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-Short Attention Span Theater-
CNA Nursing Home Whistleblower: Seniors Are DYING LIKE FLIES After COVID Injections
Mod note: you should read this with extreme skepticism. Vaccine-related adverse events, especially deaths, have to be reported to CDC and FDA. For the COVID vaccines you might imagine that there is intense interest right now in serious adverse events (SAEs, as we call them in the trade). Vaccine administration teams are required to report these as are practitioners, hospitals, and medical examiners. There is NO WAY 14 people would die shortly after vaccination and that somehow would escape the notice of FDA.

I checked out the website. They make Alex Jones look sane.

I don't believe this report. Rantburg readers should use the same degree of skepticism in reading this as they would for any pronouncement by John Kerry.
[Health Impact News] James (he gives his last name in the video) is a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant), and he recorded this video as a whistleblower because he could not keep silent any longer.

James reports that in 2020 very few residents in the nursing home where he works got sick with COVID, and none of them died during the entire year of 2020.

However, shortly after administering the Pfizer experimental mRNA injections, 14 died within two weeks, and he reports that many others are near death.

The video is long (47 minutes), and it is clear that James is suffering from emotional stress, and he admits that he has nothing to gain from going public, and that he will probably lose his job for doing so.

But he makes it very clear that these were patients he knew and cared for (he is also a “lay pastor”), and that after being injected with the mRNA shot, residents who used to walk on their own can no longer walk. Residents who used to carry on an intelligent conversation with him could no longer talk.

And now they are dying. “They’re dropping like flies.”

His superiors are explaining the deaths as being caused by a COVID19 “super-spreader.”

However, the residents who refused to take the injections, are not sick, according to James.
Posted by: Ebbigum B. Hayes1678 || 01/29/2021 09:22 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Boy! That's a scary site. I had the shot yesterday morning and the little arm pain is gone this morning. I could still die, I suppose.

But I'm not worried; I take hydroxychloroquine for something else.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/29/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#2  A sane, rational source, that features such intellectually sound articles as "The Satanic Roots to Modern Medicine – The Mark of the Beast?"

Why is this junk on Rantburg?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/29/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  From a soon to be removed video: Dr. Lee Merritt says mRNA technology is not an FDA approved vaccine, mirroring what Dr. David Martin also stated recently.

In animal studies, after mRNA injections have been administered to cats & ferrets, when the virus arrived once again into the body, it arrived like a Trojan Horse, undetected by the cats’ own immune system. The virus multiplied unchallenged and all animals involved in the experiment died from various causes. It fools the immune system so when contact with the SARS, MERS, or COVID 19 occurs, it multiplies rapidly but may be months or years later. Death is often from blood clots or sepsis as in Larry King's case. He recovered from Covid then had the "vaccine" before going home, dying from sepsis days later. Dr. Merritt says it is a perfect bioweapon so giving Gitmo inmates preference may not be a bad idea but certainly requiring injections for the military or forcing vaccine passports on everyone should have us all concerned when the virus has a 99% recovery rate. People already recovered should especially avoid the vaccine.
Culling the Medicare rolls is just the beginning.
Posted by: Mad Eye Dribble8943 || 01/29/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Link please.
Posted by: KBK || 01/29/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||

#5  He recovered from Covid then had the "vaccine" before going home

Odd. I got Pfizer yesterday and was questioned if I had ever tested positive or had COVID.

My brother got the same questions today for a Moderna shot at a different location.

Makes me think we wouldn't have been allowed the shot in King's condition.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/29/2021 15:38 Comments || Top||

#6 

Residents who used to carry on an intelligent conversation with him could no longer talk.

And now they are dying. “They’re dropping like flies.”


Interesting eye witness account.

no mRNA for me, this reminds me of the Swine Flu vaccine back in the mid-70s under Jimmy Carter, people who took that shot "dropped like flies" too
Posted by: Shonter Fillmore7594 || 01/29/2021 16:17 Comments || Top||

#7  The clocks were all blinking thirteen,
And the telescreens shrieking. "Caffeine?"
"Yes, please, in my gin."
Waitress grins: "FTW."
"What's the special?" "Fresh Soylent Vaccine.
[sings] Our guarantee means
That you'll die with clean genes,
Full of lean, mean, green protein, old bean!"
Posted by: Ho Chi Untervehr1614 || 01/29/2021 19:46 Comments || Top||

#8  To hide things like that, ALL the nurses on staff would have to go along, as well as the staff physicians and the medical director, and have the cluster of deaths ignored by the local health department (they get notified of any and all deaths via the death certificates).

Now multiply that by the massive numbers of injections that are ongoing, and tell me how many people are "in on the conspiracy". This simply is stupid attention whoring and click-baiting by a 3rd rate shitposting website.

Basically, it is out and out lies. That website has no credibility, why is garbage like that posted here?

Things like this exist only to get people anxious and distracted. Who would want that? Take a look to the left. QANON sure came in handy for them didn't it? Get people angry and scared and they ignore the real issues like Biden' government by decree, and the other crap that's going on with fear driven shutdowns and lockdowns.


Posted by: Deadeye Jaiting7534 || 01/29/2021 23:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Bill Gates Shocked by 'Crazy Conspiracy Theories' About COVID-19
[Summit] Microsoft founder Bill Gates says he is shocked by the "crazy conspiracy theories" surrounding COVID-19 and that social media networks should take more steps to minimize them.
No, social media sites should leave them alone. Let Mr. Gates make his pronouncements and perhaps buy some ads on those sites. It's interesting how easily corporate types can become censors.
Noting that the combination of social media and a pandemic is something that’s never existed before, Gates said "nobody would have predicted" the attention he and Dr. Fauci have received.

The billionaire said "really evil theories" about whether he had created the pandemic or tried to profit from it had been allowed to circulate.

"Do people really believe that stuff?" asked Gates, asserting, "We’re going to have to get educated about this over the next year and understand how does it change people’s behavior."
Public health has but a few assets, and the most important one is public trust. Some (not all) public health officials burned their trust in responding to the COVID pandemic. When your trust is gone people turn you off. That's what happened to these folks. And that's why public health officials should be very careful in their public statements.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 02:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: 3dc || 01/29/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoh there, acting a bit Clippy now aren't we?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||

#3  That bastard needs to pay for Windows ME
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2021 16:54 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Destroying The U.S. Military
Read the embedded remarks by Matt Bracken at the link.

Comment by the Captain's Journal:

What a sad state of affairs. Diversity in the military will never be readiness for anything but failure.

God has rules for war and for military service (I won’t rehearse those now, but you can refer to R. J. Rushdoony, “Institutes of Biblical Law”), but they aren’t being followed here.

Thus this is alignment with wickedness. Of course, destruction of U.S. military capabilities may be their intent.

Was anybody other than me aghast at the terrible state of the NG troops sent to D.C. recently? Those boys and girls had better hope they never face combat.
Posted by: badanov || 01/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What you get promoting careerists over warriors. They're more interested in playing the system than achieving effective focusing on what the institution exists for.

Peacetime selection processes should have been thrown out in 2001 and wartime performance should have been made the fundamental criteria for promotions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/29/2021 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  in heinlines 'starship trooper' you cant vote if you haven't served.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/29/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  As a veteran, I approve Heinlein's dictum.
The problem is that if you have to serve in order to vote, those with connections will get the cushy far-from-combat jobs; the children of the hoi polloi will be put into the meat grinder. Also, to justify that big of a military, you need continuous war.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/29/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd put it a different way.

We're all born as residents. American if one of the sperm or egg donor is already an American.
At age 21 you pass a citizenship exam and enter the militia.
If you enlist in the active military service at 18, 6 months in you can take the exam and achieve citizenship.
Citizens get the standard Army issue weapon and 200 rounds to store in their abode. (see - the Swiss)
Only citizens have the vote.
If you don't trust them with the weapon, they don't get the vote.
You forfeit your citizenship status upon conviction of any serious or capital crime.
No one is forced to join the militia but you don't attain citizenship status and rights without it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/29/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#5  The guard is just weekend warriors. Some saw combat, but the trust in them was so low that not only did they vet them, but they were never issued Ammo! Toy soldiers for Pelosi to play with. As meaningless as a piece of driftwood...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/29/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Lithuania and the Holocaust: What Can You Say to Murderers of Jews?
Via the Times of Israel
by Ephraim Zuroff

This story is about the investigation of Nazi war crimes, which began in 1945 and continued intermittently until 2021. The story concerns the brutal murder of Jewish babies in the Lithuanian city of Raseiniai and is a good example of why it is still important to try to get justice even today.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 01/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
10,000 Stores Are Expected To Close In 2021, As Pandemic Continues To Pummel Retailers
Posted by: Cheatch Squank1491 || 01/29/2021 02:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
As previously stated and proved using the CDC's own data.

We are currently seeing a CDC reported pattern of decline in C-19 Season #2 mortalities since 12-12-2020 - (6 weeks).
Even reported CDC C-19 Infection case numbers are dropping as we get closer to the end of "China Flu" Season 2.

Season #2 "so far" appears to have peaked on Dec. 12th, 2021.

Where Season #1 peaked April 18th, 2020 and then started a declining pattern until Oct. 10th, 2020.

So C-19 Season #2 appears to be shorter and declining sooner than Season #1. Could it be HERD plus Vax plus a new less deadly strain???

BTW: Have noticed that some of last years CDC Reorted Death Numbers appeared to have been lowered for some select weeks.

CDC C-19 "RELATED" DEATHS
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/29/2021 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  But the governors and health commissioners are having so much fun saying "Jump!" and expecting people to ask "how high?" on the way up. They will never let this end until there are ZERO cases of COVID.
And Walmart and the other big box stores will continue to prosper, of course.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/29/2021 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  You're just saying that because all the places which make us healthy (mentally and physically) and prosperous were closed while Garbage Food and China Box were allowed to remain open.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The Left continues their war against the bourgeoisie (as represented by small business owners).
Posted by: magpie || 01/29/2021 16:32 Comments || Top||


$15 Minimum Wage Would ‘Spell a Death Knell for Many Small Restaurants,' Expert Warns
[Foundation for Economic Education] President Joe Biden is pushing for inclusion of a $15 federal minimum wage in the next COVID-19 spending package, hoping it would stimulate the economy. But a top financial expert just warned it would do the opposite—and spell doom for restaurants and small businesses.

A higher minimum wage "reduces firm’s incentives to hire more minimum wage workers," Olin Business School finance professor Radhakrishnan Gopalan said. "This effect would be all the more enhanced when firms are hurting from the pandemic."

"The restaurant sector, which employs a significant number of minimum wage workers, and the retail sector are struggling," Gopalan continued. "Raising the minimum wage now would spell a death knell for many small restaurants."

The professor isn’t speculating. His research has shown that businesses respond to minimum wage increases by reducing future hiring, leading to an overall decline in employment among minimum wage workers.

And this is part of a broader empirical data set confirming what economic theory demonstrates: that minimum wage hikes eliminate jobs. As for the $15 minimum wage proposal, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would eliminate 1.3 to 3.7 million jobs nationwide. That estimate is using a pre-pandemic scenario—there’s plenty of reason to think the impact would be even worse now.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 02:12 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is Economically Suicide to DOUBLE minimum wage in one big increase. IF even done, it should be something done over several good economic years.

Besides have they looked at how this will play out???

1. Increase M/W to $15 p/hr.
2. Promise to increase taxes for fuels, incomes and their Green Tax.
3. Nationwide Costs increase.
4. Big purchase items (Union made) cost increases and retail prices also. So less is sold. Business sales drop and the UNION and worker sector Layoffs, bankruptcies and homeless #'s increase.
5. Food, Gas, Utility prices increase and all Medical related item prices jump.
6. President Carter Admin era Inflation rates, with 21% car and home loan interest rates appear. Those markets collapse.

Then The Next Great Correction / BAILOUT

Congress must increase Social Security benefits with a COLA, WIC, SNAP and etc...

We add between 7 and 9 Trillion to the national debt.
OR we trade off or "allow" US holding to go their own way (PR, Pacific holdings and etc)...

As we pull back on the world front, CHINA still temporarily on more stable financial footing expands. Before Lack of US and world sales hits its own budget in about 6 to 9 months.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/29/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasn't kidding about the $20 bill becoming the new $1 bill.

Know what doesn't change? Tax brackets.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ That will not happen until "Needs Based" Social Security is approved. It's an equity thing, you wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Could solve those problems with price fixing and employment freezes. Well, employment freezes based on social justice points.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Lot's more businesses (small and large) than just restaurants will be hurting, I'm afraid.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/29/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Only the ones insisting on employing only "documented Americans".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 01/29/2021 15:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Needs Based is coming. Though first they’ll significantly raise the contribution taken from the paychecks of our children and grandchildren, and increase eligibility ages and out of pocket copayments in a vain attempt to balance the books a little longer.

But I’ve long assumed there would be nothing for me when I got there, and planned accordingly.

How to plan for a smaller Social Security check

[USAtoday] Absent any changes, Social Security will be able to pay scheduled retirement and survivors benefits on a timely basis until 2034. And then, its reserves will become depleted and continuing tax income will be sufficient to pay only 76% of scheduled benefits.

Indeed, in 2014 for instance, Social Security benefits accounted for between 54% and 72% of family income in the three lowest income quintiles, compared with 18% to 34% of family income in the two highest quintiles.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||

#8  FOR SALE

I am selling my white privilege card. It is over 70 years old but is in mint condition. It has never been used. Reason for selling is that it hasn't done a damn thing for me! No free college, no free food, no free housing etc. Prefer cash, but would be willing to do an even trade for a race card which seems to be more widely accepted.

Interested? Contact me on my non-Obama cell phone that I pay for every month....

Serious buyers only !

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 16:14 Comments || Top||


Why a Reddit group pumped GameStop shares up 1,000%
[CBC.CA] Shares in a U.S. retail chain that hasn't made any money in years have risen by 1,000 per cent in less than two weeks, wiping out billions of dollars from two Wall Street investment funds in the process.

The sentence above makes little sense at first blush, but it is nonetheless an apt description of the saga currently underway surrounding shares in GameStop.

GameStop is a retail chain with about 5,000 locations across North America which, as its name suggests, sells video games and game-related accessories.

Like many retailers, its business has been under pressure for several years now, because of a shift away from physical stores and toward online selling, which GameStop currently does very little of. Then the pandemic hit, exacerbated those problems and sent the stock down to multi-year lows.
More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 01/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Link goes to a story on Real Madrid soccer.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/29/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Link does appear to be right though, must be something going on at the other end.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/29/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  By the way, that link (or a link off of the soccer page) nicely answered my questions from another Rantburg post. Thanks.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/29/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#4  The "short-sqeezers" gamed the system and the hedge fund operators who bet on companies to fail got hosed to the tune of at least $14 bil. Can't say I feel sorry for them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/29/2021 18:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
A New Party: Recipe for Failure
[American Thinker] A major theme among conservatives over the past few weeks is that "Donald Trump should start a new party" — the American Conservative party, the American Patriot party, or something similar.

The impulse behind this is understandable, considering the collapse of the GOP in the face of open electoral fraud and the Capitol false-flag operation, in which we learned that it’s okay for a cop to shoot an unarmed white woman if she’s a Trump supporter, not to mention the ratlike scurrying to appease the Democrats that we’ve seen in the days since. GOP behavior throughout all this has been a disgrace. It might be going too far to say that Republicans actually worked with the Left, but when we look at such creeps as Pat Toomey, Betsy DeVos, or Brett Kavanaugh, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that they just don’t care one way or another.

Without question the party has deteriorated into a slimy gang of backstabbers, hustlers, and opportunists, so bad they’re even inept at their cheap hustles. There are exceptions, yes, but they are not in the majority.

But despite all this, a new party would still be a mistake.

The pro position in a new party is that it would mark a fresh start in American politics, as the establishment of the GOP did in 1854.

The con part... well, there’s a lot of that. So we’ll take ’em one by one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 01:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A new party works only if it's replacing an old party that's pretty much dead. Lots of people compare the GOPe to the Whigs, but it's not that accurate a comparison at this point.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/29/2021 6:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Good point, MM. Let's see what the next two years bring in the way of a GOP stay in the ICU.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/29/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  until term limits on the house and senate are put in place, it doesn't matter what you call any of them besides pieces of shit.
Posted by: Chris || 01/29/2021 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Hear, Hear!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/29/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#5  So wait. If the conservative party primaries the schmucks in the republican party, side with the GOP in national matters, it would be ok.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/29/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ you're positing a fair election.... dreamer
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/29/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#7  With each round of elections we’ve been getting new, conservative blood, many of them with the sobering military experience of fighting jihadis. And with each election more of the Old Guard have decided it is time to retire — my own Republican senator, Rob Porter, will not be running in 2022, and as the reports posted here recently suggest, despite that basketball player there are several serious conservative candidates looking at replacing him. Those who don’t win that round can go after Sherrod Brown when his term is up; one of them will likely take the slot, giving Ohio two seriously conservative senators for the first time, and two who are likely to quickly climb the learning curve to the political wiliness necessary to be effective in that room full of collegial snakes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Party went the elitist country club way under the Bush's. Trump has mostly restored it to where it belongs and judging by polls most Republican voters agree. Starting a new party is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/29/2021 12:41 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ but when the baby keeps p*ssing in the bathwater, it's time to throw both out.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/29/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#10  tw, while what you say is true, look what happened here in Georgia. Both our "conservatives" are now out of office to warnock and the bitch ossoff.
Posted by: Chris || 01/29/2021 15:48 Comments || Top||

#11  look what happened here in Georgia.

That’s true, Chris. But overall there are still more Republicans in office across the country, and more of the Republicans are conservative, so despite losing the Senate we are still in a better place than we were before the election. Red states are the ones gaining population with improving economies, while the Blue states are bleeding both money and residents because conservatism simply works better — both at the individual level and for society. Despite their eagerness to do so, Congress cannot require the states to institute the things the Democrats used to cheat their way into the White House and some key Congressional seats this time, nor can a presidential executive order. They’ll yell and scream and jump up and down, possibly even send the FBI and the DOJ, but so long as we do not give in to despair they have not won.

Despair is their tool, and the overexcited headline is the weapon they use to impose it on us.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2021 16:18 Comments || Top||

#12  /\ Yes, an alledged Ga. republican. I've set aside an aged bottle of Glenmorangie Allta for the day he leaves office.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#13  but when the baby keeps p*ssing in the bathwater, it's time to throw both out.

Bad metaphor, Mercutio. At that point you take out the baby, diaper it, and give it sponge baths until it learns to behave better. I used to be represented by John Boehner, who was fine for his time, but now I have Warren Davidson, Army Ranger, businessman, and Trump Republican. I’m still represented by Rob Portman in the Senate, but he will be replaced by a Trump Republican in two years, and Sherrod Brown (D-unions, age 68) is up for reelection in four. Despite all the cheating this time around, I’m not aware of serious complaints about how the election was run here — voter rolls were significantly cleaned up and photo ID required for in-person voting, for starters, and a voter had to send in a signed request to get the optional mail-in ballot in November,
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2021 16:32 Comments || Top||

#14  #7 T.W. do you mean portman? I'm new to OH.?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/29/2021 17:23 Comments || Top||

#15  I think the real lesson is Republican voters need to get better at judging candidates in the primaries so we don't need to hold our noses in the general.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/29/2021 17:28 Comments || Top||

#16  I'm just not as maternal as you, TW.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/29/2021 17:46 Comments || Top||

#17  This is kind of like the Dunning-Kruger effect for elections.

The elites just stole an election for the highest office in the country and now they are threatening anyone who dares to point it out.

And here everyone is, talking about hypotheticals for and remedies for future ... elections
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 01/29/2021 21:21 Comments || Top||

#18  Free and fair elections are a thing of the past.
Free speech: in retreat
Rule of law: on life support

The remedy is obvious. Hint: it does not involve working within the system.
Posted by: Gluck Ebbique9713 || 01/29/2021 22:47 Comments || Top||

#19  Here comes Patriot Act 2.0. Per ex-CIA analyst Philip Giraldi:

"A bill introduced by House intelligence committee chair Adam Schiff 'would take existing War on Terror legislation and simply amend it to say we can now do that within the U.S.'

"It would be combined with previous legislation, including former president Barack Obama’s infamous 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the military to indefinitely detain American citizens suspected of terrorism without a trial. Obama and Brennan also assumed an illegal and unconstitutional right to act as judge, jury and executioner-by-drone of American citizens overseas. Given those precedents, a bill like Schiff’s would free the national security community’s hands even more...."
Posted by: Creth Hupereling8076 || 01/29/2021 22:53 Comments || Top||


Democrats Vote To Reinstate Trump As President So Impeachment Trial Is Constitutional
[Babylon Bee] Trump has been reinstated as president so Democrats in Congress can be sure the impeachment trial will be constitutional.

Trump will resume serving as president effective immediately so that Democrats can vote on the article of impeachment filed against him.

"We must make Trump president again so we can constitutionally impeach him again," said Chuck Schumer. "It's the only way to be sure. Normally, we don't care about the Constitution, of course, but when you're talking about impeaching Trump, we have to make sure we get it just right."

Democrats everywhere approved of the move, saying they have had nothing to live for since Trump left office last week.

"I had all these protest signs and nothing to protest," said Portland-area BLM activist Jacob Brier excitedly as he got on his gas mask. "We tried firebombing the local DNC headquarters, but it just wasn't the same. Sure, we could protest Biden starting new wars, but it's more fun to protest war under a Republican president. Feels more righteous-y."
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This could be a trick! I recommend we hold a special election using paper, QR Coded ballots.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
After Vetting 25,000 Guardsmen, No Extremists Were Found
[The Federalist] In the wake of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, an unprecedented step was taken: placing 25,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol. Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen expressed concerned that with so many white Trump voters in the guard, there could be violent extremists among them. Politico shared these concerns in a piece arguing the military has a hate-group problem. The piece used entirely anecdotal evidence, so is there any real data?

It turns out that thanks to concerns from people like Cohen, the National Guard and the FBI vetted the 25,000 grunts from across the nation to assure no extremists were among them. It was widely reported that 12 guardsmen were removed from the force as a result of the vetting. But now, The Federalist’s Jordan Davidson has gotten clarification from the National Guard about these 12 people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 01:56 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone didn't get the memo. The Constitution is a document of White Supremacy(tm), and thus anyone who took an oath to uphold and protect are by act white supremacists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/29/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  In other news, Rep. Steve 'KFC' Cohen's full of shit once again.
Posted by: Raj || 01/29/2021 8:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I expect a deluge of retractions/corrections from the MSM any millenium now.
Posted by: Clem || 01/29/2021 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, there were extremists found. It was the people conducting the vetting. Culling troops for political loyalty? Has it really come to this?
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/29/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Exactly; the people calling for the vetting are the extremists.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||

#6  What will be the home-grown version of 'Gulenists'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/29/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ T-shirts, posters, flags ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2021 15:38 Comments || Top||

#8  What will be the home-grown version of 'Gulenists'?

I think they decided on MAGAs.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2021 16:34 Comments || Top||



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