Alex Berenson goes home devastated - Berenson permanently suspended from twitter

Heartless wrote:

Awsi Dooger wrote:

The people who are chopping away at democracy are the ones who savor misinformation and cherish any lie that suits their biases. That has been the essence of the pandemic, with this guy and countless others like him. They know they have an audience who will consume any and all crap.

Again, it was never necessary to know a damn thing. I can't believe anyone looked at one statistic. Generalities overwhelm specifics. If it was immediately being compared to 1920 then it would be dramatically worse than estimated. Nate Silver was fooled to the point he was downplaying in early stage, because he was absorbing numbers instead of relying on big picture logic. Many of us scolded him on that on his twitter feed.

Absolutely this ban is a good thing. How can it be debated? One side of the aisle is so out of touch with reality that it actually devoted to a moron who called the pandemic a hoax, who claimed 38 different times that Covid-19 was disappearing or about to disappear.

This is a pure numbers game, just like track and field. Deceitful cannot be tolerated given world record quantities of delusional. If fewer right wingers weren't so remarkably stupid and gullible, the misinformation would be laughed at and all but ignored.

Follow me here….. fairly chronologically…..

You said he couldn’t win the presidency because he was so racist. He won, destroying every single media narrative about why he’d lose.

You said he won because of Russian Collusion. That was proven to be an FBI hoax.

You said Bret Kavanaugh used to organize gang bangs in high school. Zero corroboration of any of the accusations.

You believed Michael Avenatti was going to take Trump down, and some were even suggesting he should run for president. He’s now in jail.

You vilified a 17 year old kid for standing still as a strange old Native American man walked up beating a drum inches from his face. One mainstream journalist asked the world if we’ve “ever seen a more punchable face?” The boy has received a couple settlements now.

You believed Jussie Smollet’s story of being attacked by some MA GA guys in the middle of the night in Chicago in -20 weather. ‘Twas just a hoax.

You believed Trump should be removed for urging the Ukrainian president to look into the corruption relating to Hunter Biden’s petroleum exploits. Thanks to Hunter’s crackhead way (mentioned later), we’ve now seen all the evidence of the pay to play scheme and laundering money to his father… the VPOTUS at the time.

(Insert much more pre-Covid ridiculousness here.)

As Covid was just popping up in the US, Trump shut down travel from China. Nancy Pelosi and Bill DeBlasio tweet out that Trump is xenophobic, and that we all should go out to Chinatown and go see a Broadway show, respectively. Unbelievably bad advice for which they’ve never been held to account.

You said Trumps claims that a vaccine would be ready before the end of 2020 were silly, he’s an idiot, and that it would “take a miracle” to be true. It coincidently was announced the week after the election.

You called anyone that questioned the origins of the virus (including prominent biologists/virologists) crazy conspiracy theorists, as it “certainly came from nature.” To this day, there is zero evidence tracing it back to any species in nature. We now finally have people coming forward saying it OBVIOUSLY came from the lab, and that the US funded gain of function research at the lab… and that Fauci and his pal Peter Daszak lied to us for over a year. But you refuse to hold them accountable.

You wouldn’t acknowledge anything about Cuomo’s (and a few other Dem governors) decision to send seniors with Covid back into nursing homes, which directly led to thousands more deaths than would have occurred. Instead, you gave him a book deal and an Emmy Award. (Those serial sexual harassment accusations did the trick, however, as they recently took the Emmy back. LOL!)

The clearly-demented human your party made you vote for, who’s family gained immense riches while he was VPOTUS by peddling his influence, has been on camera inappropriately touching children and sniffing their hair. Obama’s SoD Bob Gates said in his book that Biden “has been wrong on every foreign policy decision over the last 30 years.” His current Afghanistan moves are unfathomable (and I too believe we need to bring our troops home). His recent mental shutdowns/falling asleep at events are amazing. And he’s such a great father, that his son (“smartest person he knows”) is a crackhead, who banged his dead brother’s ex, isn’t allowed to be in the same vicinity as his niece because of inappropriate sexual comments, and goes on binges so hard that he leaves laptops at repair shops and doesn’t remember it happening (that 60 Minutes interview was unbelievable- “it could be mine”- LOL). But you guys think Don Jr and Eric are the real bad people.

So yes, one side is certainly out of touch with reality. Complete lunatics, in fact.

Coach Jeff ROC wrote:

I think it's inevitable.

Without addressing the COVID response policy itself, the execution of the strategy has been based on the notion that if left to individuals to decide on their own, they will make disastrous decisions. Thus, we were told to accept as true ONLY what the CDC says. Instead of being told to "evaluate scientific findings and make your own judgement," we were (and are) told to "Follow THE science" as defined by the CDC. This may or may not be sound public policy; I'm not going to debate that.

Controlling the flow of information contrary to THE CDC science seems like a logical thing to do from that perspective.

I hope this doesn't sound kooky, but it all has a very religious feeling to me. It reminds me of the situation surrounding the Protestant Reformation. Originally there was one church (the CDC), run be an infallible guy who understands The Word of God (THE science), and is, therefore, the only one capable of knowing what to do. The believers must believe because the Word of God is too hard for them to understand (because Bibles were in Latin and THE science is just too complicated) . The believers often believe very fervently. Some, however, learn Latin and have different interpretations of The Word of Science. Persecution and mayhem ensue.

You gotta admit there's a whole lotta religious zeal on our COVID threads here, from all sides, each convinced that they have THE truth that will save our everlasting souls (or, in this case, our bodies, the bodies of our trophy wives, and/or the bodies of our moms from whose basements we all evangelize).

Go in peace, peeps.