Well, friends, today we’re going to do a bit of a weekly round-up, so to speak. Rather than looking at one news story we’re going to look at two events, which I will summarize for the sake of time, and then you at home can try to guess the thing that connects these two pieces of news. We’re going to play “find the pattern,” which is a game I’ve always loved and I hope you love it to. And “find the pattern” is a great game to play and learn to love because you can play it all day every day. And really, once you start playing, if the game gets its hooks into you, you never stop playing. But that’s another topic for another day!
OK, so, the first story I want us to consider is one that you almost certainly have not heard about in the news. And you almost certainly haven’t heard about it in the news because the news has literally zero interest in reporting it. You see, back over a week ago a British MP spoke about the Covid vaccines and presented a cost-benefit analysis. He used ONLY research and data from the British government itself. And he did a tiny bit of math, or maths as they say across the pond.
And the results of the math are almost incomprehensibly bad for those who are vaccine mandate advocates. They are, in fact, worse than most people would ever imagine. Let me give you just one paragraph of this speech:
The Government’s own data shows that, in healthy adults aged 50 to 59, it was necessary to give 256,400 booster jabs to prevent just one severe hospitalisation, putting 321 people into hospital with a serious side-effect from the booster, which includes, obviously, risk of death. For healthy 40 to 49-year-olds, that number increases to 932,500 who needed to be boosted to keep one covid patient out of an intensive therapy unit, putting potentially 1,165 people into hospital with serious harms, death or disability. And for healthy 30 to 39-year-olds, no one knows the answer to the number needed to be boosted to prevent a serious hospitalisation because the Government’s own data says that there has never been such a case of this age group being put into intensive care due to the current variant of covid-19. But many, indeed on average one in 800 of this group that has been boosted, will have died, or been disabled or seriously harmed by the booster itself.
Let me repeat that for you because that may have just rushed by you—by the British Government’s own stats, you need to give a quarter million booster shots to healthy people in their 50s to prevent one, a single, just one and only one, hospitalization. So, to put that another way, if you give a million people the booster, you will have prevented 4 severe hospitalizations from Covid assuming they’re healthy 50-somethings. BUT, insodoing there will be 1,250 people who have serious side effects from getting the vaccine—and a friend of mine who has a biology degree keeps telling me to stop calling it a vaccine because it’s not a vaccine but, hey, one battle at a time, knowwaddamean?
The financial costs are also appalling. You can read about them, watch the speech and collect all the data if you go to andrewbridgen.com. You can also go to my website, Lukenagy.com to find the links. Because if you just go to google and do a search for “British parliament covid” you’ll get results from January. Even if you know the name and look for news stories about Andrew Bridgen, you won’t find any stories about this speech. You won’t find people debating him or calling him out for bad data. You won’t find hilarious videos like we’re used to seeing in the British Parliament where people are heckling each other and shouting and making government fun. No, there’s none of that because Brigden spoke to essentially and empty house. The Labour party all left, the Social Democrats all left, the Scottish Nationalists all left, and almost all everyone from the Conservative party left. Now, to be fair, most House debates and speeches don’t attract all that many people. The British House of commons only seats 427 of the 650 MPs, but people deliberately walked out of this speech to make a point.
And the point was simple: we don’t want to hear you say bad things about the vaccine or the government’s role in facilitating the vaccine. And the news media have also joined in.
Friends, these data, while not entirely new, are earth shattering. And the fact that British MPs have over a billion, with a “B” pounds invested in big Pharma, that would suggest to a cynical man that the British government has a bit of a conflict of interests vis-à-vis vaccine implementation and regulation.
But the fact that there just aren’t stories about it and the walkout, that’s the part that sticks with me, but we must keep on a-movin’.
Second story today, Ana Kasparian, member of the Young Turks, a long-running extremely liberal show found herself in hot water recently. Why, you might ask? Well, I might reply, she had the audacity to insist that people call her a “woman” and not a “person with a uterus.”
Now, that is not, you would think, something that would land someone in hot water. One would think, had they come from a sane world where people were not deranged and the culture not degenerate that not referring to someone by degrading them to nothing more than a body part would be, you know, not at all upsetting.
Now, don’t get me wrong, women do with rare exceptions, have uteri. It’s just a thing that happens. It is ONE of the things that defines what womanhood is. But womanhood while not being less than possessing a uterus is more than that. Biologically we know what womanhood is, chromosomally, skeletally, even the brain chemistry of men and women is different. And it’s a difference so obvious that babies, literal babies can figure it out. Babies, you know, the tiny new versions of people that come out every 9 months, they can tell what a woman is.
So, again, I’m not saying that there isn’t a biological aspect to womanhood. I, indeed, think that womanhood is entirely biologically determined. I’m a theologian who advocates non-reductive physicalism, and we don’t have anywhere near enough time to go into that!
But here’s the thing, Ana Kasparian is right. Whatever else she might think about a whole host of topics she’s right about this. Calling women “birthing persons” and “people who menstruate” and “people with uteruses” is about the most ludicrous and demeaning Orwellian claptrap since the last ludicrous and demeaning Orwellian claptrap to come from our social-betters. Because while, yes, women’s biology is inseparable from who they are that’s not ALL they are, anymore than saying that being a mother means someone who has been impregnated. Is a mother someone who has been impregnated? Yes. And that’s both a necessary and sufficient condition of being a mother (with the exception of adoption, but that’s not the point). Yes, a mother is a woman who has been impregnated, but that’s not ALL a mother is.
And I would like to say that the truth is that everyone actually knows that. But I’m not so sure they do. In fact, I strongly suspect that there are a whole lot of people who are deeply confused, people who have believed the lie who think that people with penises can be women and that man can get pregnant. I think that there are people who actually think this.
We call these people deluded.
And, sadly, there are a whole lot of deluded people in our society. Why or how they were deluded is a bigger conversation and one that I’ve been trying to have on this broadcast for the past decade. But for the purposes of today’s episode the key is simply that people are deluded.
But here’s the funny thing. As deluded as they are, there is a little sense of sanity that keeps poking its unwanted head in and announcing itself. It’s almost as though reality were incessantly and cruelly reasserting itself at every turn! Damn and blast! Curses!
You see friends, people who agree with Ana Kasparian on literally every other thing she says are now calling her all kinds of vile and hideous things because she simply doesn’t want to be called a “person with a uterus”. That makes her a villain.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you are living in this culture and society and you haven’t studied the French and Soviet Revolutions you’re missing out because I get to read the news before it happens! Godless revolutions always end the same way—with a suicidal race to prove your revolutionary bona fides and save your own skin. You can never be revolutionary enough. It is impossible in a godless revolution to EVER be permanently sufficiently radical. There are a whole host of reasons why, not least of which is this: godless revolutions fail and you have to find someone to blame. But there’s another reason and this is the one that I want us to focus on today.
Godless revolutions become totalitarian because they are built on lies because they are godless.
Samuel warned the people of Israel not to turn to useless idols, that they couldn’t help them because they were useless.
Lady Wisdom warns people to not trust in folly because foolishness will betray you in the end.
Jesus says the truth will set you free.
You see friends for all that people like to mock Christianity for being bigoted and intolerant it is only in a Christian society where long-term intellectual diversity can happen. That’s because the truth is durable. Lies are fragile.
Now, that doesn’t mean that lies just fall apart of their own accord.
A china teacup can sit there on the shelf safe and sound and exist for centuries, it can have boiling water poured into it over and over for centuries. But it’s still fragile.
An anvil is durable. You can pound on that thing with a 20 pound sledge all day every day and all you’re gonna do is wear our some hammers.
Try swinging at the teacup with a lump hammer and you’ll find out pretty fast which one is fragile and which one is durable. You see the truth can exist in the presence of lies. A society built on truth can tolerate lies—lies won’t undo such a culture overnight. But a society built on lies can’t tolerate the truth. Because lies are fragile; they cannot handle real scrutiny; they cannot survive in the wild.
You see brothers and sisters, if you haven’t noticed it by now, I hope and pray you’ll see this now. Lies are weak and fragile. Now, the people BEHIND the lies might be strong and powerful. But lies are always fragile. All the lies in the world are as nothing before the truth and its simple demonstration. It doesn’t matter how longly or how loudly you shout a lie, a demonstration of the truth will leave the lie undone—at least for those who have eyes to see.
Ay and there’s the rub. Because as the old saying goes it’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled. But that’s another story for another day.
The point is that the British Parliament walked out of an extremely data-heavy and painfully convicting speech about the failures of the British government to protect people; and the British MPs didn’t want to hear it, and the British Press didn’t wanna talk about it. Talking about this is to simply draw attention to it. If people find out that the cost-benefit analysis of continued Covid mRNA shots and boosters is so insanely out of whack, if MPs were to debate the issue and the news were to report it then an awful lot of people would draw the conclusion that the British Government was complicit in a ruinously expensive public health campaign that has demonstrably and unarguably done incalculably more harm than good! And there are simply a lot of people who don’t want the British public to think those thoughts because the lies of Big Pharma and Big Government are far too fragile to stand up to the merciless scrutiny of reality and good data.
The point is that someone like Ana Kasparian, who is so far Left that she might as well be blue, a woman who has openly advocated for all the transgender nonsense, all the talking points, all the things—she says something as innocuous as that she doesn’t want to be called a “person with a uterus” but wants to be called a “woman” and now she’s Armenian Hitler! Now we could point out the ludicrous and painfully hilarious hypocrisy that the transgender movement engages in. We could point out that they demand that all of society, all speech patterns, the dictionaries themselves have to be changed, our definitional concepts of reality have to be altered to fit their whims; no one is allowed to call them anything but the thing they demand to be called at that exact moment; these narcissistic, delusional, tyrannical, solipsistic, cry-bullies, they demand that you bend to every whim, but if you simply express that you want to be called a woman—the very right they’re demanding, hilariously—that you’re doing violence.
It's hilarious. I mean, I’m laughing. But I’m laughing in the sardonic way that one laughs at a classical villain whose hubris is his own undoing. Ana Kasparian bought the lie. She promoted the lie. She tried to and I believe will continue to try to silence the truth, but even the tiny little itty-bitty bit of truth she wanted to hold on to was too much and she had to be attacked. The truth had to be thrown into a burlap sack, tied to a cinderblock and tossed into the creek as though it were a sick puppy.
Brothers and sisters, you’ve all heard of the new superbugs right, these bacteria that are anti-biotic resistant. They exist in hospitals because they just so happen to be these forms of life that have developed that are immune to anti-biotics. But this isn’t evolution. They can only live in the hypersterile hospital environment. If they get out in the real world they die and die quickly because they are not evolution but a degradation of the bacteria that can’t compete with other bacteria.
Lies can compete with other lies, sure. But they can’t compete with the truth. Sadly, our society has become an incubator for lies. We’ve worked so hard to exclude truth from the public square and we’ve done it so effectively for so long that we now have superlies. We have lies that our culture can’t defeat. Our culture has not immunity to these superlies. Now, the truth will wipe them out lickity-split. These superlies can only exist in an environment sterilized of the truth.
Yes, the lies get bigger, but they also grow fragiler.
Don’t fear lies—proclaim the truth. The lie is terrified of the truth. So believe it, speak it, and live it.