Thinking Points Memo, Jan. 29, 2022
Here are my latest thinking points:
Censorship always backfires
Twitter deplatformed most of the critical thinkers. Now it’s just an echo chamber for blue check bougiecrats to congratulate each other on how much they agree with each other about everything.
Meanwhile the critical thinkers started their own Substacks. Substack rewards long-form writing and thinking. It turns out that our team is great at that. We never actually liked short form — we were just on Twitter to get our message out.
Now the intellectual gap between the extraordinary thinkers and writers on our team and the mindless zombies on Team Pharma has become a chasm. And Substack articles are shared more widely than Tweets and seen as more credible (because they reflect more serious thinking).
So Twitter did everyone a favor and brought forward the day when we will win.
Make it stop
Jesus H.
The regulatory state
The person who gave us the opioid epidemic (that kills more Americans every year than the Vietnam War) is still in charge of the FDA.
The person who gave us the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (that has killed more Americans than all foreign wars combined) is still in charge of the NIAID.
The person who covered up the autism epidemic is still in charge of the NIH.
Karma
Biden spent all of his political capital going after the dozen people who were correct early on about the pandemic. And now he’s 20 points underwater. Funny how that works.
Vile tokenism
Apparently Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s entire job is to tell social media companies to censor the truth about the pandemic. The NY Times did not even mention Murthy in their long article on Biden’s First Pandemic Year and he is not listed as a member the six-person team that makes decisions about coronavirus. It speaks volumes that the top doctor in the country spends all of his time covering up the crimes of the cartel.
There is no such thing as “Vaccine Inequity(TM)”
Weird how central Africa, with almost no access to the miracle unicorn sauce, is doing so much better than the developed world when it comes to the ‘rona. I wonder what they are doing differently that we could learn from? 🤔
A red wave is coming
Yup. 14% swing in voter identification in less than a year. Americans do not like fascism (regardless of what CNN says).
This Poll Shows How Much Trouble Democrats are In
According to the Gallup organization, 47 percent of Americans now identify with the Republican Party and 42 percent with the Democrats. That sounds ho-hum: one party doing a tad better than the other. But the Gallup numbers may portend a political earthquake….
When Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump a year ago, Democrats held a 49-to-40 advantage. From nine points up to five points down in less than a year — it is one of the most drastic reversals of party fortune that Gallup has ever recorded.
28 Days Later
I did not have ‘weaponized monkeys on the loose after truck crash in Pennsylvania’ on my 2022 bingo card but here we are. 😬
Transitive property
The Food and Drug Administration removed two monoclonal antibody therapies from its list of approved treatments for COVID-19 this week. Citing clinical data, the FDA said in a statement that it has found two of the treatments “are highly unlikely to be active against the omicron variant, which is circulating at a very high frequency throughout the United States.”
Um, who's gonna tell them about the vaccines?
Denouement
If the Jesus-loving Canadian truckers save us from global Pharma totalitarianism, that would be a surprising yet fitting end to this crazy drama. Let’s gooooooo! 🙌🙏✊
I miss logic
Dems shooting themselves up with experimental gene therapies like they were vitamins...
and having meltdowns in public over a Nobel Prize winning medicine that is safer than aspirin.
I wish it made sense but it doesn’t.
#2022
Keep on rocking in the — oh never mind
Neil Young, don’t let the door hit ya in the *ss.
In the comments, please let me know what’s on your mind.
Neil Young, Joni Mitchell--amazing how so many of the people who in their youth questioned authority and opposed authoritarianism have now shut down their minds and become slaves to the pronouncements of corrupt officialdom.
Probably not surprising since the whole 60s was ultimately about ME, and apparently when ME is threatened all these people react badly.
Goebbels in action
Another insightful post. Thank you, Toby.
I can't understand why families of means don't move away from places with draconian policies in schools, and why every family doesn't just call a halt. I pulled my kid out of a very nice religious school and began the homeschool journey seven years ago because the school administrators refused to honor my husband's and my views on the textbooks they were using. (Oddly enough, one of the issues in contention was whether our rights come from our Creator or from the government. The textbook said the government gives us our rights.) When our state got super-insane in 2020, making it clear that nothing--from school dances to athletics to going out for coffee--would be normal for my kid any time in the foreseeable future, we moved 1,000 miles to a free state.
Neither decision was hard. It was obvious what was the right thing to do. Actuating the decisions was difficult, of course! It wasn't cheap, and we have had to forgo not-insubstantial income. We're now 1,000 miles or more from our parents. But our child went to the homecoming dance last fall, and she went to a basketball game last night, and she competed in sports last fall and went out with friends and has a normal, happy existence. No masks, no injection QR codes.
Not everyone can afford to do what we did, but a lot of folks can afford it, and haven't done it. When I see the folks posting about "my kid is tortured for seven hours a day," I shake my head. In my current school district, parents sent their kids to school without masks, and the school board realized that principals were sending dozens of well-behaved kids home every morning for utter bull****, so the mask mandate ended. Parents and kids did that. Not by whining about the torture WHILE ACCEPTING IT in exchange for free daycare, but by REFUSING TO ACCEPT IT.
As a parent, I would die for my child. What kind of hypocrite would I be if I let her become a hostage of the lunatic regime because I couldn't take a few days of administrative hassles? If I wouldn't sacrifice some income for her sanity?