The Washington Post is concerned that the new public health officials are untested, failing to mention that the Biden public health officials got almost everything wrong about COVID, often lying to us and covering up their lies and missteps ever since. Excerpt:
Some health experts worry that those poised to assume prominent positions have gone too far in criticizing the pandemic response. “When we get into another firefight with a microbe, we need all hands on deck, and we need the best science and the best public health practice to come forward,” said Michael T. Osterholm, a University of Minnesota infectious-disease expert who advised President Joe Biden’s transition team. “I’m not confident at this point that this administration can do that.”
[When] you go to the hhs.gov website, which everyone should do right now on a browser, the entire banner, the entire top of fold of the page is Risk Less, Do More. Okay? They say it flat out, it is a campaign for vaccine awareness and uptake. So it's like, the entire personality of the HHS right now is get vaccines. It's literally, and this does not matter what you're feeling people's feelings around vaccines. It's weird and myopic that the actual thing that's torturing and shortening American lives right now is not mentioned. Then I invite everyone to go to the hhs.gov priority document of priorities for America. This PDF mentions vaccines 27 times. It does not mention the words chronic disease, diabetes or obesity: the things that are costing trillions of dollars to the American health care system. I mean, 70% of our GDP goes to health care, $4.5 trillion a year, and they are trying to essentially jam down our throat that help is found in a syringe, and it's it's just, again, this has nothing to do with how people feel about vaccines. It is myopic. It's distracted. And when you follow the money, you realize that it is intentional.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on How Bill Gates Made 242 Million in Pfizer Stock Scheme:"And the last one of these was in 2020 or 2019 in October. And it was hosted by Bill Gates, I. Fauci and by Avril Haines. I'm sure a lot of you have gone and looked at this on YouTube, it's called Event 201. That same week, Bill Gates, who was overseeing this simulation, made about 1.1 million shares of BioNTech vaccine, which later became the Pfizer vaccine."
"He then sold that, almost all that stock, 87%, two years later, at a $242 million profit. And a week after that, he publicly announced the vaccine didn't work. This is what you call a pump and dump scheme."
"Because he was the guy who was on TV with his minion, Peter Hotez, who took $52 million from Gates for his, Gates made his institution. So you had the pair of them pumping up this stock for two years and then dumping it a week before he goes on TV and says, oh, it didn't work after all."
That's not all. Kennedy:
"Gates practices philanthrocapitalism. "You use philanthropy to make yourself rich and you use it strategically. He's gotten control over the WHO so that they mandate vaccines all over the world and the companies that make those vaccines are where Gates & others are shareholders."
I would like to see Gates thoroughly investigated. It's not possible to get virtually EVERYTHING wrong about COVID wrong without large amounts of bad faith money pulling the levers. https://x.com/VerseCannon/status/1832333692796326002
Entertaining conversation illustrating this quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “[T]he test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." As Bill Maher argues, McDonalds tastes good even though it it not healthy food. BOTH of these things are true. Same thing for ice cream and many other foods. Most important these days, we can love other people even though we disagree strongly with some of their beliefs and opinions. Really.
But in modern times, many people are not admitting to things they know to be true because it is not approved by their respective tribes. We need to stop allowing emotions and social pressure to prevent us from saying things we know to be true. Only then will we be able to have meaningful conversations with each other.
As I've written repeatedly, embracing membership in a tribe reduces one's IQ by 50 points.
Additional note: I think Casey Means is courageous and brilliant. I highly recommend her new book, Good Energy.
Comedian Jimmy Dore recently commented a "news" cast where Jen Psaki argued that social media needed to be censored. Governement lies during COVID provide endless evidence that Psake could not be more wrong, but there is a lot more. First, Jen Psaki's claim that social media needs to be censored:
But even if Trump is defeated tomorrow, he is exposed during his time out, there some serious limitations within our system, and it may be time to ask ourselves things like whether social media platforms should have the freedom to operate at a lower level of accountability than local television networks.
Jimmy Dore's response:
First of all, how do you get lower accountability than zero? This is this? Is that wanting to censor social because they don't have any accountability, you don't have any fucking accountability. Is there? Is there anything they haven't lied about in my they lied about Iraq twice. They lied about Afghanistan for 20 years. Lied about Syria, they lied about Libya, they lied about Ukraine. They're currently lying about Ukraine. They lied about COVID. They lied about lockdowns. They lied about where the virus came from, mass transmissibility, contraction, herd immunity, natural immunity. There wasn't a fucking thing that side effects. There's not a goddamn thing that they haven't lied about in the last 20 years of my life, 40 years of my life. And these motherfuckers want to censor other people because they might be spreading misinformation.The biggest liar, as we all know, is the government. Second is the corporate, owned media, and a distant third are randos on social media. That's the fucking fact, okay, and if it wasn't for social media, we wouldn't know about any of those lies about the Syrian war, the Ukraine war, or COVID, or the vaccines or masks or lockdowns, or all the shit they did to children during COVID, or all the shit they're doing to children who are confused about their gender identity before they had fucking puberty. We wouldn't know any of that shit if it wasn't for social media ...
That was a direct hit by Dore, as evidence by many of the articles I have been posting over the past 5 years (and more). But let's also hear from Max Blumenthal.
I do not believe @RobertKennedyJr would have ever gained national celebrity and been able to launch a national campaign that vaulted him to the heights of Trumpworld had The Science(TM) that informed the Covid response proven even remotely correct.If the mRNA "vaccine" had not failed on every stated promise; had the CDC and WHO not changed the very definition of vaccine to accommodate its failure to prevent transmission or infection; had countless working class Americans not lost their jobs for refusing to take the jab, while others were forcibly injected in order to keep their livelihoods, sometimes suffering injury as a result; had mainstream news hosts and politicians including Joe Biden not proposed isolating The Unvaccinated from society, preventing them from traveling, and even from buying food in markets; had the lockdowns not set a generation of children across all social strata back years in their education, while doing nothing to stop the spread; had once-vibrant city centers not transformed to terrifying zombie scenes, shattering countless small businesses, while we were assured by Fauci that it would take just another week or two to flatten the curve; had a dystopian state censorship regime not consolidated its hold over social media platforms, disappearing dissenters from our digital commons those who protested in the streets were often beaten and arrested – had none of this occurred, RFK Jr. would be comfortably ensconced in his home in West LA, still loyal to the Democratic Party, a welcome presence in the world of affluent liberals, and nowhere near the political celebrity he is today.
But all this happened and worse. Americans were lied to and abused on a massive scale, and RFK was one of the first to tap into the public's anger. And thanks to his Children's Health Defense, he already had an established platform to promote his jeremiads (which focused heavily at the time on the erosion of constitutional rights, not always on vaccine-related issues).
Though the Covid event was hardly discussed during the 2024 presenting campaign – largely because the corporate media that got almost everything wrong wanted the issue to disappear – it loomed like a heavy cloud. RFK's presence as a Trump surrogate enabled 47 to channel the simmering anger, giving rise to the Make America Healthy Again movement, which became a magnet for alt media-oriented independent voters.
Now RFK stands to take over a gargantuan federal agency that has traditionally served as an instrument of Big Pharma and the agribusiness lobby, and which is currently led by a Democrat political operative with no medical or scientific background. The pundits who paint RFK's ascension as an unfortunate triumph of the paranoid style in American politics are whitewashing the failures and sordid deceptions of the credentialed class they represent, while denying the experiences of the millions who paid the price for them.
One more thing for Jen Psaki: How would she feel if the government started interrupting our private phone calls and telling us that we can no longer discuss certain topics or that we are forbidden from talking to certain people because they are "bad"? Censoring social media is no different from this in concept, but only in scale.