Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
We’re going to be brief this week…because two would-be sections evolved into full articles in their own right.
1. Bullsh*t question of the week
US Professor of Economics Scott Galloway was on Bill Maher this week, arguing there should be “some grace and forgiveness” for those people who supported lockdowns:
I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect: I was wrong… But here’s the bottom line: We were doing our best. Let’s give a little grace and forgiveness.”
The fact of the matter is that the question of forgiveness is not relevant, and indeed the whole issue is a propaganda construct in itself. A PR campaign designed to sell the idea that lockdowns were an honest attempt to mitigate a real disease.
We know the truth: Lockdowns were deliberately imposed to create poverty and social immiseration.
The people who supported them were either psychopaths hell-bent on breaking the world and ruining lives, or sock puppets who mindlessly repeated talking points handed down by the ruling authority.
Either way, forgiveness is a waste of time.
2. Dystopian nightmare fuel of the week
I saw this on Twitter and it made me sad…
An "influencer factory" in Indonesia pic.twitter.com/FSRLiaQ58G
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) October 26, 2023
It’s what they call an “influencer factory”, a bunch of young women set up in a warehouse to post entirely fake social media content to entirely fake social media accounts. All designed to sell makeup, clothes or food. Or, worse, to drip feed hope to poor people who aspire to a more affluent lifestyle.
That’s bleak, but it gets bleaker.
Think about it: If things like this exist to sell mascara and lingerie in Indonesia, imagine what kind of factories exist to sell agendas, or ideas, to the world. And imagine how many of the people working in them you’ve wasted your time arguing with.
3. Quiet-part-out-loud of the week
In a television interview Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell justified military aid to Ukraine by arguing that most of that money is coming right back to America because Ukraine uses it to buy American weapons and vehicles from American arms manufacturers.
This is, broadly speaking, true. America goes to war to make money – however, it’s also a lie. America doesn’t go to war to make money for America, but rather the small cadre of criminal psychopaths who have maneuvered themselves into power.
It has nothing to do with “rebuilding their industrial base”, and everything to do with profiteering.
McConnel mentions factories and companies, but there are several people he doesn’t mention. He doesn’t mention the Senators who are going to retire to jobs on boards of Boeing or Raytheon. He doesn’t mention his friends and relatives and business partners who own stocks in defense contractors and get handy tips just before big defense bills are signed (or before “terrorist attacks” take place).
He doesn’t mention that by taxing ordinary working Americans; giving that tax revenue to a foreign government and then making a profit when that government then pays it to arms companies, they are essentially stealing money, laundering it overseas, and reaping rich rewards.
He tells a bit of a truth, but not much of it.
Joke of the week…
[Credit to NHpilled]
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention red meat causing diabetes.
Forgiveness is the wrong word to highlight, regardless of what the pro-lockdown psychopath said. That’s a separate and personal issue and everyone needs to decided on their own about that.
The word is “forget”. They want us to forget what they did and move on. No, no and NO. Absolutely not. There needs to be consequences, severe consequences so they don’t try it again and if we have to serve up those consequences because the courts refuse, the so be it.
The problem with these people they were mind controlled and brainwashed and won’t admit it. This means they are a danger to all of us when the next issue comes a long. They will repeat their behavior with the Chinese spy balloons or the invasion of the giant tomatoes .
It’s not brainwashing, it’s a character flaw. They have a sick need for power and control and will seek it again when a new crisis arises.
Unfortunately MC the attention span of the average person is… SQUIRREL…
Plus there is no end to the damages these satanic cultists will impose and NOTHING will provoke the People into action. Look at the cities under communist rule, look at states/provinces under communist rule. ALL of them in varying degrees of degradation and increasing waste.
Even with current, in your face, disparages like in the open drug zombies, tent cities, smash’n grab crime and literal shit in the streets, these same scum politicals still get **cough** voted in to continue the raping. Nothing changes.
So no, there will be zero accountability for these dirtballs. Even if there were a ‘civil war’ there would be a few scum caught and hung, but most would meld into the background of noise and chaos, and disappear.
No need to insult squirrels. They spend hours, sometimes days, trying to hack the bird feeder.
no convid amnesty
“Let’s give a little grace and forgiveness.”…seriously, you can’t give these Nazi’s an inch.
Like the grace they gave those that refused to comply with their mandates on vax and masks? Okay arrest and fire them. That was their grace
They Want to Arrest and Jail All Unvaccinated Adults! – Mark Dice
(But let them wander around for 30 more days to decide . . . )
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I love the guy with the surfboard lol…
The democrat mindset punishes children’s lemonade-stands for not having a “permit” or “tax-ID”, but organized scumbag theft is PROTECTED !!!
Senator Johnson: ‘Globalists’ Are Using Covid and Climate ‘Fear’ to ‘Control Our Lives’
Republican Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has dropped the hammer on “globalists” trying to “control our lives” by creating a “state of fear” over Covid and the so-called “climate crisis.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/senator-johnson-globalists-are-using
Why aren’t people throttling Galloway in public?
I will never forgive or forget the former friends and relatives who told me I was a monster for not getting the clot shot and wanting me to be sent to a concentration camp. One relative was covered in a very itchy rash for 2 months that almost drove him crazy, another is dying of turbo cancer in a hospice, and another suddenly has advanced dementia. To them, I say “I f–king told you so”.
I don’t blame you. If you got sick they would get a twisted jolly out of it and tell you that you got what you deserve.
Forgiveness? HELL NO. Those people would go full on Fascist again if given the chance. They’re just in CYA mode.