Oprah Winfrey published a popular compendium of platitudes entitled What I Know for Sure. The title struck me as funny because, when I scanned that book’s pages, most of the notions expressed rang hollow. At best, some were arguably true, though as trite as a 1970s college dorm poster.
The entire worldview and world order of the educated, professional class is defined by allegiance to that system that bestows upon them this identity of being "an important person in society." They have no sense of humanity or dignity. Most of these trained professionals are sociopaths. They would turn on their family before giving up their careers and that sense of imperious self worth that that identity gives them.
If you try to turn that world order upside down they will turn on you quite quickly and viciously. Until that point they will appear to be 'nice' as that order demands.
I think there are substantial numbers, especially in the professional class, that are haunted by what they have done not only to themselves but also to their children. They can never admit this openly as it threatens their bloated egos and their standing in their social circles. They would rather nosedive the plane into the ground than admit they were wrong , especially on something of this magnitude, even if their kids are in tow.
Would these people inject themselves and their children (and everyone around them if they could) with an experimental neurotixn produced by a serial felon if their careers and egos depended on it?
Now that's a weighty question and if we asked these very same people that question 5 years ago they would have scoffed at you and resoundingly replied, "No."
Yet here we are, no longer in the world of the hypothetical- the answer is there for all to see.
Completely agree. Most people who were virtue signaling their jabs on social media (or for the “big shots”, doing it on TV) aren’t advertising it anymore & when they get sick, most people I know are no longer testing, saying it’s just allergies or a head cold or the flu.
Well, governments are now moving to “paying an independent analyst” for studies that said that said government “did a good job” managing things through Covid…..you don’t say! The CYA is beginning, and all the while, said government still says “we’re in a pandemic!”
One of the most draconian governments in Canada just paid for this self-serving report…….
Look at us. The "gods" of our collective psyche are celebrities -- often selfish, self-important, fame-wading celebrities. As an example, did you ever ask anyone why they voted for Obama, and they answer because he's cool, or they like how he talks, walks, looks, gives speeches. Nothing about what he stands for. He's a celebrity, and celebrity is god. It's why "we" care what Oprah, Taylor, Beyonce, or Dr. Phil think.
And then there's God, quietly sitting in the corner, ignored, ridiculed, and de-platformed.
And this must be because most of the population is literally emotionally stuck in their adolescent years. I used to swoon a little at celebrities probably until I hit my early to mid-20s and then I became adult minded with more important things to make my life and decisions about. All of these adults, including the "elite", "intellectual" and "celebrities"are really just emotional children in adult bodies.
They would tell you it was historic - 1st black man blah-blah-blah. Never mind he won on the color of his skin & not one smidgen on the content of his CHARACTER
not taking a stand against the ballooning childhood school vax schedule over 30 plus yrs and then pretending the autism epidemic was normal precluded this narrow-minded worldview , those who chose to make money instead of waves ushered in the dystopian new abnormal
I used to think the vaccine-autism link was unproven, despite knowing multiple families whose young sons were "suddenly" afflicted.
Then I learned from RFK Jr. that the rate of autism exploded simultaneously with the number of vaccines increasing from 4 in 1972, to 60 today.
I've never been an anti-vaxxer. After the pasts 3 years, I DAMN SURE AM NOW. I wouldn't give a vaxx to Fauci's kids, much less anyone I know and care about.
Nailed it Allen! They've bet the house on a losing hand and keep doubling down with a pair of two's. They're too emotionally invested in one outcome. Anything else would be a tacit admission that they've destroyed their lives and the lives of their children.
Anyone vaxxed knows they made a poor choice and may drop dead. So they want to force everyone else into that decision so they don't feel as bad about it.
That doesn' t make any sense. If they now realize they made a bad decision, surely what they ought to do is to see that other people don't make the same bad decision.
I was a superbeliever in credentialism. I have an A.B. magna cum laude from Princeton, a B.A. with first-class honours from Oxford, a Ph.D. from Harvard, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. And yet, by the time the covid vaccines were available, I doubted them, and have never allowed myself to be injected with them.
I cannot agree with that - that the entire worldview of the educated and professional class is based on an identity of societal importance, that they have bloated egos, are sociopaths with no sense of humanity or dignity, and that they'd rather nosedive into the ground with their kids than admit they were wrong. That's just handwaving, it makes them sound non-human.
Maybe a fraction of a percent are like that but even the full-on psychopaths are not like that except in the movies.
In my experience I've found people are almost always good and will help others at a cost to themselves. That includes high-up bankers, Wall Street traders, upper levels of the government and military, and both rich and poor people. They're occasionally A-holes, but aren't we all when necessary?
What happened is what usually happens, people go along with authority and the crowd. That's half of it. The People lined right up for the showers under social pressure and ignorance.
The real question is why they jumped to it full of passionate intensity, and why so nasty to anyone who questioned the crowd and the authorities, questioning being the foundation of democracy.
Desmet's mass formation certainly did happen, and was no doubt engineered both for the People and for the Authorities. The authorities suddenly and strangely acted Not-Good all at the same time despite the illogic of the interventions. Maybe this can be accounted for by panic amongst the authorities ginned up by the People's panic, which was ginned up by the media for their profit. Early in the pandemic an Israeli politician called this the snowball effect.
Additionally, there was a second mass formation (a form of social pressure) of the People who were softened up by panic and lies making them susceptible to Authority.
Underlying this is my observation that, "The average person has a below average IQ," which is to say, the average person did fine 50 years ago in simpler times but the world has become complex and manipulated (due to unprecedented income and power and technical inequality) - it has gotten away from the average person - who are now easily swayed and panicked.
The majority, roughly 84% of the People to the left of one standard deviation to the right of the mean, are incapable of keeping up. They watch their mainstream or alt-news or Google, and know nothing of Rumble, Gettr, trialsitenews. They're unaware their media feed is censored and manipulated. They've also been armed with the popular "Conspiracy theory!" response to protect their continuing belief in official Narratives, making them dangerously self-righteous. They've become fanatic supporters of the Narrative.
These two interlocking mass formations, one for the Authorities and one for the People, have been brilliantly conceived.
Except that they seem Too brilliant - they appear to be beyond human conception, coordination, execution, and beyond human morality too. They are preternaturally comprehensive, well-planned, and intelligently effective. This seems algorithmic to me - possibly a product of an advanced Ai, and certainly not a committee. We've never seen anything like this.
Someone or something has successfully applied a sophisticated systems engineering approach to a moving adaptive situation (us) that is inexorably goal directed toward global totalitarianism. The complexity of the moving variables (us) makes success near impossible yet they're doing fine. Seems like they've done this before and are hardly trying. The global population is being forcefully socially engineered against its will and we can only watch it happen. We are outclassed.
If one gets past our well-programmed and mostly unexamined assumption that we're completely alone in this vast Universe, it really looks like an advanced outer-space alien Ai is having its way with us.
This outré view is logically supported by facts.
Just like believers in the Covid Narrative, most of us do not realize there is a mass of solid evidence for this explanation going back 75 years because we don't know where to look, and anyway believe there's nothing there. We've been programmed to laugh it off and call it a conspiracy theory. But the government considers Aliens an honest-to-god fact and takes that Fact extremely seriously because they too are outclassed.
Should you care to update the boundaries of what you believe possible here are 12 FOIA government documents you've not seen:
Are Aliens totalitarian? The idea is that advanced technology (our 1984 future) is necessarily totalitarian and psychopathic. Every advanced technological or trans-human society is standardized, absolute, efficient, algorithmic, control-based, digitally managed, centralized, ultra-purposeful, anti-privacy, and anti-freedom - machine-like and anti-human.
It's reasonable, unfortunately, to assume that we live in a vast non-human universe with non-human species with non-human values and I'd guess the organic species have long been superseded by an exponential ultra-advanced alien Ai, which we better start calling God.
Yep! The Good Book told us so. "Ephesians 6:12 GNBUK
For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age." We know the ending...
Okay, fine. Most people are bad, they are sinners, but I have to say that a ideology that pushes such unholy negativity has some agenda up its sleeve. I suppose such a belief allows one to feel superior by denigrating others.
Very perceptive observation on human nature, particularly among the elites. Even that paragon of wisdom and rationality, Noam Chomsky, went off the rails. As all totalitarians know, never underestimate the power of fear.
I’m saving this one cause it’s soooo good!!! I was one of those who knew from the start this was all bullshit. I don’t know how I knew, but I did. My mistrust of government perhaps? The years and years I lived in the swamp? (DC)! Cause I’m not a sheep? Geez I worry about how we will turn this around. Maybe we won’t! I will rest well though, knowing I am not an idiot.
My moment of realization was when we lived in Seattle at the height of the hysteria, and one day I asked myself "Why aren't the 100,000 chronically ill homeless heroin addicts in Seattle dropping like the flies on their human feces piles?"
Asked that same completely logical and reasonable question to a LibTard colleague. His reply? "That sounds like a Right-wing talking point." And that's as far as his mind went. Mechanical Engineer too. WTF?
I don’t agree. Math encourages critical thinking. Statistical analysis. Trying to break and bend models, is the result of “What If?” critical thinking behaviours.
This has been my career, within the civil engineering and geo-spatial world, and my hobbies, sports gaming and analysis.
Math has served me well, admittedly, I was born blessed with natural ability.
My skepticism began as soon as the media censored, deplatformed, ridiculed and slimed the group known as Frontline doctors -- real medical professionals and researchers -- when they appeared on the steps of the Capitol passionately telling the country that there were alternative treatments for Covid-19, and revealed the despicable collusion of Big Pharma, Fauci, Birx, government and the media in pushing these untested mRna shots on the world. The second clue was creepy Joe's announcement that this was a "pandemic of the unvaccinated, "and his patience with them was wearing thin. Congrats, Patti, for hanging tough against the Vaxx Mob.
Me too. The Knee jerk ban of HCQ was my tip off. I had taken it for Lyme in 1996. I knew it was a daily med for Lupus and RA patients. It being VERBOTEN made no sense at all. And I was right. And they knew it . If they didn’t then they are idiots. So it’s either evil or stupid. Not good.
Me too. It was like “hey the sky is blue”. Like so obvious to me. Then people were like “no it’s orange, dr Fauci said so” and I was like “who is dr Fauci and is he color blind?”
It was all so weird to me! If it was deadly people would be, you know, dying!
I guess common sense and the ability to see the world as it is are super powers now?
Having seen through the lies of healthcare 20 years ago I've been avoiding it including the flu vaccine which does not do much of anything good, except boost Pharma profits.
So when they came out with a fast-tracked experimental so-called vaccine that skipped animal testing and did not go through the usual ten to fifteen years of vaccine safety testing, and they planned to shoot up everyone, which I knew from the Gardasil vax disaster might kill everyone on the planet, I decided to wait and see, during which time I slapped together a vaccine in my kitchen that was ultra-effective and ultra-safe, and cheap too. Bought everything off Amazon.
The celebrities you mentioned all get paid very well to continue the scam narrative- they will continue as long as their handlers demand it. This scam is but a part of their plan to weaken this country- cutting the legs of freedom and individuality right out from under us. I say that because America is the last bastion against tyranny and socialism- though our defenses have been greatly diminished, our morality slowly destroyed. This Covidmania is just part of their plan- something else is around the corner with the same objective- weaken the peoples resolve and expand the fear narrative.
Mark- you mentioned the damage from the injections-excess mortality and other medical conditions that occur in much greater proportions than 3 years ago. Yet most of this is not being reported in the MSM- people have to dig to know the truth. But most people don't care to use the shovel.
The old America is broken- how do we fix it? I don't know- but dadgum it, I'm gonna keep trying to do my part. Keep em coming, Mark! And Merry Christmas to you and your family!
ah yes, the twin specters of Communism and Socialism are as big a threat as COVID! Sure. Instead of commies under every bed they now infest hospital management and the MSM. Sure.
If it is any comfort to you, much of the "COVID Left" (or the "Lockdown Left") , through their undying obeisant loyalty to the "COVID Lockdown narrative", have likely marginalized themselves beyond their already marginalized state especially in the US. They all, with a few notable exceptions, drank the bureaucratic lemonade and mostly continue to gulp from the poisoned chalice.
The "medical freedom movement" is, startlingly, to the left of reformist liberalism right now in its justified defense of individual freedom.
Even orgs like the ACLU embraced the mandates! And many others. They are not (nor ever were) "socialists" but ante-chambers of the US Democrats.
Use cash where you can as a Central Bank Digital Currency is planned. Well, it is here in the UK anyway. I quote from the Bank of England's own web site...
"The Bank of England is the UK’s central bank and we’re looking at whether we should create a CBDC for the UK in the future. If we issued a UK digital currency, it would be in denominations of pounds sterling. For example, £10 of a UK digital currency would always be worth the same as a £10 note.
We know some people like to use cash. So, if we did create a CBDC for the UK, we’d keep issuing cash too. That way you could choose how you’d like to pay for something". 22 Nov 2022.
Lies. lies. lies. Once accepted, they would eventually do away with cash and would also be able to control how you spend your money. The CBDC & Digital ID is All about control and should be fought against.
The website of New Zealand's Reserve Bank has the same crap -- considering whether the CBDC is "right" for NZ, and then it lists all the "benefits" of handing over NZ's financial sovereignty to the Davos crowd. NZ's Prime Sinister Jacinda "I am your one source of truth" Ardern is a WEF "Young Global Leader" and has been feverishly implementing the UN Agenda 2021/2030 in NZ in direct opposition to the wishes of the vast majority of the NZ public. The mostly sleep-walking, trusting Kiwi hobbits have no clue of the totalitarian juggernaut bearing down on them.
The uniform message across the globe is a give-away that this is co-ordinated and you have to be pretty high up the hierarchy to pull off that level of co-ordination. You have to be able to control the media, the security services, the banks and the politicians! Or at least convince them all to follow orders.
I am not sure what you mean. Why do they want renting? Is it not simply because they want control over every asset whether it be nature or a human? If we owned OR rented our property I guess we could be monitored but it is easier if they have the right to walk in to your home and bug it as they own it.
“Oprah was so certain that the virus was dangerous that she “literally” confined herself in her house for 322 days. After vaxxing, she “felt [such] an overwhelming sense of relief” that she “wanted to cry.”
The fear and anxiety was so great in these people, they would have done anything for relief. I told someone they would have eaten a plate of dog shit if experts told them to. So they convinced themselves the shot was the magic bullet, just so they could trick themselves into a less heightened state of discomfort.
Then the dust settles and they know what they did. So they dig their heels in for 2 reasons IMO- they don’t want that fear back and they’re embarrassed over the way they handled themselves under difficult circumstances. That way they can reframe their decision as “smart” instead of panicky, irrational, and hysterical.
I'm still told that getting covid is worse than any effects from the shots. These people tell me that the CDC saved millions with their protocols and shots so a few injuries from the shots is nothing. What can you say? They won't believe you. As you say, they were and probably still are in a state of fear and anxiety. Their belief is that we(meaning the gov't and authorities) did the very best for us and it was wise to follow the "experts". You just can't change that mind-set which gets reinforced by their beloved news channels often.
You could show them this article: "COVID-19: My Final Hypothesis
Main insights from 30 months of analysing mortality data and scratching the surface of epidemiology, virology, immunology and geography!"
People die.
People die more frequently at certain times of the year.
Periods of higher mortality are typically associated with the prevalence of influenza-like pathogens (ILPs).
ILPs are present all year round but may lie dormant in some hosts, reactivated at certain times when their immune systems are relatively weak.
ILPs impact the population (in terms of infections and illness) as a constant battle with the host population’s immune system (to fight off infection and disease progression) and their metabolic health.
The battle between ILPs varies mainly due to variation in levels of immunity of the host, and to a lesser extent due to variation in pathogenicity of the ILP.
Immunity levels are a function of multiple factors but they are all related to age, general (metabolic) health of the host, the physical environment.
COVID exists (but isn’t really novel).
The virus that causes COVID (SARS-CoV-2) was re-engineered in a lab to make it more infectious (the latter part being its only novelty).
It is impossible to suppress the spread of a respiratory pathogen to the extent that community spread has a positive impact on severe outcomes, including death, without total isolation of every member of society. Thus, I acknowledge the theory of transmission and surmise that no lives were saved by non-pharmaceutical interventions, not even in the immediate term.
If COVID had been treated like all other ILPs (anti-virals, nutraceuticals, social care), the overall excess mortality would not have been unusual.
Excessive spikes in excess mortality are due to a myriad of causes, substantially how the vulnerable/susceptible are treated (or not!), and not as a function of the amount of ILP circulating in the community (although some has to be present, which it always is).
Excess, non-COVID mortality arises directly from futile interventions designed to mitigate the spread of the ILP, including disruption to healthcare provision and inappropriate medical treatment.
The mRNA “vaccine” is not Safe or Effective™.
The mRNA “vaccine” causes immunosuppression (or sub-optimisation of the immunological response), leading to increase in infections and progression to severe disease (see #5 and #6).
If you really wanted to “save” public health systems and avoid untimely deaths, you would tackle a heterogeneous problem like COVID with a heterogeneous activity - protect the vulnerable from exposure to the ILP and do things to improve their immune systems if it’s even possible (immunosenescence probably cannot be overcome) - see #1.
A huge part of this national hysteria is the rise of political power and identity among women of childbearing age.
For example, in 2021 the Oklahoma legislature wisely banned the forced masking for children in public schools. However, just before school began that Fall, a group of women *physicians* sued the governor and state and got an injunction from the law so that school districts could reinstate their mask requirements, if they so chose.
So every school district in the state immediately required kids to mask up again - like less than two days later after the injunction, EVERY school board voted to mask up again.
It has been very strange living through this mania. And I have very little interaction with the public, being retired and living in a rural area, along with an introverted nature.
It was reminiscent of the stock market and housing manias of the last couple decades, but with a horrifying and scary edge, of course. Very bizarre.
Yes and I think that similarity is no coincidence. You can only start so many forever wars and financial crises to steal trillions--a virus was a novel choice.
Half these elites are shills and never took the bioweapon jab… they just pushed it, some for a ‘pay day’, just as these con celebs took 7-8 figure pay bribes to “pretend” endorse Kamala. LOL - some never got paid when she went broke — 😆 - Ava
Thank you Mark for an excellent article, as always. You were spot on with every sentence!! These past couple of years bore no semblance to anything reasonable, with no common sense. I didn’t fall for any of it. I’m 73 and will never get this fake vaccine. Starting last year no longer getting the flu shot either. I’ve lost all faith in any of these vaccines.
I have never understood that. I always thought flu shots were ridiculous.
People with twenty years of flu shots have twenty low grade chronic flu infections messing with their immune system, and maybe a forty or fifty percent reduction in risk of flu that they might not even be exposed to .
Without any regimen at all I caught maybe two flu infections in those twenty years,and I never took a jab.
Over the holiday I had to listen to MIL explain that since she (and FIL) had Covid recently (after 4 shots!), they have to wait until January to get the bivalent shot. :o
Incidentally, they are Fox news watching conservative Catholics.
Exactly. Tucker is the only one who isn't pushing that narrative, which makes me love him more. Brian Kilmeade also shows signs of being anti-vax. But the rest of them? Nope.
Carlson has set himself apart from the crowd Far More than you realize. The Covid thing is misdirection away from the most important Event in human history, which is happening right now.
This preview clip with Dr. Garry Nolan of Stanford (in the top 2% of the world's scientists) is considered Carlson's most important interview (although he seems oddly giddy).
At the beginning of Covid I remember feeling that it was a distraction and then completely forgot about that feeling as things heated up.
It’s shocking that there aren’t more stories about UFOs since the military admitted they exist. And yeah Covid happened right after those articles came out.
We have a mass formation with the coronavirus Narrative, but it’s mass formation squared with UFOs. Over 75-years, we've had 10,000 sightings a year in North America. Not all are weather balloons, swamp gas or bugs on windshields. If just one UFO is authentic, that means Aliens are inside - a species far in advance of us like we are to dogs, or maybe as we are to ants. They're not here on vacation, so what's their agenda? This seems important to me, yet people scoff just as they do with anti-Narrative data.
People assume there's no detailed or reputable data on the reality of UFOs, that it's All nutcases, so not a worthwhile consideration. Not so.
Isn't it odd that people forget that what’s inside a UFO is what’s important? As with the inability to question an untested experimental vax for a pandemic where few under 80 are dying, the inability to connect the outside of UFOs with Aliens inside is hard to fathom.
Both indicate sophisticated mind control, which too is hard to believe, even though the media does this every day and one sees it in people who react emotionally to reasonable questions.
We've been programmed to think, "conspiracy theory," whenever we hear anything apparently improbable. And this applies to the idea of alien mind control - people go crazy when you mention it. Kinda like if it were true.
I don't exactly believe aliens are messing with our thoughts, but it's interesting and makes some sense. The more you consider it, the more - not less as one would expect - sense it makes. Aliens are known for their advanced telepathy and advanced technology which would include alien Ai. Where exactly do our thoughts come from? Did they manipulate our DNA so they could tap in, like a programmer installing a back door? Now that we know aliens and their advanced technology are real these are reasonable questions.
He's terrible and for that reason, I don't watch him. I pretty much limit my fox watching to Tucker, a little Jessie Watters if I've finished cleaning up from dinner, and sections of Fox & Friends. Guttfeld is also worth a watch though I rarely am up late enough.
My family, too, drank the koolaid and are quadruple vaxxed, all eagerly awainting their fifth shot. Didn't help. Almost all of the them got covid, incluing my sister, who has it now and who is bemoaning the fact that she can't get her flu shot while sick. She is a nurse. It doesn't help that the Surgeon General of the US was on TV a few minutes ago recommending the covid shot and the flu shot, as well as paxlovid. I couldn't believe it.
Thanks. Sad to have to watch family duped. And suffer. "My people are destroyed for...lack of knowledge." (Hos. 4:6) The mainstream media made sure that we lacked knowledge of what is really happening.
Mark, It always makes my day when I see your name in my Inbox. This piece is exceptionally lucid...Really nothing much to add directly on topic (I usually think of something) because it is so well said.
Those who would like to move in with Oprah for 322 days (I know, you really just want her house) reminded me that (a long time ago) I once had the distinct displeasure of sitting next to her on a lengthy airplane flight. i know many people in many venues, and she is easily the most self-important person I have ever met. She made a point of making that excruciatingly clear to everyone -- especially those of us who really couldn't care less. It got so unpleasant it was actually funny. That made her act out even more. I have sat next to lots of people who actually ARE important who were not 5% as obnoxious. So consider carefully how you would like to spend 322 days...lol.
Thanks for continuing to turn out these pieces. As I have feared since Spring of 2020, people are now trying to forget this whole thing as rapidly as they can. The real divide is now emerging between those that want "justice" of some sort (or at least self-recognition) for the stupidity and those who have already "forgotten" they were stupid...if they ever knew. I believe this will, for 20% of folks, be a permanently unbreachable divide that will cause endless complications and dissatisfaction over the next years.
And the positions being taken are becoming increasingly odd. For instance, one of the "good", (inquisitive but not particularly focused on this debacle) docs I know announced, sort of as an aside, that he had tired of the mask conversations (which I am always pressing because they are the most obvious) and had concluded that they likely had some de minimus effect for both wearer and wearee. There is no data whatsoever (other than the ridiculous three flawed studies always quoted) to support this and he knows that -- he just decided to arrive at that conclusion and to never think about it again. It allows him to have no strong recommendations and to feel equally good about everyone/everything -- but completely obviates dealing with all of the fundamentals.
This entire area of "being done with this" irrespective of personal degree of falsity/rectitude would profit from being considered by you if you are looking for more ideas about which to write. Perhaps you have not seen as much of this as I have yet, but I believe you will. What to do about it (easiest thing is just to forget oneself, but at least I am not capable of doing that) will be an issue for many of us -- your insights are always important to getting through that all.
Thanks for writing -- Makes the world a better place.
I like to think I'm almost done writing about CV. But I HAVE thought some about that whole "being done with this" stance, I posted something that touched on this about a month ago. But I think there is more to say about this b/c, like you, watching people finally come aroung is pathetic, but common.
I'd be happy to hear you out on this idea. Please e-mail me at forecheck 32 at g mail. I'll give you my phone number and we can discuss it.
I'm starting to wonder even about that. I think the political class we call "Liberal" could be defined as educated people who rely on mainstream (propaganda) media to keep up to date on the world, in order to be first and most in the know. MSM *is* the real world to them. So when the intellectual options on MSM shrink to a single permitted narrative, that's all they can conceive.
Looking back, even in the 60s and 70s, "Liberals" were not usually especially open-minded, and as the MSM has been centralized under a few owners and their options have shrunk, they have only become more authoritarian and bigoted. That they ever questioned everything is a conceit. What they questioned was traditional habits and institutions that their own MSM authorities *told* them to question.
“The self-assured, closed-minded and consistently wrong Mad Mitigators should be permanently discredited, de-platformed and disqualified from holding public office, teaching or voting.”
Yep. I’m sure too, Mark.
Thank you for your writings. I have a few fave Substack authors and you are one of them. God bless you and those you love.
Yes! El Gato Malo/Bad Catitude is awesome and so is Jeff Childers Coffee and Covid. I too have a bunch but this one and those 2 are the ones I am always sure to read. Cancelled Malone, tired of his whining.
Mark… I subscribe and look forward to your articles as they are refreshing to read and entertaining too. Though we all live in what appears to be clown world 🤡 I am grateful that mentally you are still grounded in reality.
Thank you Mark, I agree with your conclusion wholeheartedly. Oprah was the richest women in the US at one time, maybe still. All that 'sweet sweet' money comes with great insulatory value and allegiences to pharma companies, (all investment roads lead there easily, 401K....). Gotta say as well, folks that use lots of pharm based beauty products and synthetic perfumes are already inviting illness, and fear of their own natural bodies. Oprah will go down propping big pharma, I just wonder how long it will take.
Once people take sides, most people won’t consider logic or facts that contradict what they initially believed. Changing their minds would result in loss of face. Admitting an error damages most peoples’ self-esteem. They lack the strength of character to admit they were wrong.
Perhaps intransigence is biochemically-driven. Perhaps having made up their minds, people avoid the expenditure of any additional mental energy to thinking.
I heard a talk by a doc, can't recall the name at the moment, who said as an evolutionary survival tactic, our brains tend to gravitate towards the easy button to conserve energy, like when we are on auto pilot and drive home and forget to stop at the grocery store. Perhaps that explains the above - that mental laziness is something we have to fight against.
AND your remarks make sense - have spent the better part of this year out knocking doors for candidates who are sanity focused (with mixed results), I have talked to a LOT of people. Most can only spout the platitudes and are not interested in having a reasoned discussion. Although there were some that gave me hope that overcoming the inertia is possible.
The entire worldview and world order of the educated, professional class is defined by allegiance to that system that bestows upon them this identity of being "an important person in society." They have no sense of humanity or dignity. Most of these trained professionals are sociopaths. They would turn on their family before giving up their careers and that sense of imperious self worth that that identity gives them.
If you try to turn that world order upside down they will turn on you quite quickly and viciously. Until that point they will appear to be 'nice' as that order demands.
I think there are substantial numbers, especially in the professional class, that are haunted by what they have done not only to themselves but also to their children. They can never admit this openly as it threatens their bloated egos and their standing in their social circles. They would rather nosedive the plane into the ground than admit they were wrong , especially on something of this magnitude, even if their kids are in tow.
Would these people inject themselves and their children (and everyone around them if they could) with an experimental neurotixn produced by a serial felon if their careers and egos depended on it?
Now that's a weighty question and if we asked these very same people that question 5 years ago they would have scoffed at you and resoundingly replied, "No."
Yet here we are, no longer in the world of the hypothetical- the answer is there for all to see.
So true that if you had, in Feb. 2020, posed this past three years as a hypothetical, all would have scoffed at it.
And yet, it's all happened. And people were sure they were right about it.
And are STILL sure
I think you're right. But many finally know they were scammed and don't want to admit it.
Completely agree. Most people who were virtue signaling their jabs on social media (or for the “big shots”, doing it on TV) aren’t advertising it anymore & when they get sick, most people I know are no longer testing, saying it’s just allergies or a head cold or the flu.
Well, governments are now moving to “paying an independent analyst” for studies that said that said government “did a good job” managing things through Covid…..you don’t say! The CYA is beginning, and all the while, said government still says “we’re in a pandemic!”
One of the most draconian governments in Canada just paid for this self-serving report…….
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/bcs-covid-response-praised-for-nimbleness-calls-to-bolster-public-trust-6194495
Yiu would have been called a conspiracy theorist!
All a "conspiracy theorist" is, is a person who is correct before the leftists begrudgingly agree.
Look at us. The "gods" of our collective psyche are celebrities -- often selfish, self-important, fame-wading celebrities. As an example, did you ever ask anyone why they voted for Obama, and they answer because he's cool, or they like how he talks, walks, looks, gives speeches. Nothing about what he stands for. He's a celebrity, and celebrity is god. It's why "we" care what Oprah, Taylor, Beyonce, or Dr. Phil think.
And then there's God, quietly sitting in the corner, ignored, ridiculed, and de-platformed.
And this must be because most of the population is literally emotionally stuck in their adolescent years. I used to swoon a little at celebrities probably until I hit my early to mid-20s and then I became adult minded with more important things to make my life and decisions about. All of these adults, including the "elite", "intellectual" and "celebrities"are really just emotional children in adult bodies.
good point!
They would tell you it was historic - 1st black man blah-blah-blah. Never mind he won on the color of his skin & not one smidgen on the content of his CHARACTER
Well said.
not taking a stand against the ballooning childhood school vax schedule over 30 plus yrs and then pretending the autism epidemic was normal precluded this narrow-minded worldview , those who chose to make money instead of waves ushered in the dystopian new abnormal
I used to think the vaccine-autism link was unproven, despite knowing multiple families whose young sons were "suddenly" afflicted.
Then I learned from RFK Jr. that the rate of autism exploded simultaneously with the number of vaccines increasing from 4 in 1972, to 60 today.
I've never been an anti-vaxxer. After the pasts 3 years, I DAMN SURE AM NOW. I wouldn't give a vaxx to Fauci's kids, much less anyone I know and care about.
Big Pharma lied; millions died.
Amen Fred!!!
Nailed it Allen! They've bet the house on a losing hand and keep doubling down with a pair of two's. They're too emotionally invested in one outcome. Anything else would be a tacit admission that they've destroyed their lives and the lives of their children.
Anyone vaxxed knows they made a poor choice and may drop dead. So they want to force everyone else into that decision so they don't feel as bad about it.
That doesn' t make any sense. If they now realize they made a bad decision, surely what they ought to do is to see that other people don't make the same bad decision.
I was a superbeliever in credentialism. I have an A.B. magna cum laude from Princeton, a B.A. with first-class honours from Oxford, a Ph.D. from Harvard, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. And yet, by the time the covid vaccines were available, I doubted them, and have never allowed myself to be injected with them.
Congrats. Despite the education, you remain, or grew into, being a critical thinker. Too many, highly educated people, remain in their silos
I cannot agree with that - that the entire worldview of the educated and professional class is based on an identity of societal importance, that they have bloated egos, are sociopaths with no sense of humanity or dignity, and that they'd rather nosedive into the ground with their kids than admit they were wrong. That's just handwaving, it makes them sound non-human.
Maybe a fraction of a percent are like that but even the full-on psychopaths are not like that except in the movies.
In my experience I've found people are almost always good and will help others at a cost to themselves. That includes high-up bankers, Wall Street traders, upper levels of the government and military, and both rich and poor people. They're occasionally A-holes, but aren't we all when necessary?
What happened is what usually happens, people go along with authority and the crowd. That's half of it. The People lined right up for the showers under social pressure and ignorance.
The real question is why they jumped to it full of passionate intensity, and why so nasty to anyone who questioned the crowd and the authorities, questioning being the foundation of democracy.
Desmet's mass formation certainly did happen, and was no doubt engineered both for the People and for the Authorities. The authorities suddenly and strangely acted Not-Good all at the same time despite the illogic of the interventions. Maybe this can be accounted for by panic amongst the authorities ginned up by the People's panic, which was ginned up by the media for their profit. Early in the pandemic an Israeli politician called this the snowball effect.
Additionally, there was a second mass formation (a form of social pressure) of the People who were softened up by panic and lies making them susceptible to Authority.
Underlying this is my observation that, "The average person has a below average IQ," which is to say, the average person did fine 50 years ago in simpler times but the world has become complex and manipulated (due to unprecedented income and power and technical inequality) - it has gotten away from the average person - who are now easily swayed and panicked.
The majority, roughly 84% of the People to the left of one standard deviation to the right of the mean, are incapable of keeping up. They watch their mainstream or alt-news or Google, and know nothing of Rumble, Gettr, trialsitenews. They're unaware their media feed is censored and manipulated. They've also been armed with the popular "Conspiracy theory!" response to protect their continuing belief in official Narratives, making them dangerously self-righteous. They've become fanatic supporters of the Narrative.
These two interlocking mass formations, one for the Authorities and one for the People, have been brilliantly conceived.
Except that they seem Too brilliant - they appear to be beyond human conception, coordination, execution, and beyond human morality too. They are preternaturally comprehensive, well-planned, and intelligently effective. This seems algorithmic to me - possibly a product of an advanced Ai, and certainly not a committee. We've never seen anything like this.
Someone or something has successfully applied a sophisticated systems engineering approach to a moving adaptive situation (us) that is inexorably goal directed toward global totalitarianism. The complexity of the moving variables (us) makes success near impossible yet they're doing fine. Seems like they've done this before and are hardly trying. The global population is being forcefully socially engineered against its will and we can only watch it happen. We are outclassed.
If one gets past our well-programmed and mostly unexamined assumption that we're completely alone in this vast Universe, it really looks like an advanced outer-space alien Ai is having its way with us.
This outré view is logically supported by facts.
Just like believers in the Covid Narrative, most of us do not realize there is a mass of solid evidence for this explanation going back 75 years because we don't know where to look, and anyway believe there's nothing there. We've been programmed to laugh it off and call it a conspiracy theory. But the government considers Aliens an honest-to-god fact and takes that Fact extremely seriously because they too are outclassed.
Should you care to update the boundaries of what you believe possible here are 12 FOIA government documents you've not seen:
https://tinyurl.com/mry8x7c4 (Those docs went behind a paywall at Robert Dolan's site.)
Are Aliens totalitarian? The idea is that advanced technology (our 1984 future) is necessarily totalitarian and psychopathic. Every advanced technological or trans-human society is standardized, absolute, efficient, algorithmic, control-based, digitally managed, centralized, ultra-purposeful, anti-privacy, and anti-freedom - machine-like and anti-human.
It's reasonable, unfortunately, to assume that we live in a vast non-human universe with non-human species with non-human values and I'd guess the organic species have long been superseded by an exponential ultra-advanced alien Ai, which we better start calling God.
See here:
https://tinyurl.com/m9hfzz5b
Yep! The Good Book told us so. "Ephesians 6:12 GNBUK
For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age." We know the ending...
No need to go that far. Aliens are all you need to get a leg up.
Don't you know there is none good, only God?
--Jesus Christ.
If there is one common denominator among Pagan Churchians, it's ignoring Christ in favor of the Obama of the Bible, Paul.
To think such an ignorant idea as " Most people are good" has leaked to " intellectuals" is tragic.
Okay, fine. Most people are bad, they are sinners, but I have to say that a ideology that pushes such unholy negativity has some agenda up its sleeve. I suppose such a belief allows one to feel superior by denigrating others.
Very perceptive observation on human nature, particularly among the elites. Even that paragon of wisdom and rationality, Noam Chomsky, went off the rails. As all totalitarians know, never underestimate the power of fear.
You just described virtually all my former friends and associates.
I’m saving this one cause it’s soooo good!!! I was one of those who knew from the start this was all bullshit. I don’t know how I knew, but I did. My mistrust of government perhaps? The years and years I lived in the swamp? (DC)! Cause I’m not a sheep? Geez I worry about how we will turn this around. Maybe we won’t! I will rest well though, knowing I am not an idiot.
Thanks, Patti. I had many reasons for seeing the Scam from Day 1.
Chief among them: Put a nation on house arrest? Because a few old people had died? Seriously? When has that ever been done?
And during an election year?
My moment of realization was when we lived in Seattle at the height of the hysteria, and one day I asked myself "Why aren't the 100,000 chronically ill homeless heroin addicts in Seattle dropping like the flies on their human feces piles?"
That was when I knew it was a scam.
Asked that same completely logical and reasonable question to a LibTard colleague. His reply? "That sounds like a Right-wing talking point." And that's as far as his mind went. Mechanical Engineer too. WTF?
Math encouraged rigid thinking.
I don’t agree. Math encourages critical thinking. Statistical analysis. Trying to break and bend models, is the result of “What If?” critical thinking behaviours.
This has been my career, within the civil engineering and geo-spatial world, and my hobbies, sports gaming and analysis.
Math has served me well, admittedly, I was born blessed with natural ability.
Not an excess of math but a lack of other disciplines.
SW Eng with 3 image processing patents. No math rigid thinking here. Just saying :-)
My skepticism began as soon as the media censored, deplatformed, ridiculed and slimed the group known as Frontline doctors -- real medical professionals and researchers -- when they appeared on the steps of the Capitol passionately telling the country that there were alternative treatments for Covid-19, and revealed the despicable collusion of Big Pharma, Fauci, Birx, government and the media in pushing these untested mRna shots on the world. The second clue was creepy Joe's announcement that this was a "pandemic of the unvaccinated, "and his patience with them was wearing thin. Congrats, Patti, for hanging tough against the Vaxx Mob.
Me too. The Knee jerk ban of HCQ was my tip off. I had taken it for Lyme in 1996. I knew it was a daily med for Lupus and RA patients. It being VERBOTEN made no sense at all. And I was right. And they knew it . If they didn’t then they are idiots. So it’s either evil or stupid. Not good.
Me too. It was like “hey the sky is blue”. Like so obvious to me. Then people were like “no it’s orange, dr Fauci said so” and I was like “who is dr Fauci and is he color blind?”
It was all so weird to me! If it was deadly people would be, you know, dying!
I guess common sense and the ability to see the world as it is are super powers now?
Having seen through the lies of healthcare 20 years ago I've been avoiding it including the flu vaccine which does not do much of anything good, except boost Pharma profits.
So when they came out with a fast-tracked experimental so-called vaccine that skipped animal testing and did not go through the usual ten to fifteen years of vaccine safety testing, and they planned to shoot up everyone, which I knew from the Gardasil vax disaster might kill everyone on the planet, I decided to wait and see, during which time I slapped together a vaccine in my kitchen that was ultra-effective and ultra-safe, and cheap too. Bought everything off Amazon.
The celebrities you mentioned all get paid very well to continue the scam narrative- they will continue as long as their handlers demand it. This scam is but a part of their plan to weaken this country- cutting the legs of freedom and individuality right out from under us. I say that because America is the last bastion against tyranny and socialism- though our defenses have been greatly diminished, our morality slowly destroyed. This Covidmania is just part of their plan- something else is around the corner with the same objective- weaken the peoples resolve and expand the fear narrative.
Mark- you mentioned the damage from the injections-excess mortality and other medical conditions that occur in much greater proportions than 3 years ago. Yet most of this is not being reported in the MSM- people have to dig to know the truth. But most people don't care to use the shovel.
The old America is broken- how do we fix it? I don't know- but dadgum it, I'm gonna keep trying to do my part. Keep em coming, Mark! And Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thanks, Mike. I agree with all that you just said.
ah yes, the twin specters of Communism and Socialism are as big a threat as COVID! Sure. Instead of commies under every bed they now infest hospital management and the MSM. Sure.
If it is any comfort to you, much of the "COVID Left" (or the "Lockdown Left") , through their undying obeisant loyalty to the "COVID Lockdown narrative", have likely marginalized themselves beyond their already marginalized state especially in the US. They all, with a few notable exceptions, drank the bureaucratic lemonade and mostly continue to gulp from the poisoned chalice.
The "medical freedom movement" is, startlingly, to the left of reformist liberalism right now in its justified defense of individual freedom.
Even orgs like the ACLU embraced the mandates! And many others. They are not (nor ever were) "socialists" but ante-chambers of the US Democrats.
And you imagine there is some difference?
There is not.
Use cash where you can as a Central Bank Digital Currency is planned. Well, it is here in the UK anyway. I quote from the Bank of England's own web site...
"The Bank of England is the UK’s central bank and we’re looking at whether we should create a CBDC for the UK in the future. If we issued a UK digital currency, it would be in denominations of pounds sterling. For example, £10 of a UK digital currency would always be worth the same as a £10 note.
We know some people like to use cash. So, if we did create a CBDC for the UK, we’d keep issuing cash too. That way you could choose how you’d like to pay for something". 22 Nov 2022.
Lies. lies. lies. Once accepted, they would eventually do away with cash and would also be able to control how you spend your money. The CBDC & Digital ID is All about control and should be fought against.
The website of New Zealand's Reserve Bank has the same crap -- considering whether the CBDC is "right" for NZ, and then it lists all the "benefits" of handing over NZ's financial sovereignty to the Davos crowd. NZ's Prime Sinister Jacinda "I am your one source of truth" Ardern is a WEF "Young Global Leader" and has been feverishly implementing the UN Agenda 2021/2030 in NZ in direct opposition to the wishes of the vast majority of the NZ public. The mostly sleep-walking, trusting Kiwi hobbits have no clue of the totalitarian juggernaut bearing down on them.
The uniform message across the globe is a give-away that this is co-ordinated and you have to be pretty high up the hierarchy to pull off that level of co-ordination. You have to be able to control the media, the security services, the banks and the politicians! Or at least convince them all to follow orders.
Bartering and black markets will flourish in such a digital world.
Which is probably a reason why they want surveillance to increase.
Which is why they want renting rather than ownership of items.
I am not sure what you mean. Why do they want renting? Is it not simply because they want control over every asset whether it be nature or a human? If we owned OR rented our property I guess we could be monitored but it is easier if they have the right to walk in to your home and bug it as they own it.
“Oprah was so certain that the virus was dangerous that she “literally” confined herself in her house for 322 days. After vaxxing, she “felt [such] an overwhelming sense of relief” that she “wanted to cry.”
The fear and anxiety was so great in these people, they would have done anything for relief. I told someone they would have eaten a plate of dog shit if experts told them to. So they convinced themselves the shot was the magic bullet, just so they could trick themselves into a less heightened state of discomfort.
Then the dust settles and they know what they did. So they dig their heels in for 2 reasons IMO- they don’t want that fear back and they’re embarrassed over the way they handled themselves under difficult circumstances. That way they can reframe their decision as “smart” instead of panicky, irrational, and hysterical.
I'm still told that getting covid is worse than any effects from the shots. These people tell me that the CDC saved millions with their protocols and shots so a few injuries from the shots is nothing. What can you say? They won't believe you. As you say, they were and probably still are in a state of fear and anxiety. Their belief is that we(meaning the gov't and authorities) did the very best for us and it was wise to follow the "experts". You just can't change that mind-set which gets reinforced by their beloved news channels often.
You could show them this article: "COVID-19: My Final Hypothesis
Main insights from 30 months of analysing mortality data and scratching the surface of epidemiology, virology, immunology and geography!"
People die.
People die more frequently at certain times of the year.
Periods of higher mortality are typically associated with the prevalence of influenza-like pathogens (ILPs).
ILPs are present all year round but may lie dormant in some hosts, reactivated at certain times when their immune systems are relatively weak.
ILPs impact the population (in terms of infections and illness) as a constant battle with the host population’s immune system (to fight off infection and disease progression) and their metabolic health.
The battle between ILPs varies mainly due to variation in levels of immunity of the host, and to a lesser extent due to variation in pathogenicity of the ILP.
Immunity levels are a function of multiple factors but they are all related to age, general (metabolic) health of the host, the physical environment.
COVID exists (but isn’t really novel).
The virus that causes COVID (SARS-CoV-2) was re-engineered in a lab to make it more infectious (the latter part being its only novelty).
It is impossible to suppress the spread of a respiratory pathogen to the extent that community spread has a positive impact on severe outcomes, including death, without total isolation of every member of society. Thus, I acknowledge the theory of transmission and surmise that no lives were saved by non-pharmaceutical interventions, not even in the immediate term.
If COVID had been treated like all other ILPs (anti-virals, nutraceuticals, social care), the overall excess mortality would not have been unusual.
Excessive spikes in excess mortality are due to a myriad of causes, substantially how the vulnerable/susceptible are treated (or not!), and not as a function of the amount of ILP circulating in the community (although some has to be present, which it always is).
Excess, non-COVID mortality arises directly from futile interventions designed to mitigate the spread of the ILP, including disruption to healthcare provision and inappropriate medical treatment.
The mRNA “vaccine” is not Safe or Effective™.
The mRNA “vaccine” causes immunosuppression (or sub-optimisation of the immunological response), leading to increase in infections and progression to severe disease (see #5 and #6).
If you really wanted to “save” public health systems and avoid untimely deaths, you would tackle a heterogeneous problem like COVID with a heterogeneous activity - protect the vulnerable from exposure to the ILP and do things to improve their immune systems if it’s even possible (immunosenescence probably cannot be overcome) - see #1.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-19-my-final-hypothesis?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579085&post_id=87991908&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Yes, sadly, I think that sums it up.
"[H]ysterical" is a key factor.
A huge part of this national hysteria is the rise of political power and identity among women of childbearing age.
For example, in 2021 the Oklahoma legislature wisely banned the forced masking for children in public schools. However, just before school began that Fall, a group of women *physicians* sued the governor and state and got an injunction from the law so that school districts could reinstate their mask requirements, if they so chose.
So every school district in the state immediately required kids to mask up again - like less than two days later after the injunction, EVERY school board voted to mask up again.
It has been very strange living through this mania. And I have very little interaction with the public, being retired and living in a rural area, along with an introverted nature.
It was reminiscent of the stock market and housing manias of the last couple decades, but with a horrifying and scary edge, of course. Very bizarre.
Yes and I think that similarity is no coincidence. You can only start so many forever wars and financial crises to steal trillions--a virus was a novel choice.
This chubby hypocrit held a party for her bestie gayle's daughter. Besti wasn't vaxxed yet so the chub banned her from her daughters party. allegedly
Those high level celebrities live in a very strange bubble, plus they are easily bribed/threatened.
Half these elites are shills and never took the bioweapon jab… they just pushed it, some for a ‘pay day’, just as these con celebs took 7-8 figure pay bribes to “pretend” endorse Kamala. LOL - some never got paid when she went broke — 😆 - Ava
Thank you Mark for an excellent article, as always. You were spot on with every sentence!! These past couple of years bore no semblance to anything reasonable, with no common sense. I didn’t fall for any of it. I’m 73 and will never get this fake vaccine. Starting last year no longer getting the flu shot either. I’ve lost all faith in any of these vaccines.
Same here. I used to get the flu shot annually but I am so done. My faith in the medical system has been shattered.
I have never understood that. I always thought flu shots were ridiculous.
People with twenty years of flu shots have twenty low grade chronic flu infections messing with their immune system, and maybe a forty or fifty percent reduction in risk of flu that they might not even be exposed to .
Without any regimen at all I caught maybe two flu infections in those twenty years,and I never took a jab.
Over the holiday I had to listen to MIL explain that since she (and FIL) had Covid recently (after 4 shots!), they have to wait until January to get the bivalent shot. :o
Incidentally, they are Fox news watching conservative Catholics.
People think Fox is anti vax. They are not, except for Tucker.
Exactly. Tucker is the only one who isn't pushing that narrative, which makes me love him more. Brian Kilmeade also shows signs of being anti-vax. But the rest of them? Nope.
I have so much respect for Tucker. He's really set himself apart from the crowd.
Carlson has set himself apart from the crowd Far More than you realize. The Covid thing is misdirection away from the most important Event in human history, which is happening right now.
This preview clip with Dr. Garry Nolan of Stanford (in the top 2% of the world's scientists) is considered Carlson's most important interview (although he seems oddly giddy).
https://tinyurl.com/2y3z5ydf
Full interview here:
https://tinyurl.com/4cxvp8bu
Love this thank you!
At the beginning of Covid I remember feeling that it was a distraction and then completely forgot about that feeling as things heated up.
It’s shocking that there aren’t more stories about UFOs since the military admitted they exist. And yeah Covid happened right after those articles came out.
We have a mass formation with the coronavirus Narrative, but it’s mass formation squared with UFOs. Over 75-years, we've had 10,000 sightings a year in North America. Not all are weather balloons, swamp gas or bugs on windshields. If just one UFO is authentic, that means Aliens are inside - a species far in advance of us like we are to dogs, or maybe as we are to ants. They're not here on vacation, so what's their agenda? This seems important to me, yet people scoff just as they do with anti-Narrative data.
People assume there's no detailed or reputable data on the reality of UFOs, that it's All nutcases, so not a worthwhile consideration. Not so.
Isn't it odd that people forget that what’s inside a UFO is what’s important? As with the inability to question an untested experimental vax for a pandemic where few under 80 are dying, the inability to connect the outside of UFOs with Aliens inside is hard to fathom.
Both indicate sophisticated mind control, which too is hard to believe, even though the media does this every day and one sees it in people who react emotionally to reasonable questions.
We've been programmed to think, "conspiracy theory," whenever we hear anything apparently improbable. And this applies to the idea of alien mind control - people go crazy when you mention it. Kinda like if it were true.
I don't exactly believe aliens are messing with our thoughts, but it's interesting and makes some sense. The more you consider it, the more - not less as one would expect - sense it makes. Aliens are known for their advanced telepathy and advanced technology which would include alien Ai. Where exactly do our thoughts come from? Did they manipulate our DNA so they could tap in, like a programmer installing a back door? Now that we know aliens and their advanced technology are real these are reasonable questions.
Any aliens in your neighborhood? Look here:
https://tinyurl.com/4uctfyt4
That asshat Neil Cavuto still has Fauci on, and fawns over him like a 12 year old girl with Justin Bieber.
He's terrible and for that reason, I don't watch him. I pretty much limit my fox watching to Tucker, a little Jessie Watters if I've finished cleaning up from dinner, and sections of Fox & Friends. Guttfeld is also worth a watch though I rarely am up late enough.
People think the Boob Tube is worthwhile.
It is not.
I believe he has a studio not at fox headquarters.
I read his studio is in his home in the free state of Florida.
My family, too, drank the koolaid and are quadruple vaxxed, all eagerly awainting their fifth shot. Didn't help. Almost all of the them got covid, incluing my sister, who has it now and who is bemoaning the fact that she can't get her flu shot while sick. She is a nurse. It doesn't help that the Surgeon General of the US was on TV a few minutes ago recommending the covid shot and the flu shot, as well as paxlovid. I couldn't believe it.
Boob Tuber Papists, following the Demon Francis.
Well, I don't know if I would say demon, but he has certainly been, at the very least, a colossal disappointment - very demoralizing for us Catholics.
For the un-enlightened among us, who are MIL and FIL?
Mother-in-law and father-in-law
Thanks. Sad to have to watch family duped. And suffer. "My people are destroyed for...lack of knowledge." (Hos. 4:6) The mainstream media made sure that we lacked knowledge of what is really happening.
The truth was deemed "misinformation." Still is.
Great writing…as always. Extra credit for the Graham Parker and the Rumors reference.
Thanks, Silver.
The Vapors did "Turning Japanese." Graham did "Discovering Japan." I met him once. I could do a funny re-creation of the encounter.
There were many theories about the meaning of the Vapors only hit. All funny.
Oh yes. I stand corrected. Thx!
Graham is a weird dude. But I like a lot of his music.
"You Can't be too Strong." "Nobody Hurts You."
Maybe someone will cancel me for alluding to the Japanese song.
"Local Girls"
Also great!
No surprise, I have the vinyl.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Mark, It always makes my day when I see your name in my Inbox. This piece is exceptionally lucid...Really nothing much to add directly on topic (I usually think of something) because it is so well said.
Those who would like to move in with Oprah for 322 days (I know, you really just want her house) reminded me that (a long time ago) I once had the distinct displeasure of sitting next to her on a lengthy airplane flight. i know many people in many venues, and she is easily the most self-important person I have ever met. She made a point of making that excruciatingly clear to everyone -- especially those of us who really couldn't care less. It got so unpleasant it was actually funny. That made her act out even more. I have sat next to lots of people who actually ARE important who were not 5% as obnoxious. So consider carefully how you would like to spend 322 days...lol.
Thanks for continuing to turn out these pieces. As I have feared since Spring of 2020, people are now trying to forget this whole thing as rapidly as they can. The real divide is now emerging between those that want "justice" of some sort (or at least self-recognition) for the stupidity and those who have already "forgotten" they were stupid...if they ever knew. I believe this will, for 20% of folks, be a permanently unbreachable divide that will cause endless complications and dissatisfaction over the next years.
And the positions being taken are becoming increasingly odd. For instance, one of the "good", (inquisitive but not particularly focused on this debacle) docs I know announced, sort of as an aside, that he had tired of the mask conversations (which I am always pressing because they are the most obvious) and had concluded that they likely had some de minimus effect for both wearer and wearee. There is no data whatsoever (other than the ridiculous three flawed studies always quoted) to support this and he knows that -- he just decided to arrive at that conclusion and to never think about it again. It allows him to have no strong recommendations and to feel equally good about everyone/everything -- but completely obviates dealing with all of the fundamentals.
This entire area of "being done with this" irrespective of personal degree of falsity/rectitude would profit from being considered by you if you are looking for more ideas about which to write. Perhaps you have not seen as much of this as I have yet, but I believe you will. What to do about it (easiest thing is just to forget oneself, but at least I am not capable of doing that) will be an issue for many of us -- your insights are always important to getting through that all.
Thanks for writing -- Makes the world a better place.
Thanks, Dr.
I like to think I'm almost done writing about CV. But I HAVE thought some about that whole "being done with this" stance, I posted something that touched on this about a month ago. But I think there is more to say about this b/c, like you, watching people finally come aroung is pathetic, but common.
I'd be happy to hear you out on this idea. Please e-mail me at forecheck 32 at g mail. I'll give you my phone number and we can discuss it.
Why is it always the Liberals though? In the 60s and 70s they NEVER listened to "authority" and questioned EVERYTHING!! Flip-a-roo!
I wrote about that over a year ago. It's still in the Archive if you scroll down
Thank you! Figured you had!
I'm starting to wonder even about that. I think the political class we call "Liberal" could be defined as educated people who rely on mainstream (propaganda) media to keep up to date on the world, in order to be first and most in the know. MSM *is* the real world to them. So when the intellectual options on MSM shrink to a single permitted narrative, that's all they can conceive.
Looking back, even in the 60s and 70s, "Liberals" were not usually especially open-minded, and as the MSM has been centralized under a few owners and their options have shrunk, they have only become more authoritarian and bigoted. That they ever questioned everything is a conceit. What they questioned was traditional habits and institutions that their own MSM authorities *told* them to question.
Cartoonist Bob Moran on that topic.
https://t.me/bobmoran/156
Good one! I will share this!
“The self-assured, closed-minded and consistently wrong Mad Mitigators should be permanently discredited, de-platformed and disqualified from holding public office, teaching or voting.”
Yep. I’m sure too, Mark.
Thank you for your writings. I have a few fave Substack authors and you are one of them. God bless you and those you love.
Who are the others? We might like them!
El Gato Malo is one...but you probably already know him!
Yes! El Gato Malo/Bad Catitude is awesome and so is Jeff Childers Coffee and Covid. I too have a bunch but this one and those 2 are the ones I am always sure to read. Cancelled Malone, tired of his whining.
Coffee and Covid by Jeff Childers
Margaret Anna Alice through the Looking Glass
UTobian by Toby Rogers
David Huber Past Present and Future
The Forgotten Side of Medicine- A Midwestern Doctor
Kathleen Devanney’s Newsletter
A Mother’s Anthem Heather Hudson
Thanks Laura. A bunch of new ones to try. Tom
Karen Hunt who despite her name is no "Karen"
eugyppius is another good one. A voice of reason from Germany.
Mark… I subscribe and look forward to your articles as they are refreshing to read and entertaining too. Though we all live in what appears to be clown world 🤡 I am grateful that mentally you are still grounded in reality.
Thanks, Steve. I write for the grounded.
33 mentioned twice in the article? The freemason crowd goes wild!
Oprah is a globalist puppet. She's an actor and she knows it's a scam. She's also one of the cult/club leaders that we don't belong to.
Wish we could show actual images but this one says it all. Her with Gates, Buffet and all her buddies.
http://genk.mediacdn.vn/2017/image-1501751235347.png
Thank you Mark, I agree with your conclusion wholeheartedly. Oprah was the richest women in the US at one time, maybe still. All that 'sweet sweet' money comes with great insulatory value and allegiences to pharma companies, (all investment roads lead there easily, 401K....). Gotta say as well, folks that use lots of pharm based beauty products and synthetic perfumes are already inviting illness, and fear of their own natural bodies. Oprah will go down propping big pharma, I just wonder how long it will take.
This!!
Once people take sides, most people won’t consider logic or facts that contradict what they initially believed. Changing their minds would result in loss of face. Admitting an error damages most peoples’ self-esteem. They lack the strength of character to admit they were wrong.
Perhaps intransigence is biochemically-driven. Perhaps having made up their minds, people avoid the expenditure of any additional mental energy to thinking.
I heard a talk by a doc, can't recall the name at the moment, who said as an evolutionary survival tactic, our brains tend to gravitate towards the easy button to conserve energy, like when we are on auto pilot and drive home and forget to stop at the grocery store. Perhaps that explains the above - that mental laziness is something we have to fight against.
AND your remarks make sense - have spent the better part of this year out knocking doors for candidates who are sanity focused (with mixed results), I have talked to a LOT of people. Most can only spout the platitudes and are not interested in having a reasoned discussion. Although there were some that gave me hope that overcoming the inertia is possible.
And to make matters worse (and scarier) things we teach children under 5 or 6 are almost NEVER let go.
LOVE the term “Team Panic.” It describes the nuts perfectly.