Ashli Babbitt’s killer has been formally exonerated following an “internal probe,” reports NBC.
The man who abruptly and suddenly shot and killed patriotic veteran Ashli Babbitt on January 6 has been formally exonerated following an “internal probe” by Capitol Police. Evidence suggests that her killer is a Capitol Hill Lt. named Michael Leroy Byrd.
The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt outside a door of the U.S. Capitol has been formally exonerated after an internal investigation, according to reports. Independent journalist Taylor Hansen has previously identified Babbitt’s shooter as Capitol Hill Police Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd, as reported by National File.
The officer, whose name has not been released, opened fire on Babbitt as she and a mob of other Trump supporters tried to forcefully enter the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Video of the shooting showed Babbitt in front of a crowd of rioters trying to get through a door leading to where members of Congress were being evacuated on the House side of the building.
The Justice Department announced in April that no charges were being brought against the officer. The exoneration by the Capitol Police wraps up the last remaining investigation into the incident.
A memo from the commander of the Capitol Police’s Office of Personal Responsibility says “no further action will be taken in this matter” after the officer was exonerated for use of force.
President Donald Trump said he believed he knew the identity of the man who gunned down unarmed Babbitt inside the Capitol. “If it were the opposite way, that man would be all over, he would be the most well-known, and I believe I can say man, because I believe I know exactly who it is, but he would be the the most well-known person in this country, in the world,” Trump continued, “but the person that shot Ashli Babbit, boom, right through the head. There was no reason for that, and why isn’t that person being opened up, and why isn’t that being studied? They’ve already written it off, they say that that case is closed. if that were the opposite, that case would be going on for years and years, and it would not be pretty.”
As the chaos in Afghanistan unfolded, people around the world were clamoring to hear from President Biden, who was on vacation at Camp David.
What they got in his absence was a steady drumbeat of statements from his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who gleefully carped from the sidelines over the catastrophe.
More than a half-dozen press releases boiled down to one sentiment that he delivered in characteristic capital letters: “MISS ME YET?”
The man who blazed new paths with his words in the White House is still at it, running perhaps the noisiest, rowdiest and wackiest ex-presidency in American history.
In slightly more than 200 days since he left office, Mr. Trump has fired off over 400 statements and press releases through his Save America political action committee and his official office as the 45th president.
Targets include Rep. Liz Cheney (a “warmongering fool”); his own Supreme Court picks (“gutless”); his attorney general, William P. Barr (“RINO”); media outlets (Fox News, the Atlantic, The New York Times); Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (“the most overrated man in politics”); Medina Spirit, a Kentucky Derby horse, (a “junky”); and the U.S. women’s soccer team (“leftist maniacs”) with a special emphasis on star player Megan Rapinoe (the “woman with the purple hair”).
But his favorite topic has been the 2020 election, which has been the subject of more than 60 statements over the last seven months, as Mr. Trump pursues an unprecedented campaign to discredit the results that cost him the White House.
“Donald Trump has never been a traditional political candidate nor a traditional president. You’d expect that he’d be just as unconventional post-presidency,” said Jay Williams, a GOP strategist.
Mr. Trump started out slowly, by his standards. His PAC released only a couple of statements in January, then a few more in February.
He started to pick up speed in March with 22, and April with 27. Then the floodgates opened. There were more than 50 in May, nearly 80 in June, and almost 120 in July.
Halfway through August, he’s on the verge of surpassing 60.
Former President George W. Bush largely took a breather from politics after his 2009 departure, saying his successor, President Barack Obama, “deserves my silence.”
Mr. Obama took a little bit of a more active role, releasing his first public statement roughly two months after leaving office, defending his signature achievement: Obamacare.
His first public appearance came in April 2017, when he participated in a town hall-style discussion with young people on “community organizing and civic engagement” at the University of Chicago.
Both Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama welcomed their successors to the White House, attended their inaugurations and wished them luck before they left town.
Mr. Trump skipped Mr. Biden‘s inauguration. He then issued his first press release seven days after leaving office — an attack on Ms. Cheney — then made his first public appearance in late February at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida.
He struck at Mr. Biden early into his 90-minute address and went on to mention the 46th president 39 times.
Mr. Trump also used the speech to lash out at Ms. Cheney and other Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach or convict him during his second trial in the House and Senate.
He told the crowd he hopes to “get rid of them all” in the 2022 election. It has been a similar story at the campaign-style rallies that he has held in Ohio, Florida and Arizona, where he griped about the “RINO” state lawmakers in Michigan and Pennsylvania who have refused to fully embrace his stolen-election claims.
“He has his own way, and his own voice,” said Mr. Williams, the GOP strategist. “I do think his reach will wane over time, but as long as the press keeps attacking, him he’ll continue to be relevant and supported by Republicans, even if just out of plain spite for the media.”
H.W. Brands, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, said the closest parallel to Mr. Trump is President Theodore Roosevelt, who left office in 1909.
“He was quite ungracious as a former president, assailing President Woodrow Wilson on matters relating to World War I in a tone that might have had him jailed for sedition if he hadn’t been a former president,” Mr. Brands said. “Trump puts his own distinctive spin on things, but the phenomena are similar.”
It’s likely no coincidence that Roosevelt ran again in 1912 against his chosen successor, William Taft — whose presidency he had become increasingly dissatisfied with — launching what proved to be a failed third-party bid to reclaim the White House.
And Mr. Trump is doing it all without direct access to the social media platforms that he wielded to launch and sustain his political career.
It turns out his voice has only been slightly muted by the tech companies’ blockade. The president’s statements, posted by journalists and shared by millions of users, still penetrate deep into the social media conversation. And even the cable networks that have tsk-tsked the former president’s behavior continue to devote coverage to his words, further expanding his reach.
The New York Times calculated that an Oct. 8 tweet from Mr. Trump while still in office, deriding Mr. Biden and running mate Kamala Harris for “constantly” lying, was liked and shared more than 501,000 times.
Months later, after the ban, Mr. Trump put out a statement on his website that said he handed Mr. Biden the “most secure” border in history, only to have him turn “national triumph into a national disaster.” That statement was liked and shared 661,000 times, the newspaper reported.
A large portion of Mr. Trump’s post-office tweets compared his record to Mr. Biden’s on immigration, the coronavirus pandemic, federal infrastructure spending, taxes and Afghanistan.
As Afghanistan plunged into chaos he said Mr. Biden should “resign in disgrace.”
“The outcome in Afghanistan, including the withdrawal, would have been totally different if the Trump Administration had been in charge,” he said.
The charge came months after he pressed the Biden administration to stick with his plan for a May 1 troop withdrawal and credited himself for making it possible.
“Nineteen years is enough, in fact, far too much and way too long,” he said. “Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do. “
Mr. Trump’s score-settling has targeted one-time allies, as well as sports icons who have crossed him.
Mr. Trump said Vice President Mike Pence showed a lack of “courage” in certifying the election results. He said General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “ought to resign.”
He said former House Speaker Paul Ryan is “a curse to the Republican Party,” former Bush adviser Karl Rove is “a pompous fool,” and his former National Security Adviser John Bolton is a “failed warmonger.”
He said Dr. Anthony Fauci is the “King of flip-flops” on the coronavirus and mocked the fact that Dr. Fauci “couldn’t throw a baseball even close to home plate” in a ceremonial opening pitch.
He said basketball player LeBron James is presiding over the demise of the NBA and that “His RACIST rants are divisive, nasty, insulting, and demeaning.”
He said he has “gotten to know (and like)” North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un. He said his supporters should “stick with Kristie Alley!” and defend former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani, dubbing him the “Eliot Ness of his generation.”
He repeatedly touted his iron grip on the GOP, endorsed candidates across the country, and argued he deserves more credit for vaccines.
He congratulated the country of Nigeria for banning Twitter after it deleted a post from President Muhammadu Buhari, and wished everyone a Happy Father’s Day “ including the Radical Left, RINOs, and other Losers of the world.”
He also found time to issue statements from his perch as the ex-president promoting his golf course in Scotland as “the best in the World” and said it was not chosen to host the Open Championship “because they consider a wonderful person, and many-time Club Champion, named Donald J. Trump, to be too controversial.”
“This is, of course, a false reputation caused mainly by the Fake News Media,” he said. “It is a shame that the phenomenal Turnberry Golf links, the best in the World, sits empty during Open Championships, while far lesser courses are on display.”
“That sounds to me like a money-making operation for Pfizer.”
QUICK FACTS:
President Donald Trump appeared on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo to discuss Pfizer’s gene-based Covid-19 vaccine booster shot.
When Bartiromo brought up the booster shot, Trump implied that Pfizer’s motives in producing the new jab are less about people’s health than about increasing profits.
“That sounds to me like a money-making operation for Pfizer,” Trump said to Bartiromo.
“Think of the money involved…that’s tens of billions of dollars. How good a business is that?” he asked. “The whole thing is crazy.”
Trump went on to say that he “could see the dollar signs in their eyes, of that guy that runs Pfizer.”
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci recently credited President Trump’s “wise investment” in the COVID vaccine.
In 2020, the Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed (OWS), which distributed the experimental Covid-19 vaccine in only ten months.
Earlier this month, Trump toldFox News’ Dan Bongino that “The vaccines turn[ed] out to be a tremendous thing” and called his work spearheading OWS “something I’m very proud of.”
But in July of this year, Trump released a statement regarding Americans’ growing reluctance to take the Covid-19 vaccine, saying that “people are refusing to take the vaccine because they don’t trust [Biden’s] Administration.”
Although Trump has said he would “recommend” people take the shot, he also emphasizes that he’s “a big fan of our freedoms” and that “people have to make that choice for themselves.”
The Covid-19 vaccine was recently linked in The Spectatorto reports of period changes in over 30,000 U.K. women.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
They were elementary and homemade at first before becoming commercialized and mass-produced, but plastic dividers became as commonplace during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as the paper masks that now litter city streets.
Put up with the aim of blocking droplets from the noses and mouths of the COVID-infected among us, they became a sort of virtue signal for businesses to show that they cared about the safety of their customers and employees. Plastic dividers popped up to separate Uber drivers from their passengers, supermarket cashiers from customers, students from teachers, and virtually every place there used to be unimpeded face-to-face interactions.
Now that we’ve had more than a year of life peering through plastic at our fellow citizens, the science is starting to catch up with the craze and it turns out those measures may have actually increased the chances of people contracting the Wuhan coronavirus.
As The New York Times recently reported, “scientists who study aerosols, air flow and ventilation say that much of the time, the barriers don’t help and probably give people a false sense of security. And sometimes the barries can make things worse.”
How is that possible, you may ask, that one of the most prevalent forms of COVID theater aimed at preventing the spread of COVID was actually doing more harm than good? The Times explains:
Under normal conditions in stores, classrooms and offices, exhaled breath particles disperse, carried by air currents and, depending on the ventilation system, are replaced by fresh air roughly every 15 to 30 minutes. But erecting plastic barriers can change air flow in a room, disrupt normal ventilation and create “dead zones,” where viral aerosol particles can build up and become highly concentrated.
The New York Times admits that in some situations, such as a person sneezing or coughing, a plastic barrier can prevent large droplets from making direct contact with another person. But because the Wuhan coronavirus “spreads largely through unseen aerosol particles” barriers typically trap such aerosols until they’re so concentrated they end up spreading beyond the clear walls aimed at keeping them in.
And there are studies to back up the theory that our supposedly impenetrable plastic walls did more harm than good, as The New York Times reports:
A study published in June and led by researchers from Johns Hopkins, for example, showed that desk screens in classrooms were associated with an increased risk of coronavirus infection. In a Massachusetts school district, researchers found that plexiglass dividers with side walls in the main office were impeding air flow. A study looking at schools in Georgia found that desk barriers had little effect on the spread of the coronavirus compared with ventilation improvements and masking.
Before the pandemic, a study published in 2014 found that office cubicle dividers were among the factors that may have contributed to disease transmission during a tuberculosis outbreak in Australia.
British researchers have conducted modeling studies simulating what happens when a person on one side of a barrier — like a customer in a store — exhales particles while speaking or coughing under various ventilation conditions. The screen is more effective when the person coughs, because the larger particles have greater momentum and hit the barrier. But when a person speaks, the screen doesn’t trap the exhaled particles — which just float around it. While the store clerk may avoid an immediate and direct hit, the particles are still in the room, posing a risk to the clerk and others who may inhale the contaminated air.
So while, in theory at least, the plastic dividers that have become a trademark of society’s fear of invisible COVID particles should work, they don’t always protect people and can even make the situation worse.
According to experts interviewed by The New York Times, the problem “is that most people in charge of erecting barriers in offices, restaurants, nail salons and schools are not doing so with the assistance of engineering experts who can evaluate air flow and ventilation for each room.”
As The Times concludes, whether due to improper installation or a misunderstanding of air flow, those plastic walls “most of the time… do little to stop the spread of the coronavirus.”
On Hannity, DeSantis fired back at Biden’s legal threat – pointing to the major crises in Afghanistan and on the southern border.
“You have all the stuff going on with Afghanistan – obviously all the stuff at the southern border … one of the biggest border disasters in the history of our country, inflation, gas prices, and what does he do?” DeSantis said.
“He is obsessed with having the government force kindergartners to wear masks all day in school. In Florida, we believe that that’s the parents’ decision. Joe Biden thinks the federal government should come in and overrule the parents and force these young kids to wear these masks.”
DeSantis wasn’t having it, telling Biden that he would stand up for people’s rights and that Biden should do his job on the border:
“If you’re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you’re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way and I’m standing for the people of Florida. So why don’t you do your job? Why don’t you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID from you. Thank you.”
Latest Florida Numbers And School Districts Defying Mandate Ban
The latest numbers coming out of Florida published on August 13, show that for the week published, the new case positivity rate was 19.3% with 286 deaths reported. The number of people fully vaccinated was 122,932.
The only age groups under 50% vaccinated were those ages 12-19 at 44%, and those ages 20-29 at 45%.
On Wednesday, Florida’s three largest school districts, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Hillsborough, along with Palm Beach County and Alachua County school boards were requiring all students to wear masks unless they have a doctor’s note.
DeSantis assured the districts involved there would be “consequences” for their actions.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: Afghanistan and our own border are falling apart, yet Joe Biden "is obsessed with having the government force kindergarteners to wear masks all day in school."
Lil Wayne recently opened up about his suicide attempt at the age of 12. The rapper revealed that a cop and God kept him alive during the near-death experience.
Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., revealed that he started having mental health issues when he was about 10 years old. At age 12, he was pretending to be at school when he was actually out in the neighborhood. His mother caught him and planned on punishing him when she returned home from work.
Instead of taking his punishment, which would have barred him from rapping with his friends, Lil Wayne became suicidal. He called the police before going into his mother’s bedroom to get her gun. He originally wanted to shoot himself in the head, but then fired a bullet into his chest.
“As a kid, all you remember is that when you’re going to see the white and I thought that was the white — I swear to God I did,” Lil Wayne said on the podcast “Uncomfortable Conversations.”
Lil Wayne said the police were knocking at his front door as he was bleeding out in his home.
“Then, the knocking woke me up out of that, but then they stopped and once they stopped knocking I said, ‘OK, they must’ve left.’ It took too long. It took too long for getting me to that death. I was still just laying there and didn’t feel a thing, but it was taking too long. So, I said s**t I am here for a reason,” he told former NFL player turned podcast host Emmanuel Acho.
“The blood was pouring out of my chest so much that it made it easy for me to slide with my shirt on the wood across the floor,” Lil Wayne recalled. “I made it all the way there. All the energy I had left was to kick the door.”
Instead of helping the boy who had a gaping bullet hole in his chest, Lil Wayne said the police were too busy looking for drugs and guns in the home. Except for one cop, who refused to let the 12-year-old boy die.
The police officer, who was known as “Uncle Bob,” arrived on the scene and yelled at his fellow cops for not “seeing the baby on the floor.”
“I was spitting all in his face, blood and everything and all I was trying to tell was I’m not a baby. He kept saying, ‘Do you not see the f***ing baby on the ground with a hole in his chest?'”
The rapper continued, “He was screaming at him and he must’ve been the boss because they all came in the room and was like, ‘Oh sorry boss, we called the ambulance.’ And he was like, ‘I don’t give a f***.'”
Uncle Bob picked up Lil Wayne and personally drove him to the hospital, while he told him, “You’re not gonna die on me.”
Last year when there were anti-cop demonstrations and defund the police movement was surging, Lil Wayne provided his positive experience with law enforcement.
“My life was saved when I was young,” Lil Wayne said. “I was 12 or something, I think. Shot myself. I was saved by a white cop, Uncle Bob. So you have to understand … you have to understand the way I view police, period. I was saved by a white cop.”
Uncle Bob is former New Orleans Police Officer Robert Hoobler, who told TMZ that the rapper offered to provide him with financial support if he ever needed it, “telling Bob all he has to do is say the word.”
Hoobler said he hasn’t taken up Lil Wayne’s generous offer, but he may join Weezy’s team in an administrative capacity.
Lil Wayne said he met up with Uncle Bob years later, and the former cop said, “I don’t want nothing. I just want to say that I’m happy to save a life that matters.”
When asked what kept him alive during his suicide attempt, Lil Wayne responded, “God. Plain and simple.”
Lil Wayne, 38, mentions the near-death experience and God saving him in his 2018 song, “Let It All Work Out:”
“I aimed where my heart was pounding / I shot it, and I woke up with blood all around me / It’s mine, I didn’t die, but as I was dying / God came to my side and we talked about it / He sold me another life and he made a prophet.”
Lil Wayne says he now prays every day to help cope with his mental health issues.
When I watch a documentary, I expect to pick a few historical nits. I don’t expect to be sickened by a whitewash of the greatest mass murderer of all time. But the Netflix series “How to Become a Tyrant” does just that, glossing over Mao Zedong with a throwaway line. It’s like a how-to on killing chickens that gives just a fleeting glimpse of Colonel Sanders.
That may seem an insulting comparison, and it is. To the Colonel. He only ate delicious fried chickens, while Mao‘s infamous Red Guard hosted “flesh banquets” to feast on the corpses of “class enemies.” An apt metaphor for communism if I ever saw one.
How can “Tyrant” justify spotlighting Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, North Korea’s Kims, and Gaddafi for full episodes while devoting mere seconds to this undisputed World Champion of Death, whose Great Leap Forward alone left at least 45 million dead? If that’s not enough to qualify, Mao also marched 50 million through his laogai forced labor camps, slaughtering 70-80 million Chinese in addition to untold minorities (Hmong, Koreans, Mongolians, Manchus, Tibetans, Muslim Uyghurs) who never lived to ignore Netflix’s horrible He-Man reboot.
But killing the equivalent of every person in Germany didn’t earn a spot on the Netflix hit parade, while François “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s 60,000 Haitians did. Never mind that P. Doc’s butcher bill barely surpasses a single grizzly atrocity by China’s so-called Great Helmsman, who bristled when compared to Emperor Shi Huang. “He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000!” That must’ve looked great on his LinkedIn profile.
Even the USSR recoiled at Mao‘s contempt for human life. Soviet President Andrei Gromyko described a 1958 meeting where Mao sought a nuclear bomb to slaughter U.S. troops. When Premier Nikita Khrushchev told the chairman to cheese it or risk nuclear war, Mao shrugged. “So what if we lose 300 million people? Our women will make it up in a generation.”
Because this history isn’t taught, Mao‘s smirking face is worn on t-shirts by Americans who ought to know better. He‘s cool, the Fonzi of tyrants, a cancerous reputation cured by the tonic Papa Doc never could never prescribe: A huge market and legions of Western admirers, mostly of the bookish sort Mao tucked in for dirt naps.
And while the dead may vote in Chicago, they can’t pay for streaming services or movie tickets, so Netflix — long locked out of China — has been cozying up to Beijing with Mandarin-language content and preemptively pulled their punch on Mao.
Can you imagine they’d edit George Washington out of a documentary on slaveowners? Hollywood doesn’t even offer POTUS Prime a spritz of historical Oxy Clean, such as the context David O. Stewart provides in “George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father,” namely that of the “A-Team founders,” only Washington freed his slaves.
China still uses slave labor in 2021, yet Mao gets the star treatment while Hollywood savages our 1776 George Peppard’s and Mr. T’s. As Jason Whitlock points out, “China is spending a lot of money trying to undermine America and American culture,” and greedy corporations like Netflix and the NBA are happy to suckle at the red teat. But how long will their fortunes and freedoms endure without America?
Recently on “The Buck Sexton & Clay Travis Show,” former CIA officer Sexton warned, “The Chinese Communist Party is seeking to supplant the United States as the global hegemon.” He cited their “inflammatory and very aggressive” rhetoric surrounding the CCP’s centennial that included “Mini-Mao,” Xi Jinping, boasting that all who resist “will find their heads bashed bloody against a Great Wall of Steel.”
But in a supreme irony, to quote the Beatles, even China isn’t “going around carrying pictures of Chairman Mao” in polite company. When two Olympians wore Mao badges to the medal ceremony in Tokyo, China’s state-controlled media edited them out Stalin-style. Netflix must be proud.
It’s one thing when craven athletes like LeBron James kowtow to communists. Still, when a juggernaut of Big Tech, Big Media, and Big Business does it, they insult victims of tyranny and tell future dictators that any amount of blood can be Lady MacBeth’d off their hands if they just keep killing.
Netflix is unlikely to have a come-to-Jesus moment — fitting since China has ordered churches to replace portraits of Christ with Xi Jinping — so don’t look for a “How to…” episode on the GOAT Tyrant any time soon.
Joseph Solomon has been making Christian viral videos for almost a decade. He started his YouTube channel chaseGodtv in June 2012, which now has over 15 million views and almost 600,000 subscribers. The extraordinarily talented Solomon has shared the teachings of Jesus Christ through music, poetry, videography, and life experiences resulting in hundreds of videos that impacted millions of people around the world.
in a Christian household. His father was an elder and his mother played piano in their Texas church.
On chaseGod.tv, the description says Solomon’s desire is to show Christians “practical ways to understand and live out the faith… He knew that he was not perfect himself, so the only way to teach other imperfect people how to strive for perfection was to point them to Someone who already embodies that. Every webisode is an attempt to approach common struggles and questions through the lens of the Gospel of Christ.”
During the “Flights & Feelings” podcast Solomon released on August 17, 2021, titled “The Shores Somewhere Over Here,” Solomon unpacked a social media post where he told the world he’s not a Christian anymore.
It appears Solomon has deleted many of his popular videos that he apparently no longer agrees with on his YouTube channel. His Christian videos can still be found online where others have uploaded them, but Solomon has asked that even some of those be taken down.
Before diving into what Solomon said in his latest podcast, here is a video testimony he posted in 2014. (It’s possible Solomon could have this video deleted from YouTube in the near future.)
Joseph Solomon: ‘I’m Not a Christian’
Solomon started his recent podcast by saying, “You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube…I wish I could put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
Before 2020, most people knew Solomon as the “Christian YouTuber guy” or the “Christian poet” or the “Christian worship leader/singer” — but whatever the description, it was prefaced by “Joseph Solomon the Christian,” Solomon explained.
“It took a lot of people by surprise when I posted something on Twitter and reposted a screenshot of it on my Instagram,” he said. The tweet read: “I’m not a Christian. Maybe I’ll explain that further at some point on a podcast or something, but I’m really in no rush. I figured I’d at least just set context for any inquiring minds…” Solomon told his followers that any questions in the comments or direct messages regarding his announcement would go unanswered.
At least 30,304 British women have disclosed changes to their menstrual cycle after getting vaccinated against Covid-19. An editor for The Spectator is one of the most recently affected, and says many more are afraid to come out.
Lara Prendergast, an executive editor at London’s Spectator magazine, raised some concerning questions in a column on Thursday after reporting that she had been affected since receiving her first Pfizer dose in May.
Noting that it is an “uncomfortable” and sensitive topic to discuss – indicating that the true number of women with period-related vaccine side effects could be far greater than the 30,304 documented – Prendergast revealed that her cycle has not been right since she was vaccinated months ago.
“Millions of British women have been jabbed, so 30,304 reports will be a tiny proportion: a negligible number, you might say. But it doesn’t seem negligible if you’re one of those women” she wrote, adding that friends have told her “they’ve also been affected” but “didn’t report it either” due to the topic being both awkward and sensitive, and because of fears of being branded an ‘anti-vaxxer’.
“Is it ‘anti-vaxx’ to be concerned that these jabs may be having an effect on our menstrual cycles?” Prendergast questioned, before claiming that a women’s health doctor had told her it is not exactly normal “for vaccines to affect periods in such a way.”
Prendergast also expressed concern that “if the jabs are affecting so many women’s periods, who knows what else might be going on,” noting that millions of women can only “hope and trust” that the medical officials and influencers who are pushing for young women to get vaccinated are right about the allegedly low risks involved.
Though she acknowledged that officials, such as Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) President Dr. Edward Morris, have assured women that it would be impossible for the vaccines to affect a woman’s fertility, Prendergast pointed out that most women do “associate their periods with their fertility,” and that side effects are thus extremely alarming to those who experience them.
“A month after my second jab, I make a note that my latest cycle is messed up, once again,” she concluded in the column.
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has advised concerned women that menstrual issues are “mostly transient in nature” and that “there is no evidence to suggest that Covid-19 vaccines will affect fertility and the ability to have children.”
RCOG Vice President Dr Jo Mountfield has also said that though “changes to periods can be concerning,” it appears “most women’s menstrual cycles return to normal after one to two cycles.”
Menstrual cycle changes do not appear on the list of side effects given to Brits before they receive a Covid-19 vaccine in the UK.
The UK government announced on Monday that the MHRA was reviewing “suspected side effects of menstrual disorders and unexpected vaginal bleeding following vaccination against Covid-19 in the UK.”
Wearing a mask to ‘save lives’ even though nobody is dying from COVID is on caliber with calling a man ‘she’ because he playacts as a woman.
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being ordered to do something absurd and being helpless against it. That was exactly the feeling that washed over many residents of Dane County, Wisconsin, on Tuesday when an unelected decisionmaker decreed that just two days later, a mask would be required for entry into virtually every indoor space.
The blow might have been softened and resulting ire lessened if there were any reason to believe this action was going to save lives in the county that’s home to Wisconsin’s capital city of Madison. But it’s hard to improve a daily death average of zero.
That inescapable reality — that almost nobody is dying of the Wuhan virus in one of the most vaccinated counties in the country, yet breathing uninhibited is verboten — is the premier form of gaslighting from the ruling class of power-drunk elites.
For a year and a half, well-meaning Americans have complied with anti-science executive decisions and been scorned when they merely disagreed with the conventional wisdom pouring out of the corporate press. Each time, lawmakers and bureaucrats weaponized private businesses to do their dirty work, ordering them to enforce mask-wearing and social distancing and to keep the peasants in line.
They got away with all of that, despite the mitigation measures causing catastrophic side-effects such as a waxing mental health crisis, a massive surge in drug overdoses, and a huge blow to the education and other cognitive development of the next generation, the extent to which we will not possibly be able to ascertain for years to come.
Life is a game of tradeoffs, and there may be some formula of factors that makes the above trade-offs worth it. But what is Dane County trying to prevent? Whom is it trying to protect?
Tuesday’s order prompted a look at the numbers, which revealed an incredible sustained straight black line at zero — ZERO deaths for the seven-day average since the middle of May, when the seven-day average was a whopping single death. The last time the weekly average was higher than one was before Valentine’s Day. Only one death has been attributed to coronavirus in this county of more than half a million people in the last two weeks, with deaths across the entire state down 34 percent in the same timeframe. See for yourself:
That’s why, when one of the unelected Dane County health tyrants unilaterally decided it’s time to mask up again — for everyone including the vaccinated and even toddlers as young as 2 years old — weary residents were driven to rage and worse, to despair.
What on Earth are logical residents to do when the anti-science authoritarians in power refuse to relent with disruptive rules? What are they to do when there’s no end in sight and to obey is to betray what they know to be rational and true?
The exasperation runs deep because a healthy person wearing a mask among healthy people is way more than an inconvenience. To obey the absurd mask rules is to play into the delusions and games of the sadistic ruling class. Wearing a mask to “save lives” even though nobody is dying is on caliber with calling a man “she” because he playacts as a woman. It feels wrong because it is.
The things we say or don’t say, wear or don’t wear, and do or don’t do are based on more than religious conviction. They’re based on a fundamental worldview of whether we’re committed to living within the bounds of reality. We shouldn’t govern ourselves based on what our neighbor thinks of us. We should live according to what is good and right and true based on evidence and truth, and we make trade-offs.
If you live in Dane County, you know that East Washington Avenue, the three-mile thoroughfare west of Sun Prairie that leads to the Capitol, is a disaster zone, known for crashes, hit-and-runs, and reckless driving including drag racing at all hours of the night. With five fatal accidents so far in just the first eight months, 2021 has proved to be the most dangerous year on East Wash in at least a decade. Just more than a month ago, two pedestrians were fatally struck on that road within the same week, a tragic reality but a higher number than Dane County’s weekly COVID death average of zero.
Yet each day, thousands of drivers and plenty of pedestrians and bicyclists still opt for East Wash, risks and all. Drivers might get a ticket if they drive too fast and pedestrians might need to double-check for the all-clear before they trust the crosswalk, but they assume the risks and act accordingly.
What happens if those same people, most likely vaccinated, assess the risks of COVID and then try to go out to dinner without a mask or attend church or use their gym? They’ll be forced to mask up or be denied entry. Within the latest Dane County order is a directive for private businesses to enforce the new rule because nobody is allowed to individually assess virtually nonexistent risks from COVID.
This is an outrage, and maybe we’re partly to blame for ever agreeing to mask in the first place, or at least for continuing to mask after “two weeks to flatten the curve.” We can’t do anything about our conduct last year except to learn from it, but we can think about how the choices we make today will empower callous bureaucrats to exercise tyranny over our lives tomorrow.
We all have some choices to make. Maybe my maskless self will be excused from my favorite coffee shop or denied entry to the hair salon, and I’ll have to suck it up. But what about activities that are harder to avoid, like getting groceries or using public transportation? At what point do we stop putting on a mask just to avoid confrontation despite knowing that at this point, it’s all a farce? If not after a year and a half and zero average deaths, then when?
It’s way beyond time to reclaim truth and live according to our principles, not someone else’s lies. We must refuse to wear a mask in counties where nobody is dying from COVID. Today, that’s Dane County. Tomorrow, it could be wherever you live.
Popular Christian Influencer Joseph Solomon Says, ‘I’m Not a Christian’
Joseph Solomon has been making Christian viral videos for almost a decade. He started his YouTube channel chaseGodtv in June 2012, which now has over 15 million views and almost 600,000 subscribers. The extraordinarily talented Solomon has shared the teachings of Jesus Christ through music, poetry, videography, and life experiences resulting in hundreds of videos that impacted millions of people around the world.
in a Christian household. His father was an elder and his mother played piano in their Texas church.
In 2019, the well-versed poet toured with Jackie Hill Perry’s husband Preston on the ‘Poets In Autumn Tour,‘ which also featured Janette…ikz, Chris Webb, and Ezekiel Azonwu.
On chaseGod.tv, the description says Solomon’s desire is to show Christians “practical ways to understand and live out the faith… He knew that he was not perfect himself, so the only way to teach other imperfect people how to strive for perfection was to point them to Someone who already embodies that. Every webisode is an attempt to approach common struggles and questions through the lens of the Gospel of Christ.”
During the “Flights & Feelings” podcast Solomon released on August 17, 2021, titled “The Shores Somewhere Over Here,” Solomon unpacked a social media post where he told the world he’s not a Christian anymore.
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It appears Solomon has deleted many of his popular videos that he apparently no longer agrees with on his YouTube channel. His Christian videos can still be found online where others have uploaded them, but Solomon has asked that even some of those be taken down.
Before diving into what Solomon said in his latest podcast, here is a video testimony he posted in 2014. (It’s possible Solomon could have this video deleted from YouTube in the near future.)
Joseph Solomon: ‘I’m Not a Christian’
Solomon started his recent podcast by saying, “You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube…I wish I could put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
Before 2020, most people knew Solomon as the “Christian YouTuber guy” or the “Christian poet” or the “Christian worship leader/singer” — but whatever the description, it was prefaced by “Joseph Solomon the Christian,” Solomon explained.
“It took a lot of people by surprise when I posted something on Twitter and reposted a screenshot of it on my Instagram,” he said. The tweet read: “I’m not a Christian. Maybe I’ll explain that further at some point on a podcast or something, but I’m really in no rush. I figured I’d at least just set context for any inquiring minds…” Solomon told his followers that any questions in the comments or direct messages regarding his announcement would go unanswered.