THIS is why I will continue to subscribe to the Free Press. It is also these kinds of stories, and the total silence regarding them from mainstream media, that make me so worried for our collective future.
Why, in the face of such overwhelming evidence, do so many in the media, government, and general public continue to deny the near-cert…
THIS is why I will continue to subscribe to the Free Press. It is also these kinds of stories, and the total silence regarding them from mainstream media, that make me so worried for our collective future.
Why, in the face of such overwhelming evidence, do so many in the media, government, and general public continue to deny the near-certainty of the lab leak origin? Because admitting you're wrong about one thing in today's society, in which people choose a side and religiously believe that side's narrative on everything, means admitting you're wrong about everything, something almost none of us have the humility to stomach.
Is Fauci going to admit the lab leak after staking his entire reputation on refuting it? Will mainstream media call him out after parroting his messaging for the past three years? Will that clown Stephen Colbert admit he was wrong after doing song-and-dance sketches with Fauci? Of course not, for the same reason no one in the media or Democratic party will ever acknowledge Biden's brazen corruption or Obama's narcisim and emptiness on full display as he vacations on yachts with celebrities. It's Plato's allegory of the cave on full display, day after day. These people will refuse to face the cold light of day their entire lives They control the media and levers of power, so we increasingly scream at the top of our lungs that the emperor has no clothes, and they further dismiss us because of it. Depressing.
The Atlantic published a couple of David Zweig's articles that were skeptical of the Covid narrative. ("The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School" and "Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning")I wonder if the Atlantic would publish this article, which is highly critical of Fauci? I doubt it.
Don’t get depressed, my friend. You mentioned Colbert but don’t forget that Jon Stewart had the courage to defy the narrative. His bit about the lab leak was brilliant. Basically anyone who believed the novel corona virus came from the wet market instead of the novel corona virus research lab across the street from the wet market… well that person is incredibly naive.
He has remained silent about it since. He knows where his bread is buttered. And if John Stewart is the best example we have of someone capable of rising above party lines we’re screwed
Adding to the frustration.. wait for the revisionist history (oh, it's coming) that will feature all left wing pundits, media, politicians and celebrities saying some version of "Of course it was a lab leak- we knew that all along"... missing in that will be the mea culpa acknowledging they were incorrect in their initial assessment. And all those articles, tweaks, news segments, etc... will be memory holed (much like "Get the vaccine, and you won't get COVID" uttered by the aforementioned establishment but amazingly difficult to find the digital paper trail for anymore).
There's some truth in your statement about the fear of being wrong leading to a permanent ostracization. Deeper than that, however, lying is no longer punished. Basic rules of human decency are regularly violated. What we once assumed was normal and expected is now abnormal and astonishing. Journalists lie regularly and get rewarded by colleagues for "doing the right thing." We once made movies about corporate corruption and lying, and the people who wrote those screenplays and did that journalism are now paid by those corporations.
But the pervasiveness of the perversion is truly amazing. Just Saturday I returned to a store to repay the owner five dollars I owed from a previous transaction. The clerk, who was new and young, nearly doubled over in shock. "No one does that," he proclaimed. I said, "I do." And all he could to think to say was, "Wow, you have really good karma."
He actually had to put an exotic name and concept to one of the most fundamental acts of human relationships. I think he's probably still shaking his head and telling his friends about it.
Excellent commentary. Deserves more ⬆️ votes. Lying is no longer punished and serial liars are no longer ostracized. This is the overwhelming injustice I’m feeling in our society and personally -- not the radicalized and propagandized race and LGBT injustices miserably foisted upon us without mercy. The articles that pop up on my msn.com feed from the “journalismers” are so outrageous and deceitful it takes my breath away. Fortunately, I’m seeing readers downvote these stories by a 10:1 margin, which I haven’t seen before. I’m praying for justice of biblical proportions!
“...choose a side and religiously believe...”. Exactly. And this is why there can be no discourse. You have to trace back to the “facts” each side uses to bolster their faith. Very few are open to entertaining ideas other than those they’ve been fed. So very frustrating!!
The real question is how you see it as anything else. But to indulge yours, the only blowback at all came from Republicans - particularly Rand Paul in Congress and Republican governors, and of course the citizenry demonized as anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti- elderly, anti-child, blah, blah, blah. This is not to say the Republican party as a whole are like that but in this instance they fielded a few who were the only light in a very dark sky. Lastly, you still would not know the egregiousness of the conduct but for the very thinly held Republican majority in the House and their investigative committees. IMO anyone who votes Democrat in 2024 is a ommbination of sheep and ostrich. And not just for President. Those brave souls in Congress need, and deserve, the support of the American citizen.
I’m a big fan of Rand Paul. He is more of a libertarian in philosophy. He is also a physician who knows how to read medical literature and could spot the medical bullshit and doublespeak. I too am a physician( retired since 2017) and I can’t fathom how the mainstream medical establishment not only didn’t call out the lies but pushed the insane narratives.
Unfortunately the fervor you and I share for the Republicans in The/House’s investigations into covid and Biden corruption, is similar to the left wing fervor for the Liz Chaney House investigation into January 6 and Trump.
Each side seems incapable of seeing any common ground.
Integrity first. Without integrity corruption is inevitable by definition. That has to include accepting responsibility for errors while still taking credit( share it if possible) for the successes.
I agree about Covid. But I actually fault Trump for bringing Fauci on board. I understand how and why he did but it was still a mistake. But you are right that Rand Paul is a) libertarian, and b) a medical doctor so wouldn't you think he should have had gravitas with everyone? Yet he did not. As for Trump and January 6, I am a retired lawyer, a criminal lawyer, and I have yet to see any proof that Trump did anything criminal in that regard. I am not saying it does not exist, but to my knowledge it has not yet been produced. I have seen ample evidence of election improprieties. For what it is worth I do not think it was at the behest of the Democrats but it was to their benefit. Basically the FBI selected Biden and Zuckerburg paid for it.
“Is Fauci going to admit the lab leak after staking his entire reputation on refuting it? Will mainstream media call him out after parroting his messaging for the past three years? ”
No, they won’t. What they’ll all say is that they said all along that it was a lab leak. And most people will say, “uh huh, they really did.” Most people are functionally pretty stupid.
The Twitter Files and Facebook Files show flagrant censorship by the government, which is illegal right on its face.
Media outlets are not somehow immune from the same illegal behavior by the government. Most of them have "former" government officials as their spokespersons.
Don't forget, acknowledging the lab leak is also acknowledging that the pandemic was China's fault.
This is absolutely forbidden in the public sphere because China forbids it. In a just world, the entire planet would be holding China accountable for killing millions and wrecking the global economy.
We can't talk about who was responsible for COVID precisely because the guilty parties will never allow themselves to experience consequences. That was also in the Fauci emails, scientists who "never make things political" mentioning that they can't make the CCP look bad, especially when the CCP is responsible for the deaths and sufferings of billions of people.
I believed it was a Lab Leak from the beginning and I began holding China accountable in March 2020.
That’s the month I stopped buying anything made in China. Prior to March 2020, I wasn’t really paying attention to where things were made. For the past 3 years, I’ve paid close attention and avoided buying things made in China or online shopping with no country of origin listed. If no country of origin listed it is likely China.
Americans have every reason to stop buying low quality Chinese junk, yet so few people seem to care that they are supporting the most oppressive and racist regime on the planet.
More importantly, perhaps, it was a US-funded mistake. I think that is the bigger issue behind Fauci's coverup. I remember watching him at one point in 2020 thinking that he acted like a man with a guilty conscience.
I remember hearing Fauci’s early interview with Tucker, when he said we could “trust the Chinese”, and thinking, “Really? Based on what?” As a GU grad, that place is dead to me. But, truthfully, it has been for a while.
The people who allowed COVID to spread all over the planet while explicitly telling nations "don't shut down your borders until after you are infected and then go with totalitarian orders once border closures are pointless"?
Nov 2021 my daughter worked at a hotel with a big crowd that arrived from China most of the staff got sick as hell , worst ¨flu"they had ever experienced . my Daughter caught it as well , they did not have a name for it at the time , don´t think anyone died but not 100% sure it was here well before they announced it
The fact we held the 2022 olympics in China still makes my blood boil. A nation actively committing mass genocide that, as kind of a kicker, was actively covering up the global pandemic it caused through sheer maliciousness and incompetency, and the world collectively decided there was too much money involved to bother boycotting. Makes me think we should just burn it all down some times.
"you know who holds power in society by whom you are not allowed to criticize."
Btw, you know why our health authorities decided to ignore every kind of preventative COVID treatment or health practice to favor nothing but deadly and destructive lockdowns with massively profitable shots?
Because that's what Chinese scientists told our stupid CDC leaders was effective, and they decided to commit to that approach with no evidence at all and without considering alternatives.
In fact, they suppressed and silenced people even talking about alternatives, using Chinese-style centralized speech monitoring and control, in blatant violation of our first amendment rights.
They are right now busying themselves with trying to suppress and get rid of RFK JR who was one of the only public voices courageous enough to question our disastrous, exorbitantly expensive, and ineffective Covid response which siphoned billions of dollars out of the already struggling middle class. Wasserman Schultz, who was screaming and shouting at RFK JR at a recent censorship hearing (can’t make this stuff up), previously got rid of Bernie Sanders and now wants to silence RFK JR, making sure democratic primary voters have no choice but senile, corrupt Biden. I am really beginning to think this reeks of incipient fascism. The state chooses the candidate.
Washerman Schultz Is the Human Botfly of the Democratic Party. Stay as far away from her as possible! (BTW How does she still have a job after cheating in the 2016 debates anyway? Oh yeah—the Democratic Party…)
THIS is why I will continue to subscribe to the Free Press. It is also these kinds of stories, and the total silence regarding them from mainstream media, that make me so worried for our collective future.
Why, in the face of such overwhelming evidence, do so many in the media, government, and general public continue to deny the near-certainty of the lab leak origin? Because admitting you're wrong about one thing in today's society, in which people choose a side and religiously believe that side's narrative on everything, means admitting you're wrong about everything, something almost none of us have the humility to stomach.
Is Fauci going to admit the lab leak after staking his entire reputation on refuting it? Will mainstream media call him out after parroting his messaging for the past three years? Will that clown Stephen Colbert admit he was wrong after doing song-and-dance sketches with Fauci? Of course not, for the same reason no one in the media or Democratic party will ever acknowledge Biden's brazen corruption or Obama's narcisim and emptiness on full display as he vacations on yachts with celebrities. It's Plato's allegory of the cave on full display, day after day. These people will refuse to face the cold light of day their entire lives They control the media and levers of power, so we increasingly scream at the top of our lungs that the emperor has no clothes, and they further dismiss us because of it. Depressing.
Well said.
The Atlantic published a couple of David Zweig's articles that were skeptical of the Covid narrative. ("The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School" and "Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning")I wonder if the Atlantic would publish this article, which is highly critical of Fauci? I doubt it.
Don’t get depressed, my friend. You mentioned Colbert but don’t forget that Jon Stewart had the courage to defy the narrative. His bit about the lab leak was brilliant. Basically anyone who believed the novel corona virus came from the wet market instead of the novel corona virus research lab across the street from the wet market… well that person is incredibly naive.
He has remained silent about it since. He knows where his bread is buttered. And if John Stewart is the best example we have of someone capable of rising above party lines we’re screwed
He probably realizes "what's the point?" No one is going to do anything to China. We need them to manufacture all the crap we buy.
Adding to the frustration.. wait for the revisionist history (oh, it's coming) that will feature all left wing pundits, media, politicians and celebrities saying some version of "Of course it was a lab leak- we knew that all along"... missing in that will be the mea culpa acknowledging they were incorrect in their initial assessment. And all those articles, tweaks, news segments, etc... will be memory holed (much like "Get the vaccine, and you won't get COVID" uttered by the aforementioned establishment but amazingly difficult to find the digital paper trail for anymore).
There's some truth in your statement about the fear of being wrong leading to a permanent ostracization. Deeper than that, however, lying is no longer punished. Basic rules of human decency are regularly violated. What we once assumed was normal and expected is now abnormal and astonishing. Journalists lie regularly and get rewarded by colleagues for "doing the right thing." We once made movies about corporate corruption and lying, and the people who wrote those screenplays and did that journalism are now paid by those corporations.
But the pervasiveness of the perversion is truly amazing. Just Saturday I returned to a store to repay the owner five dollars I owed from a previous transaction. The clerk, who was new and young, nearly doubled over in shock. "No one does that," he proclaimed. I said, "I do." And all he could to think to say was, "Wow, you have really good karma."
He actually had to put an exotic name and concept to one of the most fundamental acts of human relationships. I think he's probably still shaking his head and telling his friends about it.
Excellent commentary. Deserves more ⬆️ votes. Lying is no longer punished and serial liars are no longer ostracized. This is the overwhelming injustice I’m feeling in our society and personally -- not the radicalized and propagandized race and LGBT injustices miserably foisted upon us without mercy. The articles that pop up on my msn.com feed from the “journalismers” are so outrageous and deceitful it takes my breath away. Fortunately, I’m seeing readers downvote these stories by a 10:1 margin, which I haven’t seen before. I’m praying for justice of biblical proportions!
"The articles that pop up on my msn.com feed ..."
I think I see your problem.
best way to get the word out. share this .. I do.
“...choose a side and religiously believe...”. Exactly. And this is why there can be no discourse. You have to trace back to the “facts” each side uses to bolster their faith. Very few are open to entertaining ideas other than those they’ve been fed. So very frustrating!!
No. This is a one side thing.
Explain how you see it as one sided?
The real question is how you see it as anything else. But to indulge yours, the only blowback at all came from Republicans - particularly Rand Paul in Congress and Republican governors, and of course the citizenry demonized as anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti- elderly, anti-child, blah, blah, blah. This is not to say the Republican party as a whole are like that but in this instance they fielded a few who were the only light in a very dark sky. Lastly, you still would not know the egregiousness of the conduct but for the very thinly held Republican majority in the House and their investigative committees. IMO anyone who votes Democrat in 2024 is a ommbination of sheep and ostrich. And not just for President. Those brave souls in Congress need, and deserve, the support of the American citizen.
I’m a big fan of Rand Paul. He is more of a libertarian in philosophy. He is also a physician who knows how to read medical literature and could spot the medical bullshit and doublespeak. I too am a physician( retired since 2017) and I can’t fathom how the mainstream medical establishment not only didn’t call out the lies but pushed the insane narratives.
Unfortunately the fervor you and I share for the Republicans in The/House’s investigations into covid and Biden corruption, is similar to the left wing fervor for the Liz Chaney House investigation into January 6 and Trump.
Each side seems incapable of seeing any common ground.
Integrity first. Without integrity corruption is inevitable by definition. That has to include accepting responsibility for errors while still taking credit( share it if possible) for the successes.
I agree about Covid. But I actually fault Trump for bringing Fauci on board. I understand how and why he did but it was still a mistake. But you are right that Rand Paul is a) libertarian, and b) a medical doctor so wouldn't you think he should have had gravitas with everyone? Yet he did not. As for Trump and January 6, I am a retired lawyer, a criminal lawyer, and I have yet to see any proof that Trump did anything criminal in that regard. I am not saying it does not exist, but to my knowledge it has not yet been produced. I have seen ample evidence of election improprieties. For what it is worth I do not think it was at the behest of the Democrats but it was to their benefit. Basically the FBI selected Biden and Zuckerburg paid for it.
“Is Fauci going to admit the lab leak after staking his entire reputation on refuting it? Will mainstream media call him out after parroting his messaging for the past three years? ”
No, they won’t. What they’ll all say is that they said all along that it was a lab leak. And most people will say, “uh huh, they really did.” Most people are functionally pretty stupid.
The Twitter Files and Facebook Files show flagrant censorship by the government, which is illegal right on its face.
Media outlets are not somehow immune from the same illegal behavior by the government. Most of them have "former" government officials as their spokespersons.
And don’t forget Google - 98% of Google employees are registered Democrats. No, really.
Don't forget, acknowledging the lab leak is also acknowledging that the pandemic was China's fault.
This is absolutely forbidden in the public sphere because China forbids it. In a just world, the entire planet would be holding China accountable for killing millions and wrecking the global economy.
We can't talk about who was responsible for COVID precisely because the guilty parties will never allow themselves to experience consequences. That was also in the Fauci emails, scientists who "never make things political" mentioning that they can't make the CCP look bad, especially when the CCP is responsible for the deaths and sufferings of billions of people.
I believed it was a Lab Leak from the beginning and I began holding China accountable in March 2020.
That’s the month I stopped buying anything made in China. Prior to March 2020, I wasn’t really paying attention to where things were made. For the past 3 years, I’ve paid close attention and avoided buying things made in China or online shopping with no country of origin listed. If no country of origin listed it is likely China.
This right here!!
Americans have every reason to stop buying low quality Chinese junk, yet so few people seem to care that they are supporting the most oppressive and racist regime on the planet.
And then there is the unofficial, secret lab found in California that was revealed this week.
And also our fault since we funded the lab. I may be wrong, but I always felt the lie about the virus’ original was to hide US culpability.
More importantly, perhaps, it was a US-funded mistake. I think that is the bigger issue behind Fauci's coverup. I remember watching him at one point in 2020 thinking that he acted like a man with a guilty conscience.
Assuming he has a conscience... I’m not so sure.
I remember hearing Fauci’s early interview with Tucker, when he said we could “trust the Chinese”, and thinking, “Really? Based on what?” As a GU grad, that place is dead to me. But, truthfully, it has been for a while.
I miss Tucker (the Tucker before he went off the rails…)
He seriously said to trust the Chinese?
The people who allowed COVID to spread all over the planet while explicitly telling nations "don't shut down your borders until after you are infected and then go with totalitarian orders once border closures are pointless"?
Nov 2021 my daughter worked at a hotel with a big crowd that arrived from China most of the staff got sick as hell , worst ¨flu"they had ever experienced . my Daughter caught it as well , they did not have a name for it at the time , don´t think anyone died but not 100% sure it was here well before they announced it
Yeah, them.
The fact we held the 2022 olympics in China still makes my blood boil. A nation actively committing mass genocide that, as kind of a kicker, was actively covering up the global pandemic it caused through sheer maliciousness and incompetency, and the world collectively decided there was too much money involved to bother boycotting. Makes me think we should just burn it all down some times.
"you know who holds power in society by whom you are not allowed to criticize."
Btw, you know why our health authorities decided to ignore every kind of preventative COVID treatment or health practice to favor nothing but deadly and destructive lockdowns with massively profitable shots?
Because that's what Chinese scientists told our stupid CDC leaders was effective, and they decided to commit to that approach with no evidence at all and without considering alternatives.
In fact, they suppressed and silenced people even talking about alternatives, using Chinese-style centralized speech monitoring and control, in blatant violation of our first amendment rights.
Starting to see a pattern yet?
The roots of the DNC in treason and corruption run deep.......
They are right now busying themselves with trying to suppress and get rid of RFK JR who was one of the only public voices courageous enough to question our disastrous, exorbitantly expensive, and ineffective Covid response which siphoned billions of dollars out of the already struggling middle class. Wasserman Schultz, who was screaming and shouting at RFK JR at a recent censorship hearing (can’t make this stuff up), previously got rid of Bernie Sanders and now wants to silence RFK JR, making sure democratic primary voters have no choice but senile, corrupt Biden. I am really beginning to think this reeks of incipient fascism. The state chooses the candidate.
“I am really beginning to think this reeks of incipient fascism”.
I would say more like incipient communism. They passed from fascism a number of years ago.
Incipient? No, I think we're there.
Washerman Schultz Is the Human Botfly of the Democratic Party. Stay as far away from her as possible! (BTW How does she still have a job after cheating in the 2016 debates anyway? Oh yeah—the Democratic Party…)
One cannot be a bona fide Democrat without a commitment to cheating.