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MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS:  Transcript of Joe Rogan Interviewing Dr. Robert Malone.

When a government hates the country it governs so much that it thinks it’s fair and logical to use psychological techniques against it that it wouldn’t use against enemies, in an open war.

If at the end of this #teamheadsonpikes doesn’t go gamboling, we need — at the very least — trials for the massive deception and harm perpetrated on America and the west.

And the rest of the world too. But you know and I know these chapeaux de derrierres were trying to eliminate the west. They’re simple minded beings, with a simple faith that the rest of the world is perfect. In other words, oikophobic morons.

THEY JUST WANT A RIDE TO SPACE:  Cats are cozying up to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites.

They think these are mini stargates. It’s their way of saying “Beam me up, Elon, there’s no intelligent life down here.”

HOW ESTABLISHMENT GOP MONEY FUNDED ABORTION PILL EFFORT: The Washington Free Beacon headline this morning on Collin Anderson’s illuminating story on how the recent abortion pill approval by the FDA came about emphasizes the link to population control. But there’s much more to this story.

At the center of the beaucoup money that fueled the successful campaign by the usual assortment of liberal foundations and activists was the fortune left behind by David Packard, once a giant of the Republican Establishment. Packard viewed population control as Job #1 for his foundation. His kids and grandkids took that mandate as a justification for spending huge chunks of the Packard fortune on abortion.

“Those expenditures have allowed Packard’s successors to deliver significant victories in furthering the late billionaire’s anti-natalist agenda. Take, for example, the Food and Drug Administration’s December decision to ease the process for getting a chemical abortion pill,” Anderson writes.

“The Packard Foundation played a central role in the deregulation fight, funneling millions to liberal advocacy groups that spearheaded the legal and political push to remove the FDA’s abortion pill barriers. The foundation meanwhile invested millions of dollars into GenBioPro, the only company that makes a generic form of the abortion drug.”

BUT THEY ORDERED IT DONE IN A VERY PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS-LIKE WAY:  Taliban orders shop owners in Afghanistan to behead all mannequins.

THAT IS THE ONLY PERFORMANCE BIDEN HAS:  Joe Biden Decries the Evils of Big Meat in Bizarre, Senile Performance.

THE ONLY PLACE SHE LOOKS NATURAL?  AOC Caught Living It Up in Miami Without a Mask at a Drag Bar.

WHEN GOVERNMENTS ARE AT WAR WITH THEIR PEOPLE:  The West Is Burning Down Before Our Eyes.

When in the course of human events….

WHICH ONLY MAKES SENSE WHEN YOU REALIZE THE ONLY PANDEMIC GOING ON IS A TOTALITARIANISM PANDEMIC:   Rhode Island Allowing COVID Positive Health Care Workers to Work Amid Shortages.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LAW ISN’T EQUALLY APPLIED TO ALL:  Highest in 25 Years: Cook County Saw 1,087 Homicides in 2021, 836 of Which Happened in Chicago.

And when a government uses career criminals as weapons against the populace.

AND ALSO GROSS STUPIDITY:  NY State Advantaging Non-Whites For Covid Therapeutics Reflects Growing Racial Radicalization Of Medicine.

Look, white people are still by far the majority in this country. When you take in account that Hispanic/Latin is cultural, not racial, the left’s insane importing of people who consider themselves white only bolsters that.  Yet our mentally defective health establishment thinks it can treat white people as the Nazis treated the Jews, and there will be no retribution and no consequences.

May the Good Lord save me from fools. The evil, I can handle myself.

I HAVE A COMMENTER WHO IS… WHAT’S THE WORD? PROBLEMATIC: Okay, to understand this you have to get that for years he was more or less a functional troll on the blog, though his trolls were very polite, and designed to make us think (I think. Though he admits at times he wasn’t very sane.) So for years, we spent our time screaming “Stop it Bob” and “No, Bob” and “That’s unconscionable, Bob.”
Then sometime in 2020 Bob started making sense. He’s been making more sense every passing month. This worries me for obvious reasons. First, it likely is a sign of the apocalypse.  Second, how can we be sure Bob has gotten saner, and not we….  you know….  Case Study in Thinking About Fractally Wrong Ideas by Bob Fool.

IF WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT:  When does Trump get his apology?

No, I don’t think the vaccines made much difference (if any. Sorry.) What I do think is that if we’re going to apologize to Trump, it’s time to start with the Russia!Russia!Russia! hoax! hoax! hoax! and continue all along the line. Never has a man been more maligned. And I say this as someone who thinks he has rats in his head about COVID (which probably have their basis in his germophobia. — and why for heaven’s sake does my spell check recognize homophobia but not germophobia, which I’m sure I’m misspelling?)

WELL, GOOD: Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the pandemic and ‘we will have our normal lives back in two months.’ “But while infection numbers in countries with the variant are soaring, the expert said that the highly infectious Omicron appears milder than the Delta variant, and therefore more people will be infected without having serious symptoms. As a result, she said, this will provide a good level of immunity in the population.”

JEFFREY CARTER: Theranos, Guilty On Four Out of Eleven Charges. “She created a lot of deception. Her stories of forced sex are her playing the victim card. It’s not relevant. She sold a bill of goods to investors that she knew was false. At the same time, the investors weren’t smart enough to sniff it out.”

Theranos’ board of directors, which included such “wise men” as Henry Kissinger, Jim Mattis, and George Schultz, wasn’t very wise either, it turned out. Which explains a lot.

A FRIEND COMMENTS: “I have decided all the commentariat endlessly tweaking over 06JAN21 have Insurrectile Dysfunction.”

OPEN THREAD: Praise You.

“A lot of people don’t realize but it honestly takes a lot of skill to dance that bad that well.” Story of my life.

GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA TWEAKING RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: Here Comes the Stacey Abrams Media Rebrand.

The article goes on to quote an Abrams spokesman who confirmed that the former progressive icon is actually a pragmatic moderate now who “defines herself by her values and her ability to deliver results for the common good by navigating disparate groups and ideologies.”

The rebrand might have something to do with the fact that Abrams and other “bold progressives” didn’t fare so well in 2018. Abrams did not win in Georgia, notwithstanding her dangerous plot to subvert democracy by claiming otherwise. Plenty of progressive candidates sought the Democratic nomination in 2020, only to be trounced by the bumbling geezer who wrote the 1994 Crime Bill.

This year’s election cycle is shaping up to be even more unfavorable for Democrats, mostly as a result of Joe Biden’s failed presidency. If Abrams has to pretend to be a moderate to have any shot at winning, the media will be more than happy to oblige.

An Oceania-level pivot should be no problem for Abrams and the DNC-MSM: Stacey Abrams tells Rachel Maddow she ‘did not challenge the outcome’ of 2018 election.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China aims to complete space station in another huge year in space.

REP. BOBBY RUSH TO RETIRE AFTER 15 TERMS.

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., the former Black Panther, ex-Chicago alderman, member of Congress and a minister, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday that he will not seek another term.

Rush, first elected to Congress in 1992, said in an interview he intends to stay active in his ministry and find ways to use his remarkable life story — a trajectory from a 1960s radical to House member — to inspire younger generations.

Since his first election to Congress when he toppled a Democratic incumbent in the primary, Rush, with enormous name recognition from his Black Panther days, has kept an iron grip on his first congressional district, famously defeating then state Sen. Barack Obama in the 2000 Democratic primary.

Rush, 75, has won each primary and general election by overwhelming margins in the district, anchored on Chicago’s South Side and running through the city’s southern suburbs.

David Mark of the Washington Examiner notes that Rush “is the 20th House member not seeking reelection or running for another office. Sixteen are Democrats and four are Republicans.”

Earlier: 2022 is likely to be a brutal year for Joe Biden and Democrats.

But don’t get cocky. As Glenn has written, “If you want to win, donate and volunteer. Winning takes work, and commenting on Internet blogs, even this one, doesn’t count.”

(Via Newsalert.)

THAT’S ONE WAY TO MAKE AN EXIT: Antonio Brown’s meltdown may cost him more than spot on the Tampa Bay Bucs. Head Coach Bruce Arians said after the incident that Brown was ‘no longer a Buc.’ “He needed eight more receptions, 55 more receiving yards and another receiving touchdown to hit three separate bonuses that would have earned him $333,000 each. Brown had three catches for 26 yards and was targeted five times. It’s unclear what sparked the outburst on the sideline that left the wide receiver to walking off the field.”

Related: Everyone’s Saying Same Thing About Mike Tomlin, Antonio Brown. “Many have since taken to social media to praise Tomlin for how he was able to handle things during Brown’s time in Pittsburgh. ‘Credit to Mike Tomlin, he had both Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell for years and kept that circus under control,’ one fan tweeted.”

UPDATE: Slap Shot redux? AB’s million-dollar “take this job and shove it” moment. “At first, people assumed that Arians had benched Brown and that Brown overreacted to it. Later, the Tampa Bay Times reported the opposite happened — Arians wanted Brown to go into the game, and Brown refused. Arians was already down one star receiver in Chris Godwin and Brady needed reliable targets in a game that the Bucs were losing at the time.  An argument ensued, during which Arians apparently told Brown to ‘get out,’ and Brown decided to pull his stunt…In one sense, Arians was trying to put cash in Brown’s pocket by getting him on the field. Brown had five-plus quarters left in the season to get eight more catches from the GOAT Tom Brady, who might still be the greatest QB in the league for this season alone as well. Fifty-five yards would have been child’s play for a Brady-Brown combo, and the pair could have racked up a TD almost at will. That dance cost Brown one million dollars, in opportunity cost alone. It will likely cost him his paycheck for the next game, too. He signed a one-year, $3.1 million contract in April, which comes up to $182,350-plus per game. That wasn’t the kind of paycheck that [Johnny] Paycheck wanted to shove, needless to say.”

MORE: Report: Antonio Brown claims ankle injury prevented him from re-entering Bucs game.

Arians reportedly told Jay Glazer that Brown had refused to return to the game in the second half when he was told to. But according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Brown felt he was too injured to return to the game at that point. He’d missed several weeks with an ankle injury — which happened to almost exactly coincide with his fake vaccine card suspension — and had been limited leading up to Week 17 after tweaking it in practice.

What he told the staff, from what I understand, is that he was not going into the game because, in his mind, he did not feel he was healthy,” Rapoport said. “The response then from the offensive coaches and from Bruce Arians was, ‘If you are not gonna go into the game when we tell you to go into the game, then you cannot be here.’ At that point, they threw him off the sidelines and then cut him from the team.”

Was Brown’s ankle injury really the cause of his exit?

Brown’s reported claim that he was too injured to play adds a new wrinkle to everything we already know. It’s certainly plausible it was the cause, because an ankle injury would have prevented him from playing last month had he not been suspended by the NFL.

However, Brown didn’t seem to be favoring his ankle when he was jumping around in the end zone and running to the locker room.

And considering Brown’s history of being difficult, the injury story Rapoport relayed feels too simple and one-sided to be the whole truth. It may have played a part, but there’s probably more to this strange incident we have yet to hear about.

Arians doesn’t confirm injury story

If there is more to this incident, Arians didn’t reveal it when he spoke with the media on Monday. He very noticeably did not confirm that report that Brown refused to re-enter the game due to an injury.

At the moment though, “Antonio Brown still with Bucs despite assertions to the contrary…‘That’s up to [general manager Jason Licht] and what he wants to do,’ Arians said when asked about how the Buccaneers will move on from Brown. According to ESPN, the Buccaneers were talking with the NFL about to move forward with Brown’s situation. The wide receiver is sure to face some kind of discipline from the NFL due to the outburst and leaving the stadium in the middle of the game against the New York Jets. The Buccaneers still had Brown on their official roster.”

(Updated and bumped.)

DON’T SMOKE IN BED: This Mysterious Fire in Australia Has Been Burning For at Least 6,000 Years.

DEVELOPING: Jury finds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty on multiple charges in criminal fraud trial.

THE FIGHT AGAINST SEXISM: The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters.’ Their battle cry: “Feminism is a mental illness.”

Perhaps they’ve looked at the contemporary United States and drawn their own conclusions about what feminism leads to. This would appear to be part of the global backlash — especially outside the Anglosphere — against contemporary campus-left politics. See also the French government’s anti-woke crusade.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP:

“We had a collaboration with some Chinese Commu…uh..Chinese Scientists” pic.twitter.com/k8e37I7p8k

— Jamie Dlux 🛸💨 (@jamiedlux) December 30, 2021