op ed review 12/12
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
I&I/TIPP Poll Stunner: Only 22% Of Americans Want Joe Biden To Run For President Again
Biden's infrastructure coordinator lists 'climate and equity' ahead of 'blue-collar jobs'
Productivity Crashes More Than Expected, Worst Decline Since 1960.
Joe Biden Abolishes 90 Percent of ICE's Deportations
White House Flags Art Industry for Money Laundering even as Hunter Sells to “Anonymous' Buyers”
Far-left House members push four-day workweek
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/far-left-house-members-push-four-day-workweek
Democrat Politicians Renew Calls to Pack the Supreme Court, Add More Liberal Judges
Zuckerberg-Backed Election Influence Group Founder Served At Chinese State-Funded Center Pushing Beijing Propaganda.
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/ctcl-founder-was-fellow-at-ccp-funded-ash-center/
Wisconsin hearing shows 119,283 “active voters” and hundreds of thousands more “inactive” voters who have been registered for over a century. 42,000 voters listed as “inactive” but somehow voted in the November 2020 election.
Border agents demoralized after Senate Democrats confirm controversial Biden CBP nominee:. Big fan of sanctuary cities. 'He's pretty much hated'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-agents-senate-democrats-biden-cbp-nominee-hated
Inflation Jumps to Highest Level in Nearly 40 Years
https://www.theepochtimes.com/inflation-jumps-to-highest-level-since-1982_4149910.html
Bidenflation: New Cars and Trucks See Biggest Price Hikes Since 1975, Used Car Prices Up 31%
Report: 60 Police Officers Shot, Killed this Year, Ambush Attacks Skyrocket
Rantz: Seattle leftie activists bail out homeless suspect in brutal eye gouging of cop
Brutal, brazen crimes shake L.A., leaving city at a crossroads
https://news.yahoo.com/brutal-brazen-crimes-shake-l-130048627.html
Savage’ Crimes No Longer Have Consequences — Civilization ‘Breaking Down’ in ‘Slow-Motion’
A dozen US cities set annual murder records
https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/a-dozen-us-cities-set-annual-murder-records/
Portland most deadly and violent year in history.
Portland residents warned of delayed responses to 911 calls amid record-breaking murder rate.
CEOs of Target, Best Buy, CVS and other retail chains ask Congress for help amid crime surge
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/business/retail-ceos-letter-to-congress-crime/index.html
Fox News Christmas tree arsonist back on the streets because of criminal justice reforms
Jussie Smollett Convicted 5 Of 6 Counts Of Orchestrating Fake Hate Crime, blaming Trump supporters.
Jussie Smollett's Race Hoax Joins a List of HUNDREDS of Other Fake 'Hate Crimes.' Here Are Just 8...
Biden and Harris redfaced after old tweets supporting Jussie Smollett resurface to light.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10289921/How-Jussie-Smolletts-lies-impacted-America.html
Latest Harvard-Harris poll: Trump leads Joe Biden 48 percent to 45 percent in a hypothetical rematch.
Trump Announces $1 Billion Investment in New Media And Technology Group
Guess Who Trump's 'Tax Cuts for the Rich' Benefited the Most
Matt Gaetz pushes for Trump to become Speaker of House, and it's possible if GOP wins midterms
Gorka '99.9%' sure Trump will run in '24 after visit: 'There's only one thing that will stop him'
Hispanic voters shift toward Republicans, now split evenly between both parties: poll
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hispanic-voters-poll-split-republicans-democrats
Arizona High School Halts Transgender Spirit Week After Parent Outcry
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott leads Beto O'Rourke by 15 points
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/12/08/q-poll-greg-abbott-leads-beto-orourke-by-15-points-n434142
'Let's Go, Brandon' boat wins - and then loses - holiday boat parade contest. “Overt political message”
Report: China Military Spending Surge -- Now 50% Larger than India, Japan, Taiwan, South-East Asia Combined
Pathetic MSNBC Journalist Downplays Bob Dole’s WWII Service Because He Endorsed Trump
Transgender UPenn swimmer smashes women’s records during weekend meets 14 SECONDS ahead of rival.
Pope Francis Urges Christians to never try to convert anyone to Christianity.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2021/12/03/pope-francis-urges-christians-to-never-proselytize/
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Caught Maskless Just Days After Discussion of Possible 'Permanent' State Mask Mandate
Rep. Massie shares Christmas photo of entire family holding guns, triggered left lose their minds
RINO Rep. Liz Cheney 18 points behind Trump Backed Harriet Hageman.
CA Schools: Dropping D, F Grades, everyone passes.
California's proposed woke math curriculum alarms mathematicians, scientists
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-woke-math-curriculum-alarms-mathematicians-scientists
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Why the Russiagate Scandal Outranks the Rest
J. Peder Zane 12/8
Russiagate is the biggest scandal in American history. Nothing comes close in size, scope or harm to the republic than the years-long effort to cripple Donald Trump’s presidency by claiming he conspired with an enemy state to steal the 2016 election and then do its bidding as commander-in-chief.
Its notorious predecessors – L’Affaire Lewinsky, Iran-Contra, Watergate, Teapot Dome, Crédit Mobilier, the XYZ Affair – involved relatively small numbers of malefactors engaged in specific acts of illegality and corruption (we still don’t know who, if anyone, planned the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol)
Russiagate, by contrast, is a vast conspiracy involving innumerable powerful forces, including the Democratic Party, NeverTrump Republicans, the Obama administration, the FBI, Department of Justice and the nation’s most prestigious news outlets. Where previous scandals often ended with public accountability for the perpetrators….Russiagate has produced no such reckoning.
Russiagate began with a kernel of truth: Someone – probably Russians, though we still don’t know for sure – hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s private server. Fearful of what might be released, the Clinton campaign tried to discredit any damaging material by raising dark questions about its source. (Joe Biden executed this same strategy to great effect when he falsely described the evidence of corruption found on his son Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation.”)
In response, the Clinton campaign financed an absurd collection of conspiracy theories involving peeing prostitutes and billion-dollar bribes, the so-called Steele dossier. Its importance cannot be overstated – it was the dossier that linked the Trump campaign to the hacking. No dossier, no collusion theory.
During the summer and fall of 2016, Hillary’s henchmen fed this preposterous concoction to Obama administration officials in the DOJ, FBI, CIA and State Department. Everyone knew it was a political operation: Declassified notes showed that then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama in July 2016 that Clinton planned to tie Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Clinton staffers – including Jake Sullivan, who now serves as Biden’s national security adviser – tried to interest the mainstream press in its scurrilous accusations, but got little traction because they could not be verified. Instead of laughing it all off as transparent campaign mud-slinging, however, the FBI joined the conspiracy. The bureau took the extreme step of opening a counter-intelligence probe into an ongoing presidential campaign – and its agents perjured themselves to obtain wire-tapping warrants….
Over the next few months and years, current and former officials illegally fed misleading classified material and partisan anonymous quotes to the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News and other sympathetic press outlets to advance the narrative. Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper became a constant presence on cable news, using the top-secret authority of their previous positions to assure the public that collusion was real – although in sworn testimony, Clapper admitted he had not seen such evidence. Congressional Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff – who falsely claimed to have seen “more than circumstantial evidence” of Trump/Russia collusion – amplified the smears.
The appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the fantasy in May 2017 fueled the fire. His effort became part of the scheme: He only looked for evidence that might implicate Trump, ignoring questions about who cooked up the conspiracy theory, how they disseminated it throughout the government and media, and the laws they might have broken in the process. Despite his best effort, Mueller said he’d found no evidence of collusion when he released his report in April 2019. That should have killed the conspiracy theory and – following the script of previous major scandals – sparked a period of reflection by the government, the media and the American people that asked: How did we get this so wrong?
Such a broad reckoning has not yet happened. DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2020 report detailing grave abuses in the FBI’s handling of the matter prompted little outcry and no sweeping reform. The recent indictments of Clinton-connected actors filed by Special Counsel John Durham – who is finally doing the work Mueller should have, exposing the malfeasance that actually transpired during the 2016 campaign – have, bizarrely, led partisans to minimize his findings and actually double-down on the debunked collusion narrative. Recent pieces in The Atlantic and New York Times, for example, suggest, without evidence, that “Mueller never definitively got to the bottom of what happened.”
….many news organizations have refused to correct documented errors in Trump/Russia coverage, including deeply flawed articles that were awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Leading peddlers of the hoax – including Brennan, Clapper, Pelosi, Schiff and Sullivan – have paid no price for their actions. To date, no one has conducted probing interviews with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama about their roles in the scandal.
Engineered by broad swaths of the government and media, the effort to paint a sitting president as a foreign agent alone makes Russiagate the worst scandal in American history. But it is this second, still ongoing phase – this willful effort to deny what happened, this refusal to hold the perpetrators accountable – that presents the most serious danger to our nation. If truth and justice don’t matter, what does?
Important read, you will be shocked to see what was in the DNC platform 20 years ago. “At the end of the day, the biggest problem we have as a nation today is that Americans of different ideological stripes don’t agree on anything of consequence anymore……If one side desperately wants capitalism, small government, free speech, freedom, low taxes, the Constitution, law and order, and a secure border while the other demands socialism, big government, censorship, government control, high taxes, a living constitution, lawlessness, and open borders, how do you bring them together? The reality is that you don’t. We’re in a situation where there can be no meaningful compromise because every single issue is a win/lose battle between two diametrically opposed value systems. When a marriage gets like this, they cite irreconcilable differences when they file for divorce. Unless something big changes in our culture, we’re likely to see our nation do the same thing for the same reasons…”
https://www.culturcidal.com/p/what-exactly-do-americans-have-in
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BOOKS
“I’m a voracious reader of Covid books but nothing could have prepared me for Scott Atlas’s “A Plague Upon Our House,” a full and mind-blowing account of the famed scientist’s personal experience with the Covid era and a luridly detailed account of his time at the White House. The book is hot fire, from page one to the last, and will permanently affect your view of not only this pandemic and the policy response but also the workings of public health in general.”
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
MSNBC’s Joy Reid Compares Trump To Hitler.
Who’s the party of hate? Young Democrats more likely to despise the other party. “37% would not be friends with (Republicans).”
https://www.axios.com/poll-political-polarization-students-a31e9888-9987-4715-9a2e-b5c448ed3e5a.html
In Germany you must be fully vaxxed before you may be euthanized. ????
National Education Association board member wishes death on those seeking exemptions from COVID mandates
Titleist blocks customers from personalizing golf balls with 'Let's Go Brandon'
USA Today Asks If 'Math Is Racist,'
https://neonnettle.com/news/17681-usa-today-asks-if-math-is-racist-twitter-takes-them-down
Wonder Woman “locks lips” with her superhero girlfriend in new DC Comics series.
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COVID
Dr. Ben Carson nails it on the suppression of existing therapies for COVID: Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
Yale epidemiologist says COVID-19 a Pandemic of Fear ‘Manufactured’ by Authorities.
European CDC: Out of hundreds of cases of Omicron here, not a single one involves severe illness
Reports Show Omicron Is the Least Severe Variant of COVID-19 Yet
So why all the fear? World Health Organization says No Deaths Reported as a Result of Omicron Variant to Date
https://m.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/no-confirmed-omicron-deaths-so-far-who-cdc_4150331.html
Hat tip to reader Judy: “Could OMICRON be the CURE for covid? Highly infectious strain with “mild” symptoms could deliver worldwide natural immunity and make vaccines obsolete”
Biden’s ‘Covid-19 Winter Plan’ Ignores Science
https://spectator.org/bidens-covid-19-winter-plan-ignores-science/
Effectiveness of the vaccines at preventing hospitalization from Covid drops after 120 days
Schools Misspent $190B in COVID Aid. “In Creston, Iowa, they expanded their sports stadium and they added bleachers for $231,000. At a school district in Kentucky, they actually replaced their track for a million dollars worth of this COVID spending aid..”
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ARTICLES
Prager. Why You Should Come Out of the Closet With Your Conservative Values
Latest Poll Numbers Spell Doom for Democrats — and Bust Some Narratives Along the Way
Democrats Realize They've Got No out for 2022
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/12/05/democrats-realize-theyve-got-no-out-for-2022-n487045
Widburg: “The nuclear family has always been the backbone of American liberty and prosperity. However, the latest information from the Census Bureau shows that the nuclear family, if not dead, is on life support. Only the smallest fraction of American children are being raised in traditional two-parent households.”
Lefties in a panic, the window for The Great 'Transition' is closing soon, must be imposed NOW.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/now-or-never-great-transition-must-be-imposed
Russia hoax whitewash era begins: “The Clinton presidential campaign’s fabrication of the Russia hoax is the dirtiest trick in American political history. Beginning with Glenn Simpson/Fusion GPS and the Perkins Coie law firm, it enlisted co-conspirators in the Obama Department of Justice, the FBI, and the mainstream media. The principals are not only still at large, they have achieved high office, wealth, riches, and Pulitzer Prizes. They will never be brought to justice. They won’t even break a sweat.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/russia-hoax-whitewash-era-begins-2.php
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SATIRE
Not Again: Smollett Claims He Was Assaulted By Two Prison Guards In MAGA Hats
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OTHER STUFF
New December Field Guide to Election Integrity (Rasmussen Report) “60% say preventing cheating is more important than making voting easier” “56% say cheating was likely in 2020 elections”
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1469354742828740617
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