Video has surfaced of Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) speculating that the FBI might have known about plans for unrest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and allowed those events to happen. Johnson reportedly made the comments about January 6 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a Milwaukee suburb, during a June GOP event.
The video was captured by Bridget Kurt, a 49-year-old hospice worker from Atlanta who was in Wisconsin visiting family. Kurt has referred to herself as a “lifelong Republican” who wanted to question the senator about his views on COVID-19 and to persuade Johnson to encourage people to receive the experimental vaccines currently being offered.
The video shows Johnson talking to a group of citizens, one of whom claimed to be a former employee of the CIA, about events surrounding the January 6 unrest at the Capitol.
“I don’t say this publicly, but are you watching what’s happening in Michigan?” Johnson said. “So you think the FBI had fully infiltrated the militias in Michigan, but they don’t know squat about what was happening on January 6 or what was happening with these groups? I’d say there is way more to the story.”
Ron Johnson: “I don’t say this publicly… you think the FBI had fully infiltrated the militias in Michigan, but they don’t know squat about what was happening on January 6th or what was happening with these groups? I’d say there is way more to the story.” pic.twitter.com/wLMcsdtzNX
Johnson was clearly speculating that the FBI, whose agents allegedly infiltrated right-wing militia groups and foiled a kidnapping plot aimed at MIchigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) in 2020, would likely have known about any plot to attack the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Johnson went on to say that the vast majority of protesters on January 6 were of the peaceful variety. “By and large, the folks were peaceful protesters that wouldn’t even consider breaking the law,” Johnson said.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has testified that the Bureau received information about a possible “war” in Washington on January 6 a day earlier, on January 5, and passed that intelligence on to the Capitol Police and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.
The Wisconsin senator also blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee, which is reportedly investigating the January 6 unrest, calling the probe a “sham.” Johnson also had harsh words for Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, two Republicans who are enabling the committee.
“I’m sorry, the Adam Kinzingers and Liz Cheneys, they’re trying to paint with the same broad brush that the media and the Democrats want — all those people are potentially domestic terrorists,” Johnson said.
The senator accused Cheney and Kinzinger, along with House Democrats, of attempting to paint all Trump voters as “domestic terrorists.”
“That’s what they’re trying to do,” Johnson said. “That’s what the press wants to do. And so you join the Liz Cheney project and then you are painting 75 million Americans who voted for Trump as attached with domestic terrorists — that’s the narrative. I’m just pushing back on the narrative because that’s not true.”
Johnson made clear that he condemned the violence that occurred on January 6. “I’ve said that repeatedly and strongly.”
In a statement to the Washington Post, which broke the story on Tuesday, Johnson’s office did not back down from the senator’s remarks but called on the FBI to be more forthcoming about what they knew and when they knew it.
“The revelation of the depth of the FBI’s involvement in the Governor Whitmer plot raises questions as to whether it had infiltrated Jan. 6 agitator groups as well,” said Johnson spokesperson Alexa Henning. “The senator continues to call on the FBI and [Department of Justice] to be transparent. To date, they have not been.”
Ron Johnson is clearly a target of the mainstream media. The senator was an ally of former president Donald Trump. He has been working to get out the full story on the experimental vaccines that the media has been working overtime to cover up.
Even the creator of the video, Bridget Kurt, was attempting to get Johnson to push the experimental vaccines onto the public — a request that he denied in the video.
“I’m not going to do that. I don’t encourage or discourage,” Johnson told Kurt in the video.
Johnson is inconvenient to the narrative being invented and pushed by the Left. So, like clockwork, a media hit piece against Johnson appeared because he had the temerity to insinuate that the FBI knew more about potential unrest at the Capitol on January 6 than they’re letting on.
Despite numerous calls for him to leave, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will not quit.
Officials from around the country are calling for New York Governor Cuomo to step down after yesterday’s announcement from New York Attorney General Letitia James that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women.
Biden, Pelosi and Schumer all called for him to step down.
Four corrupt Democrat Governors called on Cuomo to resign as well.
These fellow governors last year joined Cuomo in implementing insane directives that left millions without work and in financial ruin due to their COVID-19 policies. Now they are calling for Cuomo to step down.
It’s still unknown who is really behind Cuomo’s ouster. No doubt that Biden/Obama would not allow this to happen unless they had a hand in it. Cuomo must have really upset Biden/Obama.
The OCME submitted a request for permission to cremate Babbitt just two days after taking custody of her body, documents show.
Documents obtained by Judicial Watch using a FOIA request reveal that the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner submitted a request to cremate Ashli Babbitt just two days after gaining custody of her body. Still, the OCME did not release cause and manner of Babbitt’s death untilApril 7, 2021.
New documents obtained via a FOIA request pertaining to the death of the unarmed January 6 protestor, veteran, and patriot Ashli Babbitt, have revealed that the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner submitted a request to cremate Babbitt just two days after gaining custody of her body. The office did not release the cause and manner of her death until April 2021, months after the homicide took place. Babbitt’s fingerprints were emailed to a person seemingly working for the government in DC, which resulted in Microsoft “undeliverable” messages written in Chinese characters being returned, according to the report.
On January 8, 2021, at 7:13 p.m., an application to cremate the body of Babbitt is labeled “completed successfully.” Copies of the permit are sent to OCME officials Kimberli Hall and SaVern Fripp, as well as Melinda Smith, Jennifer Love, Lisa Tabron, Jeanette Belle, and Perlieshia Gales.
“There is intense public interest in the shooting of Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on January 6,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, following the revelations. “The continued secrecy and delayed release of information about the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt are suspicious and smacks of politics. That Americans still have no information about who killed her or any police report about her death is a scandal of epic proportions.”
On April 7, 2021, Washington, D.C. medical examiner Dr. Francisco J. Diaz ruled that the death of unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was gunned down by a still unidentified Capitol Hill police officer identified as Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd by independent journalist Tayler Hansen on January 6, has been classified as a “homicide” caused by a “gunshot wound to the left anterior shoulder,” as National File reported.
National File recently spoke to Michelle Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli, moments before she delivered her speech in Phoenix, Arizona after being invited by Rep. Paul Gosar to attend the TPUSA Chapter Leadership Summit. “I’m Ashli Babbitt’s mom, I’ve been invited by Congressman Gosar to speak at the election integrity rally for Donald Trump,” said Witthoeft. “My daughter died for this cause, there are still political prisoners being held in DC jail under horrible conditions as a result of this. They were protesting our American birthright to go and redress their government because everybody in this country knows that this is a stolen election. So I’m here to be my daughter’s voice because it has been silenced.”
EXCLUSIVE: Mother of Ashli Babbitt tells National File "My daughter died for this cause… I'm here to be my daughter's voice because it has been silenced" before Rep. Paul Gosar invited her out today. pic.twitter.com/lSMC5ChwCy
Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc.
This is the slippery slope upon which we are embarking, one that begins with vaccine passports and ends with a national system of segregation.
It has already begun.
With every passing day, more and more private businesses and government agencies on both the state and federal level are requiring proof of a COVID-19 vaccination in order for individuals to work, travel, shop, attend school, and generally participate in the life of the country.
No matter what one’s views may be regarding the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is an unnerving proposition for a country that claims to prize the rights of the individual and whose Bill of Rights was written in such a way as to favor the rights of the minority.
By allowing government agents to establish a litmus test for individuals to be able to engage in commerce, movement and any other right that corresponds to life in a supposedly free society, it lays the groundwork for a “show me your papers” society in which you are required to identify yourself at any time to any government worker who demands it for any reason.
Such tactics can quickly escalate into a power-grab that empowers government agents to force anyone and everyone to prove they are in compliance with every statute and regulation on the books. Mind you, there are thousands of statutes and regulations on the books. Indeed, in this era of overcriminalization, it is estimated that the average American unknowingly breaks at least three laws a day.
This is also how the right to move about freely has been undermined, overtaken and rewritten into a privilege granted by the government to those citizens who are prepared to toe the line.
It used to be that “we the people” had the right to come and go as we please without the fear of being stopped, questioned by police or forced to identify ourselves. In other words, unless police had a reasonable suspicion that a person was guilty of wrongdoing, they had no legal authority to stop the person and require identification.
Unfortunately, in this age of COVID-19, that unrestricted right to move about freely is being pitted against the government’s power to lock down communities at a moment’s notice. And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power, “we the people” have been on the losing end of the deal.
Now vaccine passports, vaccine admission requirements, and travel restrictions may seem like small, necessary steps in winning the war against the COVID-19 virus, but that’s just so much propaganda. They’re only necessary to the police state in its efforts to further brainwash the populace into believing that the government legitimately has the power to enforce such blatant acts of authoritarianism.
This is how you imprison a populace and lock down a nation.
It makes no difference if such police state tactics are carried out in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America healthy again: the philosophy remains the same, and it is a mindset that is not friendly to freedom.
You can’t have it both ways.
You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
If you’re tempted to justify these draconian measures for whatever reason—for the sake of health concerns, the economy, or national security—beware: there’s always a boomerang effect.
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now, rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.
The war on drugs turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with SWAT teams and militarized police. The war on terror turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention for those who dare to disagree.
The war on immigration turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with roving government agents demanding “papers, please.”
This war on COVID-19 is turning out to be yet another war on the American people, waged with all of the surveillance weaponry and tracking mechanisms at the government’s disposal. You see, when you talk about empowering government agents to screen the populace in order to control and prevent spread of this virus, what you’re really talking about is creating a society in which ID cards, round ups, checkpoints and detention centers become routine weapons used by the government to control and suppress the populace, no matter the threat.
No one is safe.
No one is immune.
And as I illustrate in my new novel, The Erik Blair Diaries, no one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living in a police state.
That’s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda, every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity, every new policeman on the beat, every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye, every new detention center built to house troublemakers and other undesirables, every new court ruling that gives government agents a green light to strip and steal and rape and ravage the citizenry, and every new justification for why Americans should comply with the government’s attempts to trample the Constitution underfoot.
Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economically, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon.
As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better.
It’s already worse.
We’ve been having this same debate about the perils of government overreach for the past 50-plus years, and still we don’t seem to learn, or if we learn, we learn too late.
Eventually, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, when the police state has turned that final screw and slammed that final door, all that will matter is whether some government agent chooses to single you out for special treatment.
ADP says US economy added 330,000 private-sector jobs in July.
U.S. private sector job growth slowed sharply in July amid an uptick in new COVID-19 infections.
The U.S. economy added 330,000 private sector jobs last month, a decline from the downwardly revised 680,000 jobs gained in June, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting the addition of 695,000 jobs.
“The labor market recovery continues to exhibit uneven progress, but progress nonetheless,” said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP. “Bottlenecks in hiring continue to hold back stronger gains, particularly in light of new COVID-19 concerns tied to viral variants.”
The service sector added 318,000 jobs last month. Within services, the leisure and hospitality sector continued to pace the gains, adding 139,00 new workers last month. However, that was down from the 332,000 jobs added in June. Hiring in education and health services (+64,000); professional and business services (+54,000); and trade, transportation and utilities (+36,000) remained strong, while job losses in information services (-1,000) continued.
Goods-producing sectors added a total of 12,000 jobs, led by manufacturing (+8,000). Last month, goods producers hired 68,000 new workers.
Job growth was pretty evenly distributed across small-, medium- and large-sized businesses.
The ADP report comes ahead of Friday’s July nonfarm payrolls report. The Labor Department is expected to say the U.S. economy added 845,000 jobs last month, according to economists surveyed by Refinitiv. The economy gained 850,000 jobs in June.
As COVID — especially the Delta variant — surges among the fully vaccinated, Brian Hooker, Ph.D., said the more the variant deviates from the original sequence used for the vaccine, the less effective the vaccine will be on that variant.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on July 27, issued an update on breakthrough infections, stating they “happen in only a small proportion of people who are fully vaccinated, even with the Delta variant.”
The CDC’s statement, however, stands in contrast to what the director of Israel’s Public Health Services told viewers of the CBS program “Face the Nation” on Sunday — that 50% of new infections reported in Israel are from fully vaccinated people.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Biden, and Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, director of Israel’s Public Health Services, were interviewed during the program.
Israel and the U.S. began administering COVID vaccines in December 2020.
During the interview, Fauci adhered to the CDC’s position — that breakthrough infections are happening only in a small proportion of fully vaccinated people — while Alroy-Preis said Israel is seeing breakthrough infections occurring in 50% of those who test positive for COVID.
Despite mounting evidence COVID vaccine protection is waning over time, Fauci told “Face the Nation”:
“…the predominant message is that if you are vaccinated and you get a breakthrough infection … you’re much, much more protected against getting infected than an unvaccinated [person] who is completely vulnerable.”
A breakthrough case refers to a person who is diagnosed with COVID after being fully vaccinated. A person is considered fully vaccinated 14 days after receiving the second dose of either the Pfizeror Moderna COVID vaccine, or two weeks after receiving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine.
CDC: 3,907 hospitalizations + 750 deaths in people fully vaccinated against COVID with an FDA-authorized vaccine as of June 21.https://t.co/IthNjLnc0G
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 30, 2021
The CDC’s latest breakthrough numbers, as of July 25, show 6,587 fully vaccinated people with COVID breakthrough cases. Of those, 6,239 people were hospitalized and 1,263 people died.
In May, the CDC revised its guidance for reporting breakthrough cases, stating it would count only those cases that result in hospitalization or death. Previously, the agency had included in its breakthrough count anyone who tested positive for COVID.
According to the CDC, the surveillance system for breakthrough cases is passive and relies on voluntary reporting from state health departments, which may not be complete.
In addition, some breakthrough cases will not be identified due to lack of testing. This is particularly true in instances of asymptomatic or mild illness, the CDC said.
NBC News investigated breakthrough cases not reported by CDC
NBC News contacted health agencies in 50 states and the District of Columbia to collect information on breakthrough cases, citing a lack of comprehensive data available from the CDC.
Data collected from 38 states showed more than 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans tested positive for COVID, and 1,400 died.
This conflicts with the CDC’s data published July 26. Research by NBC News indicates the number who have been hospitalized or died passed 7,300 in just 30 states providing data.
The total number of breakthrough cases is likely higher than 125,683, as nine states, including Pennsylvania and Missouri, did not provide information, while 11 states did not provide death and hospitalization totals. Four states gave death and hospitalization numbers, but not total cases.
In addition, vaccinated adults who had breakthrough cases but showed no symptoms could be missing from the data altogether, officials told NBC.
For states like Utah, where full data was published, breakthrough cases accelerated in the past two months. As of June 2, just 27 (8%) of 312 new cases in the state were breakthrough cases. As of July 26, there were 519 new cases and almost 94 cases (20%) were breakthroughs, according to state data.
In Virginia, total breakthrough cases resulting in death from COVID increased from 17 in mid-July to 42 on July 30.
In Oklahoma, breakthrough cases are up by 67%, with incidents of breakthrough greater with J&J’s vaccine than with Moderna.
Delta variant more transmissible, but not more pathogenic than original strain
World Health Organization (WHO) officials said they are still trying to understand why the Delta variant is more transmissible than the original COVID virus strain.
“There are certain mutations in the Delta variant that, for example, allow the virus to adhere to a cell more easily,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’S technical lead on COVID, at a press briefing July 30. “There are some laboratory studies that suggest that there’s increased replication in some of the modeled human airway systems.”
The CDC warned lawmakers July 29 of new research indicating the Delta strain is more contagious than chickenpox. It also appears to have a longer transmission window than the original COVID strain, and may make older people sicker, even if they’ve been fully vaccinated, CNBC reported.
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., Children’s Health Defense chief scientific officer and professor of biology at Simpson University, said while the Delta variant is likely more transmissible, it’s also likely less pathogenic. “What we’re seeing is virus evolution 101,” Hooker said.
Hooker explained:
“Viruses like to survive, so killing the host (i.e. the human who is infected) defeats the purpose because killing the host kills the virus, too.
“For this reason, new variants of viruses that circulate widely through the population tend to become more transmissive but less pathogenic. In other words, they will spread more easily from person to person, but they will cause less damage to the host.”
Hooker said the more the variant deviates from the original sequence used for the vaccine, the less effective the vaccine will be on that variant, which could explain why fully vaccinated people are getting infected with the Delta variant. But this isn’t the case for natural immunity, he explained.
Hooker said:
“The vaccine focuses on the spike protein, whereas natural immunity focuses on the entire virus. Natural immunity — with a more diverse array of antibodies and T-cell receptors — will provide better protection overall as it has more targets in which to attack the virus, whereas vaccine-derived immunity only focuses on one portion of the virus, in this case, the spike protein. Once that portion of the virus has mutated sufficiently, the vaccine no longer is effective.”
As The Defender reported Monday, vaccinated people may play a key role in aiding the evolution of COVID variants.
Scientific Reports research: highest risk for establishing a vaccine-resistant virus strain occurs when large fraction of population has already been vaccinated but transmission is not controlled.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 3, 2021
According to research published last week in Scientific Reports, the highest risk for establishing a vaccine-resistant virus strain occurs when a large fraction of the population has already been vaccinated but the transmission is not controlled.
The data was consistent with a study released July 30, by the CDC which showed vaccinated people may transmit the Delta variant — now responsible for 80% of COVID cases in the U.S. — just as easily as the unvaccinated.
The team of scientists who published the data in Scientific Reports said their findings follow what’s known as selective pressure — the force that drives any organism to evolve.
“Generally, the more people infected, the more the chances for vaccine resistance to emerge,” said Fyodor Kondrashov of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
“So the more Delta is infectious, the more reason for concern,” Kondrashov said. “By having a situation where you vaccinate everybody, a vaccine-resistant mutant actually gains a selective advantage.”
U.S. senator and Kentucky state senator test positive for COVID despite being fully vaccinated
“I started having flu-like symptoms Saturday night and went to the doctor this morning. I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for 10 days.”
Graham’s announcement came amid growing public concern of breakthrough cases.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) warned reporters against sensationalizing the news about Graham, as it would “probably discourage some people at least from getting the vaccine.”
Blunt has been talking to CDC officials about how to make sure reports of fully vaccinated people getting COVID aren’t overshadowed by the fact that it is less likely to result in a severe case.
Kentucky Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr also tested positive for COVID despite being fully vaccinated, she announced on Facebook Monday night.
Forgy Kerr said in the post three other family members who were also fully vaccinated tested positive in the last three weeks as well, The Enquirer reported.
“Please be careful out there,” she wrote. “This Delta variant is a ‘new ballgame’ apparently.”
At least 233 staffers at two major hospitals test positive for COVID, majority vaccinated
At least 233 staffers at two major San Francisco hospitals tested positive for COVID — the majority of whom were fully vaccinated and became infected with the Delta variant.
Between 75% and 80% of the more than 50 staff members infected with COVID at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital were fully vaccinated, Dr. Lukejohn Day, the hospital’s chief medical officer, told The New York Times Saturday.
The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center said in a statement Friday, 153 of its 183 infected staff members had been fully vaccinated. Some of the cases were asymptomatic, but most involved mild to moderate symptoms with two requiring hospitalization, officials said.
Day said the number of staff infections reported in July is almost as many as during the peak of the winter surge. Despite the majority of staffers infected having been vaccinated, Day said without vaccinations the hospitalization rate would be much worse.
Yankee starting pitcher latest player to get COVID
The Yankees’ top starting pitcher tested positive for the virus and will miss his next game, Manager Aaron Boone announced Monday.
“Gerrit will not be pitching tomorrow,” Boone said. “He’s actually tested positive for COVID.”
Twice this season the Yankees have had outbreaks among fully vaccinated members that involved several players or staff, but Monday’s news was limited to Cole.
Boone did not say whether Cole is vaccinated or not. The majority of COVID cases among Yankees players and staff this season have occurred in those who were fully vaccinated, The Times reported.
Following significant backlash, former President Barack Obama has decided at the last minute to curtail plans for a massive 60th birthday celebration.
The party, scheduled to take place Saturday at the Obamas’ oceanside mansion in Martha’s Vineyard, was to include nearly 500 guests and more than 200 staff. But after news broke of the bash over the weekend, critics lambasted the former president for hosting a massive party amid a surge in coronavirus infections.
Now, citing the spread of the Delta variant, the Obamas have decided to scale down the party to include just family and close friends.
According to the New York Times, “the party plans had been months in the making and many invitees had already arrived on Martha’s Vineyard” when Obama belatedly announced news of its cancellation.
“Due to the new spread of the Delta variant over the past week, the president and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends,” the former president’s spokesperson, Hannah Hankins, said in a statement. “President Obama is appreciative of others sending their birthday wishes from afar and looks forward to seeing people soon.”about:blank
Hundreds of former Obama administration officials and Hollywood bigwigs were slated to attend the party before its downsizing. The New York Post reported that George Clooney, Steven Spielberg, and Oprah Winfrey were expected to attend.
Party planners reportedly followed public health guidelines in advance of the celebration. The bash was to be held outside at the property and the Obamas had asked guests to be vaccinated. There was even slated to be a “COVID coordinator” on the premises to ensure protocols were followed.
But as the Delta variant has surged in recent weeks, public health experts responded by reversing masking guidance for vaccinated individuals and warning against large gatherings. All of a sudden, the public image of a massive party filled with celebrities, Democratic donors, and left-wing politicos didn’t look so good.
“They’ve been concerned about the virus from the beginning, asking invited guests if they had been vaccinated, requesting that they get a test proximate to the event,” David Axelrod, a former top Obama adviser, said, according to the Times. “But when this was planned, the situation was quite different. So they responded to the changing circumstances.”
The Obamas and their allies have maintained that the party plans were altered over health concerns. Though it should be noted that plans didn’t officially change until after the public backlash.
“There is no science to defend putting your kids in masks or parents wearing masks—no science whatsoever.”
Senator Rand Paul denounced “stupid” comments made on CNN by National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins, after the direct underling of Anthony Fauci declared that parents with children under the age of 12 should wear face masks INSIDE their own homes.
Appearing on Fox News, an exasperated Paul urged “How can people who are so smart say such stupid things?”
Watch:
“There is no science to defend putting your kids in masks or parents wearing masks—no science whatsoever,” Paul emphasised, adding “If there were, we would be wearing masks for years and years because for kids, the death rate is about the same as the seasonal flu. It may be less than the seasonal flu.”
The Senator continued, “So, is Francis Collins proposing that because the flu is with us forever that parents should be wearing masks around their kids that have the flu? It is absolutely and utterly without scientific evidence!”
Going on to speak regarding the government fear mongering over the Delta (or Indian) variant of the virus, Paul said “Now, they’re all freaking out right now about the Delta variant. One thing is—in all likelihood true—it is more transmissible, significantly more transmissible, but guess what? Every bit of evidence shows that it’s less deadly—significantly less deadly.”
“Public Health England looked at 92,000 people. If you were vaccinated and under 50, there were no deaths. If you were unvaccinated and under 50, .08%—still very, very small. So, it’s not an argument for not getting vaccinated. It’s an argument for not getting hysterical over the Delta variant,” Paul further urged.
He continued “We shouldn’t be changing any mandates and really, in all likelihood, the masks didn’t affect the trajectory of the virus at all.”
Paul, a qualified physician, further explained “The only thing that’s slowing the virus down is the vaccine and natural immunity and they continue to ignore natural immunity because they think we are too far behind.”
“We got to vaccinate the children but, in reality I think it’s 90% of people over 65 have been vaccinated. That’s extraordinary. We should be celebrating,” Paul concluded.
Following the interview, Paul tweeted out a report noting that the FDA has approved the use of COVID-19 antibody therapy, meaning Monoclonal antibodies can be given to elderly spouses or family members who live with someone who has COVID 19.
Hooray for REAL Science!
Amazing good news (you are unlikely to hear from govt fear mongers)
Monoclonal antibodies can be given to elderly spouses or family members who live with someone who has COVID 19https://t.co/AklBZtxxQj
Paul also reacted to being censored by YouTube after an interview he did with Newsmax on the lack of efficacy of cloth face masks was removed purely because it contradicts what the government says about masks.
Censorship by YouTube is very dangerous as it stifles debate and promotes groupthink where the “truth” is defined by people with a political agenda. If you want uncensored news, go to https://t.co/AnJ7AheLaU. https://t.co/VBAYnRBB3A
YouTube may be a private entity, but they're acting like an arm of the government censoring those who present an alternative view to the science deniers in Washington. https://t.co/ZJZokEuNew
American Olympic wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock heaped praise on the United States and expressed her gratitude to God after she won her first gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics.
Mensah-Stock, 28, made history Tuesday when she became only the second woman — and the first black woman — to win an Olympic wrestling gold medal for Team USA in the women’s 68-kilogram freestyle final, according to NPR.
“I love representing the U.S.,” says American Olympian Tamyra Mensah-Stock, after winning gold for @USAWrestling in Tokyo. “I love living there. I love it. And I’m so happy I get to represent USA!”
Mensah-Stock bested Nigerian wrestler Blessing Oborududu 4-1 after seizing two takedowns in the first period. Neither woman scored a point in the second period.
“Of course I surprise myself,” a jubilant Mensah-Stock told reporters after the victory. “It’s by the grace of God I’m even able to move my feet. I just leave it in His hands and I pray that all the practice … my coaches put my through pays off and, every single time, it does.”
“I get better and better,” she continued, “and it’s so weird that there is no cap to the limit that I can do. I’m excited to see what I have next.”
Noticing the American flag draped over Mensah-Stock’s shoulders, one reporter asked the gold medalist how it feels to represent her country.
The athlete — clearly honored to carry the American flag — said it feels “amazing” to represent the United States.
“It feels amazing,” she said. “I love representing the U.S. I … love living here. I love it. And I’m so happy I get to represent USA!”
As she walked away, Mensah-Stock said she would try not to cry when she stood on the podium to receive her gold medal.
Johnson Speculates FBI Knew of January 6 Plans and Did Nothing
Video has surfaced of Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) speculating that the FBI might have known about plans for unrest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and allowed those events to happen. Johnson reportedly made the comments about January 6 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a Milwaukee suburb, during a June GOP event.
The video was captured by Bridget Kurt, a 49-year-old hospice worker from Atlanta who was in Wisconsin visiting family. Kurt has referred to herself as a “lifelong Republican” who wanted to question the senator about his views on COVID-19 and to persuade Johnson to encourage people to receive the experimental vaccines currently being offered.
The video shows Johnson talking to a group of citizens, one of whom claimed to be a former employee of the CIA, about events surrounding the January 6 unrest at the Capitol.
“I don’t say this publicly, but are you watching what’s happening in Michigan?” Johnson said. “So you think the FBI had fully infiltrated the militias in Michigan, but they don’t know squat about what was happening on January 6 or what was happening with these groups? I’d say there is way more to the story.”
Johnson was clearly speculating that the FBI, whose agents allegedly infiltrated right-wing militia groups and foiled a kidnapping plot aimed at MIchigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) in 2020, would likely have known about any plot to attack the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Johnson went on to say that the vast majority of protesters on January 6 were of the peaceful variety. “By and large, the folks were peaceful protesters that wouldn’t even consider breaking the law,” Johnson said.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has testified that the Bureau received information about a possible “war” in Washington on January 6 a day earlier, on January 5, and passed that intelligence on to the Capitol Police and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.
The Wisconsin senator also blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee, which is reportedly investigating the January 6 unrest, calling the probe a “sham.” Johnson also had harsh words for Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, two Republicans who are enabling the committee.
“I’m sorry, the Adam Kinzingers and Liz Cheneys, they’re trying to paint with the same broad brush that the media and the Democrats want — all those people are potentially domestic terrorists,” Johnson said.
The senator accused Cheney and Kinzinger, along with House Democrats, of attempting to paint all Trump voters as “domestic terrorists.”
“That’s what they’re trying to do,” Johnson said. “That’s what the press wants to do. And so you join the Liz Cheney project and then you are painting 75 million Americans who voted for Trump as attached with domestic terrorists — that’s the narrative. I’m just pushing back on the narrative because that’s not true.”
Johnson made clear that he condemned the violence that occurred on January 6. “I’ve said that repeatedly and strongly.”
In a statement to the Washington Post, which broke the story on Tuesday, Johnson’s office did not back down from the senator’s remarks but called on the FBI to be more forthcoming about what they knew and when they knew it.
“The revelation of the depth of the FBI’s involvement in the Governor Whitmer plot raises questions as to whether it had infiltrated Jan. 6 agitator groups as well,” said Johnson spokesperson Alexa Henning. “The senator continues to call on the FBI and [Department of Justice] to be transparent. To date, they have not been.”
Ron Johnson is clearly a target of the mainstream media. The senator was an ally of former president Donald Trump. He has been working to get out the full story on the experimental vaccines that the media has been working overtime to cover up.
Even the creator of the video, Bridget Kurt, was attempting to get Johnson to push the experimental vaccines onto the public — a request that he denied in the video.
“I’m not going to do that. I don’t encourage or discourage,” Johnson told Kurt in the video.
Johnson is inconvenient to the narrative being invented and pushed by the Left. So, like clockwork, a media hit piece against Johnson appeared because he had the temerity to insinuate that the FBI knew more about potential unrest at the Capitol on January 6 than they’re letting on.