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.)
Also important to note that Trump was a counterpuncher: he only attacked after being attacked first (but when he did attack...hoo boy). The list of figurative flattened bodies that tried to pick up nickels in front of DJT's steam roller is long and distinguished (extinguished?).
That's absolutely appalling that he requires the vax. Consider it a blessing: someone who denies treatment to people based on vax status has revealed himself to be a colossal, frightened ignoramus. Stay away from dental chains (and really young dentists) is my recommendation.
Unfortunately, I reside (for now) in a deep blue Midwestern state. Fortunately most of my patients are not buying into this garbage narrative.
I've already made an appointment with a new dentist in Virginia Beach, where my son and his family live. I visit them enough that I can still get my semi-annual cleanings...although on *my* dime, since my PR health insurance doesn't cover stuff in the States.
wow, Andrew, I'm appalled at how pathetically totalitarian things have gotten on the Island. My husband (Carolina) and I (Bayamon) have zero desire to visit our relatives there. Not because we don't miss them (or the gorgeous beaches) but because we want to avoid having to deal with such ignorance and discrimination. I'm starting to plan family reunions in Florida. Or what about the Dominican Republic? ;-) BTW, keep your vit D levels between 50-80 ng/ml, and do the FLCCC gargles (with cetylpyridinium chloride (e.g. Scope, Act, Crest) daily until you can get to the VA dentist. Paciencia y fe! Que no hay mal que dure 100 años ni cuerpo que lo resista.
Sometime recently (over the past decade, maybe) the Democrat Party became the party of the wealthy, a characterization that had been applied to the GOP when it catered to, and was handsomely rewarded by, Big Business. All that changed; now it is the Democrats who benefit from the largesse of leftist CEOs in Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Banks, etc. That said, let us all understand that every single politician who is selected by TPTB to sit in DC is thoroughly and completely compromised by the Deep State. Please don't ever believe that any single career politician is on YOUR side. None is; not one single person among them. Each is beholden to some donors who want favors in return for donations. Each one of them. As far as Trump is concerned, please remember that he appointed members of the Big Banker class to his cabinet on Day 1 in office, and he is responsible for Operation Warp Speed, the disastrous operation that brought us untested and experimental injections that are proving to be fatal to everyone who gets them, either immediately or in the future. Even Trump was thoroughly compromised by the Deep State; please have no illusions that even he is on your side, despite his rhetoric. No one in government is working for you; they only work for themselves.
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.
People who latched onto lockdowns etc. often didn't have much of a life beforehand. Covid hysteria normalized and valorized that. "Stay home, stay safe" went from being pathetic to heroic. So you imagine why people who lived like that anyway want to keep the game going -- and why freedom is unappealing or scary.
Surprised that no one replays his misogyny from the old "man show". I mean I don't care it was funny back then but by today's standards scantily-clad enhanced women jumping on trampolines in slow motion probably doesn't wash. And that was the mildest part.
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.
They are all paid propagandists and liars, with zero dignity or honor. He was an effective satirist when he mocked the powerful. Now they all work for the powerful and mock the powerless.
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.
I was just talking about this today--there seems to be a segment of the population (liberals?) that is not capable of understanding that "people on their own team can be wrong or lie." They clearly believe that the "other team" will lie (Trump, Fox news etc.) but it is absolutley impossible for them to conceive that other "liberals" can lie (NYT, CNN, Biden Etc.) They seriously pick the truth based on who is saying it -- maybe because they are not intelligent enough to look at the underlying facts or situation? I'm not sure what's going on in their heads, but it's 180 degrees different than how conservatives think. (Trust no one completely no matter what flag they fly.") Sam Harris is obviously smart, but he still seems to have this "trust disorder." I guess he's never been the victim of misplaced trust?
There are lies told on both sides. I usually listen to those that are NOT governing - under Trump I first read the dem press. Now I first read the rep press. And both tell lies by the numbers, but those not in power a bit less LOL
You are obviously a free thinker! Pretty rare these days. I just assume that anyone is lying if it will benefit them, and some people lie just for fun!
Which is very weird because he's been at the forefront of challenging left wokeism. He has been a consistent chronicler of how ideologically corrupt these mainstream liberal institutions are. Now all of a sudden he's been hoodwinked by fancy medical terminology, as if these same corrupt institutions are somehow unbiased arbiters of truth in the Covid/medical context. Bizarre.
I always find that puzzling myself -- how people can be so skeptical about one thing (Big Agro! Boo!) and then fall hook, line and sinker for something very similar (Big Pharma! Yay!) Like Alex Berenson is quite suspicious of everything *except* election fraud. I suspect, that in some cases these smart people are just actually lying about thier opinions, because some beliefs are too dangerous to have publicly. That's why they won't discuss the issues seriously. What would happen to Sam if he said, "Yeah, I looked at the studies and the anti-vaxers are right!" Or if Berenson said, "Trump was robbed!" Cancelled wouldn't begin to cut it.
I think so. There are some ideas that will get you expelled from "rational" society. Like, if I said I sometimes wonder if the Earth is *really* a sphere (as I have never been to space myself,) the fact that I would even consider that perhaps our physicists are wrong in some inconceivable way would have my written off as "loony" forever....
Seems like he's gone down the road Sally Satel and Clare Lehmann have gone down. Something about the imprimatur of a "medical study" that can't possibly be subject to systematic even if unintentional bias and manipulation.
I have to think back to that crazy hoopla around the 2012 'time split' that was supposedly foretold by the Myan and other ancient cultures. I'm no expert on this, but starting in December 2012, there would be people that made it into the next stage of human evolution and people that stayed behind because they weren't ready for the level of truth or reality of that next level. From 3d to 5d or something like that. And that the difference between these people would become more and more clear over the next few years after 2012. It does seem like one group forges on into the clearing these days and the other group clings to the artifice of the past for all it is worth.
I listened to most of it. I thought if anyone can actually provide compelling support for The Narrative, perhaps it would be Sam and Christakis. But this podcast instead proves there's no there there. They had nothing. They had not even a basic understanding of the issues, the data, the scientific literature, the extreme flaws in the vaccine trials, etc. They were just regurgitating talking points, speaking extra slow and using simple words as if they thought that would be persuasive. The strawmanning by the man who advocates steelmanning was particularly noteworthy. He could not even come close to giving a fair statement of counter-narrative arguments. He is apparently unfamiliar with the arguments altogether, much less equipped to state them fairly and rebut them. I've completely lost respect for him, after previously holding him in quite high regard.
I've noticed that the "get vaxxed" propaganda never even provides a compelling reason to get the shots anymore, just bland platitudes like, "It's the best way out," or "Do your part." Contrast that with how easy it would be to sell the shots if they worked better -- "Get the shots -- you won't ever get Covid!" "Get the shots, protected for life!" I mean the polio vaccine was an easy sell, "One shot to avoid the iron lung forever!"
Do they not believe that it's even *possible* that the vaccines could be less effective than advertised? Do they not allow that it's reasonable to be suspicious of the drugs given the circumstances?
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.
In the excellent Rogan/McCullough podcast that I'm only 1/3 of the way through, the good doctor commented that out of the million physicians in the US, probably only 500 are awake.
I actually think there are more of them awake than that. But they've got tiny children, humongous bill's and the expectations of everyone around them to contend with. You'd have to be just something else to pitch the level of absolute "success" they have achieved in order to become a scorned heretic.
I don't know if my doctor is considered one of the 500 or not but when I brought up the vaccines with him he lowered his voice and told me we were now having a conversation as friends, not a medical relationship. And as my friend he would share with me that neither he nor anyone in his family would be vaccinated and he advised all of his friends that ask against the vaccines. As a doctor he respects the CDC, FDA and the AMA and will respect my choice.
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?)
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”.
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.
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
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.
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.
"always in lock step" maybe it is misplaced nostalgia but I really don't think this used to be so. I think social media has had a baleful influence and completely homogenized mainstream media content.
I was relaying what Waltern Kirn said. I remember him saying when he was at ?Newsweek? that he found his feature story being replicated at other magazines.
I too don't remember it being so. But am musing they were, and since it was a handful of TV and print media channels, getting in synch was easy. And we just didn't notice
Think Iraq war, NAFTA or too big to fail vs now. Those were societal pushes, that enough of the population who cared needed to go along with. In each case, the corp press got lined up, with rare exception, with the 1%
A few 'remember whens'
- it was cute when the CIA guy bugged Tom Hanks office in Charlie Wilsons War?
- NAFTA was good for America, and wouldn't hollow out middle America
- Colin Powell sold us, and the UN, on Iraq? I bought it
- Dan Rather being at best a useful idiot covering the 'freedom fighting Mujahideen' yet never stating that the CIA was funding and training them in a proxy war with the Soviets?
I live amongst these folks, in Fairfax and Loudoun, and Montgomery Co. My best assessment of why they act this way is the Sunk Costs Fallacy. I don't think they are nefarious, or see themselves that way. But oh, they are.
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.)
Also important to note that Trump was a counterpuncher: he only attacked after being attacked first (but when he did attack...hoo boy). The list of figurative flattened bodies that tried to pick up nickels in front of DJT's steam roller is long and distinguished (extinguished?).
I don't know if that's quite true. I don't think Carly Fiorina attacked first...then again, it goes back 5+ years, so perhaps my memory fails me.
Hey, I need a new dentist! My covidiot dentist in Puerto Rico requires the vaxx...so he's no longer MY covidiot dentist.
You wouldn't happen to be IN Puerto Rico...or the VA Beach area, or the coastal NH/southern ME area, or central NH?
That's absolutely appalling that he requires the vax. Consider it a blessing: someone who denies treatment to people based on vax status has revealed himself to be a colossal, frightened ignoramus. Stay away from dental chains (and really young dentists) is my recommendation.
Unfortunately, I reside (for now) in a deep blue Midwestern state. Fortunately most of my patients are not buying into this garbage narrative.
Good luck. Stay strong and unvaccinated!
Illinois by any chance? I see my dentist next week. Am concerned he’s going to pull the be tested or vaxxed bit.
Well, thanks just the same!
I've already made an appointment with a new dentist in Virginia Beach, where my son and his family live. I visit them enough that I can still get my semi-annual cleanings...although on *my* dime, since my PR health insurance doesn't cover stuff in the States.
wow, Andrew, I'm appalled at how pathetically totalitarian things have gotten on the Island. My husband (Carolina) and I (Bayamon) have zero desire to visit our relatives there. Not because we don't miss them (or the gorgeous beaches) but because we want to avoid having to deal with such ignorance and discrimination. I'm starting to plan family reunions in Florida. Or what about the Dominican Republic? ;-) BTW, keep your vit D levels between 50-80 ng/ml, and do the FLCCC gargles (with cetylpyridinium chloride (e.g. Scope, Act, Crest) daily until you can get to the VA dentist. Paciencia y fe! Que no hay mal que dure 100 años ni cuerpo que lo resista.
Sometime recently (over the past decade, maybe) the Democrat Party became the party of the wealthy, a characterization that had been applied to the GOP when it catered to, and was handsomely rewarded by, Big Business. All that changed; now it is the Democrats who benefit from the largesse of leftist CEOs in Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Banks, etc. That said, let us all understand that every single politician who is selected by TPTB to sit in DC is thoroughly and completely compromised by the Deep State. Please don't ever believe that any single career politician is on YOUR side. None is; not one single person among them. Each is beholden to some donors who want favors in return for donations. Each one of them. As far as Trump is concerned, please remember that he appointed members of the Big Banker class to his cabinet on Day 1 in office, and he is responsible for Operation Warp Speed, the disastrous operation that brought us untested and experimental injections that are proving to be fatal to everyone who gets them, either immediately or in the future. Even Trump was thoroughly compromised by the Deep State; please have no illusions that even he is on your side, despite his rhetoric. No one in government is working for you; they only work for themselves.
Teeth whitening? That's racist...!
Very good!
😻😻😻
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.
People who latched onto lockdowns etc. often didn't have much of a life beforehand. Covid hysteria normalized and valorized that. "Stay home, stay safe" went from being pathetic to heroic. So you imagine why people who lived like that anyway want to keep the game going -- and why freedom is unappealing or scary.
“Branch Covidians...” 🤣
BWAAAAA HAA HAA HAAAAA!!
Jimmy Kimmel is a disgusting piece of shit.
Surprised that no one replays his misogyny from the old "man show". I mean I don't care it was funny back then but by today's standards scantily-clad enhanced women jumping on trampolines in slow motion probably doesn't wash. And that was the mildest part.
Bravo!!!
When my favourite Substack-er of all time starts off by quoting Hannah Arendt, this foretells of a great day being upon us <3
Today is Do Not Comply ! Nullify ! day. https://unityprojectonline.com/ Stop the jabbing of the children !
And ends with Solzhenitsyn? You know you're in for a good time
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.
They are all paid propagandists and liars, with zero dignity or honor. He was an effective satirist when he mocked the powerful. Now they all work for the powerful and mock the powerless.
Sold his soul, is a coward. Examples of what passes for knee slapping hilarious humor;
Stephen Colbert Says Donald Trump's Mouth Is 'Vladimir Putin's C*** Holster'
https://pjmedia.com/video/stephen-colbert-says-donald-trumps-mouth-is-vladimir-putins-cock-holster/
Colbert on Question He'd Like to Ask Trump: 'What Does Vladimir Putin's D*** Taste Like?' - http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/07/28/colbert-question-hed-like-ask-trump-vladimir-putins-dck-taste-like/
A friend of mine likes him and sent me some of his sketches. I despise the man.
Here's the worst betrayal by Colbert and should rightly be billed as adverts. It's linked to Wayback because Youtube won't leave it up once the censors find it.. beyond belief for anyone who watched the old Daily Show. https://web.archive.org/web/20210623074706/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkFyNVtNh8
Colbert is about the smuggest douche on TV, without anything to be smug about.
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.
I was just talking about this today--there seems to be a segment of the population (liberals?) that is not capable of understanding that "people on their own team can be wrong or lie." They clearly believe that the "other team" will lie (Trump, Fox news etc.) but it is absolutley impossible for them to conceive that other "liberals" can lie (NYT, CNN, Biden Etc.) They seriously pick the truth based on who is saying it -- maybe because they are not intelligent enough to look at the underlying facts or situation? I'm not sure what's going on in their heads, but it's 180 degrees different than how conservatives think. (Trust no one completely no matter what flag they fly.") Sam Harris is obviously smart, but he still seems to have this "trust disorder." I guess he's never been the victim of misplaced trust?
There are lies told on both sides. I usually listen to those that are NOT governing - under Trump I first read the dem press. Now I first read the rep press. And both tell lies by the numbers, but those not in power a bit less LOL
The Uniparty: Different lies, same goals.
All the same. All green. Fill pockets.
Big Pharma is global. So, yup.
You are obviously a free thinker! Pretty rare these days. I just assume that anyone is lying if it will benefit them, and some people lie just for fun!
Probably because I have no TV LOL
Which is very weird because he's been at the forefront of challenging left wokeism. He has been a consistent chronicler of how ideologically corrupt these mainstream liberal institutions are. Now all of a sudden he's been hoodwinked by fancy medical terminology, as if these same corrupt institutions are somehow unbiased arbiters of truth in the Covid/medical context. Bizarre.
I always find that puzzling myself -- how people can be so skeptical about one thing (Big Agro! Boo!) and then fall hook, line and sinker for something very similar (Big Pharma! Yay!) Like Alex Berenson is quite suspicious of everything *except* election fraud. I suspect, that in some cases these smart people are just actually lying about thier opinions, because some beliefs are too dangerous to have publicly. That's why they won't discuss the issues seriously. What would happen to Sam if he said, "Yeah, I looked at the studies and the anti-vaxers are right!" Or if Berenson said, "Trump was robbed!" Cancelled wouldn't begin to cut it.
So like, they are picking their battles to maintain some credibility with the covidians?
I think so. There are some ideas that will get you expelled from "rational" society. Like, if I said I sometimes wonder if the Earth is *really* a sphere (as I have never been to space myself,) the fact that I would even consider that perhaps our physicists are wrong in some inconceivable way would have my written off as "loony" forever....
I'm guessing you know the other unmentionables, too? 😉
Seems like he's gone down the road Sally Satel and Clare Lehmann have gone down. Something about the imprimatur of a "medical study" that can't possibly be subject to systematic even if unintentional bias and manipulation.
I think he's been lazy about the title 'scientist' and not doing enough digging as to what they say.
Nor do they recognize cognitive dissoance.
"I would never take a Trump poison vaccine" to "we should lock up those anti-vaxers".
I have to think back to that crazy hoopla around the 2012 'time split' that was supposedly foretold by the Myan and other ancient cultures. I'm no expert on this, but starting in December 2012, there would be people that made it into the next stage of human evolution and people that stayed behind because they weren't ready for the level of truth or reality of that next level. From 3d to 5d or something like that. And that the difference between these people would become more and more clear over the next few years after 2012. It does seem like one group forges on into the clearing these days and the other group clings to the artifice of the past for all it is worth.
Great. Keep working on the screen play.
I listened to most of it. I thought if anyone can actually provide compelling support for The Narrative, perhaps it would be Sam and Christakis. But this podcast instead proves there's no there there. They had nothing. They had not even a basic understanding of the issues, the data, the scientific literature, the extreme flaws in the vaccine trials, etc. They were just regurgitating talking points, speaking extra slow and using simple words as if they thought that would be persuasive. The strawmanning by the man who advocates steelmanning was particularly noteworthy. He could not even come close to giving a fair statement of counter-narrative arguments. He is apparently unfamiliar with the arguments altogether, much less equipped to state them fairly and rebut them. I've completely lost respect for him, after previously holding him in quite high regard.
I've noticed that the "get vaxxed" propaganda never even provides a compelling reason to get the shots anymore, just bland platitudes like, "It's the best way out," or "Do your part." Contrast that with how easy it would be to sell the shots if they worked better -- "Get the shots -- you won't ever get Covid!" "Get the shots, protected for life!" I mean the polio vaccine was an easy sell, "One shot to avoid the iron lung forever!"
Or my fave, “for the greater good.” Worse than a hairball.
I saw a freeway billboard today that proclaimed "Covid vaccines are proved to be safe for children 5 and up. Get them vaccinated today". Jeez....
Do they not believe that it's even *possible* that the vaccines could be less effective than advertised? Do they not allow that it's reasonable to be suspicious of the drugs given the circumstances?
I've found a lot of "smart" people just want to find someone to make fun of.
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals:
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
A charming grifter! Who knew?
I used to respect Sam Harris. He's lost now.
Or maybe you're found.
I've never listened to him -- is he funny, or profound, I wonder....
The implausibility of the propaganda is a feature, not a bug, because its purpose is not to convince, but to show who’s boss.
exactly. it's more about depressing those who still are sane.
It’s working in that regard
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.
In the excellent Rogan/McCullough podcast that I'm only 1/3 of the way through, the good doctor commented that out of the million physicians in the US, probably only 500 are awake.
I actually think there are more of them awake than that. But they've got tiny children, humongous bill's and the expectations of everyone around them to contend with. You'd have to be just something else to pitch the level of absolute "success" they have achieved in order to become a scorned heretic.
I don't know if my doctor is considered one of the 500 or not but when I brought up the vaccines with him he lowered his voice and told me we were now having a conversation as friends, not a medical relationship. And as my friend he would share with me that neither he nor anyone in his family would be vaccinated and he advised all of his friends that ask against the vaccines. As a doctor he respects the CDC, FDA and the AMA and will respect my choice.
Good for him! I'm happy to read anyone's account of conversations like this, because my former PCP would never have had the integrity to say this.
Or you'd have to have a spine and a shred of integrity. After almost 2 years of this crap, I have no time for sheep.
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?)
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”.
Good comment! So true and so well said.
Murderer’s, with ivermectin the count could be greatly reduced. Prison is too good for the “elite”
Brilliant as always 👏🏼
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.
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
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.
From Big Breasts to Big Needles. He has no shame.
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.
"always in lock step" maybe it is misplaced nostalgia but I really don't think this used to be so. I think social media has had a baleful influence and completely homogenized mainstream media content.
I was relaying what Waltern Kirn said. I remember him saying when he was at ?Newsweek? that he found his feature story being replicated at other magazines.
I too don't remember it being so. But am musing they were, and since it was a handful of TV and print media channels, getting in synch was easy. And we just didn't notice
Think Iraq war, NAFTA or too big to fail vs now. Those were societal pushes, that enough of the population who cared needed to go along with. In each case, the corp press got lined up, with rare exception, with the 1%
A few 'remember whens'
- it was cute when the CIA guy bugged Tom Hanks office in Charlie Wilsons War?
- NAFTA was good for America, and wouldn't hollow out middle America
- Colin Powell sold us, and the UN, on Iraq? I bought it
- Dan Rather being at best a useful idiot covering the 'freedom fighting Mujahideen' yet never stating that the CIA was funding and training them in a proxy war with the Soviets?
I live amongst these folks, in Fairfax and Loudoun, and Montgomery Co. My best assessment of why they act this way is the Sunk Costs Fallacy. I don't think they are nefarious, or see themselves that way. But oh, they are.