The Roundup: Week Ending August 27, 2022
The Roundup: Week Ending August 27, 2022
Hoo boy! An absurd week in the news!
The RoundUp collects the most recent news, listens and observations that caught my attention. Here’s a few things that happened. I’ll comment on some of them below.
Moviepass is back!?!
Dr. Fauci “retires”
The script flips on the vaccines
Biden’s student loan forgiveness edict
The FBI told Facebook to censor Hunter Biden laptop stories?!
Moviepass is back!?!
Earlier this month, I wrote about seeing that Moviepass may be coming back. I visited the “coming soon” website and signed up. I passed the news along to friends. One texted back, “I signed up… but I’ve got a real fool-me-once kind of feeling about it…” Indeed.
But this week, I got this email:
If you want in (and have a high tolerance for disappointment), go here.
“Space is limited don't wait. Once the waitlist is closed the only way to join will be through an invite from a friend.”
Dr. Fauci retires
I’ve made no secret about my lack of respect for Dr. Anthony Fauci. Here’s a cross section of what others are saying:
Just to keep you up to speed on who has quitting/retiring or being fired, one writer documented:
Dr. Francis Collins (who ran NIH)
The heads of FDA vaccine division quit in quite vocal disgust and had a lot to say after they did.
Dr. Deborah Birx quit
Dr. Robert Redfield saw the handwriting on the wall
And Tucker Carlson went off on Dr. Fauci:
Overall, for the man who said if you criticize him, you’re criticizing science, it sounded like a whole lot of people were criticizing science this week.
The script flips on the vaccines
Back in January, I noted that the script was beginning to flip on the COVID narrative as PCR tests were determined to be completely unhelpful.
On his podcast on Thursday, Dan Bongino highlighted another narrative change about the vaccines. Listen to him here:
You can listen to the entire episode here.
The new script as continuing failures of the vaccine finally are reported on in the MSM will be (as is everything), “Blame Trump.”
Remember where we’ve been. From “these vaccines are 100% effective” to this week Jill Biden got COVID again, and she was double vaxxed and double boosted (just like President Biden was when he got COVID a few weeks ago and just like Alfred Bourla the CEO of Pfizer). These are just three high profile examples. Do you know of people who were vaccinated and have gotten COVID?
This video plays well: 😂
Biden’s student loan forgiveness edict
Many college grads and students rejoiced this week when President Biden announced a student loan forgiveness plan of up to $20,000. Some have said that forgiveness is a good thing - that it’s even Christian to forgive.
Here’s a short post from Allie Beth Stuckey this week explaining why that’s bad theology and politics:
Nick Gillespie also has a great piece on the nuts and bolts of Biden’s plan. He notes:
However constitutionally iffy, Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan may be in the first place (in July, Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted the president does not have “the power for debt forgiveness”), the actual nuts and bolts of it are terrible all on their own.
Journalism - Censorship
This week, we learned from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast that the FBI may have instructed Facebook to censor any posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop prior to the 2020 Presidential election.
Tucker Carlson did the heavy lifting again:
MSM picked up on the story, as well as the BBC.
Zuckerberg began by stressing how Facebook took a "different path" than Twitter, which completely censored the Post's reporting while Facebook limited its reach on the platform.
Perhaps that’s why 82% don’t trust MSM anymore? A Gallup poll in July “found only 16 percent have ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in newspapers, and 11 percent in news watched on television.”
Also in July, MSNC’s Katy Tur acknowledged in an interview:
"The trust in media, in newspapers and television, is hitting an all time low. People don't trust us. They don't believe us, and it makes me wonder if this job —as I'm currently doing it— is effective, but if it's doing more harm than good."
What did you notice this week?
I’d love to know what caught your eye or ear this week!
Dr. Marty Makary (a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the author of The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care)
Ian Miller on Unmasked, August 24, 2022
Justin Hart on Rational Ground, August 24, 2022
Fauci to step down in December, Bad Catitude, August 22, 2022
TGIF: Debts Forgiven and Debts Forgotten by Nick Gillespie on Common Ground, August 26, 2022
Gallup Poll: Only 16% Have ‘Quite a Lot’ of Confidence in Newspapers, and 11 Percent in Television By Wendell Husebø on Breitbart News, July 19, 2022