Red State vs. Blue State and Socialism

As we begin to open up our country from what has been a devastating impact on our economy, we see where the blue states are still restricting businesses from opening while red states are moving ahead to get their economy booming again.  There have been many ideas thrown out there why the blue states are resisting opening while the citizens of these states are out either demonstrating demanding to be free and business opening in defiant of the governors orders.  Could it be intentional to slow the economy from opening and booming again in order to weaken President Trump and benefit brain dead Biden?  In reality, these democratic socialist governors are only hurting their state and not only will their residents begin moving out but large business may even move to a more business friendly state.  We will also see these states being sued since some of their orders are in direct conflict with our constitution and Bill of Rights.  As we witness what the Socialist Democratic Party has been doing for many years, we see where their interpretation of the constitution is entirely different from what our Founders wrote and approved.  They do not believe that our rights come from God, but should come from government.  We see the impact of government controlled rights today just by witnessing what the communist government of China is doing to Hong Kong.  Remember, socialism, communism, Marxism and progressivism are all the same.  Power in the hands of government not the people.

In November of 1863, President Lincoln gave his Gettysburg address wherein he stated “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
What we are witnessing today, is a push to change how we govern from a Democratic Republic to a socialist government where rights from God be dammed and the government will be in control.  The Green New Deal is just a perfect example of this.  Under this plan, government will tell you what you can drive, eat, where you can live and if your job is in keeping with this new deal guidelines.  In other words, government will tell you where you can eat and shit.  This coming election in November will decide if you want to remain free or become a subject of government.  We fought this type of government in 1776.  The democratic socialist are well aware that the people will not surrender their rights so the only way they can gain control of government is through mail in balloting.  If you think mail in balloting will not be corrupt, I know bridge in Brooklyn that just went up for sale.  When political activist get their hands on these ballots you can rest assured there will be ballot tampering.  Going to a voting booth to cast your ballot is the only way you can make sure your ballot will not be altered unless of course there is a computer program that can alter the vote tally if voting is done by computer and not a paper ballot.  But, even this type of voting is inspected numerous times and based on the 2016 election it is safe from outside interference. 
So, this coming election really comes down to government control of you as we see in the blue states or free as guaranteed in the constitution and red states.  Do you want a bunch of bureaucrats dictating what you can and cannot do or do you want our constitution and yourself deciding what you can or cannot do?   And if you are not familiar with George Orwell’s book, 1984, I suggest you find a copy and read it before the November election.  We are witnessing what he wrote in 1949 today.  Spying on the citizens from government and private industry, using drones, cameras and tapping into our computers, cellphones and if you think Alexia is not storing you information you are badly mistaken.  What China is doing in Hong Kong today and what we see in Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea is the road these socialist want us to travel.  These bureaucrats have control of Biden telling him what he can do or say.  Even though his thought process is a little foggy.  Little may not be the right word, but we are being kind to him.  If elected, Biden will not last long, so who he selects as VP will become president and this selection will not be made by Biden.  The bureaucrats will make sure their selection is a person they will have complete control.  They will be deciding your fate, not the president.   The election of Trump has put a dent in this swamp of unelected bureaucrats and they will do whatever it takes to gain back control.  If Trump is re-elected, then all their efforts thru Mueller investigation, collusion, and the phony impeachment failed, but they will not stop at derailing Trump.  So you can expect more lies and false accusations from the socialist and their publicity arm, the lying news media all the way thru November and maybe beyond.  However, the Barr/Durham investigation will expose this swamp and the American people will see this deep state and how they operate and hopefully all this will start coming out by August at the latest.  What acting DNI Grenell has declassified so far gives us how deep this corruption was and hopefully, the new DNI, John Ratcliffe will continuing exposing the corruption from the Obama administration.  Time will tell.

Democratic Republic Vs. Communism

We are witnessing this difference first hand.   The United States is not a democracy, but a Democratic Republic form of Government.  We have direct election of our president and not by members of a parliament.  We are supposed to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people but now you are seeing how the governors in the socialist party living up to their party’s name.  Socialism is no different from Marxism, communism and progressivism.  We see the governors of California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Maine, NY and the mayor of NYC demonstrating what it is like living under a communist regime.  They believe what they say is the law and you must obey or be arrested, issued a summons or your license to operate a business removed.  In addition, in California you can go to the beach and walk only on the wet sand while in NYC if you even go to the beach you will be arrested.  This is what tyranny is like.  You see this today in Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and China among other countries.  In China, if you speak out against communist government, you will disappear never to be seen again.   

Now we know the socialist party want to add mail in ballots to our election process.  Under this method, one will never know what actually happens to their ballot.  It could be collected and switch to the candidate a particular party wants.  They also want to eliminate the Electoral College so only the most popular state will control all elections and the other 38 to 40 states and go screw themselves.  To have a government of the people, by the people and for the people, all votes must count and not just the votes from some 10 or so states.   This is why our Founding Fathers put the Electoral College in the constitution because they knew of the 13 original states, just 3 or 4 would control the vote so the Electoral College was established.  This also means a person can be elected president and not have the popular vote.  This happen to Bill Clinton and Trump.  It was okay during the Clinton election but not for the Trump election.  What happen in the Trump election is California gave Hillary much more votes than most other states.  This shows why the Electoral College is necessary so all votes will have meaning and not just a select view states.  But if you believe socialism or communism is the way to go, then move to one of the above mentioned states and enjoy your restricted life.  When all these restrictions have ended, you will see a ton of lawsuits on violating constitutional rights. 

Socialist Democrats want to control you and you may not realize this.

 The 1^st Amendment gives us freedom of speech, but that is being slowly taken away by some governments classifying many things as “hate speech”, and the latest is words, “China Virus”. There is no such thing as hate speech in our constitution and years ago, we could call people what many would consider offensive names, but it was free speech. Yes, yelling out fire in a crowded room when there is no fire would not be covered as this can panic and cause injuries or death to people.  But calling people various names that was done years ago, even though many of us would not approve, was what made this country great.  Instead of being taken out behind the barn and shot, this speech was protected.  Now it seems that local, state and even the federal government want certain speech restricted and are calling this type of speech hate speech. 

As we are witnessing today, we now see how the Obama administration used all agencies of the federal government to spy on US citizens and even attempted to overthrow a duly elected president.  Another violation of our constitution and due process.  We had the IRS spying on conservative groups and Obama and company going after news reporters where they did not approve of their reporting.  And if case you did not fully understand operation Fast and Furious, it was not just about tracing guns going from the US to Mexico, but the real reason was to show how our “loose” gun laws were allowing guns to be shipped to Mexico and used in crimes.  This was supposed to be the impetus for restricting our 2^nd Amendment rights.   Now we all know, the constitution cannot be changed without a constitutional amendment, but we are seeing where this is being ignored by various states as they impose their beliefs on how they interpret the constitution.  The constitution must be interpreted as written, but many socialist believe it should be interpreted to meet today’s standards and no amendment is required. They know that no amendment restricting the Bill of Rights would not past today.  But if we fail to speak out on what is happening today, it may happen in the future and we will regret losing these rights that will never come back.  Over 20 years ago, Obama was quoted that all our rights should come from government and not God as indicated in our constitution. 

Years ago a person wrote a book where he wrote: “The best way to take control over people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions.  In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed”.

The book was Mein Kampf and the author Adolf Hitler.  We know how that worked out.

A time to hate or time to heal?

Long but well worth the read.  Tells it like it is.  Regardless of your political views. 

Article written by Rabbi Dov Fischer. He's also an attorney.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to guard, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
— Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 3:1-8

Through eight years, I accepted the rules of the game. Obama was president. He won fair and square because the Republicans serially put up two milquetoast opponents who were incapable of offering a vision or articulating a message that inspired. John McCain had been an American wartime hero who stood by his men, refused early release, and withstood torture in the “Hanoi Hilton” 40 years earlier. But he had no business running for a presidency two generations later for which he was not prepared to fight and for which he had no vision. And then came Mitt Romney, his etch-a-sketch candidacy, his binders full of women, and his Romneycare, which served as the model for the Obamacare and which was the single most galvanizing issue in 2012 for Republican conservatives. In order to throw out Obamacare, the Republican Party offered us conservatives … what, Romneycare? Tough for us conservatives to sing in that tabernacle choir.

I accepted Obama. I never articulated his first name, and I never called him “president,” but I accepted the results and accepted that this Pretender was our country’s lawfully elected chief executive. I watched his arrogance, the unctuous way he carried himself literally with his nose up, the way he never held a railing while walking a stairway because he was too cool, the kinds of human dreck he regularly invited as his White House guests, and I accepted it all with the soft whisper, “This, too, shall pass.” I watched the Corrupt Journalist Corps idolize him, crown him a king, admire him as a messiah and a deity, and I accepted the milieu. This, too, in time would pass. It meant living through eight years of the deepest public corruption. Lois Lerner stealing an election by leveraging the awesome power of the Internal Revenue Service to close down legitimate conservative political groups. Eric Holder — the nobleman who urged people to kick enemies — bringing lawlessness and corruption into the Justice Department, even approving the “Fast and Furious” idea of releasing lethal weapons to Mexican drug lords in the cockamamie scheme to find out how they access and move their weapons. Glenn Beck exposed Obama’s Maoist communications director, Anita Dunn, who walked children through the White House. There was ACORN. Just one corruption after another.

I hate that Donald Trump never was given a chance to be President of the United States for even one day’s honeymoon.

Amid my speeches and writings throughout the Wasted Obama Decade, I never published a piece aimed at bringing down Obama before his term was up. He won. Although he is despicable beyond words, the rules of our game, as set forth in our precious Constitution, made him our president. That meant Americans would die needlessly because we had a commander in chief who was a Pretender and an Incompetent. But he won fair and square. So ISIS grew from a small terror band to a caliphate. ISIS-inspired terror attacks occurred in our homeland. Western Europe sustained terrible deadly attacks. Our American economy went nowhere. We micturated half a billion dollars down a toilet with Solyndra while trying to close down our energy sector, attacking the genius of our hydraulic fracturing, obstructing our oil exploration, blocking the construction of new pipelines that offered even more oil and more thousands of jobs. Instead, we got shovel-ready jobs that were not ready but rather were chummy payoffs to union heads and other political insiders. We got windmills suitable for blowhards. We got Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Benghazi as testimonial to her vision. We got Susan Rice, an idiot, raised paradoxically to head of national security after spending a day lying on five television stations about Benghazi and later going on to describe Bowe Bergdahl, a coward and deserter, as a hero who had served with honor and distinction. We got Loretta Lynch, who some thought would clean up Holder’s corruption of Justice, only to find that she ended up in bed with the Clintons at the height of the probe of Hillary’s corruption. We saw the world’s worst murderers freed from Gitmo so that they could rejoin the war against America.

And yet I accepted it all. Because if there are only two main parties in this country, and if the Republican RINOs refuse repeatedly to nominate a bona fide conservative who truly reflects the will of the rank-and-file voters whose ballots send them to Washington, then we are left with a Pretender like Obama, and he won fair and square.

The waters did not stop rising on Obama’s watch. The Earth was not healed. On his watch, a country that finally had healed itself from the shame and scourge of imposing slavery on human beings more than a century earlier, a country that had atoned and that had created and institutionalized a new social infrastructure by which people no longer were denied because of their skin color or religion — a country that reflected that healing by electing a Black man president despite his manifest lack of personal achievement, close ties with an organized-crime felon, and questionable biography — suddenly erupted into a new era of racial bitterness. Michael Brown and Ferguson aflame amid the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” lie promoted by Obama and by Eric Holder but shot down by a Missouri grand jury. Freddie Gray and Baltimore aflame followed by a series of outright judicial exonerations handed down by a Black judge who saw that every accused cop had acted properly and lawfully. A lowlife killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, a thug whom Obama told us would have been the likes of his own son if he had had a son. Eight years of racial divide, social division aimed at tearing us up as a color-blind and religion-blind American People, just to promote electoral successes.

And yet I accepted that Obama had won. No derangement syndrome for me. It was what it was. As a New York Mets fan from their founding in 1962, I understood what it was to wait patiently and to endure eight years of unmitigated disaster. As a boy, I waited then, and then came Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, and Nolan Ryan. As an adult I waited. And then came Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

When the Mets finally took it all in 1969, the other teams accepted the results. They lost gracefully. Now it was the Mets’ turn, and they had won it fair and square. But these past three years have been something different. Trump and Pence won fair and square. But there was no grace. Rather, there was instant character assassination, instant war, instant denial. Advertisements urging electors to violate their Electoral College oaths. Fabrications of collusion with Putin. Investigations that hamstrung a presidency. Lies and innuendoes leaked and published by the unindicted co-conspirators we call the “mainstream media.” A never-ending hunt to find scandals and Trump accusers: a bimbo who pole-danced at bars, her lawyer who now dances behind bars, another crooked lawyer who tape-recorded his own clients and now is locked up, disbarred from the Bar. One cartoon character after another.

As a rabbi of 40 years and a person who believes that most people have the potential for goodness, and who tries to find the good even in people who disappoint until they absolutely close off the possibility of goodness being discovered within them, I now have learned to hate.

The Bible certainly does not encourage hate. “Do not hate your brother in your heart. [If he does wrong, go ahead and] Rebuke your compatriot, but do not sin because of him” (Leviticus 19:17). “Do not seek revenge, and do not bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). But the Bible acknowledges the existence of viciousness and cruelty, and it demands of decent people that we not sit on the fence in the face of evil: “Those who love G-d hate evil” (Psalm 97:10). King Solomon laid it out best in that magnificently poetic third chapter of Ecclesiastes, which inspired not only The Byrds but even Pete Seeger and Judy Collins.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. There is a time to hate.

I have come deeply to hate. I hate that Donald Trump never was given a chance to be president of the United States for even one day’s honeymoon. I hate that, long before he won the presidency — fair and square — corrupt crooks and criminals in the United States Department of Justice, its Federal Bureau of Investigation, were actively plotting to take him down. I hate that there are so few outlets in the media that give voice to condemn the criminality and corruption that broke every accepted societal norm by which we play the game. I hate that Obama was in on it, yet continues to pontificate on what is just and on what threatens freedom.

I hate that they all keep getting away with it. Every single one of them gets away with it. There is absolutely no price to be paid on the left for perjury, for conspiracy to overturn a legitimate election, for treason.

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn may or may not be a great American hero. Yes, he has the medals and the military career for which we all say, “Thank you for your service.” But so did John McCain, and so does that Vindman guy. OK, so thank you for your service. Absolutely. But Michael Flynn, whether a hero or simply, merely just a lifelong patriot who has devoted his entire adult life to the protection and betterment of the United States, wanted to serve his country. So he served honorably in the military under Obama as commander in chief. He accepted the chain of command. And then, after his active military service, he stepped forward to participate politically under Trump.

Lt. Gen. Flynn never deserved what was done to him. He was targeted for destruction by criminals and crooks in the FBI. They set out to destroy him. The FBI is not allowed to bother law-abiding people like you and me, to set us up, and to induce us to commit a crime. They are permitted to pursue criminal investigations only when they have a predicate before them. In the case of Flynn, they had in their possession a complete recording and transcript of his phone call with Sergey Kislyak. Yet they interviewed him and asked him to tell them what was said during the call. The Bureau of Investigation was not investigating; they already knew the answer. Rather, they were setting him up to speak a falsehood, to commit the crime of lying to the FBI, an act whose criminal dimensions he did not appreciate as a layman. They dissuaded him from having an attorney at the interview so he would slip into the trap. A competent attorney would have protected him. Frankly, a competent attorney would have killed the interview in the first place or would have wrangled terms that would have negated its purpose, much as Hillary did.

For each question, even if such an interview ever would have happened, an attorney like me would have been saying, alternating between my client and his interrogator: “Lieutenant General, you do not have to answer that question. Go ahead, what’s the next question?” Or “Lieutenant General, please wait a moment. What is the purpose of this question? What exactly are you asking?” Or “My client, the Lieutenant General, is delighted he could give you eight minutes of his valuable time today. If you want to ask him any more questions along these lines, send us a subpoena. We will study it and let you know our thoughts.”

They took advantage of a good man who suddenly found himself combating in a different kind of military theater outside his field of expertise. He knew the jungles of Afghanistan, not the jungles of the Justice Department in Washington. The slime dregs of Justice, the Peter Strzoks and Andrew McCabes of the FBI, knew this. They had the lieutenant general on their terrain. He never should have been questioned about the call. He never should have been sucked into an interview without an attorney present. He never should have been lulled into what he said to the FBI.

Donald Trump has been the chief executive of this country for more than three years, and he has proven to be a great president in so many ways, but he sadly has proven incapable of cleaning the swamp. He at least identified the swamp’s existence, and he is fighting its effort to swallow him within its muck. But he has proven that, despite the glorious slogan he inspired, he cannot drain it. Not one single slime in the swamp has been brought to justice.

There is something so evil in a society that tolerates a dual standard of justice, dual standards of everything. On the one hand, we political conservatives harbor profoundly deep feelings, but we do not destroy people’s lives based on abstract politics. Yes, we oppose them and expose them, and we hope that contemporary society and history judge them for the evil they represent. But we do not destroy them in their lives. They get away with everything. Hillary Clinton spoliated 33,000 emails amid a federal probe, a federal crime that always ends up with prison time — but not for her. It is a federal crime to lie under oath to Congress. Comey, Clapper, Brennan — how have they all avoided prison time? Strzok, Page, the whole bunch of them? Adam Schiff. The outliers on the Mueller team. Not one single slime among them in the swamp has been brought to justice.

These animals destroyed the life of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. They drove him into such financial ruin that he had to sell his home to pay his legal bills. They went after a good boy, Nick Sandmann, and they cruelly made him into the face of racism. His own Catholic diocese in eastern Kentucky sold him out and sold out all the boys who stood with him that fateful day in Washington, D.C., when he was harassed by a messed-up Indian with a drum. And they did everything they could to destroy Brett Kavanaugh, a good man, a family man, a man who has devoted time throughout his life to his church and to the need. They endeavored through outright perjury to destroy him. The perjurers all got away with it. Name one single perjurer against Justice Kavanaugh who ever was brought to justice by Charles Grassley or Lindsey Graham of the Senate Judicial Committee.

The liars destroy with impunity because they know they always will get away with it. Republicans watch the character assassination and then go on Sean Hannity to sound brave for five minutes. “These people will pay a steep price, Sean.” “I won’t let them get away with it, Sean.” “Let not your heart be troubled, Sean.” “We will investigate every crime and every perjury, Sean.” Three years of hearing this from Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Trey Gowdy, Charles Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Jason Chaffetz, Kevin McCarthy. Well, Fox News Alert: They all got away with it. Comey. Brennan. Clapper. Blasey Ford. Schiff. Hillary. Strzok. Page. McCabe.

If the Left truly believed in the truth of the slogans they chanted in their failed effort to destroy Justice Kavanaugh, does anyone truly believe that Biden still would be standing today? Does anyone truly believe that Sonia Sotomayor could not have been completely destroyed at the time of her SCOTUS nomination if she were conservative? If the media were not a division of the Democrat Party, does anyone doubt that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today would have been forced from office like his immediate predecessors, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, if only for presiding over so extraordinary a health catastrophe that his one state accounts for half the coronavirus illnesses and deaths in the whole country? Cuomo ordered nursing homes in his state to admit coronavirus-infected seniors into facilities that were woefully unprepared to handle the medical ramifications, and that order singularly caused mass death. And yet the same media that seek any and every angle to blame Trump for not wearing a mask lionize Cuomo, who not only should wear a mask but also should change his fingerprints, undergo plastic surgery to reconfigure his appearance, and hide for dear life in some El Chapo cave from the children and grandchildren left behind by the more than 5,000 defenseless seniors whom he has martyred so far on the altar of Democrat liberalism.

There is a time to love and a time to hate. This is a time to hate.

DNC Emails. The Truth comes out.

In the 2016, the Hillary campaign and the DNC announced that their computer system was hacked by Russia and some 30,000 Emails were compromised.  The FBI was assigned to investigate, but the DNC and Hillary preferred a private company.  So the FBI stood down and the Russia involvement in our 2016 election began.  What we never found out was the real results of the private contractor the DNC hired. 

In the last few days, John Podesta indicated that Russia did not hack into the DNC computer. It was John Podesta whose computer was also hacked when he unintentionally gave out his password through a scam.  We know that Seth Rich, a DNC Voter Expansion Data Director was murdered on July 10, 2016.  He was murdered at approximately 4 am in the morning.  His wallet, money and credit cards and other personal items were never removed from the body.  So, those of us with a brain at the time knew this could not be a robbery, so why was he murdered.  What we now know is Seth was a Whikileaks source for the DNC leaked Emails.  Now the question to ask is who ordered the murder of Seth.  We know dead people tell no tales, but the information coming out indicates his death was not a robbery gone bad.  The death of Seth Rich was also a subject of FBI Emails between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.  The Emails of August 10, 2016 have been heavily redacted.  These Emails were forwarded messages from the FBI Washington Field Office.  So, this is where this mystery stands today and hopefully the Durham/Burr investigation will uncover information on this tragedy. 

Under the FOIA, Judicial Watch has filed a request for these records.  But, the FBI is under the leadership of Christopher Wray, better known as Wray the Cover up Man”.  Since this is an election year, if Trump was to fire Wray at this time, it would give the socialist party and the lying news media some more news they can twist to suit their false narrative.  But the DOJ under the leadership of Barr will be squeezing Wray for this information and letting him know in a subtle way that failing to comply with legal request in this wide criminal investigation of the upper echelon of the FBI, White House and other government agencies can lead to obstruction charges.  

As more information is made public we will see the involvement of not only the 7^th floor of the FBI, but Clapper, Brennan and others on the witch hunt to remove a duly elected president.  Although, some may call this treason, it may not rise to that level, but it still is and was a conspiracy to remove a president.  Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler will have a lot of questions to answer too.  Especially Schiff who has been lying for 3 years and should be expelled from Congress, but he is a Pelosi stooge and will continue in this position.  This is why in November we must elect a republican controlled House that today has cost our country over $50 million in phony investigations to further their false narrative.  Trump was not the problem in 2016, it was the socialist party, the White House and other government agencies that wanted Hillary to win so they could accelerate their power and control over the country.  Make no mistake about it, this is all about power and control that Trump has called the swamp or deep state.  If these characters ever gain control, our constitution will no longer exist as we know it.  Just look at what these socialist governors and mayors are doing with this COVID-19.  This is all you need to see to understand how much they want to control you.    

COVID-19 INFORMATION

Under This Doctor’s Care, Most COVID-19 Patients Are Recovering. Here’s His Unusual Approach.

Kevin Pham / May 04, 2020

One of the biggest hurdles in dealing with a pandemic caused by a completely new virus is grappling with the sheer amount of unknown information.

In the case of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV2, this was particularly difficult because the presentation of each patient seemed so vastly different from the previous case.

Furthermore, many patients seemed to improve clinically before deteriorating, requiring an admission to the intensive care unit for weeks at a time. The pernicious behavior of the virus made pandemic response that much more difficult, and the unpredictable nature of the disease consumed and strained health care resources.

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Physicians who were treating COVID-19 patients took note and communicated to others by phone call, conference, or social media, but there was no central repository for their experiences, which ensured that the virus spread much faster than information.

Now, approximately four months since the first reported case in America, we are beginning to understand why.

Dr. Thomas Yadegar, a critical care physician for 20 years and now director of the intensive care unit at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California, has been on the front lines of the pandemic response.

The first time one of his patients deteriorated, he was completely stumped for the first time in his two decades in the ICU.

Many of his patients were in acute respiratory distress. But many other patients were experiencing abnormal coagulation, inflammatory heart disease, and some were even experiencing neurological deficits and weakened muscles.

“I have 20 years of critical care experience, and I can’t explain what just happened to my patient,” Yadegar said.

One evening after an exhausting shift, he sat down and pored over patient charts for all those cases, searching for a common thread. Finally, after one of the worst headaches of his life, he found it.

It was inflammation.

Early in the pandemic, Yadegar’s unit used treatment guidelines that came from doctors around the world, which recommended avoiding anti-inflammatory treatment and recommended early and aggressive use of ventilators to prevent patients from declining further.

But those guidelines were aimed at treating a severe viral respiratory disease by using a ventilator to assist with oxygenating the blood while the body uses its inflammatory pathways to mount a response to the virus.

Those guidelines did not address the treatment for when other organ systems began to fail.

In fact, using a ventilator is a highly invasive procedure, and the repeated and forced inspiration of air irritates the lungs, which feeds back into the inflammatory cycle. Many patients, once on a ventilator, never recover.

The only way to explain the highly complex disease course that seems to change from one patient to the next is that the virus is causing an autoimmune response, in which the body’s natural defense mechanisms go haywire and begin destroying the body they’re trying to protect.

The disease course is so unpredictable because every person’s immune system is unique to that person.

This phenomenon is not unheard of, and a common virus, Epstein-Barr virus, is known for potentially initiating the body’s inflammatory pathways to attack the nervous system and causing Guillain-Barre syndrome.

The main difference with SARS-CoV2 is that it’s much more efficient at doing this—and often in a catastrophic manner.

Yadegar and the ICU he manages have adjusted their protocols. Now, patients who test positive in his hospital for SARS-CoV2 are not sent home immediately, but tested for inflammatory markers.

Those with elevated inflammatory markers are kept in the hospital with a close eye on their oxygen saturation levels. If the patient begins to desaturate, the medical team evaluates the patient before starting a course of steroids and an IL-6 inhibitor.

IL-6 (interleukin-6) is a powerful mediator for the inflammatory pathway, so an IL-6 inhibitor would prevent a significant amount of inflammation from happening. Steroids have strong anti-inflammatory effects and also suppress the immune system more broadly.

The two of those do not treat the virus, but the potentially deadly autoimmune response it can cause.

But Yadegar cautioned that “you have to treat each patient within their own protocol.” Doctors must always treat the patients in front of them and cannot simply rely on these types of drugs for all critically ill COVID-19 patients.

That’s because using an IL-6 inhibitor with steroids would effectively strip the body of its immune response. If there’s a concomitant infection, which is extremely common in the hospital setting and even more so if a patient is on a ventilator, then using this combination of drugs will, almost certainly, kill the patient.

Still, Yadegar and his team have had remarkable success. They have not put a patient on a ventilator in at least two weeks, and the mortality rate in their ICU has been in the single digits, whereas nationally the mortality rate of critically ill patients has been between 40% and 70%.

There’s one thing we have known from the start about the COVID-19 virus, which is that it’s a tricky and pernicious one.

One of the important things that Yadegar has learned is that patients admitted to the ICU are often not coming in due to the direct effect of the virus, but rather from the out-of-control autoimmune process.

Information like that can only be had from front-line clinicians, and we should do our best to ensure they are heard.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention periodically hosts a Clinical Outreach and Communication Activity, in which clinicians are able to discuss their findings and experiences.

The CDC should be using those frequently to update information about COVID-19 and its multiple disease manifestations and to make the information easily and publicly accessible.

Furthermore, the CDC should be actively seeking this information from the front lines of COVID-19 hot spots, where the most relevant data will be found.

With steps like these, clinicians can be assured of clear lines of communication that may help drive down mortality rates in the future and ease the process of reopening the country.

Michael Flynn and Intelligence Reports.

The release of the intelligence transcripts show the plot to overthrow an elected presidential administration as well as the corruption in the FBI and DOJ and other government agencies.  As reported, there will be more release of intelligent records next week as we see what the Durham/Barr investigation has and will uncover.  Criminal activity at the highest level of our government including the White House.  One name that has not been mentioned yet is Valerie Jarrett.  You can rest assured, she was one of the top echelons behind this entire operation.  We now see the lying news media blasting Barr for dropping the prosecution of Flynn, but the release of the Intelligence Committee transcripts and the 53 interviews conducted under oath show there was no crime there and this was all concocted to remove a duly elected president who was going to expose “the swamp” in Washington.  Flynn pleaded guilty to a crime he did not commit to prevent the FBI from concocting a criminal charge against his son and these transcripts show he did not commit a crime.  We are now a witness to how deep this swamp was and still is today.  This includes the news media that has been lying and deceiving the American people for years as they have been carrying the torch for the Socialist Democratic Party.  The lying news media will not admit to their deception and will continue to push out the lies.  Honest Journalism is dead in this country and the American people are being fed lie upon lie.  The leaders in this conspiracy are CNN and MSNBC or MSDNC as some like to call this organization.  Of course ABC, NBC and CBS are also deeply involved, but these two cable networks are spilling out the lies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

By the way, we also know from the intelligence releases why there was a shortage of toilet paper.  Adam Schiff who is so full of crap was out there purchasing every 

Is Vitamin D the next rush to purchase?

A research performed by Northwestern University that analyzed data from hospitals and clinics from various countries found that those countries with high COVID-19 mortality rates had lower levels of vitamin D compared to countries that were not as severely affected. 

I guess as this story travels around the country, we will see the shelves of vitamin D empty.  You can get vitamin D from sunshine as well as multi-vitamins so going outdoors can help unless you are in a blue state where going out is strictly vertoben.  I use the German word since what we are witnessing in these blue states and some cities in red states is what the German people in the 1930’s saw as well as China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba to name a few today.   

The Road to Serfdom

We will have a choice this election, to either live our dreams or to live the dreams government assigns to us.  To succeed through our own efforts and build it ourselves or have government guide to us to meet government goals that are not and will not be the goals of the individuals.  We are headed down the road to serfdom unless we continue to Make America Great Again or make the 180 degree turn and make us government serfs, not what our Founders wanted.  Will we be “We the People”, or “We the Government”.  The choice is ours this election.  November 3, 2020 will decide our fate and the fate of the world.  Are we going to remain the beacon on the hill for all the world to turn too, or will our beacon burn out and the world fall into turmoil and war?  The choice is ours and we must make sure we make the right choice. 

Today, the battle we are engaged in is not a military conflict but a battle for the minds and hearts of the citizens of this country.  A battle to save our constitution from those who want to destroy our way of life and the freedoms we have enjoyed for over 220 years.  There is a desire by individuals and certain groups to transform our country into a socialist/Marxist society where all power is placed in the hands of the government, the presidential czars and other appointed personnel.  In essence, a dictatorship where the Constitution and Bill of Rights are trampled upon.  We are witnessing this today in the actions of governors and mayors during the COVID-19 virus.  This is a battle of two ideologies, one given to us by the Founders and the other by Karl Marx.  One that allows citizens to be the best they can be and the other suppresses freedoms and has government control business, industry, speech and dictates to the citizens what they can and cannot do.  One has a history of tremendous success and the other a history of human slaughter that has a record of killing over 70 million people.  Freedom or Serfdom. 

The top 10 Destructive America Crew

By Frank Hawkins, US Army - Retired Intelligence Officer 

America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism and open borders. The president of the United States is threatened with impeachment because the other side doesn't like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left wing mob. How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits? Here's my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 80 years. 

10) Mark Felt – Deputy director of the FBI, aka "Deep Throat" during the Watergate scandal. This was the first public instance of a senior FBI official directly interfering in America's political affairs. Forerunner of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe. 

9) Bill Ayers– Represents the deep and ongoing leftist ideological damage to our education system. An unrepentant American terrorist who evaded punishment, he devoted his career to radicalizing American education and pushing leftist causes. Ghost wrote Obama's book, "Dreams From My Father."

8) Teddy Kennedy – Most folks remember Teddy as the guy who left Mary Joe Kopechne to die in his car at Chappaquiddick. The real damage came after he avoided punishment for her death and became a major Democrat force in the US Senate, pushing through transformative liberal policies in health care and education. The real damage was the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration bill he pushed hard for that changed the quota system to increase the flow of third world people without skills into the US and essentially ended large-scale immigration from Europe. 

7) Walter Cronkite – Cronkite was a much beloved network anchor who began the politicization of America's news media with his infamous broadcast from Vietnam that described the Tet Offensive as a major victory for the Communists and significantly turned the gullible American public against the Vietnam War. In fact, the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the NVA and Viet Cong, later admitted by North Vietnamese military leaders. Decades later Cronkite admitted he got the story wrong. But it was too late. The damage was done. 

6) Bill and Hillary Clinton—It's difficult to separate Team Clinton. Bill's presidency was largely benign as he was a relative fiscal conservative who rode the remaining benefits of the Reagan era. But his sexual exploits badly stained the Oval Office and negatively affected America's perception of the presidency. In exchange for financial support, he facilitated the transfer of sensitive military technology to the Chinese. Hillary, a Saul Alinsky acolyte, is one of the most vicious politicians of my lifetime, covering up Bill's sexual assaults by harassing and insulting the exploited women and peddling influence around the globe in exchange for funds for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. She signed off on the sale of 20% of the US uranium reserve to the Russians after Bill received a $500,000 speaking fee in Moscow and the foundation (which supported the Clinton's regal lifestyle) received hundreds of millions of dollars from those who benefited from the deal. Between them, they killed any honor that might have existed in the dark halls of DC. 

5) Valerie Jarrett - The Rasputin of the Obama administration. A Red Diaper baby, her father, maternal grandfather and father-in-law (Vernon Jarrett who was a close friend and ally of Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis) were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. She has been in Obama's ear for his entire political career pushing a strong anti-American, Islamist, anti-Israeli, socialist/communist, cling-to-power agenda. 

4) Jimmy Carter - Carter ignited modern day radical Islam by abandoning the Shah and paving the way for Ayatollah Khomeini to take power in Tehran. Iran subsequently became the main state sponsor and promoter of international Islamic terrorism. When Islamists took over our embassy in Tehran, Carter was too weak to effectively respond thus strengthening the rule of the radical Islamic mullahs.

3) Lyndon Johnson – Johnson turned the Vietnam conflict into a major war for America. It could have ended early if he had listened to the generals instead of automaker Robert McNamara. The ultimate result was: 1) 58,000 American military deaths and collaterally tens of thousands of American lives damaged; and 2) a war that badly divided America and created left wing groups that evaded the draft and eventually gained control of our education system. Even worse, his so-called War on Poverty led to the destruction of American black families with a significant escalation of welfare and policies designed to keep poor families dependent on the government (and voting Democrat) for their well-being. He deliberately created a racial holocaust that is still burning today. A strong case could be made for putting him at the top of this list. 

2) Barack Hussein Obama - Obama set up America for a final defeat and stealth conversion from a free market society to socialism/communism. As we get deeper into the Trump presidency, we learn more each day about how Obama politicized and compromised key government agencies, most prominently the FBI, the CIA and the IRS, thus thoroughly shaking the public's confidence in the federal government to be fair and unbiased in its activities. He significantly set back race and other relations between Americans by stoking black grievances and pushing radical identity politics. Obama's open support for the Iranian mullahs and his apologetic "lead from behind" foreign policy seriously weakened America abroad. His blatant attempt to interfere in Israel's election trying to unseat Netanyahu is one of the most shameful things ever done by an American president. 

1) John Kerry – Some readers will likely say Kerry does not deserve to be number one on this list. I have him here because I regard him as the most despicable American who ever lived After his three faked Purple Hearts during his cowardly service in Vietnam, he was able to leave the US Navy early. As a reserve naval officer and in clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he traveled to Paris and met privately with the NVA and the Viet Cong. He returned to the United States parroting the Soviet party line about the war and testified before Congress comparing American soldiers to the hordes of Genghis Khan. It was a clear case of treason, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. We got a second bite of the bitter Kerry apple when as Obama's secretary of state, he fell into bed with the Iranian ("Death to America") mullahs giving them the ultimate green light to develop nuclear weapons along with billions of dollars that further supported their terrorist activities. Only the heroic Swift Vets saved us from a Manchurian Candidate Kerry presidency. Ultimately we got Obama. 

Dishonorable Mentions! (Just missed the list)

John Brennan –Obama's CIA director who once voted for Communist Gus Hall for president. A key member of the Deep State who severely politicized the CIA. Called President Trump treasonous for meeting with the president of Russia. 

Frank Marshall Davis - Anti-white, black Bolshevik, card-carrying Soviet agent. Probable birth father and admitted primary mentor of young Barack Hussein Obama. 

Special Reward goes to George Soros – Jewish former Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary who as a self-made billionaire has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into left wing groups and causes. The damage he has caused is difficult to measure, but it's certainly large. He has funded much of the effort to kill the Trump presidency.

The Governors and COVID-19

Certain governors, especially in California, Michigan, Illinois’, New York, including NYC Mayor and Maine to name a few states believe they have the power over the constitution and your rights under the constitution they can suspend at will.  This is a reminder of Germany in 1930’s when a little tyrant took control of the government and we know what happen and how that ended.  AG Barr has instructed the local DOJ attorneys to review these governments and see if what violations of our constitution rights are involved.  COVID-19 may require certain guidelines to prevent the spread of this virus, but no governor can suspend our constitutional rights.  This is what they are doing as they have become power crazy where they are the law.  These elected officials as well as law enforcement agencies all have taken an oath to defend the constitution.  In many counties in California, the sheriffs have indicated they will not be enforcing the order of the dictator, Gov. Newsome.  These governors have created a police state and unfortunately, the local police officers are enforcing these illegal dictates with arrest and summonses.  Those involved in these actions that are obvious violations of our constitutional rights must be prosecuted.  The German guards at the death camps tried to say they were only following orders, did not work and should not work in this case either.  We have a constitution and these rights that many have shed their blood to protect, must not be given up at the whim of elected officials who believe the constitution be dammed and they are the power.  

None dare call it Treason

We are learning that the Michael Flynn debacle was just that.  Corruption at the highest level of the FBI, DOJ, intelligence agencies, Brennan and Clapper, as well as others not yet fully identified personnel in the White House.  None of this could be done without the approval of Obama.  Obama did not like Flynn because he was going to expose the corruption in the intelligence agencies.  Joe Biden also knew about this, but we cannot be sure if he even can remember yesterday.  This was and also still is ongoing with members of congress as well as the corrupt news media to overthrow a duly elected President of the United States.  Known as silent coup, this is actually Treason.  When the Durham/Barr investigation is finally made public around September, hopefully sooner, these individuals must be prosecuted and sent to the big house.  But, as the day draws closer to exposure, you can rest assured some of these individuals will start singing like birds to avoid many years in prison.  This is always the case when people try to save their butt. 

We can hope that the judge in the Flynn case will throw out his conviction before President Trump pardon’s him.  Then, Flynn must sue the ass off of all these individuals personally as well at the agencies involved and the Federal Government. Bankrupt these individuals and let them suffer while they contemplate their future behind bars. 

The swamp has been exposed by President Trump as he promised during his campaign and the swamp is pushing back with these phony investigations.  But, the truth will win with Trump.  Just think on how corrupt our government was and parts that still are.  With these swamp people it is and was all about power and control over you and the constitution be dammed.  The lying Pelosi and corrupt Adam Schiff are just two examples of the swamp.