Election Watch

Trump Must Be Reading This Blog

Donald Trump must be reading my blog, because he’s just predicted that Biden won’t be running against him in the 2024 election.

In a recent interview with Breitbart News, Trump said, “All you have to do is look at his credentials. When you compare him today to 15 or 20 years ago, he’s a different kind of a guy. The guy can’t talk. The guy can’t put two sentences together.”

If you have watched clips of Biden speaking, you know this is true.

In recent weeks, many poll watchers and pundits have been voicing their doubts about Biden. If you google “predictions that Biden won’t run in 2024” (or something similar), you’ll find dozens of them.

Here are three:

From The Economic Times: A senior JPMorgan Chase strategist has predicted that Joe Biden will bow out of the 2024 election. He has given reasons for this. He has also made other predictions. Click here. 

From Reuters: Biden is “not sure” he’d be running if Trump was not in the race. Click here.

From The Hill: Cornel West says he’s not sure Biden will make it to the election. Click here. 

The End of Western Culture 

Holiday Roadkill: Pro-Hamas Americans Shut Down Airports 

As reported in the Dec. 31 installment of “The Week That Perished” in Taki’s Magazine:

“On Dec. 27, pro-Hamas protesters in the US rolled out a nationwide airport blockade in which noble leftists fighting for the right of Muslims to rape and murder Jews linked arms and prevented entry to LAX, JFK, and O’Hare, keeping travelers from their flights….

“This capped a year in which ‘climate activists’ in the UK and Europe… made a cottage industry out of blockading highways, ‘slow-walking’ traffic on busy streets, defacing buildings, and vandalizing museums.”

The Associated Press responded to this by running a piece that argued that protests involving violence and the use of force are the most important facets of a well-functioning democracy.

Read more headline news from “The Week That Perished” here.

Are Americans Becoming Emotionally Dependent on Their Celebrities? 

In response to a recently published NYT piece by Anna Marks on Taylor Swift that suggested she was, or should be, bisexual, Freddie deBoer wrote:

“The NYT piece operates by conceding that Swift is known to have exclusively dated men and has never made a single statement suggesting that she’s anything other than heterosexual, then goes on to insist that she’s queer, whatever the fuck that term means in 2024. Marks does this in part by sketching some unconvincing readings of Swift’s lyrics and by laying out conspiracy theories that remind me of QAnon. But more, Marks simply insists that LGBTQ people need this, that the palpable longing for Swift to be gay… can somehow will Swift’s homosexuality into being.”

Continue reading here.

Health Watch 

DeSantis Gets Ahead of the Biden Administration on Prescription Medicine Pricing 

The so-called Inflation Reduction Act gave the US government the right to negotiate certain drugs for Medicare Part D participants down to a maximum of about $3,300 a year. The Democratic leadership was counting on this as an important talking point in the 2024 election.

Ron DeSantis has taken the wind out of those sails by securing permission from the FDA to import all sorts of prescription drugs from Canada at even cheaper prices. This could make a big difference in how much Floridians will be spending on medicine in 2024.

DeSantis’s strategy should be very popular among voters, but it’s not a done deal.

The current deal with the FDA will be in force only for two years. If DeSantis wants the cost savings to become permanent, Florida must “demonstrate the programs would result in significant cost savings to consumers without adding risk of exposure to unsafe or ineffective drugs,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said.

DeSantis said the state would begin the program by importing drugs to help people cared for by state agencies – e.g., the Dept. of Corrections and the Agency for Persons with Disabilities. The drugs would treat chronic health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s Surgeon General, Has Called for a Halt of the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

The reason? He says that the shots Pfizer and Moderna said were “safe” are contaminated with plasmid DNA.

And plasmid DNA is not something you want floating around in your body.

Citing a paper published by the FDA in 2007, Dr. Ladapo presented the following concerns with respect to regulatory limits for DNA in vaccines:

* DNA integration could theoretically impact a human’s oncogenes – the genes that can transform a healthy cell into a cancerous cell.

* DNA integration may result in chromosomal instability.

* The FDA’s paper discusses biodistribution of DNA vaccines and how such integration could affect unintended parts of the body, including blood, heart, brain, liver, kidney, bone marrow, ovaries/testes, lungs, etc.

This wasn’t news for those of us that have been following the issue. Scientists and medical professionals have been talking about it for years.