Beltway Insider: Biden, Trump, Stimulus, China, COVID, Vaccine, Journo Executed, Chuck Yeager

President-elect Biden has continued building his transition team projecting his message of unity through the continued and baseless attempts by President Trump to drill a false, misleading, antagonistic and explosive message into the minds of his constituents.

 

The President's job approval rating, according to the website fivethirtyeight.com, for the period ending December 13, 2020, decreased by .01 percentage points to 43.5% of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President and those who disapprove of his effectiveness decreased by .04% percentage points to 52.4%. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.


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Trumps Creates Transition Concerns

As President-elect Biden continues his transition, President Trump has continued to fuel a subversive swell of constituents who believe the rhetoric and continue to protest his baseless message of election fraud.

With the transition of power on Wednesday January 20, 2021 at 9:00am, and according to the 20th Amendment the sitting president loses his presidential mandate one day earlier.

"When a sitting president doesn't stand up to pass the baton to his or her successor. It has never been seen before in the United States and there is no imminent threat that it will happen in January, but there is a plan in place to prevent a transition in power crisis. The 20th Amendment has it that Trump, or any other lame-duck leader, loses his presidential mandate January 20 at noon, and, if he tries to stick around after that, the very guard once tasked with protecting the nation's top officeholder now has to evict him," Newsweek.com reported

It is expected President Trump will decide to stage a final "last stand" rebellion to maintain use of the White House and is expected to be escorted out by Secret Service, essentially an eviction, at 12:01pm January 20, 2021.

This action maintains a consistency in his hostile messaging and provides the ultimate photo opportunity to encourage his constituents over the next four years, which he is expected to continue the attack on the incoming government and build his 2024 election platform.

The Trump Dynasty believe the United States is a nation to be ruled and not a democracy, of the people, for the people and by the people. If they did, they would allow for a peaceful transition and respect the transition mandate.

House, Senate Remain Stalled; Millions Expected to Lose Benefits

The CARES Act passed in March of 2020 expired in July and taking with it the special provisions passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives including unemployment compensation extensions across all fifty states is set to expire at year end.

Democratic House Majority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), reelected in November is expected to announce her candidacy for the 117th Congress in January 2021, passed the HEREOS Act in May 2020.

The HEROES Act never reached the senate floor for a vote as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) who was also reelected and depending on the outcome of the Georgia Senate race will either return as the senate minority leader or retain his current position as senate majority leader, deemed it a extravaganza of a liberal wish list.

While the two parties squabbled, President Trump signed an executive order providing an extension of the unemployment boost benefits.


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The issue has turned grave for millions of Americans whose emergency extensions will run out at years end. Once they end, they can not be reinstated which leaves millions floundering teetering near a financial abyss.

"A coronavirus aid proposal before Jan. 1 is now considered emergency legislation to institute a safety net for expiring benefits that could leave tens of millions of unemployed Americans without an income and millions of households facing eviction. For the mixed group working on the package, now is the time to unify, not to dig in heels. '"We must act. It is irresponsible that we have not acted to date. It is absolutely a failure of the Congress," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Sunday on CNN Inside Politics. "We want to get aid out to people who are really, really struggling,"' CNET.com reported.

The important message for the American people is the election is over, there is no leverage. Currently, the $908 billion package proposal hits the high points of direct to the public needs including enhanced unemployment benefits, paycheck protection and student loan protection.

"There's some optimism that a bipartisan $908 billion aid proposal might check enough boxes for Democratic and Republican lawmakers to deliver relief to struggling Americans as several end-of-year deadlines near. Among Democratic lawmakers, the proposal is viewed as an appetizer to a full-course stimulus package they hope to pass once President-elect Joe Biden takes office. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have endorsed the proposal. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has not publicly endorsed the package, which lacks a liability shield for businesses and other organizations from coronavirus-related lawsuits," MarketWatch.com reported.  

China Biggest Security Threat to U.S.

The Trump Administration has maintained Chinese President Xi Jinping has set a domination campaign in place in which he intends to control every major market in the world economically, militarily and technologically.

Utilizing a "by any means" strategy, the Chinese leader has utilized both the traditional means of manipulation to build a leverage campaign in which lesser-known political leaders will find themselves leveraged through sexual association with Chinese communist loyalists.


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"A suspected Chinese spy got so close to a number of politicians -- including Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. -- that the FBI stepped in to disrupt the situation, even going so far as to give a "defensive briefing" to Swalwell, a report has found," reported FoxNews.com.

The female spy, Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang, had relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors which turned sexual. She also attended mayoral conferences.

Building a coalition of foot-soldiers is easier to subvert and manipulate, and for many a belief of unrestrained sexuality and limited moral boundaries among the west provide a controlling point as Chinese female spies, trained in the necessary skill set, still conjure the Far East exotic sexual fantasy which becomes an exploitation leading to compromise or risk exposure and loss.

"The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically," Ratcliffe wrote in an op-ed published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal. "Many of China's major public initiatives and prominent companies offer only a layer of camouflage to the activities of the Chinese Communist Party," the APNews.com reported.

Your Brother's Keeper

A recent PBS special, Hacking Your Mind, offered insight into the Chinese government's technique to use social media to engage its citizens to voluntarily police their friend's behaviors creating a social credit score which rises and falls on the strength of the friends associations.

This under the umbrella of Big Data Collection allows the Chinese government to have millions of eyes and ears monitoring its people through the activities of others. They are using the same methodology of Big Data Collection through spyware technology and other clandestine methods to collect data from nation's globally which allow them to modify the behavior of their population, through these social credit scores, to stop the influx of societal influences which would essentially disrupt the blanket loyalty needed to maintain communist dictatorship without revolution.

Coronavirus Totals

The infection rates of the coronavirus have alarmingly increased around the world. The weekly account confirms that a second wave is building with European nations enforcing shutdowns for, at minimum, one month. The importance of maintaining personal protective practices is imperative to controlling the spread.

For the week ending December 13, 2020, coronavirus cases increased globally by 4,370,000 confirmed cases, brings the total of confirmed cases worldwide to 70,928,000, with 1,604,200 deaths, an increase of 75,900 over the week.

Infections rates in the United States are also on the rise. For the week ending December 13, 2020, the total confirmed cases rose to 16,184,400 with new confirmed cases rising by 1,532,800 this week alone with an average by 218,971 cases per day. The coronavirus has claimed 297,900 total deaths, a weekly increase of 16,700 deaths. (Data from The New York Times).

Operation Wrap Speed - Coronavirus Vaccine Roll Out Begins

Operation Warp Speed, the single establishing policy of the Trump administration, began rolling out today, nine months after the U.S. first began to experience the death grip of the Coronavirus.

With the first trucks leaving the Kalamazoo, Michigan, plants under armed escort, the first approved Coronavirus Vaccine has begun an unprecedented distribution across the United States with delivery services Fed-Ex and United Parcel Service has each been tasked with delivery of the vaccine splitting the nation essentially in half.

The vaccine will reach all fifty states by Monday, December 14, 2020 and by week's end, those patients designated first tier, front line workers and the elderly will begin to receive the vaccination. Approximately 2.9millin doses will be received by Wednesday 16, 2020, with the government retaining an additional 2.9million to ensure the necessary two dose treatment is completed in the next 21 days.

On Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced, via a released statement, they had "issued the first emergency use authorization (EUA) for a vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older. The emergency use authorization allows the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the U.S."

Pfzier-BioNTech's COVID-19 emergency use approval permits the vaccine, which has been deemed 95% effective in preventing the coronavirus in the population from age sixteen and up.  


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Operation Warp Speed co-leader, "General Gustave Perna, stands at the forefront of the mammoth logistical challenge to immunize a nation of 328 million. He likened the challenge to D-Day, a crucial turning point in World War II that sparked the liberation fo German-occupied France. "D-Day was the beginning of the end, and that's where we are today," he said at a Saturday morning news conference," BusinessInsider.com reported.

"I couldn't be prouder of my fellow Pfizer colleagues and partners at BioNTech," Bourla said in a video statement. "Their historic science-driven effort has delivered a vaccine with the potential to help bring an end to the most devastating pandemic in a century," NBCNews.com reported.

FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D, said "Today's action follows an open and transparent review process that included input from independent scientific and public health experts and a thorough evaluation by the agency's career scientists to ensure this vaccine met FDA's rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality needed to support emergency use authorization. The tireless work to develop a new vaccine to prevent this novel, serious, and life-threatening disease in an expedited timeframe after its emergence is a true testament to scientific innovation and public-private collaboration worldwide," the F.D.A. said in a released statement. reported.

The United Kingdom began administering the vaccine this week with the nation's high-risk patients, the elderly given the first doses.

Iran Executes Journalist

Ruhollah Zam, 47, an Iranian journalist who led an online revolution over spiking food prices in 2017, has been executed by Iranian officials.

Zam, "was one of several opposition figures successfully seized by Iranian intelligence operatives abroad in recent months as Tehran struggles under the weight of U.S. sanctions," APNews.com reported.

Chuck Yeager Dead at 97

Chuck Yeager, the historic test pilot who broke the sound barrier, died this week. He was 97.

An Air Force General, Yeager's contribution to American aeronautics has gone unmatched and his dedication to advancing the aviation program put him in a class with a few others "thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the elusive yet unmistakable "right stuff," according to the New York Times.

Yeager's achievement, in 1947, dispelled belief that if pilots did break the sound barrier, the plane would disintegrate, has been ranked as the third greatest aeronautic feats in the history of American aviation behind the 1903 Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk, NC., and Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic.

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