Alex, what matters most is election integrity. And election integrity. And election integrity. And did I mention, election integrity? If our elections are not fair, there's no point in debating ANY other issues. Our "betters" who decide the issues *for us* are doing so without our consent. For the love of God, please cover election integrity.
A May 2023 Rassmussen poll asked likely voters, "How likely is it that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election?"
Results:
Likely / Not Likely -
Dem: 45% / 50%
Ind: 64% / 28%
Rep: 80% / 16%
All: 62% / 32% (new record high)
62% believe cheating affected the outcome of our presidential election. The federal executive branch and its administration is what brought us COVID vaccine policy and the censorship which spurred Alex's important investigative journalism and lawfare. It's time to get to the heart of the matter, and no serious journalist seems to want to touch it.
Of even more importance is how many of us feel helpless to address possible cheating. In the back of my mind I am sure there are cheats, aren't there always cheats, somewhere? I am aware via Telegram of various ways cheating is/can/might be done - only on Telegram, rarely anywhere else can such things be discussed. That polling suggests many other citizens worry about the issue, good to know we are not alone but our discomfort is not reflected by media. Vested interests perhaps?
Obviously incumbents support the system that elevated them and are not likely to want change. Those cheated might have a cause but we rarely cheer sore losers, the American way, you see or a great PsyOp using that screed. So far the results of cheating have produced mostly mediocre leaders who are unlikely to out the huge incompetence already running the show. But such a system may have the ability to produce those with evil intent - those intent to end this American experiment following many long years of academics who think themselves wiser that we masses.
In the end we can hope that leaders emerge to challenge the system - the Yangs, Viveks, the Bobby's, even that ego driven Trump. Very powerful vested interests of the Uniparty are intent to suppress such radial leaders. Listen, we must.
I’d like to see you report more on the WHOs proposed global pandemic response treaty that will almost guarantee more lockdowns and human rights breaches in the future.
One more thing I think is extremely important and is also overlaps with Covid issues is DIGITAL CURRENCY. If we approve "Health Passports", we are one step away...
Agree. As a medical school professor I saw the change from seeking students most likely to master the ever increasing information needed for optimal care to balancing irrelevant student characteristics.
I heard one distressed med student say that his whole class was not allowed to access a training video of some sort because someone in the class had a disability. Then he strongly advised: don’t see any doc under 40, if I recall.
Keep on mRNA. They are not going away and it is my understanding there are several in the pipeline (I am certain we will be told that they'll get it right next time).
Focus on the fundamental underlying issue behind the vast majority of our systemic issues - healthcare, education, military, tech, etc. ALL of them are corrupted by forced public/private partnerships.
I did a giant stack on this, but you can watch the death of every industry in America by the date at which the legislation that made it a moral hazard, that is the public bears the risk but the profits are privatized, was signed into law.
Banking when the Fed was enshrined, Pharma in the 1980's, but REALLY exploding after Obama-Care, the military post WWI when military production stopped being reallocation of existing businesses (auto-manufacturers pivoted to making military goods) and became an industry all its own, tech post section 230, etc. I could go on and on, but every one of the areas of life where we're losing freedom, we're losing freedom specifically because private enterprise has been hijacked by public control, the risks reallocated (to the benefit of the oligarchs running the "private" enterprise) and at the expense of free-market competition and consumer control.
When the market stops functioning, the people lose, and that's the underlying issue in every single email you received.
You ever want this to change - don't vote for anyone who's been in office for more than 6 years, don't EVER, EVER, EVER vote for tax increases on anyone, any time, for any reason, EVER, and if you're really serious, do absolutely everything in your power to get the 16th amendment overturned, as that was the day our inevitable march to a state-controlled economy was enshrined in law.
This appears to be a grand unified theorem. The broader theme is institutional preservation. Each institution looks to build their preservation. This is true for political parties, government, agencies NGO’S, and private sector companies. Indeed, all institution looks to preserve themselves. I know this because I ran a significant public company. While there is nothing wrong with this human dynamic in theory, it gets out of hand when the urge to preserve overcomes the noble reasons that the institution was created in the first place. And that is why our founders were brilliant with checks and balances, checks that are now being overrun.
I don’t know if this is where you, Alex, want to focus. You should follow your passion. I reiterate an earlier comment that the response to Covid, including, but not limited to the vaccines, is the worst policy hour of modern times. It was built out of the opportunity for institutional preservation (political parties, agencies, pharma, teacher’s unions, etc). Fear was used to consolidate and preserve power. The needs of the populace were not important. The consequences of this global policy error will be felt for a century. Yes, this is a form of fascism.
I love this take, but curious your thoughts on something. Fundamentally you are correct but that every organisms first need is it’s preservation, from a single cell organism to the largest animal, our first priority is our own survival.
What’s unique about this, in my mind, isn’t that everything looks to preserve, but because we have a ponzi-scheme economic model (alll of us) - it’s not just sustenance that is required, but growth. And it is that constant need for growth that creates so much of the moral hazard.
I keep using the FBI for illustration purposes because it’s so easy and clean - but an FBI looking to survive would evaluate itself on crime reduction - that is, there will always be crime but the success of the organization would be measured on its ability to keep people safe and the allocation of resources would be determined by how safe people are. Very safe, we need less funds, not safe, we need less funds. It would always survive, but in this mode it wouldn’t grow (think of this like calories for an adult body).
Instead the FBI evaluates itself by the number of crimes it stops. Sure crime is going up overall and everyone is worse off but that means they’re also stopping more and more “crime” and so they continue to grow and expand.
When everything is evaluated through a debt-lense, this the natural outcome, and it’s that ponzi-scheme societal structure, and not the need to simply survive, that I believe is responsible for so many of our societal ills
Exactly! Could not have said it better. Growth creates more power. Growth creates individual opportunity to climb the ladder. Broth has a lot of positive dynamics for the institution. And you are right on the difference between artificial measurements-process measurements, and absolute outcome measurements.
You say, COVID response is the “worst policy hour of modern times”.
While it’s hard to disagree with that assessment… I wonder if the “Forever Wars” that were spawned by the American MIC would in fact take the proverbial crown - if the metric we’re using is blood and treasure.
Total lives lost?
Total dollars expended?
And for what, exactly?
Serbia. Somalia. Afghanistan. Iraq. Ukraine.
Remember when the First World War was known as the “war to end all wars”?
I would say the safety of ALL vaccines and the vaccine schedule for all people. As I learned when I turned Medicare age, there are many jabs for many ailments. There’s a big push by Medicare and by my insurance provider to “stay up to date on all (my) important vaccines. Not that I listen.... but many do.
I would like to see some perspective on how the government has been corrupted at every meaningful level. Institutions that I felt could not be flipped (military and not the spending component), DOJ, IRS, CDC, CIA, FBI, every 3 letter acronym agency including the FED.
I used to scoff at “truthers “ who said 9/11 was an inside job. After the last 4 years, I’ve been flipped....
I think Alex is too centrist to want to suggest that our institutions are possibly that far gone, although it does seem to me an increasingly untenable “middle ground”… I mean we literally have a “placeholder president” that is how banana republic we’ve become.
As for wacko conspiracy stuff — once you investigate what our intelligence agencies have been provably capable of… unthinkable other possibilities begin to be plausible.
I haven't read all of the replies but I would go out on a limb and bet that most if not all of the important issues mentioned in this thread have the same root cause. We have a corporatocracy where politicians do the bidding of corporations instead of the citizens of the country. If you write about that, you are likely addressing almost every single issue mentioned here.
You say, modestly, that newspapers can cover topics more extensively, and they probably can. But they don't, and I don't trust them anyway. They are just the echo chamber. I like that you drilled down, and deep, into the COVID pandemonium. I have used your SUBSTACK posts, and before that, the UNREPORTED... pamphlets, to counter the factless all over the world as I traveled, and bitched to high heaven about the restrictions.
I like that you avoid the exclusively political. As Breitbart so presciently said, "Politics is downstream from culture." So please, stick to the big issues.
So please, continue to document the aftershocks of the pandemonium of the past three years, but also go vertical into the other pressing issues. You know what they are.
stay on the medical industrial complex, but broaden it out on occasion to examine issues around drug legalization, and trans..., i think they are all connected to assert control and increase profits. i really appreciate an independent/science based voice around this issues
You have smart readers. All these comments are great. Agree climate change is a huge waste of time. I am a fan Alex. So far so good. Follow your heart.
Am I the only reader who thinks you should return to your (covid-era) roots and keep digging into the general covid issues that you were early and accurate about? To me that means not straying into other non-covid topics but also not narrowly hovering on MRNA safety/efficiency either. It seems to me you have largely ceded ground to other writers to keep fighting against the narratives that masks helped ("at the time" or whatever), lockdowns worked ("to some degree" or whatever), school closures were warranted ("We didn't know") etc. But they could use your help! There has been no general, open reputation of the pandemic era policies, just a quiet slinking away. We need the repudiation!
I know you cover some of this in your published books but there is still so much to say. The other side is not giving up trying to shape the historical record in its favor.
My two cents: The push for jabbing everybody with mRNA vaccines for one thing or another won't likely stop; climate change is an awfully big and time-diffusing topic; trans lunacy will terribly harm a lot of kids, yet not many journalists are exposing it.
Puberty blockers on kids is explosive and there are some who are writing and have been, but haven't received the exposure. I'm hoping it'll change. Maybe Alex can research it because of his background in researching pharmaceutical issues and this is ultimately about money.
Well let’s see where things stand if the new documentary NO WAY BACK (formerly titled Affirmation Generation) can get some traction. It was to have a one night showing at AMC theaters nationwide (unless the theater chain backs out.)
Alex, what matters most is election integrity. And election integrity. And election integrity. And did I mention, election integrity? If our elections are not fair, there's no point in debating ANY other issues. Our "betters" who decide the issues *for us* are doing so without our consent. For the love of God, please cover election integrity.
A May 2023 Rassmussen poll asked likely voters, "How likely is it that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election?"
Results:
Likely / Not Likely -
Dem: 45% / 50%
Ind: 64% / 28%
Rep: 80% / 16%
All: 62% / 32% (new record high)
62% believe cheating affected the outcome of our presidential election. The federal executive branch and its administration is what brought us COVID vaccine policy and the censorship which spurred Alex's important investigative journalism and lawfare. It's time to get to the heart of the matter, and no serious journalist seems to want to touch it.
Of even more importance is how many of us feel helpless to address possible cheating. In the back of my mind I am sure there are cheats, aren't there always cheats, somewhere? I am aware via Telegram of various ways cheating is/can/might be done - only on Telegram, rarely anywhere else can such things be discussed. That polling suggests many other citizens worry about the issue, good to know we are not alone but our discomfort is not reflected by media. Vested interests perhaps?
Obviously incumbents support the system that elevated them and are not likely to want change. Those cheated might have a cause but we rarely cheer sore losers, the American way, you see or a great PsyOp using that screed. So far the results of cheating have produced mostly mediocre leaders who are unlikely to out the huge incompetence already running the show. But such a system may have the ability to produce those with evil intent - those intent to end this American experiment following many long years of academics who think themselves wiser that we masses.
In the end we can hope that leaders emerge to challenge the system - the Yangs, Viveks, the Bobby's, even that ego driven Trump. Very powerful vested interests of the Uniparty are intent to suppress such radial leaders. Listen, we must.
For lack of a better way to put it...what crfe said 😃
Yep (see below).
Hi Alex,
I’d like to see you report more on the WHOs proposed global pandemic response treaty that will almost guarantee more lockdowns and human rights breaches in the future.
Thanks.
THE WHO!!!! This is BIG and affects everything!!!!
Best answer!
Free speech has got to be number one on the list.
One more thing I think is extremely important and is also overlaps with Covid issues is DIGITAL CURRENCY. If we approve "Health Passports", we are one step away...
I'd like to see you explore the woke changes in medical schools and the graduates they will produce.
No climate change messaging, please.
Agree. As a medical school professor I saw the change from seeking students most likely to master the ever increasing information needed for optimal care to balancing irrelevant student characteristics.
I heard one distressed med student say that his whole class was not allowed to access a training video of some sort because someone in the class had a disability. Then he strongly advised: don’t see any doc under 40, if I recall.
Keep on mRNA. They are not going away and it is my understanding there are several in the pipeline (I am certain we will be told that they'll get it right next time).
Focus on the fundamental underlying issue behind the vast majority of our systemic issues - healthcare, education, military, tech, etc. ALL of them are corrupted by forced public/private partnerships.
I did a giant stack on this, but you can watch the death of every industry in America by the date at which the legislation that made it a moral hazard, that is the public bears the risk but the profits are privatized, was signed into law.
Banking when the Fed was enshrined, Pharma in the 1980's, but REALLY exploding after Obama-Care, the military post WWI when military production stopped being reallocation of existing businesses (auto-manufacturers pivoted to making military goods) and became an industry all its own, tech post section 230, etc. I could go on and on, but every one of the areas of life where we're losing freedom, we're losing freedom specifically because private enterprise has been hijacked by public control, the risks reallocated (to the benefit of the oligarchs running the "private" enterprise) and at the expense of free-market competition and consumer control.
When the market stops functioning, the people lose, and that's the underlying issue in every single email you received.
You ever want this to change - don't vote for anyone who's been in office for more than 6 years, don't EVER, EVER, EVER vote for tax increases on anyone, any time, for any reason, EVER, and if you're really serious, do absolutely everything in your power to get the 16th amendment overturned, as that was the day our inevitable march to a state-controlled economy was enshrined in law.
I did WAY too long of a piece on this here - https://butthedatasays.substack.com/p/has-the-american-dream-been-eaten?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 - but someone with the writing chops and investigative talents of Alex could do WAY better than I was able too on a topic like this.
This isn't just one book, it's a series of books on the slow corruption, through state control, of every major facet of American life.
This appears to be a grand unified theorem. The broader theme is institutional preservation. Each institution looks to build their preservation. This is true for political parties, government, agencies NGO’S, and private sector companies. Indeed, all institution looks to preserve themselves. I know this because I ran a significant public company. While there is nothing wrong with this human dynamic in theory, it gets out of hand when the urge to preserve overcomes the noble reasons that the institution was created in the first place. And that is why our founders were brilliant with checks and balances, checks that are now being overrun.
I don’t know if this is where you, Alex, want to focus. You should follow your passion. I reiterate an earlier comment that the response to Covid, including, but not limited to the vaccines, is the worst policy hour of modern times. It was built out of the opportunity for institutional preservation (political parties, agencies, pharma, teacher’s unions, etc). Fear was used to consolidate and preserve power. The needs of the populace were not important. The consequences of this global policy error will be felt for a century. Yes, this is a form of fascism.
I love this take, but curious your thoughts on something. Fundamentally you are correct but that every organisms first need is it’s preservation, from a single cell organism to the largest animal, our first priority is our own survival.
What’s unique about this, in my mind, isn’t that everything looks to preserve, but because we have a ponzi-scheme economic model (alll of us) - it’s not just sustenance that is required, but growth. And it is that constant need for growth that creates so much of the moral hazard.
I keep using the FBI for illustration purposes because it’s so easy and clean - but an FBI looking to survive would evaluate itself on crime reduction - that is, there will always be crime but the success of the organization would be measured on its ability to keep people safe and the allocation of resources would be determined by how safe people are. Very safe, we need less funds, not safe, we need less funds. It would always survive, but in this mode it wouldn’t grow (think of this like calories for an adult body).
Instead the FBI evaluates itself by the number of crimes it stops. Sure crime is going up overall and everyone is worse off but that means they’re also stopping more and more “crime” and so they continue to grow and expand.
When everything is evaluated through a debt-lense, this the natural outcome, and it’s that ponzi-scheme societal structure, and not the need to simply survive, that I believe is responsible for so many of our societal ills
Exactly! Could not have said it better. Growth creates more power. Growth creates individual opportunity to climb the ladder. Broth has a lot of positive dynamics for the institution. And you are right on the difference between artificial measurements-process measurements, and absolute outcome measurements.
You say, COVID response is the “worst policy hour of modern times”.
While it’s hard to disagree with that assessment… I wonder if the “Forever Wars” that were spawned by the American MIC would in fact take the proverbial crown - if the metric we’re using is blood and treasure.
Total lives lost?
Total dollars expended?
And for what, exactly?
Serbia. Somalia. Afghanistan. Iraq. Ukraine.
Remember when the First World War was known as the “war to end all wars”?
And yet here we are.
Umm…I think there’s a word for it…oh ahhh… could it be fascism? One that is up/down rather than conventionally right/left?
The safety of childhood vaccines and the vaccine schedule.
I would say the safety of ALL vaccines and the vaccine schedule for all people. As I learned when I turned Medicare age, there are many jabs for many ailments. There’s a big push by Medicare and by my insurance provider to “stay up to date on all (my) important vaccines. Not that I listen.... but many do.
I would like to see some perspective on how the government has been corrupted at every meaningful level. Institutions that I felt could not be flipped (military and not the spending component), DOJ, IRS, CDC, CIA, FBI, every 3 letter acronym agency including the FED.
I used to scoff at “truthers “ who said 9/11 was an inside job. After the last 4 years, I’ve been flipped....
I think Alex is too centrist to want to suggest that our institutions are possibly that far gone, although it does seem to me an increasingly untenable “middle ground”… I mean we literally have a “placeholder president” that is how banana republic we’ve become.
As for wacko conspiracy stuff — once you investigate what our intelligence agencies have been provably capable of… unthinkable other possibilities begin to be plausible.
Election integrity?
I haven't read all of the replies but I would go out on a limb and bet that most if not all of the important issues mentioned in this thread have the same root cause. We have a corporatocracy where politicians do the bidding of corporations instead of the citizens of the country. If you write about that, you are likely addressing almost every single issue mentioned here.
[You agree with “DataSays” comment above.]
Amen!
You say, modestly, that newspapers can cover topics more extensively, and they probably can. But they don't, and I don't trust them anyway. They are just the echo chamber. I like that you drilled down, and deep, into the COVID pandemonium. I have used your SUBSTACK posts, and before that, the UNREPORTED... pamphlets, to counter the factless all over the world as I traveled, and bitched to high heaven about the restrictions.
I like that you avoid the exclusively political. As Breitbart so presciently said, "Politics is downstream from culture." So please, stick to the big issues.
So please, continue to document the aftershocks of the pandemonium of the past three years, but also go vertical into the other pressing issues. You know what they are.
And thanks.
stay on the medical industrial complex, but broaden it out on occasion to examine issues around drug legalization, and trans..., i think they are all connected to assert control and increase profits. i really appreciate an independent/science based voice around this issues
You have smart readers. All these comments are great. Agree climate change is a huge waste of time. I am a fan Alex. So far so good. Follow your heart.
Am I the only reader who thinks you should return to your (covid-era) roots and keep digging into the general covid issues that you were early and accurate about? To me that means not straying into other non-covid topics but also not narrowly hovering on MRNA safety/efficiency either. It seems to me you have largely ceded ground to other writers to keep fighting against the narratives that masks helped ("at the time" or whatever), lockdowns worked ("to some degree" or whatever), school closures were warranted ("We didn't know") etc. But they could use your help! There has been no general, open reputation of the pandemic era policies, just a quiet slinking away. We need the repudiation!
I know you cover some of this in your published books but there is still so much to say. The other side is not giving up trying to shape the historical record in its favor.
Super important comment!
My two cents: The push for jabbing everybody with mRNA vaccines for one thing or another won't likely stop; climate change is an awfully big and time-diffusing topic; trans lunacy will terribly harm a lot of kids, yet not many journalists are exposing it.
Puberty blockers on kids is explosive and there are some who are writing and have been, but haven't received the exposure. I'm hoping it'll change. Maybe Alex can research it because of his background in researching pharmaceutical issues and this is ultimately about money.
Well let’s see where things stand if the new documentary NO WAY BACK (formerly titled Affirmation Generation) can get some traction. It was to have a one night showing at AMC theaters nationwide (unless the theater chain backs out.)
Which they did apparently
https://cmsedit.cbn.com/cbnnews/entertainment/2023/june/amc-theaters-cancel-documentary-on-reality-of-gender-affirming-care