I deleted this, since it’s probably not unreasonable to view that as actually a bit racist. I say actually since the word is mincemeat, and can mean somebody wore a shirt that didn’t match their socks.
But think about it. Logically, if white oppression is the problem, then living in a black majority nation should fix it, right? Living in Kenya? Ethiopia? Sudan? Nigeria?
I think we all know this idea is farcical. First of all, there is 10x the opportunity here. This is why more black Africans have moved here voluntarily than were ever brought as slaves, and it seems safe to assume half the continent of Africa would move here tomorrow if they could. Their standard of living would jump immensely and immediately, even if they found themselves in urban ghettoes.
But to the point, black Africans are as, or more, bigoted than anyone else. They speak something like 75 languages in Ethiopia alone. Everyone there has a tribe, and if you are not in their tribe, they may be courteous, but you are not one of them, or so I would suppose.
In the world, and in human history, ONLY white people have been so eager to enfranchise the “other”. Only us.
I honestly think that if there was only one black person in the entire Black Lives Matter movement, that would be sufficient for most of them. The whole thing is an excuse for bullying, and for politics which allow for eventual bullying on a larger scale and on a larger stage. The live of ordinary blacks are lost entirely, opaque to the leaders, and a matter of complete indifference.
Wherever BLM is really causing trouble and damage, Democrats are allowing it. They are allowing it at the city level and allowing it at the State level. How is this Trump’s problem? Those people were voted in.
Trump’s silence has been taken for indifference, but I think 1) what should he do?; and 2) there’s a lot to be said for letting people who created the stew simmer in it. Let the radicals get what they want. Let crime rage on the streets. Let every semblance of order disappear.
The local leaders are not lacking resources. There is nothing Trump could provide they don’t have, other than a backbone.
By October this summer, or much of it, will have been forgotten. What will not be forgotten is the damage, and NONE of that can be blamed on Trump, and I think even rank and file, ordinary, CNN watching drones will figure that out eventually.
Does he have the right, as President, to tell Democrats not to act like Democrats? Does he have the right to tell them they can’t fail in their duties and let down the people who elected them? I don’t see it.
But what Trump DOES need is a clear plan to speak to black America. Thinking about it, Great Schools and Great Jobs is a good start. I said good in a post a week or two ago, because that is what is realistic, but Great sounds much better, and Make Black America Great Again sounds good too. Do people want to say that blacks were never great? They have endured so much, and for so long with dignity and restraint. Trump can and should focus on black accomplishment, not on black failure. To say whites are keeping them down is to say they are helpless, and when stated clearly, that is bad politics. And it is racist. Very, very racist.
Specifically, plans are needed. I think Federal funds should be withheld from all jurisdictions that fail to allow Charter Schools to be implemented, and ideally in tandem with some sort of Voucher program, at least for the poor.
Further, a “Rebuild the Inner Cities” program should be proposed, in which Federal money flows in generous quantities to businesses who choose to locate inside ghettos and lower income, crime ridden areas. Trump can promise to rebuild what was just destroyed, rather than let those places languish for fifty years like the Democrats did.
And at some point, it should be considered declaring BLM a terrorist organization. Certainly, wherever they appear shit gets broken, people are terrorized, and no good comes out of it.
Failing that, arrests still need to be made of people involved across State lines in organizing violence. THAT he can do. THAT he should do.
Timing is everything, but that Antifa has some people who are directing “operations” at a regional level seems obvious. We have the technology to figure out who, and to document it. Those people need to be cuffed and to spend some quality time in Leavenworth.
Again, this may not be the right time. The radical, violent, and nihilistic anti-Americanism of these people is still being revealed and shown to the American people.
There is every reason to be patient right now, I think. And I find Maxwell’s arrest very encouraging. I really, really hope that thought has been put into how to protect her, and in how to turn her into an asset in the war on the evil psychopaths who seem to have paraded around her everywhere in her life. She is as good as Epstein, or nearly so. After the first arrest, you will be able to hear a pin drop in large segments of Washington, I suspect.
And personally, I want everyone who is guilty arrested. Not just Democrats. If they did it, put them in jail, party affiliation notwithstanding. All of them that we can get cases on.
It is larger if you open it in another tab. The orange line is the CDC established level at which something becomes a pandemic, which is when it reaches a certain percentage of overall deaths. We dropped below that line several weeks ago.
Here is the thing: the way these things seem to work is cycles. We not only flattened the curve, but we eradicated it. This chart does not mean there will not be another surge in death when we open the gates, but THAT we need to open the gates, and do it NOW, is really beyond dispute in my mind. The only reasons not to do so are purely political.
And if you didn’t know this, why not? This has been my gut, obviously, for some time.
And I think most of the higher reaches of this graph contain large quantities of bullshit.
The question remains: WHY did we react to this pandemic differently from every other one in the history of the world? I don’t really think the answer is conspiracy theory, so much as reasonably obvious conspiracy FACT.
All the agents–the journalists–all their handlers, and everyone connected to such operations could be arrested and put in jail for a long time.
If I am correct, then this SHOULD be done. There is no need for the world to lose its mind. We simply have to deduct the propaganda, which becomes all the more egregious when originating from within.
I would add that it should be illegal for foreign nations to buy covert influence too, China specifically.
But the people who are dying at all ages are people with chronic healthy problems, and it seems safe to suppose it is more or less ONLY those with health problems who are dying at ages younger than 65-70 or so. They are Vitamin D deficient, have substantial inflammation, and usually 2-3 other health complaints, like diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure.
If we selected the people who got injected with the virus, we could pick the healthy ones. We could screen everyone.
And I continue to believe that if the virus were injected rather than inhaled, the mortality rate would be much lower still. I’m not expert, but the experts don’t seem to be experts either. It’s fucking amateur hour all around, so I belong on that stage too.
I really, truly think we could use variolation [note: I looked it up, and this term mainly or exclusively applies to smallpox, but I am resurrecting it for COVID. Sometimes new problems demand old solutions] as a vaccination method NOW, and that it would both be more efficacious than any vaccine which might come down the pike eventually, and much, much, much more safe. You could simply infect people, wait a day, draw blood, then it might be as simple as injecting the infected blood into someone else, after checking for other illnesses.
I really think it would be safer than the ordinary vaccinations that we routinely give to children. And in any event we could make it voluntary, and an available alternative to a vaccine, if one ever comes that doesn’t kill every other person it touches.
And BTW I found this digging around for numbers: https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/tools/vaccinfosheets/en/
It lists a variety of vaccines and the safety rates that the WHO is willing to report. I found it interesting that 1 in every 2-3,000 measles vaccine injections results in “febrile seizures”. I don’t think I need a medical degree to say that some percentage of those result in permanent complications. Many are listed at 1 in 10 to the sixth, which is a million.
Encephalomyelitis, for example, is a one in a million event. But if you give 10 million injections, you get ten kids who are really messed up. Permanent brain damage or autism is well within the range of possibilities.
According to the CDC 3.7 million kids, or thereabouts, are born each year. If they all get the MMR, which they are supposed to, then the M alone could generate 3-4 cases of brain damage. Add all the rest of it up, and you have thousands of cases of sickness and perhaps up to a couple dozen cases of permanent physical damage.
Anyone who says vaccines are completely safe would do well to read the WHO website. And I’m treating these numbers as accurate. My gut tells me that is unwise.
Then he could issue nationwide guidelines that all States use the same accounting methods.
This is a guess. I have not studied the economics of that period in depth. Far more people lived on farms. But how would people who lived hand to mouth have fed themselves? How would we not have precipitated, then, a massive Depression, in the midst of a truly horrifying pandemic?
Sterile footage of an actual hearing in Texas, in which the level to be classified a “COVID” case is lowered to the point of farce.
As I understand it, if you go to a bar, and someone who was at that bar is later formally diagnosed with COVID-19, in theory the State-wide standards could allow them to classify EVERYONE who was at that bar as a “probable” COVID case, particularly if they have a headache and fever the next day, even if it is obviously from their hangover.
And then, based on this, new disasters are declared.
This whole thing is a fucking joke. Not for the old and sick, obviously, but for most of us, whose lives have been turned upside down by the RESPONSE to what we continue to be told is the terrible danger.
Twain is always worth recycling: Lies, damned lies, and COVID statistics.
We are being played. And you know who is being hurt the worst? The working poor, those whose jobs involve face to face contact, and who have not been allowed to work for three months and counting.
Self evidently, this applies to the blacks, whose lives the white Communists ruining our streets say “matter” to them. They don’t matter. Nobody matters to them.
I am astonished at the cowardice I see all around me. I don’t want to suffer. I don’t even want to be inconvenienced. But we are all destined to die. It can’t be avoided.
And more importantly, we are all destined to LIVE until we die, and living on your knees is no life at all. What is beautiful in what our forebears have built and protected can be taken. NOW is the time to protect it, not least by educating ourselves, and by SPEAKING truth to violence, truth to outrage, truth to slander, truth to unbearable mendacity.