90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Visage à trois #497

Three Videos For Your Viewing Pleasure:

Three Additional Bonus Videos:

Thank You, And This Song Is For You:

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #680

As menacing storm approaches Florida, Rachel Vindman tweets, 'We should use they/them pronouns for hurricane Ian to annoy DeSantis'

As Hurricane Ian chugs toward Florida with the potential to wreak havoc when it plows through the state, Rachel Vindman, the wife of Alexander S. Vindman, issued a tweet jokingly suggesting that people should refer to the storm using "they/them pronouns" in a bid to irritate GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

"We should use they/them pronouns for hurricane Ian to annoy DeSantis," Rachel Vindman tweeted on Tuesday morning. "I appreciate the danger of this storm which only serves to underscore the point that electing leaders who only divert their attention away from destroying systems [in order to score political points] to emergencies, isn’t helpful when there is a true crisis," she added in another tweet.

In another post, Vindman, who is a co-host of "The Suburban Women Problem" podcast, said that her tweet was "not a hurricane joke," but "a DeSantis joke because DeSantis is a joke."

DeSantis, who took office in 2019, is currently...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a Clinton Health Access Initiative aimed at making developing countries reliant on China for healthcare and medical products, The National Pulse can reveal.

The Microsoft co-founder’s foundation authorized a $560,021 grant to the Clinton Health Access Initiative in September, which will run for 18 months.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative was originally a part of the controversial Clinton Foundation started by former President Bill Clinton but spun off into a separate organization in 2010 though Chelsea Clinton – the daughter of the former president and his wife Hillary – joined the initiative’s board in 2011.

The purpose of the grant is “to leverage manufacturing capabilities in China to increase supply security and enhance the supply of key health commodities in low- and middle-income countries.”

While the foundation omitted any further details on how the objective would be accomplished, the grant will likely boost China’s manufacturing capabilities and make countries reliant on the communist nation for “key” healthcare items.

The grant comes amidst China rolling out its controversial “Belt and Road” initiative, a key component of the regime’s efforts to expand its control globally through predatory infrastructure loans.

As the U.S. State Department has warned, Beijing “uses the Belt and Road Initiative and other undertakings to expand foreign markets for Chinese companies and as a means of drawing nations, particularly their political and economic elites, into Beijing’s geopolitical orbit.”

China has been accused of using similar tactics amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, engaging in “healthcare diplomacy” to broaden its influence over developing countries. Products manufactured in the country also often have poor efficacy and are tainted with...