Opinion
By Jeff Childers

03-07-23
Good morning and Happy Tuesday, C&C! Itβs an all-good-news roundup.
I think weβre about to find out what happens when a global mass-delusion wears off and common sense dusts itself off and climbs wearily out of the box democrats shoved it into. Your roundup today includes four major narratives that β all of a sudden β appear to be collapsing under their own weight and under the heavy burden of common sense.
Get ready. Itβs going to be great.
π *THE C&C ARMY POST* π
πͺ But first, a bunch of folks have been asking about Saturdayβs conference. If the faith-based event is something youβre interested in, remember itβs on PACIFIC TIME (in Idaho), and the conferenceβs live-streaming link is:
Steeling the Mind Bible Conference – Compass International – YouTube
Iβm speaking at 3:30pm PST (6:30pm EST).
π*COLLAPSING NARRATIVE NEWS AND COMMENTARY* π
π₯ Late last night, Fox News ran an article on its website headlined, βTucker Carlson Releases Exclusive Jan. 6 Footage, Says Politicians, Media Lied About Sicknick, βQAnon Shamanβ.β Thatβs an understatement.
On last eveningβs show, Tucker Carlson released his teamβs review of the Capitol Protest video in three segments. Tucker said what theyβve found βdevastatesβ the democratβs carefully-scripted βinsurrectionβ narrative. The first segment, linked below, mainly focused on Jacob Chansley, the Navy veteran wearing the unique horned headdress that the liberal media dubbed the βQAnon Shaman.β Chansley got four years in prison.
The narrative-busting clip shows Chansley being helpfully escorted all around the interior of the Capitol by two or more Capital police officers. Be warned, itβs going to make you mad at how badly U.S. corporate media has wittingly lied to the entire world, facilitated by Nancy Pelosi and the House democrats, who are simply the very worst people in the world:
Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
1:20 AM β Mar 7, 20231,332Likes538Retweets
This clip alone should be enough to get Chansley out of jail. If government lawyers failed to provide this video to Chansleyβs lawyer β and that sure looks like what happened β they broke the law (for which, unfortunately, theyβll never be prosecuted), and that failure should be sufficient evidence for Chansley to be released.
The second segment was about Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer the media claimed was murdered on January 6th. Tuckerβs team found video of Officer Sicknik healthy and active long AFTER the time media and democrats have claimed he was supposedly killed in an altercation with protestors:
Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
1:33 AM β Mar 7, 2023361Likes199Retweets
Even worse, Tucker discovered that the Sicknick clip had been electronically flagged by the democratsβ January 6th Committee investigators, proving they knew about it, but intentionally obscured that evidence, allowing the mediaβs false narrative to flower.
The third segment focused on Ray Epps and a couple Republican congressman whoβd been falsely accused by democrats of being somehow βinvolvedβ in the January 6th protest. First, Tuckerβs team found plenty of video showing that probable FBI asset and instigator Ray Epps stuck around doing his thing at the Capitol grounds for at least a full half hour after the time heβd falsely testified to the Committee that heβd gone back to his hotel.
Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
1:48 AM β Mar 7, 2023295Likes161Retweets
The third segment video also proved that Representative Barry Loudermilk wasnβt even at the Capitol, as democrats have alleged, and proved Senator Josh Hawley never βfledβ the Capitol, in a short clip that can now be recognized to have been taken wildly out of context.
The Fox article said Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky) cited a poll showing that an overwhelming majority of Americans β including most Democrats β want ALL the January 6 footage to be released. Massie also called for a βcomplete catalog of all the feds who were thereβ in order to get to the bottom of their involvement in the riot.
Indeed.
House Republicans can make those things happen, and they must make those things happen. If releasing the video somehow compromises Capitol security by giving away cameras locations, then they should just move the silly cameras around or add some new ones. Itβs not hard. The video must be released, so all the lies can be exposed.
The democratsβ own warped obsession with January 6th justifies any minor expense of relocating security cameras. Just scrape a few bucks off the top of the next pallet of cash earmarked for Ukraine.
In hindsight, it may ultimately turn out the democrats badly overplayed their hand, by concocting a narrative so easily disproven by ready evidence, evidence they counting on keeping secret, I guess. They probably figured it was a trade off, since democrats used the video to rile up their base and secure the Senate during the 2022 elections. And they almost kept the House.
Almost. But they did lose the House, and now the air is gushing all out of the rapidly-deflating βinsurrectionβ narrative. Itβs hard to imagine how corporate mediaβs non-existent reputation could get much worse, but weβre about to find out.
Lacking any video evidence, Republicans have been forced to play defense for two years. Now, itβs our turn. And itβs only going to hurt for a very long time.
Tucker promised even more video tonight. Weβll discuss what his team came up with tomorrow morning.
π₯ Next up, the Wall Street Journal published an obnoxious op-ed yesterday headed, βWhy Scientists Got the Covid Lab Leak Wrong.β The subheadline delivered the revolting and pathetic attempt at some kind of good excuse: βWeβre only human, and weβre as susceptible as everybody else to cognitive biases and self-interest.β
Oh, well, okay then.
They have to say SOMETHING. Hereβs the problem. The government-approved βlab leakβ narrative rapidly shifted without any warning, and in doing so it ran a lot of βexpertsβ right onto the shoals, left high and dry, experts whoβd fallen all over themselves supporting the old narrative through thick and thin.
Bio-development expert Tim Trehan wrote the apology op-ed. His credentials are that he wrote a 2017 Nature article prophetically warning about sloppy biolab conditions in China, so they expect us to trust him. I mean, he has every right to be gloating about having been right, but instead heβs graciously calling for amnesty for all the other scientists who got it wrong. And right at the moment, Google is helpfully serving up Timβs 2017 article right at the top of the search results, in case you never heard of him.
In his WSJ article, Trehan suggests several reasonable-sounding explanations for why, even after emerging evidence supporting a lab leak, the MAJORITY of experts still doubled-down, continued pushing the natural origins narrative, and did their utmost best to suppress and cancel other scientists with whom they disagreed.
Trehan readily admits all of that happened.
But then Trehan rhetorically shrugged his shoulders and quite broad-mindedly explained: βThatβs just science!β He pointed out scientists are only humans after all, not lizard people (probably), and since they are humans, scientists have biases and conflicts of interest and politics and tribes and they lust for money and power just like everybody else does.
So be reasonable. Donβt expect scientists to be perfect or anything.
Hereβs how Trehan wrapped up his nauseating apologia:
I am not suggesting that scientists consciously decided to thwart the truth. These processes can be insidious and subconscious. But you donβt have to posit conspiracy theories to explain the rush by the science establishment to exclude a lab-leak explanation to Covid. You merely have to admit that scientists are human.
Thanks, but no thanks. Iβm not buying any of it. Itβs hogwash, rubbish, and utter nonsense. Why? Because during the pandemic, when all this broad-mindedness could have been helpful, when it would have counted for something, they never said βscientists are human.β They never said βscientists make mistakes.β They never said βscientists have biases.β
Nope. It doesnβt count now. You should have said that stuff three years ago.
In fact, they said the exact opposite. βFOLLOW THE SCIENCE,β they said. βTRUST THE EXPERTS,β they said. βDONβT BE A SCIENCE DENIER,β they said.
Somebody please explain to me how βdonβt be a science denierβ is AT ALL consistent with βscientists are only biased humans who sometimes make mistakes (en masse).β What a crock.
The βexperts are infallibleβ narrative is sinking faster than a unicorn floatie punctured by a 7-year-old who took the sandwich knife in the pool. It feels like the reckoning might be coming a lot faster than anybody thought.
π₯ Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has really started something. Rather than being canceled as a racist Klan grand wizard or whatever, Adams has instead exploded into meme world. Here are three quick examples making the rounds:

Whether he planned it this way or not, Adamsβ timing now appears to have been perfect. With Twitter freed from the heavy chains of knee-jerk censorship, Adamsβ comments about anti-white racism are spreading fast and have provoked an angry race debate on the platform. Iβll be honest, some of it is pretty raw, even downright uncomfortable, and some people are naturally crying that it shows how racist everybody really is.
Thatβs the wrong take. I think this debate, however uncomfortable, is something that has needed to happen for a long time. It only feels explosive now because of how long it has been bottled up.
Iβd like to note how skillfully Adams played his hand of cards. Iβll admit that I was among the folks who thought he probably mistepped and was now suffering the natural, unfortunate consequences, by having his books and cartoon contracts canceled. Iβve never been an Adams fan. But Iβm beginning to believe he probably made a courageous, calculated, and self-sacrificial decision to lance a burgeoning racial blister before it got worse.
On his podcast, Adams said that black people who feel βitβs not okay to be whiteβ are a βhate groupβ that white people should say away from. That should have been uncontroversial, but of course it riled the woke cancel mob.
But in hindsight, Adamsβ comments now look perfectly calibrated. His words were just inflammatory enough to fuel a widespread debate, but thoughtful and intelligent enough that anyone who listens to their full context cannot reasonably argue Adams is motivated by any improper racial animus.
Iβm not sure where all of this is going, but it looks like Adams is becoming some kind of folk hero or class representative, and a completely necessary and important discussion about anti-white racism is underway, which appears to have been exactly what Adams wanted.
In other words, thanks to Scott Adams and a free Twitter, the βsystemic racismβ narrative could be crumbling, and being exposed as the poisonous falsehood that it always has been. Just like the January 6th βinsurrectionβ narrative.
But thatβs not all.
π₯ Youβre going to love this one. Politico ran an encouraging story yesterday headlined, βFlorida GOP Ready To Hand Desantis Legislative Wins Ahead Of Likely 2024 Bid.β The sub headline explained, βFloridaβs Republican leaders, who have restricted how race and gender are taught in schools and colleges, are poised to go even further in the next few months.β
Terrific!
Well, *I* think itβs terrific, but Politico thinks DeSantisβ common-sense explanation for public school reform is some kind of dark agenda:
βAre these public institutions supported by your tax dollars that should be serving the interest of what the public deems is the best interest? Or do they just get to do whatever they want and impose a political agenda regardless of elections and regardless of anything that happens?β DeSantis said last week during a book tour event in Miami. βWe believe that, obviously, in a democratic society, these government institutions funded by your tax dollars need to be held accountable for performance and they need to be serving the mission that we as voters and elected officials set out for them to do.β
What really seems to have gotten Politicoβs goat is a newly-filed bill, Florida HB 1223, titled βPublic PreK-12 Educational Institution and Instruction Requirements.β Among other things, if itβs passed the bill would:
β prohibit schools from requiring anybody to tell their pronouns,
β prohibit schools from punishing kids for not using ungrammatical politically-correct pronouns,
β prohibit public schools and private pre-kβs from teaching kids about pseudoscientific βsexual orientationβ or βgender identity,β
β extend last yearβs ban on sex ed through the 8th grade (it is currently only through 3rd grade), and
β provide guidelines for sex ed between 9th and 12th grades.
Hereβs how the bill begins:
(1) It shall be the policy of every public K-12 educational institution that is provided or authorized by the Constitution and laws of Florida that a personβs sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such personβs sex.
Even better, the bill defines βsexβ using normal human male / female biology:
βSexβ means the binary division of individuals based upon reproductive function.
Haha! That says theyβre going to make schools correctly teach the kids that it is FALSE to use the wrong pronouns. I swear, in 50 years when people are looking back through these laws, theyβre going to be scratching their heads and wondering what the heck was going on.
Predictably, liberals will sue Florida the second this bill is signed into law. That will bring the issue into court, and I donβt think Floridaβs judiciary will overturn common sense and logic. The Florida Supreme Court will have a chance to write about what sex and gender actually mean.
Could it be that something like this bill will be enough to finally take down the βinfinite gendersβ narrative? Iβm thinking it is not just possible, but might even be likely. This could be the beginning of the end.
This is a lot more than progress.
Have a terrific Tuesday! Iβll see you guys back here tomorrow for more.
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