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Florida just ended all vaccine mandates.

Florida announced it will end all vaccine mandates, with Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo calling them an assault on medical freedom. The move comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis launches the Florida Make America Healthy Again commission, aligning with President Donald Trump's national health initiative.

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Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo declared the end of all vaccine mandates in Florida, calling them "wrong" and likening them to "slavery."

Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled the Florida Make America Healthy Again commission, chaired by First Lady Casey DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins.

The commission will focus on medical freedom, informed consent, parental rights, and innovation in health care, while pushing reforms to restore trust in public health.

Congress declassified 33,000 Epstein case files. I'm not sure there's anything interesting in them because I'm not seeing much chatter.

The committee shared 33,295 pages of files subpoenaed by Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on August 5, which DOJ supplied with redactions for victims' identities and child sexual abuse evidence.

The records include flight logs for Epstein's private jet, "Lolita Express," showing routes to his private island and other locations, along with Palm Beach police reports dating back to 2005, when Epstein first faced sex abuse allegations.

Republicans say the release is the most complete look yet at Epstein's network, as they push for full DOJ transparency.

Since their parent company Disney was beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, even giving a "special thanks" to those carrying out a genocide against Uighurs in the credits of Mulan, ABC foreign correspondent Britt Clennett beclowned herself and the network during Wednesday's Good Morning America. With prime seating in Tiananmen Square, Clennett had a huge smile on her face as she was overcome with awe at the military equipment and being able to lay her eyes on Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

"Yeah, just a remarkable sight to see here in Beijing. China very much flexing its military muscle, with the latest generation of ballistic missiles and drones in a carefully choreographed parade designed to show its patriotism and power," Clennett boasted to co-host Michael Strahan a head of the video portion of her report.

Touting the parade as Xi's "grand show of force," she fawned over the pageantry of the event:

Marking 80 years since the end of World War II with its biggest ever military parade. We were there as the crowd of more than 50,000 waived Chinese flags, cheering as thousands of soldiers marched in perfect unison. Several hundred ground weapon systems on display, over 100 aircraft and jets ripping through the sky above Tiananmen Square.

The guests of honor, Russian president Vladimir Putin, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un with Xi, together for the first time watching over the parade from the balcony.

"The crowd is clapping, XI Jinping is flanked by Putin and Kim just over there in an extraordinary show of unity," she beamed from her prime seat overlooking the point where the soldiers would pass in front of Xi.

Well isn't that spesh. ("Spesh" is the hip cool new way 29 year olds are saying "special." Trust me.)

Jen Psaki previously swore she'd never seen a hint of cognitive decline in Biden. But now she says she can see that Trump is in cognitive decline.

Suspicions are growing about the six AfD candidates -- no, now make that seven -- who have died from "heart attacks" before the upcoming elections in Nazi Germany.

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

ERMANY ROCKED BY "IMPOSSIBLE" WAVE OF DEATHS IN CONSERVATIVE PARTY

Alice Weidel, the face of AfD, says it's "statistically impossible" that 7 candidates have died suddenly in the run-up to elections.

For 4 of the deaths, no cause has been given publicly.

The disruption is historic - ballots shredded and reprinted, campaigns suspended, and local governments plunged into chaos.

And all of this has erupted just days before Germans vote.

Observers say there is no precedent in modern German history for such a cluster of deaths within a single party on the eve of an election.

A lone tragedy would shock communities.

But 7, striking the same movement as its popularity surges, has rattled Europe.

Whether these deaths are coincidence or point to something far darker, the timing has upended the race, ignited speculation across the continent, and placed Germany's democratic process under intense international scrutiny.

Source: GZERO Media, WDR, Hungarian Conservative

Paid liar and would-be Satanic prophet David French claims -- for the benefit of the NYT audience that underwrites his paycheck -- that the whole woke Crackle Barrel branding was a made-up fake outrage story fabricated by the right, just like the Sydney Sweeney story.

Every paragraph of French's column is a strawman. Every claim is obviously false. He's not even sort of describing surface-level reality. David French now gets paid to point at cows and say, "That's definitely not a cow." He's a fabulist, and a talentless one. His sole value is that he gets to cosplay "conservative" while mindlessly doing all of the dumb leftist tropes, giving correct-thinking cadre the very small thrill of feeling righteous about the people they hate. He's a professional reassurance artist: Yes, New York Times readers, people you disagree with are always wrong and never have a point about anything. Thanks, David, here's a nickel.

So.

You must be blind and amnesiac, because French explains this about the "good jeans" thing with Sydney Sweeney, the other recent branding controversy that he discusses alongside the Cracker Barrel thing: "There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney."

No, seriously: "There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney." David French just wrote this sentence and got it published in The New York Times.

Right-wingers just made it all up, calculatedly stoking outrage about something that wasn't even real: "But if there's a conflict between telling the truth and stoking outrage, time and again, the right chooses outrage."

Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo

No, David French: As @robbystarbuck and I have pointed out, the fight is not about the logo, but about Cracker Barrel's support for DEI, trans activism, gender pronouns, and Pride shows for kids. French knows this, but pretends that he doesn't. A supremely dishonest person.

Abigail Spannberger is the Deep State CIA officer running on the Democrat ticket to replace Glenn Youngkin as governor of the Deep State's parking lot, Virginia. (Virginia governors are term limited at one single term, for some reason.)

Her running mate says that the majority of Virginia voters are racist, because they agreed with Youngin's and the GOP's racist diagnosis of the state's problems.

This bitter, xenophobic foreign racist has a long history of attacking Virginians as racist.

Whether you're a parent who objects to sexually explicit books being shown in your kids' classrooms, an opponent of discriminatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, or a rank-and-file Virginian, your state's Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor thinks you're a bigot.

Ghazala Hashmi, an Indian immigrant who became the first Muslim elected to Virginia's state senate in 2019, has a long history of smearing the very voters she'll need to win over as racist, misogynistic, and fascist, a Washington Free Beacon review of her record in public life found.

During an interview with University of Delaware professor Muqtedar Khan after the 2021 gubernatorial election titled,"What Went wrong for the Democrats in Virginia?" Hashmi appeared to agree with Khan's assessment that a majority of Virginia voters are bigots.

Khan said Governor Glenn Youngkin's (R.) victory in that year's contest meant "the majority of voters in Virginia are racist, or at least susceptible to racist dog whistles."

The election results, according to Khan, showed "the Republicans are winning because the electorate responds to racist dog whistles."

Hashmi agreed, saying the racism of the Virginia electorate is "very disturbing."

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Hashmi did not just target Republicans in her attack against Youngkin voters. The Virginia governor rode to victory in 2021 with the support of 54 percent of independents in the Old Dominion State, voters Hashmi will ostensibly need to win over during this year's campaign.

Alongside Youngkin voters writ large, Hashmi has pointed to specific groups of Virginians she finds particularly objectionable.

Fairfax County parents in 2022 raised alarm over the presence of the book Gender Queer, which includes graphic illustrations of sex acts, in their children's schools. In response, Hashmi compared those parents to fascists.

"The very first step of fascism--and I'm going to use that word in the context of history--very first step of fascism is to undermine the education system, to undermine the trust in teachers, and also to begin to systematically remove materials, conversation, discussions around issues the government itself might find offensive," Hashmi said in a podcast appearance.

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The lieutenant governor nominee has worked to limit parents' involvement in their children's lives over the course of her career. During Hashmi's time as a state senator, she helped kill legislation that would have allowed parents to know if their child had identified as transgender at school in addition to parental input in school libraries.

Hashmi has also accused those who oppose discriminatory DEI programs of being racist and misogynistic.

"The use of the word or phrase 'DEI' is simply another coded language for racism, for misogyny," she said during a primary debate in May.

CNN continues to prove that leftists think that right-wingers' accurate beliefs are all "conspiracy theories," while the left's actual conspiracy theories are Important Questions We Must Confront.

CNN was seemingly engaged in some stochastic terrorism during Wednesday's Inside Politics as host Dana Bash gave a platform to and promoted incendiary Democratic Party conspiracy theories claiming President Trump was going to steal the 2026 midterm elections. At no point did she try to poke holes in the idea, instead she praised Democrats for "sounding the alarm" and said Trump's past claims of election rigging were the only "erroneous" ones.

Bash opened the segment by highlighting how Governors Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and JB Pritzker (D-IL) were "increasingly sounding the alarm that a free and fair election may not even happen." She followed up with these two soundbites of the Governors making unsubstantiated and incendiary accusations:

NEWSOM: People actually think this guy is serious about having another election? You think he's joking about 2028? [Transition] I'm not calm and I'm not going to submit myself to niceties. Not when this guy is trying to wreck our God damn country.

PRITZKER: He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control.

After introducing her guest commentator Dan Pfeiffer of Pod Save America and the Obama administration, Bash marveled at how outspoken Democrats were with their allegations and bluntly asked him: "[H]ow do we know that there not going to be messed with?"

"Yeah. Look, I think we should be very concerned that Donald Trump can mess with these elections," Pfeiffer backed up the lies.

At no point did Bash admit that Democrats were making their claims 'without evidence;' the tag line they often threw onto something Trump would say despite the facts.

Urging Democrats to "prepare for the worst" for "when Donald Trump does the worst," Pfeiffer predicted that Trump would send "ICE agents" to take over polling places:

I think a really signature moment that did not get enough attention was when Gavin Newsom held his press conference to announce the California ballot initiative to do redistricting here in California. There were ICE agents outside the press conference. Right? So what is why should we not expect that Donald Trump will do something similar, as Governor Pritzker suggested, at polling places in key Democratic districts or precincts, that he's not going to do everything we can.

Instead of asking for evidence, Bash wondered: "So how do you prepare for, in your words, the worst?"

Pfeiffer's predictions grew more unhinged as it became clear that Bash was not going to ask any critical questions. He claimed Trump would use the military against polling places and House Speaker Mike Johnson would get involved:

[W]e should be prepared for national deployment of troops. We should be prepared for masked ICE agents outside of polling places, and we should be prepared for shenanigans from Speaker Johnson and the House Republicans when it comes to seating Democratic members in close races, if control of the House is at stake.

Ironically, it was Democrats who tried to play such games with seats when they tried steal the seat out from under Congresswoman Miller-Meeks (R-IA).

The only criticism Bash offered didn't question the veracity of the allegations. Instead, she feared that talking about a stolen election would hinder Democratic Party turn out. "The flip side of the coin is that this sounding the alarm could suppress the Democratic vote, saying, why am I going to go vote if it's not going to matter?" she fretted.

These incendiary and unsupported allegations were absolutely dangerous to the wellbeing of Trump and Republicans. If another mentally unwell liberal heard them, they could be once again incited to commit acts of violence against people on the right.

More at the link, including video.

posted by Ace at 06:15 PM

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