Herd Immunity v. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden/ Fauci Perpetual Fear
It is now clear that government lockdowns have proven disastrous for people and our economy. They have also been ineffective. According to the most recent summary of social-distancing measures published by Nature, “Stay-at-home orders did little to mitigate the pandemic spread.” The authors say there is “no evidence that the number of deaths/million is reduced by staying at home.”
But there is another reason well-governed states are lifting restrictive ChiCom Virus pandemic mandates.
In discussions this week with physicians who are career disease specialists, I noted these interesting data points. This information is receiving no mention by the Biden administration or its Leftmedia propagandists in order not to disrupt their perpetual “fear and angst” agenda — ensuring their constituents believe BIG Gov is their savior.
First, according to the CDC, in the U.S. there have been 29 million individuals who have tested positive for the ChiCom Virus and recovered.
Second, early in the pandemic it was estimated that the number of Americans who have had the virus but were either asymptomatic or recovered from mild flu-like symptoms was 10 times the number of diagnosed cases. That number is now more conservatively estimated to be about three times the diagnosed number. So at present there are about 87 million undiagnosed recoveries.
Third, thanks to the stunning success of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed vaccine-development program, 60 million people have already had one or both vaccine doses, and by the end of March the number of those fully vaccinated will be almost 100 million.
Thus, by the beginning of April, more than 200 million Americans will have COVID immunities.
According to Mayo Clinic experts, 70% of the population must have immunities intact in order to reach COVID “herd immunity” — that’s 220 million people. In other words, we are weeks away from reaching herd immunity, as predicted by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor Dr. Martin Makary, despite the variants.
Of course, Makary was “fact-checked” for daring to suggest we would reach herd immunity prior to when the Swamp Doctor, Anthony Fauci, says we will. But the fact-checkers got fact-checked and Makary is correct.
Indeed, this week Fauci himself declared, “We anticipate … that the herd immunity level will be about 70-85%. That’s the time that we believe, if you look at the planned rollout of the vaccines, that we would hopefully get to that point somewhere by the end of the summer and the early fall.”
Well, no.
If 70%, we will reach that target by mid-April. If 85%, we should reach that target in May.
Last week, socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden read these words from his prepared script: “We’re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May.” That is “every adult” including those who have already recovered but may choose to take the vaccine anyway.
What’s next from Fauci, “herd immunity when we reach 150%”? Is anyone paying attention to the basic math?
For sure, Fauci’s fake narrative fit all the faux Demo drama ahead of the party-line passage of their larded $1.9 TRILLION so-called “American Rescue Plan,” despite an economic recovery well underway.
Question: Should anyone be listening to anything Fauci says?
Behind socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, the second most powerful and equally senile wax figure in DC is Fauci. He wields an enormous amount of power for an 80-year-old lifelong DC bureaucrat, having been in the bowels of various federal agencies since 1968.
Frankly, I never understood why Donald Trump did not tell Fauci “YOU’RE FIRED” last June, when Fauci admitted lying to the public about the effectiveness of face masks — or after any one of the countless times Fauci ventured far off the White House Coronavirus Task Force reservation with serial contradictions in celebrity media appearances.
Recall that once caught in that lie, demonstrating his signature unmitigated arrogance, Fauci insisted, “With all due modesty, I think I’m pretty effective.”
Fauci’s “modesty” and “effectiveness” notwithstanding, herd immunity is on its way! While those with significant comorbidity factors should take appropriate precautions, it is past time to reopen our country. Unlike Fauci, Makary is sticking with the science. As Dr. Makary advised in an additional Wall Street Journal analysis today, get the vaccine and go.
Finally, never again should we quarantine the most healthy among us and shutter businesses across the nation. ~The Patriot Post
Team socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden's 'Morality Problem' on the Border
A record-breaking 9,500 unaccompanied juveniles illegally crossed the U.S. border in February. These children, most of them teens, are often exploited by coyotes — the seedy men who traffic people and drugs across the border. And these kids were just a sliver of last month’s 100,000 encounters with illegals reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Clearly, we have a crisis on our hands, and it’s a moral one at that.
White House Press Secretary liar-Jen Psaki also thinks there’s a moral problem, but that it was former President Donald Trump’s. “In the last administration, we had a morality problem,” liar-Psaki lectured Wednesday. “Children were being pulled from the arms of their parents, and kids were being sent back on a treacherous journey. That’s not the approach of this administration.”
No, the approach of this administration is to fling the doors open wide for unaccompanied minors to be trafficked into this country without limits. liar-Psaki even admitted as much: “We understand that means there will be more kids who are crossing the border. We made a policy decision that was the right, humane step to take.”
Likewise, Southern Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson practically claimed the surge is the policy of the socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden administration. “There was a hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent-up demand,” she said Wednesday, “so I don’t know if I would call that a coincidence.” In fact, while speaking in Spanish, Jacobson also said, “The border is not closed.” Only several minutes later did she say in English, “The border is closed.”
She’s almost literally speaking out of both sides of her mouth.
Families often send a teen to the U.S. ahead of them, knowing that our policies favoring chain migration will eventually help them all get here. They’re willing to risk their own children for a better life in America. That doesn’t make the Trump administration “immoral” for closing the border to such shenanigans, and it most certainly doesn’t make the socialist/scumbag/liar- Biden administration moral for incentivizing gang activity and human smuggling. ~The Patriot Post
Can States' Rights Prevent Federal Immigration Anarchy?
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” —Amendment 10, U.S. Constitution
It appears Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the state legislature are about to explore where federal immigration law ends and Texas’s ability to preserve the Rule of Law in general begins. Due to the utter fecklessness of the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration’s immigration policies — which set a new record for illegal minors crossing the border — Abbott has launched “Operation Lone Star” in an effort to combat drug smuggling and human trafficking in his state. In conjunction with that effort, Texas state Representative Bryan Slaton (R-Canton) has introduced a bill proposing that Texas itself should complete border wall construction initiated by the Trump administration.
How chaotic has the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration’s response to the border crisis been? On March 1, a clueless DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tore into the previous administration’s immigration policies, while insisting there was no border crisis. Eight days later, Mayorkas was asking for DHS volunteers to deal with the “overwhelming numbers of migrants seeking access to this country along the Southwest Border.” He added, “President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden and I are committed to ensuring our Nation has a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system while continuing to balance all of the other critical DHS missions.”
That is, quite simply, a lie. As this writer documented in his last column, the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration is not only releasing COVID-positive illegals from detention centers but allowing them to disperse themselves throughout the nation.
And this particular manifestation of gross irresponsibility isn’t about to stop anytime soon: In the last two weeks, the number of children detained in Border Patrol facilities has tripled, and more than 100,000 migrants have stormed the border over the past four weeks ending March 3, marking a five-year high.
Texas is fighting back. Operation Lone Star will integrate the Texas Department of Public Safety with the Texas National Guard. Air, ground, marine, and tactical border-security units will be deployed to high-threat areas in an effort to prevent Mexican cartels and other smugglers from moving drugs and people into the state.
“The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” Abbott said in a statement last Saturday. “Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis.”
And if Slaton gets his way, a completed wall will also be part of the equation. “It is time for Texas to stand up and finish the work that President Trump started,” Slaton said in a press statement. “Let’s finish building the border wall now.”
Texas contractors will be given preference, and those who wish to participate will be required to participate in the E-Verify program that ensures workers are authorized to work in America. The bill also calls for a “border security enhancement fund” that instructs the governor to ask the federal government to reimburse the state for the costs associated with finishing the border wall.
Slaton wants it to be called the Trump Border Wall.
The same day Slaton unveiled his proposal, Abbott released a statement condemning the socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden administration’s “unconscionable act” of releasing COVID-positive illegals into his state. “Border security is strictly a federal responsibility,” it said. “The federal government alone has the responsibility to test, screen and quarantine illegal immigrants crossing our border who may have COVID. Instead of doing their job, the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration suggested it did not have the sufficient resources and, remarkably, asked Texas to assist them in aiding their illegal immigration program. Texas refused. We will not aid a program that makes our country a magnet for illegal immigration.”
Texas is not alone. Arizona and Montana have also filed a lawsuit against the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration aimed at blocking regulations that limit ICE’s ability to arrest illegal aliens unless they are a national security threat, crossed the border after November 1, or committed aggravated felonies. “If asked about the poorest policy choice I’ve ever seen in government, this would be a strong contender,” Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement. “Blindly releasing thousands of people, including convicted criminals and those who may be spreading COVID-19 into our state, is both unconscionable and a violation of federal law. This must be stopped now to avoid a dangerous humanitarian crisis for the immigrants and the people of Arizona.”
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen agreed. “Meth trafficked into Montana by Mexican drug cartels has wracked our state. The problem will only be made worse if the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration continues to allow criminals to stay in the country,” he added. “Enforcing our immigration laws and helping to keep Americans safe is one of the federal government’s most important functions. The socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration is failing its basic responsibility to Americans.”
Can these states succeed? In 2012, the U.S. Supreme court ruled against key parts of an Arizona law that sought to deter illegal immigration. “The National Government has significant power to regulate immigration,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion at the time. “Arizona may have understandable frustrations with the problems caused by illegal immigration while that process continues, but the State may not pursue policies that undermine federal law.”
None of these states are undermining federal law. Rather, it is the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration itself that is conspicuously refusing to regulate federal immigration law to abet its contemptible open-border/amnesty agenda. That agenda also includes requesting and receiving the dismissal of three requests to hear cases with regard to the Trump administration’s desire to withhold federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions.
That sanctuary jurisdictions epitomize the defiance of federal immigration laws? Again, Democrats and socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden have long made it clear that “selective” law enforcement, a.k.a. the refusal to regulate, will remain the order of the day.
Thus, Texas, Arizona, and Montana will likely inform the nation about whether the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration’s imposition of de facto anarchy via policies specifically designed to nullify federal enforcement of immigration laws is legally tenable, or whether the Rule of Law, border integrity, and the safety of the American public can be maintained on a state-by-state basis.
The entire nation will be watching. ~The Patriot Post
Fortress Washington, DC
More than two months have passed since the Capitol building was overrun by an angry mob seeking to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College, yet Capitol Hill remains a fortress, surrounded by 5,000 National Guard troops standing behind razor wire and barricades. Washington, DC, more closely resembles the capital of a third-world regime than the home of the United States government.
The Democrats seem to like it this way, and for the foreseeable future, that’s how it’s going to stay.
This week, the Department of Defense, at the behest of the U.S. Capitol Police, extended the National Guard deployment in Washington to May 23. The force will be reduced to 2,300, cutting the Guard presence in half, but checkpoints will remain in place, and plans are being drawn up to deploy mobile fencing and create a “quick reaction force” to be at the ready 24 hours a day.
The mob that rushed the Capitol on January 6 has been continuously leveraged by Democrats to push for a veritable police state in Washington and beyond. First, they used it as an excuse to impeach Donald Trump a second time. After that shamelessly unconstitutional sideshow, they then argued for a massive military presence for socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s inauguration, with the 26,000 National Guard personnel at the Capitol vastly outnumbering the event attendees. Then, House Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer called upon the Guard to remain until March 12, surrounding the Capitol and giving off the appearance that a military junta had just taken place. Maybe it had.
As the end of the Guard deployment approached, scuttlebutt arose of a QAnon-led mob planning to descend on the Capitol on March 4, under the supposed belief that Trump would be inaugurated president on what was the original Inauguration Day. Congressional Democrats talked up the threat incessantly, and scumbag/liar-Pelosi ginned up the drama by giving the House the day off “for their own safety” — time they used to share their faux fear and rage on social media over a mob that never materialized.
Regardless of the validity of the claim, the Democrats played it to the full. The direct result was the request to extend the Guard presence, much to the surprise of many troops currently deployed in Washington.
The Capitol Police were woefully (if understandably) unprepared for the mob that swarmed the building on January 6, and an investigation into their response to the incident was warranted. We should expect that the capital is protected from attack, no matter who the perpetrators are. Hiring additional police and deploying mobile barriers are within the realm of guaranteeing the safety of the capital and those who work there.
However, the Democrats are using the January 6 event as an opportunity to close off the nation’s capital from ordinary citizens, or at the very least make it difficult for people to approach the Capitol building. Like doomsday cultists, Democrats and their media lackeys keep predicting violence, then when it never materializes, they simply push their predictions further out on the calendar. They have not taken even a moment to revisit their very public prognostications of angry mobs, nor have they given any indication as to when this ginned up state of emergency will end. And that is what is most troubling.
Power once claimed is rarely relinquished voluntarily. The erosion of our constitutional liberties and the growth of the federal government are proof. The Democrats are following the playbook followed by tyrannical despots throughout history — use an emergency as a gateway to seizing greater power in the name of safety, then extend the emergency and label those who question their methods as being part of the opposition.
The U.S. Capitol belongs to the American people, and it needs to stay that way. ~The Patriot Post
A Tale of Two Cancellations
It’s a sickening sight, watching journalist Andy Ngo get pummeled by a pack of antifa animals in Portland. Not quite as sickening, though, as listening to yet another public figure beg for forgiveness after being called out by the cancel crowd.
The latest to so supplicate himself is Winston Marshall, 33, who plays banjo and lead guitar for Mumford & Sons, a British folk-rock band perhaps most famous for “I Will Wait,” which was nominated for a Grammy in 2013.
Marshall’s transgression? He had the nerve to express support for a newly released book by the aforementioned Andy Ngo titled Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. In a since-deleted tweet addressed to Ngo, Marshall said, simply, “Finally had the time to read your important book. You’re a brave man.” That was the extent of his transgression.
And then, as Matt Walsh writes, “Fans, the media, and fellow musicians came out swinging, labeling Marshall a racist, calling for him to be fired, and so on and so forth. They made it clear that there is essentially no difference between reading and enjoying a book critical of Antifa and pledging allegiance to Hitler after reading Mein Kampf.”
By Tuesday, Marshall’s publicists had determined just what his apology should sound like.
“Over the past few days,” he groveled, “I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed. I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions I am taking time away from the band to examine my blindspots. For now, please know that I realize how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behavior. I apologize, as this was not at all my intention.”
Got that? Andy Ngo, the gay guy who got set upon and given a brain hemorrhage by antifa, the guy whose Vietnamese parents were boat people fleeing the communist nation in the late ‘70s, is the “hateful” and “divisive” one. He’s got TWO “intersectionality” points, and he’s still persona non grata.
As Walsh continued, “To hint at even the mildest disagreement with the most radical fringes of the far Left is to profess far Right views, which is to be a bigot, which is to reveal yourself unworthy of inclusion in civilized society. This is the formula, clear and simple and totally insane.”
Far less insane, and far more hopeful as a way out of this Kafkaesque cancel culture, was the lifeline thrown to NBAer Meyers Leonard, who dropped an anti-Semitic slur amid a stream of obscenities while he was playing the “Call of Duty” video game on a public platform called Twitch.
Leonard, who will remain away from his Miami Heat teammates indefinitely, apologized in an Instagram post: “I am deeply sorry,” he said, “for using an anti-Semitic slur during a livestream yesterday. While I didn’t know what the word meant at the time, my ignorance about its history and how offensive it is to the Jewish community is absolutely not an excuse and I was just wrong.”
But whereas even some of Leonard’s teammates were quick to throw him under the bus, one man, New England Patriots receiver and one-time Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman, took a different approach, tweeting out an open letter that began, “So we’ve never met, I hope we can one day soon.” It went on, “I get the sense that you didn’t use that word out of hate, more out of ignorance.” It ends with, “I’m down in Miami fairly often. Let’s do a Shabbat dinner with some friends. I’ll show you a fun time.”
Julian Edelman. What a mensch. Grace and forgiveness. What an idea. ~The Patriot Post
Facebook Hits Back at Antitrust Lawsuits
On Wednesday, Facebook pushed back against antitrust lawsuits filed last December by the Federal Trade Commission and 46 state attorneys general. In seeking to have the lawsuits dismissed prior to trial, Facebook argued that the cases “do not credibly claim that our conduct harmed” either users or competing companies. Rather, Facebook asserted, the real motive for the lawsuits is an attempt by the FTC to have a “do-over” of its past decisions okaying Facebook’s purchase of competitors WhatsApp and Instagram.
The social media giant further contended that it has not harmed users because its “products are offered for free and in unlimited quantities.” Regarding the allegation that Facebook has essentially engaged in monopolistic and anticompetitive actions by cutting off access to its platform for third-party developers, Facebook claimed Supreme Court rulings have set a clearly established precedent that it was under no obligation to provide competitors access to its platform.
However, success for Facebook is not a given. As The Wall Street Journal reports, “Facebook will have to meet a high legal standard to convince a federal judge to throw out the cases before trial. In order to prevail on a motion to dismiss, the company must show that the plaintiffs’ factual allegations about the nature of the marketplace, even if accepted as true, don’t establish a valid legal claim.”
Facebook argues that it’s not a near-monopoly and therefore is not guilty of anticompetitive practices. Yet the very model of its platform is designed to monopolize — the monopoly is the point. The more users the platform has, the greater the ability for Facebook to generate ad revenue. Therefore, allege the FTC and the state AGs, to mitigate the threat of users abandoning Facebook for a competitor, the social media giant simply bought the competition.
It’s Facebook’s abuse via dubious and blatantly politically motivated censorship practices that has raised the greatest ire with users. Facebook tacitly admits as much by suggesting that the antitrust lawsuits were raised “for matters entirely unrelated to antitrust concerns.” It is most certainly not “entirely unrelated” — the monopoly makes the censorship all that much more consequential as Facebook redlines the First Amendment. ~The Patriot Post
Can Derek Chauvin Get a Fair Trial?
If there’s one thing the mainstream media would have us all know, it’s that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. After all, that’s what it told us every time it played that endless loop of video with Floyd handcuffed and lying prostrate on the ground crying “I can’t breathe” while Officer Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nine interminable minutes, well past the point of Floyd losing consciousness.
So a second-degree murder conviction in the trial whose jury selection began Monday should be a slam-dunk, right?
Wrong. There’s plenty of reasonable doubt as to what killed George Floyd.
And plenty of evidence, too. It’s just that we haven’t seen it. As Tucker Carlson said last night, “The effort to hide that evidence began immediately after George Floyd died. Everyone saw the footage of Derek Chauvin with his knee on George Floyd’s neck. It was horrible. It is also confusing. When you watch it, you ask yourself ‘Why would a police officer act like that? Of course, it must be illegal.’ No one in the media thought to tell us that, in fact, using a knee to restrain an uncooperative suspect is the official policy of the Minneapolis Police Department. In fact, it’s taught at their academy.”
Think about it: If Chauvin were doing something he knew to be illegal or even merely at odds with official policy, would he have done it in broad daylight in front of numerous witnesses? And would he have looked up so calmly at those who were capturing the whole thing with their smartphones?
It’s tough to see Floyd complain about not being able to breathe and to see Chauvin simply ignore those complaints. Why didn’t he listen, and why didn’t he take his knee off Floyd’s neck?
Because, as Roger Kimball notes in The Spectator, “A look at the police bodycam footage shows that Floyd was complaining that he couldn’t breathe before he was restrained by the police. Why? Because, as the FBI’s interview with the local medical examiner on July 8, 2020, revealed, Floyd was suffering from pulmonary edema, i.e., his lungs were full of fluid. And why was that? Partly because of an underlying heart condition, partly because Floyd was full to the gills with fentanyl, a drug known to affect respiration and cause pulmonary edema.”
Fentanyl. The same drug that killed Prince, Tom Petty, and tens of thousands of other Americans in recent years. Floyd had 11 nanograms of fentanyl per milligram of blood in his body. As the autopsy report states, “Signs associated with fentanyl toxicity include severe respiratory depression, seizures, hypotension, coma and death. In fatalities from fentanyl, blood concentrations are variable and have been reported as low as 3 nanograms of fentanyl per milliliter of blood.”
Whatever considerable distress Chauvin caused Floyd by putting his knee on his neck, it paled in comparison to the distress Floyd caused himself with that massive overdose of fentanyl.
But still, that knee to the neck must’ve kept him from breathing, right? Wrong. As Andrew Baker, the chief Hennepin County medical examiner, also made clear, “The autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.”
Suddenly, then, that slam-dunk case for second-degree murder isn’t quite so convincing. Because if Floyd didn’t die from asphyxiation, then he didn’t die from Chauvin’s knee. Maybe that’s why prosecutors put in a last-minute request — that the judge granted just this morning — to add a third-degree murder charge. Maybe that will stick, they’re saying.
If only Minnesota Attorney General scumbag/liar-Keith Ellison had played it straight and shared that bodycam footage immediately. Had he done so, he might’ve saved South Minneapolis and countless other communities across the country from the mob.
Instead, as our Thomas Gallatin wrote last week, “ scumbag/liar-Ellison has overcharged Chauvin, making the prospect of conviction far from a given. Then, should the state fail to convict, scumbag/liar-Ellison and the ‘social justice’ Left will spin the narrative as yet more ‘evidence’ of their false ‘systemic racism’ claims, and the BLM mob will be ready.”
And so, downtown Minneapolis braces for a trial. And if, as it seems, a racially motivated conviction is the only thing that can keep us from another wave of arson, looting, and rioting, we’re in a terrible place as a nation. ~The Patriot Post
Demos Arrange DC Military Service Ribbons
“Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.” —George Washington (1786)
Since the January Capitol mini-riot, Rep. scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer (D-NY) have delivered stellar political performances, even imposing a military occupation of our nation’s capital and surrounding the Capitol building with high-security checkpoints through fences topped with concertina wire. Frankly, architect William Thornton’s beautiful 19th-century neoclassic masterpiece now looks more like a maximum security prison — and given the felonious behavior of many leftist politicos occupying the building, that’s altogether fitting.
The scumbag/liar-Pelosi/ scumbag/liar-Schumer script is truly an award winner. In February, they disgracefully bookended their $500 million theatrical impeachment production with a Capitol Police officer’s funeral on the front end and a Congressional Gold Medal for the entire department on the back end.
Of course, the $500 million was the taxpayer-funded tab for the security props around the movie set. The Demo cast is hoping for a big return at the (ballot) box office for their harrowing stories of hiding in bathrooms.
The political theater reconfirms the Demos’ penchant for double standards, in this case regarding the condemnation of riots and the prosecution of rioters. As historian Victor Davis Hanson confirmed, the nation endured “100 days of torching federal court houses and police precincts, 700 policeman injured, 40 people dead, $4-$5 billion in damages…” That notwithstanding, not only was there not universal condemnation from Demos, but in many cases there was actually support for the violence — including from our current vice president, who this past summer said, “They’re not gonna let up, and they should not.”
However, on January 6th, the Demos finally found a riot they could condemn.
As I have previously observed, despite their incessant claims of “systemic racism” and relentless accusations that cops are racist — resulting in unprecedented violence against police — now, in addition to finding a police officer they could finally praise, the hate hustlers found an entire police department they could reward with a Congressional Gold Medal.
According to scumbag/liar-Pelosi, “That day, those men and women risked and gave their lives to save ours, becoming martyrs for our democracy.”
Well, what about all the other police officers across the nation who have risked and given their lives in defense of the little people this past year — defending them against urban leftists who were incited to violence by Democrats? Again, “700 policeman injured, 40 people dead.” What medals will they receive?
Regarding the lack of praise — the deafening silence of Demo support for federal, state, and local officers across the nation — Federal Protective Service officer Jeremy Russey says, “Mum’s the word.” He noted they have been protecting federal buildings in Portland, Washington, battling rioters constantly: “We’re going on almost a year now.”
According to former Trump administration Department of Homeland Security senior deputy Ken Cuccinelli, “When federal police officers protect against months of left wing assaults, they are Nazi ‘storm troopers’ to scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi, but when federal police officers protect scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi against right of center assault, they are heroes? I think they are all heroes…”
Capitol Police union head Gus Papathanasiou ads that “all of law enforcement needs to be recognized. Support for law enforcement should never be a political issue. We put our lives on the line every single day to serve and protect.”
Waiting on scumbag/liar-Pelosi to amend her Gold Medal proposal… Still waiting…
Post-impeachment, in order to maintain their full-on marketing push to keep the DC mini-riot front and center, scumbag/liar-Pelosi announced a “9/11-Type commission,” headed by an ultra-left lunatic, Russel Honoré.
Then came dire warnings of the 04 March “terrorist threat,” when scumbag/liar-Pelosi and her cast canceled their session and fled the Capitol building.
But it was clear the scumbag/liar-Pelosi “Capitol threat” hype was, in the words of The Washington Post, “A mirage.” According to WaPo: “Outside the fence, the neighborhood’s streets were quiet. People walked their dogs in the morning sun and masked students sat on steps drinking coffee. … The oppressive security measures have become increasingly controversial in recent weeks, particularly among the people who have to live with them every day.” Once the charade was exposed, even scumbag/liar-Pelosi “played down the decision to suspend votes, arguing that the move was as much about accommodating Republicans attending an annual retreat as it was about any possible danger.”
Apparently in WaPo-ese, “mirage” is a metaphor for “bulls—t.”
That notwithstanding, this week the aforementioned hare-brained Honoré showed up on Capitol Hill to brief the thespians on imminent threats and necessary security measures, including options such as a military “quick reaction force” and “mobile fencing,” and a host of other measures like adding 900 additional Capitol Police for daily operations.
Honoré also called for Capitol Police to conduct much better background checks, presumably so that Trump supporters like deceased officer Brian Sicknick would not pass muster.
Expressing the feelings of his fellow guild actors, Rep. Peter Aguilar (D-CA) fearfully declared, “Clearly, the need to act soon is upon us.”
Further, and much to the dismay of National Guard commanders, the Chicken Little Demo doomsayers used a Capitol Police request for cover to get Pentagon approval for a two-month extension of “military protection” in DC, reducing the number of personnel from 5,200 to 2,300.
For the record, I still believe Demos are baiting additional violence.
Finally, to elevate the theatrical optics of the Capitol military deployment, the Demos have even decided they like the military. Somebody in the congressional ranks arranged for some special military awards.
The director of Joint Task Force-DC Joint Information Center announced the issuance of new service ribbons for DC deployment: “In recognition of their service as part of the security mission at the U.S. Capitol and other facilities in Washington, D.C., before, during and after the 59th Presidential Inauguration, the District of Columbia National Guard plans to present all Soldiers and Airmen who took part in the mission one or both of the following decorations: the District of Columbia National Guard Presidential Inauguration Support Ribbon and/or the District of Columbia Emergency Service Ribbon.” He added, “Plans for their presentation are not yet final. Other federal decorations are also being considered.”
For the record, not one of the 73,000 Americans who landed or air-dropped at Normandy on D-Day, including the 2,503 soldiers killed and estimated 4,100 wounded, received a “D-Day” service ribbon.
Likewise, not one of the 110,000 American military personnel involved in the pivotal battle of Iwo Jima six months later, including the 6,871 Marines killed and estimated 19,200 wounded, received an “Iwo Jima” service ribbon.
I do not fault the uniformed men and women who are still on station in DC — most of whom likely share many of the views expressed herein. They are unwitting pawns in the Democrats’ political charade.
However, the Demos behind the politicization of military service ribbons, which devalues all such ribbons and medals, deserve to be excoriated.
Get ready for the next melodramatic scene. ~The Patriot Post
CAL THOMAS
Buyer's Remorse for Some Evangelicals
Evangelical Christians, who once were content with staying out of earthly concerns, have grown into an influential subset of American politics. Not all who identify with this label vote in unison. They voted in large numbers in 1976 for Jimmy Carter, but reversed course in 1980 and went for Ronald Reagan. In subsequent elections, a majority has voted for Republican candidates.
In the 2020 election, this subset created a new subset. They called themselves “Pro-life Evangelicals for socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden.” Their members include Jerusha Duford, the granddaughter of the late Reverend Billy Graham — the evangelist who came to regret his involvement in politics and his troublesome association with Richard Nixon — and thousands of pastors and other influential Christian leaders.
The group acknowledged that while socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden did not support their primary issue — that of protecting unborn human life — he was “more consistent with the biblically shaped ethic of life than Donald Trump.”
After observing socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden for less than two months in office, the group issued a statement. It said evangelicals and Catholics “feel used and betrayed,” especially as it relates to the president’s recently stated opposition to the Hyde amendment (which socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden supported for years), which prevents taxpayer funding for abortions.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a socially conservative organization based in Washington, issued his own statement: “They can’t say they weren’t warned. Everyone in America knew where Joe Biden stood on abortion — because he told them. In 13 debates, multiple campaign ads and a Planned Parenthood town hall, no one had any doubt that if this man won the White House his folksy faith talk would take a backseat to his political deal with the far left. If Evangelicals for socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden want to say they never saw this COVID bill and its abortion funding coming, they were the only one.”
Two things about this. Liberal Christians like to speak of other issues, such as immigration (how’s that going for them?), the environment and helping the poor, along with personal character qualities as having equal importance — and for some, greater importance — than abortion. The problem with that argument is that the right to life is the most fundamental of rights. It is mentioned first in the Declaration of Independence. If you can’t be born, nothing else matters.
Second, Evangelical Christians are called to devote themselves to a higher kingdom and King that is not of this world. Just as Scripture says one cannot serve God and money, neither can one equally serve God and temporal political kingdoms that soon pass away.
Here are some reminders for people who may not have heard sermons on the topic. Paul writes, “We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.” (1 Corinthians 2:6). John the Apostle put it this way: “Do not love the world or anything in the world. … The world and its desires pass away…” (1 John 2:15-17).
These and other verses don’t prohibit one from voting, but they do call for the right priorities and for not “marrying” one’s self to a political leader or party.
Pro-Life Evangelicals for socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden might have learned from recent history and how identifying one candidate and claiming he (or she) are more favorable to God and to Christian voters than another is a form of idolatry and ultimately futile.
Humankind’s greatest needs are less economic and political than spiritual and moral. No politician can redeem the soul, though socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden vowed to “restore the soul of America.”
Pro-Life Evangelicals for socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden should have known better than to bargain with the abortion devils. Because they chose to ignore the above and similar verses, they are now suffering from buyer’s remorse. ~The Patriot Post
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