I’ve played much pick-up basketball, often with strangers. In the first three minutes of any game, one readily sees the ability levels and tendencies of the other players. As a game continues for twenty more minutes, one’s initial impressions generally hold.
I believe we got to this situation by what you wrote here:
"In general, American culture has taken to a ridiculous extreme the insincere, PC notion that all people are equal. Physically, we simply are not. Our bodies differ in clearly observable ways, and all of our bodies change considerably over the courses of our lives. "
The medical establishment believes otherwise. This whole corona freak-out mirrors cancer treatment for the past 100 years. There is a standard operating procedure (SOP) for cancer treatment and EVERYONE must follow it, no matter what side effects you have, your individual physical condition, age, sex, etc. Also, in cancer treatment, all traces of cancer must be obliterated, even it means you die from the treatment.
Sounds like covid mania doesn't it? They are now taking a failed SOP for people with cancer and applying it to healthy people. We are all cancer patients now.
Well said. However I think Republicans had a lot of complicity as well. There have been some notable exceptions but not nearly enough to stop this bioweapon madness.
Precisely my view. I remember a friend in 2016 demanding that I listen to a Keith Olberman rant about Trump; he wanted me to support Clinton. He said “I want you to see what a despicable, evil POS Trump is”. Olberman listed a bunch of things Trump supposedly did. I said something I wouldn’t dream of saying now “I imagine this is true.”, having seen subsequently that Olberman and his ilk are lying psychopaths. Then I said “if so, that would make two despicable, evil POS candidates. Time to vote for Ron Johnson?” Not really knowing much about Ron Johnson at the time. I don’t know how things might have been different had RoJo been President but judging from what Trump had to endure, probably not much if any better.
I used to vote dem. Before the election, the Biden group said they would not let the jabs roll on, they would not take them, they would certainly not press them onto people. They did exactly what they said they would not. Until that group of people is gone, I can no longer trust one. Indeed, Johnson, Paul and a few others, all rep, went against the mainstream. Luckily I live in a rep state and we had very little lockdown and other crap. Little town did mask severely, still about 1 in 10 or so masked, but the few stores that obliged it, have lost me as a customer.
The red pilling (seeing things as they actually are, not pertaining to Republicans) takes time. It has been a gradual process for me, rapidly accelerated in the last year. We have been lied to about everything and it is my determination to rid myself of all their BS indoctrination. I thank the Substackers I follow in assisting with this.
I hope you understand that both Dems and Reps constantly lie. They are all politicians and I do not read any propaganda media. I read the news on Epoch, Substack and Sharyl Attkisson. There are only a handful of politicians around who really work for the people, and right now they are all reps. See if they keep on doing this when they get the majority again, though, because last time they too turned around soon as they had the power. The world would be better off without carrier politicians. Back to village elders. At least then you can see what they do in real life!
I’m aware that many (not all) politicians lie…but you said you used to vote Dem. I’m pointing out that the Dems (who are in power now) along with most of the media lie. Yes, the GOP is not to be trusted either but Trump has brought in the era of America First candidates who hopefully will live up to their promises!
Republicans, most notably the HEAD of the Republican Party (AKA the sitting POTUS), are directly responsible for instituting Covid bio-fascism. There have been a few really dumb presidents over the years but Trump is clearly a front-runner in that category. Wow, is that man stupid.
Meanwhile, McConnell and McCarthy were complicit because they pushed funding for this bio-fascism and certainly the inflation we are now experiencing. And of course, right on cue, Trump endorsed McCarthy to be re-elected just like he endorsed McConnell two years ago.
True. I was talking about up until and including Trump. Of course, I blame Trump for handing us Biden on a silver platter. So Biden is a worthy successor to Trump if one is looking for a run on stupidity. ;-)
I don't like Trump anymore even though I voted for him both times, but he certainly isn't stupid. How does a stupid person become a billionaire and raise a lot of great kids? How were those gas prices in November 2020? How was the economy? Everybody that wanted a job or a new job could get one, and at higher pay than they'd ever had. His ideas made that happen. He had to fight a lot of deep state the entire time and had to learn as he went. Who had the thick skin and personality to tolerate all of it? If he runs, I don't know if I'll vote for him. I'm hoping for DeSantis, but again, Trump is not stupid.
He is no scientist or doctor and had to trust everything he was told about the virus. The fact that he still talks about how great the jab is/was is just ridiculous, but I don't think he's stupid. There must be an agenda there but I don't know what it is.
a.) There is no evidence that Trump is a billionaire. And certainly no evidence that he EARNED a billion dollars on his own volition. Trump was given about a half billion by his father so even if he was a billionaire, a lot of that was not earned by Trump.
b.) You can be smart in some ways and dumb in others. Take your average university professor. They don't get to be professors because they are stupid but put them in charge of the university (much less the country) and you'll find that they are going to be entirely incompetent. So even if Trump was a brilliant business man (to which there is no evidence), he clearly was out of his depth as president.
c.) Any Republican who puts Fauci in charge of ANYTHING is either a moron or has a nefarious agenda. There is no third option. Trump claimed, during the primary season of 2016, that "only he" had a big enough brain to choose the right people and to drain the swamp. His inability to pick the right people to manage a so-called "pandemic" turned out to be pure incompetence and it cost him the presidency.
His failure to respond appropriately to the virus was just one in a long list of terrible decisions. Pointing to the economy or gas prices is unhelpful in this discussion given that the economy was not really any better under Trump than his predecessor. The price of gas when Obama left office was about $2.25/gal. The one bright spot in the Trump policy agenda, was in fact his energy policy which allowed gas prices to dip below $2. I commend him for that but that's all I can think of to commend him on.
Meanwhile, his spending was through the roof so any benefit we received from saving a few cents a gallon ended up being swamped by his reckless spending that led to the inflationary cycle we're in now.
I'm not going to spend time here listing Trump's policy promises and subsequent failures but his general incompetence I chalk up to a combo of being a stupid and arrogant person.
Let's hope we can keep the man from running again. I'd rather have the milque toast GW Bush at this point than Trump. Can we get him to run again?
Totally agree Beeblebrox. But we had no choice had we? It was bad or worse. I think even Bernie would have done better. Well I think even my dog would have done better!
We had no choice IN THE GENERAL. Plenty of choices in the primaries. The republicans who voted for the liberal New Yorker and Schumer supporter in the primaries are more at fault for this mess than anyone, including Hillary supporters.
I didn't vote for either in the General but I would note that had Hillary been elected, we would have ended up with the same SARS Cov response from her that Obama did with his "outbreak" of SARS cov. That is, he responded rationally. Trump was entirely irrational about the scamdemic. Moronic even. To this day his state of emergency remains in place and the fallout from his disastrous response is why we are in the situation we are in today.
By the way, though there is no sure way to know, had we nominated Cruz in 2016, he would have easily beaten Hillary in the general. His favorables were considerably higher than either Hillary or Trump. But even if he had lost, we had a GOP Congress in 2017 which would have pushed back against everything Hillary wanted to do. Plus, we woulld have kept Congress for her entire term.
But because Trump won, he implemented what SHE would have done plus even more liberal policies. McConnell and McCarthy went along with Trump (and vice versa) and thus, we ended up with Obama's third term plus we lost Congress mid-term due entirely to Trump's idiocy.
I would also surmise that that had Hillary won in 2016, she would have been a single termer and the GOP would not have had to even deal with Trump in 2020. Instead, we would now have President Cruz not Biden.
I wonder if it would be better, instead of voting for a candidate per party, to vote for the total of nominees. That includes the independent candidates, who now have zero chance to become president.
Our problems is that we've lost the country. There is no going back to 1980 where a president can, by sheer force of will, change the trajectory of the nation.
Today, even the average GOP voter still votes for the RINO. Case in point, the reprehensible Chuck Grassley just got renominated in a red state by an overwhelming majority of GOP voters. This is a guy who is all in on Covid fascism and illegal immigration.
If we can't get rid of leftist Republicans at the federal level, just look for more of the same as we have today. Republicans are worse than useless in that they serve as an advance guard to allow Dems to run the rest of us over.
Our best hope now is to regroup at a local and state level in whatever way we can.
Hi Andrew. That was the tell for me. I woke up one night in March 2020 after days of a nagging feeling that I had heard all of this before. I'm of an age when I can remember hearing it before, and that night it hit me: Anthony Fauci and AIDS. Same playbook from the '80s, replayed for 2020.
This is exactly right. Fauci either was political back then or was a bumbling imbecile. Either way, he was entirely unqualified to be anywhere near a government post, certainly in a Republican administration. But not only was he still in a position of power in the public heath bureaucracy under Trump, but Trump gave him the levers of supreme executive power for two years.
This shouldn't surprise us though in that Trump gave a whole bunch of other Leftist idiots executive power in other areas.
Excellent identification here. The "War on Cancer" is an obvious failure and a fraud, as are all "wars" that, in the end, only increase the things attempting to be obliterated.
The War On Cancer is only Exhibit A. Other wars include the War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Crime, War on Terror, etc., etc., etc.
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the lovely town of Newburgh in NY has a spectacular inventory of victorian houses, views of the hudson river and it's close enough to NYC for a commuter. it has massive poverty/drug/crime problems that sort of negate the pluses.
my BF, always on the lookout for undervalued real estate in a depressed area about to turn around, has been eyeing Newburgh for ages and it's never made a comeback.
he asked a resident/friend once what the problem was and the guy answered "poverty is big business here."
you've put it perfectly- wars want to continue themselves
And notice that all of these "wars" were waged by the federal government to "solve" problems that were, in large part, caused by its' very owned failed policies.
Anyone here remember those ridiculous "Whip Inflation Now" buttons? That's a "WIN" we could use these days! 😂
War does not solve anything. It makes the rich richer and kills the poor or throws them overboard. The rich sit in their luxurious villa and eat caviar.
Chiming in here, there are few pockets of cancer treatments that actually do work. This is in the area of immunotherapies. Surgery and chemo are only stop-gaps that extend life by very little. But because there is a lot of competition amongst drug companies in the arena of immunotherapies, that is why there have been significant advances in the last 5 years.
Yes. They can work better but what people don't understand is that many of the more recently developed immunotherapies have horrific side effect profiles just as bad as any chemo drug if not worse. If you want an autoimmune disease where your entire epithelium or endothelium is attacked by your immune system, a modern cancer immunotherapy is a good way to get it, or a 10% fatality rate.
Of course, it's all justified based on the fact that terminal cancer is... terminal. Risk benefit ratios and all that. A 10% fatality rate is better than a 100% fatality rate.
I don't want to ban expensive immunotherapies, but they leave much to be desired. Kind of like covid vaccines, only even worse. Of course, people are desperate.
Well-said. It is difficult to see how many people are still so terrified. My father-in-law doesn't want my husband to join the hunting group this fall, as my husband is the only one unvaxxed. My husband voluntarily did NOT go last year, as at the hype of vaxx-mania, he knew he'd get blamed for any illness. Given what most people who're paying attention should know by now the shots are not sterilizing, he figured he'd go this year. My father-in-law is boosted and has had Omicron. He's a retired medical professional with science degrees. Yet here we are.
Now we have to figure out how to keep the "not smart" from making like miserable for the rest of us. I can pat myself on the back for seeing through the charade all I want, but at the end of the day, the covid tyrant's boot is still on my neck and here in MI, my circle of support is as small as it's ever been. I dread the upcoming election season.
I agree with the first part of your statement, but Fauci is hardly a petty bureaucrats. He knew what he was doing, he knew what would happen to the health of the jabbed, he KNEW. His is the face of Evil.
yes, but Hannah Arendt said it perfectly- the banality of evil. that these aren't crazed monsters but ordinary rather boring men who get caught up in procedures, protocols and paperwork; that men with briefcases and suits can do great harm. they might start out with good intentions and gradually fix their eyes on the wrong prize. they hide behind "the rules." they were "just following orders" or "doing as they were told."
Yes! Educated and smart are two very different things! Being smart shows you know how to think sensibly and reason things out. It takes in common sense too. It explains “survival of the fittest.”
This explains all of these highly educated people being sooo duped and easily used as tools. It’s why History is able to repeat itself! 😩
Although, for the most I have done this, I want to ensure I do it in the future. With all the BS that has been thrown at us the last two years. Here’s my new line built from what I read here.
It’s heartbreaking. I see people I’ve respected all my life as sheep. That’s a very uncomfortable, disappointing feeling, especially regarding family members. My MAG (mutual assistance group) has become very small.
in a grand way of thinking you're right, yet it somewhat depends on the interpretation of 'smart' - they're not smart enough for critical thinking, but instead they choose to attach themselves to those who are enforcing decisions. terms like 'lazy' and 'blinkered' come to mind, and bullying, because they deny our capability for critical thinking.
working in education, my heart always goes out to that lone child in the group that stands out and finds it difficult to comply!
Yes, oh yes, I hear you. Kudos to all those kids who don't comply; it takes courage. ...I'm a teacher and love it when a child challenges me and wants to go another way..I encourage them to do things their own way. :-) who gave me the right to say what works for them?
absolutely. my son is one of those kids who has not fared well in the one-size-fits-all public school system. he's the square block that the school system has repeatedly tried to jam into the round hole. he's a smart, funny, independent kid but hates school and does the bare minimum to get passing grades. i've hated what he's had to go through into order to get through. they've stamped out individuality and critical thinking claiming that there are no resources to deal with those who won't march in line. I really wish he had more teachers like you and Eileen.
more than just intelligence, but strength of character. these are the people who would have helped load jews onto train cars or turned their lifelong butcher in to the Stasi. you thought they were your friends, but the minute they learned you were skeptical about the whole covid charade, including the vaccine, they were ready to dump you, would have celebrated your death, believe that you deserved to be fired from your job, denied medical care.
so much for diversity, equity and inclusion! bring back segregation and discrimination. equal protection under the law? the 1st amendment? the bill of rights? the nuremberg code? who needs 'em?
they didn't for one minute stop to think "wait, i've known/ worked with this person for 10/20/30 years and i have always found her to be intelligent, fair, thoughtful, caring and measured in her decision making. why is she now taking this stand that seems crazy to me? perhaps i should look into it, talk to her, investigate my own position."
nope, they dive right into "well, i guess she just lost her mind."
did anyone ever listen to the Sam Harris/ Eric Topol podcast where Topol accused Bret Weinstein of being "dangerous" and long time friend Harris could only conclude that Weinstein had lost his mind? i always found Harris to be smug and self important and never listened to him unless he was a guest of someone i did listen to. but his spinelessness on that episode sealed it for me; he's a worm.
Weinstein has publicly invited Harris to discuss his issues but of course, crickets.
not to mention Topol himself had been the victim of an orchestrated take down, including the loss of his job and death threats to his family, by the pharmaceutical industry when he acted as a whistle blower on VIOXX.
i guess if you're going to have standards, you might as well have two
So true. all of it. I shudder to think what some of my former friends would have done had they lived in 1930-40's Germany....totally frightening! Anyone else feel like they're in a Sci-fi/horror movie with no end in sight?
Daniel Horowitz makes the point that what we are seeing today is much worse than what was experienced with NAZI Germany.
We are seeing a level of Mengele bio-fascism today but on a global scale, not just in one country. Multiple millions of people have been killed by the government response to Covid including from lockdowns, denial of treatment, loss of liberty, and of course, the clotshots.
Worse yet, the world community recognized the threat of Hitler and ultimately, the Nuremberg trials came about after the war, but today, the global community is all for bio-fascism and few are able to even speak about it and none are able to stop it.
yes, it's the infamous snitching brownshirts all over. however, even the hated Berlin Wall and Ceausesku (with his version of the brownshirts) were toppled, history showing that tyranny is violent but doesn't last.
Response to Carolyn K. Reading your post, I had a thought as to why so many people (friends, family, etc) "turned" on the "free-thinkers", to use a phrase. Diversity, equality, inclusion...if you see a gay pride parade on the TV, you can always turn it off, or if it's in person, walk down a different street. You can IGNORE it. It doesn't affect you unless you want it to. Now COVID....that was a deadly disease, according to the "experts". THEY had a Plan on how to fight back, to defeat this new monster, to allow you to LIVE. If someone questioned those "experts" or The Plan, that person became a THREAT to you and your life. Standing too close or breathing on someone, You, as a THREAT, could kill them. And that was unacceptable, to those who followed The Plan.
totally. i'm especially disappointed in the "my body, my choice" crowd who think offing your unborn is a god-given right but i should let someone tie me down and inject me with something. how could they justify that obvious hypocrisy? because, killing an unborn child only affects the woman (they forget about the the child, the father and the State which has an interest in future workers, tax payers and cannon fodder). and i might infect them with my germs and kill them and i have no right to do that!!!!
but any idiot might have said "wait, i've had the flu before. how have i handled it? and i know people who had it and survived easily. sure, i know some people who died but i know others who stayed home until they got better."
people who read labels and make sure their food is 100% organic and GMO free were checking an app to see when it would be their turn to get the miracle shot.
i listened to virologists say "vaccines are the only way out of this pandemic" and i thought, hmmm i don't recall there being a vaccine for the 1918 flu pandemic or for any of the pandemics that came and went on their own before it. i suppose other people listened to those very same virologists and thought "oh my god, yes, we won't be safe until there's a vaccine!!!!"
i heard a podcast with Laurie Garrett, one of those paranoid public health lock down and mask forever types. she spoke about the 1976 swine flu "pandemic" and said that the military had over reacted and the vaccines were rushed out and they were bad and taken off the market after people died and/or were stricken with GBS.
then in the next breath, she said "but this time is different. THESE vaccines are great and EVERYONE should get them!" seriously? how can you tell that story and ignore the parallels?
they always have a plan and it never quite works out. the models were wildly overestimating the death rate and doing so on a daily level. anyone could have easily checked the projections for death and hospitalization for any given day and compared it with the actual death and hospitalization for that day and seen how off they were.
i'm stymied really. people have gone to restaurants and sat at tables near to people of unknown health status for their entire lives; maybe someone coughed into a napkin. was there a stampede?
people have sat in dark theaters and watched broadway shows, touching shoulders with strangers. did anyone demand a guarantee that there were no errant germs floating about?
the truth is- if we didn't have functioning immune systems, no one would last a day because viruses and germs are everywhere! but somehow the species has survived plagues, raw food, grubs, dirt. up until two years ago, we all thought we were pretty tough. some of us still do because some of us still are. i fear for those, superior and sanctimonious, who have destroyed their immune systems and may be facing chronic covid infections. everyone i know who has been vaccinated has had covid repeatedly and every time they insist "thank god, i was vaccinated or it could have been worse."
are you kidding? i wonder how many more times they can have covid before they finally have to admit that the whole thing was a terrible mistake?
Some of the "smartest" people fell for this. By that I mean PHD, etc. I worked for highly educated physicians that are fully indoctrinated. I keep trying to figure out why We saw the truth. Would be an interesting topic to write about. Is it street smarts? We do not watch the media? Critical thinking skills?
I worked in 1 country’s Covid response and it still amazes me that these intelligent clinical leads walking around in their cloth masks don’t seem to see the dichotomy of what they say vs what they see. But I think that’s it…they only see what they want to see? (Heck our version of Fauci got Covid and in an internal email noted it was ‘despite diligent masking’ uh I can only hope a small lightbulb got turned on…).
Being part of the smart and righteous set, vs. distrust of authority. Two natural human types, similarly decent and intelligent, but worlds apart when it comes to something like this.
I haven't revealed my vax status to anyone. I'm fortunate to be able to work from home, where I've worked for nearly a year after our company required everyone to be masked in the office but allowed people to work from home. When pressed by our HR manager to indicate my vax status (even though I was working from home), I told her I chose not to say but that she could put me down as unvaxxed as a default. I still resent being asked.
This story is not over. I hope there are some class-action lawsuits by people such as my younger brother, who was forced to get the jab or else be fired.
I want to say I am sorry, but I'm so angry when I hear such things, like people losing their livelihoods, all because they exercised their rights. You are both courageous, and good things will happen to you both. Have faith. Stay strong. So reassuring to know that there are humans like you out there showing your strength. I will never back down. There are many of us.
If the stats are correct, 1 in 30 jabbed people will either die or be disabled (and probably wish they were dead) within the next few years. This time is hard for you, but you have your health I assume and money can't buy that. Good luck.
i so hope this isn't true but... i've been to a suspicious funeral or two. my friend cuts hair and one of her clients is a DOD subcontractor. she asked him early on in the roll out if he thought she should take the vaccine and he said no, that there was a kill-switch built in to thin out the population. these kinds of wild speculations are a bit much- i have plenty of reasons for not taking the shot without worrying about a kill switch- but he does work for the DOD. so far he's been able to avoid getting vaccinated but he's in fear
It's hard not to, as he was placed on leave w/o pay (he was working from home too). Also, I had to disclose at work, as I could not work in person unless jabbed. I was offered in person work. Thankfully, they worked around me and gave me online courses. Both my employers dropped the jab mandates, but one still has masks. I'm back in person next week, but not looking forward to suffocating. I've been around 500+ kids (many with coughs/sniffles) the past 6-weeks, unmasked, but now when I return to my other job, I must mask up. I might add, young children don't have the best hygiene practices. Now I'll be with adults, with a better HVAC system and more space, masked. Make it make sense.
The kids have been the ones hardest hit by this one-size-fits-all approach to public health. In addition to losing two years of school, they have been taught to be passive, to obey all commands from authority without question, and that it is virtuous to avoid intellectual and / or physical effort. This is the plandemic’s true legacy. We’re just starting to see the effects of this now, and it’s only going to get worse in the coming years. I’m not sure if the elites planned that far ahead, but it was certainly a welcome side effect.
Exactly right as always. Here in Hysteria Central, formerly known as Canada, the majority are still masking inside and out despite no more senseless laws demanding it.
So disappointed in the Canadians. But I have run across Canadians living in the US and while traveling and they're all liberal nuts.
True story: While in Nicaragua four years ago, I met two Canadian women. When they heard I was from the US, the first thing they asked me was what I thought of Trump. I said, "I'm not much into politics."
One said, "Neither are we."
I replied, "Yes, that's why the first question you asked me was what I thought of Trump."
Fortunately it's not quite as crazy in some areas of Canada. Even so, our reputation as one of the best countries on earth has been badly damaged, and rightfully so.
The "nice, polite" Canadian has exposed the true apathy behind the labels. The fringe "minority" with unacceptable views has a boot on its neck. And it's not a moccasin, it's a jack-boot.
My neighbour's daughter, who has 3 young kids, woke up in intense pain yesterday. Went to the fancy new hospital built nearby here in Toronto. It took 6 hours for anybody to see her in the ER, by then she had passed a 6 mm kidney stone. "Greatest healthcare system in the world" the average person will still tell me. Sad thing is, 6 hours is not bad lol. People now expect to hear stories of 12 hours, yet they just accept it.
That seems so weird to me! Here near Huntsville, AL, my life has been almost completely normal since late 2020 I think. I don't even remember when anymore, but very few people are masked here.
I had to get a document notarized and made an appointment with the notary at my public library over the phone. To see this person, I had to wear a mask because the person was extremely paranoid about covid. I needed the paper notarized so I said OK. I show up and it's a young person (20's) wearing two(!) masks. I felt so sad for this person who is so fearful and clearly so conditioned (brainwashed?) that death is lurking just around the corner unless they go through the pointless rituals. This is a supposedly educated librarian. They should really read more than their mainstream periodicals once in a while.
At my library throughout 2020, you had to order books online, park and call for pick up you were instructed not to leave the car to pick up the books until the mask wearing employee was safely back in the building. Total theater!
That's more than theater. It's psychosis. When they first reopened my library, you were not supposed to reshelve anything you took off to look at. It had to go on a cart so they could wipe down to sanitize. I ignored that rule.
There was a bookstore in Santa Fe did same. You couldn’t go into the store, you had to know exactly what you wanted & they'd fetch it. A bookstore is for BROWSING; even if you have a specific book in mind, most people walk out w/ more than that because they saw more that caught their eye. They were cutting off their virtual-signaling nose to spite their face in the name of “safety”. But Santa Fe is full of morons
I loathe all of these covid despots, who've done nothing so much as place boots on our necks, inculcating mass hysteria and fear, as well as forcing an exploratory medical "treatment" on unsuspecting guinea pigs. And if you did suspect you were being used as a test subject against your will, you were accused of all sorts of unseemly things. A pox on all of their houses!
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It's all about entropy - everything tends towards disorder. It takes energy (voting force) for us to become ordered again. Every negative event is being carefully stoked to create chaos because once our economy, country, and people are so severely damaged, it will be hard, if not impossible, to become a peaceful, economically thriving society again,
Thanks, Mark. As I have written before, I always enjoy reading your posts. When will liberty-loving Americans understand that our representative democracy has fundamentally changed since the legislative branch of our federal and state governments began delegating authority to make law ("rules") to the executive branch and its agencies (the swamp - the big one in DC and the small ones in our state capitals)? To my knowledge, the US federal and state governments executed the scamdemic you so accurately describe without any legislature passing a single law shutting down businesses, governments, or schools, deeming people essential or non-essential, deeming youth sports to be safe or unsafe, or requiring masks in public or private settings, or mandating C19 vaccinations, relying instead on authority previously delegated to the executive branch (including school districts) in times of so-called "emergency" or in some cases at any time. People residing in states that distrust their elected representatives so much that they have a constitutional right to a "people's veto" were powerless to stop the scamdemic rules. The US Congress and all fifty state legislatures, once if not already under the control of people who understand and support the US Constitution and the applicable state constitutions, should immediately begin to amend or repeal the "emergency powers" laws to return power to the people through their legislatures.
Also, anyone clear thinking person needs to get as political active locally as their time will allow. Show up at or better yet, run for school boards, city councils, etc. Become poll watchers or poll workers (I’m about to work my first primary election as a polling manager next week).
In spite of the abject foolishness and/or malice in DC, the real injustices occur on the local level (shutting down small shops, masking kids, etc.)
Hannah Atrendt, “Banality of Evil” makes this timeless observation.
Great post. As you basically said; Fear is the linchpin utlized to prevent the public from seeing patterns or sizing up a situation.
The basketball analogy is fantastic. If you've heard over and over again, how great an opponent is, you may not be able to size up their actual abilities, because you're fearful you might lose or look stupid getting outmatched. Fear may very well have forestalled your ability to play well or win.
In the case if covid, fear prevented seeing the obvious. And the very same fear caused you to lose your mind, freedom and bodily autonomy
You’re right about the fear, but even more effective was one’s Primary Physician urging the shot - and when his office emailed that the Moderna shots were now available (!!!), it was as if you had just won the Powerball……..I had serious doubts about the shot, but having a spouse with a few health problems ( so sick of the word “comorbidities” at this point), I felt I had no choice………
I used to think love and hate were the two most powerful emotions. I guess I was naive and a bit Pollyanna'ish. Not anymore. It's FEAR. Just like you said
Thanks for another astute post, Mark. Great point about pattern recognition. From what I see and deplore, is that even after all this time, so many are not aware of the true data in Vaers, etc.
The older generation’s addiction to the Legacy Media is more understandable than the younger generation’s submissive reaction and reliance on social media for the “ truth”………
Yes, it's the younger generations' inability to think that really disturbs me. I'm not surprised by my elderly friends' unwillingness to even look at alternatives to the legacy media they have relied on all their lives, although of course saddened--and often infuriated--by it, but that younger people should be so deeply propagandized and so unable to break free is depressing and frightening.
I think it's extremely important to constantly remind ourselves and others what the scamdemic was all about. If we don't constantly remind ourselves and constantly tell other people, the unrelenting propaganda of the major "news" outlets will brainwash everyone and possibly even us. Thank you so much for the reminder.
Of course, it was engineered from the beginning as a MASSIVE propaganda war and we are still fighting it. Scamdemic it is, but it is hard for most people to believe that the several million who have died from the jab unnecessarily may not in fact be the biggest threat from the Scamdemic! The printing of totally unprecedented amount of fake cash ("Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing") in the vicinity of 50 TRILLION dollars, has had the totally predictable result of massive inflationary pressure. HOWEVER, this is not the worst consequence of this. The Worst consequence was the wholesale PURCHASE of the economy of the world with those printed trillions. ALL of the major companies of the world are now owned by the same cabal of ultra-secret multi-multi billionaires who are intent in FURTHER expanding their power. THey use "Hedge funds" (Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street ==> all owned by Vanguard) to purchase those controlling interests in ALL the pharmaceutical companies, Exxon-Mobil, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc., etc. ==> ALL companies (including all the media companies) are ALL owned by these "hedge funds". Vanguard is owned by the 13 families of the Cabal (Morgans, Rockerfellers, Rothschild, Demours, Bush, etc.). They "own" the world and they own us (at least our jobs and our food, and our governments and our media, etc.). Now DON'T LET THEM OWN YOUR SPIRIT!! We must fight this war that we are losing (because we arent fighting).
I'm keenly interested in these economic impacts. But writing something on them would take intensive research. I'm writing about stuff that's directly observable. I say "No" to as much as I can and try to encourage others to do the same. I have a day job that prevents me from doing more than that.
Is there any chance you would put together some posts about the economics of the Scam? I would very much like to read it. For example, I can't even find a consensus about how much money the US government printed during Coronamania.
But its what these vaccines have done to the children. The only kids I see getting sick or repeated infections are vaccinated. Deaths from Covid in anyone less than 20 are rare and in fact probably never really happen at all. How many kids have we permanently injured or killed because of fear?
I love " the real pandemic is mental illness"-short and sweet and nailing the real issue. This mental illness can be reversed if people will open their minds and consider the facts! But sadly, many of the afflicted won't come around because they're too deep into the quicksand of this insane plandemic to even consider the alternative. Like I said before, this ain't our grandparents America anymore. Keep em coming Mark.
That pretty much covers it all Mark. Serious thanks!
Thanks, Steve. I know you all know. I just wanted to put it down in short form.
Next week, something thematically newer.
I believe we got to this situation by what you wrote here:
"In general, American culture has taken to a ridiculous extreme the insincere, PC notion that all people are equal. Physically, we simply are not. Our bodies differ in clearly observable ways, and all of our bodies change considerably over the courses of our lives. "
The medical establishment believes otherwise. This whole corona freak-out mirrors cancer treatment for the past 100 years. There is a standard operating procedure (SOP) for cancer treatment and EVERYONE must follow it, no matter what side effects you have, your individual physical condition, age, sex, etc. Also, in cancer treatment, all traces of cancer must be obliterated, even it means you die from the treatment.
Sounds like covid mania doesn't it? They are now taking a failed SOP for people with cancer and applying it to healthy people. We are all cancer patients now.
Well said. However I think Republicans had a lot of complicity as well. There have been some notable exceptions but not nearly enough to stop this bioweapon madness.
I’m “unaffiliated”, but I vote republican. I agree with you. Aside from Ron Johnson and a very few others, they are chicken sh—s or “owned”.
Precisely my view. I remember a friend in 2016 demanding that I listen to a Keith Olberman rant about Trump; he wanted me to support Clinton. He said “I want you to see what a despicable, evil POS Trump is”. Olberman listed a bunch of things Trump supposedly did. I said something I wouldn’t dream of saying now “I imagine this is true.”, having seen subsequently that Olberman and his ilk are lying psychopaths. Then I said “if so, that would make two despicable, evil POS candidates. Time to vote for Ron Johnson?” Not really knowing much about Ron Johnson at the time. I don’t know how things might have been different had RoJo been President but judging from what Trump had to endure, probably not much if any better.
God help us all.
I used to vote dem. Before the election, the Biden group said they would not let the jabs roll on, they would not take them, they would certainly not press them onto people. They did exactly what they said they would not. Until that group of people is gone, I can no longer trust one. Indeed, Johnson, Paul and a few others, all rep, went against the mainstream. Luckily I live in a rep state and we had very little lockdown and other crap. Little town did mask severely, still about 1 in 10 or so masked, but the few stores that obliged it, have lost me as a customer.
The red pilling (seeing things as they actually are, not pertaining to Republicans) takes time. It has been a gradual process for me, rapidly accelerated in the last year. We have been lied to about everything and it is my determination to rid myself of all their BS indoctrination. I thank the Substackers I follow in assisting with this.
I sure hope you understand that Dems and the propaganda Media continuously lie! If you believe them… shame on you
I hope you understand that both Dems and Reps constantly lie. They are all politicians and I do not read any propaganda media. I read the news on Epoch, Substack and Sharyl Attkisson. There are only a handful of politicians around who really work for the people, and right now they are all reps. See if they keep on doing this when they get the majority again, though, because last time they too turned around soon as they had the power. The world would be better off without carrier politicians. Back to village elders. At least then you can see what they do in real life!
I’m aware that many (not all) politicians lie…but you said you used to vote Dem. I’m pointing out that the Dems (who are in power now) along with most of the media lie. Yes, the GOP is not to be trusted either but Trump has brought in the era of America First candidates who hopefully will live up to their promises!
The ancient Athenians had the right idea. Most of their officials were chosen by lot from the general population.
Republicans, most notably the HEAD of the Republican Party (AKA the sitting POTUS), are directly responsible for instituting Covid bio-fascism. There have been a few really dumb presidents over the years but Trump is clearly a front-runner in that category. Wow, is that man stupid.
Meanwhile, McConnell and McCarthy were complicit because they pushed funding for this bio-fascism and certainly the inflation we are now experiencing. And of course, right on cue, Trump endorsed McCarthy to be re-elected just like he endorsed McConnell two years ago.
Biden is the stupidest, and it's not even close.
True. I was talking about up until and including Trump. Of course, I blame Trump for handing us Biden on a silver platter. So Biden is a worthy successor to Trump if one is looking for a run on stupidity. ;-)
I don't like Trump anymore even though I voted for him both times, but he certainly isn't stupid. How does a stupid person become a billionaire and raise a lot of great kids? How were those gas prices in November 2020? How was the economy? Everybody that wanted a job or a new job could get one, and at higher pay than they'd ever had. His ideas made that happen. He had to fight a lot of deep state the entire time and had to learn as he went. Who had the thick skin and personality to tolerate all of it? If he runs, I don't know if I'll vote for him. I'm hoping for DeSantis, but again, Trump is not stupid.
He is no scientist or doctor and had to trust everything he was told about the virus. The fact that he still talks about how great the jab is/was is just ridiculous, but I don't think he's stupid. There must be an agenda there but I don't know what it is.
a.) There is no evidence that Trump is a billionaire. And certainly no evidence that he EARNED a billion dollars on his own volition. Trump was given about a half billion by his father so even if he was a billionaire, a lot of that was not earned by Trump.
b.) You can be smart in some ways and dumb in others. Take your average university professor. They don't get to be professors because they are stupid but put them in charge of the university (much less the country) and you'll find that they are going to be entirely incompetent. So even if Trump was a brilliant business man (to which there is no evidence), he clearly was out of his depth as president.
c.) Any Republican who puts Fauci in charge of ANYTHING is either a moron or has a nefarious agenda. There is no third option. Trump claimed, during the primary season of 2016, that "only he" had a big enough brain to choose the right people and to drain the swamp. His inability to pick the right people to manage a so-called "pandemic" turned out to be pure incompetence and it cost him the presidency.
His failure to respond appropriately to the virus was just one in a long list of terrible decisions. Pointing to the economy or gas prices is unhelpful in this discussion given that the economy was not really any better under Trump than his predecessor. The price of gas when Obama left office was about $2.25/gal. The one bright spot in the Trump policy agenda, was in fact his energy policy which allowed gas prices to dip below $2. I commend him for that but that's all I can think of to commend him on.
Meanwhile, his spending was through the roof so any benefit we received from saving a few cents a gallon ended up being swamped by his reckless spending that led to the inflationary cycle we're in now.
I'm not going to spend time here listing Trump's policy promises and subsequent failures but his general incompetence I chalk up to a combo of being a stupid and arrogant person.
Let's hope we can keep the man from running again. I'd rather have the milque toast GW Bush at this point than Trump. Can we get him to run again?
Totally agree Beeblebrox. But we had no choice had we? It was bad or worse. I think even Bernie would have done better. Well I think even my dog would have done better!
We had no choice IN THE GENERAL. Plenty of choices in the primaries. The republicans who voted for the liberal New Yorker and Schumer supporter in the primaries are more at fault for this mess than anyone, including Hillary supporters.
I didn't vote for either in the General but I would note that had Hillary been elected, we would have ended up with the same SARS Cov response from her that Obama did with his "outbreak" of SARS cov. That is, he responded rationally. Trump was entirely irrational about the scamdemic. Moronic even. To this day his state of emergency remains in place and the fallout from his disastrous response is why we are in the situation we are in today.
By the way, though there is no sure way to know, had we nominated Cruz in 2016, he would have easily beaten Hillary in the general. His favorables were considerably higher than either Hillary or Trump. But even if he had lost, we had a GOP Congress in 2017 which would have pushed back against everything Hillary wanted to do. Plus, we woulld have kept Congress for her entire term.
But because Trump won, he implemented what SHE would have done plus even more liberal policies. McConnell and McCarthy went along with Trump (and vice versa) and thus, we ended up with Obama's third term plus we lost Congress mid-term due entirely to Trump's idiocy.
I would also surmise that that had Hillary won in 2016, she would have been a single termer and the GOP would not have had to even deal with Trump in 2020. Instead, we would now have President Cruz not Biden.
I wonder if it would be better, instead of voting for a candidate per party, to vote for the total of nominees. That includes the independent candidates, who now have zero chance to become president.
Our problems is that we've lost the country. There is no going back to 1980 where a president can, by sheer force of will, change the trajectory of the nation.
Today, even the average GOP voter still votes for the RINO. Case in point, the reprehensible Chuck Grassley just got renominated in a red state by an overwhelming majority of GOP voters. This is a guy who is all in on Covid fascism and illegal immigration.
If we can't get rid of leftist Republicans at the federal level, just look for more of the same as we have today. Republicans are worse than useless in that they serve as an advance guard to allow Dems to run the rest of us over.
Our best hope now is to regroup at a local and state level in whatever way we can.
I think the selling of "AIDS doesn't discriminate" in the 1980s was the model. It discriminates by anal sex and injected drugs.
Hi Andrew. That was the tell for me. I woke up one night in March 2020 after days of a nagging feeling that I had heard all of this before. I'm of an age when I can remember hearing it before, and that night it hit me: Anthony Fauci and AIDS. Same playbook from the '80s, replayed for 2020.
This is exactly right. Fauci either was political back then or was a bumbling imbecile. Either way, he was entirely unqualified to be anywhere near a government post, certainly in a Republican administration. But not only was he still in a position of power in the public heath bureaucracy under Trump, but Trump gave him the levers of supreme executive power for two years.
This shouldn't surprise us though in that Trump gave a whole bunch of other Leftist idiots executive power in other areas.
Excellent identification here. The "War on Cancer" is an obvious failure and a fraud, as are all "wars" that, in the end, only increase the things attempting to be obliterated.
The War On Cancer is only Exhibit A. Other wars include the War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Crime, War on Terror, etc., etc., etc.
the lovely town of Newburgh in NY has a spectacular inventory of victorian houses, views of the hudson river and it's close enough to NYC for a commuter. it has massive poverty/drug/crime problems that sort of negate the pluses.
my BF, always on the lookout for undervalued real estate in a depressed area about to turn around, has been eyeing Newburgh for ages and it's never made a comeback.
he asked a resident/friend once what the problem was and the guy answered "poverty is big business here."
you've put it perfectly- wars want to continue themselves
I used to work at the Fresh Air Fund camps in nearby Fishkill.
The common thread is our institutionalization of each of these "wars". Each is now the raison d'être for it's own massive bureaucracy.
And notice that all of these "wars" were waged by the federal government to "solve" problems that were, in large part, caused by its' very owned failed policies.
Anyone here remember those ridiculous "Whip Inflation Now" buttons? That's a "WIN" we could use these days! 😂
Yup.
War does not solve anything. It makes the rich richer and kills the poor or throws them overboard. The rich sit in their luxurious villa and eat caviar.
Chiming in here, there are few pockets of cancer treatments that actually do work. This is in the area of immunotherapies. Surgery and chemo are only stop-gaps that extend life by very little. But because there is a lot of competition amongst drug companies in the arena of immunotherapies, that is why there have been significant advances in the last 5 years.
Yes. They can work better but what people don't understand is that many of the more recently developed immunotherapies have horrific side effect profiles just as bad as any chemo drug if not worse. If you want an autoimmune disease where your entire epithelium or endothelium is attacked by your immune system, a modern cancer immunotherapy is a good way to get it, or a 10% fatality rate.
Of course, it's all justified based on the fact that terminal cancer is... terminal. Risk benefit ratios and all that. A 10% fatality rate is better than a 100% fatality rate.
I don't want to ban expensive immunotherapies, but they leave much to be desired. Kind of like covid vaccines, only even worse. Of course, people are desperate.
I refuse
Well-said. It is difficult to see how many people are still so terrified. My father-in-law doesn't want my husband to join the hunting group this fall, as my husband is the only one unvaxxed. My husband voluntarily did NOT go last year, as at the hype of vaxx-mania, he knew he'd get blamed for any illness. Given what most people who're paying attention should know by now the shots are not sterilizing, he figured he'd go this year. My father-in-law is boosted and has had Omicron. He's a retired medical professional with science degrees. Yet here we are.
I have a new way of measuring intelligence: if you fell for this Scam, you're not smart.
Now we have to figure out how to keep the "not smart" from making like miserable for the rest of us. I can pat myself on the back for seeing through the charade all I want, but at the end of the day, the covid tyrant's boot is still on my neck and here in MI, my circle of support is as small as it's ever been. I dread the upcoming election season.
the problem is the "not smart" people get jobs as petty bureaucrats- think Fauci
I agree with the first part of your statement, but Fauci is hardly a petty bureaucrats. He knew what he was doing, he knew what would happen to the health of the jabbed, he KNEW. His is the face of Evil.
yes, but Hannah Arendt said it perfectly- the banality of evil. that these aren't crazed monsters but ordinary rather boring men who get caught up in procedures, protocols and paperwork; that men with briefcases and suits can do great harm. they might start out with good intentions and gradually fix their eyes on the wrong prize. they hide behind "the rules." they were "just following orders" or "doing as they were told."
Yes! Educated and smart are two very different things! Being smart shows you know how to think sensibly and reason things out. It takes in common sense too. It explains “survival of the fittest.”
This explains all of these highly educated people being sooo duped and easily used as tools. It’s why History is able to repeat itself! 😩
Interesting take on why so many “intelligent” people fall for and adopt the propaganda.
https://devanneykathleen.substack.com/p/a-new-conspiracy?r=owv3c&utm_medium=ios
Although, for the most I have done this, I want to ensure I do it in the future. With all the BS that has been thrown at us the last two years. Here’s my new line built from what I read here.
"Let your curiosity lead your intelligence"
This was excellent. Thank you RG.
It’s heartbreaking. I see people I’ve respected all my life as sheep. That’s a very uncomfortable, disappointing feeling, especially regarding family members. My MAG (mutual assistance group) has become very small.
in a grand way of thinking you're right, yet it somewhat depends on the interpretation of 'smart' - they're not smart enough for critical thinking, but instead they choose to attach themselves to those who are enforcing decisions. terms like 'lazy' and 'blinkered' come to mind, and bullying, because they deny our capability for critical thinking.
working in education, my heart always goes out to that lone child in the group that stands out and finds it difficult to comply!
Yes, oh yes, I hear you. Kudos to all those kids who don't comply; it takes courage. ...I'm a teacher and love it when a child challenges me and wants to go another way..I encourage them to do things their own way. :-) who gave me the right to say what works for them?
exactly. we need to do away with the rigidity of any one-size-fits-all approach.
absolutely. my son is one of those kids who has not fared well in the one-size-fits-all public school system. he's the square block that the school system has repeatedly tried to jam into the round hole. he's a smart, funny, independent kid but hates school and does the bare minimum to get passing grades. i've hated what he's had to go through into order to get through. they've stamped out individuality and critical thinking claiming that there are no resources to deal with those who won't march in line. I really wish he had more teachers like you and Eileen.
praying for you and your son, be well.
more than just intelligence, but strength of character. these are the people who would have helped load jews onto train cars or turned their lifelong butcher in to the Stasi. you thought they were your friends, but the minute they learned you were skeptical about the whole covid charade, including the vaccine, they were ready to dump you, would have celebrated your death, believe that you deserved to be fired from your job, denied medical care.
so much for diversity, equity and inclusion! bring back segregation and discrimination. equal protection under the law? the 1st amendment? the bill of rights? the nuremberg code? who needs 'em?
they didn't for one minute stop to think "wait, i've known/ worked with this person for 10/20/30 years and i have always found her to be intelligent, fair, thoughtful, caring and measured in her decision making. why is she now taking this stand that seems crazy to me? perhaps i should look into it, talk to her, investigate my own position."
nope, they dive right into "well, i guess she just lost her mind."
did anyone ever listen to the Sam Harris/ Eric Topol podcast where Topol accused Bret Weinstein of being "dangerous" and long time friend Harris could only conclude that Weinstein had lost his mind? i always found Harris to be smug and self important and never listened to him unless he was a guest of someone i did listen to. but his spinelessness on that episode sealed it for me; he's a worm.
Weinstein has publicly invited Harris to discuss his issues but of course, crickets.
not to mention Topol himself had been the victim of an orchestrated take down, including the loss of his job and death threats to his family, by the pharmaceutical industry when he acted as a whistle blower on VIOXX.
i guess if you're going to have standards, you might as well have two
So true. all of it. I shudder to think what some of my former friends would have done had they lived in 1930-40's Germany....totally frightening! Anyone else feel like they're in a Sci-fi/horror movie with no end in sight?
Daniel Horowitz makes the point that what we are seeing today is much worse than what was experienced with NAZI Germany.
We are seeing a level of Mengele bio-fascism today but on a global scale, not just in one country. Multiple millions of people have been killed by the government response to Covid including from lockdowns, denial of treatment, loss of liberty, and of course, the clotshots.
Worse yet, the world community recognized the threat of Hitler and ultimately, the Nuremberg trials came about after the war, but today, the global community is all for bio-fascism and few are able to even speak about it and none are able to stop it.
yes, it's the infamous snitching brownshirts all over. however, even the hated Berlin Wall and Ceausesku (with his version of the brownshirts) were toppled, history showing that tyranny is violent but doesn't last.
Response to Carolyn K. Reading your post, I had a thought as to why so many people (friends, family, etc) "turned" on the "free-thinkers", to use a phrase. Diversity, equality, inclusion...if you see a gay pride parade on the TV, you can always turn it off, or if it's in person, walk down a different street. You can IGNORE it. It doesn't affect you unless you want it to. Now COVID....that was a deadly disease, according to the "experts". THEY had a Plan on how to fight back, to defeat this new monster, to allow you to LIVE. If someone questioned those "experts" or The Plan, that person became a THREAT to you and your life. Standing too close or breathing on someone, You, as a THREAT, could kill them. And that was unacceptable, to those who followed The Plan.
totally. i'm especially disappointed in the "my body, my choice" crowd who think offing your unborn is a god-given right but i should let someone tie me down and inject me with something. how could they justify that obvious hypocrisy? because, killing an unborn child only affects the woman (they forget about the the child, the father and the State which has an interest in future workers, tax payers and cannon fodder). and i might infect them with my germs and kill them and i have no right to do that!!!!
but any idiot might have said "wait, i've had the flu before. how have i handled it? and i know people who had it and survived easily. sure, i know some people who died but i know others who stayed home until they got better."
people who read labels and make sure their food is 100% organic and GMO free were checking an app to see when it would be their turn to get the miracle shot.
i listened to virologists say "vaccines are the only way out of this pandemic" and i thought, hmmm i don't recall there being a vaccine for the 1918 flu pandemic or for any of the pandemics that came and went on their own before it. i suppose other people listened to those very same virologists and thought "oh my god, yes, we won't be safe until there's a vaccine!!!!"
i heard a podcast with Laurie Garrett, one of those paranoid public health lock down and mask forever types. she spoke about the 1976 swine flu "pandemic" and said that the military had over reacted and the vaccines were rushed out and they were bad and taken off the market after people died and/or were stricken with GBS.
then in the next breath, she said "but this time is different. THESE vaccines are great and EVERYONE should get them!" seriously? how can you tell that story and ignore the parallels?
they always have a plan and it never quite works out. the models were wildly overestimating the death rate and doing so on a daily level. anyone could have easily checked the projections for death and hospitalization for any given day and compared it with the actual death and hospitalization for that day and seen how off they were.
i'm stymied really. people have gone to restaurants and sat at tables near to people of unknown health status for their entire lives; maybe someone coughed into a napkin. was there a stampede?
people have sat in dark theaters and watched broadway shows, touching shoulders with strangers. did anyone demand a guarantee that there were no errant germs floating about?
the truth is- if we didn't have functioning immune systems, no one would last a day because viruses and germs are everywhere! but somehow the species has survived plagues, raw food, grubs, dirt. up until two years ago, we all thought we were pretty tough. some of us still do because some of us still are. i fear for those, superior and sanctimonious, who have destroyed their immune systems and may be facing chronic covid infections. everyone i know who has been vaccinated has had covid repeatedly and every time they insist "thank god, i was vaccinated or it could have been worse."
are you kidding? i wonder how many more times they can have covid before they finally have to admit that the whole thing was a terrible mistake?
Just as the supporters of legal abortion think that the fetus has no legal rights, so under the law of slavery slaves had no rights.
Some of the "smartest" people fell for this. By that I mean PHD, etc. I worked for highly educated physicians that are fully indoctrinated. I keep trying to figure out why We saw the truth. Would be an interesting topic to write about. Is it street smarts? We do not watch the media? Critical thinking skills?
I worked in 1 country’s Covid response and it still amazes me that these intelligent clinical leads walking around in their cloth masks don’t seem to see the dichotomy of what they say vs what they see. But I think that’s it…they only see what they want to see? (Heck our version of Fauci got Covid and in an internal email noted it was ‘despite diligent masking’ uh I can only hope a small lightbulb got turned on…).
they feel that to comply is easier, combined with a 'look at me, aren't I good?!' attitude (virtue signaling). gives me the creepy crawlies.
Agreed. I don't like calling them sheep anymore. That's an insult to sheep🙄
Being part of the smart and righteous set, vs. distrust of authority. Two natural human types, similarly decent and intelligent, but worlds apart when it comes to something like this.
well said. those who prefer their deserved or begotten comfort, vs. those who want to know what's beyond - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMnLoOnrwbg
innate critical faculties ;-))
The best measuring tool yet! I use it all the time now! :-)
I haven't revealed my vax status to anyone. I'm fortunate to be able to work from home, where I've worked for nearly a year after our company required everyone to be masked in the office but allowed people to work from home. When pressed by our HR manager to indicate my vax status (even though I was working from home), I told her I chose not to say but that she could put me down as unvaxxed as a default. I still resent being asked.
This story is not over. I hope there are some class-action lawsuits by people such as my younger brother, who was forced to get the jab or else be fired.
I cannot work due to CMS mandate so trying to make a living waiting tables. 23 year RN
what a waste! i too lost a job of 40 years
I want to say I am sorry, but I'm so angry when I hear such things, like people losing their livelihoods, all because they exercised their rights. You are both courageous, and good things will happen to you both. Have faith. Stay strong. So reassuring to know that there are humans like you out there showing your strength. I will never back down. There are many of us.
Wish we could all meet up! Anybody else feel like an island???
If the stats are correct, 1 in 30 jabbed people will either die or be disabled (and probably wish they were dead) within the next few years. This time is hard for you, but you have your health I assume and money can't buy that. Good luck.
i so hope this isn't true but... i've been to a suspicious funeral or two. my friend cuts hair and one of her clients is a DOD subcontractor. she asked him early on in the roll out if he thought she should take the vaccine and he said no, that there was a kill-switch built in to thin out the population. these kinds of wild speculations are a bit much- i have plenty of reasons for not taking the shot without worrying about a kill switch- but he does work for the DOD. so far he's been able to avoid getting vaccinated but he's in fear
It's hard not to, as he was placed on leave w/o pay (he was working from home too). Also, I had to disclose at work, as I could not work in person unless jabbed. I was offered in person work. Thankfully, they worked around me and gave me online courses. Both my employers dropped the jab mandates, but one still has masks. I'm back in person next week, but not looking forward to suffocating. I've been around 500+ kids (many with coughs/sniffles) the past 6-weeks, unmasked, but now when I return to my other job, I must mask up. I might add, young children don't have the best hygiene practices. Now I'll be with adults, with a better HVAC system and more space, masked. Make it make sense.
they are scarred for life
The kids have been the ones hardest hit by this one-size-fits-all approach to public health. In addition to losing two years of school, they have been taught to be passive, to obey all commands from authority without question, and that it is virtuous to avoid intellectual and / or physical effort. This is the plandemic’s true legacy. We’re just starting to see the effects of this now, and it’s only going to get worse in the coming years. I’m not sure if the elites planned that far ahead, but it was certainly a welcome side effect.
Exactly right as always. Here in Hysteria Central, formerly known as Canada, the majority are still masking inside and out despite no more senseless laws demanding it.
So disappointed in the Canadians. But I have run across Canadians living in the US and while traveling and they're all liberal nuts.
True story: While in Nicaragua four years ago, I met two Canadian women. When they heard I was from the US, the first thing they asked me was what I thought of Trump. I said, "I'm not much into politics."
One said, "Neither are we."
I replied, "Yes, that's why the first question you asked me was what I thought of Trump."
Fortunately it's not quite as crazy in some areas of Canada. Even so, our reputation as one of the best countries on earth has been badly damaged, and rightfully so.
The "nice, polite" Canadian has exposed the true apathy behind the labels. The fringe "minority" with unacceptable views has a boot on its neck. And it's not a moccasin, it's a jack-boot.
My neighbour's daughter, who has 3 young kids, woke up in intense pain yesterday. Went to the fancy new hospital built nearby here in Toronto. It took 6 hours for anybody to see her in the ER, by then she had passed a 6 mm kidney stone. "Greatest healthcare system in the world" the average person will still tell me. Sad thing is, 6 hours is not bad lol. People now expect to hear stories of 12 hours, yet they just accept it.
That seems so weird to me! Here near Huntsville, AL, my life has been almost completely normal since late 2020 I think. I don't even remember when anymore, but very few people are masked here.
I had to get a document notarized and made an appointment with the notary at my public library over the phone. To see this person, I had to wear a mask because the person was extremely paranoid about covid. I needed the paper notarized so I said OK. I show up and it's a young person (20's) wearing two(!) masks. I felt so sad for this person who is so fearful and clearly so conditioned (brainwashed?) that death is lurking just around the corner unless they go through the pointless rituals. This is a supposedly educated librarian. They should really read more than their mainstream periodicals once in a while.
Librarians are some of the most liberal assholes out there & I can say that because I’m married to a conservative librarian
At my library throughout 2020, you had to order books online, park and call for pick up you were instructed not to leave the car to pick up the books until the mask wearing employee was safely back in the building. Total theater!
That's more than theater. It's psychosis. When they first reopened my library, you were not supposed to reshelve anything you took off to look at. It had to go on a cart so they could wipe down to sanitize. I ignored that rule.
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There was a bookstore in Santa Fe did same. You couldn’t go into the store, you had to know exactly what you wanted & they'd fetch it. A bookstore is for BROWSING; even if you have a specific book in mind, most people walk out w/ more than that because they saw more that caught their eye. They were cutting off their virtual-signaling nose to spite their face in the name of “safety”. But Santa Fe is full of morons
I loathe all of these covid despots, who've done nothing so much as place boots on our necks, inculcating mass hysteria and fear, as well as forcing an exploratory medical "treatment" on unsuspecting guinea pigs. And if you did suspect you were being used as a test subject against your will, you were accused of all sorts of unseemly things. A pox on all of their houses!
It's all about entropy - everything tends towards disorder. It takes energy (voting force) for us to become ordered again. Every negative event is being carefully stoked to create chaos because once our economy, country, and people are so severely damaged, it will be hard, if not impossible, to become a peaceful, economically thriving society again,
Order through chaos. That's the plan.
Thanks, Mark. As I have written before, I always enjoy reading your posts. When will liberty-loving Americans understand that our representative democracy has fundamentally changed since the legislative branch of our federal and state governments began delegating authority to make law ("rules") to the executive branch and its agencies (the swamp - the big one in DC and the small ones in our state capitals)? To my knowledge, the US federal and state governments executed the scamdemic you so accurately describe without any legislature passing a single law shutting down businesses, governments, or schools, deeming people essential or non-essential, deeming youth sports to be safe or unsafe, or requiring masks in public or private settings, or mandating C19 vaccinations, relying instead on authority previously delegated to the executive branch (including school districts) in times of so-called "emergency" or in some cases at any time. People residing in states that distrust their elected representatives so much that they have a constitutional right to a "people's veto" were powerless to stop the scamdemic rules. The US Congress and all fifty state legislatures, once if not already under the control of people who understand and support the US Constitution and the applicable state constitutions, should immediately begin to amend or repeal the "emergency powers" laws to return power to the people through their legislatures.
Great point Earl.
Also, anyone clear thinking person needs to get as political active locally as their time will allow. Show up at or better yet, run for school boards, city councils, etc. Become poll watchers or poll workers (I’m about to work my first primary election as a polling manager next week).
In spite of the abject foolishness and/or malice in DC, the real injustices occur on the local level (shutting down small shops, masking kids, etc.)
Hannah Atrendt, “Banality of Evil” makes this timeless observation.
Great post. As you basically said; Fear is the linchpin utlized to prevent the public from seeing patterns or sizing up a situation.
The basketball analogy is fantastic. If you've heard over and over again, how great an opponent is, you may not be able to size up their actual abilities, because you're fearful you might lose or look stupid getting outmatched. Fear may very well have forestalled your ability to play well or win.
In the case if covid, fear prevented seeing the obvious. And the very same fear caused you to lose your mind, freedom and bodily autonomy
You’re right about the fear, but even more effective was one’s Primary Physician urging the shot - and when his office emailed that the Moderna shots were now available (!!!), it was as if you had just won the Powerball……..I had serious doubts about the shot, but having a spouse with a few health problems ( so sick of the word “comorbidities” at this point), I felt I had no choice………
Yes. Fear trumps all.
I used to think love and hate were the two most powerful emotions. I guess I was naive and a bit Pollyanna'ish. Not anymore. It's FEAR. Just like you said
Thanks for another astute post, Mark. Great point about pattern recognition. From what I see and deplore, is that even after all this time, so many are not aware of the true data in Vaers, etc.
The older generation’s addiction to the Legacy Media is more understandable than the younger generation’s submissive reaction and reliance on social media for the “ truth”………
Yes, it's the younger generations' inability to think that really disturbs me. I'm not surprised by my elderly friends' unwillingness to even look at alternatives to the legacy media they have relied on all their lives, although of course saddened--and often infuriated--by it, but that younger people should be so deeply propagandized and so unable to break free is depressing and frightening.
Agree completely, Martha - depressing, frightening, and infuriating- they admire the digital world which could be their undoing……..
Well said as always.
I think it's extremely important to constantly remind ourselves and others what the scamdemic was all about. If we don't constantly remind ourselves and constantly tell other people, the unrelenting propaganda of the major "news" outlets will brainwash everyone and possibly even us. Thank you so much for the reminder.
Of course, it was engineered from the beginning as a MASSIVE propaganda war and we are still fighting it. Scamdemic it is, but it is hard for most people to believe that the several million who have died from the jab unnecessarily may not in fact be the biggest threat from the Scamdemic! The printing of totally unprecedented amount of fake cash ("Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing") in the vicinity of 50 TRILLION dollars, has had the totally predictable result of massive inflationary pressure. HOWEVER, this is not the worst consequence of this. The Worst consequence was the wholesale PURCHASE of the economy of the world with those printed trillions. ALL of the major companies of the world are now owned by the same cabal of ultra-secret multi-multi billionaires who are intent in FURTHER expanding their power. THey use "Hedge funds" (Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street ==> all owned by Vanguard) to purchase those controlling interests in ALL the pharmaceutical companies, Exxon-Mobil, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc., etc. ==> ALL companies (including all the media companies) are ALL owned by these "hedge funds". Vanguard is owned by the 13 families of the Cabal (Morgans, Rockerfellers, Rothschild, Demours, Bush, etc.). They "own" the world and they own us (at least our jobs and our food, and our governments and our media, etc.). Now DON'T LET THEM OWN YOUR SPIRIT!! We must fight this war that we are losing (because we arent fighting).
Mark, keep up the EXCELLENT postings!
Ian in Vancouver
Thanks, Ian.
I'm keenly interested in these economic impacts. But writing something on them would take intensive research. I'm writing about stuff that's directly observable. I say "No" to as much as I can and try to encourage others to do the same. I have a day job that prevents me from doing more than that.
Is there any chance you would put together some posts about the economics of the Scam? I would very much like to read it. For example, I can't even find a consensus about how much money the US government printed during Coronamania.
But its what these vaccines have done to the children. The only kids I see getting sick or repeated infections are vaccinated. Deaths from Covid in anyone less than 20 are rare and in fact probably never really happen at all. How many kids have we permanently injured or killed because of fear?
Deaths of anyone basically healthy and under 70 are rare.
I love " the real pandemic is mental illness"-short and sweet and nailing the real issue. This mental illness can be reversed if people will open their minds and consider the facts! But sadly, many of the afflicted won't come around because they're too deep into the quicksand of this insane plandemic to even consider the alternative. Like I said before, this ain't our grandparents America anymore. Keep em coming Mark.