Free Form Friday
...for 5/6/22
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. ― GWF Hegel
Hard to say who is ignoring history harder right now. The NATO arms sale cartel seems bent on re-creating the events which led to the sinking of the Lusitania while the Biden Regime recycles all the greatest economic hits of both the Great Depression and the Stagflation of the 1970s. Surely it is not possible to have both WWIII and the Great Stagflation, is it? Because that is where we seem headed. I am genuinely curious as which happens first, the food riots or the bank failures.
Fresh reminder that the FBI, starting with the TWA 800 coverup, morphed from a federal law enforcement agency into a Deep State retribution and revenge mob. The Bureau is now helping to de facto outlaw America First populism in this country.
Useful database on the World Economic Forum and “Davos Man.” These people are the enemies of humanity.
Be very, very suspicious of any corporation that leaps to make a “statement” regarding Roe. Abortion is the very definition of a 50-50 issue. If some exec feels the need to stake out a position on it they are not serving the enterprise very well. As this hysterical Wired piece demonstrates there will be no shortage of attempts to try to compel companies to “take a stand.” Bad, bad idea.
Is China about to lockdown Beijing in pursuit “Zero COVID?” Me, I think the Shanghai lockdown has been all about food shortages with COVID running cover.
Just a hunch, but history will not judge mutilating children all that well. When will we get back to valuing childhood innocence more than adult psychopathy? The can be no claim that we do not know better. “Little is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria,” says the UK’s National Health Service.
To be perfectly honest, I never heard of this Kevin Samuels guy before but this is the very definition of a suspicious death, even for Atlanta.
Seems important: The recent and sudden rise of liver damage and hepatitis in children seems to be affecting those between the ages of 1mo – 4 years of age.
What they aren’t telling the public is that the majority of the cases are those under 4 years of age who are breastfed and who have been actively breastfed (within the last 12 months). The children are unvaccinated, but the breastfeeding mothers (in 100% of the cases) have been vaccinated with at least 2 doses.
It was tough, but this was probably the week’s most overlooked headline: CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders. Since spring of 2020 it has been clear that US COVID hysterics coveted the “geo-fencing” house arrest policies of some Asian countries, Australia, etc. Congress needs to explicitly outlaw house arrest as a “public health” response to a pandemic or we will surely face it some day soon.
Periodic reminder
Nikki Haley still at large, last seen cutting ads for fellow neo-cons.
In other Souf Cack political news, the state house has again turned down medical marijuana. The state may just be the last state to pass a med pot law, so strong is the anti-pot lobby in Columbia.
In case you wondered who owns your DNA. I sure it will be fine
And now memes and related infomatics.
Not trying to beat up on this guy. But this is a common misunderstanding of what is going on here with this “extremist” framing from the Left.
Properly understood MAGA absolutely is the most extreme political organization in modern US history precisely because it is/was: 1) organic 2) successful. To the American Left that is an existential threat. The Left tamed and bought-off its Occupy Wall Street populist uprising, channeling it into the harmless and useful Bernie Sanders movement. Similarly, Republicans and Conservative Inc neutered and then Astro-turfed the organic, populist Tea Party movement with startling speed and effectiveness. The only real loss the GOP suffered was the June 2014 primary defeat of then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. A year later Republicans had so successfully co-opted the Tea Party movement that no real Tea Party POTUS candidate could be found. With the possible exception of a guy named Trump, who exactly no one, including myself, thought had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected and probably very little chance of being the nominee. Boy, were we wrong. I saw what was going on, writing in August 2015:
Trump is playing to a segment of the American electorate which has spent the last eight years locked outside of the Red-Blu duopoly’s neat little game of political football, a game played between the 40-yard lines. The excluded extend from the constitutionalists of the Tea Party on the right to the socialists of Occupy Wall Street on the left. Yet Trump is daily mocked as an aberrant creation of ironic hipster culture, basted in reality TV and TMZ, Not Serious, and an embarrassment to America’s oh so sober and well-compensated pundits.
In real reality, it is the political status quo which depends on illusion, ignorance, and weakness.
Recall that it was John McCain’s inane decision to go full Ross Perot and suspend his campaign in September 2008 in order to literally stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the (first) Bush bailout of Wall Street. This cowardice left millions of American voters disenfranchised — and ensured the election of Barack Obama. Twice.
If you opposed the financialization of the United States economy and the socialization of risk, too bad. You were effectively barred from meaningful political participation in 21st c. federal executive branch-centric America — as subsequent industry bailouts (including Obamacare) demonstratively proved.
Still, I did not believe Trump could ride this sentiment to power. That he did so easily explains why it most never be permitted to happen again.