Welcome! Arnie here, digging through the archives again. This is # 4 and we are finally going to finish May 2020. This was the most brutal part of the lockdowns – as in “no haircut for you!” Michigan hairdressers/barbers reopened June 15 – probably similar to the nation as a whole.
I’ve got over 3500 screen shots from 2020 and want to share them with you. Many are perversely entertaining, but only because the whole PLAN-demic was S*T*U*P*I*D.
…and insanely destructive of life, health, and private commerce. We will not forget.
So, today we’ve got images, a special essay section, and two easter eggs.
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Ah, yes – medicines had become poisons and vice versa. In repeated memes Forrest demonstrated that one does not need an IQ in excess of 75 to identify instances of cognitive disparity.
(Is it OK to show this one? It sounds naughty…) A bit grainy, but I see five dumbasses, one being a SWAT cop, two not wearing masks (gasp!), a special sign that probably cost $300, three microphones (because, you know, 6 feet), a heavy podium, and two big flags. Where did the electricity come from in the middle of a tennis court? A couple of burly maintenance guys had to lug that podium and the other stuff ─ proving they were essential workers. I'm guessing this whole production ─ which no sane person would view as non‑idiotic ─ cost at least $1200.
ESSENTIAL WORKERS: while we’re mentioning this “new normal” concept, let’s say it out loud – it’s not a giant leap from “essential worker” to “essential person”! Never forget that this shit is all on the same continuum as full-term abortion … infanticide … assisted suicide … euthanasia … lethal side effects … all forms of dispassionate murder.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, A THOUSAND TIMES THANK YOU. There are still adults in the room!
Well, this concept didn’t catch fire! Even mask-wearing paranoiacs aren’t going to stand that far apart – I mean, how do you even know when it’s 18? What if you miscalculate and stand 17 feet apart – that won’t work. Geez, man.
Turns out the source site https://studyfinds.org/ is still in business.
A recent sampling:
Secondhand germs! Vintage clothing in thrift shops can be covered in disease-causing bacteria
(I see they’re still in the germ game)
‘I’ll hold it’: Shocking number of people would rather suffer than poop at work
(Whatever – I’m not going to encourage stinking up the place)
Beer drinkers beware: Your favorite beverage could be sabotaging your diet
(Beer belly finally explained after 100 years)
When politicians mess up: The science of scandal response
(How about a science of not-messing-up?)
Robot watches how-to videos and becomes an expert surgeon
(Um, OK, let’s wait and see how the first 7 million turn out)
I remember several “gotchas” like this from the time.
Here is the first paragraph of Jeff Bezos’ October letter explaining why he ordered the Washington Post to not endorse any 2024 presidential candidate:
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Apparently, being uglier than Congress is a call to action.
(The Lampedusa shipwreck of 2013 involved at least 360 deaths of migrants traveling from Libya to Italy. Using their real deaths for a lie is pornographic and unforgivable).
Here’s a news story from the time which fits well with the foregoing map:
A restaurant that opened for full service on Mother’s Day in defiance of state rules banning in-person dining was ordered closed by state health officials on Monday (May 11).
…Despite an order to close, Monday was another busy day for C&C Breakfast and Korean Kitchen in Castle Rock. (Colorado)
“I had one person call me a Nazi and a white supremacist, and I said well I’m not even white, I’m Spanish and Korean. We’ve had people say they want to burn the place down and hope we all die from coronavirus,” said restaurant owner Jesse Arellano.
He knew, after he served a packed house on Mother’s Day, he would be taking a risk, but he believes Douglas County is safe.
“Look around, look how much space we have here. We have a huge parking lot you know? We’ve got huge parks. We’ve got all this free air and what we’re going to do is carry bacteria in our masks? That doesn’t seem logical to me.”
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The financial burden he says is a major aspect of his decision, but he also lost his father last month from issues unrelated to COVID-19. Simply put, he couldn’t take any more.
“He died and we couldn’t even have a funeral. You know, who are these officials that tell you can’t even mourn your loved ones? How do we live like this? You know my family all would’ve took the risk to get sick just to be able to mourn my dad,” he said.
(This man had two restaurants. Now they are both gone forever.)
Speaking of funerals, consider the following:
Yes, it’s the usual hypocrisy. But let us pray for a day when such behavior is unusual, even rare. In defense of DeWine, it was a funeral. It’s not like he was hosting a bare‑naked MDMA‑fueled sex party like the NYC “Covid Czar” (link).
When I was a little boy, about a hundred years ago, I learned that one unique characteristic of the 48 US States was the freedom of travel to any of them – you just needed to remember to gas your car. (I like the bald man furrowing his brow on the lower right).
Holy crappers!! You thought the last one was bad? If more than 3 people in the entire nation actually read this article, I’m gonna have to re-evaluate my faith in humanity.
I acquired this May 21st. So, in just over 2 months it was well known what the hell was going on. Why oh why didn’t it end right there? Ugh.
This isn’t funny. Sorry … just not. And I like Blondie – it’s in my little town paper every day. There were other cartoonists who also riffed off the plandemic oddities, if only once. None of those were funny either.
This is somewhat akin to Bugs Bunny cartoons with Hitler in them (link) – employing cultural icons to rev up the ranks. Here’s a Dr. Seuss cartoon from WW2:
He had published Mulberry Street (1937) and Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) by this time. Of course, WW2 is called “The Good War” (it wasn’t …). I don’t think the majority of folk deem the $camdemic a good war either, especially now.
Let me slide into my little essay here, about The Ambit of Complicity.
I coined this term about 15 years ago and have been contemplating it ever since. I would like you to do the same.
Two alternative terms might be Extent of Collusion or Scope of Connivance. We are looking for an inflection point, a watershed ─ the turn of the page in a whodunit, to learn … whodunit.
The focus here is to ask the question, “At what point in a spectrum of negative behaviors does a person begin to practice willful malevolence, intentional wrongdoing, conscious mayhem.”
Mind you, I don’t know. I even suspect I’m afraid to know. I like to think well of others until it’s no longer feasible.
I imagine the ambit question like the layers of an onion – the same way I envision the layers of secrecy and conspiracy surrounding the cabal:
Example: one of the most upsetting stories I've ever read was about a Freemason being vetted for promotion. Most Masons are just decent folk trying to get ahead, but this has to do with the evil Freemasons who benefit the cabal. The scenario: the candidate for the “next level” meets with two or three higher ups, and during this meeting they bid him spit upon the Bible. He refuses. They seem relieved and compliment him and assure him that this was the correct answer, and he's the type of person who will go far. Once gone from the room the so-called superiors look at each other knowingly and agree this guy's a boy scout and a wimp and he's reached his zenith in the hierarchy.
Another way of expressing the issue is “crossing a line”. We’ve all seen this in small and large screen dramas, and some of us have witnessed it in real life (I have not).
… and another: At what turn in the road does a “useful idiot” become a co-conspirator?
Here’s a gradient of behaviors I tossed together ─ suggestive of the topic:
I’m sure you can add to it.
Here’s an old joke which relates to what I’m trying to understand with you:
The devil visits a lawyer's office and makes him an offer: “I can ‘arrange’ things for you. I'll increase your income ten-fold. Your partners will love you; your clients will respect you; you'll have four months of vacation each year and live to be a hundred. All I require in return is that your wife's soul and your children's souls be mine in hell for eternity.”
The lawyer thinks for a moment, then replies, “What's the catch?”
Let’s try a vulgar approach:
Prick: someone who harms others, and knows it, and thinks it’s funny.
Dick: someone who maddens others but is only dimly aware.
Dickhead: someone whose ineptitude annoys others, kinda knows it, doesn’t care.
Dickshine: someone whose ineptitude inconveniences others, hasn’t a clue.
There is a feminine synonym for prick, but I’m not going to say it. Alas, there are no female analogs to the other three gradations.
But seriously, folks, we’re concerned here with grievous crimes – mostly murder, but also permanent disability, and/or irreversible impoverishment.
You know the following spectrum from criminal law:
Negligence >> Reckless Endangerment >> Involuntary Manslaughter >> Voluntary Manslaughter >> Second-Degree Murder >> First-Degree Murder
What’s the worst?
First-Degree Murder FOR MONEY $$$.
…and this is where the cabal operate routinely. THEY are psychopathic bean counters, and you are but a bean.
Consider this threshold of analysis:
"What person, and what act by that person would find you voting for their death by hanging, and leave you with no nagging doubts, forever?"
If you eschew all violence, you're a special case, and that's OK; but I'm fond of this bit of folk wisdom: "When salt is needed, sugar won't do".
After 18 years of study, I am not aware of ONE instance of ONE member of the cabal, EVER, being punished for harms against society; and they have murdered a bazillion people over the centuries. This makes me angry. The only thought I have to offer here is “virtue is its own reward.”
This last anecdote well sums up what I wrestle with involving this question. The famous Simpsonwood conference was held by the CDC in June 2000 and exposed by RFK Jr. During the deliberations, which in part addressed the question of using thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines, the following occurred:
Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting's first day, was even more alarmed. "My gut feeling?" he said. "Forgive this personal comment -- I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on."
But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data.
Yeah.
Jacques Ellul, in his groundbreaking book Propaganda asserted that those who “make” propaganda of necessity do not believe the propaganda they disseminate.
Thank you for your time.
Today's two easter eggs are a writing called "The Secret Covenant" and some excerpts from the book Plunder by Brendan Ballou.
Secret Covenant is what I would call the elevator version of the Protocols of Zion. I have at least 8 versions of “covenant” in my archives and they're virtually the same. I don't know who wrote it and I don't care. Just be sure that if you can think of something nasty and disgusting, the cabal have already thought about it in depth and are probably doing it.
Plunder “explains how private equity has reshaped American business by raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, and shifting resources from productive to unproductive parts of the economy.” (trade review) I read the book and digitized a few pages, which I now share with you.
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This next image is recent:
…dropping from 71.5% to 40.1% in under 4 years.
Praise the Heavens above! This is a real beginning. The good and gentle people of the world suffered grievously from the $camdemic, and deserve an upside, and this upside is that we have new and improved Bullshit Detectors. Let’s turn ‘em on and get to work!
On the bright side, I’ll bet you five bucks this doesn’t happen again.
It was the COVID era when many voters felt elites were lecturing them on wearing masks, hiding at home and shutting down their businesses. This preachy, judgmental tone alienated many former and would-be Democrats.
*Jim VandeHei, founder of Axios news service, 11 November 2024
YA THINK?
I guess that’s why he gets the big bucks.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is the highest-paid among all 4 million federal employees — including the leader of the free world. Fauci, 80, raked in $417,608 in 2019, the latest year for which the data is available, Forbes reported.
The face of the White House coronavirus task force under former President Donald Trump, Fauci will have made $2.5 million in salary from 2019 until 2024 if he stays on as President Biden’s chief medical adviser, the outlet reported. And that doesn’t even account for a possible raise he may get during that period. New York Post 1-26-21 (link)
Looks like Tony Baloney was getting all het up fer nuthin’. Here’s a perfect solution, from across the pond. Of course, making the bigger bucks generates the bigger ideas!
In salary alone, Charles III raked in $28.5 million per year, according to Marca. On top of this, Charles will also be managing $46 billion worth of assets. Now King of the United Kingdom, he pulls in EUR 110 million or over $120 million on an annual basis while taking into consideration the real estate portfolios he benefits from, based on reports. 3-22-24 (link)
Now, this may seem silly, but not if you think like THEM. Having people poop and pee in separate plastic cubicles furthers the cultural notion of separateness. Plus, the poopers probably have hand sanitizers, and both source companies are probably owned by Blackrock ─ so, you know, $$$$$. Those Covid trillions had to go somewhere, right?
The news article quoted (link) was published May 23, when Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (which is 29% of its land area but only 3% of its total population) and a large northern segment of the Lower Peninsula “re-opened” (with a thousand asinine rules to still deal with). The vast majority of the population ─ in the remainder of the state – was still on lockdown. So, most closed small businesses were still wondering when the fuck those assholes in Lansing (capital) were going to stop destroying the economy and ruining people’s lives.
In the meantime, our Glorious Leader, Wretched wHitler, quickly hauls her ass northward to my little down so she can hit the bar and pretend life is normal. Her vacation home is about 15 miles from her bar stool.
It turns out that we live in a nation where 90% of the population did not listen to their kindergarten teach when asked, “If Johnny/Sally jumped off a bridge, does this mean you would do it too?”
Just to be clear: I committed no revolutionary act in 2020. I didn’t suffer from the Covid Crime in any substantive manner ─ other than a broken heart.
Here is Shepard Fairey’s contribution to the cause. STAY HOME + STAY SAFE = STAY STRONG. What the …? Talk about cognitive dissonance! He got street cred with his “Obey” poster (I was impressed) but his Obama-Hope poster eventually showed his allegiance ─ when we learned of Obama’s true nature as a coke‑addled teleprompter‑dependent whore for the cabal.
Fascism alert: These are all companies offering some form of tracking service or app or whatever. No sense in enslaving the populace if you can’t track the little buggers! After all, it’s simply Prudent Practice to keep track of one’s Property, using Public Private Partnerships.
Eisenhower warned about the Military-Industrial Complex in 1961. I guess we need to update that to the Military-Industrial-Bankster-Politico-Pharma-Media-Surveillance-Lawfare-Psywar-Green-AI-Transgender-Complex.
Within a week or two of when I snagged this meme, Michigan’s Glorious Leader addressed the little people and explained the following:
The shift to Phase Four will occur in stages. Effective immediately groups of a hundred or less can gather outdoors so long as they maintain strict social distancing. Outdoor fitness classes are permitted so long as participants can remain six feet from one another. Office work that is not capable of being performed at home can resume, though you’re still expected to work from home if it is possible. Drive-in movie theaters can start operating. House cleaning services and other in-home services can also resume.
On Thursday, retailers that have been closed can reopen with capacity limits. On this coming Monday, restaurants can reopen for indoor and outdoor seating, so long as tables can be kept six feet from one another. That means you must maintain social distancing in these places and be wearing your mask and making sure that you continue to do your part. In restaurants, it’ll be 50% or less of capacity, so long as you’re maintaining that six feet.
Got that? Apparently, she couldn’t remember her own rules.
This guy’s a rabbi. You can see him on YouTube. I’ll refrain from smart aleck comments since some might say I’m just crabby because I can’t afford a $300 slave mask (which, BTW, is an order of magnitude less effective when worn by a bearded man).
You know how the word “cleave” means both to separate and to join together, right? Well, this word is similar in that regard. A “maskhole” is also someone who DOES NOT wear a mask. The “Covid is a thing” camp and the “Covid is bullshit” camp viewed each other as mentally defective for months, even to the present day. Actually, it’s same old same old – the US two party system (each purportedly different … in reality, not so much) was agreed upon by the cabal back in the mid-1800s. Divide and conquer – used routinely by the ancient Romans.
THEY play chess, and we play checkers.
Never underestimate the cleverness of the common citizen!
In case you’re interested, here’s a 1500-word article about bowling shoe spray (link).
I suppose if cars had fleas, and you parked your car in the slot next to another, the fleas might jump over … but then, cars don’t have fleas. How about this: If you parked adjacent and the adjacent person got out when you did … but then your doors would hit. Hmmm. Well, there must be a good reason – why else would they spend fifty bucks on a fancy sign?
I tried the URL for this capture, but it’s vaporized – not even cached at the Wayback Machine. The news agency was from Michigan, so I guess we kept some semblance of self-directed humor. As you know, the various states didn’t differ all that much, one from another, or from the world at large. This is how we know the whole shitstorm was brought to you by the cabal.
Here we have a reminder that although the COVIDEXCUSEFORFASCISMCRIME can garner a chuckle or two in retrospect, when the martial law was in effect, real people suffered real atrocities. One of the most gruesome and cold‑blooded was the murdering of not-really-all-that-sick hospital patients via intubation and Remdesivir injections. The ventilator destroyed your lungs and the Remdesivir destroyed your kidneys. You simply can’t function without either one.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a pulmonary infection that appears after 2 days of endotracheal intubation and when invasive mechanical ventilation is used. VAP is considered the most common nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit (ICU) and presents high morbidity and mortality rates, principally when caused by multi-resistant bacteria.
Here we can also employ the ambit of complicity query. These murders were done for MONEY ─ thousands of dollars. Our federal government put a bounty of $50-100,000 on a citizen’s life. Where do we circumscribe the transition to full malevolence? I know the administrators are guilty because they are heartless bean counters and all-around shits, and they understood the financial hoops to jump through. The physicians? Certainly some. The nurses? Perhaps least of all, yet …
Oh, look, the other kind of maskhole! Of course, he looks very much the troglodyte. Perversely, the slave mask is designed to induce anonymity and undifferentiation. Our faces make us unique, not our fucking masks! This is standard cabal crap, e.g. destroy the Vitamin D in milk via pasteurization, then add back crap Vitamin D and pay for a stupid magazine ad.
Me saying “you can’t make this stuff up” is highly cliché, but what the $#@&# can I do? I’m thinkin’ this sign cost about $180 … the time spent thinking of a silly idea, the time to communicate it, the time to make the sign, the time for an essential worker to install it.
Awww … Mickey’s weary, and so should you be. That’s the cabal’s hope for all this nastiness. Hey, a lot of planning went into this – if you’re not upset, you’re bucking the system. Sidenote: we’ve all heard how protective Disney is of their precious icons. Apparently, this one was given a bye. OMG – is Mickey in on the con?
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A Tour De Force, France, Farce.
Too many literary gems to highlight any of them.
Kinda sad you said that was the last in the series because it was so good to look back on daze gone by in Hell, turning the pages and having them turn to ash in our hands as we looked to the next one.
I'll plug your page on my Stack as opposed to re-stacking.
Oh, that tom hanks...and his wife the first two celebrities with kovid...I will not forget this.