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Great essay.

Someone pointed out to me that Donald Trump spit venom only at other political leaders, while the Democratic Party shows disdain for whole groups of American citizens. How true that is. The leftist political party historically stands for the rights of middle class and lower people; ours has a seething contempt for them. Especially if they're white.

Signed,

John Henry Holliday, DDS

Former Democrat

(Mention you saw this on el gato malo and get 10% off teeth bleaching.)

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It's ridiculous the way the Branch Covidians try to paint Florida as some sort of covid wasteland. Even if Florida wasn't doing the best in cases, the fact that it appears to be the most free state in the country right now seems like a great reason to be there instead of anywhere else. If you haven't found time since spring of 2020 to figure out your chance of dying from covid and determine if it's a number you could live with, I don't know what to tell you. Rises or dips in cases shouldn't matter. Move on; live your life. You only have one.

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Jimmy Kimmel is a disgusting piece of shit.

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When my favourite Substack-er of all time starts off by quoting Hannah Arendt, this foretells of a great day being upon us <3

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Top notch kitty. The lies get louder and more brazen the further they get from reality. I pity the youth who missed Johnny Carson, Letterman and Conan and are growing up with Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers and Stephen Colbert. Their warped pea brains will be beyond redemption.

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Last night I listened to the 1st 30 minutes of Sam Harris's latest podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vod4aOOucaY&t=1587s&ab_channel=SamHarris

with Nicholas Christakis. He said they were going to cover just about every topic of Covid but there were no details, data, logic about any of it. Christakis chuckled at the word "Substack" and Sam mentioned writers there who claimed Covid was about Government Orwellian conspiracies, so I think he may be aware of our feline.

However, Sam is too intelligent and honest to dismiss solid data and logic. I don't think he spent any time here. I didn't listen after 30 minutes but spent that much time reading the comments. Considering that Sam's audience is mostly bright people, and nearly all came down hard on this podcast, I'm wondering if Sam will spend any time catching up? In the meantime, I don't have any more time for him.

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The implausibility of the propaganda is a feature, not a bug, because its purpose is not to convince, but to show who’s boss.

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The infinitely sad epilogue to this 'we know they know' situation is that even if people realize their 'leaders' are lying, many tacitly agree to string along anyway.

Usually for comfort's sake or for a perceived 'safety's sake'. Witness the scientists, 'experts', politicians and officials of all shapes, who have slavishly followed the covid narrative for two years. We know they know that it's been a fool's errand. But still they play water boy.

Worst of all, much of the ordinary populace just doesn't seem to have any desire or intention to think things through. This doesn't appeal to their psyches. Issues like liberty, equality, truth are not their priorities. They just want a reasonably comfortable life. This is a human tendency that we don't like to think about.

In other words, as Winston Zeddemore in 'Ghostbusters' said: “If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.”

He didn’t add "And I’ll do anything you say." But I think that’s where we are in much of the world today. Perhaps that's where we've always been.

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Even if one believed wholesale in the value of vaccination...

the difference in news coverage between the wave of Delta in the American South and the current crescendo of cases in the highly-vaccinated Northeast is jarring.

Or it is jarring to those of us who have even noticed. (Back when I was a serious leftaholic, I believed the relative lack of criticism My Guys received from the press was because they were legitimately less worthy thereof. A convenient denial of the necessary role of the press in a democracy, eh?)

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Jimmy Kimmel (and the other hangers-on to a throwback television show format that’s in its twilight) are intellectual fly-weights who pander to a pathetically infantilized audience.

Apart from the egregious error of fact (which is, in my view, the unintended comedy), there’s nothing imaginative or funny about that “tweet”. It’s what you might expect from a mediocre middle-schooler, completely oblivious to their blundering self-parody.

It’s a sad commentary on the vapidity of pop “culture”.

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Murderer’s, with ivermectin the count could be greatly reduced. Prison is too good for the “elite”

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Brilliant as always 👏🏼

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kimmel is bought and paid for by Big Pharma. he made fun of Dr. Steven Baker, a chiropractor who did a video months ago and said that he was not letting injected women into his office due to the effect they could have on his female patients. I looked into it and found that JK was paid $10,000 (I think) by Pfizer to hype the jabs.

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What I appreciate the most right now is the data that El gato malo (or bueno??) prepares that describes the impact of the "injection" and how it itself is facilitating variants, rendering the immune system incapable of functioning against variants, etc. It's this information I feel that may help snap people out if hypnosis, esp because by now we all know people who had gotten Ill or died post vaccine

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In this day and age, how is it that Kimmel even has a job? Have the "Me Too" movement folks, and legions of Internet Concern Trolls all forgotten Kimmel's origins?

He made a name for himself cohosting the "Man Show," where sophomoric jokes, mostly objectifying women with big breasts, served up with an undercurrent of generalized misogyny, was pretty much the whole show.

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there's a bigger arc here. For those still plugged into the news:

1. readers don't look past the headlines ...

2. corp media owns a vast , albeit diminishing , swath of access to the general population. But they're always in lock step. It's impressive. Walter Kirn was musing this a few months ago, how it seemed that his new magazine was always in lock step with the others, and he never knew way

3. this is an intentional, proactive targeted attack on DeSantis. They're not targeting Abbot or Gianforte as those folks aren't seen as 2024 candidates.

But, there's hope. Against the full weight of the us gov and propaganda arm, Virginia elected team R across the board.

And Rogan - having been now fully red pilled when he realized the corp media blatantly lied about him, has , as indicated by his actions, taken it as a personal mission to platform sane smart folks, in order to get the word out.

Here's to hope through Christmas, and the new year.

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