Morning Star Bear
Morning Star Bear, Hilaria Baldwin, Vaccines for kids, Growing up Lee, Crime in California, Succession, and more
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Feedback from the Epstein and Omicron Covid episode I did earlier this week was focused on two things. First, that I wasn’t tough enough on the idiotic schools that have mandated vaccines for young kids. I’m planning a more in-depth episode on this topic in the next couple of weeks. My personal feeling is that this is a colossal level of groupthink. The entire pandemic has been group think. There has been a severe shortage of anyone just stopping and saying “hey does this make any fucking sense.”
As I said, I am willing to tolerate anything, including a high degree of uncertainty, if there is logic and humility behind it. “We don’t know for sure, but this seems sensible, and here’s why” is a perfectly good way to frame a policy choice, especially when confronting something new.
But now we are 18 months into this, and this isn’t new, and these aren’t new policy choices. These aren’t decisions that we haven’t had time to reason through. We still have that same Fauci idiot on TV every week. Can’t the casting people find someone new? Why do we keep seeing this guy? He said that he wants to shut the borders to the new Omicron covid so that it seems he is doing something. Is that a good way to justify things? Why is Boris Johnson talking about new restrictions as a way to “buy time”? What is anyone buying time for?
We will discuss this more in-depth, and I am lining up an excellent guest to cover the topic with me, so stay tuned for that.
The other major area of feedback was from many people who had no understanding of the mechanics of what Jeffrey Epstein did. But they also said that I did not focus enough on the other major area of his bad behavior – that he was sleeping with these underage women himself. He wasn’t just pimping them out for his extortion ring. He was also a molester. I sort of assumed that was well known, but that the mechanics of how he did things was not well known. There was nothing about Jeffrey Epstein that was legitimate – he was not an honest businessman who happened to sleep with underage women. He was a criminal with no redeeming qualities. It’s too bad he never got to testify about what he did, but it’s also no great loss for the world that he is dead.
Anyone who tries to cast Ghislaine Maxwell as a victim is lying to you. She was a pimp who enabled Epstein’s entire con and trafficked all these young women. She can claim she is being scapegoated by people upset with Epstein, but the reality is that she is just as guilty as he is. Maybe she will claim that it is Les Wexner who should be prosecuted. Whitney Webb has done some good writing about this. She will claim that the accusers are after money, but that is distinct from her criminal liability for what she did. I’m sure her lawyers are going to say that any of the victims are misremembering or confused. Remember how that was a thing in the 1990s – whenever someone was accused of molesting a kid, their lawyer would get some expert to talk about how memory is flaky.
One small positive that has come out of the trial so far is the manual that was given to staff members at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach. It’s fascinating to read this. It implies that Epstein and Maxwell fully lived together, though seemingly in separate bedrooms. Also there are some amazing details.
“Remember that you see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing” (Page 5 of the PDF)
The final bullet of the Master Bedroom Checklist says that Epstein’s gun must always be placed in the bedside table drawer (Page 11 of the PDF)
The skincare products they used were pretty plebian (Page 13 of the PDF)
$100 to be placed by the staff in the glove box or center console of all cars (Page 23 of the PDF)
Ghislaine had notepads that said “Lady Ghislaine” at the top (Page 24 of the PDF)
The food they had the staff purchase for the house wasn’t very fancy – Boar’s Head ham, Kix, (Page 31 of the PDF)
If you are extremely rich – to the point that you have a manual for your household staff, would you please let me know if this looks pretty standard to you? Not the having a manual – that part isn’t surprising – but that it seems pretty…basic.
Morning Star Bear
One of the most fun stories of the past week was this one, reported by CBC News in Canada. A woman named Carrie Bourassa was passing herself off as an indigenous person (can you say Native American when it’s in Canada??), even though it turns out her ancestors were all European. She held the job of health minister for indigenous people. This is kind of sick, though I appreciate the grift of it. She told people her name was Morning Star Bear.
I’m not sure I understand why she has to be indigenous to have the job of health minister, but maybe that was a requirement. But it seems like she is taking advantage of someone else’s background to accrue some benefit for herself.
She went for it, dressing up in full tribal regalia, wearing a headdress. Her colleagues realized that it was a con when she started adding more and more tribes to her background. It doesn’t help that indigenous people get some kind of ID card that shows their tribal affiliation, and she didn’t have one.
So she is basically like Hilaria Baldwin, who we have discussed a lot in the past. For those who don’t remember, Hilaria Baldwin is a white lady from Boston who went to private school. And we all like the opportunity to reinvent ourselves when we go to college. But Hilaria started talking with a Spanish accent and telling people that she comes from Mallorca. Which is a little deranged. And she kept this grift going for a long time. This clip is exceptional from the Today Show where she pretends she doesn’t know the English word for cucumber.
I wonder how Hilaria is doing with all the excitement with Alec Baldwin. Maybe after he shot that lady, Hilaria offered her a…how you say…cucumber.
To be clear, I feel a bit bad for him. He didn’t want to kill someone. It seems to me like he is both the victim and responsible for what happened on the set of this movie. They’re filming a western movie. They have a 24-year-old woman in charge of the props and the guns. She has never done the job before. The entire movie set is a shitshow. The unionized labor on the set all walked off because of “unsafe practices”. The rest of the crew was taking the prop guns out into the desert to shoot real bullets. They store the real bullets on the same shelf as the blanks. And Alec Baldwin, violating the first rule of gun safety, points the gun at another person and pulls the trigger.
I’ve been around guns since I was 9 years old, so gun safety is pretty innate for me. But everything described above is incredibly stupid. But what tops it off is that Alec Baldwin was the producer of that movie. So he was responsible for hiring the people who were on the crew. Or at least hiring the person who hired the people on the crew. I feel bad for the guy – I don’t think he intended to become a murderer. But also, he killed someone, and I think he should be ethically responsible for what happened.
George Stephanopoulos interviewed Alec Baldwin this week. The interview was disgusting. He blamed the poor woman that he shot.
“I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it,” Baldwin said, “which ended up right below her armpit. Which is what I was told — I don’t know.” He also tried blaming the gun, saying that it fired itself. It just doesn’t make sense. Again, I don’t think that he meant to kill this woman. I think he did something reckless and dangerous, I think he may have legal liability because of it, and he’s upset. I’m sure he is also upset about killing a mother of two children. But this interview made him seem much less sympathetic.
So Morning Star Bear. Is this going to be a thing now, with more people trying to pretend to be some other race because it provides them with some supposed personal benefit? If that’s the case, then does that somehow undermine the concept of systemic racism? Like it having an identity as an indigenous person is good, then why is it bad? I know this was all debated several years ago with that lady Rachel Dolezal in Oregon who was a white woman from St Louis but was the president of the local NAACP chapter and told everyone she was black.
It raises an interesting question – what makes gender an identity you can choose, but race is not an identity you can choose. If you’re going to say that gender is distinct from sex, then yes, I get that. But does that mean the people who argue that would say you can’t choose your sex? I thought that was somehow taboo and that you can choose that too now?
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