ST. PATTY (Again)

          Today, March 16, 2024, marks the fourth anniversary of COVID lockdowns in the state of Pennsylvania.  The sudden shutdown of the economy, church services, and all social interaction (with the exception of leftwing street demonstrations), was our introduction to the world-wide “pandemic response,” a years-long campaign of edicts, propaganda, and censorship by government executives and bureaucrats, pharma companies, social media, and the state-run broadcasters.

In the U.S. and almost every Western nation, there was suddenly an official story, and any attempt by citizens or responsible doctors and scientists to question the authorities or suggest alternative courses of action was stifled by police, military, regulatory and taxing authorities, and the state-sponsored demonization of dissenters as dangerous, stupid, uncaring people.

No one has been held to account for the COVID security state that was created, or the millions it killed and continues to kill.  In fact, much of the legal infrastructure to reconstitute it still exists, and the official position of the American and other governments is that the totalitarian “pandemic response” actually saved lives.

I first published this short piece a year ago:   

 

         On March 16, 2020, the day before St. Patrick’s Day, Pennsylvania went into lockdown for COVID.   Most businesses, including bars and restaurants, were closed indefinitely by order of Governor Wolf.

           I remember it vividly.  The lockdown was to go into effect at 5 PM, so at 2 PM, I raced over to Billy Murphy’s Irish Saloon, at Conrad St. and Indian Queen Lane in Philly.  My plan was simple: get a drink before the world, or something, ended.  Nobody knew what was coming, but I didn’t like the look of it.

           The door was locked.

           I stood at the door and heard muffled voices inside.  I later learned they had closed early and were having a staff party, both to celebrate the Saint and to mourn the lockdown.  In a way, it was a perfect Irish moment, composed of equal parts laughter, melancholy, and alcohol.  Standing there, I thought about pounding on the door and trying to talk my way in, but I didn’t.  It was their bar.  It was their party.  I’m not even a little bit Irish, I don’t celebrate St. Patty’s Day, and it wasn’t even St. Patty’s Day yet.  Still, knowing they were there and wanting to join them but not being able to, I don’t think I ever felt more Irish.  And I don’t think I have ever wanted a drink more than I did at that moment.

Copyright2023MichaelKubacki

CHANGING MY TUNE

         It’s time to admit I was wrong. 

         From the beginning of Twitter in 2006, I was a complete fan and devotee of social media.  I didn’t use most of them, but I believed the creation of Facebook (2006), Instagram (2010), MySpace (2003), and others were a wonderful development in the spread of free speech and open expression.  I cherished the cacophony of voices because almost anybody in the world could say whatever they wanted and have it broadcast around the planet, without the intervention of governments and censors and other poopheads. 

 

         I didn’t care that much of it was lies or propaganda or the rantings of crazy people.  I could handle that.  In a sense, that is part of the truth also.  Since I haven’t awarded unthinking belief to anything I have heard on radio or TV or the internet for decades, I was never going to fall into a false reality constructed by a political party or the CIA or the climate-changers or Obama or Rush Limbaugh or the WEF or NBC or Anthony Fauci or Anderson Cooper or anybody else.  I don’t care what any individual tells me.  All I want is sources, and social media provided millions of them.  If you have enough sources and they can speak freely, you can learn the truth, and I generally do.  I guess it’s ironic, but if you don’t believe anything you are told, then ultimately, the truth will emerge. 

 

         And that’s what I loved about social media, and Twitter in particular.  It was especially useful for following live events like the terrorist attack on the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, because you would get tiny pieces of the story from cops and firemen and worried parents and injured people and even the bad guys and their sympathizers.  The official story, of course, gets all cleaned up and you don’t see it until the next day, but the real human story was being told by hundreds of people in a line or two of text.  This sort of information had never existed before, and I was fascinated by it. 

 

         Then I read the Coleman Hughes book “The End of Race Politics.”  (Highly recommended.)  In it, Hughes discusses “neoracists” like Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others who use social media to indoctrinate those who might be susceptible to their message. 

 

         The centerpiece of his theory is polling on Americans’ feelings about race relations. Until 2013, well over two thirds of Americans believed race relations were good, and improving.  Then, the bottom fell out.  By 2015, the percentage of Americans believing race relations were good had fallen below 50% and has continued to fall.  He attributes this to the emergence of a critical mass of people with video-enabled smartphones and social media, which increased the speed at which “news” (i.e., lies), could spread around the country. 

 

         The point Hughes makes is that people whose political success depends on their ability to create rage now have a built-in advantage, and they use it routinely.  When a story taps into emotional triggers (e.g., white cop/black perp, violence, etc.), it spreads immediately to hundreds of millions, but the more-nuanced reality-based version may take months to appear, by which time most of the original audience have no interest in what really happened. 

 

         The example he uses is the Michael Brown story from Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.  The “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” version of this tale was embraced instantly by neoracists and progressives and BLM supporters, and it still is.  It took months for the Eric Holder Justice Department report to appear, and for some of us to learn Brown didn’t have his hands up, he punched the cop, he tried to steal the cop’s gun, and that the cop had no alternative but to shoot him.  But that report made little difference.  Today, years later, “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” is still chanted regularly at BLM and other race-activist demonstrations. 

 

         Another example, perhaps even a better one, is the story of Donald Trump’s comments after the Charlottesville clash of white supremacists and antifa demonstrators in 2017.  The cause of the controversy was the city’s decision to take down a statue of Robert E. Lee.  Concerning the issue of the statue, Trump said, “…[Y]ou also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.” 

 

         This was reported around the world on social media and TV and newspapers as Donald Trump stating that the white supremacists were among the “very fine people,” even though he had already repeatedly condemned them.  Though the transcript of his press conference was available, almost no one reported what he had actually said, which was that there were “fine people” who wanted to take the statue down and “fine people” who thought it should stay up.  To this day, despite the efforts of many journalists and commentators to correct the story, most Americans (including every Trump-hater), believe the original falsehood. 

 

         In other words, my dream of the internet and social media as a forum for truth and free speech has been dashed by the facts of life.  The mob is still the mob, and the mob is not searching for truth.  It’s usually seeking to have its basest and most vicious beliefs validated: skin color matters; Jews are evil; the “experts” have our best interests at heart; scientists have no biases; capitalism makes us poor; the government just wants to help.  I can still use Twitter and other sites as resources in my search for the truth, but I must accept that most people have no interest in doing that.  

 

Another phenomenon has occurred that is even more troubling and dangerous.  In 2016, two events changed the view of Western governments toward the internet and social media.  These were, in June, the Brexit vote in the UK, and in November, the election of Donald Trump in the U.S.  These events shocked the globalists, the leftwing NGOs, and the buried elitist bureaucracies in the U.S., European governments, and the E.U.  It was at this point that the apparatus for censorship of social media began to be built.

 

Government censorship has focused primarily on two topics: COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election, and any dissent to the official government narrative on these topics has been ruthlessly suppressed on-line---this is the subject of the case Missouri v. Biden, currently in the US Supreme Court. * 

 

So I was wrong.  (That was the point of this article---remember?)  The internet is not the boon to free speech I had hoped it was.  In fact, the totalitarians and censors are taking it over.  They get to talk and the rest of us don’t.  We just spout “misinformation,” you see, so they must shut us up.

 

Still, it’s not over.  Elon Musk seems to have a genuine commitment to free speech, though he is under attack by governments around the world.  But even if his efforts are shut down---well, there will be alternatives.  It may be more difficult to find the truth these days but it’s not impossible.  And if the situation gets even worse, we will still be able to talk to our friends or post our diatribes on telephone poles.

 

I hope.    

 

 

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki

 

 

*The process has been described in detail by Mike Benz in interviews, podcasts, and at 

foundationforfreedomonline.com, the organization he leads. 

NIKKI

          As I write this, Nikki Haley is about to get clobbered by Trump in Michigan just as she got clobbered in South Carolina and New Hampshire.  She got pounded by “None of the Above” in Nevada.  Even in the open primary states, where Democrats can vote for her, she loses to Trump by 20 or 30 percentage points.  In a state with a closed primary, where only Republicans can vote for the Republican nominee (e.g., Pennsylvania, Oregon), she is unlikely to get 10% of the vote.

 

         She says she won’t quit, and she still has donors who fund her campaign, yet the only issue she is ever asked about is when she will quit the race and concede victory to Trump.  Particularly annoying are the incessant howls from pro-Trump partisans, which never seem to stop.  Why is she still running?  Why won’t she drop out?  What’s the matter with her??

 

         There are two quite obvious reasons she is still running.  The first is the one she has stated repeatedly.  Trump cannot win a general election, she argues.  He will never get fifty percent of the vote because too many people hate him.  Is she wrong?  I don’t know, but it’s an argument that can’t be dismissed out of hand.  He hasn’t gotten 50% of the vote so far, and he has run for president twice.  And it’s not like the Trump-haters have all suddenly changed their minds and said they’re sorry.

 

         The second reason would be impolite to say, and perhaps politically damaging to her, but we all know what it is.  It is possible Trump will be put in jail, or prevented from running, or will have to make a deal where one of the terms is that he drops out, or is seriously injured or killed by a deranged leftist, or for some other reason will not be on the ballot in November.  If that should happen, Nikki Haley wants to be there when it does.  “Here I am.  Nikki Haley.  Remember me?  I’m running for president and I’m ready to go!”

 

         Do not construe this somehow as an argument that you should vote for Nikki Haley.   I don’t like Nikki Haley.  I view her as combining the worst traits of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, and it doesn’t help that her backers are Bushies and neo-cons and country-club Republicans and military-industrial rent-seekers.  If she should become the Republican nominee, I doubt I would vote for her.  I might just vote for my wife or RFK Jr. or Nick Foles.

 

         But the pro-Trump partisan nastiness from the pro-Trump partisan nasties doesn’t help the Republicans and it doesn’t help Trump.  He would be much more popular, and much more effective, if he were not so quick to display petty vindictiveness and encourage it in his followers.  But that’s his personality.  He’s fundamentally a bully, which means he values loyalty to himself above all other qualities, and he hates anyone who publicly opposes him.

 

         Haley is running to be the replacement, and it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  Normally, there is no need for a replacement candidate, but this race for the Republican nomination is not normal, and the chance there will need to be a replacement is not zero.  It’s far from zero.  Besides the indictments and the chance Trump’s age will catch up with him, the Democrats will do anything, legal or illegal, to get him out of the race.  Therefore, it is only prudent to have a replacement.  I wish it were someone other than Haley, but she beat Chris Christie and she beat Ramaswamy and she beat DeSantis and some other Republican malcontents and non-entities, so she gets to be the replacement if we need one.  That’s how it works.

 

         If he could perceive subtle distinctions, rather than always dividing the world into “people who love me” and “people who hate me,” Trump would acknowledge what was happening and embrace the Haley-as-replacement-candidate phenomenon.  He could joke about the situation in a good-hearted sort of way, as it gradually became clear no replacement would be needed.  By being minimally gracious about it, he might put himself in a position to gain the support of Haley and her followers once the criminal cases fall apart and the other obstacles are overcome.  Many of Haley’s voters are Democrats or never-Trumpers, of course, but there are also Republicans who could be persuaded to vote for The Donald once they see no other reasonable alternative. 

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki      

MORE ELECTION MUSINGS

          On February 8, the report of Robert Hur was released to the public.  Hur is a former DOJ official who was charged with determining what should be done with the case against Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents when Biden was a Senator and the Vice President.  Hur seemed to acknowledge, somewhat vaguely, that Biden had broken the law, but concluded that Biden could probably not be convicted because, to a jury, he would appear to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

 

         Biden, and various Democrats on his behalf, made a big show of their outrage at this slur upon his cognitive abilities, but this is merely the latest piece of the drip-drip-drip campaign by the Democrats to swap out old Joe for the November 2024 election.  For months, little news items have been allowed to trickle out into the government-controlled media about this or that gaffe or embarrassing moment, along with an occasional comment from a respected Obama crony on their “concern” about Joe seeking another term.  None of this gets published in the Washington Post or the NYT or talked about on NBC or CNN unless the Obama politburo wants it to be.  Following the news, there is always pushback from Biden’s press secretary or some other White House flack claiming Joe is as sharp as ever, outworks everyone around him, and has complete command of everything that’s happening in the world.  But the result is that Joe’s mental fitness is always in the news, one way or another.

 

         The back-and-forth is all part of the show.  Biden will be replaced, but not now.  To do it now would mean six months of arguments about who the presidential nominee should be, and the politburo has no use for that sort of bickering.  Only when we get to the Democratic Convention will the issue become a “crisis,” and at that point the solution will be presented to all us slobs in the cheap seats.  It will be a fait accompli, as those crazy French people say.

 

         A current ABC News/Ipsos poll reports that 86% of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve a second term, but that’s not enough to pull the trigger.  These next six months will be used to create close to a panic in the body politic from an overwhelming body of evidence that Joe (though he’s a wonderful guy, of course!), has become a danger to America.  By the time the Democrats present their solution to the Biden problem, it will come as a relief, and the new Democratic candidate for president will be nominated by acclamation.

 

         And who will that be?  My position for a year has been that Michelle Obama will be swapped in.  It’s the ideal solution for Barack since it will be understood he would run the nation and that Michelle’s role would be purely ceremonial.  In this, his fourth term as president, he would not have to hide in the background the way he does now, with Biden as his avatar.  In fact, he could live in the White House!

 

         The problem of Kamala remains, however.  The Democrats cannot be seen as having tossed her unceremoniously to the curb.  And while she does not have a lot of support within the party, she remains beloved by older black women, and older black women may be the most fanatical group in the entire Democratic coalition.  Kamala Harris has leverage, and if the Dems are not going to let her be president, they at least will have to throw her a bone.  Or two.

 

         In this context, it is interesting that media coverage of the Hur Report mentions the 25^thAmendment, which allows a disabled President to be relieved of his powers and duties by the VP.  Hur himself did not mention the 25^th Amendment, so the reference to it is probably designed to educate the public on how Biden may legally get bumped aside when the time comes.  And it further suggests how Kamala may be rewarded for her cooperation.

 

         The Democratic Convention starts on August 24 in Chicago.  A few days before, it will be reported that Biden has suffered a terrible mental setback or a physical injury (or something), and that it is necessary to invoke the 25^th Amendment to transfer his powers and duties to his Vice President.  This will happen immediately, to the relief of the American people and with their complete approval.  Thus, Kamala will become the 47^th President of the United States (and the First Black Woman President with a Vagina and she’s Part Asian too!).  Then, at the convention itself, after hushed meetings in vape-filled rooms and days of feverish speculation in the press, it is announced that Michelle Obama has graciously agreed to save America and become the party’s candidate for President.  A grateful nation elects her in a landslide in November.  She takes over from Kamala Harris on January 20, 2025, and at her first opportunity, appoints Kamala to the Supreme Court.

    Ever heard of Jackie Robinson?  Of course you have.  Now how about Earl Lloyd?  No?  Earl, on October 31, 1950, stepped on a basketball court and became the first black player in the NBA, but he was not a superstar so today, nobody knows his name.  A hundred years from now, that will be Kamala—the answer to a trivia question. 

 

*

 

         The Democrats will take both the House and the Senate as well as the White House, though their majorities will probably not be very large.

 

         There is just no reason, as a general matter, to vote for Republican candidates in 2024.  They have done almost nothing to oppose the Leftist agenda of open borders, unbridled spending, the de-testosterone-ing of the military, and DEI racism.  And they could have!   The Republicans have controlled the House since the 2022 elections and could have given the Democrats zero dollars to enact their nightmare America, but they chose not to fight. 

 

 As a result of their complicity with the Democrats, there will be little enthusiasm for Republican candidates, and this is a big reason they are lagging in fund-raising vis-à-vis the Dems.  Also, since the Republicans have done nothing to ensure the authentication of mail-in ballots, there will be more Democratic cheating in the 2024 elections than ever before.  There will also be a lot more voting by non-citizens than there was in 2020, when there were about five million such votes.

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki 

         

2024 NFL PLAYOFFS—The Superbowl

         I guess we already know who’s going to win, right?  It’s a psy-op, or a plot to get Biden re-elected by acclamation after he is endorsed by Taylor Swift.

 

         Vivek Ramaswamy, who just dropped out of the Republican presidential race, is a brilliant and articulate guy, but I am told that if you stand really close to him in a quiet room, you can hear bugs flying around inside his head.  He recently wrote on Twitter:

 

         “I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month.  And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.  Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next eight months.”

 

         And he’s not the only one, of course.  I have seen and heard these same theories, sometimes for fun but sometimes seriously, on radio and TV and the Googles.  The playoffs have been fixed.  The NFL is grooming Kansas City and Mahomes to be the next Patriots/Brady superteam, so KC will win this Superbowl.  Then Travis and Taylor will endorse Biden, etc. etc.

 

         A regular stop on my internet wanderings is Pieceofmindful.com, a blog commandeered by Mark Tokarski, a man who does his own thinking.  I have learned many things from Mr. Tokarski, such as:

 

1)   Jonestown didn’t happen.

 

2)   The person we know as Paul McCartney has, for the last 60 years, been portrayed by Paul McCartney and his twin brother.  It is possible that Paul died a few years ago and the Paul character is now portrayed only by the twin brother.

 

3)   All mass shootings are faked by the U.S. government.

 

4)   The story of John Lennon’s upbringing in a working-class English family is a complete fiction, and all photographs of his mother are laughable forgeries.

 

Mr. Tokarski’s latest entry is a tour-de-force on how games in the NFL are fixed (including video of suspicious pass-interference calls), a review of Swift’s boyfriend history, whether Taylor is a woman or a transexual, whether she is a female homosexual for whom Travis is her beard, and whether he is also gay (making it a double-beard situation).  Having long-ago established that Taylor’s origin story (born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania) is phony and that she is actually the product of an inbreeding program among America’s elites, he also speculates that she may be sterile and frigid because this is often a side effect of inbreeding.  Finally, for anyone who doubts NFL games are fixed, there is a long discussion, with video, of the 12-17-22 game in which Minnesota was leading the Colts 33-0 at halftime but wound up losing to Indianapolis 39-36.

 

In other words, since we already know the skids are greased for KC and Travis and Tay-Tay and Joe Biden, why would anybody care what I think about the game?

 

San Francisco (-2) vs, Kansas City

 

 I never gave the Chiefs any chance to get to the Superbowl, let alone win it, so how can I jump on their bandwagon now?  I can’t.

 

The San Fran AYP is 8.1; Kansas City’s is 5.6.

 

The San Fran defensive AYP is 4.6; Kansas City’s is 5.3.

 

San Fran outscored its opponents by 11.3 ppg; Kansas City by 4.5 ppg.

 

San Fran is 11-2 in regular-season games decided by eleven or more points; KC is 4-1.

 

I admit I am troubled by the way the 49ers have fallen behind in both their playoff games, though they have awakened and roared back.  Comebacks are not as convincing as games where a team takes a 28-0 lead and then coasts home.  Still, looking at these numbers, I cannot make an argument for Kansas City that does not involve psy-ops, Joe Biden, and whether Taylor Swift has an Adam’s apple.

 

Take the 49ers.

 

Copyright2024Michael Kubacki

MY 50 FAVORITE BOOKS

 

         This list does not include all the reading I have done that was important to me.  I don’t list dictionaries, the Bible, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, cookbooks, or the hundreds of books I have read about chess, backgammon, bridge, scrabble, poker, go, and other games. 

 

         The books listed here are fiction and non-fiction.  I have read a few of them many times and many of them several times.  All of them are books I have gone back to years after I read them because I wanted to re-read some passage or chapter.

 

One further qualification.  To keep the list a reasonable size, I have chosen to cite one or two books from a particular author even though I could have listed another dozen.  I have read and reread everything I could find from Charles Bukowski, J.P. Donleavy, Henry Miller, Thomas Sowell, and all the Bertie and Jeeves books from P.G. Wodehouse, though not all those titles appear here.   

 

         Rules For Radicals---Alinsky

 

Confederate General from Big Sur---Brautigan

 

Hm On Rye---Bukowski

 

The Big Sleep---Chandler

 

Kiss Kiss---Dahl

 

Life At the Bottom---Dalrymple

 

Guns, Germs and Steel---Diamond

 

The Ginger Man---Donleavy

 

My Family and Other Animals---G. Durrell

 

The Black Book---L. Durrell

 

Classical English Rhetoric---Farnsworth

 

Capitalism & Freedom---Friedman

 

Asylums---Goffman

 

Suicide Of the West---Goldberg

 

Liberal Fascism---Goldberg

 

The Silent Language---Hall

 

The Road to Serfdom---Hayek

 

Catch-22---Heller

 

Medieval Europe-A Short History---Hollister

 

No One Left to Lie To---Hitchens

 

People Love Dead Jews---Horn

 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions---Kuhn

 

A History of The American People---Johnson

 

The Middle East---Lewis

 

What Went Wrong---Lewis

 

They Thought They Were Free---Mayer

 

Tropic of Capricorn---Miller

 

Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom---Milloy

 

Junk Science Judo---Milloy

 

Holidays in Hell---O’Rourke

 

1984---Orwell

 

Hidden Game of Football---Palmer

 

The Better Angels of Our Nature---Pinker

 

V---Pynchon

 

A Treasury of Damon Runyan---Runyan

 

The Case for Democracy---Sharansky

 

A Short History of The Mail Service---Scheele

 

The Signal and The Noise---Silver

 

The Chess Mysteries of The Arabian Knights---Smulyan

 

Basic Economics---Sowell

 

The Vision of The Anointed---Sowell

 

Migrations And Culture---Sowell

 

America Alone---Steyn

 

Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade---Steyn

 

Alice Let’s Eat---Trillin

 

A Distant Mirror---Tuchman

 

Cat’s Cradle---Vonnegut

 

The Code of The Woosters---Wodehouse

 

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers---Wolfe

 

Looming Tower---Wright

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki

2024 NFL PLAYOFFS—Conference Championships

          My record so far is 3 – 7, so I assume anyone here for my selections this weekend wants to know who I like so they can take the other side.

 

Kansas City @ Baltimore (-4)

 

         The line reflects a respect for KC, Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid that they simply do not deserve.   They won the Superbowl last year---I get it.  Mahomes will be in the HOF---I get that too.  But this has not been a good year for Kansas City, and they are only the fifth or sixth best team in the AFC.

 

         Baltimore dominates KC in all the categories I care about.  They have many more big plays, they throw the ball down the field, they outscore their opponents by almost 12 points per game and they blew out eight teams in the regular season.  They also have the best defense in the league and gave up fewer than 17 points per game.

 

         This game should not be close.  Take the Ravens and lay the points. 

 

 Detroit @ San Francisco (7.5)

 

         Just as Baltimore statistically dominates the first game, San Francisco’s season-long numbers far exceed Detroit’s.  The 49er AYP was 8.1 vs. Detroit’s 6.6, and Purdy was by far the best QB in the NFL.  The SF defensive AYP is also much better than Detroit’s, and eleven of their games were laughers.

 

         So why am I hesitating to lay the points here?

 

         It’s the Green Bay game last week.  The 49ers, against an improving (but far-from-great) Packer team, led 7-6 at the half, trailed 21-14 as the 4^th quarter began, and won the game 24-21. Purdy went 23/39 for 252 yards with no ints, so he didn’t suck.  Nevertheless, this was not the performance of a team that crushed opponents all season long and should have crushed Green Bay.  San Fran’s victory must concern everyone who expected, as I did, that SF would roll into Vegas for the Superbowl this year and might even win it.  The Ravens beat the Texans (another up-and-comer) 34-10 earlier in the day.  Why didn’t the 49ers turn in a similar performance?

 

         I would pass this game, but my gig here requires me to pick one.  I’ll take Detroit plus the 7.5 because I don’t quite trust San Fran anymore.

 

Copyright2024MichaelKubacki   

THIS & THAT XXVIII

 

         For the third anniversary of January 6, 2021, The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves, gave a speech discussing the progress of the prosecutions and (of course), ramping up the horror of what happened during the so-called insurrection.

 

         Over 1000 protesters have already been indicted, with many of them convicted and sentenced.  The real news, however, was that Graves claims he is just getting started.  Alleging that thousands of protesters who did not enter the Capitol Building had nevertheless crossed into secured areas, he seemed to promise many more investigations and prosecutions.

 

         The official estimate of the property damage done by rioters on January 6 is about $1.5 million.  For the “mostly peaceful” 2020 George Floyd riots across the country, insured losses in Portland, Chicago, Kenosha, Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis and other cities amounted to more than $2 billion, with total losses some multiple of that.  Thousands of businesses were destroyed and will never return.  Dozens of cops were injured.  Yet the aftermath of the 2020 riots lasted only a few months with very few prosecutions.

 

         The purpose of extending the hunt for January 6 rioters into a fourth year is to chill, in advance, any protests or complaints about Democratic cheating in November 2024 to achieve victory in the presidential election.  As they insisted in 2020, the state-run media and the Justice Department will again declare the 2024 election to be the “most secure in American history.”  Protests on the streets will be brutally put down, and the traditional political methods of challenging electoral votes, grounded in the Constitution, will be called an “insurrection” or “treason” by the ruling Democrats.

 

         We will no longer have free and fair presidential elections in America, at least for the foreseeable future. 

 

**

 

         “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” 

― George Orwell, 1984

 

 

         In an appearance on MSNBC on March 30, 2021, during the government/pharma campaign to get Americans vaccinated, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said, “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus and don’t get sick.  And it’s not just in the clinical trials.  It’s also in real-world data.”

 

This was a lie.  A FOIA lawsuit later produced documents revealing that Pfizer knew, in 2020, that its vaccine would not prevent infection.  That meant that Wallensky knew as well, because those documents had been submitted to the CDC prior to the vaccine rollout.  Yet for months, we were told every day that the COVID vaccines would prevent infection, and thus, people who refused the shot were thoughtlessly putting others at risk.

 

            There’s a video compilation on the Googles of dozens of broadcasters, politicians, pundits, comedians, etc. from early 2021, and each one is saying, “No one is safe until everyone is safe.”  Halfway through, the theme pivots, and the tape has many of the same people saying that if you get the COVID shots, you stop the virus.  It can’t infect you and you can’t pass it on.  Joe Biden, Jimmy Kimmel, CNN talking heads, Rachel Maddow and dozens more---all are featured, one after the other.  

 

           I vividly remember the campaign to demonize and isolate and punish those who refused the vaccine.  We should be denied routine medical care.  We should lose our jobs.  We should be taken off the streets and vaccinated against our wills. In Biden’s words, it was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”  We were bad people.  And his government bitterly fought all legal attempts to overturn his edicts requiring various groups, like all U.S. military personnel, to get the shot.

 

Why say or do any of this unless the unvaxxed were endangering others?

 

           Yet today, many people will tell you this never happened, and that they knew from the beginning that COVID vaccines would not stop infection.  I have asked people about this and that’s what I’ve been told.  And they are not lying.  They believe it.  This is the fruit of the re-education campaign that has been quietly carried out over the last two years.  The people who were tricked into taking the shot because they were told it would protect them from infection have already been reeducated.  The truth has been erased from their minds.

 

As Mark Twain taught us, “It is easier to fool people than to persuade them they have been fooled.”  I don’t think the term cognitive dissonance was around in Twain’s day, but that’s what he was talking about.

 

When a person is forced to believe two conflicting ideas at the same time, cognitive dissonance occurs.  It’s an uncomfortable feeling, and the mind will make whatever accommodation is necessary to reconcile the contradiction.  Here, the two ideas are 1) I’m a competent and rational person who evaluates evidence and makes sensible decisions, and 2) they lied to me and I fell for their lies because I’m a dope.  The two are irreconcilable and the mind needs one of them to go away, preferably the second one.

 

With the passage of time, memories get fuzzy, so all that was needed was a suggestion here and there, from the government and the media and the pharma companies, that we always knew the vax wouldn’t stop infection, but there were good reasons to take the shot anyway.  Once the suggestion is made, the human mind does the rest. This is now the official story, and it is widely believed.

 

This sort of re-education campaign is part of the Left’s ongoing agenda.  History must be erased so that only their version of the past survives.  It is why streets and buildings must be renamed.  Statues must be pulled down so nobody will wonder why we ever honored THAT guy.  The history of slavery must be completely rewritten.  The founding fathers of the American Revolution must be trashed as oppressors and colonialists.  And as for COVID---well, some mistakes may have been made but they were made in good faith and with your best interests at heart.

 

Just keep believing what you are told.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

 

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