Covid is politics. Dirty Democrat politics.

Climate change “may have played a key role” in coronavirus pandemic, study says

What cockamamie nonsense. The media will beat this drum endlessly. Half the country will believe it.

Some empirical data on mask use in Japan

Hat tip to Steven Hayward

Then of course, there’s this little piece of crazy:

Yeah, masks work alright. Shove it up your ass you pompous Karen jerk.

Conrad Black on the nascent Biden Administration and the sycophantic media

Biden’s Rapidly Deflating Honeymoon Balloon

Biden and his media supporters will see the prohibition they have imposed on any questioning of the election result blow up in their faces.

“…Ater just two weeks, a few political realities are starting to encroach upon the Biden fairyland, whose nativity was heralded in Fox News’ Trump-hater Chris Wallace’s assertion that Biden’s inaugural address was the best in over 60 years.

After all the tear-jerking promises to emancipate Central American waifs from the “Auschwitz-like” cages, as they were called in Pelosi-speak (despite the fact that President Obama set them up), and the compassion-signaling to the open borders advocates, Biden punted. He reopened a “cage” claiming to emancipate the country from the “moral shame” of his predecessor. He is waiting for the reunification of children “ripped out of the arms” of migrant families, although he knows many of the children were brought in as public relations props by people to whom they are not related; in any case, they were abandoned.

It will be ahistorical if a substantial number of these youngsters are actually reclaimed by their migrant traveling companions, long since vanished in the anonymous vastness of America’s “sanctuary cities.” Construction of the southern border wall has been suspended amidst the constant crescendo of strictures against Trump evil (which reduced illegal entries by 90 percent), as teeming numbers of eager migrants assemble on the southern side of the wall, prepared to assert the apparent birthright of virtually every Latin American to enter the United States and remain here, with no commitment to assimilate to American society, or seek citizenship (now more of a nuisance than a reward to many)…

…The reply of Trump’s counsel to the impeachment charge on Tuesday was a withering dismissal of trying to remove from office someone who does not hold that office, a textual reminder that he did not incite violence, that the disgraceful action at the Capitol was not encouraged by him and was not an “insurrection,” and that he was only exercising his First Amendment right:

to express his belief that the election results were suspect, since with very few exceptions, under the convenient guise of COVID-19 pandemic ‘safeguards,’ state election laws and procedures were changed by local politicians or judges without the necessary approvals from state legislatures. Insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable jurist could conclude that the 45th president’s statements were accurate or not, and he therefore denies that they were false. Like all Americans, the 45th president is protected by the First Amendment . . . If the First Amendment protected only speech the government deemed popular in current American culture, it would be no protection at all.

In allowing the impeachment of Trump to proceed, Biden is placing front and center in the political arena the outright assertion that his election was illegitimate, which Biden’s supporters in Congress and the totalitarian media have tried to expunge and cancel…”

Worth clicking over for the whole thing

Democrats. This is who they are…

House Judiciary Committee rejects proposal to recite pledge of allegiance at beginning of meetings

Stupid. It’s a small thing, but it is packed with meaning. Here’s what modern Democrats have forgot or rejected:

Our government thinks you are stupid and you won’t notice…

Transparency thwarted? Two weeks after Trump declassified Russia memos, most aren’t released

Remaining documents illuminate handling instructions for informants Steele and Halper, State Department’s role in false narrative.

“…More than two weeks after Donald Trump officially declassified the evidence, the vast majority of documents detailing FBI and Justice Department failures in the now-discredited Russia collusion investigation remain out of public view in a delay that has thwarted the former president’s goal of sweeping transparency.

Multiple officials tell Just the News that the documents yet to be released include:

    • less redacted versions of the flawed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants that allowed the FBI to target former Trump adviser Carter Page and the Trump campaign for a full year without producing any evidence of wrongdoing.
    • the confidential human source handling documents for informant Stefan Halper showing the specific requests the FBI gave to Halper to spy on Trump campaign officials and the cover story used to justify his contacts with Trump officials during the election.
    • the confidential human source handling documents for informant Christopher Steele, including what he told the FBI at his first meeting on July 5, 2016, when he first approached agents about the dossier.
    • a spreadsheet used to assess the many allegations Steele provided in his infamous dossier showing most were uncorroborated, debunked or traced to open-source Internet rumors or unreliable sources.
    • hundreds of digital messages exchanged on the FBI’s internal chat network among the most senior officials in the Crossfire Hurricane probe, including fired Director James Comey, fired Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired lead agent Peter Strzok, former bureau lawyer Lisa Page and others…”

Steve Inman on AOC. Runs about 10 seconds.

AOC so stunning. So brave.

https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1357557782971523074

Hat tip to Kane

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