Loss Of Faith
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
One thing I’ll say for Lesko Brandon, he’s been effective.
I used to trust my doctor. Nowadays, he preaches the Vaccine Gospel that HMO management requires him to give, which parrots the CDC party line, which is based on partial and incomplete data (the rest is intentionally being withheld) and completely ignores medical studies on effective medical treatments used in other countries. Lesko Brandon has effectively destroyed my faith in the medical profession.
I used to trust my banker. Nowadays, he assures me the bank has no intention of seizing my accounts as an unvaxxed customer, unless ordered to cease providing financial services to me as a biological suspected terrorist under Lesko Brandon’s extension of his Emergency Powers. Lesko Brandon has effectively destroyed my faith in the banking business.
I used to trust my military. Nowadays, the top brass assure me they would never abandon Americans left behind in a war zone (except Afghanistan) and would never get involved in a land war in Asia (except Ukraine, where US troops are already on the way). Lesko Brandon has effectively destroyed my faith in the military.
I used to trust the US economy to be the most productive, most secure economy in the world. Nowadays, inflation is running at Venezuela levels and the labor force participation rate is lower than the Carter Malaise years, with no discernible plan in sight, not even WIN buttons. Lesko Brandon has effectively destroyed my faith in the US economy.
Most effective President ever? Probably not – Lincoln destroyed more but Lincoln had five years in office. Give Brandon time.
Joe Doakes
March 7th, 2022 at 6:53 am
JD.
I concur and feel your angst.
Since some of us are at or close to the age of prostate issues, if you really want to get a medical wake up call, read into how medical device manufacturers coerce/bribe doctors into maiming men for profit. For instance, just like the inventor of the PSA test has said that it is not designed to detect WuFlu, the doctor who identified the PSA, Richard Ablin, says it wasn’t designed to detect cancer and that using it to do so, is about as accurate as flipping a coin. He even wrote a book about how it was high jacked by the medical industry for that purpose.
As far as your bank, due to my mistrust of the big banks, I moved to a credit union long ago.
March 7th, 2022 at 6:53 am
It doesn’t excuse what’s going on now, but it’s unfortunate that people don’t know or forgot all the nasty episodes in our own country in the past. The fact that JD even know about Lincoln’s destructiveness puts him at an elite level of understanding.
But what about FDR and the Japanese? Wilson and German-Americans? Or Wilson and anti-war protesters? Or did you know that the history of smallpox and vaccinations matches almost exactly what we’ve seen with Kung flu?
My point is that there are plenty of episodes from the past that we *could’ve* learned from to prevent a Lesko Brandon presidency but they’re not taught, and if taught they’re not learned.
March 7th, 2022 at 7:39 am
I read an interesting discussion about freedom and censorship last week. It was kind of technical poli-sci stuff and not attached to any current issue. The point was that people know that censorship is taking place and their response is to distrust the censored information. This is inevitable.
Something to think about, especially with censorship regimes insisting that censorship results in their information being more trusted.
Unspoken is the motivation of the censors. They know that their information is not trusted, so why do they do it? I think they censor as a public demonstration of power — they have the power to stop your speech and quash expression of ideas they don’t like, and they want you to know it.
March 7th, 2022 at 8:33 am
We are at a point where a government, ANY government, is allowed to confiscate property of private individuals without any due process. I do not know any more if current civilization can be saved. Maybe it is time a reset.
MP, add to censorship an unprecedented dose of propaganda and you have a perfect duofecta (?).
March 7th, 2022 at 10:33 am
I suspect that conspiracy theories are more commonly believed in censorship regimes as well. It seems obvious to everyone but a person with an elite education that expressly forbidding people from people from talking about, say, whether or not a certain pizza restaurant is really HQ for a ring of pedophiles will NOT stop people from talking about it.
It does, though, divide people into opposing camps.
March 7th, 2022 at 1:25 pm
“I suspect that conspiracy theories are more commonly believed in censorship regimes as well.”
Funny that someone who wants to be a dictator has a social media platform called “Truth.” In the Soviet Union their official newspaper was “Pravda.” Pravda translates into English as “truth.”
Why “Truth”? Was “TotalBS” already taken?
March 7th, 2022 at 1:38 pm
And you know who else claims to be telling the truth? Joe Biden. And the New York times!
A conspiracy so vast . . .
You are an idiot, Emery.
March 7th, 2022 at 3:09 pm
Did you say that about Trump when he withheld the congressionally-authorized military assistance to Ukraine to coerce Zelenskyy to help Trump’s re-election campaign? Who tried to overthrow the republic to remain in power despite losing his election?
When you can’t choose between good and evil, you’ve already made a choice.
March 7th, 2022 at 3:31 pm
^ Yeah, but wait, didn’t the rules change back in 2015? In 2015, Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin was looking into Burisma, an oil and gas company where Hunter Biden was on the Board. Joe Biden later bragged how he got Shokin stopped from further investigating Hunter and Burisma. Biden withheld a billion in aid to get Shokin fired and he bragged about it.
Did the rules change back when Trump was elected? It’s hard to keep up.
March 7th, 2022 at 3:38 pm
You know who still has a Twitter account? Putin.
So that makes him an official blue-check Good Guy, right?
March 7th, 2022 at 3:39 pm
^ Wednesday’s release of the transcript of the July telephone conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky included no “quid pro quo” that would justify the growing Democrat effort to impeach President Trump.
Zelensky? Wait… haven’t we heard of him?