Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,
This is surely one of the strangest twists in official narratives in perhaps hundreds of years. The bad guys have been christened as the good guys, and the good guys have been purged, deplatformed, canceled, and demonized.
It’s a turn of events none of us could have imagined back in 2020. It cries out for an explanation. I truly fear knowing the answer as to why.
Just consider the fate of former New Zealand Prime Jacinda Ardern.
She locked down her country, trampling all rights of the people under the guise of controlling the spread of a virus. You could not go to church. You could not be unmasked. You could not leave the country and return. No one could travel there without official permission.
As bad as the United States and Europe were during this period, New Zealand was worse, and it was backed up by speech controls. Anyone protesting the policies was risking everything. And when the vaccine came along, Ardern outright said it: the people who get it will have rights but those who do not will not. It was a new biomedical caste system.
Eventually, the country did open. Now speakers decrying the whole period are attracting audiences in the thousands, and Ardern is widely unpopular. Her successor who continues to defend all this despotism is under a cloud and also deeply unpopular. The tables have completely turned. Of course the virus came anyway, as it must, so the junta that did this has turned their attention to climate change, the defense of censorship, and the escalation of the Russia/Ukraine war.
Five years ago, anyone would have supposed that a leader that acted this way would live in shame. I certainly assumed so. My supposition is that Ardern had made horrific misjudgments and would be widely decried as a confused tyrant. She would live out her days in disrepute, surely.
The opposite has happened. She is now the subject of celebratory biographies. She is lauded by mainstream media. She addressed the United Nations last year in a speech that was an open call for a new global censorship regime. True, the fact-checkers disagree with this interpretation. Instead she was merely calling out “the weaponization of free speech societies and platforms by misinformation agents.”
Oh.
In any case, in my imagination, I could not have dreamed up a specimen of error and tyranny more deserving of devaluing than Jacinda Ardern. Everything she did during the COVID era flies in the face of values that the West has held for almost a thousand years since the Magna Carta.
But I was wrong. Completely. I underestimated just how broken the world is. Instead of being disgraced, she is enjoying not one but two fellowships at Harvard University where she enjoys massive prestige and adoration by faculty, staff, and students. To me, this seems like the Twilight Zone—an ending to the story that I could not have imagined. Are we supposed to be against segregation, house arrest, forced medical treatments, locking people in nations, and censorship? I thought at least we would agree on that much. Apparently not. Apparently, it is the opposite. Everything that I believed was deprecated is exalted and all the public virtues I believed we extolled are now denounced.
It’s not just Ardern. The whole tiny but global junta that imposed all these policies seemed to be enjoying a glorious send-off by the entire establishment, even though they have been 100 percent wrong about everything. Fauci’s successor is Fauci II, and same with Walensky’s successor at the CDC. And the media propagandists who for three years lied to the public about lockdowns, masks, school closures, and shots are now writing books that are calling people like me the bad guys!
I almost cannot imagine that this has happened and I cannot fathom why.
As another example, the New York Times op-ed page has carried an amazing and very long article by Yoel Roth, the former chief censor of Twitter 1.0 before he was summarily fired by Elon Musk. The Times let him tell his tale of woe on how oppressed and beaten down he is merely for enforcing trust and safety. He was only doing his job to stop online lies!
The Twitter Files revealed that the company was obeying government priorities and blocking and throttling content that took issue with COVID policies, questions surrounding election integrity, and vaccine effectiveness. Roth, in cooperation with federal agencies, set himself up as the arbiter of truth and arguably distorted information flows based on his personal bias.
Like Ardern, I might have expected that he would retire from public life and deploy his considerable communication for a small company somewhere. But I was wrong again. Instead he holds a coveted position at the University of Pennsylvania and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
For that matter, Anthony Fauci himself is enjoying a comfy sinecure at Georgetown University.
This is not just about how high-end academia has become a haven for woke politics, censorship, and wildly pro-statist thinking across the board. That battle seems to have been won by the bad guys perhaps two decades ago. The problem is much larger. It has to do with the entire academic, corporate, political, and deep-state establishment that was heavily involved in imposing a despotic turn for the entire globe.
They are right now in the business of protecting their own, trolling the rest of us by granting awards and honors to the absolute worst offenders of core Western values. It’s like the world has been turned upside down. As grim as I believed the lockdowns that began in March 2020 were, and as much as I expected some terrible economic and cultural fallout from that period, I never would have imagined that the lockdowners and mandaters would be riding high at 42 months of this.
And at the very same time, the purges of the people who were right all along are continuing at a furious pace. Every day, we observe sneaky attacks on the greatest champions of basic liberties on which I thought everyone agreed back in 2019. Every unflattering bit of personal information on the resistors is fair game, amplified by the media, and then realized in the form of demonetizations by Big Tech, the courts, and the professional circuit generally.
The battle lines are very clear and only one side stands for the rights and liberties for which humanity worked for a millennium. The other side stands for controls, impositions, divisions, surveillance, censorship, degrowth, and corporate cartelizations. Can someone explain to me why we are supposed to think that the bad guys are now the good guys? In short, how can we account for the valorization of tyrants?
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Zelenski interviewed on NPR was falling all over himself to downplay corruption.
Says they are ” transparent .”
Transparently corrupt from the grifter to the MAX, shaking hands with the leader of the Biden crime family now confirmed to have received many millions from selling just access.
Ukraine is transparent. It is clear to everyone how corrupt they are. It is plain as day how the Ukraine money laundry works and who benefits. Totally transparent. They hide nothing.
The long gone liberal left vs the Lefty Loons in control, NOW! Soros / Obama did it well!
” The Left isn’t liberal. If it were, it would be fulminating with anger over what the federal government and corporate America are doing.”
“We”, as in those who are awake, are not supposed to think that the bad guys are the good guys. Nobody but us is concerned about our thoughts. Those who are supposed to think that bad is good already do. Those whom cowered in fear and celebrated the pharmaceutical companies are the ones who believed then that these tyrants were doing the right thing by mandating, locking down and so on. It is a slap in the face to us but nothing more than reinforcement of an already extant idea for the NPC’s.
Yes, our side, and there are sides, in spite of the seemingly infinite elasticity of the mythological silent majority, spends a lot of time plumbing the shallows of the other side for some depth of purpose – as well as policing our own ranks for purity of thought. And yet that other side just plows on. Not a thought of us at all other than occasional props from the Ministry of Truth. Which are mostly used to facilitate signaling shorthand among their own.
While it is clear that the likes of OrangeManBad and other fallen elites occupy some corner of the hivemind rent-free, the rest of us badthinkers and dirt people in general are mere chattel on the balance sheet of the cloud, or simply just non-people that exist only insofar as the media-entertainment complex casts us in that increasingly ham-fisted brutalism they stroke across their black mirror echo chambers.
Speaking of tell-a-vision, I never watched “Mad Men” but remember a scene pointed out in some blog long ago to illustrate this type of projection-disconnect and incongruence of thought.
The main man is in an elevator with an underling on the pitch team after exiting a meeting in which they closed a deal, but main man ran his own pitch and did not use the ideas of his underling.
The underling is venting his frustration and ends the exchange with “I feel bad for you”.
To which the main man replies, looking away as he exits, “I don’t think of you at all.”
Well put.
If it weren’t for inverted empathy, our .gov shadow rulers would have none at all. They know exactly what we feel even though they’ve no clue how we feel. Indeed, they don’t care how we feel, only what. They are all well equipped to rule others by manipulating their emotions, especially the lizard faced lass from NZland.
How else does the western world walk in lockstep toward global genocide? Even though the executives running all three branches of Fed.gov are morally compromised on film, they have children and grandchildren. They don’t care about them either. They are psychopaths and don’t dote on anything except aquarium fish.
I’ve lived long enough to to see the U.S.A. pile into a ditch many times, usually through lobby-steered, bureaucratic blundering. This time, we are being driven straight off of a cliff.
There’s nothing but sky in my windshield.
Because, as was written several thousand years ago, evil will be called good and good will be called evil. By evil men and imposters of Godly men there will be perilous times at the End of Days. Scoffers, lovers of self and all manner of depravity and the wealthy will lead the way into their own destruction.
James 5
Bingo. If the Bible is correct about the past and present — and manifestly, it has been — then Scripture can be relied upon as a guide to the onrushing future.
You can count on it.
TPTB have been using it as a roadmap for domination and control for centuries.
They punish you, according to the law.
That’s why they pervert you first.
So the punishment is justified.
They ran the Operation: Sodom and Gomorrah roadmap in Weimer 1920s.
It’s currently being ran in usa.
That ended with fire from the skies.
Isaiah 5:20 Context
17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Right-And-Wrong/
God Never Lies. We know what the final outcome will be.
You’ve thought your convictions through?
Have YOU, ‘Reality?’
“I am of the age where I have to turn down the radio so I don’t miss my turn”
Pure chaos. Nothing but noise. TPTB are playing every station on the dial at 11 to flood our senses.
Then they offer one soothing, quiet channel that spreads propaganda and lies with a calm, reasoning voice. The weak are so beat down by the constant gaslighting and fearmongering that the lying voice behind the toothy smile seems reassuring. And so the seeds of propaganda are sown to reap another bumpcrop of mindless sheep.
Well put, but their harvest is shrinking.
Reminds me of the dulcet, hypnotizing tones used by NPR announcers for decades.
You can play almost any music at all from a phone.
Spotty service?
Download tracks when service is good.
Headphone/earpiece outlet to Aux audio input…radio problems…solved.
Or, use the cars wifi to play tracks.
?
It’s happing because we allowed communists to infect every institution and level of society and they always protect their own.
Joe McCarthy’s failure to accomplish what he set out to do — getting rid of the communists in the United States — should have been seen as the warning it was regarding who controls the United States …
If you want to find out who’s in charge, find out who you cannot speak out against …
“Five years ago, anyone would have supposed that a leader that acted this way would live in shame.”
I assumed that she would move into international positions that paid better for less work, essentially as a pension plan for having done good work for TPTB.
Because I have been paying attention.
I think jacinda would look much better after her face was stomped in by a boot.
I think she would be far better off if she turned to doing what is right.
True. Low odds, though . . .
Or creased with an axe
No mystery here. Can’t understand why there’d be any confusion at this point.
Jacinda Ardern and Gretch ‘the Wretch’ Whitmer are models for the future. And The Future is Female, as they have told us for decades.
You live in feminist nations ruled by female principles, and increasingly, female leaders. Female leadership = tyranny. Woman cares nothing for your pretty constitutions, your systems of merit and probity, or your honorable, honored values. Woman desires power, and now she has gotten it and you live under it.
‘As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them’ (Isaiah 3)
Jucinda=Barrabas
What’sHerFace on Down Under’s lockdowns (from a YouTube-banned video of hers):
Canada mama bear exhorts us to cancel insouciance.
MORE:
https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=whatsherface&kind=video
Gotcher tyrants right ‘ere:
We are many; they are few. Resistance is not futile: it is essential. It’s arithmetic.
More shaming language. Women can defend themselves and their not-mine children. So long as a woman’s voice is relevant, we can’t win.
Study:
It’s encouragement, not shaming. She’s not some dismissible feminazi.
PsyOps is PsyOps. Women (at small scale) and Jews (at large scale) do it naturally, which makes me wonder….
The bad guys holding the megaphone is disturbing but doesn’t give them righteousness let alone credibility. In fact it merely encourages them to be even more outrageous, making obvious fools of themselves. All with eyes to see are seeing, becoming more steadfast in their own conviction that they are evil, stupid, dishonest examples of human excrement. What rates mockery and derision more than The NY Times and others receiving Pulitzer Prizes they refuse to return or rescind for reporting 100% verified lies and fraud regarding Trump/Russia among other things?
They have a megaphone. I/We need simply ignore the gaggle of fools in thrall to the evil F’ers barking through that megaphone.
Ardern, like Big Mike, has a dick…
More important, “she” has the faith of the masses. Abolish the state:
EXCERPT:
“I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they…”
~ Etienne de La Boétie
Withdraw your consent/support of tyranny. Dare to live free.
Exodus 23:2
The author is correct. Everything is up-side-down. Bad is good. Good is bad. Tyrants are celebrated. People pushing for freedom are demonized. Censorship is required for free speech. Part of this revolves around the legacy media. There is a wall of propaganda coming from them. For some reason I do not understand lots of people still watch and believe the lies. They seem to like being lied to. They like the lies.
As someone here pointed out not long ago, most people are driven primarily by a fear of social ostracization.
Paradoxically, they fear that they would face such ostracization if it were ever discovered that they fear ostracization. So much so that they could never admit it to themselves.
I misread the title of the article then had my hopes dashed when I discovered it did not read, “The Vaporization of the Tyrants”
“Five years ago, anyone would have supposed that a leader that acted this way would live in shame. I certainly assumed so. My supposition is that Ardern had made horrific misjudgments and would be widely decried as a confused tyrant. She would live out her days in disrepute, surely.”
Tells me that the author has been either living under a rock for at least 15 years … or is as stupid as one of those rocks … not sure which.
Ardern and Trudeau and numerous others around the world are all WEF-trained operatives … and their end game is communist control and destruction of everyone, everywhere — period.
We’ve all been duped, bro . . .
As long as you die fighting, you’re consecrated.
Peace.
Where are all the lone wolves??
“I almost cannot imagine that this has happened and I cannot fathom why.”
That is because he doesn’t understand how the NWO operates. The entire scamdemic was part of the NWO Agenda 2030 plan. The NWO people may be evil, but they are smart. They have perfectly figured out how to manipulate the sheeple, and they have successfully dumbed them down long ago with government schools, the MSM, Hollywood, fluoride, etc. They know they can do anything they want to do and most of the sheeple will never figure it out. They have gotten away with the JFK assassination, OKC bombing, 9/11, the 2008 “financial crisis”, and the COVID-19 scamdemic and kill shots, just to name a few, with most of the sheeple still believing the official narrative of each event. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they are going to continue getting away with everything they do, which will likely include climate lockdowns and more scamdemic lockdowns, until they achieve their Agenda 2030 goals (and even then they will keep going).
Can we put a “p” in the title of this, where the “l” is, and
then make it happen?
Can we DEW them, huh?
Only a bad guy would say that. Don’t got yours since 2020? Oh, you so pure.
Yes pressure is building, there will be accountability believe it, they know it, that’s why it is accelerating .
Local ,local, local, collaborators & their families. Think of what they are planning for your family.
MODPFW
“In short, how can we account for the valorization of tyrants? Simple. Laziness on the part of the masses. No one wanted to be bothered to put any effort into family, community or governance. Too much bother. Interfered with Sunday football on CBS. Didn’t matter. Blah, blah, blah.
Now that it is akin to a cockroach infestation that begins with one, we are up to our eyeballs in them. Exterminating a complete infestation is harder than just getting rid of one, but it is not impossible. The sooner we start, the easier it will be.
Bravo!
The Vaporization Of The Tyrants. I like that title better too.
GOP reps move to eliminate Fauci’s multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded chauffeur and security detail
Fauci defends hush-hush perks, declaring that he’s “been involved in saving, literally, millions of lives.”
https://www.dossier.today/p/gop-reps-move-to-eliminate-faucis?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=69009&post_id=137302718&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=9atnc&utm_medium=email
A lot of good comments. I have written a number of articles, several posted here, covering this topic. Some dating back many years and most with the same theme which answers Mr Tuckers question. A few here refer ambiguiously to the amorphic and unknown”TPTB”. Yes, that is the problem but until they are identified we are screwed on a response. My view in nearly all of my essays is that the American Legacy MSM is either the power or the source of the power. If not for them, up is not down and gaslighting, Covid nonsense, Climate Crap and all the rest would never have happened. The Left uses this power perfectly through the avenues of Internet search to Cable TV, notwithstanding the bones thrown to the sensible ones by allowing us an infinitesimally small news and info footprint. Worse, the MSM either directly creates, approves or says nothing about school curriculums, some of which ia created by NPR and Govt TV. Exhibit A. Imagine what would have happened to Apples Multi Trillion dollar stock equity if 20/years ago they were investigated daily by real journalists about using slave labor to make PCs and smartphones. Or Musks batteries made with rare earth metals dugup from mines by children. Nothing like what we are witnessing in our modern Tzone world decried by Mr Tucker would happen. So, as I have said time and again, nothing changes until the Trusted News Initiative Monopoly (aka MSM) is busted up in America, where that power resides. All else we and Mr Tucker rightly complain about is mothing less than Einsteins definition of Insanity. And that’s why we are all going a little crazy.
The problem is you’re following Einstein’s definitions.
the fbi is still entrapping people —
https://www.readtangle.com/fbi-entrapment-gretchen-whitmer-case/?ref=tangle-newsletter
Libertarian asks why state power is evil.