Daily News Roundup

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Victor Davis Hanson author and contributor to American Greatness: This governmental freefall is overseen by a tragically bewildered, petulant, and incompetent president. In his confusion, an increasingly unpopular Joe Biden seems to believe his divisive chaos is working, belittling his political opponents as racist Confederate rebels. As we head into the 2022 midterm elections, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division—and self-inflicted madness?

Christopher Rufo author: : Progressives are re-segregating American institutions under the guise of “racial equity.”

Rick Moran contributor to PJ Media: What sort of identification do you need to fly from a U.S. airport? According to the Transporation Security Agency (TSA), there are 16 forms of ID you can use to board an airplane. Generally, they include any government-issued ID like a driver’s license or a passport as well as military IDs, transportation worker cards, and a border crossing card. And, if you’re an illegal alien and can’t manufacture your own ID or buy it, you can use your government-issued arrest warrant.

SCOTUSblog 1/19/33 tweet: JUST IN. SCOTUS releases a short joint statement from Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch: “Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends.”

Sundance contributor to  Conservative Treehouse: If controlling human activity is the goal, and yes, the various climate change and global planet survival frauds are at the heart of this effort, which would include the long-term goal of removing anonymous online or digital activity, then a larger reset to register all persons would require a massive global movement and need some justification.  The pandemic provides that entry point.  The COVID passport becomes the digital ID. The virus provides the fear needed for a global vaccination program.  The mandatory vaccination program then provides the tool for registration of identity.  The registered identity then becomes the gateway for a digital identification… which, as outlined, is then used to register, monitor, track and ultimately control, a global population.

Jessica Rose received her PhD in computational biology from the Bar-Ilan University in Israel:   In the past, 50 reports of deaths in VAERS would prompt authorities to hit the breaks and investigate. that should have happened with the COVID-19 vaccines a year ago.

Peachy Keene contributor to The American Mind:  . . .the never-ending mental burden of thinking about Covid weighs on us all. This is the last stage of the pandemic: our inability to cut this useless ballast from our hearts and float free. It is still the main message in the media, the big stick the Regime is using to beat us on the daily.

Peachy Keene contributor to The American Mind:  When the Faucimoms are finally put to rest as old women, will they stipulate that their rotting corpses wear masks?  Based on how they are treating their children, I doubt there will be anyone at their funerals to object.

John Hindraker contributor to Powerline Blog:  . . .perhaps most chilling is the willingness of 48% of Democrats to throw people in jail who question the efficacy of existing vaccines. In the first place, such thinking evinces a total disregard for the First Amendment and the broader social value of free speech. In the second place, those who question the efficacy of vaccines are right. They don’t keep you from getting covid, they don’t stop the spread of covid, and such effectiveness as they have doesn’t last long. Those facts are, to my knowledge, undisputed, and yet by 48% to 46%, Democrats favor imprisoning those who mention them.

Vinay Prasad contributor to City Journal : Throughout the pandemic, medical and scientific institutions have disseminated dubious advice, flawed studies, and even outright falsehoods.

FBI

Ortiz: FBI Raids Texas Border Home of U.S. Congressman

Cuellar is one of the few Democratic congressmen who has been vocal about the crisis at the border and the lack of action by the Biden administration. Federal authorities raided the house of U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar in Laredo, Texas, on Wednesday. Details of the raid remain unknown. “The FBI was present in the vicinity of Windridge Drive and Estate Drive in Laredo conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity,” the FBI revealed in a prepared statement. “The FBI cannot provide further comment on an ongoing investigation.” [ NOTE: Will Sinema and Manchin be next?}
Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/01/19/fbi-raids-texas-border-home-of-u-s-congressman/

JANUARY 6

Justice: Only 10 Percent Of J6 Committee Subpoenas Relate To The Capitol Riot
he House Select Committee established to probe the Capitol riot is not interested in probing the Capitol riot. According to a Federalist analysis of the 84 subpoenas publicly issued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee on Jan. 6, only 8 have targeted individuals or groups with any connection to the Capitol riot. The rest have taken aim at former government officials and private citizens in a smear campaign for exercising their constitutional right to protest. The 84 subpoenas do not include the more than 100 seeking the telephone records of individuals whose identities remain under seal, both from the public and from those whose privacy the committee seeks to violate. “Every member of this committee is dedicated to conducting a non-partisan, professional, and thorough investigation of all the relevant facts regarding January 6th,” said Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney upon accepting Pelosi’s appointment as vice chair. “We owe it to the American people to investigate everything that led up to, and transpired on January 6th.” Except the committee absent of Republican-appointments at Pelosi’s direction is far from non-partisan, and the probe’s investigation is far from focused on the security failures at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/20/only-10-percent-of-j6-committee-subpoenas-relate-to-the-capitol-riot/

JUDICIARY

Daley: Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid To Quash Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas
Justice Clarence Thomas was the only member to note his dissent. The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to quash subpoenas for White House records relating to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Trump attempted to invoke executive privilege to stop the House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack from accessing a trove of documents relating to Trump’s activities on Jan. 6 and those of his top confidants. The Court’s brief decision was unsigned and Justice Clarence Thomas was the only member to note his dissent. Wednesday’s decision signals a new phase for the committee’s work, which thus far has struggled to penetrate Trump’s inner circle. The papers the panel is seeking will help them reconstruct the ex-president’s activities ahead of Jan. 6, and could leverage some of his former aides into cooperating. Some, like former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, have refused the committee’s requests for depositions and documents, citing Trump’s assertions of privilege.
Read more: https://freebeacon.com/courts/supreme-court-rejects-trumps-bid-to-quash-jan-6-committee-subpoenas/

Daley: Legal Group Sues New York State Over Race-Based COVID Treatment
A conservative legal group aligned with former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller is suing New York state’s top public health official over her directive to make minority patients automatically eligible for scarce COVID-19 therapeutics. America First Legal filed a lawsuit this week against acting New York health commissioner Mary Bassett, who in December issued a memo encouraging health care providers to treat race as a factor that increases a patient’s risk of severe COVID. New York’s guidance dictates that white patients cannot obtain COVID antivirals unless they have a medical condition that increases their risk for severe infection, such as obesity or diabetes. On the other hand, minority patients can obtain them simply by virtue of their race, regardless of other risk factors. “Non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor, as longstanding systemic health and social inequities have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19,” the state’s guidance reads. Progressives have infused race into almost every dimension of public health policy, from economic stimulus to frontline care. President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion COVID stimulus package included reparations for minority farmers and a grant program for struggling restaurants that prioritized non-white applicants. […]  The case is Jacobson v. Bassett in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Read more: https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/legal-group-sues-new-york-state-over-race-based-covid-treatment/

2020 ELECTION

Hoft: EXCLUSIVE: The Fact that Arizona Attorney General Brnovich Has Done Nothing with Criminal Activities Identified in 2020 Election Audit is REPREHENSIBLE
Arizona AG Mark Brnovich acts tough.  He is happy to show that he knows how to use nunchucks.  He thinks this makes him tough.  But the fact is that Brnovich was given a platter full of criminal acts and activities related to the 2020 Election and he has done nothing.  He’s proving that he’s the opposite of tough.
In September a group of individuals in Arizona identified thousands of issues related to voters who reportedly voted in the 2020 Election.  This group estimated that nearly 300,000 votes in Maricopa County in the 2020 Election were questionable and very possibly fraudulent.
Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/exclusive-fact-arizona-attorney-general-brnovich-done-nothing-criminal-activities-identified-2020-election-audit-reprehensible/

2022 ELECTION

Talcott: Biden Says Upcoming Elections Could ‘Easily Be Illegitimate’
The president, speaking to reporters at a formal press conference at the White House, was asked about the passage of his election bills and whether he believes the upcoming election would be fair without them. Biden appeared to dodge directly answering, telling the nation it “depends . . .” […]  “Oh yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate. Imagine, imagine if in fact, Trump is succeeded in convincing … to not count the votes,” Biden said. “Imagine if those attempts to say that the count was not legit, you have to recount it and were … going to discard the following votes. Im not saying it’s gonna be legit. The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is a direct proportion to us not been able to get these reforms passed.”
Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/19/joe-biden-election-results-midterms-voting-bills/

Mucha: Scoop: Jill Biden expands communications team ahead of midterms
Jill Biden is expanding her communications team in anticipation of increased demand for the first lady ahead of this fall’s midterm elections, Axios has learned. Why it matters: First ladies are often more popular than their husbands and become valuable surrogates during elections. Kelsey Donohue, who worked as an assistant press secretary for first lady Michelle Obama, will join the three-person communications team.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/jill-biden-comms-team-midterms-7e43a327-b8e0-4bab-a41a-051b650adc9f.html

GOP

Simonson: Florida bill to shield people from feeling ‘discomfort’ over historic actions by their race, nationality or gender approved by Senate committee
A bill backed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit Florida’s public schools and private businesses from making people feel “discomfort” or “guilt” based on their race, sex or national origin received first approval Tuesday by the state’s Senate Education Committee. The Republican-controlled committee approved the bill with six Republican senators in favor of the bill and three Democratic senators opposed to it. Although the bill, named “Individual Freedom,” does not mention Critical Race Theory, the term is used in the attached bill analysis that was given to senators. […]  The legislation would prohibit individuals from making people “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.” It would also prohibit employers from providing training or instruction that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” individuals to believe “that an individual bears responsibility for, or should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex or national origin.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/us/florida-education-critical-race-theory-bill/index.html

Christopher Rufo 1/19/22 tweet: Glenn Youngkin has asked all of the state’s DEI employees to resign and tapped anti-critical race theory leader Angela Sailor to lead the department. In her first move, Sailor eliminated the word “equity” and replaced it with “opportunity.” [NOTE: DEI – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]  https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1483881640808132609?cxt=HHwWgsC9kbGf55cpAAAA

Gentile: Is Biden getting new neighbors? Legislation proposed to send illegal immigrants to Delaware
Mario Scavello, a Republican, filed a memorandum for the legislation, which takes inspiration from a previous proposal in Florida. Scavello also invited his fellow state lawmakers to back the proposal. “In the very near future, I intend to introduce legislation to address the influx of illegal immigrants being relocated into Pennsylvania,” Scavello wrote. “This legislation is in response to many news reports and many concerned citizens who have reached out to my office regarding the relocation of illegal immigrants into their communities in the past, now and in the future.” The president has been subjected to harsh criticism regarding his handling of the southern border crisis, and Scavello’s efforts are simply the latest in Republican-led backlash.
Read more: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/is-biden-getting-new-neighbors-legislation-proposed-to-send-illegal-immigrants-to-delaware

Brooks: GOP rejects intelligence committee COVID-19 testing request from Adam Schiff
Republicans say they will not comply with a new request from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff that members of the committee show proof of a negative COVID-19 test before joining a regular meeting to conduct business. “Chairman Schiff believes the members of Congress should be tested just to show up for work, and we will not comply,” Ohio Rep. Mike Turner, the Republican ranking member on the intelligence committee, said in a press conference Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/gop-rejects-intelligence-committee-covid-19-testing-request-from-adam-schiff

Hoft: GOP Senate Candidate Dr. Oz Challenges Dr. Fauci to COVID Debate – Promises to Fight Against the Medical Industrial Complex (VIDEO)
On Tuesday Dr. Oz joined Greg Kelly on Newsmax TV. This was after he challenged Dr. Tony Fauci to a debate on his failed pandemic policy and numerous lies. Dr. Oz weighed in on the Pennsylvania election. He also promised to take on the Medical Industrial Complex.
Watch the 6:25 minute interview: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/gop-senate-candidate-dr-oz-challenges-dr-fauci-covid-debate-promises-fight-medical-industrial-complex-video/

FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL

Prasad: Public Health’s Truth Problem
Throughout the pandemic, public-health officials have omitted uncomfortable truths, made misleading statements, and advanced demonstrably false assertions. In the information era, where what one says is easily accessible and anyone may read primary literature, these falsehoods will be increasingly recognized and severely damage the field’s credibility. No doubt, officials and organizations promulgating them had a range of motivations—including honorable ones, such as wanting to encourage salutary choices. Yet the subsequent loss of institutional trust may result in harm that far outweighs any short-term policy objectives. Consider some messages the field has promoted to the public over the last two years and their shaky relationship with the truth.
Read more: https://www.city-journal.org/public-healths-truth-problem

Bartow: Fauci Helped Loosen Already Weak Rules For Risky Virus Research
Discussing new rules for risky virus research when they were finalized a few years ago, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci acknowledged, “I don’t think this is going to be foolproof, things are going to slip through.” As senators sparred yet again with Fauci at a congressional hearing last week, he stated that his agency has followed the regulations for funding “gain of function” research, which can make certain viruses more deadly or transmissible. But he obfuscated how he played a role in creating those same regulations, which officials and some scientists say are too weak.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/20/fauci-helped-loosen-already-weak-rules-for-risky-virus-research/

Keene: Your Pandemic is Over
I bought my first box of N95 masks on January 20, 2020. They have been sitting in my closet for two years unworn—until this week, when they suddenly became required at my husband’s office.
Back in early 2020, I was ready for the apocalypse. I had two of those gas masks with the pink filters. I sprayed Amazon boxes down. I shopped in gloves. I pulled my children out of school 10 days before school shut down in March 2020. Just six months before, we had survived a mini-pandemic in my household. In the summer of 2019, my teenage son came back from sleepaway camp with a bad cough. It worsened until one night I found him gasping for breath . . . […]  The crack team at the county health department called me to do some contact tracing. I asked her how in the world we could have gotten whooping cough if they were all vaccinated. She told me that because of some serious side effects, the dose had been lowered a few years ago, “and honestly it doesn’t really work anymore.” I could not believe my ears. Why was this not known? […]  When I finally caved and got a Covid vaccine, […]  But, my one puny shot and I finally surrendered to viral load at a Thanksgiving dinner superspreader event. Everyone who got sick from the dinner had been vaccinated. The unvaccinated were totally unaffected, including my five-year old. Not even a sniffle,
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/your-pandemic-is-over/

BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL VACCINE MANDATE

Sundance: NBC Reports the U.S. Trucker Vaccine Mandate Scheduled for January 22nd May Collapse Supply Chain for Food and Auto Parts
Perhaps the mainstream media is starting to wake up.  NBC is now reporting that cross-border auto parts and food shipments may start being disrupted as the trucker vaccine mandate begins.  Approximately 60 to 75% of all U.S. truckers are not vaccinated.  The cross-border vaccine mandate for American truckers begins January 22nd as part of the Dept of Homeland Security protocol.
Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/19/nbc-reports-the-u-s-trucker-vaccine-mandate-scheduled-for-january-22nd-may-collapse-supply-chain-for-food-and-auto-parts/

Laila: Starbucks Nixes Covid Vaccine Requirement After Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden OSHA Mandate
Starbucks on Tuesday announced it will no longer require employees to be vaccinated against Covid after the Supreme Court ruling.
Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/starbucks-nixes-covid-vaccine-requirement-supreme-court-strikes-biden-osha-mandate/

TRANSHUMANISM: A NEW RELIGION

Transhumanism is a “technoprogressive” socio-political and intellectual movement that advocates for the use of technology in order to transform the human organism radically, with the ultimate goal of becoming “posthuman.”

Macaes: Enter the Metaverse
The immediate appeal of the metaverse is that it promises to marshal the virtues of digital life, while addressing many of its shortcomings. Instead of business meetings on Zoom, imagine entering a digital room and talking to our colleagues around a virtual table, or even walking together in an electronically conjured garden. I imagine the metaverse as a virtual world with some of the characteristics of a city. There will be virtual malls, where users can move from store to store and buy the products that will later be delivered to their physical homes—a big improvement in digital shopping over the flat webpage. There will be virtual beaches where we can meet our friends to chat and play, much like what Fortnite already offers today, only much better. There will be concerts and art galleries. Is there a reason to travel physically to Venice to visit the Biennale instead of jumping into the metaverse and enjoying all the art and video installations with the latest fully immersive technology? Traveling to exotic locations could happen while we sit in our own living room. It’s easy to imagine the growth of a new digital economy, where creators will be less dependent on mediators of all kinds. Barriers to entry will likely be lower, and audiences potentially much larger, than in the real world.  […] It is no coincidence that the metaverse as a practical project emerged out of the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic. The concept is older, tracing its origins to such science fiction classics as Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, but the last two years have transformed it into an actual business proposition, capable of dictating a name change for Facebook (now Meta) and moving billions of dollars in capital markets.  […] The metaverse represents the most recent battle between human freedom and the constraints of reality. It could also become a battle to define reality itself.
Read more: https://www.city-journal.org/enter-the-metaverse

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY

Mirengoff: BIDEN INVITES RUSSIAN INCURSION INTO UKRAINE
During Joe Biden’s lengthy press conference today, the subject of a possible Russian military action against Ukraine came up. Asked what his response to such an action would be, Biden said Russia would be “held accountable,” a meaningless phrase. He added that our response will depend on the scope of a Russian invasion: I think what you’re going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades, and it depends on what it does. It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not to do. But if they actually do what they’re capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine. “Fight about what to do” with whom? Our NATO allies. As Biden later explained: . . . […]  Vladimir Putin must be pleased to know what Biden really thinks.
Read more: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/biden-invites-russian-incursion-into-ukraine.php

The Right Scoop: CNN: Ukrainian officials SHOCKED over Biden’s comments about Russia –To say they were displeased when they heard those comments would be an understatement. One of the officials I spoke to said that he was shocked when he heard President Biden draw a distinction between an incursion and an invasion. And to suggest that if there was some kind of minor incursion into Ukrainian territory, then that would be treated differently and illicit lesser sanctions than a major invasion.
Read more: https://therightscoop.com/cnn-ukrainian-officials-shocked-over-bidens-comments-about-russia-video/

Stewart & Lewis: Six Russian landing ships sail past Britain sparking speculation they are bound for impending ‘full-scale invasion’ of Ukraine as Kiev warns Putin has ‘nearly completed’ troop build-up
Russia‘s Baltic Fleet vessels the Korolev, Minsk and Kaliningrad were today sailing south past the UK followed by Northern Fleet warships Olenegorsky Gornyak, Pyotr Morgunov, and Georgii Pobedonosets which passed the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark on Monday. The ships, which can each carry up to 25 armoured personnel carriers, were deployed three days ago but it remains unclear if they are heading for Ukraine. The region has been on a knife-edge since the end of last year when Moscow moved as many as 100,000 troops, as well as tanks and missiles, close to the border.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10417951/Six-Russian-landing-ships-sail-past-Britain-sparking-speculation-bound-Ukraine.html

Hier & Cooper: 80 years later, the world remembers to forget Holocaust origins
Hitler wrote: “The uncompromising removal of the Jews altogether” could be accomplished only “under a government of National strength and never under a government of National impotence.”  In the chaotic aftermath of Germany’s defeat, no one could predict that Hitler would amass the power to see his hatred become a formal government policy two decades later.[…]  The importance of the Wannsee Conference cannot be overstated. It marked the point at which Hitler’s plans for genocide were shared with Germany’s major ministries. It also demonstrated the need for the participation of those bureaucracies to accomplish genocide. Just as important, the summary typed at the end of the conference — the Wannsee Protocol — is the only document in history codifying genocide as official state policy. The Wannsee Conference took fewer than 90 minutes to devise a plan to wipe out an entire population in Europe. It took place not in some backward country, but in one of the world’s most technologically and scientifically advanced societies. Eighty years later, the world must not ignore the Wannsee legacy. Everyone should read and ponder the Wannsee Protocol. Never again should anyone confuse being educated with having morals. Some of Germany’s most educated enthusiastically followed Hitler, and educated people today still forge strategies to legitimize crimes in the name of a greater good. Never again should leaders of democracies turn a blind eye to evils unleashed against innocents by governments such as Communist China or Iran’s mullahcracy, with the hope that somehow playing pussyfoot with tyrants will change the course of history. That didn’t work for Neville Chamberlain and it won’t work now. Finally, in the Middle East we cannot expect Israel, the Gulf States and Egypt to accept a new Iran nuclear deal. A nuclearized ayatollah would . .
Read more: https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/589546-80-years-later-the-world-remembers-to-forget-holocaust-origins

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Nelson: Biden insists he pressed China’s Xi on COVID origin — but aides weren’t in the room
Despite his press team being unaware of it, President Biden insisted he pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping to be transparent about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden made the claim Wednesday in response to a question from The Post at just his second solo press briefing in a year — insisting the press staff, who have previously been asked the same question, weren’t aware of the key exchange because they weren’t in the room. Biden called on The Post more than an hour into the event in the White House East Room and defended his handling of XI during the November summit.
But given no one on his press team was there, Americans will just have to take his word for it.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/biden-insists-he-pressed-chinas-xi-on-covid-origin-but-aides-werent-in-room/

Kredo: Haley: Biden Admin Putting US Athletes at Risk in China
The Biden administration is endangering U.S. athletes who plan to travel to China for the 2022 Beijing Olympics amid a new warning from the Chinese Communist Party that it will punish foreigners for making political statements, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley told the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday.  “No one should be the least bit surprised that China is threatening our athletes and warning them against criticizing their communist government,” Haley said. “President Biden’s diplomatic boycott means nothing to a regime that’s imprisoning activists and committing genocide without consequences. Our athletes are at risk, and yet we’ve heard nothing from the administration on what they plan to do to protect them.” Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, has emerged in recent months as one of the most prominent critics of the Beijing Games and has repeatedly laid into the Biden administration for capitulating to China.
Read more: https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/haley-biden-admin-putting-us-athletes-at-risk-in-china/

Brennan: NBC won’t send sports announcing teams to 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to COVID-19</strong
“The announce teams for these Olympics, including figure skating, will be calling events from our Stamford (Conn.) facility due to COVID concerns,” Greg Hughes, senior vice president communications, NBC Sports, said in a phone interview. “We’ll still have a large presence on the ground in Beijing and our coverage of everything will be first rate as usual, but our plans are evolving by the day as they are for most media companies covering the Olympics.” NBC’s broadcasting teams for figure skating, Alpine skiing and snowboarding had been expected to be in Beijing, but those plans have been canceled.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2022/01/19/winter-olympics-2022-nbc-tv-beijing-covid-19/6585943001/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

VDH: Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?
In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it. Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities. They feel their streets are unsafe. Laws go unenforced or are enforced inequitably. Everyday things stop working. The government turns from reliable to capricious if not hostile. Consider contemporary Venezuela. By 2010, the once well-off oil-exporting country was mired in a self-created mess. Food became scarce, crime ubiquitous. Radical socialism, nationalization, corruption, jailing opponents, and the destruction of constitutional norms were the culprits. Between 2009 and 2016, a once relatively stable Greece nearly became a Third World country. So did Great Britain in its socialist days of the 1970s.  Joe Biden’s young presidency may already be leading the United States into a similar meltdown.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/19/is-america-heading-for-a-systems-collapse/

Reynolds: A Scandal For Every Month: The Biggest Botches, Failures, And Mess-Ups Of Joe Biden’s First 12 Months In Office
It’s not hard to remember a Biden disaster for every month of his first year at the stern … or in the basement, as the case may be. Joe Biden has been in the Oval Office (or that weird set in the Eisenhower building’s South Court auditorium with the greenscreen windows) for a year now, and he’s already managed to make his short presidency known for a long line-up of scandals, botches, and slip-ups. It’s too hard to narrow the list down to one top failure, although his disgracefully handled Afghanistan withdrawal may be the most sobering and inflation may be the one that played the biggest role in Biden’s tanking approval ratings. Even though Biden’s mess-ups tally up to far more than 12, it’s not hard to remember a Biden-enabled disaster for every month of the septuagenarian’s first year at the stern … or in the basement. January: Biden’s Radical First Week   On his first day in office, . . . February: Biden’s CDC Worked to Keep Schools Closed . . . March: . . .
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/20/a-scandal-for-every-month-the-biggest-botches-failures-and-mess-ups-of-joe-bidens-first-12-months-in-office/

Hubbard: Senate Democrats fail to change filibuster, handing Biden stinging defeat on voting legislation
Senate Democrats failed twice on Wednesday night to pass their signature legislation to nationalize elections, handing President Joe Biden a stinging defeat that was delivered in part by two centrists in his own party. The second vote came late Wednesday night when the Senate refused to change the filibuster rules in a 52-48 vote. Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.V.) and Krysten Sinema (Ariz.) voted with Republicans to keep the filibuster rules, rejecting their party’s bid to end the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation in the chamber.
Read more:   https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-republicans-block-voting-rights-bill-schumer-joining-nays

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN

Hoft: New West Charter School LA Caught Abusing Young Unvaccinated Girls – Denied Chairs, Forced to Sit Outside on Pavement, Not Allowed to Use Restrooms
School police are seen outside the warning tape guarding the area. One little girl describes the abuse: “I’m a student at New West Charter School and I’m here with five other girls. Four of them are freshmen, one is a junior and I’m a sophomore. And we are being threatened to be suspended because we don’t have the COVID 19 vaccine. And we’re being refused of the right to attend school… And we’re being closed off by this caution tape thing. We’re being segregated from the rest of the school.”
Read more/Watch the 30 second video: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/update-new-west-charter-school-la-caught-abusing-young-unvaccinated-girls-parents-organize-protest-school-today-1-pm/

Griffith: Loudoun County schools chief of staff is OUT following scandal over district’s handling of sexual assault complaints including girl raped in a bathroom by skirt-wearing teen boy
The chief of staff for Loudoun County Public Schools in northern Virginia is no longer in that role following high-profile controversies, including sexual assault allegations against a teenager known as the ‘boy in a skirt’. Chief of Staff Mark Smith had also been the district’s Title IX Coordinator, responsible for compliance with federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools, and had faced harsh criticism over his performance. Asked about Smith’s departure, which was first reported on Wednesday by WJLA-TV, a district spokesperson simply said ‘the position is vacant’ and declined further comment.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10420451/Loudoun-County-schools-chief-staff-Mark-Smith-following-controversies.html

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CRT (WOKE IDENTITY POLITICS)

Rufo: THE GHOST OF JIM CROW
This year, the new segregation has extended itself into new domains: public education and public-health policy. In Denver, Centennial Elementary School launched a racially exclusive “Families of Color Playground Night” as part of its racial equity programming. In Chicago, Downs Grove South High School held a racially exclusive “Students of Color Field Trip” as part of its own equity initiatives. In the words of Denver Public Schools officials, the administrators implemented the segregated program to “create a space of belonging,” which, they said, without a hint of irony, is “about uniting us, not dividing us.” The new segregation has also been implemented in public health-care systems, with state and federal agencies denying Covid vaccines and treatment to individuals based on race. This trend began last year, when Vermont provided the vaccine to all members of racial minorities over age 16 but denied it for whites without specific age or health conditions. Later, New York State, Minnesota, Utah, and the federal government adopted health policies that explicitly discriminate against whites, rationing Covid treatments based on race. (After public outcry, Minnesota recently backtracked on this policy, and Utah announced that it is “reevaluating” its policy, but both Utah’s and New York’s arrangements remain in place as of this writing.) The most common justification for the new segregation is…..
Read more: https://christopherrufo.com/the-ghost-of-jim-crow/

Simon: When It Comes to Hate Crime Hoaxes, Muslims Are Not Exempt
efore the recent incident in Texas, where a Muslim Pakistani British national held hostage a Jewish congregation inside a temple and was ultimately killed by authorities, had even concluded, Michigan’s liberal Attorney General Dana Nessel blamed the situation on “white supremacists.” Joe Biden, upon being asked about the situation, said: “We don’t have—I don’t think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue or why he insisted on the release of someone who’s been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged—why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments. I—we just don’t have enough facts.” In the aftermath of Muslim fanatics carrying out acts of terrorism in North America and Europe—with dozens of deaths and injuries, culminating in the 9/11 attack, but continuing thereafter—leftists sought to shield Muslims from the resentment of their victims, or their potential victims, by inventing the charge of “Islamophobia.” Of course, they made the term equivalent with—what else?—racism.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/19/when-it-comes-to-hate-crime-hoaxes-muslims-are-not-exempt/

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS DEMOCRATY PARTY’S MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Brufke: Trump says he has ‘very good relationship’ with DeSantis amid rumors of feud
Former President Trump dismissed rumors of a feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is seen as a potential contender to become Republican’s 2024 presidential nominee, telling reporters on Wednesday that he has “ a very good relationship” with the Florida Republican. His comments come in the wake of a recent Axios report stating that Trump has privately told confidants the Florida Governor has a “dull personality” and would face an uphill climb in beating him in a primary. Recent surveys show DeSantis has recently seen an uptick in the polls in a hypothetical 2024 primary, tightening the margin between a potential showdown between him and the former president. “Well, I have a very good relationship with Governor DeSantis you know, when he wanted to run, he asked for my support and I supported him and he went, you know, up immediately very, very high. You know, he won the election the day I announced that I was going to give him my endorsement,” he told reporters . . . […]  I have a very good relationship with him, and we’ve had that for a long time. I was very supportive of him and I continue to be — no, I think he’s good, I think he’s very good.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/trump-says-he-has-very-good-relationship-with-florida-gov-ron-desantis-amid-rumors-of-feud/

Kochin: Trump, DeSantis, and Kayfabe
here are apparently people out there who don’t understand that the New York Times story on the Trump-DeSantis feud is kayfabe. What is kayfabe, you ask? After more than six seasons of the Trump Show in national politics—in which we all were part of the studio audience—there is really little excuse for not knowing such a basic term of showmanship as “kayfabe,” a word taken from professional wrestling. Yet in faithfulness to my vocation as professor of the obvious in American politics, I will start by explaining it the same way my students would, by copying and pasting from Wikipedia: “the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged.”  […]  Are President Trump and Florida Governor DeSantis rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination? Well, the media and the pollsters would like them to be. Trump is flying around the country doing rallies. DeSantis, meanwhile, even if he is planning to run for president this time, has no better option than a “Tallahassee strategy”: DeSantis has to concentrate on governing Florida in the face of a deadly pandemic and the even more menacing malevolence of the Biden Administration, which plays politics with lifesaving COVID-19 therapeutics.  Beyond those manifest and public facts, everything you see in the media is kayfabe.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/19/trump-desantis-and-kayfabe/

Hemmingway: Why The Media’s Attempt To Split DeSantis And Trump Isn’t Working
It’s not an accident that corporate media are trying to pit former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis against each other. Among Republicans, the former president and current governor of Florida are popular for their policies and willingness to fight the media. That means they’re a threat to the establishment. But as clever as the media figures running the operation apparently thought they were, neither of the top Republicans took the bait, understanding that it only serves their political opponents’ interest to have them squabbling. […]  Whether it comes from the media or establishment figures, a Trump-DeSantis fight at this juncture serves the political enemies of conservative voters. They should heed DeSantis’s encouragement to focus on the work needed to secure not just electoral wins in November. If Republican voters want more politicians like Trump and DeSantis, and they clearly do, they should make sure to nominate them in key primaries before the November election.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/20/why-the-medias-attempt-to-split-desantis-and-trump-isnt-working/

Thornton: The Dems’ Media Turn on Biden
The Biden Administrations’ failures are so numerous and egregious, as Jim Geraghty catalogues, that court-scribes like the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN are turning on him. Even DNC heartthrob Stacey Abrams, chronic denier of election results, snubbed Biden when he came to Georgia.
The media’s new-found willingness to fulfill their self-proclaimed sacred charge to “afflict the comfortable” and “speak truth to power,” however, is driven not by a recovered fidelity to fact, evidence-based argument, and objectivity, but by Biden’s record-setting disapproval numbers, especially the declines among Latinos, independents, and young people––constituencies critical for the Democrats’ longed-for “permanent majority.”
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/01/dems-media-turn-biden-bruce-thornton/