Better in their words…

Field report evidence; disclosures suggest Biden coordinating Trump prosecutions; Covidian madness; Army accountant steals $100M and nobody notices; SADS actor cluster; Texas standoff; more.

Source: TEXAN STANDOFF ☙ Sunday, January 14, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 

THE C&C ARMY POST

🪖 FIELD REPORT: Michelle and I attended another wedding yesterday, our second consecutive weekend wedding. Blessedly, this one was local and didn’t require an overnight stay like last week’s out of town ceremony. Like last week’s, yesterday’s marriage was between a young Christian couple; one of whom is the son of long-time friends. Both weddings were unapologetically faith-focused. They were heartening, encouraging, and optimistic.

Yesterday I spoke to two people the Covidians say don’t exist.

At the wedding dinner I spoke to an old friend who, apologizing for his bad memory, confessed to a chronic, worsening vaccine injury. He avoided the shots until he wanted to stay at a certain hotel in California in 2021 requiring up to date vaccinations. Walking by a vaccine clinic, he made a snap call to get Pfizer.

He said it was the worst decision he ever made, and every single day he wishes he could time-travel back and stop himself.

Previously healthy, my old friend has become of the walking wounded. He now visits over ten doctors working on his new issues including: memory loss, chronic fatigue, hair loss, vision loss, hearing loss, balance problems, depression, and heart irregularities. He can only sleep at most 90 minutes at a time, so he’s considering filing for permanent disability.

He’s been too tired to research potential solutions apart from what his doctors are telling him. So I gave him some suggestions as best I could.

Curiously, my friend said he feels pretty sure all his big-hospital doctors “know what’s really going on, but they’re just afraid to talk about it.” Indeed.

Later in the evening I chatted with another friend, an ER doctor from North Florida, who is not afraid to talk about it. Long a Team Reality doc, he said there seems to be a building consensus among his hospital colleagues that the jabs “weren’t all they were hyped up to be.” Among plenty of other intel, he confirmed seeing a huge wave of atypical cancers, usually first presenting at stage 4 in the ER. Optimistically, he said his anecdotal experience was this year’s new cancer cases seem a little lighter than last year around the same time.

I’m not sure what kind of life experience the people still claiming the shots are lifesavers are having. It kind of reminds me of how after 2016, celebrities were going around saying they don’t know anyone who voted for Trump. Whatever, they must be having a very different life experience than me.

What have you guys heard from extended friends and relatives? Let us know in the comments.

WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY

🔥 Well, well, well. A story is developing that, if true, could blow a gigantic hole in the side of the SS Trump Prosecution. I’ll show you two headlines. The first ran yesterday in OK News, since corporate media hasn’t yet gotten anywhere near this part of the story:

The gist of the story was that before and during her criminal case against the President, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) visited the Biden White House three times between April 2022 and August 2023, according to White House visitor logs that Trump published this week. Nobody seems to be denying it.

What would AG James need to do at the White House? It is highly suggestive she was there at all, especially around that timeframe, but it’s not inconceivable there could be a good explanation. I’m guessing we won’t hear any good explanations.

The next case is harder to explain away. Which is probably why the story ran in Newsweek last Tuesday:

Raises questions is one way of putting it.

I’m sure you recall last week’s remarkable story about District Attorney and homewrecker Fani Willis, who indicted Trump for election crimes in Georgia, and her married squeeze Nathan Wade, who she’s paid almost $700,000 in the last 12 months for his “help” with her case, even though Wade has never worked on a high-profile felony case before.

Not to mention all the luxury vacations the two have been taking. But that’s just a side issue.

The developing, possibly much bigger story is that Mr. Wade has been a chatty Kathy with the Biden White House.  His communications are disclosed right in his invoices:

By his own records, Wade spent most of a day conferring with White House counsel in Athens, Georgia in May, 2022, and a full day conferring with the White House somewhere in DC in November 2022. To keep the timeline straight, DA Willis indicted President Trump in August 2023, which means she must have started working on the case in Spring 2023 at the latest.

The timeframe is highly suggestive. But even apart from that, Wade has zero background — apart from his involvement in the Trump case — that would justify two days of White House counsel attention. Among the many“questions raised” is: did DA Willis also attend the same meetings with DC counsel?

The two stories are starting to look a lot like White House coordination of both state-court criminal cases against Trump. In other words, I know this will be shocking, the prosecutions may not have arisen totally organically after all.

If Biden procured the two Trump prosecutions, that alone could justify impeachment.

🔥 The New York Post published a full-on Covidian op-ed about the post-pandemic (thinly disguised as a news piece) so completely over-the-top that at first I was sure it was satire. But shockingly, it was not satire. It was 100% serious. The piece was headlined “After COVID’s devastating toll, the US needs a ‘Pentagon’ for diseases,” and was penned by newspaper editor Donald G. McNeil, Jr., who led The New York Times’ covid coverage. Ostensibly, McNeil was hawking his new book, which I won’t name since he’s a dangerous moron.

When McNeil said he wanted a “Pentagon for Disease,” he was not joking. McNeil advocated for an armed, militaristic bureaucracy to force citizens to follow his public policy preferences. He seriously called for appointing a military-style general and arming a whole new military branch. I am not making that up, but I understand why you probably still think this is some kind of a gag.

Let us be charitable though, since although he may be high-functioning, Mr. McNeil is probably suffering from some kind of profound mental illness that makes him terrified of germs. As usual for Covidians, he came so close to the truth but whiffed and completely missed the point. The op-ed got off to a good start with McNeil recognizing that, during the pandemic, the United States saw “more deaths per capita than any other developed nation.”

The logical next step was to try to figure out why — which would have led to how over-governed our response to the pandemic was compared with other countries as a realistic explanation for why we lost so many. But McNeil never put two and two together. He shot right past US covid deaths and landed on a giant pile of policy manure, concluding the outsized US covid deaths are explained by too much freedom.

I’ve edited the important bits of his piece into a short summary. In Donald’s own, remarkable words, he embraces a stark, iron-fisted utilitarian ethic that has no patience for so-called individual rights:

To do better, we must create a Pentagon for disease. (In my book,) I favor vaccine mandates in crises like COVID-19 and oppose religious vaccine exemptions. I even defend Fidel Castro’s imprisonment of Cuba’s early AIDS victims.  I back ironfisted responses to epidemics for a simple reason: We must choose the path that saves the most lives.

The greatest danger is never the virus itself, but the collective psychology of the response. All too often, it becomes mired in denialism, fatalism, bigotry, rumor-mongering, profiteering and partisan politics.

The Constitution is silent on health, so we need laws that kick in during crises. Vietnam, by compelling citizens to take their pills, drove down its sky-high rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis over three decades. We must (also) control travel; In early 2020, residents fleeing New York and Seattle spread COVID nationwide.

We should not tolerate quacks who lethally betray their fellow citizens for money. (Therefore,) we must have ways to stop and even imprison doctors who prescribe false cures. We must even be empowered to draft doctors, as we did during the Korean War.

We may even want to introduce ranks and uniforms like those worn by the Surgeon General to add a dose of gravitas to their mission.

If you think McNeil seems to be suggesting some kind of Hitlerian, brown-shirted army of enforcers, and if you think McNeil is deliriously dying to shove his life and property into the hands of faceless bureaucrats who he fantastically believes can somehow save him from viruses, you’d be right.

It’s clear that the brain tumor that must be growing in McNeil’s skull is making him hallucinate germs as tiny military enemies who can be defeated with the right strategy, the right weapons, the right military metaphor, a “war on disease,” and we’ll be fine if we can just toss state’s rights onto the ash-heap of history as more tired-out, failed ideas, and transform the country into a relentless, top-down, autocratic, dystopian technocracy.

McNeil’s brain — or what’s left of it — is stuck, mired in a crazed mid-pandemic spirit that admired China for being able to enforce lockdowns on entire cities and to forcibly “quarantine” uncooperative citizens.

But China’s zero-covid policy ultimately failed, as ultimately, grudgingly acknowledged in countless similar headlines:

I wasn’t so much surprised that the New York Times’ head editor is an all-in Branch Covidian, or that he wrote a book about it. I was surprised that his editorial appeared in the New York Post, and not the Times. There are at least two stories there. Anyway, Leana Wen gave McNeil a plug and called his book “one of the most enlightening books on public health” she’s ever read:

But, even after his wild, provocative New York Post editorial, McNeil’s new book only has one user review, and it’s a stinker:

Whoever rated the two stars didn’t bother leaving a written critique. I haven’t read it myself, but I can already tell that two stars seems generous.

🔥 Speaking of the Pentagon, the San Antonio Express-News ran a shocking story Thursday headlined, “IRS flagged San Antonio woman accused of stealing $103 million from Army.” Among other things, the story was a terrific example of why we do not need any new Pentagon of Disease. The Pentagon we already have is bad enough.

Meet Janet Mello, 57, informally an entrepreneur, formally an Army civilian ‘financial program manager’ at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. In December, Janet was indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing over a hundred million dollarsfrom the Army over eight years or so. Janet’s job was issuing financial grants to Army-approved private entities. After a burst of creative energy, in 2016 Janet formed her own fake nonprofit called “Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development” (CHYLD).

She just wanted to get in on the same deals she saw everyone else taking advantage of.

Over the last eight years, Janet paid about 40 fake invoices from her charitable non-profit, using the money to amass: a Trump-like real estate portfolio of 31 luxury properties, including her eight-bedroom, 55-car garage, 58-acre estate in Maryland; a “Jay Leno-esque” fleet of 78 collectible, classic cars and vintage motorcycles; squirreled away more than $18 million in various bank accounts; and acquired a vast jewelry collection.

You have to admit she has vision.

The whole time Janet was stealing taxpayers blind, nobody in the Army or anywhere else in the federal government had the job of making sure the $100 million dollars produced anything helpful at all. In other words, so much money flows through the U.S. Army that they don’t even notice the odd missing $100 million here and there.

“It speaks to the nonchalant-ness of the command and its lack of internal controls,” said a person “familiar with the investigation” who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to dish to the media. “They stove-piped the process to only one person,” said another source ‘familiar with the investigation,’ referring to Army leaders. “They gave her complete carte blanche, and she found all the loopholes.”

The Army never caught on. Janet was only pinched because the IRS noticed a discrepancy between her lifestyle and her reported income, which accidentally omitted the hundred million. Needless to say, Janet never reported all the money the Army paid her CHYLD company. Somehow the IRS caught on, something Janet missed, and the rest is history.

All the recoverable property will soon be forfeited to the government, and Janet faces decades in prison if convicted by a jury. But what about the people who were supposed to manage her?

🔥 Tomorrow, Iowans will brave subzero weather to cast their votes in the Republican caucuses and things should get even more interesting. Nothing is certain — Iowans can surprise you. For example, Ted Cruz won in 2016, beating Trump. This time Trump, however, remains well ahead in the polls, for whatever they are worth. Here’s NBC’s take:

💉 TMZ ran a widely-covered story yesterday headlined, “‘All My Children Star Alec Musser Dead at 50.” Just like that.

TV star, celebrity, and fitness model Alec Musser, 50, died suddenly and unexpectedly AT HOME on Friday night. No cause of death was disclosed, and nobody saw it coming. He wasn’t even depressed. As TMZ said, “On its face, nothing seemed to be amiss … making his passing all the more shocking.”

Uh huh.

What’s even more shocking is that a few months ago in September, another All My Children actor, Emmy-winning Billy Miller, 43, also died suddenly and unexpectedly.  At the time, no cause of death was reported, but in December the coroner ruled his death a suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Billy had alcohol and cocaine in his system.

Suicide has been associated with vaccine injury, as C&C has covered before.

Before Billy’s death, in July All My Children star Jeffrey Carlson, 48, also died suddenly and unexpectedly, and again, no cause of death was initially reported. But unlike in Miller’s death, the coroner did not release any reports on the even-older tragedy. For some reason.

Jeffrey’s older brother Gregory, 63, also died in January 2023. We don’t know anything about Gregory’s death though.

In sum, that makes a cluster of at least three young, healthy, successful actors to all die suddenly and unexpectedly within about six months on the same show. What are the odds, and so forth?

Or a better question may be, why didn’t all this week’s stories on Alec Musser mention the two previous recent sudden deaths? Seems newsworthy enough for a sentence or two. But news about the All My Children cluster has been … crickets. Chirp, chirp.

🚀 Reuters ran a story this morning resolving a lot of media excitement headlined, “World reactions to Taiwan election.” Unsurprisingly, the pro-U.S. candidate won. Surprisingly, he won with the lowest votes, getting only 40% in a multi-candidate race.

According to the story, Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and Britain’s David Cameron congratulated Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te. But yesterday Biden also said the United States does not support Taiwan’s independence.

One can only imagine what happened behind the scenes as political T-Rexes China and the U.S. battled to ensure the “right” outcome of yesterday’s vote. But the news was no news; it’s status quo ante.

🔥 In a wild, developing story evoking serious commentary about “civil war,” Fox News ran an article this morning headlined, “DHS claims Border Patrol blocked by Texas from entering area to rescue migrants who later drowned.” On Friday night, Homeland Security filed an emergency petition in federal court alleging that the Texas National Guard was blocking federal agents from accessing a popular crossing point at Eagle Pass on the Rio Grande.

Physically blocking them. With guns and humvees and things.

The Eagle Pass area has made legal news before, most recently after federal border patrol agents were caught on video removing razor wire that had been carefully installed by the Texas National Guard, prompting lawsuits and injunctions. Then on Friday, the TNG dramatically closed the area without warning, refusing to let the federal officials enter, which prompted the emergency DHS petition on Friday night.

Now it looks like DHS has raised the stakes, using deep-state psyop techniques by claiming that Texas National Guard negligence allowed two illegal migrants to drown while they were illegally attempting to cross the Rio Grande in pitch-black darkness to avoid getting caught by the Texas National Guard.

Bizarrely, somehow the Mexican government called in a distress call to the Border Patrol in the midst of the drowning. How the Mexican government knew about the tragedy while it was happening is anyone’s guess. I won’t tell you my guess, but you probably are thinking the same thing.

Fox reported the Texas Military Department confirmed it was contacted by Border Patrol about a “migrant distress situation” and searched the river with lights and night vision goggles, but no migrants could be found anywhere. The developing narrative seems to be that the Texas National Guard is somehow responsible for the migrants’ safety, even though the migrants chose not to use available, safe, legal means to enter the country but were actively trying to hide from the same people who were supposed to be responsible for rescuing them.

Or something like that.

With amazing speed, and not coordinated at all, Representative Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) issued a social media statement about the deaths, blaming Texas for failing to “work with” the Border Patrol, and assuming that, if the Border Patrol hadn’t been excluded from Eagle Pass, then this whole terrible tragedy would have been averted. The White House also issued a statement that connected the drownings to so-called “political stunts” by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

I’m not sure that I can remember any time a state government used military assets to block federal agents from doing anything. The closest thing anyone can think of is when blue cities and states ordered local officials not to cooperate with federal immigration officials, but non-cooperation is a whole different thing than a deliberate show of force.

Remember the Alamo!

🔥 Finally, Vermont’s local NBC-5 ran a heartwarming story Friday headlined, “Vermont State Police troopers pulls off incredible rescue after girl falls through ice into pond.” Enjoy this dramatic bodycam footage of heroic Vermont State Trooper Michelle Archer selflessly diving into a frozen pond and rescuing an 8-year-old girl:

CLIP: Vermont Trooper Michelle Archer saves 8-year-old (1:59).

Thank you, Michelle! Michelle’s partner also rescued the girl’s 6-year-old sibling. To me, beyond the amazing heroism and the inspiring details, this story optimistically showcases America’s tenacious grit and her generous spirit. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Have a blessed Sunday! And dive back in again tomorrow morning for more Coffee & Covid, which I promise will warm you right up.

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