As Fred Thompson exclaimed in The Hunt for Red October…
And when the first fatal shot is eventually fired, as it inevitably will be if such “business” is allowed to continue, the responsibility will lay squarely at the feet of the Party of Division and…
…HATE. Think about it: who was in greater fear for THEIR OWN life? The armed Capitol Police Lieutenant, weapon drawn confronting an unarmed trespasser who’d just spent an extended period of time attempting breach a locked door, only to be given a clear path by other officers…or the lawfully-carrying civilian trying to enjoy a quiet dinner only to be rudely and suddenly interrupted by a screaming, armed mob? As they say, it’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
Meanwhile, there’s something else that’s the responsibility of Dimocrats, as this headline from the U.K.’s Daily Mail via James Nichols details…
The bullet points which followed the headline tell the tale:
Job losses during the pandemic differed significantly by party affinity
Democratic states averaged job losses of 6.2%, versus 2.5% in Republican ones
Difference might be due to severity of pandemic restrictions on the economy
Republican states are also less likely to have large cities and service economies
More severe job losses might have swayed voters against the incumbent Trump
Here’s the juice: There’s no doubt in our military mind Dimocrats used the Wuhan virus as cover for a concerted campaign to influence the election through unprecedented measures designed to destroy both the economy and Trump’s chances for a second term. And it wouldn’t shock us a bit to learn they coordinated the whole thing with the ChiComs, as these people will do anything to increase their personal power and profit; and the CCP has never been shy about sharing the wealth with those who know their place:
“The White House this week proposed to strip drug companies of their vaccine patents, an act hailed by adulators as “moral leadership.” It’s better seen as the encapsulation of the Biden presidency—a case study in fictional narratives, executive overreach, recklessness, and kowtowing to the left.
The biopharmaceutical industry in under a year accomplished a modern miracle—designing a breakthrough vaccine to counter Covid-19; engineering a ground-up production process; and climbing a logistical Everest. It was a triumph of innovation, investment and capitalism, a moment that deserves to be celebrated.Instead, the Biden administration supports a proposal in the World Trade Organization that would “waive” the intellectual-property rights of the companies that accomplished this feat, giving away their technology to every drugmaker in the world.
Put another way, Mr. Biden is freely handing American invention to China—the country that routinely steals it, and whose Wuhan lab might have been the source of the virus…”
“Might”?
Kim’s too kind.
Meanwhile, not content to provide ChiCom drug manufacturers the fruits of private Capitalist innovation for free, allowing them to simultaneously lock U.S. drug companies out of the largest single market on the planet and further enrich the CCP leadership, the Dimocratic Socialists begrudge the profits earned here at home by those who’ve helped dispel the dark webs of deception in which they’ve wrapped the world, as Jim Geraghty notes at his Morning Jolt:
By my math, $3.5 billion divided by 430 million doses comes out to $8 a dose. Hey, Reich, let me find a Hamilton, a Lincoln, and a Washington and I’ll cover Pfizer’s profit on your doses.
Here we sit, smack dab in the middle of the winter of our discontent, our arms chock-full of liquid innovation — and yet, for some utterly insoluble reason, we remain surrounded by resistance to summer. Has there ever been a people this indifferent to their liberation?
I have never been of the view that our responses to the pandemic were all unnecessary or illegitimate. Certainly, I never bought that it was a “hoax.” Yes, yes, COVID wasn’t the Second World War; but it also wasn’t just “the flu.” And so, to mitigate the risk to myself and others, I’ve played along with a good deal: I’ve been happy to wear a mask when asked to by businesses or the law; I have been happy to get vaccinated, having waited in line for my turn; and, unusually for me, I have happily supported at least some of the government’s spending, on the grounds that a state that is willing to deprive people of their liberty and livelihood should do at least something to mitigate the damage. All in all, I have agreed to eschew my usual absolutism in favor of the sort of balanced, scientific, and ultimately moderate approach that was adopted from the start here in Florida. Now, though, the time for such acquiescence has passed, and in its place we need something different: mockery, vehemence, resistance, dudgeon, exasperation, and, if it comes to it, a thorough raising of the middle finger.Enough!
In recent weeks, it has become increasingly obvious to me that the life I am living here in Florida bears no resemblance whatsoever to the lives that are being lived by my colleagues in the Northeast, in the Beltway, on the West Coast, and abroad.My kids have been in school since last August; theirs are stuck at home. We go out to eat whenever we want; they can count their excursions since last year on one hand.Their minds remain addled by the rules and customs of the Coronavirus Age; mine has been re-rewired back to normal without my ever having noticed. Here, we do our own risk assessments; there, they are micromanaged like children. And yet, among the powers-that-be, it is their model that is being praised and perpetuated — even though Florida’s approach has resulted in its sitting below the middle of the pack for deaths while maintaining a strong economy, full classrooms, and a more normal lifestyle than has existed anywhere else in the world. This is utterly ridiculous.
Worse yet, it’s hysterical. Last week, the CDC insisted that vaccinated Americans should still wear masks outdoors in crowds and indoors at all times — instructions that Joe Biden, the president of these United States, quickly described as “patriotic” — while on MSNBC, Joy Reid summed up the delirium that has taken hold in much of the press by declaring that, despite being fully vaccinated, she now wears two masks when she goes jogging. In wealthy and highly educated areas such as Brookline, Mass., and Montgomery County, Md., meanwhile, local officials were busy protecting their outdoor-mask mandates despite the governors of those states having abandoned the idea on the rationale that it was quite unfathomably stupid. So bad has this tendency become that, in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C., residents can now be overheard clinging to their masks lest anyone suspect they might be a Republican, and the mayor has summarily reversed her decision to lift the city’s indoor mask mandate and made it illegal to dance at wedding receptions for good measure.
Oh, and the schools still aren’t fully open.
The architects of this collective madness remain immovable, and proud of it.Now, as ever, they meet every move toward normality with accusations of “murder” that are invariably proven incorrect, and yet are repeated in precisely the same tone and with precisely the same confidence the next time around. Now, as ever, they greet evidence to the contrary by either dismissing it out of hand, filtering it through a conspiracy theory, or issuing a never-to-be-revisited injunction to “wait a couple of weeks.”And, on the rare occasions that their position becomes untenable, they quickly change the subject, moving the material question from whether there is any evidence that one needs to wear three masks while skydiving to asking impatiently what harm can come from doing so. Every deadline is delayed; every argument is elastic; and nothing but COVID is written in on the ledger’s negative side. They’re zealots, for whom it will always be March 12, 2020. They must be stopped.
They’re zealots, alright; and the mask has become their totem, a physical article of their faith. And as Townhall.com‘s Matt Vespa records, they’re SO filled with a mix of religious fervor AND fear no science or facts to the contrary can convince them it’s safe to dispense with the sacred symbol of Socialism. And Dr. Faux Chi, who’s set a record of sorts for taking both sides of every possible aspect of the issue, is their patron saint:
C’mon, man! It‘s life once again imitating art:
This clip featuring Tucker and Brit Hume forwarded by the lovely Shannon says it all:
Wake up, America: you have been and are being SCAMMED!!!
Moving now to the Follow-UpSegment, regarding the item in our Cinqo de Mayo edition questioning why WaPo “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler never bothered delving into the details of any of the numerous and very questionable personal recollections of Obama or Biden like he did Tim Scott’s family history, here’s his chance for redemption, as…
“…“There was an article, I guess my fourth or fifth year as vice president, saying Biden travels 1,300,000 miles on Air Force One [Two]. I used to – the Secret Service didn’t like it – but I used to like to take the train home. My mom was sick and I used to try to come home almost every weekend as vice president to see her. I got on the train and Angelo Negri came up and he goes, ‘Joey, baby,’ and he grabbed my cheek like he always did. I thought he was going to get shot. (Yeah, like the Secret Service wouldn’t have screened everyone with access to Biden’s car!)I’m serious. I said, ‘No, no, he’s a friend.’
“He said, ‘Joey, what’s the big deal?1,300,000 miles on Air Force Two? Do you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?’ I said, ‘No, Angie, I don’t know.’ (Other versions have him saying, “I rarely know my own name, you lying dog-faced pony soldier!”)He gave me the calculation and he said you traveled 1,500,000 miles on Amtrak. The fact is, I’d probably take Angie’s word before I’d take the word of what the article said.”
Biden’s comments have flown under the media radar so far. However, a few elements of the story seemed out of place. Biden entered the fourth year of his term as vice president around 2013, and Negri’s obituary states he retired from Amtrak in 1993, while Biden was still a senator. Meanwhile, Biden’s mother, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan, died in 2010…”
Well, Glenn…
…though certainly not holding our breath.
Next up, seven more excerpts specifically selected to stimulate inquiring Conservative minds:
(1). Not to sound overly conspiratorial, but how was an FBI special agent the one who shot this individual? Last time we checked, Langley has its own security, which isn’t subcontracted to the Bureau. And who did this special agent think they were, summarily executing an intruder: a Capitol Police Lieutenant?!?
(2). Here’s our response to the dozens of major corporations speaking out against the new Texas voting bill: Fine, let ’em relocate to California. And shame on FOX Business for stating the bill would “limit ballot access”, or allowing the corporations involved to describe themselves as “non-partisan”, when nothing could be further from the truth.
(3). As NRO informs us, on Wednesday afederal judge invalidated the national eviction moratorium after finding that the COVID-19 pandemic policy exceeded the authority of the CDC, noting, “The question for the court is a narrow one: Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide eviction moratorium? It does not.”
(4). Though the good things in life never change, unfortunately, neither does The Donald, as he’s still wrong even when he’s right, as he endorses Elise Stefanik for GOP Conference Chair over the “‘warmongering” Liz Cheney. Does Trump really believe Republicans are turning on Cheney because she’s a warmonger?!?
Our thoughts on Cheney are summed up in this snippet from the Morning Jolt:
“…for someone who wants to lead her caucus, she seems really comfortable with continuing her battles with Trump and either can’t or won’t “read the room.” No one else in the GOP House caucus wants to see endless new chapters of a MAGA/Trump vs. Cheney/NeverTrump fight from now until the midterms. It’s really, really difficult to be a maverick against the rest of your party and be a leader of that same party. John McCain demonstrated that. (McCain wasn’t a “maverick”; he was simply a self-centered corruptocrat.)
Matt Vespa drew the following professional sports comparison: Liz is a cancer in the locker room, thus she’s either got to be traded or cut…and even if the Dimocrats wanted her, there’s no way Wyoming voters want anyone with anything but an (R) behind their name representing them in Congress.
(5). Writing at American Greatness, VDH wonders, “Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?“, correctly concluding, “If our wokists destroy people in the name of equity…
…then they believe their nihilism is justified.”
(6). 46*’s Godless National Day of Prayer proclamation prompted The Water Cooler‘s David Brody to wonder, “How do you release a proclamation about prayer and not mention God at all?” To which White House Dossier‘s Rebekah Koffler responded, “I suppose the same way that he can proclaim to be Catholic while supporting abortion.”
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from the lovely Shannon…
…Speed…
…and Ed Hickey:
Finally, for those of you blessed to still have a mother to dote on this Sunday, the lovely Shannon provides evidence why…
…she deserves it!
Magoo
Video of the Day
Courtesy of Jeff Foutch, this blast from the past (2013) highlights another inconvenient truth you’ll never learn from the MSM. Are all of these people Uncle Toms, Oreos and/or Aunt Jemimas, too?!?
Tales of The Darkside
John Stossel highlights the inherent conflict between those who think life should be free and those who’ll have to work to provide it.
On the Lighter Side
Jeff Foutch and PatriotsTV present an updated version of a golden oldie. BTW, though they’ll never admit it, those who allowed a hatred of Trump to convince them to back Biden are pretending as well: pretending they didn’t screw over themselves, their country and their progeny.
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