Among the innumerable negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, from school closures, lockdowns, masks and every other absurd policy, the most dangerous might have been normalization.
It’s one thing to try policies that were always predestined to fail. It’s another to refuse to admit those policies failed, and act as though they justify permanent restrictions. And unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happened within the scientific community.
It wasn’t exactly a secret, pre-COVID, that the scientific community was consumed by arrogance, hubris, and massive ego. But the pandemic revealed just how dangerous those traits are, in conjunction with credentialism and a lack of accountability. Sure enough, even in 2025, that mentality is set to harm generations to come.
The first example is Leana Wen, a CNN contributor and former head of Planned Parenthood. Wen became known during COVID for her extremism and authoritarian impulses, which included demanding that unvaccinated people be locked inside their homes during the pandemic.
Sure enough, because of the great Bird Flu panic of late 2024-early 2025, the media trotted her back out to demand more of the same. And she gave a terrifying indication of just how committed The Science™ is to more of the same. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
The same can be said about our preparedness sponsor, Prepper All-Naturals. Their long-term storage beef has a 25-year shelf life and is made with one ingredient: All-American Beef.
Even our faith-driven precious metals sponsor helps us tremendously while also helping Americans protect their life’s savings. We are blessed to work with them.
Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
