Thursday, January 28, 2021

Big Tech Censorship War. Post Trump Era. Israeli Scientists Claim Cancer Breakthrough. When A Tree Falls In The Forest... Biden's Rule of Law. We Remember.




















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In most cases technology freed us. New technology now enslaves us.


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You decide:

This Is How the Left's Power Structure Collapses
By David Prentice  - American thinker 
 

Weeks ago, Rush Limbaugh mentioned that the issues defining the election had not come forward yet.  He was correct.  Not entirely, because all the issues coming out right now have existed.  In plain sight.

They just weren't distilled yet.

It's now here, served up on a silver platter.  No, not Hunter Biden.  This Hunter Biden laptop story simply leads us to the issue.  The word.  One word that rules them all, and in the darkness binds them.

Corruption.

There it is.  That's the issue.  To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden.  They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years.  The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars.  How is this possible on his salary?  It's not.  So where did his wealth come from?  Not from being a brilliant businessman.

Enter Hunter's laptop.  We now know that this is a family steeped in crime and corruption.  Ole Corn Pop appears to be awash in money kicked back to him by his family members who have grifted off his reputation for years.  Hunter's laptop has betrayed all this and more.  Much like Al Capone's bookkeeper.  Who would have thought Capone would have been destroyed so completely by a set of crooked books?  Such delicious irony.  And who would have known that this would become the October surprise of all October surprises?

Corruption.  Full grown.  Oozing its way into America.  It's everywhere on the left.  The Biden
  family.  Clintons.  The Democratic Party.  The FBI.  The CIA.  The mainstream media.  The tech giants.  It's a full-out plague, aided and abetted by their demonic philosophy, all of them gone astray.

All of them corrupt.

The New York Post story has been there for about a week now.  The Democrat-media complex has ignored it entirely; the tech giants went into overdrive removing all evidence from their
  platforms.  Google.  Facebook.  Twitter.  Instagram.  The whole lot of them.  Covering up a story that deserved universal distribution and condemnation.  Instead, they covered up the most damning story to their side, their chosen side.  All of them colluded to bury this mounting evidence of wrongdoing.
How far the mighty have fallen.  And are falling.

What's the word for a media establishment that won't report this story?

What's the word for the FBI having this laptop for almost a year, watching dispassionately as the Democrats impeached Trump with hard evidence in their hands of his innocence and the Bidens' guilt?
What's the word for the above group of bad actors colluding to forward the Russia lies for almost three years?
What's the word for Director Wray's involvement?

What's the word for CIA director not releasing documents of the Russia hoax, documents that have been available for a long time?

What's the all-encompassing word that has been revealed at the heart of all these colluding to hide the truth from an America that deserves to know?

Corruption.

This is an issue that won't go away.  All the attempts to deep-six the truth here are failing, and miserably at that.  It's causing a slow-walk of information to drip out to the American public.  First the stories of Ukraine.  Drip-drip-drip.  Then the stories of drugs.  Then the sex problems.  Then the Chinese stories.  The story of kickbacks to Pop.
It's as if all the smartest people in the world colluded to destroy themselves.  By purposefully and unanimously excluding all information concerning this story from the American public.  The smartest people in the world actually believe they can be successful in spiking one of the biggest stories to pop up in any American election cycle.  Their hubris is so advanced, so viral, so awful, that they can't see what they've done to themselves.  They really believe they are going to keep a cork on this.

The derogatory phrase for the establishment has been "the swamp."  How bad is this, how deep is this, how criminal is this, how horrifying is it to find out the vast amount of corruption and collusion in so many of our institutions and corporations?

It's staggering.  It's infuriating.

These are the most powerful among us.  All rich.  All corrupt.  All once respected by Americans of all stripes.  And here, in one fell swoop, they reveal themselves to the average American.  As arrogant bullies, as deceitful liars, as evil as anything we've seen in our generation.  They have revealed themselves as the cabal of darkness.  Terrible motives, terrible actions, virtually unforgiveable in what they have done, and yet failed to finish.  And due to the hubris of the cabal, the exposé will be slow-walked until the election.

Today, Trump had an exchange with reporters, where he said, "Biden was a criminal."

This shocked the corrupt media.  Reverberations rocked the corrupto-sphere.  The lion had roared.  There is no way the corrupto-sphere keeps this lid on.  There is also no way all these corrupt actors go back on their solemn pledge to one another.  They are bound together.  They're stuck with each other.  And it will overwhelm them.

As this careens into the debate, as this careens into voting, as this careens into Election Day, the ultimate narrative will be set.  The doomsday clock will start.  All the corrupt actors will be pointed out.  All of them will rue the day they couldn't get rid of Donald Trump.  He, above most anyone, knows just how corrupt these people are.  He above anyone knows how to handle them.  He, above all, knows what's all coming out in the next weeks.

It's going to be an avalanche of material.  It's going to be a number of fires even Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, the DNC, the Bidens, the media, the corrupt government officials, the whole shooting match, will not be able to handle.  If they all overtly held emergency meetings with each other, they'd never stop the flood.  When Trump roared, you know he had one of his famous moments, that moment when he knows how and when to bring this to a head.  Trump the narrative-builder, Trump the destroyer will be unleashing hell on these people.

Anyone who has seen him operate knows.  This is his time.  This is how the beginning of the end of the swamp, or should I say the sewer, begins.  This is the kind of chaos these smartest people in the world, ever, haven't seen before.  Algorithms will not help them.  Censorship will not help them.  It will be a rushing mighty wind, coming to destroy all those who didn't understand that their corruption could be turned on them.

This is going to be epic.  Corruption will be their end; it's just a matter of time.  And Trump will have four years to finish their corruption.

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Post Trump Era Begins:


The 'After Trump' Era Begins


By Victor Davis Hanson

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Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then, mysteriously, it wasn't. Then, stranger still, it appeared -- a few days after Election Day.

Suddenly, after Joe Biden's inauguration, Illinois, Michigan and other blue states eased some of their lockdown restrictions to get their economies back on track despite little change in COVID-19 rates.

During the Trump Age, the president was supposedly responsible for every death from COVID-19. Now, the media reports that career scientists and health administrators in the federal government, especially at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were largely to blame for past slow testing, and were tardy and lax in apprising the nation of the infectious threat.

The Biden campaign's widely reported promises of a new, superior COVID-19 plan turned out to be more of the same old, same old from the Trump Age.

Biden did mandate the wearing of masks on all federal property. But he then immediately undermined his own order during the first few hours on the job by going mask-less during a photo op at the Lincoln Memorial.

Stranger still, President Biden announced during his first few hours in office: "There's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months."

For the first time, we now learn that there is "nothing" Biden can do about COVID-19?

Despite millions of vaccine doses being produced when he entered office, Biden went on to warn that many more Americans will die in the next few months -- more than 600,000 COVID-19 fatalities in total. The watchdog media just shrugged.

Coincidentally, after weeks of disastrous state incompetence in getting residents vaccinated, Amazon has told the new administration that it will lend its infrastructure and organization to speed up vaccinations. If Amazon could announce that in late January, why not weeks earlier?

Speaking of Amazon, it is opposing mail-in ballots for its own employees voting on whether to unionize a warehouse in Alabama. Amazon says it's worried about fraud. Yet Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post, which ridiculed those who were concerned about massive mail-in voting in the 2020 election.

Coincidently, with the inauguration of a new president, "nonpartisan" COVID-19 czar Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, now suddenly accuses his former boss, Donald Trump, of ignoring his wise counsel.

But for all of 2020, Fauci had been a master of the "noble lie" -- the Platonic idea that government elites should deliberately misinform the supposedly less intelligent people for their own good.

Fauci gave conflicting assessments on mask-wearing, on the percentages needed to achieve herd immunity, and on the impossibility of the virus having originated in a Wuhan laboratory. He claimed that he offered false or unproven narratives to avoid panic, or to encourage Americans to follow his correct policies.

In the new age, expect the media and government to suddenly resent any mention of pushback against a sitting president. Questions about the Biden family's past multimillion-dollar influence peddling overseas or Biden's cognitive ability can no longer be asked.

If the Republicans win the House of Representatives in 2022 and follow the new Democratic model of impeaching a first-term president without a special counsel report, it will be called a national disgrace.

Even worse, we will be told, would be the reckless mention of the 25th Amendment. The very suggestion of removing an elected president due to supposed cognitive challenges will become abhorrent.

For that matter, so too would be the appointment of any special counsel. Why waste two years, $35 million and dozens of lawyers to harass a sitting president with unfounded charges of Ukrainian or Chinese "collusion"?

In our brave new world, we will hear no more retired military officers weighing in on the "fascism" of the commander in chief.

None will compare the recurring violence of antifa or Black Lives Matter to that of Islamic terrorists. None will compare Biden, who dismissed antifa as a mere "idea," to Mussolini or the Nazis. Any retired officer who smears the president, we will be reminded, would violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood, top retired military brass, corporate America, universities and professional sports are all recalibrating the truth for our Year One.

In about a month, they will have it down. And soon, we won't even be able to tell the old reality from the new. 

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Keep those marshmallows coming:


The trick Biden’s press sec uses to avoid answering tough questions

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Have Israeli scientists made a cancer breakthrough?


Israeli scientists say they’ve found ‘Achilles’ heel’ of cancer cells

Breakthrough study unveils vulnerability of malignant cells with high degree of chromosomal instability and could lead to new treatments.

A tray containing cancer cells sits on an optical microscope in the Nanomedicine Lab at UCL's School of Pharmacy in London May 2, 2013. (photo credit: REUTERS/SUZANNE PLUNKETT)

A team of researchers led by scientists at Tel Aviv University say they may have stumbled upon the “Achilles’ heel” of cancer cells, which could in the future lead to the development of an entirely new array of cancer drugs and treatments.

For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org

Dr. Uri Ben-David of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, who led the research, told The Media Line that scientists have known for well over a century that malignant cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes. Humans have 46 chromosomes (two sets of 23) but in cancer this number changes because, during cell division, chromosome segregation takes place that can lead to a phenomenon called aneuploidy. Aneuploidy, the presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell, not only causes common genetic disorders but is also a hallmark of cancer cells. Not all cancers exhibit aneuploidy, but roughly 90% of solid tumors and 75% of blood cancers do, to a certain degree.

According to Ben-David, the findings open up an entirely new avenue for medical research.

“For decades, we’ve been trying to understand why [aneuploidy] happens in cancer and how it contributes to tumor formation and progression,” Ben-David said. More importantly, he said, scientists have been trying to see “if we can take advantage of this quite unique difference between cancer cells and normal cells in order to selectively kill the cancer cells.”

The study, which was published in the scientific journal Nature and whose findings were released Wednesday, was conducted in Ben-David’s laboratory at Tel Aviv University in collaboration with six laboratories in four other countries – the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.“The overall vision here is that by understanding how aneuploid cells are different from normal cells, and detecting the Achilles’ heel of aneuploid cells, this could be a very attractive way to selectively kill cancer cells,” Ben-David said.  

In the study, researchers took about 1,000 cancer cell cultures from patients and looked at them in a lab using advanced bioinformatic methods in order to quantify their degree of aneuploidy, from most aneuploidy to least aneuploidy. After the cancer cells’ degree of chromosomal instability was ascertained, the scientists then examined and compared their sensitivity to thousands of drugs.

Scientists found that aneuploid cancer cells were highly sensitive to the perturbation of the mitotic checkpoint — a so-called cellular mechanism which ensures proper separation of chromosomes during cell division.

“That enabled us to identify unique vulnerabilities of the aneuploid cells that we went on and characterized in depth at the molecular and cellular level,” Ben-David said. “We found that if you inhibit the proteins of these pathways, the aneuploid cells are more sensitive to this interference than normal cells … therefore, they make for attractive targets for drug discovery and drug development.”

The research has important implications for future cancer treatments and personalized medicine. At the moment, several drugs that inhibit or delay the separation of chromosomes are in clinical trials but researchers have been unable to identify which patients would respond to them or not. Ben-David’s study suggests that aneuploidy could help scientists determine an individual’s response to these drugs.

Furthermore, honing in on these chromosomal abnormalities also could lead to the development of more effective cancer treatments in the future, since doctors could test for aneuploidy and craft a treatment accordingly.

Dr. Yael Cohen-Sharir, of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, is the lead author of the study. Cohen-Sharir, who manages Ben-David’s lab, called the research groundbreaking.

“Aneuploidy is very, very difficult to study,” she told The Media Line. “It affects so many genes at once.”   

Cohen-Sharir emphasized that the current study was carried out on cells in culture and not on actual tumors, and that further follow-up research needs to be done. The next step for researchers, she said, is to attempt to replicate the findings on mice.

As for Ben-David, he is optimistic that harnessing the unique characteristics of aneuploidy could eventually lead to the Holy Grail of cancer research: finding a way to kill malignant cells without harming healthy cells in the body.

“Killing cancer cells is very easy: You can pour bleach on them and they will die, but the hard part is to do it without killing normal cells,” he said.

Ben-David says that, as far as he knows, this is the first time that aneuploidy was systematically evaluated in human cancer cells. “This is why it’s a major breakthrough,” he said.

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When a tree falls in the forest and you are not there to hear does it make a noise?


When a riot takes place and the mass media does not wish to report on it in order to help Democrats does it actually take place?  


When my kids were young and had something in their hand by tightening their fist, when I asked what it was, did that make it disappear?


I submit, denial and hypocrisy are two words that are overworked when it comes to politics.  Corrupt politicians believe if they deny something and lie about it will disappear.  Often they are able to keep the public from knowing for a while, often a long while. That is why these same politicians want to destroy our democracy so they can operate knowing they have reduced, if not eliminated entirely, the prospect of getting caught. That is what back rooms are for and  what Democrats are all about and even, on occasion, Republicans indulge in this game. 


This is where Americans have been brought and it is a very dangerous moment for those who believe transparency is the best cleaning agent.  If it is allowed and the Hawley's, Rubio's, Haley's, Cruz's, Kennedy's et. al do not prevail and the Pelosi's, Schumer's. Schiff's, Nadler's, Water's, Obama's, Rice's , Biden , Brennan's et. al. prevail our republic is finished.


There are those who will accuse me of not including Trump in the mix but he was one of the most open presidents we have had in recent memory. He loved to come before the mass media and wrestle with them.  He worked within the parameters of the Constitution unlike Obama who sought to skirt the law at every opportunity and corrupted government agencies in order to turn them on his enemies.


If Biden, Rice and Kamala believe they can govern through hiding because the mass media will shield them they may succeed but the republic will not.  Stay tuned and watch at your peril. 


If Biden believes ignoring rioting and the rule of law is going to bring unity he truly is dumb.  Furthermore, he just said he is going to increase jobs long term  by eliminating them short term. Perhaps but it will also have a negative impact on the economy and, along with is spending, will surely ruin the dollar, raise inflation and interest rates and kill Trump's Golden Goose. When it comes to the manic rush to embrace Climate Change, rejoin The Paris Accords and attack those who ask questions about "green science" our production costs will rise and we will outprice ourselves. What is the economic trade off or does that matter?


Yes climate changes and mankind impacts his environment. Scientific evidence is worthwhile but so is proof  it is accurate and truly to be believed.  This is where it breaks down because if you do not accept what liberals say you are either a racist, a white supremacist or some other tagged evil being. Thus, they can justify taking away free speech and why de-programming is the only solution.  This is why I fear liberals more than COVID. How can you become inoculated from them?


When you substitute emotion for reason you wind up doing dumb things and this is what Democrats are known for. Time and again, because of their emotional penchant for change, they come up with ideas that are insane and yet they pursue them through legislation which results in the opposite of what they seek and is destructive. God save me from the "do gooder's."



Joe Biden’s Rule of Law Problem

Without resistance, the U.S. is tipping toward the mob style in politics—on the left and right.

By Daniel Henninger

 

Wonder Land: Public and political condemnation of the Capitol riot is virtually universal, and rightly so. But why does condemnation of the violence committed during the summer's Black Lives Matter protests remain selective, at best. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kell


The Capitol occupation and riot of Jan. 6 will haunt American political life for years. Condemnation of the invasion of the Capitol is virtually universal, as is support for prosecuting those arrested inside.

By contrast, condemnation of the violence committed during the summer’s Black Lives Matter protests remains selective. Prosecutions for crimes against property or assaults on police are minimal. Last week, New York state Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department for violating “individuals’ basic right to peacefully protest.”

The press is now doing long takeouts on right-wing militias, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists such as QAnon. That’s fine by me. These nuts should be locked up if convicted of crimes.

Meanwhile, the continuing and quite shocking anarchist, left-wing violence in Seattle and Portland, Ore., is inside-page news, if it’s reported at all.

 At the White House Tuesday, President Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, was asked whether a federal intelligence-agency review of the Capitol occupiers would extend to the Portland rioters. She said that “all violence happening around the country will be reviewed.” Next question.

Amid 2020’s turbulence, I still think one of the most troublesome political events was that no speaker at the Democratic National Convention mentioned, much less criticized, the violence and looting in numerous U.S. cities.

It is naive and dangerous for the press and responsible political leaders—whether Joe BidenKamala Harris or Donald Trump —to think that closing their eyes to lawlessness won’t break down broader respect for the rule of law itself, assuming that still matters.

If you still need a cold-water bath to wake up to where this is going, it is this quotation in a Journal article about police and military veterans involved in the Capitol invasion. Jacob Fracker, a cop from Virginia, defended himself on Facebook —after his arrest:

“I can protest for what I believe in and still support your protest for what you believe in.” 

In other words: Both sides now believe that no matter what they do, they should be able to get away with it. You rationalized your criminality during the summer as politically justified, and so we will rationalize ours for the same reason.

The highbrow explanation for staying quiet about the crimes committed this summer is that the greater moral need is elevating public consciousness about systemic racism, which requires defending at all costs, including looking away from the flames.

In a system that claims to be governed by equality before the law, a bedrock measure of even-handedness should be the reality of prosecution for crimes committed. The Capitol invaders face the likelihood of felony charges, while most of those arrested this summer in hundreds of violent protests were charged with misdemeanors, such as violating curfews.

One purpose of prosecution is that otherwise, you “get away with it.” This isn’t just a social observation. Letting off people arrested for clear crimes has become public policy—known as “restorative justice”—in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and other progressive cities, where arguably this is what the voting public wants.

Only inside the cult of critical race theory can a public confused about the content of justice be a good thing. If prosecutors in major cities are dumbing down violent crime, what is the point of giving the system respect? One feels foolish for doing so. The police on the beat have already defaulted to that conclusion.

Slippery slope is a cliché, but a colleague once noted that phrases become clichés because they are true. This is a slippery slope. Instead of respect for the rule of law, the majority develops contempt for the rules. Sometime soon, we may tip toward what one might call the mob style in American politics and not just among anarchists. If justice is biased, well, you do what you gotta do. Law-abiding parents thinking they had to bribe coaches to get their children into college were a portent.

Adrian Diaz, Seattle’s new police chief, said Saturday that protesters who vandalize private property will be arrested and prosecuted. But there is no evidence that City Attorney Pete Holmes will prosecute them for much of anything.

Mr. Diaz replaced Carmen Best, who resigned when Seattle’s City Council abandoned the cops and effectively embraced the mobs. Mr. Diaz, may be the final test of whether equality before the law is officially moribund.

Mr. Trump never spoke forcefully enough against the violence below the surface on his side. At her White House news conference Monday, Ms. Psaki did say Mr. Biden condemns the Seattle violence. But sentiment isn’t enough.

At one of Mr. Biden’s executive-order signings, a reporter should ask the president whose side he’s on in Seattle—Chief Diaz, who wants the book thrown at protesters who commit crimes, or City Attorney Holmes, who just won’t do it. One might even say this is one of those presidency-defining lines in the sand.

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Is Biden turning The White House into the home of "the whopper?"

Watch: Biden May Have Just Made One of His Most Ridiculous Comments Yet About Climate Change

President Joe Biden had a busy first week in office.

Along with the myriad other awful executive orders, the new president successfully made women less safe in restrooms, made the country’s borders less secure and single-handedly killed 8,000 union jobs — and that was just his first day in office.

Now a full week into his presidency, Biden wants to eliminate more jobs with his climate change executive orders while claiming to actually create them (it’s confusing unless you accept the simple fact that he’s lying).


Biden spun this tale while making remarks at the White House on Wednesday before signing away America’s energy independence with such actions as eliminating new gas and oil leases on federal land and killing subsidies for fossil fuel companies.

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While playing on climate change hysteria and promising good things to come, Biden outlined plans that mostly seemed designed to tear down the legacy of his predecessor and implement far-left climate policies through executive fiat.

“Today is climate day at the White House, which means today is jobs day at the White House,” Biden said about another theme day where he’d sign orders to ravage a particular aspect of national interest.

“We’re talking about American innovation. American products, American labor,” he said. While it’s true, it’s not in the way he means.

“In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can’t wait any longer,” the president said. “We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones. And it’s time to act.”

Biden went on with the usual talking points of blaming climate change for wildfires, hurricanes and other naturally occurring disasters to sufficiently set the stage for a crisis that can somehow only be solved by suppressing the economy and leaving thousands of Americans out of work.

“When we think of climate change, this is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths, where dealing with this existential threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one and the same,” Biden said.

“When I think of climate change and the answers to it, I think of jobs,” he went on, gilding the lily by adding these would be “good-paying union” jobs (perhaps like the ones he already eliminated?).

Those jobs would include tasks like installing 500,000 charging stations for electric cars, replacing gas-powered cars with electric models for the federal fleet, building 1.5 million new energy-efficient public housing units and essentially digging ditches by paying people to fill in existing oil wells.

Biden promised America would churn out new green technology to replace fossil fuels.

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“We need engineers to design them and workers to manufacture them. We need ironworkers and welders to install them,” he said.

“Technologies they invent, design and build will ultimately become cheaper than any other kind of energy, helping us dramatically expand our economy and create more jobs and a cleaner, cleaner environment. We will become the world’s largest exporter of those technologies, creating even more jobs,” he said.

Many who have watched the Biden administration buddy up to America’s enemies while killing existing jobs were rightly skeptical of these promises.

“I’m gonna summarize this clip of Biden talking about workers in one sentence: We’re going to create jobs because we’re eliminating jobs,” Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck tweeted.

“You’re the only one,” Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe tweeted about Biden’s relating climate change policy to new jobs.

“Says the man who just eliminated thousands of jobs in the name of ‘climate change,'” author Matthew Betley quipped.

“Tell that to the union & skilled trades workers who’ve already been laid off,” Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana tweeted.

“Tell that to the families who are now wondering how they’re going to put food on the table and pay their bills.”

“Unacceptable,” he wrote.

The fact of the matter is that even if Biden is right about all of these new jobs that could be created, an entire workforce will need new skills and retraining — a fact that the career politician had already dismissed when he cavalierly advised coal miners to “learn to program” when their jobs get eliminated.

It’s unconscionable that he made this promise when his executive orders already killed thousands of actual jobs that he now wishes to replace with a promise of new jobs not yet created.

Biden has glommed onto the radical left’s idea of electric cars whizzing past fields of solar panels in a future utopia while ignoring the reality that the nation still relies on the tough men and women who pull the stuff that fuels the world out of the earth.

The new president has no interest in building back better as his slogan promises but rather tearing down an industry many Americans already rely on for their livelihoods.

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Curtis Houck: I'm gonna summarize this clip of Biden talking about workers in one sentence: We're going to create jobs because we're eliminating jobs.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1354501992698277891

Then we come to one of the biggest crooks and liars of all:

Cuomo Accused by own Attorney General of Massively Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths

A shocking new report issued by the New York Attorney General is now accusing Governor Cuomo of purposely undercounting nursing home coronavirus deaths, by as much as 50 percent.

The report indicates that how the misreporting was done was by not counting the deaths of patients that were transferred to the hospital from nursing homes.

As The New York Times reports:

The count of deaths in state nursing homes has been a source of controversy for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state Health Department officials, who have been sensitive to any suggestion that they played any role in the number of nursing home deaths, which the state put at more than 8,500.

They have also been accused of obscuring a more accurate estimate of nursing home deaths, because the state only counted deaths at the actual facilities, rather than including deaths of residents who were transferred to a hospital and died there…

In one instance, an unnamed facility reported 11 confirmed and presumed deaths to the Health Department as happening on site through early August. The attorney general’s survey of that same facility, however, found 40 deaths, including 27 at the home and 13 in hospitals.

“Preliminary data obtained by O.A.G. suggests that many nursing home residents died from Covid-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in D.O.H.’s published total nursing home death data,” a summary of the report’s findings reads.

Cuomo has consistently come under fire for his decision in March of 2020 to allow Covid infected individuals to be transferred and house at nursing homes in spite of the near certainty that these individuals would spread the disease to extremely high risk populations.

In spite of this, in the past Cuomo repeatedly attempted to blame then President Trump for Coronavirus deaths

And:

The Two-Track Jobs Recovery

Job losses in 2020 were far higher in states that loved lockdowns.

By The Editorial Board

Recall the political panic after the Labor Department reported 140,000 job losses in December? Well, the government’s state employment report released Tuesday shows those losses were largely related to state lockdowns, and jobs are rebounding rapidly in less restrictive states.

Despite the virus surge, employment increased in 15 states last month including Texas (64,200), Georgia (44,700), North Carolina (33,600), Wisconsin (15,100) and South Carolina (14,600). But these gains were more than offset by losses in Michigan (-64,400), California (-52,200), Minnesota (-49,800), Pennsylvania (-37,600) and New York (-37,200).

Democratic governors of the latter states shut down indoor dining (and outdoors in California), so not surprisingly nearly all of their job losses were in leisure and hospitality. Yet most states added jobs across industries, especially trade and transportation, and some including Georgia and Texas even added thousands in leisure and hospitality.

This underlines that the economy and jobs were recovering in most states before Congress passed its $900 billion relief bill and Joe Biden became President. The states that are struggling most imposed excessive business shutdowns, which didn’t control the virus any better than states that allowed business to operate with social distancing.

 Note the nearby table that shows 10 states with the largest employment declines from December 2019 to December 2020: Hawaii (-13.8%) has suffered from unique tourism losses, but how do you explain Michigan (-10.9%), New York (-10.4%), Massachusetts (-9.1%) and the others if not by the degree of their lockdowns? Most lost jobs were in leisure and hospitality, as well as health care, education and manufacturing.


On the other hand, consider the 10 states with the fewest job losses as a share of total employment: Most are in the South, West and Midwest and kept their economies open to a greater degree. Georgia (-1.7%) with its diversified economy is especially notable. Utah and Idaho even gained jobs.

Florida’s employment fell only 4.6% despite its heavy reliance on tourism and service industries, while Texas declined only 3.3%. Both were derided in the national press for not following California and New York in shutting down their economies.

The vaccine rollout should speed the recovery, but jobs may be much slower to come back in states like California, New York and Michigan that crushed businesses for so long. Several Democratic governors, including California’s Gavin Newsom and New York’s Andrew Cuomo, this week eased virus restrictions, albeit too little and too late for many restaurants.

Liberals say there is a K-shaped recovery with the wealthy doing well and low-income earners struggling. The more important economic disparity is between states governed by progressives and pragmatic conservatives, with the latter doing much better for average workers.

And:

Biden Defunds the States

His oil and gas drilling moratorium is an assault on school funding.

By The Editorial Board

President Biden wants to give states $130 billion more in Covid relief, but he may need more after Wednesday. The oil and gas lease moratorium on federal lands that he announced will erase thousands of blue-collar jobs—and billions of dollars in revenue that states use to fund education.

The feds split mineral royalties with the states, many of which rely on the revenue to balance their budgets. Some states also impose general receipts taxes on oil and gas production. Wyoming state superintendent Jillian Balow notes that her state depends on some $150 million a year in oil and gas federal royalties to fund K-12 schools.SUBSCRIBE

University of Wyoming study last month estimated that a federal leasing moratorium could cost states on average $1.6 billion annually in tax revenue. New Mexico ($946 million), Wyoming ($304 million), and North Dakota ($136 million) would be hit hardest, though Colorado, Alaska, Utah and Montana would also lose tens of millions of dollars.

Because state, private and federal lands are interspersed in a checkerboard pattern, as the study notes, Mr. Biden’s ban will effectively limit production on much private and state land too. Job losses will also reduce income and sales tax revenues.

Notably, Mr. Biden’s order exempts Native American tribal lands and says “The Secretary of the Interior shall engage with Tribal authorities regarding the development and management of renewable and conventional energy resources on Tribal lands.” States also have sovereign rights under the Constitution. Why isn’t the Administration engaging with them?

Democratic politicians in Colorado and New Mexico haven’t denounced Mr. Biden’s land grab, but we doubt they will extend his leasing ban to state and private land. Revenue from the oil and gas industry last year provided about a third of New Mexico’s public school funding and helped to finance college scholarships.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday all but begged Secretary of Energy nominee Jennifer Granholm for reparations to compensate for the government’s fossil-fuel destruction. “People feel like they’ve been left behind. In those areas that have been ravaged because of the market changes, how do we keep them in an opportunity situation?” he said. “What can the Department of Energy help those areas with?”

Progressive hostility to fossil fuels is driving these “market” changes. First the Obama Administration punished the coal industry with regulation. Shale fracking then helped revive West Virginia and much of Appalachia. Now Mr. Biden is trying to destroy these jobs too.

Ms. Granholm promised to prioritize “clean energy” spending in states losing fossil-fuel jobs. Sorry. Solar and electric-car subsidies won’t help people put food on the table or their children through college.

Finally:

John Kerry: US getting to "zero emissions" won't change a thing

HeadlineKerry admits zero emissions in US wouldn’t make difference in climate change

What's Up: President Biden's Climate Czar held court in the White House on Wednesday, announcing the new president's moves to limit fossil fuel production in America will force many oilfield workers out of a job while offering these workers new "choices" of employment. Kerry also admitted reducing our carbon footprint won't affect the climate.

Quote: "'...almost 90 percent of all of the planet’s global emissions come from outside of US borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn’t solved,' Kerry conceded." — NYPost.com

The First take: We were hoping someone in the press corps would ask, "If reducing American's carbon output to zero would not make a difference to the 'crisis' of climate change, why are you doing this?" Never mind... we already know the answer. The real answer: It's not about the climate. It's also not a "crisis."
READ IT ALL HERE

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From a very dear friend and fellow memo reader reminding Biden we are not senile anddo not have dementia:


 Dear President Biden, you say you want to unite our country, but we remember,

  

For the last 4+ years, your party has done nothing but insult and demean us.

You have salted the fields and now you want to grow crops.

The problem is we have memories.


     We remember the protests the day of/after President Trump's inauguration.

We remember the 4 years of personal attacks.

We remember “not our president” and the “Resistance…”

We remember being called racist and evil - and deplorable.

We remember Maxine Watters telling followers to harass Trump supporters in department stores and gas stations.

We remember the President's press secretary being chased out of a restaurant.

We remember hundreds of Trump supporters being physically attacked.

We remember Trump supporters getting Doxed, and fired from jobs.

We remember riots, and looting with no condemnation.

We remember a liberal "comedian” holding up the President’s severed head.

We remember a play in Central park paid with public funding, showing the killing of President Trump.

We remember Robert de Niro yelling “Fuck Trump” at the Tony’s and getting a standing ovation.

We remember Trump being accused of being a Russian spy and the media going with it.

We remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union Address.

We remember a totally biased mainstream media was in opposition.

We remember the non-stop and live fact checking on our President and his supporters.

We remember non-stop in your face lies and open cover-ups from the media.

We remember the partisan impeachment when it was you who was corrupt.

We remember the President and his staff being spied on.

We remember Republican congressmen shot on a ball field.

We remember every so-called comedy show turn into nothing but Trump hate fest.

We remember 95% negative coverage in the news.

We remember the state governors asking for and getting everything they wanted to address covid then blaming Trump.

We remember leftists threatening outside the homes of prominent Republicans.

We remember the attempted destruction of Brett Kavanaugh.

We remember people pounding on the Supreme Court doors, Schumer threatening SCOTUS.

We remember that we were called every name in the book for supporting President Trump.

We remember that many in Hollywood said they would leave after Trump was elected, but they stayed anyway.

We remember the cover up of Hunter Biden's laptop.

We remember the absentee ballots, observers being kicked out, computer glitches, dead voters, etc. and being told to shut up about it and censored.

We remember insulting and defunding our police.

We remember being called terrorists, and allow anarchists to destroy our heritage.

We remember President Trump making peace and bringing our troops home with not a word.

We remember our President being called a clear and present danger, and a sham second impeachment.

We remember when the flag of our country is dragged through the street, burned and insulted without a word from you or your party.

We remember when you said no rule by executive orders, as you sign 40 of them costing us our jobs and slapping us in the face.

We remember how you, the Clintons, Pelosi's and the Obama's got rich, while we watched our jobs go overseas, and illegal immigrants flooded the border lowering our wages, while increasing out taxes.

We see how  you don't have to answer questions and the media fawn over you when you have yet to accomplish anything.

We see how your party wants to indoctrinate our children to failed socialism and Marxist ideology

 

 

This list is endless, but you get the idea.

Your party that has been attacking us for 4 long years has not stopped or apologized.

Your actions need to speak louder than your words.

And it will take more than words to heal a divided country.

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There was a time when humor was done in a charming and elegant manner:


 




 



 




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