thelibertydaily--2020-05-06--The Most Formidable Risk We Face is Not the Chi-Com Virus

The most formidable risk we are facing is n't the coronavirus .
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center .
The coronavirus pandemic and the draconian lock-down responses to it have given us an object lesson in just how irrationally we evaluate and compare risk .
For all our pretenses that “ experts ” have enough reliable knowledge to mitigate risk based on facts , we still make policy decisions based on fear , self-interest , or ideology .
Even before the current medical crisis , our distorted and excessive aversion to risk has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that create new and more dangerous consequences .
There ’ s no doubt that the current shut-down of the economy and public spaces is a consequence of bad risk assessment .
These policies were based on lethality models that lacked sufficient data such as the rate of infection , and that projected numbers of dead later reduced significantly .
Stoked by panic and incomplete models , radical self-quarantining was mandated even for the healthy young , and open-air activity proscribed even though a viral load necessary to sicken us requires enclosed , crowded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nor is there any certainty that these policies contributed to flattening out the rate of known infected and dying .
Germany to date has had one of Europe ’ s lowest mortality rates , which many attribute to its early and severe lockdown .
But recently the reproduction rate of the virus , the number of people one carrier will infect , has been rising after restrictions were lessened .
As the Wall Street Journal reports , “ The upward drift in the reproduction rate now suggests that those measures may not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so much as delayed the inevitable—and at enormous cost.
” Or take New York and Florida , which have roughly the same number of people , 19.4 million for NY , and 21.4 million for Florida , and large populations of the more vulnerable elderly .
Florida implemented its shut-down two weeks after NY , and its restrictions were much less onerous .
Yet New York has had 16,000 deaths as of April 24 , while Florida has suffered just under 900 as of April 21 .
Something more than mitigation by imposing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and belies the assertions of the policy ’ s efficacy made by some governors and epidemiologists .
Yet despite those gaps in data , a policy has been implemented that has so far cost an estimated $ 7 trillion dollars , lowered GDP by nearly 5 % , thrown 30 million out of work , crashed the oil market , and dropped the Dow Jones by over 10,000 points , though half of that loss has been restored as of now .
And don ’ t forget the future costs of borrowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this economic disaster .
So far about $ 4 trillion has been borrowed , bringing the debt-to-GDP ratio to 100 % , a dangerous level considering our already seriously under-funded entitlements crisis and growing yearly budget deficits , along with the inevitability of current low interest rates increasing .
Nor is it just about dollars and cents .
Deeming some medical procedures “ non-essential ” has not only beggared and shuttered hospitals , but put people at risk for sickness , disability , or death later on .
The malign effects this economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may damage some people ’ s physical and psychic well-being for years to come .
Already suicide-prevention hotline calls have increased nearly 900 % , and we can expect similar increases in drug addiction , alcohol abuse , depression , and domestic violence––as well as a jump in deaths that could likely in time match the toll of the coronavirus .
We are witnessing a classic case of responding to panic and hysteria rather than calculating and comparing risks rationally .
The one-size-fits all approach of the shut-down also ignored the huge differences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ City , where half of the U.S. deaths have occurred , and those in Montana or inland California .
Subjecting the working young and the healthy to the same mitigation protocols necessary for the old and sick has needlessly burdened the former on behalf of the latter .
Never before during an epidemic have the healthy been quarantined .
Our inability to evaluate risks and calculate comparative risks , however , long predates the current crisis .
This is partly the consequence of a greater volume of scientific research along with a 24/7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more lurid and frightening the better .
Remember the 1989 Alar scare ?
Research that posited a cancer-risk from apples sprayed with Alar to regulate growth was hyped by 60 Minutes–– which broadcast an illustration of a skull and crossbones superimposed on an apple–– and helped to set off hysteria about eating apples , severely damaging the industry .
Only after the damage was done did people learn that the risk was negligible .
More consequential was the hysteria of the late Eighties and early Nineties over children being kidnapped by strangers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and details of a kidnapped child .
Some speculated they were being used in Satanic rituals .
“ Satanic Panic ” swept the nation , and numerous news shows acted as an accelerant for the hysteria .
Daycare centers became a focus of this paranoia , and several people were unjustly convicted for allegedly using their young charges in Satanic rituals .
A Texas couple spent 21 years in prison before being exonerated .
In reality , the chances of a child being kidnapped by a stranger for any purpose are extremely small–– @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a stranger in 2011 .
In part , this tendency to overreact to incomplete research or urban legends reflects human nature .
We all have a survival instinct that rational thought can ’ t always restrain .
We ’ re hardwired to perceive threats and take action to avoid them .
What ’ s strange is that people in the developed nations today live remarkably free from the many serious risks that people even 100 years ago faced .
The coronavirus will likely turn out to be a particularly nasty flu , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the young .
But it can ’ t compare with the infectious diseases our ancestors endured : plague , smallpox , typhus , cholera , yellow fever , dysentery , diphtheria , polio , salmonella , viral hepatitis , and tuberculosis , to name a few .
Half the dead in the Civil War died of infection , not the enemy ’ s weapons .
Childhood diseases like measles , whooping cough , and mumps in part account for the low life expectancy rates that didn ’ t start improving until 1900 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treatments and safe pain relievers we take for granted , and many were already weakened by chronic malnourishment and intestinal parasites .
They suffered and died miserably , sometimes in filthy conditions and subjected to barbaric medical procedures like blood-letting , which likely killed George Washington .
British poet John Keats died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 after literally coughing up his lungs and suffocating on his own blood .
The novelist Fanny Burney left a harrowing account of her mastectomy in 1811 , which she underwent with only a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the twenty minutes of torture : “ When the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast––cutting through veins––arteries––flesh––nerves––I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries .
I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the incision .
.
.
.
When the wound was made , & the instrument was withdrawn , the pain seemed undiminished , for the air that suddenly rushed into those delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp & forked poniards , that were tearing the edges of the wound.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experience of feeling the scalpel as it scrapes her breastbone and ribs to make sure no particle of cancer remained .
Yet despite being freed from risks of early death and excruciating pain from infectious diseases and other dangers , we moderns get hysterical over a new flu that will kill people already sick and who are a decade or two older than the age at which most people before us typically died .
The reason is obvious : our historically unprecedented wealth and comfort have created expectations for life that our ancestors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We lack their powers of endurance and grim stoicism , their tragic view of existence as pain , suffering , and discomfort that are non-negotiable features of the human condition , not anomalies to be corrected and eliminated .
And rather than being grateful for our good fortune of abundant food , clean fuels for cooking , indoor plumbing––once luxuries only for the rich––we now take them for granted as bare minimums .
Our standards endlessly escalate , as does our resentment of anything causing us discomfort .
Having minimized the many risks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invent new trivial ones such as hearing ideas or opinions that hurt our feelings or hyper-sensitive egos .
No wonder we have created a generation of over-sensitive “ snowflakes.
” Moreover , the danger is not just to our characters .
We are the beneficiaries of a political system that guarantees our freedom and unalienable rights , a rarity in human history when elites with a monopoly of violence lorded over everybody else .
But one cost of that freedom is accountability for one ’ s choices , a price our therapeutic culture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the responsibility for our free choices onto a tutelary government , our freedom begins to erode .
And diminishing our freedom is the greatest risk we run when we demand security from discomfort or fear .
Nor does it help that today ’ s progressives and their media hirelings actively stoke the fear and hysteria as a tool for increasing their power and damaging Donald Trump .
Such a power-hungry progressive technocracy that promises to improve life and minimize risk is particularly dangerous to our freedom , as Tocqueville famously predicted two centuries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power at the cost of civil liberties has been the goal of progressives for over a century .
Like today ’ s progressives who create endless “ rights ” in order to perfect our existence and gratify our elevated expectations , Tocqueville ’ s “ soft despotism ” seeks “ to keep [ the people ] in perpetual childhood ” : In times of crisis such as these , the outsized fear of disease enables these despotic tendencies .
As we are seeing today , millions of us have tolerated violations of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , local , and federal governments , at the cost of our freedom and autonomy , and the risk of weakening the political order that guarantees both .
For as Tocqueville concludes , “ No one will ever believe that a liberal , wise , and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.
” If we don ’ t start resisting more widely the petty Mussolinis in state governments and federal bureaucracies , the biggest victim of the coronavirus will be our freedom .
That is the most formidable @ @ @ @ @

Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The coronavirus pandemic and the draconian lock-down responses to it have given us an object lesson in just how irrationally we evaluate and compare risk. For all our pretenses that “experts” have enough reliable knowledge to mitigate risk based on facts, we still make policy decisions based on fear, self-interest, or ideology. Even before the current medical crisis, our distorted and excessive aversion to risk has led to policies rife with moral hazard that create new and more dangerous consequences.
There’s no doubt that the current shut-down of the economy and public spaces is a consequence of bad risk assessment. These policies were based on lethality models that lacked sufficient data such as the rate of infection, and that projected numbers of dead later reduced significantly. Stoked by panic and incomplete models, radical self-quarantining was mandated even for the healthy young, and open-air activity proscribed even though a viral load necessary to sicken us requires enclosed, crowded spaces and prolonged exposure to a carrier.
Nor is there any certainty that these policies contributed to flattening out the rate of known infected and dying. Germany to date has had one of Europe’s lowest mortality rates, which many attribute to its early and severe lockdown. But recently the reproduction rate of the virus, the number of people one carrier will infect, has been rising after restrictions were lessened. As the Wall Street Journal reports, “The upward drift in the reproduction rate now suggests that those measures may not have stopped the disease in its tracks so much as delayed the inevitable—and at enormous cost.”
Or take New York and Florida, which have roughly the same number of people, 19.4 million for NY, and 21.4 million for Florida, and large populations of the more vulnerable elderly. Florida implemented its shut-down two weeks after NY, and its restrictions were much less onerous. Yet New York has had 16,000 deaths as of April 24, while Florida has suffered just under 900 as of April 21. Something more than mitigation by imposing draconian stay-at-home policies accounts for this disparity, and belies the assertions of the policy’s efficacy made by some governors and epidemiologists.
Yet despite those gaps in data, a policy has been implemented that has so far cost an estimated $7 trillion dollars, lowered GDP by nearly 5%, thrown 30 million out of work, crashed the oil market, and dropped the Dow Jones by over 10,000 points, though half of that loss has been restored as of now. And don’t forget the future costs of borrowing money to provide the funds for mitigating this economic disaster. So far about $4 trillion has been borrowed, bringing the debt-to-GDP ratio to 100%, a dangerous level considering our already seriously under-funded entitlements crisis and growing yearly budget deficits, along with the inevitability of current low interest rates increasing.
Nor is it just about dollars and cents. Deeming some medical procedures “non-essential” has not only beggared and shuttered hospitals, but put people at risk for sickness, disability, or death later on. The malign effects this economic crisis and the isolation caused by self-quarantining may damage some people’s physical and psychic well-being for years to come. Already suicide-prevention hotline calls have increased nearly 900%, and we can expect similar increases in drug addiction, alcohol abuse, depression, and domestic violence––as well as a jump in deaths that could likely in time match the toll of the coronavirus.
We are witnessing a classic case of responding to panic and hysteria rather than calculating and comparing risks rationally. The one-size-fits all approach of the shut-down also ignored the huge differences between risks and conditions in New York City, where half of the U.S. deaths have occurred, and those in Montana or inland California. Subjecting the working young and the healthy to the same mitigation protocols necessary for the old and sick has needlessly burdened the former on behalf of the latter. Never before during an epidemic have the healthy been quarantined.
Our inability to evaluate risks and calculate comparative risks, however, long predates the current crisis. This is partly the consequence of a greater volume of scientific research along with a 24/7 news industry hungry for content, the more lurid and frightening the better. Remember the 1989 Alar scare? Research that posited a cancer-risk from apples sprayed with Alar to regulate growth was hyped by 60 Minutes–– which broadcast an illustration of a skull and crossbones superimposed on an apple–– and helped to set off hysteria about eating apples, severely damaging the industry. Only after the damage was done did people learn that the risk was negligible.
More consequential was the hysteria of the late Eighties and early Nineties over children being kidnapped by strangers. For months milk cartons displayed the pictures and details of a kidnapped child. Some speculated they were being used in Satanic rituals. “Satanic Panic” swept the nation, and numerous news shows acted as an accelerant for the hysteria. Daycare centers became a focus of this paranoia, and several people were unjustly convicted for allegedly using their young charges in Satanic rituals. A Texas couple spent 21 years in prison before being exonerated. In reality, the chances of a child being kidnapped by a stranger for any purpose are extremely small–– 0.0000000001417% of children were kidnapped by a stranger in 2011.
In part, this tendency to overreact to incomplete research or urban legends reflects human nature. We all have a survival instinct that rational thought can’t always restrain. We’re hardwired to perceive threats and take action to avoid them. What’s strange is that people in the developed nations today live remarkably free from the many serious risks that people even 100 years ago faced. The coronavirus will likely turn out to be a particularly nasty flu, especially for the elderly, while sparing children and the young. But it can’t compare with the infectious diseases our ancestors endured: plague, smallpox, typhus, cholera, yellow fever, dysentery, diphtheria, polio, salmonella, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis, to name a few. Half the dead in the Civil War died of infection, not the enemy’s weapons. Childhood diseases like measles, whooping cough, and mumps in part account for the low life expectancy rates that didn’t start improving until 1900.
Nor did our forebearers have the treatments and safe pain relievers we take for granted, and many were already weakened by chronic malnourishment and intestinal parasites. They suffered and died miserably, sometimes in filthy conditions and subjected to barbaric medical procedures like blood-letting, which likely killed George Washington. British poet John Keats died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 after literally coughing up his lungs and suffocating on his own blood.
The novelist Fanny Burney left a harrowing account of her mastectomy in 1811, which she underwent with only a “wine cordial” as an anesthetic for the twenty minutes of torture: “When the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast––cutting through veins––arteries––flesh––nerves––I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries. I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the incision . . . . When the wound was made, & the instrument was withdrawn, the pain seemed undiminished, for the air that suddenly rushed into those delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp & forked poniards, that were tearing the edges of the wound.” She goes on to describe the horrific experience of feeling the scalpel as it scrapes her breastbone and ribs to make sure no particle of cancer remained.
Yet despite being freed from risks of early death and excruciating pain from infectious diseases and other dangers, we moderns get hysterical over a new flu that will kill people already sick and who are a decade or two older than the age at which most people before us typically died. The reason is obvious: our historically unprecedented wealth and comfort have created expectations for life that our ancestors would have imagined only for gods. We lack their powers of endurance and grim stoicism, their tragic view of existence as pain, suffering, and discomfort that are non-negotiable features of the human condition, not anomalies to be corrected and eliminated.
And rather than being grateful for our good fortune of abundant food, clean fuels for cooking, indoor plumbing––once luxuries only for the rich––we now take them for granted as bare minimums. Our standards endlessly escalate, as does our resentment of anything causing us discomfort. Having minimized the many risks that once troubled our ancestors, we invent new trivial ones such as hearing ideas or opinions that hurt our feelings or hyper-sensitive egos. No wonder we have created a generation of over-sensitive “snowflakes.”
Moreover, the danger is not just to our characters. We are the beneficiaries of a political system that guarantees our freedom and unalienable rights, a rarity in human history when elites with a monopoly of violence lorded over everybody else. But one cost of that freedom is accountability for one’s choices, a price our therapeutic culture chafes at paying. If we off-load the responsibility for our free choices onto a tutelary government, our freedom begins to erode.
And diminishing our freedom is the greatest risk we run when we demand security from discomfort or fear. Nor does it help that today’s progressives and their media hirelings actively stoke the fear and hysteria as a tool for increasing their power and damaging Donald Trump. Such a power-hungry progressive technocracy that promises to improve life and minimize risk is particularly dangerous to our freedom, as Tocqueville famously predicted two centuries ago, for centralizing and expanding state power at the cost of civil liberties has been the goal of progressives for over a century.
Like today’s progressives who create endless “rights” in order to perfect our existence and gratify our elevated expectations, Tocqueville’s “soft despotism” seeks “to keep [the people] in perpetual childhood”:
It is well content that the people should rejoice, provided that they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, direct their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
In times of crisis such as these, the outsized fear of disease enables these despotic tendencies. As we are seeing today, millions of us have tolerated violations of our natural rights on the part of state, local, and federal governments, at the cost of our freedom and autonomy, and the risk of weakening the political order that guarantees both. For as Tocqueville concludes, “No one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.”
If we don’t start resisting more widely the petty Mussolinis in state governments and federal bureaucracies, the biggest victim of the coronavirus will be our freedom. That is the most formidable risk we are facing.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-06--In Leftist Rewrite of History, Pro-Life Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly is Predictably Cast as th

In Leftist Rewrite of History, Pro-Life Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly is Predictably Cast as the Villain

In Hollywood rewrite of history , Schlafly is cast as the villain .
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center .
In November of 1983 I attended a highly-anticipated debate at San Francisco State University called “ Two Views on Women ” between Phyllis Schlafly , the conservative icon who had famously spearheaded the scuttling of the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) in the 1970s , and Dierdre English , a Mother Jones editor and feminist who stood in complete opposition to everything Schlafly stood for .
I was a Democrat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the debate rather mindlessly expecting to side with English .
I was not in the minority ; most of the two thousand or so attendees that evening were rooting for English , as might be expected considering the venue .
But even as a Democrat , I was put off by the fact that throughout the debate , English resorted to sarcasm and personal attacks instead of reasoned argument , while the unflappable Schlafly not only never took the bait , she also skillfully defended the traditional roles of mother and housewife @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or couldn ’ t refute ( in retrospect , this contrast should have clued me in to a stark difference between the left and the right in general , but regrettably , my political epiphany wouldn ’ t happen for many more years ) .
I remember feeling so frustrated with English ’ s tactics that at one point I hissed out loud , “ She ’ s blowing it ” – which earned me a nasty look from the female student and English-supporter in front of me .
This scenario similarly played @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s skirmishes with feminist proponents of the ERA in the previous decade .
The National Review recently decried a “ shoddy attack ” against Schlafly , who died in 2016 , in the Washington Post by NeverTrump blowhard Max Boot , who identified her as a key factor in “ the origins of our current madness , ” claiming she “ pioneered the kind of incendiary , irrational rhetoric ” that ultimately led to the ascendance of Donald Trump .
But if you ’ ve ever seen Schlafly in the media , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ TV appearances , you know that , far from employing incendiary , irrational rhetoric , she could be forceful but was unfailingly cool , calm , collected , reasoned , articulate , and never sank to ad hominem – or more precisely , ad feminam – attacks , in contrast to the kind of incendiary , irrational rhetoric regularly used by her radical opponents like Diedre English .
This comes up because the FX network and Hulu streaming service have combined in the recent release of a nine-episode series about the battle to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America .
The show is an ensemble piece which devotes more time to the bevy of feminist characters than one might expect , considering the title and the fact that Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is the centerpiece as Schlafly , who is depicted as an anti-heroine .
Reviewers have missed no opportunity to praise Blanchett ’ s “ complex ” characterization and to demonize the real-life Schlafly .
The Loud and Clear review describes Mrs. America as “ the story of Second Wave Feminism in America [ told ] from the side of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Schlafly resembles Trump in her truth-flexing fearmongering , ” and in another sideswipe at President Trump , a reviewer at RogerEbert.com claims that “ few , if any , of her arguments are based in fact .
This leads the ‘ libbers ’ [ in the show ] to write her off as a quack , dismissive of the massive power of her lies , conspiracy theories , and nightmare scenarios .
( Sound familiar ? )
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” Blanchett claimed in a recent Harper ’ s Bazaar article that as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role precisely because she is so different from Schlafly , whom she condescendingly claims must have been “ quite , quite lonely ” in her anti-ERA crusade because Schlafly was so busy juggling home , motherhood ( of six children ) and activism that she didn ’ t have time for “ what 's traditionally called friends ” ( by contrast , Blanchett paints the gaggle of radical feminists who opposed Schlafly – and lost – as “ more of an intersected collective , ” suggesting they enjoyed a congenial diversity and sisterhood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Blanchett states loftily , “ it 's always about trying to understand someone else 's perspective.
” But it ’ s clear from watching her depiction of Schlafly in the series that Blanchett either couldn ’ t or didn ’ t bother to understand the defender of mothers and housewives at all , because instead of a sympathetic portrayal , the actress plays her as an icily ambitious but misguided woman with an insincere smile for the cameras , a victim herself who undermined her own interests by siding with the patriarchy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defend her anti-feminism .
Show creator and writer Dahvi Waller too , admitted that the appeal of centering the show on Schlafly was about “ the challenge of getting inside the mind of a character who is completely different from me and who , ideologically , I completely oppose.
” [ Emphasis added ] Waller asserted that Schlafly “ had quite a bit of influence on the polarization of the country.
” In fact , Schlafly represented the traditional viewpoint of the average American at the time ; it was the hardcore feminists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FX show ) who polarized the country .
Revealingly , Harper ’ s Bazaar notes that in their “ research ” for the series , Blanchett and Waller did n't bother contacting any of the living , real-life figures depicted on the show or their families .
“ We really wanted to be free to imagine these private conversations and not be beholden to one person 's memory of what happened 40 years ago , ” Waller said .
Translation : We wanted to be free to rewrite history and not have our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experienced the people or the events we lied about .
In fact , Ed Martin , president of Schlafly ’ s Eagles , the conservative interest group she founded in 1972 , has undertaken a series of short videos fact-checking Hollywood ’ s distortions and fabrications in Mrs. America .
Yes , all docudramas make certain concessions to storytelling – choosing some events and not others , conflating or creating characters , inventing dialogue where there is no record of it , etc .
In that respect , the first episode of Mrs. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ This program is based on actual events that occurred during the political struggle and debate over the Equal Rights Amendment .
Some characters in the program are fictional and some scenes and dialogue have been invented for creative and storyline purposes.
” But Martin devastatingly demonstrates that what the filmmakers consider “ creative ” is actually blatant lying – and in the process presenting Schlafly as the liar .
One of the most egregious examples is Mrs. America ’ s depiction of a famous debate on The Tom Snyder Show between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one hand , and feminist Brenda Feigen-Fasteau and her husband Marc on the other .
As Martin shows by comparing clips from the series with actual footage of the debate , Mrs. America flips the truth on its head by asserting that Schlafly desperately invented an outrageous claim to bolster her point , and that Feigen-Fasteau called her out on it .
In fact , as the actual video shows , it was the feminist who lied , and Fred Schlafly who shot her down .
No one watching the series would know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ debate – and Hollywood is very well aware of that .
The FX series ultimately is not a docudrama – it is propaganda .
It is yet another example of Hollywood rewriting the past for future generations , because the left has understood for decades that those generations will get what little history they know not from textbooks ( except from Howard Zinn ’ s propagandistic The People ’ s History of the United States ) but from movies and shows on TV or the internet .
The Hollywood left doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who we are and how our world came to be , because the left doesn ’ t care about the lessons of the past ( if they did , they wouldn ’ t keep advocating for communism ) .
Instead , the left searches for stories from history that they can adapt or completely fictionalize to have clear relevance to contemporary political situations , in order to lend metaphorical support to their agenda in the present .
Hence , Mrs. America is not just about Second Wave Feminism or the failed ERA movement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ homage to Phyllis Schlafly ; instead , it serves to brainwash impressionable viewers that ( according to leftist dogma ) women are still a victim class without equal rights in today ’ s misogynistic patriarchy under Donald Trump , and that we still need feminism .

Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
In November of 1983 I attended a highly-anticipated debate at San Francisco State University called “Two Views on Women” between Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative icon who had famously spearheaded the scuttling of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 1970s, and Dierdre English, a Mother Jones editor and feminist who stood in complete opposition to everything Schlafly stood for. I was a Democrat at the time, and thus went into the debate rather mindlessly expecting to side with English. I was not in the minority; most of the two thousand or so attendees that evening were rooting for English, as might be expected considering the venue.
But even as a Democrat, I was put off by the fact that throughout the debate, English resorted to sarcasm and personal attacks instead of reasoned argument, while the unflappable Schlafly not only never took the bait, she also skillfully defended the traditional roles of mother and housewife with arguments English either wouldn’t or couldn’t refute (in retrospect, this contrast should have clued me in to a stark difference between the left and the right in general, but regrettably, my political epiphany wouldn’t happen for many more years). I remember feeling so frustrated with English’s tactics that at one point I hissed out loud, “She’s blowing it” – which earned me a nasty look from the female student and English-supporter in front of me.
This scenario similarly played out over and over again in Schlafly’s skirmishes with feminist proponents of the ERA in the previous decade. The National Review recently decried a “shoddy attack” against Schlafly, who died in 2016, in the Washington Post by NeverTrump blowhard Max Boot, who identified her as a key factor in “the origins of our current madness,” claiming she “pioneered the kind of incendiary, irrational rhetoric” that ultimately led to the ascendance of Donald Trump. But if you’ve ever seen Schlafly in the media, or watched any videos of her many TV appearances, you know that, far from employing incendiary, irrational rhetoric, she could be forceful but was unfailingly cool, calm, collected, reasoned, articulate, and never sank to ad hominem – or more precisely, ad feminam – attacks, in contrast to the kind of incendiary, irrational rhetoric regularly used by her radical opponents like Diedre English.
This comes up because the FX network and Hulu streaming service have combined in the recent release of a nine-episode series about the battle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment called Mrs. America. The show is an ensemble piece which devotes more time to the bevy of feminist characters than one might expect, considering the title and the fact that Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is the centerpiece as Schlafly, who is depicted as an anti-heroine. Reviewers have missed no opportunity to praise Blanchett’s “complex” characterization and to demonize the real-life Schlafly. The Loud and Clear review describes Mrs. America as “the story of Second Wave Feminism in America [told] from the side of the villain.” Slant Magazine states that “Schlafly resembles Trump in her truth-flexing fearmongering,” and in another sideswipe at President Trump, a reviewer at RogerEbert.com claims that “few, if any, of her arguments are based in fact. This leads the ‘libbers’ [in the show] to write her off as a quack, dismissive of the massive power of her lies, conspiracy theories, and nightmare scenarios. (Sound familiar?).”
Blanchett claimed in a recent Harper’s Bazaar article that as a feminist herself, she took on the role precisely because she is so different from Schlafly, whom she condescendingly claims must have been “quite, quite lonely” in her anti-ERA crusade because Schlafly was so busy juggling home, motherhood (of six children) and activism that she didn’t have time for “what’s traditionally called friends” (by contrast, Blanchett paints the gaggle of radical feminists who opposed Schlafly – and lost – as “more of an intersected collective,” suggesting they enjoyed a congenial diversity and sisterhood). “For me,” Blanchett states loftily, “it’s always about trying to understand someone else’s perspective.”
But it’s clear from watching her depiction of Schlafly in the series that Blanchett either couldn’t or didn’t bother to understand the defender of mothers and housewives at all, because instead of a sympathetic portrayal, the actress plays her as an icily ambitious but misguided woman with an insincere smile for the cameras, a victim herself who undermined her own interests by siding with the patriarchy and who had to resort to lies to defend her anti-feminism.
Show creator and writer Dahvi Waller too, admitted that the appeal of centering the show on Schlafly was about “the challenge of getting inside the mind of a character who is completely different from me and who, ideologically, I completely oppose.” [Emphasis added] Waller asserted that Schlafly “had quite a bit of influence on the polarization of the country.” In fact, Schlafly represented the traditional viewpoint of the average American at the time; it was the hardcore feminists like Gloria Steinem (portrayed in the FX show) who polarized the country.
Revealingly, Harper’s Bazaar notes that in their “research” for the series, Blanchett and Waller didn’t bother contacting any of the living, real-life figures depicted on the show or their families. “We really wanted to be free to imagine these private conversations and not be beholden to one person’s memory of what happened 40 years ago,” Waller said. Translation: We wanted to be free to rewrite history and not have our feminist Narrative corrupted by anyone who personally experienced the people or the events we lied about.
In fact, Ed Martin, president of Schlafly’s Eagles, the conservative interest group she founded in 1972, has undertaken a series of short videos fact-checking Hollywood’s distortions and fabrications in Mrs. America. Yes, all docudramas make certain concessions to storytelling – choosing some events and not others, conflating or creating characters, inventing dialogue where there is no record of it, etc. In that respect, the first episode of Mrs. America begins with a seemingly innocuous disclaimer that “This program is based on actual events that occurred during the political struggle and debate over the Equal Rights Amendment. Some characters in the program are fictional and some scenes and dialogue have been invented for creative and storyline purposes.” But Martin devastatingly demonstrates that what the filmmakers consider “creative” is actually blatant lying – and in the process presenting Schlafly as the liar.
One of the most egregious examples is Mrs. America’s depiction of a famous debate on The Tom Snyder Show between Schlafly and her husband Fred, on one hand, and feminist Brenda Feigen-Fasteau and her husband Marc on the other. As Martin shows by comparing clips from the series with actual footage of the debate, Mrs. America flips the truth on its head by asserting that Schlafly desperately invented an outrageous claim to bolster her point, and that Feigen-Fasteau called her out on it. In fact, as the actual video shows, it was the feminist who lied, and Fred Schlafly who shot her down. No one watching the series would know this unless they had seen the original debate – and Hollywood is very well aware of that.
The FX series ultimately is not a docudrama – it is propaganda. It is yet another example of Hollywood rewriting the past for future generations, because the left has understood for decades that those generations will get what little history they know not from textbooks (except from Howard Zinn’s propagandistic The People’s History of the United States) but from movies and shows on TV or the internet.
The Hollywood left doesn’t mine the past for stories to illuminate who we are and how our world came to be, because the left doesn’t care about the lessons of the past (if they did, they wouldn’t keep advocating for communism). Instead, the left searches for stories from history that they can adapt or completely fictionalize to have clear relevance to contemporary political situations, in order to lend metaphorical support to their agenda in the present. Hence, Mrs. America is not just about Second Wave Feminism or the failed ERA movement, and it certainly is not an homage to Phyllis Schlafly; instead, it serves to brainwash impressionable viewers that (according to leftist dogma) women are still a victim class without equal rights in today’s misogynistic patriarchy under Donald Trump, and that we still need feminism.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-06--President ‘Democrats and the Media Are Doing Everything Possible to Hurt and Disparage Our Country’

Indeed !
Enemy of the American people .
The Democrat Party and the corrupt main stream media must go down hard in November .
# Trump2020 !
# GOP2020 !
TRUMP : ‘ Democrats and the Media Are Doing Everything Possible to Hurt and Disparage Our Country ’ President Trump called-out Congressional Democrats and the mainstream media Tuesday ; saying far-left lawmakers and the press are doing “ everything possible to hurt and disparage our country.
” “ The Do Nothing Democrats and their leader , the Fake News Lamestream Media , are doing everything possible to hurt and disparage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do or say , no matter how big a win , they report that it was a loss , or not good enough .
The Enemy of the People !
” posted the President .
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TRUMP: ‘Democrats and the Media Are Doing Everything Possible to Hurt and Disparage Our Country’ By Breitbart, May 5, 2020: President Trump called-out Congressional Democrats and the mainstream media Tuesday; saying far-left lawmakers and the press are doing “everything possible to hurt and disparage our country.” “The Do Nothing Democrats and their leader, the Fake News Lamestream Media, are doing everything possible to hurt and disparage our Country. No matter what we do or say, no matter how big a win, they report that it was a loss, or not good enough. The Enemy of the People!” posted the President.
The Do Nothing Democrats and their leader, the Fake News Lamestream Media, are doing everything possible to hurt and disparage our Country. No matter what we do or say, no matter how big a win, they report that it was a loss, or not good enough. The Enemy of the People! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2020
President Trump: "The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. Our country has to open." pic.twitter.com/a8YEweLnTD — The Hill (@thehill) May 5, 2020
“The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. Our country has to open,” he added. Watch President Trump’s comments above.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-06--ANOTHER NYC Nurse Whistleblower: Patients Not Dying From Chi-Com Virus, But Are Being ‘Murdered’ By

ANOTHER NYC Nurse Whistleblower: Patients Not Dying From Chi-Com Virus, But Are Being ‘Murdered’ By ‘Gross Negligence and Complete Medical Mismanagement’

GR previously published reports from other nurses who testified to the same thing : WATCH Registered Nurse in NYC Hospital : Patients are being left to die , no treatment , no drugs , “ it ’ s murder ” “ it ’ s out of a horror movie ” Another nurse speaks out .
But nothing will be done in this Democrat-controlled city .
The Democrats need a higher death rate to justify the continued lockdowns .
We are under attack by the enemy within .
The Democrat-media complex continues to polish Cuomo ’ s knob .
Every day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19 and Three Times as Much if the Patient Goes on Ventilator | The totalitarian Democrat-controlled social platform Facebook removed the video , of course , MUST WATCH : Tearful Nurse Blows Whistle on New York Hospitals ‘ Murdering ’ COVID Patients With ‘ Complete Medical Mismanagement ’ A Nevada nurse who travelled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has posted a tearful Facebook Live video claiming that patients are not dying from the virus , but are being “ murdered ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mismanagement.
” Nicole Sirotek , a nurse from Elko , Nevada , was assigned to two different hospitals in New York City .
“ I am literally telling you that they are murdering these people , ” Sirotek says in the terrifying video .
The video begins with Sirotek explaining that every time she attempts to advocate on behalf of one of her patients , management takes them away and reassigns her to another unit .
She said that this happened at both of the hospitals she has worked at in the city @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even know what to do anymore .
Even advocacy groups don ’ t give a sh-t about these people , ” she said .
“ Black lives don ’ t matter here.
” “ I know not everybody is going to live .
I ’ m not that f-cking green , or ignorant , or bright eyed and bushy tailed to think that , okay ?
I know we ’ re going to have a sh-t ton of people die — but these people aren ’ t dying from COVID.
” Sirotek then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have died from medical negligence , including a resident nurse killing a patient by using a defibrillator on him when he had a pulse and it wasn ’ t necessary .
When she ran out of the room to get help stopping him from doing it , the director of nursing just shook their head at her .
The patient ultimately died , but not from COVID .
In another example , she said that a patient was given the wrong type of insulin .
Even more alarmingly , she said that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to patients who are low on blood unless they have internal bleeding .
Without proper blood flow , she explained , the ventilators will not do anything to help them — and she said that this is a common problem for patients with the virus .
“ Nobody is listening .
They don ’ t care what is happening to these people .
They don ’ t .
I ’ m literally coming here every day and watching them kill them , ” she said .
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GR previously published reports from other nurses who testified to the same thing: WATCH Registered Nurse in NYC Hospital: Patients are being left to die, no treatment, no drugs, “it’s murder” “it’s out of a horror movie”
Another nurse speaks out. But nothing will be done in this Democrat-controlled city. The Democrats need a higher death rate to justify the continued lockdowns. We are under attack by the enemy within.
The Democrat-media complex continues to polish Cuomo’s knob. Every day. De Blasio’s, too.
Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19 and Three Times as Much if the Patient Goes on Ventilator |
The totalitarian Democrat-controlled social platform Facebook removed the video, of course,
MUST WATCH: Tearful Nurse Blows Whistle on New York Hospitals ‘Murdering’ COVID Patients With ‘Complete Medical Mismanagement’ A Nevada nurse who travelled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has posted a tearful Facebook Live video claiming that patients are not dying from the virus, but are being “murdered” by “gross negligence and complete medical mismanagement.” Nicole Sirotek, a nurse from Elko, Nevada, was assigned to two different hospitals in New York City. “I am literally telling you that they are murdering these people,” Sirotek says in the terrifying video. The video begins with Sirotek explaining that every time she attempts to advocate on behalf of one of her patients, management takes them away and reassigns her to another unit. She said that this happened at both of the hospitals she has worked at in the city. “I legitimately don’t even know what to do anymore. Even advocacy groups don’t give a sh-t about these people,” she said. “Black lives don’t matter here.” “I know not everybody is going to live. I’m not that f-cking green, or ignorant, or bright eyed and bushy tailed to think that, okay? I know we’re going to have a sh-t ton of people die — but these people aren’t dying from COVID.” Sirotek then gave several specific examples of patients who have died from medical negligence, including a resident nurse killing a patient by using a defibrillator on him when he had a pulse and it wasn’t necessary. When she ran out of the room to get help stopping him from doing it, the director of nursing just shook their head at her. The patient ultimately died, but not from COVID. Advertisement – story continues below In another example, she said that a patient was given the wrong type of insulin. Even more alarmingly, she said that the hospital was refusing to give blood transfusions to patients who are low on blood unless they have internal bleeding. Without proper blood flow, she explained, the ventilators will not do anything to help them — and she said that this is a common problem for patients with the virus. “Nobody is listening. They don’t care what is happening to these people. They don’t. I’m literally coming here every day and watching them kill them,” she said.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-07--Rosenstein’s August 2017 Scope Memo Reveals Mueller Investigated Flynn For the Non-Existent “Crime”

Rosenstein’s August 2017 Scope Memo Reveals Mueller Investigated Flynn For the Non-Existent “Crime” of “Engaging in Conversations with Russian Govt Officials”

On Wednesday night the Department of Justice released the August 2017 Rosenstein Scope Memo .
The August 2017 scope memo penned by then-DAG Rod Rosenstein to Robert Mueller was released with redactions on Wednesday .
Rosenstein wrote a total of three scope memos giving Mueller permission to rove around unchecked in a fishing expedition to not only target Trump officials , but to play defense and cover up the Obama administration ’ s crimes .
The August 2017 scope memo revealed Mueller investigated Mike Flynn , a 3-star General and Trump ’ s National Security Advisor for the “ crime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russian government officials ” during the Trump transition .
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Flynn of course was already cleared by the FBI on January 4 , 2017 when the field office found “ no derogatory information ” on Flynn and decided to close CROSSFIRE RAZOR .
General Flynn ’ s attorney Sidney Powell said this is a “ bloody outrage ” as the FBI ’ s own files showed Flynn was not a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working with DIA on all foreign contacts .
Sidney Powell was referring to bombshell Flynn documents released showing the FBI concluded the Flynn probe was ‘ no longer a viable case ’ in January 2017 , but rogue counterintel chief Peter Strzok went off the rails and kept the investigation going !
Peter Strzok ’ s texts to the FBI Case Manager handling the Crossfire Razor ( Flynn ) case : Strzok : “ If you haven ’ t closed RAZOR , don ’ t do so yet ” Last Wednesday it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The unsealed FBI notes written by Bill Priestap revealed the intent of the FBI ’ s ambush interview of Flynn in January of 2017 .
“ What is our goal ?
Truth/Admission or to get him to lie , so we can prosecute [ Flynn ] or get him fired ?
” Bill Priestap wrote .
Here ’ s how they planned to get Flynn removed : 1 ) Get Flynn “ to admit to breaking the Logan Act ” ; or Their end goal was a referral to the DOJ – not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Russians .
Judicial Watch boss Tom Fitton said Obama ’ s “ Logan Act ” predicate for the General Flynn investigation is a knowing fraud and an attack on the constitutional powers of President Trump to conduct foreign policy .

On Wednesday night the Department of Justice released the August 2017 Rosenstein Scope Memo.
The August 2017 scope memo penned by then-DAG Rod Rosenstein to Robert Mueller was released with redactions on Wednesday.
Rosenstein wrote a total of three scope memos giving Mueller permission to rove around unchecked in a fishing expedition to not only target Trump officials, but to play defense and cover up the Obama administration’s crimes.
The August 2017 scope memo revealed Mueller investigated Mike Flynn, a 3-star General and Trump’s National Security Advisor for the “crime” of “engaging in conversations with Russian government officials” during the Trump transition.
Flynn of course was already cleared by the FBI on January 4, 2017 when the field office found “no derogatory information” on Flynn and decided to close CROSSFIRE RAZOR.
Newly released 8/2/2017 Scope Memo from Rosenstein to Mueller: Mueller investigated Flynn for the “crime” of “engaging in conversations with Russian govt officials” during the Trump transition. The Logan Act. Wow. pic.twitter.com/0fpxKS7TkW — Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) May 6, 2020
General Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell said this is a “bloody outrage” as the FBI’s own files showed Flynn was not a foreign agent and they knew he was working with DIA on all foreign contacts.
Sidney Powell was referring to bombshell Flynn documents released showing the FBI concluded the Flynn probe was ‘no longer a viable case’ in January 2017, but rogue counterintel chief Peter Strzok went off the rails and kept the investigation going!
Peter Strzok’s texts to the FBI Case Manager handling the Crossfire Razor (Flynn) case:
Strzok: “If you haven’t closed RAZOR, don’t do so yet”
Strzok: “7th floor involved” (FBI Leadership)
(Possible use of Logan Act “violations” to keep investigation open)
Last Wednesday it was revealed the FBI framed General Flynn.
The unsealed FBI notes written by Bill Priestap revealed the intent of the FBI’s ambush interview of Flynn in January of 2017.
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?” Bill Priestap wrote.
Here’s how they planned to get Flynn removed:
1) Get Flynn “to admit to breaking the Logan Act”; or
2) Catch Flynn in a lie.
Their end goal was a referral to the DOJ – not to investigate Flynn’s contacts with the Russians.
Judicial Watch boss Tom Fitton said Obama’s “Logan Act” predicate for the General Flynn investigation is a knowing fraud and an attack on the constitutional powers of President Trump to conduct foreign policy.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-07--President Trump Hires Pro-Jeb Bush Swamp Rat to Lead His Domestic Policy Council

President Donald Trump has hired Derek Lyons , an establishment swamp rat who worked for Jeb Bush ’ s presidential campaign in 2016 , to lead his Domestic Policy Council .
Lyons currently serves as the White House staff secretary , and he will be getting a promotion despite ( or perhaps because of ) his long-standing ties to the GOP establishment .
He will be supplanting Joe Grogan as the head of the Domestic Policy Council .
Throughout Trump ’ s tenure in the White House , establishment hacks and “ Never Trump ” forces have been appointed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The two primary enablers of this phenomenon have been Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo .
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While giving his address , Pompeo made other comments showing his neoconservative tendencies .
“ Diplomacy and military strike go hand in hand , ” Pompeo said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; each relies on the other.
” These words are not a slip of the tongue , as Pompeo has quietly led the charge for the infiltration of the Trump administration with ‘ Never Trump ’ operatives gunning to sabotage the President ’ s ‘ America First ’ agenda .
Mary Kissel , who Trump once called a “ major loser , ” was hired by Pompeo as a senior adviser in the State Department despite opposing her boss on every single one of his policies .
Pompeo also hired James Jeffrey as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fact that he was a ‘ Never Trumper ’ who signed a pro-Hillary Clinton letter arguing that Trump was “ a dangerous president [ who ] would put at risk our country ’ s national security and well-being ” in 2016 .
In Pompeo ’ s most egregious betrayal of Trump , he hired Elliott Abrams – the disgraced war criminal who supported the Iraq War and perjured himself by lying to Congress over the Iran/Contra scandal – as the Venezuelan envoy despite Abrams ’ long-stated goal for the GOP establishment to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the Trump defeat.
” The appointment of Lyons to Domestic Policy Council shows that nothing has changed within the administration .
The swamp has overtaken the White House , and the president ’ s “ America First ” agenda is in serious jeopardy as a result .
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President Trump Hires Pro-Jeb Bush Swamp Rat to Lead His Domestic Policy Council
President Donald Trump has hired Derek Lyons, an establishment swamp rat who worked for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign in 2016, to lead his Domestic Policy Council.
Lyons currently serves as the White House staff secretary, and he will be getting a promotion despite (or perhaps because of) his long-standing ties to the GOP establishment. He will be supplanting Joe Grogan as the head of the Domestic Policy Council.
Throughout Trump’s tenure in the White House, establishment hacks and “Never Trump” forces have been appointed to many different influential roles within the administration. The two primary enablers of this phenomenon have been Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
As Big League Politics has noted, Pompeo got his start as a Never Trumper and funneled like-minded people into the administration after worming his way into a position of influence:
While giving his address, Pompeo made other comments showing his neoconservative tendencies. “Diplomacy and military strike go hand in hand,” Pompeo said. “They are indeed intimately related; each relies on the other.” These words are not a slip of the tongue, as Pompeo has quietly led the charge for the infiltration of the Trump administration with ‘Never Trump’ operatives gunning to sabotage the President’s ‘America First’ agenda. Mary Kissel, who Trump once called a “major loser,” was hired by Pompeo as a senior adviser in the State Department despite opposing her boss on every single one of his policies. Pompeo also hired James Jeffrey as his envoy for the Syrian war despite the fact that he was a ‘Never Trumper’ who signed a pro-Hillary Clinton letter arguing that Trump was “a dangerous president [who] would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being” in 2016. In Pompeo’s most egregious betrayal of Trump, he hired Elliott Abrams – the disgraced war criminal who supported the Iraq War and perjured himself by lying to Congress over the Iran/Contra scandal – as the Venezuelan envoy despite Abrams’ long-stated goal for the GOP establishment to “seize the party machinery back immediately after the Trump defeat.”
Big League Politics has frequently reported on how Kushner has subverted President Trump’s “America First” immigration agenda and influenced Trump’s shameful pivot on the issue:
President Donald Trump has apparently had a change of heart regarding open immigration following a massive corporate lobbying push to import more foreign workers into the US that would boost multinational profits at the expense of US workers. “We want to have a very strong border, but we want to have a lot of people coming in,” Trump said at a White House summit this week with the corporate elite. “A lot of people don’t understand that. They think we’re shutting it out. We’re not shutting it out. We want people to come in, but they have to come in through a process.” Trump credits his marvelous economy, sitting currently at about 3.6 percent, for why all this foreign labor is necessary. “We’re going to let a lot of people come in because we need workers,” Trump said yesterday. “We have to have workers. These are low numbers, and in one way I love it, but in another way I don’t want to make it hard for you to get those companies rolling … with really great people.” While Trump acts like this is a sudden change of heart spurred by the fact that his economy is doing well, it is more likely that his flip-flop has come as the result of a well-funded globalist lobbying campaign engineered by Trump’s son-in-law and international poster child for the dangers of nepotism, Jared Kushner. McClatchy DC reported on Kushner’s scheming with individuals from the Koch-affiliated Libre Initiative, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and other open border groups as he exploited the government shutdown crisis to push amnesty.
The appointment of Lyons to Domestic Policy Council shows that nothing has changed within the administration. The swamp has overtaken the White House, and the president’s “America First” agenda is in serious jeopardy as a result.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-07--Bill Gates Puppets Fascist Fauci and Bolshevik Birx Used Imperial College Model — NOW CONFIRMED AS A

Bill Gates Puppets Fascist Fauci and Bolshevik Birx Used Imperial College Model — NOW CONFIRMED AS A COMPLETE FRAUD — To Persuade President Trump to Lock Down Entire US Economy

** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY .
** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic ** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March ** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy ** A new critique of the Imperial College Model finds the study is “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The study is a sham ** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed a garbage model on the White House and the American public and destroyed the US economy As reported weeks ago — in mid April Dr. Fauci admitted that it was he and Dr. Birx who persuaded President Trump to lock down the US economy knowing the massive destruction this would cause in jobs , lives and commerce .
President admitted that during a press conference in April that “ two very smart people ” came into his office and urged him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million Americans would die from the China virus .
But President Trump did not say who those “ two very smart people ” were .
President Trump : The big projection being that 2.2 million people would die if we did nothing .
That was another decision we made , close it up .
That was a big decision that we made .
Two very smart people walked into my office and said listen these are your alternatives .
And that was a projection of 1.5 to 2.2 million people would die if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
That ’ s a lot of people .
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Dr. Fauci later admitted he persuaded the president to shut down and kill off the US economy .
This guy has been wrong every step of the way .
Sheri Fink at The New York Times back on March 16 , 2020 , described the scenario that led to the US economic lockdown .
In her report Fink describes how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their projections with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx and the White House coronavirus task force .
They even sent a copy of their report to the task force before its release .
Sweeping new federal recommendations announced on Monday for Americans to sharply limit their activities appeared to draw on a dire scientific report warning that , without action by the government and individuals to slow the spread of coronavirus and suppress new cases , 2.2 million people in the United States could die .
To curb the epidemic , there would need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ school and social gatherings for periods of time until a vaccine was available , which could take 18 months , according to the report , compiled by British researchers .
They cautioned that such steps carried enormous costs that could also affect people ’ s health , but concluded they were “ the only viable strategy at the current time.
” That is because different steps , intended to drive down transmission by isolating patients , quarantining those in contact with them and keeping the most vulnerable apart from others for three months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ toll by half , the new report said… …Asked at a news conference with President Trump about what had led to the change in thinking by a White House task force , Dr. Deborah Birx , one of the task force leaders , said new information had come from a model developed in Britain .
Dr. Birx ’ s description of the findings was consistent with those in the report , released on Monday by an epidemic modeling group at Imperial College London .
The lead author of the study , Neil Ferguson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an interview that his group had shared their projections with the White House task force about a week ago and that an early copy of the report was sent over the weekend .
The group has also shared its fatality estimates with the C.D.C.
, Dr. Ferguson said , including that eight to nine percent of people in the most vulnerable age group , 80 and older , could die if infected .
After Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci sat with the president the US went into lockdown and since that time over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and thousands of companies have gone bankrupt .
In late March , Neil Ferguson , who was behind the Imperial College coronavirus study , backtracked and said 20,000 Brits may die from the coronavirus instead of his original estimates of 500,000 .
Neil Ferguson resigned from his government post as researcher this week after he was caught breaking his own lockdown rules by meeting with his married mistress at his home .
And now Sue Denim , a software engineer for 30 years , studied the Dr. Ferguson ’ s model and concluded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be scientifically replicated .
In her concluding remarks Denim says the Imperial College model “ should be retracted immediately.
” Conclusions .
All papers based on this code should be retracted immediately .
Imperial ’ s modelling efforts should be reset with a new team that isn ’ t under Professor Ferguson , and which has a commitment to replicable results with published code from day one .
On a personal level , I ’ d go further and suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded .
This sort of work is best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employ modellers and data scientists , but also employ managers whose job is to decide whether a model is accurate enough for real world usage and professional software engineers to ensure model software is properly tested , understandable and so on .
Academic efforts don ’ t have these people , and the results speak for themselves .
In conclusion : Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci misled the White House and the American public .
The economy is destroyed and over 30 million Americans have lost their incomes .
Dr. Fauci and Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charges for defrauding the US government and American public .

** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.
** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic
** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March
** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model
** A new critique of the Imperial College Model finds the study is “completely unusable for scientific purposes” — The study is a complete sham
** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed a garbage model on the White House and the American public and destroyed the US economy
As reported weeks ago — in mid April Dr. Fauci admitted that it was he and Dr. Birx who persuaded President Trump to lock down the US economy knowing the massive destruction this would cause in jobs, lives and commerce.
President admitted that during a press conference in April that “two very smart people” came into his office and urged him to lock down the economy or 2.2 million Americans would die from the China virus.
But President Trump did not say who those “two very smart people” were.
President Trump: The big projection being that 2.2 million people would die if we did nothing. That was another decision we made, close it up. That was a big decision that we made. Two very smart people walked into my office and said listen these are your alternatives. And that was a projection of 1.5 to 2.2 million people would die if we didn’t close it up. That’s a lot of people.
Dr. Fauci later admitted he persuaded the president to shut down and kill off the US economy.
This guy has been wrong every step of the way.
Dr. Anthony Fauci: "I can tell you, the first and only time that I said we should do mitigation strongly, the response was, 'yes, we'll do it.'" https://t.co/OoYDesvZU4 pic.twitter.com/k5IaxkiiBc — CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) April 13, 2020
Sheri Fink at The New York Times back on March 16, 2020, described the scenario that led to the US economic lockdown.
In her report Fink describes how Imperial College researchers including Neil Ferguson shared their projections with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx and the White House coronavirus task force. They even sent a copy of their report to the task force before its release.
Sweeping new federal recommendations announced on Monday for Americans to sharply limit their activities appeared to draw on a dire scientific report warning that, without action by the government and individuals to slow the spread of coronavirus and suppress new cases, 2.2 million people in the United States could die. To curb the epidemic, there would need to be drastic restrictions on work, school and social gatherings for periods of time until a vaccine was available, which could take 18 months, according to the report, compiled by British researchers. They cautioned that such steps carried enormous costs that could also affect people’s health, but concluded they were “the only viable strategy at the current time.” That is because different steps, intended to drive down transmission by isolating patients, quarantining those in contact with them and keeping the most vulnerable apart from others for three months, could only cut the predicted death toll by half, the new report said… …Asked at a news conference with President Trump about what had led to the change in thinking by a White House task force, Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the task force leaders, said new information had come from a model developed in Britain. Dr. Birx’s description of the findings was consistent with those in the report, released on Monday by an epidemic modeling group at Imperial College London. The lead author of the study, Neil Ferguson, an epidemiology professor, said in an interview that his group had shared their projections with the White House task force about a week ago and that an early copy of the report was sent over the weekend. The group has also shared its fatality estimates with the C.D.C., Dr. Ferguson said, including that eight to nine percent of people in the most vulnerable age group, 80 and older, could die if infected.
After Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci sat with the president the US went into lockdown and since that time over 30 MILLION Americans have lost their jobs and thousands of companies have gone bankrupt.
In late March, Neil Ferguson, who was behind the Imperial College coronavirus study, backtracked and said 20,000 Brits may die from the coronavirus instead of his original estimates of 500,000.
Neil Ferguson resigned from his government post as researcher this week after he was caught breaking his own lockdown rules by meeting with his married mistress at his home.
And now Sue Denim, a software engineer for 30 years, studied the Dr. Ferguson’s model and concluded it is complete garbage and cannot be scientifically replicated.
In her concluding remarks Denim says the Imperial College model “should be retracted immediately.”
Conclusions. All papers based on this code should be retracted immediately. Imperial’s modelling efforts should be reset with a new team that isn’t under Professor Ferguson, and which has a commitment to replicable results with published code from day one. On a personal level, I’d go further and suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded. This sort of work is best done by the insurance sector. Insurers employ modellers and data scientists, but also employ managers whose job is to decide whether a model is accurate enough for real world usage and professional software engineers to ensure model software is properly tested, understandable and so on. Academic efforts don’t have these people, and the results speak for themselves.
Via Andrew Bostom.
Devastating critique of apocalyptic covid19 "modeler" Neil Ferguson's "code": "unusable for scientific purposes, given that a key part of the scientific method is the ability to replicate results…the findings might not be real at all" https://t.co/GmD2O695SM h/t @AlexBerenson pic.twitter.com/74dHU5EQzl — Andrew Bostom, MD, MS (@andrewbostom) May 6, 2020
In conclusion: Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci misled the White House and the American public.
The economy is destroyed and over 30 million Americans have lost their incomes.
Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx should resign immediately and face criminal charges for defrauding the US government and American public.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-07--Rosenstein Scope Memo For Mueller Peddled Steele Dossier, Logan Act Conspiracy Theories in Deep Stat

Rosenstein Scope Memo For Mueller Peddled Steele Dossier, Logan Act Conspiracy Theories in Deep State Coup Attempt

A newly declassified memorandum from Rod Rosenstein shows that the former deputy attorney general used bogus claims from discredited Clinton campaign operative Christopher Steele to justify Robert Mueller 's investigation of the Trump campaign .
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ’ s memo authorizing Robert Mueller ’ s anti-Trump investigation was riddled with conspiracy theories lifted straight from the bogus dossier of Christopher Steele , a newly released , less redacted version of the memo shows .
The memo , portions of which were declassified on April 30 , 2020 , specifically targeted former Trump campaign affiliates Carter Page @ @ @ @ @ @ @ George Papadopoulos , and one individual whose identity is redacted .
The Aug. 2 , 2017 scope memo , which was provided by the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) to the Senate Judiciary Committee following requests from Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C. , cited Steele dossier collusion conspiracy theories about Manafort and Page .
Rosenstein ordered Mueller to investigate allegations that Page “ committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials with respect to the Russian government ’ s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election [ . ]
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ justify the targeting of Manafort .
Rosenstein ’ s memo also peddled discredited legal theories about the Logan Act , a 1799 law criminalizing political speech by American citizens that has never been successfully prosecuted , to justify investigations of former White House National Security Adviser ( NSA ) Michael Flynn .
The scope memo directed Mueller to investigate allegations that Flynn “ committed a crime or crimes by engaging in conversations with Russian officials during the period of the Trump transition.
” The Mueller probe , after nearly two years and tens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence of collusion by any Trump campaign officials .
However , a sprawling investigation by the DOJ Office of Inspector General found that Rosenstein ’ s DOJ fabricated evidence and falsified documents to justify an illegal federal spy warrant against Page .
A Federal Bureau of Investigations ( FBI ) lawyer , reported to be Kevin Clinesmith , allegedly altered documents from a U.S. intelligence agency to erase evidence that Page had for years worked on behalf of the U.S. government to help investigate Russian agents who were attempting to damage the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigation also revealed that Rosenstein ’ s DOJ repeatedly lied to federal courts and used bogus claims from Steele , who was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee , to secure wiretaps against Page , who has never been formally charged with any wrongdoing .
Rosenstein personally signed at least one of the false Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , or FISA , spy warrants against Page .
In his memo to Mueller , Rosenstein also peddled allegations that Papadopoulos was a secret , unregistered foreign agent of Israel .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ lying to federal investigators , he was never formally charged with operating as an unregistered foreign agent of Israel or any other country .
The new declassifications of portions of Rosenstein ’ s memo affirm charges from Rep. Devin Nunes , R-Calif. , the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , that Rosenstein used the Steele dossier to justify and direct Mueller ’ s special counsel probe .
“ [ I ] t ’ s clear that false allegations from the Steele dossier played a major role not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but in the appointment of the Special Counsel as well , ” Nunes said in a statement after a lengthy report detailing Mueller ’ s investigation was released in 2019 .
Until now , those facts had been hidden behind redactions in the Rosenstein document .
Flynn , the former NSA , was eventually coerced into pleading guilty to making false statements to FBI agents .
New documents released by the DOJ in that case , though , show that the FBI repeatedly abused its power during its investigation of Flynn and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prosecutors , Brandon Van Grack , may have lied in federal court about the FBI ’ s basis for the interview in which Flynn allegedly lied .
Newly released handwritten documents from Bill Priestap , the former top FBI counterintelligence official , showed that a primary goal of the FBI in investigating Flynn in the first place was “ to get him fired.
” Other FBI documents , released last week by the DOJ , show that the original FBI investigation of Flynn found no evidence of collusion and that the investigation was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fired former FBI agent Peter Strzok .
Flynn is currently in the process of trying to withdraw his guilty plea , citing government abuse and corruption .
The judge in the case has not yet ruled in Flynn ’ s motion to withdraw his plea or his motion to dismiss charges .

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s memo authorizing Robert Mueller’s anti-Trump investigation was riddled with conspiracy theories lifted straight from the bogus dossier of Christopher Steele, a newly released, less redacted version of the memo shows. The memo, portions of which were declassified on April 30, 2020, specifically targeted former Trump campaign affiliates Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and one individual whose identity is redacted.
The Aug. 2, 2017 scope memo, which was provided by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to the Senate Judiciary Committee following requests from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., cited Steele dossier collusion conspiracy theories about Manafort and Page.
Rosenstein ordered Mueller to investigate allegations that Page “committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials with respect to the Russian government’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election[.]” The same language was used to justify the targeting of Manafort.
Rosenstein’s memo also peddled discredited legal theories about the Logan Act, a 1799 law criminalizing political speech by American citizens that has never been successfully prosecuted, to justify investigations of former White House National Security Adviser (NSA) Michael Flynn. The scope memo directed Mueller to investigate allegations that Flynn “committed a crime or crimes by engaging in conversations with Russian officials during the period of the Trump transition.”
The Mueller probe, after nearly two years and tens of millions of dollars, unearthed no evidence of collusion by any Trump campaign officials. However, a sprawling investigation by the DOJ Office of Inspector General found that Rosenstein’s DOJ fabricated evidence and falsified documents to justify an illegal federal spy warrant against Page. A Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) lawyer, reported to be Kevin Clinesmith, allegedly altered documents from a U.S. intelligence agency to erase evidence that Page had for years worked on behalf of the U.S. government to help investigate Russian agents who were attempting to damage the U.S. and compromise national security.
The OIG investigation also revealed that Rosenstein’s DOJ repeatedly lied to federal courts and used bogus claims from Steele, who was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, to secure wiretaps against Page, who has never been formally charged with any wrongdoing. Rosenstein personally signed at least one of the false Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, spy warrants against Page.
In his memo to Mueller, Rosenstein also peddled allegations that Papadopoulos was a secret, unregistered foreign agent of Israel. While Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to charges of lying to federal investigators, he was never formally charged with operating as an unregistered foreign agent of Israel or any other country.
The new declassifications of portions of Rosenstein’s memo affirm charges from Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that Rosenstein used the Steele dossier to justify and direct Mueller’s special counsel probe.
“[I]t’s clear that false allegations from the Steele dossier played a major role not only in the FISA warrant application on Page, but in the appointment of the Special Counsel as well,” Nunes said in a statement after a lengthy report detailing Mueller’s investigation was released in 2019. Until now, those facts had been hidden behind redactions in the Rosenstein document.
Flynn, the former NSA, was eventually coerced into pleading guilty to making false statements to FBI agents. New documents released by the DOJ in that case, though, show that the FBI repeatedly abused its power during its investigation of Flynn and that one of Mueller’s top prosecutors, Brandon Van Grack, may have lied in federal court about the FBI’s basis for the interview in which Flynn allegedly lied. Newly released handwritten documents from Bill Priestap, the former top FBI counterintelligence official, showed that a primary goal of the FBI in investigating Flynn in the first place was “to get him fired.” Other FBI documents, released last week by the DOJ, show that the original FBI investigation of Flynn found no evidence of collusion and that the investigation was only kept open at the demand of fired former FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Flynn is currently in the process of trying to withdraw his guilty plea, citing government abuse and corruption. The judge in the case has not yet ruled in Flynn’s motion to withdraw his plea or his motion to dismiss charges.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-07--FBI Deep State Cover-Up Artist Christopher Wray Cowardly Hides Behind Spokesman

Christopher Wray 's FBI on Tuesday defended its leader against rising GOP criticism , saying the problems discovered about the Russia investigation occurred during an earlier era and he is fully cooperating with federal prosecutors investigating his agency 's conduct .
While lawmakers clamored to hear from him directly , Wray instead chose to offer his defense through an agency spokesman .
`` Director Wray remains firmly committed to addressing the failures under prior FBI leadership while maintaining the foundational principles of rigor , objectivity , accountability , and ownership in fulfilling the Bureau ’ s mission to protect the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' FBI spokesman Brian Hale said in a statement sent to Just the News and other news outlets .
Lawmakers led by Rep. Jim Jordan , the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee , blasted Wray earlier this week , suggesting he had failed to show leadership by allowing documents detailing FBI misconduct in the Russia case to be withheld from the courts , Congress and defendants for years .
Specifically Republicans have been angered by the belated production of evidence of innocence against former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn .
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ show the leadership necessary to bring the FBI past the abuses of the Obama-Biden era , '' Jordan wrote in a blistering letter Monday .
Hale , an assistant director for public affairs , said the FBI director , now in the third year of his tenure , had been providing full cooperation to two special prosecutors looking at the FBI 's conduct in the Russia case as well as the Justice Department 's chief watchdog .
“ Under Director Wray ’ s leadership , the FBI has fully cooperated and been transparent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Attorney Jeff Jensen , just as it has been with U.S. Attorney John Durham and was with Inspector General Michael Horowitz , '' the spokesman said .
`` With regard to certain documents in the Michael Flynn matter from the 2016-2017 time period that are now the subject of reporting by the press , the FBI previously produced those materials to the Inspector General and U.S. Attorney Durham , '' he added .
`` The Flynn investigation was initiated and conducted during this time period , under prior FBI leadership .
Since taking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ importance of strictly abiding by established processes , without exception . ''

Christopher Wray's FBI on Tuesday defended its leader against rising GOP criticism, saying the problems discovered about the Russia investigation occurred during an earlier era and he is fully cooperating with federal prosecutors investigating his agency's conduct.
While lawmakers clamored to hear from him directly, Wray instead chose to offer his defense through an agency spokesman.
"Director Wray remains firmly committed to addressing the failures under prior FBI leadership while maintaining the foundational principles of rigor, objectivity, accountability, and ownership in fulfilling the Bureau’s mission to protect the American people and defend the Constitution," FBI spokesman Brian Hale said in a statement sent to Just the News and other news outlets.
Lawmakers led by Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, blasted Wray earlier this week, suggesting he had failed to show leadership by allowing documents detailing FBI misconduct in the Russia case to be withheld from the courts, Congress and defendants for years. Specifically Republicans have been angered by the belated production of evidence of innocence against former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
"It is well past time that you show the leadership necessary to bring the FBI past the abuses of the Obama-Biden era," Jordan wrote in a blistering letter Monday.
Hale, an assistant director for public affairs, said the FBI director, now in the third year of his tenure, had been providing full cooperation to two special prosecutors looking at the FBI's conduct in the Russia case as well as the Justice Department's chief watchdog.
“Under Director Wray’s leadership, the FBI has fully cooperated and been transparent with the review being conducted by U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen, just as it has been with U.S. Attorney John Durham and was with Inspector General Michael Horowitz," the spokesman said.
"With regard to certain documents in the Michael Flynn matter from the 2016-2017 time period that are now the subject of reporting by the press, the FBI previously produced those materials to the Inspector General and U.S. Attorney Durham," he added. "The Flynn investigation was initiated and conducted during this time period, under prior FBI leadership. Since taking office, Director Wray has stressed the importance of strictly abiding by established processes, without exception."