Better in their words…

Ireland: Wow!  mrossol

Source: OLD FASHIONED ☙ Sunday, March 10, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS

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💉 Well, this story initially sounds somewhat alarming. You’ll probably wonder why you never heard about this before. The UK Daily Mail ran the story two days ago under the foreboding headline, “75% of deer in some parts of US have 100% fatal ‘zombie deer virus, as officials issue warnings to national park visitors.’” Uh oh. Here we go again.

Zombie deer! Researchers call it “chronic wasting disease,” or CWP. In technical terms, it belongs to a group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. There is no cure or treatment. It is 100% fatal. Its cause is a baffling mystery. Infected deer become lethargic, wander off on their own, drool, and stumble, much like Joe Biden. The animals lose their fear of people, and aren’t even interested in other deer. Their brains are falling apart and turning into rotten sponges. Also like Joe. (Wait a minute! What if … nah, couldn’t be.)

CWD is easily transmitted, through shedding and lots of other ways, including air and soil. Fortunately so far, CWD has never jumped from a deer to a human. They haven’t even found any predators, like wolves and bears, that have gotten the wasting neurological disease.

But the CDC still says don’t eat any deer showing signs of CWD. That’s one I happen to agree with.

It could be nothing. It could be just a deer thing. But there are some troubling facts. Like Mad Cow disease, CWP is caused by prions, otherwise known as ‘misfolded’ proteins. Guess what also misfolds proteins? C&C most recently discussed misfolded proteins late last year, related to a remarkable study concluding the mRNA vaccines often accidentally produce misfolded “nonsense proteins” through a translational error called “frame shifting.”

A January, 2024 preprint considered that frame shifting study and tried to find patterns in the misfolding. The new preprint is titled, “Do Covid19 modified mRNA jabs Pose a Risk of Creating Harmful Proteins or Prions ?” Troublingly, the researcher found a “striking similarity” to one very disturbing type of misfolded protein:

Our findings also uncovered a striking homology with Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the “brain-eating amoeba.” This discovery raises several concerns: The presence of Naegleria fowleri traces could be linked to the uninterpreted pseudo-uridine bases in the ribosome, a scenario increasingly probable considering the widespread use of mRNA protein injections since 2021. The resurgence of this disease has been noted concurrently with COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, particularly highlighted in regions like Texas and Pakistan.

But mRNA misfolding is not what troubles me the most about this deer story. Nor is CWD anything super recent; the disease was first found in 1967 (the year I was born, and here it is my birthday, a couple odd connections). But as soon as I saw the Daily Mail headline, I recalled discussing deer since nearly the start of the pandemic, usually in the context of a covid ‘animal reservoir’ making it impossible for vaccines to ever achieve human herd immunity (even if they did work).

Anyway, the interesting pandemic connection was that deer and humans both share susceptibility to covid. Deer and humans can infect each other. For example, here’s a Forbes headline from as recently as last August:

No matter how many people you jab, covid will just mutate and come back again, from the deer population. You can’t make the deer take jabs because they aren’t afraid of losing their jobs.

Since covid, CWD seems be spreading faster. Here’s the CWD map as of 2018. By comparing this 2018 map to the current 2024 one above, you can see how quickly CWD has spread just in the last six years, after taking 40 years to get to this point:

CWD resembles covid in another significant way. The deer disease was not originally discovered in the wild. Get ready: The first case of CWD was discovered in 1967 in a captive mule deer at a research lab in Fort Collins, Colorado. Yep. After that, the next CWD case in wild deer wasn’t found for another fifteen years. The very first wild deer infected with CWD was found in 1982 — guess where? — right near the same lab where CWD was first detected in captive lab animals.

I am not making that up. CWD looks likely to have originated in a lab and leaked out. If they aren’t stopped, these people are going to get us all killed sooner or later.

To be clear, I am not immediately concerned that deer CWD is going to jump species and start turning humans into zombies, although I do still wonder whether Joe Biden might be patient zero. Nobody is seriously suggesting a Walking Dead scenario, beyond the normal media scaremongering. I am more concerned with whether covid infections caused deer immune systems to be depressed, allowing this 100% fatal disease to spread to seventy-five percent of all tested animals in some states.

The perhaps more pressing concern is that we sure don’t need the NIH encouraging research labs to try to transform CWD prions into ones that can infect humans, “to develop a vaccine.” Please somebody tell me they have learned their lesson and aren’t doing it again with chronic wasting disease.

🔥 So far this year, we’ve watched the conservative counter-offensive lighting up South America with a few remarkable new leaders, and powering parts of Europe in the form of farmers’ protests. The newest front opened this week, a Spring Counter-Offensive launched in one of the least likeliest places, and right before Saint Patrick’s Day, too. An appalled New York Times ruefully ran the story outside its paywall headlined, “Ireland Rejects Constitution Changes, Keeping ‘Women in the Home’ Language.”

How dare they?

The Shamrock State appears to have come a long way in a very short time. Less than ten years ago in 2015, Irish voters celebrated passing the country’s first gay marriage law. As recently as 2018 — right before the pandemic — Irish voters amended the country’s constitution, repealing its abortion ban.

So the elites missed it. They totally did not see this one coming, and it’s fair to say the liberal elites and their corporate media lapdogs were more shocked, stunned, and sickened than if Klaus S. had woken up one morning, donned a red baseball cap, and said he thought the Orange Man made sense about a few things. The Times’ article — desperately flogged in the free section of the papers’s website hoping to mislead more eyeballs — is a knee-jerk effort at post-hoc damage control.

Lockdown-loving Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who successfully campaigned for gay marriage and repealing the constitutional abortion ban, personally led the charge this time around pushing two even more radical constitutional amendments. Both proposed amendments were supported by every single one of the country’s major political parties.

But voters rejected them in a massive electoral tsunami, with over seventy percent of voters rejecting the vomitous changes.

The first proposed amendment would’ve deleted the constitutional definition of a “family.” Wherever used, the outdated word “marriage” would have been broad-mindedly hollowed out with the addition of the much more flexible, permissive, and open-minded term, “or durable relationship.” The archaic, Cro-Magnon concept of “marriage” — a staple of civilization as recently as 2015 when it was critically important for gay folks to get a crack at hitching up — was thought too binding, too constrictive, too discriminatory against people wanting to experiment with all sorts of novel, atypical sexual and cohabitational arrangements.

The second proposed amendment was arguably even worse. Existing Article 41.2 includes references to the offensive, outdated, and old-fashioned concepts of “woman” and “mother,” and so Article 41.2 has squarely squatted in liberals’ crosshairs for years. Here’s what the Article currently says about women and mothers:

The state “recognizes that, by her life within the home, woman gives to the state a support without which the common good cannot be achieved” and the state will “endeavor to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labor to the neglect of their duties in the home.”

Outrageous! How dare they! So the proposed amendment would’ve deleted women and mothers, replacing them with the progressive, virtuous, open-minded, diverse, inclusive, and gender-neutral term “caregiver:”

“The state recognizes that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision.”

If they’d had their way, it would’ve been buh-bye, ladies.

But Irish voters were obviously having none of it. Not unfairly, most social media commenters are focused on the successful defeat of two dangerous anti-family, anti-woman “Trojan Horse” amendments disguised as silly woke nonsense. “Woke is dead,” is the immediate take-away.

But let’s scratch a little deeper. To me, there are two bigger stories here even than that woke just suffered another humiliating defeat. The first is about how much and how fast the Irish public has changed; a public that just within the last ten years binged on every progressive gender issue served up on the electoral plate. To what could we attribute this fascinating ideological change?

The second, less obvious story, which corporate media is studiously avoiding confronting, is the obvious disconnect between Irish voters and literally the entire Irish government. Stories about the failed vote already are filled with shocked and surprised quotes. Professor Laura Cahillane, quoted for the Times’ article, explained “There seemed to be very little interest in the government in listening to the concerns of people on the wording.”

“And maybe,” Professor Cahillane added, “there was a certain amount of arrogance in thinking people might get carried away on a wave of feminism on International Women’s Day and simply pass these two referendums.” (Voting day had been deliberately scheduled for Friday, which was International Women’s Day.)

Elite arrogance is not hard to imagine..

The bill had no organized political opposition; only grassroots groups opposed the bills. All the major political parties in Ireland supported voting “Yes-Yes.” No one in government stuck up for real women whenever Prime Minister Varadkar gassed on about how the existing constitutional language was “very old-fashioned, very sexist language about women.”

Until right before the vote, published polls predicted both amendments would easily pass by wide margins. Uh huh.

What’s most annoying is how these women-erasing amendments were marketing in Ireland as “feminist.”  The National Women’s Council of Ireland, a nonprofit supposedly promoting “women’s rights and equality,” campaigned in favor of the proposals, which would have helped men pretending to be women, but would have done nothing for adult human females but make them even less visible.

But Irish voters saw right through it.

🔥 Now let’s rip the mask off The New York Times’ journalistic malpractice. Its developing corporate media narrative is coalescing around: “voters got confused.” They didn’t reject the liberal doublespeak; they just didn’t understand it. Here’s how the Times framed the narrative:

After a series of referendums in recent years had reshaped Ireland’s Constitution in ways that reflect the country’s more secular and liberal modern identity, yesterday’s result came as a surprise to some, including the government. But analysts said that, rather than signaling a step back from those values, the results reflected a confusing, disjointed campaign that had left many voters reluctant to vote yes.

First of all, note the journalistic sleight of hand. The Times snuck its own opinion into that passage. Did you catch where they did it? The article cited anonymous “analysts” for its claim of voter confusion, which was the most important fact in the story. Readers most want to know the “why.” That’s what makes the surprising vote newsworthy in the first place.

But the only “analyst” cited by the New York Times article, its only “expert,” was the aforementioned Laura Cahillane — who was described as an associate professor at the University of Limerick. Not even a full professor. And you have to look her up on Google to find out Laura’s area of study: she is an associate professor at the University of Limerick’s law school.

Obviously, Laura is not qualified to explain why Irish voters rejected the amendments.  She’s not a political science expert or psychologist or sociologist. And a little more digging revealed another New York Times trick: Laura Cahillane is a far-left liberal who’d published articles promoting the two amendments. That’s how the Times found her. The reporter went shopping online to find an ‘expert’ who would agree with the reporter and provide some stuffing for the Times’ misleading, deceptive narrative.

Returning to the article, the Times’ silly post-hoc narrative won’t hold; it is self-defeating. The Times wants its sad, deluded readers to believe that Irish voters failed to grasp how perfectly progressive were the amendments. But every political party and every major Irish media platform had hectored their constituents that the amendments promoted a “more secular and liberal identity,” and warned that voting against them was racist, sexist, and homophobic.

There is no confusion about any of that.

Yesterday’s vote in Ireland represents an ideological sea change, an electorate whose minds are starting to reject the elites’ psyops, their guilt-manipulation, and their increasingly visible cultural programming. You could point to Brexit and to Trump’s 2016 election as early warning signs. Then came the pandemic, whose excesses and over-reach showed liberalism’s hideous reality and delivered artillery to the world’s conservative pushback.

Seventy-three percent in favor of keeping non-gender-bending, “old-fashioned,” and “sexist” values.  That’s a lot of progress.

Have a blessed Sunday! I’m off for birthday fun but I’ll be back tomorrow morning to help get your week started off right with good old-fashioned fun and snark.

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