Giving is limitless, but taking is not.
And lasting sadness is a symptom of the disease of excessive attachment.
Giving is limitless, but taking is not.
And lasting sadness is a symptom of the disease of excessive attachment.
The fetishization even of corrupted expertise
I read that the CDC recently concluded that only about 6% of COVID deaths came without major other ailments being present, including most obviously the frailty of old age.
In other words, this particular disease has not killed anyone that flu might not also have killed.
And we would NEVER push known flu patients into the most high risk environments possible like nursing homes. That is perhaps 40,000 deaths right there.
So if you deduct the lies–people who died in motorcycle accidents or simply of old age–and deduct the deaths from criminally stupid policy, such as that enacted by Cuomo, then what you have left is a bad flu, which is what all of us paying attention were saying back in March.
Nothing has changed, other than that we have inflicted for nothing an enormous wound on the global psyche, wrecked the global economy, put many millions at risk of starvation and the certainty of hunger and privation, destroyed up to perhaps 100 million jobs worldwide–some perhaps for quite while–and taught our governments a lesson in how compliant most of us are, a lesson they won’t forget.
My hope is that the blind faith in “experts” with which we are inculcated from the earliest age becomes shaken a bit. We assume that if “science” is supposedly guiding people, that science is in fact guiding people. But science is not guiding Anthony Fauci or the WHO. Quite the contrary: they are burying the science, and doing their best to kill it.
Most Americans are very naive. One can hope that changes a bit.
“We’ve known for 7 months that this was coming to the United States, because the World Health Organization, under the directive of Bill Gates, has laid out a two-year COVID-19 lockdown blueprint which doesn’t loosen restrictions, but only incrementally tightens them. And when they’re done, if the public doesn’t resist, and if national and state governments don’t wake up and say ‘no’, the overblown COVID-19 hoax will transfer the once-free West completely into the arms of the 21st-century technocracy tyranny: Forced inoculations to travel on airplanes, have a job, visit a grocery store, or even leave your house. Airborne and ground drones conducting forced medical tests on a routine basis, medical ID apps in all of our phones tracking where we can go and what we can do. All of this is being beta-tested, all of this is being rolled out.
This is our destiny if we don’t stand up and say no, and lift our voices towards the heavens and scream, “Freedom!”. If we don’t, welcome to the New World Order and forced globalist depopulation. It’s not coming — it’s here.”
https://www.infowars.com/forced-covid-19-testing-at-highway-checkpoints-announced-by-dems/
Two operations inside of a week, conducted by the US Marshals. Here is my question: why didn’t the FBI do this?
I am going to speculate that Trump has found the FBI is leaky to the point of being a sieve. I wonder if it might not be easier to close them down and start again–possibly after beefing up and handing over their duties to the Marshals for a time–than to try and figure out who is honest and who is a sick pedophile.
Is it not reasonable to suppose other such operations have been planned and executed, but by the time the FBI got there everyone had disappeared? You know, texts (I think it was texts) like Matt Damon sent in “The Departed”?
Is it not possible Trump has been trying to figure out how to execute the reportedly tens of thousands of sealed warrants, but been unable to find an agency reliable enough to actually do it without tipping all the high profile targets off?
You know, I’m physically strong and large, have a fairly high physical pain tolerance and even higher emotional pain tolerance, and am definitely not a coward, but I have to say, there are a lot of days I have more in common with Nathan Lane in “The Bird Cage” than I do Michael Corleone.
This is a part of my on-going inventory taking. I don’t have any idea who I am, at root. I’m still trying to figure it out. What I definitely think I am not is an honest tough guy. I can dissociate, and do what needs to be done, but it always takes a toll. I can’t do it over the long haul.
I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know quite a few Special Operations types over the years, and whatever they have, I don’t, I don’t think. The one question mark is that I am very certainly obsessive. Harnessed and pushed in the right direction, it could make a difference in my performance capacity. I am driven emotionally, but would need to figure out how to steer straight, something I have never yet managed to do.
I was talking with an ex-SAS guy a month or two ago, and he figured it was just something you were born with. I said “like the ability to sing?”, and he thought for moment, smiled-ish, and said yes.
My whole life has been focused on conflict. I have never known a moment’s complete rest. Relatively speaking, of course, countless moments. I get to sleep every night. But I have never had faith in people or the future. Life has never seemed to me like something likely to work out for me. It has never seemed like sustained happiness of any sort was in the cards for me.
A couple times in recent days, though, I caught a whiff of something different, something peaceful, something conflict free, and it felt strange, but good. Some part of me will no doubt push it away many times, but it’s in my mind now, and some parts of my affective world remains under my conscious control, so I think I can slowly reel it closer, at least, and hopefully eventually into that event-prone and moving gestalt I call my Self.
I will add that the manliest men are loving and kind. That I think I can do, over some time horizon. Not super close at the moment.
What would cause someone who still hates Trump after all the lies have been revealed as lies to reconsider their views?
What breaks the spell? How do we rebuild a culture of decency and mutual respect and respect for the truth?
Whatever the answer–if it is even possible, if the weight of the stupidity, greed, and ignorance in this country does not break us–it will not be easy. It will be long and difficult.
And I am gratified to read that most folks think the Republican Convention went really well, and that polling is clearly indicating a Republican advantage.
Still, we live in a nation where people are capable of knowing the facts about Joe Biden–that he is old, senescent, creepy, dishonest, corrupt, unintelligent, and incompetent, with Harris herself being a Castro style radical who would destroy us utterly as well–and still voting for him.
What should any of us do with that fact? How to explain it? The media? Shitty educations? Fear? Complacency?
This is one of the Big Questions which is invisible to most.
I would say of Biden the same thing I said about Obama: the problem is not Biden, but that people are CAPABLE of voting for him. The problem is with the nation and its people, and it is a deep, deep problem.
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds arguing about mask wearing, and the hours bars should be open, and the this and that, while missing the big picture that everything everyone is talking about is designed to LENGTHEN not just the pandemic–the phase where we are seeing new cases–but also the following measures. The measures, themselves, lead to more measures, as the system is being iterated and implemented right now. We keep being told that we beat the virus by slowing it down. This is the OPPOSITE of the truth.
Farr’s Law describes a Bell Curve. Imagine it as a physical hill. People are dying as long as we are on the hill, and the number goes up the longer we are on that hill. Those are ancillary but related numbers, such as suicides, drug overdoses, preventable or treatable cancer deaths, and deaths from stress of all sorts, all of which together will dwarf COVID deaths, especially NOW, since most of our dying seems to be done.
Imagine it is a mile from bottom to bottom, with 2,000 feet of elevation. What sane person would pause every five feet? That is what we are doing. Every time we open up a little, and cases go up–which is the way it HAS to work for us to get through this thing–many Governors (the Democrats are by far the worst, but I am seeing Republicans who are not much better) they slow it down again by imposing new constraints on our freedoms.
This system is more or less designed to get us AT LEAST to November, and ideally to the two year lockdown that Bill Gates and the Communist (he is literally in my view a Communist, with Communism being an ideology which caused a hundred million unnatural deaths in the past 100 years) head of the WHO are trying to get to. The goal, clearly, is to ruin most of us and make us dependent on government hand outs which can be taken away if we misbehave.
The whole thing is madness. It is madness that our Governors are participating, and madness that the architects of this disaster feel bold enough to describe their plans clearly and in broad daylight.
None of this has anything to do with Trump, who as the leader of the Executive Branch of the Federal government is not empowered to directly order States to do anything. It’s all on the Governors, who are showing themselves to be unprincipled ignorant assholes, in the main (South Dakota and a few others excepted; Tennessee is doing a good job, as is I think Georgia and maybe Florida).
Remember, cases HAVE to go up, a LOT, before they come back down. That is HOW IT WORKS.
And again, we have a good curative and we have a proven vaccine: Hydroxychloroquine. The Communist running the WHO told the world to stop using, in my view for the specific reason that it works.
And I would add that a sane response–in addition to using HCQ everywhere, which alone would most likely have sufficed, and gotten us to Swiss numbers–would have been to recommend everyone take vitamins daily, get as much sun as possible, travel less and go out less, and for the elderly and sickly to mostly stay home, and perhaps for those visiting them to wear masks and not get too close to them. But otherwise, for life to continue as normal. Certainly, many businesses might have gone to a work at home option, and some particularly fearful business owners might have taken a month off, but that should have been the extent of it. That’s what Sweden did, and there is every reason to think that we would be where they are now if we had done that.
I personally think one of the reasons the Scandinavian countries in general did better than much of Europe is the amount of Vitamin D in their diets. Nobody anywhere seems to have been offering specific, medically sound recommendations on supplements, even though the evidence for their value emerged robustly and nearly immediately.
It occurs to me that, in my understanding, the CIA is very explicitly forbidden by law from operating in the United States, for very obvious reasons.
Any assets they are paying in our national news media are therefore criminals, and liable to Federal arrest and prosecution, as are their handlers and anyone who can be shown to have known about this arrangement.
I figure at least a third of the people we see on TV would disappear if this happened. And something like it NEEDS to happen. We cannot go on with this madness, with this fog of egregious and shameless lies, forever.
That would be one legal remedy, consistent with the First Amendment.
To be at risk of starvation is certainly to be hungry, poor, and at least physically miserable. It is to be in pain.
Ponder the morality of people capable of inflicting this on humanity, in pursuit, presumably, of an ideological goal.
The WHO head is a Communist, but he is not a doctor. He wants to push this thing out two years. He does not want to recommend HCQ, which at this point is a more or less proven curative and preventative.
These people are MONSTERS. Abominations. Evil, wicked, disgusting human beings who in a just world would be tried, sentenced and shot for crimes against humanity.
I think people get tired pondering all this. They can’t take it in: it is much too large, and all of us individually are much too small.
But I literally think what is going on is that this is a part of a plan to take down America, by taking down Trump. If they accomplish the latter, they accomplish the former. And if they take down America, they take down the world. Most of Europe has already shown itself to be cravenly submissive, and the rest of the world is just a footnote. Japan is militarily insignificant.
Russia, perhaps, is a fly in the ointment. That is why we have seen so much anti-Russian propaganda.
But make no mistake: global prosperity and liberty–which could be generalized and increased for the first time in human history–are in grave jeopardy, and the people we are facing are literally willing to countenance a hundred million OR MORE unnatural deaths–along with all the pain, indignity, horror and injustice that go along with them–to accomplish their demonic aims.
Trump is the only antidote right now to this poison. I truly believe that. And whatever honest Republicans and perhaps few Democrats (Tulsi Gabbard) remain.