How The West Lost COVID

Solid New York Magazine overview of what went right (not much, except vaccines!) and wrong with our COVID response in the West and around the world:

How the West Lost COVID

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

I especially liked this passage:

In the U.S., the story of the pandemic year has been dominated by the character of the president who presided over it so ineptly, often with such indifference it seemed he was rooting for the disease. But the problem with assigning Donald Trump all, or even most of, the blame for America’s suffering is that the country’s failure isn’t unique. In fact, before the arrival of vaccines, the American experience of the coronavirus was not exceptional but typical — at least among those European nations it typically considers its peers. And as the New Year has brought a new administration, experts in fields from public health to economics have grown more comfortable acknowledging that catastrophe was much bigger and deeper than the denier-in-chief and indeed much more “normal” than Americans outraged or mourning are likely to understand.

Yes, the truth can now be told - the US was middle-of-the-pack among its obvious Euro-peers.

Comments

[henry]

21 year old religious (son of pastor) white dude with neck beard. Quiet, likes to hunt.

Seems right out of central casting for current CRT / prog efforts.

Also the age where mental health issues show up. We can predict which narrative media will choose.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

Just my thought, too.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/nascar-covid-detecing-dogs-atlanta-race

NASCAR to use COVID-detecting dogs at Atlanta Motor Speedway races

The dogs can sniff out the virus in 30 seconds
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Well, I can sniff out BS in about the same amount of time.

[Bela1]

Top o’ the morning to ya! 🍀

[MissMarple2]

Bela1,

Good morning! I forgot it was St. Patrick's Day! (I haven't a drop of Irish in me.)

[henry]

They should bow to reality and go straight to Arabic.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-call-replace-english-latin-europes-official-language

[MissMarple2]

President Trump reacts to Biden’s ‘Open Border’ crisis with @MariaBartiromo pic.twitter.com/yGXIY1MzuO

— SgtPepper1964 (@SPepper1964) March 17, 2021

Video at the link. About 3 1/2 minutes.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

I didn't know Europe HAD an "official language."

[MissMarple2]

Isn't that GMA interview with Biden this morning? I wonder how that goes.

[Jim Eagle]

Erin 'go bragh!

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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Team New Zealand won the 36th America's Cup, wrapping up a 7-3 victory over challenger Luna Rossa
⛵
https://reut.rs/38KMsCz

[henry]

More details on the Milwaukee Pedo judge.

Blomme began a six-year term on Aug. 1, presiding over children's court here at the Vel R. Phillips Youth and Family Justice Center.

...

Blomme previously served as president of the Cream City Foundation and held positions under Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-county-judge-arrested-on-child-porn-charges

What did Moore and Barrett know? Why did they promote this perv?

[MissMarple2]

Bloomberg
@business
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Germany’s economy will grow less than expected this year and the recovery could be jeopardized by a renewed spike in Covid-19 infections

[henry]

More fun in Gus’s neighborhood.

https://www.channel3000.com/roundys-distribution-warehouse-on-lockdown-in-oconomowoc-for-active-tactical-situation/

[Narciso]

Top of the morning to you.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

"What did Moore and Barrett know? Why did they promote this perv?"

Because the pedophilia rings are far more extensive than we understood. And I would say that extends to both sides of the aisle.

When all that Pizzagate stuff was floating around it got pooh-poohed as a conspiracy theory. Now I am not sure that it was entirely bogus.

[MissMarple2]

David Chapman
@davidchapman141
·
1h
It is without question Donald Trump has better people around him post-Presidency.

Stephen Miller
Donald Trump Jr - Replaced Kushner
Corey Lewandowski - Head of SuperPac
Jon Voight - Head of new Think Tank

[MissMarple2]

Christian Datoc
@TocRadio
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1h
INBOX: @PressSec statement on ATL shooting spree that killed 8 at 3 separate locations...

“The President has been briefed overnight about the horrific shootings in Atlanta. White House officials have been in touch with the Mayor’s office and will remain in touch with the FBI.”
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Dollars to doughnuts she WILL be prepared for today's press briefing, with all sorts of allusions to white supremacists, Christian fanaticism, xenophobia against Asians, gun control, and of course, President Trump.

[MissMarple2]

David Chapman
@davidchapman141
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1h
BREAKING: Donald Trump has launched a ThinkTank. It will be headed by Jon Voight.

[Jane]

Who are you talking about Henry?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/15/joe-biden-urges-pastors-and-priests-to-promote-coronavirus-vaccines-and-masks-to-maga-americans/

See? It's those Christian fanatics that won't take the vaccine.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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1h
White supremacist propaganda in U.S. hit record in 2020, group says http://reut.rs/3ePOsNU
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I see the propaganda efforts are being ramped up.

[Narciso]

Its the adl which has displayed tunnel blindness
https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/16/biden-administration-chooses-political-purges-over-national-defense/

Office of special counsel was the good prosecutors pal.

[Narciso]

A mostly peaceful altercation.

[Narciso]

Latin, how many speak latin in europe?

[henry]

Jane, the description of the suspect in the Atlanta shootings.

[MissMarple2]

Happy St. Patrick's Day, from more innocent times:

[Old Lurker]

For those who might think the Fed Reserve knows how to perform brain surgery...Jimmy at least will enjoy this:

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/03/sorry-the-federal-reserve-cant-save-the-u-s-economy/

Short answer: we are all screwed.

[MissMarple2]

Bloomberg
@business
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2h
Denmark will send a naval vessel to West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea to help fight rampant piracy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/denmark-dispatches-vessel-to-west-african-gulf-to-fight-piracy

[MissMarple2]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/takeaway-s-jitse-groen-faces-doordash-uber-eats-in-u-s-after-dominating-europe

Bloomberg
@business
·
2h
Jitse Groen became a food delivery billionaire by conquering Europe. After buying Grubhub, can he do the same in America? https://trib.al/svjXEiX via @BW

[MissMarple2]

HowardKurtz
@HowardKurtz
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2h
Compassion is an important quality in politicians. But it can boomerang when grand goals produce unintended consequences. That's what's happening to Biden with the migrant surge at the border.
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That SOB doesn't have an ounce of compassion in him. I suppose that's the new line: "He was just too caring and wanted to help as quickly as possible."

Hogwash. He ignored the clearly effective Trump program, ignored the pleas of the Mexican president, ignored the advice of Border Patrol and ICE, ignored the pleas of dem politicians on the Border. It's not like he had no information and didn't know the consequences.

The illegal migrants are simply pawns to be deployed to hasten the chaos and destruction of the country.

[jimmyk]

Thanks, OL, I happened to have read that one because I'm on Cato's email list. They're surprisingly good on monetary and banking issues. They may all deep down be gold bugs (or crypto fanatics), but they can still write well about the Fed. In fact they're a bit too understated.

[Narciso]

They removed the healthy brain ol, why would they get one that works

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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2h
BMW says every other car it sells to be fully electric by 2030 http://reut.rs/3ePNQYC
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Hang onto those old BMW's!

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/17/medias-entire-georgia-narrative-is-fraudulent-not-just-the-fabricated-trump-quotes/

[MissMarple2]

New York Post
@nypost
· 13h
CDC urges St. Patrick's Day revelers to stay home this year https://trib.al/VoL4RLE
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This will go over well.

[Old Lurker]

Jimmy, I started to worry early in that piece because they seemed to be mixing Monetary Policy with Fiscal Policy (a mistake I made in an exam back in 1968 that embarrasses me to this day...) by seeming to call the Covid Bill "Monetary Policy". But in general they worked it out OK.

[MissMarple2]

Mike Pompeo
@mikepompeo
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Who is benefitting from Biden’s immigration policies? Human traffickers, drug cartels and smugglers. The crisis at the border puts American values, and lives, last.

[Narciso]

What is the problem, i would say insufficient economic growth, this bill does nothing for that, other than that, how did you like the play?

[Narciso]

If were talking debt katy bar the door.

[Old Lurker]

You nailed it right there, Narc.

All of their policies will kill not only economic "growth" (which is in the future) but good chunks of the existing economy they already count upon.

Then they paper (jk, jk) it over by flooding the sheeple with Fiat money so they don't see what is really happening...then poof...you have Germany 1930's, or Venezuela circa now.

Hence Jimmy's reference above to "gold bugs".

[Old Lurker]

There is a reason economists use the word "Real" from time to time.

[Old Lurker]

Another one in the same vein. This one sounds like Iggy wrote it:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-economy-now-giant-bubble-pop-could-be-disaster-180266

[MissMarple2]

https://pandemic.warroom.org/listen-live/

Bannon's show, live stream.

[MissMarple2]

Marjorie Taylor Greene on the first half.

[henry]

An empty trash can draws more flies.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/wow-cannot-even-imagine-pathetic-crowds-joe-biden-chester-pa/

[Neo]

Trump also had Project Warp Speed pay up front for vaccines from six different sources to have the vaccine ready once the safety testing was complete.
Modern was there first. Pfizer decided to forego payment for research (due to multiple government funding) and took a large per dose payment. Johnson & Johnson was 3rd in the US. Novavax appears about to be the 4th to be approved in the US.
So, as of this moment, three vaccines are approved and a 4th probably will be shortly. When they started, it was unknown if any of these vaccine would actually work. AstraZeneca was 3rd in Europe but is having clouting problems. The Sanofi vaccine and GSK booster wasn't potent enough, initially, but they are back in the hunt again. The Merck vaccine failed.

Grading the Trump administration's performance "has to take into account how other countries are doing," HuffPost's Jonathan Cohn wrote on Friday. "It turns out the U.S. is faring pretty well, relatively speaking. In fact, shots are getting into arms faster than in most of Western Europe, at least according to the available data."

"The crazy thing here is how much has gone right," insisted Michael Pratt, Operation Warp Speed's chief communications officer, on Thursday. "The vaccines were developed within a year. There are tens of millions of doses now available. More than 11 million people are reported as having the vaccine… [and] it's better than the data shows."

"The fact of the matter is it represented the best of American science and biotechnology, and it was the work of hundreds of thousands of people to get us into this position," said Kadlec, the health department's preparedness chief. "This is what America was made of."

[GUS]

Henry, as you know, my house abuts I-94. The amount of Waukesha County squad SUV'S was epic.
They were all doing over 100mph and the parade lasted at least a half hour.

[MissMarple2]

I will donate to Greene's re-election but not through the GOP.

[henry]

@wbay

OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) - Union official: Wisconsin grocery distribution warehouse worker fatally shot two co-workers.

[henry]

Commie is as commie does.

Biden and his fellow Democrats hope to expand the definition of infrastructure beyond existing transportation architecture to include items aimed at tackling climate change and its effects, echoing the $2 trillion, 10-year “Build Back Better” proposal floated during his campaign.

That includes investments in electric vehicle charging stations, zero-emission buses and zero-carbon electricity generation by 2035, and directing dollars to minority neighborhoods and contractors, part of a pledge to increase racial equity.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-infrastructure-idUSKBN2B718Y

[Neo]

In Vanity Fair, Cuomo’s biographer mentions the time that his subject was accused of sexual harassment. “HUD’s inspector general, Susan Gaffney, was a woman who dared to speak up, so she became a target,” he writes. Gaffney did indeed speak up and became a target. And The Contender followed the usual Cuomo line of treating her allegation of sexual harassment as absurd nonsense. The suggestion that Gaffney had gone over the edge goes unchallenged.

"To the astonishment of all in the Cuomo camp, Gaffney soon after filed a formal complaint against Andrew and most of his inner circle, accusing them of sexual harassment and discrimination," Shnayerson dismissively writes. "Exhibit A: the wink."

The real reason that the story is explosive isn’t just because twenty years ago, for the first time, Cuomo was accused of sexual harassment, it’s that Democrats vigorously backed Cuomo up.

At a Senate hearing in which Gaffney made her case, warning of Cuomo's campaign of dirty tricks, Senator Susan Collins and Senator Fred Thompson, both Republicans, were supportive. Meanwhile Senator Tom Lantos appeared to be cooperating with the Cuomo smear campaign.

Rep. Henry Waxman, aggressively defended Cuomo, accusing Gaffney of "nit-picking," and "petty" complaints that "defy logic and reason".

Rep. Elijah Cummings demanded an investigation of Gaffney.

There was something bigger at stake in the Cuomo-Gaffney case than sexual harassment.

Gaffney and her people had been digging into some shady behavior by Andrew Cuomo.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/when-cuomo-was-accused-sex-harassment-20-years-ago-daniel-greenfield/

[Neo]

NBCNews:
The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials.

The officials say the restrictions are seen as an unofficial "gag order" and are often referred to that way among colleagues. The officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media about the topic.

Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for "ride-alongs" with agents along the southern land border; local press officers are instructed to send all information queries, even from local media, to the press office in Washington for approval; and those responsible for cultivating data about the number of migrants in custody have been reminded not to share the information with anyone to prevent leaks, the officials said.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-admin-limits-border-patrol-090051080.html

[Davod]

From Instapundit:

"STANDING UP FOR FREEDOM: Canada joins Britain, France in combatting cancel culture ‘coming from the United States’"

Canada, Canada?

[jimmyk]

Canada, Canada?

What's happening with that Mark Steyn case?

[Davod]

I have an email sent from 'Nikki Haley' I didn't open it, but the heading was offering me membership in something.

[Melinda]

Davod-

That's pure Alinsky. Justine's cranking down on Cancel so hard that it makes anything here look like kindergarten rulez.

[Neo]

Nelson referred to this passage in the Post story:

A Minneapolis official said the city had been concerned that the announcement could affect the trial.

The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the city consulted with Hennepin County Chief District Judge Toddrick S. Barnette, who told the city it could proceed. Barnette did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Having taken up the issue with Judge Barnette, Judge Cahill disputed the accuracy of “the official’s” account of his conversation. Judge Barnette was said to have advised the city that he had no control over its handling of the federal wrongful death case. Judge Cahill quoted him as saying words to the effect that “We can’t tell you what to do,” not as authorizing the announcement of the settlement.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--What's happening with that Mark Steyn case?--

His Canada case has long since been done when he and another guy whose name escapes me at the moment [Ira Levant?] were accused of hate speech. They prevailed.
His present all American kerfuffle with the fraud Mann is awaiting a decision on competing motions for summary judgement. Mann's petition was absurd to the point of comedy. Steyn's was compelling, but courts are usually pretty reluctant to grant them. I don't think the court has ruled yet.

[Dave (in MA)]

According to Charlie Baker, I'm eligible to get jabbed as of 3/22, the same day that garbagemen become eligible.

[Narciso]

Well that makes sense

https://mobile.twitter.com/ShidelerK/status/1372200284999593986

[Narciso]

So what:

https://mobile.twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1372202287653863426

[Narciso]

But of course

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-xiaomi-idUSKBN2B906N

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--they seemed to be mixing Monetary Policy with Fiscal Policy (a mistake I made in an exam back in 1968 that embarrasses me to this day...) by seeming to call the Covid Bill "Monetary Policy"--

Perhaps not by de jure standards but by de facto ones the two are now effectively mixed.
The Fed has largely abandoned its original mandate of maintaining a sound and stable currency in favor of accommodating and abetting an unsound and unstable fiscal mania.
It could be argued that the Fed's policy is meant to maintain the dollar's value by the only means it has at its disposal in the face of such fiscal profligacy but the fact is those policies meant to maintain the dollar's value remove the market signals that would prevent that profligacy. The original mandate was never to maintain its value by insane means in an insane world.
And because market discipline can be delayed but never destroyed the eventual reckoning will be considerably more catastrophic than it otherwise would have been.
IMO, the high debt-low interest rate regime is approaching the end of its life and will be followed by a deleveraging-rising interest rate one that will entail the considerable pain and economic and societal restructuring that usually accompanies such epochs, because they involve a period of moving from magical thinking to reality and that is never painless.
The period after WW2 was a rare instance of events so arranging themselves that we could grow our way out of that debt over thirty or so years relatively painlessly. But that was in a period of low regulation and virtually no competition for US supremacy and a Dem party that was relatively friendly to that growth and that mostly believed in and supported free markets.
None of those circumstances obtain today.

[Narciso]

Strzoks buddy covering for the pla

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Heh.

Matt Couch;
Joe Biden will be in 3 states today...

Unconscious... Semi-Conscious... and Confused...

[Narciso]

Technofog pointed it first

https://www.revolver.news/2021/03/january-6-narrative-collapse-assault-charges-spell-problems-for-doj-fbi-in-officer-sicknick-case/

[Dave (in MA)]

So Gropey's handlers have him lined up for his first presser 8 days from now...

What's the over/under on how many early lids they call between now and then?

[Narciso]

More lids than a maxwell house convention.

[Dave (in MA)]

Biden denies that there was any penetration:

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1372196828544917504

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Correction: Denmark sent it's naval vessel to the Gulf of Guinea.

Funny how we are in the 21st century and piracy has become a major issue worldwide. Board 'em and hang 'em by the yardarm. Find their dens and burn them down. Arrgh!!

[henry]

One man, one vote, one time. Thanks #nevertrump! This is what you voted for:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said “everything is on the table” to pass a comprehensive voting reform bill, the For the People Act, during a press conference introducing the legislation Wednesday.

“We will see if our Republican friends join us. If they don’t join us, our caucus will come together and decide the appropriate action to take,” Schumer said. “Failure is not an option.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/schumer-says-everything-is-on-the-table-to-pass-voting-rights-legislation-in-senate.html

[Neo]

“The Washington Post reported on the substance of Trump’s Dec. 23 call in January, describing him saying that [Georgia election investigator Frances] Watson should ‘find the fraud’ and that she would be a ‘national hero,’ based on an account from Jordan Fuchs, the deputy secretary of state, whom Watson briefed on his comments,” the Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple reported Tuesday.

So, will Jason Leopold ever tell us who told him that Karl Rove would be indicted in the Ms Flame affair ?

[Old Lurker]

Ig "But that was in a period of low regulation and virtually no competition for US supremacy and a Dem party that was relatively friendly to that growth and that mostly believed in and supported free markets."

That period was also blessed with good demographics of men & women returning from war in their prime with ambitions for jump starting families and careers; it was a period of great patriotism and respect for the greatness of the USA and its people; compared to today, it was a period of low current spending (hence taxation) by governments, it was a period when government deficits had to be paid for by actually competing in the Bond Market for lendable funds, it was a period during which the number of dollars printed had to reflect the amount of actual gold in Fort Knox, it was a period when Congress did real budgets, real debt limits, and all in "Regular Order"; and probably more important than anything, we were a Constitutional Republic with actual respect for Private Property and the Rule of Law, not to mention the other rights and liberties intended therein.

[MissMarple2]

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/convicted-democratic-fund-raiser-had-secret-life-us-intelligence

Convicted Democratic fund-raiser had secret ties to U.S. intelligence

Photo gallery at bottom has pics of him with Hillary, Biden, McConnell, Graham and McCain.

[Dave (in MA)]

Headline only, because as I recall, typhus censors links...

Narrative Failure: After Optimistically Slotting In the Massage Parlor Shooter As the One White Anti-Asian Thug, Media Is Disappointed to Learn He's a Sex Addict Who Was Shooting Up the Sex Parlors Because He Blames Them For His Addiction
—Ace

[Dave (in MA)]

You're Fake News: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewp2JcTWEAEAiaQ?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewp2JcPXEAIE6KE?format=jpg&name=medium

[Narciso]

It works

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=393223

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Those photos of Biden's crowd in Chester, PA were a joke. There were 12-20 people there at most.

The media has been perpetrating a massive fraud. Biden's campaigning was a fraud. Now even his "victory lap" is a fraud.

It's frauds all the way down.

And now Comrade Schumer wants to jam through his Bolshevik agenda. Keep your powder dry. We may need it.

[Dave (in MA)]

Biden, on the Atlanta-area shootings:

“I know that Asian-Americans are very concerned, because as you know I’ve been speaking about the brutality against Asian-Americans for the last couple months, and I think it’s very, very troublesome, but I’m making no connection at this moment to the motivation of the killer, but as you know, you cannot go to a rub&tug joint unless you have a slight Asian accent. I'm not joking”
(*the above uses the same standard of accuracy used by the MSM since Trump came down the escalator)

[Dave (in MA)]

Gee Dave, why don't you do satire any more https://t.co/7K5ArA7Urn

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 17, 2021

[Manuel Transmission]

With all the grousing about our host dumping on DJT -- given his otherwise normal competence and behavior, I thought it might be interesting to hear about my phone chat with an old HS pal yesterday.

So the background: I finished my last two years of HS at a large public HS in Phx. They had been doing AP classes for several years, but I showed up with maybe one from my Seattle school system. So the only AP class they dropped me into was physics and that turned out to be where all the bright kids were. There were two guys who probably had IQs >150 and one of them became a casual friend. (I also dated the Valedictorian, but she was lower on the smart scale, but busted her ass to get the top honors because her big sis was Salutatorian.) Heh.

To get an idea how smart the guy who I stayed in touch with was, his State Science Fair entry was on Magnetohydrodynamics. Yeah, the judges gave him an Honorable Mention, because they had no idea what it was.

Flash forward across 58 years and this guy was the Chief Scientist for Reagan's Starwars Program, then somewhere along the way ran a University and then became the Chief Scientist for Raytheon up until he retired.

Through the chat yesterday he claimed to be a life long Republican, which makes sense given his career, but he absolutely despises Trump. Everything we hear from the prog swamp is queued up in his head. Needless to say, I didn't try to dissuade him, but I reserve the right to put a dent in that perspective if we ever share a bottle of something down the road.

So, my takeaway? He dropped a comment about his 2nd wife (on #3 now) and how he never bothered to listen to her. Hmmm. I think he was admitting that when you are the smartest guy in the room/city/state, you don't spend a lot of time listening to anyone explain something. And with our incredibly well tuned lame-stream media wafting in the background, you subliminally absorb all that without bothering to pick it apart, cause you are so busy tending to your main focus.

Of course we thrash around here all the time regarding compartmentalized brains. In this case I think it is more about lacking any dose of humble, because you rarely need it. The three wives element appears to prove the rule.

[MissMarple2]

Manuel Transmission,

Talking to my phone friend we were discussing all of the mask Nazis she runs into when exercising at the Y. High numbers of old guys in the group. We think it's because they listen to CNN and radio news and have absorbed the panic brainwashing.

[MissMarple2]

According to CNBC's tweet, the IRS is pushing the tax deadline forward to May 15 instead of April 15.

[Narciso]

Winning the future.

[MissMarple2]

Anna Giaritelli
@Anna_Giaritelli
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1h
Source confirms NBC story: a Biden admin decision not to immediately expel non-Mexican unaccompanied children has created a loophole for families who have been turned away to instead try again by sending kids alone knowing UACs will be released into US

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/children-alone-cross-border-response-to-biden-policies
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(((anti-antisemite)))
@Tristanshouts
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55m
Your reporting is inaccurate. Judge Sullivan ruled 11/2020 we had to accept unaccompanied children. And children aren’t “released” willy nilly into the US—they are sent to live w/vetted family/a sponsor while their case is adjudicated. Many end up sent back to their home country.
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NeanderthalAmerican
@Pimpernell13
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54m
Who often aren’t related to them

and then traffick them

average age of trafficked girls is 12
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EddyCaplan
@EddyCaplan1

Replying to
@Pimpernell13
@Tristanshouts
and
@Anna_Giaritelli

A WAPO report showed that Biden/Obama placed numerous kids with paedos and pimps.

[Narciso]

Now with the erotic poetry reader atop the apparatus

https://mobile.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1372259947661176834

[Davod]

Gus.

RE. "If you can't sell, you are gone. I can sell. They leave me alone. They are privately owned and want RESULTS/PROFITS. That's how TAXES are generated."

Many years ago I worked for a beltway bandit/aircraft parts supplier. Their personnel policies stressed customer, customer, customer, and you had better be able to spout the party line. Except for review time. When asked what was the bottom line we were rebuked severely, and told in no uncertain terms that profit, profit, profit was the only thing that mattered. As if we didn't know this.

[Narciso]

Oh really

https://mobile.twitter.com/queens_parents/status/1372235782283476994

[Neo]

It turns out the research that formed the basis of that law came from a German hygenicist called Carl Flugge. It was Flugge who decided that six-foot separations were necessary to slow the spread of pathogens. The CDC went with Flugge's judgment. What the CDC didn't tell us was that Karl Flugge had been dead for nearly 100 years.

[Davod]

"The dogs can sniff out the virus in 30 seconds"

But can they sniff out fake nooses?

[MissMarple2]

Jennifer Van Laar
@jenvanlaar

Psaki's answer to question asking whether there was a limit on the # of kids who will be housed at the border was basically - "So how many 10 year olds should we turn away?" What a smart-ass, bitchy answer. This isn't a debate. As the reporter said, she's asking about your policy
3:22 PM · Mar 17, 2021

[Neo]

Glenn Greenwald Explains How Multiple Media Outlets Can ‘Independently Confirm’ False Information
https://www.dailywire.com/news/glenn-greenwald-explains-how-multiple-media-outlets-can-independently-confirm-false-information

An independent source has verified to me that CNN actually means Crappy Nonsense Network

[MissMarple2]

Gov. @RonDeSantisFL announces Florida's curriculum will "expressly exclude...Critical Race Theory."

“There's no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.” pic.twitter.com/7y2b40GqDk

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 17, 2021

Video at the link. One minute.

[Jane]

My,

Now that was interesting as heck. I can’t wait for the political recogning.

A truly gorgeous day in Florida.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Henry;

What I see is the age of specialization run amok. There are few generalists left. Today, kids start specializing in high school and then kick it into overdrive in college and beyond.

Because they specialize, they don't know any better and are usually not well versed in critical thinking. What they are taught is gospel, even when it is opinion.

The hard sciences used to be a refuge, as was engineering. Today even those are infected with politispeak.

Thus they trust the media to report everything as gospel. We know where that led. NPR and the networks are excuses not to engage in rational thought.

[Old Lurker]

No problem, Matt.

Humans will rediscover the value of critical thinking once starving and enslavement are unavoidable without it.

Then Natural Selection will do its thing.

Again.

[Melinda]

Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
Heavy D continues to impress.

Washington Examiner @dcexaminer
Gov. @RonDeSantisFL announces Florida's curriculum will "expressly exclude...Critical Race Theory."

“There's no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.”

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1372266159752548357

[Probably wasn't the best ad timing campaign to go full bent for leather the day after the election.]

[Marlene]

New thread!