<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Unfeudal™]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intellectual honesty in an untellectual world. @Novid1984]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com</link><image><url>https://www.unfeudal.com/img/substack.png</url><title>Unfeudal™</title><link>https://www.unfeudal.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:12:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.unfeudal.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[novid1984@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[novid1984@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[novid1984@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[novid1984@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[An extremely unholy affair]]></title><description><![CDATA["By no stretch of logic can U.N. ever explain why it should demand that a majority people anywhere surrender its sovereignty to a minority one." Dallas Morning News, May 20, 1948]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/an-extremely-unholy-affair</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/an-extremely-unholy-affair</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:25:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad0dc9a4-e250-4ea7-b431-24e1af2309a7.tif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across the following editorial that appeared in the Dallas Morning News on May 20, 1948, in the midst of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. The editorial is titled &#8220;No Holy War Can Be Cut and Dried Deal.&#8221; After reading it, a close friend texted 3 words: &#8220;History repeats itself.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M0CQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe670faea-8496-4157-9130-fca378f6c436.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M0CQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe670faea-8496-4157-9130-fca378f6c436.tif 424w, 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Our State Department describes this period concisely&#8212;&#8220;On the eve of May 14, the Arabs launched an air attack in Tel Aviv, which Israelis resisted. This action was followed by the invasion of the former Palestinian mandate by Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><h1>The Editorial&#8217;s 4 Main Points</h1><p>With that background, the editorial published May 20, 1948 made 4 main points about the relationship between Palestine on the one hand, and the Arabs, Jewish state, United Nations, United States, and Russia, on the other hand. I list them below with supporting screenshots from the article.</p><h4>Point #1. The Arabs are willing to fight against Israel over Palestine.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif" width="1222" height="1131" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1131,&quot;width&quot;:1222,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1299908,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!taRt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e87de7-0e65-46a5-947c-aa7e4116741d.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Point #2. The effort to set up a Jewish state in Palestine antagonized the leaders of the world&#8217;s Arab/Muslims.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif" width="1222" height="868" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:868,&quot;width&quot;:1222,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1000170,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PDe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F971d3a27-c14c-438f-b953-542b7216ee64.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Point #3. The United States and United Nations can repress invading Arab armies for Israel, but doing so will make the U.S. and U.N. continuous enemies to the Muslim world. There is no logic to explain &#8220;why the United Nations should demand that a majority people anywhere surrender its sovereignty to a minority one.&#8221;</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif" width="1222" height="892" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:892,&quot;width&quot;:1222,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1096994,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nQX5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92626bf7-c9be-4669-92c5-ed5d9153327a.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Point #4. Modern oil is truly at stake&#8212;not ancient Palestine, so do not expect Russia to back Israel in this fight.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif" width="1222" height="919" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:919,&quot;width&quot;:1222,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1126790,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TuX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59c0e2b0-bd44-4ea9-805c-60ca47b62823.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Thanks for reading. I will post other interesting finds as they come about.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Untellectual&#8482; is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Milestones: 1945&#8211;1952 - Office of the Historian (state.gov). https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Ukraine.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is the current thing really about Ukraine?]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/if-americas-soul-becomes-totally</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/if-americas-soul-becomes-totally</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 18:19:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8ec101a-261c-47a7-a604-a0c9a75f38b6_1284x1804.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you&#8217;ve probably seen, on Saturday, October 7, 2023, in the early morning hours,   a militant group called &#8220;Hamas&#8221; launched what is being called a terror attack in Israel.  The attack lasted hours and still may be ongoing. </p><p>Video footage suggests Hamas militants have kidnapped and killed civilians, including women and possibly children. Israel has declared war. There are reports that other groups like Hezbollah may be joining Hamas. None of this looks good. Many are asking is it really possible no one in Israel-US-UK intelligence knew anything about this well-planned attack beforehand?</p><p>While I may detail my research later, for now, let me say, we should not forget the events of the past few weeks and earlier this year.  </p><ul><li><p>January 2023, Pentagon sends U.S. weapons stored in Israel to Ukraine.</p></li><li><p>September 28, 2023, the majority of house republicans voted (117-101) <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023503?Date=09%2F28%2F2023">against</a> providing $300 million in funding to Ukraine.</p></li><li><p>October 3, 2023, House Republicans led by Matt Gaetz ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the house after learning he made a side deal with Democrats to continue funding Ukraine. </p></li><li><p>Because of the last two events, the republican controlled house cannot be relied on to appropriate more money for Ukraine, and that freaked the establishment warmongers out.</p></li></ul><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;8878242a-bca6-46b4-a40b-95332b25ff5d&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;In case you weren&#8217;t paying attention, yesterday, something historic happened&#8212;Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to oust their speaker, Kevin McCarthy. Though I won&#8217;t expound here, I see this a big loss for big money, big military, and weaponized government&#8212;the uniparty&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Now you know: #VacateMcCarthy Recap&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:40549107,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Novid1984&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Plaintiffs' attorney using my technology litigation talents to make sense of the madness.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e5bc7f87-c2d1-41be-ac0d-3b3e2b16b0e3_607x598.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-10-04T10:25:09.762Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5135f175-a91a-49f8-b1c5-c7b3e7ac954f_1284x542.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.theuntellectual.com/p/now-you-know-vacatemccarthy-recap&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:137647578,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Untellectual&#8482;&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>So what am I suggesting?</strong> Yes, I am suggesting that those for whom we are really funding the Ukraine war had some hand in pushing for or instigating this Hamas attack now at this moment and making sure the world sees it. </p><p>Why? Well, if Republicans won&#8217;t fund Ukraine, surely they&#8217;ll fund Israel. Then the U.S. will send Money and weapons to Israel and those resources will be used for Ukraine. Once that happens, Israel and Hamas will come to the table to talk peace. </p><p>Now this is only what makes sense in my head. But, Before I could finish this article, the tweet below appeared. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uufN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82f51d1-9fa3-4db6-ae77-eeee5ac4bf8d_1284x721.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uufN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82f51d1-9fa3-4db6-ae77-eeee5ac4bf8d_1284x721.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uufN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82f51d1-9fa3-4db6-ae77-eeee5ac4bf8d_1284x721.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>At this point, I think we all would do well to listen to the speech Dr. Martin Luther King delivered on April 4, 1967&#8212;&#8220;Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.&#8221;</p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;403b212d-ad73-4d62-8fdf-68aa7b091d83&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:3379.5396,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>If you cannot listen to it, I&#8217;ve reproduced a few quotes from the speech below. </p><p>Among other things, Dr. King discusses the difficulty of opposing one&#8217;s own government&#8217;s policies in a time of war and the difficulty of conformist thought.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, <strong>men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government&#8217;s policy, especially in time of war.</strong></p><p>Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one&#8217;s own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Dr. King also described how his silence in the face of his own government&#8217;s war violence conflicted with his conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.</p><blockquote><p>As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn&#8217;t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted.</p><p>Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.</p></blockquote><p>Near the end of his speech, Dr. King suggested that war is the thing that will poison the soul of America. These lines remain true today.</p><blockquote><p>Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. <strong>If America&#8217;s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam</strong>. <strong>It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.</strong> So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be -- are -- are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.</p></blockquote><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Untellectual&#8482; is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you know: #VacateMcCarthy Recap]]></title><description><![CDATA[With McCarthy out, maybe we can move away blindly supporting the imperialistic goals of the few.]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/now-you-know-vacatemccarthy-recap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/now-you-know-vacatemccarthy-recap</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:25:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5135f175-a91a-49f8-b1c5-c7b3e7ac954f_1284x542.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you weren&#8217;t paying attention, yesterday, something historic happened&#8212;Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to oust their speaker, Kevin McCarthy.</p><p>Though I won&#8217;t expound here, I see this <strong>a big loss for big money, big military, and weaponized government&#8212;the uniparty</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FLpi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0e18ed4-22af-4d60-9bb6-49d5df32be9b_1284x649.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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He followed through ousting McCarthy after it became clear that McCarthy had no desire for single subject spending bills or ending the Ukraine war slush fund.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ijHU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed5edad-6454-4321-b2a4-5b08f0f0b8cd_1284x1715.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ijHU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed5edad-6454-4321-b2a4-5b08f0f0b8cd_1284x1715.jpeg 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Below are a few points to note for posterity.&nbsp;</p><ul><li><p><strong>#VacateMcCarthy. </strong>With the help of 208 Democrats, Florida Republican Matt Gaetz and seven of his colleagues successfully ousted California Republican Kevin McCarthy from the position of Speaker of the House. </p></li></ul><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5aeb264d-287f-4f6c-ab6a-2e7552f14e33&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><ul><li><p><strong>The eight Republicans are</strong>&nbsp;Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona,&nbsp;Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado,&nbsp;Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee,&nbsp;Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona,&nbsp;Rep. Bob Good of Virginia,&nbsp;Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, and&nbsp;Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana. Most other Republicans voted against ousting McCarthy  </p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg" width="998" height="749" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:749,&quot;width&quot;:998,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rkz7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20cc7c45-8a41-4988-bb62-9a1300ccb93d_998x749.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><ul><li><p><strong>Matt Gaetz takes no lectures&#8212;nor should he.</strong>&nbsp;Matt Gaetz was on fire defending his move to oust McCarthy as speaker: &#8220;<strong>I take no lecture</strong> - on asking patriotic Americans to weigh in and contribute to this fight - <strong>from those who would grovel and bend knee for the lobbyists and the special interests who own our leadership</strong> &nbsp;- Boo all you want - who have hollowed out this town and have borrowed against the future of our future generations. I&#8217;ll be happy to fund my political operation through the work of hard working Americans - ten and twenty and thirty dollars at a time - and <strong>you all keep showing up at the lobbyists fundraisers and see how that goes for you</strong>. I reserve [my time].&#8221;</p></li></ul><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2b3db0c4-46de-47a4-8d07-d04851309e14&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><ul><li><p><strong>Hope for moving beyond Ukraine. </strong>Hopefully the ousting of the speaker marks a shift away from a willfully blind American imperialistic foreign policy.&nbsp;But house Democrats seem to care more about Ukraine than anything else.</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8GZc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea5b1974-d8a3-4032-a800-cee07bd292a7_1284x1720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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My understanding is that he&#8217;ll be speaker temporarily until the Republicans elect a new one.&nbsp;Below is a collection of posts made by McHenry on X/Twitter.</p></li></ul><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c4a6557d-1fc1-44af-80e2-cdaf78271c40_1284x1145.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/610b7069-9cca-420f-98ee-c4a38f2039c0_1284x460.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8e55bb02-0e05-4c90-940c-cb20630e34f0_1284x2778.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5d8c992a-a9c5-4323-ae2c-5b7b917940b9_1284x1148.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/42effdd4-8c25-4a48-98c4-db2e47bdde7e_1284x1593.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7401da41-ab10-49f5-adbd-ef464be0395c_1284x1302.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cbc1e784-9f5c-4fa4-bd98-f6d30da28e66_1284x2778.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f639b292-5f35-4bb9-bca4-4f00bde9bd87_1284x865.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df0b97da-02a9-4c13-b89b-361c4f5d664f_1284x1390.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Collection of Posts by Rep. 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Therefore, Nevada is approximately 70,763,680 acres.</p><p>When did Nevada become a state?</p><p>Nevada became a state on October 31, 1864. It is often referred to as the "Battle Born State" because it achieved statehood during the Civil War.</p><p>What was the population of Nevada at the time it became a state?</p><p>At the time Nevada became a state in 1864, its population was approximately 42,941. It was, and still is, one of the least populous states in the United States.</p><p>What is the population of Nevada today?</p><p>As of 2023, the population of Nevada is estimated to be around 3.15 million people. However, it's always good to check the most recent census or population estimate for the most current information.</p><p>How many slaves were there at the time of the civil war?</p><p>At the start of the Civil War in 1861, there were approximately 4 million slaves in the United States, all located in the Southern states. It's worth noting that the number of slaves had grown significantly over the preceding decades; there were around 700,000 slaves in the US at the time of the American Revolution, and around 1.2 million by 1810.</p><p>How many acres of federally owned landed exist in Nevada?</p><p>Nevada has the highest percentage of federally owned land of any state in the USA. Approximately 85% of the land in Nevada, or about 60 million acres, is federally owned. This includes land managed by various federal agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service.</p><p>How many descendants of American slavery currently are living in the United States?</p><p>It's difficult to give a precise number for the descendants of American slavery currently living in the United States. However, it's estimated that there are around 40-45 million African Americans living in the US today, and a significant majority of them are descendants of slaves. This is a rough estimate as many records from the slavery era are incomplete or non-existent, and there has been significant migration and mixing of populations since that time.</p><p>Can you explain to me what was special order number 15?</p><p>Special Field Orders, No. 15 were a series of orders issued during the American Civil War on January 16, 1865, by General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi of the United States Army. They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (1,600 km2) of land along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres (0.16 km2), on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 freed slave families and other Black Americans already living in the area. This is where the phrase "40 acres and a mule" originates, although the order did not actually promise mules. It is one of the most famous and controversial orders of the Civil War, as it addressed the question of what was to happen to the freed slaves after the war, a question that was still very much unsettled at the time. The order was later revoked by President Andrew Johnson in the fall of 1865.</p><p>Were the 400,000 acres contiguous or discontiguous?</p><p>The 400,000 acres specified in Special Field Orders, No. 15 were a continuous strip of land along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It included the Sea Islands and the mainland 30 miles in from the coast. This area was chosen because it had been largely abandoned by white plantation owners and was already being farmed by black people who had been freed or had escaped from slavery. The idea was to grant each family a plot of not more than 40 acres, thereby allowing them a start to a new, independent life.</p><p>About how many slave families existed at the time of the Civil War?</p><p>At the start of the Civil War, there were approximately 4 million enslaved people in the United States, all in the southern states. The average enslaved family size is estimated to have been around 5-6 people, so a rough estimate of the number of enslaved families would be around 666,667 to 800,000. However, it's important to note that enslaved people often did not live in traditional nuclear families. Many families were broken apart by the sale of family members, and others were created by the forced union of individuals from different places and backgrounds.</p><p>So, did 40 acres and a mule actually happen?</p><p>The policy of "40 acres and a mule" was never officially implemented across the South. It originated with Special Field Orders, No. 15, issued by General Sherman in January 1865, which allocated land along the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to be given to freed slaves. However, after President Lincoln's assassination, his successor, Andrew Johnson, quickly rescinded the order and returned the land to its former white owners.</p><p>There were a few instances where freed slaves received land, and some were even provided with mules by the Army, but these were the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of freed slaves were left without any land or resources and had to find work as laborers or sharecroppers, often under very exploitative conditions.</p><p>I want to talk about special orders number 15. Do you know the text of it?</p><p>Yes, Special Field Orders, No. 15, issued by General William T. Sherman on January 16, 1865, consisted of two parts. The first part dealt with the allocation of land to freed slaves, and the second part dealt with the army's operations in South Carolina.</p><p>The relevant section, which deals with the allocation of land, reads as follows:</p><p>"III. The islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. Johns river, Florida, are reserved and set apart for the settlement of the negroes [sic] now made free by the acts of war and the proclamation of the President of the United States.</p><p>IV. At Beaufort, Hilton Head, Savannah, Fernandina, St. Augustine and Jacksonville, the blacks may remain in their chosen or accustomed vocations--but on the islands, and in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves, subject only to the United States military authority and the acts of Congress. By the laws of war, and orders of the President of the United States, the negro [sic] is free and must be dealt with as such. He cannot be subjected to conscription or forced military service, save by the written orders of the highest military authority of the Department, under such regulations as the President or Congress may prescribe. Domestic servants, blacksmiths, carpenters and other mechanics, will be free to select their own work and residence but the young and able-bodied negroes [sic] must be encouraged to enlist as soldiers in the service of the United States, to contribute their share towards maintaining their own freedom, and securing their rights as citizens of the United States.</p><p>V. Negroes [sic] so enlisted will be organized into companies, battalions and regiments, under the orders of the United States military authorities, and will be paid, fed and clothed according to law. The bounties paid on enlistment may, with the consent of the recruit, go to assist his family and settlement in procuring agricultural implements, seed, cattle, clothing, and food, and in securing land under the laws now in force, and without delay."</p><p>Did the order, special order number 15, restrict white people from owning or policing any of the land that was set aside for the freed slave families?</p><p>Yes, Special Field Orders, No. 15, specifically restricted white people from residing on the land that was set aside for freed slaves. Section IV of the order states:</p><p>"but on the islands, and in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves, subject only to the United States military authority and the acts of Congress."</p><p>This section clearly indicates that white people, except for military personnel on duty, were not allowed to reside in the designated areas, and the management of affairs in those areas would be left to the freed people, subject to military authority and Congressional acts.</p><p>Did the order, special order number 15, restrict white people from owning or policing any of the land that was set aside for the freed slave families?</p><p>Special Field Orders, No. 15, did not explicitly address land ownership, but it did specify that no white people, except for military personnel on duty, would be permitted to reside in the designated areas. It also stated that the "sole and exclusive management of affairs" in those areas would be left to the freed people, subject to military authority and Congressional acts.</p><p>This implies that white people would not be able to own or police the land since they were not allowed to reside there, and the management of affairs was to be left to the freed people. However, the order did not explicitly address the issue of land ownership or policing. Ultimately, the order was rescinded later that year by President Andrew Johnson, and the land was returned to its former white owners.</p><p>Is Israel an independent state?</p><p>Yes, Israel is an independent state. It declared independence on May 14, 1948, and this was followed by the establishment of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948. Israel is a member of the United Nations and has diplomatic relations with most of the world's countries. However, its independence and existence are still not recognized by some countries, mainly due to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and broader Arab-Israeli conflict.</p><p>Who did Israel declare independence from in 1948?</p><p>Israel declared independence from the British Mandate of Palestine. The British had control over Palestine since 1917, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The United Nations approved a plan to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem under international administration, in November 1947. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel, and the US and Soviet Union recognized the new nation. The next day, forces from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded, starting the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-1949, also known as the War of Independence.</p><p>Are you saying that the territory or area that we know today as Israel used to be a part of a larger territorial area that would have been known as Palestine?</p><p>Yes, that is correct. The area now known as Israel was part of a larger territorial area known as Palestine. The region was under the control of the Ottoman Empire for several centuries before coming under British control after World War I. The British administered the area under the British Mandate for Palestine from 1920 until 1948. The United Nations approved a plan to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states in 1947, and the State of Israel was established in part of the territory in 1948. The remaining parts of the territory were occupied by Egypt (the Gaza Strip) and Jordan (the West Bank) after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, until Israel captured those territories in the 1967 Six-Day War. The status of these territories remains a key issue in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p><p>So the partition plan that you are referring to is largely a religious partition?</p><p>The UN partition plan was more ethnic than religious, as it aimed to address the claims of both Jewish and Arab national movements. However, religion is closely tied to ethnicity in this region. The plan was to create separate states for the region's two main ethnic groups, Jews and Arabs. The Jewish state would be for the Jewish inhabitants and immigrants, and the Arab state would be for the Arab inhabitants. Jerusalem, which is sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, was to be placed under international administration due to its religious significance. The partition was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1947, but it was rejected by the Arab countries and the Palestinian Arab leadership.</p><p>Let's shift to the United States. Is it possible for new territorial areas to become a part of the United States, and specifically to become states of the United States?</p><p>Yes, it is possible for new territories to become part of the United States and specifically to become states. The process for admitting new states is outlined in the U.S. Constitution, in Article IV, Section 3. Congress has the authority to admit new states into the Union.</p><p>For a territory to become a state, Congress typically requires the territory to have a certain population, adopt a state constitution, and have a government in place that can function as a state government. Then, Congress can admit the territory as a state through an act of Congress. This process has been used to admit most of the U.S. states.</p><p>There are currently five inhabited U.S. territories: Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. Puerto Rico has held several non-binding referendums on statehood, and a majority of voters supported statehood in the most recent one in 2020. However, the decision ultimately lies with Congress, and as of 2023, Puerto Rico has not been admitted as a state.</p><p>What does the United States Constitution say is the process for admitting a new state?</p><p>The United States Constitution addresses the admission of new states in Article IV, Section 3, which states:</p><p>"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."</p><p>This means that Congress has the power to admit new states, but it cannot create a new state within the jurisdiction of another state, nor can it create a new state by joining two or more states or parts of states without the consent of the state legislatures and Congress.</p><p>In practice, the process for admitting a new state usually involves the territory having a certain population, adopting a state constitution, and having a functioning government. Then, Congress can pass an act admitting the territory as a state. This process has varied somewhat over time and with each territory, but these are the general steps that have been followed for most states.</p><p>But is a specific population required?</p><p>The U.S. Constitution does not specify a population requirement for a territory to become a state, and there is no fixed population requirement in U.S. law. However, Congress has typically required territories to have a certain population before they are admitted as states. This population requirement has varied over time and from territory to territory. For example, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which governed the admission of new states in the Northwest Territory, required a territory to have a population of at least 60,000 free inhabitants before it could be admitted as a state. Today, there is no specific population requirement, but Congress would likely consider the population of a territory as one of many factors when deciding whether to admit it as a state.</p><p>Does the Constitution permit a new state to be carved out of territory of an existing state?</p><p>Yes, the Constitution does permit a new state to be carved out of the territory of an existing state, but it sets specific conditions for this to happen. According to Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution:</p><p>"... no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."</p><p>So, a new state can be created out of the territory of an existing state, but it requires the consent of both the state legislature(s) of the state(s) concerned and the Congress. This process was used, for example, when West Virginia was created out of the territory of Virginia during the Civil War.</p><p>Good point. Let's talk about West Virginia. Please tell me when West Virginia was created, why it was created, and how, meaning the process by which it was created.</p><p>West Virginia was created during the American Civil War due to differences between the western and eastern regions of Virginia. The western region of Virginia was largely anti-slavery and supported the Union, while the eastern region was pro-slavery and joined the Confederacy.</p><p>The process of creating West Virginia started in 1861 when Virginia held a referendum on secession. The majority of voters in the western counties opposed secession, while the majority in the eastern counties supported it. After Virginia seceded from the Union, representatives from the western counties met at the Wheeling Convention and declared that the secession was illegal and that they would form a new government for Virginia that remained loyal to the Union.</p><p>This new government, known as the Restored Government of Virginia, was recognized by the federal government as the legitimate government of Virginia. In 1862, the Restored Government of Virginia approved the formation of a new state, to be called West Virginia. This was followed by a referendum in the western counties, where voters approved the creation of the new state.</p><p>Finally, on December 31, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill admitting West Virginia to the Union as a separate state. West Virginia officially became a state on June 20, 1863.</p><p>This process was somewhat controversial because the Constitution requires the consent of the state legislature for the creation of a new state from the territory of an existing state. In this case, the consent was given by the Restored Government of Virginia, which was not recognized by the Confederacy or the existing state government of Virginia. However, the federal government recognized the Restored Government as the legitimate government of Virginia, and so it was deemed to meet the constitutional requirement.</p><p>How many acres of land does the federal government own within the contiguous United States?</p><p>As of 2021, the federal government owns about 640 million acres of land in the United States, which is about 28% of the total land area of the country. However, the majority of this land is in the western states and Alaska. In the contiguous 48 states, the federal government owns about 490 million acres, or about 23% of the total land area. This includes national parks, national forests, military reservations, and other federally managed lands. The exact number can vary slightly due to land acquisitions, sales, and transfers.</p><p>Where is the largest contiguous area of federally owned land in the United States?</p><p>The largest contiguous area of federally owned land in the United States is in Alaska, specifically in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), which spans approximately 23.6 million acres.</p><p>However, if you are asking about the contiguous 48 states, the largest contiguous area of federally owned land is likely in Nevada, which has the highest percentage of federally owned land of any state. About 85% of the land in Nevada is federally owned, including large tracts of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.</p><p>Under the United States Constitution, is it legal for the states to go to war against one another?</p><p>The United States Constitution does not explicitly address the issue of states waging war against each other, but it does give the federal government significant authority over military matters and disputes between states. Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution prohibits states from entering into treaties, alliances, or confederations, and from granting letters of marque and reprisal (which are permissions to private citizens to capture enemy ships). It also prohibits states from keeping troops or ships of war in times of peace, or engaging in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. This suggests that the Constitution does not envisage or permit states to wage war against each other.</p><p>Furthermore, the Constitution gives the federal government the power to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, and make rules for the land and naval forces. The federal government also has the authority to resolve disputes between states, and the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.</p><p>Taken together, these provisions suggest that the Constitution does not permit states to wage war against each other and that the federal government has the authority to prevent and resolve conflicts between states.</p><p>Does one state have an interest in protecting its citizens from being terrorized by another state?</p><p>Yes, a state has an interest and a duty to protect its citizens from harm, including harm caused by another state. The primary duty of any government is to protect the safety and well-being of its citizens. This includes protecting its citizens from terrorist acts, whether they are perpetrated by individuals, groups, or another state.</p><p>However, in the United States, the federal government has primary responsibility for dealing with terrorism and interstate conflicts. The federal government has the authority to negotiate with foreign governments, regulate interstate commerce, and provide for the common defense. The President is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, and the federal government has the authority to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, and make rules for the land and naval forces.</p><p>While states have their own law enforcement agencies and National Guard units, the federal government has primary authority over matters of national security and interstate conflicts. If a state's citizens were being terrorized by another state, it would likely be a matter for the federal government to address.</p><p>Let's take Texas and Oklahoma as an example. If every day for a month a mob of people from Texas crossed the border into Oklahoma and burned down buildings and residences in Oklahoma, what recourse would Oklahoma have?</p><p>In the scenario you describe, where a mob from one state (Texas) is causing significant harm in another state (Oklahoma), there are several courses of action that Oklahoma could take:</p><p>Law Enforcement: Oklahoma's law enforcement agencies would likely respond to the incidents as they occur, arresting those involved and charging them with the appropriate crimes.</p><p>Request Assistance: Oklahoma could request assistance from the federal government. The federal government has the authority and responsibility to address interstate conflicts and could provide additional law enforcement resources, mediate between the states, or take other actions as necessary.</p><p>Legal Action: Oklahoma could potentially take legal action against Texas, either by suing Texas in federal court or by filing a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court, which has original jurisdiction over disputes between states.</p><p>Interstate Cooperation: Officials from Oklahoma could engage with officials from Texas to address the issue and seek their cooperation in stopping the attacks and holding those responsible accountable.</p><p>It is important to note that states in the U.S. have a legal and cooperative relationship with each other, and there are established mechanisms for resolving conflicts between states. Violent conflicts between states are extremely unlikely and would be addressed through legal and political channels.</p><p>Is there a sovereign Indian reservation in Oklahoma?</p><p>Yes, there are several federally recognized tribes in Oklahoma that have tribal lands or jurisdictional areas, which are sometimes referred to as reservations. However, the situation in Oklahoma is somewhat unique.</p><p>In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case McGirt v. Oklahoma that much of eastern Oklahoma, including much of the city of Tulsa, is part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's reservation. This decision effectively recognized that the reservations of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) were never officially terminated by Congress.</p><p>As a result of this decision, these tribes have increased jurisdiction over criminal and civil matters in their respective areas. However, the land is not exclusively owned by the tribes or their members; rather, it is a mix of tribal, public, and private ownership. The decision has significant implications for criminal jurisdiction, but its impact on other areas of law and governance is still being worked out.</p><p>Let's take Oklahoma and the Cherokee reservations as an example. If every day for a month a mob of people from Oklahoma crossed into the Cherokee reservations and burned down buildings and residences in the Cherokee reservations , what recourse would the Cherokee reservations have?</p><p>The Cherokee Nation, like other federally recognized tribes, is a sovereign entity with its own government and law enforcement agencies. If a mob of people from Oklahoma were to cross into Cherokee Nation land and commit criminal acts, the Cherokee Nation would have several options for recourse:</p><p>Law Enforcement: The Cherokee Nation has its own law enforcement agency, which could respond to the incidents, arrest those involved, and charge them with the appropriate crimes under Cherokee law.</p><p>Request Assistance: The Cherokee Nation could request assistance from the federal government or the state of Oklahoma. Both the federal and state governments have a legal obligation to protect tribal lands and could provide additional law enforcement resources or take other actions as necessary.</p><p>Legal Action: The Cherokee Nation could potentially take legal action against the individuals involved or the state of Oklahoma if it was found to be complicit in some way.</p><p>Political Action: Officials from the Cherokee Nation could engage with officials from the state of Oklahoma to address the issue and seek their cooperation in stopping the attacks and holding those responsible accountable.</p><p>It is important to note that the Cherokee Nation, like other federally recognized tribes, has a government-to-government relationship with the United States and the state of Oklahoma. This means that conflicts between the Cherokee Nation and the state of Oklahoma would likely be addressed through legal, political, and diplomatic channels, rather than through violent conflict.</p><p></p><p>That&#8217;s the end of the conversation. May need to fact check some things, but in general the information seems accurate. If you took the time to read this, I hope you learned something.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tucker interviews Vivek Ramaswamy]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;I didn&#8217;t grow up in money. But I had two parents in the house&#8212;a mother and a father&#8212;with a focus on education and a faith in God. That is the ultimate privilege.&#8221; ~ Vivek Ramaswamy]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-vivek-ramaswamy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-vivek-ramaswamy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 11:26:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13bb068f-ba45-4624-b217-4c70ba926788_1242x710.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blaze held a summit over this past July 15, 2023 weekend where Tucker Carlson interviewed the current field of 2024 Republican Party presidential primary candidates one on one (except Trump).</p><p>This post is a quick summary of Tucker&#8217;s interview with Vivek Ramaswamy. You can watch the full video <a href="https://rumble.com/v304ppr-tucker-carlson-and-vivek-ramaswamy-full-interview-censorship-identity-and-w.html">here</a>, and I&#8217;ve included a 6 minute mashup clip below.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3f64188b-3197-496b-ac7b-a6207e8d06be&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2>What I heard</h2><p>Here&#8217;s what I heard when I listened to Tucker interview Vivek Ramaswamy.</p><p><strong>Vivek don't f with the war.</strong> He said the following: &#8220;I would negotiate a deal that ends the Ukraine war. Yes, that means giving part of the Donbas region to Russia. I&#8217;d make a hard commitment that NATO never admits Ukraine to NATO. And those seem like unspeakable words in certainly the Republican donor class. But we get something greater in return, which is that Putin in that case would have to exit his military partnership with China and remove nuclear weapons from Kaliningrad which borders Poland and get the Russian military out of Cuba and Venezuela and the West. This is a deal Putin should do because he ends up winning; he gets things that he doesn&#8217;t have today. But it secures American interests too. I do think in a weird way, it does take an outsider to get that job done. Because, if you want someone to fix a problem, you don&#8217;t turn over the keys to somebody who actually broke the thing in the first place. [6:55&#8211;8:30]</p><p><strong>January 6th arose out of pervasive censorship. </strong>After Ukraine, the interview moved to January 6th. Rather than comment on &#8220;what&#8221; it was, Vivek discussed &#8220;why&#8221; it happened. Among other things, Vivek said: &#8220;You tell people in this country they cannot speak, that is when they scream. You tell people they cannot scream, that is when they tear things down. So the reality is, we were told that you could not question where the virus came from, when we all knew it came from a lab in Wuhan, which now they admit. We were told, that you could not send a private message to someone on the eve of an election that Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story was actually a true story worth considering before an election. You were systematically suppressed. You were told you had to stay locked down, take a vaccine . . . while Antifa and BLM roam and burn the streets of this country. So that&#8217;s the lead up of one full year of telling people you have to shut up, sit down, and do as you&#8217;re told. . . That&#8217;s what caused January 6th is a cycle of censorship in this country. And until we look ourselves in the mirror and admit truth on that we will not move forward as a country.&#8221; [8:40&#8211;10:40]</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a4fb4eb0-ee54-4569-b16f-469b7de3be27&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>Self-censorship is not democracy.</strong> Asked about censorship, Vivek stated that the health of &#8220;our democracy&#8221; is measured by the percentage of our people that feel free to say publicly what they say and think privately. Based on that metric, he concluded that &#8220;our democracy&#8221; is unhealthy. [11:00-15:00]</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b6f6198a-2b5f-4889-8393-b38b48928532&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>He&#8217;s reaching urban citizens. </strong>Vivek described campaigning on the south side of Chicago and in other democratic strongholds. Many urban citizens he met seemed hurt by governments prioritizing migrants while they themselves struggle. [16:12&#8211;19:25]</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2a8ee37e-e818-4e8a-afb9-f884055b3b0f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>Reagan in 1980. </strong>Vivek believes a pro American candidate can sweep like Reagan in 1980. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the dividing line in our country is between republicans and democrats right now. I think it is between those of us that are pro American&#8212;who believe in the ideals of this country, who will not apologize for those ideals, who will stand up and sacrifice for those ideals&#8212;and those of us who are . . . anti American, those who wish to apologize for a nation founded on our ideals. But if you divide it up in that way, it&#8217;s not 50/50 anymore it&#8217;s not even close . . . it&#8217;s easily 80/20.&#8221; [16:12&#8211;19:25]</p><p><strong>American citizenship is the key. </strong>Vivek advised Republicans to focus on &#8220;what it means to be an American today&#8221; rather than imprisoning themselves with meaningless labels. To this point, he said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t even talk about republicans that much anymore, I try not to use the word. Not because it&#8217;s a bad word. But because it doesn&#8217;t mean anything. If three quarters of the Republican Party has got the same policy as Biden on the most important foreign policy matter of our time. And if . . . people on the south side of Chicago believe in using the military on the southern border and putting the interests of Americans first, I&#8217;m not sure those labels are doing much for us now.&#8221; [19:27&#8211;21:45]</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>My Thoughts</h2><p>Imagine combining President Obama&#8217;s intellectual and oratory abilities with President Trump&#8217;s business and America first instincts. Then imagine packaging those abilities and instincts into a first-generation American citizen, millennial, son of educated Indian immigrant parents&#8212;&#8220;a mother and a father&#8221;&#8212;&#8220;with a focus on education and a faith in God.&#8221;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d48a6246-431e-44c6-945a-be01e0d2247d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Now sprinkle in a few things like: nationally-ranked high school tennis player, catholic high school valedictorian, Harvard biology degree, Yale law degree, hedge fund biotech portfolio manager, and pharmaceutical company founder.</p><p>Meet Vivek Ramaswamy&#8212;an incredibly successful 38 year-old that seems to possess the &#8220;<a href="https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/3-traits-propel-success/">The Triple Package</a>.&#8221; That is a set of traits that Yale Professor, Amy Chua, has tied to  high levels of achievement and success in certain of America&#8217;s immigrants communities.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TlAr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe363a30b-2ae6-4df1-bd4e-14b8f1074921_1242x1469.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TlAr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe363a30b-2ae6-4df1-bd4e-14b8f1074921_1242x1469.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TlAr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe363a30b-2ae6-4df1-bd4e-14b8f1074921_1242x1469.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Vivek is different, to me, not only because he is a wealthy, eloquent, millennial, but also because his education-centric, God-guided, first-generation upbringing likely informs where America&#8217;s founding ideals, American citizenship, and war with Ukraine rank on his list of priorities.</p><p>I can contrast Vivek with the rest of the field with two observations from Tucker&#8217;s interview.</p><p>First, Vivek isn&#8217;t self-censoring his &#8220;radical&#8221; beliefs on the Ukraine war. For example, he proposed ending the Ukraine war by allowing Putin the  pro-Russian Donbas region and ensuring Ukraine cannot join NATO (in exchange for other things). Despite the ideas obvious merit, no other Republican will say that out loud.</p><p>Second, Vivek is attempting to appeal to the conservative in all American citizens. For example, after going after government censorship, he recalled his decision to celebrate a pro-choice single mother on stage instead of having her removed for heckling. Unlike candidates past, Vivek is campaigning in majority black areas (e.g., south side of Chicago) and seemingly finding that America First ideals resonate. (I also saw him on the breakfast club.)</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7f23fd4c-e53a-416f-be7a-7fc85967c6df&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>In contrast, DeSantis equivocates on Ukraine while Haley, Scott, and Pence all f with the war the long way. None of them show concern for those driven to the nation&#8217;s capital on January 6th; and Haley, Scott, and Pence show no concern for the censored. Pence in fact suggested it might be okay to jail and silence pro-Russian religious leaders. Nor did anyone other than Vivek say anything that suggests a desire to appeal to urban black American citizens.</p><p>In other words, Vivek is about moving America away from foreign empire wars and toward the needs of  her own citizens. Who else but RFK Junior is campaigning like that? </p><p>Based on the Tucker interview, I believe Vivek has what it takes to win the Republican nomination and win the Presidency. That is, barring some scandal, I think Vivek has a better chance of winning the Presidency than Trump or any other republican. I&#8217;m not saying Vivek will be the Republican Party nominee, but, in my view, he&#8217;s got a serious shot.</p><p>I still have much to learn about Vivek, and I realize there may be things about his biotech/pharmaceutical past or pandemic positions (see tweet below) that might cause one to ask if he is a Trojan horse of sorts that will change views once elected. 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-vivek-ramaswamy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-vivek-ramaswamy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Kudos to The Blaze for having Tucker interview the current field of Republican presidential candidates. It&#8217;s worth watching the various interviews if you haven&#8217;t.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tucker interviews former South Carolina Governor and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;I said, you take her [John Kerry&#8217;s sister&#8217;s] key pass, you take her computer, and we will pay her to sit at home but she is not to walk back in this building [the UN].&#8221; ~Ambassador Nikki Haley]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-south-carolina</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-south-carolina</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:12:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c3f0fcef-0bdf-4bed-92e9-c137790864d3_1242x669.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blaze held a summit over this July 15, 2023 weekend where Tucker Carlson interviewed the current field of 2024 Republican Party presidential primary candidates one on one (except Trump).</p><p>This post is a quick summary of Tucker&#8217;s interview with former South Carolina Governor and form UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. You can watch the full video <a href="https://rumble.com/v305cfz-tucker-carlson-and-nikki-haley-full-interview-2020-crime-and-climate-change.html">here</a>, and I&#8217;ve included a 4 minute clip below.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9d440a49-40a0-4bbd-ae4a-f9ae477fb4f9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2>What I heard</h2><p>Here&#8217;s what I heard when I listened to Tucker interview former South Carolina Governor and from UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.</p><p><strong>Power to the Governors. </strong>Haley&#8217;s answers to numerous questions focused on Governors and what they can do to ensure trust in elections and fix education, healthcare, or other things. As President, she&#8217;d meet with &#8220;her governors&#8221; frequently to &#8220;push [federal] power down to the states.&#8221; Haley said that State governors must step up to that people trust elections. She described how, as governor, she  invested in education and training of prisoners &#8220;behind the fence&#8221; and gave incentives to potential employers so  released prisoners were more likely to have skills and jobs upon release. She suggested that South Carolina has the lowest recidivism rate in the country as a result. [1:15&#8211;6:44, 9:15&#8211;10:30]</p><p><strong>I gutted the agency and cut off its head. </strong> The first thing Haley did as governor of South Carolina was &#8220;replace the head of every agency&#8221; and hire teams to clean up each agency as a whole. To Haley, trust in government cannot always be achieved by replacing leadership&#8212;at times it is necessary to gut an entire agency. [6:45&#8211;8:13]</p><p><strong>I banned John Kerry&#8217;s sister from the UN.</strong> In her first week at the United Nations, John Kerry&#8217;s sister told the press (falsely) that Haley was going to take certain actions that Haley didn&#8217;t plan to take. According to Haley, after being told Kerry&#8217;s sister couldn&#8217;t be fired from the US mission at the UN for six months, &#8220;I said, you take her key pass, you take her computer, and we will pay her to sit at home but she is not to walk back in this building.&#8221; [8:14&#8211;9:10]</p><p><strong>New healthcare regulations. </strong>Asked to weigh in on homelessness and psychotropic drugs, Haley said we have a broken healthcare system that we need to completely tear up&#8212;&#8220;from the insurance companies, to the hospitals, to the doctors, to the PBMs.&#8221; She suggested veterans and others battling mental health challenges should have access to telemedicine doctors on-demand. Haley proposed judging doctors by outcomes, rather than prescriptions and patients seen. Further, Haley attacked the lack of patient input in hospitals by proposing that hospitals and insurance companies must show us what they are doing. [10:42&#8211;14:40]</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>My Thoughts</h2><p>Haley has a disarming charm about her and many real and relevant experiences as a Governor and UN Ambassador. </p><p>She comes across as a pragmatist, much like her former boss&#8212;President Trump. Like Trump, Haley  hit on themes like transparency in healthcare, energy independence as a national security issue, taking care of our veterans, China&#8217;s role in climate change, and the ineffective Paris Climate Accord. She criticized both parties for uncontrolled spending while Americans grew poorer.</p><p>Haley was noticeably uninterested in whether Biden was involved in blowing up the Nordstream 2 pipeline, however, and she seemed off-put when Tucker described the act like it was eco-terrorism. Also, Haley made no attempt to criticize the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, masking, vaccine mandates, school closings, or censorship of unapproved views.</p><p>In other words, to me, the foundation of Haley&#8217;s platform is foreign intervention and government control&#8212;not domestic tranquility and individual freedom. Haley appears to support Biden&#8217;s proxy war and isn&#8217;t the person to put in charge if we want peace any time soon. While I can&#8217;t say she needs to exit the race now, she is not a candidate that is seeking to change the system or empower <em><strong>the people</strong></em> of any nation.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-south-carolina?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-south-carolina?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Kudos to The Blaze for having Tucker interview the current field of Republican presidential candidates. It&#8217;s worth watching the various interviews if you haven&#8217;t.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tucker interviews sitting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m very confident that the freedom in Florida is what more people would choose rather than the public defecation on the streets of San Francisco.&#8221; ~ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-florida</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-florida</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:08:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/185a59f5-ae6a-40cb-90bc-ae1739a5d81c_1242x691.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blaze held a summit over this July 15, 2023 weekend where Tucker Carlson interviewed the current field of 2024 Republican Party presidential primary candidates one on one (except Trump).</p><p>This post is a quick summary of Tucker&#8217;s interview with sitting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. You can watch the full video <a href="https://rumble.com/v304pjj-tucker-carlson-and-ron-desantis-full-interview-banking-censorship-and-life.html">here</a>, and I&#8217;ve include a 4 minute clip below.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d80e9e57-0786-44c4-897b-95a01de7c8c6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2>What I heard</h2><p>Here&#8217;s what I heard when I listened to Tucker interview sitting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.</p><p><strong>Pro-life &#8220;every day of the week and twice on Sunday.&#8221;</strong> DeSantis says he&#8217;s been a pro-life governor and will be a pro-life president. He suggests he lost supporters and donors but fostering a culture of life is &#8220;the right thing to do.&#8221; He&#8217;d do it again &#8220;every day of the week and twice on Sunday.&#8221; [0:45&#8211;2:25]</p><p><strong>Fighting woke ideology parrots. </strong>DeSantis says Republicans have an opportunity to convert voters by representing a platform of common sense, sanity, and traditional American values. Here, he brings up the issue of men in women&#8217;s sports and points out that a lot of people don&#8217;t buy that you can swim on the men&#8217;s team for three years and then transition to the women&#8217;s team. [6:15&#8211;7:45]</p><p><strong>China is more important than a border dispute. </strong>DeSantis was asked directly, what is the goal in Ukraine, and when will we know we achieved it. In response, he said &#8220;I think the goal should be to have a sustainable peace in Europe.&#8221; He added that &#8220;Europe needs to do more&#8221; and as President he would pull levers like shipping US energy to Europe to reduce reliance on Russian gas. He repeats again the goal of achieving a &#8220;sustainable peace&#8221; without rewarding aggression. On the other hand, DeSantis seemed intentional when he said the dispute was not about whether the Ukrainian government in Kiev would fall but instead was about land somewhere in the east &#8220;between Ukraine and Russia.&#8221; He also signaled he will focus on China, which he believes to be the biggest threat. [10:20&#8211;15:20]</p><p><strong>No central bank digital currency (CBDC). </strong>&#8220;If I am president on day one we will nix central bank digital currency. Done. Dead. Not happening in this country.&#8221; He noted that Florida passed a law stating the State does not recognize CBDCs. He explains the Federal Reserve is signaling an intent to act unilaterally to introduce a CBDC, despite lacking authority. He explained that the federal reserve wants to get rid of cash and crypto and issue a digital CBDC as the sole form of legal tender. He identifies CBDC as one of the greatest threats to American liberty&#8212;it would allow governments to implement a social credit system and ban people from making &#8220;undesirable purchases&#8221; of things like gasoline and ammunition. [15:55&#8211;17:45]</p><p>(If you&#8217;re not familiar with the potential impact of CBDCs, see the short clip below.)</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;19908c79-ae33-4b7a-b9c8-2875a7b7be9a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>The President can fire executive branch bureaucrats. </strong>On day one, DeSantis says he&#8217;ll be ready with a slate of nominees to fill the positions he controls&#8212;e.g., FBI director, attorney general, etc. He made points like: (1) You can&#8217;t wait two years to fill those positions and (2) You have to select an attorney general with a backbone who can handle media criticism. DeSantis says he would have fired bad actors in the executive branch (e.g. Anthony Fauci), and he reads Article II of the Constitution to permit the President to do so. DeSantis rejected the idea that the President could not fire someone like Anthony Fauci. [17:45&#8211;20:15]</p><p><strong>Ending weaponization of government. </strong>Asked about censorship and jailed Wikileaks reporter Julian Assange, DeSantis did not directly answer if he&#8217;d pardon Assange. DeSantis did respond with something like: I will consider pardon applications on day one in office and won&#8217;t wait until my last days in office to consider them. DeSantis indicated pardons will be case by case and considered carefully. He understands the pardon process as a State governor. He believes there must be a reckoning for the Covid-19 censorship complex, or else they will do it again. He suggests he will fire and pardon with the goal of ending and redressing the weaponization of government. [20:15&#8211;22:48]</p><p><strong>Declassify declassify.</strong> Asked about the federal government spying on American citizens, DeSantis says he will aim to declassify as much as he can, including things that happened 60-70 years ago and more recent events where possible. He suggested that the federal government abuses classification authority to maintain power. [22:50&#8211;24:16]</p><p><strong>Freedom trumps poop! </strong>To close the interview, DeSantis said that, while the Democrats may be unable to push Biden out, DeSantis is ready for a Florida vs. California showdown (i.e., a race against California Governor Gavin Newsome). &#8220;I&#8217;m very confident that the freedom in Florida is what more people would choose rather than the public defecation on the streets of San Francisco.&#8221; [24:16&#8211;25:20]</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>My Thoughts</h2><p>DeSantis is very good. He distinguished himself from Trump without alienating his supporters. Let me identify some of those distinctions&#8212;unlike Trump, DeSantis suggests he: 1) will fire the FBI director day one and any other subordinate executive; 2) will identify nominees for agency leadership day one; 3) will nominate an attorney general with a spine; 4) will declassify the JFK files.</p><p>DeSantis intentionally loaded his answers with words, phrases, action items, experiences, and accomplishments that present him as a person who can and is ready to defeat the villains that plague Trump. If this were the Matrix, maybe DeSantis would be Neo (the one) and Trump Morpheus? (I cannot confirm, but I suspect DeSantis had the benefit of hearing Tucker&#8217;s earlier interviews.)</p><p>I thought DeSantis gave a weak answer on Ukraine with his &#8220;sustainable peace&#8221; goal. But, unlike Tim Scott and Mike Pence, I cannot characterize DeSantis as blindly pro war.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-florida?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-florida?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Kudos to The Blaze for having Tucker interview the current field of Republican presidential candidates. It&#8217;s worth watching the various interviews if you haven&#8217;t.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tucker interviews sitting South Carolina Senator Tim Scott]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Those who do not like common sense conservative principles driven by the Judeo-Christian foundation [should] choose another candidate. It&#8217;s that simple.&#8221; ~ Sen. Tim Scott]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-south-carolina</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-south-carolina</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:08:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eda8b98e-decb-4906-8f4a-b77f05cf0eb7_1242x701.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blaze held a summit over this July 15, 2023 weekend where Tucker Carlson interviewed the current field of 2024 Republican Party presidential primary candidates one on one (except Trump).</p><p>This post is a quick summary of Tucker&#8217;s interview with sitting South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. You can watch the full video <a href="https://rumble.com/v306xw0-tucker-carlson-and-tim-scott-full-interview-the-border-fentanyl-and-ukraine.html">here</a>, and I&#8217;ve include a 3 minute clip below. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;938a1ed7-6b2d-4113-90ef-d362ea90a967&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2>What I Heard</h2><p>Here&#8217;s what I heard when I listened to Tucker interview sitting South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. </p><p><strong>We&#8217;re fighting a forming &#8220;axis of evil&#8221;? </strong>Scott says our vital national interest in Ukraine is to degrade the Russian military. Scott asserts this is good for America. As support, Scott suggests an &#8220;axis of evil&#8221; is forming among Russia, China, and Iran. Scott asserts that &#8220;breaking that into pieces&#8221; before it gets started is a vital American interest. [4:15&#8211;6:41]</p><p><strong>Why force peace when we can manage war?</strong> When asked why not just force peace given that Ukraine is a client state of the USA, Scott responds &#8220;How would you do that?&#8221; Scott couldn&#8217;t really articulate how we&#8217;d know when our mission in Ukraine was accomplished. Using various turns of phrase, Scott&#8217;s message is that he&#8217;d be a better war manager than Biden and project weakness. [7:00&#8211;11:15]</p><p><strong>Build the wall to address homelessness?</strong> When asked about rising homelessness in America, Scott gave a rambling answer which can be summarized like this: We should build the wall to stop the fentanyl which is part of the mental health crisis that underlies homelessness. [11:30-14:35]</p><p><strong>Put the IRS on the border (not really)? </strong>Scott says he would divert the billions allocated for 87,000 new IRS agents (not the agents themselves) to securing the border. (The crowd seemed all for sending IRS agents to guard the border, though!) [14:39&#8211;18:13]</p><p><strong>No windfalls for CEOs of failed banks. </strong>Scott noted his view that government should claw back money from bank executives who oversee failed banks. He says he worked on legislation to make that view a reality. [28:00-28:30]</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg" width="1242" height="1083" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1083,&quot;width&quot;:1242,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:248745,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5V90!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed2dc82f-3c40-4295-9113-0ccd1d7fccbc_1242x1083.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Tim Scott&#8217;s Five Commandments. </strong>Scott turned a question about whether he disagrees with any of his big donors into a meandering answer that eventually  concluded with what I&#8217;ll call Tim Scott&#8217;s Five Commandments (listed below) dealing with personal responsibility, work, crime &amp; punishment, female sports,  and border security. [23:20&#8211;30:26]</p><ol><li><p>&#8220;If you take out a loan, you pay it back&#8221;;</p></li><li><p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re able-bodied, you work&#8221;;</p></li><li><p>&#8220;If you commit a violent crime, you go to jail&#8221;; </p></li><li><p>&#8220;Men should compete, in sports, against men&#8221;;</p></li><li><p>&#8220;Closing the southern border is absolutely in America&#8217;s best interest Period.&#8221; </p></li></ol><p><strong>And for those that don&#8217;t like it, eat a . . . </strong>Scott closed by saying &#8220;Those who do not like common sense conservative principles driven by the Judeo-Christian foundation [should] choose another candidate. It&#8217;s that simple.&#8221; [30:00&#8211;30:26]</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>My Thoughts</h2><p>Tim Scott is a black, humble, folksy, accessible, empathetic version of Mike Pence. He quoted scripture or referenced God and religious principles a number of times, so I would think the religious right would like him just as much as Mike Pence. A key difference is that former Vice President Pence comes across as a pious religious zealot who believes in the superiority of his religious convictions. Sen. Scott, on the other hand, comes across as one who turns to Christianity and faith because these things helped him overcome obstacles in life. </p><p>But, while Scott is an improvement over Pence, I didn&#8217;t hear any specific vision on any issue, and on Ukraine, it seemed like Scott&#8217;s pitch is that he&#8217;ll be a better more responsive war manager. </p><p>I anticipate left-leaning print, radio, and television media will keep Scott relevant by making him look like a viable candidate. In fact, during the interview, Tucker recalled seeing dozens of articles online praising Scott and suggesting big money donors are flocking to him. But Tim Scott seemed to refute those articles. </p><p>To me, while it seems Tim Scott has been a solid Senator for South Carolina, nothing about him says cabinet or vice president, let alone POTUS. I think any honest political observer can see that. On the other hand, if a senator from the former slave state of Delaware secured 81 million votes last election, then who&#8217;s to say Sen. Scott can&#8217;t do the same.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-south-carolina?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-sitting-south-carolina?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Kudos to The Blaze for having Tucker interview the current field of Republican presidential candidates. It&#8217;s worth watching the various interviews if you haven&#8217;t.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tucker Interviews Former VP Mike Pence]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;A year and a half ago Russia had the second most powerful military in the world. Today, they have the second most powerful military in Ukraine. So that&#8217;s progress.&#8221; ~Former VP Mike Pence]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-vp-mike</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-vp-mike</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:08:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d403d7e9-abb8-4b0b-8cf8-b057a07ecd82_1234x701.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Blaze held a summit over this July 15, 2023 weekend where Tucker Carlson interviewed the current field of 2024 Republican Party presidential primary candidates one on one (except Trump).</p><p>This post is a quick summary of Tucker&#8217;s interview with former Vice President Mike Pence. You can watch the full video <a href="https://rumble.com/v305l4k-tucker-carlson-and-mike-pence-full-interview-trump-ukraine-and-the-state-of.html">here</a>, and I&#8217;ve include a 3 minute clip below. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3ce142d6-6276-431c-bea6-a12dae3a84a7&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2>What I Heard</h2><p>Here&#8217;s what I heard when I listened to Tucker interview former VP Mike Pence. </p><p><strong>Trump was reckless on January 6.</strong> When asked about January 6, Pence made clear he thinks Trump&#8217;s words or actions that day were reckless and endangered Pence&#8217;s family. [Beginning of Interview]</p><p><strong>Enemy church leaders are not safe. </strong>Pence suggests that Zelensky is jailing leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine because they are working with the Russian military. Pence states that the leader of Christian church leader in Kiev assured him so. Pence is satisfied that religious freedom is respected in Ukraine. [14:45&#8211;18:00]</p><p><strong>Ukrainians must fight so we don&#8217;t have to.</strong> Pence has no doubt that &#8220;if Vladimir Putin overruns Ukraine,&#8221; the Russian military will cross the border of a NATO country &#8220;that our armed forces will have to go and defend.&#8221; [18:1&#8211;18:30]</p><p><strong>We arm Ukraine to deter China.</strong> Pence says by giving Ukraine military what it needs to fight Russia, we send a &#8220;deafening message to China&#8221; that we won&#8217;t tolerate incursions in the South China Sea. [20:00&#8211;22:09]</p><p><strong>More military spending. </strong>Pence says answer to running out of artillery for Ukraine is to invest in our national defense. [22:10&#8211;21:10]</p><p><strong>Obama was the reasonable one?</strong> Pence brags about sending Javelin missiles to Ukraine after the Obama Biden administration refused. [22:55&#8211;24:24]</p><p><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s not my concern.&#8221; </strong>After Tucker challenges Pence on his concern for arming Ukraine while US cities deteriorate, Pence suggests that only those with a small world view think we can&#8217;t both lead the free world and solve our problems at home. In this exchange, it becomes clear that there is no love lost between Tucker and Pence. [24:40&#8211;26:27]</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>My Thoughts</h2><p>Overall, Pence came across as a pro-war, pro-life, Republican. That is, he is what the left thinks Republicans are. When asked about his concern for domestic problems, he recited the same old things&#8212;secure the border, military, get our economy going, law and order, pro-life judges. He is clearly committed to Biden&#8217;s proxy war, and he most likely would commit more US resources to the conflict. Let&#8217;s also not forget his role in the federal response to SARS-Cov-2. In my view, Pence has zero chance of being the nominee and should exit the race now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-vp-mike?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.unfeudal.com/p/tucker-interviews-former-vp-mike?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Kudos to The Blaze for having Tucker interview the current field of Republican presidential candidates. Its worth watching the various interviews if you haven&#8217;t.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Untellectual&#8482; is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas Governor Prohibits Vaccine Mandates]]></title><description><![CDATA[[Updated] The Texas Legislature fails to pass a ban, so Governor's order remains in place, making the situation on the ground unclear.]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/texas-governor-temporarily-prohibits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/texas-governor-temporarily-prohibits</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:15:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e471370a-1571-4920-b3c1-36cb0720fa5d_1125x554.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, October 11, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order prohibiting vaccine mandates by any entity and adding the issue of such mandates to the ongoing special legislative session. Here is a link to the <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-issues-executive-order-prohibiting-vaccine-mandates-by-any-entity-adds-issue-to-special-session-agenda">press release</a> and here is a link to the actual <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/EO-GA-40_prohibiting_vaccine_mandates_legislative_action_IMAGE_10-11-2021.pdf">executive order</a>. </p><blockquote><h3>&#8220;No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19.&#8221;</h3></blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve included screenshots of the order below, but the relevant portion of the order states &#8220;No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19.&#8221;</p><p>The order makes clear (1) Governor Abbott added the issue of mandates to the ongoing special legislative session &#8220;so that the legislature has the opportunity to consider this issue through legislation&#8221;; and that (2) Governor Abbot &#8220;will rescind this executive order upon the effective date of such legislation.&#8221;</p><p>This appears to mean that Governor Abbot&#8217;s ban remains in effect until the legislature makes it law or until it is successfully challenged through the Courts.</p><p>It is worth noting that <a href="https://www.senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=2">Texas State Senator Bob Hall</a> has been the leader on the issue of opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including by proposing various versions of what is now <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=873&amp;Bill=SB11">Senate Bill 11</a>, which seeks to update the Texas Labor Code to expressly prohibit discrimination based on vaccination status. </p><blockquote><h4>&#8220;An employer commits an&nbsp;unlawful employment practice if the employer fails or refuses to&nbsp;hire, discharges, or otherwise discriminates against an individual&nbsp;with respect to the compensation or the terms, conditions, or&nbsp;privileges of employment because the individual has not received an&nbsp;immunization or vaccine.&#8221; [Proposed Text from SB 11]</h4></blockquote><p>Senator Hall is the original author of <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/873/billtext/pdf/SB00011I.pdf#navpanes=0">Senate Bill 11</a>, titled &#8220;AN ACT relating to prohibited vaccination status discrimination and requirements for certain vaccination policies,&#8221;  which he <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=873&amp;Bill=SB11">filed September 8, 2021</a>, and which is now <a href="https://journals.senate.texas.gov/sjrnl/873/pdf/87S310-04-F1.PDF#page=8">co-sponsored</a> by several legislators. In fact, Senator Hall initially filed this bill on <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=871&amp;Bill=SB65">July 9, 2021</a> as <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/871/billtext/pdf/SB00065I.pdf#navpanes=0">Senate Bill 65</a> during the first special legislative session.</p><p>The key portions of Senate Bill 11 seek to update Chapter 21 of the Texas Labor code to explicitly prohibit employment discrimination based on vaccination status.  In particular, Senate Bill 11 would make it unlawful for an employer to use vaccination status as a basis to refuse to hire, discharge, or otherwise discriminate against a person with respect to compensation or terms, conditions, or privileges of employment:  </p><p>Sec.&nbsp;21.421.&nbsp;&nbsp;PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION BASED ON&nbsp;IMMUNIZATION OR VACCINATION STATUS. </p><ul><li><p>(a) An employer commits an&nbsp;unlawful employment practice if the employer fails or refuses to&nbsp;hire, discharges, or otherwise discriminates against an individual&nbsp;with respect to the compensation or the terms, conditions, or&nbsp;privileges of employment because the individual has not received an&nbsp;immunization or vaccine.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;A labor organization commits an unlawful employment&nbsp;practice if the labor organization excludes or expels from&nbsp;membership or otherwise discriminates against an individual&nbsp;because the individual has not received an immunization or vaccine.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;An employment agency commits an unlawful employment&nbsp;practice if the employment agency classifies or refers for&nbsp;employment, fails or refuses to refer for employment, or otherwise&nbsp;discriminates against an individual because the individual has not&nbsp;received an immunization or vaccine.</p></li></ul><p>Below I&#8217;ve included screen shots of Senate Bill 11 (<a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/873/billtext/html/SB00011I.htm">text</a>, <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/873/billtext/pdf/SB00011I.pdf#navpanes=0">PDF</a>) as well as screen shots of Governor Abbott&#8217;s October 11, 2021 Executive Order (<a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/EO-GA-40_prohibiting_vaccine_mandates_legislative_action_IMAGE_10-11-2021.pdf">PDF</a>). </p><p>Unfortunately, on October 18, 2021, the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/18/texas-covid19-vaccine-mandates-bill/?utm_source=articleshare&amp;utm_medium=social">Texas legislature failed to pass a more strict bill</a>, and now the issue of bans appears to be tabled. The legislature did not consider Senator Hall&#8217;s bill. </p><p>Nonetheless, it appears Governor Abbott&#8217;s order remains in effect until legislation banning vaccine mandates is passed or until it is successfully challenged through the Courts.</p><div><hr></div><h4>Senate Bill 11</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/873/billtext/pdf/SB00011I.pdf#navpanes=0" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!STOg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff85f59e0-9abb-4fda-9193-1bb188386bcc_712x678.png 424w, 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c8id!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6db12b72-32e5-4145-b3b2-851e42299801_618x332.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This post contains summaries of a number of preprint papers and statements from hospitals, universities, states, and officials since July 2021, all of which strongly suggest it is irrational for any employer or business to exempt an individual from a testing, distancing, or masking rule based on such person&#8217;s decision to take one of the synthetic COVID shots (i.e. Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen). </p><p>The papers demonstrate the shots do nothing to help reduce carriage of SARS-CoV-2, particularly the Delta variant. See UW-Madison (<a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1">v1</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v2">v2</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3">v3</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v4">v4</a>) and UC Davis (<a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v1">v1</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v2">v2</a>) papers. Dr. McCullough <a href="https://rumble.com/vnmrw7-dr.-mccullough-vaccine-failure-incontrovertible.html">made this point</a> in an October 2, 2021 speech to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. You can watch the <a href="https://rumble.com/vnc5yk-dr.-peter-mccullough-therapeutic-nihilism-and-untested-novel-therapies-aaps.html">whole speech here</a>.</p><p>The papers also document several important findings, including: (1) fully jabbed individuals being infected by fully jabbed individuals (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822">Israel July 2021</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636">Finland May 2021</a>); (2) fully jabbed individuals carrying contagious levels of virus, including high percentages of asymptomatic cases carrying contagious levels of virus (UW-Madison <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1">v1</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v2">v2</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3">v3</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v4">v4</a>); (3) infectious virus recovered from fully jabbed, but not from un-jabbed, asymptomatic individuals (UW-Madison <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3">v3</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v4">v4</a>); (4) fully jabbed individuals spreading SARS-CoV-2 to colleagues, patients, and household contacts (i.e. at work and at home) (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636">Finland May 2021</a>); (5) the virus spreading rapidly in highly vaccinated populations resulting in hospitalizations and death (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7031e2">Cap Cod July 2021</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822">Israel July 2021</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636">Finland May 2021</a>); and (6) equally high ICU and in-hospital death rates for vaccinated and unvaccinated patients that are hospitalized (<a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.21262356v1.full-text">CDC hospitalization study</a>). </p><p>In view of this readily available information, there is no credible, rational public health or safety argument for exempting the fully jabbed from a testing, distancing, or masking rule imposed on the unvaccinated, particularly given the Delta variant. These papers also suggest something less obvious: business owners who mandate COVID shots over routine testing and masks&#8212;despite knowing <a href="https://rumble.com/vnmpp3-cdc-director-vaccines-cant-stop-transmission.html">the shots can&#8217;t stop transmission</a>&#8212;may be increasing their exposure to negligence and premises liability claims and punitive damages when workers and invitees become infected with COVID on site. Transmission can be traced directly to fully jabbed individuals (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822">Israel July 2021</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636">Finland May 2021</a>).</p><p>*The statements below are organized by the data described, not publication date.*</p><div><hr></div><h1>Jan - June 2021</h1><h5>CDC says shots reduce hospitalization, but not ICU admission and death thereafter.</h5><p>On August 29, 2021, CDC affiliated authors posted <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.21262356v1.full-text">this preprint</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> comparing COVID-associated hospitalizations among vaccinated and unvaccinated adults based on <strong>data from January - June 2021</strong>. Using a sample of &#8220;4,440 unvaccinated and 292 fully vaccinated cases,&#8221; the authors concluded the emergency COVID shots &#8220;continue to play a critical role in preventing serious COVID-19 illness&#8221; and &#8220;remain highly effective in preventing COVID-19 hospitalizations.&#8221; The authors show the &#8220;unvaccinated&#8221; were up to 17 times more likely to be hospitalized than the &#8220;fully vaccinated.&#8221; They also claim that those hospitalized despite full vaccination &#8220;were more medically fragile at baseline than those who were unvaccinated.&#8221; That is, they were older and more likely to be in long-term care facilities, immunosuppressed, or have multiple underlying health conditions.</p><p>Of note, the paper does not address how the hospitalized became infected and does not claim the shots improve outcomes for the hospitalized. In fact, the authors expressly state &#8220;[w]e did <strong>not find any clear difference</strong> in the <strong>risk for ICU admission</strong> or <strong>in-hospital death</strong> between vaccinated and unvaccinated persons.&#8221; Public <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.21262356v1.full-text#disqus_thread">comments </a>to the paper suggest many issues, including that the vast majority of the public was &#8220;unvaccinated&#8221; during the study period.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F1cy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd77d60a2-177c-4f83-8847-0842dc538d6c_698x295.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The outbreak caused 18 patient deaths in a hospital district in Finland. Nearly all of the vaccinated workers (&#707; 90%) took Comirnaty, Pfizer&#8217;s genetic shot. Excluding students, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636">the report</a>, published July 29, 2021, shows (a) 18 of 37 infected health workers (49%) had been fully vaccinated; (b) 14 of the 18 became symptomatic; and (c) at least 3 (of 5 evaluated) spread the infection at work and in the community.</p><p>Of 5 fully vaccinated symptomatic workers evaluated, <strong>3 spread infections to a colleague, patient, or household contact</strong>, while only 2 did not. Of the 3, a first infected a colleague &#8220;within 4 days from the symptom onset&#8221;; the first and a second &#8220;transmitted the infection to their household contacts and patients&#8221;; and the third &#8220;infected only a household contact <strong>nearly 2 weeks after the disease onset</strong>.&#8221; Further, a few <strong>patients who were cared for by fully vaccinated workers</strong> <strong>contracted COVID-19 </strong>even though they &#8220;stayed solely in their single or two-person room.&#8221; Technicians ruled out ventilation as the problem, as infections occurred in areas with separate air supply and exit lines, on separate floors, and in separate buildings. In closing, the report reiterated &#8220;Breakthrough infections with the Delta variant and further transmission from fully vaccinated, symptomatic HCW [healthcare workers] occurred.&#8221;</p><h1>June 2021</h1><h5>Fully jabbed Vietnamese workers show viral loads 251 times higher than in 2020.</h5><p>On August 10, 2021, a hospital in Vietnam published a <a href="https://autopapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733">report</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a> showing that, in June 2021, the Delta variant was spreading among fully vaccinated health workers. Of note, the report found &#8220;<strong>Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection</strong> cases were <strong>251 times higher</strong> than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020.&#8221; Further, &#8220;[t]here was no correlation between vaccine-induced neutralizing antibody levels and viral loads or the development of symptoms.&#8221;</p><h1>July 2021</h1><h5>July 2021: Hundreds of fully vaccinated infected in Cap Cod, Massachusetts outbreak.</h5><p>On July 30, 2021, the CDC reported on a July 2021 COVID outbreak in Cape Cod where <strong>76% of the cases</strong> (346 of 469) and <strong>80% of those hospitalized</strong> (4 of 5) <strong>were fully vaccinated</strong>.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> Of the 346 fully vaccinated cases, 46% had Pfizer (159); 38% had Moderna (131); and 16% had Janssen (56). 69% of the eligible population in the area had been fully vaccinated, and those contracting COVID &#8220;reported attending densely packed indoor and outdoor events at venues that included bars, restaurants, guest houses, and rental homes.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c8id!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6db12b72-32e5-4145-b3b2-851e42299801_618x332.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c8id!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6db12b72-32e5-4145-b3b2-851e42299801_618x332.png 424w, 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The 4 people hospitalized despite full vaccination ranged ages 20-70, while the lone unvaccinated person hospitalized was in their 50s. 89% of sequenced cases involved the Delta variant. Further, there was no significant difference in the Ct values of samples collected based on vaccination status, promoting the CDC to state &#8220;This might mean that the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 is also similar.&#8221; In closing, the CDC suggested areas without substantial or high transmission &#8220;might consider expanding prevention strategies, including masking in indoor public settings regardless of vaccination status.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><h5>July 2021: Wisconsinites shed infectious virus despite full vaccination.</h5><p>From July 31 to August 24, 2021, UW-Madison published a series of reports showing Wisconsinites shedding infectious SARS-CoV-2 despite vaccination in July 2021. Per the <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1.full-text">July&nbsp;31 repor</a>t,<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a>  the authors initially compared 79 fully vaccinated breakthrough samples with 212&nbsp; unvaccinated samples to determine if vaccination reduces viral loads. The found it did not. In particular, in each group, they found ~83% had Ct levels of ~30 or lower&#8212;&#8220;consistent with the recovery of infectious virus&#8221;&#8212;and that 33% of breakthroughs &#8220;had extremely low Ct values &lt;20, consistent with very high viral loads.&#8221; Per the <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3.full-text">August 11 report</a>,<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a> 68% of &nbsp;breakthroughs (212 of 311 samples) &#8220;had extremely low Ct values &lt;25, consistent with high viral loads.&#8221; Per the <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v4.full-text">August 24 report</a>,<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a> the authors detected Ct values &lt;25 in <strong>82% of asymptomatic breakthrough</strong> cases (9 of 11) and <strong>29% of asymptomatic unvaccinated cases</strong> (7 of 24).</p><blockquote><h3>Policies that create a dichotomy between vaccination and routine testing should be re-evaluated.</h3></blockquote><p>Of note, the authors <strong>isolated infectious virus in 95% of breakthrough cases with extremely low Ct values &lt;25</strong> (37 of 39) <strong>and in the sole sample tested of an asymptomatic breakthrough</strong>. While the authors isolated infectious virus in 88% of unvaccinated samples with Ct values &lt;25 (14 of 16), they do not report isolating infectious virus from an asymptomatic unvaccinated person. The authors specifically cultured these 39+16=55 samples &#8220;to determine if high viral loads might indicate the presence of infectious SARS-CoV-2.&#8221; </p><p>In addition to reporting no difference in vaccinated/unvaccinated viral loads and identifying contagious breakthrough infections, the authors warned against exempting vaccinated individuals from routine testing, masking, and distancing. Among other things, they <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1.full-text">state</a>: </p><ul><li><p>Nonetheless, the finding of high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated individuals has important implications for risk assessment and mitigation.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>[R]isk disinhibition may lead vaccinated people to increase behaviors that expose them to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and individuals with breakthrough infections could serve as sources of onward transmission to others. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Policies that create a dichotomy between vaccination and routine testing should be re-evaluated. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Vaccinated individuals, particularly those who may have high levels of community or occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2, should be encouraged to continue frequent testing, especially when symptomatic, to limit community spread. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Continued adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as masking and distancing, will remain important for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals because we cannot predict which vaccinated individuals will experience breakthrough infections with high viral loads.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h5>July 2021:  Vaccinated patient, workers spread virus in highly vaccinated Israeli hospital.</h5><p>On August 24, health officials in Israel finalized an <a href="https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822#html_fulltext">investigation</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a> of a hospital outbreak where SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly, infecting 42 (23 patients, 16 staff, 3 family members) and <strong>killing 5 fully vaccinated patients</strong>. Of the 42 diagnosed, 3 were unvaccinated, while 38 (90%) &#8220;were fully vaccinated with two doses of the Comirnaty vaccine.&#8221; Among other things, the report found:</p><ul><li><p>&#8220;The <strong>index case was a fully vaccinated</strong> haemodialysis patient in their 70s.&#8221;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;The attack rate among exposed individuals reached 23.3% in patients and 10.3% in staff, with 96.2% vaccination rate among exposed individuals.&#8221; </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;All staff (median age: 33 years; range: 22&#8211;48) <strong>remained asymptomatic</strong> or with mild disease.&#8221;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;Among the patients (median age: 77 years; range: 42&#8211;93; median time from second vaccine dose to infection: 176 days; range: 143-188), eight became severely ill, six critically ill and <strong>five of the critically ill died</strong>.&#8221;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;Moreover, several transmissions probably occurred between two individuals both wearing surgical masks, and in one instance using full PPE, including N-95 mask, face shield, gown and gloves.&#8221;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;[This report] <strong>challenges the assumption that</strong> <strong>high</strong> <strong>universal vaccination rates will lead to herd immunity</strong> and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. This was probably true for the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 virus, but in the outbreak described here, 96.2% of the exposed population was vaccinated.&#8221;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;Although some transmission between staff members could have occurred without masks, all transmissions between patients and staff occurred between masked and vaccinated individuals, as experienced in an outbreak from Finland.&#8221;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;[In our] case patients, the time from vaccination was considerable. The shortest interval was 142 days (5 months), and many of our case patients advanced to severe disease.&#8221;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>&#8220;Data from Israel imply that the main reason for the increase in COVID-19 cases in summer is indeed waning immunity, and <strong>a third vaccine dose, 5 months after the second dose</strong> will possibly result in trend reversal.&#8221;</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h5>July 2021: Surgeon General: Fully vaccinated parents should mask around their kids.</h5><p>In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ9m4v_ixEU">this video</a> posted on July 29, 2021, Surgeon General Murthy suggests fully vaccinated parents should consider wearing masks at home as &#8220;an extra step to protecting&#8221; children and other unvaccinated persons in their homes. In full, the Surgeon General states: &#8220;For example <strong>if you happen to have a lot of interaction with folks who are unvaccinated</strong>&#8212;<strong>let&#8217;s say</strong> you&#8217;re a parent like me who has <strong>young children at home</strong> who are not vaccinated, that&#8217;s a circumstance where<strong> being extra cautious and wearing that mask</strong> even if you are fully vaccinated&#8212;wearing it outside and when you&#8217;re at indoor public locations i<strong>s an extra step to protecting those at home</strong>.&#8221;</p><div id="youtube2-LQ9m4v_ixEU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;LQ9m4v_ixEU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LQ9m4v_ixEU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h1>August 2021</h1><h5>Aug 2021: CDC Director: The vaccines can&#8217;t stop transmission.</h5><p>In the first week of August 2021, CDC Director Walensky told Wolf Blitzer the CDC changed its masking guidelines on July 27, 2021 because, what the COVID shots &#8220;can&#8217;t do anymore is prevent transmission.&#8221; The Director also echoed Surgeon General Murthy&#8217;s comments, urging the fully vaccinated to &#8220;wear a mask in public indoor settings,&#8221; particularly if they are &#8220;<strong>going home to somebody who has not been vaccinated</strong> to <strong>somebody who can't get vaccinated</strong>, <strong>somebody who is immunosuppressed or a little frail</strong>, <strong>somebody with comorbidities.</strong>&#8221;</p><div id="youtube2-TKFWGvvlVLI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;TKFWGvvlVLI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TKFWGvvlVLI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h5>Aug. 2021: Dallas expert suggests fully vaccinated mask in public spaces.</h5><p>In the <a href="https://rumble.com/vna2gf-dr.-bray-on-masks-contagious-asymptomatic-breakthrough-cases.html">37th minute</a> of the August 12, 2021 <a href="https://dallastx.swagit.com/play/08122021-854/2/">meeting </a>of the Dallas City Council&#8217;s Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Recovery, local expert Timothy Bray Ph.D. explains Dallas County residents are carrying contagious, asymptomatic breakthrough infections without knowing it and should be asked to wear masks to avoid contaminating public spaces.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;[W]hen folks say that a cloth mask wont stop the aerosol virus, that&#8217;s true, but it will stop the droplets&#8212;so when you&#8217;re getting on the elevator and you cough or you speak loudly, you&#8217;re not depositing virus, if you&#8217;re sick, on the elevator buttons, you&#8217;re not depositing it on the escalator handrails&#8212;these are the types of things that will keep the virus in check; especially because we now know <strong>with the Delta variant</strong>&#8212;people who already have been <strong>vaccinated can be sick and they won&#8217;t necessarily know it</strong>&#8212;<strong>they&#8217;ll be</strong> what we would call <strong>asymptomatic</strong>&#8212;and there are <strong>dozens literally of cases of asymptomatic folks who are testing positive and can spread the virus. </strong>So, you know, from a simple public safety standpoint, we need to let people know we&#8217;re not asking them to wear the mask because it will eliminate the virus, <strong>we&#8217;re asking them to wear their mask because it will eliminate the droplets being on contaminated surfaces that thousands of people a day pass through</strong>.&#8221; [Dr. Bray, 8/12/2021]</p></blockquote><h1>So what&#8217;s the end game?</h1><p>To recap, among other things, these articles show:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636">Fully jabbed workers spreading virus at work and at home</a>. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7031e2">Large outbreaks in highly jabbed populations</a>. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1">No difference in viral loads between &#8220;fully vaccinated&#8221; and &#8220;unvaccinated</a>&#8221;. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3">Infectious virus recovered in virtually all breakthroughs with Ct &lt;25</a>. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v4">Infectious virus recovered from a fully jabbed asymptomatic</a>.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://autopapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733">Fully jabbed workers with viral loads 251 times higher than early 2020</a>.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822">Viral outbreaks initiated and fueled by fully jabbed patients and workers</a>.</p></li></ul><p>The point of these observations is not to blame fully jabbed individuals for the increased spread of SARS-CoV-2; instead, my primary point is to make clear one cannot credibly blame a particular group for increased spread of COVID19 in 2021 as compared to 2020. That unvaccinated people continue to suffer does not mean they are causing the problem.</p><p>My secondary point is to emphasize&#8212;the data shows it is irrational to  <strong>exempt the &#8220;vaccinated&#8221; from testing, masking, and distancing rules applied to the &#8220;unvaccinated.&#8221; </strong> Business owners can continue to play &#8220;I-follow-CDC-headlines-but-I-don&#8217;t-read-for-substance.&#8221; They can continue pretending that mandating synthetic COVID shots over routine testing and masking is a rational way to protect invitees from SARS-Cov-2. But if they do so, I suspect they&#8217;ll be in for a rude awakening when claims for negligence, premises liability, and punitive damages are brought by those injured by such irrational policies. What&#8217;s more, such mandates trample civil rights protected under state law. Yet, in their haste, most business leaders failed to investigate either issue before imposing mandates. <strong>May history judge such feckless leaders for what they are</strong>.</p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Havers FP, Pham H, Taylor CA, et al. 2021 Aug 29. COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among vaccinated and unvaccinated adults &#8805;18 years &#8211; COVID-NET, 13 states, January 1 &#8211; July 24, 2021. COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv. [accessed 2021 Oct 12]. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.27.21262356">https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.27.21262356</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Hetem&#228;ki I, K&#228;&#228;ri&#228;inen S, Alho P, et al. 2021 Jul 29. An outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) in a secondary care hospital in Finland, May 2021. Euro Surveill. 2021 [accessed 2021 Sep&nbsp;17]26(30):pii=2100636. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.30.2100636</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Chau NVV, Ngoc NM, &nbsp;Nguyet LA, et al. 2021 Aug 10. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant among vaccinated healthcare workers, Vietnam. [accessed 2021 Sep 26]. <a href="https://autopapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733">https://autopapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Brown CM, Vostok J, Johnson H, et al. 2021 Jul 30. Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings &#8212; Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021. [accessed 2021 Sep 17];70(31):1059-1062. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7031e2">http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7031e2</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Riemersma KK, Grogan BE, Kita-Yarbro A, et al. 2021 Jul 31. Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant. COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv. [accessed 2021 Sep 17]. <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Riemersma KK, Grogan BE, Kita-Yarbro A, et al. 2021 Aug 11. Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination when the Delta Variant is Prevalent - Wisconsin, July 2021. COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv. [accessed 2021 Sep 17]. <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v3</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Riemersma KK, Grogan BE, Kita-Yarbro A, et al. 2021 Aug 24. Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination. COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv. [accessed 2021 Sep 17]. <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v4">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v4</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Shitrit P, Zuckerman NS, Gottesman B, Chowers M. 2021 Sep 30. Nosocomial outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a highly vaccinated population, Israel, July 2021. Euro Surveill. 2021 [accessed 2021 Oct 17]26(39):pii=2100822. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.39.2100822</a>.  </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claims of Swollen Testicles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is there evidence in the CDC's VAERS database?]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/claims-of-swollen-testicles</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/claims-of-swollen-testicles</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:16:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/75084f19-1e4e-44fc-bb5c-e3456abee7bf_1125x665.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently on Twitter, Nicki Minaj made the following statement: &#8220;My cousin in Trinidad won&#8217;t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it &amp; became impotent. <strong>His testicles became swollen</strong>. . . . So just pray on it &amp; make sure you&#8217;re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><blockquote><h2>&#8220;On day three my right testicle began hurting intensely. Like if someone grabbed and yanked on it.&#8221; [0947689-1]</h2></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Impotence aside, it appears there <em>IS</em> evidence that some men have experienced swelling (and pain) in testicles following COVID-19 vaccination. The evidence is in the CDC&#8217;s VAERS database, which you can search by visiting <a href="https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html">here</a>. Sure the issues seem rare, but they&#8217;re there.</p><p>My search returned over 175 results (there are probably more), and the descriptions are not pretty. Here are just a few quotes.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Slight pain in groin area, primarily on left side, <strong>left testicle swollen to 3 times normal size</strong>.&#8221; [0989745-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>testicular swelling</strong> (orchitis). Persisted for 3 weeks and exacerbated after second vaccine dose and then slowly subsided 3-4 weeks after that.&#8221; [1065735-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;I had <strong>painful swelling of the testicles </strong>within the first 24 hours. They were hot, red, very much enlarged and extremely painful. I had a mild fever (99.4) which was about 2 degrees above normal. The selling [<em>sic</em>] has subsided in the second 24 hours and my temperature returned to normal. There is still moderate swelling and sensitivity. I had not seen this reported as a common side effect of the vaccination. I thought it should be reported.&#8221; [1055397-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;After the vaccine, patient said he felt hot. Later than day, he was starting to have muscle aches and <strong>then he noticed testicular and prostate swelling</strong>.&#8221; [0906923-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;On day three my <strong>right testicle began hurting intensely</strong>. <strong>Like if someone grabbed and yanked on it</strong>.&#8221; [0947689-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;Patient is a 31 y.o. male who is here today for a Gastroenterology Consultation for abdominal pain. He reports abdominal pain began abruptly 6 days ago. The pain is progressively worsened. <strong>Pain is from his chest to his testicles</strong>. . . . For the past 3 days he has been experiencing fever at home, decreased appetite. . . . did just recently get his Covid vaccine.&#8221; [0975573-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;Starting the morning after shot when I got up at 4.00am I was having reactions to the shot. Hot, Cold, Headache , muscle pain, tired, nausea, loss of appetite like a bad case of flu. also which has been the biggest most unexpected side effect is that <strong>my left testicle was swollen and painful</strong>. All my flu like systems continued as well thru Wednesday 03/10/2021. started feeling some better except for being tired and <strong>the swelling and pain in testicle</strong>.&#8221; [1099033-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;Vaccine #1 received on 2/11. On 2/13 experienced polyarthralgias (wrists, shoulders, knees, ankles, hips), headache, scalp tenderness, and <strong>swelling and pain of testes</strong>. These had resolved by 3/4, after receipt of ceftriaxone, azithromycin, doxycycline, and ibuprofen. But on 3/10 he developed loss of vision in his right eye and new frontal headache and was referred to Ophthalmology on 3/11 where he was diagnosed with Giant Cell arteritis (GCA) and prescribed corticosteroids. Within 1-2 days of receiving the latter, his headaches and vision loss had resolved.&#8221; [1134397-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;On13Mar2021 at 11:00 it was reported that the patient experienced dull pain, possible <strong>swelling in left testicle for about nine days</strong>. Coincident with diagnosed varicocele. The patient did not receive any treatment for the events. Outcome of the events was recovered on unspecified date in Mar2021.&#8221; [1174224-1]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&#8220;On 05-MAY-2021, the subject experienced sweats. On 05-MAY-2021, the subject experienced chills or teeth chattering. On 05-MAY-2021, the subject experienced fever. On 06-MAY-2021, the subject experienced <strong>swollen testicles to 3 times their normal size</strong>.&#8221; [1303958-1]</p></blockquote><p>You get the point. Look it up yourself, if you are curious.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.unfeudal.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading NOVID1984! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the approved Pfizer jab available?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pfizer is licensed to market "Comirnaty"; but it's BNT162b2 injection remains available under emergency use authorization.]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/is-the-approved-pfizer-jab-available</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/is-the-approved-pfizer-jab-available</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 04:11:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/450bd4a0-624e-44b4-8a83-9d9ff3f974ab_990x495.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On August 23, 2021, the FDA <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine">announced</a> it &#8220;approved the first COVID-19 vaccine,&#8221; but that &#8220;the vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA).&#8221; </p><p>Though Pfizer&#8217;s EUA injection is called &#8220;Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine&#8221; or &#8220;BNT162b2,&#8221; the FDA was announcing that Pfizer <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/151710/download">now has a license</a> to market a similar, non-identical, legally distinct product labeled as &#8220;COMIRNATY&#8221; (koe-mir&#8217;-na-tee). Relevant FDA documents are <a href="https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/comirnaty-and-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine">here</a>.</p><p>To recap, emergency use authorization for Pfizer&#8217;s BNT162b2 injection is still in place, and Pfizer now has a license to market a similar, non-identical injection called COMIRNATY. Yet, have you seen COMIRNATY on the market?</p><h2>Is COMIRNATY available?</h2><p>Based on this, some legal scholars, like constitutional lawyer <a href="https://www.barneslawllp.com/">Robert Barnes</a>, have <a href="https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1430651514972823554?s=21">concluded</a> &#8220;There is no <strong>*available*</strong> FDA approved licensed vaccine.&#8221; To Barnes, the FDA&#8217;s recent move appears to shield Pfizer from potential product liability claims that could arise for injuries from COMIRNATY (because people will continue using the EUA BNT162b2 injection). I&#8217;ll need to look into this.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png" width="629" height="276" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:276,&quot;width&quot;:629,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:30385,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IgG0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8642add8-115c-410d-9aad-53ee25a2f3f3_629x276.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Others seem to agree that only EUA injections are presently available. For example, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/authors/pam-long/">Pam Long</a> of Children&#8217;s Health Defense <a href="https://twitter.com/pamlongco/status/1431477338613723138?s=21">believes</a> our military members still have the right to decline all of the available EUA injections.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2TLx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11b3e9cb-1026-43ed-bdf4-a8b6925b3a5c_632x448.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2TLx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11b3e9cb-1026-43ed-bdf4-a8b6925b3a5c_632x448.png 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There, the FDA states that the licensed injection (COMIRNATY) and EUA injection (BNT162b2) are &#8220;<strong>legally distinct with certain differences</strong>.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><blockquote><h3>The licensed vaccine has the same formulation as the EUA-authorized vaccine and the products can be used interchangeably to provide the vaccination series without presenting any safety or effectiveness concerns. The products are legally distinct with certain differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness.   </h3></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Of potential relevance also is <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download">page 14 of the FDA&#8217;s Summary of Regulatory Action</a>,  where the FDA identifies that a difference between COMIRNATY and a product termed &#8220;BNT162b2 (V8)&#8221; is that &#8220;<strong>COMIRNATY includes the presence of optimized codons to improve antigen expression</strong>.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bnat!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc2d6ad1-2889-454e-8999-e8feae4ba0e2_646x320.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Is it really the case that these differences have <em><strong>no </strong></em>impact on safety and effectiveness, whether positive or negative? And over what period of time was this determination made? </p><p>What if, for example, the mRNA used in COMIRNATY is not the same as the mRNA used in the EUA injection? Does that mean the antigen (spike protein) expressed by COMIRNATY would be different than the antigen (spike protein) expressed by the EUA injection?</p><p>Next, what is &#8220;BNT162b2 (V8)&#8221;? Is this the EUA injection? If so, what was the purpose of altering COMIRNATY to include &#8220;codons optimized to improve antigen expression&#8221;? Does this or does this not mean that the actual mRNA in COMIRNATY is different than the mRNA in the EUA injection?</p><p>Further, what is the legal impact of taking the available EUA injection, rather than waiting for COMIRNATY, which is licensed? </p><p>Would the decision impact a person&#8217;s ability to sue Pfizer if an injury occurs? </p><p>Would the decision impact how a person&#8217;s insurance would treat an injury arising from the injection? (Note that a major insurer has indicated they don&#8217;t cover expenses related to injuries from an experimental EUA injection.)</p><p>In the coming days, I hope to update this post with my findings on the COMIRNATY vs. BNT162b2 issue, and the questions above.</p><p>In the meantime, the relevant FDA documents are <a href="https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/comirnaty-and-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine">here</a>, and those listed below are of particular interest.</p><ol><li><p><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/151710/download">Approval Letter</a> (8/23/21) (approving biologics license application).</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download">Summary Basis for Regulatory Action</a>.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download">Reissued EUA Letter</a> (8/23/21).</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/download">Original EUA Review Memo</a> (12/11/2020).</p></li></ol><p>To be continued&#8230; </p><p></p><p></p><p> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local health officials shouldn't sleep on pre-exposure prophylaxis and early treatment.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though it looks like Pfizer&#8217;s spike protein injections will be approved tomorrow, it is worth remembering: protocols using safe medicines for early treatment and pre-exposure prophylaxis have been known since early 2020. The spike protein injections are not designed to prevent viral replication of SARS-Cov-2, the virus the causes COVID19.]]></description><link>https://www.unfeudal.com/p/dont-let-local-health-officials-sleep</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.unfeudal.com/p/dont-let-local-health-officials-sleep</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Novid1984]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 06:42:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fc825ba7-166f-44af-9509-f52a77248d99_1080x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Though it looks like Pfizer&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine will be approved <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-9913447/U-S-FDA-aims-approval-Pfizer-vaccine-Monday--NYT.html">this morning</a>, it is worth remembering: protocols using safe medicines for early treatment and pre-exposure prevention have been known since early March of 2020. Below is some history on early treatment and prophylaxis considered by doctors  for well over a year.</p><h2>Dr. Zelenko&#8217;s Protocols</h2><p><strong>The Zelenko Protocol</strong>. The definition of community doctor, <a href="https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/">Dr. Zelenko</a> is a Hasidic Jewish doctor serving a community of 35,000 living in a 1 square mile area. He was one of the first in the country to treat COVID patents in early 2020. At the time (and still today), U.S. doctors offered nothing in the way of early treatment to pre-hospital COVID patients. But determined to minimize hospitalization and death in his community,  Dr. Zelenko innovated by immediately treating his high risk suspected-COVID patients with a combination of Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Azithromycin. It worked. This <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106214">peer reviewed paper</a> shows Dr. Zelenko&#8217;s early treatment protocol <strong>reduced the odds of hospitalization and death by 84%</strong>. </p><p>Later, when <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-20210-continuing-temporary-suspension-and-modification-laws-relating-disaster-emergency">Governor Cuomo banned outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine in March of 2020</a>, Dr. Zelenko identified over-the-counter supplements Quercetin and EGCG (a green tea extract) as potential alternatives to hydroxychloroquine. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ryK-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5d7e13e-5d24-4d9f-a5fc-64632691074d_1125x576.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Dr. Zelenko&#8217;s protocols (as of August 22, 2021) are on his <a href="https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/">website </a>and reprinted below.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oq4l!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29042a63-931c-4800-9100-b2931fb90a13_1276x644.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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intake. </p></li></ol><p>In other words, according to Dr. Zelenko, zinc is the bullet, while hydroxychloroquine (or other zinc ionophores) is the gun. He says, together, they can help ensure sufficient levels of zinc in the cells. (Azithromycin is an antibiotic used in treating pneumonia; so it is part of the early treatment protocol, but not part of the prophylaxis protocol.)</p><p>If cells are loaded with zinc before exposure or early on in infection, then, in theory, replication of SARS-CoV-2 viral particles should be impaired, thereby preventing infection or significantly reducing it early on. </p><p>Dr. Zelenko has also described this approach as the &#8220;Zinc / Zinc Ionophore approach&#8221; and has suggested that such an approach has potential benefits in dealing with coronavirus, influenza, and RSV infections.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pjQ7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1ece7e2-a6f0-4d50-91d9-78bb54da6d54_1125x798.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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Hearing on COVID-19 Outpatient Treatment</a>, featuring testimony from Dr. McCullough (<a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-McCullough-2020-11-19.pdf">opening remarks</a>; <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4973397/user-clip-mccullough-prevent-hospitalization-death">clip</a>), Yale Prof. Dr. Harvey Risch (<a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Risch-2020-11-19.pdf">opening remarks</a>; <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4973402/user-clip-dr-risch-saudi-hcq-zinc-study-showed-5-fold-reduction-mortality">clip</a>), and other medical professionals concerning the need for early outpatient treatment. </p><p>The safety profile, history, and potential benefits of hydroxychloroquine (particularly with zinc) were discussed. Many missed it. But it happened.</p><p>So to recap: </p><p><em>First</em>, Drs. Zelenko, McCullough, Risch, and other courageous doctors have done considerable work to inform the public about pre-exposure prophylaxis and early treatment option. </p><p><em>Second</em>, a growing number of published studies strongly suggest that pre-exposure prophylaxis and early outpatient treatment, including using certain antimalaria drugs, would significantly reduce the risk of hospitalization (and death) in our community. As another example, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353931932_Profound_and_persistent_disparity_in_COVID-19_mortality_rates_between_USA_Western_Europe_and_sub-Saharan_Africa_A_crossover_effect_of_antimalarial_drugs">this study</a> by Dr. Geoff Mitchell  suggests antimalaria drugs, such as atovaquone-proguanil (marketed as Malarone) and artemisinin, have contributed to the profoundly persistently superior COVID outcomes seen in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries as compared to the United States and other developed western nations.</p><p>Given these things, we must ask ourselves &#8212; <strong>Why do our local health officials focus only on vaccination while continuing to ignore pre-exposure prophylaxis and early outpatient treatment?</strong> </p><p>This is not an argument against vaccination, but instead it is a valid question that should be asked if reducing hospitalization and death is truly the goal.</p><p>Additionally, should health officials allocate all available resources to convincing hesitant minority zip codes to &#8220;get vaccinated,&#8221; <a href="https://dallastx.swagit.com/play/09172021-504/2/">as they are planning to do in Dallas</a>, or might it be worthwhile to direct some of those resources to educating residents on ways to secure early outpatient treatment should illness arise? </p><p>If mass vaccination is not then end itself, then such questions must be asked of our officials? These questions become are even more important, given the ongoing discussion of booster injections.</p><p>Until the next update, below are a few scientific publications that concerning the early treatment concepts advanced by Drs. Zelenko, McCullough, Risch, and others.</p><ul><li><p>Roland Derwand, Martin Scholz, Vladimir Zelenko. <strong>COVID-19 outpatients: early risk-stratified treatment with zinc plus low-dose hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: a retrospective case series study</strong>. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2020, 56(6), 106214. ISSN 0924-8579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106214 [<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920304258/pdfft?isDTMRedir=true&amp;download=true">PDF</a>]</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Peter A. McCullough, Paul E. Alexander, Robin Armstrong, Cristian Arvinte, Alan F. Bain, Richard P. Bartlett, Robert L. Berkowitz, Andrew C. Berry, Thomas J. Borody, Joseph H. Brewer, Adam M. Brufsky, Teryn Clarke, Roland Derwand, Alieta Eck, John Eck, Richard A. Eisner, George C. Fareed, Angelina Farella, Silvia N. S. Fonseca, Charles E. Geyer, Jr., Russell S. Gonnering, Karladine E. Graves, Kenneth B. V. Gross, Sabine Hazan, Kristin S. Held, H. Thomas Hight, Stella Immanuel, Michael M. Jacobs, Joseph A. Ladapo, Lionel H. Lee, John Littell, Ivette Lozano, Harpal S. Mangat, Ben Marble, John E. McKinnon, Lee D. Merritt, Jane M. Orient, Ramin Oskoui, Donald C. Pompan, Brian C. Procter, Chad Prodromos, Juliana Cepelowicz Rajter, Jean-Jacques Rajter, C. Venkata S. Ram, Salete S. Rios, Harvey A. Risch, Michael J. A. Robb, Molly Rutherford, Martin Scholz, Marilyn M. Singleton, James A. Tumlin, Brian M. Tyson, Richard G. Urso, Kelly Victory, Elizabeth Lee Vliet, Craig M. Wax, Alexandre G. Wolkoff, Vicki Wooll, Vladimir Zelenko.&nbsp;<strong>Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)</strong>.&nbsp;<em>Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine</em>, 2020, 21(4): 517-530 doi:10.31083/j.rcm.2020.04.264  [<a href="https://rcm.imrpress.com/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&amp;id=5065">PDF</a>]</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Vincent, M. J., Bergeron, E., Benjannet, S., Erickson, B. R., Rollin, P. E., Ksiazek, T. G., Seidah, N. G., &amp; Nichol, S. T. <strong>Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread</strong>.&nbsp;<em>Virology journal</em>,&nbsp;2005, <em>2</em>, 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-2-69 [<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/pdf/1743-422X-2-69.pdf">PDF</a>]</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>te Veldhuis&nbsp;AJW, van den Worm&nbsp;SHE, Sims&nbsp;AC, Baric&nbsp;RS, Snijder&nbsp;EJ, et al. <strong>Zn2+&nbsp;Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity&nbsp;In Vitro&nbsp;and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in Cell Culture</strong>. PLOS Pathogens, 2010, 6(11): e1001176. &nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001176">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001176</a> [<a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/plos-corpus-prod/10.1371/journal.ppat.1001176/1/ppat.1001176.pdf?X-Goog-Algorithm=GOOG4-RSA-SHA256&amp;X-Goog-Credential=wombat-sa%40plos-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com%2F20210823%2Fauto%2Fstorage%2Fgoog4_request&amp;X-Goog-Date=20210823T041109Z&amp;X-Goog-Expires=86400&amp;X-Goog-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Goog-Signature=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">PDF</a>]</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Husam Dabbagh-Bazarbachi, Gael Clergeaud, Isabel M. Quesada, Mayreli Ortiz, Ciara K. O&#8217;Sullivan, and Juan B. Fern&#225;ndez-Larrea. <strong>Zinc Ionophore Activity of Quercetin and Epigallocatechin-gallate: From Hepa 1-6 Cells to a Liposome Model</strong>. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2014<strong>,</strong> <em>62</em>(32), 8085-8093. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf5014633</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Mitchell G, Naryshkin S. 2021 Aug. Profound and persistent disparity in COVID-19 mortality rates between USA / Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa: A crossover effect of antimalarial drugs? <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24727.09122">http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24727.09122</a> [<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Geoff-Mitchell-3/publication/353931932_Profound_and_persistent_disparity_in_COVID-19_mortality_rates_between_USA_Western_Europe_and_sub-Saharan_Africa_A_crossover_effect_of_antimalarial_drugs/links/611a7e821ca20f6f862774eb/Profound-and-persistent-disparity-in-COVID-19-mortality-rates-between-USA-Western-Europe-and-sub-Saharan-Africa-A-crossover-effect-of-antimalarial-drugs.pdf">PDF</a>]</p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to The Untellectual]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thanks for joining me in this journey through this new phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Sign up now so you don&#8217;t miss the first issue. 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