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The Covid and Climate Change scams are alike in many ways, but perhaps no more so than this: their proponents don’t act like they believe what they’re selling. Climate change apostles fly everywhere on private jets, and Covid harridans don’t wear masks whenever they think no one is watching. With that in mind, let’s examine recent developments on the Covid front.
Things aren’t looking good for Temporary President Biden:
Just 36 percent of registered voters approve of President Joe Biden’s job performance, Civiqs polling revealed Sunday.
That’s a new low. Some suggest Trump’s polling was in the same neighborhood, but he had the entire D/S/C establishment, including their media propaganda arm, most of the federal deep state and some of the Republican Party relentlessly hounding him even before his inauguration. D/S/Cs are now so desperate, they’re actually trying to claim the media has been harder on Biden than they were on Trump. That’s not working out so well. Take the link for the whole story on the polling, but consider this conclusion to the article:
Biden’s job performance is also negative in 45 states.
Only five states approve of Biden’s performance: California (45 – 44 percent), Hawaii (49 – 41 percent), Maryland (46 – 43 percent), Massachusetts (48 – 39 percent), and Vermont (53-36 percent).
Well, there are no surprises there. And speaking of no surprises, how is Biden’s performance on Covid?
China is responsible for every American Covid death. But if you’re going to try to parse out blame to a particular president, at least get the simple math right. On Christmas Eve, CNN Newsroom fill-in host Boris Sanchez had some trouble doing that as he definitively claimed it was ‘fake news’ to accurately say that more Americans have been killed by Covid under President Biden than former President Trump.
Once again, take the link for the math, but when most of the D/S/C media is reporting the truth more have died on Biden’s watch, it’s rather hard to call it fake news. To be fair, CNN has had a lot on its collective mind lately. OK, so Joe did shut down the country and the economy, what else could go wrong? Oh: Fauci. Right:
Last year, Dr. Anthony Fauci publicly spoke out against the idea that eventual COVID vaccines would be mandated by the federal government, suggesting that the idea would be simply impossible. ‘If someone refuses the vaccine in the general public, then there’s nothing you can do about that. You cannot force someone to take a vaccine,’ he said back in August 2020.
As is the case with countless things that have come out of Fauci’s mouth, what he says and what he has planned were two entirely different things. He’s since aggressively pushed for COVID vaccine mandates, even for activities where he basically admits they won’t do anything to slow the spread of the virus, but will simply inconvenience people. ‘A vaccine requirement for a person getting on the plane is just another level of getting people to have a mechanism that would spur them to get vaccinated’ he admitted on Sunday’s episode of ABC’s This Week.
So we punish the Deplorables and further destroy the economy by further damaging the airline industry, and business in general–that’s the economy folks–to force people to get vaccinated or starve? Sounds like sound medical judgment to me. Fauci has also recently said masking on airlines ought to be permanent. But what about the “pandemic of the unvaccinated?” That’s been good messaging, a real political winner, right?
But the problems with the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ message pre-date the variant that rendered it factually ludicrous. On September 16, one week after Biden reversed serial administration promises by announcing an employer vaccine mandate (while using language such as ‘We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us’), science writer Yasmin Tayag penned an Atlantic piece headlined “Stop Calling It a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.’”
‘Bullying the unvaccinated into getting their shots isn’t going to work in the long run,’ Tayag predicted, in a piece surveying a field of study (behavioral science) to which the White House seems oblivious. ‘The way the mandates are being presented is driving a wedge between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. If the goal is to inoculate enough people to reach herd immunity, this approach may eventually backfire.’
It has backfired, largely because many, many completely vaccinated and even double boostered folks are becoming infected again. To those who have been paying attention, this is no surprise. The vaccines aren’t true vaccines. They don’t confer immunity and prevent infection, just generally make the disease less serious when one gets if for the first time, or again, and even that benefit is not lasting. It’s rather difficult to make the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” meme stick when its so blatantly, undeniably false. Some media outlets are beginning to report the seasonal flu has somehow miraculously begun to infect people again! Wherever could it have been? On vacation? Many are even reporting masks don’t work. But what about quarantines?
Last week the narrative was ‘the winter of death’ is coming. That effort didn’t faze anyone; the White House shifted messaging within days.
The latest public guidance from the Centers for Disease Control [full release here] gives the first impression of the narrative shift being laughable; however, when you go deeper into their motive a righteous sneer disappears quickly.
*First, the CDC is now saying the quarantine time for anyone vaccinated or unvaccinated and testing positive for COVID-19 is now changed from ten days to five days. If you test positive for COVID-19, Omicron or any variant therein, you only need to be quarantined for 5 days.
*Secondly, the CDC is now saying anyone who has been vaccinated and ‘boosted’ who tests positive, does not need to quarantine at all. ‘Individuals who have received their booster shot do not need to quarantine following an exposure, but should wear a mask for 10 days after the exposure.’
Oh. So maybe this new variant—can’t wait to find out all about the next one and how it gives D/S/Cs permanent control over everything and everyone—isn’t all that deadly after all? Which brings us full circle to Joe’s recent brain bomb, delivered during a virtual meeting with Governors:
We got to beat it back before we shut it down. Look, it’s going to take time worldwide. In order to be COVID, we have to shut it down worldwide,’ he said as he announced new federal measures to beat back the scourge.
Those “new federal measures” would be no federal measures:
‘Look, there is no federal solution,’ Biden said in response to a question from Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. ‘This gets solved at the state level.’
‘I’m looking at Governor Sununu [New Hampshire],’ Biden continued, ‘on the board here. He talks about that a lot. And then ultimately it gets down to where the rubber meets the road and that’s where the patient is in need of help, or preventing the need for help.’
Keep in mind, gentle readers, the Government has a January 7 Supreme Court date where they’re going to be arguing for the imposition of a variety of nationwide federal mandates, opposed by many state attorney’s general. If Covid can’t be solved by the Federal Government, if states are where “the rubber meets the road,” and it must be true because Joe said so, shouldn’t the DOJ admit the government had no case, and rescind every mandate? I somehow suspect the state AGs are going to be mentioning Biden’s declaration.
Of course they should, but one can only imagine the panic in the White House among Biden’s handlers and teleprompter writers/operators when he dropped that one. That’s why they don’t let him out much, and don’t let him speak unscripted. Let’s review what they had to say in the not so distant past:
And now let’s see what they’re saying after Joe made this particular gaffe, which in this case means actually telling the truth:
Ah. In other words, the Harris/Biden/Whoever Administration—Joe Biden, Temporary President—is desperate to keep some role for themselves, so they’re pledging to do far, far less than Donald Trump did for the states? Brilliant. Here’s a bit more brilliance:
Fire thousands of health care professionals who served for two years, much of that time when no vaccine was available? Fire them when we know the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection or transmission? Just another Biden-caused disaster. Even out here in Flyover Country, medical practices have almost entirely abandoned masking and all the other remnants of Covid theater.
Final Thoughts:
None of this is surprising. Biden’s handlers were foolish to imagine they could deny actual science. To be fair, however, they had every reason to believe their media propaganda arm would support whatever they said and did, would treat Fauci like a god and repeat every word he said, no matter how impossible and how much he contradicted himself, as revealed truth. To be honest, they’ve pretty much been able to invent their own reality and force others to live in it up until recently.
Fortunately, reality has a way of asserting itself, and America isn’t so far sunk into the depths of socialism/communism that government can suppress it for long. This virus, courtesy of the Chinese Communists, is behaving as all viruses do. We do not have the technology to, as Joe promised, “shut down the virus.” We can’t “shut down” any virus, and if Fauci and the rest of the federal health bureaucracy had any integrity, they would have been saying that long ago and focusing on, rather than suppressing, treatments.
Bidenites are in grave danger of slipping even more deeply into irrelevance. They have to be panicking at the reality Americans, outside blue states and cities, aren’t buying pandemic panic any longer. In fact, they’re not only ignoring federal mandates, they’re doing much worse: ignoring, even mocking them.
Without the eternal “emergency” powers Covid and its never-ending procession of variants provides, the 2022 mid-term elections promise to be even worse for D/S/Cs than they’re foreseeing and admitting. If they can’t banish the Senate filibuster and pass their Eternal D/S/C Rule/Vote Fraud Act, even 2024 could be a sure loser. If those annoying states get to set the agenda, if that damned Constitution gets to stand, D/S/Cs know they could be in the political wilderness for a very long time, and it couldn’t happen to worse people.
They’re goin’ down swinging, and thus far, they’re not hitting a thing.
UPDATE, 12-29-21, 1930 MT: Uh-oh. Dr. Rochelle Walensky of the CDC has accidentally admitted it was never about science and public health. A massive gaffe—when a politician accidently tells the truth—in tweets:
Nor to me…
A 50% reduction and more reduction in isolation times? This new learning amazes me!
As Orwell said, some animals are more equal than others, and as we’ve learned in the last few years, not all lives matter, and one can get in much trouble asserting they do.
No reason both options can’t be true…
Of course it was…
Sure, but only if we vote the right–left–way. Voting otherwise means you want to kill everybody. Here’s a scientific experiment we haven’t tried. It couldn’t work worse than masks and all the rest:
Hmmm. You don’t suppose this has anything to do with the rapidly approaching 2022 midterms, Joe Biden’s, and D/S/C’s approval ratings in general heading for negative numbers, and a country full of increasingly angry and restive Normal Americans, do you? Nah. That would be too cynical, but then again, Lily Tomlin said:
No matter how cynical I get, it’s impossible to keep up.
“Things aren’t looking good for Temporary President Biden:”
Um.. seems to me things aren’t looking good for the entire country no matter who is currently in charge or who ends up in charge down the line. Whether you like it or not, politics or not, the country is in this together… and I am not just talking about the pandemic.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, and on and on forever. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump ….
Dough?? My ex-mother-in-law spelled my name that way.. and she’s dead; I won.
Who said anything about Trump? He’s irrelevant.
Dear Doug:
Of course we are. We’re just talking about how best to fix things. Americans get to do that, and not just when they’re talking about destroying Donald Trump.
Dear Doug.
“Um.. seems to me things aren’t looking good for the entire country no matter who is currently in charge or who ends up in charge down the line.”
Yes things are bleak at the moment for OUR (?) country. AND it matters who is currently in charge, as well as who ends up in charge. If WE don’t end up in charge, with a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, our Republic is doomed. When the ‘governors’ fear The People, Liberty is possible. When The People fear the governors, tyrants reign. These are PRINCIPLES that stand *regardless* of the PERSONS involved.
Principle before Personality.
-or-
Personality before Principle.
Pick one. And stick with it. I would love to see you ‘in the fold’ with those who stand with principle.
As long as you have the “Liberty-Equality-Fraternity thing going on there.. I’ll side with the Constitution.
If WE don’t end up “in charge”? Good Lord…
Apparently I made my point.
Yes. Good Lord. I’ll side with the Constitution as well — the greatest promoter and protector of Liberty and Equality that I know of.
Principle before personality.
Did you have a point?
Well, my point is simply that there’s no compromise going on, but rather a creation of one side needing to be a “villain”.. a dark side to democracy that must be eliminated. That one side wants power for the sake of asserting that power for evil things, or in the least, anti-democratic things. It’s the idea that both sides relish the Constitution yet both sides relish it to act only for their own ends… each end being the “correct” end, justified by the Constitution only they can interpret properly. Next we will hear the echoes that “God is on our side” as is so often cried out in revolutions. What the hell does that even mean?
Let’s get real simple here. Unless we get along as the Founders through the Constitution expected subsequent generations of Americans should do, what’s the alternative? 320 million Americans and at best 50% think like you do.. maybe… which suggests 50% do not. So please tell me.. what’s the alternative to dealing with this within the framework of the Constitution? What do YOU think you can do that will force your political ideas down the throats of the other 50% of Americans?
Here’s an idea to try and comprehend. The day you take down from your fireplace mantle the family AK-47 to go out and kill people to “save” liberty and democracy, is the day America dies forever. Everything that follows will be nothing but bullshit.
Dear Doug:
I agree. All everyone needs to do is simply obey the Constitution, which means no court packing, no seizing all electoral power from the states, no racism, no infringing on individual liberties, etc. Simple, no? I do this every day, and so do Normal Americans. Obey the law, mind your own business and let others mind theirs. That’s my big political idea.
But YOU will be the judge of all those parameters… right? Based on YOUR interpretation of what “should be” according to the Constitution… and all others are not to be tolerated; the “normal” Americans are important… depending on what “normal” you wish to promote… all others are a threat.
Dear Doug:
Who would you prefer? People who refuse to accept the Constitution is written in plain English, that it says what it means and means what it says? People who have never read the Federalist Papers and would deny their plain meaning and reality if they did? People who do threatening things are threats. Those who are willing to live under the rule of law and extend the same courtesy to others aren’t.
I don’t have a fireplace…or AK-47. YOU are the one who seems to advocate “democracy.” I do not. Nor do I have any desire to force my “political” ideas down anybody’s throat.
The “Founders through the Constitution” sought to establish a Constitutional Republic with some democratic underpinnings. And I find no indication that the Founders imagined that subsequent generations of Americans should or would “get along.” Had they imagined that, there would have been no talk of the need for blood to occasionally water and fertilize the tree of liberty. There would have been no talk of domestic enemies of the Constitution. There probably wouldn’t have been a Bill of Rights, even.
As for the cry that “God is on our side,” you wouldn’t hear it from me. You might hear me declare that I am on the side of Reason and Nature and Nature’s God. But I am humble enough not to allow myself to imagine some omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient Being being on my side. Whoever or whatever such a Being may be, I belong to that Being, not the other way around. I sprang up from Nature. I belong to this Nature and Nature’s God, not the other way around.
Finally, no. There are not 160 million people who think like I do. And there aren’t 160 million people who think like you do. There is only one person who thinks what I think — ME. It would be delusional for me to imagine that I am in the company of millions of people with my thoughts.
You are sadly and sorely mistaken. There absolutely IS “compromise going on.” Otherwise I wouldn’t engage in conversation with someone such as you — a radical promoter of “democracy” who is obviously long on ‘personality focus’ and short on ‘principle focus’ and seemingly stuck in a dark and nasty place. I can and do relate.
Well,TBS…. I actually respect your forthright approach… and I do note your last sentence.
My reference to compromise was not pertaining to this venue as much as in the halls of our elected institutions. Also, while I realize that it’s popular for those on the Right to readily and continually point out that America is a Republic and not a Democracy (if nothing else than to sound more intellectual or something), technically true as a form of government, but quite interchangeable given it’s been the American experience to promote Democracy around the world…and in fact, America is known as and accepted as a literal Democracy. I see no reason to weaponize the precise definition.
Yu said…..
“You are sadly and sorely mistaken. There absolutely IS “compromise going on.” Otherwise I wouldn’t engage in conversation with someone such as you —”
Well…. I’m the only voice of alternative opinion in this blog, and if I were not here this would be a nice Kumbaya echo chamber of total agreement. I think most engagement with me is less about engaging in noble discourse to swap learned opinions and more about responding to some idiot daring to post alternative controversial BS on this blog, and not getting a with it. I’d call it more a “tolerance” than compromise… with someone such as me.
You’ll notice that each time I might make a remark in here to one of Mike’s posts that seems to fire things up, Mike pulls away from engaging in the feeding frenzy…. leaving you guys to defend his opinion.
You’ve created for yourself an elitism.
Dear Doug:
Why? Because I don’t think of myself as elite, nor do I try to impose my beliefs on others? That’s elitism these days?
Ooh, another moment of accidental honestly by Doug. In his world, not wanting to be ruled by unelected bureaucrats and elitists is itself a form of elitism. What a fool!!!
Once again, we see that Doug believes that freedom is to be reserved for the “correct” people, presumably people like him, and that the masses can not be trusted with Liberty.
Nah.. the fool is perhaps the one thinking there’s “normal Americans”, and others less entitled. Sounds pretty elitist to me. But even elitism is relative, is it not?
Dear Doug:
You really don’t deny–do you?–there are classes of self-imagined elite who think themselves solely fit to rule? They are not, by any means, Normal Americans, people who just don’t think of themselves that way, and expect government to remain within its constitutional confines. They want nothing more than to live their lives in safety, to be left alone, and they expect no more and no less of others. I am but one of their number. This is elitism?
But of course, I’ve often written this, and often in response to your projection.
Ok.. I’ll bite. Who is the ruling elite you speak of? Names not necessary (although might help to illustrate).. perhaps profession? Educational level? Wealth? Popularity? Race? Religion? Whoever they are they have to be few in number.
Which then begs the next question… this ruling elite, who all this time I’ve followed you in here you’ve assigned, by default, as not normal Americans, must be somehow benefitting from some level of power.. and I ask, who has given them this power to apparently govern in some way that you find controlling and dominating?
I mean, up until this point all your posts and comments about “normal Americans” was an all-encompassing assertion coupled with your references to D/S/C’s, which I naturally assumed were all Liberals (and Socialists and Commies). I wasn’t aware not normal Americans was a niche group to fear.
The idea of less government has always been a measure of fondness for Republicans… of what I used to be… but it is NOT what Trumpian Republicans hold dear. They are just flat out distrusting of government in general.
Dear Doug:
Really? You’re really going to pretend not to know to who I refer?
Not pretending a thing. Trying to understand your perception of some threat others are posing to your freedoms…. or liberty. Common sense might suggest it varies by person.
Or not.
You are the very definition of psychological projection. You explicitly accused Mike of elitism for wanting to be left alone. You are the one separating people into two classes: people, like you, who can be trusted with freedom; and the rest of the unwashed masses who cannot. It highlights your lack of belief in freedom itself.
I’m not the one creating labels to separate the “other” (other Americans I might add) from my own ideology. I’m not the one separating out that those who share MY ideology are “normal” and the rest who do not share my ideals, are not.
Freedom is not an “it” to possess. It’s a state of being. Freedom is not somehow “divine”, “ordained” or part of some “inalienable”/”unalienable” right of birth. It’s earned, achieved, in pursuit of human collective self-governance, and once achieved it has to be constantly defended to stay relevant.
Our form of practicing democracy simply defines our chosen level of freedom… which has come to define ourselves as Americans… a representative government ruled by compromise to achieve a majority.
Being “left alone” is not freedom. Democracy requires vigilance AND participation to assure government continues to serve everyone. Participation means using your vote.
No, Phil, I have little problem with my belief in freedom. I’m a moderate in a polarized America. I don’t expect government to always go MY way. Democracy, simply by its nature, is a slow and cumbersome process.. and many times can be a frustrating pain in the ass. But in the end it’s always time well spent that I will defend any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
I don’t fear the excesses of government as that can be controlled by exercising the Constitution. I fear clowns who think their gun will make everything “their normal” again.
Clearly you have no idea what Liberty means.
I don’t find it at the muzzle of a gun barrel, Phil.
And that statement proves that the concept of Liberty escapes you. Read the Federalist Papers, specifically #10 and 51 if you’d like to learn something.
I’m sorry.. did I miss somewhere that the Federalist Papers represent law now? Yes.. it’s a wonderful historical source of editorial opinion of the Founders who authored the work regarding applications of governance to maintain freedom and liberty. James Madison himself.. one of the authors, later in life cautioned the general tendency of the SCOTUS of the day in justifying decisions based on opinion from the Federalist Papers that really were not authoritative legal Constitutional case law.. but thesis essays to support public acceptance of the new government by the three authors.
You trying to suggest that the road to liberty means becoming an anti-federalist? Seems that’s where we are at in our national divide.
“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”–Oliver Cromwell 1650
James Madison, the primary architect of the US Constitution at the age of only 36, and the 4th President of the United States, wrote many of the Federalist Papers in support of its ratification. They were written for the average citizens, who were already familiar with the works of Aristotle, the Bible, Locke, Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Montesquieu. They are all still relevant today, like Shakespeare, because they speak universal truths. You might learn something valuable. Hint: Liberty doesn’t come from the barrel of a gun.
You have me confused now, Phil. Please tell me where I am mistaken (per your Cromwell quote) in what I said about the Federalist Papers. I know all this.. I’ve read this.
You said (as I did)…
“Hint: Liberty doesn’t come from the barrel of a gun.”
Yet if you go back to past posts and replies in here a number of people tend to enjoy that Jefferson quote (and the Court interpretation of the Second Amendment) as a backup justification to take up arms if things don’t go the way they want.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
He said that in response to the Shays Rebellion, under the Articles of Confederation (NOT our current Constitution).