Edward the IV, bunions, and the new world order

Tom McAn I

Medieval fashion trend brought a plague of bunions to England

Researchers in England have been examining old skeletons and discovered an interesting phenomenon: while just 6% of individuals buried between the 11th and 13th centuries had evidence of bunions, 27% of those from the 14th and 15th centuries were hobbled by the affliction.

That's likely because shoe style changed significantly during the 14th century, when it shifted from a functional rounded toe box to a lengthy pointed tip.

That’s all very nice to learn, but here’s what struck me:

Across late medieval society, the pointiness of shoes became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV (his chosen royal motto, “method and order”) passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than 2 inches within London.

We are no longer ruled by a single king who by simple diktat can decide what shoes his subjects can wear, but we’ve certainly returned to a system of rule and power descending from the top, rather than up, from free citizens. The Great Experiment has been destroyed, deliberately.

Citizens locked in their homes, jobs ruined, forbidding the heating or cooling of houses except by non-existent “green” energy, ridiculous edicts like banning plastic bags, straws, and styrofoam coffee cups, it’s all one theme: what the people don’t want to do they’ll be forced to do, by governments and the permanent subclass of bureaucrats and regulators.

What’s the goal here? The creation of a state of deprivation, where limited resources will be distributed by fiat to favored individuals and classes and denied the resistors and enemies of the state.

Or that’s where I see all this going.

Snopes will investigate this

Leesburg, VA: Woke Public School Hangs Up Inspirational ‘You Can’t Do It!’ Poster For Black Students

When the cure is worse than the disease

this probably won’t hurt

‘We clearly have an imbalance’: CDC holding emergency meeting over COVID vax concern

The vaccine advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will participate in an emergency meeting next week after hundreds of young Americans developed heart inflammation following their second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 jabs.

As of May 31, the CDC has received 275 preliminary reports of myocarditis and pericarditis in fully-vaccinated 16 to 24-year-olds — a number that’s higher than what scientists expected to see, the CDC said Thursday. 

“We clearly have an imbalance there,” Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, deputy director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, said in a presentation to an FDA advisory committee.

Across all age groups, a total of 488 Pfizer recipients and 301 Moderna recipients reported the condition — and the majority were male.

…. It’s still not clear if the vaccine is causing the inflammation but the June 18 meeting will seek to address the condition and figure out how it should be handled moving forward. 

Dr. Shimabukuro cautioned against drawing conclusions because the reports are preliminary. 

“It’s a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison because, again, these are preliminary reports. Not all these will turn out to be true myocarditis or pericarditis reports,” Shimabukuro said, according to CBS News.

While people as old as 94 have reported the condition, 52.5 percent of cases have been found in patients between the ages of 12 and 24 — a demographic that represents just 8.8 percent of total vaccinations. 

It’s a small number, and not necessarily caused by the vaccines, but with an age group that has almost zero chance of getting seriously ill from the China Flu, why the rush to force them to be vaccinated? NEA pressure? A desire to keep the panic going? Whatever the reason, you can be sure it has nothing to do with protecting

To be fair, he can't possibly remember the details of an event five years back

Flatline pulse

Biden says something — trunalimunumaprzure? — about the Pulse massacre, fails to mention that it was a butchery committed by a Musselman.

President Biden issued a statement Saturday commemorating the five-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Fla.

The attack by gunman Omar Mateen left 49 dead at the LGBT nightclub, marking the deadliest act of Islamic terror on US soil since 9/11. Mateen was shot dead by police. 

“In the coming days, I will sign a bill designating Pulse Nightclub as a national memorial, enshrining in law what has been true since that terrible day five years ago: Pulse Nightclub is hallowed ground,” Biden wrote.

But the statement curiously omitted any references to Islamic terrorism or the Islamic State — to which the shooter declared his allegiance shortly beforecarrying out his deadly rampage.

“I pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State,” Mateen said in a 911 phone call.

….

Instead of talking terrorism, however, Biden leaned on the old Democratic standby that the attack was part of the larger problem of the “epidemic of gun violence” and launched into a laundry list of policy proposals like new gun control measures and LGBT rights legislation.

And that's just a start

Hmm, no bats here, we can MoveOn™

Matt Margolis, PJ Media:

Ten Media Lies Trump Has Been Proven Right About Since the Election

The trouble, of course, is that half the population has always known this, and the other half never will.

1. Hydroxychloroquine works

Evidence of hydroxychloroquine being an effective treatment for COVID has been around since before the election, but a recent study has shown that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) combined with azithromycin (AZM), could increase the rate of survival by nearly three times for severely ill COVID-19 patients.

There were plenty of studies that proved HCQ was an effective therapeutic for COVID-19 that were ignored before the election, and I have no doubt that even post-election studies supporting this will also be ignored, but nevertheless, Trump was right, and had the right people listened, many lives would have been saved.

Related: Trump Vindicated (Again) by New Study on Hydroxychloroquine

2. The Virus came from a Chinese lab

While this one is technically not proven yet, the mere suggestion that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was enough to get you censored on social media and labeled a racist conspiracy theorist. New questions have resulted in a major mea culpa from Facebook, which had to reverse its original policy to ban posts suggesting the virus may have originated in the lab. Trump, for his part, had said last year that he’d seen evidence that the virus had come from the lab, while Dr. Fauci publicly insisted the evidence proved it was natural.

Related:BOMBSHELL: Defector Claims to Have Evidence That Chinese Military Coordinated Creation and Release of COVID-19

3. Hunter Biden’s laptop was real

The evidence that the infamous laptop left in a Delaware computer repair shop belonged to Hunter Biden was staggering—even before the election. The owner literally had a signed receipt from Hunter Biden, but it wasn’t until a couple of months ago that Hunter Biden essentially admitted that the laptop “certainly” could be his. Prior to this, the media refused to report on it, and social media censored the story. But even the media kinda, sorta admitted the laptop was real… eventually.

4. Lafayette Square was not cleared for a photo op

An Inspector General report released this week put this fake story to bed, finally. But before the election, it was widely reported as fact that Trump used tear gas and the Capitol Police to clear Lafayette Square for a photo op during a riotous protest. Trump and other officials denied this happened, but the media didn’t care.

5. The “Russian bounties” story was fake

Another story that was debunked before the election. In fact, it was debunked within a week of the so-called bombshell story being published. But the Biden administration itself confirmed this story was pure bunk back in April when it acknowledged that there was only “low to moderate” confidence in reports that Russia had offered bounties to Taliban soldiers to kill U.S. troops.

6. We did produce vaccines before the end of 2020, in record time

President Trump insisted that, thanks to Operation Warp Speed, we’d have a vaccine for COVID-19 before the end of 2020. The media did everything it could to dismiss that as fantasy, literally fact-checking his claim. But we ended up with two vaccines before the end of 2020, and another one soon after.

7. Blue state lockdowns didn’t work

Texas comes to mind as a state that proved the lockdowns didn’t work. The state opened up in March, and despite Biden calling it “neanderthal thinking” and Dr. Fauci predicting disaster, Texas saw no spike in cases or deaths, and saw both rates decline.

8. Schools should be opened

Schools should never have closed in the first place, yet fear prevailed over science. Trump was firmly on the side of having schools reopen and he received pushback from teachers’ unions on that. Now, the CDC Director says schools should be “first to reopen.” The teachers’ unions were wrong. Trump was right.

9. Critical race theory is a disaster for our schools and our country

Trump got a lot of pushback from the media for calling critical race theory “un-American propaganda.” But a recent poll shows that most Americans—and by most, I mean an overwhelming majority—don’t like critical race theory and don’t think it should be taught in schools. While I don’t think the media is exactly on the same wavelength, it is, no doubt, a vindication for Trump.

Related: Critical Race Theory Backers: ‘Our Constitution Should Be Burned’

10. Our southern border security program was an unprecedented success

This is practically a no-brainer. Trump’s immigration policies were attacked endlessly by the media, yet border crossings declined. Biden, on the other hand, rolled out the welcome mat, causing a historic surge in border crossings, particularly of unaccompanied minors, who have been forced to endure deplorable conditions in crowded migrant facilities, where they don’t get enough exercise, food, and water, or even access to sunlight. Claims of sexual abuse of migrant children have also been reported.

Minders, Keepers

Jolted Joe forgets where he is, again

Victoria Taft; No, we don’t think it’s funny when grandpa gets lost at home, either. But your gramps isn’t the president of the United State like Joe Biden, so there’s that.

Joe Biden’s mental acuity matters.

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Now that Joe Biden is in the Oval Office, the media can’t look away fast enough from the man who obviously suffers from cognitive problems.

And now Joe’s gotten lost again. And this time, Joe got lost in front of the whole world.

Related: Joe Biden’s Dementia European Vacation

At the G-7 summit in the UK, Doctor Jill Biden slipped ahead of Joe to jawbone with some dignitaries.

It appears Joe stepped away from a table and, for a brief moment, forgot where he was supposed to be going. He stopped and looked around, failing to see Jill Biden nearby.

Jill Biden called out to Joe, which he apparently couldn’t hear, which forced her into making exaggerated hand movements encouraging him to come over to her.

You know the thing. Obviously, this isn’t the only time Joe has gotten lost, either in his mind or physically.

Joe Biden seems to get lost at the G7 summit in England, Jill comes to the rescue @JoeBiden @G7 @FLOTUS @USAmbUK pic.twitter.com/GFxGouRCoA

— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) June 11, 2021

You may remember, though Joe does not, when he forgot the name of his Defense Secretary and the institution he serves.

.@JoeBiden:

"I want to thank the former general. I keep calling him general, but my... the guy who runs that outfit over there."pic.twitter.com/yeOifCp8ct

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 8, 2021

Plenty more at the link. Here’s one that isn’t, but which remains my favorite:

Malice guiding the ignorant and stupid

The great reset – “you will own nothing, and you will be happy” (by 2030) is attacking everything in our country, from education, to the military, to capitalism, to homeownership, to the family – to everything. Every day brings news of more assaults, too many to comment on here, but I thought I’d focus on just one of their targets: energy. Cheap energy is what lifted the world from poverty, and its destruction is a key part in the plan to return us to serfdom. Here are a few random examples:

1. Keystone pipeline is officially dead.

2. Michigan’s Governor Whitmer orders the shut down of “Pipeline 5”, which supplies her state’s natural gas, the propane that heats 1-of 5 of upper Peninsula homes, and all of Canada’s largest airport’s aviation fuel. She also opposes and seeks to shut down the ongoing construction of a new pipeline, arguing that her subjects can heat their homes by rubbing two pieces of cake together.

3. CT’s legislature blocked all construction or expansion of natural gas pipelines back in 2017. Right now (currently, so to speak), 95% of our state’s electricity is generated by natural gas, and our sole nuclear energy plant.

4. Construction of the Atlanta Coast Natural Gas Pipeline has been permanently stopped

And so on. Our state, local and national governments have combined with the eco-terrorists and communists to impoverish the country so that they can remake into what they think it should be. Out: Western civilization; in, a communist utopia, “but this time done right”.

As an side to you Tesla owners, I’ll point out that even if all of Texas and half of Nevada is covered in solar panels, even if a magical new battery shows up so that electricity can be generated at hight and on cloudy days, there will never be transmission lines sufficient to carry that mythical energy to other states like, say, California and Connecticut. Biden has just restored the billion dollars Trump took away from Governor Noisome for continuation of his train from nowhere to nowhere, but why did that project fail, and why is it beginning and ending in the desert? Because Californians don’t want construction anywhere near their cities. “High-speed rail” is beloved in theory by every proper Green, but not if it disrupts their view, or disturbs their peace behind their mansions’ gates. Surely you’re not naive enough to believe that that opposition will disappear if a power line is transporting “green”. if you are, take a look up at Maine, where exactly such a line has been stalled and thwarted for over a decade by Greens because it would cut 75’-wide swath through forests never seen by Portland’s bicyclists and latte sniffers. Imagine the fun if a transmission line was proposed to run within site of, say, Malibu, or Presidio heights.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

PRAY FOR FLATS

Montana, whose fishing rivers were locked up by billionaires decades ago, is now being eaten by Zoomer techies.

All around the [Yellowstone] Lodge, along Montana Highway 35, from Kalispell to Whitefish, are what the locals call “COVID homes,” prefabricated track houses that line up along what used to be a timber farm — all of which were built last year and sold at around $550,000. 

“Most were bought sight unseen for cash deals,” said Doug Averill.

While this may be good for realtors, locals are shell-shocked at the price hikes due to what the Flathead Beacon called the “COVID migration” from states like New York. “(The housing crisis) is happening all over Montana,” one Whitefish local told The Post. “No one who is from here can actually afford to live here anymore.”

According to Realtor.com, just before the pandemic in December 2019, the average home price in Whitefish, a town of 7,700 people just south of Glacier National Park, was $369,450. A year and a half later, that has almost doubled — and the average home price is now $704,000. Local average wages in Whitefish are just $30,642, according to bestplaces.net. 

These are people who have cheered the lockdown of ordinary people while they themselves got richer, who move to rural areas and immediately post it, vote for gun control, and politicians who will ruin the local schools and the country and in general, just won’t leave the rest of us alone. I don’t want to live anywhere near them, and that’s getting increasingly hard to do.

The Bee, or Not the Bee?

One of these was supposed to be satirical:

Biden Proposes Some Kind Of Mark Or Patch To Identify Those Who Aren't Vaccinated

The Biden administration assured the public this idea has absolutely no downsides they can think of. In a statement to the press, they said: "There's literally zero chance this can lead to anything bad down the road." 

Unvaccinated Students “Branded” at High School Prom

At White House’s Urging, dating Sites Adding “Vaccination Badges” to Users’ Profiles

COVID Theater

From the shutdown to face masks to useless plexiglass shields, (Mocked by experts and anyone with common sense from the very first) the central authorities’ response to Kung Flu has been about enhancing government power and stripping citizens of their freedom. Nothing new here, as the 9/11 response showed: kabuki theater at our airports, to distract us from the huge expansion of wiretapping and spying on U.S. citizens is just one example; useless gestures like banning plastic straws at the suggestion of a six-year-old to end global warming and save polar bears is a lesser one, but annoying nonetheless.

Anyway, here’s yesterday’s buffoonery: UPDATE: This was a very funny video of the idiots’ dance set to music, but Twitter has now disabled the script: there will be no mocking of Dear Leader(s).

The footage of the G7 leaders elbow-bumping is further improved by the addition of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes pic.twitter.com/5yz2ymDiVt

— Tom Hourigan (@TomHourigan) June 11, 2021