Matt - one of your commenters wrote that he ‘would never forgive himself’ for buying into the bullshit in 2020. My immediate reaction, and that of all the replies he got was (a) to immediately forgive him, and (b) to welcome him to the team. The fact you cared enough to write this piece warrants the same response, imho.
The Point being that there was so much going on, no mere three-ring circus, but like Olympic games with different events at different venues, and faulty transportation systems for getting between the venues. No single spectator could hope to get close all of the events, or understand them. Further, few could have guess how much was pre-scripted -- I'm think for example that at Aspen Institute they had already gamed out how to cover up the laptop narrative. The most relevant olympic sport might be Curling, where they are out sweeping a clean path in front of their stone, and guiding it to knock other stones away from the target.
As much as all our Substack writers keep probing and uncovering, we still are not close to knowing where and when much of the grand conspiracy and collusion began, or how widely it is rooted. Years back, in Hate, Inc., Matt exposed he intent of all the mainstream media to portray politics as a grad sporting event, in order to distract from the collusion. But even as we came to distrust electoral politics, we had no idea how big the swamp was, how incestuous the high tech marketing is, etc.
For most of us here reading these threads today, wouldn't we agree the the extent of what we are discovering was simply unimaginable, even ten year ago, even as we knew that the whole "war on Terror" was depravity. But we believed there might be some restraints and containers around it. It has taken a long time to fathom the vastness. Now, no apologies are necessary or appropriate for how long it has taken to begin to comprehend.
The only thing unimaginable, ten years ago or three years ago, was not the USG's response or the State Governors enacting there relatively new legislation that gave them unlimited emergency powers, which they used and abused; it was the response of the public - yes please take all my rights as a human away from me - please save me please! That was truly unthinkable, unimaginable but there it was. I never thought I would witness a collapse of the principles and values I thought Americans had held so dear. But, then again prior generations bought into the USG lie that to protect our freedoms we had to send our youth to fight wars in far off lands - wars the powerful needed to enrich themselves and build their empires. Never trust those with power, ever. A double shame would be ‘we the people’ letting those that perpetrated this taken down of society get away with it.
"yes please take all my rights as a human away from me - please save me please!"
This is a natural appeal by those who feel so overwhelmed by the threats from all directions, who need reassurance and seek a haven. But who could have realized that all of the threats which we were trying to run from were like so many marbles being rolled out onto the floor of the hall, to make it impossible to run in any directions.
It was only a virus. It was known quickly it was only affecting the aged population. The only marbles I recognized from the government were these: turn in people you see ignoring the 'lockdown rules'; suing churches and business that stayed open, arresting people not wearing a mask; tell everyone that the unvaxed are going to kill you; forcing people indoors even though outside was where you should be. The longer it went on the more I thought people would start to recognize the entire thing as scare tactics rather than a 'health' emergency. I was wrong.
What about the multitude of people FIRED from their jobs because they refused the vax? What about the media claiming the unvaccinated should be excluded from venues? What about the "show your papers for entry"???? If it was ONLY scare tactics and not people losing their fucking careers! Jesus Christ, how could you forget the massive firings?
My 'unimaginable' comments were entirely about mass compliance and the shift that occurred within the mind to accept nonsensical edicts and to willingly turn on others who disobeyed.
My comments did not address what I could imagine - those that resisted and the repercussions they suffered. That was not the topic.
You and I were in the same boat; I have a tough time forgiving, but I am working on that -- and I do welcome people to the team of Facts & Actual Science.
I do not hold it against those that complied out of fear but give them no excuse for turning on those that did not. I do know that if those that did do not wake up to the fact the USG is corrupt to its core, these onslaughts to our freedoms will continue until we are captive slaves of the system (if we are not already).
Some of us realized what was going on at the beginning of the Covid-19 killing and maiming festival since the beginning. No one would listen or question the government. More of us are aware now. It is up to us to wake up the rest before the health mafia completely destroys everything we hold dear.
Actually, all that you needed to do was to apply basic tests of logical fallacies to what we were being told. I did. The constant drumbeat of the "appeal to authority" fallacy and the "ipse dixit" fallacy were obvious early on. I'm just sad that many of my own siblings fell for that crap, and accused me of "not caring about others" enough. They're very quiet about that now.
Or perps, having looted and gutted the Republic's economy and infrastructure, then orchestrated bouts of fear, intimidation and an assault on language, idea's and institutions backed up by the creation of a shadowy and unaccountable commissariat capable of destroying lives and careers on a whim. This, as planned, led to the mass psychogenic illness (MPI/menticide) which stripped the citizens of their agency and reduced their psyche's to mush.
the avaerage person listened to the MSM and trusted the government being willing to forgive some mistakes, especially early on. Those who asked questions were stifled.
The key was to o make it partisan. My family disdains masks and boostrs but is equally disdainful of anybody who brings up that is was wrong in th efirst place.
That is one of the 'wanted' outcomes. To see the USG as righteous in purpose rather than the perpetration of another hoax for power and control. One of the panelists at a recent WEF gathering said the pandemic did not get everyone vaxed, climate change is too abstract to get all people on board so let use ‘water’ instead. Even the young know how vital water is. We can still hope that the other two still pan out but let’s add water as another means.
Everyone needs to understand the end game, but the many never will because, although it is something they can perceive, for the purpose of sanity, they will choose not to.
Absolutely agree! Even those of us highly skeptical of anything that the powers-that-be have to say had a hard time believing this could possibly be orchestrated. But many voices were, in fact, there in the background speaking out; Dr. Jay Bahttrachaya, Naomi Wolfe and so many others who signed the Great Barrington Declaration were being attacked, discredited and muzzled in so many ways, one had to dig hard for unsanctioned data. For the true journalists it had to be a daunting task (at that time) to establish what was "truth," especially in the glare of assertions of what was supposed to be "the science." My great hope is that many more people are not as likely to accept any story/explanation simply because government officials, experts, scientists, or "sanctioned" media say so. In brief it is true; apologies are not necessary from Matt and those like him, ever searching for truth. All is not yet lost!
I don't think anyone is advocating "Believe nothing/nobody." But rather doing the hardass work of figuring out who you should believe, who you can trust. For me, that entails asking do they change their minds about events based on better evidence, do they test even their most cherished beliefs against incoming evidence, and did their analysis prove accurate as facts unfold?
I started following Brett Weinstein very early on because his arguments for why the virus was probably escaped from a lab made rigorous scientific sense. Since then it's become increasingly obvious that he was very probably right. Other positions he and Heather Heying took early continue to be borne out by evolving evidence. So when they say something, I'm more inclined to believe them, pending contrary evidence. But figuring out who to trust is an investment in time and attention, and not everyone is willing to make it. Alas.
The suggested remedy to the disease of totalitarianism/fascism is the creation of a parallel culture/society with an ethos that values individual human rights and dignity. Of course the beginning of recovery is admitting you have the disease. A good model for human dignity, liberty and freedom can be found in the American Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
And yet, people like me saw the incongruity of the alarmist messaging, and the parallel refusals to investigate helpful remedies, and immediately saw something fishy was going on.
You didn’t need to have a “master of puppets” understanding of all the interconnected events… you just had to have a simple appreciation for truth, and how truthfulness usually works. That’s really all it took to know from the start something was weirdly wrong. That’s the shared experience of the hundreds of thousands of us who never got this awful shot and started looking into it ourselves.
Yes, I don't think there's really any excuse for being 3 years late to the party. People are afraid to go to the margins, but it was the only place to find anything outside the propaganda zone. The margins had narrowed (or do I mean expanded?) to the point where eminent researchers, doctors and public health officials fell outside of them.
Very true. But, who could you say that to, and how could you say it, without serious fear of being arrested or silenced in some other form? And the mechanisms for suppressing the questioning were already active.
I said it to everybody. I got tagged flagged and dragged. My Instagram was a constant rotating carousel of the good science and commentary I was discovering until my own two brothers asked me to stop because they’d gotten the shots and didn’t want to hear it. That was heartbreaking.
They didn't want you to be right, because then they'd feel like they were siding with the proverbial "national guardsmen at Kent State". Neil Young had/has the same issue.
Indeed Sir!! And, accepting that many of "those good people" and their "crippling naïveté" are bat sh!t crazy would be a step in the right direction. Understanding that the ascent of Hitler, Stalin and Mao to power was pathological and not political allows us to immediately clear the deck of the misapprehension and confusion as to why much of the addiction, looting, homelessness, crime and our general sense of collapse is happening today.
It is absolutely true that much of the disintegration and societal collapse America is experiencing stems from bad social and economic policy. Accepting that much of the harm it creates emanates from an insane elected "political" leadership also clears the field of vision. The holocaust, the gulag and CCP mass murder were all symptomatic of the same retro A-Bomb 20th Century disease infecting us today. At the top, hubristic malignant narcissism (surveillance state DNC/WEF/EU/CCP/Davos) and at the bottom ideological utopianism (woke/misandrist feminism/BLM/MSM etc.) in service to it. Add the sterile anti-human empiricism of science (Covid) and the immorality of 'big pharma" and you have the perfect totalitarian storm.
As with the Stasi and the Gestapo there is a method too, and willing and compliant hands behind, the madness.The creation of a human truth/fact based narrative (as we're attempting here) can hopefully ground us in a legitimate American reality. But, will that save us? The powerful forces battering the American psyche are already stripping the free world of its liberty. The expansion of human consciousness is the obvious "vaccine" and the "net" gifted the world with such a leap in consciousness that the "disease" is, to save itself, attempting to turn it into a worldwide system of control. The recent Russell Brand kerfuffle and the thousand other instances like it come speaks directly to their desperation. Like Hitler, Stalin and Mao, they're dead serious and capable of any atrocity to save themselves.
The only legitimate frame of political reference and the only engine of American survival is the Republic and the Constitution.
refusenik: I couldn't blame anyone for buying into the psyop at first-it was that well orchestrated. I was exceedingly fortunate to know by 2015 that Fauci was a dangerous psychopath thanks to Celia Farber ("Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of Aids"-still in print), Bobby Kennedy ("Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak), the late David Kirby ("Evidence of Harm"), and Leslie Manookian, whose 2013 film, "The Greater Good started me on the path to full-blown anti-vaxxer.
I do think people who were already aware of the scope of Pharma corruption and government agency capture re: vaccine safety and informed consent issues understood, right out of the gate, what was going down and thus who to follow for good information--those who were being censored. Because what we all witnessed with Covid and the “vaccine” fraud and censorship regime was not the sudden corruption of the system--it was the same old Pharma playbook being run in real time, out in the open, and most people couldn’t see it because they had always assumed the Establishment “anti-vaxxer” narratives were legit, rather than the propaganda that they are.
If Matt has actually read RFK Jr’s book on Fauci I’m hopeful that he now sees the absolute fraud of the “anti-vaxxer” narrative as clearly as he sees the fraud of the Covid narrative. So-called “anti-vaxxers” are mostly just well-educated people who have investigated what’s going on behind the curtain and are sounding the alarm about that corruption and its harms.
As someone with a strong interest in natural health and nutrition, I noticed that a lot of folks in the health and nutrition business were calling “foul” on the Covid narrative right from the start. Some of their content seemed over the top for me at first, so I took everything they said with a grain of salt. Turns out they were essentially right on all of it. And I was especially impressed with Mercola’s early (spring ‘21) reporting on GoF research, NIH, Daszak, Baric, WIV, Ecohealth Alliance. I read it in disbelief and initially dismissed it as unlikely to be true. Then Vanity Fair came out with an article a couple months later that basically said the same thing. Mercola was eventually rewarded with a NYT hit piece, deplatforming across social media and even had to remove the entire library of content from his own website! (Some of that may have had to do with his opposition to the vaccine, and his recommendations for people to get themselves healthy.) Anyway, I was ultimately grateful to be already plugged in to sources information that turned out to be very helpful.
Leah: Yes. Rockefeller medicine has been a net negative for the world's health. A century-old monopoly. Most doctors have noble motives (I've met many whom I deeply respect), but they are both trained in this system, and beholden to a private, Rockefeller-established company-the Federation of State Medical Boards-to retain their licenses. It is a sickening reality, but the one bright spot in this clown show is that the rug has been pulled up to reveal much of it.
Indeed it has. And I'm extremely gratified to say that—with people now awakening in growing numbers to the corruptly incentivized sickcare paradigm that's so dominated the medical world and diminished our health—a new initiative is gearing up that will give people better access to the world of holistic health and alternative medicine.
elev3n.com is a new online platform created to provide resources and information so that anyone interested in natural health and healing can find local practitioners for themselves, and learn about the modalities that might help them. It will operate very similar to the AirBnB model, but rather than helping travelers find private accommodations it will help people looking for alternative care to find, preview, and book holistic practitioners near them. The website is going live this fall to begin onboarding practitioners across the U.S.. Sign up is free to everyone—both practitioners and clients—so if you know of anyone who practices alternative health modalities, let them know! We currently have a holding page at the web address for anyone interested; they can input their name and email and be notified when we go live. https://elev3n.com/
Please, all, spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested and let us begin taking back our health and wellbeing. There's never been a better time to get better.
Agreed. The only real difference between this pharmaceutical cash grab and previous ones was the scope of it. It used to only affect people in niche medical situations…but now it was bloated and expanded to entrap us all.
So yes, same old system, but it felt new to new victims. Which was most of us.
I agree it was expanded to entrap us all, and many new victims paid a price. However, I'd say it wasn't previously "niche" medical situations unless the children complying with the childhood vaccine schedule are considered niche.
When I say Pharma et al were operating the same playbook, I mean the playbook they have used for decades, basically since the 1986 law that indemnified Pharma for all vaccine injuries from the childhood schedule. "Safe and effective" has only ever been a marketing slogan, not a scientific finding. (You could see that clearly in the comic immediacy with which the so-called "regulatory" agencies and their lapdogs slapped that label on these utterly novel mRNA "vaccines.")
Unfortunately the wider population all found that out the hard way, despite years upon years of concerned parents and other aware individuals being smeared for their attempt to wake people up to the disgraceful fraud that is "vaccine safety science." Hopefully the mass awakening will continue, and the lie finally dismantled...
Yeah, I'm the same. I was one of the early skeptics and wrote quite a bit for the Brownstone Institute. Fauci is truly an authoritarian horror, and incompetent on top of that. Your firepower is most welcome Matt.
Thank you -- Jeffrey Tucker and the Brownstone Institute kept me reasonably sane during 2020. The work you people did (and continue to do) is outstanding.
He was very brave. We all had to be brave to a certain extent to oppose the officially narrative; as you probably know many people have lost their jobs, careers, have been negated professionally for just even mentioning a "different path" similar to what Sweden did. I believe every single Brownstone writer is under surveillance to some degree by the security state. From Day One, when I started opposing this Covid mania, I've been concerned about losing my job. Indeed, it is always in the back of my mind. Security state actors have infiltrated the Brownstone group on more than one occasion, and many of us have been "exposed" on Twitter under various falsehoods.
Opposing the Covid narrative has been both the most important work I've felt I've done in my life, and the most terrifying. Most of the liberal-left has gone mad, and is an authoritarian, censorious nightmare of a movement now, ready to destroy anyone who doesn't subscribe to their purity tests. Look what they are now doing to Cornel West and RFK jr. Really mad times and a wild ride.
Re: forgiveness! (kudos on it, truly) Only in the last month, I am having friends dying at an alarming rate. Four of them are between 57 and 64 years old, all of them previously healthy and living happy lives, albeit fully vaccinated people. Two of my close friends suffered strokes, and two are developing cancer. All fully vaccinated. I heard stories about how one of them was operated on and most likely had a clot in his knee, so it's most likely it killed him seven years later and not the vaccine, they say.
I am aghast. So, to keep talking about that atrocity by Mengele et al. is needed. The people are not aware or are in deep denial. Just today, I went to see a friend in a hospice, and they wanted me to put on a muzzle. I had to control myself, play dumb, and ran onto the balcony—it’s a sunny, windy day—away from everyone.
So, I think the people did not have much of a chance. They did not know what they were doing, as they were attacked, threatened, bamboozled, defrauded, and manipulated. In “The West's Psychological Manipulation of Its Own People: Mentalcide and Societal Decay,” I explore, well, the said manipulation that rendered so many hopeless and helpless. I put a lot of efforts in it and am confident that I’d be forgiven for link it here.
I never post things anywhere but I clicked to comment to say the exact same thing as refusenick. Given the quality of the author and forum, I shouldn’t be surprised that its already been perfectly said. Thanks!
I totally agree, this is not a Health & Science site. The problem that i have is the people who were blasted as racist for pursuing the lab link story. That is a stain on journalism that probably destroyed what was left of its credibility. This would be a great place to start if people are serious about rebuilding that credibility. This is not about making examples, its about accountability.
The main thing i'm mad about is taking the vaccine when that was being pushed. I never bought into the idea that the lab leak was implausible; it was obvious when you saw them connecting it to Trump/Cotton etc that their hatred of it was due to politics not reality.
Matt, you work hard and do a great job. There are a lot of balls in the air.
That said, all cause excess mortality from the pandemic on has now reached 25 million and Fauci wrote the grant for the Wuhan Institute research for the virus. We have a few more dots to connect.
(non-profit) received grants from the NIH & then subcontracted part of that money to the WIV.
His continuing grants from the NIH and the National Science Foundation begs the question -who is paying whom off?
Ralph Baric as well is a major player and a Texas lab where it was shown that the contact with Wuhan included a clause that stipulated that any party to the contract could delete files in opposition to NIH policy.
Who ARE the contract personnel in the NIAID & where is the inspector general?
All smoke and mirrors as far as I am concerned. https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/xi-and-li-and-the-great-hoax the research they are doing is looking into genetic sequences that they've collected from wet markets and bat poo from caves. I think it's designed to seem more dangerous and scurrilous than it actually is. Which is not dangerous at all.
Kurt, is it your contention/implication that Fauci knew he and the U.S. could beconnected to the lab leak (and 25M deaths) and that's what drove his actions around pushing zoonotic origins?
Yes, I believe that Fauci was deliberatley covering his tracks so that he would not be blamed for this catastrophe. That’s why he prompted the Proximal Origin paper then toured the three-letter agencies, to feed them his narrative. The legacy media was basically his PR deparrment in this process.
Save for Desantis every politician that stood and still stands mute and further refuses to acknowledge this modern day-what? what should I call it? holocaust? genocide? ritual killings? They cannot at this late date say or do anything about it. They have lost all credibility and lost it when they abandoned the people. People now have to step up and take their place and consign their mainstream “issues “ to the trash can of history and work to ensure this never happens again.
Matt, please consider diving into the excess death phenomenon of the last two years. A lot of otherwise healthy people developing cancer and other life threatening diseases at at rate that far outpaces the statistical norm. I first learned about the Covid vax connection last year from my cardiologist who knew about the massive spike in kidney cancer among the vaccinated population. Now I hear about it from the nurses at the cancer center where my otherwise very healthy husband receives his immunotherapy treatments. They all refuse to receive any further boosters based on what they are seeing.
I believe MAFA are trying to sue Baric and/or Daszak and the 'gain of function' they are doing which allegedly lead to these deaths through accidental or deliberate release of a replication competent pathogenic entity. But even if it got to court their, and Fauci's, defense is easy. The prosecution has to prove that a virus exists and that it directly caused the deaths. That, I can assure you, no-one will be able to do.
I never expected Racket News to cover everything. In the COVID period it was a relief that you were looking at topics like "Democrats and Civil Liberties (May 2020); an interview with Daniel Ellsberg (March 2021); "Afghanistan: We Never Learn (Aug. 2021) or "A Culture War in Four Acts: Loudon County, VA" (Dec 2021).
But in scanning the archives I see you did cover much of the censoring that was going on around COVID-- maybe not with a laser focus, but you were consistent on the topic and added to our overall picture of how the COVID story was shaped in one direction.
Agreed. I subscribed to Matt partly because he didn't write about COVID all the time. I enjoyed the financial crimes reporting and I have stayed for the 1st amendment stuff.
Better late than never. I Harbour no ill will to those that were originally team vaccine (that team including pro lock-downs, ignoring natural immunity, etc.) so long as they come to the realization they were duped and I did not kill grandma.
The problem is the vaccinated killed grandma. The mRNA vaccines did not stop infection and spread of Covid.
Gazit et al, Israeli researchers using a huge database of matched previously infected (unvaccinated) and Pfizer double jabbed (vaccinated) found that natural immunity was 27-fold more effective against symptomatic Covid re-infection than the Pfizer vaccine was against "breakthrough" Covid infections. This was known in 2021, but the content was censored; recently John Campbell and Dr. Been reviewed Gazit et al's findings "publicly" on YouTube, better late than never. Qatar (and even NY and California) eventually published similar findings from lower-powered (fewer subjects) studies.
The Covid vaccine rollout was delayed until after the 2020 Presidential elections, and was targeted to the Elderly (94.4% over age 65 completed the first two jabs) and seriously ill. There was massive queue jumping because "no one is safe unless everyone is safe" (even though most Covid victims are over age 80. Israel has claimed no healthy person under age 50 died there of Covid. Several countries have claimed no Covid deaths in healthy children.)
The CDC, which had assiduously counted every reported Covid infection pre-vaccine, stopped counting breakthrough infections in the vaccinated May 1, 2020 (too many).
Conversely, it remained an important question whether those who survived Covid could be re-infected. The first reported case of re-infection was a Chinese woman with an immune deficiency; there was scientific debate over whether she had been re-infected or if the infection had never been cleared for several months. Eventually another Covid survivor was shown to be clearly re-infected with a different variant. Covid infection (IF YOU SURVIVE, as 99.95% of those under age 70 did, according to John Ioannidis's serological studies) produces immunity in a person's mucous membranes-- ocular and nasal particularly, as well as long-lasting cellular immunities (for SARS certain T cell immunity was still present 16 years later when tested in Singapore). Someone with natural immunity is thus much less likely to be re-infected and spread Covid than the vaccinated (which only have short-lasting immunity dependent on spike protein antibody titers, not robust mucosal or most cellular immunities). The vaccinated, who were preferentially allowed into most venues and airplanes accounted for most spread of infection that killed many grannies.
On the positive side, the vaccinated most surely spread the milder Omicron variant throughout the globe (the unvaccinated, mostly naturally immune-- over 95% of children have Covid antibodies despite a low vaccination rate-- were not allowed on airplanes). There is so much we still don't know (possibly suppressed?) about immunities to the SARS-CoV2. Is there any need to vaccinate someone who has natural immunity to Covid (easily ascertained by measuring antibodies to different SARS-CoV2 antigens, or cellular assays)? Probably not, despite the mandates. Are the mRNA vaccines "safe and effective"? Probably not, and by now the risk benefit ratio should be well established. Even if a medicine is relatively benign (like Omicron?), it should not be given to people whose possible risk outweighs the benefit.
"The CDC, which had assiduously counted every reported Covid infection pre-vaccine, stopped counting breakthrough infections in the vaccinated May 1, 2020 (too many)."
About that study out of Israel, Sanjay Gupta actually confronted Fauci about these findings. Fauci, with his typical rhetorical tricks responded, "The one thing that paper from Israel didn't tell you is whether or not as high as the protection is with natural infection, what's the durability compared to the durability of a vaccine?". The study did address this point. It compared both shorter term natural immunity and longer term (those infected in mid 2020) to the shots. In both cases prior infection showed clearly superior protection. Gupta failed to push back but the expression on his face was telling. Fauci was clearly lying but the true believer simply swallowed hard and took it.
In my opinion we should be pointing at specific places were people did not live up to professional norms, and where others in their profession knew this but did not hold them to account.
Simply repeating the facts followed by "there is still so much we don't know," as other thoughtful and high-effort comments have done, was very useful to me during the crisis but is not the most important thing right now. It is like saying, "well actually, Jews did not stab Germany in the back," after Germany has already lost the war and been reconstructed. That's not the relevant observation to understanding why this happened and preventing it from happening again.
It's not so clear which kind of accountability is more important because a huge fraction of the polarized population is still going out and getting "boosters" right now, people are still wearing masks, people are still trying to spread long covid awareness with the goal of modifying others' behaviour through pressure campaigns with the supposed irrational goal of slowing spread to eradicate covid. There is not consensus on the facts, so it's tempting to go over and over them so we can spread the correct story and set the record straight. However, given the audience here, I think that's not the right topic for this thread and posts like Rick's are more on target.
This is informative. Is it your understanding that, despite their failings at stopping infection and spread, the mRNA vaccines did reduce the possibility of hospitalization and death, as was widely reported? Particularly during the Delta variant time.
I seem to recall shortly after the slogan "pandemic of the unvaccinated" was thrown out there, that the statistics were showing higher hospital deaths among the vaccinated. Yet, the CDC would not release the data with the reasoning "the data might be misinterpreted". Huh! I think that was when Delta strain had gained ground & was challenging the vaccine, but regardless, that response from CDC stuck in my craw as very dubious.
Probably impossible to answer as all we have are highly conflicted observational studies. If a signal was there, one would find it in the highest risk cohort. DOD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in partnership with Humetrix attempted to provide some answers by scrubbing Medicare data. On September 28, 2021, Project Salus released the report "Effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Against the Delta Variant Among 5.6M Medicare Beneficiaries 65 Years and Older". Taken at face value it is a clear picture of a failed intervention that may of had some transient effect. It was a narrative buster and censored almost immediately.
Compared to the pre-shot pandemic phase in 2020 they found a 10% reduction in hospitalization and zero reduction in ICU case rate. The did attribute a several fold reductions in death rates, but I think with the high ICU rate this is more likely from improved standards of care 2021 vs 2020.
Thank you. This was one claim that I did buy into, because they kept showing very high percentages (high 90s as I recall) of hospitalizations and deaths being from the ranks of the unvaccinated.
For hospitalizations that 90% figure would have been correct in February. Keep in mind there was about a month and a half lag from the first shot to being counted as vaxxed. By June that number had flipped to around 20% un-vaxxed when 80% of the at-risk cohort had got the shots.
If you watch the ACIP meeting for boosters from back in September 2021 the CDC starts out with a slide showing risk of death vaxxed vs un-vaxxed. The ratio is contrived of every un-vaxxed "death with covid" from 2020 through June 2021 to the vaxxed deaths accumulated over ~six months of 2021. This is supposed to be a technical presentation for regulators. It was just outright propaganda, a clown show. I was shocked and embarrassed at the time. It quickly turned to disgust.
Define "unvaccinated". CDC defined it as (1) anyone having up to 2 COVID vax shots but the last one was less than 2 weeks ago (so hospital/death FROM VAX is counted as "unvaccinated"), and (2) every hospital/death from BEFORE the vax was rolled out (yes, they usually include PRE-VAX statistics in these reports to pad their case even more - check the dates).
Same here. But what do we do about those that are still on Team Covidian that are close to us? I just want them to stop saying 'how high' when the news says to jump at a bare minimum, and still getting unnecessary shots and masking when all evidence is to the contrary.
You need to get out ahead of the excess mortality story. Don't let that one be a ball drop as well. 150,000 more people have died so far this year than what would normally be expected and many of them are young. That excess mortality is not due to covid and the increase in excess mortality started right around the time that the shots were mandated. This is all documented in government sources and it's easy to corroborate and you guys aren't touching it with a 10-ft pole. If you want to make up for past lapses this is your chance but it will take some courage so go for it I've got your back:-) no one is talking about this and the excess mortality is primarily concentrated in Western countries that had ample access to vaccines whereas countries that did not have access to vaccines are not seeing the same Spike. If it's true that the vaccines are causing even young people to die of various causes at such an enormous rate then this is the greatest crime against humanity ever perpetrated and it will go on and on and on for years perhaps decades. Don't be late to this party.
Edward Dowd & Ethical Skeptic (Twitter) are expert data analysts on non-covid excess mortality. The deaths in US exceed 1 million. 9/30 Epoch Times published study of Latin American vaccine deaths: 17 million. It equates to approx. 1 in 470 deaths. Geert Vanden Bossche & Mike Yeadon are again sounding the alarm. Both predicted the catastrophe of the mrna platform and immune system failure. There’s plenty of hard data out there--most is censored.
Yep... And we are not even talking about the millions injured who are being gass lighted... It's nasty and will come out so Matt might as well get on the train...
Frank, I do a frequent run-thru on Twitter re: mrna injection injured. It’s awful. This can’t be concealed much longer. Not only has RFK Jr. made a great deal of noise, some of the deaf are starting to hear the truth. Del Bigtree’s “Highwire” is also having an impact. MO v. Biden is now before SCOTUS—the most important 1st amendment case in our history. Even in this tyrannical era, I can’t imagine SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Biden govt. Also, there are more very interesting lawsuits on the horizon—consumer fraud among them. I sure do agree that more journalists need to examine what is already known and that which is hidden. The issue of censorship remains—how to mainstream the truth.
Never underestimate the titanic forces arrayed against the people... most old school liberals including our host will be late to the realization that the struggle for our freedom is in the 9th inning...
Yes. This. Matt - please, pretty please dig way into this. I just read an Epoch article on this - research into 17 countries (all equatorial) - findings from analysis on all-cause mortality is a bright blinking light.
Lots of data from lots of sources dug up by the best and brightest with integrity. Problem is getting it in the public view and convincing the public that they believed the covascamdemic. Mark Twain said something about that failure of the human condition. HELLO, I drank the fear Porn for longer than I should have. Hell, I even campaigned for Bernie Sanders and thought that AOC was just what we needed. I guess you can still fool me... once!
Three church friends have mid-20s children who either died suddenly or got cancer and are dying. It’s a church of 2000 members not a mega church. All are vaxxed, boosted, etc. None of their parents will ever recognize the vax as the cause. It’s anecdotal, I can’t say for sure it’s the vax, but in a fairly small circle, that’s a lot.
The numbers of young people that have died since the roll out of the vaccine which is not a vaccine but rather gene therapy is unprecedented. The insurance companies call it a one in 300 year event. This will come out eventually unless we truly do enter into orwellian censorship and mind control and when it does God help us cuz people like the parents of those children are going to be so enraged with a feeling of betrayal that I'm not sure anything will survive the the purge.
I would rather Matt beam his headlight on the NOT an Inflation Reduction Act and the ludicrous ways in which his Admin is spending hundreds of billion to fatten corporations, NGOs and entrap States with string attached to ever-increasing grants. Everyone needs to wake up to what is happening. And to fill in his time, perhaps what is being done to our military readiness. It is decommissioning our naval fleet and aircraft. At this rate we will be sitting on empty by 2028. No one is talking about these two items of importance, while everyone is SSing on Covid, Fauci and the like.
100% I was a very early skeptic and have written extensively about the Covid horror show. With Matt on board maybe some of the worst authoritarians in the last 100 years will come to justice. Covid-19 wrecked my family and my world, and I'm not talking about the disease.
If Fauci is the warm-up dictator, Newsom is the closer. We live in a world where everyone has access to information, but most of the population does not think critically and do their own research. That is how Fauci can get away with his heinous crimes and Azerbaijan can conduct a genocide in plain sight over the past year without any punishment: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/artsakh-christian-armenian-genocide-azerbaijan
Why has the world completely ignored the fact that the inauguration was edited together from live footage and pre-recorded footage?
That Jill Biden wore two different pairs of shoes, one pair turquoise blue, the other pair beige, in camera shots where it was virtually impossible?
That Biden granddaughters were wearing different outfits and hairdos while they were seated than the outfits and hairdos they wore immediately after, walking to the White House?
And dozens of other anomalies?
Call me paranoid, but I watched closely and took copious notes of the oddities that day, aired on national TV but never mentioned. Look how many people must have been involved to create two such grandiose productions and make them look like one live, real-time event.
Remember when Lady Gaga dressed up in "The Capital" bird symbol at the Biden inauguration? Never understood why people thought it was cool, instead of being freaked out.
I actually think it will be Michelle O. I’ve thought this since the 2020
Dem Primary with Obama’s South Carolina Biden Push. I think Joe will resign on a medical excuse in early 2024... it will allow Kamala to become the historic first female President, she’ll bring on Michelle O as VP and finish the term. However, at the convention she will forgo the nomination ( after being promised a SCOTUS spot as a consolation prize). Michelle will be nominated and will coast through the final few months of the campaign with an adoring MSM pumping her up and loving on her 24/7. Newsome does not bring out the the suburban female vote and black female vote like Michelle does. Maybe, if Newsome gives Oprah Diane Feinstein’s seat, then Oprah could be Michelle’s VP... since she’ll then have legislative experience. That’s my take.
I’m biting my fingers from not typing an outrageously politically incorrect response…hysterical imo…instead I’ll finish with, why not throw Whoopi into this nightmare and make her Press Secretary!
I think you're close, but Biden will announce after primaries and close to the Democrat convention that he's stepping down for health reasons and the party will handpick the nominee. My first guess is Michelle Obama "for the unity of the party", second is Newsom.
I think if Biden resigns/retires they’ll have to let her have the remainder of the term and the win of being the first female President, even if it’s only for a few months. It will be pre-negotiated that she will not be the nominee for re-election.
Yuri: Newsom couldn't possibly win a national election, even with massive fraud. He is a not-very-bright vacuous toady, an empty suit of clothes. Thank you for reminding us of the horrors perpetrated against innocents by the Azeri thugs.
Let’s wait until Fauci and Newsome try to unilaterally overturn a lawful election before we start talking dictators.
Indeed, it says a lot about the degeneration of Matt’s quality of work that we’ve heard next to no analysis of the latter autocratic event, but have been subjected to countless versions of this article already.
I think, unfortunately, it is because he’s slowly become what he once warned against in Hate, Inc.—whether he realizes it or not.
Authenticity matters and that is why I'm a subscriber to Racket News. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on being late to the game. I have complete respect for you as a journalist and as a human being. It saddens me that there aren't more journalists like you out there.
Matt, This is great work and vitally important, but to add another but... what's missing is the impact of the vaccine. John Campbell, Jessica Rose, Dr. Peter McCullough and so many others have cited endless papers and studies documenting in detail the devastating impact of the COVID vaccines on health and mortality. This vast terrain goes untouched in the mainstream. I hope you take a gander at this taboo topic.
And the people who were wrong refuse to admit as much. If something like the pandemic ever happens again, they'll revert to the same playbook. Without accountability, that's what's going to happen.
Matt, you have NOTHING to apologize for, explicitly or implicitly.
Your work on the Twitter Files was herculean.
I was deep into the actual biological data starting in Jan 2020 and while the scam was clear to a lot of us, I could easily see how some people would have different aspects / issues they would concentrate on, especially during the “Fog of War” of a complex technical issue that was actively hidden. If you spent your Journalism expertise on scientific battles, you would leave the bigger First Amendment monster unattended.
Honestly, in a lot of ways I'm glad you were late to the party, Matt. Because you're someone I trust to make a brutally honest assessment, and because you had no dog in the fight from early days. So when you started writing about this massive suppression of honest, scientific discourse around Covid, and how Fauci's behavior looked hinky as fuck, it felt a lot more validating than it would coming from someone who had been right there with us all along.
I think history will look back and see this time as deeply shameful, not least for the global-scale violation of the Nuremberg Protocols and the very probably thousands of people who have died as a result, but as people who are living through unprecedented-scale institutional deception, maybe we also have to cut ourselves some slack for not always spotting the lie.
You and Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss are heroes of the age, and thank all of you for the Twitter Files.
Ive heard Bari Weiss say that what was done with the vaccines wasnt so bad. Pfizer lied about a few things--really downplayed the whole thing. Havent heard her apologize yet.
Well, I'm pretty well convinced that the vaccines kill people at an unacceptable rate (I believe 1 death per thousand will get any other drug pulled off the market, and we're over that) and that we really don't even know how much human damage, suffering, and death these things cause because much of science officialdom is willfully averting its eyes, not doing the research, not insisting on followups or investigation of pharma misconduct, but even so, even with the tons of evidence I see daily from people like Jessica Rose and Pierre Kory and John Campbell, I often find myself in doubt. What is happening right now is too fantastic to believe, too terrible, too vast. I see my friends proudly declaring that they're going for another goddamn' booster and I say nothing, because I don't see any percentage in sounding like a crazy person. It won't change their behavior.
My point is, I can understand someone being slow to realize, let alone acknowledge, the full horror of what is going on right now. I empathize with that. So while I have mixed feelings about Bari Weiss, and have disagreed with her on other things, I am still willing to declare her a goddamn' hero for her part in the Twitter Files, because they were a hugely important piece of journalism, and one that, in a righteous world, would win a Pulitzer. Not kidding.
I’m a doctor. I was very pro-jab at first. Eventually, I caught on to the lies, the suppression of truth, and the utter, appalling corruption in the governmental and medical institutions. Truth is that Fauci and his cronies lied and people died. They deserve the worst possible sentence. Death is too lenient.
The worldwide SARS-CoV-2 debacle deserves a serious post-mortem akin to the Nuremberg trials after WWII which resulted in several important measures. Notably the Nuremberg Code about informed consent. And also, not incidentally, the execution of 7 medical doctors for their involvement in medical experimentation in the name of Nazi "research" and "science".
I'm not sure you should be advocating death for anyone, Doctor. Just think of the number of autistics that you created with your "pro-jab at first" politics. Those wretched souls have to live with that forever.
I’ll take any punishment I deserve, but I didn’t create a virus that caused a worldwide pandemic, cover it up, persecute those who tried to expose the truth and save lives, and benefit financially and professionally from the deaths, closed businesses, family separations, social recriminations, suffering I caused from the virus, the mandates, (and the jab) I unleashed upon innocent victims—ala Fauci.
Matt--thanks; please keep digging into this. Those of us who knew or learned such facts and data in spring 2020 were baffled and appalled by the hysteria then gripping society. The utter abandonment of risk/benefit analysis with respect to the NPIs being forced on society was maddening. The over-hyping of risk of the virus (inflated IFR, disregard of age-stratified impact of COVID , etc.) while dismissing or ignoring the risk inherent in those unprecedented interventions (lockdowns, school closures, impacts on children, unintended consequences to food supply, etc.) showed me how wrong I was to expect citizens to quickly resist such control over their lives and minds. The implications remain disturbing.
As I said at a Tea Party rally in DC in 2013, it's past time to restore citizens' DIStrust in government.
Matt - one of your commenters wrote that he ‘would never forgive himself’ for buying into the bullshit in 2020. My immediate reaction, and that of all the replies he got was (a) to immediately forgive him, and (b) to welcome him to the team. The fact you cared enough to write this piece warrants the same response, imho.
The Point being that there was so much going on, no mere three-ring circus, but like Olympic games with different events at different venues, and faulty transportation systems for getting between the venues. No single spectator could hope to get close all of the events, or understand them. Further, few could have guess how much was pre-scripted -- I'm think for example that at Aspen Institute they had already gamed out how to cover up the laptop narrative. The most relevant olympic sport might be Curling, where they are out sweeping a clean path in front of their stone, and guiding it to knock other stones away from the target.
As much as all our Substack writers keep probing and uncovering, we still are not close to knowing where and when much of the grand conspiracy and collusion began, or how widely it is rooted. Years back, in Hate, Inc., Matt exposed he intent of all the mainstream media to portray politics as a grad sporting event, in order to distract from the collusion. But even as we came to distrust electoral politics, we had no idea how big the swamp was, how incestuous the high tech marketing is, etc.
For most of us here reading these threads today, wouldn't we agree the the extent of what we are discovering was simply unimaginable, even ten year ago, even as we knew that the whole "war on Terror" was depravity. But we believed there might be some restraints and containers around it. It has taken a long time to fathom the vastness. Now, no apologies are necessary or appropriate for how long it has taken to begin to comprehend.
The only thing unimaginable, ten years ago or three years ago, was not the USG's response or the State Governors enacting there relatively new legislation that gave them unlimited emergency powers, which they used and abused; it was the response of the public - yes please take all my rights as a human away from me - please save me please! That was truly unthinkable, unimaginable but there it was. I never thought I would witness a collapse of the principles and values I thought Americans had held so dear. But, then again prior generations bought into the USG lie that to protect our freedoms we had to send our youth to fight wars in far off lands - wars the powerful needed to enrich themselves and build their empires. Never trust those with power, ever. A double shame would be ‘we the people’ letting those that perpetrated this taken down of society get away with it.
"yes please take all my rights as a human away from me - please save me please!"
This is a natural appeal by those who feel so overwhelmed by the threats from all directions, who need reassurance and seek a haven. But who could have realized that all of the threats which we were trying to run from were like so many marbles being rolled out onto the floor of the hall, to make it impossible to run in any directions.
It was only a virus. It was known quickly it was only affecting the aged population. The only marbles I recognized from the government were these: turn in people you see ignoring the 'lockdown rules'; suing churches and business that stayed open, arresting people not wearing a mask; tell everyone that the unvaxed are going to kill you; forcing people indoors even though outside was where you should be. The longer it went on the more I thought people would start to recognize the entire thing as scare tactics rather than a 'health' emergency. I was wrong.
Really? Those were the only marbles?
What about the multitude of people FIRED from their jobs because they refused the vax? What about the media claiming the unvaccinated should be excluded from venues? What about the "show your papers for entry"???? If it was ONLY scare tactics and not people losing their fucking careers! Jesus Christ, how could you forget the massive firings?
My 'unimaginable' comments were entirely about mass compliance and the shift that occurred within the mind to accept nonsensical edicts and to willingly turn on others who disobeyed.
My comments did not address what I could imagine - those that resisted and the repercussions they suffered. That was not the topic.
Stay tuned....
Those firings were private decisions implemented by private businesses. I thought private freedom was what were all worked up about?
You and I were in the same boat; I have a tough time forgiving, but I am working on that -- and I do welcome people to the team of Facts & Actual Science.
I do not hold it against those that complied out of fear but give them no excuse for turning on those that did not. I do know that if those that did do not wake up to the fact the USG is corrupt to its core, these onslaughts to our freedoms will continue until we are captive slaves of the system (if we are not already).
Once it was clear the messaging wasn't changing while the knowledge was evolving, they would never be connected.
Landon, what ' they' would never be connected?
Some of us realized what was going on at the beginning of the Covid-19 killing and maiming festival since the beginning. No one would listen or question the government. More of us are aware now. It is up to us to wake up the rest before the health mafia completely destroys everything we hold dear.
Actually, all that you needed to do was to apply basic tests of logical fallacies to what we were being told. I did. The constant drumbeat of the "appeal to authority" fallacy and the "ipse dixit" fallacy were obvious early on. I'm just sad that many of my own siblings fell for that crap, and accused me of "not caring about others" enough. They're very quiet about that now.
Or perps, having looted and gutted the Republic's economy and infrastructure, then orchestrated bouts of fear, intimidation and an assault on language, idea's and institutions backed up by the creation of a shadowy and unaccountable commissariat capable of destroying lives and careers on a whim. This, as planned, led to the mass psychogenic illness (MPI/menticide) which stripped the citizens of their agency and reduced their psyche's to mush.
Wait! Are these the same people who would've ran into flames if they heard a tsunami siren?
the avaerage person listened to the MSM and trusted the government being willing to forgive some mistakes, especially early on. Those who asked questions were stifled.
The key was to o make it partisan. My family disdains masks and boostrs but is equally disdainful of anybody who brings up that is was wrong in th efirst place.
That is one of the 'wanted' outcomes. To see the USG as righteous in purpose rather than the perpetration of another hoax for power and control. One of the panelists at a recent WEF gathering said the pandemic did not get everyone vaxed, climate change is too abstract to get all people on board so let use ‘water’ instead. Even the young know how vital water is. We can still hope that the other two still pan out but let’s add water as another means.
Everyone needs to understand the end game, but the many never will because, although it is something they can perceive, for the purpose of sanity, they will choose not to.
Absolutely agree! Even those of us highly skeptical of anything that the powers-that-be have to say had a hard time believing this could possibly be orchestrated. But many voices were, in fact, there in the background speaking out; Dr. Jay Bahttrachaya, Naomi Wolfe and so many others who signed the Great Barrington Declaration were being attacked, discredited and muzzled in so many ways, one had to dig hard for unsanctioned data. For the true journalists it had to be a daunting task (at that time) to establish what was "truth," especially in the glare of assertions of what was supposed to be "the science." My great hope is that many more people are not as likely to accept any story/explanation simply because government officials, experts, scientists, or "sanctioned" media say so. In brief it is true; apologies are not necessary from Matt and those like him, ever searching for truth. All is not yet lost!
Believe nothing
Believe nobody
Tell me where that philosophy get you.
I don't think anyone is advocating "Believe nothing/nobody." But rather doing the hardass work of figuring out who you should believe, who you can trust. For me, that entails asking do they change their minds about events based on better evidence, do they test even their most cherished beliefs against incoming evidence, and did their analysis prove accurate as facts unfold?
I started following Brett Weinstein very early on because his arguments for why the virus was probably escaped from a lab made rigorous scientific sense. Since then it's become increasingly obvious that he was very probably right. Other positions he and Heather Heying took early continue to be borne out by evolving evidence. So when they say something, I'm more inclined to believe them, pending contrary evidence. But figuring out who to trust is an investment in time and attention, and not everyone is willing to make it. Alas.
The suggested remedy to the disease of totalitarianism/fascism is the creation of a parallel culture/society with an ethos that values individual human rights and dignity. Of course the beginning of recovery is admitting you have the disease. A good model for human dignity, liberty and freedom can be found in the American Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
It's not about where it will get you; it's about where you are.
Very helpful explanation of the real significance of the covid-related problems.
And yet, people like me saw the incongruity of the alarmist messaging, and the parallel refusals to investigate helpful remedies, and immediately saw something fishy was going on.
You didn’t need to have a “master of puppets” understanding of all the interconnected events… you just had to have a simple appreciation for truth, and how truthfulness usually works. That’s really all it took to know from the start something was weirdly wrong. That’s the shared experience of the hundreds of thousands of us who never got this awful shot and started looking into it ourselves.
Yes, I don't think there's really any excuse for being 3 years late to the party. People are afraid to go to the margins, but it was the only place to find anything outside the propaganda zone. The margins had narrowed (or do I mean expanded?) to the point where eminent researchers, doctors and public health officials fell outside of them.
Very true. But, who could you say that to, and how could you say it, without serious fear of being arrested or silenced in some other form? And the mechanisms for suppressing the questioning were already active.
I said it to everybody. I got tagged flagged and dragged. My Instagram was a constant rotating carousel of the good science and commentary I was discovering until my own two brothers asked me to stop because they’d gotten the shots and didn’t want to hear it. That was heartbreaking.
They didn't want you to be right, because then they'd feel like they were siding with the proverbial "national guardsmen at Kent State". Neil Young had/has the same issue.
Well said.
Indeed Sir!! And, accepting that many of "those good people" and their "crippling naïveté" are bat sh!t crazy would be a step in the right direction. Understanding that the ascent of Hitler, Stalin and Mao to power was pathological and not political allows us to immediately clear the deck of the misapprehension and confusion as to why much of the addiction, looting, homelessness, crime and our general sense of collapse is happening today.
It is absolutely true that much of the disintegration and societal collapse America is experiencing stems from bad social and economic policy. Accepting that much of the harm it creates emanates from an insane elected "political" leadership also clears the field of vision. The holocaust, the gulag and CCP mass murder were all symptomatic of the same retro A-Bomb 20th Century disease infecting us today. At the top, hubristic malignant narcissism (surveillance state DNC/WEF/EU/CCP/Davos) and at the bottom ideological utopianism (woke/misandrist feminism/BLM/MSM etc.) in service to it. Add the sterile anti-human empiricism of science (Covid) and the immorality of 'big pharma" and you have the perfect totalitarian storm.
As with the Stasi and the Gestapo there is a method too, and willing and compliant hands behind, the madness.The creation of a human truth/fact based narrative (as we're attempting here) can hopefully ground us in a legitimate American reality. But, will that save us? The powerful forces battering the American psyche are already stripping the free world of its liberty. The expansion of human consciousness is the obvious "vaccine" and the "net" gifted the world with such a leap in consciousness that the "disease" is, to save itself, attempting to turn it into a worldwide system of control. The recent Russell Brand kerfuffle and the thousand other instances like it come speaks directly to their desperation. Like Hitler, Stalin and Mao, they're dead serious and capable of any atrocity to save themselves.
The only legitimate frame of political reference and the only engine of American survival is the Republic and the Constitution.
This might interest you: https://youtu.be/JeliRVZ4V00?si=bUez7vrbB4Mll-le
refusenik: I couldn't blame anyone for buying into the psyop at first-it was that well orchestrated. I was exceedingly fortunate to know by 2015 that Fauci was a dangerous psychopath thanks to Celia Farber ("Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of Aids"-still in print), Bobby Kennedy ("Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak), the late David Kirby ("Evidence of Harm"), and Leslie Manookian, whose 2013 film, "The Greater Good started me on the path to full-blown anti-vaxxer.
I do think people who were already aware of the scope of Pharma corruption and government agency capture re: vaccine safety and informed consent issues understood, right out of the gate, what was going down and thus who to follow for good information--those who were being censored. Because what we all witnessed with Covid and the “vaccine” fraud and censorship regime was not the sudden corruption of the system--it was the same old Pharma playbook being run in real time, out in the open, and most people couldn’t see it because they had always assumed the Establishment “anti-vaxxer” narratives were legit, rather than the propaganda that they are.
If Matt has actually read RFK Jr’s book on Fauci I’m hopeful that he now sees the absolute fraud of the “anti-vaxxer” narrative as clearly as he sees the fraud of the Covid narrative. So-called “anti-vaxxers” are mostly just well-educated people who have investigated what’s going on behind the curtain and are sounding the alarm about that corruption and its harms.
But were painted as deplorable trumpers
No "were." This is still happening.
agree - were, we're, we are, - anyone who disagrees, on any level; no reasoned debate, no nuance.
right!
As someone with a strong interest in natural health and nutrition, I noticed that a lot of folks in the health and nutrition business were calling “foul” on the Covid narrative right from the start. Some of their content seemed over the top for me at first, so I took everything they said with a grain of salt. Turns out they were essentially right on all of it. And I was especially impressed with Mercola’s early (spring ‘21) reporting on GoF research, NIH, Daszak, Baric, WIV, Ecohealth Alliance. I read it in disbelief and initially dismissed it as unlikely to be true. Then Vanity Fair came out with an article a couple months later that basically said the same thing. Mercola was eventually rewarded with a NYT hit piece, deplatforming across social media and even had to remove the entire library of content from his own website! (Some of that may have had to do with his opposition to the vaccine, and his recommendations for people to get themselves healthy.) Anyway, I was ultimately grateful to be already plugged in to sources information that turned out to be very helpful.
And recently he was debanked by JP Morgan Chase, the newest and ultimate cancellation. Welcome to our 21st century technocracy.
I forgot about that! And if I remember correctly, his employees were debanked as well.
Leah: Yes. Rockefeller medicine has been a net negative for the world's health. A century-old monopoly. Most doctors have noble motives (I've met many whom I deeply respect), but they are both trained in this system, and beholden to a private, Rockefeller-established company-the Federation of State Medical Boards-to retain their licenses. It is a sickening reality, but the one bright spot in this clown show is that the rug has been pulled up to reveal much of it.
Indeed it has. And I'm extremely gratified to say that—with people now awakening in growing numbers to the corruptly incentivized sickcare paradigm that's so dominated the medical world and diminished our health—a new initiative is gearing up that will give people better access to the world of holistic health and alternative medicine.
elev3n.com is a new online platform created to provide resources and information so that anyone interested in natural health and healing can find local practitioners for themselves, and learn about the modalities that might help them. It will operate very similar to the AirBnB model, but rather than helping travelers find private accommodations it will help people looking for alternative care to find, preview, and book holistic practitioners near them. The website is going live this fall to begin onboarding practitioners across the U.S.. Sign up is free to everyone—both practitioners and clients—so if you know of anyone who practices alternative health modalities, let them know! We currently have a holding page at the web address for anyone interested; they can input their name and email and be notified when we go live. https://elev3n.com/
Please, all, spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested and let us begin taking back our health and wellbeing. There's never been a better time to get better.
Agreed. The only real difference between this pharmaceutical cash grab and previous ones was the scope of it. It used to only affect people in niche medical situations…but now it was bloated and expanded to entrap us all.
So yes, same old system, but it felt new to new victims. Which was most of us.
I agree it was expanded to entrap us all, and many new victims paid a price. However, I'd say it wasn't previously "niche" medical situations unless the children complying with the childhood vaccine schedule are considered niche.
When I say Pharma et al were operating the same playbook, I mean the playbook they have used for decades, basically since the 1986 law that indemnified Pharma for all vaccine injuries from the childhood schedule. "Safe and effective" has only ever been a marketing slogan, not a scientific finding. (You could see that clearly in the comic immediacy with which the so-called "regulatory" agencies and their lapdogs slapped that label on these utterly novel mRNA "vaccines.")
Unfortunately the wider population all found that out the hard way, despite years upon years of concerned parents and other aware individuals being smeared for their attempt to wake people up to the disgraceful fraud that is "vaccine safety science." Hopefully the mass awakening will continue, and the lie finally dismantled...
Leslie is amazing!
Yeah, I'm the same. I was one of the early skeptics and wrote quite a bit for the Brownstone Institute. Fauci is truly an authoritarian horror, and incompetent on top of that. Your firepower is most welcome Matt.
https://brownstone.org/author/seth-smith/
Thank you -- Jeffrey Tucker and the Brownstone Institute kept me reasonably sane during 2020. The work you people did (and continue to do) is outstanding.
Jeffrey is a saint and a hero!!
Jeffrey Tucker was one of the first people to see through the bullshit and say something.
He was very brave. We all had to be brave to a certain extent to oppose the officially narrative; as you probably know many people have lost their jobs, careers, have been negated professionally for just even mentioning a "different path" similar to what Sweden did. I believe every single Brownstone writer is under surveillance to some degree by the security state. From Day One, when I started opposing this Covid mania, I've been concerned about losing my job. Indeed, it is always in the back of my mind. Security state actors have infiltrated the Brownstone group on more than one occasion, and many of us have been "exposed" on Twitter under various falsehoods.
Opposing the Covid narrative has been both the most important work I've felt I've done in my life, and the most terrifying. Most of the liberal-left has gone mad, and is an authoritarian, censorious nightmare of a movement now, ready to destroy anyone who doesn't subscribe to their purity tests. Look what they are now doing to Cornel West and RFK jr. Really mad times and a wild ride.
“Opposing the Covid narrative has been both the most important work I've felt I've done in my life, and the most terrifying”
I am so grateful for the few who were willing to speak publicly in the face of ridicule and threats. Thank you for your courage.
Re: forgiveness! (kudos on it, truly) Only in the last month, I am having friends dying at an alarming rate. Four of them are between 57 and 64 years old, all of them previously healthy and living happy lives, albeit fully vaccinated people. Two of my close friends suffered strokes, and two are developing cancer. All fully vaccinated. I heard stories about how one of them was operated on and most likely had a clot in his knee, so it's most likely it killed him seven years later and not the vaccine, they say.
I am aghast. So, to keep talking about that atrocity by Mengele et al. is needed. The people are not aware or are in deep denial. Just today, I went to see a friend in a hospice, and they wanted me to put on a muzzle. I had to control myself, play dumb, and ran onto the balcony—it’s a sunny, windy day—away from everyone.
So, I think the people did not have much of a chance. They did not know what they were doing, as they were attacked, threatened, bamboozled, defrauded, and manipulated. In “The West's Psychological Manipulation of Its Own People: Mentalcide and Societal Decay,” I explore, well, the said manipulation that rendered so many hopeless and helpless. I put a lot of efforts in it and am confident that I’d be forgiven for link it here.
https://trygvewighdal.substack.com/p/the-wests-psychological-manipulation
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I never post things anywhere but I clicked to comment to say the exact same thing as refusenick. Given the quality of the author and forum, I shouldn’t be surprised that its already been perfectly said. Thanks!
I totally agree, this is not a Health & Science site. The problem that i have is the people who were blasted as racist for pursuing the lab link story. That is a stain on journalism that probably destroyed what was left of its credibility. This would be a great place to start if people are serious about rebuilding that credibility. This is not about making examples, its about accountability.
The main thing i'm mad about is taking the vaccine when that was being pushed. I never bought into the idea that the lab leak was implausible; it was obvious when you saw them connecting it to Trump/Cotton etc that their hatred of it was due to politics not reality.
Matt, I appreciate your honesty and commitment to good journalism.
Matt, you work hard and do a great job. There are a lot of balls in the air.
That said, all cause excess mortality from the pandemic on has now reached 25 million and Fauci wrote the grant for the Wuhan Institute research for the virus. We have a few more dots to connect.
Peter Daszak, CEO of EcoHealth
(non-profit) received grants from the NIH & then subcontracted part of that money to the WIV.
His continuing grants from the NIH and the National Science Foundation begs the question -who is paying whom off?
Ralph Baric as well is a major player and a Texas lab where it was shown that the contact with Wuhan included a clause that stipulated that any party to the contract could delete files in opposition to NIH policy.
Who ARE the contract personnel in the NIAID & where is the inspector general?
Exactly!
All smoke and mirrors as far as I am concerned. https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/xi-and-li-and-the-great-hoax the research they are doing is looking into genetic sequences that they've collected from wet markets and bat poo from caves. I think it's designed to seem more dangerous and scurrilous than it actually is. Which is not dangerous at all.
Kurt, is it your contention/implication that Fauci knew he and the U.S. could beconnected to the lab leak (and 25M deaths) and that's what drove his actions around pushing zoonotic origins?
Yes, I believe that Fauci was deliberatley covering his tracks so that he would not be blamed for this catastrophe. That’s why he prompted the Proximal Origin paper then toured the three-letter agencies, to feed them his narrative. The legacy media was basically his PR deparrment in this process.
Thanks. In al honesty, I'd rather see Congress investigate this rather than the Hunter Biden stuff. I'd like some clear answers, one way or another.
Congress won’t touch it with a 10 ft pole! They already surrendered their legislative powers to the executive branch.
Save for Desantis every politician that stood and still stands mute and further refuses to acknowledge this modern day-what? what should I call it? holocaust? genocide? ritual killings? They cannot at this late date say or do anything about it. They have lost all credibility and lost it when they abandoned the people. People now have to step up and take their place and consign their mainstream “issues “ to the trash can of history and work to ensure this never happens again.
100% exactly what happened.
A government bureaucrat pulling out all the stops to cover his ass?
Yeah, I buy that.
Matt, please consider diving into the excess death phenomenon of the last two years. A lot of otherwise healthy people developing cancer and other life threatening diseases at at rate that far outpaces the statistical norm. I first learned about the Covid vax connection last year from my cardiologist who knew about the massive spike in kidney cancer among the vaccinated population. Now I hear about it from the nurses at the cancer center where my otherwise very healthy husband receives his immunotherapy treatments. They all refuse to receive any further boosters based on what they are seeing.
That's the obvious conclusion. I consider it very plausible.
I believe MAFA are trying to sue Baric and/or Daszak and the 'gain of function' they are doing which allegedly lead to these deaths through accidental or deliberate release of a replication competent pathogenic entity. But even if it got to court their, and Fauci's, defense is easy. The prosecution has to prove that a virus exists and that it directly caused the deaths. That, I can assure you, no-one will be able to do.
25 million dead, but how we be sure what they died of? https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing
say his name...Peter Daszak.
what's he doing now? what did he do before? what function does he serve and what is his relationship to Fauci. all perfectly clear questions...
I never expected Racket News to cover everything. In the COVID period it was a relief that you were looking at topics like "Democrats and Civil Liberties (May 2020); an interview with Daniel Ellsberg (March 2021); "Afghanistan: We Never Learn (Aug. 2021) or "A Culture War in Four Acts: Loudon County, VA" (Dec 2021).
But in scanning the archives I see you did cover much of the censoring that was going on around COVID-- maybe not with a laser focus, but you were consistent on the topic and added to our overall picture of how the COVID story was shaped in one direction.
Agreed. I subscribed to Matt partly because he didn't write about COVID all the time. I enjoyed the financial crimes reporting and I have stayed for the 1st amendment stuff.
Better late than never. I Harbour no ill will to those that were originally team vaccine (that team including pro lock-downs, ignoring natural immunity, etc.) so long as they come to the realization they were duped and I did not kill grandma.
The problem is the vaccinated killed grandma. The mRNA vaccines did not stop infection and spread of Covid.
Gazit et al, Israeli researchers using a huge database of matched previously infected (unvaccinated) and Pfizer double jabbed (vaccinated) found that natural immunity was 27-fold more effective against symptomatic Covid re-infection than the Pfizer vaccine was against "breakthrough" Covid infections. This was known in 2021, but the content was censored; recently John Campbell and Dr. Been reviewed Gazit et al's findings "publicly" on YouTube, better late than never. Qatar (and even NY and California) eventually published similar findings from lower-powered (fewer subjects) studies.
The Covid vaccine rollout was delayed until after the 2020 Presidential elections, and was targeted to the Elderly (94.4% over age 65 completed the first two jabs) and seriously ill. There was massive queue jumping because "no one is safe unless everyone is safe" (even though most Covid victims are over age 80. Israel has claimed no healthy person under age 50 died there of Covid. Several countries have claimed no Covid deaths in healthy children.)
The CDC, which had assiduously counted every reported Covid infection pre-vaccine, stopped counting breakthrough infections in the vaccinated May 1, 2020 (too many).
Conversely, it remained an important question whether those who survived Covid could be re-infected. The first reported case of re-infection was a Chinese woman with an immune deficiency; there was scientific debate over whether she had been re-infected or if the infection had never been cleared for several months. Eventually another Covid survivor was shown to be clearly re-infected with a different variant. Covid infection (IF YOU SURVIVE, as 99.95% of those under age 70 did, according to John Ioannidis's serological studies) produces immunity in a person's mucous membranes-- ocular and nasal particularly, as well as long-lasting cellular immunities (for SARS certain T cell immunity was still present 16 years later when tested in Singapore). Someone with natural immunity is thus much less likely to be re-infected and spread Covid than the vaccinated (which only have short-lasting immunity dependent on spike protein antibody titers, not robust mucosal or most cellular immunities). The vaccinated, who were preferentially allowed into most venues and airplanes accounted for most spread of infection that killed many grannies.
On the positive side, the vaccinated most surely spread the milder Omicron variant throughout the globe (the unvaccinated, mostly naturally immune-- over 95% of children have Covid antibodies despite a low vaccination rate-- were not allowed on airplanes). There is so much we still don't know (possibly suppressed?) about immunities to the SARS-CoV2. Is there any need to vaccinate someone who has natural immunity to Covid (easily ascertained by measuring antibodies to different SARS-CoV2 antigens, or cellular assays)? Probably not, despite the mandates. Are the mRNA vaccines "safe and effective"? Probably not, and by now the risk benefit ratio should be well established. Even if a medicine is relatively benign (like Omicron?), it should not be given to people whose possible risk outweighs the benefit.
"The CDC, which had assiduously counted every reported Covid infection pre-vaccine, stopped counting breakthrough infections in the vaccinated May 1, 2020 (too many)."
I think you mean May 1, 2021.
Of course, thanks for correcting.
About that study out of Israel, Sanjay Gupta actually confronted Fauci about these findings. Fauci, with his typical rhetorical tricks responded, "The one thing that paper from Israel didn't tell you is whether or not as high as the protection is with natural infection, what's the durability compared to the durability of a vaccine?". The study did address this point. It compared both shorter term natural immunity and longer term (those infected in mid 2020) to the shots. In both cases prior infection showed clearly superior protection. Gupta failed to push back but the expression on his face was telling. Fauci was clearly lying but the true believer simply swallowed hard and took it.
Thanks, Rick. This is good to know.
In my opinion we should be pointing at specific places were people did not live up to professional norms, and where others in their profession knew this but did not hold them to account.
Simply repeating the facts followed by "there is still so much we don't know," as other thoughtful and high-effort comments have done, was very useful to me during the crisis but is not the most important thing right now. It is like saying, "well actually, Jews did not stab Germany in the back," after Germany has already lost the war and been reconstructed. That's not the relevant observation to understanding why this happened and preventing it from happening again.
It's not so clear which kind of accountability is more important because a huge fraction of the polarized population is still going out and getting "boosters" right now, people are still wearing masks, people are still trying to spread long covid awareness with the goal of modifying others' behaviour through pressure campaigns with the supposed irrational goal of slowing spread to eradicate covid. There is not consensus on the facts, so it's tempting to go over and over them so we can spread the correct story and set the record straight. However, given the audience here, I think that's not the right topic for this thread and posts like Rick's are more on target.
This is informative. Is it your understanding that, despite their failings at stopping infection and spread, the mRNA vaccines did reduce the possibility of hospitalization and death, as was widely reported? Particularly during the Delta variant time.
I seem to recall shortly after the slogan "pandemic of the unvaccinated" was thrown out there, that the statistics were showing higher hospital deaths among the vaccinated. Yet, the CDC would not release the data with the reasoning "the data might be misinterpreted". Huh! I think that was when Delta strain had gained ground & was challenging the vaccine, but regardless, that response from CDC stuck in my craw as very dubious.
Probably impossible to answer as all we have are highly conflicted observational studies. If a signal was there, one would find it in the highest risk cohort. DOD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in partnership with Humetrix attempted to provide some answers by scrubbing Medicare data. On September 28, 2021, Project Salus released the report "Effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Against the Delta Variant Among 5.6M Medicare Beneficiaries 65 Years and Older". Taken at face value it is a clear picture of a failed intervention that may of had some transient effect. It was a narrative buster and censored almost immediately.
Compared to the pre-shot pandemic phase in 2020 they found a 10% reduction in hospitalization and zero reduction in ICU case rate. The did attribute a several fold reductions in death rates, but I think with the high ICU rate this is more likely from improved standards of care 2021 vs 2020.
Thank you. This was one claim that I did buy into, because they kept showing very high percentages (high 90s as I recall) of hospitalizations and deaths being from the ranks of the unvaccinated.
For hospitalizations that 90% figure would have been correct in February. Keep in mind there was about a month and a half lag from the first shot to being counted as vaxxed. By June that number had flipped to around 20% un-vaxxed when 80% of the at-risk cohort had got the shots.
If you watch the ACIP meeting for boosters from back in September 2021 the CDC starts out with a slide showing risk of death vaxxed vs un-vaxxed. The ratio is contrived of every un-vaxxed "death with covid" from 2020 through June 2021 to the vaxxed deaths accumulated over ~six months of 2021. This is supposed to be a technical presentation for regulators. It was just outright propaganda, a clown show. I was shocked and embarrassed at the time. It quickly turned to disgust.
Define "unvaccinated". CDC defined it as (1) anyone having up to 2 COVID vax shots but the last one was less than 2 weeks ago (so hospital/death FROM VAX is counted as "unvaccinated"), and (2) every hospital/death from BEFORE the vax was rolled out (yes, they usually include PRE-VAX statistics in these reports to pad their case even more - check the dates).
Same here. But what do we do about those that are still on Team Covidian that are close to us? I just want them to stop saying 'how high' when the news says to jump at a bare minimum, and still getting unnecessary shots and masking when all evidence is to the contrary.
You need to get out ahead of the excess mortality story. Don't let that one be a ball drop as well. 150,000 more people have died so far this year than what would normally be expected and many of them are young. That excess mortality is not due to covid and the increase in excess mortality started right around the time that the shots were mandated. This is all documented in government sources and it's easy to corroborate and you guys aren't touching it with a 10-ft pole. If you want to make up for past lapses this is your chance but it will take some courage so go for it I've got your back:-) no one is talking about this and the excess mortality is primarily concentrated in Western countries that had ample access to vaccines whereas countries that did not have access to vaccines are not seeing the same Spike. If it's true that the vaccines are causing even young people to die of various causes at such an enormous rate then this is the greatest crime against humanity ever perpetrated and it will go on and on and on for years perhaps decades. Don't be late to this party.
Edward Dowd & Ethical Skeptic (Twitter) are expert data analysts on non-covid excess mortality. The deaths in US exceed 1 million. 9/30 Epoch Times published study of Latin American vaccine deaths: 17 million. It equates to approx. 1 in 470 deaths. Geert Vanden Bossche & Mike Yeadon are again sounding the alarm. Both predicted the catastrophe of the mrna platform and immune system failure. There’s plenty of hard data out there--most is censored.
Yep... And we are not even talking about the millions injured who are being gass lighted... It's nasty and will come out so Matt might as well get on the train...
Frank, I do a frequent run-thru on Twitter re: mrna injection injured. It’s awful. This can’t be concealed much longer. Not only has RFK Jr. made a great deal of noise, some of the deaf are starting to hear the truth. Del Bigtree’s “Highwire” is also having an impact. MO v. Biden is now before SCOTUS—the most important 1st amendment case in our history. Even in this tyrannical era, I can’t imagine SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Biden govt. Also, there are more very interesting lawsuits on the horizon—consumer fraud among them. I sure do agree that more journalists need to examine what is already known and that which is hidden. The issue of censorship remains—how to mainstream the truth.
Never underestimate the titanic forces arrayed against the people... most old school liberals including our host will be late to the realization that the struggle for our freedom is in the 9th inning...
Yes. This. Matt - please, pretty please dig way into this. I just read an Epoch article on this - research into 17 countries (all equatorial) - findings from analysis on all-cause mortality is a bright blinking light.
Group insurers reported a notable spike in mortality across the age spectrum. Wasn’t death one of the 1200 possible side effects ? Why does big Farma want complete exemption from liability ?(https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/588738-huge-huge-numbers-death-rates-up-40-percent-over-pre/)
(I Re-visited the article and noticed this Hill article doesn’t mention Any possible connection the vax. ) So We should widen the lens for any research. (https://www.wndnewscenter.org/its-the-jab-top-insurance-companies-report-spike-in-excess-deaths/)
Lots of data from lots of sources dug up by the best and brightest with integrity. Problem is getting it in the public view and convincing the public that they believed the covascamdemic. Mark Twain said something about that failure of the human condition. HELLO, I drank the fear Porn for longer than I should have. Hell, I even campaigned for Bernie Sanders and thought that AOC was just what we needed. I guess you can still fool me... once!
Three church friends have mid-20s children who either died suddenly or got cancer and are dying. It’s a church of 2000 members not a mega church. All are vaxxed, boosted, etc. None of their parents will ever recognize the vax as the cause. It’s anecdotal, I can’t say for sure it’s the vax, but in a fairly small circle, that’s a lot.
The numbers of young people that have died since the roll out of the vaccine which is not a vaccine but rather gene therapy is unprecedented. The insurance companies call it a one in 300 year event. This will come out eventually unless we truly do enter into orwellian censorship and mind control and when it does God help us cuz people like the parents of those children are going to be so enraged with a feeling of betrayal that I'm not sure anything will survive the the purge.
I would rather Matt beam his headlight on the NOT an Inflation Reduction Act and the ludicrous ways in which his Admin is spending hundreds of billion to fatten corporations, NGOs and entrap States with string attached to ever-increasing grants. Everyone needs to wake up to what is happening. And to fill in his time, perhaps what is being done to our military readiness. It is decommissioning our naval fleet and aircraft. At this rate we will be sitting on empty by 2028. No one is talking about these two items of importance, while everyone is SSing on Covid, Fauci and the like.
https://youtu.be/bJ23vr1Gs3w?si=L7EprEL5e4cDb0EN
Well said!
You're the best. So grateful you exist.
Rolling Stone is missing out on a damned fine journalist. Whatever happened to them and those who respect truth and Gonzo...too bad, so very sad.
Ah, we're so lucky to have you, Matt. Free and filled with integrity. Chapeau.
100% I was a very early skeptic and have written extensively about the Covid horror show. With Matt on board maybe some of the worst authoritarians in the last 100 years will come to justice. Covid-19 wrecked my family and my world, and I'm not talking about the disease.
ERIN: And funny as hell.
If Fauci is the warm-up dictator, Newsom is the closer. We live in a world where everyone has access to information, but most of the population does not think critically and do their own research. That is how Fauci can get away with his heinous crimes and Azerbaijan can conduct a genocide in plain sight over the past year without any punishment: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/artsakh-christian-armenian-genocide-azerbaijan
Newsom reminds me of Donald Sutherland’s character in The Hunger Games.
Ah yes. President Snow. The 2021 inauguration had several Hunger Games “ remind me of...”
Why has the world completely ignored the fact that the inauguration was edited together from live footage and pre-recorded footage?
That Jill Biden wore two different pairs of shoes, one pair turquoise blue, the other pair beige, in camera shots where it was virtually impossible?
That Biden granddaughters were wearing different outfits and hairdos while they were seated than the outfits and hairdos they wore immediately after, walking to the White House?
And dozens of other anomalies?
Call me paranoid, but I watched closely and took copious notes of the oddities that day, aired on national TV but never mentioned. Look how many people must have been involved to create two such grandiose productions and make them look like one live, real-time event.
But that's just me, I guess....
Perhaps not paranoid but keenly observant
That was some truly scary sh*t.
Remember when Lady Gaga dressed up in "The Capital" bird symbol at the Biden inauguration? Never understood why people thought it was cool, instead of being freaked out.
Newsom will be the closer I’m afraid.
How did they get Dianne Feinstein to die in time to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket...
Harris out- goes to CA Senate seat. Newsome in as VP. Biden resigns. Newsome ascends. Runs in 2024 as incumbent.
I like the way you think. But, I don’t like the idea a President Newsom.
I hate it, but never before has there been a party coordinated like this to take the country over, forever. Elections are such inconveniences.
California Uber Alles!
Winner! However, I wonder what Jello Biafra thinks of Newsome. Maybe I'm better off not knowing.
I’m almost certain Biafra loathes Newsom. Pretty sure he hated all politicians.
I actually think it will be Michelle O. I’ve thought this since the 2020
Dem Primary with Obama’s South Carolina Biden Push. I think Joe will resign on a medical excuse in early 2024... it will allow Kamala to become the historic first female President, she’ll bring on Michelle O as VP and finish the term. However, at the convention she will forgo the nomination ( after being promised a SCOTUS spot as a consolation prize). Michelle will be nominated and will coast through the final few months of the campaign with an adoring MSM pumping her up and loving on her 24/7. Newsome does not bring out the the suburban female vote and black female vote like Michelle does. Maybe, if Newsome gives Oprah Diane Feinstein’s seat, then Oprah could be Michelle’s VP... since she’ll then have legislative experience. That’s my take.
Please keeps your nightmares to yourself... EEE gads.
It is my nightmare... the Dems always go for Shock and Awe, they’re probably doing table top exercises on this topic as we speak.
They are probably on scenario F by now.
What I was thinking before I read your reply Shelly... yikes!
Oprah may be too busy creating her property empire on Maui.
I’m biting my fingers from not typing an outrageously politically incorrect response…hysterical imo…instead I’ll finish with, why not throw Whoopi into this nightmare and make her Press Secretary!
I think you're close, but Biden will announce after primaries and close to the Democrat convention that he's stepping down for health reasons and the party will handpick the nominee. My first guess is Michelle Obama "for the unity of the party", second is Newsom.
Holy buckets. That may be the plan. 😳
HRC nominated as Newsom’s VP.
Newsom commits “suicide” two months after the election
Damn fine strategery you have mapped out, but who becomes California's next tyrant, uh, I mean, governor?
Harris already had 4 years in the Senate. She will expect an offer of a higher-level position.
She will do what she is told, as they all do
I think if Biden resigns/retires they’ll have to let her have the remainder of the term and the win of being the first female President, even if it’s only for a few months. It will be pre-negotiated that she will not be the nominee for re-election.
Good points!
Would you buy a used car from that man? Unfortunately, millions would. Slime mixed with Dreck equals noo sum!
Nope
Yuri: Newsom couldn't possibly win a national election, even with massive fraud. He is a not-very-bright vacuous toady, an empty suit of clothes. Thank you for reminding us of the horrors perpetrated against innocents by the Azeri thugs.
Let’s wait until Fauci and Newsome try to unilaterally overturn a lawful election before we start talking dictators.
Indeed, it says a lot about the degeneration of Matt’s quality of work that we’ve heard next to no analysis of the latter autocratic event, but have been subjected to countless versions of this article already.
I think, unfortunately, it is because he’s slowly become what he once warned against in Hate, Inc.—whether he realizes it or not.
Authenticity matters and that is why I'm a subscriber to Racket News. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on being late to the game. I have complete respect for you as a journalist and as a human being. It saddens me that there aren't more journalists like you out there.
Matt, This is great work and vitally important, but to add another but... what's missing is the impact of the vaccine. John Campbell, Jessica Rose, Dr. Peter McCullough and so many others have cited endless papers and studies documenting in detail the devastating impact of the COVID vaccines on health and mortality. This vast terrain goes untouched in the mainstream. I hope you take a gander at this taboo topic.
And the people who were wrong refuse to admit as much. If something like the pandemic ever happens again, they'll revert to the same playbook. Without accountability, that's what's going to happen.
Love it.
Fauci = Joe Shlabotnik of Peanuts fame
I loved that Joe made the Show, and could make a spectacular catch out of an easy fly ball.
Matt, you have NOTHING to apologize for, explicitly or implicitly.
Your work on the Twitter Files was herculean.
I was deep into the actual biological data starting in Jan 2020 and while the scam was clear to a lot of us, I could easily see how some people would have different aspects / issues they would concentrate on, especially during the “Fog of War” of a complex technical issue that was actively hidden. If you spent your Journalism expertise on scientific battles, you would leave the bigger First Amendment monster unattended.
Carry on, dude. You know your game.
Honestly, in a lot of ways I'm glad you were late to the party, Matt. Because you're someone I trust to make a brutally honest assessment, and because you had no dog in the fight from early days. So when you started writing about this massive suppression of honest, scientific discourse around Covid, and how Fauci's behavior looked hinky as fuck, it felt a lot more validating than it would coming from someone who had been right there with us all along.
I think history will look back and see this time as deeply shameful, not least for the global-scale violation of the Nuremberg Protocols and the very probably thousands of people who have died as a result, but as people who are living through unprecedented-scale institutional deception, maybe we also have to cut ourselves some slack for not always spotting the lie.
You and Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss are heroes of the age, and thank all of you for the Twitter Files.
Ive heard Bari Weiss say that what was done with the vaccines wasnt so bad. Pfizer lied about a few things--really downplayed the whole thing. Havent heard her apologize yet.
Well, I'm pretty well convinced that the vaccines kill people at an unacceptable rate (I believe 1 death per thousand will get any other drug pulled off the market, and we're over that) and that we really don't even know how much human damage, suffering, and death these things cause because much of science officialdom is willfully averting its eyes, not doing the research, not insisting on followups or investigation of pharma misconduct, but even so, even with the tons of evidence I see daily from people like Jessica Rose and Pierre Kory and John Campbell, I often find myself in doubt. What is happening right now is too fantastic to believe, too terrible, too vast. I see my friends proudly declaring that they're going for another goddamn' booster and I say nothing, because I don't see any percentage in sounding like a crazy person. It won't change their behavior.
My point is, I can understand someone being slow to realize, let alone acknowledge, the full horror of what is going on right now. I empathize with that. So while I have mixed feelings about Bari Weiss, and have disagreed with her on other things, I am still willing to declare her a goddamn' hero for her part in the Twitter Files, because they were a hugely important piece of journalism, and one that, in a righteous world, would win a Pulitzer. Not kidding.
I agree.
This should be nailed to the front door of the Columbia Univ. School of Journalism, with a sticky note - "how to establish and maintain credibility".
Amen brother!
I’m a doctor. I was very pro-jab at first. Eventually, I caught on to the lies, the suppression of truth, and the utter, appalling corruption in the governmental and medical institutions. Truth is that Fauci and his cronies lied and people died. They deserve the worst possible sentence. Death is too lenient.
"Death is too lenient"
The worldwide SARS-CoV-2 debacle deserves a serious post-mortem akin to the Nuremberg trials after WWII which resulted in several important measures. Notably the Nuremberg Code about informed consent. And also, not incidentally, the execution of 7 medical doctors for their involvement in medical experimentation in the name of Nazi "research" and "science".
I'm not sure you should be advocating death for anyone, Doctor. Just think of the number of autistics that you created with your "pro-jab at first" politics. Those wretched souls have to live with that forever.
I’ll take any punishment I deserve, but I didn’t create a virus that caused a worldwide pandemic, cover it up, persecute those who tried to expose the truth and save lives, and benefit financially and professionally from the deaths, closed businesses, family separations, social recriminations, suffering I caused from the virus, the mandates, (and the jab) I unleashed upon innocent victims—ala Fauci.
Matt is the best: he is a soothsayer.
Matt--thanks; please keep digging into this. Those of us who knew or learned such facts and data in spring 2020 were baffled and appalled by the hysteria then gripping society. The utter abandonment of risk/benefit analysis with respect to the NPIs being forced on society was maddening. The over-hyping of risk of the virus (inflated IFR, disregard of age-stratified impact of COVID , etc.) while dismissing or ignoring the risk inherent in those unprecedented interventions (lockdowns, school closures, impacts on children, unintended consequences to food supply, etc.) showed me how wrong I was to expect citizens to quickly resist such control over their lives and minds. The implications remain disturbing.
As I said at a Tea Party rally in DC in 2013, it's past time to restore citizens' DIStrust in government.