JD Vance vows to help 12-year-old relative after she’s denied heart transplant because she’s unvaccinated: report

 NY Post  

“Denying a child a life-saving transplant over a COVID-19 vaccine is not science, it’s cruelty,” Houchin said. “Hospitals exist to save lives, not impose medical mandates on vulnerable patients. Families deserve the freedom to make the best medical decisions for their loved ones, without fear of being blacklisted from life-saving care. This bill will put an end to this unjust practice.”

"Vice President JD Vance is stepping in to help his 12-year-old relative who needs a heart transplant but was denied the lifesaving operation in Ohio because she’s not vaccinated against COVID-19 or the flu, according to a report.

"Adaline Deal — who was born in China and adopted when she was four — was diagnosed at birth with two rare heart conditions, Ebstein’s anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.

"Trump’s running mate told the Daily Mail he recently learned about Adaline Deal’s medical situation and is looking into ways to help out his family member.

Worst News Outlet of the Week - a Look at the Latest Deliveries From the Dysfunctional Media

  Brad Slager

Also here:"NYT Columnist Warns People All Over the World Will Die Because Trump Wants to 'Break Things' " . . .Mike Miller 

"Most weeks there is a level of competition for this dis-honor, but this week, there was a far-and-away winner right from the start. That is not to say there weren't those vying for recognition with their own levels of dysfunction on display. 

"We are in the Trump 2.0 era, after all, so there is no short supply of media dysphoria to go around. Let’s just get into the carnage seen in the press over the past week.

    THE CONTENDERS

NBC NEWS - Tom Costello was desperate enough to blame Donald Trump for the Toronto plane crash, even as he admitted it was a Canadian-controlled landing. Kelly O’Donnell gave a lengthy segment on all of the dangers to Trump’s staffing cuts, then at the end of her piece, she meekly admitted the administration is actually in the process of hiring more air traffic controllers. Peter Alexander was once again shamed by WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

CNN - For reasons known only to her, Kaitlan Collins was caught promoting the website for the admitted murderer Luigi Mangione. Dana Bash covered the Toronto crash, and after her airline expert asserted there was no connection to the previous accidents she and her panel launched into blaming Trump for all the accidents. Stephen Miller ridiculed Brianna Keilar over her being dismissive about cutting government waste. Pamela Brown had a similarly embarrassing interview with Tim Burchett. The network looked foolish as a producer shot a photo of its vacated press space inside The Pentagon.

ABC NEWS - The outlet speculated who is actually running the administration, something they never asked when they covered Jill Biden running a Cabinet meeting. They tried to claim Trump’s deportations are causing anxiety inside schools, even though they are not being targeted with raids and news reports are generating the anxiety. The network complained that some people rounded up in deportation raids should not be sent to Gitmo because it claims illegal immigrants breaking the law were not actually criminals. It gave the tired claim that marginalized groups were hardest hit by the California wildfires.

ASSOCIATED PRESS - The beleaguered news syndicate proved getting disinvited at the White House was a wise move. A report on firings in the FAA was so bad the article had to be edited and the headline altered - all without an editor’s note alerting the changes. This outlet reported that the bodies of Israeli hostages were those who “died” while they were “in captivity” rather than “executed” after being “kidnapped.” 

The Winner:   . . ."From the outset, CBS News locked down this week’s prize. It began with Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” when she was speaking with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and declared that free speech was the cause of the Nazi genocide. On “60 Minutes,” meanwhile, they followed suit by delivering a segment on efforts in Germany to police free speech, and it was presented in supportive fashion." . . . 

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Margaret Brennan and the Good Germans at CBS News

 Scott McKay  

"She’d be bounced out of that role in anything resembling a meritocracy for the damage she’d already done before Rubio took her to the woodshed over the idiotic contention that too much free speech led to the Holocaust."

 “I Don’t Really Care, Margaret”

"It should have been something of a signal that trouble was afoot at CBS News when the network unloaded Norah O’Donnell, the lead anchor of its evening news broadcast. O’Donnell’s reputation wasn’t particularly shiny, and the ratings reflected that.

"But getting rid of O’Donnell changed absolutely nothing, and in the past week, CBS has gone completely over the falls.

"Now that O’Donnell is out of the way we’re getting a fuller dose of Margaret Brennan, whose AWFL sensibilities appear to be advanced beyond what mainstream America could be expected to tolerate.

"But tolerate it we must, apparently. Because Brennan is now CBS’s assigned interrogator of the Trump administration. Regardless of how badly that’s going.

"You’ve almost certainly ingested the brilliance of the “I Don’t Really Care, Margaret” meme, which came from her disqualifying performance attempting to interview Vice President JD Vance on the network’s “Face The Nation” Sunday show. Brennan was arguing with Vance over the obviously poor results we’ve received from inviting in unvetted migrants from some of the world’s worst places, and she objected to his noticing that one of those, an Afghan who had conducted a stabbing spree in Oklahoma, had provided a shining example of his point. That led to this… As I’ve written before, that should have been the end of Margaret Brennan as a major figure at CBS News. When you’re the butt of one of the most viral memes in American political history, you no longer have a viable journalistic brand — or, at minimum, what’s left of you must be rebuilt either at the local level or in a different venue, like for example as a fashion correspondent or as a sideline reporter during coverage of women’s college basketball." . . . 

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. " . . .

"It’s true that Donald Trump is not a speechifyin’ man." [But] Trump Must Speak

  J.R. Dunn 

"He gets his point across, which is all that counts. But there comes a time for something more formal, and that time has now arrived."

"In the span of a few weeks, Donald Trump has carried out one of the most sweeping political revolutions in modern history.  Using DOGE as his battering ram, he has crippled the Democrats, exposed machinery of corruption that would have beggared the imaginations of Boss Tweed and Ted Pendergast, and effectively ended a political era going back a century or more. He—along with Elon Musk and his merry band of nerds—has uncovered a system of public theft and money laundering that, in the end, may account for trillions of dollars over the last eighty years. And it has just started. Wait until the DoJ and Congress enter the field.

"It will likely be years before we grasp the full magnitude of the DOGE revolution. The Democrats already have—and they’re running like rabbits. The D.C. housing market has collapsed, with more than 14,000 houses listed over the past two weeks. You won’t find many Republicans selling. Google Analytics reveals that the most common search terms in D.C. over the past week have included “defense attorneys,” “statute of limitations,” and “overseas accounts.”

"The impact of this has been muted, largely by the media, which instead has spent its time bleating about “constitutional crisis” and “President Musk.” So, the public at large has not quite grasped the import of what has occurred, appearing to look at it as a Beltway uproar that sensible people should pay no attention to.

"Which is why Donald Trump needs to make a speech." . . .

MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s [bitter, enraged] show as network makes major shakeup

 NY Post  "MSNBC liberal mainstay Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report.

"The 7 p.m. program hosted by ardent Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders." . . .

Schadenfreude Overload At MSNBC: Race-Obsessed Joy Reid and Others Finally Get the Kibosh

No one is more upset with this development than conservative commentators. Reid was a goldmine of material, having produced countless deranged rants over the years. She infamously claimed Kamala Harris ran a "flawless" campaign on election night in November, citing an endorsement by Queen Latifa as her proof. 

. . ."So why did I say this was surprising at the beginning of this piece given Reid's low ratings and delusional, hateful demeanor? Because I didn't think MSNBC would ever have the guts to pull the plug given her position on the left's intersectional hierarchy. Let's be honest, if she were a white male, she'd have been fired many years ago based on the scandals she suffered and the lunacy she's spewed while costing her network. It was starting to look like her intersectional armor was impenetrable.

"I suppose MSNBC deserves some credit for finally making the necessary move, but only a little. They let Reid fester and spread her mouth-breathing hate for far longer than they should have, and it shouldn't have taken an over 50 percent drop in ratings to get to this point. I'm also less than convinced that replacing her with a panel of similar, if not slightly more self-controlled left-wingers is going to turn the network's fortunes around. At the end of the day, MSNBC's problems relate to the systemic bias of the network. They don't revolve around just a few hosts, as deserving of the boot as they were."

UPDATE:Here's WHY Joy Reid got FIRED from MSNBC.   Video.

Hamas leader Oct 24, 2023: We will do 10/7 again and again!

Dr. Rich Swier  Hamas leader Oct 24, 2023: We will do 10/7 again and again! 

"Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad openly vows to violate any future cease-fire and repeat the October 7 massacre over and over until Israel is wiped off the map and Jews disappear.

" 'We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time. There will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination and the capabilities to fight.

"Will we pay a price? Yes – and we are ready to pay it.”

"This is what Israel is dealing with. This is the “peace partner” the world wants Israel to negotiate with!"

Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians pic.twitter.com/kXu3U0BtAP

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) November 1, 2023

We argue that Israel is not in the Gaza area but that is not his point. The occupation he considers is Israel itself being on Arab land . TD

Wisconsin Governor Proposes Replacing the Word ‘Mother’ With ‘Inseminated Person’

RTM  

"The woke language is out of control. I have found a large number of articles, including @Google AI that refuse to refer to pregnancy in WOMEN and simply saying pregnant persons. It’s absolutely ridiculous and degrading. Only women get pregnant and they need to get back2 reality" From Comments to this post.

"Wisconsin Democratic Governor Tony Evers has proposed a controversial change to state law that would replace terms like “mother” with “inseminated person” and “paternity” with “parentage.”

"This proposal, introduced as part of the 2025-2027 state budget, has sparked strong backlash, particularly from conservatives.

"Under the proposed changes, several other traditional terms would be replaced in legal language. For example, references to “wife” or “husband” would be swapped with “spouse,” and “father” would be changed to “parent.”

"In some cases, “mother” would be replaced with “parent who gave birth to the child.” The goal, according to the Evers administration, is to promote inclusivity, though many critics argue these changes erase key biological distinctions.

"Dan O’Donnell, a Wisconsin radio host, quickly criticized the proposal, calling it “beyond parody.” His post on X (formerly Twitter) drew the attention of U.S. Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, who responded with a simple “red flag!” The criticism intensified as others joined in, questioning the need for such changes in state law." . . .

"Under the proposed changes, several other traditional terms would be replaced in legal language. For example, references to “wife” or “husband” would be swapped with “spouse,” and “father” would be changed to “parent.' ”

Where have all the ladies gone?

Rob Jenkins 

..."Fortunately, young women today who desire to be ladies, not just vulgar caricatures of the least pleasant men, do have a handful of public role models. Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, and Caroline Leavitt come to mind. You won’t see them shrieking hysterically, pounding the podium while cursing like sailors, or wagging their finger in some other woman’s face like a drunken bimbo at a honky-tonk."...

"For months, on college campuses across the country, we’ve been treated to the sorry spectacle of obnoxious women, mostly young, dressed like vagrants, hurling epithets and bellowing inane slogans like “free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea.”

"Most of them have no idea which river or sea they’re screeching about, nor could they locate Gaza on a map. Or a hair stylist either, apparently.

"Note that I say “women,” not “ladies,” which these insufferable harridans decidedly are not. Indeed, at times, the concept of ladylike behavior seems a relic of a bygone era. Perhaps it’s time conservative young women revived it.

"Sadly, with the rise of militant feminism, the word “lady” fell out of favor, cast falsely as "sexist" and "patriarchal." It is neither. Rather, it is a token of respect and a badge of honor. Nevertheless, as someone whom in my day job frequently interacts with women young and old, I long avoided using it in public lest I commit a punishable offense against what we used to call political correctness, now known as “wokeness.”

"Recently, however, following Donald Trump’s return to power and the reemergence of conservatism as a cultural force, I decided the heck with that.

"So couple of weeks ago, I did something I haven’t done in years: I addressed a group of female students as “ladies.” You know what? Not one of them batted an eye. Not one gave any indication she had taken offense. Not one reported me to the dean.

"I regard that as a positive sign. Because not only do I wish to resurrect the word “lady,” I hope to see the virtues it signifies become part of our dominant culture once again.

"Unfortunately, young women these days have precious few role models, not only on campus but also in public life. For example, in a recent speech, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter (D-OR) declared that “we have to f--- Trump.” Whether she was speaking pejoratively or merely confessing her own carnal desire remains unclear." . . .

Lord, protect them from Hamas.Added by TD

Rob Jenkins articles.

Illegal Immigration Is Down Under Trump — Can It Last?

American Spectator 

 "Krikorian’s fear is that after a while, Beltway pols and voters will see the border as “all fixed.” And you know what that means: an excuse to stop enforcing a body of law that blue state and local officials spent years ignoring anyway. His remedy: Mandate that employers use E-Verify."

"WASHINGTON — The number of border apprehensions was down in January — 29,116 illegal aliens were apprehended along the border, the lowest number since May 2020.

"In January 2022, the number of southwest border encounters exceeded 150,000.

"The White House calls it “the Trump effect.”

"With the whole world listening, President Donald Trump’s tough-on-immigration-crime rhetoric had a dramatic effect even before he took the oath of office on Jan. 20.

"People who two years ago might have seen crossing the border illegally as a reasonable risk today are faced with a different reality.

"Mark Krikorian, executive director of the pro-enforcement Center for Immigration Studies, noted that past Republican presidential candidates, hand-wringers like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, said they’d enforce immigration law. But they only looked tough compared to Democrats like former President Joe Biden.

"It was doubtful these ghosts of GOP past would exert the muscle needed to arrest and deport serious offenders when they spent so much time jawboning about the need for what they called “comprehensive immigration reform.” That term served as an excuse for the enforcement-lite status quo that often failed to deport repeat offenders.

"Consider Trump’s choice to serve as his border czar: Tom Homan, a Trump administration veteran, and serious law-enforcement professional who doesn’t believe in apologizing for doing his job.

"Homan talks about enforcement. And deporting illegal immigrants.

"Homan doesn’t noodle about the “root causes” of illegal immigration, as former Vice President Kamala Harris used to do after Biden put her in charge of the border.

"Methinks a major root cause is the belief that unauthorized migrants won’t face serious punishment for flouting federal law." . . . More here

In the case of Hamas v. Humanity (are they celebrating this on American campuses?)

Mike McDaniel; American Thinker  . . ."Evidence to be presented for the elimination of the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Authority at a later time.

"We leave it to God in His wisdom whether to have mercy on their souls. For the preservation of civilization and the defeat of evil, we can only urge their damnation." . . .

"The Bible says: “thou shalt not kill,” doesn’t it? Actually, it doesn’t. The correct translation is “thou shalt not murder.” Our criminal law, the law of all civilized nations, flows from this understanding. It’s always wrong to murder, but killing is often necessary, moral and lawful. This obviously speaks to self-defense but also allows governments to invoke the death penalty and to wage just wars. But are those wars limited to national self-defense, or may governments also destroy demons, enemies of civilization, peoples so depraved, so willingly agents of evil, allowing them to live ensures the suffering and deaths of the good? If it please the Court, I urge the Court to apply the maximum penalty and present evidence for the total elimination of Hamas.

"The first and most obvious exhibit is the unprovoked atrocities of October 7, preceded by decades of unprovoked terrorist attacks on Israel and countless other nationals. This includes the kidnapping and holding hostage of hundreds of Israelis and some Americans and other nationals, and their torture, mutilation, rape and murder while in captivity.

"Hamas, which continues to swear to murder every Jew and infidel, has never honored the terms of any cease fire, and violated such terms on October 7.

"Promising to return the corpses of Shiri Bibas and her two infants—4 and 10 months old--Hamas staged an inhuman spectacle: "

Comment to this post: "I might think the Grand Mufti of Dubai and of Saudi Arabia were more sincere, if Muslims hadn’t committed so many other hellish atrocities. It’s not just Hamas, or even Palestinians more broadly. Who can forget 9/11, or the massacre of over 200 children at the Beslan school in Russia, or the MANY times they’ve run cars into crowds or bombed concerts or sporting events, or thrown acid in women’s faces in London, or stabbed people on the street for no reason (including children).

The list of their crimes against humanity would take hours to write, and their hands are drenched with innocent blood. And perhaps even worse, who can forget the thousands of everyday Muslims dancing in the streets and cheering when they saw videos of these atrocities."

The Lies Are No Longer Uttered with Impunity: Vance’s Speech and Poland’s Crucial Election

American Spectator: Polish leadership lashed out after Vance exposed their hypocrisy. 

  “They can’t censor JD Vance, so they get hysterical and try to shout him down, without asking where he was wrong,” said Dr. Mieczysław Ryba, a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. “The very fact that Tusk reacted to JD Vance’s statement shows that it hurt him.”  

Babylon Bee parody: Europeans Beg JD Vance To
Become President Of Europe

"It is springtime in the West.

"This moment recalls the words of Poland’s Cold War-era philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, who asserted, “Obvious lies uttered aloud with impunity are excellent proofs of the health of the system.” The lies are no longer uttered with impunity, and that’s an indication the liberal order is crumbling.

Vance’s Hard Truths Resonate 

Vice President JD Vance magnified this new reality in his veritable Zeitenwende speech in Munich last week. According to the vice president, Europe is captive to a self-important political class disdainful of its citizens, increasingly willing to stifle their speech and democratic preferences, and militarily reliant on an America that it scorns. None of this is novel in circles critical of liberalism, but Vance asserted it with the gravitas of his office, at a sacred altar of the transatlantic elite — an American Zeitenwende, indeed.

"Though the vice president did not mention Poland in his speech, Poles immediately perceived their country as an implicit target of criticism. His line about “the side in that fight that censored dissidents, that closed churches, that canceled elections,” noted in a Cold War context, particularly fired passions across the Polish political spectrum.

"Recall that the current Polish government has made a mockery of democratic principles after coming to power on a platform dominated by “rule-of-law” rhetoric. Since December 2023, the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has staged a coup at the public broadcaster, arrested political opponents and Catholic priests, maltreated protesters, and ignored rulings — and even the offices — of judges it finds inconvenient. 

"The EU’s rule-of-law mechanism, currently wielded against sovereigntist governments in Hungary and Slovakia, disappeared instantly after former EU Council President Tusk returned to Warsaw. Tusk has cited the political science doctrine of “fighting democracy,” a concept developed — predictably enough — as a response to the Nazi era in which the European political class perpetually resides. (RELATED: Why Isn’t Poland Smiling? Just Ask the Protesting Farmers Attacked by Police Last Week.) . . .

JD Vance’s Message to European Leaders: Listen to Your People, Don’t Go Hard Left  Victor Davis Hanson

"The so-called libertine, free-loving, open society of Europe is very closed. It’s a one-party system, in the sense that they only allow left-wing views. It’s to the left of the radical American Democratic Party."

Anti-Israel Politician EMBARRASSED as Caroline Glick Lists The FACTS!

Aryeh Weinstein  "Caroline Glick is a voice to be reckoned with. Israel has always stood on the high ground even trying to help its neighbors when they can. There is no comparing to Israel in this situation"