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COVID-19 ORIGINS: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab.

Vanity Fair and ProPublica downloaded more than 500 documents from the WIV website, including party branch dispatches from 2017 to the present. To assess Reid’s interpretation, we sent key documents to experts on CCP communications. They told us that the WIV dispatches did indeed signal that the institute faced an acute safety emergency in November 2019; that officials at the highest levels of the Chinese government weighed in; and that urgent action was taken in an effort to address ongoing safety issues. The documents do not make clear who was responsible for the crisis, which laboratory it affected specifically or what the exact nature of the biosafety emergency was.

The interim report also raises questions about how quickly vaccines were developed in China by some teams, including one led by a military virologist named Zhou Yusen. The report called it “unusual” that two military COVID-19 vaccine development teams were able to reach early milestones even faster than the major drug companies who were part of the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed program.

Vanity Fair and ProPublica spoke to experts who said that the timeline of Zhou’s vaccine development seemed unrealistic, if not impossible. Two of the three experts said it strongly suggested that his team must have had access to the genomic sequence of the virus no later than in November 2019, weeks before China’s official recognition that the virus was circulating.

The authors of the interim report do not claim to have definitively solved the mystery of COVID-19’s origin. “The lack of transparency from government and public health officials in the [People’s Republic of China] with respect to the origins of SARS-CoV-2 prevents reaching a more definitive conclusion,” the report says, adding that its conclusion could change if more independently verifiable information becomes available.

Throughout the pandemic, the WIV has largely remained a black box, owing to the Chinese government’s refusal to cooperate with international probes. By mining the WIV’s own records, Toy Reid and Senate researchers unearthed new clues that support the interim report’s assessment that a lab accident was “most likely” responsible for the pandemic.

More on that “Acute Safety Emergency in November 2019” from Jim Geraghty:

Separately, ProPublica and Vanity Fair question how Yusen Zhou could have applied for a patent for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on February 24, 2020. Yusen Zhou is the director of the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, in Beijing. The top experts in vaccine development conclude that it is impossible to start from scratch and have a vaccine ready in three months. A South China Morning News report said that the Chinese government traced the first case of Covid-19 back to November 17, but other reports said that Chinese doctors only came to realize that they were dealing with a new and serious virus in late December; the first public statement about a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause” from Chinese health authorities was dated to December 21, 2019. Yet the evidence suggests that the Chinese military and medical authorities would’ve had to have started the research on their vaccine before the first cases emerged:

Vanity Fair and ProPublica consulted two independent experts and one expert adviser to the interim report to get their assessment of when Zhou’s research was likely to have begun. Two of the three said that he had to have started no later than November 2019, in order to complete the mouse research spelled out in his patent and subsequent papers.

Larry Kerr, who advised on the interim report, called the timeline laid out in Zhou’s patent and research papers “scientifically, technically not possible.” He added, “I don’t think any molecular biology lab in the world, no matter how sophisticated, could pull that off.”

Rick Bright, the former HHS official who helped oversee vaccine development for the U.S. government, told Vanity Fair and ProPublica that even a four-month timetable would be “aggressive,” especially when the virus in question is new. “Things aren’t usually that perfect,” he said.

You wanted a smoking gun? I smell smoke, and that gun barrel feels awfully warm.

As David Strom of Hot Air adds: The COVID coverup begins to unravel. “It was remarkable how quickly the Narrative settled on the zoonotic origin of the virus, since warning signs that the virus didn’t originate naturally were everywhere. Even scientists who confidently declared in private their belief that the virus was engineered publicly stated the opposite–after having been directed to by Anthony Fauci, the keeper of the keys to the kingdom’s treasury when it comes to research dollars. Fauci in recent months has been backtracking on whether or not the virus could have been engineered, but he sure expended enormous effort maintaining the fiction that an animal origin was certain. There is a simple reason for Fauci’s reluctance to consider a lab leak hypothesis–if it came from the Wuhan Institute for Virology, the US government likely funded the research. Obviously nobody wants that on their record, and Fauci has quite the pension to protect, as well as an unearned reputation as The Science.”

OH MY: Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW. Dow goes nuclear: chemical firm will install reactors at US chemicals complex.

And so planet-friendly. Yay, Dow!

TEXAS: More Harris County Graft To Democrats Uncovered. “Remember of three of Lina Hidalgo’s aides were indicted on corruption charges involving funneling Flu Manchu funding to a Democratic Party-linked political firm? Well, there’s more.”

OF COURSE: PayPal Has Reinstated Its $2,500 Fine for ‘misinformation.’

Secretary of State's office says dozens of ballots may be re-issued.

"We urge you to pair the military and economic support the United States has provided to Ukraine with a proactive diplomatic push."

STUPID HUMAN TRICKS: Man uses gas generator in electric vehicle to drive 1,800 miles. “While Mikka made the 1,800-mile trip without plugging in at an electric vehicle charging station, he had to stop to allow the Tesla to charge on the side of the road. Mikka also said he had to drive at slower speeds in order to have enough energy to keep the Tesla charged. That, however, was the cause for him being pulled over.”

New York City almost immediately appealed the judge's order.

Earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed was asked in an interview about her pledge to crack down on the crime, drugs and lawlessness that have plagued her city for the last several years. In her response to the question, Breed asked in exasperation, “Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work every day and take their children to school?”

The line received some applause. Asked to elaborate, the mayor said this:

Let’s talk about the reality of this situation. There are, unfortunately, a lot of people who come from a particular country—come from Honduras—and a lot of the people who are dealing drugs happen to be of that ethnicity. And when a lot of the arrests have been made, for people breaking the law, you have the Public Defender’s office and staff from the Public Defender’s office, who are basically accusing and using the law to say, ‘You’re racially—you’re racial profiling. You’re racial profiling.’ Right? And it’s nothing ‘racial profile’ about this. We all know it. It’s the reality. It’s what you see. It’s what’s out there.

Breed’s comments did not go unnoticed. Soon after, the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club put out a statement condemning her “racist and xenophobic comments.” The club described her remarks as “appalling” and demanded an apology.

That apology was, unfortunately, forthcoming. 

“In trying to explain what is happening in the Tenderloin,” Mayor Breed wrote last week, “I failed to accurately and comprehensively discuss what is an incredibly complex situation in our City and in Central America.” Breed described San Francisco’s drug dealers as “people of all races, ethnicities, and genders.”

The mayor shouldn’t have said anything of the sort. She said nothing offensive or inaccurate in her original comments. In fact, it’s her critics who are being dishonest about what’s happening in the open-air drug market of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District and who are doing a disservice to the poor, immigrant communities on whose behalf they claim to speak. And by conflating professional drug dealers with regular immigrant families, it is they who are being xenophobic and racist.

In its story about Mayor Breed’s apology, the Los Angeles Times took the opportunity to further smear the mayor, who is black, with the allegation of racism. The article quotes Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, who heads a local non-profit advocacy group for Central American refugees, comparing Mayor Breed to L.A. City Councilmember Nury Martinez (who recently drew national attention for making disparaging remarks about blacks and other people) and, for good measure, Donald Trump. Dugan-Cuadra goes on to repeat precisely the disinformation about San Francisco drug dealers that Breed was trying to correct in her initial interview: “I think any young person with migratory status whose only option to survive is existing in an underground economy is a reflection of our society,” Dugan-Cuadra told the Times. “Young people should have more opportunities to fulfill their dreams, and shouldn’t be excluded and criminalized.”

This is a line that’s parroted quite a bit in San Francisco politics. The former District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, who was recalled last summer, said much the same thing. So did San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, who, in a recent press release, described drug dealers as “individuals struggling with substance use disorders or trapped in an exploitative drug trade.”

Raju has used this sentimental characterization of San Francisco’s drug dealers to cast cops who try to enforce the city’s drug laws as bigots. Last March, in a motion in San Francisco Superior Court, Raju accused a police officer of racial discrimination against Latinos in his arrests. According to the motion, over a two-year period, Sergeant Daniel Solorzano arrested 53 people for drug sales, all of whom were Latino. He declined to arrest 43 others, all but two of whom were non-Latino. This, the public defender alleges, demonstrates that Solorzano, who is of Mexican and Nicaraguan heritage and whose first language is Spanish, is prejudiced against Latinos.

But there’s another explanation for why everyone Solorzano arrested was Latino, which is precisely what Mayor Breed was trying to explain: The professional drug dealers who work in the Tenderloin and the adjacent SoMa neighborhood are all Honduran nationals. This is because Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, which does not practice Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in its hiring practices, recruits the dealers from Honduras and smuggles them into the United States. So, if you arrest any number of these dealers, they’re all going to be Latino. This is not “racial profiling.” This is just a fact.

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I live in Oakland and report on the San Francisco drug trade. As every one of the cops, prosecutors, social workers, recovering addicts, homeless people, relatives of addicts and others I’ve interviewed could tell you, the Honduran dealers, who, on the street, are called “the Hondos,” are not people “whose only option to survive is existing in an underground economy,” as Dugan-Cuadra put it, or who would work as dishwashers if only given the chance.

These are young men who easily clear $1,000 a day in profits, according to a former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney, a current ADA, and two former Tenderloin street addicts I’ve spoken to. Nor are they addicts trying to support their habit. In fact, as former street addict Tom Wolf told me, if dealers develop a drug addiction, the cartel is liable to cut them off, because addicted dealers are bad for business.

These are also people who are capable of violence. They’re known to carry guns and machetes, and to threaten users who owe them money. Jacqui Berlinn told me that her son, Corey, an addict in the Tenderloin, was attacked by a drug dealer with a machete and hospitalized from his injuries. Another mother, Gina McDonald, told me that her daughter, a recovering addict, was threatened by her dealer with a knife over $100.  These dealers are not victims of society. They’re victimizers.

But in San Francisco, none of this matters if someone calls you a “racist.” It’s a trump card Mano Raju plays frequently to protect not only his drug dealer clients, but the entire Sinaloa drug dealing operation in downtown San Francisco.

It’s the public defender’s job to represent drug dealers, and to do so zealously. But in San Francisco, the office has gone far beyond that. Raju, who has declined to allow me to interview him, has pursued legal strategies aimed not just at defending individual dealers but at preventing the city from disrupting the drug trade at large. His motion accusing Daniel Solorzano of racism, which, if upheld, could lead to serious discipline including termination, was an unsubtle warning to police officers who are motivated to do their jobs. 

Recently, Raju gloated over the city’s decision to abandon its effort to impose stay-away orders on 28 known drug dealers in the Tenderloin, a move that was fought by his office and the ACLU. These stay-away orders would have prevented these dealers from peddling deadly poison that kills close to two people a day in San Francisco, and the dealers wouldn’t have had to go to jail. They wouldn't even have been on house arrest. Even though they’re undocumented, under the orders, they could have gotten jobs and lived normal lives. The only thing they couldn’t have done is hang out in the Tenderloin without advance permission from the court. Considering the dealers all live across the Bay in Oakland, that’s hardly a major inconvenience.

But the public defender, along with the ACLU, regarded this as the height of “criminalization” of “Latinx community members.” Again, there’s that same accusation: racism.

Does Mano Raju really believe that “Latinx community members” in San Francisco want him to protect Honduran drug dealers in the name of racial justice for Latinos? There are many Latino immigrant families in the Tenderloin, alongside Vietnamese families, Yemeni families, and families of myriad other nationalities and ethnic groups. They all face the same problem: Every time they walk out on the street, they have to shield their kids from people smoking meth and shooting heroin, and from groups of drug dealers with backpacks full of drugs and weapons. They face the ever-present threat of random violence, which is common in the neighborhood. 

These regular, working class people want normal lives. But the drug market, which the public defender fights so hard to keep open, makes that impossible.

The most racially offensive thing I come across in my reporting on this subject is this casual equivalence between professional drug dealers and working class Latinos. When Mayor Breed asked that question—“Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work every day and take their children to school?”—she was specifically making a distinction between the two. The public defender and his allies, on the other hand, take every opportunity to obscure this difference in order to cast any attack on drug dealers as an attack on the very people whose existence the drug dealers make into a daily walk through hell. It’s deeply cynical and, yes, racist. 

The apology Mayor Breed’s critics extracted from her was not for her “racism.” They were upset because she told the unvarnished truth. We live in a time when public debates are won not through empirical arguments, but through ideological brow-beating and moral scolding. That’s the only way to win when the facts aren’t on your side.

If you want to read more about San Francisco’s public policies regarding drug use and homelessness, don’t miss this story by Michael Shellenberger.

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THE PROSPECT OF AN ELECTION IN NOVEMBER CONCENTRATES A MAN’S MIND WONDERFULLY: Portland’s Democratic mayor finally bans the SEVEN HUNDRED unsanctioned homeless camps that have turned the once-trendy city into a ‘vortex of misery.’

A FRIEND COMMENTED THAT ONCE SUNAK IS PM, BRITISH LEFTISTS WILL CONSIDER SOUTH ASIANS “WHITE.” And, right on cue: Richer than the royals: Win puts Rishi Sunak’s wealth in the spotlight.

I watched the final game last night and I know you Phillies fans are excited.

GOOD POINTS:

Just as Canada's "free press" has largely stopped reporting people "dying suddenly" (unless they're famous), Alberta's "health service" is now erasing ER records of the "vaccine"-injured.

Read this about this discovery in a recent article by Mark Crispin Miller:

Not only were the hospital records erased for multiple patients (which was bad enough), but when the doctor went to complain about it to the public health authority, Alberta Health Services, they turned around and are now disciplining the doctor!

If it was just an innocent mistake, it would have been publicly acknowledged, corrected, and the physician would be rewarded for finding the problem.

We are living in a new world here. This is why when doctors see something, they say nothing.

T-shirt business opportunity?

Perhaps we should have a t-shirt we could sell to healthcare workers emblazoned with: “See something? Say nothing!” What do you think?

Some very good news

Fortunately, the new Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith, seems to be aware of what is going on.

From the article:

Smith also said Albertans should expect rapid changes to who is managing health care in the province.

She will replace Alberta's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, and recruit a new team of advisers in public health that consider COVID-19 to be an endemic disease.

Wow. I have very high hopes.

I think she will clean up the corruption in the CMO’s office and at Alberta Health Services.

She can start by asking a few questions about what happened to the doctor and hospital in Mark’s article.

I predict that heads will roll soon.

Summary

Alberta is covering up the COVID vaccine injuries for now.

I don’t think they will be doing this for much longer.

I expect to hear a lot more truth coming from Alberta in the near future.

BRENT SPINER IS DISMAYED:  1 in 3 admits their brain ‘shuts down’ when they hear or see the word ‘data’.

Professor Constance Kassor at Lawrence University in Wisconsin is reporting that her course has the highest enrollment in the university. She said that “this should tell us something about the current state of college students.” Indeed it does. Students have changed little. Kassor’s course “Doing nothing” gives credit pass/fail in a course that requires literally nothing beyond showing up: no paper, no assignments, no exam. Surprise: it is very popular.The Appleton Post Crescent, reported that the religious studies professor designed the course to help students deal with anxiety that they are not being productive. The idea seems to be to reduce that anxiety with a syllabus requiring no productivity beyond coming to class and hearing views on subjects ranging from tai chi, sleep habits and mind-body awareness.

It is not clear if Dr. Kassor thought that this would be a hard sell but she is reporting that it turns out that students like a course that requires nothing.

8th Circuit, in an unsigned administrative stay, prohibits the Biden administration from canceling any student debt. pic.twitter.com/Q9WkM78uKw — Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 21, 2022   We will follow this story closely next week.  For now, the bailout is on hold.       8th Circuit (unsigned order) grants stay in Nebraska v. Biden. Administration […]

JEFF GOLDSTEIN: The Age of Boutique Authoritarianism.

Lois Lerner refused to testify before lawmakers for her role in the targeted persecution of TEA Party organizations via her position as IRS Director of tax exempt non-profits, and was voted in contempt of Congress.

Eric Holder refused a Congressional subpoena for documents related to the “Fast and Furious” operation that ran guns to Mexican cartel members, ostensibly to track the weapons, one of which was later used to kill US Border Agent Brian Terry.

Neither received any jail time.

FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith intentionally and materially altered an email included in an FBI application to renew a FISA warrant against Carter Page. He was found guilty, but spent no time in prison, receiving probation and community service hours. He has since had his law license reinstated.

James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, John Brennan, James Clapper, and the entire Mueller Report team, among others, repeatedly perjured themselves in Congressional testimony. Brennan and Clapper now have contributor gigs at cable news channels; Strzok has filed a wrongful termination suit against the FBI. Mueller’s Report was chastised by the IG’s office for its misleading assertions and its lies by omission, with no apologies amongst the fallout.

And no jail time for any of them.

Today, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon was given a 4-month jail sentence for Contempt of Congress. Bannon initially denied the legitimacy of the Congressional subpoena, citing executive privilege in his role as presidential advisor, but ultimately did testify.

I no longer care what any of you think about Donald Trump. Nor do I care what you think of Bannon, who — full disclosure — invited me to New York for a preview of his Sarah Palin documentary over a decade ago. Neither man is the issue. Roger Stone isn’t the issue, either — whatever you think of him either as a person or a persona. The My Pillow guy? Not the issue.

Instead, the issue is that it is beyond obvious we have a completely politicized system of Justice in which equality before the law is irrelevant, and political prosecutions are becoming the norm under this Administration’s DOJ. AG Merrick Garland recommended a two year sentence for the two NY lawyers who fire bombed a police car — with law enforcement occupants inside — during a BLM protest; meanwhile, the same AG has acquired a 3 1/2 year jail sentence against a 24-year-old UCLA grad for briefly sitting in Mike Pence’s chair on Jan 6. The protestor had committed no violence and destroyed no property.

The disparity in both charging and sentencing is undeniable: Jan 6 defendants charged with parading do prison time. Antifa members who set fire to police barracks or federal courthouses were released en masse, often with financial assistance promoted by the now Vice President, and no charges ultimately brought.

I believe a similar one-sided enfocement of the laws helped provoke the Spanish Civil War.

DON’T WORK TOO HARD: Something Toxic Flourishes in Your Brain After Too Much Hard Work.

Don’t take chances!

HMM: Medical group urges medication, not just diet and exercise, to treat obesity.

A cynic might note that there’s not much money to be made in people just staying fit.

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES: VW climate protesters demand bowl to ‘urinate and defecate’ after gluing themselves to floor.

Gianluca Grimalda, a researcher with the Kiel Institute think tank and member of climate protest group Scientist Rebellion, posted on Twitter on Wednesday that 15 people had “occupied the Porsche pavilion” at the Autostadt museum adjoining the carmaker’s factory in Wolfsburg.

“Nine of us glued to the floor and some of us on hunger strike until our demands to decarbonise the German transport sector are met,” he wrote.

“[Volkswagen] told us that they supported our right to protest, but they refused our request to provide us with a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued, and have turned off the heating.”

And to think, the Germans were pioneers in environmentalism:

Earlier: Joel Kotkin: Environmentalism is a Fundamentalist Religion.

(Classical reference in headline.)

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): What did environmentalists use before floors and bowls? Toilets!

Update Well, they voted the wrong way. I’m also a bit surprised there doesn’t seem much interest in this news. How quickly we surrender?

Rochelle Walensky, the head of CDC, on camera, multiple times, said that if you got the mRNA shot you couldn’t get sick. And couldn’t pass on the coronadoom.

Remember that? Or has it been sufficiently memory-holed by now?

The question is this: was she lying, or just incompetent?

Whatever the answer, the result is the same. We are governed by evil ignorant fools, saturated in hubris.

The CDC’s Expert panel of Experts used their awesome powers of Doing What Was Expected Of Them and voted to add the doom vex to the vex for kids program. (Here’s a video of the vote.) Today, they vote on the routine childhood vaccination schedule.

Among other things, if today’s vote passes, it means schools could use this as an excuse to bar kids who aren’t vexxed.

A government which insists that men can be pregnant voted to force your child to take a drug that it does not need. Yes. Here is how the CDC, that Expert-filled bureaucracy, announced in its agenda the doom vex item: “COVID-19 in pregnant people and infants ages 0-5 months”.

So its Experts are both wrong and evil.

According to one source, “The CDC earlier opened up its scheduled vote for public comment and received fierce blowback. Tens of thousands of comments poured into the CDC, the great majority seemingly in direct opposition to the vote to add the Covid vaccines to the childhood schedule.”

You might ask why were these voices ignored? But that’s the wrong question. They were not ignored. Indeed, the voices were used by Experts as evidence that they, the Experts, were right.

That non-Experts disagreed with Experts is proof to the Experts that the Experts are right. This happens wherever Experts gather and are given authority. They survive only by the Appeal To Authority fallacy. Crystalline, pure hubris.

The incompetents at the CDC don’t even mandate flu vaccines for kids, which is much deadlier by far than coronadoom, but they insist kids must have the mRNA shot.

Why? No scientific reason.

Because they can’t bear to be disrespected.

Somebody on Twitter suggested to me that the CDC panel was bribed (a picture of this group, proving physiognomy does not lie, head today’s post). No. They didn’t need bribing. Not with money, at any rate.

All these Experts needed was a little intellectual recognition, which types like this prize above all things.

Evil won with flattery, not dollars.

I’ve given the CDC’s own statistics, which they are too stupid to look at, so many times I’ve lost count. Here they are again.

Since January 2020, now almost three years ago, 416 school-aged kids, 5-14, have died of coronadoom, about 140 a year. Some 559 died from pneumonia. That 559 is more than 416. There is no moral panic over pneumonia.

I’ve done the calculation many times, but about 10 times as many kids die in car crashes as the doom. Ten Times!

So that if we were really serious about saving kids’ lives, then we’d ban kids from riding in cars. Right?

Since flu all but disappeared when the doom arrived, only 108 kids died from flu in that same time. But flu has returned, and it is traditionally much deadlier for kids. In the next two years, it’s an unfortunately good bet more kids will die of flu than the doom.

Flu shots are not part of the childhood vaccination schedule. Though some localities do require them for school attendance.

Now many, and something approaching even all, kids, and likely you, too, dear reader, have already had the coronadoom. Meaning you don’t need the vex.

Another reason we know the CDC is staffed by poor scientists is that prior infection was never considered in vaccination. Even more incredulously, at one point the CDC put out a “study” that “proved” the vex gave better protection that naturally acquired immunity! Insanity.

I see no indication in the current program that previous infection will count in any way. It’s still “Vex all, and be damned the consequences.”

The CDC is still officially denying the very real possibility of vaccine injury. They began by lying, and saying myocarditis and pericarditis were all but impossible. Then the numbers started coming in.

I believe they have stopped calling such claims “disinformation.” Their new strategy, it appears, is to pretend not to have heard the objection.

Let’s remind them of the kids who were killed by the shot.

Never listen to The Science.

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KARI LAKE TO REPORTERS: Wanna talk about “election deniers?” I’ve got a few receipts.

LAKE: Let’s talk about election deniers. Here’s 150 examples of Democrats denying election results. Look at this, this is from Joe Biden’s Press Secretary ‘remember Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams.’ A Democrat was saying that, is that an election denier? Oh look at this, ‘just heard Republican Ryan Costello said it would be difficult for Stacey Abrams to win because she lost her state bid, but she’s still claiming she never lost.’ Hillary Clinton: ‘Trump is an illegitimate President,’ is she an election denier? This on says ‘was the 2016 election legitimate? It is definitely a question worth asking.’ That was the Los Angeles Times. So it’s okay for Democrats to question elections but it’s not okay for Republicans? It’s crock of BS, everyone knows it, we have our freedom of speech and we’re not going relinquish it to a bunch of fake news propagandists. If you want a copy of these I’m sure Anthony will help you get a copy and help you learn how to journalist but look it up. It has been happening for a long time.

Since 2000, people have questioned the legitimacy of our elections. And all we are asking is in the future we do not have to have that anymore. When I’m governor we are going to make sure we have honest elections. We want the Democrats, the Independents, and the Republicans to all know that their vote counted. We want fair, honest, and transparent elections and we are going to deliver that for the people. Hillary Clinton says ‘George W. Bush was selected president not elected.’ So if you are going to start throwing around terms like election denier, lets remember who the other election deniers were Hillary Clinton and all the Democrats.

Related: Arizona Democrats Begin to Recognize the Consequences of Their Actions. “Arizona Democrats knew their nominee was going to be soft-spoken and a poor communicator, and they chose to go up against the well-known former television-news anchor, who had been working in front of the cameras for more than two decades. And now Kari Lake, enjoying a small lead in recent polling, is terrifying Democrats. Axios writes, ‘Democratic Party strategists are watching Arizona’s Kari Lake with growing alarm.’ Democrats told the New York Times that Lake’s ‘charisma and on-camera skills make her uniquely dangerous.’ Well, gee, Arizona Democrats, maybe you should have thought of that before you meddled in the GOP primary, then.”

"Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas," Abrams argues.

On screen: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/18/fbi-knew-about-chinese-infiltration-of-us-election-systems-and-buried-it-n503608 [paywalled; cached here https://archive.ph/4JHQ8]

A couple weeks back the New York Times attacked conservatives for an election “conspiracy theory” that they had to admit was entirely accurate the very next day. The Times claimed it was crazy that Republicans were asserting that China’s Communist Party had infiltrated our election system–it was a conspiracy theory and attack on the Foundations of Our Democracy.

The so-called “conspiracy theorists” were right, and the president of Konnech Elections Systems was arrested the very next day for–allowing China into our elections system.

Both Ed and I have written about this story earlier, enjoying the schadenfreude. Any time the New York Times gets egg on its face you have to revel in a bit of schadenfreude (ever notice how the Germans have a word for everything having to do with such things?)

Rasmussen pointed out another aspect of the story that has gotten insufficient coverage. I sure blew it in not following the story more closely.

We were all stunned that the Chinese had so easily infiltrated our elections. And unsurprised that the MSM would do everything they could to bury the evidence and call it into question. But largely missed among the stories is another fact: the FBI knew about this infiltration and did diddlysquat about it. Not a damn thing to stop it.

I have gone from “just how many people in the ‘swamp’ have been suborned by the Caliphate or the ChiComs” to “how many haven’t been”.

I have no doubts that Russia tried to stoke the flames of dissension. Not that they cared who won in 2016, but that (s)he would be regarded as illegitimate by half the electorate, and hence the US would be too divided to pay much attention to Russia’s geopolitical adventures.

But I’ve been suspecting for a while that the “Russian election interference” narrative of the antiDemocrat machine was not just projection, but a red herring for interference by another bad state actor.

And while we’re on the subject of “Russiagate”

DANCHENKO WALKS: Leftwing Alexandria, Virginia Jury Once Again Acquits a Guilty-as-Sin Russiagate Fi…

Meanwhile, an FBI whistleblower revealed https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/10/18/whistleblower-fbi-has-voluminous-evidence-against-biden-and-his-family-n1637975 that they have plenty of evidence about dirty business dealings and ‘pay-for-play’ by the Biden famiglia but are doing… bugger all about it.

James Gordon Meek is an Emmy-award-winning producer for ABC, at least he was until April 2022 when he disappeared. According to a Rolling Stones exposé, the last public thing anyone heard from him was a tweet on April 27.

Narrator: Those paying attention know the US has already been in a recession for several months.

GOOGLE IS BUILT ON LIES AND EXPLOITATION: Google employees joked about how ‘Incognito mode’ is ‘not truly private.’

Google employees cracked jokes about the Chrome browser’s “Incognito mode” and criticized the company for not living up to its users’ expectations for privacy, according to a series of internal communications unearthed in court.

In one 2018 chat, a Google engineer proposed changing Incognito mode’s icon to “Guy Incognito,” a character from the Simpsons known for looking identical to protagonist Homer Simpson except for a mustache, according to court documents reported by Bloomberg.

The character’s lazy disguise “accurately conveys the level of privacy [Incognito mode] provides” in comparison to Chrome’s standard browsing mode, the employee said.

Don’t trust Google.