90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Left’s Response To Failure Is To Redefine It As Success

‘Recession’ is far from the first concept the left has simply redefined to deflect the consequences of their failed policies and ideas.

In preparation for the close of the year’s second economic quarter, the White House Council of Economic Advisers has already started the spin: We’re not in a recession if we just redefine what a recession is.

“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the supposedly nonpartisan group said in a blog post on Thursday.

It’s doubtful the verbal smoke and mirrors will persuade the average Americans whose grocery bills keep growing as fast as their gas tanks empty. A recession is a sustained downturn in economic activity, and many Americans can feel it without knowing what the Q2 numbers are. But it’s far from the first concept the left has simply redefined to deflect the consequences of their failed policies and ideas.

One of their favorite words to redefine, apparently as “full and unchallenged political control,” is democracy. When actual democratic processes are at work — such as when an elected majority votes not to pass a pet piece of legislation, or when issues such as abortion law are left to elected representatives of the people at the state level — leftists scream their favorite catchphrase and call it a “threat to democracy.” They’ve levied that smear at everything from our bicameral legislature to the Supreme Court to the other party in our two-party system. It’s obvious they’re not really talking about democracy in any honest sense of the word. When democracy is a threat to their power, it simply gets redefined.

Another word that’s undergone a 180-degree redefinition is racism. No longer is it considered racist to treat someone differently based on his or her skin color, and not racist to value all human beings equally. Instead, if you’re not promoting theories that “remedy … past discrimination [with] present discrimination,” as critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi suggests, you are clearly a racist according to the left’s new dictionary. Do you believe in meritocracy? Racist. Think people are responsible for their own choices, and it’s neither possible nor beneficial for the government to dole out equivalent outcomes to everyone by force? Doubly racist. The new liturgy says that true equality lies in teaching some children that they’re part of a hopelessly oppressive system and other children that they’re...

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Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives

Last month, drug company Genentech reported on the first clinical trials of the drug crenezumab, a drug targeting amyloid proteins that form sticky plaques in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients. The drug had been particularly effective in animal models, and the trial results were eagerly awaited as one of the most promising treatments in years. It did not work. “Crenezumab did not slow or prevent cognitive decline” in people with a predisposition toward Alzheimer’s.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) narrowly approved the use of Aduhelm, a new drug from Biogen that the company has priced so highly that it’s expected to drive up the price of Medicare for everyone in America, even those who never need this drug. Aduhelm was the first drug to be approved that fights the accumulation of those "amyloid plaques" in the brain. What makes the approval of the $56,000-a-dose drug so controversial is that while it does decrease plaques, it doesn’t actually slow Alzheimer’s. In fact, clinical trials were suspended in 2019 after the treatment showed “no clinical benefits.” (Which did not keep Biogen from seeking the drug’s approval or pricing it astronomically.)

Over the last two decades, Alzheimer’s drugs have been notable mostly for having a 99% failure rate in human trials. It’s not unusual for drugs that are effective in vitro and in animal models to turn out to be less than successful when used in humans, but Alzheimer’s has a record that makes the batting average in other areas look like...

The Covid vaccine is losing its credibility, as many Americans are starting to understand that the jab does not mean you will evade the virus. Just like how they are noticing the lies that were told to them over and over before then eventually being walked backed by ruling elites like Joe Biden.

Regardless of these so-called “new revelations,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams is still pushing his state’s vaccine mandate upon city employees. As his office announced on Saturday that city officials fired more than 200 additional city employees for refusing to get vaccinated for Covid.

This brings the total number of firings to 1,752 as of July 13.

In a statement earlier this year, Eric Adams’ office shamelessly equated getting vaccinated against Covid to being a good citizen. Thus ignoring anyone’s reasoning for not getting the jab regardless of religious reasoning or personal choice.

“City workers served on the frontlines during the pandemic, and by getting vaccinated, they are, once again, showing how they are willing to do the right thing to protect themselves and all New Yorkers,” Adams said.

As Tucker Carlson has been highlighting on his show over the past few nights, Democrats like Adams have been routinely ignoring the science behind the vaccines to take more control. These are the same people who declared Covid a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” and they are the ones continuously firing Americans from their jobs for refusing the jab.

None of that matters to these people, however, as places like New York City are moving forward with their Covid hysteria. Despite it hurting many American workers.

As Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, put it: “If you’re gonna force people to get vaccinated because the science changes, you also have to acknowledge that you’re allowing people to have exceptions because the science changes, and it’s no longer necessary.”

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said, “New York City police officers were on the street throughout the pandemic, working without adequate PPE and in many cases contracting and recovering from COVID themselves.”

“They don’t deserve to be treated like second-class citizens now,” he continued.

A spokesperson for Eric Adams said that around 97% of the state is fully vaccinated. The Mayor has repeated “over and over again” that “Covid is a formidable opponent.” Essentially stating that they plan on eliminating the...