Comments on: Open thread 2/2/23

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:54:58 +0000

Ahem, everyone…please sit down…
Andrew McCarthy unloads a roundhouse to the Presidential chin presumably trying to redeem himself (AND to make up for lost time AND for barking up questionable trees)…even as Jonathan Turley continues with his relentless, pin-point jabbing.
(Tag-team boxing?)
McCarthy:
“Hunter Biden’s ridiculous legal letter trying to distract from real scandal — Joe Biden”—
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/hunter-bidens-legal-letter-is-trying-to-distract-from-joe-biden/
Turley:
“Hunter Biden’s legal threats have no merit — and raise serious constitutional and political questions”—
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/hunter-bidens-legal-threats-have-no-merit-raises-political-questions/

And so…with “his” back against the wall, it’s time for “Biden” to go after those anti-American, Deplorable, Insurrectionist critics good and hard…in fact, relentlessly. No doubt “he”‘d simply like to toss ’em in the Presidential Dungeon along with all those Jan. 6 people…(And hey, what’s there to stop “him”? The Constitution? The Media?)

File under: Indecent Joe.

+ Bonus:
“Hunter Biden begs friends, dad Joe’s employees to get him off the hook”—
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/hunter-biden-begs-friends-dad-joes-employees-to-get-him-off-the-hook/

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:29:12 +0000

When it rains it pours…
” ‘The Scandal Would Be Enormous’: Pfizer Director Worried About Vax-Induced Menstrual Irregularities”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/scandal-would-be-enormous-pfizer-director-worried-about-vax-induced-menstrual
(Same dude who unloaded on that Pfizer GOF effort…(but don’t worry; it’s a GOF that’s NOT a GOF). Guy apparently REALLY, REALLY wanted to impress his—undercover VERITAS—date…and it would seem that he SURE DID MAKE AN IMPRESSION….)
Key phrase:
“There is something irregular about the menstrual cycles. So, people will have to investigate that down the line…”
Down the line.
Right
Got it.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:50:43 +0000

PA Cat,

That’s good news regarding Chuck, but poor Charlotte. RIP. She volunteers to sub for Chuck and ends up six feet under, never to emerge from her burrow (shadow, or no) again.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 10:46:49 +0000

Looks as though New Zealand is right up there with the heavy hitters when it comes to Covid coverups…
(…with certain “hints” as to why former-PM Ardern may have believed it was the right moment to say, um, good-bye, see ya’, it was fun and I’m proud to have served you…)…
“Health chiefs admit vaccine link to heart and kidney damage – and the MSM say nothing”—
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/health-chiefs-admit-vaccine-link-to-heart-and-kidney-damage-and-the-msm-say-nothing/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Key grafs:
“A PREPRINT paper has just been published in the Lancet authored by the New Zealand Ministry of Health, ‘Adverse Events Following the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (Pfizer-BioNtech) in Aotearoa New Zealand’. The paper reveals that there is a statistically significant association between Pfizer mRNA vaccination and both myocarditis and acute kidney injury (AKI). Here in little New Zealand, you wouldn’t know it though. MSM has not covered it, anywhere….
“…GPs and hospital staff have been deliberately manipulated by government propaganda into believing that the mRNA vaccine is safe. GPs who advised their patients that there were risks associated with the jab were told they might be struck off if they persisted – some actually were.
“The NZ Ministry of Health did not warn district health boards of the risk of myocarditis until mid-December 2021, near the end of the period covered by the study. This MoH advice described vaccine-induced myocarditis as rare and generally mild. Prior to this there was an obvious incentive to disbelieve and dismiss patients reporting cardiac symptoms. Because GPs were afraid to make any association between the jabs and health conditions, they were also disincentivised to order tests or advise hospitalisation.
“There has been no general advice of the risk of renal failure post mRNA vaccination. My local school received a visit from a GP informing staff and students that there were no safety issues with the vaccine and that it had been rigorously tested for over 30 years, a downright lie. As a result, a teacher friend with persistent chest pains had no idea it might be connected with vaccination and did not seek medical help until he unburdened himself to me.
“When Jacinda Ardern wrote on her Facebook page that people could comment on adverse effects, expecting a few replies about mild discomfort, 33,000 comments were posted within a matter of hours. Ardern’s staff famously stayed up all night to delete them. [Emphasis mine; Barry M.] As of November 2022, the government has acknowledged only two deaths associated with mRNA vaccination. There are persistent third-party reports circulating that the Ministry of Health made some payments to families whose children died following vaccination on condition that they would not make public comments. As a result, these reports cannot be reliably confirmed or ruled out. If true, possibly these were aimed at reducing vaccine hesitancy among the young.
“A concerning issue here is the attitude of the media to reports of vaccine injury. They are ignoring them. Even published studies such as this one are receiving no attention whatsoever. MSM appears to have relinquished its investigative role, leaving the public in the dark….”
Etc., etc., etc.

This goes BEYOND scandal and into the realm of the criminal. At best, criminal negligence; at worst…conspiracy to commit harm, even manslaughter? On a massive scale?

And is NZ typical? What can be said about other “enlightened” countries around the world…?

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:51:04 +0000

And from the “Of the People, By the People, For the People” Files…

“Record 285,000 Illinois Residents Saw Power Shut-Offs Due To Non-Payment In 2022”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/record-285000-illinois-residents-saw-power-shut-offs-due-non-payment-2022

Considering how responsible they’ve been WRT supplying energy, might one wonder what the “Powers that Be” have in store “for the people” as the next bomb cyclone hits…

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:36:48 +0000

The “real story” gets out by drips and drabs…
…as we learn more on how the Covid “experts” demonstrated their “expertise”…
(AKA the Narrative(TM) takes a hit…assuming that anyone finds out about it(!))…
“Inside The Secret Government Meeting On COVID-19 Natural Immunity”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/inside-secret-government-meeting-covid-19-natural-immunity
Opening grafs (RTWT):
‘ Four of the highest ranking U.S. health officials—including Dr. Anthony Fauci—met in secret to discuss whether or not naturally immune people should be exempt from getting COVID-19 vaccines, The Epoch Times can reveal.
‘The officials brought in four outside experts to discuss whether the protection gained after recovering from COVID-19—known as natural immunity—should count as one or more vaccine doses.
‘ “There was interest in several people in the administration in hearing basically the opinions of four immunologists in terms of what we thought about … natural infection as contributing to protection against moderate to severe disease, and to what extent that should influence dosing,” Dr. Paul Offit, one of the experts, told The Epoch Times.
‘ Offit and another expert took the position that the naturally immune need fewer doses. The other two experts argued natural immunity shouldn’t count as anything.
‘ The discussion did not lead to a change in U.S. vaccination policy, which has never acknowledged post-infection protection.Fauci and the other U.S. officials who heard from the experts have repeatedly downplayed that protection, claiming that it is inferior to vaccine-bestowed immunity. Most studies on the subject indicate the opposite.
‘The meeting, held in October 2021, was briefly discussed before on a podcast. The Epoch Times has independently confirmed the meeting took place, identified all of the participants, and uncovered other key details.
‘Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University who did not participate in the meeting, criticized how such a consequential discussion took place behind closed doors with only a few people present.
‘ “It was a really impactful decision that they made in private with a very small number of people involved. And they reached the wrong decision,” Bhattacharya told The Epoch Times….’ [All emphasis mine; Barry M.]

Was it really “the wrong decision”? It sure earned Fauci et al. one heckuva lot of money, enabled “Biden” to win the 2020 election and succeeded in giving the government extraordinary control over the population, promote general hysteria and feelings of disgust, fear and hatred for the unvaxed (via official pronouncements and ADVERTISEMENTS)…while helping to badly damage the economy and the lives of many people.
Not bad, eh?
(Ergo…the absolutely right decision…?)

File under: Natural Venality.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:14:00 +0000

Is there any information on whether Fred was vaccinated?
(I suspect he was—after all, it’s Canada—but don’t know for sure…)

By: Hubert

Hubert — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 04:33:49 +0000

PA+Cat: I preferred tourtière (French-Canadian meat pie) and Labatt’s Blue. One can get poutine in restaurants throughout New England, but you might have to head over to Rhode Island for it. A now-defunct family restaurant on the main street in Keene, New Hampshire used to do it pretty well. Definitely a cold-weather dish.

By: Gregory Harper

Gregory Harper — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 03:07:50 +0000

I knew a guy from Sheffield who said thou, sen, and nowt among other things. A strong Yorkshire accent is hard thing to decipher.

By: PA+Cat

PA+Cat — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:55:23 +0000

Hubert: Did you and your schoolmates swap poutine recipes?