The 'Experts' At Yahoo! and Twitter Versus Reality - Granite Grok

The ‘Experts’ At Yahoo! and Twitter Versus Reality

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I keep stumbling across all manner of stupid this week. From Twitter to Yahoo to the Hartford Courant, ‘The Media” Social and anti-social, are showing their asses, and we’re here (with some small measure of enthusiasm) to spank them.

Twitter has had this hanging in my sidebar for days. “Biden’s vaccine mandate for workers is supported by legal precedents, experts say.”

After seeing it about 100 times, I clicked on it.

 

Experts say there is legal support for Biden Vax mandate -Twitter
Experts say there is legal support for Biden Vax mandate -Twitter.

 

It offered me the opportunity to offer my thoughts. /snicker

I did.

Tweet - And once so was slavery

 

Supported by legal precedent, you know, according to experts.

Moving on, we have a tweet with a video from Dr. Ryan Cole. You can watch the video below; what interests us here is Twitter flagging the tweet and the video.

If you do not recall, Dr. Cole is an eminently qualified expert, but some of his expertise contradicts the approved political narratives.  Even on a bad day, he is far more likely to be correct than anyone on Twitter.

 

Dr Ryan Cole vs Twitter on vaccines

Dr. Cole is sharing research and observations by other experts about increased cancers they are seeing among the vaccinated in demographics who should be getting cancer. He observes the possible reason (some science) and then says he has biopsies his lab is checking to try and add some science to help determine the truth. You can listen to him below.

Twitter says this is misleading. Twitter is full of sh!t, but then, you already knew that.

 

Meanwhile, Yahoo! news has this. “Covid pandemic has brought biggest cut to global life expectancy since World War 2, says study.

People are expected to die younger because of the pandemic. The pandemic or the political response? The headline hints at the former, and Yahoo! never mentions the latter.

But we’ve been writing about the very real problem of life years lost due to the political response for over a year.

I just published some “science” yesterday from the NHS in the UK demonstrating that this is happening there right now.  They see – for lack of a better word – spikes. Non-covid deaths from heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, urinary tract diseases, things that went unattended, undiagnosed, or untreated because it was a 24/7/365 COVID-only service last year. The politics had a cost in lives, and the bill is coming due.

The Yahoo! article on life-years lost never mentions this. It talks about lost years looking forward and racial and economic inequities. But the UK report on these spikes in non-COVID deaths was … published by Yahoo! News.

WTF?

Lastly, but never finally, The Hartford Courant. The watchdog media for Hartford, CT. They’ve got a piece about a topic near and dear to our hearts—the Transportation Climate Initiative. Republicans are painting it as a regressive gas tax on working and low-income folks. A burden they can’t afford. Which it is.

Democrats, Sorry – TCI supporters think the Republicans are being a bit dramatic. The party of handmaiden costume street theater and Extinction Rebellion coffins and tombstones is concerned with drama.

The piece almost appears balanced until the Courant states matter of factly that,

 

The Transportation Climate Initiative — or TCI for short — is not a tax. It is a regional cap-and-trade plan to raise money to combat climate change by reducing motor vehicle pollution, which is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. It requires large gasoline and diesel fuel suppliers to purchase allowances to offset the environmental harm caused by co
mbustion of the carbon-based fuels they sell in Connecticut, essentially putting a price tag on pollution.

 

The government is enacting a regulatory scheme that will add costs that would otherwise not exist. It’s a tax. But not just any tax. Once approved, an unelected board will raise the cost or tax as fast and as often as they like, and “taxpayers” can do nothing about it.

The Hartford Courant didn’t make column inches available to explain that, but why would they if they think fuel suppliers are going to eat the cost of “allowances”?

How does that joke go? The only thing they know about capitalism is that if there is a period at the end of a sentence, the next letter is larger.

Here’s the video I promised you:

 

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