Comments on: Open thread 8/31/21 https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:02:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: JimNorCal https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574457 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:02:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574457 It’s been, of course, noticeable that GOPe is far more passionate about opposing any populist group compared to Dems.
They’re collegial with AOC but mad dog frothing when fighting Tea Party or MAGA.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574449 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:50:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574449 Wow, a plausible explanation of what happened to National Review:
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How The National Review Sold Its Soul to Google
And Why Jonah Goldberg and David French Got Thrown Out

There were rumors in the summer of 2018 that an audiotape was circulating that would send shockwaves through the think tanks of Washington and the conservative intellectual movement in particular. A top Google executive had been recorded telling his fellow employees that Google generously donated to conservative think tanks and magazines to dampen criticism of their anti-conservative bias. In essence, Google was buying off Conservatism Inc. and the GOP establishment to stay silent while Google monitored, harassed, and excluded Trump supporters. If true, the tape sounded like a smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence of the corruption and double-dealing of Conservatism Inc. that would permanently discredit it with Republican voters.

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-national-review-sold-its
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Goldberg and French were 86’d because they were considered the two largest culprits in tanking the magazine’s subscriptions and donations.

]]> By: JimNorCal https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574431 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:42:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574431 A summary of what’s happening in Oz.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-08-31/covid-propaganda-roundup-war-down-under-australia-today-america-tomorrow

]]> By: gwynmir https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574410 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:59:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574410 Read Glenn Greenwald today: as fascinating as it is disgusting:

https://tinyurl.com/yjczhusa

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574406 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:47:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574406 The there is this. Lots of interesting stories out there today for the Afghanistan fatigued.

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/31/american-social-scoring-chase-bank-reportedly-cancel-the-account-and-credit-card-of-michael-flynn/

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574402 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:36:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574402 This short thread lays out the problems with a vaccine for children and the boosters. The fact that anyone would advocate for them right now is very troubling.

https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1432708355345235978

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574374 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:38:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574374 JimNorCal,

We are in a Bio Medical Security State that is attempting to suppress an endemic respiratory virus with a 99.9% survival rate.

]]> By: JimNorCal https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574369 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:34:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574369 A better attitude towards Covid

Facing up to Covid as endemic.
Eventually we will ALL get it. Only question is whether you’ll survive. And how to strengthen your immune system in advance.
https://youtu.be/JhRb5hnTseU

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574347 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:55:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574347 This is a good piece on the never ending emergency.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/30/pretending-covid-is-an-emergency-is-killing-america/

]]> By: TommyJay https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/31/open-thread-8-31-21/#comment-2574342 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:20:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110047#comment-2574342 The Epoch Times on the FDA departures,

… confirming the planned departures of Dr. Marion Gruber, the head of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), and Gruber’s deputy, Dr. Philip Krause.
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The “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service,” wrote the agency’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio on Twitter.

“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Rick Bright, who formerly directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said on Twitter.

He added that “Gruber is much more than the director,” adding she is a “visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-Cov-2, many others.”

A hollowing out of a department?

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