How many times did President Trump say ‘my good friend Xi’? Military combat against China was the furthest thing from the mind of President Trump in that sphere of geopolitical threat. President Trump was engaged with China on an economic level. Economic security is national security; that was the essence of his doctrine.
In this interview segment on Newsmax, President Trump affirms the absurdity of any report that he would have considered a military strike against China. WATCH:
If General Milley ever took such action, he should be charged. However, Bob Woodard and Robert Costa have a sketchy history of making stuff up; and then hiding behind anonymous sources.
The Biden Administration last week issued its order to penalize businesses and individuals who refuse to receive the currently available COVID-19 vaccines with the same disregard for reality by which they ordered the abandonment of Afghanistan. If a comparable rout does not result, it will be a miracle.
Timing has a lot to do with it. The administration decided to use force, in its own name and on a substantial portion of Americans, precisely at a time when facts about the vaccines’ usefulness—which raise questions about their very status as “vaccines” in the ordinary sense of the word—had become indisputable.
The administration tells us we must all be vaccinated lest we, the unvaccinated, infect the vaccinated—people whom the vaccines are supposed already to have made immune to infection. That, after all, is the very meaning of the word “vaccine.” But the administration admits that the vaccines do not make its recipients immune—at least not for long. For how long? They really have only guesses.
So what do these vaccines do? On September 10, the Wall Street Journal published a story titled, “Some Vaccines Last a Lifetime. Here’s Why Covid-19 Shots Don’t.” The subheadline elaborated: “Researchers have calculated a key number—the threshold of protection—for other vaccines. Covid-19’s is still a mystery.” It’s just the facts, m’am. These vaccines’ simple genetic structure produces artificial antibodies that provide partial immunity to reinfection during the weeks or few months of their duration. The vaccines apparently also reduce the effects of the infection—much as ordinary drugs do, many effectively banned without scientific basis. This puts the so-called “vaccines” into the category of treatments.
All of this has led the administration and the drug companies happily and quietly to sign up for a program of perpetual booster shots to extend immunity of an unknowable extent for unknowable periods, into the future, forever.
Forever, because the administration also denies what every epidemiologist will affirm under oath, that persons who have been infected by the novel coronavirus and its variants and have recovered (that is 99 percent) necessarily carry with them natural, long-lasting antibodies. How long do these last? We do not know—only that, if only because of their molecular structure, they surely last longer than the artificial ones. Only when compelled will professionals dare publicly to utter the truth that every literate person knows: Epidemics from airborne viruses stop spreading only after having spread natural antibodies, and hence natural immunity, throughout society.
Now let us look at the Biden Administration’s order from another perspective: our own. Why should any of us, whose infirmity or obesity does not put us into clear and present danger, put into our bodies a vaccine the serious adverse effects of which are yet unknown and the benefits of which dwindle the more we consider them?
Official denigration of the basic facts requires us to repeat them: COVID-19 is no plague, and the vaccines that are being forced on us do not prevent infection—Biden himself says so, correctly.
And what happens if we do get infected? The government’s reluctance to gather accurate figures notwithstanding, the answer for many (if not most) people is: little or nothing. The United States has had some 40 million “confirmed cases.” But the National Institutes of Health estimates that upward of 100 million Americans have been infected. This means that up to 60 percent of infections are asymptomatic. You don’t even notice them. Nearly all the rest involve mere inconvenience. What am I willing to pay or give up or risk for a shield against that?
We individuals, responsible for our own well being, reasonably ask with regard to vaccination: “What’s in it for me?” The answer is not a compelling argument for putting medicine into my body, the benefits of which are less imposing than questions and risks.
But when we ask why the Democratic Party, its associates in the media, and the rest of the ruling class, including the drug companies, are pushing vaccination so hard, we are quickly dismissed and told that it is because of their benign, paternalistic, scientifically informed concern for our health.
Who really believes that?
By the very token by which we conclude that there is nothing in it for us, we notice that there is plenty in it for them: the power that comes from keeping Americans “pseudo-Science-whipped” into obedience to the ruling class; and the money, lots of it, that this power continues to funnel away from the likes of us to the likes of them.
The Democratic Party’s practical error, with regard to vaccination as with regard to the way it ended the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, is the hubris by which it has forgotten that when you make war on anyone, they may well make war on you. Democrats appear to have imagined that they could safely lead with their chin against adversaries who have been waiting for their chance.
How about some of that rage? You're fired, Milley!
Article by Bonchie in RedState
HUGE: Mark Milley Pledged to the Chinese to Commit Treason in Order to Undermine Donald Trump
In political settings, the word treason is thrown around a lot, and
in almost every case it’s used in a way that does not legally meet the
definition of the world. Yet, courtesy of Gen. Mark Milley, the disgraced Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Joe Biden, we finally have a situation where the term is applicable.
In a jaw-dropping report, it’s been revealed that Milley pledged to the Chinese military to commit treason in order to undermine Donald Trump.
This report claims Milley pledged to alert his CCP counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, quoting Milley as saying: “General Li, you & I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.” https://t.co/YSpp5X9wjm
The move to alert the CCP would have taken place via a secret
backchannel set up by Milley and not sanctioned by the White House. For
those who want to quibble with the term treason being used, here’s the legal definition of the act under 18 USC Ch. 115.
§2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United
States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them
aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of
treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than
five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and
shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Let’s think about this. This is a top US general secretly contacting a
top Chinese general pledging to notify him of any coming attack without
the Commander in Chief’s knowledge. In doing so, he would be betraying
the American service members who would be carrying out such an attack,
almost certainly leading to more casualties. Keep in mind in the event
of an attack, we would then be at war with the Chinese, making them an
enemy nation at that point.
I realize the fact-checkers are going to do their best to defend
this, but assuming the report (courtesy of a new book by WaPo associate
editor Bob Woodward and political reporter Robert Costa) is true, that’s
treason, folks.
There is no “Well, I didn’t agree with the president” exemption to
the law. And even putting aside the legal ramifications of what Milley
pledged to do, it’s still an incredibly disturbing, disgusting act on
its face. I understand he hated Donald Trump, but to promise to give aid
and comfort to the enemy in response to that hatred is next-level
stuff. It’s the kind of thing you’d expect to have read in a spy novel,
not be admitted to by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Something has to happen here. Milley already needed to resign over
the catastrophe that transpired in Afghanistan. Heck, he should have
resigned for pushing woke-ism in the military. But this is far beyond
any of that. This is a US general telling our top military and
geopolitical enemy that he’d take their side in an attack and put
American service members in grave danger to do so, all while hiding it
from the president.
Can we also note that this is another example of America’s
establishment class being subservient to China? Does anyone think a
Chinese official would give us a heads up in the event of a surprise
attack? Of course, they wouldn’t. This is dangerous stuff.
We do not elect generals and they do not have the right to operate
this way. Milley, whether he likes it or not, is supposed to be
accountable to elected officials. That he essentially set up his own
military dictatorship while serving under Trump is one of the scariest
things I’ve seen in a very long time.
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Real Clear: Many in the political and media establishment consider the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot to be one of America’s darkest episodes. Others say the nationwide protests last summer over George Floyd’s murder were worse.
With polling indicating Americans see twosides to the story – and major media dwelling on only one – RealClearInvestigations has developed the database below allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. Further context can be found here.
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WHICH RIOT SCENARIO:
2021 CAPITOL RIOT
2020 GEORGE FLOYD RIOTS
2017 INAUGURATION RIOT
Key Facts & Figures
Casualties
— Police Officer Fatalities
–
1
–
— Police Officers Assaulted/Injured
140
2,037
12
— Non-Officers Who Died
Ashli Babbitt, 3 others
6-20+
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Arrests
>570
16,241
234
Federal Charges
— Assault
≥175
44
101
— Weapons
>60
79
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Estimated Damage
~$1.5M
$1B-$2B
>$100K
Pretrial Detention
At least 50 defendants transported to D.C. jail from home states; some reportedly subjected to solitary confinement; alleged abuse by prison guards, including beatings, and denial of routine access to family and attorneys. Many held without bail on misdemeanor charges in separate D.C. lockup designated for Capitol rioters.
50 detained pre-trial; prosecutors appealed judges’ decisions to release from detention in at least 18 cases
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Pretrial Detention Duration
Dozens held for months or longer
Several held for months
No reporting indicating lengthy detentions
Case Outcomes
Nonviolent offenders without criminal histories given months of jail time; one dropped case.
In most of a dozen major jurisdictions, 90%+ of citations/charges dropped, dismissed, or otherwise not filed; D.C. prosecutors dropped most felony rioting charges; feds dismissed or are on track to dismiss charges in majority of Portland, Ore., cases largely stemming from violence around federal buildings.
Knives, flag poles, fire extinguishers, baseball bats, tasers, crowbars, tomahawk axes
Firearms, incendiary devices including Molotov cocktails, vehicles, rocks, bricks, bottles (frozen water and glass), fireworks including those improvised to explode; poles and bats (metal and wooden), hammers, wood, cinderblocks
Hammers, crowbars, poles (metal and wood), wooden sticks, bricks, rocks, pieces of concrete, lighters, flares, firecrackers, other explosive devices
Violent Protester Tactics
Bludgeoning with poles and bats; pushing and trampling; crushing in doorways; spraying of chemical irritants
Shooting at officers; throwing Molotov cocktails at officers standing at skirmish lines, or behind officers to trap them between fire and protesters; throwing dangerous objects at officers from elevated positions; using peaceful protesters as human shields; targeting officers’ eyes with lasers; doxing police officers; aggressive tactics to free arrestees from police custody; use of weapons caches and “snack vans” to conceal weapons
Mass of several hundred descended on streets in a bloc clad in black with faces covered to avoid identification, armed in some cases with crowbars, hammers to cause mayhem
Damage Description
Broken glass, doors; graffiti; varying damage to statues, murals, historic benches, original shutters, primarily from pepper spray accretions and residue from chemical irritants, fire extinguishers
Authorities call this one of the largest and most complex investigations in history concerning the most dangerous threat to democracy. They collected >200,000 tips, >15,000 hours of footage, >80,000 reports related to interviews of suspects and witnesses and other investigative steps; over 93,000 associated attachments. They reportedly requested, obtained, used private customer data from banks in pursuit of suspects. They also reportedly collected private cellphone data and communications data — including records from members of Congress and staff — in connection with investigation.
Justice Dept. designated New York, Portland, Seattle as cities permitting violence and property destruction. Most major city DAs dismissed charges en masse, choosing not to prosecute protest-related cases. One would only pursue cases with multiple charges; some prosecutors refused to charge those arrested for felony crimes committed during protests despite availability of video evidence and confessions.
Federal authorities reviewed 650 hours of video from police officer body cameras, cellphones, undercover cops, helicopter cameras; confiscated 188 protester cellphones; sought 1.3 million IP addresses of visitors to Disruptj20.org website, but when challenged in court, dropped request, ultimately claiming they were solely concerned with “a small and focused group of individuals” who visited site pursuant to “singular focus in this case of investigating the planning, organization, and participation in the January 20, 2017 riot.”
Alleged Investigative/Prosecutorial Abuses
Judges and prosecutors have cited defendants’ views regarding elections as indicating their danger. Charging documents frequently cite views on election fraud as suggesting wrongdoing. Judge found one defendant deprived of due process rights over withheld evidence. The federal government has kept from public view >14,000 hours of footage while selectively publishing clips. Other anomalies: “slow-walking” of trials; one court-appointed attorney provided reading lists to defendants to “educate” clients and dissuade them from purportedly wrongheaded views; another court-appointed attorney representing Jacob Chansley, a.k.a. “QAnon Shaman,” disparaged January 6 defendants in a May 2021 interview with Talking Points Memo, stating “A lot of these defendants…they’re all f-cking short-bus people.” At least one judge has questioned whether Justice Dept. is flouting the Constitution’s speedy-trial clause.
Claims of unprecedented wave of federal prosecutions against protesters; excessive pretrial detention
D.C. ultimately reached $1.6M settlement in two lawsuits alleging riot arrests without cause, unlawful confinement conditions, use of excessive force. Judge found government withheld evidence in certain cases. Prosecution’s legal strategy decried by left as seeking to criminalize many for actions of few, through liberal riot culpability standard; slow-walking of trials.
Fallout
Development and initiation of Biden admin countering domestic terror strategy; second impeachment of President Trump and social media banning; numerous congressional probes including January 6 Select Committee likely to span many months; lockdown of Capitol Hill; Capitol Police expansion of operations outside of D.C.
Dramatic rise in homicides and aggravated assaults continuing into 2021, corresponding with declining arrest figures in several major cities; major cities facing wave of police retirements, resignations, and hiring issues
