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One thing the ruling elite particularly hates is being laughed at.

They much prefer flattery, reminders of how indispensable they are, how lost we'd all be without them, etc.

I believe this helps to account for the hysteria surrounding the forthcoming comedy, attracting funding right now, called The Rash.

Walter Kirn, known for such features as the George Clooney film "Up in the Air," has written a parody (as if that were possible!) of the Covid affair. It's centered around a fictional skin disease, and the main character is based on Jay Bhattacharya, the Stanford professor and lockdown opponent whose voice the Biden Administration ordered suppressed by Twitter.

(You surely know that Jay is now director of the National Institutes of Health as well as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control -- poetic justice of an unusually satisfying kind.)

So understand: it's a satire, not a documentary. It's intended to be funny, and to make fun of insanity.

Not a single clip of the film, being made in tandem with RFK, Jr., running mate Nicole Shanahan, has been made yet, and already the sophisticates -- like the editor-in-chief of the unreadable Mother Jones, or the folks at Yahoo, whose article on the subject is called "Vaccine Skeptic RFK Jr.'s Allies Pitch Cringe Comedy on COVID Response" about a film they couldn't have seen because it hasn't been made yet -- are letting us know that we must avoid this film and that it will surely be terrible. In the UK we read the headline, "RFK's allies seek to make a movie even worse than Melania."

Naturally anything that mocks the establishment must be terrible. That isn't how the world is supposed to work. They are supposed to mock us! We are supposed to treat them with grave seriousness!

I think Kirn's supporters are right to say that this really is a matter of not being able to tolerate ridicule and sarcasm -- after all, until very recently, with very few exceptions the establishment had been able to evade that kind of treatment.

One writes:

My neighbor grew up in communist Eastern Europe. During COVID, he told me, "These people who are trying to censor divergent opinions are rank amateurs. Anyone who has experienced censorship from the state/MSM knows this: What ever they don't want you to read…that's what you want to read!"

These fools have learned nothing. And you're exactly right, Walter. They are terrified of a script they have never even seen. It's indicative of the fragility of their narrative that it cowers at the slightest hint of sarcasm.

Another writes: "All this brouhaha about the yet-unmade 'The Rash' is proof of the fragility of the narrative -- which will collapse like the house of cards it is when we can finally laugh en masse, in a collective catharsis."

I haven't seen the film, either, for the same reason (it isn't made yet), but for me the idea of it is enough to know we need it and that we'll enjoy it.

By contrast, what is available now, but after midnight won't be available for free viewing anymore, is the replay of our "build a business in under 30 minutes with tools that will amaze you, and we leave nothing out, so just jot down what we're doing and you can do exactly the same thing we just did as soon as you finish watching" webinar from this week:
 
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