For those paying attention, the most predictable thing in the world is playing out
2022 is the love child of 2000 and 2008 with idiotic politicians and bureaucrats leading the way
By now, you’ve seen this 2 minute clip. It represents all that is wrong with America (and the west) today.
Many of our dumbest citizens go into politics, educated by propaganda, with little real world experience, degrees in basket weaving and using talking points to steer policies that my 17 and 15 year old son’s know to be deeply flawed. Printing money was always going to work out badly. The energy transition isn’t real. And virtue signaling woke values was always going to collapse under the weight of reality and the combination of all three was going to lead to recession. But here we are.
I truly believe that it is the lack of discussion, debate and critical thinking that amped up in 2020 when COVID emerged that made society lazy. How many debates did I get in with people over COVID and I would bring data and numbers and analysis and they would say “you aren’t a doctor, I don’t believe you.” I am an energy expert and yet all the data and numbers and analysis that many of us bring are being ignored by the Al Gore’s and the Fatih Birol’s and the Jennifer Granholm’s and Elizabeth Warren’s and we gave a full blown energy crisis.
Unbelievably, the worse the decisions that were made, the worser decisions that got made afterwards. No accountability. No learning. Just narrative and spin. But people have wised up. The best example? Vaccinations for 0-5 year olds. Even vaccine crazy parents have voted with their actions and it turns out, their risk assessment is far better than those advising “public health.” Less than 2% of kids under 5 are fully vaccinated and I’m actually surprised it’s that high.
By now, it should is clear as day: COVID policy was a disaster and you were lied to in the name of “the greater good” the entire time. A few of my favorite quotes to refresh your memory.
"You're not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations.” - Joe Biden, July 2021
“Fact: Covid-19 is NOT airborne.” - World Health Organization, March 2020
"Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else," she added with a shrug. "It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people. [Vaccines] will get us to the end of this." - Rachel Maddow, March 2021
"When people are vaccinated they can feel safe that they won't get infected, whether they're outdoors or indoors." - Dr. Anthony Fauci, May 2021
"Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you." - Dr. Anthony Fauci, February 2020
"For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm." - White House Covid Coordinator Jeff Zients, December 2021
“Vaccination against COVID-19 prevents breakthrough infections, Stanford researchers find.” - Stanford Medicine, July 2021
But it wasn’t just COVID. Let’s turn to inflation.
“I don’t anticipate that inflation is going to be a problem.” - Janet Yellen, March 2021
“Inflation is ‘transitory’.” - Jerome Powell, June 2021
“…incoming data are very much consistent with the view that these are factors that will wane over time and then inflation will move down toward our goals.” - Jerome Powell, June 2021
I want to reiterate the point: the “we can stop COVID” and “money printing isn’t bad” people are the SAME PEOPLE telling you that climate change is a the biggest crisis we will ever face. They should have NET ZERO credibility with you ever again. And yet, they keep talking….
“Polluters must pay. And today, I am calling on all developed economies to tax the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies.” - U.N Secretary General Antonio Guterres
For your weekend reading, I repost my post from July 2022 because I, unlike the folks I’ve quoted above, actually look at the data. I believe Black Monday is coming very soon. Be wary of the falling knife because we have a long way to go.
“We” followed “the Science(TM)” into economic theory, pandemic response and climate change. Reality called and it wants logic and critical thinking back. This, too, shall pass and we will go back to life “as usual.” My sincerest hope is we don’t repeat the mistakes of 2000 and 2008. But hope is not a plan so selling almost everything and watching from the sidelines is the best I got.
This is one of your best! Thanks, David!
The stubborn 2 year old in most of us that doesn't want to be wrong finds it tough to change his/her mind. When the 'discussion' ends up being framed as "my data against your emotions and sheep like mindset" the tone comes off more as a call to circle the logical wagons and brace for battle and less as a desire to find the truth because we need to pull together in the right direction. As the saying goes, preaching to the choir and preaching to the guy in the bar are 2 different challenges.