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Thursday, June 6. 2024

Thursday morning links

 Fauci: We Just Kinda Made Up the 6-Foot Social Distancing Thing


 We keep us safe” is a progressive mantra.


Didn’t Earn It - For more and more Americans, these words spell out the real meaning of DEI.


 Does the Left Really Want a Land of Lawfare?


 We Are Witnessing the Toxic Legacy of the Sixties


 Donald Trump's Conviction Was Expected to Sink Him in the Polls. It Hasn't


 Have We Become Numb to Terrorism?


 Can Europe Be Saved?

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'We Are Witnessing the Toxic Legacy of the Sixties'

That was about the time we kicked God out of schools.

And can Europe be saved? Only if they kick out all the low-IQ Ishmaelite brutes, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.
#1 Maniac on 2024-06-06 09:32 (Reply)
Trump will have a lot to do on Day 1, but on Day 2 he should have paved the way with the conservative caucus to have "loser pays" legislation ready to go, which will eviscerate the Lawfare strategy of the parasitic class. There will still be bad verdicts, so this will have to go hand in hand with other reforms, but it would knock 75% of the problem on the head right away. IMHO.
#2 Slow Learner on 2024-06-06 10:06 (Reply)
re Fauci: We Just Kinda Made Up the 6-Foot Social Distancing Thing

Yes. A lot of us knew that at the time.
#3 feeblemind on 2024-06-06 10:24 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Fauci: We Just Kinda Made Up the 6-Foot Social Distancing Thing

Fauci, (director of NIAID, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1984-2022) did not say that. The guideline was issued by the CDC, not by NIAID. And while direct experimentation is difficult, respiratory diseases, such as influenza, are known to spread via droplets, which fall out of the air due to gravity in a few feet (when speaking, ½m, coughing 1m, sneezing 2m, per Cheng et al., Trajectories of large respiratory droplets in indoor environment, Building and Environment 2020). However, because COVID is much more transmissible than influenza, even aerosols can be a significant source of infection. Once this was better understood, ventilation was recognized as important. That doesn't mean droplets can't spread infection.

QUOTE:
Obviously no one (or hardly anyone) abides by these rules anymore

Such measures were abandoned once COVID was no longer prevalent. How did Greenfield think it worked?
#4 Zachriel on 2024-06-06 10:30 (Reply)
Zach-GPT: "Fauci did not say that."

“It just sort of appeared,” Fauci said in his interview. “I don’t recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be 5 or 6 or whatever.”

Fauci also said that he had not seen any scientific study supporting the measurement, noting that such a study would be “very difficult” to do with accuracy and scientific rigor.
#4.1 eeyore on 2024-06-06 10:34 (Reply)
re Can Europe Be Saved?

Well, I believe the little people increasingly want to save Europe. Unfortunately the ruling class is not interested, just as the ruling class here is not interested in saving America.

Related:

The Tories Should Go Extinct

QUOTE:
The immigration betrayal has been staggering. Despite repeated Conservative pledges to stem the tide — even down to tens of thousands — immigration has skyrocketed since 2010, reaching an astonishing high of 1.26 million people in 2022, for a net inflow of 764,000.

Brexit was largely motivated by the desire to stop immigration, and this is the top issue for Conservative voters. The Tories have been winning elections for more than a decade by promising to stop the flow, and they are trying to do it again. Few are listening. Conservative failure has been so consistent, it almost seems deliberate.


Sound familiar?

https://www.amren.com/features/2024/05/the-tories-should-go-extinct/
#5 feeblemind on 2024-06-06 10:43 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Can Europe Be Saved? . . .Think of any leading-edge industry — artificial intelligence, microchips, software, robotics, genomics — and ask yourself (with a few honorable exceptions), where’s the European Microsoft, Nvidia or OpenAI?

ASML Holding is a Dutch multinational company that provides extreme ultraviolet lithography for making the most advanced microchips. The French company Dassault develops the software for most new airplanes. German Siemans is a leader in industrial automation and software. CRISPR Therapeutics, headquartered in Switzerland develops various medicines.

Of course, the Americans have had a large lead on scientific technology for decades, an educated and highly motivated workforce, a strong culture of entrepreneurship, and vast natural resources. The U.S. has allowed their infrastructure to deteriorate, but there have been recent investments which should help growth going forward.

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And yet, what else was President Trump saying when he was inveighing against our European NATO allies for failing to spend money on their defense?

In 2014, NATO countries agreed to increase military spending to 2% of GDP within ten years. They have been expanding military spending since then, and NATO Europe is at 2% military spending this year.

QUOTE:
In 1960 the E.U. 28 — the 27 countries currently in the European Union, plus Britain — accounted for 36.3 percent of global gross domestic product. By 2020 it had fallen to 22.4 percent.

That's inevitable. The EU population is 6% of the world's population. As the developing world industrializes, they will catch up to the West in terms of GDP and living standards—as they should.

feeblemind (quoting): "Brexit was largely motivated by the desire to stop immigration, and this is the top issue for Conservative voters."

Funny thing about that.
#5.1 Zachriel on 2024-06-06 11:00 (Reply)
More GIsh Gallop courtesy of Quibble-DickZ .
STFU and go away. You're annoying the adults.
#5.1.1 Zachinoff on 2024-06-06 11:17 (Reply)
QUOTE:
where’s the European Microsoft, Nvidia or OpenAI?

Forgot: Airbus is a European aerospace company that is not Boeing.
#5.1.2 Zachriel on 2024-06-06 11:17 (Reply)
And now that Europe is finally spending some money on defense it is now time for the US to pull out of Nato and let the Europeans fund it entirely and also run it entirely. It has been 80 years since D Day... time for them to stand on their own and for us to go home.
#5.1.3 indyjonesouthere on 2024-06-06 14:04 (Reply)
... the Tories should go extinct. Yes, Nigel Farage in and the Tories out. Just like Trump in and uniparty GOPe out.
#5.2 indyjonesouthere on 2024-06-06 14:15 (Reply)
Well, bad news: The Bird flu pandemic isn't developing fast enough to disrupt the 2024 election and the Dems will have to come up with something else, perhaps WW III, to steal the election.

More bad news: the first human to become infected with Bird flu died from the bioengineered weapon and likely this will be far worse than the previous bioengineered Covid.

But there is good news: as the multi-billion dollar Death industries/pharmaceuticals have developed another MRNA vaccine to make them even more billions as government will mandate it and exempt them from any responsibility when it turns out that the vaccine kills people.

And the bad news: If Trump wins the left's plan to take over the earth using the deadly flu bio-weapon and the deadlier MRNA vaccine will be put on hold for four years.

But the good news: is that the left has so weaponized all our government offices that they will likely be effective in stopping Trump from doing anything to prevent WW III, total nuclear holocaust and destruction of the world.
#6 OneGuy on 2024-06-06 10:59 (Reply)
There could be another plan, none of it based on science, to exploit the bird flu virus.

Test cows for the virus, slaughter the ones that test "positive" and bury them in trenches. In no time flat, there won't be any cows left in this country.

Far fetched? Perhaps. But I am sure someone is at least considering it.

Of course there is the usual grift involved as well for the medical industrial complex, all courtesy of printed money from Uncle Sam.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/who-confirms-bird-flu-death-mexico-trust-science-experts-want-test-americas-40-million-cows

https://www.dossier.today/p/deborah-birx-proposes-weekly-testing
#6.1 feeblemind on 2024-06-06 11:19 (Reply)
US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration's Foreign Policy

QUOTE:
Scott Ritter was pulled off a NY-to-Istanbul flight on Monday by US officials and his passport confiscated in a startling new development in the government’s open drive to censor and silence critics of the Administration’s foreign policies . . .

. . . A Marine veteran and true American patriot, Mr. Ritter is also a noted former Chief UN weapons inspector, author and journalist. He was enroute to Russia to attend an international conference in St. Petersburg.

. . . There are several Constitutional issues at stake here:

The taking of his passport was an illegal seizure, prohibited by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. Mr. Ritter asked for, but did not receive a receipt, for the seized passport.

The seizure represents a punitive attempt to censor his views, a violation of his First Amendment right to free speech and freedom of the press.

His Fifth Amendment rights to due process were violated. Someone in the State Department made an administrative decision to prevent his travel and to take away his passport. Since there was no stated reason for the seizure, there was no open court hearing, no evidence to justify the confiscation of Mr. Ritter’s passport was presented publicly. The whole process has a Kafka-like Trial feeling, where Mr. Ritter cannot find out what he is accused of.

The State Department was aware of Mr. Ritter’s travel three weeks before his planned departure, giving rise to the likelihood that the interception was designed to humiliate Mr. Ritter, in addition to the blatant disregard of his Constitutional rights.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-targets-journalists-who-criticize-administrations-foreign-policy
#7 feeblemind on 2024-06-06 11:01 (Reply)
Do not be fooled! Read what Ritter has said in the past 5-10 years. Watch his videos. Scott Ritter is not just a nut-job he is a dangerous anti-American whacko. Seriously. Don't take my word watch his videos.

Also during the Iraq war Scott Ritter manufactured and disseminated misinformation with the intent of harming the U.S. troops and U.S. interests. I don't know what drives him but in a sane world he would be in jail. Literally nothing he says is true.
#7.1 OneGuy on 2024-06-06 11:15 (Reply)
If Ritter is a spy, that's one thing, but mere wackos are are entitled to the same constitutional rights the rest of us have.
#7.1.1 feeblemind on 2024-06-06 11:21 (Reply)
Let me get this straight. So if you think that recent and current United States foreign policy is a complete and utter disaster you're an anti American traitor? Got it. No dissent is to be tolerated. Seize him!!
#7.1.2 Lord Heathen on 2024-06-06 14:57 (Reply)
If it was dissent I could care less. I'm guessing you haven't seen his vitriolic videos. If you watch half a dozen of his latest videos and still think he is just "dissenting" I would be surprised. His words and vitriol would make Hitler blush. Words matter. He can't walk back from the things he has said. Don't take my word for it watch his videos if you can stomach it.
#7.1.2.1 OneGuy on 2024-06-06 18:02 (Reply)
I watch him all the time. I don't always agree with him but as soon as anyone pulls the Hitler card I'm done listening. Why not compare him to Stalin or Mao while you're at it?
#7.1.2.1.1 Lord Heathen on 2024-06-07 07:01 (Reply)
"the Hitler card"

In many cases you would be right. But your buddy Scott Ritter is a vitriolic antisemite. He IS comparable with Hitler and THAT is why I compared him with Hitler. Had he been a communist I would have compared him with Stalin. Had he been a socialist I would have compared him with Marx. I got the right comparison it is your knee jerk reaction to that comparison that is flawed.

Interestingly most of the Scott Ritter videos are on Hamas/terrorists and Russian bot YouTube channels. They too like Scott Ritter.
#7.1.2.1.1.1 OneGuy on 2024-06-07 10:24 (Reply)
re: Can Europe Be Saved

The real question is should it be saved? I say it's not worth it. I'm nearing 50 and Europe will very likely fall into war before I die of old age. If/when that happens I will strongly urge my four sons to not join the military in defense of a European nation. If there is a draft I'll urge them to choose jail.

The options are few. History suggests that genocide will get rid of most of the immigrants. History also suggests one or two countries will dominate the others and decide everyone's fate. Whatever, that's not our problem.

My only concerns regarding Europe are its works of art and the Vatican. I think Mexico would be a good place to relocate both.
#8 jack walter on 2024-06-06 13:36 (Reply)

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