Has the Gain of Fiction finally come to an end?
Has the Gain of Fiction finally come to an end?
The Upcoming Presidential election in the United States may finally be forcing people to open their eyes
It seems that legacy media is done talking about the pandemic and the Covid “vaccines”. For them, it’s a chapter in our history which is best forgotten. There are more important things to consider right now. There’s an election taking place at the end of the year here in the U.S. The problem for the liberal leaning media is that the pandemic response and upcoming election are intimately connected.
You don’t have to be a political analyst to see that the Democratic Party is in a free fall. The leader of their party, President Biden, has as good a chance of successfully battling his presumed Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump on a debate stage in front of a live audience as he does passing a basic competency test.
I personally don’t believe the Democrats will choose to run the incumbent. Who they run in his place is anybody’s guess.
I will gleefully be watching how things unfold over the next few months.
Though the Dems are still trying to figure out what or whom they believe in, they do have an obvious and powerful line of attack against their nemesis: While commander-in-chief, Trump kowtowed to a scrawny octogenarian doctor/lifetime bureaucrat named Anthony Fauci and shut this country down for most of his last year in the WH. Fauci did not have any executive powers. Trump did.
Tens of millions suffered. Small businesses were decimated. Vast sums of money were borrowed from future generations. The billionaire class, of which Trump is a member, enjoyed an unprecedented expansion in a relative blink of an eye.
While families masked their toddlers, skipped BBQs and Thanksgiving dinners with loved ones and patiently waited for our authorities to save the country, President Trump proudly took credit for Operation Warp Speed which used taxpayer money to purchase hundreds of millions of vaccine doses that did not meet even vague requirements for safety.
Nevertheless four out five Americans accepted the “vaccine” as the only solution to a problem that was most probably created by the very medical/pharma establishment that was able to pull Trump’s strings like a puppeteer. The damage from this technology is still yet to be determined while the CDC unwaveringly recommends new boosters as mortality rates across all ages remain above pre pandemic levels.
It’s obviously all Trump’s fault. How could he possibly defend himself against such stiff criticism?
Of course this path to victory for the Dems comes with a difficult pill to swallow: the left-leaning, highly vaccinated swath of American citizenry must admit that mistakes were made. They may even have to take the previously inconceivable step of apologizing for the way they treated those who resisted an intense campaign of vaccination. It’s not going to be easy for “smart” people to admit they were fooled.
On the other hand, things may be beginning to shift.
Almost exactly two years ago The Atlantic ran this story , “Joe Rogan’s show Maybe Dumb. But is it Actually Deadly?”, which was typical of the MSM attack on the widely popular podcast host who had recently hosted Covid mRNA “vaccine” critics Drs. Peter McCullough and Robert Malone. The author of The Atlantic piece states (emphasis mine):
“[Rogan] or his guests have said, for instance, that useful COVID treatments were suppressed by greedy hospital executives, that COVID deaths have been grossly overcounted, that masking simply cannot work to stop disease transmission, that public-health messaging has hypnotized the masses, that recovering from COVID confers permanent immunity, that mRNA vaccines represent “a major threat to reproductive health,” and many other things that aren’t true. The spread of these ideas wastes our time, at the very least. I suspect that it makes us dumber, too, by sucking any serious critiques of vaccine policy into a vapid swirl of blabbing and debunking.”
Around the same time NPR’s Morning Edition echoed The Atlantic’s concern in this story (aired January 21, 2022), “What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem”. The story was also in response to Rogan’s interview with Dr. Robert Malone. In it we find statements like this:
“The medical and scientific experts slammed Rogan's track record of airing false claims about the coronavirus pandemic, vaccines and unproven treatments, calling it "a sociological issue of devastating proportions." Spotify, they say, has enabled him.”
“Malone made baseless and disproven claims, including falsely stating that getting vaccinated puts people who already have had COVID-19 at higher risk.”
“It wasn't the first time Rogan or his guests have floated dubious or outright false information about the pandemic. He has claimed young and healthy people don't need COVID-19 vaccines. He has promoted taking ivermectin as a treatment, which the Food and Drug Administration has warned against.”
At the time NPR did not openly call for Rogan to be de-platformed but criticism was voiced towards Spotify, who they believe has a responsibility to “be more transparent about its rules, do more to moderate misinformation and make it easier to flag these kinds of baseless claims.”
Fast forward to today, Rogan has signed another deal with the Spotify platform, this time worth a quarter of a billion dollars. Yet no legacy media article (that I could find) on this rather stunning piece of news condemned Spotify for supporting this once potentially “Deadly” disinformation spreader.
Even Rogan’s recent rant against those who blindly trusted perhaps the most untrustworthy of all industries, big Pharma, has seemed to go unnoticed by the same media platforms that once bristled at his candor and criticism of the very cartel that pays them for favorable coverage. Take eighty seconds to hear Joe out:
Joe Rogan: It’s crazy how many people have died suddenly…
Where is the condemnation now?
Of course the G.O.P. could attack the Biden administration for their gross exaggeration of the efficacy and safety of the rapidly tested and deployed mRNA products, their frank lies with regard to stopping transmission of the disease, the flagrant attack on first amendment rights, collusion with social media platforms to censor voices critical of any official narrative and perhaps most egregiously directing employers and our own military to enforce a zero-tolerance approach towards workers and soldiers who chose to decline putting an experimental product into their bodies.
The Pandemic is clearly a landmine issue for the Uniparty. Who else can we turn to?
The vaccines were a disaster but mandating them was the real crime.
The "Uniparty" is right! Thank you for telling it like it is. I think one thing that's confusing for Americans is that we grow up our whole lives being told that elections are the way we can have say over what happens. So if you hate the Democrats, you must like the Republicans, and vice-versa, right? Because otherwise you feel like you have no say at all. But the two parties are almost identical, and they both claim to be friends of the ordinary people while serving only the rich. There are lots of ways to actually have say over things, which we can't have through national elections: democratically-run labor unions (yes, they do exist, and they're growing), community organizations, boycotts, pickets, protests (like the trucker caravan in Canada), local elections (because on the local level sometimes we have actual meaningful choices), and lots of other strategies to get power back for ordinary people. My motto is "Don't Vote, Organize!"
P.S. I didn't like most Trump administration policies at all, but I just read about some important pro-labor actions that came out of his Department of Labor, mostly related to union democracy, that Biden's Department of Labor quickly dismantled. Neither of them does what they say they're doing. There's no alternative to taking matters into our own hands!