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MASSIVE turnout at NYC's anti-vaccine mandate protest across the Brooklyn Bridge. HOLD THE LINE 🚨 pic.twitter.com/hru4WIO6jx

— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) October 25, 2021

Yale Epidemiology Professor Dr. Harvey Risch says he would pull a healthy child out of public school and homeschool before he gave them this vaccine. pic.twitter.com/cfqeA61BvD

— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) October 25, 2021

Massive protest against the health pass (vaccine pass) in Bern, Switzerland. pic.twitter.com/vZWkzeE8zL

— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) October 23, 2021

https://twitter.com/AnonCitizenUK/status/1451269632636211201

https://twitter.com/Nycweatherrepor/status/1452013170697154565

Hat tip to Stephen Kruiser

Dave Chappelle supporter ‘bristled at the idea of sharing his pronouns,’ Los Angeles Times reports

Pathetic. Just pathetic.

The Alec Baldwin Conundrum

“…Alec Baldwin got to play his dream role last week, and unfortunately for an innocent woman, it was a method-acting version of Ted Kennedy. Now, you note that I am mocking a guy whose probable gross negligence killed a lady and maimed a man, and this raises an important question – do we really want to live in a world where our reaction to a tragedy caused by an enemy is not sorrow and compassion but mockery?

It doesn’t matter what we want. We do live in such a world, in large part due to the likes of Alec Baldwin. Besides his scuzzy abuse of the people – notably women – in his orbit, he is a particularly loathsome social media presence, and as a result, conservatives are gleefully resurrecting his old tweets about guns and his wish for them to be used on his many, many enemies in the wake of his horrible act. There are many, many such tweets. I am not a believer in karma and do not fear it, but I do try to keep a respectful distance from irony.

Note that arguments that this somehow hurts the families of the victims are weak – “My beloved relative has died – I shall seek solace on Twitter” seems far-fetched. Moreover, the families might be mortified to see people taking apart the architect of their pain? Doubtful. If anything, the practical effect of slamming Six Gun Alec is making people think, “Gosh, better not play with firearms lest people on Twitter roast me.”

But there is a legit question of how we should respond to this. There have been two different reactions among those on our general side of the fight to the reactions to Alec Baldwin’s fall from, well, not exactly grace. One is to recoil with horror at the accident and assert that this is a time when we should offer our thoughts and prayers for the victims and for Baldwin, who one would hope is devastated by what he has done. Nice people tend to have this reaction, those who want to live in a more genteel world than we do. I sympathize, in that I would like to live in such a world. I would also like a unicorn pony.

Then there was the opposite reaction, in which our folks ran up the score, skewering the gun control zealot’s failure to zealously control his gun. This is playing by the new rules of gladiatorial combat in the cultural coliseum. Those burned out on the lies and calumny we are bombarded with daily tend to go this way; they are angry, and they are more than willing to give Alec a good, hard dose of his own medicine. That’s certainly my inclination. A tweet for a tweet, so to speak.

So, I sympathize with both options, and I cannot get upset at people for choosing one over the other. If you want to go gentle, cool, and if you want to go hard, okay. After all, the rules are the rules, and there can only be one set of them. In the world I would want to live in, we would all be at Option A, whispering a silent prayer for the hurting – and I did. But this is not the world we live in, and none of us are under any moral obligation to pretend we do. This is a world where the rule is that you take an opening in the enemy’s line and you drive a couple divisions hard right through it…”

Whatever you do, do it because it’s what you think is right. Don’t be confused, bamboozled, or influenced by the lying, double standard talking heads on cable news.

Progressive Overlords Relish the Opportunity to Purge First Responders Who Refuse to Bow the Knee

Kenneth Clark has thoughts in 1969 that seem relevant to today’s political climate, if not directly to this ugly headline. The clip is just a couple of minutes. Watch.

https://youtu.be/waoEyjE_dtU?start=2760&end=2820&version=3 

UC Berkeley Study Explains Why It’s Wrong to Defend Muslim Women

CDC Plans to ‘Educate and Counsel’ the Unvaccinated

Has any institution fallen farther or faster in reputation and trust than the CDC?

Well okay, the FBI.

Yeah, DOJ.

Sure, NIH.

Alright, the military.

Oh, forget it!

Stacey Abrams Is Still the Worst Fake Governor in America

“…Any kind of election integrity measure that is supported by the GOP is called “restrictive.” They also have an ongoing false story about Republicans not wanting minorities to vote. On and on the prevarication goes, and they’ve told the lies so often now that they probably believe them.

It is, of course, rich to hear any Democrat accuse people of trying to interfere with elections in the United States. They’re the ones who are behind most “irregularities” we see. Everything with them is projection.

One of the most infamous big liars is Stacey Abrams from Georgia, who is still flapping her gums about having been the real winner of Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial election. That’s based entirely on her lunatic opinion and not on any objective evidence. Almost three years after that election, Abrams and other Democrats are still lying to the American public about what happened.

A.J. wrote a story over the weekend about the latest prominent Dem to spin the tale:

Two left-wing conspiracy theorists stood on stage in a Virginia college town Sunday, spreading fear and misinformation to gullible attendees.

For some unbeknownst reason, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe claimed that radical conspiracist Stacey Abrams should be Georgia’s governor, accusing current Gov. Brian Kemp of disenfranchising Peach State voters during the 2018 election.

The Democrat nominee espoused debunked claims at an event in Charlottesville, saying Abrams “would be the governor of Georgia today had the governor of Georgia not disenfranchised 1.4 million Georgia voters before the election.”

“That’s what happened to Stacey Abrams. They took the votes away,” he added.

Last week, McAuliffe proudly nodded along as Abrams — who literally believes she’s entitled to lead Georgia — repeated her lies and conspiracies about the 2018 race she lost to Kemp.

McAuliffe is not only a former governor but the former head of the Democratic National Committee as well. The election lies frequently come from the upper echelon of the Democratic Party. McAuliffe’s relationship with the truth has never been the strongest, so it’s not surprising that he’s on the Abrams train.

It’s just really irritating.

The Democrats have been whining about Donald Trump casting doubt on last year’s election, feigning shock that anyone would call into question the results. In reality, they’ve been doing just that for all of the 21st century, beginning with the 2000 presidential election. Democrats spent years insisting that Al Gore really won that one. They got so comfortable with the lie that they’ve kept it at the ready to be used whenever one of their smug, entitled candidates loses…”

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1450945454598934532

Epic Fail: Vaccination Rates Now Lower Than When Biden Took Office

I&I Editorial:

“…President Joe Biden continues to insist that his vaccine mandates have been a roaring success. The truth is far different. In fact, the only thing the mandate seems to have increased is the labor shortage and supply-chain crisis.

“It’s working. We’re making progress,” Biden said recently, pointing to the fact that daily cases had declined 47% and hospitalizations were down 38% in the previous month and a half.

Somehow, the army of media fact-checkers failed to notice that Biden was, shall we say, misleading the public.

First, Biden’s employer mandates still haven’t taken effect, since the federal rules governing companies with more than 100 workers have yet to be released. Biden’s mandate covering federal contractors doesn’t take effect until Dec. 8.

Second, the decline in new COVID cases started at the end of August, nearly two weeks before Biden’s Sept. 9 pronouncement, and hospitalizations and deaths have followed suit, as expected.

This bell curve pattern is the same thing COVID has demonstrated in the past – before vaccines were available or were widespread. Last winter, for example, new COVID cases peaked at the start of January and then plunged, at a time when a comparatively tiny fraction of the public was vaccinated.

The other inconvenient truth for Biden is that vaccination rates are no guarantee that COVID rates will decline. The United Kingdom, to cite on example, is right now experiencing a surge in COVID cases, even though 73% of its population is either fully or partially vaccinated.

In contrast, new COVID cases have been steadily falling in Mexico in recent weeks, where only 40% of the population is fully vaccinated and another 14% partially so.

We’ve pointed out in this space before how most of the states in the U.S. that had been seeing rising COVID cases in previous weeks also had among the highest vaccination rates.

But the bigger news is that, for all Biden’s browbeating and dictatorial threats, daily vaccination rates haven’t budged. In fact, they are below where they were on Sept. 3, six days before he made his pronouncement.

And while daily vaccinations did climb for a brief period after his mandate speech, they fell again and are now consistently lower than they were on the day Biden was sworn in. See the chart below.

Whatever Biden had hoped to achieve, he’s failed to persuade those who don’t want or don’t need the vaccine to get a shot.

While there’s no evidence that his call for mandates has accelerated vaccination rates, it appears that Biden’s dictates are contributing to the labor shortages – including in hospitals – that are plaguing the economy, disrupting supply chains, and pushing up prices.

Eric Hoplin, president and CEO of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, warned in a letter to Biden last week that unless the president delays or loosens his mandate covering federal contractors, “thousands of valued employees will be forced out of their jobs shortly before the holidays, the already compromised supply chain will be under added pressure during the busiest time of the year.” The result, he said “could be nothing short of catastrophic.”

Also last week, the Federal Reserve “beige book” said that “Firms reported high turnover, as workers left for other jobs or retired. Child-care issues and vaccine mandates were widely cited as contributing to the problem, along with COVID-related absences.”

A poll by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 90% of its members say it will be difficult to implement Biden’s mandate.

“Organizations are concerned about the challenges to implementing the new vaccine mandate during a time when there is a talent shortage in many industries,” said Trent Burner, SHRM’s vice president of research. “The majority of organizations say mandating the vaccine will impact their organization’s recruitment, retention, morale and engagement, and business operations.”

Meanwhile, there is a steady stream of stories about workers quitting or getting fired for not complying with various vaccine dictates — from nurses, to firefighters, to employees at Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab.

For Biden to call the results of his authoritarian vaccine mandates a success shows just how dangerously out of touch he is with reality…”

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Spotted in Arlington 😬 pic.twitter.com/Br4B4AKxQQ

— Team Youngkin – Spirit of Virginia (@TeamYoungkin) October 24, 2021

HALL OF FAME MEDIA CORRECTION: WAPO ‘FORCED TO ADMIT THEY LIED’ AFTER PRETENDING ‘F*CK JOE BIDEN’ CHANT WAS ‘LET’S GO, BRANDON’

Facebook employees tried to suppress conservative news outlets, report shows

“…Facebook’s bias is showing — again.

The tech giant’s employees have consistently pushed to suppress or de-platform right-wing outlets such as Breitbart, despite objections from managers trying to avoid political blowback, a scathing report by the Wall Street Journal revealed…”

FUCK JOE BIDEN FROM @OldRowOleMiss pic.twitter.com/HLY5TNpJLu

— Old Row (@OldRowViral) October 24, 2021

Republican member of congress ending his floor speech Thursday with “let’s go Brandon,” the right wing euphemism for “fuck joe biden” pic.twitter.com/i9IvuuEfbu

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) October 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1451898086532554757

https://twitter.com/Compass1768/status/1450230561520369666

Do you want to stop this bullshit before everyone goes broke?

1. Reinstate the fucking pipelines
2. Finish the fucking wall
3. Fire that fucking dummy Buttigieg
4. Stop forcing a fucking vaccine on people that don't want it.
5. Fuck Joe Biden

It's not that fucking hard!

— The Nasty Italian🍷🇺🇸 🇮🇹 (@sayitnspinit) October 22, 2021

and now Fox DOESN'T mute when Red Sox fans do a "FUCK JOE BIDEN" chant pic.twitter.com/QPSA4X4492

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 20, 2021

They Spelled It Out With Heavy Equipment#FJB #FuckJoeBiden #LetsGoBrandon pic.twitter.com/n8mEoeppnu

— ☰Kermit In Progress☰ (@Kermit_Progress) October 24, 2021

Are you kidding me?? #FuckJoeBiden pic.twitter.com/Aybw6VyPhl

— Bobbie L. Washington (@ScreamingBear) October 18, 2021

https://twitter.com/DeStralendeSter/status/1451225244405059588