MORE HEADLINES JANUARY 23, 2021

Looking Back at Trump, He Was the Fighter We Needed Against the ‘Elite’ https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/01/22/looking-back-at-trump-and-maybe-forward-n2583481?

What’s next for evangelicals post-Trump https://www.christianpost.com/voices/whats-next-for-evangelicals-post-trump.html
The “Most Popular President in U.S. History” Isn’t Doing Too Well on YouTube https://summit.news/2021/01/22/the-most-popular-president-in-u-s-history-isnt-doing-too-well-on-youtube/
Charles Hurt: With Impeachment, Congress Trying to Overturn Future Elections https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/22/with-impeachment-congress-trying-to-overturn-future-elections/
3 Unions That Endorsed Biden Seem Like They’re Already Regretting It https://www.westernjournal.com/3-unions-endorsed-biden-seem-like-already-regretting/
Pollak: Biden Kills Up to 70,000 Jobs on First Day in Office https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/01/22/pollak-biden-kills-up-to-70000-jobs-on-first-day-in-office-job/?
 
Biden removes military flags from Oval Office on first day as president https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/01/biden-removes-military-flags-from-oval-office-on-first-day-as-president/?

Nolte: Geneva Conventions Forbid Forcing Soldiers to Sleep In Parking Garage https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/22/nolte-geneva-conventions-forbid-forcing-soldiers-to-sleep-in-parking-garage/

Hey, Dems, You Won’t Have to Dig Deep to Get to the Bottom of the National Guard’s Eviction at US Capitol https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/01/22/politicians-rush-to-offer-help-over-dc-national-guard-fiasco-n2583544?

 
Gov. Ron DeSantis Orders Return of Florida National Guard Troops: ‘They’re Not Nancy Pelosi’s Servants’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/22/gov-desantis-orders-return-florida-national-guard-troops-theyre-not-nancy-pelosis-servants/

Sen. Tim Scott Livid Over Treatment of National Guard Troops https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2021/01/22/tim-scott-livid-over-treatment-of-national-guard-n2583549?
 
Bill Maher: Now that Trump is gone, ‘We can’t blame everything on him’ https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-maher-now-that-trump-is-gone-we-cant-blame-everything-on-him
Miracle: CNN COVID Death Counter Begins Counting Backward https://babylonbee.com/news/miracle-cnn-covid-death-counter-begins-counting-backward

Suddenly Optimistic Fauci Sees Pandemic “Plateauing,” Feels “Liberated” Under Biden Admin https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/us-covid-hospitalizations-reach-turning-point-dr-fauci-confirms-joining-whos-gates-backed

In a Completely Unexpected Development, Biden Admits His Biggest Campaign Promise Was a Lie https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/01/22/biden-admits-his-biggest-campaign-promise-was-a-lie-n314933
Biden Re-Engages With China-Centric World Health Organization https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/biden-re-engages-china-centric-world-health-joseph-klein-0/
America’s Great Purge (and Israel) https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/01/22/americas-great-purge-and-israel/
Joe Biden wants to erase the last four years. In the Mideast, that won’t be easy https://www.timesofisrael.com/joe-biden-wants-to-erase-the-last-four-years-in-the-mideast-that-wont-be-easy/
The New York Times Loves Iran, and Wants You to Love It, Too https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/01/20/the-new-york-times-loves-iran-and-wants-you-to-love-it-too-n1398215

Trofim Lysenko Looks Down and Smiles Alistair Crooks

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2021/01/trofim-lysenko-looks-down-and-smiles/

” I would argue that modern scientists have re-discovered that their science, their theories, their working hypotheses, are not required to be ‘correct’, just as Spengler observed, only that they be ‘practical’. They have discovered that as long as their pronouncements service the political ends of their funders, the role of scientist-as-political-advocate is both much more lucrative and much less mentally taxing than being correct in the old-fashioned scientific sense. They have decided to leverage their scientific credibility in the pursuit of power in the political domain. One can only wonder if they have heard of a Russian scientist by name of Trofim Lysenko and the disdain with which he and his twisted, Kremlin-endorsed theories are held today.”

Reading Quadrant Online and Peter Smith’s recent posting ‘Never Let a Good Panic go to Waste’ [i], it has become apparent there is a post-modern aspect to the way science is performed that requires some explanation. This paragraph of Peter’s particularly caught my eye.

You will recall an article in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter reporting on an analysis by Genevieve Briand (assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins), claiming on the basis of her analysis of CDC data that “in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.” (the retracted article reporting Briand’s conclusions can still be read here)

Is this really the way modern medical science is performed? Yes, apparently.

I have written about some of this recently in Quadrant Online articles, [ii] but I hope readers will be tolerant if they have seen some of this before, as I believe I now grasp there is an important conclusion to be drawn that wasn’t clear to me before.

The Religious Transformation of French Schools by Giulio Meotti

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16972/france-schools-religion

In France, a low-intensity war is bubbling, aimed at radicalizing education.

At the Pierre Mendès France School in Saumur, a student told his teacher, “My father will behead you”. It has become impossible even to make a precise list of these incidents. They occur every day in France.

“Faced with Islamist intimidation, what should the free world do?” — Title of Robert Redeker’s column in Le Figaro in 2006. A few days later, he began receiving death threats.

If extremists have managed to intimidate France’s schools and universities, why should they not be able to subdue all of society?

“Unlike you, Colonel, and so many others, Mila will never submit”, wrote the French teenager’s father to her school’s principal in a letter published by Le Point. On January 18, 2020 Mila O., then 16 years old, made insulting comments about Islam during her Instagram livestream.

“During her livestream, a Muslim boy asked her out in the comments, but she turned him down because she is gay. He responded by accusing her of racism and calling her a ‘dirty lesbian’. In an angry follow-up video, streamed immediately after she was insulted, Mila responded by saying that she ‘hates religion'”.

Mila continued: “The Koran is a religion of hatred; there is only hatred in it… Islam is sh*t…” Since then, she has received approximately 50,000 messages and letters that contain threats to rape her, slit her throat, torture and behead her. She has had to keep moving from one school to another.

Why You Should Be Furious But Also Not Shocked By Biden’s COVID Agenda Admission Matt Vespa

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/01/23/why-you-should-be-furious-but-also-not-shocked-by-bidens-covid-agenda-admission-n2583592

I mean, are you shocked by this revelation? Joe Biden pretty much says he no immediate plan to combat the coronavirus. None. It can be summed up in six words: “there is nothing we can do.” 

Okay, that’s not exactly fair. He said, there is nothing we can do for several months. We’re in cruise control, but that’s not what he sold on the campaign trail. He didn’t say we’re going to coast for the better part of a year with no plan to voters. It was I’m going to stop it and Trump is at fault. He should take responsibility. If you elect me, I will be the COVID killer. All of this said while he doled out talking points that mirror exactly what the Trump administration’s plan was with COVID management. 

A ‘Cleansing’ Moment How television journalists engage the Trump movement. By Lloyd Billingsley

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/22/a-cleansing-moment/

“The fact is that getting rid of Trump is the easy part. Cleansing the movement he commands, or getting rid of what he represents to so many Americans, is going to be something else.” 

So said Rick Klein and MaryAlice Parks of ABC News. They later changed the wording to “cleaning up,” but the “cleansing” cat was already out of the bag. This calls for more reflection than Klein and Parks were willing to indulge.  

As the late George Carlin observed, America boasts more than 50 brands of breakfast cereal but when it comes to major political parties, the nation is pretty much down to two. That forces some hard choices, as Ted Rall explained in “Hey Lefties, Hillary Clinton is Not Your Friend.”  

In 2016, Marcella Aburdene, then a 31-year-old market researcher with a Palestinian father, told Slate that Clinton “is disingenuous and she lies blatantly,” and would not get her vote. Songwriter Margo Guryan Rosner was irritated by Hillary’s quip about staying home and baking cookies.  

Not all those who rejected Hillary voted for Trump, but here are some Democrats who did: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, former CIA director James Woolsey, and former Justice Department lawyer Adam Walinsky, who also wrote speeches for Robert F. Kennedy. Trump would not have been elected if many other Democrats had not joined them. 

The Trump movement has a diverse side, so before they call for “cleansing,” Klein and Parks might interview someone like Walinsky, who could explain his decision. Klein and Parks betray no effort to engage any Trump supporter before calling for “cleansing,” a euphemism for deadly violence, as in the Balkans, Rwanda, and other places. 

[WATCH] Freudian Slip: Chuck Schumer Says ‘Donald Trump Incited the Erection’

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2021/01/22/watch-freudian-slip-chuck-schumer-says-donald-trump-incited-the-erection-n1405398

We know that Democrats have had very strong feelings for Donald Trump from the first day he took office, but we had no idea they would finally admit it out loud. On Friday, Chuck Schumer said out loud, in the world’s greatest deliberative body, “Senators will have to decide if Donald John Trump incited the erection.”

Biden Admin Already Caught Lying About the COVID Vaccine By Bryan Preston

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/01/22/biden-admin-already-caught-lying-about-the-covid-vaccine-n1405435

Feel the unity…

CNN’s MJ Lee reported Thursday that the Biden administration claimed it was having to “start from scratch” on rolling out the COVID vaccine.

That would be the vaccine that was developed under Operation Warp Speed and began distribution to the states in December. Both of those things happened under the Trump administration. Argue all you want, but those are simply facts and they do not care about your feelings about Trump.

According to Lee’s story:

“…in the immediate hours following Biden being sworn into office on Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge of the new administration’s Covid-related work told CNN one of the biggest shocks that the Biden team had to digest during the transition period was what they saw as a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under former President Donald Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States.

“There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,” one source said.

Another source described the moment that it became clear the Biden administration would have to essentially start from “square one” because there simply was no plan as: “Wow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence.”

Who are these “sources” and why doesn’t Lee name them? Why don’t they go on the record if what they’re saying is true? What’s CNN’s policy on using unnamed sources? Having written for CNN in the past, I know the site has editors. Where were they?

Seattle Business Owners Fed Up With Officials for Not Condemning Antifa Violence By Rick Moran

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/01/22/seattle-business-owners-fed-up-with-officials-for-not-condemning-antifa-violence-n1405588

Downtown Seattle business owners have had all they can take from their local government’s inexplicable failure to condemn the riots and get them under control. The last straw was the night of the inauguration, when dozens of storefronts were vandalized by rampaging antifa members—and not a peep was heard from city leaders.

More than that, the city hasn’t lifted a finger to help struggling companies. Between the draconian lockdown rules set by the governor and the riots, 160 businesses in the city have closed, according to the Downtown Seattle Association. Many of them are barely hanging on.

KoMo News:

“It’s not clear what their message is,” said Gabby Cavalcanti of Bellevue. “You don’t know what to make of it.”

“They need to arrest these people,” said John Hummer in Seattle. “When they without any consequences, they’re going to keep doing it.”

Dorelea Gaffney owns the soap box in Pike Place Market.

She said she feels violated and defenseless because of the damage done to neighboring businesses by vandals.

“It’s not hurting anyone but us, small business owners,” Gaffney said.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, even now, can’t bring herself to use the term “antifa.”

Trump could (…and Biden can’t) By Peter Skurkiss

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/trump_could_and_biden_cant.html

Donald Trump has often said that he achieved more in his first term than any other president. That is not exactly true, at least not without a qualifier. The fact is FDR and LBJ both accomplished more in their first terms with their New Deal and Great Society programs, respectively. These initiatives dramatically changed government’s relationship with the country in revolutionary ways. But the changes they birthed  were not for the better whereas Trump’s were. So it is more accurate to say that Trump accomplished more positive things in his first term than any other president. 

What makes what Trump’s accomplishments off-the-chart impressive is the resistance he faced. The Democrats were not just the loyal opposition but a collection of radical progressives who proved time and time again that they were more than willing to damage the country to hurt the president. The Democrats got away with their anti-America actions due to their symbiotic relationship with the mainstream media. Instead of examining the damage Democrats were doing to the country, the media poured out lies, distortions and ridicule nonstop against President Trump. The intended coup de grâce to MAGA was the sneaky and backhanded resistance to it by the Republican establishment. 

Yet through it all, Trump got things done for the American people. How did this happen? The answer is multifaceted, with a critical aspect being that Trump was an outsider. This was both a blessing and a curse. Let’s focus on the blessing part.

America Is (Not So) Slowly Turning Communist Red By Eileen F. Toplansky

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/america_is_not_so_slowly_turning_communist_red.html

Perhaps the most contemptible action of the Democrats, and there have been so many, is the desire to completely erase Trump and, by extension, his MAGA movement. 

So now “more than 250 authors, editors, agents, professors and others in the American literary community signed an open letter this week opposing any publisher who signs book deals with President Donald Trump or members of his administration.”  Such actions can only be described as emulating a dog gone mad.  It is rabies of the mind and soul.  Clearly, their politics supersede economics, and everything is upside-down in this madness. 

That people involved with ideas and  books would inveigh against the publishing of important thoughts is mind-boggling!  Even more disturbing is the ease with which they lie.  For the umpteenth time, Trump did not cage any children; Obama did, but why let the facts get in the way of left-wing censorship?

In addition, Texas Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro announced “that he would be introducing legislation that would prevent any federal buildings or property from ever being named after President Trump.”  

In lockstep with tyrants, Castro displays the most hideous of instincts as he states, “President Trump incited an insurrection that damaged some of our nation’s most significant and sacred federal property.  Donald Trump should never become a future generation’s confederate symbol.”

How ironic that his last name is Castro, mastermind of communist Cuba and purveyor of the horrors that Cubans have endured for the past 60 years.  How stunning that he perverts history.  How very 1984. 

Then there is Ocasio-Cortez, who has decided that she and her allies will be the arbiters of what Americans will be able to access.  “We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation.  It’s one thing to have differing opinions, but it’s another thing entirely to just say things that are false.  And so that’s something that we’re looking into.”  This from a woman who in 2019 told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes that she was less worried about making factual statements and more focused on prioritizing morality.