💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “[Nithya Raman] had a better cheating operation, obviously. You can see it in the chart!”
“How does it happen where Bass stays flat and then Raman and Pratt just switch places?”
“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.”
— Will Durant (from The Story of Civilization)
What was the percentage mail-in/absentee ballots in 2016, 24%? That number nearly doubled in 2020 and still wasn’t a majority practice. Until very recently most people voted in person, and that system worked a lot better than the current clusterfuck
Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?
You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.
I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.
In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.
I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.
Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.
Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).
His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.
Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.
I'm pretty confident that the people who use "retard" as an insult are much less likely to kill a baby for having Down Syndrome than the people offended by the use of the word "retard".
South Carolina, I need you to hear this clearly.
Tomorrow, Tuesday June 9th, you have the power to remove @LindseyGrahamSC from the United States Senate. Decades in Washington and what does South Carolina have to show for it?
1. Open borders,
2. Endless foreign wars and,
3. A ruling class that answers to donors before it answers to you.
This is not about party. This is about accountability. Get to your polling place tomorrow and vote @MarkLynchSC for United States Senate.
Bought a $1,742.80 camera online from BestBuy.
The FedEx delivery driver stole it. FedEx admitted it.
But BestBuy won’t give a refund. They said we need to “work with local law enforcement.”
Thought everyone should know if you buy from @BestBuy and a @FedEx driver steals what you paid for, your money is gone. Neither company will make it right.
I’ve spent over $30K at BestBuy and will never spend another penny there.
You do not understand bears.
The sharpest knife you own *might* slice through the skin of a fresh salmon in one go. Maybe.
A bear merely grasps the thing and rips its skin off easier than you can open an envelope.
By the time a bear is within mace range, you are dead. Mace will not stop its attack. It will not scare it off. It might stop it from eating you after you are dead.
Bear Spray is approximately twice as strong and sprays three times as far; it doesn’t scare a bear off because it hurts, it scares a bear off because it burns its nose with stink.
Empty bear spray cans are a frequent find at the scene of bear mauling deaths.
Any woman that insists on “the bear” is a colossal retard and it’s not questionable. She is a woman in a bubble without the slightest idea of what real danger looks like.
You have *no idea* what these animals can do to a human being. Unless you’re carrying 12-gauge slugs, not even a firearm is an absolute guarantee to stop a pissed off bear. And I highly doubt it, because a 12-gauge slug would probably dislocate the average woman’s shoulder, if she even could fire the thing properly.
I’ve spoken to women who have encountered bears on trails. They have admitted that it was the most terrifying experience of their lives. One of them, an otherwise reasonable woman, pulled out her wallet thinking to bribe the thing—she was in that much of a panic.
Fortunately, a random man with bear spray and Desert Eagle was nearby to save her life.
You are a colossally stupid specimen worthy of being included in a museum explaining why women suddenly had their voting rights stripped in the late 21st Century.