Ne’er has there been more fertile ground that exemplifies how those in charge of the narrative are either (1) grossly incompetent, (2) saying what they need to simply to suit their own agenda, or (3) both - than the topics of Covid, inflation, Trump’s non-existent Russian collusion and Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Because I have written extensively about these issues over the last year, I had been putting aside a collection of quotes from the “authorities” on each topic. I thought this morning I would release all the quotes I had put aside as one giant compendium showing just how important it is to automatically agree with whatever our masters in the mainstream media/government suggest to us.
Given that we now know almost definitively (in my opinion) that Covid came from a lab, that inflation is here to stay, that Trump didn’t collude with Russia and that the laptop was definitely authentic, enjoy this trip down memory lane.
"You're not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations.” - Joe Biden, July 2021
“Fact: Covid-19 is NOT airborne.” - World Health Organization, March 2020
"Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else," she added with a shrug. "It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people. [Vaccines] will get us to the end of this." - Rachel Maddow, March 2021
"When people are vaccinated they can feel safe that they won't get infected, whether they're outdoors or indoors." - Dr. Anthony Fauci, May 2021
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual. It’s very rare.” - Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, March 2020
“Asymptomatic infection may be rare, and transmission from an asymptomatic person is very rare with other coronaviruses, as we have seen with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. Thus transmission from asymptomatic cases is likely not a major driver of transmission.” - World Health Organization, February 2020
"We really do not think this is the time for Americans to be going out and getting masks,” CDC’s Nancy Messonnier, MD, March 2020
"Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.
"The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you." - Dr. Anthony Fauci, February 2020
"For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm." - White House Covid Coordinator Jeff Zients, December 2021
“Vaccination against COVID-19 prevents breakthrough infections, Stanford researchers find.” - Stanford Medicine, July 2021
“If we can get the overwhelming proportion of people vaccinated in the country, we will do very very well. Just the same way as we’re all protected from measles because the level of protection from measles is very very good in this country. It’s 90-some-odd percent.” - Dr. Anthony Fauci, August 6, 2021
“Virus researchers say there is virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as result of a laboratory accident in China or anywhere else.” - NPR, April 2020
"The real risk is in the wild in the way people interact with wildlife around the world. That's where we need to be focused if we want to really do something about preventing the next pandemic." - Peter Daszak, April 2020
“…the “lab leak hypothesis” will remain a conspiracy theory, while the zoonotic origin hypothesis remains overwhelmingly supported by the evidence at hand.” - Forbes, June 2021
"Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab" - Peter Daszak, June 2020
“Inflation has risen, largely reflecting transitory factors.” - FOMC, April 2021
“[Inflation] isn’t likely to be permanent, which is why I’m still on Team Transitory.” - Alan Blinder, December 2021
“I still don’t see any evidence that 1970s-type stagflation, in which everyone kept raising prices because they expected everyone else to keep raising prices, is emerging.” - Paul Krugman, December 2021
“We are not overly concerned because we’re already seeing signs that inflationary pressures are beginning to ease. I do think we are on the other side of the inflation problem.” - Cathie Wood, June 2022
“Inflation is ‘transitory’.” - Jerome Powell, June 2021
“…incoming data are very much consistent with the view that these are factors that will wane over time and then inflation will move down toward our goals.” - Jerome Powell, June 2021
“The nightmare of surging prices is starting to fade away, according to new projections from the Congressional Budget Office. The agency expects inflation to slow to a 4% pace by the end of 2022 from March's 6.6% rate.” - CBO, May 2022
“Inflation in the U.S. increased more than what was predicted in April, but some indicators point to the worst possibly being over.” - Newsweek, May 2022
"There is a New York Post article that is false. It’s much better for Twitter to let people read The New York Post article and sit there and laugh at the hokie story of a computer repairman looking at a computer, going, ‘This sure does look suspicious to me. I’m going to call Rudy Giuliani.” - Joe Scarborough, October 2020
“It’s all a smear. Every serious investigator has pointed out that this is a smear. This is classic Trump. We have 4 days left and all of a sudden there’s a laptop. There’s overwhelming evidence that the Russian’s did this. My son’s an honorable man.” - President Biden, October 2020
“More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” - Politico, October 2020
‘The New York Post reporter who wrote most of the article refused to put his name on it because of concerns about its credibility, two Post employees have said.” - The NY Times, October 2020
“Trump and his allies say there is evidence of corruption in emails and documents allegedly found on a laptop belonging to Democrat Joe Biden’s son…But the Wall Street Journal and Fox News — among the only news organizations that have been given access to key documents — found that the emails and other records don’t make that case. Leaving aside the many questions about their provenance, the materials offered no evidence that Joe Biden played any role in his son’s dealings in China, let alone profited from them, both news organizations concluded.” - NBC News, October 2020
“There certainly was communication and there certainly was an understanding of some sort. Because there’s no doubt in my mind that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin wanted me to lose and wanted Trump to win. And there’s no doubt in my mind that there are a tangle of financial relationships between Trump and his operation with Russian money. And there’s no doubt in my mind that the Trump campaign and other associates have worked really hard to hide their connections with Russians.” - Hillary Clinton, September 2017
“I think there is direct evidence in the emails from the Russians through their intermediary offering dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what is described in writing as the Russian government effort to help elect Donald Trump.” - Adam Schiff, March 2019
“The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help. The Russians gave help and the President made full use of that help.” - Adam Schiff, December 2017
“Undoubtedly there is collusion. We will continue to investigate the counterintelligence issues. That is, is the president or people around him compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power? . . . It doesn’t appear that was any part of Mueller’s report.” - Adam Schiff, March 2019
And some of my favorite videos.
The media telling the world Joe Rogan was taking horse de-wormer:
Chris, I don't doubt that most of what you have presented are good examples of misinformation/disinformation. However if we're going to be objective about this stuff, where are the Fox & OAN etc clips and pundit commentary? If you don't present that info. then all your doing is reinforcing the same misinformation/disinformation bubbles - only show left of center examples, but nothing from right of center pundits/experts. There is no value in doing that as the majority of people who follow you are just hearing what they want to hear. I could run a thousand examples of the same thing from FOX/OAN etc and we'd all be scratching our heads going WTF! My point is why don't you do your clients a service and show how bad it is on both sides, because that is the root of the problem that is F...ing up democracies around the world.
Finally you have none of the misinformation/disinformation on election rigging/stop the steal & the J6 insurrection - let's look at the lies perppetrated by Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, The Five etc every day. That is clearly the biggest threat to all our freedoms & liberty!
All I'm asking is if we are cynical about this stuff(which we are) then give us both sides. Your clients are smart & pretty well informed but many are locked inside the misinformation/disinformation bubble. The only way we break this vicious cycle is to start fighting back with balanced commentary/journalism, something that social media has helped destroy! Surely you get where I'm coming from?
The Ukraine war, hands down. Everything about it is not only fake, but extremely ruinous to all parties involved.
Everything the US/"NATO" has been doing in Ukraine - from the bioweapons labs, to the fomenting of Nazi culture, to giving them the missiles they use to kill innocent people in villages - is far darker than just electing President "10% for the Big Guy". Absolutely horrifying.
Nobody's cheering Russia on because they particularly 'love' Russia. It's the horror and revulsion of the things we do in that horrid place to provoke a manufactured enemy - and it is, in every sense of the word, a manufactured enemy. "We" need them to keep all of the grifts going. Things should have *never* gotten to the point that they are right now.
There was an article posted somewhere a few days ago about how the lack of electricity was going to close down a 100 year old business in England, forcing England to purchase whatever the product was from...Russia. I wish I had bookmarked it or something because of how absolutely unreal it was.
The Mir system is going to take over for global payments. It's been in the making for a long time. Things are so criminally stupid right now that the only reason that makes any sense for things to be so upside down is because it's being done on purpose. And to what end? What is the goal of all of this controlled collapse?
The biggest threat to this Republic isn't a bunch of country bumpkins walking around Congress. It's the repeal of the Smith/Mundt Act. All media outlets are now wholly controlled by the government and the minute you point out the glaring lies, you're deemed a 'threat'. You're a Nazi for not wanting your tax dollars to go towards arming literal Ukraine Nazis. You're a racist if you don't support the millions of people walking through our borders. You're a homophobe if you don't think kids should be castrated or sexualized.
"I don't think we'll see another financial crisis in our lifetime" maybe Janet was just trying to be self deprecating about her age?? And to be fair we haven't seen one like '08 yet, but the wall cloud is visible on the horizon and headed this way
This past Sunday (18-Sep): “Well, first of all, let’s put this in perspective,” Biden said. “Inflation rate month to month was just — just an inch, hardly at all.”
The CCP United Front Work Department tends to fund left-wing organisations across the world, and also exert significant influence over organisations such as The World Bank and WHO.
And yet it makes absolutely no difference to shit libs. In fact, they double down. This isn't about scoring points in a college debate. It's about power and winning no matter what. Cuz we semi fascists are all little Hitlers.
When the Ukraine war started there was an Army general on Twitter who used video game footage to talk about how the Ukes were really sticking it to the Russians
Just focusing on one side is why America is divided (yes Trump was right on about Europe's dependence on Russia oil and so on, he was right on lots of things but he's the biggest non-truth teller of all lol). I suggest to readers to read both viewpoints to get a balanced perspective. For example, follow and read AARON RUPAR's substack and Twitter, just read and tell me what you see. I follow both left and right wingers as well as centrists so you don't get sucked into your own propaganda bubble of mis/dis-information and pure bias partisanship.
The medical quotes have nothing to do with political party, they're just bold faced lies and regardless of whether one is democrat, republican or independent, one should be incensed and hold these people accountable.
I say we start an annual media recognition award for outstanding reporting along the lines of the Darwin awards. We could name it the Baghdad Bob ( remember him?) Memorial award for outstanding journalistic reporting.
I was searching for a direct quote and date for the fallacious claim that "the economy will come roaring back" circa 2020. However, it turns out that (at least) Mnuchin, Pence and Trump (et al) repeated various permutations of the line beginning around March 18, 2020 and proceeding throughout the year into the fall. It has later been repeated by Democrats under Biden.
First Mnuchin and then Mike Pence repeated the claim on the same day and assured the people of America that once this pandemic is over that the economy will come “roaring back.”
In early July 2020, Trump was at the podium basically proclaim victory saying that the June jobs numbers prove that the "economy is roaring back" and that it was "spectacular news".
In late August 2020, John Peterson (owner of Schuette Metals in Rothchild, Wisconsin) spoke at the RNC to say that "Trump is rebuilding and our economy is roaring back again".
Also in late August 2020, Mnuchin told a House subcommittee that the Economy Is Recovering but "More Work" Is Needed to Alleviate Pain. He was quoted as saying “Whether it is $1 trillion or $1.5 trillion, again, let’s not get caught on a number."
That was however not good enough. The Democrats wanted $3.4 TRILLION. Mnuchin said that lawmakers should not worry about the “top line” amount. When asked about Trump's claim (actually Mnuchin's own as well), that the "economy is roaring back", he said “Relative to shutting off the entire economy and relative to people thinking we would have 40 million unemployed, we are doing great."
In mid May 2021, Governor Newsom said about his $100 Billion California Comeback Plan, "This is a jumpstart for our local economies, and it’s how we’ll bring California roaring back.”
In July 2021, when Newsom signed the bill he said “Harnessing the largest surplus in state history, we’re making transformative investments across the board that will help bring all our communities roaring back from the pandemic – and pay dividends for generations to come".
Also in July 2021, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said that Biden's leadership is the reason "America's economy is roaring back".
In September 2021, Governor Jared Polis said that Colorado's high vaccination rate is part of why their economy is roaring back.
There's dozens of pundits, national and local news outlets, etc., that have repeated the claim including the word "roaring" during this time. They are too numerous and not worth quoting apart from pointing out that such application being used for/against whomever their agenda sought to support or speak against respectively.
There a Seinfeld episode where Costanza reasons that if all natural instinct are wrong, that he should just do the opposite. It was a great episode.
That is currently how I view life whenever the propaganda box say something.
I just do the complete opposite, and usually I and up on the right side
US withdrawal from Afghanistan will be well planned and orderly. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/08/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-drawdown-of-u-s-forces-in-afghanistan/
Speechless. Even living through it, to see it all laid out like this, I have just one question: What. The. Fuck?
Brilliant. Thank you.
One for the Time Capsule - The aliens will never believe this!
Chris, I don't doubt that most of what you have presented are good examples of misinformation/disinformation. However if we're going to be objective about this stuff, where are the Fox & OAN etc clips and pundit commentary? If you don't present that info. then all your doing is reinforcing the same misinformation/disinformation bubbles - only show left of center examples, but nothing from right of center pundits/experts. There is no value in doing that as the majority of people who follow you are just hearing what they want to hear. I could run a thousand examples of the same thing from FOX/OAN etc and we'd all be scratching our heads going WTF! My point is why don't you do your clients a service and show how bad it is on both sides, because that is the root of the problem that is F...ing up democracies around the world.
Finally you have none of the misinformation/disinformation on election rigging/stop the steal & the J6 insurrection - let's look at the lies perppetrated by Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, The Five etc every day. That is clearly the biggest threat to all our freedoms & liberty!
All I'm asking is if we are cynical about this stuff(which we are) then give us both sides. Your clients are smart & pretty well informed but many are locked inside the misinformation/disinformation bubble. The only way we break this vicious cycle is to start fighting back with balanced commentary/journalism, something that social media has helped destroy! Surely you get where I'm coming from?
The Ukraine war, hands down. Everything about it is not only fake, but extremely ruinous to all parties involved.
Everything the US/"NATO" has been doing in Ukraine - from the bioweapons labs, to the fomenting of Nazi culture, to giving them the missiles they use to kill innocent people in villages - is far darker than just electing President "10% for the Big Guy". Absolutely horrifying.
Nobody's cheering Russia on because they particularly 'love' Russia. It's the horror and revulsion of the things we do in that horrid place to provoke a manufactured enemy - and it is, in every sense of the word, a manufactured enemy. "We" need them to keep all of the grifts going. Things should have *never* gotten to the point that they are right now.
There was an article posted somewhere a few days ago about how the lack of electricity was going to close down a 100 year old business in England, forcing England to purchase whatever the product was from...Russia. I wish I had bookmarked it or something because of how absolutely unreal it was.
The Mir system is going to take over for global payments. It's been in the making for a long time. Things are so criminally stupid right now that the only reason that makes any sense for things to be so upside down is because it's being done on purpose. And to what end? What is the goal of all of this controlled collapse?
The biggest threat to this Republic isn't a bunch of country bumpkins walking around Congress. It's the repeal of the Smith/Mundt Act. All media outlets are now wholly controlled by the government and the minute you point out the glaring lies, you're deemed a 'threat'. You're a Nazi for not wanting your tax dollars to go towards arming literal Ukraine Nazis. You're a racist if you don't support the millions of people walking through our borders. You're a homophobe if you don't think kids should be castrated or sexualized.
It's all so incredibly tiresome.
Inflation is transitory
Subprime is contained
"I don't think we'll see another financial crisis in our lifetime" maybe Janet was just trying to be self deprecating about her age?? And to be fair we haven't seen one like '08 yet, but the wall cloud is visible on the horizon and headed this way
Bloomberg's latest opinion piece: "Ready to work until you die? America needs you"
clown world
This past Sunday (18-Sep): “Well, first of all, let’s put this in perspective,” Biden said. “Inflation rate month to month was just — just an inch, hardly at all.”
great stuff
The CCP United Front Work Department tends to fund left-wing organisations across the world, and also exert significant influence over organisations such as The World Bank and WHO.
And yet it makes absolutely no difference to shit libs. In fact, they double down. This isn't about scoring points in a college debate. It's about power and winning no matter what. Cuz we semi fascists are all little Hitlers.
99% of the hospitalized are unvaccinated.
CNN rolls the tape on Fox News hosts' anti-vaccine rhetoric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJufOyAbis
We have to pass the bill to know whats inside it..
....it will be contained to the sub prime market.
We can never go broke...we have a thing called the printing press
Your newsletter has gone from decent to bad to horrible. I’m didn’t sign up to this newsletter to hear MAGA propaganda.
Always nice to take a trip down memory lane so we don't forget. Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Kunstler has his usual spot on view of the world.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/a-walk-on-the-wild-side/
When the Ukraine war started there was an Army general on Twitter who used video game footage to talk about how the Ukes were really sticking it to the Russians
Real American leadership right there
Just focusing on one side is why America is divided (yes Trump was right on about Europe's dependence on Russia oil and so on, he was right on lots of things but he's the biggest non-truth teller of all lol). I suggest to readers to read both viewpoints to get a balanced perspective. For example, follow and read AARON RUPAR's substack and Twitter, just read and tell me what you see. I follow both left and right wingers as well as centrists so you don't get sucked into your own propaganda bubble of mis/dis-information and pure bias partisanship.
The medical quotes have nothing to do with political party, they're just bold faced lies and regardless of whether one is democrat, republican or independent, one should be incensed and hold these people accountable.
The EU vote against Hungary is another great example
I say we start an annual media recognition award for outstanding reporting along the lines of the Darwin awards. We could name it the Baghdad Bob ( remember him?) Memorial award for outstanding journalistic reporting.
I was searching for a direct quote and date for the fallacious claim that "the economy will come roaring back" circa 2020. However, it turns out that (at least) Mnuchin, Pence and Trump (et al) repeated various permutations of the line beginning around March 18, 2020 and proceeding throughout the year into the fall. It has later been repeated by Democrats under Biden.
First Mnuchin and then Mike Pence repeated the claim on the same day and assured the people of America that once this pandemic is over that the economy will come “roaring back.”
In early July 2020, Trump was at the podium basically proclaim victory saying that the June jobs numbers prove that the "economy is roaring back" and that it was "spectacular news".
In late August 2020, John Peterson (owner of Schuette Metals in Rothchild, Wisconsin) spoke at the RNC to say that "Trump is rebuilding and our economy is roaring back again".
Also in late August 2020, Mnuchin told a House subcommittee that the Economy Is Recovering but "More Work" Is Needed to Alleviate Pain. He was quoted as saying “Whether it is $1 trillion or $1.5 trillion, again, let’s not get caught on a number."
That was however not good enough. The Democrats wanted $3.4 TRILLION. Mnuchin said that lawmakers should not worry about the “top line” amount. When asked about Trump's claim (actually Mnuchin's own as well), that the "economy is roaring back", he said “Relative to shutting off the entire economy and relative to people thinking we would have 40 million unemployed, we are doing great."
In mid May 2021, Governor Newsom said about his $100 Billion California Comeback Plan, "This is a jumpstart for our local economies, and it’s how we’ll bring California roaring back.”
In July 2021, when Newsom signed the bill he said “Harnessing the largest surplus in state history, we’re making transformative investments across the board that will help bring all our communities roaring back from the pandemic – and pay dividends for generations to come".
Also in July 2021, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said that Biden's leadership is the reason "America's economy is roaring back".
In September 2021, Governor Jared Polis said that Colorado's high vaccination rate is part of why their economy is roaring back.
There's dozens of pundits, national and local news outlets, etc., that have repeated the claim including the word "roaring" during this time. They are too numerous and not worth quoting apart from pointing out that such application being used for/against whomever their agenda sought to support or speak against respectively.