Well-meaning Americans are being suckered into an illiberal political cabal.
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Well-meaning Americans are being suckered into an illiberal political cabal.
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Do you remember how conservatives went out of their way to separate rank-and-file FBI agents from the corrupt actions of Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bill Priestap, James Baker, James Rybicki, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and others as more evidence came to light revealing that the top brass at the bureau had worked to create an "insurance policy" that could be used to overthrow President Trump from office? Writers and television pundits would always couch any criticism of the bureau in some respectful language like "we're only talking about high-ranking officials here, not the FBI, itself, which is filled with the best agents in the world who are always looking out for America."
I think we can dispense with the overly protective pleasantries at this point. The FBI is a goon squad of un-American thugs who have taken the worst elements of East Germany's Stasi police state and Cosa Nostra's organized crime and turned them into a blueprint for exercising and keeping illegitimate power over their enemies. They aren't a law enforcement organization, and they certainly don't give a rat's rear end about justice. They're regime enforcers with badges.
The word on the street is that many of the attacks on Biden’s
cognitive impairment have their origin in Vice President Harris’ faction. It looks as if Harris is stabbing Biden in
the back to hurry the transition before the Biden forces destroy what’s left of
Harris's ability to be seen as a credible successor. The people running Biden are working
overtime to destroy Harris beginning with the decision to make Harris the fall
guy for the border fiasco.
The “Big Club” is the establishment, deep state, cabal, elites, ruling class, or whatever you want to call those in power.
Looking at politicians, it is clear who is in the big club and who is not. Most Democrats are in the big club, with few exceptions such as Bernie Sanders or members of The Squad. They may serve as useful idiots to further the Democrat agenda but will never get close to the reins of power, as Bernie learned twice during his ill-fated presidential campaigns.
Some Republicans are club members, typically those referred to as RINOs - Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, the Bushes, and former conservatives, now known as NeverTrumpers. Media cranks like Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, and Chris Wallace are in the big club. Other media bigwigs like Rush Limbaugh were never in the club.
Members of Congress not in the Big Club are treated like leppers, examples being Devin Nunes, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
A simple litmus test is whether someone is given a pass for transgressions that would normally land someone not in the club in prison. Think Bill and Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden. BLM rioters are part of the club and released from jail lickety-split. Those let into the US Capitol on January 6 by Capitol Police, not part of the club, are rotting away in solitary confinement for months.
The St. Louis couple who were seen holding firearms as Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists approached their home pleaded guilty to several misdemeanor charges and surrendered their guns.Mark McCloskey, a lawyer, pleaded guilty to a Class C misdemeanor of fourth-degree assault, while his wife, Patricia McCloskey, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor of second-degree harassment. They will pay the maximum fines of $2,000 and $750, and they won’t serve any jail time.More notably, however, the two will be forced to forfeit the weapons they were holding when they confronted BLM protesters who were marching near their home last summer.
Mark McCloskey is running for the US Senate.
An IRS official denied tax-exempt status to a Texas group that encourages church members to pray for state and national leaders, regardless of their party affiliation, because it benefits “the private interests of the [Republican] Party.”
“You do not qualify as an organization described in IRS Section 501(c)(3). You engage in prohibited political campaign intervention,” wrote Stephen A. Martin, director of the IRS Office of Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements, in a May 18 letter (pdf) to Christians Engaged, the Garland, Texas-based prayer group recognized by Texas officials as tax-exempt.
According to the IRS, promoting Christian values is now Republican propaganda.
The first American Revolution occurred before 1776. In the Hillsdale College historical course “Land
of Hope” the historian Dr. Wilfred McClay clearly and vividly explains that the
real American revolution occurred first in the minds of the American colonists. This occurred years before the first shots were
fired. The Patriots were persuaded that they
had a right to rule themselves rather than being ruled by Imperial
England.
Thomas Paine’s widely read pamphlet “Common Sense” reflected
these beliefs. The Declaration of Independence
put them into a formal resolution. And the
“Shot Heard Round the World” began the bloody test of whether the revolution
would live.
We are now amid a second revolution. Like the first one, it began in the mind. But unlike the first revolution it is a
top-down rather than a bottom-up movement.
It is led by an entitled class whose goal is to rule those who view the
rest of us as cattle, to be herded. And if
we resist to be beaten and cowed into submission. This is not a revolution for the people, but
a counter-revolution of the privileged.
The first revolution had two factions: the Patriots who
wished to form a new Republic and the Tories who wished to be ruled by Imperial
England. The current revolution also has
two factions. This time the Patriots
wish to keep the Republic and the Socialist who wish to re-establish a Continental
Empire ruled by from the Imperial City: Washington DC.
The first steps have already been taken. The Socialist control the means of communication. They hold the Presidency and the bureaucratic
levers of power, the police powers of the central state and are purging the
military of those who disagree. They hold
the tools of coercion much as the British held those powers until the shooting
began. Their political power bases are densely
populated urban centers and communities dominated by academic institutions. The Patriots are widely dispersed throughout
the rest of the country and lack a unified center.
But like the original revolution the issue is still in
doubt. As many Patriots surely did
before the bloody battles of the of the Revolutionary war began, we pray that
bloodshed can be avoided. But world history
is the story of violent conflict interspersed with brief periods of peace. Let us
pray that the Patriots are again victorious.
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Worth a read.
That doesn’t mean mass murder is inevitable or imminent. But this sort of rhetoric is the exact kind of dehumanizing, totalizing rhetoric used to justify the worst atrocities against the largest groups of people. Labeling white people as “insatiable” parasites, as fonts of “white fragility” or “whitelash” or “white rage” responsible for all of America’s political ills, fuels the cultural moment where it is acceptable to racially discriminate against white people, denying them jobs, university seats, and other opportunities purely on the basis of race. It drives an environment where leaders openly talk about levying special taxes aimed at white people or seizing their assets to redistribute to more favored races....
Calling the violent fantasies of extremists merely “symbolic” is playing along with the left’s ratchet strategy, where rhetoric steadily gets more expansive and more explicit in its demands, while reserving the right to say “just kidding!” every time there is pushback. This ratchet is how America went from “police reform” to “abolish the police” and “abolish prisons.” And it’s how America has gone from “symbolic” demands for reparations to American cities literally awarding money to some people based on skin color....
Every day, ordinary American white people are subjected a propaganda blitzkrieg that treats them as the intractable source of all problems in America, incapable of reform or redemption. Even the mildest statement in defense of white people as a group is treated as an unthinkable taboo.
In D.C. the local government rewarded the worst looting in decades by painting “BLACK LIVES MATTER” in mammoth letters down a major street less than one week later. But at Ohio Wesleyan University in 2019, the FBI came in to criminally investigate someone putting up posters that simply said “It’s okay to be white.” The FBI also joined with state and local police to investigate the same sign at Western Connecticut State University. “It’s okay to be white” hasn’t been linked to a single act of mayhem and destruction yet it is treated as a national crisis, while dozens of major riots in the name of BLM have only entrenched it as state ideology. Why? Because, in America right now, it is emphatically not okay to be white.
“All white people are racist,” “only white people are racist,” and “reverse racism doesn’t exist” may not be believed by everyone, but they are stale tropes resurrected endlessly when needed to justify new discriminatory policies or more anti-white agitation.
...
America cannot survive if the right continues to live in denial about what is happening. They are not simply locked in a battle with “Marxism” or “critical race theory.” Both could vanish tomorrow, and the real threat would remain. The actors of the Globalist American Empire who call “white supremacy” the nation’s top security threat, or blame “nice white parents” for the problems in education, or melt down over birdwatching being too white, aren’t being motivated by the finer points of Marxism. They’ve simply been trained, at an instinctive level, to despise white people. Less white is good, more white is bad. And once that concept has been made explicit, even the worst atrocities become possible.
The vast majority of Americans do not want to live in a country marred by racial hatred. They believe in fairness, equal opportunity, and treating people as individuals. Even in California, despite a huge spending advantage and the support of almost every nexus of power in the state, a proposition to legalize explicit racial discrimination failed decisively with the state’s voters.
The left’s rhetoric of race hatred is evil, but it’s also unpopular. It survives because its proponents lie about what it is, and their enemies are too frightened to call them out. Contrary to the left’s repeated smears and lies, the right has long avoided racializing America’s policy debates. Even now, half a decade after it became cringeworthy, it’s still more common to see Republicans accuse Democrats of being the real racists against America’s non-whites than it is to see them bluntly state the truth about the left’s anti-white impulses.
The time for this to change is now. From now on, it is the duty of the right’s opinion leaders to openly say what the extremist anti-white left is doing: Deliberately tolerating and enabling violent, dehumanizing, and yes, pre-genocidal rhetoric against innocent American white people. Americans of all races will be ready to resist this. But they need leaders who will honestly say what is happening.
"It sickens me to hear what people say about Ashli. There has never been a person that Ashli ran across in her daily life that didn’t love her."
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 15, 2021
Ashli Babbit's husband Aaron and lawyer Terrell Roberts speak out on their lawsuit to identify the officer who shot her on Jan 6. pic.twitter.com/Ic6vhi5K16
Walter Durante was the New York Times reporter who lied about the famine created by Communist dictator Stalin who starved millions to death in the Ukraine.
The Ukrainian famine—known as the Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death”—by one estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population. And, unlike other famines in history caused by blight or drought, this was caused when a dictator wanted both to replace Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority.
Walter Duranty, the New York Times's man in Moscow, outright lied about the events, deliberately misleading his readers.
Dave Ress does a Durante in this report in which he tells his readers that he knows that the dollars that the Norfolk Naval Shipyard is getting are the same dollars that President Trump diverted to building the wall along the Mexican border, and these same dollars are now restored by the benevolent Biden.
Congratulations Dave, your award is well deserved.
Anyone who thinks that the aftermath of the Wuhan flu escaping the lab is an accident is a fool.
No western government agency should be experimenting with lethal viruses in a facility documented to be as slapdash about safety protocols as the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But let us say the leak was accidental. Occam's Razor suggests that it's entirely obvious Chairman Xi would use it to rid himself of the US-China "trade war" (remember that?) and the one American politician serious about arresting and reversing the rise of Beijing. Furthermore, Xi knew he could rely on America's media-corporate-showbiz nexus to "collaborate" on that. What may have surprised him, if only in the totality of its fetal posture, is the west's willingness to tank its economy, wall up its citizenry for a year, and howl down anyone who wanted to blame the perp as "racist".
So maybe it's time to take it to the next level. Right now, the global Covid death toll is closing in on four million. To many among the Covid scoffers, that's chump change relative to the world's population, and anyway a lot of them were getting up there - in their nineties, late eighties, early sixties... But once upon a time killing four million people used to be regarded as a big deal in and of itself. And, as I said on Thursday's Clubland Q&A, as of today the preponderance of the evidence is that they were killed by a virus that escaped from a lab funded by the Government of the United States.
You don't think Xi can't make that work for him? Is Trump still talking about reparations? "Okay, you first," says Beijing. How do you think India and Brazil feel about Fauci's games of function at the virological equivalent of the CIA's overseas rendition sites? Or the European Union, which semi-crippled its economy in semi-perpetuity? France closed its restaurants and told them to do (dread word) "take-out": wouldn't you like to stick it to the Yanks for that?
Consider the prevailing political realities: If you blame Covid on Chairman Xi, he kiboshes you with sanctions (Australia) or forces you out of the Five Eyes (New Zealand). Whereas, if you blame Covid on Washington, what are they gonna do?
Furthermore, look at the key players closer to home. Powerline's John Hinderaker writes:
The anxiety of the entire American establishment to protect the Chinese Communist Party is remarkable. Prominent Americans from Joe Biden to Mark Zuckerberg to Lebron James apparently prioritize loyalty to China over pretty much everything else. We normal Americans need a much better understanding of why this should be true.
To which Roger L Simon provides the obvious answer. These guys figure the Chinese have already won - and therefore, unlike Kraut-chummy Parisian trollopes in 1945, there will be no price to be paid for "collaboration":
Democracy dies in darkness, but stealth editing thrives there. That's Orwell 101 - although one assumes whichever of Bezos's woeful hacks was ordered to do it was unaware of his literary antecedents, or self-respect would have required him to seek alternative, less pitiful employment. Nevertheless, as you'll know if you heard my serialization of Nineteen Eighty-Four, that was literally Winston Smith's job - to go into the archives and rewrite past editions of the newspapers to conform to the needs of the present. And to ensure that versions of the past less helpful to the regime get, in one of Orwell's many brilliant coinages, "memory-holed".
Our chaps haven't been memory-holing quite as long, so they're not as smooth and assured about it as Winston Smith's Ministry of Truth. Commissar Zuckerberg's Facebook will now permit you to suggest that the ChiCom-19 may have "escaped" from a lab - in contrast to the rules a week or so back, when so much as raising the possibility got your account vaporized. Wikipedia isn't quite so quick on the uptake: as I write, the lab-leak origin of the WuFlu still comes under "Covid-19 misinformation" as a theory used "to stoke anti-China sentiments". But presumably the lads are modifying even as I speak.
Gee, it's almost like they all got the same fax from head office. So what was a fortnight back a conspiracy theory that could not be mentioned is now acceptable in polite Zuck-policed society. Not because any new proof has emerged one way or the other: there has always been more evidence for a Covid lab leak than for the bat theory, not least because the relevant bats live a thousand miles from the Wuhan wet market.
When you boil it right down, the fledermaus theory of the WuFlu rests mainly on "scientist" Peter Daszak. Mr Daszak is this season's omnipresent British subject: He is to bats what Christopher Steele is to Russians; his job is to maintain them as the McGuffin.
So, on the one hand, Peter Daszak is the US government's principal middle-man (via the "non-profit" EcoHealth Alliance, which he heads) for funneling American tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. His principal research activity for the last decade has been coronavirus gain-of-function projects with Shi Zhengli, the lady who heads said institute in Wuhan.
On the other hand, Peter Daszak was also the only "American" member of the team the WHO sent to China to "investigate" the source of the virus. He was the organizer of the letter from twenty-seven virologists to The Lancet saying ChiCom-19 was of natural origin. And he was the "expert" relied on by Zuckerberg to ban lab-leak chit-chat on Facebook.
In none of these activities did he disclose his conflict of interest - that the institution he was absolving was his principal business partner, and run by his closest professional colleague, who has denied, risibly, that any of her employees ever got sick from the WuFlu, and certainly not in the fall of 2019.
So, if you're one of those who appealed to Zuckerberg to let you have your Facebook page back, well, good luck with that: That's like appealing your alimony to a judge who's dating your ex-wife.
Powerline's John Hinderaker writes:
The anxiety of the entire American establishment to protect the Chinese Communist Party is remarkable. Prominent Americans from Joe Biden to Mark Zuckerberg to Lebron James apparently prioritize loyalty to China over pretty much everything else. We normal Americans need a much better understanding of why this should be true.
To which Roger L Simon provides the obvious answer. These guys figure the Chinese have already won - and therefore, unlike Kraut-chummy Parisian trollopes in 1945, there will be no price to be paid for "collaboration":
A perfect example is giant Apple whose most recent quarterly China revenue came in at a record-breaking $21 billion+. At the same time we got all sorts of 'social justicey' talk from CEO Tim Cook.
What Cook is doing, cashing in big on one side while mouthing 'liberal' pieties on the other, suits the Chinese communists perfectly well, essentially enabling them. Apple then becomes a linchpin of American communism much in the way Huawei is a linchpin of Chinese communism. (Not inconsequentially, Apple's top five executives, including Cook, earned a total of almost exactly $120 million in 2020, up 13 percent during the pandemic.)
Almost our entire corporate world is trotting eagerly behind.
What will Zuckerberg, the Weirdbeard and the other commissars permit us to talk about? Over the weekend, I was asked to weigh in on the latest big Twitter fever - the vital question of whether or not Donald Trump had his trousers on backwards when he addressed the North Carolina Republican convention. The entirely predictable answer? No.
Yet, if Chairman Xi were to express a preference for wearing pants backwards, one has the strange feeling the WHO and CDC would recommend it and Zuckerberg, and The Washington Post would dismiss dissenters as conspiracy theorists, and Lebron James and John Cena would apologize for accidentally wearing their zippers at the front.
Shithole Press Lied Again |
For more than a year, it has been consecrated media fact that former President Donald Trump and his White House, on June 1 of last year, directed the U.S. Park Police to use tear gas against peaceful Lafayette Park protesters, all to enable a Trump photo-op in front of St. John's Church. That this happened was never presented as a possibility or likelihood but as indisputable truth. And it provoked weeks of unmitigated media outrage, presented as one of the most egregious assaults on the democratic order in decades.
This tale was so pervasive in the media landscape that it would be impossible for any one article to compile all the examples. “Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op,” read the NPR headline on June 1. The New York Times ran with: “Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church.” CNN devoted multiple segments to venting indignation while the on-screen graphic declared: “Peaceful Protesters Near White House Tear-Gassed, Shot With Rubber Bullets So Trump Can Have Church Photo Op.”
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos “reported” that “the administration asked police to clear peaceful protesters from the park across the White House so that the President could stage a photo op.” The Intercept published an article stating that “federal police used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from Lafayette Square in front of the White House,” all to feature a video where the first interviewee said: “to me, the way our military and police have behaved toward the protesters at the instruction of President Trump has almost been Nazi-like.”Nazi-like. This was repeated by virtually every major corporate outlet:
All of this came crashing down on their heads on Wednesday afternoon.
The IG's conclusion could not be clearer: the media narrative was false from start to finish. Namely, he said, “the evidence did not support a finding that the [U.S. Park Police] cleared the park on June 1, 2020, so that then President Trump could enter the park.” Instead — exactly as Hemingway's widely-mocked-by-liberal-outlets article reported — “the evidence we reviewed showed that the USPP cleared the park to allow a contractor to safely install anti-scale fencing in response to destruction of Federal property and injury to officers that occurred on May 30 and May 31.” Crucially, “the evidence established that relevant USPP officials had made those decisions and had begun implementing the operational plan several hours before they knew of a potential Presidential visit to the park, which occurred later that day."
“The law must be applied equally without regard to party, power or privilege. When the Department of Justice treats similar criminal acts differently, such conduct erodes faith in our governmental institutions and the law.”
National Democrats, up to and including the Biden administration, want you to believe that our government is so fragile that a couple hundred unarmed trespassers in the Capitol Building on January 6th posed a very real threat to our Republic.
Let that sink in. They expect us to believe that our government was—literally—on the verge of collapse during those few hours. Keep in mind that not one of the hundreds arrested, many of whom are still being detained, was armed.
The one and only person who died violently, at someone else’s hand, at the Capitol on January 6th was an unarmed Air Force vet, Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by an as-yet unnamed Capitol police officer....
The latest leftist lie that the events at the Capitol on January 6th are the “worst act of political violence since the Civil War” is beyond laughable and aimed at the stupid, gullible, and uninformed (i.e. Democrat voters). This historically-inaccurate hyperbolic nonsense is being peddled by everyone on the left from Joe Biden right down to the dregs of propagandist “journalism.”
The Democrats need to have a Reichstag moment in order to facilitate their shutting down of any and all dissent. They need the events at the Capitol to be a crisis, and they need that crisis in order to justify expansive federal surveillance and persecution of their political “enemies” among the American people.
That “coup” and “insurrection” were just the ticket. After all, who needs an actual crisis to declare a war on “domestic terror”? Not the Dems because they have the media and Big Tech protecting this ludicrous lie that America was about to be undone by a ragtag bunch of selfie-takers.
Federal law enforcement don’t really care if the stinky commie hippies are the “enemy” or if normal Americans are. Agency goals include, always, expanding power and control. If that creeps into monitoring, surveilling, and ultimately persecuting Americans, that’s a win.
Our federal government is currently waging a “war on domestic terror,” a “war”against non-woke American citizens who reject the racist, communist left’s divisive and destructive agenda. That the events on January 6th were an historically minor incident that is dwarfed by (as but one example) Obama associate Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground setting off a bomb on the U.S. Senate side of the Capitol Building is beside the point.
Yet under the premise that a bunch of random, unconnected, unarmed people could actually topple our government, the FBI beclowned itself raiding an Alaska couple whom they well knew had never even entered the Capitol building, and the federal government is holding people for months on end who are guilty of, at most, trespassing. Indeed, at least one man held in connection to the Capitol events was allegedly beaten so severely by jail guards that he is permanently blinded in one eye.
This is police state intimidation, it’s totalitarian political oppression, it’s banana republic political prisoner nonsense that is an absolute embarrassment and disgrace not just to the DOJ and FBI but to our entire country.
Meanwhile, BLM and antifa vandals, rioters, arsonists, and assailants are arrested and returned to the streets in record time. Among the many people pushing bail funds for these violent criminals was then-senator and now VP Kamala Harris.
BLM and antifa criminals can literally commit arson, vandalism, assault, be filmed doing it, and be released the same day to continue their illegal activities. Meanwhile, people who wandered into the Capitol on January 6th to take few selfies, and who didn’t set fire to or vandalize a single thing (or set up some crazy ‘autonomous zone’ that explicitly rejects U.S. government and law) are being held, beaten, permanently disfigured, and charged to the fullest extent of the law.
This disparate, blatantly unequal treatment of the Capitol Hill trespassers who are being persecuted not for actual crimes but for political purposes versus the criminal burning, looting, and murder by BLM and antifa throughout last summer (and continuing in Democrat-run cities to this day) is an outrage.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is busted stuff. He's damaged goods. He's a liar. He needs to go away. Every time he gets on television to stroke his ego, he only damages the very institutions entrusted with fighting pathogens and preparing for future pandemics. The medical expert community is finished for a while. There's no reason to listen to them ever again. They said wear masks but didn't tell us that the store-bought products were useless. There was no such thing as asymptomatic spread. He thought a COVID vaccine wasn't necessary, and there's quite a paper trail concerning Fauci, the NIH, EcoHealth Alliance, and the grants doled out to the Wuhan virology lab that might be the epicenter for this pandemic.The emails Fauci sent, which were obtained via a FOIA request, show a massive history of lying to the public about some key COVID protocols that simply were not backed by science. They went along with it anyway. Noble lies…are still lies, and when exposed, the damage can be catastrophic. It shows the scientific community decided to peddle pure fiction. It shows they got political. It shows the bias that has seeped into this expert community. And now they must now speak to empty rooms because no one should ever listen to these people again. They kept us scared about asymptomatic spread that's as real as the Russian collusion myth. Oh, and the variants—it's all scare tactics. Remember the "impending doom" we faced during spring break? Nothing happened. The ruse is up, and a Stanford epidemiologist summed up Fauci perfectly concerning his credibility.
Stanford's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to @IngrahamAngle: Fauci's "credibility is entirely shot."
— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) June 5, 2021
"What is that science that changed that convinced him that masks are the most effective way?" pic.twitter.com/GJUzmPRe0Y
When Fulton County, Ga., poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden. One after another, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden — except that each of the darkened bubbles featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they'd been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil.
Adding to suspicions, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she handled as part of a statewide hand recount of the razor-thin Nov. 3 presidential election. And none was folded or creased, as she typically observed in mail-in ballots that had been removed from envelopes.
In short, the Biden votes looked like they’d been duplicated by a copying machine.
“All of them were strangely pristine," said Voyles, who said she’d never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta.
She wasn’t alone. At least three other poll workers observed the same thing in stacks of absentee ballots for Biden processed by the county, and they have joined Voyles in swearing under penalty of perjury that they looked fake.
Sure, it's one way to win elections. Just print the right number of ballots on a copier. It's easier than campaigning. Heck, you could just hide in your basement until the fake ballots get counted in the middle of the night.
We are in a literally Orwellian world now. Until a couple of days ago the headline on this Washington Post story from February 2020 read:
Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.Now it reads:
Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.Democracy dies in darkness, but stealth editing thrives there. That's Orwell 101 - although one assumes whichever of Bezos's woeful hacks was ordered to do it was unaware of his literary antecedents, or self-respect would have required him to seek alternative, less pitiful employment. Nevertheless, as you'll know if you heard my serialization of Nineteen Eighty-Four, that was literally Winston Smith's job - to go into the archives and rewrite past editions of the newspapers to conform to the needs of the present. And to ensure that versions of the past less helpful to the regime get, in one of Orwell's many brilliant coinages, "memory-holed".
Our chaps haven't been memory-holing quite as long, so they're not as smooth and assured about it as Winston Smith's Ministry of Truth. Commissar Zuckerberg's Facebook will now permit you to suggest that the ChiCom-19 may have "escaped" from a lab - in contrast to the rules a week or so back, when so much as raising the possibility got your account vaporized. Wikipedia isn't quite so quick on the uptake: as I write, the lab-leak origin of the WuFlu still comes under "Covid-19 misinformation" as a theory used "to stoke anti-China sentiments". But presumably the lads are modifying even as I speak.
For the media to use "Democracy dies in darkness" while stifling, erasing, and outlawing any opinion but their own is Gaslighting. Someone at the Washington Post was given the job of rewriting past editions of the paper to conform to the needs of the present. It doesn't get to be more Orwellian than that.
The only question is: who is Big Brother? We know who that the Party is the Democrats.
Ever since the Nixon opening to China, American foreign
policy has been focused on making China a full member of the international community.
Nixon saw China as a counterweight to Russia who was our
primary strategic opponent since the Second World War.
Others saw closer relations with China as an advantage from their
own viewpoint. American corporations originally
saw a billion Chinese as a huge untapped market for their products and
services.
The entertainment industry knew Chinese like movies. The sports industry saw Chinese sports
fans. And both slavered at the opportunity
to sell a billion tickets.
Wall Street saw billions of dollars in fees from the
emerging Chinese interest in publicly traded companies.
Academia saw Chinese students paying full tuition, funding for research and new buildings.
Manufacturers saw cheap Chinese labor as a
way to cut costs, labor being a major part of the cost of manufacturing
products.
Successive American administrations were convinced that opening up China would transform them into a Democracy.
Instead, what happened is that American institutions became dependent on the Chinese market, Chinese manufacturing and the approval of the Chinese Communist Party for their profits.
Moreover,
these profits depended on staying on the good side of the Chinese Communist
Party who could, with the snap of their fingers, stop movie distribution or end
sporting events by teams that failed to toe the Communist Party line.
Donald Trump is the first American President who has actual experience in international trade and was the first to point out that America’s trade with China was a disastrously one-sided proposition.
Trade agreement with China favored China over American interests. These agreements incentivized American companies to close factories in the U.S., open factories in China and destroy American jobs.
Destroying middle class jobs was
not a hardship for government workers who did not have to fear being replaced
by cheap Chinese labor, but Trump saw what was happening and decided to do something
about it. He demanded new trade agreements,
and when China balked, he established tariffs.
These actions began to reverse decades of neglect for Middle
America. But it was a shock to the American
Ruling Class who was getting rich while the working class was being decimated.
They knew the FBI, the CIA and the DOJ were opposed to Trump. They also knew that the CDC and the DOD were implicated in funding research at the Wuhan Virology lab to see how bat viruses can be made deadly to humans.
So they released the virus on an unsuspecting world and issued a cover story. The lie was that it occurred naturally from a market in Wuhan the sold live animals.
Immediately their allies in the sciences echoed their lies, telling us that there was no question that the virus was natural. Any suggestion that the virus may have come from a virology lab in Wuhan was classified as a crackpot conspiracy theory.
The American
press, piled on and not only blamed the deaths
that followed on President Trump but told their audience that to even the mention
of the fact that the virus came from China was racist.
Anthony Fauci, who’s office was the source of some to the funds
that wend to the Wuhan lab worked tirelessly to deny any responsibility and
persuaded President Trump to lock the country down.
The Chinese could not have asked for a better ally. It wasn't the release of the virus, but the shutting the economy down that that transformed the economic miracle that President
Trump has performed into deep recession, deliberately throwing millions out of
work and destroying a large part of the small business community.
The press entered the election uniformly opposed to the President. The press and the major tech giants like
Twitter, Facebook, and Google prevented any discussion of drugs - like Ivermectin - that could get
people well if they became infected by the Wuhan virus.
This led to thousand dying in agony. But to the Left it was worth it. For the first time in American history, an American
president was literally censored and prevented from using the public square. Meanwhile the virulently Andi-Trump
Washington Post was proclaiming that “Democracy Dies in Darkness” even as they –
and our new tech overlords were using their power to silence their political
opponents in ways that dictators will copy faithfully in the future.
The Chinese can say “Mission accomplished.” They didn’t even have to make it that deadly. In purely biological terms, the virus itself
is marginally more deadly than common flu except of people who co-morbidity. It was lies, misinformation and fear that Left used as a weapon. It was
used to reverse the President who put America first, who believed in American
Greatness, and who felt compassion for those who the Ruling Class had discarded.
So the country is now beginning to ask whether this virus was accidentally released. The real question that needs to be answered was whether is was purposeful. And why?
“By the fall of 2019 Donald Trump had achieved the greatest economic boom in American history, had put a serious dent in the Chi-Com economy vis a vis ending suicidal trade and tariff regimes and was effectively confronting them on their imperialist designs on the South China Seas and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Hong Kong and other provinces less well-covered in the media were seriously defying Peking, and the Chinese economy itself had serious problems. Meanwhile the Democrat Party, the PRC's political soul-mates, was parading around an anti-American freak show of 20 candidates vying to see who would draw the short straw to get his/her/xer ass kicked in a landslide by Trump, who looked unstoppable especially after the New Year's present of taking out Iran's #1 terrorist mastermind. And then, as if by magic...”
Here's the problem.
The Left, the Democrats, the media, the tech oligarchs, and the army of government
bureaucrats are in league with China. So
we are in for interesting times. Will
China invade Taiwan? Will riots rock
America’s cities? Will there be another
Reichstag Fire? Will the FBI continue
its manhunt for people who attended Trump rallies? As
Comrade Beria famously said ”show me the man and I will show you the crime;” will
Trump be indicted for littering?
Read the whole thing, but here's the bottom line: the way the virus was made virulent was the least likely way that nature would have done it but the common way that virologists who what to make a virus more lethal commonly do it.
All of this didn’t just recently come to light. The authors point out that the CGG connection was noted in published literature by February 2020. So, why is it that only in the last few weeks have the scientific, political and media establishments decided not only that it is acceptable to entertain the idea that covid could have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but to point out publicly that this is the most likely explanation of the virus’s origin?
I think the answer lies in the realm of politics, not science. Covid was not a hoax, but it was immediately seen by the Left as the means through which they might oust Donald Trump from the White House. (“God’s gift to the Left,” as Jane Fonda expressed it.) For that strategy to work, the focus needed to be here at home, on the alleged (almost entirely mythical) failures of the Trump administration. Pointing the finger at China would not only reinforce President Trump’s speculation about the virus, it would also validate the tough approach he took toward the CCP throughout his term in office.
So the truth about the origin of covid had to be suppressed. That is how it looks to me, anyway.
I'm looking into the claim for you, @ScottAdamsSays. I will report back. In the mean time I'll say that story of this drug and the sociopolitical force-field that surrounds it is like nothing I have ever seen. This is long, but I suspect worth your while.https://t.co/yWyAi4I4pL
— Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) June 4, 2021
The Internet remembers everything. These people are such shameless hacks.Q: "Why do you keep calling this the Chinese Virus?"
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 18, 2020
President Trump: "It comes from China...it's not racist."
Full video here: https://t.co/GwQnJ0pwmo pic.twitter.com/L1dD05z4RK
Dear Ralph,
We heard that the 2019-nCoV was renamed as SARS-CoV-2. We had a fierce discussion among Chinese virologists. We have some comments on this name, I’m wondering if the CoV study group would consider a revision.
I attached the comments from me na dmy Chinese colleague.
“By 11 February 2020, the new coronavirus had caused more than 40,000 confirmed infections and more than 1,000 deaths, mostly in mainland China, in spite of efforts by the Chinese Government and its people to contain the spread of the virus in past weeks. It goes without saying that the effects of the epidemic on all aspects of Chinese life are devastating and, possibly, irreversible. Consequently, appropriately naming the virus and disease becomes a matter of importance to the Chinese people…”
“All proposed names are either too generic, or too similar to previous well-known viruses, or contain an Arabic number. This makes it hard to remember or recognize, leading to a tendency among the general population and scientists alike to use a shorthand term such as ‘Wuhan coronavirus’ or ‘Wuhan pneumonia.’ This has, in fact, been the case since it was named 2019-nCoV. This practice would, however, stigmatize and insult the people in Wuhan, who are still suffering from the outbreak.”
And the Bought-and-paid-for American press dutifully complied. They viciously attacked President Trump for calling it the China Virus, a term they had been freely using up until the time that their Chinese masters told them to stop.
In defense of the Bat Lady, she's living in a Communist dictatorship and does what she's told. What's the excuse of the American press?:
When you give it some thought, this makes a lot of sense.
If SARS2 — the virus that causes Covid-19 — came from nature then, logically, it’s only a matter of time before something like this happens again. And again. And again. And next time, it could all too easily be worse. Our best recourse, then, is clearly to study potential zoonotic pathogens in the lab. It could even be argued, as it has been by many researchers, that we should enhance these infectious agents to discover their vulnerabilities so that next time, we’ll know just what to do.
How else could we discover what we’re up against? After all, if SARS2 came from nature, then the biologists who were furiously studying its close relatives were, if anything, too slow and too cautious to protect us. The straightforward lesson of the pandemic would be to simply face up to the clear risk of studying dangerous, novel infectious agents in the lab. Indeed, we would be forced to redouble our efforts before SARS3 catches us off-guard.
If, on the other hand, SARS2 emerged from a lab, then the lesson is the opposite. Covid-19 would be, at the bare minimum, the direct result of our failure to heed prior warnings about the possibility of such an accident. Lab leaks are not uncommon, so making already dangerous viruses even more dangerous is a recipe for disaster. If, therefore, we want to avoid a pandemic from happening again, obviously we would need to curtail this research.
Witnesses say the pilot, a Democrat, wants to fly the plane into the ground at 700 MPH.
The Republican co-pilot, however, has proposed crashing at a much more reasonable speed of 600 MPH.
At some point, the Democrat called the Republican racist, of course.
1. Communist Manifesto (Illustrated Kids Edition): This beloved classic by Karl Marx has been rewritten for young audiences! Follow your friend Karl as he teaches your child everything from seizing the means of production to throwing your enemies in the gulag!
2. The Very Gay Caterpillar: Follow the beloved central character as he goes through 7 same-sex partners in 7 days! This is normal and should be celebrated.
3. Are You My Birthing Person?: The classic-yet-problematic Are You My Mother? has been updated with more inclusive language. About time!
4. All 371 of Barack Obama's memoirs: Open one of Obama's many memoirs and let your child bask in the warm glow of the light-bringer himself. Read it, and hide his words in your heart.
5. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift-- but unironically: This is a great way to teach your kid the dangers of overpopulation in urban communities and the virtue of abortion.
6. The brilliant peer-reviewed paper “The Psychology of BDSM Fat Studies In a Trans-Intersectional Context: a Survey Study into the Relationships of Trauma and Attachment Style”: riveting and essential reading for children of all ages.
7. Harry Potter but just say "Trump" instead of Voldemort: To drive the point home, make sure and scream at the sky every time you say his name.
8. The Little Engine That Was Held Back By Systemic Oppression So She Shouldn't Even Try: An essential life lesson for every woke child.
9. 'Men Can Have Periods' pop-up book: If your child throws up while you read it to them, remind them that they are a bigot.
10. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad USA: Another children's classic rewritten for modern audiences. It teaches one of life's most important lessons: America is bad.
A leading columnist for the Washington Post says Republicans are losing faith in democracy. No, we're trying to protect constitutional democracy from those who want to win elections "by hook or by crook." @crampell @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/8qcfHcIKDg
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 2, 2021
These people lied to you,deliberately, to protect their paymasters in the Chinese Communist Party.
t’s not an accident that most Americans are just starting to hear about the lab leak theory of COVID-19 origin as a potential legitimate source for the global pandemic’s outbreak. It’s because the theory was suppressed for more than a year by corporate media fact-checkers and their allies in Big Tech.The pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post have been filled with articles in recent weeks about the newfound potential legitimacy of the lab-leak theory. The theory posits that COVID-19 was accidentally released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, potentially after being genetically engineered as a part of “gain-of-function” research.Evidence for the lab-leak theory has been publicly available but censored from the public on social media.When the theory first began to surface in early 2020, fact-checkers far and wide decried it as a conspiracy theory. In September 2020, PolitiFact labeled the lab leak theory as a “pants-on-fire” lie that was “inaccurate and ridiculous.” The premature fact-check has now been retracted in May.Furthermore, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting called it a “lunatic conspiracy theory.”..Now, these very same fact-checkers that incorrectly labeled the theory false — before an alternative explanation was remotely close to being available — are declaring that the lab-leak hypothesis is “suddenly credible.” That just isn’t true. Reports began surfacing almost immediately after the pandemic began about a potential lab-leak, and enterprising journalists in various corners of the discourse were talking about the theory long before the Glenn Kesslers of the world came around.