Monday, April 27, 2020

Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids

Prager U.
"Dangerous people are filling the heads of young people with dangerous nonsense. Who are these people? They are what Jordan Peterson calls “the post-modernists:” neo-Marxist professors who dominate our colleges and universities. And here’s the worst part: we are financing these nihilists with tax dollars, alumni gifts and tuition payments. Time to wise up."

Gretchen Whitmer Sent Rude Texts to Michigan Senator Who Thanked Trump After Recovering From Coronavirus

RedState  "Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has become the leader everyone loves to hate but in America’s defense, she sure is giving people a lot of reasons to feel that way. "Especially after hearing from a Michigan Senator that Whitmer sent rude text messages to her after she publicly thanked President Donald Trump for helping her recover from the Coronavirus.
"Appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Friday, Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett told host Tucker Carlson that instead of sending her congratulatory texts about getting over the virus, Whitmer had sent less than kind texts to Whitsett over the fact that she applauded Trump for his promotion of hydroxychloroquine, which both she and her physician confirmed helped her recover from the virus.
"Not only has Whitmer been unkind, but Michigan’s Democratic Party is also looking to censure her for applauding Trump.
“ 'Why they would expel me is beyond words for me,” Whitsett said. “This is something that I did not expect, I started out with a simple thank you to the man that is the president of the United States. It’s a thank you, I didn’t know that thank you had a political line. I didn’t know thank you belonged to one political party over another, and that if you’re in one party you cannot say thank you to another person. I had no idea.”
"Carlson asked if it was Whitsett’s promotion of hydroxychloroquine that might have sent Whitmer and her fellow Democrats over the edge, but Whitsett believes it just boiled down to showing kindness to Trump and giving him credit where it’s due." . . .



A CNN journalist pens a fascinating insight into the left's dystopian worldview


Andrea Widburg  "On April 7, Bill Weir, CNN's chief climate correspondent, had a son.  Weir wrote an open letter to his son telling him he was born into Hell on Earth, also known as the modern Western world.  The letter perfectly encapsulates everything the left hates and wants to see destroyed.
"Below, in italics, are my summaries of many of Weir's pronouncements, followed by countervailing information." . . .
Read all the points and counterpoints here.


. . . "Aside from being wrong, Weir misses entirely that we live in an age of wonders and miracles.  Modern farming techniques mean that famine would be a thing of the past but for corrupt governance in third-world countries.  Our medicine is so advanced that we replace people's hearts, help the blind see, and make the deaf hear.
"We've wiped out epidemic diseases that killed by the millions and will soon do the same with COVID-19.  Most children born into Weir's hated West will live to a ripe old age.  Before modernity, 50% of children died before their fifth birthday.
"Weir is a tragic figure because he has eyes but cannot see.  The real tragedy, though, is that people like Weir, through the power of the media, drive too much of America's political agenda."
GRETA THUNBERG MEMES

Conservatives are beginning to note that many police are acting like leftists


Andrea Widburg "In ordinary times, there tends to be a commonality between conservatives and law enforcement.  Both are hostile to leftist efforts to decriminalize criminal activity, such as lifestyle crimes (urinating and defecating on the streets or public drug use) and low-level criminal activity (in California, any crimes resulting in less than $950 in damage).
"For that reason, conservatives are finding shocking the fact that, thanks to the orders leftist governors and mayors are issuing, law enforcement officers across America are engaging in bullying tactics more often seen in communist countries than in a constitutional America.  Conservatives probably shouldn't be so surprised." . . .
. . . 
"Dan Bongino, a former New York police officer, has tweeted out a plea to his former brothers and sisters in blue to remember who they are and what they represent:
To My Brothers & Sisters in Blue,
PLEASE, speak w/your fraternal organizations & speak out collectively against these outrageous orders to arrest Americans for exercising their Rights. We’re losing the support of people who’ve defended us in crises for years. This can’t continue.
. . . 

"Thankfully, not all police officers are falling into the tyrant's trap.  I wrote the other day about the Houston Police Officers' Union's stand against an order to arrest people not wearing masks.  CNN has also written (disapprovingly, of course) about law enforcement officers refusing to enforce government mandates they believe are unconstitutional, draconian, or unreasonable.
"CNN, as usual, is wrong.  The Constitution is the highest and best law in the land.  Those law enforcement officers who refuse to enforce ukases that directly and unsubtly violate the First Amendment are in the right.  Long may these men and women serve!"

"Prisoners should be let out, but citizens who go to the beach get locked up." . . .   That's all good with Pelosi
Unless protests and showings of civil disobedience continue to pick up steam, it is not likely that Americans will get their basic rights back following the coronavirus pandemic.
A shocking video has been posted on social media of a mother being hauled off in handcuffs from a playground at Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park in Meridian, Idaho.

It was posted on Facebook by activist Erin Whitt Timmerman and demonstrated how law enforcement officials will readily comply with unconstitutional orders.

How Obama/Biden Wrecked the U.S. Medical Device Industry

Daniel John Sobieski

"As lawmakers ponder ways to bring back U.S. manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, their raw materials, medical supplies, and devices, it must be remembered a major part of this problem which has come back to bite us was created by the Obama/Biden administration and the medical device tax that was included in ObamaCare that was supposed to defray the costs of this doomed-to-failure new entitlement program.
"As part of the Orwellian-named Affordable Care Act, sales of medical devices from implants to MRIs, research equipment and surgical instruments were to bear a 2.3 percent tax. The tax would be on gross sales and not just profits. Even packaging, shipping, and warranties were included when calculating what was to be taxed.
"Because the Affordable Care Act was so unaffordable, it needed a running head start on revenue with imposition of the new tax beginning on January 1, 2013, while ObamaCare itself would begin a rolling implementation in 2014 with its more harmful aspects and the revelations that, no, you couldn’t keep your doctor or your plan even if you liked them. We would have to wait to find out that premiums would skyrocket, not decrease $2,500 as promised in another Obama/Biden lie, and deductibles would be so high that many of those with insurance couldn’t use it. Taxes first, questions later." . . .
. . . "As Rush Limbaugh has noted, liberal progressives like Obama and Biden employ a static analysis that says you can raise taxes and human and corporate behavior won’t change:
Do you all remember this thing called Obamacare? I’m sure you do. Do you remember the medical device tax that Obamacare instituted? Like all liberals, Obama believed that people that make things will pay anything. You put a tax on ’em, they’ll just keep paying the tax and they’ll just keep making the device. You put a tax on yachts, and people will pay the tax…Well, guess what? The people that manufacture medical devices fled the USA, and they went overseas to various places to get ’em made. One of the places they went was China. They also went to Mexico. They went to places in Europe. And now people complain about a shortage. They want to chalk it up to somehow a fault or a deficiency of capitalism or of the United States. No siree, Bob. It was a by-product of a tax increase called Obamacare on medical devices.
. . .  

In North Korea, the Fourth Man Could Be a Woman

The New Yorker
Amid reports of Kim Jong Un’s failing health, it appears that the most obvious successor to rule the country, despite its sexist political system, is his sister, Kim Yo Jong.


"The conventional wisdom is that a woman could never ascend to the leadership of North Korea, a country stuck in a time warp of passé fashions, hairdos, music, and social mores. A toxic mix of Confucianism and totalitarianism indentures women to their husbands, to their in-laws, and, ultimately, to a male-dominated regime. With a few exceptions (the best known being the vice foreign minister, Choe Son Hui), North Korea’s senior cadres are almost entirely male. The Supreme People’s Assembly—which currently has six hundred and eighty-seven members—is supposed to set aside twenty per cent of its seats for women, but the percentage has frequently dipped lower. And the primary function of these token deputies seems to be to brighten the optics, by wearing the jewel-toned, floor-length Korean gowns best known by the South Korean term hanbok. Since 1948, North Korea has been ruled by three men—the founder, his son, and his grandson—but, nevertheless, it is now conceivable that the fourth man will be a woman. That is because, with reports that Kim Jong Un is in failing health, the most obvious successor is his thirtysomething sister, Kim Yo Jong.
"Kim Jong Un was a conspicuous no-show at ceremonies marking his grandfather’s birthday, on April 15th—the most important holiday on the North Korean calendar and an event that he has never missed since becoming leader, in 2011. A series of missile tests scheduled to coincide with the holiday went off without the customary footage of Kim watching from a viewing stand or peering through binoculars. North Korea’s official news agency, KCNA, continues to report on his purported activities (such as greetings and birthday messages sent to allies), but no reliable photographs of him have emerged since April 11th.
"Last week, CNN reported that he was in “grave danger,” after having undergone surgery (an assertion echoed by a report from a Japanese magazine on Saturday that claimed he was brain-dead after a failed operation to insert a stent), while the Daily NK, a respected online newspaper based in Seoul, said that he was recovering after a cardiovascular procedure. “Something seems to be wrong,’’ the paper concluded, on Friday. Until “state media provides decisive evidence of his whereabouts and well-being, rumors will thus likely continue to emerge—and uncertainty will prevail.” So far, that hasn’t happened." . . . 

Trump vs CBS Reporter Weijia Jiang: ‘Keep Your Voice Down… You Have To Do Your Research’

COTR


"OPINION | This article contains political commentary which reflects the author's opinion.
Someone get CBS Weijia Jiang a chill pill.
"And even though President Trump is a teetotaler, get the man a stiff drink. He deserves it.
"Watch Jiang press and continually interrupt President Trump about why he waited until March 16th to start social distancing.
. . . https://twitter.com/i/status/1252023512367345668
"President Trump exposed her as having no facts to back up her assertion that he waited too long and he knocked her for not doing her research.
"President Trump asked Jiang how many cases there were in the US when he issued the ban. He asked her FOUR TIMES. She never answered. She didn’t answer for one of two reasons.
"She either didn’t know the answer or, she didn’t want to give the answer because it doesn’t fit her narrative that Trump was derelict.
"The mainstream media are truly disgusting. Their sole goal is to destroy Donald Trump. Facts do not matter. They are not impartial reporters of facts or even investigative reporters.
"Jiang’s question was not designed to get an answer.  It was asked to present a narrative and fulfill an agenda." . . .

Sunday, April 26, 2020

If the left can't refute the Trump Presidency, they'll keep making stuff up

     Liberals cannot get many to despise President Trump if, like me, we already had previously. Trump was my most disliked candidate, considering what I regarded as bloviating, insulting, and rudeness toward other candidates, most particularly his terrible insult of Carly Fiorina (His attempt to recover from the shame of that was equally shabby). But it soon came down to him or Hillary and it became no choice for me. Who would I prefer to greet the casket of my dead child: Obama, for whom my child would be nothing but a prop in a photo-op, or Hillary, who would blatantly lie to our faces about his death. Or Trump, who would make the murderers pay dearly for our loss? Or any other Democrat who would be the Favored One of those who long to be photographed trampling on the American flag, kneeling during the national anthem, or being cheered as they call our President "a motherf**ker".
     Not this kid; I have seen President Trump's accomplishments in the face of everything the American left has thrown at him and those he has selected to serve with him. He has defied demagogues in Congress, entire "News" networks, and their showboating "reporters", - openly dedicated to the destruction of the Trump Presidency - the entire "entertainment" industry, and much of academia.
We must fear this left and their silly, yet treacherous efforts to get the allegiance of the American people. This is not even close to being the Democrat Party of my family, my labor union, and of this nation's world wars.  The Tunnel Dweller

"Did Donald Trump’s mother call him idiot with zero common sense? Fact Check"


Snopes . . . To sum up, the president’s mother did not call him “an idiot with zero common sense.” We therefore rate this claim “False.' ” . . .

FactCheck.org . . . "The meme offers no citation for the quote, and we couldn’t find anything to lend it credibility: We searched online and through news archives and found no such statement from Mary Trump, who died in August 2000.
"Trump’s mother criticizing her son and forecasting his potential entrance into politics — not to mention calling such a move a “disaster” — would have no doubt made the quotation newsworthy, if she had said it, at the time and again later. Before Mary Trump died, Donald Trump already had become a wealthy developer and casino owner who gained celebrity status and publicly considered running for president in the late 1990s, before deciding not to run. The supposed quote also would have likely resurfaced during his 2016 presidential campaign." . . .
Here's a twofer from CHECK YOUR FACT"
. . . "However, the Daily Caller News Foundation found no record of Mary Anne Trump ever saying the quote attributed to her in the Facebook post. A search of news archives and interviews didn’t yield any matches. It only seems to appear in memes and social media posts.
"Other fact-checkers have also been unable to find any credible sources linking Mary Anne Trump to the quote.  . . .
"If Mary Anne Trump had said such a negative thing about her son before her death in 2000, it likely would have been picked up by the media when Donald Trump publicly considered running for president in the late ’90s, but no news outlets reported on it."
An article shared on Facebook claims former first lady Michelle Obama called President Donald Trump the “dumbest president in United States history.”   
"Verdict: False  There is no record of Obama ever saying the statement. The quote originated on a satirical website."

ANALYSIS: 5 Reasons Why Stacey Abrams Would Be A Risky VP Choice For Joe Biden

Her refusal to accept the results of an election opens her up to charges of hypocrisy, given that she criticized President Donald Trump in 2016 for refusing to commit to accepting the election results if he lost. As recently as last month, a group that Abrams leads placed an asterisk next to Kemp’s name in ad attacking him.
Daily Caller   "Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is pitching herself as a potential running mate for former Vice President Joe Biden. 
Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Bloomberg Campaigns Ahead Of Super Tuesday"Though Abrams has benefited from fawning media praise, selecting her would come with its downsides for Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Here are five reasons why Abrams would be a risky choice. 
"She’s never been elected to office higher than state representative 
"Abrams has never been elected to an office higher than Georgia state representative, serving as minority leader in the state legislature — and she doesn’t even hold that office at the current moment.
"State legislators are ubiquitous in the political world: the United States has more than 5,400 state representatives and nearly 2,000 state senators, according to Ballotpedia. And yet, if Abrams becomes Biden’s running mate and he wins, she’ll be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
"Her qualifications are especially important considering Biden’s advanced age. The former vice president is 77-years-old and will turn 78 in November. If elected, Biden would be the oldest president in American history." . . .

"Those steamy romance novels" 

"Abrams wrote a series of steamy romance novels that could be awkward for her to address on the campaign trail. While her novels aren’t as aggressive as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s essay about a woman having gang rape fantasies, it still contains sexually explicit content outside the norm for a vice president’s writing."  ...

Have the Democrats thought this out really, really, really well? She could be president, you know.  Sunday Schadenfreude: No way out for Democrats stuck with senile Biden as #MeToo allegations cannot be suppressed

Shifty Schiff: Thousands of Americans Are Dead Because We Didn't Successfully Impeach and Remove Trump

Pelosi, Schiff, Maxine Waters, Schumer, and, well, all those with scowling faces in Congress and their enablers at MSNBC, CNN, and Hollywood know if this nation goes Democrat in November, they will have control over us. TD
"Despite that, Schiff blames the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the deaths associated with the virus in America on... President Trump not being impeached.
Beth Baumann   "House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been one of the biggest outspoken proponents of impeaching President Donald Trump. For two years we were repeatedly told that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller proved no collusion took place. Schiff and his cronies immediately clung to the theory that Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless the country investigated Hunter Biden for sitting on the board of Burisma, a natural gas company. Hunter was being paid more than a million dollars a year despite having no natural energy experience. Even though everyone knew no quid pro quo took place, Democrats moved forward with impeachment. They impeached the president in the House but failed to have him convicted in the Senate. 
"Despite that, Schiff blames the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the deaths associated with the virus in America on... President Trump not being impeached.
"Let that sink in for a second.
. . . 
"How is that being incompetent? Trump went against everyone's advice – including the World Health Organization – when he halted flights. If he was incompetent or only cared about himself he would have never made that kind of call. He wouldn't spend hours every day holding press briefings about this pandemic. If he didn't care, his team wouldn't have worked with governors, private enterprise and health care officials to address this public health crisis.
"Schiff is just mad that he's no longer relevant and he didn't succeed in his partisan witch hunt."
This is nowhere near "just politics"; this is sheer hatred.

Rumor-mongers of the Demagogue Party

Virus Strikes Media Dumb  . . . "Instead, we are back to story number one: How to refashion news on the Wuhan virus to attack the President. As been the case from the beginning, the press is using every foul means to demean him and make this the Trump Virus, ignoring his measured approach and successes. 
"This week they glommed onto his remarks in a presser that revealed the contagion curve is flattening and diminishing to suggest that Trump had called for something as possible remediation -- bleach injection -- that he had not. In some cases, they flat-out lied about what he said. In others they edited the presser video to achieve the same distortion. 
"Regular readers of this site know a great deal about press information manipulation and lies. I write this in the hope that you will share it with those others who still don’t get it. 
"Here is the relevant discussion from that presser, transcribed by the Daily Caller:
Bill Bryan, Under Secretary for Science and Technology at DHS, talked about the half-life of the coronavirus on surfaces like door handles and stainless steel surfaces, saying that when they “inject” UV rays into the mix along with high temperatures and increased humidity that the virus dies quickly.  
Bryan continued by noting that DHS also tested if certain types of disinfectant could kill the coronavirus.
“We’ve tested bleach, we’ve tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus, specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids, and I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes,” Bryan said. “Isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that’s with no manipulation, no rubbing. Just bring it on and leaving it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster.”...
Immediately following these remarks is where Trump states, "So, I’m going to ask Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing when we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."  
A few moments later, ABC News reporter Jon Karl asked Bryan, “The president mentioned the idea of a cleaner, bleach and isopropyl alcohol emerging. There’s no scenario where that could be injected into a person, is there?”
“No, I’m here to talk about the finds that we had in the study,” Bryan responded. “We don’t do that within that lab at our labs.”
Trump then clarified his remarks: “It wouldn’t be through injections, you’re talking about almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work, but it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.”
Trump later raised the possibility of whether UV rays could kill the coronavirus if it was on a person’s skin, in particular if it were on their hands.
“If they’re outside, right, and their hands are exposed to the sun, will that kill it as though it were a piece of metal or something else?” Trump asked.
“I don’t want to say it will at the same rate because it’s a non-porous surface, but what we do know is that we looked at the worst case scenario and the virus lives longer on non-porous surfaces,” Bryan responded. “So porous surfaces, it doesn’t live quite as long, so in theory what you said is correct.”
"From this exchange,  the media reported the president was advising people inject bleach to kill the virus." . . .
The View's Behar
There's no turning back. The latest anti-Trump hoax is now the left's fixed reality:
That’s where we are with the Lysol/bleach hoax. It’s now a fixed part of Leftist lore about President Trump. To them, he will forever be the president who told Americans to inject Lysol and drink bleach.
The panel on "The View" was only one segment picking up on this.

Trump’s idea for “disinfecting” people to fight disease is already being done   "If you spent any time on the internet on Thursday and Friday, or read a hard copy of a newspaper, you would undoubtedly have read stories or social media posts saying that President Trump told Americans to inject themselves with bleach or Lysol to cure coronavirus. Of course, that's not true. The media were either stupid or malicious when they misreported Trump's words. What Trump said was straightforward and thoughtful: . . ."
. . . "My point is simply that, not only was Trump making an intelligent suggestion about new ways to treat a new enemy, what he was advocating has already been done! In the battle between Trump and the media, they may sell pixels by the barrel, but it’s Trump who has the brains and knowledge. Andrea Widburg, whose companion article is:
An illustrated look at the evolution of the 'inject Lysol' anti-Trump hoax

The COVID-19 outbreak has shown us that Democrats can never be in charge again. Otherwise, the American experiment is finished.

Saturday, April 25, 2020

'View' Admits Worse Economy Gets, More Biden Has to 'Benefit' at Election: He'll 'Take Care of Us'



MRC "The hosts of The View are doing their best to prop up Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, even offering him free advice and future media appearances on their show. After Joy Behar confidently claimed Biden could disappear and still win the election, she had a change of heart on Friday’s show, saying that he needed more media air time to counteract Trump’s “bloviating.” Each host fawned over the “sane” and “stable” Biden as their dream president.
"At one point, Meghan McCain even admitted that more people losing their jobs to the coronavirus lockdown, could only help Biden’s campaign.
"Co-host Whoopi Goldberg began the show wondering if Biden needed to “excite” the base or stay out of the limelight. Behar said she was done with Trump’s “excitement” and she wanted someone who was “sane” and “stable” like Biden:
“No. I think that what you need is somebody who is stable. You need somebody who is going to bring sanity, stability, empathy, a sense of calm to the nation,” she said, adding that Biden would “take care of us” during our national time of “pain.”
"She also demanded the media give Biden more air-time, offering to boost his campaign with appearances on their show: . . ."