Media juggernaut Tucker Carlson crushes it on Twitter as latest video amasses nearly 23 million views within 24 hours



Tucker Carlson posted a video to Twitter on Tuesday in which he announced plans to launch a "new version" of his show on the social media platform — the video, which amassed 22.9 million views within 24 hours, marked Carlson's second recent video to blow up on the social media platform.

Last month after his show was nixed from the Fox News Channel lineup, Carlson posted a brief video on Twitter that has since earned more than 24 million views.

On the heels of Carlson's announcement that he plans to do a show on Twitter, Elon Musk noted that Carlson had not inked a deal with the company and will face the same rules and be eligible for the same benefits as other Twitter content creators.

"On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever is said," Musk tweeted. "And, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes. I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is subject to the same rules & rewards of all content creators. Rewards means subscriptions and advertising revenue share (coming soon), which is a function of how many people subscribe and the advertising views associated with the content."

Musk also said he would like left-wing figures to share their content on Twitter too.

"I hope that many others, particularly from the left, also choose to be content creators on this platform," he wrote.

\u201cOn this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever is said. \n\nAnd, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes. \n\nI also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is\u2026\u201d
— Elon Musk (@Elon Musk) 1683675097

Musk even wrote to liberal media personality Don Lemon, suggesting that he host a show on Twitter.

"Have you considered doing your show on this platform? Maybe worth a try. Audience is much bigger," Musk wrote.

Lemon had long been with CNN, but last month, the company announced that "CNN and Don have parted ways."

Lemon issued a statement in which he said he had been "terminated."

\u201c@donlemon Have you considered doing your show on this platform? Maybe worth a try. Audience is much bigger.\u201d
— Don Lemon (@Don Lemon) 1682352854

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Don Lemon out at CNN; 'stunned' former host blasts management in Twitter post



Don Lemon is out at CNN.

The cable network said in a Monday afternoon tweet that "CNN and Don have parted ways. Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years. We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors."

But Lemon leveled accusations against his former employer on Twitter:

\u201chttps://t.co/8PyLqvS0d7\u201d
— Don Lemon (@Don Lemon) 1682352854

"I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN," Lemon wrote. "I am stunned."

The former host continued: "After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network. It is clear there are some larger issues at play. With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I have worked with for an incredible run. They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best."

But CNN shot back with another tweet disputing Lemon's claims: "Don Lemon’s statement about this morning’s events is inaccurate. He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter."

What's the background?

Lemon has long been polarizing figure on CNN and drew the ire of conservatives he regularly trashed — and lately he's managed to anger groups you wouldn't necessarily expect.

In February he apologized for comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and women he considered out of their "prime" that many deemed "sexist" and "completely offensive." Some CNN staffers weren't buying his mea culpa, however.

Earlier this month, on the heels of a Variety exposé on Lemon's alleged history of misogynistic behavior, CNN dismissed the story on grounds that its sources are anonymous.

Lemon on Thursday interviewed the grandson of the suspected shooter of black teen Ralph Yarl, asking him if he believes his grandfather is racist. The grandson, Klint Ludwig, said he believes his grandfather holds "racist tendencies and beliefs." Lemon wanted more, and Ludwig added that "he’s just a stock, American, Christian male. [He's] older, you know, that’s just how they are." Lemon kept pressing for more details, and he got them.

"I feel like a lot of people of that generation are caught up in this 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia perpetuated by some other news stations," Ludwig told Lemon. "And he was fully into that, sitting and watching Fox News all day, every day blaring in his living room. And I think that stuff really kind of reinforces this negative view of minority groups and leads people to be all — that doesn’t necessarily lead people to be racist, but it reinforces and galvanizes racist people."

\u201cDon Lemon: Why do you say that your grandfather is racist?\n\nGrandson of homeowner who shot Ralph Yarl: He\u2019s just a stock American Christian male, older\u2026 that\u2019s just how they are\u201d
— End Wokeness (@End Wokeness) 1682010453

Anything else?

Last July Lemon said the media should not treat Democrats and Republicans as equals because the GOP is "very dangerous to our society," and in September he defended President Joe Biden's "semi-fascism" term to describe "MAGA Republicans," arguing Biden's words were "unifying" because some believe they are "true."

Not long after his Biden comments, CNN announced that Lemon's prime-time show would be ending and that he was joining a new morning show with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.

He continued with his left-wing commentary, suggesting the vast wealth inherited by King Charles III after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, should be spent on reparations for descendants of the victims of the African slave trade — after which a British commentator raked him over the coals.

Later in September as Hurricane Ian was hitting Florida's west coast, Lemon tried and failed to get an expert from the National Hurricane Center to blame the storm's intensity on climate change.

In October he wrapped up an emotional finale of his prime-time program by telling viewers that "I was not always perfect" — as well as sniffling and fighting back tears — and got roundly mocked for it.

Don Lemon tweets apology, returns to CNN without addressing 'prime' comments on air



CNN's Don Lemon, who has faced criticism for comments he made on air last week, issued an apology on Wednesday but did not discuss the matter when he returned to the air, according to reports.

"I appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning today. To my network, my colleagues and our incredible audience — I'm sorry. I've heard you, I'm learning from you, and I'm committed to doing better. See you soon," he tweeted on Wednesday before going back on CNN for the first day since making widely-panned comments last week.

\u201cI appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning today. To my network, my colleagues and our incredible audience \u2014 I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019ve heard you, I\u2019m learning from you, and I\u2019m committed to doing better.\nSee you soon.\u201d
— Don Lemon (@Don Lemon) 1677062137

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who is 51, has called for requiring "mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old."

Lemon said last week that Haley is not in her "prime." He also suggested that Googling when women are in their prime would yield results indicating that this occurs when women are in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, though he said that he was not saying he agreed with that idea.

"The reference I made to a woman's 'prime' this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman's age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day," Lemon tweeted last week after making the comments.

"To be clear, I am NOT calling for competency tests for Sexist middle-aged CNN anchors; only for people who make our laws and are 75+," Haley responded.

Haley's campaign has started selling koozies that read "PAST MY PRIME?" and "HOLD MY BEER."

CNN reported that CNN Worldwide chairman and CEO Chris Licht had informed employees that Lemon had "agreed to participate in formal training."

\u201cFor all of you who took issue with the haters saying that we are past our prime... this one\u2019s for you. \n\nWe\u2019ve got this. \ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udffd\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\n\nOrder yours today: https://t.co/iGXhvfdzom\u201d
— Nikki Haley (@Nikki Haley) 1676999644

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Nikki Haley fires back at Don Lemon over his comment saying she's not in her prime



Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley fired back at a CNN anchor over his comments that she was past her prime.

Lemon made the comments after the former South Carolina governor announced that she was running for president on Tuesday and criticized the advanced age of the other candidates.

"This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think it’s the wrong road to go down," he said to the other co-hosts on "CNN This Morning."

"She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s," said Lemon, who is 56 years old himself.

Haley, who is 51 years old, fired back with a jab at Lemon.

"To be clear, I am NOT calling for competency tests for Sexist middle-aged CNN anchors; only for people who make our laws and are 75+," she tweeted.

Lemon apologized for the comments in a statement on social media.

"The reference I made to a woman’s 'prime' this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it," he tweeted.

\u201cThe reference I made to a woman\u2019s \u201cprime\u201d this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman\u2019s age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.\u201d
— Don Lemon (@Don Lemon) 1676572343

"A woman’s age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day," he added.

"CNN This Morning" with Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins has garnered some of the worst ratings for CNN in its short time on air. Lemon reportedly outraged Harlow and Collins with his previous comments opposing pay for the U.S. Women's soccer team equal to that of the more popular men's soccer team.

"We live in a capitalist society, and if people can make money off whatever it is, they are going to exploit it," Lemon said to an objection from Harlow.

"And there is a reason, and I'm sure it's part of what you are saying and it's part of what you're saying, and these are conversations that we need to have," he added, "but i just think we are lying to ourselves if we believe that someone cannot sit here and speak the truth to what we're talking about."

President Biden, who is expected to run for reelection in 2024, is 80 years old, while former President Donald Trump, who announced his election campaign in November, is 76 years old.

Here's the video of Haley's campaign announcement:

Nikki Haley shares top priorities for 2024 campaign www.youtube.com

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Don Lemon apologizes for 'sexist' and 'completely offensive' comment about Nikki Haley and women in their prime



CNN host Don Lemon issued an apology for comments that were deemed "sexist" and "completely offensive" that he made against Nikki Haley and women who he considered to be out of their prime.

On Wednesday, Haley made a veiled slight against former President Donald Trump, 76, and President Joe Biden, 80. Haley called for "mandatory mental competency tests" for politicians over the age of 75.

"America is not past our prime — it's just that our politicians are past theirs," Haley said during a rally in South Carolina that launched her 2024 White House bid.

"If you're tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation," Haley added.

Speaking about Haley's remarks, Don Lemon strangely talked about the prime ages of women.

"This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable," Lemon said during "CNN This Morning." "I think it’s the wrong road to go down."

"She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s," the 56-year-old Lemon said of the 51-year-old Haley.

Co-host Poppy Harlow was befuddled by Lemon's comments.

Harlow asked Lemon, "Wait. Prime for what?"

"That’s not according to me," Lemon deflected.

Harlow again asked, "Prime for what?"

Lemon replied, "It depends, it’s just like, prime."

Lemon attempted to blame Google for his comments.

"If you look it up, if you Google ‘when is a woman in her prime’ it’ll say 20s, 30s, and 40s," Lemon argued. "I'm not saying I agree with that."

Harlow questioned Lemon, "Are you talking about prime for, like, childbearing? Or are you talking about prime for being president?"

Lemon said, "Don't shoot the messenger."

"I'm just saying what the facts are. Google it. Everybody at home, when is a woman in her prime? It says 20s, 30s, and 40s," Lemon backtracked. "I'm just saying, Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that [politicians] are not in their prime, and that they need to be in their prime when they serve, because she wouldn’t be in her prime, according to Google or whatever it is."

\u201cDon Lemon: "Nikki Haley isn\u2019t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s\u2026"\n\nPoppy Harlow: "Are you talking about prime for like child bearing?"\n\n"Don\u2019t shoot the messenger! I\u2019m just saying what the facts are! Google it!"\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1676559460

Haley responded to Lemon's comments by saying, "Liberals can't stand the idea of having competency tests for older politicians to make sure they can do the job. BTW it's always the liberals who are the most sexist."

Former CNN correspondent Kate Bennett blasted Lemon.

"This is sexism, and completely offensive. And it’s amplified by the 'sets off' description below," Bennet wrote on Twitter. "Can women not respond to a boneheaded statement without being accused of overreaction? Also, who over the age of 14 uses 'google it!' as a defense."

Lemon issued an apology on Thursday.

"The reference I made to a woman's 'prime' this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it," Lemon tweeted. "A woman's age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day."

\u201cThe reference I made to a woman\u2019s \u201cprime\u201d this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman\u2019s age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.\u201d
— Don Lemon (@Don Lemon) 1676572343

"CNN This Morning" is languishing in the ratings, notching the network’s lowest-rated morning show in nearly a decade.

The Wrap noted last week, "Since its Nov. 1, 2022 launch, 'CNN This Morning' — hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins — has drawn in the lowest viewership among adults 25-54, the key demographic for cable news, and the second-lowest total viewership among each iteration of the network’s morning programming since New Day' was launched in June 2013, according to Nielsen data."

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Chick-fil-A apologizes for 'poor choice of words' in spicy nuggets tweet accused of racism



Chick-fil-A fumbled for an apology over the weekend after the fast-food chicken franchise was accused of making a racist comment in response to a customer on social media.

A Twitter user on Friday tweeted at the company: "grilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets…………@ChickfilA…..”

In a reply, the verified Twitter account for Chick-fil-A wrote, "Your community will be the first to know if spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!”

\u201c@KANYEISMYDAD Your community will be the first to know if spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!\u201d
— Don (@Don) 1662742818

This seemingly innocuous exchange led to a deluge of comments on Chick-fil-A's response, which thousands of people suggested was offensive based on the words "your community." Many people observed that the original poster, "Don," appears to be black and asked if Chick-fil-A was targeting the black community.

"wdym by your community???" one person wrote to Chick-fil-A in a reply that was liked more than 21,000 times.

\u201c@ChickfilA @KANYEISMYDAD wdym by your community???\u201d
— Don (@Don) 1662742818

From there, hundreds of users posted jokes and memes poking fun at Chick-fil-A's tweet. But some people took it seriously and seemed offended.

"Chic…this aint a good look. What you meant by that specifically?" one person asked.

\u201c@ChickfilA @KANYEISMYDAD Chic\u2026this aint a good look. What you meant by that specifically?\u201d
— Don (@Don) 1662742818

"Explain yourself - QUICKLY," demanded Tenille Clarke, a publicist for Chambers Media Solutions.

\u201c@ChickfilA @KANYEISMYDAD explain yourself - QUICKLY. \ud83e\udd28\u201d
— Don (@Don) 1662742818

"8 hours later and this racist tweet is still up. Damn I am in shock , actually no I am not it's @ChickfilA, I shouldn't expect anything less," another user posted.

\u201c@ChickfilA @KANYEISMYDAD 8 hours later and this racist tweet is still up. Damn I am in shock , actually no I am not it's @ChickfilA , I shouldn't expect anything less.\u201d
— Don (@Don) 1662742818

However, a review of Chick-fil-A's official Twitter account indicates that the company's social media team uses the term "your community" frequently in response to comments from all types of customers.

"Hi there! We know our customers love the heat, so we’re testing spicy items in different markets. We’ll be sure to let your community know if spicy items are added into our permanent menu!" Chick-fil-A wrote in response to at least four customers on Friday alone.

Most of these tweets were sent in response to customers complaining that Chick-fil-A has yet to roll out a spicy version of the restaurant's delicious chicken nuggets.

In a statement to NBC News, the company confirmed that it uses the word "community" in social media communications to refer to places where it has established restaurants. Chick-fil-A apologized for its "poor choice of words."

“The response was a poor choice of words but was not intended in any way to be insensitive or disrespectful,” a Chick-fil-A spokesperson said. “We often use the term ‘community’ in a broader sense to talk about places where we operate restaurants and serve the surrounding community.”

Republican Congressman Don Young from Alaska has died at 88 years old



U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) died Friday night.

Rep. Young was the longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Fox News reported that his death occurred while at the Los Angeles International Airport on his way home to Alaska.

Young was 88-years old and his cause of death has not yet been determined. Young had served in Congress since 1973 after winning a special election.

“It’s with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young, the Dean of the House and revered champion for Alaska, passed away today while traveling home to Alaska to be with the state and people that he loved,” a statement from Young’s office said.

“His beloved wife Ann was by his side,” it continued.

Young’s office confirmed that in the coming days they “will be sharing more details about plans for a celebration of his life and legacy.”

Jack Ferguson, a current lobbyist who previously served as Young’s chief of staff said that despite his age, Young was excited to be running for re-election.

He said, “He was vibrant, he had a lot of energy, he’s very clear of mind, spoke clearly about what he wanted to accomplish, set goals that he wanted to make happen, and was happy to be running.”

Young served as dean of the House. This means that he was the most senior member of either political party. He was also the last active member of the House who was elected in the 1970s.

Before entering Congress, Young worked in construction, fishing and trapping, and gold mining. He also captained a tugboat and delivered products along the Yukon River.

Shortly after being sworn into Congress, Young found himself holding a leading role in the historic battle for approval of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. His success in this endeavor is often heralded as one of the most important achievements of his career.

Young even said, “Next to statehood itself, the most historical legislation passed that affected every Alaskan then, now, and in the future, was the passage of the pipeline legislation.

Despite his well-documented good nature, the Congressman was also known for his larger-than-life antics including famously wielding a walrus’s pubic bone on the House floor during a debate over the rights of Alaskan Natives to sell the sex organs of endangered animals, defending the controversial industry of fur trapping while attaching a steel trap to his own leg, and holding a knife to the neck of former U.S. Rep and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Horowitz: The lies about vaccine efficacy are exposed, so Scotland stops publishing data



If the truth hurts your narrative, you must censor it. But what if your own information harms your own narrative? Well, then you stop publishing it.

For the past few months, Scotland has been publishing age-stratified case rates by vaccination status in a very well broken-down chart every Wednesday afternoon, similar to the way the U.K. published the data every Thursday. The common thread observed from these trends was that the unvaccinated had the lowest case rate, the double-vaccinated had even higher death and hospitalization rates, and the triple-jabbed gradually had increasingly higher case rates, which clearly doesn’t portend good news even for hospitalization and death in the long run. When people like me started using their data, we were lambasted by the “fact-checkers” paid for by Big Pharma. Now Scottish health officials announced they will not be publishing the data at all.

“Public Health Scotland will stop publishing data on covid deaths and hospitalisations by vaccination status — over concerns it is misrepresented by anti-vaxx campaigners,” reports the Glasgow Times.

The notice of change was published on page 29 of the latest, and evidently final, Wednesday report from Feb. 16. “PHS is aware of inappropriate use and misinterpretation of the data when taken in isolation without fully understanding the limitations described below,” they decried.

You mean like screenshotting their own charts?

Obviously, there can be confounding factors, but those factors actually cut both ways. However, at the end of the day, these are age-stratified adjusted case rates per 100,000 and are completely fair game to use. No vaccine that is anywhere near as effective as they make it out to be should be netting these results.

Here is the latest case rate chart from the final report:

As you can see, for the past two weeks they have been placing disclaimers at the bottom of the charts.

What the chart clearly shows is what we have been seeing throughout the world — from the U.K., Canada, and Israel, for example — namely, that the second shot has gone negative a long time ago and the third shot is gradually following in the same direction. The public health officials themselves are demanding that people get boosters because they say the other shots wane. Well, logic would dictate that now that we are three to five months into the boosters in most places, they are waning as well. We also know that waning efficacy is potentially associated with a Trojan horse effect of antibody dependent disease enhancement, something the FDA admitted was never studied in the long run (at the time they thought the shots wouldn’t wane) but would be a risk “potentially associated with waning immunity.”

The main argument of those who are against us screenshotting their own charts to point out what they themselves have admitted is a speculative theory that perhaps the vaccinated test more often than the unvaccinated. That is a purely speculative confounding factor in the favor of the vaccine, but here is a concrete proven confounder against the vaccine: Scotland counts the first 21 days of the first vaccine as unvaccinated and the first 14 days of the third vaccine as double-vaccinated. We already know from Alberta’s data (which of course they also took down since we cited it) that roughly 40% of cases, 47.6% of hospitalizations, and 56% of deaths among the vaccinated occurred within 14 days of vaccination! So if anything, many of the cases and deaths ascribed to the unvaccinated are caused by the immune suppression of the first shot, and many cases and deaths ascribed to the double-vaccinated makes that cohort look even worse than it already is in order to ameliorate the image of the boosters.

Furthermore, if the higher case rates among the vaccinated are the result of a higher testing rate, then why would the double-vaxxed also be worse off than the unvaccinated for hospitalizations and deaths, as PHS has been showing for weeks in its other charts?

It’s quite evident that everyone is tested in the hospital. If anything, it stands to reason that the unvaccinated would be more aggressively tested even when admitted for other ailments and therefore potentially be roped into incidental hospitalization counts more often than the vaccinated. For example, in June 2021, Scripps Health in San Diego announced it would only test unvaccinated asymptomatic patients but not the vaccinated. Clearly, the testing requirements of the unvaccinated and the counting of the (immune-suppressed) partially vaccinated as unvaccinated would be confounding factors for woefully overestimating unvaccinated hospitalizations, not the other way around.

Also, why would the triple-vaxxed test less often than the double, who test more often than the single or unvaccinated? And why would the waning always continue in the same direction throughout the pandemic? As you can see from the U.K. Health Security Agency weekly reports, the efficacy of the shots constantly wanes with every new weekly report, a phenomenon that cannot be explained away by testing rates.

Infection rate growth (Rept Wks 50 to 7) since Omicron became dominant is much higher in all boosted cohorts. In boosted adults \u226550, growth increases sharply with age or time since boosting - whereas infection rate growth in the unvaxxed is more consistent across cohorts. Why?pic.twitter.com/DhQ2r9wlcz
— Don Wolt (@Don Wolt) 1645113384
UKHSA COVID Hospitalization Update: 2/17/22\n\nWeek 7 report just came out.\n\nBefore and After % of Total Hosps by Age Group by Vax Status (dose).\n\nChart 1 - Week 6 Report\nChart 2 - Week 7 Report (current)\n\nIf anyone knows where to locate Pop Vax% by Age group, please show me.\n\n/1pic.twitter.com/ZXIVVfpCFp
— Hold2 (@Hold2) 1645116891

Clearly, this picture points to dangerous waning efficacy that plagues every cohort within a few months.

The bottom line is that during the final week of reporting in Scotland, just 12% of the deaths are among the unvaccinated, and that is including the 21-day grace period of counting the single-jabbed as unvaccinated. Nobody is suggesting that there is no efficacy for some people for a period of time against serious illness before the shots wane. But to suggest that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, to ignore the negative efficacy on infection which has been true across the board since last summer, and to obfuscate the concern of waning efficacy on critical illness even as they themselves demand boosters defies willing suspension of disbelief.

Unbelievably, PHS admits that the shots first suppress the immune system before they ramp up antibodies. But instead of using this as a strike against the shots, they use that is a strike against the unvaccinated and assert that it is a factor for why you can’t even compare hospitalization or death rates. “Individuals who have not completed their vaccine schedule may be more susceptible to a severe outcome and could result in higher COVID-19 case, hospitalization and death rates in the first and second dose vaccine groups,” claims PHS in the report.

But if that is true, that is the fault of the manufacturers who made a shot that first makes you vulnerable during an ongoing pandemic. It’s one thing to have a shot that makes you more vulnerable for a few weeks during the off-season of a virus. But to do so during the pandemic is akin to telling someone in a foxhole during a firefight that they will be safer in a bunker 100 yards ahead but must first run across the field to get there. The risk of making that run should be counted against the bunker option, not the foxhole.

In other words, as I wrote in my original piece on the Scottish data that was “fact-checked,” “You have to look in totality where we are headed rather than manipulating a snapshot of time.” You can’t just pull out one period of time of some efficacy for some people. You need to consider the following:

  • Vaccine injuries short term and long term, known and unknown;
  • Other safer treatment options for COVID itself;
  • A leaky vaccine that wanes in efficacy and runs the risk of enhancing the virus itself even while offering temporary protection for some;
  • The cost to the immune system of constantly boosting people to deal with the abovementioned concern of waning efficacy and enhancement.

The bottom line is that the social media guardians are looking at a snapshot of time. If they were to study the trajectory and progression of the virus and the vaccine throughout the year, they would recognize an unmistakable pattern of waning and then negative immunity. A large study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Weil Cornell Medicine-Qatar found (table 3) that the Pfizer vaccine waned very quickly after four months. By seven months, when adjusted for those in Qatar who already had prior infection, the Pfizer shot was -4% effective against transmission and just 44.1% effective against severe illness. Also, effectiveness against asymptomatic infection was -33% after seven months.

A Swedish preprint study in October 2021 looked at 1.6 million people in Sweden to examine infection rates and critical illness rates by vaccination status. They found a sliding scale of efficacy that wanes with time, but eventually turns negative. Here is a presentation of fully adjusted vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection for various demographics after 210 days:

Clearly, it was known early on that the vaccine wanes and has the potential to go negative even with Delta, for which both natural infection and the vaccines offered better immunity. It stands to reason that this is certainly the case with Omicron, making it abundantly clear that the negative efficacy rate has more to do with potential Trojan horse antibodies than it does with vaccination-status bias of testing rates.

So what’s the solution? Go for a fourth and fifth shot? This week, Israeli researchers published a preprint study on the efficacy of the fourth shot, which found that after just one month, Pfizer’s shot is down to 30% efficacy and Moderna is down to 11%. At the same time, “Local and systemic adverse reactions were reported in 80% and 40%, respectively.” They conclude, “Low efficacy in preventing mild or asymptomatic Omicron infections and the infectious potential of breakthrough cases raise the urgency of next generation vaccine development.”

Remember, the FDA's industry guidance for EUA status (p. 13) requires a 50% threshold of efficacy to even get emergency use authorization, much less full approval!

Thus, who is actually misreading or inappropriately using data here?

The Israeli study also concluded that “most of these infected HCW [health care workers] were potentially infectious, with relatively high viral loads. Thus, the major objective for vaccinating HCW was not achieved.” Full stop. The biggest public policy debate is over the fact that somehow you not getting the shot affects other people. Here we see that even people with four shots were still infectious with high viral loads. To what degree the shot offers some degree of protection from serious illness for some people for some period of time should be a decision left to the people. Perhaps other people would like to choose therapeutics that offer protection that don’t run the risk of severe adverse reactions. But none of that should have bearings on another human being, and none of that should justify human rights violations.

This entire saga began with censorship of the work of others because the narrative assertions could not withstand peer review. Now we’ve come full-circle, in which the governments’ own data must be censored because the narrative assertions cannot withstand the scrutiny of their own data.

Author who dog-piled Joe Rogan for use of N-word used N-word dozens of times in bestselling books



Bestselling author Don Winslow joined the movement to cancel Joe Rogan after a video showing Rogan using the N-word went viral. But it turns out that Winslow is not so innocent himself.

In fact, Winslow — a white man — has used the N-word dozens of times in at least five of his books: "The Force," "Savages," "The Gentleman's Hour," "Way Down on the High Lonely," and "The Border."

For example, Winslow used the phrase "n***** baby," "n*****," and "n*****s" in character dialogue in "The Force."

Meanwhile, in "Savages," Winslow used the N-word to describe the stereotypical life of Mexican immigrants.

"You want to be one of those good Mexicans, one of those hardworking, churchgoing, family-valuing, get dressed in my best clothes on Sunday and walk with my cousins down those broad sunbaked boulevards to park named after Chavez, humble respectful n***** taco Mexicans, the ones we all love and respect and pay subminimum wage?" Winslow wrote before adding, "Does this six days a week, stops only on Sunday to be a humble respectful n***** taco Mexican to God, give the money he sweats for to God and the f****t priests."

You can view every instance of Winslow using the N-word in his books in the Twitter thread below:

1/\nSo, @donwinslow tried to get @joerogan cancelled for saying the N-word.\n\nIt turns out that in his books Don winslow has used the n-word a lot... and I mean a **LOT**\n\nSo here is a **VERY** long thread of times Don Winslow has used the N-word in his books. https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1489741351935627266\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/lKpIORkx2Z
— Wokal Distance (@Wokal Distance) 1644112485

What is the background?

After Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson voiced support for Rogan, Winslow went after Johnson because of Rogan's allegedly "many racist statements."

"Dear @TheRock, You're a hero to many people and using your platform to defend Joe Rogan, a guy that used and laughed about using the N word dozens of times, is a terrible use of your power," Winslow tweeted. "Have you actually listened to this man's many racist statements about Black people?"

In response, Johnson seemingly revoked his support for Rogan after becoming "educated to [Rogan's] complete narrative."

"Dear @donwinslow Thank you so much for this I hear you as well as everyone here 100% I was not aware of his N word use prior to my comments, but now I've become educated to his complete narrative," Johnson responded. "Learning moment for me. Mahalo, brother and have a great & productive weekend. DJ."

Dear @donwinslow \nThank you so much for this\nI hear you as well as everyone here 100%\nI was not aware of his N word use prior to my comments, but now I've become educated to his complete narrative.\nLearning moment for me.\n\nMahalo, brother and have a great & productive weekend.\nDJhttps://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1489741351935627266\u00a0\u2026
— Dwayne Johnson (@Dwayne Johnson) 1644027373

How did Winslow respond?

The bestselling author excused his behavior and attempted to contextualize his uses of the N-word because he used the epithet in works of fiction.

"So pathetic+desperate to cover up years of racism including comparing a movie theater full of Black people to walking into The Planet of the Apes +being a birther against President Obama that Rogan groupies are now attacking works of *FICTION and *MOVIES to justify Rogan's words," Winslow said on Twitter Monday afternoon.

So pathetic+desperate to cover up years of racism including comparing a movie theater full of Black people to walking into The Planet of the Apes +being a birther against President Obama that Rogan groupies are now attacking works of *FICTION and *MOVIES to justify Rogan's words.
— Don Winslow (@Don Winslow) 1644266409

Horowitz: Is it time for unvaccinated passports?



If a suspicion that vaccine-free people are spreading a virus would necessitate and justify vaccine passports, then shouldn’t the reality of vaccinated people spreading the virus at higher rates necessitate and justify “unvaccinated passports”? After all, if the shots really work so amazingly against serious illness — a premise undermined by Scottish data — the vaccinated by definition cannot be harmed by the unvaccinated. On the other hand, if the vaccinated are really unnaturally spreading the virus at a higher rate, there is the potential for worse outcomes with some form of vaccine-mediated viral enhancement, as was observed with the unvaccinated chickens devastated by the chickens vaccinated with the leaky Marek’s disease shot.

While none of us support such apartheid in either direction, if this is really about “following the science,” the continuous granular data from the U.K. would justify “unvaccinated passport” requirements to live a functional life. This chart made by my friend Don Wolt from data culled from the U.K’s latest weekly vaccine surveillance report is worth a million shots:

The negative efficacy for the double-vaxxed was so appalling that the U.K. has jettisoned that data point and now only compares the rates of infection for the unvaxxed to the triple-vaxxed. But even the boosters have evidently already gone into negative efficacy territory. As you can see, for the first time, the rate of infection among the triple-vaxxed, even for the 18- to 29-year-old cohort, is now higher than that of the unvaccinated. The degree of negative efficacy for all the older groups continues to increase in each weekly report, demonstrating a troubling trend of the vaccine making people more vulnerable to infection even quicker than we saw with the double-vaxxed last year. Unlike with all the vaccine-free adult cohorts, the infection rate actually got worse in this week’s report in several age cohorts among the vaccinated.

Why're infection rates growing faster, since Omicron arrived, in boosted adults \u226550? In cohorts \u226540, why does infection rate growth increase with the length of time since the cohort became >50% boosted? Why is rate growth in the unvaxxed fairly consistent across age groups?pic.twitter.com/3KUPPOmitH
— Don Wolt (@Don Wolt) 1643486988

The latest numbers measure the infection rate from the last week in December through the first three weeks of January.

Here is the raw data from table 13 showing the negative efficacy even of the triple-vaxxed relative to the unvaccinated in the adult cohorts:

How are none of the public health officials concerned about this trend? They tried to claim that the two shots really needed a third dose in order to work. However, we are seeing the booster go negative on an even shorter timetable than the original doses. How can someone look at these numbers and not conclude that the shots are problematic? Why is there no concern that a shot that seems to make someone more likely to get the virus is also causing vaccine-mediated enhancement in the form of either antibody dependent disease enhancement (ADE) or original antigenic sin?

Consider the fact that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky was evidently shocked to find out, half a year after the shots were released, that they did not stop transmission. In an interview with the New York Times, Walensky describes the moment she realized the injection didn’t stop transmission as a “heart sink.” How could she not have known this was a non-sterilizing vaccine from the beginning? And if she didn’t know it failed to stop transmission, and now we see it goes negative over time – even after a booster – then how can we be sure she understands the concept of ADE and vaccine-mediated viral enhancement? With vaccines, a half a loaf is not better than no loaf; it’s often a poisonous loaf.

Moreover, notice how quick the CDC was to terminate the monoclonal antibodies based on the premise that they don’t work for Omicron, but somehow the vaccine-induced antibodies, which were even more outdated, would still work, even as the triple-vaxxed rack up greater infection rates.

As such, what will it take to finally start investigating the correlation between the shots and some form of viral enhancement? Everyone knows that the testing ground for the vaccines is Israel. Ninety percent of the people there are double-vaxxed, 80% are triple-vaxxed, and unlike in any other country, 500,000 people are quadruple-vaxxed. So how are they doing? Israel now has more recorded cases so far in January than all of 2021 combined. Even if the country ramped up its testing rates, we should not be seeing such results. The Israelis now have the highest per capita infection rate in the world. The country with the most vaccines is the country with the most cases. Compare theses results to low-vaccinated South Africa:

27% of South Africans fully vaccinated. Israel among most vaccinated countries in the world. Onto 4th jab. Something\u2019s up pic.twitter.com/zuXcVrOlyH
— Mark Dolan (@Mark Dolan) 1643208439

Israel does test at a high rate, but so does India, which has a much lower vaccination rate:

Another complex question:\n\nComparing Omicron in India vs Israel, currently exhibiting identical test positivity, are we looking at the difference of impact between natural immunity vs vaccine immunity?pic.twitter.com/1S8N7Ly7NF
— Covid19Crusher (@Covid19Crusher) 1643212224

What is particularly disturbing is that Israel also has a pretty high rate of ICU admissions for something as mild as Omicron. Israel’s COVID ICU admission rate per 1 million people is now higher than during the winter 2021 peak, which was during a more virulent strain and with very few people vaccinated. Here is a comparison to the U.K. and Denmark, two countries that experienced a prolific Omicron wave this month:

Some of those Covid trends are completely baffling...pic.twitter.com/osiRsVSNRG
— Covid19Crusher (@Covid19Crusher) 1643193387

No wonder Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla admitted to CNBC that the shots seem “to produce not very durable immune protection so it’s going to be coming again and again.” But what we are seeing from the canary in the coal mine country is not just a lack of durability, but a clear warning of negative efficacy. Why is nobody demanding a suspension of all the shots until a full investigation is made to see if this is causing ADE, as Fauci himself cautioned Mark Zuckerberg during a March 2020 interview?

Our current situation-pic.twitter.com/eVgE6Blgr8
— Dr. Lynn Fynn (Fan Account) (@Dr. Lynn Fynn (Fan Account)) 1643376851

Now consider the fact that after everything we know about the safety and efficacy of these shots, and clearly everything we know Fauci himself understands about imperfect vaccines, he is nonetheless pushing this shot on babies and toddlers – three doses’ worth!

Two years into this circuitous cycle of failure, it’s time for the very people complaining about the failure to stop wagging their fingers, ascribing blame, and dictating the next failed course of action. It’s time for them to look in the mirror.