Need to Know: The Fetzer Report Episode 134 - 18 February 2021
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This is Jim Fetzer in Madison, Wisconsin, where I'm very pleased to be joined today by David Scorpio from the exotic land of Ecuador and Carl Hermann from San Ramon, California.
We're here to bring you all the news you need to know.
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We begin with a story about Joe Biden's long history of pandering to the Israeli lobby.
We've heard a lot about him being a wholly owned asset in China.
Well, it looks as though there's joint ownership here.
While Democrats accused Donald Trump of being a Russian agent, they don't seem to care that Biden's a bought and paid for agent of the Israeli lobby.
Here's a question he was asked way back when in the 1980s.
Rather than succumb to the influence of various lobbying groups in Washington, such as AIPAC, which promotes the views of Israel's right-wing Likud party and the untold amount of money they use to dictate policy, would it be more prudent to examine the real effects that collective punishment, daily humiliation, and countless civilian casualties inflicted by the Israelis have on an occupied population and use that understanding to formulate a more rational approach toward the Palestinians?
Well, Biden wasn't real happy about that.
He went up to him, did a nose-to-nose attempt at refutation, and then said at the end of the exchange, turned to the audience, if this was not such a fine, articulate, and sincere young man, and he implied that my vote had been bought, I would give him a swift kick in the ass.
The audience roared in applause, and he sat down defeated.
A friend, however, rose up telling Biden, If my father heard you say such a thing, I believe he would have done the same to you first.
Obviously he was hitting a sore spot during the 2020 presidential election.
pro-Israeli political action committees provide Biden with 3,830,209 compared to 955,174,
like a four to one ratio for Donald Trump, indicating Biden's vote in the Arab-Israeli
conflict has indeed been bought. Indeed, the Jewish Democratic Council of America,
a Jewish lobbying group promoting Democrat candidates, proclaimed no candidate for
president in either party has ever run with as long and as strong of a pro-Israel record as Joe
Biden, characterizing Biden as a bench.
A yiddish term for a man who does good deeds.
They pointed out that Biden as vice president supported unprecedented levels of security assistance to Israel, helping to shape the record 38 billion 10 year memorandum of understanding between the U.S.
and Israel signed in 2016.
There's much more to it, there's much more to it, but you can take it to the bank that the reason The Israeli lobby and Israeli assets in the mainstream were demonizing Trump and promoting Biden.
Suppressing bad information was because Israel thinks they've got an amenable ally, someone who can be pressured into attacking Iran, which I'm convinced is for them the bottom issue.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
Yeah, the Israelis have wanted a piece of Iran for a long time.
And maybe Joe is their man to get it done.
But I'll tell you, if they attack Iran, it's not going to be a walk in the park like it was with Iraq.
It's a whole different ballgame.
Iran's a mountainous country.
They have a million-man army, and it's going to be a tough fight.
I hope it doesn't happen.
There's absolutely no reason for it, and it doesn't benefit the United States in any way, shape, or form.
And of course, let's not pick on old Joey the Groper.
You know, most of D.C.
is bought and paid for by the Israeli lobby.
You gotta wonder how such a tiny country can buy the majority of the politicians in such a large country as the United States.
And of course, the reason for that is that Israel has direct access to the magic Shekel printing machine and, you know, the Rothschild Central Banking system and they're very close allies.
You could say Israel really is sort of a private country of the Rothschilds.
Many streets and monuments are named after the Rothschild family.
And the country could have never happened without, you know, the magic shekels from the Rothschild family.
You know, that's disturbing, isn't it, Carl?
Yeah. Joe sure likes to threaten to beat people up, doesn't he?
He did that to Trump.
So Israel is operating the world's largest concentration camp in Gaza.
And the one published paper I have, Emperor's New Clothes, published by the Claremont Colleges, I have a whole section on the lies that Israel does towards Gaza, including that in 2005, Iran's political leader, Ahmadinejad, Give a speech where he admonished Israel for operating this concentration camp on Gaza and he used a phrase in Farsi that was translated as to erase from the page of time and corporate media said that what?
Ahmadinejad threatened was to wipe Israel off the map.
So if you think of all of the evil things that you could accuse another country of doing,
saying that their political leader threatened to annihilate your entire country
probably is on the top of the list.
But if anybody wants to read that 2005 speech, all that Ahmadinejad said accurately is saying,
look, if Israel doesn't clean up their act and actually respect the Palestinians,
they're gonna end up the same as the Shah of Iran did, the same as the USSR, the same as Saddam.
So, Biden is just a tragic comic joke.
I think you're right about the mistranslation of the speech, clearly deliberate to give them a tool to attack Iran for threatening to annihilate Israel when they were really, he was really talking about the political regime in Tel Aviv and that that too shall pass with time, not that they were going to wipe Israel off the map.
There might be, you know, those who think that's not Such a bad thing.
Meanwhile, CNN paid Antifa agitator at the Capitol riots.
Now we got the receipts to prove it.
This is John Sullivan, who appears to have played the crucial role.
Politico reported Sullivan, who had captured the death of the allegedly pro-Demonstrator, but she appears to have been a fake.
The shooting a fake and Ashley Babbitt doesn't appear to have been a Trump supporter on video after what appeared to be a stage event and then uploaded the video and several other incriminating himself but nevertheless would not be banned from social media.
Get this.
A federal magistrate judge has turned down prosecutors' effort to block a man accused of participating in the Capitol riot from using Twitter and Facebook, but ordered him to end his involvement with a business he founded that the Justice Department says promotes and glorifies violent protest.
A defendant, John Sullivan of Utah, has maintained that he attends raucous demonstrations as a journalist, sharing videos through his InsurgentsUSA website and social media platforms.
Sullivan's defense attorney even filed invoices with the court showing that CNN and NBC each paid Sullivan's firm $35,000.
That's each of them.
Last month for rights to video he filmed of chaotic scenes outside and inside the Capitol, including the, they call it deadly shooting, allegedly deadly shooting, CNN went beyond merely ignoring a BLM Antifa sympathizer's role, but invited him on as a mouthpiece.
This is very embarrassing.
Here's a licensing agreement.
Notice this is a court document.
Here's another of a deposit from NBC.
35 grand.
Let me say, as someone who's worked for a top cable news show, these bookings do not happen without a basic background check.
CNN had to have known.
The political report also highlights the role he played in agitating the mob.
Prosecutors contend Sullivan is not a mere bystander, a chronicler, or a protestant.
Instead, he actively encourages violence, telling viewers how to make Molotov cocktails and evade identification by police.
He was arrested last month on charges stemming from the January 6th riot, including Interfering with police during a civil disorder.
He was later hit with an additional charge, obstruction of Congress.
This guy is here posing as a Trump supporter.
Clearly he was an agitator, a provocateur, Where he was even scaling the wall.
Plenty of other suspect aspects about the video including evidence and coordinated tactics like passing up shields, water bottles and the like.
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend watching this video breaking down what appears to be a coordinated action that led to the apparent death of a Trump supporter when asked if he were a member of Antifa.
As he uses a hashtag in his social media posts, he says he understands where there could be confusion.
People are saying I'm Antifa.
As far as a terrorist organization, I'm not.
Am I anti-fascist?
We are all anti-fascist.
And that's what we should all strive for, being a minority organization, Insurgents USA.
And that's what it's for.
That's really what it is.
The media have gone beyond refusing to ask critical questions about him and his role.
Because of his association with the radical left, they literally paid a leftist agitator who worked to frame Trump supporters for citing an insurrection and gave the criminal an open platform to spread his propaganda.
This is what the U.S.
media has come to in its open bid to destroy Donald Trump.
That's a rather revealing report.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
Well, Jim, isn't this Sullivan character, isn't his father some kind of a general, right?
Yeah, he and his brother appear to be adopted children of an Air Force general, yes.
Right.
So, you know, this guy, you know, not only did he, you know, supposedly work for CNN and other mainstream media outlets, you know, $70,000 isn't a bad payday.
My guess is he was sort of a low level informant, a low level operative for the FBI and or the CIA.
And they're just flushing him now.
And we'll see if he really gets in any trouble.
And some of these charges that they're charging the Capitol rioters with are awfully strange,
like disrupting Congress and illegally entering a federal building.
These charges are just, there's some other ones.
I don't remember off the top of my head, but they're just awfully strange charges.
And some of them carry like 10 to 20 year sentences for, you know, what's essentially a pretty minor infraction.
So we'll see what happens to this guy.
Um, he's got deep state kind of low level operative written all over him from his family background, his connections to the media.
And, uh, you know, it's, it's one of these guys like, uh, Yeah, a lot of the charges are actually conspiracy, you know, conspiracy to whatever and so forth.
on people in the groups he belongs to.
And they might go ahead and flush this guy and let him do a little bit of time.
We'll have to wait and see what happens.
Yeah, a lot of the charges are actually conspiracy, you know, conspiracy to whatever and so forth.
Carl, your thoughts.
This guy.
So the payoff is prima facie evidence of criminal complicity of corporate media of pre-planning for the riot.
And there he is talking to CIA intern Anderson Cooper on the air.
And the show goes on.
So whatever.
This is just more tantalizing little hints and clues and teases.
But man, we have until March 4th before a lot of patriots are done with this show and start taking more, I don't want to say aggressive or forceful, but more active... Personal responsibility.
Personal responsibility to uphold the Constitution.
Yeah, I think the evidence of this being contrived is so overwhelming.
Trainwreck!
Kamala Harris stammers incoherently when confronted about the Biden administration's failure to reopen the schools.
Harris fell apart Wednesday when confronted about the Biden administration's failure to reopen schools during an interview with Savannah Guthrie.
The CDC director has already stated there's data to suggest schools can be reopened safely.
But the Biden administration is not listening to the CDC, is not following the science, because they're bowing down to toxic teacher union.
The Biden admin got major backlash from admitting their goal is to have more than 50% of K-8 schools open one day a week by April 30th.
Kamala had no answer and stammered incoherently.
This incompetent woman is taking head-of-state calls for a dementia joke.
We have no real leadership right now.
Here's a full exchange for a goal to open as many as possible.
Meanwhile, don't say aliens.
The Biden administration has instructed officials to use inclusive language To describe people in the country illegally.
The Biden administration has instructed DHS officials to use more inclusive language.
To drop the word alien, use instead non-citizen.
The changes are reported to be part of an effort to portray itself as more welcoming on immigration than the previous administration under Trump.
Which use terms such as illegal aliens to describe people who bypass U.S.
laws and security perimeters to enter and remain in the country, no doubt because they were illegal aliens.
According to Axios, an email sent to U.S.
citizenship and immigration services officials have said they want to use more inclusive language In their outreach efforts, they're instructing to stop referring to people as illegal aliens or aliens or undocumented aliens, but instead use the term non-citizen, undocumented non-citizen, or undocumented individual.
It also encourages officials to discontinue the use of the term assimilation in terms of integration and begin to refer to those who apply for benefits like green cards as customers.
Interestingly, besides planned use in the agency's internal communications and those it has with the public, the wording changes are not set to affect forms or operational documents, where using the previous terminology is deemed most appropriate.
That fact indicates the changes are nothing more than a messaging makeover of PR stunt.
By continuing to soften language associated with illegal immigration, illegal aliens, and the like, they hope to move public opinion toward greater acceptance of illegal entry and favor for open borders.
Words are being replaced, or in fact the most accurate technical terms to describe those, acknowledging the term alien is routinely found within the U.S.
Code, regularly referenced in the immigration system, Robert Law, a former Trump administration official, noted, by statute, alien literally means a person, not a U.S.
citizen or national.
That is not offensive and neither is assimilation.
Scorpio, your thoughts about this semantic game being played by the Biden administration?
Well, you know, Jim, the whole purpose of this, you know, the bottom line here is, yeah, using language to manipulate people's perception.
And I think the bottom line is that the whole purpose of the Biden administration Is going to be to con the American people into accepting this globalist agenda and every facet of it is not going to help the American people.
In fact, quite the opposite.
It's all going to be detrimental towards people's rights and their freedom.
And you know, you look at this, you know, encouraging illegal aliens to come in.
This is hurting the job market.
It lowers the value of labor.
And it makes it more difficult for Americans who are, you know, playing by the rules to get a job that pays a decent wage.
You cannot champion, you know, workers' rights and at the same time champion open borders and illegal aliens.
It's just the two stances are contradictory.
And again, this is just a con job to get Americans to accept an agenda that's going to be very detrimental to their own well-being.
I don't think it's going to play well with the American people.
It's not as though we had a super abundance of job openings that Americans cannot fill.
Carl, your thoughts?
Maybe they can work on the pipeline.
Oh, no, they can't.
So Kamala Harris, that propaganda was just so perfect.
This is why that woman, if she is a woman, was polling at 3% when she was trying to become a presidential candidate.
I listened to that.
It's like 98 seconds.
And it is just pure BS.
She says, oh, we want what you want.
But really, the name of the game is to keep those two schools closed uh keep people fearful because if the schools opened up then you would discover that people weren't going to be getting sick and it's just like any other flu season for the changing of the language exactly Scorpio they attack the language first they always attack the language first because they don't want people to understand anything they want people to be confused they want these open borders they want to bring everybody down to the to the bare minimum um
So the sorry tragic comic opera continues in this field as well.
Well, I think your point about her low popularity, she was the first Democrat to fall out.
She didn't even make it to Iowa for crying out loud.
Just shows the arrogance, the insulting of the American people by putting individuals of this low quality and incompetence and positions of power over us all.
Well, Jim, if I could just add one thing about Kamala Harris.
Yeah.
You know, I thought the article using the term trainwreck was a very accurate term.
And really, what I think they're doing is they're just sort of bringing her out, letting her practice for when she becomes president.
And clearly, she needs a lot of practice.
She's not terribly charismatic or likable.
And she completely choked during that interview.
I heard that.
It was pathetic.
She was fumbling and bumbling the whole way through it.
She's not all that bright to begin with.
I do dare say, though, it is because she is a woman that she's in any position of influence.
Made her way to the top on her back.
Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70.
I think Rush Limbaugh truly was a major contributor to American political, intellectual life.
Trump told Newsmax, Rush was unique and a great friend, lamenting the death, spellbinding a great friend, I got to listen to him a few times going to lunch with my dear friend here in Madison, Rolf Lindgren, who's very keen on Rush, and I became very impressed with the quality of his intellect and his articulation.
We lost a great one today, Trump said.
Russia was just a unique character and a great friend to us all.
So we lost a really great gentleman today.
He recalled the announcement of bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh last year's State of the Union, describing how sick he was.
He knew a little bit about it.
And we had to, because he was quite ill.
It's amazing he lasted this long.
Only a strong person could have.
And he was actually in the hospital and came from the hospital quite a distance away.
He was very excited.
He was great.
That was more emotional than anything else.
If you look at it, that was a real deal emotion.
Rush was really something.
He dismissed ideas of replacing Limbaugh on the radio, saying he was one of a kind.
A lot of people mentioned that.
No, not something I thought about.
He'd be a hard one to replace.
You don't want to follow Rush.
It's the old story.
You get somebody like that, you don't want to follow them, because some things just can't be done.
He was unique.
Meanwhile, Hollywood celebrities are celebrating his death.
One even claiming cancer killed the cancer.
Left-wing Hollywood celebrities wasted little time in popping the champagne corks following news of Rush Limbaugh's death.
The Breitbart reported, a 70-year-old conservative radio legend died Wednesday morning following a battle with advanced lung cancer.
His wife, Catherine Limbaugh, announced at the beginning of Wednesday's radio program.
Ignoring any sense of taste or decorum, the star is piled on with nasty insults, including actress Amber Tamblyn, who wished Rush Limbaugh to R.I.P., rot in purgatory, and her husband, actor David Cross, declared that cancer killed the cancer.
Other Hollywood elites who celebrated Limbaugh's death included John Cusack, Marc Maron, Larry Charles, and Star Trek veteran George Taki.
David Cross and Amber Tamerlan led the Hollywood hate parade with matching his and her insults aimed at a radio host.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
Well, you know, that's just bad form to rejoice over someone's death unless they're truly an evil person.
And, you know, Rush certainly wasn't that.
I mean, whether or not you agreed with his politics or not, he was certainly a man who had tremendous talent.
But ultimately, you know, he was sort of a propagandist.
He kept the, you know, the narration and the narrative, you know, within a certain confine.
And, you know, he said some good things, but it just shows you that, you know, if you're going to be on television or major radio, you're just not going to be allowed to say certain things.
And if you start saying those things, you'll lose your job very quickly.
But it is sad when you hear people rejoicing over someone's bad fortune.
It's just bad form and it shows really the left really aren't tolerant at all.
That's a one-way street with all that tolerance nonsense.
I think you're spot on.
Carl, your thoughts?
You know, guys, we were afraid that Biden's leadership wasn't providing any real leadership, but I think Biden threatening to punch people in the face and take people behind the gym, I think it's taught those people well about how to respond.
For Rush, you know, I listen to him support the little W. Bush's wars of aggression, and I think Scorpio is right that if you're only allowed a limited part of the debate, there's nobody who is going to be allowed as a post-partisan patriot to expose the empire's crimes and corporate media's lies.
And this goes back again to what we're seeing with the Biden administration, is that they want these pre-submitted questions only, so that they can rehearse and that they can practice.
It's the same thing that they had for the debate.
So if you get anybody with intellect in the media, they would just roast these psychopathic, anti-leader, puppet, cue card readers, because that's all they are.
Oh, you make a great point that these people are so incompetent they have to have prepackaged questions to prepare their answers because they can't deal with it on the spot.
I think that current state of American journalism is completely deplorable and therefore I wanted to share what Tucker had to say about it of late.
I thought this was really spot on.
Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson.
Tonight we spend an awful lot of time in the show night after night trying to explain what is happening to our country.
And it's depressing a lot of the time because the answer is always the same.
America is not rotten.
It's a great place.
The people who run it are rotten.
So you've been betrayed by the people who lead you and that's why things are so volatile.
What you're looking at is a crisis of our institutions.
Our institutions are corrupt.
Some of them are collapsing.
We say that a lot because it's true, but we should be more precise.
Not all of our institutions are the same.
Some of them are bad.
Some of them are awful.
But looming above the rest is the worst of all, and that's the news media.
They're the most corrupt.
How corrupt is the news media?
Imagine a drunken teenage border guard at the crossing between Togo and Burkina Faso shaking you down at midnight as you pass through.
The New York Times is much more corrupt than that.
The media are more crooked than Jimmy Hoffa ever was.
They're more dishonest than your average bribe-taking building inspector in Queens.
They're more treacherous than the mafia.
They make cops in Tijuana look trustworthy.
You'll get a fairer treatment from an inner-city DMV than you would from CNN.
Ask Nick Sandman.
We could go on.
Words can barely express the truth of it.
Watching the news on television makes you question the system itself.
In what version of, quote, meritocracy could someone like Chuck Todd get rich and famous?
Dumb and conventional now passes impressive?
It's insulting.
But rather than be insulted, we've decided to pause for a moment and look at it a different way.
Yes, the news media are profoundly dishonest.
All of us lie from time to time.
That's the human condition.
But imagine if lying was your job.
Imagine forcing yourself to tell lies all day about everything in ways that were so transparent and so outlandish that there is no way the people listening to you could possibly believe anything you said.
Then imagine doing that again and again and again every day of your professional life for your entire life.
Could you do that?
If you could, CNN has an opening on the media analysis desk.
Call them immediately.
But if you're a non-sociopathic normal person, the answer obviously is no, you could not do that.
You could never lie like that.
So you've got to kind of respect the people who can.
They're like Olympians in reverse.
They achieve feats so dishonorable that you gasp in horror as you watch them.
But at the same time, you've got to respect those skills.
Take a look at these gold medalists in duplicity and ask yourself as you watch, could you say something like this with a completely straight face about Kamala Harris?
She's incredibly successful and she does everything professionally with the utmost integrity.
Kamala Harris is independent, successful, strong, but she's also a devoted wife and she's not ashamed of that.
And I would say that her performance as a running mate was flawless.
I mean, other than Barack Obama in my career, I've not seen anybody really who came in with that kind of raw material.
She fits the moment in such a powerful way.
She is what every working woman strives to be.
Of course.
She's flawless.
Kamala Harris is everything women want to be.
False, hollow, cunning, consumed with political power.
Really a model for your daughters.
Make that woman vice president!
And so they did.
And on the night they did, they celebrated.
In fact, celebration might be too mild a word.
What happened on cable television that night is typically, and by law in a lot of places, confined to bedrooms and other private spaces.
But that night they did it in public, and they were proud of it.
Here was primetime over on CNN.
How you feeling?
I almost can't talk right now because of the emotion.
Everyone is welcome under this tent.
We don't care who you are.
We don't care if you voted for us or not.
You're all part of this American experiment.
I was so overwhelmed to hear that.
I don't care what people think, if they think I'm biased or not.
I don't care.
And so I'm very emotional.
So when you ask me how I'm feeling right now, I'm sorry.
That's all I can tell you.
This is how I feel right now.
I am so happy to have this platform to be able to do this.
I may not have it after this, but I really don't care.
I am so happy.
Everyone is welcome under this tent.
They're all invited.
Except the white supremacists and the QAnon people and anyone else who disagrees with anything we say.
They're all going to jail.
But the rest are more than welcome to stay and obey our commands.
It was that kind of night.
Festive, good-hearted, magnanimous.
Months later, as the inauguration neared and the Biden family made its victorious procession into the capital city, the mood lifted even higher.
I have chills, wrote one editor at the New York Times.
She was feverish with joy.
CNN rousted its poet laureate from lunch and led him to the set to commemorate this moment.
Here's the sonnet he wrote for the occasion.
Those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it's like almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.
Not everyone is as poetic as David Chalian, the man you just saw.
That's why he's CNN's political director.
An ordinary journalist might not even have noticed that Joe Biden's arms are like twin beams of light shooting forth from the reflecting pool, embracing America as a mother embraces a child.
No, an ordinary journalist might simply have described Joe Biden's arms as toned and tawny and redolent of musk and saddle leather.
Not everyone is David Chalian.
But not everyone needs to be David Chalian.
The thing about journalism is it's not an individual achievement.
It's about the group.
In journalism, it's the collective spirit that matters.
Like synchronized swimmers or certain species of insects, journalists move together in concert as a herd, if you will.
When Joe Biden writes a talking point, they repeat it.
Not just a few of them, but all of them in precisely the same way.
Think of reporters as the North Korean gymnastics team celebrating Kim Il-sung Day in a soccer stadium in Pyongyang.
They move as one.
Watch this clip, for example.
Members of the press corps inform you that this new group of politicians in Washington is very different from any other group of politicians in all of human history.
Unlike the rest of them, these people are committed to something called the truth.
President Joe Biden making it clear his administration will be nothing like his predecessors with a focus on truth, science, and transparency.
A commitment to clarity, transparency, science, and truth.
A return to normalcy as the Biden administration vows truth and transparency now.
As the Biden White House vows transparency and truth when sharing information with the American people, what does that mean?
We're going to talk about it.
As this White House promises to bring truth and science back to the White House.
Getting back to the truth, valuing the truth.
Now there's a refreshing concept.
Who does that remind you of, by the way?
We don't even patriarchal here, but if we're being totally honest, that sounds a lot like dad.
A little blunt sometimes, but honest.
A straight shooter.
Solid, reliable, steady.
That's Joe Biden.
Above all, Joe Biden's a family man.
Took the train back to Wilmington every night to the 10,000 square foot estate a campaign donor bought from in exchange for unregistered lobbying on behalf of credit card companies.
Biden's not like the last guy.
Joe Biden's family is refreshingly normal.
There aren't any weird sex scandals or protracted drug problems or ongoing criminal investigations you've got to worry about.
Want to know what the Bidens are doing this weekend?
A recent headline in Newsweek will tell you.
Quote, Joe Biden wins in Mario Kart race against granddaughter at Camp David.
It's wholesome stuff like that, not secretly lobbying for China, not impregnating strippers from Arkansas.
No, they're playing Mario Kart with the grandkids, just like you.
At the heart of this great American family is a love story.
One man, one woman, and the fires of passion that changed the course of our history.
Not since Anthony dined with Cleopatra in downtown Antioch, before they killed themselves, obviously, has a country witnessed a love story as moving and poignant as Jill and Joe's.
No, ladies and gentlemen, Jill Biden is not Joe's caretaker.
She isn't his nurse.
She's his fully equal romantic partner.
Together, they are the wise and knowing parents of a nation.
As a headline from Politico on Valentine's Day put it, quote, So it's official.
The Biden's affection is totally real.
It's in no way part of a slick PR campaign devised by cynical consultants determined to hide the president's senility by misdirection.
Not at all!
Their love is as real as climate change!
The Politico story begins this way, quote, On a mission to rebuild institutional norms and help heal a hurting nation, Joe and Jill Biden are trying something novel after four years of the Trumps.
A little tenderness.
That's right, America.
A little tenderness.
The Biden's love is like medicine.
It's more powerful than the COVID vaccine and you only need one injection.
Watch Dr. Joy Reid prescribe a whole lot more of it.
What a story, though.
What a great love story between Jill Biden and Joe Biden.
It's just a different kind of marriage.
This is a love match, like the Obamas were, so I think that'll be healing for the country, too.
Yeah, it will be.
The Biden's love will be healing for this country.
It'll make us whole again.
It might even stop looming hyperinflation, keep the Chinese Navy from closing the South China Sea to international shipping.
That's the kind of love it is.
When you've got a love like that, it emits a magnetic tug.
People can feel it.
They seek you out like pilgrims to bask in your healing rays.
Here was the scene on the White House lawn just this weekend as reporters from across the region threw down their crutches and approached America's reigning apostle of love, hoping to graze the hem of his garment and be healed.
How do you extend that love story to the American people that are feeling so down right now, so discouraged?
Tell them there is hope.
There's hope.
You just have to stay strong.
This lifted your spirits.
I hope you didn't have to come out of this when it was so damn cold.
Next time bring us coffee too!
I wasn't sure you'd all be here.
We'll be here.
Love your dogs!
I'll bring the donuts next Friday if you come back.
I'll bring donuts.
I love your dog.
I apologize, I didn't even have a taste.
I didn't even have a taste.
Come on.
I promise you.
I'm going to get in trouble.
I don't have my mask.
I give you my word.
I didn't have any.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate it.
I'll bring donuts.
I love your dog.
And above all, how can your love heal this nation?
Good evening and welcome to Tucker.
Stunning and how Tucker could keep a straight face through all that just astounds me.
Uh, Scorpio, your thoughts about Tucker's... I think parody is probably the right word.
Yeah, that was disgusting.
Well, you know, it's quite a contrast compared to the 24-hour, 7-day-a-week Trump hate that we've experienced over the last four years.
The mainstream media is going to do everything they can to pump up Joe Biden, because they know damn well that his agenda is going to be extremely unpopular.
This is really akin to gaslighting, because what he's going to do is going to really damage America and the American people.
And, you know, it started at the beginning with, you know, oh, Joe, you know, adopted a rescue dog.
Isn't that wonderful?
He's such a compassionate person.
But meanwhile, President Trump kicks puppies.
You know, I mean, it's really it's really that kind of a contrast.
And seeing him hand his coffee over to the to the reporter.
I mean, this is just a shameless display of a relationship that shouldn't be that way.
You know, the media isn't supposed to suck up to the president.
They're supposed to at least offer some resistance or challenge to And act as a check upon the power that these people hold.
But you're going to see this continue throughout the entire Biden administration, no matter how outrageous his behavior is.
And, you know, I couldn't help but laugh when they when they compared Joe's relation with his wife to Michelle and Mike.
I mean, Michelle and Barry Obama.
Unbelievable.
I couldn't help but laugh when you consider that, you know, old Mike has a root growing where most women don't.
Yeah, I think Jill actually is a woman and which cannot be said for Michelle.
Carl, you're the best.
Well, Tucker reminded me of how Rush would operate.
I mean, very cogent, powerful argument, but what's left out with all of that is to be able to call the central fact of criminal behavior requiring arrest and that anybody should be able to push through.
I remember Tucker selling the wars under W. I remember David Ray Griffin as a guest on Tucker and Tucker saying that any challenge to the 9-11 official story was blasphemous.
So that was an impressive photo shoot that looked like it was in front of the White House rather than what we've seen previously with the disconnected stage walls in the Oval Office and the White House press room having a whole different ceiling Some building on the outside windows with a red wall that matches the Culver City lot.
And of course the top of the press room filled with lights and larger spaces for the air ducts and more vents to cool the people off.
So I was impressed with the cinematography for that shot.
Yeah, but I would notice it was all outside.
I don't believe they've been allowed inside the White House.
I think this was a try to create the impression.
When it wasn't, in fact, the case.
And, you know, you're right about Tucker has a weakness with regard to conspiracies.
I think he still believes Lee Oswald shot JFK.
I believe he still thinks we went to the moon.
And he clearly still thinks that 19 Islamic terrorists attacked us on 9-11.
It's a real weakness.
Because in so many other ways, he shows a great deal of intellectual strength.
But not regarding conspiracies.
Meanwhile, Cuomogate, a Nixonian scandal, is engulfing New York.
This is pretty fascinating.
The biggest political scandal in America is playing out in New York, where Cuomo is in a lot of trouble, and rightly so.
He didn't merely wildly mismanage his state's response to the COVID while netting himself a lucrative book deal and an Emmy.
He did something worse.
He used his office to help one of his largest political donors shield himself from legal consequences as 15,000 nursing home residents died from COVID.
Then he and his administration under-reported the death toll to help the same donor.
The Daily Poster has been covering this story for months before it exploded last week.
It's a cautionary tale of hubris, megalomania, and corruption that left a literal mountain of preventable COVID deaths in its wake.
Now we're about to see whether a blue state's democratic institutions can't hold wrongdoers accountable, or whether America's culture of impunity can once again protect the powerful from facing any consequences at all.
Amid a cacophony of demands for Cuomo to resign, and word of a potential federal investigation, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the basic facts of what happened, launching a Nixonian campaign of intimidation and retribution against lawmakers who are sounding the alarm.
Two national outlets today detailed Cuomo's new campaign of retribution against one lawmaker of his own party, who dared to ask questions about constituents and family members who died under Cuomo's nursing home policies.
For months, these questions were ignored by the national media, far more interesting and valorizing Cuomo than in reporting inconvenient facts, but they are worth reviewing.
Cuomo's machine raked in $2 million from industry groups.
Cuomo's political machine brought more than $2 million from the Greater New York Hospital Association, its executives, and lobbying firms.
They also funneled more than $450,000 to members of the New York Legislature.
Cuomo helped industry shield nursing home execs.
Cuomo's budget included a provision shielding hospital and nursing home executives from legal consequences if their corporate decision killed people during the pandemic.
Its corporate immunity law went national.
Cuomo's corporate immunity provision was quickly copied and pasted into other state laws and Senate Republican legislation in near word-for-word fashion.
The liability shield spread from New York to other states, where now some 27 have similar.
Cuomo's immunity law endangered lives.
While nursing home executives were enjoying their liability shield, Cuomo's office was vastly underreporting the number of COVID nursing home deaths, according to the Attorney General of New York, normally considered a Cuomo ally.
The immunity laws could be wrongly used to provide any individual or entity from liability,
even if those decisions were not made in good faith or motivated by financial incentives,
and included in the report from the attorney general.
That the provisions provided financial incentives to for-profit nursing home operators
to put residents at risk of harm by refraining from investing public funds to obtain sufficient staffing
to meet residents' care needs.
Cuomo's top aide admitted withholding the information.
Melissa DeRose admitted that they withheld it, and it did so to avoid political and legal consequences.
We were in a position where we weren't sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice or to the state legislatures was going to be used against us.
In the last few days, Cuomo has refused to apologize or support any serious effort to fix it.
Instead, he's deploying his political machine against Democratic legislators who've been bravely demanding answers.
For example, when State Senator Alexandria Bragi said she was concerned about a potential link between campaign cash and corporate immunity, he deployed his spokesperson to attack her.
Left had said Cuomo's own immunity legislation became the basis for other states.
Similarly, both CNN and New York Times are reporting on allegations that he made enraged threats against the Democrat lawmaker who chairs the New York Assembly's committee.
And CNN reports that threats were made against those who are considering a vote to strip Cuomo of his emergency powers.
Kim's uncle died of a presumed COVID in a nursing home.
He told the Daily Poster that the public must understand the undercounting of nursing home deaths and the corporate immunity law are not two separate issues.
They are part of one large scandal in which New York's governor prioritized protecting his political sponsors rather than the public interest.
Noting lawmakers were considering legislation in August to rescind corporate immunity.
Kim said Cuomo's motives to hide information deprived lawmakers of necessary information at precisely a time they could have reformed the law to hold nursing home companies accountable.
If they shared all the data, we would have passed different policies.
We would have gone in a different direction.
We could have revealed legal immunity entirely.
If we had the full data set, I think we had a much stronger argument to reveal.
But the data wasn't forthcoming.
It was hidden.
It served the interests of the lobbying group, dumping more than $2 million into Cuomo's political machine.
This burgeoning scandal and cover-up evokes memories of Nixon's enemies list and his infamous declaration that when the president does it, that means it's not illegal.
Four decades later, the Biden Justice Department, state law enforcers, and Albany legislators will now decide whether that same ideology of lawlessness and impunity We'll continue to extend not only to nursing home and hospital execs who've avoided consequences for a gruesome COVID death toll, but also the state governor who helped them get away with it.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
Well, you know, this article is shocking in many ways, but, you know, it's actually a lot worse than covering up nursing home deaths.
It's much, much worse.
Cuomo had, you know, infected people moved into nursing homes.
I mean, I'd say that's tantamount to intentional murder, first-degree murder, to actually help, you know, sell this COVID narrative to the public.
Look at all the people that are dying.
I mean, you bring even somebody with the flu or a bad cold into nursing homes.
People that are already on death's door are susceptible to possibly die from something like that.
You don't have to be a medical expert to know that kind of thing.
So, you know, really Cuomo could be charged with murder in a more sane society, but we don't live in that society.
Instead, Mario Cuomo, I mean, Governor Cuomo has what received an Emmy Award Uh, for his, you know, best performance for, uh, pushing the COVID narrative.
And he wrote, he managed to write a book, uh, during this, uh, so-called, uh, COVID emergency.
He had time to write a book on top of, uh, receiving an Emmy.
And, you know, they love to give, uh, their operatives these bogus awards to try to make it look like they're really popular.
They're doing a great job.
Uh, this is really outrageous and, uh, really, if you think about it, this man could theoretically be charged with murder and conspiracy.
I think he just cashed in his presidential chips.
Carl, your thoughts?
Yeah, nipples should, uh, nipple rings should be charged with murder because If you contrast his actions, his policy, exactly as Scorpio said, with medical advice, competent medical advice, you do not transfer people who are sick and are elderly, and you certainly don't put them into an environment where you're going to put other people at risk.
It's just that simple.
And then to lie by 50%?
For the death toll.
So this is just more tragic comic propaganda.
This is pay to play, pay to play politics.
This is just, and then the attack against the dissenters who dare to point to the facts.
This, this ridiculous show does go on.
Yes, yes.
And it's getting more attention, some of it from surprising sources.
This comes from Reader Supported News.
This is a left-wing organization authored by a left-wing zeller.
Cuomo and Newsom symbolize the rot of corporate Democrats and the dire need for progressive populism.
The governors of New York and California, the most populous states led by Democrats, now symbolize how slick liberal images are no substitute for genuinely progressive priorities.
After 10 years as Governor, Cuomo is facing an uproar for the revelations that he intentionally and drastically undercounted COVID in nursing homes in California.
The once bright political glow of Gavin Newsom has dimmed.
In large part because of personally hypocritical elitism and zigzag middle ground approaches to public health safeguards during the pandemic unduly deferring to business interests.
Political circumstances differ.
Cuomo's been in conflict with New York Progressive for many years over key policy issues while Newsom was somewhat of a golden boy for a golden state Progressives, if they didn't look too closely at his corporate-friendly policies, but some underlying patterns are similar.
Both of them know how to talk progressive, but they're corporate Democrats to the core.
On many issues, Cuomo has aligned himself with Republicans to thwart progressive initiatives.
Similarly, Newsom's moderate record has hardly caused for the state's huge number of left-leaning voters to be enthusiastic.
Anyone who thinks the current Cuomo scandal about nursing home deaths is one-off, rather than reflecting deep-seated corporate orientation should take a look at investigative reporting by David Sirota that appeared nine months ago.
Cuomo gave immunity to nursing home execs after big donations.
Now people are dying.
Sirota actually also authored the piece we just reviewed.
As Governor Cuomo faced a spirited challenge to win in New York's 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost.
A powerful healthcare industry poured more than a million into the Democratic committee backing his campaign.
Less than two years after that flood of crash, from the Greater New York Hospital Association, he signed legislation quietly shielding hospital and nursing home execs from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.
The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo AIDS, created one of the nation's most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.
It's now completely grotesque.
On the other side of the continent, Newsom is second to none in sounding the alarm about climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels, but Newsweek's reported during his first two years he approved more than 8,000 oil and gas permits on state lines and continued to issue many fracking permits.
His immediate predecessor, Jerry Brown, became fond of crowing that he governed the way a person would steer a canoe, paddling sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right.
A metaphor didn't answer the question of where the boat was headed.
Andrew Cuomo's father, Mario, was New York governor for three terms at age 35.
The younger was appointed to be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Development by President Clinton, who promoted him to Hunt Secretary four years later.
...and headed him toward the White House, toward the governor's mansion in Albany.
From the outset, Newsom has been enmeshed with power, as longtime California journalist Dan Walters recently observed.
He wasn't born to wealth and privilege, but as a youngster was enveloped in it as the surrogate son of billionaire Gordon Getty, later getting his personal trust fund managed by Newsom's father.
Provided financial for business ventures that made Newsom wealthy enough to segue into a political career as a protege of San Francisco's fabled political mastermind Willie Brown, just as Kamala Harris segued her way into politics through the bedroom of fabled political mastermind Willie Brown.
It's possible to transcend such pampered upbringings.
FDR did it, but failure to show credible concern for the working class and serve their interests have put both Cuomo and Newsom in today's political pickles.
When elected official like they fade, the solution is not to find like-minded replacements.
It isn't the brand, it's the quality of the product.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Genuine progressive populism, insisting government should strive to meet widespread social needs rather than the special interests of the wealthy and corporate elites, is threatening to disrupt the complacency of mainline Democratic leaders who have long coasted on merely being better than Republicans.
But in fact, in this case, the Republicans are better than the Democrats because Donald Trump made the Republican Party a populist party for the working men and women of America.
Meanwhile...
It's been almost a year.
Many governors are soon unilaterally ruling over their states under emergency declarations in the wake of COVID-19.
But some state legislatures say enough is enough.
It's time to rewrite the laws that gave governors extraordinary inputs.
In nearly 25% of states, a governor has a sole legal power to issue a terminated emergency.
If nothing else, the last 12 months show America how easy it is to threaten the concept of representative government.
Why is pushback needed from state legislatures?
All one needs to do is contrast California and Florida.
Relative to their large population are experiencing similar percentage of COVID cases and death, yet their approaches couldn't be more different.
Democrat Governor Newsom locked down California for the last year, enforcing some of the harshest shutdowns in the country.
Florida Governor Republican Ron DeSantis is taking the opposite approach.
Outside of mask wearing and social distancing, it's hard to tell there's an ongoing pandemic in the Sunshine State.
Many of the laws governors use to justify their action were intended for events like natural disasters or terrorist attacks, not public health crises.
But that didn't stop them.
The courts generally prefer not to get involved during something as impactful as a pandemic.
However, if the courts won't step in and legislatures can't in an emergency, what's to stop a governor from renewing declarations and using that power indefinitely?
Fortunately, 16 state legislatures are fighting back.
Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, India, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington.
It's clear the state legislatures are wary of being locked out and not able to represent their constituents during a pandemic.
Let's hope these reforms bring to light the danger of placing too much power in the hands of one branch of government and that checks and balances will be restored permanently, even during a pandemic.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
Well, that article you wrote from the progressive left was actually very well written and made a lot of great points.
It's about time somebody on the left side of politics saw one of the major elephants in the room.
You know, because it wasn't that long ago that the left was very reticent towards corporate power.
They stood up for the working man, workers' rights, and they were staunchly anti-war.
And of course, that's all been replaced and it's all been swept under the rug.
Now the left seems to want to just push a homosexual agenda, tranny rights, transvestite
rights, transsexual rights, and open borders.
And I'm glad to hear someone on the left sort of reclaiming the ground on which they used
to stand that actually helped provide something of value to the American people because gay
rights and open borders doesn't cut it.
And having the Democrats join in as war hawks has been a terrible development for everybody.
And you know, Gavin Newsom, he's part of the Pelosi crime family, essentially.
He's a criminal, someone that has absolutely no morals whatsoever.
You know, back when he was running for re-election as mayor of San Francisco, he had an affair with his campaign manager's wife while he was married.
And he had, you know, an affair with his campaign manager's wife.
So, this just says something about a person's character, you know, that you would do that.
And the man is just an opportunist, nothing more.
He doesn't stand for anything good or anything to help the people that he represents.
And, you know, it's about time that people start taking a second look at these governors, because I think what a lot of these governors have been tasked to do is to help destroy the economy of their state under the guise of COVID.
And they receive these orders from somebody way up higher on the food chain than a governor.
Because so many of them have done it, and we don't know how they've convinced these people to do this, either through blackmail or a numbered account in Luxembourg or something like that.
But it's about time someone stands up and say, hey, we're not going to just stand back and let the economy of our state be completely destroyed by a political operative Because, you know, this is serious, Jim.
People are losing their lives.
They're losing their ability to pay their mortgages, pay their bills.
And I just saw an article today that in New York City, close to 90% of renters are having trouble making the rent payments in the next couple of months.
So we're looking at some major, major economic damage that's going to be unthinkable if people don't wake up and start taking action.
You're absolutely right.
It was all predictable and foreseeable.
If you shut down businesses, there's no revenue.
If there's no revenue, there's no basis for taxes.
If there's no basis for taxes and no revenue, people can't pay their bills, their mortgages.
Everything else goes to hell.
And if you want to contrast California and Florida, Florida wins hands down, no contest.
And of course, Newsom is the nephew of Nancy Pelosi, that crime family you described so aptly.
Carl, your thoughts?
Yeah, to the extent that those writers are actually doing some critical thinking and independent analysis, good for them.
They have a long way to go.
This is not progressivism.
If it was progressivism, they would demand universal health care.
They would demand the end of wars.
They would have demanded that Bush and Cheney be impeached.
and strung up as war criminals. This is, I, so I did a little bit of lobbying with Newsom when he
was the mayor of San Francisco for public banking and he was so slimy he promised us everything and
then did nothing as usual. So, you know, the writers, I hope they keep on going.
The idea that these people are saying that, oh, maybe there'll be challenges in the primaries.
What?
On the Dominion voting machines?
And then what?
You're not going to mention that you already got screwed in the 2016 and 2020 primaries where Sanders won?
So we'll see.
I guess I'm kind of happy they're moving in the right direction, but they need a lot more.
Oh, you've got that right, Carl.
No doubt about it.
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Here's a comment on one of my videos about the Posner vs. Fetzer Sandy Hook lawsuit.
He says, very bizarrely peculiar that they attack guns for causing deaths, but COVID and the killer vaccines prove they want to kill millions of people.
The only logical answer to this is the 10 stages of genocide.
They are applying all of them, everywhere possible, and by all means possible.
I think Theo has a point.
Hi, Jim.
Your David Sirota story is good, but it misses a few points.
Cuomo's been pushing vaccines in general for years due to huge donations.
Ditto for the state legislature.
They passed a draconian no exemptions even medical or religious for children who must get 69 vaccines in total.
I spoke to Rebecca Seawright and told her they needed to change that as my friends may move out of state because they can't send their kids to school.
Cuomo has also been lobbied, according to the New York City Ombudsman, with donations for nursing homes for years, to not have a minimum number of nurses and aides on the floor.
That means more profit in chronic understaffing.
Even when Hydroxine was approved, the local nursing home were using the Zelenko combo.
I have emails about it.
Cuomo, under industry pressure, then decided you can't give Hydroxine.
It killed a lot of seniors that way.
As to the COVID vaccines, even the nursing home managers and doctors are raking in money promoting them.
No one has caught on yet that Cuomo deliberately sending infected people back into nursing homes to smear Trump.
Cuomo immediately blamed Trump for the deaths he caused, and Trump denied the order to send them back in was federal.
Meanwhile, we know this guy isn't the real Joe Biden.
It's all bizarre.
Meanwhile, miss me already?
I thought so.
He sure got that one right.
Meanwhile, my Twitter account was completely wiped out in the last two days.
All gone.
I had some 6,250 tweets.
I had about 5,000 followers.
All gone.
I'm now on Telegram.
Check it out.
The link t.me slash Jim Fetzer News and t.me.
Need to know news as well.
For our ongoing efforts, and all our shows are going to be archived there, as well as other places.
Meanwhile, remember the False Flags and Conspiracies 2020 conference.
Check it out.
Remember, the secret of freedom lies in educating people.
The secret of tyranny, in keeping them ignorant.
Final thoughts.
Scorpio, yours.
Well, Jim, I guess you have a dangerous mind.
That's why Twitter had to delete you from the Twittersphere.
I think that's a badge of honor in many ways, so good for you.
And, you know, about the hydroxychloroquine, you know...
It's really amazing the attack they've made on this drug.
You know, it costs about 50 cents a pill, which says a lot as to why they don't want it used.
And you'd think that, look, if we have this deadly disease and we don't really have a known cure, they'd at very least say, look, Here's some hydroxychloroquine.
Take it.
We don't know if it'll help you.
Maybe it will, but it certainly won't hurt you because it's been used for close to 70 years.
So it's a very safe drug.
It's used all over the world.
And isn't it interesting in Africa and a lot of South America, it's used, as they call it, the once a week pill to prevent malaria and other diseases.
And look how low the rates of so-called COVID are in much of Africa.
It's a sad state of affairs where they want to stop simple, cheap, easy, safe, and effective cures that could be helping people.
And it's all because they want there to be only one option, which is the vaccine.
There's no other options, citizens.
And that's what they're shooting for.
So, what can you say?
That's about it.
Thanks, Scorpio.
Carl, your final thoughts.
Well, we've had a month of Joe Biden as president, at least under the official story, and I hope that there are white hats that are willing to cancel the show after a month.
And that's really the only hope that I see.
All the facts are on our side, but what else is new?
Until we get some help.
to arrest these blatant criminals and looters and liars and psychopaths, then we're just going to be talking to the few percent who are willing to hear us while everyone else goes ahead and falls down in fear or gets shot, literally and figuratively.
So, I hope that the White Hats are ready to stand up.
I certainly am ready for that.
This is Jim Fetzer in Madison, Wisconsin, thanking David Scorpio from the exotic land of Ecuador and Carl Herman from San Ramon, California, for the excellence of their commentary week after week after week.
The situation is becoming completely intolerable.
We have two incompetent clowns that are President and Vice President of the United States.
They have no idea what they're doing.
They're completely unqualified for their positions.
One is demented.
The other is a mental midget.
It's embarrassing, and there's clearly a plot afoot to murder Americans on a wholesale scale never before seen in world history.
Remember, Diegel projection going from 330 million Americans in 2020 to less than 100 million in 2025.
That's a death of 230 million Americans in less than five years.
That's a death of 230 million Americans in less than five years.
Look around.
If they are able to succeed, two out of three of your fellow residents, your neighbors,
your friends, your relatives are not going to be alive in a stunningly short period of
time.
HCQ is the obvious cure.
Quick, cheap, readily available.
Anthony Fauci took the lead in depriving the American people of having access to that wonder drug regarding this threat, which has been so grossly exaggerated.
Don't stand by passively.
Take care of yourself and your family.
HCQ is the solution to COVID.
Mass and coronavirus shots are not, mind you.
They have a master plan where the mass are killing us slowly, so they want to multiply how many you're supposed to wear, and where the coronavirus shot, it'll kill you faster, But where the ultimate plan is to control the food supply, so most of those who are going to die in the next few years will be from starvation.
This is why Bill Gates is buying up farmland at an unbelievably phenomenal rate.
I wish the news could be more positive.
But we need to turn this apple cart over or we're all going to perish together.
Stand by for what we have yet to report.
I'm glad you're here, but brace yourself because it's going to be a rocky couple of weeks ahead.