Month: October 2021

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German virtue signalers show their yellow badges of Covid. I encourage these jerkoffs to shove their badges where the sun don’t shine.

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1445670541159907334

Somehow yellow stars come to mind.

Are these people stupid? Why yes, yes they are.

It wasn’t that long ago that people in German concentration camps had to display their badges so that guards in the Third Reich could distinguish them.

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More Americans died of Covid this year than all of 2020

Covid is a disease that affects the elderly and the infirmed. Our national response is one of the biggest government mistakes in my adult life. Even now, as data and information on the disease becomes available and shows how wrong our response was, government officials refuse to accept the new data or change their policies. Covid is politics. Policy is politics. Science has nothing or very little to do with it.

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The wacky left has captured our education system and destroyed it. Now they won’t let go as parents attempt to remove them.

Victory For Parents As Judge Sides With Loudoun Parents, Against Prosecutor On School Board Recall

Luke Rosiak:

“…A judge on Tuesday thwarted a far-left prosecutor who likely would have blocked citizens from recalling a Loudoun County school board member, ruling that the process of recalling Beth Barts, who was censured for repeatedly attacking parents, can proceed under a special prosecutor instead.

After Barts was stripped of her committee duties following partisan activism that frequently took the form of attacking parents, she summoned a mob of vigilantes in an “anti-racist” Facebook group who threatened to “hack” opinionated parents, with a sheriff’s investigation concluding that the parents were largely put in the crosshairs for questioning the extended school closures pushed by teachers unions.

The Facebook group included several elected officials — including the county’s top elected prosecutor, Buta Biberaj. In Virginia, elected officials cannot be recalled by getting a certain number of signatures from voters; rather, meeting that threshold triggers a trial in which a prosecutor argues to a judge that the elected official has taken actions that warrant removal, including misuse of office, neglect of duty, and incompetence.

Biberaj did not offer to recuse herself despite the apparent conflict of interest, which included participating in the Facebook group and tweeting a letter to the editor dismissing parents who sought a school board recall as rabble-rousers.

Biberaj won election in 2019 by a one percent margin after receiving more than $800,000 in outside help from George Soros. Her opponent, an incumbent Republican prosecutor, spent $150,000.

In neighboring Fairfax last month, another progressive prosecutor decided to simply drop a recall case against a school board member despite citizens meeting the threshold, without disclosing his apparent conflicts of interest to the judge.

Ian Prior, executive director of a group called Fight For Schools that helped gather recall signatures against Barts, told The Daily Wire that a judge heard three motions Tuesday and ruled in favor of parents in all of them.

“Beth Barts was trying to dismiss the petitions claiming the affidavit portion of it was invalid. Fight For Schools had a motion to intervene in the case, and a motion to dismiss Buta Biberaj and appoint a special nonpartisan prosecutor. We won on all motions,” he said. “The judge asked for about a week to appoint a special prosecutor, then we move forward into the next phase of discovery and investigation, with Fight for Schools as an intervenor in the case.”

About 25 parents supporting the recall were in the courtroom, he said, while Biberaj appeared in person to argue against the ability of the parents’ group to become a full participant in the case.

Biberaj did not immediately return a request for comment.

The victory for parents against a justice system that seems to be working against them comes just after the National School Boards Association likened parents angry about school failures to domestic terrorists, and Attorney General Merrick Garland offered assistance.

It also comes days after Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Terry McAuliffe, repeatedly said he does not think parents should be telling schools what to teach…”

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https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1445861357845368834

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Biden’s approval plunges to 38%. Voters say “not competent.”

Biden falls to 38%, ‘not competent,’ ‘honest’

“…In the worst showing since becoming president, President Joe Biden’s approval has fallen to its lowest ever, and the public no longer feels his team is competent, honest, or led well.

As Biden struggles to recover from the bungled Afghan withdrawal and an interparty feud over his spending and tax agenda, his approval has sunk to just 38% in the latest Quinnipiac University Poll. A majority, 53%, disapprove.

The survey follows a similar pattern in other polls, notably Gallup, that recently had his approval at a poor 43%.

While partisanship remains as strong as it was during the Trump era, independents are weighing in heavily against Biden. By nearly 2-1, independents disapprove of Biden, 60%-32%.

Of special note in the new survey, the public appears to have lost faith in Biden’s abilities. According to the survey:

    • More than half say 55%-42% said the Biden administration is not competent in running the government.
    • Fifty percent said Biden is not honest, while 44% said he is.
    • Forty-one percent said he has “good leadership,” while 56% said he doesn’t.
    • Fifty-five percent disapprove of his handling of the economy.
    • Fifty-eight percent disapprove of his job as commander in chief.
    • Sixty-seven percent said he’s wrong on immigration and border issues…”
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Senator Hawley questions Deputy AG on Biden Admin threat against parents who reject CRT

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ESPN anchor sacked after questioning Obama’s “blackness”

Bi-racial ESPN anchor Sage Steele is taken off air after questioning why Obama identifies as black when ‘he was raised by white mom’, calling vaccine mandates ‘sick’ and saying female reporters ‘know what they doing’ when they wear sexy outfits

    • Sage Steele has taken a break from TV after she made controversial comments about race, sexism and coronavirus protocols during interview with Jay Cutler
    • Steele called ESPN’s vaccine mandate ‘sick,’ commented on Obama’a blackness and accused female journalists of welcoming harassment
    • She was placed on a break and will not take part in the network’s espnW summit, which focuses on women in sports
    • Her break was attributed to her controversial comments, however a source familiar with the situation also claims Steele tested positive for COVID
    • She is expected to return to full duty at ESPN next week
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It is possible that lockdown will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in modern history

Covid-19 Lockdown Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature

Douglas W. Allen:

Abstract

“…An examination of over 100 Covid-19 studies reveals that many relied on false assumptions that over-estimated the benefits and under-estimated the costs of lockdown. The most recent research has shown that lockdowns have had, at best, a marginal effect on the number of Covid-19 deaths. Generally speaking, the ineffectiveness stemmed from individual changes in behavior: either non-compliance or behavior that mimicked lockdowns. The limited effectiveness of lockdowns explains why, after more than one year, the unconditional cumulative Covid-19 deaths per million is not negatively correlated with the stringency of lockdown across countries. Using a method proposed by Professor Bryan Caplan along with estimates of lockdown benefits based on the econometric evidence, I calculate a number of cost/benefit ratios of lockdowns in terms of life-years saved. Using a mid-point estimate for costs and benefits, the reasonable estimate for Canada is a cost/benefit ratio of 141. It is possible that lockdown will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in modern history…”

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AG Merrick Garland’s Daughter Married to Co-Founder of Education Company Selling Critical Race Theory Resource Material to School Districts

The Attorney General is instructing the FBI to investigate parents who might pose a financial threat to the business of his daughter’s husband.

Sundance has much more at the link.

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Merrick Garland’s focus on school board meetings over violent crime diminishes the department

The Devolution of the DOJ

Washington Free Beacon Editors:

“…Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice has discovered a new group that poses a pressing threat to the country’s safety and wellbeing.

Their potential crimes are heinous: Objecting to the propagation in our schools of critical race theory and anti-white racism.

How deep does this criminal behavior go? We can’t say. Announcing a “partnership among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement to address threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” Garland offers no statistical evidence about the rising threat of infuriated parents. He makes no mention of any arrests. He doesn’t say whether a police department or state anywhere has asked for the federal government’s assistance in stopping “threats against public servants.”

Those are curious omissions, given that the FBI just last week released a trove of crime data detailing information about victims as well as the perpetrators and their motivations. It suggests the so-called threat is either an empty political concoction intended to mollify left-wing activists concerned that parents are wising up or, more troubling, that the Justice Department intends to conflate the protests of concerned parents with criminal behavior.

If Garland has heard that the country’s murder rate last year spiked nearly 30 percent nationwide—the largest one-year increase ever recorded, and presumably a development that falls within the Justice Department’s remit—he is choosing to focus his attention on matters he has deemed more important. To wit: Garland hasn’t sent any letters about assembling a task force to address the fact that this year’s homicide rate is on track to surpass 2020.

Though Garland pledged at his confirmation hearing to “fend off any effort by anyone to make prosecutions or investigations partisan or political in any way,” his letter this week demonstrates the acceleration of the Justice Department’s transformation into an unofficial wing of the Democratic Party.

The country is likely to suffer the consequences for decades to come…”

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New Yorkers reject Covid crazy

Doug Santo