[NY Post] Karma is a bitch Karmala?
Maybe there was a surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention after all.
Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country.
"When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC and come home with COVID-19. Womp womp," Christopher Wiggins, a reporter at The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine, posted on X.
Several others also shared their diagnosis on social media. See Monkeypox
"Indeed. I arrived at the DNC healthy and hopeful and left very sick and disillusioned," human rights lawyer Yasmine Taeb wrote on X.
"Oh man! I brought home so much sweet swag from the DNC! Coffee mugs, stickers, t-shirts, poster, buttons, bags, pins, and....COVID! SWEET!" "On Democracy Pod" host Fred Wellman exclaimed.
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About monkeypox: although the infection is ugly and distressing (not to mention revealing about behaviours that in too much of the world are safer left unannounced), would it — like Dr. Edward Jenner discovered about milkmaids and cowpox — confer immunity to the much nastier smallpox?
Interestingly, according to the FDA they approved a joint smallpox/monkeypox vaccine in 2019 — for at-risk adults only — in response to the first reported monkeypox outbreak in the US, which occurred in 2003 and was the first reported outbreak outside of Africa.
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Separately, reportedly this month’s version of Covid is short but nasty. I wonder how many of this year’s DNC participants will risk returning in the future?
[NY Post] Sen. Ron Johnson accused the FBI and Secret Service of stonewalling a Senate probe of last month’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Johnson (R-Wis.), who is part of a bipartisan Senate investigation into the attempt on Trump’s life, argued that the bureau and Secret Service have complicated the probe by giving them redacted documents, often on the day of key interviews.
"All I can really tell you is the Secret Service, FBI are basically dragging their feet. They’re stonewalling us," Johnson vented on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures."
"We’re not getting squat, from my standpoint, from the Secret Service or the FBI. We have requested all their 302s, their transcriptions of their interviews with hundreds of individuals. They’re not turning those over to us as well."
A bevy of organizations is probing how Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was able to crawl up onto a rooftop on July 13 and fire off eight shots, including one that clipped and drew blood from Trump’s right ear.
The shooting killed firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, and left two other rally attendees — David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74 — severely wounded. Crooks was killed by law enforcement.
"If you want to design an investigation to raise suspicions and drive conspiracy theories, this is exactly how you do that investigation," Johnson added. "It was just jaw-dropping that they released the body for cremation before anybody’s seen any autopsy or toxicology reports."
"It’s just driving suspicion and conspiracy theories."
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Gary Peters (D-Mich.) is helming an inquiry into the assassination attempt in the upper chamber. Johnson was previously chair of that committee.
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We know a lot more than they provided to us for the JFK assassination. It took place 60+ years ago and we are still waiting to read and see whom in DC were the planners and the Grassy Knoll shooters.
[FoxNews] House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., issued a stark warning against Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing she knew the "entire time" that President Biden was "checked out" as the U.S. faces a series of domestic challenges and threats from across the globe.
Johnson joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss the administration's failure to handle various domestic and foreign issues as Biden jet sets to the beach in Delaware and Harris campaigns ahead of the November election.
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Actually, your adversaries should fear her more than Biden (or Reagan) because (IMO*) she's borderline psychotic and go full delusion of infallibility if elected.
*She reminds me of a female professor I worked for once.
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"They have no shame. You saw that on display at the Democratic National Convention. They're engaging in fantasy over fact," Johnson said. "We've got to make sure people understand... You can't make an emotional decision here. You have got to make a decision based on their record and not their rhetoric. They're saying things that are patently untrue. They're gaslighting the American people, and they expect that, I guess, that the people are not intelligent enough to figure this out."
My biggest fear is that too many people rely on corporate media for their information and they are NOT intelligent to figure it out.
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I don't think our adversaries should fear Kamala Harris any more or less than Biden. They are both doing exactly what they're told by whoever their puppet master is.
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My biggest fear is that too many people rely on corporate media
How about all the people who are part of the current arrangement?
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I don't think our adversaries should fear Kamala Harris any more or less than Biden. They are both doing exactly what they're told by whoever their puppet master is.
This is true but there are still some 'ceremonial' roles for such an arrangement.
Diplomatic and Policy detente. The ability to sell the program, and/or give give covering face to those involved. Say for example, the US and Iran find a diplomatic solution to current events, and a weak US president gets on TV and crows about victory, how would Iran handle such internal and international embarrassment seeming to cave?
Selling the results of a policy result to the general population.
Not saying something stupid which derails happenings. When Brandon slipped up, everyone just kind of well gramps needs his keys taken away. Saying the quiet part out loud is the meme; but remember when NATO was all lined up to provide air cover in an assault against Team Assad back in the Obama tenure for allegedly using chemical weapons, and John Kerry, billed as smartest person in the room, accidentally gave an out 'well the only way is if all of Assad's chem weapons would be destroyed.'? And Russia was like, absolutely that can be done. Air totally went out of the balloon for such an action.
These are reasons why I think Harris is best case scenario, because even if they pull the cheat I don't think she (or Michelle) could possibly pull off these requirements.
Sheet mohn, even Oprah's wig couldn't pull off the catlady joke.
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[NY Post] Sen. Ron Johnson accused the FBI and 
A bevy of organizations is probing how 
