Youngkin: I Won’t Order Vaccine Mandates
While he supports the COVID-19 vaccine and encourages people to be inoculated, Virginia GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin on Newsmax said vaccine mandates will be out of his state if he is elected governor Tuesday night.
“I’ve been pretty transparent in my view on the vaccine: First of all, personally, I’ve gotten the vaccine; my family has gotten the vaccine; I have encouraged people who can get the vaccine where it’s approved to get it, but I will not mandate the vaccine, and I don’t think schools should, particularly for young children,” Youngkin told “Dick Morris Democracy” this weekend.
“I think that’s a parent’s decision, and I believe in parents’ rights fundamental rights to make decisions with regard to their children. And, as governor, I’m going to make sure I’m standing up for parents’ rights.”
Youngkin – who is a candidate in contrast to former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe running for office again – vows to back parents, freedoms, and Virginians over Democrats’ big government, progressive agenda.
“It’s fundamental to who he is: I believe he thinks that government should control our lives,” Youngkin told host Dick Morris. “We’ve seen it in every ounce of his policy. He believes that government should stand between parents and their children. And when parents stand up and try to express what is their right in Virginia – that they have a fundamental right to make decisions with regard to their children’s education – what does Terry McAuliffe do?
“He calls his friend Joe Biden and has Joe Biden send the FBI in and try to silence him. I mean this is un-American and as governor I am going to stand up for parents and children.”
President Joe Biden nor former President Barack Obama stumping for McAuliffe – or massive funding injections from Democrat governors or unions – will save McAuliffe failing political career now, Youngkin continued.
“You’re seeing the playbook that Terry McAuliffe wrote: I mean, he is the godfather of the modern-day progressive Democratic Party, and he’s seeing that his campaign is failing,” Youngkin said.
“He’s seeing the end of his 43-year political career, and he’s doing anything he can to get the spotlight off of him. He has a failed record as governor.”
Biden and Obama cannot generate enthusiasm for McAuliffe, Youngkin concluded.
“The fact that he has no plans for Virginia that inspire anybody,” he said. “The only person excited about his campaign is Terry McAuliffe, and so he’s bringing in anybody who’s ever held office or even ran as a Democrat and failed to win to come in and try to just garner some support.
“It’s not working: No one’s going to the polls and Virginians are voting with their feet.”
Vaxxed Jen Psaki tests positive for COVID
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed Sunday she did not accompany President Joe Biden on his second foreign trip because she has contracted COVID-19.
Psaki revealed that a family member tested positive for the novel coronavirus, with her later testing positive for COVID-19 herself.
“Thanks to the vaccine, I have only experienced mild symptoms, which has enabled me to continue working from home,” she wrote in a statement Sunday. “I will plan to return to work in person at the conclusion of the 10-day quarantine following a negative rapid test, which is an additional White House requirement, beyond CDC guidance, taken out of an abundance of caution.”
Psaki’s positive test is the Biden administration’s most high-profile breakthrough coronavirus infection as it grapples with public health messaging and vaccine hesitancy amid the pandemic.
“On Wednesday, in coordination with senior leadership at the White House and the medical team, I made the decision not to travel on the foreign trip with the president due to a family emergency, which was members of my household testing positive for COVID-19,” she said. “Since then, I have quarantined and tested negative (via PCR) for COVID on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. However, today, I tested positive for COVID.”
Psaki added she has not been in close contact with Biden or senior aides since Wednesday, and that she was disclosing Sunday’s test results “out of an abundance of transparency.”
“I last saw the president on Tuesday, when we sat outside more than six-feet apart, and wore masks,” she said.
Hundreds of thousands of covid vaccine injuries Backlogged and not yet entered into VAERS
On the latest episode of “Doctors and Scientists,” Dr. Brian Hooker Ph.D., P.E., was interviewed Dr. Jessica Rose, Ph.D. to discuss the failures of the vaccine injury surveillance system that was set up by the CDC and FDA over thirty years ago. Dr. Rose is an expert in bio-mathematics and molecular research.
In January of 2021, she utilized her skills as a computational biologist and began analyzing data in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). Each week, she downloaded publicly-available data sets from VAERS, comparing inputs week-to-week. She discovered that vaccine injury reports went missing from one week to the next. Each week, the data is updated in the VAERS system. She found that some of the data is overwritten, vanished from the system. She also found that “hundreds of thousands” of covid vaccine injury reports were backlogged and did not appear in a timely manner to alert healthcare professionals to serious issues with the vaccine.
Hundreds of thousands of vaccine injury reports backlogged in VAERS
In the interview, Dr. Rose discussed the systemic flaws of the VAERS system, flaws that stop the passive reporting system from working in the public’s interest, as was originally intended. The pharmacovigilance system was set up in 1990 to detect issues with vaccines, to alert regulatory agencies and the public about serious adverse events and contraindications for specific vaccines. The data is managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Healthcare professionals input the data into the system, and have a narrow thirty-minute window to complete the report. In 2021, healthcare workers have been overwhelmed with vaccine injury reports and have not had the time to enter them all into the system. Many medical concerns associated with the covid vaccine are overlooked, discarded or discounted as coincidental or normalized reactions to the vaccine.
The hundreds of thousands of adverse event reports that have been filed paint a grisly picture of medical malfeasance. These serious public health issues have yet to be addressed by any regulatory agency or judicial process. In the past, vaccines were pulled from the market if the VAERS system documented more than fifty deaths from a single vaccine. In 2021, there have been more than 20,000 deaths recorded in just ten months. Up to 97 percent of these issues are coming from the new mRNA covid vaccines, not the rest of the vaccine supply. Instead of pulling the deadly products from the market, the federal government has issued unlawful mandates, coercing individuals to take part in the depopulation experiment. This might be the biggest flaw with the system yet: The agencies that are supposed to oversee the data and alert the public to medical atrocities are the same entities trying to push a narrative forward – that vaccines are “safe and effective.” (Related: COVID vaccine experiment causes monstrous spike in vaccine injuries and deaths, serious adverse events under-reported by a factor of eight.)
Serious adverse events and fatalities are occurring at magnitudes greater than what is recorded in the VAERS system
After analyzing missing data in the VAERS system, Dr. Rose came to the conclusion that serious adverse events and fatalities following covid vaccination are much higher than what is recorded in the VAERS system. Some issues are under-reported by a factor of thirty-one, and other, more common side effects can be under-reported by a factor of one hundred. By September, Dr. Rose attended the FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting, bringing attention to under-reporting problem in the VAERS system. Her research is titled, “Critical Appraisal of VAERS Pharmacovigilance: Is the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) a Functioning Pharmacovigilance System?” and was published in Science, Public Health Policy and Law.
Her paper concludes that “hundreds of thousands” of adverse events are backlogged and waiting to be entered into the system. “The most important thing I found in my determination is whether or not this tool — which can be a pharmacovigilance tool — is being used as such,” Dr. Rose said.
4 Indispensable Conditions For A Truly Free And Fair Election
The only way to guarantee secret ballot is to restore the local in-person option everywhere, including states that have long abolished it, such as Oregon.
This Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey should provide more insights into Democrats’ habit of election rigging on the state level. Many consider these off-year contests to be bellwethers for next year’s midterms. So it’s particularly laughable to see road signs for Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe that in effect declare Virginia’s chaotic new election laws to represent “free and fair elections.”
It’s also reasonable to ask what conditions are necessary for an election to be as free and fair as possible. Clearly, there’s nothing wrong with the idea of improving turnout and voter enthusiasm. But a voting system that is designed specifically to hide wrongdoing and corruption, to preclude the ability to find fraud, to prevent even routine measures to ensure the auditability and integrity of an election is not an election.
There are at least four indispensable conditions for truly free and fair elections. The process must first guarantee privacy. It must also eliminate the possibility of identity theft. It must minimize ballot handling by anyone other than the voter. And the process should be as decentralized and local as possible, allowing everyone to vote at a neighborhood precinct.
Let’s look at these in more detail.
1. Protect the Secret Ballot
Every voter should be able to cast a ballot in person, at a local precinct, and in the privacy of a real voting booth. As Dan Gelertner recently wrote, there is no solution to today’s electoral chaos short of a Constitutional Convention that restores our elections to their original format: voting in person on Election Day. I think we also need to recognize that secret ballot is directly tied to freedom of conscience. It’s therefore looking more and more like a constitutional right.
Universal mail-in voting abolishes any guarantee of a secret ballot. Going postal with voting is a surefire way to induce harassment and coercion in any politically polarized household where everyone has access to the mailbox. Yes, people should have the option of requesting an absentee ballot. But the only way to guarantee secret ballot is to restore the local in-person option everywhere, including states that have long abolished it, including Oregon.
It’s simply wrong to force all voters to cast their votes by mail or to drive out to some unattended “secure” ballot box on the street to deposit it. In addition, polling places in local precincts should have real voting booths that secure privacy, not tables strewn with flimsy cardboard optional shields.
2. Remove the Possibility of Identity Theft
The primary purpose of photo identification of a voter is to prevent identity theft. To claim that it’s about voter suppression is patently bogus. No fair electoral process would do away with a photo ID requirement.
If leftists who speak against Voter ID were really interested in preventing voter suppression, they would consider spending a teensy bit of pocket change of the trillions in their proposed budgets to provide a photo ID to everyone eligible to vote. The Georgia voter ID law, so criticized by the left, in fact provides a free photo voter ID to anyone who doesn’t have one. Problem solved.
3. As Little Ballot Touching As Possible
Minimize the ability of others to handle your ballot (and for ballot harvesters to invent ballots). Nobody should ever be put in the position of having his official ballot handled by roommates, neighbors, or family members who happen to be fetching the mail. Neither should anybody be required to have her official ballot handled by the postal service unless she specifically requests it.
Your official ballot should be treated as a hyper-sensitive document, not like junk mail delivered months before Election Day. The best way to minimize the time your official ballot can be handled by others is to vote on Election Day at an official, local precinct, where it is handled for just a matter of seconds or minutes before you cast it.
4. Local Control
In 2016 President Barack Obama declared that our elections could not be rigged because “they are so de-centralized.” Indeed, de-centralization is key to election integrity. But in the Covid-produced elections of 2020, massive early voting by mail-in ballots was a huge step towards centralization. Only about 30 percent of votes were cast in person.
State and local officials eliminated nearly 21,000 in-person polling places out of the 116,990 that were active in the 2016 elections. According to the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, the continuing decline in polling places is due to alternatives such as large early voting centers and mail-in voting.
Conservatives add to this problem when they vote early by mail out of fear that they’ll be told they already voted by the time they get to the polls, as happened in the recent election in California. Oddly, Democrats don’t seem to complain when tens of thousands of local polling places simply evaporate, even though they routinely argue that election integrity is equal to voter suppression. Also, way too many local election boards are corrupt due to buyoffs by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg and the left-wing billionaire class posing as philanthropists.
No voting process is perfect, but the above four conditions are critical to renewing trust in a system that has proven deceitful. McAuliffe and company have zero interest in any of the above. They are stakeholders in a system that reeks of fraud.
Hunter Biden’s New York art exhibit draws few visitors, many give fake names, even his own parents decide to skip it
Hunter Biden’s controversial art exhibit in New York has reportedly received only a handful of attendees, some of whom refused to even give their actual names.
Biden’s gallery at the Georges Berges Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York has drawn some high profile guests, according to a Saturday New York Post report on the show’s attendance.
The gallery – guarded with security and only permitting those who have obtained an invitation in – drew in Bill Fine, president of Artnet, an online platform to market and sell art, as well as Gene Epstein, a former senior economist at the New York Stock Exchange.
Biden’s paintings range in price between $75,000 and $500,000, massive price tags for a fresh-faced painter, one of many details that have raised potential ethics concerns with activists, especially in light of past allegations that Hunter Biden has profited off of his father’s office in business dealings – something both he and his father have denied.
The White House has insisted there is no need for concern as they have been in contact with gallery owners and insisted buyers’ names be kept private from the administration, though critics have questioned the effectiveness of this plan.
Georges Berges, the owner of the gallery displaying ‘The Journey Home – A Hunter Biden Solo Exhibition’, chalked up concerns about Biden’s sudden art career to “political irrationality.”
“There are the blind, predetermined judgements, not just of Hunter, but of myself. If people objectively look at his work, it’s great work,” Berges said, insisting most that have seen the gallery are impressed by it.
Two people that will not be attending the show are President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, something Berges said is “unfortunate,” but part of “the times we live in.”
Multiple visitors who could not be identified by the Post refused to give their names or even offered up “fake monikers” instead. Potential visitors are reportedly vetted by a team of lawyers, and one needs to attempt to make an appointment with the gallery to get in to see the work.
Biden’s show runs through November 15, and then will move to a gallery in Berlin. His work was previously displayed at an exhibit in Los Angeles.
Biden’s Visit to the Vatican
The party of JFK now loves to talk politics with the pope.
In the days of John F. Kennedy, the Democrats emphasized their political distance from the pope. Kennedy promised Americans that he would never let the pope influence him on “matters of public policy.” How times have changed. Today’s Democrats boast of their political alliance with Pope Francis. They openly confer with him on matters of public policy, as evident in Joe Biden’s latest visit to the Vatican. After he met with the pope last Friday, Biden praised him for “fighting the climate crisis, as well as his advocacy to ensure the pandemic ends for everyone through vaccine sharing and an equitable global economic recovery.”
Kennedy rose to the top of his party by reassuring Democrats that his connection to the Church was religious, not political. Biden rose to the presidency by making it clear to Democrats that his connection to the Church is political, not religious. His pledge might as well have been: I will only listen to the pope on matters of public policy.
Judging by press accounts, it appears that Biden and the pope didn’t discuss much beyond their shared left-wing politics. The pope looked famously glum at his meeting with Donald Trump. But the pictures from his meeting with Biden show a very warm exchange between the two. CNN noted the unusual length of Biden’s meeting with the pope: “The world’s most powerful Catholics — President Joe Biden and Pope Francis — renewed their close relationship on Friday, holding a 90-minute meeting that was twice as long as the one the President held with Pope John Paul II in one of his first meetings with a pontiff.”
Biden also met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is the secretary of state at the Vatican. According to the White House readout from that meeting, Biden and Parolin talked about “fighting the climate crisis — both through advocacy and encouraging the climate neutrality of hundreds of Christian organizations worldwide.” They also discussed “efforts to rally global support for vaccinating the developing world against COVID-19.” The White House readout then concludes incongruously that Biden and Parolin “committed to continue using their voices to advocate for personal and religious freedoms world-wide.”
According to the New York Times, Biden “told reporters on Friday that Pope Francis had called him a ‘good Catholic’ and said he should keep receiving communion, an unexpected development that appeared to put a papal finger on the scale in a debate raging in the United States’ Roman Catholic Church over whether the president and other Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should be denied the sacrament.”
The Times continued: “Mr. Biden said the issue of abortion had not come up during their meeting. ‘No, it didn’t,’ he said. ‘It came up — we just talked about the fact he was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving communion.’”
“Asked to confirm Mr. Biden’s remarks, Matteo Bruni, the Vatican spokesman, said that the Holy See limited its comments to the news release about subjects discussed during the meeting and added, ‘It’s a private conversation,’” according to the Times.
The Vatican’s statement describing the meeting makes no mention of abortion :
So it appears that Biden emerges from this meeting with both his politics and his heretical spin on Catholicism blessed. Biden’s easy manipulation of the Church is a measure of how much has changed in politics and religion since JFK’s day. The question has shifted from the Church’s influence on politics to the influence of politics on the Church — from the first Catholic president who avoided the Vatican’s advice to the second one who happily exploits it.
George Neumayr, a senior editor at The American Spectator, is author most recently of The Biden Deception: Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats’ Crypto-Socialist?