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Elon Musk makes a lot of physical products like rockets, cars, brain chips and satellites. Let's say that he wanted to lie about the performance of, say, a rocket. He claims a certain amount of thrust or payload capability. He knows that the numbers are wrong but he wants to claim performance that he does not have. Why would Elon Musk not do such a thing? Because at some point somebody would take him for his word and put demands on his rockets that will cause them to explode or fail to reach orbit. He could lie but by the nature of his businesses, any lies would come out in the wash when people used his products.
We the people have been lied to on so many fronts by so many bodies and for so long. Let's look at just a few of the subjects of pervasive lies that have been shamelessly sold to the American people.
*Joe Biden. Like others, I wish the former president a full recovery. Now, we were sold a horrific bill of goods regarding this man. Everyone saw with his or her own eyes how he was not all there. From shaking hands with nonexistent people to straying off to nowhere, from speaking total gibberish to being completely clueless on pertinent subjects, Joe Biden was a flashing neon sign that mentally he was not up to snuff. But we were constantly told by the Pravda press, his administration lackeys and anyone in the Democratic Party orbit that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack. Cabinet members would lie to us and say how probing the president's questions were when they met up. Everyone who was in a position to level with the American people and say that no, Joe Biden, was not mentally fit, lied to us and told us otherwise. That he could speak in an unknown language told us that he was not well; the enforcers would immediately tell us that no, he was fine -- we were the problem.
And the story of his cancer is the same. Such an advanced stage of prostate cancer tells us that he has had the disease for years. Even after the revelation, those in positions of information dissemination cannot level with us. "He didn't take a standard PSA test because of the cost." They say it with a straight face and want us to swallow it whole. A country with a multi-trillion dollar annual budget cannot afford a simple PSA test that every man over 50 takes on a regular basis? Obviously, he had such tests but the high values would have been a red light that the president (or candidate or maybe even vice-president) was ill. So they simply did not report the PSA values. When confronted on the missing data, rather than admit that yes, he had been tested, and the values were high, they made up a new lie: we did not do the most basic test for older men because we couldn't spare $50 to run the test. In years past, they would have been embarrassed by their brazen lying; today, it is their occupation.
*Covid. Covid was pretty much all lies as they were presented to the American people. We were sold a story of a bat virus that somehow made it to humans via pangolins or the like. The reality was that a bat virus was genetically modified in Wuhan and at NIH labs in the United States to make it much more dangerous. The mutated virus escaped the Wuhan institute and the world has never been the same. Even suggesting that the virus got out of the equivalent of a Motel 6 biohazard lab would get your Twitter or Facebook account suspended. We were told that there were no cures, when some chemicals like hydroxychloroquine actually did show some success in fighting infection.
As Robert Kennedy, Jr. points out, Fauci and Friends could not get their mRNA vaccines out on an emergency basis if any possible treatment existed. With the vaccines, we were promised that we would not get sick. We were told that they were safe. We were told that we could not pass along the virus to others. Lies, lies and more lies. It was not an issue of not knowing. They knew that the vaccines could harm certain groups like young men, whose hearts could be adversely affected. They knew that a person could get sick or pass along the virus to others. I still hold today that there is no scientific analysis that states without reservation that the vaccines somehow made people healthier or safer during the pandemic. They shamed people by claiming that the illness had moved to a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." Yet, towards the end of the Covid story, the majority of those who died or became sick were vaccinated. Oops. The new head of the NIH, who was shunned by Fauci, wants all mRNA vaccines removed from the market. As he noted, we don't know where they go, how much protein they produce and if their protein products are the desired outcome or a mix of proteins.
*Climate Change. There was once a famous economics professor who every year claimed that the market would collapse. He was always wrong until the crash of 2008, when all of the press ran to him, as he was the oracle who predicted the crash! Go back and watch videos and speeches of Al Gore and his brethren as they tell us that there will be no snow, no coasts and no polar ice in 2007, 2012, 2014, 2020, etc. Every prediction they have made has been wrong. Measured carbon dioxide values are increasing but are still much lower than recorded readings from way back when. The only clearly identifiable effect of increased carbon dioxide is the conversion of barren land into productive farmland. All of the dire claims of the world heating up and more violent atmospheric events have no correlation in reality. Arctic ice is way up, the coasts are just as they have always been and the number and intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes and the like are statistically unchanged. Their lies have cost us trillions in lost productivity, wasted projects in solar and wind, and in Europe an unstable electrical grid that relies too heavily on fickle renewables. The whole green economy is based on a lie with regards to carbon dioxide, methane and other gases.
So why do they lie? Obviously in order to take and hold power. The lies of the press, the Washington class and the self-appointed elite keep them in their positions of power. The entire World Economic Forum (WEF) and its demands for reduced cows and agricultural land cannot exist if the lies of climate change are not stated, repeated, and made into a mantra. If Biden's people had been honest about Joe's mental and physical conditions, Donald Trump would have won the 2020 election, something that they could not afford. Covid was an opportunity for Fauci and many others to take and hold power. The NIH doyen admitted that there was no scientific basis for the six-foot rule that destroyed school learning, businesses, and modern society. He knew that masks would not work but pushed their use (even saying two is better than one!) as a means of control, not science.
To paraphrase a well-known businesswoman, "When do you know they are lying? When their lips are moving."