Last week, Kyrie Irving, a professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets, demanded to be traded. Under duress, the Nets sent him to the Dallas Mavericks for players who reportedly aren’t nearly as good as he is. I’ve seen one live pro basketball game in thirty years and watch one game/year on TV. But thirteen years ago, I stood next to Irving as his team waited to play in a New Jersey high school game, as a prior game wound down. We were the same height, though as I would soon witness, he was much craftier: an artist as a young man.
I tried to explain to someone I am dating why I would never take these "vaccines." Fell on deaf ears, as he trusts the government and the media. He took the shots because his "smart" cousin, a cancer researcher and screaming, obnoxious liberal, took them. No independent research and no regrets for his decision. I respect him less now and think things will probably end. He is a smart guy in many ways but it's hard to be with someone who cannot or will not see reality. There are a lot of "smart" stupids out there. Crazy and lonely times.
As a New Yorker (Brooklyn) born to New Yorkers (Brooklyn) born to immigrants (Ireland and Hungary) who arrived early in the last century, the level of compliance on the part of those now calling themselves New Yorkers astounds me. They're not the New Yorkers I remember -- or at least not the New Yorkers my parents were and so many others. Or the New Yorkers everybody loves to hate.
96% cave vs. 96% telling degraded scum like Eric what's his name to pound sand? It's New York City, for Pete's sake! Noise, dirt, smelly crowded subways, crowded buses, people everywhere from everywhere, garbage, rats and other vermin lurking in the background -- and New Yorkers caved over the off-chance they might get a respiratory infection? And obeyed??
After all that venting, another wonderful piece, Mark.
One clear upshot of Vaxxathon/Vaxxfest is that it fuels so much incredibly incisive creative writing! Some curbside/courtside justice 😊
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🗨 Perhaps the most important question facing our civilization over the next 40 years is not how inadequate leaders become inadequate leaders, but what characteristics of human nature cause us to so consistently choose the most inadequate among us and elevate them to positions where they can do the most harm. ~~Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic, 2000(!)
Could you imagine what the world would be if in 2021, EVERYONE said NO to the vaXX together, stopped going into work. Stopped paying bills. And just went outside to play. Think about it. WAR would have been over within 48 hours
This is not following the science it was blindly following an authoritarian edict based on a failed scientific experiment imposed on healthy populations, who were purposely lied to and never told the deleterious effects of a "computer generated gene therapy" tested for decades but never proven successful; killing all animal subjects.
This experiment was injected by mandate into the unwitting and mostly unwillingly. In addition, each batch of this toxin was different as quality control was not a consideration since early on the crooked pharmaceutical CEO'S knew the jab was not effective at preventing contraction or transmission. And tragically those who received an especially tainted batch suddenly died, or developed irreparable adverse reactions.
The politicians, the pharmaceutical industry, and DARPA must be held accountable or they will brazenly commit the same crimes against humanity in the not too distant future.
Kyrie is a modem day hero. I know people that have not nearly as much to risk as he, that stood silent. Then under whispered hands, said, I agree with him.😐
So much fear, paralysed and still silences so many. I only hope at some point people realise...#wearemany #wearememory #wewillnotforget
During the Corona shenanigans it was demonstrated AGAIN that Lysander Spooner was right in the 19th century - government is illegitimate and has *no right* to rule over people. The Constitution does not grant “emergency powers” to government. Yet government implements it like a tyrant. Sad part is, that this will happen all over again (and again) because of the endless brainwashing since childhood that repeats that this is the best system on the planet and peasants believe it. The mind is the battlefield exactly as William Sargant stated.
I care nothing for basketball but will be rooting for Mr. Irving for exposing the irony and hypocrisy. Speaking of irony, I was just reading that the FDA pulled a brand of dog food from the market after two dogs got sick (and thankfully recovered). 🤡 🌎
Contrast Kyrie to Damar who refused to answer Michael Strahan’s question if doctors had told him what happened when he’s so young, healthy & athletic. The fact that there is no plausible explanation unrelated to Vax injury says it all. I’m glad he survived but what a coward.
I tried to explain to someone I am dating why I would never take these "vaccines." Fell on deaf ears, as he trusts the government and the media. He took the shots because his "smart" cousin, a cancer researcher and screaming, obnoxious liberal, took them. No independent research and no regrets for his decision. I respect him less now and think things will probably end. He is a smart guy in many ways but it's hard to be with someone who cannot or will not see reality. There are a lot of "smart" stupids out there. Crazy and lonely times.
As a New Yorker (Brooklyn) born to New Yorkers (Brooklyn) born to immigrants (Ireland and Hungary) who arrived early in the last century, the level of compliance on the part of those now calling themselves New Yorkers astounds me. They're not the New Yorkers I remember -- or at least not the New Yorkers my parents were and so many others. Or the New Yorkers everybody loves to hate.
96% cave vs. 96% telling degraded scum like Eric what's his name to pound sand? It's New York City, for Pete's sake! Noise, dirt, smelly crowded subways, crowded buses, people everywhere from everywhere, garbage, rats and other vermin lurking in the background -- and New Yorkers caved over the off-chance they might get a respiratory infection? And obeyed??
After all that venting, another wonderful piece, Mark.
Your writing is some of the most crystal-clear and hard-hitting writing I've ever read. A nice salute to Kyrie Irving.
One clear upshot of Vaxxathon/Vaxxfest is that it fuels so much incredibly incisive creative writing! Some curbside/courtside justice 😊
--
Again and again ↓↓
🗨 Perhaps the most important question facing our civilization over the next 40 years is not how inadequate leaders become inadequate leaders, but what characteristics of human nature cause us to so consistently choose the most inadequate among us and elevate them to positions where they can do the most harm. ~~Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic, 2000(!)
Could you imagine what the world would be if in 2021, EVERYONE said NO to the vaXX together, stopped going into work. Stopped paying bills. And just went outside to play. Think about it. WAR would have been over within 48 hours
I love your word: VaxxFest. Thanks for another great dispatch!
(It’s now capitalized!)
What Adams did was criminal. May he be held accountable before the law.
I very much agree, as you say, "Too bad that more workers didn’t understand their worth, bargaining power and ability to refuse the shots."
Deceit is widespread and everywhere. Covid simply exposed It. I do not believe we will ever return to “normal.”
I wish more people had his courage and conviction.
"Adams replied, “Because I say so.”
This is not following the science it was blindly following an authoritarian edict based on a failed scientific experiment imposed on healthy populations, who were purposely lied to and never told the deleterious effects of a "computer generated gene therapy" tested for decades but never proven successful; killing all animal subjects.
This experiment was injected by mandate into the unwitting and mostly unwillingly. In addition, each batch of this toxin was different as quality control was not a consideration since early on the crooked pharmaceutical CEO'S knew the jab was not effective at preventing contraction or transmission. And tragically those who received an especially tainted batch suddenly died, or developed irreparable adverse reactions.
The politicians, the pharmaceutical industry, and DARPA must be held accountable or they will brazenly commit the same crimes against humanity in the not too distant future.
Kyrie is a modem day hero. I know people that have not nearly as much to risk as he, that stood silent. Then under whispered hands, said, I agree with him.😐
So much fear, paralysed and still silences so many. I only hope at some point people realise...#wearemany #wearememory #wewillnotforget
I'm having trouble with the whole exemption concept. Why should I participate in stupidity? No is no.
During the Corona shenanigans it was demonstrated AGAIN that Lysander Spooner was right in the 19th century - government is illegitimate and has *no right* to rule over people. The Constitution does not grant “emergency powers” to government. Yet government implements it like a tyrant. Sad part is, that this will happen all over again (and again) because of the endless brainwashing since childhood that repeats that this is the best system on the planet and peasants believe it. The mind is the battlefield exactly as William Sargant stated.
I care nothing for basketball but will be rooting for Mr. Irving for exposing the irony and hypocrisy. Speaking of irony, I was just reading that the FDA pulled a brand of dog food from the market after two dogs got sick (and thankfully recovered). 🤡 🌎
Contrast Kyrie to Damar who refused to answer Michael Strahan’s question if doctors had told him what happened when he’s so young, healthy & athletic. The fact that there is no plausible explanation unrelated to Vax injury says it all. I’m glad he survived but what a coward.
My health insurance company sent me a “reminder” to upload my proof of Covid vaccination. I uploaded a photo of my extended middle finger.