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-Great Cultural Revolution
FDA: 'Vaccines Do Not Require Demonstration of the Prevention of Infection or Transmission'
[PJMEDIA] The now years-long Public Health™ campaign continues to reinvent the definition of "vaccine" in the service of accommodating Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA injections. These shots utilize the genetic manipulation of cells to produce spike proteins rather than introducing an inactivated sample of the virus to induce an adaptive immune response — the mechanism of every vaccine in recorded history.

The Animal Farm pigs did the same trick when they rewrote the Seven Commandments in the dark of night to excuse their abhorrent behavior.

"Vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission," according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Dr. Peter Marks in a newly released memo.

Via Epoch Times:

Marks was writing as he rejected nearly all recommendations from a group of experts that advised the FDA to update the labels for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

Vaccines are traditionally known as drugs that prevent an illness. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for years said a vaccine is a product that "produces immunity" while vaccination is an injection of an infectious organism "in order to prevent the disease." The agency changed its definitions after people correctly noted that COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infection.

The FDA letter came as a response to a January 2023 petition from the Coalition Advocating for Adequately Labeled Medicines to force the mRNA COVID shot manufacturers to "amend current product labeling" to reflect the reality that the shots do not stop transmission, infection, or confer herd immunity — all of which Americans were propagandized to believe by NIAID head Anthony Fauci, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, corporate media talking heads, and President Brandon himself.



This brand of scientific revisionism is not new for anyone who has been paying attention over the past three years.

In September 2021, the CDC, the FDA’s partner in crime, quietly adjusted the definition of "vaccine," reported The Miami Herald:

Social media is calling bluff on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for modifying its definition of the words "vaccine" and "vaccination" on its website.

Before the change, the definition for "vaccination" read, "the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease." Now, the word "immunity" has been switched to "protection."

Obviously, had the American population been treated to the truth about the COVID-19 shots from the start — that they don’t prevent anyone from getting sick or getting others sick (which was the entire Public Health™ justification for mandates) — they wouldn’t have rolled up their sleeves at nearly the same rate.

Posted by: 746 || 04/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When I read authoritative quotes like this by persons placed in positions that look after our health and safety.

I have to ask.
Why do they still hold that position?
Seriously, it has to make whoever and/or whatever political party placed them in power, look like total idiots?

Or does their voter base also equal their thinking?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/29/2023 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Protection? I was triple-jabbed when I caught it and my wife was quadruple jabbed when she caught it a second time.

Reduces your risk of serious complications? Where's the science to support that claim? Just how would one construct a study to demonstrate that? How long would it take?

[shakes head] I was born at night, but not last night. I believe this is still an experimental 'vaccine'.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/29/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ I believe this is still an experimental 'vaccine'.

The "experiment" does not appear to be going well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||


#5  maybe two nights ago...
Posted by: 746 || 04/29/2023 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  "Vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission,"

My Gin & Tonic is a vaccine.

Eating your fingernails is a vaccine.

Doing wave things with your hand out of the car's window is a vaccine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2023 11:05 Comments || Top||

#7  They are called the Center for Disease Control. That is what they are paid to do. They can try to edit a wiki to hide their abysmal failure to do their job, but only the evil and stupid people will buy in.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 11:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Funny how the definition of a vaccine keeps changing:

Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Now, the word "immunity" has been switched to "protection."

Oh, yeah? Like what protection?

How much protection?

What scientific data do you have to prove it provides any protection at all?

When will CDC and FDA have to backtrack on this claim as well?

And then, how will they justify continued use of these co-called vaccines?

Why can't we just have quinine?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/29/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#10  ABC edits interview with Biden challenger RFK Jr. to remove 'false claims' about COVID vaccines: Network admits cutting remarks about link between the shot and autism

This is no surprise. Network news, cable news and newspapers only tell one side of the story. They are NOT journalists, they are propagandists. The best remedy for them is to turn off the damn TV and cancel the newspaper subscription.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/29/2023 12:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Neil Cavuto overtalked and shut him down, too.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||

#12  RFK, Jr., wrote that expose on Saint Fauci, big gum'ment and big pharma circled the wagons.

Besides, the networks can't have any opposing views towards companies (advertisers) that give them big money in advertising revenue. "Brought to you by Pfizer".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 12:34 Comments || Top||

#13  ^^^ Forgot to add this: And that goes for Fox, too.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 12:35 Comments || Top||

#14  #11 - I still remember Cavuto's hysterical screaming after Trump mentioned Hydroxychloroquine: "I cannot stress enough. This will kill you. "
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2023 13:15 Comments || Top||

#15  Neil Cavuto, M.D., is/has been another reason not to watch Fox.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 13:54 Comments || Top||

#16  my wife who was a healthy and active 38 yr old at the time with no family history of heart disease or clotting disorders had a stroke 11 days after getting the "vaccine" as was required by her employer.

None of the specialists who she has seen thinks that is a coincidence. The fact she also turned up with kidney damage believed to be related to clotting seems odd as well since again, no family history.
Posted by: Abu Ga || 04/29/2023 14:34 Comments || Top||

#17  So sorry to hear that, Abu. Horrible and infuriating.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 15:00 Comments || Top||

#18  Someone spelled Dr. Marx's name wrong.
Posted by: Pheling Sligum6276 || 04/29/2023 16:37 Comments || Top||

#19  My sympathies, Abu
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2023 19:12 Comments || Top||

#20  My prayers for her full recovery, Abu Ga. I know how devastating it is for all involved when one goes suddenly from active to not. The song says, “It’s better to burn out than it is to rust,” but doesn’t address what it’s like to unexpectedly do both at once.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2023 22:50 Comments || Top||


The @OlympiaSchools District in Washington state voted to cut many music classes, citing fears over white supremacy
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quincy Jones and Jimi Hendrix, both from the Puget Sound Area...
Posted by: 746 || 04/29/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  "school district that lives in & is entrenched in & is surrounded by white supremacy culture."

If this seems nonsensical, try replacing "white supremacy culture" with "Western Civilization".
Posted by: SteveS || 04/29/2023 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  She is doing what it takes to prevent another Bestie Boys from ever happening.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 11:35 Comments || Top||

#4  More money and less responsibility for the faculty.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2023 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  If this seems nonsensical, try replacing "white supremacy culture" with "Western Civilization".

That's what they mean. Their goal is to replace Western Civilization with totalitarian communism.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/29/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ And they're pretty much done with the process.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/29/2023 13:15 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
8 Ways Government Shielded Joe Biden From The ‘Laptop From Hell'
[The Federalist] Biden and his backers lied to Americans that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation." While that might merely qualify as dirty politics, our government’s assistance in burying the scandal constituted election interference.

Though we don’t yet know the extent of government involvement in the info ops, the evidence already indicates eight potential actions taken to protect Biden from what former President Donald Trump and others have since called the "laptop from hell" and hand him the White House.

1. Feds Seized Laptop, Shushed Mac Isaac
Americans might never have known of the extensive evidence of the Biden-family pay-to-play scandal contained on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop if John Paul Mac Isaac hadn’t copied the hard drive before handing it over to the FBI. Likewise, had Mac Isaac, who owned the Delaware repair shop where Hunter Biden had abandoned the computer, cowered to the alleged threat made by an FBI agent, the scandal would have been buried too.

According to Mac Isaac, in December 2019, two federal agents arrived at his Wilmington store to retrieve the laptop, following the issuance of a subpoena. Attempting to lighten the situation, Mac Isaac claims he quipped, "Hey, lads, I’ll remember to change your names when I write the book."

Mac Isaac maintains that while one agent, Wilson, continued to walk toward the door, "Agent DeMeo paused and turned to face me." Mac Isaac alleges the agent replied: "It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things."

In his later-penned book, "American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth," the computer repair store owner wrote that the incident left him wondering if he was "being paranoid or had what the agent just told me been a direct threat, or at best a thinly veiled one?"

The FBI’s seizure of the laptop represents the government’s first effort to quiet the Biden family pay-to-play scandal, with the alleged threat to Mac Isaac another early attempt by a government official to protect Joe Biden.

2. FBI Made Laptop Off Limits
Of course, had the FBI seized the laptop for investigative purposes, that would have been a different matter, but the evidence suggests that was not the reason agents removed the computer.

Consider the timing: The FBI was alerted to the existence of the laptop in October 2019, when they were reportedly told that, in addition to pornography, the computer contained information "dealing with foreign interests, a pay-for-play scheme linked to the former administration, [and] lots of foreign money." The FBI, however, waited two months before obtaining a subpoena for the laptop.

Then, upon seizing the laptop, according to multiple whistleblowers, the "local FBI leadership told employees, ’You will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop.’" The whistleblowers further alleged that "the FBI did not begin to examine the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop until after the 2020 presidential election — potentially a year after the FBI obtained the laptop in December 2019."

These facts strongly suggest the FBI seized the laptop to protect then-candidate Joe Biden by keeping the contents secret.

3. FBI Presumably Gave Inaccurate Briefing
If, as the whistleblowers claim, the FBI did not review the laptop until after the 2020 presidential election, the government’s pre-election defensive briefings for Biden would have been inaccurate. It is even possible intelligence agencies falsely told Biden the laptop — or possibly the Post’s reporting on it — was Russian disinformation.

The FBI’s alleged failure to review the laptop until after the election would also have prevented the government from advising Biden about the video of Hunter telling a prostitute in 2018 that he believed a group of Russians had stolen another laptop from him. By failing to give Biden complete and accurate defensive briefings, the government gave the campaign "plausible deniability." The FBI also eliminated the need for Biden to get ahead of the story by "coming clean" on any of the laptop’s scandalous details — something a politician not assisted by the government would do.

4. Government Sources Lied to Media
While the government’s first three assists to the Biden campaign occurred behind the scenes and were more subtle, FBI officials evidently intervened publicly after the New York Post broke its first story on Oct. 14, 2020.

First came the Oct. 15, 2020, "leak" to Russia-collusion hoaxer Ken Dilanian, who ran an "exclusive" at NBC, reporting that "federal investigators are examining whether emails allegedly describing activities by Joe Biden and his son Hunter and found on a laptop at a Delaware repair shop are linked to a foreign intelligence operation." The next day, USA Today similarly reported the FBI’s supposed involvement in investigating whether a Russian influence operation was behind the disclosure of the Hunter Biden emails. On Oct. 17, 2020, USA Today reiterated that the "federal authorities" are investigating whether the laptop is "disinformation pushed by Russia."

Leaking to help a political campaign is bad enough, but worse is that while unnamed government sources told select outlets the FBI was investigating the laptop as a potential "disinformation campaign," the FBI was doing no such thing. It already knew the laptop was real and not hacked.

5. Other Leaks Pushed ’Russia Disinfo’ Narrative
The government also helped the Biden campaign build the false Russian-disinformation narrative with other leaks. On Oct. 14, 2020 — the same day as the New York Post’s first Hunter Biden laptop story — the New York Times reported U.S. intelligence analysts "had picked up Russian chatter that stolen Burisma emails" would be released as an "October surprise." "Burisma, of course, was the Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter nearly $1 million to sit on its board during his father’s final year as vice president."

According to the Times, "intelligence analysts" feared "the Burisma material would be leaked alongside forged materials in an attempt to hurt Mr. Biden’s candidacy." The leak and this spin prepared the public to disregard the laptop, or to assume the more damaging documents were "forged."

The Washington Post pushed similar leaks, with the outlet reporting on Oct. 15, "U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence." This leak helped bolster the Biden campaign’s claim the laptop was Russian disinformation since Giuliani had provided the hard drive to the Post.

In fact, in responding to the media about the laptop scandal, Andrew Bates, then a Biden campaign spokesman and the director of his "rapid response" team, consistently spun the scandal as one about Giuliani’s supposed connection "to Russian intelligence." These other government leaks gave the Biden campaign more cover.

6. Government Pressed Social Media to Censor
In addition to leaking false claims to the media, the government interfered in the 2020 election by priming Big Tech companies to censor the laptop story.

Americans first learned of this scandal last August when Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, told Joe Rogan, "The FBI basically came to us, some folks on our team, [saying,] ’Hey just so you know, you should be on high alert." According to Zuckerberg, the FBI told Facebook that "we thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election," and "we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump similar to that so just be vigilant."

Zuckerberg said that, based on the FBI’s warning, Facebook treated the New York Post’s bombshell story as "potentially misinformation, important misinformation." Then, while Facebook worked to determine the authenticity of the laptop, it "decreased its distribution of the story by making the story rank lower in the news feed."

While Facebook merely decreased distribution of the explosive reporting, Twitter barred sharing of the story — and it was the government’s warnings of a "hack and leak" operation that prompted the censorship.

As Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety, explained in a letter to the Federal Election Commission, "since 2018 he had regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security." And "during these weekly meetings, the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ’hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October."

The government’s "prior warnings of a hack-and-leak operation and doubts about the provenance of the materials republished in the N.Y. Post articles," Roth explained, led its Site Integrity Team to conclude "the materials could have been obtained through hacking," and thereby block the sharing of the story.

The government’s repeated warnings led, at a minimum, Twitter and Facebook to censor the story. Yet after the story broke, when Facebook asked Laura Dehmlow, the FBI’s section chief for the Foreign Influence Tax Force, about status of the laptop, she refused to comment.

The FBI’s failure to correct the tech companies’ misapprehension that the laptop was either disinformation or part of a hack-and-leak operation contrasts with how the government handled other inquiries. For instance, when asked by Facebook to fact-check information for the platform, Brian Scully, an official with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, "responded with an explanation of why the government believed that the report was misinformation violating Facebook’s terms of service."

7. Potentially More Government Interference
It’s possible the FBI did more behind the scenes to prompt censorship of the laptop story, such as by feeding Twitter false leaks, as the government did with legacy media outlets.

Of particular concern is FBI Agent Elvis Chan’s Oct. 16, 2020, email directing two high-level Twitter executives to monitor their Teleporter messages for two important documents. The content of those documents, transmitted via the FBI’s secure Teleporter system, remains a mystery, but the timing is suspect.

Also disconcerting is the role Jim Baker had in pushing Twitter to censor the story. Baker, who was previously the FBI’s general counsel, worked at Twitter as a deputy general counsel during the relevant time. On the morning of Oct. 14, 2020, after the Post story broke, Baker pushed for Twitter to err on the side of caution by banning the coverage. That same day Baker arranged a phone conversation with Matthew Perry in the FBI’s Office of General Counsel.

Both Chan’s email to Twitter and Baker’s conversation with the FBI Office of General Counsel provided another opportunity for the FBI to interfere in the 2020 election by feeding Twitter fake intel. Of course, the communications could instead be unrelated to the laptop scandal and the timing merely coincidental.

Another potential for government interference came when the 51 former intelligence officials joined together to pen their public statement declaring the laptop story had all the hallmarks of a foreign disinformation campaign. While we now know the Biden campaign’s role in prompting that letter, it is unknown whether any current government officials assisted in the efforts.

8. ’Twitter Files’ Show Potential Military Connection
Another potential connection between the government and the laptop info ops came from the latest "Twitter Files" released earlier this week. In Andrew Lowenthal’s "Twitter Files 20" thread, he revealed an email referencing the "2020 U.S. Elections Tabletop Exercise," sent from an individual connected to Harvard Law School to two individuals connected to Harvard’s Intellectual Property in Cyberspace program, as well as a slew of individuals with military email accounts.

Significantly, CCed on the email were individuals from organizations that had participated in the Aspen Institute’s "Tabletop Exercise" that prophetically used a "hack-and-leak" "October Surprise" involving Hunter Biden to game the media’s supposedly "appropriate" response to the release of Biden communications. Thus, this email suggests a connection between the military and some of those who participated in Aspen’s exercise. The timing of the email is also striking: It is dated Oct. 20, 2020 — the day after the 51 former intelligence officials released their deceptive statement framing the laptop as Russian disinformation.

What role, if any, our military had in pushing the hoax remains to be seen. But what is already abundantly clear is that our government helped peddle the Democrats’ info ops on the American public.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/29/2023 00:01 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:



Samuel Alito claims he has 'pretty good idea' who leaked Dobbs draft, says it made justices 'targets of assassination'
[NYPOST] Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito revealed Friday that he has a "pretty good idea" of the identity of the person behind the leak of his draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade last year.

Alito, who wrote for the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, told the Wall Street Journal that the unprecedented breach "created an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust" inside the nation’s highest court.

"We worked through it, and last year we got our work done. This year, I think, we’re trying to get back to normal operations as much as we can ... But it was damaging," Alito said of the unauthorized release of his draft opinion to Politico in May 2022, more than a month before the final Dobbs ruling came down.

An investigation into the leak was ordered by Chief Justice John Roberts, but the marshal of the Supreme Court, Gail Curley, said in January she had been unable to definitively determine the leaker’s identity.

"I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible, but that’s different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody," Alito told the Journal.

Despite Curley’s failure to finger the culprit, the justice told the Journal that she "did a good job with the resources that were available to her."
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suspect that Alito will be preparing slightly different drafts for distribution going forward.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  If they don't mind murdering babies, what's a judge or two?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/29/2023 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  My own take, with nothing but Occam's Razor and an inherent suspicious nature, is only ONE person is powerful enough to create an inconclusive investigation of itself by the court and let it be put to bed. The Chief Justice who just wanted to leak it to see how catastrophic it might be.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/29/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Occam’s Razor would indicate it was the most Pro-Choice Justice. From the statements made by the lib justices, Clarence Thomas may have recommended an in house investigation to protect the institution.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 19:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Say Sam, how did that whole thing about PA just brazenly dumping the constitution in the conduct of the 2020 election go? Didn’t you write them a letter?

LOL
Posted by: Verlaine || 04/29/2023 19:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mike Pence testifies before jury in investigation against Donald Trump
[GEO.TV] Former US vice president Mike Pence testified before the grand jury on Thursday in the case by the special counsel against former US president Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
for sabotaging the election results of 2020 and the Capitol Hill incident of January 6, NBC reported citing sources.

Pence's testimony holds great importance as he was the president of the Senate at that time and could provide further details about what was Trump thinking that led to the Capitol Hill attack on January 6, 2021
...Trump complained after being cheated out of reelection and the FBI, Capitol Police, and Democrats jailed hundreds who converged on the capitol without trial for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts. One person, Ashley Babbitt was murdered by a Capitol policeman, who got a medal for it. One policeman died of a stroke, which was inflated to a dozen or so by ax murderers according to Dem propagandists...
In his memoir and a detailed article published in Wall Street Journal, he wrote about his interactions with the former president, though some details were not clear.

Pence, 63, parted ways with Trump over the January 6 riots.

The investigation team led by Special Counsel Jack Smith is focused on Trump's attempts to prevent the election ratification results.

The former vice president arrived with increased security at the federal courthouse in Washington.

In March, a federal judge ordered Mike Pence to testify before the court via subpoena.

Trump, 76, in order to refrain Pence to testify invoked special privilege but failed to block the testimony. The appeal by Trump was rejected on Wednesday by a federal appeals court.

While talking about the testimony of his former vice president, Trump told NBC News: "I don't know what he said, but I have a lot of confidence in him."

Pence testified before the court in which the members of the Proud Boys — the far-right group that was ordered by Donald Trump to remain on standby before the 2020 polls — were also awaiting the jury's decision in their case of sedition.

In the concluding arguments, the lawyer for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio said that the federal government was trying to make Tarrio a "scapegoat" for Trump, whom he blamed for the attack on the Capitol.
Given that Mr. Tarrio was on the FBI payroll at the time, it seems his indignation is legitimate, though the blame most definitely displaced.
While responding to a subpoena and his insistence on not testifying, Pence's team maintained that he was protected by the Constitution’s "speech or debate" clause, which details that politicians cannot be forced to testify about legislative activity.

His team said the clause should apply to him because he was acting in his role as president of the Senate when January 6 unfolded.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
in a ruling federal judge said despite the clause, "it does not prevent him from testifying about alleged illegal behaviour by Trump."

Last month, Pence maintained that he has nothing to hide.

He went on: "I believe we did our duty that day under the Constitution of the United States, and in this matter, I thought it was important that we stand on that constitutional principle again."

He also noted: "But we're currently speaking to our attorneys about the proper way forward."

"President Trump was wrong. I had no right to overturn the election," Pence said at the Gridiron Dinner for politicians and journalists in March.

"And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable," he added.
He staked out his position in the days leading up to the events in question, and so cannot publicly change his mind now. One wonders how he sleeps at night...
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pence is just another DC establishment wonk (if not Deep Stater). I don't know if Trump actually selected him for VP or if Pence was "force upon" Trump; in any case, yet another poor personnel decision involving The Donald.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 11:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Executive privilege is supposed to cover conversations between a president, the sole executive, and direct advisors so that the president can be assured of getting objective and varied opinions. The new idea that executive privilege disappears when the administration ends, defeats the entire purpose of the concept. Now we will all watch the coin flip and executive privilege suddenly include everything to do with Joe Biden’s life and family members. Somehow the VP office, as potential president, will be covered. All this Pence stuff will do is demonstrate the double standard.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure Pence is stabbing DJT in the back - again.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2023 12:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump's biggest problem was finding people he could trust. Not many of those in DC.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/29/2023 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Pop quiz, which major political party (philosophy) believes people should actually have foundational principles that define how they live their lives and hold oaths as a genuine commitment, and which thinks it is all situational ethics and bullshit to fool the rubes?

Anypne....Bueller ...Bueller?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/29/2023 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm in the middle of an online course about the 10 best and 10 worst presidents. The instructor says in so many words that FDR made Bill Clinton pretty much look like an amateur.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ The Whigs? The No-Nothing Party?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Abe "Habeas Corpus" Lincoln was a Whig.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 12:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Abe served only one House term. It was a Whig thing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 19:23 Comments || Top||


Will Joe Biden die sooner than anyone's guess? See what Nikki Haley has to say
[GEO.TV] As the race for Oval Office becomes intense with every passing day, the contenders have started to say things about the other.

Similarly, a presidential candidate of 2024 from the Republican party Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's former ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
had said that Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
will be in the front seat as US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
, 80, is expected to die within five years if he were to earn a second term.

51-year-old Haley said during her interview with Fox News: "He announced that he's running again in 2024, and I think that we can all be very clear and say with a matter of fact that if you vote for Joe Biden you really are counting on a President Harris because the idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not something that I think is likely."

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What Does the Phrase ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ Mean?

“Hope Springs Eternal” is a confidence that what we expect will happen, and we can wait for it with peace and joy. Such hope outweighs and overwhelms current circumstances, whatever they may be.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/29/2023 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Only the good die young...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2023 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  What if, he stroked out and was placed in a Hospital and things were run using his name by a wife and others?

OH! that's right.
That was already done before, just over 100 years ago by other Racist, Liberal and Socialist leaning Democrat
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/29/2023 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ There was a World War going on then, too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/29/2023 9:14 Comments || Top||


#6  He’s got a bunch of doctors to keep him alive. If he dies, it will be doing something stupid like chasing his dog naked again.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Just want to point out, that if Brandon's press cue cards "Is how we've always done it", the card format would be established and the question order wouldn't be hand written.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2023 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, the frontal lobe seems to be gone, so the rest cannot be far behind.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/29/2023 18:31 Comments || Top||


New York on cusp of being first state in nation to ban natural gas
[NYPOST] Gas stoves will soon become toast in New York, under a controversial new handshake deal between Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Albany politicians that would make that state the first in the US to ban natural gas.

The pending budget deal mandates all new buildings under seven stories be fully electric by 2026 with larger structures following three years later.

While Hochul hailed the plan as a way to fight climate change, average New Yorkers said it was not so hot of an idea.

"Kathy should mind her own business and get out of our kitchens," Yas Kantakis, a resident of Sutton Place, told The Post.

"Now she’s in our kitchens first, our bedrooms will be next. Why would somebody come into your private home and tell you what to do? We’re not communist yet — we’re getting there — but it’s just an insult."

Albany Democrats are expected to approve the electrification push as part of a $229 billion spending deal struck nearly a month past an April 1 deadline.

Critics say the upcoming state ban will drive rising energy costs while depriving many New Yorkers of their right to beloved gas stoves in future homes.
They voted for her, they deserve her.
Say, at least, they did not prevent her from stealing the election, which may be just as true.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Census and IRS data show that people are leaving NY faster than any other state except California. Can one wonder why?
Posted by: Tom || 04/29/2023 6:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ [Oz flying monkeys clip]
Posted by: Snins Grundy4984 || 04/29/2023 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Headline, Dec. Jan, 2024 - "As Predicted, Hell Freezes Over."

But, maybe NY is using climate psychology to push a population exodus?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/29/2023 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  The problem with a population exodus is that the taxpayers leave and if enough of them leave, you lose seats in Congress.

Why don't they just cut to the chase and ban C02? That would stop Global Warming in its tracks.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/29/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Steve, the taxpayers leave but are replaced by illegal immigrants, keeping census numbers up, and enhancing the power of the non-taxpaying voters.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/29/2023 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ A good point, Glenmore. So we just need some more cash from the FedGov and it's all good!

Wait, do these illegal immigrants emit C02?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/29/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Madness.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2023 10:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Didn't a Federal court recently strike down a law in CA intended to ban gas stoves? This crap will suffer the same fate.
Posted by: Raj || 04/29/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||

#9  ...See ya in January, idiots.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/29/2023 11:35 Comments || Top||

#10  I guess my gas bill will be dropping.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/29/2023 11:37 Comments || Top||

#11  It's times like this when the Left suddenly is a proponent and defender of "states' rights".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/29/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||

#12  What should happen is EVERY company should immediately halt all sales of 'fossil fuel' and it's products to the ENTIRE state of New York. No gasoline, no oil, no plastics, no lubricants or fertilizer. They'd last what, 3 days?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/29/2023 12:07 Comments || Top||

#13  #4 The problem with a population exodus is that the taxpayers leave and if enough of them leave, you lose seats in Congress.

The Dems cheat on the Census as well as the Vote.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 04/29/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||

#14  This ought to make the restaurant industry happy.

Cooking on electric stoves sucks.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/29/2023 19:17 Comments || Top||

#15  Bet not The French Laundry.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/29/2023 19:28 Comments || Top||



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