If I were your neighbor, I would seek you out every morning and hang over the fence to hear what you think. Because what you say is EXACTLY right. No forgiveness or forgetting without the acknowledgement that you were wrong, because you did or thought this, and You will NEVER do it again, or at least try. I agree Leana Wen is a CCP spy, that we are suffering to live in our midst, but she is also a cunt. (no apology, sometimes you need a word like that for some people).
That she continues to be on twitter after her misinformative posts shows just how thoruoghly the intelligence agencies have final control over twitter, facebook et al, .
Obviously I've been permanently banned from Twitter, but I do hope someone here still has privileges and will retweet your essay all over the twitterverse.
Personally, I hope you don't mind, I am going to retweet it all over Gab and Gettr. And of course, it is not just Wen. It is all of them that pushed for masks, lockdowns, psuedo vaccines, etc. I do wish the rest of us would take up the practice of shunning again. I think it would go a long way to show people that they cannot just whitewash what they did, and that actions have consequences. Because there NEED to be consequences. And I am waiting for ANYONE to experience any CONSEQUENCES.
Maybe I'm mellowing too much, but I'd be happy if people like Wen were simply ignored, isolated, and lost their celebrity platform and were left out in the cold to die in obscurity.
Wen didn't do anything illegal. She's just a wannabe tyrant and evil bitch. I just want the system to stop insulating people like her from our wrath.
I like that you referenced shunning. That's exactly what I'm getting at. And if a little vigilante justice were to happen now and then, well, society has to tolerate a certain pressure valve.
Oh good. I am very much in favor of shunning. Because it is not possible to forget those who do NOT apologize. You might be able to forgive, but forget? Never.
Future historians, (assuming there are any), are going to summarize this era, "the crazy years", as that brief period when there were "no consequences". When a significant percentage of the population deluded themselves into believing that they would not, could not, be held accountable. For anything. Ever. But, as someone once said, karma is a bitch. I may not live to see it, but one of these days ...
Second rule of 21st century history 101, we don't question the narrative of 21st Century history. We don't acknowledge our own lack of knowledge. That's for 401 as if you do it at 301 you'll get close to zero marks on your well thought out and substantiated essays. And raise the wrath of the ignorant.
Or for that matter, apologize to the Doctors who wrote the Barrington Declaration. I've only ever heard one doctor from New Orleans apologize to them. Certainly not holding my breath for Fauci et al to do the same.
I will take the liberty of taking something in her tweet out of context and agree with her:
"...but if you want to drive a car, that endagers others"
I am a friend of a car vaxident victim who, 11 months ago, had head trauma as a result and may lose her hearing at any random moment, and is currently on massive steroids to hopefully get sight back in one eye, after a guy plowed into her parked car, totaling her car, 3 other parked cars, damaged a parked semi that he partially ran under which stopped him, and totaled his car. The last thing the guy remembered was getting the shot 30 minutes prior.
So yes, I agree with her driving cars endangers others.
That's just another "and driving" situation to add to the list. To me this is even worse than drinking and driving, and texting while driving, and all the other forms of distracted driving situations. In this case most people don't have a clue that driving while vaxxed can be just as bad as all the other "driving whiles"
I shudder to think that if this becomes prevalent enough it just might make the case for those self-driving vehicles or the removal of freedom vehicles from the roads.
On the other hand, the rulers will demand a class of servants who can manage such things and drive them around, cut their hair, tend to their dental needs, conduct surgeries, fly their jets ....
Are we to become the slave caste simply as our reward for having refused the jab? Maybe that is a big part of the segregation that appears to have persisted even as the covid in covidmania appears to be looking for exist stage left.
We're currently (I emphasize this because I actually find it difficult to prognosticate in the short-to-medium term on this specific topic) in a phase where the hypocrisy of the elite on topics like this is really visible and obvious and is a big part of why they've lost so much social cache lately. An example that leaps to mind was one I read recently about the Davos shitshow where apparently a great number of the attendees do NOT want their personal drivers using electric vehicles because they, as Big People With Important Things To Do, are troubled by the reliability of power and the range of said vehicles; they demand the gas-powered ones they'd ultimately like to confiscate from all of us.
Technology is a REALLY important element of where we find ourselves now; it isn't only about the way power has accumulated in a post-modern (post world war/post-industrial) world. A big part of it is how applications of power are being enabled (or disabled) by the state of the art.
To put it simply, as long as the notion of a truly functional "net zero" power grid or reliable electric vehicles is still out of reach, elites will never go so far as to put themselves in a position of deprivation. (They're certainly willing to deprive US along the way of getting themselves there- but it has to be possible, first.) I think that's why a lot of what we see right now with technocracy is bluster and loud proclamations about things that clearly can't actually be executed yet.
"[They] do NOT want their personal drivers using electric vehicles because they, as Big People With Important Things To Do, are troubled by the reliability of power and the range of said vehicles; they demand the gas-powered ones they'd ultimately like to confiscate from all of us."
Truth as to the attitude, certainly, and I think there's a bit more to it than that.
Security.
They live in fear and wish to push that to the recesses of their self-venerated minds. Sheer expedience drives them to delegate to their muscled protector servants the worry about that which would not make a rapid and brutal escape feasible. Petrol does power the freedom machines which have become, like their operators, the utensils and trays and pots and pans of the hand servants of old: ever present but scarcely acknowledged, hovering nearby at dining table, the sitting room, and kitchen.
I do think that in Devos the unseen puppet master/s played a serious game and gave the visible elitorz (a class above us but below those running this shiteshow) a taste of the vulnerables by having them walk the brief gauntlet past the Indy newshounds of the mostly tame but still Wildish West, like the "deplorable" and valiant Rebel News.
Kerry was not amused. He tried to make virtue of his self-confessed downgrade to commercial flights. Poor sod. The quip lacked credence.
Doctor Albert Bourla was shy but he too walked the non-talk and feared the classic das boot im mund. On his own two pegs he meandered on what was a straight if crowded path.
These were two examples of petrol guzzling semi-powers in front of the throne. Knobs really, that are twisted and turned as the real masters instruct. Locomotion can turn a mundane stroll into a race of sorts not against time but just-in-time for a teachable moment with no hope of a getaway Just a get there not badly quoted.
The other night the smug Trudeau was made to walk the streets as the extraordinary welcoming party in Hamilton sang his praises and jeered his profile of courage.
Brings to mind the scare bestowed on our gasper-in-chief when by mere happenstance a trove of black-faced images appeared and their seemingly endless disclosure made to suddenly hault. The not-so-sorry excuse-on-a-stick was obliged to utter a famous non-apology. After shown the cliff's edge and taught that his wings were clipped and that the fall would be his end, Trudy surrendered any pretense of being his own man. It was a bizarre form of opened blackmail.
A few days earlier, Trudeau jetted from Ottawa to Vancouver for a brief photo op and hurried back home (about 10,000 kms in a single day). Luxury is the mother of necessary evil. That tells a tale of attitude at altitude.
They are pampered with fleets of heavy SUVs and jets and speedboats and yachts. Gas hogs for escape. And driven and cared for by the dependable Help whose utility has nothing to do with the carbon footprints they leave in the snow.
The elite plan to live underground after climate change makes living above ground impossible. They need the elon musk satellites, self driving trucks and all everything to work above ground in the radiation while they are underground.
That's what they are preparing for from 2030 to 2050.
Update on my friend who was in the vaxident. No longer in danger of losing hearing - whatever was happening resolved there. However, they are now going blind in both eyes - initially was only one. Drs can't understand why all their steroid protocols didn't work. Was gaslit countless times by MDs - including that the blindness is being faked. Finally found a doc who instantly knew what was wrong both on exam and on scans. It was all there to see if they knew what they were doing. Is now advised to go to the school of the blind.
I pray God looks over your friend and looks down upon her with favor, by making her better, healing her hearing and sight. --- Too bad the man didn't hit wen or some in our government.
Ms Gutter, you have "evolved" into a top tier Stacker. I always take away at least one good quote or phrase from each of your posts. The term "thundercunt" fits Ms Wen to a tee!!
You know whose thinking has actually evolved? Ron DeSantis. Hard to believe now but at the beginning of the pandemic, Florida did all the same things other lockdown states did, with very few exceptions like South Dakota. I remember being upset at the time that our rights were being trampled and we weren't being leveled with regarding the true danger (or lack thereof) of the virus. But to his credit, he quickly (though not as quickly as I) realized this was all bullshit. And he hasn't looked back.
See, this is what I'm talking about. You could probably count on one hand the number of leaders that would say that. Even if he does diffuse responsibility with the Fed.
Leanna Wen is a World Economic Forum "global young leader" and is pushing the same agenda as all her globalist cohorts. I also believe she is a CCP agent.
Won't it be interesting, assuming civil society survives a century from now, that historians will observe the confluence of a Young Sociopaths Club and social media as having almost done us in?
People like this Wen have turned me into a sort of schadenfrreude vulture. I drift around on internet thermals, hoping to see them, any of them, as roadkill after collisions with the Truthtrain at crossings. Sorry not sorry! I don’t believe it is petty or particularly “personal” of me, it feels more on a soul level. Sometimes I enact the role of the difficult curmudgeon and get mostly eye rolls, but I feel pride and responsibility for having redpilled my partner and one of her two sons. (Even though I still get: “Why did you cause a scene in there? They were just powerless employees!”) Sadly, the other son took the shots. Yesterday, we brought him a new greenhouse cover to replace wind damage. He and his new fiancé are early thirties, organic farmers, surfers, hikers, mountain bikers, products of Northern California Ecotopia. Her (fiancé’s) mother is classic libtard, thinks Adam Schiff is an American Hero for his treasonous and seditious work undermining Orange Man’s election. The father is a happy guy in his eighties, holding it together in a nice house in the forest he built as an industrious Emerald Triangle hippy in younger days. So their daughter is an only child, Waldorf schooled, and to protect her parents ( Mom is a classic low-info Karen who, early on presented us with cute masks she had sewn herself! So you can imagine the guilt if daughter were to bring a sneeze home and Daddy were to kick off from COVID!!!) So of course they all shotted and probably even boosted. I don’t know about the booster, I can’t bear to look. When they told me I expressed dismay. ( Oh no! You’re kidding! What brand? (She didn’t know. Great.) Then they informed us that, we weren’t in their “bubble” because they could only have eight people or some such nonsense, so we were isolated from the young grandchild of my partner. This was early on , It’s better now, we get to share their shedding, lol! Before all this, I never got sick unless after a visit with the little guy who was just starting school. (I didn’t mind, I figured he was tuning up my immune system anyway.) So last week we got word that the boy got them, the young couple sick and could we pick up the greenhouse cover an hour away for them. Of course! Yesterday we met on the road to transfer it. They are still recouperating, and driving around with paper masks on! And we learn the mother of the young boy, (now the ex of my partner’s son) hasn’t been able to get over the bug for three weeks. This is a woman in her thirties who surfs and dives for abalone like a mermaid. So I’m standing there looking at these two young covidiots feeling a mixture of angry schadenfruede and sadness and pity, pretending nothing is seriously wrong, trying to figure out how to stop them from killing the kid, too. Because I pretty much think I am watching them self-destruct with ADE or Original Antigenic Sin or whatever.
Much less than a year ago the clown was saying unvaxxed should be made to suffer and should not be allowed to leave their homes. By September it was known that the vax at best gave very short protection. Now much more is known and the Clown is trying to backstep without acknowledging having been wrong.
Remember bleeding heart liberals. They have been replaced by heartless liberals. Modern libocrits are the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Lion wrapped into one.
I joined Twitter (after declaring for years that it was stupid) because of a stupid tweet Wen made last May when the failure of the jabs was getting harder to hide. I'm glad I did. I've learned about many people and had access to data and information (PHE and UKHSA reports) that I would likely never have found elsewhere.
Wen's turnabout gave me narrative whiplash, but I do enjoy reading some of her followers' meltdowns. Something is off with her. I can't place it, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that she's a robot or an actual space alien. She's bizarre.
We should never let them get away with this turnabout. If they don't offer an apology and explanation, we make them squirm until they do or until they slither away.
Thank you for this comment. I have resisted Twitter the same way Guttermouth has (great line BTW!), but this week I received a fact check on FB linking to an article on The Dispatch claiming that Tucker Carlson falsely claimed that the Covid 19 vaccine would now be required to attend school since it was put on the schedule two weeks ago. He did no such thing, it was very clear what he was saying to people with a brain. I was so incensed by the disingenuous nature of this fact check that I became a member of that outlet (free trial ha!) to comment on it. Dropped a little extra information about the 1986 Act and legal immunity in there too. Let me tell you, a concerning number of people who read that paper, which purports to be an alternative, conservative voice, are still very much walking around with their heads up their asses. It felt like a parallel universe. I really don’t know where we go from here.
I don’t mind your apology criteria. But in my opinion and in my experience bad actors are quick to do this. And quick to do it again. “I’m sorry I cheated on you. It was wrong of me. I see that now. It undermined our relationship which means so much to me. I will never do that again.” Until they do. Wen can apologize all she wants. Even a good apology. But she will do it again.
For purposes of this essay, I'm SPECIFICALLY speaking of leaders and other public figures with power over us; people who we don't have the personal choice of engaging or not engaging.
The example you described is when we want to try to maintain a PERSONAL relationship to a person who has wronged us. It's a good example, but different.
She (Wen) will do it again. But we will already know not to trust or listen to her, and if given the means to defeat her, we'll do so.
Leaders that DO acknowledge their errors are worthy of our trust.
Would be interesting to learn if while Dr/Ms Wen was preaching Covid obedience, if she was, in fact practicing it? Her ease in getting off the train suggests she may have never been on it.
I think she was personally terrified of covid for a period of time and was probably an absolute nightmare of a wife and mother about masking and sanitizing and couldn't get her kids vaxxed fast enough. That stuff was probably all real.
But like everyone else who ran their lizard brains in grossly disproportionate terror of covid for 2 years, she got tired and bored of it.
But before that arrived, she used her power and position to try to coerce everyone around her into doing what it would take to make her more comfortable.
Alternative simpler theory: after Planned Parenthood, Beijing simply told her to stoke as much division and hatred as possible.
In my mind the idealized "perfect apology" is the one delivered by John Cleese's character to Kevin Kline's character in A Fish Called Wanda---without the part where Cleese is delivering it while being dangled head first out of a tall building.
An unrelated point on quotes. I don't intend to open the door to a discussion of religion, but Hitchens has a line which coincidently is part of a critique of C.S. Lewis:
"The Aztecs had to tear open a human chest cavity every day just to make sure that the sun would rise."
They thought they did. Possibly. Wen'd make a good Aztec ladyboss. The success of wossname, Cortez, suggests however, that most of the people subject to their practices disagreed. Rather as I fondly imagined I could master linear algebra.
Happily neither solar activity nor mathematics depend on fallible or wicked men. And best of all, there are those who can get maths, and mankind's relationship to light energy correct. I make the sun rise in my little greenhouse thanks to them.
Leana Wen is right up there with President F*ckjoe on my list of covid villains. When Red Caesar arrives on stage, I hope he deals harshly with those who demonized us and restricted our freedoms.
If I were your neighbor, I would seek you out every morning and hang over the fence to hear what you think. Because what you say is EXACTLY right. No forgiveness or forgetting without the acknowledgement that you were wrong, because you did or thought this, and You will NEVER do it again, or at least try. I agree Leana Wen is a CCP spy, that we are suffering to live in our midst, but she is also a cunt. (no apology, sometimes you need a word like that for some people).
That she continues to be on twitter after her misinformative posts shows just how thoruoghly the intelligence agencies have final control over twitter, facebook et al, .
Obviously I've been permanently banned from Twitter, but I do hope someone here still has privileges and will retweet your essay all over the twitterverse.
Personally, I hope you don't mind, I am going to retweet it all over Gab and Gettr. And of course, it is not just Wen. It is all of them that pushed for masks, lockdowns, psuedo vaccines, etc. I do wish the rest of us would take up the practice of shunning again. I think it would go a long way to show people that they cannot just whitewash what they did, and that actions have consequences. Because there NEED to be consequences. And I am waiting for ANYONE to experience any CONSEQUENCES.
Maybe I'm mellowing too much, but I'd be happy if people like Wen were simply ignored, isolated, and lost their celebrity platform and were left out in the cold to die in obscurity.
Wen didn't do anything illegal. She's just a wannabe tyrant and evil bitch. I just want the system to stop insulating people like her from our wrath.
I like that you referenced shunning. That's exactly what I'm getting at. And if a little vigilante justice were to happen now and then, well, society has to tolerate a certain pressure valve.
Oh good. I am very much in favor of shunning. Because it is not possible to forget those who do NOT apologize. You might be able to forgive, but forget? Never.
Like someone once said, “I’m not Jesus Christ and I don’t have Alzheimer’s- so I don’t forgive and I don’t forget.”
You forgot to to turn on your "comment" feature for probably your last post ding-dong
No, I didn't. ;)
It's not working on my end. Oh well. I wish you the best. You are an exceptional writer and critical thinker. I'll miss it.
I even wrote a mini-biz plan for you a couple months ago, but was hesitant to send it because I sensed you were trying to figure stuff out.
Anyway. Best. Make life your bitch and enjoy your days under the sun.
Peace.
https://youtu.be/LLjFoIOyCfw
Do it
Duh. Got it...;)
Future historians, (assuming there are any), are going to summarize this era, "the crazy years", as that brief period when there were "no consequences". When a significant percentage of the population deluded themselves into believing that they would not, could not, be held accountable. For anything. Ever. But, as someone once said, karma is a bitch. I may not live to see it, but one of these days ...
"First rule of 21st century history 101, we don't talk about 21st century history."
That's why we all have to keep talking about it!
Second rule of 21st century history 101, we don't question the narrative of 21st Century history. We don't acknowledge our own lack of knowledge. That's for 401 as if you do it at 301 you'll get close to zero marks on your well thought out and substantiated essays. And raise the wrath of the ignorant.
Most of substack is 101.
And you most definitely are Rikard. And a very useful tool. Much like guttershit.
I probably won't live to see it, but I hope I'm up in heaven and do get to see it, and am allowed a lot of shadenfreude!
History is the plural of Narrative
-Ethical Skeptic
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1517635378240442370
Or for that matter, apologize to the Doctors who wrote the Barrington Declaration. I've only ever heard one doctor from New Orleans apologize to them. Certainly not holding my breath for Fauci et al to do the same.
Thanks for the inspiration. I just posted it to my account and sent it to Wen's. LOL.
Thanks. I’m going to do the same. Just in case she misses yours. 😉
Love it!!
Shunning would be more fun if we were in/near/around these people and their circles and they could see it in person.
Well that's a bit creepy!
Please avoid feeding the trolls.
I will take the liberty of taking something in her tweet out of context and agree with her:
"...but if you want to drive a car, that endagers others"
I am a friend of a car vaxident victim who, 11 months ago, had head trauma as a result and may lose her hearing at any random moment, and is currently on massive steroids to hopefully get sight back in one eye, after a guy plowed into her parked car, totaling her car, 3 other parked cars, damaged a parked semi that he partially ran under which stopped him, and totaled his car. The last thing the guy remembered was getting the shot 30 minutes prior.
So yes, I agree with her driving cars endangers others.
Holy shit. What a nightmare.
That's a good way of putting it. It has been the "gift" that keeps giving...just like the v as we're all witnessing. Clearly sarcasm.
That's just another "and driving" situation to add to the list. To me this is even worse than drinking and driving, and texting while driving, and all the other forms of distracted driving situations. In this case most people don't have a clue that driving while vaxxed can be just as bad as all the other "driving whiles"
I shudder to think that if this becomes prevalent enough it just might make the case for those self-driving vehicles or the removal of freedom vehicles from the roads.
On the other hand, the rulers will demand a class of servants who can manage such things and drive them around, cut their hair, tend to their dental needs, conduct surgeries, fly their jets ....
Are we to become the slave caste simply as our reward for having refused the jab? Maybe that is a big part of the segregation that appears to have persisted even as the covid in covidmania appears to be looking for exist stage left.
We're currently (I emphasize this because I actually find it difficult to prognosticate in the short-to-medium term on this specific topic) in a phase where the hypocrisy of the elite on topics like this is really visible and obvious and is a big part of why they've lost so much social cache lately. An example that leaps to mind was one I read recently about the Davos shitshow where apparently a great number of the attendees do NOT want their personal drivers using electric vehicles because they, as Big People With Important Things To Do, are troubled by the reliability of power and the range of said vehicles; they demand the gas-powered ones they'd ultimately like to confiscate from all of us.
Technology is a REALLY important element of where we find ourselves now; it isn't only about the way power has accumulated in a post-modern (post world war/post-industrial) world. A big part of it is how applications of power are being enabled (or disabled) by the state of the art.
To put it simply, as long as the notion of a truly functional "net zero" power grid or reliable electric vehicles is still out of reach, elites will never go so far as to put themselves in a position of deprivation. (They're certainly willing to deprive US along the way of getting themselves there- but it has to be possible, first.) I think that's why a lot of what we see right now with technocracy is bluster and loud proclamations about things that clearly can't actually be executed yet.
Yes, there is truth in this.
"[They] do NOT want their personal drivers using electric vehicles because they, as Big People With Important Things To Do, are troubled by the reliability of power and the range of said vehicles; they demand the gas-powered ones they'd ultimately like to confiscate from all of us."
Truth as to the attitude, certainly, and I think there's a bit more to it than that.
Security.
They live in fear and wish to push that to the recesses of their self-venerated minds. Sheer expedience drives them to delegate to their muscled protector servants the worry about that which would not make a rapid and brutal escape feasible. Petrol does power the freedom machines which have become, like their operators, the utensils and trays and pots and pans of the hand servants of old: ever present but scarcely acknowledged, hovering nearby at dining table, the sitting room, and kitchen.
I do think that in Devos the unseen puppet master/s played a serious game and gave the visible elitorz (a class above us but below those running this shiteshow) a taste of the vulnerables by having them walk the brief gauntlet past the Indy newshounds of the mostly tame but still Wildish West, like the "deplorable" and valiant Rebel News.
Kerry was not amused. He tried to make virtue of his self-confessed downgrade to commercial flights. Poor sod. The quip lacked credence.
Doctor Albert Bourla was shy but he too walked the non-talk and feared the classic das boot im mund. On his own two pegs he meandered on what was a straight if crowded path.
These were two examples of petrol guzzling semi-powers in front of the throne. Knobs really, that are twisted and turned as the real masters instruct. Locomotion can turn a mundane stroll into a race of sorts not against time but just-in-time for a teachable moment with no hope of a getaway Just a get there not badly quoted.
The other night the smug Trudeau was made to walk the streets as the extraordinary welcoming party in Hamilton sang his praises and jeered his profile of courage.
Brings to mind the scare bestowed on our gasper-in-chief when by mere happenstance a trove of black-faced images appeared and their seemingly endless disclosure made to suddenly hault. The not-so-sorry excuse-on-a-stick was obliged to utter a famous non-apology. After shown the cliff's edge and taught that his wings were clipped and that the fall would be his end, Trudy surrendered any pretense of being his own man. It was a bizarre form of opened blackmail.
A few days earlier, Trudeau jetted from Ottawa to Vancouver for a brief photo op and hurried back home (about 10,000 kms in a single day). Luxury is the mother of necessary evil. That tells a tale of attitude at altitude.
They are pampered with fleets of heavy SUVs and jets and speedboats and yachts. Gas hogs for escape. And driven and cared for by the dependable Help whose utility has nothing to do with the carbon footprints they leave in the snow.
The elite plan to live underground after climate change makes living above ground impossible. They need the elon musk satellites, self driving trucks and all everything to work above ground in the radiation while they are underground.
That's what they are preparing for from 2030 to 2050.
Update on my friend who was in the vaxident. No longer in danger of losing hearing - whatever was happening resolved there. However, they are now going blind in both eyes - initially was only one. Drs can't understand why all their steroid protocols didn't work. Was gaslit countless times by MDs - including that the blindness is being faked. Finally found a doc who instantly knew what was wrong both on exam and on scans. It was all there to see if they knew what they were doing. Is now advised to go to the school of the blind.
I’m speechless. My prayers to your friend. 😢
Thank you 💜
My friends cousin blacked out in the car driving home at night. He was found in a ditch and had no idea what happened. Vaxxident.
Oh, wow! I take it he was mostly physically alright.
I pray God looks over your friend and looks down upon her with favor, by making her better, healing her hearing and sight. --- Too bad the man didn't hit wen or some in our government.
Ms Gutter, you have "evolved" into a top tier Stacker. I always take away at least one good quote or phrase from each of your posts. The term "thundercunt" fits Ms Wen to a tee!!
Thanks, General. That's high praise. Hope you keep enjoying the content.
You know whose thinking has actually evolved? Ron DeSantis. Hard to believe now but at the beginning of the pandemic, Florida did all the same things other lockdown states did, with very few exceptions like South Dakota. I remember being upset at the time that our rights were being trampled and we weren't being leveled with regarding the true danger (or lack thereof) of the virus. But to his credit, he quickly (though not as quickly as I) realized this was all bullshit. And he hasn't looked back.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but he's also said at least once that "I/we were wrong in our response. "
Yes, he did. He said his big mistake was not collecting his own data sooner and relying on federal guidance for too long.
See, this is what I'm talking about. You could probably count on one hand the number of leaders that would say that. Even if he does diffuse responsibility with the Fed.
I'm not sorry I'm an asshole. I fucking love it.
Me too.
Me three!!
Count me in on that!
Leanna Wen is a World Economic Forum "global young leader" and is pushing the same agenda as all her globalist cohorts. I also believe she is a CCP agent.
Por que no los dos?
Won't it be interesting, assuming civil society survives a century from now, that historians will observe the confluence of a Young Sociopaths Club and social media as having almost done us in?
Young Sociopaths Club !! Love this. And all of them living in the Uncanny Valley.
I talked about this here:
https://guttermouth.substack.com/p/the-plays-the-thing?s=w
People like this Wen have turned me into a sort of schadenfrreude vulture. I drift around on internet thermals, hoping to see them, any of them, as roadkill after collisions with the Truthtrain at crossings. Sorry not sorry! I don’t believe it is petty or particularly “personal” of me, it feels more on a soul level. Sometimes I enact the role of the difficult curmudgeon and get mostly eye rolls, but I feel pride and responsibility for having redpilled my partner and one of her two sons. (Even though I still get: “Why did you cause a scene in there? They were just powerless employees!”) Sadly, the other son took the shots. Yesterday, we brought him a new greenhouse cover to replace wind damage. He and his new fiancé are early thirties, organic farmers, surfers, hikers, mountain bikers, products of Northern California Ecotopia. Her (fiancé’s) mother is classic libtard, thinks Adam Schiff is an American Hero for his treasonous and seditious work undermining Orange Man’s election. The father is a happy guy in his eighties, holding it together in a nice house in the forest he built as an industrious Emerald Triangle hippy in younger days. So their daughter is an only child, Waldorf schooled, and to protect her parents ( Mom is a classic low-info Karen who, early on presented us with cute masks she had sewn herself! So you can imagine the guilt if daughter were to bring a sneeze home and Daddy were to kick off from COVID!!!) So of course they all shotted and probably even boosted. I don’t know about the booster, I can’t bear to look. When they told me I expressed dismay. ( Oh no! You’re kidding! What brand? (She didn’t know. Great.) Then they informed us that, we weren’t in their “bubble” because they could only have eight people or some such nonsense, so we were isolated from the young grandchild of my partner. This was early on , It’s better now, we get to share their shedding, lol! Before all this, I never got sick unless after a visit with the little guy who was just starting school. (I didn’t mind, I figured he was tuning up my immune system anyway.) So last week we got word that the boy got them, the young couple sick and could we pick up the greenhouse cover an hour away for them. Of course! Yesterday we met on the road to transfer it. They are still recouperating, and driving around with paper masks on! And we learn the mother of the young boy, (now the ex of my partner’s son) hasn’t been able to get over the bug for three weeks. This is a woman in her thirties who surfs and dives for abalone like a mermaid. So I’m standing there looking at these two young covidiots feeling a mixture of angry schadenfruede and sadness and pity, pretending nothing is seriously wrong, trying to figure out how to stop them from killing the kid, too. Because I pretty much think I am watching them self-destruct with ADE or Original Antigenic Sin or whatever.
Much less than a year ago the clown was saying unvaxxed should be made to suffer and should not be allowed to leave their homes. By September it was known that the vax at best gave very short protection. Now much more is known and the Clown is trying to backstep without acknowledging having been wrong.
Remember bleeding heart liberals. They have been replaced by heartless liberals. Modern libocrits are the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Lion wrapped into one.
I joined Twitter (after declaring for years that it was stupid) because of a stupid tweet Wen made last May when the failure of the jabs was getting harder to hide. I'm glad I did. I've learned about many people and had access to data and information (PHE and UKHSA reports) that I would likely never have found elsewhere.
Wen's turnabout gave me narrative whiplash, but I do enjoy reading some of her followers' meltdowns. Something is off with her. I can't place it, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that she's a robot or an actual space alien. She's bizarre.
We should never let them get away with this turnabout. If they don't offer an apology and explanation, we make them squirm until they do or until they slither away.
Thank you for writing this.
Thank you for this comment. I have resisted Twitter the same way Guttermouth has (great line BTW!), but this week I received a fact check on FB linking to an article on The Dispatch claiming that Tucker Carlson falsely claimed that the Covid 19 vaccine would now be required to attend school since it was put on the schedule two weeks ago. He did no such thing, it was very clear what he was saying to people with a brain. I was so incensed by the disingenuous nature of this fact check that I became a member of that outlet (free trial ha!) to comment on it. Dropped a little extra information about the 1986 Act and legal immunity in there too. Let me tell you, a concerning number of people who read that paper, which purports to be an alternative, conservative voice, are still very much walking around with their heads up their asses. It felt like a parallel universe. I really don’t know where we go from here.
I don’t mind your apology criteria. But in my opinion and in my experience bad actors are quick to do this. And quick to do it again. “I’m sorry I cheated on you. It was wrong of me. I see that now. It undermined our relationship which means so much to me. I will never do that again.” Until they do. Wen can apologize all she wants. Even a good apology. But she will do it again.
For purposes of this essay, I'm SPECIFICALLY speaking of leaders and other public figures with power over us; people who we don't have the personal choice of engaging or not engaging.
The example you described is when we want to try to maintain a PERSONAL relationship to a person who has wronged us. It's a good example, but different.
She (Wen) will do it again. But we will already know not to trust or listen to her, and if given the means to defeat her, we'll do so.
Leaders that DO acknowledge their errors are worthy of our trust.
If they don’t do it again.
This post scratches me where I itch. Great commentary.
We really need that sometimes.
Thank you for The Waiting for Godot nod. I’m stunned by how many people not familiar with the exercise portrayed in that remarkable play. Very apropos
I'm reminded of it surprisingly often. I've done quite a lot of waiting myself.
Would be interesting to learn if while Dr/Ms Wen was preaching Covid obedience, if she was, in fact practicing it? Her ease in getting off the train suggests she may have never been on it.
That's my assertion.
I think she was personally terrified of covid for a period of time and was probably an absolute nightmare of a wife and mother about masking and sanitizing and couldn't get her kids vaxxed fast enough. That stuff was probably all real.
But like everyone else who ran their lizard brains in grossly disproportionate terror of covid for 2 years, she got tired and bored of it.
But before that arrived, she used her power and position to try to coerce everyone around her into doing what it would take to make her more comfortable.
Alternative simpler theory: after Planned Parenthood, Beijing simply told her to stoke as much division and hatred as possible.
I wonder if she did vaccinate her kids. Is she that rabid?
Wen? Yes, she certainly did.
Thundercunts and hyenas. LOLOLO
And bears. Oh, my!
In my mind the idealized "perfect apology" is the one delivered by John Cleese's character to Kevin Kline's character in A Fish Called Wanda---without the part where Cleese is delivering it while being dangled head first out of a tall building.
An unrelated point on quotes. I don't intend to open the door to a discussion of religion, but Hitchens has a line which coincidently is part of a critique of C.S. Lewis:
"The Aztecs had to tear open a human chest cavity every day just to make sure that the sun would rise."
The Wanda reference is excellent. And you're free to talk about whatever you like. Though I appreciate religion can be a touchy subject around here.
They thought they did. Possibly. Wen'd make a good Aztec ladyboss. The success of wossname, Cortez, suggests however, that most of the people subject to their practices disagreed. Rather as I fondly imagined I could master linear algebra.
Happily neither solar activity nor mathematics depend on fallible or wicked men. And best of all, there are those who can get maths, and mankind's relationship to light energy correct. I make the sun rise in my little greenhouse thanks to them.
How fucking awful is that! Your post made me think, like how fucked up was that culture that the Spanish Inquisition probably inspired more trust...
Good essay.
Leana Wen is right up there with President F*ckjoe on my list of covid villains. When Red Caesar arrives on stage, I hope he deals harshly with those who demonized us and restricted our freedoms.