Day 46: Trust the experts

So a friend on Facebook shared this op-ed from the New York Times, which contained this blisteringly stupid message in the subhead: "The solution isn’t to try to think more carefully. It’s to trust the experts." That's right, after months of hearing that we should stop thinking for ourselves and just "trust the experts," someone is saying it outright.

But it gets worse. Oh, it gets so much worse. I couldn't believe someone actually put this in a New York Times column, so I went to look it up. Guess when it was written? February 11, 2020. Yes, this column telling us to "trust the experts" was written back when these "experts" were telling us things like: "For most of us, the seasonal flu, which has killed as many as 25,000 people in the United States in just a few months, presents a much greater threat than does the coronavirus" or "Throughout the United States, there’s been a rush on face masks (most of which won’t help against the virus)."

That's right, everybody — don't think for yourself and go out and wear a mask. Trust the experts! Naturally, it's easy to dump on someone being this wrong, but consider for a moment that we're still being told to "trust the experts" on everything from the coronavirus to climate change over and over, neglecting to consider that the experts have often been wrong. And when it's your job, your business, and your livelihood that's relying on these "experts," who suffer no meaningful consequences for being wrong, maybe it's better to just go with your "gut."

Full article here: https://archive.is/z7ZcY

Day 45: 11 year old hackers

From PBS — An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes. Naturally, this was published BEFORE or AFTER the 2020 election. Nobody would dare report it now that DRUMPF has lost.

But I'm sure in 1414 days, it will be different.

Day 38: Overall Mortality

So the number of people who have died from Covid keeps growing, but the total number of deaths in 2020 is on track to be no different or actually lower than in years past. Isn't that odd?

Despite the virus, US deaths this year are literally no worse than they've been for the last 10, and may even be on track to go DOWN.

2010: 2.5M
2011: 2.5M
2012: 2.5M
2013 :2.6M
2014: 2.6M
2015: 2.7M
2016: 2.7M
2017: 2.8M
2018: 2.8M
2019: 2.9M
2020: 2.5M (as of Nov.)

— Jon Miller (@MillerStream) December 13, 2020

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, CDC

• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2010
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2011
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2012
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2013
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2014
• NCHS Data Brief: Mortality in the United States, 2015
• NCHS Data Brief: Mortality in the United States, 2016
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2017
• NCHS Data Brief: Mortality in the United States, 2018
• VSRR - State and National Provisional Counts for Live Births, Deaths, and Infant Deaths (2019)
• National Center for Health Statistics, Daily Updates of Totals by Week and State, Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Day 36: to the dogs

Are you feeling the healing and unity yet? Only 1423 more days of this crap.

Joe Biden has an Instagram account for his dogs, and they just posted pictures of them using the President as chew toy. Unity and Healing! pic.twitter.com/Iuzn1En1yK

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 13, 2020

Day 35: All for show

It's all for show. But you alreasdy knew that, didn't you?

It’s all for showpic.twitter.com/AWcgn9A4p2

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 11, 2020

Day 34: Journalism dies in darkness

Now that Election Day has safely come and gone, the media now feel it's safe to report that Hunter Biden is being criminally investigate for his business activties in China — a story that was outright banned on social media before Election Day and some outfits even blamed on the Russians. This is why nobody trusts the media — and nobody should. They will never report the truth so long as it hurts their allies on the left.

Glenn Greenwald catalogs much of this, but here's one particularly damning clip from Christiane Amanpour on CNN simply refusing to talk about the story.

Of all the media deceit and propagndizing disseminated in the lead-up to the election to justify their refusal to report on the Hunter Biden documents -- despite knowing they were genuine and not from Russia -- this on CNN from @camanpour may be the most amazing: pic.twitter.com/mkI4Jtd4SN

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 10, 2020

Related: FLASHBACK: CNN's senior media spread rumors to discredit NY Post's Biden bombshell

Day 33: The Streisand Effect

The best way to convince the American people that the election was rigged is to have giant corporations censor anyone who dares to talk about it. Some might call it the Law of Unintended Consequences, or the "Streisand Effect." For those unfamiliar, Barbara Streisand sued a photo for "invasion of privacy" when he took an aerial photograph that included a view of her house. Because of the suit, far more people became aware of the photo than would have if she'd just left matters alone.

The social media giants have tried to convince the public this election was legit by posting labels and notices all over the place, but apparently it hasn't worked, so now they're going to have to resort to just banning any discussion of it outright. And it won't work, of course — discussion will simply move to other sympathetic venues, where it will continue with far less chances of being challenged.

YouTube's reasoning for the new policy is essentially 'you are not allowed to criticize the government' pic.twitter.com/nuymLixQ9O

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 9, 2020

This video does a fairly good job of explaining why this kind of tactic won't work.