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PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD:

EVOLUTION IN ACTION:

THUNDERDOME: Scott Jennings Triggers CNN Panel Libs over ‘Pregnant People.’

The segment went sideways when Jennings pointed out that one of the resigning CDC officials, former National Monkeypox Deputy Response Coordinator Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, used the term “pregnant people” in his resignation letter. Anyone with half a brain can understand how this is actually anti-science because only women can get pregnant. The science is quite settled on that fact. And “pregnant people” presumes otherwise. This is clearly an example of politicized science.

It also bears noting that monkeypox was sold to the American people as a highly transmissible disease, when in fact it was a sexually transmitted disease- transmitted in a very specific manner. The disease would subsequently be renamed “mpox” so as to avoid stigmatizing gay men. Reasonable people might say that THIS also was politicized science and just one of the many such excesses of the Biden Era.

By throwing “pregnant people” into the discussion Jennings thus undid, or rather blew up, a carefully constructed narrative framework about the dangers of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. But the American people voted for a Make America Healthy Again agenda. And the people are entitled to the appointment of functionaries that will implement the agenda they voted for.

As for Abby Phillip, she once again interrupted and hectored and misrepresented Jennings’ arguments by suggesting that his objection was to the word “people.” It was not. Jennings once again argued the panel liberals (Phillip included) into a 5% position against 95% of America.

Related: CDC Leader Who Wrote Dramatic Anti-Trump Letter PROBABLY Seems Familiar … Here’s the Sick Reason Why.

In 2020, the left wanted carveouts from being locked down to have mostly peaceful but often quite fiery riots and looting and statue toppling. Last year, “In conversations caught on hidden camera, New York City’s former COVID czar said that he’d organized a pair of sex parties in the second half of 2020, as New Yorkers coped with peak pandemic social isolation. ‘The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then,’ Jay Varma told an undercover reporter with whom he thought he was on a date.” In 2023, Daskalakis went the full Reuters and argued, “One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night.”

Incidentally, Trump could use Daskalakis’ resignation and other protests at the CDC as a tool to further accelerate the changes he desires there:

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.

LIKE BMI, THIS DOESN’T WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF LEAN MUSCLE BECAUSE IT’S BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT BODYFAT: Your Neck Size Could Be a Signal For Hidden Health Problems.

A thick neck might project strength, like that of heavyweight boxers or rugby players, but studies suggest it could signal a concerning health issue.

BMI, which divides weight by height to estimate body fat, doesn’t always tell the complete story. A competitive bodybuilder might have a high BMI, but clearly isn’t obese. This is where neck circumference offers additional insight.

Research shows that people with larger necks relative to their body size face increased risks of several serious health conditions. The connection lies in what neck size reveals about fat distribution, particularly in the upper body.

Again, bodybuilders have big necks, but not much fat. Of course, maybe I’m just in denial because I have an 18.5″ neck.

THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION PROGRESSES:

UPDATE:

HOW IT STARTED: “I don’t understand why the Houthi terrorist group still exists. We and the UK have bombed them off and on over recent months. Whatever we have done obviously hasn’t been enough. They should share the fate of pirates through the centuries: we should kill them all.”

—John Hinderaker, Power Line, July 9th.

How it’s going: IDF said to believe entire Houthi cabinet was likely killed in yesterday’s strike.

—The Times of Israel, today.

 

HOW WILL AI IMPACT HIGHER ED? My own feeling is that like a whole lot of “advancements” we have seen, it will end up benefiting people who are curious and energetic wildly disproportionately, and harm people who just use it as a crutch. Most will be in the latter category.

GOOD LORD: A general and an admiral turned down last-minute chances to keep Taliban out of Kabul.

A top U.S. general and a key U.S. rear admiral both turned down last-minute chances which potentially could have kept the Taliban out of Kabul during the August 2021 fiasco of evacuation from Afghanistan. General Frank McKenzie rejected a proposal from the Taliban to keep the enemy forces out of Kabul, while Rear Admiral Peter Vasely shot down an overture from allied Afghan commanders that may have saved the nation’s capital from the utter chaos that ensued.

McKenzie, the now-former commander of CENTCOM, held a mid-August 2021 meeting with Taliban leader Mullah Baradar in Doha, Qatar which would end with the Taliban taking control of Kabul and the U.S. relying upon the goodwill of Taliban fighters to provide security at the Kabul airport during the evacuation.

During that meeting, Baradar said the Taliban was willing to withdraw its forces from in and around Kabul and would let the U.S. send in as many troops as it wanted to secure the Afghan capital and conduct the U.S. evacuation free from Taliban interference, but McKenzie admits that he turned the offer down on the spot.

Neither McKenzie nor Vasely responded to Jerry Dunleavy’s requests for a comment.

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THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE:

Spare me the crocodile tears at the CDC exits! This institution DESTROYED children and RUINED trust in health institutions for a generation. The whole place needs to be gutted!

When historians look back on the COVID years, they won’t just document a virus. They’ll document the collapse of America’s most trusted health agency into a factory of fear, censorship, and bad science. The CDC didn’t just miss the mark –> it repeatedly tripped over its own contradictions, buried evidence, and treated the public as an obstacle instead of a partner.

Read the whole thing.

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