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sick of and done with
friday, june 21st, 2024
They’re kidding, right? That “Joe Biden” is capable of being president? Not just for another four-year term, but right here and now? This has got to be the most pitiful case of national gaslighting since 218-AD when the Romans installed 14-year-old Heliogabalus to front for their empire. Like “JB,” he reigned for four years (before the praetorian guard offed him). The Danish historian of ancient Rome, Barthold Niebuhr, said of him: “. . . [He] had nothing at all to make up for his vices, which are of such a kind that it is too disgusting even to allude to them.”
Earlier in the week at a Juneteenth party, they rolled him out on the White House lawn like a cigar-store Indian where he stood utterly frozen while all around him boogalooed and clapped to the music of jubilee.
Do you think that folks are starting to notice? Even many mind-fucked Democrat Party regulars who have been just fine with the controlled demolition of our country under this human door-stop of a president are murmuring ominously that the scam has become too obvious. Not Rachel Maddow, though. America’s Woke lunatic-in-chief reigning on MSNBC warned this week that the return of Trump would lead to her (and millions of her fans) getting jammed into “concentration camps.”
Maybe you’ve already noticed that Rachel Maddow lives in a concentration camp of-the-mind located inside her own batshit-crazy skull. Dunno about you, but for the first time in a life lived through many decades of purportedly rational post-war Modernity, I’ve developed a sympathetic view of how come people in earlier eras resorted to burning witches. They are obdurate public nuisances. Their “magic” lately is the ability to provoke a mass formation psychosis, an actual “threat to our democracy” or, more precisely, to our republic. Maddow, the proudly out-front lesbian non-breeder is living proof that renouncing motherhood is a predictor of Cluster-B personality disorder — the condition that defines the “progressive” Wokery of these times.
I’m a little sorry to go all quasi-supernatural with you about this, but we are truly faced with the fact that the devastation in sexual relations and failures of family formation in recent decades has produced a very particular form of anomie in Western Civ’s female population — and the dynamic has badly deranged increasingly feminized men, too. Covid-19 was basically a Munchausen-by-proxy event, which ChatGPT describes accordingly:
. . . a psychological disorder wherein a caregiver, typically a parent, exaggerates, fabricates, or induces illness or injury in a person under their care, usually a child. The primary motive is to gain attention, sympathy, or praise from medical professionals and others, rather than any tangible benefit like financial gain.”
Actually, ChatGPT was wrong about the financial gain part. There were billions made off Covid by Big Pharma, including hundreds of millions in royalties doled out to public health employees. The government played the role of “mother” in the Covid caper, keeping you (her “children”) safe. You’ve noticed, I’m sure, that claims about safety and safe places have been major themes in Wokery both before and during Covid. Anyway, as usual with Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, the “children” (i.e., the US population) were injured badly by the “treatment,” the mRNA vaccines. And also as usual with mothers displaying Cluster-B personality disorder, the “bad” children who refuted the narrative and refused the specified “treatment” were punished severely. (Cluster-B is sadistic.)
One thing this suggests is that the cabal running things behind the empty suit “Joe Biden” is dominated by women, and my guess would be the women directly associated with Barack Obama: Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco, Kathryn Ruemmler, Sally Yates, Valarie Jarrett, Samantha Power, Avril Haines, Torie Nuland, give-or-take some combo of them, et al. I have alleged for years that the motif driving batshit-crazy, Cluster-B Democratic Party women is that Donald Trump represents Daddy’s-in-the-house. In their boundaryless state-of-mind nothing threatens the Cluster-B ladies as much as the imposition of boundaries by a fearsome daddy figure. Daddy = the monster of monsters to them.
Thus, the “Biden” regime’s remorseless persecution of Mr. Trump — like the village rabble hunting down Frankenstein with torches and pitchforks — and the fantasies, were he allowed to live, about being sent to concentration camps by the likes of Rachel Maddow. There’s nothing like barbed-wire and sentry towers to vividly suggest the imposition of “boundaries” on your behavior.
I have strayed a bit from my initial theme concerning the grotesque game of “pretend” being played around “Joe Biden’s” re-election candidacy. Let’s say this: it is the terminal op being run by an out-of-control Deep State blob now losing its mojo in big gobs each day as its epic dishonesty gets exposed. This blob had some very potent tools at its command to jerk around the people of this land, especially the legacy news media. Most of that consisted of deception which is to say the tactical application of untruth. The op was tragically effective for some years, but its victims — US citizens — are onto the game now and they are angrily flipping over the game board. Mark this essential fact of life: truth is sturdy and lies are fragile. So, now you know what must, in the end, prevail.
“Joe Biden” is not long for this world as a token in that game. Mere days, I’d say. There is no way that the Democratic Party can afford to put him in a debate arena June 27th with Mr. Trump. Two minutes in, “JB” would be leaking sawdust and stuttering incoherently. The Party would be revealed as a fraud for the ages. And then, by the time you’re scarfing down blueberry pie on the Fourth of July, Hillary Clinton (better known here as Rodan the Flying Reptile, or She-Whose-Turn-It-Is) will be flapping her leathery wings on-high in triumph as “JB’s” emergency replacement. I am here to save our democracy, caw caw—! Wait for it! Trouble is, batshit crazy women are exactly what our country is sick of and done with.
© 6.14.2024 by James Howard Kunstler, "ClusterFuck Nation".
A Day In The Life.
Up at 8:30a on Friday, I went thru my finger stick to check my BSL (Blood Sugar Level) and recorded it on my Diabetes 2 chart, made coffee and breakfast, took two 50mg Tramadol and a 300mg Gabapentin for various pains, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the semi-cool garage and checked the leftover errands list.
It was already a warm 76°/ 60% humidity outside, headed to 90° and much worse, and very humid. I had some wonderful Kona "Peaberry" Coffee, then scanned the news and weather sites, and tuned into the "Chris Stigall Show LIVE" (CS Show) from 6-9a, then the "Chris Plante Show LIVE" (CP Show) 9-12noon, and finally to the Michael Berry Show PODCAST (MB Show Podcast) 12-3p, and his evening Podcasts.
With coffee and after a couple smokes in the garage, I scanned the headlines, had Rye Toast for breakfast, finished listening to the "CP Show LIVE", and left for the Cardiology Center at Apple Hill Medical Center, down south of York, to p/u the Entresto sample bottles from my Cardiologist. I'm seriously worried about the 'shortage' of that med. I got 4 bottles of 28ea, a dosage of lower than what I now take 2/day; enough to last 52 days, at 2 pills-2x/day. Better than running out; thanks to my Cardiologist & his Staff of RNs. I also picked-up Rutter's Half & Half at their store, and the amazing "Cloud Bread", fresh strawberries and blueberries at J-MAR Farms. Nice trip.
Sherry stopped-by around 5:30p, and we had a very nice 2hrs together. She'd gotten a real "gully washer" storm, which had just missed the East York area, while filling-in for Daughter Hollie, at her store, all afternoon. She left around 7:30, I caught up on the news on NEWSMAX-TV, and switched to "Gold Rush: Hoffman Family Gold" until 11p. Lights out.
Up at 6a on Saturday, I made coffee, checked the weather and news, had breakfast, and tuned into some of the "CS Show Podcasts", until 11, when Sis arrived and we left for Mt Rose Cemetery. Nice time with Sis, visiting Mom & Dad, pre-Father's Day. Back home, I had a large lunch, took an almost 3hr snooze on the LR couch, and watched the evening news. I switched between Discovery's "Expedition Unknown" and History's "Ancient Aliens" until 12 midnight, then closed down.
Awake at 5a on Sunday, I rolled-over and went back to sleep until 6:30, made coffee, took the Entresto and Carvedilol pill regimen (this heart disease will kill me soon enough), to help regulate my heart rythmn and help my breathing, and scanned the weather and news. VERY HOT and humid week coming up, so I'll minimize my exposure outdoors; there are sure to be weather warning postings on many websites. The "NBC-TV Rule" was in play, all afternoon, and after lunch and a load of laundry, I did some condo chores.
Try this on a friend. You'll need 4 AA Batteries. Heh... (H/T Ben).
After a Grilled Cheese & Roast Beef Sandwich, I watched the evening news, and Discovery's "Junkyard Empire" until 11, and unplugged.
The noisy garbage truck outside of my BR window. woke me at 6:15a on Monday, as usual, to a clear, sunny, 69°, windless morning. I made coffee, fired-up the HP desktop, had a smoke in the garage, fed the squirrels, and scanned the weather forecast and news headlines. Hmmmm, looks like an ugly week ahead. This was posted:
★★★ SEVERE HEAT ADVISORY! ★★★
• WHAT: Deadly heat between 95 and 105 degrees for the next 6 days.
• WHERE: West, Central & South Pennsylvania.
• IMPACTS: The combination of heat and high humidity may cause heat illnesses.
• The heat wave is expected to continue through next weekend with the hottest temperatures -- 95° to 105°-- of the summer so far. Drink plenty of fluids, stay out of the sun, and stay in an air-conditioned room. Check up on relatives and neighbors, and provide pets with adequate water and shelter from the sun.
• WHEN: From noon Monday to 8 PM EDT on Monday/ Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday/ Saturday 8 PM.
Well, Summer's here, almost in its full force and glory. Uh-oh... at 9:14a, Comcast/xfinity went down the rabbit hole and all com was lost. I tried 4 different browsers, did a network check, and sure enough, the network was MIA. After 15-20mins, everything returned to "normal", whatever that means. Probably just Google/NSA playing games, again.
PA State Flower? LOL. (H/T Sherry)
I left at 12:30p for Dallastown, Red Lion and other points south of York, to get my usual week-starting 3-4 errands trip done. 91° and heavy traffic, but no flaring tempers from other drivers. Back by 2p, I had an BLT-Egg Salad Sandwich, tuned into some "CP Show Podcasts", and hit the LR couch for a short nap. By 6p, temps were still in the low-90s, and it was difficult for me, with COPD, to go outside for any reason. The forecast for even worse to come, was all over the news. I had dinner, watched the news and History's "Greatest Mysteries" until 11:30, and quit for the day. Lab work in the mid-morning, for an upcoming Nephrology Dr's appt.
Awake and up at 7:15a on Tuesday, already 79° and climbing, blue sky sunny and forecast to be in the mid-90s. I skipped coffee, but made it anyway for when I got back, got ready and left for Wellspan's Stony Brook Labs facility to get 16 blood tests (5 vials!) done. WARNING: I NEED COFFEE IN THE MORNING, and I can get 'cranky' without it. The young tech was great, didn't feel a thing, and was finished in 5 mins. I also didn't have anything to contribute to a 'urine sample', so I took the stuff (sample jar, Bio Hazard bag etc) home to get that done later. It was nice to get back home at 8:45 and GET SOME KONA COFFEE!
I went outside to do some hand-watering -- yes, I have drip irrigation under the mulch, running from 1-2a -- but additional watering was seriously needed. From 1:30-2p, was all I could take. After a short break and some liquids, I watered the back patio gardens, a much easier task. By the time I'd finished and come back inside to the AC and shade, I was struggling to breathe. I'm done with all that for the day; maybe some more tonite when it "cools off" a bit.
Final tally in Chicago's Father's Day Holiday Weekend: 71+ shot, 9 dead. How 'bout them demonKKKrat 'holidays'?
I closed down the condo, grabbed a bout 2hrs on the LR couch, and woke to a whole new set of news headlines on FNC and other sites. 94° outside, the gardens are doing OK, so I'm staying inside. After a very light dinner, I watched the evening news, and History's "The Curse of Oak Island" until midnight. Lights out.
Up at 6:15a on Wednesday, I started coffee, fired-up the desktop and checked the several weather sites, opened the garage door for a smoke's worth of fresh air -- now only at 70° with a blue, high overcast sky -- and it wasn't bad with the oscillating tower fan. I'll keep the condo closed to lower temps, especially the mid/late afternoon sun pouring into my office-sunroom. Forecast for today is 93°; tomorrow's to be 98° and Friday only at 96°. Hey, it's Summer.
Hotties, Hebrews & HomeBoys -- MAGA 2024!With 10-12 MILLIONS of criminal, illegal, alien invaders already here, and 350,000+ per month flowing into America, multiple terrorist attacks are just a matter of *when*, not *if*, it's going to happen to us. I've been thinking it's going to be along the lines of the recent (March 2024) terrorist "soft target" slaughter on the Russian concert hall, which killed 145 people and injured 550. OR, it could be a biological-chemical based attack, which could have a 90%+ mortality rate. If you aren't prepped/prepared for 30-45 days of survival, DO IT NOW. When it happens, it'll be horrendous, and much too late to get any supplies and be ready for society closing down in fear and retribution.
Sherry arrived just after 1p, and we had hugs and kisses, and a great time together, as usual. We spent several hours talking, and drove over to Flinchbaugh's Orchard & Farm Market to get some goodies. The 52ac Twp Park just below me, where we do a lot of walking, was empty. After Sherry left, I had a Roast Beef, Mayo, Horseradish, Slaw, Lettuce, Tomato & Swiss Cheese on Rye Sandwich, and watched the news. I missed History's "American Pickers", but "Full Custom Garage" was on Motor Trend, so I watched until 11p, and unplugged.
Up at 6:15a on Thursday -- First Day of Summer! -- I made coffee, fired-up the desktop, had a smoke in the garage and got some fresh air, 76° and humid. I tuned into the "CS Show LIVE", as I do every morning between 6-9, and then switched over to the "CP Show LIVE" from 9 to 10:45, and scanned the news headlines, when I had to leave for my Nephrology Appt, at 11:20. 94° is forecast for the afternoon, so I'll stay inside after the DR's appt and 2 quick errands. I just don't have any real appetite in this hot weather, even with a nicely-full 'fridge.
Damn, my long time pharmacy -- Rite Aid -- is closing more stores, while in bankruptcy, to restructure, but at least none in my immediate area. Did I mention "Juneteenth"? I got ready for the day, and left at 10:40a, for Nephrology Associates, in South York. Lots of construction chokepoints, heavy traffic, high heat, calm drivers for the most part, and after an 'excellent' Dr's Appt, I made 2 stops -- Rite Aid and Rutter's -- on the way home. It was 92° and rising, by 1:30p. As I parked, there was a brown bag of Chinese Dim Sum (Steamed Pork Dumplings) and Angel Hair Noodles, on the porch bench. Thanks, Sis!
After I put the food into the 'fridge, I had something else for lunch, and laid down for a 5 hour nap, from 2-7p. Wow. 5 hours! Still 92° outside on the back patio, but there was a decent breeze. By 7:15, after doing a finger stick check, my BSL (Blood Sugar Level) had dropped to 98 from the morning's 130 finger stick, and I was having a *Hypoglycemic shock* event and was very disoriented, dizzy and unbalanced. I ate more Chinese food, drank OJ and had several smokes on the back patio while the carbs converted into sugar and raised the BSL. Hells bells, I miss my Pancreas. LOL.
Sherry called around 9:30p, to ask how I was doing, and by then I'd eaten a pint of Háagen-Dazs "Cookies & Cream", and was getting back close to "normal". I love hearing her voice. I watched a snippet of the news, and a show on Discovery called "Caught" until 10:30p, and called it a day. Very tired from all that hypoglycemic crap.
Tomorrow starts a new week here in the "Journal", and I have another Dr's app't and major Jeep Service coming in the middle of next week, but have plenty of time for Sherry.
What to Expect in the First Presidential Debate.
As a farmer from rural Virginia, I try not to get too dejected or too excited about what the future holds…that’s on everything from the weather to how many chickens are going to hatch. In other words, I try to remain cautiously optimistic and hope for the best. But I must say, having been a long-time student of political history, watching countless debates, knowing how the media operates, and seeing things clearly for what they are, I have concerns about the fairness of this first televised showdown between former President Trump and President Biden – scheduled for the 27th of June on CNN.
I certainly can’t speak for everyone else – but if you are a Trump supporter like me, you’re already probably starting to sense how this thing could play out. As a trained lawyer, I’m used to researching precedent, and the precedent here is that we shouldn’t be too surprised if Biden is given a free pass and a lot of help.
Easy questions for one candidate. Tough questions for the other.Of course, we all know this is a re-run of sorts, given that both men have been president and we’ve had colorful previews of what these debates can look like. But in terms of the backdrop, the political stakes, the setting, the role of the media and other factors, I simply cannot help but think that the ultimate aim of this event is not to let the pugilists duke it out onstage, fairly and squarely, for the American public. Rather, it will be to try and present Biden in the most favorable light while driving home a set of narratives that tarnish Trump.
This could all transpire in a few ways – many of which are age-old political-media tactics out of the well-tested playbook. First, Biden will be given a lot of lay-up shots that allow him to respond with easy, approved, and canned answers. This will even be on questions that might sound somewhat critical of his record – from inflation, to the economy, to citizen sentiment, to immigration, to Ukraine, to Afghanistan. But they will be asked and presented in a way that will allow Biden to provide the most upbeat, positive, and forward-thinking soundbites and responses.
I can see it now. Persistent inflation? “It’s coming down and prices are receding.” Stubborn high gas prices? “We provided relief at the pump from evil rapacious price-gouging oil companies by opening up the SPR.” What about the situation in Gaza? “What happened to the Israelis in October was wrong…but Palestinian children should not be killed and wounded.” How about the situation at our border? “Congressional MAGA Republicans played obstinate politics and prevented us from securing the border.” For those who expect direct follow up, requests for clarification, or pushback on any hinky details, falsehoods or misrepresentations in any of the answers Joe Biden provides, don’t hold your breath.
Additionally, we should expect that certain topics – many of which the voters increasingly care about – will be completely off-limits. For example, I don’t think we should expect the moderators to ask the current president about any of the overarching legal concerns regarding the Biden family political influence scheme, classified documents in the garage, the “laptop from hell,” or Hunter Biden’s tax case and its connection to the Biden “brand.”
In fact, not only will certain subjects be completely taboo for Biden, but all topics dealing with the lawfare being waged against Trump will be fair game – and not in any way that gives the 45th president any benefit of the doubt. Moreover, we should not be surprised if the moderators ask questions right out of the gate that incorporate the idea of Trump being a “convicted felon.” This would be to establish the tone for the duration of the event, to give Biden an opportunity to deliver his preferred talking points, and to cement those two words in the minds of the public…like an annoying ad jingle. This approach may not be blunt or direct – it may in fact be presented in a subtle way – but it will be there. The moderators and CNN as a network simply cannot let the debate occur without that issue being addressed and that phrasing coming into play.
Expect easy questions for Biden – ones that don’t require thorough recall of sophisticated policy specifics or complex data points. Conversely, expect hard and tough questions for Trump – and these questions may be slanted in ways that will assume guilt, even on topics where he is not a “convicted felon.” As an example, they’ll ask things like, “Why should the American people trust you with another four years after your role in the January 6th riots and insurrection?” Of course, don’t assume that Biden will be asked, “Why should the American people trust you with another four years when your polls consistently wallow among the lowest for sitting presidents of all time and when key issues that the American people rank most highly in importance are where you poll the worst?”
Now, I hope that I’m completely off base about all of this. I hope that the moderators, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, are fair and equal and professional and allow this debate to unfold without any taint of political persuasion, or weighting of the scales. I hope that Trump is not constantly overruled or cut off just when he’s about to make a point. I hope that when Biden starts to stammer, they don’t come to his aid and feed him lifelines. I hope that Trump is able to make his case to the viewing public and that the electorate can also see what vision Biden might offer for the country based on his four-year record as the nation’s chief executive. I’ll happily eat crow if proven wrong. But if history is any indicator, what is described above probably won’t be too far off the mark.
© 6.19.2024 by Martha Fain, "Front Page Magazine".
The Bidens Are a Dysfunctional Family of Grifters.
Dysfunctional - not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning. having a malfunctioning part or element: behaving or acting outside social norms
Grifter - a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., especially a gambling attraction; a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.
So, Hunter Biden was found guilty of a serious crime, the least serious crime he has committed in his life of depravity and debauchery.
He was his father’s bagman, sent around the world to sell American influence in Joe’s name for large amounts of money.
The Bidens are a family of grifters. They thought they were so clever. They went to great lengths to cover their illegal tracks by setting up countless LLCs and assorted bank accounts. The family has lived far beyond the means of a senatorial or vice-presidential salary for decades.
Capitalists will sell Communists the rope with which to hang them.For fifty years, Joe Biden has been a thug, a plagiarist, a criminal. He is a pathological liar, as even the New York Times has noted.
He was a known racist for years, too; Robert Byrd of KKK infamy was his mentor.
Like most criminals, Joe is not very bright. Now, as the world watches him descend into the well-known signs of dementia, the left continues to pretend he is qualified to run for a second term when he is clearly not. Joe is over, done. He belongs in a care home.
The Biden family is obviously profoundly dysfunctional, rife with adultery, drug addiction, promiscuity, alcoholism, and criminality. Joe’s affair with Jill broke up her first marriage. Their daughter Ashley’s diary revealed the fact that her childhood very possibly included inappropriate behavior by her father that led to her promiscuity and drug use. Hunter was expelled from the Navy for cocaine use.
As his laptop showed, he is a thoroughly degenerate man who was a drug addict who used prostitutes, some of them very young. After his divorce from his first wife, he had an affair with his sister-in-law, the widow of his deceased brother. He introduced her to cocaine. Both his wife and sister-in-law are mothers, of his own three daughters and his niece and nephew. How sick is that? Dysfunctional hardly describes how unstable the Biden family is.
Being the snobs they are, they continue to ignore the child Hunter fathered with Lunden Roberts but embrace the son by the newest wife. In a semi-normal family, wouldn’t some of those adult children want to know their half-sister in Arkansas? Guess not. They are all without a shred of class or grace. They are all grifters.
Now convicted of the crime of lying on a gun-purchase form, will he be actually held accountable? Not likely. He has never been held accountable for his bad behavior in his life. Joe Biden says he will not pardon him, but he can and will commute his sentence with the stroke of that pen he uses so irresponsibly. It is safe to say he will certainly do exactly that if his son is sentenced to prison. Joe’s party is all about using lawfare to jam up his political opponents for fabricated crimes but they will not hesitate to protect all manner of lawbreakers in their own family and party.
Biden, or whoever is actually operating as president, is most likely doing Obama’s bidding, fulfilling his “transformation of America” Marxist/communist agenda. The party that is so terrified of a second Trump presidency is terrified because they are guilty of so many crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
They assumed they would get away with their oh-so-clever crimes to take down the man who threatens their authoritarian hold on power over the American people. Now they are scared, for good reason. If Trump is elected and justice is to be done, those mobsters of the deep state, which is exactly what they are, will be indicted, brought to trial and sentenced for their crimes.
They know who they are: Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weismann, Judges Merchan, Kaplan and Chutkin, prosecutors Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and a host of others.
As for trivial people like AOC, Joe Scarborough, Dan Goldman and their ilk, they wish they were important enough to be worried. They’re not on Trump’s radar; they are insignificant.
To say the country is at a crossroads is a gross understatement; we are at the edge of a Marxist abyss.
Joe Biden is an illegitimate president, and he has been a disaster for the nation from day one. There are no words to describe the damage done by this illicit administration; ten to fifteen million migrants have entered the country, unvetted, given a free pass, sheltered and fed on the taxpayer dime, any terrorist tendencies ignored. There are terrorists among them who have attempted to breach numerous military sites.
Surprised? Of course not. It is what the left wants. When and if there is a major terrorist attack, they will be prepared to absurdly blame it on Trump and his supporters while it will be the open borders left that is entirely responsible. They want chaos, tragedy, pandemics and escalating crime; anything to make people fearful and reduce the population by a variety of means.
If the Biden presidency has taught us anything, it is that we can never, never again install a man so corrupt, so incompetent, so anti-American as Joe Biden. He is the most destructive president in American history and if we prevail as a republic, he will be forever more known as exactly what he was and is, a man with a greedy, dysfunctional family of grifters.
© 6.13.2024 by Patricia McCarthy, "American Thinker".
What Europeans and Americans Really Want.
In last week’s European Parliamentary elections, citizens in country after country rejected left-wing policies. Predictably, left-leaning major media outlets across the globe—the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vox, Politico, the Guardian—decried these results as Europe “lurching” to the “far right.” Vox warned that the success of right-wing parties was the result of “increasing authoritarianism and non-democratic trends” throughout the world and warned that these trends were “deeply associated with fascism and Nazism.”
Talk about gaslighting and projection.
None of these demands are "far right" or unreasonable. What's shocking is that ordinary people are having to fight their own governments to reestablish rights and standards of living.Oh, yeah—there’s plenty of “authoritarianism and non-democratic” activity going on in Europe (and in the United States). But it’s not coming from the political right.
So, what do these election results mean? What do Europeans really want?
1. Self-determination and responsive elected officials. British voters voted to leave the European Union in 2016 not because they don’t consider themselves part of Europe but because they were (and are) sick and tired of having policies crammed down their throats by unelected Eurocrats. The rest of Europe is now sending a similar message: do what European citizens want or be defeated.
2. An end to the rampant migration of people from non-European nations. Much more so than America, European countries have distinct cultures tied to ethnicity and history. The influx of millions of people from countries with vastly different cultures—many of which are inconsistent with western European values—has impacted their cultural identity, compromised the safety of their citizens, created “no-go” zones of crime and violence, and strained their coffers to the breaking point. Europeans are tired of being told that people from other regions are entitled to be proud of their cultures but wanting to preserve their own culture is racist.
3. An end to bogus “climate change” policies that are thinly veiled justifications to return Europe to feudalism. Environmental regulations are strangling agriculture, and protests by farmers in Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Germany have made the public’s viewpoints clear. Clean air and water are fine; “carbon-neutral” aspirations will thrust the continent into famine, while those who spout this nonsense at tony conferences in Davos will continue to enjoy their Wagyu beef, private jets, yachts and “sustainably sourced” diamonds.
4. An end to the war in Ukraine and the irresponsible saber-rattling at Russia, which is intended to provoke yet another world war that will kill tens of millions of Europeans while enriching international financiers and multinational defense contractors. Europeans don’t want war with Russia. Russia doesn’t want war with Europe.
Just as Brexit was a preview of the 2016 presidential election in America, the 2024 European Parliamentary elections seem to mirror America’s political mood this year.
So, what do Americans want?
1. Americans want a return to constitutional governance, law enforcement policies that reflect legitimate respect for the rule of law, and limits to federal power—particularly the unelected bureaucrats in the three-letter agencies (part of what is referred to as the “Deep State”).
2. We want national sovereignty on internal matters—including public health—and the elimination of any control globalist organizations like the United Nations or the World Economic Forum seek to impose. That means no absurd treaties ceding control to the World Health Organization for the next “pandemic” cooked up in China, Ukraine or anywhere else.
3. We want an immediate end to illegal immigration and an indefinite hiatus to legal immigration. All the blather about “climate-induced migration” is obfuscation; “open borders” is a fundamentally Marxist policy driven by a deep resentment of what Americans—including millions of Americans whose families arrived here from someplace else—have successfully created. (Remember former President Barack Obama’s infamous message to entrepreneurs and business owners in America? “You didn’t build that.”) The Biden administration is actually doubling down on Obama’s ideology vis-a-vis immigration; allowing unlimited numbers of the world’s poor to enter the United States and handing them benefits is just wealth redistribution writ large.
Americans see it, and they are fed up. America’s veterans, our elderly, our homeless, our own poor and those suffering with addiction and mental illness go without, while this administration hands billions of taxpayer dollars to foreigners who pour across the border. How serious are Americans on this issue? Poll after poll shows that immigration—not abortion or climate change—is the No. 1 issue for Americans going into the 2024 elections. And a recent CBS poll showed that 62% of registered voters support deporting all illegal immigrants.
4. Americans want policies that punish criminals and protect the innocent. While the Justice Department has been investigating Catholics who attend the Latin Mass, incarcerating J6 protesters without due process, and sending 75-year-old grannies praying outside abortion clinics to prison, violent criminals (including the ones pouring across the border) are allowed back out on the streets, often without bail.
5. Americans also want an end to the “climate change” power grabs, including the elimination of federal and state regulations mandating electric vehicles and banning gas-powered appliances; avoidance of the failed agricultural policies being imposed in Europe (and that destroyed the agricultural production of Sri Lanka); and control over our own energy production and consumption. Like Europeans, Americans want a clean environment but refuse to believe we must destroy our economy, starve to death or hand control over every aspect of our lives to a bunch of aspiring dictators to get it.
None of these demands are “far right” or unreasonable. What’s shocking is that ordinary people are having to fight their own governments to reestablish rights and standards of living that were once considered cornerstones of Western civilization.
The 2024 elections are just the beginning. Authoritarians who have managed to entrench their control over the United States and countries in Europe need to be defeated once and for all, and the ideologies motivating them need to be ripped out of our politics and our educational systems root and branch.
© 6.17.2024 by Laura Hollis, "American Greatness".
St Fauci of Wuhan.
A Google search for "Frio Cave" makes the Uvalde County, Texas destination look like a tourists' dream. One quickly learns that the cave is home to tens of millions of Mexican free-tailed bats, and that you can sometimes witness the flapping horde streaming out of their dark, dank home just before sunset, clouding the sky in a "once in a lifetime experience."
But Frio Cave has a darker history that visitors websites don't mention. More than fifty years ago, two humans contracted rabies while spelunking there.
That humans would get infected with rabies while visiting a bat-infested cave isn't altogether surprising. Bats are a reservoir for the terrifying disease – 99% fatal to humans once symptoms – like hyperactivity, hallucinations, seizures, and fear of water – develop. A simple bite from one of the millions of bats could have transmitted a lyssavirus that triggers rabies. However, in this instance, the spelunkers apparently weren't bitten. Rather, it seems they caught the virus from the air itself.
The Gain-of-Function Experiment That Could 'Eliminate Humans From the Face of the Earth'.A team of scientists subsequently investigated. They found that rabies virus could be transmitted to animals housed in empty cages within the cave, apparently just via the atmosphere itself. Moreover, the virus was isolated from samples collected via air condensation techniques.
The episode raised a disturbing prospect. Had rabies, the deadliest virus for humankind, gone airborne?
To be clear, it had not, at least not in a manner that would result in ultra-contagious, human-to-human spread. The sheer number of rabies-carrying bats in the cave likely transformed it into a "hot-box" of infection. Rabies remains transmitted almost entirely through bites and scratches from infected animals, and it is rapidly inactivated by sunlight and heat. However, for safety, members of the general public are now only allowed to enter Frio Cave on guided tours that remain near the mouth of the cave.
That doesn't mean that rabies virus couldn't mutate to become transmitted through the air. It's an RNA virus, and these are known to have high mutation rates. Indeed, scientists have found "a vast array of antigenic variants of this pathogen in a wide range of animal hosts and geographic locations."
Moreover, as two Italian scientists wrote in a 2021 article, "Even single amino acid mutations in the proteins of Rabies virus can considerably alter its biological characteristics, for example increasing its pathogenicity and viral spread in humans, thus making the mutated virus a tangible menace for the entire mankind."
Another possible route for this to occur would be through a "gain-of-function" experiment, in which researchers employ gene-editing to tweak the rabies virus, making it evade current vaccines and endowing it with the ability to spread through the air like measles or influenza. Gain-of-function research has earned increased public scrutiny of late as there's a small, outside chance it may have produced SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, commented on the potential to augment rabies through gain-of-function in a recent Substack post.
"In the absence of an effective vaccine, it could eliminate humans from the face of the earth. The good news is that no one has tried to make rabies virus more contagious. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not possible or that no one would be willing to try."
© 6.15.2024 by Ross Pomeroy, "RealClear Science".
Why The Left Hates It When You Point Out We’re ‘A Republic, Not A Democracy’.
For as long as I can remember, the left has been sneering at anyone who points out that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. They find the notion almost as unsophisticated and fascistic as flying a revolutionary-era flag.
Even some people I admire dismiss the democracy/republic debate as pedantic or a semantic distraction. They shouldn’t.
The other day, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan tried to make Trump fans who repeat this factual contention look like a bunch of dumb, lockstepping authoritarians. To explain the problem, CNN even recruited “democracy” expert Anne Applebaum, who noted that, “America is a democracy. It was founded as a democracy … the word ‘democracy’ and the word ‘republic’ have often been used interchangeably. There isn’t a meaningful difference between them …”
We’re ‘A Republic, Not A Democracy’ -- Because there is a difference.Sure there is.
Ask the contemporary leftists who target virtually every protection we have against mob rule in the name of “democracy” — attacking the Supreme Court, the Electoral College, federalism, the filibuster, the Senate, and even the existence of states. They understand the difference, even if just intuitively.
Ask leftists who treat the “popular vote,” not as a wishcasting cope, but as means of legitimizing presidential elections. Those who want a few big states ruling the nation via a direct federal democracy are not interested in an American “republic.”
Blunting the federal government’s power over states and the state’s power over individuals is an indispensable way to ensure a diverse people in a huge nation can govern themselves and live freely. The “save democracy” types who refer to these long-standing federalist institutions as “minority rule” do not view “democracy” and a constitutional republic as interchangeable concepts.
Neither do smaller blue-state governors who sign a national vote compact that not only dilutes their state’s power but circumvents the Constitution. They love a direct democracy. A constitutional republic? Not so much.
When writers at The Atlantic, where Applebaum is a contributor, talk about “The Democrats’ Last Chance to Save Democracy,” they aren’t lamenting Biden’s unprecedented executive abuse, but the “democratic deficits in the Senate and the Electoral College” — as if these institutions weren’t specifically instituted to diffuse centralized control. They know the difference.
Democrats who want to “expand” the Supreme Court for failing to follow democratic trends, don’t care about the “republic.” After all, many of the high court’s most historic decisions, including Dred Scott and Plessy, cut the legs out from under “democracy.”
Or take the so-called moderate Democrats who want to get rid of the filibuster or use the slimmest of fleeting majorities to shove through massive, generational federal “reforms” without any national consensus — Obamacare or The Deficit Reduction Act [sic]. They’re aware that “reforms” will overturn hundreds of state and local laws. They want local minorities subordinate to the whims and vagaries of national majorities.
Then again, the more “democracy” we have, the more demagoguery thrives. Of course they’re fans.
As it turns out, according to CNN a number of Trump supporters also understand the distinction even if they are unable to articulate it in poli-scientific terms.
Then again, if O’Sullivan wants to dunk on them, maybe he should take a civics refresher himself. “There is, of course, a legitimate debate to be had on what form of democracy we have here in the United States — direct democracy, representative democracy, in fact, constitutional republic, which you heard people mentioned in that piece, that is a form of democracy,” the CNN host explained.
There is, “of course,” zero “legitimate debate discussion” to be had over whether we are a “direct democracy.” Not today, nor ever. “Democracy” isn’t even mentioned anywhere in any founding document, much less a direct one. None of the framers entertained any notions about majoritarianism or federal power that would even loosely comport the ones now embraced by the left.
People will often tell me that, sure, we might be a republic, but we also have “democratic institutions.” Of course we do. We also have numerous nondemocratic institutions. The Bill of Rights, for instance, is largely concerned with protecting individuals from state and the mob. The insistence that we only use “democracy” is meant to corrode the importance and acceptance of those countermajoritarian rules and traditions.
“[F]or centuries,” insists O’Sullivan (italics mine), “America has celebrated its democracy,” before playing clips of Ronald Reagan and others praising the notion of “democracy.”
Indeed, the word “democracy” — from “demos,” the people — has been used as a shorthand for self-rule since before Pericles. In the past, we’ve used it to convey respect for a set of liberal ideas about liberties and rights, as well as self-determination. I’m sure I’ve used it in that way, too. Most Americans probably comprehend the notion of “democracy” in the same, vague context.
These days, though, a bunch of illiberal progressives (and others) have taken universal notions that once fell under the umbrella of “democracy” and cynically distorted them to champion a hypermajoritarian outlook. It’s no accident the people who demand you call us a “democracy” also champion the idea that 50.1 percent of the country should be empowered to lord over the economic, religious, cultural, and political decisions of 49.9 percent.
© 6.17.2024by DAVID HARSANYI, "The Fedferalist".
