Sorry Neil. You've Become Part of the Establishment You Used to Abhor
-the Sternmeister and Joni too...
It wasn’t too many years ago that the liberal Left was associated with fighting for the downtrodden man in his struggle against big bad Corporations.
This is no longer the case.
The Left is now soundly in the camp of Big Business and firmly against “the little guy”. Just think of the last two years of the pandemic. It was not the Democrats who admonished our government officials for their policies of locking down and causing the destruction of small businesses all across the country while allowing the Big Box Stores like Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target to stay open. It was the Republicans who led this charge and they continue to do so as our population becomes more and more polarized.
You will find the same “Democrats are now the Party of Big Business” out in Silicon Valley, home of the leftiest of Lefties. Twenty, hell, ten years ago, no one would have thought it possible that the Left would support the censorship by Facebook, Twitter and Google/Youtube of voices that speak out against Government overreach, the no less than Draconian measures used to combat a virus that has the Infection Fatality Rate of Seasonal Influenza. Of course, if they hadn’t botched the calculation of the IFR and ignored my pleadings to “check the figures” when I announced that the number they were using was 40 times too high, none of the death and destruction that grew out of the fear instilled by their wildly inaccurate number, would have happened in the first place.
I used to think of Neil Young as an anti-establishment warrior who spoke out against Big Government and Big Business through his unique and beautiful music. As an artist, his job was to expose the abuses suffered by the common man at the hands of the MAN.
Oh, how far the mighty have fallen.
Young was in the news this week threatening to remove his music from Spotify because he felt that a wildly successful podcast interviewer named Joe Rogan, was spreading misinformation about the Covid pandemic. First of all, the show in question did not spread misinformation any more than a debate does.
I watched it.
Rogan merely said, “It’s a completely new kind of vaccine. The idea that people shouldn’t be skeptical or nervous about that is kind of hilarious.” He also said, “ I don’t think, if you’re a young, healthy person, that you need (the vaccine).” Everything he said there is perfectly reasonable. He’s allowed to say he thinks people do or do not need something. He didn’t say “People do not need this.” He said he thinks they don’t need it. And, frankly, Rogan was more accurate in his statements on this podcast than Dr. Fauci is in almost any interview.
Joni Mitchell piled on this morning. Do they know there was no misinformation spread on that podcast?
Howard Stern has lost it also. He wondered aloud on air why Joe Rogan took “horse paste” when he got infected with the SARS-2 virus. “Horse paste” of course, is the derogatory term used by the Left for Ivermectin, a drug with spectacular anti-viral properties that has been studied extensively in the last few years. It, like hundreds or thousands of other human medications are used in or on animals. Yet in an attempt to insult patients who have taken ivermectin, people like Jimmie Kimmel, CNN hosts, and even TV doctors have taken to referring to the veternary formulation used on horses and other large animals when talking about ivermectin. Appearantly, Howard Stern also. It’s really pathetic when you think about it, trying to discourage sick people from taking a drug that has clearly been shown to save a large fraction of those who take it, all for political purposes and a laugh.
Or are their shows sponsored by one of the Big Pharma companies such as Pfizer….?
Just wait until they or one of their loved ones requires Coumadin for blood thinning after cardiac valve replacement or a clotting diathesis. I wonder if they will be willing to say, on air, that their mom, or whoever it is, was put on RAT POISON.