Need to Know News (26 August 2022) with Joe Olson and Maryam Henein

Mark Zuckerberg casually acknowledges that Facebook followed the lead of the FBI by managing discussions of the Hunter Biden laptop immediately prior to the 2020 election, where he now admits the they were wrong to have done that without any apparent concern for its effects upon voters (where the whole election was so massively stolen that it probably did not make a major difference anyway, where the FBI appears to have been deeply involved in denying Trump reelection in multiple other ways). So if anyone still harbors the lingering illusion that the alphabet agencies are politically neutral and impartial in administering the law, this disproof is about as blatant as it gets. The affidavit for the raid now has been unsealed (while massively redacted) but strongly suggests that they were after documents and records related to Russiagate so they could be withheld from the public on the basis of being part of "an ongoing investigation". Joe Manchin admits that the Inflation Reduction Act will not reduce inflation and has (in my opinion) squandered his reputation by supporting it. The President and CEO of Smith & Wesson, a premier gun manufacturing company, assails attacks on law-abiding citizens, who contribute to the well-being of the nation, but where miscreants want to take our guns because they are planning to do things that would make us want to shoot them! Have no doubt about it. Biden's student loan program--to forgive 42,000,000 students $10,000 apiece--is going to cost $420 billion. Who is going to pay for it? This is a swindle to buy votes but, I suspect, is going to backfired by costing at least as many votes as it gains. Megyn Kelly deserves a Pulitzer for committing an act of journalism by calling out Anthony "Tony the Rat" Fauci for doing such massive damage to America and gloating about it. The Office of Inspector General has found (Surprise! Surprise!) that NIH violated its own guidelines by not publishing the reports of trial outcomes involving the vax that could have made a difference in the formation of public policies (which, as I see it) appears to have been by design.) And by reversing its mandates, the CDC has given attorneys more ammunition to use in lawsuits against it (which they manifestly deserve).