by Mark E. Jeftovic, Bombthrower:
Hint: When the Venezuelans are fleeing, it means we’re in trouble.
A few nights ago, I received a long email from an acquaintance I’ve known for a very long time – twenty years or more. We’ve never hung out in person – all our interactions were online. Hadn’t heard from them in years.
As I was about to turn in for the night, I noticed an email from him, the subject line was simply, “Life”.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
Over the years I have read a great deal of what you have written, but that became less of a habit in recent years.
Trying to locate your email address, I ended up today on your X account. After all those early years of reading you as a positive writer about technology I was completely taken back by what you endorsed on X.
It was so full of hate and anger. Against the WEF, against scientists working for government, about people who worry about global warming, regardless of who caused it, against Liberals and leftists and a whole bunch of name calling.
By this point, I honestly thought this might be sarcasm, but as I kept reading, it became clearer that this was not the case:
I do not for the life of me understand how a person in your position, intelligent, informed, successful, money in the bank, living in the best country in the world is so full of vitriol. The anger leaps off the page.
You are not alone. In my working circle I have a lawyer colleague who writes exactly like you. My cousin who runs a successful insurance company uses exactly the same language.
Let’s ponder this for a moment. What he’s saying is that many high-functioning, thoughtful people, who hold professional positions or run successful businesses are all seemingly sounding the same and they’re all pissed.
Has it occurred to this person to wonder why this is the case?
After ranting about the #FreedomConvoy and the “J6 Insurrection” and extolling the benefits of the vaccine that saved his life (I’m genuinely happy for him, at least it worked for somebody), he poses the question:
“What could be wrong with the people we elect to set the rules for our social contract reacting as quickly as they can with whatever measures experts advise. It may be too much, it may turn out to be wrong, it may have forced all of us to behave in a certain way to control the harm. Why does that produce such anger? What are you really mad about?”
Before putting forth a carefully crafted hypothetical:
The dam upstream from your town has just shown a crack and the engineers say it is under serious risk of failure. The army will move your village to high ground. If it turns out that the crack was repairable and the dam did not break, and your town was not wiped out with flooding water, should that become a heavy duty political ideological issue?
Screw your hypothetical construct, how about this:
(Stop me if you’ve heard this one before).
A bunch of unaccountable technocrats were carrying out gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses and were barred from continuing this line of research by the Obama administration. Even the Department of Defense, whom they later pitched the project to, rejected the program as too dangerous.
So instead of ceasing their work, they farmed out the research that Congress has forbidden and the military rejected, to a Chinese lab in Wuhan via private contractors, and then they deleted emails and paper trails to cover their tracks.
After a pathogen related to that work (a highly contagious one, because they made it that way) leaked from said lab, setting off a global pandemic that kills (by official tallies) over four million people, they manufactured a peer reviewed paper that dismissed any idea of a lab leak as “conspiracy theory”.
For the next two years anybody who publicly observes that circumstantial evidence and detailed analysis of the virus itself are highly indicative of a lab leak have their careers destroyed. People are kicked off social media for even talking about it. Zerohedge had their Twitter account suspended for merely drawing attention to the proximity of the Wuhan Lab to the outbreak of the virus.
