Among the worst of Fauci's flaws was his utter refusal to deal honestly with anything that countered his "COVID=Black Plague" narrative. Can anyone recall him addressing seriously COVID's flu-like IFR, the sharp decline in hospital activity/occupancy, the higher infection rates among the vaxxed, or the ineffectiveness of lockdowns, mask & vaxx mandates? His tactic of uniformly ignoring, dismissing or denigrating any contrarians or contrary facts was a disastrous trait in a public health leader tasked with addressing a potential crisis.
Even prior to 2022, especially with panicked 2020 response, we have yet to elucidate how much harm came from the virus itself versus terrible human response (isolation, restricted hospital access etc)... for everyone including the elderly
https://x.com/i/status/1748120873662398576
Fauci’s math and integrity were way off. Fauci was purposely using the COVID CFR as a scare tactic. Even age-specified, the IFR for COVID and seasonal flu are similar.
R to @tlowdon: See Jay Bhattacharya'a Santa Clara County seroprevalence study in early April 2020 and John Ionnaidis's research around the same time that showed COVID IFR was probably about like that of the seasonal flu. See the Princess Cruise liner outcomes which showed the same. See the hospital occupancy stats that showed a sharp decline in ER Visits and inpatient & ICU occupancy starting in March of 2020 and remaining below pre COVID levels for the next 3 years.
6 years ago, Fauci stoked fear when he told Congress COVID had a mortality rate of ~3% which could drop to ~1%, making it roughly 10X more lethal than seasonal flu (with an IFR of 0.1%). In fact, it always had an IFR about like that of the flu, but he never corrected his testimony.
The SAVE Act will disenfranchise voters, but - don't worry - only the ones that were ineligible for the franchise to begin with.
This is me
I own 36 auto repair shops, doing $50M a year in revenue
So, you’re probably thinking I have investors or trust fund.
But the reality is I don’t have either
I started 10 years ago when my brother and I bought 2 stores from a boomer.
Took all the money I made and bought another store in 2017.
Then 2 more in 2018 and every year since.
While everyone else is chasing crypto, AI, and all this “cool” shit.
I’m doing the opposite.
Just trying to buy auto repair shops from old people and run them better.
I’m not a mechanic and I’ve never fixed a car in my life.
But I got really good at building teams and betting on myself.
We’re just getting started
So, follow along for the journey.
Six years ago today, schools shut down and my kids were kicked out for what felt like forever. That day lit a fire in me and I found my voice to fight for them. Two years later, it led to this viral speech.
I will ALWAYS protect my kids. No apologies, no retreat.
I’ve written for @compactmag_ about how the EU-NATO establishment is trying to pull a Russiagate on Hungary — raising unfounded accusation of Russian interference in the upcoming election to pre-emptively delegitimise an Orbán victory.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/russiagate-redux-in-hungary/
I had people wish me dead
I had a family member tell me I belonged in a concentration camp.
Never forget what they did .
I hope casually dropping "iftaar fast" into a social media post despite knowing that most Americans won't know what that is has made you feel alienated.
Yes, you read that right: Swallowell sent multiple staff members on a trip to Colombia, rather than just mailing the kid his hearing aids...
Polar Bear seen swimming among Beluga Whales
Imagine if we still had Bagram Airfield
Turns out "The Artist in Gracie Mansion," New York City's First Lady, is a ghoul.
"I got caught deliberately misleading my audience and trying to steer blame away from the jihadist perpetrators of the attack in New York City. I wish I'd been more clever in my attempts to beguile viewers, and hope that most will never see this post on social media."
Politics is not the right mechanism for resolving psychological conflicts from your childhood. We dunk on therapy, but I would rather have all of the libs in four-times-a-week psychoanalysis than projecting their neuroses onto all of society via their “activism.”
so, just to be clear:
on a topic with north of 80% support in a country where you'd struggle to get 70% to agree that "water is wet" you cannot get the votes for the SAVE act?
1. thune is a joke
3. the GOP is an unserious political party and
3. congress is irretrievably corrupt
Clearly, Democrats are no longer trying to hide their desire to have illegal aliens vote in elections. They're brazen about it, in fact. We're at the "Yes, non-citizens vote and it's a good thing they do!" phase of the cycle.
Q: “Do you support getting the Save America Act passed to protect elections?”
Murkowski: “Not as drafted, no. In a rural state like Alaska, it’s going to disenfranchise a majority. I support citizenship voting and ID, but I want it to be implementable.”
What an odd thing to say.
Here is the math on the SAVE Act:
Gallup polling shows that more than 4 out of 5 Americans support requiring valid ID and proof of citizenship to vote.
Yet a 53-member GOP Senate majority can't even bring its own bill up for a vote.
Why?
Four establishment Republicans used procedural tactics to block it.
When politicians defy 80% of the country to protect the status quo, they are just as much of a problem—if not bigger—than the Democrats openly objecting to the will of the American people.
My latest for @dcexaminer below. ⬇️
This is a MUCH bigger deal than many people think. It is the destruction of a nation's history and culture by its elites, who hate it.
Understand what Thune is doing right now. It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues from being
exposed for opposing it.
How does Thune accomplish his? By avoiding a simple majority vote at all costs. Thune knows a public vote where Republicans get less than 50 votes—with people like Tillis and Curtis and McConnell and Murkowski voting against IT—is electoral poison. He doesn’t want it to pass, but he also can’t have it die at the hands of his own puke colleagues.
So how does Thune do this? By refusing to move to the already-passed House bill (this only requires a simple majority because the House message is privileged) and instead moving to a new, standalone Senate bill. A new Senate bill is not privileged, and therefore the motion to proceed to it is debatable, meaning it requires 60 votes.
Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.
So when you watch the GOP Senate bring up a brand new SAVE America Act bill and hold a single vote on a motion that needs 60 to pass, know that they’re doing it because they think you’re stupid.
One of the most offensively dumb critiques of Trump's Iran offensive. We spend TWICE as much on Medicare & Medicaid as we do on the Pentagon. We've literally never spent LESS on defense as a share of GDP (2.9% in 2025 vs. 4.1 avg over the past 50 years). All we fund is welfare!
It’s almost as if those calls wouldn’t be necessary if the Lebanese gov’t had fulfilled its commitments to prevent Hezb from rearming, especially south of the Litani.
Ukraine has moved from a handful of garage-built ground robots to industrial-scale fleets. The story of how it did so is replete with lessons for the US military. https://mwi.westpoint.edu/networked-for-war-lessons-from-ukraines-ground-robots/
I really don’t think people understand what a significant shift this is from the past 3 decades…
With war raging in the Middle East and throttling shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, crude oil prices are still currently below the peaks they reached during the Summer of 2022 and Fall of 2023.
I wonder if Chris Wray's FBI, with its strong focus on white supremacists, had these guys on their radar.
Imagine thinking your PhD dissertation on Kant grants you moral superiority over others or that this post doesn't reveal deep insecurity & status anxiety.
So what you’re saying is that we hit a military base
Helen Andrews unleashes a brutal truth on academia:
Once women hit majority faculty status (finally in 2023), universities face a hard binary switch—they either tolerate open, direct conflict and disagreement ("masculine" style) or enforce harmony and suppress open confrontation ("feminine" style). No middle ground, no gradual blend: critical mass forces the entire institution to pick one mode.
Result? Universities now operate dramatically differently than 20 years ago—and the transformation is accelerating fast.
Individual gender differences are modest at best, but group dynamics flip the whole institutional personality overnight.
Is this creating calmer, more collaborative campuses… or quietly strangling free speech, debate, and intellectual risk-taking?
Where do you see the shift hitting hardest?
Is there any other nation in the world that would give a hero's welcome to somebody who benefited from growing up in their land and then proceeded to compete against them for their number one geopolitical adversary?
She seems to believe -- or, perhaps, wants us to believe -- that the jihadist bomb throwers were actually targeting the NYC mayor's residence.
WaPo "intelligence" correspondent says China is winning the Iran war, sharing Chinese propaganda that claims to show satellite video of U.S. attacks on Iran, when it's really showing video of Atlanta airport.
Hey @JeffBezos, this is a really bad look.