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Bird Flu “Emergency”
California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency over bird flu. The State of Emergency applies to humans but no humans in California have been diagnosed with bird flu. Cows in California were diagnosed with bird flu.
One human in Louisiana was reportedly diagnosed with H5N1 Bird Flu. That person is 65 years old with underlying health conditions and is currently hospitalized and in critical condition. The CDC says that the “patient had exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks” and that “no person-to-person spread of H5 bird flu has been detected.”
They go on to say that the “CDC’s overall assessment of the immediate risk to the public’s health from H5N1 bird flu… remains low.”
So Gavin Newsom, does “low risk” necessitate a “state of emergency”?
Doctors are warning of a ‘quad-demic’ of viral illnesses this winter. They say that this quad of viruses will include Covid, the flu, RSV and norovirus. Bird flu is not listed.
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Biden’s Decline Is a Surprise To The Press
The Wall Street Journal published a damning report about President Biden’s mental decline going back to the 2020 campaign! Why are they acknowledging this now after letting Democrats lie about it for four years!?
The WSJ spoke to over 50 people who acknowledge that the President has severe physical and mental limitations but say that he still kept the Democratic agenda on track.
“Presidents always have gatekeepers. But in Biden’s case, the walls around him were higher and the controls greater,” the WSJ reports. They say that “the ‘hand holding’ is unlike anything other recent presidents have had.” They say that this “insulated him from the scrutiny of the American public.”
No it didn’t. His decline has been obvious to anyone who can observe anything at all ever.
Aides say that they had to reschedule meetings because the President had “good days and bad days” and couldn’t take meetings on bad days. Some officials said “it often didn’t seem like Biden had his finger on the pulse.” The WSJ also reports that his team hired a vocal coach to “improve the president’s fading warble.”
This is a story that we were owed months if not years ago and Kamala Harris should have had to answer for it on the campaign trial. It’s a shame that we get it only when it costs Democrats nothing to admit it.
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Fani Willis Disqualified
Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis will no longer be able to prosecute President-elect Trump for his election interference case in Georgia. The case will go forward, although how it will fare without her is a major question mark.
An appeals court ruled to disqualify Willis because she had a romantic relationship with her special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The President-elect’s team had fought a ruling that allowed her to stay on the case if Wade resigned and so do other co-defendants.
The ruling scolds Willis for the “unprofessional manner” during hearings but it does not go so far as to sanction her. She can appeal this decision to reclaim the case, which would delay the case even further. If she doesn’t, the case will fall to a new prosecutor who will have to decide whether or not to pursue the case. The case could fall away for the President-elect but the fate of the 14 other defendants is also uncertain.
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Budget Bounced Check
The proposed spending package that would keep federal agencies funded through March 14 was killed on Wednesday after mostly Republican lawmakers rejected it for being so stuffed with nonsense.
Many say that Elon Musk had a hand in tanking it but his influence is certainly debatable. Senator Rand Paul says that Musk should be elected the House Speaker since there is no law that mandates the Speaker be a member of Congress.
Beyond Musk’s barage of X posts, several members of Congress were a hard no for many other valid reasons. Oddly few found spoke out against a provision to report on any company that tries to boycott Israel even though it is your constitutional right to boycott whoever the hell you want.
President-elect Trump also spoke out against it and demanded that Republicans put forth a “clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat ‘bells and whistles.'”
So what now? The debt ceiling will be reached on Saturday if nothing happens so House Republicans need to scramble together a new bill. Democrats say that they will oppose it if it scraps any of their “bipartisan” wishes but didn’t say exactly what those things were.
They knew this was looming for months. They deserve coal in their stockings.
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Disney Ditches Woke Show
Disney’s Pixar has pulled another transgender storyline from a show, this one called “Win or Lose.”
The show is about a middle school softball team and it features the backstory of one player per week. The show had planned a story line for a transgender child but scrapped it in the wake of backlash to woke entertainment.
This follows Disney’s canceled plans to include a transgender child in a show called “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.”
A spokesperson for Disney confirmed this and provided the following statement to The Hollywood Reporter: “When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”
Way to catch up, Disney!
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Nigel Farage
Can Elon Musk do for Nigel Farage what he did for President-elect Trump? By that we mean boost his candidacy in England with donations and endorsements?
The Telegraph reports that Musk may donate $100 million or £78 million to Farage so that he and the Reform UK party defeat both Labour and the Conservatives, which would position Farage as the next Prime Minister. Farage fueled these rumors with this post showing his recent visit with Musk at Mar-a-Lago.
A donation like that would be the largest in UK history. Would it even be legal for a U.S. citizen to donate to a U.K. politician? No, it’s not. Musk would have to give Reform money via the British branch of X, he could not do so personally.
An alignment with Musk is an indirect alignment with President-elect Trump and his policies and many Brits, Europeans and Canadians alike are searching for their Trump-like candidate amid raging crime, inflation and mass immigration. But does the world want a kingmaker in Elon Musk or would it be better for each country figure to figure out their own winning nationalist strategy? (Note: nationalism is NOT ethno-nationalism so stop calling it racist.)
Farage’s path to Downing Street would be a steep climb but stranger things have happened.
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The Killers
Luigi Mangione was charged with murder as an act of terrorism on Tuesday for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is working to extradite him from Pennsylvania to New York.
Glorifying Mangione’s capitalist vengeance is a problem in the public square. A recent Rasmussen poll finds that “27% believe it was an understandable reaction to the high cost of health care in America. Another 12% are not sure.”
That means that nearly 40% of people either understand murder or are not sure if murder is bad when it comes to “social justice.” That’s how the Bolsheviks worked folks. That’s not good.
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Budget Unbalanced
A handful of House Republicans are saying NO to the proposed spending package that would keep federal agencies funded through March 14. Lawmakers are debating this because the government is once again about to hit a debt limit on Saturday.
The proposed bill is 1,500 pages long and includes all kinds of non-emergency payments including $130 billion to renew the Farm Bill, $100 billion in disaster relief, $10 billion in stimulus for farmers, $8 billion to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge, etc.
Several Republicans have said that they will not support this. A short list includes: Rep Keith Self, Rep. Nancy Mace Rep. Wesley Hunt Rep. Kat Cammack Rep. Andy Biggs Rep. Bob Good Rep. Paul Gosar Rep. Ralph Norman Rep. Tim Burchett Rep. Chip Roy
And of course Rep. Thomas Massie who warned about this December 20 deadline as a ruse to rush through a sham of a bill. He said this in September. He’s not a psychic, he’s a well-worn cynic and it’s high time we listened to him!
Speaker Johnson is promoting this bill as if this is the last time he’ll ask this of Congress since we will have a Republican-controlled Congress sin 2025. Rep Massie’s response is thus: “US foreign aid spending is like watering the neighbor’s yard while your house is on fire.”
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