Briefly Noted: The Middle Class Beatdown Will Continue

The previous attempt at a middle class beatdown--global warming, or, wait, climate change--was a dismal failure. What that episode did reveal, however, was the Left's Stalinist view of science: Science is whatever advances the Socialist Cause.

The Left isn't about to drop its campaign to redefine science, and so we have its embrace of Covid. The campaign to universally impose a vaccine that is, at best, rather pointless and at worst possibly dangerous or even sinister has been running into some headwinds. As a result, the Left is consumed with their favorite pastime: fantasies of coercing recalcitrant Right wingers. However, having seen how successful hoaxes can prove to be in this age of fake news inculcated by an omnipresent social media, the redefinition of words has its own fascination for the left. I suppose it all started with "Ms."

In any event, the better to trick the recalcitrant into vaxxing, the WHO has redefined "herd immunity". You can read all about it here:

WHO changes its definition of ‘herd immunity,’ making widespread vaccination essential

Experts, including Stanford epidemiologist Dr Jay Bhattacharya, say the new definition is wrong

Dr. Bhattacharya is right, of course, but he's missing the point. The point is to get people used to saying black is white--or something like that. The further point is to smoke out dissenters--those irritating people like Dr. Bhattacharya who insist on saying black is black and white is white. The technique is the Big Lie. Dr. Michael Yeadon, calling out a lying colleague, tweets:

Too Late The Kraken?

My day has hardly begun and already the Silver Fox and various commenters (h/t Ray So-Cal and Cassander) are inundating me with reading material. Is there anything going on out in the world? How would I know?

One thing I've noticed, however. There seems to be an increasing air of doom and gloom among commenters on the Right, even while the Trump team continues to exude their own air of supreme confidence--not only in the righteousness of their cause but in their ultimate victory.

Just now I responded as follows to Mike Sylwester:

Mike Sylwester November 19, 2020 at 8:47 AM

At this point, the Trump team needs to present a credible confession of someone who used computers to massively affect votes. Without such a confession, Trump has lost the election.

mark wauck November 19, 2020 at 9:00 AM

Confessions--especially when the target is backed up by The Deep State--are far easier said than done. I would prefer to hope that the statistical evidence can be presented in a convincing fashion. As far back as 1976 a federal court HELD--not just opined--that statistical evidence could lead to a complete REDO of an election. The use of statistics for evidentiary purposes has become light years more sophisticated in the intervening close on to half a century. Don't say never yet.

I realize that that such assurances may seem at this point to be a slender reed on which to place our hopes. It may be that the recount tactics we're seeing for now--the pursuit of voter level fraud--are in the nature of a legal holding or delaying pattern. I'm speculating in that regard, but I say that because I've maintained in the past, like Mike, that in the final analysis the election fraud case must be the important one. That's all I have to offer for now, beyond the continuing accumulation of statistical detail that we see on the internet, day after day.

In the meantime, I offer two articles that are conceptually linked, although their approaches may seem somewhat different. The first article was linked by Cassander and examines the shadowy world of Lord Mark Malloch Brown. (As an aside, it's a continual source of bemusement to me that life-long Brit Lefties like Mark Brown accept peerships and become Lords of the realm. Go figure, eh? It must say something about the Left elites.)