Victor Davis Hanson
WHO ARE THE REAL INSURRECTIONISTS?
Democrats are despondent over Joe Biden’s sinking polls. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority support.
As a result, they now variously allege that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when they fear losing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a coup.
They praise democracy when they get elected—only to claim it is broken when they lose. Or they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate. Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto their opponents.
After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the Constitution?
HIGH NOON AT THE SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court takes up the issue of vaccine mandates on Friday (1/07), holding a special hearing that is nearly unprecedented in its rushed timing.
Will we become a country of haves and have nots concerning the Covid vaccine, whereby those who sensibly decline the vaccine are segregated in cities, schools, hospitals, and concerts? The new year has rung in a slew of new “no vaccination, no service” rules in restaurants, bars, gyms, and even maintenance work in high-rise apartments.
This is not a fight in which the Supreme Court wanted to be, just as the sheriff in High Noon did not want to confront the outlaws returning on the noon train after the ringleader was released from prison. Ever since the Oscar-winning performance by Gary Cooper in that 1952 classic, its title has been synonymous with an unavoidable high-drama conflict that one side must win.
OMICRON AS A PANDEMIC OF THE VAXXED
Inconvenient data continues to roll in suggesting that the COVID vaccines actually have negative efficacy against the coronavirus.
A year after Joe Biden promised to shut down the virus, the United States on January 3 recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as the Omicron variant tore through the nation at a blistering pace. Omicron is said to be much more transmissible, and according to a recent study from Denmark, is much more contagious in fully vaccinated individuals.
Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in highly vaxxed New York City, where a surge in positive COVID cases has caused major staffing shortages within the NYPD and FDNY.
FEAR PORN, TESTING HYSTERIA, AND TYRANNY
The Chief Faucista
According to the mainstream media, print and digital, COVID is surging, omicron is deadly, and everyone with a scratchy throat runs to a testing center to see if he is "infected." It's madness on a grand scale.
Most of them are not infected, but these thousands of hypochondriacs are waiting hours in line for a test that, even if negative, may be positive the next day.
Viewers who rely on the mainstream media for news have been illegitimately frightened into believing that the sniffles mean omicron and that omicron is serious.
It's not. It's a cold. How can so many Americans born into this country that was "conceived in liberty" be so submissive to the state?
IS CHINA’S MILITARY JUST RICH KIDS PLAYING WITH TOY SOLDIERS?
Xi Jinping has been doing a great deal of saber-rattling of late, threatening both Australia and Taiwan.
China has also been building islands in the South China Sea, flying hypersonic weapons, stealing and illegally buying vast amounts of military technology, and overtly working to make its military more manly, even as the U.S. military deals with maternity flight suits and the needs of the so-called transgender troops.
Nevertheless, when all is said and done, a military is only as good as the people doing the fighting, and there are indications that China has a problem in this area.
"The Chinese military has become a puddle of mud, without combat effectiveness," Luo Yu, son of former revolutionary Chinese Gen. Lou Ruiqing, explains. "No Chinese official or officer isn't involved in bribery, it's a systematic problem. "There's no way to stop the corruption in the Chinese military."
KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH WHAT TO DO WITH NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
Now’s the time when we’re supposed to make New Year’s resolutions. All those bad behaviors we’ve suffered from (or made others suffer from); all those good behaviors that we know would make life better for ourselves and those we care about. The things that we vow to do this year even though we’ve never done them before…
Even though we’ve resolved year after year to do them this year. And then felt anywhere from a mild regret to deep shame when we don’t make the new thing happen.
Well, this year let’s make that a different story, because I’m going to tell you why it never worked before, and why this time you’ll have a good chance of actually reaching those goals this year. Let’s get started…
IT’S TIME FOR A NATIONAL INTERVENTION
So turns out there are only two sexual orientations. Leftists and everyone else.
It's true, according to an Axios poll yesterday (12/08), 71 percent of Democrat college students wouldn't go on a date with someone with opposing views - versus 31 percent of Republicans. That's a difference of like a thousand percent, Kat!
Also: 40 percent of young Dems refuse to be friends with the other side - compared to just five percent of Republicans. So apparently the newly woke prefer to judge you as good or evil based on political affiliation. Which explains how a child-rapist rioter attacking someone in Kenosha suddenly becomes a martyr.
It's time for a national intervention to put an end to these spoiled brats taken over our culture.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/09/21
Watch out below. But is he talking about just markets or the Democrat Party too?
The Bottom Is Far Lower Than Anyone Believes Possible
Historical perspective for investors - and anyone else who wants to survive the next decade:
Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt
A current warning for investors; insider stock sales at record highs; they know things that you don't know
What Do They Know? Insiders Are Dumping Stocks At The Fastest Pace In History
And be sure to check out the Saudi scandal of botoxed camels….
EVERYTHING THEY TOLD YOU IS A LIE! EVERY AMERICAN MUST SEE THIS MOVIE!
The inimitable actor Nick Searcy was present in D.C. on January 6. You just watched the trailer of his film about what he saw that day, Capitol Punishment.
For all Americans who find it hard to believe that our FBI and DOJ are now dangerous enemies of the people, this film will be a shock. Those two law enforcement institutions are most assuredly now enemies of all law-abiding citizens. The phenomenon of January 6 was no insurrection; it was a carefully calculated set-up.
Searcy's film shows just how far toward totalitarianism America has gone since Obama had his way with our federal institutions and just how perverse they have become since Donald Trump threatened to drain their swamp. You have got to watch this movie.
BEFORE BIDEN: HOW OBAMA SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN MILITARY
Obama fundamentally transformed the military the way that he did the country.
By the time Barack Obama left office, every branch of the military was smaller than it had been on September 11. But the change in size concealed the true impact of America’s most left-wing president in undermining our national security and weakening us in the face of our enemies.
"I've got a pen, and I've got a phone,” Obama famously boasted. He used the pen to unleash a blizzard of executive orders and memorandums. Some led to outraged protests, but some of his most devastating penned assaults on our nation’s military flew under the radar.
THE OLD CNN IS DEAD
So, let me give you an advantage in your political discussion group. Here is the headline for January 1, 2022: The old CNN is dead!
The cause of death is not the forced departure of Chris Cuomo or Rachel Maddow’s act becoming so old she is moving to a weekly show. Nor is it that CNN’s jaundiced journalists conspired to be completely wrong about Kyle Rittenhouse, the false Russia collusion claim, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Jessie Smollett, Border Patrol whippings, and countless other “important” news stories.
The real reason is…..
KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH THE QUIET POWER OF KINDNESS
For some, happiness is a word that conjures up visions of selfish people concerned only with their own pleasure; but this sort of hedonistic approach to happiness is a recipe for serial bursts of pleasure at the expense of long-term happiness.
When I speak of happiness, I am describing a much richer concept; more akin to what the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia or "success at being human."
One of the central elements for living well is how we relate to other people. In this regard, happiness is literally the opposite of self-centeredness or self-absorption. In fact, contrary to many Las Vegas advertisements or Hollywood-lifestyle fantasies, self-absorption is a key ingredient for depression, and single-minded focus on personal pleasure is a recipe for long-term misery.
So here's the single most effective thing we can do to get an immediate and significant boost to our genuine happiness - and to set the stage for a deeper, long-term happiness as well. It's simple. It's not mysterious. But it is substantial:
IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE ROE V WADE IS DOOMED
[Note by Jack Wheeler: We are republishing this article appearing today (12/02) in the pro-abortion woke left website Vox.com for your enjoyment. It is marvelously Schadenfreudelicious.]
Republican presidents have said for years that they would appoint justices who will overrule Roe. They’ve probably succeeded.
Midway through arguments in a case that could end with the Supreme Court abolishing the constitutional right to an abortion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked a pointed question about the Court’s future: “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception, that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?
There are early signs Sotomayor is correct that the public is turning against the Court as the Court turns against Roe v. Wade. But during Wednesday’s (12/01) oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, all six of the Court’s Republican appointees appeared eager to push ahead anyway and overrule at least some key parts of the Court’s prior decisions protecting abortion.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/02/21
Oroville CA declares itself to be a sanctuary city for a constitutional republic. If you live in a blue state, should the town you live in do the same?
California Town Declares Independence From "Dictatorship Powers" Of State, Federal COVID Mandates
Uncle Sam, organized crime mastermind:
An inside look at the greatest crime of the 21st century (to date):
A President Betrayed by Bureaucrats: Scott Atlas Exposes The Real COVID Disaster
SHOULD’VE TAKEN MY ADVICE TO DRILL, BABY, DRILL, JOE!
Sarah Palin & Joe Biden, VP Debate, Oct. 2, 2008
It’s curious how certain phrases catch on.
When I took on Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2008, they used “Hope and Change.” Now, Biden is the inspiration for “Let’s Go, Brandon!”
My slogan was “Drill, baby, drill.” It was true and necessary in 2008, and it’s needed now more than ever. Because “Drill, baby, drill” isn’t just a desire for more oil. It is a call for more of America.
SLOWLY, THEN ALL AT ONCE
Are you starting to wonder what, if anything, will be left standing of the life we once called “modern” when Christmas 2021 rolls around? Shopping? Motoring? Working? Mingling? Eating? Sleeping? Waking…? Suddenly, everything is coming apart.
The supply lines are wobbling and many will go down. No stuff, no parts, before long no food. Energy supplies are shaky everywhere. China’s electric grid is going dark from insufficient coal. Russia lacks the surplus NatGas to keep Western Europe warm. Global shortages drive up US oil and gas prices while people lose jobs and incomes over vaccine mandates — meaning families will freeze as the daylight dwindles.
“Joe Biden’s” dark winter is coming on fast.
Join the forum discussion on this postSKYE’S LINKS 11/26/21
Food prices to rise further:
Report: General Mills Will Raise Prices up to 20 Percent in January
Food inflation is hitting the entire planet hard. A major factor is the big increase in the price of natural gas causing a similar price increase in ammonia and ammonium nitrate fertilizers, which are made from natural gas. The largest fertilizer plants in both Britain and the EU have shut down due to high natgas prices. Food prices will be a lot higher by November 2022, and not just in the US:
Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains
More deaths despite vaccines:
New York Times Admits More Coronavirus Deaths Under Biden 'Despite Vaccines'
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP!
THE DEMOCRATS ARE A COMMUNIST PARTY NOW
Saule Omarova -- who attended Moscow State University on the Lenin Academic Scholarship, compared America unfavorably to the USSR, and called for nationalizing finance -- isn’t Biden’s first Communist nominee. Omarova is only Biden’s first openly Communist nominee.
Omarova isn’t saying anything that her new party hasn’t already advocated. Biden’s whole Build Back Better program is just another interim step in nationalizing the economy.
Biden’s pick for comptroller of the currency has been taken to task for her calls to "end banking as we know it”, bankrupt oil and gas companies, and seize control of the entire economy.
Those used to be Communist articles of faith. Now they’re Democrat “solutions.”
AMERICANS ARE ENDURING A BIDEN REIGN OF TERROR
The Biden administration has taken advantage of our already weaponized law enforcement institutions and made them into his version of East Germany's Stasi. The Stasi's main job was spying on the population, exactly what Merrick Garland has authorized of American citizens.
Political dissent is a crime to this administration. Such spying is built into Biden's absurd Build Back Better bill. If it passes, all bets are off. Our overlords will have access to our bank accounts, our medical records, our children's school psychometric records (part of Garland's son-in-law's intrusive educational program he sells to schools).
We will be communist East Germany, Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany. Watch the 2006 Academy Award-winning film, The Lives of Others, set in 1984 East Germany. That is the direction Biden is taking us.
IF THE VACCINES WORK, WHY AREN’T THEY WORKING?
These explain why the player should be a good hitter, but what if the numbers, from batting average to on-base percentage, tell a different story? What if we ask the same question about COVID vaccines, rephrased as “If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?”
The CDC website states, “COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, and free.” Those three words are all relative. Let’s quickly unpack them.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH SELF-INTERESTED WORK
Giving and helping others are wonderful things. What’s often overlooked though is how much consciousness, caring, time, money, and energy each one of us already puts into significantly helping other people every day – through the work we do.
It’s popular these days to dismiss all this because we’re doing it for the money – as though earning money cheapens our efforts, makes our efforts base, selfish, or materialistic.
When demagogues lecture young college graduates to forego making money, and instead to do something else that helps people, they are telling them that what we do to make money does not help people.
This, of course, is exactly the opposite of the truth.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/18/21
G.K. Chesterton — 'When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.' Why Wokeism is a religion:
Why have an “unusually large number of professional and amateur soccer players collapsed recently”? Something to do with getting vaxxed perhaps?
German Newspaper Highlights “Unusually Large” Number of Soccer Players Who Have Collapsed Recently
The wheels are coming off the publics' trust in Xiden, too. Note this is a poll by left-wing Politico:
Poll: Majority of Voters Believe Joe Biden Is Untrustworthy, Dishonest, Incapable
KAMALA HARRIS IS A VERY WEIRD PERSON
When Kamala Harris considers movie titles that make people think of her, she probably goes straight to “Wonder Woman.” I have news for her: Every time she opens her mouth, people are wondering, “What Planet Are You From?”
It’s pretty clear everyone in the White House hates her and is blame-leaking to every reporter around in hopes of emerging from this explosion in the stink-bomb factory without carrying any failure fragrance.
All politicians blather, but Harrisblather is like an air salad with vapor croutons and nullity dressing. She went all the way to France to offer insights like, “We must together. Work together. To see where we are. Where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be.”
Where did she learn to talk like this? Every time she speaks, it’s like watching Wile E. Coyote’s feet keep spinning madly even after he’s run off the cliff.
KYLE RITTENHOUSE AND THE FALSE NARRATIVE
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is an important moment in American culture, because this isn’t just about Kyle Rittenhouse. In a sense, Antifa is also on trial. So is the narrative that the media has been peddling for months, not just about Rittenhouse, but also so many other things it lies about.
For me, the unacknowledged heroes of the Rittenhouse case are the intrepid videographers who were on the scene recording what was taking place on the street. Without them, Rittenhouse would probably be facing a real risk of being convicted for double murder.
Why? Because he’s dealing with a dishonest prosecutor, who doesn’t hesitate to say things he knows are misleading; dishonest detectives, who don’t hesitate to twist the truth; and a dishonest media, which has been brazenly lying about what happened between Rittenhouse and his combatants for a whole year.
WHY THE LEFT ALWAYS PROJECTS
The Left is addicted to projection—the psycho-political syndrome of attributing all of one’s own sins to one’s opponents.
The Woke apparently do this out of some Freudian effort to square the circle of their own guilt or sense of privilege, by fobbing off their own fearful realities onto others. It is the atheist version of confession or medieval penance.
Here we examine four examples, the Privileged condemning privilege; the Colluders investing collusion; Election Denialists becoming denialist; Racists being racist. How did they get this way?
THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE – WHICH STAGE ARE WE AT NOW?
As we wait to see what our commie-fascist ruling class has planned for us next, this might be a good time to pull out Gregory H. Stanton's "Ten Stages of Genocide" as a helpful reminder for keeping track of how things are "progressing" (pun intended).
Stanton, an academic and the founder of Genocide Watch, organized a sobering list of red-flag actions undertaken by governments over the last century on their way to committing mass murder. See if any of them rings any bells with how supposedly "free" governments are behaving today.
Start counting…
SKYE’S LINKS 11/11/21
The 'Crats will learn nothing from the latest election. They will triple down on their bad ideas. Tighten the strap on your crash helmet; 2022 will be a challenging and hard year for us, but is likely to be catastrophic for them:
Luongo: Expect Democrats To Not Learn The Real Lessons From Virginia's Elections
The supply chain wreck is going to get a lot worse. My advice? If you don't already have a few months’ supply of your everyday canned and dried foods, get it while you can. Pet food, too. Don't buy survival foods; you don't need expensive ultra light weight portability. Buy what you eat regularly, and rotate your stock. Don't forget detergent and toilet paper - and fuel. Whatever the government does to "fix" the problem will certainly make a bad situation even worse
DO NOT COMPLY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 2021
Last Thursday (11/04), it was announced that OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is forcing employers with over 100 employees to comply with President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate by January 4th, 2022 or face heavy fines.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is also giving 17 million healthcare workers until January 4th to be fully vaccinated.
In 2022 we will witness the emergence of a parallel society and I hope to help make that happen with the work we are doing here at Gab.
Over the past year we’ve provided tens of millions of people with a variety of resources to fight back against this medical tyranny and infringement of basic human rights. Here they are
VAX MANDATES AND TIMESHARE SCAMS
From the beginning, the Covid “vaccines” have felt like a massive timeshare scam.
Initially, consider the source. Vaxxmania arises from, and is zealously sponsored by, the same “experts” who masterminded the epic Covid overreaction: Fauci, Walensky, the Democrat governors, and the media. Like a timeshare sales pitch, the folly of lockdowns, closures, masking and mass testing should have been obvious from Day 1.
Viruses are ubiquitous, and respiratory infections are an unavoidable part of community life. Fortunately, such infections tend to be self-limiting. Further, Italian data from March, 2020 should have told everyone that healthy, non-old people were not at serious risk.
Nonetheless, as with timeshares, many Americans bought the scam. Nineteen months of mass psychosis later, many vaxxers are still fearful, wearing masks—even outside—and demanding universal “vaccination.” Why?
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY MAKING IT A FAIR FIGHT
We have a wonderful deli/bakery nearby that has great, healthy food -- and in the next display case very yummy, not-so-healthy treats – cookies, éclairs, pastries… very tempting stuff. Every once in awhile I’m seduced by these delicacies, and when I am, I almost always notice something afterwards: I don’t feel as good as I did before.
It’s not a severely bad feeling, and I can easily ignore it if I want to. But if I pay attention to the sensations in my body, there’s a clearly different feeling from my insides; it’s not as pleasant as it was before I had eaten the sugar filled morsel.
This is the key to making our fight against bad habits a fair fight.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/04/21
Australia’s nightmare is Xiden’s dream for America. One lesson is that Aussies have no 2nd Amendment and have been forcibly disarmed.
Vaccinations and vaccination mandates are NOT an effective public health measure. But don't expect any policy changes from corrupt government officials. Here is the real science: “There appears to be no discernible relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases… the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have HIGHER (emphasis added) COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.”
THE TIDE HAS TURNED
Breitbart News this morning 11/03
What an absolutely huge win this was for us yesterday — not just the election in Virginia, which was huge in itself —but the tightness of the race in New Jersey. And then there are other important referendums and races around the country all pointing in the same direction.
This is great news going forward. It shows us in a sense the formula for beating the Democrats and it's just such a huge relief.
I woke up this morning, I was looking in the mirror, and I thought, "I look a year younger." It wasn't just jubilation over the outcome, it's also just the sense that we've been suffering a little bit of PTSD, our side, going back to the 2020 election.
THE REVOLUTIONARY POWER OF “LETS GO, BRANDON!”
For very good reason, the media and Democrats feel threatened and terrified by the “Let’s go, Brandon!” chant, which is why we must never stop saying it.
Like the persecuted Christians of old who identified themselves to one another by drawing a fish in the dirt, “Let’s go, Brandon!” is shorthand for I’m with you. You are not alone. We are in this together. Oh, and eff Joe Biden.
It’s good, clean, rebellious fun – and here’s why it’s so terrifying to the Joyless Left.
THE BUZZ ON QUERCETIN
[Note by Jack Wheeler: I have taken quercetin daily for many years, for overall health and life-extension purposes. That research is emerging of its being protective against the Chicom virus, indeed all viruses as reported here by Dr. Joondeph, should be of interest to us all – although I’ll now have to double my dose to around 1 gram a day (500mg 2xday), the therapeutic dose of the research. Note that Amazon sells some two dozen quercetin formulas, at a cost of $20-$30 or so for 2 months supply.]
Quercetin has been in the news lately, particularly as one of many potential therapeutics that might have some benefit in the prevention or treatment of COVID infection. Is there anything to this?
Could quercetin be of benefit against COVID, or for that matter, the common cold or the flu? As are always told to “follow the science”, what does science say? Let’s take a look.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH THE PHYSICAL BENEFITS OF HAPPINESS
We are all familiar with the basic guidelines for good health: exercise, eat right - more fruits and veggies, less red meat, more fish, fewer calories, more fiber, less sugar- don't smoke, don't abuse alcohol or drugs. If people would follow these guidelines and maintain an optimal weight, many health problems would be greatly diminished.
But there is another dimension to our health. How we think and feel, how we interact with others, and the kind of activities we spend our time engaged in can have a huge impact on our physical health.
There have been many conflicting theories of psychology, and each one can lead you to practice very different ways of thinking, behaving, and interacting.
A Freudian would have you spend hours free associating about memories and fantasies, absorbed in your internal process, with an emphasis on your past.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/29/21
This Halloween has a different feel than years past. My smaller city celebrates Halloween with enthusiasm. Hundreds of children are usually on the prowl and the neighborhoods are decorated with lights and spider webs and all types of creepy things.
Well almost all, you see the millennials now buying into the area turn their porch lights off and hover around their computer screens. They don’t want to be bothered and they don’t see the kid’s costumes as anything out of the ordinary.
To these folks, everyday is Halloween.
Welcome to the Halloween HFR, Come on over.
SKYE’S LINKS 10/28/21
Back in the USSR:
Xiden's nominee to regulate banking is a Soviet Communist (yes, for real: her graduating thesis at the Soviet Union’s Moscow University in 1989 was Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in Das Kapital) who wants to require that all bank deposits be transferred to the Federal Reserve - really!:
Biden's Bank Regulator Nominee Would End Community Banking
What if the supply chain collapse isn't due to incompetence, but is purposely driven by lockdowns, vaccine mandates, paying people more not to work than to work, zero interest rates, and so very much more?
THE FRIGHTENED CLASS
They’re all around us, especially those of us who live in relatively prosperous metropolitan neighborhoods in the US or Western Europe. Despite being—at least in material terms—among the most fortunate people who have ever walked the earth, they are very scared.
And they want you to be very frightened too.
Indeed, many of them see your refusal to be as frightened as they are about life’s inevitable risks as a grave problem which entitles them and their often powerful and influential fellow travelers to recur to all manner of authoritarian practices to ensure that you adhere to their increasingly neurotic view of reality.
Why?
HEALTH CARE WORKERS EXPLAIN WHY THEY WOULD RATHER LOSE THEIR JOBS THAN GET VAXXED
Despite the COVID-19 vaccines having been promoted as safe and effective by legacy media, many health care workers are refusing to take them, and those who openly speak out about their concerns get censored by Big Tech companies or kicked off their platforms.
Some nurses and doctors are refusing vaccine mandates even if their refusal will cost them their jobs. I recently interviewed a number of them to learn why. I believe they are representative of many thousands of health care professionals all over America who refuse to bow down to vax mandates. This is what they told me in their own words.