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House Races Still Breaking Republicans’ Way

November 18, 2020/in Commentary, Elections/by The Geller Report

Red wave. Biden is not legitimate.

Daybreak Insider: Burgess Owens was one of the latest to win as his race was called yesterday. He defeated the only House Democrat in Utah (Daily Caller).

From Dave Wasserman:

It’s been almost two weeks since Election Day, and Democrats still haven’t won a *single one* of the 27 House races in @CookPolitical‘s Toss Up column (Twitter). From Jennifer Van Laar: Dems should take this as a sign, but they won’t (Twitter).

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board:

Democrats are now brawling over the reason, with progressives and swing-state Members blaming each other. Progressives refuse to take any responsibility. A post-election memo from the left-wing Justice Democrats warned Democrats against retreating from their positions on culture or economics, claiming that their agenda drove turnout. It quoted a New York Times article saying, “the key is to link racism and class conflict” (WSJ).

A new Republican House member, Victoria Spartz, seen above, was born in Ukraine and said

“I grew up in socialism. I saw what happens when it runs out of money. And it’s not pretty” (Daily Wire).

Whistleblower: Democrats Stole Votes for Joe Biden from Every Developmentally Disabled Person in Milwaukee Homes

November 18, 2020/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Exploiting the mentally challenged. That is pure evil.

Whistleblower: Democrats Stole Votes for Joe Biden from Every Developmentally Disabled Person in Milwaukee Homes She Spoke With

By Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, November 17, 2020:

Even the patients who objected to the idea.

Susan couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Client after client, developmentally disabled person after developmentally disabled person all told the same story: Their vote was stolen from them.

Susan, a disability service coordinator who works with developmentally disabled adults who live in various assisted living facilities and group homes in and around Milwaukee, says every one of her more than 20 clients told her that they were either pressured to vote for Democratic candidate Joe Biden or had a vote cast for Biden before they ever had a chance to see their ballot.

“I haven’t been able to see them in person since March because of COVID, but we do Zoom calls regularly,” said Susan, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, as she fears reprisal for coming forward. “Right after the election, one of my clients said that he voted for Biden but didn’t want to.”

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Facebook has ‘Unpublished’ Me. I’m now on Parler!

November 17, 2020/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Dr. Rich Swier

The Facebook purge continues. I have been “unpublished.” But take note there is light at the end of the freedom of speech tunnel. I am now on Parler.

My crimes against Facebook?

Making your content seem more popular than it is.
Commenting or sharing too much.
Sharing accounts between multiple people.

My posts were deemed by Faceless Facebook as unsafe and un-welcoming!

CLICK HERE TO VISIT AND LIKE MY PARLER PAGE

I received the following notices today when trying to access my FB page:

First notice:

Your Page Is At Risk of Being Restricted or Unpublished

It’s against our Community Standards to mislead people or Facebook by things like:

• Misrepresenting your Page’s identity or purpose
• Using multiple Facebook accounts or sharing accounts between multiple people
• Creating new accounts or taking other actions to avoid restrictions on posting, commenting or sharing too much
• Making it difficult to know your content’s origin or making your content seem more popular than it is

We may unpublish, restrict or reduce the distribution of your Page if it goes against these or any of our other Community Standards. They’re in place to help keep Facebook safe and welcoming for everyone.

Second notice:

Hi Richard,

We found that The United West didn’t follow our Community Standards. It’s against our standards to mislead people or Facebook by things like:

Misrepresenting your Page’s identity or purpose

Using multiple Facebook accounts or sharing accounts between multiple people

Creating new accounts or taking other actions to avoid restrictions on posting, commenting or sharing too much

Making it difficult to know your content’s origin or making your content seem more popular than it is

We may unpublish, restrict or reduce the distribution of your Page if it goes against these or any of our other Community Standards again. These standards are in place to help keep Facebook safe for everyone.

View Community Standards

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

And finally, this notice:

Hi Richard,

We found that News Times Journal didn’t follow our Community Standards. It’s against our standards to mislead people or Facebook by things like:

Misrepresenting your Page’s identity or purpose

Using multiple Facebook accounts or sharing accounts between multiple people
Creating new accounts or taking other actions to avoid restrictions on posting, commenting or sharing too much

Making it difficult to know your content’s origin or making your content seem more popular than it is

We may unpublish, restrict or reduce the distribution of your Page if it goes against these or any of our other Community Standards again.

These standards are in place to help keep Facebook safe for everyone.

View Community Standards

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

Both of these websites are run by Christians that tell the truth.

Facebook no longer hides its intent to unpublish those whose views it finds “against our standards to mislead people or Facebook.”

Facebook’s standards are not Constitutional Standards. The First Amendment states:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Facebook is abridging the freedom of speech and the press.

Any questions?

Trump Team Looks at Cause and Elect

November 17, 2020/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Family Research Council

They flooded downtown D.C. holding patriotic flags and signs, a mass of Americans filling the streets to show their support for the president. The media would ignore them, of course — but the sea of Million MAGA marchers, like the dozens of campaign rallies leading up to the election, would be hard to overlook. Chants of “Count every vote!” rang out — a cry echoed in courtrooms across the states, where the Trump campaign fights on. Whether his efforts will be enough to save his presidency, no one knows. But could they save an election system bogged down by doubts and questions? That, in the long run, may be just as important.

“It’s going to be that I got 74 million votes, and I lost?” an incredulous President Trump told columnist Michael Goodwin. “It’s not possible.” Not since Grover Cleveland’s reelection campaign in 1888, the Federalist confirms, “has a sitting president won more votes the second time around and still lost, which is one reason he successfully ran again four years later. To put this in perspective, Obama lost five million votes between his 2008 and 2012 elections. He is the only president to have lost voters and still won re-election.”

At the end of the day, President Trump shrugged, “I can’t tell you what’s going to happen.” But, he said, “it’s hard to come to terms [with the results] when they won’t let your poll watchers in to observe [the counting].” And that counting is especially important now, with less than 70,000 votes separating the candidates across the handful of deciding states. With concerns about the voting systems and ballot dumps swirling, it’s no wonder 70 percent of Republicans don’t believe the results have been free and fair.

Late Friday, Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chair Trey Trainor confirmed those fears, telling Americans, “I do believe that there is voter fraud taking place in these [contested areas]. Otherwise, they would allow observers to go in.” Our whole political system, he insisted, “is based upon transparency to avoid the appearance of corruption.” If the law isn’t followed, Trainor agreed, then the outcome is “illegitimate.” These allegations by the Trump campaign, Trainor said, are “very valid,” and they need to be “fully vetted” by the courts.

Meanwhile, concerns continue to swirl around Dominion Voting Systems — not just about the millions of votes the president argued had been deleted in a “glitch,” but also about the company’s ideological leanings. Reporters dug through the FEC’s financial reports and discovered 96 of the company’s staffers had donated to the Democrats’ 2020 political cause. Only four percent of Dominion employees gave to Republicans — raising plenty of eyebrows about the machines’ “malfunctions.” The storyline sounded even fishier when Rudy Giuliani pointed out that the head of the machines’ software company, Smartmatic — Peter Neffenger — is part of Biden’s transition team.

Twenty-eight states used those voting machines. “Beyond this election,” Giuliani argued, “this whole thing has to be examined as a national security matter. The governors who gave contracts to this company never bothered to do any due diligence.”

Other things, experts say, just plain don’t add up. Pollster Patrick Basham, who’s British, continues to maintain that the election was “stolen.” In a column for a U.K. newspaper, he points to Biden’s unusual numbers in certain cities. How curious, he writes, that “Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, and Philadelphia.” In some cases, he said, citing analyst Robert Barnes, in these “big cities in swing states run by Democrats…the vote even exceeded the number of registered voters.”

For now, conservatives are taking consolation in the biggest upsets of the year: the GOP’s incredible gains in the House. When all is said and done, Republicans could be within five seats of the majority — a far cry from the shellacking the media predicted. Fourteen races are still being certified, but on Friday, Republican Young Kim (R) managed to flip another Democratic seat in California. Judging by the GOP’s numbers in the districts that haven’t been called, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) could be looking at the smallest House majority in 100 years.

Inside the party, angry finger-pointers are everywhere. “Progressives refuse to take any responsibility,” the editors of the Wall Street Journal explain — and yet, their radical policies are almost certainly to blame. “House Democrats turned sharply leftward in the last two years as they indulged progressive priorities across the policy spectrum.” The result? Republican candidates had a field day with political ads, blasting every bit of their extreme agenda: “socialism, defunding the police, raising taxes, and eliminating oil and gas drilling.” If they didn’t know it before, Democrats know it now: Americans don’t want what the far-Left is selling. And if Pelosi and company ignore that fact, 2022 is another wake-up call in the making.

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Effort to Win Georgia Senate Races by Bringing in Out-of-Staters to Vote Is Illegal

November 17, 2020/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Elections, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Signal

Celebrities and politicians urging people to visit Georgia and falsely claim residency for the sole purpose of voting in two critical U.S. Senate runoff elections Jan. 5 are advocating criminal actions and should be ashamed of themselves. This call for voter fraud should be rejected.

The Georgia runoff elections are extraordinarily important because they will determine which political party controls the U.S. Senate.

Results of the Nov. 3 election gave Republicans 50 seats in the 100-member Senate and gave Democrats 48. If Republicans win one of the Georgia seats Jan. 5, they will hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate; if the GOP wins both seats, it will hold a 52-48 majority.

But if Democrats win both Georgia races, the Senate will be split 50-50 between the two parties. Assuming that President Donald Trump’s lawsuits fail and he is replaced by Joe Biden as president Jan. 20, Kamala Harris will be vice president and can break the 50-50 tie in the Senate to give Democrats majority control of the chamber by the slimmest possible margin.

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Multiple candidates ran for the two Senate seats representing Georgia, preventing any candidate from gaining a majority. As a result, Georgia law requires the top two candidates for each seat to face each other in runoff elections to be held Jan. 5.

It is a felony for people to visit Georgia and falsely claim to be residents just so they can vote. Millions of us have visited states on vacation or business, but that doesn’t make us residents entitled to vote there.

Georgia Code §21-2-561 states that providing false information when you are registering to vote is a felony. So is voting by an “unqualified elector” under §21-2-571. So if you register to vote when you know that your assertion of residency is false, and then you vote or even just attempt to vote Jan. 5 knowing you are not a qualified voter of the state, you have violated both of these state criminal statutes.

The punishment for this illegal activity under Georgia law is a minimum of one year and a maximum of up to 10 years in prison and as much as a $100,000 fine. Georgia obviously takes this crime very seriously.

No matter how interested nonresidents of Georgia are in that state’s crucial election, they should not listen to the ill-informed, manipulative, and reckless tweets and calls for them to break the law and pretend to be Georgia residents just so they can vote in the two Senate races.

This call for illegal voting—coming primarily from Democrats—is a basic betrayal of the democratic process. Everyone who urges or participates in this criminal activity should be ashamed of themselves and deserves to be criticized, no matter who they are and which party they favor.

Fox News reports, for example, that in a now-deleted tweet, New Yorker journalist Eric Levitz wrote: “These run-offs will decide which party controls the Senate and thus, whether we’ll have any hope for a large stimulus/climate bill. If you have the means and fervor to make a temporary move to GA, believe anyone who registers by Dec 7 can vote in these elections.”

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang also tweeted that he and his wife are moving to Georgia to help the two Democratic contenders.

In the Nov. 3 election in Georgia, Republican Sen. David Perdue received 49.71% of the vote and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff received 47.96%, forcing them into a runoff.

The other Senate race on the ballot Nov. 3 was a special election. Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson retired in 2018, before the end of his term. Republican Kelly Loeffler was appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp to fill the seat until the special election.

She and Rep. Doug Collins split the Republican vote Nov. 3; Loeffler received 25.9% and Collins got 19.95%. Democrat Raphael Warnock got the highest vote total, with 32.91%. Therefore, the two top vote-getters, Loeffler and Warnock, will be in the Jan. 5 runoff election.

Dec. 7 is the deadline to register to vote in Georgia for the Jan. 5 election for any residents of the state who have not already registered, including voters who have just moved to Georgia. But under the Georgia Election Code, §21-2-217, you have to be an actual resident of the state to vote, not just a visitor.

Georgia law says that a voter cannot be in the state “for temporary purposes only without the intention of making [Georgia] such person’s permanent place of abode.” In other words, if you head to Georgia for the primary purpose of helping the candidates in the special election with no intention of actually staying in the state and living there, you are not eligible to register or vote.

Those who think they can get around this requirement by simply lying and asserting their intention to make Georgia their permanent abode should beware. Under the law, county registrars are given the authority to consider a long list of other factors that may contradict the “applicant’s expressed intent.”

These factors include an individual’s “business pursuits, employment, income sources, residence for income tax purposes … leaseholds, sites of personal and real property owned by the applicant, motor vehicle and other personal property registration, and other such factors that registrars may reasonably deem necessary to determine” the applicant’s legal residence for voting purposes.

And it is not just registrars. Under Georgia law, §21-2-230, any registered voter can challenge the eligibility of any other registrant in his or her county or municipality. So there is an entire army of grassroots Georgia voters out there who can be, and should be, on the lookout for out-of-staters registering to vote who falsely claim to live in their neighborhoods and their communities.

The Jan. 5 Senate races in Georgia are understandably capturing national attention, and both Republicans and Democrats are mounting major efforts to win the seats. That’s how democracy is supposed to work. But having out-of-state voters visit a state for a few weeks to masquerade as Georgia residents is not a democratic exercise—it’s a crime.

Anyone who visits Georgia temporarily and falsely claims to be a resident cheats the real residents of the state—no matter which side of the political aisle they favor—by interfering in their choice of who should represent them in Congress. There’s no justification for that, no matter how passionate you are about the outcome of an election.

Vote in your own home state when elections are held—not in the home state of others.

Originally published by Fox News

COMMENTARY BY

Hans von Spakovsky

Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform—as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative. Read his research. Twitter: @HvonSpakovsky.

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Media Confused By Completely Peaceful Protest

November 16, 2020/in Commentary, Satire/by The Babylon Bee

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The media is scratching their heads today after thousands of angry Trump supporters descended on the capital and were completely peaceful throughout the entire demonstration.

“I don’t even know what this is. This is really confusing,” said D.C. correspondent Cork Dorgen. “We’ve seen violent protests and mostly-peaceful protests, but this protest seems all-the-way peaceful and we didn’t even know that was a thing.”

According to witnesses, a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people peacefully marched while waving flags, singing the National Anthem, and proclaiming their love for the country and the president.

Media outlets in turn have condemned the march as “physically peaceful, but morally violent.” According to several reports, demonstrators were seen wearing shirts with violent and triggering patriotic messages. One reporter witnessed a high-schooler in a MAGA hat smirking very violently at him.

“While we didn’t see physical violence here today, we heard violent speech, violent ideas, and violent singing. These people are basically violent,” said CNN reporter Jim Acosta. “If they are not stopped, they may violently stop watching news from trusted sources like CNN or violently expose corruption in Joe Biden’s administration.”

Reporters were even more horrified when it was revealed that 92% of the crowd was planning to violently attend church services and violently sing hymns the next day in spite of the pandemic.

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Alternative News Sources – The New Honest Mainstream

November 16, 2020/in Commentary, Elections, News, Policy, Politics/by Winston 84

Winston84 features a directory where every single profile we’ve included has something valuable to offer. Even those we find controversial are included for a reason – within the content they produce are ideas and facts you cannot find anywhere in the establishment media. And they have a right to be heard.

According to conservative columnist David Goldman, writing for PJ Media, Google is on the verge of completely eliminating content they find “offensive.” What may give offense? As we know, anything considered “hate speech,” as well as anything deemed “misinformation.” Expect that to include not just reasons why police are not systemically racist, or examples of alternative COVID-19 therapies, or corruption in the Biden family, or video and testimonial evidence of election fraud. No, expect far broader classifications of “offensive” material.

Imminent, for example, is complete suppression of anything that questions the “climate crisis.” The only reason that hasn’t happened already is because, at least during 2020, it wasn’t useful. The race riots supposedly triggered by the death of George Floyd, plus the COVID-19 pandemic, provided ample crises with which to remake and reset society (including elections). But the “climate crisis” will take banishment of “misinformation” to the next level.

Censorship over the past four years has been expanding logarithmically. In the last few weeks prior to the election it became blatant and brazen; its practitioners became indifferent to exposure. And everyone is in on it – the press, the establishment media, big tech, and powerful factions within the federal government and the intelligence community. The First Amendment hangs by a thread.

So to dig deep, really deep, browse through the many content providers on Winston. To just get reliable daily news, consider these six sources; they are as honest as we’re going to find:

Live online video feeds can be found on the website links for NewsMax, One America News, and The National Pulse. NewsMax and One America can also be found on cable television channels across the U.S.

For an anthology of links, updated daily, along with original reporting, don’t miss a visit to Revolver News.

Investigative reporting of unparalleled depth and honesty can be found at The Epoch Times.

And investigative videos exposing, day after day, the activities of BLM and Antifa can be found thanks to one of the last courageous journalists in America, Andy Ngo.

The Fascist Putsch in America

November 16, 2020/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Simona Pipko

Michael Moore urges Biden to embrace the far-left. If you know who Michael Moore is, you’ll grasp the essence of the Biden campaign’s political core. Language greatly matters in politics, and in the case of the Radical Left, its real name—Socialist Charlatans. Writing about Russia and her Intel for decades, I‘ve listed the participants in the KGB army in America. Michael Moore is a main contributor to the KGB army—a true Socialist Charlatan. This army of traitors, the current anti-Trump forces, are now concocting a Socialist Revolution in America. They have a single goal to transform American Capitalism to the same Socialism that collapsed in the 1991 Russia. Knowledge of all of them is a must to save the American Republic.

The KGB’s Army: The Force of Evil in America

To grasp my idea, you have to know at least two elements of reality: the power of the KGB and the status quo of Russia. Using the term KGB, I mean the entire Russian Intel—it is a collective image–those three letters are familiar to the vast majority of Americans. Living half of my life in Russia, I learned their tactics and the KGB modus operandi. In my books and columns I shared my knowledge with you and showed how the KGB’s army was infiltrating, polluting, and corrupting the American spirit, Governmental System, and Democratic Institutions. Recognizing those individuals, I don’t call them “spies,” they are more than “spies” on the sidelines collecting info, they are the doers in the midst of the country, corrupting minds, souls and spirit of America. I give the names of some, but there are thousands of them subverting our country and our way of life. Read here The Death of the American Republic –The American Spirit is Next, November, 11, 2020.

Seventy years ago Nikita Khrushchev warned you: “Your children will live under Communism.” America didn’t take it seriously, allowing the KGB army to indoctrinate and brainwash thousands minds and create a Socialist mentality, presenting a cosmetic version of Socialism on our soil. The Democrat Party was most susceptible to that mind set and in that way Truman’s party was infiltrated, dissolved and converted into the party of Socialist Charlatans by the KGB. Don’t take my words, just look at the platform, policy, and projects the Dems entertain and follow. Don’t be surprised by massive fraud in the election 2020—it is Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, and fraud decorated by the symbols and slogans. The system of laws and check and balances designed to prevent these actions has been overridden by the corrupt American media establishment. You saw all of that during the last five years of the anti-Trump coup—the Obama/Putin Conspiracy had been developed and turned to a Biden/Putin Fascist Putsch in 2020… Fascism never sleeps…

No. 1 Enemy of America: The Democrat Party

The name of the Democrat party is itself a total fraud, the Party has nothing to do with democracy, its modus operandi: lies, cheating, and fraud. For the last three decades the forces of Socialist Charlatans working in tandem and inextricably ties with the KGB’s army have produced a result—the Biden/Harris ticket is the direct product of that. Their agenda is Putin’s agenda—destruction of the American Constitutional Republic… They call it a ‘transformation’ [Remember…words matter]. Can you imagine my feelings, watching all of that and writing about its damaging and vicious development for the last thirty-five years? I left Russia in 1980, immigrating to America, but the evil, venomous system of Soviet Fascism was spreading throughout the world, especially in South and North America, catching up with me finally in the U.S.A!

I know and love this wonderful country. There is no choice for me but to continue to educate Americans. Besides, knowing all kinds of Soviet fraud, I hoped for Trump to expose it. And I am not alone, 99% of GOP senators didn’t congratulate Biden. Some of them know the truth, some just feel the fraud. Rudy Giuliani alleged on Nov. 11, 2020 that roughly 650,000 unlawful ballots were cast in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was writing about fraud in Pennsylvania for years, giving the cases of fraud. The example is the presidential election 2012, a fraud committed by then Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell and the KGB agent Rahm Emanuel, revealed in several of my columns. Massive mail-in ballot harvesting allows dead people to vote, people without ID to vote and vote-counting software fraud, rigging the system. I know the KGB ability to hack and defraud. The army of Socialist Charlatans in concert with the KGB is “working” hard and fast to bring Biden to the presidency in 2020…

In the same fraudulent manner, the Soviet style, Biden declares himself victor despite promise to wait for ‘independently certified’ results. He is abetted by an eager, arrogant media that thinks they crown winners and losers. He is in a hurry, stealing the election from President Trump, knowing that at any minute his crime can be exposed. It is hard to list all the crimes committed by this tandem—they honor neither transparency nor truth, they matched the Soviet apparatchiks, and killed their own Senator, because he was losing the election. Watch Biden’s cabinet, you will find a few KGB agents there. Though my books and columns had been sabotaged and blocked, yet, you can find facts of the KGB crimes in America by reading What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, XLIBRIS, 2012. If you want to learn about real Socialism go here.

Socialist Charlatans brought Chinese COVID-19 as a referendum against Trump. What a shame! They have continued defending the Chinese- criminals and, as usual, accused Trump… Obama, as a true Socialist has accused President Trump in fraudulent activities. What a Disgrace! A typical socialist play book. Do you remember Stalin’s postulate? Never admit crime committed, instead accuse the opposition in that exact crime. This is a refrain of all Dems, followers of Stalin’s methods. So, there are two types of people committing betrayals in America: those who do not like the system established by our Founding Fathers– they are currently collaborating with the KGB to destroy America, and those who haven’t a clue about the KGB, hence becoming their accomplices.

Fox News is disappointing us by their ignorance pertaining to Russia demonstrated in this tumultuous time. There are only two men in Fox News who grasped the significance of this knowledge, Tucker Carlson and Jesse Waters. Yet, the Fox administration has promoted the most ignorant one-Chris Wallace. When I see his face, I turn off the TV. A Democrat, he demonstrated his ego and arrogance, turning the first presidential debate into chaos. I have warned Fox News of their ignorance, and if they won’t educate their staff, I will call for boycotting the channel. Fox has chosen to forget the pogroms in the Dems’ states by riots, burning bibles and the American flag for expedience! Next time, wearing the black shirt, they will burn books! Knowledge of Russia and her Intel is a Must to save the American Constitutional Republic! Read here my columns on Soviet fascism–the terminology depends on your knowledge of Socialism…

The Heralds of Truth and Georgia’s War for the Senate

The heralds of truth are the dozen Republican women elected to the House of Representative. Besides the incredible Trump achievements in the economy, cosmos, the unity of races, and the Trump/COVID-19 vaccine: these Republican women from socialist countries will be a breath of fresh air with their knowledge about the nefarious political system, unknown to the vast majority of Americans. Just watch the new tone in the House in January 2021, regardless of Pelosi’s rhetoric. Those Republican women are the messenger-couriers of the Truth, desperately needed in the U.S. House of Representatives…

It is very timely that Iowa GOP senator Charles Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, fired off a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr in which he stated, “… the actions by Hunter Biden and James Biden on behalf of CEFC, Ye Jianming, and other officers connected to CEFC, potentially make them agents of the Chinese government.” Does Hunter, James Biden’s Actions Make Them Agents Of Chinese Government? By Hank Berrien, November 12, 2020

Sen. Grassley is absolutely right. The FBI, DOJ, and our Intel have been infiltrated and corrupt for several decades. They missed or deliberately acquiesced to the long-term activities of the Biden’s family mafia-clan, collaborating with enemy’s regimes: China, Russia, and others. The crux of the matter is the ideology of the regimes. We have undisputable evidence of Hunter Biden monetary ties to China and Russia. That is one, exact Socialist/Communist long-term collaboration to investigate. This is a precise point for Georgia’s Senatorial election—ideology and the Dems’ connections to the Socialist/Communist regimes.

The Georgia senatorial race should be nationalized to expose both Dems’ candidates for what they are. Democrat Raphael Warnock is a blatant anti-Semite and racist seeking to unseat Republican Kelly Loffler in Georgia’s runoff election in January. He is even more than racist—he is an Andropov follower. It was Andropov, the KGB Chairman, anti-Semite who endorsed, validated and sponsored the Palestinian regime since the 1960s. Read online my book Socialist Lies, Chapter 25 about the propaganda of socialism within the black communities of America. Warnock was a recipient of those lies. Listening to him you will grasp his anti-American sentiments, attributes, and ideas. He should listen and learn from the real black American intellectuals and patriots Jason Whitlock and Kevin Jackson…

The second Dem fellow-traveler is quite easy to identify: he is endorsed by Soros, the Trojan Horse Bernie Sanders, both members of the KGB army for thirty years and Georgian Socialist apparatchik Stacy Abrams. John Ossoff is being supported outright by the U.S. Communist Party. He said that “climate change is a threat to our security and prosperity.” This is a typical idea of Socialist Charlatans to destroy a free market and American capitalism. In reality, the Dems’ candidates present “a threat to our security and prosperity.” Ossoff’s view on abortions will prolong the killing of millions of babies, especially in the black communities. He also refused to sign the pledge to support law enforcement. These couple of Socialist Charlatans will help the Biden/Putin fascist cartel to reverse all of Trump’s successes. Like the demented Biden, both are Putin’s puppets of a long-term Socialist propaganda machine in America, contagious like Chinese COVID-19 virus.

The harvesting of ballots is going on now in this moment in Georgia, stealing the election. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Socialist Charlatans are very experienced in organized lying, cheating, and defrauding… never wasting time. They know that they are the criminals and to escape prison, they seek the power of the Senate. Republicans should grasp that to fight them vigorously to save the American Constitutional Republic!

I hope you understand now who had established and sponsored BLM and Antifa in America…

To be continued www.simonapipko1.cpm and at www.drrichswier.com/author/spipko/

Biden transition official wants speech restrictions, criminalization of burning of Qur’an

November 16, 2020/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Policy, Politics, Religion/by Jihad Watch

I’m not in favor of the burning of any book, and I believe that people ought to read and understand the Qur’an rather than burn it. However, note that Stengel is calling for legal “guardrails” against “speech that incites hate.”

If someone burns a Bible, no one cares. If someone burns a Qur’an, there are riots and death threats. So for Stengel, burning a Bible would not be “speech that incites hate,” but burning a Qur’an would be. Saying that “speech that incites hate” must be criminalized is tantamount to calling for the heckler’s veto to be enshrined in law. Stengel says: “Yes, the First Amendment protects the ‘thought that we hate,’ but it should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another.”

So if Muslims riot over burned Qur’ans, we must outlaw burning Qur’ans. That would only signal to Muslims that they can get us to bend to their will by threatening violence, and ensure that we will see many more such threats. In Richard Stengel’s ideal world, non-Muslims are cowed into silence by Muslims who threaten to kill them if they get out of line, and by non-Muslim officials who react to the threats by giving the Muslims what they want.

Note also that Leftist and Islamic groups in the U.S. have for years insisted, with no pushback from any mainstream politician or media figure, that essentially any and all criticism of Islam, including analysis of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims, is “hate speech” and “speech that incites hate.” Thus Richard Stengel will silence that as well, and the global jihad will be able to advance unopposed and unimpeded.

In a year or two I might have told you “I warned you this was coming,” but by then I probably won’t be able to.

“Joe Biden transition official wrote op-ed advocating free speech restrictions,” by Steven Nelson, New York Post, November 13, 2020:

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team leader for US-owned media outlets wants to redefine freedom of speech and make “hate speech” a crime.

Richard Stengel is the Biden transition “Team Lead” for the US Agency for Global Media, the US government media empire that includes Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Stengel, an Obama administration alumnus, wrote last year in a Washington Post op-ed that US freedom of speech was too unfettered and that changes must be considered.

He wrote: “All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails. I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate.”

Stengel offered two examples of speech that he has an issue with: Quran burning and circulation of “false narratives” by Russia during the 2016 election.

“Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?” Stengel wrote.

“It’s a fair question. Yes, the First Amendment protects the ‘thought that we hate,’ but it should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another. In an age when everyone has a megaphone, that seems like a design flaw.”…

“Since World War II, many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred. These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation,” Stengel wrote.

“I think it’s time to consider these statutes. The modern standard of dangerous speech comes from Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) and holds that speech that directly incites ‘imminent lawless action’ or is likely to do so can be restricted. Domestic terrorists such as Dylann Roof and Omar Mateen and the El Paso shooter were consumers of hate speech. Speech doesn’t pull the trigger, but does anyone seriously doubt that such hateful speech creates a climate where such acts are more likely?”…

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Radical ’Heroes Act’ Is a Leftist Wish-List

November 14, 2020/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Policy, Politics, Taxes, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

By FRC’s Ruth Moreno

On November 12, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) held a joint press conference calling for the passage of the Heroes Act. The Senate, House, and White House have been dealing with this far-left bill for months, but Schumer claims that the results from the 2020 election prove the necessity of passing the Heroes Act as a “starting point” on a new round of coronavirus relief legislation. Yesterday on “Washington Watch,” FRC President Tony Perkins spoke with House minority whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) to discuss the Heroes Act and the Democrats’ latest attempt to push it through Congress.

Though formally titled the “Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act,” the $2-$3 trillion Heroes Act is much more than a relief package. It bails out mismanaged Democrat-led cities and states on the taxpayer’s dime, making Americans pay for the incompetence and overreach of Democratic leadership.

Worse, the Heroes Act applies “nondiscrimination” provisions which redefine the term “sex” to include “sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions.” In service of the Left’s radical social agenda, this redefinition undermines both pro-life values and broader pro-family values. It also precludes the exemption of religious organizations and private schools from qualifying for the relief the bill provides.

This, as Whip Scalise pointed out, comes in the midst of a time when many public schools are refusing to even teach students in the classroom.

“If somebody is going to take your money but not educate your child safely in person when other school systems are willing to, then parents ought to be able to go to those places that will safely educate their child while taking the money,” Scalise said.

As he observed, the Heroes Act would also release “untold thousands” of criminals from prison. The number of criminals that would be released is truly unknown, because the bill does not explain exactly to whom it would apply.

Also woven into the Heroes Act is the full text of the Safe Banking Act, which grants the marijuana industry direct access to banking services. Under the Controlled Substances Act, this is currently prohibited.

One must wonder, as Tony asked Whip Scalise, what any of this has to do with the coronavirus.

“There are bills that would get huge bipartisan votes that would just renew paycheck protection program loans for small businesses,” Scalise said, adding that “There are millions of families that don’t want to be unemployed and their businesses are about to go under. You could save those jobs. That’s where our focus ought to be.”

Instead, Democrats are pushing partisan legislation under the guise that it’s what the American people want. Despite what Sen. Schumer and Speaker Pelosi may say, the still-disputed 2020 elections were not a “mandate” for the passage of the Heroes Act.

According to exit polls reported by the New York Times, 35 percent of American voters said their top political priority was the economy. Twenty percent of voters said it was racial inequality, followed by the coronavirus pandemic at 17 percent.

Seventeen percent is not a mandate. Americans want coronavirus legislation and relief, but it should not come at the expense of other important issues. And though the presidential race and certain Senate races are still lacking a clear winner, Republicans’ 10-seat gain in the House of Representatives proves that Americans are certainly not onboard with the Democrat’s radical agenda being pushed by Pelosi. Democrats spent enormous sums of money trying to flip House seats blue, but in states like Florida and Texas, the electorate came out in defense of common sense and traditional American values. Adding to this, Republicans will most likely hold on to the Senate, and even picked up gains in state legislatures around the country. When races are examined around the country, at all levels, the voters actually delivered a mandate for a conservative agenda — not the Heroes Act!

The 1,800-page long Heroes Act stands against just about every traditional American value imaginable. In addition to legislating bailouts, freed criminals, marijuana banking, and a complete redefinition of the family, the Heroes Act also includes Planned Parenthood loans, taxpayer-funded abortion, cash for illegal immigrants, and even election-altering provisions (the Heroes Act guts voter ID laws and other state measures which protect the integrity of elections). The bill also includes anti-free speech “hate crimes” provisions.

Indeed, after the 2020 elections, Sen. Schumer and Speaker Pelosi should know better than to force upon Americans something as radical as the Heroes Act.

‘Never bet against me’: President Trump makes first post-election comments.

November 14, 2020/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Elections, Policy, Politics/by The Geller Report

Trust Trump.

‘Never bet against me’: Trump makes first post-election comments, lays out path to victory

“It’s probably two weeks, three weeks” to know outcome, President says

By Joseph Cur, Just the News, November 13, 2020 – 12:30pm

That’s what President Trump told Washington Examiner reporter Byron York on Thursday, in his first post-election comments on the state of the 2020 presidential race.

Trump was optimistic, laying out a scenario in which he pulls out wins in key battleground states and gets to the magic number of 270 votes in the Electoral College.

“We’re going to win Wisconsin,” the president said in the exclusive phone interview. “Arizona – it’ll be down to 8,000 votes, and if we can do an audit of the millions of votes, we’ll find 8,000 votes easy. If we can do an audit, we’ll be in good shape there.”

“Georgia, we’re going to win, because now, we’re down to about 10,000, 11,000 votes, and we have hand-counting,” he said, referring to a call by Georgia’s secretary of state do perform a full audit on the election. “Hand-counting is the best. To do a spin of the machine doesn’t mean anything. You pick up 10 votes. But when you hand-count – I think we’re going to win Georgia.”

Trump also presented a rosy view on North Carolina, where he leads by more than 70,000 votes. He predicts a win there unless, he said jokingly, “they happen to find a lot of votes. I said, ‘When are they going to put in the new votes in North Carolina? When are they going to find a batch from Charlotte?’ ”

That leaves Pennsylvania (where Trump trails 60,000 votes) and Michigan (where he’s behind by more than 145,000 votes).

The two big states,” Trump said, adding, “They’re all sort of big.”

Trump then complained about the process in Pennsylvania.

“They wouldn’t let our poll watchers and observers watch or observe,” he said. “That’s a big thing. They should throw those votes out that went through during those periods of time when [Trump observers] weren’t there. We went to court, and the judge ordered [the observers] back, but that was after two days, and millions of votes could have gone through. Millions. And we’re down 50,000,” he said.

The president told York he has contemplated losing. “I’m a guy who realizes – five days ago, I thought, ‘Maybe,’” he said. “But, now I see evidence, and we have hundreds of affidavits,” referring to the testimony included in lawsuits by his campaign.

“When I asked him how quickly he might turn things around,” York wrote, “he said, ‘I don’t know. It’s probably two weeks, three weeks.’”

“He knows the situation. He has heard many people tell him it’s over and time to concede. But at the very least, it is important for his most devoted supporters to see him fighting to stay in office. And he closed with a good-natured warning for everyone who has told him there is no hope: ‘Never bet against me,’” York wrote.

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Is Joe Biden an Abomination to God?

November 13, 2020/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Religion/by Dr. Rich Swier

Proverbs 6:16–19 NKJV.

These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

I have recently been made aware at a men’s fellowship group of a Bible quote in Proverbs by my good friend Bob Armstrong. Joe Biden says he is a Catholic. I am a Catholic.

Because I am a Catholic I unequivocally believe in the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage as between one man and one woman and in the God given right to practice my religion freely in these United States of America.

As I read these words in Proverbs I wondered if Joe Biden is an abomination to God?

Joe Biden, as the head of the Democrat Party, believes in abortion, gay marriage and members of his party have suppressed freedom of religion using Covid as a useful excuse.

Let’s look at the six things that God hates and you decide if Joe Biden is an abomination to God.

A proud look. A proud look speaks of a person who would want his or her will above the will of God and the will of others. It speaks of people who are arrogant and full of themselves. Does Joe Biden care more about enriching himself than feeding the poor?
A lying tongue. Satan is identified as “the father of lies” (John 8:44 NLT). It’s as clear as day: God is truth, and Satan is the father of lies. Therefore when we lie, we are behaving more like the children of the devil than the children of God. Does Joe Biden lie?
Hands that shed innocent blood. The most innocent of blood is that of the unborn in the womb.
A heart that devises wicked plans. Look at the 2020 election and you be the judge.
Feet that are swift in running to evil. Does Joe Biden denounce evil (e.g. the riots that have destroyed cities across America) or does he embrace evil?
A false witness who speaks lies. Joe Biden has declared himself the president elect of the United States before the legal votes of all states have been counted and certified.
One who sows discord among brethren. Does Joe Biden hate those who did not vote for him as the leader of the Democrat Party?

One may say that all of us violate each of these things that the Lord hates. This is so. None of us is without sin.

However, it is only those of us who understand that we are sinners and do everything we can to repent, only then will we be looked at with favor by God.

Many are quick to blame politicians for many of our woes. Perhaps we should blame ourselves for electing un-Godly men and women? For American was created by and for a moral people.

As President John Adams stated:

Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Yes, politicians are sinners. Some more than others. Is Joe Biden a moral man? Is Joe Biden a religious man?

The question remains: Is Joe Biden an Abomination to God?

Please add your thoughts for or against in the comments section below.

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Cuomo Develops Vaccine That Makes People Immune To Trump’s Vaccine

November 13, 2020/in Commentary, Satire/by The Babylon Bee

ALBANY, NY—Many thought it was great news when they heard about the effectiveness of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, but one person is alarmed by this development: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. In fact, Cuomo says he has scientists developing a vaccine that will render President Trump’s vaccine ineffective.

“We are doing great here in New York, and I have done everything perfectly,” Cuomo told the press, “just ask anyone in the media — especially my brother Chris. So we don’t need Trump coming in here and mucking everything up with his vaccine that’s been unproven except for multiple tests by the FDA.”

Cuomo hopes to have the vaccine-vaccine ready next week and will make it mandatory for all citizens of New York. “No one is getting cured by Trump,” Cuomo stated. “Not on my watch.”

Other governors have expressed interest in Cuomo’s vaccine-vaccine, such as California Governor Gavin Newsom. “Trump is just trying to endanger everyone by giving them the freedom to leave their houses when they want and do what they want,” Newsom said. “Californians just aren’t ready to abandon my guidance on their everyday activities.”

President Trump seemed unperturbed by the resistance to his vaccine, though. “Those states didn’t vote for me,” he said, “so I hope they all die.”

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When ‘Unity’ Means ‘Shut the Hell Up’

November 13, 2020/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics/by The Daily Signal

On Saturday evening, presidential front-runner Joe Biden—who doesn’t actually become president-elect until vote counts are certified—gave a preliminary victory address.

In that address, he spoke of his mandate to govern: a mandate, he said, that extended to marshalling the “forces of decency … fairness … science … hope.” Which is a pretty vague mandate, as it turns out.

But there was another overarching mandate Biden expressed: a mandate to come together, to unify as Americans. “To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy,” Biden said. “We are not enemies. We are Americans.”

All of that is nice. Who wouldn’t like a country in which we could enjoy cultural events together without being lectured about the alleged evils of the country, in which we could attend family events without being castigated as bigots, in which we could disagree and still enjoy one another?

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Who wouldn’t like an America in which our neighbors no longer see us as cancel-culture targets, in which we no longer have to fear our compatriots rioting and looting over supposed systemic injustices, in which our social interactions are not limited by our voter registration?

But.

Americans are right to have some rather serious trust issues with calls for unity in our polarized time. After all, former President Barack Obama pledged American reunification right up until he began treating tea partyers as unspeakable threats and political opponents as crypto-racists. Everything was hopey and changey right up until the time … it wasn’t.

So, in order to earn our trust, Biden would have to call his own side out for raising the temperature. And he has steadfastly refused to do so.

He hasn’t called out Black Lives Matter for the suggestion that America is systemically racist; he has cheered it on. He hasn’t condemned Antifa; he has deemed it a philosophy rather than a dangerous movement. And he certainly hasn’t said a word about the continuing attacks on Trump supporters.

We will wait in vain for Biden to chide former first lady Michelle Obama for declaring that 70 million Americans “voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division.” Our bones will likely bleach before Biden tells Hillary Clinton that Trump supporters aren’t deplorables.

No, “unity” in the Biden formulation isn’t a recognition of what we have in common; it’s a demand that we silence ourselves in order to mirror Biden’s priorities.

Unity, you see, can be achieved one of two ways: through recognition of the other, through a determination to understand those who think differently than we do; or through ideological domination. It’s rather obvious which pathway Democrats will choose. After all, social ostracization is one of their most powerful tools. Why disarm now?

Americans can only come together when we share a common philosophy, history, and culture. Democrats have spent years attempting to tear away those commonalities in favor of coalitional interest-group politics.

They’ve declared American philosophy racist from inception; they’ve declared American history a litany of brutalities; they’ve declared American culture bigotry embodied. Now they want unity—the unity of absolute victory.

Ironically, it’s that very desire—the desire for monolithic control—that will be their undoing.

Unless Biden is serious about unity—unless he’s willing to cross the aisle and recognize the humanity of those with whom he disagrees, and to call out those on his own side who won’t—Biden’s term is likely to be contentious, polarizing, and ultimately unsuccessful.

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Ben Shapiro

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Domestic Violence More Than Doubled Under Lockdowns, New Study Finds

November 12, 2020/in Commentary, Healthcare, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)

New research shows that domestic violence surged during quarantine.

The unintended consequences of the COVID-19 lockdowns have been severe: mass unemployment, increased drug overdoses and suicides, and widespread social unrest are but a few of them.

On Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a paper detailing another: increased domestic violence.

Analyzing government-mandated lockdowns in India, researchers Saravana Ravindran and Manisha Shah found evidence of a 131 percent increase in complaints of domestic violence in May 2020 in “red zone districts,” or districts that experienced the strictest lockdown measures, relative to districts that had less strict measures (“green zones”).

The researchers, who used a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, found the increase in domestic violence complaints was consistent with a surge in Google search activity for terms related to domestic violence over the same period.

The authors’ findings “contribute to a growing literature on the impacts of lockdowns and stay-at-home policies on violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The findings, which also found a decline in reported sexual assaults because of decreased mobility, are similar to those from research that found lockdowns led to a 100 percent increase in intimate partner violence calls in Mexico City. A study analyzing data from police departments in four US cities showed smaller increases in domestic violence, 10-27 percent, during lockdown periods.

Globally about one-third of women experience “intimate partner violence” (IPV), which negatively impacts female earnings, labor participation, earnings, mental health, and household consumption.

Unseen Costs of Lockdowns

The global increase in domestic violence during the lockdown period has received relatively little attention, though CNN recently reported on the increase south of the US border.

In Mexico, federal lawmakers shut down most of its economy on March 23, urging people to stay indoors. Activists told the network the action spurred “an onslaught of domestic violence,” and data show 911 calls for domestic violence are up 44 percent from the same time the previous year.

“The lockdowns triggered violence in so many ways,” Perla Acosta Galindo, Director of Más Sueños A.C., a women’s community center, told CNN. “People can’t work, there’s alcoholism, overcrowding; it’s a lot.”

Lockdowns Are Destructive

To some degree, the COVID pandemic has been portrayed as a morality play. Some would have you believe those who care about people support lockdowns; those who don’t care about people oppose them. We’re presented with false choices: we can support the economy or protect American lives.

These types of arguments only serve to divide. They can also obscure a basic truth: there are human costs to lockdowns, besides the economic ones, that can ravage lives just as badly as any disease.

The Washington Post, for example, recently reported on ”a hidden epidemic within the coronavirus pandemic”: drug overdoses. One Ohio coroner said he can’t process the bodies fast enough.

“We’ve literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on,” Anahi Ortiz told the paper.

Statistics suggest the trend is national in scope. Data from the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program show that overdoses were up 18 percent in March, 29 percent in April, and 42 percent in May from the same periods the previous year.

These statistics should come as no surprise. Social scientists have been writing about the deadly consequences of social isolation for years.

It’s not just higher stress levels, disrupted sleep patterns, and altered immune systems. One 2015 study determined that social isolation substantially increased the risk of stroke (32 percent) and heart disease (29 percent).

Social isolation is also linked to suicide. While there is no comprehensive 2020 data on suicides, anecdotal evidence suggests many are struggling to cope with quarantine life. In May, during the peak of the lockdowns, one California doctor told local media his hospital has seen “a year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.”

Recognizing That Lockdowns Have Victims

As the French economist Frédéric Bastiat stressed, every policy, “produces not only one effect, but a series of effects.” The immediate and intended effects are what he calls “the seen,” while the indirect, unintended consequences are “the unseen.” “The seen” usually gets all the attention, while “the unseen” often goes neglected.

In this case, “the seen” are the victims of the virus and those who hopefully avoid spreading or catching the disease because of the lockdowns. They are, without a doubt, worthy of our care and attention.

But we also must not ignore “the unseen”: the millions of human beings who, as a result of the lockdowns, have become victims of domestic violence, drug overdoses, depression, suicide, and more.

As Antony Davies and James Harrigan wrote, “The uncomfortable truth is that no policy can save lives; it can only trade lives.” It may one day be determined that the lockdowns saved more lives than they destroyed, although recent evidence suggests the correlation between lockdown severity and COVID-19 deaths is weak. But let’s not underestimate the devastating human toll of this policy.

The lives ruined or snuffed out by the lockdowns deserve better than that. They deserve to be seen.

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Jon Miltimore

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