Daily News Roundup

NOTABLE QUOTES

Charles S. Roberts  contributor to American Thinker: A screenshot was sent to me of a social media post by a CEO whose friend was having heart surgery.  It read: “I talked to him about three hours before his surgery and his only concern was that he hoped his surgeon wasn’t hired to fill a racial or gender quota.”  This sentiment crystallizes a dilemma currently facing the profession of surgery.

Terry Paulding  contributor to American Thinker: The disrespect for our children among this country’s “intellectual class” is a manifestation of the disrespect they have for the rest of us and their deep desire to marginalize and ultimately destroy people guilty of “wrongthink” (as they define it).  What leftists don’t realize is that, by lumping all children together and using them as pawns to achieve their ultimate goals, they are destroying themselves, too.

Tim Dillon host of the Tim Dillon Show ridiculed the MSM for reporting that an SUV killed six people during the Waukesha Christmas parade: :“We had the Waukesha massacre where the SUV that was not being driven – it was a self-driving SUV – killed all those people. No, it was a black guy steeped in anti-white kind of racist language, right…The mainstream narrative is that a car decided to mow over children in Wisconsin.”

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Pinkerton: Pinkerton: Democrats Use the Threat of Court-Packing to Intimidate the Supreme Court from Overturning Roe
Today, we’re getting a real-time lesson in how Washington works. It’s an ongoing drama. We can all observe as the Democrats and their allies in the Main Stream Media seek to intimidate the Supreme Court, trying to scare it away from issuing conservative rulings. Democrats are saying, in effect, That’s a nice Supreme Court ya got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it. Needless to say, this is not how our system is supposed to work. According to our Constitution, the judicial branch—of which the Supreme Court is the head—is intended to be an independent and equal branch of the federal government.
Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/18/pinkerton-democrats-use-the-threat-of-court-packing-to-intimidate-the-supreme-court-from-overturning-roe/

GOP

Sundance: Good News, Politico Is Rallying Support for Mitch McConnell
At first glance, it might seem odd to think that Politico diminishing the MAGA movement in defense of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a good thing.  However, in the background of that motive exists the reality – they need to defend him. …”And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”…  The story of Mitch McConnell as leader of the GOP DeceptiCon wing is well known on these pages.  Heck, for ten years we frustratingly battled against the members of our own team infected with ‘battered conservative syndrome.‘ Mitch controls roughly 20 members of the Republican wing in the Senate.  It’s the same names that repeatedly surface whenever Democrat legislation is supported, or rule changes are made, to support the goals and objectives of the UniParty in the upper chamber: Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Rubio, Graham and Romney. The Politico article is basically saying that despite Donald Trump’s repeated attacks against McConnell, the DeceptiCon senators have not followed any effort to replace the minority leader; which, when you know the nature of the system, is not surprising.
Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/18/good-news-politico-is-rallying-support-for-mitch-mcconnell/

FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL

Thaler: Biden to announce new COVID measures as cases of Omicron DOUBLE in 24 hours: President will go further than the winter plan he announced just days ago
President Joe Biden will deliver a speech on Tuesday to announce new Covid measures to fight the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant. It’s anticipated that he will go beyond his already revealed ‘Winter Plan’ and address booster shots, lockdowns and mask mandates. Earlier this month Biden announced a Covid plan to battle the virus throughout the colder months, which included booster shots for all adults, vaccinations for kids in efforts to keep schools open and expanding free at-home Covid testing. […]  Testing has now confirmed the presence of Omicron in every US state except for Oklahoma, Montana, North and South Dakota, Indiana, and Vermont, though the eventual confirmation of the highly transmissible variant in every state now seems assured.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10324585/Biden-announce-new-Covid-measures-Tuesday-Omicron-variant-spikes-US.html

Mercola: Understanding the Psychology Behind the COVID Pandemic
Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology,1 reviews a theory professor Mattias Desmet, a Belgian psychologist and statistician, believes explains the absurd and irrational behavior we’re now seeing worldwide with regard to the COVID pandemic and its countermeasures. He calls this phenomenon “mass formation psychosis,” a type of crowd hypnosis that results in literally converting a large segment of the population into psychosis. Mass formation psychosis is the explanation for how the Germans accepted the atrocities by the Nazi party in the 1930s, and it’s the explanation for why so many around the world support medical apartheid and the destruction of the unvaccinated now. It’s so irrational and inhumane, many have wondered how we got here. As it turns out, the psychology of totalitarianism has been studied for decades, and the whole thing is in fact explainable as a psychiatric phenomenon that arises when certain conditions exist in a society.
Read more/Watch the 13 minute video: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/12/18/mass-formation-psychosis.aspx

Waldman, M.D.: The COVID Scam: The Progressive Path to Power, and Tyranny
Physicians who still practice medicine cannot afford to write or say the following for fear of being canceled.  As a retired physician, I cannot be coerced to keep silent with threats to my medical license or hospital privileges. […]  The COVID “pandemic of fear” is a con, perpetrated by those in power to extend and expand their power. Their scheme is simple. Take a new flu-like respiratory virus created in China, COVID-19; tout it as a threat to all human life; suspend (temporarily, of course!) personal liberty and freedom; then justify their tyranny by asserting a need to protect all Americans from death by virus. When the threat recedes, redefine the terms, demand vaccine passports, and booster shots to maintain public fear. As new viral variants evolve such as Delta or Omicron, resume draconian measures including masks and lockdowns, more boosters, and loss of employment if unvaccinated.  Make sure any evidence exposing the scam is labeled “misinformation.” Censor any reports that call into question the accuracy of official narratives. Punish those who question the government or refuse the mandates. […]  Call to Action Americans have a bone-deep commitment to individual liberty and freedom. This is apparent from the grassroots activities pushing back against recent authoritarian over-reach, from parents suing school boards over CRT and vaccine mandates for kids to sinking poll numbers for the Biden administration. With the COVID scam exposed, the following is our call to action.Recognize what is happening and why. Washington has created a false threat from COVID. The scam is designed to circumvent the Constitution and restore tyranny, this time by the professional political class rather than an aristocracy. Resist  . . .Reject . . .Republish . . .Replace . . . […]  Progressive Democrats, temporarily in control of both Congress and the White House, are engaged in realpolitik, German for practical politics. Realpolitik is a system of decision-making focused solely on increasing one’s power with no regard for ethics, morality, or effect on others. The COVID scam may be their greatest ploy as they move forward on their Path to Power and the resumption of tyranny.
Read more at American Thinker.

BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL VACCINE MANDATE

Sundance: Reports Surface of CDC Overcounting U.S. Vaccine Rates
This is likely not surprising to many Americans; however, Bloomberg {LINK} and now Axios {LINK} are reporting that official U.S. CDC vaccination rates are considerably overstated. […]  Common sense would ask: if vaccination rates were long-ago in the 99% range for  age-groups the CDC reported, then how could the CDC continue assigning hundreds of thousands of new vaccinations into the group?   Thus, downward revisions are now being made to reconcile the issue. Anecdotally, this would align with several tangential datapoints which have always seemed to be in conflict with the preferred government narrative.  Additionally, there’s also an obvious motive on behalf of the government to overinflate vaccination in order to generate peer pressure and the self-fulfilling prophecy needed to garner vaccine acceptance. […]  Not only does this disconnect appear visible in the U.S., but clear examples of the seemingly odd disconnect also surface in Australia where the government vaccine mandate is perhaps the most extreme. […]  Put all of that together with the visible anger amid the daily protests on almost every continent, and yeah, it makes sense to read that these vaccination rates are wildly over accounted by the government entities and institutions who have demanded them.
Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/18/reports-surface-of-cdc-overcounting-u-s-vaccine-rates/

GOVERNMENT HAS SEIZED CONTROL OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

Roberts: How important is ‘equity’ when you’re getting heart surgery?
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in surgery are ubiquitous.  DEI has been embraced by innumerable departments of surgery and societies of surgeons as well as healthcare institutions.  Vice chairs of DEI have been appointed, and DEI committees have been created within surgical departments, adding to a costly DEI bureaucracy already established in hospitals and universities.  DEI no longer challenges the system; it is the system, and the public is aware. Perhaps because of cancel culture, discussion of DEI within the ranks of surgeons has been limited.  There has been no debate.  As an alternative to DEI in academia, Abbot and Marino (two scientists) have proposed a different framework:  Merit, Fairness, and Equality (MFE).  An open discussion of the two systems, DEI and MFE, is warranted, in my opinion, in the field of surgery. The basic unit of DEI is the group.  Human beings are categorized by skin color or sex, with oppressor or victim status attached to each group, irrespective of individual life experiences.  The basic unit of MFE is the individual, and judgment is based on merit.  Excellence is considered the highest form of merit.
Read more at American Thinker.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

Braddock: The Dying Dollar
Inflation will be a problem that will have to be battled for at least the next couple of years if not longer. There are signs that the Federal Reserve and some Congressional Democrats like Joe Manchin are taking steps to avert further damage, but any change in monetary fiscal policy will take roughly twelve to eighteen months to show up in consumer prices and we have not yet priced in all of the inflationary costs of pandemic spending or any of the spending bills passed by this Congress. There are internal concerns that by summer of 2021 we could see inflation as high as 35 percent over 2020. The wealthy hold assets and debt so they’re relatively protected, but the middle and working classes face penury.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/18/the-dying-dollar/

Zeisloft: A Plan To Buy Coal Mines And Close Them Down Got Rejected By Investors: Report
Citigroup and other firms attempted to launch a fund that would purchase coal mines and close them by 2040, according to The Wall Street Journal; however, the project was allegedly abandoned upon several rejections from investors. The Wall Street Journal reported: . . .[…]  The fund planned to buy mines in the U.S., Australia and South Africa and run them with the promise of shutting them down by 2040, according to people familiar with the matter and a marketing document seen by The Wall Street Journal. […]  In addition to the early shutdown plan, the fund would have kept 75% of its coal in the ground. The Wall Street Journal adds that investors were reportedly uneasy with the project: . . .  […]  Indeed, the White House’s emphasis on clean energy projects — and its attempts to stem nonrenewable energy production — has led American investment banks to grow hesitant over coal projects. In a recent letter, the financial officers of 16 Republican states announced that they would “be taking collective action in response to the ongoing and growing economic boycott of traditional energy production industries by U.S. financial institutions.”
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-plan-to-buy-coal-mines-and-close-them-down-got-rejected-by-investors-report

Catenacci: Democrats Strike Offshore Drilling Ban After Manchin Opposition: REPORT
Democratic lawmakers reportedly eliminated a proposed measure to ban offshore oil and gas drilling along the U.S. coastline from their sweeping spending package after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced his opposition. The provision was absent from an early draft of the roughly $2.2 trillion Build Back Better Act that was circulated on Capitol Hill by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee which Manchin chairs, congressional aides told The New York Times and The Washington Post. The restriction would have applied to all drilling rigs located in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean as well as the Gulf of Mexico.
Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/17/democrats-offshore-oil-gas-drilling-ban-joe-manchin/

Daily Wire News:  WATCH: Kamala Harris Explodes When Asked ‘Who’s The Real President Of This Country?
Vice President Kamala Harris erupted during a friendly interview this week with Charlamagne Tha God when the media personality asked Harris who was the real President of the United States. When Charlamagne first tried to ask the question, an aide for the vice president jumped in and apparently tried to suggest that they could not hear him and therefore they needed to end the interview. “She can hear me,” Charlamagne said after a brief back-and-forth, later adding, “They’re acting like they can’t hear me.”
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kamala-harris-explodes-when-asked-whos-the-real-president-of-this-country

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN

Paulding: Leftists are using our children as pawns for all their policies
One of the most obvious things leftists have done is to destroy the school systems’ ability to teach anything meaningful, replacing real knowledge with “correct think” drivel that denies everything from history to mathematics to science in favor of inclusion, diversity, LGBT “training,” and such.  Leftists believe that if this continues, they’ll have a malleable and manageable bunch of kids who grow up to become shills for their point of view. What leftists miss is that we have a goodly number of intelligent children — the rebels, questioners, and readers — willing to go beyond the leftist soft porn now replacing reality in the school library and ferret out truth for themselves.  Many kids in this group have parents still awake enough not to be woke, who are willing to go to the mat to preserve our republic, and willing and able to counteract what their kids are force-fed with lessons in reality.  Many have become homeschoolers to avoid kowtowing to the system. […]  Another weapon in the war against children is isolation and masking.  That’s failing, though, as more people notice . . .[…]  Put simply, we have become a society bent on destroying ourselves from the ground up.  As the adults in the room, . . .
Read more at American Thinker.

OTHER NEWS

(The second CNN producer) Project Veritas Names CNN Producer Involved in Wednesday’s Tragic Story
There have been many requests from other journalists and media outlets to name the subject in Wednesday’s tragic story involving a CNN producer. After ensuring the family involved is safe, Project Veritas has made the decision to release the name, Rick Saleeby. Saleeby is a producer on The Lead with Jake Tapper. Project Veritas reached out to CNN multiple times for comment, but as of this writing, they are yet to respond. The mother of the children involved in this story sent Project Veritas the following heartfelt note. We have redacted some parts, to further protect their identity, and request everyone give them privacy during this difficult time: . . .
Read more: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/project-veritas-names-cnn-producer-involved-in-wednesdays-tragic-story/

Fonrouge:  New York Islamic Imam busted in child sex sting…
Ahmet Yuceturk, who was previously the imam at JFK Airport’s International Islamic Center, was arrested Monday for sexting with an individual he believed was 14 years old and making plans to meet up with her, police and prosecutors said. The 42-year-old Long Island resident was charged with two felony counts for attempted criminal sex act with a minor and attempted dissemination of indecent material to a minor, court records show.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/new-york-imam-busted-in-civilian-child-sex-abuse-sting/

INTERNATIONAL

Sundance: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Pravda…. Everywhere You Turn
Video prompted to 05:42 just watch for around 45 seconds. No commentary from me needed. WATCH: . . .
Read more/Watch the prompted video: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/18/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-pravda-everywhere-you-turn/

Basham: Video Of Swedish Company’s Covid Passport Microchips, Implanted In Hands, Goes Viral
A Swedish company is making headlines by calling to mind a nightmarish image for Christians around the world. A video from the South China Post went viral Friday for showing the microchip technology recently introduced by the Stockholm-based startup, Epicenter. The company’s “chief disruptor” Hannes Sjoblad demonstrated how their product, the size of a grain of rice, has been adapted as a Covid passport, implanted under the skin in the arm or hand.
Read more: https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-swedish-companys-covid-passport-microchips-implanted-in-hands-goes-viral
Watch the video: https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1471797322531049472?s=20