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Increasingly, there are no Words
A vaccination is a medical intervention that PREVENTS an illness. If you take a vaccination, and you never get the illness — as in a smallpox vaccination — then the vaccination was successful. If you take a vaccination — actually two vaccinations, plus two boosters — and you STILL get the illness, then the vaccination was a failure. It was ineffective. More research will be needed.
Imagine, if with any other product or service (medical or otherwise), people were morally shamed and legally coerced into utilizing, taking or purchasing that product — in spite of the fact that the product was not effective as advertised. In any other case, the manufacturers would be sued and the federal government would use its full force to outlaw the product.
In today’s scenario, the exact opposite is true. With this one product, you are forced to use it. You are coerced to put it into your body (and your child’s or infant’s body) at the price of losing your income, your livelihood or your ability to do just about anything else required to survive and flourish in life — go to the store, the movies, fly on a plane, etc. Failing that, you are morally ground into the dust by everything and everyone for daring even to question whether the vaccine might or might not be the best idea for you at the present time. This very post you’re reading probably will not be on social media in another 18-24 hours.
Imagine an ineffective product — a car that stops running after 10,000 miles, or a computer that only works for two weeks — whose ineffectiveness is blamed on THE FACT THAT NOT EVERYONE BOUGHT IT. The irrationality of such a context is too absurd to contemplate. Yet that’s the hideous reality in which we now live.
None of this is sane. None of this is justified. None of this is rational, benevolent or civilized. It’s a grotesque perversion of medical science to call anything remotely like these behaviors and attitudes “scientific.” It’s an obscenity, quite frankly, so amazingly wrong and bad that it brings to mind the worst moments of Maoist China and Hitler’s Germany … or perhaps the Middle Ages, where waves of collective madness reportedly swept entire towns.
Increasingly, there are no words. All the sane — vaccinated or not — can do is ponder, remain stunned and keep their quiet horror to themselves, since speaking out seems to do little good against a tidal wave of unprecendented madness.
These times are not for the weak of heart. Nor for the sane of mind.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
By the Numbers, a Failed Presidency
If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, around the neck of former President Donald Trump and the party that refused to repudiate him would sink the GOP, it appears to have miscalculated.
For, as the left painted the Capitol riot as an “armed insurrection,” “domestic terrorism,” “attempted coup,” and political atrocity that stands beside Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as “a day that will live in infamy,” Republicans were displacing the Democrats as America’s first party.
Democrats began 2021 as the preferred party of 49% of the country. Only 40% identified as Republicans.
When 2022 began, the standings had been reversed.
Forty-two percent of Americans identified as Democrats, and 47% as Republicans, a turnaround of 14 points.
While President Joe Biden began 2021 with an approval rating in the mid-50s, he ended the year with an approval rating in the low 40s. One national poll showed Biden’s approval rating sinking to 33%.
On Wednesday, a Politico/Morning Consult survey came out that showed that 37% of Americans awarded Biden a grade of “F” for his first year, with another 12% giving him a “D.” School kids with grades like that risk being held back a year or expelled.
On his handling of the issues of immigration and restoring national unity, 40% of Americans flunked Biden. On the economy, 38% gave him an “F.”
Also, in that Politico survey, 68% of respondents said America is on the “wrong track,” more than twice the number who believe she is heading in the “right direction.”
In this same survey, Biden’s overall approval stands at 40%.
What is the message that the totality of these numbers conveys?
Democrat and media obsession with Jan. 6, their vast exaggeration of what happened, and the campaign to indict the GOP as a mortal threat to “American democracy” has failed as a strategy. And Biden’s presidency is seen by the people he leads as a failing presidency.
If the election of 2022 were held next Tuesday, Democrats would be swept from power in both houses of Congress, and a Republican Congress would face a lame-duck President Joe Biden for the next two years.
And it is hard to see any deus ex machina waiting in the wings to prevent what is coming: gridlocked U.S. government from 2023 to 2025.
Indeed, when one considers the political situation one year after Biden’s inauguration and 10 months before the 2022 elections, how Biden turns things around for himself, his presidency and his party is not easy to see.
The foremost issue in the public mind is the economy, inflation in particular. The consumer price index has been surging at 7%. But for the Federal Reserve to put on the brakes to control inflation could mean a major hit in the stock market, which was robust in Biden’s first year.
If Biden is fighting stagflation by the fourth quarter of calendar year 2022 — as Jimmy Carter was in 1980 — Democratic candidates will be avoiding him the way Stacey Abrams shunned him on his visit to Atlanta.
A second issue on which Biden is racking up failing grades in the public’s mind is immigration, which means the southern border across which some 2 million illegal immigrants from more than 100 countries poured in 2021. Biden has conceded that he has no chance of dealing with the crisis legislatively because of GOP opposition in Congress.
And his unhappy progressive allies would not permit Biden to employ the means necessary to halt the invasion of the country whose borders he has sworn to protect and defend.
Another issue gaining traction is the explosion of flash mob robberies and shootings and killings in Democratic-run cities, coupled with the perception that progressives are soft on criminals and tough on cops.
Saturday, a week ago, Michelle Alyssa Go, a 40-year-old New Yorker, was shoved to her death in front of a subway train at Times Square station by a “homeless” person.
Atrocities like this are now almost daily fare, and the stories and video are moving public opinion back to the law-and-order attitudes that worked so well for the Republican Party in the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan eras.
As for the coronavirus, the Biden administration neither anticipated nor prepared for the delta and omicron variants. And no one knows where we will be next November — hopefully, in a better place.
As of now, Biden is a drag on the Democratic Party at the national level, and very probably in the off-year election in November.
What began his slide in public approval last August was a foreign policy debacle, the perception of a bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan.
And how Biden handles the Ukraine crisis ginned up by Russian President Vladimir Putin may come to be seen as a reflection of his mastery of foreign policy, or his ineptitude.
Ukraine could be determinant in history’s judgment of Biden’s presidency.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
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It’s Not “Pessimism” to Say Freedom & Tyranny are Incompatible
Is it right to be optimistic or pessimistic about what’s happening to our country? I don’t think that’s the right question. There are reasons to be positive as well as negative, just based on all the known facts.
I do know this: The country as we know it is too divided to unite, sadly. Millions, almost half, don’t want a free country. Well, they want freedom for themselves, but not for anyone who thinks differently, and that’s not sustainable. Humans have free will and nobody can predict future choices, but I don’t see how you reconcile the literal totalitarianism being promoted and acted on daily by leftists with anything like the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. I am not pessimistic about what freedom can accomplish. I am a raging optimist on that point. But I am pessimistic about the incompatibility of tyranny and freedom. The two cannot peacefully coexist.
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“How can we achieve real consensus on the issues that matter most if only some voters can be heard,” Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock whined in a plea to Republicans.
Yes, I agree. If early morning data dumps, subjective mail-in voting and the refusal to require voter IDs so illegals may vote are to become the law of the land, then how can we gain “consensus” since only the votes of people voting Democratic count? Oh, I forgot. Consensus is not your goal. Unlimited, one-party rule is.
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Facebook & Twitter are doing what the Biden regime wants them to do. They are not operating as private companies. They are wings of the government, imposing censorship.
This is war, and fascist social media giants are part of the enemy camp.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dise of Reason
Joe Biden Will Never Change
During a rare press conference today, which lasted well over an hour, President Joe Biden told the press corps that he “didn’t believe the polls,” said he’d “over-performed” in his first year, accomplishing more than any president in history in his first year, scolded RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann and blamed the country for somehow misunderstanding what he meant when he labeled his political opponents as allies of Bull Connor. He also noted that without his voting legislation, that the 2022 and 2024 elections would be rigged and not legitimate.
The presser came at a time when a phenomenon is occurring in Biden-friendly media. Commentators are grappling with the realization that Joe Biden is not the “competent” (Washington Post) “non-divisive” (Daily Beast) and “stable” (Washington Post, again) magic grandpa capable of uniting a fractured America with a whisper and a hug. That Joe Biden is the man the Biden campaign sold the pundits on, and it comported with the ideal Joe Biden the pundits had concocted in their collective anti-Trump hivemind. But sadly, that ideal doesn’t match the reality of who Joe Biden is: a man who once told an audience of African Americans that Mitt Romney would re-enslave them.
As Biden’s approval ratings hit the kind of lows not seen since the Truman era, the pro-Biden, or at very least Biden-curious, media has issued a series of course correction instructions. These warnings, from the likes of the Washington Post and the Bulwark, are once again based on their own false notion of who they want and consider Joe Biden to be, and not who he actually is. There is no chance that Joe Biden and the Visiting Angels who run his administration will change the slant of his presidency. His Joe Rogan-length press conference today offered more evidence of that.
It would be easier welcome rigorous criticism of an inept president from DC’s punditry elite had they not spent the campaign and his first year in office willfully ignoring Joe Biden’s 40-year track record in the US Senate and as vice president, in order to sell voters on the image that Ron Klain wanted to project. Instead the commentariat’s about-face is jarring for average Americans. Most of them aren’t pro-Trump and really did just want to get some sleep after four years of Twitter screaming. Most of them have since been quick to realize that Joe Biden is not a “very stable genius” who could prove to be the comprehensive antidote to Donald Trump.
The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker tweeted “Biden was supposed to be the anti-Trump — steady, stable, competent. But the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal undercut that image, and facing a cascade of crises — covid, etc — Biden has never been able to recover.” Parker is seemingly unaware that Joe Biden is facing multiple crises of his own making. On top of that, often Joe Biden is the crisis, as demonstrated during his marathon Wednesday presser.
This is not the president that was elected a year ago — and certainly not the ideal one that so many DC pundits had concocted in their own heads.
He and his administration were elected to “shut down” a virus that he has for the most part ignored since July, when he declared “masked or vaxxed” and then stuck his foot in a hole in Afghanistan. His administration handlers ensured that the defining image from the Kabul catastrophe was footage of him turning his back to the American people, as he refused to answer questions about the manner of the troops’ withdrawal. We were told that Joe Biden was elected because of his empathy and competence. The commentators who told us that have since learned that he has neither quality.
Joe Biden is not suddenly going to become coherent when he speaks to the press. He can’t make Vladimir Putin back down by whipping out his aviators and heading to the nearest ice cream parlor. The pundits who bought the gingerly grandpa act may be praying that he can capture any fleeting fairy dust bestowed upon him by Barack Obama’s pop-culture prowess. But that won’t transform Biden into someone able to “shut down the virus.”
David Brooks thinks Biden needs to “begin revamping his presidency.” “Jennifer Rubin claims that “Biden needs a reset.” Frankly, any paid pundit begging for Biden to become the fantastical wise elder statesman they fantasized about should keep their thoughts to themselves. The rest of us should ignore their “expertise” when making any serious assessment of this defeated old man’s tenure.
By Stephen L. Miller
Stephen L. Miller is a Spectator contributing editor.
Higher Education: A Stunningly Corrupt Institution
Canadian psychologist and bestselling author Jordan Peterson announced that he is no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto.
In an article for The National Post, Peterson — who recently sat down with Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro in the inaugural episode of “The Search” — pointed to the school’s obsession with “Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity,” which he abbreviated simply as “DIE.”
“I had envisioned teaching and researching at the U of T, full time, until they had to haul my skeleton out of my office. I loved my job. And my students, undergraduates and graduates alike, were positively predisposed toward me,” Peterson said. “But that career path was not meant to be.”
Peterson voiced frustration that his “qualified and supremely trained heterosexual white male graduate students… face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite stellar scientific dossiers” thanks to diversity mandates.
“These have been imposed universally in academia, despite the fact that university hiring committees had already done everything reasonable for all the years of my career, and then some, to ensure that no qualified ‘minority’ candidates were ever overlooked,” he wrote. “My students are also partly unacceptable precisely because they are my students. I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions. And this isn’t just some inconvenience. These facts rendered my job morally untenable. How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience knowing their employment prospects to be minimal?”
Peterson pointed to other trends destroying academia “and, downstream, the general culture” — including the end of objective testing and “grievance studies” disciplines. He also observed that colleagues must bow to diversity mandates by crafting “DIE statements” to obtain research grants.
“They all lie (excepting the minority of true believers) and they teach their students to do the same. And they do it constantly, with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise,” he mourned. “Some of my colleagues even allow themselves to undergo so-called anti-bias training, conducted by supremely unqualified Human Resources personnel, lecturing inanely and blithely and in an accusatory manner about theoretically all-pervasive racist/sexist/heterosexist attitudes. Such training is now often a precondition to occupy a faculty position on a hiring committee.”
The problem extends far beyond the University of Toronto.
Peterson said that the accrediting boards for Canadian graduate clinical psychology training programs “are now planning to refuse to accredit university clinical programs unless they have a ‘social justice’ orientation.” Also referring to Canada’s “conversion therapy” ban, Peterson said that the practice of clinical psychology is effectively “doomed.”
Peterson admonished executives, professors, and others capitulating to wokeness and permitting its advance in Western culture.
“And all of you going along with the DIE activists, whatever your reasons: this is on you,” he warned. “Cowering cravenly in pretense and silence. Teaching your students to dissimulate and lie. To get along. As the walls crumble. For shame. CEOs: signaling a virtue you don’t possess and shouldn’t want to please a minority who literally live their lives by displeasure. You’re evil capitalists, after all, and should be proud of it. At the moment, I can’t tell if you’re more reprehensibly timid even than the professors. Why the hell don’t you banish the human resource DIE upstarts back to the more-appropriately-named Personnel departments, stop them from interfering with the psyches of you and your employees, and be done with it?”
“Musicians, artists, writers: stop bending your sacred and meritorious art to the demands of the propagandists before you fatally betray the spirit of your own intuition,” he continued. “Stop censoring your thought. Stop saying you will hire for your orchestral and theatrical productions for any reason other than talent and excellence. That’s all you have. That’s all any of us have.”
“He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind. And the wind is rising.”
Ben Zeisloft
Values, Objectively Defined (Ayn Rand)
Values are the motivating power of man’s actions and a necessity of his survival, psychologically as well as physically.
Man’s values control his subconscious emotional mechanism that functions like a computer adding up his desires, his experiences, his fulfillments and frustrations—like a sensitive guardian watching and constantly assessing his relationship to reality. The key question which this computer is programmed to answer, is: What is possible to me?
There is a certain similarity between the issue of sensory perception and the issue of values. . . .
If severe and prolonged enough, the absence of a normal, active flow of sensory stimuli may disintegrate the complex organization and the interdependent functions of man’s consciousness.
Man’s emotional mechanism works as the barometer of the efficacy or impotence of his actions. If severe and prolonged enough, the absence of a normal, active flow of value-experiences may disintegrate and paralyze man’s consciousness—by telling him that no action is possible.
The form in which man experiences the reality of his values is pleasure.
AYN RAND
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