"Joe Rogan and his sole producer Young Jamie maintain an audience of millions with their unedited, low-production, marathon-long podcast...."
To the point, during Joe Rogan's latest conversation with Douglas Murray, he noted that as a result of the Spotify brouhaha designed to destroy his career, he gained two million new subscribers.
What many of the late night hosts apparently didn’t learn from Johnny Carson is that it is seen as political humor when it goes both ways but it is seen as politics when it goes only one way.
Jon Stewart is no less funny than he was before. The point is you now realize how dull he has always been. He seems less funny because now he is a tragic old man.
"according to the mathematical model used in the study."
In other words, statistical analysis absent any empirical evidence. The empirical evidence clearly shows that the vaccinated get ill at a higher rate than the unvaccinated, and that risk increases with the number of jabs.
We all know by now that the vaccines don't work or this concern wouldn't even arise, but rather than admit failure, the new narrative is that they reduce symptoms, which while possible says nothing about the serious risk from the vaccine itself which is now manifesting in ways that are impossible for all but the wilfully blind to ignore.
If no one was watching CNN for free, why did they ever think people would pay? Will be interesting to see if their new owners truly pivot them back to hard news.
I wonder if a veto-proof super-majority GOP win in the 2022 election might resurrect Jon Stewart's career. Liberal media consumption seems to need a large dose of rage.
My liberal friends seem to possess this common malady I call bipolar reactionary-ism. They are the most emotive of our species and thus more easily manipulated by their media feeds. They are also the most fragile in terms of their egos... and so calling them on the facts just causes another emotional reaction.
But the emotional reaction-ism seems to be a strong motivator. Note the millions marching "We Will Resist" when Trump was elected. Note the conservative "We Will Resist" marches... none. Ironically the least educated - conservatives - are the calm thinkers in this political game.
OK, so I watched the trailer for Speaking Freely. "What stories do we want to tell ourselves?"
Seriously? Haven't we heard enough stories already?
Then there's this:
"As we witness the awful scenes of war and displacement in the Ukraine..etc" which links to that bastion of truth and impartiality, the BBC. Given the lies about the vaccine they, and every other western network fed us for the past 2 years, do you seriously expect them to tell the truth about Ukraine? Frankly, anyone who looks to MSM for truth these days has zero credibility, and I guarantee all you're going to get from this guy is more "woke" nonsense. Dissident woke actually, because that's the new woke, and like that Palmolive commercial from the eighties, you're soaking in it.
If you really want something to talk about, why not speak freely about this...
...since it's the single most important issue facing Canada as a nation, i.e. our complicity in mass murder. Oh yes, our own military trained the people who did this, and now we're sending them weapons so they can keep doing it.
Bear in mind that everything in that report happened BEFORE Russia invaded Ukraine. For eight straight years in fact. The situation right now is far worse, and it's only Russians putting a stop to it. The rest of so-called Western Civilization is either enabling it, or turning a blind eye, include our very own dissident left. The New Woke.
Hard to believe, right? Well believe it, because what you see in that report is just the tip of the iceberg. The full tribunal begins in June and I've already seen some of the evidence that will be presented. It is horrific, trust me. Starting this June, a new era in Canadian shame is about to begin, and we're not even over the residential schools yet. Something worth speaking freely about? Or is the truth too hard to face?
Irony, right? I doubt she's either. Tara is what I call New Woke. My term for the dissident Left that senses that something is wrong, but that doesn't realize the source is their own ideology. It's a form of cognitive dissonance which deserves its own category as it's specific to the educated classes, who are steeped in dialectics but lack a foundation in basic epistemology.
"Where have we seen anything this coordinated before in history?
9-11 springs to mind.
Coordinated effort? I couldn't agree more. I think it's failing though. The vaccine was an easy sell because fear works, and most people lack the specialized knowledge to challenge the official narrative. We're in a different game now. As the War in Ukraine winds down and evidence of the last 8 years sees the light, decent people will recoil in horror at what's been done in their name. The rest of the world already knows of course, as it's been done to them many times already. This time stands out though because it's Europe, and the victims are white. The same was true for Yugoslavia in the 90s actually - same actors, same vicious lies - but we didn't have the internet back then so it was easier to ignore, and for those paying attention, mislead.
I like Netflix shows because you can read a demanding book at the same time and not lose track of the plot on the screen. But, yes, it’s getting rather predictable - you generally know that the villain or dizzy idiot will be a grinning white bloke.
I used to be a fan of Stewart and Colbert too. It seems like the 2000s were a weirdly different time, with far more openess, and far less identity politics. I grew up admiring the "infinite diversity in infinite combinations" motto of Star Trek and the attempt by mass media to be open to different points of view. Now, I'm instantly suspicious of people who use words such as "diversity" and "equity" because I'm pretty sure that behind them is a Nietzschean will-to-power grab, or just plain corruption, as with the Jussie Smollett and Patrice Collors cases. It's strange to go back to mass media (film, TV, comics) from the late nineties up to around 2013 and notice what's NOT there - the culture war hackery of current media. Watch the interviews collected with Peter Jackson's War of the Rings trilology from around 2005 - even with female and gay actors, there's nary a word about represention.
PS I'm now convinced that a core element of wokeness is a hatred of beauty, art and comedy. Like the Puritans of the 17th century, anything that might make the masses feel pleasure, such as a beautiful image, or a funny story, is deemed suspect. Unless, of course, it's a mean-spirited cancel-culture style attack on a political enemy. This has had a severe effect on universities, where a non-partisan aesthetics is seen as patriarchal or racist or homophobic.
Along with everyone else Jon Stewart’s implosion is disappointing and probably predictable. He had to compete with the youngsters for an audience. His current irrelevance is testimony to his insecurity. On the other hand; “conservatives”, they don’t really exist anymore. They/we have been replaced by reactionary nut bags regurgitating conspiracies about the big lie and other sorts of imbecilities. Makes one wish for a simpler political time - say Clinton vs Newt circa 1994.
The cringe jumps right out at you in the trailer, Jewel. This guy has nothing to say that we haven't heard ad nauseam for at least a decade. He cites the BBC fer chrissake. Epic Fail.
"Joe Rogan and his sole producer Young Jamie maintain an audience of millions with their unedited, low-production, marathon-long podcast...."
To the point, during Joe Rogan's latest conversation with Douglas Murray, he noted that as a result of the Spotify brouhaha designed to destroy his career, he gained two million new subscribers.
What many of the late night hosts apparently didn’t learn from Johnny Carson is that it is seen as political humor when it goes both ways but it is seen as politics when it goes only one way.
Oh oh oh excited to hear your interview with Rob Henderson huge fan of him (and of you)
Jon Stewart is no less funny than he was before. The point is you now realize how dull he has always been. He seems less funny because now he is a tragic old man.
Loved that Compact Magazine article you linked! Please do a story on the 6 million political prisoners still in Canada.
Canada: Keep talking about American celebrities ignore the sociopathic journalists at home.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/being-with-unvaccinated-people-increases-covid-19-risk-for-those-who-are-vaccinated-study-finds-1.5874632?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvbarrie%3Apost&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
"according to the mathematical model used in the study."
In other words, statistical analysis absent any empirical evidence. The empirical evidence clearly shows that the vaccinated get ill at a higher rate than the unvaccinated, and that risk increases with the number of jabs.
We all know by now that the vaccines don't work or this concern wouldn't even arise, but rather than admit failure, the new narrative is that they reduce symptoms, which while possible says nothing about the serious risk from the vaccine itself which is now manifesting in ways that are impossible for all but the wilfully blind to ignore.
If no one was watching CNN for free, why did they ever think people would pay? Will be interesting to see if their new owners truly pivot them back to hard news.
I wonder if a veto-proof super-majority GOP win in the 2022 election might resurrect Jon Stewart's career. Liberal media consumption seems to need a large dose of rage.
My liberal friends seem to possess this common malady I call bipolar reactionary-ism. They are the most emotive of our species and thus more easily manipulated by their media feeds. They are also the most fragile in terms of their egos... and so calling them on the facts just causes another emotional reaction.
But the emotional reaction-ism seems to be a strong motivator. Note the millions marching "We Will Resist" when Trump was elected. Note the conservative "We Will Resist" marches... none. Ironically the least educated - conservatives - are the calm thinkers in this political game.
OK, so I watched the trailer for Speaking Freely. "What stories do we want to tell ourselves?"
Seriously? Haven't we heard enough stories already?
Then there's this:
"As we witness the awful scenes of war and displacement in the Ukraine..etc" which links to that bastion of truth and impartiality, the BBC. Given the lies about the vaccine they, and every other western network fed us for the past 2 years, do you seriously expect them to tell the truth about Ukraine? Frankly, anyone who looks to MSM for truth these days has zero credibility, and I guarantee all you're going to get from this guy is more "woke" nonsense. Dissident woke actually, because that's the new woke, and like that Palmolive commercial from the eighties, you're soaking in it.
If you really want something to talk about, why not speak freely about this...
https://www.docdroid.net/cu8d91a/presentation-ukrainian-war-crimes-pdf
...since it's the single most important issue facing Canada as a nation, i.e. our complicity in mass murder. Oh yes, our own military trained the people who did this, and now we're sending them weapons so they can keep doing it.
Bear in mind that everything in that report happened BEFORE Russia invaded Ukraine. For eight straight years in fact. The situation right now is far worse, and it's only Russians putting a stop to it. The rest of so-called Western Civilization is either enabling it, or turning a blind eye, include our very own dissident left. The New Woke.
Hard to believe, right? Well believe it, because what you see in that report is just the tip of the iceberg. The full tribunal begins in June and I've already seen some of the evidence that will be presented. It is horrific, trust me. Starting this June, a new era in Canadian shame is about to begin, and we're not even over the residential schools yet. Something worth speaking freely about? Or is the truth too hard to face?
The only puzzle with Tara's limited hangout here is figuring out if she's CSIS or BlackRock.
Irony, right? I doubt she's either. Tara is what I call New Woke. My term for the dissident Left that senses that something is wrong, but that doesn't realize the source is their own ideology. It's a form of cognitive dissonance which deserves its own category as it's specific to the educated classes, who are steeped in dialectics but lack a foundation in basic epistemology.
"Where have we seen anything this coordinated before in history?
9-11 springs to mind.
Coordinated effort? I couldn't agree more. I think it's failing though. The vaccine was an easy sell because fear works, and most people lack the specialized knowledge to challenge the official narrative. We're in a different game now. As the War in Ukraine winds down and evidence of the last 8 years sees the light, decent people will recoil in horror at what's been done in their name. The rest of the world already knows of course, as it's been done to them many times already. This time stands out though because it's Europe, and the victims are white. The same was true for Yugoslavia in the 90s actually - same actors, same vicious lies - but we didn't have the internet back then so it was easier to ignore, and for those paying attention, mislead.
I like Netflix shows because you can read a demanding book at the same time and not lose track of the plot on the screen. But, yes, it’s getting rather predictable - you generally know that the villain or dizzy idiot will be a grinning white bloke.
I used to be a fan of Stewart and Colbert too. It seems like the 2000s were a weirdly different time, with far more openess, and far less identity politics. I grew up admiring the "infinite diversity in infinite combinations" motto of Star Trek and the attempt by mass media to be open to different points of view. Now, I'm instantly suspicious of people who use words such as "diversity" and "equity" because I'm pretty sure that behind them is a Nietzschean will-to-power grab, or just plain corruption, as with the Jussie Smollett and Patrice Collors cases. It's strange to go back to mass media (film, TV, comics) from the late nineties up to around 2013 and notice what's NOT there - the culture war hackery of current media. Watch the interviews collected with Peter Jackson's War of the Rings trilology from around 2005 - even with female and gay actors, there's nary a word about represention.
PS I'm now convinced that a core element of wokeness is a hatred of beauty, art and comedy. Like the Puritans of the 17th century, anything that might make the masses feel pleasure, such as a beautiful image, or a funny story, is deemed suspect. Unless, of course, it's a mean-spirited cancel-culture style attack on a political enemy. This has had a severe effect on universities, where a non-partisan aesthetics is seen as patriarchal or racist or homophobic.
All really interesting things and I look forward to hearing more honest voices out there.
Along with everyone else Jon Stewart’s implosion is disappointing and probably predictable. He had to compete with the youngsters for an audience. His current irrelevance is testimony to his insecurity. On the other hand; “conservatives”, they don’t really exist anymore. They/we have been replaced by reactionary nut bags regurgitating conspiracies about the big lie and other sorts of imbecilities. Makes one wish for a simpler political time - say Clinton vs Newt circa 1994.
Which big lie is that? I've lost count, there's so many.
The stolen 2016 election I think
How can we watch "Speaking Freely" in the US?
Easy. Pay per view!
The cringe jumps right out at you in the trailer, Jewel. This guy has nothing to say that we haven't heard ad nauseam for at least a decade. He cites the BBC fer chrissake. Epic Fail.