Why not just make him Pope? By Tristan Justice, The Federalist Dr. Anthony Fauci raked in $417,608 in compensation from the federal government in 2019, putting the nation’s infectious disease expert at the top of the income chart above the rest of its 4 million federal employees, Forbes […]
A social media poster comments: “The Pandemic” didn’t do SHIT!!!! The media did! The political class did! The academic class did! Hopkins did! The CDC did! The WHO did! White Coat worship did! Worshipful deference to and blind trust in authority did! The oligarchs and plutocrats did! The […]
The government’s response to COVID-19 has been to protect the health of the affluent classes at the expense of the poor and working-class, who still have to either go to work or simply do without an income. By Geoff Colvin, Fortune The economic effects of COVID-19 could prove deadlier […]
Back to Obamaism. Boring, boring, boring… Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Joe Biden’s plans for his presidency including executive actions, coronavirus vaccine rollout, and immigration.
Hans Hermann Hoppe is interviewed by Thomas Jacob, Mises Institute Thomas Jacob: Professor Hoppe, you are known as a critic of the state and of political centralization. Doesn’t the coronavirus prove that central states and central government regulations are necessary? Hans-Hermann Hoppe: On the contrary. Of course, the […]
2021 is already looking like it will make people pine for the good old days of 2020. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest updates on coronavirus and the race to get the vaccine amongst the wealthy.
This “Force the Vote” dustup among progressoids arguing about how to go about begging the ruling class for more crumbs has been a hilarious site to behold.
Here we go again. When the pandemic started, I was sure it was going to last for years, with multiple waves, and subsequent waves being worse than the ones before. Sometimes it sucks to be right. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest coronavirus luckdowns enforced in […]
By Thomas L. Knapp “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and public face of the federal […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti criticize the distribution of the coronavirus vaccines. They also discuss how the slow rollout of the drugs might impact future lockdowns.
I consider this to be a far more important and far-reaching outcome of the 2020 election than the ouster of Trump by the neoliberals. 2020 was the year of the lumpen proletarian uprising in the streets and a Tet Offensive against the War on Drugs in the voting […]
By J.D. Tuccille, Reason Are you looking forward to resuming something that resembles a normal life in terms of travel, concert attendance, and public gatherings? Vaccines for COVID-19 are a big step towards putting pandemic fears behind us. But if hosts aren’t satisfied with knowing vaccines are available, […]
By Jacob Sullum, Reason Last year President Donald Trump bragged that “we are making progress” in reducing opioid-related deaths, noting that they fell in 2018 “for the first time since 1990.” That 1.7 percent drop was thin evidence of success at the time, and it looks even less […]
Keith, Emma & RJ 01/01/21 – We’re back in business, historic spike in drug overdose deaths under COVID-19, governor Sisolak shut down Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in the least sober place on the planet, Carl Jung and the origins of mental illness, Don Wells just died of […]
By Chun Han Wong, Wall Street Journal HONG KONG—A Chinese court imposed a four-year prison term on a citizen journalist who documented how Covid-19 ravaged the city where the coronavirus was first detected, in a case that underscores the lengths to which Beijing has defended its official narrative […]
Ever since this thing started I have suspected that the “pandemic” was actually a manifestation of multiple illnesses rather than a singular one. In addition to suspecting there have probably been a lot of misdiagnoses. The same thing happened with AIDS in the 80s, particularly in Africa, where […]
At least the system showed its hand. In many ways, 2020 was actually a very good year. The inherent incompetence of the state was partially exposed by the pandemic. The corruption of the ruling class and hypocrisy of the political class was demonstrated by the economic response to […]
From the time the pandemic started, I figured it would last for years.
By Laura Santhanam, PBS In a year when the coronavirus has racked up an unbearable death toll, recent preliminary data from the federal government suggests an overlap with another staggering figure: More Americans died from drug overdose in a 12-month period than at any other point in history. […]
More fraud from Fraudci. We should no more take these “public health authorities” seriously than people should have taken medieval popes seriously. Krystal Ball and Rachel Bovard discuss a New York Times article that evaluates what portion of the population must acquire resistance to the coronavirus, either through […]
If Peter Zeihan’s analysis and forecasts concerning the future of the unipolar order are at all correct, my predictions about the future of geopolitics were even more accurate than I previously thought. I’ve generally thought that globalization would eventually produce a global state system, which would require a […]
The mainstream argument about “healthcare reform” is not a race in which I have a horse. Essentially, two statist sects are arguing over whether the healthcare system should be run by the king’s royal ministers (the progressive position) or the aristocratic feudal manors (the conservative position). But this […]
It’s fairly obvious that the function of the lockdowns has been to protect the health of the affluent classes on the backs of the poor and working classes, and while facilitating a looting spree by the most influential sectors of the capitalist class, with the powers of the […]
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar,Reuters MUMBAI (Reuters) – India exceeded 10 million infections of the new coronavirus on Saturday, much later than predicted only a month ago as the pace of infections slows, despite many in the country giving up on masks and social distancing. After hitting a peak of […]
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-HI, on why she broke from her party and voted against the COVID-19 relief bill and says seniors should be prioritized for the coroanvirus vaccine over young Congress members on ‘The Story’ with Martha MacCallum.
This Jimmy Dore/AOC dustup really is hilarious. I enjoy watching the progressoids cracking. I suppose if I were going to advocate for a particular position on “healthcare reform” it would be the following: Workers and taxpayers should demand their full incomes without deductions taken by either employers or […]
As Ezra Pound said, the whole USA is an insane asylum.
In “we have always been at war with East Asia” news…this appeared in the WaPo in April. By Eliza McGraw People called them “flu fences” and “chin sails.” Gala attendees fastened theirs with gaudy earrings. Smokers cut flaps in them, and movie houses gave them away with tickets. […]
By Matthew Cunningham Cook, The Intercept In 2006, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx had healthier patients, just enough nursing staff to take care of them, and a CEO who was earning $2 million a year, a senior nurse and union leader told The Intercept. Fifteen years later, its patients […]
This is pretty interesting.
Another day, another fuck up. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Pfizer’s claims that more vaccines are ready, they’re just awaiting instructions. They also discuss the king of Sweden’s remarks that his country has “failed” in its handling of Covid.
“Mask up, you little asshole!” Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti detail the latest Covid number in the United States. They also share their thoughts on President Emmanuel Macron’s Coronavirus diagnosis.
By Remy Tumin and Jill Cowan, New York Times Just two weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned Californians that the state’s intensive care beds might be full before Christmas. Now, it appears that dire projection is being borne out. How bad is the coronavirus surge in California? In […]
By Franklin Veaux, Quora.Com There are two problems with this question. It neglects the law of large numbers; and It assumes that one of two things happen: you die or you’re 100% fine. The US has a population of 328,200,000. If one percent of the population dies, that’s […]
By Tom Woods Remember how awful Thanksgiving was supposed to be? Well, here’s what happened in the Midwest: Was everyone in every single one of those states behaving recklessly, and then suddenly, right at Thanksgiving, they thought better of it? Or might the virus do its thing no […]
By: Mike Maharrey , Tenth Amendment Center COLUMBIA, S.C. (Dec. 16, 2020) – Two bills introduced in the South Carolina House would ban the enforcement of any federal mask mandate and prohibit the state from taking any federal funding connected to a federal mask or vaccine mandate. Passage […]
What this speaker in this video is describing sounds fairly accurate in the sense of merely recognizing prevailing trends. What’s going on now is a repeat of what happened in the Industrial Revolution with unprecedented technological expansion and the emergence of elites with unprecedented wealth, combined with the […]
A pretty good assessment of the partisan/tribal “civil war” from Williamson, proving that even a neocon mouthpiece can be right twice a day. By Kevin Williamson, National Review In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Bill Gates said he expects that there will be an ugly wave of […]
Remember Thomas Szasz’s warning about therapeutic totalitarianism? By Jenin Younes, American Institute for Economic Research Lest you were hopeful that some semblance of normal life will return in 2021, either due to the development of vaccines or the pandemic fizzling out on its own, the New York Times […]
This article reads almost like a liberal-left version of the traditional conservative view that “freedom is a means to virtue.” By Umair Haque By now, you might have heard North Dakota is the world’s worst Covid hotspot. The world’s worst, with South Dakota not far behind. Things aren’t […]
The psychiatric imprisonment of dissidents. Sounds very Soviet. By Jeanne Smits, Lifesite News December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, a French retired university professor known for his strong opposition to COVID-19 vaccines such as those presently being distributed in the U.K., was taken […]
By Thomas L. Knapp Radical, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; […]
By Peter R. Quinones One would think it’s just a given that when the government or one of their cut-outs is pushing to do something that will harm the individual, you don’t support them in any way, shape or form. Dave Smith paraphrased Daniel McAdams on a recent […]
By Karl Dierenbach, The Federalist hree-hundred-fifty years ago, John Graunt attempted to give Londoners an accurate assessment of fatality rates of diseases in the community so people could understand their risk level. Until COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fulfilled the same role. Then the […]
On one hand, it makes sense to distribute the vaccine to communities with the highest rates of the virus, but the US also has a history of using marginalized populations as guinea pigs in medical experiments. It’s best to keep your eyes open. By Jordan Williams, The Hill […]
It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
By Antony Sammeroff Michael Shermer, the famous skeptic, after researching why people believe in conspiracy theories, admitted that one of the reasons why is because *some of them are true*. People are herded into take extreme views on polarizing issues, for example being extremely against mainstream medicine or […]
According to Zeihan, Democrats greatly improved their performance among the military, business interests, and fiscal conservatives, while the Republicans improved their performance among labor unions and Hispanics. If Obama was George McGovern’s revenge, can we say that Trump is Ross Perot’s and Pat Buchanan’s revenge? He also estimates […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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