Commissioner Zach Brooks

Canyon County Commissioner; Systematician; We all need Jesus.

[Commissioner Zach Brooks @ZachBrooksID]

@PitchingNinja .@ThePhilBlack This is bad for baseball.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

When there’s a bill that’s supported by 85% of American voters—including 95% of Republicans and 71% of Dems—we shouldn’t have to beg and plead with Senate GOP leadership to help advance it

Nor should it be an excuse that “we don’t [yet] have 60 votes”

Make filabusterers speak!

[Center for Self Governance @tnselfgov]

Judicial Branch: Aug 9 in Kettle Falls!

https://t.co/wUNqjUQEp4

Learn the System. Lead with Purpose. Govern Your Future. #selfgovernance #csg

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

CNN’s Dana Bash: “I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true. It is also factually true that the COVID vaccine worked. The COVID vaccine prevented deaths. There is data, upon data, upon data.”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “You think the COVID vaccine protected children?”

Dana Bash: “I have talked to scientists and doctors…”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Can you show me one study that shows that children were protected by the COVID vaccine?”

“That that vaccine did more good than harm to children? Can you show me one study that shows that?”

Dana Bash: “There have been studies that show that, because of vaccine disinformation, there could have been 100K to 200K in the U.S. saved But because people didn't get the vaccine, that's why.

Robert F. Kennedy: “You are saying nonsense. You are saying something that you cannot show me a single study.”

Dana Bash: “Excuse me! Excuse me!”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Cite me the study that you’re talking about. You said you’ve seen studies. Cite me the study.”

Dana Bash: *Can’t cite the study*

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “You're talking nonsense. You're making assertions you can't support, and then when I call you on them, you're telling me I'm arguing with you.”

Kennedy gave a MASTERCLASS on how to handle FAKE NEWS CNN.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1925. Your doctor says you look run down and writes down the name of a tonic, and you drink it the way you drink anything a doctor names, a bottle a day, feeling marvellous. It is radium in distilled water. Four hundred thousand bottles are sold on medical endorsement, and the steel magnate who got through fifteen hundred of them is buried in 1932 in a lead-lined coffin.

The year is 1948. Your baby is screaming with teething, so you do what the health visitor says and work a fingertip of powder into his gums, morning and night, for months. Then his hands and feet go raw and pink, daylight becomes unbearable, and the child who was babbling in the spring stops speaking. The powder is mercury, a fifth of the babies it does this to die, and it stays on the shelf until 1954.

The year is 1958. Your wife is seven months gone and they send her down the corridor for the routine X-ray, and she lies on the cold plate with her coat over the chair and thinks nothing of it. An Oxford epidemiologist has just shown that one abdominal X-ray in pregnancy roughly doubles the child's chance of dying of cancer before adolescence. The profession declines to believe her, her funding dries up, and the radiographers carry on for twenty years.

The year is 1983. Your son has haemophilia, and the new treatment means no more nights in hospital, just a vial from the fridge and a needle at the kitchen table before school. The vial is pooled from thousands of paid American donors, some of them prisoners. Around twelve hundred and fifty British haemophiliacs are given HIV this way, and the inquiry that finally says so out loud reports in 2024.

The year is 1989. You are on a ward after your heart attack watching the monitor throw an extra beat, and they start you on a tablet to stop it doing that, because obviously a heart that skips is a heart about to stop. Somebody finally tests the tablet against a placebo. Seven point seven per cent dead within ten months on the drug, three per cent on the dummy, and the trial is halted early.

The year is 1995. Your sister takes the high-dose chemotherapy with the bone marrow transplant because her oncologist calls it her best chance, and you sit in that corridor for four weeks while it takes her hair, her gut lining and two stone. Forty thousand American women go through it. In 1999 the trials find no survival advantage over ordinary treatment, and in 2000 the data that convinced everybody turns out to have been invented.

The year is 2016. Your daughter is epileptic and pregnant and stays on the medicine that has kept her seizure-free since she was nineteen, because nobody at any appointment has ever told her otherwise. That is the year the warning finally reaches the box. The risk had been in the literature since the seventies, and roughly twenty thousand British children were born into it while the paperwork caught up.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new drugs, new numbers and a fresh consensus, and he can tell you exactly what the evidence shows.

So could every doctor on this list.

None of it was quackery. All of it was the standard of care, taught in the schools, printed in the guidelines, paid for by the state.

That is what a wrong answer looks like from the inside, and you are standing in one now.

[End Tribalism in Politics @EndTribalism]

RFK Jr. just said on national television that Lyme disease and RSV came from gain-of-function research.

“Lyme disease almost certainly came from these experiments and is now devastating our country.”

“RSV came from a laboratory, which is now the biggest killer of children in our country.”

“And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a trauma for the whole globe.”

“All of those have been linked credibly to gain-of-function research.”

“It’s something with enormous costs and no proven benefits.”

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Everyone go to @CNN’s timeline and search “mask” and “vaccine” to see all the dangerous misinformation they spread during the pandemic.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[Lars Larson @LarsLarsonShow]

If you’re choking on the smoke of Northwest wildfires like my family and I have been, the story only gets worse when you take a close look at the details.
https://t.co/N0qsnzg3s8
The “Grasshopper Fire”, for example…has torched at least 14-thousand acres of trees owned by all of us in the Mt Hood National Forest.
The fire has forced at least dozens of people to flee from their homes.
But the important thing you should know…the area was identified years ago as a danger and tagged for fuels reduction.
And then, tree-huggers like Oregon Wild sued the Forest Service, and that delayed the work to clear those hazardous fuels and reduce the likelihood of fire.
The American Forest Resource Council points out that Oregon Wild scored more than 50-thousand dollars for attorneys' fees. Bottom line, taxpayers who own the trees and want them protected paid the cash to keep the forest at risk.
If you put it to citizens, how many would vote in favor of putting those shyster lawyers out on the fire lines with a shovel and a pulaski?
I know I would.
Instead, we’re funding their paychecks, while the trees we own go up in smoke.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Fauci joined the NIH in 1968.

About 6% of American kids had a chronic condition back then.

By 1984, when he took over NIAID, it was 11.8%.

Forty years later, it’s over 60%.

Fauci didn’t lose a war on disease. He waged one on your kids.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

🚨Seven Steps to Election Security

1. Call up the SAVE America Act.

2. Announce that we’ll keep debating it for at least a few weeks, working through weekends and scheduled recess time until it passes.

3. Require filibustering senators to speak, with the understanding that if they fail to do so the rules allow us to “call the question” and pass it at 51.

4. Stick to the plan—especially when it draws complaints from senators and becomes tedious—waiting at least a few weeks before even thinking about filing cloture.

5. This is how the Senate worked before we zombified the filibuster, making it automatic, silent, and free of obligation.

6. Filibuster abuse has become rampant, insurmountable, and even debilitating as we’ve stopped requiring filibustering senators to do *anything* other than oppose cloture—or even simply announce an intent to oppose cloture!

7. Human nature and over two centuries of Senate history tell us that when senators are required to engage in hard work and continual speaking to sustain a filibuster, they tend to wield it more responsibly.

[Center for Self Governance @tnselfgov]

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[Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright]

Fauci's "biodefense" buildup at NIAID caused a pandemic that killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion. Nevertheless, he insists he was right to prioritize bioweapons-agents research over biomedical research...and that the 700+ NIH-funded microbiologists who disagreed were wrong.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

My colleague from South Dakota suggests here that the talking filibuster hasn’t been used in a century, and that it was not used to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

He’s mistaken.

As I’ve explained to the entire Senate GOP on multiple occasions, the talking filibuster *was* used effectively to break the weeks-long filibuster mounted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Leader Thune and others point out that the Senate ultimately invoked cloture on the Civil Rights Act, and on that basis wrongly conclude that the talking filibuster was *not* the tool used to achieve that victory.

This argument ignores the fact that this is *how* the Senate closed a staggering 30-vote cloture deficit in 1964. After many weeks of fighting a losing battle, filibustering senators predictably started to lose their resolve to hold up the bill indefinitely, especially when they realized how hard they’d have to work to keep the effort alive.

So they started proposing and supporting amendments to the bill to make it more palatable and help them save face.

I still maintain that this is a viable approach that could work well—even better—in the context of the SAVE America Act, especially considering that the bill is less complicated and less controversial with voters than was the Civil Rights Act, and currently has a cloture deficit of only 10 votes—tiny compared to the 30-vote deficit faced by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

My colleague also mistakenly suggests that Senate Republicans would have to vote to enforce the talking filibuster. That simply isn’t true; no vote is required for this step. All we need is a majority leader willing to announce that we’re getting on the bill and that we will continue to debate it until it passes—all with the understanding that if filibustering senators fail to show up to debate it, we can “call the question” and pass it with a simple majority.

That understanding, in turn, is what motivates the filibustering senators to show up and speak, but it’s also what naturally causes them to tire of the exercise after a few weeks, at which point they start looking for a face-saving off-ramp.

Finally, Leader Thune suggests that the talking filibuster would be thwarted by being “reset” every time Democrats offered an amendment. There’s a valid point in there, but it’s not a good reason not to invoke the talking filibuster. It appears he’s referring indirectly to paragraph 1(a) of Senate Rule 19 (the two-speech rule). While offering a new amendment can create a new question under longstanding practice, the September 25, 1986 precedent narrowed how rigidly the two-speech rule is applied by clarifying that many procedural actions do not count as speeches at all.

Particularly in light of that 1986 clarification, it’s been a long time since I’ve suggested we consider rigid enforcement of Rule 19’s two-speech limit as part of a talking filibuster strategy for the SAVE America Act. We don’t need it!

Nor was that rule aggressively enforced during the Senate’s consideration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield correctly focused on requiring actual debate from filibustering senators rather than looking for technical ways to shut the debate down.

To give credit where it’s due, I appreciate what Leader Thune said in this interview about the possibility of passing some iteration of SAVE America using budget reconciliation—a procedure in which there is no 60-vote cloture hurdle. I’ve been skeptical of this approach in the past, but I’m starting to believe the SAVE America Act has more budgetary features than I initially considered possible.

That said, reconciliation is fraught with all kinds of problems, challenges, risks, and uncertainties. Also, failure can be far too easy to blame on the parliamentarian.

I’m open to considering the reconciliation path, but we should make this decision with our eyes open. To do that, we need to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the talking filibuster.

[Commissioner Zach Brooks @ZachBrooksID]

@SamaHoole Rapeseed is great for making biodiesel…not eating.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

The COVID era exposed a profound failure of America's public health institutions. Fauci lied about masks. He lied about social distancing. He lied about transmission. He lied about natural immunity.

Under President Trump's leadership, HHS is replacing secrecy with transparency, ideology with evidence, and bureaucracy with accountability. We will tell the truth, follow the science, and put the health and interests of the American people first.

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

Anthony Fauci lied and millions died

[Commissioner Zach Brooks @ZachBrooksID]

Lol

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Fear the 3-handed IRGC elite forces 💪

[Commissioner Zach Brooks @ZachBrooksID]

Thank you, @RepThomasMassie.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.

[Commissioner Zach Brooks @ZachBrooksID]

No thanks.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Knoxville police in Tennessee, who have replaced Flock cameras with Axon, say the public must now accept mass surveillance as the new normal because Axon is "safe and effective" and for your own good.

Axon has already acquired Israeli police technology company Carbyne, that was co-funded by Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

BlackRock and Vanguard are the largest shareholders of Axon.

"The technology will be used the way it was intended to be used."