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The strange demeanor of CNN’s news readers is telling us something: check out Erin Burnett in the seven o’clock time slot. No affect, like she is on drugs, in a kind of trance… or just going through the motions against her will. Same thing with Kate Bolduan, a sort of permanent half-scowl, as if she’s been told to carry out a detested chore, like cleaning the carpet where hubbie’s old dog had another “accident.” Is it, perhaps, that they just don’t believe the bullshit they are serving up to anxious viewers anymore? Or is it something even darker? That would be my guess. Next thing you know, their heads will start rotating 360 degrees, projectile vomiting pea soup at the cameras.
I surf through all the major cable news channels, of course, to detect the textures, flavors, and odors of the American zeitgeist — the spirit of the times. It’s a harsh, sour thing these days, with overtones of dead skunk wrapped in a used diaper and dipped in vinegar, almost impossible to choke down and process, like being trapped in a room where evil dwells in a bad dream. It’s gotten so that some of us are beginning to wonder about actually living in the presence of true evil. As embodied, say, by “Joe Biden,” the ghostly figure said to be chief executive of the US government — but apparently in the service of forces and entities outside these fifty states.
Ol’ White Joe was back on TV yesterday issuing threats to his countrypersons. We are in thrall to a pandemic disease, you understand, this organism called Covid-19 and some 80-million of us have not availed ourselves of the magical vaccine required to prevent the transmission of said organism. We must take the vaccine in order to protect the people who already got the vax — many of them more than one shot — from catching Covid-19.
Hold on now… you say they got multiple doses of the vax but they can still catch the disease? Yes, they can, evidently. Okay… well… what kind of vax is it that doesn’t keep you from catching the disease? Oh, a most excellent vax! And you must take it, or lose your income, forfeit your useful position in this economy, give up all the normal routines of existing in a free society.
Then… this is no longer a free society? Oh, but it is… as long as you take as many vaxes as we can force you to take… and, by the way, don’t badmouth the vaxes. We will find out and we will deal with you. We’ll come for you. We’ll take away your access to banking. We’ll sic federal agencies on your case. You will become a non-person, perhaps an unperson! There, that’ll fix you!
That pin on the national grenade I’ve been alluding to…? I think Ol’ White Joe pulled it yesterday. Something big is going to blow now. I’m thinking: what remains of the American economy is what’ll blow. You see, those 80-million of our fellow countrypersons remain unvaxed for a good reason. This vax has got a rather bad reputation. Not only is it largely ineffective, it can disable and even kill you. The news of this has gotten around, despite the efforts of CNN and The New York Times to conceal it. The active agent in the vaccine, the spike protein, attaches to the endothelial linings of your blood vessels and provokes blood clots in them. It especially likes the capillaries in vital organs: the heart, brain, liver, kidneys, and so on.
This is not good for you. Most adults of moderate intelligence understand that developing blood clots in vital organs is not a good thing. Many such adults in moderately good health might prefer taking their chances of getting Covid-19, wrassling their way through it, and coming out with full-fledged natural immunity, superior to the iffy immunity the vaxes confer (combined with those bonus blood clots).
There is also the matter of effective clinical early treatments for Covid-19 being suppressed by the government, the public health and medical authorities, and those dour babes on cable news. I speak (sssshhhh) of ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, Vitamin D, zinc, et cetera. MSNBC broadcast a story out of Kentucky Thursday about the terrible surge of Covid-19 ripping through the ICUs there. It was quite a sob story. The patients were all on ventilators. (Kentucky docs apparently haven’t heard that the ventilator routine has poor outcomes.) No mention of early clinical treatments with the inexpensive and effective ivermectin protocol. Has the information not traveled through the Cumberland Gap? Well, boo-hoo, then….
Now, something tells me that of those 80-million unvaxed Americans, most have made up their minds pretty firmly about this. “Joe Biden” speaks from the head of a government that has been lying to them about, well… just about everything, for a number of years, and this Covid-19 virus is one of the sketchiest stories that government has tried to put over —Tony Fauci funding development of the disease in a Chinese lab, and elsewhere… the shady business around the vaccine patents and the royalties from the sales of them… the spooky VAERS numbers… the testimony of quite a few medical giants warning about the vaxes…. This “hesitant” 80-million is probably going to take the sage advice of former First Lady Nancy Reagan, and just say “no.” Out of good ol’ American politeness, they may even add … thank you… no, thank you….
If “Joe Biden’s” government insists, the politeness may evaporate, and our countrypersons will walk away. From their jobs. Maybe not every single one of them, but plenty… enough of them… enough to make sure that many of the activities in America seize up, including hospitals and doctors’ practices, with nurses, technicians, and even some doctors walking away. Yes, you will be shocked to learn that even some American doctors still have an ethics module in their well-trained brains. Also, probably trucking, so that things like food and auto parts and medicines don’t get where they are needed — which is, let’s face it, every place. That could harm the US economy, for sure, but it could also harm the administration of “Joe Biden.”
Wait for it. The pin has been pulled. Watch the USA descend into its season of darkness and chaos. Then what…? Redemption is a possibility.
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Americans put up with anything to keep their current life as is. If it happens, only the courts can undo it. I must be watching a different version of reality.
sstumpff – is this the “new normal” that I’ve heard so much about?
We were talking about states to move to. watching these govs bend or resist.really makes.some.thing clear. I liked mn wi and mi but their govs are pretty much broken libs despite the up country conservative. Mt seems great but so expensive and getting overran.
Are you thinking about where to settle under current circumstances or those that will obtain after the fall? Those govs will either be majorly in charge, or not at all. A pertinent question, no?
The Upper Midwest states have terrible governors, but you never need worry about water in the Great Lakes basin.
I also like Montana, but the water and wildfire issues out there give me great pause. The influx of Commiefornians is likely to ruin their state government.
We’ve already jumped the gun here in the Great White North. Vaccine passports are now mandatory in Canada’s three largest provinces Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia and the latest political dictate from Ottawa has it than anyone travelling outside the country will need a vaccine passport, Of course we still can’t cross the border by land to visit the our American brothers even though 75% of Canadians are full vaccinated, We can fly to the United States no problem but we can’t drive there, We’re in the middle of a nasty federal election over here and Justin Trudeau is being greeted with angry mobs throwing projectiles at every campaign stop, Very un-Canadian according to the national media and guess who’s getting the blame? The pro-Trump, anti-vaccination crowd.
Right so how does minnasota wisconsin and michigan fit into this? Seem like country side is great but under very bad rule.
Fallen, yes we have a very bad governator here in the Wolverine State, but up north we don’t pay much attention to her. Not much evidence of state government except the State Police busting meth labs and the DNR busting poachers. Up here everyone is either a criminal or Amish/Mennonite.
Governor Whitler (darned spellchecker) – I meant Witless, is already shutting down our gas supply. Lock the rubes out in the cold will be the long-term strategy when the lights go out, would be my guess. In the end, federal will (Big Business) will trump state will anyway. No Shot, no Chip, no cash, no way to pay your property tax – wherever you are. Your personal “Molon labe” moment.
My advice (in less than 2 paragraphs): state level governments come and go, pay no attention to the entity(?) in front of the curtain, pay attention to who is already living in the place you are considering escaping to.
I love California. Great state, magnificent beauty. Too many people, but we’re in a rural part of the state.
Arnold, who was a great Governor here(Republican) said it best when asked about Covid. With rights come responsibilities. See, he grew up in Austria, the son of a Police Chief. Mandatory 2 year military service. Tough guy. Arnold gets it, unlike the over fed clowns on this board. Hey didn’t Trump give us the Vaccine? Remember fast track?
Bunch of nucklehead.
The only reason WI has been electing terrible left wing governors lately is because of Milwaukee and Madison. Those two cities needs to be destroyed, or at least removed from the State.
I would suggest drawing a diagonal line north of Milwaukee, to include Chicago and Madison, all the way up to the Twin Cities. That would be its own liberal bastion. Everything north and further south of there would be new independent states.
I wish somebody would remove Quebec and the entire GTA [Greater Toronto Area] from our confederation and we’d never have to worry about Canada being governed by liberals again,
In Michigan, the line could be drawn from Muskegon to Bay City, an old biogeographical division separating the lower peninsula into the fertile oak forests of the southern part of the state from the barren pine forests of the north. Ghetto from trailer park. Densely populated from sparsely populated. North of the line Fuck Biden and Confederate flags take the place of BLM and rainbow flags. You need a permit to open burn south of the line.
I think the only way to prevent civil war is to allow the cities to form semi-autonomous city-states, roughly analogous to Hong Kong.
They’d no longer be subject to the US Constitution, and theyd lose their vote in national elections.
Amicable divorce.
The alternative is very, very ugly.
@Blackbird–I’m in Michigan, too, and what you say is true. The lower peninsula is like two different countries. The northern LP is sparsely populated, lots of lakes, hillier than the southern LP. Traverse City is bonkers in tourist season, can barely drive through it, but the big bay is gorgeous. Have to watch out for bears.
They are called elections. Parties put up candidates and a vote is held. Don’t like who’s winning? Run better candidates.
I don’t like losing either, but not going to whine about it and disparage my opponent.
Bunch of entitled, arrogant folks on this board. Appalling to call yourself an American.
Angry Farmer,
I like your idea. The only problem is how will the cities be self-supporting. Grifters and welfare pimps trying to live off what they can steal from each other!? It will be like the old movie “Escape From New York City (1981).”
Hero
It’s time. Time for marshal law. Time to place the criminal mass murderers masquerading as drug companies and their Fascist politicians in solitary confinement cells for life.
March into the White House and arrest Biden, his round heeled consort VP, and all their handlers and election manipulators..
Place the Government in the hands of a politically neutral Adviser. for six months.
Schedule new elections in six months along one-person-one-vote principles instead of the gerrymandered fraud masquerading as Democracy that we now have..
Legalize only verifiable dual copy paper balloting with no computer generated “votes.” allowed.
Outlaw lobbyists and political bribery under pain of the death penalty.
Withdraw all troops stationed outside the boundaries of the US.
Try all assassination by drone as murder.
That is a start—.
That is actually an end. A workable one.
“Martial Law” not “marshal law”.
Sorry Thors, don’t want to be a grammar nazi but that’s a big one for me. 😀
Why would anyone want martial law? That is the military keeping US down. Not the military arresting the top brass. That would be a coup.
I’m in sympathy with most of this.
BTW, it’s MARTIAL LAW, not “Marshall.” Not busting’ your chops. It’s a common error. It’s just a pet peeve of mine when I see it. Lol…
Mary
Actually now that I think about it marshal law might be better than Martial Law. It might stand a better chance of not becoming entrenched as so often happens when the Military take over. And there are fewer Napoleons among the Marshals than among the Generals.
I would suggest rural Missouri. I’m in Lafayette County, about 45 minutes from Kansas City and about 30 minutes from Sprouts in Lee’s Summit–good if accessibility to some urban amenities and business opportunities are important to you. Similarly situated, and even better, is Johnson County Missouri. It is known for having no county building codes and low taxes. Also for the high availability of homes on 5-10 acres. Johnson County became a bit of a real estate hotspot about five years ago. Prices roughly doubled in that time. But it is still much more affordable than most of the US.
If you would prefer more remote and more rural areas, the Missouri Ozarks is beautiful. Northern Missouri is not very scenic, but is good farmland for pretty cheap. Much of it is Amish country for that reason. There are lots of Amish/Mennonites all over Missouri.
If there are any real bottom-feeders here who are okay with a fixer-upper, double-wide, or single-wide in the boonies, there are quite a few down-at-the-heels lake communities (failed real estate devopements) in Lafayette County. One of them is Lake Lafayette, aka Dogpatch-by-the-Lake, which is where I live. Housing here has historically been dirt cheap, which you will notice if you have your realtor look up comps going back 20 years or so–though many of the really cheap places were never listed. (At $9k-$10K, they were too cheap for a realtor to bother with, plus I know of a couple of trailers on an acre that sold for $3,500 and $4,500, in former times.) I am now hearing of $175K and $200K appraisals for some very nice houses here. The locals are trying to hide their astonishment.
Appreciate the info.
Thanks for the breakdown by county. Being a real bottom-feeder I need to map out scouting trips carefully.
In the mean time this “Joe Biden’s” tweet will be remebrered as the official declaration of the opening of the Second American Civil War.
But, hey, at least it isn’t a “mean” tweet, isn’t it?
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1436367668911788060
Clicked on the link. Scrolled through the comments. Feel like I need to wash my hands and eyes.
Is that comment seen as the pin JHK is referring to?
That video is CGI. Look how he’s ‘outlined’. Weird!!
“… the courts …”
Are you on drugs? All the 2020 election suits dismissed without hearing evidence? With the threat of Antifa / Burn Loot Murder coming to their houses, the crossdressers all the way up to the supremes folded like a used kleenexl. Now that they are armed with weapons surrendered to the Taliban delivered to US Commies … errrr … Dimocrats by the CCP … use your imagination. The Failed States of Amerika.
Although there is some hope. Just listened to Clif High on USA Watchdog talking about the near future, 2022 as the death year, and us as The Remnant. Biblical without being biblical
What burbled, confused garbage.
Try Armstrong on 2022.
The fact that it has come to this means that we are winning. Resistors need to stand tough. They wouldn’t dare try this shit if they were ahead.
Liz,
I respectfully disagree. The fact that it has come to this means we have ignored every warning we’ve been given since the end of Obama’s last term.
Through the captured DOJ and the LAWFARE pogrom, the leftists have been prosecuting civil war, since the Golden Golem of Greatness surprised them in 2016, and forced their hand in 2020. The Biden Regime, and it’s army are all in. They have demonstrated, time and again, their willingness to use violence to further their agenda.
I say to you, normal is gone and never coming back. What ever your faith and after life beliefs are, your life is on the line right now. Whether the threat is the virus, the vax or the law and laws to come.
There is no negotiation remaining, there is no workable separation, we have arrived at that moment every one of us has secretly dreaded, yet advertised with much bravado.
“The pin has been pulled,” doesn’t mean wait around to see if it goes off. It unambiguously means take cover and prepare your counter-attack.
This is the hill, and the fascists are advancing
No some of us knew about the term New World order when Pappy Bush was talking about it.
We knew about shadowy steering committees like the Builderberg group CFR and club of Rome even when they were denied and very vigorously.
Some of us knew and our friends and relatives thought we were nuts rolled their eyes and said not this again.
Now some of those very friends and relatives are even bigger tin foil hat wearers then we are.
“No” – no what?
I don’t care about uni-party arguments, I don’t care who the bad guys are.
You can wait around to see if it goes off while you contemplate how smart you are. I’m taking cover.
No the problem predates Obama by decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA6u5w_CHL4
That’s what I was wondering “No” – what?
Taking cover? How long do you plan to stay? If by “hiding” you mean you will pretend to be something you’re not and believe things you don’t? If asked to help anyone being persecuted by the “fascists” will you refuse and continue to hide? There’s a name for this.
It’s not so easy to hide as it used to be in the as it now requires warped conformity. The desperation by TPTB to reign everyone in under a central power is real because all indications are the age has shifted and the atmosphere is different. The lies don’t hold. Though they’ve tried to create truth by inverting everything it’s a technique that requires more and more contrived narratives. These stories lack creativity so now they are often exposed within hours or days.
It’s not a time for hiding rather it’s a time for taking a stand.
Pete
Take cover (whatever that is) if you want, but I’m having my local gunsmith install his fifteen round MaxGlock magazine on my Glock. I sometimes like to name my guns, and I’m calling her Queen of the Castle Doctrine.
Agree here.
It really doesn’t matter if all this is a result of “natural” historical forces or if S.P.E.C.T.E.R. is behind it all.
Don’t waste your time chasing Ernst Blofeld.
Buy land. Become self-sufficient. It will put you in a good position whether it’s super villains or simple chaos.
I’m training an ox team, not connecting threads on a cork board.
Guys,
I said, “take cover and prepare your counter-attack.”
Please, at least read my post before you post your bravado.
AngryFarmer,
Keep up the good work. We can always use more people with ox team plowing skills. But it’s just not for me. My ox has also become too lazy and pampered to change now.
like the Builderberg group – benr
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hahaha
Builderberg Back Better.
Ike’s farewell address. How the millions of Americans watched that and didn’t get the point has always confounded me…or had that comfortable life plus a dose of pseudo patriotic parades and pregame govt worship Anthem celebrations already turned the pop into weak moral cowards by then…1961.
What Ike saw was the “progress” that had already taken place by the globalist cult since at least 1913 in taking over the US from within. He was freaked. It was obvious.
And his fellow “greatest generation” Americans did what in response to the warnings of their own decorated general and POTUS?
They yawned and asked someone to pass the chips while they played can kicking for another 60 years relishing in their “pensions” and SSI “they paid for” but never demanded be saved to actually”pay for it”. How would big gov had given the rest of the goodies they so richly deserved on the backs of future Americans if they’d done that after all?
They sure loved parades in their honor though.
My late Daddy said that America was a goner by the late ’40s because the communist termites had already chewed away a lot of the structure of America. While McCarthy was a drunken dick, he did some good, until he started digging around in the armed forces and offended a lot of patriotic people who unfortunately had a higher opinion of the Army than it may have merited. This is all rehashing the past, things we can’t undo. I dont know if there’s a hell of a lot we can do about the future, either, given the Wokester takeover of government and the military. Looks like Emory Thomas’s wet dream of sending non-Marxists to the ovens may come to fruition, after all.
There is some speculation that the Dims / wokesters have been DeathJabbed at about 4x the rate of the resistant right, even including spineless conservatives.
What does it mean to go into battle without the energy to lift a 50 lb sack of potatoes, or climb one flight of stairs? Army Strong! Be All You Can Be!
If we make it past Death Year 2022, that’s the OPFOR we face. The advertising techniques used against us by the Wall of Noise have worked so far to give the impression that far more than 5 or 10% of them are “all in”. Ha. They’re telling us “everybody’s doing it, so comply”, while maybe 70M lib suckers are lining up to virtue signal to their cult. Our bullsh*t detectors are flashing Red Alert.
Not a problem. As long as the Wokesters can find enough nerve tissue in the penises they cut off to create New Women they’ll be fine.
LOL!
Come on…do you think the average woke urban hipster could lift a 50 lb sack of potatoes even BEFORE the jab?!?!
I don’t share your confidence, Liz. They made a bold move, and now it must be countered. They don’t care if businesses are hurt by this, and they would love nothing more than big protests. All sizable events will surely be infiltrated by agents provocateurs, leading to violence and guaranteed arrests after the fact, just like last January.
This is gonna require a long and very difficult underground movement.
As I see it, there are just too many sheeple, and they’ll be employed at hammering us back into our rabbit warrens. Woke GloboCap is firmly in control.
Biden was told to throw down the gauntlet and he did. Can the government enforce these shots on the populace? Only by depriving people of a means to earn a living, educate their children and having a compliant upper eschaton of people in government, private businesses and law enforcement willing to play along.
SW: many (most?) Red States won’t comply, so he’s already lost at least a third of the country. And these states will continue to flourish. Hopefully, it will lead to secession.
But there are a lot of people moving to those red states and they could easily turn purple. I live in a rural area now in north Texas where nobody wears a mask unless they want to but there’s a battle raging in the big cities about requiring kids to wear them to school. And Beto narrowed the gap for the Senate seat last election and that guy is a fool. What if they come up with a viable candidate?
Threatening to deprive people of their livelihoods will not sit well. That strikes at the heart of people’s happy family lives. It could prove to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and pushes more people over to our side.
Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
I’m glad the Stick missed this one…
“Eschaton”? (aka The End Times)
You may have meant “Echelon” (a group of individuals in a hierarchical arrangement), but I think the term “eschaton” is particularly relevant at this particular sinkhole in the long road of history. More of a Jungian than a Freudian Slip. Nice work.
Confidence or not the inbred intellectual dwarfs have finally screwed the pooch. Really how many people have you met that are queer, woke or whatever that are functional? Look at the Sec of Def and Chief of Staff, they are queers and how functional are they?
We live in a world where the vast majority of the Elected Officials and many Academic and Business top administrators are sexual deviants. That is how they were chosen by the Powers That Be, so they could be loyal and readily manipulated to do “Anything”.
Yes Evil walks on the Planet today and we did not sign up to defeat it but there is no other choice if we expect to retain Humanity.
If you have not already been doing so you must Resist every Bullshit order or rule. If the store says you must wear a mask, then tell them I will spend my money elsewhere and you can shove it.
There is no reason to be Polite any longer with the Mental Midgets.
After the impassioned speech by the AzzClown in Charge I have no patience whatsoever. FJB.
That is all.
I’m with you, Bull.
The 80,000,000 Americans who are refusing the jabs and their employees of “100” who also may not want the jabs can simply ask those who don’t want the jabs to switch to Independent Contractor status (hopefully for a short while) and suddenly the business has 40 “employees” and 60 “Independent Contractors”.
Or if Biden and his troops (for this is a war against the people) want to get nasty then those 60 can become “volunteers” and be given a “thank you” gift every Friday for “volunteering”.
We all need to be very smart now. We can beat the fascist cabal (because that is what they are) by out-thinking them.
They may have power for the moment but they aren’t that sharp.
The independent contractor idea likely won’t fly due to precedent and past practice. The definition is rather narrow, being made more so all the time.
I think it’s a great idea, don’t misinterpret. I see a lot of pointing to the tax code, which is where to look for the requirements to meet the standard. It isn’t likely to gain traction.
Could be, though, that many people who have always been employees might choose to become true independent contractors, with no affiliation with their former employer. It might be that the crippling of many businesses due to the loss of their best people could open some doors for some of those “best people.”
The time for adapting to new normals, going-along-to-get-along, keeping one’s head down, and working with more and more capricious, satanic, and humiliating rituals is over. I am sorry. Genocide is not acceptable.
It is an out and out battle at this point, and currently no one is winning. There is no other option at this point but to stand strongly together where you are, wavering for no one and no thing. Pick a side and stand firm.
Ultimately there will be a “winner” and they will decide the narrative. Let’s hope that is comprised of the anti-vaxxers and those that fought against the big totalitarian government behemoth we are currently up against!
It is up to the people at this point. No government institution is going to save anyone.
“Capture of democratic structures and institutions
Schwab as publisher of the World Economic Forum’s 2010 “Global Redesign” report postulates that a globalized world is best managed by a coalition of multinational corporations, governments (including through the UN system) and select civil society organizations (CSOs).[29] It argues that governments no longer are “the overwhelmingly dominant actors on the world stage” and that “the time has come for a new stakeholder paradigm of international governance”. The WEF’s vision includes a “public-private” UN, in which certain specialized agencies would operate under joint State and non-State governance systems.[30]
According to the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Forum is hence planning to replace a recognised democratic model with a model where a self-selected group of “stakeholders” make decisions on behalf of the people.[31] The think tank summarises that we are increasingly entering a world where gatherings such as Davos are “a silent global coup d’etat” to capture governance.[32]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab#Capture_of_democratic_structures_and_institutions
This is what all Western nations are dealing with, as the silent coup has arrived.
Back in Newt’s heyday, the Tenth Amendment was a very hot topic. It ought to be front and center now, imo. WTF
The 17th should also be a hot topic. The Founders put the Senate in the hands of the state legislators, where it should be returned.
Hmm. Shamelessly referencing Wikipedia, which you regularly vilify? Whatever suits your purpose, I guess.
I guess it’s no longer a conspiracy, right Majlet?
Low IQ.
Crickets. Naturally.
I sometimes imagine what it must be like to be you, getting railed every week, slowly having to both accept but at the same time try to save face over what you have denied for so long.
You are stupid, Maj. Really stupid.
Cowbell: He who endures to the end will win. It’s very simple: don’t take the jab. Ever.
17th Amendment…..interesting argument. When the 17th was ratified, those responsible were correcting an oversight in the constitution. For those who need a review: The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures.
The amendment sought to correct the perceived corruption of the state legislatures by requiring a direct vote for Senators….the idea was that it is better to have more people deciding rather than a few venal state legislators. I think we should trust those who lived through and corrected some shortcomings of the constitution.
Years ago, when I naively thought my participation would alter the outcome of elections, I was at a gun show in Louisville at which Rand Paul was campaigning. His handlers asked for questions. I was in arms-length of him when I asked if he supported the 17th. His answer: I wouldn’t have a chance if it weren’t for the 17th. You must understand that KY has been controlled by a Dem. legislature for most of the last 100 years. I support the 17th and I thank fortune for Rand Paul and Thomas Massie.
Disagree. Rand’s response was short-sighted and selfish. The Kentucky legislature is now conservative. To be clear, virtually no sitting US Senator would have been elected by his or her own state legislature. The Farmers wanted the states represented by the Senate and the people by the House. The more the vote veers to the mob, whether you’re talking about the 17th or mail in voting, the faster a Republic a crumbles. The second decade of the last century sealed this country’s fate. Liberal democracy doesn’t work in a multicultural society. It’s just a matter of time before the mob finishes looting the Treasury and destroying the currency.
Biden’s only been in office for about 8 months and the country/world is already headed well down the poop chute. Who knows what’s to come in the next few years?!?! Certainly it can get worse, much worse.
His latest edict is clearly going to be the starting pistol that sets off the fiery inferno. And then there is the upcoming talk of a big rally on 9/18. My guess is that this is being pushed so that the insiders can cause a disturbance on purpose, so they can further institute their police state.
We’re in the “Precursor Zone” :
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/
Kind of like the “Q-Anon” crowd they set up for a demonstration fighting for Ivermectin! I’m sure the Devil himself (or herself or itself?) was there too tail and all!
They are getting desperate.
And sending “Joe Biden” to Long Beach, Cali Monday to campaign for Newsom will make the recall a referendum not just on high crime, suckass CRT/Common Core propaganda mills (formerly known as public schools), the out of control homelessness problem and Newsom’s lockdowns and vax mandates; it will become a referendum on Biden.
With Biden coming here it will be about Newsom supporting a president who is mandating a medical treatment to millions of Americans that is NOT safe or effective! It will be about Newsom supporting a president who just ordered the most dumbass military move in history causing the deaths of 13 service members and stranding hundreds of Americans with the Taliban (who I hear are announcing their government and having big celebrations on September 11th “Patriots Day”) cough.
I fear fraud will be at play on Election Day here. If Newsom survives it wipll either mean there was massive fraud in the count or the people of this state are total cowards and morons.
If Newsom stays, I go. Thinking about Ohio but it will be a long, expensive trip. Unless I ditch all my treasured books.
Never dreamed I would live to see this day.
To abbybwood:
Best to maybe get the books out of California anyway. No one there can read or appreciate them anymore. Plus, you may be saving them from almost certain destruction in a future wildfire, earthquake, tsunami, etc.
It will be well worth the cost to move the books, trust me on that. The people of Ohio will thank you. Better yet, Central Wisconsin would be happy to have you.
The Naz!s burned books.
which books though? there’s the question which no-one ever seems to ask.
The Americans burned text messages. Not having any books to burn.
Abby,
I volunteer to hold your books in safekeeping. And I’ll split the freight charges with you if you’ll allow me to browse your collection. 😉
I’ve got some gooduns!
Including “The Halloween Ball” written by our host!
Will dive back into that one to prep myself for Halloween!
Abby, even if Newscum is recalled, the state cannot recover, and will continue down the drain. If Elder gets in, they will block him and control him just like they do anyone else. The mafia there is powerful. You should get yourself to Ohio. Can you put your beloved books in storage, and retrieve them at a later date?
I moved back to California in 2009 from Pittsfield, Mass. to welcome my first grandchild and I put ALL my belongings in a 10×7 storage and haven’t seen them since!
Quickly pulled my most treasured books to come with me where I am living now (including all of JHK’s books). My room is a sea of books.
I am DYING to get in that storage and purge lots of stuff!
“My favorite sweater! My favorite shoes! My muffin tin!” Ha!
Seven new grandkids later…ready to bounce out of Cali.
Miss lake swimming most. Haven’t been swimming for four years!
At 71 I occasionally like to read the obits the ex gives me to line the birdcage. Lots of folks keeling over around this age! I’d like to live my last few years for me (the selfish wench I am).
This is def. a stretch but… do you know of an Oakley family in Pittsfield? Husband had an accident…
Newsome will survive the recall. The rot in California is too deep. The deluded masses of woke idiots too numerous.
In the aftermath, the mass exodus of remaining Republican voters in that state will accelerate markedly. California will become New Venezuela.
Commandante Newsome will continue to destroy the once golden state.
I have to agree. I just don’t see how that power group loses its grip. It seems impossible.
Cumberland Gap. Heh.
Watched Slow Joe’s entire TelePrompTer recital yesterday and actually felt sick to my stomach. I could feel the evil puppeteers. I’m tellin’ ya, I could feel them!
You’re so right, Mr K; he pulled the pin. Heads up!
I think that accounts for the stranger than usual looks on the infobabes’ faces.
They thought this whole charade was merely politics, liberals versus MAGA White Supremacist Hick terrorists, with the news media of course being on the side of good.
Now they are just getting an inkling of what they’ve really been supporting.
That is the look of those looking out of their windows as they sit on the train that is going non-stop to Treblinka. Some thought this whole time that they were the ones on the platform looking at a bunch of smelly Walmart people on their way to an early grave because they wouldn’t comply with the “science”. Only now as the train is departing the station do they realize that it is they who have just thrown their lives away in the service of the elites and their desire to make the Georgia Guidestones a reality.
Bye-bye guys. Make sure to take a deep breath when you get to your destination.
Face of someone feeling a warm liquid on her thigh.
Is Matt Lauer back?
@hmuller – LMAO!
That’s what I love about this site. So much great discussion and info from informed smart people, with an occasional zinger thrown in once in a while. Humor is healing and healthy.
That would be awesome, if true. But I very much doubt it’s true. I think the talking heads are just befuddled cuz they can’t follow the plot. Many of them think Biden just shot himself in the foot again, with that ultra-divisive speech, but they’re so wrong. The puppetmasters have the sheeple whipped into frenzies now, and I think they know they’ve achieved critical mass.
It’s a pandemic of the UNVACCINATED, don’tcha know?
I disagree with you 100%. Every single person that I know that has taken the vax has finally STFU about it. Not a one of them will dare bring it up to me as their narrative has fallen apart. Prior to the demands that the vaxxed mask back up, they wouldn’t shut up about how great it was and how stupid I was.
One by one they have had their narrative fall apart.
Covid 19 is man-made even though they were told that only “racists” believed such things.
Uncle Sam and Fauci paid for GOF research. Ooops.
The vaccine doesn’t allow anything to go back to normal because it doesn’t provide any protection what-so-ever. Gosh.
They can also clearly see that as many as half of their fellow countrymen have decided that they’d rather become outlaws than take the jab. This has sparked some curiosity in them as to why we refuse and some of the info is getting to them and they are beginning to realize that they’ve made a terrible terrible mistake.
It took a while for the Vietnam draft dodgers to get their message into the public sphere but when that message arrived, there was no turning back and the war was lost.
Nickelthrower
You are absolutely right, but perhaps missing the heart of the matter. Once a herd animal is infected by the Mind Parasites it will never again be able to think for itself and must keep its nose pressed up against the butt of it;s herd mate so it will know what to do.
We are talking about half of the people in the USA.
At least for a Vietnam draft dodger there was Canada. Now it has become even more overrun with sheep than the US.
I have had some opposite encounters, Nick. A calm and friendly conversation turns on a dime as the vaxxer instantly rages against me. Honestly, I do nothing more than state my position in just one or two sentences, and they really go off. It’s bizarre and extremely disconcerting, so I don’t pursue any further. And that includes my GP of twenty years!
Furthermore, for every vaxxed person, there’s at least one who’s just dying to put us in our places. They’ll readily join Joe’s army of Karens to shout us down. And if they get violent, do you really think they’ll be punished?
Meant to say, for every vaxxed person who has seen the light, there’s at least one who’s just dying to put us in our places.
@JtinMD
That these people rage just gives away the fact that they recognize that they are on the train to Treblinka. Deep down they know it and it infuriates them.
Misery loves company.
Exactly. Right or wrong doesn’t matter. They’re twice and thrice bitten by the bug. If they’re wrong, it’s even more imperative for them to join the chorus (or the army).
JTinMD
I’ve know the guy casually for 10 years. (He is married to my nephew’s ex-girlfriend) Ten words into a casual conversation in the Gym he starts screaming at me, calling me a mass murderer who is trying kill him and all the Vaccinated by refusing the Shot..
When wild foxes contact the rabies there is only one solution. Shoot them in the head and carefully burn the carcasses.
I know! I was dumbfounded. Truly bizarre, but far more common than people probably think. Like a mama cat protecting her kittens! Watch out!
America’s Top 10 Vaccinated States Under Siege by COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections
TrialSite Staff
September 8, 2021
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America’s Top 10 Vaccinated States Under Siege by COVID-19 Cases, Breakthrough Infections
By August, with the Delta variant COVID-19 surge across the nation, mass media constantly broadcasts that the pandemic has become one of the unvaccinated; but that’s far from the truth based on a recent TrialSite review of new infection data in the most vaccinated states in America. Much of the media messaging in August and into September centers on the most current Delta variant-based surge of infections and deaths as a problem in select states with the lowest vaccination rates—often conservative and lower-income—namely states in the Deep South and a couple of states in the Intermountain West (Wyoming, Idaho, etc.). If only the truth were so straightforward. TrialSite reviewed the top 10 most vaccinated states in the nation and uncovered a very different reality as of Wednesday, September 8, 2021. The expectation going into the data review was that a majority of these highly vaccinated states would have historically low daily rates compared to previous surges in the pandemic. The opposite is true: the most vaccinated states are now all in some version of a surge, although the news wouldn’t cover such a point of view. Similar to the Israel experience, with waning vaccine effectiveness and a dangerous Delta variant, breakthrough infections and even breakthrough hospitalizations become ever more normal. Thus POTUS pushes for the booster much like Israel’s program. But that process must be driven by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and not politicians. Generally, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data indicate that those vaccinated experience less severe disease progression than the unvaccinated, to be sure. But the narrative one hears on nightly national news is not the reality. With boosters around the corner, what’s the strategy if that doesn’t settle the problem ongoing? Already, TrialSite reported Israel is looking into a fourth booster. Such an approach must be reviewed critically.
What follows is a breakdown of the situation and the supporting numbers.
Top 10 Vaccinated States & COVID-19 Pandemic situation
State Fully Vaccinated Pandemic Situation
Vermont 68.15% Severe—4th surge despite the heaviest vaccinated state; 200 new cases Sep 7.
Connecticut 66.44% Moderate—slight surge starting late July—1,612 new cases on Sep 7/
Massachusetts 66.3% Becoming severe as the state is experiencing a significant surge again. 5,683 new cases were reported on Sep 7.
Maine 66.2% Severe Main is approaching record number of infections.
Rhode Island 65.28% Moderate increase probably due to Delta. 906 new cases reported on Sep 7.
New Jersey 61.96% Moderate increase in cases with 2,086 new cases reported on Sep 6.
Maryland 61.94% Significant increase in cases starting August as 7-day average new cases as of Sep 7 was 1,122 per day.
New York 60.72% State experiencing moderate surge with 994 cases reported on Sep 7.
New Mexico 60.64% Severe spike—as of Sept 7 2,499 new cases reported—nearly hits the record from previous spike.
Washington 60.61% Severe spike—10,901 new cases reported Sep 7 shattering records.
Source: TrialSite News’ review of New York Times & Our World in Data
New England Cases Skyrocketing
The state with the highest vaccination rates in New England. Those rates are as follows: Vermont (68.15%), Connecticut (66.44%), Massachusetts (66.3%), Maine (66.2%), and Rhode Island (65.28%). One would expect these states to be in a more stabilized place with such high vaccine rates. But the opposite appears to be true due to the combination of waning vaccine effectivity and a stronger variant (Delta). However, the media is not covering this story—more than likely as there are marching orders from government news sources on what to cover.
Vermont is currently experiencing a severe increase in cases. In fact, they reported 272 cases on August 22, shattering previous daily infection records for the state-based New York Times data. The state has never experienced too many deaths, thankfully, but recently reported a handful.
Massachusetts reports a moderate surge with a frightening 5,683 cases on September 7. If this trend increases, the state could hit its previous record number of COVID-19 cases. Deaths are markedly down from the most deadly phase, the initial surge in April and May and again in January. Nonetheless, most recently, 12 deaths were reported in a day. According to recent state Department of Public Health data, 720,175 are infected in the state.
Maine has experienced a severe climb in the reported number of daily cases. In fact, it’s so bad in parts of the state that authorities have ordered remote learning for some schools, according to local media accounts. Deaths are fairly contained in this mostly rural New England state with 1.34 million people.
Finally, Rhode Island also reports moderate increases that could disturb health authorities there if they increase further. Health authorities confirmed the Mu variant of interest has arrived there.
East Coast/Middle Atlantic
TrialSite reports not one eastern state in the top 10 most vaccinated states shows a decline in infections—they are all on the rise. While New York and New Jersey experience moderate surges, Maryland experiences a severe surge; 1,122 infections were reported just yesterday. Deaths are nowhere near the two previous surges, but too many people continue to die.
Out West
New Mexico was doing well for a while, with a high vaccination rate, but now reports severe increases in infections. Two thousand four hundred ninety-nine new cases were reported on Tuesday, September 7, a near-record. Deaths aren’t nearly as high as the previous two spikes, reflecting a pattern across all of the most-vaccinated states.
Finally, the State of Washington, one of the origins of the first cases in America, now experiences its worst surge in the pandemic despite high vaccination rates. The state reported 10,901 new cases on September 7 alone, shattering all previous new daily COVID-19 infections. Deaths are also higher here; although not quite as high as two previous surges, it’s far higher than it should be.
On the surge, the local media reported that Washington hospitals now had 251 patients on ventilators representing a 34% increase in one week. Masks are required in public outdoor places again.
Conclusion
This data obviously indicates that the vaccines are not as effective as marketed by the government. Now all data point out that those who are fully vaccinated stay out of hospital rooms more than the unvaccinated—ditto for deaths, but TrialSite just reported a fully vaccinated 35-year-old Oregon woman dying of COVID-19. The point is that even if one is vaccinated:
You are not out of danger.
With Delta, vaccinated individuals often become vectors (note this is especially the case when due to the vaccine, an individual is asymptomatic, hence unknowingly spreading the virus).
Much like Israel, heavily vaccinated states in America are in crisis due to vaccine products that wane by the fourth or fifth month, although one wouldn’t know that from mainstream media.
The vaccines do offer greater assurance of not ending up in a hospital, according to the CDC, but the number of breakthrough hospitalizations and death grow and should be taken seriously.
Health authorities must start recognizing the limitations of 100% vaccine-centric strategies to “eradicate” this pandemic.
A comprehensive, multi-faceted approach including early care and continued rational public health policies based on local conditions on the ground will be key in preparing the nation’s population to live and thrive alongside this pathogen, as it appears it isn’t going away anytime soon.
@NickelthroweR: so far the mRNA vaccines significantly reduce the IFR (rate of death in known cases). To verify this I computed the following time series:
daily_dead(averaged over 3 week window) / daily_new_cases(averaged over 3 week window, lagged by 3 weeks).
The averaging over a 3 week window smooths out random fluctuations while the lagging is based on the assumption that the time from identification as a case to death is about 3 weeks.
You can see the data here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4lzjonkd4re7p6t/Covid19_DieOff_Ratio.png?dl=0
Chile is an interesting development: it is reporting very few new cases lately but very high deaths in proportion. This is hard to interpret but needs to be watched.
I think both sides just shot themselves in the foot – the Dems with the vaccine mandates and the Repubs with the Texas abortion law. It’s like both sides are desperate to lose the California recall and the House in 2022.
Beryl
What “they” (the mass media whores) have really been supporting is Fascism in its rawest form.
Sheeple and Resistors alike have bought into a false image of Acting President Biden. The person they see as a doddering old politician who needs help tying his shoelaces is in actuality a criminal mass murderer with the deaths of tens of thousands on his hands. The only proper place for him is in a windowless cell for the rest of his miserable life. In the adjoining cell his chosen running mate can continue servicing the White House Staff and all the prison guards with her ample mouth.Sound amplified for Pedo Joe’s benefit. And on the other side the sound of Hunter’s latest opioid withdrawal running on an endless loop recording.
This morning’s Zero Hedge had a map of all the governor’s states that are planning to sue Pedo Joe over his Fascist death shot mandates. It is an almost perfect map of the new nation I call Heartland. The sooner we move to secure its borders from the Californicators of the West and the mean streets of Fentanyol to the East the better.
No, Fascism is when the government guides and controls the corporations for the good of the nation. What we have is Plutocracy where the banks and the corporations guide and control the government for their own profit and power.
World War Two was about this. Your side, the Capitalist/Communists won.
To make it even simpler, Fascism is just the European word for nationalism. Capitalism/Communism are international by their very nature; Communism from the get go, Capitalism in its final, corporate form.
Apparently we have Faucism
How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin?
“government guides and controls the corporations for the good of the nation” Talk about rare birds—-. It’s like a bird trying to fly upside down– an unstable condition soon remedied by bribes and greed.
Thank goodness my governor is one of them.
Not that I trust any of them, this is obviously a political ploy.
But it’s something.
Thor: funny coincidence. I saw that map too and thought EXACTLY the same thing. I was also thinking of names but never came up with anything as good as “Heartland”. Maybe “Saneville USA?”
For more pleasant, intelligent, and better looking infogals I highly recommend watching Michelle Mokari over at Kitco News and Daniela Cambone over at Stansberry Research.
Both are continually producing great interviews with a range of guests that have insight into the financial scene.
Have you ever seen Taylor Hudak? She’s amazing. And very pretty!
Here is a chick who knows how to do an interview:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rvccR4Tg6fRS/
Beryl: Maybe they’ve also had intimations of what’s coming THEIR way.
If so, that might give one hope, so I hope you are right, Beryl!
The good news is, that the fact that these “vaccines” aren’t really vaccines as most people think of them, must be getting out.
The bad news is, the CDC changed the definition of vaccines. Turns out they aren’t supposed to work.
Quite so. Real vaccines try to help the body kill viruses. The mRNA shots just suppress symptoms, keeping the vic alive so they can mutate it and spread it to others.
Novavax
out of Maryland
traditional vaccine
delayed again… strange
And Merck, original makers of Ivermectin (and working overtime to suppress it), are developing a new Covid prophylactic therapeutic drug. I’m sure it will be another WarpSpeed authorization, and will knock Ivermectin off the playing field. Eminently predictable. $$$$$
https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-ridgeback-biotherapeutics-announce-initiation-of-pivotal-phase-3-move-ahead-study-evaluating-molnupiravir-for-post-exposure-prophylaxis-of-covid-19-infection/
Meant to include link above
As we move into the traditional season for a Black Swan arrival.
One of those “unknown unknowns”.
An omen?
Black Swan appears in Tiananmen Square…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/metaphor-alert-real-life-black-swan-appears-in-tiananmen-square/
Jim,
It is far worse than you can possibly imagine. The supply chain is broken and no amount of forced vaccination is going to fix that. Worse still, you only need to lose a few critical people here and there before you no longer have working internet, banking and electricity.
If this is forced on the public then we wont have a working infrastructure in 30 days and that is a fact.
Whoever is running Joe doesn’t care if that happens. In fact, they may desire it.
Before one builds, one tears down. They want to tear much of the world down so they can build back better.
Build back better — for whom?
Build back better: for them?
Bored, twisted, alpha sociopaths who take offense that they couldn’t be feared and adored as a God. Ffrustrated haters of other’s lives of autonomy and meaning and joy. Empowered destroyers who should never have been permitted access to the levers of power and intend to leave a stain on history so that their names are never forgotten.
Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. — John Milton
For all of us. Interesting that in your mind it’s already “us” and “them”? So it’s fine if the Republican’s are in power, but when the Dems have the power you can’t keep your lunch down?
Sorry loser who takes his ball and goes home when things don’t go his way. Poor Baby!
In the words of Don Corleone. “Act like a man!”
Yes, they certainly know what they are doing.
Everything they are doing/saying is part of “the plan”.
I was watching PBS yesterday. They were bragging about their reporting being up-to-date” and ” the-latest-news” but since I just witnessed their coverage of 3 and four month old statistics about hog jowls or some such bullshiite no one is interested in, I realized the news cycle was being run in reverse. It will soon [ tomorrow ] be back to twenty years ago, then a hundred, then who knows, medivial.
Nickel: you mean all those Bitcoiners are wrong and that the whole BC thing can’t work without electricity and the internet? Jeez, who could’ve guessed!
I have been watching videos of Mao’s Cultural Revolution [1966-1976] and it is just like our current American Cultural Revolution.
Mao had his Red Guard fighting the Capitalist Roaders. Just like Joe Bodine has the Yellow Media fighting the unvaxxed.
IMHO China has already won the war against America. Without firing a shot. Plus Americans do not even know they are under control of the CCP.
Joe Biden is probably the most compromised president in US history.
If there was a trial Bobbolinski would be a chief witness saying he met with Hunter and Joe about business at some swank L.A. bar. After Biden lied through his veneers and said, “I have NEVER discussed Hunter’s business dealings with him.” Bobbolinski has emails and text messages to back up his testimony. Where is he? Witness protection program?!
And the most stomach-churning parts of the Hunter Biden laptop troves has not been released publicly. Miranda Devine at The New York Post has seen it all. The FBI has seen it all. Her book oughta be a doozy.
And due to all this being covered up with Hunter now selling his “art” in a NYC “gallery”, one must wonder how badly foreign countries actually are blackmailing the “president”?
And we simply wait and wait and wait for the vote audit results and for John Durham and his Grand Jury to surface?
We are beyond all that now. The corruption is total, the details are as irrelevant as the past 50 years of news cycle scandals that have only taught us learned helplessness. Soon it will be time to put down the tablet. Hopefully not for the last time. I am sorry. None of us wanted things to go this sideways. We were decent people minding our own business.
Note: so that the karmic cycle doesn’t repeat, try to keep the retributions to a minimum.
“…try to keep the retributions to a minimum.” ~ WWZeke
Zeke -do you mean the number of retributions or the severity of retributions.
Karma, I understand, and the Bible says, “an eye for an eye” – I could well be wrong but I subscribe to “two eyes for an eye” – it’s a lesson people (elite psychopaths) don’t ever forget.
An eye for an eye was a limit on how much you could punish someone for a crime. In other words, if someone caused another to lose the sight in his left eye, the perpetrator couldn’t be dismembered or put to death, and his family couldn’t be punished for his actions. Also under Mosaic law, murderers, rapists, blasphemers, and kidnappers could be executed for undercutting the pillars of society, religion and the family.
Most of the sheep won’t be putting down their tablets; they’ll be taking them.
I wonder how many of the employees at the CDC have not taken the vax? To me that would be a very interesting %.
They were asked and they replied that about half had not. Of course no one had the wit to demand an explanation for that.
How many employees at Pfizer and Moderna and J&J have not taken the vax?
Why is it that everyone at The White House isn’t being mandated to take the vax? How many sophisticated guests at Obama’s birthday bash were not vaxxed??
About the same as the number of Congress folk: 0. The FDA and Pfizer have been left of the mandate list too. Wonder why?
Because they’re more important than the rest of us, so they get to retain their rights. Also, they are immune to the virus due to their righteousness (see: exemptions for BLM and Antifa).
I also peruse the different news outlets. I would think that they broadcast from different planets. As if Covid, Covid, Covid ,Jab, Jab, Jab 24 /7 wasn’t bad enough now it’s wall to wall 9/11 all over again. . Everybody freaked out 20 years ago. Add that to Covid angst and we are gonna have a serious run on Xanax. That’s if the truckers can supply the pharmacy fast enough.
Good luck getting any prescriptions for that. Computer won’t allow it without six psychiatrist visits first! $$
SEF – going forward, Xanax will be worth it’s weight in gold – smart money is already stockpiling it.
The old perfect barter used to be single cigarettes – now it’ll be Xanax, at $100/pill or if the next $3.5 trillion gets shoveled in, $300/pill.
Forget about 9/11 and Covid angst – if cell phones are taken out, on any given day – Xanax at $1000/pill.
As O.G. says, TruStory.
Not having a TV is one of the best decisions I ever made.
Dear Jim: I like your emphasis on the “80 Million unvaxed Americans”. Strength is indeed in numbers and this large number gives confidence and strength to each individual who may otherwise think they are all alone. If we live in a town of32,000 we can assume about 8,000 are like-minded and that’s a lot of moral support as a foundation for organizing an effective counter-attack.
The “pin” will really be pulled if the supreme court rules the vaccination dictate constitutional.
JHK: The number of ‘unvaxed’ is more like >100 million plus (many unvaxxed people say they are vaxxed in surveys to avoid issues). The real number could be as high as 150mil.
Agree. I think the 80 million are the number of federal workers?
Yep. But the evil ones will always pretend the number is smaller and try to make you feel isolated and alone. Don’t fall for it!
Patients of mine (neuro-rehab, not general medicine) are starting to get very ill after taking the fake ‘fax,’ typically at the insistence of their primary care docs, and nurse ‘practitioners,’ both groups of which generally don’t know what they don’t know and behave as if they are experts in everything medical. These unfortunate patients did NOT receive any semblance of informed consent, and were simply told during a routine office visit that they needed the’safe and effective’ ‘vax,’ and ‘now roll up your sleeve.’ They complied.
Yesterday alone, I saw three patients who had just left the hospital with pulmonary emboli (blood clots in the lungs) and two who had just been diagnosed with myocarditis (all within 2-3 weeks of the second mRNA shot). A 6th patient developed shingles in the auricular nerve distribution (the left ear) the day after the first shot. Prior to the shots, these patients had no histories of pulmonary or cardiac illness, or shingles.
The dark winter is coming.
neurodoc – we had a mask wearing customer in our office last month, she told me she had been 2x vaxxed, and had no side effects… Then proceeded to say that her doctor said she had “some spots” on her lungs.
Neurodoc
The fake vaccines actually do have a purpose. Every time I hear a delusional rant about all the rampant deaths from Ivermectin overdose i invite one of the “fully vaxed” to take eight consecutive Pfizer jabs, two in each arm and two in each butt cheek and then report back about any adverse effects. After all, that is the right dosage level for a horse.
Oh, maybe that’s why they’re now pushing a shingles vaccine – to protect against the effects of the covid jab. I wonder if it’s a mRNA one too?
Fauci19 also triggers latent viruses.
I thought shingles were latent varicella (chicken pox). After a tetanus booster in 2007 I got shingles (had chickenpox when a kid). Perhaps anything that stimulates the immune system can trigger latent viruses, and these new interventions seem to do exactly that on a grand scale.
Shingles is latent varicella. Anything that stresses the body can bring on an attack of shingles, but most cases occur at random, for no identifiable reason. When you’re giving a vaccine to 100,000,000 people some are going to develop shingles shortly after vaccination based on randomness alone – it’s a fairly common condition.
Saw my primary practicing Doc and he was pushing the vax very hard.
I asked him some key questions as to why people could still get the crud after the vax and he had the standard lie.
You can get it buts its a lot less damaging.
I told him I was pretty sure I already got the crud and would wait a bit.
He popped off oh then just get the booster.
I suggested if they got the booster vial and three syringes and I could watch the nurse and doctor get the booster first I would then get the booster.
The nurse flat out refused and the doctor said he already had his booster and did not need another.
I then asked for the tetanus, whooping cough and diphtheria vaccine hoping they would not just inject me with the booster crude.
He seemed shocked as this was the first vaccine I have actually taken in the fifteen years I have had him as my Doctor.
I explained not anti vaccine just don’t believe in flu shots or anything smacking of flu vaccines.
Careful. Soon they’ll have mRNA versions of all of those.
Have you seen Dr. Malone’s take on the over-vaxxing? He contends that the large amount of jabbing is going to cause ‘superbugs’ much like over-sanitizing caused bacterial superbugs in hospitals.
An Ophthalmologist here says they have lots of cases of vision problems hours after getting the mRNA injection. “We don’t know why but in most cases the problems go away in a few days without treatment.” I know 2 people who have odd neurological problems- muscle spasms and tingling sensations after the injections.
Out of curiosity I downloaded the Korean version of the FDA fact sheet on the j&j treatment. It had a paragraph about an increase chance of auto-immune disorders that the English version did not.
That’s the same phrase he used during the presidential debate. The one where Trump should have eviscerated him on stage.
The slip that went unnoticed…
Isn’t it the duty of health professionals to know everything about new treatments? If we know the down sides of the clot shots, surely they should? Bizarre.
Neurodoc, I always find your posts interesting.
While we are all unknowns here, you seem plausible, so here is my question for you, or any of the commentariat:
In addition to you, I’ve heard of blood clots in particular, and inflammation in general, as being nasty side effects of the vaccine.
Inflammation is associated with various disorders, as I understand (my medical knowledge is generally inadequate….)
Is there a link between inflammation and aneurysms?
Thank you for surfing through all the major cable news channels so I don’t have to.
— 1/80,000,000
I love the multiple horror genre references. It certainly seems like a possession is taking place, though that has seemingly gone on since humans had begun ‘consuming’ information, never wondering about the producer of said information. Americans need to exorcise and exercise, and take some fucking supplements.
It seems like our host repeats the spinning head spewing vomit image through his consciousness.
You can’t unsee Linda Blair…
In the context of the Matrix, both the GOP and Biden/Dems are bad. But Biden and the Dems are much worst. Look for more outlandish “doubling down” on stupidity, like his edict that all Federal workers must be vaccinated. (BTW, I wonder what the fine print says. How absolute is his directive?)
On the other side, I’m listening to 101.5 FM in Detroit, some dude named Hugh Hewitt, a “conservative”, says “…..while I support the vaccine, and I urge everyone to get it, I’m troubled by constitutional overreach…..” blah, blah.
In this space, it seems many people can think. But out here in the world, I’m not so sure. The thinkers demonstrate against mandates. They are ordinary, but intelligent enough seek REAL answers, and they go to the protests. But a few hundred here and there in an area of millions is not that much.
This Hewitt guy reaches thousands. Instead of calling out the greatest government crime of my lifetime, which is to push a vaccine that by all previous standards is dangerous, while quietly denying Americans early treatment like ivermectin, hydroxychlorquil, etc, so they can deteriorate and THEN wind up in expensive ICUs to die, this jack-a$$ who purports to stand for liberty propagates the BIG lie!
Tomorrow, we will be bombarded with 20th Anniversary. Yes, 9//11 was tragic. If you buy into the view that 19 radicals, 15 of them Saudis, committed the diabolically brilliant crime (because look at how much it has hurt the USA….wasted money on wars, and civil liberties compromised–simply brilliant!), you can trace the root cause to American meddling in the Middle East. No one in the MSM asks questions—just the occasional “discontented”, like one Michael Scheuer, a CIA analyst. CIA types like him, who want to “get things done” and are honest in their sordid business are marginalized, or like John Kyriakou, go to jail.
On the other hand, people like General Petraeus (pronounced Betray-us), who preside over the debacle with great fanfare and solemnity at the same time, divulge state secrets to their girlfriend on the side and not only is their no sanction (I would have been in jail), but they get cushy board seats in Wall St.
Compared to 9/11 though, the denial of simple, basic medical care which would have saved tens of thousands (in my opinion) lives, because the FDA “has not authorized ivermectin for COVID-19”, while the government pushes a toxic vaccine, whose long-term effects we really do not know (but perhaps those in the know do), the crime of COVID-19 is vastly, vastly more criminal.
While it is still available (must be taken down within 48 hours per threats of the Feds against Dr. Mercola), please view
“Perspectives on the Pandemic,” with Dr. Peter McCullough (video):
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/10/perspectives-on-the-pandemic-with-dr-peter-mccullough.aspx?
He speaks of doctors being in a trance-like state.
He is one of my heroes. Another is Reiner Fuellmich.
And Dr. Mercola is also under extreme pressure.
I hope that someone with the know-how to do so is archiving his posts and bulletins.
Try “4K Video Downloader” It’s free and very easy to use.
Doesn’t work on Mercola’s video. Must be locked. Worked on all other Youtube videos.
I watched this video, thank you for posting the link.
I woke up feeling wicked and powerless, that video helped.
Sure, I can have access to this ‘vital information’ if I sign up and provide contact data. Nah…
Want some cheese with your whine?
Yes, the Fromunda Cheese.
Well, if you do give an email, the Mercola organization will unsubscribe your address in request, talks a couple weeks. That was my experience.
If you are looking for a good book, I just started Peter J Hotez’s book “Preventing the Next Pandemic.” Only a couple chapters in, but interesting and a fast read.
Hotel is vilified by anti vaxxes as he also wrote “Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism”, Rachel being his daughter. Will read that book next most likely.
Meanwhile, Andrew Wakefield’s autism “study” was retracted and he lost his medical license in 2010. Yet too many believe his fake study. The big lie that won’t die.
You are equating pre-covid “antivaxxers” with today’s intelligent anti covid vaccine individuals. Well, talk about the big lie! Hello, pot. Were there a hundred million “antivaxxers” in 2019 USA?
Sick.
“Too late, Jake, bring the rake”
Site is down.
That’s what they are all saying! “I support the vaccine, you should get it, but I also support free choice”.
What they are really saying is “I’m in Big Pharma’s pocket, but I don’t want you to notice”.
Cue entrance of Donald J Trump.
I am still waiting for Trump to admit he was given Ivermectin at Walter Reed in October 2020.
That would be a game changer.
But instead he is pushing the vax (and getting booed) and now he is saying he won’t get the booster shot because he is “feeling great!”. (Compromised??)
He’s feeling great because he survived Covid and has natural, durable and probably life-long immunity.
The US is locked in a censorship blackout regarding early treatment protocols while the head of Japan’s Medical Association is advising Ivermectin for early Covid treatment.
It is only a matter of time before clear-thinking Americans wake up.
You are kidding, Abby
Trump admitting that he took Ivermectin and was back on the campaign trail two days later wouldn’t even make the 6th page of the East Podunk News on a news day where there were no murders to report.
“News is what we say it is, Citizen”
Trump will be the next candidate from the Repugnant Party for the simple reason that people choose politicians who’s names they have heard the most times. The only thing that Trump has to offer America is a chance to repair his broken ego. I doubt if there are enough good software programmers in his wing of his party to arrange an electoral fraud like the Dems did so he could win.
In American elections votes, like Truth are irrelevant.
It’s nearly universal in msm for the qualifiers you refer to, Socrates. And alternative media is not much better. Most of them rail against the establishment but always say something like, “don’t get me wrong — I’m not anti-vaccines and I think everyone should get vaccinated.”
To me, that’s cya bullshit, and taints everything they say. But if they don’t say it, they’re canceled. So be it.
GROW A PAIR!
Paging Tucker Carlson – now missing in action since Friday when he seemed a bit hazy.
I noticed that too. His eyes were half-closed.
We’re already seeing some of the longer term side effects of the vaccine with this new surge of disease. They’re calling it a variant, but there’s no diagnostic test for that. It will only get worse come winter, if Luc Montagnier is correct and people are dropping like flies. That is why the desperate push to get as many shots in arms as possible before it becomes painfully obvious to everybody that it’s lethal. You may have noticed that there is no push to vaccinate illegal immigrants en mass.
I expect they will be going into schools and injecting kids without parental permission, if they aren’t already. As far as Joe Biden pulling the pin, there is really no way the United States survives supply chain collapse, which is coming, on top of attempts to control a disease of pandemic proportions, so they might as well bet the ranch now.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their true country, HEARTLAND, write a new Constitution and fortify our borders against Califoricatia and the Obiden Needleocracy.
Hewitt is a ‘young republican’ that was on a PBS debate show opposite Kerman Maddox. Don’t remember the name of the show, was about 25+ yrs ago. Weird that Hewitt is on radio somewhere. And weirder that Maddox is, per the above link, well plugged-in to The System.
Hewitt is no different from Trump, who is STILL patting himself on the back for Op Warp Speed. If he doesn’t wake up to how much patriots hate the clot shot, he’s going to lose his base.
This is the only double shot I recommend… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57s89xrC93o
One of my all-time favorites!
And yet one reads today that the USPS has been exempted from the vax mandate. What????
Sorry. I lapsed into a moment of logical reasoning. I swear it won’t happen again.
I think I read that their union has already indicated opposition to it.
Besides, the postal workers can’t get too angry at the government, during a mail-in recall vote.
Treating one segment of the federal workforce as special is also sure to divide the workforce and get them resenting each other.
EVEn better for TPTB.
Maybe the postal union leaders had negotiating power in getting an exemption. As in threatening to talk about the mail-in ballots and all the little tricks that were pulled last November.
Why would you vaccinate the federal workers who visit your home and place of work 6 days a week?
A flaming asshole I unfortunately know insists that there’s no reason to force USPS employees to get the shot since “there’s no evidence that COVID spreads via physical contact.” Which naturally explains why we’ve been told for 18 months to use Clorox wipes, Purell, and similar products five times more religiously than Adrian Monk and Sheldon Cooper *combined*.
Hey Jim,
I always enjoy your bi-weekly commentary!
No doubt, we are living “in the presence of true evil”; pure evil.
There are more people out here who recognize this than maybe you think……….we are here.
Cheers (or maybe not),
fred
If it’s twice a week, is it bi-weekly or semi-weekly?
Good question.
I can guarantee you that Jim knows the answer!
It’s bi-weekly. Like a bi-annual booster shot, twice a year.
bi·week·ly
/b??w?kl?/
adjective
adjective: bi-weekly
done, produced, or occurring every two weeks or twice a week.
“a biweekly bulletin”
Hahahahaha!
Generally, bi- means two (biweekly means every two weeks), while semi- means half (semiweekly means twice a week). Because these prefixes are often confused with each other, writers should be explicit about the meaning.”Feb 23, 2021
I should look before I leap! And I was so certain (for a minute)!
The Brits solve that conundrum with “fortnightly”.
I avoid the “bi-” adjectives like the plague. No sense inviting confusion.
I wish I hadn’t opened my big mouth. Very embarrassing. 🙁
SpeedyBB,
What would it mean if all the bi-sexuals became semi-sexuals?
As the in-house grammar and usage expert, I’d go for demi-weekly. Let’s ask the CDC. They seem to be a reliable bunch.
I would go simply for “Mondays” and “Fridays”
Greetings,
Two weeks ago I made a comment that the government had declared war on us and that the only way out would be to take out the transformers. There were some here demanding that Jim ban me or delete my comments.
I hope you guys demanding I be banned have woken the f up. If this isn’t war then what is it?
NickelthroweR – there are lots of dead pine trees around…
Demand Banning NO I can’t speak for anyone else I was concerned for your physical well being.
I also agreed 100% in the sentiment but posting things like that are NOT doing things like that.
Oh, I was an officer in the United States Army and Uncle Sugar spent a lot of time, effort and money to make sure I knew every single trick in the book. I know that the key to winning any fight is a willingness to burn your bridges; a willingness to roll around in the mud and a willingness to call artillery on your own position. Most people have not had the benefits of such an experience and have not spent any time in the professional military class.
With that in mind I 100% know that the first thing to do should this go kinetic is to take out the transformers. They are soft targets that can easily be put out of commission and can no longer be easily replaced. Doing this would cause pure pandemonium in the blue cities such that even our military couldn’t contain it. Attempting to keep the 10 million residents of LA county from eating each other would make Vietnam look like a pleasant Sunday drive home from church.
Finally, the one reason that we haven’t yet nuked Russia is that we know they’ll nuke us in return. Well, what is being said here is recorded and studied (by A.I.) and if the PTB know that we’ll go right for the infrastructure that provides for THEM then they may think twice about angering us further. After all, they know their base is surrounded.
Nickel:
Totally on target about transformers. Semi armor piercing ammunition like old Chinese steel jacketed 7.62X39 will penetrate the casings of transformers with devastating results, as well as the numerous capacitors (the square edged rectangular boxes on poles.). Power companies keep transformers on hand for routine failure related replacements, but not too many. Many of the substations with the really high voltage first stage step-down transformers are located outside of towns where they take the 600KV and up high tower lines. Pretty easy to get close to them and if you can get your hands on a Barratt with armor piercing ammo, you can do it from a mile away.
By God, I’d like to state, here and now, that the guys and gals in Homeland Security deserve a lot of credit for the work they are doing…I’d like to buy each and every one of them a beer….
Nickelthrower: You are correct about the transformers. Of course, the unintended side effect would be to launch the golden hordes out of the unsustainable cities. They would flee like a cloud of locusts and would kill, burn, rape, loot, and destroy the suburbs and then progress towards small town America.
So, arguably, it’s only a good strategy to do this once our folks have been properly organized into militia organizations led, preferably, by ex-military officers and NCO’s who know their business and who can give the armed civilians the benefit of their knowledge, training, and experience.
In this way, good folks will be better prepared to “repel boarders” so to speak, when the Golden Horde arrives at the city limits of their smaller communities.
NickelthroweR (nice moniker), you remind me of having read a couple of years back of a Pentagon study whose theme was a “winnable nuclear war”. I could barely believe my eyes.
Of course it may just have been a case of “idle hands…”, of keeping the kiddies busy in the five-sided house so they can’t go stir up trouble somewhere else.
“Winnable nuclear war” goes right into the oxymoron collection.
Whenever I have a power failure at my house, I check my WiFi to see if I can still get to the internet. Also check my smartphone. If all those ever go out, I have multiple battery powered AM & FM radios to see if stations are still on the air. If those radios are either dead or there’s nothing on the air I can hear, I have a 2M amateur XCVR to see if any local hams are active. If all that is dead, I will start to get the impression it is TEOTWAWKI.
Nicklethrower
Take a drive out to Grand Coulee Dam. Drive down a gravel road to a prime view point. There in all its magnificence is not only the Dam, but a transformer farm with most of the generators in the dam hooked to them— powering the entire Pacific Northwest.. Surrounded by a chain link fence.
Evidently blog chatter from wanna-be agent provocateurs is not really a credible threat. Or if it is, Homeland Security will wake up and at least do something having to do with actual Homeland Security.
It’s amazing how vulnerable US electrical power systems are to kinetic threats. The great concern these days is with cyber attacks, and maybe in distant second place geomagnetic induced currents.
Some years back in California perpetrators cut fiber comms and proceeded to shoot at autotransformers in a large switching station. They clearly knew a lot. The industry reacted with all manner of protective schemes intended to stop high-power rifle fire. I was charged at the time with selling some of this over-priced crap. The scenario I was not supposed to think about was an explosive-laden drone flying over the ballistic barrier.
More security theater, like the TSA, like masks. Like a lot of what passes for serious policy your average 10 year old could defeat.
Strange, Billy. Now you mention cyber attacks, the old brain tells me that the WEF “wargamed” a cyber attack back in July…
“The industry reacted with all manner of protective schemes intended to stop high-power rifle fire. ” You may be referring to the Metcalf sniper attack of 2013. I have followed that ever since it first got into the news. Since then I noticed that I still able to see these vulnerable transformers from a fair distance, most anywhere in the USA I go. Simply putting up opaque barriers to shield the transformers from outside gaze was apparently not one of the “protective schemes” used after 2013.
“The scenario I was not supposed to think about was an explosive-laden drone flying over the ballistic barrier.” Did anyone think about a gaggle of helium filled Mylar balloons bundled loosely together with metal wires? Regular bundles of Mylar balloons without metal wires (IIRC) have taken out power transmission lines before. Google “Mylar balloons power lines”
The ballistic walls were expensive and frankly, difficult to engineer into the substation space. Autotransformers and large power transformers need to be moved out and replaced sooner or later (hopefully much later, like 30-40 years). They are tall as well as very heavy, and to construct a wall requiring a foundation is not as simple as just digging and pouring concrete when the entire structure might have to be moved quickly under emergency circumstances. So “the fix” was not uniformly applied. In my own neck of the woods one power station switchyard was protected by a maze of steel barriers allowing access to the breakers, switches, and instrument transformers in the yard. The generator step-up transformers are far away on the campus near the generators themselves of course for obvious electrical and economic reasons. These GSUs and the isophase interconnect with the generators are the most precious power asset out in plain sight. Not replaceable quickly.
“Regular bundles of Mylar balloons without metal wires (IIRC) have taken out power transmission lines before. Google “Mylar balloons power lines” ”
And if the protective relaying is working properly despite the fact that the balloons will initiate a phase-to-phase fault the circuit breakers at the ends of the line will open until the fault clears. The system is well-equipped to handle such as this. I thought New Orleans was in for a long power outage after viewing the crumpled lattice transmission towers. Those are engineered for the specific site (geotechnical, mechanical, etc) and not replaceable quickly. Turns out most of Nola is back on so I have heard.
Cyber attack against the system protective relaying is a valid concern. Remove the protection, initiate a fault, and start burning the system down. That would be a very bad day.
It is unclear to me that the tactic of destroying infrastructure would benefit those wishing to re-do the political system. Something about cutting off your nose to spite your face…
I think Ghandi may have had a better approach, acknowledging that his context was hugely different than the divided USA.
Letting people know how to get to the soft white underbelly in case things go kinetic is the weapon of mass destruction they fear the most.
When you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a billion dollars then the bank has a problem.
When your base of power is LA, New York and Chicago then it is you that has the problem.
Fly in the ointment: If you zap the grid, the nuke plants will melt.
Red-hot doom scenario, Dr_W_Y. This actually worries me quite a bit, when I think about World Made by Hand stuff. Oh, going back to the days of yore, need to learn to ride a horse and churn butter and…oh, the nuke plants. Oh. Fuuuuuuuuck.
That is a concern. I seem to recall that 3 or 4 power transmission lines to the Brown’s Ferry nuclear power plant here in northwest Alabama were taken down by tornados in 2011. Had they lost the 4th transmission line it would jphave been a real ugly day in the Yellowhammer State.
When I was visiting my brother-in-law in the Texas Hill Country a few years back, I did a lot of jogging along the highway. He lived just below Buchanan Dam, and when I approached the top of the dam from a public road, the uniforms poured out of a building, challenging my presence.
You’d think I was trying to sneak into a nuclear weapons bunker or ICBM silo.
I didn’t try to argue my way into an optimal place for a nice landscape photo; I actually felt sorry for the sorry lot of paunchy, fearful functionaries. They’d likely be unemployable in the real world; you can imagine them hanging onto that cushy “Guard the dam” job at all costs.
By the way, no transformers or anything else of target value at Buchanan Dam. And a skinny bald-headed guy in running shorts and sneakers wasn’t going to break it either..
“Evidently blog chatter from wanna-be agent provocateurs is not really a credible threat.” Years ago I had a long talk on this matter with a guy in my amateur radio club. He is/was an electrician for both commercial & residential structures and had experience with power networks going back to military bases during Viet Nam. He told me one hairy story about a job he needed to do at one of the largest office buildings down town. He needed to access a particular service panel in the building, and was going down internal corridors with his document stack looking for it. He found one unlocked and unlabeled panel with a host of internet-type connections, both wired & fiber. This might have been the one he needed to work on, but without identifying markings, he didn’t want to touch it. He found his counterpart who covered this building and he was told to leave that panel alone, it was a major internet connection point for the entire NE USA to the rest of North America. Unmarked, unlocked, and unsecured.
To cut this short, simply Google “Metcalf sniper attack”, which remains unsolved. If you can see a transformer, it is thereby vulnerable to an attack with easily available tools.
But not all transformers are “equal”. Yes, large autotransformers in switching stations are very valuable, in rank just below GSU’s.( I think that was the case at Metcalf. These are still manufactured domestically.)
The ranking is determined by how many meters downstream the device are affected.
Storm restoration is based on this general principle, as well as critical services such as hospital, police, fire. Hint: if your house is on the same circuit as a fire station or hospital you are guaranteed to be restored first.
Following the storms of 04-05 in Florida certain gasoline stations and food stores installed generator back-up. This presupposes general availability of diesel. Hospitals already had back-up.
Nuclear power stations are reliant on the grid to an extent but they too employ generator back up with fuel storage. Gotta keep those swimming pools with spent fuel rods circulating. In a catastrophic scenario (no roads, no fuel) yes indeed we are up shit creek without a paddle.
My neighbor is a raging lib, up to and including homage to Climate Change. That is, until the power goes out. At which point he is firing up a noisy gasoline-powered generator.
The newsreaders demeanor and delivery has become more stilted and serious with an earnestness that borders on farce. The all seem to be convinced of their intelligence and virtue.
The overriding message I get from watching the news is — “Listen to US!!! We have the inside story!” And most importantly, “we tell you everything you need to know so do not think for yourself.”
On Inauguration Day last year I had it tuned to ABC and the newsreader said over and over as the Trumps were leaving — “this feels like an exorcism” . There was no moderating commentary from the other two mediocrities sharing the desk.
On Inauguration Day last year…
SW – it does feel like last year, doesn’t it? But it’s only been eight months, of course.
Eight months of Biden = 1 1/2 years of pretty much anybody else, it appears.
Part of the problem is that people have caught on to the lies of the Gov’t and I have a problem with just 80 million who refuse to be vaccinated. I believe that number is much, much higher.
People have seen this playbook before from GW Bush saying they hate us for our freedoms. Colin Powell holding up a bag of supposed laundry detergent as proof Saddam Hussein had WMD’s.
Syrian leader Assad is killing his own people, to Hillary Clinton wanting to off Muammar Gaddafi. The list goes on as the American Public have been lied to over the years by their Gov’t.
What’s new this time is that the Gov’t is doing to them what it has done to other leaders and Nations. They have awaken to the fact that it has been lied to. They see something really shady when any dissenting thought gets you cancelled. Now they see the Gov’t forcing people to do something against their will when evidence shows these questionable experimental drugs can harm or kill you. They also have taken note that in the past if 50 people were harmed or killed by a new drug, it would have been pulled for safety reasons.
The 80 million are just those who will be effected by the new mandate – such as people who work in companies of 100 people or more.
Yes! The number is much larger.
Make that affected.
The people who wholeheartedly believed their lies about Libya, Trump was a Russian asset and Fauci is America’s Doctor have already been vaccinated and are screaming the loudest at the “hesitant.”
Now the gloves are off since cash, donuts and trying to convince the unvaccinated they’re killing other people hasn’t worked.
I generally agree with you that a lot of people are on to the game. However, a lot of others, either through brainwashing, stupidity, or arrogance, believe in their righteousness for taking the shot, and believe anyone who doesn’t conform to the will of Biden and his controllers needs to be punished by any means necessary.
Where I disagree is the part about Iraq’s WMD’s. We know he had them because we (the US) supplied them to him, which fact Bush and Powell soft-pedaled. Remember, Iraq was our proxy against the Iranian mullahs after Carter bungled the whole Shah-vs.-Khomeini thing, including the hostages; before that Iran was our proxy against the Soviet-backed Iraq. We also know the Russians helped truck the WMD stockpile into Syria just before the more recent invasion of Iraq. Bush didn’t pursue it because he stupidly thought Putin would help America stop terrorists on our terms if he didn’t tell everyone what had happened. Instead, Putin was Putin and quickly became Little Assad’s best buddy, while Bush was beaten into the dust by the hyper-partisan “news” media for not finding what was safely in Syria. I think, too, that Bush expected American forces to find some anthrax or other bios weapons that had been left behind. But let’s face it, the Gore and Kerry supporters would’ve clobbered him even if Americans and Brits had found the fully-intact infrastructure for an Iraqi Manhattan Project along the banks of the Tigris.
“That pin on the national grenade I’ve been alluding to…? I think Ol’ White Joe pulled it yesterday. Something big is going to blow now. I’m thinking: what remains of the American economy.”
Conveniently, the president of the Dallas Fed was exposed as an active stock trader.
His penalty?
None.
His remedy? He will relinquish his stocks. Now. At a beneficial rate of course.
Just in time.
Before the implosion.
Ethics Complaint Filed Against Florida Rep. Wasserman-Schultz over Alleged Insider Trading
“Contrary to this legal requirement, it was recently reported that Representative Wasserman-Schultz failed to publicly disclose stock transactions as required by law. Wasserman-Schultz purchased up to $15,000, and her dependent child purchased up to $45,000, in a telecommunications-product company called Westell Technologies in October 2020, but she did not disclose the trades until July 2021.”
https://tennesseestar.com/2021/09/08/ethics-complaint-filed-against-florida-rep-wasserman-schultz-over-alleged-insider-trading/
Is she in hiding?
Haven’t seen that face like a chewed boot in quite some time.
People 1/2 joked she was on the Clinton naughty list.
Maybe that’s why there’s been a complaint. To keep her in hiding.
That’s probably the least of the dirt they have on her.
There was her (ahem) relationship with that Paki spy, and something about hacked computers but no you can’t look at them.
“There was her (ahem) relationship with that Paki spy, and something about hacked computers but no you can’t look at them.”
Oh, right! Thanks for reminding me of that.
I’m sure we didn’t get the whole story on him and his family. He/they got off with a slap on the wrist.
A slap on the wrist for getting caught, never for the deed itself.
100th: haven’t seen many of them recently. Where’s Brennan, Comey, ValJar, Rice, Haspel? You’d have thought they’d be on CNN everynight crowing over Trump’s “defeat”. Maybe they’re all standing behind the curtain every time Biden appears, pulling on his strings and holding up big cards saying, “Wave now!”
No doubt they’re saying incantations to bring forth the demon-spawn of their lord Ba’al. After all, the Cackling Shrew, Hilllruh, is allegedly some high-level Satanic priestess, so why wouldn’t other politically-motivated idiots, er geniuses engage in similar things?
Thank you for scrolling through the MSM Jim so that I can save myself the torment. Cruelly inflicted pains from clowns like Dr. Fauci-stein, creator of the Virus of Doom that somehow gets miraculously promoted to Mad-god of medicine to whom all knees shall bow after inventing the beast in the first place. Or watching our pathetic government battle a foreign “enemy” for 20 years only to turn on a dime one day and not only hand over billions of dollars of serious weaponry to them, but to embrace them as friends and brothers. And all that while conspicuously assaulting the American public in a less than covert campaign to rob us all of the mere pop guns we posses by comparison.
The saddest part for me is the complacency of the Herd That Has No Immunity and that will never have any immunity from the pandemic of bullshit that has been showered upon us all since they whacked Jack. Anything goes and nothing really matters – we owe you for that one Jim, thank you.
Jesse Watters in for Tucker: The Afghan refugees, screened by the Taliban, will get welfare for life, with chain migration in the offing. AND “Afghan” means anyone who has ever lived there. So many Pakis can start coming in as well.
Green card and pathway to citizenship. Vote D!
to whom all knees shall bow – Walt B
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People bow, knees bend…
but that’s OK, we knew what you meant.
Thank you Q, that one got by me. If Jerkoff Joe has his way many of our necks will bend as well to the bade, that is. Better that then eternal damnation.
A doctor with an ethics module? Surely you jest. Three different diagnoses from three different institutions. The best. They pay no attention to anything except the charge master, investments and bigger houses. My old friend, licensed for 66 years as a DO said their halos were to tight. He was a prince, these new guys not so much. Theft in every direction. Ticker guy says under existing fed statutes they could be prosecuted for RICO. DO IT.
“You will become a non-person, perhaps an unperson! There, that’ll fix you!”
Who among us has actually learned the [ legal – binding – undiscovered ] definition of ” person” and still wants to be one?
Sadly, another JHK post that goes absolutely nowhere and means absolutely nothing. Would love to see something seriously ballsy from the guy – maybe propose a rebellion, or at least lead a pushback – because the sword is mightier than the pen, and don’t you ever believe otherwise. But instead – JHK instead just posts five or six paragraphs of rhetoric and that’s that – and nothing changes, imagine that. And so it seems there are no real patriots anymore, no one going barefoot at Valley Forge — and we will pretty much get what we deserve. Oh well. This was a great country once.
Never – encouraging people to think for themselves is the first step to some real hope and change.
A victorious warrior first wins and then goes to war while the defeated warrior first goes to war and seeks to win.
People first have to have an understanding of what they are fighting for. The American Revolution was first fought on paper and pamphlets.
Exactly!
Well said. Americans remain utterly confused by and large. To further your Sun Tzu with another one: One who understands neither his enemy nor himself will lose every battle.
The Left knows American history far better than “patriots” do. They know that it’s racist, but say that like it’s a bad thing as opposed to an inevitable thing and a natural thing.
His posts support logical reasoning and encourage spirited dialogue amongst his readers. To that effect a great purpose is achieved. If in some way this further allows the powder keg to take a spark at an unforeseen time in the future, then the effect will be achieved. A spirted rebellion will coalesce, these things just take time.
I’m sure someone told Thomas Paine, “Is that all you do? Sit on your ass and write, write!”
After Independence was won, Paine turned his pen/sword on the Founders. The second Revolution is always the Kill Shot. That’s what he wanted. Illuminati? Grand Orient Masonic Trash?
This directly contradicts Yusuf Islam, Rod Stewart Mill, and Cheryll Crow.
The first cut is the deepest
As Lord Russell said, funny men invariable confuse wit for wisdom.
invariably
he was more intelligent than you give him credit for
Speaking of having neither wit nor wisdom, did you see decapitator-wannabe Kathy Griffin has lung cancer.
Would it be in poor taste if Trump posed holding up a bloody severed lung?
As regards Lord Russell, there were a great many “funny men” who emerged from the British boarding school system. Oscar Wilde is the poster child.
Why do you say I don’t give him credit? You’re the one disobeying his command, funny man.
Janos, you’re learned
But dim
Very dim
Invariably
Follow ?
More like-minded folks over at Alex Berenson’s Substack.
NeverHollywood,
We who are fired up can only shake our walkers at TPTB on our way to the pharmacy. The young can’t be pried off their smart phones to do anything. Besides, to them this all looks normal.
Has our resident Media Agent returned under a new handle in order to encourage our host to call for violence?
Hm.
Agent Provocateurs? The Jesuits have a saying,”If you fear a conspiracy against you, organize one.”
My first thought as well.
I disagree. The propaganda is the single most important tool of subjection. Any signs it is cracking are welcome.
Another one who needs some cheese with their whine.
I’m not sure that it is necessarily the job of our host to engage in advocacy of “direct action” of any specific sort. The government agents would just come get him and lead him off in handcuffs for inciting his readers to commit acts deemed “unlawful” by our rather lawless regime in Washington.
The people who read CFN tend to be of much higher than average intelligence and talents. When the SHTF I think most everyone here already knows what they need to do and how to go about the business of doing what must be done.
Enough said.
Erin Burnett & Co. aren’t journalists. They are agitprop officers who disseminate propaganda under the cover of “news presenter” for the goal of fear & control.
Ultimately, the institutional survival of the Deep State & internal security state (as in all totalitarian regimes) is the main goal behind this propaganda.
I saw a headline recently declaring that we have moved from the MIC to the SIC (surveillance).
Bloodless coups
Unknown coups
in plain sight
Gaslit if you speak a word of it
Every time I see General Milly Vanilly’s mouth moving, I wonder who’s really singing!
Whoever lined up his post “public service” sinecure.
Fasco-corporate Netflix likes to hire retired deep staters and give them “producer” job titles. Maybe Milly can produce a documentary where he explains all the ribbons on his uniform and exactly what he did to earn each one. I expect soon they’ll have a rainbow one for supporting….ah…enlightened thinking.
We live in a place where the predominant voices of reason are a meathead comedian with a podcast and two liberal arts professors canceled from one of the most liberal colleges in the country.
Throw in one activist and progressive married gay journalist exiled in Brazil who was banned from his own liberal news outfit, a left leaning former Rolling Stones writer, and a cancelled New York Times writer who dares investigate Big Pharma.
Meathead Joe “yo, did you see this on YouTube?” Rogan hosted the DarkHorse crew the other day.
They spoke of ivermectin.
That generic drug that is banned to keep the EUA in place.
Surreal.
Add a former Archdruid to your list, 100.
I’m not sure what that is but I’l take your word for it.
Is it a dungeon master? “Lightning bolt!” “Lightning bolt!” “Cure wounds spell!” “Cure wounds spell!”
John Michael Greer over at Ecosophia, 100.
Got it. I enjoy him as a guest on the podcast.
Sounds like a real pleasant and open-minded chap.
“Mmmhmm” “mmmhmmm”
Or death and decay death and decay! -deathknight spell from wow
Jesus. We ARE quite the gaggle of nerds. Yeah, yeah, I had the D&D stuff too. Bought my first D&D manual at a game store in the underground mall in a Crystal City near DC back in 1980. Had fun with it for a few years in college as “Baladin the Paladin.” Lol…..
Soon grew outta that and switched to tinkering with muscle cars. Still a hobby for young’s dudes on a power trip, though.
With a nom de plume like “Wizard of the Saddle”, I’m not surprised you were once into D&D.
Maybe you can become the Wizard of Seaddle, a city spiraling down hell’s toilet, a city in need of rescue.
Did you mean “meathead comedian” or “pothead comedian”?? Ha.
Interesting. Seems like The Weinsteins, Bari Weiss, Joe Rogan, etc aka the “Intellectual Dark Web” often smell of controlled opposition.
Matt Taibbi’s writing suffers lately as he is uncomfortable with true rebellion against the status quo. Had a recent very lame article featured on ZH that was just a slog. Terrible.
Glenn G. is great with a turn of phrase and is wonderful at taking someone on but he has the taint of the whole Snowden thing.
Weiss might “dare” to write about big pharma however others did that before her and frankly whenever I hear her name I think of the true rebel writer with a “W” in her last name: Whitney Webb. She tied the virus to Ft Detrick while Weiss was still at the NY Times writing about who knows what.
So who are really the rebels? The people who get a mainstream platform or those who don’t?
Bari Weiss is a Zionist shill.
She certainly can’t, or doesn’t, think for herself.
Lots more good people out there.
Mark Crispin Miller, Whitney Webb, Alex Berenson, Substack is taking off!
But yes the most prominent now are the ones you mention.
Does anyone among us have the counter-point to last night… like, come on, it wasn’t that bad, Biden is right.
I don’t like an open Southern border, but I am not shocked by it, that’s Democrats being Dems. I don’t like Dems pushing gun control, but it’s nothing new.
Last night felt new and bad and terribly offensive…. it felt like the President of the USA said I am one of 80 million enemies of the state and threatened me as if I were a terrorist.
Does someone here think it was NOT that bad really?
The Covid Death Culters that sometimes frequent these pages would probably think what Jo Jo Magoo said is ‘no big deal.’
I am wondering how the jabbed will feel when their kids’ bus driver walks off the job. Lots of inconveniences are about to happen.
Mary, my SIL IS the bus driver. Right now, she is in quarantine because a person at the bus garage, WHO WAS VAXXED, exposed her and others to his Covid! She’s ready to quit. She said if the vax was mandated, she is outta there. The bus garage where she works is already chronically short of drivers, cuz applicants can’t pass the drug test.
Sounds just like the situation everywhere. My friend works at a highschool, she’s refusing the vax and says so are the bus drivers and ‘lunch ladies’.
My question is, Mary, are the globalists doing this deliberately to crash the system. If key workers in health care, education, the military and transportation walk off the job or get sacked, the system breaks down. What seemed paranoid last year is now eminently feasible.
“their kids’ bus driver walks off the job” I’ve found many news links to school districts who now cannot find enough school bus drivers to run their system. They didn’t walk the job, instead they didn’t even take the job.
Honestly, who in their right minds would want to sit on a bus for hours on end wearing a mask, and now being forced to take a poison jab on top of it? No thanks, you can keep you $15/hour and deal with the little masked rugrats on your own time. I’ll be sitting in the shade and relaxing while I read my book….
Saw a sign here in Maryland the other day:
HIRING SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS
$21/hr
Re hourly wages, a couple of years ago the local Stop & Shop was looking for hirees @ $11/hour.
Now they are offering $17/hour.
That is a pretty rapid and sizable jump.
No, it really was bad. It is up to us to throw off this chain and yoke that is the “government”. We did not elect anyone in power to push mandates like the ones that Biden spewed out last afternoon. This is all out war, no doubt about it.
Lives and fortunes will certainly be lost in this battle but we must not roll over and give in! Patriots of freedom and individual liberty…..UNITE!!!!!
See Market Ticker today,”Never in My Life”:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243538
He provides a map of states whose governors said Eff You to Biden’s speech.
I don’t know where to look for news of these governors.
Ron “Heavy D” DeSantis (R), Governor of Florida.
Best governor ever. Hope he stays as a strong governor in Florida, instead of going to DC.
Federal level government has proven their own impotence and incompetence, they just haven’t come to terms with it yet.
States’ Right’s starting to loom large again – make sure you’re in a free(r) state.
I remember when Skeletor was gov of FLA. Gawd I couldn’t stand that freak.
You mean Rick Scott, who, before being elected governor, was CEO of Columbia/HCA, who paid a $1.7B (cost-of-doing-business) settlement for Medicare/Medicaid fraud? Yeah, a real prince – now a Florida US Senator. Go figure.
Actually it was worse.
As I said far above, it was literally sickening to me. I wanted to kick the damned boobtube, but my prefrontal cortex stopped me!
observex — Yes, it was really bad.
According to Johns Hopkins University 40 million have been infected and 654,000 have died from complications due to covid (they carefully didn’t say only covid) so that would make the death rate 0.016 of those infected. And every study has shown it’s the elderly and sick who die. But this is never put into perspective on the news and last night hit a new low.
Here’s what Mike Pence said:
“I mean, to have the president of the United States say that he has been patient but his patience is wearing thin — that’s not how the American people expect to be spoken to by our elected leaders,” Pence said.
Ah they rolled out ol Obama himself to counter the recall of Gavin Newsome I saw a commercial with the stuttering silver tongued devil last night.
Was kind of hoping to never see or hear that moron ever again.
I’m glad I missed that. I would have puked on the floor.
Yesterday, my husband flipped through the channels and Ellen DeGeneres had Michelle O’Bummer as her special guest. Wow, an entire studio of nastiness. Thanks, but I’ll pass.
I thought Ellen got cancelled. The person, not the show.
Seems she’s back? Freaky after making a big deal about the end of her show.
The truly evil never die…
Hopefully, this time Big Mike’s shlong didn’t make a guest appearance as before. LOL!
Mary – you’re killing me.
Which persona did he summon?
His Steve Erkel?
His Chicago southside?
On YouTube I saw an ad yesterday for a freaking National Geographic documentary in full, unabashed praise of Faust, er, Fauci. No less an authority than the illustrious Bonobo, er, I mean, Bono was featured. Probably a bit iffy now, given Fauci’s newest troubles. Wait. What am I smoking?
https://films.nationalgeographic.com/fauci
And it’s a THEATRICAL release! OMG
And then there is Robert F. Kennedy’s new book on Fauci hitting bookshelves in November.
Pre-order now! 🙂
They’re trying to rehabilitate his image, I hear.
Benr: hopefully, that will be the kiss of death for Newsome. Obama is a reverse King Midas: every he touches turns to sh1t.
Yet another excellent article today, James, thank you!
“Hold on now… you say they got multiple doses of the vax but they can still catch the disease? Yes, they can, evidently. Okay… well… what kind of vax is it that doesn’t keep you from catching the disease? Oh, a most excellent vax! ”
And not only that – your vaxxed ass can catch it from a person who is not even ill and has the covid19 antibodies!
Isn’t The Science(tm) amazing?
LOL, you hit upon my favorite paragraph from today’s post. Absolutely classic!
So classic.
What the hypnotized actually believe is just mind-blowing.
So much double-think, and contradiction. No logic involved at all. And certainly no science.
Watch Mark Dice’s man on the street (and women and others…) interviews asking questions about 9/11 etc.
“I just wanna get a beer bro!”
Their propaganda has worked well though.
Dice asks, “Who was the mastermind of 9/11?”
Everyone says, “Ummm….Saddam Hussein?!”
The dumbing down of America. Check.
AND your vaxed ass very likely makes you a super-spreader to the vaxed and unvaxed alike. Biden and all his enablers need to be taken down and then the sites need to be trained on the WHO and the World Bank.
Did you know that the WHO does not agree with all this forced jabbing? They think the resources should be spread to ‘needier’ countries and that there is a chance that overvaxxing during a pandemic might create superbugs. So this must have been the plan all along.
I have decided the hysteria is really about two or three options.
Depopulation no need to explain.
Its meat tenderizer for the soon to invade space aliens a la “to serve humans.”
Or its a vaccine to make humans not edible for said invading space aliens.
Anything’s possible at this point.
benr,
Your #s 2 and 3 bring to mind a hilariously entertaining prognosticator called Clif High, who thinks that ultimately this is all orchestrated by evil space aliens, who will eventually be pitted in a grand battle with the unjabbed.
Ah, Clift High. He did something with “spiders” roaming through the internet looking at language. Somehow he would rank words on their emotional content and predict the future. A bit of woo-woo, but it was for “entertainment purposes only”. I have to wonder however, who is pulling the strings on Biden. Ole Cabbage Head can barely ask for a diaper change. He is a special kind of “un-american”.
At the rate Biden is going, Richard Nixon’s reputation will be completely rehabilitated by comparison.
Biden has taken the concept of the Imperial Presidency to entirely new levels of hubris, grandiosity, and rank tyranny.
At least Nixon actually gave a damn about the country’s welfare. Can’t say I see any evidence whatsoever that Biden gives a rat fuck about anyone or anything other than himself and his dope fiend kid.
They can get Biden to say and do anything by threatening to withhold his fruit cup and jello.
Out of good ol’ American politeness, they may even add … thank you… no, thank you….
You’re WAY too kind here Jim! I think the more appropriate response might be…
Out of good ol’ American politeness, they may even add … FUCK YOU… NO, FUCK YOU…. AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!!!!
Dis, I like horses but I I never much cared for horse fuckers or people who throw bricks at horses like those Antifa pieces of shit.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if we ignored Sleepy Joe, when he went out at night to force the jab on us.,
Oh Elmo,
Sadly, very few would recognize “and how we burned in the camps later…”
That paragraph from TGA should be required reading everywhere.
The prune faces are reflecting a growing awareness of their irreversible vax dilemma, and national perdition. We put self admitted dumb heads in power mostly who are easily manipulated by a good line of bullshit, say, from Anthony F., or the climbers at the Pentagon.
WEF placements.
Ah, yes. The WEF “Young Leaders” program. The very phrase, oozing globalist arrogance and “we know better than the plebs” make me want to punch someone.
The tell on corporate media collusion is always when they all have the same headline the next day without having done any investigation first, such as “Trump Questions Vote Count Without Foundation.”
Sure enough, they all trumpeted “Unfounded Conspiracy Theory” in lockstep from Day One of the pandemic, even though the fresh market bat eating hypothesis was risibly implausible from the start.
The other tell is when the liberal ecosystem selects a Hero-Who-Cannot-Be-Questioned to represent Truth.
Remember General Patraeus, to sell us The Surge in Afghanistan? Patraeus, who turned out to be a not very trustworthy human being, to sell us a bogus narrative about completing a virtuous mission in Afghanistan.
How about Robert Mueller, of unquestionable competence and integrity, to prove that Russiagate wasn’t a politically motivated hoax? Mueller who, under testimony, either knew nothing about the investigation he had supposedly overseen or lied in professing categorical ignorance.
This time it was Dr. Fauci, the most virtuous physician who ever lived – who funded gain of function research right there in Wuhan against Obama’s orders. If, indeed, Fauci enabled the science experiment that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, how is he not criminally responsible?
Note, also, how there is no national learning curve. The truth about the last national hero selected to lie to us never engenders skepticism the next time.
And there will be a Next Time.
Zoltar, good observations concerningn the “the faces” of rectitude that are pushed forward.
History repeats itself: Get your shot NOW!
Solzhenitsyn
We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more-we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure!
And we got what we deserved.
I have thought these many years he (Solzhenitsyn) related the situation and circumstances he experienced quite well.
I often wonder why we don’t have a general strike like the French do. Those folks have some backbone. I would say from the holes in the supermarket shelves that either they don’t have the stock or no one to put out the stock. Maybe there is a strike, but it is subtle. Unfortunately, I am retired so I can’t quit my job. I’ve had a lot of calls to work “part-time”. NO. More income is more taxes. I’ll pass.
Well, calling for millions to be fired, then watching them be fired, would be one way to obscure a general strike. Kind of like claiming success by passing minimum wage hikes when the upward wage trend is obvious. They just accelerate the trend. In one instance to claim magical powers in the other to obscure the decline of magical powers.
Great point.
Its the lack of food that drives unrest.
Americas shelves go bare shit will get serious really fast.
I don’t really understand how a general strike would be a helpful strategy. As I understand it, one of the objectives of the covid restrictions was to undercut the national economy–slow the velocity of money–in order to dilute the currency-debasement effect of full-bore money printing.
I’m having trouble seeing how a general strike would hurt the PTB. They really don’t need us for anything. Which types of employment are essential to the machinery of state? Seems to me that much of the employment in the US is of negative marginal utility in the first place. Certainly almost all government employment.
Now, if food supplies (and other necessities) were cut off by means of a truckers’ strike, the cities would burn–probably along with parts of the surrounding suburbs. Seems to me that the PTB are okay with that. Many of the major cities are already essentially ungovernable.
I don’t think the PTB care whether there is food (for us) in the grocery stores. We already know that they don’t care whether we have a functional health care system or educational system, or whether we can get car parts or electronics parts.
They don’t need the taxes we pay, because they don’t need our money. They can print money to the moon without any need for it to be connected with productivity. While this will inevitably lead to currency collapse, they have already hedged against that by using the funny money to buy assets.
Somebody help me out here.
I like to fantasize that a truckers strike blocking any deliveries to the greater DC area lasting a couple of weeks would really make a point. There could also be clusters of disabled semis suddenly blocking key highway ramps in that area to keep all those fed workers from showing up. This wouldn’t be a “general strike”, just a very focused one that would get into the headlines.
You’re forgetting that many government jobs became work from home jobs due to the coronavirus. Also, many of the hated bureaucrats agree with you, but there’s not much they can do to change policies when the head of the government is a traitorous, self-righteous dolt. Shutting off, say, the George Washington Parkway wouldn’t necessarily have the effect you seek, in other words.
Here’s an update from Alex on the gulag:
A lawsuit in three acts
https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1435717798081204224?s=20
Has the FBI apprehended the fat white girl in a gorilla mask who threw an egg at Larry Elder’s head?
Not that I’m aware. You can bet if she did that to Maxine Waters, she’d be the target of the national two minutes hate by now, fully doxxed and lost her job (if she had one).
Has anyone offered the individual was already there courtesy of the FBI?
I would not be surprised at all.
It is likely a blessing that she was wearing that gorilla mask. An improvement, no doubt.
“It is likely a blessing that she was wearing that gorilla mask. ” Maybe that was no mask.
Google’s algorithm apparently once conflated a black man’s face with a gorilla. Was she trying to make a statement, or just going for an improvement?
Biden was excellent last night.
Mission accomplished.
He drove the split-wedge even deeper.
We are tired of you.
We had enough of you.
You are hurting us.
We have mo more patience.
You will be dealt with.
It is you vs. us.
80 million of you.
Deplorables
Extremists
Unamericans
Terrorists.
We are tired of you. (Read: They are exhausted)
We had enough of you. (Read: They are bewildered by our intransigence and intractability)
You are hurting us. (Read: Their narrative is wounded)
We have mo more patience. (Read: They are exasperated).
Read: We will crush you. That is the plan and it will be followed through. I couldn’t believe my ears when Biden said he would use his power to against governors who stood in his way.
I can’t understand how anyone could believe this is not totalitarian but I have friends (highly educated ones) who back him 100% and faithfully wear their masks.
Right. But it was no problem when Newsom said that CA was a sanctuary state and would defy ICE.
The same thing which preceded every stock market crash in the past is happening now to American society. Just as all the gullible were repeatedly sucked in with promises of easy gains, fabulous riches, so are they again falling for the same propaganda brought to them by the same coterie of elitist grifters. This time it’s “get vaccinated and you’ll be safe, etc..” or “Get on board, you don’t wanna be on the outside looking in!” “If you don’t get vaccinated then we’ll….”
Me personally? Due to my own ignorance and greed I got burned in the market in the Dot Com bubble of ’99 But, fool me once – shame on you. Fool me twice – shame on me.
The tide WILL turn. It will be extremely ugly but ask yourself this. If you were on a football team playing in the Super Bowl and your team was down by one goal in the fourth quarter with, say, 7 seconds left on the play clock would you give up just because you were still midfield on 4th down? If you were a fan of that team, how would you feel if your team didn’t at least try a Hail Mary? What if your team was actually right on the goal line? Wouldn’t you boo your team if instead of trying SOME kind of play they instead intentionally grounded the ball? What would you do? If you were a team member you would know that, kind like being in the mafia, you are all in. You are committed, like it or not. No crying, no buckling at the knees permitted because sometimes victory only comes at the 11th hour. So ya gotta play the game ALL THE WAY!
Well that’s where we are folks except, of course, it’s not a game. The stakes are MUCH higher. Fortunately we are not on the clock and as long as WE keep up the pressure the levee WILL break! In terms of the zeitgeist shifting, we’re almost there! So quit the doom and gloom and GRAB YOUR BALLS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFDYuO53BUk
Precisely what is going on. If you don’t tie the lack of a real economy into the machinations of the “Joe Biden” then you are missing the story. Back in the Autumn of 2019 the economy was crashing so cue “deadly virus” for distraction while they tried to figure out how to float the sinking ship. Seems like totalitarianism was the answer no matter the optics. Nothing more and nothing less.
Not about a virus. Always about money. People who want complexity can find it however it really is simply about the system crashing and everyone losing.
It was about money, and some of that money was the illicit income streams of far too many with connections to government, and political outsider Donald J. Trump was threatening those streams, so he had to go.
His Achilles Heel was always germs and disease, and we know he would be greatly affected by a threat to the lives of millions of Americans, because unlike most of the higher-ups in our government, he doesn’t hate us.
I agree D from OR. Although the virus is a real thing, the extent to which they are pressing the issue is proportional to the chaos which they know will ensue once the economy crashes this time. Hence the need for massive control measures.
I don’t think they care if the economy crashes.
Ultimately, the top-level puppet masters are the banks. National governments and corporations are just their toadies. How do banks make their money? By creating money out of thin air and loaning it at interest.
The simplified version of this is found in “The Creature from Jekyll Island” in Marco Polo’s description of money printing in China in the 15th or 16th Century (I forget which). The rulers got together and printed paper money, and the peasants had to accept it in exchange for goods and services. Now, what would I do in a case like that? (Let us try to imagine that we are not very nice people.) What would be my goals? I already have unimaginable wealth. I can bestow unimaginable wealth on all my toadies.
Trying to fathom the goals of such people (beyond immense wealth) is, I’m afraid, a little above my pay grade. Do they want to crash the world’s economies and buy up all the assets for pennies? The Bibilical story of how, during the famine, Joseph advised Pharoah to distribute grain to the people in exchange for ownership of their land comes to mind. And maybe there are just too danged many people, and they threaten your position due to numbers alone, are not productive of wealth (for you), and their presence is an obstacle to exploiting valuable assets (e.g., mineral weath in Afghanistan or Africa). While you may not care about amassing still more wealth, you have competing regimes. If they get control of the assets, they will use them to topple you.
IMHO, the PTB’s drive for ever more power and wealth is explained by the last two sentences above. In a sense, we “little people” are not even in the game; it is a conflict among many players at stratospherically high levels.
Anthea: as always, their motives are varied. Greed and lust for power play a massive part. Most of these people are psychopaths and deeply screwed up people, but their motives may not all be the same. Soros seems to hate everyone and wants to cause maximum chaos before he goes to Hell. Gates has a plan and a fixation, and may genuinely believe he is “saving” humanity. The others are the usual mix of megalomaniacs and grifters. In a sense, it doesn’t matter what their motives are: the end results will be same. Unless we push back.
Thanks for the pep talk, SY, there cannot be enough of those.
Apt analogy, too.
There is no reason NOT to fight.
Here we go!
The next stage of vilification will be to declare unvaccinated people “traitors” and “not real Americans” and “anti-government.” Keep your ears pricked up!
During the Revolutionary War colonialists were likewise vilified by royalists. There was no truth. Just opposing interests.
“No affect, like she is on drugs, in a kind of trance… or just going through the motions against her will. ”
She’s in the matrix. Well so one might guess…
The red pill was co-opted by that mysterious alt-right cohort.
The Wachowski sisters, besides losing their members, lost their plot… device.
They want it back.
It was hormone therapy
It was a trans allegory
all along.
Hmm they say he looks old and slow but he looks fit as hell to me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/boxing/fans-alarmed-by-58-year-old-evander-holyfield-flailing-away-in-sparring-session-ahead-of-saturday-fight-how-is-this-legal/ar-AAOghh8?ocid=msedgntp
Those are solid punches for a man no longer in his prime not sure I would want to step in the ring and box him without head gear.
Eh, Mike Tyson’s recent pad vids have been much more impressive.
Now government is supposed to step in and save a grown man from himself.
Nearly 60, he’s too old to make his own decisions?
I notice that they mentioned that Oscar De La Hoya “tested positive” for COVID. He did more than test positive since he ended up in the hospital being treated.
So much for the vaccine getting you a milder case.
Sheet Benr, I’d take that slo-poke on in a pair of tiny whites. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Brother ain’t that the truth.
Not the speed its the technique and power.
To be honest I think I would just clinch and bite his ear!
Do a Judo throw and get him in an arm bar!
some black NYT opinion writer recently bemoaned the fact that Hispanics in the US are increasingly checking the “White” box demographically & voting for right wing populists similar to Trump.
Any socio-political thinker of an IQ higher than 75 could have understood that decades ago.
How long do you think the democrat party could hide its Spanish language speeches, with titles like “Faith, Work & Family” (given by Tim Kaine to a Mexican crowd) from the rest of the Marxist, left wing of the democrats?
The democrats have a completely untenable coalition, and its showing. Hispanics, many who have families & small businesses, are given this choice by the Left : Buy into slave/victimhood, or be a “white supremacist”. I don’t think that a very religious group of people aren’t interested in the homosexual, pro-abortion agenda of the Left, either.
Apparently, most Hispanics wanna be on the winning side of history (and remember their Conquistador blood) and aren’t kneeling as slaves.
Bet-o O’rourke
That’s spanglish for pandering
Last summer before I left CA, I got a kick out of the guys from Central and South America who played soccer there even though it was banned (and enjoyed watching their games – they were so good!).
They didn’t care & ignored the signs. When the ranger would show up and kick them off the field, they’d laugh, and wish her well, then come back a couple of hours later. They also brought their cerveza in coolers which wasn’t allowed either. Not one bitter word for the powers that be, or any argument, just complete disregard for their rules. None of them wore masked or ‘social distanced’. They went on with life as if nothing had changed.
It was fun to watch the masked Karens come by and glare at them, too.
MQ—
They are probably used to laughing at those trying to push them around—as long as the latter are not carrying AK47s or something. Where they come from the pushing is probably more life-threatening than here.
You bet. I loved their attitude.
Yeah Pete that’s why I’m not to worried about Whites slipping into minority status in the USA. I’ve seen Latin Americans within 2 generations assimilate into mainstream America, my Cuban neighbor for example, with the Trump banner in her front yard, or the beautiful daughter of a local Ecuadorian couple who run the local diner, who never learned to speak Spanish, and recently graduated from State U.
The morning shows in particular have people obviously staring at a monitor that they read aloud like a fifth grader, slowly and pretentiously–and those are just the “experts.” In fairness, I did see an interview by a twenty year veteran at the flood scene in Bridgeton, PA that was excellent.
The vaccine debate is interesting. If the vaccines actually prevented infection, then the government would have the inherent right to require injection for health and safety reasons. The vaccines do not, but they do overwhelmingly protect against serious illness and death, and so facilitate public interaction and economic transactions. Does the government still have the inherent right to require injection with a new technology, with very infrequent significant side effects, and with uncertain future effects? Would it really be better social policy to let the disease do a slow burn through the unvaxed population, taking its toll and leaving us a stronger population overall? How many medical personnel and other “essential workers” would decide to wait out that slow burn at home? How many factories and other industrial links closed due to illness? (Have you tried to buy bicycle parts lately?)
The more interesting issue is the danger of more lethal variants. The simple argument is that the viruses mutate often because RNA does not have the self-correcting mechanisms of DNA. The more people with Covid, the more viruses, the more variants, the more likelihood of a more lethal and/or transmissible variant–at which point we can all lock the doors and live off our stored food.
One counter argument is that if the vaccine does not prevent infection, it will have no effect on mutation, other than keeping alive those relative few who might have died from a weaker variant. Thus, by keeping society going, vaccines will encourage more infection and more variants.
Another counter argument, coming from places like Scripps, is that the vaccines actually facilitate the creation of more lethal variants by biochemical mechanisms once the vaccine product attaches to cells. Initially, this argument is scary. The truth is, who knows? I confess that, at this point, I find it comfortable to be dismissive and enjoy my time off the ICU.
Two countries with past massive waves of infection are the Czech Republic and Chile. Both currently report very low numbers of new cases.
This argues for a burn through unvaccinated populations.
Hi, Joshua. Great questions. However, you write that “The truth is, who knows?” On the contrary, I think the people behind this know exactly what the truth is about the jab and what will happen. I’m no expert, but from what I’ve read, this is all basic virology and utterly predictable. Respiratory viruses are nearly impossible to neutralize with vaccines because they mutate much faster than other viruses (e.g. smallpox, rinderpest). So, the claim that the “vaccine” will stop the virus was always a lie. In addition, vaccines are supposed to be prophylactic: you get them BEFORE the virus season arrives. By vaccinating against China flu at the height of the pandemic, you are, as you rightly say, going to push the virus into mutating even more quickly in order to survive. This is what is happening now: the “vaccine” is creating the delta and other variants, and the vaxxed are the spreaders. Finally, and most importantly, this is not a vaccine; it’s an experimental gene therapy and those who take it are lab rats. Because it never went through its Phase 3 testing, it was impossible to predict what is now happening: spike proteins are not just attacking the virus; they are spreading throughout the body, causing blood clots and stacking up in organs. And then there is ADE: the virus is latching onto antibodies instead of the other way round, and is using them as its new site. This is deeply worrying. So, as I said at the beginning, I think the evil people behind all this knew exactly how things will pan out. People who fell for the lies can look forward to endless “boosters” will all the side effects and problems involved.
If I was a truck driver, before they would mandate my livelihood away, the NYC, DC region are the regions I would refuse carrying a load to. Can’t refuse LA because that’s where the stuff comes into. I would take a load anywhere but those two places. Would be more than happy to take a load anywhere in flyover country. Wouldn’t take anything to the Northwest cities either.
The City of Richmond removed the Robert E. Lee statue after a long court fight. The monument to A.P. Hill remains because it is over his “remains”. Apparently, it is more troublesome to remove a grave. I suggest the Civil War buffs bypass Richmond. If the citizens don’t care about understanding their history, why should anyone else? Rather than worrying about a statue, perhaps the citizens of Richmond could work on stopping their young men from shooting each other.
The only place I visit in the city is the hospital. If a satellite office exists that can solve my problem, then I go there even if it is not as convenient. Wonder if the Richmond businessmen consider why their business stinks. I could tell them.
Boston’s “Freedom Trail” giftshops all had huge sections about Blacks. Soon George Washington will be a Black. History is written by the winners. And the winners (not Blacks) want to destroy our history.
Boston is full of fairys. Used to be Patriots now a bunch of Homos. Sorry BTB.
Eyesore of the month nomination:
The Arthur Ashe statue on the same boulevard in that city.
It is equally amusing as it is grotesque.
Terrible concept. Awful and amateur sculpture “artist”
It appears as though Ashe is swatting a racket at children trying to take his book. No thought needs to be applied to symbolism here. It’s served, pun intended, down your throat.
It is a travesty
And a disservice to poor Arthur.
And it stands.
Good one, from WH Chief of Staff clearly stating that the OSHA requirements are a “work around” for illegal federal vaccine mandates:
https://twitter.com/MatthewDavidHa4/status/1436067132199116806
Someone needs to tell Psaki that redheads like her are also a dying breed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen_Psaki
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/redheads-extinction/
https://www.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ventriloquist_xmkzbw.jpeg
“The Virus” is not killing people, the “LACK OF AN EARLY IN-HOME TREATMENT” is responsible for the vast majority of deaths and hospitalizations.
IVM was approved for use in humans in 1989 and has been used widely to treat parasites, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus with minimal side effects in all cases. IVM is also well known for it’s antiviral properties and has now been proven to effectively to treat “The Virus” early on and in-home. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines.
Think about the insanity….. our medical profession is telling patients to just stay home and when your lips turn blue and you are hacking up hairballs, then come to the hospital for some treatment and medication, until then, you are on your own.
Americans will look back on this Orwellian moment in history and wonder why we were so gullible…..
https://c19ivermectin.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkcp04z8pE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C293FxZBK9w
Once people bought into the idea that wearing a rag over your airways could stop a virus, even though it clearly states on the box that it cannot, they will believe anything.
Remdesivir, after failing a randomized controlled trial, received an EUA and is the standard of care at $3000. Where is Ivermectin’s EUA? Where are the My Body, My Choice and Right To Try people?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52406261
Fauci trailer site
https://films.nationalgeographic.com/fauci
With his signature blend of scientific acumen, candor and integrity, Dr. Anthony Fauci became America’s most unlikely cultural icon during COVID-19. A world-renowned infectious disease specialist and the longest-serving public health leader in Washington, D.C., he has valiantly overseen the U.S. response to 50 years’ worth of epidemics, including HIV/AIDS, SARS and Ebola. FAUCI is an unprecedented portrait of one of our most vital public servants, whose work saved millions while he faced threats from anonymous adversaries.
A known major fraud who somehow landed front and center right next to the POTUS, night after night.
How is it that President Trump’s chief of staff, or anybody, didn’t get him out of there?
Part of what convinced me that Trump was either CO or just weak as it gets was that he didn’t keep Atlas and toss Fauxi.
Mary: and he’s STILL lauding his Op Warp Speed!
https://www.wktv.com/content/news/MVHS-could-lose-up-to-800-workers-over-state-vaccine-mandate-575275251.html
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and on the subject of trusting “experts” from the government, I present this bit of forgotten history:
World Trade Center Rescue Workers Believed EPA, Ended Up Sick
“In a series of public statements issued after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assured the people of New York that the air around ground zero was safe to breathe. Unfortunately, the agency lacked authoritative information on which to base these claims, and internal agency data conflicting with this reassuring public posture were ignored. The EPA’s press releases and public statements after 9/11 were vetted by then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, suggesting that the White House placed politics over science when communicating about ground zero’s air quality. Tragically, the impact of this public deception continues to be felt by thousands of rescue workers now plagued by chronic and crippling lung ailments.”
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/world-trade-center-rescue-workers-believed-epa-ended-sick#:~:text=In%20a%20series%20of%20public%20statements%20issued%20after,air%20around%20ground%20zero%20was%20safe%20to%20breathe.
I remember that.
One that went into the vault and convinced me that these agencies are complete garbage, and none of what they do protects anyone.
Evidence of tyranny piles up before our eyes. Trouble is, sick, obese Americans addicted to cheap Chinese trash, can’t be bothered to read, let alone think.
If you take the time to open all the threads and responses to this recent Glenn Greenwald tweet, you might be astonished, as I was, by the base stupidity and religious zeal of 75% of the respondents.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1436088178222510083
I really think the puppetmasters know they’ve reached a critical mass of frothing, rabid sheeple who will eagerly do their bidding now.
Greenwald seems to understand the underlying issue and be able to articulate it. The people demanding the unvaccinated be forced to submit care nothing about any constitutional rights that are violated and would happily see them disenfranchised. Maybe that will be next — show your vaccine passport or you don’t get to vote. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
The thread further down the link of the CEO of The Daily Wire is good. He states his company will not comply with the order to force its employees to vaccinate.
“show your vaccine passport or you don’t get to vote” One thing that definitely won’t happen is a mandate to be vaccinated in order to receive welfare benefits.
“assured the people of New York that the air around ground zero was safe to breathe” I read that at the time, and I still remember it. I knew there was no basis of fact for that statement. The neglect of proper PPE while the wreckage was being combed has injured or killed many of the would-be rescuers.
By the middle of the 18th century, more than 25 years before the American revolution, Benjamin Franklin had already instituted his most well-known public works projects such as volunteer fire companies, and public libraries. What is less well known today about Franklin’s civic mindedness, however, is the lottery he created to raise money to purchase artillery for the defense of Pennsylvania. Writing to a friend about this activity, Thomas Penn, the grandson of William Penn, and the royal “Proprietor” of Pennsylvania, called Franklin “dangerous”. He conjectured that it wasn’t a great stretch between showing the people that they could act independently of government and having them act against it. I think this idea lies at the heart of the unholy alliance between the administrative state, the media, and the Democrat party. They know that they’ll never be able to expand their power with a population that to a significant extent distrusts government, and are inclined to think for themselves, and act independently of government. This is why they are hell-bent on replacing Americans with a new people – a 3rd world compliant and dependent population that will do as their told.
So… what if “Joe Biden” having a spectacular failure is part of a plan?
When he was being propped up by the party as the presumptive nominee for the executive office, I became perplexed. Here was a party with adherents screaming curses about “white privilege” and “the patriarchy” nominating a very white patriarch as its candidate.
And more than that, he was visibly de-capacitated by senility commensurate with his advanced age, yet the white-hating party loyalists still voted for him.
I now hypothesize that “Joe Biden” was elected not despite his degenerative mental disability but because of it.
pLet us suppose that Pronunciations like yesterday’s (and we can be pretty sure he did not come up with the edicts) are intended to provoke rage and doubt – and what do we rage against?? We rage at the symbol of white male patriarchal privilege. I suspect that “Joe Biden” with his repetition of the words “Civil War” will soon be creating more outrage, even as the drool begins to escape the corners of his mouth at his trance-like announcements.
When things become VERY BAD, that is when the savior symbol gets to step in with all her multi-racial “black”, female (yet on the gender spectrum) qualities of the New America of Tomorrow, pulling us all back from the brink of conflagration.
And from that day and going forward, we’ll not vote again into the executive suite another white member of the patriarchy.
There is something about those of us who are de-facto members of the white patriarchy, however: We have a tendency conditioned into us, that compels us to protect our families, our friends, our neighbors and even those we haven’t met.
We are conditioned to accept sacrifices to defend others, even if it means forfeiting our incredibly precious time of being animated with life.
When we take another man’s hand in ours, bonds form, trust builds and suddenly so much potential is possible.
For forces that would subjugate a population, these are all qualities (amongst others) that pose a threat to the implementation of subjugation and therefore, must be destroyed.
Forcing us all to direct hate at the decrepit and failing figure of American White Male Patriarchy is akin to sinking some huge axe strikes deep into the rooted and oaken trunk of our traditional society.
As we take our little hatchet and pocketknife hacks at the “Joe Biden”, we might consider if that is what the forces behind the Psy-Op intended and perhaps we can re-adjust our focus to their roots, rather than at a dried out, old, sacrificial branch.
This article explains exactly why government cannot be trusted to do anything right. Biden’s latest threats only apply to the “Executive” branch, not the “Judiciary” or the “Legislative” arms.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/members-of-congress-and-their-staff-are-exempt-from-biden-s-vaccine-mandate/ar-AAOiQvC?ocid=msedgntp
To think that the government has any meaningful way to enforce something like this on all private sector businesses is just crazy. Good luck keeping your records straight and trying to ensure everything is properly administered!
In some ways I like the bungling nature of our over bloated federal government. It allows people to purposely slip through the cracks and take advantage of its weaknesses for their own personal gain.
The news casters are being hypnotized by their own attempts at hypnotizing viewers. They use endless repetition, funky graphics, news jargon speak, film editing, etc. The hypnotic stares of Blitzer and Cooper rival Putins blank expression. The tables have turned; the attempts to believe their own lies have brought them into the ‘The Great Numbing’, as I call it [you can use that phrase if you like, rather catchy isn’t it]. It’s a long propaganda process and they have cracked much like the long emergency in progress. The talking media heads have made their handlers proud aka the deep state, until now, ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive’.
Too ‘chiken’ to talk 9/11? I know, the big bad wolf, aka the deep state, has numbed the crap out of you. Billions in gold bullion in the basement level vaults disappeared into thin air and the hypnotized masses do nothing. There was a hurricane off the coast ready to add more fuel to the energy weapon fire if needed, and ‘The Great Numbing’ erased that ‘coincidence’. You can search youtube ‘9/11 hurricane’ and see what the weather channels did not report.
Anyways I’m having a good laugh at your collective chickenshit huddled, scared of the big bad wolf, brainwashed masses. Thanx.
News-casters.
Casted. Like a net.
It’s all an act.
They’re in a trance
as are you
Sometimes, the spell is broken
https://youtu.be/yIwg5vsYC9M
Choking on their own words https://youtu.be/ui-hJ_DZ_jc
Regarding the poor outcome for Covid patients on ventilators I have a theory:
it is already known that the damage in the lungs is caused primarily by excessive neutrophil infiltration of the lungs (due to the fact that the patient was unable to clear the infection in a timely manner).
It is also known that many ventilators in hospitals are contaminated by bacteria many of which a gram negative. See e.g. the article on “ventilator associated pneumonia” (VAP) on Wikipedia.
So when patients are put on a ventilator they will likely be pumped full of antibiotics in a prophylactic fashion which then tear up the incoming microbes. In the case of gram negative bacteria (klebsiella pneumoniae, pseudomonas aeruginosa) this releases a lot of enterotoxin containing LPS (lipopolysaccharides). These bacteria also produce enterotoxin if they are not killed with antibiotics and so are a source of LPS in any case.
LPS is one of the most effective immune system stimulants. I would guess that it massively stimulates further neutrophil activity. This then finishes off the patient.
The sad fact is that the hospital is a very dangerous place due to the various germs which reside in it. Thinking about that puts into proper perspective the confidence we should have in the health care system in general.
I would rather die in my own home, or on the street, than in a modern American hospital. Best to stay far away from those medical junkies.
Cowbell, I would have died if not for the hospital back in May. Don’t knock modern medicine. Saved my wife from cancer. It does have it’s place. Of course modern medicine put me in the hospital but that’s a different story.
I never liked hospitals or trusted the medical profession. Now I fear them as much as my grandparents feared the workhouse in England. Like the workhouse, hospitals are places you never want to end up in if you possibly can.
From Twistter:
Naturally Immunized”
@farris1_farris
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Personnel separating or retiring from the Army within 180 days are exempt from mandatory vaccines if they contact their commanders, produce an approved separation or retirement order, and request exemption. You will be seeing a lot of these in the upcoming days
JT: hadn’t thought of that intriguing angle. Can Slow Biden put the pin back in the grenade?
I yelled my lungs out at a protest at the Saskatchewan Legislature Building yesterday.
This morning I made a video of my experience there.
“I Hope ya like it!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgUMp4cG0o&noapp=1
Cool, and nice soundtrack. Are you the guy in the blue shirt, cowboy hat, and the oversized jumbo tie?
Thank you. Yes, RATM doing the Stones is the perfect soundtrack for this video.
No, I am not the blue shirt. I am the camera man yelling from behind my GoPro on a selfie-stick. You can see me briefly with my 1984 mask and mainly blue sky after chanting “Alberta Lost in Court!”
I haven’t yelled like that in years! Years & years.
I was Hoping the other yahoos would join me in my chant but it is Just another group of people posturing in their owm politics.
I said my Peace & left.
The guy with the blue shirt, Big tie & cowboy hat … His name is Glitch. That’s what he told me. TruStory
So true, Alberta did lose in court! Love the 1984 chin mask. Looked like a beautiful day up there in Canada. Gotta keep paying the Clash’s clampdown song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lt4O-EHNnw
Can’t believe those cops just standing there like stool pigeons. People need to wake up otherwise we will all be like Australia!
HEY you are good at this!!! LOVE IT!
Strong yeller! Great buzz phrases!
LOL, calling the cops meat puppets.
Go, O.G.!
Lol, I know right? I loved the “meat puppets” phrase too. I will definitely have to keep this one in mind for future use!
Ya. Telling people that the graphene oxide in their jabs, tests & masks will facilitate 5G control that will, in turn, render them meat puppets is almost always met with a sudden look of concern.
Cocky-assuredness to previously unconsidered concern in 3 quick syllables.
Ain’t nobody want to be a meat puppet. Satan relishes the moment that his victim realizes the deception.
My company has told me I need to get a new phone, one that can handle 5G. They want me to become a meat puppet…..
Is your company Bigger than 100 employees?
—–
OSHA? WTF?
No, I meant my phone service.
Oh. Ya. Of course they want you on 5G. They want everyone on 5G.
Fuck 5G.
I propose that our institute (Missoula, Montana?) hire clever, industrious men to build us a pneumatic-tube system for our inter-office communications. That’d be cool!
Thx, Mary. I felt ALIVE!
I get it! I’ve been at many a demonstration yellin’ and screamin’ and chantin’. It really is great for the spirit.
Do you watch the Montreal Solicitor turned You tuber?
Viva Frei has been describing the complete collapse of Canada. I am shocked and so sad, I thought Canada was more advanced than USA.
So sad, JHK once more your words are correct. Hospital life is beyond full, and one more simple virus or drug resistant bacteria and we are in trouble.
BUT, have hope Powerball is over 400 million and Father Blackwell-Palpatine-Voldemort-Biden cares for you and loves you all.
I do not know this Montreal lawyer/YouTuber. I will keep an eye out.
In Canada, you are sheeple or you are fringe. My video clearly shows the sheeple demading more stringent Draconia while us yahoos goof on them.
Rocco: It seems like Trudeau might be in trouble, so there is some hope. However, the tool in the Conservative camp who will replace him (that’s his name – O Toole) is a classic big talking Rino. The impression I have now of this world is that most people WANT to be slaves – as long as they have their phones and online porn.
Every civilization needs a narrative in which it is a shining tower casting a small circle of light into the surrounding darkness of barbarism.
The narrative is always completely mendacious. It is needed to keep the domestic population in line.
In the anglosphere the narrative shows signs of aging since it has persisted without challenge for almost 300 years. It is now sclerotic without life force, mechanistic and highly scripted:
“object of type T imploded killing many, but our type T is the best world wide”, “Saddam … terrorist”, “Putin … terrorist”, “Iran … terrorists”, “Taliban … terrorists”, “vaccine … rare ”
A new stage in the devolution is the emergence of elements which are completely irrational (critical race theory, transgenderism, transhumanism) or pathological (abolition of one’s own history, pulling down statues etc).
Part of the ruling class has degenerated so far that they do not seem to understand that the pathological elements directly counteract the purpose of the narrative. We can expect increasing fragmentation as a consequence.
The more problems the civilization now faces, the more rigorously adherence to the narrative is enforced (cancellation, marginalization, firing, disappearance) and this will cause much psychological pain as the narrative becomes increasingly convoluted and riddled with contradictions.
On a clear day we can now see it even of the faces of the propaganda organs.
Well said, michael.
Minorities don’t consider our history to be theirs. They’ve been encouraged not to do so since Whites are portrayed as so utterly evil. So given that, their choice is rational.
And truly who can blame the Blacks? Our heritage enslaved them. As Jefferson said, there will never be peace between us.
Spot on, Michael. I think we’re in the final part of the civilizational cycle: terminal decline. If we can pull this one out of the fire, we’ll have done what no civilization has ever achieved before. I wonder what will come next to replace us?
This is all the best of what could be happening. It is fortifying and expediting the Fourth Turning that we are now in.
Trump’s surprise election (Nationalism/Populism returning to USA), the antics of the Biden Regime, News Media, Big Tech, Big Pharma, etc. etc. has raised we-the-people’s awareness and realization that we must awake from our slumber and lack of vigilance and take back our country. State’s Rights will be coming back into the fold as the people force their local and state governments to send a message to Wash DC/Federal Government to shut up and go away… and, don’t come into the state unless you want to go to prison.
The Globalists have exposed themselves fully as a result of attempting to erase Trump, etc. They’ve made one huge mistake after the next due to their desperation. And, now they are desperate to maintain control. It’s curtains for them. The Nationalist/Populist/Nation-State construct is on the rise.
Be positive. It’s all good. A good war.
Very well said amb – all excellent points.
Good points, I certainly hope that you are right about the ascendency of State’s Rights and a more populist agenda. I don’t carry much stock in my common citizen however, given how dumbed down everyone seems to be these days.
We understand the game now, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that we can vote these criminals out of office while they retain the ability to manipulate the vote counts. If we can’t fix 2020 it will be repeated and expanded in 2022. A good test case will be the California recall. People there are ready to dump Newsom, but a corrupt election system will likely enhance his votes and suppress those favoring the recall. That’s how California remains a blue state.
I’m not sure you can properly call the California recall vote a “test” of election integrity. The entire California State government is in the hands of the Dems. They have not, and will not, pass any election reform legislation, nor would Newsome sign such bills if they were passed. California is already a one-party state and can be written off.
The real test will be in swing states and Red States where Republicans hold legislative chambers and governorships. Those are the places that ARE currently tightening up their election integrity laws in anticipation of another massive round of cheating by the Dems in the 2022 mid-terms.
THAT……will be the true test of whether or not we can pull this country back from the brink using only the ballot box. Our endless “hopium” addiction causes each of us to pray for such an outcome, but our pragmatic realism should motivate all of us to keep prepping for the advent of tyranny or a general collapse into anarchy and domestic civil conflict.
Hope you are right, amb. Trump did a lot of good things but his most useful service was to show us the depth of the DS corruption. Ironically, as he was putting the China flu masks on our faces, he was tearing off the DS mask for all to see. States rights and some kind of secession is probably the way it will go. And as you say, the DS overplaying their hand, may well be the final push that sets this off. Interesting times!
Simply stated: The higher the vaccination rate, the higher the number of cases & number of deaths.
The numbers don’t lie – the globalists & MSM do.
Something happening here, what it is, ain’t exactly clear.
August 25, 2021
Israel (pop. 9,227,700)
78% age 12 and older fully vaccinated
26% age 12 and older on their 3rd jab
7 day average cases per day = 6088
7 day average deaths = 21
Lebanon (pop. 6,768,310)
15% age 12 and older fully vaccinated
0.0% age 12 and older on their 3rd jab
7 day average cases per day = 737
7 day average deaths = 4
(adjusted for population size difference vs Israel)
7 day average cases per day = 540
7 day average deaths = 3
Egypt(pop. 102,000,000)
11x the population of Israel
2.1% age 12 and older fully vaccinated
0.0% age 12 and older on their 3rd jab
7 day average cases per day = 178
7 day average deaths = 8
(adjusted for population size difference vs Israel)
7 day average cases per day = 16
7 day average deaths = 0.73
Source: Covid Vaccination World Tracker
To the extend poor/3rd world countries have not had the kinds of death rates the rich/1st world countries have had, can the differences in part be explained by the fact that the 1st world has huge numbers of elderly and/or obese and/or people with serious co-morbidities than the 3rd world? Said another way, we have been warehousing and otherwise keeping alive large numbers of people that in the 3rd world would have died of natural causes long ago. Also the 3rd world has significantly younger populations on average than does the 1st world.
Very good point Chippenhook, and I’m sure the numbers skew from the points you make – good ones.
In the US, a greater portion of our GDP is a function of “healthcare”.
So yes, we keep the elderly & unwell alive longer, in order to wring out every last dollar.
Third world countries are preoccupied with their daily bread. A more physical endeavor & probably a relatively healthier diet – provided they even get enough to eat, that is – which, God bless them, isn’t always the case.
Third world countries may also have more robust immune systems. I’ve read several articles that have made the assertion children’s immune systems may have been slowed due to lockdowns and far less interaction with other people and being in public spaces. We may not know for a while if this is a valid concern or not.
Another piece is that many of the poor in 3rd world countries simply die at home given healthcare is not a right such as it is here. They can’t just show up at an ER and be cared for. In the case of covid, many may have died at home w/o ever having been tested.
Lots of Third Word suffer from parasites. 4 Billion Sold! No, not MickyD’s, Ivermectin. ” more than 4 billion treatments donated since 1987.” https://www.merck.com/stories/mectizan/
The main reason the 3rd World has had fewer China flu cases and deaths is that there are far few TVs. They also have far greater problems to face than a whiny 1st World flu virus.
“far fewer”!
Ron,
Ironically, this could mean the Israeli nation virtually annihilates itself. Or at least reduces itself to a degree the unvaccinated Arabs will simply swarm over the Jewish survivors.
The Rothschilds giveth, and the Rothschilds taketh away.
Yep them lawsuits are coming!
https://www.oann.com/gop-to-sue-the-biden-admin-over-nationwide-vaccine-mandates/
Would be nice if Cyberninjas released their results right now!
Does anyone know of the punishment for those who refuse the vaccination per the Sep 9 Executive Order? Normally it would be a fine or imprisonment.
Companies with 100+ employees are not part of the executive branch of the government and can’t fine or imprison their employees. At most they could call the police to remove the employees from the workplace. In that case, the punishment would effectively be loss of income for each day the employee refuses the vaccination. So some workers wold be fined (effectively) $200 per day if that’s their daily wage while others would be fined (effectively) $120 or $1,000 per day. That would be a system of systemic unequal justice under the law wouldn’t it?
Simple answer: just keep filing injunctions and pleadings in court, or causes of action against your employer. Wrap them up in so much red tape that they will have no where to turn. Turn this into a veritable Jarndyce v. Jarndyce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce
There is no way they can enforce this against everyone if we keep the waters muddied enough. The order itself doesn’t seem to have any teeth. I couldn’t even find anywhere about when these silly stipulations made by JoJo go into effect!
Given the rulemaking process in our Federal bureaucracy, it could be months, maybe years before something is made more clear. By then hopefully Grandpa Joe will be out of office due to cause, death, etc.
Thanks for the Jarndyce v. Jarndyce reference cowbell81.
Here we are 20 years later with trillions spent and thousands of our young men and women dead and wounded, and we are less safe now than on that fateful day.
The Taliban has won the war. Our prestige and influence in the world is not what it was 20 years ago. Both of those points can only serve to embolden our enemies.
China is vastly stronger and increasingly belligerent. Iran and North Korea have nukes, or will have them soon enough. The US military and economy as a whole is more dependent than ever upon China’s willingness to supply us. Even the manufacturing we do have can’t operate independent of supply chains that reach back into China.
Technology has changed the nature of future warfare to the extent that the ability to wage cyberwar is a more powerful weapon than aircraft carriers and battle groups. In response to that we haven’t hardened the grid or decentralized it for resiliency. Nor has any of our other critical infrastructure and operating systems been hardened or made more resilient. We continue to prioritize efficiency over security and resilience.
China’s 1st test run at biowar, even assuming it was an accidental release, has demonstrated a staggering level of incompetence and unpreparedness on our part, and this was with a mild virus by historic pandemic measures.
We are less safe and ready or not, war is coming.
Chippenhook: all correct, but don’t forget. Our troops are transgender sensitive. That has to count for something on the front line.
James, this current essay nails it. I hope the pin is pulled. ZeroHedge published the BidenMandate story last night, and within a few hours there were more than 7000 comments, almost all of them agreeing that the line in the sand has been drawn…..
I, like hopefully most of you, am amongst the great unvaxed.
Today I’m feeling sad and sentimental, having intense nostalgia for the not so distant past. I visualize us in the future telling wild eyed tales around a campfire about a Great Lost Civilization, and how it all went down. I will tell the young ones tales of great symphonies, cathedrals, art, sculpture, and literature.
Already life has changed so much. Retirement? Not what I expected.
I’ve said goodby to comfort and safely. I am now knee deep pulling weeds out of a sweet potato patch, canning tomatoes, and spending sleepless nights covered in chigger bites. I’ve shifted from contemplating the emotional tug of a shift to a diminished seventh chord, to figuring out how to capture and move a copperhead off the deck of our house.
Remember, “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” ~ Winston S. Churchill
Excellent comment. Yes, I get nostalgic too, and then I get angry, because of the assholes who just decided to take it all away. I do understand it has ever been thus throughout history, but it still rankles.
I have already made peace with the fact the future is not only ‘not bright’ it’s damn scary. I will just have to adapt along with everyone else, I guess. But I am also going to resist and fight whenever possible.
Yes, Mary, ‘twas ever thus, but this time we’re dealing with exponential growth like never before. And I’m not talking about GDP growth. Crime, drug abuse, mendacity, foolishness, zealotry, violence, and on and on goes the list of bad things growing exponentially.
Humans are perhaps the most adaptable creatures ever to have lived, rats and roaches excluded. That’s cuz brains. I submit that the rate of change now has exceeded our adaptability, and left our reptile brains in charge, driving us into the safety of unthinking tribalism. Driving us nuts.
So you’re right — ‘twas ever thus, but this time it’s at 10x speed.
Good comments. I have mixed feelings. I have intense anger and frustration against these evil bastards, and against the stupid sheep around me. On the other hand, this “pandemic” has also opened my eyes and created some new opportunities. Let’s be honest, our old way of living mostly WAS kind of crazy: the pointless materialism, hanging on the word of every dumb celeb, the obsession with sport, the TV and the next vacation. For these 18 months, I have to re-evaluate many things I had faith in before all this. We’ve been reminded very forcefully, that despite all our progress, we are still pretty much as our ancestors were: naked upon the Earth and vulnerable to any maniac who wants to push the boat. I’ve been pushed to think more about God and what it means to be human; to realize that liberty has to be defended and fought for, and that being confronted with Evil means countering it with Good wherever you can. I don’t want to sound like Psycho Schwab, but maybe this will push us to realign our priorities and build something better than the materialist wasteland we lived in before.
Even Churchill, the asshole that he was, was 100% spot on correct on occasion.
Remember, “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” ~ Winston S. Churchill
Jewelweed is excellent for chigger bites. (It is mostly known as a poison ivy remedy.) If you can find some, tincture it in apple cider vinegar. Now is a good time to look for it, in damp, shady places on north-facing slopes, as it is blooming now (at least around here).
Copperheads have rights too. And feelings. Have you considered whether you have illegally occupied copperhead country?
The poor aboriginal creatures: while we entitled humans juggle gigabytes to quarrel, fuss and complain, they only get one bite at a time. Admittedly it’s a pretty effective one.
My sister is being forced to get the jab as a state employee. I told her the day after the poke to call in sick and say she can’t work due to some elusive ailment. Vertigo, abdominal pain, whatever. Something without a test for. Fibromyalgia maybe. Whatever that is. . As a state employee they will have to put her on disability. I’ve seen that scam pulled a few times. I say prove that I’m not sick. It ain’t gonna happen Just keep banging the sick days. I know that won’t work for some private employers but the state or city is liable. After burning your sick time they will cave.
Would totally be on board with the sick ailment excuse. When I was a county worker I once used so many sick days in a short amount of time that they started to question me and their legitimacy. With the work environment there I didn’t feel bad about my actions at all. I simply told them to shove it.
Haven’t used a sick day in years now since I got my new laid back job where people are actually human.
Yes! Bleed ’em dry if they force it on you.
If you have to show up occasionally, try a little subtle sabotage – a little superglue here and there, a monkeywrench in the gears of ‘progress’.
And go for every benefit available – bleed the fucking system dry!
They are on to all the scams. All the boondoggles. All the tricks.
The system will bleed you dry.
Sad but True.
You can move to Europe. No mandatory vax here.
Hahahahaha, you’re kidding, right?
There really is no safe place for anyone to run. Best best would be to buy a 200 acre plot of land surrounded with barbed wires and trip sensors. Just live there and everyone else I don’t approve of “keep the hell out!”
Not likely, cb.
They want it all. You can’t have 200 acres. You can’t have 1 acre. You will own nothing. Zero. Zilch. Bupkiss.
You left out “. . . and be happy.”
I sure did. I don’t Believe that part. Catatonic obedience like a Stepford Wife is not my definition of ‘Happy.’
Yes, there is no place to run to. If their was, I couldn’t afford to do it. But I am ready for whatever comes. I don’t mean that I have massive stores of bug out supplies, ammo, or food caches. I am retired, mind my own goddamned business, have no debt, live in a tiny town, on very little income, I am a loner with few friends, but the few I have are good ones. I am tired of corrupt institutions and government, tired of stupid, ignorant people and would prefer to live around like minded people of my own race and political philosophy. It is what it is.
Life in the empire’s heartland is still much better than in the periphery and will continue to be so. Having lived in both places I have some basis in experience to make the comparison.
Ugaro: Depends where. Denmark, Sweden and Romania have scraped most China flu restrictions and have no mandatory vaxxes. France and Germany are vaxx hellholes. Britain is the usual chaotic mess and most people just ignore what BoJo says. Here in Switzerland, they are having mandatory vaxx passes from Monday for restaurants, museums and other big public venues. All the professional bodies for these places have told the pols till they are blue in the face that this will cause massive job losses and closures but to no avail. Many of us are fighting back and organising referendums. We shall see what happens.
Dear Mr. Kunstler,
I see you already have 280 comments to your Friday post. About that, I can say: you are right, you are right and you are right.
Now that we’ve said it, lets get organized quickly like and do something about it.
Kindly lead the way, if you will.
James Howard: I would allude to a large cache of C-4 with a fuse initiated by the black Jesus, damped down by the Donald and now having bidet blowing as hard as he can. If we’re fortunate, kneesup will replace bidet and she only knows how to suck voraciously, thereby inadvertently saving us.
It appears that the clinton faction has been superseded by the black Jesus faction. The action taken yesterday, designed to coalesce right/left into clearly identified groupings, has Obama brain prints all over it. Now, having given life to the theoretical blueprint, they have to actually initiate the implementation on real people. Damn reality! Why can’t we just say it’s done and everyone go along? You mean we REALLY have to force 80/100 million to accede to our illegal, fascist demands? Think they’ll do it peacefully? Oh shit, they can find out WHERE we work/live online, can’t they Eric, Loretta, Stacy, Valerie, Jim C, John B. Gee, no secret service guarding you, is there?
I believe the reaction (violent/non) will depends on the chosen mechanism of enforcement. If losing one’s employment doesn’t illicit a violent leaning, then extension of restrictions to activities of daily living will.
I viewed pictures of the now fat loser with her pliant wiener toady, out in public with two? Secret service guards in tow. Only two in sight, at least. Unbelievably easy. Sun Tzu anyone? Nuff Said.
You’re right JoJo MaGoo, it isn’t a game, it is war. And I don’t know what scientists he is talking to, but they all seem pretty biased to me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-isn-t-a-game-biden-responds-to-governors-challenging-proposed-vaccine-mandate/vi-AAOiPM1?ocid=msedgntp
He (his handlers) is literally trying to start a civil war.
He’s done more damage in 8 months than any president ever has. It’s sort of unfathomable at this point.
His handlers are aping Obama. They probably are Obama and his clique of traitors. Obama’s every decision was based on the same question: “How much will this make America weaker?” Biden’s regime is no different. They are in the pay of the globalists and/or the Chinese and want America destroyed. TBH, America was divided a long time before, but now they are going for broke – literally.
Unlike with Peking or Moscow Washington DC is a midget town with delusions of grandeur. US federal government functions somewhat properly when and only when the 50 states work reasonably well together but now it is fraying badly. That probably was the idea that the federal government should not be in a big city, proving more clout.
This is a race between woke entropy destroying institutions and their intent to install some kind of new woke tyranny on top of those crumbling institutions. Yesterday, Biden sped up the crumbling part considerably and the whole structure is damned.
With institutions in internal chaos and the crucial command chain screwed you simply cannot force your tyranny upon people. It is like the dysfunctional people of fictional Idiocracy trying to install tyranny.
Historic times…this is a bit like corrupt Roman senators over 2000 years ago challenging Julius Caesar. Except modern day Caesar like aka Trump is not that relevant anymore but he did ignite the movement in 2016. Created and crystallized the counter force against the wokesters.
Well put, timgenx.
I am seeing this system has to collapse under the pressure of the idiotic woke totalitarianism. It simply does not appeal to the masses at large.
Most people look at it and scratch their heads, or point and laugh.
But the wokies don’t see it. They have no sense of community, only of cliques and political agendas.
While they self-destruct, including learning institutions and government, we will be building a parallel society for people who want the return of community, small businesses, farms, and the ability to raise our own kids, rather than sitting in a cubicle somewhere all day.
This is the REAL ‘green new deal’ but ironically one that the wokies won’t go for. Think of the energy saved when people don’t have a commute, and if we produce our own food locally. It’s ‘greener than green’ but it doens’t allow the PTB to have all the power, so they’ll fight us against having it. But we have to try anyway.
Meditating on Mr K’s WMBH novels has me wondering what Union Grove would be like without Steven Bullock. Do you think the semi-benevolent, wealthy landowner is kinda necessary for a workable wmbh community?
Fan fiction opportunities abound for those with the talent, but alas, it ain’t me, babe.
Biden was called a “geriatric tyrant” by Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance. Yep, that is a really good description!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/j-d-vance-senate-candidate-urges-mass-civil-disobedience-after-biden-vaccine-mandate/ar-AAOiPw7?ocid=msedgntp
LOL! Doesn’t anyone think that Jo Jo Magoo is presidential?
Nobody here thinks so! Maybe Redneck, but no one of consequence.
However, as I stated above, I think there are scores of millions who do think he’s presidential and even a badass tough guy! His Thursday speech was clearly a call to action aimed at those true believers. He now has a veritable legion of Karens.
Agreed, JTin: Release the Kraken became Release the Karens!
Relax, kick back, get the vax (or not) and go on with life. Much ado about nothing on this blog. Folks here worry too much. We’re all gonna die someday anyway, right? And remember before you exorcise the “gubmint” what Teddy Roosevelt ( a republican if I remember) said over a century ago: “The government is all of us. WE are the government, you and I.” If I remember the facts of life, no one on this blog asked to be here, but here we are, for better or worse. Deal with it.
“WE are the government”
Not many left who believe this.
Well ya … because it is completely ridiculous vis-a-vis Reality.
Hard to feel like we as individuals are the “government” when the elections are not entirely transparent. Furthermore, when politicians are elected and controlled by big business and outside influences, again, this does not support the notion that WE are the government. More like WE are pawns in a terrible chess match.
That’s how the Founding Fathers did it, Right Tom?
“Ehhhhh … What a maroon!”
– Bugs Bunny
“We” are definitely not part of this government.
“We” are useless eaters, useful idiots, and cannon fodder.
What horseshit. You are apparently not much of a student of either history or government.
Tom, can I be there when you go to DC and tell Biden that you’re the government and you want this crap stopped? Can I film it too?
More like:
“No, f#$% you.”
Keep in mind that it is soon going to be the 2 year anniversary of the 2 weeks to flatten the curve. What a glorious day of memorials that should be!
So essentially in a matter of months we went from 15 days to flatten the curve, to a 2 jab requirement to keep a job and feed your family.
Any guesses as to where we might be headed from here?
Where does the trendline say we are going?
Hell in a handbasket.
Technofeudalism
Your pwnd
So better simp-up
Boston’s “Freedom Trail” giftshops all had huge sections about Blacks.
What do you mean?
At coastal L.A., theres a big deal, naming or re naming, signage over,
Theres a beach called ‘blacks beach’ [black sand?].
Here is a Black beach, 70 years back. [segregation]
https://www.santamonica.gov/press/2020/08/26/historic-belmar-park-becomes-santa-monica-s-newest-open-space-and-belmar-art-history-project-expands
It sounds like you’re getting mad at me again. Focus on the feeling. Is it really yours?
The sentence is very clear. I don’t know how you could not understand it. Boston had a small Black community at the time of the Revolutionary War and they’re trying to make it sound like they were the Center of the whole thing.
Nice to see that Kalifornia is still hard at work on the things that matter. Looks like Gov. Newsbomb might have something to sign when the recall keeps him in office.
“California Law Will No Longer Allow Companies to Slap the Recycling Symbol on Everything”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/california-law-will-no-longer-allow-companies-to-slap-the-recycling-symbol-on-everything/ar-AAOiB3U?ocid=msedgntp
This paragraph really made me laugh, since the actions of this Senator Allen come across as completely opposed to common sense regarding plastic bags:
“State Sen. Ben Allen, the bill’s lead sponsor, told CalMatters his experience grabbing the newspaper every morning inspired him to put forth the proposal. The paper comes in a plastic sleeve marked with the three arrows, and so he would toss the bag in the recycling bin. He later learned that though plastic bags are technically recyclable under perfect lab conditions, they weren’t really getting recycled anywhere in the state. That means the sleeves were merely clogging up processing plants, contributing to the continued breakdown of the American recycling system.”
I’m going to a huge outdoor public ribfest tomorrow — 8 hours of food and live music.
I’ll report back in two days if I see anyone taking off and replacing their face diaper between bites, or even wiping their greasy mouths with the rag before putting it back on. Should be entertaining.
Vast space, probably a nice breeze. I’ll also estimate % of maskers and distancers. I’ve a hankering to get close, smile, and spew rib sauce while talking loudly.
Yum, sounds delicious! Eat a half rack for me!
Enjoy! I look forward to the report.
We were told in writing that the mRNA treatment is voluntary and a decision not to volunteer would have no effect on our subsequent medical care. So why such a big deal about who has or has not been immunized?
343 Brothers killed 9/11 . What a waste. Most of them were probably good men. I know the guys I ran with were mostly good/true men. Some not so much but you always have your bad apples. I knew a few guys that died . I sucks.
God bless the crime victims.
Six in Worcester back in ’99. I covered for those guys while they searched the warehouse.
Vaccination may become a rational choice if the virus mutates into more deadly form as is possible because of the vaccination campaign with inefficient vaccines.
As best I can tell from my own research, there seems to be no really option. Here is a rundown of the various vaccine types:
mRNA:
advantages: no contamination with biological materials, no additional adjuvant needed.
disadvantages: mechanism of action, side effects not fully understood, delivery mechanism involves dangerous substances (graphene oxide and various others), elicits narrowly focused immune response
Viral vector:
advantages: no adjuvant needed (?)
disadvantages: possible contamination with biological materials, may be ineffective if host immune to virus vector, unknown side effects, elicits narrowly focused immune response including the useless one to the vector virus.
Protein subunit:
advantages: no contamination with biological materials
disadvantages: side effects not fully understood, adjuvant needed (alum is the worst, check what they use, e.g.: saponin based (do more research), I would prefer advax), elicits narrowly focused immune response
killed virus:
advantages: broader based immunity
disadvantages: adjuvant needed, possible contamination with biological materials (but less than others)
live attenuated virus (the classical vaccine):
advantages: superior, broadest based immunity (i.e. effectiveness against variants)
disadvantages: long time and expensive to develop, virus may revert to unattenuated form, possible contamination with biological materials.
Contamination with biological materials:
whenever the vaccine uses a virus a a delivery mechanism (either as a vector for DNA or the disease causing agent itself) this virus has to be grown in a biological substrate from which it can pick up contamination, even other viruses (e.g. cancer causing virus SV40 in the Salk polio vaccine).
In this case the vaccine would infect you with another live and unattenuated virus (except in the case of killed virus vaccines, where the contaminating virus is also killed). But here is also contamination with hundreds of other proteins.
Another consideration is which types of antibodies the vaccine predominantly elicits. For a respiratory virus the first line of defense are the mucous membranes where IgA is the most important antibody.
Typically inhaled (nasal) vaccines will elicit these more so than muscle injected vaccines (which predominantly elicit IgG).
So my choice would be a nasal vaccine, possibly protein subunit after I have checked the adjuvant.
Absolutely no way no how will I take that jab.
Funny you should mention nasal vaccine….
https://youtu.be/20DFn4L8H_Y
Sorry – this is the full length, where she talks about the nasal vaccine:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbq0zf
Dang it! Both of the links are other versions than I’ve seen before, and cut out the nasal vaccine she talked about. You can probably google her and find it if so inclined, though. Pretty amazing prediction from 2009.
You left out trusting your own immune system and perhaps fortifying it. And of course the other treatments if you did come down with “it”, it being a cold. A cold. All of this is about a cold.
You can educate people for decades but you can’t give them a sense of proportion – not if it’s not in them to receive it in the first place. It’s not taught, it’s caught…..
The increasing problem with enforcement of unpopular mandates is, a lot of people have already left the economy and are getting by on barter.
I think the google term is ‘The Great Resignation.’
If you are already living under a blue tarp in the woods, doing odd jobs for cash and living off your garden and forage, it does not matter if the president threatens to garnish your wages or prevent travel– Nothing to garnish, and no travel either.
Should be interesting to see what happens with the labor shortage.
Right, but that’s only until the vaxx police show up at the front flap of your blue tarp to ask for your papers. Oh, you don’t have any? Tarp demolition and eviction only takes a minute.
Off to a re-education facility. Room 101. You will submit. You will submit or see God.
A supply of poison darts might be a good idea.
Poor JoJo is lost and wandering like the geriatric that he is. See the video for yourself!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-wanders-place-while-first-192500148.html
Monday and today, there’s mention of MN/WI Great Lakes area as possible places to live outside the narrative & coming fallout. Do not always think of rural, sparse, and rugged as independent The Lake Superior area known as The Arrowhead is as liberal and nastily Karen as one can find. Cook County, entry to the famous Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, is a solid blue county. They live & breathe covid, just like Minneapolis.
Lots of smaller, rural, conservative towns in between though.
Yes, lots of fine places in MN. Just a buyer beware.
Jim, the way fed.gov is acting, I’m thinking we’re getting near the end of even fracking, tar sands, and other bottom of the barrel dredge.
Would you be surprised if there were emergency rationing measures introduced, including not only fuels for personal use, but also deliveries of crucial food supplies and other essential goods?
We stopped generationg sufficient ROI way back in the 00s. That’s why capital moved into leveraged financial speculation aka 2009 crash.
As you and others have noted, perhaps covid was just a mechanism to finally decouple all finance and banking from the normal, unprofitable real economy.
If oil & gas has become sufficiently uneconomical to produce, then as Gail has predicted for years, production shortfalls will begin to be felt throughout every supply chain.
Maybe that’s why Biden pulled the pin. The alternative could be worse if the people cannot be brought under control thru vaxx passes, digitized monetary controls, tavel and work restrictions, etc
I’m thinking the danger of nuclear clouds is getting a lot closer. The truth is so very much larger than some silly virus.
Stop the hyperbole! Why are you so negative and afraid? Stop opining this way, and form your opinions the way I want you to.
LMAO.
I think the oil crunch will be slow. A background dynamic gripping everything in a decades-long incremental strangulation.
You’re Right … barring a global depop.
Food distributors are receiving daily notices from producers they are being placed on allocation for lots of things but meats and packaging seem to be top of the list right now.
Packaging of course is mad in large part from petrochemicals. Meat plants are struggling to keep enough employees to produce product.
“Wait for it. The pin has been pulled. Watch the USA descend into its season of darkness and chaos. Then what…? Redemption is a possibility.”
You seem to be having “visions’ yourself. Best snap out of it, Jimbo.
Hard times for the GOY are here.
The parasitic, kleptocratic, zionist oligarch cabal (and friends, lot’s of “friends”) has in mind to FINISH off the goy who will not “go along to get along”, and their urgency is reflected almost every day in the way their MSM, gubbernmint stooges, and everybody else on the FIAT junky payroll goes about fanning the flames of angst and discord, sewing seeds of division and anger amongst the various demographics of the goy so that THEY will do the dirty work for the VERY small number of truly psychotic and demonic running the show. After all, they OWN it.
The chess board is played with skill by the demonic, while the goy play their usual game of checkers, and crap out before they begin.
Ultimate goal ? Civil uprising with lots of GUNFIRE so that MARSHALL LAW can be declared, ALL civil rights suspended indefinitely, and HELL ON EARTH for the scum who resisted the NWO.
Kind of reminds me of that old passage in the “good book”…you remember, don’t you Jimbo ? Aw, come on …I know you do. The part about not being able to buy or sell without taking the “mark of the beast” ?
Good Lawd !
It’s almost….. SHOWTIME !
The Orthodox Jews, and most Conservative Jews, vote right and are do not support Biden et al.
The reform / liberal Jews frustratingly mostly do support the Democrats for frustrating reasons.
The Beast has two hands, a right and a left. They voted for Bush, and Bush loves the Obamas. See how it works?
Frick v Frack
It’s “Martial Law”. 😉
Aren’t we just about under Martial Law already??
Revelation 13
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Martial! Martial! MARTIAL f@#king LAW!
Spell it right, dammit!
If you have Progressive Insurance – well, you might want to cancel after reading the link below – I just canceled them, see the second paragraph on voting:
https://www.progressive.com/about/diversity-and-inclusion/
LOL! Wow that is awful. I would dump them if I had them. I have Geico and thankfully they have one obligatory paragraph and that’s it.
“The pin has been pulled. Watch the USA descend into its season of darkness and chaos.”
The USA has long already been in its season of darkness and chaos for a couple generations now.
Those who were around back then know that darkness and chaos fell on the Nation in 1963 and has never once lifted. Later, the 9/11 trauma was dropped on the already reeling Nation and continues (as does 1963) to serve as a weight of darkness and a general feeling of disorientation and that “Things Just Don’t Feel Right”.
No, they don’t. Of course they don’t. And they won’t… because those who profit and benefit from the ongoing season of darkness and chaos will never let that honey pot go. In fact, it is now the default position of the Nation and its citizens have seemingly little interest in finding our way out of the Dark Pit that we’ve been living in for at least 60 years now.
What remains now is the knockout blow. The one that finishes the job. People can sense it around the corner. Just one more punch and that will be it.
Where will it come from? There are multiple suspects, but does it really matter? The country is staggering in the national ring and being held up still erect only by the ropes. The big punch is out there waiting to be delivered.
And there is little suspense in the only outcome that can possibly come from a toxic mix of the body blows of ongoing national darkness and chaos. Unless, that is, something is done about changing that mood to something else?
And from who would it be necessary to do that? Again, no suspense in knowing that answer. The only suspense is in how likely is that to happen.
I’ve been bracing for some 9/11 anniversary ‘blow’.
We definitely are due for more terrorism from the PTB. Especially as people start getting a clue they’ve been had.
The best thing that could boost the fortunes of the PTB is if someone supposedly connected to the anti-vax movement takes out Biden and Cameltoe. They could declare martial law and force anything on us. President Pelosi would stop at nothing to punish the American people.
You got that right.
Wow! Just saw a video by a soldier who walked off the job because of the jab, saying that a bunch of F-15 fighter jet pilots also have. So that’s millions of dollars worth of training down the toilet. Also, leaving the US vulnerable. I suppose that’s the plan?
The soldier said, he wouldn’t want to be Taiwanese right now.
Oh and he was referring to ONLY one base. So, multiply this everywhere. They all got a message from the sec def telling them to get the jab or get out.
The Tea Party Command Center! Are you then the famed but elusive Commander X?
LOL, I was always anti-Tea Party back in the day.
I used to call them ‘teabaggers’. How times change.
Oh here we go, second video down, the guy. I guess it’s his dad who is is the soldier.
https://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/a-dozen-f-22-pilots-have-walked-off-the-job-because-of-vaccine-ma
It should be fairly easy to corroborate this Nurse’s story by finding out if the Covid-19 treatment protocol in US hospitals is indeed Remdesivir + Ventilators?
Is this nurse fake?
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/whistleblower-nurse-majority-of-our-covid-patients-are-actually-suffering-from-vaccine-injuries/
My mother is in the covid ward of a small county hospital in flyover. Remdesivir is, indeed, part of the covid protocol. I am her health POA and was alerted, by my sister, as to the dangers of the drug; experimental, emergency use only, failed trials, another mrna drug. She had already had one dose, with another three scheduled. I requested that she was not to receive further doses. I was met with hostile rhetoric from nurses and a social worker, telling me that I was jeopardizing her treatment and her “medical necessity” status, while acknowledging that I was within my rights as medical POA. I was told I would be contacted by the attending physician for an explanation. Upon inquiry, I was told that it was not necessary that he accept my explanation and I think I owe him no explanation, but will cite the experimental aspect, etc., if he does contact me. As to the ventilator question. that has not come up because she is breathing o.k., but I have directed that there be no resuscitation, which includes no ventilator. This is in accordance with her wishes. This is ongoing, at the present time and we shall see what we shall see.
If things go from bad to worse try potassium idodide and even better Lugol’s solution, it interferes with the chemical navigation of neutrophils (neutrophils navigate along chemical gradients).
It might suppress neutrophil infiltration of the lungs.
You can find corresponding information on the internet.
Remdesivir causes kidney failure. Hold the line, dorn. Be strong. I’m sorry this is happening to your mom and I hope she’ll pull through.
According to Clif High, if you want to “Go into Hyperspace”, then you want the San Pedro cactus. Apparently, the San Pedro cactus is endemic to the Andes (Ecuador and Peru). Apparently, the San Pedro cactus can be easily grown in states with relatively hot and dry climates (Texas, Arizona, South California, New Mexico, parts of Colorado), but I bet that it’d also do well in a green house?
“I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”
– George Carlin
Sadly, people refuse to believe this.
Does it make any sense to you to listen to people who say follow “da science” when “da science” and the people who say to follow it are responsible for the mess we’re in? Because it doesn’t make any sense to me.
See, on top of everything, the people telling us what to do are lying about what they themselves did. It doesn’t look to me like a sin of omission, as in oops I forgot to mention it, no, it sure looks like a bald-faced lie. When asked a direct question, they said they hadn’t done it. Well, they apparently did do it.
Telling us what to do? Hell, they’re insisting and threatening people.
Or maybe I’m one of those rubes who thinks he knows a lot but really doesn’t. You’ve seen the type, so have I, big talker, generally short and bald, tiresome, pretends at a vocabulary he doesn’t have, bad grammar, spelling mistakes. Embarrassing stuff.
But really, words can have so many meanings, and all these medical and scientific and financial types are so far above me. And you too. So don’t get too far over your skis (the plural of ski is skis. I looked it up.)
So, when they say they hadn’t funded something, well, maybe they hadn’t. Maybe they just sent money. Maybe that’s all it was.
Yes, they are good with words. They must be rectified or made right along with the words they are perverting. Rectification of Names is the first step in renewal as Confucius said.
This rectification is a problem. On the one hand, according to what I’ve read, English is an amalgam of languages with various Germanic and Norse lingos at the base, later overlayered by French and then by Latin and Greek when the British aristocracy gave up on using French. This allowed the expansion of the English vocabulary which allowed for greater precision in conveying meaning in some instances, but in others doing the opposite. Ask any lawyer.
So then, what to cull? Who specifies proper usage? Do you want an academy like the French have to decide these things?
Seems to me this approach ossifies a language. Seems to me that if a language can’t change, especially from the bottom up, to accommodate discourse, then it goes bye-bye. The elite end up speaking one language, the language of the ‘educated’, unintelligible to the masses, and the masses speak another, disdained by the elite.
Which sounds to me the way things are going whether or not we have a formal Academie Anglais, as a counterpart to that in France. But, over time, because the elite are vastly outnumbered, the language of the masses wins out.
The other problem is academe. Clarity of expression? Not on your life. Not from that quarter.
Language — every one, and at all times — only progresses organically. That is, someone in the community will create what we now (sometimes) disparagingly call a “neologism”, it will gain traction for many reasons (onomatopoeia, aesthetic appeal, emotional heft, multiple meanings etc), and eventually become common usage through spontaneous choice and approval.
The opposite is true now. We have top-down edicts on bogus terms, which gives them their fifteen minutes of fame and infamy. But make no mistake, as soon as the universities collapse with the general economic systems-wide collapse, egregiously vulgar terms like “racialized”, “safe space”, “microaggression”, “male gaze”, “mansplaining”, “White fragility”, will be forgotten, or, for curious linguistic historical scholars in a hundred years, relegated to one of those entertaining, laughed-at booklets of weird-n-wacky archaic expressions.
The resignation letter of Peter Boghossian, initially published by Bari Weis in her newsletter
Dear Provost Susan Jeffords,
??I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.
Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics and the Socratic method, and I teach classes like Science and Pseudoscience and The Philosophy of Education. But in addition to exploring classic philosophers and traditional texts, I’ve invited a wide range of guest lecturers to address my classes, from Flat-Earthers to Christian apologists to global climate skeptics to Occupy Wall Street advocates. I’m proud of my work.
I invited those speakers not because I agreed with their worldviews, but primarily because I didn’t. From those messy and difficult conversations, I’ve seen the best of what our students can achieve: questioning beliefs while respecting believers; staying even-tempered in challenging circumstances; and even changing their minds.
Peter Boghossian has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade. In the letter below, sent this morning to the university’s provost, he explains why he is resigning
I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.
Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly.
I noticed signs of the illiberalism that has now fully swallowed the academy quite early during my time at Portland State. I witnessed students refusing to engage with different points of view. Questions from faculty at diversity trainings that challenged approved narratives were instantly dismissed. Those who asked for evidence to justify new institutional policies were accused of microaggressions. And professors were accused of bigotry for assigning canonical texts written by philosophers who happened to have been European and male.
At first, I didn’t realize how systemic this was and I believed I could question this new culture. So I began asking questions. What is the evidence that trigger warnings and safe spaces contribute to student learning? Why should racial consciousness be the lens through which we view our role as educators? How did we decide that “cultural appropriation” is immoral?
Unlike my colleagues, I asked these questions out loud and in public.
‘Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly’, Peter Boghossian wrote in his resignation letter
He added: ‘I noticed signs of the illiberalism that has now fully swallowed the academy quite early during my time at Portland State. I witnessed students refusing to engage with different points of view’”.
I decided to study the new values that were engulfing Portland State and so many other educational institutions — values that sound wonderful, like diversity, equity, and inclusion, but might actually be just the opposite. The more I read the primary source material produced by critical theorists, the more I suspected that their conclusions reflected the postulates of an ideology, not insights based on evidence.
I began networking with student groups who had similar concerns and brought in speakers to explore these subjects from a critical perspective. And it became increasingly clear to me that the incidents of illiberalism I had witnessed over the years were not just isolated events, but part of an institution-wide problem.
The more I spoke out about these issues, the more retaliation I faced.
Early in the 2016-17 academic year, a former student complained about me and the university initiated a Title IX investigation. (Title IX investigations are a part of federal law designed to protect “people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.”) My accuser, a white male, made a slew of baseless accusations against me, which university confidentiality rules unfortunately prohibit me from discussing further. What I can share is that students of mine who were interviewed during the process told me the Title IX investigator asked them if they knew anything about me beating my wife and children. This horrifying accusation soon became a widespread rumor.
With Title IX investigations there is no due process, so I didn’t have access to the particular accusations, the ability to confront my accuser, and I had no opportunity to defend myself. Finally, the results of the investigation were revealed in December 2017. Here are the last two sentences of the report: “Global Diversity & Inclusion finds there is insufficient evidence that Boghossian violated PSU’s Prohibited Discrimination & Harassment policy. GDI recommends Boghossian receive coaching.”
Not only was there no apology for the false accusations, but the investigator also told me that in the future I was not allowed to render my opinion about “protected classes” or teach in such a way that my opinion about protected classes could be known — a bizarre conclusion to absurd charges. Universities can enforce ideological conformity just through the threat of these investigations.
I eventually became convinced that corrupted bodies of scholarship were responsible for justifying radical departures from the traditional role of liberal arts schools and basic civility on campus. There was an urgent need to demonstrate that morally fashionable papers — no matter how absurd — could be published. I believed then that if I exposed the theoretical flaws of this body of literature, I could help the university community avoid building edifices on such shaky ground.
So, in 2017, I co-published an intentionally garbled peer-reviewed paper that took aim at the new orthodoxy. Its title: “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.” This example of pseudo-scholarship, which was published in Cogent Social Sciences, argued that penises were products of the human mind and responsible for climate change. Immediately thereafter, I revealed the article as a hoax designed to shed light on the flaws of the peer-review and academic publishing systems.
Shortly thereafter, swastikas in the bathroom with my name under them began appearing in two bathrooms near the philosophy department. They also occasionally showed up on my office door, in one instance accompanied by bags of feces. Our university remained silent. When it acted, it was against me, not the perpetrators.
I continued to believe, perhaps naively, that if I exposed the flawed thinking on which Portland State’s new values were based, I could shake the university from its madness. In 2018 I co-published a series of absurd or morally repugnant peer-reviewed articles in journals that focused on issues of race and gender. In one of them we argued that there was an epidemic of dog rape at dog parks and proposed that we leash men the way we leash dogs. Our purpose was to show that certain kinds of “scholarship” are based not on finding truth but on advancing social grievances. This worldview is not scientific, and it is not rigorous.
Administrators and faculty were so angered by the papers that they published an anonymous piece in the student paper and Portland State filed formal charges against me. Their accusation? “Research misconduct” based on the absurd premise that the journal editors who accepted our intentionally deranged articles were “human subjects.” I was found guilty of not receiving approval to experiment on human subjects.
Meanwhile, ideological intolerance continued to grow at Portland State. In March 2018, a tenured professor disrupted a public discussion I was holding with author Christina Hoff Sommers and evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. In June 2018, someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation with popular cultural critic Carl Benjamin. In October 2018, an activist pulled out the speaker wires to interrupt a panel with former Google engineer James Damore. The university did nothing to stop or address this behavior. No one was punished or disciplined.
For me, the years that followed were marked by continued harassment. I’d find flyers around campus of me with a Pinocchio nose. I was spit on and threatened by passersby while walking to class. I was informed by students that my colleagues were telling them to avoid my classes. And, of course, I was subjected to more investigation.
I wish I could say that what I am describing hasn’t taken a personal toll. But it has taken exactly the toll it was intended to: an increasingly intolerable working life and without the protection of tenure.
This isn’t about me. This is about the kind of institutions we want and the values we choose. Every idea that has advanced human freedom has always, and without fail, been initially condemned. As individuals, we often seem incapable of remembering this lesson, but that is exactly what our institutions are for: to remind us that the freedom to question is our fundamental right. Educational institutions should remind us that that right is also our duty.
Portland State University has failed in fulfilling this duty. In doing so it has failed not only its students but the public that supports it. While I am grateful for the opportunity to have taught at Portland State for over a decade, it has become clear to me that this institution is no place for people who intend to think freely and explore ideas.
This is not the outcome I wanted. But I feel morally obligated to make this choice. For ten years, I have taught my students the importance of living by your principles. One of mine is to defend our system of liberal education from those who seek to destroy it. Who would I be if I didn’t?
Sincerely,
Peter Boghossian
Yoho: One is reminded of Mr Poghossian in Gurdjieff’s book, “Meetings with Remarkable Men”. Both fine men.
As Lao Tzu said, Close the schools. The people will benefit a hundred fold. Is there even one of these leftist professors whom I could not crush in debate?
Boghossian is a hero. I’ve long admired him.
I’ve been an admirer of his for a long time. This is inevitable; and sadly, the second ethics professor just today that I’ve seen lose their job.
The other one was due to the refusal of the jab.
Portland. It would be Portland.
Yo,
Yeah…what he said….
Of course his approach above is only for elite students who have already been formed. Endless debate leads to the notion that truth is relative. Or not findable or even non-existent.
He was on Tucker’s show and said he’d have a communist and a libertarian in the economics department. Really? So in America 2.0, we’re just going to shoot ourselves in the foot again? Both of those philosophies are mind poisons. False philosophies of existence, all about matter and not Man in himself. And thus, since economics should be a humanism, they even pervert economics. The more they clutch the cloak of “science” to their plague ridden bodies, the more false they become.
“Endless debate leads to the notion that truth is relative. Or not findable or even non-existent.”
I disagree. Persistent debate shines light on sophistry, inversions, and lies. It’s especially effective at convincing uninformed minds since those jejune students are often influenced by whatever latest fad/ideology is in the air. Repetitive insistence on Truth, with concomitant attacks on how and why the opposing Wokery is mendacious, eliminates any intellectual pseudo-authority those noxious views might otherwise gain.
Of course, I’m speaking in a normal, classical university setting. It’s so far gone now that nothing will save it. Blow it up.
I agree, nothing will save it and at this point it’s doing more harm than good. Has been for years. College is a low-down scam like the medical system, like defense expenditures, like so many other aspects of life.
As I said, it’s for those who really belong at a university – a minority of those now attending. And those should already be formed. Otherwise, they’ll go crazy about some simplistic formula like communism or unfettered capitalism. Reinvent the dingy lightbulb.
Those properly formed can study other philosophies to sharpen their own understanding of what they’ve been given.
Sure, and literacy, IQ, and high school results (if legitimately acquired) screening would automatically weed out those who can’t cut it..
But even highly intelligent 18 year-olds are often politically naive, and I see no problem — nay, only benefits — with offering both sides. Just as a historical investigation, I’d love to see this in any future university worth its time and money.
The Woke agenda is so pathetic, that, in a fair debate setting, it would be exposed mercilessly, and those same smart 18 year-olds would have a lifelong appreciation for the tradition of teaching they’d be getting, plus a permanent dismissal of any similarly positioned mind-scams in the future.
Well I want a different kind of Culture and that means a different kind of Man.
I wouldn’t let kids have phones and be able to access pornography – because they will. They’ll grow out of it? Maybe not. Likewise with mind cancers like Capitalism, Communism, Wahabism, and Feminism. Young adults destined to be of the Elite learn about all of them, so as better to protect society. But even then there may be casualties. The Door would always be open to leave. Getting back in? Well that would be harder.
As has been said, in spiritual life, the coward is often the winner. He knows his weakness and avoids the temptation. This is alien to our civilization and it is corrupt and one would expect it to be – even if one knew nothing more than this from afar.
The Communists wanted a different kind of Man too, the peanut gallery shrieks. As if they were ever viable. As if that ever accorded with human nature. They don’t even believe in human nature, so how can they nurture it in general and in specific individuals?
Yohannon, this “different kind of man” you want is a man (and woman) who knows who he is: the Divine in microcosm. This “knowing” is at a level above intellect. I don’t think it can be accessed without a solid intellectual foundation–both in terms of a native gift and proper training, and is probably in itself a native gift that requires training–or at least some degree of encouragement–to develop.
Not everyone has this, just as not everyone can be taught math, or even taught to read and write. (I have some personal experience in this matter.) The intellect is basically a machine like a computer for apprehending truth, processing sense data to arrive at conclusions. In quite a number of people, the machine does not function.
Our present educational system most takes a wrecking ball to this piece of machinery, feeding it false data from which it will draw false conclusions, and distorting its logical methodology. From an intellectual standpoint, consorting with most of the people in our society is a lot like visiting Pick and Pull. If you’ve never been to one of these establishments, I can tell you that it is dismaying; acres upon acres of wrecks. Except with humans you have the impression that the vehicle never did run right.
Conventional religion too has mostly been unhelpful in developing the higher faculty of “knowing,” which can be taught in only the most limited kind of way. And even that presupposes that the seed of the native “knowing” is already present. I.e., at a certain level, you can’t teach someone anything they don’t already know.
Your “different kind of Man” exists, but not in very large numbers.
Anthea:
A defense of Orthodoxy: People are programmed by their culture. In my ideal society, it would be no different. But consider! Does it really not matter if one is programmed by godly, god fearing, patriotic people or by leftist crazies who are waiting for you to pick up the wrong toy so they can sex change you? I think it makes all the difference in the world. It’s still “unconscious” life, but one accords with child’s higher nature and the other does not. Many will never rise to full consciousness, but they can be healthy, happy, and even holy to some degree. And the nation will flourish being comprised of such people, lead by those who are conscious.
Morality starts before conception. Call it ‘reincarnation’ if you like, or call it divine grace by an indifferent cosmic consciousness, it doesn’t really matter for the purposes of this discussion. It’s starkly apparent to the mother, either by overt kicks or deep intuition, that each child is different during those mysterious nine months.
Then right after birth! Doris Lessing wrote a frightening short novel, “The Fifth Child”, about an evil kid, also right after conception but also into his (I believe) eighth year if I recall, from the terrified mother’s perspective. One of the reasons the novel was so chilling was that it offered no solace as to what she might have done wrong. Lessing took great pains to show that the mother and father and the other four kids were normal, and to a degree, even boring.
Then there’s the more mundane, but extremely important factor of raising kids the right way. This is where young people’s morality is often going to be shaped, during the first six years of life. If inferior blood lines don’t doom the kid, an absent father or hectoring mother can finish them off. The opposite, of course, is true. Children brought up in a house where the parents value Art, show love to all other members of the family, and give them a spiritual direction (mostly by example), means the kid will have a much better chance of being that “different kind of Man”.
All this is to say that by the time an 18 year-old reaches university, he or she already has their morality largely in place. Students who’ve already passed these prior tests shouldn’t be overprotected as if they were fragile and weak and incapable of resisting (e.g) pornography and mind fucks. They’re going to meet those challenges in ‘the real world’ sooner than later, anyway.
Students, however, DO need excellent pedagogical direction, which, automatically right there, invalidates almost all university classes.
Ah, at last, another Doris Lessing (the Sufi) fan on board.
Here on poor Shikasta, we are fighting Shammat (of Puttoria they crow) who established themselves here long ago. They have evil down to a science but it’s also their religion. Yet among us, Brahmvidya or the science of God, is long forgotten and now mocked by the ignorant.
So much can go wrong in the raising of youth. So what did we do? Allow Shammat to raise them in public schools.
“Endless debate leads to the notion that truth is relative. Or not findable or even non-existent. ”
So annoying!!!
But what, sir, is your alternative?
Let me guess: “Just listen to me!”
Right. Anyone who believes anything is no better than a communist. Or a libertarian. This mentality helped us get us to where we are now. There’s nothing to rally around. It cannot resist those who believe in something, no matter how crazy.
“…is better than…”.
“Is” only, is more correct.
“…is no better than…”
“It” all “depends” on what the “meaning” of “is”, is. And of course on the meaning of these other words as well. And beyond that, of all words in general.
They tried to mathematize economics. Trouble is that people are not subatomic particles, to which quantum mechanics applies in spectacularly successful ways, nor are people aggregations of matter to which you can apply Newtonian mechanics or Einsteinian relativity. They tried to make all kinds of simplifying assumptions about human behavior, none of which remotely reflect the reality of what people actually do. So, for these and other reasons, economics as a ‘science’ is crap. None of it works
Indeed. Good post.
I once had a coworker that majored in economics and explained to her that economic theory works extremely well…in a vacuum, where everything else is held constant and only the pet parameter is allowed to fluctuate. She was quite miffed. But in retrospect, I finally realized she was taught economics…in a vacuum.
Please, everyone, wastch this video, Perspectives on the Pandemic with Dr. Peter McCullough,” while it is still available at Dr. Mercola’s website:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/10/perspectives-on-the-pandemic-with-dr-peter-mccullough.aspx?
It is loaded with citations of scientific studies and screen shots of actual documents. I have taken a few screenshots from the video.
The producer/interviewer is John Kirby. It is episode 20 in a series called “Perspectives on the Pandemic.”
He accepts that Delta is a thing and talks about vaccinated people getting the Delta variant. How is it established that it is the Delta variant in any of these cases and not just classical covid – which of course includes pneumonia and influenza.
He has great credibility and morality, but I’m wondering if he is still too trusting of the narrative as it’s being presented.
Agree…strongly. His saving grace is that he at least is fully on board with avoiding the jab and seeking alternative treatments.
Are the people who do not use antibiotics responsible for the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria?
Since I don’t go near mainstream media, I don’t understand the argument that the unvaxed are ‘killing’ the vaxed, and causing mutant strains to develop.
You would think this logical and correct argument would be easy to follow for even the lowest of IQs but we are in a post-truth world.
I had a young girl at work tell me how everyone needs to get vaccinated because selection pressure was causing the variants. She’d not the faintest idea what she was talking about. She’d obviously heard the term ‘selection pressure’ and just tacked it on to the MSM unvaxxed hysteria.
There is no capacity for critical thought in these people, none whatsoever.
(I should add that selection pressure is indeed causing it but she believed it to be because people weren’t taking the vaccine, not because of indiscriminate mass vaccination.)