I come to praise Donald Trump, not to disparage him. So be it if I burn a few bridges of the very few I seem to have left. Nor will this defence of former President Trump be directed at those who would vote for an embalmed mummy (or worse, Joe Biden, or worse again, Kamala Harris) before they voted for Donald Trump. Such voters see a world very different to the one I see and nothing I or anyone else says will make a whit of difference to how they vote.
No. I want to reply to all those conservatives who make clear that in fact they will hold their noses and will vote for Trump, but only because the choice is so woeful and the Democrat so bad. These are people who always like to preface any such admission by first saying that Mr. Trump “is simply not a suitable person for the office of President”; “he’s not got the right character”; “he’s a vastly flawed human being”; those sort of “take with one hand before you give with the other” genuflections. And I don’t just mean supposed conservative commentators here. I am even more explicitly responding to top conservative politicians of this ilk – which outside the U.S. is near on all of them. Your Boris Johnsons, John Howards, Tony Abbotts, a couple in New Zealand and Canada, the list goes on and on.
So let me just try to explain to all of them what so many Right-of-centre voters like me really like about Donald Trump. Why he’s not a least-bad choice in today’s world but rather a better one than almost all of them.
First off, he bends over backwards to try to do what he promised to do. He offers real, not phoney, opposition. Actual not artificial. Look at Trump’s first term and marvel at that fact (because he was being bogusly impeached and having the whole Russia collusion scam thrown at him the whole time). Trump promised to appoint interpretively conservative top judges and boy did he do that. (I defy anyone to name another conservative politician who would have stood by Bret Kavanagh in the face of the grossly implausible ‘Me Too’ charges going back decades to when he was in high school. Not a one of the ones who disparage Trump’s character right now would have been as brave.) Trump tried to repeal Obamacare but a Republican blocked that – John McCain, a man these Trump condemners would say had “the right stuff” and was, you know, “suitable”. Trump’s efforts as regards the border and building the border wall were infinitely better than Joe Biden’s deliberate dismantling of any and all constraints but let’s remember that it was the House of Representatives under Republican Speaker Paul Ryan who made funding the wall near impossible. Do any of the genuflectors disparage Mr. Ryan’s character?
This quality of doing what you can to keep all your promises is very, very difficult as a Right-of-centre politician where the legacy media leans 90% plus for the Lefty Dems (and yes, there are lots of data to support that). You have to have a hide as thick as an elephant’s. Trump tried to do what he promised. By contrast Boris got elected and then opted to embrace the woke world of Net Zero climate change idiocies. What does that say about his character? In Australia, Mr. Morrison took one position on Net Zero to the election and then embraced the opposite. Add to that Morrison’s total cluelessness when it comes to the presumption of innocence (ScoMo’s actions indicated he was against it) and to the value of free speech (“never created a single job” says the man who destroyed our economy opting to mimic the Chinese politburo’s response to the Covid virus). Remind me please. Conservatives believe actions matter far more than words and Trump’s actions during lockdowns were nowhere near as good as Governor Ron DeSantis’s. But they were orders of magnitude better than Morrison’s and even Boris’s (no vaccine mandates from Trump and Trump actually tried to stand up to the public health lockdown thugs in a way that embarrasses the supposedly liberal Boris in comparison).
I mentioned above that Trump fought hard to appoint interpretively conservative judges. Tony Abbott – and no one defended Mr. Abbott against the defenestrating Malcolm Turnbull more vigorously than I did, but if you’re going to disparage other politicians then you have to face facts – meanwhile appointed the wife of the retiring High Court judge to fill his place and she has turned out to be overtly on the activist side of the court. Mr. Abbott also threw in the towel on his explicit pledge to try to repeal the s.18C hate speech laws. He didn’t put repeal to the Senate and make them block it. He just threw in the towel (and in doing so lost a lot of support from his core voters). But it’s Mr. Trump who refuses to cave in to the establishment, wet, ‘moderate’ wing of the Republican party who has the character deficiencies?
Let me also remind readers that Mr. Trump is overtly attacking the entire ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ behemoth that deals in identity politics. Boris never managed to do more than hoist a white flag and Australia’s state Liberal leaders are weaker still. And I don’t hear Mr. Dutton willing to fight on any culture war issues. Whose actions show more character I ask? Can you imagine Mr. Trump praising our woeful e-Safety commissioner in the way that Mr. Dutton ridiculously did? (Again, I think Peter Dutton is the best conservative leader going in today’s Liberal Party but I would take a Trump any day of the week. And a Trump-like person would be further ahead in the polls too. Just look at Canada’s Pierre Poilievre who fights these culture war battles and is way up in the polls in a more Left-wing country.)
So, yes, I do think Donald Trump is pretty much exactly what today’s political landscape calls for in a conservative political leader. Sure, he’s crass and boorish and likes ketchup. But he fights and doesn’t capitulate. He tries to keep his electoral promises, all of them. He is brave (where Boris was flat out cowardly). His crude combativeness, his brushing aside of nuance, his joy in the battle are precisely what are needed in today’s fight against a radical, open borders, weaponising-the-justice-system Left-wing establishment. On Covid Trump was a lot less thuggish than Boris or Morrison or most all of the Right-of-centre Cabinet Ministers in the U.K. and here. Here’s the test. Would you prefer a ‘decent’ Rishi Sunak who capitulated in full to the Tony Blair worldview or a ‘flawed’ Trump? No sane person should expect to agree with a candidate on everything. I don’t agree with Trump on everything. But I agree with loads of his positions. And most of all I like his character. Let me repeat – he fights and is brave. He stands up to the bureaucracy – and will do so a lot more should he win in 2024.
The holier-than-thou and (let’s keep being blunt) snobby conservative commentariat and ex-politicians’ fraternity might like to look in the mirror, and at their own records in office, and then let shame and humility temper their “oh, but Trump doesn’t really have the right character for office” bleatings that have more to do with being acceptable in polite society than with what is known in the philosophy of science as ‘the facts’.
James Allan is the Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University. This article first appeared in Spectator Australia.
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Personally, I doubt the “must believe” bit. More likely they have not – and will not =- give it any thought.
Only an idiot supports these injections. How many times does the fundamental point have to be made before people acknowledge what has been known and confirmed from the very start by the very best in the business and the most qualified and by GOVUK – that Convid is a LOW MORTALITY RATE VIRUS (if it exists at all but for the sake of argument I will pretend that this has been proven beyond doubt even though it hasnt) with a survival rate of 99.85percent (99.9 rounded up) from NATURAL IMMUNITY WITH NO INTERVENTION. They can PREVENT AND TREAT illness with OUT OF PATENT CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE DRUGS WHICH ARE PERFECTLY MATCHED WITH GODS CREATION – THINGS LIKE VITAMIN D AND VITAMIN C AND ZINC.
Therefore there is NO NEED TO INJECT ANYONE WITH THESE EXPERIMENTAL DANGEROUS INJECTIONS.
Despite the fact that you know all this to be true, you continue to relentlessly spew out garbage and actually very dangerous proclamations that these injections serve a legit purpose and that they are doing good in our world.
Noone knows what the true long and medium term effects will be but judging by the fact that the blood of the jabbed looks hideous and all wrong and given that the animals in the trials they did for this all died (they swept that one inder the carpet), and given that the prediction of some kind of immune system meltdown could be approaching, dont you think that it would be useful to provide some visible actual opposition to this evil, rather than making excuses for what these utter scumbags are doing to everyoen on the bakc of a LOW MORTALITY RATE VIRUS WHICH IS COMPLETELY UNNOTICEABLE IN MAINSTREAM SOCIETY.
This is really starting to piss me off now. You are helping these scumbags to get away with this crap with these mixed messages.
Status of COVID-19
BREAKING NEWS ! Prof Dr John Ioannidis Stanford University On Real Data On Coronavirus Pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvDL6kIDsA
Global perspective of COVID-19 epidemiology for a full-cycle pandemic
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.13423
If you disagree, please provide the DS rationale for supporting these injections, with a focus on the fact that out of patent cheap and effective druigs ARE available, its just that the criminals in HMG have banned the hospitals and doctors from using them. More crimes from these lowlifes. Please explain why mass jabbing is better than treating this LOW MORTALITY RATE virus.
Yeah, this. This comment. Says it all. This site is great, but it has one glaring problem, and that is the inability to grasp that vaccines are the lockdown extended into the actual corporeal body. It is the next layer of command and control which is being imposed on us. Toby thinks vaccines are one of the greatest boons of science, well, he is simply not up to speed. Vaccines are not responsible for the demise of the diseases which blighted mankind. Clean water is. Sanitation is. Separating the shit from the food is. Vaccines came along at the end. If you are underinformed on all of this, you need to read the RFK Jr book on Fauci, and for bonus points, read Dissolving Illusions. If you haven’t read either or both of those books, and you think that vaccines are here to help us, sorry, you are woefully underinformed. Which is fine, but then your opinion is worthless. Toby I’m talking to you. Read those books. There is a massive problem here which is not an extreme position, as characterised, it is the position that all normal healthy informed humans should adopt. We have cheap safe efficient therapies for COVID, and it is only the formal denial of this that has allowed the vaccines to be given the emergency use authorisation. This is not a complicated point to grasp, so if you can’t grasp it, you need to go back to the beginning, educate yourself, check in with your basic humanity and start again. The vaccines are a catastrophic nightmare for humanity. Anyway. Great comment.
Just two things to add. Quercetin 250 mg daily and please see every last word Dr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist has written about the serious adverse events and autopsy results in those who have died post vaxx.
And scope the German pathologists who have seen the exact same effects in autopsies they have performed.
No, they, can’t treat it with vitamin D remember, the rigged trials that were completely different from the OMNS recommendations said so!
“hopefully” would also be an apt word. One would hopefully like to think they know what the hell they are doing but the evidence shows that they do not and they do not even care.
Sadly the more experimental biologicals given the more cases. Anyone else notice this. Many top world renowned scientists calling for an immediate cease and desist order for the covid jabs.
https://www.facebook.com/1013292843/videos/950373872529727/?d=w
UK Mulls Door-To-Door Vaccination Squads
“I am all in favour of free choice but there comes a point when you cannot lock up 90 per cent of the country who are vaccinated for the ten per cent who refuse to be.” – UK Cabinet Minister.
“The mood in the country is hardening against people who refuse to be vaccinated.” – same UK Cabinet Minister.
I think the Cabinet Minister knows they are losing….
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/uk-mulls-door-door-vaccination-squads
Is this really any particular cabinet minister, or are we seeing the nudge unit at work again here?
Send them to my house. Just send them. They won’t know what has hit them.
Of course, if they have tazers…
“…you cannot lock up 90 per cent of the country who are vaccinated for the ten per cent who refuse to be.”
So, don’t, minister.
There was never going to be 100% uptake, even with human rights abuses. If the “vaccine” doesn’t work when 90% take it, why should it work with 90%? And then there’s possibly millions in the unknown population (and certainly many thousands), who are presumably rather less likely to take this stuff
I was involved in a discussion about this a year ago on a non-sceptical forum.
An ‘expert’ took the view that there would be more mutations generated if a virus ran wild, simply as a result of the large number of people infected. I did not have the expertise to refute that but was uncomfortable with what they said back then and am far more than uncomfortable with it now
That would only be a feasible argument if the vaccines provided sterilising immunity – which the clotshots don’t.
As an unjabbed senior citizen I am even more happy to be in the control group.
Dr Robert Malone has been one of the true heroes in the fight against the Covid madness. He has held firm in the face of a torrent of abuse and I do believe he will be vindicated in time. If there is any justice, he will be awarded a Nobel prize.
GVB has been saying this for about a year
And it will get worse.
Do you think the virus is likely to mutate to become more dangerous? Everything I have read suggests that Delta and omicron being, successively, much milder was to be expected, even though they both evade the vaccines.
Theory is circulating around that omicron is so ‘mutated’ that most probably was a lab creation. I would like to see some expert openly discuss this topic but I know the sensitivity of the topic.
There seems to be a theory that viral mutations which cause mild effects in their hosts are more likely to survive, being more likely to travel from one host to another. Mutating to become more dangerous would tend to have the opposite effect, via the behaviour of ourselves.
It is one hell of a punt that is being taken…
HM Government is the virus, SAGE are the variants, & ‘Sir’ Chris Witless & Paddy Unbalanced are the mutants. Change my mind…
Dr Robert Malone and others are dead wrong about “variants”!!!
If C19 doesn’t exist because it fails Koch Postulates, then the “variants” are fictitious!!!
Even if C19 was real, experts like Dr Mike Yeadon already explained that “variants” are never dangerous, because they are 99.7% identical to the virus!!!
Articles like this only serve to deceive people, keep them busy with illusions and also help to perpetuate the fraud… so ‘vaccines’ are producing “variants” and “variants” are the excuse to create more ‘vaccines’ – can’t you see Dr Malone is helping to perpetuate this vicious circle?
One last thing, count the doctors behind the to against the scamdemic
… count the doctors behind the fight against the scamdemic who continue to behave as C19 was real… it’s the drs McCullough, Tenpenny, Bhakdi, D. Cahill, Yeadon and do on… why don’t have the courage to say the virus doesn’t exist???
You can’t have both your ‘if’ and your ‘even if’. They cannot both be true. It’s not possible to isolate any virus in a perfectly purified form according to Koch’s postulates, but that doesn’t mean no virus exists.
Yes, variants could be used as an excuse to create more vaccines, but why bother when you can just coerce everyone into taking the ones that have already failed? The jabbing is now just a religious ritual. It’s not as if science has anything to do with it.
Dr. McCairn debunks Andrew Kaufman et al multiple times in his streams, search his site on Kaufman for the correct episodes. https://www.mccairndojo.com/past-episodes/ He presents cov2 in the frame of Koch postulates multiple times.
Kaufman is a grifter, he was selling $1500 per hr consultations with a mediacal disclaimer on his site before being called out, now he sells ‘premium access’ to his podcast and bottles of snake oil you can get on Amazon for 1/10 of the price Kaufman sells it for, he also sells a magic wand to make your water more healthy (lol)
Dr Kevin McCairn – the guy who used to be in the BNP according to Brendon O Connells patreon:
This guy is super dodge and not someone I would trust at all. I saw him trying to persuade Brendon with pictures of exosomes claiming them to be viruses. If this is the best youve got, you aint got nothing.
Oh he was in the BNP, he must be a shit PhD Neuro Biologist then, lets ignore his lab leak and Drosden paper response because Brendon O Connell says so then. You can read the papers yourself, you don’t need to take anyones word, that’s how science works, nullius in verba.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Mccairn
Wheres Kaufmans papers publishing his thesis? They don’t exist! A few on Psychology don’t cut the mustard. His virus = exosome BS has been debunked multiple times by multiple people, there’s even a paper showing the mRNA gets into exosomes, that look different from the TEM pics of the isolated virus you claim doesn’t exist! lol clown.
nullius in verba.
But you’d rather believe a snakeoil salesman, selling his resin at 10x the Amazon price, than do any reading, buy Kaufman another Porche (he has two). I’m sure he’d do you a medical disclamered ‘consultation’ for $1500 knock yourself out. Have you looked at his biotech patents for implanted hearing aids? nullius in verba.
He’s not a biologist, he’s not a virologist, he’s not even a bench scientist, but he’s Sooooo well skilled in Grifting he can reinvent biology (lol) From Kaufmans site “The New Biology”
(Only $65 lol)
(only $48 per month or 15% off the annual price only $430) check the Amazon price on that first tho eh, mite aswell get the best price snake oil if that’s yer thing
This is the best, a friggin magic wand that…
Can anyone say GRIFTER? Do you even research these people at all?
Seriously tho, I get there’s a market for gullible people who don’t trust anything the gov says, but be careful of the grifters taking advantage of these people, they have zero scruples.
But what better way to clear opposition to the comming Totalitarian Technocracy than to have these clowns running around shouting viruses arn’t real. Wake up FFS.
I base a large part of my decision that this entire episode is complete bullshit based on real life observations. The government said the worst health crisis in history was upon us. I have seen nothing in two years to corroborate this. There is no evidence of a novel virus. There is only evidence of fraud and criminality form those pushing the agenda. I have tonnes of evidence of fraud and malfeasance. I see it every day on the advertising boards for example. Convid is a scam, nothing else.
A real scientists writes, following meticulous research:
2021-10-25 ::: Nature of the COVID-era public health disaster in the USA, from all-cause mortality and socio-geo-economic and climatic data
https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=107&name=2021_10_25_nature_of_the_covid_era_public_health_disaster_in_the_usa_from_all_cause_mortality_and_socio_geo_economic_and_climatic_data
What I would like to see is real science taking place, where Lanka and Kaufman have grown up conversations with Malone and McCullough for example, to prove this either way. In other words for real science to take place. And I do not begrudge Kaufman for making a living. Seriously if you want to get angry aout people selling shit, rant about McDonalds or something.
Hey lets not segway into plan/scamdemic we can all agree on that. Lets stick to weather Kaufman is a GRIFTER (check) and weather viruses exists (check).
You think Kaufman will debate real biologists? lol as if, he runs away.
Even Zdogg (who’s an intellectual lightweight that gets very little about covid correct) did Kaufman, check his youtube of it, just skip to the part where Flemming got on Kaufmans premium stream and posted the TEM isolation paper, with the protein analysis proving it was the friggin virus, talking Kaufman through it.
Kaufmans face is a contorted picture of squirm “Oh I’d need to see the methods statement first” AS IF he’s not familiar with the friggin paper, it was on the friggin screen to look at, but no, “I’d need to see the methods statement” because like, he can’t just scroll friggin down can he.
And you finish with mansplainin Kaufmans GRIFT….
You want to see real science, then get over his BNP membership and watch MCain doing the live vax microscopy showing the shit in the vax, and what it does to live blood.
You want real science then go watch JJ Couey explaining immunology 101, how the immune system actually works, and how the mRNA vax cannot possibly provide sterilizing immunity.
You want real science then stop watching the circles jerk of patrion farming “virus doesn’t exist” grifters.
Andrew vs Judy – Do Viruses Exist? The FULL Info ONLY HERE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VrKEiqAOw9gE/
Ill be quite honest there is something a bit fishy about Kaufman but at present I give him the benefit of the doubt. I dont love the guy but I think he makes a lot of great points and is very intelligent. History is littered with proven science being trashed. Are we in the midst of another one of those moments with virology – maybe.
I think all those people are in a circle jerk of patrion farming Grifters.
There’s a lot fishy with Big Pharma, there’s a lot fishy with virology, especially in GoF circles, but they got the spike sequence from somewhere, if it wasn’t a virus the grifters need to come up with a plausible answer.
Just remember there is an information war going on, we’re in the middle of it, they want us all confused, ‘learned helplessness’ is a thing, that’s where the likes of Kaufman fit in. Ask yourself how Kaufman arrived on the scene with 30k+ followers, professionally designed websites with online shopping etc. he was also pushed on Facebook to anyone with a following.
Then ask why people like Jonathan Couey got shitcanned from his associate professorship, they even messed up his employment insurance so he couldn’t get any money; his youtube account frozen etc. for talking about decades old peer reviewed correct immuno Biology and showing how “The Science” on TV being pushed constantly deviates from it.
McCairn has had multiple accounts taken down from Youtube and Twitter.
Watch the streams Brendon O Connell did with McCairn, he walks through the papers showing the virus was isolated etc.
Here’s the first one. starts about 25mins in https://odysee.com/@Housatonic:0/hv00h0:2
As I understand it this has been an accepted fact for decades and is why we don’t mass vaccinate for things such as Flu and, dare I say it, Covid. It is sheer insanity to do so because what you are doing is turning the entire population into a breeding ground for variants. With these jabs, the situation is even worse because they are leakier than a sieve with a 2-inch hole in the middle. It is an accepted fact that leaky “vaccines” turn people into mutant factories, we saw this when the evidence was shown that jabbed carry a viral load up to 150 times greater than the un-jabbed.
Well it’s a no brainer…evolution will win. The virus mutates at a far faster rate than the time it takes to design, test and roll out a vaccine. This obsession with fighting virus with vaccines is insanity.
It’s not speculative at all, it’s been a well know phenomina since Andrew Reads Paper on Mareks disease in 2015. There’s been 10’s of researchers, Biologists, and scientists shouting it from twitter for over 18 months.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
Joe Rogan raised this issue, Forbes got Andrew Read interviewed to debunk Rogan, he said this isn’t an issue with the covid vax because it only appies to leaky vaccines (this was prior to the global establishment admitting ‘breakthrough’ cases) although the vax effectiveness [<1% absolute effectiveness from the trials] has been in question since initial rollout.
Andrew Read Predicted it with Mareks Disease
Geert Vanden Bossche predicted it with the leaky SARS CoV2 vax
Fauci admitted the vax doesn’t stop transmission
Trevor Bedfords data says it’s happening in the S1 domain at orders of magnitude higher than any other domain.
Not spculative at all.
This was discussed in Jonathan Coueys (PhD Neuro Biologist) review paper ~18 months ago
https://gigaohmbiological.com/review
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/keep-looking-at-snapshots-and-youll-never-see-where-this-pandemic-is-headed
Is this piece really the best a professional researcher can do?
Dr. paul Alexander, substack, well worth a daily read. Full of useful data, research and clarity, and something missing from msm, honesty and integrity. When he does not know the answer, he actually holds up his hand and says so.