The transparency of timing is brutally obvious. Yes, the far-left was willing to put millions of American’s through economic pain and hardship in order to advance their interests.
Last week New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the economy had suddenly become more important than the threat presented by COVID-19. Too much economic damage was inflicted upon his state and now wants to re-open.
Yesterday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the economic damage to the service industry was so severe it was now greater than the COVID risk…. and will reopen bars and restaurants. Today, a new study shows no benefit to the lockdowns.
The motives here are exactly as outlined for the past year. The fear of COVID was weaponized to damage the global economy and in doing so damage the reelection guarantee of Donald Trump. Now that mission is accomplished, the walk-back begins:
[Newsweek] A new study evaluating COVID-19 responses around the world found that mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic did not provide significantly more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures, such as social distancing or travel reduction.
The peer reviewed study, which was conducted by a group of Stanford researchers and published in the Wiley Online Library on January 5, analyzed coronavirus case growth in 10 countries in early 2020.
The study compared cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the U.S. – all countries that implemented mandatory lockdown orders and business closures – to South Korea and Sweden, which implemented less severe, voluntary responses. It aimed to analyze the effect that less restrictive or more restrictive measures had on changing individual behavior and curbing the transmission of the virus. (more)
COVID fear was a narrative cover-story to create crisis and also hide the lack of support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Part of that cover-story is needed because the MAGA community was showing up in overwhelming numbers at Biden-Harris events, and the false illusion of support -propping up the Potemkin village- was being exposed. All of these machinations are part of a remarkable attempt at psychological operations in this election. [SEE HERE]
Everything you are witnessing right now is about psychological control to create the false illusion of reality within your own mind. Essentially, professional media gaslighting with an agenda and purpose. This is not a conspiracy theory, those who are coordinating the effort have admitted exactly what they are doing:
♦ Google executives are on camera, outlining what their organization is doing. HERE and HERE and HERE. Google has admitted to using algorithms and their control over the internet search engine to influence the election. Again, stop and think about that.
♦ General Stanley McCrystal was working with a SuperPAC to use psychological warfare against the American electorate. Even the Washington Post admitted:
[…] The group, Defeat Disinfo, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president’s claims on social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country — in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president. (source)
♦ The national U.S. media has been caught numerous times constructing a false reality, lying about events and attempting to manipulate the election. As you read this you have the concrete example of all national media hiding the explosive issues around Hunter and Joe Biden. Again, these are not conspiracy theories, these are demonstrable facts.
So what were all of these aligned interests trying to do with the media polling examples they push and promote so heavily? Answer: they were trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy; same with the COVID-19 fear narrative.
However, the actual facts on the ground… the stuff you can see around you, with your own eyes and ears,… is entirely different from the false reality they created in the internet and false reality of television. Thus, why the same media and tech entities are now banning any speech that would outline their big lie.
So we’re all just going to pretend this narrative happened magically & organically? pic.twitter.com/bfz95e9T8Y
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 15, 2021
COVID lockdowns have no clear benefit vs other voluntary measures, international study shows https://t.co/eCF9mFZ7yd
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 15, 2021
We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.#SOTS2021
— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 11, 2021
It’s not censorship, the regime is cutting off the communications of those on whom they’re making war. My latest in @EpochTimes https://t.co/2yu3ccToFF
— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) January 12, 2021
How could I have not seen this coming? /S
I know right? Actually my big question was more along the lines of “how are they could to announce the end of all of this without people wondering what changed? Why is this no longer dangerous?”
Easy Peasy! Biden to the rescue! /s
And China Joe will probably get the Nobel prize for Medicine for curing the world of the Chinese Flu. All of the deaths that they associated to the Chinese Flu like Heart Attacks, Obesity and Diabetes will now go back to the original cause and the deaths related to the Chines Flu will drop like a rock. That is how they are going to fix it.
puh -leez!
Dr Jill will get it!
And how will they do this: they will just end the financial incentives tied to COVID deaths. Easy peazy, 1-2, threesy. .
Why the vaccine ,of course.
Sad to say- many, many of the sheeple want to stay locked down and continue to wear a mask. Especially in Blue states like the People’s Republic of Covid Compliant NY. Their Jew Badge Muzzle Mask has become a badge of honor.
Well, that’s because they were told it was scary so you need to wear masks. You need to stay home. And they did and they also became the Karen Army.
Now, although, I don’t think your comment is technically wrong it’s just that these same people will sop up the new “it’s safe to go out rhetoric” the MSM is about to plaster them with and then magically just not mention anymore.
And they just can’t wait to get the next cool status symbol, the “Health” Passport.
Will the tattoo be optional?
Israel leading the way.
The Health Ministry on Monday unveiled details of its proposed “green passport” for Israelis who have been inoculated against the coronavirus
https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-ministry-says-vaccinated-recovered-to-get-green-passport-for-6-months/
I never had a high opinion of humanity but this latest Covidiocy hasn’t helped.Oh and thanks Seneca you tip about carrying a cane has really made people leave me alone. 😉
Too many people can’t.
We must never forget what they have done to us.
We will not forget, every morning we will wake up to the depression of totalitarian Democommunism. Psychological torture, If not for CTH we could live the ignorance is bliss lifestyle of so many of our fellow citizens. Still, I’m thankful for CTH.
I feel that too.
Hits me in the morning after I wake up.
First the COVIDIKIS and now this totalitarian leftist takeover.
and what they’re doing to President Trump – “they” meaning THE REPUBLICANS who I now see as nothing but the right wing of the democrat party and the democrat party as a quasi communist party!
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I do take some comfort in watching episodes of “I SHOULDN’T BE ALIVE.”
Seeing people going through insurmountable devastation stranded out to sea or mountains and deserts with no hope of survival, no food, no water, injured, alone.
Then I can get a better perspective that I am in a clean, warm home with plenty of food and water and don’t feel the brunt of it so bad.
Until I get online and read about this maniac Joe fraud it comes all back again
You choose the world you live in with your thoughts. Try centering your thoughts on God, thanking Jesus for what He did for us and the abundance that is ours to share.
This works for me in so many ways. Displacement of fear and lack of understanding with trust and thanksgiving. Praise the Lord!
So true. “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.
We will not. It’s those NFL addicts out there who couldn’t pull themselves away from their TVs because… I don’t know why. They are completely “offensive” to borrow the expressions of the left. They want to shove their agenda down our throats and make us love it somehow. Not loving it. Never will.
Hi Daniel. I have given up watching the NBA, NFL, MLB, NASCAR, etc. I’m using the time to try to learn Spanish though I’m now thinking that Mandarin might be a better choice.
To be clear though, I’m going to still watch women’s curling in the winter Olympics whenever it is on.
Time to boycott professional sports outlets.
If Xiden gets in that office, You won’t, you’ll be reminded every time it takes $75 to fill your car with that nasty gasoline or you pay 450 electric bills, or…….you get the picture. They are gonna bring the pain now. Getting the old band back together. They are the Borg, Resistance is futile.
But resist we must. Hopefully we can teach them what real resistance looks like.
Gas prices in my area of AZ went steadily downward to $1.99. The week after the “election” the prices started creeping upward. Just one of the many upcoming opportunities to say “I told you so” to liberal acquaintances.
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Had similar effects in South Carolina. Gas is up to 2.15 around Charleston.
$2.38 in Indianapolis
Will County, Kankakee County…about 2.50 a gallon….
I just filled up all three of my cars…..we will be driving sparingly over the next 2 months and just watching….actually watching what we spend also…..china joe gets the minumum wage jacked up, it’s 1976 – 1980 all over again……
No no no ! Prices are increasing only because businesses are afraid of the massive violence Trump supporters will soon inflict on us all ! /sarc
Black people who support President Trump are NOT violent. Any black person that engages in violence is NOT a supporter of Trump…before such a person causes harm, needs to call Authorities. Any Black Person You See Engaging in a Violent Protest or seeking Support to Conjure Up Violence and Engage in Violence are NOT Trump Supporters. Be Careful!
Go IN Peace and May Peace Be With You.
Yep, same in Indiana
I think gas prices are already up.
Never forgive, and fight forevermore.
Forgiveness isn’t about them or the evil that dwells within some, it’s about the pureness and sanctity of your own heart. Keeping your heart overflowing with JOY is about keeping evil out by letting it go instead of taking it into your inner Temple. Pray for God to guide you as you act, to animate you in His Plan.
Wise words.
It’s hard to forget.
I gained 10 lbs that I can’t get rid of due to this staying inside and avoiding the gym for 6 months, now I can’t get rid of it and I’M FUMING 🙂
Actually it is a bit depressing coupled with the election fraud and that maniac Joe BiteMe and KamelToe shock of all shocks.
I hear ya sister! All of that homemade bread didn’t help either!
And never let them think we have forgotten. Spend your money locally, avoid the big-box Chinese outlet stores, and remind them to kiss your rosy red pineapple American ass. Oh, and pound sand.
Will more people ever wake up or has big tech/MSM have them permanently brainwashed. Rhetorical question.
There may be the occasional person who awakens and asks why the change – and it will be our opportunity to help them get out of the bed!
I hear dems defend big tech shut down of 70k conservative voices on the grounds Social media… is privately owned so they have the right to do it. They support it.
“It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them that they’ve been fooled”
-Mark Twain
Twain was so spot on.
Yep
Well, my comments are being sent directly to moderation, so…
When the two frauds are placed at the highest level of our goverment on Jan 21, I still cannot believe that it is actually happening.
Watch all of a sudden all the Covid-19 stats will vanish. No more counts of daily cases and deaths. Furthermore I think you will actually start to see cases and deaths decline just in time for the demented one to take full credit. What a country. Absolutely pathetic.
They’ll roll back the testing cycles nationwide, thus getting rid of all the false positives, and Biden will be the hero.
You got right. Florida healthcare (whomever that is) was smart and have been making them publish the cycles with the test results. Soon CDC will announce it should be set much lower – and then poof – the case counts will evaporate.
Oh don’t worry…. they’ll do it again. Somehow the flu stopped happening in the US according to the CDC. That means it will come back double-hard soon! And it’s going to be so bad that whatever they do will be justified. I seem to recall proposed legislation about vaccination requirements for ALL.
Yes. C19 worked so well. We surrendered most of our rights. They will surely do it again. Next time will likely be the full transition into a totalitarian nation or maybe just a state of a larger globalist totalitarian govt.
It feels beyond surreal.
I still can’t help but feel:
THIS IS NOT OVER!
It my not be all over, but we’re so close to the damn edge we can see the bottom.
Forget about spilt milk. Organize. Look to the future REALISTICALLY.
Truth MM….Hold on and Breath….Keep the Faith.President Trump will be Our President!
The truth shall be revealed.
To make things worse, how many people have died due to treatment propaganda from China and health “professionals” with dubious motives?
Ventilate at the first sign of respiratory distress.
Horrible side effects even for those who are “cured” (Has anybody asked if some of these frightening outcomes were caused by antibiotics, steroids, etc used for treatment? I personally have experienced what is innocuously called “adverse reaction” to medications which result in permanent damage).
Questions need to be asked.
https://redstate.com/michael_thau/2021/01/15/countless-killed-by-deadly-chicom-covid-advice-worst-part-is-hospitals-are-blaming-their-deaths-on
And, the MSM will just stop talking about it. It will vanish.
What’s most pathetic to me are the millions of our fellow citizens who have been exposed as irrational and cowardly.
Remember when some of us said, “They’ll open it up on November 3rd”? Well, it took till January, but here you go. Can’t have lockdowns spoiling the recovery for China Joe and Commie Harris!
My left-leaning wife, when I showed her Cuomo’s comments and the new “report”, looked at me and said “Well, I’ll be…..it’s happening….happening the way you said and I told you that you were crazy.” She has now poured herself a glass of wine…..shaking her head.
WSJ article title about how Operation Warp Speed leaders waited 2 months to approve vaccine distribution plan. I think another Pence set-up, thoughts?
Once you see Pence behind the mask, everything he ever did makes sense.
If only Reagan and Trump has yes men like Biden and the full weight of the media, their party and the executive branch officials behind then while trying to enact law and actions to help the American people.
Its really something isn’t it how the DEMS are always on board with the plan. From top to bottom no dissent. The Dems you have to say it are just plain better at playing govt then us. I know why it is, because to the Dems this earth and what they get out of it is all their is . They don’t care about burning in HELL one bit.
I’ll never forget that traitorous S.O.B. holding up his blue “15 Days to Slow the Spread” placard in front of the incompetent, complicit and contemptuous Coronavirus Task Force Pence put together.
What a despicable human being.
https://apple.news/AsWNVR29LRJy6JExs1WRL1w
I noticed that Trump is in the photo, not the VP who was assigned to oversee the program.
Wow! WSJ, CDC and HHS. Three of our most reliable, unbiased sources for news…..
I heard from to different sources that Pence was the one protecting that bunch of sick liars on the president’s task force from being fired.
It’s not like people didn’t urge the president, over and over, to get rid of that whole crew.
Why wouldn’t he listen to us?
Yes he absolutely could hire and fire his own task force.
Pence personally recommended Dan Coats for Director of National Intelligence and tried to prevent President Trump from firing Dan Coats for being such a backstabber.
I wonder if President Trump even got any of the messages sent to whitehouse.gov, or by mail. If Sidney Powell could be blocked…
Pence is a poopoohead. That’s my *thought* and I’m being kind.
I’m waiting for the GIANT VOICE which will help us understand it all, including Pence’s various roles and what is thought of them.
The ruling class think we are idiots.
And a lot of your fellow Americans appear to be so.
Yep. They are all laughing at us. HA HA HA
More importantly, they know 51% actually are.
….and they’re not wrong about a good % of Americans. How do you think obama got elected two times?
Do not be surprised if there is not a lock down for 14 days and on the 15th day the miracle will occur. Reverand Al Sharpton will lay hands while Slow Joe is hailed as the little boy with the loaves and fishes, who saved the US from China Virus. Joe B will be awarded the Nobel Prize.
The sheeple will be so glad to get back to living that nobody will care about the truth.
As a precaution, you be vaccinated if you want be able to work or use anything in the US or outside its borders. You will be notified that your citizenship report card has been activated to protect the public good and can be read by the swipe of your State ID or Driver’s License. Badge readers will begin to appear everywhere.
Are they really having that fake reverend laying hands on JoeBiteMe for the fake ceremony? Hillary the high witch will be sacrificing a baby somewhere I am sure of it. Spirit cooking will be whirling that day we can bet on it.
The whole thing is satanic.
satan is the father of lies!
No way will my household cast our eyes on that abomination fake inauguration. REGURGITATION !
OMG!
“We now return to our regularly scheduled cold and flu season. Thank you for watching.”
Too late they have already activated all the Karens and tjey are scared chitless and chant Hell no we stay closed.
/s
Most of those Karens are leftist ideologues and can easily be spun around in whatever new direction their masters want them to be directed.
Exactly. The MSM will be in lock stop with stories about how lockdowns don’t work, how the vaccine is working, now is the time to open up. They will show lower numbers. Fewer positives. They will pull out all the bells and whistles in their graphs and charts. And then, the financial incentives will go away for COVID deaths…and then shhhhhhh……nothing. You won’t hear a word because there will be a “new” breaking story and COVID will be thrown to the dustbin of history.
A “narrative” is a story.
These so called media movers and shakers every day feed America a story. They manufacture it, find examples of it, blast it over the airwaves day and night and it implants in people’s minds.
We should stop using the term “narrative” and call this what it is. A lie. Fake News.
America, wake up and turn off the news. It’s poisoning your minds.
That will likely always be the case, but a “big reset” is coming for the media. They have committed treason and since that’s the case, the American people will own all of their assets.
I pray you are correct.
Gee, it’s almost glaringly obvious the powers that be have zero credibility, about anything. /s
They have rapidly diminishing authority, but disturbingly more raw power.
Yes, the far-left was willing to put millions of American’s through economic pain and hardship in order to advance their interests.
I get that this is a U.S.-centric blog, but let is not forget about the rest of the world that was also put through economic pain by the same far-left…
I believe the rest of the world was just ‘collateral damage’.
We’re still in lock down in most of Canada.
Let’s imagine Pence and his ventriloquist dummies had nothing to do with any of this.
All kidding aside, the image is fitting. Every day we experience lies and betrayals from our government, our media, our “elite”.
The biggest disappointment in all of this has been Mike Pence. His choice of Dr. Falsie and Berx to guide us through the COVID fake news story was insufferable.
In another time, someone like Falsie and Berx would be put on trial and sentenced for what they have done, along with the head of the CDC and whoever else had a hand in overstating the dangers and lethal nature of the flu.
But we no longer live in that time. Sadly. There is no law, no justice, no accountability. This is the reality we live in. There is only law for us. But not for others. It’s quite tragic to witness.
If Birx goes under the bus for her lies, don’t think the ultimate head of the White House Task Force won’t be blamed.
https://covid19criticalcare.com
Now they admit that we could’ve had therapeutic early intervention all along, but it was ignored in favor of a questionable, ineffective, and experimental vaccine.
Who will be left holding the bag for that?
Stop calling it a “vaccine” ( I know, I know, everybody is doing it) it is a “treatment” not a “vaccine.”
The reason it is called a “vaccine” and not a “treatment” is to forego the necessity of dealing with people who would ask, “Are there any other treatments I could take instead?”
And ones that are affordable rather than created for profit based on hysteria?
And here we go… new, more transmissible variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 could sweep the United States in coming weeks and become the dominant strain as soon as March, leading to a new surge of cases through the spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Friday.
The CDC believes the variant, known as B117, is still circulating at low levels in the U.S. Only 76 infections .
If they do this, half the population will literally, literally go crazy. They won’t have much of a workforce left and no one to buy houses and other things as people are paralyzed with depression.
I really, really, hope this isn’t the direction they go. I may lose my mind if they do.
QUICK! We need to get a bunch of screaming leftists attacking Cuomo with “but you don’t care about our lives?!” This shouldn’t be hard to do as they’ve been using this opportunity enjoying not having to work for a living all this time.
…and that newsweek tweet. I guess they don’t care to mention that studies of this sort were effectively banned in this country. How many medical careers were completely ruined when they came out against this? Will they get their lives back after it turns out they were right all along??
Ya don’t say? /s
Its amazing to see the flip on this stuff happening right before our eyes. How people can just blindly follow this, and not point out the hypocrisy is beyond me. I just pray we can suffer through these next 2 years, and then take back over the house and senate in 2022. I also pray that there isn’t so much damage done to the nation in these next 2 years that its beyond repair.
COVID EXPERIENCE IN TUCSON 1-16-2021
Yesterday went to grocery store. The lady and man ahead of me (approx 68 yrs old) weren’t moving up in the line to put their groceries on the counter belt mover. So I said are you in line?
The lady flipped out on me and said “WE ARE KEEPING OUR 6 FEET DISTANCE BECAUSE OF COVID19!”
I smiled and said “Oh yah, I forgot about that.”
Then she snapped at me: “DON’T YOU KNOW THAT ARIZONA IS THE #1 COVID HOT SPOT FOR INFECTIONS IN THE NATION?”
Her husband chimed in, “NOT JUST THE NATION BUT IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. ARIZONA HAS MORE CASES THAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. DON’T YOU KNOW? IT’S ALL OVER THE NEWS!!!”
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I left that line and went to a different line. I thought they were gonna blow a head gasket.
The weird thing about that is I don’t know one person that ever got it nor died from it.
I really believe these cases are the normal amount of people that get flu each year and die from flu each year. But I still have not met anyone here in Arizona that died of the flu either.
But the MSM is harping on it day in and day out. The people who watch it are literally in a parallel world than many of us. They don’t even know President Trump won and that there a fake president being installed in our country.
THAT’S THE REAL EPIDEMIC = ignorance!
MSM TRULY IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
“IT’S ALL OVER THE NEWS!!!” The power and influence of The Fake News on full display there.
The number of people that are just completely brainwashed is insane. And frightening!
You should have said I don’t watch the propaganda news. I chose to educate myself on current events.
Collectively media has done a great job undermining the republic.
I have to really hand it to NPR. Those NPR jerks who sound so intelligent have done more to contribute to the stupidity to American than anyone else. And the people who listen to it think they are “informed”.
Utterly Satanic.
Should have just started coughing and inched closer…that’s what I would have done. Screw them….probably communist scum anyway. I give no quarter to the stupid sheep.
Ha-ha! I do that all the time.
When I’m around a bunch of “those kind” of whackos in a store, I pull my mask down and start fake coughing and hacking like I’m passing a lung.
Damn net wet myself laughing so hard at watching them scatter. It always gets me to the front of the line.
damn NEAR not net!
Yes you just had a discussion with someone inside the Matrix.
I do know one person who died. He was in his 80s and he was something of an old pervert. He was found badly beaten in a hotel room. The young woman who rented the room with him was driving around in his chevy which she says he had loaned her and her boyfriend. He had a head injury and numerous other injuries and it was determined that due to brain damage he was unlikely to ever recover. He was moved to a personal care home. He got COVID. He died soon afterward. He already had a DNR but he’s a COVID victim for sure. HIs family is actually relieved. Dying of COVID is so much more noble than dying because you hired a prostitute six decades younger than you and someone beat you up.
I would have said something like “I thought the CDC said to keep at least 6 feet away from mask wearing fools.”
thx
Need to buy 10,000+ stickers with an iconic President Trump image and the phrase ‘told ya so’, to plaster everywhere. ?
yeah and they need to be made out of that stuff they used to make license plate stickers out of,so you just can’t peel it off it comes off in little bitty pieces.take you an hour to peel a sticker off.
“We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.”
Is this code for “we’ll decide who is favored to have a business operating”?
And you can participate in the new economy if you get your “vaccine” shots.
President Trump said open up the economy and schools months ago. He was correct.
Color me shocked!
There goes MORE of our hard-earned tax dollars when Congress/Senate bails NY out of their stupidity!!
Socialists love the absence of a middle class. Libs are voting for their next meal. Mission accomplished.
Let the class action law suits begin! EVERYONE that has suffered because of the stupid lockdowns MUST be made whole.
They own the courts.
Apparently they own everything…BURN IT ALL DOWN.
Time to reset the “New Normal” after the chaos, election theft and riots.
Attempt to control us with some crumbs and see if we will forget.m
Communist Playbook.
Actually lockdowns and closed borders worked extremely well in Australia and NZ.
Of the 1,100 deaths “with” Cv in Australia 90% came from spread by poor hotel quarantine supervision of citizens from overseas.
Cv was/is essentially a non event…..then again Australia didn’t send aged people back to their care homes to reinfect the other residents, after quickly realising that was evil policy.
Lockdown/ quarantine would never work in the US….like trying to herd cats.
And just like that, Biden cures Covid.
What a man! Not only is he the oldest US President in history AND the most popular
President, having gained over 12 million more votes than Obama, now he has cured Covid!!
Totally predictable. Any governor ( Coumo) who would knowingly kill senior citizens and destroy their economy will brazenly lie .
There is so much gaslighting coming out of my relative’s television that I have to open up the windows to prevent the apartment from blowing up.
Lockdowns most certainly DO benefit BIG CORPORATIONS and COMMUNISTS.
Will they reverse that narrative/decision if President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act and the EO on foreign interference in an election and becomes President instead of ChiCom Joe? Were they too premature or do they for certain know who will be President? Do they know what Lawfare and the deep state will do if President Trump exercises his Constitutional authority? Just wondering?
The whole situation is even worse. Suppose that you were to talk with some Democrats and present them with absolute proof of what really happened. They would not care.
I have tried doing that with some intelligent well-educated Democrats. They literally have no interest in the truth.
For those people, what is important is to reaffirm their tribal identity–in this case, their identity as Democrats. And their tribal leaders have told them that, as Democrats, them must accept certain things: in particular, almost anything that is anti-Trump.
Psychologists who have studied persuasion (e.g. Robert Cialdini), have concluded that appeals to identity are the most effective means of persuading people. The reason is that what people care about most is maintaining their identity. My experience is that maintaining tribal identity is a characteristic that seems to be especially strong in people who lean Democrat.
That is the real reason that those Democrats seem to be so deranged. For them to acknowledge the truth would be a disaffirmation of their tribal identity. They would rather die than relinquish that identity.
Excellent comment, but I will just slightly push back against grounding these phenomena heavily in emotions and psychology. Because you can also ground this “tribal identity” phenomenon in ideas and ways of thinking – ideology. Most of the tribal Democrats/leftists you are describing are ideologues. And being an ideologue makes people think themselves – not just emote themselves – into irrational, extreme directions.
Good old peer pressure, which also extends to their work options, their child’s schooling, etc. The system is hardening against wrong thing and encouraging blaming others for then usual political and PC reasons. Just like a certain Small Group Texter, they can smell the deplorables, and want more and more to sniff them out — now cuz insurrection
Yes, excellent comment. So very true.
I am wondering when the face masks will come off. Went from requested to mandatory. What store will be the first to tear down the mask requirement sign from their doors.
That’s still a convenient tool to use as a whip crack for any virus strain going forward now that it’s so ingrained in the people who have accepted it.
Somebody mentioned that while Disneyland was closed, Disney World was open and doing “well” at 35% capacity. (What a shock, open air and well ventilated areas aren’t having people drop like flies.)
However I have no interest in going to Disney World, universal, or spring training with their outdoor entertainment until people don’t have to have a face apparatus as a nonnegotiable part of entrance and recreation. Someone doing compliance checks on faces is not my idea of recreation, let alone paying for the privilege.
The longer these things linger as the norm because science and supposed safety — even as people remove them to eat or swim or whatever, the longer the cottage industry will be allowed to deepen its roots and flourish
The Mask takes the JOY out of everything, all the fun. I so miss other people’s smiles, amid their strangled voices of Hello. The Masked Sheeple can be vicious. I refuse. It’s all so bizarre.
COVID LIES were all about the cheat….nothing more. The scum need to be hung.
And to destroy economy.
“I was for the war before I was against the war” ~ John F. Kerry
“I was for the lockdowns before I was against the lockdowns. I was for the COVID before I was against the COVID!” ~ Chicago Mayor Lightfoot
We’ve been had. Greatly!
Yep, the timing is eminently convenient.
Widespread economic destruction via lockdowns were tagged on an ongoing basis to an incumbent and his administration’s tenure. Now a week before a new
administration, a “peer reviewed“ report comes out that allows the “experts” and Gov. Yearbook-type autocrats to say — with cover media and supposed science — “oops, forget what we did — the main street businesses and savings we risked crushing, the operations we canceled or postponed, the elderly we risked hurting through isolation, the families we risked fracturing by criminalizing visits, travel, and holidays, the funerals and gatherings we thwarted, the school-age development we risked stunting; so, we good?”
End the lock downs just in time for Chamber of Commerce to work with Biden* administration to increase legal immigration. Obviously looking to fill all these new jobs they will claim they “created”.
it came out last week that starting i think jan 27th the cdc will be changing the cycle rate from 75 to in the 30-40 range,this will eliminate 3/4th of the positive cases.
Just run them through the CheatWare Machines.
Where did you see that? That will be an important reference to show the “follow the science” crowd.
Democrats have been using similar tactics as the environmentalist, man-made global warming scientists. Using biased/faulty data collection and reporting. Knowing the testing procedures is important in defeating their arguments.
Sundance, you are so cynical. The timing of the proposed policy changes is merely a coincidence, surely you can see that. /s
“Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rated higher and which lower, in short, what men should believe and strive for.”
– Friedrich Hayek
In my state, we’ve got 10x the number of cases we had in April, 4x the number from September. The highest ever. Guess which schools are suddenly talking about re-opening now?
If you’ve got similar reports, share them here.
What I can’t figure out is how they got hospitals to go along with the propaganda by coding deaths “with” covid to “of” covid. Maybe the extra payment didn’t help.
Yep, watch the corona cold numbers plummet and the flu and pneumonia magically reappear. Slow Joe is a miracle worker!
Dr says have seen no cases of the flu yet this fall, winter. Live in ne, usually hotbed for flu during flu season.
I live in New York and Cuomo’s press conferences are broadcast daily on one of the local tv networks.
Just last week, I watched as he berated people in the “orange zones” and threatened to close businesses.
Now, he’s telling those same people they can stay open.
I predicted long ago that COVID-19 would disappear on Inauguration Day.
And today Cuomo is suddenly concerned about the increasing crime rates in New York City. It has all served its seditious purpose of economic ruin, to take out a democratically elected President.
Norway urgently changes Covid vaccine guidance after 23 die in days following Pfizer jab….
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1384728/Covid-vaccine-latest-side-effects-Pfizer-jab-23-dead-Norway-coronavirus-update
So wait for it………
Living in the NY Gulag, where our feckless legislators turned over all their power to the tyrant Governor Killer Cuomo, it occurs to me that our nightmare is not going to end so easily.
There are no term limits for governor and the Dem/ Commiecrats have a super majority in the state legislature. Why would they EVER give up all that power?
Check out what cuomo actually means by ‘opening’ back up.
So, the people who were banned or blocked by the social media giants for spreading “false information” about the ineffectiveness of shutdowns are now shown to have been right.
It was the social media giants who were spreading the false information.
What the left has done to people all over the world with the covid madness is a crime against humanity. Never forget.
DecisionTime16: I use the same language. Crime against humanity.