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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

CDC switched from Team Karen to Team Reality, just in time for midterms!

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Mike Fay's avatar

"People don't forget" - Seth from Superbad. I sure hope it's true in this case.

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LJ's avatar

Nope. The other side will spin it. Keep tight hold of your data.

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DangerousVariant's avatar

"most votes in presidential election history"

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TIOK's avatar

Interesting fact: immediately following the November election, the CA state SoS released "official" results. Total vote counts exceeded 90% of the state population. US Census estimates showed more than 30% of the state population are not US citizens, a legal requirement in CA to register to vote. Those numbers also happened to show a > 99% voter turnout (registered voters vs votes received). With just over 30 million votes cast in a state with 33 million people (as estimated by the census). Certain dissidents with math skills pointed out the unlikely nature of these numbers in some public forum. If you go to the SoS web pages today, you will find different numbers, with the total votes cast less revised down around 20 million and turnout more plausibly in line with history and logic. This is revisionism of official, legal documentation.

Also feeding the conspiracy theory that the elections were not legit is the fact that Orange County is shown as voting Biden. Anyone familiar with California political history will realize why this raises suspicions...OC is as "red" as any district in CA has ever been ;-).

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Datagal's avatar

Wish you had a screen shot before CA SOS revised.

The “final, official” 2020 # votes counted in CA exceeds the number of voters who supposedly voted by about 123,000. Most of the “error” is mail ballots. SOS won’t answer why.

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TIOK's avatar

I think I have the XLS I downloaded with the counts by district, somewhere. If I put it up publicly I'm sure the Google censors will remove it as misinformation ;-).

I did an analysis comparing census data with vote counts in 6 states where results were under challenge. I found in 3 that the vote counts exceeded the adult population. In two others, including CA, the count was under the total adult population but not by much (implausibly close IMO). I forgot to include "adult" in the above which is important. Even the revised counts are showing unbelievably (IMO) high participation rates considering that credible sources (US immigration who issues visas and permanent residency) indicate nearly a third of the states population are non-citizens (excluding "undocumented" residents in that estimate). Thus even 80% of the adult population in vote counts indicates a problem. The SoS and AG have admitted that the number of registered voters is higher than is legally possible. County registrars are responsible for auditing registrations. The state legislature passed a law a while back that requires the DMV submit voter registration for everyone who applies for a DL or ID card. The DMV is also prohibited by law from asking citizenship status. There is an opt out box on the form (tiny and easy to miss). County registrars are supposed to audit registrations, but many have admitted they lack the means (in fairness there isn't much they can do). While it remains illegal to register to vote if you are not a US citizen here in CA, it seems quite likely many folks unknowingly violated this law thanks to the automatic DMV mandate. With the decision to send an absentee ballot to every registered voter does seem to assure many people who are not legally eligible to vote are in possession of a ballot. Additionally, most of the registered voters have the option to vote in person. Again, law is you only vote once, but since ballots are anonymous, the possibility of multiple votes from the same voter (again possibly without their knowledge) seems quite high. Add all these things up and you have IMO sufficient cause to raise questions.

A good friend (and lawyer) pointed out that all the above is irrelevant. The outcome of elections in CA is predictable and has been for decades. He notes that we have zero visibility into ballots after we submit them. We haven't for decades, if ever. So why start whining about it now? Also a fair point...

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Demonhype's avatar

So if you've been robbed for years, it becomes okay? It doesn't matter how many decades this crap has has been going on, imo, it doesn't mean we have no right to "whine" much less do something about it.

Also, I didn't just start "whining" about being disenfranchised by election fraud. Its been a constant issue for me since my first election in 2000, and didn't change just because the elites are now fixing elections blue instead of red. As I told my blue relatives who opposed our rigged elections right up until they allowed them to "stop Trump", I care about fair elections, not about "winning" against Republicans or Trump, and I don't pretend I don't see the rigging based on election outcome. Of course, they're confused and aghast that I've been "siding with the Republicans" since 2016 and the advent of the Russia collusion hoax, and can't imagine how someone as progressive as me (actual progressive--Democrats are not progressives) could possibly be such a "Trump supporter". Because hypocrisy knows no party and tribalism always wins over basic honesty and fair play in most people's heads.

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Datagal's avatar

True. Plus the SOS will claim it was a technical “glitch” which is always the excuse.

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TIOK's avatar

Ah ha! I didn't think of that. Of course, just a glitch!

That explains everything.

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CMCM's avatar

None of this surprises me.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Just in time for the SOTU

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TIOK's avatar

Nah. Still no tangible connection with reality. Just a different story. Orwellian as it is, The Party is now claiming victory over COVID and moving on to the next crisis.

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Professor's avatar

Could have 'solved" the whole thing 2 years ago with a few crayons.

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John Bowman's avatar

True - but unfortunately ‘the adults’ had forgotten how to use crayons.

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TIOK's avatar

I remember the fuss when Trump used a Sharpie...oh sorry.

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Get Real's avatar

I want to be in your next class.

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Professor's avatar

I've been told that I don't have any class.

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Get Real's avatar

I'll settle for a Memo or a Meme or a Mime.

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LJ's avatar

🤣

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Andreas Oehler's avatar

From looking like a Chinese flag, the map of the US now looks like Ukrainian military fatigues. A coincidence?

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John Bowman's avatar

Je suis Ukraine.

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Susan G's avatar

I saw the same thing. There are no coincidences.

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margie's avatar

brilliant!

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Zekusad's avatar

War, war never changes.

But media always, always changes.

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Susan G's avatar

But has media changed? I think they just flipped the script from Covid to Ukraine. Push Biden's agenda, whatever it is.

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Zekusad's avatar

Oh by media I meant the script, yeah.

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Phoebe's avatar

Beware. The new colors can shift again when the powers that be need a change in narrative. As long as they can arbitrarily decide who's at how much "risk" (and from what), they retain the option to keep reapplying mandates of any kind they want. And they also keep people constantly off-balance, always wondering what's coming next, always waiting for permissions, always acquiescing to the state of subjugation.

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Keahi's avatar

Those Jews who survived the concentration camps said that their inconsistency was the worst thing about the Nazis. One minute they would be decent, almost friendly, and the next moment capable of incredible brutality. Everyone was kept in a state of perpetual anxiety, confusion and terror, and were consequently far easier to control.

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TIOK's avatar

I read the "methodology" of the new formula. There are two (2) data inputs (only). Vaccination rates (estimates not measured reliably) and % of hospital beds available. Some of the "red" counties in CA for example have no hospitals, so get automatically "red" because the empty beds would be zero. I'll leave it to the biologists here to point out the flaw in the first metric ;-).

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MLL's avatar

I predict they - Dems - will tighten the reins after the modterms IF their political strategy pays off in the end and they retain the majority in Congress and state legislatures.

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Lioness of Judah Ministry's avatar

The bottom line - The Criminal US government together with the rest of the world's criminal governments used it's citizens as LAB RATS for Big Pharma under Criminal mandates. The proof of Criminal intent is hidden in plain sight in their own documents, people need to print and send to their prostitutes selected officials

1. Pfizer Documents Show FDA Knew of Death Risk https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-michael-yeadon-this-must-stop

2. Premeditated GENOCIDE The FDA and the SEC were aware of "Undesirable Side Effects" of experimental Gene Therapy masqueraded as "Safe and Effective" vaccines. BioNTech SEC Filing: https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/premeditated-genocide-pfizer-mrna

3. "safe and effective" Human Experiment European Medicines Agency's Document https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-safety-of-mrna-vaccines

4. Hidden in Plain Sight on NIH Website: The mRNA-LNP Platform’s Lipid Nanoparticle Component Used in Preclinical Vaccine Studies Is Highly Inflammatory https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/hidden-in-plain-sight-on-nih-website

Important Update: Large Bolus of Pfizer Clinical Trials Documents Finally Released by FDA Today https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/important-update-large-bolus-of-pfizer

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BigE's avatar

Please stop linking to your own stuff. It's spamming.

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Lioness of Judah Ministry's avatar

The documents in the articles are IMPORTANT and the majority of people don't even know they exist and what pages to look for. All the pages with evidence are listed and people don't have to look for it, just print it. If you are not interested just skip it.

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Marza's avatar

They are important because not everyone is subscribed to the same substack articles and they may not have seen what you are linking. I have found quite a few new authors due to links others post. In fact, that’s exactly how I found your substack was because someone else posted an article link.

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Quality BS Detector's avatar

How is it spamming? Please stop being the Thread Mom. (Talk about having a BigE . . .)

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TIOK's avatar

I prefer to identify as a "lab bunny".

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Obsequious's avatar

Somehow when my workplace said "take these shots or you'll starve and lose your home and everything you've worked for" they failed to mention ANY of these 9 pages of maladies that Pf!zer knew about... https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf

How many different flavors of thrombosis would be necessary to sound the alarm? Woof.

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TIOK's avatar

I don't know the answer, but I do know there are a lot of lawyers taking up wrongful termination cases as a specialty.

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SCA's avatar

Ain't it a wonder?

Anyone who continues to believe any official pronouncements by any govt. entity on anything is just absolutely certifiable. The contempt they have for us is unquantifiable. I really thought I'd seen the height of idiocy with the ones who worked for Trump (whose biggest lie was "I hire the best people") but it's been "hold my beer" all the way down.

But as I've been telling a friend of mine for awhile now, what's going to happen is anyone with minimal brains will start sending their kids to more conservative even though less prestigious colleges, and the midwest will, over a generation, become the source of practical brainpower. I don't know if we'll be around to see it but there will certainly be a shift in society as a generation of gender and class studies morons become completely unemployable as enrollment in such institutions withers. Right? I mean, we gotta have hope...

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KRW's avatar

Political science at its best.

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Tim McCormack's avatar

Hey, I thought Biden told us that this winter was going to bring us -- the death and destruction of the unvaccinated.

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TIOK's avatar

Yup, and they're all gone. That's why the crisis is over - we won. Now the enemy has changed and it's always been this way never mind last week, you remember it wrong.

Read 1984 by Orwell. It explains everything.

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Cheryl Palen's avatar

It's a MIRACLE!

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TIOK's avatar

I really wish I'd understood this kind of science when i was young. All those years wasted in the university! If I'd realized then that all you needed was Visio, PowerPoint and a web page to be an expert on science...oh wait, none of those things existed back then. Oh well. At least I got some nice pieces of paper to frame and put on my Ego Wall out of it.

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Ludwig Von Rothbard's avatar

Well ya know...when the science changes so do the visuals!

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Sean O'Dalaigh's avatar

Real colours will feel so hurt by this flagrant abuse that only monochrome will be allowed going forward, or 40 shades of green!

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TIOK's avatar

Story from a friend: his kid showed up at school wearing a tee shirt with Kermit the Frog and the caption "green lives matter". The kid was accused by school officials as being "racist" and ordered to take off the shirt. Having no other shirt at school, she said no noting the school dress code requires shirt and shoes. THE SCHOOL CALLED THE COPS. The cops (wisely) escorted her home instead of taking her to jail. When asked how the other kids reacted, the girl responded "they laughed". Father sent a letter to the school and school board pointing out that Kermit is a fictional frog, a different species (not race), and so the schools assertions were wrong, the shirt was specious, not racist. :-)

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CMCM's avatar

Good grief. I would remove my kid from that school after this display of idiocy.

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TIOK's avatar

The father in question reports he has instructed his daughter she may not wear to school any garments that are dominantly white. Also she must wear different colors each day and had a custom made shirt with "celebrate chromatic diversity" and a prism (think Dark Side of the Moon cover). His daughters reaction, reported by a reliable source, was "Daaaad!". Film at 11.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Now "woke" administrators will be in a tizzy, discovering that the colors of the visible spectrum prior to entering the prism are -- gasp -- WHITE light! 😆

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TommyV's avatar

No one on Team Reality will ever forget!

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

I love it. My county is still "high risk" and we should all be wearing masks. Yesterday was the first time in two years I walked into Costco and the employees didn't have to cover their dirty little mouths and noses (that's sarcasm). So apparently Costco didn't get the memo.

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TIOK's avatar

Or they are joining the resistance :-) aka the growing number of people in the "enough already" conspiracy.

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RD's avatar

What was the change they made? Been trying to see what metric or condition changed - it’s getting stupid, don’t let them get away with hiding bodies like this

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SimulationCommander's avatar

They changed from measuring cases to hospitalizations.

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TIOK's avatar

not exactly. Changed so that there are only 2 metrics: vaccination rate (a guess) and available hospital beds. They describe the second as "% beds filled" by COVID related cases, but spot checking I found that counties with no hospitals get 100% occupancy (zero empty beds) which makes them red.

It's super simple and almost perfectly meaningless.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Wow that's even worse than just hospitalizations! I remember the breathless articles in early 2020: FOUR WASHINGTON STATE COUNTIES HAVE NO REMAINING ICU BEDS! Normal ICU capacity of those four counties: 0.

What I would really love is to retroactively apply this standard to the last two years and see how the maps differ from the 'expert' advice actually given.

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CMCM's avatar

I recently read (Dr. Marty Makary perhaps?) that as some hospitals either weren't busy enough and/or lost staff, they reduced the number of "available" beds. So perhaps they actually had 100 beds but only the staff to cover 40 of them. Conveniently, those 60 unused beds ceased to exist in the official count.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

We see this in Washington state. They actually stopped reporting the number of available beds. This was the first of many articles highlighting how they lie with numbers.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/lying-with-statistics

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Chris's avatar

As a resident of a county that's still in the CDC's "high-risk" area even on the revised version, and has also been, as a whole, roundly ignoring everything the CDC says all winter long, as well as for the past year or more, I can confirm: there are no dead bodies on the street, and the hospitals are still functioning exactly as usual. I'm sure you're all completely shocked at this news. :)

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Yes, same experience in hinterlands of Florida. Despite daily contact with the public, in the past two years I have caught exactly two respiratory diseases, both minor colds by symptoms. March 1, 2020 and (more or less) mid-Feb. 2022. Latest didn't even produce any chest issues, but curiously has hung on three weeks as a minor sore throat...? To the best of my knowledge, I never had anything remotely resembling Covid-19 symptoms. Despite the majority of my co-workers getting a dose in late 2021.

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Ellen's avatar

Is this true? I mean the timing - I don't remember seeing that 90% of the country was at high risk since.... like December?? Is anyone has a recent dated screen shot would LOVE to see it. If it is true, we should have a T-shirt with one map and date on the front, the other on the back.

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¡Andrew the Great!'s avatar

Yeah, the date of the pic on the left is essential.

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Carol Anne's avatar

It’s a miracle!!!

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Magically suspicious!

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Billy G's avatar

In our 24 second news cycle, the powers that shouldn't be have diverted all of their resources in media to stir up the sheeple for war. What pandemic? That's old news.

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DangerousVariant's avatar

I take it Gato has never been to a Globetrotters game.

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Jennifer's avatar

My triple vaccinated family of origin, one in particular, who will not allow me near her or her triple vaccinated young adult family is now sending me Ukraine flags and praying for democracy to win.

Honestly these people are ruled by emotion and the bumper sticker narrative the corporate press repeats over and over.......

What happened to cool heads and rational thinking?????

The covid regime is not gone obviously just hiding in background.

Crazy times........

Peace.

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CMCM's avatar

It's like all those who stick "Free Tibet" stickers on their cars. They think that act is "doing something" for the Tibetans.

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Nick Kottenstette's avatar

Brandon is a PharMa CCP puppet used to continue to terrorize the good citizens of the USA. So the CDC made some changes. Those who are afraid will remain afraid and compliant while the rest of will try to get on with rebuilding out of the rubble he has wrought. If he wanted to do anything patriotic, he could have apologized to those whose lives he’s destroyed with his mandates and order all worthless mandates rescinded with people to be hired back with payment of lost wages. No, he is a destroyer, little has changed except some meaninglessness map for Bill Gates and Buffet to laugh about.

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TIOK's avatar

I noticed this too. Another interesting pattern: when I zoomed into California on the new CDC risk map, I noticed a familiar pattern. I compared it with the official results of the presidential general election last November per the state SoS website. Not perfect correlation, but if we toss out a few "outliers", it clearly lines up: districts that voted Trump are the "high risk" covid districts today according to the new formula. I made a side by side graphic, but I guess I can't share it here. Maybe this link works: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15j63FBlwaj8RWNqdPRrIGk2FkA_LqCzv/view?usp=sharing

Not perfect, but well within the standard for COVID literature since 2020.

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CMCM's avatar

These people just can't "quit" that Donald Trump.

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Get Real's avatar

Our Government terrorist are good at one thing...ducking and dodging. They can swerve and sidestep and spin on a dime when it comes to double speak and spinning a yarn about the state of things. They are magically gifted when it comes to Brain Fucking. They make Lawyers look like 4th graders. Fortunately there are millions among us who are immune to their Psycho Babble.

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Wordsnail's avatar

The Science merely aligned the risk to the colors on the graph legend in solidarity with Ukraine.

Realpolitik becomes Crayonpolitik.

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Lerkison's avatar

We’ve always been at war with Covid I mean Russia.

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CMCM's avatar

As a related humor break, listen to our 5 year old VPOTUS 'splaining stuff: https://nypost.com/2022/03/01/kamala-harris-mocked-for-russia-ukraine-war-explanation/

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TAM's avatar

Well, now, you can't have a pandemic if you are going to have a war!

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Next up: They finally figure out the with/of question. Honestly I was a little surprised Biden did so little. If he really wanted to let the air out of the covid balloon, he would have shut off the financial incentives to find covid cases. Right now it sounds like he wants everybody to still do testing and boosters but also declare victory :/

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CMCM's avatar

Way back when, didn't Obama put a sudden stop to testing in order to clean things up?

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SimulationCommander's avatar

They understood that testing random people wasn't helping and they should only deal with the people who got sick. Weird, right?

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Randomized controlled tests are most preferable when you want to set an extremely high burden of proof, and very expensive to conduct, on "repurposed" medications that cost a fraction of the lightly-tested patented and highly profitable ones you mandate.

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TIOK's avatar

It's all about declaring victory. This admin needs a win, badly. The faithful followers want something, some win, and they want it badly. And there's a saying: when you want it bad, you get it bad...the worse you want it the worse you get it!.

COVID isn't working anymore. Two many people asking too many questions. Like "how come..." kind of questions.

Saving the world from nuclear annihilation, now that's a "win". Stand by...

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HardeeHo's avatar

Aren't computers grand. Punch a button, colors change. I'm really impressed.

Now please do something about those flashy ads that appear on top of text I'm trying to digest.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Lab rats have never been known to give tithe to their government, dead lab rats sure don't. They done shot themselves in the foot good.

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finnbuck's avatar

Gosh, ain't it grand that our esteemed CDC can just change the course of a pandemic virus in a snap!

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Harry's avatar

Yesterday I was in line and the lady behind me inched up to 6" away. There was a decal on the floor marking 6 foot separations. So I asked her if that decal was relevant anymore, and she said no. I asked her if Covid was over, and she replied that she never got it and besides, we have bigger things to worry about: world war III. What a Lemming.

In other news Gov. DeSantis told a group of kids wearing masks that the 'theater' was not necessary. I wonder who he's been reading? The only one I remember calling it "cosplay" (Costume play, ie. Theater) was our favorite cat.

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Lorraine Fullmer's avatar

well gatito, i guess biden really did stop covid! NOT!!! what a bunch of...

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The Motherlord's avatar

Weren't we supposed to get the release of vaccine data documents around the first of March? Have heard nothing about it, has it not happened yet? Perhaps this instant improvement/recovery is in connection?

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Thiago's avatar

As long as we need to share the same country with democrats, this nightmare will never end.

Secession is the only answer.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

It benefits our ruling class in the US to hide its dirty laundry in Ukraine and get everyone to root for it....we do bad stuff there because we thought no one would look.....oops.....https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/vox-populi-legislator-be-advised-c14?r=oh7gm&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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LJ's avatar

While this came from a mid2021 study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372667/#__ffn_sectitle), I.e. it’s not new, I found the following sentence so hilarious I thought Gato’s audience would enjoy. Now bear in mind this was from a serious study paper on a single individual with liver damage that was proven from the vaccine so that alone is interested but I had fun with the phrasing:

“Most patients improve spontaneously after the removal of the offending drug.“

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Ric's avatar

And just like that we've been emancipated. The magic of CDC science. Their next director, David Copperfield.

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ForkInSocket's avatar

Look! A Putin!

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ChrisC's avatar

The first comment in the twitter thread is priceless "It's almost as if it has all been BS"

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MLL's avatar

It's called midterm elections. Do you think it was coincidence that all 3 western states (CA, OR, WA) announced the dropping of mandates earlier than initially planned, aligning so perfectly with SOTU?

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Epaminondas's avatar

Nothing like changing the definition of a problem to get rid of the problem. What will they pull from the playbook next?

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Rikard's avatar

They should take that act to Las Vegas.

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Rose Loomis's avatar

Defund the CDC now!

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CMCM's avatar

I'd go farther than that....eliminate the CDC entirely.

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Lori's avatar

With elections coming, the dems are crapping their collective panties and have to prop of brandon and make themselves look credible again...as if....the rest of us know the score and what has always been happening so play on dems and lunatic fringe..play on...

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NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter's avatar

They should do a vaccine risk formula. Here is an initial look at the latest batch of documents from Pfizer's trials.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/pfizers-latest-data-release?s=w

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Jayne Doe's avatar

CDC Neferious Malfeceance and Nihilism. Their mo. Should change their acronym to NMN.

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Mrhounddog's avatar

Oh look, they are showing solidarity with Ukraine.

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TIOK's avatar

I had predicted some time mid 2020 that the pandemic would become endemic when it ceased to be politically useful as a crisis. I also predicted that the residuals from the extreme measures aka suspension of the US constitution and similar civil rights protections in other "free" countries would remain to a great extent as critical protections against whatever crisis followed. For those yungin's out there, this is a pattern repeated many times in the last half century: We have a crisis. Whatever the crisis might be, the solution always includes the same "you have to balance liberty with the common good" which always means liberty loses, and "the common good" is decided by a select few who we are told are smarter and wiser than the rest of us.

My mid 2020 I was amazed the lengths politicians would go to (and people would accept) to win an election. I suppose I shouldn't have been, but I was. I never imagined nuclear annihilation would become a campaign tactic, but again, I suppose that's my failing as it seems clear in hindsight that nothing is too extreme when political power is at stake. The pattern remains: once a power grab has been successful, and socialized (and anyone who questions the need sufficiently demonized and suppressed), any "retreat" is small and the loss remains perpetually (well until some step function such such as armed revolt, world war, etc).

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Sathanas Juggernaut's avatar

Yeah I've heard anything over about 60% turnout of any given district is infeasible because there are so many records that are invalid, for one reason or another (people die, or leave the state and the elections clerk isn't notified in time etc). California is especially bad for so called "dirty" election rolls.

Richard Baris even claims inactive records were reactivated, unsolicited ballots dispatched, returned and counted - he has records of people over 110 years old who haven't been electorally active for years but suddenly reappeared in Nov 2020.

There's all sorts of shenanigans that can be enabled if the absentee ballot system is abused - Dominion was a huge red herring, masterfully deployed. May even have been an alphabet bureau psy-op - they're so obviously corrupt I wouldn't rule anything out.

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LJ's avatar

And many of these “safety before liberty” measures had roots in the decisions stemming from 9-11.

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TIOK's avatar

A very good question. I think in fact the roots go back much, much further. But the post 9-11 extremes illustrate the observation once liberty is compromised it is never fully recovered. At that time a few unpopular voices (including mine) pointed out the fallacy of trading liberty for security or safety. The hint that the roots go all the way back to (at least) the founding of the United States of America is in a quote from one of those early architects: Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Benjamin Franklin). To me this suggests the notion of using false promises of safety or security as a means to strip people of their liberty is not a 21st century invention.

If we compare the excesses of post 11-Sep-2001 to the 2020-2021 extremes, well, our COVID insanity makes 2001 seem like a good year for defenders of freedom (only by comparison). While parts of the 4th and 5th amendment was gutted, 2001 stopped well short of attacking the basic rights to peaceably assemble, arbitrary suspension of due process, and of course no one seriously considered shutting down the economy by edict, allowing state governors to decide without legislative authorization or oversight which business were allowed to operate and who was allowed to work. It is really a different order of magnitude. But without the complacency and complicity of people following 2001 excursions, I think 2020 could not have happened. It was one step in the process of incremental redefinition of liberty.

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LJ's avatar

Yes, I agree. You may laugh because I enjoy full comments and write a lot myself but short comments get more attention. So I wrote a “twitty “ comment.

But 9-11 itself is complex and the corporate American psyche that leads to “security” over liberty (which is neither) is rooted in sheer fear. When our individuals choose trust in God first and we all align ourselves with an overriding principle of what is good based in Gods truth, we can allow ourselves to be self governed by an unchanging and solid and absolute truth and morality. And our behavior shows it. Not the kind of morality that beats others over the head mind you but the kind that self controls, that says “this” is wrong and “that” is right.

Unfortunately, We now have “this” situation and “this psyche and I believe nothing will change until we all look to God and say “we submit”. The key: Christ’s call is the call of Love. Not this “feeling” of love that everyone thinks they want but true love that sacrificed itself on the cross for our sins, for our distrust, in the face of our hatred. The world crucified Him. But He willingly went there. And on the Cross He even said “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And He calls us to Himself out of that same love.

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Datagal's avatar

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

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TIOK's avatar

Full disclosure: I wholy expected COVID to be declared "under control" within months of the November 2020 election, the extremes having either accomplished the desired outcome or failed - either way, not useful after the election. Clearly I was wrong on that point.

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They would have shut it down sooner but they lost control of the narrative. It’s all coming apart now but it’ll take time. Fauci’s recent absence is a clear sign things are changing. I have several friends who got the vax without much thought out of blind trust who say never again and are angrier about it than I’ve ever been. I get it. If that poison was circulating in my body and I just found out what it can do I’d be looking for justice

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CMCM's avatar

Dr. Oz was just interviewed on the Clay & Buck show, and he said he publicly challenged Fauci to a debate about Covid and guess what....no response.

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Steve Kirsh has a bunch of offers to debate out to public health officials even offering $1 million in at least one case. His experts vs theirs. No takers. It’s a slow process but people are waking up.

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Is he really the best candidate for that job? I think that is more kabuki theatre.

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You detected my error. I recognized that once gained, control will not be given up. But I did not identify the full usefulness of COVID extremes. I recognized the campaign value in economic shutdowns for neutralizing the strong economy that, at the start of 2020, seemed to assure Trump's victory (by quoting Bill Clinton: "it's the economy, stupid!"). I did not initially realize the full extent of objectives. Following the election it seemed to shift to see just how far boundaries could be pushed. Recognizing that once lost, freedom is seldom fully restored, I should have known.

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I fear you suffer from a common misconception e.g. here, that all problems are due to the Democrats, and implicitly, that Republican dominance would have given a better outcome. Don't feel bad; it is a very common delusion. The awful truth is that these things would have -- indeed, DID -- happen, no matter what party was dominant. The real powers are the Deep State, call it what you like. They are powerful, exert enormous and usually unseen influence over "leaders" (government and private), are extremely wealthy, and don't stand for elections (in both senses of that term!) They are accountable to no one. But you are right about one thing. They are evil.

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This.

I just call them the Red and Blue wings of the Uniparty. Both answer to the same masters and act as controlled opposition to each other. In the official political vaudeville narrative, the Dems are the "good guys" which is why some of the more significant lynchpin.pulling happens under them then no one who would usually object is paying attention and those that are either switch to support it or don't want to "hurt the party's chances and give the Republicans a victory".

But yeah,they are the best of buddies and work together to screw us all over. Pelosi tore up Trump's speech then went backstage amid cries of " yaaaazzz, qweeeen!" to support everything Trump wanted. And my TDS addled relatives thought that wasn't a problem, she's still a hero, but that my failure to hate Trump to the correct degree for the correct reasons was beyond the pale, because anti-Trumpism has nothing to do with "stopping Trump" or "protecting democracy". Its just a hate-cult created as yet another distraction to keep the pigeonholed proles from talking over the fences.

They're now amazed I am having none of this Ukraine crap. Because I consider it just another version of Trump waving his ass around boorishly to draw our attention so we don't pay attention to the damage the uniparty is actually doing.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

I recently said something similar to Alex, for other reasons. In any event, his income has dropped by six dollars per month. 🙂

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