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. 

 

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         “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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