Opinion/Analyis

By Jeff Childers
07-27-22
Good day, C&C! Itβs Thursday, and weβre closing in on the end of July here in Post Pandemia. Todayβs roundup includes: the greatest scientific study ever published promises a cure for all that ails us; guess what two new studies say is causing the pediatric hepatitis outbreak; newly-discovered documents show massive coordination between the CDC and social media during the pandemic; media pivots to new βrecessionβ definition; democrats fund election deniers while prosecuting election denial; Venezuela and Iran and farm land; DeSantis kicks over ESG metrics; the most terrifying new threat yet; and Trump explains his Fauci policy.
π*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY* π
β Late last week, the Washington Post ran a very helpful story that I happen to agree with headlined, βRegular Coffee Drinkers Had Lower Chance of Dying in 7-Year Period.β
Ha! See? I mean, what CANβT coffee do?
According to a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, people who drink up to 3Β½ cups of coffee a day have a better chance at a longer life span. And thatβs even if you ruin it with a little sugar, apparently.
It wasnβt some cheap coffee-industry study of ten broke college kids or something. The researchers tracked the coffee consumption and health of 172,000 caffeine addicts over a seven-year period. They found that those who regularly drank 1Β½ to 3Β½ cups of coffee a day, plain or even sweetened with up to a teaspoon of sugar, were up to -30% less likely to die than non-drinkers from ANY CAUSE β including blood clots, heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Or even monkeypox, I mean Brokeback Mountain Spotted Fever. Sorry.
I get it, tea is probably good too, but β¦ itβs science, people. Donβt be a science denier. Drink coffee, read C&C, live long and prosper.
π¬ CNBC ran a story yesterday about a new pediatric hepatitis study, headlined βScientists Identify Likely Cause of Mysterious Childrenβs Liver Disease.β
Whew. Glad we figured THAT out.
The researchers came up with a surprising conclusion. They ruled out covid and the shots. Instead, they decided the cause of the crippling pediatric hepatitis outbreak was β¦ lockdowns. LOCKDOWNS. Nearly 40% of the hospitalized cases β mostly children under 5 years old β needed ICU treatment, and about 5% β 1 in 20 β needed liver transplants.
Specifically, in separate studies published Tuesday, two UK research teams both concluded that infants may have missed out on developing immunities to two linked viruses: adenovirus and adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV2), because of lockdown restrictions.
Some people were warning right from the jump that locking kids down, strapping masks over their tiny faces, and dousing them in hand sanitizer might β maybe β make them MORE vulnerable to disease. But the experts overruled us. Put them in bubbles!
At some point we may need to have a delicate conversation about exactly what should be done about all the so-called experts who pushed lockdowns and school closures so hard. The Lord sayeth vengeance is His and everything, itβs hard but thatβs the rule, but that still doesnβt mean we have to keep listening to media-appointed βexperts.β We can cancel them, right?
π₯ … Free Beacon…
The Washington Free Beacon ran an exposΓ© yesterday about some newly released CDC documents, headlined βHow the CDC Coordinated With Big Tech To Censor Americans.β
Shocking.
According to the Beacon, newly-discovered documents show that starting in December 2020, CDC officials routinely emailed workers at Twitter, Facebook, and Google about βvaccine misinformation.β CDC officials even flagged specific posts as βexamplesβ of misinformation. But they did it secretly, strongly suggesting they knew it was wrong.
The emails suggest even wider coordination than email campaigns. In one email, a Twitter employee says he is βlooking forward to setting up regular chatsβ with the CDC officials. Others show coordination of zoom meetings with the CDC over how to best police alleged misinformation about covid vaccines. One internal March 2021 email from a senior CDC staffer says βwe are working on [sic] project with Census to leverage their infrastructure to identify and monitor social media for vaccine misinformation.β
The Census Bureau! Come ON. They weaponized the entire federal bureaucracy against us.
Other emails show Facebook gifted the CDC with $15 million in free advertising credits in April 2021, massively promoting the governmentβs WRONG covid messaging. Do I need to repeat the list? 95% efficacy, vaccines prevent infection, lockdowns flatten the curve, masks work. And so on. All fake.
Itβs ironic, donβt you think? The government got millions in free ad credits to promote MISINFORMATION while censoring the information that turned out the be accurate. The Bible explains God is not the author of confusion, 1 Cor. 14:33, so now we know where it comes from β the CDC!
Anyway, all this is CLEAR evidence of a massive conspiracy to violate Americansβ Constitutional freedom of speech. Private businesses may not conspire with government to censor Americans. And remember, it all occurred in the context of very public discussions, especially among democrat politicians, about βneeding to revisit Section 230β β the Communications Decency Act β which allows social media platforms to exist.
I think it would be fair at this point to give all of US some free ad credits and censor the CDC. Whoβs with me?
π₯ Fox News did…
Fox News did a roundup of corporate media, showing how they all pivoted like a flock of starving pigeons chasing a bread crust to embrace Bidenβs clever wordplay over βrecession.β The Fox article I was headlined, βBiden White House Talking Points Redefining Recession Quickly Embraced by Media Outlets.β
The article makes some pretty funny points, like where it quoted the odious Paul Krugman, who had just finished apologizing for last yearβs awful prediction that we wouldnβt see any serious inflation, but NOW heβs SURE that recession talk is overblown, and the White Houseβs new and improved definition was always how it should have been in the first place.
The article quotes Boston Globe reporter Jim Puzzanghera, who even went so far as to claim βitβs not officially a recession until a small group of experts empaneled by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge says so β and they are known to take their time.β
In other words: look, dummies, itβs not a recession just because your family is suffering financially from bad government policy. Itβs only a recession when a tiny group of unelected, undisclosed, anonymous experts says it is, long after the fact. Just trust the experts, who are currently saying itβll be a year or more before they can tell us whether itβs a recession or not. So youβd better not say it IS a recession, or youβll be a disinformer, and you know what happens to disinformers.
So.
Meanwhile, Politico stealth-complained about the dumb redefining, but went along with it anyway: Click here to read post

Itβs nuanced. It only took internet sleuths about three seconds to find where the exact same Politico author, Morning Money Ben, said the exact OPPOSITE thing two years ago:

It got better. Morning Money Ben even endorsed the old definition as recently as LAST MONTH:

Whoops! Listen to PRESENT me, not prior me!
π₯ In totally unrelated news…
In totally unrelated news, Politico ran a story about how White House officials are running around twisting reportersβ arms, to make them toe the newest line about how great the economy is: Click here to see the post

See, the news isnβt about the RECESSION. Itβs about how a recession might give Republicans a way to attack Biden. Whenever itβs bad news, corporate media always runs with βRepublicans pounce!β
Jared Bernstein, one of Bidenβs longest-serving aides, said βWhat we are trying to do is explain things in a much more nuanced way than most people are getting from the daily news flow.β
Much more nuanced. MUCH MORE.
Making Politicoβs point, Texas Representative Kevin Brady, top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, pounced, quipping βItβs too bad the White House doesnβt have a vaccine for denial.β
Hahaha! Good one.
Senior White House aides promised that Biden will be heading back to the midterm campaign trail β soon β as soon as he βfully recoversβ from his covid infection, to counter the Republican narrative with an even sharper, much more nuanced, message on the economy. According to his aides, Biden will insist that the economy is not only great (e.g., high job growth) but itβs also getting even better (e.g., falling gas prices).
Much, much more nuanced.
Unfortunately, pollsters think Bidenβs semantic acrobatics are too little, too late. βInflation is way bigger an issue, three times bigger, than anything else on anyoneβs mind including Covid, Ukraine, guns, you name it,β explained Tim Malloy, a Quinnipiac University analyst. βThere is very limited time for them to fix this as the clock ticks down to the midterms. There really is little upside potential for them here.β
The Babylon Bee nailed it:

π₯ Axios ran a story yesterday…
Axios ran a story yesterday headlined, βJan. 6 Committee Divided on Dem Meddling in GOP Primaries.β
Axios says some democrats on the J6 committee are βconcernedβ about the βtrendβ for Democrats β flush with covid cash β to donate to pro-Trump Republicans in primaries, trying to boost what they consider to be βunelectableβ candidates over mainstream options.
In the example from the article, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is throwing cash at Republican candidate John Gibbs, who has suggested there may have been SOME cheating in the 2020 elections, and who is running in Michigan against Congressman Peter Meijer, a Republican who voted to impeach Trump.
I say good riddance. But this tactic is not new. This is how they got Trump. But they arenβt learning.
Some anonymous democrat congressman who was too chicken to give his name explained, βThe DCCC is playing with fire. It undercuts the great work of the Jan. 6 committee and makes us look like hypocrites.β
Ah. So the problem is that with their left hands, the Democrats are allegedly fighting to save democracy by protecting the integrity of free and fair elections, but with their right hands theyβre shoving cash at insurrectionists and βelection deniers.β
Hahahaha! Life can be complicated.
Unkempt democrat J6 Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took a more balanced view. He told Axios that hey, these things happen:
βOne can certainly understand an argument that itβs categorically wrong to do anything that would objectively help insurrectionist election deniers. But in the real world of politics, one can also see an argument that if the pro-insurrectionist, election-denier wing of the Republican caucus is already dominant, then it might be worth it to take a small risk that another one of those people would be elected, in return for dramatically increasing the chances that Democrats will be able to hold the House against a pro-insurrectionist, election-denying GOP majority. Jean-Paul Sartre said that in politics we all have dirty hands up to our elbows. Nobodyβs pure. And we are in desperate times to defend democratic institutions and practices.β
Thereβs so much material here. Iβll just end by observing that Peter Meijer made a bad bet by siding with Dems to vote to impeach President Trump. Now the Dems are using that same vote to primary him, to help elect a pro-Trump, election-denying candidate.
Itβs a funny old world, isnβt it?
π Venezuela gave Iran…
Venezuela gave Iran a MILLION ACRES of farmland this week. I thought, you could hide a lot of missile silos in a million acres.
π₯ Governor DeSantis is…
Governor DeSantis is leading again. Yesterday, he appeared on Tuckerβs show to announce that Florida will ban βESG metricsβ from being used to drive Florida pension fund investments.
In case you havenβt been following the issue, so-called βESG metricsβ are whatβs been causing all these corporations to get super-woke. ESG stands for βenvironmental and social governance.β Itβs a Soros/WEF-backed initiative to βscoreβ every publicly-traded company based on how well the companies comply with woke guidelines like hiring diversity officers, making employee endure Maoist struggle sessions, reducing carbon use, promoting LGBTQ+ issues, adding pronoun policies, and generally acting like complete asses.
The scores have permeated big finance to the extent that companies with terrible products can still perform well in the markets by hitting high ESG scores. And if a company isnβt toeing the woke line, the scorers punish them by lowering their score, which generally cuts their stock price by putting the stock on the ESG blacklist.
In his comments, DeSantis speculated that other governors will soon follow his example and also eliminate ESG scores from pension investment criteria. Progress, and leadership!
π₯ Thereβs a terrifying new threat…
Thereβs a terrifying new threat out there, and the AP ran a frightful story about it yesterday headlined, βJapanese City Alarmed by Biting, Clawing, Attacking Monkeys.β
But itβs much worse than that. The AP explained the monkeys are targeting INFANTS, attacking them β and stealing them.
BABY STEALING MONKEYS.
There have been 58 attacks in Yamaguchi just since July 8th. Itβs getting so bad that city officials hired a special monkey-hunting squad armed with tranquilizer guns.
City official Masato Saito explained yesterday that the monkey βare so smart, and they tend to sneak up and attack from behind, often grabbing at your legs.β
STEALTH baby stealing monkeys!
The experts are β unexpectedly β baffled. βI have never seen anything like this my entire life,β Saito said. The AP reported that no one knows why the attacks are suddenly happening, or where the stealthy troop of monkeys came from. The pit, presumably.
This clears up ANOTHER prediction from the Book of the Revelation. βI looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.β Rev. 6:8
Weβve already seen the sword, famine, and plague. Now, the wild beasts! I always wondered what that would look like. Turns out it was far more terrible than anything I could have possibly imagined: mysterious, stealthy, baby-stealing monkeys.
So!
π₯ In spicy media comments…President Trump explained…
In spicy media comments earlier this week, President Trump explained that, while he was in the White House, βI just listened to Fauci and whatever he said, I did the oppositeβ¦ I came out very good.β
That used to be the C&C position! I used to say, just do the opposite of whatever the experts suggest and youβll be fine. Iβm gratified to see President Trump came to the same conclusion.
Have a terrific Thursday! Iβll be back tomorrow as usual, with a new roundup for you.
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