Remember this guy? He appeared before Congress in July, taking heat from Rand Paul and pleading the fifth, but did anything result from the Rand Paul Show? Or was it all just politics and spin?
There is no shortage of storylines arising out of the Fauci testimony. Paul has waged a years-long “public crusade” against Fauci and previously even expressed his personal desire to see Fauci behind bars. Public health has become an increasingly salient and contentious political issue, particularly given Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial rejection of established scientific and medical wisdom. As Kennedy’s recent exchange with CNN’s Dana Bash made clear, Covid-era lockdowns and public health measures continue to drive politics and policy. And Fauci is, undeniably, the avatar for the conflict.
Being the “avatar for the conflict” over public health is where this week’s installment of decoding the psyops behind the cinema starts. Here’s an email, courtesy of PsyOp Cinema and the Decoding Culture Foundation, that highlights how the high and mighty Fauci was treated by the pro-Fauci “documentary” team:
While this nauseating stroking of Fauci’s ego is bad enough, it’s the description of the product’s “snappish” moment that really triggers my gag reflex because of how Mark Mannucci specifically says that this moment allows viewers to connect to Fauci “as a real person”. When you see the inner mechanisms of this audience manipulation being so casually discussed between the creator and the subject, who can honestly say this is an example of a genuine documentary and not just obvious propaganda?
Jumping back in time to 1995, the movie Outbreak would never be mistaken for a documentary. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Donald Sutherland, this movie did reflect what was happening at the time with Ebola, especially an outbreak that occurred in Virginia:
Ebola was hot in the mid-90s. That virus was everywhere in 1994, like copies of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or John Grisham’s The Client. This was due in large part to Richard Preston’s 1992 New Yorker article and subsequent novel The Hot Zone, a dramatization of a real-life Ebola outbreak in Reston, Virginia, right outside of the nation’s capital. It makes sense – America was between wars at the time, so many of its citizens had to look for things to be worried about, and a nightmarish flesh-eating plague is the kind of thing that captures people’s imaginations in a grim, apocalyptic panic sort of way. Plans to adapt the story into a film began almost immediately, with filmmakers like Wolfgang Petersen and Michael Mann considered for the project before Ridley Scott was ultimately tapped to direct a feature starring Robert Redford and Jodie Foster. Obviously, this version of The Hot Zone never materialized, although Scott did eventually produce a miniseries adaptation for National Geographic in 2019. However, Petersen went on to direct the 1995 film Outbreak, about a strain of the virus that infects a small town in coastal California.
Despite having a faint connection to reality, Outbreak was seen, in hindsight, as being much less plausible when compared to Contagion from the vantage point of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Outbreak stars Dustin Hoffman as army virologist Colonel Sam Daniels who is tasked with investigating an outbreak of fatal fevers in Zaire. It’s so bad that some victims have their internal organs turned to liquid by the bug. Along with his colleagues Major Salt (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Colonel Casey Schuler (Kevin Spacey), plus his ex-wife Dr. Robby Keough (Rene Russo) who works for the CDC, Daniels attempts to fight the spread of the virus, which inevitably hits the U.S. soil via a smuggled monkey.
The whole movie is so intensely melodramatic and unbelievable that watching it again during COVID-19 isolation actually made me feel better. Whether it’s the smarmy monkey smuggler named Jimbo played by a pre-Grey‘s Anatomy Patrick Dempsey, the wacky underlying government conspiracy, or the fact that they use a little girl to lure and capture the host monkey at the end — everything about Outbreak is utterly ridiculous. Here are five reasons that this movie is so bonkers it actually offers some levity during this pandemic.
Personally, I find NO levity in shitty movies like Outbreak because, what one normie viewer sees as a “wacky underlying conspiracy”, a more perceptive viewer can interpret as cognitive conditioning, like marveling at the UNTHINKABLE idea that America’s military could ever consider BOMBING AN AMERICAN TOWN.
Why does this idea seem so outlandish? The Boomer generation is collectively destroying MUCH MORE than a little town in California in order to keep their party going, and during the height of the pandemic, resistors like ME were told that refusing to jab my children would result in killing grandpa and grandma.
From my current vantage point of October 9th, 2026, I think it’s entirely possible that members of the grey tsunami would have NO PROBLEM bombing a town if it meant saving them from those scary things they cannot see and are asking their “friends” on Facebook if they should be worried about.
I don’t want to discriminate against JUST Democrat lovers, like Kevin Hunt, who believes “regime change starts at home” because die-hard Trump supporters have similar blindspots when it comes to how their dear leader ran Operation Warp Speed, which made Big Pharma LOTS OF MONEY.
For an example of THAT con-job, here’s some remarks from Trump celebrating Operation Warp Speed:
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please. (Applause).
Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much.I’m honored to welcome doctors, scientists, industry executives, and state and local leaders to our historic Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit. It’s been some journey for all of us. It’s been an incredible success.
We’re grateful to be joined by Vice President Mike Pence, who has done an absolutely incredible job on the Coronavirus Task Force. Mike, thank you. Stand up, Mike. (Applause.) Great job.
We’re here to discuss a monumental national achievement. From the instant the coronavirus invaded our shores, we raced into action to develop a safe and effective vaccine at breakneck speed. It would normally take five years, six years, seven years, or even more. In order to achieve this goal, we harnessed the full power of government, the genius of American scientists, and the might of American industry to save millions and millions of lives all over the world. We’re just days away from authorization from the FDA, and we’re pushing them hard, at which point we will immediately begin mass distribution.
Before Operation Warp Speed, the typical timeframe for development and approval, as you know, could be infinity. And we were very, very happy that we were able to get things done at a level that nobody has ever seen before. The gold standard vaccine has been done in less than nine months.
On behalf of the entire nation, I want to thank everyone here today who has been involved in this extraordinary American initiative. I also want to recognize members of my administration who have worked tirelessly in this effort…
And here’s more, including Trump promoting the Big Pharma companies that made their billions, like Johnson and Johnson, which I referenced in yesterday’s post about Gianforte’s love of India:
As a result of this unprecedented investment, we are exceedingly proud that both Pfizer and Moderna have announced that their vaccines are approximately 95 percent effective, which is a number that nobody expected to be able to get to, far exceeding anything that really we — that anybody thought. We went out and we said, “What do you think a maximum would be?” And I think doctors — we all came up to the conclusion that something like that would be really incredible.
And we have other candidates looking right now. We have some big ones that we’re going to be announcing very soon. We have some companies — great, great companies out there you all know about: Johnson & Johnson and — and others. And they’re all coming in, and they’re coming in very quickly. We expect to have some news on that very shortly. And we have worked very well with the companies, but if for any reason we have any problems, we will be instituting the Defense Production Act, and we will make sure that we don’t have any problems for very long. We’ve instituted it before.
Two additional companies, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson — as you know, the Johnson & Johnson is a one-dose, one-shot vaccine, so we’re going to see how that works. That would be very helpful if that all came out, and I think it probably will. Also, they’re showing tremendous — tremendous promise, all of them. Tremendous prob- —
We’re — we’re very hopeful that the FDA will authorize the Pfizer vaccine within days. We got to get it moving. And Moderna vaccine almost immediately thereafter. Large numbers of tests and samples have been done, so hopefully that’ll go very quickly.
If authorized, tens of millions of vaccine doses will be available this month. And we’ll get it distributed very quickly. We have that all set. And hundreds of millions more will quickly follow.
Every American who wants the vaccine will be able to get the vaccine. And we think by spring we’re going to be in a position that nobody would have believed possible just a few months ago. (Applause.) Yeah. Amazing. Really amazing. They say it’s — they say it’s somewhat of a miracle, and I think that’s true.
The amazing Big Pharma miracle being celebrated by Donald Trump included an interesting nod to Steve Daines and his victory in 2020, which got me thinking about why Montana is such an ideal place for the biomedical industry that supposedly led to so many AMAZING things to fight the “China virus” because, you know, China is definitely where Covid came from.
Since sharing is caring, and Republicans are known for their great capacity to care (at least for corporate entities), I hope every Republican in the Bitterroot is excited to see that Tonix Pharmaceuticals is coming to town after investing in a facility in Maryland, where Covid definitely DID NOT come from!
Clinical stage biopharma company Tonix Pharmaceuticals has officially moved into Maryland.
The company recently celebrated the grand opening for its newly acquired research and development center in Frederick. Located at 431 Aviation Way, the 48,000 square-foot R&D facility is fully-operational with a team of scientists and technicians on hand to further Tonix’s portfolio of infectious disease treatments.
Tonix is developing live vaccines and antiviral drugs to protect against COVID-19 and its variants, smallpox, and monkeypox; treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); medical countermeasures; and diagnostics for other diseases. In addition to its Maryland location, the company has operations in Massachusetts and soon to be Montana.
When the Ravalli County Economic Authority announced this Big Pharma news yesterday to the residents of the Bitterroot, the politicians who showed up included Republicans AND Democrats because nothing brings together America’s political parties like empowering some of the most evil corporations to ever exist.
I know people want this issue to be a partisan one so they can have their partisan feelings about it, like the extreme partisanship of the legislator I’m legally forbidden to name, which is why I have carefully cropped this image from an old post of her attempt to turn the pandemic into an opportunity to score political points six years ago:
Will this image earn me another threat of being charged with another looming felony from the Missoula County Attorney’s Office? I can’t say, that’s up to County Attorneys, like Matt Jennings and Mac Bloom, but what I CAN say is that someone suffering from PTSD, like I do, can now get excited for the Tonix solution to my PTSD-related need to publicly share as much information as possible because, for some crazy reason, I think exposing local corruption has put my life at risk.
Thanks for reading!