Archive for 2022

THREAT INFLATION: America is Controlled by Secrecy.

Nothing encourages conspiracy theories more than a government that’s dedicated to lies and secrecy. But bureaucrats lie and keep secrets by instinct.

OPEN THREAD: Say anything. ‘Cause I’ve heard everything.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

STACY MCCAIN: Can We Make Thursday ‘Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day?’

Recall that people are trying to de-platform Joe Rogan for hosting Dr. Robert Malone, who has popularized the “Mass Formation Psychosis” theory to explain public reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Well, here’s some news for you: They can’t de-platform everybody.

If all of us with access to digital platforms — bloggers, columnists, people on Twitter and Facebook, etc. — will unite behind this idea, we can defeat these censors and make it impossible for them to suppress the idea.

Therefore, I propose that this Thursday, Jan. 27, be declared “Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day.” The objectives:

  1. Call attention to the censorship campaign by which COVID-19 panic brigades are attempting to suppress criticism. If you look at the Google results, you’ll notice that the first page of results (which is all that most Googlers ever see) is dominated by “fact checks” and people endeavoring to “debunk” Mass Formation Psychosis as a “conspiracy theory.” This obviously reflects manipulation of the Google algorithm in an attempt to support censorship of Joe Rogan and others.

Read the whole thing.

HOW MUCH OF THE CONCERN OVER VARIANTS AND SUB-VARIANTS IS JUST A PRODUCT OF OUR ABILITY TO DO DETAILED DNA TESTING? Omicron ‘sub-variant’ throws up new virus questions.

Related: Deltacron: The story of the variant that wasn’t. “In an e-mail to Nature, Kostrikis explains that his initial hypothesis was that some Delta virus particles had independently evolved mutations in the spike gene similar to those common in Omicron. But after the wide news coverage, other scientists working on genetic sequencing and COVID-19 pointed out another possibility: a lab error.”

A FEMINIST ASKS: What if Brett Kavanaugh were Black?

Srinivasan acknowledges as much. In fact, she explores the liberal abuse of “believe all women” as a serious moral and cultural problem. She notes the work of Atlantic writer Jemel Hill. In October 2018, as the atomic blast surrounding the Kavanaugh hearing was slowly starting to dissipate, Hill went to Ozy Media’s “Take On America” town hall series in Baltimore. The gathering featured over 100 black men in the audience. Coming on the heels of the Kavanaugh battle, Hill was positive she was going to hear a lot of anguish over the Republican victory.

Instead, she heard support for Kavanaugh.

Well, false charges of rape by elite white women have a particular resonance for black men in America. The movie Marshall was all about that.

THIS SORT OF THING ISN’T EVEN A SURPRISE NOW:

THEY NEVER REGARD AN ELECTION AS LEGITIMATE UNLESS THEY WIN: Biden is hardly the first Democrat to try to delegitimize elections.

President Joe Biden joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and numerous other Democrats this week in a partisan attempt to preemptively delegitimize the 2022 election.

Twice the president was asked by reporters whether voters could trust the electoral system, and twice the president contended that a fair election was unlikely unless the Senate was blown up and the Democrats’ election power grab was passed — a maneuver that poses a far more serious and lasting threat to the constitutional order than anything Donald Trump is cooking up right now.

It’s only wrong to call elections illegitimate if you’re a Republican.