This is where the middle 40% crawl out from under the blanket as they realize the bogeyman the 30% were shrieking about is just shadows on Plato’s walls. Soon, we will be 70%, and the 30% will have difficulty sustaining their illusion when they find themselves in the minority.
I had this thought two years ago as I was packing up my beautiful San Diego home near the beach to put on the market (to get the hell out of the insanity). What if California never went blue? What if the media convinced people California went blue? What if the elections have been rigged since 2000s (or longer) and it became a self fulfilling prophecy? People are told their peers are these liberal nut jobs so they start to think they need to be, as well. Liberals move into the state and then it actually does become liberal. But all along, no one really supported any of the ideas. They were just too chicken shit to say anything.
If you define and manage your actions based on your political ideology, you’re going to end up looking very foolish (especially if you’re a leftist nut job). Wearing a mask for two+ years because some government overlord told you to makes you look like an idiot. But wearing a mask for two+ years, getting an untested vaccine and being angry at others for not doing so after you’d spent the previous 10 years maligning pharmaceutical companies for their profit gouging just makes you look like a complete imbecile and sheep.
We've been living through an Ascher experiment on a mass scale, gaslit by actors into saying, and often perceiving, that the short line is the long line. It's a cognitive hack that works quite well on social animals that apply group heuristics to reality testing. Only problem is it takes massive resources to sustain - gotta pay all those actors and make sure to silence every voice that disagrees, because even one guy speaking up breaks the spell for the marks.
So now here we are, on the precipice of the preference cascade. Same thing that ultimately brought down the Soviet Union, when the average Russian realized his low opinion of the politburo was in fact the opinion of the average Russian. The tide is coming in, and the Sand Tower of Babel won't stand against all that water.
This is why they are desperate to stop Musk from buying Twitter. Suddenly the manipulation would be out there in the open and the world would see there was no Wizard of Oz, only a geek behind a curtain.
To say nothing of the consideration that, because this was an actual ruling against, and not a quiet expiration of, masks, it weakens precedent for the future - which is what I am actually concerned about.
Once again, you beautifully articulate the feelings of the moment. It was so hard to watch my fellow airline workers continue to wear a mask until they had permission to take it off. But now that it’s off, we are all brought together with open arms and smiling faces. They’ll realize that the masks caused health problems themselves, caused no small amount of anxiety, and dehumanized others. We will never put on masks again.
I have been demeaned, banned, censored, ostracized, and disallowed in grocery stores, hardware stores, big boxes, and even some clinics because I never cowed to The Overlords, mocked the masks, and remained a PureBlood.
I don't want this to just slink away.
I don't even want retribution.
I want political and criminal revenge to every perp that had anything to do with this scam.
Even that gottdamn obese, pink-haired, millennial Spirit flight attendant with the nose ring who walked through the cabin every 10 minutes for 2.5 freakin' HOURS, scolding everybody "mask over the nose."
Brilliant, BRILLIANT post Gato. I freaking love the crying Karens on the plane. PLEASE tell me that was your creation, and if it was not, I'm still so glad you posted it.
While I'm so happy about this, especially since I'm flying again in two weeks, it's still so disheartening to see that it's only because everyone else is doing it that the dominos are falling. I know wars are long and the battles are back and forth, but for this to happen now, TWO full years and one month since the insanity gripped us, despite mounds of science and precedent that masks never worked, is still a little discouraging. I would have thought the general population would have abolished this to smithereens something like 1 year and 11 months ago.
This is why it's always worth speaking up; there will be others who can't or won't for whatever reason, but at least they know they're not alone.
Also, your mere existence annoys and horrifies the Bad Guys, which is fun, and drives them to make mistakes and say the quiet part out loud.
When the current woke wave hit my law school, lots of people quietly thanked me for speaking up, even some who didn't agree with me but who didn't like the creepy totalitarian vibe from the other side. Not that I was especially brave -- I was going to law school as a mid-life dilettante so I had nothing to lose. (And it's hard to be intimidated by kids half your age with zero experience of the real world. Not so much Red Guards as "Mean Girls".)
Anyone look at some of the replies on twitter to the videos? There are some fools out there clinging to their masks for dear life wishing we'd do the same
As Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
After 2 years of being played for fools, more and more Americans are waking up. Now it’s only the liberal coastal elites, the Karens of the world, the "agitariat" you discussed in your previous posts, that remain as true believers of the mainstream COVID narrative.
I also wanted to share an essay I found recently which examines government and corporate policies during the pandemic leading to this encroaching tyranny. From a variety of different angles (legal/policing/education/etc.), all under the same umbrella. With their primarily white liberal elite supporters as their bought-and-paid-for "scientists" and "experts".
This is where the middle 40% crawl out from under the blanket as they realize the bogeyman the 30% were shrieking about is just shadows on Plato’s walls. Soon, we will be 70%, and the 30% will have difficulty sustaining their illusion when they find themselves in the minority.
"He's not going to encourage "free speech", he's just going to let people say whatever they want, which is not the same thing."
The working of the Leftist mind is a thing to behold...George Orwell nods...
The judge's husband's name is Chad, a storybook ending.
I had this thought two years ago as I was packing up my beautiful San Diego home near the beach to put on the market (to get the hell out of the insanity). What if California never went blue? What if the media convinced people California went blue? What if the elections have been rigged since 2000s (or longer) and it became a self fulfilling prophecy? People are told their peers are these liberal nut jobs so they start to think they need to be, as well. Liberals move into the state and then it actually does become liberal. But all along, no one really supported any of the ideas. They were just too chicken shit to say anything.
If you define and manage your actions based on your political ideology, you’re going to end up looking very foolish (especially if you’re a leftist nut job). Wearing a mask for two+ years because some government overlord told you to makes you look like an idiot. But wearing a mask for two+ years, getting an untested vaccine and being angry at others for not doing so after you’d spent the previous 10 years maligning pharmaceutical companies for their profit gouging just makes you look like a complete imbecile and sheep.
We've been living through an Ascher experiment on a mass scale, gaslit by actors into saying, and often perceiving, that the short line is the long line. It's a cognitive hack that works quite well on social animals that apply group heuristics to reality testing. Only problem is it takes massive resources to sustain - gotta pay all those actors and make sure to silence every voice that disagrees, because even one guy speaking up breaks the spell for the marks.
So now here we are, on the precipice of the preference cascade. Same thing that ultimately brought down the Soviet Union, when the average Russian realized his low opinion of the politburo was in fact the opinion of the average Russian. The tide is coming in, and the Sand Tower of Babel won't stand against all that water.
This is why they are desperate to stop Musk from buying Twitter. Suddenly the manipulation would be out there in the open and the world would see there was no Wizard of Oz, only a geek behind a curtain.
To say nothing of the consideration that, because this was an actual ruling against, and not a quiet expiration of, masks, it weakens precedent for the future - which is what I am actually concerned about.
Once again, you beautifully articulate the feelings of the moment. It was so hard to watch my fellow airline workers continue to wear a mask until they had permission to take it off. But now that it’s off, we are all brought together with open arms and smiling faces. They’ll realize that the masks caused health problems themselves, caused no small amount of anxiety, and dehumanized others. We will never put on masks again.
Bam! Right on!
This was predicted 83 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfvJiS35I8
I have been demeaned, banned, censored, ostracized, and disallowed in grocery stores, hardware stores, big boxes, and even some clinics because I never cowed to The Overlords, mocked the masks, and remained a PureBlood.
I don't want this to just slink away.
I don't even want retribution.
I want political and criminal revenge to every perp that had anything to do with this scam.
Even that gottdamn obese, pink-haired, millennial Spirit flight attendant with the nose ring who walked through the cabin every 10 minutes for 2.5 freakin' HOURS, scolding everybody "mask over the nose."
Brilliant, BRILLIANT post Gato. I freaking love the crying Karens on the plane. PLEASE tell me that was your creation, and if it was not, I'm still so glad you posted it.
While I'm so happy about this, especially since I'm flying again in two weeks, it's still so disheartening to see that it's only because everyone else is doing it that the dominos are falling. I know wars are long and the battles are back and forth, but for this to happen now, TWO full years and one month since the insanity gripped us, despite mounds of science and precedent that masks never worked, is still a little discouraging. I would have thought the general population would have abolished this to smithereens something like 1 year and 11 months ago.
That said, I celebrate. This is a major victory.
We are winning Gato thank you for all you do❤️
This is why it's always worth speaking up; there will be others who can't or won't for whatever reason, but at least they know they're not alone.
Also, your mere existence annoys and horrifies the Bad Guys, which is fun, and drives them to make mistakes and say the quiet part out loud.
When the current woke wave hit my law school, lots of people quietly thanked me for speaking up, even some who didn't agree with me but who didn't like the creepy totalitarian vibe from the other side. Not that I was especially brave -- I was going to law school as a mid-life dilettante so I had nothing to lose. (And it's hard to be intimidated by kids half your age with zero experience of the real world. Not so much Red Guards as "Mean Girls".)
Flying Delta today!!! Seeing some family I haven’t seen in 2 1/2 years. This mask thing just adds to the good vibes I’m feeling.
Anyone look at some of the replies on twitter to the videos? There are some fools out there clinging to their masks for dear life wishing we'd do the same
Substack needs to introduce the meme comment feature, stat
As Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
After 2 years of being played for fools, more and more Americans are waking up. Now it’s only the liberal coastal elites, the Karens of the world, the "agitariat" you discussed in your previous posts, that remain as true believers of the mainstream COVID narrative.
I also wanted to share an essay I found recently which examines government and corporate policies during the pandemic leading to this encroaching tyranny. From a variety of different angles (legal/policing/education/etc.), all under the same umbrella. With their primarily white liberal elite supporters as their bought-and-paid-for "scientists" and "experts".
Link to the essay: https://geraldrogue.substack.com/p/medicalization-and-colonization?s=r