During the winters of 1988–89, I could see the World Trade Center towers five miles due east from the wood-framed windows of my parquet-wood-floored, nine-foot ceilinged, hillside, brick, pre-War, 30-unit Kearny, New Jersey apartment building, which sat above storefronts.
What a brilliant article / slice of life / philosophical (on free 'enterprise') piece. Your comment on Cuomo is very pertinent. I am in the UK and joined a local book club of half a dozen other women recently. I suspected they were lefties and had already outed myself as a Brexiteer at the second meeting I attended when one of the members was outraged that, as a now non-EU citizen, she would be required to FILL OUT A FORM at passport control. I resisted the sarcasm of, "OMG a form!? Much better to support corruption, crony-corporatism and give up accountable governance and sovereignty than have to fill out a form once a year."
Last week they started sniggering about the attempted assassination of Trump so I immediately announced that I was a fan of Trump, actually......well, they practically vomited with shock and after goggling at me for a few seconds launched into an attack of 'how could I be a fan of a 'pussy-grabber'. That was it. The extent of their collective sheep brain analysis. I replied that whilst one might not want to share a lift with him, his foreign policy had ensured more peace and less lives lost in proxy wars than his predecessor or successor - which was enough for me. Nope, they weren't interested. He was a 'pussy-grabber' (not an expression we use here anyway - they were just parroting and clutching their (metaphorical) pearls. I despair.
I think of those hockey sessions as an example of a "public/private partnership" that politicians like to talk about today. But unlike the CV shots, corporation didn't make tens of billions at the rink. And hockey didn't kill anyone. It just bruised them.
Yes, and everyone was happy - the players (whose taxes paid for the rink anyway) and the employees who earned money facilitating the use, cutting out the middleman. Win-win.
Greetings lady from Canada - I have had mirror like experience around US politics and Trump hatred recently in our local open air swim pool aquafit classes…. Almost identical! The brainwashing is global. Keep “making friends and influencing people “!! I was stunned at the vitriol though. Love him or hate him but to be brazenly disappointed that “his one job and he missed!” was nauseous. Of the 9 women I was the lone voice calling them out on their hatred. I was the one in shock and goggling at them and their collective think. Smug and assured lawyers and teachers, (some retired), never questioning their belief systems and assuming everyone around them feels the same. I never miss an opportunity to voice my thoughts!!
Yes! You describe it exactly. The hatred is scary. It is never matched on the Right either. Also, the arrogance - assuming everyone thinks in the same retarded way that they do. Maybe we all need to speak up more. As I've got older, I've become more bold but although my adult children have similar views to me they tend to be quiet about them out of a fear of being rounded on by the herd.
Me too - the getting older and not giving as much care to what folks think of me now… Covid Mania helped clarify that, I’m in a small island community and have always been a bit vocal! Same too with my adult sons being quiet and I do understand that - although one drives his truck with a “I 💗 Canadian Oil and Gas” sticker!! Just to piss off the majority lefty liberals here! (I once was one!) Stay loud honey ! Off I go to contend with the group again!
I agree. I have a liberal nurse friend who is totally blinded by hatred of Trump-fomented by the media and DNC. I think it’s time to end the friendship sadly.
What is it about these types of people, who all they can regurgitate about Trump is that he is a ‘pussy grabber’?
And focus on his ‘amoral’ character? I am Stateside, in CA. I just had a new ‘male friend’ I am hanging out with, try to tell me the same crap. I then mentioned…”what about ‘child hair sniffing pedo’, showering with one’s teenage daughter, marrying the children’s babysitter (Jill Biden), Joseph Biden, the current President of the USA”? “Oh that’s nothing”.
So it’s a ‘selective moral judgement’ here with these types…and only can be applied to The Donald!
I will just go a few more yards and say, Why the hell do we all feel we need to be governed at all?? I really would LOVE to have a retreat for a week, where we all listen to, or read, this book by Larken Rose, and then DISCUSS.
Yes, I will support an alleged PG over the child sex trafficking, no borders and nation destroying, pedophilia supporting, amoral, faithless, money worshipping, power hungry, freedom eliminating, war mongering, economy and middle class destroying, family unit destroying, baby killing, eugenics promoting, anti semite, actual practicing racist, projecting, brainwashed, delusional, corrupt violent leftists. That about covers it I think? President Trump renovated the Central Park rink in a fraction of the time and cost than the city was struggling to manage.
Bettina, ask your friends if they knew how President Kennedy and Bill Clinton treated women? Especially poor Marilyn Monroe-used and abused by two of the Kennedy boys. Not to mention all the pool parties JFK hosted with very young women. Hmmmm. Makes “pussy grabbing” seem tame by comparison.
Well said, I’ll never forget nearly everyone I know/knew who fell in lockstep and ridiculed me. Great story … “Handling and passing the buck also become more difficult.”
I lost virtually ALL my friends, upwards of maybe a hundred, spread out over time and the country (US), and I've spoken to one or two of them since, but it's just not the same. A couple of them have stuck with me, but are clearly humoring me, or putting up with my quirky ideas, or whatever. If only they knew what I know! Ya know? smdh Well, sooner or later, I think EVERYONE will know.
my 2 closest former friends have their hands glued to the cellphone. I hate the thing. If it were on they would probably text me more. Obviously sending to an inbox on puter is way harder work !
LOL I was the grandma they were trying to kill … I was slightly amused (under the circumstances) that in a room full of vaxxed, face covered schmucks, I was the danger ! After all If they believed that the jab and some flimsy mask protected them, why was I a threat ?
Hi Mark. Good article. Nice to see a hockey story. My team lead is recovering from "covid", meaning she took a test (PCR? Are they still a thing?) and tested positive. She's had it for over a week. This is at least the 2nd or 3rd time she tested positive , all the while being fully jabbed. I, on the other hand, have NOT been jabbed, nor have I been sick. Odd, isn't it?
Yes, STILL using the absurdly, ludicrously NON test, the PCR. Utterly amazing.
She is being dosed with graphene every time she takes that damn swab up her nose... Same with the jabs, boosters, ALL jabs now, I think. AND in those paper masks, as well... AND most likely in the aerosol spray they keep spraying us with... Graphene is highly dangerous, but the body will naturally detox it, so that's why there's all these "flu" and "boosters," and la la la. Total BS.
What many people don't realize is, the symptoms (MANY symptoms) of various "diseases" are actually the symptoms of radiation poisoning... 5G, etc.
This brings back (more recent) memories of similar outings to Central Park. Early, early on many Sunday mornings I used to leave Orange County NY to go running in Central Park…cross the GW, down the West Side Highway, cross over at 97th, down 5th to 90th….that early parking was available, even if it took a bit of scouting. Then I would run laps, usually two, sometimes three around the park (each lap was around 6 miles) past the rink (or pool, in the summer) you talk about…no cars except for emergency vehicles on Sunday, just roller blazers, walkers, runners, and overall really nice energy which I have never found anywhere else. It was, and is, the only time I have found NYC tolerable….
Yes, COVID, Inc. and its atrocities have been memory-holed, and so has the assassination attempt on Trump….just about gone from the news cycle. We are now fixated on Kamala…..we have 2-3 day memories, or whatever is acceptable to and dictated by the media maggots we so slavishly follow.
I understand why people want to turn off from politics…totally get it, even if, at times, it isn’t prudent to plug one’s ears. But what I’m having a hard time understanding is those (many, many here in my “circle” ) who are directly, irrevocably negatively effected by the “excesses” of COVID Inc and don’t even whimper…refuse to connect the dots…..just in the last two weeks, a friend of mine told me about his young brother (30s) who was in ER with a sudden heart attack, or a dear friend who tells me that his young wife, and mother of four (also young thirties) is having heart problems (he confessed they took the shots after doing “research”) and the 50-something neighbor who suddenly developed kidney problems and is now on dialysis 4 times a week…nice way to start your “retirement”, as she had just done.
I don’t know how this will end, but it can’t end well. We are adrift in a society where bedrock principles of government and ethics have been flushed down the toilet like the do not-flush wipes. Duty, honor, transparency, integrity, respect, service, and appreciation are all words we can neither spell nor define….they have literally become meaningless. At some point, there will be hell to pay when all those “wipes” back up our system and we are flooded in shit….
It’s like everyone has been hypnotized. Or like I am walking around, surrounded by zombies. I avoid anything except very superficial convo with anyone these days, unless they say something that signals the lights are on in their brain. Covid made me realize most Americans are idiots. Just like most Americans are fat and unhealthy and don’t connect what they eat and their inactivity to their fatness, they will never acknowledge what they did to themselves with the “vaccine.”
My impression is that they are terrified. I am speaking of the lower tier bureaucrats and local "elected" officials. So many of them got the shots, or have family members who have. The dying of "suddenly" has not gone away. The cancer diagnoses are partly what I'm talking about. I think they are doing an ostrich because they really just want to play pretend this is not real.
And others who are still true believers, some of them close family members and friends, are eagerly awaiting their fall boosters, even while they virtue signal their own health problems and doctor visits, as though it is a competition to see who has the most horrible, "treatable" diagnosis. And off they go for their infusions and scans.
Beautifully written as always...when I run into idiotic policies (pool reservations, zoom meetings, phone communication rather than in person and all the excuses I hear about "I can't" and testing for covid...still!) that were put into place during covid for "our safety" I will ALWAYS bring it up at the drop of a hat and voice how stupid it all was and how they only caused chaos, fear and harm. I don't pussyfoot around anymore with who hears me and what they think. I am entitled to my (correct) observations and opinions. I am usually met with "well, hundreds if not thousands of lives were saved because of them"- no way to prove that of course, but here we are! UGH!
a little over a year ago, the social security office still had obligatory masks. Person behind wall with window, only small slit at the bottom, masked, and I on the other side, mask on, slipping my documents under the glass... at least he was very friendly, knowledgeable, and I got signed up to draw my pension. The lady who helped me with the paperwork was a phone appointment, no meeting in person at all there. Half of the waiting people had the mask hanging halfway down so we could breathe. No one said anything about it, which makes me think the employees are way smarter than the boss.
I faked-masked for about six months… made my own out of an old thin t-shirt. We pulled them down whenever we could. The only place I ever got yelled at was in my gym doing fly’s with 25 lb dumbbells in each hand and my breathing puffed it off my face. The gym person came running over to me telling me to pull it up. I told her I would as soon as I finished my set with the 50 lbs I was holding over my head. If she was so concerned and scared she should have kept her distance. No one else was around me btw. Insanity. She quit thank god or I might have a “remember when” moment with Gladys if she was still working…!
People *should* feel guilt for internalizing, supporting, or tolerating the mania. It's their fault that it all happened. All they had to do was say, "No" and go on with their lives. I keep ideating about what would have happened if everyone's reaction had been the same as mine, which ranged from "Go fuck yourself" to "Don't tell me what to do," depending on which genius expert was asserting his right to be the boss of me. Nothing would happened, that's what: No lockdowns, no slave muzzles, no tech moguls touching themselves at the thought of "vax passes," no one abandoned at the mercy of "medical professionals," no ruined lives. The scam would have blown up on the launch pad.
Most people aren't interested in holding politicians and bureaucrats accountable for the psyop because it would require them to look into places they don't want to go, starting with their own lame lives, which made a cold virus seem exciting by comparison; and ending with their own moral bankruptcy, which made medical dictatorship look like a dont-miss-it offer they couldn't pass up.
I still cant believe people went along with it all. I always say if NO workplace church store restaurant school etc would have complied it would have ended. This is a free country. We don't do this bullshit. Altho when money is thrown at people they take it...like the hospitals....
I thought that if anyone would resist it would be the churches, since the history of religion has been that most have found themselves disfavored and persecuted at some point. I was *amazed* that nearly all of them just bent over and took it. They couldn't even bring themselves to come to the defense of the few church leaders who didn't.
Yes you are right!! It really gets my goat how the churches responded and just went along and then tried to guilt their members it was the "loving" thing to do. What a bunch of baloney. The loving thing to do is retain our freedom. Churches should also not have been promoting jabs, they are not in the medical business. I thought we had health privacy from all that HIPAA garbage. I am extremely disappointed in the church..............I wrote an article about it on my Substack.
Exactly: If you love your neighbor you'll advocate relentlessly for his political freedom, because it's the only way to ensure your own.
(The company I worked for and the union that allegedly represented me also got into the medical business: The union spent my dues money to lobby the company to put our employee group at the front of the line for the injections. As I wrote in a letter to the MEC, what they should have done was take no position at all on jabs and muzzles, and insist that the company's policy likewise be to let employees make their own medical decisions.)
Churches??? The most prolific users of fear and obedience EVER?
I took my mom to church well AFTER the whole maskery crap was pretty much relaxed, and the sermon was given, about FEAR and how we should not succumb to it, preached by a fella with a mask over his face...
We DO do this bullshit! Obviously! Oh, nooooooo. We think we're free. Since we seem to be from the country of Wordia, you and I, perhaps you will like this, too... I am plugging it like crazy, because I DO think it's our ticket to REAL freedom... I'd love to hear your reaction...
Do any of those download options on the right side of the page mean "printed version"? I don't want to be read to, but I've seen quotes from Larken Rose in meme form and he usually nails it, so I'd be interested in reading the book.
I think he’d surely prefer to sell his book, lol. I’m not sure, but I listened to the podcast for free, and over two days… It was GREAT, very inspiring! I saved the link, and there’s an MP3 I think you can download.
Boss read, Mark! Nothing like unknowingly helping the underground NYC economy. Great tie in with the Zamboni.
Your Alaska experiences reminds me of another rink scam. In the early 90s, I took a gal to see a Blackhawks NHL playoff game at the ( long since demolished) Chicago Stadium. Seems most everyone knew that when a game was sold out, a few discreetly transferred 20 dollar bills to the ticket attendant would instantly grant access to standing room only. We got in - blow that train horn!
Never heard any apologies for lethal covid BS uttered from celebs like Kimmel, Stern, Lemon, Colbert and so many others. They’re still drunk driving their Zamboni's even now. Bird flu deniers beware.
That's a cool story. I wanted to get into that place before they knocked it down. Listening to games on the radio from there, you could hear the crowd roar the whole game.
Thank you for the interesting and thought provoking article. However, I believe our so-called leaders don't want to erase it; they want to perpetuate it and the myth that the response was appropriate. Many, yes, many people I know here in western North Carolina are starting to mask again, avoiding public places, etc. due to the slight uptick in "cases" this summer. And, of course, President Biden says he is being treated for Covid. I fear another scamdemic within the next few years, if not sooner.
Mark, you are a master at story telling and an expert at weaving all the pieces together to form a brilliant analysis of the current world we occupy. Would you be so kind as to share the questions you ask the people who tell you that everyone did the best they could because they didn't know what they were dealing with during Covidmania? I live in SC and Dr's at Roper Hospital are still recommending boosters and masks! It's a clown world....
Waking up to DfaS Thursdays is always a treat, but it’s also a treat ending the day in Asia. Who knew?
And New York is below 20 million inhabitants- notwithstanding being overrun by illegals and the undocumented (don’t worry, they still vote!) thanks to the epic cuckery of Hoe-kill and Cuomo (the revenue generating taxpayers fled).
Thinking of a C-grade horror flick: Revenge of Oshinskie” featuring you on a Zamboni melting liberal snowflakes into the floor of the ice rink, reliving the Golden Age of America (80s-90s), only better.
I lost my sh*t recently -- after a yoga class of all things. You'd think that would have left me chill, but alas, no.
Asked if I'd watched the RNC Convention, I said, "No, of course not." But, but, but, they sputtered. (This part of Florida is Trump and Matt Gaetz territory.)
I replied that until those in the political class acknowledge the destruction they caused during the COVID operation (I said that), I had absolutely no use for these "pep rallies." (Not that I ever did.) I went on to say that until Americans demand accountability for this crime, for the tens of thousands of small and family-run businesses put out of business, I have no interest in their enthusiasm for this nonsense.
Well! That went over like a you-know-what in church. "We're done here," one of them said in shock. As we walked back to the locker room, I said, "So, what's the problem? My tone or the content of what I said?"
Huffing, she replied, "Both." To which I replied,
"Too bad."
How not to win friends and influence people, folks, but as Rhett Butler once said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
I might have been in your shoes (and if I'd been there, I probably would have asked, in joyous astonishment, can I give you hug??!!), however, since 2020, and especially since 2021, I find yoga studios to be covidian no-go zones. Like most bookstores, I used to enjoy going to yoga studios, now they just creep me out. I find the tai chi peeps tend to be a little saner.
That magas would let quack speed get away without apology means they are still massively formed psychotic. And vulnerable to the quack assassin theater. consider that mussolini also had a near assassination and sported a nose patch. That didn't make him God.
It is fauci who has been getting all of the abuse, but it was Trump's Fauci. Trump's declaration of quack emergency and Trump's rolling out of helicopter cash to democrat! Governors to lockdown.
If trump were a Democrat planted to make conservatives lock down where they wouldn't have under a Democrat, would you expect him to admit it? Especially if he intends to do it again?
Trump loaded the gun. Biden pulled the trigger. What gun will Trump load in term 2?
Great analogy. We're trying to skate on choppy ice. Apologies by politicians and bureaucrats would help smooth it over, but that ain't happening. Meanwhile, everyone wants to act like it never happened. But the deep tears in the social fabric (to mix metaphors) are still there and growing. The kind of damage done during the scamdemic doesn't heal soon. The deaths and injuries from the jabs continue to mount. A silver lining: having to come to grips with the fact that we live in a soviet-like society has brought me to Jesus. He's the greatest source of love and light and hope.
Nice nostalgic feel to your story, I can feel the bracing air on my face as I read. The sound of the skates scraping on the ice. Nice.
Everything feels nostalgic to me these days, because it seems everything pre 2020 is gone. I know it's not all gone, but it feels gone. The taint is everywhere.
People move funny these days. No zest. Tired. That's was accepting lies and poison does, I guess.
As I've commented before, my 24 yr relationship did not survive the vax. It's just me now. I'm not lonely, per se, just filled with a continual sorrow for my stolen pre-2020 life.
So sorry to read that you lost your long-term relationship… my own of 38 years is barely making it. We managed to survive the Covid shit, but that changed my understanding of everything, so any subject of importance is a land mine now (climate « crisis », politics, Ukraine disaster…); once I showed him a short video of a climate scientist explaining that we weren’t in a boiling situation whatsoever, so he fact-checked it on the NYT, which confirmed his scientific expertise but changed the conclusion of what he was saying! Well, that was it, the NYT prevailed. So few people are willing to change their minds in the face of facts and evidence… so we don’t really talk about anything anymore and it feels very lonely.
Yes, that's exactly how it got with me and my ex. Land mines everywhere. We couldn't talk about anything of relevance. He once asked who was feeding my all these lies? Who was brainwashing me? Just because I was asking questions, then researching and getting answers. It is like why was I questioning the "news".
I feel for you. Lonely even when together. Or just alone as in my case. I honestly don't know which is worse. Still, all you can do is plant seeds, little ones. And pray for him. I think the truth is getting harder to dismiss and he may just wake up.
What a brilliant article / slice of life / philosophical (on free 'enterprise') piece. Your comment on Cuomo is very pertinent. I am in the UK and joined a local book club of half a dozen other women recently. I suspected they were lefties and had already outed myself as a Brexiteer at the second meeting I attended when one of the members was outraged that, as a now non-EU citizen, she would be required to FILL OUT A FORM at passport control. I resisted the sarcasm of, "OMG a form!? Much better to support corruption, crony-corporatism and give up accountable governance and sovereignty than have to fill out a form once a year."
Last week they started sniggering about the attempted assassination of Trump so I immediately announced that I was a fan of Trump, actually......well, they practically vomited with shock and after goggling at me for a few seconds launched into an attack of 'how could I be a fan of a 'pussy-grabber'. That was it. The extent of their collective sheep brain analysis. I replied that whilst one might not want to share a lift with him, his foreign policy had ensured more peace and less lives lost in proxy wars than his predecessor or successor - which was enough for me. Nope, they weren't interested. He was a 'pussy-grabber' (not an expression we use here anyway - they were just parroting and clutching their (metaphorical) pearls. I despair.
Thanks, Bettina.
I think of those hockey sessions as an example of a "public/private partnership" that politicians like to talk about today. But unlike the CV shots, corporation didn't make tens of billions at the rink. And hockey didn't kill anyone. It just bruised them.
Yes, and everyone was happy - the players (whose taxes paid for the rink anyway) and the employees who earned money facilitating the use, cutting out the middleman. Win-win.
Which is why, in my view, we don't need no stinkin govvvymint.
Greetings lady from Canada - I have had mirror like experience around US politics and Trump hatred recently in our local open air swim pool aquafit classes…. Almost identical! The brainwashing is global. Keep “making friends and influencing people “!! I was stunned at the vitriol though. Love him or hate him but to be brazenly disappointed that “his one job and he missed!” was nauseous. Of the 9 women I was the lone voice calling them out on their hatred. I was the one in shock and goggling at them and their collective think. Smug and assured lawyers and teachers, (some retired), never questioning their belief systems and assuming everyone around them feels the same. I never miss an opportunity to voice my thoughts!!
Yes! You describe it exactly. The hatred is scary. It is never matched on the Right either. Also, the arrogance - assuming everyone thinks in the same retarded way that they do. Maybe we all need to speak up more. As I've got older, I've become more bold but although my adult children have similar views to me they tend to be quiet about them out of a fear of being rounded on by the herd.
Me too - the getting older and not giving as much care to what folks think of me now… Covid Mania helped clarify that, I’m in a small island community and have always been a bit vocal! Same too with my adult sons being quiet and I do understand that - although one drives his truck with a “I 💗 Canadian Oil and Gas” sticker!! Just to piss off the majority lefty liberals here! (I once was one!) Stay loud honey ! Off I go to contend with the group again!
🙌🏻 sister in arms!
I will not be quiet! Xx
It is a cult created by academia, media and political opportunists. Almost impossible to de program the members and there are millions of them.
I agree. I have a liberal nurse friend who is totally blinded by hatred of Trump-fomented by the media and DNC. I think it’s time to end the friendship sadly.
Perhaps, if possible, put it on hold. As we have seen recently, miracles do happen.
Perfectly put yet it never fails to astonish me yet I “should” know better by now… sigh
What is it about these types of people, who all they can regurgitate about Trump is that he is a ‘pussy grabber’?
And focus on his ‘amoral’ character? I am Stateside, in CA. I just had a new ‘male friend’ I am hanging out with, try to tell me the same crap. I then mentioned…”what about ‘child hair sniffing pedo’, showering with one’s teenage daughter, marrying the children’s babysitter (Jill Biden), Joseph Biden, the current President of the USA”? “Oh that’s nothing”.
So it’s a ‘selective moral judgement’ here with these types…and only can be applied to The Donald!
I will just go a few more yards and say, Why the hell do we all feel we need to be governed at all?? I really would LOVE to have a retreat for a week, where we all listen to, or read, this book by Larken Rose, and then DISCUSS.
https://archive.org/details/larken-rose-the-most-dangerous-superstition-iron-web-publications-2011/MP3/Most+Dangerous+Superstition+%5BB0886CC7JX%5D+-+04+-+Part+2+-+Disproving+the+Myth.mp3
Yes, I will support an alleged PG over the child sex trafficking, no borders and nation destroying, pedophilia supporting, amoral, faithless, money worshipping, power hungry, freedom eliminating, war mongering, economy and middle class destroying, family unit destroying, baby killing, eugenics promoting, anti semite, actual practicing racist, projecting, brainwashed, delusional, corrupt violent leftists. That about covers it I think? President Trump renovated the Central Park rink in a fraction of the time and cost than the city was struggling to manage.
Bettina, ask your friends if they knew how President Kennedy and Bill Clinton treated women? Especially poor Marilyn Monroe-used and abused by two of the Kennedy boys. Not to mention all the pool parties JFK hosted with very young women. Hmmmm. Makes “pussy grabbing” seem tame by comparison.
Well said, I’ll never forget nearly everyone I know/knew who fell in lockstep and ridiculed me. Great story … “Handling and passing the buck also become more difficult.”
Yes, you selfish MAGA anti-Science grandma-killer, I also remember this.
I enjoy telling people, "Hey, I took no shot, and I've been fine."
Then ask, "How about you?" and "Why did you trust your government or go along with them when you were at functionally zero risk?"
we got 5 shots and only got sick twice ! and me : I took no shots and did not get it yet.
most don't speak to me anymore. not even over the phone. a couple emails a year, usually about the only thing we share anymore : dogs
Sad. but common, Ursula. Five of my six best friends haven't been willing to speak to me since April, 2020.
Onward. With new friends.
I lost virtually ALL my friends, upwards of maybe a hundred, spread out over time and the country (US), and I've spoken to one or two of them since, but it's just not the same. A couple of them have stuck with me, but are clearly humoring me, or putting up with my quirky ideas, or whatever. If only they knew what I know! Ya know? smdh Well, sooner or later, I think EVERYONE will know.
my 2 closest former friends have their hands glued to the cellphone. I hate the thing. If it were on they would probably text me more. Obviously sending to an inbox on puter is way harder work !
LOL I was the grandma they were trying to kill … I was slightly amused (under the circumstances) that in a room full of vaxxed, face covered schmucks, I was the danger ! After all If they believed that the jab and some flimsy mask protected them, why was I a threat ?
Glad you're not dead! xo You're a threat when you don't TOE THE LINE! That's my experience, anyway.
Hi Mark. Good article. Nice to see a hockey story. My team lead is recovering from "covid", meaning she took a test (PCR? Are they still a thing?) and tested positive. She's had it for over a week. This is at least the 2nd or 3rd time she tested positive , all the while being fully jabbed. I, on the other hand, have NOT been jabbed, nor have I been sick. Odd, isn't it?
Yes, STILL using the absurdly, ludicrously NON test, the PCR. Utterly amazing.
She is being dosed with graphene every time she takes that damn swab up her nose... Same with the jabs, boosters, ALL jabs now, I think. AND in those paper masks, as well... AND most likely in the aerosol spray they keep spraying us with... Graphene is highly dangerous, but the body will naturally detox it, so that's why there's all these "flu" and "boosters," and la la la. Total BS.
What many people don't realize is, the symptoms (MANY symptoms) of various "diseases" are actually the symptoms of radiation poisoning... 5G, etc.
This brings back (more recent) memories of similar outings to Central Park. Early, early on many Sunday mornings I used to leave Orange County NY to go running in Central Park…cross the GW, down the West Side Highway, cross over at 97th, down 5th to 90th….that early parking was available, even if it took a bit of scouting. Then I would run laps, usually two, sometimes three around the park (each lap was around 6 miles) past the rink (or pool, in the summer) you talk about…no cars except for emergency vehicles on Sunday, just roller blazers, walkers, runners, and overall really nice energy which I have never found anywhere else. It was, and is, the only time I have found NYC tolerable….
Yes, COVID, Inc. and its atrocities have been memory-holed, and so has the assassination attempt on Trump….just about gone from the news cycle. We are now fixated on Kamala…..we have 2-3 day memories, or whatever is acceptable to and dictated by the media maggots we so slavishly follow.
I understand why people want to turn off from politics…totally get it, even if, at times, it isn’t prudent to plug one’s ears. But what I’m having a hard time understanding is those (many, many here in my “circle” ) who are directly, irrevocably negatively effected by the “excesses” of COVID Inc and don’t even whimper…refuse to connect the dots…..just in the last two weeks, a friend of mine told me about his young brother (30s) who was in ER with a sudden heart attack, or a dear friend who tells me that his young wife, and mother of four (also young thirties) is having heart problems (he confessed they took the shots after doing “research”) and the 50-something neighbor who suddenly developed kidney problems and is now on dialysis 4 times a week…nice way to start your “retirement”, as she had just done.
I don’t know how this will end, but it can’t end well. We are adrift in a society where bedrock principles of government and ethics have been flushed down the toilet like the do not-flush wipes. Duty, honor, transparency, integrity, respect, service, and appreciation are all words we can neither spell nor define….they have literally become meaningless. At some point, there will be hell to pay when all those “wipes” back up our system and we are flooded in shit….
It’s like everyone has been hypnotized. Or like I am walking around, surrounded by zombies. I avoid anything except very superficial convo with anyone these days, unless they say something that signals the lights are on in their brain. Covid made me realize most Americans are idiots. Just like most Americans are fat and unhealthy and don’t connect what they eat and their inactivity to their fatness, they will never acknowledge what they did to themselves with the “vaccine.”
Peoples' gullibility is astounding.
True and funny
My impression is that they are terrified. I am speaking of the lower tier bureaucrats and local "elected" officials. So many of them got the shots, or have family members who have. The dying of "suddenly" has not gone away. The cancer diagnoses are partly what I'm talking about. I think they are doing an ostrich because they really just want to play pretend this is not real.
And others who are still true believers, some of them close family members and friends, are eagerly awaiting their fall boosters, even while they virtue signal their own health problems and doctor visits, as though it is a competition to see who has the most horrible, "treatable" diagnosis. And off they go for their infusions and scans.
Dani, I'm coming to DC this weekend. Please LMK if you want to meet. forecheck32 at g mail
Hey Mark - I sent you an email
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Beautifully written as always...when I run into idiotic policies (pool reservations, zoom meetings, phone communication rather than in person and all the excuses I hear about "I can't" and testing for covid...still!) that were put into place during covid for "our safety" I will ALWAYS bring it up at the drop of a hat and voice how stupid it all was and how they only caused chaos, fear and harm. I don't pussyfoot around anymore with who hears me and what they think. I am entitled to my (correct) observations and opinions. I am usually met with "well, hundreds if not thousands of lives were saved because of them"- no way to prove that of course, but here we are! UGH!
a little over a year ago, the social security office still had obligatory masks. Person behind wall with window, only small slit at the bottom, masked, and I on the other side, mask on, slipping my documents under the glass... at least he was very friendly, knowledgeable, and I got signed up to draw my pension. The lady who helped me with the paperwork was a phone appointment, no meeting in person at all there. Half of the waiting people had the mask hanging halfway down so we could breathe. No one said anything about it, which makes me think the employees are way smarter than the boss.
I faked-masked for about six months… made my own out of an old thin t-shirt. We pulled them down whenever we could. The only place I ever got yelled at was in my gym doing fly’s with 25 lb dumbbells in each hand and my breathing puffed it off my face. The gym person came running over to me telling me to pull it up. I told her I would as soon as I finished my set with the 50 lbs I was holding over my head. If she was so concerned and scared she should have kept her distance. No one else was around me btw. Insanity. She quit thank god or I might have a “remember when” moment with Gladys if she was still working…!
FFS. (Hi, btw)
People *should* feel guilt for internalizing, supporting, or tolerating the mania. It's their fault that it all happened. All they had to do was say, "No" and go on with their lives. I keep ideating about what would have happened if everyone's reaction had been the same as mine, which ranged from "Go fuck yourself" to "Don't tell me what to do," depending on which genius expert was asserting his right to be the boss of me. Nothing would happened, that's what: No lockdowns, no slave muzzles, no tech moguls touching themselves at the thought of "vax passes," no one abandoned at the mercy of "medical professionals," no ruined lives. The scam would have blown up on the launch pad.
Most people aren't interested in holding politicians and bureaucrats accountable for the psyop because it would require them to look into places they don't want to go, starting with their own lame lives, which made a cold virus seem exciting by comparison; and ending with their own moral bankruptcy, which made medical dictatorship look like a dont-miss-it offer they couldn't pass up.
100%.
I still cant believe people went along with it all. I always say if NO workplace church store restaurant school etc would have complied it would have ended. This is a free country. We don't do this bullshit. Altho when money is thrown at people they take it...like the hospitals....
I thought that if anyone would resist it would be the churches, since the history of religion has been that most have found themselves disfavored and persecuted at some point. I was *amazed* that nearly all of them just bent over and took it. They couldn't even bring themselves to come to the defense of the few church leaders who didn't.
Yes you are right!! It really gets my goat how the churches responded and just went along and then tried to guilt their members it was the "loving" thing to do. What a bunch of baloney. The loving thing to do is retain our freedom. Churches should also not have been promoting jabs, they are not in the medical business. I thought we had health privacy from all that HIPAA garbage. I am extremely disappointed in the church..............I wrote an article about it on my Substack.
Exactly: If you love your neighbor you'll advocate relentlessly for his political freedom, because it's the only way to ensure your own.
(The company I worked for and the union that allegedly represented me also got into the medical business: The union spent my dues money to lobby the company to put our employee group at the front of the line for the injections. As I wrote in a letter to the MEC, what they should have done was take no position at all on jabs and muzzles, and insist that the company's policy likewise be to let employees make their own medical decisions.)
Churches??? The most prolific users of fear and obedience EVER?
I took my mom to church well AFTER the whole maskery crap was pretty much relaxed, and the sermon was given, about FEAR and how we should not succumb to it, preached by a fella with a mask over his face...
We DO do this bullshit! Obviously! Oh, nooooooo. We think we're free. Since we seem to be from the country of Wordia, you and I, perhaps you will like this, too... I am plugging it like crazy, because I DO think it's our ticket to REAL freedom... I'd love to hear your reaction...
https://archive.org/details/larken-rose-the-most-dangerous-superstition-iron-web-publications-2011/MP3/Most+Dangerous+Superstition+%5BB0886CC7JX%5D+-+04+-+Part+2+-+Disproving+the+Myth.mp3
Do any of those download options on the right side of the page mean "printed version"? I don't want to be read to, but I've seen quotes from Larken Rose in meme form and he usually nails it, so I'd be interested in reading the book.
I think he’d surely prefer to sell his book, lol. I’m not sure, but I listened to the podcast for free, and over two days… It was GREAT, very inspiring! I saved the link, and there’s an MP3 I think you can download.
And they're ALL complicit!
Boss read, Mark! Nothing like unknowingly helping the underground NYC economy. Great tie in with the Zamboni.
Your Alaska experiences reminds me of another rink scam. In the early 90s, I took a gal to see a Blackhawks NHL playoff game at the ( long since demolished) Chicago Stadium. Seems most everyone knew that when a game was sold out, a few discreetly transferred 20 dollar bills to the ticket attendant would instantly grant access to standing room only. We got in - blow that train horn!
Never heard any apologies for lethal covid BS uttered from celebs like Kimmel, Stern, Lemon, Colbert and so many others. They’re still drunk driving their Zamboni's even now. Bird flu deniers beware.
That's a cool story. I wanted to get into that place before they knocked it down. Listening to games on the radio from there, you could hear the crowd roar the whole game.
I didn't make it happen and regret it.
Never heard a louder indoor venue and have been in many. My head hurt until the next day..
Brilliant and bitingly honest, like a face full of ice!
Thanks, Timothy.
Thank you for the interesting and thought provoking article. However, I believe our so-called leaders don't want to erase it; they want to perpetuate it and the myth that the response was appropriate. Many, yes, many people I know here in western North Carolina are starting to mask again, avoiding public places, etc. due to the slight uptick in "cases" this summer. And, of course, President Biden says he is being treated for Covid. I fear another scamdemic within the next few years, if not sooner.
Mark, you are a master at story telling and an expert at weaving all the pieces together to form a brilliant analysis of the current world we occupy. Would you be so kind as to share the questions you ask the people who tell you that everyone did the best they could because they didn't know what they were dealing with during Covidmania? I live in SC and Dr's at Roper Hospital are still recommending boosters and masks! It's a clown world....
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/25-questions-for-those-who-fear-the
thanks ! saved the list in several places so I will be able to locate it and memorize it !
Trish, here are the Qs. I seldom get past the first two.
I'm willing to answer their Qs. I wrote a book that does so.
Thank you!!
Mark - so much to unpack here:
Waking up to DfaS Thursdays is always a treat, but it’s also a treat ending the day in Asia. Who knew?
And New York is below 20 million inhabitants- notwithstanding being overrun by illegals and the undocumented (don’t worry, they still vote!) thanks to the epic cuckery of Hoe-kill and Cuomo (the revenue generating taxpayers fled).
Thinking of a C-grade horror flick: Revenge of Oshinskie” featuring you on a Zamboni melting liberal snowflakes into the floor of the ice rink, reliving the Golden Age of America (80s-90s), only better.
I lost my sh*t recently -- after a yoga class of all things. You'd think that would have left me chill, but alas, no.
Asked if I'd watched the RNC Convention, I said, "No, of course not." But, but, but, they sputtered. (This part of Florida is Trump and Matt Gaetz territory.)
I replied that until those in the political class acknowledge the destruction they caused during the COVID operation (I said that), I had absolutely no use for these "pep rallies." (Not that I ever did.) I went on to say that until Americans demand accountability for this crime, for the tens of thousands of small and family-run businesses put out of business, I have no interest in their enthusiasm for this nonsense.
Well! That went over like a you-know-what in church. "We're done here," one of them said in shock. As we walked back to the locker room, I said, "So, what's the problem? My tone or the content of what I said?"
Huffing, she replied, "Both." To which I replied,
"Too bad."
How not to win friends and influence people, folks, but as Rhett Butler once said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
I might have been in your shoes (and if I'd been there, I probably would have asked, in joyous astonishment, can I give you hug??!!), however, since 2020, and especially since 2021, I find yoga studios to be covidian no-go zones. Like most bookstores, I used to enjoy going to yoga studios, now they just creep me out. I find the tai chi peeps tend to be a little saner.
That magas would let quack speed get away without apology means they are still massively formed psychotic. And vulnerable to the quack assassin theater. consider that mussolini also had a near assassination and sported a nose patch. That didn't make him God.
It is fauci who has been getting all of the abuse, but it was Trump's Fauci. Trump's declaration of quack emergency and Trump's rolling out of helicopter cash to democrat! Governors to lockdown.
If trump were a Democrat planted to make conservatives lock down where they wouldn't have under a Democrat, would you expect him to admit it? Especially if he intends to do it again?
Trump loaded the gun. Biden pulled the trigger. What gun will Trump load in term 2?
I agree. It’s all theater, and our politicians are actors.
It's discouraging.
Good one. You describe exactly what I'm seeing. Alas.
Now, now, TB, just go along with the crowd, like a good girl.
lol
Great analogy. We're trying to skate on choppy ice. Apologies by politicians and bureaucrats would help smooth it over, but that ain't happening. Meanwhile, everyone wants to act like it never happened. But the deep tears in the social fabric (to mix metaphors) are still there and growing. The kind of damage done during the scamdemic doesn't heal soon. The deaths and injuries from the jabs continue to mount. A silver lining: having to come to grips with the fact that we live in a soviet-like society has brought me to Jesus. He's the greatest source of love and light and hope.
Nice nostalgic feel to your story, I can feel the bracing air on my face as I read. The sound of the skates scraping on the ice. Nice.
Everything feels nostalgic to me these days, because it seems everything pre 2020 is gone. I know it's not all gone, but it feels gone. The taint is everywhere.
People move funny these days. No zest. Tired. That's was accepting lies and poison does, I guess.
As I've commented before, my 24 yr relationship did not survive the vax. It's just me now. I'm not lonely, per se, just filled with a continual sorrow for my stolen pre-2020 life.
And yet, I'm at peace.
So sorry to read that you lost your long-term relationship… my own of 38 years is barely making it. We managed to survive the Covid shit, but that changed my understanding of everything, so any subject of importance is a land mine now (climate « crisis », politics, Ukraine disaster…); once I showed him a short video of a climate scientist explaining that we weren’t in a boiling situation whatsoever, so he fact-checked it on the NYT, which confirmed his scientific expertise but changed the conclusion of what he was saying! Well, that was it, the NYT prevailed. So few people are willing to change their minds in the face of facts and evidence… so we don’t really talk about anything anymore and it feels very lonely.
Yes, that's exactly how it got with me and my ex. Land mines everywhere. We couldn't talk about anything of relevance. He once asked who was feeding my all these lies? Who was brainwashing me? Just because I was asking questions, then researching and getting answers. It is like why was I questioning the "news".
I feel for you. Lonely even when together. Or just alone as in my case. I honestly don't know which is worse. Still, all you can do is plant seeds, little ones. And pray for him. I think the truth is getting harder to dismiss and he may just wake up.
Good luck, Natalie O.