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When I think back to my childhood and all the injections I received as a kid, and then fast forward to my time served in the Army for 20 years, I can remember some of the shots I had prior to deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan involving some boosters that they told me were necessary, so of course I just stuck out my arm like a good boy or a good soldier and didn’t think much of it.First, a quick flashback to the Pill Scene from original film “The Matrix”, from 1999: Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) the...

CNN compares Italy's new prime minister to WWII Fascist Mussolini (Credit: CNN/Media Research Center)In this episode of Try to Control Your Shock and Amazement…As RedState reported on Sunday, a coalition of right-wing parties was swept into power in Italy, with Giorgia Meloni set to become the nation’s first female prime minister. Rather than focus on that significant fact, much of the “mainstream” U.S. media compared her and her party to fascists (sound familiar?), with CNN predictably running a chyron likening Meloni to Benito Mussolini.Before we get to CNN, let’s first check in with a few other legacy media stalwarts.ABC News...

In the St. Louis County Justice Center, a former substitute teacher from the St. Louis region who had been accused of rape passed away. On September 26, Brandon Holbrook was discovered dead in his cell. When he was discovered unresponsive, he was by himself in the quarantined cell. There will be an autopsy.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) signed onto the falsely named Inflation Reduction Act in part because he claimed he was getting an energy permitting deal that was going to be helpful to the energy industry. We wrote previously how there was no guarantee that he was going to get the backend of the deal, even though he had to sign aboard the IRA first.Republicans were furious that Manchin sold his alleged principles down the river on this. Normally, you would think they would want things that would be advantageous to energy but not when it was part of a deal to...

Russia has just finished a Potemkin referendum conducted in the illegally occupied Ukrainian oblasts (provinces) of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson (see Vladimir Putin to Address Russia; Annexation of Ukraine Provinces and Mobilization Seem to Be on the Table). The “voting” began on September 23, and the question is whether those provinces wish to be annexed to Russia.There are complicating factors. All four oblasts are on the front line of a war between Putin’s invading army and the armed forces of Ukraine. Many, if not most, of the residents, are refugees. The voting began within 48 hours after the announcement....

Whenever Italy elects a right-of-center Prime Minister, the international press labels them a fascist and links them to Mussolini (coincidentally, the only Italian PM they’ve heard of). What was true for Silvio Berlusconi and Mario Draghi is true of their latest PM, Giorgia Meloni, elected over the weekend.... I’m no scholar in Italian politics, nor have I invested much time researching the 317 parties jockeying for control from Turin to Taranto. But considering the news media’s coverage of U.S. politics, I didn’t fall for their latest imprecation. They claimed Ronald Reagan was a fascist. As was Bush Sr., Bush Jr.,...

PART I The Leftist liberals have done all that they can to destroy what is good – all because of greed, wealth, and power. Not knowing that they are playing right into Satan’s hand. He is the real leader of all this. But the liberals think that they are truly running the country. They did all they could to eliminate Trump because he represented the people and loved his country. For one fairly short period, Trump had this country in a place that made you proud to be an American. But even Christians and liberals hated him because he was...

While we await the apocalyptic, hysterical responses the left has in store for November 8th’s mid-terms, we got a bit of a preview on Sunday of how things will go.As RedState reported, a coalition of right-wing parties was swept into power in Italy with Giorgia Meloni set to become the nation’s first female prime minister. Predictably, the same left that insists you celebrate every “historic” victory on their side had nothing to say about glass ceilings in this situation. Instead, they fell back on their current favorite trope. Namely, they insisted she’s a “fascist.”Is she? I can’t really find any...

In this episode of Try to Control Your Shock and Amazement…As we continue to learn more about the mistreatment of Jan. 6 defendants, many of whom have been held in violation of their constitutional rights — regardless of guilt or innocence — additional behind-the-scene accounts of just how badly their rights were infringed and continue to be disregarded have surfaced.As reported by John Solomon on his Just the News, a suspended FBI agent says he and other agents were listed “as affiants on search and arrest warrant affidavits for subjects” whom they “have never investigated or even interviewed.” The whistleblower...

Another day, another example of the FBI’s vast corruption. A new report based on unsealed documents has revealed that the bureau misled a judge over a warrant in order to seize tens of millions of dollars in valuables without cause.In total, $86 million in cash with more in gold, silver, and jewelry was taken by the federal government from over 1,400 safety deposit boxes under the guise of them being connected to crimes.FBI misled judge to sign off on warrant resulting in agents stealing more than $86 million in cash & other valuables from ordinary Americans’ safety deposit boxes https://t.co/fcPm49bmN9—...

The FBI was once the beau ideal of a law enforcement agency. Even though the Mob referred to them as “boy scouts” and “F***ing Bunch of Idiots,” the FBI racked up an impressive record fighting Prohibition gangsters, the Mafia, and communist spies. Over the last few years, the image of the FBI has been tarnished. For reasons known only to FBI Director James Comey, the FBI became embroiled in a scheme to torpedo the campaign of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. When he became president-elect, the campaign accelerated. The FBI repackaged allegations they knew to be false to enable the...

Meloni's coalition trounced the leftists receiving 43% of the vote compared to the opposition's 26%. And all the right people are wetting the bed. ... [Meloni's speech in the video]: Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening? There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves. And so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack...

Here we go again... For the hundredy-hundredth time, let me say: the reporting of the US media on the European Right is not to be believed. I don't say that as a right-winger who gets his nose out of joint when CBS News calls a politician I like "fascist." I do get my nose out of joint, but that's my problem. It's your problem because you depend on the news media to tell you what's happening in the world, and they are entirely misleading you. You don't have to see this as a conspiracy; they lie to themselves about what's...

We are bizarrely one-tracked in our historical memory. Anything we dislike is compared to the Nazis. So, when Vladimir Putin actually invaded a neighbor, he was inevitably likened to Adolf Hitler. But we don’t have to look far to find an apter parallel. In September 1939, Stalin seized the eastern half of Poland. Unlike his Nazi allies, who simply absorbed the territory they wanted, Stalin made the conquered population vote in sham elections. Two congresses were established in eastern Poland — one supposedly representing ethnic Belarusians, the other ethnic Ukrainians. These two assemblies immediately petitioned to join, respectively, the Belarusian...

Investigative journalists Kevin Moncla and David Cross have filed an official complaint with the Georgia State Board of Elections. Their allegations are very serious: they have evidence that Georgia’s elections have not been legal or valid since 2017 because its electronic voting systems were last certified for use in 2017. A company called Pro V&V — which was hired to do voting machine certification — apparently last performed the required testing on Georgia’s Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A(G) system on August 7, 2019. Even worse, Pro V&V’s own accreditation for that system apparently expired in February, 2017 — though it was...

Lifelong liberal Democrat attorney Alan Dershowitz has agreed to represent Mike Lindell after the FBI ambushed the Pillow Guy a little less than two weeks ago at a Hardee’s in rural Minnesota, took his phone, and issued a subpoena regarding an investigation into Lindell’s involvement in an alleged election security breach in Colorado. Dershowitz explains in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed why he would defend such an obvious criminal mastermind:I disagree with My Pillow founder Mike Lindell about a lot of things, including his belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. I’m a liberal Democrat; he...

I can't stress this enough: at its core, Democratic politics is about criminalizing opposition to their party and ideology. Dissenting ideas are "disinformation" and must be censored by Big Tech. Trump voters are inherently criminal "("insurrectionists") and should be imprisoned.

When we get a win, we take it. There will be fearmongering, gaslighting, propaganda, and very likely a surge in some oddball variant of Covid-19 that will be used to scare up more booster adoption, but for now we can celebrate the fact that the American people seem to be waking up to the con, at least in part. A report from Just The News indicates around 1.5% of Americans who can get their 5th jab, the so-called “bivalent booster shots” from Moderna and Pfizer, have actually done so. (snip) To counter this, it appears the powers-that-be are pushing for...

Did you see the idiotic triumphalism from Anne Applebaum in the wake of Ukraine’s recent battlefield triumphs? “It’s Time To Prepare For A Ukrainian Victory” said the headline. She wrote in the Atlantic, in part: But even though the fighting may still take many turns, the events of the past few days should force Ukraine’s allies to stop and think. A new reality has been created: The Ukrainians could win this war. Are we in the West really prepared for a Ukrainian victory? Do we know what other changes it could bring? She goes on to fantasize about Putin’s fall....

In the 1990's Italian politics was revolutionized with the rise to power of media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi, who once called himself a Socialist and supported the Socialist Party, rebranded himself as leader of Forza Italia (Forward Italy). He took the name from a soccer team. Berlusconi swept to victory gaining control over public media in addition to the private media already under his tutelage. His huge victory followed corruption scandals that engulfed the existing political parties in Italy. Berlusconi had his day and his following for more than 15 years. Meanwhile his enemies used the legal system against him...