd immunity, and the resilience of the youth to the disease were all pronounced “anti-science” by the demagogues on the left.

Politicizing the pandemic is a euphemism. In truth, thousands of Americans have died needlessly because of weaponized disinformation about China’s culpability, vaccines, useful drugs, lockdowns, racial preferences, and long-care facilities.

Read more here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/politicizing-covid-19-from-the-start_4213468.html?utm_source=opinionnoe&utm_campaign=opinion-2022-01-16&utm_medium=email&est=ESlVYTk1nup%2FJ5cfZOYJ3fmh5K8bAfQTCWrGjfGYAznwSLF27rtkoDuu4VmwH%2BYZ7A%3D%3D