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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

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Failure is a choice that many liberals make…

Nike officially abandons efforts to reopen its Northeast Portland Community Store

“…The store has been closed since last year due to theft problems. At one point, Nike requested off-duty police officers provide security, but the mayor said no…”

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It seems that a fundamental characteristic of liberals is a complete lack of self awareness…

David Corn: Trump Wants To Take Control Of The Justice System, Use Shock Troops To Prosecute Enemies

Isn’t that what liberals are doing to Trump right now?

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It looks like it was all fabricated bullshit with no evidence. Similar to the charges against Trump.

Impeachment Bombshell: Key witness in Texas trial says he had no evidence of Paxton crime

It is hard to believe that Texas Republicans would allow this travesty to go forward.

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When Democrats reject their own it can be brutal…

It’s Time For Biden To Leave The Stage

“…Halfway through a ceremony this past week, without saying anything, the president just wandered off the stage through the crowd to somewhat stunned silence. The same thing happened in an MSNBC interview on live television not so long ago. He just stood up stiffly — and meandered away.

Every time you see Biden walk, he seems, well, in his eighties: he’s slow, careful, stilted. Every time you hear him speak, he’s also just a little off, eyes now barely visible in the ancient, botoxed, fillered face, words often slurred, a ghostly white mane peeking over his collar in the back, occasionally rallying to the point, or strangely loud-whispering. My old friend Joe Klein wrote this week:

He seemed so old. His eyes were slits, he turned the pages of his very prepared remarks haltingly. He slurred his words, slightly. His physical condition overwhelmed the message. He assayed passion in a few closing sentences about the racist murders in Jacksonville, but it wasn’t passion that came across — it was the attempt to convey passion.

This is the man the Democratic Party says will be fully able to function as president for five more years through the age of 86. No one rooted in human reality believes it, or should believe it…”

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Trump in South Dakota…

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I like Kristi Noem. I think she has cabinet level talent. I’m not sure she is the best choice for V.P.

Noem endorses Trump at South Dakota rally amid VP speculation

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Democrat policies cause a rise in shootings and murder, Democrat governor illegally punishes law abiding citizens. Stupidity. Bad judgement, bad decisions, bad policies, bad government.

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This is how you  get tyranny:

The underlying truth of the second amendment and of power-hungry politicians everywhere:

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Related. Bernalillo County Sheriff won’t comply with local gun ban:

Related. Albuquerque Police Chief tells his officers somebody else will enforce the governor’s order:

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New Mexico state reps call for impeachment of governor over firearms suspension in Albuquerque

Related. When you’ve lost wackadoodle Ted Lieu, you’re lost:

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New Mexico’s public health emergency, suspension of gun rights condemned on the left and right

The bone-headed stupidity of punishing law-abiding citizens for criminal activity for which they had no connection is highlighted here. Also highlighted, a Democrat petty tyrant who believes she can suspend the rights of citizens guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States because she declares an emergency.  Many Democrats agree with this, until the rights suspended are the rights they cherish.

Stupid. We live in the age of absurd stupidity.

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Jerks…

After all those rumours, the Sussexes are separating… their brands! ALISON BOSHOFF reveals how Meghan wants to escape Harry’s victim narrative and ‘lead with love’, while he wants to be seen as a global philanthropist

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The old Democrat principle of “fail up,” or satire. Some of both?

Lori Lightfoot To Teach Class At Harvard On How To Fail Utterly At Your Job And Still Get To Teach Class At Harvard

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Pence drifts further away from Republican voters. Sad and a little pathetic.

Mike Pence: Trump, GOP Populists Abandoning Conservative Values

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Mike Pence Grows More Unpopular Among GOP Electorate

He’s done this entirely himself.

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey: “The First Amendment remains intact”

Appeals court upholds decision barring Biden admin from colluding with Big Tech to censor

“…The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court decision in Missouri v. Biden barring the federal government from working with social media companies to remove First Amendment-protected content.

“Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech,” the decision reads. “That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social-media companies’ decision-making process.”…”

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Our justice system is politicized and corrupt. Democrat politicians and bureaucrats did this. Democrats.

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The greatest scientific hoax of my lifetime…

Greenpeace Co-Founder: I Firmly Believe The Future Will Show Hysteria Over Climate Change Was A Complete Fabrication

Doug Santo