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Ours is a zero-trust society, and crazy-sounding conspiracy theorists are usually far more trustworthy than government officials, mainstream journalists, academic researchers, etc. As we have seen, the credentialed “experts” who brandish the regime’s imprimatur have been consistently and catastrophically wrong about everything that matters.
A growing number of people, possibly even a majority, now accept that this is so, even if most of them are reluctant to acknowledge it publicly. People are sick of being conned and gaslit by the powers-that-be. ...
Okay, I know that these “conspiracy theories” can sound pretty crazy, especially when you go outside into the sunshine and “touch grass” and interact with all the shiny, happy normies out there. But let us not forget, my fellow Americans, that in the past few years, our own government recently partnered with Chinese communists to engineer a virus; then, once that virus “escaped” from the lab, our government collaborated with public and private organizations around the globe to lie about the severity of that virus, to lie about which treatments were effective and which ones weren’t, and to censor any and all true information that contradicted its lies; our government then compelled people to take preventative measures and treatments that its own officials knew were ineffective; etc., etc., etc. How many people died as a result, especially once you factor in deaths from despair (suicides, overdoses, etc.)? And precisely none of the folks who committed all of these crimes have even been prosecuted for it, let alone convicted of a crime and sent to prison. And don’t forget that this is a familiar pattern by now: think Iraq, 9/11, the psychotic immigration and border policy, the BLM movement and its “reforms,” etc.
See, nobody even wanted the stupid plastic bags. People don’t like them. We were happier with paper. It required government regulation to create the plastic bag market. After which, a whole lot of petroleum-adjacent companies earned generational wealth supplying government-mandated plastic bags to grocery stores.
But then the plastic bags began choking the oceans (not literally) —a whole new problem we never had back in the paper bag days, and one that the experts somehow failed to foresee— and now the very same experts soberly tell us we have to just stop it with all these plastic bags, which we never wanted in the first place until the government mandated them.
The experts are worse than useless. They are dangerous madmen. They, not the plastic bags, are the ones who are really choking the planet (Id.). The bags are just symptoms of our expert infection. It’s possible we caught the expert infection from the salmon, too. We don’t know yet.
But it’s clear. There’s only one logical thing to do. We should ban experts.
Ronald Reagan’s daughter, Patti Davis, rent her garments in The New York Times Sunday op-ed page, wailing:
... The subject was Los Angeles on fire, and one person mentioned climate change as a cause. Another commentator smirked and said he didn’t believe it was the cause.
I felt rage surge up past my grief.
My first thought was: “You think you know more than scientists?”
Of course, my first thought reading that was: Who is paying those scientists? The same question you might ask of the scientists at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and NIAID who declared that Covid-19 was definitely not created in a Wuhan lab, and the mRNA vaccines were “safe and effective.” My second thought was: could you possibly find a better example of elite Utopian-Woke performative acting-out? My third thought was: since when are “experts” infallible? My fourth thought was: doesn’t science advance on the basis of continuous argument? My fifth thought was: if Patti Davis is watching the news, she must be in some comfortable and probably luxurious place that did not burn down. ...
An awful lot of homeowners will not be paying their mortgages on a smoldering empty lot. The banks are not in super-fabulous condition these days. How many loans-gone-bad will it take to wreck already unstable banks? And, by the way, the collateral isn’t even there anymore. The re-po man is out of the picture.
What happens to the insurance companies? And the re-insurance companies who theoretically stand behind the insurers? I’ll tell you what happens: they will be backstopped by the government, which doesn’t have the money to backstop them. . . but will create it out of pixels on screens. . . which means expect a considerable uptick in inflation (i.e., a downtick in the purchasing power of the dollar), which will be a black eye for the new Trump administration. ...
the upshot is this:
doctors alone scored 73.7% on diagnosing patients even when using google etc.
doctors using GPT scored 76.3%
but GPT alone scored 92%.
adding a human hurt the results hugely.
it led to 24 errors in 100 instead of 8. triple the misdiagnosis rate is not the kind of outcome one would be wise to dismiss.
Patrick says
Esp if they are Housing Experts of ParNet who imagine shit up in their head and pronounce it facts the rest of us have to accept or get spammed with a lecture on "you don't know real estate. I do."
MolotovCocktail says
Patrick says
Esp if they are Housing Experts of ParNet who imagine shit up in their head and pronounce it facts the rest of us have to accept or get spammed with a lecture on "you don't know real estate. I do."
You don't real estate and haven't proven otherwise. Not much else to say.

Regular readers know I’ve very little patience left for the failing expert classes. Now, I propose a radical solution. Just as Reagan fired all the illegally striking air traffic controllers back in the 1980’s, I suggest we fire the entire expert class— every single one who got the pandemic wrong.
I’m sorry (not sorry) if that sounds extreme. It’s not revenge. It’s self-protection. All these sold-out experts are dangerous.
If we don’t ashcan them, the same credentialed parrots will still be squawking about cars and guns while another 700,000 young Americans quietly shuffle off this mortal stage. Pretending the problem doesn’t exist guarantees it persists. Ignoring the vaccine-shaped hole in the mortality curve isn’t just playing politics, it’s malpractice. We’ll never develop protocols, treatments, or genuine public-health safeguards to save the people who’ve been hurt if the official line remains, “shhh.”
Come on, let’s go for it. Let’s just purge them all. Then we can start over from scratch. And let’s do it now, before everybody forgets or kicks the bucket. Who’s with me?
You don't real estate and haven't proven otherwise. Not much else to say.
Oh man...see everyone?
Congrats on finding a typo. You don't DO real estate. Which is true. You know nothing about it. I've posted dozens of links on areas that have proven my point. You post a map with no data. Picture book kid.

Ah, multiple licensing agencies and prof assocs.
Who gave the AMA a monopoly? Why does the Bar Assoc have a monopoly? The ACS?
We need MOAR professional associations with different viewpoints. The AMA should not be able to kick out members, should be advisory, and we should have half a dozen AMAs.
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