op ed review 12/19
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Senate votes 50-49 to RAISE the debt ceiling by $2.5TRILLION
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10308961/Democrats-raise-debt-ceiling-2-5-TRILLION.html
Federal Debt Equals About $287,859 Per Income-Tax-Paying Household.
Connection maybe? U.S. Tied For Highest Inflation Of All The World’s Developed Nations
Boeing Has Suspended Its Vaccine Mandate
Amtrak SUSPENDS COVID vaccine mandate and no longer plans to cut service
Growing Number of Companies and Organizations Are Walking Back Vaccination Requirements
Naturally, Google doubles down: Will Fire All Unvaccinated Employees
Kroger to deny unvaccinated staff paid sick leave if they get COVID
Biden’s 'Build Back' Bill Adds 87,000 IRS Agents, Cuts Money for Hospitals in Red States: 'It's Mean-Spirited'
Biden jokes about inflation: ‘Gonna Cost Santa Some Money’ This Christmas
Where does he get these people? Biden's nominee for the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Senate "gender advisers" for combat troops are critical to the United States' success.
https://freebeacon.com/?p=1547040
Joe Biden Flying Illegal Aliens, Deported by Trump, Back to U.S.
Joe Biden Claims It's 'Patriotic' to Get Vaccinated.
Biden's New "Regressive" Methane Tax Will Raise Average American's Gas Bill By 17%
'Alarmingly incoherent': NYT's (!) columnist cites age, 'uneven' cognitive state, begs Biden not to run in '24
ACLU tears into Biden for 'shamefully playing politics' by walking AWAY from talks to give $450,000 settlements to separated illegal immigrants.
NYT confirms Ashley Biden diary is real – So what is the FBI Is Investigating? “... how the diary found its way into the hands of supporters of Mr. Trump..”
Buttigieg's husband mocks Biden admin restarting student loan payments next month: 'No thank you'
Mother and daughter killed in Texas by human smuggler with six illegals fleeing from police.
https://katv.com/news/nation-world/mom-daughter-killed-in-crash-with-alleged-human-smuggler
One night in Del Rio region, illegals from 39 countries caught.
Texas forced to build its own border wall, construction starts. Feds refuse to sell Texas the steel set aside for Trump’s wall.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-official-texas-border-wall-construction-begins
Drug overdose deaths top 100,000 annually for the first time, driven by fentanyl (across Mexican border originating from China), CDC data show.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/health/drug-overdose-deaths-record-high/index.html
Serves ‘em right: Salvation Army Faces Holiday Shortages After Telling White Donors to Face Their Racism
Mainstream Media Audience Crashes Up to 48% Without Trump’s Presidency
Homicide Records Broken In 12 Large Cities In 2021 - All Democrat-Run
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/homicide-records-broken-in-12-large-cities-in-2021-all-democrat-run/
Chicago police sergeant under investigation for allegedly supporting a proposed conservative group
San Francisco mayor suddenly gets law and order religion: By golly, what this city needs is "aggressive" policing instead of "bull****"
Seattle residents were elated when Republican Ann Davison was willfully elected in November to serve as the City Attorney. Now Seattle City Council has written a bill that would severely limit Davison's ability to make decisions and would require her to get approval from the progressive city council before prosecuting criminals. “..Council will decide which cases go to court”????Huh?
Elizabeth Warren calls for expansion of the Supreme Court
Elon Musk spars with 'Senator Karen' on Twitter
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/12/14/elon-musk-spars-with-senator-karen-on-twitter-n435512
Awash in illegal pot farms, Oregon plans millions for relief.
Portland gives $12 MILLION contract to social justice energy company headed by fraudster ex-convict.
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-gives-12-million-contract-to-social-justice-energy-company
FEMA administrator blames climate change for deadly tornado outbreak
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fema-administrator-blames-climate-change-for-deadly-tornado-outbreak
Experts Refute Claims Linking Deadly Tornadoes to Climate Change
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Blocks Bill Banning Products Made From Slave Labor In Communist China
They don’t even hide it anymore: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) ‘excited and proud’ to help Communist Party USA celebrate its 102nd anniversary
Trump-DeSantis in 2024? Former president suggests it’s a ticket that could work
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/trump-desantis-would-be-good-vice-president-me-2024
Rumble and Trump media group reveal details of new partnership
I&I/TIPP Poll: 60% Of Republicans Want Trump To Run In 2024; Just 37% Of Dems Want Biden To
Time Magazine Actually Rewards Its "Person of the Year" Award to Someone Who Deserves It
How Elon Musk Built His Fortune—And Became the Richest Private Citizen in the World.
Muscular unions in Democrat cities: 94 NYC Sanitation workers pushing yearly salaries to almost $300,000, $100K in overtime alone.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/12/94-nyc-sanitation-workers-net-100k-in-overtime/
California pays six figures to its “superintendent of equity” who lives and works in Philadelphia.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Looks Like Dissent Is No Longer The Highest Form Of Patriotism
Issues & Insights 12/16
Remember how, when Donald Trump was president, writing bogus attack pieces and talking endlessly about how he stole the 2016 election were all good for the country. Because, you know, dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Now, reporting undisputed facts that happen to be unflattering to the current president poses a grave threat to the survival of the nation. That’s what journalists are saying.
As President Joe Biden’s approval numbers continue to collapse, and polls – including the latest I&I/TIPP poll – find that Trump is more popular than Biden these days, some of the “truth to power” crowd are using their platforms to attack their fellow scribes for being “too negative” on Biden. The argument is that hurting Biden increases the chances that Trump, if he runs, could reclaim the White House in 2024, and that will be the end of democracy as we know it.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, for example, makes the (ludicrous and thoroughly debunked) claim that the media coverage of Biden has been more negative than it was in Trump’s last year in office, and then delivers this message: “My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.”
Yikes! Milbank works for the paper, by the way, that adopted the motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness” in 2017 as a thumb in the eye of Trump. Milbank’s anti-journalist diatribe didn’t raise a peep of protest from his colleagues. It did, however, warm hearts in the Biden administration. Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, promoted the column on Twitter, with the caption “submitted for your consideration.” Other White House officials also touted the piece.
Dan Kennedy makes the same argument on WGBH.org: “Large swaths of the media simply cannot or will not move beyond both-sides journalism, equating the frustratingly hapless Democrats with a Republican Party that has embraced authoritarianism and voter suppression.”…..Dozens of liberal groups joined in, sending a letter to their media friends telling them to: “swiftly address your role in promoting this widespread, destructive pattern of reporting. Not only is it doing harm to our democracy, but it is also harming your reputation as journalists.”
Harming their reputation? Is that even possible? In any case, let’s see if we can understand this line of reasoning: The press spent four years debasing itself with wildly misreported anti-Trump stories that then forced some outlets to issue an endless number of embarrassing corrections. They did this expressly because they wanted to subvert the will of the people and drive Trump from office. That was called protecting democracy.
Now they say that, should reporters honestly report the facts about the border crisis, the supply chain crisis, spiraling inflation, the Afghanistan debacle, the endless COVID mandates, increased Chinese and Russian aggression – to say nothing of the fact that Biden is responsible for all of them – those reporters are posing a deadly threat to democracy, because by doing so they are driving down Biden’s popularity.
And we can’t have Biden look bad because that could help Trump win back the presidency (assuming he even runs and gets the GOP nomination). And if Trump were to legitimately win the 2024 election (which would have to be the case because the left keeps telling us that voter fraud is a myth), then that will be tantamount to a coup because, well, because … because … Orange Man Bad! Is your head spinning yet?
What You Must Believe as an American in 2021
As far as I can tell, this is what we are now supposed to believe as Americans, in this first year of the Glorious Deep State's Blessed and Eternal Reign: Our country is so irredeemably racist that people of all races keep sneaking into the United States at breakneck speeds. Our military is so well prepared for future threats from China and Russia that it can dedicate its resources to spreading transgenderism through its ranks, pontificating about "white rage" at book clubs, firing servicemembers for not "vaxxing up," and challenging "climate change" to bouts of fisticuffs. Our border is so secure that we have time to worry about Ukraine's. China is so worrisome a global adversary that our political and business "elites" continue to transfer American wealth and manufacturing capabilities to its shores. Russia is so much of a geopolitical foe that our government's weather warriors have chosen to kill America's domestic energy production and increase Russia's leverage over the world's supply of oil and natural gas. And Iran, which continues to promise "death to Israel," must be coddled and rewarded before it hurts our friends.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/what_you_must_believe_as_an_american_in_2021.html
America’s Real Authoritarians: “No group is more in need of self-examination, and maybe some professional help, than America’s angry left.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/12/17/americas-real-authoritarians/
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BOOKS
Fox News husband and wife duo “All American Christmas” #1 NYT Best-Seller, bumps “1619 project”
Interesting review:: “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/can_anything_good_come_from_a_kennedy.html
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ISLAM
“A Danish Heroine Goes to Prison For rescuing the child brides of Muslim immigrants.” “One of the many appalling challenges that have confronted Western European authorities since mass Muslim immigration began several decades ago is the arrival of adult - often elderly - men with underaged girls whom they identify as their wives. Such marriages, of course, are not just permitted but encouraged under Islam. Muslims are taught to look in all things, big and small, to the example of their prophet, and they all know that one of the treasures of Muhammed’s harem - often described as his most beloved wife - was Aisha, whom he wed when she was six and deflowered when she was nine.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/12/danish-heroine-goes-prison-bruce-bawer/
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
LA Schools Host LGBT Club For 4-Year-Olds, Teach 'Two Spirit' Sexuality
Proposal for taxpayers to pay expenses for out-of-state abortions in California.
How George Soros funded progressive DAs behind US crime surge
https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progressive-das-behind-us-crime-surge/
Democrat-Run Cities With Soros-Backed DAs Are Watching Crime Spiral Out Control.
The Real War on Women Is From the Left
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/the-real-war-on-women-is-from-the-left.php
Black Lives Matter Activists Tell Students Misogyny, White Supremacy And Capitalism Are To Blame For Their Problems
Hillary Clinton: If Trump Wins in 2024, It 'Could Be the End of Our Democracy'
Too many white people attending campus concerts says Oberlin College newspaper.
S.F. becomes first city to require sick leave for nannies, cleaners
Progressives Are Using Black Americans to Experiment With Communism
https://www.newsweek.com/progressives-are-using-black-americans-experiment-communism-opinion-1659774
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COVID
Japan's health ministry officially warns of myocarditis heart inflammation as a side-effect of Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines
The Unholy Nexus Impeding Pandemic-Origin Probe “So, you find these scientists who said in early 2018, 'I'm going to put horns on horses,' and at the end of 2019, a unicorn turns up in Wuhan city.'”
https://tippinsights.com/the-unholy-nexus-impeding-pandemic-origin-probe/
CDC Director says it's 'probably true' that we’re going to have to live with COVID.
https://thepostmillennial.com/cdc-director-probably-true-covid-isnt-going-anywhere
Virginia Hospital Found In Contempt Of Court, Subject To $10k Per Day Fines After Denying Patient Ivermectin
Ivermectin prophylaxis used for COVID-19 reduces COVID-19 infection and mortality rates: A 220,517-subject, populational-level retrospective citywide.
Two Common Over-the-Counter Compounds Reduce COVID-19 Virus Replication by 99% in Early Testing
Pandemic Lockdowns Fueled Massive Rise in Gaming and Addiction, Experts Say
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JAN 6
Long deep dive into what actually happened on Jan 6. “Meet Ray Epps, Part 2” Very strange behavior by FBI.
https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 committee: What kind of mendacious operation is this?
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ARTICLES
America’s Real Authoritarians
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/12/17/americas-real-authoritarians/
Donald Trump, the Right President at the Right Time
Panic Hits Meet The Press as They Contemplate Collective Media's Inability to Destroy Donald Trump and Manipulate Public Opinion
Those Dirty, Racist Electric Vehicles
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/12/14/those-dirty-racist-electric-vehicles/
Even CNN: Devastation Awaits Democrats in 2022 Midterms
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/13/cnn-devastation-awaits-democrats-in-2022-midterms/
A California mom describes how her teen daughter's 'transgender fantasy' was fueled by social media
A Compendium Of Hate Crime Hoaxes: Jussie Smollett’s Was Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
How Amazon Crushes Small Business - The American Conservative
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-amazon-crushes-small-business/
Out of Africa Come Republicans
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/out_of_africa_come_republicans.html
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SATIRE
Army And Navy Both Forfeit Football Game, Leave Billions Worth Of Equipment On The Field
Salvation Army No Longer Accepting Bills Or Coins With White People On Them
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OTHER STUFF
Hat tip to reader Lois: Welcome to Christmas in Seattle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnRLSYM9j4
5 Things to Know About The James Webb Space Telescope Before It Launches
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