Monday, January 25, 2021

Chinese fighter jets buzz Taiwan for second day as tensions rise days into Biden term

 Yahoo News

A total of 20 Chinese fighter jets have entered Taiwan’s air defence
 identification zone in the past two days
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"China ramped up its pressure on democratic Taiwan over the weekend, with an unusually large number of fighter jets approaching the island in a "test" for the new administration of US President Joe Biden.

"On Sunday, 12 Chinese fighter jets entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone, along with a reconnaissance aircraft and two anti-submarine aircraft, Taiwan’s defence ministry said.

"A day earlier, China sent eight bomber planes capable of carrying nuclear weapons and four fighter jets to the same area to the southwest of the island, as well as one reconnaissance aircraft.

"On both occasions, Taiwan sent up aircraft, issued radio warnings to the Chinese aircraft, and deployed air defence missile systems to monitor their activity.

"Beijing claims self-governing Taiwan as part of its territory, and has been angered by a show of increased US support for Taiwan during Donald Trump’s administration." . . .



As Recall Effort Picks up Steam, Newsom Reportedly to Lift Stay-at-home Order in State

 Townhall


"The campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is inching closer to meeting the required number of signatures needed to qualify for a statewide ballot." . . . 
According to Fox News, this is the sixth time Newsom has faced a recall effort in the last two years, but the governor’s controversial response to the coronavirus pandemic in the state—and his hypocrisy—have given the latest attempt more traction. In November, Newsom was photographed breaking many of his own COVID-19 restrictions during a dinner party at the French Laundry. . . .

The left wants to wipe the right from the political map as quickly and effectively as possible.

 


The Conservative Purge Isn’t Over, It’s Just Getting Cranked Up  . . . "Playing the role this week of Michael Corleone, who in the first of “The Godfather” installments eliminated his families’ enemies, is the Democratic Party. Congressional Democrats are going forward, with the blessing of the new president, whose plea for unity is clearly a sham, with a domestic terrorism bill in both chambers of Congress." . . .

Megyn Kelley fights back: . . .“My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name.' ” . . .

Vanity Fair Asks Cult Expert How to ’Deprogram’ Trump Followers  . . . "Presenting his “solution,” Hassan suggests the use of “massive education,” without clarifying just who determines what is appropriate for such a program and how it will take place.
“ 'The solution, in my opinion, to this incredibly intense polarization that we’re experiencing, is a massive education about [the difference between] ethical influence and unethical influence,” he states, before pondering which form of “hypnosis” is ethical"...



Mike Lindell: No Regrets, Media Attacked Me for Doing 'Good for Country'

Newsmax  "MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said on Sunday that he has no regrets about supporting former President Donald Trump and his claims of widespread voter fraud in the election, even though his company’s products have been dropped by major retailers as a result of this backing.

"Lindell said that the media has attacked him ever since he threw his support behind Trump as he ran for president in 2016 and now they are attacking him, “because I’m trying to do something good for the country.” 

"Speaking to host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" radio show on 970 AM in New York, Lindell said that “I don’t have any regrets. Not one. Trump is the best president we ever had. He kept his promises. He did so much for this country and so much for people in business and I have no regrets.. I would do it all again, only I would do it double.”

"When the MyPillow CEO was asked if he thought Trump would come back to run for president again in 2024, he insisted that  the inauguration of President Joe Biden “is a farce.' " . . .

Facts First: CNN Reports Biden Had to ‘Start From Scratch’ on Vaccine Rollout, but It’s Fake News

 Legal Insurrection

CNN reported anonymous Biden administration sources as saying “We are going to have to build everything from scratch”, but Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Tony Fauci severely undercut the report just hours later.

"CNN filed what on the surface looked like a blockbuster report Thursday about how sources within the Biden administration claimed that they were having to “start from scratch” on the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine rollout.

"Their White House correspondent M.J. Lee quoted multiple anonymous officials who stated, without evidence, that allegedly inheriting no vaccine rollout plan from the Trump administration “was just further affirmation of complete incompetence” on the part of former Trump officials:

Newly sworn in President Joe Biden and his advisers are inheriting no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to speak of from the Trump administration, sources tell CNN, posing a significant challenge for the new White House.

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… in the immediate hours following Biden being sworn into office on Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge of the new administration’s Covid-related work told CNN one of the biggest shocks that the Biden team had to digest during the transition period was what they saw as a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under former President Donald Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States.

“There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,” one source said.

Another source described the moment that it became clear the Biden administration would have to essentially start from “square one” because there simply was no plan as: “Wow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence.”

"The big problem with this “report” is that Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci undercut it pretty quickly. During a press briefing in an exchange with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, he noted that the incoming Biden team had some “fresh ideas” they would incorporate into the existing vaccine rollout plan already in place. He also said it included “some ideas that were not bad ideas”:" . . .

Biden's Transport secretary Buttigieg tells laid-off Keystone XL workers he hopes they get 'different union jobs'

Monica Showalter  "For a whiff of what's in store for the workers Democrats have long claimed to champion, take a look at this exchange between Secretary of Transport nominee Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Ted Cruz, who ratted him out at his Senate confirmation hearings:" ...

. . . "The bottom line here is that right out the gate, Joe Biden has destroyed at least 1,200 union jobs, along with 10,000 planned union jobs that were expected to become available this year when he axed the Keystone XL pipeline. The knock-on jobs, of rental cars, restaurants, hotels, suppliers, and other small business that thrive on the edges of big infrastructure projects, are likely to go, too, some 42,000 of them, meaning quite a few new "good union jobs" to "create."

"And Buttigieg? He's got nothing but blithe scenarios, zero promises, no record, zero plan, and only "hopes" that all the people stiffed and disrupted by Biden will get  "different union jobs."

"Sound like a good start? Only to those who don't work in the real world for a living."

More on Mayor PeteBiden's regressive energy policy is one big war on the poor . . . "Two things stand out: Buttigieg wants a tax hike for gasoline to fund his so-called infrastructure projects.  Who will pay those taxes?  Those who drive.  And if someone needs to drive a lot, such as an independent truck-driver or a low-wage service worker who can't afford to live in the blue city center, but instead makes due with a commute on the outskirts of town, the tax becomes regressive.  The tax is the same for the rich or poor, and maybe the rich can afford it.  But the poor live on a low margin — the tax will likely cut to the bone for the poor, forcing them to go without, say, in food supplies or other necessities.  Tax hikes that are the same and unavoidably hit the poor the hardest." . . .


There may be good railroad jobs coming:

2013: Up to 50 Still Missing After 'Train From Hell' Crash More

It's illuminating to compare Trump's first executive orders with Biden's

 Joe Biden signs whatever's put in front of him

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Andrea Widburg "Upon taking office, Biden signed nine out of 17 promised Executive Orders and then rested from his labors.  President Trump also started his presidency with some executive orders.  It's interesting to compare Trump's first executive orders with Biden's and to contemplate what demographics the different presidents were benefiting with those orders.

"Some of Trump's first 17 E.O.s are purely ministerial, but here are the substantive ones that he issued between his inauguration and mid-March.  After each, I've noted the probable beneficiaries of the E.O.:

"EO 13765: Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal — As the title notes, this was to help people who had lost their old insurance and were unable to afford new insurance under the Obto repeal Obamacare in favor of a market-based solution." . . .

"EO 13766: Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High Priority Infrastructure Projects — updating infrastructure benefits all Americans.amacare requirements.  It's notable that a feckless Republican Congress, especially thanks to John McCain, was unable 

EO 13768: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States 

EO 13769: Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States 

EO 13770: Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees 

EO 13771: Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs 

EO 13772: Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System 

EO 13773: Enforcing Federal Law With Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking 

EO 13774: Preventing Violence Against Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement Officers

EO 13776: Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety 

EO 13777: Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda 

EO 13778: Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and Economic Growth by Reviewing the "Waters of the United States'' Rule — attacking insane, uncontrolled regulations.

EO 13779: White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

EO 13780: Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States 

EO 13783: Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth

EO 13784: Establishing the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis

Meanwhile, these are the substantive EOs that Biden has issued so far: . . .

"From his first day in office, Trump acted for Americans.  From his first day in office, Biden has acted for illegal aliens, racial disharmony, sexually confused people, big government, and terrorists." 

Is there any doubt in our minds that President Trump was a man on the side of this nation and its people? How can anyone absorb the lessons of this article and fail to realize the corruption and ignorance of much of the American media? TD