No doubt Dems $1.9T 'American Rescue Plan' fueled inflation. So now, Dems are *not* touting it in campaign, NYT reports. Why? Because it has become 'fodder for Republican attacks.' Another reason: It fueled inflation. https://t.co/QpFZFepnGr
Yes those Republicans like former Obama Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and writers at Vox keep insisting that the American Rescue plan made inflation worse https://t.co/9Bcl9qbghBpic.twitter.com/V3kt1CsNid
Any adult who isn't willing to call out these books is on board with sexualizing young people while viewing sex as no more than a hedonistic pleasure & not an expression of intimacy & love that leads to healthy relationships.
“Just a few short weeks back, Biden stated that the “pandemic is over” as he toured the Detroit Auto Show maskless, noting everyone ‘seems to be in pretty good shape’.
But that was weeks ago, and things change. Like polls and inflation levels.
So Biden is bitterly clinging to his covid emergency powers for the next 90 days, well past the Nov. 8th election.
NBC Philadelphia reports:
The decision comes as the pandemic has faded from the forefront of many people’s minds. Daily deaths and infections are dropping and people — many of them maskless — are returning to schools, work and grocery stores as normal.
The public health emergency, first declared in January 2020 and renewed every 90 days since, has dramatically changed how health services are delivered.
The declaration enabled the emergency authorization of COVID vaccines, testing and treatments for free. It expanded Medicaid coverage to millions of people, many of whom who will risk losing that coverage once the emergency ends. It temporarily opened up telehealth access for Medicare recipients, enabling doctors to collect the same rates for those visits and encouraging health networks to adopt telehealth technology.
While the Biden administration might hope that the application of pandemic rules during the election season may be helpful to the Democrats, it is also important to follow the money. Especially with Biden.
The White House pushed for billions in funding to bolster those efforts as part of a short-term funding bill Congress is aiming to pass this week to avert a government shutdown.
But the request has drawn considerable pushback from Senate Republicans in recent weeks, who have pushed for the funding to be offset. Republicans also expressed more opposition to the funding in light of Biden’s recent comments declaring the COVID-19 pandemic “over.”
“If that’s true, I’m glad. And so why does he want tens of billions of dollars for COVID?” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters last week, speculating the comments “certainly makes it harder” for more coronavirus funding to be secured.
Earlier this month, the White House asked Congress for more than $22 billion in funding to address what it described as “critical” needs to fund COVID-19 response efforts, including dollars to procure more vaccines, offer free community testing, bolster research, and more.
And as we head into the winter, be prepared for the administration and its media minions to gin-up fear about the new “variants,” especially one that has recently been reported: XBB.
New variants of the rapidly mutating coronavirus are still popping up around the world, and a new iteration of COVID on the rise in Asia may be the most immune-evasive yet.
The XBB strain is causing a small surge in cases in countries like Bangladesh and Singapore. The latter has recorded a daily average of about 5,500 cases over the past week, compared to a daily average of 2,000 cases a month ago.”
“So what did they find? Did they uncover proof that Pfizer and Moderna actually had done those tests but the dog ate their homework? Nope. Nothing of the sort. Instead, they went the opposite route, saying that we were all mistaken about the vaccines and nobody ever claimed that they would prevent infections or transmission. All of you in the unwashed masses were simply confused, as usual.
Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were not required to do for initial regulatory approval, nor did they claim to have done.
To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Once the vaccines were on the market, independent researchers in multiple countries studied people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and did show that vaccination reduced transmission of variants circulating at the time…
The misleading posts imply that national restrictions such as vaccine passports were based on a promise of vaccines blocking virus spread that neither the companies nor EU regulators made before the vaccines were marketed.
Well, I’m certainly glad that’s all been cleared up, aren’t you? Stop blaming Pfizer and Moderna for taking billions upon billions of dollars to rush out those vaccines, along with a guarantee from the United States government that they could never be sued for anything that happened in the aftermath. Never mind for the moment that the medical definition of “vaccine” is, ‘a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases.’ (Emphasis added)
And what does “immunity” mean? ‘The ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin.” But why should we sit around and quibble over facts, right?
As with so many things in the fully politicized world of what passes for science these days, the defense being offered by Reuters completely missed the point. I haven’t seen any serious critics holding the feet of Pfizer and Moderna to the fire over this. They are upset over all of the people in power (who were supposed to know better) who very specifically and repeatedly said exactly what’s been charged here. They absolutely did say that the vaccines would prevent both infections and transmission.
Go back and look at this supercut of all the times we were told by multiple administration officials that if you’re vaccinated you won’t catch the virus and you won’t spread it. And here’s a greatest hits collection of just Joe Biden saying the same thing over and over and over and over again.”
“Granted, it wasn’t Pfizer or Moderna who told us this. It was Joe Biden (“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations”), Rochelle Walensky (“vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick”), Anthony Fauci (“vaccinated people become “dead ends” for the virus), and all the rest. Those are all direct quotes and they were repeated ad nauseam. Didn’t you assume they had at least talked to the pharma companies before saying that? I’m fairly confident that almost all of us did in the early stages.
So were they lying or merely incompetent? In retrospect, it doesn’t really matter. Either way, they were completely wrong and they based policies that crippled the entire nation on those “beliefs.” They also punished and frequently ruined the lives of people who would not comply with their demands – demands based on something that was patently false.
At the Daily Wire, Greg Wilson charitably points out that these fact-checkers are “missing the point.” People aren’t blaming Pfizer and Moderna. They are blaming the global governments who pushed these lies.”
Republicans have sued Pennsylvania officials after the state’s top elections official said mail-in ballots without dates will be accepted, in contravention to state law.
A group of Pennsylvania voters, the Republican National Committee, and the Pennsylvania Republican Party filed the lawsuit (pdf) with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, asking justices to quickly declare illegal guidance from the Pennsylvania Department of State regarding ballots that do not have dates.
Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State Leigh Chapman said Oct. 11 that “every county is expected to include undated ballots in their official returns for the Nov. 8 election, consistent with the Department of State’s guidance.” The guidance (pdf), last updated in September, says that “any ballot-return envelope that is undated or dated with an incorrect date but that has been timely received by the county shall be included” in the vote count.
State law says that any voter who uses an absentee or mail-in ballot must “fill out, date and sign the declaration” that is printed on the envelope used to submit such a ballot, Republicans noted in their suit.
“Petitioners ask the Court to issue a declaration that the date requirement is valid and mandatory, and that the Acting Secretary’s contrary guidance is invalid. Moreover, to preserve the rights of all voters and candidates, the Court should immediately issue an order directing county boards of elections to segregate any undated or incorrectly dated ballots received for the 2022 general election,” they said.
Some counties have said they intend to segregate undated ballots but many have not, the Republicans said, underlining the need to act quickly with the midterm election taking place in November.
The National Republican Congressional Committee also joined in the lawsuit.“
FBI agents should have performed a “detailed review” of Igor Danchenko, the source, and his statements, including a behavioral assessment, an examination of Danchenko’s finances, and a polygraph test, Durham said, at least some of which were recommended by FBI experts.
With the evidence presented during the trial, jurors could conclude that the FBI “mishandled the investigation,” Durham said.
But “the government is not here to defend the FBI’s performance in these matters,” he added.
Of import is how the probe started, he also said.
Danchenko has taken credit for the bulk of the information in the dossier, a collection of rumors, lies, and innuendo that painted Trump as potentially under the thumb of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was hyped by Trump rival Hillary Clinton, who was later revealed as being one of the document’s funders.”
“ ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FBI agents investigating the anti-Donald Trump dossier should have done a better job investigating the truthfulness of its source, special counsel John Durham said in closing arguments for the source’s trial on Oct. 17.
FBI agents should have performed a “detailed review” of Igor Danchenko, the source, and his statements, including a behavioral assessment, an examination of Danchenko’s finances, and a polygraph test, Durham said, at least some of which were recommended by FBI experts.
With the evidence presented during the trial, jurors could conclude that the FBI “mishandled the investigation,” Durham said.
But “the government is not here to defend the FBI’s performance in these matters,” he added.
Of import is how the probe started, he also said.
Danchenko has taken credit for the bulk of the information in the dossier, a collection of rumors, lies, and innuendo that painted Trump as potentially under the thumb of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was hyped by Trump rival Hillary Clinton, who was later revealed as being one of the document’s funders.“
Wandering Views 
Always carrying water for Dems.
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Reich is still hacktastic I see. 🙂
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Groomers.
Perversion is the favorite subject taught in schools.
CONTENT WARNING!!!!!
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He has to. Half the scams they’re running rely on Covid money and declarations to justify their existence.
Oh, and be very afraid….
Again.
“Biden Bitterly Clings to Covid Public Health Emergency Declaration
Meanwhile, brace yourself for dramatic reports about the XBB variant.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/10/biden-bitterly-clings-to-covid-public-health-emergency-declaration/
“Just a few short weeks back, Biden stated that the “pandemic is over” as he toured the Detroit Auto Show maskless, noting everyone ‘seems to be in pretty good shape’.
But that was weeks ago, and things change. Like polls and inflation levels.
So Biden is bitterly clinging to his covid emergency powers for the next 90 days, well past the Nov. 8th election.
NBC Philadelphia reports:
The decision comes as the pandemic has faded from the forefront of many people’s minds. Daily deaths and infections are dropping and people — many of them maskless — are returning to schools, work and grocery stores as normal.
The public health emergency, first declared in January 2020 and renewed every 90 days since, has dramatically changed how health services are delivered.
The declaration enabled the emergency authorization of COVID vaccines, testing and treatments for free. It expanded Medicaid coverage to millions of people, many of whom who will risk losing that coverage once the emergency ends. It temporarily opened up telehealth access for Medicare recipients, enabling doctors to collect the same rates for those visits and encouraging health networks to adopt telehealth technology.
While the Biden administration might hope that the application of pandemic rules during the election season may be helpful to the Democrats, it is also important to follow the money. Especially with Biden.
The White House pushed for billions in funding to bolster those efforts as part of a short-term funding bill Congress is aiming to pass this week to avert a government shutdown.
But the request has drawn considerable pushback from Senate Republicans in recent weeks, who have pushed for the funding to be offset. Republicans also expressed more opposition to the funding in light of Biden’s recent comments declaring the COVID-19 pandemic “over.”
“If that’s true, I’m glad. And so why does he want tens of billions of dollars for COVID?” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters last week, speculating the comments “certainly makes it harder” for more coronavirus funding to be secured.
Earlier this month, the White House asked Congress for more than $22 billion in funding to address what it described as “critical” needs to fund COVID-19 response efforts, including dollars to procure more vaccines, offer free community testing, bolster research, and more.
And as we head into the winter, be prepared for the administration and its media minions to gin-up fear about the new “variants,” especially one that has recently been reported: XBB.
New variants of the rapidly mutating coronavirus are still popping up around the world, and a new iteration of COVID on the rise in Asia may be the most immune-evasive yet.
The XBB strain is causing a small surge in cases in countries like Bangladesh and Singapore. The latter has recorded a daily average of about 5,500 cases over the past week, compared to a daily average of 2,000 cases a month ago.”
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Another garbage fact check.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/10/16/reuters-fact-check-we-never-said-the-vaccines-would-prevent-anything-n503636
“So what did they find? Did they uncover proof that Pfizer and Moderna actually had done those tests but the dog ate their homework? Nope. Nothing of the sort. Instead, they went the opposite route, saying that we were all mistaken about the vaccines and nobody ever claimed that they would prevent infections or transmission. All of you in the unwashed masses were simply confused, as usual.
Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were not required to do for initial regulatory approval, nor did they claim to have done.
To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Once the vaccines were on the market, independent researchers in multiple countries studied people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and did show that vaccination reduced transmission of variants circulating at the time…
The misleading posts imply that national restrictions such as vaccine passports were based on a promise of vaccines blocking virus spread that neither the companies nor EU regulators made before the vaccines were marketed.
Well, I’m certainly glad that’s all been cleared up, aren’t you? Stop blaming Pfizer and Moderna for taking billions upon billions of dollars to rush out those vaccines, along with a guarantee from the United States government that they could never be sued for anything that happened in the aftermath. Never mind for the moment that the medical definition of “vaccine” is, ‘a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases.’ (Emphasis added)
And what does “immunity” mean? ‘The ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin.” But why should we sit around and quibble over facts, right?
As with so many things in the fully politicized world of what passes for science these days, the defense being offered by Reuters completely missed the point. I haven’t seen any serious critics holding the feet of Pfizer and Moderna to the fire over this. They are upset over all of the people in power (who were supposed to know better) who very specifically and repeatedly said exactly what’s been charged here. They absolutely did say that the vaccines would prevent both infections and transmission.
Go back and look at this supercut of all the times we were told by multiple administration officials that if you’re vaccinated you won’t catch the virus and you won’t spread it. And here’s a greatest hits collection of just Joe Biden saying the same thing over and over and over and over again.”
“Granted, it wasn’t Pfizer or Moderna who told us this. It was Joe Biden (“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations”), Rochelle Walensky (“vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick”), Anthony Fauci (“vaccinated people become “dead ends” for the virus), and all the rest. Those are all direct quotes and they were repeated ad nauseam. Didn’t you assume they had at least talked to the pharma companies before saying that? I’m fairly confident that almost all of us did in the early stages.
So were they lying or merely incompetent? In retrospect, it doesn’t really matter. Either way, they were completely wrong and they based policies that crippled the entire nation on those “beliefs.” They also punished and frequently ruined the lives of people who would not comply with their demands – demands based on something that was patently false.
At the Daily Wire, Greg Wilson charitably points out that these fact-checkers are “missing the point.” People aren’t blaming Pfizer and Moderna. They are blaming the global governments who pushed these lies.”
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They’re announcing in advance that they’re ready to steal another one…
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/republicans-sue-over-pennsylvania-officials-saying-theyll-accept-mail-in-ballots-without-dates_4800912.html
Republicans have sued Pennsylvania officials after the state’s top elections official said mail-in ballots without dates will be accepted, in contravention to state law.
A group of Pennsylvania voters, the Republican National Committee, and the Pennsylvania Republican Party filed the lawsuit (pdf) with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, asking justices to quickly declare illegal guidance from the Pennsylvania Department of State regarding ballots that do not have dates.
Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State Leigh Chapman said Oct. 11 that “every county is expected to include undated ballots in their official returns for the Nov. 8 election, consistent with the Department of State’s guidance.” The guidance (pdf), last updated in September, says that “any ballot-return envelope that is undated or dated with an incorrect date but that has been timely received by the county shall be included” in the vote count.
State law says that any voter who uses an absentee or mail-in ballot must “fill out, date and sign the declaration” that is printed on the envelope used to submit such a ballot, Republicans noted in their suit.
“Petitioners ask the Court to issue a declaration that the date requirement is valid and mandatory, and that the Acting Secretary’s contrary guidance is invalid. Moreover, to preserve the rights of all voters and candidates, the Court should immediately issue an order directing county boards of elections to segregate any undated or incorrectly dated ballots received for the 2022 general election,” they said.
Some counties have said they intend to segregate undated ballots but many have not, the Republicans said, underlining the need to act quickly with the midterm election taking place in November.
The National Republican Congressional Committee also joined in the lawsuit.“
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It’s the FBI that is actually on trial now…
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/special-counsel-durham-takes-aim-at-fbi-in-closing-arguments-in-danchenko-trial_4801872.html
FBI agents should have performed a “detailed review” of Igor Danchenko, the source, and his statements, including a behavioral assessment, an examination of Danchenko’s finances, and a polygraph test, Durham said, at least some of which were recommended by FBI experts.
With the evidence presented during the trial, jurors could conclude that the FBI “mishandled the investigation,” Durham said.
But “the government is not here to defend the FBI’s performance in these matters,” he added.
Of import is how the probe started, he also said.
Danchenko has taken credit for the bulk of the information in the dossier, a collection of rumors, lies, and innuendo that painted Trump as potentially under the thumb of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was hyped by Trump rival Hillary Clinton, who was later revealed as being one of the document’s funders.”
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It’s the FBI that’s actually on trial now…
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/special-counsel-durham-takes-aim-at-fbi-in-closing-arguments-in-danchenko-trial_4801872.html
“ ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FBI agents investigating the anti-Donald Trump dossier should have done a better job investigating the truthfulness of its source, special counsel John Durham said in closing arguments for the source’s trial on Oct. 17.
FBI agents should have performed a “detailed review” of Igor Danchenko, the source, and his statements, including a behavioral assessment, an examination of Danchenko’s finances, and a polygraph test, Durham said, at least some of which were recommended by FBI experts.
With the evidence presented during the trial, jurors could conclude that the FBI “mishandled the investigation,” Durham said.
But “the government is not here to defend the FBI’s performance in these matters,” he added.
Of import is how the probe started, he also said.
Danchenko has taken credit for the bulk of the information in the dossier, a collection of rumors, lies, and innuendo that painted Trump as potentially under the thumb of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was hyped by Trump rival Hillary Clinton, who was later revealed as being one of the document’s funders.“
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