My favorite uncle once said -- years ago -- regarding "America:"
"This country runs on bullshit. If the bullshit ever stopped, this place would grind to a halt." Brooklyn Technical High School graduate (when that actually meant something); WWII U.S. Navy vet; earned his living as an engineer. One of the smartest guys I've ever known.
Mother re the Viet Nam War lottery draft to my older brother: "I don't care what your number is. You're not going..." But Ma! "We'll take a vacation to Canada...and leave you there. I'd rather risk never seeing you again then to have "them" take you from me for that..." I was 12. I knew she meant it.
Over our morning coffee, father explaining how the Warren Commission Report was one gigantic, impossible load of bullshit. This when I was probably 11 or 12. My father had kept the NY Times article featuring the "report." He walked me through the bullshit.
Another coffee conversation, father explains in Aug 1971 how the U.S. just screwed over the French by closing the "gold window." He walks me through the U.S. default and how Nixon "just gave the French the middle finger."
Later, the AIDS fiasco and learning then about that lying sack of crap, Anthony Fauci. Subsequent events like Ruby Ridge, Waco, Philadelphia, Oklahoma City, and then, of course, September 11 -- today -- 24 years ago.
Feeling "inauthentic?" I'll say. Spending a lifetime looking out, this way and that, and seeing nothing but bullshit. Falsehood. Outright fraud, corruption. Everywhere. Then a major attack explained by such an absurd "official story," it boggles the mind. Yet having to live in a world where that story is believed and acted upon, including the murder and destruction of millions of innocents.
As a woman, I saw very early on that doctors? Doctors were mental cases. I was nothing but a "condition" or disease away from their discovery of it. Especially as a human with a womb and ovaries and a menstrual cycle and breasts. All that could kill me. Truly mental. So, stopped going -- not that I went all that much anyway -- about 40 years ago.
Certainly there is some good and I've had a blessed life given what can happen in life. Yet I've spent the bulk of that lifetime outside looking in, watching virtually everyone seemingly in tune with that which I know to be utterly false. A Truman Show, but in a country that murders at will and gets away with it -- often to applause. A life spent fitting in as best you can, but knowing you're just whistling past a graveyard. "This country runs on bullshit..."
It's been exhausting. That's why, when the "COVID" op happened, I had energy only for escape plans. No effort to try to share evidence or convince...(After a decade or more spent on Sep 11th and getting shit for that..?) The stampede was underway -- fueled by cowardice, obedience, and credulity toward the absurd.
☺️ Thank you, Allen. I loved those weekend mornings with my father. He and I up first, sitting at the kitchen table, drinking coffee, talking all manner of subjects, him telling me stories, and...and teaching me, his only girl, how to detect complete and utter bullshit. ☺️
The importance of fathers cannot be overstated. A man -- a good man -- in the house...makes all the difference in the world.
I must say,too, that I adored my mother. She shaped me, too, into the woman and lover of freedom and sniffer-outter of BS that I am as much -- if not more -- than my father was. :)
Seriously. The only logical explanation is mental illness/psychosis/possession in those physicians and now nearly all medically trained people. Why are they so obsessed with diseases being dormant in healthy people? It's truly sick. Love your comment. Thank you.
Well, that's what I actually thought. My encounters with them were relatively limited, but once I got to an age where I went to the doctor myself (vs. when my mother took me as a child), I really began to think -- seriously -- that there was something wrong with them. ☺️
I did finally conclude that "There's something wrong with them." I made it my business to limit my interaction with them to the greatest degree possible. I think I could, if I had to, count the number of times on one hand that I've seen a doctor in nearly 40 years.
Same here. Not for the astute and aware reason you had, but because one of my life rules is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't have a doctor, which really seems to disorient dentists and ophthalmologists when I answer none on an intake form. In my now elder years, I don't even go to the dentist unless I have a bad tooth. I do see a retina specialist for macular degeneration treatment, which is definitely preserving my eyesight, but in the back of my mind I can't quite put my full trust in my doctor. I wonder, is he being honest with me? Or is he just putting money in the bank at the expense of me potentially experiencing very serious side effects?
I've begun to think that some people face a choice: Become either a serial killer or a doctor. They like cutting up people too much. I've had three friends in the last five years who have undergone unnecessary surgeries because their doctors said so. It's insane.
Omg. I know a few people who have had "preventative surgeries" recently as well. Gall bladder and appendix removal for them both! "You never know!" Both in their 40's. What is happening? I have also heard of people having preventative full body MRI's. There is no end to the neurosis.
"Preventative surgeries". Wow. That is so sick. I guess that's what my aunt had. It was her gallbladder, too. She's 80 years old and they said that a gall stone could kill her, so let's take it out. I was like, the surgery could kill you! She came out all right, but missed about four months in recovery because of course there were complications. Four months when we could have been laying on the beach, having dinner, going to the movies. She doesn't have much time left and every day counts. UGH. I could write so much more on this subject. It's all so insane.
If it ain't broke don't fix it? Seems logical to me! I think docs are desperate and targeting the people that are actually coming to see them. Otw it's probably a lonely profession these days with many of us SEEING wtf has been happening to healthy people who suddenly die after a seemingly "harmless intervention". They deserve whatever outcome they receive. Amen.
the surgeon just wanted to cut. surgeons rank high on the psychopathy scale. I broke my arm once and at the small western clinic the nurse told me, you're lucky the (bone) doctor likes to operate. Meaning had there been the slightest reason....
“Although I've been losing trust in the honesty/integrity of our government for about 20 years, I was angry because the covid scam was a much bolder move of ridiculous rules, lies, manipulation, intimidation, economic/physical threats, censorship and information control. It was something that I had never seen before. It was much worse than I imagined. It was dystopian. It was coordinated between the government, the media, the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the education system. I was angry because the propaganda and intimidation worked on so many people and those people turned on the people that saw it as a scam. It exposed our system as something that I didn't think it was and it worked too well. Even though most people on the planet are living the best lives that has ever been achieved in the history of the world, I can't unsee what is beneath the veneer of our system.”
I’m still pissed and will be until the end of time. However, this anger doesn’t negatively impact my daily life. I agree that we must always remain angry and vigilant to try and prevent future crimes against humanity. Nevertheless, I fear that we live in a society of sheep, and preventing the next crime will be as challenging as the last one.
I spent three years working in Mexico, and it confirmed what I suspected: the Mexican people are incredible, but their country is a corrupt hellhole run by cartels who double as politicians. The people suffer for it, crushed under a system rotten to the core. I came back thinking America’s law and order made us different—our politicians weren’t that corrupt, or so I thought. Then the plandemic exposed the truth: the U.S. is just as crooked as Mexico. Our cartel? Big Pharma, legally fleecing us with zero oversight, while clowns like Bernie Sanders parrot “vaccines work, period” like brainwashed shills. Mexico’s cartels kill with guns; our pharmaceutical overlords do it with pills and propaganda. Both countries are scams, bleeding their people dry—the only difference is our corruption wears a suit and calls itself “healthcare.”
I am definitely not for open borders. With that out of the way, we are lucky so many of our illegals are Mexicans and not what Europe has. I like Mexicans, the ones around here at least. Dead-on comment.
It was very obvious from day one in 2020 that this is what was happening. You had to be a brain-dead dipshit to not know that. Oh, sorry, I forgot that was +70-90% of America.
"Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”"
"Another SPI-B member said: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”"
Excerpted from story below that appeared in May, 2021, after Laura Dodsworth's book "State of Fear" put what skeptics were feeling, sensing, had been reading up on into the story telling of a professional writer.
Note: The article below shares that an investigation of the abusive use of Fear as a weapon to coerce compliance was about to commence in the UK. It did its investigation. And while it found some "troubling decisions" it found no reason to hold anyone accountable, rationalized and justified the abuses as "mistakes were made" and washed their hands of it. To Mark's point, the admission that they absolutely DO the work of mind control, PsyOps, on behalf of the government should inform that that work is ongoing, for everything remotely controversial that members of the public would resist. It is not a conspiracy theory. It's the real conspiracy. Which is why the "investigation" found nothing they didn't want to find.
Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists
Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods
"Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”.
Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response.
SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from Covid-19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.
Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”
Mr Morgan spoke to author Laura Dodsworth, who has spent a year investigating the Government’s tactics for her book A State of Fear, published on Monday.
Ministers have faced repeated accusations that they ramped up the threat from the pandemic to justify lockdowns and coerce the public into abiding by them – a claim that will be examined by the forthcoming public inquiry into the pandemic response.
SPI-B is one of the sub-committees that advises the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), led by Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser.
One SPI-B scientist told Ms Dodsworth: “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear. The way we have used fear is dystopian.
“The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.”
Another SPI-B member said: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”
One warned that “people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise… We have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in”.
Another said: “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon… Psychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.”
As well as overt warnings about the danger of the virus, the Government has been accused of feeding the public a non-stop diet of bad news, such as deaths and hospitalisations, without ever putting the figures in context with news of how many people have recovered, or whether daily death tolls are above or below seasonal averages.
Another member of SPI-B said they were "stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology" during the pandemic, and that “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative. They have too much power and it intoxicates them”.
Steve Baker, the deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, said: “If it is true that the state took the decision to terrify the public to get compliance with rules, that raises extremely serious questions about the type of society we want to become.
“If we’re being really honest, do I fear that Government policy today is playing into the roots of totalitarianism? Yes, of course it is.”"
I love your story-telling abilities, weaving your life experiences into the present situation.
You leave me wondering if your friends, like Jake, are still alive and doing okay.
Hey, Steve, if you are out there reading this, 'Right On' with your response to Mark. I may borrow that paragraph because it pretty much expresses how I feel about not only the government now, but also the Medical Industrial Complex, doctors, and hospitals which I always gave the benefit of the doubt and thought they really care about us … don't they?!
This is Steve. I'm here and I'm still angry. I don't ever want to lose the anger over the covid scam but I don't want the covid scam to mess up the rest of my life. It has already ruined enough of it. Also, feel free to borrow the paragraph and use it as you want.
It's imperative that we get more people to understand that the Covid Operation was a carefully planned and coordinated psychological operation with multiple objectives and it is ongoing.
"To this day, there has been zero accountability for the deliberately planned & executed covid operation: the fear mongering, the psychological warfare, the lockdowns, the destruction of careers, lost businesses, loved ones that died alone, the deliberate lies from govt, the harmful covid shots and the deliberately harmful hospital protocols designed to kill. What this country suffered under the covid operation is unthinkable. A country that prides itself on its defiance to tyranny & revolutionary spirit turned into a spineless group of cowards, with precious few exceptions, that gladly knelt before the altar of the state and worshipped the govt's 'priests.' The ease with which the entire country buckled to tyranny is sickening."
- Brad Miller
While recognizing that a historical account of what happened in 2020 is essential to "set the record straight," it is no substitute for a true reckoning of the industrial-scale cruelty that was forced upon almost every human on the planet. Few escaped the tyranny.
Analyzing and understanding the Covid Operation is a stark reminder of what was done to billions of innocent, unaware, unprepared human beings who had no clue that the single declaration of a worldwide pandemic was a bald-faced lie in every sense of the word.
How many children were forever traumatized after being forced to wear a face mask over their mouth and nose in the classroom and on the sports field—that is, if they were even allowed to go to school—for months on end?
How many elders spent their final days in total isolation, unable to see (and sometimes say goodbye to) beloved relatives and friends?
How many small businesses created by the blood, sweat, and tears of hard-working men and women were wiped out forever—and what was the financial, mental, and emotional fallout from those life-altering losses?
How many relationships between families, friends, neighbors, and business colleagues were ruptured and in some cases forever severed? And how is it that so few from those fractured relationships realized that they'd been deliberately psychologically manipulated into being alienated from others?
How many children and adults saw their hopes and goals for the future crushed by lockdowns?
How many millions were coerced, gaslit, or terrorized into taking mRNA injections and becoming experimental subjects for the pharmaceutical syndicate?
Why did so many people comply with the public health edicts and mandates instead of defending their constitutional and civil and basic human rights?
Why did so many government officials participate in the planned-and-rehearsed events, the senseless warnings, and the tyrannical orders that harmed their fellow humans?
As we ask these countless questions, let us not forget that in the midst of the 2020 covid storm, there were dissenters—public and private figures who saw through the immense deception and who publicly voiced their opposition, often at great risk to themselves.
The scale of the deception may be too large even for many who consider themselves "in the know" to accept or comprehend. Many of them will never openly admit they've been bamboozled to such an extent, especially when the stakes are so high and the consequences of their obedience so catastrophic.
Others may still be traumatized after having witnessed the social fabric smashed to pieces, the world around them completely transformed, reputations and relationships ruined, livelihoods and lives lost.
Only when we return to 2020 and relive the story and confront the truths hidden by the "official" narrative can we face the totality of the lies that were told.
It strikes me that people are inauthentic, dishonest and expect to live dishonest lies and lives from others.
Italians say, “Il mondo è pieno di furbi e fessi”; the world is full of slicksters and fools.
Sadly people seem quite OK living in lies. Exhibit A: the Disney obsession. It’s all fake. Going to Europe is cheaper and tastes better, even on $10/day.
Oh my gosh, Mark, I have had to sit with this for a while as it hits deep: "On its face, it’s a good life. But given what I choose daily to overlook, it feels inauthentic." That is my family's experience exactly. Yes, we laugh with new friends but there is a feeling of inauthenticity, of phoniness, because we have to hide what we went through (and are still scarred by) during the scamdemic. We're guarded now in what we say and reveal about ourselves. There are only a handful of people we can truly share with so it's deflating and we feel it. This is why your substack means so much to me. I feel a real connection to your posts and the comments. There really are people out there like me and it makes me feel not so alone. Thank you, Mark. XO
I am trying to build more authentic relationships but it is a challenge. As new people come into my life, I try to determine if there is any room for a real relationship if we discuss the truth of the last few years. I use articles such as Mark's to test people out sometimes. He articulates better than I do what happened throughout the Scamdemic.
I'm right with you, trying to build authentic relationships in a messed up world. It is very hard going and mostly disappointing but I keep working at it. Whew.
Still the only subscription I have to read through for the gripping, simple prose.
I do want to say that the propaganda did not play the role of getting people to follow along to the extent that you give it credit for.
Many doctors were at least skeptical but it wasn't the propaganda that pushed them over the edge, it was the financial incentives. Just read 'what the nurses saw'
Many laborers were skeptical but it wasn't the propaganda that pushed them over the edge. It was the guaranteed $2000 per month to stay home (more than most of them made had they gone into work) that pushed them over the edge
For others, at least at first, it was the opportunity to have something major to point to that could be blamed on trump or else the opportunity to have 'lived through a global catastrophe' which appealed to their adventurous side or other reasons (feeling of having lived through the crazy thing!)
For many it provided an opportunity for them to aggressive "hall monitors" or "karens" - but only if it were 'true'
I'm not saying that they actively lied like Bobby, but rather they conveniently lost all curiosity about every possibility. The propaganda helped for sure, but they had their own separate reasons for wanting it to be so at first, and then later wanting it to continue.
I don't think my Aunt cut off communication from Mother for the last 4.5 years when my mother offered to travel to visit her was because my mother did so unvaccinated and thus was a bad person for being willing to expose her to unnecessary risk. Although I know a lot of people acted that way, I don't think any of them really truly believed it. Rather, they merely saw an opportunity to play the 'holier than thou' moral superiority card which made them feel so good that they were willing to at least bend the truth to match the narrative (or even exceed it) if it would allow them that feeling of being better than others.
The propaganda was there at a military level, and it fooled many but I think a lot more than half of them welcomed being fooled that way for at lease one ulterior reason or another.
The thing that angered me the most was realizing how many people are not only stupid but want to be stupid because they’re that lazy. I cannot believe it’s true. It boggles the mind. But there it is
I’ve felt the same way from the beginning. What hit me hardest wasn’t just the lies from the government and the media, but how quickly people accepted them and then turned against anyone who asked questions. That mob mentality was even worse than the rules themselves.
The damage is undeniable: isolation, lost years for kids, the silencing of dissent, and the pressure to accept injections without knowing their long-term effects. Like you, I thought people would eventually come to their senses. When they didn’t, it changed how I see them—and not for the better.
I still carry the anger, but I’ve learned not to live in it. Anger consumes me while the liars simply move on. So, I hold the line, speak the truth, and also make space to live— to play, laugh, pray, and maintain some joy in my life.
The scars are permanent, and my trust has been shattered. But I know this much: I didn’t bend the knee, I didn’t pretend, and I didn’t lose myself in the fog.
Spending my time in the west and the south, I think it is much easier for me to tamp down my anger. I have regained a lot of my happiness by knowing that this is a temporary home for me. I am definitely a sinner but I have to trust in God's forgiveness and believe eternity will be in heaven although I am not sure what that will be. Until then, maybe I can pursuade a person or two to understand the events of the last five years and help us to prevent history from repeating itself too quickly.
Those of us who have been awake to the scamdemic since early 2020 just want justice and an acknowledgement for the crimes against humanity.
Thank you, Mark, for sharing with us another excellent story. It's nice to know that I'm not alone feeling and thinking the same thing. May God bless you!
Another great story, Mark. I too am sad (and angry) at how gullible people were and still are, and how they continue to trust the same people who made life a dystopia.
My favorite uncle once said -- years ago -- regarding "America:"
"This country runs on bullshit. If the bullshit ever stopped, this place would grind to a halt." Brooklyn Technical High School graduate (when that actually meant something); WWII U.S. Navy vet; earned his living as an engineer. One of the smartest guys I've ever known.
Mother re the Viet Nam War lottery draft to my older brother: "I don't care what your number is. You're not going..." But Ma! "We'll take a vacation to Canada...and leave you there. I'd rather risk never seeing you again then to have "them" take you from me for that..." I was 12. I knew she meant it.
Over our morning coffee, father explaining how the Warren Commission Report was one gigantic, impossible load of bullshit. This when I was probably 11 or 12. My father had kept the NY Times article featuring the "report." He walked me through the bullshit.
Another coffee conversation, father explains in Aug 1971 how the U.S. just screwed over the French by closing the "gold window." He walks me through the U.S. default and how Nixon "just gave the French the middle finger."
Later, the AIDS fiasco and learning then about that lying sack of crap, Anthony Fauci. Subsequent events like Ruby Ridge, Waco, Philadelphia, Oklahoma City, and then, of course, September 11 -- today -- 24 years ago.
Feeling "inauthentic?" I'll say. Spending a lifetime looking out, this way and that, and seeing nothing but bullshit. Falsehood. Outright fraud, corruption. Everywhere. Then a major attack explained by such an absurd "official story," it boggles the mind. Yet having to live in a world where that story is believed and acted upon, including the murder and destruction of millions of innocents.
As a woman, I saw very early on that doctors? Doctors were mental cases. I was nothing but a "condition" or disease away from their discovery of it. Especially as a human with a womb and ovaries and a menstrual cycle and breasts. All that could kill me. Truly mental. So, stopped going -- not that I went all that much anyway -- about 40 years ago.
Certainly there is some good and I've had a blessed life given what can happen in life. Yet I've spent the bulk of that lifetime outside looking in, watching virtually everyone seemingly in tune with that which I know to be utterly false. A Truman Show, but in a country that murders at will and gets away with it -- often to applause. A life spent fitting in as best you can, but knowing you're just whistling past a graveyard. "This country runs on bullshit..."
It's been exhausting. That's why, when the "COVID" op happened, I had energy only for escape plans. No effort to try to share evidence or convince...(After a decade or more spent on Sep 11th and getting shit for that..?) The stampede was underway -- fueled by cowardice, obedience, and credulity toward the absurd.
So. I feel ya, Mark.
What a great comment.
Hat's off to your father and yourself.
☺️ Thank you, Allen. I loved those weekend mornings with my father. He and I up first, sitting at the kitchen table, drinking coffee, talking all manner of subjects, him telling me stories, and...and teaching me, his only girl, how to detect complete and utter bullshit. ☺️
I wish more of us, many more of us, had had a father like yours.
The importance of fathers cannot be overstated. A man -- a good man -- in the house...makes all the difference in the world.
I must say,too, that I adored my mother. She shaped me, too, into the woman and lover of freedom and sniffer-outter of BS that I am as much -- if not more -- than my father was. :)
Seriously. The only logical explanation is mental illness/psychosis/possession in those physicians and now nearly all medically trained people. Why are they so obsessed with diseases being dormant in healthy people? It's truly sick. Love your comment. Thank you.
Well, that's what I actually thought. My encounters with them were relatively limited, but once I got to an age where I went to the doctor myself (vs. when my mother took me as a child), I really began to think -- seriously -- that there was something wrong with them. ☺️
I did finally conclude that "There's something wrong with them." I made it my business to limit my interaction with them to the greatest degree possible. I think I could, if I had to, count the number of times on one hand that I've seen a doctor in nearly 40 years.
Same here. Not for the astute and aware reason you had, but because one of my life rules is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't have a doctor, which really seems to disorient dentists and ophthalmologists when I answer none on an intake form. In my now elder years, I don't even go to the dentist unless I have a bad tooth. I do see a retina specialist for macular degeneration treatment, which is definitely preserving my eyesight, but in the back of my mind I can't quite put my full trust in my doctor. I wonder, is he being honest with me? Or is he just putting money in the bank at the expense of me potentially experiencing very serious side effects?
I've begun to think that some people face a choice: Become either a serial killer or a doctor. They like cutting up people too much. I've had three friends in the last five years who have undergone unnecessary surgeries because their doctors said so. It's insane.
Omg. I know a few people who have had "preventative surgeries" recently as well. Gall bladder and appendix removal for them both! "You never know!" Both in their 40's. What is happening? I have also heard of people having preventative full body MRI's. There is no end to the neurosis.
"Preventative surgeries". Wow. That is so sick. I guess that's what my aunt had. It was her gallbladder, too. She's 80 years old and they said that a gall stone could kill her, so let's take it out. I was like, the surgery could kill you! She came out all right, but missed about four months in recovery because of course there were complications. Four months when we could have been laying on the beach, having dinner, going to the movies. She doesn't have much time left and every day counts. UGH. I could write so much more on this subject. It's all so insane.
If it ain't broke don't fix it? Seems logical to me! I think docs are desperate and targeting the people that are actually coming to see them. Otw it's probably a lonely profession these days with many of us SEEING wtf has been happening to healthy people who suddenly die after a seemingly "harmless intervention". They deserve whatever outcome they receive. Amen.
the surgeon just wanted to cut. surgeons rank high on the psychopathy scale. I broke my arm once and at the small western clinic the nurse told me, you're lucky the (bone) doctor likes to operate. Meaning had there been the slightest reason....
I kinda like the show Dexter. There's more tact in what he does than in medicine lol.
This might be the best comment I've ever seen on substack. Bravo.
It's all bullshit, and it's been 100% bullshit since WWII at least.
And the lemmings go on about their day.
Existentially terrifying.
What a great -- and humbling -- comment, Occam. Thank you!
Worth its own 'Stack? Providing context, of course, by citing its inspiration -- Mark's post?
Well, I suspect you've either got to write about it or curl yourself into a ball in the back of your closet.
It's terrifying, and so few people actually understand how bad it is or how deep it goes.
Yes...I know. Your last statement, "Existentially terrifying." I get that. Completely. It really is.
To repeat what can't be repeated often enough - great comment. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Love, love, love your comment and on board 💯 %.
Many thanks. ☺️
great writing. I especially like this "fueled by cowardice, obedience, and credulity toward the absurd."
Masterpiece:
“Although I've been losing trust in the honesty/integrity of our government for about 20 years, I was angry because the covid scam was a much bolder move of ridiculous rules, lies, manipulation, intimidation, economic/physical threats, censorship and information control. It was something that I had never seen before. It was much worse than I imagined. It was dystopian. It was coordinated between the government, the media, the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the education system. I was angry because the propaganda and intimidation worked on so many people and those people turned on the people that saw it as a scam. It exposed our system as something that I didn't think it was and it worked too well. Even though most people on the planet are living the best lives that has ever been achieved in the history of the world, I can't unsee what is beneath the veneer of our system.”
I’m still pissed and will be until the end of time. However, this anger doesn’t negatively impact my daily life. I agree that we must always remain angry and vigilant to try and prevent future crimes against humanity. Nevertheless, I fear that we live in a society of sheep, and preventing the next crime will be as challenging as the last one.
Yes, he hit the nail on the head.
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I spent three years working in Mexico, and it confirmed what I suspected: the Mexican people are incredible, but their country is a corrupt hellhole run by cartels who double as politicians. The people suffer for it, crushed under a system rotten to the core. I came back thinking America’s law and order made us different—our politicians weren’t that corrupt, or so I thought. Then the plandemic exposed the truth: the U.S. is just as crooked as Mexico. Our cartel? Big Pharma, legally fleecing us with zero oversight, while clowns like Bernie Sanders parrot “vaccines work, period” like brainwashed shills. Mexico’s cartels kill with guns; our pharmaceutical overlords do it with pills and propaganda. Both countries are scams, bleeding their people dry—the only difference is our corruption wears a suit and calls itself “healthcare.”
BINGO!
I am definitely not for open borders. With that out of the way, we are lucky so many of our illegals are Mexicans and not what Europe has. I like Mexicans, the ones around here at least. Dead-on comment.
America is full of crime and it's in the word.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/why-is-america-full-of-crime?utm_source=publication-search
It was very obvious from day one in 2020 that this is what was happening. You had to be a brain-dead dipshit to not know that. Oh, sorry, I forgot that was +70-90% of America.
"Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”"
"Another SPI-B member said: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”"
Excerpted from story below that appeared in May, 2021, after Laura Dodsworth's book "State of Fear" put what skeptics were feeling, sensing, had been reading up on into the story telling of a professional writer.
Note: The article below shares that an investigation of the abusive use of Fear as a weapon to coerce compliance was about to commence in the UK. It did its investigation. And while it found some "troubling decisions" it found no reason to hold anyone accountable, rationalized and justified the abuses as "mistakes were made" and washed their hands of it. To Mark's point, the admission that they absolutely DO the work of mind control, PsyOps, on behalf of the government should inform that that work is ongoing, for everything remotely controversial that members of the public would resist. It is not a conspiracy theory. It's the real conspiracy. Which is why the "investigation" found nothing they didn't want to find.
Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists
Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods
UK Telegraph, May 14, 2021
https://web.archive.org/web/20210519003131/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/
"Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”.
Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response.
SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from Covid-19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.
Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”
Mr Morgan spoke to author Laura Dodsworth, who has spent a year investigating the Government’s tactics for her book A State of Fear, published on Monday.
Ministers have faced repeated accusations that they ramped up the threat from the pandemic to justify lockdowns and coerce the public into abiding by them – a claim that will be examined by the forthcoming public inquiry into the pandemic response.
SPI-B is one of the sub-committees that advises the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), led by Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser.
One SPI-B scientist told Ms Dodsworth: “In March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear. The way we have used fear is dystopian.
“The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable. It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared.”
Another SPI-B member said: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”
One warned that “people use the pandemic to grab power and drive through things that wouldn’t happen otherwise… We have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in”.
Another said: “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon… Psychology has had a really good epidemic, actually.”
As well as overt warnings about the danger of the virus, the Government has been accused of feeding the public a non-stop diet of bad news, such as deaths and hospitalisations, without ever putting the figures in context with news of how many people have recovered, or whether daily death tolls are above or below seasonal averages.
Another member of SPI-B said they were "stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology" during the pandemic, and that “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative. They have too much power and it intoxicates them”.
Steve Baker, the deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, said: “If it is true that the state took the decision to terrify the public to get compliance with rules, that raises extremely serious questions about the type of society we want to become.
“If we’re being really honest, do I fear that Government policy today is playing into the roots of totalitarianism? Yes, of course it is.”"
I love your story-telling abilities, weaving your life experiences into the present situation.
You leave me wondering if your friends, like Jake, are still alive and doing okay.
Hey, Steve, if you are out there reading this, 'Right On' with your response to Mark. I may borrow that paragraph because it pretty much expresses how I feel about not only the government now, but also the Medical Industrial Complex, doctors, and hospitals which I always gave the benefit of the doubt and thought they really care about us … don't they?!
Thanks, Donnah.
One can learn much about life by observing the world around them, seeing trends and remembering what's happened.
This is Steve. I'm here and I'm still angry. I don't ever want to lose the anger over the covid scam but I don't want the covid scam to mess up the rest of my life. It has already ruined enough of it. Also, feel free to borrow the paragraph and use it as you want.
Thanks, Steve.
Never forget.
Oh I’m still angry and so so disappointed in mankind.
Can't unsee it.
Great piece Mark.
It's imperative that we get more people to understand that the Covid Operation was a carefully planned and coordinated psychological operation with multiple objectives and it is ongoing.
"To this day, there has been zero accountability for the deliberately planned & executed covid operation: the fear mongering, the psychological warfare, the lockdowns, the destruction of careers, lost businesses, loved ones that died alone, the deliberate lies from govt, the harmful covid shots and the deliberately harmful hospital protocols designed to kill. What this country suffered under the covid operation is unthinkable. A country that prides itself on its defiance to tyranny & revolutionary spirit turned into a spineless group of cowards, with precious few exceptions, that gladly knelt before the altar of the state and worshipped the govt's 'priests.' The ease with which the entire country buckled to tyranny is sickening."
- Brad Miller
While recognizing that a historical account of what happened in 2020 is essential to "set the record straight," it is no substitute for a true reckoning of the industrial-scale cruelty that was forced upon almost every human on the planet. Few escaped the tyranny.
Analyzing and understanding the Covid Operation is a stark reminder of what was done to billions of innocent, unaware, unprepared human beings who had no clue that the single declaration of a worldwide pandemic was a bald-faced lie in every sense of the word.
How many children were forever traumatized after being forced to wear a face mask over their mouth and nose in the classroom and on the sports field—that is, if they were even allowed to go to school—for months on end?
How many elders spent their final days in total isolation, unable to see (and sometimes say goodbye to) beloved relatives and friends?
How many small businesses created by the blood, sweat, and tears of hard-working men and women were wiped out forever—and what was the financial, mental, and emotional fallout from those life-altering losses?
How many relationships between families, friends, neighbors, and business colleagues were ruptured and in some cases forever severed? And how is it that so few from those fractured relationships realized that they'd been deliberately psychologically manipulated into being alienated from others?
How many children and adults saw their hopes and goals for the future crushed by lockdowns?
How many millions were coerced, gaslit, or terrorized into taking mRNA injections and becoming experimental subjects for the pharmaceutical syndicate?
Why did so many people comply with the public health edicts and mandates instead of defending their constitutional and civil and basic human rights?
Why did so many government officials participate in the planned-and-rehearsed events, the senseless warnings, and the tyrannical orders that harmed their fellow humans?
As we ask these countless questions, let us not forget that in the midst of the 2020 covid storm, there were dissenters—public and private figures who saw through the immense deception and who publicly voiced their opposition, often at great risk to themselves.
The scale of the deception may be too large even for many who consider themselves "in the know" to accept or comprehend. Many of them will never openly admit they've been bamboozled to such an extent, especially when the stakes are so high and the consequences of their obedience so catastrophic.
Others may still be traumatized after having witnessed the social fabric smashed to pieces, the world around them completely transformed, reputations and relationships ruined, livelihoods and lives lost.
Only when we return to 2020 and relive the story and confront the truths hidden by the "official" narrative can we face the totality of the lies that were told.
100%.
Thanks, Allen.
Exceptional post.
COVID did something good....
For at least a decade, we knew that vaccines in general are not only useless but dangerous.
Nobody wanted to hear this. They thought it was kooky to question vaccines.
Many states pushed mandates for schools and medical jobs and some states eliminated religious exemptions for school.
Again, people didn't seem to think this was bad.
But now after the covid debacle, people are no longer quick to dismiss questioning the authoritarian white coats.
Same with war and the economy.
Humanity is finally using their bullshit detectors. 😂
https://robc137.substack.com/p/allergic-to-bullshit
True, but exaggerated. Most people still don't see the Scam.
And any benefits were def not worth the price of what has happened.
🤞
Another unique perspective, Mark, thank you.
It strikes me that people are inauthentic, dishonest and expect to live dishonest lies and lives from others.
Italians say, “Il mondo è pieno di furbi e fessi”; the world is full of slicksters and fools.
Sadly people seem quite OK living in lies. Exhibit A: the Disney obsession. It’s all fake. Going to Europe is cheaper and tastes better, even on $10/day.
But somehow most resolutely trusted the government and media as they pulled an obvious Scam,
Did you know Disney bought rights to the NIV Bible? I had no idea! They're rewriting religion as well as brainwashing the littles.
Disney bought rights to the NIV Bible? I find that very, very disturbing.
Disney is very disturbing
The devil is 99% truth, it's the 1% of evil that poisons the mind, soul and body
Oh my gosh, Mark, I have had to sit with this for a while as it hits deep: "On its face, it’s a good life. But given what I choose daily to overlook, it feels inauthentic." That is my family's experience exactly. Yes, we laugh with new friends but there is a feeling of inauthenticity, of phoniness, because we have to hide what we went through (and are still scarred by) during the scamdemic. We're guarded now in what we say and reveal about ourselves. There are only a handful of people we can truly share with so it's deflating and we feel it. This is why your substack means so much to me. I feel a real connection to your posts and the comments. There really are people out there like me and it makes me feel not so alone. Thank you, Mark. XO
I am trying to build more authentic relationships but it is a challenge. As new people come into my life, I try to determine if there is any room for a real relationship if we discuss the truth of the last few years. I use articles such as Mark's to test people out sometimes. He articulates better than I do what happened throughout the Scamdemic.
I'm right with you, trying to build authentic relationships in a messed up world. It is very hard going and mostly disappointing but I keep working at it. Whew.
Thanks, Susie.
That is how it feels.
Without having the chance to share my perceptions with others and hearing back from them, I'd feel much worse.
Still the only subscription I have to read through for the gripping, simple prose.
I do want to say that the propaganda did not play the role of getting people to follow along to the extent that you give it credit for.
Many doctors were at least skeptical but it wasn't the propaganda that pushed them over the edge, it was the financial incentives. Just read 'what the nurses saw'
Many laborers were skeptical but it wasn't the propaganda that pushed them over the edge. It was the guaranteed $2000 per month to stay home (more than most of them made had they gone into work) that pushed them over the edge
For others, at least at first, it was the opportunity to have something major to point to that could be blamed on trump or else the opportunity to have 'lived through a global catastrophe' which appealed to their adventurous side or other reasons (feeling of having lived through the crazy thing!)
For many it provided an opportunity for them to aggressive "hall monitors" or "karens" - but only if it were 'true'
I'm not saying that they actively lied like Bobby, but rather they conveniently lost all curiosity about every possibility. The propaganda helped for sure, but they had their own separate reasons for wanting it to be so at first, and then later wanting it to continue.
I don't think my Aunt cut off communication from Mother for the last 4.5 years when my mother offered to travel to visit her was because my mother did so unvaccinated and thus was a bad person for being willing to expose her to unnecessary risk. Although I know a lot of people acted that way, I don't think any of them really truly believed it. Rather, they merely saw an opportunity to play the 'holier than thou' moral superiority card which made them feel so good that they were willing to at least bend the truth to match the narrative (or even exceed it) if it would allow them that feeling of being better than others.
The propaganda was there at a military level, and it fooled many but I think a lot more than half of them welcomed being fooled that way for at lease one ulterior reason or another.
Many of these items you list reflect how people lie or rationalize to themselves as well as to others.
The thing that angered me the most was realizing how many people are not only stupid but want to be stupid because they’re that lazy. I cannot believe it’s true. It boggles the mind. But there it is
Amen. I am still shocked by this. Probably always will be.
That is Stupid 20 for you which is still mutating.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/stupid-20/
I’ve felt the same way from the beginning. What hit me hardest wasn’t just the lies from the government and the media, but how quickly people accepted them and then turned against anyone who asked questions. That mob mentality was even worse than the rules themselves.
The damage is undeniable: isolation, lost years for kids, the silencing of dissent, and the pressure to accept injections without knowing their long-term effects. Like you, I thought people would eventually come to their senses. When they didn’t, it changed how I see them—and not for the better.
I still carry the anger, but I’ve learned not to live in it. Anger consumes me while the liars simply move on. So, I hold the line, speak the truth, and also make space to live— to play, laugh, pray, and maintain some joy in my life.
The scars are permanent, and my trust has been shattered. But I know this much: I didn’t bend the knee, I didn’t pretend, and I didn’t lose myself in the fog.
Wow Mark!
In that final paragraph you have encapsulated how many of us spend our days.
I am angry and sad that good people like you are having to live out their golden years within this miasma.
It is a thin veil of normalcy.
Yes. Exactly so.
And to be ghosted by "community" for speaking up.
It doesn't help me to be insulated and isolated.
It doesn't help to be angry.
Thanks for sharing your story and perspective.
It doesn't help to be angry.
But it's also hard to be happy. Or optimistic.
Yes. Hopium sucks. Hugs to you.
Trying today to Do Something to honor Charlie Kirk. 9/11 hurts too.
What was done to Charlie is awful.
Spending my time in the west and the south, I think it is much easier for me to tamp down my anger. I have regained a lot of my happiness by knowing that this is a temporary home for me. I am definitely a sinner but I have to trust in God's forgiveness and believe eternity will be in heaven although I am not sure what that will be. Until then, maybe I can pursuade a person or two to understand the events of the last five years and help us to prevent history from repeating itself too quickly.
Those of us who have been awake to the scamdemic since early 2020 just want justice and an acknowledgement for the crimes against humanity.
Thank you, Mark, for sharing with us another excellent story. It's nice to know that I'm not alone feeling and thinking the same thing. May God bless you!
Another great story, Mark. I too am sad (and angry) at how gullible people were and still are, and how they continue to trust the same people who made life a dystopia.
You are a superb raconteur, Mark.
Thanks, Norman. All I do is call on my memory.
And cut extra words.