Had enough yet

[mark blazejewski]

Have the Socialist/Communist/Globalist Revolutionaries won?

I have supported Trump and continue to support him, so I hope that this is not the first step in making receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory...

Trump says he's mobilizing military to distribute potential coronavirus vaccine

Reference: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4...avirus-vaccine

For me, that would be a support bridge way too far.

[Lee Chowaniec]

US travel bans came too late for New York City, CDC study finds

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...?ocid=msedgdhp

As expected, Trump is once again is CNN's target, solely blamed for mishandling the origin of Covid-19, the spread and extent of the virus and the country’s economical decline.

The Trapper video is well worth watching as the message appears to be that after seven months there has been much learned, but much yet not understood,

What I found interesting is that with all the testing taking place, the number of confirmed cases reported, there is little said about the declining death ratio.

A few weeks ago the number of confirmed U.S. cases was reported at 2,916,842. Reported deaths 131,897; fatality ratio 4.92%

Here it is reported that there are 3,497,000 conformed cases and 137,000 deaths – a 3.91% fatality ratio. In the interim of a few weeks, 580,258 confirmed cases were reported and 580 deaths – 0.88% fatality rate.

I find it rather disingenuous to declare the government is completely lacking in leadership and inept in engaging and containing the pandemic until such time until a vaccine comes along – and even then, the beast will not be dead.

Speaking of vaccine, Trump declares the discovery of a vaccine is near and he is ridiculed. Dr. Fauci declares the same a few days later and he is found credible and venerated. Ah, BS politics and the blame game!

[Lee Chowaniec]

What to believe in the media

We again are being led to believe that along with the surging reported coronavirus cases the fatality rate is rising as well – global and within the U.S. Yet the data shows otherwise regarding fatality to case ratio.

The updated Covid-19 data shows the following change taking place within this past week:

Global

Today

14,210,040 cases
600,435 fatalities
4.7% death ratio

Several Day Ago

11,304,534
531,659 fatalities
4.7% death ratio

2,905,506 confirmed case increase
68,776 increase in deaths
2.36% death ratio

U.S.

Today

3,781,985 confirmed cases
142,229 – fatalities
3.76% - death ratio

Several Days Ago

3,497,000 – confirmed cases
137,000 – fatalities
3.91% death ratio

284,985 – confirmed case increase
5,229 – increase in deaths
1.83% death ratio

Numbers don’t match up to the mainstream media narrative of the significant rise in deaths. Then again, what can one believe one reads in the media anymore. News is not being reported, it is being manufactured / manipulated to meet an agenda.

One death is a tragedy, but do we shut down the world until a vaccine is discovered and proven effective? Could the world ever recover from the collateral damage?

[Lee Chowaniec]

Time to deliver

https://buffalonews.com/opinion/edit...72c152899.html

They’re called SLAPPs, and they’re an infringement on Americans’ rights to free speech. For years, critics have pushed Albany to fix this problem, only to be stymied in the State Senate. This year, it may finally happen. New Yorkers of all political stripes should be enthusiastically in favor of this legislation.

SLAPP is an acronym for “strategic lawsuits against public participation.” They have been used by monied interests such as developers, businesses and even government agencies to discourage citizens from speaking out on public issues.

Fundamentally, they are nuisance suits meant to intimidate critics from practicing their First Amendment right to free speech. In that, they can be effective, given the legal costs simply to have a lawsuit dismissed.

For reasons that are unclear, the effort to broaden New York’s anti-SLAPP legislation has routinely died in the Senate, which, until January 2019, was in Republican control. Maybe it was just coincidence – a lot of legislation never makes it to the governor’s desk – but it’s odd, given the party’s conservative stance on government and the Constitution.

A much-needed piece of legislation. Why the delay when Senate Democrats have been in control since January 2019?

Same can be said for the Condominium Law 339-y bill passed by the Democratic Assembly and for promised approval by the Senate when it became Democratic Party controlled. Time to deliver on those promises.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Trump: Dead man walking

CNN Poll of Polls: Biden maintains double-digit lead over Trump nationally, with coronavirus a top issue

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/polit...rus/index.html

Then again, maybe not!

Beware the Biden-Sanders radical lefty manifesto: Devine

https://nypost.com/2020/07/19/beware...ifesto-devine/

Either way: We are so screwed

[mark blazejewski]

Are Americans now totally absorbed in Orwellian "Doublethink"?...

Missouri AG calls felony charges against armed Missouri homeowners 'a political prosecution'

Reference: https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-...al-prosecution

[Lee Chowaniec]

Most meaningful Covid report I have read yet

How Deadly Is Covid-19? Researchers Are Getting Closer to an Answer

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...?ocid=msedgdhp

Six months into the pandemic, researchers are homing in on an answer to one of the basic questions about the virus: How deadly is it?

That research—examining deaths out of the total number of infections, which includes unreported cases—suggests that Covid-19 kills from around 0.3% to 1.5% of people infected. Most studies put the rate between 0.5% and 1.0%, meaning that for every 1,000 people who get infected, from five to 10 would die on average.

“It’s not just what the infection-fatality rate is. It’s also how contagious the disease is, and Covid is very contagious,” said Eric Toner, an emergency medicine physician and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who studies health-care preparedness for epidemics and infectious diseases. “It’s the combination of the fatality rate and the infectiousness that makes this such a dangerous disease.”

[mark blazejewski]

Most meaningful Covid report I have read yet

How Deadly Is Covid-19? Researchers Are Getting Closer to an Answer

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...?ocid=msedgdhp

Six months into the pandemic, researchers are homing in on an answer to one of the basic questions about the virus: How deadly is it?

That research—examining deaths out of the total number of infections, which includes unreported cases—suggests that Covid-19 kills from around 0.3% to 1.5% of people infected. Most studies put the rate between 0.5% and 1.0%, meaning that for every 1,000 people who get infected, from five to 10 would die on average.

“It’s not just what the infection-fatality rate is. It’s also how contagious the disease is, and Covid is very contagious,” said Eric Toner, an emergency medicine physician and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who studies health-care preparedness for epidemics and infectious diseases. “It’s the combination of the fatality rate and the infectiousness that makes this such a dangerous disease.”

Thank you for posting this Mr. C.

To be sure, these statistical facts are truly an antidote for the panic porn.

[Lee Chowaniec]

President Biden’s First Day
David Brooks – New York Times

The first thing you’ll notice is the quiet. If Joe Biden wins this thing, there will be no disgraceful presidential tweets and no furious cable segments reacting to them on Inauguration Day.

Donald Trump himself may fume, but hated and alone. The opportunists who make up his administration will abandon him. Republicans will pretend they never heard his name. Republican politicians are not going to hang around a guy they privately hate and who publicly destroyed their majority.
But there will be a larger quiet, too. For two decades American politics has centered on a bitter culture war between the white working-class heartland and university-bred coastal elites.

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were all emblems of this university class, and it was easy for the Republican media wing to gin up resentment against them. In 2016, Trump beat Clinton among the white working class by a crushing 28 points.

But Biden is not an emblem of this coastal elite. His sensibility was nurtured by his working-class family during the postwar industrial boom of the 1950s and 1960s. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and missed the late 1960s culture war that divided a generation.

It’s very hard for conservatives to demonize Biden because he comes from the sort of background that Trumpian conservatives celebrate. He elides all the culture war divides. He doesn’t act superior to the “deplorables,” because his family taught him to despise status games of all sorts.

It will become immediately clear that in a Biden era politics will shrink back down to normal size. It will be about government programs, not epic wars about why my sort of people are morally superior to your sort of people. In the Trump era a lot of people who don’t care about government got manic about politics.

It will also become immediately clear that in a highly ideological age, America will be led by a man who is not ideological.

This week a few of us columnist types spoke with Biden about his economic plans. His most telling sentence was, “I’ve kind of tried to shed the labels and focus on the nuts and bolts of this.”

I asked him to describe the big forces that have flattened working-class wages over the past decades. Other people would have spun grand theories about broken capitalism or the rise of the corporate oligarchy. But Biden pointed to two institutional failures — the way Republicans have decentralized power and broken Washington and the way Wall Street forces business leaders to focus obsessively on the short term.

Biden’s worldview seems to come mainly from lived experience, not a manifesto somewhere. He has lived experience of a time when there were good manufacturing jobs, when unions protected workers, when the less affluent had a ladder to climb.

His economic agenda, promoted under the slogan “Build Back Better,” is about that, not some vast effort to remake capitalism or build a Nordic-style welfare system. The agenda is more New Deal than New Left.

In the two speeches he has delivered so far there are constant references to our manufacturing base — infrastructure, steelworkers, engineers, ironworkers, welders, 500,000 charging stations for electric cars. “When I think of climate change, the word I think of is jobs,” he declared.

The agenda pushes enormous resources toward two groups: first, African-Americans, who have been pummeled by deindustrialization for decades; and second, white working-class Trump voters. This looks like an attempt to rebuild the New Deal coalition and win back the white working class who should be a core of the Democratic base. Biden’s populist “Buy American” messaging is just icing on that cake.

Can he pull off this manufacturing revival and this political realignment?

I’ll be curious to see if it’s possible to create millions of manufacturing jobs — or if technology means there’s only a need for relatively few workers. I’ll be curious to see if he can tamp down the Democratic media and activist wings, with their penchant for wildly unpopular moral gestures like “defund the police” and “decriminalize the border.”

I wonder if the economic crisis will obviate all this. With mass unemployment the need will be to get money out the door immediately on Day 1. Launching infrastructure projects and clean energy industries takes a lot of time.

But I do know that if he can win a chunk of the white working class (44 percent of the electorate, according to Ruy Teixeira), he will realign American politics. I also know that from that first day the Biden agenda will put the surviving Republicans in Congress in an awful bind. Do they cooperate and work with Biden’s infrastructure and manufacturing plans? If they oppose him they give him a clear shot to win their voters while also inviting him to end the filibuster.

Everybody says Biden is a moderate, and in intellectual and temperamental terms that is true. But he has found a way to craft an agenda that could reshape the American economy and the landscape of American politics in fundamental ways.

Joe Biden may turn out to be what radical centrism looks like.

No manifesto? (Biden’s worldview seems to come mainly from lived experience, not a manifesto somewhere.). Radical centrist? Not n ideologist?

https://nypost.com/2020/07/19/beware...ifesto-devine/

Joe Biden signed the death warrant for his campaign last week, even if he doesn’t know it. The joint manifesto he released with Bernie Sanders is 110 pages of radical far-left policies — from a job-killing $2 trillion climate agenda to eliminating cash bail and dismantling border protection.


Don't you just love politics?

[mark blazejewski]

President Biden’s First Day
David Brooks – New York Times

Don't you just love politics?

Ah yes, The New York Times' token "conservative" columnist.

Whenever I read David Brooks, why is it that this clock, an iconic display at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, comes into my mind?

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[mark blazejewski]

Trump Is Opposed By "The Swamp," Which Really Has No Political Label...

Matt Gaetz
@mattgaetz

20h
Liz Cheney has worked behind the scenes (and now in public) against
@realDonaldTrump
and his agenda.

House Republicans deserve better as our Conference Chair.

Liz Cheney should step down or be removed.

#MAGA

[mark blazejewski]

This is how the Left says "Thank you for your service."...

Black Marine Corps vet holds US flag high amid riots in Portland; gets trailed home by Antifa

Reference: https://www.lawofficer.com/black-mar...ome-by-antifa/

[Lee Chowaniec]

The coronavirus is scary enough. It is out of control and even though it originated in China and its spread and deadly impact was initially concealed by China and WHO, Nancy Pelosi has named it Trump’s virus and blames him for being unable to control its spread and resulting deaths.

As sinister as the coronavirus, there is another virus that appears to be taking control of America. It is a movement that very well resembles former Marist / Communist policies / Manifestos.

The concept to identify, divide and control the narrative is underway not only by the protesters practicing violence, but unfortunately by the radical political left and their supporting media outlets for political gain.

Under the names of social justice, identity politics, culture war, etc., anarchy, riots, violence and property destruction are taking place under mob rule. Those involved in the mob even openly attest to being Marxist trained.

The primary function of federal, state, or local government is to protect its law-abiding citizens – to protect them from harm. Pelosi today labeled federal enforcement officers committed to rebuffing violent mob rule as ‘stormtroopers’. They are also being labeled as Gestapo. Governors and Mayors of crime beleaguered cities either openly support the violent protests or turn a blind eye to stopping the mayhem.

We know where Trump stands on this but have yet to hear from Biden. If he does condone the chaos, is he the ‘moderate’ he portends to be. He likewise signed a ‘manifesto’ with the radical left party wonks.

I am old, and on the way out, but do have apathy for those who know the value of learning and appreciating history for the lessons it teaches us. What the hell are some of these people thinking today.

The tail is wagging the dog. No longer is there rule of law as we once knew it.

We are so screwed!

[mark blazejewski]

With all of the propagandized demonetization contained therein, this...

... Nancy Pelosi has named it Trump’s virus and blames him for being unable to control its spread and resulting deaths...

...strongly supports this...

As sinister as the coronavirus, there is another virus that appears to be taking control of America. It is a movement that very well resembles former Marist / Communist policies / Manifestos.

The concept to identify, divide and control the narrative is underway not only by the protesters practicing violence, but unfortunately by the radical political left and their supporting media outlets for political gain.

Under the names of social justice, identity politics, culture war, etc., anarchy, riots, violence and property destruction are taking place under mob rule. Those involved in the mob even openly attest to being Marxist trained.

I now respond to your comments...

The primary function of federal, state, or local government is to protect its law-abiding citizens – to protect them from harm. Pelosi today labeled federal enforcement officers committed to rebuffing violent mob rule as ‘stormtroopers’. They are also being labeled as Gestapo. Governors and Mayors of crime beleaguered cities either openly support the violent protests or turn a blind eye to stopping the mayhem.

That was a brilliant observation Lee.



For decades, the Left has looked to the federal courts and to Democrat Presidents to win support for positions which simply were unattainable from the ballot box.

Now, when a Republican President asserts Presidential authority in contradiction of its political agenda, the Left's hypocrisy shines brilliantly.

I offer some questions and comments, not entirely attendant, but IMHO, pertinent to, some of your observations and concerns:

Why is it that I did not hear any substantial protestations from the Left concerning Obama policies on illegal immigrants?

Perhaps because it was the policy of a far Left President?

Moreover, I do not recall the murderous Left complain when the federal courts supported their abortion agenda.

Why is that?

Nah, IMHO, the Left loves the growth of the federal government, the broad assertion of its executive and judicial power, and fully embraces the 10th Amendment, only when it suits their causes. But, when a conservative President or a court applies the exact same assertions of federal power, the Left goes batshlt crazy.

Why is that?

Why was it acceptable to the Left for the federal government to in my opinion, properly prosecute the murderers McVeigh and Nicholas in connection with the bombing of the Murrah Federal Office Building in 1995 under a Democrat President, yet when a Republican President tasks federal assets to defend the Hatfield Federal Office Building in Portland, are those same federal law enforcement personnel styled as "stormtroopers?"

(Does the buffoon Pelosi even know what a "stormtrooper" was?)

So many contradictions by the Left, and so much hypocrisy.

Also, bearing in mind that in 1963, there existed no federal statute concerning Presidential assassination, why did the Left and the media remain, and for the most part continues to remain, silent when federal authorities, in direct violation of Texas law, illegally removed the body of President Kennedy from Dallas without the legally-prescribed autopsy?

Reference: https://law.jrank.org/pages/541/Assa...ation-law.html

Reference: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1751


Ah, those pesky contradictions resident in America's historic past, eh?

It seems to me, that for all of its heretofore "passion" about the virtues of a big federal government, the Democrat Party is reverting back to its historic "States Rights" roots; the poisonous vines that nurtured the first Civil War.

See how quick the Left changes if the imbecile Biden is elected, do ya think?

[mark blazejewski]

What the hell are some of these people thinking today.

With reliance on their previously learned indoctrination taken from high school and university classrooms, many appear to be more than willing to lazily accept "The Big Lie" promulgated by a propagandized media, rather than critically assess developments based upon independent study and the indisputable images visible to their own myopic eyes, just my opinion of course.