WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Realistic Pep Talk: Bill Whittle’s Radical, Unpopular Coronavirus Crisis Theory
byVanderleunonApril 8, 2020
Bill Whittle –Idealistic, realistic, informed and articulate. You need, you really, really need to give this man an hour and a half of your time today.
Bill Whittle speaks for me, FINALLY someone I agree with 100%.
Thanks for sharing Gerard, very… VERY much appreciated.
John VenletApril 8, 2020, 1:24 PM
As much as I admire Bill Whittle, for many of the reasons you articulate in your intro, after watching 15 minutes of that video, I shut it down, without learning a dang thing except that he admires Kinsa Smart Thermometers and the data they produce, and that he does not think President Trump is a nitwit. Whittle would better serve those who are interested in his theory by laying it out in less than 15 minutes, and providing links to support his theory for his listeners to delve into themselves. Has Whittle never heard of the book “The One Minute Manager”? If it takes an hour and a half to explain something, something is wrong with the theory beyond mere loquaciousness. How about a synopsis, Gerard.
I like Whittle but no, I don’t buy the whole cloth; What everybody’s doing is the best they can? 25-35 million bucks for the Kennedy Center? Reporting any death as winnie the flu caused if the corpse had COVID or even possibly had COVID? Why yes it appears social distancing works to reduce infection but such has, possible damaging downsides. No a respected epidemiologist can’t say a medication is effective before testing with controls, which means 6-8 months down the road at least, -but he can say he doesn’t know and welcome date provided by practitioners using same in the field. Are the NY Governor and the NYC mayor doing the best they can or are they providing inflated data to support their party’s aim and or more federal funds entering their area? DamnedifIknow.
I’m not faulting Bill nor the posters here that agree with him 100%, I just not in that camp.
jwmApril 8, 2020, 2:03 PM
Bill Whittle was one of the clearest and most reasonable voices post 9/11. He continues to be so. I’m cynical enough that on most days you could sharpen a knife on my attitude. This talk has caused me to look at some things differently. It has reduced much, if not all of my cynicism for now. This was tonic.
JWM
bilejonesApril 8, 2020, 3:28 PM
Incontrovertible proof that the Trump Regime has its priorities clear.
The US Department of Defense delivers one million surgical masks to be used by the IDF
(photo credit: MINISTRY OF DEFENSE SPOKESPERSON’S OFFICE)
After all, It’s not as if any American doctors need them is it?
Fluella De VilApril 8, 2020, 4:43 PM
I take Mr. Whittle with a grain of salt since 2015, when I discovered in an episode of Stratosphere Lounge that he wanted to detonate a grenade between 9/11 Truthers’ legs and hoped they die in a fire. He’s certainly entitled to his opinion, but he’s not one to question a narrative. And I like Trump, that has nothing to do with it.
ghostsniperApril 8, 2020, 5:44 PM
Venlet’s right. I’ve watched this guy a couple times and it’s as if he never even views his vids after the fact. He wastes a lot of time and I just don’t have much time to waste any more. So thanks John for the heads up.
Gordon ScottApril 8, 2020, 6:14 PM
Shorter Whittle: Most people involved in this are doing the best that they can, and it appears to be working in that the chart suggests new infections are slowing greatly. Fauci is trying, Trump is trying, Cuomo is trying, even whatsisname in California is trying (and may be succeeding, but no data from the homeless cities).
Yes, there is politics operating around the edges. The media have not only failed, they are doing their best to sabotage things. There have been a few (very few) examples of stupidity like trying to arrest paddleboarders or preachers, but really, this is not happening much. So park the cynicism, as things appear to be going okay, and we’ll get through this.
Gordon ScottApril 8, 2020, 6:17 PM
Oh, and if you’ve never seen or listened to Whittle’s What We Saw series on the moon landings, or his current one on the Cold War, they are well worth the time. When he’s operating on script, his presentation is tight and appealing. These days he’s doing two or three off-the-cuff videos a day and yeah, he can ramble some.
JackApril 9, 2020, 11:01 AM
This vid, a documentary on the epidemiology of CV-19, an apparent creation by the ChiComs; you know the bff’s of Biden and a few other of our leftist political POS.
I received it from a bff and because it is brand, spanking new it should be shared with Senators and Congress people who were elected and granted some level of political swat, along with the insistence that they actually sit down and watch the thing.
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
— WH Auden
TWAIN IN TESLA’S LABORATORY
from “Chimes of Freedom”
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
The painter stood Before her work She looked around every where She saw the pictures and she painted them She picked the colors from the air Green to green Red to red Yellow to yellow In the light Black to black When the evening comes Blue to blue In the night
To the Stonecutters
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Search American Digest’s Back Pages
Contemplation of the Sword
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
from Preludes
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
from Canto CXV BY EZRA POUND
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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from “Chimes of Freedom”
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
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Gerard Van der Leun
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
The scientists are in terror
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I agree with Bill Whittle.
Clean up on aisle 4.
Bill Whittle speaks for me, FINALLY someone I agree with 100%.
Thanks for sharing Gerard, very… VERY much appreciated.
As much as I admire Bill Whittle, for many of the reasons you articulate in your intro, after watching 15 minutes of that video, I shut it down, without learning a dang thing except that he admires Kinsa Smart Thermometers and the data they produce, and that he does not think President Trump is a nitwit. Whittle would better serve those who are interested in his theory by laying it out in less than 15 minutes, and providing links to support his theory for his listeners to delve into themselves. Has Whittle never heard of the book “The One Minute Manager”? If it takes an hour and a half to explain something, something is wrong with the theory beyond mere loquaciousness. How about a synopsis, Gerard.
I like Whittle but no, I don’t buy the whole cloth; What everybody’s doing is the best they can? 25-35 million bucks for the Kennedy Center? Reporting any death as winnie the flu caused if the corpse had COVID or even possibly had COVID? Why yes it appears social distancing works to reduce infection but such has, possible damaging downsides. No a respected epidemiologist can’t say a medication is effective before testing with controls, which means 6-8 months down the road at least, -but he can say he doesn’t know and welcome date provided by practitioners using same in the field. Are the NY Governor and the NYC mayor doing the best they can or are they providing inflated data to support their party’s aim and or more federal funds entering their area? DamnedifIknow.
I’m not faulting Bill nor the posters here that agree with him 100%, I just not in that camp.
Bill Whittle was one of the clearest and most reasonable voices post 9/11. He continues to be so. I’m cynical enough that on most days you could sharpen a knife on my attitude. This talk has caused me to look at some things differently. It has reduced much, if not all of my cynicism for now. This was tonic.
JWM
Incontrovertible proof that the Trump Regime has its priorities clear.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-covid-19-masks
Corps says Marines won’t be allowed to wear N95 or surgical masks, even if they own them
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/US-Department-of-Defense-give-1-million-masks-to-IDF-for-coronavirus-use-623976
The US Department of Defense delivers one million surgical masks to be used by the IDF
(photo credit: MINISTRY OF DEFENSE SPOKESPERSON’S OFFICE)
After all, It’s not as if any American doctors need them is it?
I take Mr. Whittle with a grain of salt since 2015, when I discovered in an episode of Stratosphere Lounge that he wanted to detonate a grenade between 9/11 Truthers’ legs and hoped they die in a fire. He’s certainly entitled to his opinion, but he’s not one to question a narrative. And I like Trump, that has nothing to do with it.
Venlet’s right. I’ve watched this guy a couple times and it’s as if he never even views his vids after the fact. He wastes a lot of time and I just don’t have much time to waste any more. So thanks John for the heads up.
Shorter Whittle: Most people involved in this are doing the best that they can, and it appears to be working in that the chart suggests new infections are slowing greatly. Fauci is trying, Trump is trying, Cuomo is trying, even whatsisname in California is trying (and may be succeeding, but no data from the homeless cities).
Yes, there is politics operating around the edges. The media have not only failed, they are doing their best to sabotage things. There have been a few (very few) examples of stupidity like trying to arrest paddleboarders or preachers, but really, this is not happening much. So park the cynicism, as things appear to be going okay, and we’ll get through this.
Oh, and if you’ve never seen or listened to Whittle’s What We Saw series on the moon landings, or his current one on the Cold War, they are well worth the time. When he’s operating on script, his presentation is tight and appealing. These days he’s doing two or three off-the-cuff videos a day and yeah, he can ramble some.
This vid, a documentary on the epidemiology of CV-19, an apparent creation by the ChiComs; you know the bff’s of Biden and a few other of our leftist political POS.
I received it from a bff and because it is brand, spanking new it should be shared with Senators and Congress people who were elected and granted some level of political swat, along with the insistence that they actually sit down and watch the thing.
https://youtu.be/XMJ0EmMfb3U
I agree with Bill Whittle, and I am glad he said this. My trust in his sound judgment and sanity, already high, is confirmed.