Month: September 2021

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Someone said the quiet part out loud…

Kamala Harris Called ‘Absolute Idiot’ For Criticizing Border Agents

Harris is calling for an investigation into US Border Patrol for “attacking” and rounding up Haitian migrants at the southern border.

Wait till Harris finds out who the “Border Czar” is.

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Now Biden wants to kill Bison for trophies…

Shock: Biden Interior Wants To Kill American Bison In Trophy Hunt

Leave the animals alone.

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The AP finally gets around to reporting the truth. Biden is releasing Haitian illegals into the U.S. on a very large scale. Insane. Perfectly insane.

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Headline of the day

Biden’s Asylum Policies for Migrants Are Insane

And a close second:

‘Wrong Way’ Biden Taking the Nation Wildly Off Course

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Modern Republican Party versus Paleo Republican Party

Bush to host fundraiser for Liz Cheney, while Trump backs candidate to replace congresswoman

We will see. I reject Liz Cheney completely. She has displayed bad judgement for months. She is not reliable. This is an important internal contest for conservatives. Do we look back 20 years for guidance?

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Democrats increasingly go anti-Israel, anti-Semitic.

Democrat Rep. Slotkin says within her party ‘desire to attack’ anything related to Israel

The congresswoman’s comments come after Democrat leaders removed funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system from a government funding bill.

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Kamala! Superstar!

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The remarkable Drew Holden roasts the biased, censorious, lying media, big tech, and Democrats and pulls out the receipts for their despicable coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

There’s more at Drew Holden’s feed. This is really great work by Mr. Holden and I congratulate him for exposing these media liars and hypocrites.

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White House determined to keep president from responding to questions. Why?

This resulted in a formal complaint from the intrepid and very brave White House Press Pool:

Maybe Ben Williamson has caught on to something?

The White House thinks you are stupid.

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Despite media, social media, big tech, big corporations and censorship all in his favor, in just 8 short months Biden has fallen behind Trump in popularity. Trump 48%, Biden 46%.

Poll: Biden, Trump statistically tied in favorability

MAX GREENWOOD:

“…President Biden and former President Trump are statistically tied when it comes to their favorability among U.S. voters, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey shared exclusively with The Hill on Monday.

Forty-eight percent of respondents say they have a positive view of Trump compared to 46 percent who say they have a favorable opinion of his successor. Biden’s favorability is slightly underwater, however: 49 percent of those surveyed said they have an unfavorable view of the current president, while slightly less — 47 percent — report an unfavorable opinion of Trump.

The findings are a remarkable shift for Biden, who repeatedly outperformed Trump’s favorability numbers throughout the early months of his presidency.

But multiple crises, including a surge in new COVID-19 infections in recent months and the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, have bruised public perceptions of Biden.

Fifty-one percent of respondents now say Trump was a better president than Biden, while 49 percent prefer the White House’s current occupant, the poll shows.

“The mounting issues on all fronts have led to the surprise conclusion that Trump is now seen as good a president as Biden, suggesting the honeymoon is being replaced now with buyer’s remorse,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, said.

“Since Trump lost the popular vote by 5 points, Trump getting 51 percent as a better president is actually an improvement from Election Day.”

The latest Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey also shows Biden’s overall approval rating under water for the first time since he took office. Forty-eight percent of those surveyed say they approve of the job he’s doing in the White House, while 50 percent disapprove.

That follows on the heels of a July Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey that showed his approval rating sinking to 52 percent from 62 percent in June.

In a sign that the debacle in Afghanistan may be the biggest factor influencing views of his presidency, Biden saw his biggest drops in approval on his handling of foreign affairs and his administration’s efforts to combat terrorism. In both matters, his approval dropped 13 points since July.

Other members of Biden’s administration aren’t faring any better than Biden in the public eye, according to the poll.

Fifty-five percent of those surveyed say that Mike Pence was a better vice president than his successor, current Vice President Harris. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performs even worse, with 63 percent of respondents saying that his predecessor, Mike Pompeo, was the better secretary of State.

Penn said that for Blinken, in particular, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has proved particularly tough.

“People see Pence as a better VP by 10 points and overwhelmingly see Pompeo as far better than Blinken, who has been out front on Afghanistan,” Penn said.

The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey of 1,578 registered voters was conducted from Sept. 15 to 16. It is a collaboration of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and The Harris Poll.

Full poll results will be posted online later this week. Respondents are recruited via voter panel providers on a randomized basis, and their responses are then weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative poll conducted online, it does not report a probability confidence interval…”

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Nothing says confidence in a vaccine like trying to block people from talking about it. Censorship always comes from the left. Politicized medicine is a great mistake and will destroy public trust.

How Far Will COVID-19 Medical Authoritarianism Go Before We Say ‘Enough’?

STACEY LENNOX:

“…The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently issued a statement about how doctors must communicate with patients about COVID-19 vaccines. The FSMB is a non-profit organization that represents the medical boards of the individual states and territories. The state boards license medical doctors, investigate complaints, and mete out disciplinary action. The statement is an astonishing bit of medical authoritarianism that should terrify patients expecting to receive informed consent and have an honest discussion with their doctors about COVID-19 (emphasis added).

Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license. Due to their specialized knowledge and training, licensed physicians possess a high degree of public trust and therefore have a powerful platform in society, whether they recognize it or not. They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health. Spreading inaccurate COVID-19 vaccine information contradicts that responsibility, threatens to further erode public trust in the medical profession and puts all patients at risk.

Which facts? Suppose a doctor listened to the discussion about boosters and heard Doran Fink, M.D., deputy director of the clinical side of the FDA’s Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications, discuss cardiac-related risks post-vaccination. When Dr. Arnold Monto, the acting committee chair, asked Fink if it was possible to determine at what age the side effect ceased to be a problem, Fink answered:

“If you look at the healthcare claims data, you see that there is evidence of some attributable risk at all age groups, although, the older you get, the higher the risk of complications from COVID that offset the risk of myocarditis,” he said. “So, when you look at the balances of risk versus benefit, what we really start to see is risk of myocarditis being higher [than COVID-19] in males under age 40.”

Fink also told the advisory committee that the risk of myocarditis was 1:5000 according to medical claims data. Say a doctor is counseling a 24-year-old male with healthy body weight and no pre-existing conditions. Understanding the current data, he tells his patient that the vaccine’s risk of cardiac side effects is more significant than risks related to COVID-19. Would he be putting his license at risk for misinformation? The physician would be quoting an FDA official but deviating from the narrative that everyone must be vaccinated.

Looking again at the statement, what exactly is “scientifically grounded” information? There are at least 15 studies that confirm natural immunity provides durable protection from infection with COVID-19. Suppose a doctor read the Emory study, which demonstrated broad-based, long-lasting immunity in recovered patients after eight months. He also read the Israeli population study showing a symptomatic reinfection rate of less than 1% in recovered patients without a vaccine.

Then the doctor sees a preprint indicating a small sample of recovered patients showed declining immune response six months after the Pfizer vaccine. The Emory study of unvaccinated participants did not show a similar decline. If the physician told a 35-year-old patient who recovered from COVID-19 in August of 2021 that current scientific research shows he has a strong natural immune response and a vaccine is not necessary at this point, would the state medical board mount an investigation? It is scientifically grounded but opposes the advice of the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“Consensus-driven” is the chilling and authoritarian addition. Here’s a newsflash. Doctors disagree. Even the best doctors in the same field will have different opinions about treatment for a particular disease or disability. This reality is why getting a second opinion is part of the American medical system. Patients deserve to fully understand and agree with a course of treatment and know all of their options.

Consensus also has no place in the scientific method. It indicates that the state medical boards view science as an institution. Is Dr. Rochelle Walensky an authoritative voice simply because she holds a political appointment? It would be fair to wager that there are more capable scientists in other private and public institutions whose input and conclusions we should take at least as seriously. The genuinely alarming trend in this pandemic is treating highly regarded practitioners and researchers as heretics for dissenting from the preferred narrative.

Also, which consensus? Dr. Anthony Fauci told America that a third mRNA vaccine was the appropriate dose to provide more durable immunity against COVID-19. The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee disagreed after reviewing data from Pfizer and Israel. The World Health Organization opposed boosters also.

The chilling effects of top-down medical authoritarianism are real. The FSMB provides no guidance on what qualifies as vaccine misinformation and leaves no room for the practice of medicine based on a doctor’s clinical experience. If this continues, the quality and safety of American healthcare will decline. Unfortunately, the authoritarians never see the errors of their ways until they are staring at the destruction of the system they governed…”

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Historically accurate Iowa poll shows Biden down and dropping fast compared to March

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I don’t understand the seemingly desperate push by government on vaccinations, especially for children. It seems contrary to data and reckless.

Are We Supposed to Believe Dr. Fauci or the Data Collected on COVID-19?

STACEY LENNOX:

“…Dr. Anthony Fauci gave a lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on September 10, 2021. The lecture took place shortly after the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) decided not to recommend vaccinating all children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old for COVID-19 after a risk-benefit analysis. Fauci’s lecture was delivered shortly before the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee declined to recommend booster shots for all eligible Americans, citing similar concerns.

During the lecture, Fauci discussed why he felt it was important to vaccinate children. Given what we know, it is some pretty astounding stuff, especially regarding the rates at which they transmit the disease and the risk of severe COVID-19 and death in children.

Fauci referred to children as “vehicles of spread.” There is no data to indicate that children transmit COVID-19 to adults at greater rates than they did early in the pandemic. An early genetic study in Iceland found that transmission almost always went from adults to children. We should study whether Delta changes that pattern. We should not assume (in order to justify vaccinating children) that because Delta is more transmissible, it has changed the pattern

We know that cases fell in schools in the UK during the Delta surge. Rates of transmission were lower in schools than in the surrounding community despite there being no masking requirements. No one knows why this was the case. It could be due to the twice-a-week testing requirement, the overall seroprevalence due to asymptomatic infections in children earlier in the pandemic, or the lower transmission rates for children. We should probably find out.

Fauci discussed hospitalizations among children in the Southeast during the Delta surge. He said, “We are almost overrun. We have a lot of children in hospitals now. So even though, relatively speaking, compared to an adult they don’t get as seriously ill. We have lost more children from SARS-CoV-2 than we ever lose for influenza — and we vaccinate children against influenza.”

It is hard to decide where to begin. First, the Southeast was experiencing a surge in the Delta variant while it had an offseason spike in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). According to the CDC, 58,000 children under the age of five are hospitalized for RSV annually and the symptoms are very similar to COVID-19.

The CDC’s Associated Hospital Surveillance Network (COVID-NET) collects age-specific hospitalization data for COVID-19. Through September 11, 2021, the week with the highest number of hospitalizations for children under 18 during the Delta wave, 117 children in its network were hospitalized with COVID-19. The network includes Georgia, which Fauci cited specifically in his lecture. If pediatric beds were full, they were not filled with COVID-19-positive children even, if all 117 were in Georgia.

COVID-NET, which covers about 10% of the population, reported 3,984 hospitalizations of children under 18 with confirmed COVID-19. If that number is relatively consistent nationwide, it’s likely that fewer children under 18 have been hospitalized with COVID-19 through the entire pandemic than are hospitalized every year with RSV in the 0-5 age group. We also know that compulsory testing of inpatients will pick up incidental cases where a child tests positive when admitted for something else. One study in California found this happened 40% of the time.

According to the CDC, 448 children under 18 have died with COVID-19. Because of compulsory hospital testing, there is no way to tell if COVID-19 caused a child’s death. One assessment done by Dr. Marty Makary and his research team found that no children without severe pre-existing conditions like leukemia died with COVID-19 between April and August 2020. Even if you assume every death recorded by the CDC is solely due to COVID, Kyle Lamb, a data researcher for Florida Governor DeSantis’s office, provided this analysis:

As far as vaccinating children for the flu, the highest CDC estimate for vaccination is for those aged 0-4, who are often in the doctor’s office receiving other inoculations. The lowest rate is for teens, who have less frequent well-child visits.  Rates also vary widely between states. Fewer than 50% of Americans over age 18 received a flu vaccine last year.

How much longer is Dr. Fauci going to be allowed to make proclamations that contain confounding variables, data-free assumptions, and outright falsehoods with no pushback? Parents should be able to rely on verifiable and rigorous data before deciding to give their children a vaccine against an illness they rarely become seriously ill with and rarely die from. Right now, we know how many white-tailed deer in the Northeast have COVID-19 antibodies, but we have no idea how many children under 18 do.

Pfizer believes its vaccine is safe for children. It also thought it had the data to support the third shot for all eligible Americans. Fauci agreed. The FDA advisory committee disagreed. We are at the moment in the movie Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum’s character said, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”…”

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There should be an independent counsel investigation into the funding of the Wuhan lab and EcoHealth Alliance and what role Fauci played in this.

Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats 18 months before outbreak

Leaked documents reveal researchers applied for $14m to fund controversial project in 2018

Wuhan scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, newly leaked grant proposals show.

New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers led by Peter Daszak had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.

They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA to fund the work.

They were hoping to introduce “human-specific cleavage sites” to bat coronaviruses which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells.

When Covid-19 was first genetically sequenced, scientists were puzzled about how the virus had evolved such a human-specific adaptation at the cleavage site on the spike protein, which is the reason it is so infectious.

The documents were released by Drastic, the web-based investigations team set up by scientists from across the world to look into the origins of Covid-19.

In a statement, Drastic said: “Given that we find in this proposal a discussion of the planned introduction of human-specific cleavage sites, a review by the wider scientific community of the plausibility of artificial Covid insertion is warranted.”

The proposal included plans to mix high-risk natural coronavirus strains with more infectious varieties.

The bid was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, who has worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology researching bat coronaviruses.

Team members included Dr Shi Zhengli, the WIV researcher dubbed ‘bat woman’ as well as researchers from the University of North Carolina and the United States Geological Survey National Wildlife Centre.

DARPA refused to fund the work, saying: “It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk”, and warned that the team had not properly considered the dangers of enhancing the virus, known as gain of function research or releasing a vaccine by air.

Grant documents show that the team also had some concerns about the vaccine program and said they would “conduct educational outreach … so that there is a public understanding of what we are doing and why we are doing it, particularly because of the practice of bat-consumption in the region.”

Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St Georges, University of London, who struggled to get work published showing that the Wuhan Lab had been carrying out “gain of function” work for years before the pandemic, said the research may have occurred even without the funding.

“This is clearly a gain of function, engineering the cleavage site and polishing the new viruses to enhance human cell infectibility in more than one cell line,” he said.

Daszak was also criticized for writing a letter published in The Lancet last year which effectively shut down all global scientific debate into the origins of Covid-19.

Viscount Ridley, who has co-authored a book on the origin of Covid-19, and who has frequently called for a further investigation into what caused the pandemic in the House of Lords, said: “For more than a year I tried repeatedly to ask questions of Peter Daszak with no response.”

“Now it turns out he had authored this vital piece of information about virus work in Wuhan but refused to share it with the world. I am furious. So should the world be.

“Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance proposed injecting deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology into humanised and ‘batified’ mice, and much, much more.”

A Covid-19 researcher from the World Health Organisation, who wished to remain anonymous, said it was alarming that the grant proposal included plans to enhance the more deadly disease of Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome MERS.

“The scary part is they were making infectious chimeric MERS viruses,” the source said.

“These viruses have a fatality rate over 30 per cent, which is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than Covid-19. If one of their receptor replacements made MERS spread similarly, while maintaining its lethality, this pandemic would have been nearly apocalyptic.”

Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology have not responded to requests for comment…”

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Clark County, Nevada tried to limit free speech on Covid. You may disagree publicly with government edicts. People disagree immediately.

Clark County Nevada goes full Covid Nazi… Black republican Mack Miller assaulted and dragged from meeting

https://twitter.com/ryankibby/status/1440451978358788106

Hat tip to Kane

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The age of conformity on the left. Liberals tie themselves in knots attempting to explain the intellectual dishonesty in many of their policy preferences.

The Carmine’s COVID altercation was preventable but I predict we’ll see more of this

“…Also on Monday, Black Lives Matters protesters descended on Carmine’s to protest what they say was discrimination by the restaurant. In a city that was inflamed by protests over inequity and racism in the summer of 2020, it’s amazing that so little conversation ensued over the obvious bias of this vaccine mandate. As of today, only 38% of Black New Yorkers are vaccinated.

The fact that over 60% of the Black community in New York City can’t eat inside Carmine’s is, of course, discrimination. But it’s not discrimination by Carmine’s. It was forced on them by an out-to-lunch Mayor Bill de Blasio and a complacent city that does not question directives that make no sense.

Restaurants were never a major spreader of COVID. And if you’re vaccinated, why do you care if others are not?

When a state wants to require identification to vote, that state gets a barrage of abuse from the left. The state is labeled as racist. Activists pressure corporations to stop doing business in the state. Hollywood threatens to pull production.

But that same identification, coupled with private medical information, being required to dine inside a restaurant brings silence. Speaking out might get you labeled a racist yourself or, worse, a Republican.

People can’t say what they know to be true, that requiring restaurants to demand vaccination proof should not be their role, that altercations will inevitably continue to happen, and that we’re a worse city for it. But it’s quiet. It’s the age of conformity on the left and no one wants to step outside the line…”

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I suspect this number does not capture the full extent of the bias…

53-to-1: Big Tech Censors GOP Members of Congress Tons More than Democrats

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I think these 3 headlines demonstrate just how screwed up the Biden border policy is. It is not policy, it is Democrat politics. It stinks.

Biden’s first border chief accuses administration of destroying security, misleading Congress

Homeland Security launches investigation into border agents on horseback chasing illegal migrants

Border patrol union boss slams Psaki, media for false story about horse-mounted agents

And below is the special topper. Our “border czar” is troubled by the way the Haitian illegals are being treated. She was referring to the fake news media controversy over whips. I think this indicates a level of ignorance and disfunction at the highest levels of our government that I never thought possible. She is not concerned about the 15,000 illegals and their effects on our country, she is concerned that our country is not treating the illegals right. The policies that she is partly responsible for are the primary cause of the disaster at the border. This is Democrat governance. I have a deep feeling of contempt for this idiot.

Harris ‘deeply troubled’ by treatment of Haitian migrants

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Democrats to release many Haitian illegals into U.S. This is not an accident. This is Democrat policy. They will replace or neutralize your vote with a more compliant populace beholden to them.

DHS Is Releasing Many Haitians from Del Rio Landing

Biden administration officials began quietly telling journalists Monday they will release many of the roughly 15,000 Haitian migrants in the Del Rio camp.

The releases will allow the migrants to take Americans’ jobs, to compete for housing, to ask for asylum and green cards, and to put their children into the crowded classrooms needed by ordinary American kids.

The Haitian catch and release process also will be displayed by Haitians’ cellphones and will encourage more Haitians to risk their children’s lives in the long trek to the U.S. border.

The quiet promises of catch-and-release are being hidden behind showcase video of small-scale deportations, and behind televised bluster from top officials, including Alejandro Mayorkas, the pro-migration chief of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Morgan Chesky, a reporter for NBC Nightly News, said September 20:

Senior DHS officials telling NBC News the administration will prioritize deporting single Haitian adults and families [who are] not claiming asylum. Unaccompanied children and most families asking for asylum can stay in the U.S.

Bill Melugin, at Fox News, tweeted September 19 that U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz “told me single adult men will be expelled via Title 42, but most family units will be processed and released into US.”

The Haitians “aren’t idiots … they’re rational actors,” responded Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:

They’re not cartoons in the imagination of some liberal do-gooder. They’re people who have a good sense of what they want and what the odds are … [So] if anyone who brings a child with him is exempted from the [deportation] rules, then sending back the single adults only [to Haiti] is not really sending the [deterrence] message that people think it is, because it is saying [to Haitians] “Always make damn sure you have a kid with you, and then we’ll let you go into the U.S.”

U.S. officials are expect to invite roughly 2 million legal and illegal migrants into the United States during 2021. The inflow will deliver roughly one migrant for every two American births. The flood of imported labor, consumers and renters will reduce Americans’ wages, raise their housing costs, and add more chaotic diversity into Americans’ fractured society.

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Ladies and gentlemen the President of the United States

Doug Santo