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Feel-Good Friday: An Uber Driver Goes Above and Beyond for One Passenger, and Gets Recognized for His Efforts

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Remember a time in our society when we watched out for each other and cared what happened to our fellow man, and if it was in our power to help we would? That time still exists, we just don’t hear about it as much as we should. And sometimes, it requires uncommon circumstances for it to be brought into the spotlight.

This week’s Feel-Good Friday is shining the light.

The first week of January, a horrible snowstorm on the East Coast shut down I-95, the major interstate that connects Washington, D.C. to Virginia—for 24 hours. Thanks to the fecklessness of then-Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, nobody knew about it, and people ended up trapped on the freeway. So, when a teenage girl’s train from D.C. to Virginia was canceled because of the weather, her parents called an Uber to transport her back to Virginia, unaware of the freeway closure.

Here’s where it gets interesting.

From CNN:

Williams and his passenger ended up idling on the freeway, not going anywhere, and using the heater to stay warm, because Williams did not have any blankets in the car. Williams became concerned about the girl’s state of mind, as well as fearful that he would soon run out of gas. Luckily, Williams was able to follow some work trucks off the freeway, and turned back around to D.C.

At this point, Williams could have simply dropped his passenger back at Union Station and went on his merry way, but he did not want to leave a young girl stranded and alone at a train station in the middle of the city. So, he convinced her parents to let him get her a hotel room—with his own money.

The parents were reluctant at first, but agreed that it was the best idea.

“They don’t know me, I don’t know them, and I get it,” Williams said. “They just want to make sure their child is safe.”

He got her checked into the hotel at about 8 that morning and offered to take the passenger back to Williamsburg for free once the roads cleared.

A friend of her family was able to take her home.

“So around about 8:30 Tuesday night, she texted me and said she was safe,” he said. “She thanked me for everything and her parents had also thanked me, for doing what I did for their daughter because I didn’t have to do it.”

Uber reimbursed Williams for the cost of the hotel room, and commended him for going above and beyond for his passenger.

On top of that, because of this monumental showing of not just customer service, but care and compassion for another human being, Williams was presented with a new career opportunity.

Alto is an upmarket rideshare company with hubs in Dallas and Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and D.C., and they extended an offer to Williams for a part-time job with their corporation.

Williams said he would be training other drivers on customer service and maintaining their vehicles.

“We are thrilled,” a spokeswoman said in an email to CNN. “DaVante is exactly the type of customer and safety focused leader we are looking to help lead our DC presence.”

Williams said they are still working out the details of the offer because he works full time as a property manager and realtor.

A good friend of mine always says, “Cream rises to the top.” DaVante Williams’ richness of heart and quality of service deserved recognition. I hope he continues to rise to greater things.

The CDC Finally Makes a Massive Admission About COVID-19

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In an almost surreal way, writing about COVID-19 as a political commentator has become almost second nature. Two years ago, I would have laughed at the idea that we’d still be covering the virus, but here we are, still having it be part of our daily conversation.

That’s not by choice, of course. Instead, it’s because our leaders have insisted on tying the two areas of health and politics together so tightly. When a pandemic is constantly used to crush liberties and hand power to people with tyrannical leanings, that’s not a story that can be ignored.

In all the disinformation and obfuscation of the last several years from the government, though, no issue has been more abused than natural immunity. We’ve known since the beginning months of the pandemic that those who are previously infected gain lasting, durable immunity from the virus. Yet, the CDC, two presidential administrations, and the mainstream media have all steadfastly refused to acknowledge that reality.

Finally, that has changed.

You don’t say? Welcome to the party the rest of us have been hosting for a year-and-a-half.

Some of us have been writing on natural immunity since the summer of 2020. We’ve charged ahead, amidst an onslaught of false “fact-checks” to present the data that clearly shows that those with a prior COVID infection are protected and likely don’t need to get vaccinated. In that time, we’ve been maligned as anti-science and called grandma killer, among other choice descriptors. Even after multiple studies emerged over the last year proving natural immunity was real and viable, the government and its media allies still pretended it didn’t exist.

And in the off chance you did get a member of those groups to admit the obvious, they’d usually respond with a non sequitur like “oh, so you are suggesting people purposely get COVID?” But no one was ever suggesting that. Rather, we were just pointing out that tens of millions of people had gotten COVID, not by choice, many before the vaccines even came out, and that to ignore their natural immunity is anti-science.

Still, as shocking and late as this admission is, it means nothing if the CDC doesn’t change its guidelines. Will they now include natural immunity in their push for things like “vaccine passports”? Or will they continue down the same, absolutist road where if you aren’t triple-vaxxed, you lose your rights? I think we can speculate with some confidence exactly how things will turn out. There will be no change in policy because the Biden administration will never let that happen. To do so would be to admit they’ve been wrong all along, and they can’t have that.

What in the Fresh Hell Is Chuck Schumer Doing?

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As a writer at RedState, I know I’m expected to provide smart, forward-looking commentary on the machinations of various political figures. Of course, if you’ve been around here long enough, you know that often manifests itself as incredibly mediocre analysis, but hey, I’m trying here.

Still, I have no earthly idea what the heck Sen. Chuck Schumer is doing right now. His decision to press ahead with a vote on changing the filibuster rules is the most idiotic, nonsensical political move I’ve seen in a very long time. I’d love to pretend to have some brilliant deconstruction for you guys, explaining the intricacies of what the Senate Majority Leader is doing, but really, this is just moronic and defies all logic.

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have been abundantly clear — they will not support any change to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate. A talking filibuster would allow the passage of legislation with just 51 votes (that includes the assumed vice-presidential tiebreaker). Given that all Schumer is doing is repackaging the same plan to blow up the filibuster, who exactly does he think he’s fooling here? Certainly, Manchin and Sinema aren’t going to budge.

But because Schumer has pushed this issue far beyond what he should have, the fact that the vote is going to fail is now the least of his worries. Inexplicably, he’s forcing vulnerable Democrat senators like Arizona’s Mark Kelly to go on record in support of changing the Senate rules.

And to be frank, that is not a decision Kelly wants to make publicly before his reelection campaign this year.

Perhaps Schumer could be forgiven for nuking his Senate majority in an election year by hanging his moderate members out to dry if he otherwise had some major win waiting on the other side — but he doesn’t. Forcing a vote on the filibuster gains Schumer and his party nothing at all. All it does is create political headaches for Democrat members that don’t represent deep blue bastions like New York and California.

There’s also the fact that by doing this and failing, he’s now given Republicans a green light to nuke the filibuster once they regain power. After all, if it’s a “Jim Crow relic” now, it will still be one when the GOP gains a likely trifecta after the 2024 election. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting the GOP should or will blow up the filibuster (I think the last year has shown that having that guardrail is well worth the cost). I’m only saying that Democrats will have forfeited the right to oppose such a move with any credibility.

And again, for what? What is Schumer getting in return for committing political hari-kari?

There’s only one possible explanation here, and that is that Schumer fears a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Thus, he feels as if he must ride off the cliff with the rest of the far-left loons. Yes, I’m speculating, but if someone else has a better theory, I’m all ears.

In the end, regardless of the reason, Schumer is making a huge mistake, and the plaudits he’ll get from cable news hosts will hardly be any consolation when the consequences of his decision come calling.

SAVE THE DATE: January 23 'Defeat the Mandates D.C.' Is Part of a Global Movement to Stamp out Pandemic Evils

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Back in October of 2021, RedState reported on the upcoming November 3, 2021 World Walkout Day. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. through his Children’s Health Defense Network encouraged U.S. and global citizens to coordinate against mask compliance, refuse the vaccines and testing, and disregard vaccine mandates and passports in solidarity and protest.

I asked in the article if the legacy media would ignore this event to their own peril. It was really a rhetorical question, because ignore it they did. Save for foreign outlets like NTD, and a few local and alternative news sites, the protests received barely a mention.

But millions of people worldwide have been emboldened, encouraged, and more importantly, activated. This global unit has continued to band together and coordinate under the banner of The World Wide Rally for Freedom. Throughout 2021, the global network continued their work of dismantling the globalist attacks on freedom, liberty, and body autonomy, and creating opportunities for humankind to express its discontent and stand up for their God-given rights.

The network has organized through Telegram, Instagram, and even Facebook, and mounted three successful worldwide events thus far. For this first World Wide Rally for Freedom of 2022, the organization is:

“[M]oving from strength to strength to build our movement into a beacon of Freedom for the World. In its fourth installment, our movement is resolved upon shared objectives, shared principles, and shared solution actions that we invite all people in every nation to stand behind for the future of our society. We will not allow our inalienable Human Rights to be re-packaged as Human Privileges, to be conditioned upon compliance with Authoritarianism. Throughout history, Humanity has been tried and tested in difficult times, but in the end, Freedom Always Wins.”

To emphasize, this is happening around the world—even Australia, where we have seen the worst of government overreach and crushing of speech and individual liberties. The press release continues:

“We stand for the rights of all people to push back against infringements against their Freedom by joining us. One Day. Everyone Together. We Will All Be There. We are taking a stand for 5 important Freedoms:

  • Freedom of Speech
  • Freedom of Movement
  • Freedom of Choice
  • Freedom of Assembly
  • Freedom of Health”

Wonder where they might have heard about those ideas? They sound very close to the United States of America’s Constitution and Bill of Rights.

“We are advocating for 5 important Objectives:

  • End Lockdowns
  • End Mask Mandates
  • Prevent Vaccine Mandates and Coercion
  • Return to Standard International and Domestic Travel
  • End all State of Emergency Declarations”

The press release continues to outline the principles and objectives and makes this call to action:

“We call on all opponents of the Coronavirus Restriction policies of their own government to participate in this World-Wide Protest. We maintain that it is better to be right, than to be in the majority. We can overcome widespread fear of social disapproval by building new social relationships with people that we align with and by helping people to find new communities to be a part of.”

Both Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough, the COVID pandemic and mass formation psychosis whistleblowers whom Joe Rogan has now made infamous, are promoting the date, and an event being held in solidarity with the World Wide Freedom Rally.

The fact that they both promoted it on Joe Rogan’s podcast is no doubt causing more Leftist and globalists heads to explode.

The American event, “Defeat the Mandates DC: America’s Homecoming,” is being held in conjunction with the World Wide Freedom Rally, and involves a march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument. At the monument, the organizers have garnered a hefty lineup of speakers including the two doctors, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., retired tech magnate Steve Kirsch, investigative reporter Lara Logan, conservative pundit Will Witt, and a host of others. The American people have gained some victory with the recent Supreme Court decision against Joe Biden’s OSHA mandates, but this only means that we must strengthen our resolve and continue to make our voices heard. This rally is a perfect opportunity to do this.

To join your fellow Americans in Washington, D.C., visit the Defeat the Mandates DC website. If D.C. is too far to travel, there are many World Wide Freedom Rallies being held in the U.S. To find one in your area, visit the World Wide Demonstration website to patch into the Telegram or the Facebook groups.

Oracle Films produced The Pushback, a 1 hour and 21 minute documentary on the very first World Wide Freedom Rally held on March 20, 2021; one year after the pandemic madness started.

It is worth the watch, and the filmmakers encourage you to share it.

Democrats' Wasted Year: Sinema and Manchin Aren't Moving on Filibuster or BBB

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(The opinions expressed in guest op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.)

Months ago we wrote this….

Beating Dead Horses: Forget ‘Build Back Better’ and Get Bipartisan Already

In which we noted the very obvious:

“DC hasn’t legislated in election years in decades.  So this off-year was all the time there was for anything to get done.  And we’ve wasted nigh its entirety beating the dead horse that is the fake ‘Build Back Better’ bill.

“I have a sense that if a Republican majority was myopically stuck on a piece of partisan legislation, the entirety of the planet would have in Week II begun chastising them for wasting everyone’s time.  Republicans would be incessantly cajoled to get back to working on bipartisan things that can actually get done.”

Nearly a year into the exceedingly awful Joe Biden Administration, neither Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema or West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin have moved even a little in their opposition to large swaths of Build Back Never.  Or ending the filibuster.  And they never lied about this.  Au contraire.  They have been very openly saying they would not move even a little.

But Democrats have insisted on remaining steadfastly impervious to these facts.  And we are rapidly approaching the year anniversary of their titanically wasting our time.

But this is Big Government.  And this is Big Media and Big Tech.  So instead of The Zeitgeist asking the overwhelming majority of Democrats why they continue to flog deceased equines?  We continue to get idiocies like this….

How Manchin, Sinema Are Blocking a New Democratic Consensus

Manchin and Sinema Continue to Stand in Way of ‘Build Back Better’

Dems Left With Zombie Voting Bills After Sinema, Manchin Death Blows

Clyburn: Sinema, Manchin Should Quit Their ‘Foolishness’ in Opposing Filibuster Suspension

And how’s this for dumbness beyond measure?

How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision

If only….

Meanwhile, there’s a whole lot of really important stuff DC needs to be getting done.  Just as there was a year ago when the Democrats began this idiocy.

And here’s the rub: A lot of it has bipartisan support.  But DC won’t get out of its own way and get to it.

Months ago we also wrote this…:

“One of the reasons Big Tech is so very big (and obnoxious, and market-murdering, and….) is they can sell us and our data completely unimpeded by any privacy legislation whatsoever.

“You read that right.  We are into Decade II of Big Tech’s crushing planetary dominance – and DC still can’t get its act together on legislation to protect us and our data from them.

“(Gee, I wonder if Big Tech’s crushing crony-donation dominance has anything to do with their success impeding privacy law progress…?)

“You don’t want a patchwork quilt of fifty different state laws smothering the Internet.  On privacy, or Net Neutrality, or….  It’s a regulatory nightmare mess.  It’s a WORLD Wide Web.  We need one national slate of Internet policies – the better to mesh with the rest of the world’s Web.

“There has, in fact, been bipartisan DC privacy legislation for years.  Here’s a latest example….

“‘Senators Roll Out Bipartisan Data Privacy Bill’

“It’s just that DC hasn’t prioritized any of it.  It has done Big Tech its crony favors – and instead keeps getting sidetracked and bogged down with idiotic hyper-partisan nonsense like Build Back Never.

“They should put down the dumbness and slowly back away.  And instead spend time on data privacy legislation that actually helps actual Americans.

“Of course, Big Tech requires more legislation than just data privacy.  And here DC has been all around the solution but generally missed the mark.

“We don’t need any new antitrust legislation — bipartisan though it may be.  We can do plenty with existing law – and don’t want to further open that awful can of worms.

“There’s been some bipartisan discussion of Section 230 reform.  That’s getting closer to the solution.  But what we actually need is….Section 230 repeal.

“‘How Did Big Tech Get So Big? Massive Government Cronyism – Like Section 230’….

“Oh: And Section 230s massive, ever-expanding crony protections were added to 1996’s Communications Decency Act (CDA) — as an offset to the ‘indecency’ speech limitations the CDA emplaced.

“Except the Supreme Court in 1997 (rightly) dumped the CDA’s ‘indecency’ speech limitations.  But left in place Section 230s massive, ever-expanding crony protections.

“So Big Tech has retained its unique, massive crony protectionism payoff – without the downside the payoff was supposed to pay off.

“Section 230 has to go.”

Indeed it does.  But if that’s asking a little much of DC, let’s at least begin to rein in Big Tech’s free rein. With Section 230 — and Big Tech’s limitless, multi-trillion-dollar abuse of our digital data. Both needed doing a year ago.  Both still need doing.

Our two non-insane Democrats certainly think so. Oh: And both Section 230 and data privacy reform are bipartisan….

Sinema Calls for Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Arizonans’ Privacy

Klobuchar, Kennedy, Manchin, Burr Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Privacy of Consumers’ Online Data

Section 230 Will Be On the Chopping Block at the Next Big Tech Hearing:

“Committee Chairman Roger Wicker called the decision to hold the hearing “imperative” in order for Americans to ‘receive a full accounting from the heads of these companies about their content moderation practices.’

“Remarkably, the decision to subpoena the CEOs was unanimous, with ranking Democrat Maria Cantwell joining the vote to subpoena the companies after initially opposing the decision….

“Republican members of the Senate Commerce Committee include Wicker, Ted Cruz, John Thune and Rick Scott. Democrats on the committee include Cantwell, Amy Klobuchar, Brian Schatz and Kyrsten Sinema.”

Manchin Section 230 Bill Inbound:

“A bid for bipartisan Section 230 reform: It’s the latest proposal in Washington to set its sights on the legal shield.

“‘As the Internet rapidly changed, we failed to keep up. Now we must amend Section 230 to reflect the way the Internet impacts our lives today – both good and bad,’ Manchin told Politico.”

And it ain’t just DC’s elected denizens that want to move on movable stuff.  And it ain’t just DC.

Tech and Business Coalition Launches Push for Federal Privacy Law

State and Local Coalition Letter Calling for Data Privacy Legislation

There’s a lot of good stuff DC could do.

If it wasn’t so myopically fixated on awful things it can’t.