Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks to a congressional panel in Washington on Jan. 11, 2022. (Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Finance & Business Ties

By Frank Fang January 17, 2022 Updated: January 17, 2022 biggersmallerPrint

Dr. Anthony Fauci invested in the Chinese regime’s corporate “national champions,” large Chinese companies that advance Beijing’s interests and benefit from state policies, in a 2020 investment portfolio, according to recently disclosed financial records.

??Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) obtained the records (pdf) and published them on Jan. 14, which showed that Fauci had $10.4 million in investments, including holdings in several funds, at the end of 2020. One particular fund was named the Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund.

The fund invested 42.7 percent of its investors’ capital on companies based in Hong Kong and China, according to a fact sheet (pdf) published by the private investment firm Matthews Asia in September 2021. Those companies included Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holdings, Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing, Ltd., and Wuxi Biologics Cayman.

The fund’s portfolio companies were initially reported by Breitbart.

Tencent Holdings, a Chinese technology and entertainment conglomerate based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, is best known for being the owner of popular messaging app WeChat. The app has drawn scrutiny from the U.S. government on national security concerns.

Tencent is also known for complying with the Chinese regime’s censorship rules in China and for extending its monitoring and censorship to U.S. users of WeChat.

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce and technology giant founded by billionaire tech entrepreneur Jack Ma, and Tencent were among several Chinese companies named in 2017 by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology on the communist regime’s “national team” for advancing artificial intelligence.

U.S. officials have warned about the two Chinese companies.

In 2019, Christopher Ford, who was then the assistant secretary of state for international security and non-proliferation, said China’s technology giants, including Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, have “become deeply enmeshed in Beijing’s system of oppression at home and its increasingly assertive strategic ambitions globally.”

Wuxi Biologics Cayman, a biopharmaceutical company listed in Hong Kong, has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to a 2021 article published by China’s news portal NetEase, the firm was among several Chinese companies inking a partnership deal with the municipal government in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai, in forming a “party-building alliance.”

One of the things that the alliance would allow the participating companies to do better was sharing information on improving the “cohesiveness and competitiveness” of their “party organizations.”

Aside from the Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund, Fauci’s 2020 investments also include Pimco’s investment-grade bond fund and the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provided the documents to Marshall after a request from the senator. The request came after the two clashed during a Senate hearing last week when Marshall confronted Fauci over his financial information.

After publishing the documents last Friday, Marshall accused Fauci of lying about them in a statement from his office.

“Just like he has misled the American people about sending taxpayers dollars to Wuhan, China to fund gain-of-function research, about masks, testing, and more, Dr. Fauci was completely dishonest about his financial disclosures being open to the public—it’s no wonder he is the least trusted bureaucrat in America,” Marshall stated.

The senator also announced that he will introduce the Financial Accountability for Uniquely Compensated Individuals (FAUCI) Act, so that financial disclosures filed by government officials would be more readily available to the general public.

The NIAID and Matthews Asia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

Thought I’d share this updated pre-2020 election LAME project since it still seems applicable to this ever evolving (and unraveling) betrayal of OUR COUNTRY AND ALL HER LEGAL VOTING CITIZENS by LEFTIST DEMO-RATS, their minions and the “useful idiots” who followed the rest of that herd blindly. Ah oh…. did I just commit a potential gotcha by the left? lol

THE LEFT’S NEW AMERICA MEANS A NEW LANGUAGE REGULATED BY……? CARE TO TAKE A GUESS?

Words. This new America that the LEFTIST DEMO-RATS are illegally pushing on the rest of us is destructive in so many ways. Seems common usage of any word now runs the risk of being INTENTIONALLY misinterpreted and tagged for being inappropriate, mean, hateful, insulting, etc.,. This word/term censorship is said to protect and defend others. Really? That’s disingenuous in itself. aka, the real BIG LIE!

HOW DO WE LEARN?

Corrective criticism is fine, that’s how we traditionally learn but government censorship (executed through it’s proxy authorities such as former main stream media outlets ) is not about education and the proper use of words, much less protecting anyone (but themselves) but rather just a convenient method to eventually control, and/or stop, all communications that those in authoritative positions do not approve. Word usage is reduced to a form permitting much easier control of the “offending message” containing that “action word”. (Can you imagine a smoke signal communication by some indigenous people being flagged for the wrong color of smoke? Time of day? Incorrect spacing between plumes when such was not necessary for the recipient’s understanding? Or the “proper approved log” with which to audibly drum out your message? The color of a carrier pigeon’s plumage having an affect on the meaning of the message it carries? blah blah blah – it’s all about STOPPING THE MESSAGE dictators do not approve!)

SORRY, YESTERDAY THAT WAS PERMISSIBLE, BUT NOT ON TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS BETWEEN 2200-0300hrs

What’s especially convenient to these “language tyrants” (often uneducated themselves and only “enforcers” of what they have been told by their handlers as to what is permitted or prohibited) is that such “permitting or prohibition” of communication can change instantly without any semblance of a reasonable explanation for halting someone’s desire to communicate with others – except CURRENT AUTHORITIES DO NOT APPROVE OF THE COMMUNICATION.

WERE AUTHORITIES EVEN PRIVY TO THE MESSAGE DISAPPROVED? (Or just an officious intermediator?)

Rather like writing a letter to someone, attaching the stamp on the envelope, placing it in the mailbox, but rather than it being delivered to the addressee as anticipated you find it the next day in your mailbox, envelope opened with your letter corrected in red ink by an unknown person stating:

“You should rephrase or replace paragraph three because use of the term “rigged election” is prohibited and therefore cannot be processed through the government postal service. You will also need to purchase a new envelope and postage stamp at your cost and upon your second attempt at mailing (if you really want to do this) please do not seal the envelope in order to facilitate a more efficient processing experience. Thank you for using your government mail service”.

SO….

Was my use of the word “blindly” in the above sentence “….who followed the rest of the herd blindly”.,…an inappropriate use of the word “blindly” because some third party could “call it out” as some sort of a negative and hurtful meaning targeting those who are sightless and incapable of following others? These “censors” completely change the intended and accepted meaning of the word as used and twist the original, and obvious, thought process that utilized the word into something wrong that needs to be stopped immediately to protect those who are sightless. What? I certainly meant no disrespect to those that are blind, whether temporarily so, or permanent. In fact, I believe such individuals likely have a more tuned understanding and appreciation to other environmental variables that others with sight are essentially oblivious. Nothing sinister or intentionally harmful.

Know what will happen when multiple aircraft, flying in a tight high speed formation (requiring visual dependency upon the lead aircraft for information on how to keep safety spacing), “FOLLOWING THE LEAD AIRCRAFT” IF THE LEAD PILOT makes some mistake and plunges his aircraft straight into the side of a mountain? The others will likely follow to that same accident scene due to the short reaction time involved and dependency on the lead – not because they are stupid or poor pilots – but because that is how those maneuvers are accomplished successfully. Relying on your lead pilot’s skill and flight path.

LET’S GO BRANDON!

YOU ARE NOT MY PILOT AND I WILL NOT BLINDLY FOLLOW YOU OR ANYONE INTO YOUR DYSFUNCTIONAL LEFTIST-DEMORAT ANTI-AMERICAN SOCIETY PLAN (wonder how many politically correct errors I just made there? lol – but I digress again)

WHO SUPPORTS THIS NONSENSE?
Naturally, there are undoubtedly those who truly in their hearts and minds believed Former Main Stream Media reporting/opinions. FMSM? Likely also some who felt “forced or cajoled into support” for one reason or another. News reports indicate some just sold their ballots. Whatever. Just saying, things are not always, especially motives vs actions, clearly understood unless you were standing in those same shoes. Obviously there are countries dedicated to such principles – (are the people too?) then seriously, why don’t these supporters of what’s going on now STAND UP and be counted, or go where they will feel more comfortable? I am also quite curious as to which countries would be acceptable to them. I’m not joking. Where would a better place to live be other than the United States of America?)
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LEFTIST DEMO-RAT DISTINCTION

I use the “nice derogatory term” Demo-Rats because it is an attempt to make a distinction between “Classic Democrats” and the LEFTIST (Socialist, Communist, Totalitarian, etc. – whatever – ANTI-AMERICAN) ILK which infiltrated and hi-jacked the Democrat Party. (Certainly not the “democratic party”! Incidentally, how the heck did they usurp that contradictory-interchangeable name? Interesting how everything about that party has turned 180 degrees from reality and what they want and manipulate people into believing they actually stand for along with what will be the beneficial results of their leadership. Did you see where LET’S GO BIDEN attempted to wrongfully compare (in both respects) GOP representatives with historic Democrat racists and their activities? Could not have been a better ad for what is the underlying problem – democrats continually attempt to blame republicans for the actual democrat history of deceit and failure, with emphasis on racial relations and it’s penchant for slavery on a number of levels.)
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There are plenty of patriotic Democrats who feel the DNC has abandoned them and their concerns, as well as the entire country. DEMO-RATS is an attempt (even if sorely inadequate to those who might be offended because they sound the same – but please acknowledge and realize – these transgressors to American society are in that party and using it’s influence and power), to separate and distinguish patriotic Democrats from those Radical Leftist-Demo-Rat traitors to America.

WHO ENJOYS BETRAYAL?

I sincerely sympathize with anyone betrayed by something in which they strongly believed and trusted. Been there, done that, just as many of you and although the particulars of each situation may be quite different along with the intensity or duration for each individual, it hurts just the same. I also believe it fair to say there are many of us on the other side of this equation who feel equally betrayed by the GOP in various ways. Probably like many, I am not a member because it fits perfectly with what I believe and how I want to life my life, but rather, it is the closest to that impossible “perfect fit” when compared to other alternatives which were hands down unacceptable, again, for one reason or another.
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But I will tell you this, with Trump at the helm (or an individual with whom Trump places his confidence), it will be a straight R ballot response. I am embarrassed at the current LEFT DEMO-RAT appointed babbling representative in the WH. (Frankly I believe it to be elder abuse in the truest sense of the term and is quite illuminating as to the character of those who prop that failing man up everyday to squeeze out a few garbled confusing statements. Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. But again I digress.)
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Yup, it sure would be interesting to know everyone who supports this ridiculous and dangerous situation for the Greatest Nation in the world. Guess this pandemic also provides a convenient disguise against facial recognition since there are/were laws regarding concealing identity in public due to such being traditionally used in criminal activity to avoid positive identification of the culprit. Covid masks. How convenient during an armed robbery or riot.

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This of course, is only my LAME echoing chambered opinion. lol

My best to you and yours, Lew
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The Supreme Court is seen in Washington on Sept. 21, 2020. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) Judiciary

By Zachary Stieber January 13, 2022 Updated: January 13, 2022 biggersmallerPrint

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses but decided to let a separate regulation that requires health care workers to get a vaccine take effect.

In a 6–3 ruling, justices halted the mandate for all private employers with 100 or more workers, ruling the states and companies that challenged the rule were likely to succeed.

Biden administration officials had argued that the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970 gave them the authority to impose the mandate, but a majority of justices disagreed.

“Applicants are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the Secretary lacked authority to impose the mandate. Administrative agencies are creatures of statute. They accordingly possess only the authority that Congress has provided. The Secretary has ordered 84 million Americans to either obtain a COVID–19 vaccine or undergo weekly medical testing at their own expense. This is no ‘everyday exercise of federal power.’ It is instead a significant encroachment into the lives—and health—of a vast number of employees,” the majority wrote in a slip opinion.

The ruling came from Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito, George W. Bush nominees; Clarence Thomas, a George H. W. Bush nominee; and Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, all Trump nominees.

Justices Breyer, a Clinton nominee, and Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both Obama nominees, dissented.

They wrote in their dissent that the law in question did not limit the labor secretary’s powers.

The majority “impose[d] a limit found no place in the governing statute,” they asserted.

“Not so,” the majority rejoined. “It is the text of the agency’s Organic Act that repeatedly makes clear that OSHA is charged with regulating ‘occupational’ hazards and the safety and health of ’employees.’”

While Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar in an earlier brief did not dispute that OSHA is limited in regulating “work-related dangers,” she claimed that the risk of contracting COVID-19 qualifies as such a danger.

“We cannot agree,” the majority continued. “Although COVID-19 is a risk that occurs in many workplaces, it is not an occupational hazard in most. COVID-19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting events, and everywhere else that people gather. That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases. Permitting OSHA to regulate the hazards of daily life—simply because most Americans have jobs and face those same risks while on the clock—would significantly expand OSHA’s regulatory authority without clear congressional authorization.”

The ruling means the mandate is blocked while the case goes back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which overturned a stay that had been imposed by a different appeals court.

OSHA is part of the Department of Labor.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who brought one of the challenges against the mandate, said in a statement the ruling was “a massive win for millions of workers and businesses across the country, including Doolittle Manufacturing here in Missouri, who would’ve had to shutter their doors if this mandate was not halted.”

“While we’re disappointed in the Supreme Court’s ruling on our lawsuit against the health care worker vaccine mandate, that fight is far from over, and the case is still ongoing,” he added.

Schmitt was referring to a majority of justices agreeing to  lift lower court orders that blocked a separate Biden administration mandate, imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

The CMS mandate, which does not contain a testing opt-out, covers over 17 million health care workers.

Congress granted authority to the health secretary to promulgate, as a condition of a health care facility’s participation in Medicare and Medicaid, requirements that he or she “finds necessary in the interest of the health and safety of individuals who are furnished services in the institution,” the majority of the court said in their ruling.

While a vaccine requirement has never before been imposed, “we agree with the government that the Secretary’s rule falls within the authorities that Congress has conferred upon him,” they added.

Justices falsely said that getting a COVID-19 vaccine would “substantially reduce the likelihood that health care workers will contract the virus and transmit it to their patients,” which does not align with studies and real-world data on the effect of vaccination against the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

“The rule thus fits neatly within the language of the statute. After all, ensuring that providers take steps to avoid transmitting a dangerous virus to their patients is consistent with the fundamental principle of the medical profession: first, do no harm. It would be the ‘very opposite of efficient and effective administration for a facility that is supposed to make people well to make them sick with COVID-19,’” they said.

The narrow 5–4 opinion saw Roberts and Kavanaugh join the Democrat-nominated trio of justices while Thomas offered a dissent that was joined by Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett.

Thomas said that the government had not made a strong case that it was likely to succeed in the case, arguing the administration did not establish that the Medicare Act or any other law gives it the authority to impose a vaccine mandate in order for facilities to participate in Medicare or Medicaid.

“These cases are not about the efficacy or importance of COVID-19 vaccines. They are only about whether CMS has the statutory authority to force health care workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo. Because the Government has not made a strong showing that Congress gave CMS that broad authority, I would deny the stays pending appeal. I respectfully dissent,” Thomas said.

Cases involving the health care mandate will now go back to appeals courts for disposition.

Dr. Aldo Calvo, Medical Director of Family Medicine at Broward Health, shows a Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion bag during a news conference at the Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Aug. 19, 2021. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File) AMERICA

By Tammy Hung January 13, 2022 Updated: January 13, 2022 biggersmallerPrint

The head of a medical supplies company involved in the distribution and supply of monoclonal antibodies across southeastern and northeastern regions of the nation, told NTD in a Jan. 12 interview that government takeover of the monoclonal antibody supply chain has exacerbated backlogs and shortages.

“The way the products are being distributed right now, relying on the government to determine who gets what, that process can be very lengthy in terms of time,” Dealmed CEO Michael Einhorn said.

As a result, physicians are reporting “surpluses in certain areas, not enough in other areas” which has fueled frustrations when critical patients are not receiving antibodies for COVID-19 infections.

While it’s unclear how the monoclonal antibodies are being rationed among states, Einhorn said that “commercialization” of these products should be allowed, so that infusion centers that need them can order in products based on “patient volume.”

“If they have oversupply they wouldn’t order more,” Einhorn said, whereas when remedies are supplied by the state, “nobody’s going to say no the government” as the products are “free practically,” leading to mismatches in supply and demand.

“I find it very difficult to believe that, in a mere year, a governmental agency in a different state can figure out the dynamics of a local regional health care system,” he added.

One particular monoclonal antibody, sotrovimab made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Vir Biotechnology, is in high demand as emerging reports suggest it is more effective than other products against Omicron.

Dr. Marc Siegel, a practicing internist and a professor of medicine at NYU’s Langone Medical Center, wrote in an op-ed in USA Today that “Omicron is most susceptible to sotrovimab, made by GlaxoSmithKline, but in most states, it is almost impossible to find.”

Monoclonal antibody therapies have been shown to be effective in preventing severe disease or hospitalization in high-risk patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.

On Jan. 12, the Biden administration secured 600,000 more doses of sotrovimab for an undisclosed sum, bringing the total doses purchased by nations globally to roughly 1.7 million, according to Reuters. The additional doses will be delivered in the first quarter of 2022 according to GSK.

Since October 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has delivered over 385,000 doses of sotrovimab to states across the nation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Jan. 7 criticized the Biden administration that had cut Florida’s supply of the remedy in half, to 150,000 doses. DeSantis added that before the government “seized control of the monoclonal supply,” Florida was administering 30,000 doses per week.

Under the Biden administration’s COVID-19 “action plan,” monoclonal antibodies are listed as a “life-saving” treatment, “shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization by up to 70% for unvaccinated people at risk of developing severe disease.”

The plan also identifies the remedy as a “key tool to improve health outcomes, prevent hospitalizations, and reduce the strain” on hospitals.

The Epoch Times has approached HHS for comment.

Did It Myself Lew’s Almost Music Presentation. Of course this contribution is a tricycle on a speedway! (Recently became a “RAP FAN” thanks to exquisite work of Tom MacDonald, Nova Rockafeller and a host of other brilliant artists making up HOG: the “hangovergang”. Yup, I’ve been a hermit a long time.)

This LAME stuff reduces my frustration level and will hopefully auto-weave any infinitesimally small contribution into that growing tapestry objection. Just a small thread of expressed disapproval/contempt for a criminally based dictatorial organization that has coordinated the hijacking of our government processes through a long history of lies, fraud and now, actual treasonous activities to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States of America.
OUR DIGITAL “Red Dawn”.

This LAME process appears to be therapeutic in reducing frustration and escalating anger while watching our country destroyed by traitors opposed to a continuing FREE AMERICA. They INTENTIONALLY PRODUCE BAD RESULTS then eloquently and passionately profess to be sincerely working FOR THE PEOPLE. Proclaim it was only the existing oppressive and racist society that prevented ultimate success and EVERYBODY’S HAPPINESS. Only another lie upon many others all without accountability. That’s going to change in 2022.

The left cultivates accepting “useful idiots” like any other crop designed to be grown, nurtured and eventually harvested and consumed for the grower’s purpose and benefit, Everyday “low information pawns” gobble up this DEMO RAT TRAP BAIT. The bait consists of promises of MORE FREEDOM, cash and FREE STUFF on the taxpayers dime – while Dems import more “useful idiots” for votes) while professing to be honestly working for THE PEOPLE. The fact they fall tremendously short of the number of “useful idiots” required to vote and approve their nonsense scams is not important due to their redundant system of election cheats which we are still uncovering from the last election. The deeper an investigation goes only intensifies the stench of swamp gas.

The reduction/management of personal frustration and anger is soothing despite the obvious amateurish quality of submissions (I would like to believe sincerity makes up for quality issue.) I acknowledge they are essentially meaningless, that is until viewed through the lens of a “do what you can with what you’ve got” attitude in conjunction with the belief there are millions of others who feel the same but contribute nothing for various reasons. Inability to do so (finances, work/family, extra time, etc) or possibly a reasonable FEAR OF A HIGH PROBABILITY of ugly consequences for self creating a leftist backlash in PERSONAL CANCEL CULTURE ATTACKS.

Intentionally produced confusion as to the actual motives, purposes and anticipated results of amateur submitted material. An elaborate redirection of public focus to the obvious absurdity that ANYONE would seriously compete with professional grade artists or attempt to compare amateur projects with those of experienced and skilled performers. That’s not the issue! The goal is to shut you up!

ANY COMPASSION for these traitors should be temporarily placed somewhere else for now because THEY WILL ONLY continue to use and reconfigure any compassion and understanding into weapons against us. IRONICALLY they seek to destroy the very origin and environment that birthed that compassion and understanding that they consistently pervert and misuse for evil purposes: the hearts, minds and souls of the American people who have, up to now, resided in a FREE AMERICA WITH CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS and PROTECTIONS. Not perfect but we try.

None of this will matter in the least if this aggressive ENEMY is allowed to continue mandating their concept of “acceptable and appropriate behavior” through unethical and immoral intimidation techniques accomplished with the misuse of power and authority of legitimate government that legal voters NEVER GRANTED THESE THIEVING TRAITORS!

THE POWER AND AUTHORITY RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS ARE EXERCISING RIGHT NOW WAS STOLEN THROUGH A FRAUD OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Yet still the Left claims is was the most secure election in history. Unbelievable. (Head up ass so far they need a window in their bellybutton to see where they’re going!)

So, with the above in mind, thank you for any tolerance and the opportunity to contribute, however minimally, to this historic fight to save America from a low down, dirty rotten, constantly cheating, Anti-USA criminal organization called the DNC. And God Bless America (if you choose to participate naturally. lol)

How protest is manufactured/expressed is far less important than the content and how it is received. Even a chalk scribbled protest on a sidewalk could have a profound and enduring influence on those experiencing the work – despite the fact it will simply vanish with the next rain.

My best to you and yours, Lew

If someone a few days ago had told me I would soon be listening to one rap song after another, well I would have laughed and said they were mistaken. I am indeed laughing right now but for a different reason – this old dog has learned a new trick! Tom MacDonald. This guy (and his HOG – HangOverGang) is absolutely amazing. (Genius qualities)!

APPRECIATED THE STYLE BUT NEVER A REAL RAP FAN

There were always a few rap songs that I enjoyed through the years because I can appreciate the emotional expression, but it just wasn’t my thing. Sure, absolutely, I have some difficulty understanding “fast raps” (apparently a learned ability because it seems to be getting easier), but this guy and his lyrics encourage repeated listening to get the whole message. Brilliant! Guess it is just a process like everything else. Anyway, just thought I’d pass on something new to me that is extremely encouraging (while simultaneously entertaining) – regarding what has happened to OUR AMERICA and the insane direction it is currently headed. I still have difficulty accepting the reality and seriousness of the situation.

Yup, this artist is completely new to me (I live in a an echo chamber remember? lol) so I don’t have a “total understanding” of everything TOM MACDONALD may, or may not, support and/or advocate….but so far (after listening to a bunch of his material) I have not heard anything that has caused me the least bit of concern. I especially appreciate his disclosures about his life which has shaped his career and defiant attitude. (THE ULTIMATE “DO IT YOURSELF SUCCESS!) Again, this guy is amazing as is his wife who produces his videos. (Nova Rockafeller a former famous rapper herself I just read.) Again…..forgive me if I misunderstand some details as I am new to this whole rap scene stuff and I’m rushing to listen to more! Seriously.

OLD DOG BAD HABITS

Funny, I’ve probably heard MacDonald’s music a number of times from other waiting vehicles in heavy traffic or at a stoplight and likely (and incorrectly) ASSumed it was just some more of that ANTI-AMERICA violent imagery stuff I heard in the past and didn’t care for the way it “left me feeling”. MacDonald’s music/beat/special effects/imagination AND INTENSITY – whatever – the entire package, left me feeling hopeful, stronger, more determined and confirmed I am not alone in recognizing the evil that has systematically been consuming America and OUR FREEDOMS behind the scene for decades.

(Sure we saw the individual pearls of legislation or laws that we thought defied common sense and were potential rabbit holes to more dysfunction but the potential ramifications in actual damage at the time appeared minimal and there were other more pressing and important battles to fight. Some excuse like that, yeah? Anyway, we now clearly understand each one of those single individual pearls has been crafted into a nice looking and expensive long string of deadly objects forming a garrote around OUR COLLECTIVE NECK and the left is attempting to apply the finishing torque to complete the planned suffocation.)

OLD DOG NEW TRICK

Yup, old dog – new trick – Seriously, because if I could have heard and understood the lyrics (of MacDonald’s songs while waiting in traffic) I would have tracked that audio blasting vehicle down just to find out who the artist was they were sharing with everyone so I could obtain some of the material myself! It feels like some part of me that has been AWOL for some time suddenly and surprisingly reappeared due to MacDonald’s lyrics and presentation. Difficult to explain but I guess a one word description would be encouraging.

Hope you folks can also override any potential preconceived ideas that might still orbit around “rap music” – especially for this particular performer and his message. Tom MacDonald. Sure am glad I clicked the music video link. Now I’m going to purchase some of his merchandise in support!

My best to you and yours, Lew

https://www.hangovergang.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_MacDonald_(rapper)

Had extra time due to waiting for some carburetor parts and “light duty work” as a result of some minor dental surgery for a broken crown. Thank Heavens for modern day dentistry. Caught up on a number of old Rawhide episodes and couldn’t help but reflect on what I know regarding medical/dental care back then. Glad to be here now. Also took some time for these revisions to the last DIM-LAME PROJECT (BOO HOO — PRIVATE WEALTH). Also might have some Disclaimer information to discuss with you as I have been self diagnosed with ECS (Echo Chamber Syndrome), sub classification DIM-LAME (Do It Myself Almost Music Expression). Might be some acknowledgement and release of liability paperwork for you to read and sign before viewing future LAME Videos.

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My best to you and yours, Lew