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Jan 25

1. A Non-Partisan Thread On Covid

It may surprise you (considering how intensely I dislike NY Times ethos in general) that I do like a few NYT columnists whom I find to be very thoughtful and insightful (remember Bari Weiss worked for NYT for a while and I loved her columns)...

2. Another one of my favorite NYT columnists is David Leonhardt. I don't always agree with him but I always respect his writing and pay attention to it. He has written a thoughtful column based on some recent polling on Covid that I am serializing in this thread.

3. Two Covid Americas
Covid’s starkly different impact on the young and old has been one of the virus’s defining characteristics. It tends to be mild for children and younger adults but is often severe for the elderly.

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Jan 13

1. WSJ: James Comey and Our Poisoned Politics

Five years ago, the FBI boss was busy selling the bogus Steele dossier.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of perhaps the greatest media scandal of our age.

2. Outlets like CNN and BuzzFeed flogged a bogus dossier of salacious claims funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign, even while admitting they didn’t know whether the dossier’s allegations against Donald Trump were true or false.

3. It wasn’t necessarily that reporters had mistaken fake news for the real stuff—they simply didn’t care or acknowledge that they had an obligation to vet anti-Trump claims before disseminating them.

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Jan 10

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.

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Jan 8

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."

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Dec 26, 2021

1. America The Beautiful

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.

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Dec 24, 2021

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.

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