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2020-10-30 10:14 by Karl Denninger
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I thought I'd seen insane in 2008, and then again in 2012 and 2016.

In 2008 we elected a Black Man as President who had exactly zero qualifications to be in that office and, by the black letter of the Constitution, was ineligible.  On the manifest weight of the evidence he bought, with other people's money, his Senate and Illinois Senate seat.  In other words he bribed his way into office with other people's money, which means that it was not his ideas being put forward, it was whoever funded him.  It matters not whether he presented a fraudulent birth certificate which, by the way, the evidence is that he did.  This is the same man who (like Senator Warren) claimed to be something he was not whenever it suited him, including to get preferential treatment in college.  Then he sealed the records that would prove all of this one way or another, a blatantly and outrageously illegal act available to no common person, and we let him get away with that too.  Leave the rest aside because it doesn't matter.  You are selecting who you would like to be the person who, if they're going to lie, will do so in the best interest of the United States population not their personal best interest.

In 2012, after he gave away several trillion of your dollars to the industry that has been violating US Anti-Trust law (15 USC Chapter 1) for decades, got sued over it twice, lost both cases at the Supreme Court and yet has not been prosecuted once nor has any of it been stopped, we re-elected that same asshole for another four years.

I don't recall anyone who got assaulted or their business burned over any of that, however -- and make no mistake as millions of Americans were in fact victimized and continue to be screwed by said medical monster on a daily basis.  Where was the burning of businesses and looting the local Nike store?  Today people do that when someone draws a knife. advances on police for several hundred yards refusing to drop it and then charges one of the cops with said knife and gets (justifiably!) shot.

In 2016 one of the chief architects of that theft by the medical industry ran for office against a bullshitting Commercial Real Estate developer who, like basically all of them, strong-arms people and structures things so that he can blow up anything that's not working without winding up penniless in the street.  I don't fault him for doing it, by the way, including the shenanigans with Deutsche Bank and the Chicago Trump Tower, on which there is plenty of documentation.  Why not?  Because this was not either party's first rodeo and they both entered into those transactions willingly; Deutsche Bank knew how Trump behaved (Atlantic City anyone?) and Trump knew how Deutsche Bank behaved too.  Never mind that Black Jesus could have had his DOJ take Deutsche Bank out back and shoot them in the corporate head for their role in the housing bubble blow-up and resulting mass-foreclosures with fraudulent chains of title which they "reconstructed" (that's not legal, by the way) after they (and many other financial institutions) literally destroyed the originals on purpose so as to make impossible real audits of what paperwork borrowers submitted and what the banks made up before securitizing the paper.  Do you really believe that an industry that has for several hundred years relied on hard, documentary records to enforce recourse suddenly got "sloppy" or did they do it on purpose to evade a criminal standard of proof after they knowingly sold trash to others as alleged "good investments" and by doing so ruined the global economy?  But no!  Black Jesus didn't blackball that foreign corporation for their part in screwing Americans blind; in point of fact he took one of the chief "see no evil, hear no evil, stop no evil" architects of that bullshit from the NY Fed (Geithner) and made him Treasury Secretary.

You want to bitch about Trump and his financial shenanigans?  Point your ire at Black Jesus who made possible every last bit of it not only continuing but ramping up on the day he took the Oath of Office when he had every legal right to stop all of it by destroying the bank responsible for not only that specific load of bullshit but a huge part of the 2008 blowup.  Again: Barack Obama intentionally refused to do so and let literally all of the crooks, which number in the thousands, walk away scot free and many of them not only kept plenty of stolen money but Obama and his administration bailed them out and gave them even more money -- your money.  While you're at it point your ire at Nancy Piglosi and ChuckyBoy Schumer too, both of whom are still in office and between them wrote and passed the tax law changes which GAVE Trump a perfectly-legal retroactive $70 million refund from the IRS.

If you demand that no bank may have an armed guard nor any cameras and the cops may not show up if the burglar alarm goes off there would be a line out the front door of every bank in the nation and virtually everyone in line would be both packing a pistol and brandishing a hold-up note.  Duh!

Now, running against said CRE huckster and self-promoter we have an obviously mentally-compromised old man who doesn't even know who the President is or what State he's "campaigning in", with his wife telling him it's not Bush while on camera.  He's had at least three strokes that have been admitted to.  His son was thrown out of the military for failing a drug test and rather than get his crap together he not only apparently continues to abuse hard drugs but has a thing for walking around naked in front of under-age girls in his extended family.  What has his family done about this?  Nothing, despite irrefutable evidence they know about it they've tried to cover it up and allow said young woman to be screwed, perhaps literally, rather than send the cops over to apply a little Graybar Motel reformation to his "lifestyle."  Never mind nearly-irrefutable evidence that he's been taking bribes from a Communist nation that was the source of Covid19 either through rank recklessness, filthy 3rd century "wet market" practices or perhaps even something worse while Joe, the candidate, appears to have at least known all about it and might have personally profited from it.

That's right -- we have a man running for President who, the evidence says, screwed his own fucked-up kid by turning him into a money mule peddling influence in multiple foreign nations, all of which by the way is extraordinarily illegal.

Junkies will do all sorts of unlawful things because their mind is basically gone; the drugs are all they give a crap about.  Having seen it in my own family I know damn well what happens and exploiting it, which the evidence says Joe Biden did with the full knowledge and support of his immediate family including his wife is Dante's 9th Circle of Hell level evil.

Do I need to remind you that this particular foreign nation, beyond being Communists, also enjoys running literal concentration camps in their own country, never mind using near-literal slave labor and wild-eyed intellectual property theft as competitive weapons against us?

You don't think this is a singular instance, do you?  What, Ukraine and China is not enough?  How about right here in America?  Is the Biden family a corrupt, serial criminal enterprise?  If you'll exploit your own junkie son how about trying to scam other businesspeople across the country?  And when they sue you?  At random threatening mail with blood-soaked foreign currency shows up at their house?  Really?

Shall we talk about Covid19 a bit in respect to both of these clowns?  We knew in March that this virus was much more deadly to seniors than others, and that among young people it rarely killed anyone.  In fact, if you're young dying is so rare that among those under 19 only three in one hundred thousand who get it die.  This age cohort comprises 28.6% of the American population of roughly 330 million, or about 94 million people.

If we deliberately infected all of them a grand total of 2,831 kids would be dead but we would have population immunity and the threat of logarithmic spikes in cases would have been over months ago.

More to the point your Grandmother would still be alive.

Instead we closed schools, bars, raves, threaten kids who are in college and go to a kegger, break up parties and even arrest the people going to them while issuing "mask and distancing" orders, all of which are designed to and do decrease social interaction between the very group of people who the virus, statistically-speaking, cannot kill.  And our media grabs the handful -- literal handful -- of young people who have succumbed and plasters them all over social media and the news to stir up fear and further intentionally shift infections to older people -- which damn well ought to get them indicted.

But never forget that Donald J Fucking TRUMP made all of that possible and stuck his Presidential Seal on it by putting Fauci, Birx, Redfield and everyone else involved on his so-called "Task Force" and he directly empowered all of it by signing Executive Orders and paying the states to take actions that disproportionately shift infections from young people to old people.  I remind you that he has reversed exactly zero of these orders nor has he disbanded anything or fired anyone despite his very own CDC publishing the data above proving that what we did caused 200,000 people to be dead and millions to be unemployed.

Then Trump went even further, along with the states, and in several states sat back and let Governors deliberately force infected people into high-risk conjugal living situations (nursing homes) where the risk of dying was 1,800 times higher than for that school-age kid.

If you or I did something intentional that multiplied our risk of killing someone by 1,800 times, and tens of thousands of people did die as a consequence, we'd get the Federal Needle for it -- and deserve it too.  There would be a ticker tape parade for the cops who caught you and strapped your ass in on the gurney.

Well, Governors Cuomo, Witmer, Wolf and others?

Oh, and let's not leave off Governors DeSatan, Lee and myriad others.  In fact would you please identify one Governor who did not close schools and discourage young people to go out and do what young people do?  Governor Noem may not have instituted a mask mandate but she did shut down the schools and scared the kids, so throw her ass on the gurney and give her the federal needle too because she caused a large number of those who have died in her state to expire just like all of the rest.

We are talking about comparative manslaughter totals here folks because all of these assholes are guilty of the crime.

Every one of them.

Where is Mr. Law And Order and why aren't all of those assholes sitting on death row right now?

How about Biden and Covid19?  He has no more recognition of the mathematical facts than Trump does, or doesn't care.  He'd go even further through arm-twisting to issue more lockdowns and mandates.  He has said so publicly, and when a politician tells you that he intends to kill your Grandmother you damn well better believe him.  Given the level of cognition Biden has I'll go along with an insanity defense for him -- provided he gets a permanent Rubber Room assignment along with his Cum Dumpster running mate and Piglosi.  Otherwise they can all be strapped to a gurney and get the needle for mass-manslaughter as well.

Don't even get me started about people like Vanderbilt's John Graves who just put forward another lie about "masks."  He knows he's lying too, because the data he is using is what I'm using from the same source, the Tennessee Department of Health -- and he's deliberately ignoring anything that doesn't fit his thesis.  Like these four counties, all next door to each other and collaring Knoxville.  One has a mandate and has had since early July the other three do not.  Which one, from this data, has the mandate?  Did it do anything?

 

When do we start locking up those who run notorious, public frauds and generate more than 200,000 corpses as a direct and foreseeable consequence?  These motherfuckers killed more people in nine months than four Vietnams!  When does someone with a pair of balls lease dozens of Cat D8s and turn them over to pissed-off Americans so they can level so-called "institutions of higher learning" and "policy organizations" like IHME that put out deliberate, rank lies and cause people to die by the tens of thousands as a consequence?

Said pissed-off Americans can practice their bulldozer-driving with the same sort of accuracy that our so-called "medical universities" practice when it comes to public health.

Knox County has UT and has made a lot of noise about breaking up keggers and stopping college kids from doing what college kids do.  Said college kids (and plenty of school-age kids too) have gotten Covid.  Guess how many went to the hospital, say much less died thus far?  As far as I'm able to determine the number is zero.  Is this surprising when the CDC's claimed fatality rate for that cohort is 0.00003 and 0.0002?  May I remind you that 0.0002 is an expected death rate of two in ten thousand and that Knox County has reported roughly 12,000 cases in total; they've yet to reach 5,000 college student cases yet, so that none have died is unremarkable.  You're much more-likely to be killed in a car wreck at that age, probably associated with drinking, or through violence (e.g. gunshot) than by Covid19.  In fact I'll bet at least one student there has this year by now.

Incidentally there is a massive scam going on with so-called "positive" Covid19 tests.  If you're allegedly positive and have no symptoms consistent with Covid19 wait 2 weeks and find a place to get a paper chromatography IgG antibody test; the actual cost of these tests is $2 (I have a few left), they require a finger-stick drop of blood like a blood glucose test diabetics take several times a day and return results within 10 minutes.  If you were actually infected (symptomatic or not) you'll have IgG antibodies and the test will be positive.  If you don't have IgG antibodies then the original PCR test results were false; if you were quarantined and inconvenienced or, even worse, lost income sue the hell out of everyone involved including your local County officials, your Mayor and the labs responsible -- and make sure you name them in their personal capacities.  The inserts in the PCR tests specifically state they cannot distinguish between live, infectious virus and not and have very high false-positive rates especially for CT values over 32, which all the states are currently using.  False imprisonment is both a felony crime and a serious civil tort. Make every one of the rat bastards involved pay for it.

You think this article is all bullshit and a fantasy-laden rant by some dude who just used to run an Internet company?  Look at Japan then come back here and grovel for forgiveness.  Japan did exactly what I have advocated since March and what we should have done -- no mandates but they told people to be adults, and people did what people do there.  Japan is a nation where they actually wash their hands, don't "welcome" tens of millions of turd-world invaders and then bless them by forgiving every lawless act, including but certainly not limited to raping and killing A Girl in Iowa.  (You do remember her and how fast that evaporated from the news, right?)  Yes, lots of people wear masks; it's a cultural thing if you think you might have a bug -- you mark yourself as biologically dangerous.  Such does not stop influenza deaths, by the way -- Japan has twice our flu fatality rate per 100,000 people.

Did all those masks stop Covid19?  Nope.  A fairly-recent serological survey strongly suggests 50% of those in Tokyo have had the bug!  That means that well over 100 people got Covid19 in Japan for every person who they count as a "case" -- and the virus harmed almost none of them.

If we had done here what they did there we would have about 5,000 dead Americans and the threat of overload of hospitals and similar would be long over.  We'd have never lost our normal way of life and nearly all of the 200,000+ who have died would still be alive.

But there would have been no industry created to sell tests and headstones, never mind the several trillion dollars given away to this constituency and that with only a tiny bit of it going to actual individuals.  Then there is the nascent industry forming right now under the government's protective wing which will use fear ginned up from lies to sell annual shots of a vaccine that will be unproved for years and will provide them a permanent revenue stream for a product of dubious value at best.

In point of fact some of my earlier estimates were that in China and other "initially infected" nations there were somewhere between 100 and 300 asymptomatic infections for each "case" reported.  These would have naturally skewed toward younger people by a huge percentage and if we had let it happen this would be over.

Do remember that I have been calling bullshit on all of this since the so-called "15 days to slow the spread", arguing, now proved correctly-so, that this was an intentional lie.  This entire nation should have risen in revolt immediately on the first day of April.  Had we done so most of those dead would be alive today.

Young people by definition are more-social and have more "exposures" than old people.  The average 10 year old kid in school takes dozens of exposures to other kids before he gets to school while riding the bus and then takes a couple hundred more between being in class, the lunch room, gym class and recess.  The average college student takes a hundred or more exposures between their Friday classes and the chow hall and then goes to a kegger Friday night and takes a couple hundred more in the hope of having a really, really intimate exposure risk by taking a cute girl home with him that night.

Your average dude like me in middle to early older ages takes a half-dozen exposures a day because I go to the pub and have a beer or two.  The average Granny takes 2 or 3 exposures because she might play bridge with three friends or needs to stop at the grocery store.

ALL constraints -- from lockdowns to mask orders to closed businesses to banning college keggers, raves and concerts along with any other sort of restriction on social interaction shifts cases from those who are naturally more interactive with other people in a "more dirty" and at closer range (the extreme is of course a passel of toddlers playing in a sandbox or at a daycare!) to older, more-morbid individuals.  60 year old people do not go into the mosh pit, say much less attend a rave in the first place.  22 year old young adults do.  Ditto for nightclubs and packed-to-the-walls bars.  Even more-stupid is any sort of "protective measure" in schools like closing them, mandating masks, closing lunch rooms, erecting plexiglass on the desks and banning recess.  This is closely-followed in stupidity by mandating masks in the general public because it inhibits the much-closer social interaction that young people engage in much more-frequently than older people and in addition for shift workers and school kids by mandating masks be worn for hours at a time you are increasing the risk of severe bacterial infections.

I remind you that bacterial pneumonia does kill young kids unlike Covid19, which rarely does.

With a virus that kills 3 in 100,000 kids but 5 in 100 grannies who do you want to take the cases that must occur to reach population suppression?  You do realize that the "flatten the curve" mantra does not change the number of cases, only the time during which they are taken, right?  All we can do is put forward policy measures that shift who takes those cases, not whether they are taken at all.   You're insane to do anything that inhibits, blocks or otherwise tampers with infections of those who are very, very unlikely to be harmed by getting this bug; every single person who gets it and survives becomes a firebreak that prevents others from having it transmitted to them.

All of those alleged "mitigations" do not mitigate anything -- they in fact kill grandmothers by the busload because every single case that a kid doesn't take inevitably gets taken by his grandmother and she dies at a rate of 5 in 100 while the kid dies at a rate of 3 in 100,000.

The "mitigations" do not just incrementally increase death -- they result in an exponential explosion of death.  We have suffered several dozen times as many dead people as should have died by direct and provable consequence of these policies.

NEVER MIND THE GOVERNORS WHO INTENTIONALLY RAMMED THE BUG INTO HIGHLY-BRITTLE PEOPLE AND EXACTLY ZERO OF THEM HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND HAULED BODILY OUT OF THEIR MANSIONS STRAIGHT INTO FEDERAL "PYITA" PRISON.

WE KNEW ALL OF THIS IN MARCH AFTER KIRKLAND HAPPENED.

THESE DEATHS WERE CAUSED, NOT NATURALLY OCCURRING DUE TO A VIRUS.

I can read. Why is that you can't?  Why is it that you allow the media, social media mavens and others to peddle flat-out bullshit to you on a daily basis for more than six months?  Did America suddenly become 99.9% illiterate along with being innumerate?  It certainly appears that way.

Your mother, if you were born before about 1990, knew all of this.  There was an endemic virus that was 25 times more dangerous in older people than in children.  In children it had a fatality rate not far off from Covid19; a low single-digit rate per 100,000 cases.  Your mother took you over to the neighbor kid's house that had said virus and infected you on purpose because by doing so she protected those adults in the community that had not had it, even though there was a very small but non-zero risk you might die.

The virus is called varicella and the disease Chicken Pox.  I was intentionally infected when I was young, as were most other kids -- by our mothers, every one of them capable of basic arithmetic and not interested in killing their mother, unlike Fauci, Birx, the entire faculty of Vanderbilt, Governor Bill Lee, Mayor Larry Waters and both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  I remind you that every single one of those people is old enough to know goddamned well that I'm right and their mother did the right thing when she took them across the street to get the little red dots on their faces and a nasty little fever for a week.  Yes, today we have a vaccine -- a fully-tested and validated vaccine.  Then we did not, just as today with Covid we do not.

Nobody hid in their house, closed schools for months, closed bars and restaurants, cancelled concerts, banned funerals, weddings, church services and other gatherings -- or wore a mask.  It was part of life, we all knew it, and if we didn't get the bug "naturally" by the time we were approaching a double-digit age our mother waited until some other kid in the neighborhood had it and over there we went to play, and just like magic, gee, what do you think happened?

Covid19's risk among older people is not 25 times higher -- it's over 1,000 times higher.  If the risk to children was acceptable until we had a vaccine 20 years ago to protect older people from a 25 times higher risk why isn't it now when the risk is 1,000 times higher or greater?

"Wear a mask" you say?

FUCK YOU.

You killed your neighbor's grandmother with your mask, school closure and "scare everyone" bullshit while Jeff Bezos made another billion by exploiting that fear, asshole.  Never mind the testing labs are making $100 a crack for worthless tests while you can't get the CT number they're using and they appear to have been tampering with that number over time too, which is almost-certainly producing a huge number of false positives.  This is in their best interest because it generates more fear, more tests and thus more business.  If it winds up forcing you to quarantine for 10 days when you're not really infected that's just tough crap for you along with $100 from all of your friends you're so "kind" to name when the nice government goon comes around.  Of course you cooperate with said jackass instead of telling him to go fuck a goat -- right?  If the labs had to pay your salary and living expenses for two weeks every time they reported a false positive you could prove with a 2-week later negative antibody test they'd stop that shit instantly so why hasn't the government mandated that be done?

You know the answer as well as I do.

All you screaming fools are lucky my mother wasn't killed by this bullshit -- she died a couple of years ago of colon cancer -- or I'd shove your mask so far up your ass you'd taste it.

What "choice" am I supposed to make this coming Tuesday?  I never vote early unless I'm going to be out of town and know it.  Why?  Because through my life I've seen countless political candidates blow up in the last days of an election, either personally for me by taking a position I cannot vote for or through something so heinous that you might as well list Beelzebub on the ticket instead of their name.  Biden has had that happen here and yet Rah-Rah Orange Man BAD so he's still on the ticket and people still think he's going to win too and by the way, Pelosi, Schumer, Hillary and the rest of the Democrat machinery all knew about his and his family's bullshit four years ago.  How many of them are also on the take?

The last thing I'd like to point out is that going all the way back to the 1990s I have talked about how the government medical system is going to blow up and when it does it will hose the economy and everyone in the United States.  I've written countless articles over the last decade on why you must do everything in your power to never need a single medical service because if you do you will be either dispossessed of everything you have or be denied it and die.  I personally decided to quit being a fat-ass nearly 10 years ago because after Black Jesus was elected and rammed through yet another giveaway to the extortionate and felonious "medical system" in this nation it became quite clear that there was a zero probability that if I became reliant on it everything would be ok -- I would instead die slowly and horribly. Since there were things I could do that would materially change those odds, including getting rid of the extra 60lbs I was carting around, I did them. In addition to reducing the risk of needing said criminally-corrupt enterprises I'm enjoying things in my life on a daily basis that I was flatly incapable of 10 years ago.

Many people think I'm crazy.  I assure you I'm not.  Medicare and Medicaid have had even more damage done to them by this intentional circus of death caused by our politicians and academics who profit mightily from all of it.

In 2009 I pointed out that the reason Obamacare was rammed through was that the Medical Industry had reached the limit of being able to scam people; there simply wasn't enough money to keep paying for it and the entire edifice was teetering on the edge of collapse.  Obamacare was an attempt to prevent that collapse, which would not have stopped you from being treated, but it would have put an immediate and permanent end to ripping you off wholesale.

Covid19 is just another in a long line of examples.  At $100/crack you do the math on the number of tests from the Hopkins or Covid Tracking Project site to tell me how many dollars have been stolen.  Leave aside everything else, such as remdesivir (large study showed it worthless, but it just got approved at $3,000/crack by the FDA!) and more and just look at the test numbers.  A test that does not come back immediately, within an hour or so, is worthless to both you as a patient to interdict viral replication and from a standpoint of trying to stop transmission through tracing.  Forward tracing of contacts with a virus that is not universally transmitted in some sort of linear way, which we know is the case for Covid19, is worthless; you have to trace backward and find the person who infected you, not who you might have infected when 9 times out of 10 the answer to the latter question is NOBODY!

Why?  Because with a stochastic disease a backward trace is compact since it seeks only one person and whoever gave it to you is probably still giving it to other people too so finding them actually does something to slow down transmission almost 100% of the time. On the other hand forward tracing expends an enormous amount of resource since it is an exponentially-expanding problem and usually finds nothing.  All of the so-called experts know this; again, it's simple High School level math.

And Japan proved it works because that's exactly what they did -- but they did not stop transmission; in fact they built immunity and thus most of the Grannies are still alive.

They just stopped the death.

The entire reason we cannot test and trace our way to a reduction in infections among those who the virus can kill while leaving everyone else alone is that we have allowed the government and medical businesses to intentionally design a testing and tracing protocol that is mathematically guaranteed to fail to do anything useful but makes everyone involved tens of millions of dollars a day.  They've stolen every single penny of the money spent on it while governors, mayors and the general public cheered it on while intentionally skewing infections into people who the virus can and does kill.  That's the behavior of monsters and you've sat back and let them do it or even worse, cheered it on despite having overwhelming evidence stuck in your face on a daily basis that this is exactly what is going on.

So tell me why we're doing any of this again?  Why are you putting up with it?  Why hasn't the American public woken up and told every one of these evil rat bastards that they will stop it now or they will be forced to stop by whatever means are necessary?

What choice am I really being presented with this coming Tuesday?

Being violated by a Donkey or an Elephant?

Where's the option to not get it up the ass at all?