op ed review 12/27
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump Gives Update on Fight Against Democrat Voter Fraud in Statement From White House
???? President Trump says he wants a lawyer to probe "election theft," but the president's leading candidate, Sidney Powell, says she has been barred from the White House by the president's own chief of staff. “….insiders opposed her appointment, sometimes shouting defiantly at the president. Powell's on-the-record account reveals a White House riven by internal feuding, and a growing divide between the president's most senior staff and his most devoted outside supporters.”
Sidney Powell Releases 270 Page Document on Massive 2020 Election Fraud Involving Foreign Interference
New Legal Memo Giving Trump Supporters Hope on Christmas Eve
Mike Pence is being held out as the potential savior of a fair election
Conservative Legal Team Sues Mike Pence, Demands He Reject Unconstitutional Electoral College Slates
More GOP Lawmakers Back Electoral College Challenge
https://www.theepochtimes.com/more-gop-lawmakers-backing-electoral-college-challenge_3629226.html
But Mitch McConnell anxious to throw in the towel and work with Biden Administration; “Will Reach Out to Senator-Elect Tommy Tuberville and Urge Him To Turn His Back on Trump in Electoral College Vote”
Democrat Whistleblower Alleges That Massive Voter Fraud Operation Was Run By Biden Campaign’s Political Director
“The Smartest Man in the World” - IQ 200 - Is Convinced The U.S. Election Was Stolen.
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Atkinson: 2020 Election Screaming Red Flags That Deserved Criminal Inquiry
Poll: Dead Heat in Georgia Senate Runoff
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/21/poll-dead-heat-in-georgia-senate-runoff/
Bodycam shows ex-wife of Georgia Dem Senate candidate Raphael Warnock telling cops he hit her as he drove off with their kids. She says she has kept 'the way he acts a secret for a long time'
House Votes on 5,600 Page Pork-Filled COVID Package No-One Has Read, McConnell Wants Unanimous Consent
Michelle Malkin: “This country is not governed by a "Republican Party" and a "Democratic Party." It is governed by an establishment "uniparty" that betrays our citizens at every turn. Exhibit A: The joint annual ritual of fiscal vulgarity known as the omnibus spending bill…The juxtaposition of measly COVID-19 relief for U.S. citizens against the backdrop of lavish aid for illegal immigrants, the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, overseas social justice warriors, nongovernmental organizations and foreign countries is just too brazen to ignore.”
https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin/12/20/the-abominable-america-last-porkulus
$750M on Border Security for Middle East Countries
Billions Going to Foreign Aid in Bill: Gender Programs in Pakistan
Hundreds of Millions in Aid to Palestinians
Gift to Hollywood studios: makes illegal streaming a felony with up to 10-year prison sentence.
The Only Thing Missing From This Absolute Cluster of a 'COVID Relief' Bill Is $ for Shrimp on a Treadmill. Trump Should Veto It.
Meanwhile, China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting recoveries of the two countries from the COVID-19. (was COVID really an accident?)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-economy-idUSKBN29000C
Dizzying 27 alternate pronouns displayed on college business school application — along with an 'other' option
Obama Judge Orders Video Journalists to Pay $13.6 M to Planned Parenthood.
The New York Times continues its reporting blackout on ties between Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and suspected Chinese Communist spy Christine Fang — not reporting on those ties for two weeks after they came to light. Swalwell sits on the House Intelligence Committee.
President Trump Pardons 4 American Heroes Persecuted by Biden
Adios, California: Rose Bowl college football play-off game moves to Texas
Twitter Censored Trump and Campaign 543 Times, But Never Biden
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute of Economic Research, 11/22
The phrase “fog of war” is attributed to Carl von Clausewitz. It has come to refer to the confusion and uncertainty felt by everyone in the midst of conflict. It is often unclear who is making decisions and why, and what the relationships are between the strategies and the goals. Even the rationale can become elusive as frustration and disorientation displace clarity and rationality. In 2020, we’ve experienced the fog of disease mitigation.
The initial round of lockdowns was not about suppressing the virus but slowing it for one reason: to preserve hospital capacity. Whether and to what extent the “curve” was actually flattened will probably be debated for years but back then there was no question of extinguishing the virus. The volume of the curves, tall and quick or short and long, was the same either way. People were going to get the bug until the bug burns out (herd immunity).
Gradually, and sometimes almost imperceptibly, the rationale for the lockdowns changed. Curve flattening became an end in itself, apart from hospital capacity…Schools closed, commercial rights were vanquished, shelter-in-place orders from wartime were imposed, travel nearly stopped, all large events were cancelled, and so on. Clearly there needed to be a good, solid, science-based reason for why the politicians and their advisers had, on their own, decided to take away much of what we once regarded as human rights…….Asymptomatic spread was the answer given to the great question: I’m not sick so why should I have to be locked down? Why are we quarantining the healthy? And what possibly could it mean, in any case, to be sick without symptoms? Why are half the PCR-positive tests assigned to people who otherwise seem to be perfectly fine? All these valid questions came to be answered by this one phrase: asymptomatic spread. You might not feel sick. You might not ever have symptoms from SARS-CoV-2. Still, you could be an even worse super spreader without knowing it, infecting people all around you who will carry it to people who will die from the disease. This was also the moment when, subtly and imperceptibly, we were being asked to think of our fellow citizens not as human beings with dignity and rights but pathogen-carrying disease vectors. We had to be masked, all of us, because we are secretly filthy and unclean: we cannot be allowed to breath near others, so even with a mask we must stay 6 feet away….
On June 7, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, told a press conference that from the known research, asymptomatic spread was “very rare.” “From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.” She added for emphasis: “It’s very rare.” There was an understandable explosion of fury on all sides. People against lockdowns were screaming all over Twitter that if this is true, the rationale for the lockdowns mostly disappears. We can go back to our normal lives. We can open up everything again!
I wrote at the time: “What this suggests, of course, is that there is nothing mysteriously magical or insidious about this new virus. It behaves like the viruses that scientists have been studying for one hundred years. What we do with a normal virus is be careful around others when we have symptoms. We don’t cough and sneeze on people and generally stay home if we are sick. That’s how it’s always been. You don’t need a lockdown to achieve that; you just proceed with life as normal, treating the sick and otherwise not disrupting life. If that is the case with this one, everything we’ve done over the months – the mask wearing, the grasshopper dance not to be next to people, the canceling of everything, the wild paranoia and premodern confusions – has been a calamitous and destructive waste of time, energy, and money.”
On the other side, there was the predictably pro-lockdown mainstream media which decried her heresy. The cry was so loud that the WHO immediately started walking back the claim…….Following that, the question seemed to fade. We went back to assuming that potentially everyone had a disease, enabling fellow citizens to become virtuous enforcers of mask wearing, staying home, and separating, screaming and yelling at others for failing to comply. The science on the question was unsettled, we were told, so let us go back to wrecking life as we once knew it.
The fog of disease mitigation, indeed. But as with most of the “science” throughout this ordeal, it eventually came to be revealed that good sense and rationality would prevail over implausible claims and predictions that led to experiments in social control without any precedent. In this case, the carrier of rationality is a gigantic study conducted in Wuhan, China, of 10 million people. The article appears in Nature Communications, published November 20, 2020.
The conclusion is NOT that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare. Forget even Fauci’s previous suggestion that asymptomatic transmission exists but not does drive the spread. Replace all that with: never. At least not in this study for 10,000,000. “Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020……All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) (were tested)……300 asymptomatic cases…were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases.”
One might suppose that this would be huge news. It would allow us to open up everything immediately. With the whole basis for post-curve-flattening lockdowns crumbled, we could go back to living a normal life. The fear could evaporate. We could take comfort in our normal intuition that healthy people can get out and about with no risk to others. We could take off our masks. We could go to movies and sports events……
We keep hearing about how we should follow the science. The claim is tired by now. We know what’s really happening. The lockdown lobby ignores whatever contradicts their narrative, preferring unverified anecdotes over an actual scientific study of 10 million residents in what was the world’s first major hotspot for the disease we are trying to manage. You would expect this study to be massive international news. So far as I can tell, it is being ignored.
With solid evidence that asymptomatic spread is nonsense, we have to ask: who is making decisions and why? Again, this brings me back to the metaphor of fog. We are all experiencing confusion and uncertainty over the precise relationship between the strategies and the goals of panoply of regulations and stringencies all around us. Even the rationale has become elusive – even refuted –as frustration and disorientation have displaced what we vaguely recall as clarity and rationality of daily life.
https://www.aier.org/article/asymptomatic-spread-revisited/
Yes, It Was a Stolen Election
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/yes-it-was-stolen-election-john-perazzo/
The bizarre world in which we now find ourselves. It is as if criminals had broken into your house, while you were home, in broad daylight, and begun loading up your valuable belongings in a rented truck parked in your driveway. You immediately pick up the phone and dial 911. "911. What is your emergency?" "I'm being robbed." "Do you have any evidence of that?" "Yes! I'm looking right at the robbers." ”…are other possible explanations for what is going on." "What other possible explanation could there be? You can actually see them robbing my house." "Has any court ruled that they are doing that?"…..Just then, one of the robbers hears what you said and takes the phone from your hand. "Hello," he says. Then, "No, we're not robbing this guy's house. He's just a sore loser." He gives you back the phone. "This is 911 again. He denies that he is robbing your house." "But you can plainly see him." "Sir, there are laws against robbing houses. And you have no evidence of widespread house-robbing." The police finally show up, and you say, "These guys are robbing my house." "Can you prove that?" "Prove it? Has everyone gone crazy?" "Now hold on there, fella. Are you casting doubt on the integrity of the legal process? How do I know these are not movers, and that you're not just a sore loser?"
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/how_would_you_prove_youre_getting_robbed.html
'Simple Math' Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Dark Money Behemoth That Hosts BLM Foundation Received $16 Million in Government Grants
Davos 2021 to feature 'Great Reset' of capitalism
https://www.wnd.com/2020/12/davos-2021-feature-great-reset-capitalism/
“The reimagined police as servants of the left” Antifa and BLM were allowed to destroy huge swaths of many cities across America, rioting with impunity using firearms, bats, bricks, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, fists, and just about anything you can use to destroy property and physically harm people. On the other hand, a group of Oregonians were barred from entering a public place to protest lockdowns that are destroying people's lives…….the left creates an environment that locks us out of power and silences our voice. All the while, they accuse us of being "extremists" and "terrorists" even though we're peaceful, law-abiding citizens.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/the_reimagined_police_as_servants_of_the_left.html
The IT Department at The University of Michigan has identified a list of words and phrases that need to be expunged from the dictionary: “Crack the whip” “Master/slave”, “grandfathered”, “blacklist”, “brown-bag”, “long time, no see”, “low man on the totem pole”, even “picnic”.
Mayor De Blasio to destroy New York's top public schools to run an experiment in diversity.
Washington Post gaslighting: “Denying Election Results Is like Denying Holocaust”
'Sinister' plan circulating in left-wing circles: Strip accreditation from religious schools that don't comply with progressive policies
https://www.theblaze.com/news/strip-accreditation-religious-schools
'Vote Reparations': Law School Prof Says Black Ballots Should Count Twice
https://trendingpolitics.com/vote-reparations-law-school-prof-says-black-ballots-should-count-twice/
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COVID
World Health Organization deletes “herd immunity” from its website because that’s not the goal anymore.
https://www.aier.org/article/who-deletes-naturally-acquired-immunity-from-its-website/
San Francisco: Drug Overdoses Have Killed Four Times More People Than COVID
COVID-19 Study of Almost Ten Million Finds No Evidence of Asymptomatic Spread. Here’s the study.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
Oregon Doctor's License Suspended for Attending Trump Rally and not wearing mask in his office.
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ARTICLES
“Billionaire financier Charles Koch abandoned the Republican Party in the age of President Donald Trump, but he has returned on a white horse following the disputed election to preach the globalist cosmopolitan doctrines that previously had turned the GOP into a national laughingstock. Koch penned an op-ed for CNN last week in which he urged Republicans to support amnesty for illegal aliens. He framed it as if allowing illegal immigrants to break the law is the “one thing we should all agree on” across the political spectrum……The Koch effort will be bolstered by organizations like the compromised Heritage Foundation, the moribund Chamber of Commerce, and the cancerous American Enterprise Institute in an attempt to turn the dial back to Bush-era Republicanism. We cannot let these oligarchs compel our national suicide to boost the gross domestic product. We are a nation, we are a people, and we must give no quarter to the enemy within.”
https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/25/vulturous-charles-koch-re-emerges-to-oppose-trumps-gop-influence/
Pat Buchanan: Are 'Never Trumpers' the Future of the GOP? “….not only are the reports of the death of Trumpism premature, the probability is that Trumpism has put down roots in our national politics that are not soon, if ever, going to be pulled up.”
Charlie Kirk: Conservative Movement Is Now Corporate-Skeptic, Pro-Worker
How Joe lost the Latino and Asian vote to Trump
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9087535/How-Joe-lost-Latino-Asian-vote-Trump.html
Is Our Government Totally Broken? COVID 'Relief' Bill Strongly Suggests Yes. Yes, It Is Broken.
“If today’s poisonous cancel culture is ever to be remedied, the cause must be understood. When deliberating the origin, most just point to America’s universities and say, “they did it.” And, clearly, that’s where the programming occurs, but it doesn’t explain why. Selwyn Duke recently noted that vanguard leftists have “indoctrinated the young in schools to transform them into foot soldiers in the leftist campaign of civilizational rape.” Those foot soldiers are today’s cancel culture warriors. But why did old-time educators morph into purveyors of cancel culture hate? How did it happen? The Vietnam War did it. Or, more precisely, the campus antiwar activities did.”
Prager: The Sovietization of California
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2020/12/22/the-sovietization-of-california-n2581951
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