This is a grab bag post, but it all hangs together. Covid is one recurring theme, but the Regime is about more than just Covid.
Start with Don Surber:
There’s a lot in this post. It was spurred not so much by Bannon’s statement as by what sparked Bannon in the first place. That was the result from a regular Gallup poll on political affiliation:
Gallup reported that 49% of Americans identified as Democrats and 40% as Republicans when 2021 began.
When the year ended, 42% were Democrats and 47% were Republicans -- a 14 point swing. Gallup never saw such a shift in the 31 years it has tracked party affiliation.
Surber goes through a fair amount of history—it’s interesting—but this nugget is important. It harkens back to Steve Sailer’s thesis and what I’ve been saying for a while now about the political shift of Hispanic and Asians:
DC-centric media always underestimates Republicans because the pundits and reporters do not understand conservatism. They think George Will and Bill Kristol are still relevant.
Mostly, they do not know just how fed up the country is with Democrats and Biden. Salena Zito tries to tell them, but they know everything. Just ask them.
The left is bitter because Democrats have not delivered their pie in the sky. Also, Democrat catering to blacks, LGBTs and illegal aliens are turning off Hispanics and Asians.
The rest of us tire of covid and the race wars. Trump supporters are growing in number as people come to realize Democrats cheated him out of the presidency. Losing Afghanistan and rising inflation further damage Democrats.
Finally, Democrats foam at the mouth too often.
How long can you watch people foaming at the mouth? It’s tiring. It’s also true that in the latest Rasmussen poll the percentage of people who think fraud influenced Election 2020—already large—increased by 4 points.
Certain commentators are no doubt turned off by the reference to Republicans. So I’ll turn next to this article:
The Virus We're Dealing With Is Not Just COVID: What Dems Would Do to Unvaccinated
I know. You already knew Dems are crazy—they foam at the mouth. Nick Arama reminds us, however, lest we forget:
… 29 percent of Democrats would support temporarily removing kids from their parents if the parents refused to get vaccinated. Yikes.
And you may have read about the editorial in the Huntsman owned Salt Lake Tribune. GOPe types foam at the mouth, too—as Don Surber will remind you. The editorial included this gem:
Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.
People are tired of that, too—and that’s all to the good. Next question: What will save us from this insanity?
Now, what saves us from that nightmare and becoming China or Australia, is the Republicans and the independents/unaffiliated voters who swing the majority against all of the above measures in the poll. A point to remember when Democrats start talking about “attacks on democracy” and who is standing where, if you didn’t already have enough reasons to vote for Republicans.
But don’t get complacent. It’s not just about Covid—as if the Ruling Elite could declare victory sometime during the Spring and everyone could go back to normal. There’s also the border—which Don Surber mentioned. Things could get very bad in that regard. To get some idea, I highly recommend this article:
The Border Crisis Is Bad, But In Mexico A Larger Crisis Looms
Most Americans don’t realize it but the Mexican state is in serious trouble, and we won’t be able to ignore it for much longer.
Read the article, then ask yourselves: Could this be part of the plan to induce chaos? Even if the Covid Regime has to be scaled back or even abandoned? And how is it that the FBI just now realized that houses of worship are being targeted? What do they want to save us from—terrorists or, maybe, ourselves? How will Trump’s comeback be targeted this time around—or any GOP presidential bid? Lots of questions. We’re still in the woods.
Stella Morabito wants us to remember that:
Why Ruling Class Minions Are So Suddenly Doing Damage Control On Covid
Whenever you see truth escaping from the lips of liars like steam from a pressure cooker, you should assume something bigger is cooking under cover.
The Covid Regime’s narrative may be collapsing, but the Global Elite won’t give up easily. Morabito has a lot to tell us about propaganda. It’s important to understand. However she moves on toward the end to speculation on the future—what can we expect? She has no solid predictions, but she does suggest things to be aware of:
Our ruling propagandists have to backtrack, since so much of their Covid narrative has collapsed. But be prepared for them to promote a new and improved blame game against their chosen villains, including Republicans, the unvaccinated, and so on.
That’s likely why we’re seeing a coordinated modified limited hangout. It involves all the usual left-wing media outlets. It involves the director of the Centers for Disease Control and others leading the medical establishment, including Anthony Fauci’s double-sided mouth. It involves Democrat leaders, like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who in an about-face is now insisting that schools open.
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Clearly, the ruling class needs to try to re-establish its own credibility and its lost trust with the now restive masses. They also need to lay the groundwork to shift the blame for the disasters they promoted. All the while, they’re subject to the constant pull of their addiction to power.
My guess is that many in government and the media feel closer than ever to their goal of consolidating power. And they are willing to achieve it at any cost and by any means.
Pay attention, in this regard, to the ever bolder attempts to silent significant dissenting voices in the non-MSM media. Rogan, OAN, Bongino, Malone. The list goes on.
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So if the Wuhan virus was to be the pretext for social engineering in the name of public safety, do you really think they’re going to go home and forget about it just because we can see the facts aren’t on their side? Their agenda is the 100-year-old dream of the Frankfurt School, the whole reason they destroyed the Western canon in our universities to replace it with cultural Marxism.
They likely feel they’re on the threshold of globalist control, their pot of gold at the end of their proverbial rainbow. …
Do we have any idea of what Plan B might be? If populations increasingly refuse to go along with the vaccine mandates and shutdowns, how might they be “persuaded” to comply? Would a much more virulent pathogen do it? Complete social breakdown through runaway violent crime with no real law enforcement? Or maybe an ominous threat from a nuclear-empowered Iran or China? We don’t know.
Runaway crime. That’s an interesting idea, because we see that it’s been a basic part of the plan—Soros DAs—for years now. Is the Zhou Regime’s next “pivot” going to be toward increased federalization of law enforcement? Is that what the FBI’s “success” in TX was about?
Given the tenacity of the globalist class to get their way ... They’ve proven time and again that they’re more than willing to wreck our lives, to isolate us, and to turn us against one another as a means of achieving the social credit system that will empower them completely.
This is no theory, “conspiracy” or otherwise. It’s simply the openly discussed vision, the consensus, of a globalist oligarchy. They’ve been outspoken about wanting to destroy Western culture and freedoms in all of our institutions. They constantly talk to one another and coordinate across silos of government, Big Tech, media, and academia.
What should terrify us most in all of this is the utterly cultish mindset in the ruling class of elites. They really believe they know best and must tell us what to do, that we’re too stupid to understand their glorious vision of the future. With the aid of Big Tech, they aren’t shy about threatening to cancel and crush us if we defy them.
In the end, they’ll take advantage of any opportunities provided by any crisis to exercise their power. ...
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Perhaps the time was not quite ripe for using the Wuhan virus to squash freedom. But the next crisis is right around the corner, and ruling elites have no intention of letting it “go to waste.”
The remaining strength of our constitutional order lies in the decentralization—relatively speaking—of the American way of life. The federal system. The manufactured crime wave has so far been confined to Blue cities, for the most part. The economic breakdown, manufactured by unprecedented societal lockdowns, has also been confined to a great extent to Blue areas. The WSJ took note of that today.
What makes this moment so dangerous is the prospect of a Dem collapse. The Ruling Class must be feeling desperate.
For a different take, try the Thomas Paine podcast. Potty mouth but is miles ahead of most patriot sources out there. He was calling bs on the Scamdemic in April 2020, way before almost anyone.
I agree strongly with your conclusion, Mark. Way more power and money have migrated to Washington D.C. than was ever intended or imagined under our Constititutional order. They extorted and bought off the states. The remedy is local control and local accountability. States need to be weaned off the feds. How that happens practically I am not sure but strong, populist Governors are a must and local elections must be honest.
I agree with Morabito. Vigilence is required, as animals are at their most dangerous when cornered.
The story on Mexico IS an eye opener even to those of us who try to follow what is going on there. If all of that badness comes over the border (and as of now it is), in as few as 10 years the cartels will have their hooks in OUR politicians to the point where WE nationally are "New Mexico" and our National Guard are trying to keep the peace between cartels and factions.