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Birx said the White House’s messaging surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine did not help matters.
"I think what has confused people is we weren't clear about what COVID vaccines do and don't," she said. "And so now people are questioning, well, what are my childhood vaccines do and don't. And they don't understand that some of the vaccines that their children are getting protect them from both disease and create herd immunity. And some of them that they get are just for their child, like H Flu and pneumovax to prevent their child from getting very serious illness."
No, actually Deborah, you and the rest of so-called "public health" have deliberately and maliciously lied about many of these shots.
What's worse, you not only lied you used those lies to support mandates that have no foundation in law or the principles of public health whatsoever. And finally, and the reason all of you should hang by the neck until dead (after judgment and conviction, of course) is that those lies in fact put others at increased risk.
A thing is not a vaccine if it fails to induce sterile immunity. That is, it not only makes you unable to become ill it prevents you from being infected in the first place and by doing so it also prevents you from unwittingly (before you know you're seriously sick) infecting other people.
A non-sterilizing shot or other preparation is not a vaccine because it does not prevent you from infecting other people. It would at first blush appear to be exactly identical from the standpoint of a man in the choice to wear a condom during sex -- it reduces the risk of transmission of sexual diseases in both directions to and from his penis during the time it is worn and reduces the risk of him impregnating that specific woman during that specific act of sexual intercourse but it does nothing to prevent the woman from becoming pregnant by other than that individual sexual act with that individual man nor does it prevent any sort of transmission of a disease to or from anyone else or at any time and in any orifice other than during the specific time and for the specific act of sex.
Unfortunately a non-sterilizing shot is much worse than a condom, which is neutral in terms of risk to anyone else or at any other time, because it inevitably makes infecting others with said disease more-likely because if you can get and pass on the infection but do not get sick you have no idea that you are at risk of infecting others. Since you have no idea you actually have and are capable of passing on the infectious agent you are MORE LIKELY to screw someone else -- up to and including killing them.
Birx knows damn well this is true and her refusal to honestly disclose same with regard to the covid shots meant that many people who were at higher risk were exposed to being killed, and some were killed, by a person who thought they were safe when in fact they were not only infected they were giving the virus to others.
Deborah both personally and deliberately, through multiple appearances in front of the microphone as the "helpful lady doctor", did not correct the record at any time, most-particularly when the shots were being "mandated." She knew damn well that there was no legal or moral justification for any sort of mandate because, as she has admitted, she knew there was never any evidence the covid shots actually produced "immunity" of any sort; in fact the "trials" were deliberately designed so as not to test that capacity (and if they had been they would have failed said trial, which we now know conclusively.)
This is profoundly evil conduct that is worthy of capital punishment.
But more to the point of the Fox article and your little "conversation" in same is the fact that this fraudulent edifice is used to extort conduct from parents for the purpose of money in the doctor's offices as has been conclusively shown by "vaccine bonus" schedules from insurers, conduct that is both a kickback (and thus arguably illegal under federal and insurance law -- specifically in the context of Medicare and Medicaid 42 USC 1320a-7b(b)) and is absolutely illegal under 15 USC Chapter 1 as it is an attempt to force a tied sale (the shot, which you do not want) to get something you do want (access to a pediatrician for your kid.) That has been illegal for over 100 years and carries felony criminal penalties -- specifically, 10 years in the slammer for each and every person so-involved, no matter the type or character of their involvement.
Whether that is or is not the cause for the meteoric rise in autism rates is a separate issue. If that turns out to be true then everyone involved deserves to be summarily executed as the collective harm served up on Americans via this conduct is arguably worse than what the Nazis did during WWII and damn well ought to draw the same response. But that's a separate discussion; the conduct is a felony on multiple grounds under long-standing federal law even if harmless medically due to its coercive nature and the monetary gains stolen by same.
These mandates must all be dropped and EVERY medical office and insurer who participate in any such "payment" scheme prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, including not just fines but prison sentences. Beyond being quite-clearly illegal these acts are utterly indefensible in a nation where access to these shots is essentially universal and, in addition, the type and character of each must be disclosed, those that do not produce sterile immunity or for which that cannot be proved must not be called what they are not ("vaccines") and those which are intended to or do eliminate, in some or all persons, symptoms while not preventing transmission must be fairly disclosed as increasing the risk of you giving a disease unwittingly to others.
I appreciate you coming clean about this, but that you've only done so now rather than in late 2020, even though you knew all of this at the time, certainly looks like little more than attempt to save yourself from a quite-literal risk of prosecution.
Fuck that; into the dock you must go.
This is what EVERY nation must adopt: Every person and entity that (1) decides on a warring act or (2) enables it to occur is a valid target in all cases.
In years gone by the King got on his horse and led the troops. Yes, he had the best sword, the best armor, and his horse had the best barding. After all he had the most money.
Nonetheless a lucky archer from the other side (or just a really good one) might get him in the eye slot of his helmet, and if that happened he was dead just as certainly as were any of his subjects.
Rosie the Riveter was a legitimate military target. Why? Because without Rosie there were no ships and planes to use in military action against Germany or Japan. Therefore killing Rosie and blowing up the plant were both legitimate wartime acts. That didn't happen because neither Germany or Japan could reach her -- or the factory.
This is not true today.
It was true on the outside of Tokyo during WWII which we firebombed -- who do you think was making the Zeros that were shooting up and bombing our guys?
If Joe Biden, every member of the United States Congress (which must approve every penny spent in the United States), and its military contractors, provide Ukraine with weapons used to attack Russia then Joe Biden, every member of the United States Congress, every employee of the Pentagon (directly and indirectly) and all military contractors and their employees are all legitimate military targets.
But for every single one of them Ukraine could not use American weapons to fire upon Russians.
I demand this change because I want less war and the way to make it happen is to make the risk personal for all those who engage in, promote, fund and control it.
We all die the same way.
Stop pretending you have some right to cause others to die and not take the risk of that happening to you in return.
Geneva, in this regard, was wrong -- and it must be abdicated by all civilized nations, all of which have a reason to want less war and the only way to get it is to do exactly this.
All three.
House, Senate and Presidency.
There is thus no blocking of agendas. No bogus impeachments. No games.
Either tear down the medical monopolists and illegal invader problem -- all of it -- using existing statutory authority in 15 USC Chapter 1 and 8 USC 1324 and do it within the first few months or, by the time the House and Senate midterms start to be contested which is in the spring of 2026 Trump loses both.
The inflation monster is going to roar back on the field. It matters not if you were responsible or not; if you're in the left seat when the plane crashes its your fault whether you put the water in the fuel or the idiot on the ramp did it.
15 USC Chapter 1 has been litigated to the Supreme Court in the context of medical care and insurance and found valid. The defenses were attempted and failed. I've pointed this out for more than two decades now but nobody wants to take it on. You don't seek fines you indict and imprison doctors, pharmaceutical company executives, hospital CEOs and insurance firm officers, directors and executives. Every person seeking medical procedure, drug or device must pay the same price for the same thing irrespective of their "insurance" or who is paying the bill, "insurance" companies may not interfere in any way in pricing or otherwise (but may set their own reimbursements after you got the bill) and you must consent whenever it is physically possible for you to do so before you incur the expense. Read here; its all there.
On illegal immigration 8 USC 1324 is clear: Any entity or person harboring or assisting an illegal alien is subject to 10 or more years in prison. No fines, no games, you do it you are indicted and go to prison with no exceptions. I don't care what the excuse is -- its invalid. Do it and do it now. You do this and the entire problem is solved immediately because all the employers, landlords and state governments handing out gibs will stop as none of them are going to deal with a 10 year prison sentence and no, State government officials are not exempt from Federal Law.
There is plenty more but these two must be done immediately. The collapse of pricing -- cost of living -- has to happen. There is no way to catch up through wages which is irrelevant to anyone on fixed income anyway as the government cannot, and does not, actually index for (as an example) the doubling in food prices that has already happened in Social Security payouts. Further medical cost is wildly in excess of anything Medicare can receive from taxes and Medicaid is a pure give-away.
The math is clear; real world inflation hasn't been 20% over the last three years and change it has been closer to 50% and in many things you must buy like groceries it has been a clean double.
But let's assume its just 25% -- a few points above the government's official claim.
2% "Fed Inflation" - 2% productivity growth (long-term average reasonable expectation) - 3% real wage increases (that's 5% in "current dollars" given a 2% inflation rate) = 3% per year "catch-up" so you won't for eight years assuming that the real inflation rate is in fact 2%. If its 3% then the "catch up" time is 50% longer or 12 years. If the real inflation was not 25% but in fact is 50%, and it is, then you'll either be nearing retirement if you're in your 20s today or dead, and that assumes that over that entire period of time there are no more inflationary bursts from any cause whatsoever.
In other words that's not only not going to happen it is inevitably going to financially destroy Americans in size and lead to a revolt of some sort -- whether peaceful or quite-possibly not, particularly when the cost of borrowing is going to continue to increase for the next couple of decades so if you, as an average American, are "charging it" you're going to financially blow up with absolute certainty long before you catch up.
Either we collapse the cost-of-living and accept what comes from that in the asset markets (and yeah, it will be serious) or in the midterms the Republicans lose both houses and that's the end of the show because the Democrats will not take those steps. The root of the problem lies in these two places; there are plenty of others to be addressed but if these two are not done the rest doesn't matter.
Incidentally, if you want further evidence of the inflationary impact and how close the impending detonation is, and why it must be taken care of right now and criminal indictments must come in size, right now -- no excuses -- the single-month deficit spending was outrageous in October; last month CMS spending was up over 50% compared with the same month last year. The internals were even more-ridiculous; benefit payments under the supplemental trust fund were 243% last year's levels -- almost 2-1/2 times and hospital payouts were at 209% last year's figures for the same month.
Last chance folks, and it literally has to begin with no excuses -- and plenty of felony indictments -- on January 20th at 12:01 PM.
This one's for you Elon, but of course not exclusively.
A week ago AP posted one of their "advocacy" pieces about getting updated Covid shots. As you know if you've paid any attention at all these are strongly associated with both acute cardiac damage (that is, you're fucked and dead, right now) and also have a very strong association with cancers of all sorts which are way up (statistically about as likely to be a result of random chance as is my being hit by an asteroid while going to get my mail this afternoon.)
My response to them, which I dictated on my phone (thus the typo as you can see) was this:
Literally instantly, before I could see anything else (I had hit "reply" accidentally as opposed to backing up and fixing the typo) my account was suspended for seven days for what was alleged to be "violence."
No sane person could possibly read that tweet and determine that I am fomenting violence against anyone. It is, from a speech perspective, exactly identical to Elon's infamous "Go. Fuck.Yourself." In fact its literally that from a speech perspective.
No human made that determination and thus "no careful review" occurred so now I have two lies, not one.
Many have asked why I will never buy an "X" subscription. This is why; the platform which Elon runs is programmed to take autonomous actions without human review, no human review then later takes place either.
I can understand immediate interdiction if, for example, you believe that someone might be attempting to spam. Shoot first under automated action, immediately pass it to a human, and if in fact its sustained fine, if not reverse it with an apology. Protecting the platform makes sense and in that case the damage is minuscule when you're wrong and you say you're sorry.
But that's not what happened, there was no reversal, my sentence was not reversed on human examination as clearly erroneous and I'm not the only one it happens to. In fact I have a pile of others who have had the same thing happen, its a daily occurrence across the platform and only those people with huge reach and thus the ability to slam Elon in public get any sort of consideration beyond his obviously defective "artificial intelligence."
Its artificial all right but it sure as hell isn't intelligent.
More insulting is the second lie, that "careful review" took place.
Now Twitmo is not exactly a new place for me to be; much earlier, and well before Elon was effectively in control and said that X was now a "free speech" bastion I was thrown in jail a few times for various "infractions", one of which was advocating that a person convicted of a serious offense get the death penalty. This too was deemed "violence" and it was by algorithm -- apparently, in that world before Elon, advocating that lawful capital punishment be carried out complete with the expected due process of law was an "offense."
But all that was all supposed to have changed with Elon's ownership and public pronouncements -- a claim now proved, by my own experience, to be false.
I don't do business with proved liars unless I have no choice or I can protect myself from getting it in the ass with contractual language that not only assesses a punitive amount of liquidated damages but also compensates for fees, costs and my time at a rational rate if I have to sue to go after them when they, as expected and demonstrated by their prior acts, lie to me and as a result I get fucked.
Since "X" will never offer any such thing and the company has demonstrated it will bullshit at will including claiming automated action constitutes "careful review" whenever its convenient to fuck its users in the ass with no compensation, no review, no apologies and no way to intervene with a human while at the same time making the claim that it is a forum for "free speech" well, if there's no money changing hands then all that changes is my behavior in that I will alter what I use said thing for to suit me and not Elon. I most-certainly will not subscribe to any "service" in which I am likely to get fucked -- not now, not ever until and unless the prior errors are admitted to, all of the records of same (including any such "scoring" internally) are reversed, any and all propagation of that to any other party (e.g. those who were sold said data) is identified in specificity as to who and when and reversed so I have a cause of action against said purchaser or obtainer of said data if they did or do use it to screw me, the admission is made in public and the policies are changed so it does not, and cannot, happen again.
Is that a big ask? You bet it is. But if the answer is either "no" or silence (the same as "no") then my answer is:
GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.
In addition I will not now or in the future do business with any firm Elon owns or has a controlling or board seat upon under any circumstances because he has demonstrated to my satisfaction that he will lie any time there is any advantage in it at all, even if the "advantage" is only avoiding 10 seconds of effort by one of his employees looking at the event, saying "oh, that was dumb" and clicking a button to reverse the AI's stupidity.
I thus presume that any element of fuckery in, for example, a Tesla vehicle that would be to his monetary benefit (by even a dollar) and to my disadvantage (by even a dollar) would be undertaken and that informs my decision that I will never own or even ride in one of them because if he could steal any sort of contextual information about me and sell it to my detriment, even if the gain was a single penny, he would and will do so. Incidentally this extends to Starlink as well; I was contemplating buying one of his "minis" for when I travel and as an emergency backup and once satisfied it would do the job stuff it in my travel trailer but there is no fucking way I'm going to give him access to my data streams and their destinations under any set of circumstances given this set of facts until and unless the above corrective actions occur and I am satisfied that this sort of shit will never happen in any entity he has any involvement in again.
Oh by the way if you think this abusive behavior and screwing to your detriment is pure speculation it most-certainly is not. I'm well aware of what the Internet's "data brokerage" business has turned into as I was one of the people who managed to successfully block it for a short period of time (knowing it wouldn't last) thirty years ago, I knew that would not hold (it didn't) and today you do get reamed by it in things like car and homeowner's insurance rates. Several firms have been caught selling said data from apps on your phone, for example, which you had no reason to believe would be aggregated and marketed in this way so this is definitely not speculation.
Now maybe I'm wrong on that judgment with regards to "X" and Elon personally but this is what he has led me to believe and what, in my opinion it should lead you to believe -- backed by the fact that others in fact do this and that is a known fact because they've been caught doing it.
Will it change your behavior?
Well, if it doesn't when you get it up the ass from him and from anything he's involved in, like Trump's DOGE department, I do not want to hear your complaints. What you get from me, very publicly if you do complain is this -- and it will be doubly and very publicly so if it bankrupts or, even better from my point of view, kills you:
PS: We didn't have a bunch of people bullshit roughly a million Americans literally to death just a couple of years ago.... did we?