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COVID Panic To Rule Biden’s First 100 Days

Via American Greatness

The old normal looks further away than ever.

It will be the perfect virtual start for the most remote presidential candidate ever elected—thanks in large part to voters who also never needed to show up.

On January 20, barring some last-minute miracle that rescues Donald Trump’s presidency, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Inauguration Day once served as a symbol of hope to subjugated people around the world; the ceremony proved that democracy works, free citizens can and should choose their national leadership, and political disagreements are settled with ballots, not bullets. Sadly, like so many once-revered American traditions, the peaceful transfer of power from one political party to the other has been desecrated, hijacked by vengeful partisans intent on keeping power at any cost.

Inauguration Day also is a long and grueling event. Festivities begin in the morning; the outgoing First Couple greets the incoming First Couple at the White House for photos and tea. Beltway aristocracy attends a noon swearing-in ceremony. The new president then delivers his first official address to the nation. Parades, signing ceremonies, and inaugural balls go on well into the night. Biden, of course, has attended every Inauguration Day this century, including twice as the vice president.

But this year will be different. Team Biden will wring every last infected droplet out of the COVID-19 panic for at least the first 100 days of a Biden Administration. Democrats and the Biden campaign shamelessly exploited the health crisis to damage President Trump, push for an unprecedented volume of absentee ballots that overwhelmingly favored the Democratic presidential nominee, and leveraged “social distancing” dogma to keep Republican poll watchers far away from mischievous Democratic canvassers in several key cities.

Why give up the political gift that keeps on giving?

The incoming president only has hosted a smattering of public appearances while successfully avoiding tough questions about investigations into his son. A frail Biden coughed repeatedly during another “acceptance” speech Monday night and had to be guided out by his wife; the media dutifully reported later that Biden has a minor cold.

The coronavirus cover-up of Biden’s obvious lack of focus, energy, stamina, and patience—he snaps at any reporter who dares to even mildly confront the next leader of the free world with legitimate questions—will continue into the foreseeable future. According to the Presidential Inauguration Committee, the day will be “reimagined” to conform to CDC guidance prohibiting large public gatherings. Biden and Kamala Harris will take the oath of office in front of the Capitol Building, the usual spot, but the rest of the festivities will be virtual or canceled altogether.

“A parade of some sort will be staged, but it is likely to be more virtual than physical, featuring people from across the country,” the Washington Post reported this week. “It is unclear whether the traditional luncheon with members of Congress will be held after the swearing in, or whether President Trump will host Biden at the usual tea at the White House before the swearing in.”

The parade might involve the sort of freakish horn-honking or goofy Zoom “rallies” that Biden strategists organized during the campaign in a failed attempt to compete with Trump’s massive in-person rallies.

But the nontraditional celebration isn’t stopping Team Biden from continuing the longstanding American tradition of raising tons of money from big donors, including corporations. A million-dollar inaugural sponsor wins an invitation to a “virtual event” with the Bidens, Kamala Harris and the “Second Gentleman-elect,” which honestly sounds more appealing than an invitation to an in-person party with that crew.

A reimagined Inauguration Day, however, should be the least of the concerns confronting freedom-loving Americans desperate to return to normal. Even with the vaccine—an incredible achievement for President Trump and for which Biden brazenly tries to take credit—public health “experts” aligned with the incoming president warn life as we used to know it is months if not years away.

Dr. Vin Gupta, on staff at the same Gates Foundation-funded outlet at the University of Washington that produced the disastrous models used to shut down the economy last March, warned that people should not travel even after receiving the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. (Those of us who have traveled all year did not know we needed Dr. Gupta’s permission.)

Read the entire article HERE.

Democrat Andrew Yang Echoes Calls From Communist China To Have Proof-Of-Vaccination Barcodes

Via The Daily Wire

Failed Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who is also a CNN contributor, echoed on Friday calls from communist China by calling for people to have proof-of-vaccination barcodes.

“Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated — like a bar code they can download to their phone?” Yang wrote on Twitter. “There ought to be.”

“Tough to have mass gatherings like concerts or ballgames without either mass adoption of the vaccine or a means of signaling,” he added. “I’ve been tested at a photo shoot or interview and gotten a bracelet showing I was negative. Then we could interact more freely.”

Yang’s remarks are similar to what Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, who has religious minorities locked up in concentration camps, wants to be implemented around the world.

“China mandated the widespread use of QR-based health certificates earlier this year. The system, which uses an electronic barcode to store a person’s travel and health history, has been credited with helping to curb the spread of the virus,” CNN reported last month. “The code issues users with a color code based on their potential exposure to the novel coronavirus. The colors are like traffic lights — green is safest, then amber and finally red.”

“China has proposed a global mechanism on the mutual recognition of health certificates based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted QR codes,” Xi said last month. “We hope more countries will join this mechanism.”

Yang faced widespread backlash over his comments, although Democrats were largely silent, with many pointing to privacy and authoritarian concerns.

Read the entire article HERE.

Seriously? Gunshot Deaths Counted Among COVID-19 Fatalities in Colorado

Via PJ Media

A pair of gunshot deaths that counted among COVID fatalities have earned the ire of a county coroner in Colorado.

Grand County, in the sparsely-populated (but breathtaking) northwestern quarter of the state, is home to fewer than 15,000 people and has been lucky enough to endure only a handful of deaths related to the Wuhan Virus.

But of those five deaths, County Coroner Brenda Bock says two actually died of gunshot wounds.

Bock sounded furious in her interview with CBS4 News in Denver, and with good reason. Grand County’s economy is heavily reliant on tourism, and as Bock told CBS4, “It’s absurd that they would even put that on there.”

“Would you want to go to a county that has really high death numbers?” she asked, presumably rhetorically. “Would you want to go visit that county because they are contagious? You know I might get it, and I could die if all of a sudden one county has a high death count. We don’t have it, and we don’t need those numbers inflated.”

Bock told CBS4 that because the victims had tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days of having been shot, the county classified them as “deaths among cases.”

That’s a curious definition, but one required by the national reporting rules created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Deaths among COVID-19 cases” includes people who died with COVID-19, “but COVID-19 may not have been the cause of death listed on the death certificate.” That’s different from the CDC’s definition of “deaths due to COVID-19.” Those are cases “where COVID-19 is listed as the cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Woman Stomped, Knocked Out In Walmart Brawl Over Playstation

Via TMZ

Shopping rage isn’t easing up in the pandemic — a shouting match inside a Walmart turned violent, and ended with a woman getting stomped in the face.

You can see in the video, this confrontation between 2 women went from zero to 100 real quick in the Walmart near Charlotte, and the reason? Reportedly, a PS5 gaming console, naturally. The woman with long braids was getting ready to throw hands, and asked her opponent, “What the f**k are you gonna do?”

A man riding a motorized cart, actually tried to deescalate the sitch by getting between the women — but you can see, he failed, and after a hot minute … all hell broke loose.

Hair was pulled, punches were thrown … and in the end, the woman with braids appeared to be knocked out cold.

Law enforcement sources tell us cops did respond when this went down on December 13 … but no one was cited or arrested because both parties were gone when officers arrived.

Read the entire article HERE.

NBA Stays Quiet on Chinese Slave Labor

Via The Washington Free Beacon

League declines to address Uighur cotton picking in China

The National Basketball Association is remaining quiet on the issue of Chinese slave labor, even after new revelations regarding the nature and size of labor camps housing Uighur Muslims.

Some 85 percent of China’s cotton exports come from Xinjiang, where at least one million Uighurs are currently detained in camps, an action that some Republicans say is tantamount to genocide. At least 570,000 laborers in three Chinese provinces picked cotton in the western region of Xinjiang in 2018, according to a new Center for Global Policy report. When BBC reporters visited the region to document its “huge industrial expansion,” officials stopped them from filming.

Since the first revelations about the camps, the NBA has not addressed Chinese human-rights violations even as it pursues a social-justice agenda domestically. The league declined to comment when the Washington Free Beacon asked about the BBC report.

The NBA reaped more than $500 million in Chinese revenue in 2019 and inked a $1 billion deal with Beijing tech giant Tencent to exclusively stream games in China. NBA China, a separate entertainment arm of the league, was valued at more than $5 billion by one sports consulting firm in 2019.

While the NBA has publicly supported political expression among progressive players and coaches, it has cracked down on those who criticized China. In 2019, former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey faced sharp rebuke from his peers for supporting Hong Kong human-rights activists.

Read the entire article HERE.

Report: LeBron James To Be Appointed As Ambassador To China

Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The incoming Biden administration has floated LeBron James as its ambassador to China, sources learned today.

James says he’s “excited” to be able to once again normalize relations between the two countries and make sure that the United States doesn’t do anything to upset the world power, like call attention to its slave labor camps and poor conditions for workers, or the fact that it unleashed a deadly virus on the globe.

“LeBron will do a great job ensuring we do everything China wants us to,” said Joe Biden. “He’s a great football player, one of the best. In my day, the leagues were segregated, but that’s all behind us now. You know, I played a little pigskin in my day. You know why they call it pigskin? Well, we used to cook up a little bacon and some pulled pork, and we’d take the leftover pig and roll it up in a little ball and start hucking it at one another, as was the style in those days.”

Colin Kaepernick was also floated but ultimately didn’t get picked.

Check out all of the Bee’s takes on politics and culture HERE.

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