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White House Diversity Hire’s Utter Incompetence Highlights Identity Politics Failure

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Just two months in, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is the most monumental failure at the podium in recorded history:

“It’s been a rocky first month for White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Her answers have baffled reporters, and even made some of her White House colleagues wince.”

Imagine how bad her performance really has been to induce neoliberal Politico into writing such an unflattering intro paragraph.

That’s like a Hindu priest beating a sacred cow. Ordinarily, while covering a sacrosanct immigrant lesbian Person of Color© in such a position, Politico would fawn.

Just how historically awful has Jean-Pierre been? More importantly, what lesson does her failure teach on the hollowness of leftist identity politics?

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At her coronation as Biden’s new press secretary, Team Biden explicitly marketed Jean-Pierre as a diversity hire:

“So, I just want to take the opportunity to celebrate and congratulate… Karine Jean-Pierre…
First, as you all know, she will be the first Black woman, the first out LGBTQ+ person to serve in this role, which is amazing, because representation matters.”
-Outgoing Press Secretary Jen Psaki, May 6, 2022

Since taking the podium, no individual has done more to singlehandedly undermine the affirmative action principle.

This specimen of mediocrity has been a spectacular failure. Without exception or exaggeration, each and every Jean-Pierre press conference has been an unmitigated trainwreck. I suffered through most of them, because I’m a  masochist.

Words alone can’t do justice. Some disasters have to be witnessed firsthand, up-close to appreciate, like a class V hurricane:

Consider her performance on June 2, 2022, in the throes of the baby formula shortage:

(34:48)

“Q: Did the President have any conversations with any Cabinet Secretaries or the FDA commissioner once he was confirmed in February about the formula shortage before April?

A: Look, you know, as — as more — as you all know, the President spoke to — to this yesterday: As more abnormalities were seen in supply and sales started to decrease in April — you know, because people have asked about this — senior White House staff made — made the President aware of the problem, and this was in April. I don’t have any calls to read out for you.”

Look how many hyphens the transcriptionist had to insert there. Stammering and stuttering, Jean-Pierre muddled through the pre-written talking points script in her notebook that someone competent prepared for her.

Even so, she failed to directly answer the question about whom the president talked to and when – or even come close.

The reporter politely followed up, not having received an answer, and she rambled further:

“I — so, as you know, the President deals with issues on a regular basis and that — that boils up to him.   And it’s just an — there’s no specific person that I can call out to you.  But it’s the regular way that we — we move forward through the regular channels.  I don’t have a specific person.  But that’s — that’s kind of how it goes.”

How it goes, indeed. That’s how unaccountability and the incompetent bureaucracy of a failed state goes.

The handpicked, compliant press corps attempted to get an answer to the same softball question – when and from whom Joe Biden first learned of the baby formula shortage – a minimum of eight more times.

Each time her answer was equally nonsensical. In response, she flipped through her notebook full of pre-canned answers, fingered one that might somehow tangentially connect to the question, read it (poorly), and moved on.

Literally, a well-trained sixth-grader could deliver a more inspiring product. Again, she wasn’t speaking extemporaneously off the cuff – she attempted to read basic sentences off of her notebook, and failed even at that.

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The whole charade is a disgusting affront to the American people who pay Jean-Pierre’s and Biden’s salaries to role-play stewards of state.

Remember when the Biden administration and the corporate media promised, with the blackest humor, that “the adults are back in charge“?

When diversity takes precedence over competence, the “adults” aren’t in charge of anything. Unless, of course, by “adults,” one means the oligarchs who actually run the gears of state to rob the American public.

Those “adults” don’t care how dysfunctional the executive gets so long as the gravy train of favorable regulation and public subsidy for their private gain continues.

At least Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, could lie with a modicum of grace. Granted, Psaki was equally soulless and her moral compass equally broken. Yet she could at least string together a single-sentence lie without reading.

No one in their right mind believes Jean-Pierre would have gotten within a mile of that podium if she was a white man – unless maybe she was a trans white dude. Those are cool, and diverse.

Of course, the woke inmates who run the White House asylum pin the blame squarely on the nearest white man for Jean-Pierre’s failings:

“Some Black communications officials in and outside the administration, along with allies of Jean-Pierre, feel White House leadership has set her up to fail by having Kirby, a white man who was in the running for her job, hovering nearby and taking the lead on foreign policy.”

No way! Who could have predicted the blame-whitey routine?

By “hovering,” of course, they mean Kirby doing Jean-Pierre’s job for her on the high-stakes foreign policy front so as to avert a nuclear holocaust.

 

The Biden administration finds itself between a rock and a hard place. Every single newsday that Jean-Pierre is trotted out to the world to humiliate herself and her colleagues, the whole presidency’s credibility sinks even lower. Yet, the administration can’t get rid of her because that would be racist, homophobic, misogynist, etc.… all the isms. Then, it’d have a mutiny on its hands.

If you close your eyes, you can already divine the Buzzfeed headlines: KKK Biden Throws Diverse, Talented, Sacred Person of Color© Press Secretary Under the Bus After Two Months on the Job!

Biden’s handlers unleashed the SJW monster on themselves; they made their bed; now they have to lie in it. That’s called sweet, savory karma.

Originally Posted @ the Daily Bell

Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose and/or Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.

OpEd: Now That the CDC Got Caught Abusing Sacred Navajo Indigenous Peoples of Color© Privacy Rights, Maybe the Left Will Care

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Ben Bartee

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

The corporate left and their legion of lobotomized NPC robots cheerlead when legacy MAGA Americans get caught in the crosshairs of the Deep State surveillance state.

That’s liberal and loving. Because those are Our Values©. Running roughshod over the Constitutional rights of “white nationalists” (leftist code for “whoever disagrees with us”) is, of course, how Democracy© works.

Here’s an excerpt from a Signal conversation with an otherwise intelligent and empathetic SF-based friend concerning the recent advent of the Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ — the Empire’s new technological terror project to subvert Constitutional protections of free speech.

 

(I have to supply my friend with CNN articles because Bill Gates-funded fact-checking scams have convinced him that those are the only “authoritative” sources of information. Otherwise, he won’t even read information I relay on the grounds that it’s a Russian disinformation psy-op or whatever.)

Somewhat surprisingly, my friend hadn’t even heard of the ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ – even after its creation had dominated corporate media headlines for over a week.

Despite being totally team DNC, he’s usually better informed about stuff going on, especially when it saturates social media to the extent that corporate media is forced to cover it.

Here was his reply.

 

“If it’s pissing off right-wingers, it must be good.”

This is now a near-universal knee-jerk reaction to abuse of government power among overeducated coastal elites.

For brevity’s sake, we’ll only mention in passing the glaring fact, which I pointed out, that the US government is the biggest misinformer in recorded history.

That’s the entire job of the State Department.

 

US Secretary of State Colin Powell displays to the world rock-solid evidence of Saddam’s non-existent WMD program so start a war, Feb 5, 2003

Maybe, though – just maybe — the mindless leftist NPCs might be a little more sympathetic to civil liberties proponents once they learn of the dystopian surveillance grid enacted upon the native sacred Persons of Color© in addition to MAGA.

Via VICE:

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard.”

It’s a sad state of affairs — and it says a lot about far Western civilization has fallen — but the only way to convince anyone on the “left” to stand up for civil liberties anymore is to try to make a connection, however tangential, to grievance-based identity politics.

The American Civil Liberties Union, for one, isn’t riding in on a white horse. That organization is now far more interested in promoting fascistic vaccine mandates while claiming they somehow “further civil liberties” and congratulating themselves for hiring racial tokens to leadership positions than protecting Americans’ civil liberties.

 

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.

Youth Blood Harvesting: Another ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Vindicated as Fact

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Ben Bartee,
June 8th, 2022

Republished with permission from The Daily Bell

Heavens to Betsy! The “far-right” conspiracy theorist prophets are vindicated again.

No longer a “conspiracy theory,” youth blood-sucking is an official “fact” because the gatekeeping corporate media now acknowledges it.

Via The Telegraph:

“As macabre as it sounds, science is beginning to discover that ‘youth transplants’ really can slow down the ageing process.

The fountain of youth, it seems, is youth itself.”

“Youth transplants” is a euphemism for sucking out the vital fluids of baby/child “donors” and injecting them into aging recipients:

“Although nobody is suggesting we siphon the bodily fluids of youngsters into our elderly… infusing cerebrospinal fluid of young mice into old mice improves brain function, a breakthrough.”

So, “nobody is suggesting” medically extracting cerebrospinal fluid from babies/children and injecting it into old (presumably well-paying) clients… except that’s precisely what they’re studying the feasibility of doing.

Biomedical entrepreneurs, in fact, are already cashing in:

“In 2019, a US start-up called Ambrosia that was offering teenage blood plasma to Silicon Valley billionaires for $8,000 a litre was forced to shut down…”

Where do you suppose that “teenage blood plasma” was sourced from? The wealthy children of DC elites, or some poor farmer’s daughter in a Guatemalan village, or the Compton streets, or some Appalachian township?

The FDA issued a warning against Ambrosia‘s services on safety grounds, but the founder re-opened after briefly shutting down, he said, with the simple justification that “our patients really want the treatment.”

The mega-rich can disrespect The Science© when they “really want” to harvest the blood of the global poor, but you can’t if you’re skeptical of experimental COVID-19 mRNA “gene therapies” marketed as vaccines.

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Of course, this research is nothing new under the sun; it’s been quietly budding into a lucrative industry for years.

Silicon Valley’s Alkahest and other biomedical startups conduct similar research.

As one might expect, Bill Gates’ interest in the nascent industry has also been piqued.

Gates, the quintessential robber baron monopoly man in a non-threatening Mr. Rogers getup, loves nothing more than cornering the market on a valuable new biomedical commodity.

Why is corporate media mainstreaming anti-aging blood transfusions now?

Previously, news of the elite-funded research into blood transfusions as the Fountain of Youth was relegated to the easily-dismissed fringes of journalism. “Respectable” outlets, in their own estimations, wouldn’t touch it.

Now the genie is out of the bottle. Corporate media like the Telegraph have made the editorial decision that it makes sense to mainstream the ideas that were once, although not altogether hidden, definitely outside of the purview of the public consciousness.

Exposing such research to public inquiry and debate before the time was right might have raised serious ethical pushback and threatened its development.

Remember back in the George W Bush days when stem cells were an issue of ethical contention? Look how far the contested ground has shifted.

This is called “moving the Overton Window” – shifting the bounds of consensus-driven ethical restraints slowly yet steadily. In this way, the biomedical corporate state avoids the pitfall of stirring enough popular unrest to derail their pet projects. Rather, it introduces these concepts on a controlled timeline.

The Telegraph piece gives away this rhetorical game in the last paragraph:

“It may only be a few years before ‘youth transplants’ move finally from the pages of gothic horror novels into the clinic. Whether patients will feel squeamish about such vampire procedures remains to be seen.”

Now that hiding this type of research from public inquiry won’t be logistically feasible much longer as it’s adopted at larger scale, the job becomes to normalize it.

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The same corporate media now reporting on the blood harvesting phenomenon has long painted it as “conspiracy theory.”

And not just “conspiracy theory,” but the worst of all: “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory,” which they likened to the historical blood libel.

The bottom-line takeaway here is that “conspiracy theorists,” once again — as was the case with lab-engineered coronaviruses to instantiate a global biomedical technocracy – weren’t wrong; they were ahead of their time.

First the corporate media ignores reporting inconvenient stories they’re not ready to introduce to the public, then they outright deny them and label journalists who discuss them “conspiracy theorists.”

Then, when they can’t deny anymore, they obfuscate to conceal the true agenda by positing other, purer, philanthropic motives.

In this case, the philanthropic motive offered to justify blood harvesting of the global poor for elite benefit is preventing chronic diseases like Parkinson’s:

“In the future, I hope we’ll find more ways to harness substances in our blood to reduce inflammation and promote healing… [it] could eventually allow us to do a better job of attacking the proteins that have been implicated in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases.”
–Bill Gates Notes

That promise might prove true – for them. If the elite get their way, you’re never going to benefit from such research. You’ll always belong to the donor class, the experimented-upon – never the beneficiary.

Transhumanism is an infinitesimally tiny proportion of the population transcending its humanity by merging with tech while experimenting on the useless eaters and, when they’re done, exterminating the remainder. It is the future the likes of the World Economic Forum envision.

We, the non-elites, are the unwitting clinical trial participants (which, without proper informed consent, is a Nuremberg human rights crime). Lab rats on a prison planet.

Time will increasingly reveal the truth. And more “conspiracy theorists” will be vindicated in the interim.

Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.

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‘Left’ Is Now Political Shorthand For ‘Corporate State Technocracy’

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Ben Bartee
May 26th, 2022

The left-right paradigm was always dubious as a way to describe the Western political dichotomy. Given what modern “Leftism” entails, it’s even more irrelevant now.

Here’s a basic definition of “Leftist” ideology that, once upon a time, characterized many aspects of leftist politics in the early-to-mid-20th century:

“The portion of the political spectrum associated in general with egalitarianism and popular… control of the major institutions of political and economic life… Leftists tend to be hostile to the interests of traditional elites, including the wealthy and members of the aristocracy, and to favour the interests of the working class.”

What a difference a few decades of corporate capture makes!

What sort of egalitarian, hostile-to-elite-interests positions does the modern Western left take?

Does the ‘Left’ safeguard Constitutionally-guaranteed free speech?

Nope!

The liberal coast elites are panicked at the possibility of free speech erupting on social media, or anywhere else. Watch them meltdown over the possibility of – clutch the pearls! – an open speech platform in the digital public square where non-blue-check dissenters don’t get arbitrarily purged for “hatespeech”:

According to notorious white race entrepreneur, Shaun King, who has two white parents but insists he is black to access the BLM gravy train, “free speech” is just code for “muh white supremacy”:

https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1518576839777734657?s=20&t=IGIXwke6BJuc4FKqZ1dQcA

Shaun King, like most modern “leftists,” frequently employs this type of self-serving reductionism – anything to further the narrative:

“A theory in psychology centered on reducing complex phenomena into their most basic parts. It is often contrasted with holism, which is focused on looking at things as a whole.”

Instead of free speech, neoliberals favor an amorphous concept, fermented approximately one week ago in the diseased intestines of some DC think tank, called “equitable speech.”

Does the ‘Left’ protect civil liberties?

Naw!

Hitherto unprecedented civil liberty crackdowns were most recently pushed by the left, not the right, under the pretense of “stopping the spread” of COVID-19.

The result — in addition to handicapping the economy for years, starving millions, stunting children’s psychological well-being irreparably, and wrecking Americans’ psychological health writ large – was no measurable public health benefit whatsoever, as reported by the National Academies of Sciences::

“Previous studies have claimed that shelter-in-place orders saved thousands of lives, but we reassess these analyses and show that they are not reliable. We find that shelter-in-place orders had no detectable health benefits.”

Strangely, the liberals didn’t clamor to shutter Amazon’s or Walmart’s (their donors) doors – just your already-struggling neighborhood business.

What egalitarianism! What wondrous liberalism!

And here’s neoliberal hero down under Dr. Kerry Chant telling Australian slaves they’re not allowed to talk to their neighbors anymore, because of COVID:

Is the ‘Left’ anti-war?

No way!

The most vocal proponents of starting wars to “defend democracy” are on the left, not the right.

Whether it’s Obama using ten times more drones than George Bush to kill poor brown people overseas, the 5-year Russiagate scam to start a war in Eurasia as well as to distract from Hillary Clinton’s epic 2016 defeat (two birds, one stone), or Slay Queen Hillary’s personal project to utterly destroy Libya in retaliation for Gaddafi’s attempts to form a pan-African currency independent of the central bankers’ petrodollar, the “Left” is all war, all the time.

Libya, before and after Hillary liberated it:

Feel the liberal love!

Is the ‘Left’ economically populist?

Definitely not!

Liberal media leads the charge to centralize and control cryptocurrency because it challenges central banking monopoly power near and dear to the ruling class heart.

Self-styled “progressive” (another inaccurate and deceptive label) Elizabeth Warren just wants to help the People desperate to escape a sinking dollar by monitoring, regulating, and taxing their cryptocurrency under penalty of law. Because those are our values in a democracy!

No non-taxable, untraceable, non-central-banker money for you, peasant! Skirting taxes is strictly reserved for the oligarchs (AKA political donors).

Is the ‘Left’ anti-corruption?

Don’t be silly! Zombie corpse House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) openly defends insider trading on the floor of the People’s House. “This is a free market,” she says in response to questions regarding her profiting illicitly off of privileged information that only Congress members are privy to, which is theoretically necessary to conduct the People’s business effectively.

The corporate state technocracy’s personal servants: What modern ‘Leftism’ actually is

Perhaps the most succinct summary of the modern ‘Left’ is illustrated by “Antifa” (a truncated version of “anti-fascist”) unironically cheerleading fascistic lockdown, masking, and forced lockdown measures:

To tie the threads together, the modern ‘Left’ is reduced to a conglomeration of the absolute worst of all political machinations: authoritarian, elite centralized, anti-free speech, economically rapacious, warmongering.

The “Right” political machine, though, is not the inverse of “Leftism” nor should it be exempt from criticism. At the top, it’s staffed by the exact same types of cancerous vultures as found on the Left, albeit with mildly saner social positions in the culture war (they at least don’t advocate transing kindergarteners).

Joe Jarvis and I recently touched on the relevance, or lack thereof, of the left-right paradigm in a wide-ranging discussion posted to YouTube.

The general takeaway from that section of the conversation was that the “Left” and “Right” shorthand is increasingly archaic as a way to describe competing political ideologies in the Brave New World post-COVID.

The real fight is elites vs everyone else. Couching this political conflict in “Left vs Right” terms might do more to obfuscate the nature of competing factions more than it clearly defines them.

The hopeful news here is that a deluge of self-identified leftists who genuinely embrace conventional free speech, anti-authoritarian left values — Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald, just to name two — are fleeing the plantation. And they’re dragging their viewers and readers with them.

We need honest actors on the “Left” to defect to our side, not to write off everyone who embraces that label (however inaccurately) as irredeemable. We need solidarity in the trenches, not mindless partisanship.

“People merge on state of mind from all
Different walks of life
Don’t need any more stupid division…

Brother – I’ll always look out for you
If I feel it back
Sister – we’ll brave the outside world
Off the beaten track
When it’s us vs. them
You can always count on me
When it’s us vs. them
It’s a global unity.”

-Sick Of It All, Us vs Them

‘Forever Emergency’: How the Government Seamlessly Transitions Between Terror Threats

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Ben Bartee
May 20th, 2022

Bill Gates has a brand-new supranational terror bureaucracy planned, the cutely-dubbed “GERM Team” – “Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization Team.”

(How many billing hours did it take the PR firm to come up with that snazzy acronym?)

In a recent Wall St. Journal op-ed, Gates justified the need for the GERM Team on the grounds of “national security” to combat “terror threats.”

Gates and his corporate media minions have repeatedly extorted public funding for similar ventures in other contexts under using the threat of bioterrorism.

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We’ve previously discussed the phenomenon of the security state’s permanent emergency. In this paradigm, the government continuously consolidates and redoubles its power and social control using real or drummed-up security threats.

It gets as much mileage as possible out of one emergency before introducing another emergency to justify even greater expansions of its power and social control. The process then repeats ad infinitum.

None of the newly acquired powers are ever rolled back once the “emergency” that justified their initial creation subsides. Rather, they accrue over time, transforming from “temporary” measures to permanent ones by default.

The corporate state continuously invents new justifications for the existence and expansion of its power. It uses new powers and new funding schemes to generate the next threat in a self-perpetuating loop.

One emergency fuels the next. Via Vanity Fair:

“The bioterror attacks of 2001, in which letters dusted with anthrax spores were sent through the U.S. mail, coupled with the first SARS coronavirus outbreak in China the following year, would bring money for the study of lethal natural pathogens pouring into federal agencies. In 2003, the NIAID got an eye-popping $1.7 billion for research to defend against bioterrorism.”

They leveraged the public’s post-9/11 anxieties over Islamic terror – fueled in large part by 24/7 corporate media fearmongering – into billions of dollars in “bioterror” research.

Fauci, in turn, as we now know, funneled that NIAID government money into gain-of-function research (and perjured himself to Congress over it, a demonstrable crime he has yet to be punished for), which likely resulted in the next major terror campaign of our lifetime: COVID-19.

  • Terror attack —–>
  • Biomedical state gets funding to fight “bioterror” ——>
  • Biomedical state uses awarded funding to engineer next bioterror attack —–>
  • Biomedical state gets more funding ———–>

And so on, forever. Until someone or something stops the cycle. In the meantime, the bureaucracies – CDC, NIH, FBI, Homeland Security, et al – balloon continuously.

The pandemic birthed whole new unprecedented power grabs by the state and the seizure of more civil liberties. The public got incrementally more fearful, less assertive, and more sheep-like.

One abuse of power facilitates and births another, and the gravy train runs full steam ahead — more private-public “research” partnerships, more national security agencies, more intelligence funding, more surveillance, and more crackdowns on civil liberties.

Follow the money, follow the social control, follow the motive

There is good reason, of course, why prosecutors in criminal cases love to have a motive – it lends credibility to the theory of the crime.

Groups of people, like individuals, do things for reasons — personal and group gain being chief among them.

Somehow, though, in the context of traumatic large-scale catastrophes, the public is rhetorically forbidden from inquiring into motive. The corporate media establishes the official narrative and any deviations are labeled “conspiracy theories” and summarily dismissed.

Corporate media then warns the peasants to “not do their own research” that might contradict the official story.

Noam Chomsky describes the narrative-engineering phenomenon as “manufacturing consent.”

The single, most obvious forbidden question: Cui bono? Who benefits?

The biomedical national security state has expanded its tentacles far and wide. We recently debunked the corporate media’s gaslighting denial of the existence of biolabs in Ukraine studying weaponized pathogens.

Relevant questions emerge:

  • What would the outcome be if the engineered pathogens currently kept in various Ukrainian biolabs leaked into circulation, and potentially triggered another global pandemic or other catastrophic fallout?
  • To make sure such a catastrophe never occurred again, would the biomedical state demand less funding to combat “bioterrorism,” or more?
  • Would the propagandized NPC public clamor for more medical research to “prevent” pandemics (i.e., the ostensible purpose of gain of function research), or less?
  • Would Merck or Pfizer’s stock go up, or down? Would their political influence wax or wane accordingly?
  • Would the leak or intentional release of a virus or other pathogen engineered in a US government-controlled Ukrainian biolab serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of fiddling with Mother Nature as self-appointed Gods, or would it be used as further justification to conduct such gain-of-function research?
  • What new civil liberties restrictions would such a Russian bioterror attack or threat be used to justify at home?
  • What new government-funded bureaucracies like Bill Gates’ GERM would then be clamored for?
  • What new permanent, ritual social control measures would we be subjected to, in the vein of the post-9/11 shoe removal in airports or forced masking that we now take for granted?

The answers to such hypotheticals lie in the real past.

Problem ————> Reaction ————–> Solution

No law of the universe says that our money must be repurposed by the publicly-funded biomedical terror complex to fund our own enslavement.

Let’s starve the beast, starting with cutting off the funding for GERM Team and Homeland Security and any of these “national security”/”public health” machinations.

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter. Please support his independent operations however you can.