#BREAKING: The Hunter Biden plea deal is DEAD after the judge expressed MAJOR concerns about the pretrial diversion program for Hunter's felony gun charge that would wipe out additional tax charges. pic.twitter.com/jJ63SwUHCm
Odd moment: McConnell freezes at start of Senate GOP leadership press conference and is escorted to the side by his colleagues pic.twitter.com/hT5bLnstOS
Dehydrated? Seizure? I hope they can figure it out and no Senator (Democrat or Republican) should feel the need to hold on to a position after they reached a point they don't have the capacity to meet the requirements.
This is legitimately one of the funniest things any American politician has ever done. The humor is totally unintentional of course but it’s still hilarious. https://t.co/cnzTdVxiMY
We keep being told that injury to the heart from the COVID vaccine is very rare, but a study done in Basel Switzerland indicates that the rate of subclinical myocarditis after the COVID vaccine is hardly rare at all.
In fact, in a study with only 777 participants with a median age of 37–all medical professionals getting the COVID vaccine–the incidence of elevated cardiac enzymes 3 days after injection was pretty substantial, at almost 3%.
The CDC did a study and from that, they claimed the rate was 0.001%, or one out of 100,000.
2.8% is a lot higher than 0.001%. Another 0.3% had “probable myocarditis,” putting the total at over 3%. That is 3000 times higher than the US government claimed.
In this small study, nobody had serious complications, but with a myocarditis complication rate of 3%, you would have to expect that giving out hundreds of millions of doses is a pretty risky proposition.
I think we all knew that already, but this study seems to put the nail in the coffin of “vaccine injuries are super rare” from COVID-19 shots.
Oops. Who could have guessed?
One oddity was that the rate of myocarditis among the participants was heavily weighted toward women, not men. That could be an artifact of the sample, or it could indicate that women are more likely to get a complication, but the complications are more likely to be serious among men.
One reason the researchers posit for the vast difference between their results–which are based upon blood tests looking for cardiac enzymes in all participants–and the commonly asserted claim that vaccine-induced myocarditis is rare is that the only cases that are diagnosed without looking specifically for it are severe.
In other words, most people don’t go to the doctor until there is a serious problem, so many people suffer from myocarditis without ever getting diagnosed.
This suggests that there is a very large group of people who were afflicted but never treated. This in most cases would not be a huge problem, as the inflammation resolves on its own, but in some cases, actual damage to the heart was done without it ever being caught.”
“I have written a couple times about the de-banking scandal in the UK, where Coutts Bank apparently has dropped thousands of customers for being politically incorrect.
This came to light because they took on a target too big to ignore: Nigel Farage, a GBN broadcaster and leader in the Brexit movement. He had been a member of the European Parliament and founded the UK Independence Party, which transformed into the Brexit Party.
In other words, Farage is a big deal in Britain. Lots of people love him, and lots of people hate him, including every single member of the establishment.
Britons, though, hated that Farage and other people with views unpopular to the establishment could simply be exiled from the modern economy based upon the whims of bank executives, so scandal erupted and the fallout is still raining down.
But as with so many bad ideas that originate in Europe, the US is a follower, and de-banking has come to the US. There have been attempts in recent years to move in this direction–famously the credit card companies tried to identify gun purchases for the government by flagging every single gun and ammo purchase, but they retreated some due to a backlash.
But the process moves forward. Chase is now quietly dropping customers for political reasons.”
I had to take this screenshot from behind block.
I can’t stand Mercola, and he has blocked me.
But these measures against him are totalitarian.
We must support Mercola or everyone who voices criticism against the powerful will be next.
“If you don’t know Mercola, he is a doctor on the fringe of natural medicine. I have been aware of him for a while, and without knowing much about him I have gathered that many think he is something of a crank.
Well, that describes quite a few people and is hardly a reason to make him a non-person. If you think he is a crank, say so. Don’t throw him out of the economy. There are no allegations of illegal or unethical activities, only wrongthink.”
One of those is something that has frustrated me at times. There are stories or pieces of information that liberal sites don’t report on and others that conservative sites don’t report on, both for their own biased reasons. What ends up happening is that some conservatives will automatically dismiss or refuse to read a piece from a liberal site that makes a point missing in conservative news, and some liberals will do the same with a piece from a conservative site.
This mentions a transcript, but they forgot to include it. (Unless I am just missing it when I look.) But it points out that what seemed to be President Biden saying that he had ended cancer “appears to slur the words ‘can’ and ‘end’ together during his sentence, and it sounds as if he says ‘ended’ instead.”
The actual quote was:
” ‘If you could do anything at all, Joe, what would you do?’ I said, ‘I’d cure cancer,'” the president continued. “And they looked at me like, ‘Why cancer?’ Because no one thinks we can. That’s why. And we can. We can end cancer as we know it.”
If you listen to it with this in mind, you will hear it more correctly, although it is definitely slurred. Biden may have his problems, and may not be the most honest guy in Washington, but he is not so stupid as to claim to have cured cancer.
This reminds me of when we think we know the words to a song, and a line sounds like something its not every time we listen to it. Then when we find out the correct line, we hear it better, although we can still hear why we misunderstood it in the first place.
Kizzie: It seems to me that the liberal sites are far more intentional about not reporting on newsworthy items, and not very active in seeking truth. At first glance, the one example that I saw in the newsletter going the other direction was the NYT piece about illegals starting businesses, but I think it should be obvious why conservative sites wouldn’t cover that story. Can you think of other examples of conservative sites not covering newsworthy items/stories?
This is an interesting point from Mr. Saul’s piece:
“This, in some ways, actually creates an unexpected imbalance in the media: Conservative journalists and pundits, sensing that they are the minority in the space, are far more reluctant to criticize “their side.” Liberal journalists and pundits, understanding that they can “stick out” or earn credit by being hard on both sides, are more willing to do so.”
I think it’s cute that you buy what the doctored transcripts of Biden’s remarks say as opposed to what our lying ears heard him say. That may be what his notes said he was supposed to say, but that ain’t what he said.
They put the facts in the plea agreement, but put their non-prosecution agreement in the PRETRIAL DIVERSION AGREEMENT, effectively hiding the full scope of what DOJ was offering Hunter. His upside from this deal was vast immunity from further prosecution https://t.co/zKbBCqh1OU
Based on conversations with people who were in the courtroom today, and my experience as a former federal prosecutor, I think I know the full story of what happened with the Hunter Biden plea agreement blow-up this morning.
Bear with me, because this is a little complicated:…
Ty: “It seems to me that the liberal sites are far more intentional about not reporting on newsworthy items, and not very active in seeking truth”
eye of the beholder … Don’t you think those assessments come from our own political lenses? I know the same is said among liberals about conservative sites.
“To their credit, some members of Congress (amazingly including some Democrats) have not lost sight of earlier reports indicating that more than 85,000 children seem to have gone missing after crossing the border into the United States illegally. Some of them may (hopefully) have wound up safely with family members around the country while others were tragically fed into a sex trafficking pipeline. But another large number of them have turned up working, sometimes in forced labor situations. This led to the questioning of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra yesterday over how his Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is tracking migrant children and how bad the child labor problem has become. Shockingly, Becerra admitted that there has been a 44% increase in children found to be illegally employed this year. And that’s only the ones we’ve been able to locate. (NBC News)
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“The same day that Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced criticism on Capitol Hill from members of both parties about reports of underage migrants working dangerous jobs, Labor Department officials announced a 44% increase in the number of children it found to be employed illegally.
During a hearing Wednesday on immigrant child labor, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D.-Calif, told Becerra that she was not satisfied with his agency’s response to questions she and 25 other House members had sent him in late May. After reports of child labor surfaced, they sent Becerra a letter asking about how carefully HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which finds homes for unaccompanied migrant minors, was vetting the sponsors who were offering to host the children.”
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Becerra agreed that the reports of illegal child labor were both “real” and “repulsive.” But he also tried to shift the blame elsewhere. The HHS secretary claimed that ORR’s vetting process for sponsors (people who agree to take in migrant children) “remains thorough.” He also said that once the child is transferred to the sponsor, the agency’s responsibility “legally ends.”
While that may be technically true, at least in terms of ORR’s responsibilities, we definitely shouldn’t be accepting this answer at face value. If there were only a comparative handful of children coming across the border in any given month as was more common a few years ago, they could probably do a decent job of vetting the sponsors. But we’re facing a human flood these days and ORR is facing the same shortfall of personnel as every other agency that is in any way involved in immigration issues.”
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Sad as it is, they’re still better off than the ones sold to sex traffickers. And the govt is doing nothing to track them down.
My sense is there’s a lot of willful blindness going on right now on the extremes of both sides.
I shared this on yesterday’s thread/belatedly — but I think it’s one election prediction (in an unpredictable election cycle) that is actually likely to be accurate; “conservatives” appear to be deeply divided in a Humpty-Dumpty way, which bodes not good for 2024 or perhaps even beyond:
At this point, I am convinced that a significant portion of Trump and non-Trump GOP will never reconcile once the primary is over, which helps Biden in 2024.
No one thinks Kizzie is stupid. Don’t put words in my mouth or imply I was saying something I didn’t.
What she is is a kind hearted lady who tends to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, even when they are undeserving and repeatedly show this, as is the case with the Biden damage control.
But that doesn’t make her stupid and I in no way implied it. Stop reading into it what isn’t there.
Tychicus – Off hand, I cannot remember any specific stories, but over the past several years, I have indeed found those kinds of things from sites on both sides of the political spectrum. To amend my previous comment a bit, I will say that it is not always a full news story that is ignored, although that does happen, but often it is very important aspects of a story – aspects that could change the way one would understand it.
AJ – I did not just “fall” for the story – I listened to the video, and could hear it for myself. The “can” and “end” slur together.
Wandering Views 
Well I’m shocked, for real this time.
Didn’t think we had many decent judges left.
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A job….? And no drugs or alcohol.
Good.
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Term limits please.
That goes for Fetterman, Biden, Feinstein….
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Lying is his job.
Yep.
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Stunning and brave…..
😂🤣😂🤣
https://twitter.com/17AmericanTruth/status/1684316272870191104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1684316272870191104%7Ctwgr%5E109ca0de9197af9cdd8b44fb604c0a688ae43b1a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Ffuzzychimp%2F2023%2F07%2F27%2Fall-hail-casar-twitter-mocks-democrat-congressman-greg-casar-for-bravely-skipping-lunch-n2385763
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Not safe, not effective.
“Swiss study: heart injuries from COVID vaccine 3000x higher than thought”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/07/26/swiss-study-heart-injuries-from-covid-vaccine-3000x-higher-than-thought-n567151
“It is a small study, but a very disturbing one.
We keep being told that injury to the heart from the COVID vaccine is very rare, but a study done in Basel Switzerland indicates that the rate of subclinical myocarditis after the COVID vaccine is hardly rare at all.
In fact, in a study with only 777 participants with a median age of 37–all medical professionals getting the COVID vaccine–the incidence of elevated cardiac enzymes 3 days after injection was pretty substantial, at almost 3%.
The CDC did a study and from that, they claimed the rate was 0.001%, or one out of 100,000.
2.8% is a lot higher than 0.001%. Another 0.3% had “probable myocarditis,” putting the total at over 3%. That is 3000 times higher than the US government claimed.
In this small study, nobody had serious complications, but with a myocarditis complication rate of 3%, you would have to expect that giving out hundreds of millions of doses is a pretty risky proposition.
I think we all knew that already, but this study seems to put the nail in the coffin of “vaccine injuries are super rare” from COVID-19 shots.
Oops. Who could have guessed?
One oddity was that the rate of myocarditis among the participants was heavily weighted toward women, not men. That could be an artifact of the sample, or it could indicate that women are more likely to get a complication, but the complications are more likely to be serious among men.
One reason the researchers posit for the vast difference between their results–which are based upon blood tests looking for cardiac enzymes in all participants–and the commonly asserted claim that vaccine-induced myocarditis is rare is that the only cases that are diagnosed without looking specifically for it are severe.
In other words, most people don’t go to the doctor until there is a serious problem, so many people suffer from myocarditis without ever getting diagnosed.
This suggests that there is a very large group of people who were afflicted but never treated. This in most cases would not be a huge problem, as the inflammation resolves on its own, but in some cases, actual damage to the heart was done without it ever being caught.”
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Say politically incorrect things and you will be punished. This is clear discrimination.
“De-banking has begun in the US”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/07/27/de-banking-has-begun-in-the-us-n567368
“I have written a couple times about the de-banking scandal in the UK, where Coutts Bank apparently has dropped thousands of customers for being politically incorrect.
This came to light because they took on a target too big to ignore: Nigel Farage, a GBN broadcaster and leader in the Brexit movement. He had been a member of the European Parliament and founded the UK Independence Party, which transformed into the Brexit Party.
In other words, Farage is a big deal in Britain. Lots of people love him, and lots of people hate him, including every single member of the establishment.
Britons, though, hated that Farage and other people with views unpopular to the establishment could simply be exiled from the modern economy based upon the whims of bank executives, so scandal erupted and the fallout is still raining down.
But as with so many bad ideas that originate in Europe, the US is a follower, and de-banking has come to the US. There have been attempts in recent years to move in this direction–famously the credit card companies tried to identify gun purchases for the government by flagging every single gun and ammo purchase, but they retreated some due to a backlash.
But the process moves forward. Chase is now quietly dropping customers for political reasons.”
“If you don’t know Mercola, he is a doctor on the fringe of natural medicine. I have been aware of him for a while, and without knowing much about him I have gathered that many think he is something of a crank.
Well, that describes quite a few people and is hardly a reason to make him a non-person. If you think he is a crank, say so. Don’t throw him out of the economy. There are no allegations of illegal or unethical activities, only wrongthink.”
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This is a little long, but makes good points.
One of those is something that has frustrated me at times. There are stories or pieces of information that liberal sites don’t report on and others that conservative sites don’t report on, both for their own biased reasons. What ends up happening is that some conservatives will automatically dismiss or refuse to read a piece from a liberal site that makes a point missing in conservative news, and some liberals will do the same with a piece from a conservative site.
https://www.readtangle.com/how-media-companies-can-earn-trust/?ref=tangle-newsletter
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This mentions a transcript, but they forgot to include it. (Unless I am just missing it when I look.) But it points out that what seemed to be President Biden saying that he had ended cancer “appears to slur the words ‘can’ and ‘end’ together during his sentence, and it sounds as if he says ‘ended’ instead.”
The actual quote was:
” ‘If you could do anything at all, Joe, what would you do?’ I said, ‘I’d cure cancer,'” the president continued. “And they looked at me like, ‘Why cancer?’ Because no one thinks we can. That’s why. And we can. We can end cancer as we know it.”
If you listen to it with this in mind, you will hear it more correctly, although it is definitely slurred. Biden may have his problems, and may not be the most honest guy in Washington, but he is not so stupid as to claim to have cured cancer.
This reminds me of when we think we know the words to a song, and a line sounds like something its not every time we listen to it. Then when we find out the correct line, we hear it better, although we can still hear why we misunderstood it in the first place.
https://www.newsweek.com/did-joe-biden-say-he-ended-cancer-read-full-transcript-1815347
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Oops. Didn’t turn off the italics.
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Kizzie: It seems to me that the liberal sites are far more intentional about not reporting on newsworthy items, and not very active in seeking truth. At first glance, the one example that I saw in the newsletter going the other direction was the NYT piece about illegals starting businesses, but I think it should be obvious why conservative sites wouldn’t cover that story. Can you think of other examples of conservative sites not covering newsworthy items/stories?
This is an interesting point from Mr. Saul’s piece:
“This, in some ways, actually creates an unexpected imbalance in the media: Conservative journalists and pundits, sensing that they are the minority in the space, are far more reluctant to criticize “their side.” Liberal journalists and pundits, understanding that they can “stick out” or earn credit by being hard on both sides, are more willing to do so.”
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Kizzie,
I think it’s cute that you buy what the doctored transcripts of Biden’s remarks say as opposed to what our lying ears heard him say. That may be what his notes said he was supposed to say, but that ain’t what he said.
C’mon. Stop falling for it.
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The difference in media coverage is clear. The bias is obvious, and it’s mostly one sided.
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She didn’t “fall” for anything. She’s correct.
Ty: “It seems to me that the liberal sites are far more intentional about not reporting on newsworthy items, and not very active in seeking truth”
eye of the beholder … Don’t you think those assessments come from our own political lenses? I know the same is said among liberals about conservative sites.
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Thank Democrats.
What did you think happened to the 85,000 kids they can’t account for?
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/07/27/number-of-children-working-illegally-up-more-than-40-n567402
“To their credit, some members of Congress (amazingly including some Democrats) have not lost sight of earlier reports indicating that more than 85,000 children seem to have gone missing after crossing the border into the United States illegally. Some of them may (hopefully) have wound up safely with family members around the country while others were tragically fed into a sex trafficking pipeline. But another large number of them have turned up working, sometimes in forced labor situations. This led to the questioning of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra yesterday over how his Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is tracking migrant children and how bad the child labor problem has become. Shockingly, Becerra admitted that there has been a 44% increase in children found to be illegally employed this year. And that’s only the ones we’ve been able to locate. (NBC News)
—
“The same day that Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced criticism on Capitol Hill from members of both parties about reports of underage migrants working dangerous jobs, Labor Department officials announced a 44% increase in the number of children it found to be employed illegally.
During a hearing Wednesday on immigrant child labor, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D.-Calif, told Becerra that she was not satisfied with his agency’s response to questions she and 25 other House members had sent him in late May. After reports of child labor surfaced, they sent Becerra a letter asking about how carefully HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which finds homes for unaccompanied migrant minors, was vetting the sponsors who were offering to host the children.”
—
Becerra agreed that the reports of illegal child labor were both “real” and “repulsive.” But he also tried to shift the blame elsewhere. The HHS secretary claimed that ORR’s vetting process for sponsors (people who agree to take in migrant children) “remains thorough.” He also said that once the child is transferred to the sponsor, the agency’s responsibility “legally ends.”
While that may be technically true, at least in terms of ORR’s responsibilities, we definitely shouldn’t be accepting this answer at face value. If there were only a comparative handful of children coming across the border in any given month as was more common a few years ago, they could probably do a decent job of vetting the sponsors. But we’re facing a human flood these days and ORR is facing the same shortfall of personnel as every other agency that is in any way involved in immigration issues.”
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Sad as it is, they’re still better off than the ones sold to sex traffickers. And the govt is doing nothing to track them down.
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My sense is there’s a lot of willful blindness going on right now on the extremes of both sides.
I shared this on yesterday’s thread/belatedly — but I think it’s one election prediction (in an unpredictable election cycle) that is actually likely to be accurate; “conservatives” appear to be deeply divided in a Humpty-Dumpty way, which bodes not good for 2024 or perhaps even beyond:
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So you fell for it too?
Don’t believe your lying ears, right?
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The transcripts may have said that.
But Joe Biden didn’t.
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AJ, debate protocol: It’s disparaging to say someone “fell” for something. “You’re so stupid …” ?
It certainly doesn’t advance the discussion. Again, issues, not people in debating the points of an argument.
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Just one last comment and I’m done with this.
DJ,
No one thinks Kizzie is stupid. Don’t put words in my mouth or imply I was saying something I didn’t.
What she is is a kind hearted lady who tends to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, even when they are undeserving and repeatedly show this, as is the case with the Biden damage control.
But that doesn’t make her stupid and I in no way implied it. Stop reading into it what isn’t there.
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Tychicus – Off hand, I cannot remember any specific stories, but over the past several years, I have indeed found those kinds of things from sites on both sides of the political spectrum. To amend my previous comment a bit, I will say that it is not always a full news story that is ignored, although that does happen, but often it is very important aspects of a story – aspects that could change the way one would understand it.
AJ – I did not just “fall” for the story – I listened to the video, and could hear it for myself. The “can” and “end” slur together.
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dj: That’s why I asked for examples – perhaps I’m missing something…
P.S. Re. E. Erickson quotation: I don’t think Biden will be helped, b/c he won’t be the Dem nominee (and will hopefully be in handcuffs).
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