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I dunno. At that point it was probably best to just the give the man what he wanted and open wide.
Climate change, COVID, and other things...
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I dunno. At that point it was probably best to just the give the man what he wanted and open wide.
Will Trump Ever Admit Lockdown Was a Mistake?
The Republican convention made for great television, both entertaining and exciting, and infused with incredible energy after Trump’s miraculous survival of the assassination attempt. In the backdrop was been the astounding upheaval among Democrats: the drive (since achieved) to push Biden aside and get the top of the ticket replaced sooner rather than later, for fear of electoral loss in November.All of this makes for wonderful drama, perfect for maximum views, public engagement and the great American sport of politics.
It’s probably too much to ask for blunt truth in such contexts but there was and is one subject missing from the entire situation, and it provides the context for the rest. Whether it is the meltdown of trust, the inflation eating away purchasing power, the hard hit to household finances, the ill-health, the battle between the new media and old, and practically every other symptom you can name, they all trace to the same turning point.
That turning point was of course March 2020, about which one heard next to nothing (so far as I know) at the convention. That is for an obvious reason. The turning occurred under the first Trump term, and the policies continued and intensified in the Biden term.
That makes it impossible for the Republicans to credibly claim an outstanding record from the first term. Perhaps they can make a case for 2017 to 2019 but the entire model blew up in 2020 and the Trump administration never recovered.
In Don Jr.’s speech, he spoke about all the ways in which the establishment has attempted to thwart his father’s political fortunes. The litany is familiar and true: the Russia hoax, the Ukraine phone call, the Hunter Biden laptop, the lawfare and unjust persecutions, the relentless media attacks and so on.
But his list completely left out the biggest issue of all, namely the Covid response. At some point, the exclusion of this topic moved from puzzling to creepy, as if we were all supposed to forget.
Trump himself mentioned the Covid response obliquely in passing, once again saying that he doesn’t get enough credit for what he did. But he now knows better than in the past not to mention the shot, of which he was once very proud but the very mention of it now elicits boos, which he knows. So he excludes it from his stump speech.
Otherwise, he has never spoken in any detail about the precise conditions that led him to approve the lockdowns, flipping from having opposed them on March 9th 2020 to approving them two days later.
We still do not know how or why this happened, much less precisely who or what was involved. We have a sense but we do not know for certain. The common belief in the Republican Party and beyond is that Trump was roiled by his bureaucracy, convinced to go along with policies and ideas that wrecked the country and arguably lost him the Presidency.
After all, it was his own CDC that issued the call for mail-in ballots on March 12th 2020, about which Trump complained in his speech. If this was his own CDC from even before the declaration of emergency (March 13th) and the lockdown press conference (March 16th), what does that say about what was happening behind the scenes to undermine the administration?
According to all autobiographical accounts of the main players – all of which could of course be fake – Trump was only confronted with the supposed need to lock down the country over the weekend of March 14th and 15th. Why would the CDC have intervened with an urge for mail-in voting liberalisation, a dramatic upending of all U.S. election protocols, without Trump’s permission?
Why is no one asking this question? And that’s only one of a million questions that we and so many others have about what unfolded in those days. It is not as if this doesn’t matter. The Bill of Rights was effectively deleted. As Justice Gorsuch has written:
That was just the beginning. The event kicked off the most incredible federal Government spending binge since World War II. No one likes to talk about this either, though in the annals of fiscal policy, it goes down in history.
Again, in contemporary America, plenty of partisan truths become sayable and enjoy vast public attention. But if both parties and two administrations have their handprints all over the worst series of policy decisions in modern history, the subject is made to disappear.
This is even more true because only a handful of nations in the entire world did not follow this path entirely. These decisions have set off a global economic stagnation and arguably led to war and a migration crisis, not to mention the breakdown of international trade.
Under such conditions, it somehow becomes easier just to sweep the whole thing under the rug, which is precisely what is happening. Remember too that all major media participated in ginning up global frenzy for lockdowns while digital corporations and all major social media platforms engaged in vast censorship of the opposition.
Indeed, this period set up the model that most tech platforms now follow: censor now before anything unapproved is allowed to float around and enter the public mind. All litigation aside, censorship is now the norm.
The demographics reinforce the point. Lifespans are falling faster than before. The substance abuse problems are still pandemic-level. The birth rate has fallen. There are other more hidden crises: church attendance is at historic lows, museums are only half-full and major arts venues still experience financial hardship while many are closing up. All of this is true regardless of strong evidence of wholly unnecessary vaccine injury and death.
One might suppose there would be some mechanism operating in the world that would drive public culture toward an awareness of cause and effect, accountability for actions and knowledge of the how and why of major and even epic changes in the course of our lives and civilisation itself. One might hope.
Now we know there are conditions under which that is not the case. If too many people screwed up, everyone’s hands are on the actions, all official institutions cooperated and plenty of the most influential players in economics and public culture came out financially and politically ahead, the whole subject can be made to go away.
This does not need to be the result of conspiracy. It is merely a tacit agreement, an extension of individual and institutional self-interest.
Where does this leave us? It means that accountability is highly unlikely. Whatever changes happen to pandemic protocols, even if they do happen, will be made quietly and without debate. The institutions that have experienced a loss of trust will be gradually diminished in public importance, replaced by new ones at some point, but the timing remains unclear.
Yes, this is enormously frustrating. Readers of Brownstone are aware. Brownstone Journal is widely cited in literature, including legal cases. The institution garners millions of readers. Breaking through to the public mind is another question. Reaching official culture and changing it is yet another layer.
This takes us to the subject of social change. Why, how and when does it happen? Thomas Kuhn’s magisterial treatise The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) reconstructs the history of science. In contrast to the Whig theory of history, which posits a smooth trajectory of intellectual advancement, Kuhn describes scientific knowledge as moving episodically from orthodoxy to crisis to paradigm shift to pre-paradigmatic to the coalescing around a new orthodoxy.
Crucial to his story is the unwillingness of the guardians of the collapsed orthodoxy ever to admit error. Kuhn’s outlook is oddly demographically determinative. The old generation has to die out and a new one be born, come of age and work on a replacement. To be sure, his outlook pertains to scientific postulates. He made no attempt to expand his model more broadly to other disciplines, much less to the whole of society.
And yet here we are, in the midst of a gut-wrenching and mind-blowing cranking of the machinery of control in all levels of society and culture the world over. Centralised, mechanised and systematised compulsory systems of public control over all aspects of our lives seem to have reached some kind of preposterous pinnacle: six feet apart, control of domestic capacity, shutting of business, the abolition of public worship, not to mention hundreds of utterly crazy nostrums of disease mitigation, none of which actually worked.
What does this do? It discredits everything and everyone involved, even if they never admit it. Will this bring about change? We shall see. It looks more and more like this will happen. The machine that wrecked the world has also wrecked itself.
Again, in contemporary America, plenty of partisan truths become sayable and enjoy vast public attention. But if both parties and two administrations have their handprints all over the worst series of policy decisions in modern history, the subject is made to disappear.
This is even more true because only a handful of nations in the entire world did not follow this path entirely. These decisions have set off a global economic stagnation and arguably led to war and a migration crisis, not to mention the breakdown of international trade.
Under such conditions, it somehow becomes easier just to sweep the whole thing under the rug, which is precisely what is happening. Remember too that all major media participated in ginning up global frenzy for lockdowns while digital corporations and all major social media platforms engaged in vast censorship of the opposition.
Indeed, this period set up the model that most tech platforms now follow: censor now before anything unapproved is allowed to float around and enter the public mind. All litigation aside, censorship is now the norm.
The demographics reinforce the point. Lifespans are falling faster than before. The substance abuse problems are still pandemic-level. The birth rate has fallen. There are other more hidden crises: church attendance is at historic lows, museums are only half-full and major arts venues still experience financial hardship while many are closing up. All of this is true regardless of strong evidence of wholly unnecessary vaccine injury and death.
One might suppose there would be some mechanism operating in the world that would drive public culture toward an awareness of cause and effect, accountability for actions and knowledge of the how and why of major and even epic changes in the course of our lives and civilisation itself. One might hope.
Now we know there are conditions under which that is not the case. If too many people screwed up, everyone’s hands are on the actions, all official institutions cooperated and plenty of the most influential players in economics and public culture came out financially and politically ahead, the whole subject can be made to go away.
This does not need to be the result of conspiracy. It is merely a tacit agreement, an extension of individual and institutional self-interest.
Where does this leave us? It means that accountability is highly unlikely. Whatever changes happen to pandemic protocols, even if they do happen, will be made quietly and without debate. The institutions that have experienced a loss of trust will be gradually diminished in public importance, replaced by new ones at some point, but the timing remains unclear.
Yes, this is enormously frustrating. Readers of Brownstone are aware. Brownstone Journal is widely cited in literature, including legal cases. The institution garners millions of readers. Breaking through to the public mind is another question. Reaching official culture and changing it is yet another layer.
This takes us to the subject of social change. Why, how and when does it happen? Thomas Kuhn’s magisterial treatise The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) reconstructs the history of science. In contrast to the Whig theory of history, which posits a smooth trajectory of intellectual advancement, Kuhn describes scientific knowledge as moving episodically from orthodoxy to crisis to paradigm shift to pre-paradigmatic to the coalescing around a new orthodoxy.
Crucial to his story is the unwillingness of the guardians of the collapsed orthodoxy ever to admit error. Kuhn’s outlook is oddly demographically determinative. The old generation has to die out and a new one be born, come of age and work on a replacement. To be sure, his outlook pertains to scientific postulates. He made no attempt to expand his model more broadly to other disciplines, much less to the whole of society.
And yet here we are, in the midst of a gut-wrenching and mind-blowing cranking of the machinery of control in all levels of society and culture the world over. Centralised, mechanised and systematised compulsory systems of public control over all aspects of our lives seem to have reached some kind of preposterous pinnacle: six feet apart, control of domestic capacity, shutting of business, the abolition of public worship, not to mention hundreds of utterly crazy nostrums of disease mitigation, none of which actually worked.
What does this do? It discredits everything and everyone involved, even if they never admit it. Will this bring about change? We shall see. It looks more and more like this will happen. The machine that wrecked the world has also wrecked itself.
Bob B
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You seem determined to spread doubt about Trump into every thread possible .... Even if you have to make a post that has NOTHING to do with the thread ..... I just hope everyone seeing this can recognize your true agenda.
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
yep he got the hotts for for one of three... Cackles AKA Kneepads, AKA Kamela or Cankels AKA Killiary, shilliary, and Hillary, or its that alternative lifestyle and he got the hots for Big Mike
DPC
Solar Wizard
Maybe he likes worm ate my brain guy lol
In another thread I brought up the point that there are too many men over the age of 50 ( and a significant number under ) that should never be seen without a shirt on.....
I like Vermin Supreme, but I just lost all respect for him after this shameless full frontal nudity.
Relax, not everything is about your messiah.
The article is about the general system fuckup. Did anyone, in any party admit mistakes? No, not a peep, so its accurate. And they will double down. I remember you praising speaker Johnson and bashing me every time I tried to mention that he will be just as douche as the other guy. Well that turned out to be true and you quickly tucked your tail....
I have nothing against you dude, seriously, but stop being so naive!!!
ASSume much? I despise them all equally (together with the "savior of white man" Putin, clown Zelensky and all other clowns)
They are all actors in the same theater. Its a big club and they ALL shit on your head.
They got really good playing good cop bad cop on you, and you still fall for it, at least based on some of your posts.
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I guess the huge bold print was just a co-incidence .... and the text following has nothing to do with climate change.
You've been made.
Its the title of the original article, Jesus H Christ.
What now we cant criticize your messiah? Are you going to send the goons to my door everytime we hold Trump to his word? Show me a single proof where he at least admitted that he was wrong on Vaxx and Scamdemic. (And yes the article is very much on Topic of COVID and Other things, if you read it carefully and dont get stuck on bashing your hero)
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It's very clear that you have an agenda other than what you pretend.
You've poste anti Trump / Vance stuff on every thread you've visited since the convention. Haven't seen any outrage whatsoever from you about an attempted assassination ...... Instead, you try to characterize it as staged ...... I'm just making sure everyone is well aware of what you're up to.
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
you forget, in a perfect world i could and would kill all of them... along with 70% of the worlds worthless population... I really admire Thanos in that respect...
You are upset your messiah has been criticized.
I criticize every hypocrite and politician i choose (that is ALL politicians, and especially the clowns that make up current admin, but its irrelevant they all serve the same globalists). If you are such a snowflake where you can not handle some criticism for your favorite hero, you have much bigger issues to deal with.
And I stand by my criticism, especially that of Vance, Dimon and other globalists (There was talk of Larry Fink(!!!!!) being part of Trump administration).
It is your imagination Bob. It is not him.
He doesn’t vote Why would he care about politics
Bob B
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Don't get all hysterical with the messiah bit ..... I only have 1 messiah and it's not Trump.
I don't recall you directly criticizing ANY democrat .... You are not what you pretend .... It's clear you are simply attempting to disenfranchise conservatives.
Why don't you criticize Biden for all the help he has given you globalists?
Look up Biden threads and even Trump threads. I despise Biden (he is a 100% career grifter) but i dispise more his puppeteers. I was very simpathetic to Trump lawfare (not because i care about Trump but because lawfare is being legalized to be used against regular people who will have no way to defend themselves).
You are so blinded, you miss all the points.
Obvious observation poly parrot would differ say not the case for the way you post. Obvious.
For ppl that don’t vote they have no complaint are are not in contempt with the system. They are allowed the system to rule and school.
There is an old saying “if you don’t vote don’t complain.”
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You are right .... that's a warped way to think.
A sceptic is an experienced optimist.
It is completely unsiprising to me that most of you have a need to be governed and want to use the stick of the state to force your views on others. You also seem to be totally ok with theft that is taxation (imposed by all governments against the will of the people)
Very few people are truly pro individual liberty and you are clearly not one of them
Jefferson was right.
DPC
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Actually comedian.
( I tried to watch his show servant of the people but I don't speak Ukrainian and a lot is lost in subtitles )
Imagine Bob Newhart as president.
That would have been very cool when you think about it.
Yes it is a known fact that Zelensky was a comedian. He is a puppet of Kolomoiski who is a globalist puppet of higher level.
All politicians are actors, their job is to distract you via the theatrics to divert attention from those really pulling the strings.
The better the actor, the better the pay.
All politicians are actors, their job is to distract you via the theatrics to divert attention from those really pulling the strings.
The better the actor, the better the pay.
grizzzman
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Not any more...... He is a 100% Dictator.........That this government is supporting....With our money...........
DPC
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globalist puppet of higher level.
Puppets can fly planes these days too!
Puppets can fly planes these days too!
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