Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, complained Sunday about the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally taking place in South Dakota, warning the gathering may become a super-spreader event for COVID-19.
Noticeably absent from Fauci’s concerns were recent events that also have the potential to become COVID super-spreader gatherings.
What did Fauci say?
During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd asked Fauci whether he is concerned that Sturgis will drive a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Last year, a relatively smaller Sturgis rally — which typically draws more than 500,000 people to South Dakota — was blamed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for causing a COVID outbreak.
Responding to Todd’s question, Fauci said he is concerned about another outbreak and suggested rally attendees are being irresponsible.
“I’m very concerned, Chuck, that we’re going to see another surge related to that rally,” Fauci said.
“I mean, to me, it’s understandable that people want to do the kinds of things they want to do. They want their freedom to do that,” he continued. “But there comes a time when you’re dealing with a public health crisis that could involve you, your family, and everyone else, that something supersedes that need to do exactly what you want to do.”
Dr. Fauci chastises those attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: You’re going to get to do that in the future, but let's get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on." pic.twitter.com/ifb6tVdMgg
Fauci added that people who want the freedom to continue living their lives without COVID restrictions, like Sturgis attendees, must “realize” that “something bad is going on.”
What did Fauci not discuss?
As was noted after Fauci’s interview, the infectious diseases doctor failed to target other notable recent mass gatherings for criticism: Obama’s 60th birthday bash and Lollapalooza.
Obama’s birthday party — which drew celebrities from across the country to Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard estate — took place with maskless guests, who were not required to be vaccinated. The party went on despite the CDC classifying Martha’s Vineyard as a region with “high” COVID-19 transmission, meaning vaccinated people there should wear face masks indoors and avoid large gatherings.
Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot permitted Lollapalooza, a music festival that draws more than 400,000 each year, to take place in late July. The festival went on despite warnings from public health experts.
Dr. Emily Landon, executive medical director for infection prevention and control at the University of Chicago Medical Center, for example, warned that Lollapalooza could cause “wildfires of infection.”
Perhaps Sturgis is the target of ire because its attendees aren’t of the “sophisticated” type, like those who attended Obama’s birthday.
With the California gubernatorial recall election just weeks away, a well-known California pastor is calling on the congregants of his church to vote in support of removing Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.
In an Aug. 1 sermon, Greg Fairrington, the pastor of Destiny Christian Church in Rocklin, advised the audience at his megachurch to “do your job as Christians” and “vote yes on recalling an immoral governor” on Sept. 14. His request was met with cheers from the audience.
“Do your job,” he said. “Use your voice. Use your influence.”
In the upcoming recall election, voters will decide whether they want to remove Newsom, a Democrat, from office before his term is scheduled to expire next year.
In a statement to The Sacramento Bee, Fairrington stated that he thinks the governor’s “policies and politics have continually contradicted the Word of God and have been in opposition with the millions of Christians in California.”
Under federal law, church leaders who endorse or oppose candidates for political office on behalf of their churches run the risk of losing their organizations’ tax-exempt status. But church leaders can make such endorsements or opposition public in their personal capacities.
“My comments on the recall do not support a candidate but rather highlight the unfortunate actions by Gov. Newsom that have traumatic consequences for families, schools, communities, and the church,” Fairrington added. “This is not a political issue, but a moral one, and it is the responsibility of the church to our community to preach what Ephesians 5:11 says, ‘Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.”
After winning the 2018 California gubernatorial election by more than 20 percentage points and securing nearly 3 million more votes than his Republican opponent, Newsom quickly faced criticism from conservatives for embracing progressive legislation.
Newsom’s signing of a bill requiring colleges to offer abortion pills on campus received intense pushback from the conservative and religious communities.
Dissatisfaction with Newsom grew as the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the United States. Newsom imposed restrictions on in-person worship services, which many pastors and churches challenged in court or refused to obey. As Newsom reimposed worship restrictions last summer amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Fairrington was one of the pastors who indicated that he planned to defy the restrictions.
“I believe my mandate as a pastor is to obey the Word of God,” Fairrington said at the time. “And part of what we do is we worship together as a church. We are not going to allow our government to use data that is not supported factually to shut the church down.”
The recall effort accelerated when photographs surfaced of Newsom dining in close proximity to lobbyists at an upscale restaurant even though he had instructed Californians to stay home and avoid travel ahead of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Less than six months after the November dinner, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that the recall supporters had gathered enough signatures to force a recall election.
In addition to voting on the recall, California voters will have the opportunity to select who they would like to replace Newsom as governor, regardless of whether or not they vote to recall him. If the recall receives majority support among the California electorate, the replacement candidate that gets the most votes will replace Newsom as governor.
With less than six weeks to go, two of the most recent polls project differing outcomes of the recall election.
A poll conducted by Survey USA this week found that 51% of Californians would vote to remove Newsom from office while 40% would vote to keep him in office. In that particular poll, a plurality of Californians (27%) would choose another Democrat, YouTube personality and real estate agent Kevin Paffrath, as the replacement candidate. Meanwhile, 23% would select conservative talk radio show host Larry Elder.
Another poll, conducted by Emerson College last weekend, found that 48% of Golden State residents would vote to keep Newsom in office while 46% would vote to remove him. Twenty-three percent of Californians would choose Elder to replace Newsom, making him the most popular candidate in that poll.
Regardless of what happens in the recall election, a regularly scheduled gubernatorial election will occur in California in November 2022. The winner of that election will serve a four-year term.
Newsom is the second California governor in the past two decades to face a recall election. Democrat Gov. Gray Davis was recalled in 2003, shortly after winning a second term in office. He was replaced by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who served as governor until 2011.
More than 25% of passengers on flights scheduled to deport migrants test positive before departure.
QUICK FACTS:
More than 18% of migrant families who recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border tested positive for COVID upon leaving Border Patrol custody over the past two to three weeks, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document prepared for Joe Biden and reviewed byNBC News on Saturday.
20% of unaccompanied minors also tested positive for the virus.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement remove these migrants from the flights and place them in quarantine in the U.S.
“Some flights scheduled to deport migrants had more than 25 percent of passengers test positive before departure, leading Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove those migrants from the flights for quarantine in the U.S., according to the document,” reports NBC.
The Biden admin implemented the Trump-era Title 42 expulsion policy in response to CDC’s warning of “serious danger” at the U.S. southern border, American Faith recently reported.
The number of times border officials caught migrants crossing illegally in June was the highest monthly figure since April 2000, notes The New York Times.
U.S. Border Patrol “informed the police department that on July 25, 2021 they had surpassed 1 million apprehensions in the month of June,” according to CBS DFW.
The National Sheriffs Association said that “up to half of undocumented immigrants are infected with the deadly disease,” notesReuters.
“I will seek the president’s approval to make the vaccines mandatory no later than mid-September, or immediately upon” licensure by the FDA, “whichever comes first,” Defense Secretary Austin said in the memo, notesThe Washington Examiner.
“I will not hesitate to act sooner or recommend a different course to the president if l feel the need to do so,” he added.
PUSHBACK:
Military.com reports former Army lawyer Greg T. Rinckey says “A lot of U.S. troops have reached out to us saying, ‘I don’t want a vaccine that’s untested, I’m not sure it’s safe, and I don’t trust the government’s vaccine. What are my rights?'”
“Scores of troops refused to take that vaccine. Some left the service. Others were disciplined,” notes Military.com, “Some were court-martialed and kicked out of the military with other-than-honorable discharges.
“According to the Pentagon, more than 1 million service members are fully vaccinated, and more than 237,000 have gotten at least one shot. There are roughly 2 million active-duty, Guard and Reserve troops.”
BACKGROUND:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to fully approve the Pfizer vaccine early next month, notes the Daily Mail.
Ex-Pfizer Vice President Dr. Michael Yeadon has noted recent studies showing that the Pfizer vaccine causes a “vaccine-induced autoimmune attack” on women’s placenta.
“You can’t get pregnant and have a successful pregnancy if this protein is damaged in any way” because the protein is “essential” for “both fertilization and formation and maintenance of the placenta,” says Yeadon.
“What this vaccine has done is induced an autoimmune response,” claims Dr. Yeadon.
“I’m here to warn you that if you are of childbearing potential or younger…I would strongly recommend you do not accept these vaccines.”
Claims that the White House Rose Garden suffered “evisceration’ under Melania Trump were debunked in August 2020, yet they were repeated by historian Michael Beschloss this week.
The office of Melania Trump released a statement on Sunday rebuking false claims by liberal historian Michael Beschloss that she “eviscerated” the White House Rose Garden during the administration of President Beschloss. Beschloss’ claim, posted on Saturday, received thousands of likes and retweets on Twitter despite being debunked over a year ago by fact checkers at USA Today.
“Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim result—decades of American history made to disappear,” Beschloss proclaimed on Saturday in a post that has accumulated over 20,000 likes. The post was then shared around by other known purveyors of misinformation, such as MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
The Office of Melania Trump was quick to rebuke the misinformation shared by Beschloss on Sunday, stating, “@BeschlossDC has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable & he should never be trusted as a professional historian.”
.@BeschlossDC has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable & he should never be trusted as a professional historian. https://t.co/LU243SANF1pic.twitter.com/PuVOSjxx5w
— Office of Melania Trump (@OfficeofMelania) August 8, 2021
“The flowering trees visible in photos of the Rose Garden before the renovation were actually crabapple trees, not cherry trees, per the White House Historical Association. They also weren’t ‘chopped down,’” USA Today noted, adding, “The crabapple trees have not been permanently removed from the White House. The 10 trees will be replanted elsewhere on the grounds after they are cared for offsite, per the Associated Press and C-SPAN.”
“Based on our research, claims that first lady Melania Trump removed historic cherry trees and roses in her recent renovation of the White House’s Rose Garden are FALSE,” USA Today concluded. “The trees that were relocated were crabapple trees, and roses from previous gardens had likely already died or been replaced before the renovation.”
Greasy South Dakotan motorcycle enthusiasts don’t get to have fun, but “sophisticated, vaccinated” elites can party for days.
According to Anthony Fauci, if you attend the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota you are complicit in spreading death. However, untested and unvaccinated migration en mass at the southern border, as well as elite gatherings of hundreds of people are apparently not a concern.
Appearing on Meet The Press, Fauci was asked of the Sturgis meet by Chuck Todd “What do you expect this rally to do to that part of the country?”
He responded “I’m very concerned we’re going to see another surge related to that rally.”
Fauci continued, “To me it’s understandable that people want to do the kind of things they want to do. They want their freedom to do that, but there comes a time when you’re dealing with the public health crisis that could involve you, your family and everyone else, that something supersedes that need to do what you need to do.”
“You’re going to be able to do that in the future, but let’s get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on. Something bad is going on. We’ve got to realize that,” Fauci maintained.
Watch:
Dr. Fauci chastises those attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: You’re going to get to do that in the future, but let's get this pandemic under control before we start acting like nothing is going on." pic.twitter.com/ifb6tVdMgg
Greasy South Dakotan motorcycle enthusiasts, on the other hand, don’t get to have fun.
Seems like the NYT's stamp of approval for Obama's opulent, massive, indoor maskless party for the "sophisticated people" is a bit at odds with Dr. Fauci's demand this morning that motorcyclists stop acting like spoiled children by gathering outside:https://t.co/Fd0IT7pYbl
Elsewhere during the interview, Fauci again claimed that the unvaccinated will be to blame for new deadly variants of coronavirus emerging, despite the CDC’s admission that vaccinated people are still getting and transmitting the Delta variant.
“There’s a tenet that everybody knows in virology: a virus will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate,” Fauci said, adding “Fortunately for us, the vaccines do quite well against Delta, particularly in protecting you from severe disease.”
He added, “But if you give the virus the chance to continue to change, you’re leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant, and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine.”
Fauci further commented “It is, as we’ve said, a pandemic and an outbreak of the unvaccinated.”
Fauci again touted vaccine mandates, declaring “The time has come and we’ve got to go the extra step to get people vaccinated. You want to persuade them, that’s good. And I believe that some people, on their own, once it gets approved as a full approval will go ahead and get vaccinated. But for those who do not want, I believe mandates at the local level need to be done.”
He also doubled down on masking for kids, proclaiming “we’re having a strong recommendation that in the schools everybody should wear a mask, whether or not you’re vaccinated,” and adding “We’ve got to protect the children.”
No mention from Fauci of the unmitigated crisis at the Southern border, however, where thousands of illegal immigrants are pouring into the country everyday, being held in packed-in squalor for days and then being released into the country without testing or treatment.
Apparently that also doesn’t spread COVID, despite the urgent pleas of doctors on the border, who have labeled it “grossly irresponsible”.
Thursday marked the 151st birthday of the most successful revolutionary of all time, Vladimir Lenin. With only a tiny cabal of diehard followers, Lenin seized control of the world’s largest country and inaugurated a reign of darkness and terror that lasted seventy years.
There are many lessons to draw from the blood-soaked life of Lenin. But one of the most important is this takeaway for the terrifying “woke” moment America is living through right now. Things are not going to naturally get better. Things will not organically “calm down.” Until there is a fundamental reset of America’s treasonous leadership class, today’s unthinkable witch hunt is merely a prelude of an even darker globalist terror to come.
The Bolsheviks were indisputably more murderous than today’s left (if only because they lived in a more violent age), but even they had to ramp up how much terror they engaged in.
At the beginning of their rule, in fact, the Bolsheviks were even willing to run a fair election. Just days after the October Revolution, they held the preplanned elections for Russia’s Constituent Assembly, anticipating an easy win. To their surprise, they were easily defeated by the Socialist Revolutionaries. And so, like any good leftists, they simply nullified the election and dissolved the Constituent Assembly. Since it was 100 years ago and the Bolsheviks were well-armed, it was enough to simply announce that the Constituent Assembly was closed. Today, they might concoct a more elaborate narrative, perhaps that the Socialist Revolutionaries engaged in “collusion” with a foreign power.
Once they had taken power, the Bolsheviks didn’t immediately launch Stalin-style mass purges. Instead, the Bolsheviks started off in a way modern Americans would find disturbingly familiar: By legitimizing criminal anarchy and co-opting the justice system.
In their earliest days, the Bolsheviks framed their political abuses as a “war on privilege.” In a tactic eerily reminiscent of 2020’s riots, the Bolsheviks of 1918 encouraged a decentralized campaign by the masses to plunder and crush class enemies.
In January 1918, at a meeting of party agitators on their way to the provinces, Lenin explained that the plunder of bourgeois property was to be encouraged as a form of social justice by revenge. It was a question of ‘looting the looters’. Under this slogan, which the Bolsheviks soon made their own, there was an orgy of robbery and violence in the next few months. Gorky described it as a mass pogrom. Armed gangs robbed the propertied — and then robbed each other. Swindlers, thieves and bandits grew rich, as law and order finally vanished. [Figes, A People’s Tragedy, p. 525-526]
This class-based economic warfare was coupled with a revolution in criminal justice. First, the mob replaced the old system of law and order, and then the Bolsheviks came in to lend it a gloss of structure. Crime became a class issue, where mundane criminals went free while class enemies were targeted for the most brutal repression on the flimsiest grounds:
Since the police and the old criminal courts had virtually disappeared, there was a common feeling that the only way to deal with the problem of crime was by mob trials in the street.
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As the socioeconomic crisis deepened, and the popular belief developed that the burzhoois were responsible for it, so these mob trials began to assume an overtly class nature. They became a weapon in the war against privilege, focusing less on petty thieves from the urban poor and much more on merchants and shopkeepers, factory owners and employers, army officers, former tsarist officials and other figures of superordinate authority.
The Bolsheviks gave institutional form to the mob trials through the new People’s Courts, where ‘revolutionary justice’ was summarily administered in all criminal cases. The old criminal justice system, with its formal rules of law, was abolished as a relic of the ‘bourgeois order’.
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The sessions of the People’s Courts were little more than formalized mob trials.
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[R]obbers — and sometimes even murderers — of the rich were often given only a very light sentence, or even acquitted altogether, if they pleaded poverty as the cause of their crime. The looting of the looters had been legalized and, in the process, law as such abolished: there was only lawlessness.
Lenin had always been insistent that the legal system should be used as a weapon of mass terror against the bourgeoisie. The system of mob law which evolved through the Peoples Courts gave him that weapon of terror. [Figes, A People’s Tragedy, p. 533-4]
Reading about the Bolshevik system, it becomes much easier to understand events in our own time. In South Carolina, Army sergeant Jonathan Pentland has been charged with assault for shoving a black man on the sidewalk. The facts of the case overwhelmingly favor Pentland. The man he shoved had a history of harassing the women of the neighborhood, and Pentland was stepping in to stop just such a case of harassment.
But the facts of the case are nothing compared to the facts of the participants. Pentland is white, and he therefore represents a figure of authority in the minds of the underclass. This makes him a second-class citizen in 2021. His every action is presumptively racist and to be punished with maximum viciousness. Not only is he facing criminal charges, but he’s under investigation by the Army and DoJ, he was condemned by his superiors, and police let a mob surround and vandalize his home. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a far worse assault on an elderly Asian man ended in no charges at all, because the attacker was from one of the left’s more privileged races.
It’s a strategy Cheka officer Martin Latsis would understand well:
[Do not] look for evidence as proof that the accused has acted or spoken against the Soviets. First you must ask him to what class he belongs, what his social origin is, his education and profession. These are the questions that must determine the fate of the accused. That is the meaning of the Red Terror. [Alpha History]
Crucially, from their oppressive beginnings, the Bolsheviks only grew more fanatical and more violent over time. The decentralized wave of mob justice and plunder gave way to a more centralized and ruthless campaign to exterminate enemies of the regime.
“We must put an end once and for all to the papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life,” said Trotsky, one of the chief apostles of the so-called “Red Terror.”
The chief catalyst of the Terror was Fanny Kaplan’s attempted assassination of Lenin in August 1918. The Bolsheviks, always prone to paranoia, reacted to that attack with the rage of a berserker. They immediately announced the revival of the death penalty, which had been abolished after the overthrow of the tsar. Hundreds of political opponents were shot immediately, and orders went out across the country for the Cheka to round up hostages and shoot them in response to the slightest opposition.
As the Terror spread, the torments grew more creative:
Each local Cheka had its own speciality. In Kharkov they went in for the ‘glove trick’ — burning the victim’s hands in boiling water until the blistered skin could be peeled off: this left the victims with raw and bleeding hands and their torturers with ‘human gloves’. The Tsaritsyn Cheka sawed its victims’ bones in half. In Voronezh they rolled their naked victims in nail-studded barrels. In Armavir they crushed their skulls by tightening a leather strap with an iron bolt around their head. In Kiev they affixed a cage with rats to the victim’s torso and heated it so that the enraged rats ate their way through the victim’s guts in an effort to escape. In Odessa they chained their victims to planks and pushed them slowly into a furnace or a tank of boiling water. A favourite winter torture was to pour water on the naked victims until they became living ice statues. Many Chekas preferred psychological forms of torture. One had the victims led off to what they thought was their execution, only to find that a blank was fired at them. Another had the victims buried alive, or kept in a coffin with a corpse. [Figes, A People’s Tragedy, p. 646]
The press played in integral role in radicalizing the masses and justifying the Terror. “Only rivers of blood can atone for the blood of Lenin,” cried one paper. Pravda announced that “the time has come for us to crush the bourgeoisie or be crushed by it.” It sounds ghoulish to us, but then again, our own papers run headlines like this:
The Reds were initially radicalized by the sense of being under threat. But once their full depravity was unleashed, it crucially did not start to moderate simply because they were winning. At the end of the Russian Civil War, thousands of soldiers and officers in the White Army surrendered after receiving a promise of amnesty. Once they were rounded up, all of them were shot. The next three decades of the Soviet regime brought one round after another of purges, famines, de-kulakization, and terror.
Lenin’s Red Terror carries important lessons for America in 2021.
Every time the terror in America seems to have peaked, it gets worse.
In 2017, people lost their jobs for attending the Charlottesville march. It didn’t matter if they engaged in any violence or broke any laws. Merely being there was enough.
Many normal Americans shrugged.
“It was some racist march anyway,” thought most conservatives. “They should have known better than to go.”
But of course, it didn’t stop there. Throughout the Trump administration, it became acceptable to target people for pettier and pettier offenses: Anonymous posts online, leaked emails, decade-old articles (or decade-old tweets), attending conferences with the wrong people.
April 2021 has brought us to a new low. In Minnesota, Derek Chauvin is going to prison, likely for decades, for using a routine policing method to subdue a man twice his size who was resisting arrest. In Virginia, a police officer’s twenty-year career has ended in termination after he sent a $25 anonymous donation to the defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Lt. William Kelly was placed on administrative duty Friday, April 16, after reports were made that he donated and expressed support for the actions of Rittenhouse, who is accused of killing two people and injuring another during a Wisconsin protest in August 2020.
Norfolk Police Chief Larry Boone said Lt. Kelly violated city and department policies by donating money to Rittenhouse’s defense fund.
“I have reviewed the results of the internal investigation involving Lt. William Kelly. Chief Larry Boone and I have concluded Lt. Kelly’s actions are in violation of city and departmental policies. His egregious comments erode the trust between the Norfolk Police Department and those they are sworn to serve. The City of Norfolk has a standard of behavior for all employees, and we will hold staff accountable,” City Manager Chip Filer said. [NBC12]
Before Joe Biden took office, one of the lies told to get Middle America to accept him was that Biden would allow America to “calm down.” One piece in Slate was typical:
Joe Biden will make a difference. Things will be better. And sooner than you may think.
I am sure of this. I am sure of this the way that I am sure that kindness matters, that violence causes pain, that American democracy will prevail, regardless of the hurdles that it must repeatedly surmount. I am sure of this the way that I am sure an object in motion remains in motion, until something interferes to still it. Biden will be that stilling force. … The violence and unrest, the hatred and division that have bloodied this country since Donald Trump took office in January 2017, are an inevitable consequence of this man and the infectiousness of his beliefs, which he spread in roars across stadiums and in capital letters on social media. It spread person to person, mouth to mouth, hovering in the air, invisible and deadly. [Slate]
After Derek Chauvin conviction, Fox’s Greg Gutfeld sarcastically invoked the cowardly stance of many who welcomed Chauvin going to prison even if he was innocent because this would magically calm down the left and spare the country further riots.
Greg Gutfeld: “I’m glad [Chauvin] was found guilty on all charges, even if he might not be guilty of all charges. I am glad that he is guilty of all charges because I want a verdict that keeps this country from going up in flames.” (Note the groans from his Fox News colleagues.) pic.twitter.com/DulsFEMwcO
Such thinking is not just morally repugnant, it is stupid. Mere hours after the Derek Chauvin verdict came down, the left began fomenting a new outrage. This time, the target was the Columbus police officer who shot and killed Ma’Khia Bryant to stop her from stabbing another girl.
The Biden Administration eagerly racialized the matter, with press secretary Jen Psaki suggesting the officer, motivated by racism, had executed a “child.”
Basketball star Lebron James ogreishly tweeted “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY” with a photo of the hero cop.
The left will not be placated by handing it victories. They are on a crusade, and as long as they are not stopped they will only become more extreme, more vengeful, and more dangerous.
Cancel culture is only the prelude to the rape, torture, and murder of the American people by a resentful underclass goaded on by a parasitic globalist ruling class.
Why are there so many similarities between the Bolsheviks of old and the radical left of today? If there’s one constant in the 230 years since the French Revolution, it’s that extreme left-wing movements can’t deliver on their promises. There’s a reason online leftists have to retreat to the embarrassing anthem that “real Communism has never been tried.”
When left-wing movements start to fail, they become paranoid. Unable to accept the shortcomings of their ideology, they hunt for wreckers, saboteurs, spies, and traitors, any scapegoat that can be used to avoid admitting that their policies are the root of failure.
That’s just as true of today’s left as it is of their intellectual forebears. Despite uprooting every part of American life and spending trillions of dollars, liberalism has totally failed to abolish inequality in America. Instead of bringing universal prosperity, liberalism has produced homeless hellscapes, catastrophic public schools, gutted neighborhoods, and fragmented families. Finding the causes within liberalism is unthinkable. Again and again, big-city governments, private colleges, elite newspapers, and left-wing non-profits have been convulsed by witch hunts to root out “sexism” and “systemic racism.” Decades-old statements and stray words are sufficient proof to end a career, and sometimes not even that is needed. Rather than accept the reality that black Americans are more likely to commit crimes than other groups, liberals have declared war on the police. They would rather send good police to prison and subject millions of Americans to criminal terror than admit to a truth that is right in front of them.
But the second reason why the left constantly escalates its terrorism is more basic: Keeping power. Marx’s colleague Friedrich Engels wrote that “Terror is the needless cruelties perpetrated by terrified men.” The left is already inclined toward cruelty by disposition, but once frightened at the prospect of actual defeat, they go into a frenzy. For the Bolsheviks, it was the attempted murder of Lenin and the Russian Civil War. For the Globalist American Empire, it was the election of Donald Trump. Rather than accept an outcome that might bring about their demise, the empire struck back.
What will the future of America look like? Hopefully, it will never get as horrific as it did under past failing liberal states. But this regime is already one that will denounce a police officer for saving someone’s life. This is a regime that tries to imprison a teenager for life for defending himself while trying to protect his community from a rioting mob. This is a regime that foments war in Ukraine to avoid admitting it lost an election. This is a regime that takes children from their parents so they can be put on hormone pills and have their genitals mutilated.
This regime will never show mercy of its own free will. It will grow more and more tyrannical, and more and more extreme, until it stops or until it collapses. The worst of the terror is yet to come.
U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in June, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Monday.
There were 10.1 million job openings on the last business day of June, according to the BLS. As well, the government revised up the previous month’s figure from 9.2 million to 9,483,0000.
Economists had forecast around 9.3 million openings.
Hires rose to 6.7 million. The quits rate rose to 2.7 percent. A rising quits rate is typically interpreted as a sign of strength for the labor market, demonstrating that workers believe they can find better jobs.
Professional and business services posted 227,000 openings. Retail trade posted 133,0000. Accommodations and food services had 121,000 openings.
Repeated attempts to obtain public 911 records related to medical emergencies at the Manhattan Planned Parenthood have been ignored or declined by city officials.
As pro-life supporters looked on, a woman suffered a serious medical emergency on July 30, 2021, at the Manhattan Planned Parenthood, located at 26 Bleecker Street in New York City.
This is the 32nd known abortion-related emergency documented at this Planned Parenthood facility in just the past five years.
Photographs of a black woman as she was brought out of the Planned Parenthood facility on a gurney and loaded into a Mount Sinai Hospital ambulance were provided to Operation Rescue by Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor-at-large of National Review. Lopez has been joining the pro-life presence at the Manhattan Planned Parenthood and has referenced her often-heartbreaking experiences there in numerous columns.
“Even though ambulance visits to the Manhattan Planned Parenthood have become all too common, we cannot afford to become desensitized to the human tragedy each one of these abortion emergencies represent,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Each time an ambulance arrives at an abortion facility, it represents a dead child and a wounded, traumatized mother. The effects of these tragedies reverberate through families and eventually throughout all of society. These are avoidable tragedies that are essentially sanctioned by the City and State of New York.”
According to Lopez, the ambulance arrived at the Manhattan Planned Parenthood shortly before 3:00 p.m. Her photos show the ambulance at the main entrance of the facility where EMTs emerged pushing a gurney carrying a woman appearing to be in pain, who was soon loaded into the ambulance for transport, presumably to the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency room.
Repeated attempts to obtain public 911 records related to medical emergencies at the Manhattan Planned Parenthood have been ignored or declined by city officials.
Until earlier this year, the Manhattan Planned Parenthood was known as the Margaret Sanger Center Planned Parenthood after the organization’s founder, who famously embraced a racist eugenics ideology.
Planned Parenthood dropped Sanger’s name from their flagship abortion center after over 300 employees signed and publicized a letter accusing New York Planned Parenthood CEO Laura McQuade of “systemic racism, pay inequity, and lack of upward mobility for Black staff,” abusive behavior, and financial malfeasance. That scandal forced McQuade’s resignation.
The Manhattan Planned Parenthood is a high-volume abortion facility that — despite the McQuade scandal — targets poor urban women of color. It is a well-known abortion training site for the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning run by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
The Ryan abortion training program is an affiliate of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health based at the University of California San Francisco and is housed at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The Bixby Center, which promotes abortion internationally, is heavily funded by known globalists who embrace a worldwide depopulation agenda such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation among many others. It is also funded by several U.S. governmental organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, which uses federal tax money to advance abortion in the U.S. and abroad.
An Arizona Senator is pushing to have the 2020 Presidential election results decertified following the results of the audit.
WND said Senator Wendy Rogers launched a website for the decertification of the election results following the “display of evidence” from the recently concluded audit, which is still pending the release of its official report.
The senator’s website contains a photo of former President Donald Trump and a petition “to decertify the election.” The website disclosed that it was created through the funding of the senator, and also highlighted statements made by Trump that reinforces Roger’s agenda of decertification. Rogers announced the petition in her Twitter account last August 5.
“President Trump knows I am fighting hard for election integrity, which is why he quoted me twice in the same week. If you agree with me and President Trump that we must recall our electors and decertify the 2020 election, add your name and let’s get this done!” Rogers stressed in the website.
Last month, Rogers revealed intentions that she “will be fighting, fighting, fighting” for the decertification of President Joe Biden’s votes based on the results of the Arizona forensic audit that warrants it “is absolutely imperative.”
“We have to finish the audit, we have to hold the Maricopa County supervisors accountable to include possibly sending them to jail. There is already enough information to justify this,” Rogers announced.
We are up to 50k signatures. We need 1 million minimum. Help me get there. We must show that we have support for decertification. Sign: https://t.co/VgClJjWTwn
Rogers has been announcing the number of petitions her website have garnered through her Twitter account. She said on August 7 that she already has 50,000 signatures and would need a million. Three days after launching the petition, Rogers then said that the website has already collected 87,000 signature and, sadly, the “high demand” has led the website to crash.
“We are up to 50k signatures. We need 1 million minimum. Help me get there. We must show that we have support for decertification,” Rogers revealed.
“87k signatures now. Marching to 1 million. Sign,” she added afterwards.
.@WendyRogersAZ' Website Crashes Due to High Demand, Back Up Now With 87K Signatures On Petition to 'Decertify Election' in AZ https://t.co/l32DKfseBO
The auditors who conducted the audit in Maricopa County announced through Arizona Senate President Karen Fann on July 28 that they have already finished counting the ballots and will be releasing a report after analyzing the data they have collected from it.
“The physical tabulation of the ballots are complete and are being returned to Maricopa County tomorrow,” Fann announced.
The audit was accomplished through three series of recounts. The first was by the Cyber Ninja auditing team who completed 2.1 million ballots last June. The second was conducted by the Maricopa County officials that resulted to a mismatch. Then finally by a team supervised by Randy Pullen, the former Arizona Republican Party Chair.
The auditing experienced several “blocks” before it finally was completed. In the months during the audit, several discrepancies were reported such as the voting machines’ entire database being deleted by county officials and access to the router used during the elections not being provided to the auditors, among others.
WND pointed out in its report that it wasn’t made clear if there would be a possibility of overturning election results once the audit has revealed that fraud actually took place or that the results themselves are “found to be fraudulent.” The media outlet stressed that is an “entirely new territory” that remains to be answered.
Rogers revealed in her campaign website that although “there won’t likely be a national call for this,” the petition intends “to send a clear message” that they are “not confident with election results.”
“Although there won’t likely be a national call for this, Rogers and other Arizona Republicans in Arizona as well as her supporters want to send a clear message. They are not confident in the election process and want things to be better and to be assured there is not fraud ever again. Just a couple of days ago, there was so much demand for Rogers’ website they had to upgrade the servers to keep traffic flowing,” the website statement read.
California megachurch pastor calls on congregants to recall ‘immoral’ Gov. Gavin Newsom
With the California gubernatorial recall election just weeks away, a well-known California pastor is calling on the congregants of his church to vote in support of removing Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.
In an Aug. 1 sermon, Greg Fairrington, the pastor of Destiny Christian Church in Rocklin, advised the audience at his megachurch to “do your job as Christians” and “vote yes on recalling an immoral governor” on Sept. 14. His request was met with cheers from the audience.
“Do your job,” he said. “Use your voice. Use your influence.”
In the upcoming recall election, voters will decide whether they want to remove Newsom, a Democrat, from office before his term is scheduled to expire next year.
In a statement to The Sacramento Bee, Fairrington stated that he thinks the governor’s “policies and politics have continually contradicted the Word of God and have been in opposition with the millions of Christians in California.”
Under federal law, church leaders who endorse or oppose candidates for political office on behalf of their churches run the risk of losing their organizations’ tax-exempt status. But church leaders can make such endorsements or opposition public in their personal capacities.
“My comments on the recall do not support a candidate but rather highlight the unfortunate actions by Gov. Newsom that have traumatic consequences for families, schools, communities, and the church,” Fairrington added. “This is not a political issue, but a moral one, and it is the responsibility of the church to our community to preach what Ephesians 5:11 says, ‘Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.”
After winning the 2018 California gubernatorial election by more than 20 percentage points and securing nearly 3 million more votes than his Republican opponent, Newsom quickly faced criticism from conservatives for embracing progressive legislation.
Newsom’s signing of a bill requiring colleges to offer abortion pills on campus received intense pushback from the conservative and religious communities.
Dissatisfaction with Newsom grew as the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the United States. Newsom imposed restrictions on in-person worship services, which many pastors and churches challenged in court or refused to obey. As Newsom reimposed worship restrictions last summer amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Fairrington was one of the pastors who indicated that he planned to defy the restrictions.
“I believe my mandate as a pastor is to obey the Word of God,” Fairrington said at the time. “And part of what we do is we worship together as a church. We are not going to allow our government to use data that is not supported factually to shut the church down.”
The recall effort accelerated when photographs surfaced of Newsom dining in close proximity to lobbyists at an upscale restaurant even though he had instructed Californians to stay home and avoid travel ahead of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Less than six months after the November dinner, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that the recall supporters had gathered enough signatures to force a recall election.
In addition to voting on the recall, California voters will have the opportunity to select who they would like to replace Newsom as governor, regardless of whether or not they vote to recall him. If the recall receives majority support among the California electorate, the replacement candidate that gets the most votes will replace Newsom as governor.
With less than six weeks to go, two of the most recent polls project differing outcomes of the recall election.
A poll conducted by Survey USA this week found that 51% of Californians would vote to remove Newsom from office while 40% would vote to keep him in office. In that particular poll, a plurality of Californians (27%) would choose another Democrat, YouTube personality and real estate agent Kevin Paffrath, as the replacement candidate. Meanwhile, 23% would select conservative talk radio show host Larry Elder.
Another poll, conducted by Emerson College last weekend, found that 48% of Golden State residents would vote to keep Newsom in office while 46% would vote to remove him. Twenty-three percent of Californians would choose Elder to replace Newsom, making him the most popular candidate in that poll.
Regardless of what happens in the recall election, a regularly scheduled gubernatorial election will occur in California in November 2022. The winner of that election will serve a four-year term.
Newsom is the second California governor in the past two decades to face a recall election. Democrat Gov. Gray Davis was recalled in 2003, shortly after winning a second term in office. He was replaced by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who served as governor until 2011.