op ed review 10/24
“Someone Reboot Him”: 8 Awkward Moments as Joe Biden Struggles Through CNN Town Hall
Joe appears to think he was Vice President for 36 years.
https://trendingpolitics.com/watch-biden-accidentally-says-he-was-vice-president-for-36-years/
Biden admits 'I don't have a near-term answer' for high gas prices. (His leftist supporters think high gas prices save the planet.)
https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/biden-admits-i-dont-have-a-near-term-answer-for-high-gas-prices/
Joe Biden: We Need More Moms in the Workforce to Compete Globally
State Dept: We know of 363 American citizens still abandoned in Afghanistan.
AG Garland Refuses DOJ Ethics Review, Claims Conflict of Interest Ethics Rules Do Not Apply to Biden Administration
State Department mocked for tweet about 'International Pronouns Day'
https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/state-department-mocked-for-tweet-about-international-pronouns-day/
White House Collaborated With School Board Group On Letter Comparing Parents To ‘Domestic Terrorists’
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/21/nsba-biden-white-house-letter-domestic-terrorists/
Economists say US has dipped into recession as worried consumers flash warning signs.
What separation of church and state? Hundreds of 'black churches' to be shown VP Harris video urging a vote for Democrat McAuliffe in Virginia.
Constitutional Scholar Says this is Blatant 'Violation of Federal Law'. Don’t expect action though.
Biden has largest decline in approval of any post-WWII president.
1.7M Border arrests have soared to all-time high, new CBP data shows.
Afghan Evacuee Charged with Rape in Montana, Governor Calls on Biden to Halt Resettlements
Rape suspect on Philadelphia train is illegal Congolese immigrant
Report: 'Caravana Madre' With 95,000 Migrants to March Through Mexico to US Starting This Saturday
Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night
https://nypost.com/2021/10/18/biden-secretly-flying-underage-migrants-into-ny-in-dead-of-night/
16K COVID-19 Positive Migrants Released into U.S. by ICE, Says Whistleblower
Poland Passes Law To Turn Away Migrants at Border and Build a Wall
Joe Biden Builds 'Wall' Around His Delaware Beach House, Makes America Pay for It.
Anti-gun actor Alec Baldwin shoots woman to death on movie set with loaded prop gun.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/antigun_actor_alec_baldwin_shot_a_woman_to_death.html
No, let's not be kind to Alec
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/no_lets_not_be_kind_to_alec.html
Baldwin tweet resurfaces: back in 2017, Baldwin excoriated a police officer for shooting a violent suspect.
Refund the police: Portland Mayor to rehire retired officers in effort to get shootings under control
Man Travels From Portland to DC to Kill Rep. Matt Gaetz, DOJ Yawns, refuses to arrest.
NYPD orders cops to stand down, allow junkies to shoot up in streets after decriminalization measure passes.
'Lady Trump' announces run for Nevada governor, turns heads with eye-popping campaign video.
Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene(R-GA) introduces Articles of Impeachment against Joe Biden.
China 'has tested TWO hypersonic orbital nukes capable of breaching missile defenses' as panicked analysts say it 'defies the laws of physics' and is unlike any weapon the US has.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10116479/China-tested-SECOND-hypersonic-orbital-nuke.html
Beijing mocks America saying their new 21,000mph nuclear-capable missile is 'a new blow to the US'
What climate change? China launches all out coal production campaign.
Fox News Poll: High concern over what schools are teaching
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/high-concern-schools-teaching
New Poll Shows Super Majority Of Republicans Have Made Their 2024 Choice
POLL: Biden’s Job Approval Rating Sinks To 37%
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/19/joe-biden-approval-rating-covid-19-afghanistan-quinnipiac/
Liz Cheney Goes Full Wack Job Conspiracy Theorist Over Capitol Riot
Washington State University fires football coach Nick Rolovich, 4 assistants for refusing state-mandated COVID-19 vaccine
'I’m fired': Washington’s ferry workers say lack of accommodations for vaccine exemptions is forcing them out
Dan Bongino threatens to quit Cumulus radio network over vaccine mandate
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/18/dan-bongino-threatens-quit-cumulus-radio-network-o/
Washington State Trooper Fired Over Vaxx-Mandate Signs Off with Epic Message for Jay Inslee
‘Sacrifice I’m Willing To Make’: Country Artist Cancels Concerts At Venues Requiring Masks, Vax Proof, Or COVID Tests
Delta Air Lines ditches 'divisive' vaccine mandate for employees
https://thepostmillennial.com/delta-air-lines-ditches-divisive-vaccine-mandate-for-employees
San Francisco Shuts Down In-N-Out Burger For Refusing to Be Vaccine Police
Justice Department to Request Supreme Court Block Texas Abortion Law
https://conservativebrief.com/scotus-rule-52973/
Texas passes bill to protect girls' sports
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-texas-passes-bill-to-protect-girls-sports
Obama apprenticeship program misspent $155M of $175M says Labor Dept. watchdog
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Victor Davis Hanson 10/20
Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?
Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months. Yet most Americans are arguing not over the sheer chaos and disasters of the Biden Administration, but rather how could such sheer pre-civilizational calamity occur in modern America? Were these disasters a result of historic incompetency? Or mean-spirited nihilism? Or a deliberate effort to create the necessary turbulence to birth a new American revolution? Or a bit of all three?
Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers, who are pulling the strings of the Biden marionette, see. Our catastrophes are their minor glitches. For them bad polling is mostly a public relations problem of an occasional uncooperative media. Otherwise, a few broken eggs are always necessary to create the perfect socialist omelet.
The Left now controlling Washington believes that the U.S. border is a mere construct. Every impoverished person has a birthright to cross into America illegally. The 2 million who are scheduled to enter this fiscal year alone is a wonderful, if occasionally sloppy, event. Our border calamity is their celebration of humanity and a long-overdue recalibration of ossified American demography, one that will properly warp the Electoral College to provide the necessary election result.
If you believe that a culturally imperialistic America needs to be taken down a notch overseas, then the flight from Afghanistan is “impressive” and a “success”—by how quickly and efficiently we skedaddled. Why worry about a lost $1 billion embassy, a $300 million refit of the Bagram airbase, or $80 billion lost in military hardware and training?
Empty shelves? Boohoo. Grasping, upper-middle-class consumers are angry that the working classes are not willing to risk COVID infection to supply them with their accustomed holiday trinkets. So, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg intoned that the shortages mean only that the consumer class has to wait a wee bit—until Christmas Eve—to splurge on gifts.
Who worries about a little inflation? Under new monetary theory, printing dollars brings prosperity. Or as White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain put it in a retweet, inflation is a mere “high class problem” of the Peloton elite. Only those with money worry their ill-begotten pile shrinks. But the majority without money will eventually rejoice that it is everywhere now—finally and properly “spread,” as former president and now multimillionaire Barack Obama once promised.
As AOC swore, gas and oil are going to be gone anyway in 10 years. So, if Joe Biden slashes over 2 million barrels a day in U.S. oil production, what’s wrong with that? Didn’t Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, long ago brag that when we hit $8-10 a gallon, we’d approach European levels of proper fuel usage? Why whine about paying over $100 to fill up, when the planet more quickly cools?
Did not Americans learn “critical legal theory” and “critical race theory”? Or as the architect of the “1619 Project” reminded us, destroying or taking someone’s property is no big deal. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey shrugged off torched downtown buildings; such torched stuff, he said, is mere “bricks and mortar.” It is only a crime to “steal” over $500 of needed merchandise from a Walgreens in San Francisco, because the rich who make such absurd laws never have to steal goods from a pharmacy shelf.
If racists wish to point out that African American male youths are disproportionately represented in the latest crime wave, then maybe America should be learning not to create the conditions that force them to break the law. In sum, we are on a left-wing roller coaster headed to a socialist nirvana.
Most Americans believe it is instead an out-of-control “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” nightmare with incompetents at the wheel. But the architects of such “hope and change” shrug that the occasional disturbing news that the media sometimes accidentally leaks out is merely the cost of an equitable America. One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice.
Keep that mentality in mind and the absurdities that are mouthed by Joe Biden, his advisor Ron Klain, press secretary Jen Psaki, Homeland “Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, or the ravings of the Squad, make perfect sense. They are merely trying to explain to us dummies that what we think is purgatory is actually the new paradise—a promised land that, once we are properly programmed and educated, we too will welcome and thank them for our deliverance.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/20/our-purgatory-is-their-nirvana/
A doctor writes: “I find myself in the position that I must use an alias for fear of reprisal….Doctors need to be called out. From early in the pandemic, it was like a mass hypnosis or forgetfulness of everything we had learned in medical school. Immune system knowledge was shelved and replaced by government dictates. The thought of early outpatient treatment with “off label” drugs that could modulate the immune system was forbidden. We essentially told patients that they had to go home and wait until they were sick enough to be hospitalized, then treatment would begin. Imagine telling all diabetics that there is no metformin, Glucophage, or insulin. Would we really wait until patients are in diabetic ketoacidosis, and then treat them only at the hospital? It is medical malfeasance of a grand scale…”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/physicians_and_the_vaccine_tyranny_.html
Charlie Hurt, Washington Times opinion editor, always lively writing: “…for all these wandering Obama zombies, they all went to bed with Barack Obama — only to wake up and realize they had actually spent the night with Joe Biden. And his diaper came loose in the bed. So now they are fumbling around, desperate to reignite the old magic of Hope and Change…”
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ISLAM
Taliban behead Afghan national girls' team volleyball player -- and post photos online
Under the Taliban, families in debt are forced to sell off their children.
But Biden State Department says meeting with senior Taliban leaders was 'candid and professional'
https://news.yahoo.com/state-department-says-meeting-senior-115349476.html
Ilhan Omar Introduces Bill to Create Special Envoy to Monitor "Islamophobia" Around the World
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
NCAA Task Force Pushes for Elimination of standardized test scores like SAT “to Advance Racial Equity”
Liberal journalists call for an end to journalistic fairness: Stop being critical of Biden and Democrats, treat Republicans harsher because “democracy is literally at stake!”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-reporters-promote-article-condemning-both-siderism
Megyn Kelly Says Her Son’s School Told Third Grade Boys About Taking Puberty Blockers So They Can Have Genitals ‘Chopped Off’
Hilarity Abounds: New National Park’s Woke 'Equity Language Guide'
DC Comics Employee Quits, Unloads on Company For ‘Ruining’ Superman
The Leftists' Bisexual, Self-Obsessed, Narcissistic Superman Is a Reflection of Themselves
George Soros gave $659k to the Loudoun County prosecutor who is trying to jail the father whose daughter was raped by a man wearing a skirt thanks to the transgender bathroom policy.
Secretary of State Blinken's Family Ties to George Soros Exposed
https://bongino.com/secretary-of-state-blinkens-family-ties-to-george-soros-exposed/
Introducing "The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros"
Phil Collins donates his 430-piece collection of Alamo battle artifacts to the State of Texas. “activists say the collection will only reinforce the idea of a heroic struggle between a handful of whites and a Mexican horde.” Can’t have that!
University of Oklahoma wants to hire a 'social justice' math professor
https://campusreform.org/article?id=18328
So now it's Thomas Jefferson's turn to get his statues toppled. “The little detail about Jefferson also being the author of the Declaration of Independence and a father of the Bill of Rights, not to mention an early public voice against slavery back when it was considered risky and radical to oppose that institution, are rather unimportant to them.”
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JAN 6
The DOJ has finally disgorged some exculpatory evidence about January 6
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COVID
Ivermectin: The Elephant in the Room “One of the discoverers of ivermectin, Satoshi Omura, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his accomplishment, reportedly approached Merck about conducting a large, rigorous trial of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID in Japan. Merck declined.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/ivermectin_the_elephant_in_the_room.html
Washington State suspends a physician assistant for prescribing ivermectin
India's Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
Conservative radio host Dennis Prager has tested positive for COVID-19, says he was unvaccinated and on a mix of drugs, including ivermectin, also said he wanted to contract COVID-19 to achieve natural immunity.
Florida covid cases are now among the lowest in the country. Crickets from the media.
Paypal closes account of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).
Study Published On NIH Website Finds 'No Discernable Relationship' Between Vaccine Status And COVID Cases, Says Infection Rate May Be Higher Among Fully Vaccinated
What’s going on here? “There Has (actually) Been No Mandatory Vaccination Executive Order”
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ARTICLES
Liberal Repellant: How to Keep Your Red State Red
https://thebluestateconservative.com/2021/10/23/liberal-repellant-how-to-keep-your-red-state-red/
Carol Roth: Our government's plan to make America socialist is working
Turley: Biden family corruption is an elephant the media works to 'disappear'
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-biden-corruption-media
61% Of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020? Who's greedy?
Under Biden, We’ve Gone From ‘Make America Great’ To ‘Lower Your Expectations’
Judge Jeanine dishes on who's really running the White House and all fingers point in one direction
Democrats Are Increasingly Freaking Out About 2022
U.N. Climate Summit: A Meaningless Meeting Of Useless People
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/10/19/u-n-climate-summit-a-meaningless-meeting-of-useless-people/
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SATIRE
Fauci Says Attacking Puppy Torture Is An Attack On Science
https://babylonbee.com/news/fauci-says-attacking-puppy-torture-is-an-attack-on-science
After Watching Biden Town Hall, President Xi Decides It's Time To Invade Taiwan
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-watching-biden-town-hall-china-decides-its-time-to-invade-taiwan
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OTHER STUFF
4 Scary Charts Show How Fast the Federal Government is Heading Toward Fiscal Disaster
Trump announces 'TRUTH Social' network will be rolled out first quarter of 2022
Viral video of marine veteran stopping an armed robbery at a Yuma AZ convenience store.
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/marine-veteran-disarms-robber-the-situation-had-to-be-dealt-with
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