βοΈ SHOCK THERAPY β Monday, June 10, 2024 β C&C NEWS π¦
Shocking Maryland pageant winner; shocking New York Times double, anti-narrative op-eds; shocking European elections developments; and more.
Good morning C&C, itβs Monday! Your roundup-from-the-road this morning includes: Maryland transforms the standard of feminine beauty; New York Times double op-ed shatters narratives, and itβs great progress, but was it legit or just a limited hangout?; and French President Macron suddenly and unexpectedly dissolves the government, hoping to assemble a better one β and it might be another terrific sign.
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π₯π₯ Marylandβs most magnificent βMissβ is a Mister. The Federalist ran a brutally honest headline Friday, captioned βAs Miss Maryland, This Man In A Dress Will Interact With Kids.β It happened again.
This yearβs pageant saw an intensely competitive field. Lots of lovely ladies tried out, each vying for the top scores in poise, beauty, and most of all, femininity. Last Thursday, out of all the beautiful women who competed, the Miss Maryland USA Pageant crowned the very best man as Miss Maryland.
And having earned his crown, he vows to use his new title to help achieve world peace.
Bailey Ann lives the way he imagines a woman would, and according to Baileyβs social media accounts, is also connected in several key ways to our U.S. military. Bailey claims to be married to an active-duty Marine, and works for (or with) the USO, of course, the DODβs troop morale-boosting department.
Doing exactly what to boost the troopsβ morale is left to oneβs imagination, since Baileyβs Instagram does not explain.
Hereβs Bailey, according to the Instagram caption, with Commander Robert P. "Shooter" Stochel, and receiving some kind of award. Bailey is the one in the white dress, standing next to the grinning red-haired man claimed as the husband:
Who are we to judge? But, buh bye ladies! Trans women (i.e., men) are stronger, faster, and thereβs no mansplaining required.Β And, how handy!
Bailey next proceeds to the Miss USA pageant, scheduled for August 4th in Los Angeles. Get ready! Thatβs August, 2024. So, you know.
π₯π₯ Last Sunday, the New York Times juxtaposed two remarkable op-eds on the same page, not accidentally, which were so astonishing itβs worth showing the actual pages from the print edition. The opinion pieces were respectively headlined, βWhy Covid Probably Started in a Lab,β and βAn Object Lesson on How to Destroy Public Trust.β Indeed.
That wasnβt all! The two op-eds featured their own full-length cover page:
Hereβs that centered, supremely ironic headline, but a little bigger so you can read it clearly:
At first, I thought they must be joking. Can we finally have an honest conversation about covid?Β First of all, who has been stopping that honest conversation from happening? The New York Times, among others! And second, the headline clearly implies the previous conversations werenβt honest.
Who has been lying? Iβll let you answer that one.
The first author attempted to answer those questions. Dr. Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at M.I.T. and Harvard, and co-author of βViral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19,β blamed all the confusion on reflexive partisan politics:
Next, the Timesβ mind-controlled readers finally read what weβve been trying desperately to tell them for almost four yearsβscience created this historic catastrophe:
Folks, itβs slow, but we are making progress. I could quibble about the specifics, and the narrative framing, but it was all there in the op-ed. Though Dr. Chan was careful to point the finger of blame back at the Chinese, Dr. Ralph Baric, the North Carolina researcher squatting at the middle of the controversy, was named five times. He was not blamed so much as used as undisclosed evidence of lab origin:
Though China took center stage, the piece didnβt quite let the U.S. completely off the hook either. Dr. Chan clearly connected U.S. funding and research priorities to the pandemic, and even (gently) called out the NIAIDβs top human cockroach and beagle torturer, Fauci:
Remarkably, there was more in Dr. Chanβs piece that I agreed with than disagreed with (though she could have gone much further).
The connected companion op-ed about lost trust in science was authored by Princeton professor and regular Times opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci. It was equally honest β at least, as honest as weβve yet seen in corporate media to date. Tufecki first blamed government officials as the ones who created the covid confusion, and she didnβt accept it was any accident:
Times readers may have ignored last weekβs Congressional hearings, but now theyβre reading about the low-lights. Things are heating up. Professor Tufekci outright rejected the pathetic official excuse that we didnβt know what we didnβt know, but did the best we could at the time. She called government officials (i.e., Fauci) arrogant and obstinate cowards:
Tufecki is no conspiracy-minded conservative. The Professor is an ardent pro-masker, a voluntary quarantiner, and a vaccine aficionado, admitting she βgleefully rolled upβ her sleeve to get the shots. Gleefully.
So it was all the more remarkable that she echoed Coffee & Covid, decrying the pandemicβs βpaternalistic, infantilizing government messagingβ and calling, in her own way, for truth, transparency, and trust:
The 1,600 comments to Dr. Tufeckiβs op-ed give great insight into the average Times readerβs stubborn mentality. Most commenters completely missed the point, making the elitist argument that, notwithstanding bad public messaging, they themselves always knew what was really going on, thanks to βseriousβ media like the Times.
Insert massive eye roll.
Hereβs a typical example, a short exchange in the comments between an outraged commenter and the feisty Professor, who shot right back, comparing Atutu to an anti-vaxxer:
Professor Tupekciβs op-ed caused many commenters to bristle with barely concealed rage. They doggedly insisted that calling out the pandemicβs mistakes was unfair armchair quarterbacking, and was downright harmful to the narrative. Hereβs one commenter, Elizabeth:
I included this taste of the comments because they highlighted the real problem, which is the zany zeitgeist or demonic spirit of the age. The fundamental trouble comes from the big group of folks who still believe, ipso facto, that government cannot ever err.
It is tempting to blame partisan politics, as Dr. Chan did. After all, itβs mostly leftists whoβve defensively circled the wagons around lying government officials. But politics is downstream from culture.Β What about personal health decisions could possibly be political?
In fact, before the pandemic, it was the left-leaning, crunchy granola folks who were always most likely to favor alternative medicines and employee rights. But the pandemicβs wrecking ball knocked normal politics askew, and now itβs all backwards and upside down.
If politics is downstream from culture, then to fix politics, we must first fix the culture. Even if fixing culture is vexingly difficult, the phenomenon is well known. In 1841, in his seminal book βExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,β Charles Mackay famously noted, βMen, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.β
If covid isnβt an extraordinary popular delusion, then I am a spicy pepperoni Hot Pocket. For whatever reason, good or bad, limited hangout or genuine contrition, the New York Times seems to be slowly recovering its senses. And Iβm counting that as progress.
ππ CNN ran a similarly remarkable story yesterday headlined, βMacron gambles on snap election after crushing loss to French far right in EU vote.β
This week, the European Union member states, including France, are holding their five-year EU parliament elections, which elect each countryβs representatives (called MEPs) to the EU parliament.
France is one of the first EU countries to finish. In a profound shock to European globalists, yesterday Marine Le Penβs βfar-rightβ National Rally party won 32% of the vote, more than double what French President Macron's far-left Renaissance party received (15%).
In what most people thought was just a publicity stunt, Le Pen called for Macron to dissolve Franceβs parliament, arguing the results showed Franceβs current government was out of touch with the people. She surely did not expect him to do it. But in another shocking development, Macron did just that, and dissolved Franceβs government, teeing up emergency elections to form a new internal French parliament.
To give you an idea, France last dissolved its parliament over 25 years ago, in 1997.
Macron hopes that the emergency election of a new parliament will swing his way and that the shock of Le Penβs victory in the EU election will galvanize the left and center to vote for stability instead of change. Maybe he frets that, if he waits, France will drift even further rightwards. Whatever the reason, the snap election is a high-stakes gamble that could either shore up Macron's position, or weaken him significantly, depending on how French voters respond.
Itβs the globalistβs favorite trick: make them vote again.
The French results, while shocking, should not surprise anyone. In January, EuroNews ran an eye-opening story headlined, βRight-wing populists could control EU Parliament after election: study.β European globalists fret that the EUβs climate schemes and Ukraine policies could be slowed or even, perish the thought, reversed.
If you want, you could also view this surprising trend in the same light as European political developments back in 2016. The anti-globalist Brexit movement in Great Britain became an early warning signal of Trumpβs election. These results in France, while not quite as politically dynamite as Brexit, are perhaps comparable. We donβt yet know how the rest of the EU elections will turn out, but everyone is on pins and needles to find out.
Despite the globalistsβ historic, secretive worldwide war of resistance, the counter-revolution continues taking territory.
Have a marvelous Monday! Iβll be back with another vacation roundup tomorrow morning. Next week, weβll return to the regular schedule of snarky commentary.
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And the real women on that stage smiled and clapped and fluttered around the MAN dressed up as a woman, never batting an eye. In fact, they participated in the whole charade. Why why why are women allowing men to take their places, merely by wearing dresses and lipstick?!?! Women are not costumes!
Alina and Zeynep (if that is their real names) are well known to those of us that have followed the inner workings of the Covid narrative. They are both of a type we know all too well, members of the establishment that broach seemingly taboo topics but never really stray too far from orthodoxy.
They are the epitome of controlled opposition in my opinion, allowed to throw us mouth-breathers a bone every now and then. Their role is to manage disclosures in the Watergate-famous "modified limited hang-out" manner. When the existing narrative becomes unmanageable, they are used to steer it in a more manageable direction. They are allowed to make concessions, but only those approved for the new narrative.
The good news is that this shows that the old narrative has lost credibility and those running the show know they are in danger of losing the upper hand. But the fact it's from these two, and in the New York Times to boot, should make clear exactly what's going on. It's a tactical retreat, not an admission of guilt.