https://pjmedia.com/election/
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What I find so funny is Democrats who testified before Congress are now saying they would not have done what they already knew they were doing, ie signing a false document that they knew was false because they were involved in assuring it was false so they could spy on and defeat Trump.
It is like a bank robber who had the key to the vault saying he would never have stolen the money had he known he had the key.
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The Windy City just blew it again:
Chicago Raises Bridges, Shuts Down Mass Transit After Explosive Night Of Riots, Looting
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We all make mistakes, but this is a whopper, suggesting the column went straight to press unseen by an editor. Note subsequent correction.
Think about this:
We elected a President who puts America First so America could be great again.
The reason this will not happen is not because Trump has failed in his goal.
I believe it is because Americans no longer think of themselves first as proud Americans. Far too often,being American comes second or third. They are more interested . in "group" thinking. They are BLM's first, they are not males and females, they are LBG's etc. first. IAs long as we persist in doing this Democrats might be comforted but we will remain a Dis-United States and the winner will be our adversaries.
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The New York Times might be the first publishing outlet to create sensitivity commissars empowered to spike conservative thought crimes, but it won’t be the last.
The newsroom revolt that followed The New York Times publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., about using troops to end rioting and looting in American cities was a turning point in the newspaper’s history. That incident was crucial in determining that leftist journalists would enforce groupthink policies, silencing conservative viewpoints. Their victory was sealed weeks later, when the NewsGuild of New York, the union that represents Times employees, issued a set of demands.
The manifesto claimed to be about “diversity, equity and inclusion.” The union’s diktat mandated hard racial quotas that would go far beyond the paper’s long-standing affirmative action policies to increase the number of select racial groups the Times hired, adding new layers to the paper’s existing efforts to increase race-conscious employment.
In a move that would ensure the end of ideological diversity at The New York Times, the manifesto also called for a new step in the editorial process before any article — news, feature, or opinion — is published. The Times already employs an army of editors, yet should publisher Arthur G. Sulzberger heed the union’s memo — and it’s hard to imagine he won’t — all articles will undergo “sensitivity readings,” in which a new class of editor will enforce the same kind of intolerance demanded by the newsroom mob against Cotton’s ideas.
Their demands will become official policy, rather than a loose understanding that occasionally allows dissent against leftist orthodoxy to slip into the paper. This will be a seismic shift in the culture of publishing.
‘Civil War’ Within The New York Times
The anger the Cotton op-ed generated in the newsroom not only confirmed what former Times staffer Bari Weiss called a “civil war” raging there between younger leftists and older liberals who still believe the newspaper is a place open to diverse ideas rather than a place to enforce woke orthodoxy. It also demonstrated that Sulzberger is not really in control.
Both Sulzberger and then-opinion editor James Bennet initially defended the decision to accept the Cotton article. Within days, however, an avalanche of tweets from leftist journalists about Sulzberger’s advocacy for action to end the violence unleashed by the Black Lives Matter movement caused the publisher to back down and denounce the decision to run the article. Bennet soon resigned and was effectively replaced by someone with a mandate to make sure no more conservative heresies will be published.
The revolt over Cotton’s article was successful not just because it mobilized a newsroom that was overwhelmingly sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement. Sulzberger was intimidated because the storm of staffer tweets about the issue was framed in the language of human resources handbooks. Those angry at Cotton didn’t merely disagree with his policy recommendation. They uniformly spoke of it “endangering the safety” of black staffers.
The notion that all black people or any racial group would be specifically endangered by troops halting riots, which was universally mischaracterized as a call for “fascism,” is an insult to African-Americans. The point of this language, however, was to invoke workplace safety worries about “hostile environments,” originally intended to protect employees against actual racism or sexual harassment.
Deploying it as part of an effort to silence a prominent U.S. senator or anyone who might agree with him was a brilliant strategy. It led to a purge of the opinion section. Liberals who hoped the section could be a universally respected forum rather than becoming, like the rest of the paper, a leftist organ that editorializes in nearly every article and headline in nearly every department, including sports and the arts, were out of touch with most New York Times staffers.
Goodbye to Conservative Thought
Adding editorial “sensitivity” readings will make it effectively impossible for anyone at the Times to sneak in any idea, even in an op-ed, that causes leftists to feel “unsafe” because it challenges their pre-existing biases and assumptions. While Sulzberger couldn’t stand up to the newsroom mob about the Cotton op-ed, the sensitivity editors will make such controversies impossible. With a new class of woke official, empowered to veto the judgment of other editors and reporters and acting as a commissar to ensure fidelity to leftist sensitivities, any potential conservative dissent will never see the light of day.
The union’s demands for racial hiring quotas that require that the newsroom population resemble that of New York City, with blacks and Hispanics becoming a mandatory majority, is part of the same strategy, which will phase out the aging liberal veteran journalists about which Weiss wrote. Having a whole class of sensitivity commissars empowered to expunge all ideas that make left-wingers feel “unsafe,” however, will make what was once merely a common assumption a permanent policy.
The dwindling band of anti-Trump former conservative columnists at the New York Times — no one on staff shares the opinions of approximately half the country who are actual conservatives — might continue to hold their jobs. But their ability to write about ideas where they do dissent from leftist orthodoxy will be further chilled. Liberal editors will, with Bennet’s example in mind, be even less likely to think of running something that might anger the leftist mob.
What happens at the Times might not matter to most Americans. Most conservatives, like most liberals, now only read, listen to, and watch media where they can expect to agree with the content. But anyone who thinks these demands will not be echoed at daily newspapers and local and national broadcast outlets elsewhere doesn’t understand the culture of contemporary journalism. The New York Times might be the first publishing outlet to create sensitivity commissars empowered to spike conservative thought crimes, but it won’t be the last.
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Not sure I am in agreement with this article but wanted to post so you can decide. From my perspective, Sweden is a small, more or less, historically monolithic nation until it allowed a swarm of Muslims to enter. I believe the author is comparing oranges and prunes.
Lockdowns Never Again: Sweden Was Right, and We Were Wrong
BLM protesters take over liberal neighborhood, awaken residents in middle of the night with homophobic slurs
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Not sure I am in agreement with this article but wanted to post so you can decide. From my perspective, Sweden is a small, more or less, historically monolithic nation until it allowed a swarm of Muslims to enter. I believe the author is comparing oranges and prunes.
Lockdowns Never Again: Sweden Was Right, and We Were Wrong
By William Sullivan, AMER THINKER
In life, we encounter things which may work in theory, but not in practice. Communism is famously one of those things. Time travel is another. With any luck, Americans will soon come to realize that strict social distancing, economic lockdowns, and mask-wearing all belong in that category of supposedly sound ideas that simply don’t work in reality.
For evidence, let’s look to Sweden. As Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, an ER doctor at a hospital in Stockholm, writes on his blog, “COVID is over in Sweden. People have gone back to their normal lives and barely anyone is getting infected anymore.”
Unlike so many other countries, “Sweden never went into complete lockdown,” Dr. Kendrick writes. Non-essential businesses remained open, people continued frequenting restaurants, the kids stayed in school, and “very few people have bothered with face masks.”
Basically, Sweden did the exact opposite of what most Americans tragically still believe are the necessary requirements to reach the outcome that Sweden has achieved.
He argues what should now be obvious to any rational, thinking person, which is that “the size of the response in most of the world (not including Sweden) has been totally disproportionate to the threat.”
Naysayers may point to Sweden’s mortality rate to discount its success. But the virus has taken nearly 6,000 people in a country of 10 million, and one which tallies about 100,000 annual deaths each year. Given that 70 percent of those who died with COVID were over the age of 80 and very unhealthy, he argues, “quite a few of those 6,000 would have died this year anyway,” making COVID a “mere blip in terms of its effect on mortality.” And, while Sweden will likely continue to see deaths from COVID, it will likely never see anything close to those numbers again. The large number of deaths can be clearly attributed to a “complete lack of any immunity” to this novel coronavirus.
A few months ago, Dr. Kendrick says that “practically everyone who was tested had COVID,” even if the presenting symptom was a “nose bleed” or “stomach pain.” Today, he reports that he hasn’t seen a COVID patient in over a month, and even when he tests patients with fever or cough, the “tests invariably come back as negative.”
To be clear, Sweden’s economy is wide open. No one is social distancing or wearing a ridiculous mask. Life is back to normal, and the infection rate is still falling. It’s pretty safe to say the population in Sweden has now built some level of immunity to the virus, and all signs indeed point to the pandemic being over in Sweden.
What is the obvious takeaway from this? Perhaps Dr. Kendrick sums it up best, saying that he is “willing to bet that the countries that have shut down completely will see rates spike when they open up. If that is the case, then there won’t have been any point in shutting down in the first place.”
In other words, all of the lockdowns will have been meaningless.
But we were assured that the lockdowns, the distancing, the masks, all of it, would absolutely work, because science (Science!) suggested that these are the only things that could work.
But how strong was the scientific evidence to support our government making us lab rats in its experimental and unprecedentedly oppressive response to this virus?
To answer that, we’ll look to Alex Berenson, who, in my opinion, is nothing short of a national hero for his honest reporting throughout the pandemic. It often serves as a counterbalance to the panic porn preferred by the media, and I could not more highly recommend following his wonderful Twitter feed. In Part 2 of his book series, Unreported Truths About COVID-19 and Lockdowns, he reminds his leaders that lockdowns, complete with the economic disruption and social distancing required, aren’t some tried and true means of slowing the spread of a virus in a pandemic. “The idea of using lockdowns to slow epidemics took off in 2006,” Berenson writes. In the aftermath of an avian flu scare in 2005, President Bush “asked for research on slowing epidemics.”
I wish what follows was a joke or some conspiracy theory, but it’s not. The idea was the brainchild of the 14-year-old daughter of a computer scientist named Robert Glass. She “created a model of the way social distancing might slow the spread of the flu,” and this was expanded upon by her father in a “simulation “proving” lockdowns could reduce an influenza epidemic in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people by 90 percent.”
In 2007, predicated upon the strength of the simulated results, the CDC issued new guidance to “reduce transmission, from “voluntary isolation of ill adults” to “reducing density in public transit.”
This was the moment, according to the New York Times, when Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions, or NPIs, became “official US policy,” thus presenting the 2020 lockdowns as just an example of long-standing procedures, and totally understandable policymaking.
Berenson explodes that absurd contention:
Crucially, [the 2007 CDC paper] also contained a “Pandemic Severity Index” that included five categories. On the low end, Category 1 represented a normal flu season, which might kill up to 90,000 Americans. On the high end, a Category 5 pandemic, like the Spanish flu, would kill at least 1.8 million Americans.Based on the CDC’s scall, Sars-Cov-2 almost certainly should be classified as a Category 2 epidemic, meaning it will cause between 90,000 and 450,000 deaths. For an epidemic like that, the CDC merely said governments should consider school closures of less than four weeks, along with moderate efforts to reduce contacts among adults, such as telecommuting.The prospect of closing all retail stores or offices is not even mentioned in the paper, not even for the most severe epidemics. (emphasis added)
In short, it was a high school sophomore who initially dreamt up the modern notion of lockdowns and social distancing. Her computer scientist father then created a compelling simulation involving 10,000 hypothetical people enduring a pandemic, and the CDC applied the hypothesis by creating some new interventions, though even those interventions certainly did not include recommendations for an economic lockdown, stay-at-home orders, or mask mandates.
In other words, the effectiveness of economic and social lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, or mask mandates had all only worked in theory before 2020, but had never been shown to be effective in practice.
But based on the foundation of that little girl and her father’s hypothetical experiment and the theory that followed, more than 300 million real Americans in 2020 have endured the economic hardship, social unrest, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and increased substance abuse, suicide, and crime that the lockdowns have produced in reality.
And in terms of the national morale, it couldn’t be more obvious that the social fabric is being torn apart.
The very-likely useless rags that people are wearing over their faces serve as a constant reminder to Americans that their neighbors are little more than vectors for disease transmission.
Teachers in America, who often have endured no pay interruption, incredible job security, and inflation-proof pensions, are now telling their communities that they shouldn’t be expected to return to their workplace, even as many members of their own communities are praying that they can return to work soon and pay their bills.
Families who have lost loved ones have had to forego funerary services due to social distancing protocol and churches are closed by government decree, obviously liberty-infringing rules that didn’t seem to apply when throngs of mourners gathered in churches to honor deceased Democrat John Lewis.
How could we expect this do anything other than sow animus and resentment in our communities across America?
And we are enduring all of this because of a belief that it is theoretically possible to achieve what Sweden has achieved by enduring none of it in reality.
Very likely, America will join Sweden in building immunities and being past COVID-19 sometime in the coming months, though we will have paid a much, much higher price to have achieved that goal. We should all hope and pray that Americans will look back to the public policy reaction to this pandemic and recognize it as the colossal mistake that it has been. And, if we are wise, we will commit to never, ever doing anything like it again.
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Finally:
Biden not only rides a bike he also drives around in his Corvette.
Biden not only rides a bike he also drives around in his Corvette.
Guess it proves his eyesight is ok.
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