lewrockwell--2020-11-03--Pre-Vaccination Immunity Determines Effectiveness of Vaccines

• Charts showing the effectiveness of vaccines mislead ( see chart below ) .
In hard ( not relative ) numbers , vaccines are only marginally effective .
• Rushed-to-market COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines are limitedly being tested for their ability to quell mild symptoms of infection and there is no way of knowing whether they prevent infection , slow the spread , or reduce death rates from this sometimes-deadly coronavirus .
• Pre-vaccination immunity is the best predictor of vaccine effectiveness .
Modern medicine literally does nothing to enhance immunity prior to vaccination other than add toxic adjuvants to vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considered the gold-standard for laboratory ( not clinical ) effectiveness of vaccines , is flawed .
It has been known since 1986 that zinc-dependent T-cells produced in the thymus gland are paramount in producing immunity , not antibodies .
It should not surprising to learn an antibody-drug failed to quell COVID-19 infections .
• Using T-cells as an indicator , most human populations are already immune towards COVID-19 infection even if they have not been exposed to this novel newly mutated virus .
So-called “ herd immunity ” already exists .
Mandated vaccination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are being freed from lockdowns , infection rates are reported to rise , giving the false impression infection rates are on the rise because of release from confinement .
The PCR test being used to detect COVID-19 does not correlate with infectiousness .
The PCR test can not be validated by viral culture in a lab dish , the gold standard for confirmation of infection .
Strikingly , mortality is not on the increase as testing rates rise .
Nor are mortality rates on the rise with release from lockdowns .
Health strategies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statistical modeling are not real body counts .
Many people are dying prematurely from lockdown measures themselves .
• The coronavirus season runs from December thru April .
Any reported increase in deaths due to opening up of societies is likely related to approaching seasonal/winter increases commensurate with low sunshine vitamin D levels .
Therapeutically speaking , once ill with COVID-19 , 5 % of frail elderly nursing home residents died compared to just 44.4 % who were given vitamin D. Death due to influenza is over-reported .
The Centers for Disease Control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year from the flu .
But data from the American Lung Association reveals flu-related deaths as low as a few hundred in a year in the U.S. ( See chart below ) .
The overstated deaths are believed to serve as promotion for vaccination campaigns .
The Cochrane Group , a global network of independent investigators , analyzes the validity of scientific evidence .
In 2018 the Cochrane Group published an analysis of eight clinical trials involving over 5000 elderly participants in an effort to determine if vaccination prevents the flu .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( they were given a placebo shot ) were reported to have the flu compared to 2.4 % of vaccinated individuals ( 58 % relative reduced risk ) .
The problem is , 94 % of senior adults in this study did not get the flu .
So , the success of massive vaccination programs to inoculate millions to spare a few people from getting the flu is limited from the get-go .
Thirty ( 30 ) people need to be vaccinated to prevent one person from experiencing flu symptoms .
So , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be 3.3 % effective in preventing the flu .
The CDC will “ advertise ” that studies like this one indicate flu shots are 58 % effective ( 6.0 % to 2.4 % reduction in flu cases ) .
So , in hard numbers , the public is led to falsely believe 58 out of 100 people will be protected from getting the flu if vaccinated .
That idea is deceitful .
It is actually 6 in 100 get the flu and 2.4 in 100 get the flu if vaccinated ; 94 in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they remain healthy and uninfected , presumably because their immune system wards off any respiratory tract infection .
The chance that flu vaccination reduces risk for death is even more remote .
In this study of 5000 senior adults , death occurred in 1 in 177 who received an inactive ( placebo ) vaccine and 1 in 184 who received the flu shot .
So , 5.6 in 10,000 seniors would get the flu and be hospitalized and die if unvaccinated and 5.4 in 10,000 seniors would get the flu and die if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coleman , Dr Vernon Buy New $ 14.71 An analysis of 75 published studies by the Cochrane Group concluded there is uncertainty over the safety and effectiveness of flu vaccination in the elderly .
In 2016 the Cochrane Group published a study of 12,742 healthcare workers who care for older institutionalized adults ( over age 60 ) .
The Cochrane evaluators concluded that vaccination of healthcare workers had little effect upon the number of elderly residents who developed laboratory-confirmed influenza .
A study published in 2015 shows that pre-vaccination immunity was the best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; 66.3 % of adults over age 50 who were vaccinated did not develop adequate immunity .
What is the take-home lesson ?
Maintenance of the immune system is paramount .
According to conventional assessments of levels of immunity in populations at large , there are not sufficient antibodies to COVID-19 coronavirus to produce herd immunity .
The world populations then must wait for a licensed vaccine .
But antibodies are not the end-all measure of immunity .
“ The death rate is more a result of whether or not your population is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the virus.
” Most human populations are already immune Antibodies are not being found to be a reliable measure of immunity .
A number of studies now show that 20-50 % of people with no known exposure to COVID-19 already exhibit immunity against this virus .
This suggests vaccination would be almost meaningless to as much as half of the people .
Anyone Who Tells You V ... Coleman , Dr Vernon Buy New $ 3.99 Only a minority of people display antibodies against COVID-19 .
But ( zinc dependent ) T-memory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , pre-exist and are ready to prevent COVID-19 infection in 20-50 % of subjects .
This means “ exposure does not necessarily lead to infection , and infection does not necessarily lead to disease , and disease does not necessarily product detectable antibodies , ” says a report entitled “ COVID-19 : Do Many People Have Pre-existing Immunity ?
, in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ) .
Therefore , the percentage of a population needed to produce herd immunity is far lower when a significant portion are unable to transmit the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An immunologist says : “ If you lift lockdown you should see an immediate and commensurate increase in cases ( and deaths ) , but that hasn ’ t happened .
That is just a fact !
” In Sweden , a study reveals 60 % of family members of infected patients produced antibodies while 90 % had T-cell activity .
The BMJ report bemoans that T-cells have received “ scant attention ” in news media .
T-cells also facilitate long-lasting immunity .
Researchers concede that through vaccination , stimulation of antibodies and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immunity .
Apparently , many people are already immune .
The idea of mandated vaccination appears to be massive over-treatment given these realities .
Public health authorities and politicians are pre-committed to vaccination , have already pre-purchased billions of dollars of these vaccines , and are prematurely and overly committed to their use regardless of these facts .
Stockpiling of unproven vaccines has already begun because politicians have pre-paid for them .
Disease investigator Peter Doshi , speaking out in another volume of the British Medical Journal , says none of the trials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prove whether these needle jabs reduce the likelihood of illness , hospitalization or death .
None of the trials underway are fashioned to determine whether vaccines interrupt transmission of the virus .
Doshi says a study may just show a vaccine reduces a symptom such a chronic cough and gain licensure , without reducing transmission , hospitalization or death .
In fact , these COVID-19 discoveries suggest the entire vaccine industry is propped by scientific ignorance of T-cell immunity .
NatureWise Vitamin D3 ... Buy New $ 14.99 ( $ 0.04 / Count @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dependent upon zinc , a trace mineral , suggests the public can protect themselves against all viruses and other infectious disease threats with an inexpensive , non-problematic , preventive remedy that is at hand .
Zinc along with vitamin D puts the brakes on ( normalizes ) the immune response to thwart an over-active immune ( autoimmune ) response .
Appropriately-dosed zinc lozenges , taken 5 times a day , preferably with a zinc ionophore like quercetin to facilitate entry into infected cells , are appropriate when sore throats , fevers , chronic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An authoritative report entitled “ T-Cells Are The Superstars In Fighting COVID-19 , ” posted at Children ’ s Health Defense quotes Carsten Geisler , a prominent researcher at the University of Copenhagen , to say : “ When a T cell is exposed to a foreign pathogen , it extends a signaling device or ‘ antenna ’ known as a vitamin D receptor , with which it searches for vitamin D , ” and if there is an inadequate vitamin D level , “ they won ’ t even begin to mobilize.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ D is critically important for the activation of T-cells from their inactive naïve state .
Another lesson : the red wine molecule resveratrol binds to an activates the vitamin D receptor , a doorway for vitamin D to enter cells .
Very little if any of the information provided herein is getting to the masses .
Public health authorities are solely committed to vaccination .
It would be best to access Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’ s Children ’ s Health Defense and the National Vaccine Information Center for accurate information about infectious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which will become THE major issue facing populations after the P model COVID-19 Vaccine Consent/Refusal Form by this author is available from Knowledge of Health , Inc .
Proceeds go to the National Health Federation vaccine consent defense fund .
Two copies of the 18-page consent/refusal form are available for $ 12.95 ( shipping included ) .
The consent form can be ordered online at www.covid19consent.com or by sending a check or money order for $ 12.95 , payable to Knowledge of Health , Inc. , 1502 Foothill Blvd , Suite 103 @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Death due to influenza is over-reported. The Centers for Disease Control distributes a figure of 36,000 deaths a year from the flu. But data from the American Lung Association reveals flu-related deaths as low as a few hundred in a year in the U.S. (See chart below). The overstated deaths are believed to serve as promotion for vaccination campaigns.
The Cochrane Group, a global network of independent investigators, analyzes the validity of scientific evidence. In 2018 the Cochrane Group published an analysis of eight clinical trials involving over 5000 elderly participants in an effort to determine if vaccination prevents the flu. The analysis revealed 6% of unvaccinated seniors (they were given a placebo shot) were reported to have the flu compared to 2.4% of vaccinated individuals (58% relative reduced risk).
The problem is, 94% of senior adults in this study did not get the flu. So, the success of massive vaccination programs to inoculate millions to spare a few people from getting the flu is limited from the get-go. Thirty (30) people need to be vaccinated to prevent one person from experiencing flu symptoms.
So, at best, flu vaccines can only be 3.3% effective in preventing the flu. The CDC will “advertise” that studies like this one indicate flu shots are 58% effective (6.0% to 2.4% reduction in flu cases). So, in hard numbers, the public is led to falsely believe 58 out of 100 people will be protected from getting the flu if vaccinated. That idea is deceitful. It is actually 6 in 100 get the flu and 2.4 in 100 get the flu if vaccinated; 94 in 100 receive no benefit from vaccination because they remain healthy and uninfected, presumably because their immune system wards off any respiratory tract infection.
Remote chance flu vaccine saves lives
The chance that flu vaccination reduces risk for death is even more remote. In this study of 5000 senior adults, death occurred in 1 in 177 who received an inactive (placebo) vaccine and 1 in 184 who received the flu shot. So, 5.6 in 10,000 seniors would get the flu and be hospitalized and die if unvaccinated and 5.4 in 10,000 seniors would get the flu and die if vaccinated. Covid-19: The Greatest... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $14.71 (as of 04:43 UTC - Details)
An analysis of 75 published studies by the Cochrane Group concluded there is uncertainty over the safety and effectiveness of flu vaccination in the elderly.
In 2016 the Cochrane Group published a study of 12,742 healthcare workers who care for older institutionalized adults (over age 60). The Cochrane evaluators concluded that vaccination of healthcare workers had little effect upon the number of elderly residents who developed laboratory-confirmed influenza.
Pre-vaccination immunity is predicator of vaccine effectiveness
A study published in 2015 shows that pre-vaccination immunity was the best predictor that vaccination would prevent the flu; 66.3% of adults over age 50 who were vaccinated did not develop adequate immunity.
What is the take-home lesson? Maintenance of the immune system is paramount.
According to conventional assessments of levels of immunity in populations at large, there are not sufficient antibodies to COVID-19 coronavirus to produce herd immunity. The world populations then must wait for a licensed vaccine. But antibodies are not the end-all measure of immunity.
“The death rate is more a result of whether or not your population is immune prepared more than the particular strain of the virus.”
— Denis Rancourt, PhD, Ontario Civil Liberties Association
Most human populations are already immune
Antibodies are not being found to be a reliable measure of immunity. A number of studies now show that 20-50% of people with no known exposure to COVID-19 already exhibit immunity against this virus. This suggests vaccination would be almost meaningless to as much as half of the people. Anyone Who Tells You V... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $3.99 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
Only a minority of people display antibodies against COVID-19. But (zinc dependent) T-memory cells, produced in the thymus gland, pre-exist and are ready to prevent COVID-19 infection in 20-50% of subjects.
Exposure à infection à disease NOT!
This means “exposure does not necessarily lead to infection, and infection does not necessarily lead to disease, and disease does not necessarily product detectable antibodies,” says a report entitled “COVID-19: Do Many People Have Pre-existing Immunity?, in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Therefore, the percentage of a population needed to produce herd immunity is far lower when a significant portion are unable to transmit the virus, the BMJ report reveals.
An immunologist says: “If you lift lockdown you should see an immediate and commensurate increase in cases (and deaths), but that hasn’t happened. That is just a fact!”
In Sweden, a study reveals 60% of family members of infected patients produced antibodies while 90% had T-cell activity.
T-cells finally getting publicity
The BMJ report bemoans that T-cells have received “scant attention” in news media. T-cells also facilitate long-lasting immunity.
Researchers concede that through vaccination, stimulation of antibodies and T-cells are hoped for to induce protective immunity.
Apparently, many people are already immune. The idea of mandated vaccination appears to be massive over-treatment given these realities.
Public health authorities and politicians are pre-committed to vaccination, have already pre-purchased billions of dollars of these vaccines, and are prematurely and overly committed to their use regardless of these facts. Stockpiling of unproven vaccines has already begun because politicians have pre-paid for them.
Rushed-To-Market Vaccines May Not Save Lives
Disease investigator Peter Doshi, speaking out in another volume of the British Medical Journal, says none of the trials of COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines are designed to prove whether these needle jabs reduce the likelihood of illness, hospitalization or death. None of the trials underway are fashioned to determine whether vaccines interrupt transmission of the virus.
Doshi says a study may just show a vaccine reduces a symptom such a chronic cough and gain licensure, without reducing transmission, hospitalization or death.
In fact, these COVID-19 discoveries suggest the entire vaccine industry is propped by scientific ignorance of T-cell immunity. NatureWise Vitamin D3 ... Buy New $14.99 ($0.04 / Count) (as of 11:50 UTC - Details)
The knowledge that T-cell immunity is dependent upon zinc, a trace mineral, suggests the public can protect themselves against all viruses and other infectious disease threats with an inexpensive, non-problematic, preventive remedy that is at hand.
Zinc along with vitamin D puts the brakes on (normalizes) the immune response to thwart an over-active immune (autoimmune) response.
Appropriately-dosed zinc lozenges, taken 5 times a day, preferably with a zinc ionophore like quercetin to facilitate entry into infected cells, are appropriate when sore throats, fevers, chronic cough and shortness of breath occur.
An authoritative report entitled “T-Cells Are The Superstars In Fighting COVID-19,” posted at Children’s Health Defense quotes Carsten Geisler, a prominent researcher at the University of Copenhagen, to say: “When a T cell is exposed to a foreign pathogen, it extends a signaling device or ‘antenna’ known as a vitamin D receptor, with which it searches for vitamin D,” and if there is an inadequate vitamin D level, “they won’t even begin to mobilize.”
In other words, adequate vitamin D is critically important for the activation of T-cells from their inactive naïve state.
Another lesson: the red wine molecule resveratrol binds to an activates the vitamin D receptor, a doorway for vitamin D to enter cells.
Very little if any of the information provided herein is getting to the masses. Public health authorities are solely committed to vaccination. It would be best to access Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense and the National Vaccine Information Center for accurate information about infectious disease and vaccines.
If considering vaccination, which will become THE major issue facing populations after the P model COVID-19 Vaccine Consent/Refusal Form by this author is available from Knowledge of Health, Inc. Proceeds go to the National Health Federation vaccine consent defense fund. Two copies of the 18-page consent/refusal form are available for $12.95 (shipping included). The consent form can be ordered online at www.covid19consent.com or by sending a check or money order for $12.95, payable to Knowledge of Health, Inc., 1502 Foothill Blvd, Suite 103, La Verne, California 91750.


lewrockwell--2020-11-03--Why A Fiscal Demise Is Certain No Matter Who Wins the Election

Known as the “ Father of Reaganomics , ” David Stockman served as President Ronald Reagan ’ s budget director and was a principal architect of his original effort to Make America Great Again .
In David ’ s newest book Dump Trump : Why Conservatives Should Punt on November 3rd , he asserts that Trump ’ s disastrous lockdown and massive government spending , borrowing , and money printing has left conservatives with no choice but to not re-elect him .
Click here to get your copy now .
International Man : During his time as president , Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fed to keep interest rates at near-zero and print money at astronomical levels .
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Buy New $ 12.95 Have Trump and the Republicans set a new precedent , in which the Fed will bend to the will of Washington DC ?
David Stockman : A few weeks back , one of the greatest anomalies of financial history quietly passed into the history books .
I ’ m are referring to the fact that the yield on the 10-year US Treasury ( UST @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 0.52 % , prompting Deutsche Bank ’ s chief credit strategist to marvel out loud : ……the current nadir in the 10-year yield went back 234 years… The U.S. has been through depressions , deflations , wars , restrictive gold standard regimes , market crashes and many other major events , and never before have we seen yields so low .
There you have the essence of Donald Trump ’ s malefic legacy .
He brow-beat the Fed into abject submission on interest rates , even as he opened the spending and borrowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ combo is nothing less than a freak of financial nature .
It is a temporary and incendiary condition spawned by the willful stupidity of Washington policymakers who should know better , but who , apparently , are enthrall to the crack-pot economics of Donald J. Trump .
This is what passes for fiscal policy in the Imperial City today .
And it also tells you why the self-proclaimed “ King of Debt ” currently in the Oval Office will long be known as the father of America ’ s fiscal demise .
International @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic destruction on Main Street .
In your perspective , will we be seeing any change in the way this COVID hysteria is being handled depending on whether Trump or Biden wins ?
David Stockman : The Donald ’ s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic was so colossal and fatal that it alone disqualifies him for a second term .
In launching the quarantines and stay-at-home orders last March and empowering a rogue task force of government doctors , career apparatchiks , and power-seeking swamp creatures to trample on the people ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the most fatal errors of any modern president .
He can not be let off the hook on the grounds that he received bad advice .
On the contrary , an actual conservative—or even Republican—president would have stoutly resisted the overnight lurch into the inherently unconstitutional and destructive regime of economic martial law that enveloped the nation within days .
Moreover , at the time and since then , there were never any medical facts or “ science ” that warranted what amounted to the most vicious assault on the domestic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of government .
That is , the Donald coveted the power and glory of the big job in the Oval Office , and in the hour of decision , he broke the American economy like never before .
Now he owns the breakage .
International Man : Trump has campaigned on the idea that he is responsible for creating “ the greatest economy ever.
” There are tens of millions of unemployed Americans , much business activity is still halted or functioning at a snail ’ s pace , and there is talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your take on this ?
David Stockman : The Donald has not remotely created the greatest economy ever .
The US was a debt- and speculation-entombed economy when he took the oath of office , and he only made it far worse—even before the coronavirus lockdowns sent it reeling .
But suffice it , here , to note that based on the lingua franca of economics—real GDP growth—the Donald ’ s score for his first 13 quarters in office , and before the COVID-19 lockdown tanked the economy in Q2 2020 , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Annualized Real GDP Growth Rate Per Presidential Term , From Highest To Lowest ; But the larger point is that Trump ’ s wholehearted embrace of sheer fiscal and monetary madness has not only left the nation spiraling toward the Mother of all Financial Disasters , but he has also finally euthanized what remained of GOP fiscal rectitude .
And without even a semblance of two-party competition on the fundamental matter of financial discipline in a 21st century interest group and PAC-driven Welfare State democracy , there is no apparent political route @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hear the Donald boast , first , he created the greatest economy in the history of the world ; then , he shut it down to save 2.2 million lives ; now , it ’ s rocketing back upward in a powerful “ V , ” and soon America will be greater than ever before .
Needless to say , the Donald is bombastic , innumerate , economically illiterate and capable of picking pepper out of fly shit when it comes to looking for an utterly misleading number .
But since the allegedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a second term , it is imperative that the preposterous content of the Donald ’ s delusional narrative be understood .
It makes it clear that the “ Greatest Economy Ever ” slogan is bogus through and through .
Of course , there is one tiny element of truth to it : As measured at Q1 2020 , before Lockdown Nation plunged the US economy into recession during Q2 , real GDP at $ 19.254 trillion was indeed a US record .
Alas , so was the final quarter GDP level of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ International Man : It ’ s clear that Wall Street is demonstrating a completely different reality than what is taking place on Main Street .
Has Trump proven that as long as the stock market is up , it doesn ’ t matter what ’ s really happening on Main Street ?
David Stockman : Clubbing interest rates to the flat line in a $ 20 trillion GDP freighted down with $ 81 trillion of public and private debts does absolutely nothing for Main Street or the real economy .
That ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essentially clogged the traditional credit channel of monetary policy transmission to Main Street , whereby it was held historically that increased housing and business investment would ensue .
No longer .
The Fed ’ s cheap credit never really leaves the canyons of Wall Street , where it fulsomely rewards carry-traders and risk asset speculators because zero cost money is always and everywhere the mother ’ s milk of leveraged speculation .
And it also causes corporate C-suites to become maniacally obsessed with goosing their stock options via financial engineering maneuvers such as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which supplant equity and financial resilience with debt and financial fragility .
So when business bankruptcies soar to unprecedented levels in the month ahead as the economy reels from the folly of Lockdown Nation , the financial fragility part will become crystal clear .
But it also needs to be recalled that even as the interest rate clubbers at the Fed fostered a massive explosion of business debt after the 2008 financial crisis , it did not translate into any growth in productive investment at all .
During the period between the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2018 , • Real consumption of fixed business assets rose from $ 1.497 trillion to $ 2.202 trillion , or by 47.1 % ; • Real investment in new fixed business assets increased from $ 2.031 trillion to $ 2.781 trillion , or by just 36.9 % .
In other words , contrary to Wall Street ballyhoo about “ strong ” business investment , the US economy was essentially eating its own tail as it consumed existing business assets in annual production at a faster pace than it replaced them with new investments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Harris win the election , will the country be any better off for it ?
David Stockman : Should the Dems prevail on November 3 , Sleepy Joe will function as the on-call teleprompter-reading pastor of Woke World , while Kamala cracks a leftish whip as head of the Harris Regency government and the defrocked Clintonistas and progressive-left Jacobins clamber aboard the machinery of state throughout the Imperial City .
Call it the attempted restoration of a ruling class that has virtually gutted American prosperity and democratic function alike during the last 3-4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gall to claim that the present fractionated state of the union is owing solely to the Donald ’ s obnoxiously pugnacious self-aggrandizement and his purported dog whistles to the racist , red-necked , un-woke flotsam and jetsam of Flyover America .
I think not .
The sharp clash between the stentorian politics of the bi-coastal elites and the populist uprising in Flyover America that brought the toxic persona of Donald Trump to the Oval Office is rooted in economics , not racism or the cultural backwardness and benighted sensibilities of America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these economic roots well pre-dated the Donald ’ s fateful trip down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015 .
As to the matter of whether the Dems understand this or have a policy to ameliorate the underlying conditions : Fuggetaboutit !
The chance that the Dems will tell the Fed to stop manufacturing windfall gains for the 1 % and 10 % who mostly vote Republican and desist in savaging workers in competitively impacted global markets is somewhere between zero and none .
Indeed , if elected , the Dems may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ private health insurance , guns , cheap fossil fuels for their homes and cars and , with the coronavirus loose in the land , their ability to meander in the malls and tie one on in the bars and sports stadiums .
But what they won ’ t sideline is the unelected monetary politburo that is poisoning capitalist prosperity and political comity alike in America today .
What they also will not address , even as they go about destroying still more jobs with the $ 15 minimum wage , punitive taxes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and mask-ups , is the elephant in the room—the destructive impact of three of government ’ s most wrong-head creations—welfare , the war on drugs , and public-school monopolies—on black family life , socialization , and economic mobility .
The Best of David Stockman

Editor’s Note: David Stockman is the preeminent Washington insider turned iconoclast.
Known as the “Father of Reaganomics,” David Stockman served as President Ronald Reagan’s budget director and was a principal architect of his original effort to Make America Great Again.
In David’s newest book Dump Trump: Why Conservatives Should Punt on November 3rd, he asserts that Trump’s disastrous lockdown and massive government spending, borrowing, and money printing has left conservatives with no choice but to not re-elect him. Click here to get your copy now.
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International Man: During his time as president, Trump has proven that he can push the Fed to keep interest rates at near-zero and print money at astronomical levels. DUMP TRUMP: WHY CONSER... Stockman, David A. Buy New $12.95 (as of 10:04 UTC - Details)
Have Trump and the Republicans set a new precedent, in which the Fed will bend to the will of Washington DC?
David Stockman: A few weeks back, one of the greatest anomalies of financial history quietly passed into the history books. I’m are referring to the fact that the yield on the 10-year US Treasury (UST) fell to an all-time low of 0.52%, prompting Deutsche Bank’s chief credit strategist to marvel out loud:
……the current nadir in the 10-year yield went back 234 years… The U.S. has been through depressions, deflations, wars, restrictive gold standard regimes, market crashes and many other major events, and never before have we seen yields so low.
There you have the essence of Donald Trump’s malefic legacy. He brow-beat the Fed into abject submission on interest rates, even as he opened the spending and borrowing spigots like never before.
That fraught combo is nothing less than a freak of financial nature. It is a temporary and incendiary condition spawned by the willful stupidity of Washington policymakers who should know better, but who, apparently, are enthrall to the crack-pot economics of Donald J. Trump.
This is what passes for fiscal policy in the Imperial City today. And it also tells you why the self-proclaimed “King of Debt” currently in the Oval Office will long be known as the father of America’s fiscal demise.
International Man: The government lockdown has created economic destruction on Main Street.
In your perspective, will we be seeing any change in the way this COVID hysteria is being handled depending on whether Trump or Biden wins?
David Stockman: The Donald’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic was so colossal and fatal that it alone disqualifies him for a second term.
In launching the quarantines and stay-at-home orders last March and empowering a rogue task force of government doctors, career apparatchiks, and power-seeking swamp creatures to trample on the people’s livelihoods and liberties, Donald Trump committed one of the most fatal errors of any modern president.
He cannot be let off the hook on the grounds that he received bad advice. On the contrary, an actual conservative—or even Republican—president would have stoutly resisted the overnight lurch into the inherently unconstitutional and destructive regime of economic martial law that enveloped the nation within days.
Moreover, at the time and since then, there were never any medical facts or “science” that warranted what amounted to the most vicious assault on the domestic economy ever carried out by the agencies of government. That is, the Donald coveted the power and glory of the big job in the Oval Office, and in the hour of decision, he broke the American economy like never before.
Now he owns the breakage.
International Man: Trump has campaigned on the idea that he is responsible for creating “the greatest economy ever.” There are tens of millions of unemployed Americans, much business activity is still halted or functioning at a snail’s pace, and there is talking of more bailouts.
What’s your take on this?
David Stockman: The Donald has not remotely created the greatest economy ever. The US was a debt- and speculation-entombed economy when he took the oath of office, and he only made it far worse—even before the coronavirus lockdowns sent it reeling.
But suffice it, here, to note that based on the lingua franca of economics—real GDP growth—the Donald’s score for his first 13 quarters in office, and before the COVID-19 lockdown tanked the economy in Q2 2020, was dead last among every president since 1948.
Annualized Real GDP Growth Rate Per Presidential Term, From Highest To Lowest;
Truman: 5.5%; Kennedy-Johnson: 5.2%; Clinton: 3.8%; Reagan: 3.6%; Carter: 3.2%; Nixon-Ford: 2.7%; Eisenhower: 2.5%; Bush the Elder: 2.2%; Bush the Younger: 1.9%; Obama: 1.9%; Trump: 1.8%.
But the larger point is that Trump’s wholehearted embrace of sheer fiscal and monetary madness has not only left the nation spiraling toward the Mother of all Financial Disasters, but he has also finally euthanized what remained of GOP fiscal rectitude. And without even a semblance of two-party competition on the fundamental matter of financial discipline in a 21st century interest group and PAC-driven Welfare State democracy, there is no apparent political route to restoring sustainable public finances.
To hear the Donald boast, first, he created the greatest economy in the history of the world; then, he shut it down to save 2.2 million lives; now, it’s rocketing back upward in a powerful “V,” and soon America will be greater than ever before.
Well, that’s wrong.
Needless to say, the Donald is bombastic, innumerate, economically illiterate and capable of picking pepper out of fly shit when it comes to looking for an utterly misleading number.
But since the allegedly powerhouse pre-COVID economy is his strongest claim to a second term, it is imperative that the preposterous content of the Donald’s delusional narrative be understood. It makes it clear that the “Greatest Economy Ever” slogan is bogus through and through.
Of course, there is one tiny element of truth to it: As measured at Q1 2020, before Lockdown Nation plunged the US economy into recession during Q2, real GDP at $19.254 trillion was indeed a US record.
Alas, so was the final quarter GDP level of every president since Harry S. Truman.
International Man: It’s clear that Wall Street is demonstrating a completely different reality than what is taking place on Main Street.
Has Trump proven that as long as the stock market is up, it doesn’t matter what’s really happening on Main Street?
David Stockman: Clubbing interest rates to the flat line in a $20 trillion GDP freighted down with $81 trillion of public and private debts does absolutely nothing for Main Street or the real economy. That’s because Peak Debt and rampant speculation have essentially clogged the traditional credit channel of monetary policy transmission to Main Street, whereby it was held historically that increased housing and business investment would ensue.
No longer. The Fed’s cheap credit never really leaves the canyons of Wall Street, where it fulsomely rewards carry-traders and risk asset speculators because zero cost money is always and everywhere the mother’s milk of leveraged speculation. And it also causes corporate C-suites to become maniacally obsessed with goosing their stock options via financial engineering maneuvers such as stock buybacks and M&A deals, which supplant equity and financial resilience with debt and financial fragility.
So when business bankruptcies soar to unprecedented levels in the month ahead as the economy reels from the folly of Lockdown Nation, the financial fragility part will become crystal clear.
But it also needs to be recalled that even as the interest rate clubbers at the Fed fostered a massive explosion of business debt after the 2008 financial crisis, it did not translate into any growth in productive investment at all.
During the period between the end of 2007 and the end of 2018,
Real consumption of fixed business assets rose from $1.497 trillion to $2.202 trillion, or by 47.1%;
Real investment in new fixed business assets increased from $2.031 trillion to $2.781 trillion, or by just 36.9%.
In other words, contrary to Wall Street ballyhoo about “strong” business investment, the US economy was essentially eating its own tail as it consumed existing business assets in annual production at a faster pace than it replaced them with new investments.
International Man: If Biden and Harris win the election, will the country be any better off for it?
David Stockman: Should the Dems prevail on November 3, Sleepy Joe will function as the on-call teleprompter-reading pastor of Woke World, while Kamala cracks a leftish whip as head of the Harris Regency government and the defrocked Clintonistas and progressive-left Jacobins clamber aboard the machinery of state throughout the Imperial City.
Call it the attempted restoration of a ruling class that has virtually gutted American prosperity and democratic function alike during the last 3-4 decades. Yet it now has the gall to claim that the present fractionated state of the union is owing solely to the Donald’s obnoxiously pugnacious self-aggrandizement and his purported dog whistles to the racist, red-necked, un-woke flotsam and jetsam of Flyover America.
I think not. The sharp clash between the stentorian politics of the bi-coastal elites and the populist uprising in Flyover America that brought the toxic persona of Donald Trump to the Oval Office is rooted in economics, not racism or the cultural backwardness and benighted sensibilities of America’s town and country yokels.
Moreover, these economic roots well pre-dated the Donald’s fateful trip down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015.
As to the matter of whether the Dems understand this or have a policy to ameliorate the underlying conditions: Fuggetaboutit!
The chance that the Dems will tell the Fed to stop manufacturing windfall gains for the 1% and 10% who mostly vote Republican and desist in savaging workers in competitively impacted global markets is somewhere between zero and none.
Indeed, if elected, the Dems may attempt to take away the working class’ private health insurance, guns, cheap fossil fuels for their homes and cars and, with the coronavirus loose in the land, their ability to meander in the malls and tie one on in the bars and sports stadiums. But what they won’t sideline is the unelected monetary politburo that is poisoning capitalist prosperity and political comity alike in America today.
What they also will not address, even as they go about destroying still more jobs with the $15 minimum wage, punitive taxes on job creators, and economy-wrecking lockdowns and mask-ups, is the elephant in the room—the destructive impact of three of government’s most wrong-head creations—welfare, the war on drugs, and public-school monopolies—on black family life, socialization, and economic mobility.
Reprinted with permission from International Man.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-03--The Case Against Biden Is a Case for Trump

1 ) Biden is suffering from the early stages of dementia .
It is very obvious when you watch one of hundreds of clips that are available which show him forgetting who he is running against , what office he is running for , or simple quips from important documents like the Declaration of Independence stating “ all men are created equal ” which he botched by saying “ All men are created by the uh oh you know you know the thing.
” Voting for a man who has mental decline in his late 70s to be the President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four years ( when his condition will significantly worsen by all indications ) , to hold the keys to the nuclear launch codes , is extremely irresponsible .
This alone is a complete disqualifier and should , frankly , be the end of the discussion .
It is outrageous bordering on elder abuse that people in the DNC and Mr. Biden ’ s family are putting forward an individual in his condition for any kind of political office for this reason alone .
2 ) Biden is the lockdown candidate .
The media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that resemble CIA propaganda machines more than news agencies , have done an outstanding job convincing the average uninformed American voter that there is an extremely deadly virus sweeping the country , that it ’ s all Trump ’ s fault , and that it constitutes justification for a war on civil rights not seen in this country since the abolition of institutional segregation ( government sponsored racism ) in the 1960s .
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@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 .
Deaths are what matter ( not cases ) .
Nobody cares how many people got a sore throat , are asymptomatic , or got a bad fever and chills .
We care about a whole bunch of body bags piling up at abnormal levels .
2 .
There is NOT an abnormal number of people dying .
The total number of dead people in 2020 ( THE ONLY NUMBER THAT CAN NOT BE POLITICALLY MANIPULATED ) is approximately exactly the same as it is every single year in the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means the hospitals are surviving their extremely low patient loads ( their “ flattened curves ” ) by reporting more cases of Covid ( for which they get compensated ) and under-reporting whatever other condition the patient is suffering from .
This is not intentional malfeasance , it is a function of definitions and incentives .
Drum up a national hysteria , define everyone who comes into the hospital with the symptoms of the common cold as Covid ( the flu , common cold , and Covid all have essentially the same exact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a huge number of Covid cases – and even deaths among those in hospice or already suffering from a very serious condition like a heart attack .
Require people to get tested at work with uber-sensitive tests that search for RNA fragments ( correlation and hypothesis rather than isolating an actual pathogen and proving causation ) and you can stack up a lot more .
The commonly heard numbers , something like 250,000 or whatever the “ ministry of health ” is propagating as the Covid death toll these days , is so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a lie .
This is why the CDC itself recently pushed a report that highlighted ONLY 6 % OF ALL DEATHS to the date of the article as having actually been caused solely by Covid .
Of course the literature on masks also says they don ’ t work .
It also stands to reason that they ’ re more likely to do harm than good ( they ’ re an irritant Petri dish on your face that lowers your oxygen levels by causing you to recycle CO2 and thus drop your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease ) .
None of this matters in the United States of Covid slavery ( and that , in no uncertain terms has become the Democrat agenda .
Lastly , and this is the most important point : the numbers , whatever they are , do not matter because you can not stop a virus from spreading without completely destroying the world .
Viruses spread way faster than government edicts ( although sadly these are also infecting the planet ) .
If you , the government tyrants , do decide to COMPLETELY DESTROY @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then you are only delaying the inevitable spread and doing monstrous damage along the way .
When ( IF ) the lockdown is ever lifted , the virus ( IF it actually is what they say it is ) will start spreading again as all it takes for an extremely infectious virus ( albeit no more serious than any flu virus ) to spread is one person to emerge from lockdown with it .
And guess what – this is not an argument for pretending you can put everyone in solitary confinement without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it is an argument for WAKE UP !
OPEN UP !
STOP PRETENDING YOU ’ RE HELPING AND STOP MAKING EVERYTHING EXPONENTIALLY WORSE .
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Please watch Tom Woods ’ description of this situation as he lays it out perfectly .
In short , Trump , for all his faults , is the “ open up candidate.
” He wants and has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ efforts to destroy people ’ s normal lives , to get back to life as it was in 2019 ( a much less stupid year ) .
Biden and lifetime bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci want to force feed you an unconstitutional ( illegal ) national lockdown .
They want to double down on the 2020 damage governors ( S. Dakota ’ s heroic Christy Noem excepted ) have already done and they want to do it to everyone ( intelligent folks like the South Dakotans won ’ t escape a national lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ D.C. to completely stuff it .
They should and Trump is the best bet ( of the two realistic options available ) to send these terrible ideas packing .
3 ) Biden is a pathological liar .
He has an outrageous history of blatant plagiarism from law school to his 1988 presidential campaign where he was caught using significant parts of a JFK speech verbatim to more recent incidents described perfectly in this article from MSN .
More recently the account of Joe Biden ’ s “ family business ” dealings from Mr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who was courted by the Bidens to be the CEO of their enterprise ) shows beyond a reasonable doubt that the Biden family is running an international influence peddling scheme .
In other words , if you ’ re a foreigner and you want to pay for access to legislation that benefits your interests , Biden is your guy ) .
That is why Mr. Bobulinski , traditionally a Democrat supporter , came forward out of disgust with the DNC propaganda machine , and said on national TV that Mr. Biden was “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ puts you on equal footing with foreign spies actively working to undermine the US government ) .
His motivation ?
CA Democrat representative Adam Schiff , the liar in chief in the DNC , casually dismissed Bobulinski , a Navy veteran whose entire family history is full of veterans and who also held a top-secret American clearance , of being a Russian agent .
You can listen to Mr. Bobulinski ’ s interview here and decide for yourself if he ’ s telling the truth .
The Biden family is as corrupt as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been paying attention can see it plain as day .
Moreover , the media ( absent conservative reporter Tucker Carlson and liberal reporter and hero of truth in reporting , Glenn Greenwald – who resigned over his own company ’ s sensorship of his article criticizing Biden – have worked hard to black it out .
Wall Street , Hollywood , the mainstream media , and Silicon Valley social platforms ( all of the big money so-called “ one percenters ” ) have aligned to back Biden .
Why ?
Now you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : why are the super-rich backing a pathological liar who can be bought and whose policies change as quickly as the breeze ?
The answer is obvious .
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Even if he doesn ’ t want to pack the court ( a question which he has incredibly and irresponsibly avoided answering ) , he is not going to resist the socialist lunatics like AOC , Bernie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gal who called Biden a racist in the Democrat debates and smirked when Tulsi Gabbard called her out for mercilessly prosecuting victimless drug users imprisoned by Biden ’ s 1994 crime bill ) .
If Biden does resist these uneducated lunatics it will be for one year or less at which point he will be removed from office by his own party using the 25th Amendment process on account of being unfit for service due to the worsening of his dementia symptoms .
Then it will be the “ nationalize everything ” crowd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ schools , free healthcare , free energy for everyone !
Only the people who actually understand economics ( most of them affiliated with the Mises Institute ) , know that nothing is free !
You can not conjure up medical care out of thin air .
You can not conjure up an education out of thin air .
You can not conjure up a fossil fuel free economy out of thin air .
You have to do the work !
!
Somebody pays for it and all you do when you nationalize anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entire planet in charge of it and then make it illegal ( or impossible ) for people with merit to offer competition .
The cost of “ free stuff ” is long term “ freedom ” and it is a juice that is NEVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS worth the squeeze .
5 ) Trump is the peace candidate .
He is not perfect and unfortunately has done much damage drumming up the war propaganda when it comes to China and Iran .
But he has not started any major conflicts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries ( Libya and Syria ) .
Trump is the first President in my lifetime not to start a major war .
THAT IS A BIG DEAL IN RELATIVE TERMS .
It is worth giving him a chance to keep the peace train going .
6 ) Trump is against cultural Marxism .
Biden is a puppet of the cultural Marxists .
This is a big deal .
When you hear the term “ Black Lives Matter ” three things come to mind : The first is the obvious and uncontroversial truth that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obviously yes but no more and no less than any other life .
Skin color DOES NOT MATTER !
All people should be treated with respect as individuals .
Second is the idea of institutional racism against black people .
This is a narrative that is quite simply false .
THERE IS NO INSTITUTIONAL RACISM against black people in the United States in 2020 .
Institutional means government or corporate laws or rules that “ institutionally ” favor or disfavor someone based on their skin color , gender , sexual preference or other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paraphrase Walter Williams , the 1964 civil rights movement is over and has been won .
There are plenty of issues that need to be sorted but they don ’ t relate to racism .
In fact , the only “ institutional racism ” left on the books that I can think of is against white children who are penalized by virtue of their skin color when they apply to college as a consequence of “ institutionalized racist ” laws like affirmative action .
But the absence of institutional racism against black people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dichotomies in racial outcomes .
Point in case , most NBA basketball teams are made up of black men .
There ’ s a token white or Asian guy here and there but relative to the population it ’ s highly concentrated with black athletes .
Why ?
Competence .
Racism ?
No .
The black guys are simply better players and playing basketball is something a lot of them like to do .
Get over it and work harder if you want to compete in the NBA and you ’ re not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( like all companies ) and they hire the most competent to help them do that !
End of story .
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The BLM organization is founded by three women who self-identify as Marxist ( that is , they hold the ideology of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – two REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS – as professed in writings like the communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state of affairs that a huge chunk of American millennials have been brainwashed by their professors to think it is ok to promote the anti private-property , redistributionist/confiscationist ideology that is the downright inspiration for the greatest mass-murderers in the history of human beings .
Tens of millions murdered , enslaved , and stripped of their property .
Hitler , Stalin , Mao , Pol Pot – all of these sick and disgusting human beings promoted different brands of socialism/communism .
Read the Gulag Archipelago – there is no better description of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is implemented by force on a nation state .
To any free mind it is very obvious when reading the “ I am a victim , ” envy-based drivel that Marx spouts that his followers become thieves and murderers .
It is no surprise that the hard left leaning mayors in places like Portland , Seattle , and most recently Philadelphia are tolerating racist and violent rioters burning down private businesses .
These people in other places like St Paul , MN , have often catered to the absurd idea of defunding police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights .
That ’ s what a Marxist revolutionary movement looks like .
It ’ s time people wake up and vote against the party that no longer stands for freedom but rather is a direct threat to it .
Vote against Biden .
Support Trump if you ’ re in a swing state and at least vote for the decent human being : Jo Jorgensen ( the Libertarian candidate ) if the lying media has convinced you to hate Trump that much or if you ’ re in a solid blue state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so far gone they ’ re trying to re-institutionalize racism in 2020 by mandating it via Proposition 16 .

1) Biden is suffering from the early stages of dementia. It is very obvious when you watch one of hundreds of clips that are available which show him forgetting who he is running against, what office he is running for, or simple quips from important documents like the Declaration of Independence stating “all men are created equal” which he botched by saying “All men are created by the uh oh you know you know the thing.”
Voting for a man who has mental decline in his late 70s to be the President of the United States for the next four years (when his condition will significantly worsen by all indications), to hold the keys to the nuclear launch codes, is extremely irresponsible. This alone is a complete disqualifier and should, frankly, be the end of the discussion. It is outrageous bordering on elder abuse that people in the DNC and Mr. Biden’s family are putting forward an individual in his condition for any kind of political office for this reason alone.
2) Biden is the lockdown candidate. The media, led by anti-reason outfits like CNN that resemble CIA propaganda machines more than news agencies, have done an outstanding job convincing the average uninformed American voter that there is an extremely deadly virus sweeping the country, that it’s all Trump’s fault, and that it constitutes justification for a war on civil rights not seen in this country since the abolition of institutional segregation (government sponsored racism) in the 1960s. Fallout: Nuclear Bribe... Bruner, Seamus Buy New $25.20 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Common sense tells us the following: 1. Deaths are what matter (not cases). Nobody cares how many people got a sore throat, are asymptomatic, or got a bad fever and chills. We care about a whole bunch of body bags piling up at abnormal levels. 2. There is NOT an abnormal number of people dying. The total number of dead people in 2020 (THE ONLY NUMBER THAT CANNOT BE POLITICALLY MANIPULATED) is approximately exactly the same as it is every single year in the United States. What does that mean? That means the hospitals are surviving their extremely low patient loads (their “flattened curves”) by reporting more cases of Covid (for which they get compensated) and under-reporting whatever other condition the patient is suffering from. This is not intentional malfeasance, it is a function of definitions and incentives. Drum up a national hysteria, define everyone who comes into the hospital with the symptoms of the common cold as Covid (the flu, common cold, and Covid all have essentially the same exact symptoms) and you can stack up a huge number of Covid cases – and even deaths among those in hospice or already suffering from a very serious condition like a heart attack. Require people to get tested at work with uber-sensitive tests that search for RNA fragments (correlation and hypothesis rather than isolating an actual pathogen and proving causation) and you can stack up a lot more.
The commonly heard numbers, something like 250,000 or whatever the “ministry of health” is propagating as the Covid death toll these days, is so full of holes that it doubles simply as a lie. This is why the CDC itself recently pushed a report that highlighted ONLY 6% OF ALL DEATHS to the date of the article as having actually been caused solely by Covid. Of course the literature on masks also says they don’t work. It also stands to reason that they’re more likely to do harm than good (they’re an irritant Petri dish on your face that lowers your oxygen levels by causing you to recycle CO2 and thus drop your immune system’s ability to fight disease). None of this matters in the United States of Covid slavery (and that, in no uncertain terms has become the Democrat agenda.
Lastly, and this is the most important point: the numbers, whatever they are, do not matter because you cannot stop a virus from spreading without completely destroying the world. Viruses spread way faster than government edicts (although sadly these are also infecting the planet).
If you, the government tyrants, do decide to COMPLETELY DESTROY THE WORLD BY LOCKING IT DOWN, then you are only delaying the inevitable spread and doing monstrous damage along the way. When (IF) the lockdown is ever lifted, the virus (IF it actually is what they say it is) will start spreading again as all it takes for an extremely infectious virus (albeit no more serious than any flu virus) to spread is one person to emerge from lockdown with it. And guess what – this is not an argument for pretending you can put everyone in solitary confinement without a black market in human contact developing, it is an argument for WAKE UP! OPEN UP! STOP PRETENDING YOU’RE HELPING AND STOP MAKING EVERYTHING EXPONENTIALLY WORSE. Shadowland: From Jeffr... Thomas Horn Best Price: $15.00 Buy New $15.11 (as of 04:26 UTC - Details)
And that is exactly what lockdowns do: WAY WAY more harm than good. Please watch Tom Woods’ description of this situation as he lays it out perfectly. In short, Trump, for all his faults, is the “open up candidate.” He wants and has been working hard against the anti-humanity DNC efforts to destroy people’s normal lives, to get back to life as it was in 2019 (a much less stupid year). Biden and lifetime bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci want to force feed you an unconstitutional (illegal) national lockdown. They want to double down on the 2020 damage governors (S. Dakota’s heroic Christy Noem excepted) have already done and they want to do it to everyone (intelligent folks like the South Dakotans won’t escape a national lockdown unless they muster the courage to tell D.C. to completely stuff it. They should and Trump is the best bet (of the two realistic options available) to send these terrible ideas packing.
3) Biden is a pathological liar. He has an outrageous history of blatant plagiarism from law school to his 1988 presidential campaign where he was caught using significant parts of a JFK speech verbatim to more recent incidents described perfectly in this article from MSN. More recently the account of Joe Biden’s “family business” dealings from Mr. Bobulinski (a Navy veteran and businessman who was courted by the Bidens to be the CEO of their enterprise) shows beyond a reasonable doubt that the Biden family is running an international influence peddling scheme.
In other words, if you’re a foreigner and you want to pay for access to legislation that benefits your interests, Biden is your guy). That is why Mr. Bobulinski, traditionally a Democrat supporter, came forward out of disgust with the DNC propaganda machine, and said on national TV that Mr. Biden was “compromised” (an intelligence term that puts you on equal footing with foreign spies actively working to undermine the US government). His motivation? CA Democrat representative Adam Schiff, the liar in chief in the DNC, casually dismissed Bobulinski, a Navy veteran whose entire family history is full of veterans and who also held a top-secret American clearance, of being a Russian agent. You can listen to Mr. Bobulinski’s interview here and decide for yourself if he’s telling the truth.
The Biden family is as corrupt as the day is long and everyone who has been paying attention can see it plain as day. Moreover, the media (absent conservative reporter Tucker Carlson and liberal reporter and hero of truth in reporting, Glenn Greenwald – who resigned over his own company’s sensorship of his article criticizing Biden – have worked hard to black it out. Wall Street, Hollywood, the mainstream media, and Silicon Valley social platforms (all of the big money so-called “one percenters”) have aligned to back Biden. Why? Now you’re getting to the right question: why are the super-rich backing a pathological liar who can be bought and whose policies change as quickly as the breeze? The answer is obvious. Joe Biden Unauthorized... McCormick, Mike Best Price: $13.70 Buy New $14.49 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details)
4) Biden is a risk to blow up the system. Even if he doesn’t want to pack the court (a question which he has incredibly and irresponsibly avoided answering), he is not going to resist the socialist lunatics like AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris (the gal who called Biden a racist in the Democrat debates and smirked when Tulsi Gabbard called her out for mercilessly prosecuting victimless drug users imprisoned by Biden’s 1994 crime bill). If Biden does resist these uneducated lunatics it will be for one year or less at which point he will be removed from office by his own party using the 25th Amendment process on account of being unfit for service due to the worsening of his dementia symptoms. Then it will be the “nationalize everything” crowd in charge of the country. Free schools, free healthcare, free energy for everyone! Only the people who actually understand economics (most of them affiliated with the Mises Institute), know that nothing is free! You cannot conjure up medical care out of thin air. You cannot conjure up an education out of thin air. You cannot conjure up a fossil fuel free economy out of thin air. You have to do the work!! Somebody pays for it and all you do when you nationalize anything is put the most incompetent people on the entire planet in charge of it and then make it illegal (or impossible) for people with merit to offer competition. The cost of “free stuff” is long term “freedom” and it is a juice that is NEVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS worth the squeeze.
5) Trump is the peace candidate. He is not perfect and unfortunately has done much damage drumming up the war propaganda when it comes to China and Iran. But he has not started any major conflicts. Biden and Obama illegally invaded two countries (Libya and Syria). Trump is the first President in my lifetime not to start a major war. THAT IS A BIG DEAL IN RELATIVE TERMS. It is worth giving him a chance to keep the peace train going.
6) Trump is against cultural Marxism. Biden is a puppet of the cultural Marxists. This is a big deal. When you hear the term “Black Lives Matter” three things come to mind: The first is the obvious and uncontroversial truth that the lives of black people matter. Obviously yes but no more and no less than any other life. Skin color DOES NOT MATTER! All people should be treated with respect as individuals.
Second is the idea of institutional racism against black people. This is a narrative that is quite simply false. THERE IS NO INSTITUTIONAL RACISM against black people in the United States in 2020. Institutional means government or corporate laws or rules that “institutionally” favor or disfavor someone based on their skin color, gender, sexual preference or other irrelevant characteristic unrelated to merit. To paraphrase Walter Williams, the 1964 civil rights movement is over and has been won. There are plenty of issues that need to be sorted but they don’t relate to racism. In fact, the only “institutional racism” left on the books that I can think of is against white children who are penalized by virtue of their skin color when they apply to college as a consequence of “institutionalized racist” laws like affirmative action. But the absence of institutional racism against black people does not mean you cannot have dichotomies in racial outcomes. Point in case, most NBA basketball teams are made up of black men. There’s a token white or Asian guy here and there but relative to the population it’s highly concentrated with black athletes. Why? Competence. Racism? No. The black guys are simply better players and playing basketball is something a lot of them like to do. Get over it and work harder if you want to compete in the NBA and you’re not black. The teams want to win (like all companies) and they hire the most competent to help them do that! End of story. THE HAMMER is the Key ... Jones, Alan Buy New $4.99 (as of 08:40 UTC - Details)
The third thing to be aware of is the organization Itself: “Black Lives Matter,” the non-profit. The BLM organization is founded by three women who self-identify as Marxist (that is, they hold the ideology of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – two REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS – as professed in writings like the communist manifesto). It is a sad state of affairs that a huge chunk of American millennials have been brainwashed by their professors to think it is ok to promote the anti private-property, redistributionist/confiscationist ideology that is the downright inspiration for the greatest mass-murderers in the history of human beings. Tens of millions murdered, enslaved, and stripped of their property. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot – all of these sick and disgusting human beings promoted different brands of socialism/communism. Read the Gulag Archipelago – there is no better description of this criminal ideology and what happens when it is implemented by force on a nation state.
To any free mind it is very obvious when reading the “I am a victim,” envy-based drivel that Marx spouts that his followers become thieves and murderers. It is no surprise that the hard left leaning mayors in places like Portland, Seattle, and most recently Philadelphia are tolerating racist and violent rioters burning down private businesses. These people in other places like St Paul, MN, have often catered to the absurd idea of defunding police while simultaneously working to weaken individual gun rights. That’s what a Marxist revolutionary movement looks like. It’s time people wake up and vote against the party that no longer stands for freedom but rather is a direct threat to it.
Vote against Biden. Support Trump if you’re in a swing state and at least vote for the decent human being: Jo Jorgensen (the Libertarian candidate) if the lying media has convinced you to hate Trump that much or if you’re in a solid blue state like California where the Democrat population is so far gone they’re trying to re-institutionalize racism in 2020 by mandating it via Proposition 16.