touche! You are right. I could not and would not have predicted it -- it rather blows my mind -- but you and others saw it the whole time. I really do not see how the orthodoxy survives this.
Would be more helpful, IMO, if he were to explain *why* he thinks it took him so long to get right, and what he plans on doing in the future to help ensure it doesn't happen again.
Just admitting error doesn't go nearly far enough.
Jeffrey Tucker is a leader of American Institute for Economic Research and a primary driver of The Great Barrington Declaration so he has been in the vanguard of arguing against lockdowns and in favor of a rational approach.
Ha! I think you mean, "as obvious as this is, *somebody* other than Bad Cat and his merry band of misfits" *should* have known, or at least predicted. I rather think the indications were there early on. And maybe, just maybe, a reasonably run set of trials--you know, the type where the outcome is not pre-planned to make the vaccines look good--would have shown this. (Actually, my read of the trial data does indicate that all-cause mortality was worth taking a closer look at, but...)
As to how the orthodoxy survives, history is chock-full of practices and custom that seem obviously flawed in hindsight that were almost worshiped at the time. Unfortunately, we are living through an example.
What an honor to see you here, Jeffrey, and thank you for having the humility to acknowledge your lack of foresight on this matter, and more importantly, for making the Brownstone Institute a beacon of truth.
I have repeatedly linked to Brownstone articles from my own and am impressed by the caliber, breadth, and depth of your publication.
Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey! The orthodoxy survives this the way it survives any set of facts. Here is how this will go down (if it ever surfaces in the MSM): "Lookit how bad things are getting. We simply have not done enough to force the unvaxxed to get the jabs. This is all their fault! Time for universal vaccine cards that are required everywhere to do any kind of business. The unvaxxed will either starve to death or get vaxxed. Either way, we get rid of them and all our covid problems are solved!" Here is the truth a most people on our side (fact lovers) constantly miss: THE FUEL THAT ALLOWS THE ORTHODOXY TO SURVIVE COMES FROM MAKING VILLAINS OUT OF THOSE WHO DON'T SUPPORT THE ORTHODOXY!
Watch the KY, NY and WA (Oct 2019) legislation to allow governors to determine who goes and for how long, to camps. (The National Guard advertised federal jobs for State "internment camps" in 2020.) It sure looks like that plan will be implemented very quickly. The disappearance of the un-injected will be "fact-checked false" and barely noticed, and easily forgotten, because we have been physically and ideologically divided. (Look how the Jan 6 political prisoners have been treated -- all human rights have been denied -- and they're in the news.) They will go into action when the lines of communication are cut for a week or so.
[Jeff Goldblum voice] "If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that [orthodoxy] will not be contained. [Orthodoxy] breaks free. It expands to new territories. It crashes through barriers. Painfully, maybe even dangerously, but and...well, there it is. I'm simply saying that [orthodoxy]...uh, finds a way."
It is easier to con someone than convince them they have been conned. Consequently, people will believe every lie that is told that supports their ideas, even if the lies can easily be proven false.
Well, the orthodoxy survives anything its Storm Troopers want it to. Lotta money and power invested in it. I was too young to have memories of the Eisenhower Presidency, and was only familiar with his military-industrial complex quote, but there's this, too: '“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields… ,” Eisenhower warned. “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”' [from AAAS 2011 article by Warren E. Leary]
Someone explain to me how Fauci managed to become the most powerful man in America.
How does the orthodoxy survive this- by lying some more is my prediction for that. In short, I think everyone without 4 doses gets called "unvaccinated".
I want a job in the “I get to change the definition of any words, terms or phrases will-nilly” field. But I would need to get a moral lobotomy first, so, maybe not.
We all know what opinions are like, we've all got one, so here's mine. Before the pandemic, medical treatment was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Well, during the pandemic, lack of medical treatment was the leading cause of death. Not the "virus". And that refusal to treat (with what was on hand) was DELIBERATE. Doctors who had direct contact with the virus in vivo figured out different ways to deal with it but the fat-cat-bullies ignored them, ridiculed them and are now fighting them in court. You know the rest of the story. But please, have a little sympathy for the virus. It's really not to blame for this disaster. Pfizer, Fauci, CNN, WHO, NIH, A. Cuomo, Whitmer, FDA, CDC, and any politician who takes money from Pharma guilty as sin.
I get the vibe that JAT is being sarcastic. That or maybe he was too optimistic? I know lots of us were hoping that the vaccines would be more effective, especially as a counterweight to their severe side effects. It's hard to think that so many risked so much (and some people even died) for barely 6 months of "protection" from a virus that wasn't likely to kill them anyway. I just hope the vaccinated realize this and think really hard about whether or not they want any more of these novel therapeutics.
The misnomer of "vaccine" for what is really a therapeutic that prevents neither infection nor transmission of covid is just another brick in the wall of state lies and further sullies the reputation of the health care profession...
I've been watching the press and they are hellbent on making sure nobody who predicted any of this is legitimized. (You've seen the "Just because it's true now doesn't make them right" articles too, I've bet.)
So we need people like this who are willing to say "I was wrong" and use their platforms (while they have them) to show everybody else why.
That's why people shouldn't let the media and others off the hook so easy. They deserve to eat every last crumb of that humble pie. That's the least they deserve for their behavior.
Oh, no - another "conspiracy" theory became a truth. I am "shocked". Does anyone keep a scoreboard how many of the reasonable "conspiracies" have became a reality? I have a sneaky suspicion, that even including the most ridiculous ones there were a lot more truthful ones from the "conspiracy theorists" than the governments and "official science".
I had thought that about "Delta" as well, the M&M followed the injections very closely. I have no way to obtain confirming data from the hospitals, and one would need to have some autopsies to study and confirm actual causes of death.l
Here's my question: who will be in the internment camps in WA and in NY? The logical conclusion would be those are not injected. However, in Australia, where they actually HAVE interment camps, it is the sick and injected.
they rounded up gypsies, (Romas) drug users, mentally and physically disabled, communists, freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Orthodox, slavs= as deviants and threats to public health and order.
it is almost as if transmission was never an endpoint of success.......checks notes........holy shit, transmission was never actually an endpoint of success.......it is only out of sheer ignorance that vax maniacs got caught up on this.
It’s very clear that these are “leaky” vaccines—they do not prevent infection or transmission of Covid (just as Gato has been pointing out for some time). Yet many “experts” keep talking as if the pandemic would end if only more people were vaccinated, and try to justify vaccine mandates on the basis of negative externalities. This is the Semmelweis Reflex at work.
All I see here is more data of vaccine failure if reading the chart correctly.
I am not understanding the debate here on this particular post and I cannot understand the Twitter comments either. Kindly explain. It seems I can’t read between the lines of multiple sarcasm.
Thank you. I was introduced to Tucker and his journalism via Scott Horton and the Antiwar.com website that blew the whistle on the fraudulent wars in the Middle East. We went from the fraudulent War On Terra to the fraudulent War On Virus.
Wait - so Tucker is being sarcastic, not genuine? Whoo boy, then I need to go revisit my Twitter post where I gave him links to 8 Substacks where this was known or predicted months ago, and where I said that if his question is genuine, he is a fool.
Also, his quasi-question "I really do not see how the orthodoxy survives this" is easily answered with, "Because there are still many Tuckers out there who *haven't* finally opened their eyes, and many of them don't even want to."
The veil of sarcasm gets lowered momentarily to succinctly clear up some confusion. When I read this it brightened my morning and restored some faith in humanity. Then I realized it came from a cat, and I snapped back to reality. An intellectually honest cat who also publishes the finest memes on the net. This reply is for humans, not cats. Cats do not care about such things.
As long as they keep us misdirected and worrying about how many are being or not being infected by some new version of the CORONAVIRUS, no worse than a common cold for most, they have succeeded.
The spike protein injections are not working as promised. The bad news is they are working as planned.
Guys and gals and cats and cool cats... Since lateral flow tests only test for coronavirus protein, is the West effectively testing for the common cold (as was), 20-30% of the cold season being due to coronavirus, another 20-30% rhino and 20-30% unidentified new kidz on the block... Also will they be coming back positive due to spike protein in mucus? Any thoughts on this? Are LFTs just a polluting, plastic, perfunctory, prejudicial, passport to panic? Forgive the alliteration...
Article from GVB in March 2021. Of course, all the usual suspects tried to defame and debunk him, but the evidence seems to be clear now in Jan 2022 that maybe he was on the money.
Have you seen the Wall Street Journal oped by Montagnier, a Nobel Prize winning immunologist? He mentions also that vaxxed people are more likely to be infected. People are exploding in the comment section. Nobel Prize winners are fringe scientists too, you know.
He missed it by that much. They walk right up to the line of reality, but they just can’t take that last step out of their branch covidian cult universe. Every time a celebrity or politician that is triple vaxxed, wears the mask and still gets infected then proceeds to continue advocating for masks and the non-vaccine I lmao.
According to Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, booster shots are “absolute nonsense, they are dangerous and should not be given!”; in fact, those vaccinated are going to have difficulty controlling a number of diseases, including COVID-19. This is why he warns those already vaccinated that boosters “are crazy!”.
Gas and electricity prices have shot up in EU. Three of the six remaining nuclear power plants in Germany decommissioned by end 2021. Yet I should think heat would be produced by coal powered plants. Funny, but definitely not unexpected.
Wow! This post elicited some of the most brilliant inquisitive comments to date! I am awed by Gato’s ability to stimulate such discourse! Thank you all!
No surprises there - is there the same for true hospitalizations and deaths? It is funny that many folk I know (including a brother in law who's a cardiologist) suddenly are saying "They vaccines were never meant to prevent us from getting......!" - verifably false as that's exactly why most took the gene therapys, because they were told that they were invincible. Duh!
Well, haven't we tested more in the last year than we've tested in our previous 244 years of existence *combined*? We can maxx out at whatever number we want, simply by adjusting the number of tests we perform.
Just think how different this would be IF the media (not saying J Tucker) would present FACTS ONLY instead of their opinion! TOTALLY different OUTCOME!!
If the media just reported honestly and unbiasedly, the Democrat Party would be at most a fringe element in American politics. Their deleterious impact on America is deep, far, wide, and longstanding. They need to be burned to the ground (the media, not the Democ...ok, both).
he's been a strong advocate for team reality, albeit a more recent one.
you just have to realize that many of the folks that have been drawn into this are moving into a field that they have not worked in before. it's complex, the biology is something they have not assessed before, and drug and vaccine research and studies are a highly specialized field in which not many are conversant.
i just happened to know how it worked when this all began because i read A LOT of studies like this and work on their design.
to come in as a layperson you expect vaccines to work, at least partially. ideas like OAS and the long track record of mRNA being an awful modality for therapeutics are arcane even among those who work in life sciences.
it's really not fair to pillory the folks who came in as non experts and sought to get up to speed. this is hard, confusing, non-intuitive material.
save that for all the folks who claimed to be experts and clearly had no idea what they were saying, the one who lied and who claimed their credentials granted credibility.
they're the ones who hurt us.
they're the clowns that fell for bad drug trials and worse data handling and they're the ones that were supposed to know better.
It’s been weird to see half of my friends and colleagues with physics degrees be on team reality from the beginning and the other half be on team lockdown. Never quite understood what caused the initial split. It was not necessary to have had the requisite background in vaccines, viruses, and epidemiology to have been able to synthesize the data as it came in. One just needed to go in with a distrust in the authorities own skills and motives.
It probably depends on whether they get their view of the world through mainstream media outlets. Even smart well-educated people can be naïve and are subject to groupthink.
You gotta dig under the Astroturf...and it's all astroturf. Without Sub I would be lost, this and TheCovidWorld...now if Sub would just dump E T o p o l ....
As a “critical” cultural medical anthropologist, I have been intrigued at this divide. Yes, I believe Gato is correct about the arcaneness of biological understanding beyond the reach of many, abd that lead untrained folks to accept the narrative. But it goes beyond that as well to a level of trust in authorities and degree of sensitization (or rather far too often, desensitization to pressured efforts to pushing specific ic narratives, castigating earnest clinicians developing early treatments, cancellations of alternative thinkers, and apparently consolidated efforts to promote a singular vax view globally along with demonization of challengers. To me, the question is how much of these will it take to open up minds, both of those trained in the esoteric sciences and those untrained. Given the experts that continue to promote the vax narrative, there is clearly much more going on. I would love to unpack that complexity.
it starts at birth with trauma training using a neurotoxic injection, continues through critical five years with 72 doses. All while held in your parent's loving embrace, mostly during preverbal years.
Dr. Robert Malone's presentation on "Mass Formation Psychosis" is a powerful explanation. There is a three hour interview with Joe Rogan, but the transcript from his presentation in Tampa is compelling.
I appreciate your magnanimity. However, this was presented as an existential crisis by ALL players. As such, this demanded that we educate ourselves on the topic thoroughly and fast. I did not work in this field, even peripherally, but I was pulled in to it peripherally in February 2020 (call me some week when you have absolutely nothing to do, and I will regale you with the particulars). All of the "arcane" topics you referenced, I was able to grasp by March/April 2020. I must say that it was horrible watching a train wreck happen in real time, especially when you were telling those around you that the train was fixing to wreck.
Where I ran into frustration and a little bit of anger, was when I tried to discuss these issues with people that should have been able to grasp the subject matter, or to at least be capable of simple doubt concerning the narrative. For the most part, I was met with the same kind of incredulous response as Mr. Tucker's.
I must admit that getting through is a matter of having your facts well in order, combined with patience and steadfastness. We must press home the truth, or we succumb to the insanity.
It is gratifying to see you stand up for your friend. Sad how people jump to negative conclusions about individuals without bothering to learn the facts. Jeffrey has been an outspoken opponent to the tyranny from day one. Denigrating him because he didn't expect the vax to increase the spread is so childish.
I’m just a retired school teacher with a BS in Education, but I had the time to read everything I could. I started reading and watching in December 2019 before C got to the US.
I was suspicious when I heard a vaccine would be developed at warp speed. I knew that wasn’t the way to go, and I was leery. After the Vs came out, I read everything I could find about them and their manufactures I even read older articles about lipid nanoparticles and their functions and I refreshed myself about mRNA.
When it was made public that a few women died from J and J, I wondered if the others had side effects, too, and continued reading.
How anyone can trust our government or big pharma is beyond me, but then,I was raised by a conspiracy believer.
Anyone else wonder if Bob Saget’s death was booster related? I know people still die of natural deaths, but it looks as though he was doing a big tour and I imagine he had to be vaccinated for venues in some cities and states.
I am with you. My skepticism heightened as I attempted to read biologists’ critiques, only to find them removed as mis/ ( or worse, dis/) information. I found myself going down the rabbit hole until I finally could read them at Bitchute. When my daughter asked me why I was on a white supremacist, I knew there was something much deeper going on, that only “such” a website would allow fir discourse.
I don’t work in the field either. Just thought the initial reaction especially in the media was wild, so starting gathering local data. I found the nursing home problem in Pa. before it was reported by noticing a large number of deaths in a low population county. This was before vaccine availability. So, I stopped buying the “ be terrified” narrative. I also became hooked on investigating everything I could about the virus and subsequently the jabs. Decided not to worry and not to jab. Have argued with several docs who sadly had only fear not facts. But, not ALL. A few were reasonable. I agree with your position except for ALL. And, it’s good to have folks join the thinking brigade, even if they come late to it.
Agreed. He was correct on the most important issues, lockdowns, mandates, etc. And as early as anyone, perhaps one of the first to object to all the insanity that has ensued. I agree with El Gato Malo here, Jeffery is being humble about an area outside his direct expertise. I think many people who had the correct idea about what to do and not do as a society, still didn't realize how Pharma could be this bad (both nefarious and incompetent). Having gotten to know him just a little bit, personally and in person, I can tell you Jeffery is very much an asset to out side. Heck, he organized the Great Barrington Declaration, that alone is enough for us all to thank him.
Very similar timing of progression here. In April, 2020, I had a discussion with two Dutch visitors; it was more that they asked questions, and I answered. I made it clear that with mortality rate of some 0.25%, there was no issue to deal with. The other salient point I made was that science was dead.
Gato I love your posts and all the comments from a really great group of people. Always look forward to them. Thank you. But I agree with Tinner. I have a Masters degree in Advertising, no science background, and I knew none of this made sense from the get go. At first it was just a feeling. But a few simple searches, listening to Alex Berenson on Tucker from the jump, reading his booklets — one had to at least suspect something wasn’t right. Nothing made sense. The riots were ok for public health during a “pandemic”? That was it for me. Then there are so many other things that never made sense. We all know what they are, no need to list them again. And I’m sorry, but I have friends like this. They refuse to listen to any facts presented. Glad Jeffrey Tucker is coming around now, better 18 months late than never. Again, Gato, thank you for all you do. Much appreciated.
As Jesse Kelly says, "If I told you there were land mines on the lawn and the next day you saw me dancing on the lawn, you wouldn’t call me a hypocrite. You’d assume I was lying about the land mines."
You will be able to use the same argument with all the poor and starving in years to come when the economic train wreck becomes apparent. It was to hard to research about money so I let some one else do it for me and now am broke. IT was never approved for regular use, thus exempting Pharma from any consequences. Cat there is a reckoning coming and it will not be pretty. People who's children have been damaged by this quest for world wide control and profit will not take oops and were sorry as an answer. The debt will be paid in blood.
But why is he held up when there are those of us "lay people" that used our critical thinking skills from the get go? Glad he is your friend but why is he so late to the party? I mean just the fact that we are using a 2019 vaxxine for a 2021/2022 season (when the flu vaxx changes every season) would cause me to ask questions. Thanks for answering man cub!
To come in as a layperson, yes, in theory. But lay people also can and should know that there are a LOT of unknowns and variables to a "vaccine" developed at breakneck speed and for which there is literally NO long-term data as to the "vaccine"'s safety AND efficacy.
I'm no journalist, I don't make my livelihood by spending hours every day doing journalism things, and yet from the get-go I knew I was not, and maybe never was, going to take the jabs. For the very reasons in my first paragraph.
How could the Tuckers of the world *not* have had similar skepticism? They're *journalists*, FFS. That's should be their *default* position. How can we *not* call them fools now, for their fealty to Big Brother and for their abandonment of one of the pillars of real journalism - skepticism?
Being a "smart guy" is not nearly enough, when one doesn't apply those smarts where and when they're *most* needed.
Has Tucker never heard of Naomi Wolf? Somehow SHE has been on this subject from the get-go. Not necessarily the vaccine failure angle, but the vaccine danger angle, from which it should not take an epiphany to discover the vaccine failure angle.
"When I broke this story of menstrual dysregulation post-vaccination on Twitter in Spring of 2021..." ~ that's nearly a YEAR ago.
Tucker did a great interview of Naomi Wolf last Fall that is available on Tucker Carlson Today. Among other things, Naomi Wolf discusses her ostracism from the Left, and how events today mirror the authoritarianism template that she mapped out in her 2007 book, The End of America. Highly recommended.
Monday morning status meeting: Yet another coworker announced that she (and her whole family) just came down with omicron. I'm guessing she's vaxxed - don't know for sure - but it just goes to show you that *everybody* is gonna get it.
Not specific to this post, but wondering about that HS hockey player who just died. First news reports stated he "collapsed" and then another player crashed into him and accidentally slashed him with skate.
All later reports said he "fell" and then was hit.
And I'm thinking about the poor kid who will now go through life believing that he himself was the prime cause of the other kid's death. And how it's in the interests of the authorities to maintain that. A significant difference between "collapsed" and "fell," ain't there?
An honest coroner would require an autopsy. Keep your eye on the state coroner's reports, specifically the heart. They will not test for spike protein cellular damage.
i learned about moderna's 2013 mrna "project" for darpa about the time their name was raised for an mrna jab. in 2013 darpa paid them 25 million us dollars to study mrna to arm soldiers with anti bodies.
my first thought was wow it went no where for dod how can it do form fauci?
I don't think you can! When I first "subscribed" to this Stack a few months ago, I searched far and wide in Substack trying to find the "pay" button, because I was new to Substack so I figured I just wasn't looking in the right place. Turns out, the bad cat is doing this pro bono!
Others (myself included) have suggested that it offer a pay level, because it's well worth paying for, but the cat has said that he doesn't need the money (I paraphrase badly, but that's the gist of it, IIRC).
Still, if it ever offers a pay structure, I'll be ponying up the dinero.
I love Jeffrey's optimism, but I think he'd agree that he has something of the trait of Jared Osborne in Daniel Quinn's _The Story of B_, that being he can absorb lots and lots of information without drawing a conclusion. Is the "friend" you mention Geert Vanden Bossche?
touche! You are right. I could not and would not have predicted it -- it rather blows my mind -- but you and others saw it the whole time. I really do not see how the orthodoxy survives this.
So weird reading someone saying they didn’t know something
jeffrey is one of the good guys and brownstone is excellent and getting better.
i recommend it as a resource.
A treasure doing God's work.
Brownstone has been a bastion of reason and sanity. Thank god for gato and thank god for Jeffrey.
Yes. But wonderfully refreshing.
Would be more helpful, IMO, if he were to explain *why* he thinks it took him so long to get right, and what he plans on doing in the future to help ensure it doesn't happen again.
Just admitting error doesn't go nearly far enough.
Jeffrey Tucker is a leader of American Institute for Economic Research and a primary driver of The Great Barrington Declaration so he has been in the vanguard of arguing against lockdowns and in favor of a rational approach.
That’s wonderful, as far as it goes (which is far, TBS). So then how could he have been so clueless for so long about the vaxxes?
Cognitive inertia.
Ha! I think you mean, "as obvious as this is, *somebody* other than Bad Cat and his merry band of misfits" *should* have known, or at least predicted. I rather think the indications were there early on. And maybe, just maybe, a reasonably run set of trials--you know, the type where the outcome is not pre-planned to make the vaccines look good--would have shown this. (Actually, my read of the trial data does indicate that all-cause mortality was worth taking a closer look at, but...)
As to how the orthodoxy survives, history is chock-full of practices and custom that seem obviously flawed in hindsight that were almost worshiped at the time. Unfortunately, we are living through an example.
And also, the fact that “orthodoxy” no longer has any meaning, unless you live in Opposite World.
What an honor to see you here, Jeffrey, and thank you for having the humility to acknowledge your lack of foresight on this matter, and more importantly, for making the Brownstone Institute a beacon of truth.
I have repeatedly linked to Brownstone articles from my own and am impressed by the caliber, breadth, and depth of your publication.
Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey! The orthodoxy survives this the way it survives any set of facts. Here is how this will go down (if it ever surfaces in the MSM): "Lookit how bad things are getting. We simply have not done enough to force the unvaxxed to get the jabs. This is all their fault! Time for universal vaccine cards that are required everywhere to do any kind of business. The unvaxxed will either starve to death or get vaxxed. Either way, we get rid of them and all our covid problems are solved!" Here is the truth a most people on our side (fact lovers) constantly miss: THE FUEL THAT ALLOWS THE ORTHODOXY TO SURVIVE COMES FROM MAKING VILLAINS OUT OF THOSE WHO DON'T SUPPORT THE ORTHODOXY!
Watch the KY, NY and WA (Oct 2019) legislation to allow governors to determine who goes and for how long, to camps. (The National Guard advertised federal jobs for State "internment camps" in 2020.) It sure looks like that plan will be implemented very quickly. The disappearance of the un-injected will be "fact-checked false" and barely noticed, and easily forgotten, because we have been physically and ideologically divided. (Look how the Jan 6 political prisoners have been treated -- all human rights have been denied -- and they're in the news.) They will go into action when the lines of communication are cut for a week or so.
[Jeff Goldblum voice] "If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that [orthodoxy] will not be contained. [Orthodoxy] breaks free. It expands to new territories. It crashes through barriers. Painfully, maybe even dangerously, but and...well, there it is. I'm simply saying that [orthodoxy]...uh, finds a way."
Well done!
It is easier to con someone than convince them they have been conned. Consequently, people will believe every lie that is told that supports their ideas, even if the lies can easily be proven false.
Thank you for Brownstone, Mr. Tucker. It helped preserve my sanity.
Start here mr Tucker for a course in biology. This was said from day one. https://www.twitch.tv/gigaohmbiological/videos
I'm so impressed by these simple three sentences in your post.
Jeffrey Tucker I love you. I love the boriquagato too. LOL don't reply, I'm just a fangirl.
oh I wouldnt worry to much about the orthodoxy just yet. They are well funded and quite resilient until they are not
As long as Fauci continues to control what research gets done and what does not, science will continue to be whatever he decides it is. :)
Moreover, the problem will not be solved if he is replaced by another bureaucrat in a system of science funding that remains conceptually the same.
Well, the orthodoxy survives anything its Storm Troopers want it to. Lotta money and power invested in it. I was too young to have memories of the Eisenhower Presidency, and was only familiar with his military-industrial complex quote, but there's this, too: '“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields… ,” Eisenhower warned. “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”' [from AAAS 2011 article by Warren E. Leary]
Someone explain to me how Fauci managed to become the most powerful man in America.
How does the orthodoxy survive this- by lying some more is my prediction for that. In short, I think everyone without 4 doses gets called "unvaccinated".
I want a job in the “I get to change the definition of any words, terms or phrases will-nilly” field. But I would need to get a moral lobotomy first, so, maybe not.
I guess you are not qualified to be a federal employee or a journalist then.
Thank you - I just followed Brownstone on multiple platforms.
Such as ? I only see their stuff if someone posts it or I go to the website .
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Gettr, Gab...they're on all of the social media sites.
Me too! Thank you!
We all know what opinions are like, we've all got one, so here's mine. Before the pandemic, medical treatment was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Well, during the pandemic, lack of medical treatment was the leading cause of death. Not the "virus". And that refusal to treat (with what was on hand) was DELIBERATE. Doctors who had direct contact with the virus in vivo figured out different ways to deal with it but the fat-cat-bullies ignored them, ridiculed them and are now fighting them in court. You know the rest of the story. But please, have a little sympathy for the virus. It's really not to blame for this disaster. Pfizer, Fauci, CNN, WHO, NIH, A. Cuomo, Whitmer, FDA, CDC, and any politician who takes money from Pharma guilty as sin.
Bingo!
...is...
Literally every censored doctor or researcher I’ve followed for the past 2 years has warned about this potentially/probably happening.
I get the vibe that JAT is being sarcastic. That or maybe he was too optimistic? I know lots of us were hoping that the vaccines would be more effective, especially as a counterweight to their severe side effects. It's hard to think that so many risked so much (and some people even died) for barely 6 months of "protection" from a virus that wasn't likely to kill them anyway. I just hope the vaccinated realize this and think really hard about whether or not they want any more of these novel therapeutics.
The misnomer of "vaccine" for what is really a therapeutic that prevents neither infection nor transmission of covid is just another brick in the wall of state lies and further sullies the reputation of the health care profession...
And it wasn't just 'vaccine' that got a makeover recently.......
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/newspeak-is-upon-us
Hope was the only strategy they ever had. (And 2nd Quarter profits)
I've been watching the press and they are hellbent on making sure nobody who predicted any of this is legitimized. (You've seen the "Just because it's true now doesn't make them right" articles too, I've bet.)
So we need people like this who are willing to say "I was wrong" and use their platforms (while they have them) to show everybody else why.
That's why people shouldn't let the media and others off the hook so easy. They deserve to eat every last crumb of that humble pie. That's the least they deserve for their behavior.
Oh, no - another "conspiracy" theory became a truth. I am "shocked". Does anyone keep a scoreboard how many of the reasonable "conspiracies" have became a reality? I have a sneaky suspicion, that even including the most ridiculous ones there were a lot more truthful ones from the "conspiracy theorists" than the governments and "official science".
oh there are "scoreboards" of everything about this plandemic. You will have to wade through the flotsum and wear gloves
Gloves, only? Methinks more PPE will be required, for safety!
Washington State is about to begin internment camps, to be located in Centralia Washington. A decision to be made this week. Jobs to staff the camps are already posted on the states website including "strikers" who will remove the non injected individuals from their homes.https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/14545/20220110/washington-bill-if-approved-will-authorize-strike-force-to-send-unvaccinated-to-covid-internment-camps.htm
46% increase in Covid hospitalizations due to Omicron? I’ll bet it’s due to vax injuries and they happen to test positive for Covid…
I had thought that about "Delta" as well, the M&M followed the injections very closely. I have no way to obtain confirming data from the hospitals, and one would need to have some autopsies to study and confirm actual causes of death.l
Absolutely
Here's my question: who will be in the internment camps in WA and in NY? The logical conclusion would be those are not injected. However, in Australia, where they actually HAVE interment camps, it is the sick and injected.
living in OR very nervous
Wait- didn’t WA have at least one Japanese interment camp during WWII???
as well as one for pacifists. A few Beat poets were interned there.
Really?! Just like the Nazis imprisoned gay people, etc along with Jewish people.
they rounded up gypsies, (Romas) drug users, mentally and physically disabled, communists, freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Orthodox, slavs= as deviants and threats to public health and order.
it is almost as if transmission was never an endpoint of success.......checks notes........holy shit, transmission was never actually an endpoint of success.......it is only out of sheer ignorance that vax maniacs got caught up on this.
It’s very clear that these are “leaky” vaccines—they do not prevent infection or transmission of Covid (just as Gato has been pointing out for some time). Yet many “experts” keep talking as if the pandemic would end if only more people were vaccinated, and try to justify vaccine mandates on the basis of negative externalities. This is the Semmelweis Reflex at work.
Such “experts” include a few Supreme Court justices.
All I see here is more data of vaccine failure if reading the chart correctly.
I am not understanding the debate here on this particular post and I cannot understand the Twitter comments either. Kindly explain. It seems I can’t read between the lines of multiple sarcasm.
jeffrey is pointing out that the vaccines are failing bigly and that not a lot of people saw it coming.
it's a commentary on just how misrepresented this was and how badly it has failed to live up to promises.
Thank you. I was introduced to Tucker and his journalism via Scott Horton and the Antiwar.com website that blew the whistle on the fraudulent wars in the Middle East. We went from the fraudulent War On Terra to the fraudulent War On Virus.
War is the health of the state. - Randolph Borne...
$$$$$$$
Wait - so Tucker is being sarcastic, not genuine? Whoo boy, then I need to go revisit my Twitter post where I gave him links to 8 Substacks where this was known or predicted months ago, and where I said that if his question is genuine, he is a fool.
Tucker's comment on this page
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-predictions/comment/4399020
implies that he was sincere, not ironic, in that tweet, doesn't it?
Sure seems to imply that, yes.
Also, his quasi-question "I really do not see how the orthodoxy survives this" is easily answered with, "Because there are still many Tuckers out there who *haven't* finally opened their eyes, and many of them don't even want to."
The veil of sarcasm gets lowered momentarily to succinctly clear up some confusion. When I read this it brightened my morning and restored some faith in humanity. Then I realized it came from a cat, and I snapped back to reality. An intellectually honest cat who also publishes the finest memes on the net. This reply is for humans, not cats. Cats do not care about such things.
That was then
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/19/1019264/a-leaked-report-pfizers-vaccine-conquering-covid-19-in-its-largest-real-world-test/
This is now
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/10/covid-vaccine-pfizer-ceo-says-omicron-vaccine-will-be-ready-in-march.html
As long as they keep us misdirected and worrying about how many are being or not being infected by some new version of the CORONAVIRUS, no worse than a common cold for most, they have succeeded.
The spike protein injections are not working as promised. The bad news is they are working as planned.
https://theagingviking.substack.com/p/covid-shots-intended-to-reduce-worlds
They already inoculated against this particular piece of Wrongthink with the meme, "the vaccines were never meant to stop the spread."
Do keep up.
They had that meme ready - but then, what do they stop? Anything?
They stop the "UnVaxxed" from travel and spreading the germs, and keep us out of restaurants, concerts, and gyms.
Guys and gals and cats and cool cats... Since lateral flow tests only test for coronavirus protein, is the West effectively testing for the common cold (as was), 20-30% of the cold season being due to coronavirus, another 20-30% rhino and 20-30% unidentified new kidz on the block... Also will they be coming back positive due to spike protein in mucus? Any thoughts on this? Are LFTs just a polluting, plastic, perfunctory, prejudicial, passport to panic? Forgive the alliteration...
https://z3news.com/w/coming-covid-catastrophe-geert-vanden-bossche/
Article from GVB in March 2021. Of course, all the usual suspects tried to defame and debunk him, but the evidence seems to be clear now in Jan 2022 that maybe he was on the money.
Have you seen the Wall Street Journal oped by Montagnier, a Nobel Prize winning immunologist? He mentions also that vaxxed people are more likely to be infected. People are exploding in the comment section. Nobel Prize winners are fringe scientists too, you know.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-makes-bidens-vaccine-mandates-obsolete-covid-healthcare-osha-evidence-supreme-court-11641760009?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
He missed it by that much. They walk right up to the line of reality, but they just can’t take that last step out of their branch covidian cult universe. Every time a celebrity or politician that is triple vaxxed, wears the mask and still gets infected then proceeds to continue advocating for masks and the non-vaccine I lmao.
Geert Vanden Bossch predicted this months ago.
According to Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, booster shots are “absolute nonsense, they are dangerous and should not be given!”; in fact, those vaccinated are going to have difficulty controlling a number of diseases, including COVID-19. This is why he warns those already vaccinated that boosters “are crazy!”.
https://elcolectivodeuno.wordpress.com/2021/12/11/geert-vanden-bossche-vaccinated-people-serve-as-breeding-ground-for-new-variants/
Many did. Like Geert
"VAS? - Vaccine Aided Seasonality, doctor? What's that?"
"I don't know either. I read it on the interwebs."
Cat, you hit the the litter box on this long ago from the exosphere.
The comments are worth a peek.
In other news. ...has Depop Phase2 begun? Heating power out in Berlin -- 370,000 w/out heat or hot water.
Gas and electricity prices have shot up in EU. Three of the six remaining nuclear power plants in Germany decommissioned by end 2021. Yet I should think heat would be produced by coal powered plants. Funny, but definitely not unexpected.
Wow! This post elicited some of the most brilliant inquisitive comments to date! I am awed by Gato’s ability to stimulate such discourse! Thank you all!
No surprises there - is there the same for true hospitalizations and deaths? It is funny that many folk I know (including a brother in law who's a cardiologist) suddenly are saying "They vaccines were never meant to prevent us from getting......!" - verifably false as that's exactly why most took the gene therapys, because they were told that they were invincible. Duh!
My prediction for this Winter was way off- I thought the US would max out at 200,000 new positives/day about this time.
Well, haven't we tested more in the last year than we've tested in our previous 244 years of existence *combined*? We can maxx out at whatever number we want, simply by adjusting the number of tests we perform.
Medical facilities including outpatient surgery centers test All who enter
Plus all the people who are running out and getting tested every other day, or every other hour, etc.
we need to keeeeeep testing. Perhaps all tests are positive.
We all have it! My nose just started to run but I caught it on the way out the door.
Tests do need to be tested
3 tests daily for everyone!! 😂
Just think how different this would be IF the media (not saying J Tucker) would present FACTS ONLY instead of their opinion! TOTALLY different OUTCOME!!
If the media just reported honestly and unbiasedly, the Democrat Party would be at most a fringe element in American politics. Their deleterious impact on America is deep, far, wide, and longstanding. They need to be burned to the ground (the media, not the Democ...ok, both).
The narrative is shifting... meoooow!
That is because he is a MORON!
he's not. he's a smart guy and a friend of mine.
he's been a strong advocate for team reality, albeit a more recent one.
you just have to realize that many of the folks that have been drawn into this are moving into a field that they have not worked in before. it's complex, the biology is something they have not assessed before, and drug and vaccine research and studies are a highly specialized field in which not many are conversant.
i just happened to know how it worked when this all began because i read A LOT of studies like this and work on their design.
to come in as a layperson you expect vaccines to work, at least partially. ideas like OAS and the long track record of mRNA being an awful modality for therapeutics are arcane even among those who work in life sciences.
it's really not fair to pillory the folks who came in as non experts and sought to get up to speed. this is hard, confusing, non-intuitive material.
save that for all the folks who claimed to be experts and clearly had no idea what they were saying, the one who lied and who claimed their credentials granted credibility.
they're the ones who hurt us.
they're the clowns that fell for bad drug trials and worse data handling and they're the ones that were supposed to know better.
It’s been weird to see half of my friends and colleagues with physics degrees be on team reality from the beginning and the other half be on team lockdown. Never quite understood what caused the initial split. It was not necessary to have had the requisite background in vaccines, viruses, and epidemiology to have been able to synthesize the data as it came in. One just needed to go in with a distrust in the authorities own skills and motives.
It probably depends on whether they get their view of the world through mainstream media outlets. Even smart well-educated people can be naïve and are subject to groupthink.
I believe you're 100% correct about this. Turn off the TV and you'd never know a "deadly virus" was stalking the land.
You gotta dig under the Astroturf...and it's all astroturf. Without Sub I would be lost, this and TheCovidWorld...now if Sub would just dump E T o p o l ....
I think fear is a big factor, at risk of ringing the Obvious bell. Fear pulls the blinders on.
Fear leads to hysteria. Hysterical people are easily led.
As a “critical” cultural medical anthropologist, I have been intrigued at this divide. Yes, I believe Gato is correct about the arcaneness of biological understanding beyond the reach of many, abd that lead untrained folks to accept the narrative. But it goes beyond that as well to a level of trust in authorities and degree of sensitization (or rather far too often, desensitization to pressured efforts to pushing specific ic narratives, castigating earnest clinicians developing early treatments, cancellations of alternative thinkers, and apparently consolidated efforts to promote a singular vax view globally along with demonization of challengers. To me, the question is how much of these will it take to open up minds, both of those trained in the esoteric sciences and those untrained. Given the experts that continue to promote the vax narrative, there is clearly much more going on. I would love to unpack that complexity.
it starts at birth with trauma training using a neurotoxic injection, continues through critical five years with 72 doses. All while held in your parent's loving embrace, mostly during preverbal years.
Pretty grim and depressing, with little protection beyond a discerning rebellious parent!
Dr. Robert Malone's presentation on "Mass Formation Psychosis" is a powerful explanation. There is a three hour interview with Joe Rogan, but the transcript from his presentation in Tampa is compelling.
Yes. I heard part if it, but need to go back to the text. Thanks!
I appreciate your magnanimity. However, this was presented as an existential crisis by ALL players. As such, this demanded that we educate ourselves on the topic thoroughly and fast. I did not work in this field, even peripherally, but I was pulled in to it peripherally in February 2020 (call me some week when you have absolutely nothing to do, and I will regale you with the particulars). All of the "arcane" topics you referenced, I was able to grasp by March/April 2020. I must say that it was horrible watching a train wreck happen in real time, especially when you were telling those around you that the train was fixing to wreck.
Where I ran into frustration and a little bit of anger, was when I tried to discuss these issues with people that should have been able to grasp the subject matter, or to at least be capable of simple doubt concerning the narrative. For the most part, I was met with the same kind of incredulous response as Mr. Tucker's.
I must admit that getting through is a matter of having your facts well in order, combined with patience and steadfastness. We must press home the truth, or we succumb to the insanity.
not by him.
he's just admitting that not even he, who has been very skeptical of all this, saw this coming.
It is gratifying to see you stand up for your friend. Sad how people jump to negative conclusions about individuals without bothering to learn the facts. Jeffrey has been an outspoken opponent to the tyranny from day one. Denigrating him because he didn't expect the vax to increase the spread is so childish.
Yes. Reading/stalking Jeffrey's Twitter feed is why I know about 99% Team Reality, including Gato, Berenson, CJ Hopkins, TES, Jennifer Cabrera, etc.
I’m just a retired school teacher with a BS in Education, but I had the time to read everything I could. I started reading and watching in December 2019 before C got to the US.
I was suspicious when I heard a vaccine would be developed at warp speed. I knew that wasn’t the way to go, and I was leery. After the Vs came out, I read everything I could find about them and their manufactures I even read older articles about lipid nanoparticles and their functions and I refreshed myself about mRNA.
When it was made public that a few women died from J and J, I wondered if the others had side effects, too, and continued reading.
How anyone can trust our government or big pharma is beyond me, but then,I was raised by a conspiracy believer.
Anyone else wonder if Bob Saget’s death was booster related? I know people still die of natural deaths, but it looks as though he was doing a big tour and I imagine he had to be vaccinated for venues in some cities and states.
I was thinking the same thing. He was boosted December 11th, 2021.
I didn’t know if he had been or not, but I couldn’t help but wonder.
Here's a good article about it:
https://thecovidworld.com/shock-as-legendary-comedian-and-actor-bob-saget-dies-suddenly-1-month-after-receiving-covid-booster-shot/
I am with you. My skepticism heightened as I attempted to read biologists’ critiques, only to find them removed as mis/ ( or worse, dis/) information. I found myself going down the rabbit hole until I finally could read them at Bitchute. When my daughter asked me why I was on a white supremacist, I knew there was something much deeper going on, that only “such” a website would allow fir discourse.
I don’t work in the field either. Just thought the initial reaction especially in the media was wild, so starting gathering local data. I found the nursing home problem in Pa. before it was reported by noticing a large number of deaths in a low population county. This was before vaccine availability. So, I stopped buying the “ be terrified” narrative. I also became hooked on investigating everything I could about the virus and subsequently the jabs. Decided not to worry and not to jab. Have argued with several docs who sadly had only fear not facts. But, not ALL. A few were reasonable. I agree with your position except for ALL. And, it’s good to have folks join the thinking brigade, even if they come late to it.
Tucker is being somewhat sarcastic here. He’s been rock solid on this stuff.
Agreed. He was correct on the most important issues, lockdowns, mandates, etc. And as early as anyone, perhaps one of the first to object to all the insanity that has ensued. I agree with El Gato Malo here, Jeffery is being humble about an area outside his direct expertise. I think many people who had the correct idea about what to do and not do as a society, still didn't realize how Pharma could be this bad (both nefarious and incompetent). Having gotten to know him just a little bit, personally and in person, I can tell you Jeffery is very much an asset to out side. Heck, he organized the Great Barrington Declaration, that alone is enough for us all to thank him.
Very similar timing of progression here. In April, 2020, I had a discussion with two Dutch visitors; it was more that they asked questions, and I answered. I made it clear that with mortality rate of some 0.25%, there was no issue to deal with. The other salient point I made was that science was dead.
Gato I love your posts and all the comments from a really great group of people. Always look forward to them. Thank you. But I agree with Tinner. I have a Masters degree in Advertising, no science background, and I knew none of this made sense from the get go. At first it was just a feeling. But a few simple searches, listening to Alex Berenson on Tucker from the jump, reading his booklets — one had to at least suspect something wasn’t right. Nothing made sense. The riots were ok for public health during a “pandemic”? That was it for me. Then there are so many other things that never made sense. We all know what they are, no need to list them again. And I’m sorry, but I have friends like this. They refuse to listen to any facts presented. Glad Jeffrey Tucker is coming around now, better 18 months late than never. Again, Gato, thank you for all you do. Much appreciated.
With holding therapy with IVM and HCQ was a huge red flag for me. The censorship was the second red flag.
The 180-degree pivot once Biden was selected was yet another red flag. Red flags EVERYWHERE, yet somehow Tucker missed them ALL?
Sorry, but that's an indictment. And a solid one, not a Raymond Donovan-esque or Ted Stevens-esque indictment.
As Jesse Kelly says, "If I told you there were land mines on the lawn and the next day you saw me dancing on the lawn, you wouldn’t call me a hypocrite. You’d assume I was lying about the land mines."
You will be able to use the same argument with all the poor and starving in years to come when the economic train wreck becomes apparent. It was to hard to research about money so I let some one else do it for me and now am broke. IT was never approved for regular use, thus exempting Pharma from any consequences. Cat there is a reckoning coming and it will not be pretty. People who's children have been damaged by this quest for world wide control and profit will not take oops and were sorry as an answer. The debt will be paid in blood.
But why is he held up when there are those of us "lay people" that used our critical thinking skills from the get go? Glad he is your friend but why is he so late to the party? I mean just the fact that we are using a 2019 vaxxine for a 2021/2022 season (when the flu vaxx changes every season) would cause me to ask questions. Thanks for answering man cub!
To come in as a layperson, yes, in theory. But lay people also can and should know that there are a LOT of unknowns and variables to a "vaccine" developed at breakneck speed and for which there is literally NO long-term data as to the "vaccine"'s safety AND efficacy.
I'm no journalist, I don't make my livelihood by spending hours every day doing journalism things, and yet from the get-go I knew I was not, and maybe never was, going to take the jabs. For the very reasons in my first paragraph.
How could the Tuckers of the world *not* have had similar skepticism? They're *journalists*, FFS. That's should be their *default* position. How can we *not* call them fools now, for their fealty to Big Brother and for their abandonment of one of the pillars of real journalism - skepticism?
Being a "smart guy" is not nearly enough, when one doesn't apply those smarts where and when they're *most* needed.
Another person to start following is the great Coleen Rowley who is now in da house on this issue too. Look her up.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=coleen+rowley+time+magazine&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.libertytalk.fm%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FColeen-Rowley-FBI-time-magazine-cover.jpg
Yeah and the original pandemic pre vaccine was a normal season with normal aged deaths
All vaccines are problematic or useless
https://learntherisk.org/vaccines/diseases/
And what virus?
https://drsambailey.com/2022/01/05/why-nobody-can-find-a-virus/
Has Tucker never heard of Naomi Wolf? Somehow SHE has been on this subject from the get-go. Not necessarily the vaccine failure angle, but the vaccine danger angle, from which it should not take an epiphany to discover the vaccine failure angle.
"When I broke this story of menstrual dysregulation post-vaccination on Twitter in Spring of 2021..." ~ that's nearly a YEAR ago.
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/is-it-time-for-intellectuals-to-talk
Tucker did a great interview of Naomi Wolf last Fall that is available on Tucker Carlson Today. Among other things, Naomi Wolf discusses her ostracism from the Left, and how events today mirror the authoritarianism template that she mapped out in her 2007 book, The End of America. Highly recommended.
Monday morning status meeting: Yet another coworker announced that she (and her whole family) just came down with omicron. I'm guessing she's vaxxed - don't know for sure - but it just goes to show you that *everybody* is gonna get it.
I guess if you can "have" "it" and not be sick that makes it likely that it can be said that "everybody" gets it ...
Not specific to this post, but wondering about that HS hockey player who just died. First news reports stated he "collapsed" and then another player crashed into him and accidentally slashed him with skate.
All later reports said he "fell" and then was hit.
And I'm thinking about the poor kid who will now go through life believing that he himself was the prime cause of the other kid's death. And how it's in the interests of the authorities to maintain that. A significant difference between "collapsed" and "fell," ain't there?
An honest coroner would require an autopsy. Keep your eye on the state coroner's reports, specifically the heart. They will not test for spike protein cellular damage.
i learned about moderna's 2013 mrna "project" for darpa about the time their name was raised for an mrna jab. in 2013 darpa paid them 25 million us dollars to study mrna to arm soldiers with anti bodies.
my first thought was wow it went no where for dod how can it do form fauci?
Well, golllleee. Them there vaccines are some kind of medical marvel.
The things we wish we knew a year ago…
Such a smart cat:)
gato rules! Now its universally acknowledged and appreciated! :)
Am I the only one who hears Mr. Brownstone when I see Brownstone? *cringe emoji
Super infectious, low mortality. Of course it won't spread like wildfire. Who'd a thunk it?
Maybe we should start listening to the people who HAVE been predicting it?
How do I upgrade to paid subscriber? I am paying for around a dozen subscriptions, but can't remember how to upgrade if I started reading for free?
I don't think you can! When I first "subscribed" to this Stack a few months ago, I searched far and wide in Substack trying to find the "pay" button, because I was new to Substack so I figured I just wasn't looking in the right place. Turns out, the bad cat is doing this pro bono!
Others (myself included) have suggested that it offer a pay level, because it's well worth paying for, but the cat has said that he doesn't need the money (I paraphrase badly, but that's the gist of it, IIRC).
Still, if it ever offers a pay structure, I'll be ponying up the dinero.
Thank you!!! Awesome that it's free, but I agree, I don't mind paying for the work.
I live in Puerto Rico, and I even offered him a round of golf on me as token of thanks...but I guess he doesn't golf. :-( ;-)
..... but it's Trump's fault that the vaccines are junk
Another, much less known Kat, predicted they would blame them on The Orange. Recycled election strategy.
exactly, and the perfect corpse to announce that would be Obiden
Hard not to blame him - the setup was so good. Look up the warp speed EO, Sept. 19, 2019, and weep. Trump will not get out of that one.
That he keeps advocating for the jabs does not look good. He lacks discernment, sadly.
I love Jeffrey's optimism, but I think he'd agree that he has something of the trait of Jared Osborne in Daniel Quinn's _The Story of B_, that being he can absorb lots and lots of information without drawing a conclusion. Is the "friend" you mention Geert Vanden Bossche?