COVID-19: the aftermath

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The Dominion voting machines are reliable, accurate, safe, and secure. The 2020 election was the most secure election ever. There was no measurable fraud.

Oh wait, maybe not. This is the AP; not exactly a fringe site. Bring back the punch cards before its too late (or is it already?)

https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico- ... 3fde623a4b

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https://okaythennews.substack.com/p/cov ... ectiveness

A major Australian medical journal published an article in mRNA vaccine negative effectiveness.

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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/corr ... ok-corrupt

former FDA employees that helped review the moderna covid vaxx application are fine taking jobs at moderna afterwards so long as they only work "behind the scenes" to influence FDA.

the ethics team is good with this.

so is the law.

note that it does not speak to "exerting influence" but rather "being seen to exert influence."

this has nothing to do with preventing corruption, only the perception of corruption.

"Please note that some of these bans are specific to the employee personally making representations to a government agency, they may still be permitted to work 'behind‐the‐scenes' advising others on the communication, the employee just could not make any communication personally with the intent to influence,"

got that? it has to be a one hop wink and a nod, no going in yourself to do that. but of course, they know you’re there, your name gets dropped. hell, maybe your salary and options package too so good little boys and girls know the going rate for free agents in the grand game of: playball.jpg

where are the indictments?

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Sometime shit like covid-19 fiasco teaches you shit you almost would have rather not known. I regret not doing more research on the childhood vax schedule. I trusted them. That trust was misplaced, and I now have to hope that in my sleep deprived haze I am not responsible for any degree neurological damage to my child. He seems fine FWIW, but one maybe never truly knows?

They
Fucking
Lied
About ALL OF IT.

https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/and-li ... m-vaccines
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2402379

Wow. After decades of Dr. Stanley Plotkin and his vaccinologist disciples insisting vaccines are the most well studied products on the planet, they just penned an article admitting precisely the opposite.

They just admitted vaccines are not properly studied—neither pre-licensure nor post-licensure. They admitted, for example, “prelicensure clinical trials have limited sample sizes [and] follow-up durations” and that “there are not resources earmarked for postauthorization safety studies.”

Some meat:

So, with that in mind, and sorry for the long wind-up, here are the things they admit in this article for maybe the very first time:

“[T]he widespread vaccine hesitancy observed during the Covid-19 pandemic suggests that the public is no longer satisfied with the traditional safety goal of simply detecting and quantifying the associated risks after a vaccine has been authorized for use.”

Comment: The parents of vaccine injured children, vaccine injured adults, and others were never “satisfied” with seeking to assess “risks after a vaccine has been authorized.”

“Postauthorization studies are needed to fully characterize the safety profile of a new vaccine, since prelicensure clinical trials have limited sample sizes, follow up durations, and population heterogeneity.”

Comment: Let me translate: the clinical trials relied upon to license childhood vaccines are useless with regard to safety since they virtually never have a placebo control, typically review safety for days or weeks after injection, and often have far too few participants to measure anything of value, just see www.icandecide.org/no-placebo; amazingly, I just had a dispute with a Plotkin disciple not long ago in which they were clearly still not ready to admit the above truth https://x.com/AaronSiriSG/status/1673483027618623489.

“It is critical to examine adverse events following immunization (AEFIs) that have not been detected in clinical trials, to ascertain whether they are causally or coincidentally related to vaccination.”

Comment: No shit and you have been claiming for decades this was being done!

“When they are caused by vaccines (vaccine adverse reactions), the risk attributable to vaccination and the biologic mechanism must be ascertained. That science becomes the basis for developing safer vaccines, if possible, and for determining contraindications to vaccination and the compensation that should be offered for AEFIs.”

Comment: Again, no shit, and you have also been claiming for decades this was being done!

“Currently in the United States, when the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends a new routine vaccine, the only automatic statutory resource allocations that follow are for vaccine procurement by Vaccines for Children (VFC) and for the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Although the ACIP acknowledges the need, there are currently no resources earmarked for postauthorization safety studies beyond annual appropriations, which must be approved by Congress each year.”

Comment: Again, no shit! But nice of you to finally admit it after decades of gaslighting.

“Progress in vaccine-safety science has understandably been slow — often depending on epidemiologic evidence that is delayed or is inadequate to support causal conclusions and on an understanding of biologic mechanisms that is incomplete — which has adversely affected vaccine acceptance.”

Comment: More gaslighting because had a proper clinical trial been conducted pre-licensure, we would know the safety before it is unleashed on babies and we wouldn’t need to rely on confounded-biased-conflicted-post-authorization “epidemiological” studies you now want to conduct which you make clear you only suggest because you want to avoid “public concern and consequent decreases in immunization coverage,” not because you actually care about safety.

“In 234 reviews of various vaccines and health outcomes conducted from 1991 to 2012, the IOM found inadequate evidence to prove or disprove causation in 179 (76%) of the relationships it explored, illustrating the need for more rigorous science.”

Comment: Again, no shit, and I would appreciate if you would please properly cite to the ICAN white paper from 2017 from which you have plainly lifted this point https://icandecide.org/wp-content/uploa ... 2017-1.pdf.

“Identifying the biologic mechanisms of adverse reactions — how and in whom they occur — is critical for developing safer vaccines, preventing adverse reactions by expanding contraindications, and equitably compensating vaccinees for true adverse reactions.”

Comment: Shameless to pretend you have not for decades ignored or attacked those calling for these studies while pretending a mountain of such studies showing the foregoing don’t already exist.

“[T]he budget for vaccine-safety monitoring at the CDC (which is responsible for the majority of U.S. federal efforts) has remained stagnant … at about $20 million per year” which they write is an “inadequate level of funding.”

Comment: Again, shameless to pretend parent groups have not been yelling about this issue for decades only to be ignored and attacked.

“The public [now] also wants public health authorities to mitigate and prevent rare but serious adverse events – which no longer seem rare when vaccines are given to millions or billions of people.”

Comment: They have always been given to millions or billions of people, and the studies showing the harms they cause are not rare and they already exist, but you don’t really care about that reality as vaccine safety is not really the goal.

The entirety of the CDC needs to be fired, cleaned out, nuked from orbit to kill all the super-viruses they store / create, and legislation passed to keep this shit from ever happening again.

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https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the ... itarianism

The hypocrisy and creeping authoritarianism of Joe Biden
In 2021, he forced millions of Americans to take a failing mRNA Covid "vaccine" - and conspired to censor me. But he won't take basic cognitive tests to show his fitness for the world's hardest job.

His decline is so obvious even he has admitted it, but Joe Biden will not release his full health records or take an independently administered cognitive test.

Instead Biden has demanded his party fall into line behnd his reelection bid, despite the fact most voters, including his supporters, say he is too old to be President.

In other words, he is acting like an authoritarian who believes he is more important than the office he holds.

The real question is why anyone is surprised.

Biden likes to position himself as a defender of democracy. But he showed his true colors in 2021 by unconstitutionally trying to force Covid jabs on nearly 100 million unwilling American adults - the signal event of his Presidency so far.

It is now clear Biden’s stunning Sept. 9, 2021 speech announcing vaccine mandates offered a window into his worldview, his ego, and his need for obedience - not merely for what he said, but how he said it.

His effort to make Americans take a hastily introduced vaccine for a virus that is a minor threat to most healthy adults represented the worst Constitutional insult in almost 80 years.

Not since President Roosevelt interned over 100,000 Japanese-Americans during World War 2 had the federal government violated civil liberties so aggressively. (The Supreme Court struck down the biggest of the mandates only four months later - a stunningly quick rebuke to Biden’s overreach. But in those months, about 50 million Americans received at least one mRNA shot, many unwillingly.)

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To call the mandates a shock is an understatement.

They came out of nowhere, with little public discussion, let alone Congressional debate or oversight. They came even though Biden and his advisors knew that the mRNA “vaccines” were already failing, and in part because they were failing.

They came despite Biden’s explicit promise that he would not impose mandates.

But as bad as the mandates themselves was the way Biden framed them - in that September speech and later.

And his motives were nakedly political.

During spring 2021, the White House had promised the United States would leave Covid behind once enough people received coronavirus shots. The Biden administration would deliver American-made mRNA vaccines - quickly and efficiently. The jabs would give Americans their lives back.

Just one problem. The mRNA jabs stopped working within months. Infections soared in vaccinated people by August. Hospitalizations and deaths began rising too.

Thus the Covid resurgence was not merely, or even primarily, a health crisis for the White House. It was a political crisis. Biden’s approval ratings plunged in summer 2021 (and have never recovered).

In the wake of that crisis, Biden did not recalibrate expectations for the mRNAs, as he could have. Instead, he decided to blame the unvaccinated for the failure of the shots, and divided Americans into “good” vaccinated adults and the “bad” unjabbed.

“We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” Biden said in his September address. “And your refusal has cost all of us… For the vast majority of you who have gotten vaccinated, I understand your anger at those who haven’t gotten vaccinated.”

In a speech in December, Biden went further, saying vaccinated people had “done the right thing,” while the unvaccinated were betraying “[your] obligation to yourselves, to your family, and, quite frankly — I know I’ll get criticized for this — to your country.”

He went on:

Your choice is not just a choice about you; it affects other people. You’re putting other people at risk — your loved ones, your friends, neighbors, strangers you run into. And your choice can be the difference between life or death…

Let me say again and again and again and again: Please get vaccinated. It’s the only responsible thing to do. And those who are not vaccinated are causing hospitals to overrun — become overrun again.

Biden’s words were both illogical and dishonest on any number of levels.

After all, if the mRNA shots worked, the unvaccinated were a threat mainly to themselves. Further, by late 2021 scientists and epidemiologists had considerable evidence that the vaccinated transmitted Covid as easily as the unvaccinated. And hospitals were not and had never been “overrun.”

But Biden - who has felt disrespected by critics for his entire career - viewed Covid vaccines skepticism as both a political danger and a personal affront.

He could not seem to imagine that his opponents might genuinely believe that the jabs did not work well. Nor did he or his advisors seem to realize that government intervention to force mRNA injections into healthy adults carried titanic Constitutional implications.

I felt the sting more personally than most mRNA refuseniks.

Andy Slavitt, the senior advisor to Biden’s Covid response, led a conspiracy to violate my First Amendment rights and force Twitter to ban me for my reporting. (That conspiracy is the subject of Berenson v Biden, a federal lawsuit.)

But I was far from alone. In 2021, Biden showed tens of millions of Americans that he cared far more about his own prerogatives and wishes - about being respected and obeyed - than their rights.

Now the rest of the country is learning the hard way what we already know.

Fuck Joe Biden and fuck anyone who votes for him in November. There I said it.

You are voting for a guy that not only went back on a promise, but think he rules you and you dont have agency to make your own decisions. You are voting for a guy that wanted to rape millions of people, and if you support that, well fuck you.

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https://x.com/senronjohnson/status/1811580936137380111

Oh they should have never been mandated you say? covered up and downplayed severe AE's that became obvious to anyone looking once the rollout was happening?

But, I'm just an engineer.

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https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/vaccinate ... d-you-wont

Brandon has covid again. Such safety, so effective

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID, yet again, the White House announced on Wednesday afternoon.

Biden, who claimed to have a cold during June's disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump is set to miss a scheduled speaking engagement in Las Vegas after testing positive. The White House's statement announcing the positive test result repeated the necessary line that most public figures repeat after getting COVID: he's vaccinated and boosted.

"He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms," the White House statement said. "He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time. The White House will provide regular updates on the President’s status as he continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation."

According to Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Biden's physician, he has "upper respiratory symptoms."

Biden "presented this afternoon with upper respiratory symptoms, to include rhinorhea (runny nose) and non-productive cough, with general malaise," O'Connor said.

COVID Vaccines, Boosters, Working Perfectly Yet Again
This is Biden's third positive COVID test, though likely “just” his second illness, in the past two years. The 81-year-old previously had COVID in August 2022, and tested positive again a few days later in what was described as a "rebound" case.

He was vaccinated and boosted then too, but as has become obvious since 2020, the boosters are a never ending pursuit of efficacy. The White House announced in September 2023 that he'd had the flu shot and latest booster dose, which worked flawlessly to prevent him from getting COVID again several months later.

In fact, he was vaccinated with the first Pfizer dose in December 2020. Got his second in January 2021, a booster in September 2021, another booster in March 2022, an updated booster in October 2022, then the 2023 booster too.

Somehow, after nearly four years of the vaccines and boosters utterly failing to stop infection or transmission, public figures still resort to the "vaccinated and boosted" line when announcing their latest positive test. Similarly to how those who studiously wore masks would blame others when they test positive.

Speaking of masks, after testing positive for COVID, Biden was seen getting out of a car, walking near other people and even heading into Air Force One without wearing a mask.

Maybe he and his team have finally realized that masks don't work.

This is the same person who wanted 2-year-olds to mask in government programs after all mandates for adults had ended. Now he's walking around smiling and waving, forcing the media to confront its worst fears: an unmasked person with COVID.

He also, remember, famously told tens of millions of Americans that they would not get COVID if they got vaccinated. He imposed illegal vaccine mandates, hoping to force business owners to fire employees who didn't get vaccinated. He kept a nearly endless state of emergency going in order to continue indefensible mandates and policies. And of course, his insane, anti-reality rules kept unvaccinated people like Novak Djokovic out of the country well into 2023.

All based on the "expert" lie that the vaccines and boosters could stop infections or transmission.

Then there's the other all-important question: what does this mean for Biden's future as a candidate for president? After his debate performance and a series of embarrassing public appearances, many, if not most Democrats, want Biden to drop out. He's repeatedly stated he has no intention of dropping out, though in a recent BET interview, claimed he'd consider it if he had a "medical condition that emerged."

"If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody — if doctors came to me and said you got this problem, that problem," he said when asked what would lead him to exit the race.

Well COVID can certainly count as a "medical condition," especially if Biden's team wants it to. Given the increasing calls from former supporters that he step down, that seems like a distinct possibility.

As if we needed more proof of what a farce the media and expert obsession with boosters and masks really, Biden's latest positive test provides even more of it. Just wait until he gets it again after another booster this year.

What are odds the olde ticker just stops in the next week "from covid" or what we really know will be some of that sea eye eh joose. They cant be zero.

The machine has drawn a strong card, lets see how its played.

edit:

Joe Biden is taking Paxlovid, even though doctors know it doesn't really work

subtle admissions are subtile.

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How everyone enjoying their heart damage?

https://ladycasey.substack.com/p/scient ... e-injuries

Scientific Studies on Vaccine Injuries
You want science? Here's your f*cking science.

KC
JUL 22, 2024
This post mainly consists of scientific studies (both peer reviewed and preprints), systematic reviews, case studies (a few key ones of the thousands out there), and other medical journal articles that support the assertions in my Vaccine Injury post from November 2022. I began bookmarking these studies in late 2021, but since I’ve surely missed some, this is not a comprehensive list. (In fact I’m still adding studies from the past 6 weeks, though they should all be included by the end of July.) It is, however, significant enough to utterly debunk the “safe and effective” propaganda of the past three years. (I will continue adding to this list indefinitely, so please check back on occasion for the most recent scientific discoveries about C19 vaccine injuries.)

I’m not a scientific researcher, data analyst, or medical professional. Neither are most of my readers. However I, and presumably they/you, are fully intellectually capable of reading and understanding the discussions and conclusions in most of the studies listed below. For those of you who prefer to skim, in most cases, after each link below, I include a short (2-3 sentence) summary of the study’s conclusions.

Some of the studies below are followed by a supporting article explaining its findings in layman’s terms. All such articles are written by experts in their field, including scientific researchers, professors, data analysts, PhDs, MDs and other medical professionals. (Some accompanying articles are under a paywall, for which I apologize, however I’m happy to email my readers free versions of any linked articles upon request.)

Lastly, please take note that much of the pro-jab jargon used in these studies is required to survive peer review. Journals are beholden to (funded and captured by) the pharmaceutical industry. Researchers have stated outright that they cannot get published on this topic without the inclusion of pro-vaccine rhetoric in their studies.

Please use this post as a resource to backup your own arguments with uninformed acquaintances who continue to believe and perpetuate the false government/Pharma narrative that the C19 “vaccines” are safe. They are not, and the following evidence couldn’t be more clear about that.

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https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/the-ma ... s-are-anti

The Majority of Americans Are "Anti-Vaxxers"
A majority of Americans now officially meet the definition of "anti-vaxxer"

Aaron Siri
Jul 29, 2024
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an “anti-vaxxer” as “a person who opposes the use of some or all vaccines, regulations mandating vaccination, or usually both”:


So, to be an “anti-vaxxer,” per the dictionary, a person needs to only oppose receiving some vaccines. Meaning, a person that opposes receiving a COVID-19 vaccine or an influenza vaccine is an anti-vaxxer. And guess what? The majority of Americans now oppose receiving both of these vaccines.

In fact, according to the CDC, despite spending billions of dollars wildly promoting these products, less than half of Americans received an influenza vaccine, RSV vaccine, and the updated COVID-19 vaccine. In fact, less than 23% of the adult population in the U.S. has received an updated COVID-19 vaccine despite a relentless multi-billion-dollar national promotion campaign.

Not only do a majority of Americans oppose receiving these vaccines, an even greater percentage of Americans no doubt (including some that receive these vaccines) oppose mandating one or more of these products.

The irony is that deciding against being injected with a product after reviewing its clinical trials, post-licensure safety record, lack of liability, etc., is an informed, thoughtful decision. Yet those that mindlessly get every vaccine are the ones painted as making informed, thoughtful decisions?! Hats off to Big Pharma/CDC for convincing so many that up is down and down is up.

The next time someone calls you an “anti-vaxxer” because you have made an informed decision to not receive a medical intervention, let them know that, yes, you did make an informed, independent medical decision. And wish them luck doing the opposite!

You can also let them know that since “anti-vaxxers” are now the majority, you understand their insecurity and hostility. But they shouldn’t worry: the anti-vax majority is not interested in taking away the rights of the pro-vax minority. They can feel free to get (or not get) as many vaccines as they want. We in the majority just ask that they respect our right to do the same.

and never fucking forget it

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https://x.com/AlexBerenson/status/1831048658898616759

"the government didn't influence social media companies!" they said. well here are the receipts.

Mark Zuckerberg of meta ala facebook:

https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1828201780544504064
https://nypost.com/2024/08/27/us-news/m ... -coverage/

if you too lazy to follow link and read, the zuck says:

senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor” content related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021.

and

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he wrote. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”

Zuckerberg, 40, vowed that things will be different in future should the government make similar requests.

and

“Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” he wrote.

Zuckerberg separately added that suppressing The Post’s exclusive report on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop ahead of the 2020 election was a mistake.

He explained to the House Judiciary Committee, which has been probing Facebook’s content moderation standards, that prior to the decision to limit sharing of the bombshell October 2020 story, the FBI had “warned” Meta about “a potential Russian disinformation operation” related to the Biden family and Ukrainian energy giant Burisma, where Hunter sat on the board of directors.


“That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply,” Zuckerberg wrote.

“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” he acknowledged.

Zuckerberg assured Jordan that Meta has put policies in place to ensure that similar censorship of stories “doesn’t happen again.”

so all you people that said I was a nut in 2020/2021 for talking about what we know now is the truth, deliver the apologies.

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https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-f ... 3-vaccines

not covid vax, still malpractice. I hope she is ok and sues into bankruptcy the Dr(s) or administrators that made this decision.

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https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urg ... r-suggests

URGENT: A stunning new paper suggests Covid jabs sharply raise the risk of death or heart failure after heart attacks
The risk appeared particularly high in vaccinated people who have also had Covid (which at this point is almost everyone), Spanish researchers found.

Being vaccinated against Covid sharply increased the risk heart attack patients would die or suffer heart failure after heart attacks, a new Spanish study shows.

Over a six-month period after their heart attacks, Covid vaccinated patients had nearly double the risk of unjabbed ones. The risk appeared concentrated in patients who were both vaccinated and had had Covid before their heart attacks.

The researchers examined outcomes from almost 1,000 heart attack patients from March 2020 through March 2023 in a Madrid hospital. They found vaccinated and previously infected patients had an over 50 percent higher risk of death or heart failure than unvaccinated people who had also been previously infected - and a 90 percent higher risk than those who were unvaccinated and previously uninfected.

The gap remained even after researchers adjusted for risk factors such as smoking, blood pressure and age.1 “The combination of vaccination and natural immunization against SARS-CoV2 may predispose to the development of severe heart failure,” they wrote. Most patients had received the mRNA jabs from Pfizer and Moderna.

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They noted the vaccinated and immunized patients tended to present with more heart severe attacks on admission, and the link between severity and vaccination status was particularly notable in patients under 65.

how are the tripple boosted cucks enjoying their heart disease?

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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/publ ... c-disgrace

TL;DR - NYC puplic health advisor didnt follow own rules and had molly fueled sex parties during lockdowns.

Fuck all of these people, and fuck you if you defended these pieces of shit for things that YOU KNEW deep down were false.

meet dr jay varma, NYC’s senior public health advisor, cuomo’s top guy during the “lock down, mask up, and vent till you die.”



this was the team locking you in the house, making grandma die alone, and force masking toddlers and teens in schools.

and it turns out that like so many others from gavin to SAGE to fancy nanci, it’s always “one law for thee and another for me.”



as astonishing as this text is (and as possibly explanatory of why these people get so worried about monkeypox) the video is worse.

*video at link*

it’s just amazing.

the utter sense of entitlement and exceptionalism is amazing.

“well, but i really needed this.”

oh, and a half a million kids did not?

sorry you found oppressing people so stressful. maybe don’t fricking do it next time.

it’s also an interesting idea on a path forward to defeating such people. stop and think about it: how do you fight a grandiose narcissist with zero self awareness and high attention and ego needs?

with the “beautiful stranger.”

it’s perfect jiujitsu to allow these people to just be themselves. give them what they want, what they think is a date with someone interested and obviously out of their league, and they will spill, dish, and disclose. anything to impress.

these less than super villains really do monologue. they cannot help it.

ever wonder where these “gotcha” videos come from?

that’s where.

it’s a wonderfully apropos and effective weapon and one for which politicos and ding-dongs everywhere have no defense. gay, straight, male, female, it makes zero difference. everyone dishes to the beautiful stranger they met on a dating app or the willing ear who took the time to listen.

i’m honestly amazed that 100X more of this does not go on. (maybe it does and is just not published)

but this seems to be the left’s achilles heel, the pitch they cannot lay off:

when you lack self awareness, you’re always once small step away from self-indictment, even self parody.

*video at link*

and this sort of revelation is powerful. it’s the way forward. we’re inhabiting an age of edits and manipulation, of soundbites and focus tested jargon and everyone simply being overfull of substances emanating from the southern end of northbound cattle. it just keeps getting worse and we just cannot keep living in echo chambers and having our opinions about what others think described to us by either their defenders or their detractors.

neither is accurate portrayal.

it’s the age of primary source material, so let’s use it.

let’s go right to the speakers and endlessly elicit their own speech about their own views. and let’s pay attention.

this is how you learn, it’s how you ensure accuracy in terms of reporting, and it’s incredibly potent as a convincer. “partisan talking head says person he does not like is a bad person” just does not cut any real ice any more. it’s hackneyed. who cares? who is persuaded? it’s all choir preaching from a redundant clerisy.

but here is varma in his own words telling you that he’s an awful person, that he lied, that he did not believe any of his own dictates enough to actually follow them, and that worst of all, he knows this. THAT has impact. that changes minds. it’s objective proof that trust in public health should never be uncritical and that perhaps skepticism even outright distrust constitutes a better base prior.

it’s how you learn to spot the bad ones.

some have argued that this is unfair or unjust or somehow “dirty” and more akin to spying than journalism.

i heartily disagree.

this is real public interest public service work. this is finding the truth about the people who deign to rule us. if that takes a little spycraft, so be it. it’s good for politicians to feel like they are always observed. it encourages decent behavior.

how much might have been avoided if more of this occurred?

how many might have been caught out and revealed as what they are?

the purpose of investigative journalism is to investigate, to ferret out hidden truth and cast light upon the dark places erected around liars and hypocrites.

so much of what passes for government and technocracy these days is really just aristocracy.

they care little for impact and less for you.

it’s about position, about power.

and no one who brags like jay should be allowed anywhere near power.

and the more insecure and unsettled we can make these people the better.

it’s how you dissuade cluster B.

let’s make the game no fun, a terror for the braggart and the egotist. let’s make it fearful, not fulfilling.

the state should fear the people, not the people the state.

and the signs are always there.

keep digging.

who knows what we’ll find next?

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Heh. GOTEM'

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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/mone ... ever-trust

more about this corrupt fuck at the link.

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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/writ ... -repeating
another good one

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Perhaps you saw this headline:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/health/c ... index.html
Covid-19 may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths for three years after an infection, study suggests

SOOPER scary right?

well, the science is broken:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urg ... -new-paper

URGENT: Authors of a big new paper on Covid's heart risks presented its results in a misleading way likely to scare people the paper itself shows are not in danger
The study, out on Wednesday, appears to have found NO extra long-term cardiovascular risks for most people infected with Covid. But the Cleveland Clinic, NIH, and the authors pretended the opposite.

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In the Cleveland Clinic press release, Dr. Hazen did not sugarcoat the dangers. “The findings reported are not a small effect in a small subgroup,” he said. “[They] point to a finding of global healthcare importance that promises to translate into a rise in cardiovascular disease globally.”

Except they don’t. Hazen’s promise isn’t true.

snip

For the vast majority of people who have had Covid, the research offered reassuring results. It showed essentially no increase in risk in heart attacks, strokes, or deaths for them.

snip

The entire extra danger they found appears to have come only from the extreme risk suffered by about 2,000 people who were hospitalized with a Covid-19 infection. Those people were almost four times as likely to die or have heart attacks or strokes as the control group.

The other 8,062 infected people - those infected but not hospitalized - suffered heart attacks, strokes, and deaths at basically the same rate as the control group.2

"The Science" Strikes again.