Eye of the Hurricane Type Week

9th Circuit, Fauci & the Texas Stock Exchange

Jun 09, 2024

Nice to enjoy a semi-light news week where most of the action was conjured outrage on social media with a few intermittent stories of interest popping through the Sound and Fury Fog.

As summer officially kicks off, most people are eager to get to the beach/bbq scene and hopefully put their Algorithm Programming and Outrage Machines (phones) down for a minute and enjoy the ‘real world’.

It's vital to remember that the reality presented through our screens is just a fraction of the broader narrative. What we see on our phones, while impactful, does not encapsulate the entire story.

It's all too easy to be absorbed by the narratives of imminent financial doom, ideological wars, and /Jihadist/Marxist/Race War social clashes the big tech overlords and clickbait media bombard us with daily, but if you put the phone down and walk outside or board a plane somewhere new you might be surprised to find that all types of people get along fairly well in real life and aren’t living or dying on the minute to minute outrage of the day.

I find encouragement in stories from friends who are escaping the chaos this month by going fishing with their fathers, hiking upstate, or simply enjoying a quiet moment on a porch. These snippets of normalcy serve as a refreshing counter to the disaster-laden monotony peddled by TV pundits and anti-social media.

However, this isn't to say that we aren't facing significant challenges. The battles ahead are real and demanding, but it's crucial to remember the reasons behind our struggles and the values we're fighting to preserve.

This summer, make a conscious effort to reconnect with family and friends. Plan that trip, attend that barbecue, and use your phone to catch up with an old friend instead of doomscrolling. Despite the tranquility we might currently experience, remember, we are still in the eye of the storm, and the situation could escalate. Embrace these moments of peace and human connection, fortifying yourself for the times ahead.

We’re still in the eye of the hurricane. Things will get crazier.

Here are the stories that grabbed my attention this week. 👇

Texas Stock Exchange

This week marked a significant development in the U.S. financial markets with the announcement of the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), set to be launched in Dallas. This new exchange is backed by prominent financial firms including BlackRock and Citadel Securities, aiming to offer a robust alternative to the traditional New York-centric exchanges like NYSE and Nasdaq.

The initiative to establish a Texas-based stock exchange is a pivotal development for several reasons, primarily enhancing the economic influence of the Southeastern U.S. Traditionally, while the South has been advancing in terms of economic, social, industrial, and agricultural growth, it has lagged in the financial infrastructure necessary to potentially balance or challenge the dominant Northeastern and Californian blocs. This new exchange could significantly shift this dynamic.

By creating financial platforms such as the Texas Stock Exchange, and exploring innovations like the tokenization of real assets and possible alternatives to the SWIFT banking system, the Southeast is taking steps to control its economic destiny. This is happening at a time when traditional power regions in the U.S., characterized by commie-led governments/municipalities and rising crime rates under progressive Soros DAs, are seen as declining in influence.

The broader implication is that the economic, cultural, and political center of gravity in the U.S. is increasingly shifting towards states like Texas and Florida, and more broadly, the Southeastern region. This shift could redefine the national landscape, positioning these areas as new hubs of financial and political power.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/new-texas-stock-exchange-takes-aim-at-new-yorks-dominance-e3b4d9ba?st=6wpkdl4jknif0sg

Fauci - For Whom the Bell Tolls

In the latest theatrical display within the chambers of Congress, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, marking his inaugural public testimony since his departure from the National Institutes of Health. Now that Fauci has publicly admitted that the 6-foot social distancing rule and efficacy behind masking was more or less entirely fabricated by him and wasn’t based on science, the session crackled with the electric tension of political theatre, underscoring the deep partisan divides that have cleaved public health discourse in the United States.

Republicans castigated Fauci and his associates for perceived missteps during the pandemic's zenith. They portrayed these public health officials as operatives within a larger bureaucratic machinery that often obfuscated more than it illuminated. Conversely, Democrats defended Fauci, lionizing him as a beleaguered yet steadfast public servant, whose career was being maligned by what they deemed politically motivated character assassinations.

Central to the proceedings was the revelation that Dr. David Morens, a senior scientific adviser closely aligned with Fauci, had allegedly maneuvered to skirt the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This act mandates federal transparency, compelling agencies to release requested documents unless exempted by concerns over national security or other sensitive matters. The committee disclosed that Morens had attempted to make certain communications vanish and advised on strategic misspellings in key documents to dodge FOIA disclosures—tactics that, if true, could suggest a troubling disdain for the principles of governmental transparency.

While this congressional session may start a series of repercussions for the corrupt little gremlin, it would be naive to rely solely on a GOP-controlled House to enforce true accountability. The complexities and potential biases within the political system, especially from the ‘Do Nothing Compromised Republicans’ suggest that expecting thorough oversight from any single party might be overly optimistic.

And so it begs the question: Where is DeSantis, Abbott, or some Southern AG willing to put integrity and their reputation on the line? Grab this guy next time he’s in your state. There’s an avalanche of information available to form the basis of a criminal indictment. Show the world as the Dems like to laughably claim, that “No one is above the law.”

Trump Conviction

Still lots of interesting fallout and unintended consequences we’re seeing from the Trump conviction.

The laughable absurdity of it all has emboldened many of the ‘silent majority’ and other independents to speak out.

First, here’s a couple of important articles highlighting the likelihood that it gets overturned on appeal. As I wrote last week, there were numerous cases of reversible error committed by Judge Merchan and in the end, it’s highly unlikely the verdict will stand.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-trial-violated-due-process-76fae047

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-america-anyone-can-be-a-felon-60c06503

Plus here’s a brief clip of liberal super lawyer and Democratic supporter Alan Dershowitz repeating what I’ve noted numerous times. Nobody actually knows what Trump was convicted of and the prosecution and the Judge erred badly in failing to notify Trump what the secondary crime he was being charged with actually was.

The recent verdict in Trump's hush money case, widely decried as absurd, has become a clarion call for many high-net-worth individuals and titans of industry who previously hesitated to openly support him. Notables like Sean McGuire, Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, and Chamath Palihapitiya—a formidable force in both technology and sports—are now stepping into the limelight to endorse Trump.

The previous societal and reputational barriers that deterred these affluent figures from public support are not just cracking; they are collapsing. This seismic shift is epitomized by events like the $500,000-per-plate dinner hosted by David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya in San Francisco, once a bastion of anti-Trump sentiment, which astonishingly sold out.

This change signifies a broader societal shift, suggesting that the constructs erected by legacy institutions and the prevailing regime are beginning to falter. This phenomenon could lead to profound implications in political, social, and economic realms as more individuals and influencers publicly align with Trump, signaling a potential realignment of established attitudes and power structures.

Here’s Sacks’ brief letter why he is supporting Trump. We’re aligned on this.

Why I’m Backing President Trump

As many press accounts have reported, I’m hosting a fundraising event for President Donald J. Trump at my home in San Francisco this evening.

Over the last couple of years, I have hosted events for presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as several Congressional figures in both major parties. I give to many, but endorse few.

But today I am giving my endorsement to our 45th President, Donald J. Trump, to be our 47th President. My reasons rest on four main issues that I think are vital to American prosperity, security, and stability – issues where the Biden administration has veered badly off course and where I believe President Trump can lead us back.

1. The Economy

President Biden took over an economy that was already recovering strongly from the Covid-induced shock of Q2 2020. Demand had roared back, and employment had recovered. But he chose to keep priming the pump with unnecessary Covid stimulus – almost $2 trillion of it, passed on a straight party-line vote in March of 2021, with trillions more to follow for “infrastructure,” green energy, and “inflation reduction.”

Biden did this despite early warnings from former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers that it could lead to inflation. When the inflation came, the Biden administration dismissed it as “transitory.” In fact, inflation still remains persistently high even after the fastest interest-rate tightening cycle in memory.

As a result of Biden’s inflation, average Americans have lost roughly a fifth of their purchasing power over the last few years. Moreover, any American who needs a mortgage, car loan, or credit card debt faces much higher interest costs, which further constrain their purchasing power.

It’s no different for our federal government, which now must devote over a trillion dollars annually to interest on its $34 trillion debt, a massive sum that’s been growing by a trillion dollars every hundred days. This trajectory is unsustainable, yet Biden’s 2025 budget calls for even higher spending.

Growth has already slowed from 3.4 percent in the last quarter of 2023 to an anemic 1.3 percent in the first quarter of this year. We can’t afford another four years of Bidenomics.

2. Foreign Policy / Ukraine War

President Trump left office with ISIS defeated, the Abraham Accords signed, and no new wars raging on the global stage. Three and a half years later, the world is on fire. President Biden has made several strategic choices that have contributed to this situation.

In his first year in office, Biden unnecessarily alienated the Saudis before realizing that they are an indispensable partner in the Middle East. He also presided over a chaotic withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan (right policy, abysmal execution).

But his biggest blunder by far has been in Ukraine. His administration immediately began pushing for Ukraine’s admission to NATO, despite no unanimity among the existing NATO members that such a move was a good idea. When this predictably antagonized the Russians, the Biden administration doubled down at every turn, insisting that “NATO’s door is open, and will remain open” with respect to Ukraine. Biden himself baited Russia when he said he didn’t “accept anybody’s red lines.”

After the invasion, there was still a chance to stop the war in its early weeks before much loss of life and destruction had occurred. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators had signed a draft agreement in Istanbul that would have seen Russia retreat to its pre-invasion borders in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality. But the Biden administration rejected that deal as well as General Milley’s advice to seek a diplomatic solution in November 2022.

As the war of attrition grinds on, the Ukrainians face ever-mounting casualties and infrastructure damage. Still, President Biden keeps allowing the conflict to escalate and risk World War III. Every escalation that Biden initially resisted – Abrams tanks, F-16’s, ATACMs, allowing Ukraine to hit targets in Russia – he has eventually acquiesced to. There is just one more escalation to go: NATO troops on the ground fighting Russia directly. And our European allies like Emmanuel Macron are already spoiling for exactly this scenario.

With Biden, our choices are limited to fighting the proxy war to the last Ukrainian, or fighting Russia ourselves. President Trump has said he wants the dying in Ukraine to stop, and that he will seek to end the war through a negotiated settlement. Ukraine will no longer be able to get the deal we talked them out of in April 2022, but we can still save Ukraine as an independent nation and avert world war.

3. The Border

As an immigrant to the United States myself, I certainly believe in America’s history of strengthening its ranks by welcoming talented people from other nations seeking freedom and opportunity. But that promise requires an orderly process of legal immigration that emphasizes skills and the principles of American citizenship. This was the preferred policy under President Trump.

What Biden ushered in was a de facto open border policy. On his first day in office, he repealed President Trump’s executive orders restricting illegal immigration and stopped construction of a border wall, selling off parts of it for scrap metal. This quickly resulted in a massive spike in illegal border crossings and a chaotic and dangerous situation on our southern border.

President Biden (along with the hapless Kamala Harris and the malevolent Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas) responded to growing concerns by gaslighting the American public, saying there was no problem at the border despite constant videos of masses of people sprinting across it.

When the situation became too dire to ignore or deny, Biden claimed he didn’t have the executive authority to do anything about it and blamed Republicans for not sending him legislation. But this week, facing abysmal polling numbers on this issue, Biden suddenly discovered he has executive authority after all. The order he signed is a tepid, too little-too late effort to slow the tidal wave of illegal immigration in time for the election. But Biden has shown he is not serious on this issue. If he wins a second term, the open border policy will resume, and tens of millions more illegals will stream across the border.

4. Lawfare

A bedrock of the political stability we’ve enjoyed in America over the last 250 years is that we don’t accept attempts to jail political opponents in order to win an election. Yet Biden has pushed for selective and unprecedented prosecutions of his once and future opponent from the moment he assumed office.

Merrick Garland took a long look at the January 6 situation and didn’t see a path to prosecute Trump, even after a one-sided Congressional committee sent a highly-prejudiced referral to his Justice Department. Press stories then appeared describing Biden’s frustration with Garland’s reticence. The result was Jack Smith at the federal level and Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis at the state level. All have pursued cases based on novel legal theories heretofore unseen and designed to get Trump. In the NY case, Bragg resurrected a dead book-keeping misdemeanor into 34 felonies by claiming it was in the service of a second crime that he never defined and that the judge never insisted the jury unanimously agree on.

My immigration to this country as a young boy happened because my parents disagreed with the political system of their home country. That government sought to solve its political disagreements by imprisoning its political enemies. What a sad irony that the lawfare we escaped has now reared its ugly head in America of all places.

President Biden keeps insisting that a return of President Trump to the White House threatens democracy. But his administration is the one that has colluded with tech platforms to censor the Internet, used the intelligence community to cover up his son Hunter’s laptop, and pursued elective prosecutions against his political opponents.

Conclusion: The A/B Test

The voters have experienced four years of President Trump and four years of President Biden. In tech, we call this an A/B test. With respect to economic policy, foreign policy, border policy, and legal fairness, Trump performed better. He is the President who deserves a second term.

Gender Transition Madness Pushback Continues

The American College of Pediatricians recently issued a forceful statement targeting major medical associations by name for their role in promoting gender transition madness among children.

They are calling on these organizations to "IMMEDIATELY cease promoting social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children and adolescents distressed about their biological sex."

It is high time that medical professionals adhered more closely to their foundational oath to "Do No Harm."

Good on the ACP for seeking to prioritize the well-being of children over potential financial incentives.

Here’s the ACP full statement:

"Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.

Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria.

We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.”

The link to many studies on their site: https://doctorsprotectingchildren.org

Like the Covid vax mandates and most of the other ‘public health’ policy that has been issued in the last few years by anti-science, anti-human proponents, one day soon we will look back and that the policies and experiments done in the name of ‘Science’ during the 2020s rivaled the worst of what we saw my a Mengele-led health establishment in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 40s.

9th Circuit Monkey Wrench in Vax Mandates

On the bright side, the 9th Circuit may have just removed legal liability protection from the mRNA shots.

The 9th Circuit has ruled that if a product doesn't claim to PREVENT THE SPREAD, it cannot be classified as a vaccine.

Since COVID shots were marketed primarily to "reduce symptoms" and prevent hospitalization, they are categorized as a TREATMENT.

Several points of concern emerge here, one notably archaic, tied to smallpox. Historically, the Supreme Court ruled that compulsory smallpox vaccination was constitutional, as public safety outweighed individual liberty—a precedent the defendants leveraged to seek dismissal of this case.

However, the plaintiffs challenge this, positioning their argument along therapeutic lines, supported by CDC documentation, thereby contending that the prior Supreme Court decision is inapplicable. The 9th Circuit noted that the district court misinterpreted this aspect.

Moreover, caution is advised because if this precedent is upheld, it could lead the government to assert that all vaccines effectively prevent disease transmission as a legal workaround, without ever acknowledging their limitations to merely reducing the severity of diseases.

In essence, while the 9th Circuit's decision is promising, it does not conclusively rule that COVID-19 vaccines cannot be mandated on the grounds of non-prevention of the virus. It simply acknowledges the plaintiffs' classification of the vaccine as therapeutic, which must be accepted as true at this juncture, thus the case remains viable and returns to the lower court for further deliberation.

And in case you missed it, this week the suspicions many of us have harbored all along—that the corridors of government are indistinguishable from the halls of big pharma.

In a striking exposé, the New York Post has unearthed that scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) pocketed a staggering $710 million in royalties from pharmaceutical companies during the pivotal pandemic years from late 2021 to 2023. This bombshell revelation, previously shrouded in secrecy by the NIH, casts a long shadow over the integrity of our health governance.

Astoundingly, the lion's share of these payments, about $690 million, found its way into the coffers of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and was divided among its 260 scientists.

This data only came to light thanks to the tenacious legal efforts of OpenTheBooks.com. Furthermore, their digging revealed that from September 2009 to October 2021, NIH scientists amassed $325 million in royalties over 56,000 transactions.

The cloud of uncertainty still looms over whether these figures include royalties from the blockbuster Covid vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna, especially since Moderna has already agreed to a $400 million settlement with the NIH.

Amidst all this, figures like Dr. Anthony Fauci and his deputy, Dr. David Morens, find themselves in the spotlight for their deliberate obfuscation and destruction of evidence in their communications and legal depositions. This saga underscores the urgent call for transparency in the intersection of government health agencies and the pharmaceutical industry.

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4 Hostages Rescued

Just this weekend as I finished this edition, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) successfully conducted a significant rescue operation in Gaza's Nuseirat area, freeing four hostages who had been captured by Hamas during an attack on the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7. The operation is noted as the largest since the onset of the ongoing Gaza war. The rescued individuals, three men and one woman, were identified as Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv.

It’s worth noting that had the Hamas/Qatar/Joe Biden backed ‘cease fire’ plan been accepted by Israel, it would have likely been a death sentence for these hostages and many others.

To believe the medieval Jihadist death cult of Hamas and their fervent supporters in Gaza are capable of governing under a ‘Two-State Solution’ in light of the last 20 years of evidence (and one particular morning last October) or that Israel would ever allow them to remain in power takes a special kind of delusion and stupidity.

Kudos to Israel and their leadership for resisting the public pressure to surrender.

Reminder: Hamas and their Palestinian supporters are still holding 100+ hostages including Americans.

What I’m Reading and Watching….

Good clip from Tucker on the Shawn Ryan show talking about the weaponization of media. The whole podcast is worth a watch but if you just have 10 min or so, watch this starting around 2:20:50

A bit highbrow, but Schmachtenberger is one of the most brilliant thinkers and sensemakers alive today. This is his first podcast in a couple of years. It’s worth a listen.

Poilievre, Bukkele and Milie remain the gold standard for conservatives & libertarian leaders. Where are the American GOP and conservatives that are fit to polish their shoes?

They should offer a mandatory masterclass to American political leaders how to push back against the Marxists and Mockingbird Media.