OK, so, as per usual when I discuss anything having to do with the Covid vaccines I want it known that I’m not a doctor nor a scientist, nor am I your doctor. I am a reasonably intelligent citizen in a free republic, however. And I am someone who cares deeply about the truth. And I am someone who desires the flourishing of all people.
But more and more I am growing increasingly disturbed by the scale and scope of corruption that exists in this nation. I’m growing increasingly disturbed by the revolving-door relationship between Big Pharma and those who are supposed to regulate Big Pharma. I’m disturbed by the convergence of power and interests between government, big-tech, and big pharma. As we see evidence of this corruption almost daily thanks to the Twitter-files. Scott Gottlieb may be one of the most egregiously corrupt public health profiteers but he’s far from the only one.
Eisenhauer warned us about the military-industrial-complex. And Ike was right to warn us about that. Right now, there are very serious questions that need to be asked about the Ukraine war and the level of profits that the US arms industry is making and HOW they make their profits and who gets paid with those profits—almost all of those profits, by the way are from taxpayer dollars! And the top 24 executives at the top 5 defense contractors will rake in over $250M this year! These companies are making enormous profits and they also are deeply connected to lawmakers and their marketing wings subsidize large amounts of the news media—as do pharmaceutical companies by the way.
Ike warned about the military-industrial-complex, but it isn’t ONLY arms manufacturers drumming up war-fever. Now we have the Big pharma promising to solve your other kinds of fevers…even if they can’t. And again, there are serious questions to be asked about how the vaccine research and development was funded for the Covid vaccines. Because if it was funded by taxpayers why are the pharmaceutical companies permitted to make gigantic profits off of these drugs?
I’m not saying that the companies shouldn’t profit. Not at all. These companies were spending their time on a vaccine when they could have been researching and producing other drugs. The time of these companies is valuable and I’m not advocating socialism. I am, however, suggesting that our medical system’s pseudo-private nature, while in reality it’s becoming single-payer, is making it ripe for corruption and malfeasance.
Because right now the government is paying for and has attempted to mandate drugs that private companies stand to receive enormous profits for providing. Now if I were a cynical man I would say that pharmaceutical companies have an ENORMOUS financial incentive to promote vaccine mandates, to ensure that the FDA, and it’s sister organizations around the globe, quickly and with no headaches approve the use of the vaccine for everyone, and to use the power of government and big-tech to silence anyone who asks any questions or makes any statements that might endanger the profitability of the drugs the drug-makers are selling. Oh, well, maybe I am a cynical man because I would say all those things, and in fact, I DO say all those things.
You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to see that the revolving door between the FDA and board and executive positions at major pharmaceutical companies causes one to wonder just how much regulation the regulators in their regulatory agencies actually do. And of course, this isn’t just in the medical field. As time has gone on, we have seen that Bernie Madoff was crooked for years and people knew it and the regulators knew it but nobody did anything because people were just making too much money. In the end no one, not one single person at any regulatory agency was fired, including people who were directly tasked to investigate Madoff after being given a veritable goldmine of red-flags from whistleblowers. Yet, the cry came out that we needed more regulators! Why? So, more people can do nothing? Obviously, the SEC hasn’t improved, as Sam Bankman-Fried has proven. The fact that these Ponzi schemes are only stopped when the money literally runs out is proof that these agencies lack the will to enforce regulatory codes and financial law. But, of course, there is a very chummy relationship between the FED the regulators and Wall Street.
What our society is witnessing is a convergence of interests in almost all of our major institutions to perpetuate corruption and lies. It’s all either rotten or got rot in it! Everyone lies, everyone turns a blind-eye to the truth, they all are engaged in suppressing the truth. We are a nation of liars.
The common stat is that the average American lies 4 times a day. And research shows that Americans are growing more and more comfortable with lying. And it isn’t just that we’re a nation of liars—we’re a nation of thieves. Indeed more than half of people admitted to stealing from work! This theft is so widespread that employers sometimes need to order 20% more supplies to simply cover their losses from employee theft. We’re a nation of adulterers and adulteresses with the divorce rate dropping but still around 50% total with approximately 40% of first marriages ending in divorce.
Why am I saying all this? I’m saying this because when we look at someone like Scott Gottlieb who claims that he only wanted to silence people who had questions about the efficacy, safety, and profitability of the Pfizer Covid vaccine because these comments will lead to violence, he’s obviously lying. No one, not one single person, actually believes that. Well, let me try that again, nobody, not one single person who isn’t a complete chump believes that. It’s such a brazen lie. And we balk at it, as though it astonishes us that the former FDA chair would lie about healthcare products! Why are you surprised?
Why everyone in our culture is claiming that everything that they hate is either Hitlerian or does violence. Heck, even silence is violence…remember that one!? So how dare we get all exercised when some corruptico like Gottlieb says that truth about medical science is violence?! Because he is, indeed a corruptico. He’s wielding his connections and influence to achieve a corrupt result. It’s cronyistic corruption at its worst. We mock The Russian Federation and call it corrupt and dirty and claim that Putin is just the chief Kleptocrat. We do that as though our politicians weren’t corrupt. Hunter Biden claiming to pay $50k a month to his dad in rent on a house that both people claim to own can be nothing else but a money laundering scheme. Ever wonder how Congressional Representatives get rich AFTER being elected? Isn’t is strange how they all have spouses who, out of nowhere, suddenly become stock market rockstars? What a coinky-dink!
And maybe I’m making your blood boil. But here’s the point. Government will always be more corrupt than the population in general. The best and brightest and most honest and integrous RARELY go into government. They say that those who can’t do, teach. Well, those who can’t even teach go into politics. Are there exceptions? Of course. But your average government worker, elected or unelected, is likely not to be better than the average American but worse.
Daniel 4:17 says that God is sovereign over the kingdoms of the world and sets over it the lowliest of men.
Matthew Henry points out that sometimes, sure, sometimes, this means that a guy like David becomes king. But frankly friends, we can all do the math and we can see that the rate of Davids is pretty low, and even David had his problems.
Brothers and sisters, my point is this: your government, your representatives, your regulators are not the good and great among us. They are our barometers not our best moralists. The level of corruption among the elites is always going to be indicative, especially in a republic, or really any governmental system where people choose their rulers, indicative of the moral strength of any society.
You want to know what’s going on in America? Let me read for you from the Bible:
Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Friends, Brothers, Sisters, we are a corrupt people and this is what it looks like when God hands a nation over to its own corrupt desires. This is what it looks like when God let’s a nation go. We can moan and cry all we want about corruption and lies and incompetence. But we can never forget that the lies and corruption exist in Washington and Wall Street and Silicon Valley and in big-weapons and big-pharma and big-education and everywhere else because there is corruption everywhere else. If a nation is full of godless, corrupticos, where are our institutions supposed to get honest men and women? Where are you gonna get an honest congressman or CEO if there are no honest men and women from which to choose? You can’t draw blood from a stone and you can’t find an honest man in a pack of liars.
What’s the answer? You know the answer. You know what we need. We need Christ.