In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the official truth was written in chalk on a blackboard, which was convenient when truth needed to be changed. So "Four legs good, two legs bad," could be erased and replaced with "Four legs good, two legs better."
Truth, in authoritarian regimes, can be adjusted to the needs of the regime.
Or, it can be ignored entirely.
For Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the MMR vaccine protecting against measles, mumps and rubella is bad. He says it's better to get the measles, as he did and as countless generations did before him because "natural" immunity is stronger and better than the immunity from vaccines. Which sounds right, right? What could be better than "natural"?
Except, that turns out to be wrong. Measles, the most highly contagious disease known to the world of viruses, has one other peculiar quality: it erases immunity to other viruses and bacteria when it infects human beings, an immunosuppression which can last 5 years. So even if you survive your measles, you may die from a subsequent bout of pneumonia next year.
It does this by attacking the immune cells (B cells) which make antibodies and T cells, which remember what previous bad guys (viruses) look like and call in the troops.
The MMR vaccine does not do this. So getting your immunity to measles from the vaccine is way better.
Any number of scientists have talked about this erasure phenomenon, from Vincent Racaniello and Brianne Barker of the podcast, "This Week in Virology," to Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, but their megaphones are not as loud and are not heard as far as RFKJR's. So, falsehood flies and the truth comes limping behind.
Another truth, which has been obvious to those willing to see it, is the nature of ICE agents: they are simply, as one citizen speaking at a Hampton town "Deliberative Session" said, "The otherwise unemployable, the unrestrainable, the bottom of the barrel, ignorant of law and eager to find a safe space for sadism."
But his microphone reached only the 150 or so citizens gathered in a middle school gymnasium to consider a warrant article instructing the town chief of police to sign not contracts with ICE. Voices in small town New Hampshire tend to stay in New Hampshire.
Ryan Schwank
And then there is Ryan Schwank, a lawyer employed by ICE to oversea the instruction of agents in the law, the Constitution, the sort of basic training for any officer of the law in the United States of America, which, presumably, differentiates the good guy with a gun and a badge from the bad guy with a gun.
But then ICE accelerated and abbreviated its training program, and cut out all that fluff about law and the Constitution, and sent its agents out to the streets to enforce their own sense of law and order, which meant breaking down doors without judicial warrants, shooting a mother as she drove by, and shooting a nurse being held face down on the ground ten times in the back.
In Richard Grant's wonderful "Crazy River" he tells a story about a twenty foot alligator named Gustave who eats people who wander into the water. People, of course, fear him and try to avoid him, but when he eats somebody or chomps off a leg, they do not hate Gustave, because he is simply doing what alligators do. It is behavior they expect of him.
And that is what Mr. Schwank is telling us, namely the truth, that when you put a beast into a place, you expect that beast to behave as his nature directs him to behave, whether an alligator or an ICE agent. They are just doing what they do.
So is RFKJR. He is just doing what he does, as directed by the brain worm.
Whether ICE agents have been screened for brain worm is unknown to Mad Dog.
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