Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue –
1. Fauci
2. USPS
3. Pied a Tierre
4. Possession
5. Reporters
6. Grocery
7. Common Use
8. Dolls
1. Fauci. America’s self-appointed Doctor, Anthony Fauci former director of NIAID got his opportunity to ‘splain himself last week in front of a senate committee. It didn’t go well, after reading a fairly combative opening statement going after Chairman Rand Paul, he took the 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refused to answer every single question, all 111 of them. Senator Josh Hawley drove the point home asking mundane things including the day of the week, color of his tie, color of the carpet in the room, questions Fauci decided were self-incriminating acts to respond to, so he didn’t. The man who promised to answer all questions in front of congress 3 years ago is no longer interested in talking. Perhaps it was his personal diary found on multiple HHS servers. Either way, his credibility is now shot and some red states led by Florida are lining up to investigate and prosecute him for his criminal conspiracy to deprive Floridians of their constitutional rights during the lockdown and school closures. The senate will hold a hearing or two on finding him in contempt of congress. Should that resolution pass and be forwarded to the Justice Department for action (prosecution), it will tee up President Autopen’s global pardon on all of Fauci’s actions during COVID. There is a school of thought out there that a pardon removed your 5th Amendment right to respond to questions about what you were pardoned for. To the best of my knowledge, that has never been tested in court. Appears that test is now on the table. It is important to note the approach here the two tracks of justice in the DC Courts. Democrat government officials get to walk out of court singing, as democrat-friendly judges and juries refuse to convict, while both bring the hammer down hard on Republican defendants for identical offenses. Contrast the way Eric Holder’s contempt citation was handled with that of Peter Navaro or Steve Bannon, both of whom spent time in Club Fed. Contrast the draconian treatment of Jan 6 protesters with those of participants in the Summer of Love (which also hit DC). Jeff Childers Coffee and COVID issue Jun 30 contained a pretty good analysis. Worth your time to read. Five final thoughts for your consideration.
- While President Autopen pardoned Fauci, he (it?) didn’t issue similar pardons to Fauci’s henchmen, including Dr Birx. I would expect hearings on their participation in the festivities.
- As previously mentioned, the states are about to get involved investigating and prosecuting actual crimes by members of Fauci’s group including lying about COVID coming from the Wuhan virology lab and gain of function (biowarfare) research funded by the US.
- Childers spend a lot of time defending Jan 6 people targeted by Pelosi’s Jan 6 Committee. He suggested a different approach to testimony, that is of answering what you can and taking the 5th only on the big, important items to marginally suggest that you were trying your best to cooperate with the investigation. Fauci had at least 6 criminal defense lawyers in the room. The one sitting at the table with him wouldn’t shut up and was ejected from the hearing by Senator Paul.
- Over the decades at NIAID, Fauci constructed a structure that was literally exempt from oversight or second guessing. There never was a Red Team. There were never any questions or alternate views tolerated. All dissenters were hunted down, cut out of the discussion and had their personal and professional reputations destroyed by Fauci’s NIAID group.
- Finally, the damage to trust in the public health apparat on the right is well known and understood. What is less well known is the destruction of trust by the same apparat on the political left. One example would be lefty actor Tim Robbins telling Joe Rogan he no longer trusts the experts. If nobody trusts the experts anymore, why listen to them? Better yet, why even have them? I think the clowns who perpetrated this deadly hoax are going to regret it in the long run, though it did manage to do its part in stealing a presidential election.
2. USPS. Think of vectors. President Trump is attacking the notion of election integrity via multiple paths (vectors). One of them is mail-in ballots, handled by the USPS. His March 2026 EO 14399 empowers the USPS to compare mailing lists of mail-in ballots with existing lists of voters before those ballots are forwarded. The EO also requires those lists to be built. In toto, the various mailing lists for mail-in ballots, by far the most un-auditable part of democrat voting fraud do not comply, putting democrat election fraudsters in something of a box. In response, they filed the expected number of lawsuits, even before USPS announced the new procedure / rule. This is where they screwed up. On the one hand, they found an O’Bama appointee to the federal bench in Boston who excreted an opinion covering 23 states prohibiting the ballot tracking plan based on some hither to unknown number of putative disenfranchised voters. The left screwed up by simultaneously trying to extend the prohibition to all 50 states. This happily triggered a second opinion from the DC Circuit that the Boston opinion was too soon, as the USPS hadn’t even published its new rules yet, triggering a circuit split which normally goes to SCOTUS to resolve. And that cuteness may be enough to get SCOTUS to rule in favor of Trump. Strike 1. They did not allow USPS to write their new rule. Strike 2, they completely forgot that USPS already does ballot tracking and gating in the corporate world (corporate meetings and proxies), and have been doing so for years. Is political voting so magic that it is impossible to do as compared to corporate elections? Where do you think SCOTUS will come down? Jeff Childers, who is not a particular fan of the SAVE Act notes that USPS tracking and gating of by mail ballots does nearly everything conservatives want the SAVE Act to do, rendering it irrelevant. Trump is attacking this problem via multiple avenues. And this one might just be successful.
3. Pied a Tierre. In his quest to screw the rich, communist Zohran Mamdani published a list of over 960,000 residences listed potentially in line to be hit with a pied a terre tax on second residences targeted for a new round of property taxes. The notion of pied a tierre targets residences that are not primary residences, used mostly by travelers, commuters, people who are in the city during the week but at home on the weekend. In Mamdani’s world, these people, Kulaks actually, are Double Plus Ungood, and to be destroyed by a new round of property tax increases. The problem is (and given that he is communist, is not a problem at all) only 13,000 second homes were to be targeted by the scheme. Instead, 960,000 were listed along with a complete doxing of the owners personal information. NY is also involved in this as Governor Cathy Hochul and NY State are fully on board with the notion of implementing such a tax. It was Mamdani who published the list of doxed targets. Think of it as a version of identifying future participants in NY-style Mao’s Struggle Sessions.
4. Possession. This story, via Energy and Security Freedom Substack Tues, celebrates the unanimous PN Supreme Court opinion that private property owners enjoy the very same privacy rights that the US and PA state constitutions say they have. At issue was a long-term violation of those property rights by state and federal fish and wildlife enforcement officers who have accessed private property without permission setting up surveillance (game cameras) without permission or even notifying property owners of the surveillance. Over time the agents got bolder and more reckless claiming their actions were legally justified by anti-moonshine laws a century ago. Over time, the existence of these wanton intrusions came to the attention of state police who grabbed the opportunity to start working directly with the fish and game wardens to provide surveillance without warrants. In essence, these government employees were using the excuse of government efficiently to chip away chunks of private property rights. The PA Supremes just tugged on their leash a bit. They won’t be the last ones to do so.
5. Reporters. Natalie Winters, part of the Bannon War Room reported last week that dozens of American journalists were working for a CCP-influenced organization that exchanged free trips here and there in exchange for favorable coverage and positive messages about Beijing. The roster of organizations include NYT, CNN, MSDNC, WA Post, NPR, AP, Vox, The Atlantic, LA Times, Chicago Tribune and other major US news organizations. In several cases, the trips were followed by columns and reports defending CCP polities while attacking Trump. The group was founded by Tung Chee-hwa, a former VP of the CPP Consultative Conference, a central part of the CCP United Front system,
6. Groceries. Comrade Mamdani, now in his capitalist manifestation, ran around NYC last week opening the three (or so) collective grocery stores funded by the citizens of NYC. The theory behind the grocery stores is the popularity of subsidized prices, with produce, meat and key pantry staples available at a 30% discount. His problem is basic economics, or even basic math, as most supermarkets carry 1 – 4% profit margin (usually on the low side). And while he is giving away freebies, he is also subsidizing the supply of basic groceries with public funds laundered through the NYC owned stores. The undisclosed subsidy is added to $70 million of public $$$ to build out the stores, plus waived rent and property taxes on a city-owned location. Nothing like stacking the deck to ensure Your Side is competitive in a very tight market.
7. Common Use. “It’s a trap!”: was the warning from Admiral Akbar to his attack fleet upon its arrival at the location of the Death Star in The Return of the Jedi. Today’s example comes from the late Great, Antonin Scalia in Heller. Scalia created the concept of common use, essentially a gun that is in common use for any lawful purpose cannot be banned or restricted to the point where they are unusable for those lawful purposes. All well and good as a snapshot in time. The problem comes in that tech isn’t static. It moves all the time, in leaps and bounds today, quicker tomorrow. And it’s not just the operational tech today, it is the manufacturing tech (3D printing today) under siege as blue state governments target it. Note that there are a LOT of things you can do with 3D printing other than building firearms receiver assemblies.
8. Dolls. If any other example of MN Governor Tim Walz being the very definition of a Sick Puppy comes a series of mix and match gender fluid dolls targeted at preschoolers. The dolls have mix and match hair, clothing and genitalia (Velcro works wonders, apparently). As usual, Walz and his teacher’s union supporters are reprising the Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” routine in response to public outrage. Meanwhile, parents are rightfully up in arms. Would be nice to see then start taking out their anger on Walz, School Board members, and democrat candidates. As this rot bubbles up out of the public schools, it is long past time to do something equally awful to the public schools and those who force this filth on our kids, grandkids and great grandkids.
More later –
- AG