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The whole thing just seems like the techies, along with the institutions, want to have their cake and eat it too. But then, we don’t have the rule of law anymore.
DeSantis vs. Big Tech:
I don’t really see the reasoning for a violation of the first amendment given Section 230, which defines Tech as a platform, not a publisher. So if the challenge on first amendment grounds is as a publisher, then anti-trust is called for under Section 230 (or fines for each violation of such). If they are using the definition of a platform to avoid being sued for censorship under Section 230, then a court case would make 230 null and void, allowing users to sue.
Am I getting close? And yes, it should be more than DeSantis pushing this type of consumer protection. Forget the feds though because the techies are too deep into DNC pockets.
Baltimore
💉🍻SHOT & A BEERWe’re teaming up with @MDHealthDept & @BoydKRutherford for the GoVAX Tour. TOMORROW stop by the brewery for a free vaccine clinic from 4-7p. No appointment necessary. Get your vaccine & in return get a token for a free beer or snack. Let’s get vaccinated Bmore! pic.twitter.com/9ftAj78hrq
— UNION Craft Brewing (@UnionBrewing) May 26, 2021
They have to get us good and drunk first for the spike protein. Spiked beer for a spiked vaccine?
More CDC data manipulation.
And the key metric. I hope the jpg shows this time.
@Rototillerman
@Mr. HouseThank you for that information.
As for Deagal, maybe he got a call from upstairs to hide the vax fatalities? Lest the long term effects become questioned and increase “vaccine hesitancy.” Of course, Dr. D’s hypothesis has face validity as well.
That Denninger quote appears to be a great summary of where we are and how we got here, but I have been unable to source the paragraph on his site. I didn’t see it in the “Stop the Death Cult” article either, which ironically can’t be found on his site now (maybe on my end I have a backdoor invasion? I don’t know). If I could kindly get the source for Denninger I would love to read the whole piece.
Something that might be of interest, CJ Hopkins has another “New Normal” article that presents a very valid comparison.
Agreed. It seems many are more the willing to go along with the “Good German” model. CJ Hopkins has a meme getting right to the point. Hopefully it will post.
@John Day @Mister RobotoApologies for failing to answer replies to the last CJ Hopkins image I posted. I also lean left-libertarian, specifically between (-6, -6) and (.-7, -7) lower left quadrant. I do think, and would be curious about, a change in the survey that reflects COVID.
@Mr House
I posit that a government that lives in a fortress is not one that was duly elected, even if the constitutional process according to Congress played out in their favor. But at this point it tells us a lot.
Another COVID-19 media darling bites the dust. Reason using reason?
“Cooke disproves many of her claims, which have evolved substantially over time: Jones lacked the power to alter the “raw” numbers and was never asked to do so; indeed, by her own admission, the data she cites on her separate dashboard are identical to the government’s. Initially, Jones had “not alleged any tampering with data on deaths, hospital symptom surveillance, hospitalizations for COVID-19, numbers of new confirmed cases, or overall testing rates—core elements of any assessment of the outbreak and of federal criteria for reopening,” according to the Associated Press. “And Jones acknowledges Florida has been relatively transparent—for which she herself claims some credit—and relatively successful in controlling the pandemic.” But over time, her story became dramatic and elaborate: She accused Shamarial Roberson, Florida’s deputy secretary for health, of being a “liar, fraud, and murderer.”
But, we don’t fall for the vaccine BS, so they say we’re bad people.
“MIT researchers ‘infiltrated’ a Covid skeptics community a few months ago and found that skeptics place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism. “Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.””
Thanks again for the great links, Raul. I would like to add one I found last night that serves as a fairly good summary and analysis by Sahra Wagenknecht of the people that comprise “cancel culture.” The text is in German, so I had to translate using Google. This kind of aligns with the recent article by Matt Taibbi that asked what happened to liberalism.
“What makes the lifestyle left so unsympathetic in the eyes of many people, especially the less fortunate, is their obvious tendency to regard their privileges as personal virtues and to glorify their worldview and way of life as the epitome of progressiveness and responsibility. It is the complacency of the morally superior that exudes many lifestyle leftists, the all too intrusive conviction that they are on the side of good, law and reason. It is the arrogance with which they look down on the world, the needs, even the language of those people who have never been able to attend university, tend to live in a small-town environment and get the ingredients for their barbecue evening from Aldi simply because that money must last until the end of the month. And it is the unmistakable lack of compassion for those who have to fight much harder for their little wealth, if they have any at all, and who perhaps because of this sometimes appear tougher or grimmer and are in a bad mood. ”
A little early to state transmission from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated cannot happen, as studies are in the beginning stages of being conducted. If you have the raw data on that I would sure like to see it. Not so much a fear, but one of: IF this is COVID, it’s a big nothingburger. I, along with Dr. D, am in a Mr. House kind of mood today.
@ Mr. House
“I still stand by my original thesis, they needed a reason to print, the rest of the world went along with it because they don’t have any alternative to the american financial system yet.”
I would add to your thesis in that the last area for preventing financial system collapse was seen to be helicopter money (i. e., direct payments from the fed), which the COVID scare made a handy excuse to do.
After all that, I’m likely outside of the one sub-group with the highest mortality rate from COVID, as I’m not obese.
From gathering information here for quite awhile, with thanks to Ilargi for the time and effort it takes to compile, my own anecdotal experience with the COVID vaccine issue might be useful.
As I myself have not received the vaccine nor do I intend to at this point, my household members (heavy MSM watchers) have received the Pfizer vaccines. My mother received both doses and came down with symptoms approximately five days after the second dose (fever, fatigue, some chills, cough, and runny nose). Approximately the third day after her symptoms appears (while her symptoms receded), I came down with symptoms (loss of smell, cough, runny nose, fatigue, Everything but the fever.) that took me out for a couple of days of bed rest. Being 53 with multiple co-morbidities (Type I diabetic, hypercholesterolemia, couple of areas in the prostate under suspicion for cancer, mild COPD, VIT D deficiency that has me taking 2000 IU/day) conceptually places me in a high risk group. My suspicion is that COVID was transmitted through the vaccine from my mother to myself. I have to say, if this is COVID (at least for me), it sure seems like something that can be knocked out easily. If this is the apocalyptic plague our “betters” are hysterical about, they should crawl back into their holes.
My brother received his first dose last week, with follow up the beginning of May, so I’ll be on the lookout for symptoms again, but my guess is I have acquired natural immunity. The better kind.
While this might be a small nit to pick, it also presents as cause for legal action against any entity that seeks to force vaccinations or restrict other methods of treatment for COVID-19.
“This judgment “reinforces the possibility of a compulsory vaccination under conditions of the current COVID-19 epidemic,” Nicolas Hervieu, a legal expert specializing in the ECHR, told AFP.”
Epidemic, as opposed to pandemic, could be construed to mean we are for all intents and purposes no longer in a health emergency. Thus, all restrictions pertaining to said health emergency are null and void.
“I can think, and I don’t need or want you to think for me. ”
This right here is exactly what these school marms of cancel culture need every time they open their mouths. It cannot be said enough. because that is the ultimate aim of canceling. The notion they believe they need to tell us what to think is ludicrous on its face, and in the case of corporate media behind paywalls, I’m certainly NOT going to pay for the “privilege.”
@FarmerMcGregor
There’s a fairly good summary of the movie “Office Space” here.
Even 20 years it hits home.
“(Bloomberg) — The world is awash with too much savings and central banks don’t have the tools on their own to combat the economic stagnation that’s a result.
Translation: Too much money is being hoarded by the cartels and 1% and central banks don’t have the tools to combat it. Governments are too corrupt to address it.
Giuliani called New York City police to report the incident on July 7. It was no big story then, but it is now.
This week in the news: Rudy Guliani is really Al Bundy. Film at 11.
In America, I suspect that a true populist leader could only arise at the state level, and then from outside the two main parties.
Thanks for a great comment that illustrates the mechanics of the US political economy perfectly. I also like the Tommy Douglas reference. To that end, our Tommy Douglas would have to come from the kitchen table discussions that used to take place in past generations, but no more. Given that even families are polarized in the current political environment, we might be waiting awhile for the true populist to emerge.
