Hundreds of Massachusetts residents gathered at the state house on Sunday to protest the governor’s mandate that all students must receive the flu vaccine.
Under Democratic Gov. Charlie Baker’s mandate, all children aged 6 months or older who attend child care, pre-school, kindergarten, K-12, and colleges and universities in the state must have a flu vaccine by Dec. 31. The edict allows for medical and religious exemptions.
“The flu vaccine requirement applies to all full-time undergraduate and graduate students younger than 30 years of age and all full- and part-time health science students,” MassLive reported.
In the Sunday demonstration in Boston, protesters held signs that read “My child, my choice,” “unavoidably unsafe,” “parents call the shots” and “I am not a threat.” They also chanted “we will not comply,” MassLive wrote.
“I have four children and I want to protect my right to their education without being coerced into receiving a flu vaccine, which I don’t believe in,” said Renee Vanderzicht, who has elementary, middle, and high school-aged children in Uxbridge Public Schools. “I’m for freedom of choice,” Vanderzicht said. “Parents should have the freedom to know what they are putting into their children’s bodies, to have the right to decide what they feel is best for their families and not have an education dangled in front of their face if they don’t comply with something they don’t agree with.”
“I think parents are vulnerable right now. They need their kids to go to school and they backed us into a corner,” fellow protester Taryn Proulx told WCVB-5. “We feel like we have to just comply or rearrange our whole lives and homeschool our children.”
Massachusetts’ mandate follows the declaration by Virginia’s Health Commissioner that he will order all Virginians to take a COVID-19 vaccine once one is available to the public.
“It is killing people now, we don’t have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives,” Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday.
Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health “the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available. Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021,” 8News said. “Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the Health Commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.”
Under state law in Virginia, people with a medical exemption are the only ones allowed to refuse the mandatory vaccine. The Virginia General Assembly is currently considering a bill during an ongoing special session that “eliminates the authority of the Commissioner of Health to require immunization of individuals who object to such administration on religious grounds.” The bill first needs to make it out of a committee in the House of Delegates, controlled by Democrats, before the full chamber will vote.
“Oliver says he strongly opposes the bill. He doesn’t know what the punishment would be for non-compliance but expects that most people will respond well to the mandate,” 8News reported.
Virginia Freedom Keepers Director of Communications Kathleen Medaries is supporting the bill, known as HB5016.
“Over 5,000 Virginians in just the last 24 hours have asked how they can support HB5016 following the Virginia State Health Commissioner’s statement to ABC 8News Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “Current Virginia Law gives him that power, but HB5016 proposes an amendment for each Virginian to choose for themself whether to take, delay or decline the shot without penalty.”
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Without the Wuhan virus, the Democrats have no meaningful opposition to Trump. Not only have the Democrats weaponized the Wuhan virus to destroy the economies under their aegis, but they’ve also repeatedly claimed that Trump killed 161,000 Americans. However, new CDC data shows that, of those Americans who died in the past seven months, only 6% died from the virus alone. The other 94% had serious comorbidities that (sadly) put them at a higher risk of death from anything that came along – and certainly from having sick people funneled into their nursing homes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website disclosed the shockingly small number of people who died from only the Wuhan coronavirus, with no other cause of death mentioned. Hold on to your hat because here it is: out of the 161,392 deaths in the CDC data, just six percent, about 9,700 deaths, were attributed to the coronavirus alone. According to the CDC, the other 94 percent had an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of deaths, such as heart disease, diabetes, and sepsis.
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Instead of protecting the vulnerable – the elderly in nursing homes and those with comorbidities – health “experts” recommended locking everyone up and prescribing for Americans a wide range of ailments such as depression, suicide, missed early cancer screenings, unemployment, substance abuse, and poverty.
BKnight makes the important point, as well, that the above analysis doesn’t even take into account the way that medical reporters threw into the Wuhan virus column deaths that had nothing to do with the virus:
Besides, we’ve always known that the numbers have been skewed upwards by the perverse incentive of paying healthcare providers extra for Wuhan virus diagnoses:
What the Wuhan virus did was attack people who were already at high risk – which is what all viruses do. In ordinary times, we deal with that problem by sequestering high-risk people.
My mother spent several years in a nursing home. She’d periodically call and tell me not to come, whether because the home was worried about the flu in the greater community or because a norovirus (i.e., stomach flu) was working its way through the home, requiring that the residents stay in their rooms to protect themselves. What her nursing home did not do was require that anyone in the greater community who had the norovirus head to the nursing home.
When the dust settles on the year 2020, we will finally accept that the United States shut down the greatest economy in the world, that the governors in the worst-hit states issued executive orders turning their nursing homes into death traps, and that we significantly increased deaths from otherwise treatable illnesses – all because of a bad flu.
It’s understandable that, in the beginning, as the ugly scenes from Wuhan province emerged, we may have panicked and, in retrospect, overreacted. And thinking back to the early days, the plan was not to overreact. It was, instead, to have a limited, two-week lockdown to flattening the curve. Six months later, Democrats states are still flattening that curve without letup.
The fact is that, once America flattened the curve, learned how to treat the virus, and discovered that most people were less vulnerable than initially thought, we should all have returned to normal. Instead, as weeks have dragged into months, months dragged into the greater part of a year, and Democrat-run states have remained shut down, it’s become apparent that the main reason those states haven’t put the brakes on the Wuhan panic is that opportunistic people are using the panic for political purposes.
Without the Wuhan virus, the Democrats have no meaningful opposition to Trump. Not only have the Democrats weaponized the Wuhan virus to destroy the economies under their aegis, but they’ve also repeatedly claimed that Trump killed 161,000 Americans. However, new CDC data shows that, of those Americans who died in the past seven months, only 6% died from the virus alone. The other 94% had serious comorbidities that (sadly) put them at a higher risk of death from anything that came along – and certainly from having sick people funneled into their nursing homes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website disclosed the shockingly small number of people who died from only the Wuhan coronavirus, with no other cause of death mentioned. Hold on to your hat because here it is: out of the 161,392 deaths in the CDC data, just six percent, about 9,700 deaths, were attributed to the coronavirus alone. According to the CDC, the other 94 percent had an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of deaths, such as heart disease, diabetes, and sepsis.
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Instead of protecting the vulnerable – the elderly in nursing homes and those with comorbidities – health “experts” recommended locking everyone up and prescribing for Americans a wide range of ailments such as depression, suicide, missed early cancer screenings, unemployment, substance abuse, and poverty.
BKnight makes the important point, as well, that the above analysis doesn’t even take into account the way that medical reporters threw into the Wuhan virus column deaths that had nothing to do with the virus:
Besides, we’ve always known that the numbers have been skewed upwards by the perverse incentive of paying healthcare providers extra for Wuhan virus diagnoses:
What the Wuhan virus did was attack people who were already at high risk – which is what all viruses do. In ordinary times, we deal with that problem by sequestering high-risk people.
My mother spent several years in a nursing home. She’d periodically call and tell me not to come, whether because the home was worried about the flu in the greater community or because a norovirus (i.e., stomach flu) was working its way through the home, requiring that the residents stay in their rooms to protect themselves. What her nursing home did not do was require that anyone in the greater community who had the norovirus head to the nursing home.
When the dust settles on the year 2020, we will finally accept that the United States shut down the greatest economy in the world, that the governors in the worst-hit states issued executive orders turning their nursing homes into death traps, and that we significantly increased deaths from otherwise treatable illnesses – all because of a bad flu.
It’s understandable that, in the beginning, as the ugly scenes from Wuhan province emerged, we may have panicked and, in retrospect, overreacted. And thinking back to the early days, the plan was not to overreact. It was, instead, to have a limited, two-week lockdown to flattening the curve. Six months later, Democrats states are still flattening that curve without letup.
The fact is that, once America flattened the curve, learned how to treat the virus, and discovered that most people were less vulnerable than initially thought, we should all have returned to normal. Instead, as weeks have dragged into months, months dragged into the greater part of a year, and Democrat-run states have remained shut down, it’s become apparent that the main reason those states haven’t put the brakes on the Wuhan panic is that opportunistic people are using the panic for political purposes.
"Sentenced To Isolation Prisons!" – College Students Across America Are Being Subjected To A Horrid Psychological Experiment Tyler Durden
Mon, 08/31/2020 – 09:55
College, long a fun and liberating experience for many young adults, has, as The Ron Paul Insitute’s Adam Dick details below, become a dreary and oppressive experience for many students living under the weight of a multitude of restrictions imposed at American college campuses in the name of countering coronavirus.
These restrictions are absurd from the perspective of protecting people’s health given that coronavirus is not particularly dangerous. This is especially the case for the teen and twenty-something students. For these relatively young college students, coronavirus generally poses very little risk of death. Further, most such young adults experience zero symptoms to minor sickness from coronavirus infection.
I have written about the draconian restrictions imposed at college campuses in the name of countering coronavirus, with some focus on Duke University, Syracuse University, and the University of Texas and Texas A&M. These are not handpicked examples of campuses whose college administrators have imposed uniquely harsh rules in the name of countering coronavirus. The problem is present at many college campuses across America, and it is devastating for many students.
“The whole thing is a bait and switch. We’re being forced to pay to attend Zoom classes in our rooms all semester. A few of my friends didn’t even come back to town, and I don’t blame them. Why would they when they can get the same education at home?
I only have two in person classes. Both meet one day a week. One is optional to go on Zoom if you prefer. The other allows five students in class at once. We’re going on shifts so Week 1 the first five go, then Week 2 the second five go, etc.”
I love this university but if I knew when I was in high school that I’d be staying in my room all day, I would’ve never gone to any college.”
Tulane University
“No gatherings over 15 people. Everyone’s mental health is crumbling. Nobody is even sick and those who quarantine follow the rules. School requires asymptomatic testing and there’s no end in sight . My guy and girl friends are all miserable . So many have been like this is prison we can’t do anything. All bars closed in Louisiana. We gather at local parks and the cops come to shut it down. No fun ever allowed and no end in sight.”
University of Iowa
“They have ‘isolation dorms’ for COVID kids, but they are horrid. Guys in hazmat suits come … 2 week isolation, no visitors. Nurse on call but up to 3 hour wait if you need something … kids at school now are not getting tested so they don’t get sentenced to the isolation prisons.”
Middlebury College
“Students had to sign a health pledge that they had no say in developing. All students are confined to dorm rooms until COVID test comes back negative. No one is allowed off campus until at least September 15. No visitors on campus all year. School has a google form so that people can snitch on non-compliers. Town is terrified of students returning. This is in a county in Vermont that has had 5 cases and the entire state had 55 deaths. They have cancelled all fall athletic competitions. Students are back on campus, but most classes will be remote, with of course a 3% tuition increase. Professors active on reopening committees, so it is not surprising that they are pro lockdown.
Local state senator wrote to [school president] and called college reckless for bringing kids back. They all want to live in a bubble, take the money that the college brings to the community, but have no actual interaction.”
Southern Methodist University
“Students must wear masks outside dorm rooms, cannot visit another dorm, etc. Threatened with draconian honor code violations if they violate the rules and orientation was declared all virtual at the last minute. Yet today, the athletes, with permission of and active participation by the University, were permitted to organize a BLM march through campus.”
University of Tennessee-Martin
“The first two weeks of the semester have been very different. At my university, I have to stay in my dorm. Since my college courses are all online, keep in mind without any tuition deduction, my friends and I have not gotten to leave our dorm to make friends. One way we socialize is opening up our dorm window & talking to people who are walking to their cars or back to their dorms. Another thing we have to do is take a daily COVID report, if we do not pass this test, we are not allowed to leave our dorm and will not be allowed to go anywhere at school. As well as a daily COVID report, we can only enter and exit through specific doors. The university has cut off our keys to entering certain ways. For example, if we are walking back from the dining hall, we have to walk to the parking lot behind our dorm to enter our building. This can actually be very dangerous if we find ourselves in a situation we need to enter through the front door & can’t because it’s locked. All my classes are online. Though they are all online, I am still required to stay on campus, pay for on campus housing, and buy a meal plan.”
University of South Carolina
“Roommates are terrified of making a mistake regarding masks, distancing and gatherings … the President basically ‘yells’ everyday that this is not sustainable and is threatening to shut it all down … kids are just waiting for the hammer to drop.”
“It’s horrific. After four months of quarantine with no friends, she was desperate to go to campus so we encouraged it. I am sick with worry every day. Not about the virus. About the mental anguish and social isolation they are forcing on our kids.”
Vanderbilt University
“No roommates … all online classes, no in person activities, dining halls closed, libraries closed except under very strict guidance, no visiting another dorm room, 6-ft distance at all times, masks mandatory when not in dorm room, cannot leave the Nashville area, circles drawn on quad area, threats of suspension/expulsion for first offense, security guards posted throughout campus to enforce rules, kids encouraged to report non-compliance, etc.
After having been on campus for a week, my daughter has not met nor spoken to a single person. She is in her dorm room in front of her computer at almost all times, and the only times she really leaves are when she picks up her to-go meals. This is a very depressing situation.”
College in University of Texas system
“All but made it impossible for Baptist Student Ministries to meet. Their meeting rooms are on campus and have to be cleaned 4 times a day. People have to remain 6 feet apart, mandatory masks at all times, temperature checks as people arrive, and student ID cards have to be swiped for contact tracing.”
Student “wants to fight back but feels helpless, not knowing who may be reporting her actions. Very, very Soviet-like.”
University of Dayton
“They aren’t even letting kids go to class at all … it’s all on Zoom.”
Arizona State University
“We have one of the most ridiculous systems in the country. You are supposed to submit a daily health check on the ASU app which consists of 2 questions. If by any chance you forget to do that, your college account is put on hold. I am also a student worker … and I have to sit at a desk. There is no one around me for 6ft, yet they make me wear a mask for 6 hours of my shift. They do the same to students who are in a lab and are using the computers. Even when there is no one around you you are supposed to wear a mask. I still don’t know if masks work or not but making students wear them for hours and hours is ridiculous. “
The Ohio State University
Testimonial 1:
“Interim suspensions if they break any of the “rules“ including attending/participating in on campus or off campus gatherings of more than 10. Last weekend when we moved in our child, off-campus housing, helicopters were buzzing over the houses, there are people basically roaming around and spying on kids to bust them and we knew exactly what they were looking for. Large gatherings. It’s insane. Daily check-in‘s of health prior to being allowed off campus. If you think this generation has anxiety issues before, can you imagine what they have now? I get the common sense stuff but I really wondered what country we were living in with all of this excess surveillance.”
Testimonial 2:
“In June when housing deposits were due they said ‘in person classes, no masks outside’ no mention of tests. All positive and happy and there’d be football. My daughter …really wanted to go back to college as not being there … in the college environment, isolated at home was causing a lot of depression.. so we let her go. 48 hours before the students move in week was to begin, OSU changed all the rules. It’s a dystopian hell.”
College in University of Texas system
“Everyday, I hear of some new restriction or rule that students are required to follow. Things have been even more significantly tightened even during this first week of school. Perhaps the most obvious instance is the Housing Department’s obsession with keeping students away from one another. Before the first week of school, Housing sent a decree stating that students were prohibited to have more than one guest in our apartments or dorm rooms at a time. This past Wednesday, three days after the beginning of the semester, a new email: we were now forbidden to have any guests whatsoever. Over the summer, new security cameras have been installed in the hallways of all buildings, aimed at residents’ doors.”
Johns Hopkins University
Testimonial 1:
“1. 6 weeks ago, hybrid. Everyone back but sophomores kicked out of dorms, must rent a house or off campus to make room for freshman in singles. Jrs/Srs usually live off campus.
2. 3 weeks ago reverse course. Campus CLOSED do not come back. Sorry you signed a binding legal lease.
3. Many kids in apt/houses are going back (they ARE paying rent after all), to remote learn.
4. Couple off campus kids test +.
5. Hopkins sends threatening letter…no matter where you are, if you break Hopkins rules with masks, social distancing and being with more than 10 people, you can be expelled.
6. They urge people to rat on each other, and kids start FB page just for ratting.”
Testimonial 2:
“Just dropped my son (who is an athlete) off at Johns Hopkins. They shut down. Cowards. He lives off campus. His friends at Ohio St team may quit because it’s PRISON! Other places as well. Stay in your room, meals delivered to your dorm only allowed out 3 times. Insanity.”
St Lawrence University
“1 positive case out of 2k tests. Kids limited to ‘family groups’ and no more than four in dorm room. Masks when outside dorm and wrist band indicates you can go outdoors. Very limited social interaction.”
Louisiana State University (LSU)
“Our son spent his first nights at college alone. No welcome dorm pizza party. No meeting the kids on his floor. He walked campus alone. You can’t eat in the cafeteria so take out food back to your room. Masks required everywhere, in Baton Rouge in August. Outside. I don’t know how the kids aren’t fainting. All classes online. One class is a ‘learn on your own’ and take a test. No instruction. He did manage to do virtual rush and joined a fraternity. He said it was the only way to meet anyone. His roommate did not rush and sleeps all day. The school wants them to report symptoms daily on an app. They have testing pods all over campus and want all the kids to get tested. If you do test positive they force you into a hotel – alone for 14 days. Not allowed out of the room save for one hour a day with a mask on. They turn off their room cards so they can’t escape back to their dorms. We get emails weekly advising us to support our kids getting a test and ;behaving; so they don’t have to close the campus. It’s sick. What are we doing? Why? If LSU does close and send the kids home we won’t go back. Why pay out of state tuition for Zoom? Why are we depriving our kids of their college experiences? I’m just sick about this every day. I hope someone can break thru the COVID fog and be brave. Our kids deserve it.”
Western Carolina University
“Mandatory masking inside and OUTSIDE. Cafeterias are closed with take out food and long line. Families had until Aug 1 to decide whether to send kids and accept a no refund policy if kids were sent home. This meant you were on the hook for all loans and payments even if services were no longer provided. Of course at that time, classes reported as hybrid. Two weeks in, most classes have now switched to online only.”
Miami University of Ohio
“Ordered via an email to quarantine immediately so they could contact trace athletes … Ordered into an abandoned dorm immediately that wasn’t intended to be occupied this year. No supervision or help with moving. No elevators. Not cleaned. Communal bathrooms which makes no sense. didn’t matter if u hadn’t been to parties or around anyone who tested positive. Threatened with class 2 misdemeanor by the sheriff and code of conduct violation aka loss of scholarship if u went home. Most are now finally released. Campus is now testing 3000 students a week once the general student pop returns on 9/17. At any time you can be forced back into quarantine for 14 days due to contract tracing. The students are now not wanting to be around anyone else. They are told to ‘to treat every person as If they are sick’ so they don’t get caught in a contact tracing web so they essentially are being told to not interact with others but were forced to live in double occupancy which now makes them judge everything the roommate does because if your roommate is contact traced you are forced back into jail.”
Virginia Tech
“Only 15 people allowed to gather. Masks required outside their room anywhere..inside or out. All classes are online. Only 1 person can visit room and masks must be worn. Immediate suspension if caught violating. This is inhumane. It’s prison.”
Syracuse University
“My son goes to Syracuse – entirely dorm room bound and all classes online. As he was coming from out of state he and all other out-of-staters had to arrive two weeks early and they were dorm bound and had food delivered to the rooms. He received this hysterical message sent to the students on August 20th:”
Creighton University
“11 days to get the required COVID test back. Isolated the whole time. No in person eating at the dorms as a norm. Training in the heat with masks for hours. Masks 24/7 on campus inside and out. Social isolation. 2 classes a week in person, everything else virtual. Can’t come home until end of fall semester as you can’t travel more than 100 miles from Omaha. Aren’t allowed to go anywhere or do anything except local restaurant pick ups and run to the store. If you are mildly exposed to a person with COVID, 14 day mandatory quarantine.”
College of Charleston
Anon 1: “They are forcing them to all get tested, they can’t have anyone at all in their dorms, all common areas are closed except laundry. A lot of places to eat are still closed. Charleston has a mask mandate. They’ve got these kids, especially first year students terrorized.”
Anon 2: “Mandatory masks and distancing or face suspension on 1st offense. Dorm policy even more draconian.”
College in University of Texas system
My son is a Freshman. All his classes are online. He chose to live on campus in order to experience a semblance of college life. In his giant dormitory, his room is only one with three guys. They have knocked on doors in their hall trying to meet people, and have been chastised and hassled by the RAs for being ‘radicals’ for simply reaching out to others.
The chow hall staff does not allow these roommates to sit together at the same table. Tables are a radius six feet apart. Every interaction is actively discouraged.
The general school population has adhered to the solitary confinement model. [Students] keep their heads down, masks on, and avoid even saying ‘hello’ walking around campus. My son has said their fear is palpable.”
Colgate University
“They have a very restrictive plan which we respect for managing COVID… but there’s nothing to manage the student’s personal experience. Even with negative tests… very restrictive. All classes are online. He can’t even socialize with the other students in the dorm. 1 hour outside once in a while … this was his time to mature, and become more independent. It’s been the equivalent of House Arrest with a stranger which would have been tolerable if things were allowed to open up. He can’t even go outside to speak on the phone in private.”
Rice University
“Weekly COVID tests. Can’t eat in the dining halls but are given meals in take out containers to be eaten in the dorm room. In person classes can’t be more than 25 and of course, masks required inside at all times except in your own room. Wearing mask when walking to class in the oppressive humidity. [Athletes] have to workout wearing masks! The coaches and trainers have to wear masks and face shield plus gloves. Players can’t use the locker rooms or team rooms this season! This is all crazy and sad!”
Boston College
“This is a horrible way to go to college. [Daughter] was in tears last night about the prospect of the mandatory immediate quarantine while waiting for the test, as she has heard from others that it was taking 27+ hours to get the tests back on the slow days. She is worried that she might be an asymptomatic case. A lot of people are giving these kids grief for complying with mask orders, but I can tell you that these kids are just desperate for a return to normalcy. They had everything taken away from them for 6 months, and are so afraid that it will happen again. As far as why parents would send their kids back, my daughter has a really good scholarship – [most] of her tuition is paid. We can’t risk losing it because we don’t have the means to pay for college without good financial aid. What we are doing to this generation of kids is awful … common sense has been missing from this debate for months.”
Lehigh University:
“In late July they announced the move to remote classes. This basically kicked them all off campus and caused a scramble for kids to secure off campus rental housing since the kids want to be at school. The university has all these COVID rules that they apply to these kids OFF Campus. Such as no gatherings of 10 or more people. They have enhanced their Hawk Watch security app to include one’s ability to rat out kids that are gathering together in excess. They are setting these kids up to fail at this because college kids are going to do what college kids do.”
University of Arkansas
“The housing staff, in particular the student staff, are really out for blood … the student staff wants people suspended for any and every infraction. Weve pumped so much fear down people’s throats for 6 months that I believe we are well past grace and patience.”
Wesleyan University
My child’s university is testing them twice per week & they must quarantine for two full weeks upon arrival, even if they test negative! They are not allowed visitors on campus & no one is allowed to leave, the entire semester! An asymptomatic positive test will result in isolation at a Hotel the university rented! What a scam! These are all human rights violations! No contact with friends, family or even known physicians for what, so the university can profit & the students will ‘learn’ to comply & become reliant/dependent. Kitchens are closed so they can’t even cook! No one was allowed to help them move in either! Single girls were literally trying to lug refrigerators across campus & up flights of stairs. No help was provided or allowed! As you probably know, many dorms do not have air conditioning.”
University of Wyoming
I can attest the stories coming out of universities really are as bad as people claim. They are online with classes until the end of September when kids will attend massively socially distanced/ hybrid classes. After the thanksgiving break, students then will leave campus and have finals online. We are being sent COVID saliva tests and any positives are treated like the plague even though there’s not a single case on campus. My university isn’t as bad as the others mentioned but I have a feeling when they get back to campus things will be worse. Im taking this as a gap year because I refused to comply with the draconian mask orders. It was bad enough I had to pay for three months rent after vacating school last month.”
University in PAC-12 Conference
My daughter had three COVID tests (they lost one) and an antibody test that she actually tested positive for. She had COVID in March. They told her that because she tested positive for the antibodies they were going to treat it as COVID and have her isolate until they could do a heart screening. She could not participate in her sport until done. We, her parents, asked if we could have her get a heart screening from a local doctor so to expedite things. They said no, they only want their own team to do the screenings. To top things off, she has to go before a counsel on Monday to defend herself from being at a gathering of no more than 30 people where someone has tested positive for Covid. She was told there could be a consequence for her actions.”
Baylor University
“The university has announced that there will be weekly mandatory tests … If any student refuses to take the COVID-19 test, they are subject to suspension or expulsion.
Students are not making friends with their classmates … No one can recognize who’s who with a mask on, so there has been a significant increase of phone usage on campus and a significant decrease of socialization. Students show up for their in-person class, sit there, and head back to their apartment as soon as they are finished with classes.
Everyone expects to move online before the semester is over. We all suspect that the university is postponing the move so that they can get the full tuition without much grounds for a lawsuit.”
Colorado State University Pueblo
“My daughter … was there not even 24 hours and was sent to quarantine because she ‘might’ have come into contact with someone who was in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus. They made the students leave their own rooms and moved them into a room and they couldn’t bring their own bedding. The food they drop off is a frozen sandwich, orange, chips and soda The have to stay there for 14 days and won’t even test them. No outside testing is even allowed. The admin don’t know what they’re doing nor do they let them outside. They make the locks not work.”
Collegein Alabama
“The plan was to have in person classes, but a few weeks before the fall semester, everything went online. Even chemistry is being taught online, which truly boggles my mind.
No in person tutoring sessions, no student activities, and virtual advising appointments are being pushed heavily. Students in the dorms (because somehow it’s safe to have people living on campus, but not going to class there?), must wear a mask in any of the dorm common areas, and congregating is only allowed in the laundry room and kitchen. No visitors. To their credit, they’re sending students who test positive home instead of locking them up on campus, but they’re only being given 24 hours to vacate the dorm. We get students from all over the state, not just local kids. And contact tracing is being pushed even if someone has a slight fever and nothing else.”
University of North Alabama
“We’re not allowed to have any visitors, nor are we allowed to go anywhere on campus without a mask. This makes no sense to me considering many of my peers commute and do not wear a mask at home and see different people every single day. I was also randomly selected, along with another 25% of the student population, to go get another COVID test done even though I was already tested a little over two weeks ago, receiving a negative test, showing no symptoms and completing my health check every day saying I don’t have any symptoms. And finally, most of my classes have been moved online due to COVID and social distancing.”
It is heartbreaking to read of the forced conversion of an often positive and social campus life into a degrading and isolating confinement.
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An upcoming book from Breitbart News investigative reporter Allum Bokhari is set to “shake the foundations of Silicon Valley,” according to a Big Tech source who has worked at numerous tech giants including Google.
“When voters find out what big tech companies have done to meddle in the coming election, they’ll be rightly furious” said the source, who worked on key Google products for several years.
“The level of covert manipulation is breathtaking. Every American who’s worried about the future of free and fair elections should read this book.”
The book’s author, Allum Bokhari, has worked as a tech reporter at Breitbart News since 2015. He has helped whistleblowers within Google, Facebook, and YouTube release damning leaks exposing Big Tech’s political bias.
In 2018, he obtained “The Google Tape,” a one-hour recording of Google’s top executives reacting to the election of Donald Trump in 2016. The most powerful people at the company, including co-founder Sergey Brin, CEO Sundar Pichai, and chief legal officer Kent Walker expressed dismay over Trump’s election, with Walker pledging to make the populist movement a “blip” in history.
Just over a month later, Bokhari obtained “The Good Censor,” an 85-page document from within Google admitting to Silicon Valley’s “shift towards censorship.” Sen. Ted Cruz later grilled representatives of Google about the leak during a congressional hearing.
Bokhari also revealed the existence of YouTube’s “controversial query blacklist,” a secret file used by the company to manipulate political search results. The leak revealed that YouTube adjusted search results on terms like “abortion” and “federal reserve” in response to complaints from left-wing journalists.
He also obtained Facebook’s “hate agents review” list — a hit list of high-profile political figures that the platform considers potential “hate agents.” Facebook keeps regular tabs on these people, including monitoring their offline activities. The list included Candace Owens, Brigitte Gabrielle, and other prominent conservatives.
#DELETED, the product of Bokhari’s five years of investigating Silicon Valley, reportedly reveals even more of Big Tech’s secrets.
Sources and whistleblowers who work or have worked for Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other tech giants were extensively interviewed for the book. They reveal Big Tech’s secretive, AI-controlled methods to control and manipulate information, methods that unlike overt bans and censorship, cannot be readily observed by outsiders.
They also explain how virtually every Big Tech company was pulled to the radical left after the 2016 election, with radical elements within Google, Facebook, and Twitter now obsessively pursuing an overriding goal: stopping Trump’s reelection.
In politics, intellectual candle power (brains) has no direct relation to reality. Some of the brainiest people who ever lived were (and are) flaming idiot leftists.
Some, but not all.
A natural sentimentality once inclined me toward leftist thinking. That got checked at age 15, when I read what Einstein said about his famous theory: “If it doesn’t match reality [I think he said ‘experiment’], it’s wrong.”
That hit me square between the eyes. I’d been thinking you stuck by what “felt right,” no matter what. Trust your instincts, trust yourself, if it feels good it’s right, loyalty, never give up, never give in. Like that.
An uncle once confided that his mom (my gramma) was fiercely protective. ”If told one of her boys was guilty of a heinous crime, she would never believe it. But if she had to believe it, she’d know there was a good reason.” That kind of thinking can go down dark, dark roads. Fact is, you can love someone you don’t much like, or whom you don’t like at all. That’s the way of some people in some families.
It’s also the way of socialism. You can love the idea, but you must be wedded, always, to reality. Reality, not wishful thinking, must guide your actions. There are no good reasons for bad or destructive actions.
This is why it matters to know that socialism always fails, always ratchets up to tyranny that delivers stacks of bodies, murderous famines, dreary lives. It fails not for lack of the right people in charge, but because socialism is just a bad idea. It’s meant for families, not for societies. Its sentimental beauty doesn’t matter. The bodies do. The famines do. The dreary lives do. They are reality.
Knowing that history, we cannot yield to it.
Today’s left is wedded to the idea that black people in America have no chance to live normal, fun, rewarding, successful lives. This idea is so compelling to them that the thought expressed in the Netflix movie American Son, that blacks can’t have the American Dream, leaves them anguished. Yet blacks in the millions live the American Dream every day, the Horatio Alger story of a poor kid from nowhere making a good life.
It happens routinely in America. Not the exception. The rule.
Sadly, the failures of socialism often, if not usually, lead people to make excuses for it. The excuses turn to pretense that the negative things aren’t real. Then to lies about how wonderful things really are. That happened in the thirties about Stalin’s Russia, in the forties about Hitler’s Germany, in the fifties about Mao’s China, in the sixties about Castro’s Cuba, in the seventies about Sandinista Nicaragua. It got turned back for a while, during and after Reagan, but it’s happening all over again today about Maduro’s Venezuela, etc., etc.
People who are naturally leftists can wean themselves away from pretense and lies with practice in looking at what’s actually going on. But they have to accept that the ultimate arbiter is reality, not some theory or notion that starts out, “If everyone would just…” Today’s left in America burns and bombs and kills. It was the same in the sixties, when I began thinking about all this. Burning and bombing and killing aren’t part of any dream I ever had about social justice.
Perhaps curiously, America as founded was.
In politics, intellectual candle power (brains) has no direct relation to reality. Some of the brainiest people who ever lived were (and are) flaming idiot leftists.
Some, but not all.
A natural sentimentality once inclined me toward leftist thinking. That got checked at age 15, when I read what Einstein said about his famous theory: “If it doesn’t match reality [I think he said ‘experiment’], it’s wrong.”
That hit me square between the eyes. I’d been thinking you stuck by what “felt right,” no matter what. Trust your instincts, trust yourself, if it feels good it’s right, loyalty, never give up, never give in. Like that.
An uncle once confided that his mom (my gramma) was fiercely protective. ”If told one of her boys was guilty of a heinous crime, she would never believe it. But if she had to believe it, she’d know there was a good reason.” That kind of thinking can go down dark, dark roads. Fact is, you can love someone you don’t much like, or whom you don’t like at all. That’s the way of some people in some families.
It’s also the way of socialism. You can love the idea, but you must be wedded, always, to reality. Reality, not wishful thinking, must guide your actions. There are no good reasons for bad or destructive actions.
This is why it matters to know that socialism always fails, always ratchets up to tyranny that delivers stacks of bodies, murderous famines, dreary lives. It fails not for lack of the right people in charge, but because socialism is just a bad idea. It’s meant for families, not for societies. Its sentimental beauty doesn’t matter. The bodies do. The famines do. The dreary lives do. They are reality.
Knowing that history, we cannot yield to it.
Today’s left is wedded to the idea that black people in America have no chance to live normal, fun, rewarding, successful lives. This idea is so compelling to them that the thought expressed in the Netflix movie American Son, that blacks can’t have the American Dream, leaves them anguished. Yet blacks in the millions live the American Dream every day, the Horatio Alger story of a poor kid from nowhere making a good life.
It happens routinely in America. Not the exception. The rule.
Sadly, the failures of socialism often, if not usually, lead people to make excuses for it. The excuses turn to pretense that the negative things aren’t real. Then to lies about how wonderful things really are. That happened in the thirties about Stalin’s Russia, in the forties about Hitler’s Germany, in the fifties about Mao’s China, in the sixties about Castro’s Cuba, in the seventies about Sandinista Nicaragua. It got turned back for a while, during and after Reagan, but it’s happening all over again today about Maduro’s Venezuela, etc., etc.
People who are naturally leftists can wean themselves away from pretense and lies with practice in looking at what’s actually going on. But they have to accept that the ultimate arbiter is reality, not some theory or notion that starts out, “If everyone would just…” Today’s left in America burns and bombs and kills. It was the same in the sixties, when I began thinking about all this. Burning and bombing and killing aren’t part of any dream I ever had about social justice.
Two weeks ago, we learned that Sandia National Laboratories, one of only three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development laboratories in the United States, was mandating that its white, male executives attend anti-white training sessions. Since then, a whistleblower has emerged, describing in detail the anti-white “critical race theory” that Sandia’s management is foisting on employees at all levels, even though this racial attacks in the material manifestly violate federal law.
In mid-August, Christopher Rufo published a Twitter thread about a blatantly anti-white seminar at Sandia. To understand how wrong that seminar was, you need to know that Sandia, as a taxpayer-funded contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, must comply with federal anti-discrimination regulations. Thus, Executive Order 11246 Subpart B, sec. 202 states in relevant part:
The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Last I looked, white employees ticked off two boxes in the protected classes above: race and color.
Casey Peterson, an electrical engineer, has been unhappy about the direction that Sandia is taking. The seminar described in Rufo’s Twitter thread – as well as the fact that it was required only for white men – struck him as discriminatory. Moreover, Peterson believes that critical race theory is a dangerous form of anti-white discrimination premised up false facts and crackpot theories.
Peterson did something audacious in today’s environment: He pushed back hard, creating a lengthy, detailed, factually-supported video challenging the critical race theory that forms the basis of Sandia’s undoubtedly illegally and contractually-violative race-based discrimination. Christopher Rufo picks up the story:
Following my investigation, a dissident electrical engineer named Casey Peterson emailed all 16,000 employees denouncing critical race theory in the lab and hoping to spark a rebellion against Sandia executives.
Here’s the story.🧵
On Tuesday, Peterson made a YouTube video “pushing back back on the narrative of modern systemic racism and white privilege.”
The video quickly hit 10,000 views within the labs and dozens of Sandia employees contacted Peterson to express support.
Within hours, Sandia executives dispatched a counterintelligence team to lock Peterson out of the network and scrub his communications from internal servers—which, via the Streisand Effect, made the video even more viral and sparked widespread unrest against Sandia executives.
By the afternoon, executives were panicking about the brewing rebellion, placed Peterson on paid administrative leave, and established a “security review board” to “evaluate whether [his] actions have comprised or posed a threat to Sandia computing and security systems.”
Peterson—who took a stand at grave risk to his career—says he is speaking on behalf of all of Sandia employees who are “scared to speak out” because of the lab’s repressive culture. “If I get fired because of this,” Peterson says, “the fight does not end, it only intensifies.”
This is the first explicit rebellion against critical race theory in the federal government—and the coalition is growing. “We need to completely rip [critical race theory] out of Sandia root and stem,” Peterson says. “It is cancer and we need to get it out of the labs right now.”
Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory, race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees—and all dissent will be severely punished. Progressive employees will be rewarded; conservative employees will be purged.
Keep this in mind: Sandia Labs is a federally-funded research agency and designs America’s nuclear weapons. Senator @HawleyMO and @SecBrouillette have launched an inspector general investigation, but Sandia executives have only accelerated their purge against conservatives.
Sandia executives face a decision-point: they can back down and Peterson’s rebellion will notch an internal victory; or they can fire him and Peterson will become further evidence of Sandia’s corrupt and repressive culture. In a sense, Peterson cannot lose.
According to multiple sources, the executives who have pushed the most toxic elements of critical race theory and race-segregated trainings are James Peerey, Dori Ellis, David White (he/him), and Mark Sellers. They must be investigated by the Inspector General.
Here’s the bottom line: this is the first shot in the rebellion against critical race theory in the federal government. Casey Peterson has taken a courageous stand and the Inspector General must conduct a full investigation of Sandia Labs—and hold executives accountable.
We are opening up a multi-front war against critical race theory in the federal government: (1) investigative reporting to expose the truth; (2) internal rebellions to increase the pressure; (3) inspector general investigations; (4) laying the groundwork for an executive order.
It might take time, there might be losses, but we will achieve victory! Swords up!⚔️ Prayers up! 🙏
The lily-white executives appear to be committed to forcing critical race theory on their trapped employees. Therefore, we can expect that Peterson, who is currently on paid leave, will lose his job. Corporations, especially those with ties to the Deep State, know that whistleblower laws no longer protect people who do not advance progressive ideologies.
Looking ahead, if we find ourselves in Trump’s American after November 3, Peterson will at least get justice eventually. However, if we’re in Biden’s America, the Petersons of this world will be silenced.
Two weeks ago, we learned that Sandia National Laboratories, one of only three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development laboratories in the United States, was mandating that its white, male executives attend anti-white training sessions. Since then, a whistleblower has emerged, describing in detail the anti-white “critical race theory” that Sandia’s management is foisting on employees at all levels, even though this racial attacks in the material manifestly violate federal law.
In mid-August, Christopher Rufo published a Twitter thread about a blatantly anti-white seminar at Sandia. To understand how wrong that seminar was, you need to know that Sandia, as a taxpayer-funded contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, must comply with federal anti-discrimination regulations. Thus, Executive Order 11246 Subpart B, sec. 202 states in relevant part:
The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Last I looked, white employees ticked off two boxes in the protected classes above: race and color.
Casey Peterson, an electrical engineer, has been unhappy about the direction that Sandia is taking. The seminar described in Rufo’s Twitter thread – as well as the fact that it was required only for white men – struck him as discriminatory. Moreover, Peterson believes that critical race theory is a dangerous form of anti-white discrimination premised up false facts and crackpot theories.
Peterson did something audacious in today’s environment: He pushed back hard, creating a lengthy, detailed, factually-supported video challenging the critical race theory that forms the basis of Sandia’s undoubtedly illegally and contractually-violative race-based discrimination. Christopher Rufo picks up the story:
Following my investigation, a dissident electrical engineer named Casey Peterson emailed all 16,000 employees denouncing critical race theory in the lab and hoping to spark a rebellion against Sandia executives.
Here’s the story.🧵
On Tuesday, Peterson made a YouTube video “pushing back back on the narrative of modern systemic racism and white privilege.”
The video quickly hit 10,000 views within the labs and dozens of Sandia employees contacted Peterson to express support.
Within hours, Sandia executives dispatched a counterintelligence team to lock Peterson out of the network and scrub his communications from internal servers—which, via the Streisand Effect, made the video even more viral and sparked widespread unrest against Sandia executives.
By the afternoon, executives were panicking about the brewing rebellion, placed Peterson on paid administrative leave, and established a “security review board” to “evaluate whether [his] actions have comprised or posed a threat to Sandia computing and security systems.”
Peterson—who took a stand at grave risk to his career—says he is speaking on behalf of all of Sandia employees who are “scared to speak out” because of the lab’s repressive culture. “If I get fired because of this,” Peterson says, “the fight does not end, it only intensifies.”
This is the first explicit rebellion against critical race theory in the federal government—and the coalition is growing. “We need to completely rip [critical race theory] out of Sandia root and stem,” Peterson says. “It is cancer and we need to get it out of the labs right now.”
Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory, race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees—and all dissent will be severely punished. Progressive employees will be rewarded; conservative employees will be purged.
Keep this in mind: Sandia Labs is a federally-funded research agency and designs America’s nuclear weapons. Senator @HawleyMO and @SecBrouillette have launched an inspector general investigation, but Sandia executives have only accelerated their purge against conservatives.
Sandia executives face a decision-point: they can back down and Peterson’s rebellion will notch an internal victory; or they can fire him and Peterson will become further evidence of Sandia’s corrupt and repressive culture. In a sense, Peterson cannot lose.
According to multiple sources, the executives who have pushed the most toxic elements of critical race theory and race-segregated trainings are James Peerey, Dori Ellis, David White (he/him), and Mark Sellers. They must be investigated by the Inspector General.
Here’s the bottom line: this is the first shot in the rebellion against critical race theory in the federal government. Casey Peterson has taken a courageous stand and the Inspector General must conduct a full investigation of Sandia Labs—and hold executives accountable.
We are opening up a multi-front war against critical race theory in the federal government: (1) investigative reporting to expose the truth; (2) internal rebellions to increase the pressure; (3) inspector general investigations; (4) laying the groundwork for an executive order.
It might take time, there might be losses, but we will achieve victory! Swords up!⚔️ Prayers up! 🙏
The lily-white executives appear to be committed to forcing critical race theory on their trapped employees. Therefore, we can expect that Peterson, who is currently on paid leave, will lose his job. Corporations, especially those with ties to the Deep State, know that whistleblower laws no longer protect people who do not advance progressive ideologies.
Looking ahead, if we find ourselves in Trump’s American after November 3, Peterson will at least get justice eventually. However, if we’re in Biden’s America, the Petersons of this world will be silenced.
Everyone, even Democrats, can agree that the DNC convention was an embarrassing bust, a poorly produced concoction of vapidity, anger and wrath. They overdid the “let’s make everyone afraid of covid” bit, no audiences, masks on everyone even when alone on a stage. It was a joke perpetrated by people who, to the core of their beings, think the American people are really stupid.
This core belief, that they can stupefy and manipulate us all, is why they produced a ridiculous covid-fearful four-night convention so boring no one watched it… because it was unwatchable. John Kerry? Bill Clinton? John Kasich? Bernie Sanders? Who on this planet cares about anything these corruptocrats have to say? No one, not even the current crop of apoplectic Trump haters, especially those among the media. The entire endeavor was a joke born of the left’s contempt for middle America. They actually think that by making common cause with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, they can win.
Now that we’ve seen and reveled in the joyous tone of the RNC convention, the abyss between the two parties is writ gloriously large. The left is angry and rattled because they’ve lost their grip on the power that they’ve always taken for granted, even when there was a Republican in the White House.
They are not running the show, Trump is, and his attempt to drain the swamp is making inroads, despite all their treasonous efforts to destroy the man and his presidency. The ferocity of their hate for Trump has led them to reveal their inner souls and it is not a pretty picture. They are an ugly bunch. The termagant Nancy Pelosi charges that Trump and his supporters are “enemies of the state”! How is that for projection?
Now she is advising Biden not to debate Trump. Of course, she is; like everyone else, she knows Biden is cognitively unable to debate the President. Pelosi and her partners in crimes against America have done incalculable damage to this country, to their own cities, and to the Constitution itself. If Biden were to win, who would be running the country? Certainly not no-show-Joe. Joe is done, over. He belongs at home with a caregiver.
But Biden will not be the face of the presidency; he is going to lose, probably badly. The magnificence of the RNC convention, the overpowering profundity of each and every speaker, exposed the sheer vacuity of the Democrat party as currently constituted. It is not only vacuous but thoroughly deranged. For months they have actually believed that the riots in the streets would help them defeat Trump! So besotted by Antifa and Black Lives Matter, both violent Marxist organizations, they forgot to remember the precise meaning of the word “civilization.”
This kind of violent protest got Nixon elected in a landslide. Perhaps they counted on two generations of leftist indoctrination to serve them well, but no, it won’t. Most Americans still favor law and order over barbarity and bloodshed. They do not look kindly on their small businesses being destroyed by thugs in the euphemistic name of “peaceful protests” and “systemic racism.”
Just who are the racists? The oh-so-intolerant left and the Democrats who refuse to condemn their monstrous behavior. Consider the cruel attacks on those leaving the White House after the final convention event. The inept mayor of DC allowed this; she loves it. She thinks it will reverberate in her favor. Like the mayors of Seattle, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, the governors of New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California and New York, DC mayor Muriel Bowser is a fool, willing to sacrifice the safety of her citizens for dangerous political purposes.
What is most distressing are the painfully sophomoric responses by adult leftists. Bette Midler posted vile comments about Melania’s lovely and gracious speech. She insulted her accent, forgetting apparently that she speaks five languages fluently. The always execrable Joe Lockhart of Clinton administration infamy (the Obamas bought his DC Kalorama mansion) stupidly went after Nick Sandmann, the eighteen-year-old our disgusting media unfairly eviscerated in 2018. He has had the last laugh. Lockhart is a childish, smug bully in adult clothing, and he is one of many such jerks on the left. Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Stephen King, Kathy Griffin and their lot all exposed themselves for being the ill-mannered, malicious people they are. Yamiche Alcindor of PBS tweeted an attack on the young, wheelchair-bound Madison Cawthorn for standing up at the end of his short speech. She said his standing was an insult to social justice warriors! Jake Tapper melted down, calling the last night of the convention a “super-spreader event.” Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid cannot bear to hear good words about our nation. They and their media clones hate this country and are severely triggered by those of us who love it. The loathsome Joe and Mika? Well, there are really no words to adequately describe their mendacity. Do any of these people have children? I hope not for they are all extremely poor role models.
Kamala Harris delivered a spiteful prebuttal speech that was an embarrassment. She blamed the President for Covid, as though he himself created it. She blamed him for all the deaths despite his very early grasp of the potential seriousness of the virus. She blamed him for the shock to our economy rather than all the Democrat governors who locked down their states in the hope it would hurt Trump. They destroyed the economies of their own states to take out a president they hate!
As for their citizens, their constituents and their small businesses? Too bad. Their sacrifice is the cost of doing the left’s bidding. Every word out of Harris’s mouth was a lie, every single word. She is a very nasty piece of work and a phony. She will do and/or say whatever it takes to promote herself. She initially encouraged the riots and has even been raising money to bail out the vandals and looters across the nation. One can see that she is dying to cut Biden off at the knees, the sooner the better. He should probably hire a food taster.
These hate-filled people also prove what all conservatives already know, that the Democrat party is viciously intolerant of people with views in opposition to their own. They call black conservatives “Uncle Toms” thinking that is a slur. Clearly, they’ve not read Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Toms Cabin, for Uncle Tom is the finest character in the novel.
Bottom line? The Democrat party has devolved into a gang of hoodlums. They taunt and demean anyone with whom they disagree, and they enable the violence and the looting in the streets of Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, et. al. or at least they did until Thursday when new talking points were distributed. The polls that show Americans revere their police and expect law and order to be enforced by their elected officials must have come as a shock.
Are they that clueless, that deluded? Indeed, they are. They prove it each and every day since President Trump was elected. They’ve been infantilized by their own rage and they increasingly behave like despicably mean middle school bullies. Vernon Jones, the Georgia state rep and former Democrat who supports Trump aptly described the democrat party in his speech on the first night of the RNC convention:
“The Democrat party has become infected with a pandemic of intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias, and a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy their property and terrorize their own communities.”
Sad but true. This election actually is the most important since Lincoln’s; the choice is between freedom and the soul-numbing imposition of tyrannical socialism.
Everyone, even Democrats, can agree that the DNC convention was an embarrassing bust, a poorly produced concoction of vapidity, anger and wrath. They overdid the “let’s make everyone afraid of covid” bit, no audiences, masks on everyone even when alone on a stage. It was a joke perpetrated by people who, to the core of their beings, think the American people are really stupid.
This core belief, that they can stupefy and manipulate us all, is why they produced a ridiculous covid-fearful four-night convention so boring no one watched it… because it was unwatchable. John Kerry? Bill Clinton? John Kasich? Bernie Sanders? Who on this planet cares about anything these corruptocrats have to say? No one, not even the current crop of apoplectic Trump haters, especially those among the media. The entire endeavor was a joke born of the left’s contempt for middle America. They actually think that by making common cause with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, they can win.
Now that we’ve seen and reveled in the joyous tone of the RNC convention, the abyss between the two parties is writ gloriously large. The left is angry and rattled because they’ve lost their grip on the power that they’ve always taken for granted, even when there was a Republican in the White House.
They are not running the show, Trump is, and his attempt to drain the swamp is making inroads, despite all their treasonous efforts to destroy the man and his presidency. The ferocity of their hate for Trump has led them to reveal their inner souls and it is not a pretty picture. They are an ugly bunch. The termagant Nancy Pelosi charges that Trump and his supporters are “enemies of the state”! How is that for projection?
Now she is advising Biden not to debate Trump. Of course, she is; like everyone else, she knows Biden is cognitively unable to debate the President. Pelosi and her partners in crimes against America have done incalculable damage to this country, to their own cities, and to the Constitution itself. If Biden were to win, who would be running the country? Certainly not no-show-Joe. Joe is done, over. He belongs at home with a caregiver.
But Biden will not be the face of the presidency; he is going to lose, probably badly. The magnificence of the RNC convention, the overpowering profundity of each and every speaker, exposed the sheer vacuity of the Democrat party as currently constituted. It is not only vacuous but thoroughly deranged. For months they have actually believed that the riots in the streets would help them defeat Trump! So besotted by Antifa and Black Lives Matter, both violent Marxist organizations, they forgot to remember the precise meaning of the word “civilization.”
This kind of violent protest got Nixon elected in a landslide. Perhaps they counted on two generations of leftist indoctrination to serve them well, but no, it won’t. Most Americans still favor law and order over barbarity and bloodshed. They do not look kindly on their small businesses being destroyed by thugs in the euphemistic name of “peaceful protests” and “systemic racism.”
Just who are the racists? The oh-so-intolerant left and the Democrats who refuse to condemn their monstrous behavior. Consider the cruel attacks on those leaving the White House after the final convention event. The inept mayor of DC allowed this; she loves it. She thinks it will reverberate in her favor. Like the mayors of Seattle, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, the governors of New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California and New York, DC mayor Muriel Bowser is a fool, willing to sacrifice the safety of her citizens for dangerous political purposes.
What is most distressing are the painfully sophomoric responses by adult leftists. Bette Midler posted vile comments about Melania’s lovely and gracious speech. She insulted her accent, forgetting apparently that she speaks five languages fluently. The always execrable Joe Lockhart of Clinton administration infamy (the Obamas bought his DC Kalorama mansion) stupidly went after Nick Sandmann, the eighteen-year-old our disgusting media unfairly eviscerated in 2018. He has had the last laugh. Lockhart is a childish, smug bully in adult clothing, and he is one of many such jerks on the left. Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Stephen King, Kathy Griffin and their lot all exposed themselves for being the ill-mannered, malicious people they are. Yamiche Alcindor of PBS tweeted an attack on the young, wheelchair-bound Madison Cawthorn for standing up at the end of his short speech. She said his standing was an insult to social justice warriors! Jake Tapper melted down, calling the last night of the convention a “super-spreader event.” Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid cannot bear to hear good words about our nation. They and their media clones hate this country and are severely triggered by those of us who love it. The loathsome Joe and Mika? Well, there are really no words to adequately describe their mendacity. Do any of these people have children? I hope not for they are all extremely poor role models.
Kamala Harris delivered a spiteful prebuttal speech that was an embarrassment. She blamed the President for Covid, as though he himself created it. She blamed him for all the deaths despite his very early grasp of the potential seriousness of the virus. She blamed him for the shock to our economy rather than all the Democrat governors who locked down their states in the hope it would hurt Trump. They destroyed the economies of their own states to take out a president they hate!
As for their citizens, their constituents and their small businesses? Too bad. Their sacrifice is the cost of doing the left’s bidding. Every word out of Harris’s mouth was a lie, every single word. She is a very nasty piece of work and a phony. She will do and/or say whatever it takes to promote herself. She initially encouraged the riots and has even been raising money to bail out the vandals and looters across the nation. One can see that she is dying to cut Biden off at the knees, the sooner the better. He should probably hire a food taster.
These hate-filled people also prove what all conservatives already know, that the Democrat party is viciously intolerant of people with views in opposition to their own. They call black conservatives “Uncle Toms” thinking that is a slur. Clearly, they’ve not read Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Toms Cabin, for Uncle Tom is the finest character in the novel.
Bottom line? The Democrat party has devolved into a gang of hoodlums. They taunt and demean anyone with whom they disagree, and they enable the violence and the looting in the streets of Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, et. al. or at least they did until Thursday when new talking points were distributed. The polls that show Americans revere their police and expect law and order to be enforced by their elected officials must have come as a shock.
Are they that clueless, that deluded? Indeed, they are. They prove it each and every day since President Trump was elected. They’ve been infantilized by their own rage and they increasingly behave like despicably mean middle school bullies. Vernon Jones, the Georgia state rep and former Democrat who supports Trump aptly described the democrat party in his speech on the first night of the RNC convention:
“The Democrat party has become infected with a pandemic of intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias, and a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy their property and terrorize their own communities.”
Sad but true. This election actually is the most important since Lincoln’s; the choice is between freedom and the soul-numbing imposition of tyrannical socialism.
If there was one moment during the Republican convention that caused my official Daily Wire Leftist Tears Tumbler to magically overflow, it was in a speech by former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley.
“In much of the Democratic Party, it’s now fashionable to say that America is racist,” Haley said. “That is a lie. America is not a racist country.”
Democrats and the media — but I repeat myself — reacted swiftly.
“I’m just hung up a little bit about Nikki Haley,” said hung up ABC Anchor Linsey Davis. “A comment that she made, ‘America is not a racist country.’ I think that that’s a statement that a lot of black people, black and brown people, would take umbrage with.”
Chicago Tribune columnist Dahleen Glanton was blunter, saying the statement made Haley “appear to be either disgracefully ignorant or a blatant liar.”
But, of course, what Haley really was, was completely correct. There is a history of institutional racism in America, no doubt, but today our country is wholly free of it. The U.S. is easily the least racist nation on the planet. There is certainly nowhere else with such a multi-ethnic population as committed to keeping its institutions fair. Why, in America, a black person can be elected president — twice — something no other white majority nation can say.
But the idea that all this might be true is a tremendous threat to the Democrats’ near monopoly on black votes. They live on racial division. This is why, in the words of Wall Street Journal Columnist Jason Riley, Democrats “focus their energies on keeping black people angry and paranoid, not on improving black lives.”
This is also why people of color like Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron are sometimes greeted with unprintable racist name-calling from the Left. In a graceful and powerful convention speech, Cameron addressed Joe Biden, referring to his many untoward remarks about blacks. “Mr. Vice President, look at me, I am Black, we are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains, my mind is my own, and you can’t tell me how to vote because of the color of my skin.” If even twenty percent of black voters would say the same, there would be no Democrat Party.
In their efforts to keep “black people angry and paranoid,” leftists have cooked up the phrase “systemic racism.” I’m not sure this phrase is supposed to have any very definite meaning. I think it’s meant rather to be a license for perpetual grievance. But insofar as it means anything, it seems to refer to the fact that American ideas and ideals derive from places like Greece, Jerusalem, Rome, and especially England where the people’s skin was more or less white.
And yes, it’s true, our ideas did come from those places. And assimilating into a nation based on those largely English ideas often requires some sacrifice of cultural identification. Jews who assimilate have to accept values derived from the same Christianity that has often oppressed them, Irish have to play by the political rules of their age-old enemies the English, and so on. Assimilation is complex and difficult and goes against the natural grain because it puts ideas over instinctive tribal loyalty. It requires grace, forgiveness, and a willingness to align yourself with a history that may not have always been friendly toward your particular group.
And yes, it’s even harder for blacks in America, because it’s here, in this nation, where the crimes of race-based slavery and Jim Crow were perpetrated against them. There is one more step of forgiveness black Americans have to take.
We on the Right find – or should find – such forgiveness particularly praiseworthy. The assimilationist lives of men like Daniel Cameron are, in this regard, lives of Christly grace. Clinging to bitterness and resentment is the norm in human behavior. Rising above to embrace the good beyond personal instincts is a higher path.
That blacks might seize this new post-racial day of American good will and opportunity and take that higher path, that they might join at last the endless array of peoples who have put aside the ancient racial hostilities to become fully committed Americans — this is the biggest threat identitarian Democrats face.
That is why they are in a panic. That is why they have to keep the bitterness hot. That is why they are inciting racial hysteria at every opportunity. They know that racial unity is closer than ever.
The violence in Democrat cities may be the beginning of a reign of terror. But it may also be the beginning of the end for the Left’s ugly race-based narrative.
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This core belief, that they can stupefy and manipulate us all, is why they produced a ridiculous covid-fearful four-night convention so boring no one watched it… because it was unwatchable. John Kerry? Bill Clinton? John Kasich? Bernie Sanders? Who on this planet cares about anything these corruptocrats have to say? No one, not even the current crop of apoplectic Trump haters, especially those among the media. The entire endeavor was a joke born of the left’s contempt for middle America. They actually think that by making common cause with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, they can win.