NEWS REVUE
Zuckered Shut! Gav in a Rut! Big Pharma Rebut! 'Cito Glut!
This column was published earlier today in SB Current.
“Mark Zuckerberg: Covid censorship was Wrong and I Wish I’d Fought it” (Daily Telegraph)
Gee, ya think?
Anyone with half a brain knew back in 2020 that antisocial media (especially FaceBook) was quashing everything that ran contrary to the seriously flawed mainstream narrative.
FaceBook routinely deleted posts that revealed potential harmful side effects of the Covid vaccine and anything that suggested Covid emanated from a lab in China, along with shaming those posting truthful information by labeling them “conspiracy theorists.”
Writes Zuckerberg to the House Judiciary Committee: “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humor and satire.”
Mark “Joe Goebbels” Zuckerberg also admitted it was wrong for FaceBook to suppress news about Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop.
Too little, too late. But thanks for the yucks, Zuck—and for reinforcing the notion that FaceBook can never be trusted.
“Duke of Sussex Asks Former Aides to Help Plot RETURN from his US exile in First Stage of 'Rehabilitation' Strategy: Prince's Friends Vow to Help Smooth Path Pack and Dub it 'Operation Bring Harry In From The Cold'“ (Daily Mail)
Is this a joke?
Or is hapless Harry hallucinating?
Exile means exile, delusions notwithstanding, best clarified by Harry’s former private sectary Edward Lane Fox, who responded with these words to a rehabilitation strategy: “It's not something I've got a view on I'm afraid.” Which is posh Brit talk for, It ain’t happening, Harold.
“Why Gavin Newsom Lost Star Surrogate Status Under Kamala Harris” (Politico)
Poor Gav, screwed by Joe’s screwing of Nancy, eclipsed by the Kackling Kamel with nary a Democratic vote.
Gruesome’s been lying low, starting with the Democratic National Convention, where he hardly made a peep, citing a back-to-school commitment. Yeah, right.
“But Nance promised me!” he could be heard wailing into his vino at PlumpJack Winery in Napa. (The vineyard he owns with Gordon Getty that remained open while most others were locked down during Covid .)
“Health Experts Fear RFK Jr.’s ‘Dangerous’ Influence on Trump” (The Hill)
Some folks are worried that Trump would make RFK, Jr. his Health Czar for reigning in Big Pharma.
About time somebody does.
“From a health perspective this would be nothing short of chaos,” said Robert Murphy, a professor of infectious disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Ahh… I wonder how much grant funding Prof. Murphy’s department receives from Big Pharma?
“He’s proven himself to be a dangerous fanatic,” continues Murphy, “who doesn’t have a science background and who doesn’t believe in science.”
Ahh… you mean Anthony Fauci’s so-called “science”?
No, thanks.
Vaccinations, especially those given to children (as demanded by schools), should be studied by an independent commission, add safeguards to ensure such a commission cannot be corrupted by Big Pharma with their promise of do-nothing jobs for CDC and NIH officials upon retirement from government “watchdog” (ha!) service.
“Frustrated with White House, Family of Detained American Reaches Out to Taliban” (WSJ)
George Glezmann, a Delta Air Lines mechanic, was touring Afghanistan when the Taliban seized him in December 2022. The State Department 10 months later designated him as wrongfully detained, giving the administration vast authorities to secure his release. But Glezmann’s family insists they don’t get enough information or cooperation from the Biden administration, driving them to contact Glezmann’s captors in hopes of pushing negotiations forward.
All the money we spend on government… yet if we need something done (or done at all), we must do it ourselves.
I know for certain that if a relative of mine got stuck in a foreign country, the last place I’d call is a U.S. embassy, the State Department or the White House.
From an Original Column by William Moloney. His columns have appeared in the WSJ Journal, the Hill, USA Today, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post:
Four times in the last 72 years Democratic Presidents pursuing hopes of re-election have seen those ambitions defeated owing to failed foreign and domestic policy and political challenges from within their own party.
In 1952, President Harry Truman, burdened by abysmal approval ratings, a stalemated Korean War and an electoral challenge by a fellow Democrat, withdrew from the race after being upset in the New Hampshire primary by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver.
In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson suffered a near defeat in the New Hampshire primary by the relatively unknown Eugene McCarthy, followed four days later by the entry into the race of Robert Kennedy—both Democratic Senators running in opposition to the deeply unpopular Vietnam War. Two weeks later LBJ ended his candidacy.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter - widely blamed for economic “stagflation,” Soviet rampages in Afghanistan and Africa and, above all, his failure to rescue the American hostages held prisoner in Iran, managed to win his party's nomination despite losing 15 primaries to his challenger, Senator Edward Kennedy. He was subsequently crushed in a 44-state landslide by Republican Ronald Reagan.
In 2024, President Joe Biden sought re-election despite abysmal approval ratings, a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, a stalemated proxy war in Ukraine, millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southern border, run- away inflation, a soaring debt to GDP ratio, surging crime rates and serious doubts about his age and mental acuity.
After a nationally televised 90-minute debate debacle cruelly exposed Biden’s self -evidently diminished cognitive capacities that his staff had concealed from the American public for over a year, numerous panicking Democratic officials and even liberal media outlets (New York Times, Washington Post) called on Biden to step aside as a candidate.
President Biden's departure left the Democrats with the dilemma of what to do with Vice President Kamala Harris whose dismal public approval ratings—even lower than Biden's—had led many in the party to consider replacing her on the ticket.
Because of her well documented left-wing policy stances, Harris had become the darling of the party's Progressives: A Democratic Party that is today built on a foundation of identity politics with race and gender as absolute Holy Writ.
Any further doubts about who runs the Democratic party were dispelled when more plausible centrists—Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro or Arizona Senator Kelly—were bypassed as Vice Presidential candidates in favor of the little known but decidedly leftist Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz.
This bubble-wrapped candidacy, and Kamala Harris’ reluctance to hold press conferences, is already drawing comparisons to Joe Biden's 2020 “basement campaign."
“Outrage as California Vacation Spot Beloved by Hollywood Stars is Now Plagued by Horrendous Stench - as 'Toxic Dust' Sparks Health Fears” (Daily Mail)
The Mail is a wee bit behind on this one.
The Salton Sea has been a stink-hole for decades (though I gather it’s getting worse…).
REFLECTION, RUMINATION & RHETORIC FROM THE ROAD: THE SALTON SEA
This appeared in the Santa Barbara News-Press in July 2021.Thanks for reading ERINGER! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
And finally…
“Montecito is a Playground for A-listers like the Sussexes and Oprah, but even Paradise has its Imperfections” (Daily Telegraph)
Ain’t that the friggin’ truth.
For a start, methinks by “imperfections” they mean A-holes (not A-listers) given the influx of Angelinos ever since Harry and Me-Again arrived in town, and with them, glam, bling and congestion.