It used to be that if something was too stupid to be true, it probably was. But this is the year 2020.
In a move that would have had him declared eugenically unfit a century ago, Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has laid out new coronavirus rules, including for wearing a mask in your house.
Pennsylvanians, you voted in someone you should never have.
For those who may be curious, Pennsylvania pretty much despises Tom Wolf. So much so, that someone put up a billboard along the turnpike that says something like, “Don’t blame me, I voted for (someone else).” To understand the spite behind this, consider the fact that the PA governor chair won’t be on the ballot for another couple years, and Wolf is on his last consecutive term.
Someone bought a billboard just to say that Wolf is doing a terrible job.
Governors such as Tom Wolf are becoming more invasive in their demands. It used to be that calling a Democrat an authoritarian was a snarl word, but they are now literally living up to it.
On the bright side, defying Tom Wolf has never been more simple.
Just a few days ago, I warned my readers that they have an opportunity to prepare for a possible new round of lockdowns. It would appear that I’m not the only one with my ear to the ground, as people have started prepping for a next round of lockdowns, which seems to be turning into another bout of panic-buying.
While Biden’s guys are flip-flopping on whether to institute a nationwide lockdown (which federal judges in Michigan and Pennsylvania have already found unconstitutional), Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, has decided that she just couldn’t wait and decided to institute a three-week lockdown (ignoring those federal judges). Leftists are itching to lock everything down, and they can hardly contain themselves.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has already opposed lockdowns, citing the economic damage that they do, worsening the problems of poverty and child starvation.
Not that left-wing governors care.
With them, it’s about power. And the lockdowns are yet another way they can express their power over you. Want to physically attend college so you can build career connections? Governors have their own aspirations. Want the income you need to buy that house? Governors care about their own income. Have family plans? Governors have their own plans for the future, and they don’t care about you.
While mass-hysteria fueled by corporate-media sensationalism was the main driving factor of early 2020 panic-buying, the panic-buying of late 2020 is being driven by sheer distrust of left-wing governors, at least one of which is ignoring a court ruling and the law of the land just to do as they please, and more chilling still, they’ve been able to avoid accountability for it until now. That may soon change with the possible impeachment of Gretchen Whitmer, but I’m not counting on it.
Just days ago, a handful of Northeast governors have met up in an emergency meeting to conspire against us discuss further coronavirus restrictions in light of an increase in the number of new cases. Among the points discussing involved more limitations on the number of people who can gather together in one place, which just so happens to be something a Pennsylvania federal judge directly ruled against.
Wow, I had no idea that a federal judge could be simply ignored. Life hack!
The impeachment motions would be coming in light of Gretchen’s announcement of new coronavirus restrictions, which she intends to last three weeks. Earlier this year, a federal judge ruled that Gretchen’s previous coronavirus lockdowns were unconstitutional, similar to another ruling in Pennsylvania.
Not only is Gretchen’s lockdown unconstitutional, it is in direct violation of a court order. What’s more, as Matt explains, she ignored due process and “Weaponized [contact] tracing databases to aid democrat campaigns”.
Of course, it’s also relevant that Gretchen is a dangerous, irresponsible fanatic, for reasons Matt gives in his Twitter post.
Personally, I applaud Michigan lawmakers’ pursuit of the impeachment of Gretchen Whitmer, as I believe that there should be consequences when leadership damages the livelihoods of ordinary citizens in violation of the law of the land. Considering the extent of the damage Gretchen has caused, impeachment is not enough. She needs to be held financially responsible for the damage she caused, as determined by a class-action lawsuit, out of her own pockets.
It would seem as though Gretchen was one of many children who believed that being governor meant that you could do whatever you want, but didn’t at some point learn that the U.S. of A. is a very rule of law kinda place.
Because Gretchen Whitmer thinks it’s okay to ignore the ruling of a federal judge, perhaps Michiganders should ignore her.
It would seem like the Coronavirus Apocalypse is getting serious, because now Burger King is recommending eating at McDonald’s in an effort to keep the fast food industry going.
If you’re like me, then you’ve been eating at home more lately, or just eating healthier in general, as it’s much less expensive than dining out. Of course, I’ve been downing ramen lately, which isn’t the healthiest thing around, but is inexpensive, and accessible.
It would seem like the fast food industry is feeling the pinch. There aren’t many Burger Kings in my neighborhood, and the one I’ve visited on the way to church has closed down since the onset of the Coronavirus Apocalypse. Not that I’m feeling especially bad for the fast food industry, considering the tricks that they play to keep people addicted, which includes adding sugar to their food, as Subway does with their bread.
As an article from BoredPanda pointed out, not everyone was buying the corporate shilling. As commenters on Twitter duly noted, it’s smaller businesses that more desperately need attention. They have a point, considering that it’s the small businesses that were hit the hardest during the lockdowns, with some of them closing down, never to open again. In fact, during the lockdowns, it was big business that was better off, especially with less competition from smaller business.
People are going to big box stores like Walmart and Target, getting more in fewer stops in an effort to limit travel. People who aren’t leaving their homes are ordering through sites like Amazon. Are these the kinds of businesses that need help?
Yet, people are finding it more difficult to frequent smaller businesses, as many of us have lost our jobs, and others still are squeamish to spend lots of money, considering that more lockdowns might be in the near future, and it’s hard to predict what some state governors might do.
When it comes to food, I’ve taken an interest in shelf-stable items, including canned food, flour, rice, dried beans, and even ramen. I even have some food left from one of those Auguson Farms buckets, which has simple-to-prepare food items that can last on the shelf for years. What I got was mostly cheap, and has the potential to last a little while, which can help in the event that things get challenging. It’s not a bad idea to secure some of these items while they’re still relatively easy to find.
When facing the possibility to fighting for your life, fast food loses much of its appeal. But it wasn’t so much the virus that brought us to this point as it was the response to it.
Burger King recommended McDonald’s. That Was Actually The news.
Current President Donald Trump has been met with skepticism when he claimed that massive fraud had taken place in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. But can we believe that when the same is said by the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission?
According to Trainor, the state of Pennsylvania is an especially egregious offender, as it has failed to have poll watchers present for the ballot counting process at a distance of 6 feet.
He has pointed out that the Trump campaign has some valid accusations, which could end up at the Supreme Court.
Wow, the corporate media is largely failing to cover what could be a significant story. These are developments that could have an effect on who holds the office of the President of the United States, and the continuation of these developments is not at all contingent on whether the corporate media covers it, or whether people are paying attention.
Instead, the media is going along with Biden’s claim to be the President-Elect, even though the votes are yet to be cast by the electors, and there are states still counting votes (or recounting, as the case may be).
How interesting it is that the same news outlets that obsessively cried “Russian interference in the 2016 election” for years, only for these claims to be determined to be false after a two-year investigation that cost $30 million, are now turning down the opportunity to cover events that would blow the previous allegations out of the water, and actually has evidence behind them?
I suppose you can’t expect much better from media outlets who have a clear horse in the race, especially when they professionally prey upon adults that wear diapers.
A couple years ago, I took interest in DuckDuckGo while looking for alternatives to Google’s products and services. DuckDuckGo’s appeal was that it was a search engine that protects the privacy of its users, and that search results from DuckDuckGo faced relatively little censorship.
That last point is particularly important when looking for news outlets, as mainstream search engines usually prop up corporate information media with a clear left-wing bias. When a search engine is being trusted to provide information sources, and the corporate entity providing the search engine has a left-wing bias, there’s a clear conflict of interest, and they cannot be trusted to provide honest, unfiltered results.
While privacy is important, what’s especially important to me is that search results, particularly news results, remain unfiltered by the political biases of those presenting the information. In recent times, it has been especially challenging to find search engines that aren’t only pro-privacy, but also free speech.
It’s because of this that it’s disturbing that DuckDuckGo has been making donations to far-left groups, as was pointed out in the following video:
If you’re trusting a search engine such as DuckDuckGo to keep you informed as to what’s really happening in the world, it should be relevant to you that the same search engine may be making substantial donations to groups focused on ensuring that news outlets are presenting exclusively left-wing perspectives.
If you’re interested in something more tangible, I’ve conducted a simple, trivial experiment to see what sources pop up when running the search term, news, then opening the “News” tab. I performed this experiment using the DuckDuckGo search engine, and the following list is of the first ten sources:
CNN
ABC
TechCrunch
Business Insider
Forbes
Washington Post
Business Insider
Reuters
YAHOO
ABC
All of which are corporate sources, typically propped up by big tech, and whose appeal is to your parents and grandparents, who remember with rose-colored glasses the days of old when corporate media had uncontested control of information.
Next, I did the same with Yippy, a search engine that provides relevant results by grouping results into clusters. Here are the first ten news sources:
InfoWars
OANN
NY Post
Breitbart
Washington Examiner
Fox News
Media ITE
Townhall
InfoWars
OANN
InfoWars is pretty far from my first source of news. But putting that aside, I notice that this is an eclectic mix from a broad spectrum of political positions. Better still, these are mostly new media outlets, more relevant in today’s more connected world.
Out of curiousity, I decided to do the same with Google.
The Guardian
CNN
NPR
BBC News
Business Insider
NBC News
Seattle Times
BBC News
CNN
The Guardian
More of the three-letter networks, all presenting the exact same product with the exact same bias.
The internet, as it was in the 2000s, was a huge, free-and-open marketplace of ideas, permeated by diversity of thought. Today, if the internet were to be presented by to you by DuckDuckGo and Google, you’d be hearing the same idea over and over again, continually delivered by the same professional liars.
Because big tech has long-since been subverted by the far left in a manner reminiscent of Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D., it’s easy to be black-pilled into thinking that any attempt to make a free speech platform would be self-defeating, considering an inevitable subversion funded from the enormous wealth of the hot-tub elites of big tech. As they are today, the free speech advocates of the intellectual dark web don’t have the kind of sophistication as those looking for any excuse to silence them.
Rather than lose hope, what we should take from developments like this is that, as the free-speech advocates and diverse thinkers of the digital age, we have to be willing to change things up when one platform loses its viability.
Similarly, if a church-goer discovers that his church has doctrines that are in direct contradiction of the Scriptures, would he continually attend, knowing full-well that the sermons are lying to him? Would he continue to tithe, knowing that he was funding deceit?
As a preventative measure, free-speech platforms should make a policy of gatekeeping when it comes to positions of influence in the company, to ensure that those who can influence the direction of the company has the company’s philosophy in mind. After all, if a company’s philosophy is lost, that company loses its reason to exist, and becomes yet another corporate husk that justifies its existence solely through profits, competing with dozens of other media companies offering the exact same product in the short time they have left.
Anthony Fauci, looking more like Hannibal Lecter by the day.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a proponent of muzzling Americans with facemasks. Now, it’s apparent that his own facemask is tight to the point of depriving his brain of oxygen, because now he’s literally telling Americans to “do what you’re told”.
Don’t believe me? Here’s what Fauci had to say, provided by NBC New York:
“I was talking with my U.K. colleagues who are saying the U.K. is similar to where we are now, because each of our countries have that independent spirit,” he said on stage. “I can understand that, but now is the time to do what you’re told.”
He actually said that.
He also said that “science” was being politicized, rather than trusted. That’s interesting, because it was “science” that governors trusted when shutting down states, causing unemployment to skyrocket, poverty to soar, and exasperating child starvation, all while not asking Americans themselves whether they objected.
And, what do you know, it turns out that scientists don’t have any idea how to run a society. For that matter, neither do doctors. Why not ask economists? And sociologists? And, for that matter, the people themselves? Even the WHO has come to understand that lockdowns were a bad idea.
Anthony Fauci sounds close to understanding that Americans don’t listen to authoritarians like him. But if he figured that out, he’d promptly shut up, get off the stage, and go where we don’t have to look at him.
If Anthony Fauci does not end up at a bus station somewhere begging for change, he has not experienced the damage he himself has caused.
But what Biden himself didn’t count on is that a bunch of nerds had developed an algorithm that tracked the behavior of voting software used in swing states, and these nerds would watch in real time as hundreds of thousands of votes were flipped to favor Joe Biden, or were altogether dropped.
The following image shows an example of the code that showed a flip in action:
This is one example of many instances of code showing how votes were flipped.
What the code shows us is that if the election were conducted without cheating, Donald Trump would have 307 electoral votes, securing him a second term by a considerable margin.
Biden has already declared himself President-Elect, and numerous media outlets have presumptuously declared him the same, even though he was not yet certified, and Trump has already filed lawsuits challenging the results.
Legacy media is squeamish about reporting on these stories, because they had a horse in the race, and therefore cannot be counted on to speak objectively. Their pretext is that they don’t want to cover stories that would “undermine faith in the integrity of the election process”, unlike their obsessive years-long propagation of the Russian collusion conspiracy theory, which turned out to be an absolute hoax.
You know what else would undermine faith in the integrity of the electoral process? Cheating.
If corporate media isn’t going to cover the real story when it happens, but instead tell fairy tales, then people will figure out how useless they are, with the smarter among us being the first to do so.
This is our chance to be prepared for it. Here’s some recommended actions:
Stock up on shelf-stable food items,
Secure your home, preferably 2A style,
Procure various sundry items, it’s difficult to tell what there may be a shortage of,
Make sure bills are paid, and some money is saved, if this can be reasonably done.
Be prepared to hit the road on a moment’s notice. Consider assembling a bug-out bag.
You might ask, “What if the lockdown doesn’t happen?” Generally, it’s better to have and not need than to need and not have. People should be prepared for disasters, in any case.
But consider this: we’ve already seen lockdowns, and no one asked us whether we thought they were a good idea. What’s more, much of Europe has already enacted a second round of lockdowns, with little notice, leading to rioting in Italy and France.
Some of you might think Trump might help you. His ability to do so might be limited, especially if your state has a Democrat as a governor. Besides, they didn’t try cheating him out of an election because they wanted him to have a chance, and they’re not censoring him and his followers on social media and corporate news outlets because they want him to do anything about it.
The left has previously stated their intention to listen to the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, the WHO has voiced their opposition to lockdowns, saying that they should only be used as a last resort. The left isn’t listening, because their own control over us is more important to them than anything doctors have to say about it, and “science” is only useful to them as far as they can use it to their own ends.
You might feel secure because your job was on the arbitrary list compiled by your state governor that he deemed “life-sustaining”. But be warned, Biden’s list may be different from that of your state governor.
The initial lockdowns exasperated the problems of poverty and child starvation. It is advised that you act for your family’s benefit, as the left has proven that they don’t care about you or your children.
There it a lot more to say about how to prep for another lockdown, so it’s suggested that you check out some guides on how to do so, such as this one by Preparedness.news.
This is our opportunity to prepare, and it may slip away from us more quickly than we realize.
Logo from Maddox’s website, The Best Page in the Universe
In the mid-2000’s, I found a humor site called The Best Page in the Universe, written by a man with the pen-name Maddox. The site was filled with pages of caustic satire, written in the tone of an irate college student.
What I found was so hilarious that I decided to read through the archives, and checked back frequently for updates, which at the time were weekly.
The Best Page in the Universe had spawned many imitators, and it’s plain to see why: the site’s popularity had shown that it was possible for an ordinary guy to share his opinion on the internet, and gain a bigger following than Pepsi.
Maddox grew his own popularity by making fun of mimes, vegans, and feminists, ridiculing hate mail that he received, and criticizing children’s artwork. He satisfied a desire for web satire in a way few other sites could. What’s more, Maddox made a point of not running ads on his site. Because of this, he was mainly dependent on donations and his online store to gain income from the site.
Over time, updates on the site began to slow. There were a couple reasons for this. For one thing, Maddox began to emphasize quality over quantity for his site. Updates became more infrequent, but were usually longer reads. While this may have been the kind of content Maddox wanted to produce, it was a step away from the kind of content that initially facilitated his popularity. What’s more, the infrequency of his updates resulted in a gradual dropoff in visits.
As most online content creators can tell you, the key to maintaining a following is to adopt a consistent update schedule.
Another reason for the slowing of content on his page was because Maddox was writing his first book, The Alphabet of Manliness. This book, released in June of 2006, allowed Maddox to more directly profit off his writings.
While many webpage authors would have simply printed their web writings, Maddox’s book was packed with new content. It was received so well, that it reached number 2 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
But as for the website, things were slowing down. After a while, we found out that it was due to another project: The Best Show in the Universe. Maddox is getting his own TV show? Not quite, it’s a series of shorts on YouTube. The tone was similar to his website, but in the form of spoken rants with accompanying visuals. It was as funny as you might expect, but overall, a simple affair considering the patience that was required of Maddox’s fans.
But it seemed like Maddox was getting into a consistent schedule, with the Best Show in the Universe having periodic updates… for a while. After just a few installments, updates became scarce to the point that one would legitimately wonder whether Maddox was abandoning the project, or wasn’t really serious about it at all.
Maddox eventually wrote two more books, one continuing his popular joke of criticizing children’s artwork, and the other filled with short essays reminiscent of his older pages.
In addition to this, Maddox got accounts on Facebook and Twitter, and he also uploads podcasts to YouTube. While social media is excellent for promoting your content, it seems like social media has become the main place to keep up with Maddox, as he seldom posts to his old website. The original rebel of the internet has become increasingly dependent on mainstream platforms, and people are hardly noticing him anymore.
Nowadays, if you don’t like the update that Maddox posted to his website this year, maybe he’ll make another next year.
A retrospective of Maddox hardly seems complete without bringing up the “LOLsuit”, a bit of drama where Maddox sued Dick Masterson after they ended a podcast called, The Biggest Problem in the Universe. The suit seemed to have been brought about because of hurt feelings, but Maddox eventually dropped the suit. Interestingly, Masterson benefitted greatly from the publicity. But as for Maddox, not so much.
Since his site became popular, Maddox moved from Utah to California. While the move likely provided Maddox with a more vibrant environment compared to his old Utah life, it seems as though California culture has had an influence on him, as evidenced by his more recent political ramblings.
At this point, the finest service we can render to Maddox is to remember him for the badass he once was, rather than what he had eventually become.
As he is now, Maddox is an interesting case study in how a person can become outrageously popular, but have little apparent idea what made him popular, then proceed to squander his publicity. Having said that, there’s no denying his presence in the early days of the internet, and his influence which led to many imitators.
The idea that one guy can become as influential as Maddox was just by posting random ramblings is inspiring in its own way.
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