Trump Attorney, Sydney Powell, Now Says Fraud Claim All a Lie

I’m really getting quite bugged that I can’t find anything about Sydney Powell lawsuit brought by Dominion in any conservative news sites.  Now I’m reading that “Fair and Balanced” Fox News is also being sued for a billion dollars for advancing Sydney Powell’s lies.  Sydney has basically claimed the defense of, “ well no reasonable person would have ever thought the ludicrous claims I was making about election fraud was actually factual. It was all just fun politics where people lie and exaggerate all the time! I’m also reading that Trump knew she was crazy from early on but allowed her to go on and on about “releasing the krakken” and “we got them all now!”

I find this very disappointing I have to go to liberal rags to find out what’s going on with Powell lawsuit but here you go!  I give you The Daily Beast.

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During the 2016 presidential campaign, journalist and author Salena Zito observed that when it came to Donald Trump, “the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” Zito deserves credit for coining a memorable phrase that certainly soundedplausible back when we were all trying to fathom how Trump won. By 2020, however, it was clear that Trump’s fans were, in fact, taking him literally. The Capitol insurgency that occurred after months of Trump claiming that 1) the election had been rigged and 2) we were losing our country was proof enough.

I’ve been thinking about Zito’s formulation a lot lately, in part because Trump is back in the news. He repeated false claims that the election was stolen, while also portraying insurrectionists as harmless fuzzballs to Laura Ingraham on Fox News. Dominion Voting Systems also just filed a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News for advancing the canard that the election was stolen.

But it’s mainly been on my mind because of an assertion made by pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’sown lawyers in her $1.3 billion Dominion defamation suit. They claimed that “no reasonable person” would believe the conspiracy theories spun by Powell. This puts to lie the whole “seriously/ literally” shell game that has been going on for the last five years. When people enter into the political arena, invent crazy conspiracy theories, and stoke violence and sedition, millions of Americans do take them seriously and literally.

Let’s begin with the suggestion that “no reasonable person” would believe Powell’s assertions. This is (sadly) false. For example, a February poll from the University of Houston found that 83 percent of Texas Republicans believed there was widespread election fraud. Many average Americans (reasonable or not) seriously believed the kinds of lies Powell was intent on spreading. Could it be that the “no reasonable person” standard no longer achieves its intended goal in modern 21st century America, where surreal is the new normal and where shows like Saturday Night Live sometimes can’t compete with reality? I mean, excluding the “reasonable people” still leaves you with, what, 74 million Americans? Sarcasm aside, we are literally talking about a good third of the country. I am reminded of the woman who told Adlai Stevenson, “Governor, every thinking person would be voting for you.” Stevenson, the story goes, retorted, “Madam, that is not enough. I need a majority.”

It is true that Powell was merely one of the voices pushing bogus claims and conspiracy theories, but her voice was one of the most prominent. A quick refresher is in order. Prior to taking on this cause, Powell represented former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Prominent conservatives like past FEC chairman Trey Trainor personally vouched for her honesty. She was also considered to be part of an “elite strike force” of Trump lawyers (as Trump tweeted, a “truly great team”). Newsmax also identified her as such.

Powell joined Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani at a press conference held at the Republican National Committee. Among her many outrageous assertions, Powell alleged that Georgia’s Republican governor and secretary of state were paid off; she also claimed that a plot involving deceased Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez helped rig the election for Joe Biden via Dominion Voting Machines. Powell then appeared on various conservative outlets and shows, including Fox News, Fox Business (where she said “dead people” had voted), and even the Rush Limbaugh show (where she was interviewed by guest host Mark Steyn).

This is all to say that, although you and I might have always seen Powell as a crank, she had (on paper) solid professional and mainstream conservative credentials—not to mention the imprimatur of the Republican National Committee, America’s Mayor, and the President of the United States of America.

The reality is, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim to be a serious person engaging in the serious world of politics and ideas, spread toxic poison with a megaphone that reaches millions, and then cry “just kidding” when your attempts to actually overthrow an election fail.

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/sidney-powells-just-kidding-defense-is-seriously-literally-nuts

What Happens to America When We Lose Special Privilege of Printing Unlimited Dollars?

 We have been warning of it for probably close to 15 years.  99% of Americans have no clue that the US Dollar was given a huge privaledge that no other country possesses.  When we won WWII we ended up with a huge stash of gold we kept in Fort Knox that we captured from all over Europe as we liberated the towns there AND we had 75% of the world's manufacturing capacity since most of Europe's was destroyed.  So we had all the gold and all the capital!  So we drew up the rules for the NEW WORLD ORDER that have stood in place since 1945.  We called the world's leaders to Bretton Woods resort in New England and said, "From this day forward the US Dollar will be the world's reserve currency.  All of your currencies will be pegged to the US Dollar, so ALL CURRENCIES will be based on the one true currency of the US Dollar...any questions?"

Of course they had no choice but to agree.

So for the past 75+ years we have owned a very "exorbitant privilege".  We can borrow, print and create all the trillions of excess spending that we dream of!!  That's HOW we have been able to deficit spend for the past decades and have borrowed $30 trillion dollars with no end in sight.

When this special privilege ends, Americans will wake up shocked at what happens to our American dreams when we can no longer borrow trillions of dollars to fund COVID relief, fund our military, fund social security IOU's, bail out pension plans, fund Medicare and Medicaid, provide Federal relief for State disasters, etc...

The mighty US dollar continues to reign supreme in global markets. But the greenback’s dominance may well be more fragile than it appears, because expected future changes in China’s exchange-rate regime are likely to trigger a significant shift in the international monetary order.

For many reasons, the Chinese authorities will probably someday stop pegging the renminbi to a basket of currencies, and shift to a modern inflation-targeting regime under which they allow the exchange rate to fluctuate much more freely, especially against the dollar. When that happens, expect most of Asia to follow China. In due time, the dollar, currently the anchor currency for roughly two-thirds of world GDP, could lose nearly half its weight.

 Considering how much the United States relies on the dollar’s special status—or what then-French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously called America’s “exorbitant privilege”—to fund massive public and private borrowing, the impact of such a shift could be significant. Given that the US has been aggressively using deficit financing to combat the economic ravages of COVID-19, the sustainability of its debt might be called into question.

The long-standing argument for a more flexible Chinese currency is that China is simply too big to let its economy dance to the US Federal Reserve’s tune, even if Chinese capital controls provide some measure of insulation. China’s GDP (measured at international prices) surpassed that of the US back in 2014 and is still growing far faster than the US and Europe, making the case for greater exchange-rate flexibility increasingly compelling.

A more recent argument is that the dollar’s centrality gives the US government too much access to global transactions information. This is also a major concern in Europe. In principle, dollar transactions could be cleared anywhere in the world, but US banks and clearing houses have a significant natural advantage, because they can be implicitly (or explicitly) backed by the Fed, which has unlimited capacity to issue currency in a crisis. In comparison, any dollar clearing house outside the US will always be more subject to crises of confidence—a problem with which even the eurozone has struggled.

Moreover, former US President Donald Trump’s policies to check China’s trade dominance are not going away anytime soon. This is one of the few issues on which Democrats and Republicans broadly agree, and there is little question that trade deglobalization undermines the dollar.

Chinese policymakers face many obstacles in trying to break away from the current renminbi peg. But, in characteristic style, they have slowly been laying the groundwork on many fronts. China has been gradually allowing foreign institutional investors to buy renminbi bonds, and in 2016, the International Monetary Fund added the renminbi to the basket of major currencies that determines the value of Special Drawing Rights (the IMF’s global reserve asset).

In addition, the People’s Bank of China is far ahead of other major central banks in developing a central-bank digital currency. Although currently purely for domestic use, the PBOC’s digital currency ultimately will facilitate the renminbi’s international use, especially in countries that gravitate toward China’s eventual currency bloc. This will give the Chinese government a window into digital renminbi users’ transactions, just as the current system gives the US a great deal of similar information.

Will other Asian countries indeed follow China? The US will certainly push hard to keep as many economies as possible orbiting around the dollar, but it will be an uphill battle. Just as the US eclipsed Britain at the end of the nineteenth century as the world’s largest trading country, China long ago surpassed America by the same measure.

True, Japan and India may go their own way. But if China makes the renminbi more flexible, they will likely at the very least give the currency a weight comparable to that of the dollar in their foreign-exchange reserves.

There are striking parallels between Asia’s close alignment with the dollar today and the situation in Europe in the 1960s and early 1970s. But that era ended with high inflation and the collapse of the post-war Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. Most of Europe then recognized that intra-European trade was more important than trade with the US. This led to the emergence of a Deutsche Mark bloc that decades later morphed into the single currency, the euro.

This does not mean that the Chinese renminbi will become the global currency overnight. Transitions from one dominant currency to another can take a long time. During the two decades between World Wars I and II, for example, the new entrant, the dollar, had roughly the same weight in central-bank reserves as the British pound, which had been the dominant global currency for more than a century following the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s.

So, what is wrong with three world currencies—the euro, the renminbi, and the dollar—sharing the spotlight? Nothing, except that neither markets nor policymakers seem remotely prepared for such a transition. US government borrowing rates would almost certainly be affected, though the really big impact might fall on corporate borrowers, especially small and medium-size firms.

Today, it seems to be an article of faith among US policymakers and many economists that the world’s appetite for dollar debt is virtually insatiable. But a modernization of China’s exchange-rate arrangements could deal the dollar’s status a painful blow.

Here;  The Dollar's Fragile Hegemony (fa-mag.com)

Yes indeed!  Our whole system is now based solely on FAITH and CONFIDENCE.  Neither of which can truly be explained or measured.  God can hold it in place as long as He chooses to but one day, maybe soon, the whole system is going to come crashing down so a new cashless system can arise out of the ashes and the Antichrist will take it over.  Soon after that he will require a mark on the hand or forehead for every person on earth who wants to buy or sell anything.

And WE are the first generation to have the technology in place to fulfill this 2000 year old prophecy.

Think about it...

UFO Broke Sound Barrier Without Sonic Boom

 The headlines continue to come out on a regular basis.  As more and more “off-world technology” is declassified, more and more humans will believe that there are intelligent aliens who evolved on far away planets and have more information and technological advances than we do, hence “we can learn from them”.  In reality they are demons/fallen angels who have been deceiving men since the early history of men.  The Bible warns that in the very last days men will believe “doctrines of demons” and “seducing spirits” and this would be fulfilled when they show up on earth after the Holy Spirit is removed at the rapture.

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More inexplicable sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) will be released for public scrutiny in June — including a UFO that broke the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom. 

Speaking on Fox News, the former director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, said Saturday (March 20) that the sightings are "difficult to explain." Ratcliffe, who served in the Trump administration, said he'd hoped to declassify the reports during his tenure but that they will be released by the Pentagon by June 1. 

It's not the first time the military has released strange reports, and even videos, of UFOs, known in military parlance as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). In April 2020, the U.S. Navy released three videos appearing to show aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound. And Senate intelligence reports reveal that the Pentagon is still on the hunt for UFOs or UAPs. But check your excitement, Fox Mulder — the military is generally more concerned about whether UAPs might be secret aircraft or weapons developed by other nations than it is about finding evidence of ET in our midst. 

According to Newsweek, Ratcliffe said the upcoming Pentagon report will include more sightings and reports of objects moving in seemingly impossible ways or breaking the speed of sound without an accompanying sonic boom. The unexplained sightings occurred all over the world, he said, and include events picked up on automated sensors and not just by human eyes. 

"There are instances where we don't have good explanations for some of the things that we've seen," Ratcliffe told Fox News. 

https://www.livescience.com/declassified-UFO-sightings.html

MN Dinner Theatre Cancels Cinderella Because “It’s Too White”

The lunacy continues!  Please understand that there are “all black musicals and plays” where the cast has to be black!  Can you even imagine the outrage if there was advertised “an all white cast,”  When are folks going to start standing up to the NBA for not being inclusive and for not having diversity quotas?  Last time we checked the NBA was made up of 74% black men!  Even though black men only comprise 7% of US population.  Where is the outrage!  Yet when MN puts on a play in a suburb where black actors most likely exist in tiny numbers, we have to cancel it for not enough blacks?  Lord have mercy!  The idiots are running things!

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A suburban Minneapolis theater company has cancelled a production of “Cinderella” because its cast was “too white.”

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres was scheduled to stage Roger & Hammerstein’s classic play later this year before its artistic director stepped in to criticise its lack of racial diversity, twincities.com reported.

“It was 98 percent white,” Michael Brindisi, the theater’s artistic director, told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press on Wednesday after looking at the actors who had been cast. “That doesn’t work with what we’re saying we’re going to do.”

Brindisi said he considered recasting but instead decided to “scrap this and start fresh with a clean slate.”

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres has hired a diversity consultant and pledged a commitment to “identity-conscious casting and becoming a more intentionally anti-racist theater,” it said in a statement.

“After careful consideration and with our ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we have made the decision to cancel our upcoming production,” it states.

“In addition to changing future programming, we are establishing new pre-production protocols. We will be inviting and paying [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] artists to analyze the production with our creative teams through a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lens.”

However, finding people of color to fill future roles may prove difficult. Chanhassen which is located southwest of Minneapolis, has a population that is overwhelmingly white. According to the most recent census, 92.5 percent of people in Chanhassen are white. Less than 3 percent of residents are Hispanic, while 1.1 percent are black.

 https://tennesseestar.com/2021/03/29/minnesota-theater-cancels-cinderella-production-because-cast-was-too-white/

Has Judgment Already Begun for America?

I have heard from some fellow believers that America is on the verge of a great revival. They reason that when things look awful in America that’s when God is going to get to work and call the nation back from its sexual perversion, drug addictions, drunkenness, worshipping false gods, ignoring the Sabbath and every other nation-destroying sin that our cup is full of.

Well, here’s another idea...America is done as a nation. We have put up our middle finger to God and His son for too long.  

So great times are ahead for the believer (our blessed hope that Jesus will soon come for us) but pain, misery and suffering for the American unbeliever could be in America’s near future.

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“Go tell them,” preached MacArthur, paraphrasing God’s call to Isaiah in Isaiah Chapter 6, “it’s too late. You wouldn’t listen, you wouldn’t see, you wouldn’t believe, and now you can’t.”

“Tell them it is too late. Judgment is already in motion.”

Near the end of his sermon, MacArthur addressed how he believed the passages about the parable and the notion of being “too late” to be saved applied to the modern church.

One lesson he felt was important was that “it can be for a generation of people too late. Too late for eighth century [BC] Israel, too late for first century [AD] Israel, but it can be too late for every nation.”

“How do you know when a nation passes the point where salvation is possible for a people?” asked MacArthur, who answered by citing Romans 1.

“When you see a nation deep in sexual sin, pervasively affirming of homosexuality, and the insanity of a reprobate mind, where they make laws to criminalize righteousness and to legalize gross evil, you know that nation’s under judgment,” said MacArthur.

MacArthur went on to state that “our message to this nation” is that “it’s too late for the nation, we’re under judgment,” but added that “it’s not too late for the elect.”

“What’s our message to this nation? You’re under judgment; it’s too late. Judgment has been unleashed. You can hear, but not understand. You can see, but not perceive,” he said.

“But God has His people. So we warn, because we don’t know who those people are and we also offer the grace of the Gospel. That’s our calling.”

 https://www.christianpost.com/news/is-it-too-late-for-america-to-be-spared-gods-judgment.html

Iran and China Sign 25 Yr Cooperation Agreement

Iran is in the news headlines almost daily.  Why?  The only reason is biblical.  They have been set up on the Last Days chessboard because they have a serious role to fill before Jesus returns...not for His bride, the church, but for His 2nd Advent to establish His Millennial Kingdom.

Notice in the article that the United States is mentioned as being a catalyst for drawing these 2 forces together.  They both are under US sanctions so “my enemies enemy is my friend”. 

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Tehran, Iran – Iran and China have signed a long-gestating 25-year cooperation accord as both countries remain under Unites States sanctions.

The agreement is said to have been in the works since Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Iran in 2016, also agreeing to increase bilateral trade more than 10-fold to $600bn in the next decade.

No details of the agreement have yet to be officially published, but it is expected to be a sweeping “strategic accord” that includes significant Chinese investments in Iran’s key sectors such as energy and infrastructure, in addition to military cooperation.

It comes as both Iran and China are under different levels of sanctions imposed by the US.

After unilaterally abandoning Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers – that also included China – former US President Donald Trump imposed harsh sanctions on Iran that have blacklisted its entire financial system.

While saying he wants to restore the deal, President Joe Biden has so far refused to lift any sanctions, saying Iran must first act to fulfil commitments it scaled back in response to US sanctions.

China and Russia have called on the US to restore the deal by lifting sanctions, while traders and analysts say Iran’s oil exports to China have significantly increased in March despite US warnings.

Rouhani thanked Wang on Saturday for China’s stance on the nuclear deal and standing up to “American unilateralism”.

 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/iran-and-china-sign-25-year-cooperation-agreement-in-tehran

US Dollar and Economy Could Be in Big Trouble by Year End

Yes, we have been saying for a long time now that the US Dollar is going to be in trouble one day.  When the Federal Government keeps sending out checks by the billions and they don't have enough money in their checkbook, they order the Treasury to sell bonds to cover their check.  And if the bond auction doesn't go "as they hoped" then the Federal Reserve will step in and "buy" the bonds.  They don't really "buy" them because they don't have any money, but they ADD them to their balance sheet.  Get it?

Today we have a billionaire fund manager who is very well known in the financial world, saying that this Ponzi scheme of dollars being "bought" by the Federal Reserve could be about done.  When that happens you could get prices going up while people are losing their jobs.  Stagflation.

Ray Dalio is the founder of one of the largest investment firms in the world and has amassed a personal fortune nearing $20 billion from his business and investment acumen.

In short, he understands money and finance in way that most people never will. And it’s for this reason that his latest insights are so noteworthy.

In a recent, self-published article entitled “Why in the World Would You Own Bonds When. . .”, Dalio makes some blunt assertions about the alarming US national debt, the decline of the dollar, and other negative trends in the Land of the Free.

Here’s a summary of the major points:

1) Interest rates are now so low that “investing in bonds (and most financial assets) has become stupid.”

Dalio points out that bond yields are so low today that investors would essentially have to wait more than 500 years to break even on their bond investments after adjusting for inflation.

That’s why sensible people are already ditching the bond market.

JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon recently said he wouldn’t touch a US government 10-year Treasury Note “with a ten foot pole.” Neither would Dalio, as he told Bloomberg this month.

2) This is a big problem for Uncle Sam. Investors are ditching US government bonds at a time when the US is “overspending and overborrowing”.

They just passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus, and they have another $3 trillion spending package ready to go, plus plenty of momentum for Universal Basic Income, health care, Green New Deal, and just about everything else.

In short, the government is going to have to sell a LOT of bonds (i.e. increase the debt) at a time when investing in bonds has become stupid.

3) This creates a huge problem for the US dollar.

“The frightening thing about this,” Dalio says, is that many investors have already come to the conclusion that bonds are terrible investments.

So these investors could decide to dump the bonds they already own “at the same time as the [US] government has to sell a lot bonds.”

Just imagine– the US government could easily have to sell another $4 trillion worth of bonds over the next 12-months to cover its massive budget deficit, plus all these wild spending programs.

But then on top of that, investors who currently own US government bonds may decide to dump another $3 trillion of worth of the bonds in their portfolios.

This would mean that $7 trillion worth of bonds flood the market at a time when few people want to buy them.

4) As Dalio explains, this would cause one of two things to happen:

“Either interest rates will rise,” in order to entice investors to buy bonds, or the Federal Reserve “will have to print substantial amounts of money to buy [the bonds] that the free-market buyer won’t buy.”

And it’s pretty clear they’re going with option B.

Last year, the Fed was by far the single largest buyer of all the newly issued US government bonds. Yet as Dalio writes, “when they print money and buy those bonds. . . that lowers real rates and it accelerates a depreciation in the value of the dollar, and it also raises inflation pressures.”

5) So what are the potential consequences?

“The real risk, the big risk,” Dalio told Bloomberg, “is of a monetary inflation . . . and that monetary inflation means that even when the economy weakens, inflation rates rise.”

This is essentially stagflation, i.e. rising inflation coupled with a sluggish economy.

6) When does Dalio see these consequences starting to arise? “Late this year.”

7) There are plenty of bigger picture issues too. Dalio acknowledges that the US government is going to need a LOT of money to finance all this spending, so taxes will likely rise. A lot.

As Dalio writes, tax increases “could be more shocking than expected.”

He also believes that “the chances of a sizable wealth tax bill passing over the next few years are significant.”

8) Dalio writes that, as a result of such tax policy and other destructive rules, “the United States could be perceived as a place that is inhospitable to capitalism and capitalists.”

And the combination of high taxes, high inflation, and hostility towards capitalism may compel many investors and businesses to shift their capital and operations overseas and “run from less hospitable places to more hospitable places.”

9) But don’t expect the US government to sit idly by while capital leaves the country. Dalio believes there is “the possibility of capital controls” to prevent money from exiting the United States, as well as “prohibitions against capital movements to other assets” outside of the US dollar like “gold, Bitcoin, etc.”

So, in short: too much debt and money printing leads to a declining value of the US dollar, and potentially stagflation.

As a result, the government is likely to drastically raise taxes and chase business and capital away from the United States, leading to capital controls and prohibitions on alternative investments.

This is not some wild conspiracy theory or crazy conjecture. This is one of the wealthiest, most successful fund managers in human history bluntly calling the end of the US-dollar debt supercycle.

Here; https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-03-29/billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-urges-diversification-out-dollar

We have no idea when but we have been saying since before the last crash of 2007-2009 that this massive debt party has to come to a halt.  And when it does it will be pretty devastating.  USA has become very used to having an UNLIMITED credit limit.  Whatever we want we just write the check and tell the Treasury and FED to figure it out!

Very simply concept here though;  USA sells Treasury Bonds to finance it's huge deficit.  So what happens if no one buys the $3 trillion they are selling AND at the same time investors get nervous in US Bonds and sell the $4 trillion they are holding?  You would how have $7 trillion of US Debt without a home.  But don't worry!  The FED will take it all!  No, at some point the confidence in this who scheme will come crashing down.

We hope the rapture of the church is what crashes it, but maybe we will be around to see what happens as all of America's false idols begin to tumble and crash apart.

Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying?

 When the Governor of Texas called an end to the COVID lockdowns and announced that masks will not be mandated by the state, lots of mask-police out there said that thousands would soon die because of their blatant disregard for science and their lack of concern for their fellow humans.

It turns out that people everywhere in Texas are not dying!  The COVID numbers are coming down the same as they are in every other state.

This is going to make the mask-Nazis very unhappy.  Read below what many of the "We're all going to die!" Democrats had to say when Texas announced it was opening up.

I'm sitting at a bar in Texas, surrounded by maskless people, looking at folks on the streets walking around like life is normal, talking with nice and friendly faces, feeling like things in the world are more-or-less normal. Cases and deaths attributed to Covid are, like everywhere else, falling dramatically. 

If you pay attention only to the media fear campaigns, you would find this confusing. More than two weeks ago, the governor of Texas completely reversed his devastating lockdown policies and repealed all his emergency powers, along with the egregious attacks on rights and liberties.

There was something very un-Texan about those lockdowns. My hotel room is festooned with pictures of cowboys on horses waving guns in the air, along with other depictions of rugged individualism facing down the elements. It’s a caricature but Texans embrace it. Then a new virus came along – as if that had never happened before in Texas – and the new Zoom class took the opposite path, not freedom but imposition and control. 

After nearly a year of nonsense, on March 2, 2021, the governor finally said enough is enough and repealed it all. Towns and cities can still engage in Covid-related mischief but at least they are no longer getting cover from the governor’s office. 

At that moment, a friend remarked to me that this would be the test we have been waiting for.

A complete repeal of restrictions would lead to mass death, they said. Would it? Did the lockdowns really control the virus? We would soon find out, he theorized. 

I knew better. The “test” of whether and to what extent lockdowns control the virus or “suppress outbreaks” (in Anthony Fauci’s words) has been tried all over the world. Every serious empirical examination has shown that the answer is no. 

The US has many examples of open states that have generally had better performance in managing the disease than those states that are closed. Georgia already opened on April 24, 2020. South Dakota never shut down. South Carolina opened in May. Florida ended all restrictions in September. In every case, the press howled about the coming slaughter that did not happen. Yes, each open state experienced a seasonality wave in winter but so did the lockdown states. 

So it was in Texas. Thanks to this Twitter thread, and some of my own googling, we have a nice archive of predictions about what would happen if Texas opened. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom said that opening Texas was “absolutely reckless.”

Gregg Popovich, head coach of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, said opening was “ridiculous” and “ignorant.”

CNN quoted an ICU nurse saying “I’m scared of what this is going to look like.”

Vanity Fair went over the top with this headline: “Republican Governors Celebrate COVID Anniversary With Bold Plan to Kill Another 500,000 Americans.”

There was the inevitable Dr. Fauci: “It just is inexplicable why you would want to pull back now.”

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke of Texas revealed himself to be a full-blown lockdowner: It’s a “big mistake,” he said. “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that it’s also a cult of death.” He accused the governor of “sacrificing the lives of our fellow Texans … for political gain.”

James Hamblin, a doctor and writer for the Atlantic, said in a Tweet liked by 20K people: “Ending precautions now is like entering the last miles of a marathon and taking off your shoes and eating several hot dogs.”

Bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald flipped out: “Goddamn. Texas already has FIVE variants that have turned up: Britain, South Africa, Brazil, New York & CA. The NY and CA variants could weaken vaccine effectiveness. And now idiot @GregAbbott_TX throws open the state.” He further called the government “murderous.” 

Epidemiologist Whitney Robinson wrote: “I feel genuinely sad. There are people who are going to get sick and die bc of avoidable infections they get in the next few weeks. It’s demoralizing.”

Pundit Bill Kristol (I had no idea that he was a lockdowner) wrote: “Gov. Abbott is going to be responsible for more avoidable COVID hospitalizations and deaths than all the undocumented immigrants coming across the Texas border put together.”

Health pundit Bob Wachter said the decision to open was “unforgivable.”

Virus guru Michael Osterholm told CNN: “We’re walking into the mouth of the monster. We simply are.”

Joe Biden famously said that the Texas decision to open reflected “Neanderthal thinking.”

Nutritionist Eric Feigl-Ding said that the decision makes him want to “vomit so bad.”

The chairman of the state’s Democratic Party said: “What Abbott is doing is extraordinarily dangerous. This will kill Texans. Our country’s infectious-disease specialists have warned that we should not put our guard down, even as we make progress towards vaccinations. Abbott doesn’t care.”

Other state Democrats said in a letter that the decision was “premature and harmful.”

The CDC’s Rochelle Walensky didn’t mince words: “Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. I am really worried about reports that more states are rolling back the exact public health measures we have recommended to protect people from COVID-19.”

Here;  https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-everyone-texas-not-dying

Did COVID kill people in America?  Yes, of course it did.  But you don't shut down the whole world and lock every single person up! If people are high risk then let them stay home.  Does drunk driving kill lots of people in America?  Yes, of course it does!  But you don't shut down every single road and make driving illegal until it stops!  Does the flu kill tens of thousands of Americans every year?  Yes it does!  But you don't tell everyone to stay home until flu season is over.

In the end we believe this was all about control.  The government wants to see how well everyone will do as they are told.  And for sure this was all about prepping us for the soon coming government of the Antichrist.

Short of the rapture, every single American is going to die of something.  The sad truth is that COVID killed mostly unhealthy, old people.  And unhealthy, old people are always going to die at a much larger rate than young, healthy people.  But bankrupting millions and forcing thousands of businesses to close forever is not going to stop mostly old and unhealthy people from dying.  

I'm truly sorry if your loved one died from COVID.  I'm also truly sorry if they died from cancer, heart disease or any other malady that killed them.  How many old people have died of loneliness and depression because the government has ordered that their own families can't be with them at all during their last years of life?

"Worst Mice Plague I've Ever Seen"

 Millions of mice have descended on Australia and are literally eating all the grain in site.  They are running everywhere and getting into everything.  Worst they've ever seen.

Notice how the NBC article calls it an "end-of-days challenge".

After one of its worst wildfire seasons and a global pandemic, Australia is now facing its latest end-of-days challenge: a “monumental” plague of mice.

“I know we had two mice per square meter in our cropping paddocks at the peak … [so] if I have the math right, it’s 20 million mice. That’s more mice than the population of most big cities,” he said.

 Roth said at one point he and his family were catching and disposing of around 100 mice each day inside their house and offices.

“They’re all around the house. Every time you open a drawer, you’re potentially going to find one,” he said. “You’ll be sitting at the desk and a mouse will run across it.”

He said the mice were eating the cotton crops as well as grain stored in silos.

Roth, who has spent his whole life in regional and rural Australia, said this was “the worst mice plague I’ve ever seen.”

“They certainly smell. That’s what my memory of this is going to be — the smell,” he said. “The smell of the dead mice in and around the house and the farm.”

Steve Henry conducts mice research with Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

Henry said the outbreak, which is of the non-native house mouse, is “monumental” and continues to have severe economic and social effects.

“Some farmers are giving up on summer crops … because the mice have damaged them so severely, so that’s essentially a total crop loss,” he said. “And in some scenarios where farmers have managed to get the crops through to harvest, they’ve had it rejected because it’s full of mouse poo.”

Here;  'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia (msn.com)

We can't say for sure whether this is a birth pang that Jesus told us to watch for, but certainly it is more evidence that the earth is groaning for it's redemption.  It also fits nicely into our NEVER and EVER file.  "Worst ever!"  "I've NEVER seen anything like it!"

Black Girls Carjack and Kill Owner

 A terrifying video shows 2 black girls trying to carjack an immigrant Uber driver’s car.  They push him aside but he resists. The black girls drive away at high speed with car owner hanging on literally for dear life. 2 blocks away they roll the car and the man is hurled to his death.  Had white teens done this to an immigrant the hate-speech police would have made sure MSM showed the video 24 hours per day for the next week.  But CNN just called it an accident since it doesn’t meet the narrative that they prefer.

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It is clear that it was no accident. The teenagers took off at high speed with the while the desperate driver was hanging onto his driver’s side door. He had been begging for them to get out. He was eventually thrust from the vehicle into a wall and the National Guard on the street attempted to clear the area. The girls lost control of the vehicle, which ended with it crashing on its side.

Passersby watched in horror and recorded the incident, saying they were calling the police before the vehicle burst off at high speed.

“A man died and two girls, ages 13 and 15, face felony murder charges after police say the girls carjacked the man near Nationals Park on Tuesday, used a stun gun against him and caused the car to flip,” NBC reported.

Accident began trending on Twitter Saturday.

The retweets to CNN reflected the concern that use of the word accident was because the two girls were black and had they been white the situation would have been described differently.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/two-teenage-girls-carjack-and-kill-uber-driver-cnn-calls-it-accident

Show a Photo of Muhammad and Get Murdered

 The religion of peace is at it again!  This teacher dared to show some published photos by French newspaper to his class and now his life is over.  Not only his but he fears for his family.  Free speech is dying quite quickly in the West.

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The teacher who prompted protests after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed fears that he and his family will be murdered, his father has said.

The religious studies teacher remains in hiding after receiving death threats and has told his family “it’s all over” and he will never be able to return to his job or his home.

Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire sent pupils home last week and issued an apology after the parents of Muslim children gathered at the gates to protest. The RS teacher was described as a “terrorist” in a letter from one community leader.

His family has now accused the school’s head teacher, Gary Kibble, of “throwing him under a bus” by failing to fight his corner while he lives as a fugitive.

The teacher’s father said: “My son keeps breaking down crying and says that it's all over for him. He is worried that he and his family are all going to be killed.

https://news.yahoo.com/fear-murdered-says-teacher-showed-152521729.html