The whole panel (16 judges) may well reimpose the stay shortly. After 3 were assigned to hear the case, the other 13 held a vote on whether the whole panel should hear the case right away. 8 of 13 said yes, indicating that the injunction should stay in place. 8 being only half of the total of 16, with 3 assigned panelists not voting, was not sufficient to bump it to the whole panel right away. The panel then decided 2-1 to dissolve the injunction. Thinking is that now you will have the 8 non panelists plus the one panelist all voting to reinstate the injunction next week.
Of course, if the 6th Circuit does fix this, the Supreme Court may still weigh in. SCOTUS has been tough on administrative overreach (which this is) (see CDC rent moratorium), but pathetically weak on personal liberty issues related to the pandemic. So it’s an open question what they might do with the case. The best case for us may be nature/Omicron, infecting so many vaxed that the biomedical security state can no longer keep up the charade that these vax work and must be mandated (see Gato’s post re Cornell).
We are "double-whammied" here. Judges that know nothing of the science, and most of the scientists have either been paid or intimidated into supporting the government narrative. We have become a nation of (mostly) cowards.
It was not clear to me there could be a "second bite of the apple" at an en banc hearing. Using Brian Daucher's comment, it appears the dissenting judge in this case (Judge Larsen), would be the ninth vote to reinstate the stay.
The second judge (Gibbons) wrote a concurring opinion citing the Chevron rule which says (to my non-lawerly understanding) the judiciary should generally be deferential to the administrative state on policy questions.
So, despite Judge Strand's histrionics about "the virus", I think the case will ultimately be decided on legal grounds, grounds which have evolved more or less quietly to empower the Federal government to do things we really might not approve of had some earlier decisions been more broadly controversial than they appeared at the time.
It appears that a majority of the Justices at SCOTUS wants to get rid of Chevron because it violate the Constitution’s separation of powers. In addition to Kavanaugh, Gorsuch is very strong on this point. There key issue here is whether we should be ruled by the actual words (text) of the Constitution or whether unelected judges can just read their own agenda into it and rule us by their fiat.
Even though the 6th Circuit panel draw turns out to have been a bad one, the overall lottery draw placing this matter in the 6th Circuit may well turn out to be fortuitous. Kavanaugh oversees the 6th Circuit, has received the petition for review, and will now decide to present it to the Court at large. Difficult to imagine that Kavanaugh won't do so. Equally difficult to imagine is that he won't find the three additional justices to take the case up. And of course Kavanaugh would be a justice sympathetic to immediately reinstating the injunction which he can do on his own until the full Court decides differently. Time is precious in this matter as, absent an injunction, employees are losing their livelihoods at present or receiving a potentially harmful medical treatment contrary to their will. If the case were coming up from a Circuit overseen by, let's say, Sotomayor, the case would not be accepted and, by the time the matter worked its way up to the Court through normal process, the damage to hundreds of thousand lives would already have occurred.
Thanks for explaining this Brian. I was a bit confused considering the 6th originally reaffirmed the ban on December 4th. From what I gather, of the 16 judges, 11 are GOP appointees. Of course you can't count on a "Bushie". Obviously, the panel this time was of a different composition than the December 4th panel.
The judge who wrote this ruling was an Obama judge joined by a Bush Judge. The dissenter was an orange man judge. Obama ones are always activists, bush ones are meh and orange man ones are sometimes okay, sometimes disappointing (ACB, Kavanaugh)
"Raging pandemic" is a phrase that is used all over the place where I live- supposedly in the eye of the storm. Yet here we are in the midst of this biblical event and no bodies dropping anywhere and there have not been at any time. All time record low hospital bed usage for but one example that disproves this slogan. That's called ACTUAL DATA which anyone can look up.
The whole 800,000 is a complete fiction as you point out. The most malevolent part of this fiction is using that narrative actually covers up the fact that most of those who are placed into that death toll were murdered by state sanctioned policies that included, but were not limited to, isolation, abandonment, toxic drugs, ventilators, forced medication etc.
There were elderly folks for the most part who were not allowed to have anyone advocate for them. There is no way to overstate the cynicism in all of this.
The notion that there ever was a pandemic is routinely debunked simply by looking at the ages and comorbidities of those who get placed into that manufactured 800,000 figure. That those who died in this biblical pandemic were older than normal lifespans in every single country in the world tells you all you need to know. That on average they had 4-5 serious, life-threatening illnesses should alert anyone to the lie.
Virtually all of those included in that 800,000 figure would be dead by now regardless of any purported "viral event" though some would have lived a bit longer had the medical establishment not killed them.
Here's a quote from Zuby:
"Stop calling cruelty 'incompetence'. Some people simply cannot accept that malice is a real thing.
You can only give benefit of the doubt up to a point. What people are living through is not the result of simple 'incompetence'.
'Incompetence' assumes that everybody means well. But some people don't. Period. There are people who only care about their money, their power, their status, and their control over you.
They don't give a crap about you, your family, or your well being.
And the higher up the chain you go, the greater the % of people like this who you will encounter.
Just because you are kind, caring, and mean well, doesn't mean that everybody is like you.I know it's unpleasant to accept. But it's the truth."
I've gotten pretty sick of being told it's irrational of me to see these people as actually evil. Too many on our side will forgive the people shooting them in the back of the head ("sadly necessary to protect the public health") in a few years.
What's irrational is thinking that these "civil folks" who have built their careers by supporting monstrosities won't turn on anyone and get ugly with anyone who threatens their careers. They'll turn on each other when the time comes.
I like to point to the historical fact that the largest professional group that formed the Nazi party was doctors, followed by scientists and academics.
These people are circa 2021's version of Nazi sympathizers and personally I feel it's important to say it straight to their faces and to do so unequivocally. Where I live there is ample opportunity for this.
I had a locker next to an extremely popular girl who, as teens do, looked for an excuse to torment me.
On the vague accusation that my locker door had bumped her head, she punched me in the face. (This was one of those "inner city schools" you've read about. I've also been cut with a boxcutter and hit with a bat.)
It wasn't super serious, but I was pretty soft in those days and cried out, which led to both of us being dragged to the dean's office to "sort it out." A third girl from our grade, not particularly friends with either of us, saw the whole thing from directly across the hall from us, and as we got plunked down to "give our side of what happened" I explained that so-and-so saw her haul off and punch me completely unprovoked, just ask her.
She was called in and very primly said, "I don't want to get involved and I didn't see anything anyway," and was immediately allowed to leave. Girl A was undisciplined and I got an ice pack or something.
I changed her name to "Switzerland" and refused to call her anything else for the rest of the year. It was weird and no one got it, but it annoyed her.
The point is, my absolute rage at the girl that went along to get along lasted tens if not hundreds of times longer than the girl that had actually hit me.
This was decades ago, but the Switzerlands of the world still earn a special kind of contempt from me. I pray they get tastes of their own medicine as much as the villains get their justice.
Funny now that you mention it, but growing up, the neutrality of Switzerland during WWII seemed always to be taught with a sense of admiration for their judiciousness and refusal to get involved. I seemed to be the only one who thought it was cowardice and greed that drove them. There's no honor in staying neutral in fight so that you can later side with the winner.
There is so much “cover” that if one hasn’t “studied” especially the “non-approved sources” it is unlikely one is working with the true story about the situation in “the real world” imho.
I have a story. When I was in junior high school, my friend Diane was being tormented at the lunch table by some girls for telling Dawn that Kim didn't like her dress for the 9th grade dance...which caused Dawn to deliberately burn a hole in her dress so her parents would buy another. ( I know, right.)
After a few minutes, I told them to leave her alone...which infuriated her tormentors. They raged at me and told me to stay out of it. Diane and I had a bond...we'd both lost our mothers at a young age (me at four and Diane at twelve)...so I didn't a back down. She was literally sobbing.
Denise, who was a year behind us, stood up and called me out. She wanted to fight me at the flag pole after school, which both shocked me and amused me. Keep in mind, this was a pretty affluent public school in suburban Philadelphia. I told her I wasn't going to fight her; and, eventually, told her to shut the f*ck up. That didn't go over well.
They literally took a vote to kick me off the lunch table. LOL. I watched as they went one-by-one and took their vote. Everyone...including Diane, the girl I was defending, and another friend named Christine...voted to kick me off the table. Only one girl...whose last name was Himmelreich...refused to participate. She looked at me and said, "I want no part of this." They pressured her, but she wouldn't back down.
Of course, I was a social pariah for the last few weeks of school. No one wanted to sit with me. And this evil little b*tch named Julie enlisted the help of some boys to harass me on the other side of the cafeteria.
It changed how I felt about all of these people...and revealed who I was to myself.
I started studying German in high school and realized what Himmelreich meant. :) Don't think it was a coincidence.
Diane and I spoke in high school and were part of the same general group but no. I never confronted her or Christine. And they never apologized. Kids sometimes do awful things to each other. I wish them well.
Denise was a jock and convinced of her own power. She did try to engage with me in high school, but I blew her off.
Like most things...healing begins with an acknowledgement of harm done and a request for forgiveness without expectation. In retrospect, I feel sorry for them...but at the time it was pretty upsetting.
I wonder if one possibility of what is happening is that human nature as described in stories like yours from school, is on steroids from social control. I’m thinking of this from a Yuval Harari talk:
“If you know enough biology and have enough computing power and data, you can hack my body and my brain and my life, and you can understand me better than I understand myself. You can know my personality type, my political views, my sexual preferences, my mental weaknesses, my deepest fears and hopes. You know more about me than I know about myself. And you can do that not just to me, but to everyone. A system that understands us better than we understand ourselves can predict our feelings and decisions, can manipulate our feelings and decisions, and can ultimately make decisions for us.”
I don’t think we’re at what he describes quite yet, but we are getting there. They are trying to curate what information goes into people’s brains on a mass level and are making no secret about trying to do this. When they grow very adept, many people will be lost forever. In other words, if they can “hack” billions of people, but individually via such methods as algorithms based on your viewing behavior, I wonder if even we in these comments will be able to know what is real. That’s why timeless words and principles are so important. The First and Second Amendments, for instance, help to ground us. The words of people from the past like Solzhenitsyn or Orwell or Arendt help to ground us. The Bible helps to ground us. I think that’s why so many of us are referencing principles and timeless concepts and words from the past. These are beacons of light that seem to be illuminating our lives.
However, what I have not seen in any of these timeless words and concepts is HOW YOU BEAT growing totalitarianism. Is there anyone from the past who has written about that?
Human beings are not algorithms. We are more than the sum of our experiences and choices. We are spiritual as well as physical beings. Manipulation...even on a massive scale...is not new to humanity or dependent on technology and social media. The key is to train people to realize when they are being manipulated and to follow those uncomfortable feelings to the root.
I may not know all that is happening or why or who...but I know what is real and what is not. This has been a very effective psychological operation. The people behind it understand human frailty and exploited it to great effect...but there are hundreds of millions of us who were immune.
I think “the banality of evil” is an absolutely fantastic phrase from Hannah Arendt. I keep trying to explain to people that evil does not look like a man twirling his moustache while saying “Bwahahahaha” and then sending you to a dungeon. But it’s like I’m talking to a wall most of the time. There’s someone on Twitter who uses the phrase “talented TV watchers” or something like that. That’s really what so many have become. They like to grill in their backyards and watch TV and live circumscribed lives and cannot imagine how they could be contributing to anything awful and evil through continuing to watch TV and minding their own business and occasionally squawking out “It’s about saving lives!” They might play tennis or golf or go to a book club for spice! They can still do all these things; therefore, they reason, we are all free.
The main thing that has helped me make relatively wise life decisions (thus far, for a relatively young person) has been the understanding that everyone, including myself, is capable of real evil and that this capacity remains intact no matter our age, gender, or intellect.
I've found it weird how alienating it can be, too. Though I've gotten a lot more practice in the past year with people literally or metaphorically patting me on the head and patiently explaining for the thousandth time that people are just incompetent and scared and don't want to lose their job.
My mother who was a devout Christian used to say that people are all cut from the same cloth and we're all capable of some nasty stuff. So we all need to check ourselves--constantly. The clowns running this shit show are absolutely evil but I seriously doubt that they came to earth that way.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We are all fallen and capable of horrific evil. I praise Him daily for providing me with both the insight to see it in myself and the forbearance to not inflict my fears and rage on others. I pray for his strength that it may always continue thus.
Many people in our society are essentially amoral nihilists. When you "kill God", the nihilist thinks "I can be God, I can make MY utopia". From a view of 50,000 feet, I think that's how we got here.
I agree, which is interesting given I am not religious. But I do hold strong values and have a strong sense of right/wrong and of the Devine, that I have had transcendent encounters with.
My mom knows a jillion people that have gotten seriously sick from their "vaccine," though, and my dad's still in the hospital from CHF after shot #3.
The closest I've come to knowing anyone seriously ill from covid was a friend of a friend's dad who was an intensive care doctor and about 65 years old died about 9 months ago of covid he obviously got on his ward. I guess he wasn't wearing a mask.
But I do know of two people who ‘went to the hospital’ after getting The Pfizer Jab…both in their early to mid 60’s, one a male because of tingling and neurological issues in his legs and feet, and being unable to walk, the other a female who developed vision problems and went partially blind. Both were ‘hospitalized’ for a couple of days, and released after no connection was made to what brought them into the hospital, having any association with their recent Covid Vaxx Status. These people used to talk with me and when I made a link to their injury and their recent Vaxx status, they dismissed it and now no longer speak to me! 😉😜
Shame, given both of those symptoms are common reports. My land lady’s friend had temporary blindness after the vaccine, and a customer where I work told me her vision had suddenly deteriorated since the jab (she needed a new script in her glasses, even though she’d only recently had it updated).
Last January my wife was hospitalized for a week with COVID induced Pneumonia. She fits squarely into several of the more serious comorbidity groups - but she pulled out ok, although it was nearly a month after discharge until she was back to her normal self. She was at home for a week and a half after testing positive, not 'quarantined' away from me or the grandkids that live with us - and neither the kids nor I came down with it, even though she and I shared out marital bed during this time. Curious.
Also - just this last week about a dozen and a half of the workers at her plant became symptomatic and were sent home and told to stay home for two weeks should they test positive for COVID. One of these workers was found dead at home a few days later. Still don't have official word if he tested positive or not - although I understand an autopsy is scheduled.
My parents (who are in their 80's) live in a retirement community - and they're in an absolute panic about this - and refuse to visit with anyone that hasn't been 'vaxxed' - because so many of their friends have died recently. What I haven't had the fortitude to bring up with them is the uncomfortable question of: How many of these folks might well have died during this last year and a half or so, regardless of the pandemic. Unfortunately, that's a hard question to answer on an individual basis - even though it's possible via a statistical evaluation of how many 'excess deaths' occur in a large enough group of people.
Unfortunately due to the incentives that many major hospitals received for 'COVID' patients - it may never be possible to know for sure how many died OF COVID as opposed to just 'WITH' it (there are several cases in my area of folks in car accidents that are listed as COVID deaths because their corpses tested positive). 800,000 COVID deaths? I doubt it. How many? The world may never know.
'Incompetence' explanation also helps people avoid the awful truth that evil cannot, I repeat CANNOT be removed via voting. Start upping your cardio and bodyweight workouts.
Despite the testing, the pandemic rages on! Despite refusal to arrest criminals, the wave of looting and burglary rages on! Despite printing $7 trillion of new money in nine months, inflation rages on! Despite halting border enforcement, illegal immigration chaos rages on! Despite teaching racist CRT in thousands of schools, racism rages on! Despite psychological mind-f*cking of young children in schools, gender dysphoria rages on! Despite cancel culture in social media, censorship rages on! Despite gaslighting about election fraud, voter anger rages on! Despite the DoJ and FBI investigating law-abiding parents frustrated with what is being taught in school, citizen frustration rages on! Despite congressional corruption, voter anger rages on!
I read the first page last night and spit out my drink. It was as if Klaus Schwab wrote it. It's disturbing how many institutions have been captured by ideology, evil and madness.
Excellent point. Knowing that ultimately SCOTUS is as political (and beholden to the oligarchs) as any institution driving this exercise - particularly seeing how they have punted on previous opportunities to rule on issues involving COVID vaccine mandates, I have no confidence that they will put an end to Biden’s OSHA mandate. They’re just getting started.
I hereby nominate Gato to SCOTUS. Seriously, how do these people sleep at night? Their tyranny is overt and they are strident in their diabolical objectives.
Relying upon a legal framework to protect us from government abuses, when the arbiters of judgment were appointed by said government, is folly. Many of us have been saying this for decades and simply smile and shake our heads (in a saddened sort of way) whenever people appear surprised and "outraged" that so many judges defer to government authority, justifying it with asinine and contradictory statements.
This case moving to the US Supreme Court is no slam-dunk either. There is every possibility for the Justices to "correct" the wording or underlying basis for the mandates as part of their ruling in favor (recall the two pivotal Obamacare cases where Justice Roberts did this, in contradiction to oral arguments and recorded legislative text).
Uff you knocked it out of the park (and generally always do) but this is almost the perfect alchemical crystallisation of our current malaise:
“it was not “the pandemic” that shut down workplaces and the economy. it was “the pandemic response.” none of this needed to happen. had we literally done NOTHING, never noticed this, never named it, and never implemented a testing regimen so ill conceived and out of proportion as to be literally unique in the annals of all of human history, this would have passed barely remarked upon as “huh, that was a crummy flu year.” there would have been no economic damage. that was entirely self-inflicted, entirely avoidable, and known to be useless before we undertook it.“
The virus wasn't much of a bioweapon in itself.... ah, but the coordinated response! The the long game of institutional infiltration, that's like the decades of forest mismanagement. The Wuhan release, that's like the match to the tinder.
Make no mistake, the whole thing has been planned and orchestrated on a global level.
EDIT: "they are not on your side. they probably never were." --> they were always AGAINST you, it's now just blatant and egregious; hence, you can better appreciate it. So appreciate it exactly for what it is: they hate you.
The ravings of a barking mad covidian cultist or a corrupt judge on the take. Since this is the US, I lean toward the latter. That bizarre opening seems to have been written by a whitehouse intern, not a sitting judge. Until proven otherwise, I just assume that Creepy Uncle Billy G., Little Tony “The Butcher of Bethesda” and the ghouls at Pfizer and Moderna are just making too much easy money to allow any of this to stop. So, a little digital deposit in an offshore account for Judge Jane (or just a nice new vacay house in Aspen or Some beachy place) is all it takes to get such an ridiculous opinion written.
My bet now is this ends on the financial side not the pandemic side. The US is now looking at double digit consumer price increases, which will crush households and create widespread misery and poverty, add the stupid covid mandates on top for folks in Blue cities and stages, and you have the kindling for revolution. Last time inflation got this out of control, Paul Volker raised interest rates into the double digits to kill off excess credit creation. The near future will see the end of drunken federal deficit spending (certainly after then next election when not the democrats are swept from power). Housing markets will crash, and *poof goes the fiat to pay for covid clown world.
You may be right … but the resulting hyperinflation will lead to total political instability. Imagine Ron Desantis issuing his own state currency to stabilize Fla. and then within a month The US of A becomes just the S of A.
Do we really think Pfizer and our corrupt gov’t were going to let a couple of court rulings derail this entire trillion dollar plan? No matter how you slice it, that was NEVER going to happen.
We need some optimism in this thread, so here goes: Robert Barnes, whom I believe to be incredibly astute, and unfailingly accurate in his prognostications, has predicted that the 6th will now hear the OSHA cases en banc and will vote 9-8 to overturn the mandate in the near term (within one to two weeks.) As well as, that once it reaches the SCOTUS, despite bothe Kavanaugh and Coney Barret being corporatist statists, they will also vote to overturn the mandate.
What arrogance! An unelected Judge (and her other panel members apparently) believe there is a “new normal” so we throw the Constitution out of the window. Judge Englehardt’s 5th Circuit decision enjoining the OSHA mandate was superb. These hacks have reversed it just because they can. This case and the January 6 cases in DC have confirmed the opinions of many that much of the federal judiciary is not independent. Maybe SCOTUS can offer some redemption.
SCOTUS does not look hopeful to me. The few decisions they’ve rendered on these issues have not been good- they are opinionless decisions with written dissents.
The inmates are running the asylum. We can't expect the criminally insane to behave rationally and logically. They want us all to be part of their lunatic fringe.
Get ready for an assembly line churning out MRNA concoctions in place of healthcare.
From Bill Gates Blog:
I think mRNA vaccines will ultimately be seen as the most consequential breakthrough of the pandemic. Proving that mRNA works as a vaccine platform has been a massive gamechanger—not just for this pandemic, but for the next one too. Now that mRNA is well-established, we’ll be able to develop safe and effective vaccines super-fast in the future.
A lot of people aren't getting yet that the mRNA "vaccine" cash cow is going to be much bigger than covid.
Theoretically they could use a similar mechanism against any viral pathogen in existence, and now that they've gotten the tech to market, they'll start going down the list.
Pharma owned Governments will look to mandate the shots (or short of that, will use every form of coercion available to them) for entire populations- if you can do it once you can do it a thousand times.
Every human being on earth, every human body to be considered an endless source of revenue.
This is the next epoch of medicine, which began by monetizing illness, proceeded to monetize health, and will now monetize the human body itself.
The injections needn't be "efficacious" at all for this scheme to work. The plan is for a subscription model for endless mRNA injections with all of us to become human pincushions in order to line the pockets of The Pharma Cartel.
People are being led into a trap they'll never be able to escape, and they've been conditioned to reject a priori the possibility that people in power conspire to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses because it sounds too "conspiratorial" to them.
And we still don't know the mid to long-term effects of the lipid nanoparticles, which were known, pre covid, to be dangerous when given in recurring doses
I am so grateful for El Gato's posts. Reading this post especially is like savoring a luxurious meal at a fine restaurant accompanied by a specially paired wine. Every paragraph is delicious in its own right. I’ve been starving in a world of Covid insanity and inanity and at least for this moment, El Gato has filled my craving for stable rational thought and I thank him.
I’m so grateful for you sticking with us during our struggles and bringing us back to what is right and sensible. You have a gift. Thank you for sharing it with us!
The whole panel (16 judges) may well reimpose the stay shortly. After 3 were assigned to hear the case, the other 13 held a vote on whether the whole panel should hear the case right away. 8 of 13 said yes, indicating that the injunction should stay in place. 8 being only half of the total of 16, with 3 assigned panelists not voting, was not sufficient to bump it to the whole panel right away. The panel then decided 2-1 to dissolve the injunction. Thinking is that now you will have the 8 non panelists plus the one panelist all voting to reinstate the injunction next week.
Of course, if the 6th Circuit does fix this, the Supreme Court may still weigh in. SCOTUS has been tough on administrative overreach (which this is) (see CDC rent moratorium), but pathetically weak on personal liberty issues related to the pandemic. So it’s an open question what they might do with the case. The best case for us may be nature/Omicron, infecting so many vaxed that the biomedical security state can no longer keep up the charade that these vax work and must be mandated (see Gato’s post re Cornell).
It will be up to Brett Cavanaugh to decide whether to take the case or not. Hopefully he waits it out to see if the 6th circuit weighs in again.
shame on that judge jane activist lying about 800,000
how is there none dead in Beijing or Taiwan? How does New Jersey have no kids dead?
We are "double-whammied" here. Judges that know nothing of the science, and most of the scientists have either been paid or intimidated into supporting the government narrative. We have become a nation of (mostly) cowards.
The question is not about science or the judges knowing it, this is about Constitutionality.
Now we have "Karens" and "Janes". lol
Thank you, this is hopeful information! I was feeling dejected about this ridiculous decision.
I read Josh Blackman's article on this at The Volokh Conspiracy.
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/12/17/breaking-6th-circuit-dissolves-5th-circuit-stay-in-osha-mandate-case/
It was not clear to me there could be a "second bite of the apple" at an en banc hearing. Using Brian Daucher's comment, it appears the dissenting judge in this case (Judge Larsen), would be the ninth vote to reinstate the stay.
The second judge (Gibbons) wrote a concurring opinion citing the Chevron rule which says (to my non-lawerly understanding) the judiciary should generally be deferential to the administrative state on policy questions.
So, despite Judge Strand's histrionics about "the virus", I think the case will ultimately be decided on legal grounds, grounds which have evolved more or less quietly to empower the Federal government to do things we really might not approve of had some earlier decisions been more broadly controversial than they appeared at the time.
It appears that a majority of the Justices at SCOTUS wants to get rid of Chevron because it violate the Constitution’s separation of powers. In addition to Kavanaugh, Gorsuch is very strong on this point. There key issue here is whether we should be ruled by the actual words (text) of the Constitution or whether unelected judges can just read their own agenda into it and rule us by their fiat.
Important to note in this respect that Kavanagh in particular has been skeptical of Chevron and shown a willingness to constrict fourth branch power.
That's good and if I recall correctly Scalia was going that direction as well. But, as always, it takes at least four other sympathetic votes.
Even though the 6th Circuit panel draw turns out to have been a bad one, the overall lottery draw placing this matter in the 6th Circuit may well turn out to be fortuitous. Kavanaugh oversees the 6th Circuit, has received the petition for review, and will now decide to present it to the Court at large. Difficult to imagine that Kavanaugh won't do so. Equally difficult to imagine is that he won't find the three additional justices to take the case up. And of course Kavanaugh would be a justice sympathetic to immediately reinstating the injunction which he can do on his own until the full Court decides differently. Time is precious in this matter as, absent an injunction, employees are losing their livelihoods at present or receiving a potentially harmful medical treatment contrary to their will. If the case were coming up from a Circuit overseen by, let's say, Sotomayor, the case would not be accepted and, by the time the matter worked its way up to the Court through normal process, the damage to hundreds of thousand lives would already have occurred.
Thanks for explaining this Brian. I was a bit confused considering the 6th originally reaffirmed the ban on December 4th. From what I gather, of the 16 judges, 11 are GOP appointees. Of course you can't count on a "Bushie". Obviously, the panel this time was of a different composition than the December 4th panel.
I think it was one Obama, 1 Bush (2); and one Trump appointee = 2-1
The judge who wrote this ruling was an Obama judge joined by a Bush Judge. The dissenter was an orange man judge. Obama ones are always activists, bush ones are meh and orange man ones are sometimes okay, sometimes disappointing (ACB, Kavanaugh)
Please let this happen. 🙏🏼
I hope the en banc court does this.
Do you have a link to this?
"Raging pandemic" is a phrase that is used all over the place where I live- supposedly in the eye of the storm. Yet here we are in the midst of this biblical event and no bodies dropping anywhere and there have not been at any time. All time record low hospital bed usage for but one example that disproves this slogan. That's called ACTUAL DATA which anyone can look up.
The whole 800,000 is a complete fiction as you point out. The most malevolent part of this fiction is using that narrative actually covers up the fact that most of those who are placed into that death toll were murdered by state sanctioned policies that included, but were not limited to, isolation, abandonment, toxic drugs, ventilators, forced medication etc.
There were elderly folks for the most part who were not allowed to have anyone advocate for them. There is no way to overstate the cynicism in all of this.
The notion that there ever was a pandemic is routinely debunked simply by looking at the ages and comorbidities of those who get placed into that manufactured 800,000 figure. That those who died in this biblical pandemic were older than normal lifespans in every single country in the world tells you all you need to know. That on average they had 4-5 serious, life-threatening illnesses should alert anyone to the lie.
Virtually all of those included in that 800,000 figure would be dead by now regardless of any purported "viral event" though some would have lived a bit longer had the medical establishment not killed them.
Here's a quote from Zuby:
"Stop calling cruelty 'incompetence'. Some people simply cannot accept that malice is a real thing.
You can only give benefit of the doubt up to a point. What people are living through is not the result of simple 'incompetence'.
'Incompetence' assumes that everybody means well. But some people don't. Period. There are people who only care about their money, their power, their status, and their control over you.
They don't give a crap about you, your family, or your well being.
And the higher up the chain you go, the greater the % of people like this who you will encounter.
Just because you are kind, caring, and mean well, doesn't mean that everybody is like you.I know it's unpleasant to accept. But it's the truth."
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1471885083384635396
Like they updated the definitions of "vaccine," "asymptomatic spread," and
"gender," they "revised" the definition of "pandemic". You are a racist, a science-denier, anti-vaxxer and cimate change-denier if you do not comply.
Do NOT comply.
“Herd immunity”, too. Now, the definition of “herd immunity“ ONLY involves vaccination.
SimulationCommander has Substack column on this.
I've gotten pretty sick of being told it's irrational of me to see these people as actually evil. Too many on our side will forgive the people shooting them in the back of the head ("sadly necessary to protect the public health") in a few years.
What's irrational is thinking that these "civil folks" who have built their careers by supporting monstrosities won't turn on anyone and get ugly with anyone who threatens their careers. They'll turn on each other when the time comes.
I like to point to the historical fact that the largest professional group that formed the Nazi party was doctors, followed by scientists and academics.
These people are circa 2021's version of Nazi sympathizers and personally I feel it's important to say it straight to their faces and to do so unequivocally. Where I live there is ample opportunity for this.
We are way past the point of "playing nice."
I was unpopular in 9th grade. Shocking, I know.
I had a locker next to an extremely popular girl who, as teens do, looked for an excuse to torment me.
On the vague accusation that my locker door had bumped her head, she punched me in the face. (This was one of those "inner city schools" you've read about. I've also been cut with a boxcutter and hit with a bat.)
It wasn't super serious, but I was pretty soft in those days and cried out, which led to both of us being dragged to the dean's office to "sort it out." A third girl from our grade, not particularly friends with either of us, saw the whole thing from directly across the hall from us, and as we got plunked down to "give our side of what happened" I explained that so-and-so saw her haul off and punch me completely unprovoked, just ask her.
She was called in and very primly said, "I don't want to get involved and I didn't see anything anyway," and was immediately allowed to leave. Girl A was undisciplined and I got an ice pack or something.
I changed her name to "Switzerland" and refused to call her anything else for the rest of the year. It was weird and no one got it, but it annoyed her.
The point is, my absolute rage at the girl that went along to get along lasted tens if not hundreds of times longer than the girl that had actually hit me.
This was decades ago, but the Switzerlands of the world still earn a special kind of contempt from me. I pray they get tastes of their own medicine as much as the villains get their justice.
Funny now that you mention it, but growing up, the neutrality of Switzerland during WWII seemed always to be taught with a sense of admiration for their judiciousness and refusal to get involved. I seemed to be the only one who thought it was cowardice and greed that drove them. There's no honor in staying neutral in fight so that you can later side with the winner.
Well and often times "neutral" is just cover for "selling to both sides." So there's that, too.
There is so much “cover” that if one hasn’t “studied” especially the “non-approved sources” it is unlikely one is working with the true story about the situation in “the real world” imho.
I have a story. When I was in junior high school, my friend Diane was being tormented at the lunch table by some girls for telling Dawn that Kim didn't like her dress for the 9th grade dance...which caused Dawn to deliberately burn a hole in her dress so her parents would buy another. ( I know, right.)
After a few minutes, I told them to leave her alone...which infuriated her tormentors. They raged at me and told me to stay out of it. Diane and I had a bond...we'd both lost our mothers at a young age (me at four and Diane at twelve)...so I didn't a back down. She was literally sobbing.
Denise, who was a year behind us, stood up and called me out. She wanted to fight me at the flag pole after school, which both shocked me and amused me. Keep in mind, this was a pretty affluent public school in suburban Philadelphia. I told her I wasn't going to fight her; and, eventually, told her to shut the f*ck up. That didn't go over well.
They literally took a vote to kick me off the lunch table. LOL. I watched as they went one-by-one and took their vote. Everyone...including Diane, the girl I was defending, and another friend named Christine...voted to kick me off the table. Only one girl...whose last name was Himmelreich...refused to participate. She looked at me and said, "I want no part of this." They pressured her, but she wouldn't back down.
Of course, I was a social pariah for the last few weeks of school. No one wanted to sit with me. And this evil little b*tch named Julie enlisted the help of some boys to harass me on the other side of the cafeteria.
It changed how I felt about all of these people...and revealed who I was to myself.
I started studying German in high school and realized what Himmelreich meant. :) Don't think it was a coincidence.
FYI, none of the names have been change to protect the guilty. ;)
Excellent. :)
Oh Diane--that was the most disappointing (and disturbing) part.
Call me bloodthirsty, but I really would have loved to know what Denise would have actually done if you'd showed up.
I'm sorry Diane didn't appreciate you standing up for her. Did your friendship survive the incident?
Diane and I spoke in high school and were part of the same general group but no. I never confronted her or Christine. And they never apologized. Kids sometimes do awful things to each other. I wish them well.
Denise was a jock and convinced of her own power. She did try to engage with me in high school, but I blew her off.
Like most things...healing begins with an acknowledgement of harm done and a request for forgiveness without expectation. In retrospect, I feel sorry for them...but at the time it was pretty upsetting.
I wonder if one possibility of what is happening is that human nature as described in stories like yours from school, is on steroids from social control. I’m thinking of this from a Yuval Harari talk:
“If you know enough biology and have enough computing power and data, you can hack my body and my brain and my life, and you can understand me better than I understand myself. You can know my personality type, my political views, my sexual preferences, my mental weaknesses, my deepest fears and hopes. You know more about me than I know about myself. And you can do that not just to me, but to everyone. A system that understands us better than we understand ourselves can predict our feelings and decisions, can manipulate our feelings and decisions, and can ultimately make decisions for us.”
I don’t think we’re at what he describes quite yet, but we are getting there. They are trying to curate what information goes into people’s brains on a mass level and are making no secret about trying to do this. When they grow very adept, many people will be lost forever. In other words, if they can “hack” billions of people, but individually via such methods as algorithms based on your viewing behavior, I wonder if even we in these comments will be able to know what is real. That’s why timeless words and principles are so important. The First and Second Amendments, for instance, help to ground us. The words of people from the past like Solzhenitsyn or Orwell or Arendt help to ground us. The Bible helps to ground us. I think that’s why so many of us are referencing principles and timeless concepts and words from the past. These are beacons of light that seem to be illuminating our lives.
However, what I have not seen in any of these timeless words and concepts is HOW YOU BEAT growing totalitarianism. Is there anyone from the past who has written about that?
Human beings are not algorithms. We are more than the sum of our experiences and choices. We are spiritual as well as physical beings. Manipulation...even on a massive scale...is not new to humanity or dependent on technology and social media. The key is to train people to realize when they are being manipulated and to follow those uncomfortable feelings to the root.
I may not know all that is happening or why or who...but I know what is real and what is not. This has been a very effective psychological operation. The people behind it understand human frailty and exploited it to great effect...but there are hundreds of millions of us who were immune.
Most of the answers to that question from great writing of the past isn't appropriate for a public internet forum.
I think “the banality of evil” is an absolutely fantastic phrase from Hannah Arendt. I keep trying to explain to people that evil does not look like a man twirling his moustache while saying “Bwahahahaha” and then sending you to a dungeon. But it’s like I’m talking to a wall most of the time. There’s someone on Twitter who uses the phrase “talented TV watchers” or something like that. That’s really what so many have become. They like to grill in their backyards and watch TV and live circumscribed lives and cannot imagine how they could be contributing to anything awful and evil through continuing to watch TV and minding their own business and occasionally squawking out “It’s about saving lives!” They might play tennis or golf or go to a book club for spice! They can still do all these things; therefore, they reason, we are all free.
I think this describes most people actually. Which is why things seem so bleak.
You're not irrational. What we're facing is evil and the people who have caused it, and continue to cause it, are evil.
The main thing that has helped me make relatively wise life decisions (thus far, for a relatively young person) has been the understanding that everyone, including myself, is capable of real evil and that this capacity remains intact no matter our age, gender, or intellect.
I've found it weird how alienating it can be, too. Though I've gotten a lot more practice in the past year with people literally or metaphorically patting me on the head and patiently explaining for the thousandth time that people are just incompetent and scared and don't want to lose their job.
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil."
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My mother who was a devout Christian used to say that people are all cut from the same cloth and we're all capable of some nasty stuff. So we all need to check ourselves--constantly. The clowns running this shit show are absolutely evil but I seriously doubt that they came to earth that way.
Right. But does it really matter?
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We are all fallen and capable of horrific evil. I praise Him daily for providing me with both the insight to see it in myself and the forbearance to not inflict my fears and rage on others. I pray for his strength that it may always continue thus.
Many people in our society are essentially amoral nihilists. When you "kill God", the nihilist thinks "I can be God, I can make MY utopia". From a view of 50,000 feet, I think that's how we got here.
I agree, which is interesting given I am not religious. But I do hold strong values and have a strong sense of right/wrong and of the Devine, that I have had transcendent encounters with.
@sunhawk - don't get me started on all this 'moral relativism' bs. That's just a tool for rationalizing bad behavior.
LOL!
2 years into this fake pandemic and I still don't know a single person that's been to the hospital or died from the virus.
My mom knows a jillion people that have gotten seriously sick from their "vaccine," though, and my dad's still in the hospital from CHF after shot #3.
The closest I've come to knowing anyone seriously ill from covid was a friend of a friend's dad who was an intensive care doctor and about 65 years old died about 9 months ago of covid he obviously got on his ward. I guess he wasn't wearing a mask.
But I do know of two people who ‘went to the hospital’ after getting The Pfizer Jab…both in their early to mid 60’s, one a male because of tingling and neurological issues in his legs and feet, and being unable to walk, the other a female who developed vision problems and went partially blind. Both were ‘hospitalized’ for a couple of days, and released after no connection was made to what brought them into the hospital, having any association with their recent Covid Vaxx Status. These people used to talk with me and when I made a link to their injury and their recent Vaxx status, they dismissed it and now no longer speak to me! 😉😜
Shame, given both of those symptoms are common reports. My land lady’s friend had temporary blindness after the vaccine, and a customer where I work told me her vision had suddenly deteriorated since the jab (she needed a new script in her glasses, even though she’d only recently had it updated).
Me neither.
Last January my wife was hospitalized for a week with COVID induced Pneumonia. She fits squarely into several of the more serious comorbidity groups - but she pulled out ok, although it was nearly a month after discharge until she was back to her normal self. She was at home for a week and a half after testing positive, not 'quarantined' away from me or the grandkids that live with us - and neither the kids nor I came down with it, even though she and I shared out marital bed during this time. Curious.
Also - just this last week about a dozen and a half of the workers at her plant became symptomatic and were sent home and told to stay home for two weeks should they test positive for COVID. One of these workers was found dead at home a few days later. Still don't have official word if he tested positive or not - although I understand an autopsy is scheduled.
My parents (who are in their 80's) live in a retirement community - and they're in an absolute panic about this - and refuse to visit with anyone that hasn't been 'vaxxed' - because so many of their friends have died recently. What I haven't had the fortitude to bring up with them is the uncomfortable question of: How many of these folks might well have died during this last year and a half or so, regardless of the pandemic. Unfortunately, that's a hard question to answer on an individual basis - even though it's possible via a statistical evaluation of how many 'excess deaths' occur in a large enough group of people.
Unfortunately due to the incentives that many major hospitals received for 'COVID' patients - it may never be possible to know for sure how many died OF COVID as opposed to just 'WITH' it (there are several cases in my area of folks in car accidents that are listed as COVID deaths because their corpses tested positive). 800,000 COVID deaths? I doubt it. How many? The world may never know.
Neither do I. Nor my family back in Europe. We know a handful of folks who had Covid. Don’t know anyone who was in a hospital nor died.
'Incompetence' explanation also helps people avoid the awful truth that evil cannot, I repeat CANNOT be removed via voting. Start upping your cardio and bodyweight workouts.
Despite the testing, the pandemic rages on! Despite refusal to arrest criminals, the wave of looting and burglary rages on! Despite printing $7 trillion of new money in nine months, inflation rages on! Despite halting border enforcement, illegal immigration chaos rages on! Despite teaching racist CRT in thousands of schools, racism rages on! Despite psychological mind-f*cking of young children in schools, gender dysphoria rages on! Despite cancel culture in social media, censorship rages on! Despite gaslighting about election fraud, voter anger rages on! Despite the DoJ and FBI investigating law-abiding parents frustrated with what is being taught in school, citizen frustration rages on! Despite congressional corruption, voter anger rages on!
Oh, wait...
I read the first page last night and spit out my drink. It was as if Klaus Schwab wrote it. It's disturbing how many institutions have been captured by ideology, evil and madness.
Excellent point. Knowing that ultimately SCOTUS is as political (and beholden to the oligarchs) as any institution driving this exercise - particularly seeing how they have punted on previous opportunities to rule on issues involving COVID vaccine mandates, I have no confidence that they will put an end to Biden’s OSHA mandate. They’re just getting started.
Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch are the good ones. ACB and Kavanaugh are meh.
I am just not convinced it’s ideology that’s captured them. It seems that Pfizer (and it’s backers) own the world.
I hereby nominate Gato to SCOTUS. Seriously, how do these people sleep at night? Their tyranny is overt and they are strident in their diabolical objectives.
In a phrase, Fuck these people
Relying upon a legal framework to protect us from government abuses, when the arbiters of judgment were appointed by said government, is folly. Many of us have been saying this for decades and simply smile and shake our heads (in a saddened sort of way) whenever people appear surprised and "outraged" that so many judges defer to government authority, justifying it with asinine and contradictory statements.
This case moving to the US Supreme Court is no slam-dunk either. There is every possibility for the Justices to "correct" the wording or underlying basis for the mandates as part of their ruling in favor (recall the two pivotal Obamacare cases where Justice Roberts did this, in contradiction to oral arguments and recorded legislative text).
This ^^^
No “reasonable” official would charge Hillary ya know? But let’s keep playing “Let’s Pretend” like we didn’t notice!
The Supreme Court sure did a great job with that election mess. I'm sure they'll fix this too.
lol. Just frightening we have the entirely feckless to rely on for the foundations of liberty and justice for all.
Executive branch has declared war on the citizenry. Gone full tyrant.
Legislative branch? Corrupt grifters, bribed and blackmailed, sitting on their hands.
Judicial branch? Looks like we'll see soon enough.
If indeed all the institutions have sold us out, it will be up to us, the people, to preserve our freedom. Are you prepared?
Uff you knocked it out of the park (and generally always do) but this is almost the perfect alchemical crystallisation of our current malaise:
“it was not “the pandemic” that shut down workplaces and the economy. it was “the pandemic response.” none of this needed to happen. had we literally done NOTHING, never noticed this, never named it, and never implemented a testing regimen so ill conceived and out of proportion as to be literally unique in the annals of all of human history, this would have passed barely remarked upon as “huh, that was a crummy flu year.” there would have been no economic damage. that was entirely self-inflicted, entirely avoidable, and known to be useless before we undertook it.“
The virus wasn't much of a bioweapon in itself.... ah, but the coordinated response! The the long game of institutional infiltration, that's like the decades of forest mismanagement. The Wuhan release, that's like the match to the tinder.
Make no mistake, the whole thing has been planned and orchestrated on a global level.
See George Bell’s work on Neighborhood News Studio.
EDIT: "they are not on your side. they probably never were." --> they were always AGAINST you, it's now just blatant and egregious; hence, you can better appreciate it. So appreciate it exactly for what it is: they hate you.
The ravings of a barking mad covidian cultist or a corrupt judge on the take. Since this is the US, I lean toward the latter. That bizarre opening seems to have been written by a whitehouse intern, not a sitting judge. Until proven otherwise, I just assume that Creepy Uncle Billy G., Little Tony “The Butcher of Bethesda” and the ghouls at Pfizer and Moderna are just making too much easy money to allow any of this to stop. So, a little digital deposit in an offshore account for Judge Jane (or just a nice new vacay house in Aspen or Some beachy place) is all it takes to get such an ridiculous opinion written.
My bet now is this ends on the financial side not the pandemic side. The US is now looking at double digit consumer price increases, which will crush households and create widespread misery and poverty, add the stupid covid mandates on top for folks in Blue cities and stages, and you have the kindling for revolution. Last time inflation got this out of control, Paul Volker raised interest rates into the double digits to kill off excess credit creation. The near future will see the end of drunken federal deficit spending (certainly after then next election when not the democrats are swept from power). Housing markets will crash, and *poof goes the fiat to pay for covid clown world.
I hope you're right, but with this group of idiots in charge, I can see them doubling down and printing $12T to 'cover over' the $6T problem.
You may be right … but the resulting hyperinflation will lead to total political instability. Imagine Ron Desantis issuing his own state currency to stabilize Fla. and then within a month The US of A becomes just the S of A.
They want it all destroyed though. Paves way for Great Reset
Do we really think Pfizer and our corrupt gov’t were going to let a couple of court rulings derail this entire trillion dollar plan? No matter how you slice it, that was NEVER going to happen.
We need some optimism in this thread, so here goes: Robert Barnes, whom I believe to be incredibly astute, and unfailingly accurate in his prognostications, has predicted that the 6th will now hear the OSHA cases en banc and will vote 9-8 to overturn the mandate in the near term (within one to two weeks.) As well as, that once it reaches the SCOTUS, despite bothe Kavanaugh and Coney Barret being corporatist statists, they will also vote to overturn the mandate.
Problem is, that it's supposed to go into effect on Jan 4, 17 days from now, with a ton of people on vacation. We can hope..
that deadline just got pushed back to Feb 9th. Stand firm and do not comply.
Excellent news, quite frankly I expect Covid to be wrapping up by then. Also thanks for the Robert Barnes info, found the link and video.
My pleasure!
What arrogance! An unelected Judge (and her other panel members apparently) believe there is a “new normal” so we throw the Constitution out of the window. Judge Englehardt’s 5th Circuit decision enjoining the OSHA mandate was superb. These hacks have reversed it just because they can. This case and the January 6 cases in DC have confirmed the opinions of many that much of the federal judiciary is not independent. Maybe SCOTUS can offer some redemption.
SCOTUS does not look hopeful to me. The few decisions they’ve rendered on these issues have not been good- they are opinionless decisions with written dissents.
entirely captured
Well, mostly captured. We still have some good judges like Judge Englehardt. The problem is that the bad ones sometime cancel out the good ones.
“it’s time for open revolt from states, cities, towns, and individuals.”
Oroville, CA did it.
Athens, TN did it. https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-battle-of-athens-tennessee/
The inmates are running the asylum. We can't expect the criminally insane to behave rationally and logically. They want us all to be part of their lunatic fringe.
In quick scan mode I read that as "lunatic syringe" but perhaps that fits as well
Get ready for an assembly line churning out MRNA concoctions in place of healthcare.
From Bill Gates Blog:
I think mRNA vaccines will ultimately be seen as the most consequential breakthrough of the pandemic. Proving that mRNA works as a vaccine platform has been a massive gamechanger—not just for this pandemic, but for the next one too. Now that mRNA is well-established, we’ll be able to develop safe and effective vaccines super-fast in the future.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2021?WT.mc_id=20211202100000_YIR2021_BG-EM_&WT.tsrc=BGEM
My comment from several months ago:
A lot of people aren't getting yet that the mRNA "vaccine" cash cow is going to be much bigger than covid.
Theoretically they could use a similar mechanism against any viral pathogen in existence, and now that they've gotten the tech to market, they'll start going down the list.
Pharma owned Governments will look to mandate the shots (or short of that, will use every form of coercion available to them) for entire populations- if you can do it once you can do it a thousand times.
Every human being on earth, every human body to be considered an endless source of revenue.
This is the next epoch of medicine, which began by monetizing illness, proceeded to monetize health, and will now monetize the human body itself.
The injections needn't be "efficacious" at all for this scheme to work. The plan is for a subscription model for endless mRNA injections with all of us to become human pincushions in order to line the pockets of The Pharma Cartel.
People are being led into a trap they'll never be able to escape, and they've been conditioned to reject a priori the possibility that people in power conspire to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses because it sounds too "conspiratorial" to them.
And we still don't know the mid to long-term effects of the lipid nanoparticles, which were known, pre covid, to be dangerous when given in recurring doses
I am so grateful for El Gato's posts. Reading this post especially is like savoring a luxurious meal at a fine restaurant accompanied by a specially paired wine. Every paragraph is delicious in its own right. I’ve been starving in a world of Covid insanity and inanity and at least for this moment, El Gato has filled my craving for stable rational thought and I thank him.
I’m so grateful for you sticking with us during our struggles and bringing us back to what is right and sensible. You have a gift. Thank you for sharing it with us!