Media Admits Lab Origin To Turn The Covid Ratchet ｜ 3⧸6⧸23
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Summary
The mainstream media is attempting to reconstitute its COVID narrative after multiple government agencies confirmed that a Chinese lab in Wuhan is the likely source of the deadly Pandemic known as COVID-19. But as progressive media outlets like NPR and Stephen Colbert voiced opposition to the government confirmation of a theory of origin that they had already attacked, the FBI Director Christopher Wray reinforced the finding.
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The mainstream media is attempting to reconstitute its COVID narrative
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after multiple government agencies confirmed that a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal dropped a report based on classified evidence
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from the Department of Energy revealing that the agency believed
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that the lab origin hypothesis was the most likely explanation for COVID-19.
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Even as progressive media outlets like NPR and alleged comedians like Stephen Colbert
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voiced opposition to the government confirmation of a theory of origin that they had already
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attacked, FBI Director Christopher Wray reinforced the finding, stating that his own agency also
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identified the Wuhan lab as the likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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It's clear that, for whatever reason, the regime has decided that now is the time to acknowledge
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A tsunami of leftist sophistry formed as the Progressive Commentary attempted to process its
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These media outlets and talking heads had spent years calling the lab origin theory a racist
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Senator Tom Cotton was relentlessly attacked by news organizations from the New York Times
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to the Washington Post as a dangerous and radical purveyor of misinformation
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Many experts, not to mention countless members of the general public, had been discredited,
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discarded, and deplatformed for doubting the wet market narrative.
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How could the regime's rabid attack dogs pivot away from a storyline that had been so aggressively
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If you thought that this monumental collapse of credibility, this sudden implosion of the
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certainty of science would give the media a moment's hesitation, you were sadly mistaken.
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The Progressive Chattering class spend their days forcing the American public to pretend
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that men can become women at cultural gunpoint.
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Science was never really their lodestone of truth.
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They're not actually undergoing some kind of dramatic epistemological crisis here.
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While some would expect a little more coordination between the regime and its media arm to create
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a smoother narrative transition, this trailing dialectic serves its own purpose.
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Our ruling elites secure power through a constant invocation of the state of exception.
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In theory, we live in a democracy where the power of the government is constrained through
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both the structure of the constitution and the will of the people.
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In practice, however, both limiting factors can easily be removed in the case of an emergency.
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No constitution can plan for everything, and as presidents like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin
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Delano Roosevelt have proven, Americans will allow their leaders an incredible degree of
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By invoking the state of exception during an emergency, the ruling elite can grasp large quantities
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of power that would never otherwise be granted.
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A cunning leader knows that power, once granted, is rarely returned, and it's very difficult for
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the public to hold anyone accountable after the fact.
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When an emergency presents the opportunity to achieve power under the state of exception,
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it's always best to manufacture the narrative to secure power as quickly as possible,
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then make the necessary adjustments later, after that power is firmly in hand.
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The pandemic allowed for the creation of an indefinite state of exception, during which the regime
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could lock down its political opponents and unleash its own supporters to punish those
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Abortion clinics and Walmarts were deemed essential.
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Leftist corporate allies like Amazon acquired a near monopoly on commerce, while their local
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Trump supporters were forced to attend funerals of their loved ones on Zoom, while Joe Biden voters
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drank champagne in the streets to celebrate his election.
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Politics is, after all, about rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies.
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When does fast grocery delivery through Instacart matter most?
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When your famous grainy mustard potato salad isn't so famous without the grainy mustard.
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When the barbecue's lit, but there's nothing to grill.
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When the in-laws decide that, actually, they will stay for dinner.
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Plus, enjoy $0 delivery fees on your first three orders.
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During the early pandemic, the most important priority was discrediting Donald Trump and
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any GOP allies who might be able to contend for the power that the state of exception would
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This is not a defense of Trump's actions during the crisis.
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He was largely played like a fiddle and conceded power to hostile functionaries like Anthony
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But the left immediately understood the pandemic as an opportunity to unseat an opposing president
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with a wildly successful economy that was likely heading towards re-election.
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Anything Trump said about the pandemic, from its origins to the effectiveness of possible
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treatments, had to be immediately attacked and discredited.
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Once the threat of Trump had been removed and the desired power had been consolidated during
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the state of exception, the regime could always slowly acknowledge the truth bit by bit, using
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its media apparatus to retroactively bury the most divisive lies in order to smooth out the
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The hosts of The View have already joined several liberal journalists in blaming Trump's racist
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xenophobia for poisoning the well of the lab origin theory.
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According to the new storyline, it was only Trump's evil racism that kept the media from embracing the
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scientific truth, and he is ultimately to blame for whatever consequences followed.
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What we're observing now is the process by which our ruling elite consolidate the power
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that they gained while reconciling their narrative to something that more closely resembles the
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Bit by bit, piece by piece, the powers that be have admitted the truth behind most of the
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conspiracy theories that they so violently attacked.
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From the efficacy of the vaccine, to the possible side effects of the injection, to the superiority
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of natural immunity, and now the origin of the pandemic itself.
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Each admission is made after the desired power has already been obtained and in a manner that would
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This slow drip of truth is not some admission of failure or culpability.
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It's instead designed to turn the political ratchet.
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Conservatives and COVID skeptics get to feel vindicated, getting to utter a well-earned,
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While this is understandably cathartic, this gesture is ultimately meaningless, as those who
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lied for the sake of power and used that power to punish their enemies face no consequences.
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Vast amounts of wealth and power were transferred under false pretenses during the pandemic-induced
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state of exception, but no one is held accountable.
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Instead, the regime gets to consolidate its gains by letting conservatives feel like they
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Unless a specific political and legal cost is paid for the deception, abuse, and tyranny
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exercised during the pandemic, the left will simply watch and wait for the next emergency
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under which they can invoke the state of exception and start the whole process over again.
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