Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Shuck-and-jive from America’s broken thinking class, the people who pretend to know better than everybody else.
By now, everybody and his uncle has seen Emily Oster’s plea for “pandemic amnesty” in The Atlantic magazine, a house organ of the people in America who know better than you do about… really… everything. Emily’s wazoo is so stuffed with gold-plated credentials (BA, PhD, Harvard; economics prof at Brown U) it’s a wonder that she could sit down long enough to peck out her lame argument that “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.”
Emily wasn’t “in the dark.” She had access to the same information as the Americans who recognized that everything the public health authorities, the medical establishment, and many elected officials shoveled out about Covid and its putative remedies and preventatives was untrue, with a patina of bad faith and malice — especially when it was used to persecute their political adversaries.
These dissenters turned out to be “right for the wrong reasons,” she declared, the main reason being that they were not aligned in good-think with the Woke-Jacobinism of her fellow “progressives” at Brown U, and academics all across the land, who were righteously busy destroying the intellectual life of the nation, making it impossible for the thinking class to think.
Let’s face it: every society actually needs a thinking class, a cohort able to frame important issues-of-the-moment that require argument in the public arena to align our collective thoughts and deeds with reality. America used to have a pretty good thinking class, with a pretty good free press and many other platforms for opinion — all animated by respect for the first amendment to the Constitution.
The thinking class destroyed that by vigorously promoting a new censorship regime in every American institution, shutting down free speech and, more crucially, the necessary debate for aligning our politics with reality. Hence, America’s thinking class became the torchbearers of unreality, in step with the Party of Chaos which held the levers of power. This included the powers of life and death in the matter of Covid-19.
These were the people who militated against effective early treatment protocols (to cynically preserve the drug companies’ emergency use authorization (EUA) and thus their liability shields); the people who enforced the deadly remdesivir-and-ventilator combo in hospital treatment; the people who rolled out the harmful and ineffective “vaccines”; who fired and vilified doctors who disagreed with all that; and who engineered a long list of abusive policies that destroyed businesses, livelihoods, households, reputations, and futures.
How did it happen that the thinking class destroyed thinking and betrayed itself? Because the status competition for moral righteousness in the sick milieu of the campus became more important to them than the truth. In places like Brown U, what you saw was an escalating contest for status brownie-points, which is what virtue-signaling is all about. And the highest virtue was going along with whatever experts and people-in-authority said — the pathetic virtue of submission. Anything that got in the way of going along — such as differences of opinion — had to be crushed, stamped out, and with a vicious edge to teach the dissenters a lesson: dissent will not be tolerated!
Some thinking class. The case of Emily Oster should be particularly and painfully disturbing, since she affects to specialize, as an economist, on “pregnancy and parenting” (her own website declares), while the Covid regime of public health officialdom she supported instigated a horrendous pediatric health crisis that is ongoing — it was only days ago that the CDC added the harmful mRNA “vaccines” to its childhood immunization schedule for the purpose of conferring permanent legal immunity for the drug companies after the EUA ends, a dastardly act. Where’s Ms. Oster’s plea to the CDC to cease and desist trying to vaccinate kids with mRNA products?
The CDC is still running TV commercials (during World Series ballgames!) touting its “booster” shots when only weeks ago a top Pfizer executive, Janine Small (“Regional President for Vaccines of International Developed Markets”), revealed in testimony to the European Union Parliament that her company never tested its “vaccine” for preventing transmission of SARS CoV-2. The CDC under Director Rochelle Walensky is still extra-super-busy concealing or fudging its statistical data to obfuscate the emerging picture that MRNA “vaccines” are responsible for the shocking rise of “all-causes deaths” in the most heavily-vaxxed nations. In short, the authorities are to this minute still running their whole malign operation.
Notably, Ms. Oster’s plea for amnesty and forgiveness, showcased in The Atlantic, omits any discussion of accountability for what amounts to serious crimes against the public. A whole lot of people deserve to be indicted for killing and injuring millions of people. At the heart of her plea is the excuse that “we didn’t know” official Covid policy was so misguided. That’s just not true, of course, and is simply evidence of the thinking class’s recently-acquired allergy to truth. The part she left out of her petition for pandemic amnesty is: we were only following orders.
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This reminds me of a quote by Thomas Sowell “Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them”.
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” ~ Thomas Sowell
Someday, people will stop believing the political science and run their own lives.
If I’m ever on trial, I’m gonna ask the court to just forgive me.
First, ask them if THEY understand the charges.
Or if they care about the charges – and Western Civ’s due process – or if it’s a show trial.
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Covid abuses will soon be covered up wi,… Squirrel!
I’ll just say it one last time and then shut up.
Neither Oster nor anyone on the Left (as if there are no republican Covidians) is asking forgiveness from “anti-vaxxers”, “Covid-deniers”, “Science deniers”, or “conspiracy theorists”.
She (and they) all still despise you and want to mandate masks, testing, vaccines (including for kids), passports, quarantines of the healthy, curfews, etc, etc.
NO ONE is backing off any of it. No one wants your, or my, forgiveness. That’s not what that article was about.
As Oster states “Vaccination rates for children remain way down. Pediatricians and public health officials need to continue public outreach with politicians considering school mandates.”
So lets forgive and keep getting vaccinated. She still supports vaccine mandates for children. They are playing for keeps.
Hopefully, she’s “vaccinated,” with 5 “boosters.”
Lead injections
I don’t trust that these jews are consuming the poisons they peddle.
They don’t want it, but they are going to need it….
All true. This is in response to an LA Times article that just appeared yesterday.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/are-the-unvaccinated-still-a-danger
They will stop at nothing, so we must stop them. We are unambiguously under attack.
4/27/2021:
They know no limits. We must stop them:
They are a death cult:
..who engineered a long list of abusive policies that destroyed and continue to destroy businesses, livelihoods, households, reputations, futures and LIVES.
Just deserts are due to this fucking criminal.
Since they took most of the guns, he can (hopefully) look forward to being beaten to death instead of a nice clean head shot.
But of course fuck all will happen to him. The herd is far more concerned about those poor Ukrainians now.
Health Minister Fat Fuck, what a surprise.
At least Brown U. continues to mandate vaxx and requires up-to-date “boosters” for all students and staff. Auntie is feeling safer already.
Perhaps Prof. Oster and any family she might have, will be personally treated to some of the side effects of trauma, terror and torture she was so eager to impose on the Lumpen.
I truly admire JHK’s articulate command of the English language in his total disagreement with this woman’s article.
All I could come up with after reading it, with my construction background, was ‘rabid cunt’.
That moniker works just fine.
Indeed it does. Sadly this ‘rabid cunt ‘ is a member of a very large coven of like minded cunts.
She and her ilk support cancel culture’s permanent banishment for non-crimes, but they think that the greatest crime ever planned and executed in all of recorded history, which they unblinkingly, rabidly supported, deserves a “Hey, no hard feelings, pass the hors d’oeurves” house party and pageant.
Oh God not another Oster amnesty asspinion!!! Who cares what this bitch is spewing out? She has no authority or reputation to speak of except the massive PR she’s getting from all the useless anti-oster articles. The negative PR is only giving her a legitimacy she seeks from her leftard peers. Enough already!!!
All of the most profoundly stupid people you see everywhere, especially the NBC’s, are Ivy Leaguers. Is this Oster ever on MSNBC with Ivy League moron Joy Reid? She had a gem yesterday saying normal people never use the word “inflation” in conversations among themselves. They have been trained to use it by right wing campaigns. She is so fuqueing stupid she thinks the word inflation is only used by the elite finance people of the Ivy World. It is somehow beyond the ability of non-Ivy people to have conversations using such highly technical terms as inflation. MSNBC-Mostly Socialist Nut Bag Clowns.
Wrong…It has awakened some people…
You’re both right.
>>>…has awakened some people…
My attitude towards Trump.
Aside from the fact that he kept Hillary F*cking Clinton from eight years in the Presidency, Trump was a pretty unimpressive Chief Executive. That said, he must have been a genuine threat to someone, or some thing, or they wouldn’t have expended so much time and effort in getting him out of office.
Who STILL advocates mass vaxecution. At what point can Big Orange stop claiming not to know?
You cannot forgive someone for anything unless they 1) confess their guilt, and 2)show contrition…I will forgive them when they do those two things and are also stripped of their assets to use in partial compensation of the tens of millions Americans injured by this fraud and coercion…
They can be forgiven, but they can also do time, plenty of time.
Under the jail.
You omitted… accept their punishment…
. . . up to and including an injection for an injection . . .
Too kind.
They couldn’t care less if you forgive them or not, they want your TRUST.
And continued compliance.
And your children.
and your chance of having grand or great grand children.
Unless what’s-her-face had a mouse in her pocket when she was typing out her thoughts, WTF is this “WE need to forgive one another…”shit.
I’ve read quite a few of these responses to her piece and don’t recall anyone asking what, exactly, the deniers have said or done that was incorrect and should apologize for.
Coulda missed it, but still worth asking.
Exactly. This is just an attempt to claim “we were all equally wrong”. Bullshit, we were right and she was 100% wrong.
We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation
She means YOU!
Her information is right, yours is wrong. In her mind (or what passes for a mind), you are never to be forgiven.
plus, why are you adopting the “deniers” tag?
The last statement: We were only following orders ! The excuse of the cowards and parasites !
I know a Baltimore County code inspector who found humor in his ability to close and fine businesses . I know him through an old friend now departed .
I said you do realize your are destroying businesses that are taxed to pay your salary and benefits! His reply was priceless, I don’t care I’m following orders and getting overtime !
I asked if he understood the Nuremberg Code ? The befuddled look told me everything , he is just another parasitic Government employee so ignorant to reality he is not worth my time !
Remember they are still among us waiting for the next excuse like many in law enforcement !
LEO’s the job with high rates of depression, alcoholism , domestic abuse , divorce and suicide and they travel freely among us armed and with qualified immunity!
>>>LEO’s the job with high rates of depression, alcoholism , domestic abuse , divorce and suicide.
My son spent 20 years as a cop in a small city in the Intermountain West. Basically, it was twenty years of domestic violence calls, traffic stops and bush-league drug deals. And he had one murder IIRC. I’m very glad he got out of that line of work, mostly because I’ve known a fair number of senior LEOs in Seattle and LA – and almost all of them are very unhappy individuals, hanging on mostly in hopes of a juicy pension.
Law enforcement in the US seems to be an OK job for some young men… but the better and mentally healthier among them tend to move on to less fucked up lines of work.
Just a side note I’m pro law enforcement and very anti bad LEO’s
Cover for a bad cop probably the bulk of the depart needs shit canned . Tough job sure and not everyone can cut it or should be allowed to even try!
This scam has torn apart the very last bit that was poorly keeping FUSA together. Family was the one thing they had been unable to break. They have destroyed our history and culture but up until Event 201 they could not eradicate the family.
Just like The War of Northern Agression split families brother vs brother, the Covid scam did the same. My own family is irretrievably broken. Those that bought the lies vs those that did not.
In my house, we have redefined family to more or less mean the people under our roof. Most Aunts, Uncles, and even a few grandparents showed that when chips were down they would put the perception of safety ahead of family and treat me & mine as lepers. They broke those bonds. Now we know where we stand and have no intention of reunification.
From Jeff Berwick:
“In World War II, the Jews were fired from their jobs. They could be stopped randomly and have their papers checked at any time by the police. If they did not have papers, they were arrested.
They were branded as undesirables and were blamed for the suffering of everyone else in society. Their voices were silenced, concerns ignored and rights stripped.
They were separated from their families and placed in concentration camps, where they were forcibly sterilized and subjected to medical procedures against their will. The media refused to cover the crimes the aggressors had committed against them until six million of them died.
Let’s declare a Nazi amnesty.
“Whoaaaa! What are you saying?!? Unthinkable! Treason! Jeff Berwick – Holocaust Denier!”
Okay, repeat the first three paragraphs, but replace World War II with 2020/21/22, and Jews with the Unvaccinated.
Now, let’s declare a pandemic amnesty.
“Jeff Berwick – what a mensch! So magnanimous, so ungrudging.”
Lest we forget:
Howard Stern (known for his Jewishness) called out ‘imbecile anti-vaxxers to go f–k yourself’!
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (son of a Nazi and Holocaust apologist) said ‘screw your freedom’!
Juliette Kayyen (member of Tree of Life synagogue) demanded that anti-vaxxer ‘face isolation, fines, and arrests’.
The list goes on, but shouldn’t these three have been first in line to recognize and oppose the persecution and tyranny we witnessed throughout the world over the past 3 years?
Ya’d think.
And now we are being asked to “Declare A Pandemic Amnesty and forgive “each other” for what we did and said when we were in the dark about Covid…”
In Star Wars, as Palpatine crowned himself Emperor, the Senators who had vowed to protect liberty and democracy, did not protest. Neither were they silent. Rather they cheered and applauded – willing to sacrifice their hard won freedom for meager scraps of security and vague promises of stability and prosperity.
Padmé Amidala was heartbroken that all the sacrifices that she and her friends and loved ones had made were ultimately futile. But she was not all that surprised. People are the same everywhere. Even when some of them are aliens.
But, I’ll tell you this.
Like some smart girl tweeted, “I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My pronouns are They/Lied.”
I didn’t fire anyone because they wouldn’t get the lethal injection. I didn’t call the cops on my neighbor for not wearing a mask. Or refused bedside visits to dying family, or little old ladies.
Also, it’s not my kids with weird heart diseases, because I forced them to get jabbed to ‘save lives’.
So, here’s my absolution to all the vaccine believers: Go get yourself another booster (or two if you can).
Please. Do it for the common good.”
Precisely. Little difference.
Imagine going into a casino and sitting down at a blackjack table only to have the dealer pay out everyone who busted and taking the chips from everyone who beat the dealer.
That’s America today.
If you are right about something, you are marginalized and made to disappear from the public forum. If you’re always wrong you get awards and titles and sinecures, high pay and lavish benefits and the press lauds your contributions to the world even as people are dropping dead as a result of your advice.
Throughout the entire fraud that was the three-year-flu/allergy/cold season the only people you never heard from were those who maintained their health. We were lectured and harangued by people who were routinely coming down with symptoms of illness as often as a baby changes its diaper.
If you can walk away from this system before it finally collapses, you should do so.
I did
Simply kill her and her ilk that killed millions in the end.
God if chooses to can forgive them,tis God’s job to forgive/not mine.
I think what they are angling for is a LEGAL amnesty, ie immunity. The mRNA turns out to be synthetic, w/ one of the 4 components replaced by a substitute chemical. It still works as mRNA, but lasts longer than the 2-3 weeks max of the natural mRNA (This is from the Pfizer papers released under court order). This would explain why it’s been found in lymphatic tissue after 17 months. You know, where the T cells are made.
A Nobel Prize winning virologist in Europe said, “If you have both shots and the booster, get tested for AIDS. Then sue your government”. Five days later he was dead.
They want IMMUNITY for the TENS OF MILLIONS of Americans who will die in the next few years. They have to move quickly here, since by early next year it will have become too obvious that this was a “population reduction measure”, as Dr. Yeadon said in early Summer 2020.
Sever the pipeline of cash that goes from big pharma banks to regulator wallets. Someone should draw a Venn diagram.
That Venn diagram always has whores in the middle.
Progressives are communists in disguise. There is only one way to deal with them. Defeat them and make them fear us.
Emily convinced me! She should be able to choose the caliber of round that her executioner uses to terminate her “with extreme prejudice”.
Here’s a great response from Thomas Paine, aka Mike Moore: