Charlie Kirk's pro-Trump youth group, Turning Point USA, has gone all-in on campus vaccine resistance. Leaked audio shows an ER doctor this month instructing TPUSA members how to dodge vaccine rules at school, all while Kirk raises $. via @isaacstanbecker

https://twitter.com/PostRoz/status/1420709899030433796

Rep. Paul Gosar turns reality on its head by portraying January 6 as a mostly peaceful affair, then pushes an absurd conspiracy theory that the real criminals on that day were "insiders from the FBI and DOJ"

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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419062901013422080

First, the far-right Republican from Arizona was the much-touted surprise guest at an counter-CPAC event in February hosted by Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist who marched at the infamous neo-Nazi Charlottesville rally in 2017 where a neo-Nazi murdered a counter-protester. Gosar condemned “neocon control” in contrast to “America First” and he was followed by Fuentes praising the Capitol riot as “awesome” and arguing that if the United States “loses its white demographic core … then this is not America anymore.”

Then last week, Gosar a was revealed to be planning a campaign fundraiser with Fuentes, who has engaged in Holocaust denialism, praised segregation, and repeatedly made anti-Semitic comments. Gosar initially appeared to defend the fundraiser in a tweet saying, in part, “Not sure why anyone is freaking out.” The next day on Capitol Hill, he played coy with reporters, telling the Washington Post: “I have no idea what’s going on.” The Gosar campaign did not respond to a request for comment about the invitation.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/why-gop-doesnt-condemn-paul-gosar-over-nick-fue...

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1409686555359289344

Cuomo’s repeated use of the words “honey,” “darling,” and “sweetheart” also feature prominently in the report as examples of his alleged lawbreaking.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/cuomo-michael-tracey

Du weißt, was für ein lächerlicher Schmierlappen Michael Tracey ist?

Der Fun Fact ist hier, dass man Toast ist, wenn sich nur noch ein Michael Tracey zur Verteidigung findet.

So sehr ich Tablet-Autor Yair Rosenberg schätze, so bescheuert ist wiederum dieser Dreck aus der Reihe "See what you made them do!" - Co-Host of TRIGGERnometry meint, dass die Libs und die Lügenpresse an den Anti-Vaxxern schuld seien:

https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1425409232585830405

George Washington...

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1424755930349068293

Schock für Reichsbürger, AfDler zwiegespalten:

Im Deutschen Reich wurden schließlich 1874 alle Deutschen durch das Reichsimpfgesetz verpflichtet, ihre Kinder im Alter von einem und zwölf Jahren (Wiederholungsimpfung) gegen die Pocken impfen zu lassen.[2][3][4] Die Impfung war eine staatliche Leistung, auch nach Einführung der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung 1883.[2] Diese Impfpflicht wurde in der Weimarer Republik sowie in der Anfangsphase des Nationalsozialismus vorsichtig gelockert.[5] Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden Pockenschutzimpfungen ausgesetzt.[2]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impfpflicht

Die müssten doch schon aus diesem Grund Hand an sich legen:

Hallo Alex!

Hä? Für Reichsbürger ist diese staatsrechtliche Konstruktion Lebenselixier. Die nicht mehr vorhandene Handlungsfähigkeit des Reiches kümmert sie entsprechend nicht bzw. insofern, als sie konkurrierend Reichsregierungen gründen.

Oder du meinst mit "Hand an sich legen" nicht Selbstmord, sondern onanieren.

But, in brief, all these studies exaggerate – in my view - the impact of non-tariff barriers they exaggerate customs costs, in some cases by orders of magnitude.

https://no10media.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/17/david-frost-lecture-reflections-on-the-revolut...

Auch wenn sich die Gewerkschaften zu Recht über mehr Mitglieder und höhere Löhne freuen dürfen: Wahr bleibt leider auch, dass diese Lohnsteigerungen die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des UK im Vergleich zum Rest der Welt verschlechtern werden. Denn die EU hat jetzt schon einen großen Wettbewerbsvorteil im britischen Markt: Keinerlei Grenzkontrollen für EU-Exporte ins UK. Wenn sich dann noch die einheimische Wirtschaft größere Preissteigerungen leistet, verlieren britische Produzenten mehr Marktanteile am heimischen Markt.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/16/workers-covid-brexit-uk-jobs-shortages...

Die Aluhelmfraktion und Covidioten ziehen ne deutschsprachige Kolonie in Südamerika auf....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/paraguay-german-speaking-covid-denialists...

Paraguay macht Grenzen für Ungeimpfte dicht

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/corona-paraguay-macht-grenzen-fuer-ungeimpfte-dicht-a-88...

Beschämend.

Man wünscht solchen Astlöchern einen ausgedehnten Urlaub vor Ort.

Unter welchen Voraussetzungen? Knallchargen wie Rod Dreher bekommen ein mehrmonatiges / mehrwöchiges Stipendium vom Danube Institute und werden selbstverständlich in Budapest gut untergebracht.

Käffer sind nicht Teil des Programms.

Dergleichen natürlich auch nicht:

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/ungarn-demonstrieren-gegen-uni-projekt-...

Orban dürfte nicht blöd genug sein, um nen Hexit zu wagen. Anders als BoJo kann er rechnen.

Sicher.

Ich habe nie verstanden, wieso kaum jemand mal ernsthaft versucht hat, ihn danach zu fragen - anders als MURX hätte er auf Dauer nicht einfach schweigen können, sondern hätte zumindest herumwieseln müssen. Wohlgemerkt: Orbans (Wahl)Kampagnen basier(t)en vor allem auf dem Bashen von George Soros und der EU. Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit ist er der nahe liegenden Frage zuvor gekommen und hat verlauten lassen, dass er die EU mit Verbündeten zu reformieren gedenke.

Für den Dreck gegen Soros hat er sich übrigens von Bibi einen Koscher-Stempel abgeholt. Letzterer hatte noch seinen Botschafter zurückgepfiffen, weil diesem, wohlwissend, dass George Soros kein Freund Likud geführter israelischer Regierungen ist, die Hetzkampagne zu weit gegangen war. Anschließend hat Orban damit begonnen, Miklos Horthy zu rehabilitieren.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Horthy

BREAKING - Fox News is requiring all employees to enter their vaccination status into a central database — and requiring masking in confined spaces.

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https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1428039300764086278

Yep.

They just want to make sure they can safely misinform their viewers about vaccines.

https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB/status/1428801546322653186

Mr. Finman, who has bleach-blond hair and a brown, chin-strap beard, calls himself an agent of change for both tech and Republican politics. In a freewheeling interview over lamb kebabs at a Turkish restaurant in Manhattan, Mr. Finman weighed in on British politics; quoted both Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, and Karl Lagerfeld, the German fashion designer; and explained why he thought the modern Republican Party was “pathetic.” The party’s leaders complain about Big Tech censorship, he said, but do little about it.

In 2014, New York magazine profiled Mr. Finman as a 16-year-old from outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, who had struck it rich when, a few years earlier, he spent a $1,000 gift from his grandmother on Bitcoin.

By 2017, his riches had topped $1 million and he was posting photos online of him posing with YouTube celebrities, getting on and off private jets, and lighting $100 bills on fire. But he tired of the cryptocurrency scene. “I actually hate talking about Bitcoin,” he said. “It’s like ‘Rolling Stones, play the hits.’”

He dove into politics. He said that by the age of 12, he considered himself a libertarian. (It was at a rally for Ron Paul, the former presidential candidate, when someone first told him about Bitcoin.) But his politics shifted when Mr. Trump arrived on the national political stage. “I drank the Kool-Aid in 2016,” he said.

Over the next several years, Mr. Finman said, he became worried about what he viewed as Silicon Valley censoring conservative voices. He also spotted a business opportunity in other Republicans who shared his concerns. So he aimed at the dominance of Apple and Google and tried to create a new right-wing smartphone.

“Politics is the new national pastime, baby,” Mr. Finman said. “Even nonpolitical things like a freaking pillow end up becoming political,” he added, referring to Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder, who has peddled lies about the 2020 election.

To make a smartphone, however, he had to rely on Google. The company’s Android software already works with millions of apps, and Google makes a free, open version of the software for developers to modify. So Mr. Finman hired engineers to strip it of any sign of Google and load it with apps from conservative social networks and news outlets. Then he uploaded the software on phones he bought from China.

Google and Apple declined to comment.

To unveil the phone, he recorded an infomercial in which he cast the tech companies as enemies of the American way. “Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg banned MLK or Abraham Lincoln,” he said in the video. “The course of history would have been altered forever.”

At the same time, a series of right-wing personalities pitched the phone to their followers. They stood to earn $50 for every customer who used their discount codes.

Thousands of people bought the $500 phone. Others, including some conservatives, quickly panned the animated pitch. “It’s not a bad instinct,” said Zachary Graves, a tech-policy specialist at the Lincoln Network, a libertarian think tank. “But when I first saw the video, I was waiting for them to say ‘Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!’”

Quickly, news outlets reported that the Freedom Phone was based on a low-cost handset from Umidigi, a Chinese manufacturer that had used chips shown to be vulnerable to hacks. Mr. Finman, who marketed the device as “the best phone in the world,” was on the defensive.

In an interview in July, Mr. Finman admitted that Umidigi made the phone but still said he was “100 percent” sure it was more secure than the latest iPhone. Apple has tens of thousands of engineers. Mr. Finman said he employed 15 people in Utah and Idaho.

Mr. Finman said he wasn’t surprised by the criticism, but he was taken aback by the sales. That left him juggling responsibilities he hadn’t planned for, including certification with the Federal Communications Commission and special rules for shipping devices with lithium batteries. He hired people from his hometown in Idaho to staff a makeshift customer-service center and he struggled to sort out sales-tax issues.

Within a month of the phone’s release, Mr. Finman had a solution: sell someone else’s phone and act as the branding frontman. Just as Mr. Finman’s political inspiration, Mr. Trump, has sold Trump steaks and Trump vodka without running a cattle ranch or a distillery, Mr. Finman unburdened himself of the difficult task of actually managing a company that makes phones.

“When the going gets tough, bring in the 50-something-year-olds,” Mr. Finman said in a recent interview. “They can be the ones with the sleepless nights.”

He teamed up with a 13-year-old firm in Orem, Utah, called ClearCellular, which had already created a phone that was disconnected from Apple and Google. The company also had experience with logistics, shipping and customer service.

The companies added the American Flag wallpapers and conservative apps to ClearCellular’s device and called it the Freedom Phone. Mr. Finman said that the phone also has his “PatriApp Store,” though ClearCellular provides the technological support for the app store.

Mr. Finman will collect a cut, though they won’t say how much.

Reviews of the new phone haven’t been positive. CNET, the product-review site, said the $500 device appeared to be “nearly on par with a $200 budget Android phone.”

Michael Proper, 46, the founder of ClearCellular, said Mr. Finman was “really building a brand.” Creating a phone company is ambitious, but “not only software, security, hardware, but supply chain, inventory and capitalization,” he added. Mr. Finman’s strength is “connecting with folks inside of the freedom community.”

Mr. Finman said he had orders for about 12,000 Freedom Phones, putting revenue at around $6 million in just over seven weeks. Mr. Finman and Mr. Proper said they had about 8,000 phones left to ship. Mr. Finman declined to connect The New York Times with any customers.

Mr. Finman said that Mr. Proper “is like my Phil Knight, and the Freedom Phone is like the Jordans,” referring to the Nike co-founder who helped turn Michael Jordan’s shoes into a cultural and commercial hit.

The arrangement has freed Mr. Finman to focus less on running a phone company and more on building a political operation. In a telephone interview last week from Washington, where he was meeting with potential investors, he said the Freedom Phone could take on liberals in addition to freeing his customers from Big Tech.

He said that during elections, he planned to make the Freedom Phone direct users to nearby polling stations. And he aimed to create a news feed on the phone where he could promote conservative articles.

“I see it absolutely as one of the ultimate political tools,” he said. “Everyone has one in their pocket.”

Trump called the Taliban. "According to an official who listened to the exchange, Trump told him, 'You guys are tough fighters.' Then Trump asked, 'Do you need something from me?”

https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1469366162437849096