FREEDOM AND SCIENCE: TWO TOPICS AT GOP FLORIDA CONFERENCE

 "We need to stall the recovery." 

That alarming phrase is one among a series of strategic bullet points discussed at a GOP funder's retreat in late February, 2021. Seeing the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccinations as a turning point in the nation's economy, a group of Republican lawmakers gathered at a remote estate in the Florida keys with six important conservative donors. A newly released recording of one consequential breakfast meeting reveals a strategy that was as diabolical as it was effective.

The recording was made by Tam C. Sheker, a freelance photographer who was hired to take head shots. Present at the conference were several prominent media personalities who offered a series of tactics to offset what they saw as "the Democratic windfall of virus immunity."

In one barely audible section of the recording one can hear a female voice saying "I hope everyone in this room is vaccinated." Later, that same voice, answering a question about the efficacy of science denial, is heard saying, "are you kidding? Don't you realize how stupid the Republican base is?"

A lengthy excerpt offers a clear overview of an overarching strategy to subvert the American effort to slow the pandemic. "Three words," one participant says, "disinformation, disinformation, disinformation." It is apparent from the recording that the strategy involved the promotion of vaccine hesitancy, anti-mask wearing and the discrediting of Dr. Fauci. 

"All we have to do is call it 'freedom' and those MAGA idiots will eat it up."

ACROSS THE U.S. VACCINE SKEPTICISM EVOLVES INTO RAGE

 

Is it possible to prosecute a news network for murder?

That's the question that's on the mind of Marjorie Tailleur-Vert of Grand Ellam, Missouri. Having received her first shot only a few days ago, Ms. Tailleur-Vert is living with grief, rage and relief. Up until last week she was absolutely certain that Covid-19 was an exaggerated news story designed by elitists in Washington and New York in order to discredit Donald Trump. She was sure that "vaccine hysteria" was an invention created to sow world-wide confusion and panic. There were dark forces behind the CDC and the Deep State.

Ms. Tailleur-Vert arrived at these certainties because she was, in her words, "doing the research."

Last week it became tragically clear that her research was flawed. After losing her husband and her sister within days of each other, Ms. Tailleur-Vert started asking questions. After speaking with her doctor and a distant cousin living in New Jersey she came to realize that a deadly pandemic was raging throughout the world. She learned that several very effective vaccines were available to counter this pandemic and that they were safe, thoroughly tested and would not result in her arm becoming magnetized.

Now she wants to know if she can sue the social media companies and the cable news networks for damages. Now she wants to know if she can seek justice.

SNOWDEN MEETS TRUMP

With Grand Juries convening, the noose may be tightening around what may be deemed a criminal enterprise. RICO, once the preferred cudgel against the Mob is now as commonplace as the SAT's. None of this is good news for Trump Inc. and the news that the former President may move to either Belarus or Bahrain is not idle, left-wing wet dreaming.

Mar-a-Lago habitué and member of the Trump inner circle Motindi Énmerdé has reportedly told NewsTune EX that serious house/estate hunting is well beyond the conceptual stage. "As far as I know, extradition treaties are conveniently vague," Énmerdé told NTEX's political correspondent Shempy Howard,  "and there are far worse fates than spending one's golden years playing golf in the desert in December."

Legal experts with intimate knowledge of the Southern District of New York's investigations note that few world leaders would be willing to go on the hook for Donald Trump. "The last thing Putin wants," Russia specialist Sussanna Shoolama wrote recently, "is to have Donald grousing in some dacha plotting the next January 6th.