Posted on 11/03/2025 5:11:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
On his weekday podcast (which I sorely miss), Dan Bongino would occasionally refer to a scandal as “the biggest of our time.” This raised questions in my mind, such as how big was it compared to the others? How big must a scandal be before it could be considered “the biggest scandal of our time”? How are scandals measured, anyway? You can’t easily assign a dollar value to loss of trust or societal division.
Evaluating the damage from these events requires considering multiple dimensions: economic costs, loss of life, social cohesion, political polarization, and erosion of trust in institutions. For example, while the COVID-19 pandemic was a global health crisis, others, such as Russiagate and the Biden Dementia Cover-Up/Autopen Scandals, are more explicitly political controversies. All have inflicted damage and contributed to division, but their scales differ dramatically. Let’s examine a few, in no particular order:
COVID-19 Pandemic: The virus caused over a million deaths in the U.S. alone and triggered the sharpest economic contraction since the Great Depression. GDP losses were projected at $3.2 - 4.8 trillion in the first two years, with total economic costs reaching $14 trillion by 2023 due to unemployment spikes (peaking at 14.8%), supply chain disruptions, and reduced government revenue. Socially, it worsened mental health crises, educational setbacks for millions of children, and long-term health issues for survivors.
Scale of damage: Catastrophic and unavoidable in the short term, and exposing underlying vulnerabilities in public health infrastructure.
- Response to COVID-19 (e.g., lockdowns & mandates): While it was claimed that the lockdowns helped curb early transmission and save lives, data from countries that did not impose lockdowns demonstrate otherwise. The lockdowns also came at an enormous cost: widespread job losses across sectors, mental health deterioration (e.g., increased anxiety, depression, and substance abuse), and educational disruptions
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Limiting to political scandals in last nine years, the entire Biden Presidency covers a lot of ground.
Easy, whichever one Gateway pundit has a clickbait headline about today.
BOOM, MIC DROP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Game changer !!!
OUR SS, CIA, FBI, democrats AND media conspired to assassinate the sitting president, Donald J. Trump.
Everyone seems to be leaving out the attempted murder of Trump. And the secret service, FBI, CIA, Media, Democrats were all in on it. They were hoping to catch it live on video.
Add in bio warfare ….
Offshoring huge parts of the industrial base.
And media.
Do you remember how quickly the concept emerged, early on in the COVID era, of a "great reset?"
This was to be a monumental political, economic and societal shift to something or another. Definitely away from capitalism and freedoms that we enjoy today. It was introduced suddenly, if I recall. We had just hunkered down for 2 weeks or months, and then they started talking about resets.
Yes! My bad - they should definitely be on the list.
It’s just been nonstop evil for so long, it’s hard to grasp it all.
Will it ever be sorted? I doubt it.
I happen to believe recorded history is just as fake as the fake news - the winners get to tell their version of the story - so they take advantage of that privilege - they would be stupid not to.
Think about it - the owners of these powerful media institutions who find themselves in a position to control the “information” that comes to the rest of us - they can either report the truth, or they can spread narratives which offer them advantage and profit - which improve their power and wealth.
Why in the world would we trust they would report the truth, when it’s to their own detriment?
The news is not news and history is not history.
OUR SS, CIA, FBI, democrats AND media conspired to assassinate the sitting president, Donald J. Trump.
I should have put that in the list......#8
There continues to be reports by embalmers of corpses with long fibrous clots in their veins. This is a direct result of the spike protein in both the virus and shots.
The worst? That there are still jail cells waiting for their perps. That there are bank accounts that haven’t been cleaned out paying for attorney fees.
How many unvaccinated people have died of covid lately?
The invasion facilitated by Obama for 8 years, then Obama II, 2021-24.
Joe invited them, then welcomed them, actually flew them in, put them up in luxury hotels, fed, clothed, medicated them, gave them phones, walking around money... many of them felons in their own countries.
All in violation of our Immigration and Naturalization statutes, while holding up the Supremacy clause to stop states from defending themselves.
Now president Trump says, ‘You have to go back.’ The criminaliens must be confused by los greengos.
This is in the top three and it is all on the democrats, as is everything in the last 15 years..
COVID-19.. over a million deaths in the U.S.
COVID-19 hastened by a few months the deaths of the elderly and others who were already near death due to other diseases.
COVID-19 thus reduced the cost of Social Security and Medicaid by a few months.
But knee-jerk reaction to COVID-19 closed our schools and economy and spent tax money in senseless ways that hurt the US.
With many events, there are many factual ways to look atthe event.
No one is dying of covid-19 lately.
HARDLY ANYONE ever died of Covid-19 back in 2019 or 2020 UNLESS they were OBESE got put on Rendesevere and put on a ventilator. Lots of people were listed by hospitals that died “WITH” covid. That is because the hospitals got paid by the government IF they died WITH covid. They received even more money IF they died on a respirator.
No one died of the Flu those years though. Which is odd because usually a million old people die of the flu every year.
I got Covid. I took Ivermectin and Hydroxechloroquin that I purchased from India. Another Freeper recommended the site. . It went away after a few days. I still take Invermectin anytime I feel “like I am coming down with something”. My wife buys it from the pet med supply companies.
I also take various supplements intended to free my body of spike proteins. Along with various vitamins.
Exactly. Vivid is a root cause of most things that have happened since.
“Watching people who I’d all my life thought to be stable and intelligent become tyrannical lunatics was nightmarish.”
Good post.
Fear porn turned them into NPCs.
The worst was then those who alleged a stolen election did little to collect and show evidence to back up the charges.
Here is GA the charges were made. But little or no evidence. Those making allegations were either too busy, too incompetent or too arrogant to understand that allegations, even if true, need evidence.
Example. In the 2020 Dem primary the losing Dems made exactly the same charges against the winning establishment Dems as were made in Nov. But absolutely no effort was made to learn from history so as not to repeat it.
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