Actor James Woods writes the best memes. Here’s one seen at BookwormRoom:
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Donald J Trump’s speech at Turning PointUSA Student Action Summit in Tampa is scheduled to begin at 7pm ET. Right Side Broadcasting Network is streaming live here (h/t Conservative Treehouse).
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We knew at the time that even though she was well-spoken, she was lying. Now it’s confirmed. Bonchie at RedState reports on Scarf Lady Deborah Birx’s stomach-turning confession:
Deborah Birx Openly Admits to Lying About
the COVID Vaccines to Manipulate the American People
. . .But we shouldn’t forget about
Dr. Deborah Birx, the other half of Donald Trump’s initial COVID-19 advisory
team. Though she has rarely drawn the same ire as [Dr Anthony] Fauci, there’s
little reason to believe she wasn’t just as duplicitous.
. . .
[The Quote:] Dr. Deborah Birx: "I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection and I think we overplayed the vaccines ..." . . .
What an incredible thing to just
spit out on cable news while promoting a book. You can tell Birx has no remorse
and no fear at all that she might face backlash for brazenly lying in order to
try to manipulate the American people.
She should have remorse,
though. After all, what Birx is admitting to is knowing that vaccine mandates
were pointless. How many thousands of people lost their jobs and livelihoods
based on a known-false idea that the COVID-19 vaccines stopped the spread of
the coronavirus? Yet, Birx didn’t just sit idly by, which would have been bad
enough. She actively promoted those mandates while presenting herself as a
servant of the public’s health. It’s not just obscene, it’s evil. Does Birx
have any ability to feel empathy for the lives she destroyed? I’m not seeing
any evidence of that, and her choice to go on a book tour touting her lies as
accomplishments is astonishing.
What kind of person lies from a
position of power and then writes a book to brag about? That’s pathological
behavior. It’s also dangerous in that there can be no expectation of
credibility for a government health establishment that continually lies to the
people it is supposed to be serving. Birx wanted more people to get the
vaccine, and she lied to accomplish that goal. Bureaucrats are not supposed to
be in the business of telling falsehoods to manipulate the American public, yet
that’s exactly what she did. . .
Read the whole thing here. Will she or Fauci ever be held to account? I'll believe it when I see it.
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Donald J Trump speaks at a rally in Arizona this evening. Right Side Broadcasting Network is streaming live here.
UPDATE 9:20PM: And here's the Rumble link: <https://rumble.com/v1bxqkb--president-donald-trump-rally-live-in-prescott-city-az-71622.html>
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At American Thinker, Andrea Widburg puts climate change
hysteria -- i.e., the probable next global "emergency" -- in a historical perspective. Here’s
an extract:
Democrats hope Biden uses the climate
to take over and destroy the economy
We've already seen how Biden's
initial attacks on our energy industry, through the executive orders he signed
on his first days in office, have created a rolling economic
disaster. When energy prices skyrocket, all prices skyrocket.
. . .
the only thing separating our
modern era from the pre-modern era is fossil fuel.
When we watch period pieces on TV
or in movie theaters (anything about Jane Austen or the tawdry Bridgerton
series, for example), the pre-modern world looks lovely: it's all pastoral
vistas; politely curtseying maids; abundant food; and brilliantly colored,
gorgeous clothes.
In fact, the past was nothing like
that. The 1% experienced those
benefits. The rest of the people lived
horrible, short lives.
Everything that needed to be done
had only four energy sources to make it happen: human energy, animal energy,
limited water energy, and equally limited wind energy. The reason for slavery was that human energy
was the easiest to obtain and exploit, which is why slavery has been a dominant
factor in human history for all but the last 200 years.
. . .
It was only by the mid-19th
century, as fossil fuel began shaping a new middle class, that an increasing
number of people began to have abundant food and clothes, even if they weren't
as pretty as those seen in a Hollywood movie. And it was only after
WWII, in an era of abundant fossil fuel, that we finally had a world of plenty
that saw more people than at any other time in history live long, comfortable
lives.
This is what Biden plans to end
with a stroke of a pen. . . .
Read the full column here.
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A favorite and familiar line from The
Usual Suspects (photo of Kevin Spacey above): “The greatest trick
the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” JD Rucker
adapts that line for his column at FreedomFirstNetwork from a few days ago titled “The Greatest Trick the
Globalists Ever Pulled Was Making Us Think the Biden-Harris Regime Is Failing.”
Mr Rucker doesn’t deny that our political betters (Biden, Kamala, cabinet appointees, et
al) are incompetent. His point is
that they are performing according to plan;
the globalists behind the throne are hiding behind incompetent
puppets. In short:
What we consider to be abysmal
failures on most fronts are actually successes in the eyes of the globalist
elites. Whether you believe these are simply powerful evil men doing what
powerful evil men do or if you believe there is a demonic element in which
powers and principalities are pulling the strings, the current goals are the
same. They want the world in a state of upheaval so they can herd us into the
next phase of their plan.
That next phase for America is to
enter into the Liberal World Order, previously known as Build Back Better, also
called The Great Reset, branded prior as the 4th Industrial Revolution and
known for decades as the New World Order. No matter what they serve as the
phrase du jour, it all amounts to the elites having everything and the masses
having nothing.
Read the rest at FreedomFirstNetwork here.
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I am linking to Jeff Deist’s article at Liberty Loft, because it is about defining terms. The epigraph at the beginning of his article is a quote from George Orwell: "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
Today, “Political Correctness” is out. “Woke” is in:
Like culture, language is not
property, and it cannot be “owned.” But it can be influenced and steered by
linguistic vandals seeking to topple old understandings and leave us all
overwhelmed and demoralized by the ever-shifting new terminology.
In the quaint, innocent days of
2015, we still called this progressive impulse “political correctness.” I attempted to
define it then:
Political correctness is the
conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to change the way people
speak, write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an agenda.
PC is best understood as
propaganda, which is how I suggest we approach it. But unlike propaganda, which
historically has been used by governments to win favor for a particular
campaign or effort, PC is all-encompassing. It seeks nothing less than to mold
us into modern versions of Marx’s un-alienated society man, freed of all his
bourgeois pretensions and humdrum social conventions.
Like all propaganda, PC
fundamentally is a lie. It is about refusing to deal with the underlying nature
of reality, in fact attempting to alter that reality by legislative and social
fiat. A is no longer A.
Today, of course, PC is
obsolete—replaced entirely by the far broader concept of “woke,” which goes
well beyond language.
Woke, whether a slur or not, may
be used very broadly to represent strident left progressive beliefs regarding
race, sex, sexuality, equality, climate change, and the like. Woke demands
ever-changing language, and constantly creates new words while eliminating old
ones. As a result, “cancellation,” de-platforming, and loss of employment or
standing all loom large, giving pause to speakers and writers who must consider
a new woke orthodoxy.
Ultimately, imposed language attempts
to control our actions. . . .
Mr. Deist’s full article, which can serve as a preview of
his forthcoming journal article, is at The Liberty Loft here.
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