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Bad politicians and bad bureaucrats make bad policy and bad decisions based on bad science and the process is misreported by bad media
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Wrong so often and by so much that a new age was born, the age of stupid…
The Conformity Crackup of 2021: From Covid lockdowns to crime and cops, the political-media consensus was wrong
“…Only when it is exposed over time as false does the conformity break, and typically only if there are negative political consequences for Democrats. The saving grace is that sometimes reality is impossible to ignore, and 2021 was the year this happened on some of the biggest events of our time. It’s worth recounting a few examples to see how the dominant consensus was wrong about so much for so long.
• The Wuhan Virology Lab origin theory of Covid-19. In the early days of the pandemic, even raising this as a possibility was taboo. Sen. Cotton was vilified for doing so. The Lancet, a supposedly open-minded scientific journal, published a letter in February 2020 “to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
This year we learned that the Lancet letter was part of a coordinated effort to quash the lab theory. We learned about the conflicts of interest of Anthony Fauci and others who provided funding for the Wuhan lab. Eventually even the press noticed that China had blocked an honest inquiry, and that no evidence for a natural origin has emerged.
• Lockdowns stop Covid-19. There was no fiercer consensus in the early days of the virus than the belief that locking down the economy to stop the virus was an unadulterated social good. We felt the consensus wrath when we raised doubts, in an editorial on March 20, 2020, about the harm that lockdowns would do to the economy and public health.
Two years later we now know that lockdowns at most delay the virus spread. The damage in lost education for children, lost livelihoods for workers and employers, and damage to mental health is obvious for all to see. Even Randi Weingarten, the teachers union chief who did so much to keep schools closed, now claims she wanted to keep them open all along.
• The supply side of the economy doesn’t matter. The Keynesian consensus, which dominates the U.S. and European media, has long held that the demand for goods and services drives the economy. The ability or incentive to supply those goods is largely ignored or dismissed. Spurring demand was the theory behind the trillions of dollars in spending by Congress and easy money from the Federal Reserve.
All that money did spur demand. But the Keynesians ignored the disincentives to increase supply from paying people not to work and restricting work with lockdowns and mandates. The result was the surging inflation that caught nearly all of them by surprise. Their demand-side models never saw it coming.
• The Steele dossier and Russia collusion narrative. In 2019 the Mueller report exposed the lack of evidence for the claims that Donald Trump and the Kremlin were in cahoots. This year the indictments by special counsel John Durham have revealed how Democrats and the press worked together to promote the dossier that was based on disinformation.
Yet for four years nearly everyone in the dominant media bought the collusion narrative. One or two of the gullible have apologized, but most want everyone to forget what they wrote or said at the time.
• Vilifying police won’t affect crime. The fast-congealing consensus after George Floyd’s murder was that most police were racist, as was most of American society, and violent protests against this were justified—even admirable. Woe to anyone who pointed out that the victims of these riots and crime were mostly poor and minority communities.
Police funding was cut and bail laws eased in many cities. Eighteen months later we see the result in rising crime rates and a soaring murder count. A political backlash now has even many Democrats claiming they really do want more funding for police…”
Glenn Reynolds points out an important condition as the 2022 midterms approach
We must make public-health authorities accountable for their COVID lies
The first step is in the ballot box
In the age of stupid, pathetic liberals extend up and down the political hierarchy.
Justin Trudeau — The Unvaccinated are usually “racist and misogynist.” Liberal politicians worldwide are simply pathetic.
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Canada has a real doozy. So do we:
Democrats and media change the Covid narrative
This week alone:
CNN: Cloth masks don’t work.
CDC Director: PCR tests are unreliable
Fauci: 10 day quarantines can be cut to 5 days now.
Biden: There is no federal solution to beat COVID-19
They are shifting the narrative.
Just in time for the midterms.
— Adam Paul Laxalt (@AdamLaxalt) December 30, 2021
More than 70% of Germans are fully vaxxed. Fully vaxxed are 95% of Omicron cases in Germany. Unvaxxed are 4%.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1476583826344267777
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Was the January 6 “insurrection” an FBI operation? Why are Democrats so crazy on this?
Fire Garland. https://t.co/y4R0ucF2nZ
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 30, 2021
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The plot to “kidnap” the Michigan Governor also appears to be an FBI operation. It appears these operations were undertaken to discredit Trump and Trump voters and label them crazy, white-nationalist terrorists. The media certainly played along.
Biden one year in…
CNN…
Irresponsible Democrat politicians, bureaucrats, and media personalities have destroyed the lives of many weak-minded people…
A friend of mine who’s a commercial pilot just sent me this pic of a passenger on his plane. pic.twitter.com/VVsrdBhbbp
— Phil (@RealPhillyP) December 28, 2021
All this crazy nonsense over a flu strain with a better than 99% recovery rate for most people.
Headline of the day
Jonathan Turley on the Ashley Biden Diary
Ashley Biden’s Diary: Will The FBI Raid The New York Times?
“…The Christmas Eve order for the New York Times to return confidential legal material from the conservative publication, Project Veritas, has led many to decry the imposition of a “prior restraint” on the media. I joined in expressing those concerns about courts preventing a news publication and then ordering the return of material sent by a source. That issue will be now be addressed in the courts. One question, however, remains: when will the FBI raid the home of New York Times publisher, A.G. Sulzberger?
That is what the Justice Department did when Project Veritas was given the diary of President Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley – the subject of the New York Times story. They raided the home and seized the confidential communications of the founder of Project Veritas, James O’Keefe, as well as others associated with this publication.
Of course, Project Veritas is hardly popular with many in the media as an outfit known for ambush journalism. Yet, both publications were given stolen or abandoned confidential material. The difference in response appears based on source of the material and the political orientation of the publication. Ashley Biden’s diary was deemed a federal issue of such importance that the Administration conducted highly intrusive searches and seizures targeting a publisher. Conversely, the New York Times obtained core attorney-client material that was unlawfully taken from Project Veritas…”
When you’re so confident in your “truth” that you have to censor disbelievers…
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1476241697034186754
Covid is politics. Covid is religion.
Florida Surgeon General claims Biden Administration is “actively preventing” distribution of monoclinal antibody treatments to Florida
NEW: Florida Surgeon General says Biden Admin is "actively preventing" distribution of monoclonal antibodies by pausing shipments of Regeneron, in letter to HHS Sec.
Feds paused Regeneron bc it may not work against Omicron. FL says it can still be used in existing Delta cases. pic.twitter.com/9mmw5SsuZJ
— Jay O'Brien (@jayobtv) December 28, 2021
When politics is more important than effective medical treatments
Meanwhile, the “journalists” over at CNN…
How have Biden’s Covid policies worked? Not so good…
The Flu took a year off…
Flu is making a comeback in US after an unusual year off
You have to be a nitwit to believe the crap the media spews. Flu never took time off. It was with us all along. The tests for Covid could not differentiate between Flu and Covid. Every positive test was interpreted as Covid. The tests themselves were only about 50% accurate anyway.
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