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[Daily Caller] Yet only hydroxychloroquine has prompted furious partisan debate over its possible usefulness. Why?
Probably because Donald Trump endorsed its usage months ago. Almost immediately, the media, the university and government medical community, and the progressive political opposition declared hydroxychloroquine useless and dangerous. A recent media study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that positive news stories about the research and development of COVID-19 vaccines barely outnumbered negative stories about Trump and hydroxychloroquine.
Trump’s presidential endorsement was apparent proof of rank quackery. Yet a few recent second-look studies, especially abroad, suggest that hydroxychloroquine, a dirt-cheap, time-tested anti-malarial drug, can in fact offer help in treating some cases of COVID-19.
Democrats needed covid as an excuse for vote-by-mail-fraud. This was all ordained by the CCP Politburo and they could not let quinine get in the way of it.
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Joe Biden plans to move quickly against guns, adding the issue to his list of first executive orders, according to his top policy aide.
Stef Feldman, the national policy director of Biden's presidential campaign, included the Democrat’s gun plan in a list of initial executive actions set to be unleashed after Inauguration Day....
While he calls his plan one aimed at ending "gun violence," most of Biden’s ideas amount to limiting what people can buy or have. For example, he wants to end the sale of AR-15-style firearms (the most popular in the nation), regulate those that people already have, and limit the size of magazines those guns use.
Almost half the voters already think Beijing Biden cheated and now he wants to end sales and limit magazine size? President Biden, you and what army? There are at least 20 million AK and AR pattern rifles in America, and vast numbers of Americans with handguns that came with 17 round magazines. Any attempts at confiscation will result in at least .1% of those 20 million surrendering their guns one bullet at a time. All of us know at least one fellow gun owner who is going to go over the top on this. Most will likely die under the combined force of a federal LEO SWAT team, but if even 10% of that .1% of 20 million end up killing a federal LEO, 20,000 LEOs will not go home, and many of the others will start to think HARD about the legality of their orders and whether their pensions are worth leaving widows and orphans.
In response to a few well-publicized raids, federal buildings will become free fire zones. Five riflemen (all working independently) with .308 and bigger will easily shut down a federal building from 500 meters away. I suspect any federal employees not already Zooming to work will stop showing up to work. I can hardly wait for Biden to explain why Trump sending federal LEOs into Portland was tyranny, but calling out the Army is not.
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but calling out the Army is not If Biden pulled anything like that the MSM would back him fully and demonize / ignore / gaslight any opposition, just as they've been doing with objections to the legitimacy of last month's election. The fix is in.
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Although the preceding and subsequent details may be best left for another time, once upon a time 2 members of the 5th Special Forces took out the electricity to most of Bavaria with a smoke grenade.
#4
If Biden does send the police and military to confiscate weapons, then media should be on the counterattack menu. They're a soft target that assumes their safety. Make them pay!
America traditionally has not reinvented reality after an election, although prior presidential winners have often tried, as in the fashion of our politics. But the new powers of social media, Silicon Valley, and a woke media have made reality-changing now a reality.
Suddenly Antifa and BLM have all but disappeared from their heroic barricades. Where and why did they go? Did they ever really exist?
Mysteriously, a week or two before the election, the flood of violence in our major cities began downsizing to a tiny trickle. How strange that former angry throngs are now in nearly suspended animation. Are all those black kneepads, helmets, and umbrellas now in closets? Are all those whiny Pajama Boys on the barricades back teaching in their Zoom classrooms, or taking their college Zoom classes in their parents’ basements?What changed? What in the world convinced committed revolutionaries to cease their long march to revolutionary justice?
Did COVID-19 suddenly remind them that shouting in the faces of others, mocking social distancing, marching in tight phalanxes, shunning hand cleansers and mass mask-wearing were dangerous — although such activities had apparently been safe and even good for civic health while protesting a few weeks before? Was newly found social responsibility the reason that the looting, arson, destruction, and defacement went into hiatus?Is the calm — along with the 90—95 percent "turnout" in the major swing-state cities — the bargaining chips by which the Left claims responsibility for the Biden "win"?
And just as suddenly, the evil elixir hydroxychloroquine is in the news again — but this time not as more proof that Trump indulges in conspiracist quackery to force down your throat everything from bleach to lethal, heart-stopping, anti-malarial drugs. Abruptly, a few studies, especially from abroad, in the past month "suggest" that hydroxychloroquine could be efficacious in treating and ameliorating the symptoms of early COVID-19 illnesses—and at the egalitarian cost of about 7 cents a pill.
Who knew that the destitute of India and Africa suddenly are attesting that the cheap and available medication has somewhat slowed some of the lethal manifestations of the coronavirus? What happened to rehabilitate this old drug — whose advocacy recently had become synonymous with career destruction and that "science" condemned as worthless in treating COVID-19? Was there worry this December that thousands worldwide might have been sickened or might have died from not considering its medical efficacy in early stages of the disease? A media study just released from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that over the past year news stories about Trump and hydroxychloroquine (overwhelmingly negative in tone) were more numerous than all stories combined that reported on the research and development of all the COVID-19 vaccines.
Speaking of COVID-19, has CNN had a sudden change of heart about "China bashing"? Why are the media now reporting that the Chinese were duplicitous in misleading the world about the much earlier origins of the virus and its contagiousness? Does this new post-election realism mark another mysterious change from the old edict of "Trump bashing the Chinese" to "President Biden soberly and judiciously cracking down on egregious Chinese behavior"?Why a few days after November 3 were vaccines suddenly in the news, with praise that they are now safe and efficacious, and that even Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have dropped their pre-election suspicions of the jabs? Was news of their safety and utility a late-breaking discovery of the first week of November?
We, of course, had been winked and nodded by Pfizer that in early September important announcements would be coming in late October — in part because Pfizer was becoming afraid that the denigration of the vaccine by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden (who wished to discredit the efforts of Operation Warp Speed) might harm its rollout?And yet, Pfizer, this past summer, told neither the media nor the president of the United States about its ongoing progress with the vaccine but instead, strangely, contacted the Biden campaign. A few days before the election, Pfizer announced it would not announce any success pre-election, so as to avoid playing Election Day politics — all so that it could play politics a few days afterwards by boasting that indeed millions of doses were soon on the way to the American people.
How miraculous that a vaccine that was the culmination of nine months of nonstop work was abruptly declared still experimental, with no specific date in sight for its approved roll-out; and yet, about three weeks later, it was transmogrified into a safe, effective, and life-saving remedy.
It was almost as if Pfizer were claiming — after taking millions in Trump-administration funding guarantees for logistics, and exemptions from legal liability for their multibillion-dollar risk — that they, well, had never been a part of Operation Warp Speed after all. Or were they? Sort of? It depends?
Lockdowns? Amid a late-fall spike that has hit the Western world hard, why suddenly is there renewed national dialogue about the damage done by closing schools, businesses, and commerce? Did the national consciousness in early November abruptly decide that COVID-19 versus quarantines was a lose/lose situation, or is it that President-elect Biden will single-handedly soon be responsible for every COVID-19 fatality? Is it now in retrospect wrong to tag any president with 100 percent culpability, since others might begin in late January blaming a Typhoid Joe for each coronavirus death, a Hoover Joe for each closed business, and a Bull Connor Joe for each accusation of local police excess?
Hold on: Perhaps in late January we will learn that COVID-19 deaths were in the past somehow improperly calculated, given lethal comorbidities — suggesting perhaps that many patients die with the coronavirus rather than solely because of it? Will we learn that case numbers are, well, subject to interpretation, given that the better indicator of lethality rates suggests that people younger than 70 who catch the virus have a 99 percent-plus survival rate? And will our late-January COVID death tolls be more or less similar to those in Europe, suggesting an effective, collective, and unifying Biden amelioration?
Will our new Biden-approved COVID-19 advisers now come from a range of disciplines, rather than being faulted for not strictly being a virologist or an epidemiologist? After all, oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel, a Biden pandemic consultant who will be advising the nation on a contagious disease that is most lethal to those over 65, in the past had declared that people older than 75 were mostly superfluous. He has vowed to skip his own medical care when he reaches that nearly terminal age, given the comorbidities that make mid-septuagenarians marginalized. Are these perfect credentials to adjudicate COVID-19 care for our vulnerable elderly?Unity and brotherhood have magically sprouted. What happened to Biden’s condemnation of Trump supporters as "ugly folk" and "chumps" and "dregs"? On November 4, did we suddenly realize that these pejorative terms were really ones of endearment, part of Joe’s ecumenical calls for "unity" that is to end the nasty "divisiveness" for those who for years have tossed around the repugnant slur of "Nazi" and worse?
Who knew that unproven voting machines, early voting, and mail-in voting were vital proofs of our confidence in democracy? Were we not told by Elizabeth Warren and warned by foundations and universities in 2019, after the "hacked" 2016 election, that computers would be unsecured, and that valid ballots required signatures and addresses and witnesses? And then suddenly in November 2020 — not so much?
Is Jill Stein now a saint or demon to have sued — into December 2016 — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to overturn their recorded votes? Was it still legitimate, à la Hillary Clinton’s recent advice to Biden to "never" concede a presidential election "under any circumstances" — or was Hillary too a threat to the republic?
Will the Trump "recession" and "depression" suddenly in a few more weeks become an astounding "recovery" or even the "Biden boom" after the "Biden vaccine" ends the "Trump lockdown"?
And can we return to media normality again, when reporters cease attacking the president but instead legitimately question the commander in chief about the existential issues of the day, such as Joe Biden’s favorite socks or milk shake, or why is he not showing even more anger at — Donald J. Trump? Or why and how he controlled his temper so masterfully when provoked by — Donald J. Trump? Or can he repair the global damage wrought by — Donald J. Trump? Or what does Biden think about the future of the soul — of Donald J. Trump?When did special counsel go from deified to expendable? Sometime in early December 2020, when John Durham was rebranded as such? Is all praise of the idea of a Mueller special counsel erased, replaced by new slogans on the barnyard wall to the effect that special counsels are merely highfalutin hired partisan guns who should be summarily dismissed?
Given Joe Biden’s mental robustness and sharp-as-a-tack repartee, it will be nice again to have no more conspiracy theories floating about the cognitive disabilities of the commander in chief — no demands for the president to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, no Ivy League psychiatrists diagnosing as nuts a person whom they have never met or talking about interventions to remove the demented president by force. It will be nice not to have to guess what remedies the non-transparent president is taking for his infection, or his cholesterol, once the new chief executive is an open book about his medications.
Likewise, it will be a relief to hear no #MeToo accusations about our president, no stories of prior sexual assaults, no fights over whether "every survivor" has the "right to be believed," no female alleging a past presidential sexual "incident."
As the world turns post-November, so do policy realities. Did Donald Trump really make a mess of the Middle East — one that can be cured by lifting sanctions on Iran, reentering the Iran deal, and resuscitating the funding of Hezbollah terrorism?
Or will we hear that the Biden plan alone has enticed Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel? And will the Biden plan subsidize, refresh, and re-empower Hamas and the Palestinian Authority to ensure they are central to a Mideast peace? Or will Biden’s team shrug that the Palestinians are "essential" and then more or less do what Trump did?
Is Vladimir Putin still the evil colluder, enemy of all human decency, or is he to be rehabilitated by a liberal reset 2.0, given that Joe Biden "understands Putin" and thus forges a new "correct" partnership for peace with Russia?Do we now have sudden "allies" and a new "multilateral framework" in which NATO partners finally — either in fear of Mighty Joe Biden, or in reference to his Old Joe from Scranton decency — pony up their 2 percent of GDP contributions to NATO defenses? Or will it be wiser to accept that it is our sacred duty to protect rich NATO allies and let them worry about what they wish to contribute to their own defense?
In our brave new media/Silicon Valley world, we are rebirthing post-November realities and truths. The past is being erased or refabricated. The present is malleable, as it searches to create the absolute "truth" of our near future.
[Real Clear Politics] The United States is mired in a succession crisis. There is much loose talk about another civil war erupting between supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. As this occurs, America’s enemies act boldly against U.S. interests. Each precious moment wasted on deciding which septuagenarian won the White House in November is another moment that the Chinese Communist Party continues its long march to global dominance.
China’s dominance will not come at first in the form of military conquest. Beijing is very much a 21st century power, and its program for displacing the United States will look far different from what the Soviet Union tried during the Cold War. Chinese dominance will be brought on by superior trade, industrial, and technological development practices.
Beijing recently signed a revolutionary free trade alliance with several Asian powers—including Australia—meant to increase China’s influence over the Indo-Pacific and diminish Washington’s hard-won influence there. China announced it had achieved quantum supremacy—a lodestar for whichever country or company seeks to pioneer quantum computing. Many technologists, like Scott Amyx, have previously argued that quantum computing could be as disruptive to the world economy as the cotton gin or automobile were. Whoever dominates this new industry will write humanity’s future.
And then there’s the new space race between the United States and China. Private launch companies, including SpaceX, have revolutionized America’s overall space sector. But the lack of political vision or leadership means that real gains for America in space will be slowly realized, if ever. President Trump was the only American leader in decades who seemed to understand the promises and challenges of space. Yet, the rest of the government never fully embraced Trump’s robust space program. Now, it may be too late.
NASA’s Artemis Program, which is supposed to return Americans to the moon, is adrift, stuck in what Hollywood types might call "development hell." Petty politics, budgetary constraints, and bureaucratic inertia have prevented this essential program from lifting off in a timely way. Judging from the profile of the individuals that President-elect Biden chose for his NASA transition team, it looks as though the Artemis program will be reduced even more in importance.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have not only landed a rover on the dark side of the moon, but they have now successfully retrieved lunar rocks—the first time in decades that this has been done. China’s leadership does not intend to stop with unmanned missions to the moon. The recent Chang’e-5 mission (launch rocket pictured above) was merely the proof that China has achieved the same capabilities as the Americans.
[Federalist] Former Obama administration Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan lies. He doesn’t just lie in the sense of speaking hyperbolically, spinning events, or painting in shades of gray out of purported fealty to national security considerations. Brennan tells outright falsehoods, in venues from television studios to Congress, on matters of utmost importance.
One must ask: Why does corporate media continue to give someone who has proved to be a uniquely deceptive character, whose most noteworthy activity since leaving government has been spewing invective against the president on Twitter, valuable airtime?
Brennan Lies About Russiagate
In his latest public display of dishonesty, Brennan took to "Fox News Sunday" to repeat untruths regarding the Obama administration’s actions regarding then-president-elect Donald Trump and Russia. According to Brennan, "There was no spying on Donald Trump’s campaign." There was. Of the Steele dossier, Brennan said it "was not used in any way to undergird the judgments that came out of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in the 2016 election." It was.
Brennan’s whoppers, however, are not limited to Russiagate. Brennan might have perjured himself when, in May 2017, as in his latest Fox hit, he delinked the Steele dossier from the intelligence community assessment in congressional testimony.
In March 2014, Brennan lied to Congress when he denied allegations from then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein that CIA officials had hacked the computers of Senate Intelligence Committee staffers while they were assembling their report on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program. In June 2011, then-chief counterterrorism adviser Brennan lied when he denied that there had "been a single collateral death" as a consequence of the CIA’s drone program.
As critics, particularly on the left, have chronicled, Brennan’s record of deceit is long. He also appears to have embellished details about the Osama bin Laden raid, shown himself to be hypocritical in leaking while denouncing the practice, and at best laughably politically correct in stating that the CIA does not "steal secrets. We uncover. We discover. We reveal. We obtain. We solicit — all of that." If the CIA does not "steal secrets," we might be in even more trouble as a nation than even the most pessimistic of us could have imagined.
What Brennan has said about Trump, that he is "lying routinely to the American people without compunction, intentionally fueling divisions in our country and actively working to degrade the imperfect but critical institutions that serve us," would seem to be in many ways the ultimate projection when one considers Brennan’s dishonesty, vitriol, and continued support of Russiagate.
All of this is to say, Brennan has shown himself to be utterly lacking in credibility before even digging into the disastrous Obama administration record, Russiagate aside, and his support of its most dubious elements.
The Media Doesn’t Care About the Truth
So why should the former CIA director be presented as an authority figure worthy of opining on important matters? What value does his commentary provide viewers? Is it not irresponsible to give a platform to a guest who shows such little regard for the truth and effectively for the American people whose trust he so damaged while in government? Are we to believe members of corporate media are ignorant of this record, or do they just not care?
Candor is apparently not a prerequisite for garnering media coverage and, in fact, might deter it. Employees of media outlets might believe that interviews with policymakers and ex-officials ought to be about reinforcing the biases of their viewers, rather than informing them by illuminating the truth.
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He is the 'shadow president' seeking to regain his power. It would appear he and the Deep State may have been successful. Bush, Obama, Biden, the onerous Harris, all hand selected pawns, sock puppets. The voting machine mystery, no real mystery actually. Simply a tool weaponized for domestic use.
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Brennan on Fox: Brennan went on to acknowledge that there were mistakes in the FBI's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the early stages of the Russia investigation, but he insisted "that doesn't mean that there was criminal intent, and there was no spying on Donald Trump's campaign."
[The other McCain] Some readers have noticed that I have barely commented at all about the legal wrangling over the presidential election. My post on Monday ("The Margin of Theft") laid out a few points of circumstantial evidence pointing toward fraud in "battleground" states. If you believe Democrats stole the election, I’m totally with you, but the real question is what can be done about it and, because I’m not a lawyer, I am not qualified to estimate the likelihood of success of efforts to challenge the results.
Nothing I might say here is going to influence the court decisions. We have on our side commentators who are eminent attorneys and law professors, fully qualified to speak on the subject, so that there is no need for me to contribute my two cents’ worth of uninformed opinion. You can go on Twitter and find plenty of ignorant opinions on the election. Personally, I’m avoiding the hair-on-fire screeching hysteria, which strikes me as irresponsible and unnecessary, and which also possibly might be harmful to my mental health. Not joking here.
Self-awareness is crucial to good mental health. You must be aware of your own vulnerabilities, the tendencies that might lead you down the escalator to the abyss of stark raving lunacy. And I have assessed that this post-election imbroglio is tailor-made to make me crazy.
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So I click on the link to arrive at the Sawgrass Park and what do I see? A quote running along the length of the banner, from a famous anti-Communist:
"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
Is this author telling us to "shut up"?
If not, then why is he arguing against the need to speak and "write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth"?
If we stop speaking the truth, we will sooner or later begin mouthing lies.
At some point we will either come to believe in those lies, or else we will be forced to lead double lives, as people in the old Warsaw Pact countries did. One truth for the world inside the four walls of your tiny little state-issued apartment; another truth for everywhere and everyone else.
Only someone who never went through communism could possibly think that this 2nd outcome is going to lead to anything but depression, despair and eventual madness.
#2
some people are teetering on the brink of craziness Join the real world, pal. It has always been this way. And there have always been many who are just plain nuts. US society is being deformed to the point of no longer being conducive to its founding principles. For the rest of us, this too will pass, perhaps taking many of us with it.
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So basically this means:
'So your democracy is gone, so what! Deal with it. But don't go nuts.'
If there ever was a time or thing to go nuts over, it is now and this is it.
[Breitbart] Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s "Mornings with Maria," former National Security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn argued there was an "anti-American sense" within some agencies within the federal government.
Partial transcript as follows:
FLYNN: First of all, we all know that this was an effort to get Flynn to get Trump, and that’s been very — made very clear. One particular senior FBI agent who has now put into an affidavit, which is a good word to use right now, and that statement that he made was outrageous.
The other things that, you know — the 2016 campaign, 2016 transition, and then into the White House. This entire effort — when people say hey, Mike, I’m sorry for what happened to you, what I tell people is don’t feel sorry for me. Feel sorry for this president, feel sorry for the presidency of this country, and be outraged at what they tried to do to this country.
And that’s really what this was about. This was about going after a president who won an election and they — by all rights, they figured oh, no way is he going to win.
So imagine if these people that went after the president — or after President Trump and his presidency in our country — imagine if they had allowed him to just say, "Hey, let’s see what this can do." We’d probably be double or triple in every category of economy, our military, everything. And look at what President Trump has been able to do despite the kind of assault that he’s been under.
And we’re still facing that right now in this current election. We have an element in our country, some of which is in the institutions of our government — the Department of Justice and certainly, the FBI and other elements like the intelligence community that just basically are — I mean, I think most Americans would agree or many Americans would agree that there’s an anti-American sense inside of some of these institutions. And they just do not want to see our country thrive in the way that I think Donald Trump has been able to do that despite the assault on him and his ability to lead this country.
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The FBI is no longer a legitimate law enforcement agency. The DOJ is off & on in this regard, as is the US Supreme Court. You know, the court that sanctioned the abrogation of contracts nationwide when FDR outlawed the so-called "gold clauses" in valid contracts, and also when he interned Americans of Japanese consent without due process of law. Both these presidential actions were based on, of course, national "emergencies", which means "anything goes".
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Point of order. In 1995, 45 years after the war, the classified intel was released. In his book, Marching Orders, author Bruce Lee actually went over the diplomatic communications of the Japanese. They were reporting their activities among the sympathetic in the Japanese community in America. America didn't have a means to immediately identify those sympathetic to the attacker. They did know that 90 percent of aircraft production resided in the LA basin and Seattle areas. Those were the areas where communities were uprooted and displaced. It was crude, but given the panic (see panic vis a vis Covid 19) among the governments they saw little other choice. Non-citizens of all belligerents were gathered as were ours in those those countries. There was part of the problem in the racism that obstructed citizenship and property rights for Asians prevalent in the region compounding the situation. (Then today, such high minded institutions as Harvard et al actively discriminate against Asians).
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/\ They were reporting their activities among the sympathetic in the Japanese community in America. America didn't have a means to immediately identify those sympathetic to the attacker.
Today however we "know" but until the Orange Man, have done nothing.
#4
The source of the problem could be the nepotistic anti-American propaganda mills the DoJ, FBI, CIA primarily recruit from. Start with bad seed, you get a blighted crop.
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[Federalist] Former Obama administration Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan lies. He doesn’t just lie in the sense of speaking hyperbolically, spinning events, or painting in shades of gray out of purported fealty to national security considerations. Brennan tells outright falsehoods, in venues from television studios to Congress, on matters of utmost importance.
/\ They were reporting their activities among the sympathetic in the Japanese community in America. America didn't have a means to immediately identify those sympathetic to the attacker.
