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The puberty blocking drug used to create so called transgender people has killed six thousand children. Meanwhile an already illegal misuse of vaping products is alleged to have some possible but indirect tie to the death of six. Not six thousand. Six.

One of the products is, according to the death cult pseudo religion of political correctness sacred. The other product interferes with the business practice of a particular rich international industry. Despite what you may have heard, large and established businesses, including tech companies, prosper under socialist economic policies and regulatory regimes.

The same Powers That Be who support and spread political correctness publicly, support and spread privately the admixture of socialist and statist incest between big business and big government, fitliest called plutocracy.

One may indifferently regard plutocracy as the extortion and control of established industry by government, or as the bribery and regulatory capture of government by established industry. Since it is the same one group of the elite, it is misleading to speak of two groups, one controlling or bribing the other.

So one product pleases the Elite, and the other does not. Which of the two, the one which killed six thousand children, or the one which may or may not have had an indirect effect leading to the death of six, do you think the media, and the government, activists and pundits and the entire chattering class, now seek to ban?

CORRECTION: I have been informed from several sources, that the number of people who died from the puberty blocking drug is smaller than I give here: There were 6204 Serous adverse effects from the drug, including 200 deaths.

Meanwhile the number of deaths vaguely related to vaping is now being given as seven or eight.

I think the original point still stands. If the number of deaths is two orders of magnitude greater than those alleged to come from vaping rather than three orders of magnitude, the difference in the death toll is still measured in orders of magnitude. 

I hear that the Enemies of Man Democrat Party is launching multiple impeachment investigations rather than debating and passing laws.

I have seen the impeachment investigations are based on a case, which, even if everything alleged against the President were true and interpreted in the light most favorable to the accusation, nothing alleged is neither a high crime, nor a misdemeanor, nor a breach of common courtesy, nor unusual, nor untoward, but is instead one of those things the Office of the President is charged under the Constitution to do (namely to see the laws duly enforced).

If you have a contrary opinion as to the meaning, the wisdom, or the Constitutionality of this naked abuse of process, keep it to yourself. Some things are loaned an undue dignity by debating them as if they were serious.

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For those of you who think the CIA is too honorable to have cooperated with a smear campaign to unseat a duly elected president:

Ten Victims of MK Ultra

Here is a paragraph from the beginning of the list:

Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and a source of inspiration in the counterculture movement, was first exposed to LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a part of the MKULTRA project while still a graduate student at Stanford University. He came to be involved in the study almost by accident, as a neighbor of Kesey’s—a psychologist—signed up for the project but had to back out at the last minute. An outstanding athlete and a straitlaced individual up to that point, Kesey had never done any sort of drug and had never even tasted alcohol. At the time of the experiments, Kesey was in training for the 1960 Olympics, as he had earned a place on the wrestling team as an alternate.

Despite Allen Ginsberg’s insistence, Kesey did not believe that the project was sponsored by the CIA, and not until decades later did Kesey discover the program’s true intent: “[The testing] wasn’t being done to try to cure insane people, which is what we thought. It was being done to try to make people insane—to weaken people, and to be able to put them under the control of interrogators.”

It makes for fascinating, if grim, reading. Read the whole thing.

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This is a partial list. Little publicity, even from nominally conservative sources, has been directed to it. It is taken from two sources: here and here.

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