Will Democrats start to pivot on Covid and demand that we live with it?
Slowly but surely the Biden Administration seems to be giving up. The admission that there may not be a Federal solution. The rhetoric that seems to be almost underplaying the Omicron variant rather than pushing for more frenzy. The growing amount of people within the Democratic ranks who are starting to say we might need to coexist with the virus.
Moreover, it is getting tougher and tougher to push the "blame the unvaccinated" rhetoric as we get closer and closer to what "should be" herd immunity. On top of that, as a double whammy, the most recent surges are taking place (once again) in New York, California, and other liberal states. The red vs blue argument is no longer making sense. If Democrats cannot blame Republicans, then something drastic must be done.
At the very beginning of all of this there was a lot of skepticism about a vaccine. After all we have not found a vaccine that has ever worked against the common cold or any strain of Coronavirus for that matter. The fact that we got something that worked as well as it did is impressive. But ultimately the issue with the Coronavirus is the ability (like the flu) to change and mutate into different variants that become immune to the vaccines. We can play the flu variant yearly vaccine game eventually, if we want to concede that it's not going to go away. But it seems unlikely at this point to believe that we can vaccinate our way to a conclusion.
So Covid may stay with us. Hopefully in less dangerous variants in the future. We might have to accept that people are going to get sick and die, just as we have with the flu, pneumonia, and other seasonal viruses. Perhaps if we just stopped the excessive tracking, counting, reporting, and everything else we might someday get our lives back.
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Yes, it is discouraging that Covid is absolutely raging now.
We can hope that eventually Covid will be something we can live with, but right now we cannot afford to abandon vaccinating, boosters, masking (perhaps with more effective masks) and some distancing, even if that sometimes regrettably means disrupting children's attendance at schools.
CDC Weighs Recommending Better Masks
January 11, 2022 at 7:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 73 Comments
“The CDC is considering updating its mask guidance to recommend that people opt for the highly protective N95 or KN95 masks worn by health-care personnel, if they can do so consistently,“ the Washington Post reports.
“With the highly transmissible omicron variant spurring record levels of infections and hospitalizations, experts have repeatedly urged the Biden administration to recommend the better-quality masks rather than cloth coverings to protect against an airborne virus, and to underscore the importance of masking.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci accuses Kentucky Senator Rand Paul of distorting his past statements and conversations he had with scientists on the origins of the coronavirus. He says the senator is personally attacking him for political gain and says that the attacks "kindles the crazies" and endangers the safety of himself and his family
Water carrier James does serve a limited purpose if, you want to know what the Socialist Democrat Biden is saying.
The Great Fail.
"Decent, honest, truthtelling free speech advocate January 11, 2022 at 10:37 AM
Yes, it is discouraging that Covid is absolutely raging now.
We can hope that eventually Covid will be something we can live.."
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4995541/dr-fauci-senator-paul-clash-senate-hearing
Socialist Democrat always play the victim.
Alky does, James does, and Denny do.
Will Democrats start to pivot on Covid and demand that we live with it?
No fucking way.
The left is drunk on the power they seized under this false pretense and there's no way in hell they're giving it back.
These cocksuckers are brown shirt fascists through and through, and they're at a point now that they CAN'T let up. If they let up the truth comes out. Just like Jan. 6. Why the fuck do you think they're suppressing 140,000 hours of video and locking people up indefinitely?
So the truth never comes out. It's the same with the Kung Flu.
Roger, your team is all in on this.
Biden is the leader .
"Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a policy model for funding government spending. ... The essential message of MMT is that there is no financial constraint on government spending as long as a country is a sovereign issuer of currency and does not tie the value of its currency to another currency."
Pope Scott Johnson will call it anti Trump systematic anti science anti reformation movement is just TDS TDS TDS TDS TDS.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering updating its mask guidance to recommend that people opt for the highly protective N95 or KN95 masks worn by health-care personnel, if they can do so consistently, said an official close to the deliberations who was not authorized to speak publicly.
With the highly transmissible omicron variant spurring record levels of infections and hospitalizations, experts have repeatedly urged the Biden administration to recommend the better-quality masks rather than cloth coverings to protect against an airborne virus, and to underscore the importance of masking.
“The agency is currently actively looking to update its recommendations for KN95 and N95 in light of omicron,” the official said. “We know these masks provide better filtration.”
To wear or not to wear a mask, experts answer your questions
When the CDC issued its initial mask guidance in 2020, health officials did not urge the use of the more protective face coverings out of concern that health workers might be unable to get them. But health officials said there are no longer serious shortages of N95 .
The updated guidance is expected to say that the best mask is the one that is worn consistently and correctly. N95 masks, which were predominantly used in health-care and industrial settings before the pandemic, are supposed to be individually fitted and are sometimes hard to wear all day, physicians and other health-care personnel have said. The CDC guidance is expected to say that if people can “tolerate wearing a KN95 or N95 mask all day, you should.”
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has previously declined to officially endorse Americans wearing N95s regularly, rather than a typical fabric mask.
“If people want extra layers of protection, the KN95 or N95s do offer that,” Walensky said in a December interview on PBS NewsHour. “But what I also want to really emphasize is that you need to be able to keep them on for when you’re in those settings. Those KN95 and N95s are often not as comfortable.”
The agency’s current guidance says a mask should fit snugly, have two layers of breathable fabric and have a wire bridge around the nose. The guidance says N95 masks should be prioritized for health-care workers, an idea several public health experts panned.
“That note of trying to save N95s for health-care workers is just grossly out of date,” said Michael Osterholm, who leads the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and advised President Biden’s transition team on the coronavirus response.
N95 masks are approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and are designed to filter up to 95 percent of particles, according to the CDC. KN95s are supposed to meet a comparable Chinese standard, but there is no Chinese regulatory agency ensuring that, said Anne Miller, executive director of Project N95, a nonprofit organization that distributes free N95s and children’s masks in the United States.
...no financial constraint on government spending as long as a country is a sovereign issuer of currency...
Brilliant.
This is EXACTLY how Zimbabwe ended up issuing a ONE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLAR BILL.
https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/institute/annual/2011/annual11b.pdf
Socialists: Celebrating 180 years of finding problems and making them worse.
H/T: AoS
American Greatness aka the new Confederate States actually wants the red States should separate from the United States like in the civil war era.
There should be little need to expound upon the parallels to today in that, but here goes:
Red and blue states have, in fact, diverged into patterns of life that have become increasingly antithetical in recent years, and antagonisms and rivalries are growing in intensity. Blue states did fleece the taxpayers of red states last year by demanding a federal bailout for their decision to keep their states irrationally closed during the pandemic and in order to keep their broken, and internally unsustainable, entitlement programs afloat. There is a high moral tone being expressed on abortion in red states, an institution that disregards the right to life among the unborn just as the institution of slavery disregarded the right to liberty among slaves. Extremists on both sides are inflaming passions. Effete coastal liberals and elitists in the media and academia view middle-class, red-state denizens as anachronistic God-worshippers who prioritize their families and communities before the needs of the national collective, and are thereby impediments on that Hegelian path of history toward their inevitable vision of “progress.”
Red and blue states do, in many ways, seem like separate parts locked in a struggle that must be resolved if we are to function as a nation. Will this warring duality be resolved, or will we explode when, for example, the federal government decides to mandate vaccination IDs be issued by all of the states, and several states refuse?
Again, if the people of a state surmise that the federal government is pursuing a policy that compromises the liberty and prosperity of its citizens, does that state have to conform to what is perceived by the people of the state as an unconstitutional abuse of power, or can it express its autonomy and liberty without the prospect of being attacked by the federal government for having done so?
That is the central question that was at the heart of the Civil War. And we are fools to not consider that it’s the likeliest question that will be at the heart of the next one or to understand that it’s certainly the question at the heart of the semi-cold war between right and left in America today.
Biden is not using Keynesian economics
Theory.
Roger is wrong again.
Rat thinks "the Democrats" are supressing everything.
Rat says:
If they [THE DEMS] let up the truth comes out. Just like Jan. 6. Why the f**k do you think they're suppressing 140,000 hours of video...?
Well, rat, I'm not quite sure how 14,000 hours of video became 140,000 hours, but you might want to consider the following:
Capitol Police provided more than 14,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage to lawmakers
By Kyle Cheney
03/29/2021 09:48 PM EDT
The Capitol Police shared thousands of hours of Jan. 6 surveillance camera footage with two key congressional committees investigating the mob attack on the building — and provided “numerous” clips to the Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump's impeachment, the department's top lawyer revealed Monday.
The department provided the footage to the impeachment managers in response to a request from top House lawyer Douglas Letter, according to Capitol Police General Counsel Thomas DiBiase, who made the disclosures in a sworn affidavit he submitted in one of the criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6 riot.
DiBiase said the department also provided more than 14,000 hours of surveillance camera footage — encompassing the hours of noon to 8 p.m. on Jan. 6 — to two key committees investigating the Capitol assault: The House Administration Committee and the Senate Rules Committee.
DiBiase's comments to the court are the first known acknowledgment from the Capitol Police of the extent of its cooperation with lawmakers investigating the attack. The notoriously secretive agency has said little about the extent of its cooperation with other entities and whether it had shared its materials with lawmakers until now. On Monday, two key House Appropriations Committee lawmakers — who oversee the Capitol Police budget — ripped the department for failing to provide more public details about its response to the Jan. 6 attack.
DiBiase indicated that since lawmakers' initial request for footage, the department has agreed to provide footage from the entire 24 hour period of Jan. 6. The Capitol Police have also shared the 14,000-hour subset of footage with the FBI and the D.C. Metropolitan Police to support ongoing investigations. And it has shared a "very limited number" of video clips from Jan. 5 to assist the D.C. police with "potential ... incidents."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/what_issue_was_really_at_the_heart_of_the_civil_war_and_is_it_relevant_today.html
Despite the disclosure, DiBiase is silent on one crucial question: Whether the department has preserved a broader swath of Jan. 5 footage and shared it with lawmakers who have raised fears about potential "reconnaissance" efforts by would-be rioters the day before the Capitol breach. Democrats leveled the charge in the immediate aftermath of the attack, suggesting Republican lawmakers or aides may have aided the rioters, but have said little to back up their statements since.
In his affidavit, DiBiase revealed that the security footage is “automatically purged” within 30 days under normal circumstances.
DiBiase filed his affidavit in the criminal case of Patrick McCaughey, who is charged with pinning a police officer while another rioter ripped off the officer's mask. Prosecutors have relied on surveillance footage to bolster their case against McCaughey, and typical evidence-sharing procedures would require prosecutors to share those videos with McCaughey's defense team.
However, the Capitol Police [NOT THE DEMOCRATS] are raising alarms about sharing surveillance footage with McCaughey or in hundreds of other cases where such footage could come into play. DiBiase said that the agency's legally authorized policy is to sharply restrict access to such videos because it could be used by bad actors — including many of the alleged insurrectionists now facing charges — to map out the interior of the Capitol and pose a future threat to lawmakers.
"The Department has significant concerns with the release of any of its footage to defendants in the Capitol attack cases unless there are safeguards in place to prevent its copying and dissemination," DiBiase said.
"Our concern is that providing unfettered access to hours of extremely sensitive information to defendants who have already shown a desire to interfere with the democratic process will result in the layout, vulnerabilities and security weaknesses of the Capitol being collected, exposed and passed on to those who might wish to attack the Capitol again," he said.
Prosecutors are pointing to DiBiase's affidavit as they attempt to craft a so-called "protective order" governing the sharing of sensitive information with Capitol riot defendants. They're working to build an archive of video that would permit defendants to peruse relevant clips but sharply restrict their access and permit prosecutors a chance to object if they feel such footage could be misused or present a risk.
Their efforts to set up such a system has sharply delayed prosecutions, and the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington has asked for a broad 60-day delay in many of the more than 300 Capitol riot cases as a result.
Sorry rat, the DEMs are not suppressing "ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THOUSAND HOURS" of videos.
So rat goes slithering off to some other conspiracy claim.
Well, rat, I'm not quite sure how 14,000 hours of video became 140,000 hours, but you might want to consider the following:
Capitol Police provided more than 14,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage to lawmakers
By Kyle Cheney
Typical pederast. When the facts in evidence are against him he focuses on the typos.
Go fuck yourself pederast. "Lawmakers" having access to the footage while the accused do NOT is the fucking problem here.
The footage is exculpatory and implicates the FBI/DOJ. And they're stonewalling:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1480941660401979405
Sen. Ted Cruz asked 8 pointed question to a female FBI high Official.
Her answers.
Sir, I can't answer that.
Sir, I can't answer that.
Sir, I can't answer that.
Sir, I can't answer that.
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Sir, I can't answer that.
rat said
'Typical pederast. When the facts in evidence are against him he focuses on the typos.
___________
Typical rat.
Taking our minds off "typos" (which, if it really was a typo, he could have it corrected at site),
why does he ignore the fact that what he claimed the Dems did, the Capitol police actually did.
Was that a "typo" too?
James, good to see you continue to curse, call names and general comport yourself in a snarky petty old broke man.
I was looking to see your posts mirroring Biden's version of "unity".
Fauci Says Rand Paul’s Lies Have Led to Death Threats
January 11, 2022 at 12:51 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during a Senate hearing after the senator attacked the doctor for appearing to disagree with scientists who said the coronavirus originated from a lab in China, NBC News reports.
Said Fauci: “What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue, is that all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there, and I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family, and my children, with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me.”
More Than Half of Europe Will Be Infected In Two Months
January 11, 2022 at 12:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
More than half of people in Europe could be infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the next six to eight weeks, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday, amid “a new west-to-east tidal wave sweeping across the region,” the New York Times reports.
CDC Advises Against Travel to Canada
January 11, 2022 at 12:42 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments
The CDC advised Americans to avoid travel to Canada, citing “very high” levels of the coronavirus, the New York Times reports.
“Canada was placed under a Level 4 travel health notice — the highest category — joining several countries, including France, Germany, Britain, Spain, South Africa and others.”
TAEGAN GODDARD COMMENTS:
With 1.4 million new cases in the U.S. yesterday it seems like staying in the country could be an even greater risk.
Gorsuch Is Only Justice to Not Wear Mask on Bench
January 11, 2022 at 12:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch did not wear a mask for a hearing Tuesday, even as all the other justices in attendance did so, and as two of his colleagues — Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor — appeared remotely due to apparent concerns about Covid-19, CNBC reports.
Activist Dies of Covid After Attending Anti-Vax Conference
January 11, 2022 at 12:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments
Kelly Canon, a well-known conservative activist in Texas who peddled Covid-19 vaccine misinformation, has died of complications caused by the virus — just a few weeks after attending a “symposium” against the shots, the Daily Beast reports.
A Plan to "Trump Proof" the Election
January 11, 2022 at 11:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments
Greg Sargent:
“If Republicans succeed in blocking Democratic efforts to protect voting rights this week, as expected, the push to defend democracy will be anything but dead. That’s because another important proposal to prevent a stolen 2024 election is coming together in the Senate.
“This one may — may — prove harder for Republicans to oppose. At least it should prove harder. It would help prevent a rerun of Donald Trump’s 2020 effort — and the violence that followed — with minimal reforms that Republicans can’t manufacture objections to as easily.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has waged a personal war against Dr. Anthony Fauci over the past year, but in a Tuesday hearing the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases came prepared to fight back.
Armed with screen captures of Paul's website, Fauci showed that the senator is using his attacks to make campaign cash.
Meanwhile, Fauci said that each time Paul attacks him he's plagued with threats against him and his children. In one case, he explained, a man was arrested in Iowa with a "hit list" that included Fauci. He had an assault rifle and ammunition in his possession, according to the reports.
The CDC is considering updating its mask guidance to recommend that people opt for the highly protective N95 or KN95 masks worn by health-care personnel, if they can do so consistently,“ the Washington Post reports.
You really cannot change your policy on what sort of masks need to be worn without admitting that the same cheap masks that pre-covid came with a disclaimer that they were not medical grade and not designed to prevent the spread of viruses probably never worked as advertised.
My wife generally wears a KN95 mask or an N95. They are expensive but she can get them cheaper through vendors that supply them for her company.
A Plan to "Trump Proof" the Election
January 11, 2022 at 11:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments
Democrats must really believe Trump will win if he runs in 2024, huh?
why does he ignore the fact that what he claimed the Dems did, the Capitol police actually did.
Actually they both did it.
Nancy could have released the videos
The Capitol Police could have released the videos
Neither did.
Now only select people can view in a controlled room and are not allowed to release what they saw in video form. I'm not even sure they can take notes.
14,000 hours... For individuals to review that is really an impossible task.
People need to work together.
I did hear a senator say it confirmed that people were being let in and were very peaceful inside.
Probably why dems and capitol police refuse to release
Banana Republic
trying to bury people like the POS "pastor" does with his GODdard
what an asshole
dug up some background, very good short video at end of short article:
Senator Ron Johnson’s Staff is Looking thru 14,000 Hours of Jan 6th Video Footage – 38% of 800 Protesters Were Waved in West Terrace Door by Capitol Police (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/senator-ron-johnsons-staff-looking-thru-14-hours-jan-6th-video-footage-38-800-protesters-waved-west-terrace-door-capitol-police-video/
It is certainly coming out that SOME Capitol police actually encouraged the insurrectionists.
Smilingly met them. Posed for selfies with them, etc.
That has not been kept secret or hidden.
Some may have been charged or may be facing charges, and that may be why a number have resigned.
I told you all when the "Mask Mandate" started that the cloth masks were not going to freaking work.
CDC confirming my US Army Nuclear/Biological/Chemical trading.
Buy, those sheep that believed . So sad for them.
It's all Sleepy Joe's fault according to rrb and kputz and Scott Johnson schizophrenia
Winter weather
Winter storms dumped more than a foot of snow across parts of the Mid-Atlantic just after the New Year, and sweeping weather systems have made road conditions difficult in many parts of the country in the past two weeks.
For example, the 20-plus-hour traffic jam last week on I-95 near Stafford, Va., paralyzed a fair number of grocery delivery semi trucks.
"The winter months are always challenging," said Doug Baker, vice president of industry relations for FMI, a food industry organization. "But we've seen weather patterns that we're not used to in terms of frequency and magnitude, from the West Coast to the East Coast."
In addition to weather delaying the delivery to grocery stores around the country, Baker said bad weather also influences consumer psychology, which played into some items becoming out of stock.
"There are certain products people ritually buy when there is an impending weather event," Baker said. "And then when people see images of stores low on stock, it's not out of the ordinary for people to buy two of something instead of one, just in case."
And with more than 5,000 schools delaying their reopening this month due to the omicron surge and storms, families are feeling a greater urgency to lay in supplies of bread, milk, meat and cereal to make up for meals not eaten at school.
- Supply chain snarls
Supply chain problems are no longer just about shipping containers sitting in ports or out at sea, waiting to be unloaded. They are also about the slowing of the production of goods that the United States imports.
In China and the United Kingdom, some municipalities have once again shut down factories and thus slowed orders for certain ingredients and food products for U.S. imports.
"A lot of our ingredients and products come from countries that have had their own spikes," Baker said. "Some countries have taken a very strict approach and shut down manufacturing, so that slows the whole process down. It's not just a domestic issue, it's about how other countries are dealing with omicron."
Still, at the nation's busiest port, the Port of Los Angeles, cargo volume fell sharply in November compared with a year earlier, according to the port's own figures.
Fruits and vegetables have seen fewer instances of shortfalls and supply problems than other food categories, but currently there are some empty shelves that are more about food safety. The Food and Drug Administration last week issued a voluntary recall on certain bagged salads and other vegetables due to possible listeria contamination. In general, though, there have been fewer food recalls during the pandemic.
- More people eating at home
Oh cookie, James pivots again.
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Roger AmickJanuary 11, 2022 at 12:33 PM
It's all Sleepy Joe's fault according..."
Nope
Always wrong Roger is wrong again✔
Scientists change their minds based upon the evidence.
You think they hate Trump
Roger, see why my family grows its own food.
We can, freeze and vacuum seal our summer/fall bounty.
We raise sheep, chickens, turkeys,beef and goat for sale and for our freezer.
If you are a vaccine company executive, it's time to slam the brakes
Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla sees the dangers ahead, as his very carefully worded interview (worthy of close review) with CNBC yesterday shows.
Article (it starts slow but after that a very good read)
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/if-you-are-a-vaccine-company-executive
He was fine when he worked for the New York Times but is now shunned by the state media and banned by big tech
Thank God for independent journalists
They may save America
(and bloggers like CHT)
Democrats must really believe Trump will win if he runs in 2024, huh?
They're scared shitless. Which is why they're desperate to disqualify Trump from running with their J6 clown car.
why does he ignore the fact that what he claimed the Dems did, the Capitol police actually did.
The 14,000 hours of video tape has been given to democrat lawmakers. It has not been made available to defense counsel for the J6 charged and accused.
You're a liar, pederast.
Gaslighted by Trump. He flipped out one day later.
Ted Cruz fact-checked by senator after suggesting the FBI was behind Jan. 6 attack
Sarah K. Burris
January 11, 2022
In less than a week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has gone from calling the Jan. 6 "a terrorist attack" to suggesting the FBI was behind the Capitol attack.
Questioning Jill Sanborn, assistant director of the National Security Branch of the FBI, Cruz asked about Ray Epps, who was filmed on Jan. 5 encouraging people to go "peacefully" into the Capitol on Jan. 6. The retired U.S. Marine owns a wedding venue in Arizona and is a long-running Oath Keeper, Snopes reported last week.
"I’m going to put it out there. I’ll probably go to jail for it. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol. Peaceably! Peacefully! We are freedom, we are peaceful. That’s what it's about. It’s not about hurting people," Epps told the crowd.
People then began chanting "FED" alleging that Epps was a federal agent working with the government. He has since been alleged to be an FBI agent, despite the FBI's efforts to uncover who he was, along with those who broke into the Capitol.
Just last week, Cruz said, "anyone who commits an actual act of violence should be prosecuted, and anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer should go to jail for a very long time. And I think that's a principle that is true, regardless of the politics of the violent criminal, whether they are right-wing, left-wing or they got no wings at all."
Speaking today, Cruz promoted the conspiracy theory, which has been fact-checked by several sites, including PolitiFact.
First, Cruz ranted at Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division Matthew Olsen, demanding to know the total number of people who have been arrested for Jan. 6. That number changes weekly and Olsen didn't know the current number. He then demanded to know how many Jan. 6 attackers were in jail awaiting trial, because trials happen every day, that number also changes. According to the FBI count last week, 738 people have been arrested for Jan. 6.
Cruz then compared the Jan. 6 attacks with the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 and asked Olsen how many people were arrested from those. He said he knows hundreds but didn't know the exact number. At least 300 were arrested on June 1, 2020 alone. More than 150 are still awaiting trial for felony charges. In fact, the Associated Press revealed that over 10,000 people in 140 cities were arrested during protests starting after May 25, 2020, the date George Floyd was killed.
As Cruz elevated the conspiracy theory, he asked if Epps was a federal agent, which Sanborn said she couldn't answer. The theory is that if insurrectionists can prove that Ray Epps was an FBI agent then they can claim the entire Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was done as an FBI operation. In the hundreds of people arrested for Jan. 6, indictment documents walk through social media evidence showing their long-term support of President Donald Trump and, in some case, a celebration of their participation at the riots.
Immediately after Cruz's rant, Judiciary Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) entered into the record the PolitiFact story saying that there's still no evidence that the FBI was involved in Jan. 6.
But CHT believes the FBI has been identified as a successful democratic hoax
Another great independent journalist:
New documents reveal early beliefs that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered
And how debate was shut-down to protect "science"
https://technofog.substack.com/p/new-documents-reveal-early-beliefs
This was the same problem Mueller had when he indicted the Russians businesses for election crimes. They hired expensive lawyers, demanded a speedy trial, and requested their discovery.
The laws are clear... prosecutors have to turn over ALL of their evidence to the defendants in criminal trials. Withholding any evidence that could be considered exculpatory will see any conviction overturned. The problem here is unlike large Russian companies owned by larger Russian companies, a single US citizen does not have the resources to attack this in court in that matter.
But if even one hour of the 14,000 hours of video shows something that would help the defendants in a case, then it must be turned over. Which will likely happen "eventually" when Democrats are not the ones holding that power.
As soon as either the Senate or House turns Republican....
all 14,000 hours will be released. It's just a matter of time.
Then if there is even any evidence that the FBI was involved or that people that were let into the building were let in by undercover agents or paid informants... all of those convictions (and even plea bargains) will be subject to being overturned.
We don't know for sure what is and is not on those 14,000 hours... but it seems like the Capitol police and Democrats are pushing pretty hard to keep it out of the public eye. More to the point, their excuses for doing so are not very good from a legal standpoint.
Time will tell...
and every American who claims to be fair and honest would want that transparency brought forward.
Immediately after Cruz's rant, Judiciary Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) entered into the record the PolitiFact story saying that there's still no evidence that the FBI was involved in Jan. 6.
LMAO.
Of COURSE he did alky.
And for the record, the questions Cruz posed to the FBI today are the same questions that have been asked of the FBI/DOJ for an entire fucking year.
The STASI stonewall is intentional.
Heh:
"The Democrats have created a new thing where they're picking and choosing who can be on committees," McCarthy said. "Never in the history [of Congress] have you had the majority tell the minority who can be on committee. But this new standard which these Democrats have voted for--if Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there is no reason why he should be given one to be on Intel or Homeland Security. He will not be serving there."
"Yes," McCarthy replied when asked if that meant he will use the standard Democrats have created by stripping Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) of their committee assignments to remove Swalwell from those two committees.
McCarthy also said he will remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
"Ilhan Omar should not be serving on Foreign Affairs," McCarthy said. "This is a new level of what the Democrats have done."
In addition, he said he will pull Schiff--the current HPSCI chairman--off the Intelligence Committee.
"You look at Adam Schiff--he should not be serving on Intel when he has openly, knowingly now used a fake dossier, lied to the American public in the process and doesn't have any ill will [and] says he wants to continue to do it," McCarthy said.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/10/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-plans-to-strip-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-eric-swalwell-and-adam-schiff-off-intelligence-committee/
Biden cover up.
"And for the record, the questions Cruz posed to the FBI today are the same questions that have been asked of the FBI/DOJ for an entire fucking year.
The STASI stonewall is intentional."
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A flaming shitshow .
James, your stance on wearing a certain kind and construction of mask has "evolved".
KD, I just picked up 40 lbs of delicious 90/10 ground beef from a farmer friend. Hoping he'll sell me a full side this spring when he butchers a couple more.
KD, I just picked up 40 lbs of delicious 90/10 ground beef from a farmer friend. Hoping he'll sell me a full side this spring when he butchers a couple more.
That would be nice! we buy all our meat (or most) through a company called "crowd cow". Expensive as fuck, but you get waygu and kobe and really good stuff. Hard to sometime go back and grill a steak you got from the grocery store after eating that waygu stuff.
You have GOT to be shitting me:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Tuesday announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, offering new aid to the country as it edges toward a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban takeover nearly five months ago.
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-coronavirus-pandemic-health-taliban-humanitarian-assistance-94bf09d3abc050292a930ca826e53cc2
Damn, RRB , great score.
Hope you get the side too.
My wife culled one of her favorite cows a few months ago.
We had her completely ground (90/10).
She made 600 plus pounds. We picked it up at the Butcher and had two of the bigger sales customers meat us there.
Sold 200 lbs on the spot. Made other deliveries to other customers. Only kept 100 lbs for us.
$3.50 per pound.
Wagyu you say?
My local guy has that and he ships. I had a 1.56 lb. extra thick NY Strip Steak last weekend that I could just about cut with a fork. -
Check it out.: https://fredthebutcher.com/
Bought an 18 lb.smoked bone-in ham for a large Christmas gathering, and it was without question the best smoked ham we've ever had.
An Opening for Hillary Clinton?
January 11, 2022 at 2:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Doug Schoen and Andrew Stein:
“A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024.
“Several circumstances—President Biden’s low approval rating, doubts over his capacity to run for re-election at 82, Vice President Kamala Harris’s unpopularity, and the absence of another strong Democrat to lead the ticket in 2024— have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton viably could fill.”
____________
LOL.
If this comes true,
this time she'll be stalking Trump around on the stage, lol.
If, that is, if the Repugs are stupid enough to run him.
This describes how highly educated people like you Scott, came to trust Trump,
members doubted their own faction would achieve its goals. Taxes and regulations might be cut. The U.S. might use its military might to challenge threats around the world. But cultural and moral standards in the country would continue to fall further and further from where they once were.
Back in the early 2000s, these laments were largely couched in empirical terms, tied to evidence of failure in the world but without offering a coherent explanation beyond the prevalence of sin and the extreme difficulty of righting a ship so far off course for so long. But as the decade wore on, as Bush was succeeded by eight years of Barack Obama's progressive presidency, and as the Supreme Court elevated same-sex marriage into a constitutional right, the conservative mood darkened further.
By the time Trump burst on the scene in the summer of 2015, the traditionalist right had nearly given in to outright despair, even in public, with many moving into a purely defensive position. No longer hoping to reverse the direction of the culture, they now hoped they might merely receive modest federal protection from persecution at the hands of emboldened secular liberals.
At first Trump's campaign didn't inspire much cause for optimism among disaffected traditionalist conservatives. He was, after all, a personal paragon of moral decadence. Yet once Trump seized the GOP nomination, and then the presidency itself, a rethinking began among the most pessimistic conservatives. Might his unexpected triumph open other, more radical options for the future? Could his aggressive, unapologetic hostility to liberal norms and institutions signal an openness among American voters to a fundamental rethinking of ideological premises, cultural limits, and the range of political possibilities?
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For a series of pessimistic conservatives — especially the "integralist" Catholics (Adrian Vermeule, Gladden Pappin, Patrick Deneen, Sohrab Ahmari, Chad Pecknold) and the philosophically anti-liberal and anti-progressive writers at the Claremont Institute and the American Greatness website — Trump came to represent a new way to achieve old ends. Instead of encouraging Republican presidents to struggle within a liberal framework against the inexorable drift of the country, including its government and its culture, toward the secular left, conservatives could cheer on a political and cultural demolition project that would seek to destroy the liberal framework itself.
The problem with past forms of American conservatism, these writers came to believe over the past half decade, is that they accepted the validity of liberal assumptions — even when, as in Neuhaus' case, they reconceived them in Catholic-Christian terms. No wonder conservatives always lost and pessimism became the order of the day.
Damn, KD. I'm tempted to move back to Olathe just so I can do business with you.
Trump opened up another path. The morally degenerate real estate magnate and reality show star who bragged about sexual assault and cheated on his third wife with a porn actress couldn't model a better way within the existing system. But he could work to tear down "the administrative state" that uses government power to enforce liberal rules and regulations. He could aim rhetorical firepower at elite political, legal, cultural, and economic institutions to rally popular opposition to their rule. He could defy the reigning consensus of bending history toward justice defined in liberal-progressive terms.
This was the idea Trump's electoral success inspired: He (or a populist successor) could at long last give conservatives their chance — not by slowing an inevitable march to the secular left but by razing the liberal edifice altogether, making it possible to found society anew on properly conservative
That's how Donald Trump gave the most pessimistic conservatives hope — by convincing them they need not accept the existing arrangement of things as a given. Trump inspired them to become radicals, even revolutionaries, while simultaneously holding onto their moral convictions about the rightful ordering of society. Now, those convictions both fuel the newfound revolutionary spirit and serve as a guidepost to a post-revolutionary future, when conservatives will supposedly gain the upper hand and at long last prevail over their opponents.
What comes next for these conservative intellectuals? Are they prepared to offer unconditional support for another Trump run for the White House, despite his treacherous words and deeds during the two months following the 2020 election? Are there any lies from the candidate or potentially reinstated president that would prove to be deal-breakers? Any acts or policies that would be considered a bridge too far? Or would they be willing to countenance just about anything in return for a presidential promise to crush the infamous enemy, the liberal-progressive regime that currently governs America?
We will learn the answers to these ominous questions soon enough.
Ty, I will reserve you a side and 90/10 hamburger when ya do.
https://theweek.com/republicans/1008822/the-self-radicalizing-logic-of-conservative-intellectuals?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20220111&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=B6337B1932004BC0F0DE65338078142A
Roger, when was the last time you bought beef in a store and cooked it yourself?
Hey alky, does your "facility" allow you to custom order your Jello by color, or do you just have to take what you get?
LMAO.
Damn RRB that is brutally true.
Country ham -- salty but OH SO GOOD! -- collard greens with chow chow, eastern style North Carolina vinegar-based pork barbeque, with fried corn bread sticks, slaw, and tipsy cake for dessert!
Lying scumbags -
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists, according to an email exchange reviewed by Fox News.
The email exchange indicates Cardona was more involved with the letter's creation than previously known.
President Biden's Department of Justice relied on the NSBA letter, which suggested using the Patriot Act against parents, in creating its own memo directing the FBI to mobilize in support of local education officials.
In the Oct. 5 email, NSBA Secretary-Treasurer Kristi Swett recounted that NSBA interim CEO Chip Slaven "told the officers he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cardona."
Previous emails had revealed that the NSBA was in contact with the White House and Justice Department in the weeks before it publicly sent the letter.
The emails were obtained by the parents group Parents Defending Education in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
"Should this allegation be true, it would reveal that this administration's pretextual war on parents came from the highest levels," PDE President Nicole Neily told Fox News Digital.
"Attorney General Merrick Garland unequivocally stated that he based his memo on the NSBA's letter - which in turn, mobilized the FBI and US Attorneys," Neily added. "If Secretary Cardona was truly involved in this ugly episode, it is a significant breach of public trust, and he should be held accountable."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/education-secretary-cardona-solicited-nsba-letter-comparing-parents-domestic-terrorists-email
If Trump did something like this you would hear and see leftist heads exploding from coast to coast -
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to form a special unit focused on the threat of domestic terrorism, a top official told lawmakers Tuesday.
Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced the creation of the new unit in his opening remarks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.
“I decided to establish a domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach,” Olsen said. “This group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat, helping to ensure that these cases are handled properly and effectively coordinated across the Department of Justice and across the country.”
https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/11/justice-department-domestic-terrorism-matthew-olsen/
This group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat = Trump supporters.
This describes how highly educated people like you Scott, came to trust Trump,
I don't trust any politician Roger...
But the reality is that I believed that Biden would make an awful President, that he didn't have a plan for Covid (440K dead later), that his foreign policy would be a disaster (like Afghanistan), and he would dump across the board.
I was right!
Trump would have been much, much, much better. Pretty hard to argue differently.
Rat,
Grew up in a large town small city and about 15 miles away was a hole in the ground butcher in a town that had less than 100 people. But you walked in and you had take a number, it was generally a wait, but that didn't bother us because there was all sorts of free samples, you could pick up jerky and other types of snack meat (oh and they had the old fashioned soda machine with the bottled soda).
At any given time there appeared to be more people in the store than not in that town. People came from all over.
But yeah... the best meat. Steaks, chops, hamburger, whatever...
People aren't quitting their jobs to get unemployment benefits, they're quitting their jobs because they're getting better offers elsewhere.
Thanks to assistance packages passed on a bipartisan basis first, and then solely by Democrats later, the US economy is better now than it was two years ago. That's pretty remarkable, and if the price we pay is a bit of extra inflation for a while then that's not really much of a price. How many other large countries can say they've done better?
This is why I support Sleepy Joe Biden and again bottom up economics..
If he had withdrawn from Afghanistan too? We have no way to determine what happened.
I was right!
Biden has been much, much, much better. Pretty hard to argue differently.
Sorry Rog...
but we are millions of jobs down from where we were pre-Covid. We have lost wages as they have not kept up with inflation, and inflation is such that our Fed will need to raise rates as many as four times (each time will take a bite out of any GDP growth).
Many economists believe we could be headed for a recession, and we will have real problems if Covid sticks around much longer.
But don't ask me....
ask the American public... consumer confidence numbers don't lie, but the media that you suck up like your jello from a straw does.
FIRST ON FOX: Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists, according to an email exchange reviewed by Fox News."
Biden's FBI vs Parents.
This is why you should consider changing your mind
At first Trump's campaign didn't inspire much cause for optimism among disaffected traditionalist conservatives. He was, after all, a personal paragon of moral decadence.pussy grasping! Yet once Trump seized the GOP nomination, and then the presidency itself, a rethinking began among the most pessimistic conservatives. Might his unexpected triumph open other, more radical options for the future? Could his aggressive, unapologetic hostility to liberal norms and institutions signal an openness among American voters to a fundamental rethinking of ideological premises, cultural limits, and the range of political possibilities? Including violence against people like Doctor Fauci and other scientists?
I think roger's jello has completely taken hold
Change My mind
ROFLMFAO !!!
Biden's FBI vs Parents.
I'd call it Biden's FBI vs Voters
hopefully we are still a Democratic Republic
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, announced Tuesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms.
"Earlier today, I tested positive for COVID-19," the mayor tweeted around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday. "I am experiencing cold-like symptoms but otherwise feel fine which I credit to being vaccinated and boosted."
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The mayor said she plans to continue working from home as she follows isolation guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is an urgent reminder for folks to get vaccinated and boosted as it's the only way to beat this pandemic," she said in a statement.
The right wing media websites media is that you suck up like your jello from a straw does.
"the US economy is better now than it was two years ago. " Roger pivots
So , you dropped your "Biden will have the US Economy to pre-pandemic highs".
Why?
You still owe us (in your words) a definition of "Bottom Up Economic".
The same very conservative Republican wrote this
That Fox's on-air talent lies to its audience is hardly surprising. But this fresh revelation of bad faith teaches us something more important. It shows quite clearly that the practical effect of the network in the media ecosystem is continually to shift the Overton Window — the range of politically acceptable speech and deed — further and further to the right. It does this by laundering words and deeds that once would have been almost universally condemned for their radicalism.
The process couldn't be clearer. Fox News' business model is to serve as a propaganda service for the Republican Party. This led the network to spend most of the Trump administration defending the former president from his critics as forcefully as possible. But the network had a problem when Trump refused to accept the results of the just-completed 2020 presidential election, which Fox's own election analysts had called for then-candidate Joe Biden. Evidence of fraud failed to materialize, and even Republican-appointed judges refused to take the president's side in court.
It was in this context that Hannity, Ingraham, and Kilmeade expressed their concern to the White House on the afternoon of Jan. 6, as misinformed supporters of the president forced their way into Congress to demand a halt to certification of the election. Trump never backed down, but the Fox personalities still wouldn't criticize his irresponsible rhetoric on air. That necessitated a reconfiguration of the network's position, eventually producing the constellation of claims with which viewers are still barraged whenever the insurrection is discussed in prime time: The unrest was just a protest by American patriots; it was a false flag operation set in motion by the FBI; it wasn't a big deal, but Democrats won't stop talking about it because of their obsessive Trump Derangement Syndrome; and so forth.
The effect of this reframing is to normalize and mainstream events that formerly seemed shocking. That's how Fox News ends up moving the Overton Window inexorably to the right — by treating anything said or done by members of an increasingly radicalized GOP as perfectly reasonable and justified.
Even when it involves trying to overthrow American democracy itself.
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The right wing media websites media is that you suck up like your jello from a straw does.
Thousand Island please, waiter. And hold the croutons. Thanks.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The same very conservative Republican wrote this
Don't you wish you could write a coherent sentence alky?
Sad how Lil Schitty would rather push the GOP bullshit agenda on covid.....fight against vax mandates, denies covid is a dangerous disease while ignoring success stories of responsible companies that mandate their employees to take the shot like this::
United CEO says 3,000 positive for COVID but no deaths among the vaccinated
David Shepardson
Tue, January 11, 2022, 8:50 AM
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby said on Tuesday that the company had about 3,000 employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 but its vaccinated employees had neither died nor recently been hospitalized with the disease.
Chicago-based United was the first U.S. carrier to mandate vaccines for its employees in order to facilitate travel and flight operations. Airlines have cancelled thousands of flights since late December, when the surge in Omicron cases and winter weather began impacting schedules.
Kirby said in a memo Tuesday that "since our vaccine policy went into effect, the hospitalization rate among our employees has been 100x lower than the general population in the U.S."
Before United's vaccination requirements were put in place, "tragically, more than one United employee on average *per week* was dying from COVID," Kirby said. "But we’ve now gone eight straight weeks with zero COVID-related deaths among our vaccinated employees."
Too bad the GOP and their deniers can't pull their heads out of their asses and realize lives are being saved with a simple shot!!!!!!!
Even when it involves trying to overthrow American democracy itself.
Didja ever notice that whenever democrats find themselves enjoying one-party rule like they have now, they fuck it up so badly that suddenly everything is "a threat to democracy itself"?
Not a threat to democracy. Only a threat to democrats because they can't govern worth a shit.
Let's Go Brandon! 1.4 MILLION NEW CASES -
Ex-FDA boss Scott Gottlieb says Omicron surge will infect up to 40% of Americans but new daily cases in east coast states ARE nearing their peak: Deaths remain low even as US hits 1.4 million daily cases
Covid cases in the US have tripled over the past two weeks, up to over 768,000 per day, as the nation continues to suffer record surge
There were 1.486M new cases Monday, the highest single day figure of the pandemic. Hospitalizations in the US also peaked
Deaths have not followed the same trend, though, only increasing 11% as the CDC chief saying almost all are among people with four or more co-morbidities
On average, 146,000 Americans are hospitalized with Covid every day, though many people are likely just testing positive when going in for other treatment
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says the virus will likely be around for the next decade, but his company's booster shots will be able to 'control' the pandemic
WHO officials warn that it is too early to believe the virus will become endemic yet, though, as it is spreading and evolving at an unpredictable rate
The variant is already showing signs of burning out in England and Denmark, though, a positive sign for the US going forward
One study found Omicron could have a lower death rate than the yearly flu
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10389341/US-smashes-COVID-record-1-486M-new-cases-recorded-Monday-just-1-906-new-deaths.html
Didja ever notice that whenever democrats find themselves enjoying one-party rule like they have now,
Didja ever notice when the GOP have it all, they fuck up the country for generations or until the D's un fuck the disaster???????
How Slow Joe's Covid strategery failed in one chart:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI1FM6vWQAUn8qX?format=jpg&name=small
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI1FM6vWQAUn8qX?format=jpg&name=small
Sorry sport....but I don't down load shit from cites you recommend.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! I am sure the chart means something to assholes like you!!!!
Great news.
As millions of new Electric Vehicles populate the roads , where will the new Electricity supply come from?
I like this news.
"Coal to make up 85% of total U.S. power capacity to be retired in 2022 - EIA"
Under Trump the Republican party has now shifted far beyond the boundaries of democratic self-government to a place broadly coterminous with fascism.
I like this news.
"Coal to make up 85% of total U.S. power capacity to be retired in 2022 - EIA"
Dayum will wonders never cease....the goat fucker advocating the elimination of coal fired power plants.....
McConnell Will Run Again for Republican Leader
January 11, 2022 at 3:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 49 Comments
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “said he will run for another term as the chamber’s top GOP leader at the end of the year, shutting down the possibility of a shake-up in the Republican chain of command,” The Hill reports.
THAT'S GOOD.
TRUMP HATES HIM
& HE HATES TRUMP.
Fauci made a complete jackass if himself today. First weakly refuting senator Paul by simply saying he's wrong. Then trying to blame Paul for some guy in Iowa who wanted to kill him. And then caught on a hot Mic swearing at senator Marshall, also a doctor btw, and calling him names.
Fauci's arrogance is just amazing. He has worn out his effectiveness and ruined h8s reputation.
"the US economy is better now than it was two years ago. " Roger pivots
So , you dropped your "Biden will have the US Economy to pre-pandemic highs".
Why?
You still owe us (in your words) a definition of "Bottom Up Economic".
ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden says that he supports changing Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation, declaring that changing the rules would be to protect the “heart and soul of our democracy.”
Biden told a crowd in Atlanta that he’d been having quiet conversations with Senators for months over the two bills up for debate, stalled because there aren’t enough Republican votes to move them past filibuster to votes.
“I’m tired of being quiet!” he said, emphatically pounding the podium. “I will not yield. I will not flinch,” in the effort to protect democracy.
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Current rules require 60 votes to advance most legislation — a threshold that Senate Democrats can’t meet alone because they only have a 50-50 majority with Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties. Republicans unanimously oppose the voting rights measures.
Not all Democrats are on board with changing the filibuster rules. Conservative West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin threw cold water on the idea Tuesday, saying he believes any changes should be made with substantial Republican buy-in.
He said that the filibuster most be repealed.
https://www.aol.com/news/fauci-says-sen-paul-attacks-172828058.html
Good video here. Sen. Paul didn't look too happy.
Fauci made a complete jackass if himself today. First weakly refuting senator Paul by simply saying he's wrong
And you constantly make a fool of yourself posting gibberish and opinionated drivel!!!!!!!! Rand Paul should keep his mouth shut because Fauci shoves it soooooo far up his ass everytime he goes against him.....Fauci's has a working brain, Paul is nothing more than a biased hack
Wage growth outpaced by inflation is not better.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, on Tuesday during a hearing sparred with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., after the senator attacked the doctor for appearing to disagree with scientists who said the coronavirus originated from a lab in China.
"What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue, is that all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there, and I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family, and my children, with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me," said Fauci during the Senate hearing.
The two men have had tense exchanges at previous Senate hearings about the coronavirus.
Fauci blasted Paul, who was an ophthalmologist before being elected to Congress, for making political attacks against him, noting that a man was arrested on Dec. 21 while traveling from Sacramento, after he told them he was traveling to Washington, D.C. to kill Dr. Fauci and had an AR-15 in his vehicle along with magazines of ammunition.
"So I asked myself, 'Why would senator want to do this?' So go to Rand Paul website and you see 'Fire Dr. Fauci' with a little box that says, 'contribute here' you can do $5 $10 $20 $100," said Fauci. "So you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political gain."
Paul, earlier in the hearing, said an email exchange between Fauci and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins showed Fauci and Collins appearing to disagree with scientists who said the coronavirus originated from a lab in China.
"You know, you're going back to that original discussion when I brought together a group of people to look at every possibility with an open mind," said Fauci. "So you're not only distorting it, you are completely turning it around as you usually do."
The senator, a steadfast opponent of Covid mitigation measures and mask mandates, has clashed with Fauci before on other pandemic-related issues. Paul was the first senator known to have contracted the coronavirus when he tested positive in March of 2020.
Last July, the senator implied that Fauci had previously lied to Congress and was aware of what the Wuhan, China lab was doing with grant money that came from the NIH.
FAUCI GOOD.
PAUL BAD.
Can't disagree with Fauci.....Rand Paul' s asshattery comments lead to fucking idiots like you ballz becoming emboldened and make threats because of GOP leadership.....no different than the Donald childish behavior
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Rand Paul vs. Anthony Fauci — again. Fauci says Paul's personal attacks led to death threats, harassment
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Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday said Sen. Rand Paul's repeated false accusations about him, made for political reasons, have led to death threats against him and harassment of his family.
"Senator, we are here at a committee to look at a virus now that has killed almost 900,000 people (in the U.S.)," Fauci, the federal government's top infectious diseases expert, said during a heated congressional hearing. "And you keep coming back to personal attacks on me that have absolutely no relevance to reality.
"What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue is that all of a sudden that kindles the crazies out there, and I have threats upon my life, harassment of my family and my children with obscene phone calls, because people are lying about me."
“Sadly, the United States Senate, designed to be the world’s greatest deliberative body, has been rendered a shell of its former self,” Biden said.
“It gives me no satisfaction in saying that, as an institutionalist, as a man who was honored to serve in the Senate, but as an institutionalist I believe the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote, let the majority prevail and if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules including getting rid of the filibuster for this.”
“Anti-voter laws are not new in our nation but we must not be deceived into thinking they are normal,” Harris said, speaking before Biden, adding, “The proponents of these laws are not only putting in place obstacles to the ballot box, they are also working to interfere in our elections to get the outcomes they want and discredit those that they don’t. That is not how a democracy should work.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has set Jan. 17 — Martin Luther King Day — as his deadline for votes on legislation tied to voting rights. The first, the Freedom to Vote Act, would limit state efforts to restrict voting, combat gerrymandering and protect election officials. The second, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would restore anti-discrimination elements stripped from the Voting Rights Act via a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.
Both bills, however, are seen as unlikely to pass unless changes are made to the filibuster, which is a legislative procedure that prevents most major pieces of legislation from passage without a 60-vote supermajority. Democrats and Republicans each control 50 seats in the chamber, meaning that both bills are all but dead-on-arrival unless the Senate agrees to a “carve out” for voting-rights legislation endorsed by Biden on Tuesday.
Critics of the Senate filibuster note that it is not mentioned in the Constitution and has been historically used to stifle legislation related to civil rights. The 60-vote threshold has been used to kill a wider variety of bills in recent years, including the Manchin-Toomey plan to require universal background checks on gun sales in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. That measure failed to advance in April 2013 despite 54 senators voting in favor.
Recently, both parties have changed the number of necessary votes for nominations from the White House, which previously sat at 60. In 2013, Senate Democrats reduced the votes necessary to confirm judges and executive branch appointees — except for Supreme Court justices — to a simple majority. In 2017, Republicans removed that exception, allowing nominees to the nation’s highest court to also be confirmed with 50 votes.
“We must ask ourselves,” Schumer wrote in a Jan. 3 letter to fellow Democrats, “if the right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, then how can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the state level with only a simple majority vote, but not allow the United States Senate to do the same?”
The proposal that Biden and Schumer are supporting would not abolish the filibuster entirely but create an exception for voting rights. But all 50 senators who caucus with the Democratic Party would need to agree on passing that change to the filibuster, a path that seems unlikely at the moment.
“We need some good rule changes to make the place work better but getting rid of the filibuster doesn’t make it work better,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said Tuesday morning. An attempt last summer by Manchin to garner bipartisan support for a voting rights bill was quickly rebuffed by his Republican
It is not just Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the chamber, who appears opposed to changing the filibuster. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., who is up for reelection this fall, told Politico he was undecided on the change. Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are among the others who have not committed to the carve out. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has accused Democrats of attempting to “break the Senate” and nationalize elections.
“This is one of those defining moments,” Biden told reporters Tuesday morning. “People are going to be judged, where were they before and where were they after the vote. History is going to judge this. And so the risk is making sure people understand just how important this is.”
The 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential race are set to occur as millions of Americans say they believe former President Donald Trump won the last election. A Yahoo News/YouGov poll released last week found a vast majority of Trump voters (75 percent) falsely believe the election was “rigged and stolen,” while just 9 percent think Biden “won fair and square” — down from 13 percent last January.
Republican politicians have begun catering to those beliefs in order to win their primaries, leading to the passage of bills restricting voting in 19 states and candidates running explicitly on the message that they wouldn’t have certified the 2020 results and baselessly stating the election was stolen. Many of the pro-conspiracy candidates are running for offices where they would directly oversee elections.
Prominent GOP figures who stray from this view are targeted by Trump, such as Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who was attacked after stating the election wasn’t stolen in a Sunday interview, and Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who has become a top primary target for her continued pushback against 2020 election conspiracies and investigation into the events of Jan. 6.
Georgia, which narrowly voted for Biden in 2020, has been one of the central battlegrounds for voting rights. Earlier this year, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill passed by Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature that limited voting while also transferring powers away from the secretary of state and instead giving them to a State Election Board controlled by the same partisan legislature. Under the law, the board can also suspend local election officials with whom it disagrees.
Kemp, a conservative Republican who certified Biden’s victory in the state, is currently facing a primary challenge from former Sen. David Perdue, who has been endorsed by Trump. Perdue says he would not have certified Biden’s victory.
During the Tuesday trip, Biden visited the crypt of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife as well as the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who is up for reelection in the fall and is a senior pastor at the church, has been a leading advocate for making a carveout for voting rights. When asked outside the church what he would say to activists who are disappointed in him and whether he has the necessary votes, the president replied, “Keep the faith.”
Those involved in the push for voting rights have been urging Biden to call for an end to the filibuster since he took office. Last July, Biden gave a speech in Philadelphia on the topic where he called Republican bills restricting voting rights and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election results “the most significant test to our democracy since the Civil War” and urged Congress to take action in passing federal protections.
Biden did not, however, call for an end to the filibuster at that time, instead touting his ability to work with Republicans as the Senate worked on a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“I said to him I thought it was a good speech,” said Rev. Al Sharpton, who was acknowledged by Biden at the beginning of the July 2021 speech. “I was very happy to hear him bring up race. But we’re still waiting on the filibuster. He told me, ‘We’re still working on our position on that.’ He was noncommittal.”
Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams speaks during a get-out-the-vote rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at Ting Pavilion on October 24, 2021 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Eze Amos/Getty Images)
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Some voting rights activists skipped Biden’s event in Georgia, including Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who posted in support of the event on Twitter but whose staff cited a scheduling conflict.
“I spoke with Stacey this morning,” Biden said Tuesday when asked about her absence. “We have a great relationship. We got our scheduling mixed up…I talked with her at length this morning. We're all on the same page and everything is fine.”
Others were blunter in their explanations.
“We do not need any more speeches, we don’t need any more platitudes,” James Woodall, former president of the NAACP of Georgia, told the New York Times. “We don’t need any more photo ops. We need action, and that actually is in the form of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, as well as the Freedom to Vote Act — and we need that immediately.”
Former President Barack Obama put his support behind the abolition of the filibuster in July 2020. Eulogizing civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, Obama listed a series of suggestions for improving voter participation, including expanding early voting, making Election Day a national holiday and ending partisan gerrymandering.
“And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster — another Jim Crow relic — in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that’s what we should do,” Obama said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/589249-hot-mic-catches-fauci-calling-gop-senator-a-moron
lol
Fauci did indeed call him a moron. Quite amusing, this video.
Fauci was putting out some real bullshit. All he did was whine thst his words were being twisted and give some assinine theory about Paul and a guy in Iowa.
Amusing? I'd call it weak and pathetic.
"Coal to make up 85% of total U.S. power capacity to be retired in 2022 - EIA"
Dayum will wonders never cease....the goat fucker advocating the elimination of coal fired power plants" Dpoie ��
First it is the US Government Agency say :"Coal to make up 85% of total U.S. power capacity to be retired in 2022 - EIA"
2ndly, attempt to think Dopie, where will the Millions of New EV populating the road was get power?
So you advocate coal being retired........BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Asshole!!!!
Myballs said...
Fauci was putting out some real bullshit. All
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! In your expert opinion who can't back up his facts like wage growth?????....LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Weak and pathetic?
Just watch the video at 4:17.
Fauci was ramming it all right back down Marshall's throat.
Weak and pathetic -- NOT!
The contemporary American fascist movement is led by oligarchical interests for whom the public good is an impediment, such as those in the hydrocarbon business, as well as a social, political, and religious movement with roots in the Confederacy. As in all fascist movements, these forces have found a popular leader unconstrained by the rules of democracy, this time in the figure of Donald Trump.
Fascist propaganda takes place in the US in already fertile ground – decades of racial strife has led to the United States having by far the highest incarceration rate in the world. A police militarized to address the wounds of racial inequities by violence, and a recent history of unsuccessful imperial wars have made us susceptible to a narrative of national humiliation by enemies both internal and external. As WEB Du Bois showed in his 1935 masterwork Black Reconstruction, there is a long history of business elites backing racism and fascism out of self-interest, to divide the working class and thereby destroy the labor movement.
The novel development is that a ruthless would-be autocrat has marshalled these fascist forces and shaped them into a cult, with him as its leader. We are now well into the repercussions of this latter process – where fascist lies, for example, the “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen, have begun to restructure institutions, notably electoral infrastructure and law. As this process unfolds, slowly and deliberately, the media’s normalization of these processes evokes Morrison’s tenth and final step: “Maintain, at all costs, silence.”
Constructing an enemy
To understand contemporary US fascism, it is useful to consider parallels to 20th century history, both where they succeed and where they fail.
Hitler was a genocidal antisemite. Though fascism involves disregard for human life, not all fascists are genocidal. Even Nazi Germany turned to genocide only relatively late in the regime’s rule. And not all fascists are antisemitic. There were Italian Jewish fascists. Referring to the successful assimilation of Jews into all phases of Weimar era German life, my father warned me, “if they had chosen someone else, some of us would have been among the very best Nazis.” We American Jews feel firmly at home. Now, where the fascist movement’s internal enemies are leftists and movements for Black racial equality, there certainly could be fascist American Jews.
I advocate you answer my question.
Again , where will the Millions of New EV populating the road was get power?
Plugging them in asshole......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
PROOF THAT THATE ARE STILL SOME SANE REPUBLICANS LEFT
Bipartisan Group Looking at Election Reforms
January 11, 2022 at 4:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
“Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said that the bipartisan working group talking about changes to the Electoral Count Act is also considering a broad range of elections reforms,” Politico reports.
“The Maine Republican told reporters the group is looking at raising the bar for challenging a state’s electoral count, beyond the current requirements of one member of the House and one member of the Senate. But the lawmakers are considering updates to the Election Assistance Commission, an agency that provides guidance and grants to state and local election officials, as well as expanding the grant use for purposes such as training and voting machines.
“In addition, Collins said the group is examining suggestions from Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) for how to protect election officials from harassment.”
TRUMP WILL BE FURIOUS. HE LOVES TO HARASS ELECTION OFFICIAL, NO MATTER HOW HONEST AND CONSCIENTIOUS THEY ARE, OR WHETHER THEY ARE DEMS OR REPUBLICANS.
OFFICIALS
Fauci was ramming it all right back down Marshall's throat.
And he does it with great style and intellect.....something that ballz and the GOP lack!!!!!!!!!
I advocate you answer my question.
Again , where will the Millions of New EV populating the road was get power?
Dopie is structurally incapable of answering the question, ok.
Robby Starbuck
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1478103307617021954
Chuck Schumer admitted years ago that killing the filibuster is the "rubber stamp of dictatorship" and a "doomsday for democracy" that will turn America into a banana republic. Now he’s trying to kill it so he can ram through a bill to legalize voter fraud.
Democrats now trying to establish a dictatorship
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
1984
PROOF THAT THATE(sic) ARE STILL SOME SANE REPUBLICANS LEFT
h/t to the POS "pastor"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
I advocate you answer my question.
Plugging them in for the second time!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Bill Mitchell
https://gettr.com/post/pnqqkeca3f
Dear Joe Biden.
If Voter ID Laws are "a threat to democracy," what are vaccine passports?
P.S., 46 out of 47 European nations require Voter ID to vote.
and the other is looking at moving to that
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
So to summarize...
Slow Joe needs to change the rules - this time with the filibuster - just to try and get something done.
The hallmark of a weak leader. Needing to change the rules, kill the filibuster, kill the Electoral College, pack the USSC.
Pathetic.
No wonder he needs his own personal STASI to protect himself and the left from Trump supporters, err, I mean "domestic terrorism."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-dept-creating-unit-focused-152654110.html
At first Trump's campaign didn't inspire much cause for optimism among disaffected traditionalist conservatives. He was, after all, a personal paragon of moral decadence.pussy grasping!
Gee Roger...
You must think I am one those prudish ultra-religious people who get all bent out of shape over questionable moral issues that are completely irrelevant to running a country.
Our current President cannot exactly take the high ground on that one. In fact, when it comes to morality and such you'd probably have to go back to Bush to find someone who most religious types would not be offended by.
I voted for Clinton for a second term in spite of the fact that he was a full grown man with the sex drive and sexual maturity of a 16 year old. Those types of arguments don't work on me Rog...
And I feel fine
♩ ♩ ♩
The right wing media websites media is that you suck up like your jello from a straw does.
So many words, so many questions...
But the main question....
Blue cheese or ranch?
Tom Elliott
OLD VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1436366439901024262
Dr. Fauci on why Americans who’ve previously been infected should get vaccinated despite studies showing it’s unnecessary: “I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that”
Well now we know the vaccine doesn't have a long durability.
And Fauci still doesn't have an answer about natural immunity
What a joke
and an embarrassment to anyone paying close attention
and not being spoon-fed by state media
or feeding on jello
or political_lire
Lol@Alky
e previously been infected should get vaccinated despite studies showing it’s unnecessary:
As previously posted, there are no studies that say it is unnecessary. Why do you post such lies?????
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
And I feel fine
Finally sobered up shorty.........>BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! So mature!!! LOLOLOL
Bill Mitchell
https://gettr.com/post/pnqtt90db4
Manchin just murdered Schumer's dream of using the nuclear option for a filibuster carveout to pass HR-1.
Manchin will consider ending the filibuster, but ONLY if 67 Senators vote to do so.
DOA.
Sorry Chuck
well I guess there still is a little chance
never can tell with the RINOs
and McConnell
Can't disagree with Fauci...
Of course you can't Denny...
You can't disagree with anyone liberal. Evah!
Hey VERY lo iq. Watch the video. That is the CNN health expert who said that. You know the station you said was killing Fox earlier today
are you really this retarded ?
ROFLMFAO !!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Weak even for you Lil Schitty......at least Fauci understands the math that you don't!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLO
That is the CNN health expert who said that.
Doesn't make it correct fuck.....no studies have proved what you claim.........BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Hey fatty where was FDU last night? You know the commuter college you attended while I went to the 1st public university in the country
are you really this retarded ?
Does that really need to be asked???
anonymous said...
That is the CNN health expert who said that.
Doesn't make it correct fuck.....no studies have proved what you claim.........BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Hey retard, I didn't make that claim, that's the point.
CNN did
How many times did you get bounced on your head when you were an infant ?
Too many to count ?
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Joe promised a "Winter of Death".
Well done you delivered.
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