275 Comments

i’m so grateful for these compilations, gato. i’ve turned off the news altogether, so i’d never even see this. thanks for having your finger on the pulse and sharing it in such a glaringly obvious way.

Expand full comment

Yeah, I don't do "the news" anymore either, so it's good one of our watchcats is on the bullsh*t patrol.

Expand full comment

I kept a few locations with fake news, just to compare how far behind they are. Usually I read just a few titles. Hilarious.

Expand full comment

Yup, good entertainment.

Just this morning read about how CA governor Newsom banned travel to Montana because the legislature there MIGHT ban abortion. And that violates LBGTQWE inclusiveness somehow. Then Gav turns up on vacation with his family and entourage of taxpayer funded security details and aides to - wait for it - Montana!

I don't know a comic who can write stuff this funny!

Expand full comment

LOL did you see the ad he ran in Florida touting all of CA's freedoms?

https://nypost.com/2022/07/04/gavin-newsom-launches-ads-urging-floridians-to-leave/

Yeah, you can't make this stuff up.

Expand full comment
Jul 7, 2022·edited Jul 7, 2022

Amazing.

One report said CA taxpayers paid for it. I don't know if that's true but it would not surprise me. So the jokes on us :-)

Expand full comment

Luckily, it wouldn't be a long list and therefore, wouldn't take much time to read. 🙄

Expand full comment

Would be real funny, just like Castreau, if it were not for the people they hurt ! Still a good laugh when you are in a safe distance. Did California really vote for that man?

Expand full comment
Jul 6, 2022·edited Jul 6, 2022

Did California really vote for that man? Well that is a loaded question ;-).

I didn't. Voted to recall him, too. But do we really know what happens to the ballot after we drop it in the box? Not a clue. Comparing the vote counts published by the state AG to the US census data for 2020, about 99% of the adult population voted and over 100% of the adult population was registered to vote. For every registered voter at least one ballot was mailed out to the address on record. According to the AG over 90% of those were returned. The DMV is required, by law, to register to vote anyone who applies for a DL or ID card. The DMV is prohibited, by law, from checking if the applicant is a citizen. But, state law is that only US citizens can register to vote in CA. It is a crime to register yourself if you are not a US citizen. But the DMV can do it for you.

There is a tiny checkbox on the DL/ID form for "don't register me to vote" which non-citizens have to check to avoid having the DMV register them to vote and, effectively, having them commit a crime by not "opting out". County registrars are the only means to audit but do not, really can not, verify citizenship. Confused yet? Concerned?

Census says over a third of residents in California are either not US citizens or under the age of 18. That includes only legal residents. Estimates put the illegal population at from 4 to 10 million in California. We don't' really know, that's what "undocumented" means. DMV is also prohibited from verifying residence status (legal or "undocumented") of applicants.

Millions of non-citizens and illegal residents have ID cards or Drivers Licenses. As explained by our legislators, it is essential to have to survive and so it would be wrong to deny anyone.

Odds are high many of those people missed the tiny "opt out" box and many probably are unaware that it is illegal for them to vote in an election. In fact several organizations, under the guise "get out the vote", were advertising that ANYONE CAN VOTE and implicitly encouraging illegal voting. We are talking media adds, phone calls, the whole deal. They did not define "anyone" and so technically were not promoting illegal activity (so explained to my by someone in the AGs office when I asked). "Anyone" would of course mean any US Citizen who has not otherwise had their right revoked by due process of law - obvious to the most causal observer, right?

Taking into account the number of documented non-citizen adults reported by the census, subtracting that from the adult population, comparing to the vote counts reported by the AG, and we have far more than 100% turnout for legal voters. But no chance this is fraud, nope. I'm a racists trumpian slime for looking at the numbers and reporting what I see.

So I mean, what could possible make you think elections in California are anything but perfectly legit?

Ah, you think your fine because you don't live in California. Guess what kids:: The Party has billions of dollars to bring these policies to your state. Yup, they are bad and nation wide (sorry Billy).

Expand full comment

OMG. How different it is here in Georgia ! We have to show proof of identity (drivers license) when we go to the voting place. No wonder CA is such a mess. Thanks for the update.

Expand full comment

He's, as we used to say way back in the day, a scuz bucket.

Expand full comment

I avoid the mainstream news like the plague, but unfortunately believers eat this stuff up and consider it 100% truth - which is why we are so divided. Watching the evening news could cause me to drop dead.

Expand full comment

Oh, I just got it -- it's the evening noose that's causing all these people to "inexplicably" drop dead.

Expand full comment

It is all true. You just have to accept the new definition of "truth".

Said often enough, loudly enough, with the correct endorsements.

When facts fail to support your "truth" no problem, just make up something that does.

Anyone who asks questions is a denier, or not being inclusive.

Expand full comment

Just like the new definition of "vaccine."

Expand full comment

Well, we have long had easy access to 'nose drops' and 'ear drops'. It was only a matter of time before they came up with 'death drops'.

Expand full comment

Exactly.

Expand full comment

i watch it for the entertainment, and to see what they're trying to push out there for the believers...vacillating between yelling at it, wanting to throw things at it, and/or laughing hysterically...all of which could very likely cause me to drop dead as well. i do wonder when that will show up as a headline for SADS (or spontaneous combustion). and, they can keep their damn quackzine way far away from me! just flat out NO. same with the flu shot.

Expand full comment

A+ extra credit for gratuitous Spinal Tap reference.

Expand full comment

They will literally go to every available end to stop the people from connecting the obvious dots to the obvious conclusion.

Expand full comment

The cause is anything but that which cannot be named.

Expand full comment

Yes! Why not include the "vaccines" in their grouping of causes of strokes and heart attacks if they're so inclusive? I can see how it might be POSSIBLE for dirt that's been affected by pollution/microplastics to have deleterious effects, and for peoples' stress levels to have hit the roof impacting a person's immune system, making folks more susceptible to heart issues. But since they consistently omit any mention of the VAX being a possible culprit, then that reveals their true motives--all smoke and mirrors.

Expand full comment

And push their climate change agenda at the same time. The sad part is most people will believe it.

Expand full comment

I ask my climate change obsessed friends if they think Obama and Pelosi would buy multi million dollar properties by the seaside if they believed in climate change. And then I ask them if they knew that Florida and large parts of Georgia (about 2 hours driving inland) are made of sea sand. Hm. They immediately change discours.

Expand full comment

When you have no real problems, except your towering lack of intelligence, which of course you are too dense to recognize, then you can focus your gnat-sized brain on climate change.

Expand full comment

Apologies in advance Jim, but I’m gonna steal this and make copious use of it.

Expand full comment

I’m flattered!

Expand full comment

Outstandingly precise assessment. Thank you! I--like JohnS--am stealing this for future encounters with those of the "gnat-sized brain" class.

Expand full comment

Thank you for the laughs. Just killed some gnats

Expand full comment

Global Warming is religion not science. And it's hard to argue religion with someone drunk on the Kool Aid.

Expand full comment

Actually climate change is astrophysics. It is part of the natural life of the planet. The geophysical and astrophysical forces that created this still largely molten rock upon which we (humans and cats) reside continue to drive change.

The religion is based on a belief that some how puny humans have somehow altered the evolution of the planet in some way which can overcome the vast geophysical and astrophysical forces involved. Ironically many of the true believers in the man made climate change scam laugh condescendingly at the story of the burning bush.

Tell your MMGWS (man made global warming swindle) followers to stand near a volcano for an hour. Yeah, we have the power to change the planet...sure....

BTW we have to say "climate change" to be inclusive. Because all available data fails to support actual warming trends and so we have to include cooling as part of "change" :-).

Expand full comment

Spot on. Astrophysics indeed. We need to include among the fabulists the archeologists who deny the existence of advance megalithic civilization and the catastrophe(s) that wiped it out some 11 to 12 K years ago. They would have us believe that Dynastic Egyptians with copper chisels and pounding stones built the most complex structures ever. All this to say that the cosmos, the solar system and especially the sun are only "relatively" stable. "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" HInt: it's not carbon dioxide.

Expand full comment

You could always 'stage an intervention'.

Expand full comment

My favorite are those that bring up a stupid comment, and then when challenged with a question contrary to The Narrative™, respond with "I don't want to talk about that."

Expand full comment

Yep; that is the response of one particular friend of mine who just retired as a physician. Just refuses to hear anything that does not fit her version of the truth. I finally told her: I'm not vaxxed, and never getting vaxxed, too many negative side effects. And guess what she said: "I don't want to talk about that."

Expand full comment

I have a really pithy reply for that, but I just don't want to talk about it :-).

Expand full comment

You mean they didn't whip out their mini Al Gore statuettes and shout "DENIER BE GONE!" ???

That's progress :-)

Expand full comment

I did the same years ago when my lefty CA friends were raging ag America & all our sins with fossil fuels (they are completely ignorant of Rockefeller’s war on naturopathy & the use of oil in Bigg Pharmass & his eugenics) and I asked them if they thought China & India (two of the biggest polluters) should get on board with the same regulations American Co’s were now following....they ceased their tirade.

Expand full comment

I will never understand people who fail to respect farmers, ranchers, truckers and all the rest that supports agriculture and gets ag products to the rest of us.

Me, I like to eat. I thus have a deep respect for the folks that produce and transport food to my table.

Expand full comment

It's as if the virus has moved over for climate change. Don't you know it's all fact?! Check out sciencemoms.com - looks like this crazy never ends.

Expand full comment

Omigod, just yankin' the heartstrings, those "science" moms!

Expand full comment

It is a little unnerving to see these diabolical minds at work

Expand full comment

and to realise their insatiability ... that unnerves me, too.

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

Depressing that so many mopes seem to believe this 🐎 💩.

Expand full comment

They are doing the same with microplastics - the UN and WHO have launched a media campaign about microplastics in cigarette butts but not mentioned at all is that medical masks are made of blown plastic and are leading to a massive increase in microplastics in litter.

Expand full comment
Jul 6, 2022·edited Jul 6, 2022

Sometimes I forget there are people who don’t understand the UN and all its bs agencies are nothing but a monumental grifting operation seeking to redistribute cash to the third world. They make braindead Brandon and huffing Hunter look legit by comparison.

Expand full comment

Yeah I saw the US version of that last night. Hilarious. One of my biker friends responded by saying he'll switch back to smoking unfiltered. Of course I'm in California where you can get a state subsidy to buy pot to smoke. No filters, no problem!

Expand full comment

and in lungs (sucked right on down into the airways)

Expand full comment

If we could see articles like this on the first page of a mayor news paper, what would that cause? Would people realize there is something off?

Expand full comment

“…we shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills…”

In short, we will do whatever it takes to prevent you peons from realizing the whole lot of us are totally full of 💩.

Expand full comment
Jul 6, 2022·edited Jul 6, 2022

just need to change the verb in that, because They are pursuing a different path to victory ~ not through fighting, but through lying. As Ted Geisel might have put it, "We will lie here, We will lie there, We will lie and misrepresent EVERYWHERE"

Expand full comment

Or JP Sears, We Lie To You News 😂

Expand full comment

Gato! As always, you help to capture the utter absurdity of our current predicament. I'm presently sitting on a BART train, in disbelief that I'm the only unmasked person. Reality has become indistinguishable from satire.

Expand full comment

What boggles my mind is that the most recent CDC report on masks claims that they stop particles down to .1 micron in size. The next step is to google 'the size of the Covid-19 virus'. And the answer is .03 microns. So masks do not protect from Covid-19 virus... period. But people seemingly cannot do this simple task.

Expand full comment

I don't buy the 0.1 micron filtering claim for masks. That is one 10-thousandth of a millimeter. Or about one 250-thousandth of an inch. Everybody wears masks wrong anyway.

Expand full comment

Chin straps… you can always tell the vaccinators because they wear their chin straps. 🙄🙄🙄

Expand full comment

I know how you feel - like the twilight zone!

Expand full comment

Agreed but not sure Serling could come up with this. Maybe scarier like Outer limits

Expand full comment

I grew up watching both those series. Now I feel like I am LIVING in both of them.

Expand full comment

Or Night Gallery perhaps.

Expand full comment

Here in Sydney, masks are still required on buses/trains and 70% of people are without a mask including the drivers/operators.

I was planning on visiting the Bay Area in September, but having second thoughts now.

Expand full comment

Ah geez, that sounds rough - I'm sorry. SF and the Bay Area is fully of Covidians, unfortunately. Most (expect for the most extreme) businesses don't have mask requirements, but BART is a particularly big holdout. Fortunately, there's no enforcement of the rule, so I just ignore it. But, it seems that 95% mask up either because 1) they're true believers or 2) they go along to get along.

Expand full comment

Be sure to pack a pair of wellies.

Expand full comment

Now we need explanations for the drastically lower birth rate!

Expand full comment

It's hard to impregnate when you've masked all your working parts.

Expand full comment
founding

Oh, they're very pregnant; pregnant with FEAR

Expand full comment

Too much nitrogen, obviously.

Expand full comment

Too hot to have sex.

Expand full comment

Toxic masculinity.

Expand full comment

There you go. Forgot momentarily about that one. Yessirree, toxic sperminators.

Expand full comment

Look, the abusive sperm denigrate and beat up the ovum, preventing conception.

I'm positive that's what I learned in high school bio.

Expand full comment

They are saying that is heat too. Really.

Expand full comment

CR new.ca on 6/29/22 by Maggie Parkhill:

New Research Looks at Impact of Summer Heat on Miscarriages

Expand full comment

Crap that was ctvnews.ca

Expand full comment

It'll be the same reason LOL

Expand full comment

Can't procreate while social distancing.

Expand full comment

I’m sure they have those explanations concocted already

Expand full comment

Obviously they’re using their masks in creative ways… 😳

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

Ha!!!

Expand full comment

I guess on the positive side, every publication that runs one of these stories is effectively hanging out a sign saying “WEF shill” for all to see. Same with the “authors”.

Expand full comment

Some time ago there was a site called "warmlist". It listed actual news story headlines with links to the stories themselves. Stuff like "sheep testicles getting smaller due to global warming". and other ridiculous stories blaming absolutely everything on the planet to "global warming". Not sure if it's still extant, but it was hilarious and devastating to the warmists.

Expand full comment

It is incredible that we just figured out in 2022 that gardening and hot nights increase the risk of heart disease. If people just quit gardening and bought more air conditioners, we may solve the #1 cause of death in the USA.

Expand full comment

But air conditioners run on electricity which is generated by the dreaded fossil fuels. Nope. Suffer peasants.

Expand full comment
founding

Stay inside! It worked the first time!

Expand full comment

Just sit quietly in the dark in your basement until this life finally passes and you are safe in the warm grip of death...

Expand full comment

Sit in your pod, eat your bug paste and never question the glorious WEF leaders. All in the name of protecting the planet.

Expand full comment

That's just for peasants. The overlords never die.

Expand full comment

Henry the K recently turned 99. The heat apparently doesn't affect him. That's a virtue where he's going.

Expand full comment

Well, so much for gardening at night then...

On a side note, I posted on Igor Chudov's substack that we're now in the territory of 'greenhouse gaslighting'.

On the plus side, it's nice to see that the lowly sars-cov2 isn't taking all the blame anymore. I was almost beginning to worry that the media pinheads would neglect to diversify their explanations..

Expand full comment

we been green gaslighted for years...

'how dare you stand against renewables'.... that will put your life style back to 1870.....

see how renewables in north europe have succeeded...... in raising coal burning.

the great news: nuclear is declared renewable by eu bureaucrats, and greenie head are exploding!

Expand full comment

Having a heart increases heart disease risk.

Expand full comment

One might almost conclude that life is fatal.

Seriously, correlative studies can get totally ridiculous and the average person has no clue.

Expand full comment

Well, gee-- life IS fatal. But for pete's sake don't rush it by gardening while having sex standing up in front of the kitchen sink. https://www.adomonline.com/having-sexual-intercourse-while-standing-can-cause-stroke-health-experts-warn/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Expand full comment

Don't sell the average CNN watching American short - these headlines are designed for them - planting the seed in the fertile shit-filled brains of progressives paeans will yield copious amounts of heart attacks and aneurysms.

Expand full comment

Excellent point

Expand full comment

Monica Hughes did a great montage here:

https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/occams-razor

As I noted there:

My favorite: "Falling asleep with the TV on could bring early death: study."

In reality, it was falling asleep *because* the TV was on that is bringing early death to the menticided (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-menticided-a-12-step).

Expand full comment

I guess I should have been dead long ago. I've fallen asleep with the TV on for years. Maybe my brain is wired with "unacceptable views" to the point that I'm innoculated against the death programming? Or maybe it's because I refuse to let programming determine my every thought and opinion? I'll bet the "experts" would be baffled by my case. Lol. 🙄

Expand full comment

😆 This is a phenomenon that only started in 2021, so that explains why it hasn't happened prior to that.

Expand full comment

Commodore's Log Tangential: I was watching one of a number of Rokfin channels and decided to post in the comment section: "Sociopath, psychopath, philanthropath"

Next thing I knew, there was a 'lit' alert button, clicking on which revealed that three fellow watchers had given it a thumbs up. A response from an agreeable choir, but still.

Make it as prevalent as "Kilroy was here" or "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire" whydoncha.

Take the tube, visit a friend living in a tenement, pack a stick of chalk or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

Expand full comment

Excuses, excuses. Just another case of The All Mighty Oz pulling hard on the levers In an attempt normalize the increased death we all see around us. Some see past the curtain that conceals him. Everyone else could too, if they’d just open their eyes.

Expand full comment

ethical skeptic is on this!

cdc is mucking with the data to keep us off the trends.

Expand full comment
founding

My theory as well!

Expand full comment

As a long time amateur astronomer, I have seen the peaks of a number of Solar cycles. There have NEVER been excess heart attack deaths associated with that event. So, no scientific basis for that claim. gardening? Well, let me see - we have been doing backyard gardening for eons and no excess deaths recorded from that exposure either that I have ever seen correlated. More bogus science for that one. I love the concept of energy bill rise - what happened to the people who lived through the original OPEC energy crisis? I cannot find a single attribution to an increase in heart attacks from that period of time. Yup - mis-direction, subterfuge, lying, etc. to deflect responsibility from the real authors of the increase in deaths: big pharma, local health authorities, and government. Point fingers where they belong!

Expand full comment

As someone with a BSc. in Astrophysics, I must have missed the lectures where they covered the Solar Storm/Heart Attack causation effect.

Expand full comment

Did you miss those lectures because you fell asleep watching TV, far from the alarm clock?

Count your blessings (Lucky Stars?) that you survived long enough to even graduate...

Expand full comment

Perfect - a real scientist who can link causality: thank you for your input! I appreciate having someone with an astronomy background chiming in!

Expand full comment

In fact, when Americans were pretty much required to have victory gardens for the "war effort" they became healthier than they were previously. Something smells just a bit fishy with this latest propaganda push.

Expand full comment
Jul 6, 2022·edited Jul 6, 2022

This is all evolution at work. We will all lose a lot of family and friends, but those who remain will be the critical thinkers, more resistant to fad and deception, more discerning and understanding how evidence is vetted and analyzed. I don't know if I'll make it another 20 years, but I expect that if this totalitarianism has been defeated, mankind will be reset in a good, spiritual way.

Expand full comment

I think this quote gets to the heart of it of this type of propaganda. It is designed to humiliate.

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”

― Theodore Dalrymple

Expand full comment