How am I just now seeing this for the first time?! This is awesome👏🏼👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/IZRJgKePsS

— AG 🔥 (@Yolo304741) August 2, 2021

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…”

• •  Fauci: If you don’t wear a mask, you’re encroaching on someone else’s rights by making them vulnerable.
  • Disease Expert Tells CNN: Most Masks Don’t Really Work Against Wuhan Coronavirus.
  • Piers Morgan: When the White House is haranguing America over the Delta wave, selfish Obama’s hypocritical unmasked birthday ball for 500 liberal friends is a terrible example to set — he must cancel it.

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

Related:

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1422344892907393025

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

Hat tip to Kane

WAIT A MINUTE…. What are the ever lovin’ odds???? 🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/IPHdApK6iM

— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) August 1, 2021

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

Related:

Ethics shift: NPR will now let journalists take part in partisan activist demonstrations

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.

This poor girl.

— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) August 2, 2021

Related:

https://twitter.com/EliseiNicole/status/1421315074577338370

Hat tip to Kane

CDC Mask Guidance Assessments Go Under the Microscope and are Found Devoid of Science and Reason

 

Cuomo — ‘Vaccinated only’ should be the new policy for New York

Hat tip to Kane

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After Seven Months, 40 Percent of New York City Educators Aren’t Vaccinated

“…despite the media’s preferred narrative, a significant portion of the remaining unvaccinated are not Trump-voting, MAGA-cap-wearing Republicans but Democrats, independents, or apolitical types. I could not have found a more powerful illustrative set of statistics than the jaw-dropping percentages of New York City employees who are not vaccinated…”

Related:

📉🇺🇸Kamala Harris has become the most unpopular US vice president six months into an administration since at least the 1970s

So how did she get here? And how might she bounce back?

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— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) August 1, 2021

California May Require Public Colleges to Provide Free… Men’s Menstrual Products?

No reason to focus on things like electrical grid, infrastructure maintenance, water supply, etc.

No, men’s menstrual products, that’s what is important to our elected representatives.

You can’t make it up.

Related:

CNN Has a Tortured Coping Session in Attempt to Defend Mayor Bowser From Mask Hypocrisy

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Says We Just Need Two Weeks to Stop the Delta Variant

Related:

China’s Dominant Coal-Fired Solar Panel Industry Belches More Net Carbon Than Oil or Gas

Green business leaders, politicians, and media don’t care how much carbon China belches into the atmosphere as it makes the much praised solar panels, they only care about western consumers finding out what a bill of goods they’ve been sold.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken Theory of Mandates

“…In the late 1990s, visitors noticed the omnipresent portrait of an American in Beijing whose posters rivaled Mao’s for size and prominence. His name was a household word and a military rank known to all. He was, of course, Colonel Harland Sanders. Like those legends General Electric, General Motors, General Foods, and, for a brief period, Commodore 64, they conquered the world without firing a shot by making people want to buy their product.

What drives demand in most cases is product utility and customer satisfaction. Normally, the only things you are forced to purchase are items you don’t want in the first place. A CDC study showing that 74% of people infected in the Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated—at a time when 64% of the residents of the Bay State were fully jabbed—illustrates why so many are suffering from mandate fatigue. They were sold inflated expectations by politicians in exchange for arduous restrictions that did not materialize. The vaccines may prevent serious illness and hospitalization, but they might also have encouraged the vaccinated to go out more, indirectly leading to what many fear to be a new round of mask mandates.

The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people, and could spread it to other individuals.

A mandate is a sale by coercion. Jabs did not deliver a return to “normal” and the freedoms that were supposed to attend compliance and effort. However, they did supply — in buckets — the disappointment naturally felt by people who open a box to discover ramen noodles when the packaging shows bouillabaisse. Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve” and “reopening soon”? Well, neither do the politicians who promised them so optimistically.

In their defense, there were many things politicians and public health officials didn’t know at the time.  But instead of confessing their uncertainty — saying “I don’t know” or grimly saying “I have nothing to offer but masks, lockdowns, and needles” — they often assumed a false confidence that they may have to walk back.

Successful products — like cellphones and KFC — provide immediate and palpable satisfaction to those who get them. There’s positive feedback, unlike those central planners who time and again set lofty targets only to tell the public how badly they’ve failed due to saboteurs, capitalist roaders, and deniers.

The newest progressive insult is the epithet “selfish,” which appears to mean “not doing what the experts say is best for everyone.” The fallacy here is that it discounts the effect of personal experience and feedback on behavior. The reason many people are being “selfish” about Covid is their disillusionment with the assurances and warnings issued by the politicians, or with hideously expensive policies that seem to have no decisive effect…”

Biden hits resistance from unions on vaccine requirement

“…Influential public sector unions are pushing back on a new vaccination requirement for federal workers in a rare split with the Biden administration.

President Biden’s latest vaccine push, announced Thursday, requires federal employees to attest that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or be subject to masking, social distancing and weekly testing.

While labor groups representing government employees have urged their members to get vaccinated, most of the leading public sector unions either oppose the vaccine requirement or say it must first be negotiated.

Groups representing educators, postal workers, law enforcement officers, Treasury Department personnel and other government employees expressed unease about the vaccine requirement this week. Only a few public sector unions outright endorsed the measure.

“We expect that the particulars of any changes to working conditions, including those related to COVID-19 vaccines and associated protocols, be properly negotiated with our bargaining units prior to implementation,” Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents nearly 700,000 workers, said in a statement…”

Notice that last quote from Everett Kelley? That’s right, union leadership is using the vaccine mandate as a bargaining chip for more graft. They’ll sell out, but it’s going to cost the taxpayer big. Democrats fund unions. Unions give to Democrats, Democrats fund unions. It is legalized corruption. Nobody cares because it is just taxpayer money they’re playing with.

Activist Shaun King lives lavishly in lakefront New Jersey home

“…Shaun King has built his image on being a champion of the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights activist lives like a one-percenter in a sprawling lakefront home, records show.

King, 41, moved earlier this year from a luxury two-bedroom apartment in downtown Brooklyn, to the five-bedroom, 3,000 square foot North Brunswick, NJ, property, with “a lakefront backyard” and gourmet kitchen, according to public records.

The property, surrounded by lush, tall trees, was purchased by King’s wife, Rai-Tonicia King, a Ph.D. candidate and educator, in November 2020 for $842,000, public records show.

King has been dogged for years by allegations of shady dealings in his charitable efforts in movements he has founded — including a lack of transparency in money he has raised for several criminal justice initiatives he has backed.

Fellow activists and those who worked with him raising cash for everything from Haitian orphans to the families of black men killed by police, have repeatedly raised questions about King’s leadership, and, in some cases, asked where the donations have gone….”