THE COVID-ERA SMEARING – AND RESURRECTION – OF TRUMP NIH APPOINTEE DR. JAY BHATTACHARYA:

Jay Bhattacharya was in pretty terrible shape five years ago. He was losing sleep and weight, not because of the COVID-19 virus but in response to the efforts of his colleagues at Stanford University and the larger medical community to shut down his research, which questioned much of the government’s response to the pandemic.

Some of his Stanford colleagues leaked false and damaging information to reporters. The university’s head of medicine ordered him to stop speaking to the press. Top leaders at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, dialed up the attacks, dismissing him and his colleagues as what Collins termed “fringe epidemiologists” while their acolytes threw mud from a slew of publications, including the Washington Post, The Nation, and the prestigious medical journal BMJ.

In the years since, many of Bhattacharya’s scientific concerns about the efficacy of lockdowns and mask mandates have been corroborated. Fauci, meanwhile, accepted a pardon from President Biden, protecting him from COVID-related offenses dating back to 2014, the year he started funding research at a Wuhan, China, lab that U.S. intelligence agencies now believe probably started the pandemic. And this week, Bhattacharya looks set to achieve surprising vindication as the Senate holds a hearing on his nomination to head the NIH, in a Department of Health and Human Services run by science nonconformist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Related: The vindication of a heretic.

“DEMOCRATS, IF YOU EVER WANT TO WIN AN ELECTION AGAIN, THE ABSOLUTE MOST IMPORTANT FIRST STEP IS TO STOP DOING THIS:” Bill Maher Flattens Left’s Land Acknowledgment Farce.

‘I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again—either give the land back or shut the f*** up!’

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“Can we please get over this idea that ancient people weren’t just as full of s*** – in fact, more full of s*** – than humans today?’ he asked. ‘This idea that being ancient and Indigenous was always better than us? It wasn’t… The Māori in pre-colonial times were like most indigenous people – quite war-like, frequently fighting other tribes, with the winners enslaving the losers. And even eating them.”

Exit quote: “Can’t win elections if you’re dying on the 20% side of the 80/20 issues.”

UPDATE:

Bill Maher admonishes the Democrat party for their exclusionary attitude and being 'Mean Girls':
Bill Maher: "What do you think of artists canceling shows at the Kennedy Center now that Trump has taken it over?"
David Sedaris: "I don't want Trump to take credit. I don't want to… pic.twitter.com/vtiicGwJu7

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) March 8, 2025

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Ad-Vance Guard Edition.

HOW IT STARTED: Sir Keir Starmer has removed portraits of Winston Churchill, the Duke of Wellington, and more British heroes from the Houses of Parliament.

—GB News, February 24th, 2025.

How it’s going:

Last month when CBS’s Margaret Brennan absurdly claimed to Marco Rubio that JD Vance “was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Mark Steyn responded, “I did not think it was possible to despise the ‘mainstream’ media more than I already did. In a society thoroughly moronized by Brain-Dead Brennan and her ilk, Hitler is the sole remaining historical figure anybody’s heard of.”

Churchill only hangs on in history as the man who defeated him; just don’t mention him to Barack Obama, Tucker Carlson — and Starmer’s foreign secretary: ‘Key moment’ — David Lammy ridiculed for not knowing when Churchill became Prime Minister.

MAKE APPLE GREAT AGAIN: Apple Delays Siri Upgrade Indefinitely as AI Concerns Escalate.

Apple Inc.’s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.

Apple said that features introduced last June, including Siri’s ability to tap into a user’s personal information to answer queries and have more precise control over apps, will now be released sometime in “the coming year.” The iPhone maker hadn’t previously set a public deadline for the capabilities, but they were initially planned for the iOS 18.4 software update this April.

Bloomberg News reported on Feb. 14 that Apple was struggling to finish developing the features and the enhancements would be postponed until at least May — when iOS 18.5 is due to arrive. Since then, Apple engineers have been racing to fix a rash of bugs in the project. The work has been unsuccessful, according to people involved in the efforts, and they now believe the features won’t be released until next year at the earliest.

In the lead-up to the latest delay, software chief Craig Federighi and other executives voiced strong concerns internally that the features didn’t work properly — or as advertised — in their personal testing, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.

As a result: Apple Likely Targeting iOS 19 for Delayed Siri Features. “Further, both Reuters and CNBC interpreted Apple’s statement as a delay of the ‌Siri‌ features until 2026, and wrote headlines stating as much. If Apple was only counting on a delay of a couple of months, it’s likely the company would correct the 2026 assumption, but Apple has offered no further clarification nor has it asked for those sites to change their wording. We’ll get the first ‌iOS 19‌ update in September 2025 alongside new iPhones, so if 2026 ends up being accurate, the ‌Siri‌ features might not even come in the ‌iOS 19‌ release. They’ll instead be slated for a future ‌iOS 19‌ update, perhaps iOS 19.2 or iOS 19.3.”

PALLYWOOD: THE MOTION PICTURE.

🚨 "No Other Land" Exposed by Pro-Palestinian Activist 🚨

Below is the text of a Facebook post published by Erez Ganor—an Israeli who claims to have worked for years to help Palestinians—about the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land."

Erez deleted this post after… pic.twitter.com/YWRzVpI1Yy

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) March 6, 2025

ONLY WATCHABLE TALKING HEAD ON CNN TO RECEIVE WELL-DESERVED RAISE: CNN to hand pro-Trump pundit Scott Jennings big pay raise as part of new deal: report.

CNN is on the verge of finalizing a lucrative new contract for conservative commentator Scott Jennings, a move that demonstrates the left-leaning network’s recognition of his growing influence and appeal among supporters of President Trump, according to a report.

Jennings, a veteran political strategist and respected voice in Republican circles whose analysis serves as a counterweight to the network’s often left-leaning discussions, is set to receive a substantial pay increase, according to the Status newsletter.

Specific terms of Jennings’ reported compensation boost couldn’t immediately be learned.

The new contract for Jennings, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), is testament to his growing popularity among Trump supporters on social media who routinely post clips of his contentious interactions with co-panelists.

As Charles Krauthammer famously remarked about Fox News, “the genius of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes was to have discovered a niche market in American broadcasting — half the American people.” Why is CNN shocked when someone comes along who speaks for them — and routinely wins the argument — on their network?

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: The Democrats’ Identity Crisis.

The Democratic Party has a split personality. It was on full display Tuesday night.

Face one: wacky, ideologically fevered, performatively outraged. Face two: collected, reassuring, conventional—and utterly misleading.

The split reflects a deeper problem. Democrats have no power, no leader, no role, no identity. Their presidential candidate lost every swing state and the popular vote. Their reputation is at its lowest level in decades. They are divided: Go wild, or stick with the old playbook?

The House Democrats chose derangement. As President Trump delivered his address to Congress, my eyes remained fixed on the House floor. There was no escaping the Democrats’ hysterical display.

It was a mass psychic breakdown—the political equivalent of the airline steward who, after his flight had landed, announced to the cabin that he was quitting his job, guzzled two beers, opened the emergency exit, and slid to the tarmac on the evacuation chute.

The theatrics began when Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D., N.M.) held a small card that read “This is not normal” above President Trump’s shoulder as he walked down the aisle to the House rostrum. She might as well have held bunny ears behind him. What was she thinking? Voters are used to Trump. They’ve elected him twice. What isn’t normal is Stansbury’s stunt.

Her colleagues were even less restrained. Rep. Al Green (D., Texas) was ejected from the chamber—and subsequently censured by the House—for heckling Trump at the speech’s outset. The image of the 77-year-old Green screaming and shaking his cane at the president was partly disturbing but mostly pathetic. He embodied the “old man yells at cloud” meme.

Speaking of memes, this was the video the Democrats released the following day: Uh Oh! Even Jimmy Kimmel is Mocking the Democrats’ Cringe-Tastic Behavior.

🤡 These are actually real live sitting members of Congress. pic.twitter.com/mGHdv7nMXI

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2025

Meanwhile, Rosa DeLauro (D-Gotham City) continues her quest to appear like a Batman supervillian:

This is why they lost, but nobody tell them that. I hope they keep listening to their staffers who write them goober things like this. pic.twitter.com/q67ef4e832

— Alexis Wilkins (@AlexisWilkins) March 7, 2025

How bad are the above videos They’re so bad that they easily make Donald Trump appear to be the grownup in Washington: Fixed It for You! Trump’s WH Responds to Democrat’s Cringe ‘Fighter’ Video and It’s Perfection (Watch).

Hey @HouseDemocrats, we fixed this for you! https://t.co/8j9PzwF7l4 pic.twitter.com/ogHTclsu7w

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 6, 2025

Finally, regarding the left’s current identity crisis: Tim Walz stumped with blank stare when questioned on who leads the Democratic Party.

JIM TREACHER: A Few Other Ways Gavin Newsom Can Pretend to Be Normal.

This week Newsom debuted a podcast, where he promises to talk to people who disagree with him. His first guest was Charlie Kirk, so obviously he meant it. And during their conversation, Newsom finally admitted it’s wrong to make girls compete against boys in sports.

Finally, a prominent Democrat is willing to say the obvious out loud.

Clearly, this is just the opening salvo of a Newsom presidential campaign in 2028. He’s pivoting to the center, as the pundits say.

So here are some fake images of the greasy-haired Adonis pretending to be a normal American, now that he realizes the entire Democrat agenda is electoral poison and his political career is over if he doesn’t start trying to act normal, pronto.

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Minding His Own Damn Business

This last one is my favorite. Can you even imagine a politician just leaving you alone and not telling you how to live your life? I can dream, can’t I?

AI artwork is pretty astonishing, but it doesn’t yet have the level of science fiction required to get me to think of Gavin Newsom and Calvin Coolidge as being part of the same species, let alone in the same sentence.

TYLER O’NEIL: Blue State’s ‘Domestic Extremism’ Task Force Stacked With Leftist Groups, Critics Fear.

Washington state has launched a domestic extremism task force, and conservatives are sounding the alarm about task force members’ ties to an organization notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups.”

State Senate Bill 5950, signed by then-Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, on April 1, 2024, established a “Domestic Extremism and Mass Violence Task Force,” which will recommend changes to state law.

The task force includes many left-wing groups with ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit law firm that sued KKK chapters into bankruptcy and now publishes a “hate map” that includes parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty, law firms such as Alliance Defending Freedom, and Christian groups such as the Family Research Council alongside Klan chapters. The SPLC’s accusation against the Family Research Council inspired a domestic terrorism attack in 2012.

“It’s self-evident how this entity is very dangerous to people of faith, to institutions that have a conservative worldview,” Brad Dacus, president and founder of the Pacific Justice Institute, told The Daily Signal in an interview Tuesday. The SPLC brands Pacific Justice Institute an “anti-LGBTQ+ hate group” because it opposes the LGBTQ agenda.

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IT’S COME TO THIS: Candace Owens’ Latest Crusade: Exonerating Harvey Weinstein.

GET READY FOR THE DEMOCRATIC RETREAT ON TRANS ATHLETES:

Newsom has been governor of California for six years, two months, and one day. At no point in that six-year-and-change span did Newsom express even a peep of objection to that law or policy — right up until the moment Newsom sat down for the inaugural edition of his podcast with Charlie Kirk. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the California governor claimed that for years, he had thought the policy was unfair to women athletes:

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Based on Newsom’s sudden about-face, it’s entirely possible that five years from now, Democrats will act like they’ve always opposed transgender athletes participating in women’s sports. These days you don’t find many Democrats arguing that Covid lockdowns were awesome, that keeping kids out of school for at least a year was harmless, that people ought to be fired if they don’t take the Covid vaccine, or that the lab leak was a crazy xenophobic conspiracy theory. When Democrats abandon a position, they count on mass amnesia over their old stances and often get away with it.

Exit quote: “This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.”

CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES, SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU, AND HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE BUREAUCRATS:

GET WOKE, GO…: How Disney’s Snow White remake became a $270 million headache.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the most contentious blockbuster of them all? On any list of the most trouble-plagued releases in recent Hollywood history, Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would surely rank heigh-ho, heigh-ho highly. The $270 million-budget spectacle, starring Rachel Zegler as the storybook princess, finally hits cinemas this month after four years of seemingly never-ending online fury and negative news stories.

From calls to boycott the film and attacks over its alleged “f______ backward” depiction of little people, all the way to the sight this weekend of the movie’s two biggest stars onstage at the Oscars, supposedly refusing to make eye contact with each other over disagreements about Gaza, this is a film beset by controversies. Controversies that, even with a magical, fortune-telling looking-glass like the one hung in the Evil Queen’s castle, Disney could hardly have seen coming.

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In 2023, Zegler was further attacked for appearing to criticise the 1937 Snow White, which she labelled “extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for” in an interview at Disney’s D23 convention. The original film was, by today’s standards of consent, a “love story with a guy who literally stalks her,” she explained. The upcoming modern rework of the tale, the actress announced, would feature a more empowered princess, who’s “not going to be saved by the prince”.

Flash-forward to this year, when after a pair of disastrous trailers in 2024 were met with over one million dislikes each on YouTube, Disney is now incorporating footage from the original Snow White in their newest ads:

HITLER ALL THE WAY DOWN:

The grotesque banalization of Hitler and Hitlerism proceeds apace. The American Left’s discourse is replete with comparisons of President Donald J. Trump to Adolf Hitler and constant evocations of a dangerous “fascist” threat to democracy supposedly coming from an altogether illiberal Right. Kamala Harris labeled Trump a fascist and Nazi sympathizer in a CNN town hall meeting in October, and she and the mainstream media continued to pile on until the November election.

When Trump held a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on October 27, a little over a week before the election, many Democrats, and the increasingly hysterical talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, compared that rally to a meeting of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund in that same venue in 1939. Completely disregarding the impressively multiracial character of the MAGA supporters gathered to hear Trump, as well as the large contingent of Orthodox and Hassidic Jews also in attendance, the media incessantly identified Trump with Hitler and “fascism.” Not only was the deep-seated evil that was National Socialism trivialized beyond recognition, and not only was fascism crudely (and absurdly) identified with any opposition to a hard Left agenda, but crucial distinctions between fascism, National Socialism, and democratic conservatism were elided in a deeply misleading manner.

This drumbeat continues to this day. The Trump/fascism/Nazism elision is commonplace in leftist discourse. An article in the Harvard Political Review from January attempts to give scholarly cover to this type of defamation: “Trump Rhetoric Echoes Hitler.” The author takes it for granted that Trump is a racist anti-Semite, and that he hates immigrants tout court. The fact he has built a large and varied multiracial political coalition is passed over in silence, as is his warm relationship with Israel. Trump, it is said, “is unfit to serve as the president of a nation founded upon the celebration of racial, ethnic, and cultural heterogeneity.” While it is true that the Founders loathed chattel slavery and declared that “all men are created equal,” dogmatic multiculturalism was not their vision of American self-gove