Author: Doug Santo

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I’m so old I can remember when green idiots were screaming “save the whales.” Whales are so yesterday. Like women.

 The Wind Industry Is Killing Whales

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McConnell has got to go. He is out of touch with Republican voters…

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Kim Strassel — McConnell is working with Schumer to help Zelensky

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Nearly 3/4 Republicans want McConnell out of Senate leadership: poll

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Trump in Iowa…

https://twitter.com/FFT1776/status/1700920916689990011

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Democrat border policies have consequences. Democrats and their garbage media allies are doing their best to hide it…

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Javier Milei

Holy cow!

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Age onset cognitive decline. A type case…

Preselected reporters, five. Did they submit questions prior to the press conference?

Confusion.

Distraction.

Confusion and delusion.

‘He’s a lying, dog-faced pony soldier!’

Staff cuts the old codger short. Plays loud elevator music.

And there he goes. That is the President of the United States. He wants four more years.

 

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Kennedy Will Not Stop Listing Reversals Of Judicial Nom’s Decisions To Her Face. Biden’s judicial nominees are ideologues and poor judges.

Cruz rips this judge, Karoline Mehalchick.

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The biggest scientific hoax of my lifetime…

“…Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. They… ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial… There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent….”

The ‘Climate Emergency’ Is a Hoax

    • More than 1,600 scientists, including two Nobel laureates, have signed a declaration saying that “There is no climate emergency.” The declaration is unlikely to get any attention from the mainstream media, unfortunately, but it is important for people to know about: the mass climate hysteria and the destruction of the US economy in the name of climate change need to stop.
    • “Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” states the declaration signed by the 1,609 scientists, including Nobel laureates John F. Clauser from the US and Ivar Giaever from Norway/US.
    • “Climate policy relies on inadequate models
      Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. They… ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial… There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.” — 1,609 scientists, There is no Climate Emergency, clintel.org.
    • “I was taught that you tell the whole truth [as a scientist]….” Koonin said. He noted as well the immorality of asking the developing world to cut down emissions, when so many do not even have access to electricity and the immorality of scaring the younger generations…. — Steven E. Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy; current professor at New York University, fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters. — Hoover Institution, August 15, 2023.
    • Of course it would be helpful to research what can be done to relieve the problems brought about by man, such as the “hole in the ozone layer,” which is now closing, but climate change is not an apocalyptic emergency and needs to be attended to without bringing devastation to the hundreds of millions of people already in extreme poverty.
    • The Biden administration, however, appears not to be concerned about the widespread poverty and massive starvation that will be caused by the unavailability of cheap and reliable energy in underdeveloped countries, or the inflation caused by the skyrocketing prices that are crushing Americans “barely able to afford one meal a day”.
    • These are man-made problems, created by importing expensive (nearing $100 a barrel again) — often dirtier — oil from adversaries of the United States, such as Russia and Venezuela, instead of extracting it far less expensively at home.
    • The Biden administration also does not seem concerned that it is killing wildlife, sea life and the fishing industry by installing offshore wind turbines along the Atlantic seaboard, or that mandating electric vehicles will throw virtually the entire auto maintenance industry out of work (EVs do not need routine maintenance), or that lithium batteries not only explode but cost thousands of dollars to replace. The administration even wants military equipment, such as tanks, to be electric, as if there were charging stations in the middle of foreign deserts in the event of a conflict. Moreover, according to NBC News, volcanoes, unimpressed with executive orders, “Dwarf Humans for CO2 Emissions.”
    • The Biden administration does not even bother to act on its own climate findings: In March, the White House released a report about the impact of climate change on the US economy. “Its findings undermine any claims of an ongoing climate crisis or imminent catastrophe” Koonin wrote in July. “The report’s authors should be commended for honestly delivering likely unwelcome messages…. Exaggerating the magnitude, urgency and certainty of the climate threat encourages ill-considered policies that could be more disruptive and expensive than any change in the climate itself.” — Steven E. Koonin, Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2023.
    • Never mind that much of climate change is apparently caused by sun flares, about which we can do nothing, and which, unlike commercial industries, do not offer grants; or that major wildfires are, ironically, exacerbated by “environmentalists” for refusing to let tinderbox brush be cleared lest the creatures there be disturbed other than by a wildfire.
    • Climate expert Bjørn Lomborg suggests that the trillions of dollars needed to address climate change might be put to better use:
    • “This isn’t an argument to do nothing but just to be smarter. To ensure we can transition from fossil fuels, we need to ramp up research and development to innovate down the price of green energy. We should invest across all options including fusion, fission, storage, biofuel and other sources.”
    • “Only when green energy is cheaper than fossil fuels will the world be able and willing to make the transition. Otherwise, today’s energy prices are just a taste of things to come.”
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The race and sex obsessed California Democrats. They are miserable, awful people determined to make your life as unhappy as theirs…

California Law to Track Race, Sexual Interests of Business Owners

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Trump should find a place for RFK Jr. in his next administration. The guy is a patriotic American who tells the truth (mostly)…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Biden Gaslighting Voters About The Economy, “They Are Not Seeing Prosperity In Their Lives”

Related. “…Wiping out the small farmers and giving control of food production to corporations is not in the interest of humanity….”:

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The federal bureaucracy is a Democrat bureaucracy that promotes and protects Democrats…

National Archives goes woke, embraces leftist DEI and equity training at taxpayer expense

It also targets and persecutes Republicans.

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Uniparty Republicans have thoroughly disgraced themselves…

Mixed message? Bush foundation chief who organized unity letter previously leaked Steele dossier

“…The letter champions American unity in supporting democracy while the Steele dossier was used to undermine the 2016 presidential election…”

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Democrat logic…

https://twitter.com/FreexitisNOW/status/1700130035385163993

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How bad are Biden border policies and how bad are local Democrat run cities dealing with them? Watch.

This guy is a real journalist.

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Ruined by weak-minded lefty cult members: “But that is no longer the role of scientists. They have assumed the role of oracles whose job it is to act as con men, backing up the claims of the “right” people.”

Cochrane Review the latest scientific institution ruined by COVID ideology

“…A few months back a controversy burst onto the scene with the now infamous Cochrane Review analysis that demonstrated that masking is useless as a population-level non-pharmaceutical intervention to address the COVID pandemic. There simply is no evidence that masking reduces the burden of disease and plenty of evidence that they don’t in large populations.

When the review dropped it caused quite a stir for the most obvious of reasons: it popped a bubble that should never have been allowed to inflate. It has been well known for a century that whatever their virtues, masks simply do not work to stop the spread of respiratory viruses in large groups over any extended period of time. This was a consensus position–one that Anthony Fauci himself endorsed before COVID changed the messaging suddenly.

Cochrane Review is widely held as a gold standard for medical information, and its findings are based upon meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials done by researchers across the world. These reviews do not rely on one study but on tens or hundreds using different methods in different places, with the goal of sorting out the signal from the noise that will always be found in any particular study.

When the analysis dropped the world seemed to explode. To have Cochrane Review debunk the mask narrative was unacceptable, and like a ton of bricks, the criticism poured in.

The editor apparently panicked. A quick addendum was attached to the analysis suggesting that it was not dispositive–and that addendum has been used ever since to claim that the review was flawed or even retracted. That is not and never was the case, and it is clear that the editor simply buckled to criticism.

Paul Thacker has done a deep dive into what happened and why, and the story is dispiriting. A study that was based upon extensive analysis, peer-reviewed, and based on the best evidence available was undermined by an editor with no relevant experience in a matter of hours, for the simple reason that she was scared by criticism from news organizations such as the New York Times…

…Cochrane’s bending the knee to the mask mob has created a crisis of confidence in the research world. Not only do medical professionals rely on Cochrane to be utterly dedicated to the evidence above all else, but the scientists involved in producing the research can’t have a politically-motivated editor simply wiping out their research based on a hasty political decision driven by an inquiry from a newspaper.

Many people have been led to believe that the Cochrane study has been “debunked” or “retracted,” but neither is the case. The sole purpose of the note attached to the study is to create the impression that it has been retracted while it has not. The research stands; the political impression is the opposite, as intended.

To give you an idea how slapdash the editor’s response was, consider this: Soares-Weiser got an email from the New York Times and hastily responded, undermining the scientists–without even making an attempt to speak with them. She implied that the study was wrong without even seeking comment from the people who did the study, on a subject with which she was utterly unfamiliar.

This is science in the modern world.

Now Cochrane is spending its rather limited resources on crisis consultants whose job it is to bail the Editor out of the mess she created.

This is another example of how scientific institutions have been destroying themselves. The narrative requires that mask mandates work; the reality is that they don’t. In a rational world, scientists would simply put out the evidence and let the political actors do their thing. They shouldn’t be activists for or against masks, but rather providers of evidence.

But that is no longer the role of scientists. They have assumed the role of oracles whose job it is to act as con men, backing up the claims of the “right” people.

This works in the short term–most people fall in line, believing that the scientists are non-partisan truth-tellers–and destroys scientific credibility in the long run. People catch on to the con.

This is a disaster. We need unbiased evidence, even if it is never perfect, and we need to know that there are people we can trust.

Now we have neither.

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Two systems of justice. Democrats have politicized and corrupted our justice system…

Democrat gets just 5 years in prison for killing teenage Trump supporter

Doug Santo