'Openly totalitarian': Footage surfaces of Harris threatening to storm houses of law-abiding Americans for surprise gun checks



A 2007 clip of Kamala Harris threatening to storm the homes of law-abiding Americans for surprise gun inspections resurfaced this week, renewing concerns about what version of the vice president is now seeking her boss' job as well as about the fate of Second and Fourth Amendment rights should Harris get what she wants.

The footage was taken at a San Francisco press conference where then-Mayor Gavin Newsom and then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris discussed anti-gun legislation on which they had collaborated.

Harris suggested that the possibility that "some kid" might steal a legally acquired firearm justified the government in violating law-abiding owners' privacy and in running roughshod over their rights.

"We're going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community," said Harris. "Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs."

'If we don't resist this, we're done.'

Harris made clear that she and Newsom were looking to "legislate our values" and "encourage certain types of behavior."

Harris also cackled at the mention of the National Rifle Association's inevitable grievances, noting it would likely oppose the legislation, which Fox News Digital indicated she helped draft.

The legislation Newsom ultimately ratified banned the possession or sale of firearms on city property; required residents to store their guns in locked containers or apply trigger locks; and required gun dealers to submit inventories to police every six months.

Newsom noted it left the city with the "strictest anti-gun laws in the country."

"Everybody has a right to self-defense," Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, told the Fog City Journal at the time. "The mayor is basically denying people the right of self-defense."

The footage of Harris threatening the "sanctity" of American's locked homes went viral this week.

The Trump campaign called Harris "an anti-gun RADICAL."

"Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she's willing to weaponize the government to enter your home and seize your legally owned guns," tweeted the NRA.

Tucker Carlson tweeted, "This is openly totalitarian. If we don't resist this, we're done."

Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) wrote, "A reporter asked me two weeks ago in AZ why I kept referring to Harris as a totalitarian. This is just one more example."

"Kamala Harris literally said they will be doing a gun confiscation. What’s it going to take for everyone to realize these people are straight up communists and they are coming for our guns, our free speech and all our constitutional rights," wrote X user Wall Street Apes.

When asked about her ever-morphing political positions in an interview last month, Kamala Harris said that her "values have not changed."

This response prompted critics to wonder whether she has been trying to pull one over on voters with her recent moderate act — whether she intends to Trojan-horse her California radicalism into the White House.

Such a strategic deception would account for why Harris would all of a sudden feel comfortable claiming to be tough on the border despite previously calling the border wall a "stupid use of money" and overseeing the flood of tens of millions of illegal aliens into the country while border czar, or claiming to be a tough-on-crime "prosecutor" despite praising the "defund the police" movement, bailing out Black Lives Matter rioters, and supporting so-called "police reform."

If her values have indeed not changed, then that would also mean that upon taking power, her newfound moderate outlook might be abrogated by her 2019 outlook — which entailed decriminalizing crack cocaine for personal use, cutting Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding, eliminating the Hyde Amendment, and making taxpayers fund sex changes for illegal aliens — as well as by her outlook in 2007.

When discussing Harris' desire to confiscate Americans' firearms, President Donald Trump told Greg Gutfeld Wednesday, "One thing about a politician — they always revert back to where they were at the beginning because that is what their natural inclination is."

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Return of the MASK: COVID 2.0 is already snaking its way across the country



If you thought the pandemic was over, we're sorry to say that you're wrong.

As the 2024 election looms closer and the presidential candidates are increasingly at each others' throats, so it seems COVID is at ours. And Lauren Chen is well aware.

“It does seem like COVID part two is back. That’s right, the pandemic strikes back,” Chen says. “A lot of people, if you ask me, have been a little too quick to move on and forget that hey, you actually had neighbors who are calling the police on you if you tried to have guests over.”

“There were actually people who were dying that were prevented from seeing their loved ones,” she adds.

We need to remember, because if we don’t, then it could easily all happen over again. And in some ways, it already is.

Lionsgate, a production company based in California, has re-implemented a mask mandate for some employees after a few employees tested positive for COVID.

The employees were told in an email to “wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace.”

“If you are still afraid of COVID in this day and age, you haven’t been paying attention and you should probably go see some sort of mental health professional, rather than place all of your concern in something like COVID,” Chen says.

It’s not only the Hollywood studio that’s making a big deal out of re-implementing mask mandates. Morris Brown College has also reintroduced a mask mandate for both students and staff.

The college made this decision because there have been reports of students testing positive for COVID.

“Yes, the fatality rates for COVID are very similar to that of the flu. Do we institute mask mandates for the flu now? Absolutely not. It’s just something we live with and we understand that we live in a society. People get sick. So, the fact that some people out there still have this irrational fear when it comes to COVID,” Chen says. “It’s not based in science. It’s not based in medicine. This is an ideological thing.”


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Beijing previously indicated that fewer than 90,000 died in China from COVID-19. Turns out, the number is likely well over 1.5 million —  just in the first few months of 2023.



The Chinese communist regime tried to cover up the outbreak of COVID-19 and has done its best in the intervening years to downplay the strong likelihood that the Wuhan lab — known for its dangerous gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses — was the source of the virus that has killed millions worldwide.

The world has grown wise to both deceitful efforts. Now, it appears as though another narrative favored by Beijing is collapsing.

Whereas the Chinese regime suggested that the number of COVID-19 deaths inside China was under 90,000 since the beginning of the pandemic, the number is likely well into the millions — just for the first few months of this year.

As of Feb. 9, China's official COVID-19 death count was 83,150 deaths.

Researchers at the time suggested this figure was a gross undercount since it only included those infected with the virus who died in hospitals but not those who died at home, reported the New York Times.

According to the Guardian, beside requiring that COVID-19 deaths take place in hospitals to be counted, China also stipulated that only deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure following a COVID infection would be counted, meaning sepsis and other complications associated with the virus didn't factor.

Zuo-Feng Zhang, chair of the epidemiology department at the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles, told Time magazine in January the reported number was likely only "the tip of the iceberg."

On the basis of a report from Peking University, which indicated 64% of the Chinese population had been infected by mid-January, Zhang suggested 900,000 likely had died inside a window of just five weeks, presuming a conservative 0.1% case fatality rate.

Yong Cai, a demographer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies mortality in China, told the Times that the official figure was "certainly an underreport of all [COVID] deaths. ... There's no question about that."

Shengjie Lai, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, intimated that with the hospitals overloaded and the ICU beds maxed out following the relaxation of China's "zero COVID" restrictions, many Chinese died outside of hospitals.

Earlier this year, the Times provided four estimates from academic teams concerning post-restriction death counts based on: 1) the Shanghai outbreak; 2) travel patterns; 3) recent testing data; and 4) American death rates. The estimates were 1.6 million, 970,000, 1.5 million, and 1.1 million deaths, respectively.

These stood in stark contrast not just with Beijing's official count but with the World Health Organization's claim that China has only seen 121,536 COVID-19 deaths since January 2020.

This week, official data briefly appeared on a provincial government website that hinted at the academic teams' estimates being in the right ballpark.

Cremation tallies were shared Thursday to the government website for the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, reported the Times.

While the data was only available briefly before being taken down, epidemiologists have since had an opportunity to pore over a cached version of the information.

They learned that cremations rose 70% in Zhejiang in Q1 2023 to 171,000 — 72,000 more than in the same period last year.

Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong, reckons that if the new data out of Zhejiang, which has a population of roughly 65.8 million people, is extrapolated to China's population of 1.4 billion, the death toll is nowhere near the official count but rather "consistent with the estimates of around 1.5 million."

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Hong Kong reportedly also reached a rough estimate of roughly 1.54 million deaths from December 2022 through March on the basis of the cremation figures.

The Times further intimated that the cremation figures, coupled with substantial declines in life expectancy around China, are together indicative of untold carnage. If the real death count ever comes out of China, it will likely dwarf America's.

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'Mystified' NYT columnist asks the internet why southern states have such low rates of COVID-19. Twitter users happily enlighten him.



Since mid-September, COVID-19 cases have been plummeting in southern states. As of Nov. 2, the South had 13 coronavirus cases per 150,000 — the fewest by region in the nation — compared to 21 cases in the Northeast, 27 in the West, and 31 in the Midwest, according to the New York Times.

Hospitalizations in the South have also dropped significantly in recent weeks. The top 10 states that have experienced decreases in COVID-19 hospitalizations are all in the South. There are 12 hospitalizations per 100,000 people in South Carolina — a 38% decrease in the past 14 days, according to Becker's Hospital Review. Hospitalizations in North Carolina are down 36%, Louisiana fell 36%, Tennessee has seen a 34% drop, Kentucky has plunged 32%, Florida also witnessed a 32% decrease, hospitalization in the past two weeks is 30% less in Texas, Mississippi declined 30%, as did Alabama, and hospitalizations tailed off by 28% in Georgia.

Meanwhile, hospitalizations per 100,000 people in the last 14 days are up in New Mexico (19%), Vermont (15%), Colorado (14%), Nebraska (11%), Arizona (9%), New Hampshire (9%), Utah (8%), Maine (7%), California (6%), and Michigan (4%).

The southern states have seen COVID-19 cases fall despite easing COVID-19 restrictions.

The shift in COVID-19 cases out of the South baffled New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow — who couldn't fathom why cases were plummeting despite the southern states not stringently adhering to guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"I am mystified by how these southern states have such low rates of Covid when many of their governors haven't followed cdc guidance," Blow wrote on Twitter and included a COVID-19 "hot spot" map from the New York Times. "Someone please explain this to me."

I am mystified by how these southern states have such low rates of Covid when many of their governors haven\u2019t followed cdc guidance. Someone please explain this to me.pic.twitter.com/klmBEPVu6p

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) 1636026867

The internet was happy to oblige and explain the shift to Blow. A wave of respondents gave their explanations for the decreasing COVID-19 cases in the South — which included seasonality.

Inez Stepman — senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum — responded, "Hint: in southern states they go inside with AC in the summer (high rates), in northern states, they go inside when it gets cold (high rates). Haven't we seen this play out enough times in the last nearly two years not to be surprised by it?"

Human Events journalist Will Chamberlain made a similar point, "Hint: it's pleasant outside in the South right now, so people aren't spending as much time indoors running the AC Meanwhile, it's getting colder everywhere else, so people are spending more time indoors there."

Investigative reporter Jordan Schachtel wrote, "NYT columnist on the brink of discovering seasonal respiratory illness. Prediction: He won't accept the obvious. Too big a red pill for him. Best to embrace the COVID Mania stuff. Better to keep the readers hoaxed and compliant."

New York Times best-selling author Tom Woods asked, "So you won't admit that the mitigation measures don't do a damn thing, which should be excruciatingly obvious by now? You can't ever give up on that religion?"

Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Damir Marusic explained, "Once you accept that policy only has marginal effect on outcomes, everything becomes much easier to digest. The COVID surge just does its thing, burning through vulnerable populations until the kindling is gone. It then moves on."

Radio host Jesse Kelly reacted by tweeting, "Because everything you 'know' about coronavirus is a lie. The 'experts' had no idea what to do when it got here so they just made a bunch of stuff up and pretended it was 'science.' Your entire world is make believe. How does that make you feel?"

Outkick founder and radio host Clay Travis commented, "The number of blue checks who still think lockdowns & masks stop covid is absolutely staggering. This is a @nytimes columnist. These blue checks have never bothered to look at the actual data. They are covid sheep."

Podcast host Benny Johnson said, "The defiant smoothbrain bubble people will never fully understand the extent to which they have been manipulated for power and control of an establishment ruling class."

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