She’s so close to getting it
"How dare you!" Whoopi ridiculously pops off against Bill Maher for anti-mask jokes, tell him to say out of society. Sara Haines joins in by saying masks will be a permanent "new normal" like airport security after 9/11. "I may never … feel comfortable without a mask." pic.twitter.com/AHjJcKR79c
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 24, 2022
Haines is exactly right, for many people, especially in Blue areas, COVID restrictions will be exactly like post 9/11 travel restrictions, a permanent new normal.
And just like post 9/11 travel restrictions, they are pure security theater that has no actual efficacy.
Masks are COVID TSA. They don’t stop shit.
Mask mandates are just like pat downs. They do nothing to stop bad things from getting through and are just a affront to your intelligence and civil liberties.
The thing is, after 20 years of useless airport security theater, many people on both side of the aisle roll their eyes at the uselessness of it but know the system will never go away because there is too much money and bureaucracy tied up in it and Pournelle’s Iron Law has set in making the TSA permanent.
It was justified in the years after 9/11 by a color coded fear porn system, but eventually people got tired of that and it went away. When was the last time you heard it was an orange terrorism day.
In 20 years it will be the same here.
Most people will roll their eyes at mask mandates in Blue areas but comply nonetheless.
People won’t care about the fear porn anymore and recognize the security theater as just that, theater.
But the rules and regulations will still be there because the money and bureaucracy are there and that never goes away even after its been proven useless.
The only amazing thing here is that we know exactly how this will unfold. Post 9/11 security is the road map, yet people still want to go down this road as though they don’t know where it leads.
Because they are a bunch of corrupt f*ckers, that’s why
.@ShelbyTalcott: "[E]fforts like weight loss can help prevent some of the…effects of COVID-19. Why isn't [Biden] including a push for healthier lifestyles…in addition to…vaccinat[ions]?"
Psaki says they listen to "public health officials" who say shots & masks are best. pic.twitter.com/Rbbk6Ir2OT
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 27, 2022
Because there is no “Big Gym” lobby like there is Big Pharma and the Fast Food Industry.
Because telling people to exercise and lose weight doesn’t give them the ability to create mandates and passports.
Because everything done by our government either increases their control over you or lines their pockets and encouraging you to get healthy and more resilient to a virus does neither for them.
It has to be absolutely crystal clear at this point they do not care about your health, just your compliance.
I’m glad Yang is bringing this up but does he have the gall to address the root cause?
Men now comprise only 40.5% of college students and are failing in high school at much higher rates. There’s a crisis among American boys and men that is too often ignored and is definitely going unaddressed.
— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
Boys are more than 2-3x as likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD, five times more likely to spend time in juvenile detention, and are far less likely to finish high school. In many places being good at school is now considered feminine. 70% of US valedictorians were girls in ‘12.
— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
It doesn’t get any better when men become adults. Average male wages have declined since 1990 in real terms. At least one-sixth of prime working age men 25-54 are either unemployed or out of the workforce. More men aged 18-34 are living with parents than with romantic partners.
— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
Economic transformation hasn’t helped. Almost three-quarters of manufacturing workers are – were – men; the sector has lost about 5 million jobs since 2000. That’s a lot of unemployed men.
— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
The sidelining of this many boys and men has massive social, political and economic consequences. Tyler Cowen calls it “the bad men problem.” It’s getting tougher and tougher to not fall into this category. Addressing or at least reducing this is crucial to any positive future.
— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
The fact that this isn’t front and center of any policy agenda is a massive failure of our media institutions and public leadership that struggle to frame boys and/or men as sympathetic figures despite very clear data indicating the need.
— Andrew Yang?⬆️?? (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
This is a huge problem.
Some of the comments talk about the need for more trade schools. That is true, but that won’t fix the problem.
Other talk about the shift in the economy away from more “masculine” jobs. That’s only sort of true. Yes, there are more HR and DE&I officers than ever, but we still need people to actually build and make things.
The problem is as a society we have approached the gender equality issue as a zero sum game, and for one gender to win the other must lose.
That is a product of the Marxist thinking that took over the Left in the 1960s.
Going all the way back to antiquity, philosophers and thinkers understood people need a purpose.
We need something to motivate us.
People without a purpose are indolent and self destructive.
Since the dawn of civilization, the purpose of men has been to be the provider and protector.
The goal of a man was to make himself desirable to marry, get married, have children, and take care of his family. Men were encouraged to do this and were lauded for it.
The ancient Greek and Roman philosophers wrote about this, so did the ancient Jewish sages.
In modern times that has be abandoned and denounced.
The message of society has be men are unnecessary and unwanted.
Women can enter the corporate world and don’t need a husband to support financially.
Women can be single mothers and raise children without a father.
Men who want to be providers and protectors are sexist pigs who just want women to be oppressed, barefoot, and pregnant in the kitchen.
Men who do the things men have traditionally done to build great civilizations are toxic.
And boys got that message.
They have no purpose.
If a woman doesn’t need you, why work hard to make yourself marriage material and get married. There is porn and OnlyFans when your horny.
Why go out and try to contribute positively when that’s just makes you a toxic knuckle-dragger.
And so men have checked out of society to play video games, watch porn, drink beer, and smoke pot.
Men have been stripped of their purpose and so no longer have the intrinsic motivation to build themselves up or build up society.
As a result both men and society are crumbling.
The only way to fix this is to change the culture and tell me that they are needed, wanted, and the things men have traditionally done for society are good and valuable.
If you read the comments to Yang’s thread, so many of them are “men have had it good for a long time, it’s women’s time now.”
We must get away from zero sum thinking. We must recognize that we can build up men without diminishing women and that building up women by diminishing men was how we created this crisis in the first place.
And let me be clear, I’m not blaming women for this. Many are just as much victims as men. I’m blaming the Marxists who pushed this garbage on society.
If we can’t get past zero sum thinking and restore purpose to men, we are doomed to failure.
Old irrelevant Leftist defends another old irrelevant Leftist
In case you missed it, Neil Young’s music is no longer available on the internet music streaming service Spotify.
In a nutshell, Neil Young vastly overestimated his worth and told Spotify that they either drop Joe Rogan’s podcast because he has been pushing COVID misinformation or he (Young) pulls his music from Spotify.
The CEO looked at the numbers.
Joe Rogan draws about 11 million listeners per episode, with some episodes reaching as high as 40 million listeners.
Neil Young gets about 6 million listeners in a month.
At which point the CEO of Spotify told that old, irrelevant hippie to go fuck himself.
Spotify man don’t need him around, anyhow.
Neil Young pulled his music and the reaction from most people was: “Neil Young is still alive?”
Neil Young then floundered that the CEO of Spotify would call his bluff, and in doing so became a magnet of other old, irrelevant Leftists.
Howard Stern says Neil Young’s threat to pull music from Spotify over Joe Rogan using the platform to spread “fake information about vaccines” is not about censorship because it’s “about life or death.” pic.twitter.com/uBayuzHwaR
— The Recount (@therecount) January 26, 2022
Howard Stern.
The famous “King of All Media.” The shock jock who made his name testing the limits of the First Amendment on the airwaves.
Turns out he’s a 68 year old pussy who’s afraid of the air and will lick the boot to uphold the Coof security theater.
Turns out that for all the porn stars he’s interviewed, his favorite is Anthony Fauci and his brand of fear porn.
But of course Howard Stern would end his career the way Neil Young and so many other old Leftists would, as mouthpieces for state enforcement.
Making millions from a career of “fight the man” wasn’t about principles but money.
Now that they are old and rich they want the man to protect them from the Coof.
And for Howard Stern, there is delicious irony on this.
He’s been rendered irrelevant and obsolete by guys like Rogan.
Stern was the “King of All Media” when “all media” was FCC licensed broadcast corporations and he still had to play by their rules.
In the world of podcasts, 4G/5G, and Bluetooth, anyone can listen to anything on any topic without restrictions.
Howard Stern is an irrelevant old Leftist on defending another irrelevant old Leftist, both trying to hang onto relevancy radically overestimating their value.
Fuck ’em.
You gotta love Facebook (UPDATE)
First they sent me a message asking if I was all right and if I needed to talk to somebody. next, I got the photo removed.
I guess some ugly fat communist college girl may feel triggered about the reality of communism. Her fantasy should not be challenged.
UPDATE: I appealed just because and they actually reversed the decision. Color me amazed.
