REPUBLIC REBORN

Five months into this bogus pandemic, and we are fast slipping into parody as is evident with the latest suggestion from Anthony Fauci: wear face shields! Wear goggles! As Ron Paul asked earlier today, “What’s next, space suits?” This rivals the great hysterias from the equally bogus War on Terror, when random empty suits from Boing or Lockheed Martin would appear on television to warn about some obscure and dangerous terrorist threat. There never was a threat, but the suits knew that people would believe it regardless. Their stock prices jumped at every new fake threat, and these grifters enriched themselves off the fear. The War on Terror was a racket built upon lies. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Middle Easterners paid the ultimate price for that fear-fueled war. Millions more had to abandon their homes, their countries, and their way of life, as our own government, armed with the latest weaponry, fired wildly at various targets, killing thousands of innocents.

Now Americans get to experience firsthand the nightmare that ensues when their own government declares “war” on a will’o the wisp non-existent threat. We will all be caught in the crossfire. Indeed, we already have. Just think about it, what foreign enemy could have inflicted the amount of damage that our own government has done, in just four months? Our government might as well have just made that plain up front: we are going to wage an apocalyptic war on our own economy. “Those sanctions we placed on Iran and Venezuela? They’ve got nothing on what we’re going to do to ourselves. BRACE YOURSELF.“

So what is Fauci’s place in this charade? Is he Cheney? Bush? Colin Powell? Or maybe just a self-mythologizing fraud, a clown, a towering vanity that is falling to earth much too fast. He’ll publish numerous books on the COVID scam, eager to squeeze a few more bucks out of the economy that he played a major role in destroying.

(The phrase, ‘self-mythologizing’, comes from the late libertarian literary colossus, Will Grigg)

This is what propaganda does to people.

According to a recent Census Bureau survey, close to 30 million US citizens reported that they didn’t have enough food last week.

I’d really like someone to explain something to me: how many non-COVID lives equals one COVID life? How many non-COVID Americans should be sacrificed for a single COVID life? 30? 100? I’d really like to know the calculus in play here.

Just The News:

“Risch, a professor of epidemiology and the director of Yale’s Molecular Cancer Epidemiology Laboratory, has been pushing for the drug’s use in the fight against the coronavirus for months. Last week in a Newsweek op-ed he called HCQ “the key to defeating COVID-19,” claiming its use — particularly when administered with one of two antibiotics and the nutritional supplement zinc — has been “shown to be highly effective” in treating high-risk coronavirus patients. 

On Tuesday, Risch went further, charging in an interview with Just the News that Fauci is perpetrating a “misinformation campaign” in his opposition to the drug.”

It appears that the entire campaign against hydroxychloroquine is driven by the fact that Trump has endorsed its use to treat COVID-19. So even if it saves lives, our infantile corporate media and Political Class opposes it, because their hate for Trump overrides their concern for COVID patients. Of course, they also oppose it because it’s cheap and effective, and fortunes can’t be made off of it by their advertisers.

Tom Woods gave a great talk recently at Mises University, wherein he explains the tragedy of the lockdowns. One thing he mentioned that I found fascinating is the phenomenon of the “midwit”, a term he says originated from Michael Malice.

The ‘midwit’ is smarter than a ‘dimwit’, but unable to think on their own, or hold any independently-arrived at opinion. Because of this, they become perfect receptacles and vectors for whatever propaganda is being pushed by the Political Class. You know these people, they’re everywhere. They have an uncanny, natural aptitude for learning all the correct opinions, even all the lingo and jargon, that are held by the powerful among the media, government, industry, and the medical professions. Once they’ve been programmed, these people spread this propaganda in the most effective of ways. They reproduce the propaganda perfectly in daily conversation, using the same lingo as the “experts” from whom they first heard it. And in the midst of COVID madness, the midwit truly shines. They began spreading lockdown propaganda immediately, parroting it on social media, and everywhere else they could. They spread the fear and paranoia, and did so with no critical reflection whatsoever. You’ve encountered these people. It’s impossible to talk to them, debate their opinions, or even attempt to change their minds. They are immune to alternative points of view, and of course they have self-programmed into reflexively labelling alternative opinions as “conspiracy theories”. They drive establishment narratives, and robotically attack any dissenting voices in swarms.  The ‘midwit’ is usually college-educated, and might even hold an upper middle class career. Looking closely, you can see that their entire lives are merely a reflection of the views and opinions of others, of establishment culture. Their lives are not their own, and neither are their opinions. They are capable of great destruction.

It happened sometime today. The Pharma-Industrial Complex is using its vast influence to suppress any criticism of the official narrative regarding the official COVID narrative as well as any of its products. Del has consistently been one of the most persuasive and influential of those critics. Despite backing up everything he says with facts and research, contrary opinions must be censored, according to the tech giants, who are in turn owned by the giants of Pharma. No dissent must be permitted if their totalitarian vision is to be realized.

This is pathetic. Do schools exist to educate children, or merely as a jobs program for the union? And a jobs program where no one wants to show up to work? Get the money out of union-strangled schools. Give the money to the parents in the form of vouchers. Allow them to make a choice about what school is best for their children. Watch teachers break their union chains and go get a real teaching job. Watch the unions starve.

This is a great idea, and reflective of the real anti-war spirit of the Left. Recruiters are the equivalent of used car salesmen or private gang recruiters, and slimier still. Before naive teenagers, they peddle a career in cannon fodder, but paint it as an adventurous, fun way to “pay for college”. In reality, these kids will be sent through the Imperial meat grinder, stationed at some remote outpost, and placed on a path of lifelong instability. They’ll be experimented on, exploited, used, and then spit out the bottom of the war machine, and handed over to the useless VA.

The military wants to get these kids early before they’ve developed their own independent thoughts on the matter. There is nothing honorable in that.

I’m beginning to believe that there is only one way to respond to the COVID fanatics, and to COVID ideology in general, and it’s the same response that would be appropriate in the face of any other totalitarian ideology or burgeoning religion: laugh in its face, laugh at those who buy into it, and laugh at those who would sacrifice themselves and their families to it.

Just as we grimly laugh at the Heaven’s Gate cultists, the Jonestown suicide cult, the barbarian fundamentalists in the Middle East, and even many wacked out religious nutjobs here in America, the COVID cult deserves searing, unrepentant ridicule. Just as with other religions, there is nothing to understand in COVID-ism, no deeper meaning behind their eschatological ravings. They do not deserve respect for their beliefs, because those beliefs have been made the weapon that could very well destroy the modern world.

I realize that this sounds very similar to the arguments made by Sam Harris, but in this instance it is not only appropriate, but vitally necessary. When a new totalitarian ideology suddenly erupts out of societal fissures of apathy, fear, and paranoia, it is the moral obligation of individuals who see the danger in it to oppose it virulently.

COVID fanaticism has torn a hole in the fabric of social reality, through which can be seen the coming Dark Age of primitivism and superstition, a demon-haunted world where we all cower, where books and heretics are burned at the same stake, where holy texts are disseminated, temples built, and unbelievers sacrificed. Our primitive nature yearns for that world, which is why it is so important that we oppose these re-barbarizing forces now, rather than later. And the best way to oppose them is to laugh at them.

AP News.

The great evil we are witnessing is entirely self-inflicted, and it’s architects currently hold elected public office throughout the world. They will never admit that they were the cause of the deaths of the innocent, and if they do, they will appeal to the climate of fear surrounding COVID-19.

This is a great flood of suffering and death, but because it isn’t reported on the news, it’s invisible, as are its victims. This suffering will continue for years to come, and the victims will remain voiceless.