Guest Post by Caitlin Johnstone
CNN recently trotted out Hollywood actor Sean Penn to give the nation expert advice on how to deal with a novel virus pandemic.
Did they do this because we live in a meaningless, godless universe where madness reigns and everything is chaos? Close, but no. They wanted Penn to explain to the public that it would be wonderful if the US military were deployed inside US borders to deal with the pandemic, because the US military is the greatest humanitarian force on planet Earth.
“There is no greater humanitarian force on the planet than the United States military,” Penn said. “The logistical skills, commitment to service, their care for the people. It’s really time to give the military the full breadth command and control of this operation. I wouldn’t blink, I would have put command and control in their hands a month ago, certainly today.”
"There is no greater humanitarian force on the planet than the United States military… it's really time to give the military the full breadth and control of this operation."
– Actor and activist Sean Penn on battling coronavirus#CNNTownHallhttps://t.co/tVVAtXQVh5 pic.twitter.com/hnAfQq5UmK
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) March 20, 2020
The US military is in fact one of the least humanitarian forces on this planet, second only to malaria-laden mosquitos (and even that’s debatable). No other force is circling the globe murdering people in countless undeclared military entanglements and bullying the world into complying with the interests of a nationless alliance of plutocrats and opaque government agencies at the expense of ordinary humans everywhere. They are the exact opposite of a humanitarian force on this planet.
Medical staff are a force for humanitarianism on this planet right now. Grocery store clerks are a force for humanitarianism on this planet. The US military are the armed thugs of a metastatic globe-sprawling empire run by sociopaths.
Don’t say “Thank you for your service” to veterans whose only contribution to humanity has been helping to murder people for imperialist fossil fuel control agendas and Raytheon profit margins. Say “Thank you for your service” to your local cashier. To do the former is to participate in a cruel collective propaganda operation which only encourages more young people to hurl their bodies into the gears of the US war machine in search of the respect and honor you’re displaying, while to do the latter is to thank someone for actually providing a crucial service to human beings.
The malfunction in Penn’s mind is the result of many malignant factors, but among them is the fact that people who rise to fame and fortune naturally experience a gravitational pull toward elitist echo chambers which cultivate narratives that favor the status quo which gave rise to their fame and fortune. You have a hard time hanging out with normal people because most of them don’t treat you normally anymore, so you find yourself spending time with other rich and famous people, and with people who have a vested interest in the rich and famous.
This dynamic naturally fosters an environment where celebrities are eager to believe positive stories about the system which favors them, and where narrative managers are eager to circulate those stories among influential voices. This is why, with very few exceptions, the closest you’ll ever get to seeing a Hollywood celebrity express an anti-establishment opinion is one of them saying “Fuck Trump” at the Tony Awards. It’s also why every few weeks you’ll see some celebrity tweet something disgusting and then go into a meltdown when thousands of ordinary people react with revulsion; they don’t have ordinary people in their lives giving them feedback on what’s normal anymore, all they have is the elitist echo chamber.
This echo chamber is what led a group of self-quarantining celebrities to believe it would be an awesome idea to share a video compilation where they all badly sing lines from John Lennon’s “Imagine” from inside their mansions with a world full of people who’ve been laid off from their jobs and are terrified for their futures. The figuratively and literally tone-deaf video was universally panned and people have been mocking it on social media ever since its release, which probably would have come as a surprise to the celebrities themselves since nothing in their insulated day-to-day lives would have told them they could all be collectively rejected with such disgust.
The celebrity “Imagine” project was spearheaded by Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who as an IDF veteran would not have required any Hollywood echo chambering to have undergone deep psychological programming in favor of the empire. Gadot, who famously came under fire for publicly cheerleading the 2014 Gaza massacre, first shared the video on Instagram with the caption “We are in this together, we will get through it together. Let’s imagine together. Sing with us.”
Memesters have of course been having fun with this.
Then you’ve got celebrities like Rob Reiner, who just tweeted “No more fucking around. We’re standing on a precipice. Time to consider a Federal lockdown.”
Reiner is one of the more ham-fisted of the right-wing Democrats who we first saw promoting Russia hysteria, then working against the Sanders campaign, and are now promoting drastic totalitarian measures from their high-profile platforms. If you still hadn’t seen these people for what they are yet, you should definitely be seeing them now.
It is an absolute guarantee that powerful people will use this pandemic to advance authoritarian measures which they have no intention of rolling back once the pandemic is over. They are working to do this currently. This is not a possibility, this is an absolute certainty.
No more fucking around. We’re standing on a precipice. Time to consider a Federal lockdown.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) March 21, 2020
While it does appear necessary to collectively use self-quarantining and social distancing to avoid crashing our healthcare systems and needlessly killing millions of people, we need to make sure we slam on the brakes long before we yield any more ground to the authoritarians than they’ve already shored up over the years. And we need to loudly shout down any celebrities who try to tell us otherwise.
Hollywood is a giant propaganda mill which when it isn’t cranking out movies which are literally funded and controlled by the US war machine is putting on spectacular ninety-minute “The imperialist world order is perfectly sane and capitalism is totally working” infomercial presentations. It is an arm of cultural control which is unrivaled by anything else in this world, so of course it has powerful forces at work within it ensuring status quo loyalism.
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world, and Hollywood celebrities are psyops wrapped in human skin. May our collective disgust with them continue to grow.
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99% of Hollywood elites are Human scum… Chip
C_A
That face, again.
The “mainstream media” was never honest. There has always been an “agenda”, whether promoted by governments, or those above the government power structure who really “call the shots”.
The “snag” in their plans is the internet, which makes it possible for anyone to put out their point-of-view, concerns, or theories, without having to negotiate with or gain approval from the (former) “gatekeepers”.
The powers-that-be and their media types are running scared and attempting to “put the genie back into the bottle” by forming “truth commissions”, enlisting the major social media outlets to combat and marginalize “ideas” that do not conform to the “commonly accepted narrative” (what the media outlets and the powers-that-be WANT us to believe).
Attempts to silence those who will not “toe the party line” WILL fail, as most people are smart enough to know that the “narrative” has always been rigged to favor the “powers-that-be”…
One of the many problems that has plagued Calif.and turned it into what it is. Here in upstate NY we live under the same type of madness. We have lived under the yoke of NYC dictates for years. These condescending ass hats know more about what is good for us than we do. They are from NYC and are know everything . Don’t ya know!!!!Are never wrong,and look down their noses at us up here. It may sound crass of me….but to hell with them down there. I have no pity on them.I know the down votes will come.I accept that. If you lived here you would understand better.
When the communist Jews fled Hitler’s Germany, they landed in NYC.
What’s to downvote? Carol in NYC, stay well.
Thank you, Buddy. I agree with Bilco…Lots of asshats running the city and living in it. But it ain’t me.
If that is you, come back up this summer. I dare say you were the life of the party! And in a good way!
Lest we forget, or perhaps haven’t seen through the BS well enough to remember in the first place: The current global pandemic is financial in nature and not medical.
All we have to do to ascertain that is to accurately count the relevant quantities (either medical or financial) in order to approximate the severity of either possibility.
The financial idiocy of global leaders has been evident and well quantified by actual analysts and journalists for over a century (since 1913 precisely), and it is pretty clear that this pandemic has penetrated deeply.
Many have hurriedly produced statistical analyses of the C-19 situation and most come up with numbers (R0, etc) that are comparable to other seasonal viral diseases that have not threatened the planet as the “leaders” insist this one does. Some of the recent analyses are so obviously the product of a terror-cultivating echo chamber that they can be discarded without a second glance.
The first glaring omission in all of these hurried presentations is that the infection and death rates in various countries are rarely expressed in per-capita terms, and thus country-to-country comparisons are not valid. The second is that a valid figure for either infection rate or death rate CANNOT BE CALCULATED without accounting for the total population of a country or region. In the case of the US, that is 350,000,000. Go ahead and put that in the denominator!
These errors also make it impossible to sort out the 2 important characteristics: contagiousness and lethality.
The C-19 is being used as a terror-inducing distraction from the fact that the finance folks have lost control of the monster they created at Jekyll Island and Bretton Woods and it has turned on them as anyone with basic math skills could have told them would happen. Hang on.
The unintended consequences of this fear mongering is killing what is left of the productive individuals in this country. The only thing left to take will be our personal property and what money is left in our pockets.
This covid-19 thing is just another tool out of the elite’s business model, lie-cheat & steal, running this country and all the others. I am not saying the virus is not real but, does the reaction match the real numbers? Do you ever see a break down of what is included in the stats or how they were collected? The truth of the matter is the “real numbers” won’t be known until this is all over. Even then you have to see how they were determined to make sure they were a representative sample.
It is still my feeling we are being played.
“The U.S. military is the greatest humanitarian force in the world” yeah when they’re not killing people
Mr. Penn must be on board with sending the US military to Venezuela to impose some control there once they’ve finished their job in the US.
People who watch television and listen to “celebrities” are barely if at all open to reason.
I’m not on social media so it was heartening to hear that “Imagine” trash video was panned. Local news carried it in their “now for some good news” piece. It made me want to throw things at my TV.
Maybe people are starting to wake up to the fact that Hollywierd is full of snakes and reptiles.
Demons, full of demons.
All I see is an older Jeff Spicoli.
Imagine him on his knees with harvey weinstein’s dick in his mouth. Cause it was. Need his advise?
Ewww
Save this to read while locked away in your home. it explains alot.
http://www.conspirazzi.com/e-books/inside-the-lc.pdf
Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the
Birth of the Hippie Generation
Withdraw the Military from Iraq,KSA,Syria,Africa, Europe, Asia etc ad nauseam and we might have a military available to help us…. then we could talk about it.
Ordinarily, I’d agree. But I don’t the military will be here to help us anytime soon.
There is a special place in hell for that SOS and the entire lot of Communist Hollywood scum.
While i agree with most of article, I take issue with referring to Rob Reiner as ‘right winger Democrat’. To defeat the enemy of Globalism, we must 1st be able to identify the problem as Globalism. The Globalists know this, and their puppets in MSM are working hard dividing USA public into ‘left wing’, ‘right wing’, ‘neocon’, ‘neoliberal’ and identity politics. When we use those terms, we are using their language, fighting against each other and Globalists have won.
Globalist are not left wing, right wing, conservative or liberal, capitalist or socialist or communist. Globalists have their puppets inside all those groups, manipulating and controlling them. Globalist Sean Penn is not different than Globalist Hillary Clinton or Globalist GW Bush or Globalist Rob Reiner.
Communist Chinese Party, or CCP, is the Globalists model for governing the world. Complete and total authoritarianism by the rich and powerful elite. The common people are the property of the elites and only exist to serve the elite.
We have never had a better example as we see with Wuhan virus. CCP made the virus, spread the virus, arrested the Chinese doctors that tried to warn the world about the virus, lied to World Health Organization claiming virus could not be spread human to human. After all of the, CCP is now saying world should THANK THEM and are spreading lie virus was created in USA…and their boot lickers in MSM and Hollyweird are doing the same, following their Master’s orders.
Outstanding post. Decentralization is the light of liberty’s torch.
A friend has traveled to China for years as an engineer and has established trust with some of his fellow Chinese professionals that live in that Police State … They absolutely marvel at the fact that Americans are able to own guns and wish that they had the same opportunity in order that they might have a chance to throw off the yokes!!
We shall see how long we are “allowed” to own guns???
Why would anyone want to hear a word that the wife-beating, alcoholic, piece of ratshit Sean Penn has to say?
You’re too kind.
Possibly the worst: self-absorbed, virtue-signaling women who think anybody other than their fellow airheads Give A Fuck about what they think/do/say
But, the Hollywood Robbers will always win the Pop You Lair Tea contest.
They do get all the upvotes in a crisis because they have connections. That’s really what is important.
IP addresses and connections…
Oh wait… that was Then.
Remember POST 9-11?
You are now POST Covid-19.
Think about that. If that was the big paradigm shift, then Trump did a wonderful job navigating us through because those trucks have been given permission to load up and drive all night if they need to to get you people toilet paper to wipe your ass.
POST 9-11 is done.
A truckdriver hauling toilet paper from Arkansas to Advance said they’ve been told all limits on driving are off.
The distilleries are ramping up for hand sanitizer.
Do you know the difference in Whiskey, Moonshine, Vodka and Hand Sanitizer?
Poison. They simply poison the alcohol. You could just turn it into hand sanitizer (I have the recipe) but they know you are too stupid to follow directions. (and it isn’t TBP worthy anyway, is it?)
I listened to Chris Martenson and you didn’t.
I am USAF AWACS crewdog.
I see a checklist I follow it.
I was going to write you all a checklist about what one does when life cuts open your gut and the only person you have to depend on is your husband. What you do is marry a man who loves you as Christ loved His church.
But, you thought it was just horrid that I shared how we deal with catastrophe here. One lady even suggested I apologize.
Next?
A B rated actor his entire life, spends some time on a foreign aid charity in a poor country, befriends a few army dudes and now CNN has him on as some sort of national expert and act so recerent by not talking over him. They sit in silence as if he some kinda of E F Hutton omg such a spyops show. Either he is getting senile or they be talking in his ear but when did he stuttuer so much, may he is such a B actor i never knew or paid much attention….
I was trying to critically think about what should be done regarding this problem if I were in charge. It occurred to me a complete lockdown for 6 weeks would work if people would stop socializing. We would be able to identify who is infected, who is sick and who needs care. Then with birders closed each country do the same. All done in 6 weeks, if everyone complied. Now, for the basics. Some are rich, poor, retarded, in nursing care, some people must work for critical infrastructure. They would get double pay and some double plus hazard. And, they must live at work for those 6 weeks. The national guard, without weapons, would be in charge of all delivery. If you need something call up or place a white flag out your front door. It would be tough but it could work. With all bills, stock mkts etc all closed. Nobody gets anything. Power water heating oil is all free under govt paying. After the 2 month pause we all go right back to work, assuming the virus is dead, people complied and no infected remain.
There are always idiot kids that cant go 6 weeks without seeing their girlfriends etc though. So this would never work. So, States will enact lockdown, shelter in place and pass out violations pissing everyone off especially those now unemployed. Then the draconian measures will worsen and they call up feds. Martial law resumes. And things crumble because people wont take kindly no matter how good they act, as rumors spread so does people tempers.
Lastly, when all the left like CnN, actors etc are for martial law that means i must be against It.. For anything they want to do or think is a good idea i should be against it because they have agendas against me and freedom mostly.