© Patrick Doyle/ReutersPrime Minister Justin Trudeau reacts after receiving his booster injection of a coronavirus vaccine at a pharmacy in Ottawa, on Jan. 4.
It is never right for the leader of a country to launch a furious invective against an entire subset of citizens. It is certainly never right to do so with the full force and blatant contempt that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put on display during last fall's election.
That was when Trudeau launched a strident, angry, ugly fusillade against "anti-vaxxers" in a French-language TV interview that has now caught the attention of English media.
In it, he painted "these people," the anti-vaxxers, as "often" being women-haters, racists and science-deniers, as well.Wow! A nasty crew those anti-vaxxers. Out of mercy, I presume, the righteous Justin Trudeau didn't throw in the rest of the story: that most anti-vaxxers have big, unsightly lumps on the back of their heads, use kittens as door stops and (gasp) don't recycle. Should we "tolerate them?" he asked, rhetorically.
Follow the train of thought. They may be a fringe group, but that's of no account because (dire peals from the organ loft) they are "a small group that muscles in." Insidious bastards, those anti-vaxxers, and cute. Whatever else, there's a troubled vision of the power of anti-vaxxers in the prime ministerial cranium.
What I thought of when I heard this contemptuous smack at those who do not see matters as he does, "those people" who have doubts, hesitations or are reluctant to genuflect to the government's whole agenda on pandemic management (because that was really what he was on about), was that Trudeau has more in common with Richard Nixon than cares to believe. What a thought: Trudeau presents as Barack Obama, but acts as Nixon.
That rage against the anti-vaxxers was classic scapegoating, together with all the escape hatches that come equipped with slippery attacks, such as using the word "often," so he can push back if anyone challenges him on his characterization of anti-vaxxers as "misogynists and racists."It was also cute how he could describe anti-vaxxers as only a "small group" one moment (nothing to worry about), but the very next moment remind everyone that they can still "muscle in." Be on your guard. How agile and tactical these Neanderthals are.
There was, of course, a special bow to Quebec voters. Anti-vaxxers, as Trudeau described them, are a blight on Canada, but Quebecers were fully innocent of such malignant agents.
"Over 80 per cent of the population of Quebec have done their duty by getting the shot. They are obviously not the issue in this situation." All clear in La Belle Province. And just who does that leave? And where do they live? (My guess is he thinks most of them must be in Alberta, but that's just a guess on my part.)
Our leader is a cynic. If the federal government's COVID response was a model of judicious management, quick response and clear communication, Trudeau might claim some room to stir up animosity and grievance towards resistors or protesters. A model of management or even clear communication, however, it has emphatically not been. It has been clumsy, wrong, slow and contradictory.
Who left the airports open at the beginning of this plague? Who said barring flights from China was "racist"? Who ordered masks from Communist China? Whose spokesperson said masks were ineffective? Whose spokesperson then said masks were mandatory?
Who warned against gatherings and then went to a Black Lives Matter protest? Who shut down Parliament, conducted the government of the great nation of Canada, after his breakfast, from the Cottage of the Commons? Who called an election in the middle of the pandemic he was managing?And while we're in this territory: Who gets to call "racist" after being filmed prancing around in blackface four whole times? Who gets to hurl the word "misogynist" after leading a government that tried to sweep sexual misconduct allegations in the Armed Forces under the table?Who gets to ask whether we can "tolerate" certain people who disagree with him, when that same person has gutted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of all Canadians through his COVID decrees? Under Trudeau, the charter, his father's very glory, has turned to tissue.
In much of Canada, the unvaccinated may not go where they wish, may not visit family in moments of pain, may not travel or enter public places without their papers. And most significantly, if you resist taking the vaccines, you are that most felonious and vile of human beings; you are Justin Trudeau's villain of the moment: an anti-vaxxer.
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" A mandated program of forced injections on Canadians", that should look well on his gravestone..?
There is the country they tell us about. And then there is the real country. The Italy painted yesterday by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the two hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tricolore ( FLAG OF ITALY ) , seems to be the garden of Eden, a fairy place where everyone lives in harmony with each other, which has handled the pandemic very well and where there is great hope for the future.
Now, we understand its role, the solemnity of the occasion and the rest, for heaven's sake, but getting to describe a country that does not exist, in addition to not honoring the institution it represents, contributes to fuel the distrust of politics, in especially towards the highest office of the state.
The "social cohesion" that only Mattarella sees:
Here are his words: "The warmth with which many fellow citizens, in the most difficult moments, displayed the flag at the windows of their houses and sang the Song of the Italians, marked the collective memory of the country and recalled the fundamental value of solidarity and cohesion social".
Solidarity? Social cohesion? But what country is the head of state talking about? For the case of the one in which you do not miss an opportunity to ghettoize and insult those who do not want to get vaccinated or who is against the pass? Or of that place where every day we throw up hatred on social networks because we are for or against mainstream narration? It makes even more species to hear words of this kind just thinking back to the period of the lockdowns to which Mattarella refers. Yes, because in those months, from the much-celebrated balconies of the Mameli hymn everything will be fine, insults and spit rained down against runners or those who dared to walk the dog. Not only that: most Italians followed the police chases live with trepidation and clapped the hands of the police who forcibly carried away a lonely bather.
Other than social cohesion.
During the political and media pandemic they split society in two, fueling hatred and divisions and creating opposing supporters who ended up putting aside their intellect in favor of their beliefs. And this is still happening today in what is a veritable moral civil war. Ours is not pessimism, it is not a question of just looking at the glass half empty, it is a pure and simple fact of reality.
The horror management of the epidemic
But let's hear how Mattarella continued:
“All the institutions and expressions of civil society have been able to play their part. Our flag accompanied the athletes who were protagonists of a season of international sporting successes that made us proud of what they were able to testify. Their victories are the image of a tenacious people, which are committed to the future and which, due to the seriousness offered with their conduct, have represented a reference for the entire international community. Long live the Tricolor, long live the Republic ".
A reference for the entire international community. Oh really? The underlying concept is obviously the brilliant management of the pandemic by our country which has even affected Chancellor Merkel. But can we please stop this nonsense once and for all?
Italy has managed and continues to manage the situation in a very bad way in terms of results and is second only to the Chinese dictatorship in terms of the violation of constitutional freedoms. A Caporetto ( [Link] ) from all points of view that only a ruling class like ours can describe as the battle of Zama of Roman memory [Link] .
Mattarella also spoke of "trust in the future":
"From the difficulties that have characterized our days, starting with the suffering caused by the pandemic and the climate of uncertainty that this has generated, a new awareness and confidence in the future has arisen.
But what confidence in the future? Just wandering the streets and talking to people to realize that optimism is only in the imagination of those who govern us or those few who applaud the President of the Republic asking for an encore. Italians are increasingly afraid, they are increasingly confused and, amidst a thousand economic and other difficulties, they begin to believe that this pandemic will never get out. Or that even if we do, it will be with broken bones.
Instead of painting scenarios that do not exist or talking about concepts that are too abstract such as trust in the future, we may start from more concrete and not easy to achieve actions. Like that of electing shortly a President of the Republic who has the courage to tell the truth to Italians and who finally treats them as adults, responsible and free.
In Germany they basically said this: “The vaccine? Sorry, we were wrong, you also need a swab ". Yes, because the German government has decided that the anti-Covid rules regime will be strengthened: to enter restaurants, bars and pubs, even the vaccinated without the third dose and the recovered will have to exhibit a negative test, respecting the so-called 2G plus, stiffer version of the Super green pass. This is what Chancellor Olaf Scholz reported after the State-Regions summit in Berlin, speaking of the agreement reached at today's conference. And there is something to worry about because it seems that even in Italy someone is looking at that model with dreamy eyes. The only positive note? Yet another admission of the vaccine flop.
The Omicron variant "will accompany us for a long time: there will be an increase in infections and hospitalizations". German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announces that the current restrictions will be strengthened and that in the gastronomy - restaurants, breweries, bars and clubs - the obligation to show the vaccination certificate plus a tampon will be introduced throughout Germany: only those who have received the third dose will be exempt from testing. "The best protection" from the virus, said the Social Democratic Chancellor at the end of the meeting with the governors of the lands, "is the booster"
In Germany, restrictions on private meetings also remain in force: vaccinated people can see a maximum of ten people, while those who are not vaccinated are still prohibited from meeting more than one group of cohabitants in addition to their own. Infections are on the rise and have reached 55,000 despite the so-called 'lockdown for the unvaccinated' launched in December. And Scholz himself was forced to admit that cases will continue to increase.
The strategy of isolating the unvaccinated, who "harm themselves first of all" according to the chancellor, also aims to "encourage immunizations", stressed the mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffey. The Germans therefore insist with the narrative that infections spread due to the fault of a handful of unvaccinated, despite the fact that even science - finally and guilty late - is now admitting the opposite, namely that Omicron drinks the vaccine in a single gulp. and pierces it completely.
And as I heard, the Austrian government has dropped it's plans for a vaxx mandate this February. Supposedly postponed until April. But the pushback will get much harder here.
And here in Austria, the 2G rule for most shops except food cannot be uphold any longer. The "essential goods" definition is fixed in law, and barring unvaxxed is a crime, and not a misdemeanor. Police cannot hold it up.
That doesn't mean it's over here, far from it.
The government must go, and the EU must go. One or the other way.
Agree at 100%................:
STOP NAZI-GULAGS in Europe and everywhere
I have been hearing everywhere about " Mass Formation Psychosis ," even on my local radio station. This term Mass Formation, which I have never heard before, seems to have been invented by a Belgian psychologist, Prof. Mattias Desmet of the University of Ghent. I don't know what exactly he means by the term, perhaps his English is a translation of some term in Flemish, but his insights have been picked up and rebroadcast by literally dozens of others. Perhaps this is the breaking of the dawn of reality, since it has even gotten into the mainstream.
He defines four preconditions for a mass psychosis to take hold, which he explains in this YouTube video: [Link]
The title of the video is " Why People WILLINGLY Give Up Their Freedoms ." (698,748 views to date.)
I am astonished that it is still available on YouTube and has not yet been deplatformed. I seriously, most urgently recommend that you go and watch it before it disappears. You will be glad you did. You know my comments are usually worth reading. This video I am highly recommending, as I don't have time right now to recapitulate his thesis. Thanks to all, LG.
“If you tell a huge lie and keep repeating it, sooner or later the people will believe it. The lie can be maintained as long as the state manages to shield people from the political, economic and military consequences of the lie itself. It thus becomes vital for the state to use all its power to suppress dissent, because truth is the deadly enemy of lies and, consequently, truth is the greatest enemy of the state. "
Joseph Göbbels, aswell his COMMON Mentore Lavrentij Pavlovič Berija
Only through a law is it possible to introduce a vaccination obligation: this is established by art. 32 of our Italian Constitution.
Forcing people surreptitiously to bend down, inducing them to starve, after having deprived them of basic social rights, is wrong, sneaky, infamous.
And if this was true for the green pass then it is even more true for the super green pass, which does not even allow the use of a tampon (which is, however, the responsibility of the citizen). Deprivation of fundamental constitutional rights, such as freedom and work, is always and in any case inadmissible, but it is even more so if this action takes place through the use of measures which are clearly illicit from a constitutional point of view.
Add to this a consideration that today appears paradoxically almost marginal: the green pass does not work, it is not needed by a tube. The system was "designed" (attributing the prerogative of thought to some who govern us seems almost comical) to guarantee safe, healthy places: with the green pass nobody was infected (you didn't kill yourself, Premier Draghi said) and you were guaranteed not to be infected. It is the same creators today who confirm how much this is not true and the numbers of infections we record every day prove it.
And therefore insult is added to the damage: an instrument supported by unconstitutional rules, which, moreover, is absolutely useless. And the whole loses its logic.
The point is that arguing in that way means recognizing a certain "honesty", a sort of "good faith", to those who made those choices. And it is profoundly wrong: no one wanted to create more jobs (if only because unemployment is useful for contractually weakening workers) and no one wanted to revive the economy (they wanted rather to favor large industrial groups and multinationals). Those were power reforms and they worked great, but failures! They wanted to weaken the business community, to favor the globalized financial elites: they succeeded because they were treacherous, not fools.
And therefore I think that the same thing must be suspected in the current phase: these are not interested in containing the infections! They simply want to keep "tension" high (not a casual expression), keep the "external health bond" strong , I simplify, that covid is like the euro. The emergency management in progress is useful to defuse the democratic conflict dynamics that should animate a "healthy" country.
This is the real disease, a disease that has afflicted our country for many years, a disease that has afflicted our democracy, a virus "exploded" already years ago to stop a change that had begun and was running fast, too fast. A virus that has never stopped circulating and tormenting us: it is against it that we need to find a vaccine, a constitutional vaccine.
Agostino Miozzo, little regret head of the CTS at the time of the Conte era, really lived there in North Korea. A country where there is a "real dictatorship", he recalls. And from which he must have learned the fundamentals of the regime. Yes, because today, in his interview with " Corriere della Sera ", he came to propose a Kim Jong-un model for Italy. In summary: enough democracy in the name of the pandemic emergency, arrest for dissidents no vax and staggering fines for those who do not bow to the mandatory puncture.
The bad thing is that we are not exaggerating ourselves. That's what he said. Hear it here. The journalist asks: are you convinced by the 100 euro fine for those over 50 who violate the vaccination obligation? He replied: “Are you asking me? I would put the absolute absolute obligation. In the emergency we are in, we are not allowed to be democratic. We all talked about war. And in war the commander decides. And he takes responsibility ". You have understood? We repeat: in the midst of the Covid emergency "we are not allowed to be democratic". Affirmation that, by transitive property, translates into the absolute decision-making of a single "commander", that is a sort of dictator, which a CLOWN named Umberto Galimberti has already identified in the saving Mario Draghi. Since he dreams of moving to the Quirinal, once the residence of the Popes, we could elect SuperMario directly as the successor of Peter with the Triregno, papal infallibility and monarchical government over all of Italy. What do you think?
But let's go back to Miozzo. Second question of the journalist: What sanction would you foresee for those who do not get vaccinated? Answer: "Even the arrest". We repeat: arrest. As in the Philippines of the dictator (aridaje) Duterte: there, if the unvaccinated leave the house, the police take them, handcuff them and throw them in jail. We do not know if Miozzo lived and worked in the Philippines as well as in North Korea, but he must have learned the methods anyway. After all, it is enough to repeat the refrain "the unvaccinated make others run dangers" to justify everything, even liberticide drifts, dictatorial intentions, the end of democracy and indiscriminate arrests.
Now we turn to the ultras of anti no vax and no pass closures. Take a break and think: don't you think you are exaggerating a little?
And bot much difference otherwise. Both are just puppets, they are not deciding anything.
Eff them.
I wonder a bit but not too much and just now I could give a shit.
I'm sick of these puppets.
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R.C.