THE VACCINES ARE UNDERPERFORMING: Pfizer Covid vaccine was just 12% effective against omicron in kids 5 to 11, study finds. Pointless to vaccinate them then, especially because kids that age rarely get sick anyway. But Karens demanded it, so . . .
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February 28, 2022
FASTER, PLEASE: A potential antiviral for SARS and SARS-like coronaviruses.
IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN:
Can’t say I blame him for waiting until the end of his presidency, considering what he was repeatedly saying in its first half:
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Biden Claims Republicans Are Trying to Keep Black Americans’ Votes ‘From Even Counting.’
President Biden on Monday claimed Republicans are trying to figure out how to keep black Americans’ votes “from even counting” during a Black History Month event as the White House*.
“We’re protecting our country’s threshold liberty, the sacred right to vote, which I’ve never seen as under such attack,” Biden said. “You know, it’s always made it harder for blacks to vote but this is trying to be able to figure out how to keep the black vote, when it occurs, from even counting.”
Biden’s comment comes one month after Senate Democrats failed to pass both their “voting rights” legislation and a rules change to the filibuster.
Shortly before that vote failed last month, Biden came under fire for comparing opponents of the legislation to racists and segregationists.
“So I ask every elected official in America, how do you want to be remembered?” Biden said during his speech advocating a suspension of filibuster rules to pass voting legislation in January. “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace**? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”
Funny, just three weeks ago, as UPI reported at the time: Biden calls for unity at 70th National Prayer Breakfast.
President Joe Biden used his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning to call for unity and for those of opposing parties to learn more about one another personally.
The annual prayer breakfast brought together lawmakers from both parties and various faiths. Biden, acknowledging a time of great division in the country, said he recalled the times where Congressional members ate lunch together and spent downtime together.
“Unity doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything, but unity is where enough of us believe in a core of basic things,” Biden said, according to The Hill newspaper. “The common good, the general welfare. A faith in the United States of America.”
Biden said he believed that connecting on a personal basis allows politicians to see one another in a different light.
“I just think that when you learn that another man or woman, you fly on a [congressional delegation] and you learn that they have a kid with a problem with alcoholism***, you learn that they have a daughter who has breast cancer. It’s hard to dislike the person,” Biden said.
“And so one of the things I pray for, and I mean it, is we sort of getting back to the place … that we really know each other.”
* Flashback to 2012: Biden: Romney’s approach to financial regulation will ‘put y’all back in chains.’
But since Obama brought it up, it’s worth noting that the only person in modern American politics to have repeatedly praised Wallace and other segregationists is Joe Biden. It was Biden who bragged that in 1973 Wallace considered him “one of the outstanding young politicians of America.” It was Biden who wrote in 1975 that the “Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace.” It was Biden who in 1981 told a black witness in the Senate that “sometimes even George Wallace is right.” It was Biden who, while campaigning for the presidency in Alabama in 1987, claimed that he’d been the recipient of an award from Wallace in 1973 (it probably wasn’t true; but what a thing to brag about!), and then boasted that Delaware was “on the South’s side in the Civil War.”
“Biden was also buddies with J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and a segregationist and anti-Semite who would later become a mentor to the Clintons.”
And another fellow Democrat, Robert Byrd: Herschel Walker says ‘Democrats do not like America’ and slams media for not grilling Joe Biden over his friendship with former KKK member-turned senator Robert Byrd.
*** Is Joe in his current state not aware of the substance abuse issues his own son has written about?
OLD AND BUSTED: Critical Race Theory.
The New Hotness? ‘The grift is everywhere:’ Nikole Hannah-Jones will deliver a keynote speech at national veterinary conference about … Critical Breed Theory, maybe?
Related: 1619 Project Author Doesn’t Know Geology Either. Helping Ukraine is Racist, Europe isn’t a Continent.
THE UKRAINE INVASION IS THE FIRST SOCIAL MEDIA WAR — And Volodymyr Zelensky is its star:
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has been particularly adept at using social media to his advantage, posting videos of himself and members of his cabinet on the street in front of structures. The clips have a casual gravitas to them — like a guy out on the town with the boys — and make Zelensky instantly relatable, especially in contrast to Vladimir Putin sitting at a twenty-foot long surfboard table, or Justin Trudeau issuing decrees from a hidden bunker in Ottawa.
The reason for this is fairly simple: Zelensky has a background in media and entertainment. He knows how to use these formats better than world leaders twice his age: better than Putin or even the current White House occupant. Zelensky came of age during the social media renaissance and knows he can reach a larger audience straight from his Twitter feed or YouTube channel. Cable news dinosaurs like Brian Stelter will never understand this.
In the new digital age, wars will be fought not only on the ground or with drones but on Twitter. Old dog news journalists still praising the television can get on board, or get left behind.
For a guy whose resume includes dubbing Paddington Bear for the Ukrainian film market, so far, Zelensky appears to be doing amazingly well against Russia.
AS H.L. MENCKEN SAID, “DEMOCRACY IS THE THEORY THAT THE COMMON PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, AND DESERVE TO GET IT GOOD AND HARD:” Kamala Harris: ‘Elections Matter … In This Case, They Got What They Asked For.’
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SO FINLAND AND SWEDEN HAVE TAKEN SIDES, BUT NOW EVEN THE SWISS: Switzerland says it will freeze Russian assets, setting aside a tradition of neutrality.
Where’s Putin going to stash his cash? China? Even the Chinese don’t trust China.
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WELL, FOR SOME CIVILIANS: Ukraine and The Left Suddenly Embrace Civilian Gun Rights.
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IF WE ONLY HAD LEADERSHIP SMART OR WILLING ENOUGH TO TAKE ADVANTAGE: Beijing’s Ukraine Balancing Act Reveals Exploitable Fissures in the Sino-Russian Partnership. “Going forward, Beijing will continue blaming Washington and its allies for provoking Russia while simultaneously calling for a diplomatic resolution. Expected worldwide economic disruptions following a Russian invasion, including shocks to energy and commodity markets upon which China depends to meet surging demand, will test the Sino-Russian partnership. A sustained global economic downturn could also undermine China’s ability to achieve its growth targets.”
Read the whole thing.
A PATTERN OF LASER HARASSMENT: China Just Bullied an Australian Patrol Aircraft With a ‘Military-Grade’ Laser.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: University of Maryland’s Anti-Semitism Task Force Chief Has History of Anti-Semitic Statements. Diversity officer said Israel was engaged in ‘ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.’
OH, CANADA: The Government From Hell. “Our blue-collar benefactors now face the consequences of the scorched-earth policies adopted by the anointed class. Many have lost their rigs. Operating licenses have been revoked. Criminal charges have been laid. Bans on trucker commerce have proliferated. Bankruptcy looms for many. Livelihoods have been demolished. Families have been obliterated. Marriages are bound to collapse. And I suspect that suicides will mount as desperation sees no escape from ruination. In effect, Justin Trudeau declared war on those who kept the goods and services flowing through the ersatz pandemic and who enabled the populace to weather the government-induced travesty. Gratitude is not in the dwindling catalogue of common virtues. The casualties, though hidden by the Soviet-style media, are devastating.”
LEFTISTS ALWAYS REGARD LEFTIST TACTICS AS INDECENT WHEN USED AGAINST LEFTISTS: Michelle Wu seeks to ban protesters from demonstrating at her home in the early morning.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, whose home has been the scene of anti-vaccine mandate protests, is trying to ban protesters from demonstrating at her house in the early morning. . . .
“Boston has a strong legacy of activism, and it’s important to uphold and protect the ability to speak out and advocate fiercely to keep our democracy strong,” Wu said in a statement. “But in a moment of divided national politics, we can’t normalize the harassment and hate spilling over into our communities. Boston must model not only bold, urgent policies, but also inclusive, empowering politics.”
It’s always “harassment and hate” when it targets leftists, and “justified anger” and “mostly peaceful” when done by leftists. When the Obama crowd sent busloads of protesters to CEO homes during the financial crisis, Democrats lost the moral standing to complain about this stuff. Not that that will stop them.
WHEN DONALD TRUMP ASKED THEM TO DO THIS, HE WAS ACCUSED TO TRYING TO WEAKEN NATO: In Dramatic Shift, Germany Begins Military Rearmament.
ZELENSKIY CALLS ON EU TO GRANT UKRAINE EU MEMBERSHIP IMMEDIATELY:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose country is facing a massive unprovoked invasion from neighboring Russia, has called on the European Union to grant Ukraine membership under a special procedure immediately.
“Our goal is to be with all Europeans and, most importantly, to be equal. I’m sure that’s fair. I am sure we deserve it,” he said in a video speech shared on social media.
“Europeans are witnessing how our soldiers are fighting not only for our country, but for all of Europe, for peace, for peace for all, for all the countries of the European Union, Zelenskiy said.
“Ukrainians have shown to the world who we are, while Russia has showed what it has turned into…Every crime, every shelling by the occupier only unites us more,” Zelenskiy added.
Too soon for #Uxit hashtags?