April 09, 2025
Of Course: The US Knew That Seven American Troops Contracted Covid-19 at the Wuhan Games in 2019, But Covered It Up to Protect Hunter Biden's Business Partners in China
I'm assuming that last part.
Joe Biden is a traitor and forgot to pardon himself.A newly uncovered Defense Department report reveals that seven U.S. troops may have contracted COVID-19 during the 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan--months before the official pandemic timeline. The Biden administration kept the report from the public for over two years, despite a legal requirement to release it.The World Military Games featured active duty military personnel from various countries competing in Olympic-style games. That year they were held in Wuhan. Just down the street from the Wuhan Infectious Virus Lab.
Key Details: A December 2022 Pentagon report shows seven U.S. service members showed COVID-like symptoms after attending the 2019 Wuhan games. The Biden administration withheld the report, which was required by law to be made public in 2022, until it was quietly posted online in March 2025. Evidence contradicts Biden officials' 2021 claims and adds weight to theories that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab before December 2019. Diving Deeper: The Biden administration withheld a critical Pentagon report for more than two years, one that sheds new light on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, seven U.S. military service members may have contracted COVID-19 during or shortly after the 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan, China--a full two months before China officially acknowledged the outbreak. The report, completed in December 2022, was mandated for public release by the National Defense Authorization Act. Yet, the administration only passed it to select Congressional committees and failed to make it publicly accessible as required. It wasn't until March 2025 that the report quietly appeared on a Defense Department site under a section dedicated to "quality-of-life" issues--far from public view. This revelation directly contradicts claims made by Biden administration officials in 2021, including then-Defense Department spokesman John Kirby, who stated there was "no knowledge" of any infections among the U.S. participants. The Trump administration had also denied early on that troops were tested or showed symptoms, citing the timing of the games before China's outbreak announcement. Held just miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virology--where controversial, U.S.-funded gain-of-function research was conducted--the 2019 games have long drawn suspicion from national security and public health experts. ... Adding more context, athletes from European countries such as France, Germany, and Italy also reported flu-like symptoms in Wuhan, describing the city at the time as unusually empty--a "ghost town." All seven American service members recovered quickly, and the Pentagon has not revealed when it first became aware of the cases.Deep State bureaucrats love hiding information and do so with impunity because they know DC judges and juries will never convict them for self-dealing and even treason. The acting commissioner of the IRS, for example, is resigning rather than authorize ICE gaining access to IRS records about illegal aliens.
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is planning to resign following the agency's data sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to support the Trump administration's efforts to deport undocumented immigrants, three sources familiar with her plans told ABC News.
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White House Stops Responding to "Journalists" With Pronouns In Their Email Signature Lines
This is a solid heuristic for weeding out the nonsense. Nonsense pronouns means nonsense questions and nonsense hit pieces.
The Trump White House has begun declining to respond to media requests from reporters who include gender pronouns in their email signatures. The move aligns with the administration's broader rejection of what it calls "gender ideology" in the federal government. Key Details: "As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in an email to a New York Times reporter asking about climate research. Katie Miller, a senior adviser at the Department of Government Efficiency, echoed that approach in a separate exchange, telling another Times journalist, "I don't respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts." The policy reflects a broader Trump administration stance that has barred federal employees from listing preferred pronouns in government emails and cracked down on DEI-related practices across agencies.Meanwhile:
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Trump Builds the China Tariff Wall Ten Feet Higher While Announcing a "Pause" on Tariffs for Other Countries; Markets Soar
James Madison informs me that the higher tariffs are only paused for countries that didn't retaliate:
The 10% pause is for everyone who didn't retaliate. The EU did retaliate. Their tariffs should still be at 35%. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan ReitmanChina retaliated against the US by announcing an 84% tariff on US goods. This is a silly gesture, as China barely buys anything from us. They mostly just steal. Trump trumped China by jacking the China tariff up to 125%.
The White House is clarifying that Trump's announcement of a 90-day tariff "pause" means that the "tariff level will be brought down to a universal 10% tariff" during that time, while "negotiations are ongoing." That respite does not apply to China, which will see U.S. tariffs on its goods rise to 125%.The markets liked the 90-day pause on tariffs for countries other than China.
Dow surges 1,800 points after Trump signals a 90-day pause on tariffsKevin O'Leary says he wants Trump to hit China with a 400% tariff to get Xi on a plane to DC immediately. He says all they do is cheat and steal IP, and it's time to bring them to heel. He says that Xi will be kicked out of office the moment these high tariffs begin to hurt China's economy, so Xi will be forced to make major concessions to Trump. The CNN panel explodes with All the Outrage, obviously.
Stocks surged after President Donald Trump announced a pause in tariffs, causing a market that's been under extreme pressure the last 5 days to explode higher. The S&P 500 gained 6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2159 points, or 5.7%. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 8%. Stocks touched their session highs as Treasury yields eased following a strong bond auction. Earlier, yields had risen above 4.5%. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was last at 4.4%. China announced it will impose an 84% levy on U.S. goods starting Thursday. This comes after U.S. tariffs of 104% on Chinese imports took effect shortly after midnight. The EU also approved its first set of tariffs on the U.S. set to start April 15.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton Announces Challenge to Supercuck RINO John Cornyn
Cornyn is one of the group of eight or so liberal Republicans who vote against conservative priorities. And when they do vote for those priorities, it is only because an intense pressure campaign has convinced them they are putting their careers at risk if they refuse. Thom Tillis, for example, whines that he was pressured to vote for Trump's nominees, and not-so-secretly schemed to get Pete Hegseth's brother's ex-wife (this sounds like the Spaceball joke) to come forward and make unfounded accusations against Hegseth to give him cover to vote against Hegseth. In the end, Tillis voted for Hegseth -- but only because MAGA informed him that his senate seat was in danger if he didn't. That's the same kind of McCain bullshit that Cornyn has been doing for decades now. Yet he claims, preposterously, that he's Fighting For President Trump and Paxton is the guy trying to undermine Trump:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a primary challenge against the Lone State state's longtime Sen. John Cornyn in what might shape up to be an ugly battle. A Republican, Cornyn has held the U.S. Senate seat from Texas since 2002 while Paxton has been active in Texas politics since he ascended to attorney general in 2015. In his announcement, Paxton said the state needs a new senator to "stand up for Republican values." "I'm announcing that I'm running for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, who apparently is running again for his fifth term, which would put him there three decades. It's definitely time for a change in Texas," Paxton told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on her program.
Give me a break.
"During his first term John Cornyn voted with President Trump more than 95% of current Senators, securing the votes for his biggest accomplishments as his Whip," said the post. "Democrats are trying to destroy President Trump, and he and Texas need a battle-tested conservative who knows how to protect his agenda in the Senate and won't be outsmarted by Chuck Schumer."
At least one recent poll from Texas Public Opinion Research gives Paxton a 10-point edge over Cornyn for the time being.Cornyn is one of Mitch McConnell's loyalists. And speaking of: McConnell just voted against another Trump nominee, in an act that JD Vance called out as the "one of the great acts of political pettiness" from McConnell.
Give me money, China.
Vice President JD Vance lit up Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after the senator voted against the nomination of Elbridge Colby to serve as Under Secretary of Policy at the Defense Department, describing the move as a grand display of "political pettiness." "Mitch's vote today -- like so much of the last few years of his career -- is one of the great acts of political pettiness I've ever seen," Vance said, as Colby's nomination brought out the worst of globalists. In a statement explaining his vote against President Donald Trump's choice, McConnell asserted that Colby's public record "suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy." "The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy," McConnell continued.
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Open Thread
Happy Humpday.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
What to make of it?
Closing in on a week from Trump's announcement of tariffs, it's been a wild ride so far. Markets are up. Markets are down. Countries are dealing. Countries are doubling down. Some support them. Some don't. Some - perhaps most - are confused. I know I am confused about some aspects of it, but then I have a slightly different view of tariffs than many. I also think the Trump administration hasn't gone out of its way to be very clear about how it views tariffs, which is probably part of the problem.
That aside, I figure I'll throw my tattered hat into the commentary ring on it, too. To do that, though, I think it might be best to start with a simple question: what is a tariff? That's easy, as far as it goes. A tariff is a tax on the movement of goods over national borders. They can be outbound or inbound, though inbound (a tax on foreign goods) is much more common. As with all taxes, they are not free and somebody pays them. It usually ends up being a mixture of your own citizens and foreigners. But why tariffs, and why are they good or bad?
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The Morning Report — 4/ 9 /25 
So, vile, foul revolting in the extreme Jasmine Crockett once again opened her pie hole to vomit out garbage. I hate having to inflict her on you all, but it is what it is.
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So, vile, foul revolting in the extreme Jasmine Crockett once again opened her pie hole to vomit out garbage. I hate having to inflict her on you all, but it is what it is.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) advocated for illegal immigration in the U.S. and suggested black Americans were “done picking cotton.” Crockett’s words reportedly came while “speaking at Grace Baptist Church in Connecticut,” according to commentator Collin Rugg. While speaking, Crockett claimed that she was going around the U.S. educating “people about what immigrants” do for the U.S., and claimed that nobody is “trying to go and farm right now.”And yet, disgusting as this is, it does serve to illustrate a point that is both a condemnation of her party and why Trump and his policies going forward might have even more of a salutary effect on more than just the economy but on American culture itself. Beyond the fact that cotton, to the best of my knowledge hasn't been picked by hand for decades. Let's pick this ninny's statement apart point by point. First, the immigration issue that democrats and other open borders globalists keep yammering on about: the so-called people who we must have by the multi-millions to do the jobs that Americans supposedly won't do, i.e. pick crops. Even leftist icon Cesar Chavez referred to illegal aliens as wetbacks and was vocally and passionately in favor of mass deportations of illegals because they depressed the wages of legal citizens who were farm workers. Second, and I'm only guessing, there are likely very stiff tariffs and import duties/restrictions on not only American grown cotton but of course on American grown produce and other food stuffs all over the world. Hitting back at these countries to force their markets open to our goods will have salutary effect across the board. Of course her using the example of picking cotton and trying to make an allusion to Trump and company and his policies as somehow akin to the reimposition of slavery and or Jim Crow on blacks, which is laughable in the extreme since it was her party that fought civil war and then resisted all efforts at true integration and assimilation since the end of that war that they started. As for jobs that Americans will or won't do, there's enough blame to go around as to why American industry decamped willingly or otherwise overseas. Cheap labor and lowered regulatory costs were and remain a major factor. In the long term, if allowed to remain in place, Trump's tariff regime can have a salutary effect on many levels. Economic and societal. If we insist that only legal citizens can work here at home, then there is no job that Americans won't do since businesses will have no alternative but to tap the American labor market.
President Trump wants to get America’s vast army of “dropout” men back into the workforce. Attention to this problem is long overdue. Nearly 7 million men in the prime of life — over a tenth of the 25-to-54 age group — are neither working nor looking for work these days. But Team Trump is trying to fix the problem with the wrong tools. They argue that trade policy — tariffs — and industrial policy — special treatment for manufacturing — will reverse the long-term flight from work by men, by creating high-paying jobs to lure them back to work. This approach may sound sensible to some. Unfortunately, it is likely to fail — even though the White House could succeed through other pro-work policies. Once upon a time in America, working-age men without jobs were unemployed laborers. . . . . . But that’s ancient history: Today, for every “prime age” man who is actually unemployed — out of a job but looking — there are three who are neither working nor looking for work. That means the overwhelming majority of jobless men nowadays are NILFs (for “not in labor force”That's what Crockett and her ilk are really railing against. They need men and women of all races to not pick cotton but to sit on their asses and pick their noses waiting for Uncle Sugar to hand out welfare and bennies to keep them hooked on the government. Generations of Americans, black and white indoctrinated into being enslaved to the Democrat created welfare state, from whence Democrats maintain their power. This is what DOGE and the tariff regime is attempting to smash. It won't work by itself. Industry won't magically reappear overnight. Along with what is being done, as has been promoted for years, there must be mass incentives like tax and regulatory holidays to incentivize the building of factories and manufacturing plants here in the USA plus the de-incentivization of sloth such as it is. Certainly more trade schools as well as apprenticeship programs in all the trades, perhaps schools that would be tied to US industries, and/or even physically located on or near their premises. As well as the expansion of what I remember from my junior high and High School days as shop class. Along with industry, the American work ethic and concomitant attitudes about families and morality in general must be promoted. And all of that is something the Democrat/Left will recoil from like Dracula being doused with holy water.. And unemployed men differ fundamentally in both mindset and behavior from NILF men. . . . . . Millions of NILF men live work-free existences financed by an array of disability programs and their associated “poverty” benefits. This disability archipelago incentivizes helplessness, and at a terrible cost in human potential. America’s disability system is so dysfunctional that no one in DC can tell you just how many people are currently getting benefits from its crazy-quilt of subcomponents (SSDI, SSI, Social Security, veterans’ benefits, state-level disability programs, worker’s comp programs — and more). Before the pandemic, however, I estimated that over half of America’s prime-age NILF men were getting benefits from one or more of these programs — and that over two-thirds lived in homes taking in at least one disability benefit. . . . . . Yet with nearly 12 million positions open, and employers almost begging for applicants, NILF rates for prime age men barely budged. Millions of those unfilled jobs during the “Great Resignation” did not require high school diplomas, only the “skills” of showing up at work, on time and sober. But the NILF men did not come — even though close to half had at least some college. Consider, too: Back in 2022 about 800,000 of those unfilled slots were in manufacturing. If idle dropout men did not flock to available factory jobs then, why should we expect them to be lured to future factories built under tariff threats? The miracle of the market does not cure social pathologies. All too many male workforce dropouts are detached (from society), dependent (on government benefits and pain meds), and defeated. These men will not be tempted to rejoin the workforce by good paychecks alone.We need other approaches.
. . . we've tried the free trade route. The promise was: send our jobs abroad, and we'll all get rich on cheaper TVs and tuna. But unless your job was as a hedge fund manager or Amazon warehouse robot, that promise came with a footnote: "Offer not valid in manufacturing towns, rural America, or Detroit." Trump's reciprocal tariffs aren't about slapping China for fun (although it's fun, particularly after COVID). They're about reshaping incentives so that manufacturing in the US becomes attractive again. It's already happening. Steel mills are reopening, auto plants are expanding, and companies that used to run to China at the first sign of a union now think, "Hmm, maybe Toledo isn't so bad after all." A White House report from earlier this year backs it up: Trump's first-term tariffs led to substantial reshoring in key industries. These aren't your gig-economy gigs. These are jobs with decent wages, long-term career paths, and the kind of dignity that's been outsourced for the past 30 years. Sure, there's a concern that tariffs could mean higher prices. But let's be honest — if paying an extra 50 cents for a pair of socks means your neighbor gets a job, that's a trade most Americans are happy to make. And with targeted tax cuts or direct consumer . . . . . . Plus, domestic production brings efficiencies. Once we scale up, costs come down. We're not just making America competitive again — we're building a robust industrial base that can weather future storms, pandemics, and supply chain chaos. We used to be the country that built the Hoover Dam, the Model T, and the Apollo rocket. Then we became the country that builds... PowerPoints. Reciprocal tariffs are a brash, unapologetic way of saying we want to make things again — better, more substantial, and made by Americans earning real wages. It's not just economic policy — it's national therapy. Let Wall Street clutch its pearls. The real action is in factories, foundries, and main streets that get a second shot at life. America isn't just open for business — it's open for building. And that's a trade war worth fighting.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The idea that the President can and should direct the entire executive branch runs counter to the technocratic norms that shaped modern federal governance.
Welcome to the Unitary Executive
- Kurt Schlichter: America's response to the leftist framing of Marine La Pen must be loud, bold condemnation - and contempt.
The Globalist Authoritarians Are Playing With Fire
- Karol Markowicz: How much longer will Democrats accept their supporters’ escalating calls for violence? . . A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute found that more than half of left-leaning Americans say political violence is “acceptable” — with 55% of them seeing “some justification” for assassinating Trump. It certainly feels like a powder keg, as violence is excused and celebrated online as never before.
Democrats lit the ‘assassination culture’ fuse — now their silence equals violence
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Daily Tech News 9 April 2025
Top Story
- Bluesky has become a home for humourless left-wing scolds, says Wired, which has long been a home for humourless left-wing scolds so they know a thing or two about it. (Wired) (archive site)
Also it's paywalled. Wired. Paywalled. Humourless left-wing scolds who are... Never mind.What Brown experienced is familiar to any former Twitter/X user gathering their bearings on the young and decidedly more earnest social network Bluesky: a distinct humor-detection issue.
Yes.
Why has Bluesky become such a dumpster-fire of anauralia outpatients?Bluesky also got a big boost in users from mainstream television: MSNBC ran multiple segments about the social network, including bumps on Morning Joe, The Weekend, All In With Chris Hayes, and The Rachel Maddow Show. Regular MSNBC viewers who took the plunge might not be as familiar with the tenor and style of online conversation on the smart-ass social web.
Oh. Well, yeah, that'll do it.
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April 08, 2025
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (4/8/25)
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The Quotes of The Day
Quote I "The fact is ain't none of y'all trying to go and farm right now. Okay, so I'm lying? Raise your hands... You're not. You're not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can't pay us enough to find a plantation." Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)
Quote II “Mitch’s vote today — like so much of the last few years of his career — is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vice President, JD Vance.
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Spoiled Dogs Cafe
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Quick Hits
Jasmine Rachet opened her ig'nant-ass rich-bitch mouth again.
I'm so glad we used so much political capital to put Kavanaugh and Barret on the Court.
The Trump administration is proposing a $998 a day fine for illegal migrants who refuse to self-deport. The suggested policy could also result in the confiscation of property if the migrants do not pay the fines. A similar plan was put in place in 2018 during Trump's first term in office and is reportedly based on a law passed in 1996, according to a report by Reuters. The policy in 2018 was far more narrowly invoked. Trump used the 1996 law to levy fines on nine migrants who had taken shelter inside churches, eventually imposing a $60,000 per migrant fine in that case. Unsurprisingly, Biden reversed the policy once he took office in 2021. According to the reports, Trump adviser Stephen Miller has been suggesting a re-implementation of the fines and property seizures as another tool to convince illegals to leave of their own volition.Breitbart scoop: Trump has fired a CIA official who schemed the government's forced-vaccines-for-the-military policy:
Kristina Wong
@kristina_wong Scoop: Terry Adirim, a senior Central Intelligence Agency official and former senior defense official who played a pivotal and potentially illegal role in the Biden Administration's military vaccine mandate, was recently fired from the agency, a source has exclusively revealed to Breitbart News.
Mrgunsngear
@Mrgunsngear Terry Adirim has been fired. When she was at the DOD she wrote a memo (part of it below) that allowed commanders to pretend the "vaccine mandate" of an EUA product was a lawful order when it obviously wasn't. "Per FDA guidance, these two vaccines are 'interchangeable' and DoD health care providers should 'use doses distributed under the EUA to administer the vaccination series as if the doses were the licensed vaccine.' Consistent with FDA guidance, DoD health care providers will use both the PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine interchangeably for the purpose of vaccinating Service members in accordance with Secretary of Defense Memorandum, 'Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination of Department of Defense Service Members,' August 24, 2021."
Shadow of EzraMany of you have a crazy idea that all of these left-wing authoritarian women look precisely as you'd expect them to look. While I certainly could never agree with your conspiracy theory that politics are downstream of physiognomy, this woman is not helping me disprove your bigoted theories.
@ShadowofEzra The Trump administration has fired CIA senior official Terry Adirim over her involvement in the Biden administration's military vaccine mandate. Her termination is linked to her role in pressuring service members to choose between taking a vaccine authorized only for emergency use or facing discharge. Adirim authored a directive instructing military doctors to treat the COVID-19 shots "as if" they were fully approved.
Jasmine Rachet opened her ig'nant-ass rich-bitch mouth again.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) advocated for illegal immigration in the U.S. and suggested black Americans were "done picking cotton." Crockett's words reportedly came while "speaking at Grace Baptist Church in Connecticut," according to commentator Collin Rugg. While speaking, Crockett claimed that she was going around the U.S. educating "people about what immigrants" do for the U.S., and claimed that nobody is "trying to go and farm right now." "I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we are a country of immigrants," Crockett said in the video shared by Rugg. "The fact is, ain't none of y'all trying to go and farm right now.........we done picking cotton. We are. You can't pay us enough to find a plantation."DOGE is looking to end pricey government subscriptions to woke medical journals.
This move involves ending government-funded subscriptions to scientific and medical journals known for spreading propaganda under the guise of legitimate scientific research -- a reality that Americans truly began to grasp during the era of the coronavirus. Many Americans were bullied with fake news weaponized by the Biden administration, urging mass masking as well as vaccines -- neither of which prevented one from contracting the virus or spreading it, despite false claims from former President Joe Biden and other medical officials.This is a huge amount of funding for progressive publishing. A lot of woke books become bestsellers not because the public is buying them, but because every leftwing librarian in the country orders multiple copies of every woke comic book to sell transgenderism and gay sex to kids. People have to get serious about defunding the left. Trump cancelled more USAID spending.
The World Food Program and other organizations were informed that the U.S. had terminated some of their humanitarian programs in the Middle East, according to a United Nations official and a U.S. official. The officials told The Associated Press that the projects were being canceled "for the convenience of the U.S. Government."
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The Left Staged a Paid Astroturf Fake "Grassroots" Protest This Weekend, and It Was As Successful as Everything Else the Left Does Now
The left staged a very confused protest over the weekend. Called the #HandsOff protest, the paid lefty agitators pushed for every rejected far-left policy, from transgendering kids to paying 160-year-olds millions in Social Security payments. The rent-a-mob was paid up to $1000 by a leftwing front group called "Indivisible."
The left staged a very confused protest over the weekend. Called the #HandsOff protest, the paid lefty agitators pushed for every rejected far-left policy, from transgendering kids to paying 160-year-olds millions in Social Security payments. The rent-a-mob was paid up to $1000 by a leftwing front group called "Indivisible."
M-U-R-C-H @TheEXECUTlONER_One of the attorneys involved in locking up J6ers just happens to be married to a woman who's on the board of "Indivisible." The "Mass uprising" was demonstrably all more paid-for astroturf. This protest organizer wore a laminated card around her neck instructing her how to conduct the Totally Organic Uprising. The Male Band Geek calling himself "Sarah" McBride demanded "Hands off woman's rights" as he invaded women's bathrooms. And also, as he creepily read straight-up transgender propaganda to kindergarteners. Hands off our kids, groomer. Another transgender demanded "hands off" as he continued invading women's spaces. Many attendees of the Paid Protest complained that "young people" weren't showing up.
This woman was a paid protester at a Hands Off Protest. She details what she had to do to get paid. They told her not to wear anything MAGA and she could not wear red. So she wore a black shirt and jeans. They also told her she would get paid if she brought a sign. Again, nothing MAGA. So she brought a "everyone deserves an education sign." They told her she had to march around. At the end, in order to get paid, she had to answer a 8 question questionnaire. She said the questions did have right and wrong answers and if you wanted to get paid, you had to answer them correctly from a liberal mindset. Share this everywhere as I keep seeing people say that no one was paid. They were definitely paid.
Charlie KirkHere's another protester complaining that the youths are abandoning them. She says she's "literally crying" that it's "mostly seniors or handicapped..." and not the hot young bangable people she was hoping to see. A kaffiyeh-wearing white woman similarly complains that there's too many "seniors" and no "youth turnout." You can see these protesters are mostly old hippies. Jamie Raskin said "Hands off our science" while continuing to support forced vaccinations. It was strange seeing Eric Swallwell at a "Hands Off" protest. Usually he attends the Chinese Spy Butt-Play protests.
@charliekirk11
Gen Z is not participating with the astro-turfed, bought and paid for "Hands Off!" protests because they know it's a scam. They were told college was the only way to succeed. LIE They were told they'd never own a home and like it. LIE Young men were told they were toxic. LIE Young women were told to be childless boss babes to be happy. LIE They are part of a generation that has been demonized by older generations that sold them out, belittled them, and borrowed off their backs. Their parents and grandparents inherited a rich, powerful America only to hand them a weakened, debt-riddled country, divided over gender, race, class and every other abstraction invented in a university they graduated from with no debt but now costs $75,000 a year plus interest. They were told to downsize the American Dream or abandon it altogether. Wave after new wave of young people are rejecting the lies of the Boomer left. They're choosing a rebirth of freedom and opportunity. I see it with my own eyes every week on college campuses across America. The kids are waking up.
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Surprise! Nashville Police Lied to the Public About Transgender Killer Audrey Hale's Motivations
The Megyn Kelly Show
@MegynKellyShow "We read through the documents and, again, we've been misled. This woman was obsessed with trying to trans herself, wanting to trans herself, trans ideology, I mean it was like reading a leftist playbook..." Megyn reveals why she's exclusively reporting on 1,000 pages from Nashville shooter's journals.
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo Breaking: @FBIDirectorKash has released to @megynkelly and congress over 1,000 pages from the writings of the Nashville trans Christian school shooter. The @MNPDNashville had downplayed and omitted key aspects of Audrey Hale's beliefs in its recently released report into the 2023 Covenant School shooting. A judge had previously blocked the release of the writings as well. The writings provide clear statements Hale was an autistic leftist trans violent extremist, having extreme hatred for whites, America and cisgender society. "I'd like to dispose my vagina." "Female pronouns make me feel like I wanna die." "I hate being in a woman's body. Need to die." "Kill all the white kids. Kill my own race." "Every white person who lived and died, I hate you all" "I have to kill so I can be remembered in the most horrific way possible that no one can ever forget." Hale's rants reflect many common views among the far-left. They have been sympathetic to Hale, honoring her as a victim days after the mass killing.
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"Top" "Vaccine" "Expert" and Public "Servant" Fired After Blocking the Secretary of Health From Accessing the VAERS Vaccine Adverse Reaction Database
Vaccine Fascism is Best Fascism.
Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation's top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted.So he's another self-righteous, toxic leftwing paranoid.
In an interview with The Associated Press, former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks discussed his efforts to "make nice" with Kennedy and address his longstanding concerns about vaccine safety, including by developing a "vaccine transparency action plan." Marks agreed to give Kennedy's associates the ability to read thousands of reports of potential vaccine-related issues sent to the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. But he would not allow them to directly edit the data. "Why wouldn't we? Because frankly we don't trust (them)," he said, using a profanity. "They'd write over it or erase the whole database."Why would a vaccine skeptic like RFKJr. delete a database of bad reactions to vaccines? The database is evidence to a vaccine skeptic. What this neurotic delusional paranoid really means, but is still sane enough to know it sounds crazy, is that he fears that Kennedy will start making up adverse vaccine reactions and adding them to the database like a left-wing Wikipedia editor going to town on Trump's page. Or maybe his staff has categorized these adverse reactions in such a way as to downplay them, and he doesn't want Kennedy coming in and examining the database for improprieties.
... During his Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy told lawmakers he is not "antivaccine." But since taking office, he's promised to "investigate" children's shots, and agencies under his watch have terminated vaccine-related research, canceled meetings of vaccine advisers and are poised to reinvestigate ties between vaccines and autism -- a link debunked long ago.Did "experts" debunk it? Because we all know that "experts" are always right and only act in the public interest.
... Marks is highly regarded by former FDA leaders and biotech industry executives, but his time at the agency was not without controversy. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was alternately criticized for being too slow -- under Trump-- and too fast -- under Biden-- to authorize new vaccines and boosters. Marks says he "tried everything" to work with Kennedy.Except, of course, actually obeying the orders of his boss. But apart from that -- he did everything. If this piece sounds a little fawning, that's because it's an AP propaganda piece. David Strom notes that the whole left is treating him as another Saint Anthony Fauci of the Blessed Furin Cleavage Site.
Obviously the people who hate RFK, Jr., Trump, or even just Republicans will cheer Marks on as if "The Science" means that you can do anything you want if you are a High Priest of the Dark Arts, but the reality is much more prosaic: RFK Jr. is the Senate-approved Cabinet Secretary and Marks had no right to deny him access to data just because Marks disagrees with him. ... In short, Marks invented a fear, based on something so implausible as to be fantasy--and refused to do his job. As for the "I don't trust them" excuse I say: none of us trust you, Marks, because of how mismanaged things have been. How many people know that the top two FDA vaccine officials resigned in protest over what they considered to be unsafe recommendations for COVID boosters? They did, and the media barely noticed. That was real, Marks' excuse is based on fantasies that he can read the minds of his bosses. Yet the media has turned him into a hero. Marks is proving RFK, Jr. right, at least in his suspicions that the people in charge don't want anyone to see the whole picture.
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@politicalmath I don't think journalists (and scientists) understand how damning this looks They think this makes Peter Marks a hero, but normal people look at this and say "why is the vaccine safety database off limits to the Secretary of Health?"
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Court Rejects Michael Mann's Request to Delay His Massive $530,000 Debt to National Review
He's now boo-hoo whinin' and cryin' that he can't pay right now. The court ordered him to pay up.
Climate Jive Turkey Michael Mann sued National Review for ten years claiming they defamed him by questioning Doctor Hockey Stick's alleged "science." He lost. Not only did he lose, but he presented misleading claims to the court to jack up the damages he was seeking, and, due to this misrepresentation, was ordered to pay National Review's legal bills.
He's now boo-hoo whinin' and cryin' that he can't pay right now. The court ordered him to pay up.
Court Delivers Massive Blow To Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics A Washington, D.C., court rejected University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann's bid to postpone his required payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to National Review on Thursday. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled in January that Mann owes National Review approximately $530,000 to cover the outlet's legal fees after spending more than a decade locked in defamation litigation against the organization, and Mann subsequently requested a stay to postpone the payments. On Thursday, the court denied Mann's request, meaning that he will likely have to pony up cash to an outlet he once described in emails as a "threat to our children."Your wife's children, maybe.
I'll tell you what's extraordinary -- getting cucked by the cucks at National Review. I don't know how that's even possible! Michael Mann is the George Conway of Rosie Ruizes.
... In a filing opposing National Review's request for compensation, Mann argued that the move was a "mean-spirited and unjustified request by a powerful organization" intending to intimidate and silence him. Notably, Judge Albert Irving wrote in March that Mann and his lawyers had presented misleading information to the jury while the defamation case was at trial. Specifically, Mann and his representation misled the jury as to how much grant funding he missed out on due to the actions of the defendants, a key element of his defamation case, with Irving describing the deception as "extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent."
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Supreme Court Reverses Lower Hawaiian Judge's Order to Re-Hire the Federal Layabouts Trump Fired
A wise man once said "Winning."
The headline is misleading. The Court did not rule on the final merits. Rather, it stayed yet another "emergency injunctive relief" order from a Hawaiian judge, in which the judge, yet again, said "Before we even hear the merits of this lawsuit, we're going to just go ahead and assume you're going to win at trial and we're going to order the government to re-hire you until the actual trial." The Supreme Court stayed that order, which means the federal "workers" are fired until some trial concludes that they must have Federal Jobs for Life.Nine "non-profit" organizations sued to reinstate the "workers." Note that the workers themselves didn't sue. I love that the "non-profits'" suit was thrown out for, get this, lack of standing.
The Supreme Court has halted an order by a superannuated, Clinton-appointed San Francisco judge that would have required the Trump administration to reinstate some 16,000 probationary employees it had fired from the Pentagon, the Treasury, and the Agriculture, Energy, Veterans Affairs, and Interior Departments. The order places the reinstatement on hiatus until the Supreme Court has a chance to rule on the issue, but things look grim for the Resistance. The vote was 6-2, with only hardened anti-Trumpers Sotomayor and Jackson voting to sustain the judge's order.
This case originated in March when the Office of Personnel Management issued an order directing agencies to terminate workers in term or probationary status. Somehow, this case ended up in San Francisco, which only has the most tenuous connection to any of the agencies named in the suit; see Federal Judge Orders Trump to Rehire Thousands of Fired Federal Workers -- RedState. One might suspect that judge shopping was going on.
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Stock Market Rallies, Regaining 3%
This might be based on hopes about countries negotiating away their own tariffs to get America to reduce its own. Seventy countries contacted the Trump Administration to bargain over the tariffs.
But I doubt they're serious at all about cutting their tariffs. I also don't think Trump actually wants to cut American tariffs, even in exchange for a reduction in world taiffs. He talks about re-industrializing the US and bringing the jobs back home. That doesn't happen if the world just lowers all of its tariffs. Trump's preference is a protectionist policy to rebuild American industry. Reducing the world's tariffs doesn't help protect American industry. So I don't think the seventy foreign countries are serious about reducing their own tariffs, and I also don't think Trump is particularly receptive to reducing American tariffs. He wants the tariffs. Some people who are pro-free-trade can buy into Trump's tariff policy because they think, or hope, that the endgame is Trump using the leverage of tariffs to get other countries to reduce theirs, thus resulting in a more free trade world. But I don't think Trump wants a more free trade world. I think he believes tariffs are a good in and of themselves, and not just a bargaining chip to bring about a global free trade zone. Whatever the case, the markets are rallying after yesterday's engineered panic.Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal U.S. STOCKS SURGE AS TRADE DEAL HOPES IGNITE MARKET RALLY Wall Street roared back this morning, with all 3 major indexes jumping more than 3% on optimism around new trade deals. The S&P 500 soared 3.2%, the Nasdaq surged 3.6%, and the Dow Jones exploded 3.4%--gaining over 1,300 points at the open. Investors cheered signs of progress in global trade negotiations, including major moves by the Trump administration to realign foreign trade with U.S. interests.
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal WALL STREET WHIPLASH: TARIFF FALLOUT FUELS HISTORIC VOLUME, FUTURES RALLY After Trump's surprise tariff rollout, the S&P 500 clocked its third straight loss, briefly dipping into bear territory with the highest trading volume in 18 years--29 billion shares. Yet Monday night, futures flipped green: Dow up 444 points, Nasdaq +1%. A false social media rumor of a tariff pause triggered intraday gains, quickly crushed by a White House denial. Treasury Secretary Bessent said talks could stretch until June. Recession fears remain as the 10-year yield tops 4%. Levi's earnings beat forecasts but warned of tariff impact. The Volatility Index spiked to 60. Market eyes now shift to CPI data later this week. Source: CNBC
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Huitres, coques et verre de vin blanc
Henry de Waroquier
Huitres, coques et verre de vin blanc
Henry de Waroquier
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