The New Wave of the Gibsmedat Fever Pandemic

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A new pandemic of Gibsmedat Fever is spreading across the country at an alarming rate. This causes strange changes in behavior, such as greatly inflaming the entitlement complex already endemic in blacks. In earlier times, they merely believed that they were owed a living at public expense. After infection, they believe they deserve to be made independently wealthy with no effort on their part. In white liberals, infection by Gibsmedat Fever causes a brain fog with makes them agitate on behalf of these black demands, while imagining that this will be paid for by other people.

Earlier, Maximum Overlord Rosso hinted during a press conference held in his underwater volcano that we’d have a new contagion by 2025. His buddies in the bioterrorism department of Open Mankind Foundation Governance (OMFG) certainly delivered the goods ahead of schedule. A rare weasel virus, recovered from Senator Ted Kennedy’s inflamed hemorrhoid, was thawed from the tissue sample stored at a lab in Fort Detrick. After extensive “gain of function” research, the weaponized form of Gibsmedat Fever is said to have first infected the public at Thit Cho’s Wet Market. (Conspiracy theorists note that this is located a few blocks from one of OMFG’s bio-warfare laboratories, hint hint.) Much like HIV in earlier times, the contagion first appeared abroad, and California became a major epicenter of Gibsmedat Fever infection in the United States. Then, other outbreaks appeared all across the country.

Thus far the vaccines don’t work, even though the government swears by their safety and effectiveness and is doing everything it can to cajole and threaten the public into taking them. Besides, even though your tax dollars paid for the exorbitantly-priced snake oil whether you like it or not, you wouldn’t want to get jabbed with Gibsmedat Fever inoculations, anyway, as they’re notorious for nasty side effects. As for alternative therapies, tonic water and doggie deworming tablets have their proponents, but you’d better not say anything about it on social media. Unless a cure is discovered, then the country’s epitaph will be — to rip off Edgar Allan Poe — “And Darkness and Decay and Gibsmedat Fever held illimitable dominion over all.”

More seriously (but not much)

The consequence of the latest outbreak of Gibsmedat Fever is that select black households in Evanston, Illinois will be given $25,000 to be spent on home repairs, or for down payments on a new house. I’m not sure what the citizens’ reaction is so far, but I imagine that lots of whites who want their roofs fixed or their kitchens remodeled will get their hair permed and rub burnt cork on their skin. As for the blacks, they’re probably fuming mad, bitterly complaining that they’re not going to get $5 million each, as the liberal moonbats in San Francisco — the epicenter of the plague — have been discussing.

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Indeed, the city in the buckle of the Granola Belt is placing the bar entirely too high. Because of San Francisco’s reparations committee’s great generosity in proposing giveaways backed by other people’s money, this will cause expectations to be set. Soon, blacks all over the country will creatively interpret it as a promise and think they’re entitled to five million bucks apiece from the gummint. I just said “bucks” — oops!

Some of the rhetoric which makes people susceptible to Gibsmedat Fever has been about “discrimination.” But the major impetus is to compensate blacks for being forced to pull cotton balls off of bushes and stuff them into sacks. This wasn’t done by anyone alive today, but rather their long-forgotten ancestors. (Blacks who’ve met their own fathers are doing pretty well — but I digress.) This was even invoked in the explanation of how San Francisco’s reparations committee arrived at the number, although California was never a slave state:

The committee’s chair, consultant Eric McDonnell, now says the $5 million number came as a result of a “journey” rather than a “math formula.”

“There wasn’t a math formula,” McDonnell told The Washington Post. “It was a journey for the committee towards what could represent a significant enough investment in families to put them on this path to economic well-being, growth and vitality that chattel slavery and all the policies that flowed from it destroyed.”

Other than that, this suggests that the agenda is about economic levelling. But even if we’re to accept the quasi-Marxist proposition that justice is when Your $ = My $, the supposed equalization would be greatly overfulfilled, going far beyond equality of results. That’s because the average white net worth is nowhere close to $5 million. Thus, by that “logic” whites must pay up until they’re destitute and blacks must become far richer than whites were prior to the extortion, because reasons.

Such a shakedown by the politicians, naturally to be funded by taxpayers, would necessitate theft on a scale unprecedented in world history. Not only would it make the Mongol Yoke look like a schoolyard bully demanding lunch money, it would be mathematically impossible. The problem is that giving $5 million to every greedy black in the US — if we take the discussion in San Francisco as a precedent –would exceed the dollar’s M2 money supply by approximately tenfold. Good luck with that one! It’s a wonderful vote-buying promise, but it ain’t gonna happen. The only way to make it work would be for the politicians to get much cleverer than they actually are and hand out payment in Zimbabwe dollars from early 2009, which wouldn’t even be worth a gumball.

California’s other proposed freebies, perks, privileges, and emoluments for being black

Because the money just isn’t there, Gibsmedat Fever is beginning to develop new variant strains promising other types of goodies. (These things all cost money, anyway, mostly from side agendas and added bureaucracy, but yanno . . .) To begin, a California reparations board wants to set up an agency with the power to review and nullify real estate ordinances. But that’s just the beginning:

Beyond an official review process, the task force also proposes increasing home ownership among Black [sic] Californians by providing assistance through either direct financial aid or subsidized down payments, below-market-rate mortgages, and homeowner’s insurance.

Another recommendation is to provide a so-called “right to return” for Black [sic] residents “displaced” by development projects, “racially restrictive covenants,” “state-sanctioned violence,” and “racial terror” to come back to those areas to live.

So, then, what are they doing for whites who were run out of their homes in places like Inglewood and Oakland by disorderly and truculent minorities?

The committee’s final recommendations include a host of other housing-related proposals — such as repealing policies limiting those with criminal records from renting property, funding housing-focused anti-racism education programs, and establishing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) certification programs for affordable housing contractors, providers, and decision makers.

I’m sure that’ll get the lock on the felon vote, won’t it? If that alone doesn’t do it, Gibsmedat Fever has inspired a bill introduced in California’s legislature intended to help black criminals:

“It is the intent of the Legislature to rectify the racial bias that has historically permeated our criminal justice system as documented by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” the proposed section reads. “Whenever the court has discretion to determine the appropriate sentence according to relevant statutes and the sentencing rules of the Judicial Council, the court presiding over a criminal matter shall consider the disparate impact on historically disenfranchised and system-impacted populations.”

The elephant in the room that nobody is talking about, of course, is the notoriously high black crime rate. If that soft-on-crime initiative weren’t enough for those darlings:

Eligible black California residents could receive more than $115,000, or roughly $2,352 per year of residency from 1971 to 2020, in compensation for excessive policing and felony drug arrests, as well as disproportionate incarceration during the alleged war on drugs, Fox News reported.

Precious, isn’t it? Speaking of bad behavior, now here’s a sop for the deadbeat dad vote:

The California Reparations Task Force is asking the Democrat-controlled state legislature to eliminate interest on past-due child support, as well as any back child support debt for black residents of the state.

In its final report released last week, the group claimed “discriminatory” laws “have torn African American families apart,” and that one effect of that is the “harms” caused by “the disproportionate amount of African Americans who are burdened with child support debt.”

The nearly 1,100-page document stated that black Californians represent a larger percentage of those who owe child support debt than their proportion of the state’s population.

As if blacks are paying child support, anyway? As the saying goes, don’t breed ’em if you can’t feed ’em. Speaking of problems afflicting the youth, California’s busy beavers also thought up some educational initiatives:

“The task force recommends adoption of a K-12 Black Studies curriculum that introduces students to concepts of race and racial identity, teaches the more expansive history noted above, accurately depicts historic racial inequities and systemic racism, honors Black [sic] lives, fully represents contributions of Black [sic] people in society, advances the ideology of Black [sic] liberation, and highlights the particular contributions of those who are descendants of individuals who were enslaved in the United States,” the task force writes in a final report outlining its proposals.

I can see a possible problem here. Wouldn’t all that race agitation cut into the time it takes to deliver the Fifty Shades of Gender lessons?

“The Task Force recommends the adoption of mandatory curriculum for teacher credentialing and trainings for school personnel that include culturally-responsive pedagogy, anti-bias training, and restorative practices that specifically address the unique needs of African American students, especially those who are descendants of an individual enslaved in the United States,” the report states. “The Task Force also recommends identifying and supporting teachers who provide culturally responsive instruction and adopting new models for teacher development to improve teacher habits in the classroom.”

That speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Other proposals include free college “for all California residents who the task force has determined to be eligible for monetary reparations” — in other words, blacks. Moreover, it proposes suspending admissions tests for grad school. Surely doing away with standards won’t affect quality, now will it? Then, finally:

Beyond testing, the California task force recommended a host of other measures, such as initiatives to recruit more Black teachers and advancing the timeline for implementing mandatory ethnic studies classes. In October 2021, Newsom signed a bill requiring California high school students to take ethnic studies as a graduation requirement commencing in 2030. The task force wants those requirements in place as soon as possible.

Don’t the kiddos get enough propaganda already? Isn’t that what television is for?

Gibsmedat Fever continues to spread

If anyone is still under the illusion that Gibsmedat Fever is not merely a racial shakedown, take it from Denver’s councilwoman Candi CdeBaca (no relation to Chewbacca — as far as I can tell):

“Instead of a [business improvement district] collecting extra taxation from the Black and Brown businesses that are struggling, you could be collecting those extra taxes from White-led [sic] businesses all over the city and redistributing them to Black [sic] and Brown [sic] owned businesses who are not part of it or who are simply just Black- [sic] or Brown-owned [sic]. And that’s one way to give back in the business fashion.”

Other reparations proposals, like Denver’s Daily Basic Income program, do not go far enough to address the structure of racism, according to CdeBaca. One proposal, which focuses on giving daily basic income and mainly reaches homeless people, for instance, doesn’t go far enough.

Besides that, Gibsmedat Fever is on the verge of spreading to new populations. There are some interesting tidbits in an LA Times article entitled “Reparations are proposed for Black [sic] Californians. What about Indigenous [sic] people?” If this trend continues, American Indians might try to horn in on the collective guilt racket in the same way that gypsies have tried — none too successfully — to ride on The Holobunga’s coattails. If this trend takes off, it should be remembered that American Indians have all the rights that whites do. Moreover, in some cases tribal identity effectively gives the benefits of dual citizenship. Best of all, they’re the only race in the US with land set aside for their exclusive use.

Regardless, the spokeswoman seems pretty well in touch with her culture. From her appearance, though, she isn’t so exotic, and simply looks like a chubby brunette. I don’t have her DNA test results, of course, but I’d figure she’s at least half white, and probably more. It’s therefore odd that she expresses solidarity with blacks rather than with us. Moreover, if whites aren’t considered indigenous here –centuries of residence don’t count, and neither does founding the United States, or developing it from a wilderness into an industrialized nation — then blacks aren’t any more indigenous here, either. In that case, solidarity with blacks seems less about lofty principles and more about prevailing anti-white trends. But come on, lady, what has cultural Marxism really done for you?

Even our Jewish buddies are starting to catch Gibsmedat Fever, with an epidemiological reaction similar to that of garden-variety white liberals. On June 9, the RAC — not Rock Against Communism, but rather the Union for Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center — sent a memo to the Bidet junta. In the name of 27 Jewish organizations, it asks for “an executive order to establish a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans based on the framework proposed by bills H.R. 40 and S. 40.” They requested it to be written by Juneteenth. (D’aww!) Moreover:

The faith community has been an outspoken voice in support of reparations for Black Americans for years. Paired with our historic involvement during the Civil Rights Movement, and ongoing partnerships and relationships with Black community members within and outside of our movement, our Jewish communities express our strong support for such a commission.

They might remember that their attempts to recruit blacks as a golem population didn’t work so well. Look, just stop doing that, okay?

Jewish tradition teaches us that no person can say “my ancestor is greater than yours” (Sanhedrin 37a), and we believe that every person was made b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). This sacred tenet of equity and equality between all people is violated by the vestiges of enslavement and ongoing wounds of institutional, systemic, and structural racial oppression that persist today. Our tradition is also clear about the concept of teshuvah, repenting for wrongs committed. Maimonides, a prominent Jewish scholar, outlines the four steps of repentance as recognition, confession, regret, and perhaps the most important, resolve. To fully repent for specific circumstances, he states that teshuvah is only complete when it accompanies financial commitment (Mishnah Torah, Hilchot Teshuvah 1.1).

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It’s doubtful that Resident Bidet will recognize the Talmudic citations. After all, his mental condition allows him to do little more than read from a teleprompter, sign the papers that someone puts on his desk, and sniff little girls. However, his (((Cabinet))) should be up to speed on all that Hebrew hoo-hah. So what are we to make of all this? The first sentence invokes universalist principles. This might actually be a good thing, if they’re serious about it and will finally drop their “chosen people” hubris. Sure, Jews are special and unique, but so are Koreans, Kikuyus, and Kiowa Apaches. If they will finally get over themselves, it will go a long way toward deescalating tensions.

As for the rest of that, oy veh! It’s quite obvious where they’re going with it. Aside from the Talmudic mumbo jumbo, the argument is that slavery was a collective wrong which deserves collective repayment. More to the point, though: Did these guys forget what their own religion says? Their scriptures don’t condemn slavery, which is hardly surprising given that the Bible is a collection of ancient documents and hardly anybody gave emancipation much thought before the Age of Enlightenment. In fact, the Talmud itself has a book, entitled Eved, dealing with slavery. And apart from that, what happened to their famous secularism? Aren’t these the guys who scream bloody murder about Christmas displays on public property, as if a manger on the mayor’s lawn is dragging them just a bit closer to the gates of Auschwitz? In light of that, it’s quite curious that they make an elaborate theological argument for a political proposal that would amount to a massively unprecedented handout program.

I’m about as impressed by this virtue-signaling as blacks are — that is, not at all. Even if all the historical collective guilt over slavery were valid, not only have we made repayment already, we’ve drastically overpaid the darlings. But if Jews feel that blacks are owed more than that, they’re welcome to open their wallets and pay for it themselves. Don’t they want to make up for their own part in the transatlantic slave trade? Come on, fork over some of that teshuva to your colored buddies, how about it?

The legacy of slavery, discrimination, segregation, and all the other ways that whites were mean to blacks did indeed have a lasting effect: African-Americans have average incomes approximately ten times higher than sub-Saharan Africans in their ancestral homeland. You’re welcome, guys. If they still feel that they’re owed something, then they should bill the relatives of the kangz who sold their own people into bondage.

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