One of the best ways to know what Democrats are up to is to simply check how they’re smearing their opponents. Who is really “destroying democracy” if not those who support mass censorship, surveillance, and the jailing of reporters and others over speech crimes? Who really colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election? Who ended the United States’ lifelong tradition of peaceful transition of power by spying on and sabotaging the governance of the opposition-party president elected after Barack Obama?

So it’s extremely ominous to see a drumbeat of claims from corporate media and other Democrats throughout the 2024 election cycle that Republican supporters will engage in post-election violence. A Google News search immediately turns up endless headlines like these: “Could the 2024 election normalize political violence?” asks NPR. “Ahead of Election Day, officials prepare for protests and possible violence,” says USA Today.

These are not just claims but also plans for post-election violence. The Cyberstructure and Information Security Agency has been training state and federal officials on election violence scenarios all year, says Politico. As revealed in the Murthy v. Biden litigation and open records obtained by reporter Matt Taibbi, CISA is effectively an election interference agency. It interferes in elections by “switchboarding” censorship demands from government officials to social media monopolies. Without free speech, elections are not free.

Asst City Administrator Chris Rodriguez tells @councilofdc that @MayorBowser Administration is bracing for possibility of “large scale riots & civil unrest” as well as “historic crowds regardless of who wins” around Inauguration Day. @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/MbP0o2KX5n

— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) October 29, 2024

After Sen. Rand Paul asked about CISA and other national security agencies participating in a 2024 election day “cybersecurity” event in Atlanta, Georgia, CISA insisted it wasn’t involved. In a public letter, Paul said the event in the swing state with a long history of election challenges was slated to include “a four-hour ‘Critical Infrastructure Tabletop’ led by CISA staff” and was hosted by U.S. military entities.

In its election violence trainings across the country, CISA “provides tabletop exercises on scenarios including a protest that turns violent, an active shooter at a polling place or even a covert extremist discovered in an election office.” The FBI has also participated in such exercises with election officials nationwide that include preparing for “civil disobedience,” says USA Today. (Read more from “Are Elected Republicans Ready To Respond To Potential Post-Election Chaos?” HERE)

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The number of U.S. military service members on weight-loss drugs have jumped nearly 100-fold since 2018, according to a recent analysis of Defense Department data.

On Thursday, Stars and Stripes, an independent military publication, reported on the study posted in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer-reviewed journal for the armed forces. According to the latest report out in January, the prevalence of weight-loss drug prescriptions for U.S. military personnel skyrocketed from 1.2 per 100,000 service members in 2018 to 104.4 per 100,000 members in June 2023.

“Use of weight loss medications will likely continue to increase due to the ongoing obesity epidemic in the U.S.,” researchers noted, with obesity among the armed forces already on the rise. The prevalence of obesity jumped from just more than 16 percent among full-time active service members to nearly 19 percent in 2021. Roughly 67 percent of the U.S. adult population aged 18 and older were qualified as either obese or overweight in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The CDC estimates the Pentagon spends about $1.5 billion in obesity-related health costs and loses 658,000 work days due to it each year. In 2018, the Department of Defense authorized the use of four weight-loss drugs due to the crisis within the military’s ranks.

U.S. lockdowns accelerated the pace of weight gain with nearly 10,000 Army service members emerging obese, according to the Associated Press last spring. Military prescriptions for weight-loss drugs went from 7 in January 2018 to 816 in June 2023. Weight-loss injections such as semaglutide, which was included in the list of medications covered in 2021, can carry severe side effects, from kidney damage to stomach paralysis. (Read more from “Alarming Surge: U.S. Military Sees 100-Fold Increase in Weight-Loss Drug Prescriptions” HERE)

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