In the old Soviet Union, citizens were not required to be a member of the Communist Party. But if you were not, you could never expect to rise far professionally or socially. You would never be the head of a department in university, a factory manager, much less the General Secretary. They were always recruited out of the party.
Party membership was proof of loyalty. It was a demonstration that you were willing to put loyalty over morality. Rising high in the party also meant that others in the ruling class likely had something on you. No one gained power without other powerful people knowing of your grim deeds. That way there was mutual trust, or, to put it another way, mutual blackmail.
Honor among thieves only holds true for those who are guilty of thievery.
The system was the same in Nazi Germany. You didn’t have to join the party but if you refused, you could not rise in academia, military, or government. And everyone knew the rules. The party controlled the state, and members of the party controlled you. Only the members of the party were trusted with responsibility and rewarded with emoluments.
We are headed this way in the US today.
The party in question is the lockdown party. Far from having repudiated this brutal, rights-violating, and ineffective method of pandemic management, the ruling class is doubling down. Even more than that, those who participated in the fiasco are being rewarded. Indeed, participation is now seen as proof of loyalty and a demonstration that one can be trusted by the people who matter.
That’s my best read on why Mandy Cohen is being pulled away from her perch in North Carolina, where she led a catastrophic pandemic response, to be the replacement for Rochelle Walensky as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is a faithful member of the lockdown party and thus demonstrates her willingness to do it again should the occasion arise.
This is not going to help the CDC recover from its terrible reputation.
Going through her timeline is a strange blast from the past of heartbreaking fear-mongering, pseudo-science, and propaganda. She passed with flying colors all three tests of compliance: closures, masking, and vaccine mandates.
If you believed there was ever any science behind any of this, Mandy inadvertently revealed otherwise. They made decisions based on some weird club of lockdowners that gained a feeling of power and control simply by chit-chatting on the phone with each other. It was all arbitrary and completely disregarding of human rights.
She also took the lead in broadcasting bad information from the CDC that has since been repeatedly debunked.
Of course she was also nuts for masks despite no evidence that they achieved anything in mitigating virus spread. To show what a faithful party member she is, she even wore a mask with Fauci’s picture on it.
There is no mystery about why Biden tapped her. Politico spills the beans:
The CDC is also in the midst of a strategic overhaul launched by Walensky last year; a longer-term project that Cohen would be tasked with managing in an effort to better prepare the agency for the next public health emergency.
Biden officials involved in the search came away from discussions with Cohen impressed by her broad range of health experience at the federal and state levels, two of the people said, and convinced she had the ability to manage the nearly 11,000-person agency and the broader political dynamics of an administration gearing up for Biden’s re-election run.
The same is true for the National Institutes of Health. Biden has tapped Monica Bertagnolli, who has deep ties to Big Pharma and a public record of obsequious deference to her boss.
We are all hoping for a clean repudiation of these policies, and even a flip of the narrative such that participating in this disaster would be a mark against people in terms of career development. We are nowhere near that point yet.
It’s the opposite. The regime is still hiring and promoting out of the lockdown party for the future. They cannot admit error and are working to make sure they never have to do so.
And that’s how Khrushchev became Brezhnev who became Andropov who became Chernenko who became Gorbachev. Finally, it all fell apart. Let us hope we don’t have to wait 50 years this time.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, where this article first appeared.
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well for those who were awake and saw the Gates etc dry run of the Covid plandemic, this time they are not even bothering to hide. Oct 2-4th this year in the US the International Bird flu summit is being held, folks you all must recall seeing all the drip drip re Bird flu in the MSM, flocks being wiped out in Australia and the USA, Australia as usual in the forefront of any tyranny. I invite you to look at the website birdflu summit. com. among other things the panel will be discussing are
remind you of anything? surveillance and management data. Tony Blair is once again banging on about digital i.d
Delivery of Vaccines, is this what the German company are predicting their profits on?
command, control and management???
School based planning, they going to shut those down again.
They learned from Covid, they are already planning to repeat, probably next year or maybe in November just in time for that election.
Are we all going to bow our heads, wear our masks and turn against each other again at their demand so that the same heads can take power, and the same Pharma parasites can kill more of us for more gain? Or are we going to stand together and deny them their empire of slaves.
It would help people greatly if they could just keep away from the source of the poison. A simple detox of the old Kool-Aid works wonders;
https://x.com/DBantree/status/1812872702811685291/photo/1
I posted all this a couple of weeks ago but Thanks for reposting.
Spot on.
They learned from Covid, they are already planning to repeat, probably next year or maybe in November just in time for that election.
The Sheeple will obey. Rona was in large part an effort to steal the election with a 40 mn vote fraud from Drumpf. If the Deep State can’t kill him, they will need to do it again.
Redacted News actually phoned the event up, the girl in the reception couldn’t answer anything from the curious (not many curious journalists left) journalist and eventually hung up the phone. Just simple questions like, how long as Bird Flu been around and how many people has it killed.
Saw that. Quite good.
And here is the website.
As is usual with the Davos Deviants they have to advertise what is coming next. Just like Event 201.
https://birdflusummit.com/
Just in time for the US Elections …. well well. Is it going to be ANOTHER conspiracy theory that turns out to be true?
Also let’s face it, those vaccines aren’t earning their keep sat on shelves. Mr BG wants (demands) a ROI.
As I posted yesterday, the next attempt to stop Trump’s enrollment will be Scamdemic ll just before the election, a financial crash or a major military escalation somewhere any one of which will require the imposition of martial law etc etc etc.
. As in our conversation yesterday, it’s not just about Trump, it’s about the whole financial system and the commodifying of nature itself.
Precisely.
I do think they’re testing the water. Moneypox didn’t get off to a flying start, even the Sheeple were taking the piss out of that one.
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This will spoil your afternoon tea.
Soon to be back on the streets and claiming benefits courtesy of Kneel. Of course he should be facing export but…
https://x.com/Tony40335450/status/1812930886561898794
Why the ‘eck isn’t he physically removed from the country? This makes me angry!
They are probably gambling with the Autumn market. After all, into Autumn other “vaccines” go on sale, typically against ‘flu. The local pharmacy inside my usual supermarket pushes those every year.
“But, in any case, with no other product authorised for use”
According to the author, they only sell “covid vaccines”
I wonder WHO could have told them to expect “vaccine” demand in the autumn.
Perhaps a little bird told them