"Perhaps the silver lining in all of the gray clouds of the Covid era is the total loss of faith in "experts," regulators, and technocratic government. Once you realize how incompetent, corrupt, and dishonest any one branch of it is, you start to realize that this is the rule, not the exception, and then you start to see it everywhere."
-- el gato malo
Just be careful what fires you start before throwing in rotten branches.
What is being released right now is not transparency.
It is controlled disclosure.
Fragments.
Selective timing.
Curated narratives.
Carefully engineered confusion.
Enough to distract.
Former DNI General Michael Flynn
“Our problem as Americans is we actually hate history. What we love is nostalgia.’
-- Regie Gibson
“Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Epstein accusations: We only find them morally reprehensible because of Christianity. Before the spread of Christianity, ‘civilized’ Greek and Roman elites openly flaunted underage s*x slaves. This was normal. Emperor Hadrian built an entire city in honor of his favorite boy… If you undercut the moral foundations of Christianity from the West, culture reverts back to pagan norms.”
–Paul Anleitner