We know the wicked truth about Chairman Mao’s “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom.” He said this in 1957 while inviting anyone to criticize the Communist Party. There were cheers all around and the criticisms were unleashed. This lasted six weeks, after which many of the biggest critics were shot. It was a bait and switch.
It’s a brilliant tactic for evil regimes. Ferret out the enemy and then make them go away.
That’s not exactly what happened this week but the analogy works. A judge in Florida this week struck down the Biden administration’s transportation mask mandate. The opinion was highly technical and turned entirely on issues of administrative law. The judge ruled that the Public Health Service Act of 1944, the first ever to give the quarantine power to the federal government, did not authorize the imposition of universal mandates on what is really an article of clothing in the name of “sanitation.”
Instead, what appeared to happen here was entirely arbitrary. The Biden administration wanted masks and the CDC imposed them, including with criminal penalties. For a full year, travelers have been hectored and threatened at every turn.
After the court decision, a hundred flowers bloomed in the form of air-born celebrations from coast to coast.
Will it last? Not if our rulers in DC get their way.
But let’s be clear about something. It’s about masks but more. The mask is a metaphor for all the controls, restrictions, impositions, mandates, closures, and resulting wreckage of the past two years. People hate them because they are so personal. More precisely, they are depersonalizing, which is precisely how the lockdown period of American history has felt the entire time.
We are our faces, to others and ourselves. Take that away and what are we? We are tools. We are pawns. We are lab rats for their experiments. Masks are dehumanizing because they are supposed to be. The mask has a very long history as a tool of subjection and enslavement. We all know this intuitively.
Therefore, the opportunity to throw it off was glorious. One evening an entire nation of travelers celebrated. Celebrating even more were the airline staff, flight attendants, and pilots. They have lived two years in these ridiculous things, which have nowhere been proven to work to crush a virus. Emancipation from them was a welcome relief. So too for workers around the country, whose interests have been consistently disregarded.
We found ourselves in the position of caste-like scenes in restaurants around the country: customers dining happily while being served by masked workers. This is inconsistent with the democratic and commercial ethos.
All the airlines as well as Amtrak announced it quickly, perhaps as a way of making it impossible for the Biden administration to roll it back. Even Biden himself said that the new rule is that everyone should do what they want. I guess he didn’t get the memo.
Hold one just one minute, said someone in the administration. We need to find out what the Department of Justice says. Then the Justice Department immediately kicked it to the CDC: they are in charge of “The Science” and so we’ll wait.
“The Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disagree with the district court’s decision and will appeal, subject to CDC’s conclusion that the order remains necessary for public health. The Department continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health. That is an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve….
If CDC concludes that a mandatory order remains necessary for the public’s health after that assessment, the Department of Justice will appeal the district court’s decision.”
What’s this about? The plaintiff Health Freedom Defense Fund issued a sharp statement:
“DoJ’s statement is perplexing to say the least and sounds like it comes from health policy advocates not government lawyers. The ruling by the US District Court is a matter of law, not CDC preference or an assessment of “current health conditions.”
In the early days of the Biden administration, the PR decision at the top was that it would always “follow the science,” a statement that the new president said many times. This was supposed to be different from the Trump administration, at least after the summer of 2020 when the CDC lost control over the political side of the executive state.
On one hand, following The Science sounds good. However, if the “science” really means the bureaucracies and hence this slogan is just another way of passing the buck, there is a problem. The bureaucracies are unaccountable, and typically default to the safest and changeless route to preserve their power over the population.
Even so, following the DOJ’s announcement, there must have been moments of panic at the CDC. They had the hot potato and didn’t know what to do with it. Finally they settled on the usual strategy: they threw it to an anonymous committee. Then the committee came out with a statement unsigned by anyone in particular.
Instead of citing The Science, or claiming that they knew for sure that masks were great for people, the statement started with the following sentence: “To protect CDC’s public health authority….” Notice that this doesn’t say to protect public health. It says public health AUTHORITY. Those are certainly different things.
In any case, the decision was made. The CDC “has asked DOJ to proceed with an appeal.” Ah, there we go: throw that potato back at a different agency. The CDC has merely asked! So now the DOJ will appeal, as forced by the sloganeering of the Biden administration and the deference to the CDC. The results will certainly be terrible for the administration because the next court will agree with the previous court that there was never any legal basis for the mandate in the first place.
They could also issue a stay. That would be catastrophic for the Biden administration. Public anger would be out of control. Mao got away with this because he had total power. Biden does not. In fact, his poll numbers are awful. I’ve personally never seen an example of a sadistic government that is simultaneously politically masochistic. In other words, these people not only do not understand what’s good for the country; they don’t even know what’s good for themselves!
The words of the CDC statement are the chilling part. They care about their authority first and foremost, even only. This seems to be the view pervasive in Washington today, as a Cold Civil War heats up between the states and with Washington. Every day grows more intense. Every day, the conflict becomes more raw and brutal. There seems to be no end in sight because there will be no rollbacks, no apologies, no regrets, no admission that their “authority” was an overreach all along.
Will governments have learned their lessons? Look around! We live in a world burdened by extremely arrogant and immovable public agencies that have lost public trust. The administrative state is right now as angry as the public is at them. There is a peaceful solution here but it doesn’t seem to be on the table.
If I’ve learned anything new over the last two years, it’s about the strange way in which the ruling class is impervious not only to actual research but also to the will of the people, even when it shows up in devastating polls. They seem not to regard the celebrations after the judge’s decision not as a corrective but a challenge to overcome.
It’s all about…authority. Not public health but public-health authority. Who is in charge? That’s what’s really at issue. They say them and we say us.
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Because the fags want us dead ?
Why is everyone trying to put a noose on everyone from the CDC?
Because they are all guilty of murder and crimes against humanity.
Where you been? Coma?
It was a rhetorical question. Of course I know.
I was sure the CDC’s ruling would be “We don’t need masks anymore” – relieving the DOJ of the need to appeal and letting the Biden regime slink away from the issue, but NOOOOOO… the control freaks cannot abandon control. I believe the next step is the 11th District Court of Appeals in Atlanta. I think it has a pretty conservative makeup. If they uphold the Florida court, it would give the Biden regime another opportunity to slink away. Watch them stupidly try to keep the issue alive by trying to appeal to SCOTUS. It’s amazing how the progs are in their own world. It also never even occurs to them that if Omicron is such an emergency that masks on planes are needed, Congress could always pass – you know – actual legislation about it.
Appeal to the courts . Yeah, that’s the ticket , because healthcare is a tax, and corporations are people too… reeeeeeee
Masks were required (mandated) on airplanes in 2020.
2020.
Twenty-twenty.
2020.
Hundreds and thousands of people need to fill up mask mandate areas unmasked. Mass non compliance.
Truth.
It’s Irish Democracy, or full on Revolutionary War II.
It will be their choice, not ours.
How did that work out for Ireland?
Exactly, I have been saying mass refusal to comply finishes this crap off real quick.
This is a rhetorical question.
They want you masked because they want you enslaved.
Wake the fck up already.
Be mentally prepared to do anything and everything to stop them all.
Let that sink in.
If you are not, they have already won and you have accepted their slavery.
This isn’t magically going away.
No one ever thinks it will happen to them.
Ever.
But it does. All through human history.
Try to see. and then become an agent of resistance to them.
I picked my father up at a hospital in DC yesterday. After that, we went to his Kaiser insurer’s hospital in MD to pick up a script. These are the 2 worst areas/states on the (NY also) East coast for mask mandates. Mask signs are still up in many places. But certainly all medical facilities have mask mandates. I did not wear a mask into either of these hospitals. I had to go into Kaiser twice even. No one said a damn thing even though everyone else was wearing a mask. I’m pretty sure the medical staff don’t give a shit and won’t say anything to you because they’ve got to know it is all Kabuki Theatre.
I do believe we win big time if we simply refuse to wear them ANYWHERE. Also, ridicule every masker you know or run into. I have a family member that I will still make fun of every chance I get. He simply will not admit that Covid is all bullshit. He (one of my brothers) and his family are jabbed, double jabbed and even his son had to take it to attend college. I still make fun of him. I will not let it go. It is these people who are supportive of communism imo.
We would have a good time I love laughing at maskers I look em in the eye too.
It’s funny now, but the burials will be a bummer…trust me.
I have to ask, how is it that you and Ice-9 are so confident that 10s of millions are going to die in the US soon because they got jabbed?
Not gonna work on maggies farm no more
It is possible we are seeing a phenomenon that has never existed previously due to the complexity of the systems at play. This is likely the first time that multiple global interdependent systems have all malfunctioned simultaneously, that the underlying structures of each segment- banking, industry, nations, religions, agriculture, politics, etc.- are all running on the platforms and foundations that made them possible, but are collapsing under the weight of their own overbuilt bureaucracies.
There is no doubt that none of it functions as it was originally intended with very few exceptions. The moral underpinnings of the old systems have been hollowed out to such a degree that we’ve all become insensate to such overt horrors as abortion and transgenderism, while the bedrock beliefs such as honesty and courage have virtually disappeared. Things continue to run based not on efficacy or reliability, but on inertia.
Maybe- and I am coming to believe this may be closer to the truth than any other alternative- maybe there is no longer anyone “in charge” or controlling events as they spin out of control.
As far as the US Government is concerned, each department has demonstrated that they operate outside of any set of controls or lawful restrictions that may have previously limited their overreach. Knowing how easy it is to force people to comply with any mandate or measure regardless of how ridiculous or nonsensical and how long it takes before any type of challenge begins to arise, either at a grassroots level or through the courts, any petty psychopath within the structure- and government itself attracts that type the way Hollywood draws egomaniacs-has free reign to do whatever they like without fear of pushback at any level. The system, in a strange way, exists to perpetuate itself even as it tears away at it’s very foundation.
While there may exist certain people who are hell bent on inflicting damage for their own purposes- Bill Gates, Klaus Schwabb, et al- they are operating independently with sometimes overlapping motives, but not neccesarily in a co-ordinated manner. There may not actually be an orchestrated plan, but instead hundreds of opportunistic forms of parasitism. The organism that is human society whatever name it goes by currently- Globalism, high culture, the West, Liberalism, Civilization- is dying and like any living thing on its deathbed it invites every form of decay.
This is the end of the last 500 years of collective advances and the decline is no longer reversible, if it ever was. The idea that a small segment of malformed, hideous, melevolent and deeply unhappy organisms working in concert have any chance whatsoever of taking control of the billions of humans living on this planet as well as all of its resources is even remotely possible is a joke on a cosmic scale. And while it may look like it due to the ability of some to control the Narrative via a monolithic messaging system known as media (social/mass/print/academic/offical), nothing could be further from the truth. There is never going to be space travel, no AI, no singularity, no globalist caliphate, no Build Back Better- none of it.
This is a great reset, they have happened as often as mankind has risen from barbarism to civility and will keep on happening as each schlerotic system degenerates once it reaches its apex, as it has numerous times in the past. We set up the conflagration of our own mass delusion and it follows the path of Nature itself by burning away the chaff and fertilizing the soil of future social orders that will arise from the ashes.
Not happening around here, no matter what these criminals proclaim…
this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize…
Yuval Hariri Tells You What The Vaccines Really Do
At one globalist conference, he explained exactly what the COVID pandemic was being used by the globalist elites to do: “COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance.
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/yuval-hariri-tells-you-what-the-vaccines?s=r