The Republican convention made for great television, both entertaining and exciting, and infused with incredible energy after Trump’s miraculous survival of the assassination attempt. In the backdrop was been the astounding upheaval among Democrats: the drive (since achieved) to push Biden aside and get the top of the ticket replaced sooner rather than later, for fear of electoral loss in November.
All of this makes for wonderful drama, perfect for maximum views, public engagement and the great American sport of politics.
It’s probably too much to ask for blunt truth in such contexts but there was and is one subject missing from the entire situation, and it provides the context for the rest. Whether it is the meltdown of trust, the inflation eating away purchasing power, the hard hit to household finances, the ill-health, the battle between the new media and old, and practically every other symptom you can name, they all trace to the same turning point.
That turning point was of course March 2020, about which one heard next to nothing (so far as I know) at the convention. That is for an obvious reason. The turning occurred under the first Trump term, and the policies continued and intensified in the Biden term.
That makes it impossible for the Republicans to credibly claim an outstanding record from the first term. Perhaps they can make a case for 2017 to 2019 but the entire model blew up in 2020 and the Trump administration never recovered.
In Don Jr.’s speech, he spoke about all the ways in which the establishment has attempted to thwart his father’s political fortunes. The litany is familiar and true: the Russia hoax, the Ukraine phone call, the Hunter Biden laptop, the lawfare and unjust persecutions, the relentless media attacks and so on.
But his list completely left out the biggest issue of all, namely the Covid response. At some point, the exclusion of this topic moved from puzzling to creepy, as if we were all supposed to forget.
Trump himself mentioned the Covid response obliquely in passing, once again saying that he doesn’t get enough credit for what he did. But he now knows better than in the past not to mention the shot, of which he was once very proud but the very mention of it now elicits boos, which he knows. So he excludes it from his stump speech.
Otherwise, he has never spoken in any detail about the precise conditions that led him to approve the lockdowns, flipping from having opposed them on March 9th 2020 to approving them two days later.
We still do not know how or why this happened, much less precisely who or what was involved. We have a sense but we do not know for certain. The common belief in the Republican Party and beyond is that Trump was roiled by his bureaucracy, convinced to go along with policies and ideas that wrecked the country and arguably lost him the Presidency.
After all, it was his own CDC that issued the call for mail-in ballots on March 12th 2020, about which Trump complained in his speech. If this was his own CDC from even before the declaration of emergency (March 13th) and the lockdown press conference (March 16th), what does that say about what was happening behind the scenes to undermine the administration?
According to all autobiographical accounts of the main players – all of which could of course be fake – Trump was only confronted with the supposed need to lock down the country over the weekend of March 14th and 15th. Why would the CDC have intervened with an urge for mail-in voting liberalisation, a dramatic upending of all U.S. election protocols, without Trump’s permission?
Why is no one asking this question? And that’s only one of a million questions that we and so many others have about what unfolded in those days. It is not as if this doesn’t matter. The Bill of Rights was effectively deleted. As Justice Gorsuch has written:
Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes.
They shuttered businesses and schools public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favoured businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too.
They surveilled church parking lots, recorded licence plates and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into colour-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables and then changed their colour-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.
Federal executive officials entered the act too. Not just with emergency immigration decrees. They deployed a public-health agency to regulate landlord-tenant relations nationwide. They used a workplace-safety agency to issue a vaccination mandate for most working Americans.
That was just the beginning. The event kicked off the most incredible federal Government spending binge since World War II. No one likes to talk about this either, though in the annals of fiscal policy, it goes down in history.
Again, in contemporary America, plenty of partisan truths become sayable and enjoy vast public attention. But if both parties and two administrations have their handprints all over the worst series of policy decisions in modern history, the subject is made to disappear.
This is even more true because only a handful of nations in the entire world did not follow this path entirely. These decisions have set off a global economic stagnation and arguably led to war and a migration crisis, not to mention the breakdown of international trade.
Under such conditions, it somehow becomes easier just to sweep the whole thing under the rug, which is precisely what is happening. Remember too that all major media participated in ginning up global frenzy for lockdowns while digital corporations and all major social media platforms engaged in vast censorship of the opposition.
Indeed, this period set up the model that most tech platforms now follow: censor now before anything unapproved is allowed to float around and enter the public mind. All litigation aside, censorship is now the norm.
The demographics reinforce the point. Lifespans are falling faster than before. The substance abuse problems are still pandemic-level. The birth rate has fallen. There are other more hidden crises: church attendance is at historic lows, museums are only half-full and major arts venues still experience financial hardship while many are closing up. All of this is true regardless of strong evidence of wholly unnecessary vaccine injury and death.
One might suppose there would be some mechanism operating in the world that would drive public culture toward an awareness of cause and effect, accountability for actions and knowledge of the how and why of major and even epic changes in the course of our lives and civilisation itself. One might hope.
Now we know there are conditions under which that is not the case. If too many people screwed up, everyone’s hands are on the actions, all official institutions cooperated and plenty of the most influential players in economics and public culture came out financially and politically ahead, the whole subject can be made to go away.
This does not need to be the result of conspiracy. It is merely a tacit agreement, an extension of individual and institutional self-interest.
Where does this leave us? It means that accountability is highly unlikely. Whatever changes happen to pandemic protocols, even if they do happen, will be made quietly and without debate. The institutions that have experienced a loss of trust will be gradually diminished in public importance, replaced by new ones at some point, but the timing remains unclear.
Yes, this is enormously frustrating. Readers of Brownstone are aware. Brownstone Journal is widely cited in literature, including legal cases. The institution garners millions of readers. Breaking through to the public mind is another question. Reaching official culture and changing it is yet another layer.
This takes us to the subject of social change. Why, how and when does it happen? Thomas Kuhn’s magisterial treatise The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) reconstructs the history of science. In contrast to the Whig theory of history, which posits a smooth trajectory of intellectual advancement, Kuhn describes scientific knowledge as moving episodically from orthodoxy to crisis to paradigm shift to pre-paradigmatic to the coalescing around a new orthodoxy.
Crucial to his story is the unwillingness of the guardians of the collapsed orthodoxy ever to admit error. Kuhn’s outlook is oddly demographically determinative. The old generation has to die out and a new one be born, come of age and work on a replacement. To be sure, his outlook pertains to scientific postulates. He made no attempt to expand his model more broadly to other disciplines, much less to the whole of society.
And yet here we are, in the midst of a gut-wrenching and mind-blowing cranking of the machinery of control in all levels of society and culture the world over. Centralised, mechanised and systematised compulsory systems of public control over all aspects of our lives seem to have reached some kind of preposterous pinnacle: six feet apart, control of domestic capacity, shutting of business, the abolition of public worship, not to mention hundreds of utterly crazy nostrums of disease mitigation, none of which actually worked.
What does this do? It discredits everything and everyone involved, even if they never admit it. Will this bring about change? We shall see. It looks more and more like this will happen. The machine that wrecked the world has also wrecked itself.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, where this article first appeared.
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What is it with Sturgeon? Is she one of the WEF’s global “young leaders” or what?
Devi Sridhar, her right hand woman on COVID, is a Friend Of The Clintons.
Sridhar went on Good Morning Britian and told listeners the injections were 100% effective at stopping covid. These globalists lie day in and day out with complete impunity.
We used to mock this sort of behaviour from the Soviet Union and Eastern block countries. These ridiculous officials spewing out official lies used to be caricatured in cold war movies.
This is why Putin shakes his head in disbelief at he collective self-destructive mental illness of the West.
We are imploding, aren’t we?
Being imploded.
Yeah, if Putin would stop this nonsense, he’s welcome to invade us.
I’ve been referring to the First Minister as Nicola Ceausescu, after the communist dictator who interfered with the football.
She would do well to think on Ceausescu’s fate.
So would Dungford.
It seems every country and style of political system may have been doing this since forever. The ‘West’ was just more plausible, for a time.
Exactly. The world has not “gone mad”. It was “always mad”.
They were nationalist socialists as well (with a drinking problem).
yes, the vaccines were supposed to stop covid spread. yes, the “experts” told us so.
YES! it was a total lie and they continue to tell lies which they know are untrue.
She also told children via the bbc that the vaccines were 100% safe. This woman is dangerous.
I wonder what the sanction of choice is in Scotistan for spouting Covid misinformation…..and why the thought Kripos have not paid her a visit.
Wishful thinking for sure; do as I say not as I do
Spouting bollocks, even when it’s demonstrably untrue, isn’t a problem provided it’s on-message.
That is the defining factor of the people perpetrating and promoting this. They say anything and do anything to get what they want. Zero integrity. Probably marks them as psychopathic too. Watch how when needed they can reverse their narrative without any hesitation or shame.
It’s “by any means necessary” for the amoral crew as is explained by Dr Vladimir Zelenko:
https://sage.gab.com/channel/4cminewswire/view/2021-dec-24-breaking-dr-zelenko-61ce632d724ea680ee0ebc00
“Dr Zelenko Warns of COVID Vaccine Mark of the Beast System”
Say no more.
Devi is a globalist nutjob.
“The World Health Organization is the only body that can promote health through the use of international law. It should make alcohol its next target, says Devi Sridhar…….To help overcome such problems, the WHO should endorse a commission on global health law, headed by an independent expert. Through analysis of other regimes, such as those of trade and finance, that have arguably been more successful in utilizing international law, this commission could provide recommendations on how to strengthen the WHO’s normative power.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/482302a
Lots of money was trousered by certain Scottish families supplying “Scotch” whisky to the US during Prohibition. Curiously Presybterians were heavily involved in introducing Prohibition in the first place.
Fast forward 100 years and today’s movers and shakers in the SNP really think they are some kind of Cosa Nostra in kilts.
A commission on global health law, huh?
I’d bet the “war of drugs” main backers are similarly placed to profit.
international law is an oxymoron
Law is sovereign.
The most worrying thing is how a group makes all the world’s countries change their own laws at the same time when it’s clearly against the population’s interests to do so.
And by mere coincidence, she’s also in favour of punishing the hospitality industry and its customers in order to combat Sars-CoV2.
She’s teetotal, doesn’t drive and obviously doesn’t believe in letting people enjoy themselves. She is the embodiment of the old Hellfire and Damnation Presbyterian.
I believe she’s childless, too? So, altogether she operates from a very narrow perspective indeed. What can she possibly know about life as it’s lived by the ordinary person battling to retrieve some semblance of normality despite a leadership hell-bent on maximum misery for its people?
He means of course headed by a politically chosen and friendly independent expert who’ll say what he wants.
and she is a YGL
Her vision of the future is as barren as her womb.
I say this not to be cruel, but to point at a pattern. This is the way the WEF and Davos like their puppets. With no children of their own to be concerned about, they have no problem imposing generationally despotic policies.
No children or dark secrets.
Sturgeon – no dark secrets?
Lesbians who can’t stand men being within a mile of them don’t often have children…
Then there’s Liz Lloyd, Sturgeon’s “chief of staff” who is now her “strategic adviser”. Let’s just say that those who are interested in “dark secrets” in Scotland should take a very close look at how Lloyd acted in relation to the prosecution of Alec Salmond – and how she might feel about former British ambassador Craig Murray spending time in Saughton jail.
(^ My lawyers advised on that wording.)
You may indeed have heard rumours about their… special parties… but I couldn’t (and daren’t) possibly comment.
People are evil because they are evil. Their sexuality or choice, as a woman, not to have children, is entirely irrelevant. You do not help your case by impugning any woman who is neither a bimbo nor a brood mare.
I thought there were dark secrets…
So where does that leave Johnson?
About to be replaced.
Is it not more that if you think the world is being ruined (by climate change or whatever else) then you wouldn’t want to bring children into such a crapsack world?
Mental illness would be the simple explanation. Or simply control freak megalomania?
Scotland seems permanently blighted until she is deposed.
Support for the nanny state has always been widespread in Scotland.
Before the SNP, a lot of people voted socialist because their father did so it’s not much of a leap to vote for tartan socialism.
No, she’s a combination of puritan and communist, support for the nanny state has been strong in Scotland historically, whether it’s Unionist or Nationalist.
She’s a “puritan” when the cameras are filming.
You know she’s a lesbian, and that her marriage to the SNP’s gay chief executive Peter Murrell is fake?
Both of them are well known to frequent certain types of “club” in Edinburgh. Here’s a painting that Murrell gave her:
“Look who holds the whip hand chez Sturgeon: Remarkable dominatrix painting said to hang in SNP leader’s home… where husband cooks and cleans”
Has she been photographed in such a place?
I ask this only to find out whether it has ever been used against her.
If that picture is supposed to represent Krankie then we have wishful thinking at its best.
I’d guess the one-eyed scottish idiot (Brown) hurried marriage was similar.
Tony “miranda” Blair being bestest mates with Mandelson also a tad suspicious
Irrelevant mindless balderdash, it is her ideas that make her evil, not whatever her sexuality may be.
Devi Sridhar ‘prof’ of global health Edingburgh and a go-to for the BBC seems to be her most influential adviser. Sridhar is another of WEF’s young global leaders. see https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Sridhar&status=&class_year=§or=®ion=#results
Sturgeon isn’t a Young Global Leader (please use the correct title!) but her Covid adviser Devi Sridhar certainly is one.
Must be
Political maneouvres.
Sadly the logic behind ending restrictions is never cumulatively binding on govs. It can be reversed for no reason at any time.
Be warned: it won’t end in England this year.
It will – just not in the way Boris thinks it will
The people of Scotland need to rise up. This maniac is going to turn them into a banana republic at this rate. She is completely deranged.
The ‘Trusted PPE’ industry will blossom, however!
“Turn them into a banana” republic – no chance!
A haggis- chips -fried Mars Bar and greasy Donner Kebab republic very likely!
SNP are the Donner Party in every sense.
No one has risen up anywhere in the world in any meaningful way. Governments around the globe have taken marches, petitions, protests, rallies etc on the chin but largely they have been no more than mild irritant to them. To be fair, I’m not sure in what form people could ‘rise up’ or what would actually trigger them (us) to do so as it’s an easy thing to say but difficult to act on. Of course, an easy way would be for everyone not to wear masks but very few are brave enough – even now – to do even that.
Covidianism is an impersonal tyranny – working through and hiding behind ‘health’ and the internet, i.e. consumer choice. We no longer propagandise obviously like Hitler and Stalin (personal tyrannies), but use the means citizens choose for themselves. And the citizens choose to believe the propaganda.
What can you do?
Joseph Goebbels admired the work of Edward Bernays.
Just looked up the latter. Ironically, Bernays was from a Jewish family. Seems it was easier to resist this sort of thing pre-Internet/mobile era, though. You could ‘turn off the wireless’ or turn the page on an advert.
Today, the generation most opposed to covidianism is late 30s-50s in age (us): +/-. We straddle the pre-Internet and Internet eras: i.e. we can operate in both pre-digital (print) and digital (computer/screen) arenas, and distinguish/discriminate between the two; as well as play one off against the other. We are not confined or dependent on one type of media alone.
The gaps and contradictions we observe in gov policy and propaganda are less perceptible to the ‘old’ and ‘young’ – each largely confined to one arena alone.
Agree. I reluctantly acknowledge that the behavioural insights cabal that have the government’s ear have played an absolute blinder.
“No one has risen up anywhere in the world in any meaningful way.”
Take a look at Martinique and Guadeloupe.
There is a lot of awareness there because of the history of the use of the insecticide chlordecone, sanctioned by the French government, which has caused those territories to have the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world.
The authorities tried to impose a SARSCoV2 vaccine mandate on healthworkers there, and people successfully resisted using physical force.
The only way the rulers will be able to impose it now is if they crush the population in a violent conflict, a war.
Gotta wonder whether Macron will try to play an “Ouvéa cave” card. But if he does, it could blow him up.
Fair point.
Silly me, I thought it had already become a banana republic.
A banana monarchy. The SNP is monarchist.
See “Scotland’s Future“, the document the SNP government produced as its referendum manifesto in 2014, “Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland”:
“On independence Scotland will be a constitutional monarchy… On independence in 2016, Her Majesty The Queen will be head of state.”
Before a date was set for the referendum they even had a tantrum suggesting they might boycott it (!) if it wasn’t held in the septcentenary year of the Battle of Bannockburn.
They’re quite safe with Tin Lizzue. She wants Bliar knighted, everybody else muzzled and jabberoided. Silly old bat.
Not much turning required I am afraid
Devolution should have given us real choices. In the states, you could always have moved to Florida or Texas to avoid the restrictions. If you are in England, you can only move from authoritarian and pointless rules to even more authoritarian and more obviously pointless rules. No escape.
“Should”? It was Blair’s tool to break up the successful Union of the county he so detested – worked a treat as we see!
The idea of devolution long predates Tony Blair. Margaret Thatcher, with the Poll tax, which was technically in breach of the treaty of union, and John Major, with VAT on fuel, fueled desire for a Scottish parliament.
Tony Blair was decidedly lukewarm on devolution.
The masks are such a cult accessory. It’s the main one.
Ironically, she may think masks are a useful indirect psychological tool for bringing about Scottish ‘independence’.
She is bat crazy and dangerous.
She’s gone insane
“Gone”?
She was picked because she was a loon.
She’s clearly a firm follower of the Jacinta Ardern school of mental and emotional well-being. Or maybe the Justin Trudeau dogma. Or how about the Emmanuel Macron cult of I sheet in your general direction, alors.
Is it a coincidence that all three heads of government you cited are Young Global Leaders?
I don’t believe in coincidences when it comes to heads of government and The World Economic Forum
At least she stumbles close to honesty by revealing that the main goal is to ensure that we keep “worrying” about it indefinitely.
Aside, the Scotch total fertility rate has plummeted to just 1.29, in the bottom 5 in the world.
We’re being worried into self extinction by this yappy wee terrier.
Masks just share the scare, they’re nothing to do with health.
Yep, Scotland’s annual birth rate has dropped through the floor, down to about 45,000 from around 60,000 ten years ago. Deaths are seriously and consistently outstripping births now.
In any sane country, this would be the number 1 priority, outstripping everything else. It’s demographic suicide, and it will necessarily mean a cruel death by neglect for millions of old and sick people, simply because of a lack of hale young people to look after them.
And yet I have never heard that barren wee bism mention it, or be asked about it, once, ever.
Sturgeon appears to hate the indigenous Sots.
Yes, far more than she hates the English.
It’s not a problem. Just rejoin the EU and bring in all those lovely immigrants.
That then replaces the non-compliant half of the electorate.
They can have ours
Except that Eastern Europe’s birth rates collapsed themselves after the fall of communism: most of the immigrant workers we got from there before Brexit were born in the ’80s.
If you wanted to import workers now you’d need to look outside Europe, in which case it isn’t really anything to do with the EU.
The plan is to import new people. Its called The Great Replacement and was first mooted in the 1920’s with financial backing from the same special interest group behind all todays woes.
Exactly!
If it was mooted in the 1920s it was almost certainly just a figment of some racist’s imagination, as neither of the factors that would make it an attractive idea to today’s wokes (skyrocketing populations in an Africa which they believe may soon be uninhabitable due to climate change) existed back then.
That kind of population decline can easily spiral, as the economy shrinks (especially if the SNP succeeds in shutting down military bases and oil) and people emigrate. Much of Scotland will be ‘re-wilded’ within 50 years, and will mostly be a holiday destination. What the Highland Clearances started, Sturgeon’s communist totalitarianism will finish.
Are they now intervening surgically to ensure that Scottish babies are born ready equipped with a nappy both ends and no brains?
She surely has plans for mass immigration to replace the population she clearly despises.
That’s why she needs to get Scotland back in the EU.
I thought the SNP wanted back in the EU in order to reduce trading frictions and/or to score internationalist brownie points.
If you want mass immigration now, then Europe isn’t a particularly fruitful place to look, as most of the cheap labour came from Eastern Europe, whose birth rates collapsed after communism fell.
I can think of no other reason to promote and support Humza Yousaf’s quite astonishing rant that he is “angry” that Scotland is still populated mostly by huWhite people.
https://youtu.be/qUCFDzzZLKI?t=66
The next demonstration is on Saturday 22nd January at the Commonwealth Monument on “Glasgow Green” starting at 1.00pm.
I will be wearing my Yellow Spot.
Wear face masks for years, or don’t have a clinically insane person running your country. You choose.
Looks like I won’t be going on holiday to Scotland any time soon then.
The Hadrian Revival Society …”Rebuild that Wall “( 30 miles further North)
The “Night’s Watch” will replace the Black Watch and keep out the ‘wildlings’.
Same here. I had a few Grahams and Munros to bag but have decided to just stick to the hills south of the border.
I have a deposit paid for a 5-day trip around the North Coast 500 in September. I am currently glad I didnt pay in full when I booked.
Politicians love power. It is in their nature, whatever the level of the politician (from local government to international bodies).
Whenever they ask for more power, or for ‘temporary powers’ to be extended, the answer should be show us the proof that it is required / will make a difference, and let the public decide (without censoring any opposition to the power).
That’s why fought a Civil War to have independent Courts and an independent Parliament to control a despot under the Rule of Law – those happy days BJ ( Before Johnson)
What exactly does this dented woman have to do before she is forced out of Office? What is she actually trying to do to Scotland – destroy it?
Is she mentally ill? How come the Scots put up with this total nonsense? What else will they swallow?
Sturgeon is a global socialist – in other words, a communist. She hates every nation, just the English slightly more than most.
I have no doubt, none at all, that she will destroy Scotland in order to save it from the curse of individualism and free thought.
And she’s already well on her way, with a plummeting and parlous birth rate that at this point has already set Scotland on the course for demographic doom.
Quite so – I meant “demented “of course but “dented” will do just fine.
Demographic “doom” for Scots is of course “paradise” for those currently landing in ever increasing numbers every day at Dover!
A country gets the government it deserves.
Solution? Vote them out.
Too Lazy!
Do not expect ANY sort of salvation via the ballot box.
And vote in who? The alternatives are no better!
I think this might have more to do with some manipulations from the ECDC.
Earlier this week Spain apparently announced that face rags would be normal in the future, even when the ’emergency’ lessens. Yesterdam the Dutch OMT advised wearing face rags outside in busy places and wearing surgical masks.
From March 2020 to December 2020 it advised against face rags, even when the cabinet pushed and pushed for them to advise their use. On 1 December on the website of the Dutch public health authority, when the face rags became mandatory, in clear breach of the constitution, the public health authority still did not advise them.
Between 1 December 2020 and June 2021 face rags were only worn in public buildings, NEVER outside.
Now, when all shops, restaurants, sports schools, etc. are shut and infections (positive tests) are breaking records, *now* we need the face rags, and preferably surgical ones and an expansion of their use? Utter nonsense, 2 EU countries and now an EU wannabe announce continued face rags within the same week is not a coicidence.
Room 101
Imagine being forced to spend an evening with Nicola Sturgeon and losing he will to live!
I suspect that for many on here condemning them to spend a night with the Sturge would surely result in her loss of life before the dawn breaks.
What she is clearly in need of is BBC. Tradesman’s entrance.
‘The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes’ – Thomas Paine.
Top comment over at the Mail …
Start here: the SNP fascists have to find something to do that’s different from what’s being done in England, because their whole culture is anti-English. When they say otherwise, they’re lying. This plays to the stupidest among the voters in Scotland – the kind of morons who can’t speak to an English person without thinking of “Scotland versus England” (cf. a white person who can’t speak to someone who is black or of Pakistani origin without race being uppermost in their “mind”), and who can’t think of what might be a good or bad policy in Britain without thinking “What about the Scottish angle?” It is impossible to understand the SNP without making an effort to understand xenophobic stupidity. You really are talking a sphincter-clenching level of banjo-playing imbecility among most of their voters and their target market.
OK, so they’re going to want Covid bullshit in Scotland to be different in at least some respect from Covid bullshit in England, because nationalists gonna be nationalists…
But why be tougher rather than more lenient? Here’s why: because having tougher restrictions in Scotland helps
They are also anti-Scottish, subjecting Scotland to endless, mindless nannying.
I personally can’t speak to a black person without knowing they only got their job and sympathy in life because they’re black.
Divisions are deep in all of the UK, it’s probably much more simple in Scotland. Miserable fat ginger ugly bastards with a chip on their shoulders wanting endless pots of Westminster cash and showing zero gratitude.
At least the immigrants here occasionally try to integrate (so long as it’s clear they’re untouchable and must be given preferential treatment)
Wee Krankie doesn’t do irony, apparently.
She does do a permanent nanny state.
From what I hear, she makes her… er… husband do all the cooking, cleaning and ironing.
I can certainly imagine she owns a ten inch strap-on, whips, chains and a gimp mask.
I live in scotland and simply state ‘exempt’ when approached by the police about not wearing a mask. Up to now they have actually been polite in their response – no problem, etc.
The approval rating for wee krankie is dropping fast and with the ‘cost of living crisis’ and economic stagnation, etc., on the horizon, she knows there is no chance of getting agreement for another independence referendum. She also has no credible successor. A parliament full of also-rans!
Instead, as per her recent television broadcasts on covid, she is now coming across a bit deranged and petulant – for example, a recent exchange with a journalist about cutting the quarantine period for covid positive essential workers from 10 to 7 days (now likely to be 5 soon!).
Covid is the only thing left where wee krankie can still exert any real power, but her career will end in failure and she now knows it.
I sincerely hope so but the idea that Nanny knows best is thoroughly ingrained here.
Her career will end but the chunky pension payments will continue.
I have a horrible feeling that Humza Yousaf will bully-pulpit his way into Bute House.
God – any version of Her – help us if that happens.
Then that also spells the end of the dominance of the snp. A three year old can ride a scooter:
Scottish health secretary Humza Yousaf falls off mobility scooter in Holyrood. – YouTube
Open letter from a senior Israeli immunologist criticising government policy: https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/
Won’t happen. England decides what goes on in the UK. Sturgeon and Drakeford just use Westminster policy to fuel divide and take pot shots.
If England remove restrictions, Scotland follows.
Yes – time for an Independence poll (for all UK citizens) with two options: a) complete independence or (b) complete cancellation of devolution!
We know Jeffrey Epstein and Ghilane Maxwell were child rapists that have been convicted of supplying victims to powerful men all over the world.
We know that both of the above are directly linked with Israel/Mossad.
We know Epstein operated in London, Prince Andrew enjoyed his company here and overseas.
We know that Boris is completely unable to control his penis.
What are the odds that Boris has enjoyed the hospitality of Epstein and Maxwell over the years and that Epstein and Maxwell had footage of the hospitality that he enjoyed?
What are the odds that such footage has been used to force Boris to impose the covid fraud on us and to force these vaccines into our people?
How do we connect the blackmail to vaccines, though?
Well, if there is anything to this idea (personally, I think Bozo is just setting himself up with a cushy future via satisfied vested interests), think how much money has been made from the non-vaccines, PPE etc., etc.!
Or it could be that green ideology has been taught for decades and is being put into practice, rather than your mindless claim.
Green idealogy will sink without a trace in the end. Like it has over every supposed “climate emergency” that spelt the end of the planet for years on end. At least fifty of them over the last 60 years or so.
Was Andy the only one daft enough to be photographed, when allegedly planes were flying into that island from all over, no more names have emerged.
Every woman has one. Nicola is one, too.
An exceptionally obstinate and stupid one at that.
Beware your first statement. You don’t need one to be a woman. Ask any wokeman in the Labour Party.
She’s probably one of the zero-covid delusionals. Is zero-covid possible? It’s more likely that Santa Claus exists!
More importantly, it gives her an excuse to nanny permanently, achieving her dream.
It is possible: it’s already there!
I live in Scotland and I am so sad and angry at what this woman and her SNP Cronies are doing to make it a creepy sanitised and irrationally strict place to live. I’ve been to protests and I hope more people will stand up against what is wrong so that the SNP back down. If you live in Scotland and are reading this then go to a protest and being a friend, please.
Here is a link to a funny and sadly accurate 2 minute video about the restrictions.
It’s called ‘Sexy in that face mask’
https://youtu.be/aRhQ2saV_Ps
First sign I spotted from down South was her decision to create “state guardians” for every child. I think that was stamped out, but were I parent in Scotland, I’d have been a parent in England. The default state of play is that the state butts out of the family.
More likely personal ambition, to be seen on the global stage as a potential ‘global leader participating and willing to go to extremes’, sadly they probably laugh at fools like this.
Just like to say excellent pic
I can’t remember the name of the contributor, but he had a T shirt with a slogan which applies here.
“I’m not a gynaecologist but I know a Cunt when I see one!”
Brilliant
Which part of “Measures do not work” does Sturgeon fail to understand? Does she not even think to question the fact that countries with very few restrictions fare best? Look at France, Wales and Scotland for examples of the complete and utter failure of any and all measures. There is also the fact the not-vaccines do absolutely nothing, look at Israel, 4 jobs and cases soaring – well, that worked well then didn’t it?
‘Tie the unvaccinated down sport’
The ‘Sturgeonater’ has a rival down under!
Australian territory bans unvaccinated from exercising outdoors, going to work
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/australian-territory-bans-unvaccinated-from-exercising-outdoors-going-to-work/
If you have time, watch the video that the article links to. Beyond belief!
Just about sums it up, i think
The mask is never coming off. That’s it baby down on your knees. Lick my boots. Lick through the material of the mask.
She means, they will have to wear masks until there is a second independence referendum, at which no one will be allowed to speak, as the SNP thugs will drown them out anyway.
That is, until the overwhelming majority of Scots finally realise masks did them only harm, not good, and then they can wrap their masks round Nicola Sturgeon’s mouth and end devious, petty manipulations of the truth.
Olympics for stupidity 2021/2022 – this individual has obviously trained well and is reaching levels of stupidity never reached before. Scotland is achieving in the stupidity games like no other endeavour henceforth, perhaps second only to Wales, ………People voted for this? Bananas – which in Scotland have be fully sterilised and masked before eating.
At least we in England look marginally less stupid than other places. Plenty of scpetics and free spirits in England. I use public transport regularly and more and more people don’t give a fuck about this bollocks. We should be grateful for what we have left in England and America.
I wouldn’t mind if she kept hers on. Can’t stand seeing her face.
While main stream media condemns using ivermectin the most populated area in India simply declared they’re actually COVID free after promoting this safe tested medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches covid spike proteins and stops them from binding to ACE2 receptors. I recommend everyone to have ivermectin for emergency situations https://ivmpharmacy.com
“Masks for years to come”.
Sounds (first) fishy.
I think I get it now. Peking Piffle has a chance to attract fed up entrepreneurial Scots South of the boarder by easing off on the tyranny (a bit) thus further weakening the case for Scottish separatism.
The way to live with it is to treat it like all the other viruses that cause colds; Lemsip and tissues.
People just need to stop the stupid mask nonsense. It’s not as if they even do anything positive.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there lots of SNP politicians are incompetent, simply because of the suddenness with which they came to dominate Scottish politics (which meant they had no experience before being thrust into office).
Something similar happened in a lot of American cities when white flight resulted in black politicians gaining power, especially if the loss of tax revenue resulting from this white flight sends the city finances into a death spiral anyway.
Just pure mania on her part. Makes you think she might have lost her mind.
However, don’t be fooled she hasn’t, this is cold calculated control that the people need to fight back against. We need a war against this tyranny but for that we need the masses to come to their senses.
I’m not holding my breath.
What are these gov’t leaders getting paid to destroy their economies? Must be quite a bit.
Hahahaha. This just means live with covid-restrictions. For no other reason than Sturgeon being a dictator. Watch as pubs, restaurants etc all close
The Barnet formula that affords Scotland a hefty public subsidy was only supposed to be a temporary measure, Several decades on they are still biting to hand that feeds them. I don’t mind the bail out continuing IF the UK Government rescinds many of the powers foolishly ceded to the Scotland local authority by Cameron and Blair. Then in a couple of years time allow the Scots to choose independence if they wish but on fair terms ie on the basis Scotland’s share of economic output and contribution to the UK economy. Sturgeon is out of control but the monster was created in London.
Sturgeon: named after a fish, brain of a fish. I think Boris is bad but she is one step beyond.
OK quite a lot of nasty anti-Scottish comment on here, some ironic and barely funny, a lot of it moronic and hateful. That’s especially so for the racist bile of backlash and others directed at black people.. This divisive, reactionary approach does nothing for the sceptic movement. We need a broad church not a narrow evangelical chapter of angry zealots.
We Scot’s are not dupes but we have an electoral history of being ruled as an adjunct to the Westminster game, both the Tories and Labour and now the SNP have treated us as stage army for U.K. elections. Under devolution, the SNP now treat Scots as dupes for their their woke, green, oppressive globalist agenda. They have also created through both parliaments, a perpetual promotion machine for mediocrities and chancers, many of whom are in the SNP.
I respect unionists but some of us believe that Scotland should be independent but we also know it will never happen under the SNP. In any case the unionist parties have done a terrible job of holding Sturgeon and her clique to account. The SNP don’t believe in independence, they are a middle class movement which mobilises the working class through subsidy and dependency in pursuit of their true agenda. The D’Hondt electoral system entrenches the SNP and the greens who represent a minority of Scottish opinion. Many working class voters are scunnered by Sturgeon’s control freak behaviour over Covid.This is especially the case with football fans. Working class and poorer people will also pay the zero carbon policy and will be genuinely outraged when the transgender and hate speech bills start to be used by a tiny clique of activists in earnest. An increasing number of middle class people are seeing the zero growth, high tax wishful thinking of their extreme green policies as a recipe for decline.
I believe Scotland has a chance of building itself as a viable nation as many small nations have done. We have a proud history of innovation, enterprise and enlightenment. It will be tough without oil and the wishful manifesto of 2014 did not help. I myself am am in decided and won’t for Indy under her but will certainly support an challenging pro Indy party such as Alba which will campaign against many of the policies the SNP promote especially the transgender and hate crime laws. So please fellow sceptics be aware that Scotland is not monolithic ally behind Sturgeon and her gang.
Sounds a bit like Marxism. When that gets tried a new elite tell people what to do, a few million die and it’s insisted it wasn’t done right and more Marxism is the answer.