Author: Doug Santo

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Germany’s largest newspaper apologizes for uncritically trumpeting government line on Covid

Some recognition of the biased, one-sided disgrace that western media has become

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New York Covid dictator Governor Cuomo outed as serial sexual harasser

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I can’t attest to this because I haven’t watched a minute of the Olympic Games. I am happy that this appears to be the case…

Wokesters’ Nightmare: Almost all of the Olympic medal winners are patriots

“…The U.S. flag wavers outnumber the U.S. flag haters by a truly huge margin on the Olympic podiums…”

Sports is dead. Maybe it can make a comeback, but it’ll take some convincing.

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Victoria’s Secret, the type case of woke corporate stupidity…

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On the unwisdom of our ruling elite (Trump’s great power is to cause these frauds to self-identify)

I excerpted quite a bit, but it is worth your time to click over and read it all.

The Problem With Peggy

Conrad Black:

“…Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday is a very clear exposé of the profound political division in America today. Her position is that Donald Trump is a deadly combination of crazy, dishonest, and incompetent, that there can be no possible question that he was and is unsuited to be president, and that he was unquestionably honestly defeated in the presidential election. More, he deliberately incited a violent assault upon the U.S. Capitol on January 6, his party is afraid of him even though his support is thin and diminishing, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s investigation into the events of January 6 must be pursued with energy and thoroughness, for the chief purpose of ensuring that Trump never returns to public office.

This is the epiphany of the comparatively civilized Trump-hater and it is almost entirely false.

At no point does Noonan dispute the accomplishments of the Trump Administration, and I do not recall that she has ever disputed them. The near elimination of illegal immigration and of unemployment and the sharply rising incomes in low-income ethnic minority areas, reduced taxes, the identification in sober terms of the Chinese challenge, the elimination of oil imports, the extermination of ISIS, shaping up of NATO, the Abraham Accords in the Middle East, and the pressure on Iran and de-escalation of the confrontation with North Korea; to the best of my recollection as a regular reader of hers, Noonan never disputed any of this.

And yet previously she has compared Trumpism to metastatic cancer. This and similarly extreme strictures establish her as one of the most perfervid of the respectable Trump haters

President Trump’s stylistic infelicities grated on all those who were not so disgusted with the former Bush-Clinton-Obama bipartisan triarchy that they found Trump’s rollicking style a refreshing change from the malapropisms of the Bushes, the sleaze of the Clintons, and the somewhat anti-American flippancy of Obama. An undoubted majority of Americans approved of Trump’s policies but enough of them were so appalled by his public personality that an apparent bare majority of Americans rejected him at the last election.

But Noonan knows as well as anyone that there is real doubt about the integrity of voting and the fairness of the vote-counting system in key parts of six swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. On the pretext of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 million ballots were mailed or dropped with seriously inadequate or no verification; millions of these were “harvested,” meaning they were collected and submitted by people other than the voters themselves. Election Day was extended to weeks. The vote-counting procedures were absurdly inadequate in a number of key polling places. In many cases, the changes to the electoral rules in these states were taken by the executive or by courts and not by the state legislatures to whom the Constitution entrusts such changes.

Noonan also knows as well as anyone else that the judiciary ducked crucial legal questions. There were 18 lawsuits on matters of the integrity of the election itself plus the action of the attorney general of Texas supported by 18 other states and for process reasons, some of them spurious, none of these lawsuits was tried on the merits.

Instead the entire national political and social media, unable to face the prospect of an overturned election, particularly one in which Donald Trump would be the beneficiary, locked arms and declared that the election result had been duly judged in peerless impartiality and the apparent result had been sustained. For good measure, a great deal of gratuitous obloquy was disgorged onto Trump’s admittedly somewhat undermanned and unserious legal team.

In fact, it is an election whose genuine result is more open to question than any in American history except that of Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden in 1876, which was resolved by a commission and by agreement between the candidates, both men of unquestioned stature and integrity…

…The real problem for Noonan is that she begins to realize Trump’s support is not fading; the Republican Party is his party now, and she and the other NeverTrumpers have lost everything: they were useful idiots for the Democrats and must now wear their responsibility for the probably dishonest election of the most incompetent administration in American history…”

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Headline of the day – morning edition

High Noon at the Delta Variant Panic Porn Corral

Of course, as soon as you think you’ve spotted the lollapalooza of the day, another one crops up. The liberals in California are working overtime to plumb new depths of stupid:

California’s Liberal Utopia: Blackouts, Bacon Shortages, and Maxi Pads for Boys

Here are some additional gems:

Liberals Still Sacrificing the Safety of Law-Abiding Black Americans to Appease Criminals

If They Can Make You Believe a Big Strong Man Belongs in the Women’s Division, They Can Make You Believe Anything

From the “when you can’t convince them, force them file”:

An Epidemic of Mandatory

And finally:

Kamala Harris’s Unpopularity Is Truly Historic

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Hospital workers, doctors, and nurses protest against mandatory vaccinations

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I’m so old I can remember a few short weeks ago when Democrats, media, and social media told us this was wacky conspiracy theory and censored you for saying it.

Former National Intelligence Director Says ‘Every Piece Of Evidence’ Proves COVID-19 Leaked From Wuhan Lab.

“…Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe asserted that “every piece of evidence” he witnessed – including the “most sensitive intelligence” – demonstrates that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

While arguing that the Chinese Communist Party shouldn’t be allowed to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in a Fox News op-ed, Ratcliffe emphasized how he based his theories on COVID-19’s origins off of the “most sensitive intelligence” while serving as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI):

I had access to all of the U.S. government’s most sensitive intelligence related to the pandemic. My informed opinion is that the lab leak theory isn’t just a “possibility,” at the very least it is more like a probability, if not very close to a certainty. 

“More than 18 months after the virus first leaked into the world, I still have not seen a single shred of scientific evidence or intelligence that the virus outbreak was a naturally occurring “spillover” that jumped from an animal to a human,” he adds while rebuking the Chinese Communist Party and American scientific establishment-approved “lab leak” theory.

Ratcliffe also repeatedly slams the regime’s robust cover-up:

Conversely, although the Chinese Communist Party has gone to great lengths to ensure there is no “smoking gun,” every piece of evidence I have seen points to the pandemic’s origin being a leak out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“Quite simply, the lab leak theory is the only one supported by science, intelligence and common sense,” he summarizes…”

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Complications of Democrat messaging on Covid

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll. Who is doing some great work.

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“…many of the face cloth coverings that people wear are not very effective in reducing any of the virus movement in or out…”

Top Biden scientist admits — ‘Cloth masks do absolutely nothing’

Hat tip to Kane

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There appears to be a Twitter approved (?) fake anecdote post on Covid making the rounds, actually several fake posts, and it has been going for a few days at least.

No censorship on these obviously fake anecdotes apparently because Twitter approves of the message? One of those fake but accurate things.

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Not the primary reason, but a significant part of the Democrats response to Covid…

Washington, DC, murders surpass coronavirus deaths in July by nearly 3-to-1 ratio

Lawlessness and criminality are shaping up as a major election issue in 2022. Covid is a convenient foil to change the subject and to blame white nationalist, racist, Trump supporting Republicans for something, anything, to distract from the utter failure of many Democrat cities, and Democrat policing policies.

Doug Santo