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Joe Corrao retweeted
My teenage daughter came into the studio and pointed to a piece of art on my desk. "What's that?" she asked.
"That's by Norman Rockwell."
"Oh," she said. "Who's that?"
It suddenly occurred to me, the younger generation has no idea who Norman Rockwell was. And why would they? Seriously, when was the last time you saw a Norman Rockwell image?
His art used to be everywhere. It was popular, even beloved. Norman Rockwell was one of our nation's all-time great artists, creating paintings that idealized the best of American culture. His work was iconic.
And yet modern culture seems to have forgotten him.
I sort of get it. Even when he was alive his main audience wasn't teenagers. Rockwell wasn't trying to be cool and edgy. His work was more sentimental, heartwarming, and mature. It was for the grown ups. But it was everywhere. Magazine covers, calendars, postcards, mugs, posters. Everybody knew somebody who had a Norman Rockwell image in their house.
But that was then. In modern culture Rockwell has faded out of memory.
Why?
Is it because his art is dated? (His characters wear clothing and hairstyles that are frozen in the past. Plus realistic paintings in general are out of fashion). Is it because illustration has declined? Is it because people don't hang up many paintings these days, nor do they use paper calendars? Is it because American culture has shifted so that traditional "Norman Rockwell" values are just outdated? Does he represent "white patriarchy"? Let me know in the comments what you think.
Regardless, artists should still study his work. His paintings told little silent stories that were entertaining and heartwarming. He captured warm human moments with expressiveness and a touch of humor. Truly one of the greats!
Joe Corrao retweeted
Huge news I’m excited to see go public:
@BretWeinstein announces he is partnering with a broad coalition for a friendly takeover of the Libertarian Party to rebrand it as @ALPNational and @DraftMassie for President:
Bret Weinstein announces he is partnering with the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus for a friendly takeover of the party to rebrand it as @ALPNational: “The new home for the America First movement.”
@BretWeinstein calls on supporters of the strategy to sign up, because there are honorable figures on the left and right who will embrace the strategy if the public supports it.
Check out the website in the @ALPNational bio!
Joe Corrao retweeted
Whoo hoo!!!! Just in time for All Souls Eve. xitter.cf/brownstoneinst/status/…
Thrilling news! Now that all files are in, we have the complete Diaries of Anthony Fauci, in three volumes, fully indexed, 500 pages each, beautifully typeset. These are the unedited files straight from his personal computer, the strangest autobiography ever published. amazon.com/dp/B0HPCRYH24?bin…
Joe Corrao retweeted
Why America? We’re supposed to have the best food supply in the world. We’re supposed to have the best water systems. And yet we have the sickest generation of children this country has ever produced.
In the 1980s, about 12.4 percent of American kids had a chronic disease, a neurological disorder or an autoimmune condition. That number is now approaching 50 to 54 percent. We are the sickest nation on earth, and that should shock every single one of us.
Joe Corrao retweeted
I appreciate the compliment. I hope people will listen to the clip and take it to heart.
Discernment is a muscle. How do we exercise it?
Listen to people who don’t just tell you WHAT they think, but take you through HOW and WHY they think it.
@BretWeinstein is a master class in this—the evolution of thought in real time.
We’ve been conditioned to react to cherry-picked clips engineered to enrage us. But what if, instead, we actually heard people out? Followed their reasoning? Understood how new information changed their thinking?
You don’t have to agree. That’s the point.
Listen. Question. Think. Reconsider.
The more we expose ourselves to the process of rational thought, the better we become at practicing it ourselves.
That’s how we build discernment—and we desperately need more of it.
Joe Corrao retweeted
The career and literary legacy of @JimBovard is worth more than half a century of output from all think tanks combined. xitter.cf/JimBovard/status/21129…
Happy Halloween from the Lil Ratskulz.
#halloween #happyhalloween #lilratskulz #october #salem #salemmassachusetts
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Joe Corrao retweeted
I'm as pleased with this interview as anything I've done in my entire career. Please listen and consider the fulness of the meaning of this discussion. I never would have imagined ten years ago that this is what I would be doing but here I am. Here we all are.
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🔥The Brownstone Show Ep. 38
@jeffreytucker interviews @React19org co-founder, Brianne Dressen, on the devastating V-safe reports in "Cries for Help."
These are not anecdotes.
They're the government’s own data on shattered lives from COVID shots. Voices long buried.
Joe Corrao retweeted
At minimum, the idea of government is that it is there to protect the lives and liberties of the people. What happens when a government coerces people to accept experimental injections that harm them gravely? The whole veneer of legitimacy is stripped away.
Joe Corrao retweeted
Thank you @AaronRodgers12 for your kind words. We'd love to have you on our Liberty Report. Contact my co-host @DanielLMcAdams at dmcadams@ronpaulinstitute.org
Thank you.
🚨MUST SEE🚨
Aaron Rodgers SOUNDS OFF on politics and Covid.
Rogers doesn’t trust anyone in politics except Ron Paul.
He adds that it’s all a uniparty
Says President Trump has lived up to his campaign promises.
Rogers also calls FBI Director Kash Patel a “moron.”
“This is a pro-Israel First administration…there’s no MAGA movement.”
He also says the Covid vaccines were a psypo.
PODCAST CREDIT: Not Just Football with Cam Heyward
Joe Corrao retweeted
Thank you @AaronRodgers12 for your kind words. We'd love to have you on our Liberty Report. Contact my co-host @DanielLMcAdams at dmcadams@ronpaulinstitute.org
Thank you.
Joe Corrao retweeted
The hospices Nick Shirley exposed at a California plaza have now disappeared.
Shirley says the businesses he previously confronted are no longer operating at the location, with the luxury vehicles also gone.
Joe Corrao retweeted
"Cognitive dissonance. Ppl will never, never admit they were wrong on lockdowns, school closures, isolating fr dying mothers, vax mandates. It's a biological, psychol mechanism. Your brain reacts as if it's threatened...'experts' incl @Stanford will never admit they were wrong"
Joe Corrao retweeted
Here is my write up of the previously classified document released by @SenRandPaul. Gottlieb cited dramatically different numbers in private to the CIA than he was saying publicly.
Pfizer and the CIA Privately Cited High Population Immunity in May 2020, Unclassified Document Reveals brownstone.org/articles/pfiz…
Joe Corrao retweeted
2008 was an interesting year for vaccines.
That's the year the formerly-sealed case of Hannah Poling leaked to the public. (I later reported on the case for CBS News. I'll link to that in this thread.)
In Hannahs' case, the govt. (which represents vaccine makers in court, believe it or not) conceded that Hannah's vaccines caused her autism.
Mind you, the govt. and head of CDC were denying this in public.
We didn't know it at the time, but the govt's own top expert witness in vaccine-autism cases, pediatric neurologist Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, had shocked the govt. by telling them (DOJ lawyers) that vaccines can cause autism, after all. But instead of helping kids and revealing the truth, the DOJ fired Dr. Zimmermand as an expert witness and misrepresented his opinion in court thereafter.
Anyhow, the govt. secretly paid the Poling family a multi million dollar settlement, but then had the case sealed so no other parents would find out. Public health officials continued to tell other parents they were imagining things.
Meantime, many experts said that separating multi vaccines into individual doses is inherently safer. Some parents were opting to get their kids Measles and Mumps vaccines separately, for example, rather than giving them the combo Measles, Mumps, Rubella shot.
How did the maker of MMR, Merck respond?
Merck stopped making the individual shots in the U.S.
All around 2008.
Joe Corrao retweeted
RFK JR: “They cannot find ANY measles deaths in Lancaster County.”
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMISSIONER: “I spoke at length with the coroner himself… they have ZERO cases of measles death.”
GOVERNOR SHAPIRO: REFUSES to cooperate.
Pennsylvania’s “measles deaths” may be FABRICATED.
Governor Shapiro's unseemly rush to Lancaster County to convene a national press conference and his giddy delight in announcing two measles deaths was a morose commentary on the contemporary political dialogue. The performance was a replay of the Democrats' COVID playbook: fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing, and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain.
The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor's hopeful staffers. The Lancaster County Coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths. State law requires that all measles deaths be reported to the coroner.
Governor Shapiro shattered tradition and violated standard public health policy by refusing to share information with the County Health Department or CDC.
Since I have been in office, CDC has had a superb record of cooperation, information sharing, and professionalism with blue- and red-state governors and health officials. Those collaborations have resulted in effective control of the global measles outbreak in this country.
Governor Shapiro got his headlines. He correctly gambled that the slavish mainstream media would dutifully amplify his scolding without any effort to check his facts.