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pothead <potheadbjoe@gmail.com> wrote in
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She's met the qualifications for a female Democrat. She's a whore.

Will the world’s oldest profession ever change? We mean politics, of
course.

Or maybe the other “oldest profession,” too: Turns out Virginia state legislative candidate Susanna Gibson used to enjoy making naughty videos
(with her hubby) for money on adult streaming website Chaturbate.

We get that times have been tough, but it’s still quite a . . . notable
side gig (Gibson’s day job is as a nurse practitioner).

When the news broke, she responded with high dudgeon: It’s “an illegal
invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me.”

Er, you posted the videos, Sue, and even solicited cash for them.

(Did you just ignore all the warnings about how everything you put on
the Internet lasts forever?)

And then made yourself a public figure by running for office!

Heck, she told her Chaturbate fans she was “raising money for a good
cause” — her political career? — and posted at least some new content
even after she’d launched her campaign.

As a small-donor strategy, it sure gets points for originality.

So too as a Get-Out-the-Vote effort: She racked up close to 6,000
followers on the site, enough to possibly make a difference in her very
purple district.

But even if voters don’t see the raunch as a sign of poor character,
they have to question her basic common sense.

After all, do Virginians really want to be repped by someone who doesn’t
have the savvy to keep boudoir videos solidly private, but instead
monetizes them?

It practically defines politically risky behavior.

And voters have every right to know about candidates’ peccadillos (and
decide for themselves on their harmlessness), just as they do about
actual malfeasance.

To take a cue from our Page Six colleagues: If you don’t want it on The
Post editorial page, don’t do it.

CoachSmith
1 day ago

As an adult...she can do as she wishes. But I cannot help but think
about her two young children...the future bullying they will receive. I
cannot believe no one in her circle asked, "Is there anything
controversial in your background?" before she agreed to run for office.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/virginia-candidate-susanna-gibson-goes-all- out-on-chaturbate/

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pothead <potheadbjoe@gmail.com> wrote in
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Biden and Obama were the two biggest liars in POTUS history.

President Biden, who has never taught a single semester-long course at the University of Pennsylvania, mused on Thursday about when he used to “teach political theory” at the Ivy League school.

“Our democracy is under attack, and we got to fight for it,” Biden, 80,
said during a speech at Maryland’s Prince George’s Community College.

“I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to
teach political theory. And folks, you always hear, every generation has
to fight for democracy.”

Biden was an honorary professor at the Philadelphia school, serving as the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Professor of the Practice from February
2017 to April 2019, between his term in the White House as vice president
and the start of his presidential campaign.

But his responsibilities never included teaching semester-long classes, conducting independent research, and handling administrative
responsibilities – typical duties of professors.

Biden made a dozen or so public appearances on campus but never taught a regular class, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

One of the visits was a November 2017 event promoting his book “Promise
Me, Dad,” according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Other Biden appearances included Q&As with UPenn administrators, one
lecture to Wharton business school graduate students and public events
with former Mexican President Felipe Calderon and former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Biden reaped about $900,000 in income from the school while he held the honorary post.

The embellishment comes a day after the White House was called out for the president’s frequent factual misstatements.

“The president has lied about being at Ground Zero the day after the Sept.
11 attacks, falsely claimed he saw the Pittsburgh bridge collapse, claimed
his grandfather died in the hospital days before his birth. What is going
on with the president? Is he just believing things that didn’t happen did happen, or is he just randomly making stuff up?” Washington Times reporter
Jeff Mordock asked White House National Security Council spokesman John
Kirby on Wednesday.

The White House spokesman dodged a question about the absent professor.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/biden-boasts-teaching-political-theory-at- upenn-but-he-never-taught-a-single-class/

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pothead <potheadbjoe@gmail.com> wrote in
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Biden is a lying sack of shit.

WASHINGTON — President Biden told a group of rabbis on Thursday that he
was “raised in the synagogues” of Delaware — after previously claiming to
have been raised by the state’s then-tiny Puerto Rican community.

“I, you might say, was raised in the synagogues of my state. You think I’m kidding, I’m not,” Biden said during a call ahead of Rosh HaShanah, the
Jewish new year holiday that begins Friday.

The 80-year-old cited the Beth Shalom congregation in Wilmington, Del., as
“the home of countless friends for me.” He named three rabbis, including a current one at the synagogue.

“I’ve always believed the message of the High Holidays is universal — that
it’s never too late to repent, to change, to begin anew,” Biden said.

Biden’s 2007 memoir “Promises to Keep” doesn’t contain a single use of the
word “synagogue” and its seven uses of the words “Jews” and “Jewish” all
are when discussing history or politics. Beth Shalom is not mentioned. His
2017 book “Promise Me, Dad” has similarly sparse mentions of Judaism.

Biden previously drew scrutiny in Puerto Rico last year when he said that
“I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically,”
even though a paltry 2,000 Puerto Ricans lived in Delaware when he was launching his career and he had not previously described a significant connection to the community.

While speaking to the rabbis Thursday, Biden made other claims that have yielded unflattering fact-checks, including saying that he “got involved
with the civil rights movement” before becoming a senator.

Biden previously has told contested stories about his purported civil
rights activism, including claiming without evidence that he was arrested during protests.

At other points, Biden has said he wasn’t so involved.

“During the 1960s, I was in fact very concerned about the civil rights movement,” Biden said in 1987. “I was not an activist.I worked at an all-
black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. I was
involved in what they were thinking, what they were feeling. I was
involved, but I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma, I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what
was happening to black Americans in my own city.”

Biden has a habit of telling factually questionable stories when
attempting to relate to his audiences.

Biden in 2021 told Jewish leaders that he remembered “spending time at”
and “going to” Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 after the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history, in which 11 people were murdered. The synagogue said he never visited and the White House later said he was
thinking about a 2019 phone call to the synagogue’s rabbi.

Later that month, Biden told an Idaho audience that his “first job offer”
came from local lumber and wood products business Boise Cascade. The
company said it was news to them.

Biden said at the Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony last May — and again
at the Air Force Academy this June — that he was appointed to the
prestigious Annapolis military college by the late Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R- Del.). A search of Boggs’ archives failed to turn up evidence of the appointment.

Last month, Biden claimed while discussing wildfire devastation in Hawaii
that his Delaware house “almost collapsed” from a small kitchen fire
nearly two decades ago — after telling survivors one week prior that firefighters “ran into flames” to rescue first lady Jill Biden. At a fire prevention summit in October, he claimed “we almost lost a couple
firefighters” — prompting the local fire department to release a statement calling the blaze “insignificant.”

On Monday, the president said that he was at Ground Zero in Manhattan one
day after the collapse of the Twin Towers in 2001 — and that he personally watched a fireball as the Pentagon was struck by a hijacked jet on 9/11.
Both claims, uttered on the 22nd anniversary, conflicted with descriptions
from his autobiography and the White House later said he was thinking of a
trip to New York nine days after the attacks.

Polls show broad public concern about Biden’s mental acuity heading into
next year’s election. A Wall Street Journal poll released last week found
that 73% of voters believe Biden is too old for office, versus 47% who
said so of 77-year-old Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

But Biden also has a decades-long record of factual embellishments and biographical falsification. His first presidential campaign ended in 1987
due to a scandal involving plagiarism of speeches and a law school paper
and exaggerations about his academic achievements.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/biden-claims-to-group-of-rabbis-that-he-was- raised-in-synagogues-in-my-state/

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pothead <potheadbjoe@gmail.com> wrote in
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Biden used COVID to steal an election.

What if I told you one in 50 people who took a new medication had a
“medically attended adverse event” and the manufacturer refused to
disclose what exactly the complication was — would you take it?

And what if the theoretical benefit was only transient, lasting about
three months, after which your susceptibility goes back to baseline?

And what if we told you the Food and Drug Administration cleared it
without any human-outcomes data and European regulators are not
universally recommending it as the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention is?

That’s what we know about the new COVID vaccine the Biden administration
is firmly recommending for every American 6 months old and up.

The push is so hard that former White House COVID coordinator Ashish Jha
and CDC head Mandy Cohen are making unsupported claims the new vaccine
reduces hospitalizations. long COVID and the likelihood you will spread
COVID.

None of those claims has a shred of scientific support.

In fact, if the manufacturers said that, they could be fined for making
false marketing claims beyond an FDA-approved indication.

The questions surrounding Moderna’s new COVID vaccine approved this week
are still looming.

Pfizer’s version, approved this week as well, also has zero efficacy data
and has not been tested on humans at all. We only have data about antibody production from 10 mice.

The FDA, or Moderna (frankly it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes), should disclose what happened to the patient who took the new vaccine and
had a complication that required medical attention.

The public has a right to know.

The last time the Biden administration approved and recommended a novel
COVID bivalent booster, last fall, with no human-outcomes data, it was an
epic fail.

Only 17% of Americans took it (and some of those were forced to do so by
their employer or school).

Not foreseeing such weak public support for the booster last year, the
Biden administration had prepaid pharma $4.9 billion for 171 million doses
— many of which were tossed in the wastebasket.

Now it is making the same mistake.

Two weeks ago, the Biden administration upped its orders for the pediatric version of the new COVID vaccines from 14.5 million doses at $1.3 billion
to 20 million doses for $1.7 billion, which is more than four times as
many pediatric doses used last year.

There clearly seems to be a special push this time to give it to children
— the same group European regulators are not supporting.

In fact, the original Moderna vaccine was banned in parts of Europe for
people under age 30.

European doctors are not alone.

Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine-mandate supporter and FDA adviser from the
University of Pennsylvania, told The Atlantic this week that he’s not
going to take the new COVID vaccine.

He didn’t take the bivalent booster last fall either, despite being 72
years old.

While he disagreed with White House adviser Dr. Ashish Jha on the booster,
he recently confessed, “Yes, he was wrong, but you know you can’t say that exactly.”

Yes, you can.

America is tired of political apologists as medical experts. They want the truth.

Offit is at least more honest than most experts who put their heads in the
sand and parroted whatever public-health officials said.

Pfizer made $100 billion during the pandemic. It can afford to fund a randomized trial to demonstrate to the American people the new booster is effective.

That’s the scientific process.

Unlike influenza, COVID-19 is constantly circulating so there is ample opportunity to run a trial; indeed Moderna already ran a randomized trial.

Its trial of just 50 people began four months ago and oddly only reported 14-day side effects.

Why didn’t it enroll more people in its trial? Why didn’t it report three- month effectiveness and do a proper trial?

Conducting a placebo-controlled trial in people during this time would not
only yield useful information; it would enable further study of those
subjects three and six months from now, when a winter surge may occur.

Let’s be honest: Follow-up studies of COVID vaccines in general have
revealed a disappointing truth — mild efficacy against infection is
transient, lasting just a few months.

Perhaps Pfizer and Moderna knew the FDA regulatory process was greased for
them and they didn’t have to.

It’s time for the FDA to resume its role as a regulator and not the
marketing department for Pfizer and Moderna.

It is possible a new booster may help downgrade the severity of COVID
infection for select high-risk populations, but that’s all the more reason
a proper clinical trial is needed.

It’s also worth noting the CDC’s new recommendation ignores natural
immunity, which means many schools will do the same.

A February Lancet review of 65 studies concluded natural immunity is at
least as good as vaccinated immunity and probably better.

So if a college student had COVID a few months ago, the CDC wants him or
her to get the new shot anyway, but the correct scientific answer is the
risks are expected to outweigh the benefit.

Supporters of pushing the novel COVID boosters point to the annual flu-
shot approval process, which does not require a randomized trial.

But COVID vaccines are very different from flu vaccines.

COVID vaccines have higher complication rates, including severe and life- threatening cardiac reactions. Flu shots have a 50-plus-year safety record whereas COVID vaccines have been associated with a serious adverse event
rate of one in 5,000 doses according to a German study by the Paul- Ehrlich-Institut.

Another study, published last year in the medical journal Vaccine,
estimated the rate of serious adverse events to be as high as one in 556 COVID-vaccine recipients.

And for young people, the incidence of myocarditis is six to 28 times
higher after the vaccine than after infection, even for females, according
to a 2022 JAMA Cardiology study.

That’s one of the reasons a study we and several national colleagues
published last year found that college booster mandates appear to have
resulted in a net public-health harm.

Finally, at a molecular level, some scientists are concerned about what is called immune imprinting and additional ways multiple booster doses can
weaken the immune system.

A study published last year in the journal Science described a reduced
immune response among people infected who then received three COVID-
vaccine doses.

If public-health officials get their way, a healthy 5-year-old boy will
get 72 COVID-vaccine shots over the course of his lifetime, if he has an average lifespan, with a risk of myocarditis after each one.

Inexplicably and defying science, the CDC is saying even if a child had
COVID three weeks ago, he or she should still get the new COVID shot.

Two of the FDA’s two best vaccine experts are gone. Dr. Marion Gruber, who
was director of the FDA’s vaccine office, and her deputy director, Dr.
Philip Krause, both quit the agency in 2021 in protest over political
pressure to authorize vaccine boosters in young people.

Ever since the loss of these two vaccine experts, the agency’s vaccine authorizations have been consistent with an overly cozy relationship
between pharma and the White House.

Pushing a new COVID vaccine without human-outcomes data makes a mockery of
the scientific method and our regulatory process.

In fact, why have an FDA if White House doctors can simply declare a drug
to be safe after discussing secret data in private meetings with pharma?

If public-health officials don’t want a repeat disappointing turnout of Americans who get the COVID booster shot, they should require a proper
clinical trial to show the American people the benefit.

Public-health leaders cannot afford to squander any more credibility and
money on interventions with no scientific support.

Marty Makary, MD, MPH, is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine and author of “The Price We Pay.” Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD, is an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco.

Hotchild
5 hours ago

They lied about everything last time, but this time you can trust the
science.

PSR
7 hours ago

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I for one "won't be fooled again." So take this Booster Shot and shove it where the sun don't
shine buttercup Democrat.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/the-real-data-behind-the-new-covid-vaccines- the-white-house-is-pushing/

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pothead <potheadbjoe@gmail.com> wrote in
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Joe Biden can't tell the truth.

Here we go again.

First, Anthony Fauci pokes his head up to claim, against all evidence,
that masks do stop COVID-19 after all.

Then, right on cue, the White House announces that Fauci’s No. 1 fan,
President Biden, will be “masking indoors” after the double-vaccinated, twice-boosted first lady contracted the virus for the third time in 13
months.

Then Whoopi Goldberg, who once declared she was “boosted within an inch of
your life,” goes missing from “The View” with her third bout of COVID.

“As you can see, Whoopi is not here,” co-host Joy Behar said Tuesday.

“She has COVID. It’s back! It’s back!”

Co-host Ana Navarro exclaimed to the live audience: “Clap if you had your
third booster!”

The ladies were fairly giddy with excitement over the imminent return of
the “plague.”

Hasn’t learned a thing
For all their moaning, there’s a certain type of sanctimonious
hypochondriac who enjoyed the pandemic more than they will admit and
secretly can’t wait to slap on a mask to show their selfless concern for others.

To them, Anthony Fauci was a saint, whose every word was their command,
and just when we thought we’d seen the back of him, he’s back on our TV
screens to gaslight us all again.

At the height of the pandemic, Joe Biden was so enamored of Fauci’s
infallible advice that he would “jokingly direct” him to sit in the vice president’s chair, according to a new book by Franklin Foer.

More fool him, but Fauci should know better, being an expert and all.

Sadly, the diminutive health bureaucrat’s CNN interview over the weekend
shows he hasn’t learned a thing after almost three years of flawed advice, which included exhorting people to double-mask.

It was a textbook case of sneaky Fauci beclowning himself again.

“There’s no doubt that masks work,” said Fauci.

“I am concerned that people will not abide by recommendations” of the CDC
on masking, he said.

CNN host Michael Smerconish politely pointed out that masks actually don’t work, citing an authoritative Cochrane review, published in January, of 78 high-quality scientific studies, with more than 610,000 participants, that concluded masks were useless in stopping transmission of the virus.

“There is just no evidence masks make any difference. Full stop,” the lead author, Oxford University epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, said at the time.

So, after reading Fauci some of the “unambiguous” Cochrane conclusions, Smerconish asked: “How do we get beyond that finding of that particular review?”

You would think the eminent Fauci might have heard of the Cochrane review, since he’s such a devotee of “the science.”

He was caught by surprise and vomited out an answer, of sorts: “Yeah, but
there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individual, when you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong, but when you talk about as
an individual basis of someone protecting themselves, or protecting
themselves from spreading it to others, there’s no doubt that there are
many studies that show that there is an advantage.”

Nope.

Sorry.

Makes zero sense.

‘Doesn’t make sense’
That’s not just me saying that. It’s what Jefferson himself said when he weighed in this week on Fauci’s CNN disinformation dump.

“So, Fauci is saying that masks work for individuals but not at a
population level? That simply doesn’t make sense,” Jefferson told
independent journalist Maryanne Demasi.

“He says there are ‘other studies’ … but what studies?”

Jefferson suggested the former White House adviser might be “relying on
trash studies … many of them are observational, some are cross-sectional
and some actually use modeling. That is not strong evidence.”

He said Fauci doesn’t understand “that cloth and surgical masks cannot
stop viruses because viruses are too small and they still get through.”

“What I do know is that Fauci was in a position to run a trial, he could
have randomized two regions to wear masks or not. But he didn’t and that’s unforgivable,” he said.

Yes, it was unforgivable.

It’s the lack of humility that really rankles with Fauci.

No contrition, no acknowledgment of the disaster he rained down on America
and the world.

Just the cocksure arrogance of a small man who had a big job for way too
long and came to believe the flattery of scientists who depended on him
for grant money.

And, as the evidence increasingly shows, he knew a lot more about the
novel coronavirus coming out of China than he let on.

As former Trump official Peter Navarro has written, Fauci never disclosed
to President Trump or anyone on the coronavirus task force that he was
being told in January 2020 that the virus was likely engineered.

Nor did he mention that he had helped fund the risky “gain of function” research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab that was the most likely
source of the outbreak, despite his attempts to divert blame onto a nearby
wet ­market.

“Attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science,” he famously boasted
in 2021 when people started catching on that he was a fraud.

Yet he ignores scientific data when it suits him.

Masks don’t work. Full stop. And Fauci should stop talking.

Shokin’s eye on the sky
Fired former Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin, 70, fears for his
life and believes rocket wreckage that fell in his backyard this week is a warning sent by allies of President Biden to stop him from talking.

He says he already has been the victim of two assassination attempts,
including mercury poisoning in 2019 that almost killed him.

Now he is concerned that a rocket could target his house outside Kyiv, disguised as an accident of war.

“There is information that Joe Biden wants to use the Ukrainian law
enforcement agencies to deal with me so that I do not have the opportunity
to give truthful testimony against him,” Shokin told The Post Wednesday.

“In the conditions of a full-scale war in Ukraine and the approaching
elections of the president of the United States to discredit or destroy
Shokin, Biden can use the capabilities of Russia or Ukrainian law
enforcement agencies.”

Shokin reported the debris scattered through his courtyard to the
Ukrainian National Police on Wednesday.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/masks-dont-work-against-covid-19-and-dr- fauci-should-stop-talking/

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