Neither was I the only one. There were several accounts of SCOTUS judge Sotomayor staying home because fellow judge Gorsuch refused to wear a face diaper… well, actually just repeats of NPR’s account. Does this look like the face of a psycho freaky-Karen promoted far beyond her wits and ability?

Yes, absolutely.

Neither did Sotomayor help her credibility by recently…

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By Zachary Evans for National Review

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed that 100,000 children are in “serious condition” from Covid during oral arguments on the Biden administration’s employer vaccine mandate on Friday.

“We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators,” Sotomayor claimed.

The current number of confirmed pediatric hospitalizations with Covid in the U.S. is 3,342, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services released on Friday. The average number of children admitted to the hospital per day with Covid was 776 as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

She’s a nutcase of a fruit basket, so of course she’d play the victim card by staying home because a man wasn’t taking Coof-Coof seriously. It passed my smell test. I nearly did a post on him and I’m sorry I didn’t (busy with work), because then I would have had the original of this article:

Report Contradicts NPR’s Nina Totenberg: Justice Gorsuch Not Defying Roberts, No Mask Mandate for SCOTUS

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By Joel B. Pollack, 18 January 2022

Notice the mismatch between the title and URL. That’s become one of my standard check-for-tricks.

An NPR story that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will continue to work remotely because fellow Justice Neil Gorsuch refuses to wear a mask in court despite a request from Chief Justice John Roberts to do so was quickly debunked by a Supreme Court source.

NPR reported Tuesday that the justices were like a “dysfunctional family”:

“It was pretty jarring earlier this month when the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court took the bench for the first time since the omicron surge over the holidays. All were now wearing masks. All, that is, except Justice Neil Gorsuch. What’s more, Justice Sonia Sotomayor was not there at all, choosing instead to participate through a microphone setup in her chambers.

“Sotomayor has diabetes, a condition that puts her at high risk for serious illness, or even death, from COVID-19. She has been the only justice to wear a mask on the bench since last fall when, amid a marked decline in COVID-19 cases, the justices resumed in-person arguments for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.

“Now, though, the situation had changed with the omicron surge, and according to court sources, Sotomayor did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other justices to mask up.

“They all did. Except Gorsuch, who, as it happens, sits next to Sotomayor on the bench. His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices’ weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone.”

But Fox News later reported that according to a source at the Supreme Court the story was not accurate. Chief Justice John Roberts had not asked the other justices to mask up for arguments, and Justice Sotomayor had not requested Justice Gorsuch wear a mask. Given those facts, there was no refusal by Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask.

Not accurate, hell. That was FABRICATED.

A day after the Fox report contradicting NPR’s Totenberg, Gorsuch and Sotomayor released a joint statement personally refuting the story.

Editor’s Note: This story and the headline were updated to include that a source at the Supreme Court said the NPR story was not accurate, and that Fox News reported the inaccuracies.

It’s interesting that Totenberg’s libel of Gorsuch was accepted at face value by multiple conservative and liberal outlets. The first takeaway is that SJWs believe that normal human behavior is toxic. Totenberg accused Gorsuch of… horrors!… breathing unfiltered oxygen even if it inconvenienced a woman enough to make her not bother coming into work.

If you can’t risk getting sick then you SHOULD stay home! What you shouldn’t do is go about your daily routine while screeching at everybody around you that THEY should protect YOUR health.

NPR wanted to believe that Sotomayor was a victim.

Breitbart wanted to believe that Gorsuch was a normal person.

I wanted to believe that SCOTUS was having the same problems with living a normal life that I am. But no, the Ruling Elites of the judicial system in D.C. are happily going maskless.

“A source at the Supreme Court says there has been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other Justices begin wearing masks to arguments.”

Another takeaway is that news media is more incestuous than Lot in a cave with his daughters. When I find an interesting story, I try to backtrack it to the original source rather than copying a copy. This isn’t always feasible, for example paywalls or me not being on Twitter/Facebook, but the practice of using original sources is a good one.

Another is that media manipulation has gone mainstream. So many people know now that the Establishment media lies, that its members have ceased trying to hide it.

One wonders if ((Totenberg)) will get axed for reporting a completely false, easily disprovable story.

*checks*

Well, well. Here’s yet another takeaway: SJWs always double down.

NPR reporter fumes over Supreme Court statement refuting outlet’s story, implies Gorsuch and Sotomayor lied

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By Brian Flood, 19 January 2022

An NPR reporter appeared to call Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor liars on Wednesday after they issued a joint statement disputing a recent NPR report as “false.”

NPR reported the conservative justice refused to wear a mask on the bench despite requests to do so, but Gorsuch and Sotomayor issued a statement calling it a “false” story that surprised them. As the joint statement spread across the media industry, NPR reporter David Gura raised eyebrows by declaring the justices’ statement was “at best false” while he condemned reporters who passed it along.

Totenberg: “Gorsuch forced Sotomayor to work from home!”

Gorsuch & Sotomayor: “Huh? No, he didn’t.”

Gura: “Liars!”

We saw this behavior during Gamergate. Somebody is having sex with Totenberg!

“I [sic] surprised at how many Supreme Court correspondents I admire are passing along a statement from two justices that is at best false without any context whatsoever,” Gura tweeted shortly after Gorsuch and Sotomayor issued their statement.

The link contains some savage return-tweets. A sample:

Larry O’Connor: “The statement from the justices is wrong because it is at odds with his colleagues report about those very same justices. Ya gotta admire this”

And from the comments, summing my own opinion: When one of the most liberal justices teams up with a very conservative justice to issue a joint statement refuting NPR, I think the nod goes to the justices that NPR was wrong.

The first story was a lie by Totenberg. The second was a refutation of the truth by a peer of Totenberg. And between the two, I got duped into believing that SCOTUS had real-world problems.

Canadian pastors are staging a “Conversion Sunday” on Jan. 16, publicly preaching Biblical sexuality in defiance of Bill C-4 that redefines Christianity as a myth. John MacArthur popularized it in USA. Then he started taking flak for being over the target!

A Stand on Biblical Sexual Morality

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By John MacArthur, 28 December 2021

I write to you this Christmas season to call your attention to an urgent matter in which the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is under attack.

On December 22, I received an email from Pastor James Coates of GraceLife Church of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. You will remember that he was recently imprisoned for keeping his church open during COVID-19 lockdowns. James is a graduate of The Master’s Seminary and co-author (with Dr. Nathan Busenitz) of an excellent new book—God and Government (to be released March 2022). James’s recent email gave me insight into the Canadian government’s decision to pass Bill C-4, which “directly comes against parents and counsellors who would seek to offer biblical counsel with respect to sexual immorality and gender.” James indicates that it could be used to “criminalize evangelism.” To clarify the bill, James forwarded this email from Pastor Andrew DeBartolo:

“Pastor John,

“Thank you so much for your willingness not only to shine a light on the situation here in Canada but also your partnership in calling other men to preach on biblical sexuality on January 16 in unity and solidarity with ministers here in Canada. I (and we) are truly grateful for your ministry and service.

“Bill C-4 passed through the House and the Senate without opposition. Not a single dissenting vote was cast by any member of the conservative party. It received Royal Assent on December 8, which means it will come into Law after January 8, 2022. The Bill will amend the Criminal Code in Canada to ban conversion therapy. It will criminalize, among other things, “causing another person to undergo conversion therapy; promoting or advertising conversion therapy.”

“In the Preamble of the Bill, it says that the belief that “heterosexuality, cisgender gender identity and gender expression that conforms to the sex assigned to a person at birth are to be preferred over other sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions” is a “myth.” According to Canadian law, as of January 8, 2022, the belief in God’s design for marriage and sexuality will now be seen as a myth.

“The Bill defines conversion therapy as, “a practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual; change a person’s gender identity to cisgender; change a person’s gender expression so that it conforms to the sex assigned to the person at birth; repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior; repress a person’s non-cisgender gender identity; or repress or reduce a person’s gender expression that does not conform to the sex assigned to the person at birth.”

“The definition is intentionally broad, and it can clearly be used against any preacher or elder who either speaks against homosexuality/transgenderism or who counsels a person to obey Christ and abandon their homosexual/transgender actions and lifestyle. This means as of January 8, 2022, it will be against the law to preach, teach, or counsel regarding God’s design for marriage and sexuality.

“Everyone who knowingly causes another person to undergo conversion therapy – including by providing conversion therapy to that other person – is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.” Similarly, “Everyone who knowingly promotes or advertises conversion therapy is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years.”

“On January 16, 2022, faithful men across this country (and many in the United States as well) will be preaching on God’s design for marriage and a biblical ethic of sexuality. We will be doing so illegally, declaring to the State that there is one God and one Lord over His church, and that Christ alone gets to both define marriage and dictate what is required in the pulpit. We are honored that our American brothers will be joining us in this.

“Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or require any more information.

“Yours in Christ,

“Andrew DeBartolo
Teaching Elder, Encounter Church”

I changed the boldfaced from the original to emphasize that this Sunday is the big day. If I had to choose the one thing I hate most about professional journalists, among their many and malicious faults, it’s their habit of never talking about anything until it’s too late for normal people to get involved. What’s the point of being informed without the opportunity to act?

I am eager to support our Canadian brothers and to preach on biblical sexual morality on January 16, and I invite you as a faithful pastor to do the same. Our united stand will put the Canadian and the U.S. governments on notice that they have attacked the Word of God. We are all well-aware of the evil power and destructive influence of the homosexual and transgender ideology. Our government is bent on not only normalizing this perversion, but also legalizing it, and furthermore criminalizing opposition to it.

In 2012, California passed Senate Bill 1172 banning “gay conversion” (alongside New York, New Jersey, and Nevada). In doing this, the California government sought to prohibit any correction of an unbiblical view of sexual identity, because “California has a compelling interest in protecting the…wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.”

At the Pentecostal church I attended at the time, the pastor’s wife quietly circulated a petition against the bill. No sermon or official notice was made on the topic.

And on August 18, 2020, the Democratic Party declared at the National Convention that it would “ban harmful conversion therapy practices.” The Obama administration appointed more than 250 LGBTQ+ people to serve in the government. The Biden administration has promised to increase that number, and they have done so thus far.

As aggressive as this political priority is to make perversion safe from criticism in the United States, Canada is even further ahead. On November 29, 2021, The House of Commons passed Bill C-4 with a completely unanimous vote, amending the code to include “conversion therapy.” Since this law takes effect on January 8, 2022, faithful Canadian pastors are going to preach on the issue…

YES! Win! O Canada!

…calling for a biblical understanding of sexual sin, the eternal judgment that falls on the unrepentant and gospel-rejecting sinners, and the grace of God in the gospel which offers forgiveness to those who repent and believe in Christ.

Godspeed, eh, my Canuckian brothers! What a relief that the organized Church is FINALLY sprouting a backbone!

Also sending his respects, in his own way, is the Prince of Lies:

Christian conservatives respond to John MacArthur comparing ‘religious freedom’ to ‘idolatry’

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By Ryan Foley, 14 January 2022

Prominent pastor and theologian John MacArthur has come under fire after a video resurfaced of him taking issue with the idea of “religious freedom,” with some Christian speakers debating whether his comments were taken out of context.

A video of one of MacArthur’s sermons from early last year at California’s Grace Community Church resurfaced over the weekend after Matthew Sheffield, who describes himself as a “former right-wing activist, now working to elevate new topics & voices against fascism,” shared it on Twitter.

That says it all. As terrified as Globohomos are of the white supremacists about to overrun our dumbocracy and install Cheeto Pinochet, one would think they wouldn’t advertise their politics on social media so prominently.

“Extremist Christians love to claim they’re all about ‘religious freedom,’ but the truth is that they hate the idea,” Sheffield, the editor of The Flux and host of the “Theory of Change” podcast, wrote.

“Sometimes when they’re in a safe space, they admit this,” he added. Sheffield cited the video, taken from a January 2021 sermon, as an example of what many Christians “really think” about the topic of religious freedom.

A year-old sermon is resurfacing the week before a rare, coordinated effort against the world government’s sodomy mandate? Not a coincidence. This was obviously a hit piece waiting in a file cabinet for the next time John Mac did a thing.

That’s what Jeebus would do! Keep dirt on people for character assassination purposes! Down with them fascists!

In the video, MacArthur asserts that “I don’t even support religious freedom.” He went on to allege that “religious freedom is what sends people to Hell.”

“To say I support religious freedom is to say I support idolatry. It’s to say I support lies. I support Hell. I support the kingdom of darkness. You can’t say that. No Christian with half a brain would say ‘we support religious freedom.’” MacArthur suggested that Christians should proclaim that “we support the truth” as the crowd erupted into applause.

Hmm. I want context before saying anything.

He warned his congregation that “if the new administration supports religious freedom, get ready.” “Persecution will be ramped up because the more supportive they are of the devil’s lies, the less they’re going to tolerate the truth of scripture.”

Hello, sweet context! Yes, religious freedom is BAD when permitted to Satanists and atheists. If our tyrants were any more Tolerant, they’d make Christianity a hate crime.

Oh wait, Trudeau just did that.

He vowed that “We’re not going to lobby for freedom of religion,” asking, “what kind of nonsense is that?” The clip concluded with MacArthur maintaining that “we are in the world to expose all those lies as lies.”

Preach, Brother John!

Prominent Christian commentators quickly condemned MacArthur’s remarks, including former National Review writer and current senior editor of The Dispatch David French.

Shut up, Wesley!

Lamenting MacArthur’s analysis as “disturbing,” French took to Twitter to slam “the astonishing arrogance in his statements and an astonishing lack of respect for dissent from his version of the truth.”

French pushed back on the idea that MacArthur’s words were taken out of context.

“My recent tweets critiquing MacArthur referenced his words in context, and in context he really did say ‘I could never really concern myself with religious freedom. I wouldn’t fight for religious freedom because I won’t fight for idolatry.’”

Context doesn’t mean “quote them a second time”.

Brooke Medina, vice president of the conservative think tank John Locke Foundation, reacted to MacArthur’s comments by tweeting that “Christian martyrs over the past two millennia would beg to differ, John.”

She alleged that by stating opposition to the idea of religious freedom, the pastor does not “believe your fellow image bearer is worthy of agency.”

“It means you think so little of the kindness of God, which leads us to repentance, that you would prefer the force of the State. It also means you prefer outward conformity over inner charge. History is littered with bloody, heinous examples of powerful people who used their opposition of religious freedom to imprison and kill their detractors.”

Next week: Quod Erat Demonstrandum! These Canadian pastors are risking their freedom and livelihoods in order to oppose the devil’s “religious freedom”. Brooke rushed to judge MacArthur in a way that might not look good in a few days.

Christianity is not optional. America is freedom to worship Christ as you wish, not freedom to worship Allah or the Talmud. Does Brooke truly think that religion makes so little difference, that it doesn’t really matter which one you believe? I bet John Locke didn’t!

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Adam Greenway shared the Southern Baptist Convention’s teaching on religious liberty, emphasizing that “few commitments are more intrinsic to our Baptist identity than this one.”

The teaching cites more than a dozen Bible passages when asserting that “The state owes to every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends.”

Hold this thought, that a Southern Baptist leader is faulting MacArthur for his rejection of religious freedom.

After viewing MacArthur’s entire sermon, conservative radio host Erick Erickson offered his interpretation of MacArthur’s analysis.

“He was not talking about the ability of different faiths to worship in a multi-ethnic country of different faiths. He was talking about Christians believing Christianity is true and all other religions are false and don’t really give you freedom.”

My interpretation, informed by the Daily Wire, is… Sheffield edited the video clip to make MacArthur look bad.

Clip Of Pastor John MacArthur Had Critics Pouncing…Turns Out It Was Edited

By Megan Basham, 11 January 2022

Fast and effective work, Megan!

A one-minute-and-forty-seven-second clip of influential pastor John MacArthur speaking about religious liberty began circulating on social media Monday. Some critics claimed it proved the longtime teacher of the Grace To You radio ministry doesn’t believe the U.S. should protect religious freedom. Others insisted his words meant he advocates for fascism, state religion, and forced conversions.

The clip gained traction after being posted to a Twitter account belonging to Matthew Sheffield, a self-described “former right-wing activist” now working to amplify “voices against fascism.” It was taken from a sermon immediately after President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. MacArthur shares that he wasn’t impressed by an evangelical publicist who assured him the new administration would uphold religious freedom.

“I don’t even support religious freedom,” MacArthur says in the video. “Religious freedom is what sends people to hell. To say I support religious freedom is to say I support idolatry. It’s to say I support lies. I support hell. I support the kingdom of darkness.”

MacArthur then appears to take aim at the political lobbying arm of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest protestant denomination in the nation.

Under the previous head, Russell Moore, the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission filed an amicus brief in favor of a Muslim community’s effort to build a mosque, with the rationale that supporting religious freedom broadly helps protect liberty for Christians. Moore also vocally defended devoting SBC resources to supporting the rights of Muslims at the denomination’s annual convention in 2016.

MacArthur seemed to contrast his church with Moore’s approach, saying it has no plans to lobby the government. “We’re not going to lobby for freedom of religion. What kind of nonsense is that? We are in the world to expose all those lies as lies,” he said.

Remember that held thought? Greenway was a peer of Russel Moore until the latter resigned from the Baptist leadership in May 2021. He was in an excellent position to know that MacArthur had not been talking about religious freedom for Christians but instead, talking against Baptist support for Islamic freedom. It seems that MacArthur is not a fan of sanctioning Islam in the name of Christ… and neither am I!

I’d wondered why Moore resigned. None of the explanations offered at the time made sense. But this, formally using Christ to advocate Mohammed, would be an excellent and Godly justification for forcing him out. Which makes Greenway playing dumb about MacArthur’s statement look even worse.

Dozens of political and religious pundits reposted the video to their large social media platforms. Political commentator David French tweeted the clip out to his more than 266,000 followers, calling it “disturbing.” He added in a second post, “There’s an astonishing arrogance in [MacArthur’s] statements and an astonishing lack of respect for dissent from his version of the truth.”

Economist editor Jon Fasman said, “What does he support instead of religious freedom? Forced conversions? The banning and criminalisation of any faith other than his?”

Good questions! Did you check, like I did? *crickets*

Numerous other SBC leaders, including Southwestern Seminary president Adam Greenway, Christianity Today editor Ed Stetzer…

Russell Moore’s current boss.

…and high-profile Southeastern Seminary professor Karen Swallow Prior tweeted and retweeted statements about religious freedom that appeared intended to criticize MacArthur.

Heh heh, “Karen Swallow Prior”. I must see!

CANNOT UNSEE!!!

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Karen Swallow Prior, a Southern Baptist #MeToo leader, makes first Nashville visit since being hit by a bus

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By Holly Meyer, 28 September 2018

The last time Karen Swallow Prior visited Nashville she was hit by a bus.

There IS a God! The stories that one can find on the Internet!

So, the author and English professor at Liberty University in Virginia was a bit nervous to return to the city this week for the first time since the May 23 accident that nearly killed her.

“It’s been a redemptive kind of return,” she said.

Prior, a leading voice in the Southern Baptists’ own #MeToo moment, which was building as the bus hit her, spent a lot of this visit talking about her new book. “On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books” looks at how great literature can teach readers about virtues and good character.

The timing of the wreck was uncanny. Prior was in the midst of raising the voices of thousands of Southern Baptist women calling out Paige Patterson, a revered leader in the evangelical denomination, for his past counsel to abused women and crude remarks about a teen girl’s appearance. Patterson apologized for his past comments.

The day the bus hit her, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary removed Patterson as its president and gave him emeritus status. As Prior recovered at her home in Virginia, the controversy surrounding Patterson continued to play out.

Eventually, he was ousted from the Southern Baptist seminary in Texas over his mishandling of past allegations from students who told him they were raped. Patterson disputes that he mishandled abuse reports. He has since returned to the pulpit, according to a Washington Post report.

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A white shuttle bus carrying seven people for a Civil War tour hit Prior. She did not have the right of way, the bus did, according to the crash report provided by the Metro Nashville Police Department.

No one else was taken to the hospital and the sightseers were able to complete their tour as scheduled with another bus and guide, said Chuck Abbott, the CEO of Gray Line of Tennessee.

“We’re sorry this person was hit. We spend a lot of time talking about safety and always being aware of your surroundings,” Abbott said. “We always hate when something like that happens, but some things are sort of outside our control.”

Paige Patterson’s ousting was, basically, a color revolution within the Baptist hierarchy. Alas that God could not reach Mizz Swallow even with a party bus.

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It turned out, however, that along misrepresenting the context of a more than hour-long sermon, the brief clip itself was edited to remove a middle portion that would have further clarified MacArthur’s remarks.

No way that was an honest mistake!

In the full, unedited clip, after MacArthur says, “If the new administration supports religious freedom, get ready; persecution will be ramped up because the more supportive they are of the devil’s lies, the less they’re going to tolerate the truth of Scripture,” he adds this:

“We condemn every lie, and we call every person to this: there’s one true God, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. You’ll have no other gods before Me.’ Right? There’s salvation in one name and one name only: that’s Jesus Christ.”

Amen!

This, along with the rest of the sermon, suggests that MacArthur was speaking about who the church should look to for protection — not earthly powers, but God. Grace to You executive director, Phil Johnson, confirmed that this was part of MacArthur’s intent.

“MacArthur is certainly not advocating the theonomic notion that Christians today should commandeer governments in order to force Christianity on the world,” Johnson told The Daily Wire. Referring to Matthew 20:25-27 and Revelation 2:27, he further clarified the intent of the clip:

“Because Christ is perfectly righteous, He has the right and the authority to rule the whole world without tolerating the kind of spiritual free-for-all that people today call “religious freedom.” But because human governments are run by fallen people who tend to misuse power, we do not believe Caesar should have authority over people’s consciences when it comes to the question of whom and how they worship.”

The Daily Wire reached out to French to ask if he was aware that the clip was edited when he circulated it but did not receive a response. Stetzer and Medina also did not respond by the time of publication. Greenway offered a statement through a seminary spokesperson…

There it is. A continent-sized Christian protest against literal Globohomo is coming up this Sunday! Hoping to derail it, false priest Matthew Sheffield photoshopped an old sermon of MacArthur’s and circulated it after soliciting quotes from his fellow false priests infesting the Baptist hierarchy. None of whom explained their sentiments later on.

Congrats, Pastor MacArthur! God’s grace be up you, brave clergy of Canada! Taking flak means you’ve over the target! And I might just go to church this weekend.

Don’t panic like these people did. Just because it sounds like something Biden would do, doesn’t mean Biden is actually doing it. The Christian Post and Ted Cruz have already picked up the story without yet catching the… catch.

BREAKING: Biden Administration Making Lists of Religious Vaccine Objectors

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Opinion By Sarah Parshall Perry & GianCarlo Canaparo, 11 January 2011

A tiny administrative agency in the District of Columbia announced a new policy Tuesday that will likely serve as a model for a whole-of-government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine.

Ominous and shocking!

The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia—a federal independent entity that assists officers in the District of Columbia courts in formulating release recommendations and providing supervision and services to defendants awaiting trial—announced a new records system that will store the names and “personal religious information” of all employees who make “religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement.”

The announcement does not explain why the agency needs to create this list except to say that it will “assist the Agency in the collecting, storing, dissemination, and disposal of employee religious exemption request information collected and maintained by the Agency.” In other words, the list will help the agency make a list.

Actually, the announcement DID explain why the agency is creating the list.

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AGENCY:
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.

ACTION:
Notice of a new system of records.

SUMMARY:
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia (an independent entity established within the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (hereafter “CSOSA” or “Agency”)) is issuing a public notice of its intent to create the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia Privacy Act system of records, the “Employee Religious Exception Request Information System.” This system of records maintains personal religious information collected in response to religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement in the context of a public health emergency or similar health and safety incident, such as a pandemic, epidemic, natural disaster or national or regional emergency; and/or any other lawful collection of employee information or data that is necessary to ensure a safe and healthy environment for individuals who are occupying PSA facilities, attending PSA-sponsored events, or otherwise engaged in official business on behalf of the Agency. The system of records will assist the Agency in the collection, storing, dissemination, and disposal of employee religious exemption request information collected and maintained by the Agency, as referenced above.

That last bold-faced is critical. PSA is compiling a list, yes, but only for the PSA’s internal use.

DATES:
This new system will be effective upon publication. New or modified routine uses will be effective February 10, 2022. Submit comments on or before February 10, 2022.

The Privacy Act [of 1974] requires all federal Executive Branch agencies to publish in the Federal Register a description denoting the existence and character of each system of records that the agency maintains, and the routine uses of each system. The “Employee Religious Exception Request Information System” system of records notice is published in its entirety below.

This was NOT done at the command of either Biden or Congress. One can see how a keyword search would turn this up but the briefest investigation shows that it’s not a Deep State initiative.

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The announcement also does not say what the agency will do with this information after it has decided an employee’s religious accommodation request.

Hmm, what DOES the PSA do?

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The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia is the Federal agency responsible for gathering information about newly arrested defendants and preparing the recommendations considered by the Court in deciding release options. We recommend the least restrictive conditions that promote public safety and return to court. Virtually no defendants currently are released on surety bonds.

PSA supervises defendants released to the community through a variety of programs that include drug treatment, mental health services and referral to a range of social services.

The PSA is an extrajudicial surveillance organization. While pretrial confinement is a legitimate law enforcement function, the PSA is 1. not a law enforcement agency or under Dept. of Justice authority, 2. an activist organization dedicated to the no-bail agenda and 3. a D.C. specific entity. It’s only “Federal” in the sense that the District of Columbia is a city governed directly by Congress. With all of the honesty and efficiency that that implies.

It’s dirty, obviously, but it’s locally dirty. It’s not indexing everybody everywhere who filed a religious objection.

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And neither does the announcement explain why the Biden administration chose to test this policy in an agency with a majority-black staff, who are both more religious and less vaccinated than other groups. So much for the president’s commitment to “racial equity.”

That should have been a red flag, yes? As much as we mock the Left for its hysteria, there’s also plenty of hysteria to be found on the Right. I don’t normally post on the false trails that I go down. Suffice to say, there are over 100 posts in my “drafts” that started strong then hit a couple inconvenient facts when my research began.

What’s really going on with this announcement at this tiny agency? Likely, the Biden administration is using it to stealth test a policy it intends to roll out across the whole government.

Likely not. Do your homework!

Almost nobody has ever heard of the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia, and very few people pay close attention to it or are covered by its policies. Indeed, at of the time of publication of this article, the announcement has been viewed only 16 times.

Nobody reads the Federal Registry except FedGov drones, Spergs and the occasional keyboard commando. Hence my suspicion that this is a keyword search gone wrong.

However, had Biden announced, for example, that the Department of Labor intended to adopt this policy, it would be big news. The Federal Register where announcements like this are made would be flooded with comments that the department would have to address.

That would, of course, delay the policy’s rollout. With the Pretrial Services Agency, Biden likely expected that the policy would land quickly and without a splash. As it is, the notice of a new announcement provides less than 30 days for public comment.

Given the probable number of devout Christians employed at an SJW bureaucracy dedicated to “Justice 4 Joggerz”, the expected size of the database justifies a tiny window for comment.

Biden may not be winning points for transparency, but he’s doing his best to win first place in subjecting Americans with sincerely held religious beliefs to differential treatment.

Take the Department of Defense, for example—which has failed to grant a single religious exemption on behalf of any service members requesting one for the federal vaccine mandate. A group of Navy SEALS was recently successful in its federal lawsuit against the Biden administration on claims that its conscience rights under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act were violated.

No doubt that the DOD already has compiled a list of military religious objectors. It’s a bureaucracy, this is what they do. I would be astonished if it didn’t keep track of the people requesting special accommodation. Ditto every bureaucracy, public and private, that chose to enforce the vaxx mandate.

But it’s not panic time.

That, at bottom, is what this policy is about.

You’re probably heard “Orwell didn’t write 1984 as an instruction manual!” But what if Evil *is* using it as an instruction manual… and by doing so, achieving more evil than they otherwise would have? Are we sabotaging ourselves by remembering the past? Because nobody is using 1984 as an instruction manual on resisting evil.

Othering Unvaccinated Persons

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By Jared McBrady, 10 January 2022

In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and I observe and give feedback following these practice lessons. Whether coincidence or a reflection of the times, this fall a good number of mock lessons covered the rise of totalitarianism. In one excellent lesson, a teacher candidate had his students examine the contexts that gave rise to totalitarianism. He accompanied this lesson with an excerpt from a world history textbook listing characteristics of totalitarianism.

This lesson hit on the true purpose for including totalitarianism in high school curricula. That purpose is not to honor the likes of Hitler, Stalin, or Mussolini. Nor is that purpose to provide the methods of totalitarianism as an instructional manual to follow. Rather, the purpose of teaching on totalitarianism is to deliver a warning: heed well the conditions that yielded totalitarianism, so you can recognize and avoid them. 

A warning to whom, to do what?

One passage from the lesson’s textbook concerned me the most: “Totalitarian leaders often create ‘enemies of the state’ to blame for things that go wrong. Frequently these enemies are members of religious or ethnic groups. Often these groups are easily identified and are subjected to campaigns of terror and violence. They may be forced to live in certain areas or are subjected to rules that apply only to them” (pg. 876).

Creating an enemy of the state requires othering: a process of dehumanizing through marginalizing a group of humans as something different, less than, and other. Such othered groups become an easy target to scapegoat, unfairly bearing the blame for a society’s ills.

History is replete with examples of othering. The Ancient Greeks othered based on language, labeling those who did not speak Greek barbarians. In the United States, chattel slavery and segregation were sustained through othering based on skin color. In Nazi Germany, Hitler othered based on religion, casting Jewish people as enemies of the state.

None of those is an example of ‘othering’. People who don’t share culture/language would naturally see each other as different groups. American segregation was an attempt at NOT ‘othering’… squaring the circle of “Negroes are citizens too” despite radically different racial behavior.

A better example of othering would be old Adolf’s treatment of Poles and Slavs. Those cruelties was done purely for political and wartime convenience. Whereas the Jews strip-mined Germany’s economy in the Weimar years.

Othering frequently plays on people’s stereotypes and fears. In the United States, for example, black men have been othered as “thugs,” playing on fears about violence and criminality.

Also not a good example. Stereotyping is not scapegoating. A good example of othering would be the Russian kulaks who selfishly grew their own food. But perhaps they’re are too white for this historian’s taste.

Now, some politicians are othering the “unvaccinated.” These politicians attempt to scapegoat and marginalize this minority group, despite knowing that vaccinated and unvaccinated persons alike can contract and spread COVID-19. Below, I provide the words of three politicians as examples of othering language. I also encourage you to read their words in context.

In the United States, President Joe Biden’s September 9 press conference announced sweeping vaccine mandates. He expressed that “many of us are frustrated” with unvaccinated persons. He laid blame on them for the continued pandemic; Biden claimed that this “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was “caused by…nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot.” He faulted “a distinct minority of Americans” for “keeping us from turning the corner.” And he promised “We cannot allow these actions to stand in the way of protecting the large majority of Americans who have done their part and want to get back to life as normal.”

In a September 17 interview on the Quebec talk show La semaine des 4 Julie, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau labeled those opposed to vaccination “misogynists” and “racists.” Then, he exclaimed that Canada needed to make a choice: “Do we tolerate these people?”

In France, President Emmanuel Macron gave an interview with Le Parisien on January 4. In this interview, he categorized the unvaccinated as non-citizens, referred to their “lies and stupidity” as the “worst enemies” of democracy, and proclaimed “I really want to piss [the unvaccinated] off.” Macron argued these unvaccinated persons to be only “a very small minority who are resisting,” and asked a chilling question: “How do we reduce that minority?”

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(Bloomberg) — President Emmanuel Macron on Friday stood by the uncompromising stance and combative language he directed earlier this week at France’s unvaccinated citizens amid record numbers of new Covid-19 cases.

Macron in a Tuesday interview with Le Parisien used salty language — saying he wants to “p— off” people refusing inoculation — to express zero-tolerance for failing to get fully vaccinated. The government, he said, will keep up the pressure on the holdouts as a way to contain skyrocketing case counts.

“You can get upset about ways of talking which may sound colloquial, for which I take full responsibility. But what upsets me is the situation in which we are in,” Macron said at a Friday news conference in Paris. “It was my responsibility to ring the alarm. That’s what I did this week so that things will move faster.”

The president’s verbal broadside, which sparked a political uproar, comes as parliament is pushing ahead with legislation to restrict access to restaurants, museums, concerts and public transportation to the fully vaccinated. The lower house has approved the bill, the Senate will take it up next week and the government expects it to come into force Jan. 15.

THIS is an example of othering. In order to push draconian control measures through the French bureaucracy, and possibly to rig an upcoming April election, he offers a convenient scapegoat of people who, yesterday, were totally normal people. “Relax, you’re only punishing people who deserve to be punished! This is justice, not my… not a despot’s wet dream! And once we succeed in destroying the unvaxxed, once that glorious precedent is set, we can revisit the definition of vaxxed, a definition which I alone shall control and bestow… temporarily… upon the proven loyal.”

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In these communications, Biden, Trudeau, and Macron employed several practices of othering.

• They created a majority in-group, signaled by use of the first person plural (we, us), and a minority othered group, signaled by use of the third person plural (they, them).
• They cast blame for government pandemic policies on that othered group (“keeping us from turning the corner”).
• They used words to signal to the in-group that they should be angry at the othered group (“many of us are frustrated,” “I really want to piss them off”).
• Trudeau and Macron specifically used labels that devalued this othered group: misogynists, racists, enemies, non-citizens.

It’s a little funny to watch this guy struggle to question what he’s been raised to never, ever question. How exactly do you ‘other’ an enemy or non-citizen? They are already ‘other’.

• Most worryingly, Macron and Trudeau questioned whether and how to eliminate this othered group (“Do we tolerate these people?” and “How do we reduce that minority?”).

My hope is that this will all amount to nothing more than ignored political rhetoric – empty bluster these politicians hope will score a few popularity points with their electoral base. My fear is that it will not. Either way, this dangerous othering language must be recognized and condemned.

Notwithstanding his racial ignorance, I give McBrady full credit as a historian for identifying the imminent threat. Most of his colleagues never will.

The West’s leaders are committing war crimes and terrorist acts against their own peoples.

Historians study causality: contexts, conditions, events and their outcomes. We have examined the conditions that yielded chattel slavery, the gulag, the Holocaust, Jim Crow, Rwanda. This is not an attempt to equate current pandemic policies with these past tragedies.

Noooo, not at all! Heh heh. “Don’t make me see this! I’m scared to see this… but… but… I must know!”

Rather, this is a warning call. We have seen these conditions before, and we have seen where they lead. Turn back now – that way leads to darkness.

The Bidenreich ain’t turning back. They want to go where this leads. Normie doesn’t have the option to turn back except armed revolt, the ones who haven’t already lost their wits to fear and isolation. That ain’t happening even in USA where revolt was the official plan. And we who see what’s coming, what good is knowing when there’s no action to take?

There’s a case to be made that we would have been better off burning the history books. Forcing the wicked to relearn the principles of True Evil would have limited their ability to succeed at mind tricks like othering to a single human’s lifetime. People who are unwilling to burn perfumed princes, are generally still willing to burn books, so cultural ignorance would have limited the damage in a way that knowledge has not. Although both methods fail to limit the existence of evil.

Are there principles of True Good to be learned and passed forward? There is Scripture, to be sure, but it hasn’t been updated in 2,000 years. Perhaps humanity cannot be Good long enough for God to bother with additional instructions on human psychology and behavior.

One supposes that we are better at recognizing evil than past generations were. But really, how hard is it to recognize the evil in this case study:

Democratic lawmaker wants unmasked House members relegated to isolation boxes in the gallery

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Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) wants to put unmasked House members in a box — literally.

Due to COVID-19 concerns, Clark is asking the sergeant at arms of the House of Representatives, William Walker, to require lawmakers who forego masks to attend the floor from isolation boxes in the gallery.

If she was actually concerned about getting the Moronic variant then she would put herself in an isolation box. Scratch that, she’d skype into the Capitol Building or send a proxy. But no, she is obviously wanting to dehumanize her political opponents who not only defy the Narrative, they still aren’t dead as predicted. How much education does it really take to see this?

Which is actually a good question. Coof-Moronic is objectively known to be a nothingburger yet our overlords have so successfully reformatted Covidian brains that they cannot be convinced by any argument. Some people today will wear their face diapers to the grave in bleak, eye-rolling terror of Covid-Flurona-2045.

Would evildoers have known how to do that had we deleted the memory of Soviet indoctrination methods in the 1980s?

Well… yeah, probably they would have. The Bidenreich was taught directly by the Bolsheviks escaping “Jewish persecution” who were careful to preserve the methods of deceit in their own religious texts for millennia. Also, knowing about Bolsheviks and immigration hazards and other trends in history did nothing to stop the ‘Murican imperialists from betraying everybody and ultimately themselves, too.

So no, there’s little point in erasing history. It’s just a tool like many others we have.

Members already face fines for entering the House floor without wearing a mask. The first offense costs $500, while subsequent instances of noncompliance cost a whopping $2,500.

“Unfortunately, these fines have proven insufficient to prevent some Members from repeatedly violating this commonsense rule,” Clark wrote in the letter to Walker. “In fact, two House members alone have accumulated more than $100,000 in fines over the last year. This callous disregard for House rules endangers the health of Members of Congress and the professional staff whose physical presence is required to ensure continuity of government.”

Salute to Marjorie Taylor Greene & Andrew Clyde of Georgia! Fresh air is always a smart purchase.

It is good to know the truth and better to act upon it. But the Church… the real Church, not the perfumed princes and fancy boxes… doesn’t have a theology on how to thwart massive, institutional evil. It’s a feature of Christianity. Christ warned us that His kingdom isn’t a mortal one.

History is like every other technology that humans invent. We create it and teach it in order to be like God, that great Creator and Author and wellspring of Truth, then the devil shows up using our creations to steal, kill and destroy Creation. There is no moral progress to be made in remembering history any more than there is moral progress in making a firearm. The act and skill of making it are valuable but the end product must still be used with wisdom. Not with knowledge. !Science! is a popular religion because it always tells you how but never if you should.

Speaking of moral progress… it’s an open secret that our governments across the world are teaching the sheeple that we unvaccinated are a deadly threat, and it’s clear that history remembering the previous times this happened is not going to prevent it happening again. History says that the last time this happened, the Kulaks responded by starving to death… thanks, history! You remind me to put my trust in God.

It’s hard to find a good roommate, I know, but lowering your standards isn’t the way to do it.

AITA for filing charges against my roommate and suing her for my hospital bill?

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This happened several years ago.

I was a 20F and in college. I was living with my two best friends. One of them was moving out so that she could move in with her boyfriend. I placed an ad looking for another roommate.

That’s how I met Erin. Before she moved in she informed me that she was vegetarian but she wouldn’t have a problem if other roommates weren’t. She moved into our apartment a month later.

DANGER! There is not one vegan alive that is okay with other people NOT being vegan.

The next day after she moved in she cooked breakfast for us. I was surprised. We didn’t ask her to and by her own words “she wanted to do something nice”.

One day. One single day.

She had made pancakes, bacon strips and hash browns. I am deathly allergic to few things.

So, I immediately asked her what was in the food, but I didn’t mention my allergies (huge mistake). She listed the ingredients and I didn’t find anything I was allergic to. [Edit: she told me it was regular bacon. Not that it was fake bacon or that it had soy]. I start eating and everything tastes a little off. I try the bacon and definitely something is wrong. At this point, she does a ” Ta da” and smugly told us “I bet it tastes exactly like meat”.

No question that smugly was the right word. There are reasons you get to know somebody before starting with the pranks.

I am freaking out now. I told her I am severely allergic to soy and asked her whether there was any soy. Now she is apologising and says she didn’t know and that she is sorry she lied and blah blah. I am experiencing anaphylactic shock: throat closing up, dizzy, the works. My bestfriend freaks out and calls an ambulance. I had to stay in the hospital for 2 days. With the US healthcare, the ambulance + my hospital stay racked up a lot of money. Money that I didn’t have.

In the meantime, I also filed a complaint with the police. Food tampering is a felony. I had a lucky break: my best friend had filmed the breakfast to post it on Instagram and she got the whole thing in video.

In the end Erin had to plead guilty to some low degree of felony. She didn’t get any jail time, but got community service. Once she was found guilty, I sued her for the hospital fees. I won that one too.

[I did all the legal things under the advise of my Uncle’s friend who is a lawyer. He said something about how it will be easy to sue if she had a guilty charge. I also did not have any contact with Erin during any of this under the advise of my lawyer].

When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Uncle-friend told her to sue, sue, sue. I’m in the camp of this being double jeopardy. Either criminal or civil charges would be appropriate in this situation but not both.

Erin’s scholarship was cancelled and she had to drop out. She also went into debt paying medical fees. I saw her on Facebook few days ago and she is still down on her luck. I guess a felony charge makes it very hard, no matter how small the charge was.

I’m having trouble connecting the charge to her situation. No reason that community service would have interfered with a scholarship. Two years should have been sufficient to pay off a two-day ER stay plus an ambulance ride. So what if Erin might have had to work off med debt instead of student debt? She’d have been better off without college regardless.

I know she is the asshole for lying about food. I wanna know whether I am the asshole for everything I did after. Because bottom line is, I basically screwed a person’s life because they put wrong ingredients on breakfast that they made only “to do something nice”.

Half-ass, I’d say. While I don’t approve of her double-dipping against Erin, I haven’t seen a case be made that Erin’s subsequent downfall was a consequence. And no, Erin was NOT trying to do something nice. There’s a reason God made us able to eat meat. People who reject that are damaged.

On the face of it, this incident is yet another tragicomedy on a Saturday night in the precinct. Then the hospital got involved.

New York AG launches investigation as video shows man went up in flames after police fired Taser

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By Sophie Reardon, 7 January 2022

Videos released by the New York attorney general’s office Friday show a man engulfed in flames after a police officer used a Taser on him. Jason Jones, 29, later died at a New York hospital.

The first of two videos dated October 30, 2021, begins with Jones and three officers are in the lobby of a police station in Catskill. Jones appears to be upset, ripping his shirt off, throwing a shoe and knocking over a hand sanitizer container.

In the second video, an officer fires his Taser just after Jones had squirted the flammable hand sanitizer onto his head and body. There is a flash of light and Jones’ upper body becomes engulfed in flames for just over 20 seconds. He rolls on the floor to put the flames out, and when he stands, he appears to have burns on his upper body. Medics arrive minutes later.

Here’s a link to a sped-up video. It probably won’t last but it’s not worth archiving, either.

Recap, Jones had a domestic dispute at a bar on Halloween Saturday then walked to the precinct about 400 yards away. Some reports claim he was ‘previously known to law enforcement’. As shown on the link, he acted disturbed while three cops watched, one of them doing the talking, all appearing calm and professional.

Jones eventually picks up a big jug of hand sanitizer and douses himself with it. Police decide they’ve had enough, Talky Cop pulls a taser and puts him down off-camera while his buddies move in to restrain, then FOOM! ‘Rona be gone! Good hand sanitizer!

Police flee the room while Jones flails at the flames. He doesn’t succeed but the flames go out on their own. Police wander back in and start the cleanup. None of them came back with a fire extinguisher. I don’t mind they ran, I do mind that 0 of 3 did the obvious response when there had to have been one available.

Judging from the footage, Jones is left with definite first-degree and maybe some second-degree burns. About what one would expect. I remember lighting my hands on fire that way on purpose… good times. You spritz your hands with alcohol, have a buddy light it, then you can wave your hands in fiery patterns for a few seconds until it burns out. The speed keeps it cool long enough to not hurt but you keep a water bucket handy just in case. Typical stupid-kid trick. Some better advice for the stupid-inclined:

Conclusion, Jones did douse himself with alcohol and the taser did ignite it, but one wouldn’t expect the injury to be life-threatening.

So then, how did Jones die in the aftermath?

Man dies after catching on fire from catskill police taser, AG opens investigation

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By Steve Maugeri, 16 December 2021

Typical of mainstream media, that title proves to be very deceptive and needlessly anti-cop. It doesn’t even need to be anti-cop in this case, yet it is.

Jason Jones’ attorney Kevin Luibrand says his client spent 48 days in an intensive care in Syracuse after he says his client caught on fire after being tased by Catskill police on October 30. Officials with the attorney general’s office say that Jones allegedly had sprayed hand sanitizer on his body and head and this may have caused him to light on fire.

That’s too long. 48 days is when you need major skin grafts.

Now State Attorney General Letitia James has announced that her office is investigating his death, since state law requires her office to investigate the death of a person if it involves police. Luibrand says he sent the AG’s office a letter notifying them that Jones had died.

Fine.

“Right now the family wants to know what happened. The first and only goal right now is to determine what happened to cause their son to be engulfed in flames inside a police station,” Luibrand said.

Whoa there, hot-to-sue. What did the hospital do to him? Put him on a ventilator for the FedGov bribe money? An ICU visit, sure, maybe a stay if his face was burned worse than the video showed, but neither the taser nor the fire killed him.

To date, neither Luibrand nor the AG has released the cause of death. If I wait for that then this post might never happen. This much-vaunted Information Age has a nasty habit of releasing just enough information for people to reach only politically-correct conclusions, such as an unarmed man exploding because zapzap.

Jason Jones’ story should have been a minor, tragicomic mixture of a jilted lover plus a cop who failed chemistry class. Instead, he’s dead and nobody is asking about what the hospital did to him for seven weeks between getting zapped and dying “cuz he got zapped”.

This time, I admit I don’t know. On one hand, I can easily believe it’s a Globohomo-sponsored destabilization. I found this picture:

Left side is Parmesan Hunter, middle is Potato Joe and on the right is Khaz’s head of security & intelligence… freshly arrested for treason, according to one account. I didn’t even know that treason was still a crime. Khaz flipping to NATO would surely put more pressure on Russia. No doubt that Putin will back down as soon as he’s convinced that Bidenreich intends to destroy his country generally and him personally. /sarc So, Cui Bono and the Bidenreich agree that this is almost certainly a proxy war over Ukraine.

On the other hand, Khaz’s president just locked the unvaxxed out of society on Jan. 5. The locals thus have every legit reason to butcher the guts out of their government, and now that they’ve started I don’t see them stopping if Globohomo moves into the presidental palace because it has the same agenda. Maybe with some conscription on the side if/when Ukraine goes hot.

Maybe it’s both. NATO special forces tapping into fresh, righteous anger to throw a few literal firebombs.

The Totalitarians have had an unprecedented-in-human-history run of success. Their every plan succeeds, less the endgame ones that they keep trying to skip ahead to such as “mass starvation of deplorables”. It’s begun to backfire in a big way, however.

Today’s example is their “defund the police” movement. Release Barrabbas, persecute Christ, what could go wrong? It worked the first time! We’ll call it something sneaky and trendy like ‘Defund the Police’ so nobody will notice that we’re destroying all law & order in society.

But Normie finally, finally noticed. Not just Normie the flag-waving griller, either, but Normie the “All Hail Google!” soyboy who traded his soul for Big Brother’s protection, a rejection by a blue-haired feminist and a timeshare on a San Francisco broom closet of an apartment.

Cue the damage control!

And just so we’re clear on context, this first article demonstrates the current property-crime situation in San Francisco.

San Francisco Drivers Leave Trunks Open as Car Break-ins Surge

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By Jordan Dixon-Hamilton, 17 December 2021

Drivers in San Francisco are leaving their car’s trunk open in an effort to fend off potential auto burglaries as the city reported a 32 percent increase in car break-ins over the past year.

“I’m shocked,” said Garret Tom, former San Francisco Police Department Deputy Chief. “There’s so much that can go wrong here.”

Shocked, I say!

Tom noted that “we’re in different times” and cautioned that leaving the trunk open would invite more thieves instead of deterring them. “They could steal your batteries, your tires,” he told KGO-TV. “They could go into your glove compartment and find out where you live.”

Tires and batteries can be stolen regardless of whether the door is open. Which means that the situation here is not the auto-theft rings of B.C., Before Coof. The situation here is the organized retail theft that’s been making headlines recently. People are more worried about casual smash-and-grabs (now misdemeanors that are no longer punished) rather than grand theft auto (still a punished felony) or home-invasion robbery (still a punished felony). Criminals are doing what’s most profitable and the people who Trusted the Science are becoming desperate.

Probably with some serious buyers’ remorse, too.

San Francisco is not the only bay area city to suffer from increased car break-ins. In neighboring Oakland, both car break-ins and auto burglaries increased by 27 percent this year.

“We have got to do more to get us through this holiday season,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. Schaaf called on private property owners to assist in the city’s surveillance of these criminals by installing security cameras.

“Pointing the cameras towards the street and register it with the Oakland Police Department,” Schaaf said.

Remember, kids, the only way to thwart crime is a crowd-funded surveillance state… because your senator spent the public budget on hookers and blow!

There is no case to be made, none at all, that is is normal criminal behavior. Legalizing theft and demoralizing cops has had the very obvious consequence that people are starting to advertise the fact that they don’t own anything worth stealing. Comparable to the ‘no radio in car’ signs that Los Angelenos put on their vehicles back in the day.

And now, our feature presentation!

California’s ‘smash and grab’ robberies – what’s really going on behind the headlines?

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By Abené Clayton, Sam Levin and Dani Anguiano, 17 December 2021

Do not believe your lying eyes! It’s not what it looks like!

Amid fraught discussions over the future of policing in major American cities, a series of mass thefts at high-end stores across California have made headlines nationwide.

The incidents have drawn widespread coverage linking them to “organized crime” and spotlighting concerns from retailers about a theft crisis. They also reinvigorated a political debate over crime rates in California, prompting pledges from local and state leaders to charge those involved and increase police presence in affected areas. Meanwhile, conservatives and some local leaders have pointed to the incidents as evidence that criminal justice reform and progressive policies are encouraging crime and making California more dangerous.

But despite their high profile nature, experts say there is little evidence to suggest the robberies point to a wider retail theft crisis, and that some law enforcement and industry groups are overstating the problem.

Here’s what we know so far.

We know that squaring THIS circle is going to take some serious lying. It’s catechism time! Let us restore your faith in progtards with names like London Breed.

What are the “smash and grab” robberies that police and retailers have been reporting?

Last month in San Francisco’s downtown and the posh Union Square shopping district, groups broke into Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Bloomingdale’s at the height of the holiday shopping season. In suburban Walnut Creek, about 80 people, some wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars, grabbed armfuls of merchandise from a Nordstrom and fled to waiting cars in what police called a “planned event”, and a similar incident occurred at a mall in the nearby city of Hayward. In Los Angeles, more than $330,000 in goods were stolen in 11 “smash and grab” incidents over about two weeks.

In some high-profile cases, authorities have said there was evidence of coordination. The state attorney general announced earlier this month that five defendants had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit organized retail theft after officials seized roughly $8m in stolen merchandise from CVS, Target and other major retailers.

Many of those named businesses now closing their Gay Area branches. It’s not a ghetto… it’s a retail desert!

While a majority of respondents in a recent national retail trade association survey claimed that “organized retail crime” had increased over the last year, there isn’t clear research data to substantiate that claim in California, experts said.

We open with the most trendy spin tactics of cherrypicking the experts and selective amnesia on the topic of causation…

A recent San Francisco Chronicle analysis concluded that the local data is “woefully inadequate”, finding that one reported “spike” in shoplifting came from a single store that was using a new reporting system. And an LA Times investigation found that a California retail association dramatically overstated the possible losses from “organized crime” and when pressed for an explanation, said “there’s no way of knowing exactly” how much businesses lose from thefts.

…Experts in Democrat-loyal mass media! “Journalists report that journalists report that the problem journalists reported on is not consistent with the latest reports of journalists.”

“Organized retail theft crimes are not new. This is something we’ve seen for years nationwide,” said Rachel Marshall, communications director for the San Francisco district attorney. “What seems to be new is the virality of the videos. But everyone deserves to feel safe in the city, and we take seriously the fears that the viral videos generate.”

…Experts such as the staff of Chesa “Son Of Weatherman Terrorist” Boudin, who refuses to prosecute these exact perpetrators then claims there is no crime!

How has the state responded?

Thus far, the immediate response to the shoplifting in San Francisco and Los Angeles has been led by law enforcement.

And that’s a problem because ACAB. Hence this article trying to reassure people that anti-police measures are not automatically pro-criminal despite the smashed windows of your Prius.

In late September, the mayor, along with the San Francisco police chief, unveiled the organized retail theft investigation and deterrence strategy. The initiative will expand the city’s retail crime unit from two to five officers.

“Look, we’re handling the problem!”

The city will also triple the number of unarmed community ambassadors, from eight to 25.

“We’re handling my problem with my pet project! Armed drug dealers would never hit a girl!”

This move came after months of scrutiny driven by people breaking into cars near tourist hubs such as Fisherman’s Wharf and shoplifting attempts at Walgreens locations in the city, including one that appeared to show a man riding his bike out of a store with a trash bag filled with stolen items. That suspect was arrested and charged.

Citing one specific incident to deny the existence of a trend.

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Walgreens San Francisco drugstore thief arrested trying to steal again

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By Christopher Koulouris, 21 June 2021

A man suspected of committing a brazen, caught-on-camera theft inside a San Francisco Walgreens that went viral last week was arrested over the weekend as he attempted to steal from yet another another drug store in the city, according to reports.

He could no longer be ignored.

Police said Lugo-Romero was being sought in a series of drug store thefts, including one at a Walgreens where he allegedly shoveled items into a black plastic bag and pedaled away on a bicycle with little resistance from a store security guard.

The June 15th crime was recorded and posted to Twitter, where it went viral and renewed debate about a San Francisco law that critics say embolden shoplifters because of laxed punishment.

I checked and guess what? He’s being held in jail! In lieu of $25k *bail*, which politicians keep trying to get rid of! How did that happen?

The controversial city law, called Proposition 47, lowered the penalty for stealing goods worth less than $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Jean Lugo-Romero, 40, was arrested Saturday morning circa 8.34 a.m as he sought to rip off a business on Haight Street with about $978 in cosmetics that police say he intended to steal, according to a release via San Francisco police.

See, kids? Math CAN save your life!

Capoliticalreview estimates that Romero has stolen a total of $40k in retail merchandise.

He also had an outstanding warrant for skipping a court date for a past theft case, police said.

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To critics of California’s leaders, store closures and reports of mass thefts seemed to confirm the narrative that California is a lawless place where officials turn a blind eye to crime, to the detriment of local commerce.

QED.

Political leaders have pushed for more police, particularly in high-traffic areas. Gavin Newsom, the state’s governor, has called for California’s highway patrol to increase their presence and doubled down on his Organized Retail Crime Task Force, a collaboration between police and prosecutors that was established in July. On Friday, the governor announced a $250m proposal to help police fight organized retail theft, which would create a dedicated team in the attorney general’s office to prosecute these crimes.

Which is it? Are the critics wrong about the increase in lawlessness, or is this a problem needing another quarter-billion dollars of re-election slush money err, additional bureaucracy and specialized teams because the last thing we need is more patrolmen in the marketplace?

And as we’ve just seen, “doubling down” on organized crime means going from 2 officers to 5.

Are criminal justice reforms or progressive policies contributing to the problem?

Republican leaders and some law enforcement representatives in the state have blamed the spate of recent offenses on the state’s criminal justice reforms, which have aimed to curb mass incarceration. Some have cited Prop 47, a ballot measure approved by voters in 2014, which reduced penalties for certain non-violent and low-level offenses, with the Sacramento district attorney saying: “There’s no consequences any more to theft.”

“It’s not our fault! We’re only doing what Soros, I mean, the voters told us to!”

Fact checkers and criminologists, however, have said it is false to suggest there were no consequences to theft and that there was no research-based evidence linking retail thefts in the state this year to reform measures. Prop 47 did not eliminate punishments for thefts, but directed that thefts under $950 be prosecuted as misdemeanors, not felonies (the previous threshold for felonies was $400).

“We didn’t legalize it! We only MOSTLY legalized it!”

California’s laws also remain harsher than the majority of states, which dictate amounts higher than $950 for thefts to be classified as felonies.

I’ll guess that Florida doesn’t need harsh laws when it has harsh store clerks ‘standing their ground’ with Samuel Colts.

“There are a lot of unknowns about what’s behind the smash-and-grabs and robberies, but I’m quite confident that this is not the result of Prop 47, specifically, or criminal justice reforms more generally,” said Charis Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine, whose 2018 study found that Prop 47 was not responsible for an uptick in crimes.

She was paid for that. Seriously. And that’s totally normal and not a red flag that her research might be prejudiced.

She noted that there were other states without Prop 47 seeing similar smash and grab cases, and also pointed out that it would be difficult to prove that a 2021 trend was the result of a law passed seven years prior.

Moving the goalposts. “You can’t prove that Prop 47 was EXCLUSIVELY the cause of this current trend!” But it’s really hard to keep criminals off the streets when their crime is a misdemeanor, which happens to be exactly what advocates of Prop 47 said would happen. They said it would reduce prison overcrowding.

Prop 47 was passed in 2014. The Los Angeles Times linked spikes in recidivism to it in 2015. This was declared a qualified success, per wikipedia, because it also meant that men who Roofied women on dates were also getting ‘slaps on the wrist’.

Speaking of wikipedia,

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Kubrin’s research focuses on, among other topics, the relationship between race, violence, and social disorganization theory. She has also researched the perception of rap music as violent and dangerous, as well as whether a rapper’s music can be used as evidence against him in a court of law.

Well, it IS a crime against music…

With Graham Ousey, she has also studied the relationship between immigration and crime in the United States, finding that immigration is related to lower rates of crime and violence in U.S. neighborhoods. Kubrin has stated that the Public Safety Realignment initiative was not a factor in the 2019 California stabbing rampage.

She’s a professional at un-linking criminal behavior from pro-criminal government policy. “Just because they sing songs about drug dealing and murder doesn’t mean they’re bad people!”

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While some have also accused progressive prosecutors in LA and San Francisco of not taking these crimes seriously, advocates have noted that high-profile smash and grab cases and retail thefts had occurred in both cities before the current DAs were elected.

Today’s stores didn’t close en masse as a consequence before the current DAs with extremely anti-law enforcement, totalitarian ideas came along.

In San Francisco, data also shows that prosecutors have filed charges for the vast majority of commercial burglary cases that police have presented to the DA this year.

Filed charges, then let them back on the streets because the charges were only misdemeanors. Exhibit A: Jean Lugo-Romero.

And in LA, advocates noted that property crime is down compared to the 2019, when the previous DA was in office.

By some definitions of property crime. I can play statistics, too!

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One year and one day later, Gascón was flanked by progressive prosecutors from around the country as he stood before a room full of reporters during a 90-minute news conference meant to celebrate what he saw as his successes during his first 12 months on the job.

But on the heels of weeks of high-profile crimes, including the killing of a beloved Beverly Hills philanthropist, an explosion of gunfire that left one child dead in Wilmington and viral videos of smash-and-grab robberies at retail stores, Gascón instead spent much of his time sparring with reporters and trying to counter questions about criticism levied by those seeking to recall him.

The consequences of his policies are a feature, not an unexpected bug, hence he focused on the real problem of keeping the media sold on the correct Narrative.

Gascón stood firm, saying there was no link between his policies and what he called the inaccurate perception that crime is rising in L.A. County.

Understand that, peasant? There is NO LINK between emptying the prisons and increases in crime rates! THE ONLY REASON THAT ANYBODY GOES TO PRISON IS BECAUSE COPS ARE PIGS! So says Gascon:

After one reporter questioned the D.A. about an insult the sheriff had lobbed earlier in the day, Gascón responded in kind.

“My dad used to say that when you wrestle with a pig, you both get muddy and the pig likes it,” Gascón said, before clarifying that he didn’t mean to insult law enforcement.

Oopsie!

Connecting crime rates to Gascón’s policies is complicated. Homicides are up roughly 46% in Los Angeles as of Nov. 27 compared with the same time frame in 2019. As of Oct. 31, murders had increased by the same rate in areas patrolled by the Sheriff’s Department compared with the same time frame in 2020.

Notice they’re comparing to different years. City to 2019, County to 2020. Those two years are much more different from each other than normal because of Coof.

Car thefts — which also surged during Gascón’s tenure in San Francisco — are also up 53% in Los Angeles compared with 2019.

That’s a trend, not just a data point.

But property crime, which experts more often link to policies like Gascón’s that lessen punishments on low-level offenders, is down in 6.6% in L.A. compared to 2019. Robberies are down 13.6%, and burglaries are down 7.7%, in the same time frames, per LAPD data.

In Sheriff’s Department territory, robberies are down 12% and burglaries are down 9% as of Oct. 31, according to data published on the agency’s website. Violent crime is relatively static, while property crime has increased 5%, the records show.

So, Gascon isn’t making much difference in property crime after all, meanwhile car theft and murder is way up under him specifically.

He touted a dramatic drop in misdemeanor filing rates for crimes related to addiction — a delivery on his Day 1 promise to stop prosecuting low-level crimes like minor drug possession and public intoxication…

We could call that the Prop 47 two-punch. First the felony is reclassified as a misdemeanor, then it often goes unpunished because it’s only a misdemeanor.

If nobody gets charged than has a crime really occurred? The Christian would say yes because all evil is ultimately against God, not man. They who worship government as their god, would probably claim that crime is only ever what the State says it is on a day-by-day basis.

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Recapping all the tricks they used:

Tame “experts” who consistently reach the same, politically convenient conclusion.

Moving the goalposts.

Claim it was the voters who wanted this situation.

Presuming that causation is unknowable. (nihilism)

Strawman argumentation.

Motte-and-bailey between isolated incidents and trends.

Not filing charges is conflated with a lower crime rate.

Differing standards of comparison.

Silence about the fact that the stated goal of their no-incarceration policies was, by definition, more criminals on the street.

And straight-up lying. They lie. We know they lie. They know we know and can’t help themselves. Or don’t care. They need their job to pay their mortgage, now don’t they? And if their job is lying then they’ll get paid to lie from here to the grave and call themselves a winner.

Unless there really is a God.

We have time to close with a sob story.

A Closer Look At L.A.’s Robberies

Dead Tree Edition, 1 January 2022

By Matthew Ormseth & Brittney Mejia

On Black Friday, a man and two women walked into an upscale consignment shop on Melrose Avenue. The women started shoving pairs of shoes into their bags and walked out, as alarms blared.

Stop, thief!

In an interview, the man said one of the alleged thieves, a young mother, steals and resells merchandise in order to pay her rent.

Stop, pussy pass! “I have to steal for a living because Walmart won’t hire me after CVS prosecuted me for theft!”

“That’s how people pay their rent, pay their car loans,” he said. “Going to the mall, stealing clothes–that’s how people have money.”

That is some pure, Grade-A, smell-that-skunk Bullshit. Companies are offering signing bonuses for low-level workers, California has possibly the world’s biggest welfare state too and yet, poor ol’ Vibrant Momma has NO CHOICE but to steal everything in broad daylight just to eat and… make her forking CAR PAYMENTS?!

Maybe she wouldn’t steal as much if she was limited to a bicycle? Maybe she wouldn’t even need to?

A series of high-profile crimes in upscale parts of Los Angeles – “smash and grab” and “follow home” robberies – have received widespread attention in recent months. Police have deployed officers to malls and shopping corridors such as Melrose and Rodeo Drive. Right-wing media have seized on the robberies as proof that crime in California is out of control.

True dat.

Largely absent from the conversation, however, are the people accused of committing the crimes. Culprits have appeared in pixelated surveillance footage as blurry, masked figures. Police news bulletins offer only vague descriptions of suspects – race, age, height.

“Crime is pixelated man’s fault!”

Sitting on the porch of his mother’s home in South Los Angeles, the man arrested in the theft on Melrose insisted he had no intention of stealing anything when he and two women walked into the consignment shop the day after Thanksgiving. The 21yo said he planned to buy sneakers at the store. But once inside, he said, the women started shoving pairs of shoes into their handbags.

Which is why he stuck around to give mall cops their names? No.

“I’m telling my friends, ‘Don’t walk to my car. Walk somewhere else,’” he said. “But they still opened my door and got in my car. I can’t put a gun to their head and tell them to get out of my car.“

Of course you can! It’s fun! And it works, too!

What you can’t do is knowingly drive off with stolen goods in the backseat…

He drove off with the women – and the shoes – in his Nissan Altima. He was headed down Melrose Avenue when he made eye contact with a police officer driving in the opposite direction. The officer turned the cruiser around and pulled him over…

BUSTED!!! The cops knew him by sight! Probably that Altima, too!

…ostensibly because his windows were tinted.

He was driving while black! …ed out.

Since he was on probation for a conviction of petty theft, the officer was allowed to search his car. After the officer found the shoes, he and the two women were arrested on suspicion of burglary. The police said they had stolen $1,100 worth of merchandise.

More than $950? Oh noes! Math is hard!

In his prior case, he said, he was stealing over-the-counter medication from CVS and reselling it. It was fast, easy money.

Just like those fruit trees in Africa.

He pleaded guilty to petty theft in 2019 and was sentenced to three years of probation.

He recently got a job at Walmart, he said, and is determined to keep it.

NOOOO!!!!! Walmart DID give him a job after CVS convicted him of theft! *sob*

Not only did Christians successfully shame the UN into removing that perverted statue, but the UN went full-on, passive-aggressive Gamma about it!

Sculpture Christians likened to ‘End Times beast’ no longer on display at UN

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By Leonardo Blair, 5 January 2022

NEW YORK — Weeks after it was first displayed on the Visitors Plaza outside the United Nations headquarters in November, the controversial “Guardian for International Peace and Security” sculpture many Christians likened to a biblical “End Times beast” is now gone.

Initial reports to The Christian Post suggested that the sculpture was removed from the Visitor’s Plaza in late December due to complaints from the public. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the secretary-general, explained, however, that the display was temporary and was removed as scheduled.

“The statue you refer to was a temporary exhibit organized by the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations. It was taken down, as scheduled and anticipated, on 20 December,” Dujarric said in a statement to CP on Monday.

“We just forgot to say it was temporary. Anyway, this is not a win for you! Even if it looks like one!”

Conservative Christian frenzy over the artwork began brewing after the U.N. tweeted an image of the exhibit on Nov. 9, prompting references to certain scriptures in the Bible, including Daniel 7:2–4 which highlights a vision of beasts, representing governments; one of which is depicted with a body like a lion and wings like an eagle.

Christians also cited Revelation 13:2 which symbolically refers to a beast given power and authority by Satan. Further reference was also made to I Thessalonians 5:3 which speaks of the End Times when people will say, “There is peace and security,” only to experience unexpected ruin.

UNPASEC, the United Nation Peace And Security Coalition, has formally protested the unflattering depictions of it in Biblical prophecy for the 77th year in a row. (not a real agency. AFAIK.)

The sculpture, donated by the government of Oaxaca, Mexico, and created by artists Jacobo and Maria Angeles, is likely not the harbinger of the apocalypse some Christians presume.

The fantastical fusion of features in the controversial sculpture from both the jaguar and eagle is known as an Alebrije — a representation of a mythical spirit guide found in Oaxacan folk art. Along with vibrant color markings, Alejibres usually have a combination of features such as horns, antlers, wings and fins.

Ohhhh, its display was never meant to be anti-Christ. It was meant to be anti-Christianity. It depicts a mythical spirit guide, not a mythical spirit guiding humanity into corruption.

Prior to the display of the Guardian for International Peace and Security at the U.N…

“Peace and safety!” UNPASEC might not be real but its Guardian is.

Mocking globalists is hard!

it was on display along with an 11-foot dragon sculpture at the Rockefeller Center from Oct. 22 to Nov. 2 as part of the Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead celebrations, Hyperallergic reported.

Was it taken down to make room for a Nativity scene… a ‘faith tradition’ much more popular than the Oxacan patron spirit of Rockefeller-sponsored migrant trains? *checks* no.

The Angeles’ son, Ricardo Angeles, who was identified as the principal designer of the Alebrijes, referred to them as “guardians” for the nation’s immigrants.

The coyote would have been more appropriate.

“I love New York and its architecture, especially the Art Nouveau styles and the gargoyles of some buildings,” Angeles said. “I decided to create fantastical beings that also symbolized empathy and solidarity from us, the artisans who didn’t immigrate, toward our family members who are here in the United States.

“I love New York City for its gargoyles”? He came to the right place. But heads up, the gargoyles prefer to be called feminists.

Evolution is a lie. Life on Earth is created, it is not a freak biochemical accident. But the strength of Evolution is that it lets you believe anything you want, with the one single caveat that you must not believe in the Creator.

Similarly, the strength of a grant-issuing foundation is that one of its sock puppets can authenticate the other.

Here comes a prophet of Evolution, wearing the priestly skinsuit of a scientist, to explain that if you want your Adam & Eve then you can have your Adam & Eve. But still no Jesus!

Evolutionary science and genetics breakthroughs show Adam and Eve are not incompatible with evolution: Report

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By Sarah Taylor, 3 January 2022

Christian scientists say that evolutionary science may very well be “making space” for Adam and Eve, Fox News’ Tyler O’Neil reported on Monday.

O’Neil reported that scientists, pointing to “genetics breakthroughs,” insist that Adam and Eve may not necessarily contradict the theory of evolution.

Buckle up for one mother of a strawman argument! No Christian uses the story of Eden as evidence for Christianity. There were no witnesses to it. Adam has no literary legacy. We cannot find Eden or recreate it in the laboratory. One’s acceptance of Adam & Eve depends upon one’s preexisting opinion on whether Scripture can be trusted.

Although I admit, I get a lot of mileage from pointing out how perfectly Original Sin describes observed sexual dynamics.

Anyway, the account of Adam & Eve is an example of how Christianity is incompatible with evolution. It is not our evidence against evolution. It is not something that a Christian would try to debunk or an non-Christian, try to accept.

Christians — many of whom have rejected the theory of evolution as it previously indicated that there was no room for God’s first people, Adam and Eve — have long argued about what some see as an impasse between faith and science.

S. Joshua Swamidass, associate professor at St. Louis’ Washington University School of Medicine, told Fox that the “societal conflict” of Christianity versus evolution has been “deep and stubborn.”

“Now, in a surprise twist, evolutionary science is making space for Adam and Eve,” Swamidass explained. “It turns out that the theological questions are about genealogical ancestry, not genetics. In this paradigm shift, we are finding a better way forward, a better story to tell.”

Can you imagine if the Theory Of Gravitation was rewritten as frequently as the Theory Of Evolution? You wouldn’t dare to go outside without being tethered like an astronaut.

Who is this Swami-ass?

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By Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass, 2019

We are pleased to announce the award of a $25,000 grant for two years. With this grant, we aim to define common ground in the origin debates. This grant was awarded by the STEAM project, which has funding from the John Templeton Foundation. This grant is directed by Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass, housed at Washington University in St. Louis, and administered by Saint Louis campus ministries ( Intervarsity and Cru).

For shame, Intervarsity and the try-hard loser formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ.

Over the next two years, this project seeks to solve this problem by identifying common ground: points of significant agreement in the origins debate. We hope this common ground could be the foundation for science-engaged religious communities.

There is common ground, but it is hidden. The current framing of the debate, as a war between creation and evolution, hides our common ground from view. The fact that the common ground is so hidden is exactly the reason that this project is so significant. Identifying our common ground will enable ecumenical ministries to productively engage mainstream science. Common ground is a path to peace.

If peace is the absence of conflict then inmates on a chain gang are the real symbol of world peace. See how well they work together in Unity, peacefully obeying the deputy with the shotgun!

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In Swamidass’ 2019 book, “The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry,” the professor argues that genetics and evolutionary theory can work hand in hand with the existence of Adam and Eve.

“Most readers of Genesis understood Adam and Eve to be (1) ancestors of us all, and (2) miraculously created without parents of their own,” Swamidass told the outlet. “In contrast, evolution teaches that (3) we share common ancestors with apes, and (4) we arise from a large population, not a single couple. This conflict of fact only seemed solvable by revising foundational Christian theological beliefs, or by rejecting evolution.”

Correct.

“But now, clearing up some big scientific understandings, we know that all four of these things can be true at the same time,” he continued. “Even if Adam and Eve lived as recently as just 6,000 years ago, they would be the genealogical ancestors of everyone across the globe by AD 1. They could even have been created de novo, from the dust and a rib. Of course, at the same time, we would also descend from people outside the Garden, others whom God created by a providentially governed process of evolution.“

Providentially… governed. That tired old lie that God used trial & error to create life. “Evolution is true but this weirdo extraterrestrial came along and guided the process in order to take credit.”

In his GAE model — Genealogical Adam and Eve — Swamidass claimed that biological humans, despite the span of time of between the time at which Adam and Eve existed and modern day, may still share a common ancestor with apes as per the theory of evolution, but that God could have “created Adam and Eve from the dust and a rib, without parents, and these two became the ancestors of all humans by 1 A.D.”

Wouldn’t God’s proper title be Monkey Breeder, not Creator?

And what’s this about 1 A.D.? We’re talking about Adam & Eve, not Joseph & Mary. I suspect Smarmy-Ass doesn’t respect Christianity enough to even understand our beliefs correctly.

And where are these humans-not-Adam’s-descendants? Are people supposed to believe that they all conveniently died out at Noah’s Flood or something? Why would God wait billions of years for evolution to do its thing if He was going to engineer Adam & Eve out of nothing regardless?

Because God knew that A&E’s kids would need spouses?

“Swamidass claims that Genesis appears to require biological humans outside of Adam and Eve’s family line because after Cain murders Abel and leaves his parents, he fears that he will be killed, he acquires a wife, and he builds a city,” O’Neil added.

Sheesh. Biblical prohibitions against incest didn’t exist at the beginning, it’s that simple.

Christian philosophy professor Michael Murray, who previously taught at Franklin & Marshall College…

He is not a Christian. A quick bio:

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Michael J. Murray oversees the program departments of the John Templeton Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he was the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College.

He received his BA from Franklin and Marshall and his MA and Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on two primary areas. The first is seventeenth century history of philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on the work of Gottfried Leibniz. The second is contemporary philosophy of religion. His most recent work focuses on the problem of evil and animal suffering, and cognitive and evolutionary accounts of the origin and persistence of religious belief and practice.

Murray is not just sock-puppeting for Swamidass on behalf of their common employer, the Templeton Foundation. He might be Swamidass’ direct boss, too.

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[Murray] recently commented on Swamidass’ researches and said that he believes “we have arrived at the point where we can confidently affirm that the basic evolutionary story is not the threat to Christian orthodoxy that we once feared, and not because we had to compromise on orthodoxy.”

“My view is that recent findings in genetics and paleontology have shown that our best scientific theories and data do not rule out a historical Adam and Eve,” Murray told Fox in a statement, adding that new developments show that “for all we know, there might have been a pair that is the ancestor of all extant humans or extant Homo sapiens.”

He added that there previously appeared to be an “emerging consensus among both secular scientists and scientists of faith that the relevant empirical data was flatly inconsistent with an ancestral pair.”

“Emerging consensus” is a phrase you will hear only from globalists. Ditto “scientist of faith”.

However, recent developments show that an “ancestral pair is not flatly ruled out as was previously thought.”

Biology professor Nathan Lents, who teaches at John Jay College, told the outlet that such developments have made Adam and Eve “more plausible.”

“I would not say that there is any evidence, historical or scientific, in favor of the existence of Adam and Eve, as they are presented in the Bible,” Lents told Fox. “However, there have been developments in our understanding of ancestry and genetics that allow for the possibility of universal ancestors of the entire human population in the surprisingly recent past.”

Swamidass told the outlet that “in making space for Adam and Eve, secular scientists have an opportunity to offer an olive branch to religious communities.”

“I’m encouraged to see that many religious leaders … have been eager to take the olive branch,” he wrote. “For those seeking to advance science in a fractured society, this is very good news indeed.”

Lents is not a Templeton grantee so far as I could confirm, although I still suspect the association. Instead, he’s a flaming NYC homosexual who mocks God and marriage with a “husband” and two adopted children. While searching, I found another Templeton prodigy: Francis Collins of the National Institute of Health.

Nathan H. Lents and S. Joshua Swamidass: The lesson of Kitzmiller: Science bridges divides

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By Nathan H. Lents and S. Joshua Swamidass, 28 December 2020

Fifteen years ago, U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones delivered his landmark ruling: Intelligent design is not scientific, but is religious in nature, and therefore, should not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolutionary theory in public schools. This was an important victory as the court protected the scientific community’s voice on a matter of education policy in the U.S.

Sounds more like the court protected the scientific community’s beliefs from being tested. The exact opposite of the scientific method.

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We find that intelligent design fails on three different levels, any one of which is sufficient to preclude a determination that intelligent design is a science … intelligent design violates the centuries old ground rules of science by invoking and permitting supernatural causation;

The reason it’s called “intelligent design” is SPECIFICALLY to NOT invoke the supernatural. Maybe space aliens seeded life on Earth? ID wouldn’t disagree. It says only that life AS UNDERSTOOD ON EARTH could not have come about in a stepwise fashion a la evolution. No deity needed.

the argument of irreducible complexity, central to intelligent design, employees the same flawed and a logically contrived dualism that doomed creation science in the nineteen eighties;

“We rejected the last argument against evolution so this new argument cannot be true, either.”

intelligent design’s negative attacks on evolution have been refuted by the scientific community …

“It makes the smart people sadfaced!”

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Evolutionists have never had a response to Intelligent Design. I always wondered why they didn’t even try. My guess at the time had been that they were simply trying the silent treatment. Turns out, they got a tame judge to declare ID a religion so they could debunk it as nonscientific.

Even so, 2005 is a decade after 1996’s Darwin’s Black Box was published. The founding book of ID.

In these divided times, it is easy to despair as the culture wars cloud nearly every public policy debate. Vaccines for the coronavirus are being distributed as we speak. Debates about the safety and efficacy of these vaccines have a far more direct impact on the public than the controversy in Dover. Judge Jones’s findings, however, remind us that science can cut through the culture war.

By using tame judges! Scientific method, ho!

While the origins debate is often framed as a zero-sum game with religious creationism on one side and evolutionary science on the other, the space for common ground is large and growing.

An evolutionist would also disagree here. One cannot have randomly-generated life and intentionally-generated life simultaneously. But no, we must have UNITY!

The [year after the Dover case], Francis Collins published “The Language of God,” in which he explained how his Christian faith does not force him into conflict with evolutionary science. Collins later became the director of the National Institutes of Health and remains a strong advocate for science. Fittingly, he won this year’s Templeton Prize for his work in modeling how faith and science can be reconciled.

Here, Swamidass the Templeton grantee shills for Collins the Templeton Prize winner.

Like [the plaintiff’s witnesses] Forrest and Miller, we too are an unlikely pair. You won’t often see an evangelical Christian and a gay secular humanist teaming up, but we have crisscrossed the country together, speaking with audiences from the “liberal elites” at Columbia University to the “biblically conservative” at Concordia University. We have found solidarity in modeling what we believe is a better way forward for a culture at war with itself. We’ve also found friendship.

No Christian would publicly & voluntarily associate with an openly unrepentant and blasphemous Sodomite. Least of all, to serve as an example that we can coexist with sexually depraved God-haters.

The controversies about origins will remain. Last year we took up the baton from Forrest and Miller and refuted the latest claims of intelligent design in the pages of the journal Science, a move that put Swamidass at risk of alienation from his spiritual community.

Soon after, Lents endorsed Swamidass’ book explaining the possibility of a genealogical Adam and Eve, putting him at risk among his atheist colleagues.

Lents’ claim to fame appears to be his making some defense against the killshot of Intelligent Design. This is ironic because Lents himself, being sodomite, is an Intelligent Design counterexample. Evolution’s only measure of an organism’s success is reproductive capacity, which in the case of a homosexual, is a deliberate zero. Adoption is not DNA propagation. Neither could evolution have made allowances for IVF or other fertility workarounds.

If evolution was true then all non-reproductive sexual instincts would have been screened out very, very early in the process.

We reached outside our echo chambers and followed the example of the non-religious philosopher, the Catholic scientist, and the Republican federal judge who, 15 years ago, worked together to protect science from political encroachment.

This is the most pathetic “hello fellow white people!” act that I’ve seen. “I am Swampy-Ass the Christian scientist, emphasis on scientist, I have many scientific credentials, and see how I am friends with a man that Jesus would consider a pervert and child molester! Do you Christians not want to be friends with him, too? Join me in the new scientific discovery that God is only MOSTLY a creator!”

Why are we taking these risks?

What risks? You accepted $25k to shovel lies at one of the most nonviolent demographics on the planet. You want to take a risk? Walk into a mosque and explain to them how Lents is a good Muslim because he has an underage sex toy just like Mohammed did. Then put an idol of Ganesha on their altar and call it peace and coexistence to their faces. Then tell them you get paid to prove their religion needs scientific updating because science is not a religion.

In these fraught times, political meddling in science threatens the common good and needlessly puts lives at risk. The anniversary of Kitzmiller reminds us that, while science is too often a front in the culture wars, when we look past our differences, we see our common goal: the betterment of a world that we have no choice but to share.

This claim to being apolitical would have been more convincing if the authors hadn’t opened with celebrating a judge declaring an exclusively secular, scientific argument, Intelligent Design, to be religious.

Nathan H. Lents, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at John Jay College and the City University of New York. S. Joshua Swamidass, Ph.D., is an associate professor of pathology and immunology in the School of Medicine at Washington University.

So, Beltway Swampy is a junior peer of Francis Collins. Collins is affiliated with Wash. U. St. Louis by way of the recently-funded Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) program.

Christianity is under direct, organized and well-funded opposition from shadowy authorities across the globe. Thanks to global communications, we can now see them for who & what they are.

And thanks to Christ, we can already detect their lies.

You’ve already noticed that Covid lockdowns are morphing into Climate Change lockdowns. Here’s the backstory on that. The Cascade Institute of Canada is loosely allied with John Podesta and John Kerry, and is dedicated to studying and advocating for social engineering by way of managed crises. Its logo is falling dominos… not hard to understand that symbology.

The Social Distancing Norm Cascade

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By Scott Janzwood, 27 April 2020

The widespread adoption of social distancing practices in liberal democracies without the threat of harsh sanctions for non-compliance illustrates the power of ideas and moral persuasion, as well as the capacity of seemingly intractable beliefs systems to rapidly shift during a crisis.

There is more wishful thinking in that paragraph than a child’s Christmas list. The liar lies first to himself.

The primary focus of this Technical Paper is the underlying changes in belief systems behind the rapid adoption of new norms concerning social distancing amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Incentive systems (such social pressure or sanctions) and network dynamics (such as homophily and preferential attachment) provide valuable insights into how and why norms around social distancing have spread so rapidly and widely. However, in contrast to other treatments of rapid normative change, the focus of this paper is on the content of belief systems at the individual and collective level, a factor that is equally important for explaining the speed and extent of the social distancing norm cascade. The belief system perspective provides a valuable link between people’s most cherished ideas and values, individual behavioural change, and the collective changes necessary to effectively contain a pandemic on a global scale.

Many of the behaviours that we associate with voluntary social distancing practices – such as people working from home, maintaining a 2 metre distance from others, and choosing to only leave their homes to buy groceries – went from fringe to mainstream within a matter of two to three weeks…

No. We were promised that it would only be for two weeks. While it was an outrageous lie that many of us recognized at the time, fact is, Janzwood shouldn’t brag that people chose to make a permanent change when it was forced upon them deceitfully.

The State blew all of its credibility on the Plandemic. Alas, the gamble paid off.

[This paper] therefore pays special attention to voluntary or encouraged social distancing behaviours rather than those enforced by government decree. While the Chinese government has had success containing the outbreak by confining travelers returning to China into state-run quarantine centres, implementing curfews, limiting freedom of movement, and sealing off entire apartment buildings (Wu 2020), countries such as Canada and the US… have relied on strongly worded public health messaging and persuasion tactics to encourage social distancing practices. The remarkable behavioural change around social distancing in liberal democratic countries that lack the threat of harsh sanctions for non-compliance may reveal generalizations for how seemingly intractable beliefs systems can rapidly shift during a crisis.

A recurring issue in totalitarian societies is that they cannot have literally everybody spying on everybody, or Beloved Dear Leader Of the People would run short on palaces and prostitutes. Janzwood objects to the Chinese system only to the extent that he thinks he has a more cost-effective form of social engineering.

He goes into four archetypes.

The Good Social Distancer (GSD)

GSD makes connections between the spread of C19 and its three main negative outcomes: deaths of the elderly and vulnerable, health system overload, and economic insecurity. By thinking about any one concept, connected concepts are simultaneously activated. Example “Spread of C19” = “Grandma died”.

A little editing for brevity there.

The key concept that reflects the dominant values of the GSD belief system is the sense of “community responsibility” that reinforces the link between personal social distancing behavior on the one hand and the deaths of the elderly and health system overload on the other. The GSD is driven by an empathetic or altruistic duty to other members of their community (local, national or global) that emphasizes the costs or harm inflicted upon others.

The Good Boy, the class snitch, the neighborhood gossip. Threading the needle of “dumb enough to believe and smart enough to breathe”.

The Christians

Oops.

The Misinformed

The Misinformed resistance profile describes the belief systems that were most common at the beginning of the social distancing movement, characterized by an incomplete or flawed understanding of…

SKIP.

Go to Hell and take your computer models with you. Unlike the latter, I was correct from the beginning of the Scamdemic. Exact words: “This is bullshit!”

We are “misinformed” because we don’t believe your lies. And we never will. And I’m not digitizing four huge paragraphs of sneering condescension.

The Consequentialist-individualist

Unlike the Misinformed, the C-I belief system reflects a more complete understanding of the links between social distancing, flattening the curve, etc.

Think “actually vaccine-hesitant”. That’s two pages of reading I just saved you. Why don’t I get a tenured paycheck, too? I’m better than Janzwood at communicating complex topics, making content interesting and learnable, illustrating the necessity of truth against falsehoods…

Oh.

The Consequentialist-Collectivist

Donald Trump. “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself!” Another page of reading saved and you’re the smarter for it.

Needless to say, these categories didn’t catch on. They do, however, illustrate the primal importance of the Lie in globalist ideology. The Good Boy believes what he’s told and put the needs of the many, as defined by the few, above the self. The Individualist believes the Lie but wants to solve the problem his own way. This defeats the purpose of Lying to him: controlling his behavior. The Collectivist is more concerned with whether the needs of the many are actually being met by obeying the few, which puts him in grave danger of becoming Misinformed.

Who do not believe the Lie at all.

The C-I requires some form of moral persuasion that highlights the linkages between collective and personal well-being and inspires a sense of community responsibility.

Shifting the C-C towards the GSD belief system requires an informational correction on the relative costs and benefits…

QED.

Government communication strategies should be tailored to their target audience. If policy makers and public health authorities believe that most people failing to comply with social distancing guidelines resemble the Misinformed profile, their strategy should focus predominately on informational messaging.

In other words, lie at the Misinformed. Tell us one lie after another lie after another lie after another lie until something sticks. Under no circumstances accept that we just ain’t gonna listen.

I must confess, I’ve begun using “thought-ending clichés” in my own speech patterns as a result of this. Even people who normally aren’t like this, will compulsively tell one lie after another to me, trying to find the magic bullet that will make me believe. So much easier to throw out a “nothing you say will change my mind”.

But they have other tools.

The term homophily describes how within social networks, people tend to have connections with people that are similar to them in “socially significant” ways like ethnicity…

Commie Canuck accidentally makes a case for legalizing racism.

Therefore, if people are socially distant from public health experts and other people taking social distancing seriously, [they are less likely to want to obey] and more likely to face steep social costs for complying with those guidelines.

This is why Fauci is omnipresent in the media. The Elites want him to be a household name, placed in every single social network, daily visible to and discussed by every single American, because you’re more likely to obey an authority figure when he appears socially close. So they think. Fish and guests after three days….

The other useful concept from network theory is preferential attachment. Most social networks have a handful of members that possess a disproportionately large number of social connections…

The old “Influencer” tactic. Find a trusted person, kill him, gut him and wear him as a skinsuit while demanding respect.

Public health is not the only area where rapid and profound shifts in attitudes and behaviours on a global scale are desperately needed. Climate change is another pressing global challenge that not only requires largescale systemic changes orchestrated by governments, corporations, and international organizations, but also a cumulative shift in the voting patterns, consumer habits and transportation decisions of billions of people around the world. For example, many groups have called for an abandonment of outdated norms around private car ownership…

It took less than a month for globalist tools to get the idea that if Fraudci could change the world overnight by unchallenged dictat one time, then he could do it a second time for the REAL agenda… UN Agenda 2030.

Janzwood, you fool! YOU are the carbon they want to reduce! But nooo, you gotta be a GSD.

The experience with C19 outbreak and response may have helped laid the groundwork for pro-climate norms to take root.

Janzwood, you fool! You should have not rushed to publish… here’s why…

First, the social distancing norm cascade shows just how malleable our belief systems can be, challenging the conventional wisdom that attitudes and behaviors can only be shifted incrementally over years or decades.

Two years of curve-flattening later, no. The wheels are coming off the lies. Governments have given up with the Influencers and Omnipresent Authorities in favor of deploying riot police to shore up their palace walls. Concentration camps have been built. The initial rush to obey has since been infected with a powerful urge to return to a normality that the world’s Janzwoods thought had decreed into oblivion.

Contra the Communist Manifesto, humans are NOT infinitely malleable.

Second, trust in expertise appears to have increased in many parts of the world where it had been waning in recent years. While effectively containing the outbreak and avoiding the worst projections ironically serves to bolster the claims of those denying the severity of the crisis, the status of scientists and other experts in the public discourse has generally improved, which may create a more receptive audience for climate science.

DID! NOT! AGE! WELL!

And lastly, many people’s previously unwavering belief in the upward trajectory of human well-bring has been deeply shaken. For years, the message of catastrophic risks – particularly those that can only be addressed by proactive, scientifically informed, globally coordinated action – may be lurking just beyond the horizon has been largely ignored. However, today these realities may enjoy a more receptive (and captive) audience than ever before.

The gloves always come off in the end. “I’m here to help you, Sweetie… you don’t want to hurt Grandma… now stop struggling and take your next clot shot if you ever want to see your friends again!”

Receptive, no way. Hospitals are now known to be killing their patients for Federal bribe money. Children having strokes is being retconned into history. City-sized protests have hit the streets. But captive, yes. We allowed the Elites to turn our societies into open-air prisons.

Hell yeah, the climate is changing. Because the Masters Of the Universe don’t actually want a global empire. They want to steal, kill and destroy, like their spiritual father of lies, and now that the Plandemic entrenched them in the halls of power, we ain’t voting our way out of this.

2022 is already gettin’ real, yo.

Teacher spends hours in plane toilet after she learns she has Covid mid-flight

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I remember when the first symptom of sickness was a runny nose or achy joints. Now it’s, what, a smartphone notification or something?

Wait, how do you TEST POSITIVE from inside an aircraft? Did the flight crew stick a Q-tip up her nose after take-off? Seems a little late… but maybe they wanted an excuse to chuck a mystery-meat Chicongo school Not-See out the door halfway across the North Atlantic. I’ve had to resist that urge myself.

And why did the Swiss Air Force not shoot down the airliner in a desperate effort to quarantine the country? Did they appreciate her nobly hogging the bathroom for half the flight so everybody else had to shit their pants, which is totally NOT how disease ACTUALLY gets spread? That doesn’t sound like the Swiss. They’re very clean.

I tried to track down what happened to the rest of the flight. This is the best I could do:

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Fotieo grew up in East Grand Rapids, but now lives in Chicago where she teaches early childhood education. Over the holidays, she planned a trip to Switzerland with her brother and father.

They left on December 20th from Newark, New Jersey, on an Icelandair flight to Reykjavik, Iceland, where they had a layover.

About an hour into the five-hour flight, Fotieo said her throat started to hurt. She had brought along several COVID-19 rapid test kits, and went to the bathroom to take one.

Full-on hypochondria, with the complication that her father allowed it. There is no good reason to do this. Once you get on the plane, taking a test will either come back negative or force a lot of people to go far out of their way for no possible benefit.

“And within about two seconds, the test came back positive,” Fotieo said. “I freaked out and ran out of the bathroom and found the first person I could see. Luckily it was this amazing flight attendant named Rocky.”

“Daddy, when did you first meet my mommy?”

“It was on a transatlantic airplane. I was flight crew and she was the double-masked weirdo screaming about being diseased from inside the bathroom with half a dozen Covid self-tests. I knew instantly that I was never going to do better than her! Then, I welded the bathroom door shut!”

Fotieo credits Ragnhildur “Rocky” Eiríksdóttir with keeping her calm and collected. Rocky asked her to wait in the bathroom while she figured out what to do.

“I could hear something over the intercom that said something about a passenger on board testing positive,” Fotieo said, “and that it is very important for everyone keep their masks on as much as possible,”

“This is the captain speaking. Suck on your face diapers EVEN HARDER because we atheists can’t pray the rosary! Flight attendants, break out the duct tape.”

Rocky returned, telling Fotieo that it was a full flight so there was no extra room to space her out.

“There were like 150 people on board,” said Fotieo, “so I said I would just stay in the bathroom for the rest of the flight.”

Which explains why not one of them managed to reach Fotieo with a blunt object.

During her flight from the cramped airplane bathroom, Fotieo filmed a short TikTok video that has now been viewed almost four million times. “I can’t believe I spent four hours in that bathroom,” Fotieo said, “but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”

Apparently, “what you’ve got to do” is notify the entire world as quickly as possible that you’re the evil bitch that ruined Christmas for 150 people, an airline and the International Red Cross because you’re a world-class hypochondriac who can’t stop testing herself for Chinky Pox.

Where was Daddy in all this? How completely can a man fail to discipline and control his daughter?

Foteio said she had taken five of the rapid tests in the days before leaving and they were all negative. She explained that she’s been very vigilant of COVID-19 safety because she wanted to keep her father safe.

Her mother passed away two years ago, so she said her father’s health is extremely important.

Feckless Baby Boomers, man. “Humanity must make sacrifices to protect my fragile health or I won’t be able to safely vacation in the Swiss Alps for Christmas!”

“For the past two years, keeping him safe has really been top-of-mind,” said Fotieo, “so knowing that he was on the plane I just knew I had to stay in the bathroom.”

That and blunt objects.

Fotieo’s brother and father both tested negative when they landed, and the two continued on to Switzerland while Fotieo had to stay in Iceland for a 10-day quarantine. She was put up in a Red Cross Humanitarian Hotel at no charge.

She sacrificed her mental health then her vacation for her father, who then cut her loose to die alone as quickly as the State permitted. But she ended up okay because Rocky was there to comfort her! What a good role model Daddy is being!

On the bright side, it sounds like the 147 innocents were also allowed to salvage their Christmas.

“They have medical personnel here that check on me and bring me food three times a day,” Fotieo said, and looking back on it, I’m so happy it turned out the way it had to because I’ve been cozy in here.”

Her quarantine period started December 20th and would end on December 30th, so she’d spend the Christmas holiday alone. To her surprise though, the flight attendant who’d helped her on board, Rocky, dropped off a special package to Foteio on Christmas Eve.

“She sent me a little Christmas tree with lights to dangle around it, a note, a warm dinner, and presents to open on Christmas day,” said Fotieo.

Fotieo said she was emotional that Rocky really went above and beyond to make sure she had a happy holiday despite her situation and isolation.

“I can confidently say that I would have probably cried for 10 day straight had it not been for Rocky,” said Fotieo, “and Icelandair as a whole really made this experience joyful and memorable, and it was really so heartwarming.”

Fotieo said she was really surprised that her TikTok video got as much attention as it did, and she has since continued to update her profile with videos of her quarantine experience and Rocky’s generosity.

Everybody loves to watch a train wreck, especially on an airplane. Fotieo, we are endlessly grateful to NOT BE YOU.

Fotieo said her father and brother plan to return to Reykjavik when her quarantine period is over and then they will spend four days in Iceland doing excursions like snow-mobiling and seeing the Northern Lights.

Chicongo schoolteachers must be the emotional version of professional athletes: paid megabucks in compensation for early, severe and incurable damage to their health.

We are no longer able to avoid the insane.