Am a boomer that went to a high powered college and thought for nearly an entire lifetime that I could tell who is expert, and whether to trust them. The last two years have shattered that so badly I can't even guess what will happen next, and not just for me. For example, at my annual physical I told my long-time PCP I trust no authority on anything...and that includes him. I had asked him, "under what circumstances would he prescribe me HCQ?" His answer was "absolutely none" which signaled to me he had surrendered to group think. I have NO IDEA whether HCQ would ever be appropriate for me, but I also know his certainty in his answer meant exactly what Orfalea's videos show. Where can the average guy go to find expertise now?
And they said masks work, until they didn't. They said the test work, until they didn't. They said lockdowns work, until they didn't. Wonder what they will admit to next?
I'm not sure what percentage of censorship belongs to stupidity, party loyalty, evil, ineptness, and subservience, but the last 2 years have been terrible for Freedom of Speech. Without Freedom of Speech, all of our rights are severely diminished. The Republicans are crooks, warmongers, and plenty of other bad things, but one party has attempted to crush dissent the last two years, while the other has at least tried to allow an honest discussion.
In hindsight, nearly all of the "misinformation" that has been censored has turned out to be true. Rather than admit it, they want to censor harder. It's only being done by private companies that have their own special liability protections written into law.
Is it the Orwell or the Huxley dystopia toward which we're currently careening? Or a delightful melange of both? The incuriosity and credulity of our media establishment, as well as that of the bulk and majority of our elected officials, is anathema to our Country, and it now falls to the Taibbi's and Orfalea's to elucidate, not only the issues, but what our so-called elite are doing or not doing relative to them.
It also falls to the individual citizen to seek out a diversity of perspectives and sources of information to remain informed. Historically, people have demonstrated their tendencies toward laziness and uninterest in current events or, at least, investing much time and effort to ferret out the details, instead relying on the corporate media to spoon feed them the relevant facts. Regrettably, as Matt pointed out in his magnificent article titled "The American Press is Destroying Itself," the corporate media is far more interested in partisanship and fostering a narrative than informing their customers.
So, the days of citizens sitting on our keisters and being credulous about the information the MSM crams down our throats are over, and I am immeasurably grateful to Matt and his peers for their exceptional and tireless service, and I am likewise grateful to Substack for giving them a forum to help inform the American people.
"The concept of telling the public you’re this certain of something when you quite obviously are not is at least somewhat new, both in politics and in media."
As usual Matt will make the case for some type of institutional breakdowns in media and/or government agencies. When it is patently obvious the narratives were managed from above across the western democracies. By whom and to what ends are the questions we should be asking. The evidence of manufacture of the virus is scientifically indisputable, the markers were left in place. The actual question is, unintentional leak, or intentional?
Notice that when the MSM screams MISINFORMATION about Rogan's two podcasts, they never say exactly what the MISINFORMATION was. Because the Wuhan lab leak was misinformation except to anyone using their brain could pretty well surmise that it didn't come from the wet market next door but through the door of the lab.
My frustration has mounted over the last few years with what is termed the “mainstream media” that I relied on for years as somewhat objective and responsible media outlets. These publications cost real money. They deliver no value. They are not investigative. They are mouthpieces for our government (first the deep state trying to unseat Trump and now the besieged collection of Biden administration incompetents). So I stopped donating to NPR, which was once a permanent soundtrack to my life but now sounds like an interminable Bolshevik infomercial that is worse than the pledge drive. Then I unsubscribed to The NY Times, when they hired a clearly racist person to their editorial board to signal maximum wokeness (was it Sarah Jeong? Seems so long ago). Then ditched the Economist, that venerable rag, when it published that Joe Rogan was taking horse dewormer. And this week I finally discarded the WSJ after an article again attacking Joe Rogan. I estimate I have saved over $1000 annually. My feeling is that journalistic credibility, once lost, will never return. So I have vowed never to subscribe to these publications again. We will see…
Why would late night comedians engage in such dreadful and obvious partisanship? It is nightmarish to see the consistency of their droning. Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel must be in some network purgatory, telling these sad, rancid, mean jokes.
The lab leak debacle is horrific. I cannot imagine why investigative journalists wouldn’t pursue this story to the fullest. This is one of the largest questions needing an answer right now. The way this has been handled demonstrates that these outlets have lost sight of their essential mission. And over time I have sought sources that searched more vigorously for truth and allowed for better, fuller exchange of ideas. Substack, Matt Taibi, Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Brett Weinstein. The forum that brought these voices to me amid the dearth of true exchange has been the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
People deserve so much better than this. I am firmly committed to providing some portion of my financial resources to media that works. This is not a fight that we can afford to lose.
If you are mainstream msm or an “elite” and wrong , double down or memory hole that info and blame Randos on Facebook or Joe Rogan. Apply , rinse, repeat.
"27 scientists in The Lancet put it this way in mid-2020: 'We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.'”
Well, we know it is illegal to do gain-of-function research in America. We know Anthony Fauci funneled money through EcoHealth to pay for research in China on the Corona Virus, where it is not illegal to do gain-of-function research. We know that the first cases of SARS CoV-2 were literally in the neighborhood.
We also know that Fauci intervened with political pressure and research funding to prevent well known researchers from saying the virus was tinkered with. We know that Fauci conspired to ruin doctors questioning lockdowns. We know he conspired with the FDA and CDC to eliminate any off-label treatments for Covid. We know that the FDA and Phizer have colluded to keep the trial data from the public. We know the trials were flawed in significant ways.
We know researchers have been tinkering with the virus for decades. We know that technocrats were playing roll games for a Covid outbreak before the pandemic. We know that Big Pharma presented a very leaky but super profitable vaccine almost immediately. We know mandates guarantee those profits, and make life much more difficult for people who are anti-authoritarian.
But to say any of this through the major media would get you fired, tarred (misinformation) and feathered (anti-vaxxer!).
As a new first time Grandma to the *cutest baby ever*, I have officially lost my sense of humor. Pfizer now seeking FDA approval for Emergency Use of the covid vaccine on babies over 4 months old!!! Operative Word: Emergency …. There is NO EMERGENCY in children. NONE. So the origin, transmission, cases, severity, etc every aspect of this “pandemic” has been politicized and fueled by a maniacal media …and now, parents will be guilted and shamed into jabbing their babies. “ The Matt’s” continue to expose the endless deceit and yet, here we go again….This is madness!! Something really really needs to give ..STAT.
I remember when Jon Stewart appeared on the Stephen Colbert show back in June, 2021 and dared to suggest that Sars Covi2 came from a lab. "We owe a debt of gratitude to science. Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science". Of course, Colbert feigned shock and concern that his friend would make such a suggestion, but I'm sure the exchange was set up in advance. After all, the establishment left is all about signaling. They can't broach an idea without someone else's say-so. And what better person to convey that it was now okay to entertain the idea of a lab leak than Jon Stewart.
PS: Always remember – Biden was the governor of Ukraine after Obama’s successful coup in Ukraine in 2014; Biden was selecting and removing heads of industry and Ukraine’s puppet government, dismissing the federal judge investigating Burisma – a judge that State Dept. lauded for integrity only weeks before… The immense corruption of Biden family still needs to be investigated – Hunter’s Burisma was used to ‘wash” US dirty money. Thanks heavens that recent “colored revolution” coups in Belarus and Kazakhstan were not successful.
WHO will be the first current or former Democrat Congresswoman/man or Senator to publicly acknowledge and confirm the brazen scam of the century – DNC’s + CIA/FBI security complex (St. Obama/Biden/Hillary/Pelosi/Schumer, Jammie Raskin, etc. + Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, etc.) Russia-gate hoax and subsequent conspiracies, including 1/6 “armed insurrection”?
War party is currently in power and war-monger vampires must be stopped. Military-industrial complex must be defunded – US main “products” and exports are now weapons, coups and immense and all-encompassing corruption.
China is far more capitalist than the US, Russia has not been Communist for 30+ years, while the US is a corporate socialism (a more polite term for -- fascism)
I’ve thought it was a bioweapon from Day 1 with a psyop response to make $$ and concentrate technocratic power. Call it a conspiracy theory, but it makes more sense than Coincidence Theory.
"The crucial problem shown in this reel is the complete absence of humility about the possibility of error."
They didn't make an error. For those who aren't anything more than paid copyreaders, they intended to lie.
Am a boomer that went to a high powered college and thought for nearly an entire lifetime that I could tell who is expert, and whether to trust them. The last two years have shattered that so badly I can't even guess what will happen next, and not just for me. For example, at my annual physical I told my long-time PCP I trust no authority on anything...and that includes him. I had asked him, "under what circumstances would he prescribe me HCQ?" His answer was "absolutely none" which signaled to me he had surrendered to group think. I have NO IDEA whether HCQ would ever be appropriate for me, but I also know his certainty in his answer meant exactly what Orfalea's videos show. Where can the average guy go to find expertise now?
And they said masks work, until they didn't. They said the test work, until they didn't. They said lockdowns work, until they didn't. Wonder what they will admit to next?
I'm not sure what percentage of censorship belongs to stupidity, party loyalty, evil, ineptness, and subservience, but the last 2 years have been terrible for Freedom of Speech. Without Freedom of Speech, all of our rights are severely diminished. The Republicans are crooks, warmongers, and plenty of other bad things, but one party has attempted to crush dissent the last two years, while the other has at least tried to allow an honest discussion.
In hindsight, nearly all of the "misinformation" that has been censored has turned out to be true. Rather than admit it, they want to censor harder. It's only being done by private companies that have their own special liability protections written into law.
Is it the Orwell or the Huxley dystopia toward which we're currently careening? Or a delightful melange of both? The incuriosity and credulity of our media establishment, as well as that of the bulk and majority of our elected officials, is anathema to our Country, and it now falls to the Taibbi's and Orfalea's to elucidate, not only the issues, but what our so-called elite are doing or not doing relative to them.
It also falls to the individual citizen to seek out a diversity of perspectives and sources of information to remain informed. Historically, people have demonstrated their tendencies toward laziness and uninterest in current events or, at least, investing much time and effort to ferret out the details, instead relying on the corporate media to spoon feed them the relevant facts. Regrettably, as Matt pointed out in his magnificent article titled "The American Press is Destroying Itself," the corporate media is far more interested in partisanship and fostering a narrative than informing their customers.
So, the days of citizens sitting on our keisters and being credulous about the information the MSM crams down our throats are over, and I am immeasurably grateful to Matt and his peers for their exceptional and tireless service, and I am likewise grateful to Substack for giving them a forum to help inform the American people.
"The concept of telling the public you’re this certain of something when you quite obviously are not is at least somewhat new, both in politics and in media."
This.
As usual Matt will make the case for some type of institutional breakdowns in media and/or government agencies. When it is patently obvious the narratives were managed from above across the western democracies. By whom and to what ends are the questions we should be asking. The evidence of manufacture of the virus is scientifically indisputable, the markers were left in place. The actual question is, unintentional leak, or intentional?
Notice that when the MSM screams MISINFORMATION about Rogan's two podcasts, they never say exactly what the MISINFORMATION was. Because the Wuhan lab leak was misinformation except to anyone using their brain could pretty well surmise that it didn't come from the wet market next door but through the door of the lab.
Superb synopsis of the lab leak catastrophe!
My frustration has mounted over the last few years with what is termed the “mainstream media” that I relied on for years as somewhat objective and responsible media outlets. These publications cost real money. They deliver no value. They are not investigative. They are mouthpieces for our government (first the deep state trying to unseat Trump and now the besieged collection of Biden administration incompetents). So I stopped donating to NPR, which was once a permanent soundtrack to my life but now sounds like an interminable Bolshevik infomercial that is worse than the pledge drive. Then I unsubscribed to The NY Times, when they hired a clearly racist person to their editorial board to signal maximum wokeness (was it Sarah Jeong? Seems so long ago). Then ditched the Economist, that venerable rag, when it published that Joe Rogan was taking horse dewormer. And this week I finally discarded the WSJ after an article again attacking Joe Rogan. I estimate I have saved over $1000 annually. My feeling is that journalistic credibility, once lost, will never return. So I have vowed never to subscribe to these publications again. We will see…
Why would late night comedians engage in such dreadful and obvious partisanship? It is nightmarish to see the consistency of their droning. Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel must be in some network purgatory, telling these sad, rancid, mean jokes.
The lab leak debacle is horrific. I cannot imagine why investigative journalists wouldn’t pursue this story to the fullest. This is one of the largest questions needing an answer right now. The way this has been handled demonstrates that these outlets have lost sight of their essential mission. And over time I have sought sources that searched more vigorously for truth and allowed for better, fuller exchange of ideas. Substack, Matt Taibi, Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Brett Weinstein. The forum that brought these voices to me amid the dearth of true exchange has been the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
People deserve so much better than this. I am firmly committed to providing some portion of my financial resources to media that works. This is not a fight that we can afford to lose.
If you are mainstream msm or an “elite” and wrong , double down or memory hole that info and blame Randos on Facebook or Joe Rogan. Apply , rinse, repeat.
"27 scientists in The Lancet put it this way in mid-2020: 'We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.'”
I can't overstate how furious this makes me.
Well, we know it is illegal to do gain-of-function research in America. We know Anthony Fauci funneled money through EcoHealth to pay for research in China on the Corona Virus, where it is not illegal to do gain-of-function research. We know that the first cases of SARS CoV-2 were literally in the neighborhood.
We also know that Fauci intervened with political pressure and research funding to prevent well known researchers from saying the virus was tinkered with. We know that Fauci conspired to ruin doctors questioning lockdowns. We know he conspired with the FDA and CDC to eliminate any off-label treatments for Covid. We know that the FDA and Phizer have colluded to keep the trial data from the public. We know the trials were flawed in significant ways.
We know researchers have been tinkering with the virus for decades. We know that technocrats were playing roll games for a Covid outbreak before the pandemic. We know that Big Pharma presented a very leaky but super profitable vaccine almost immediately. We know mandates guarantee those profits, and make life much more difficult for people who are anti-authoritarian.
But to say any of this through the major media would get you fired, tarred (misinformation) and feathered (anti-vaxxer!).
As a new first time Grandma to the *cutest baby ever*, I have officially lost my sense of humor. Pfizer now seeking FDA approval for Emergency Use of the covid vaccine on babies over 4 months old!!! Operative Word: Emergency …. There is NO EMERGENCY in children. NONE. So the origin, transmission, cases, severity, etc every aspect of this “pandemic” has been politicized and fueled by a maniacal media …and now, parents will be guilted and shamed into jabbing their babies. “ The Matt’s” continue to expose the endless deceit and yet, here we go again….This is madness!! Something really really needs to give ..STAT.
I remember when Jon Stewart appeared on the Stephen Colbert show back in June, 2021 and dared to suggest that Sars Covi2 came from a lab. "We owe a debt of gratitude to science. Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science". Of course, Colbert feigned shock and concern that his friend would make such a suggestion, but I'm sure the exchange was set up in advance. After all, the establishment left is all about signaling. They can't broach an idea without someone else's say-so. And what better person to convey that it was now okay to entertain the idea of a lab leak than Jon Stewart.
PS: Always remember – Biden was the governor of Ukraine after Obama’s successful coup in Ukraine in 2014; Biden was selecting and removing heads of industry and Ukraine’s puppet government, dismissing the federal judge investigating Burisma – a judge that State Dept. lauded for integrity only weeks before… The immense corruption of Biden family still needs to be investigated – Hunter’s Burisma was used to ‘wash” US dirty money. Thanks heavens that recent “colored revolution” coups in Belarus and Kazakhstan were not successful.
WHO will be the first current or former Democrat Congresswoman/man or Senator to publicly acknowledge and confirm the brazen scam of the century – DNC’s + CIA/FBI security complex (St. Obama/Biden/Hillary/Pelosi/Schumer, Jammie Raskin, etc. + Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, etc.) Russia-gate hoax and subsequent conspiracies, including 1/6 “armed insurrection”?
War party is currently in power and war-monger vampires must be stopped. Military-industrial complex must be defunded – US main “products” and exports are now weapons, coups and immense and all-encompassing corruption.
China is far more capitalist than the US, Russia has not been Communist for 30+ years, while the US is a corporate socialism (a more polite term for -- fascism)
I’ve thought it was a bioweapon from Day 1 with a psyop response to make $$ and concentrate technocratic power. Call it a conspiracy theory, but it makes more sense than Coincidence Theory.