Daily News Roundup
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Issues & Insights Editorial Board: Democrats have insisted theirs is the party of science and it is science that has determined their responses to the pandemic. But it’s clear that politics dictate their decisions, and that their rules will be lifted only when doing so benefits them and their agenda. The coronavirus outbreak has been a gift to the party that has come to exist solely to perpetuate and increase its ruling class powers and privileges.
Michelle Malkin contributor to The Unz Review: And just remember, parents, that the pandemic profiteers who stand to gain unprecedented, multi-billion-dollar windfalls from endless vaccine boosters administered cradle to grave around the world have the most terrifying man-made immunity ever created: immunity from liability for their corner-cutting, life-endangering business model.
Mike Solana vice president of Founders Fund: Provided the vaccine hesitant aren’t literally crazy (they mostly aren’t), and the rest of us are pretty much safe (we are), there is no ethical justification for forcing anyone to undergo a medical procedure they don’t want. And until there is? My body, my choice.
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) in a 9/29/21 tweet: We can’t allow upcoming holiday air travel to contribute to another surge in COVID cases. Today I introduced legislation requiring passengers on domestic flights to be vaccinated, test negative or be fully recovered from a previous COVID illness.
Kira Davis contributor to RedState: Just when you thought things couldn’t get more insane, a Louisiana company has sent a memo to employees saying they plan to fine any employee with a spouse who refuses to be vaccinated for COVID.
PRESIDENT TRUMP
Starnes Staff: BREAKING: Marine Who Appeared with Trump Under Investigation
The Marine who appeared with former President Trump at a Georgia rally Saturday has reportedly been placed under investigation, according to military officials. Lance Cpl. Hunter Clark saved a baby at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan captured in a viral video before appearing with Trump in Atlanta to cheers of “USA! USA! USA!” “Clark’s command is reportedly looking into whether he violated the military’s ban on active-duty troops engaging in political activity,” Task & Purpose reports.
Read more at Todd Starnes.
Anderson: Trump Backs One-Time Critic and Dem Donor in Crowded AZ Primary
Former president Donald Trump endorsed a one-time critic and Democratic donor in Arizona’s crowded Republican gubernatorial primary. Trump on Tuesday announced his support of Kari Lake for Arizona governor, calling the former news anchor a “fantastic person” who will “make … the MAGA movement very proud.” In 2017, however, Lake admonished Trump for his infamous press conference held after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. Lake told her Facebook followers the press conference marked “a real $hit$h0w” during which Trump “showed absolutely no self-control.” […] Lake made her first ever political donation to Kerry in 2004, and she officially left the GOP two years later, changing her party affiliation to independent ahead of the 2006 midterms. Lake later registered as a Democrat in 2008 and held the affiliation for four years. She justified the contributions to Democrats by saying she “thought the Republican Party had lost its way with the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq” and “was really excited about the first black president.”
Read more at Free Beacon
U.S. SUPREME COURT
Hammer: Sonia Sotomayor Exposes the Lie of an ‘Apolitical’ Supreme Court
According to reporting from both CNN and the Washington Post, Sotomayor recently offered what can only be interpreted as a substantive public policy position on S.B. 8, Texas’ recent anti-abortion fetal heartbeat law that has garnered much national attention. That Sotomayor would now offer a forthright political opinion on the topic is hardly unexpected: She dissented from the court’s correct recent decision to deny Texas pro-abortion plaintiffs’ emergency request to enjoin any enforcement of S.B. 8, lambasting the law at the time as “flagrantly unconstitutional.”
Read more at American Greatness.
JANUARY
Glenn Greenwald: New Evidence of FBI Involvement in the 1/6 Protest — With Darren Beattie, Who Broke the Story
When former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie reported in June that there was evidence suggesting FBI foreknowledge of the January 6 protest at the Capitol, if not active involvement, the corporate media mocked him and others who took it seriously for being deranged conspiracy theories. But now, the New York Times just reported that the FBI had at least one informant at the Capitol on that day. On the latest SYSTEM UPDATE, Glenn Greenwald speaks to Beattie about what do know now about involvement by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. They also discuss whether concept of “right” and “left” are changing radically.
Watch the 1:24:26 hour video interview at Rumble.
GOP
Wong: Republicans Call on Marine Corps to Release Lt. Col. Stu Scheller, Jailed after Criticizing Afghanistan Withdrawal
Republicans in the House and Senate are calling on the Marine Corps to release Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, who was thrown in a military jail this week after he criticized military leadership for the botched Afghanistan withdrawal on social media and continued posting about his disposition. […] The letter was also signed by GOP Reps. Madison Cawthorn, Lauren Boebert, Jeff Duncan, Buddy Carter, Ben Cline, Andy Biggs, Bob Good, Diana Harshbarger, Paul Gosar, Thomas Massie, Bill Posey, Barry Moore, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Daniel Webster, David Rouzer, Dan Bishop, Mary Miller, Andrew Clyde, Randy Weber, Matt Gaetz, Glenn Grothman, Debbie Lesko, Ralph Norman, Andy Harris, Doug LaMalfa, Barry Loudermilk, Billy Long, John Carter, Matthew Rosendale, James Comer, Warren Davidson, and August Pfluger. Many of the members made their own statements on Twitter: . . .
Read more at Breitbart.
Lifson: Must-see TV: Rand Paul excoriates HHS Sec. Becerra for ignoring science and calling Covid survivors who decline vaccine ‘flat earthers’
Senator (and medical doctor) Rand Paul delivered an epic dressing down to HHS secretary Xavier Becerra during Senate testimony for calling those who decline vaccination “flat earthers.” Particularly referencing those who have recovered from COVID and have natural immunity like NBA star Jonathan Isaac, Senator Paul methodically cited the science in denouncing Becerra’s arrogance and his lack of knowledge and scientific credentials.
Read more American Thinker.
Watch the 2:09 minute takedown.
Watch the entire 6 minute exchange.
Exchange between Rep. Matt Gaetz and Gen. Milley
Watch the 5:07 minute exchange
FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL
Heine: Dem Attack Ad Targeting Gov. Ron DeSantis Backfires Badly
On online political attack ad targeting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to have resulted in more people wanting to vote for him. The ad, put out by the political action committee “Remove Ron,” sought to blame the popular Republican for every COVID-19 death in the state, and labeled him “DeathSantis,” but most viewers reacted favorably to the governor portrayed in the ad. The Purge-themed video begins with an airplane full of masked passengers making its final descent to a Florida airport. As an ominous musical score attempts to build up fear and dread in the viewer, the flight attendant plays a short clip of Gov. DeSantis delivering a message on COVID-19. […] For the video’s climax, newspaper headlines . . . […] The ad, which was posted at 6:09 PM on Wednesday, had 4.3 thousand comments by Thursday morning. The vast majority were along these lines: . . .
Read more/Watch the ad at American Greatness
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA
Spann: Can the Dems Bust the Filibuster?
At the moment, two Democrat Senators stand in the way of all this lunacy becoming law. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are playing Horatius at the Bridge. The fate of this Grand Republic hangs on these two (so far) stalwarts. Enormous pressure will be brought against the recalcitrant senators. Yet how far can Chuck Schumer push without the two switching party affiliation? Joe is from a very red state and Kyrsten is from a purple state which Biden is likely returning to red. If Manchin and Sinema remain firm, what are the Democrats’ options? One thing is for sure, the Dems aren’t going to give up. […] From 2001 forward, twenty-six senatorial vacancies have occurred, or roughly twice each Congress. Two vacancies opening up before the end of 2022 is well within the law of averages. For the Dems, though, the right vacancies must happen. Let us examine the Senate lay of the land . . . There are seven states (KS, KY, LA, ME, NC, PA, WI) which have a Democratic governor and one or two Republican senators. A vacancy in Kentucky or North Carolina is useless to the Democrats, as state law requires the governor to appoint a same party replacement. However, in Kansas . . . […] In their desperation would the Democrats try to engineer vacancies? Expulsion is out, as it requires a two-thirds majority of senators. […] That leaves . . .
Read more at American Thinker
Mutikani: Jobless Claims Rise For Third Straight Week
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 362,000 for the week ended Sept. 25, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 335,000 applications for the latest week.
Read more at Free Beacon.
Durden: Biden’s Nominee For Top Bank Regulator Earned “Lenin” Award, Praised USSR’s “Equality”, And Wants To “End Banking As We Know It”
President Biden’s pick for Comptroller of the Currency is quite the anti-capitalist. Cornell University law professor Saule Omarova, who proposed ‘ending banking as we know it,’ and that radical change to the system would make the institution ‘more inclusive, efficient and stable,’ has come under fire over her extreme views. […] As the Wall Street Journal editorial board notes, “Ms. Omarova thinks asset prices, pay scales, capital and credit should be dictated by the federal government. In two papers, she has advocated expanding the Federal Reserve’s mandate to include the price levels of “systemically important financial assets” as well as worker wages. As they like to say at the modern university, from each according to her ability to each according to her needs.” In a recent paper “The People’s Ledger,” she proposed that the Federal Reserve take over consumer bank deposits, “effectively ‘end banking,’ as we know it,” and become “the ultimate public platform for generating, modulating, and allocating financial resources in a modern economy.” She’d also like the U.S. to create a central bank digital currency—as Venezuela and China are doing—to “redesign our financial system & turn Fed’s balance sheet into a true ‘People’s Ledger,’” she tweeted this summer. What could possibly go wrong? -WSJ
Read more at Zero Hedge.
Oliver: Senate Confirms Joe Biden’s Ecoterrorist Nominee to Lead Bureau of Land Management
Stone-Manning’s affiliation with ecoterrorists and her role in a tree spiking plot from three decades ago came to light in June during her nomination process, resulting in a wave of objections to her nomination to lead the BLM, the agency overseeing vast swaths of federal land in mostly western states. n addition to zero support from congressional Republicans, several counties in the West, national and state logger organizations, the Dallas Safari Club and Houston Safari Club, a former Obama administration BLM director, and a former Trump administration acting BLM director all spoke out against Stone-Manning’s nomination as the process played out. Stone-Manning was a member of the environmental extremist group Earth First!
Read more Breitbart.
Greenfield; Biden’s ‘Evacuation’ Was a Taliban Human Trafficking Scheme
After Biden evacuated tens of thousands of Afghan “translators”, refugee resettlement groups are desperately looking for translators to translate to the translators. Why do Afghan translators, who were supposed to be able to translate from English to their native language, need help from translators? It’s because they’re not translators. In the last two years, Front Page Magazine ran multiple articles like How the ‘Interpreter’ Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans to America and ‘Saving Afghan Interpreters’ is a Scam That Would Bring 100,000 Afghans to U.S. exposing the “translator” scam. Now tens of thousands of Afghans are arriving in this country and they need translators because they don’t speak English.
Read more at FrontPage Mag
Fox: ‘DEAD ON ARRIVAL’: Manchin Crushes Dem Dreams of Taxpayer-Funded Abortion in Reconciliation Bill
If there’s one thing you can count on besides death and taxes, it’s feverish Democrats trying to push through huge spending bills that would force American taxpayers to fund other people’s abortions. Taxpayer-funded abortion has long been unpopular with the American people and has been blocked by the Hyde amendment. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) is standing up for the rights of the people not to be forced to pay for murder.
Read more at PJ Media
(Repost- August 2021) Revolver.news: Joe Biden is Recreating “The Camp of The Saints” at the US Border Part 1
Camp of the Saints is no longer fiction. The Biden administration has made it reality along the U.S.-Mexico border. Right before our eyes, the government of the United States is deciding that, in fact, the United States doesn’t really exist at all.[…] The thesis of The Camp of the Saints is simple: That the very traits that made the West so successful and so widely-imitated would eventually be its undoing. The West’s openness and egalitarianism led to widespread prosperity. But those same moral sensibilities, Raspail argues, mean that while the West could easily vanquish a normal military threat, it will be politically unable to justify its own success. If the impoverished, backwards masses of the Third World demand the wealth of the West, the West will submit even if it ultimately means the loss of its prosperity, its independence, its culture, its very existence. Nearly a half-century later, with Western elites eagerly waving in caravans from Central America and literal boatloads from Africa, Raspail’s foresight looks remarkable. Six months ago, Raspail was prescient. Today, his vision is so accurate one wonders if he was a time traveler.
Read more at Revolver.
Revolver.News: Joe Biden is Recreating “The Camp of The Saints” at the US Border: Part 2
We only made only one mistake in that piece: We imagined that the Biden Administration had reached rock bottom. But in fact, over the past two months, the similarities between Raspail’s book and America’s insane reality have only grown. In Raspail’s Camp of the Saints, the collapse of French civilization beneath a tidal wave of Third World migration happens over just a handful of days. In an essay written for the book’s 1985 edition, Raspail admitted his book’s plot was an artistic, accelerated presentation of changes that would actually unfold over many years and even decades. If [Camp] is a prophecy, we live its beginnings today.
Read more at Revolver.
