Big Catfish, 2020 BFFL Champion

Opinions based on observable reality

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

Isn't it amazing how we can very quickly develop a vaccine for a novel pathogen but it takes ten years to split up an existing vaccine?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Former Fauci adviser David Morens pleads guilty to conspiring to hide federal records about COVID-19 & its origins.

[Tyler Bindi @TripleNetTyler]

Vacation towns are about to get decimated.

Start in the 1960s. Somebody's grandparents bought a place like this on a middle class income. One earner, a decent job, a cabin on the water.

Their kids did a little better. Upper middle class, bigger house in the suburbs, and they bought a second home too. That was still normal.

Then look at now. Today the median first time buyer is 40 years old, an all time high, and first timers down to 21% of the market, an all time low.

People are hitting middle age before they close on a starter house, and plenty never do.

So the chain breaks right here. Three generations in, the handoff stops.

Now run it forward. The boomers own a staggering amount of this stuff, and over the next decade it will all come to market in the same window.

Lake houses, beach cottages, ski condos, desert casitas.

The heirs mostly don't want it. Insurance on anything near water, fire or hail has gone vertical. Property taxes reset on transfer in some states and just keep climbing in the others.

The dues on a resort condo run like a car payment and half these towns have cracked down on short term rentals, so the "it pays for itself" math doesn't pencil anymore either.

And an inherited house rarely stays inherited.

Somebody always wants the money instead.

So it gets listed. Usually right after probate clears.

Massive inventory is coming. But buyers aren't.

Get ready for these prices to go to rock bottom.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

Here’s the Democrat playbook:

-Create a fraudulent business
-Receive fraudulent govt funding
-Launder fraudulent money back to the Democrat Party

They are funding their entire operation with YOUR tax dollars!

IT’S FRAUD.

[Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina]

Found out Democrat leadership has instructed their members NOT to sign onto our bill that would cap student loan interest at 2%… because it would make “Republicans” look good ahead of the midterms. So much for caring about people and education.

[New York Post @nypost]

Fauci privately warned of miscarriage risk linked to COVID vaccine while publicly claiming no issues, newly released texts show https://t.co/AfpDs6lhZ9

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

CNBC just noted that half of Under Armour's profit is coming from tariff refunds, and that broadly the refunds are propping up corporate profits.

Weird those refunds aren't going to consumers. Also weird prices aren't coming down. Almost as if tariffs don't drive inflation.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: The WNBA is stunned after former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom files to participate in the WNBA draft next year, and play in the league against women — because the league REFUSES to define "woman"

He'd instantly be the most dominant player:

Height: 6 foot 10
Weight: 250 pounds

The WNBA would have to define "WOMAN" under the biological definition to block Enes Freedom from playing, and effectively ABOLISH their inclusion policies

This is a masterclass move! 🤣🤣🤣

[Ruthless World 🇺🇲 @Ruthlessworld2]

When oil barrels hit $147.50 in 2008, gas never got over $3.80/gallon. At this moment, gas is $78 and gas is at $4/gallon. Hmmm, something seems a bit off.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

It was terrible; they planned something even worse.

The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide https://t.co/3qG9glqi7x

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials refused to admit the vaccine wasn’t stopping the spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. It is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

#Eagles DC Vic Fangio opening his press conference today:

“I’m gonna be like Fauci and just take the Fifth Amendment on all questions. Did you guys see that? Oh my god.” 😅

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

We are living through a massive information crisis in which at least half the population is being systematically misinformed, making any sane national debate increasingly difficult. Without a shared factual foundation, there is nothing to discuss. People are not merely drawing different conclusions from the same evidence. They are living in entirely different realities.

That is what makes the Fauci story so tragic. He caused untold harm, yet millions of people know almost nothing about it. We can debate precisely how large a role Fauci played in the creation of Covid, but half the country does not even know that Covid came from a lab. We are therefore several steps removed from the basic conditions required to have an intelligent discussion.

Other facts are even more black and white. Fauci’s private diary contradicts what he told the public. His own words reveal a man of almost limitless narcissism. These are not matters of interpretation. They are documented facts. Yet we still cannot have a national conversation about them because the media either refuses to report them or actively lies about them. Anyone who is not on Twitter, which is most people, may never encounter the underlying evidence at all.

The result is that I increasingly find it almost impossible to discuss any of this with ordinary people, whether family members, acquaintances, or people at events or birthday parties. Unless someone has followed the evidence closely, there is no common starting point. Before you can debate what happened, you first have to dismantle at least ten years of falsehoods and omissions.

I do not know how this ends, but it is not sustainable. A country cannot function indefinitely when its people are no longer capable of discussing almost anything beyond sports on the basis of shared factual knowledge.

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

Fauci in 2022: “I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee.

I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.

I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all.”

[Jesse Watters @JesseBWatters]

🚨 BOMBSHELL: DR. FAUCI'S DIARY JUST LEAKED... AND IT'S BAD 🚨

"The Press is HOT and HEAVY about ME... I am the MOST FAMOUS person in the WORLD" 🤣

"One person said that Tyra Banks was SEXY... but that I was even MORE SEXY than SHE WAS" 🤣

CNN'S Jake Tapper even INVITED Fauci over for DINNER... during LOCKDOWNS

Fauci CONFESSED he KNEW COVID wasn't as DEADLY as he claimed it WAS 💣

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

These diaries are very damning. Fauci comes across as a fame-hungry narcissist who regularly said different things in private about Covid to what he told the world publicly.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

While you wait for Fauci’s hearing to start, a reminder that when the U.S. government purchased Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, it contractually agreed to keep the PREP Act immunity in place for as long as their vaccines are administered in the United States.

What that means is that the U.S. government promised Pfizer and Moderna that it could not be sued for harms from its Covid-19 vaccines, irrespective of whether an emergency continued to exist.

But not only did our government contractually agree that Pfizer and Moderna can harm and kill Americans with impunity, it also guaranteed Pfizer and Moderna billions of dollars for this privilege.

Even worse, the U.S. government guaranteed this immunity in July 2020, months before it first authorized Covid-19 vaccines in December 2020. Meaning, the U.S. government pre-guaranteed these companies immunity from any harm caused by their products, thus, knowingly undermining any incentive for them to create a safe product.

And how much were Pfizer and Moderna guaranteed to be paid by the U.S. government to develop a product that could harm its own citizens with impunity? A total of over $21 billion just in the initial rollout -- $8.63 billion for Moderna and $13.15 billion for Pfizer.

Sound unreal? See the actual contracts for yourself linked in my most recent restack.

The Fallout

The implications are incredible.

To start, Pfizer and Moderna could sue the U.S. government for breach of contract and potentially other relief if PREP Act immunity is terminated before the United States’ use of their COVID-19 vaccines ceases.

Only in an upside-down world would the U.S. government siphon over $21 billion of its citizen’s taxpayer dollars to Pfizer and Moderna and pre-guarantee a profit-motivated company sweeping immunity for harms its product causes to its own citizens.

Summing it up:

The U.S. government guaranteed Pfizer and Moderna immunity for injuries from their products before they were even developed, thereby eliminating the incentive for these companies to make their product safe. Worse, it gave these companies billions of dollars of its citizens’ money to develop these products, and even more incredible, it then spent billions more of its citizen’s money to promote Pfizer’s product as “safe and effective.” And in an ultimate slap to its citizens, then it required them to be injected with this product under the threat of grave consequences, including expulsion from school, losing their job, discharge from the military, etc.

Who is Being Protected?

Who exactly is the U.S. government working for? Whose interests is it protecting?

Government agencies have a well-documented history of being captured by industry. It is known in political science as regulatory capture. In this case, the capture is by pharma and the degree of capture is unprecedented.

You, the collective citizens of the United States, have paid Pfizer and Moderna billions of dollars. You have paid with your taxes. You have paid with your bodies when you were injured without recourse against Pfizer or Moderna. You have paid with your right to freedom when you were forced to be injected with their products under penalty of losing basic civil rights, employment, or more.

And what have Pfizer and Moderna paid? Nothing. They instead raked in billions of dollars of your money as long as they developed a Covid-19 vaccine and were shielded from liability irrespective of how unsafe of a product they developed or how much harm it would cause the public that paid them.

The Solution

The above again brings into focus why no medical product should ever be mandated. This assures you can say “no” if you don’t want a product developed with pre-guaranteed immunity for harms. “No” where its clinical trial had more deaths in the vaccinated group than the placebo group. “No” where it generates over $55 billion in revenue but its morally-bankrupt manufacturers won’t spend a dollar to compensate those injured.

Even if you support all current vaccines, masks, etc., there may come a day when you may not want to take a mandated medical product or procedure. When that day comes, it may be too late to recapture the rights you have surrendered. Rights lost are rarely retrieved. This is why, while everyone should be free to take any medical product, everyone should also be free to decline any medical product without penalty.

It should be that simple.

Take Action

To that end, I encourage you to send the following proposed legislation to your legislative representatives:

“No law may require or coerce a person to receive or use a medical product, or impose a penalty or deprive a benefit for refusing a medical product or refusing to disclose whether a person has received a medical product.”

Medical freedom is freedom. If you cannot get a job, go to school, play sports, sit in a restaurant, or otherwise participate in civil society because you refuse a medical product, then what good are your rights if you can exercise them only at home by yourself? That is why medical freedom is a fundamental right that must be permanently fixed into the law of every civilized nation.

Thank you to all the warriors, veteran and new, who join arms in the battle to secure this fundamental right. As aptly stated in the Declaration of Independence, we “are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights” and to safeguard those rights “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” We must never yield to the tyranny of permitting others to dictate what can or must be placed, administered, or injected onto or into our bodies. For once that right is ceded, none truly remains.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Emails show leading officials at NIH, including Fauci, knew the best data indicated no benefit from masks.

Why did they proclaim great benefits of masks then?

Because these officials were not managing a virus using science.

They were managing a population using psychology.