“A fundamental public health principle is that health is multidimensional; the control of a single infectious disease is not synonymous with health.”
11/4/21
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Elected on Tuesday night, Winsome Sears is the first African American woman (and first woman, period) to ever hold the office of Lt. Governor in Virginia. She was born in Jamaica, emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 6, and grew up in the Bronx. A former Marine (notice the trigger finger discipline), she’s now Lt. Gov. in a state where many African Americans who persisted under Jim Crow are still alive today. “When I joined the Marine Corps, I was still a Jamaican. But this country had done so much for me, I was willing, willing, to die for this country,” Sears said during her victory speech early Wednesday morning before leading the crowd in a “USA!” chant.
Winsome Sears is the third black woman to be elected to a statewide office in the South, and all three have been Republicans. Virginia also elected the first Hispanic Attorney General on Tuesday, and, in an upset that was considered incredibly unlikely just a few months ago, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin managed to become the new governor in a state that had voted overwhelmingly Blue in 2020.
And yet, this is what leftist gonifs STILL revert back to:
This is almost fascinating to behold. So, you’re telling me that Virginians are so racist that they saw a black female immigrant with a rifle and were like, ‘Let’s put her in charge’? Okay. Sure.
And then there’s this:
Number one, the “insurrection flag” she’s talking about is the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag for God’s sake. That was first flown on a warship back in 1775 as a battle cry for American independence from British rule; the snake was an established symbol for the colonies at the time.
Number two, “the deadly insurrection in which people died and police officers were maimed by flag poles” . . . just wow. “Maimed by flag poles.” How about the 19 people killed in the two weeks of BLM riots—I mean, protests—following George Floyd’s death in May 2020, the majority of whom were black? Were you as troubled then?
I wrote about this four months ago, but they’re still doubling down on a false narrative about one of their favorite obsessions: The Insurrection™. To this day, not a single person has been charged with insurrection/sedition. And it is now beyond dispute that although five people died at or near the Capital on Jan. 6, none of these deaths was brought about by protesters. Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer with a history of being a moron (the guy once left his Glock 22 in a public bathroom)—the only shot fired at the Capitol that day. No guns were recovered. Zero. Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Phillips both died naturally of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Rosanne Boyland was reported by The New York Times to have been inadvertently “killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line.” This, too, was a lie. She died from a drug overdose. The fifth person was Officer Brian Sicknick — a Trump supporter, as it turned out — who, contrary to ANOTHER false report spread by The New York Times, this one claiming that he was “bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by protestors,” went home, told his family he was fine, but died a day later from, as The Washington Post eventually and grudgingly reported, “natural causes.”
And three: Critical race theory isn’t real? How warped does your brain have to be to actually believe something so glaringly untrue? I’m no political consultant, but my gut tells me you’d be ill-advised to think you can win elections by dismissing voters’ concerns. As MSNBC’s very own Joe Scarborough said, “Democrats are going to have to find a way to talk about it, rather than just saying it doesn't exist and it's not a problem. Because it's a problem that hurt them last night....it's really hurting Democratic candidates, and it will continue to.”
But leftists scoff at this, and in addition to denying that kids might be learning that they’re inherently bad because they’re white, they’ve now resorted to “CRT doesn’t exist.” Some examples are in order. Here’s the clown known as Robin DiAngelo in her bestseller White Fragility, which has become required reading for countless schools, companies, organizations, and institutions pushing the “diversity, equity, inclusion” dogma:
Here’s Critical Race Theory: An Introduction: “many critical race theorists...hold that racism is pervasive, systemic, and deeply ingrained. If we take this perspective, then no white member of society seems quite so innocent.”
Here’s Sandra Bartky, quoted in Being White, Being Good: “On my view, I am guilty by virtue of simply being who I am: a white woman, born into an aspiring middle-class family in a racist and class-ridden society.”
Here’s So You Want to Talk About Race: “And if you are white in a white supremacist society, you are racist. If you are male in a patriarchy, you are sexist.”
Here’s Marc Lamont Hill, who seems to be on CNN and MSNBC every other day now affirming that “all white people are inherently racist”:
You want to know how Glenn Youngkin — who really is a good, decent guy with no experience as a politician — managed to win? Here’s an excerpt from one of his speeches:
“We will teach all history, the good and the bad. America is the greatest country on the planet. We know it. We have an amazing history, but we also have some dark and abhorrent chapters. We must teach them all. We can't know where we're going unless we know where we come from.
But let me be clear, what we don't do - what we don't do - is teach our children to view everything through a lens of race, where we divide them into buckets; one group's an oppressor and another group's a victim; and we pit them against each other and we steal their dreams. We will not be a commonwealth of dream-stealers. We will be a commonwealth of dream-enablers and builders. We know it's not right. We're all created equal, and we're trying so hard to live up to those immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who implored us to be better than we are; to judge one another based on the content of our character and not the color of our skin. And so let me be clear, on day one, we will not have political agendas in the classroom and I will ban critical race theory.”
“There’s no way to sugarcoat this: This was a shellacking on a thumping.”
— Steve Israel, a former New York congressman and chairman of the House Democratic campaign arm, on the strong performance by Republicans nationwide — even in blue bastions — in Tuesday’s election.
“Our manager bought us this air horn to keep at the hostess stand in case somebody does get disruptive or too violent.”
— A host at a Manhattan cafe, on the hazards of asking customers to show their proof of vaccination.
“At the very beginning, they said we couldn't win, it was impossible to win as a write-in. But you can't ever count a Buffalonian out.”
— Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, commenting during his declared re-election victory over democratic socialist India Walton through a write-in campaign. Local media reported that Walton had earned 41 percent of the vote while 59 percent were for “write-in.” Walton had won the June primary over Brown, but Brown urged voters to write his name on their ballot as there was no Republican candidate.
“World Series highlights the dwindling of Black players in America’s pastime.”
— NBC News headline. I’m so glad we’re beginning to take “diversity, equity, and inclusion” seriously now, because I have the same issue with the lack of Asian and Hispanic players in the NBA.
“If WFP [UN World Food Program] can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it. But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.”
— A tweet from Elon Musk in response to a CNN article in which the WFP director claims that “2% of Elon Musk’s wealth could solve world hunger.” ($6 billion is 2% of Musk’s wealth.) But as Dr. Eli David highlighted, if the WFP raised $8.4 billion last year, how come it didn’t “solve world hunger”?
“Part of why Biden’s poll numbers are low is because Americans feel like they were punched in the gut on January 6th, and he hasn't fight [sic] back on our behalf. He should be talking about terror just as much as Bill Clinton and George Bush did for 20 years.”
— Jason Johnson, MSNBC contributor. How insulated do you have to be in cable green rooms, liberal op-ed pages, and academia to believe that large swaths of the American population have lost faith in Joe Biden primarily because he doesn’t spend enough time ranting and raving about 1/6?
“We are NASA scientists and engineers. We can do the math, run the numbers, and model the COVID pandemic infections, hospitalizations, deaths, and vaccine adverse reactions. Look at how wrong the CDC has been with its predictions. Either they have very bad models, can’t do the math, or they are lying.”
— NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees in a memo protesting against the White House vaccine mandate.
“I’m exhausted by the constant need to be wary or you’ll instantly be labeled racist or anti-trans.”
— Kelsey O’Donnell, a woman from Chicago quoted in The New York Times, on the pressure she feels around her fellow white, college-educated liberals.
“I have views on what Democrats are doing wrong politically, but the basic issue is that we are out of touch. I’ve never seen such wildly pro-labor sentiment in America in in [sic] my lifetime, but the Democratic governing class has no connection to the working class.”
“A fundamental public health principle is that health is multidimensional; the control of a single infectious disease is not synonymous with health.”
— An op-ed in Newsweek by Martin Kulldorff, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Jay Bhattacharya, a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, calling for Anthony Fauci to resign and eviscerating him for his major epidemiological and public health screwups, and his continued obfuscation about the Wuhan Institute of Virology research he funded.
“When I was coming up we had no role models that we could talk to. We didn’t know we had Buffalo Soldiers. If we had known about that it would have made a difference. Now they have a historical, tangible reference point.”
— Eddie Dixon, a veteran and the sculptor of a new memorial at West Point honoring the U.S. Army’s famed Black cavalry who for decades taught military horsemanship to white cadets there.
+18: Partisan advantage held by Republicans in the latest NBC poll on “dealing with the economy,” the largest in the history of the survey, going back to October 1991.
5.4%: Increase in consumer prices over the past year, the fastest rate of inflation since 2008.
4,000: Number of times that the word “racism” appeared in the Washington Post in 2020. That’s the equivalent of using it in 10 articles every single day.
2,400: Number of times that the term “white supremacy” was used by NPR in 2020.
-15: Percentage change since 2019 in the number of Republicans who say that large corporations benefit the country.
+22: In the number of Democrats who say so.
89%: Percentage of U.S. stocks held by the wealthiest 10% of Americans, a record high that underscores the stock market’s role in increasing wealth inequality.
41%: Increase in alcohol sales in the state of Michigan during the pandemic.
$6.5 Trillion: Gain in corporate equities and mutual fund wealth among the top 1% during the pandemic, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.
62%: The proportion of Americans who say they will trust the results of the 2024 elections, regardless of outcome.
10: Percentage points that President Joe Biden beat Trump by in Virginia. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin was elected Governor on Wednesday, less than a year later. Some experts viewed the Virginia race as a referendum on Democratic leadership and a bellwether of how that party will perform in the 2022 contests.
34,000: New York healthcare workers who have lost their jobs or were placed on leave due to the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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