90 Miles From Tyranny

Friday, January 14, 2022

He said, "Hey, Joe, Take a walk on the wild side."

Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.

Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says, "Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side."
Said, "Hey, honey,
Take a walk on the wild side."

Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says, "Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side."
Said, "Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side."
And the colored girls go
"Doo do doo do doo do do doo..."

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #177

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #176

CNN Lost 90 Percent of Its Audience

Pompous perverts, pedophiles, and propagandists don’t sell. Who knew?

“CNN saw a sharp decline in viewership the first week of 2022 with a nearly 90% drop both overall and in the critical demographic coveted by advertisers,” reports the Daily Mail.

Wait, there’s more…

“The network averaged just 548,000 viewers during the week of January 3, a precipitous drop to the nearly 2.7 million viewers from the same week in 2021.”

But-but-but wasn’t the first week of the year the same week when CNN went all in to turn a mostly peaceful protest against vote fraud into a terrorist insurrection?

Why, yes! Yes, it was!

Looks like no one cared.

CNN didn’t just lose 90 percent of its overall audience. The far-left propaganda outlet lost 86 percent of its viewers in the 25-54 age group, which is the age group that sets advertising rates.

CNN also saw an 86 percent decline in the much-desirable 25-to-54 demographic, with a paltry 113,000 tuned in last week, compared to the 822,000 CNN averaged a year ago.

The network, which was swallowed up by AT&T in its merger with WarnerMedia last year, has been plagued by high-profile scandals – most notably the firing of its top-rated prime time star Chris Cuomo after the anchor was found to be helping his sex-pest brother Andrew try to beat harassment allegations, which led to his resignation as New York’s governor.

On top of Chris Cuomo’s endless scandals, there’s the sexual assault allegation against basement-rated Don Lemon, there’s Jake Tapper’s guy, who’s accused of sex crimes against children, there’s Jeffrey Toobin, who masturbated in front of his colleagues, and isn’t there one more? Oh, yeah, the accused pedophile who worked for Chris Cuomo. And let’s not forget that Chris himself admitted to grabbing a woman’s butt.

Here’s the status of CNN’s primetime:

CNN also shed 89 percent of its primetime viewers among its key demographic and 91 percent of viewers ages 18 to 49.

The former television news leader also failed to maintain strong viewership on January 6, something its anchors boasted about the prior year.

In 2021, the network averaged 5.3 million viewers on January 6. This year it failed to reach 1.5 million during any hour of the day despite having special programing marking the anniversary of the riot.

Who would have ever guessed that smug, joyless anchors spewing lies, bigotry, hate, violence, and propaganda would not sell like hotcakes?

And this is not due to some drop in the country’s desire to consume news. On the contrary, Fox News is doing just fine:
While CNN’s ratings declined last week, Fox topped the rankings for its coverage of January 6. It was also the no. 1 ranked cable news network during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ anniversary remarks.

During the first week of the year, the network averaged 1.4 million total viewers, only a 15 percent drop from the same period in 2021.

[…]

MSNBC lost 67 percent of its total audience last week, 80 percent of which was among its key demographic.
CNN is left-wing talk radio with pictures, and CNN is failing at that because...

Today the UK domestic intelligence service MI5 sent out a warning about a Chinese agent who was seeking to influence Members of Parliament on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. Her name is Christine Ching Kui Lee and she has been making friends with and making donations to MPs since at least 2014.

According to the alert, Ms Lee claimed her involvement with Parliament had been to “represent the UK Chinese and increase diversity”.

But MI5 said that activity “had been undertaken in covert coordination with the United Front Work Department [of the CCP], with funding provided by foreign nationals located in China and Hong Kong”.

The UFWD is alleged to be seeking to “cultivate relations” with “influential figures” to ensure the UK political landscape is favourable to the CCP and to challenge those that raise concerns about the party, including over human rights.

Labour MP Barry Gardiner received significant donations to his office from Lee for the purposes of research. Gardiner claimed today that he had made security services aware of the situation years ago.

Mr Gardiner began getting donations from Ms Lee’s law firm, Christine Lee & Co, at the end of 2014.

According to the register of MPs’ interests, between then and 2020, he received over £420,000 in donations, mostly covering the costs of employing parliamentary researchers…

In a statement, Mr Gardiner, who was a member of the shadow cabinet when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader, confirmed he had received the donations and that Ms Lee’s son had worked for him.

But he said he had been “liaising with our security services for a number of years” about her and they had “always known, and been made fully aware by me, of her engagement with my office and the donations she made to fund researchers in my office in the past”.

The Brent North MP said she had “no role” in who was appointed as his researchers and all donations were “properly reported”, adding: “I have been assured by the security services that whilst they have definitively identified improper funding channelled through Christine Lee, this does not relate to any funding received by my office.”

As you’ll see in the interview with MP Gardiner below, he says the security services came to him to warn him about Lee’s activity. Lee’s son was working in Gardiner’s office until today when this story came out.

All of this sounds remarkably similar to efforts by a Chinese spy named Fang Fang (or Christine Fang) who cozied up to a number of Democratic politicians in California several years ago. Fang was able to meet Rep. Ro Khanna, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Rep. Judy Chu, Rep. Mike Honda and others but her closest connection was to Rep. Eric Swalwell for whom she worked as a bundler.

Fang “was a bundler” for Swalwell and other candidates, according to a Bay Area political operative with direct knowledge of her efforts. A current U.S. intelligence official confirmed her activity for Swalwell; a local elected official also said she brought in donors for other candidates. Bundlers persuade others to write checks for campaigns; they can bring in substantial sums of money as well as deepen the campaign’s engagement with target communities, making bundlers a valuable and thus potentially influential ally to a candidate…

Fang facilitated the potential assignment of interns into Swalwell’s offices, the political operative said. In at least one case, an intern recommended by Fang was placed into Swalwell’s D.C. office, this person said. A current U.S. intelligence official confirmed the intern placement.

Fang didn’t limit her efforts on behalf of the CCP to just collecting money. Axios reported at the time that she’d had sexual relationships with “two Midwestern mayors.” In Rep. Swalwell’s case, the FBI finally stepped in to give him a “defensive briefing” in 2015 about Fang’s activities. After that point, Swalwell cut himself...

The World Health Organization and the European Union regulators are advising against repeated COVID-19 vaccine boosters amid overwhelming data that indicate they are ineffective at stopping the COVID variants.

On Tuesday, EU regulators admitted that repeated shots may not be feasible, and the WHO declared that a booster strategy is “unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable.”

This comes even as the Biden regime continues to aggressively push boosters on Americans 12 and over that appear to have a negative efficacy against the Omicron variant.

An EU health agency warned that not only are booster shots not feasible, they could “adversely affect the immune system,” Bloomberg reported.

Repeat booster doses every four months could eventually weaken the immune system and tire out people, according to the European Medicines Agency. Instead, countries should leave more time between booster programs and tie them to the onset of the cold season in each hemisphere, following the blueprint set out by influenza vaccination strategies, the agency said.

Boosters “can be done once, or maybe twice, but it’s not something that we can think should be repeated constantly,” Marco Cavaleri, the EMA head of biological health threats and vaccines strategy, said at a press briefing on Tuesday. “We need to think about how we can transition from the current pandemic setting to a more endemic setting.”

The WHO released a statement about COVID vaccines on Tuesday admitting that “a vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable.”

The WHO recommended that future vaccines be developed to combat whatever Sars-Cov-2 strain is dominant at the moment, specifically advising that they be “more effective” at protecting against infection, and stopping transmission.

The WHO said COVID-19 vaccines need to:

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Biden Admin Unable To Locate 50,000 Migrants Released Into US in 2021

Numbers contradict testimony by DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas

Nearly half of all migrants that Border Patrol released into the United States in 2021 cannot be located, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

More than 100,000 migrants were released into the United States from the southern border between March 21 and Aug. 31, 2021, and given a notice to report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement within 60 days, according to the data. Nearly half of those—47,705—did not check in, making their status and location unknown to immigration authorities.

The release of the data comes after Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) in August pressed Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for an accounting of all migrants released into the United States. Mayorkas responded to the letter on Jan. 11, nearly three months after Johnson’s request.

Following a March 2021 policy directive from President Biden, migrants were given "Notices to Report" to an immigration office rather than "Notices to Appear" at an immigration court. Proponents of the change in policy say it was necessary due to the 1.5 million backlogged cases at the nation's immigration courts. But critics say report notices made it easier for migrants to dodge Homeland Security.

The distinction between a "Notice to Report" and "Notice to Appear" is crucial, with the latter holding "real legal effect," according to Center for Immigration Studies immigration expert Andrew Arthur. Should a migrant miss an order to appear in court, an immigration judge could order that person's immediate removal. "Notices to Report," however, effectively operate on an honor system, with little recourse for the federal government to punish the offender.

According to the data provided by the Department of Homeland Security, just 15.6 percent of the over 100,000 migrants released into the country were issued removal proceedings.

The migrant numbers released contradict statements by Mayorkas in September, when he appeared in front of the Senate. During an exchange with Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.), Mayorkas said that a vast majority of migrants given "Notices to Report" had checked in with...

The man accused of mowing down dozens of people during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisc., killing six, now faces more than 70 new charges for those he left injured as well.

Darrell Brooks Jr. was hit with 71 new charges Wednesday, including 61 counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, one for each victim injured. He also faces six counts of committing a hit and run causing a death, two felony charges of bail jumping and two counts of domestic abuse.

Each of the reckless endangerment charges is punishable by up to 12 and a half months in prison.

That brings his total up to 77, adding to the six counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

Brooks, 39, remains behind bars at Waukesha County Jail and is due in court Friday. He is being held on a $5 million bail.

According to police, Brooks met up with his ex-girlfriend around 4 p.m. on Nov. 21, where the pair argued about why she hadn’t bailed him out of jail days earlier after he was arrested for driving over her with his car. Inside his red SUV, Brooks allegedly punched the woman in the face repeatedly until she got out.

That’s when he allegedly drove into the parade route, crushing dozens of people before abandoning the car and holing up in a nearby home after asking the owner to use his phone. Police tracked Brooks there and arrested him.

At the time of the parade rampage, Brooks was out on a $1,000 bail for the alleged domestic violence incident, which Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has acknowledged was...