Trajectory

Ape, Boney, Adolf, a homosexual gimp and a Je Suis Charlie jackal. Presumably the last is to be seen as a sanctimonious scavenger.

The cartoon is from a piece in The Cosmopolitan Globalist about Russian all-out propaganda warfare. Everything on the site is worth reading, which cannot be said about many blogs, least of all my own.

Faster Than A Speeding Glacier

 

Pictured: a penny, of the type that may well drop at some point in this decade.

Longrider notes that Prof Pantsdown and his Magnificent Miscalculating Engine have come in for some criticism from MPs lately

Furious MPs today slammed No10 for its 'despicable' reliance on 'hysterical' Covid forecasts which have repeatedly driven the nation into living under economically-crippling curbs. 

In a heated Westminster Hall discussion about coronavirus, Conservative Bob Seely called the use of modelling a 'national scandal'. He argued the projections, peddled by SAGE, created a 'climate of manipulated fear'.

A mere two years to stumble into the megalithically obvious. Remarkable.

'This is not just the fault of the modellers but it's how their work was interpreted by public health officials, by the media and yes, by politicians and sadly by Government too.'

Yes indeed. And we have, no doubt, an episode or two of Moderate Breastbeating and an Exhibition of Registered Apologies to look forward to, before our corrupt, murderous, incompetent Betters get back to counting their remittances.

Everybody Panic Anyway And All The Time

Dr John Campbell, who has been making surveys of the pandemic since it began, has this Freedom of Information Revelation for us.

The numbers are from the ONS, Deaths from COVID-19 with no other underlying causes

As Dr Campbell notes, the total of Covid deaths in England and Wales with no co-morbidities involved, from the start to Q3 2021 (pretty much the whole bang shoot before Omicron), is 17,371.

The average age of all those dying from or with Covid in the UK in 2021 was 82.5 years, at or above the average life expectancy generally.

He also notes an estimate (at 10:41 on the original) from Prof Karol Sikora, that the lockdown will result in an extra 50,000 cancer deaths.

The Establishment's response to the ONS figures, published 16th December and only just noticed by Dr Campbell, has of course been as melodramatic and over-the-top as... the drifting of tumbleweed through a ghost town.

Illustration: tumbleweed drifting through a ghost town

But then the Establishment knew about this all along anyway I guess.

Consecutive and slow —

Full interview with Bob Moran on Odysee here, this excerpt starts at 31:56

if you lock people in their homes, if you shut down front line health care, if you introduce a situation where mental health goes through the roof, where you drive people to suicide, where you destroy their businesses, where you put them into extreme poverty, you make them homeless [...] it will kill people, it has killed people, it will go on killing people for the next ten, twenty years.

Now the Government itself commissioned a report into the effects of the first lockdown, which said around two hundred thousand people could die over the following ten years as a result [...] that was later revised up to five hundred thousand people

[...] what should have been a last resort has become a first response - it's absurd

The Establishment has been happily eroding the props of its own legitimacy for getting on two years now. It is an odd revolution being incubated here, one which offers no Utopian incentive at all, only a Fully Realised and Actual Incompetence founded on uncertain herding skills.

Cartoon from Bob Moran's website.

Monumentally Stupid

Scott Jennings, billed in Wikipedia as a "conservative commentator"😂, wailed in June last year that "removing Teddy Roosevelt's statue is the worst kind of pandering".

The statue (1939 - 2021) stood at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History. Jennings goes on

When this national statue removal madness started, we were assured advocates were just after the Confederates. Why are we honoring traitors, they asked?

and explains that

Roosevelt was no Confederate. He was an American hero, a bold symbol of our nation's exceptionalism. He lived life to the fullest. He represents the best of us, not the worst.

The petard with which the hoisting is to be performed is already evident

I agree that Confederate statues shouldn't hold places of honor in America's government buildings, and was among the first Kentucky Republicans to call for the removal of Confederate President Jefferson Davis (a native to the Bluegrass State) from our state capitol -- something that finally happened in 2020.

The article conveys perfectly the plaintive bewilderment of the Energetic Narcissist Cretin who is the ubiquitous precursor of the Neuer Übermensch. He busily Signals his Virtue concerning the demolition of that which his Herd disapproves. It does not and cannot cross his mind that there might be any another Herd out there with an equally limited but slightly different mental apparatus, which will set about destroying different things. The slippery slope argument might one day occur to him, but there is no slope.

Poor Teddy,

he's not here to defend himself, so the weak-kneed politicians are more than happy to sacrifice him on the altar of wokeness

while Jennings' own combat with the shade of Jefferson Davis was presumably heroic.

And so of the more recently deposed statue of Edward Colston in Bristol

a Bristol councillor, Ray Sefia, said he could understand why the statue was targeted. “It’s like having a monument to Hitler,” he told the Bristol Post

which is akin to one standing in Antarctica saying "it's like Central Africa".