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How Bad Does It Have to Get?
American Greatness ^ | 10 Jul, 2022 | James Patrick Riley

Posted on 07/11/2022 4:49:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

For some “polite” conservatives, projecting virtue where it doesn’t exist is a daily survival mechanism. They have to believe someone is honestly counting the votes.

If you aren’t at least a little troubled by Steve Kirsch’s most recent inventory of COVID absurdities or Dr. Pierre Kory’s frontline report indicating an increase in cardiac “crash cart” inventory along with a very disturbing tweet about increased demand for child-sized caskets, then I’m guessing you, like most people, have trouble functioning if our institutions aren’t working. We can all abide the stench of a little grift here and there. We can be patient with a little customer service incompetence. We know that some politicians are purchased and we trust the system, someday, will catch up with the corrupt. All of us know the system isn’t perfect, but I’m beginning to wonder how big must the pool of shameless liars and half-wits be before we drown in it?

Most crime stories these days, from feature films to documentaries, include a protagonist facing grave mortal danger, on the verge of reporting the problem to law enforcement, only to hear a close friend say something like, “don’t go to the police! They are in on it.”

Granted, sometimes the anti-police comment comes from someone prone to lawbreaking, but often the story is about dirty institutions themselves—and the paralyzing fear that honest, decent people are tempted to dismiss, because it is just too awful to contemplate: What if the institutions I trusted are full of shameless, self-serving liars and cowards? What if the doctor assigned to my case at the hospital is just too afraid of his student debt to question a superior? What if he just isn’t free to opt for actual science over group-think Pharma solutions? What if my child’s teacher at a public school is smiling at me, winsomely, but has absolutely no intention of bucking this season’s alt-sex grooming workshops? What if the church I’ve attended for four decades is quietly signing on to a youth ministry dedicated to intersectional race shaming and “whiteness” bashing?

I recently contemplated, at American Greatness, the perils of assuming virtue where none exists. Hey, folks, the FBI is full of people with high integrity, right? I mean, we’re all Americans, aren’t we? Surely, they wouldn’t help one political party by spying on the other, right? Right?

Surely, they wouldn’t spin false collusion narratives to undermine a sitting American president. Right?

And, surely, once we found evidence that Clinton lawyers lied to the FBI, that Hillary Clinton herself approved bogus opposition research as the basis for an investigation, then—well, of course!—we might see some justice, or at the very least, an official apology?

No such luck. Read Julie Kelly’s coverage of the January 6 detainees, and their shameful treatment by judges and wardens and prosecutors. The dishonesty, the partisan grandstanding, and the outright cruelty are on full display, but there’s an oceanic divide between suspecting, very confidently, that an institution is corrupt—and doing anything about it. We would rather question our senses than declare the emperor naked. I suspect, lately, it’s because we can abide a few of us peasants being crushed by the system, but waking up every morning, and reading new evidence that the system is rotten at the center, well, it’s just too hard to take.

How do you plug away—making a living, voting for good men, engaging in open discourse—when you are tempted to conclude the system is full of old Joe Kennedys who sneer at the idea of honest elections? The smart money rigs the system, sonny. Get with it, you prude. You innocent. The world, really, is pretty much crime family Biden and tax-sucking Dr. Fauci. Where have you been?

For some “polite” conservatives, projecting virtue where it doesn’t exist is a daily survival mechanism. They have to believe someone is honestly counting the votes and someone was really trying to help the world with a COVID “vaccine.”

A Little “Vaccine” Mathematics by way of illustration..

I made it through a little matrix algebra and multivariate analysis in college, but I’m no expert, and here’s what troubles me about that: You don’t need to be an expert to be asking some very troubling questions. If you are keeping an open mind, these days, you should be a little worried if your doctor keeps his mind locked shut, to save his pension. You don’t really need differential equations for this, just long division.

Recently TrialSite News published a video with this caption, “Majority of COVID-19 Deaths Among Australia NSW Residents are Triple & Quadruple Vaccinated.” Trying to be as fair as I could, I thought: “well, that actually makes some sense, since they claim 95+ percent of the area is vaccinated, so with that large a majority, you would expect more deaths among the vaccinated.” (See how far our “fairness” has “evolved?” In the old Polio/Smallpox vaccine days, you would expect almost no deaths among the vaccinated, but we live in an age where “vaccines” are not really vaccines and all they really do is protect you, sorta, against hospitalization and death.) Take a look at the data.

The first thing that struck me: 128 cases of “unknown” vaccination status. How is that even possible in a country with such Stalinesque commitment to the public health collective? Aren’t Australians hauled off to concentration camps if they refuse the jab? Isn’t the prison colony thing part of their heritage? How is vaccination status possibly “unknown” when none of them died and there is enormous interest in the answer to the question?

Well, no matter, I’m just eliminating that row from the pool, since my question is: among people known to be either vaccinated or unvaccinated, how much does either group represent as a portion of the whole? Are vaccinated deaths over, or underrepresented, against the generally 95 percent vaccinated population? You would think, if the vaccine is very effective at reducing death and hospitalization, that this pool of 378 (506-128) hospitalized, ICU or fatal patients would drastically favor the vaccinated, right? If 95 percent of the population is vaccinated, and the vaccine is so effective, perhaps only half of this pool is vaccinated and the unvaccinated account for the other half—10 times their representation in the broader public.

I collapsed the data into two rows—people who received any level of vaccination and people who received none.

As you can see, the death rate pretty much matches the general population’s vaccination rate. The vaccine didn’t do much, at all, to prevent death, and it appears it was less effective against hospitalization and ICU admission than avoiding the vaccination altogether. I’m guessing that you have to be pretty sick, in Australia, to officially refuse the jab, so this might even look worse for “vaccine” fans, because it seems to argue, “even if you are really sick and old” the vaccine is more likely to put you in the hospital and won’t help you on the death front either.

I’m thankful for contrarian voices who know a lot more than I do and are better mathematicians, (“Eugyppius,” “Bad Cattitude,” “Dr. Robert Malone“). Some of them have been forced to Substack because the “scientists” are so sure of themselves, they can’t endure a debate.

But you don’t need to be on the royal court to recognize the emperor doesn’t have a loin cloth. A child could see this, and, yet, people have lost their jobs over this vaccination. Our governments have paid billions to corporations that appear to be running the regulatory agencies themselves. Teenagers are dying and casket companies are making far more of the “under 5 foot” version.

Can anyone tell me why?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: covid
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1 posted on 07/11/2022 4:49:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Will there be any consequences for those who pulled this hoax?


2 posted on 07/11/2022 4:49:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Not negative consequences. Not for them. They will get positive reinforcement, and so will continue their high crimes and misdemeanors.


3 posted on 07/11/2022 4:55:13 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: MtnClimber

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4 posted on 07/11/2022 4:58:41 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: MtnClimber

There really should absolutely be consequences. Problem is the people behind it are running things and run the institutions needed for justice.

If you can’t use the system, you have to go outside the system somehow. And it quite possibly would not be pretty.


5 posted on 07/11/2022 5:00:25 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: FamiliarFace

Not only that but the useful idiots of this country will vote in the criminals once again.


6 posted on 07/11/2022 5:13:18 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MtnClimber

The people of Sri Lanka have gone “outside the system” and are chasing the corrupt down the streets and delivering them instant, summary justice.

Sri Lanka may be a model for the rest of the corrupt world.


7 posted on 07/11/2022 5:18:00 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: MtnClimber

The French people went “outside the system” in 1789 and started using the guillotine in the public square.


8 posted on 07/11/2022 5:20:48 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: MtnClimber

Some of IT starts when the average price of gas is $8+.
And food..all food ..cost about $8+ a lb.
And full scale begins if,and when, they ever attempt to confiscate legal guns.


9 posted on 07/11/2022 5:33:59 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: MtnClimber
This hoax? Which hoax would that be?

The system has collapsed! But as the author of this piece says in so many words, we have to keep going to survive. So until an organized army is ready to retaliate against the enemies of virtuous government, we just sweep it all under the carpet.

And, as for our enemies, many of them have been so brainwashed into believing that good old America was always just a testament to white supremacy (after all, math and science are racist) that they are willing to turn a blind eye to the crimes their own allies are committing.

Ya gotta hand it to the Left. They have--by hook and/or crook--jockeyed themselves into power.

All that said--and unfortunately for the Left--they are learning that governing takes more than just accumulating power. It also takes effective governance.

Just as the Left destroyed America's legitimate system with their theft of elections, their own system will now collapse under the weight of their incompetence.

10 posted on 07/11/2022 5:40:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: joma89

“Not only that but the useful idiots of this country will vote in the criminals once again.”

Yes that does keep happening. However I personally know a few Useful Idiots who have figured out that they are actually Useless Eaters.


11 posted on 07/11/2022 5:47:10 AM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: MtnClimber

The system is corrupted beyond measure, the operating principle seems to be take the money and run while the getting is good before the whole thing collapses. This is unsustainable and unless it’s cleaned up soon, we are heading towards a dark place with major social unrest.

It was particularly disheartening to see that most of the medical system has now become corrupted too, they’ve become just as bad as big pharma. When all of our institutions fall into corruption and lose the support of the people, well that’s what revolutions are made of.


12 posted on 07/11/2022 5:50:09 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


13 posted on 07/11/2022 5:52:49 AM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: MtnClimber
From across The Pond...

Cambridge to hold review after FIVE students died in suicide and suspected suicides in space of just four months as vice-chancellor says deaths have 'distressed the whole university community'

Read the above article carefully.

What if those some/all of those deaths weren't really suicides..?

14 posted on 07/11/2022 5:54:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MtnClimber

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15 posted on 07/11/2022 6:40:01 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: FamiliarFace

The reason for their “success” is that they have cleverly and over time infiltrated and corrupted every important institution.
Legislative, Executive, Judiciary, law enforcement of all varieties, arts & entertainment, traditional and modern news & information sources, all levels of education, medical community, major charities and philanthropy foundations, and much more.
It’s all interwoven, self-protecting and ruthless.


16 posted on 07/11/2022 6:43:24 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: MtnClimber

Will there be any consequences for those who pulled this hoax?
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Because the answer, so far, is ‘no’, there is much vicious humor being spread about.

This one is creative, well-done, and quintessentially Brit.

https://twitter.com/TheEyes2022/status/1540627982489878529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1540627982489878529%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_

I believe the Court of Public Opinion is in session and the sentence will eventually be handed down and enacted by same.

The perpetrators and enablers will beg for a judicial trial, but no one has any faith in the judicial system anywhere.


17 posted on 07/11/2022 6:45:16 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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18 posted on 07/11/2022 6:48:59 AM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: MtnClimber

Nations hostile to US➡️Soros➡️Clintons➡️Democrat Party➡️Press


19 posted on 07/11/2022 7:19:28 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: MtnClimber

Once you’ve started the con, you can’t give up the con. The initial goal was to get rid of Trump by any means possible. Whether covid was released on purpose or by accident and taken advantage of in the Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste fashion, the result was the same. Lockdown and steal an election.

Something about having taken part in the biggest scam ever, has changed a lot of D voters into something else. It brought out the evil in them. What started out as people joking about vote early and often have now become full participants in the big con. They’ve all become emboldened. After 5-6 years of the Left getting away with anything, how would they not feel emboldened? All people have occasional dark thoughts about other people. Most people keep their dark side in check but the Left has now let it take them over because there’s no consequences in doing so.

So now you have doctors, cops, lawyers, executives etc going against the tradition of at least being mostly decent and keeping that dark side in check. People who used to value human life suddenly have no problem with taking life, especially the lives of certain people. Go against the lies and deception, don’t play along with the big con and you are the enemy. Your life has zero worth to them. They don’t even mind if they take out some of their own. The Ends Justify the Means. They’re all radicals now and there’s millions of them.

Bad times ahead.


20 posted on 07/11/2022 7:48:19 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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