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Too Many People Know a Guy

Posted: February 13, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Yesterday at work when I was waiting at the time clock I was reading the poster on the wall about the COVID vaccine being “safe and effective”.

These poster have been there for quite a long time and are behind the times and the fact, but what ‘s really fascinating is pols are showing that despite an almost complete blackout of the side effects and dangers of the COVID vaccine reality continues to trump the official narrative:

How did they answer? 71% of those surveyed were vaccinated, comparable to the national average. Virtually half of respondents don’t believe the “disinformation” mantra propagated by “fact checkers”, mainstream media, and the government. “49% of American adults believe it is likely that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths, including 28% who think it’s very likely.”

Furthermore, “28% of adults say they personally know someone whose death they think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.” And “48% of Americans believe there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.”

Think about that for a second if almost 1-2 people people out of a pool that’s 71% vaccinated thinks there are legit reasons to be concerning and more than 1-4 know somebody whose death they think may have be caused by side effect of COVID, that’s huge particularly when there are so many incentives both social and physical for people to believe otherwise.

Furthermore there was not a question concerning illnesses. The number of anecdotes concerning people I know and people who my wife knows who have been having “interesting” health issues who are vaccinated is significant and I suspect if I know plenty of people with problems plenty of other people likely know the same.

Of course all of this is supposition but I’ll leave you with a graphic from Instapundit that I think spikes the ball concerning the amount people trust both the government and the medical profession these days:

Even without this the sheer number of people who know someone with complications is a ticking time bomb. The only question is when will this blow up the narrative to the point where it will be more advantageous to pols to pivot.

When it does a lot of those who enforced vax mandates that were not ordered by the government will be shaking in their boots.

The Bright Side of Europe, International Feudalism, Drudging Veritas, PA gets what it deserves and the Superbowl post Brady Under the Fedora

Posted: February 12, 2023 by datechguy in culture, media, nfl, under the fedora
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I’ve been thinking…

We talk about why Europe doesn’t defend itself but while the Russia Ukraine war is nearing the end of year 1 it’s worth nothing that since World War 2 and American Troop stationed in Europe there has not been a major war between European Powers.

That is the longest period in centuries that this has been true and even the wars we have seen (Russia vs Ukraine, Balkans War) have all bee from states that had been broken up (Yugoslavia) or part of each other.

For all the PITN about defending Europe that’s quite an accomplishment.

Of course one of the disadvantages of this has been the empowerment of the international deep state. Once wealthy elites did not have to worry about national wars destroying their wealth they discovered they had more in common with each other than the people of the land they lived in or ran businesses in. They became, in effect their own nationality a group who believed that it was their right and destiny to direct the world around them and for others to bend the knee.

Welcome back feudalism! That’s the goal (with them as the Lords astonished that the people demand the comforts that they possess) but it is only doable against an unarmed population.

That’s why gun control will never be off the table for the left.

As I look at the attempt to wrest Project Veritas from James O’Keefe all I can think of is Matt Drudge. Because Drudge was pretty much a solo flyer it only required buying one person willing to be bought.

I suspect after the Pfizer expo an attempt to buy O’Keefe was attempted and failed and thus plan B was put into effect.

It’s always been easier to buy people to get what you want. I wonder how much the folks on the board were paid and if it was contingent on the ousting of O’Keefe?

Speaking of real reporting vs phony stuff apparently Senator Fetterman’s condition has reached a point where it is impossible for the media that insisted he was well and denounced anyone who said otherwise to tenably make that argument.

For myself, I would not allow him to resign or be replaced in any situation short of death. The people of Pennsylvania decided they wanted a brain injured invalid as their Senator and by golly they should get what they asked for.

On a personal level of course it would be nice if he recovered, it must be murder on his family and himself and I’d feel bad for anyone with such health issues but in terms of politics he decided to get onto the playing field and if he’s on the field during the game he doesn’t get the right to be left open.

Speaking of games today is Superbowl Sunday and with Tom Brady’s retirement New England’s interest in the game is going to return to the “once a decade” mode at best or more likely to the “not us” mode that it was in pre-Brady.

That a franchise had a 50% chance of making it to the Superbowl over a 20 year period is, next to the Celtics run of championships with Bill Russell, the most incredible run you will likely ever see. (You can even argue that it’s more impressive since in a best of 5 or best of 7 series you can have a bad game and still take home the gold, Brady didn’t have that luxury). Watching the sudden decline of the team has been like watching the sudden decline of the American republic. People thought it would last forever but it can’t unless you keep it up.

It’s appropriate that WEEI named their Patriots postgame show “The six rings postgame show” it will be many decades before they’re forced to rename it again.

A Reminder About Those Who Call Conservatives “Nazis”

Posted: February 11, 2023 by datechguy in culture
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Sir Humphrey Appleby: Let’s look at this objectively. It is a game played for national interests and always was. Why do you suppose we went into it[The EU common market and parliament]?

James Hacker: To strengthen the brotherhood of free Western nations.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh, really. We went in to screw the French by splitting them off from the Germans.

James Hacker: Well, why did the French go into it, then?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition.

James Hacker: That certainly doesn’t apply to the Germans!

Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, no. They went in to cleanse themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.

Yes Minister The Devil You Know 1981

There is a saying that “ignorance is bliss”. I don’t believe that’s true.

Ignorance particularly ignorance of history is a recipe for the making of fatal mistake that have already been made by people again and again and again.

Today I’m watching the 1961 Movie: Judgment at Nuremberg. One of the great movies that available free on Amazon Prime but is highly forgotten. The only living member of the primary cast which was a who’s who of some of the greatest stars of Hollywood is William Shatner who played the aide of Spencer Tracy’s head jurist.

I’d like to play a small clip from the movie: You will need to be signed into Youtube to watch it. If you’re banned from youtube like me you’ll have to watch it on Amazon

They used actual films taken by the allied troops rather than recreating it for the 1961 film. To say there were and are horrible is one of the greatest understatements in history.

And the left calls us Nazi. They do so because we support the 2nd Amendment, because we say there are two genders, because we are willing to define “woman” and because we will not set back and ignore it when babies are slaughtered in the womb but most of all, they call us Nazi’s because we won’t bend the knee to the woke.

I submit and suggest that every time they do so they insult every single person who was slaughtered, who was displaced, who was persecuted and who was occupied by the German forces from 1939-1945 and before. And they disgrace themselves and all of those who fought against this evil in the hopes of making themselves equal to those brave men and women when they are not in the least possible way.

Many are young and ignorant and kept so and might be excused by their ignorance, but not in their staying ignorance.

It is those who know better who are the ones who should be ashamed of themselves, if they had any capability to being so that is.

This is a very bad idea but no Surprise

Posted: February 10, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I’ll say this for the Biden Administration. When you buy them they stay bought, to wit:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new list of routine vaccines for children and adults now that it’s already more than a month into the new year. While COVID-19 shots weren’t on the agency’s list last year, the vaccines, including updated booster doses, are now added to the CDC’s 2023 routine immunization schedule for eligible children and adults.

The bottom line of this is that in a blue state that mandates following these guidelines the kids are getting the clot shot reguardless of the lack of risk of COVID for the young, but the real irony of this decision is that it comes after Fauci does this:

What if I told you that Anthony Fauci knew all along that the COVID vaccine could not possibly prevent either infection with or transmission of COVID?

Not surprised? Neither am I.

Now, what if I told you he just published a paper in a peer-reviewed journal admitting that fact, and calling for new types of vaccines to deal with the problem?

So the party of killing kids in the womb is going to make sure they get them later.

Well that’s the advantage of having a post-Christian bureaucracy You don’t have to worry about the actual health of lives of kids as long as you get your cut.

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