Posted on 08/13/2021 7:52:35 AM PDT by rktman
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“Social control is best managed through fear.” – scientist/author Michael Crichton in his 2006 novel Next.
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” -- FDR.
“Fear whatever we tell you to fear.” -- Shaman Anthony Fauci.
Every day it’s a different story – another flip flop or belly flop – from another eminent authority or revered agency (the CDC, Dr. Fascista, the Geezer-in-chief, Nanny Nancy, the National Institutes for Driving Us All F---ing Nuts).
Get vaccinated (but forget the tens of thousands streaming across the border who are infected). Wear a face mask. But, you don’t need to wear one if you’re vaccinated. Wear it anyway. COVID is spread by motorcycle rallies in South Dakota, but not by birthday parties for hundreds on Martha’s Vineyard. Kids can only go back to school when the NEA says so, but they’ll still have to wear HAZMAT suits.
Be especially careful around the elderly and other vulnerable groups, unless you’re Andrew Cuomo, who can shove recovering COVID patients in nursing homes with those most at risk, killing thousands.
Thanks to Big Mother, members of Congress need a face mask to sit in the House of Representatives, but illegal aliens are welcome, including those who test positive for COVID, including those who refuse to be vaccinated. (The mayor of McAllen, TX just announced that since mid-February, 7,000 confirmed COVID-19 “aliens” have been released into his city.) Nothing must slow the influx of Future Democrats of America.
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1. Given them an excuse to spend like crazy – To date, $3.2 trillion for COVID “relief” – much of it finding its way into the Dems pet projects that have nothing to do with the virus, like the Green Whatever. Maybe COVID was caused by climate change; every other disaster has been attributed to it.
2. Put as much of the population as possible on the dole – In the name of combatting the pandemic, we’re paying people not to work, teachers not to teach and tenants to live in their apartments rent-free.
3. Savaged Small Business: the foundation of the free market economy – First there were the state-mandated lockdowns. When they were lifted, blue cities rushed in to impose their own. In April, Federal Reserve economists estimated that in the first year of COVID, there were 200,000 store closings above historical levels. Democrats are probably thinking: Good. These are men and women of independent spirit, who are always complaining about taxes and regulations and voting Republican – so, who needs them? Maybe retail stores will be replaced with GUM-like state department stores.
4. Set the stage for more socialist advances – Biden has extended his unconstitutional eviction moratorium through September. Landlords with just a few rental units get to keep paying their mortgage, property taxes and tenants’ utilities. Most of the money that was appropriated for rental payments never finds its way into landlords’ pockets. Soon, desperate owners will begin abandoning their property, which will be an excuse to build new public housing.
5. Accustomed once free citizens to doing exactly as they’re told – even if the mandates change from day-to-day or hour-to-hour – Two years ago, who would have thought that government could order you to wear face masks, order stores and restaurants to close, and compel citizens to get vaccinated or suffer the consequences. (“Achtung, Achtung – Ve vill see your vaccination passport.”) If Ole Doc Fauci told us we had to hop on one foot for three hours a day to combat the spread of the Delta Variant, how many would?
6. Provided opportunities for massive election fraud – In the last election, the pandemic was an excuse for mail-in ballots. Can’t have all of those voters congregating to take part in the process in person. Democracy became a super-spreader. This provides a rich vein of election fraud for Democrats to mine.
7. Set themselves up to be America’s saviors – Democrats will run on COVID in 2024. What else do they have? We stopped the pandemic by following the science, they’ll say. (Whatever “science” fits their agenda.) Neanderthal Republicans lifted lockdowns too soon, didn’t mandate face masks, didn’t punish the unvaccinated. Forget that the vaccines were developed under Trump. If Hillary had won in 2016, we’d still be doing environmental impact studies. COVID is the Democrats’ pinata that never stops giving.
Thankfully, Ted Cruz derailed(for now HR-1/SR-1) in the dark of the night. Thank you Sen. Cruz
Not in my house!
Covid will be here forever, viruses don’t just die. The restrictions will slowly go away and it will be treated like the flu virus.
Reading the headline, I feel almost like the post card from Grand Cayman, welcome to Hell (an area on the Island). A constant whining by that bum shumer, the nut Pelousy, and nodding by the mummy dummy and the reversals by Fraudchi. I only hope it is purgatory.
All brought to you by RINO-controlled state legislatures who refused to enforce voter ID because of their petty hatred for Trump.
“The restrictions will slowly go away...”
One year? Two? Five? Ten? Twenty years?
How long before this insanity just fades into background noise?
Answer: It won’t disappear until the Democrats Cost/Benefit ratio turns against them. Cost = lost votes. Benefit = cowed, timid, compliant, and controllable populace + easy vote fraud.
15 years to slow the spread.
“Covid will be here forever, viruses don’t just die. The restrictions will slowly go away and it will be treated like the flu virus.”
I don’t know about restrictions going away. We have bred a couple of generations of Americans who feel it is the government’s job to keep the public from ever being hurt or sick.
The restrictions will stiffen and lessen, but a large segment of the population will welcome them.
As an aside, it was pure evil genius to tell the public anyone not obeying is hurting everyone.
The restrictions will never go away if the left can help it. This is actually just preparation for the UN climate plan, which consists of shutting down all human life to “save the planet.”
They’ve seen how easy it is to make us sit down and shut up or go to our rooms and never come out, and they’re not going to let it go.
How easily we gave up our lives!
And with the help of the corrupt dem media they can sell that evil lie and turn people against freedom.
Oh, c’mon.
Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals
Here is the complete list from Alinsky.
* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
* RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
* RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
* RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
* RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different than any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
* RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
* RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
* RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Alinsky died over 40 years ago and the libs still use the blueprint. And it is obvious. Please note numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. They are most pertinent. Nothing new here. And the GOP lets them get away with it with nothing but cricket sounds.
wy69
LOL! Well, there is that. Lot’s of ostriches around.
Political weaponizing of pandemic has yielded much better results for globalization than politically correct global warming has imo.
“How easily we gave up our lives!”
Maybe some but certainly not me. I have not worn a mask in about 9 months nor have I gotten the vax. I don’t wear the mask even in stores which used to require them and although I have been asked by the staff to put on a mask I simply said I will not. I have not once been asked to leave (I live in SC).
If I take my wife to her Dr. and they require a mask I will wear one because the visit is about her and not me and she cannot go without me.
Each individual should do their part and resist to the extent they are able and willing.
“Lot’s of ostriches around.”
But we need more sand.
wy69
I don’t believe that for one second.
Stanford is requiring students to be vaxxed AND TO TEST WEEKLY!
Why does no one see this is all insanity!
bkmk
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