Alex, I was scandalized when I read this on Glenn's substack to which I subscribe. It will take the few remaining sane left-leaning people like you and Greenwald to make this as big a deal as it should be. Wish Bari Weiss would take it on as well. And Bill Maher. This is so McCarthyite it is scary. Thanks for exposing this -- I know it is out of your sweet spot, but honest reporting seems to be your métier irrespective of the subject.
Bill Maher is a “to late to the party” guy with all the vaxx mandates, forced vaxxes, mandates & lockdowns… Bari Weiss an iffy one also…she has supported the vaxx and not spoken out against all this stuff and people who write on her Substack do too! Dr. Naomi Wolf is the far superior former liberal Democrat intellectual, who has crossed over…now she is someone who knows the score!
Yeah, Bill Maher and Bari Weiss praised the vaccines on last night's show, and she said anybody who doesn't get it is "foolish." I think Maher knows better but is so afraid of offending the dems or losing another show he'll only go so far.
I have a Friend who likes Ms. Weiss and I subscribed to her Substack page because I liked what she had to say. But there’s a lot of things she has said that reflects that she is still a liberal leaning thinker! And her vaxx stance is No Bueno!
I can never trust Weiss after how she name called Tulsi as a an Assad toady on JRE and when she got asked by Rogan on what that meant, she didn't even know the meaning. And saying this as someone who doesn't even like Tulsi but still thinks this bs name calling is stupid. This was before the same thing ended up happening to her at NYTimes by her own colleagues lol
I'm not the biggest fan of either Bill Maher or Bari Weiss but I do think this is something they both could get behind, at least, if they have any humanity in them, they SHOULD get behind.
He isn't, but he got the other two. And last night both Maher and Bari Weiss said the vaccines are important. But he said some good things about the ridiculousness of the mandates and lockdowns, and that they should end.
And Bari got quite a round of applause at the end of her rant about the lockdowns and mandates and that was from Bill's usually extremely left-wing audience.
Based on many things he's said, he does seem skeptical about them. That's why he isn't getting the booster. Knowing how health conscious he is, I think he probably regrets getting them at all now.
Stern has become so fearful ( he's a known hypochondriac and germa phobe) that he has demanded mandates, refusal of medical service to all unvaxxed, at one point demanded Australian style quarantine camps for unvaxed, and preaches daily on how the jab saves us all and his parrot, Robin Q still repeats the lie that only unvaxxed are being hospitalized. Both live in their bubble homes, never go out, afraid to live and want us all to feel their fear.
The thing is that McCarthy was attempting to prevent the kind of thing we are seeing. He was unfairly targeted because there were people wanting to overthrow the US Constitution and government. Now people assume his hunt was bogus, but it wasn't.
This doesn't make any sense. Please think this through a bit.
You are advocating fighting fascism with more fascism, which is what McCarthyism was and is.
This is the same logic of lefties who now are advocating vaccine fascism due to virus fear.
See also: Patriot Act due to "Global War on Terror" fear.
Your logic for circumventing liberty to "try and prevent (insert bad thing here)" will and is being used by the Security State to turn the focus inwards on any tribe that disagrees with their Strongman State goals.
There is always a bogeyman that provides the impetus for removing liberties.
You don't fight the "Red Scare" with "Red Scare" purge tactics.
It's depressing to see how seductive authoritarianism is to people on all sides of the spectrum.
There's a difference between what McCarthy did (or was trying to do), and what the HUAC did. McCarthy was not part of the House Un-American Activities Committee, because he was in the Senate.
If you want the full and truthful story about Joe McCarthy, this is the best source and the closest you'll get to knowing NOT the popular culture version of McCarthy but the actual truth. For example (I won't spoil it; you'll need to read the book), what you think you know about the "Sir, have you no shame??!!" episode is very likely the exact opposite of what actually happened, what that was actually about.
The book tells you; the alphabet legacy media haven't, and never will.
Forget party politics. The real conflict is the "elites" versus the people.
That's the purpose of fomenting tribal division through things like this J6 farce -- to keep the people fighting each other, so we don't turn on the ones pulling the strings. It's all a psyop.
After I read Glenn's article the other day, it got me thinking that maybe the main reason for the omicron panic was to distract attention from the ramping up of the January 6 committee illegal search and seizure tactics.
People cannot seem to break the spell of the false two party paradigm. Like their head will explode and everything they thought they knew turns out to be psy op.
Team R is too busy going to war for a border in Europe instead of Mexico. If they don’t change their priorities this is all a mute point! Indoctrination and stupidity will be in control forever!
But don’t worry, they will all be using appropriate pronouns as the ship sinks!! 🙄
Not sure if you are paying attention, team R is sitting on their asses getting rich while a bunch of idiots run this country to the ground!!! Let’s all at least be honest that the gig is up in DC. We have maybe 4 or 5 who are openly opposing this crap!! There really is no D and R, just corruption!!!
I just love when people try to defend indefensible!! Not hearing anything from more than a handful on lockdowns, mandates where thousands are losing their ability to provide, sending money to employed people, murder of police, crime, open border and the jailing of Americans who wandered onto property. Maybe you need to spend time in blue states to completely understand where our country is going. But you do you and I will continue to resist and not make excuses for the greedy politicians who don’t represent us. Apathy got us here and it will NOT get us out!!
Will there be enough different pronouns when we're all speaking Spanish? (Don't get me wrong - I lived in Spain for 4 years as an Air Force brat ... but our broken southern border is more dangerous than "the Covid".)
The subset being pared down to Nancy’s picks only. Partisan committee to keep 1/6 in the news until November, like the Russia hoax with all its lies and hype.
Yeah where are the Republicans. Gatez wants to turn the Committee into a true investigation. Why didn’t Nancy let the NG deploy after they were offered. What really happened with Ashley Babbit. How many FBI were there and what were they doing. Who is Ray Epps.
They are checking in with their donors on the correct response to take. The GOP with the exception of a few is useless in representing the interests and rights of their voters. "The Republican Party arrives a any issue at the exact time it is too late to do anything about it" - Jesse Kelly
Alex does seem to be confused where election fraud is concerned. They lie about Covid, they lie about the vaccines, they lie about January 6th, but for some reason Alex doesn't seem to think that it's possible that the myriad of irregularities and statistical impossibilities in the 2020 election might be representative of the fraud that went on.
Agree but the republicans have their own skeletons in the closet. The dems have something on most of them, pharma and probably folks like Blackrock and Vanguard holds them by the balls financially too.
On the other side, did you see the very recent video with Tom Cotton parroting Chuck Schumer’s comments from past years. Cotton’s speech entirely drawn from direct Schumer quotes. It was masterful. I give Cotton an Emmy. 4 min video.
The gist of this video is that big corporations own shares in each other and have interlocking directorships (funny, I remember hearing liberals complaining about that in the '70s). If you follow the trail, the biggest dogs that "own" all the rest are Vanguard and Blackrock. This is a red herring, though. Vanguard doesn't "own" the S&P 500, for instance; they manage thousands of accounts for individual investors. Sure, those investors collectively own a large chunk of the S&P, but so what? As for Blackrock, I've heard that they're buying up single-family houses and driving the prices up so that ordinary people can't buy them. I know almost nothing about Blackrock, but if that's true it is definitely a concern regardless of how big they are.
I'd recommend we focus on the areas on which we agree, and work together on those. If we insist that everyone agree about all the horrible things happening in our country, we will lose potential allies.
I agree. My point, probably not clearly expressed, was that I don't expect Alex to take on every pressing issue. He has a full plate, so to speak, and I'll be happy if he just keeps doing what he's doing on the Covid front. I would, of course, be happier if he avoided what sometimes seem like gratuitous comments about the validity the 2020 election or the experience of people who suffer from diseases like long covid.
I was thinking the same thing. As they tried to push our fear into overdrive .... not working with me but I had a family PULL up their masks on the OPEN AIR hiking trail I was on as I passed today.... it is obvious the fear porn still worked and is working. And fear is a great distraction and a great repellant to logical thought. Unfortunately I know from experience that when I am afraid, I do not think logically.
A similar hiking memory sticks with me. It was a beautiful sunny day at about 10,000 feet in the Sangre de Christo mountains. A fall day with the aspens that gorgeous golden color. Just lovely. I was going up the trail. Coming down towards me was a wave of masked people. Everyone of them. I felt as though I was in some sort of surreal painting. And these same people are undoubtedly now triple jabbed and still masked. Talk about the madness of crowds!
A family? The poor children who have been brainwashed to comply make me physically ill. I am thankful that we have raised our kids to not buy into the fear and propaganda and to outright reject it.
I was fearful of Covid for about 1.5 weeks in March of 2020. I had just joined Twitter and started following Alex, The Ethical Skeptic, Kyle Lamb, and El Gato Malo and realized it was all junk. My two best friends were told by their husbands they couldn’t see me because I was making jokes about the whole thing and not taking it seriously. I didn’t realize then how long this would last.
The last two presidential elections were about choosing a narcissist versus a sociopath, but at the end of the day, you’re picking people who have no business being in charge of our lives, they can’t even take care of their own lives.
How’s that “D” or “R” going for you these days?
Why I’m glad I didn’t vote the last two presidential elections, I don’t vote for evil…
I have a really hard time with that as well but I still vote. When Trump first ran I was so sceptical of him based on his past that I voted for another just to retain my own sense of personal integrity. But ultimately, many have reminded me that the worst of two evils may triumph if I vote that way.
If you’re expecting a President to be in charge of your life, we are doomed as a society. I’m sure based on your other posts that not your thought process DUW...
I go back and forth on this. I think 81 million people could have voted against Trump because they were too stupid to see that Brandon is Dementia Man. They didn't vote FOR Joe though.
I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but I did in 2020 (even though his vaccine talk gave me great pause). I know of many others like me. I live in a blue state though, so I voted purely for the "not everyone wants Biden" numbers.
My entire family voted for trump in 2020 and didn’t vote for him in 2016. I refuse to believe you, my family and I are the only ones. I voted for Jill Stein for goodness sakes. If I could see the unconstitutionality of the blue state lockdowns and the insanity of the Democrat Party, more had to see it, as well.
My husband and I thought that we were the only Dems (both over 50 years)that would not vote for Joe but being on this and other sites I am amazed at the number of life long Dems who also did not vote for him so who are the 81 million that did?
Not very many …it’s easy to see that the election was “not free or fair” if you just look at stats. We are now paying for it with an unelected incompetent!
I voted Jill Stein in 2016 and Trump in 2020. I know literally no one who voted for Demetia Joe because they were excited about him. They voted for him because "he wasn't Trump." Talk about mass psychosis. From what I can tell from every measure, that hasn't worked out well for anyone.
I just hearted you. I guess I’ll get a subpoena, right after they seize my bank account.....
A lady in a German protest was holding a sign “Make Orwell fiction again”.
Thought police....
If I barely say I support 1/6 protesters (by the way I do NOT support all of their actions, seriously) but I barely say anything and I could be tagged or flagged by FBI.
And no coattail wins in those questionable states. No bell weather wins...no video of containers being pulled from under tablecloths after hours in polling centers. No cardboard being taped to windows in polling centers....uhhh. I’m off track here...
If 81M people voted for Brandon then numerically explain to me why his poll numbers are in the crapper? How is his terrible polling numerically possible?
It's why the left needs 1/6 to be a big deal -- it's the gateway to do all the illegal shit they've always wanted to do but couldn't. They're clearly letting people know what happens if you dare stand up to them.
EVERYTHING about this terrible abuse of political power should fall to the feet and heads of Republican politicians that are doing basically nothing about it. We only have about five attacking it, and the rest are Romney *dks* that are just the same corrupt animal in a different shirt.
“Fear is crucial for state authority. When the population is filled with it, they will acquiesce to virtually any power the government seeks to acquire in the name of keeping them safe.”
THIS is where hard investigative journalism moves the needle. It’s a damn shame that Alex and Glenn represent a small minority of journalists actually exposing the cultural/political malfeasance.
It's our job to see to it that their columns are spread far and wide. I pay-subscribe to both (and a few others), and I read Glenn's column when he posted it on Thursday, and by the end of it ... well, let's just say, it's a shame the "insurrection" didn't succeed.
Abuse of government power is always too easy. The government oversees everyone and yet nobody really oversees the government. Except the press used to. Now the press and government are really the same.
It seems that the press is the problem. The challenge is coming up with a viable solution.
They have not gone mad. They know exactly what they are doing. Just look at their timetable. They tell you exactly who they are and what they have planned. All the way up to the midterms. They cannot win without cheating. And they cannot cheat in the same manner as they have in the past. Hence, new methods must be introduced. The J6 committee, and the FBI induced Capitol Breach that was set up to provide for the formation of the committee, are all about one thing. Well two things. Making an example of certain people to make others think twice about getting involved. And stealing the next election. They always tell you who they are and what they have planned. And dare you to stop them. Nobody ever has. This time might be different. But that takes cold anger turning hot. Time will tell.
Every single thing seems to have been coordinated since 2000 or 2002. I just watched Planet Lockdown (see Rumble), very good video, well done.
I’m aware of a lot of these conspiracies and plans but one of the “minor” things it brought to my attention was the plandemic of the swine flu in 2009. It failed but Wolfgang Wodarg, a medical doctor and member of the Bundestag in Germany at the time and, I believe a public health officer, testified that pharma already had secret contracts with countries (Italy, France, Germany e.g.) to provide vaccines PRIOR to the so called swine flu outbreak.
We who are being vilified for so called conspiracy theories by thought police? We’ve seen our theories proven time and time again. Even until mid last year I personally condemned conspiracy theorists. I finally saw they were no longer suppositions but facts. It’s very sad. I wish for this to be fiction. It’s not.
She needed her arse recalled but when it’s only a 2 year term, we’re at the regular election by the time the signature are gathered, certified, and they think about scheduling the recall vote.
I dont care what anyone says they are American Marxist who think that God is not watching what they are doing. I wish they would spend as much time focusing on our economy and crime. Spend some time on China and the China Virus. These people who are bending the Rules to fit their own agenda need to be voted out of office. The American people need to take back our country. Why are we American people buying oil from Puttin is it so that he can go to war?
Thanks for referring your readers to this extremely important article, Alex. Spotlighting others’ great reporting actually elevates my esteem for you and your work. Thanks again.
This should not be about whether one is liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican or Libertarian or whatever. This is about the absolute and utter disregard for and trashing of our Constitution and what it allows. I wouldn't expect the radical left to do anything because they are the ones destroying our country, but all others need to unite to put an immediate end to this.
The first time I read To Kill A Mockingbird as a child, I felt a sense of deep sadness. The characters went along with injustice and lies; that were so clearly part of a cultural norm that no one wanted to break out of. That same frustration and sadness has been real the past few years. As the year of the Tiger gets into swing, I am seeing lies exposed rapidly. I feel the way I did when Atticus Finch began to break down the entire lie!
There really aren’t any proper words to describe how sick and twisted the radical cabal is that is trying so hard to destroy America. I really hope that people begin to realize who the man behind the curtain is. What I don’t understand is why Obama hates America so much. This is the Country that gave him everything.
I respect you and I know a lot of people like you who think Biden won the last election "fair and square." But I ask . . . would you really need to go to all these extremes if everything was on the up and up? I'm of the mind that in a two-party system where the elite have such a monopoly on information and money, no election is truly free and fair, but this one seemed to be even less so, and their hysteria in trying to quell dissent makes me even more suspicious.
You bring up a good point. If the election was free and fair, why did social media ban people who said the election was fraudulent? Why were Lou Dobbs and Trish Regan fired by FOX for saying there was election fraud? Why is it called the "BIG LIE"? Dissent from the official narrative, that the election was fair, was and still is being stamped out just like dissent from the official vaccine narrative.
Agree here wholly. My simple question has always been: if you won so handily in the most secure election ever, wouldn’t you be happy to be audited? So you could then give everyone the double bird 🖕🏻🖕🏻, bitches!
Alex, the only remedy for this is a case that is fast tracked to the Supreme Court where the high court puts the legislative branch back in its place. What I fear is the Supremes don't have the cajones to confront the House 1/6 Committee head on. If the court did this and publicized the implications of rekindling the HUAAC, maybe it would derail The Shiff Show. These dopes (like Liz Cheney) on the 1/6 committee are going against decided law and must be stopped.
True. Sadly, can't trust Trump's 3 Blue-Light Federalist Society "justices". All 3 voted with John Obamacare Roberts for the coup d'etat. Denied "standing" to Texas et al. Effectively created a "right" of states to steal federal & state elections, disenfranchise their own & other states' voters. Sissy Brett Kavanagh sided with Roberts to help the commie caucus force vaccines on nurses & doctors. The Blue-Light Federalist Society needs to go poof like the Blue-Light Federalist Party after the War of 1812.
The 1/6 commission is similar to China's Mao Zedong's cultural revolution. These U.S. Democrat Marxists are out to destroy any opposition using big government, big pharmaceutical and big tech as agents to destroy Democracy and take away your freedom. C19 with a 99.5% survival rate was weaponized to destroy the economy and to enslave your children behind masks---forever. All data and facts on C19 deaths and cases are all fictionalized. The vaccines, tests and lockdowns are all complete failures and their goal is to steal all U.S. elections going forward. They will actually allow any illegal person to vote as well. See NYC's new voting law allowing illegals to vote in city elections. It's going to take much more than a protest to stop these traitors.
If the election fraud claim is bogus (which I personally think it is), then why are they going to such extremes? Really, if you truly believed the election result to be fair, why would you even bother? To me, such deceptive and intrusive measures indicate a high sense of fear
The difference being that the Un-American Activities Commission actually revealed communist spies in our government. The Jan. 6 commission is more akin to a star chamber.
JP Morgan deliberately making itself an arm of the Star Chamber, prejudicing Budowich in every way!? O.M.G. It takes a lot of $$$ just to try to insert any kind of due process into the coordinated overreach; the courts are already in on it. The USSCt refusing Trump's Executive Privilege contrary to all its previous rulings - Obama's abuses allowed but legitimate privilege not because it's Trump. They are all part of the overthrow of America. They all know what Constitutional Law is, their past decisions (not all, obviously) demonstrate the know the rule of law and why. Our only choice going forward is to Take Our Country Back (TM) with no negotiation, no deals, quarter given. God, please shed Your Grace and Favour upon us~
I get that McCarthy was in the Senate and this column references the (House) HUAC, but still, this book is a must-read (or -listen; it's available on Audible) for anyone who *thinks* they know the truth about McCarthy.
Alex, thanks for posting this. I haven't finished reading the post but will. Wow. When covid started, McCarthy was a name that kept popping into my head.
Alex, I was scandalized when I read this on Glenn's substack to which I subscribe. It will take the few remaining sane left-leaning people like you and Greenwald to make this as big a deal as it should be. Wish Bari Weiss would take it on as well. And Bill Maher. This is so McCarthyite it is scary. Thanks for exposing this -- I know it is out of your sweet spot, but honest reporting seems to be your métier irrespective of the subject.
Bill Maher is a “to late to the party” guy with all the vaxx mandates, forced vaxxes, mandates & lockdowns… Bari Weiss an iffy one also…she has supported the vaxx and not spoken out against all this stuff and people who write on her Substack do too! Dr. Naomi Wolf is the far superior former liberal Democrat intellectual, who has crossed over…now she is someone who knows the score!
Yeah, Bill Maher and Bari Weiss praised the vaccines on last night's show, and she said anybody who doesn't get it is "foolish." I think Maher knows better but is so afraid of offending the dems or losing another show he'll only go so far.
I have a Friend who likes Ms. Weiss and I subscribed to her Substack page because I liked what she had to say. But there’s a lot of things she has said that reflects that she is still a liberal leaning thinker! And her vaxx stance is No Bueno!
I can never trust Weiss after how she name called Tulsi as a an Assad toady on JRE and when she got asked by Rogan on what that meant, she didn't even know the meaning. And saying this as someone who doesn't even like Tulsi but still thinks this bs name calling is stupid. This was before the same thing ended up happening to her at NYTimes by her own colleagues lol
But they have the left’s ear. Gotta start somewhere; can’t have it all right out of the gate.
I'm not the biggest fan of either Bill Maher or Bari Weiss but I do think this is something they both could get behind, at least, if they have any humanity in them, they SHOULD get behind.
Let Bari get the booster and then tell us what she really thinks. Lead by example, Bari!
Oh no, not getting The Booster but got the first two? Pleez!
He isn't, but he got the other two. And last night both Maher and Bari Weiss said the vaccines are important. But he said some good things about the ridiculousness of the mandates and lockdowns, and that they should end.
And Bari got quite a round of applause at the end of her rant about the lockdowns and mandates and that was from Bill's usually extremely left-wing audience.
Yeah, that was good to see. Except they also applauded after she said anybody who doesn't get the jab is "foolish." Still better than nothing.
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Based on many things he's said, he does seem skeptical about them. That's why he isn't getting the booster. Knowing how health conscious he is, I think he probably regrets getting them at all now.
Stern has become so fearful ( he's a known hypochondriac and germa phobe) that he has demanded mandates, refusal of medical service to all unvaxxed, at one point demanded Australian style quarantine camps for unvaxed, and preaches daily on how the jab saves us all and his parrot, Robin Q still repeats the lie that only unvaxxed are being hospitalized. Both live in their bubble homes, never go out, afraid to live and want us all to feel their fear.
Stern lost the plot a while ago.
Naomi Wolf has been ahead of the curve for two years. She is excellent and a must-follow.
Maher tells his audience what they've told him.
The thing is that McCarthy was attempting to prevent the kind of thing we are seeing. He was unfairly targeted because there were people wanting to overthrow the US Constitution and government. Now people assume his hunt was bogus, but it wasn't.
This doesn't make any sense. Please think this through a bit.
You are advocating fighting fascism with more fascism, which is what McCarthyism was and is.
This is the same logic of lefties who now are advocating vaccine fascism due to virus fear.
See also: Patriot Act due to "Global War on Terror" fear.
Your logic for circumventing liberty to "try and prevent (insert bad thing here)" will and is being used by the Security State to turn the focus inwards on any tribe that disagrees with their Strongman State goals.
There is always a bogeyman that provides the impetus for removing liberties.
You don't fight the "Red Scare" with "Red Scare" purge tactics.
It's depressing to see how seductive authoritarianism is to people on all sides of the spectrum.
There's a difference between what McCarthy did (or was trying to do), and what the HUAC did. McCarthy was not part of the House Un-American Activities Committee, because he was in the Senate.
If you want the full and truthful story about Joe McCarthy, this is the best source and the closest you'll get to knowing NOT the popular culture version of McCarthy but the actual truth. For example (I won't spoil it; you'll need to read the book), what you think you know about the "Sir, have you no shame??!!" episode is very likely the exact opposite of what actually happened, what that was actually about.
The book tells you; the alphabet legacy media haven't, and never will.
https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068
Diane West Betrayal is very good.
Matrix anyone? https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/going-for-jugular-take-2-all-ducks
Bari Weiss plays both sides against the middle. She's lost the little trust I had for her. Take a stand or get the hell outta the way.
How about less non gentiles please. More truth , less perversion , but let’s face it. Ole Alex is a left winger who thinks we forget.
Read this yesterday. There needs to be judicial review. And WHERE are Republicans fighting back?
Team R is a subset of Team D. They're on board with the elimination of our constitutional rights.
Forget party politics. The real conflict is the "elites" versus the people.
That's the purpose of fomenting tribal division through things like this J6 farce -- to keep the people fighting each other, so we don't turn on the ones pulling the strings. It's all a psyop.
Some people seem to be catching on.
After I read Glenn's article the other day, it got me thinking that maybe the main reason for the omicron panic was to distract attention from the ramping up of the January 6 committee illegal search and seizure tactics.
People cannot seem to break the spell of the false two party paradigm. Like their head will explode and everything they thought they knew turns out to be psy op.
True
Team R is too busy going to war for a border in Europe instead of Mexico. If they don’t change their priorities this is all a mute point! Indoctrination and stupidity will be in control forever!
But don’t worry, they will all be using appropriate pronouns as the ship sinks!! 🙄
Team R???? Most of this is coming from Biden + cronies. There are certainly Team R participants but this is being spearheaded by Team D
Not sure if you are paying attention, team R is sitting on their asses getting rich while a bunch of idiots run this country to the ground!!! Let’s all at least be honest that the gig is up in DC. We have maybe 4 or 5 who are openly opposing this crap!! There really is no D and R, just corruption!!!
They are all getting rich. R’s have lost their corporate donors.
It's more than 4 or 5, and it's a good start.
I just love when people try to defend indefensible!! Not hearing anything from more than a handful on lockdowns, mandates where thousands are losing their ability to provide, sending money to employed people, murder of police, crime, open border and the jailing of Americans who wandered onto property. Maybe you need to spend time in blue states to completely understand where our country is going. But you do you and I will continue to resist and not make excuses for the greedy politicians who don’t represent us. Apathy got us here and it will NOT get us out!!
And two who voted to impeach 45 for incitement.
Those two should be booted from the party. Or at least, have the decency to switch over to what they really are...D's.
Will there be enough different pronouns when we're all speaking Spanish? (Don't get me wrong - I lived in Spain for 4 years as an Air Force brat ... but our broken southern border is more dangerous than "the Covid".)
The subset being pared down to Nancy’s picks only. Partisan committee to keep 1/6 in the news until November, like the Russia hoax with all its lies and hype.
Shibumi…at least two of us get it. Concur 100%
Not all of them, and not hardly to the same extent as team commie.
Yeah where are the Republicans. Gatez wants to turn the Committee into a true investigation. Why didn’t Nancy let the NG deploy after they were offered. What really happened with Ashley Babbit. How many FBI were there and what were they doing. Who is Ray Epps.
Dems = evil
Republicans = spineless cucks
They are checking in with their donors on the correct response to take. The GOP with the exception of a few is useless in representing the interests and rights of their voters. "The Republican Party arrives a any issue at the exact time it is too late to do anything about it" - Jesse Kelly
Exactly. The Republicans always seem to be MIA.
retiring
The entire Democratic, excuse me, Bolshevik Party, has gone mad.
Gone?
Not your father’s democrat party. Long gone.
Ask yourself this, Alex:
What are they trying to deflect our attention from?
Still think that Trump really lost?
Alex does seem to be confused where election fraud is concerned. They lie about Covid, they lie about the vaccines, they lie about January 6th, but for some reason Alex doesn't seem to think that it's possible that the myriad of irregularities and statistical impossibilities in the 2020 election might be representative of the fraud that went on.
what do you expect from Democrats: the party of the KKK, segregation, Jim Crow, and the leaders of every major crime ridden, poverty stricken city?
Agree but the republicans have their own skeletons in the closet. The dems have something on most of them, pharma and probably folks like Blackrock and Vanguard holds them by the balls financially too.
On the other side, did you see the very recent video with Tom Cotton parroting Chuck Schumer’s comments from past years. Cotton’s speech entirely drawn from direct Schumer quotes. It was masterful. I give Cotton an Emmy. 4 min video.
https://rumble.com/vsiddb-senator-tom-cotton-r-ar-reads-chuck-schumers-defense-of-the-filibuster.html
what's wrong with Vanguard?
Here's a more direct link: https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen/
I highly recommend this, it's so eye-opening.
The gist of this video is that big corporations own shares in each other and have interlocking directorships (funny, I remember hearing liberals complaining about that in the '70s). If you follow the trail, the biggest dogs that "own" all the rest are Vanguard and Blackrock. This is a red herring, though. Vanguard doesn't "own" the S&P 500, for instance; they manage thousands of accounts for individual investors. Sure, those investors collectively own a large chunk of the S&P, but so what? As for Blackrock, I've heard that they're buying up single-family houses and driving the prices up so that ordinary people can't buy them. I know almost nothing about Blackrock, but if that's true it is definitely a concern regardless of how big they are.
Is it possible to summarize this hour long video with info about vanguard? is it just that vanguard invests in lots of big companies?
John Bogle and his index fund investing is a low cost way to invest. Is that wrong, or just Vanguard in particular?
What's the alternative?
https://rumble.com/vmyx1n "MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen" Published September 25, 2021. length ~ 1 hour
Watch this video:
https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/full/
https://rumble.com/vq4n9a-world-freedom-directory-user-guide.html "World Freedom Directory - User Guide" Published December 2, 2021. length ~ 10 minutes.
I'd recommend we focus on the areas on which we agree, and work together on those. If we insist that everyone agree about all the horrible things happening in our country, we will lose potential allies.
Here here
I agree. My point, probably not clearly expressed, was that I don't expect Alex to take on every pressing issue. He has a full plate, so to speak, and I'll be happy if he just keeps doing what he's doing on the Covid front. I would, of course, be happier if he avoided what sometimes seem like gratuitous comments about the validity the 2020 election or the experience of people who suffer from diseases like long covid.
Don't forget Alex posted this subject about the J6 committee.
I was thinking the same thing. As they tried to push our fear into overdrive .... not working with me but I had a family PULL up their masks on the OPEN AIR hiking trail I was on as I passed today.... it is obvious the fear porn still worked and is working. And fear is a great distraction and a great repellant to logical thought. Unfortunately I know from experience that when I am afraid, I do not think logically.
A similar hiking memory sticks with me. It was a beautiful sunny day at about 10,000 feet in the Sangre de Christo mountains. A fall day with the aspens that gorgeous golden color. Just lovely. I was going up the trail. Coming down towards me was a wave of masked people. Everyone of them. I felt as though I was in some sort of surreal painting. And these same people are undoubtedly now triple jabbed and still masked. Talk about the madness of crowds!
A family? The poor children who have been brainwashed to comply make me physically ill. I am thankful that we have raised our kids to not buy into the fear and propaganda and to outright reject it.
I was fearful of Covid for about 1.5 weeks in March of 2020. I had just joined Twitter and started following Alex, The Ethical Skeptic, Kyle Lamb, and El Gato Malo and realized it was all junk. My two best friends were told by their husbands they couldn’t see me because I was making jokes about the whole thing and not taking it seriously. I didn’t realize then how long this would last.
Hope your friendships survived this lunacy. Many did not.
They did. One came around to my way of thinking by the end of summer :) The other took a little longer. They are sisters. Thank you!
The last two presidential elections were about choosing a narcissist versus a sociopath, but at the end of the day, you’re picking people who have no business being in charge of our lives, they can’t even take care of their own lives.
How’s that “D” or “R” going for you these days?
Why I’m glad I didn’t vote the last two presidential elections, I don’t vote for evil…
Elections are always a choice between narcissists and sociopaths.
All of them.
I have no love for Trump.
But I have a big problem with the blatant fraud. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
I have a really hard time with that as well but I still vote. When Trump first ran I was so sceptical of him based on his past that I voted for another just to retain my own sense of personal integrity. But ultimately, many have reminded me that the worst of two evils may triumph if I vote that way.
Sadly, you should have voted for his policies. They worked.
If you’re expecting a President to be in charge of your life, we are doomed as a society. I’m sure based on your other posts that not your thought process DUW...
I go back and forth on this. I think 81 million people could have voted against Trump because they were too stupid to see that Brandon is Dementia Man. They didn't vote FOR Joe though.
Biden got more votes than any other candidate in US history.
More than Obama in 2008.
And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
And pigs can fly, don't you know.
Didn't Trump get more votes than he'd gotten in 2016? And he still lost?
I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but I did in 2020 (even though his vaccine talk gave me great pause). I know of many others like me. I live in a blue state though, so I voted purely for the "not everyone wants Biden" numbers.
My entire family voted for trump in 2020 and didn’t vote for him in 2016. I refuse to believe you, my family and I are the only ones. I voted for Jill Stein for goodness sakes. If I could see the unconstitutionality of the blue state lockdowns and the insanity of the Democrat Party, more had to see it, as well.
My husband and I thought that we were the only Dems (both over 50 years)that would not vote for Joe but being on this and other sites I am amazed at the number of life long Dems who also did not vote for him so who are the 81 million that did?
Not very many …it’s easy to see that the election was “not free or fair” if you just look at stats. We are now paying for it with an unelected incompetent!
Maybe a lot of dead people voted in 2020.
I do not know.
Well said
I voted Jill Stein in 2016 and Trump in 2020. I know literally no one who voted for Demetia Joe because they were excited about him. They voted for him because "he wasn't Trump." Talk about mass psychosis. From what I can tell from every measure, that hasn't worked out well for anyone.
"lost"
I just hearted you. I guess I’ll get a subpoena, right after they seize my bank account.....
A lady in a German protest was holding a sign “Make Orwell fiction again”.
Thought police....
If I barely say I support 1/6 protesters (by the way I do NOT support all of their actions, seriously) but I barely say anything and I could be tagged or flagged by FBI.
That’s criminal on their side. Not mine.
Who counts the votes Counts The Votes COUNTS THE VOTES
Eleven MILLION more votes. But he "lost" to a guy who wouldn't come out of his basement who still allegedly got 81 million votes. NFW. Simple NO FW.
He may have gotten 81 million BALLOTS, but tens or hundreds of thousands of them were bogus ballots.
I agree. Anything other conclusion defies logic.
Any, not anything!
And no coattail wins in those questionable states. No bell weather wins...no video of containers being pulled from under tablecloths after hours in polling centers. No cardboard being taped to windows in polling centers....uhhh. I’m off track here...
It depend on how you define "lost".
If 81M people voted for Brandon then numerically explain to me why his poll numbers are in the crapper? How is his terrible polling numerically possible?
It's why the left needs 1/6 to be a big deal -- it's the gateway to do all the illegal shit they've always wanted to do but couldn't. They're clearly letting people know what happens if you dare stand up to them.
EVERYTHING about this terrible abuse of political power should fall to the feet and heads of Republican politicians that are doing basically nothing about it. We only have about five attacking it, and the rest are Romney *dks* that are just the same corrupt animal in a different shirt.
Repugnocants, These people are cowards and whores, I think they are repugnant, and say the word “can’t!”as easily as they take a shit…
As They do every day on the people they pathetically fail to represent…
As someone has said, the Dems are all snakes and the Rinos are all chickens... we're doomed.
“Fear is crucial for state authority. When the population is filled with it, they will acquiesce to virtually any power the government seeks to acquire in the name of keeping them safe.”
- Glenn Greenwald
THIS is where hard investigative journalism moves the needle. It’s a damn shame that Alex and Glenn represent a small minority of journalists actually exposing the cultural/political malfeasance.
It's our job to see to it that their columns are spread far and wide. I pay-subscribe to both (and a few others), and I read Glenn's column when he posted it on Thursday, and by the end of it ... well, let's just say, it's a shame the "insurrection" didn't succeed.
The next one will.
Abuse of government power is always too easy. The government oversees everyone and yet nobody really oversees the government. Except the press used to. Now the press and government are really the same.
It seems that the press is the problem. The challenge is coming up with a viable solution.
Substack might be one example.
Yes. The fourth estate was once considered the watchdog over the government. That dog is now dead.
They have not gone mad. They know exactly what they are doing. Just look at their timetable. They tell you exactly who they are and what they have planned. All the way up to the midterms. They cannot win without cheating. And they cannot cheat in the same manner as they have in the past. Hence, new methods must be introduced. The J6 committee, and the FBI induced Capitol Breach that was set up to provide for the formation of the committee, are all about one thing. Well two things. Making an example of certain people to make others think twice about getting involved. And stealing the next election. They always tell you who they are and what they have planned. And dare you to stop them. Nobody ever has. This time might be different. But that takes cold anger turning hot. Time will tell.
Every single thing seems to have been coordinated since 2000 or 2002. I just watched Planet Lockdown (see Rumble), very good video, well done.
I’m aware of a lot of these conspiracies and plans but one of the “minor” things it brought to my attention was the plandemic of the swine flu in 2009. It failed but Wolfgang Wodarg, a medical doctor and member of the Bundestag in Germany at the time and, I believe a public health officer, testified that pharma already had secret contracts with countries (Italy, France, Germany e.g.) to provide vaccines PRIOR to the so called swine flu outbreak.
We who are being vilified for so called conspiracy theories by thought police? We’ve seen our theories proven time and time again. Even until mid last year I personally condemned conspiracy theorists. I finally saw they were no longer suppositions but facts. It’s very sad. I wish for this to be fiction. It’s not.
I hope Liz Cheney goes quail hunting with her father
Oh...that’s so wrong. But, tee-hee. 🤣
its a McCarthy trial by the Blue Team
Greenwald and you are both rock stars and deserve every dollar of subscription money you collect. THANK YOU BOTH!!
"It's a threat to Democracy" they cry! Tell me what is a bigger threat to Democracy the 1/6 riot or the 1/6 committee?
Yep. Communists love projection.
Contrast with Republican "leadership" which doesn't even have the stones to give Liz Cheney the boot.
She needed her arse recalled but when it’s only a 2 year term, we’re at the regular election by the time the signature are gathered, certified, and they think about scheduling the recall vote.
I dont care what anyone says they are American Marxist who think that God is not watching what they are doing. I wish they would spend as much time focusing on our economy and crime. Spend some time on China and the China Virus. These people who are bending the Rules to fit their own agenda need to be voted out of office. The American people need to take back our country. Why are we American people buying oil from Puttin is it so that he can go to war?
Thanks for referring your readers to this extremely important article, Alex. Spotlighting others’ great reporting actually elevates my esteem for you and your work. Thanks again.
This should not be about whether one is liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican or Libertarian or whatever. This is about the absolute and utter disregard for and trashing of our Constitution and what it allows. I wouldn't expect the radical left to do anything because they are the ones destroying our country, but all others need to unite to put an immediate end to this.
Biden crime regime. What did you expect after he stole the election?
I read this the other day and it is absolutely horrifying.
The first time I read To Kill A Mockingbird as a child, I felt a sense of deep sadness. The characters went along with injustice and lies; that were so clearly part of a cultural norm that no one wanted to break out of. That same frustration and sadness has been real the past few years. As the year of the Tiger gets into swing, I am seeing lies exposed rapidly. I feel the way I did when Atticus Finch began to break down the entire lie!
There really aren’t any proper words to describe how sick and twisted the radical cabal is that is trying so hard to destroy America. I really hope that people begin to realize who the man behind the curtain is. What I don’t understand is why Obama hates America so much. This is the Country that gave him everything.
Not sure how accurate or biased it is however check out Dinesh D'Sousa Obama's America for why Dinesh thinks Obama hates America.
Had canceled my subscription but reinstated it on this post. The Ds are evil.
True comparison … except that on the 1940s version of the Committee there was
roughly equal party representation,
public (not closed) hearings, and
a bipartisan group (albeit reticent) that questioned the tactics, evidentiary standards, and underlying value and purpose for the committee to exist.
Pelosi wouldn’t permit any such safeguards or dissent with her 21st century version of the committee.
You're not doing something right if you're not on a watch list.
I phrase it as "You're doing America wrong if you're not on a list", because it has a double meaning ;)
I respect you and I know a lot of people like you who think Biden won the last election "fair and square." But I ask . . . would you really need to go to all these extremes if everything was on the up and up? I'm of the mind that in a two-party system where the elite have such a monopoly on information and money, no election is truly free and fair, but this one seemed to be even less so, and their hysteria in trying to quell dissent makes me even more suspicious.
You bring up a good point. If the election was free and fair, why did social media ban people who said the election was fraudulent? Why were Lou Dobbs and Trish Regan fired by FOX for saying there was election fraud? Why is it called the "BIG LIE"? Dissent from the official narrative, that the election was fair, was and still is being stamped out just like dissent from the official vaccine narrative.
Agree here wholly. My simple question has always been: if you won so handily in the most secure election ever, wouldn’t you be happy to be audited? So you could then give everyone the double bird 🖕🏻🖕🏻, bitches!
Comrade: all who oppose the regime are dissidents. We're all in this (gulag) together.
Alex, the only remedy for this is a case that is fast tracked to the Supreme Court where the high court puts the legislative branch back in its place. What I fear is the Supremes don't have the cajones to confront the House 1/6 Committee head on. If the court did this and publicized the implications of rekindling the HUAAC, maybe it would derail The Shiff Show. These dopes (like Liz Cheney) on the 1/6 committee are going against decided law and must be stopped.
True. Sadly, can't trust Trump's 3 Blue-Light Federalist Society "justices". All 3 voted with John Obamacare Roberts for the coup d'etat. Denied "standing" to Texas et al. Effectively created a "right" of states to steal federal & state elections, disenfranchise their own & other states' voters. Sissy Brett Kavanagh sided with Roberts to help the commie caucus force vaccines on nurses & doctors. The Blue-Light Federalist Society needs to go poof like the Blue-Light Federalist Party after the War of 1812.
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/wicked-blue-lights-new-london-give-connecticut-bad-name/
To be fair, they started mad.
The 1/6 commission is similar to China's Mao Zedong's cultural revolution. These U.S. Democrat Marxists are out to destroy any opposition using big government, big pharmaceutical and big tech as agents to destroy Democracy and take away your freedom. C19 with a 99.5% survival rate was weaponized to destroy the economy and to enslave your children behind masks---forever. All data and facts on C19 deaths and cases are all fictionalized. The vaccines, tests and lockdowns are all complete failures and their goal is to steal all U.S. elections going forward. They will actually allow any illegal person to vote as well. See NYC's new voting law allowing illegals to vote in city elections. It's going to take much more than a protest to stop these traitors.
They have until November to start as many fires as possible, and they're going to.
Better call Saul.
If the election fraud claim is bogus (which I personally think it is), then why are they going to such extremes? Really, if you truly believed the election result to be fair, why would you even bother? To me, such deceptive and intrusive measures indicate a high sense of fear
So, based on your questions in this post, how can you stand by your parenthetical statement?
Ya, mostly Democrats doing this Alex, aren't you a Democrat??
Democrat, Republican, voters who vote for the letters “D“ or “R“, at the end of the day the public sucks, fuck Hope.
Yes, give up and kill yourself now.
Yeah, fuck you too, you’ll vote for a letter until, you open the door one day and let someone blow your face off, loser…
Real dildo comment
We’ve learned nothing. Simple as that.
The difference being that the Un-American Activities Commission actually revealed communist spies in our government. The Jan. 6 commission is more akin to a star chamber.
They're not mad. They're evil.
I'm looking forward to them interviewing Mr. Epps?
This will the interview:
"Mr. Epps, were you an FBI informant?"
"I have been instructed by my lawyer to not answer that question."
"Goodbye Mr. Epps."
JP Morgan deliberately making itself an arm of the Star Chamber, prejudicing Budowich in every way!? O.M.G. It takes a lot of $$$ just to try to insert any kind of due process into the coordinated overreach; the courts are already in on it. The USSCt refusing Trump's Executive Privilege contrary to all its previous rulings - Obama's abuses allowed but legitimate privilege not because it's Trump. They are all part of the overthrow of America. They all know what Constitutional Law is, their past decisions (not all, obviously) demonstrate the know the rule of law and why. Our only choice going forward is to Take Our Country Back (TM) with no negotiation, no deals, quarter given. God, please shed Your Grace and Favour upon us~
America, please shed your grace and favor on God.
Again, first of all thank you for the opportunity to comment.
I don’t understand people, this is sociopathy at its most essence, these people really think there’s no accountability or consequences.
And the way the country has basically said, “thank you, we really enjoy being beaten and mauled, can you continue doing it?“
What I don’t get is people who have kids, I guess the concept of wanting your kids to do better than you as parents, is beyond dead and buried.
That’s certainly the case the way kids have been relentlessly abused and destroyed in schools the last two years.
But, we’re doomed, you folks just can’t read the writing on the wall…
And neither can the kids in schools these days.
Excellent, if worrisome article.
FIRST, the two RINOs must go comes November
SECOND, all that abused our civil rights MUST go to jail next year
A Plague, multiple wars, terrible leadership, infighting & decisions that only benefited the rich & connected- downfall of Roma anyone?
The Republican establishment supports this.
The Demoncrat Party and RINOs made of the same cloth. Power, power, and more power.
I get that McCarthy was in the Senate and this column references the (House) HUAC, but still, this book is a must-read (or -listen; it's available on Audible) for anyone who *thinks* they know the truth about McCarthy.
https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068
As much a "Star Chamber" than just Joe McCarthy. Our country is eating itself alive. The maniacs on both sides need to be reigned in and censured.
In this culture of fear nothing should be surprising
Democrats hate the Constitution. They're not even trying to get rid of it anymore, they're just ignoring it and no one can stop them.
I'd say it's more that no one WILL stop them.
Republicans are useless but the SCOTUS should act.
Alex, thanks for posting this. I haven't finished reading the post but will. Wow. When covid started, McCarthy was a name that kept popping into my head.