By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)
(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)
NOTE: Opinions posted here are my own, but try as one may, the basic facts absolutely cannot be denied.
IT'S OFFICIAL. AMERICA'S NEW DARK AGE HAS NOW BEGUN IN EARNEST.
Well, it's finally official. America's new dark age has begun. President Muskrat and his orange puppet and their cronies have taken over, and they basically hold all of the cards now that all three branches of the federal government are doing their bidding. The ONE thing they lack is a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, having less than 60 seats, but that is not much consolation. Especially given how utterly obsequious practically everyone even remotely in Trump's orbit has been lately. I mean, in the previous several months, Congress couldn't even manage to get the No Kings Act passed, which would have limited Trump's power.
Trump wasted no time with his executive pen on Days 1 and 2 of his second term. From pardoning January 6th insurrectionists to cracking down at the border (and attempting mass deportations) to unconstitutionally attempting to end birthright citizenship (!) to pulling out of the Paris climate accords and pulling out of the WHO to rescinding many of Biden's executive orders, to so many other things. Some of the things he is doing are already facing pushback and/or legal challenges which can tie things up for a while, while other things can have near-immediate impacts, mostly negative and often very negative indeed. And other things are just plain silly, like him renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America", for example.
And they're just getting warmed up!
Oh, and by the way, did you see Muskrat giving...wait for it...what looked suspiciously like a Nazi salute (sorry, "Roman" salute), not once, but twice in a row to the innauseation crowd? If it quacks like a duck....
(Remember, the road to fascism is invariably paved with, "Calm down, you're overreacting!", followed by, "Meh, I wasn't really using my civil rights anyway".)
January 20, 2025 will very likely go down in history as "the day that democracy died". But to be brutally honest, it has been on life support for quite a while now, and now the plug has finally been pulled. America has long been an oligarchy, and is now a full-blown plutocracy and kleptocracy without any semblance of shame or any attempt to disguise it any longer. And with increasingly neo-fascist leanings too.
This is, sadly, to be expected in a society that has become so desensitized that it has clearly forgotten how to shudder.
One can only hope that it's always darkest before the dawn. But after seeing so many false dawns in the past, that outlook has gotten rather, well, darker lately.
Winter is coming, in more ways than one. The winter of our discontent, that is. And actually, it's already here now.
ONCE AGAIN, THE OFFICIAL COVID NARRATIVE GOES UP IN FLAMES
It's 2025 now, five full years after the "novel coronavirus" that became known as COVID-19 made its official debut. Aside from a few dead-enders and true believers here and there, nearly everyone has long since moved on from the pandemic, which officially ended somewhere between the second half of 2022 and the end of the first half of 2023, depending on the country and whose source you follow.
And just recently, a pair of new studies came out that were pretty damning indeed about practically everything that was done during the pandemic in terms of countermeasures. That's in addition to all of the other studies we at the TSAP have cited over the years.
One new multi-country study found that school closures were basically useless or worse than useless, at least in the long run. Specifically, they found no correlation between school reopenings during ether Delta or Omicron, and trends in adult Covid deaths and hospitalizations. This is especially damning to the narrative because the biggest justification they had was that the school closures weren't to protect the kids themselves so much as to protect the adults around them, consequences to the kids themselves (and boy, were there plenty!) being a mere afterthought. Thus, even on their very own Machiavellian and cold utilitarian terms of essentially using children and teens as human shields to protect adults, such medium- to long-term school closures have clearly been shown to be an EPIC FAIL, and need to be permanently removed from any serious consideration going forward.
Another study, this one in Japan (arguably the mask and jab champions of the world), found that the jabs were also quite counterproductive indeed in terms of contracting the virus. That is, the odds of contracting Covid actually increased with the number of jab doses, which is negative efficacy. Wow. And adjusting for confounders only made this perverse correlation even stronger:
The odds of contracting COVID-19 were higher among vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated individuals, with an unadjusted OR of 1.65 (95% CI: 1.27-2.14, p < 0.001) and an adjusted OR of 1.85 (95% CI: 1.33-2.57, p < 0.001).
That explains how Japan, a country with one of the highest jab rates in the world, has had roughly a DOZEN waves (!) of the virus, give or take depending on who's counting, and how the biggest (and deadliest) waves of them all didn't come until AFTER the jabs. Let that sink in. Oops, maybe they should have thought of that possibility BEFORE bringing these jabs to market in the first place.
But wait, there's more! That same Japanese study also looked at other behaviors as well. As one Redditor, MembraneAnomaly, put it so well:
This bit is very interesting:
Preventive behaviors assessed included regular gargling, mask-wearing, bathing frequency, avoiding crowded places, room ventilation, eating habits, sleep patterns, exercise habits, and maintaining humidity in living spaces.
Behavioral analysis indicated that a reduced frequency of bathing and exercising was significantly associated with higher COVID-19 infection rates (p < 0.05).
Now look at the table under "Demographic characteristics" to find p-values for the association between reducing bathing and exercise and contracting COVID (0.016 and 0.01), compared to mask-wearing (0.644) and avoiding crowds (0.664). Nuff said! Stay healthy, exercise, keep clean - and dump the mask!
Great advice indeed, which is basically what used to be called common sense. Which unfortunately, is not nearly as common as it should be. (For those who are unfamiliar with what p-values mean, this means that the effect of masks, even in the land of mask champions, was statistically insignificant, indistinguishable from being due to chance.)
And just in case anyone cries "but source control!", the fact that Japan has still had a dozen or so waves even with all of that masking really puts the lie to that specious claim too.
So jabs and masks are also revealed once again to be useless, and in the case of the former, worse than useless. Again, masking for the general population should also be permanently removed from any serious consideration going forward, and any vaccines in the future for any disease need to be properly designed and properly tested before we even THINK about unleashing them on the public, and certainly never forced or coerced in any way.
And just like with masks, we have already completely laid waste long ago to any case for lockdowns and business closures and and stuff like that as well. Those were the easiest to debunk, in fact. And again, going forward, those need to be removed from any serious consideration as well.
And so once again, like the song says, the official Covid narrative goes up in flames...in 24 frames.
(Mic drop)
UPDATE: One of the very few bright spots in the new Trump regime is that RFK Jr. (if confirmed) would of course be a decent bulwark against this sort of thing happening again under his watch. And while Trump himself is not exactly trustworthy, to put it mildly, he did begin the process of pulling the USA out of the World Health Organization.
RIP NET NEUTRALITY, AGAIN
Well, it's official. Net Neutrality has been struck down by the 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals on January 2, 2025. While Big Tech, and Big Business in general, are celebrating this as a victory and salivating like a Pavlov's Dog, make no mistake, this is a major loss for We the People. Now internet service providers can rig the internet in favor some people or entities over others via blocking access or varying speeds as "fast and slow lanes". Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
(Meanwhile, at the same time, various vain and illiberal attempts to "childproof" the internet with mandatory age verification have met with varying degrees of legal success.)
2025 seems to be starting out on the wrong foot already, and of course the new dark age has begun in earnest on January 20, 2025 when Trump was re-inaugurated as President of the United States. All with his puppet master Muskrat, the richest person in the world (and in literally all of recorded history) pulling his strings. Grifters gonna graft, believe me.
We will admit, while we at the TSAP have always loathed Trump, a few years ago, we thought that Muskrat was a real-life Tony Stark. Now it is obvious that he is more like Doctor Octopus on ketamine, only worse. And Trump? Well, he is more like Ganondorf, the villain from the Legend of Zelda series. And the current moment in history is reminiscent of the part of Ocarina of Time when Ganondorf snuck in and took over, casting Hyrule into a new and horrible dark age. Like Ganondorf, King Of Evil, Trump is the epitome of toxic masculinity, while Link the hero is the epitome of TONIC masculinity. Unfortunately at this juncture of history in the real world, Link seems to be nowhere to be found these days, and Kamala Harris, the closest equivalent to Princess Zelda, is now out of power completely as VP as of January 20th, 2025.
Buckle up, as we are in for a VERY wild ride!
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