Friday, June 28, 2024

Buckle Up: CDC Lays Groundwork for Next Pandemic


As if on cue, the Centers for Disease Control issued their latest attempt to terrify the public on...spin the wheel...the ball lands on vingt-deux: the horrors of Dengue Fever! 

Before Barack Obama wandered onto the political scene, the CDC were the undisputed leader in protecting public health and safety through controlling and preventing disease, injury, and disability in the U.S. and the world.  After Obama, you would have to be blind not to see that the CDC have been fully compromised and are no longer a responsible public health organization. 

The COVID debacle was not their finest moment.  If you value your health, you have to question and scrutinize everything that comes from them.

What does that mean?  Well, we sure are getting a whole lot of alerts on the infectious disease du jour.  First it was COVID, then Monkeypox, then the Marburg virus.  Now it is Dengue Fever.  If this is anything like the last manufactured pandemic (that never materialized), where Americans have been conditioned to line up like sheep for an unnecessary, unproven, and experimental — and mandatory — Emergency Use Authorization mRNA vaccine, you can expect a lot of misinformation.

Nicole Acevedo is the latest fear porn reporter and cites an array of statistics to prove the CDC’s thesis on the dangers of Dengue Fever.  The number “of cases” suggests that the occurrence of Dengue is increasing in America.  That may be so, but I challenge her reporting.

My reference is a pre-Obama/Fauci CDC (when they weren’t compromised) product: the U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-11.9, titled “POTENTIAL MILITARY CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL AGENTS AND COMPOUNDS,” with the latest edition published in 2005.  You can find a list of “potential” bioweapons agents on page IV-2.  Right there on the page, nine viruses above the “racist” Monkeypox and Marburg virus is Dengue Fever.

On page 148 of the pdf (or IV-15), directly from the FM, the specifics for “Dengue Fever” are listed.

c. Dengue Fever.

(1) Infectious Agent. Dengue-1, Dengue-2, Dengue-3, and Dengue-4. They are all flaviviruses.  (Any of a family of single-stranded RNA virusestransmitted especially by ticks and mosquitoes and including the causative agents of dengue, hepatitis C, hog cholera, Saint Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus, and yellow fever).

(2) Occurrence. Most countries in the tropics, Africa, Saudi Arabia, and the Americas.

(3) Reservoir. The viruses are maintained in a human mosquito cycle in tropical urban centers; a monkey mosquito cycle serves as a reservoir in southeast Asia and west Africa.

(4) Transmission. By the bite of infective mosquitoes.

(5) Symptoms. An acute febrile viral disease that is characterized by sudden onset, fever for 3 to 5 days, intense headache, myalgia, arthralgia, retro-orbital pain, anorexia, GI disturbances, and rash. Minor bleeding may occur. Epidemics are explosive, but fatalities in the absence of dengue hemorrhagic fever are rare.

(6) Incubation period. From 3 to 14 days, commonly 4 to 7 days.

(7) Communicability. Not directly transmitted from person to person. Patients are infective for mosquitoes from shortly before to the end of the febrile period, usually a period of 3 to 5 days. The mosquito becomes infective 8 to 12 days after the viremic blood meal and remains so for life.

(8) Prevention. Use screening, protective clothing, and repellents and try to eliminate breeding grounds. An experimental vaccine is available.

(9) Delivery. The primary threat is delivery by aerosol release.

An experimental vaccine is available?  You mean, just in time for the CDC to warn of a pandemic or the president to issue a national health emergency?  You have to admit, the timing is suspicious, especially since the Biden administration has let in millions of illegal aliens from Central and South America and Africa.  Were any of those people tested before they were let in? 

Were these cases “new cases”?  The FM details indicate that Dengue Fever is not directly transmitted from person to person.  Has anyone found an infected mosquito with Dengue Fever in the United States?  Not even one?  CDC — this is your area. 

So what happened?  Did thousands of sick and infected illegal aliens go to a hospital complaining of symptoms consistent with Dengue Fever?  You see, before Obama/Fauci and a compromised media and CDC, a real reporter would have “squared the circle” and found out.  Where’s the bug?

The implication of the CDC alert is clear: Dengue Fever is in America, and the president will have to issue another health emergency.  You need to be very afraid of the latest election virus.  But an experimental vaccine is available!  The president is the savior! 

However, like the last political pandemic, you’ll be forced to take an experimental, untested, unapproved concoction of something — like Dengue river swamp water.  Otherwise, you will lose your job.  And you must get jabbed early with whatever Dr. Science’s replacement has to offer.

Every day, we are learning just how corrupt the agents of the FDA and the CDC and their spokespeople and the media have been on COVID-19.  That was a pandemic of the unvaccinated, didn’t you know?  I remember Arnold Schwarzenegger barking into the camera, “Screw you and your freedoms!”

Before the government breaks out another failed vaccine passport program, it might be a good time to review what the official published research conducted for the military indicated, before Obama’s Deep State traitorous liars at the CDC and the FDA and their friends in the media get crazy again and mandate unwarranted experimental mRNA gene therapy, mandatory masks for infants, the totally made up “social distancing,” and another round of lockdowns for Dengue Fever. 

Dengue Fever was not directly transmitted from person to person before Obama and Fauci and Biden.  I’m sure it isn’t today, either.

However, it’s been a fascinating movie to watch.  The world’s craziest or deadliest endemic viruses, like Ebola, Dengue Fever, Lassa, Marburg, and Monkeypox, are found in very meager numbers — but when you let millions of untested, unvaccinated, and infected illegal aliens from all over the planet into the country, the media will seek to terrify you in this election year, and the CDC will suggest they have a vaccine to protect you.  The next pandemic emergency is likely a few days away...for a virus that is not directly transmitted from person to person.



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X22, And we Know, and more- June 28

 


Honestly, I haven't this much fun discussing politics in.... A very long time! Hoping this is a preview for what I'll be feeling in November.

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It sure looks like Trump is more for sale than ever before

It sure looks like Trump is more for sale than ever before (msn.com)








Last week, former President Donald Trump appeared on the popular “All-In” podcast, which is hosted by four Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors. During the conversation, Trump raised familiar talking points, including that immigration across the southern border is an “invasion of our country.” But the conversation took an unexpected turn when one of the hosts, investor Jason Calacanis, asked Trump to “promise us you will give us more ability to import the best and brightest around the world to America.” Trump responded affirmatively.

“I do promise,” Trump said. “But I happen to agree, otherwise I wouldn’t promise. ... You graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country, and that includes junior colleges too.”

Trump’s pledge was a shocking pivot. During his presidency, he didn’t just crack down on undocumented immigration, but on immigration across the board — and he adopted policies designed to restrict student visas and make it harder for foreign students to stay after graduation. Automatically providing foreign students with green cards upon graduation would dramatically increase the number of people permitted to have legal residency in the U.S. annually.

The next day, Trump’s campaign walked back his pledge of automatic green cards. A Trump spokesperson said that a green card cannot be awarded to foreign students until after they undergo “the most aggressive vetting process ever to exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges,” and that Trump believes the U.S. “ought to keep the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America.” It’s unclear what criteria would be used to determine if someone fits into the excluded categories and who can make “significant contributions” to the nation.

Despite the huge caveats, Trump’s maneuver was still striking. He was, for a moment, seemingly willing to turn his back on one of the most foundational policy commitments of his political career. And even with the asterisks, one wonders if Trump is still trying to signal that he could potentially be moderate on the issue of skilled immigrants. Regardless of the fact that Trump’s pledge has little credibility, the big question is “Why?”

Here’s a possible answer: Speaking on an influential podcast hosted by rich tech figures — at least two of whom are major Trump fundraisers — Trump wanted to tell his well-to-do audience what they wanted to hear. Silicon Valley needs access to skilled immigrants to maintain its competitive edge in the global tech world, and Trump may have hoped that seeming to compromise on the issue and dangle a carrot might provide people in the tech world with an incentive to give him some extra cash.


Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump has had a pattern of flip-flopping on policy issues in a manner that has eluded obvious explanation. But it’s reasonable to hypothesize that some of his changes of heart may be explained by efforts to court or reward affluent donors as he scrambles to scrounge up cash for his campaign and his unending legal troubles.

For example, Trump recently reversed entirely on the issue of cryptocurrencies. Whereas in past years he’s called crypto a “scam” and a “disaster waiting to happen,” in recent statements he has celebrated bitcoin and criticized President Joe Biden’s position on it, and announced that he’s willing to accept donations in cryptocurrency. He’s even called for a “crypto army” to back him. As my colleague Steve Benen has pointed out, a possible explanation might be found in recently announced support from the billionaire Winklevoss twins, who own a cryptocurrency company and have donated $1 million each to support Trump, plus issued a statement slamming Biden’s regulatory attitude toward crypto and praising Trump’s.

And this spring, Trump abruptly switched his long-held position on TikTok. Despite calling for a TikTok ban for years on national security grounds, he ended up lobbying against a bill that would have fulfilled his longtime wish. (Despite Trump’s eleventh-hour about-face, that bill passed into law with Republican support.) As I noted at the time, “Nobody knows what’s caused his shocking reversal, but a week ago Trump had a meeting with an ultrawealthy hedge fund manager who has a multibillion-dollar stake in ByteDance, and could theoretically be a potential future donor.”

This all comes as Trump has displayed new desperation in meetings with donors, reportedly naming funding targets for oil executives in order to secure his assurance that he’ll pursue the policy regime they prefer. Those efforts could potentially violate federal bribery laws, according to some government watchdogs.

Trump has always been transactional, but this election cycle has added expenses due to constant court fights and legal fees. And since he was last president, Silicon Valley has become a more ideologically heterogeneous place, and a significant chunk of the scene has shifted aggressively to the right; Trump may be willing to adopt new positions to tap into their extraordinary wealth.

Every time Trump does one of these about-faces, he’s not signaling only to his immediate audience that his policy vision could be shaped by the highest bidder, but that potentially anybody could win him over if they name the right price. One can only imagine how this kind of ethos would evolve if Trump were to win a second term, and deep-pocketed donors might be more convinced than ever that patronizing his businesses or promising future business with him could win them policy favors. From what we can see, at least, Trump looks more for sale than he ever has.

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Cultural Marxism: A Century Old and Thriving

The Marxist notion that traditional culture is the source of oppression in the modern world is still very much with us.


In 1923, a group of professors known as the Frankfurt School came to the fore. These German Marxists—notably Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse—harbored a deep disdain for capitalism and traditional morals. Unfortunately, the professors did not stay in their homeland long. Adolph Hitler’s rise to power forced them out of Germany, and they reemerged at Columbia University in New York City in 1935.

And a century later, the malign effects of their teachings are still with us.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory (CRT), Black Lives Matter (BLM), gender indoctrination, wokeism, etc., fade in and out of the news cycle, but they have established a secure foothold in the nation’s culture, notably in our schools.

Cultural Marxism is still pervasive in a significant number of our colleges. In Illinois, legislators want to embed racial considerations into state appropriations for public universities. According to its website, Yale’s Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry faculty are told to place “DEI at the center of every decision” when making hires.

There are a few bright spots, however. Public universities in Texas, Florida, and Utah have banned DEI. However, those decisions came from state governments, not from the colleges themselves.

At MIT, a private university, President Sally Kornbluth confirmed in May that the school would “no longer require diversity statements in faculty hiring.”

Also, according to an analysis from OpenTheBooks.com, the University of North Carolina spends an estimated $90 million each year on 686 employees who promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their departments or across the system. But change is on the horizon. In a repudiation of DEI ideology, the UNC Board of Governors voted on May 23 to repeal its diversity policy.

Sadly, at the elementary and high school level, the Marxists predominate. In fact, our K-12 schools lay the groundwork for all the college campus lunacy we see practically on a daily basis.

Christopher Rufo reports that in Portland, the Intifada begins in kindergarten. For example, the teachers union suggests that kindergarteners be gathered into a circle and taught the history of Palestine: “Seventy-five years ago, a lot of decision-makers around the world decided to take away Palestinian land to make a country called Israel. Israel would be a country where rules were mostly fair for Jewish people with white skin. There’s a BIG word for when indigenous land gets taken away to make a country; that’s called settler colonialism.” (Ibram X. Kendi, probably the most strident CRT proponent in the country, contends that kindergarten is too late to start. He thinks that ‘Antiracist’ education should start before age 3.)

The Jew-hating lies have been working. In the three months following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Anti-Defamation League tallied 256 antisemitic incidents in K-12 schools nationwide.

The Zinn Education Project, named after the late Communist college professor, is advancing its agenda via the “Teach Truth Day of Action,” which is celebrated in June. (There is no specific date.) The goal is to eliminate “right-wing forces” and “fascists,” which the organization laughably insists dominate public education in the country. The Zinners maintain that more than 65 organizations are co-sponsoring the Teach Truth Day of Action, including the Abolitionist Teaching Network, the African American Policy Forum, the American Library Association, Black Lives Matter at School, Black Teacher Project, SNCC Legacy Project, and more.

Notably, the National Education Association is a big supporter of the Teach Truth Day of Action. On its website, the teachers’ union states, “On June 8, educators, students, parents, and community members across the country joined the 4th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, taking part in book exchanges (including banned ones!), historic walks, voter registration drives, and more.”

It’s worth noting that while schools are doing a bang-up job of indoctrinating students, only 22% of eighth-graders scored at or above the NAEP Proficient level on the most recent test in civics, and just 13% scored at or above the NAEP Proficient level in U.S. history.

One state seems to be moving in the right direction. Texas is doing what it can to reinstate tradition by injecting Bible stories into elementary school reading programs. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick praised the curriculum changes, explaining that they will “get us back to teaching, not necessarily the Bible per se, but the stories from the Bible.”

What can be done to stem the Marxists?

In public schools, state laws can help, and local school board elections can make a difference, but when the school bell rings and the classroom door is shut, the teacher will talk about whatever he or she wants to.

Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former fifth-grade teacher, writes that a 2017 RAND Corporation survey found that “99% of elementary teachers and 96% of secondary schools use ‘materials I developed and/or selected myself’ in teaching English language arts. The numbers are virtually the same in math. But putting teachers in charge of creating their own lesson plans or scouring the internet for curriculum materials creates an irresistible opportunity for every imaginable interest group that perceives—not incorrectly—that overworked teachers and a captive young audience equal a rich target for selling products and pushing ideologies.”

As an example, Pondiscio cites a public school in Brooklyn, part of the New York City Board of Education. Kids were sent home with an “activity book” promoting the tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement, including “queer affirming,” “transgender affirming,” and “restorative justice.” The book was not authorized for classroom use by either the N.Y.C. Department of Education or Brooklyn’s Community School District 15. “It appears to have begun its journey into students’ backpacks at the massive ‘Share My Lesson’ websiterun by the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second largest teachers union.”

Pondiscio notes that while they are seldom traceable to formally adopted school curricula, there are 75 different lesson plans and resources for conducting “privilege walks” and more than 100 lessons and resources on “preferred pronouns” at Teachers Pay Teachers, which is another lesson-sharing website.

Additionally, the advocacy group Parents Defending Education has created an Indoctrination Map, which documents countless incidents of “schools teaching lessons on race, gender, or other hot-button issues that parents deemed inappropriate or upsetting.”

Mark Tapson, Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and culture warrior, along with his wife, homeschool four of their five kids. (Number five will join the others when he is of age.) Tapson asserts that the “aim of the neo-Marxist Left is to break down the family unit by de-legitimizing parents’ legal and moral right to determine how their own children are raised. The Left wants to take your children and grandchildren and raise them as loyal, dependent subjects of the atheistic State, disconnected from their own history and culture, and devoid of critical thinking skills, intellectual independence, or a spiritual dimension.”

Tapson is absolutely correct. The godfather of communism, Karl Marx, taught his followers that the world was divided into two categories—oppressors and oppressed. Marx despised the nuclear family, which he claimed “performs ideological functions for capitalism” and teaches “passive acceptance of hierarchy.” He thought that the destruction of the family model would make it easier to abolish private property.

Sending your kid to school these days is risky business, and parents need to step up and take on that responsibility if at all possible.



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Report Says Pentagon-Funded Hunt For ‘White Supremacists’ In U.S. Military Led Nowhere



A new report said Pentagon programs to sniff out “white supremacists” in the U.S. military came up empty-handed and were even counterproductive to military readiness and morale.

A zealous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy has been established in the military and service academies, more recently “through mandated executive orders in the 2010s and 2020s,” the report, produced by the Arizona State University’s (ASU) Center for American Institutions, said. It also revealed that the efforts to “search for ‘violent extremists’ in the military,” have yielded rare and infrequent results. 

The report uncovered that the military’s “search for white supremacists – seemingly the only extremists that interest the military – has come up short: only 100 members of the military were deemed to be extremists out of a force of 2.1 million.” 

The military has actively pushed DEI policies and re-education classes with the goal “‘to eradicate racism, sexism, and negative biases that diminish our warfighting effectiveness,'” the report said, citing the 2021 Marine Corps DEI Plan. 

“Just as private companies have abandoned the toxic advice of DEI consultants and programs, military leaders should end social engineering based on critical race theory and restore approaches that promote character and merit,” said Donald Critchlow, Director of the Center for American Institutions at ASU.

According to the report, “Spending on DEI programming is increasing. The DOD’s allocation for DEI projects jumped from $68 million in fiscal year 2022 to $86.5 million in fiscal year 2023. The Pentagon is requesting $114.7 million for fiscal year 2024.” 

Matt Lohmeier, a former Space Force commander who was fired from his position due to his opposition and criticism of DEI policies, is well aware of the impact that prioritizing diversity sensitivity training has on the Pentagon and military service academies. 

“It’s no surprise that young people are turning away from military service in record numbers,” Lohmeier said. “As this comprehensive report illuminates, DEI indoctrination has become a core component of military training that begins for officers even at the service academies.” 

The report also details how military personnel were encouraged to turn each other in if it was believed the DEI protocol was violated.

“Efforts to root out white supremacy involve not only training but appointing service members to act as the ‘eyes and ears’ of the bureaucracy to turn in suspects,” the report reads. “Suspicion replaces trust, understanding, and teamwork.” 

The report was produced by a commission created through ASU’s Center for American Institutions. It was led by commissioners Lohmeier, Karrin Taylor Robson, and John Cauthen, in tandem with researchers from ASU. 

In the report, the group “calls for an immediate end to the Pentagon’s multimillion-dollar DEI bureaucracy.” 

“Our research reviewed DEI policy in the military starting in the nineteen seventies to the modern day and concluded there are far more effective ways to promote unity and respect among military ranks than by spending millions annually to divide service members by their gender or race,” Critchlow said. 

Examples of gross overemphasis on DEI were drawn out long before the publication of this report.

During Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s Senate confirmation hearing, he said, “We woke up one day and discovered that we had extremist elements in our ranks, and they did bad things that we certainly held them accountable for.”

Lloyd’s determination led to a military-wide “DOD Stand-Down to Address Extremism in the Ranks,” a memo released in early 2021.

“In 2020, Corps Commandant General David Berger asserted that diversity was essential to warfighting,” said the report. “‘I am absolutely convinced: Too much similarity – too much that we look all the same, think the same, got the same background – we’re going to get killed.'”

In response to the death of George Floyd, for example, General Mark Milley said, “The protests that have ensued not only speak to this injustice, but also to centuries of injustice towards Black Americans. We, as a nation and as a military, are still struggling with racism, and we have much work to do.”



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Leftist Radical Protesters: A Conservative's Best Friend


Honestly, I worry that one day I'll find myself out of a job and not because AI will take it. It'll happen because the left will become so incredibly ridiculous in its radicalism that writers like me will no longer be needed to make a solid case for liberty-minded governance and common sense thought. I'd have better luck becoming a writer on a television show akin to South Park, where no joke about how absurd people are remains a joke for long. At some point, a group of people will come along to make my joke a deadly serious matter. 

Emphasis on "deadly." 

The leftist radical is equal parts annoying, frightening, and hilarious. For instance, let's check in on protesters who like to block roadways. 


My chat and I had a good laugh watching this clip over and over on my show, "Brandon Morse Is a Brand Risk," but we stopped to analyze the events point by point because it was just so fascinating to watch these protesters act the way they do. As you can see (or not if you can't watch it right now), the protesters are attempting to set up a barrier using a rope. They attempt to stop a truck which ignores them and plows right through the flimsy rope barrier, and while one of the protesters is smart enough to let go, one isn't. 

The rope gets caught up on something on the truck and breaks, snapping back on the girl still holding her end of the rope. The camera doesn't show what happens to the girl at that moment, but when it cuts back to her, she's on the ground, dazed. 

You might be thinking, "is she stupid?" undefinedd on the evidence...yes. She's very, very stupid. Anyone who tries to hold onto a rope wrapped around a ton of metal hurtling down a highway thinking it will somehow slow it down or stop it isn't the brightest lightbulb in the box.  

But this level of stupidity from these kinds of protesters isn't a bug, it's a feature. 

For instance, none of them stop to think that their behavior is going to actually turn people against their cause and hinder it further. Stopping traffic on a road where people will become annoyed, enraged, or desperate isn't going to cause people to look on any cause kindly, yet these idiots think they're really getting the word out and raising awareness. 

Trust me, everyone's aware...we're aware of how much we despise these protesters and whatever because they think is worth stopping emergency vehicles from getting to where they need to go. 

Case in point, who watched this desecration of an ancient structure and felt the need to "stop oil" afterward? 


Who witnessed the interruption of this baseball game by these pro-Hamas protesters and really started to think that maybe they too should start taking "anti-Zionism" seriously? 


These idiots make their point for you, and the more intense they get, the worse off their cause is. 

I think I can mark the real turning point of the public's feelings about the transgender community at the Nashville shooting by a transgender individual who murdered six people, three of which were innocent children. Since then, the narrative that transgender people are all societal victims who are bullied and hunted in the street has fallen flat and the movement's momentum took a massive hit. With each act of violence a gender confused idiot commits, the ire around the movement only grows. 

 If it weren't for the violence, I would say I hope these radicalized useful idiots never go away. They certainly make a strong argument against their cause and are probably more effective at turning people off to it than I'll ever be. 

But the next time you see any of these people, be sure to thank them. They're a large part of why America is souring on radical leftism. 



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Inject Into My Veins: Visibly Stunned Chuck Todd Admits What Biden's Critics Have Said About Him Is True


Sister Toldjah reporting for RedState 

During the RedState liveblog of the first 2024 presidential debate, some of my colleagues predicted that it was only a matter of time before the same media folks yada yadaing about "cheap fakes" as it relates to video clips of an incoherent Joe Biden would do a complete reversal post-debate and perhaps would even suggest Biden withdraw as the nominee.

Sure enough, that is exactly what happened. As RedState's Levon reported, calls are already growing in liberal media circles and beyond for Biden to be replaced as the nominee either at the Democratic National Convention or maybe even sooner than that. 

CBS News even noted that "There are at least some House Democrats who are gathered tonight watching this together, talking about talking to the White House about having him step down. That's how bad it was, in their view."

Over at NBC News, resident Biden apologist Chuck Todd was particularly sour-faced and sullen about Biden's dismal debate performance, although once you hear what he has to say, you'll wonder if he was upset about how poorly Biden performed or if he was more upset over having to basically admit that everything Biden's critics have said about his age and fitness to lead was true:

"You know, one of the things was when either candidate looked like the caricature that the other campaign has been trying to paint of them - and at the end of the day, Joe Biden looks like the caricature that conservative media has been painting. And there were no clips tonight, right, this was - you saw it before your eyes.

Look, I don't want to just tell you what I think here. I've been talking to a lot of leaders in the Democratic Party, electeds, coalition leaders. There's a full-on panic about this performance. Not like, 'Oh, this is recoverable.' It is more of an 'Okay,  he's gotta step aside.' There's a lot of that chatter. This is about as bad of a performance in order to - that Biden could have delivered if his goal was to try to sort of calm the waters among Democrats."

Watch: 

As I mentioned in an earlier write-up, NBC News/MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan warned on Friday that Biden "absolutely cannot have a senior moment at this debate" because focus group Democrats she'd talked to in states like Michigan and Wisconsin had stressed that they had serious concerns about Biden's age and physical fitness.

It is "an albatross that is hanging around this candidate and campaign," she also said.

It's also now an albatross around the necks of Biden's propagandists in the mainstream press like Todd who have been gaslighting the American people for three and a half years and who now have no choice but to admit to their viewers and readers that "the right" has been correct about Joe Biden all along.



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Here Are The 20 Biggest Whoppers Biden Told During His Debate With Trump


From the border crisis to manufactured hoaxes about his opponent, there was almost no subject Biden didn’t lie about.



President Joe Biden isn’t known for telling the truth. So, it came as no surprise when the Delaware Democrat got up on stage to tell some pretty tall tales during Thursday’s debate with former President Donald Trump.

From the crisis he created at the U.S.-Mexico border to manufactured hoaxes about his opponent, there was almost no subject Biden didn’t lie about. Here are the 20 biggest whoppers he told during Thursday night’s matchup with the Orange Man.

1. Border Patrol Endorsement

Biden claimed he was endorsed by America’s Border Patrol union. That is not true. In fact, the Border Patrol Union issued a real-time fact-check Thursday night stating: “To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.”

2. Trump Bleach Lie

Biden claimed Trump told people infected with Covid to inject themselves with “bleach.” Trump did not tell people to do that.

3. Illegal Border Crossings

Biden claimed “there [are] 40 percent fewer people coming across the border illegally” under his presidency than Trump’s. That isn’t true, as illegal border crossings have skyrocketed to record highs under Biden’s presidency.

4. Military Deaths

Biden claimed he’s the “only president this … decade” who “doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world” under his presidency. That is false. Thirteen service members were killed during Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

5. Inflation

Biden claimed inflation was at 9 percent when he came into office. That statistic is false. The inflation rate when Trump left office was 1.4 percent.

6. Late Term Abortion

Biden claimed that Democrats “are not for late-term abortion.” As The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd noted, Biden “has repeatedly promised to legalize unlimited, on-demand abortion through all nine months of pregnancy via a sweeping bill and routinely promoted taxpayer-funded abortion policies.”

7. Cages at the Border

Biden claimed Trump was “separating babies from their mothers [and] putting them in cages” when he was president. That statement is misleading. As admitted by the left-wing Associated Press, these were “chain-link enclosures” inside alien-holding border facilities that were created by the Obama-Biden administration.

8. No New Taxes

Biden claimed he “didn’t” raise taxes for “anybody making less than $400,000 a year.” That is false.

9. Hitler

Biden claimed Trump once said, “Hitler has done some good things.” As admitted by left-wing Snopes, there is no proof that Trump ever said this. The allegation has also been denied by Trump’s staff.

10. Debunked ‘Suckers’ & ‘Losers’ Hoax

Biden repeated the lie that Trump called deceased American soldiers “suckers” and “losers.” Numerous former Trump administration officials have publicly refuted the phony story. Even left-wing Snopes admitted, “there appeared to be no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes’ authenticity.”

11. Trump’s Iran Policy

Biden claimed Trump “did nothing” to stifle Iranian aggression. That is false. For example, Trump ordered the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

12. Trump’s NATO Remarks

Biden claimed Trump told Vladimir Putin, “Do whatever you want,” regarding Russia’s invasion of Eastern Europe. But that’s not accurate.

Trump’s remarks came during a South Carolina rally, during which he recounted a story from when he was president and speaking with a NATO member. Trump purportedly told this state that he would withhold U.S. support if they didn’t pay their minimum defense spending obligations.

13. Climate Alarmism

Biden falsely contended that the “only existential threat to humanity is climate change.”

14. Efforts to Stop J6 Riot

Biden insinuated Trump made no effort to ensure demonstrators wouldn’t breach the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. That isn’t true. Trump sought to deploy 10,000 National Guard troops to the Capitol ahead of Congress’s certification of the 2020 election results.

15. Roe v. Wade

Biden claimed the “vast majority of constitutional scholars supported [Roe v. Wade] when it was decided” by the Supreme Court in 1973. There is no evidence that’s true.

16. Beau’s Death

Biden claimed his son Beau died in Iraq. Beau was not killed in action in Iraq but died from brain cancer in 2015.

17. ‘Very Fine People’ Lie

Biden repeated the lie that Trump called white supremacists who participated in a 2017 Charlottesville march “very fine people.” Even left-wing “fact-checker” Snopes recently admitted that claim is untrue.

18. Unemployment Under Trump

Biden claimed the unemployment rate was at 15 percent when he came into office. That isn’t true. The unemployment rate was 6.4 percent when Biden was inaugurated in January.

19. Trillionaires

Biden claimed there are “1,000 trillionaires in America.” There are not, in fact, any trillionaires in America or the world.

20. NATO

Biden claimed Trump “wants to get [the United States] out of NATO.” There is no evidence to suggest that’s true. In fact, Trump regularly pressed NATO countries during his presidency to meet their defense spending commitments.



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