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Sounds like Trump is once again dealing with shady Russian mobsters.

It's hindsight for you, looking back, but I knew it was wrong to vax kids before we started doing it. The whole data set that Health Canada was looking at, in fall of 2020 when we started vaxing kids, was that less than 20 kids were killed by covid in almost 2 years. That's not the level where you take a chance on vaxing 8M of them with an experimental mRNA jab, unless there's something about covid that no one's telling us. I can't even talk about our MSM now tbh, it's such a disappointment. I grew up naively believing that our media was somehow 'better' or more 'honest' than that of China or Russia, and we're level with them at best. I don't think that all corporations are 'bad'. I'm a capitalist myself, but at the end of the day I think that every business, whether they're within a communist, capitalist, socialist, libertarian, theocratic or any other form of gov't, has to compete or they're failing themselves and/or their community. MSNBC and Statista had to decide if it was in their best interests to serve the public or to lie to us and they chose the latter. I guess the powers-that-be at Statista opted to shill for big pharma a bit because everyone else is doing it, and it didn't make economic sense to hurt big pharma's bottom line. MSNBC's reasons are less legitimate. They're interfering in the democratic process and that's unhealthy. The media is actually a vital part of a healthy, functioning democracy and their corruption is a step in the wrong direction.

1. You are looking back at events, therefore hindsight. 2. Your examples may not be representative of the whole of the data that public health was looking at. "Crime" goes beyond errors in execution, so the bar of evidence is higher than presenting selective data - you have to show specifically how public health committed said crimes. The examples in Israel, or that young people weren't as affected don't amount to crimes not even close. 3. They still make corrections and apologize when wrong. Even if these examples are errors of judgment that wouldn't amount to crimes and a respectable organization wouldn't accuse people of criminal action. 4. Yes, organizations that are incorporated. If you think corporations are "bad" then you are likely a leftists because they own anti-corporate sentiment in the public sphere.

That's exactly the cycle we keep repeating. Clinton, Obama and Biden have all overseen recovery of the economy from the sad --sometimes historically sad states of their Republican predecessors. The historical "tale of the tape" isn't even close. Why do people keep trusting Republicans? None of them have left the country better than they found it since Reagan--and we're still servicing the record debt he piled on to achieve that feat.

Democrats ended the Great Depression, electrified rural America, lead us through WW II, put men in space, balanced the Federal budget, fixed the economy after George Bush destroyed it, and fixed the economy after Donald Trump destroyed it.

It didn't work. The whistleblower was harassed through retribution by an authority over her by getting kicked out of her job, then her party, and when she ran as an independent she wasn't re-elected, and the Liberals got re-elected into government. Thus far I don't recall Trudeau or the head of the Privy Council being punished. We're just lucky that JWR was an honest enough person to put her ethics and our democracy above her own career. Every other MP chose their own careers over our democracy when they voted her out. It was vile.

Sky Termination Debris (STD). The collateral damage caused when large pieces of sky crash to earth. Exactly. At this point you should already be in your basement, if not though, under no circumstances should you leave the house. A final word of caution about breaking communication protocols. For your own safety, I urge you to maintain strict electronic silence until after the event. That means no phone calls and absolutely no further posts on social media. Only complete electronic silence will prevent the people who failed to prepare for STDs from getting anything that rightly belongs to you.

The national childcare system is a joke that costs too much for what it gives. And the Liberals have infested it with wokeness, just like they do everything else, insisting in their agreements with the provinces that they prioritize non-white parents. I wonder who the barbarians are, the conservatives who allegedly want to 'force' women back into the home, or the progressives who say instead "Go to work, you twat! Never mind your stinking children! Go and produce! Get into that factory! Get into that store! No, you can't stay home with your children! Screw them! Go and make money!" Gee, I wonder why that is.

Yes, but throwing one strike doesn't make you a good bowler if your first 999 tries were gutter-balls.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/biden-ex-chief-of-staff-admits-us-prices-too-high-experts-break-down-struggling-most Biden’s ex-chief of staff admits US prices are too high: Experts break down who’s ‘struggling’ most Two market and economic experts are siding with recent commentary from a former White House chief of staff that inflationary pressures are becoming too much for Americans to bear. "Another group that's really been hurting under this administration is what has typically been a core Democratic constituency, which is young people, but they, of course, are the ones that have a disproportionate portion of their income go to things like food and energy," former assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy Michael Faulkender said on "The Evening Edit" Thursday. "They're the ones that are really struggling to buy houses and buy cars due to the high interest rate environment that we're seeing under this administration," he added. In a surprise turn on his former boss, Biden’s ex-chief of staff Ron Klain told MSNBC host Chris Hayes Wednesday that inflation has become too high and American families are getting hit hardest. A really funny black comic said the only reason blacks still support Biden is because thanks to him, THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO SMOKE CRACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS WHITE.

Marcia Lantsman, deputy Conservative Party leader says this is policy Conservatives can "own". Paywall. PP lovers - are You in favor of handing out money to Canadians for breathing? https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/04/03/basic-income-is-a-concept-conservatives-should-champion/416939/ @eyeball Will you finally unleash the conservative that lurks in your dark pink heart? 😂 I've got to admit I cracked myself up a little over that dark pink heart joke. 🤣

Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation. The former US president stands to gain billions of dollars – his stake is currently valued at about $4bn – from the merger between Trump Media and Technology Group and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which took the parent company of Truth Social public. … The situation led Trump Media to take emergency loans, including from an entity called ES Family Trust, which opened an account with Paxum Bank, a small bank registered on the Caribbean island of Dominica that is best known for providing financial services to the porn industry. Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named Anton Postolnikov, who co-owns Paxum Bank and has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the Trump Media merger. The existence of the trust has previously been reported by the Guardian and the Washington Post. However, who controlled the account, how the trust was connected to Paxum Bank, and how the money had been funneled through the trust to Trump Media was unknown. The new details about the trust are drawn from documents including: Paxum Bank records showing Postolnikov having access to the trust’s account, the papers that created the trust showing as its settlor a lawyer in St Petersburg, Russia, and three years of the trust’s financial transactions. The concern surrounding the loans to Trump Media is that ES Family Trust may have been used to complete a transaction that Paxum itself could not. Paxum Bank does not offer loans in the US as it lacks a US banking license and is not regulated by the FDIC. Postolnikov appears to have used the trust to loan money to help save Trump Media – and the Truth Social platform – because his bank itself could not furnish the loan. Postolnikov, the nephew of Aleksandr Smirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has not been charged with a crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing Paxum Bank warned of legal action for reporting the contents of the leaked documents. … Part of the problem was that Trump Media struggled to get financing because traditional banks were reluctant to lend millions to Trump’s social media company in the wake of the January 6 Capitol attack, Wilkerson said. Trump Media eventually found some lenders, including ES Family Trust, but the sequence of events was curious. ES Family Trust was established on 18 May 2021, its creation papers show. Postolnikov’s “user” access to the account was “verified” on 30 November 2021 by a Paxum Bank manager in Dominica. The trust was funded for the first time on 2 December 2021. Trump Media then received the loans from ES Family Trust: $2m on 23 December 2021, and $6m on 17 February 2022. The loans came in the form of convertible promissory notes, meaning ES Family Trust would gain a major stake in Trump Media because it was offering the money in exchange for Trump Media agreeing to convert the loan principal into “shares of Company Stock”. Oddly, the notes were never signed. But the investment in Trump Media proved to be huge: while precise figures can only be known by Trump Media, ES Family Trust’s stake in Trump Media is worth between $20m and $40m even after the sharp decline of the company’s share price in the wake of a poor earnings report. The ES Family Trust account also appears to have benefited Postolnikov personally. As the criminal investigation into the Trump Media deal intensified towards the end of last year, the trust recorded several transfers to Postolnikov with the subject line “Partial Loan Return”. … The reason for the trust’s creation remains unknown. Aside from the money that went to Trump Media, the trust’s statements show the trust has directly invested money with only two other companies: $10.8m to Eleven Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm, and $1m to Wedbush Securities, a wealth management firm. The current status of ES Family Trust is also unknown. The trust’s address is listed as a residential home in Hollywood, Florida. But, according to the property website Redfin, the six-bedroom home appears to have been sold in December 2023. The creation papers also contained something notable: a declaration that, if the original trustee – a Paxum employee named Angel Pacheco – stepped down from the role, his successor would be a certain individual named Michael Shvartsman. Sprawling money-laundering investigation Last month, federal prosecutors charged Michael Shvartsman, a close associate of Postolnikov, with money laundering in a superseding indictment after previously charging him and two others in July with insider-trading Digital World shares. Shvartsman and his co-defendants pleaded not guilty. At least part of the evidence against Shvartsman came from a confidential informant for the DHS, court filings show: in one March 2023 meeting with the informant and an associate, Shvartsman mentioned a friend who owned a bank in Dominica and made bridge loans to Trump Media. “[Shvartsman] stated that a friend of his owns a bank in the island of Dominica and would be able to provide banking services to Russian and Ukraine Nationals if the [confidential informant] had other clients in need of that service,” the DHS report said. ..,, https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans

" Psychologist and author Jordan Peterson has warned members of the U.S. Congress that the collusion of governments with banks, along with emerging technologies like digital identity systems and central bank digital currencies, could turn countries into totalitarian surveillance states. And that increased surveillance could in turn enable police to become more secretive and furtive in their operations, he said. The combination of governments and technologies “can and will facilitate the development of a surveillance state, the scope of which optimistic pessimists of totalitarianism such as George Orwell could scarcely imagine,” Mr. Peterson said on Capitol Hill on March 7." " Mr. Peterson said around the world there appears to be a collusion between “gigantic, self-interested corporations and paranoid security-obsessed anti-human governments.” He said these two entities are using online data and sophisticated algorithms to develop images, “not only of our actions, but of our thoughts and words, so that deviation from the desired end can be mapped, rewarded, and punished.” The Canadian psychologist warned that with corporations increasingly able to track the purchasing decisions and online patterns of users, as well as develop algorithms to predict future actions, the information could be used to “track, monitor, and punish everything we do and say.” " China’s Surveillance System Mr. Peterson brought up China’s social credit system, saying it allows the Chinese Communist Party to have “full control” over the online access of its citizens. The country’s social credit system gives each citizen an electronic score that can be raised or lowered depending on their behaviour. Those with low enough scores can be denied access to jobs, public transportation, and banking. “This allows you purposefully to be shut out of all activities that can be virtualized, and in a rapidly virtualizing world, this increasingly means all activities: driving, shopping, working, eating, finding shelter, even fraternizing with friends and family,” Mr. Peterson said." Jordan Peterson Warns of Surveillance State, Future ‘Secret Police’ (beehiiv.com)

If you think of it from a different angle, everyone under 60 yrs old could have walked from the north end of the gaza strip to Egypt in a single day. It's only 25 miles long. The fact that the Israelis are taking so long to go 25 miles means that they're not trying to indiscriminately kill civilians. Basically all the people who are still in Gaza are being used as meat-shields.

The best argument that I've ever seen for women in the workplace is the women of the LPOC. I don't know what % of the Lib MPs were women, but aside from Joel Lightbound, only the women have stood up to Justin Trudeau in a meaningful way afaik. JWR, Philpott, Alleslev and CC-C all left the Libs for political reasons, the only men who left did so for their own personal reasons. The 'men' in the LPOC are all gutless losers imo.

He lost his bat.

I will defer to your opinion on Cuomo, how's that ?

^^^ the OP supports taking young women as hostages and using children as human shields

Depends on what you mean by 'proper'. I doubt it'll be too extensive.

In some of these cases I think (or at least hope) that your definition of "error" would benefit from a bit of tweaking. Right now it means the state or condition of being wrong in judgement or action. Wrong can easily come with legal consequences, it becomes more than a simple deviation from nominal when it openly assaults reasonableness. The Governor of New York comes instantly to mind for me when I consider such things. Remember when he forced 9056 covid patients into nursing homes knowing that they housed vulnerable people and knowing that the facilities were under staffed and ill prepared. As if that wasn't enough, remember when his office deliberately under reported all the numbers by 40% or more... I say that added intent to existing gross negligence. Incredibly though, people still defend Cuomo, personally I think he should be in jail. That level of gross negligence should come with a cost that runs steeper than a simple shoulder shrug from people who were't injured by the negligence. I wonder if you would be as forgiving if airline pilots in Canada operated with the same attention to detail that he did. Here's another example of what I mean, It might be off topic but it illustrates the trajectory. There's a case in Quebec right now where a man had two healthy fingers amputated from his left hand because of "body integrity dysphoria." What's with the doctors here? This is well above an error in judgement IMO. Should this guy get disability checks for life now because he's missing fingers? So, have Doctors in Canada become as demented as the ones advising Gov Cuomo? I would say that the acid test for determining such things is reasonableness, often mentioned in the same breath as ordinary care. In terms of damage caused, the guy who plows your driveway is held to higher standard, and I bet you would agree that he should if something got damaged.... due to an "error" on his part.

Good luck pleading decency with a leftist.

The war on Easter? You people are delusional. You invent crises which don’t exist and pretend the orange conman can solve them. I’ll give you credit — it’s easy to solve a crisis which doesn’t exist.

Idiocy. The Democrats continually come into office and fix the economic shambles created by Republicans, then Republicans come in and destroy everything again. Reagan promised to eliminate the Federal Debt and instead increased it 500%. Clinton finally balanced it and Bush couldn’t wait to plunge us immediately into deficits. Republicans ALWAYS increase deficits. Democrats REDUCE deficits.

All the lights dimmed when that was posted.

These people aren't liberals. I never call them liberals. Liberals love America. These things are leftists. They HATE America

Meh...robo-bot has his panties in a knot because with RFK in the mix now, it's obvious Brandon cant win. As this year progresses, robo-bot and his pose will begin to panic. Watch these fcks closely because they can't afford to lose and the world can't afford for him to win.

One thing is continually missed when this is debated. At the time there was a real worry that our hospitals would be overwhelmed and in some cases they actually were. Hospitals in the Los Angeles area were actually running out of things like oxygen. That wasn't a conspiracy it was the real world being faced by the world's health care systems. I'm continually amazed by WCM's 20/20 hindsight, the guy must be some kind of genius.

I absolutely love how unhinged you are about trump. You started 8 threads about trump. Youre either insane or being paid by the number of threads you start.

Hey, I appreciate your perspective. While living in a world without money sounds ideal, it's also important to consider practicalities. Money facilitates trade and helps meet diverse needs efficiently. Volunteering is indeed fulfilling, but for many, it's not feasible to sustain life without income. Finding a balance between monetary transactions and altruistic actions might lead to a more harmonious society.

So, you say conspiracies happen every day and then you say because someone claims it may be one they are "dumb ass left wing liberal buffoons"? and "go into your typical left wing liberal ballistic mode"? All claims of conspiracies are made by "dumb ass left wing liberal buffoons"? Are you a bit confused and seem to be stumbling over your own tongue (or keyboard) LOL In this specific case, passing off 2 and 3 year old news clips and trying to make it relative is a conspiracy theory. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy theory I guess if you have a point and want to be valid, prove it in todays perspective. Old news has had time to fester and if there was validity, it would have changed a lot of things but in this specific case, it was noted 2 and 3 years ago and died a natural death. Bringing it up again is only an attempt to make something of it or, a conspiracy theory that there was something being hidden.

I wonder...were proper autopsies being done on these SDS victims?

Lol...so the 10 people who watch Cuomo now, saw RFK "clarify" his statement. He's pulling votes from Brandon. Mission accomplished.

From the looks of it, this kind of "naive" manipulation of data is nothing short of disgusting. Putting ideology, any greatest one, ahead of the objective reality is always a trouble and a dead end too. Always. And we're still struggling to figure it out, here. Ooh.

Anything to excuse your own failures. The left has no moral compass in the slightest. All that needed to happen was for you to not vote him back in. That's it. If you people believed in that instead of being so blinded by your hatred of others then we woudl'nt have corruption problmes. But as long as you'll reward people like trudeau then it'll continue no matter what laws are passed.

I'm sure he'll have to temper things a tiny bit to make sure he gets re-elected but i think he'll be like harper - he'll get results and people will want MORE results and they'll continue to vote for him even if they don't always agree.

Ax the tax and kick the anti-free speech globalist commies out of office. I just hope that the Conservatives are actually conservative. Canada is too full of unquestioning propagandized babies. Can they be weened off the nanny state teat, climate fear porn, and identity politics? I’m skeptical but let’s throw that Hail Mary pass and hope for the best. Otherwise I hope to emigrate to a red state.

Wrong. People know when they're being lied to, and not many people of standing have the balls to stand up to the alt-left cancel culture horde and say it. All the leftard furore about "Women are as good at men at....!!!" was always BS, and ironically it took leftard trans-women mopping up in all the various women's sports who put the final nail in that coffin. Suppression of speech is just that: suppression of speech. Thanks for noticing it. Banning people from social media for telling the truth is the very worst form of suppression of speech. Makes sense, right? The people who have to sit at home and watch the covid BS on TV and see the covid propaganda on social media want to talk to their friends about it there but they can't, because FB and Twitter are part of TNI and TNI work for the Libs/Dems. Wrong again. I feel like I'm your mom and you're 6. Peterson is ignored by people who ignore/cancel the truth and who can't handle honest intellectual debate. FYI not all intellectuals have the balls to speak freely: a lot of intellectuals are nerds who have been social misfits all their lives, and their PhDs are their only ticket to credibility. They're not gonna let the cancel culture mob steamroll them just for the sake of truth and integrity, they gonna suckle at the power teat for as long as they can. Look at what happened to Didier Raoult... He dared stand in the way of the covid jab mob and his PhD might as well say Dr Bobo now... He's one of the pre-eminent virologists of the 21st century and he was openly ridiculed by every leftard cultist on the planet. How any pencilnecks are gonna risk getting the Raoult treatment? 2%?

It was for me and you seem to have supported my very point below... Maybe my post wasn't clear enough, and not to drift the thread further from vaccine death and harm statistics but: I tend to hold voters (the people) accountable for a lot of this. Some 70% were in favour of mandates and cheered when their neighbours got fired. About 20% (if memory serves) supported the idea of interning unvaccinated individuals. If those folks had defended the idea of individual rights, if they had done their own threat assessments, if they had left others alone to do theirs and minded their own business, if they hadn't gleefully cheered those firings, I might be feeling a little better about our trajectory as nation right now. Vaccine hesitancy is becoming an issue now and I'm not surprised that it is. I fear there are more harm statistics coming our way as a direct result of it.

RFK Jr. walks back saying he can "make the argument" that Biden is a much worse threat to democracy than Trump. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday walked back saying he “can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy" than Donald Trump. On NewsNation’s “Cuomo" on Tuesday night, Kennedy said his statement, which he made during a Monday interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, was reported inaccurately. “Do you want people to believe that you think that President Biden has done more objectionable things vis-à-vis our democracy than former President Trump did in the aftermath of the last election?” NewsNation host Chris Cuomo asked Kennedy. “No. As you heard, Chris, I — what I said was that I can make this argument and I didn't say definitively whether I believed one or the other was more dangerous than democracy. I did say that I don't believe either of them are going to destroy democracy,” Kennedy said. “Both sides are telling us the other guy is the end of the republic. But, you know, they're both lame-duck presidents,” Kennedy said. https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-walks-back-saying-120344283.html Anyways RFK is a known anti-vax alternative medicine kook which is why he’s running as an independent.

Yes, all the world's doctors, scientists and health officials are involved in a conspiracy to kill people with a vaccine and then pretend that it saves lives. And the only people who will dare tell the truth are random jackasses in the Internet. 🙄 It's time for you to turn in all your internet-connected devices, because you're clearly so gullible that you're one email away from sending your life savings to a "Nigerian prince."

Hindsight is 20/20. Our statistics are much better than in the US, and we had more Public health response so... If you're saying there was malfeasance, I don't see it. If you're saying there was incompetence, well maybe, but also pretty incredible public response to an unprecedented mass event. Hindsight is 20/20. Because I waste enough of my time reading garbage on here. Feel free to post thousand word responses which I also read. There are limits as to how much information I need to gather to come to the conclusion that sh1t is brown.

MH always appears to be short on something. Just my opinion. 🤣

You believe the tax fraud of deducting payoffs as "legal expenses" is not a felony?

In 2 and 3 year old stories. This is not new news, it has been out there for years. And it was probably exposed even before that. Some guys just gotta dig up old news to perpetuate their conspiracy theories LOL My opinion...as valid as theirs.

At our rate of developing, what should be about enough time to build electrical generating sources?? We will never be able to live without fossil fuels and its refined products. Those that think so, do not realize it's worth and what we need it for. Petrochemicals derived from oil and natural gas make the manufacturing of over 6,000 everyday products and more every day. There is no replacement for those items. Fossil fuels are not just to propel cars LOL We don't yell and scream at producers, only at Liberal governments LOL

But if the government wanted to keep it quiet, why would they allow this appearance of liability? Since they own the judges and presumably have enough experts to fund a big lie, they could get the lawsuits thrown out of court by bringing in one of their paid experts right? The moral of the story is that conspiracy theories still need to have internal logic.

1) This just takes the legal impetus out of a vax-death scenario. The gov't can swoop in and quickly cover the cost of a funeral, leaving less room for people to file a lawsuit against the gov't. Imagine a case where someone has to take the jab to keep their job, and they have to keep their job or they'll lose their mortgage. They don't want to take the jab, but they have no other choice, and they "die suddenly" [it kills them]. In that scenario the bereaved family members could try to sue the gov't, and they have very finite costs of a funeral on the books to sue for which makes their lawsuit necessary for the courts to deal with, but those costs are just quickly scratched off the ledger by the gov't. Now it's only a hardship case which is a huge grey area, along with the grey area stemming from the fact that medical authorities don't put "vaccination" down as a cause of death. People who "die of covid" are checked off on the spot: "Coughed ten days ago? Check. We're done here." People who die after vaxing are left as question marks. "Died suddenly" is a new official cause of death: SDS is not a formal diagnosis: no set criteria universally define sudden death. However, a 2023 article suggests that many experts have adopted the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition. It states that SDS is sudden, unexpected death from natural causes witnessed within one hour of symptom onset. 2) This has "political expediency" written all over it. It's like the Duffygate $90K on steroids. "Do you want the cheque to cover your funeral costs or not, lady? Sign here, and don't get any of your stupid tears on the paper. This is 98 brilliance, 28 lb paper. It's over $25 a ream." The jab-apologists are out in force today. What's up?

So is his cult.

If you buy his Bible, at least you get a book. If you buy his stock, you’ll get nothing. Analysts forecast a stock price of $2 per share. There’s no roadmap to profitability for Truth Social. It’s a social network based on the tweets of a single celebrity. The company has been bleeding cash, losing $58 million last year. and, much worse, had only $4 million in revenue. Oh, and $40 million of that lost money was spent paying interest on loans. That should frighten anyone with any sense… how much debt do they have to pay $40 million a year in interest? If that’s not enough to alarm you, consider this: In 2022, they reported profit of $50 million, on revenue of $1.5 million. Read that again: Profit of $50 million on revenue of $1.5 million. If that’s not enough to convince you that you’re being conned, nothing is. Trump’s holding about 70% of the stock. As soon as he sells his shares, the dilution is better than 2:1. So just buy his Bible. You’ll have something to show for your money.

All of this is concerning, but half the posters on here spend their time defending or denying that any of this is happening or worth worrying about. Some simply have a visceral hatred or jealousy of Peterson, so they disagree with anything he says because he says it. Most people are simply too busy, too scared of repercussions, too confused, too brainwashed, or too complaisant to do anything about the creeping controls over speech and behaviour. The pandemic, planned or unplanned (and we’ll probably never know the truth), provided authorities with an opportunity to test the limits of surveillance, removal of rights, and enforcement through fines, job loss, freezing of bank accounts, and general deplatforming. Imagine adding more technology for control and surveillance in similar or even bigger crises. Unfortunately we’ve seen that policy can be set and handed down from non-state unelected bodies radically and efficiently. Some politicians are complete dupes or even embrace this governance. It explains why now there are only two goals: inclusivity and fighting climate change. These ideas and the policies supporting them are overriding all other considerations, much as “keeping us safe” during the pandemic obliterated basic constitutional rights. What’s strange is that even though most people you talk to have other priorities, the right think of these imposed values is always the narrative in the background of our lives: in government, media, training at work, even at most churches. We know that something is amiss, but we can’t quite remember or understand what.