"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them"
They can't get out of their own way. What does "anti-vaxxer" even mean these days? They altered the definition to include people who are against government mandates, so do all the "pro-vaxxers" still want mandates for kids to go to school?
Millions of people don't realize they're ALREADY "anti-vaxx" simply by being anti-mandate.
All I know is that the Washington DC public school system required a negative COVID test for all students returning from spring break (2023) so there must still be a dangerous pandemic going on somewhere.
The "elites" have been marinating in the academic idea that political power is everything - the Foucaultian notion that what is said to be by the authorities will be - despite observable reality, but the people who still listen to the news think they're not being lied to.
I'm friends with some of the latter. I told him I was kicked off social media for saying that the vaccines do not prevent infection, and he replied "we've always known that". I was flabbergasted. This is a good guy who spent his life as an engineer. He has to forget things in order to prevent the cognitive dissonance - he's old, but not feeble minded.
It's so astonishing that boomers in particular have not caught on to the total lack of credibility the news media has.
Excellent comment No Name. Your friend’s situation sounds like a manifestation of the “Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect”.
The term was coined by the late Michael Crichton - the hugely successful techno-thriller author & filmmaker (‘Jurassic Park’, etc). He used the term in a 2002 speech, naming the phenomenon after his good friend, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Everybody is guilty of this. Crichton’s own explanation is as follows:
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. The newspapers are full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine (or whatever) than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Everyone needs to understand this – I have explained it to my kids.
I have concluded that the purveyors of deceit who populate the corporate media are the ones who are most responsible for the catastrophe that was inflicted on us over the last three years. A pox on all their houses.
I'm not knocking you guys. It's just that the news media used to have credibility, and some people (of every generation) don't catch on when the environment changes. I think it's just a trait some people have, and it's manifesting itself among your generation in this way.
"OK, so there might be a fire in the building you are pointing to at this current point in time. But, on average, it is mostly burning at a very low temperature, thus almost every person in this city will be just fine." So I guess we're all right, and just don't know it.
🗨 Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says 'science teaches such and such', he is using the word incorrectly. ~~Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The psychopathy is real and is the proverbial "forest" that gets missed for the "trees" of ideology. The psychopaths are after power, which to them means primarily the ability to inflict suffering on others, and the agreeable folks just want to go along to get along. I hope you're right that a critical mass of the agreeable folks are experiencing sufficient cognitive dissonance to withdraw their agreement from the psychopaths schemes!
And on the subject of psychopathy being at the root of so many of our political and cultural problems, Harrison Koehli has an entire blog devoted to the subject (political ponerology). This essay, about midwit psychopathic leaders, is a good one: https://ponerology.substack.com/p/danger-zone-psychopathy
They may get louder and more overtly disagreeable, when they see (and finally admit to themselves) what being agreeable has gotten them into. Especially if the regime goes back to its 2020 playbook during the upcoming election cycle (fiery but mostly peaceful protests by their street communists, flagrant lies by the media to cover for it, law enforcement targeting only those who try to defend themselves and their property from the street communists, heavy-handed censorship of good-faith questions and obviously correct information (while the media blare nonstop obvious lies), some contrived state of emergency requiring unprecedented changes to the electoral process, etc.) A large number of agreeable normies may finally reach the end of their agreeableness.
There're two basic techniques to get stuff done: 'foot-in-the-door' and 'door-in-the-face'. The smug powers that shouldn't be (* got impatient, and recklessly overdosed on the latter. With quite predictable consequences. I hope 😊
And now for something completely different, the Justice Department sues the state of Tennessee claiming that the 14th amendment to the Constitution protects minors (or their mentally deranged parents as their “guardians”) to receive “gender affirming healthcare”.
I am a complete failure on the whole gender identification thingy. I keep putting “old white guy” for my pronouns on LinkedIn but they say that doesn’t match anything in their existing algorithm.
Never heard such dribble in my life! That gal is definitely high on her own farts.
This “expert” felt compelled to barely discuss the horrible toll of lives paid on both sides and HAD to shoe-horn in female empowerment nonsense with a healthy dollop of groveling before the new sacrament of deviant sexuality.
She could be the poster child for the major theme of your excellent article.
People have a near infinite capacity for denial in the face of objective reality when reality is unpleasant. We all do it. And we want to belong to groups we perceive as desirable or necessary for survival. That part is embedded in our biology. The interface/intersection between those phenomena is what the propagandists pushing the Regime narrative exploit everyday. After a while however the pattern of puppetry emerges and people realize they are being manipulated. Some of us figure it out faster than others. Some of us don’t want to see the truth. But every day the Regime loses more credibility and compensates by doubling down on the lies and absurdities, because they feel it slipping away. The question at this point is simply how much damage gets done before these neo-Commie trash bags are heaved into the dumpster of history.
Now there’s the rub...how do you heave the neo-Commies in the dumpster when every institution from the security state, big tech, social media, big corporations, big pharma, the MSM, flacks formerly known as journalists, the entire D party and half of the Rs (the uni-party) are all aligned against you in their efforts to remain in control? It’s going to take a lot more people to “wake up” before there is enough momentum to start the see-saw moving in the other direction. But then, the longest journeys begin with a single step.
They are doing it to themselves. They have a fatal combination of hubris and incompetence. But none of us can predict the future. The only prediction I would make is that ten years on the world will look very different from what it is today. Could be really bad or really good, but it won’t be what we see now. And it won’t go back to what it used to be. Just remember- fir every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Somebody smarter than me said that.
My favorite is when someone commits a terrible crime and then they interview the persons mother and they go on about how their little so and so is just an angel and they would never do something like that.
True enough. A mother’s love is the only unconditional love most humans will ever experience. They are willing to look past the chainsaw and the plastic sheets in the trunk. 😳
A complete dumpster fire and no one notices. I think the Hive mind has grown numb to the constant emotional, shock positions of the activist crowd. Any sense of community has been shredded by this constant emotional trauma.
You're in fine form Sir. The phrase, "midwit sociopaths serving a self-dealing kakistocracy of mediocre kleptocrat scumbags", conveys, in less than ten words, exactly how you view this despicable group. I'll try to figure out a way to work your line into a column. (With attribution, of course)
You had me at “high on its own supply” Thanks as always Chris. Man I’ve been waiting for this. Who knew Germany would lead the way in breaking through the censorship of injuries?? I know it’s happening but also that they’ll keep lying about it. I realize this is what is meant by “the revolution will not be televised”
Quit being so polite, they aren't "agreeable" they're cowards.
“Conquered men, women, children, elderly people — they don’t spontaneously rise up and try to kill people who abuse and oppress them. Most people are not heroic. Most people are easily terrified, especially once they have already been placed in subjugated position. And if they are heroic, they usually die heroic deaths, alone. It continues to happen all over the world. Right now, somewhere, someone is being beaten and horribly abused and even if given the opportunity to strike back at the person doing the abuse, they won’t take it.
In Roman Britain, the tribes didn’t stage a successful coup against the occupying forces even when given ample opportunity and more than enough reason to unite. On three separate occasions, the governor of Britain broke off from the empire. Even in a state of Roman civil war, the tribes were unable to eject the Romans. The one very notable case of rebellion was during Suetonius Paulinus’ campaign in what is now Wales. The leader of the Iceni, Boudica, was beaten and her daughters were raped because Boudica challenged the transition of her late husband’s authority to the Roman governor (Paulinus). Only with Londinium essentially vacated of military forces did the Iceni and Trinovantes dare to attack. They were successful in causing a huge amount of civilian damage, but in the end, Paulinus’ troops rolled over the Iceni and routed them. The nearby Brigantes provided essentially no help to the Iceni and at least one source suggests Boudica may have even been poisoned by the Brigantes’ queen. Someone mentioned Nero earlier; it’s worth noting that all of this happened under Nero’s rule and Rome still easily held Britain despite Nero’s general lack of… being good as an emperor.
This pattern can be found a lot in history. It’s rare for spontaneous uprisings to happen against conquerors. Or rather, it’s more appropriate to say that it is extremely common for abusive occupation to go effectively uncontested for years, decades, or even centuries.”
I don't think it's kind or unkind to say that there's a population that can be helpful and productive in a healthy society and dangerously submissive in a sick one, and that they're the same people. Many societies harbor latent good Germans, but most don't produce them, or produce them in limited quantities. How does that happen?
Also, I think "good Germans" means cowardly enforcers, people who make the machine do its evil -- who stand at the side of the ditch and put bodies in it. A lot of Americans aren't in that category, or at least arguably aren't in that category, because they didn't load boxcars -- they just let people shoot poison into their bodies on the cartel's say-so, and hid in their houses and covered their own faces. They can be brought back from that. Their complicity was in self harm, and I believe that some will see it. They're not exactly conquered, and they don't exactly need to be heroic. They just need to see a bit, and to stop cooperating a bit. They've already stopped taking the mRNA injections, almost across the demographic board. That's a foundation for some simple resistance.
Do you remember Ward Churchhill (really showing my age now)? How he called the people in the world trade center little eichmanns? At the time i took the view he was crazy, like all Americans who still believed in their government. Then somewhere around 2011 or 2012, as i worked for a giant fraud "education" company who's entire business plan was to load up unwary young people and some older with the maximum federal student loan amount, i finally understood what he meant.
This all must reach a tipping point soon. I remember how 1989 really started properly in Romania (not East Germany) and the moment that Ceausescu appeared on the balcony to be cheered, bit it had been one secret police crackdown too many, and nobody cheered but people started booing and then came that joyous Christmas day. You will probably all feel the recent acceleration of tyranny in a selection of countries, most of all the US and Germany. I feel it's all coming to a head.
What is truly amazing to me is the amount of people who cough as they breathe in the smoke, they feel the heat and see the ash, but still choose the words and agree “that building isn’t on fire.”
It wasn't covid, covid was more like going all in at the poker table. They staked their credibility on convincing people they hadn't committed colossal crimes with 2008 crash, and that they weren't looting the country by bailing out their corporate cronies and Harvard and Yale buddies. The "virus" was created so they could print 6 trillion dollars in the span of months and bail themselves out again. The market began to crack again in the winter of 2018. Powell reversed himself on interest rates beginning in 2019. In the fall of 2019 Powell began to QE again, but the media didn't tell you. It was getting worse going into the spring of 2020. And WHAM we got covid. This is why censorship was so important and why when people began to lose fear of covid in late april of 2020 we got BLM riots for the rest of the year until the election was over. Isn't it funny that BLM first appeared during Obamas late term, almost like they were testing it out, and only really reappeared during covid?
The only reason they resort to censorship is because they know nobody believes them anymore except for their most dedicated followers. Why else would you attempt it? Did they censor people when 9/11 happened? Hell they didn't even censor people for the Iraq war. Only when nobody is willing to listen to you, do you force them.
Two quotes come to mind:
1) "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." (Francis Bacon)
2) "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away." (Philip K. Dick)
Exactly!
NICE!!!
And this:
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them"
- Phillip K. Dick
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Why, make it four (Ryan Gardner's third counted in) 🙂:
🗨 To avoid collapse, you must embrace change, not fight it. (some wiseacre or other on interwebz)
Fine quotes. But Reality is where I go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YouCsxnnMLY
They can't get out of their own way. What does "anti-vaxxer" even mean these days? They altered the definition to include people who are against government mandates, so do all the "pro-vaxxers" still want mandates for kids to go to school?
Millions of people don't realize they're ALREADY "anti-vaxx" simply by being anti-mandate.
All I know is that the Washington DC public school system required a negative COVID test for all students returning from spring break (2023) so there must still be a dangerous pandemic going on somewhere.
Exactly. If you oppose this, are you a "dangerous anti-vaxxer"? Certainly seems that way to me.
Quite honestly, I happily wear the badge of anti vaxx. It’s the closest thing to real science that exists today.
"You're an anti-vaxxer. OF COURSE we knew it would never stop transmission!"
by the current definition, even Paul Offit is an anti-vaxxer! welcome to the club of reason, Paul
Did you miss my article about this? Spoiler alert: CBDC is bad, m'kay.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/britcoin-is-a-non-solution-to-an
"Buy your stuff with ammo!"
The "elites" have been marinating in the academic idea that political power is everything - the Foucaultian notion that what is said to be by the authorities will be - despite observable reality, but the people who still listen to the news think they're not being lied to.
I'm friends with some of the latter. I told him I was kicked off social media for saying that the vaccines do not prevent infection, and he replied "we've always known that". I was flabbergasted. This is a good guy who spent his life as an engineer. He has to forget things in order to prevent the cognitive dissonance - he's old, but not feeble minded.
It's so astonishing that boomers in particular have not caught on to the total lack of credibility the news media has.
Excellent comment No Name. Your friend’s situation sounds like a manifestation of the “Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect”.
The term was coined by the late Michael Crichton - the hugely successful techno-thriller author & filmmaker (‘Jurassic Park’, etc). He used the term in a 2002 speech, naming the phenomenon after his good friend, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Everybody is guilty of this. Crichton’s own explanation is as follows:
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. The newspapers are full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine (or whatever) than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Everyone needs to understand this – I have explained it to my kids.
I have concluded that the purveyors of deceit who populate the corporate media are the ones who are most responsible for the catastrophe that was inflicted on us over the last three years. A pox on all their houses.
I’m a boomer and I caught on a long, long time ago.
I'm not knocking you guys. It's just that the news media used to have credibility, and some people (of every generation) don't catch on when the environment changes. I think it's just a trait some people have, and it's manifesting itself among your generation in this way.
Me too. Caught on seriously about 12 0r 13 Sep 2001. After also questioning JFK.
"OK, so there might be a fire in the building you are pointing to at this current point in time. But, on average, it is mostly burning at a very low temperature, thus almost every person in this city will be just fine." So I guess we're all right, and just don't know it.
See, it's best to listen to the experts.
Someone on another Stack referred me to Politifact for proof that Tucker Carlson is a serial liar, so that’s settled.
I mean, case closed.
😂😂
I'm sure it was offered with genuine peace, love and understanding of your welfare
🗨 Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says 'science teaches such and such', he is using the word incorrectly. ~~Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
It's a mostly peaceful fire.
It only feels hot when your near it but most of the time it isn't.
Let’s see, a “low temperature fire”...is that like a “mostly peaceful” riot?
The psychopathy is real and is the proverbial "forest" that gets missed for the "trees" of ideology. The psychopaths are after power, which to them means primarily the ability to inflict suffering on others, and the agreeable folks just want to go along to get along. I hope you're right that a critical mass of the agreeable folks are experiencing sufficient cognitive dissonance to withdraw their agreement from the psychopaths schemes!
And on the subject of psychopathy being at the root of so many of our political and cultural problems, Harrison Koehli has an entire blog devoted to the subject (political ponerology). This essay, about midwit psychopathic leaders, is a good one: https://ponerology.substack.com/p/danger-zone-psychopathy
I suspect a lot of agreeable folks will quiet quit, e.g. not questioning the mRNA injections out loud but also not ever getting any more of them.
They may get louder and more overtly disagreeable, when they see (and finally admit to themselves) what being agreeable has gotten them into. Especially if the regime goes back to its 2020 playbook during the upcoming election cycle (fiery but mostly peaceful protests by their street communists, flagrant lies by the media to cover for it, law enforcement targeting only those who try to defend themselves and their property from the street communists, heavy-handed censorship of good-faith questions and obviously correct information (while the media blare nonstop obvious lies), some contrived state of emergency requiring unprecedented changes to the electoral process, etc.) A large number of agreeable normies may finally reach the end of their agreeableness.
"Lord hear our prayer."
There're two basic techniques to get stuff done: 'foot-in-the-door' and 'door-in-the-face'. The smug powers that shouldn't be (* got impatient, and recklessly overdosed on the latter. With quite predictable consequences. I hope 😊
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(* aka self-dealing kakistocracy of mediocre kleptocrat scumbags employing midwit sociopaths
They might not get as much “medicine” as they used to.
And now for something completely different, the Justice Department sues the state of Tennessee claiming that the 14th amendment to the Constitution protects minors (or their mentally deranged parents as their “guardians”) to receive “gender affirming healthcare”.
I think we all remember how Thaddeus Stevens said that Reconstruction was mostly about transgenderism.
Yes that sounds exactly like him/her.
I believe it was "zher."
I am a complete failure on the whole gender identification thingy. I keep putting “old white guy” for my pronouns on LinkedIn but they say that doesn’t match anything in their existing algorithm.
How about saying your pronouns are "Master/Bossman"?
Problem is that one is already taken, that is how I demand my wife and children refer to me.
BTW, I hope everyone remembers when Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke at Gettysburg and said that the men who died there were fighting for gay marriage.
Never heard such dribble in my life! That gal is definitely high on her own farts.
This “expert” felt compelled to barely discuss the horrible toll of lives paid on both sides and HAD to shoe-horn in female empowerment nonsense with a healthy dollop of groveling before the new sacrament of deviant sexuality.
She could be the poster child for the major theme of your excellent article.
Lol
Please tell me you're joking.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?313031-14/gettysburg-commemorative-ceremony
Watch around 34:00 to 37:00, if you must.
Wow...
Go ahead and write it down; no quote marks needed : sexual organ mutilation of minors.
People have a near infinite capacity for denial in the face of objective reality when reality is unpleasant. We all do it. And we want to belong to groups we perceive as desirable or necessary for survival. That part is embedded in our biology. The interface/intersection between those phenomena is what the propagandists pushing the Regime narrative exploit everyday. After a while however the pattern of puppetry emerges and people realize they are being manipulated. Some of us figure it out faster than others. Some of us don’t want to see the truth. But every day the Regime loses more credibility and compensates by doubling down on the lies and absurdities, because they feel it slipping away. The question at this point is simply how much damage gets done before these neo-Commie trash bags are heaved into the dumpster of history.
Now there’s the rub...how do you heave the neo-Commies in the dumpster when every institution from the security state, big tech, social media, big corporations, big pharma, the MSM, flacks formerly known as journalists, the entire D party and half of the Rs (the uni-party) are all aligned against you in their efforts to remain in control? It’s going to take a lot more people to “wake up” before there is enough momentum to start the see-saw moving in the other direction. But then, the longest journeys begin with a single step.
They are doing it to themselves. They have a fatal combination of hubris and incompetence. But none of us can predict the future. The only prediction I would make is that ten years on the world will look very different from what it is today. Could be really bad or really good, but it won’t be what we see now. And it won’t go back to what it used to be. Just remember- fir every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Somebody smarter than me said that.
My favorite is when someone commits a terrible crime and then they interview the persons mother and they go on about how their little so and so is just an angel and they would never do something like that.
True enough. A mother’s love is the only unconditional love most humans will ever experience. They are willing to look past the chainsaw and the plastic sheets in the trunk. 😳
You're funny. Love your comments
You have excellent taste in commentary. 😬
Keep bringing it! No mercy
A complete dumpster fire and no one notices. I think the Hive mind has grown numb to the constant emotional, shock positions of the activist crowd. Any sense of community has been shredded by this constant emotional trauma.
You're in fine form Sir. The phrase, "midwit sociopaths serving a self-dealing kakistocracy of mediocre kleptocrat scumbags", conveys, in less than ten words, exactly how you view this despicable group. I'll try to figure out a way to work your line into a column. (With attribution, of course)
We are in Canada for sure.... BREAKING: Trudeau gov’t internet censorship Bill C-11 becomes law.....
The bill passed via a motion with 52 votes for, 16 against, and 1 abstention, with one Conservative senator who voted against the bill saying its passage is a 'sad day' for Canada. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-trudeau-govt-internet-censorship-bill-c-11-passes-senate-will-become-law/?utm_source=daily-canada-2023-04-28&utm_medium=email
Fucking hell, man. Disgusting.
You had me at “high on its own supply” Thanks as always Chris. Man I’ve been waiting for this. Who knew Germany would lead the way in breaking through the censorship of injuries?? I know it’s happening but also that they’ll keep lying about it. I realize this is what is meant by “the revolution will not be televised”
Chris,
Quit being so polite, they aren't "agreeable" they're cowards.
“Conquered men, women, children, elderly people — they don’t spontaneously rise up and try to kill people who abuse and oppress them. Most people are not heroic. Most people are easily terrified, especially once they have already been placed in subjugated position. And if they are heroic, they usually die heroic deaths, alone. It continues to happen all over the world. Right now, somewhere, someone is being beaten and horribly abused and even if given the opportunity to strike back at the person doing the abuse, they won’t take it.
In Roman Britain, the tribes didn’t stage a successful coup against the occupying forces even when given ample opportunity and more than enough reason to unite. On three separate occasions, the governor of Britain broke off from the empire. Even in a state of Roman civil war, the tribes were unable to eject the Romans. The one very notable case of rebellion was during Suetonius Paulinus’ campaign in what is now Wales. The leader of the Iceni, Boudica, was beaten and her daughters were raped because Boudica challenged the transition of her late husband’s authority to the Roman governor (Paulinus). Only with Londinium essentially vacated of military forces did the Iceni and Trinovantes dare to attack. They were successful in causing a huge amount of civilian damage, but in the end, Paulinus’ troops rolled over the Iceni and routed them. The nearby Brigantes provided essentially no help to the Iceni and at least one source suggests Boudica may have even been poisoned by the Brigantes’ queen. Someone mentioned Nero earlier; it’s worth noting that all of this happened under Nero’s rule and Rome still easily held Britain despite Nero’s general lack of… being good as an emperor.
This pattern can be found a lot in history. It’s rare for spontaneous uprisings to happen against conquerors. Or rather, it’s more appropriate to say that it is extremely common for abusive occupation to go effectively uncontested for years, decades, or even centuries.”
I don't think it's kind or unkind to say that there's a population that can be helpful and productive in a healthy society and dangerously submissive in a sick one, and that they're the same people. Many societies harbor latent good Germans, but most don't produce them, or produce them in limited quantities. How does that happen?
Also, I think "good Germans" means cowardly enforcers, people who make the machine do its evil -- who stand at the side of the ditch and put bodies in it. A lot of Americans aren't in that category, or at least arguably aren't in that category, because they didn't load boxcars -- they just let people shoot poison into their bodies on the cartel's say-so, and hid in their houses and covered their own faces. They can be brought back from that. Their complicity was in self harm, and I believe that some will see it. They're not exactly conquered, and they don't exactly need to be heroic. They just need to see a bit, and to stop cooperating a bit. They've already stopped taking the mRNA injections, almost across the demographic board. That's a foundation for some simple resistance.
Do you remember Ward Churchhill (really showing my age now)? How he called the people in the world trade center little eichmanns? At the time i took the view he was crazy, like all Americans who still believed in their government. Then somewhere around 2011 or 2012, as i worked for a giant fraud "education" company who's entire business plan was to load up unwary young people and some older with the maximum federal student loan amount, i finally understood what he meant.
Or "good Germans" if you will.
Cracks are showing in the edifice tho. Tucker out at Fox will redpill a bunch of trad Republicans.
This all must reach a tipping point soon. I remember how 1989 really started properly in Romania (not East Germany) and the moment that Ceausescu appeared on the balcony to be cheered, bit it had been one secret police crackdown too many, and nobody cheered but people started booing and then came that joyous Christmas day. You will probably all feel the recent acceleration of tyranny in a selection of countries, most of all the US and Germany. I feel it's all coming to a head.
Amen!! A perfect assessment!
What is truly amazing to me is the amount of people who cough as they breathe in the smoke, they feel the heat and see the ash, but still choose the words and agree “that building isn’t on fire.”
It's hard to believe covid is what the governing powers staked their credibility on--and they're still gambling on it.
It wasn't covid, covid was more like going all in at the poker table. They staked their credibility on convincing people they hadn't committed colossal crimes with 2008 crash, and that they weren't looting the country by bailing out their corporate cronies and Harvard and Yale buddies. The "virus" was created so they could print 6 trillion dollars in the span of months and bail themselves out again. The market began to crack again in the winter of 2018. Powell reversed himself on interest rates beginning in 2019. In the fall of 2019 Powell began to QE again, but the media didn't tell you. It was getting worse going into the spring of 2020. And WHAM we got covid. This is why censorship was so important and why when people began to lose fear of covid in late april of 2020 we got BLM riots for the rest of the year until the election was over. Isn't it funny that BLM first appeared during Obamas late term, almost like they were testing it out, and only really reappeared during covid?
The real left and not what the media presents to you today as the left thinks most of it was bullshit.
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
The only reason they resort to censorship is because they know nobody believes them anymore except for their most dedicated followers. Why else would you attempt it? Did they censor people when 9/11 happened? Hell they didn't even censor people for the Iraq war. Only when nobody is willing to listen to you, do you force them.