It’s Wednesday, February 2nd, Groundhog Day 2022…and like Bill Murray’s character in the movie, California’s Liberal elite just can’t change their behavior, as, once again, despite his own statewide indoor mask mandate…
“California governor Gavin Newsom was photographed without a mask on Sunday at the Rams–49ers playoff match at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, along with Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti and San Francisco mayor London Breed, despite a state-wide indoor mask mandate.
SoFi Stadium also requires guests to wear masks except while eating and drinking. California currently has a mask mandate for all indoor public spaces until at least February 15.
The three politicians posed for photographs with former Los Angeles Lakers player Magic Johnson…”
Newsom offered the following in defense of his latest act of hypocrisy:
“You’ll see the photo that I did take, Magic was kind enough, generous enough, to ask me for a photograph and in my left hand’s the mask and I took the photo,” he explained. “The rest of the time I wore it as we all should, um — not when I had a glass of water — and I encourage everybody else to do so. And, uh, that’s it.”
Except he didn’t…
…so it isn’t. Or at least wouldn’t be were he a Republican.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, writing at Townhall.com, Scott Morefield tells us how…
“…Sadly, the difficult-to-counter ‘iT WoULd hAvE BeEn WoooOrSe’ response has become the reliable Branch Covidian go-to when attempting to defend their useless interventions. But would it have been, really? Enter Ian Miller, an entertainment industry content manager who, like many of us, quickly began questioning the establishment Covid narrative when it didn’t seem to line up with the actual facts on the ground. But instead of surrendering to defeat, Miller promptly put his day job experience dabbling in data analysis to work creating and distributing eye-popping charts that soon made him a Team Reality celebrity and a Branch Covidien foil.
You’ve probably seen them on Twitter being shared by prominent conservative politicians, media figures, and Team Reality proponents, or in posts on large news sites like Fox News, City Journal, and TheBlaze. Indeed, Ian’s charts – which list each specific coronavirus restriction implemented in a specific geographical area on a dateline which also devastatingly includes the rate of virus spread during that time period – have become THE go-to way to show the absurdity and unworkability of our overlords’ failed Covid policies. If a picture is worth a thousand words, these charts – each one of them – are worth at least a million.
Of course, as we unfortunately know, censorship of ideas they don’t like is alive and well. All Twitter has to do to erase evidence like this from the annals of Twitter history is to delete Ian Miller’s account, an action that could happen to any of us at any time. Such is the risk of daring to go against the established Faucian Covid narrative. Thankfully, Ian has minimized the damage of that possibility by giving all of us an amazing gift in his new 217-page book, titled, “Unmasked: The Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates.” In it, the author combines his famous charts with unflappable analysis that devastatingly rips the veil off the misleading pseudo-science surrounding masking we’ve been force fed for two years to reveal the forbidden truth – that masking and mask mandates have done absolutely nothing to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 worldwide.
“I’ve looked at data from all over the world, from the granular county level to entire countries, and have yet to find examples showing clear and sustained benefits to mask mandates,” Miller writes. “There has simply been no discernable pattern or correlation with mask mandates and better outcomes.”
From analyzing pre-Covid mask studies showing unequivocally that mask usage does not stop contagious respiratory viruses from spreading, to ripping apart “the experts’ new science” (including mask-use ‘studies’ from Arizona and Kansas with “significant flaws”), to highlighting real world data from places like Florida, California, Sweden, and countless others – with the charts to back it up – Miller devastatingly indicts, tries, and convicts the mask cult of misleading a gullible, frightened public into not just using a useless non-pharmaceutical intervention, but forcing it on others, including defenseless children, for years. (While we get Morefield’s point, we don’t believe the WuFlu vaccine to have been “useless”, simply unnecessary for the vast majority of the population, particularly children.)
Think about it. If face masks ‘worked’ to stop or even slightly curb the spread of Covid-19, they should be able to point to place after place showing when the intervention was employed and how case numbers were affected. In other words, they should be able to do what Ian Miller has done in reverse. They can’t, obviously, because masks, and especially mask mandates, don’t work. At all.Not even a little bit.
Those of you who have followed my columns over the past two years know my position well. There are few things more diabolically evil than forcibly covering the face of another human being, especially a child. If there is any justice in the world, years from now society will look back with utter horror on what we did with lockdowns, masks, vaccine coercion, and all the rest, including and especially instilling the kind of fear and paranoia that never matched the actual death rate from this virus. When it does, Ian Miller’s book – and his charts – will be seen as key deciding blows that helped obliterate the mask cult for good.“
Case in point, as The Hill chronicles COVID coming to Kiribati, despite every effort to prevent it. Think about it: An island nation of only 113,000 in which 5,000 jobs and some 20% of its GDP depends upon tourism voluntarily shuts itself off from the world for months, only to wind up exactly where they’d been if they’d done nothing to combat COVID in the first place…other than shelter the vulnerable.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation did not raise a single penny for the first six years of its existence. It couldn’t.
The foundation wasn’t even registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a charity. But after George Floyd’s murder in May of 2020, tens of millions of dollars were given to this organization from major corporations and celebrities. And now, no one even knows where all that money has gone. Even worse, there doesn’t appear to be anyone in charge of the organization who can provide that information.
Founded in 2013 after the death of Trayvon Martin, Black Lives Matter was little more than a hashtag and a website that loosely coordinated activism in communities across the country to “intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.”
For years, there did not appear to be a lot of outside resources directed to the organization. But that all changed in 2020.
Unable to accept the avalanche of money sent its way, BLM channeled donations through Thousand Currents and the Tides Foundation until the IRS approved its application for nonprofit status in December 2020. Around that time, Thousand Currents transferred $66.5 million to BLM — a transaction personally signed off on by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors. (She of the now well-into-7-figures net worth and a small real estate empire.)
Cullors later issued the organization’s first-ever “impact report” in February 2021, claiming that the organization had raised over $90 million in 2020, spent $8.4 million on operating expenses, and given out $21.7 million to local BLM chapters and affiliated organizations. But these were just top-line numbers in a flashy communications product. No details were given on who was specifically paid what.
Just three months later, Cullors left BLM, claiming that she wanted to focus on other projects. She adamantly denied charges that she left the organization due to media reports that she had recently purchased millions of dollars’ worth of real estate for herself.
When Cullors left BLM, she announced that activists Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele would replace her as senior executives. But Themba and Bandele later released a statement that they “were not able to come to an agreement with the acting Leadership Council about our scope and work authority.” Asked who is now in charge of BLM, Themba told the Washington Examiner, “We never actually started in the position, so we never received any detailed information.”
Donors to BLM should have received some much-needed insight into how their money was being spent this November, when BLM was required by law to file a Form 990 tax return. It is now January, and there is no evidence that BLM ever filed its form.
CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron described BLM as “a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernable crew, and no clear direction.”
According to Candid, a website devoted to tracking nonprofit donations, groups like BLM, which claim to be devoted to racial “equity,” have raised over $25 billion since George Floyd’s death.
What exactly have these billions accomplished? Are black lives any safer? Quite the opposite. Thanks to activism from groups like BLM, police budgets have been slashed in major cities across the country, and the number of arrests has plunged by 24%. As police were being defunded, murder rates skyrocketed, with black lives hardest hit. (By…wait for it…other Blacks!!!)
In 2019, before the “defund the police” movement, 7,777 black people were murdered, making up 53.5% of all homicide victims. That was already bad, but in 2020, both of those numbers rose; 9,941 black people were murdered the year George Floyd died, accounting for 55.8% of all murders. That is an additional 2,000 black lives lost to violent crime last year. In contrast, only 60 unarmed men were killed by police in 2020, and only 18 of those were black.
The people who donated to BLM deserve to know where their money went. (Not to mention have their heads examined!)So do the people who live in communities that have been devastated by violence. Congress should investigate, and perhaps it will starting next January.
Patrisse Cullors, and race hustlers like her, puts the “L-I-E-S” in Black Lives Matter.
Next, a sextet of items specifically selected with inquiring Conservative minds in mind:
(1). Since we’re on the subject of racial scam artists, also courtesy of George Lawlor, FOX reports Stacey Abrams group paid over $1.2 million to private security firm last year. Yes, this is the same Fat Stacey who supports defunding the police, stricter gun laws and opposes the “privatization of justice.” No hypocrisy to see here, America…please move along…and order her a Dave’s Triple, large fries, 20 oz. Coke and extra-large Frosty from Wendy’s; She’ll order dinner later.
(2). NRO informs us former Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration drafted legislation in June 2020 that would have transferred the police department’s East Precinct building to Black Lies Matter. “The legislation was drafted by the Department of Finance and Administrative Services around the same time that protesters calling to defund the police converged on the East Precinct in the wake of riots over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.” Total and complete capitulation to The Mob.
(6). Does anyone else find it odd the 46* clown car has ordered billions of dollars of “free” WuFlu tests from the very same country which not only created this virus, but then released it…without warning…upon an unsuspecting world?!? Seriously, Biden is buying test kits from the same ChiComs who made masks so shoddy even his own Administration was forced to reject them, whose vaccine was so ineffective it was declined by the entire world…and who have funneled tens of millions of dollars to the “Big Guy” and his family. Hey, what could go wrong?!?
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from the lovely Shannon…
…along with three more from Balls Cotton:
And in “Just a minor update (as Jeffrey Epstein used to say)”, we’re sincerely grateful the great Stilton Jarlsberg found the time to grace us once again with his wit:
For those who’ve recently joined us, Stilton is an incredibly gifted Conservative cartoonist we regularly feature in The Lighter Side. However, for some months Stilton’s time has been occupied helping his wife Kathy who’s been battle leukemia, as well as his daughter who required abdominal surgery. Daughter Jarlsberg is recovering nicely; And while Kathy continues to make slow but steady progress, it’s been painfully slow (with the emphasis on “pain”), and anything but nice.
Please remember the entire Jarlsberg family in your prayers.
Finally, we’ll call it a Groundhog Day…Groundhog Day…Groundhog Day…Groundhog Day…
…with a very sad story pulled from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as a…
“A firefighter was shot and killed in Stockton, California, on Monday morning while battling a dumpster fire, officials announced. Captain Max Fortuna, 47, was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased. He leaves behind a wife and two grown children.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to a call of a dumpster fire at 4:45 a.m. on Monday morning and shots rang out as they worked to extinguish the blaze, striking Fortuna.A 67-year-old man was apprehended and a gun was recovered from the scene…”
Turns out the shooter, one Robert Somerville…
…lived in the warehouse adjacent to the dumpster and had operated a hand truck business in the area for decades. Somerville’s son issued a statement in which he expressed condolences for the deceased’s family while claiming the shooting was an unfortunate accident, as his father had been the victim of multiple break-ins and somehow confused the firemen putting out the dumpster fire with yet another burglary.
Yeah,…firemen putting out a dumpster fire…
…or a burglar:
Sorry, but we anticipate a lot of prospective jurors having a hard time with that one.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Courtesy of James Nichols, coming soon to a theater near you. Though we wonder, if D’Souza’s source material is irrefutable, why wait to release it in a movie?
Tales of The Darkside
While we certainly don’t trust his statistics, ya gotta love how this educated idiot pivots from WuFlu fatalities in Red counties to gun violence in what are exclusively Blue urban enclaves.
On the Lighter Side
Courtesy of James Patrick, more of that sh*t you just can’t make up! Another obvious result of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
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