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Mr Lyons,

Politics is Power.

Let’s review the last 18 months, for the winners is was a runaway success in terms of real, raw power including violence, vast sums transferred to the elites, their enemies leaderless, impoverished, demoralized, scattered.

Trump is gone, mostly because COVID allowed voting fraud on a massive scale.

Americas cities burned- in the most massive use of force on American soil since the Civil War. Indeed, that presently was the second Civil War in 2020 and the Dems won this time by forfeit. The people in those cities know who’s boss - the nearest historical analogy is the SA running amok in Germany in 1933 before being reined in.

All those pesky small businesses are crushed.

Trillions flowed to the loyalist woke corporations both from the treasury (heard of Blackrock, Boeing?) and from consumers with no place to buy but Amazon.

Every business but especially small business knows they exist at the whim of the state.

Moreover in the traditional use of power to humiliate Americans are forced to this day to submit to face Sharia.

The elites and their strivers are United in their grasp of America - as TIME boasts:

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/?amp=true

The Republic fell on January 20th - in case you missed it- and we have no Constitution and no real laws.

The Dems most reliable street soldiers- criminals- run amok while the Police are being destroyed along with our cities.

The Border is opened - as is the nation - to Plunderers high and low.

Power in the raw is exercised over us by psychotics, with their only limits being frankly their own personal cowardice.

If you look above you’ll notice all the losers crushed by the machine were Republicans, and the runaway victors Democrats. I do not mean politicians, I mean the common man, I mean voters. The Dems and the elites knew who their enemies were - the people above- and crushed and looted their enemies, burning their cities.

Now this is normal history, normal politics returns.

Raw power- you crush your enemies, reward your followers.

Just our first time.

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If you're going to continue to cite with approval white-nationalist-adjacent morons like Moldbug (Yarvin), I won't be subscribing for much longer ...

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/11/why-i-am-not-white-nationalist/

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I kinda doubt that the lab-leak story is going to have much political effect. It seems to me that almost no matter what your political worldview was, the lab leak just confirms it.

Also, the rapid vaccine development just shows that, even though those science guys can screw things up pretty badly, it's good to have them around to clean up. Worst case is somebody else (eg China) has screwing-up science guys and you don't. So you better keep funding yours.

Plus, the zone has already been flooded with so much shit that future revelations are just going to drown in it. From the VF article: "Steve Bannon, for instance, joined forces with an exiled Chinese billionaire named Guo Wengui to fuel claims that China had developed the disease as a bioweapon and purposefully unleashed it on the world. As proof, they paraded a Hong Kong scientist around right-wing media outlets until her manifest lack of expertise doomed the charade."

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While the genetic modification of mosquitoes is not something to take lightly, I found this article about a similar program with screwworms to be interesting:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/

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If you believe it was a lab leak and I do, it is not unique. Both the the US and the UK had lab leaks of live smallpox virus, a far deadlier disease. We got lucky as the US leaks never got into the wild and the UK leak was contained after one lab employee was infected. God only knows what happened with Soviets and post-Soviets. And the political response to the virus did far more damage than the virus itself. Unfortunately, the Chinese now know that our political leadership is completely crazy. This does not bode well for the future.

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