Everyone's favourite virus schoolmarm re-emerges with a podcast interview to discuss pandemic missteps after massive public uproar over the RKI protocols
Sorry, E. I only got as far as the bit about her not expecting the mental illness caused by school closures and anger overtook me.
Real, palpable anger, that I am not normally subject to feeling. Not because this woman is as stupid as she evidently is. Not even because she got it so wrong.
But because of the glib way in which she dismisses her mistakes, glossing over the role she playing in doing so much harm to so many kids over whose lives she had so much power.
Much like the current crop of psychopaths which have comprised our illustrious ruling elites. They are drawn to positions of power like moths to a flame…a flame they then use to set fire to the world around them.
My ex-wife is Chinese... the stories she and her parents told me... "The 100 Flowers" and the aftermath.. "The Great Leap Forward" and the complete destruction of all their cookware... My ex- going home from work/school during Tiananmen Square to the sound of machine-gun fire...
The sheer, shit-head, murderous incompetence of those bastards... "Karl Marx and his Legacy" should have been immediately consigned to the trashcan of history the moment Satan came to get him... But Marxism simply Will Not Die... 🤔🙄💩
They actually have a name for those bad commies, they call them "tankies" which they of course are against. Having no idea that term references Hungary
Thanks for this, more people should discuss the inhumane slaughter, starvation and oppression Mao unleashed on the Chinese people, starting during the "Long March" and never relenting. He likely killed over 100 million of his own people but due to the lack of recordkeeping, it's hard to exactly prove. I read an amazing book on Mao, Mao: The Untold Story that went through the Long March in terrifying detail. He betrayed the Chinese by collaborating with the Japanese and literally laughed as his own people starved
And tossed her and his bastard son out into the streets to fend for themselves.. and this mind you, after 4 of his infant children starved to death because he was too shiftless and irresponsible to get a job.
And the abomination of "Marxism" simply will not: Die...
Interesting, I didn't know that. I did know that this entire game of "ingrate hide the sausage" took place while Marx was living rent-free at Engels' place and being entirely supported by Engels. Marx evidently thought cooz was just part of the free room service. Because everything should be free, right?
My issue with communism, the one thing that can never be got away from, is if you consolidate economic power into one (state) entity, then this entity must be under the control of someone - usually a powerful oligarchy.
It is this concentration of power that is the problem. Because (earthly) power is itself evil. And the more concentrated the power, the greater the evil.
That is why capitalism has a chance at working. Because by its nature, it disperses power among a great many people. That power is not less evil, but because it is dispersed, it counteracts itself and the outcomes that emerge are sometimes - only sometimes - aligned with morality and with the good.
Trouble with Capitalism is that wealth and power very quickly gets concentrated in the hands of the very few and you have the same situation as Communism – which if you have any grasp of "alternative" history, you should know was only and always the tool of the Kakistrocrats. The connections between Karl Marx and the Rothschild Crime Syndicate were tentacline to say the least. The destruction of Germany in World War One was planned and implemented by Cecil Rhodes in 1890 with the help of The City of London. Jacob Schiff was instrumental in facilitating The Bolshevik Revolution; gave the order for the murders of the Russian Royal Family. The Rothschilds funded Hitler.. and on, and on, and on...
Graham, these are my feelings exactly. I am full of rage. Says here she know what she was doing to children from less favoured socioeconomic backgrounds and sort of shrugs it off. Basically saying, well who cares if these children's chance to catch up with kids from wealthier families - a chance that is slim enough as it is - has just diminished further.
major mistake, Graham! We will never get justice, but what E has written here is almost as good: a funny but realistic portrait of a pathetic person, who is not a real person because she doesn't want to find out what is behind that double chin. We, who have gone through the mob rule with stoic and noble posture, should not lose it now. Not injected, not isolated, just bemused.
They are beginning to realize that their consolidation of totalitarian power was incomplete, Ryan, which is why they are making empty rhetorical gestures in a bid for time, time to finish that consolidation.
They had no compunction about causing death, and will not hesitate to leverage the state's monopoly on violence to do it again.
The hardest part is why they think they have the authority to enact any of this BS upon us. Who died and made them arbiter? "I am an immunologist." The sense of entitlement is limitless.
Really? Where is that threat? Do they look scared to you? I can't go further but will say this. I've spoken to people who claim to be 'serious' - they are not. I've spoken to many vets, they all say, "Dude, you don't want war." I tell them to shut the eff up and remember their oaths, 'foreign or domestic', and remind them how willing they were to fly around the world and kill brown people, who mostly hadn't ever once thought about harming us. Apparently slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis in this manner is a-okay, but don't you dare even think that these same people might want to fight the enemy in Wash DC in a serious way.
Their 100 years of subversion have worked, Ryan. This is what losing feels like - not winning. I hear so many stupid folks on the Right (my supposed fellow conservatives, lol) cheerleading, telling people we are turning it around. They don't get it - the Left knows they have dropped their masks, our 'backlash' is epxected and their plans for marginalizing us from society are working very well. That people are pissed and noticing isn't as important as many think. We are already decimated, unable to think clearly as a people or even know who we are or are supposed to be.
If someone shows a real chance of doing something, I'm there in a heartbeat. But not like the J6 morons, who hurt us 1000x more than anything else. The Right can't play at 'revolution' - we aren't the Left, they will not let us do it. If the Right ever makes a real move, it will have to be for keeps. And there are no real leaders on our side with those kind of balls. None.
Left unchallenged, they will do the same things all over again. They don't want to do an “ autopsy” because it would show how wrong they were and limit their KONTROL the next time.
I cringe when I hear someone (a woman usually) say that the world would be so much better if women ran everything. Yikes...NO! And I'm saying this as a woman! I don't know what has happened to a lot of women, but for sure the AWFLs have fried brains.
The problem is that those who wear the armor of "diversity privilege" are allowed to persist operating at levels of dippiness that would get a official with "traditional demographics" ashcanned.
On the contrary. The number of political enormities occurring today that can be ascribed directly to the "crazy white chick" class is astoundingly large.
(Except, of course, for the two people most widely suspected of having their hands up Puppet Biden's backside, both crazy black chicks.)
Exactly. Iain McGilchrist calls this kind of thinking "the Procrustean bed of the category," a hallmark of the brain's left hemisphere. I read stories and fiction from early childhood, and what I think when I see someone is not a category (unless they are behaving erratically and look menacing and are male, a woman's heuristic), but what is the story? Like Hemingway's shortest story: For sale, baby shoes, never worn. I have a friend retired from public health, French and Korean, who would probably agree entirely with this woman though she has very legitimately come by control freak and perfection issues. She utterly infuriated me, with her smug know-it-all stances on ivermectin, government propaganda, and masks, but her husband had to have a stem cell transplant, so asking her to give up her epistemology and twenty years in public health at that moment would be impossible and cruel. I love her, but wouldn't want to be anywhere near her when the next pandemic arrives. These people are all individuals with stories, but when they rouse to the mall cop officious siren song of petty power and celebrity and dishing out WHO and pharma talking points (this woman's speech is peppered with them, e.g. Britain's inquiry conclusion was also "lockdown harder, sooner), it is frightening and deeply infuriating, so the impulse to ride them out of town on a digital rail, tarred and feathered, is pretty powerful. I thought E. did a fine job of slaying this orc while individualizing her. Then again, men are from mars, women from venus, and covidians from the death star, and miss their moments of glory, so I say eviscerate while individualizing as E. does.
It is amusing that with all that is wrong in the world, and so much of it firmly driven by pre- and post- modern cant, apologia, and philosophy of the first water which is to say by male authors, all some minds can see is wimmin. Hate them sure, but blinded to all else, also that.
Not engaging in collectivism, just statistics. Love women, married me a great one. Not a Karen, not a tyrant, but also not a sheep. Green thumb with kids, plants, and animals (pet, farm, and wild). Prefers her .45 to my 9. We've been a couple over 55 years. Back then, most of the girls in the neighborhood shared many (or most) of her virtues. Today, one has to search for a long time to find each one. There is perhaps only one I could name even in my own extended family.
In The People's Democratic Republic of Berndtland, Christina Berndt has to matter. She is important. Her life, especially the first degree, the PhD, and the time lost to gain such credentials, has to matter. How can it not?
Existential crises are best managed in private. When they are wrestled with in public we witness a spectacle best avoided, like watching an elderly couple have sex. It happens but I'd rather not see it.
This, then, is our expert technocratic "elite." These are the brilliant minds ushering in Human Experience 2.0 which to them means an amazing brave new world of squeaky clean energy and Star Trek levels of cultural harmony. Alas this is turning out to look more like demolished power stations, closed farms and dispossession of our homelands.
Berndt is the face of modern Europe and North America; useless, lost and totally cut off from normality.
I don't care what she says, no more than I'd care what a rat found in the feedbag would say in its defence. I want Gerechtigkeit (rättvisa in swedish).
Doesn't need to mean the headman - just take from the Covidiots all their money, all their assets and belongings, all their titles and forevermore bar them from anything but the most menial labour, the cheapest accomodations and lowest legal wages.
That, being cast down into the muck and mire of commonality, is to them far worse a punishment than anything else.
Legal does not mean right or just or fair or moral.
Following on the end of your post - I was contemplating how, if I lived under the rule of a real tyrant, a cruel dictator who's word was law, who crushed his enemies like bugs - at least id have the ability to accept it. But being ruled by the Berndts of the world, I think of the sheer embarrassment and humiliation of it, like being beaten in a boxing match by a 9 year old.
Not saying life is so bad and Germany and other places are such hellholes - they arent. But wow the curse of being able to see how fucking retarded our Rulers are..
Well. yes, they are, because she is just one of many who substantially contributed to the widespread dysfunction and normalization of tyranny which is far beyond being "bad" except to those sharing the same delusions; as Burt Lancaster vociferously and dramatically exclaimed in "Judgment at Nuremberg": "We knew! We knew!"
Also, how fucking retarded are a decent proportion of your fellow men and women, to put them there, and allow them to remain there.
But I suppose the one area where our so called leaders are not to retarded, is their ability to lie, cheat, and fool the electorate into believing in them.
Yes, but how many more would agree with you if governments didn’t go to inordinate lengths to fool people, to lie to them deliberately? Getting people to realise that their government doesn’t have their best interests at heart is key.
Her only real contribution is to serve as an exemplar of hysterical sanctimony and obsessive need for control. What a wasted life. She'll never amount to anything else.
Indeed. That was her moment, and it is slipping. Remember behind every one of these people is a younger, slightly fatter, even more deranged asshat willing to do anything for social approval.
I am a woman who is middle aged, has a cat, is sometimes sad, and sometimes drinks wine, and who looks pretty awful in photos (and so, I guess I have to face, also in person). and yet... I thought the covid madness was just that. I know quite a few women like me: wine! sad! cats! fat! all of it! and yet: we were horrified by all the covid measures, the lockdown, the vaccine mandates, all of it all of it.
Plenty of glowingly handsome dashing men with great teeth and great hair were all in for all of it.
I'm not sure the SadFatWineCats hypothesis holds up. I mean, by all means, keep exploring it! But I think the key to what went wrong during the pandemic just might lie elsewhere.
My hypothesis? Pure naked ambition. Being a covidian was a leg up to any number of careers and, for the careerless, to pure self-promotion. Anyone who jumped on that bandwagon had a good shot at being amplified. People who were stupid. People who were boring. People who were repellent. People who resented others for being smart, interesting, and charming. Covid was their moment! They just had to declare fealty and suddenly they were invited everywhere, given columns, given speaking berths, given funding, asked to weigh in and asked to boss others about. what fun! What delicious fun!
and now there is a bit of a second act: you can still get invited to "look at me" parties if you author something semi-contrite about how mistakes were made, mostly by others, and anyway we all need to move along.
There’s a lot to what you say. It was a time for the over-looked, the uncharismatic, and those whose opinions are not sought out to have the stage be theirs and to shine. Deep down they all knew their sad state, but they had the ability to let the rest of us have it and they weren’t going to let go.
At some level, I feel sorry for them, but as I’m still suffering from the effects of the lockdowns and how they’ve affected everyone I know—whether they know it or not, and not for the better—I have zero patience for the unrepentant (i.e., all of them).
"the ability to let the rest of us have it". Yes, that was such a huge motivator -- it was amazing to see. It was that prison experiment writ large. Once they thought of themselves as prison guards and resisters as fractious naughty prisoners, any abuse was permitted: firing, debanking, confinement; prospectively, starvation (*should* the unvaccinated be permitted into grocery stores?)
Or if omicron hadn't come along? Up until then, hardly anybody was really getting it anyway, and the vaxxees could suppose their placebo was saving them.
These people will have their "Mussolini at the ESSO gas station in Northern Italy" moment pretty soon the way this is going. It is curious how our democracies keep on attracting such evidently sub-par people with such low cognitive standards and total lack of understanding of the founding Enlightenment principles of the democracies they purport to rule. Then again, the truly talented and eminently wise would not apply for these crappy jobs under any circumstances given the options elsewhere in the economy, so beggars can't be chosers.....! The only way to get better crews in government after this debacle, is to put all of them in front of a tribunal consisting of the toughest prosecutors and judges since WW2.
I have said for a long time that politics draws the slick Willy's, the snake oil salesmen, and accomplished liars to its breast when they realized they could plunder the nations wealth without fear of arrest or attribution.
We have so many examples of this in American government that a list of competence can be counted on two hands.
Either these people are schizofrenic or they are in bad faith. True science was the one recommended by the Great Barrington Declaration, I.e. focused protection as the IFR of the virus was pretty much known since day 1. They should be banned by any public office for years for obvious incompetence.
No I think they are true believers. They are in a cult. They will never encounter anyone who disagrees with their outlook. All their circle will have the same views. Pandemic treaties are great, open borders are better, men can be women.
Forgive? Oh, Christina honey. Though I'd prefer to be entirely retired throughout eternity, I'd get up early to be privileged to keep adding the charcoal beneath God's Great Tandoor in the Sky, and it would thrill the cockles of my incorporeal heart to hear you sizzle.
Good luck with your Aufarbeitung. An official one will never occur in the States. I'm optimistic though that our informal one has already occurred, in the minds and priorities of parents and those fed up with our powered-by-emergency regime.
The next time China coughs up a humanized lab bug, we'll tell the experts to f- off and go about our business.
I told them to F-off this first time. When I first heard that Phizer et all were immune from prosecution for any damages from the jab, my line in the sand was drawn.
When the Christina's of the world began talking about forced jabs, a gun was placed by the door for easy access.
I'd like to think the people who went along with it all have had second thoughts, but it's hard to tell because none of them want to talk about it. Could be embarrassment or could be exhaustion, but I'm not convinced they wouldn't do it all over if the TV said to again.
Sorry, E. I only got as far as the bit about her not expecting the mental illness caused by school closures and anger overtook me.
Real, palpable anger, that I am not normally subject to feeling. Not because this woman is as stupid as she evidently is. Not even because she got it so wrong.
But because of the glib way in which she dismisses her mistakes, glossing over the role she playing in doing so much harm to so many kids over whose lives she had so much power.
I'm really, really feeling angry right now.
It's just a boundlessly infuriating interview.
"mask be upon her"
if you're not angry, you're an idiot
Socialists -- taking everything but the blame since 1881.
(1881 was the year Karl Marx knocked up Engels' maid, then insisted Engels was the father.)
"Socialists -- taking everything but the blame since 1881."
That's a t-shirt or a hoodie-slogan right there! Possibly put the explanation on the back of it.
A proper explanation would take at least 300 pages... 🤔
Not to mention the annotations. 😳
You could write it on a snuggie.
Lolol!
I'd like people to read it -- however much that's a long shot..🙄
I don't know if you need 300 pages. All you need is the result of those policies being enacted upon you.
If you need the explaination you are probably one of them.
Good one. Marx was such a lowlife POS personally, it's astonishing that people listen to him about anything.
Much like the current crop of psychopaths which have comprised our illustrious ruling elites. They are drawn to positions of power like moths to a flame…a flame they then use to set fire to the world around them.
"Communism Has Come To The West" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d-eNmwQI5c&t=3253s: Worth the hour of your life to listen to.
Already a big Lindsay fan. I've been studying the commies for 50 years myself...Thanks.
My ex-wife is Chinese... the stories she and her parents told me... "The 100 Flowers" and the aftermath.. "The Great Leap Forward" and the complete destruction of all their cookware... My ex- going home from work/school during Tiananmen Square to the sound of machine-gun fire...
The sheer, shit-head, murderous incompetence of those bastards... "Karl Marx and his Legacy" should have been immediately consigned to the trashcan of history the moment Satan came to get him... But Marxism simply Will Not Die... 🤔🙄💩
no no wait, this time it will be different. LOL
They actually have a name for those bad commies, they call them "tankies" which they of course are against. Having no idea that term references Hungary
Thanks for this, more people should discuss the inhumane slaughter, starvation and oppression Mao unleashed on the Chinese people, starting during the "Long March" and never relenting. He likely killed over 100 million of his own people but due to the lack of recordkeeping, it's hard to exactly prove. I read an amazing book on Mao, Mao: The Untold Story that went through the Long March in terrifying detail. He betrayed the Chinese by collaborating with the Japanese and literally laughed as his own people starved
And tossed her and his bastard son out into the streets to fend for themselves.. and this mind you, after 4 of his infant children starved to death because he was too shiftless and irresponsible to get a job.
And the abomination of "Marxism" simply will not: Die...
Interesting, I didn't know that. I did know that this entire game of "ingrate hide the sausage" took place while Marx was living rent-free at Engels' place and being entirely supported by Engels. Marx evidently thought cooz was just part of the free room service. Because everything should be free, right?
My issue with communism, the one thing that can never be got away from, is if you consolidate economic power into one (state) entity, then this entity must be under the control of someone - usually a powerful oligarchy.
It is this concentration of power that is the problem. Because (earthly) power is itself evil. And the more concentrated the power, the greater the evil.
That is why capitalism has a chance at working. Because by its nature, it disperses power among a great many people. That power is not less evil, but because it is dispersed, it counteracts itself and the outcomes that emerge are sometimes - only sometimes - aligned with morality and with the good.
Trouble with Capitalism is that wealth and power very quickly gets concentrated in the hands of the very few and you have the same situation as Communism – which if you have any grasp of "alternative" history, you should know was only and always the tool of the Kakistrocrats. The connections between Karl Marx and the Rothschild Crime Syndicate were tentacline to say the least. The destruction of Germany in World War One was planned and implemented by Cecil Rhodes in 1890 with the help of The City of London. Jacob Schiff was instrumental in facilitating The Bolshevik Revolution; gave the order for the murders of the Russian Royal Family. The Rothschilds funded Hitler.. and on, and on, and on...
"Mistakes were not made" - https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem-57a
I’d be happy to see her and all the rest like her in every country dead, so they can never do it again!
Wouldn't help, there's an army waiting in the wings to take their places. How do you think we got in this mess in the first place?
Fair point. Public gallows then or heads on pikes, to serve a warning to the others!
Sounds good!
Graham, these are my feelings exactly. I am full of rage. Says here she know what she was doing to children from less favoured socioeconomic backgrounds and sort of shrugs it off. Basically saying, well who cares if these children's chance to catch up with kids from wealthier families - a chance that is slim enough as it is - has just diminished further.
Good, go scream at a govt puke and make them scare of you...
major mistake, Graham! We will never get justice, but what E has written here is almost as good: a funny but realistic portrait of a pathetic person, who is not a real person because she doesn't want to find out what is behind that double chin. We, who have gone through the mob rule with stoic and noble posture, should not lose it now. Not injected, not isolated, just bemused.
I hate these fucking people.
I wonder if any of them know that if they try this shit again...it bleeds.
I hate these fucking people.
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That would make an amazing election slogan, lol. Put a picture of anyone on it; Biden, AOC, Gates. I'd vote for them.
I think it was done already by Hillary, except the people she had in mind were middle class Americans.
They all look the same. It doesn't matter what country they're in.
What? You mean that vacant stare? If the eyes are a window to the soul, then you're looking into an empty building.
Yes...they all have the same father...Sataaaaan...::church lady dance::
They are beginning to realize that their consolidation of totalitarian power was incomplete, Ryan, which is why they are making empty rhetorical gestures in a bid for time, time to finish that consolidation.
They had no compunction about causing death, and will not hesitate to leverage the state's monopoly on violence to do it again.
But you already knew that.
No Amnesty
Ryan Gardner says it all, as is often the case.
The hardest part is why they think they have the authority to enact any of this BS upon us. Who died and made them arbiter? "I am an immunologist." The sense of entitlement is limitless.
Nah, and at this point why would they? People took it all lying down, like sheep. Not a single one of them is even scared of us...
There are enough of us this time...maybe just barely.
It is better if the ghouls don't know that we'll shed blood next time.
Really? Where is that threat? Do they look scared to you? I can't go further but will say this. I've spoken to people who claim to be 'serious' - they are not. I've spoken to many vets, they all say, "Dude, you don't want war." I tell them to shut the eff up and remember their oaths, 'foreign or domestic', and remind them how willing they were to fly around the world and kill brown people, who mostly hadn't ever once thought about harming us. Apparently slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis in this manner is a-okay, but don't you dare even think that these same people might want to fight the enemy in Wash DC in a serious way.
Their 100 years of subversion have worked, Ryan. This is what losing feels like - not winning. I hear so many stupid folks on the Right (my supposed fellow conservatives, lol) cheerleading, telling people we are turning it around. They don't get it - the Left knows they have dropped their masks, our 'backlash' is epxected and their plans for marginalizing us from society are working very well. That people are pissed and noticing isn't as important as many think. We are already decimated, unable to think clearly as a people or even know who we are or are supposed to be.
If someone shows a real chance of doing something, I'm there in a heartbeat. But not like the J6 morons, who hurt us 1000x more than anything else. The Right can't play at 'revolution' - we aren't the Left, they will not let us do it. If the Right ever makes a real move, it will have to be for keeps. And there are no real leaders on our side with those kind of balls. None.
Well it looks like they are going to try again.
Lioness just posted this doozy.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=581065&post_id=143397225&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=pcevt&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MjU2OTU2MSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQzMzk3MjI1LCJpYXQiOjE3MTI2MTIyMTksImV4cCI6MTcxNTIwNDIxOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTU4MTA2NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.b7ZScoFtIsi--xtlTPaPSrQ4ueWxQbohZiA4wlKLJrc
Boy substack links are super long aren’t they?
Terrifying...the article...not the looooong URL...lolol.
Left unchallenged, they will do the same things all over again. They don't want to do an “ autopsy” because it would show how wrong they were and limit their KONTROL the next time.
Yup. This is exactly what it all boils down to
AWFL: Affluent White Female Liberal. Highly susceptible to the mind virus and neuroticism. The greatest danger to western civilization.
Merkel is among the many specimens abusing their power: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/awfl-dei-karen-affluent-white-female-liberal
Surely you understand they are the most oppressed group in history?
I cringe when I hear someone (a woman usually) say that the world would be so much better if women ran everything. Yikes...NO! And I'm saying this as a woman! I don't know what has happened to a lot of women, but for sure the AWFLs have fried brains.
Some dippy females who make it to positons of power, aren't really fit for purpose, (same for some men) all seen in their idiocracy during covid era.
In fact covid showed us there are VERY FEW covidian authoritarian speakers of insight.
The problem is that those who wear the armor of "diversity privilege" are allowed to persist operating at levels of dippiness that would get a official with "traditional demographics" ashcanned.
you are truly bottomlessly stupid if you look at the state of the world and think: goldurn ladies.
On the contrary. The number of political enormities occurring today that can be ascribed directly to the "crazy white chick" class is astoundingly large.
(Except, of course, for the two people most widely suspected of having their hands up Puppet Biden's backside, both crazy black chicks.)
I said what I said, pal.
*SARCASM ON*
The lack of identifying sarcasm is not a basis for insults.
Exactly. Iain McGilchrist calls this kind of thinking "the Procrustean bed of the category," a hallmark of the brain's left hemisphere. I read stories and fiction from early childhood, and what I think when I see someone is not a category (unless they are behaving erratically and look menacing and are male, a woman's heuristic), but what is the story? Like Hemingway's shortest story: For sale, baby shoes, never worn. I have a friend retired from public health, French and Korean, who would probably agree entirely with this woman though she has very legitimately come by control freak and perfection issues. She utterly infuriated me, with her smug know-it-all stances on ivermectin, government propaganda, and masks, but her husband had to have a stem cell transplant, so asking her to give up her epistemology and twenty years in public health at that moment would be impossible and cruel. I love her, but wouldn't want to be anywhere near her when the next pandemic arrives. These people are all individuals with stories, but when they rouse to the mall cop officious siren song of petty power and celebrity and dishing out WHO and pharma talking points (this woman's speech is peppered with them, e.g. Britain's inquiry conclusion was also "lockdown harder, sooner), it is frightening and deeply infuriating, so the impulse to ride them out of town on a digital rail, tarred and feathered, is pretty powerful. I thought E. did a fine job of slaying this orc while individualizing her. Then again, men are from mars, women from venus, and covidians from the death star, and miss their moments of glory, so I say eviscerate while individualizing as E. does.
It is amusing that with all that is wrong in the world, and so much of it firmly driven by pre- and post- modern cant, apologia, and philosophy of the first water which is to say by male authors, all some minds can see is wimmin. Hate them sure, but blinded to all else, also that.
Not engaging in collectivism, just statistics. Love women, married me a great one. Not a Karen, not a tyrant, but also not a sheep. Green thumb with kids, plants, and animals (pet, farm, and wild). Prefers her .45 to my 9. We've been a couple over 55 years. Back then, most of the girls in the neighborhood shared many (or most) of her virtues. Today, one has to search for a long time to find each one. There is perhaps only one I could name even in my own extended family.
AWFLs ruin everything
Dang, eugyppius, you're a great writer! I loved this for the writing as much as for the content!
Worth the subscription definitely!
In The People's Democratic Republic of Berndtland, Christina Berndt has to matter. She is important. Her life, especially the first degree, the PhD, and the time lost to gain such credentials, has to matter. How can it not?
Existential crises are best managed in private. When they are wrestled with in public we witness a spectacle best avoided, like watching an elderly couple have sex. It happens but I'd rather not see it.
This, then, is our expert technocratic "elite." These are the brilliant minds ushering in Human Experience 2.0 which to them means an amazing brave new world of squeaky clean energy and Star Trek levels of cultural harmony. Alas this is turning out to look more like demolished power stations, closed farms and dispossession of our homelands.
Berndt is the face of modern Europe and North America; useless, lost and totally cut off from normality.
I don't care what she says, no more than I'd care what a rat found in the feedbag would say in its defence. I want Gerechtigkeit (rättvisa in swedish).
Doesn't need to mean the headman - just take from the Covidiots all their money, all their assets and belongings, all their titles and forevermore bar them from anything but the most menial labour, the cheapest accomodations and lowest legal wages.
That, being cast down into the muck and mire of commonality, is to them far worse a punishment than anything else.
Legal does not mean right or just or fair or moral.
I'd prefer them to set up a death match between Team Lockdown and Team Vaccine.
"Two teams enter - no one leaves!", yes.
And we would be entertained, too.
Dude we'd kick their ass blindfolded. Bunch of cluster-b misfits scared of their own shadows.
Lol. Very true. Mental toddlers.
Great idea. They all need demeaning and pulling off their high horses. Community gardening for ever is almost too kind.
If they arent exposed and stopped it will happen again.
Following on the end of your post - I was contemplating how, if I lived under the rule of a real tyrant, a cruel dictator who's word was law, who crushed his enemies like bugs - at least id have the ability to accept it. But being ruled by the Berndts of the world, I think of the sheer embarrassment and humiliation of it, like being beaten in a boxing match by a 9 year old.
Not saying life is so bad and Germany and other places are such hellholes - they arent. But wow the curse of being able to see how fucking retarded our Rulers are..
Well. yes, they are, because she is just one of many who substantially contributed to the widespread dysfunction and normalization of tyranny which is far beyond being "bad" except to those sharing the same delusions; as Burt Lancaster vociferously and dramatically exclaimed in "Judgment at Nuremberg": "We knew! We knew!"
The "normalisation of tyranny": EXACTLY SO!
the last sentence is epic Bash!
Also, how fucking retarded are a decent proportion of your fellow men and women, to put them there, and allow them to remain there.
But I suppose the one area where our so called leaders are not to retarded, is their ability to lie, cheat, and fool the electorate into believing in them.
We have the governments we deserve. I hold a worldview that I share with maybe 5% of the people I know irl. I am a minority of a minority.
Yes, but how many more would agree with you if governments didn’t go to inordinate lengths to fool people, to lie to them deliberately? Getting people to realise that their government doesn’t have their best interests at heart is key.
95% of the time when I try people just think I'm crazy.
Yes, same here, of course. And they think you’re the brainwashed one.
Her only real contribution is to serve as an exemplar of hysterical sanctimony and obsessive need for control. What a wasted life. She'll never amount to anything else.
Indeed. That was her moment, and it is slipping. Remember behind every one of these people is a younger, slightly fatter, even more deranged asshat willing to do anything for social approval.
Thats how I see them. Well said.
I am a woman who is middle aged, has a cat, is sometimes sad, and sometimes drinks wine, and who looks pretty awful in photos (and so, I guess I have to face, also in person). and yet... I thought the covid madness was just that. I know quite a few women like me: wine! sad! cats! fat! all of it! and yet: we were horrified by all the covid measures, the lockdown, the vaccine mandates, all of it all of it.
Plenty of glowingly handsome dashing men with great teeth and great hair were all in for all of it.
I'm not sure the SadFatWineCats hypothesis holds up. I mean, by all means, keep exploring it! But I think the key to what went wrong during the pandemic just might lie elsewhere.
My hypothesis? Pure naked ambition. Being a covidian was a leg up to any number of careers and, for the careerless, to pure self-promotion. Anyone who jumped on that bandwagon had a good shot at being amplified. People who were stupid. People who were boring. People who were repellent. People who resented others for being smart, interesting, and charming. Covid was their moment! They just had to declare fealty and suddenly they were invited everywhere, given columns, given speaking berths, given funding, asked to weigh in and asked to boss others about. what fun! What delicious fun!
and now there is a bit of a second act: you can still get invited to "look at me" parties if you author something semi-contrite about how mistakes were made, mostly by others, and anyway we all need to move along.
There’s a lot to what you say. It was a time for the over-looked, the uncharismatic, and those whose opinions are not sought out to have the stage be theirs and to shine. Deep down they all knew their sad state, but they had the ability to let the rest of us have it and they weren’t going to let go.
At some level, I feel sorry for them, but as I’m still suffering from the effects of the lockdowns and how they’ve affected everyone I know—whether they know it or not, and not for the better—I have zero patience for the unrepentant (i.e., all of them).
"the ability to let the rest of us have it". Yes, that was such a huge motivator -- it was amazing to see. It was that prison experiment writ large. Once they thought of themselves as prison guards and resisters as fractious naughty prisoners, any abuse was permitted: firing, debanking, confinement; prospectively, starvation (*should* the unvaccinated be permitted into grocery stores?)
can you imagine where it would've ended if the vaccine actually worked?
that's the scariest part of the whole abomination to me
Or if omicron hadn't come along? Up until then, hardly anybody was really getting it anyway, and the vaxxees could suppose their placebo was saving them.
yes. exactly.
Being unpopular can lead to all kinds of things in those who are not self-aware.
Agree totally with that observation.
Very astutely stated!
Excellent assessment! Kudos.
These people will have their "Mussolini at the ESSO gas station in Northern Italy" moment pretty soon the way this is going. It is curious how our democracies keep on attracting such evidently sub-par people with such low cognitive standards and total lack of understanding of the founding Enlightenment principles of the democracies they purport to rule. Then again, the truly talented and eminently wise would not apply for these crappy jobs under any circumstances given the options elsewhere in the economy, so beggars can't be chosers.....! The only way to get better crews in government after this debacle, is to put all of them in front of a tribunal consisting of the toughest prosecutors and judges since WW2.
I have said for a long time that politics draws the slick Willy's, the snake oil salesmen, and accomplished liars to its breast when they realized they could plunder the nations wealth without fear of arrest or attribution.
We have so many examples of this in American government that a list of competence can be counted on two hands.
Either these people are schizofrenic or they are in bad faith. True science was the one recommended by the Great Barrington Declaration, I.e. focused protection as the IFR of the virus was pretty much known since day 1. They should be banned by any public office for years for obvious incompetence.
No I think they are true believers. They are in a cult. They will never encounter anyone who disagrees with their outlook. All their circle will have the same views. Pandemic treaties are great, open borders are better, men can be women.
It is a cult.
In their closed silos, good point.
Forgive? Oh, Christina honey. Though I'd prefer to be entirely retired throughout eternity, I'd get up early to be privileged to keep adding the charcoal beneath God's Great Tandoor in the Sky, and it would thrill the cockles of my incorporeal heart to hear you sizzle.
Another deeply unlikable, socially inept head girl who doesn't get that nobody really gives two fucks what she thinks
Same crazy eyes as all the other jab and lock down zealots.
Good luck with your Aufarbeitung. An official one will never occur in the States. I'm optimistic though that our informal one has already occurred, in the minds and priorities of parents and those fed up with our powered-by-emergency regime.
The next time China coughs up a humanized lab bug, we'll tell the experts to f- off and go about our business.
I told them to F-off this first time. When I first heard that Phizer et all were immune from prosecution for any damages from the jab, my line in the sand was drawn.
When the Christina's of the world began talking about forced jabs, a gun was placed by the door for easy access.
It is still there!
Welcome to the club. I keep them by the door and by the bed and in my truck,also carry one most of the time.
My MAN!
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I'm a pantywaist when it comes to guns, but I have a Medieval sword behind my front door!
I'd like to think the people who went along with it all have had second thoughts, but it's hard to tell because none of them want to talk about it. Could be embarrassment or could be exhaustion, but I'm not convinced they wouldn't do it all over if the TV said to again.