1. WSJ: Amid a mounting pile of unfulfilled Biden promises on Covid, from his pledge to shut down the virus to his assurance of abundant testing, Biden’s experts are suddenly sharing relevant facts that were too inconvenient to mention during his predecessor’s administration.
2. Two years, $4 trillion of federal debt and millions of isolated children too late, White House Covid czar Dr. Anthony Fauci has discovered the massive costs of pandemic restrictions.
3. Now we have Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, implicitly making the case for a strategy she once disparaged.
4. Dr. Walensky is making the point that the vast majority of people do not face as great a risk as one would think from listening to Covid-era apocalyptic forecasts from people like her.
Last year: "I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom."
Now:👇
5. CDC has never been more politicized and useless. If it is not doing Teachers Unions' bidding, it is strategizing to bail out Biden White House from its utter and complete failures on managing Covid. Remember the promise of free testing kits Biden made only days ago.
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1. Trump's Response To Democrats' January 6 Commemoration
Since an article containing Trump's response to yesterday's proceedings is being suppressed by Twitter as "suspicious content," I will serialize a few key quotes from Trump in this thread.
2. “What we witnessed yesterday was the last gasps of a discredited left-wing political and media establishment that has, for decades, driven our country into the ground—shipping away jobs, surrendering our strength, sacrificing our sovereignty, attacking our history & values.”
3. “These radical leftists in Washington care NOTHING for American Democracy. All they care about is control over you, and riches for themselves.
But they are failing. No one believes them anymore. And the day is coming when they will be overwhelmingly voted out of power."
Allow me to capture a particularly amusing aspect of one half of our beautiful country's beautiful polity, courtesy of WSJ. Hillary has now shared a victory speech she had planned to give in 2016, had she won. ...
2. Hillary's victory speech had this beautiful passage:
"I am as sure of this as anything I have ever known: America is the greatest country in the world."
As for the last eight words of the preceding passage, truer words were never spoken.
3. Unfortunately these words were never spoken at all by Mrs. Clinton in her concession speech on Nov. 9, 2016. Though she had this bedrock conviction that this nation is the world’s best, somehow the line never made it into the next day’s message.
Too many people have a romantic notion of 'resetting' our government. Status quo is not the creation of a select few politicians. It's the net of pushes and pulls of millions upon millions of interconnected interests in the nation. Wisdom lies in pursuing stepwise refinements.
Big moral battles of mankind have already been fought and mostly won in the United States and most other liberal free market democracies. We should strive to keep the gains and build upon them, not gratuitously recast every pet peeve as 'civil rights issue of our time' and such.
For our entire history, mankind has strived hard to cope with problems of survival, scarcity, and calamities of all kinds. Nothing in our history and evolution has trained us to deal with problems of plenty and unprecedented successes all around us. No wonder we are disoriented.
And Republicans' opportunity, if they keep their heads and address the electorate respectfully and constructively.
Turning to the nature and size of recent Hispanic shifts against the Democrats—it’s not as bad as you think, it’s worse.
2. In the most recent WSJ poll, in a 2024 hypothetical rematch between Trump and Biden, Hispanic voters favored Biden by only a single point. This is among a voter group that favored Biden over Trump in 2020 by 26 points.
3. In the same poll, Biden’s net approval rating among Hispanics was -12 (42% approval/54% disapproval). Hispanics in the poll favor Republicans in Congress over Democrats on containing inflation and securing the border.
"The fact is, GOP's 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups, provided the greatest benefits for middle-income households and spurred economic growth that helped to reduce poverty and improve prosperity." thehill.com/opinion/financ…
Illustrative example:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Got A Tax Cut From Trump's Tax Reform
The Governor's income in 2017 and 2018 was exactly the same; $212,000.
His Federal Tax Bill for 2017: $41,765
His Federal Tax Bill for 2018: $39,138