A Washington State Patrol trooper whose signoff video went viral last weekend spoke to the Fox News Channel on Monday about being fired for refusing to take the state-mandated COVID vaccine. Now former Trooper Ron Lamay appeared on Fox & Friends First in an interview with co-host Carley Shimkus.

Lamay’s video has garnered over 1.4 million views since being posted Saturday night by Seattle talk radio host Jason Rantz:

“This is the last time you’ll hear me in a patrol car and Jay Inslee can kiss my ass.”

Washington State Trooper in Yakima, Wash. signs off after 22 years — fired by @GovInslee for being unvaccinated. pic.twitter.com/RGLDs5BZxg

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) October 17, 2021

“This is my final signoff. Um, after twenty-two years of serving the citizens of the State of Washington I’m being asked to leave because I am “dirty”. Um, numerous fatalities, um, injuries, I’ve worked sick, I’ve played sick, um, we’ve buried lots of friends over these years. I’d like to thank you guys, I’d like to thank the um, citizens of Yakima County as well as my fellow officers within the valley. Without you guys I wouldn’t have been very successful and you’ve kept me safe and got me home to my family every night. Um, thank you for that. Um, wish I can say more but, um, this is it. So stay 10-34 this is the last time you’ll hear me in a State Patrol car. And Jay Inslee can kiss my ass.” (Transribed by TGP.)

“…You know, it wasn’t a question. When the governor of the state of Washington started this mandate project, my wife and my family, we’re not taking it. We don’t do vaccines. We don’t do flu shots, or any of that stuff. So, over the last month it’s been nothing but just beating up our fellow employees, constantly telling them they have to vax. They have to do this, they have to do that. Our leadership was actually asking for some directive regards to COVID: What to do for COVID, for traffic stops. We worked eighteen months without having any type of issues. And now suddenly we have to have these mandatory vaccines. So that’s, not taking the vaccine was not even a question. The process, how they did it was ridiculous and making people do this or you’re losing your job was ridiculous.”

“…I filed for the religious exemption. My family, we’re God-fearing people as well as a lot of the other troopers I work with. They did accept our exemptions after some time, but then they they told us, sorry, there’s no job you can do with your exemption. So they came out and told us, ‘Well, we can retrain you for a different position, but there’s only a few positions and you’re going to have to move across the state.’ Obviously wouldn’t be to the salary that we have. At twenty-two years I’m maxed out with regards to pay. So, this is the best I’ll make the rest of my career. So, for me to take a lesser position in regards to pat would be very detrimental to my family. These are the types of actions they were doing. They were not very open or clear what they wanted to do, how they wanted to do it. People had very good questions. In fact, our chaplain, our chaplain with the chaplaincy foundation here, he’s even being fired. This is a gentleman that his job is to push the chaplaincy and they’re not even going to accept his exemption.

Partial transcript by TGP.

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Face it. They hate you. They really hate you.

In March 2016 Hillary Clinton bragged during her CNN town hall in Ohio that she was going to put a lot of coal miners out of work.

Hillary Clinton ran on the promise to kill jobs.
Democrats later told miners to “learn how to code.”

Likewise in December 2019 during his small rally in New Hampshire Joe Biden warned coal miners he was coming after their jobs.

Joe Biden told the miners, “Learn how to program.”

Like Hillary Clinton, the former vice president Joe Biden ran on a promise to kill jobs — and he has.

Today Democrat Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) blasted West Virginia’s economy as “irrelevant” after Senator Joe Manchin criticized the Democrats’ green energy proposals.

The Daily Caller reported:

Democratic Illinois Rep. Sean Casten blasted West Virginia’s economy as “irrelevant,” following criticisms from the state’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, of the Build Back Better Act’s chief climate provision, the Clean Energy Performance Program (CEPP).

“If you came and said to me, ‘We will pass the CEPP as written but we will exempt West Virginia from it,’ I would take that deal. Do I think that’s possible? I mean, probably not, but that would be acceptable, right? Because West Virginia is an irrelevant part of our economy,” Casten told Politico on Monday.

West Virginia is the second-largest coal-producing state in the country, behind only Wyoming, according to the West Virginia Department of Energy. The coal industry directly employs more than 30,000 West Virginians, according to the state’s Office of Miner Health, Safety, and Training. Coal added $12.9 billion to the state’s economy in 2017, nearly 17% of West Virginia’s total output, a West Virginia University study found.

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday defended Joe Biden violating Washington DC’s mask mandate.

Joe and Jill Biden celebrated date night at Fiola Mare in Georgetown Saturday evening.

Biden walked through the posh DC restaurant without a mask, violating DC’s mask mandate.

Psaki defended Joe Biden, scolded Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for ‘overly focusing’ on Biden’s hypocrisy and changed the subject to vaccines.

Covid mandates are only for the rubes.

VIDEO:

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Japan didn’t follow the rest of the world and certainly never followed the WHO’s recommendations related to COVID.

Japanese Vice President Says WHO Should Be Renamed the CHO or the “Chinese Health Organization” (VIDEO)

Hot Air reports:

Most of the coverage we provided during Japan’s bungled turn hosting the Olympics this summer dealt with the nation’s spiraling COVID infection rates and lagging mass vaccination efforts. But while they limited the in-person attendance of the actual games, the lockdowns and restrictions the government imposed were fairly mild. People were still allowed to go out to bars and restaurants, albeit with modest capacity limits and the streets were far from empty. The Associated Press described the measures as a series of “relatively toothless states of emergency.” That makes this week’s news all the more puzzling to some medical professionals. The COVID crisis across Japan, and particularly in Tokyo, has all but evaporated. In less than two months, Tokyo has gone from reporting more than 6,000 new cases per day to less than 100 this week. And not even the government can explain why.

Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo, with caseloads in the densely populated capital now routinely below 100, an 11-month low.

The bars are packed, the trains are crowded, and the mood is celebratory, despite a general bafflement over what, exactly, is behind the sharp drop.

Japan, unlike other places in Europe and Asia, has never had anything close to a lockdown, just a series of relatively toothless states of emergency.

This may not be as much of a “mystery” as the Japanese Health Ministry is making it out to be. Part of the decline is no doubt attributable to the country’s accelerated vaccination push. While it started off very slowly, they’ve now surged to the point where 70% of the population has received the shots. Others point to the fact that the Japanese were very accustomed to wearing face masks in public even before the pandemic began.

Another factor is that the people remaining in Japan who have not taken the vaccine have possibly already had the China coronavirus.

Whatever the reason, by not shutting down their economy, Japan is now stepping out of this period in world history with less impact to its people and economy than most other nations, including the US.

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Still reeling from the coordinated hit job two weeks ago by “whistleblower” Frances Haugen who appeared on 60 Minutes days before testifying before the U.S. Senate about the social media giant’s practices, Facebook issued a statement Monday decrying a “gotcha campaign” while warning about another hit job involving leaked documents being reported by thirty journalists allegedly being coordinated by the same public relations team behind the previous hit.

Facebook’s statement was posted to Twitter:

“We expect the press to hold us accountable, given our scale and role in the world. But when reporting misrepresents our actions and motivations, we believe we should correct the record.

Over the last 6 weeks, including over the weekend, we’ve seen how documents can be mischaracterized. Obviously, not every employee at Facebook is an executive; not every opinion is the company’s position.

Right now 30+ journalists are finishing up a coordinated series of articles based on thousands of pages of leaked documents. We hear that to get the docs, outlets had to agree to the conditions and a schedule laid down by the PR team that worked on earlier leaked docs.

A curated selection out of millions of documents at Facebook can in no way be used to draw fair conclusions about us. Internally, we share work in progress and debate options. Not every suggestion stands up to the scrutiny we must apply to decisions affecting so many people.

To those news organizations who would like to move beyond an orchestrated ‘gotcha’ campaign, we are ready to engage on the substance. – John Pinette, VP Communications

Over the last 6 weeks, including over the weekend, we’ve seen how documents can be mischaracterized. Obviously, not every employee at Facebook is an executive; not every opinion is the company’s position.

— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) October 18, 2021

A curated selection out of millions of documents at Facebook can in no way be used to draw fair conclusions about us. Internally, we share work in progress and debate options. Not every suggestion stands up to the scrutiny we must apply to decisions affecting so many people.

— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) October 18, 2021

To those news organizations who would like to move beyond an orchestrated ‘gotcha’ campaign, we are ready to engage on the substance. – John Pinette, VP Communications

— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) October 18, 2021

Human Events’ Will Chamberlain speaks for many on the right about Facebook’s troubles: “You know, I can imagine a world where conservatives were defending you from this lefty blackmail. Maybe you shouldn’t have banned the sitting President of the United States.”

In short: pic.twitter.com/uVBtuDTgGB

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 18, 2021

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Unless you have been living in a cave for the entirety of 2021, you have been told repeatedly that the “insurrection” on January 6th was the worst attack on democracy in American history – worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, or even the Civil War (according to Joe Biden).

The media hacks and swampy politicians have shamelessly parroted this lie and ignored the facts since the beginning.

Now, the entire bogus ‘insurrection’ narrative is completely falling apart.

Last week, federal prosecutors publicly released two US Capitol surveillance videos showing the moment that Trump supporters entered the building through a previously-unseen smaller entranceway.

Instead of showing a raucous gang of violent white supremacists busting through the doors and windows – like the media claims – the crowd calmly files into a line and walks into the building as Capitol Hill Police officers herd them inside. 

Is this officer waving the people inside? pic.twitter.com/20MX0uR0fC

— My Body My Choice Poso (@JackPosobiec) October 18, 2021

You can even see one of the Capitol Police officers clearly waving at the people inside when he is walking towards them.

(Can be seen at the 5-second mark in the video).

Also at the very beginning of the video, the crowd stops moving forward when the officers arrive, almost as if they are asking for permission to enter. When the cops walk by and let them pass, the crowd continues flowing inside.

In a later part of the video, police have successfully bottlenecked the crowd at the first entrance, preventing anyone else from getting in. Then, out of nowhere, one of the officers leans into the others and they begin to walk the crowd into the building, leaving the entrance completely unattended. 

BREAKING: NEW J6 SECURITY VIDEO of ‘Worst attack’ in US history..

Capitol Police: “Welcome, we just have to check your reservation.”

Protesters: “No problem, its your job! ‘Violent Insurrectionists,’ party of 1,000,000.”

CP Officer: “Perfect! Follow me!”#LetsGoBrandon #fjb pic.twitter.com/V9OqiDPbmd

— Julian Conradson (@JCConradson) October 18, 2021

Last month, the Biden administration released another video from inside the Capitol on Jan 6th that shows a similarly calm and peaceful crowd of Trump supporters milling around as if they were inside a shopping mall.

At the beginning of that security footage, a seemingly organized group of black-clad individuals can be seen breaking into the building, before they mysteriously disappear and the crowd files into the building. 

Whatever this is, it is not anything close to a coup or insurrection.pic.twitter.com/rI8Or41Q6H

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 22, 2021

You can tell from both of the videos that the so-called “insurrection” and “worst attack since the Civil War” looked more like an Open House.

There was no violence, the Trump supporters were peaceful, orderly and all left the building when they were asked to – and, as you can see in the most recent footage, they were hesitant to enter, only continuing ahead after being given the go-ahead by officers. 

Not to mention, the incident on Jan 6th bears a striking resemblance to a recent leftist ‘insurrection’ that just took place in Washington DC.

INSURRECTION! Violent Leftists Attempt to Storm Department of Interior – Demand End of Fossil Fuel Use before Winter

‘Insurrections’ are common practice for leftists. They have repeatedly taken over federal buildings to advance their radical agendas while causing significant damage and harm in the process – but rarely, if ever, face any consequences from the establishment.

Protesters take over the Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Why did the media paint this as courageous and brave?

Because it was an Anti-Kavanaugh protest. Kind of how Twitter didn’t flag any tweets that called him a rapist. pic.twitter.com/YAF7wh59q1

— Tim Xeriland (@Xeriland) January 7, 2021

And when these radicals rise to the level of extreme violence, the shameless media tells you not to believe your lying eyes.

Firey but mostly peaceful… yes @CNN that looks very peaceful, why it reminds me of Iraq during civil war is probably unrelated… pic.twitter.com/olaOmrZfio

— Sarai (Sarah Idan) Miss Iraq (@RealSarahIdan) August 27, 2020

Who are the real ‘insurrectionists’ and ‘domestic terrorists?’

As Nancy Pelosi and the authoritarian swamp carry out their bogus witch hunt on Trump supporters who were in attendance, keep in mind that the only people who were killed by violence that day were 2 trump supporters – Ashli Babbit and Rosanne Boyland — and two other Trump supporters that we’r not sure about.

The entire incident was so ‘dangerous’ that authorities were able to clear out the protesters and secure the building by the evening, so the corrupt swamp and Mike Pence could certify the bogus election results the very same night. 

“Worse than the Civil War,” what a joke.

As more evidence comes out, it continues to prove that the January 6th insurrection narrative is a complete lie. 

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The Today Show on NBC Monday morning featured a stunning report on the auto industry, with reporter Tom Costello saying shortages of parts and labor is crippling the car repair business, adding to the woes of a shortage of new cars and skyrocketing prices for used cars. One analyst cited in the report said the situation was the worst since World War II when the U.S. was emerging from the Great Depression and was under mandatory rationing for the all-out war effort against the Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan.

Oil filters, wiper blades, brake parts, engine parts, even entire engines are in short supply according to Costello. The report closed with a warning that tires could be in short supply this winter due to a rubber shortage.

In yet another problem tied to the global supply chain crisis, massive shortages in automobile parts and supplies are wreaking havoc on the automotive industry from dealerships to mechanics. @tomcostellonbc reports. pic.twitter.com/bFZ1aD0pry

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) October 18, 2021

Bloomberg reported Saturday on the shortage with this headline:

Cars Get Stuck at U.S. Garages for Weeks in Spare-Parts Shortage (excerpt):

The $300 billion auto-parts and repair industry is facing widespread operational challenges, from spikes in the price of steel and other materials to workforce shortages and — like everyone else — delays getting goods unloaded at U.S. seaports, said Paul McCarthy, chief executive of the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association.

No garage is being spared, whether franchise dealers who get their parts from the major automakers, independent warehouses, or small corner garages, McCarthy said.

“This is the most difficult supply-chain environment that I have ever seen,” AutoZone Inc. Chief Executive Officer William Rhodes said in a September earnings call. AutoZone is running “the lowest level of in-stock that I can ever remember,” said Rhodes, who started his career at the Memphis, Tennessee-based auto-parts retail giant in the 1990s and has been CEO since 2005.

“Oil filters are becoming harder to get, so when I buy them, I buy them in as big of quantities I can get,” said River Road Auto Service manager Danny Tomasian in Bethesda, Maryland.

The auto repair delays seem particularly acute in the U.S. because spare parts produced in Asia get tangled in the global shipping clog and cargo jams at seaports.

Xu Haidong, a vice chief engineer at the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said production and supply of parts are sufficient in his country…

While the nation’s transportation system has been in a growing state of crisis, Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has been away from his job for much of the past two months for paternity leave, not informing the public about his months-long break until last week.

They didn’t previously announce it, but Buttigieg’s office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.
https://t.co/LqXOJOnnbJ

— Matthew Kaminski (@KaminskiMK) October 15, 2021

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For more than 100 years a statue of Thomas Jefferson has stood in New York City Hall – until far-left activists on the Public Design Commission decided to remove it because Jefferson was a ‘slave-owning racist.’

NYC’s City Council’s black, Latino and Asian Caucus demanded the statue of the Founding Father and author of the Declaration of Independence be removed in part of the Maoist revolution sweeping this nation.

The vote is expected Monday.

“How the hell can people see as a hero someone who had hundreds of enslaved Africans, someone who was a racist and who said we were inferior and someone who was a slaveholding pedophile?” Assemblyman Charles Barron asked.

“For him to be canonized in a statue is incredible – incredibly racist,” he added.

A 7-foot-tall statue of Thomas Jefferson may be removed from NY City Hall.
The City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus said the statue “symbolizes the disgusting and racist basis on which America was founded.”
By @JeffCMays @ZacharyHSmall https://t.co/28gL5D2duc

— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) October 18, 2021

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