If you were jaded about politics and power before the response to the China Virus (say it like Trump; CHI-NUH), odds are good that it metastasized into full-blown cases of “you just can’t trust those f**kers about anything. And you can’t. You never could. Well into my second decade of mouthing off about almost everything, the response to the Wuhan Flu set new levels of distrust in my mind and, thankfully, millions of others.
It’s nice to see people become peaceably uncomfortable with whatever status quo the political class wants to maintain. It’s even more pleasing when it lasts. I’ve been paying attention for over twenty years, blogging for 17 of those, 15 of those here, and happy as a Labrador in a lake to be running GraniteGrok for its twentieth birthday.
In that time, many an activist or group has risen in response to some sort of awakening, only to, unfortunately, discover they lacked the inner strength to stay in the battle. Some of them got bored. Others couldn’t commit to anything long term. When you’re in, you may realize it is going to be a bare-knuckled fight, only to discover that the fight is every day and that it never ends.
Evil doesn’t rest. The Socialists hiding in Democrat clothing are drones for the relentless advance of tyranny. Human nature and greed, the obvious sort and the one pretending at empathy, are relentless scolds clawing at the hem of liberty’s robes. Baring her flaws and then pronouncing their way is the cure, usually for whatever pain they inflicted in their quest to run every aspect of everyone else’s lives.
The response to the pandemic narratives sorted the flock.
Many millions were awakened other millions became hardened. The former are reasonably suspicious of government, scientism, and what we used to call medicine. Certainly, the notion of public health is a shared responsibility. The latter became hardened, entrenched defenders, radicalized and reliable praetorians whose defense of the response was just as easily a self-defense mechanism. I let them convince me they meant well, and no matter what I see, who gets sick, or who dies, I will deny my own eyes and ears.
That was a long preamble to get to the point implied by the headline. Is it just me? James Van der Beek just died of colon cancer at the age of 48. I don’t know his politics, but I do know about people who grow up in the entertainment culture. The words they use, the sides they choose, and the institutional pressure applied. More than a few actors couldn’t work if they refused the jabs. Religious exemptions would have only made matters worse in a realm that sneers at faith in anything other than performance, paychecks, and profit.
Did James get the jab?
You have to ask, or at least wonder, but not for long. I asked an AI.
No strong evidence exists that James Van Der Beek received the COVID-19 vaccines or actively promoted them or masks. There is, however, clear evidence from early 2020 that he promoted social distancing. …
Van Der Beek largely stayed quiet on COVID specifics compared to his wife, who was more vocal (and controversial) on social media. His X/Twitter account (@vanderjames) shows no posts using terms like “vaccine,” “COVID,” “mask,” or similar during the relevant period. He and his family moved to Texas and focused on wellness/family content, sometimes overlapping with skeptical communities, but he avoided direct COVID commentary.
Kimberly, Jame’s wife, was vocal and controversial because she opposed the response. Given how quiet James was while too many celebrities were using the flumageddon as an excuse to market themselves, Ven Der Beek’s silence speaks volumes. It also means that any presumption that his cancer was directly connected to one or more injections of the jab juice is unlikely. He didn’t promote them for any reason, his wife opposed them (likely followed by a lot of negative feedback from the family’s Hollywood peer group), so their six kids get to grow up without at least direct contact with mRNA.
None of that means James didn’t secretly get jabbed with his buddies after a night out, but it seems unlikely. He probably got the cancer in some other way and died at the age of 48. Too young for anyone, which, after the global experiment, makes us wonder, and not just me, and reminds us that a little research goes a long way to framing any mystery that pops up in the daily news.
It’s not just me who wonders, and it’s not just me who cares enough to want to know. Not just about this but everything, which is why GraniteGrok is still firing on all cylinders after twenty years because most in the media will have as little curiosity as they did during the response to COVID and the years that followed. Years loaded with research and crap sandwiches from the truth bomb cafe, they are working diligently to not have to eat.
The truth is out there, and someone needs to look, knowing that the next discovery could wake a beast or tame one. Most of the time, it’s neither, and the beat almost always has lots of money and lawyers. It has armies of foot soldiers ready to label you, smear you, dox you, and make you afraid to leave the house.
Worse, perhaps, of all, is that the beast does many things to ruin you, but what it really wants most of all is to shut you up, and by example, as many others as it can. The attacks are meant to have an invisible blast radius. If we make an example of you, all these people will stop asking questions. Shutting up can make it all stop.
If everyone had shut up during the response to COVID, we’d be living in a very different world, and many more people would be at risk of jab-induced cancers. And this is for you as much as it is for scolds like NewsGuard. Researchers are finding junk DNA in the juice. Way more than is clinically advised or safe. They are connecting this to the rise in cancers and turbo cancers, especially among the young.
In other words, when someone dies of cancer before what appears to be a sensible age for such a thing, we’re going to have to ask, and it isn’t just me asking because of how the people in power reacted to questions, queries, competing science, much of which is proving to have been not just valuable but correct.
You created that monster, then turned it into a beast of its own, and it is waging a counter-revolution, and it’s not just me. There are a lot more of us, many of whom used to be with you, and we are happy to have the company, even if we don’t all agree on everything. That’d be boring. Liberty is messy and sometimes dangerous, but not as dangerous as life without it under the political Left’s boot.
