Never underestimate the ability of people to fuck things up without needing any conspiracy to drive them to do it. Some company got rich making those stupid chad punch machines.
Now, was the election debacle of 2000 USED to push electronic voting, absolutely. That was rammed through over the objections of competent people on all sides.
It shouldn't take a genius to have looked at the election setup around that time, realize eventually there's going to be a catastrophically narrow election that's completely fucked because of the garbage voting systems, and have a plan ready to go. When a system is failure-ready, you don't have to do anything but wait.
I'll admit at this point I wouldn't be surprised though...
Tokyo is a rough spot because the Japanese don't fuck around when it comes to compliance with rules. There are costs and benefits to living everywhere, this is one of the costs.
Pfizer and Moderna both use the same mRNA technology as a basis, so, flip a coin. There don't seem to be any notable differences between the two. Getting one of the Chinese ones (which use killed virus) is not an option, I guess? Novavax should be finishing up their protein-based one soon; if there's any plan to roll it out in Japan, that would obviously be preferable.
It's almost boring how stories like this always go from "gaslighting and denial that it could ever happen" to "insistence that it's super rare and anyway there's no proof it's caused by that" to "okay so it happens but it's worth it".
Anyone who's not at least a little suspicious of how over the top the push for specifically the mRNA shots is... well, they're beyond help.
It can't be one of the adenovirus shots. It can't be Russia's version. It can't be China's killed virus actual-vaccine shots.
Nope, you need mRNA in your veins, right now!
They may have noticed that a majority of the population across all demographic lines are against the provisions of the bill when they actually find out what's in it. In a situation where the government is already seen as increasingly illegitimate, that's not an ideal thing to try and push. This way, Dems get to fundraise off of the idea of the bill and how mean Republicans are for blocking it without risking anyone finding out what's really in it. Republicans get to fundraise off the fact that Dems tried to seize control of the mechanisms of power, but nobody who is on the traitor media risks hearing that criticism. Everyone wins.
It does seem like the kind of thing that would normally have just been rammed through in the past, by hook or by crook. "You have to pass the bill to find out what's in it," sort of deal.
I've spun up websites on AWS (amazon web services) before; they make it super easy. The down side of that of course is that you are wholly controlled by the beast and they will steal your data or kick you off the instant it becomes convenient for them to do so.
Unless your lips are 24/7 devoted to servicing globohomo, you need to practice a certain amount of information security regarding where you host your aberrant, thinking-for-yourself shenanigans.
Presumably a "contact-tracing app". You would scan a QR code at public venues you visit so that if someone who was also at that venue is diagnosed with COVID everyone who was there can be told.
So if for some reason you don't feel like your phone is spitting out enough information on your every move, you can go the extra mile.
The meeting itself is a joke. An hour, at the end of the week, scheduled a week in the future? Ooh I can feel the urgency.
This may have more to do with "signalling" the bounds of acceptable inquiry. Just like mention of the lab leak theory was drowned out by shrieks right up until a member of the regime mentioned it, at which point it was totally okay to talk about. Talk about jab side effects was banished to the outer dark, but will now be acceptable for people to investigate without the risk of professional ruin.
They can't come right out and say "we may have killed everyone due to our Trump Derangement Syndrome", so they just have to signal that it's okay to think that the vaccine may have flaws.
As much as the Supreme Court is supposed to be about the law, they're a political entity - part of the bureaucracy - as well.
They seem to be focusing on issuing a lot of rulings for cases they can go 9-0 on. I can't help but think that in normal times this would be another 5-4 with a whiny minority opinion about but muh duty to protects. In these times, a bunch of 5-4 rulings in cases like this would basically be as if they were raising a giant "please stack the supreme court" billboard.
It's really rare for any bureaucratic entity anywhere, ever, to volunteer to have its power castrated. Even if members are supposedly on the same side as the people who would be wielding the knife. This has worked against us a lot, but in this case seems to be working for us.
(There could be deeper movements at work, but such things aren't required to explain this.)
If it's just self-interest, look for them to go back to the usual behavior - 5-4 garbage with Roberts being his normal treacherous self - once the threat of court-packing is firmly defeated.
Take this with the usual "beware of health advice received on the internet", but based on what they've admitted with the J&J clots, that might be a bad idea.
In a normal clot situation that would be the way, but the clots caused by the vaccine are because your immune system is freaking out over your platelets. You can have a very low platelet count at the same time you're getting these clots in horrifying places. A blood thinner in that situation is... not ideal.
The mRNA ones are probably causing the same issue in the same way; it's something about how the spike protein of covid connects up to platelets that makes your immune system freak out.
One day of selling, even with big block trades, just means some idiot hedge fund got carried out feet first. If it continues this week, in the same confluence of media/Chinese companies, then there's more likely to be something to it, and that fund that blew up is a cover story. (The fact that fund apparently did blow up doesn't mean it's not also a cover.)
If there's seizure of Chinese assets that someone at GC has heard about and is front-running, it probably means China is about to kick off their conquest of Taiwan, rather than something triggering that election security executive order, but we live in weird times so who knows?
Yeah, for the last little while there's been gobs of trainers in Texas and recently a swarm of activity around Pensacola FL... today, nothing in those areas. There's a little bit of trainer activity going on, but all the previous hotspots are quiet.
Back when there were options within the existing legal framework, when mobilizing people to yell at their representatives to do the right thing might have worked, that was the time for High Energy Trump. That was the time for joyous rides in the golf cart when there was still a hand full of cards yet to be played. A time for lion memes.
If we are going to get a "happening" then he can't be that guy.
"Slink off into the night" is not really Trump, you're right. That would be playing into the caricature the enemy wants to project onto him.
Only google gets to distribute misinformation on their platform.