Monday News Break from The Country - January 22, 2024

The great primary season of 2024 lasted barely a week; Social distancing was made up, the Lab Leak Theory has new life, and teens are COVID fodder

RIP Primaries, Choices

And just like that, the Republican primary is over. Ron DeSantis supporters were shocked yesterday with the Governor’s announcement that he will suspend his campaign for President and endorse Donald Trump. President Trump will almost assuredly win New Hampshire and South Carolina and see Nikki Haley surrender in the next few weeks.

And the truth I am now accepting is that no one but Trump ever had a chance. What I and perhaps others missed is the stunning simplicity of Donald Trump’s reelection strategy. He has spent the last three years continuing to claim he won the 2020 election - though this is considered madness, there is method in it. By convincing a very large swath of Republican voters that the 2020 election was rigged (68% say Biden won because of “voter fraud” according to Monmouth), Trump turned the 2024 GOP primary into a virtual incumbent’s re-election campaign where the former President faced little to no real competition. Couple that with the partisan efforts by liberal prosecutors to bring dubious prosecutions of activity Mr. Trump took years ago and the former President has the emotional support of the Republican electorate on a string around his finger.

The fact that 50,000 votes for Trump in Iowa determined the outcome of the primary election season before 49 states had a chance to vote is criminal. With all of our political power vested in our two over-powerful political parties, it is critical to a healthy election to have rigorous debate and a long campaign to determine their nominations for President. Primaries should be a marathon, where potential leaders prove their worth over the long term with debates, speeches, town halls and voter interactions around the country. None of this happened. Trump and Biden both took authoritarian steps to lock out competition and secure the nomination through refusals to debate, back room deals, and party fixes. You need no more evidence that the system is completely nuts and broken beyond all repair than to review the outcome for the fall - a rematch of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The country weeps, but no reprieve shall come as long as Democrats and Republicans rule the show.

The Greatest Purveyors of COVID Misinformation

In November, I made an attempt to document all of the COVID misinformation spread by the US Government, World Health Organizations and the mainstream media. But of course, since the media and public are focused on the primaries, Ukraine, Hamas/Israel, the Houthis and our Border Crisis, it’s a great time for bad actors in the COVID crisis to keep leaking out the truth on COVID while no one is paying attention. Here’s a brief rundown of the COVID bombshells that have received little attention, all from the last few weeks:

• The Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Lapado recommended the halt of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines stating “these vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings.” The General has serious questions about the safety assessments of the experimental drug after the discovery of “billions of fragments of DNA per dose on the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.” The FDA states they have not conducted risk assessments of the presence of DNA in these vaccines, despite their own warnings this should be done. The FDA issued a paper in 2007 that the State Surgeon General says warns about DNA integration and Dr. Lapado further claims the FDA is not following its own safety guidance.

• “Chinese researchers isolated and mapped the virus that causes COVID-19 in late December 2019, at least two weeks” before the Chinese Communist Party revealed details of the virus to the world, according to the Wall Street Journal. The near-complete sequence of the virus was uploaded to a US government run database on Dec. 28th, 2019 at NIH. Chinese officials were still calling the outbreak a viral pneumonia of unknown cause at this time. The sequence was deleted from the NIH database on January 16th, 2020 with little explanation. Experts agree the two week gap in publication delayed the response for treatments and vaccines.

• The infamous Dr. Fauci testified behind closed doors last week with the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic for 14 hours. In that testimony, he admitted a number of shocking points:

  • The six-feet social distancing rule had no basis in science and “sort of just appeared”. This is the nonscientific policy followed by all of the “experts” which caused lockdowns, vaccine mandates, the closing of churches, schools, restaurants and most businesses. Social distancing was made up.

  • Dr. Fauci acknowledged that, despite his public claim four years ago that the lab leak theory was “molecularly impossible” and despite his commissioning the now debunked “Proximal Origins” paper, he now concedes that the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.

  • Dr. Francis Collins, former Director of NIH, corroborated both of these points under oath for the first time in testimony last week.

• Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky posted on X clear evidence that health providers were paid lucrative bonus incentives - as much as $375 per vaccinated patient - to convince their patients to take the COVID vaccine in late 2021. Is this healthcare or Pharma sales?

• It was reported that Israel first warned the CDC about the links to myocarditis in 16-30 year olds as early as February, 2021. Despite this knowledge that was clearly researched and confirmed by the CDC, the agency continues to downplay the risks associated with the mRNA vaccine delivery system. The CDC continues to recommend the mRNA COVID vaccine for everyone over 5, with no warning.

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