โ๏ธ PERMISSIVENESS โ Saturday, October 12, 2024 โ C&C NEWS ๐ฆ
Americans getting things done; revealing Times article showcases media manipulation; Moderna stock still sliding; DOJ sues Virginia over illegal voters; more record aurorae; election news; more.
Good morning, C&C, itโs Saturday! Time for the Weekend Edition. Your roundup includes: real Americans donโt wait for FEMA even though it triggers liberals; New York Times puff piece accidentally rips the mask off the mechanics of media manipulation; Modernaโs long slide into financial irrelevance continues; DOJ sues State of Virginia for removing non-citizens from voting rolls; more worldwide aurora set more records and baffle disinterested climate scientists; and election news suggests the momentum is moving the right direction.
๐๐ฌ WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY ๐ฌ๐
๐ช๏ธ๐ช๏ธ Independent reports were making the social media rounds this week about industrious men in the Western Carolinas and Tennessee clearing roads and fixing bridges.
CLIP: Toxic masculinity and bridge repair (0:49).
Lacking permits, environmental impact studies, diversity compliance, or OSHA supervisors, local farmers and tradesmen have somehow begun using available materials, like downed power poles and toppled trees, to quickly repair or replace smaller washed-out bridges without waiting for the government to get around to it.
Hopefully, they arenโt mansplaining or man-spreading while sitting on their backhoe. Still, the fact groups of all white men are taking effective action without FEMAโs help is a kind of microaggression. As evidenced by FEMAโs website, the disaster relief agencyโs top priority is โI am not making this upโ not saving lives or protecting property, but equity:
The website explained that โFEMA will continue its efforts to integrate equity โฆ through transformational change within our workforce.โ From what I can tell, it seems like FEMAโs plan is working.
Meanwhile, everyday folks in sticky situations are getting things done without waiting for somebody else to do it or even for permission. Pheonix-like, something essentially American is resurrecting in the wake of Hurricane Heleneโs tragedy, and itโs terrific.
(PSโI would be remiss if I failed to mention there are also plenty of reports of state DOT folks doing great work.)
๐ฅ๐ฅ Iโve long argued corporate mediaโs job is not to inform, but to enforce political orthodoxy and police the allowable boundaries of approved thought. So I was intrigued by yesterdayโs otherwise useless New York Times article headlined, โโPod Save Americaโ Wonโt Quit.โ The article was just free advertising for a far-left podcast, but it included an astonishing admission.
This particular podcast launched in 2016 right after Trumpโs election as a part of the โ#Resistโ movement. Seeded with Soros funding, this far-left show with its three white male hosts is now arguably partisan Democratsโ most popular podcast. โThey were the Obama government in exile for eight years,โ explained Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of far-left news site Semafor.
Pod Save America is everything you would expect.
Now set the PodSavers aside for a moment. I have long argued that corporate mediaโs main job is no longer reporting news or investigating stories. Apart from misleading people and distracting everyone from important developments, corporate mediaโs primary function in 2024 is to promote globalism and depopulationism by messaging Democrats about what they are allowed to think and say.
Democrats accept playing a Game of Life where the rules provide theyโll be socially ostracized and professionally canceled for holding heterodox thoughts and words, but socially and professionally rewarded for their conformity. The carrot and the stick.
Itโs a self-fulfilling prediction; liberals energetically police themselves and each other with gusto.ย They only need to know whatโs permissible and what is verboten. Approved liberal orthodoxy is as flexible as a 12-year-old Romanian gymnast. It can turn on a dime, fly through the air with the greatest of ease, and change by the day.
Now, masks must be for everyone. (A few months later.) Now, masks are optional for anyone who thinks a seasonal cold is more dangerous than inhaling microplastics.
The media as Overton Window-setter is actually and literally mind control.ย That its subjects are willing participants makes them no less manipulated.
Back to Pod Save America. According to the Timesโ article, the PodSavers were the first machine-Democrats to publicly question Joe Bidenโs fitness after his disastrous debate with Trump. That first post-debate podcast, argued the Times, started the political wrecking ball swinging and ended with Kamala Harrisโs selection for the ticket.
Now look how the Times described the PodSaversโ Biden-questioning podcast:
There it was! They know about it, too. For discussion topics to โonce be unsayableโ necessarily requires the existence both of rules of discourse and enforcers of those rules.
And, of course, they minted a multisyllabic term for this kind of mind control: โpermission structures.โ Itโs something quite difficult for we conservatives to imagine since, while we have our own problems, we face nothing like punishing, self-reinforcing group orthodoxy.
Permission structures werenโt always the Democrat default; itโs probably a neo-Marxist feature. After all, they used to call the Democrat Party the โbig tent party,โ meaning it covered a diverse group of related political viewpoints. But now, the Democratsโ big tent has been shrunk to something like a clown car, and you must wear the outfit if you want to cram yourself in.
This kind of agenda-setting was well described in George Orwellโs 1984, where the Party didnโt just control behavior, but it also regulated what people thought through a combination of fear and linguistic manipulation. It could also be compared to the Soviet Unionโs โapproved narratives.โ Or to its precursor, the 1960โs fascinating โagenda-setting theory.โ
In its most technical definition, โpermission structuresโ are conceptually larger than just media manipulation defining the boundaries of acceptable groupthink. As used by Obama officials, the term referred more broadly to a psychological process of lobotomizing someoneโs deeply held beliefs and getting them to accept things they used to find inconceivably repulsive.
Exhibit A might be transgender surgeries. Donโt make me show you the pictures again.
Merely recognizing the fact of mediaโs cognitive manipulation through ceaseless creation and enforcement of โpermission structures,โ its Marxist agenda-setting, and its Stalinist-approved narratives helps immunize us against its insidious effects. The tactics are wielded against all of us, even if the most successful example is โcreating necessary spaces for Democrats to talk publicly about what had once been unsayable.โ
Resist corporate mediaโs permission structures.
๐ท๐ท On Thursday, the San Fransisco Chronicle ran a story headlined, โMask mandates are coming back to the Bay Area. Hereโs where.โ The good news was itโs only a limited mandate, for indoor masking in healthcare settings, in some California counties. The bad news is itโs certifiably insane.
Follow the science! Itโs time to remind our fellow citizens again. The WHO found masks donโt stop respiratory viruses in 2019.ย The CDC found the same in 2020. And the โgold-standardโ Cochrane Review found the same in 2022 โ after the pandemic.
Beyond the science, pro-maskers must be made to grapple with emerging headlines like this one from the UK Guardian, in August:
Or this headline, from Boing Boing in June:
Or this Guardian headline, from around the same time:
Masks were banned in New York for 175 years, from 1845 to 2020, when the ban was repealed for covid. There must be some reason that, for most of the stateโs history, wearing masks in public was a crime. What could it be?
There can be only one logical conclusion: masks are antisemitic. So.
๐๐ Modernaโs financial woes continued this week as the stock kept sagging. Simply Wall Street ran a story yesterday headlined, โThe Market Doesn't Like What It Sees From Moderna, Inc.'s Revenues Yet As Shares Tumble 28%.โ Uh oh.
Last week, Moderna depressed investors after appearing in the UK Daily Telegraph under the headline, โModerna under fire after children offered cash to test Covid vaccine.โ The sub-headline added, โCompany targeted 12 to 18 year-olds through WhatsApp with payments of ยฃ1,500.โ Thatโs about $2,000.
They used to convince people to take the jabs for a free donut. Now theyโre having to offer thousands of dollars. Itโs not a good sign for demand, which at this point could be reasonably compared to the demand for spicy cayenne pepper enemas or radical bee sting therapy. Ouch!
The larger significance is what this says about the marketโs response to mRNA therapies in general. Remember, Modernaโs unexciting drug pipeline is all mRNA. Until very recently, mRNA was the hottest thing going. They were going to cure cancer with individualized mRNA shots.
But now, nobody wants their stupid shots, not even people fighting cancer.ย Instead, all the cancer treatment excitement revolves around taking ivermectin, even though โor maybe becauseโ the FDA panned the safe and effective drug as a horse dewormer.
Progress.
๐ฅ๐ฅ Yesterday, Democracy Docket ran a breathless story headlined, โJustice Department Sues Virginia Officials Over Stateโs Noncitizen Voter Roll Purge.โ Of course it did. But why? Is Virginia in play?
On August 7th, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order requiring the state elections commissioner to update the stateโs voter lists to remove folks โidentified as non-citizensโ who donโt respond to a request to verify their citizenship within 14 days.
It was triggering. Yesterday, Bidenโs DOJ filed suit arguing that removing non-citizens not allowed to vote this close to an election is illegal. Maybe if theyโd removed the illegal voters sooner? What difference does it make when an illegal voter gets removed?
Youngkinโs spokesman insisted Virginia has complied with all applicable state and federal law. "Every step in the established list maintenance process is mandated by Virginia law and begins after an individual indicates they are not a citizen," he said. "Anyone spreading misinformation about it is either ignoring Virginia law or is trying to undermine it because they want noncitizens to vote.โ
Iโll let you know what the court does. In distantly related news, I won my local election-related case this week, and yesterday the court of appeals denied the local governmentโs emergency request to expedite the appeal before election day. So.
Local, local, local!
๐ฅ๐ฅ Finally, this week saw even more signs in the Heavens. NPR ran a colorful story yesterday headlined, โThe northern lights dazzle night skies across U.S. and Europe.โ Not once did uncurious NPR marvel over the historic nature of these worldwide aurorae. Maybe theyโre uninterested because thereโs no possible way this extreme weather event was caused by cow flatulence.
According to NPR, for the second time this year, the Northern Lights were visible as far south as Texas, DC, New York City, Arizona, and Australia. It also happened in May, when aurora appeared over South Pacific Islands for the first time since the Great Carrington Event of 1859.
The Northern Lights, aka Aurora Borealis, are a breathtaking natural phenomenon caused by energized solar wind particles interacting with Earth's magnetic field. They are usually only seen in frosty areas like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Canada, and Alaska.
Yesterdayโs record-setting lights in the sky resulted from a moderate solar storm (4 out of 5 on the scale), not any kind of historic-level solar activity, which strongly suggests something about the Earth has changed. Experts are baffled, but independent observers fault Earthโs weakening magnetic field.
Whatever it is, it seems to be picking up pace. If anything, this weekโs aurorae were more robust and more colorful than those from May, which were caused by a much stronger solar event. For just one of many examples, here are some pictures taken this week by a photographer in Greece, New York:
In a world where science had not been strangled by The Scienceโข, we would have a fulsome conversation about this stunning solar development and what it implies for Earthโs weather and the climate.ย Itโs getting harder to deny. Todayโs climate change proponent must stubbornly insist that the strongest energy source by far, the Sun, has no effect on Earthโs weather.
What will they say when the night skies bloom all the time?
๐๐ In election news, the New York Times ran an encouraging story this morning headlined, โBlack Voters Drift From Democrats, Imperiling Harrisโs Bid, Poll Shows.โ More black Americans support Trump than ever (especially men), and โthe drop-off for Ms. Harris, if it holds, is large enough to imperil her chances of winning key battleground states.โ
Democratsโ normal race-hustling isnโt working this time. โRegardless of how people call him racist and stuff, he is for the country of America,โ said LaPage Drake, a 63-year-old black Texan.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal ran a story yesterday headlined, โBattle for Swing States Is Tied, Trump Has Edge on Top Issues, WSJ Poll Shows.โย Voters in the seven tossup states see Trump โas better equipped than Kamala Harris to handle the issues they care about mostโthe economy and border security.โ
Weโre down to three weeks left. Iโm not brave enough to try predicting what will happen. But this week left us with a strong sense of momentum moving in the right direction. Stay frosty.
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DeSantis: โNow, people have asked me: โIs FEMA going to do this?โ Let me be clear in Florida. We run the show. FEMA is not running the show. We will utilize them to support some of the things weโre doing, but you are not going to see FEMA running amok in Florida. I know thatโs been out there on the internet. That is not going to happen. Iโm the sheriff thatโs in charge here. And we will make sure to protect you. Donโt worry about it.โ DeSantis had already issued an Executive Order clearly stating that people would quickly be allowed to return to their homes. Clearly, he was saying "we will make sure to protect you" from FEMA.
I didn't connect these dots right away but when I was watching the post-hurricane coverage, I noticed that there were at least a half dozen sheriff cars blocking a bridge to the barrier island as personnel made sure it was safe to allow people to return to their homes which happened after a short time. I thought to myself, "Why so many sheriff cars on one bridge." I assume other access points were similarly manned by local sheriffs.
Then I remembered hearing unverified reports that FEMA had hired security firms who employ ex-military to send hundreds of personnel to FL to prevent people from returning to their homes by blocking off neighborhoods.
When I connected those two observations with DeSantis' press statement, it all made sense. DeSantis' language was calculated. He did not verify nor did he discount the FEMA rumors but his language was revealing: "Florida is taking the lead... FEMA is not running the show" and "you are not going to see FEMA running amok (!)... I AM THE SHERIFF THAT IS IN CHARGE HERE." He was clearly telling the Biden regime that if they tried to come into FL that he would invoke the Constitutional authority of the Sheriff and stop them. The show of force at the access points was to preclude any FEMA personnel from trying to come in and enforce a 'denial of area' operation. DeSantis drew a line in the sand against the Feds.
Unfortunately, I have not seen this in North Carolina.
Good morning from Tampa, Florida - where the morning after the storm, all of our Trump supporting neighbors were in their front driveways with generators going, offering coffee and breakfast to the neighborhood - while our Harris supporting neighbors were โstaying safeโ inside their homes, waiting for the federal government to save them.