90 Miles From Tyranny

Saturday, September 10, 2022

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1837

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

Visage à trois #460

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Three Additional Bonus Videos:

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #638

Following the Science? – 159 Children dead, 1.2k disabled, 14.5k hospitalised & 55k injured due to COVID Vaccination in the USA according to CDC

The latest figures published by the USA’s Centers for Disease Control reveal over 56,000 children have been injured due to Covid-19 vaccination across the USA, and sadly 1,174 of these children either suffered a life-threatening event or a permanent disability, while tragically a further 159 children sadly lost their lives.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) hosts a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) that is updated weekly and can be found here.

Unfortunately, the CDC reveals that at least 56,265 children (Aged 0 to 17) have suffered an injury due to Covid-19 vaccination as of August 26th 2022.

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The Janssen vaccine is responsible for 1,355 of these injuries, the Moderna vaccine for 10,355, and the Pfizer vaccine for 44,472.

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The CDC also reveals that 14,461 children have either visited a hospital or been hospitalised due to an injury caused by Covid-19 vaccination.

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The Pfizer vaccine has caused 13,441 children to be hospitalised, the Moderna vaccine 930, and the Janssen vaccine 63.

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Sadly, the CDC reveals that 1,174 children have either suffered a life-threatening event or been left permanently disabled due to Covid-19 vaccination.

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The Pfizer jab has nearly killed or permanently disabled 1,055 children, the Moderna jab 110 children, and the Janssen jab 4 children:

Eight former secretaries of defense and five former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff jointly signed an open letter released Tuesday declaring U.S. civilian-military relations under “extreme strain” and called for an urgent return to healthy civil-military principles.

The letter, first published by the national security publication War on the Rocks, began, “We are in an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment. Many of the factors that shape civil-military relations have undergone extreme strain in recent years.”

The letter was signed by former Defense Secretaries Ash Carter, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, and William Perry. Retired Gens. Martin Dempsey, Joseph Dunford Jr., Richard Myers, Peter Pace, and Adm. Michael Mullen – who are former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – also signed the letter.

The letter said that military leaders face “an extremely adverse environment characterized by the divisiveness of affective polarization,” and pointed to the events of Jan. 6, 2021 when “the peaceful transfer of political power was disrupted and in doubt.”

The letter explored president elections further, saying the military must support a president’s duty to protect the constitution while preparing for “whomever the voters pick” for the incoming president.

The leaders warned that the civilian-military environment is poised to “get worse before they get better,” and urge current leaders to be “vigilant and mindful” to carry on “healthy American civil-military relations.”

The letter went on to describe the “core principles” of civilian-military relations, noting that civilian control of the military was essential to the “bedrock foundation of American democracy.”

Among those core principles, the leaders remarked on mutual trust. “Trust upward that civilian leaders will rigorously explore alternatives that are best for the country regardless of the implications for partisan politics and trust downward that the military will...

Visage à trois #459

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #637

Biden’s ‘MAGA Republican’ Screed Gives Gatekeepers The Green Light To Purge Political Foes

From the official White House podium comes the message that it is now necessary to cut off ‘MAGA Republicans’ from every avenue of influence.

There are a lot of ways to analyze an address like the one Joe Biden gave last week from the steps of Independence Hall. One can view it from the perspective of its insane optics (the weird lighting and blood-red background call to mind Dante’s “Inferno”) to its inherently contradictory language (calling for unity while also calling half the country a “threat … to the very soul” of America).

But there is another, more practical matter: How does Biden expect this to end? Does he really think that using the office of the president to re-christen an entire group of Americans as extremists whose existence “threatens the very foundations of our republic” will somehow compel them to see the light, as it were? To step out of their red-colored haze, and vote Democrat? To suddenly reconsider the Senate run of failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin or to pour one out for future MSNBC contributor Liz Cheney?

Or by summoning the same language used to justify suppressing the speech rights of Americans in World War I, is he laying the predicate for something much darker?

One of the features of our current political realignment is the retrenchment of the so-called “elite” class into an intractable monolith: The people who sit atop our political, cultural, corporate media, and educational institutions all share the same exact values. They almost uniformly vote Democrat, they engage in ritualistic and performative displays of wokeness, they believe words are violence, and that there is no bigger threat to Our Democracy™ than Donald Trump voters.

When viewed through this lens, Biden’s speech takes on a much more pointed aim: a not-so-subtle directive to the oligarchy and the Democratic courtier class that “MAGA Republicans” are not just the embarrassing, demented, idiot rubes they are forced to share a country with. They are now officially the out-group — a rogue, extremist danger to themselves and others — and should be treated as such.

In tagging the 78 million people who voted for Trump as akin to domestic terrorists, Biden’s speech serves two codominant roles: to label half the...