While I applaud those courageous individuals for sacrificing their careers to voice their opposition to toxic policies, stepping down simply means their positions will be filled by complicit bootlickers.
My preference would be to see the brave ones remain in their posts and loudly expose the corruption—better to force the organizations to fire them and reveal the mafioso rot underlying these organizations.
Staying, fighting, and forcing termination is one way. OTOH, exiting and forging another path free from the "mob" one used to think of as "colleagues" is another. Having had experience and learning the hard way with regard to the Sep 11 attacks just how incorrigible the "average" person is I knew how people would conduct themselves as this crime rolled out, and boy, did they not "disappoint".
Those like me who left these organizations did so for many reasons, including the preference for letting them rot...As Nietzsche said, "That which is about to fall deserves to be pushed."
Yes, I, too, would prefer people stay and fight. I speak from personal experience when I say that it's really difficult to stay. Once you voice opposition, which I did, you are hounded almost daily. I was placed under a bogus investigation and removed from my duties. I was shunned. Yes, there were some coworkers who knew it was a sham to force me out and they quietly voiced how sorry they were, but they kept their mouths shut. I took the "punishment" for about six months - I fought back, but every day I felt sick to my stomach when I just thought about work. Eventually, I could no longer take the stress which took its toll on my health and my family. So, I resigned. I truly admire those who stay, but I am sorry to say I could not.
You have nothing to apologize for. Those who revealed themselves and their true character are the ones who should apologize, but I'll tell you this, Remi. That has not even occurred to the vast majority of those you once called colleagues.
So true. It speaks to their character, not mine. Incidentally, my husband worked for the same agency, and he, too, spoke up and eventually left because life became unbearable at work. For sanity's sake, that was the best thing we did for ourselves. Since then my husband has run for political office twice. He lost both times, but he's not giving up and he has my full support. We hold out hope that some day soon we will prevail.
I did the same. It's only so long you can work in a prison camp, waiting to see what the guards would do to you that day, before you say enough is enough. No money is worth that abuse to your soul. The freedom to walk away is about the only freedom we have left.
If I ever make my own company or manage a workplace, I will exclusively hire people who resigned or were forced out of their jobs due to integrity. Nothing could compete with the quality of that team!
It's a badge of honor to have left a job for these reasons -- we need to reach a point collectively where that's a clear signal that we all understand.
I was thinking the same thing about all of the military personnel who were forced to resign. They would make an awfully potent set of allies should the need arise :-)
I suggested to Steve Kirsch a while back that he should start Unvaxxed Airlines, and the tagline could be, “Fly without fear”—although I think yours is more compelling 😆
My husband flew this past July for the first time since November 2019. On the first leg of the return flight, he got to talking to one of the pilots. (Hubby was at the "front of the bus.") My husband, because he's fresh, said something like, "Hey, if you need a hand up front, I'm not genetically modified so if anything happens, I'm right here." (He's also former military.) I just about died when he told me that. "You did not!", I yelled. "Oh, yes, I did!" 😂😂😂
Know what the pilot told him? "I'm not genetically modified either. They invited me back". Was he retired and they "called him back"? Furloughed and they "called him back"? Don't know, but apparently, that was one pilot without the stroke poke.
I love that idea. Question by HR: were you ever fired or have you ever resigned from a job because you spoke up to right a wrong? If so, describe the circumstances. I would help you construct an integrity interview with a written pre-interview questionaire to ferret out the bad apples. Of course I'd help interpret what the answers mean and it would be up to you to hire or not. There was a time I did that for a living...
Remi, Excellent idea! There was a time I did that for a living also (asking, probing, evaluating for possible match)… independently and happily. Pushed out by lockdowns and CA AB5. That’s the convenient reason. The real reason is what happened in 2020 every night for over four months, when I realized the people I’d be talking to would likely be 3-4 decades younger than me and bought into all that nonsense that was the supposed reason for nightly violence. Now that I freed myself from that life I don’t care to return, although I heartily endorse parallel structures (marketplace, health care), and the same abilities to inquire/interpret/evaluate will come in handy.
I truly believe the most effective way to deal with what’s coming is by radical localism. I heard Catherine Austin Fitts advocate going local way back in 2005-2007, when I was innocently hot about “Lifestyles of Health & Sustainability”; she was the darling of much of that crowd in those days. I do my best in this effort, DH not quite on board, and rural living has its constraints. I imagine very soon we will be forced into this approach out of sheer necessity. The dumb people in charge have zero capacity to deal with chaos with any response other than totalitarianism; my read on history is that ordinary people create their own structures in response (eg, black markets). Meantime, we increase our capacity to love and keep looking within for our sustenance.
The brother of Paramahansa Yogananda included this “sloka” in end note of book on PY’s early life, I say it daily: Oh God, thou art the Supreme Cause. Thou art Truth; Thou art everywhere and in everything. Thou doest create and sustain all things, and it is Thou into Whom all things finally merge again. (Quoted from memory)
Envisioning God’s Light and Love permeating so many hearts and minds, evil is pushed way back.
the workplace is increasingly insufferable. even in the face of massive turnover, employers typically tell themselves the story they want to hear. employment is simply a business deal, and effectively exercising power as an employee is simply taking your skills elsewhere. businesses typically take from 2-5 years to even notice the negative consequences of poor business decisions - of those that notice not many will even correctly identify the root cause of the problem. Even fewer will operationalize the right fix.
I see this a lot. The lack of people returning to the work force has depleted PT and 3/4 time jobs. Everything I'm looking at (even ostensibly PT work) wants an 8 hour shift. Several employers (mostly manufacturing, but some health care) are demanding 12 hour shifts. Like offering a 12 hour shift is going to get many takers... Meanwhile, they're losing established workers by having one person essentially doing what 2 people did three years ago. No wonder anyone who can retire or self employ is doing just that.
I also am having difficulty finding a part time position. Funny thing is that my previous position that i had for many years was technically full time but I was able to complete my work pt. In essence they saved money by allowing me to work pt.
Not noticing the negative consequences of poor decisions is often not surprising when you're there seeing the personality of the person making those poor decisions.
The surprising thing is often, how do so many dysfunctional people manage to button up their shirts everyday and stay at the top of the ladder?
You provided an excellent compilation of both historic and fictional video clips to make your point.
As I watched COVID hysteria grip America in 2020 a distant memory of Harry Harlow's primate research involving social deprivation and group dynamics in Rhesus Macaques kept playing in the back of my mind. Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow
As more and more Americans become raised indoors by the TV, with 'Mother' and 'Father' away at work or prison - and with their societies curated by an artificial apparatus of strangers and media, we are fast approaching perhaps the third generation of Human adults who were acculturated by one of Harlow's "Iron Maidens."
The Uvalde School Shooter is just the tip of this predictable iceberg. The costs to the rest of society are becoming unbearable.
Thank you, steveaz, and what a profound observation. Just thinking of that video of those poor baby monkeys clinging to their surrogate mothers nearly brings me to tears 😿
There’s a reason the television was called the “boob tube.” As you wisely noted, we are now witnessing the catastrophic effects of children being reared by it instead of human parents.
Yes, I have been encouraging doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who have lost their jobs over the mandate to band together and start offering alternative healthcare under some sort of identifiable brand that alerts us to their status as freedom/truth/ethics proponents. Many of us would much prefer to support heroic and ethical individuals if we have the option.
Thank you for this, LI. So true...I pray that you're right about the chance for real change -- in "medicine" and across the board. Our whole culture is so sick it boggles the mind -- thanks almost exclusively to the expansion of organized crime, a.k.a., "government".
I agree -- an alternate system is already emerging. It is incomprehensible that HCWs have remained silent. Without sounding too dramatic, they will pay for it -- one way or the other. It is encouraging to hear that you know five people yourself who have resigned and that two are courageous enough to talk to you about it.
What happened to me in 2020 was so unpleasant that I still find it surprising that I didn’t just stop.
I spent my entire career mopping up the results of frictions caused by me doing what I thought best. It was exhausting. I did it because acutely I cannot handle proper conflict, where things have got to vindictiveness.
It’s a lot worse now.
After well over two years of it I’m very conscious I’ve been changed & not in a good way.
I’ve always seen this a relay. Trouble is, I don’t know what to do with the baton.
It may be more difficult to be awake to the truth, but what you’ve done with that awakeness is of historic importance, and you have inspired countless individuals to follow your courageous example 🙌
I think any of us that have been scolded and admonished for sharing information this past few years. We are called cultists, that have distrust for our wonderful government and health professionals.
No one has respect for others. Follow the experts on tv. How dare you bring up cautions or "flood my inbox" with your scary emails. It is like walking on egg shells and it indeed does "change" you, especially when most people are just not that interested to learn.
My sister called yesterday to say one of her friends read something on my facebook page and was upset. (Too bad)...like it was my fault her friend complained.
I was suspended from facebook last November after I posted information about covid that the fact checkers did not like. They immediately suspended my account and henceforth my associated Instagram account, which was the only social net work I was really using (sewing, quilting) Facebook, really not so much.
So I lost that account as well. We are living in a mind war with stupid enemies
to realize the depth of the insidious infiltration by the genocidal globalist filth all of this wicked woke taking over all of the institutions here and in every other previously free country in the first world.
How once good friends were more than happy to throw caution & even common sense to the wind in their attempts to brow beat me into supporting the worst tyrannical unamerican BS for no other reason than
Because he had a black face & pronounced Pakistan “POKistan”🙄
Because the tv told them to be afraid of a man made virus w/less than 00.003% fatality rate & that among the already sick & dying 😒
Because the tv told them to take the experimental injections 🤦♀️
I feel it very deeply these changes within myself
what dr Yeadon refers to as NOT IN A GOOD WAY.
It is the same with me… I have no where near the compassion or empathy for my fellow Americans
those hypnotized by the bootlickers in the mockingbird media
Those sufferers of mass formation
the belligerently ignorant mockingbird media addicts insistent on parroting that putrid pile of poo the cia controlled bootlickers shovel & spew from every orifice
-lies from the political pulpits,
-lies from every channel on traditional 📺
- lies 21stcentury Fascistbook & all the other hyper censored wholly corrupted big tech “media”
TBH the very last dregs or shreds of my compassion/empathy for the virtue signaling retards died when the govt invented “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” to account for the all cause mortality rise of 40% AMONG THE INJECTED.
SADS?
Really?
But the idiot herds continue to blindly shuffle along bleating out their virtue signals while obviously dragging all of us straight into hell
Today as I watch this intentionally created energy shortage & world wide famine SELF EVIDENTLY caused on purpose
rationalized by the globalist filth
lie ‘climate crisis’
What I feel is not empathy & compassion for the idiots who got jabbed & are now dropping like flies
It is not compassion and empathy I feel for the millions around the world who will die of starvation in the coming intentionally caused famine
What I do feel very strongly today is that all of them will get EXACTLY what they deserve…
I am angry and bitter that those of us who have already endured so much for merely SPEAKING THE OBVIOUS SELF EVIDENT TRUTH about the lies & the genocidal policies of what the surviving Nazis like soros & the sons of Nazis like Klaus schwab are actually doing to us are now going to get to endure the natural and logical effects of genocidal policies the retarded herds refuse to glance at BECAUSE IF IT ISNT ON CNN (one of the other mockingbird media sites) THEN IT MUST NOT BE TRUE😒
They deserve to starve to death.
They deserve to lose everything & die in death camps for those globalists they worship.
They all deserve what’s coming & im hoping I survive long enough to viciously parrot back to them the retarded lines and obvious lies we have all been forced to endure listening them screech at us for all the time we could have stopped this
& I will do exactly to them while they watch their children starve to death.
They should know while they are suffering that ALL OF THIS
IS ALL THEIR FAULT.
THAT way of thinking feeling & being? For me is a radical departure from any thought or feeling I have ever had in all my whole life about other people… even including my abusive thieving ex husbands.
Well, after a couple days of writing this I’ve come to 2 conclusions:
1. Once it’s on the internet? it’s forever “out there”
I am so grateful that I was able to live the first 30-40 years of my life with NO RECORD of my idiocy or emo reactions to haunt me “forever”
2. Considering #1. Even if I took it down, now? It wouldn’t do much good, right?
So I’ve decided to follow up my horrid inhumane RANT of RAGE against my fellow Americans with where I have reached regarding my feelings and world view TODAY. Technically yesterday but 🤷♀️ whatever...
I am sorry I wrote that.
I wish I could take it back but more than that
I wish I could go back in time and just never have given such horrid thoughts any more power than they had being kept to my self inside my own head...
It took me a couple days & there were a couple things I did during that time that elevated my mind-
I prayed 🙏🏼 I asked to be shown “my error” because whenever we feel enraged it is 99.99% of the time our own error.
I also took a break from all of the screens
The iPhone
The iPad
The Roku streaming tv & movies
The YouTube videos cast upon the tv, etc...
Instead...
I went outside in the lovely idyllic late summer days we get to have up here in the great pacific NW and spent some time snuggling my rescue dogs & playing with my little rose 🌹 starts (my summer project is to learn to propagate roses 🌹) & some 4 square breaths & other methods of centering, grounding, self soothing, self care, self nurturing, self validating...
And
over time
I remembered ...
I remembered a bunch of stuff
Such as -for the last 100 years (or more😒) our u.s. federal govt has done nothing but lie to u.s.
intentionally
About pretty much every single thing.
TV was invented (1927) to be a mind control device
at least one cia operation (mockingbird) is in the public square (though not usually mentioned by the mockingbird media) whose sole purpose was to have the cia infiltrate the U.S. media news & entertainment FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTROLLING PUBLIC OPINION
There are other secret fed govt covert operations regarding u.s. fed govt intentionally endeavoring to specifically LIE TO U.S.
yes, even brain wash the entire u.s. population...
They’ve had 75 years (at least) of brainwashing mind control with the TV -they don’t call it “programming” for no reason...
Movies & the silver screen were even around before tv full on indoctrination every single one and worse every year.
TV shows
music videos
Concerts
advertisements
documentaries... ALL ARE CALIBRATED TO GIVE U.S. SUBTLE
“programming” “indoctrination”
the music is even set to a frequency Hz that they’ve known causes disharmony in the mind and the body...
yes,
Of course
there are healing frequencies
BUT Rockefeller SPECIFICALLY CHOSE THE INJURIOUS FREQUENCIES BAND TO BROADCAST THE MUSIC TO THE MASSES
They fluoridated our water 💦 hitler did that to the water in his ‘work’ camps, too... DYK that?
Those chem trails in our Air are real -it was never a “conspiracy theory” it has always been yet another
Unconstitutional secret u.s. federal govt operation
GMOs by Monsanto are also real... they’ve been poisoning our food supply for over 50-60 years, now, too.
Glyphosate - yeah look that up that’s a ‘fun’ read🙄
Public schools became formally State indoctrination institutions under the Carter Administration with the creation of the unconstitutional federal Dept of education... the schools weren’t that great before
but after the state got the power to write the curriculum it was basically OVER for our kids back in the 1970’s
Even before the evil feds were writing their statist curriculum
Rockefeller(yeah the same piece of shit who chose the music broadcast band frequency, that bastard) based the original public school operating system on a 200 year old Prussian system designed to dumb everybody down to being soldiers and factory workers. “We are not creating men of letters here” he said & echoed the Prussian system intention as his intention for U.S.Citizens.
(No, silly, not HIS CHILDREN!! His kids were educated in a manner designed to raise their consciousness and teach them common sense and critical thinking skills HE WANTED HISKIDS TO TAKE OVER RUNNING THINGS WHEN HE DIED.)
it was just our kids he wanted so stupid we couldn’t even think for ourselves & if it occurred to u.s. to do so?
Well... there is always THE COMMON GOOD to throw in the face of the one who won’t comply & the demands to GO ALONG TO GET ALONG- because he never wanted Any of U.S. citizens to forget OUR PLACE=slaves to him/Rockefeller
& the rest of the self-appointed Elite, Globalist Filth
I COULD GO ON. How about DYK “conspiracy theory” the term & all of its variants was promoted heavily by the cia during the jfk assassination investigation PURPOSE - TO MALIGN ANYONE WHO QUESTIONED THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE & mitigate any fallout from such questioning...
that was back in 1963- almost 3 years before I was even born.
for my self?
I’ve been retired & out of the rat race for over a decade & life is definitely different when you’re not racing to catch your own tail 8 days a week... there’s a lot of time for one thing & it’s quiet here at home alone out in the woods.
Plus I’m not surrounded by other people and their interpretations needs comments etc...
I turned off my 🛰 satellite tv 5 years ago last month so the brainwashing programming is severely limited in my home.
Of the many and varied things about me, personally, that may have set me apart from the rest of my fellow Americans
I CANNOT BE HYPNOTIZED... idk 🤷♀️ why but I guess a very small percentage of human beings just can’t be hypnotized. I’ve tested this as I tried to get hypnotized as a therapeutic several years ago but it didn’t work. The suggestions were helpful but I was never hypnotized 😵💫 I was conscious cognizant and fully aware
No perceptible shift in my mind of any kind no matter what the guy did...
Finally? My mom educated me in addition to my public schooling she taught me & she also took me to private classes.
Finally, the answer to my prayers came and that is the reason I’m writing this follow up though no one may read such a long & winding ...
“FEED MY SHEEP” Jesus said
“FEED MY LAMBS” Jesus said
“FEED MY EWES” Jesus said
3 Times He told those of us who would follow Him & attempt to live The Way he taught was “A More Excellemt Way To Live” 3 TIMES He Told us HOW TO DEAL WITH IGNORANT, SELF DESTRUCTIVE other people...
Yes, I cried when I realized MY ERROR. Whatever the Truth may be? If all the people are asleep to it?
But IF WE ARE SO BLESSED (or cursed)
TO SEE IT?
Then there is only ONE THING WE ARE TO DO
Find a way to feed our fellow human beings our brothers and our sisters-
Find some way to reach them and wake them up...
Feed the Sheep 🐑
Jesus said nothing about the rams, however😎
but this is much too long as is...
Hey people🙏🏼🌹thank you for reading if you’ve come this far I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH but I decided I would try to explain my change of mind and change of heart.
“Thank You Dear Lord for your forgiveness & Grace, for always answering my prayers
After people go through a traumatizing experience like you say in 2020,
one unexpected benefit is that the intuition and emotional senses become so sharpened to the good people surrounding us. The goodness and kindness are poignant and powerful, and the inner compass is very well-tuned. This stays with you.
The strength that you gain by coming through this goes on to empower countless others in the future.
2 years is still acute. The lost self will reemerge after some time, complimented by added depths.
It happens in families as well. Trying to call out and clean up toxic or dishonest behavior can get you nothing but grief.
However, I still find accepting it impossible.
Leaving is usually an option.
But in the mess we are in today I believe must each find the place where we can serve the best and move forward.
Lately I have been putting together lists of all the Freedom Fighters, individuals and organizations, who are actively in this battle for humanity. Together we and those who tune in to us make up a rather large population.
: ))
I am getting the idea that if we could all act in concert, this awake contingent, we could leverage some power.
Shake up mainstream, including Media, Medicine, Government, etc.
Get the Corporations on their "back foot!"
The various organizations and their leadership, plus top individuals, substack writers & researchers, CHD, ICAN, plus, plus, plus, need a brainstorming and organizing session, and an action plan/ platform to come out of their work together.
We still have time to act, it appears, but that window is closing fast, imho.
Must leverage every asset we have now.
God Bless all the Freedom Fighters!
Especially you, Dr. Yeadon. Thank you for telling the truth as you saw it. That action took courage, and witnessing it in others makes it easier to find in ourselves. 💙
As to the baton, well, hang on to it for now. It may become a torch!
I will never second guess another persons decision to walk away from a fight. The level of intolerance and vindictiveness has in deed escalated. And it's been institutionalized and rationalized and even labeled "liberal" and "inclusiveness". The sheer mass of insanity would justify walking away.
Every experience, good and bad, changes us. It may not seem like we can choose how. We can choose what we do next. We can choose how we use what we learned from the experience (when we survive). Key to finding a productive path forward is finding people you can trust while learning to recognize those you can not trust.
Prayers you find your next path and it surrounds you with people of honor and trust.
I truly understand and I am where you are. I am no longer who I was. For better or worse, I don't know. Sometimes I think it depends on the day. --- I'm so sorry this happened in your life in any way. God bless you, Dr. Yeadon.
The experiences that people describe here are absolutely classic for workplace bullying dynamics: there are characteristic targets -- people with high integrity who don't grasp for power, are kind to others, and simply there to do excellent work. And these people are subjected to classic group mobbing dynamics that 80% of the time end in job loss and changes to health (PTSD, heart issues...).
It is helpful to be aware of what those patterns are so as to depersonalize the experience. This place presents good summaries in some of their informational videos: https://workplacebullying.org/
AskReddit is also a great source for people reporting mobbing or toxic workplace experiences. Anyone going through that needs to know that they're not alone. Exit the toxic environment and invest your talents somewhere worthwhile.
In my various experiences, I've seen a lot of this. I've left jobs or refused them because of my ethical standards. I've felt the pressures and rather than being bullied into submission I have evaluated the options and made personal choices. It's cost me a lot of $$ over the years. But I have found, eventually, opportunities to do good (and have fun) finding people of substance and honor, with high moral and ethical standards, with whom I can work. More than once I had to start my own business to do it.
I admit a negative reaction to the term "toxic environment" as this is currently being used frequently to label those who simply won't conform to the BS. One of my tech clients has an environment where expressing negative thoughts is disallowed. If someone presents a design that is fundamentally broken, pointing out the flaws is "toxic". Another example of false equivalences. Really, suppressing inquiry and open debate is toxic to finding good solutions to practical problems. Look kids, I know some people are better than others at being nice when pointing out the negatives. I myself have gotten a lot better over the years and finding a nice wayto say "sorry Bubba, that just ain't gonna work!". But I've observed that sometimes the person without the social skills to come across as cheerful and positive is still right. If you really want to be enlightened, look beyond the delivery and find the information content. That ahole coworker who always seems negative might a valuable member of the team who, if you take the time to understand, will save you much failure. Just sayin'.
My brother is an architect who teaches a university course on construction techniques. On the first day of the course, he tells the students, "You are going to give me your designs and I will tell you if they are going to fall down."
And thank you for speaking out. And no apologies as that is a correct use of the word "toxic" as the attitudes and environments you describe poison the entire system, doing real harm. I didn't mean to suggest "toxic environments" do not exist, just hat so many times the term is not used correctly. But I suppose that too is a matter of perspective.
When I was involved with the US "military industrial complex" (back in the 1980s) there was a term "career limiting decisions" often used to refer to the decision to take actions which might be viewed as a threat (or simply annoying) to those in power. While often used in jest, it was a very real thing and we al know what it meant when used seriously. For many people it was an effective form of suppression. For others it drove them out of the system completely.
I don't know what a "cluster C disorder" is. I do know what a "cluster F disorder" is, and 2020 was definitely full of cluster-fs. Is there a relation?
That was priceless - absolutely 2020 was full of cluster-fs, and 2021, and 2022 as well. The rest of the decade isn't looking so great right now either....
I totally sympathize with that decision and understand everyone needs to do what’s best for their psychological and physical well-being.
The opposing argument (which I’ve made previously myself) is that all the competent people leaving these organizations will cause them to implode, so let’s hope that’s what occurs.
I definitely wouldn’t think anyone who resigns from these positions is weak but rather has the strength to overcome the fear associated with losing a stable income. In any case, congrats on being terrifying 😆💪
As to what can you do? Mentor the next generation, please! Model and encourage that same "terrifying" behaviour in as many as you possibly can! We need much more, not less, of all that.
In my own way, I’m the same. As mentioned, I didn’t have “presence”, but people did like to work with me on difficult stuff, because I was relentless in thinking about how best to use a situation, I didn’t care for credit & I would courteously do outrageous things if I thought I might pull it off. Frankly, it was fun.
One event was to persuade a huge drug company with a massive department of patent experts & legal people, who’s very lifeblood was patent-protected drugs, to agree to a ten year plan to build a generic drug (as part of a 15 year plan to join GSK as top respiratory house).
At the time, GSK’s biggest selling drug, Advair (asthma & COPD) was also the worlds #2. The franchise went over $10B.
We realised its patents would expire & there’d be no generics, because the twin drug / formulation / device mix made it “too hard” to copy EXACTLY. Not exact? You can get approved, but crucially, it’s not “substitutable”. You’ll get zero sales unless you promote the hell out of it. Impossible to make RoI.
But we knew of a small device engineering house filled with former respiratory company technical people, and they’d designed a patented device which operated in the same way (open, prime, inhale, close so the dose counter decremented). Uniquely it had twin discs for premetered doses, so it could do things GSK’s device couldn’t, like triple combos, generics of moisture sensitive drugs & more.
The plan cooked up by my commercial colleague, me & the expert in our inhaled drug formulation unit was
-acquire said device company
-fund final development of automated assembly to launch scale
-do our R&D on how to get around trade secret methods for micronising & formulating the components of the combination separately.
-run bio equivalence in vitro & clinical PK studies while liaising with FDA.
No other company could do this. We’d share the market & both do very well, while later adding new treatments, same device.
While we ran out of time, the whole thing got acquired by Mylan. That was an interesting experience.
They opened a UK facility on the strength of the potential of this kit of parts & hired many former colleagues. They’re still there & they did gain approval. I’ve no idea what sales they made.
But looking back, I must have been even more crazy or persuasive than I recall, because it looks utterly bonkers.
Yet it happened, and we built a core of half a dozen Mavericks cutting across “functional lines” & got it done.
Technically I am not the expert, but dreaming the concept, finding ways around objections & sheer belief that the goal was doable and worthwhile, I’m good at explaining that.
When I heard they were to close my therapy area, I asked no permissions, but arranged to visit the CEO in NYC. This was the predecessor of Bourla. I got my meeting & explained why carving this out in some way was a valuable business imperative.
I got a roasting back in UK, but they didn’t break up the unit, and it was ticking over, on budget fumes, when Mylan acquired it.
On that occasion I didn’t bother salving bruised egos. I remember picking up my coat the last time & driving home through dessicated cornfields in blazing sunshine, to begin a new life as a biotech consultant.
This post, as so many of yours do, generates a few ideas in my brain!
First, that whole creative, out of the box thinking which can see a) what would be exciting, or needed, or profitable, ie, the "possible!" in any situation, b) especially when others don't perceive it, or believe it's achievable, or worth the effort, and c) find the path that gets to the goal!
This type of mind and personal focus is over and over again, creates those who achieve unusual successes!
And it's fun, exactly as you've said!
I've pulled off similar accomplishments a couple of times myself, though not in the corporate universe!
I think you have just described the reason the baton may not get passed, lol. We need you, and exactly that sort of mind set, working with all the other men and women of intelligence, out of the box thinking and courage, to come up with a creative Game Plan to deal with this Nhilism and Insanity that has attacked us.
After all, how difficult can it be to deal with "Dr. Evil and his minions??"
Joking aside, these people are genuinely caricatures of human beings, and as such are twice failed. We humans are very imperfect, but we do have compassion, humor, love of family and friends, and occasionally, genuine greatness.
Sociopaths, Narcissists, and Psychopaths are so very limited in comparison.
We need genius ideas as to
a) expose them, show them up as wicked and incompetent.
b) "pull their plug," remove their power sources
c) build and support parallel systems to meet human need.
I cannot believe we, and by that I mean all the brightest minds and most courageous hearts in this movement plus the millions that are awake now, are unable to pull it off!
As MAA says, we need to see the battlefield clearly, even to overwhelming odds, yet KNOW we can WIN!!
Oh, and the other thought is: did you know CHD and Bobby Kennedy came to the conclusion that pharma knew all along that their vaccines created the asthma that became the root cause of all their profits on Adavair?
They wrote a wonderful article entitled: "Vaccines, Gateway Drugs by Design?"
It was/is all intentional.
I am so sorry to say. Those of us who are "normal" don't see The Dark Triad because it's impossible, nearly, for us to believe someone who looks "human" functionally is not.
I've done a lot of looking since "normal" childhood vaccines almost killed my only child. It's a dark, dark reality...
What a fascinating, intriguing, interesting story of your life experience.
What a book you could write !
Meantime, you have been integral to untold many people’s good decision to abstain from this so called ‘vaccine’ and we thank you profoundly everyday for that.
Please sleep well at night, at least with this knowledge.
People with strengths are specifically targeted by those group dynamics / mobbing, as this post writes about. (Which has one of the best titles yet, I must add.)
Years ago, a fellow I knew gave me a huge compliment of sorts: He admired me because I was the only person he knew with a "Kill your TV" bumpersticker that actually did not own a TV or watch television. Decades later, I can see how corrosive media narrative is and I love hearing when others decide to break free from it.
I have been keeping my health through alternative methods for years. My distrust of the medical system was high. When I turned it all off I was free to hear what was really going on with others watching and collating the true facts. So I made an informed choice early. Not without severe pushback and some losses. I’m retired so I honor those who have lost or risked their jobs. The hard job of protecting their children from rapacious criminals disguised as politicians, doctors, and everyone pushing this genocide. They are not done. We will stand up. I may make a sticker like that. I saw a good one/-Fauci for Prison 2024. 👍🏻💪🏻
The media and government together create the psyop we call politics. The whole point of it is to keep us from realizing that the USA is a foreign corporation that is privately owned. The company does the will of its owner, not us. We are not the owner. Politics is the TV show that keeps the grift and graft going and growing. It's amazing how cheap and tawdry the show of politics is, how effective it has been, and how long it has worked.
Is it media or social media? Has the traditional media had the power to cancel in the past or is it the collective power of social media that allows it to occur? I’m leaning towards social media…
Social Groups. Doesn't matter which group, which organization, which country or point in history....
There's ~1% psychopaths who will search out the competition (integrity, talent, strength) and mob them.
There's ~ ?? % of people who are prone to being targets thanks to their integrity, character, skills.
Then there's the massive herd, vulnerable to being directed by whichever voice is most persuasive. Psychopaths are master manipulators. People with integrity generally have no interest in manipulating, gossiping, etc. They lose if we don't help each other out.
It seems to me that psycopaths and narcissists are the most rapidly growing segment of the population...why is that? Are they? Or am I just noticing them more?
Inevitably they will end up cancelling each other. We are already seeing evidence of this where feminists and lesbians - accomplished cancellers in their time - are being ostracised for insisting they are women, contrary to the ‘transgender’ orthodoxy.
Surely the people at the top of the regional, national, or global pecking order are those that can 'read the game' better than the rest? Make alliances better than the rest, and treat the rest like lambs either fleecing us or taking us to the slaughter as they see fit?
And they just *act* like they're marginalized and make all these destabilizing decisions for their own individual gain.
I just think it's dangerous to under-estimate them. Why are all of us who can see the wood and the trees scrabbling for a foothold, a say in the matter, or any kind of real influence and power?
Maybe we can hope that China, which has been doing "cancel culture" forever, with the past 70-80 yrs being the climax, has reached this kind of incompetence internally without displaying it to the rest of the world. Of course, if they do collapse somehow with their nukes, etc. intact, it could be a real nightmare.
All true, except consideration for the circle of life. If we hold the space for 20 years, the kids not destroyed by Covid, drugs, and idiotic provably false social “theories” will rise to the top over the children of these weak fools creating unnecessary chaos. If we don’t hold the space it could take much longer, or the strong who rise could be much more terrifying.
Either way - hard times make strong men - strong men make good times - good times make weak men - weak men make hard times............. and so the cycle continues.
It seems like Europe is ahead of us on this cycle. This winter weak men making very very hard times will be inescapable. Let’s hope the strong who rise are on the better half of humanity. It might be a peak into our own future here.
My sister lives in Ireland. She’s worried about winter. Very low income. Health problems. But she has fallen for the con from the beginning and cannot connect any dots. Took me to task in her usual imperious tone. Not hearing that much lately.
Sad, but I think actual suffering will wake at least some people up. Right now life is uncomfortable. Real suffering isn’t here yet. There are fears - Covid, “climate change,” freezing and starvation this winter. Only one of those - freezing and starvation this winter - are based in actual data (less food, way less energy). But to the brainwashed, they are all similar fears. It will take actual suffering for them to figure out which is the real threat. Some will suffer in endless confusion. Others will gain clarity. It’s sad the clarity will come from completely predictable and avoidable decisions of politicians, but historically that’s most often the case. Our best hope is enough wake up from being woke before we are all condemned to what they demand for generations.
On Covid I’ve seen lots of people get vaccine harmed or have a love one die or a child destroyed with useless “mitigation” and they still deny or more often these days downplay it. I’ve seen at least as many wake up though.
There is actual suffering, but not yet widespread enough to cause change, yet. All the businesses forced to close because of the lockdowns, never to reopen. Vacant storefronts, dreams and family wealth destroyed. The effect of (unnecessary) inflation and energy prices on so many businesses and families. The zoom class isn't suffering and are gaslighting those who are. Remember this when you vote in November.
My brother kissed it. I was too chicken to do it myself, as I didn't like the idea of hanging upside down. Besides, I am pretty much "full up" on blarney.
Yah, it has a name too, the Dunning Kruger effect. If you're ignorant enough, you can convince yourself that you are a mega-genius. Just take a look at the "e133tz". Pathetic.
Anyone who calls themselves a retard is immediately above average for me (at least they are aware).
The collapse of character is a problem, but be even more concerned by the collapse of competency. The woke movement is about a generation old now, and with each generation, we will enjoy the work of doctors, pilots, engineers, and government officials who are hired, retained, and tenured based on their ability to swim with the commissariat.
We're on that train in Atlas Shrugged, the "smoker" -- and we're going through that long tunnel through the mountain. Men of gross incompetence were in charge, and it wasn't clear whether the air would remain breathable to the passengers throughout the whole length of the tunnel.
Exhaust fumes cannot replace clean and breathable air -- but those on the train bet their life on it.
What hope? I asked a philosopher (a good one, not a prestigious, conventional one) a similar question decades ago. He replied: Only the kind of abstract hope due to the human potential. Until inroads are made in private education, I don't know that significant change for the better is possible. "Give me the child until the age of seven, and I will give you the man," as Ignatius Loyola allegedly wrote. Too many people have too many investments (including psychological) in the statist quo and don't understand they would be better off in a rational culture with free countries (and human centric, reasonable private schools). Until then, I hope we can continue to coast without economic cataclysm while tiny (but hopefully significant) inroads are made. More minds need to change, and I don't know that that's possible when too many people are told what to think (and not taught how to think).
but its realization must commence with the overthrow of this tower of babblers and their cancel culture threats. it is only fear of them that makes them fearsome. learn to laugh at them and call them by name (tyrant, narcissist, bigot, coward, fool) and their power evaporates like mojave dew trace at sunrise.
They are ridiculous. I like to take the Mencken approach of sardonic ridicule when I can (his name was in the title of my old weblog), but so much (and so little) has changed so fast. (Even Bono made similar comments about "laughing at the devil" in one of his better speeches.) Your work and the minds that have found it and engage with it is another source of hope. Thank you for that.
I have been very slow to call them names, I find that continued efforts to question their rationalizations and to expose their logical fallacies leads to the same. They usually end up ignoring or blocking me, which is where I knew it would end anyhow. In essence they removed themselves from my presence...which I consider to be them cancelling themselves. The more we can get them to remove themselves from us, the more they will realize it is they who are being canceled.
Yes, Mao tactics. Your Red Violin clip says it all. I also recommend the biography by Jung Chang--which lays out his early and often deliberate strategy of repeatedly culling out the independent thinkers, paid and directed by Stalin. Thanks.
I suppose we ought not be surprised that the generation born with a Fb page, who grew up with a phone attached to their hand, on soft and safe playgrounds, taught to reject name-calling and/or bullying of others, and, heaven-forbid, ever seeing others as distinctly different individuals, now as "adults" simply feel threatened by words they don't like. I grew up with "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me." We know that's not true, but it was the mentality that made for resilient achievers. The pendulum has swung way too far and it will never create health in this cancel culture.
This is "The Emperor's New Clothes" writ large. The little boy who points out the obvious-- in our tale is accused of disinformation. In some versions of the story, the crowd laughed at the king when their self-deception was un-masked. I think laughter combined with a deeply serious approach to the issues that face us is the way forward.
Bill Mahre is not a match with me ideologically. But I respect that he is willing to call out the lack of clothing when he sees it. We need more of this.
It nothing new. The tactic of authoritarians /bullies/ the left has always been to call the other side names. They have no arguments and no real Ability other than to inflame the mob
This has long been a concern of mine as I watch the people of integrity resigning from positions of authority while obsequious colluders (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling) rise to greater prominence.
While I applaud those courageous individuals for sacrificing their careers to voice their opposition to toxic policies, stepping down simply means their positions will be filled by complicit bootlickers.
My preference would be to see the brave ones remain in their posts and loudly expose the corruption—better to force the organizations to fire them and reveal the mafioso rot underlying these organizations.
Staying, fighting, and forcing termination is one way. OTOH, exiting and forging another path free from the "mob" one used to think of as "colleagues" is another. Having had experience and learning the hard way with regard to the Sep 11 attacks just how incorrigible the "average" person is I knew how people would conduct themselves as this crime rolled out, and boy, did they not "disappoint".
Those like me who left these organizations did so for many reasons, including the preference for letting them rot...As Nietzsche said, "That which is about to fall deserves to be pushed."
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Yes, I, too, would prefer people stay and fight. I speak from personal experience when I say that it's really difficult to stay. Once you voice opposition, which I did, you are hounded almost daily. I was placed under a bogus investigation and removed from my duties. I was shunned. Yes, there were some coworkers who knew it was a sham to force me out and they quietly voiced how sorry they were, but they kept their mouths shut. I took the "punishment" for about six months - I fought back, but every day I felt sick to my stomach when I just thought about work. Eventually, I could no longer take the stress which took its toll on my health and my family. So, I resigned. I truly admire those who stay, but I am sorry to say I could not.
You have nothing to apologize for. Those who revealed themselves and their true character are the ones who should apologize, but I'll tell you this, Remi. That has not even occurred to the vast majority of those you once called colleagues.
So true. It speaks to their character, not mine. Incidentally, my husband worked for the same agency, and he, too, spoke up and eventually left because life became unbearable at work. For sanity's sake, that was the best thing we did for ourselves. Since then my husband has run for political office twice. He lost both times, but he's not giving up and he has my full support. We hold out hope that some day soon we will prevail.
Excellent! Good for you both! ❤️
I did the same. It's only so long you can work in a prison camp, waiting to see what the guards would do to you that day, before you say enough is enough. No money is worth that abuse to your soul. The freedom to walk away is about the only freedom we have left.
It sounds like you suffered more than enough and have no need to feel sorry.
If I ever make my own company or manage a workplace, I will exclusively hire people who resigned or were forced out of their jobs due to integrity. Nothing could compete with the quality of that team!
It's a badge of honor to have left a job for these reasons -- we need to reach a point collectively where that's a clear signal that we all understand.
I was thinking the same thing about all of the military personnel who were forced to resign. They would make an awfully potent set of allies should the need arise :-)
And how about pilots that aren't prone to falling flat with SADS? Could be a cool concept for a company: "Pilots that don't die"
I suggested to Steve Kirsch a while back that he should start Unvaxxed Airlines, and the tagline could be, “Fly without fear”—although I think yours is more compelling 😆
Or succinct: "Fly" (strikethrough: Die)
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My husband flew this past July for the first time since November 2019. On the first leg of the return flight, he got to talking to one of the pilots. (Hubby was at the "front of the bus.") My husband, because he's fresh, said something like, "Hey, if you need a hand up front, I'm not genetically modified so if anything happens, I'm right here." (He's also former military.) I just about died when he told me that. "You did not!", I yelled. "Oh, yes, I did!" 😂😂😂
Know what the pilot told him? "I'm not genetically modified either. They invited me back". Was he retired and they "called him back"? Furloughed and they "called him back"? Don't know, but apparently, that was one pilot without the stroke poke.
And this is a 𝒎𝒂𝒋𝒐𝒓 U.S. airline...
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I love that idea. Question by HR: were you ever fired or have you ever resigned from a job because you spoke up to right a wrong? If so, describe the circumstances. I would help you construct an integrity interview with a written pre-interview questionaire to ferret out the bad apples. Of course I'd help interpret what the answers mean and it would be up to you to hire or not. There was a time I did that for a living...
Do it! Sounds like a great project.
The questionnaire has to be tailored to the specific company, but I'd be game...
Remi, Excellent idea! There was a time I did that for a living also (asking, probing, evaluating for possible match)… independently and happily. Pushed out by lockdowns and CA AB5. That’s the convenient reason. The real reason is what happened in 2020 every night for over four months, when I realized the people I’d be talking to would likely be 3-4 decades younger than me and bought into all that nonsense that was the supposed reason for nightly violence. Now that I freed myself from that life I don’t care to return, although I heartily endorse parallel structures (marketplace, health care), and the same abilities to inquire/interpret/evaluate will come in handy.
I truly believe the most effective way to deal with what’s coming is by radical localism. I heard Catherine Austin Fitts advocate going local way back in 2005-2007, when I was innocently hot about “Lifestyles of Health & Sustainability”; she was the darling of much of that crowd in those days. I do my best in this effort, DH not quite on board, and rural living has its constraints. I imagine very soon we will be forced into this approach out of sheer necessity. The dumb people in charge have zero capacity to deal with chaos with any response other than totalitarianism; my read on history is that ordinary people create their own structures in response (eg, black markets). Meantime, we increase our capacity to love and keep looking within for our sustenance.
The brother of Paramahansa Yogananda included this “sloka” in end note of book on PY’s early life, I say it daily: Oh God, thou art the Supreme Cause. Thou art Truth; Thou art everywhere and in everything. Thou doest create and sustain all things, and it is Thou into Whom all things finally merge again. (Quoted from memory)
Envisioning God’s Light and Love permeating so many hearts and minds, evil is pushed way back.
the workplace is increasingly insufferable. even in the face of massive turnover, employers typically tell themselves the story they want to hear. employment is simply a business deal, and effectively exercising power as an employee is simply taking your skills elsewhere. businesses typically take from 2-5 years to even notice the negative consequences of poor business decisions - of those that notice not many will even correctly identify the root cause of the problem. Even fewer will operationalize the right fix.
I see this a lot. The lack of people returning to the work force has depleted PT and 3/4 time jobs. Everything I'm looking at (even ostensibly PT work) wants an 8 hour shift. Several employers (mostly manufacturing, but some health care) are demanding 12 hour shifts. Like offering a 12 hour shift is going to get many takers... Meanwhile, they're losing established workers by having one person essentially doing what 2 people did three years ago. No wonder anyone who can retire or self employ is doing just that.
I also am having difficulty finding a part time position. Funny thing is that my previous position that i had for many years was technically full time but I was able to complete my work pt. In essence they saved money by allowing me to work pt.
Not noticing the negative consequences of poor decisions is often not surprising when you're there seeing the personality of the person making those poor decisions.
The surprising thing is often, how do so many dysfunctional people manage to button up their shirts everyday and stay at the top of the ladder?
Margaret,
You provided an excellent compilation of both historic and fictional video clips to make your point.
As I watched COVID hysteria grip America in 2020 a distant memory of Harry Harlow's primate research involving social deprivation and group dynamics in Rhesus Macaques kept playing in the back of my mind. Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow
As more and more Americans become raised indoors by the TV, with 'Mother' and 'Father' away at work or prison - and with their societies curated by an artificial apparatus of strangers and media, we are fast approaching perhaps the third generation of Human adults who were acculturated by one of Harlow's "Iron Maidens."
The Uvalde School Shooter is just the tip of this predictable iceberg. The costs to the rest of society are becoming unbearable.
Thank you, steveaz, and what a profound observation. Just thinking of that video of those poor baby monkeys clinging to their surrogate mothers nearly brings me to tears 😿
There’s a reason the television was called the “boob tube.” As you wisely noted, we are now witnessing the catastrophic effects of children being reared by it instead of human parents.
Harlan Ellison, in one of his pithier moments dubbed it 'The Glass Teat', which describes it well, really.
Thanks for reminding us all of that. I think you make a great deal of sense...because I see it everyday I work.
I would agree where it's possible to save, but we're decades past that now.
It's time to build institutions and let the old die. It'll be way more effective and a lot more fun.
It does require sacrifice.
Easy to armchair coach that mindset, while not being there to hug and support.
Yes, I have been encouraging doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who have lost their jobs over the mandate to band together and start offering alternative healthcare under some sort of identifiable brand that alerts us to their status as freedom/truth/ethics proponents. Many of us would much prefer to support heroic and ethical individuals if we have the option.
Another thing that needs to be known now: the requirements for shots at some hospitals are falling aside quietly.
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Yep, and the same thing happened with our military long ago--like in BO's first term but was heading that way even before then.
Yeah I don't know exactly when it started. I bailed from DoD in mid 1980s and it seemed okay back then.
Thank you for this, LI. So true...I pray that you're right about the chance for real change -- in "medicine" and across the board. Our whole culture is so sick it boggles the mind -- thanks almost exclusively to the expansion of organized crime, a.k.a., "government".
I agree -- an alternate system is already emerging. It is incomprehensible that HCWs have remained silent. Without sounding too dramatic, they will pay for it -- one way or the other. It is encouraging to hear that you know five people yourself who have resigned and that two are courageous enough to talk to you about it.
Agreed, and I look forward to the impending collapse.
who will be those young fresh good people?
It'll be the independent thinkers who didn't succumb to mass formation psychosis.
Sounds like you handled the situation perfectly—congratulations on escaping and leaving your mark in the process.
I can identify with that.
What happened to me in 2020 was so unpleasant that I still find it surprising that I didn’t just stop.
I spent my entire career mopping up the results of frictions caused by me doing what I thought best. It was exhausting. I did it because acutely I cannot handle proper conflict, where things have got to vindictiveness.
It’s a lot worse now.
After well over two years of it I’m very conscious I’ve been changed & not in a good way.
I’ve always seen this a relay. Trouble is, I don’t know what to do with the baton.
I agree with everything except this, Mike:
“I’ve been changed & not in a good way.”
It may be more difficult to be awake to the truth, but what you’ve done with that awakeness is of historic importance, and you have inspired countless individuals to follow your courageous example 🙌
I get it though.
I think any of us that have been scolded and admonished for sharing information this past few years. We are called cultists, that have distrust for our wonderful government and health professionals.
No one has respect for others. Follow the experts on tv. How dare you bring up cautions or "flood my inbox" with your scary emails. It is like walking on egg shells and it indeed does "change" you, especially when most people are just not that interested to learn.
My sister called yesterday to say one of her friends read something on my facebook page and was upset. (Too bad)...like it was my fault her friend complained.
I was suspended from facebook last November after I posted information about covid that the fact checkers did not like. They immediately suspended my account and henceforth my associated Instagram account, which was the only social net work I was really using (sewing, quilting) Facebook, really not so much.
So I lost that account as well. We are living in a mind war with stupid enemies
Like they HAD to read your FB page!
I agree with dr Yeadon
about how it has changed me, too
to realize the depth of the insidious infiltration by the genocidal globalist filth all of this wicked woke taking over all of the institutions here and in every other previously free country in the first world.
How once good friends were more than happy to throw caution & even common sense to the wind in their attempts to brow beat me into supporting the worst tyrannical unamerican BS for no other reason than
Because he had a black face & pronounced Pakistan “POKistan”🙄
Because the tv told them to be afraid of a man made virus w/less than 00.003% fatality rate & that among the already sick & dying 😒
Because the tv told them to take the experimental injections 🤦♀️
I feel it very deeply these changes within myself
what dr Yeadon refers to as NOT IN A GOOD WAY.
It is the same with me… I have no where near the compassion or empathy for my fellow Americans
those hypnotized by the bootlickers in the mockingbird media
Those sufferers of mass formation
the belligerently ignorant mockingbird media addicts insistent on parroting that putrid pile of poo the cia controlled bootlickers shovel & spew from every orifice
-lies from the political pulpits,
-lies from every channel on traditional 📺
- lies 21stcentury Fascistbook & all the other hyper censored wholly corrupted big tech “media”
TBH the very last dregs or shreds of my compassion/empathy for the virtue signaling retards died when the govt invented “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” to account for the all cause mortality rise of 40% AMONG THE INJECTED.
SADS?
Really?
But the idiot herds continue to blindly shuffle along bleating out their virtue signals while obviously dragging all of us straight into hell
Today as I watch this intentionally created energy shortage & world wide famine SELF EVIDENTLY caused on purpose
rationalized by the globalist filth
lie ‘climate crisis’
What I feel is not empathy & compassion for the idiots who got jabbed & are now dropping like flies
It is not compassion and empathy I feel for the millions around the world who will die of starvation in the coming intentionally caused famine
What I do feel very strongly today is that all of them will get EXACTLY what they deserve…
I am angry and bitter that those of us who have already endured so much for merely SPEAKING THE OBVIOUS SELF EVIDENT TRUTH about the lies & the genocidal policies of what the surviving Nazis like soros & the sons of Nazis like Klaus schwab are actually doing to us are now going to get to endure the natural and logical effects of genocidal policies the retarded herds refuse to glance at BECAUSE IF IT ISNT ON CNN (one of the other mockingbird media sites) THEN IT MUST NOT BE TRUE😒
They deserve to starve to death.
They deserve to lose everything & die in death camps for those globalists they worship.
They all deserve what’s coming & im hoping I survive long enough to viciously parrot back to them the retarded lines and obvious lies we have all been forced to endure listening them screech at us for all the time we could have stopped this
& I will do exactly to them while they watch their children starve to death.
They should know while they are suffering that ALL OF THIS
IS ALL THEIR FAULT.
THAT way of thinking feeling & being? For me is a radical departure from any thought or feeling I have ever had in all my whole life about other people… even including my abusive thieving ex husbands.
Well, after a couple days of writing this I’ve come to 2 conclusions:
1. Once it’s on the internet? it’s forever “out there”
I am so grateful that I was able to live the first 30-40 years of my life with NO RECORD of my idiocy or emo reactions to haunt me “forever”
2. Considering #1. Even if I took it down, now? It wouldn’t do much good, right?
So I’ve decided to follow up my horrid inhumane RANT of RAGE against my fellow Americans with where I have reached regarding my feelings and world view TODAY. Technically yesterday but 🤷♀️ whatever...
I am sorry I wrote that.
I wish I could take it back but more than that
I wish I could go back in time and just never have given such horrid thoughts any more power than they had being kept to my self inside my own head...
It took me a couple days & there were a couple things I did during that time that elevated my mind-
I prayed 🙏🏼 I asked to be shown “my error” because whenever we feel enraged it is 99.99% of the time our own error.
I also took a break from all of the screens
The iPhone
The iPad
The Roku streaming tv & movies
The YouTube videos cast upon the tv, etc...
Instead...
I went outside in the lovely idyllic late summer days we get to have up here in the great pacific NW and spent some time snuggling my rescue dogs & playing with my little rose 🌹 starts (my summer project is to learn to propagate roses 🌹) & some 4 square breaths & other methods of centering, grounding, self soothing, self care, self nurturing, self validating...
And
over time
I remembered ...
I remembered a bunch of stuff
Such as -for the last 100 years (or more😒) our u.s. federal govt has done nothing but lie to u.s.
intentionally
About pretty much every single thing.
TV was invented (1927) to be a mind control device
at least one cia operation (mockingbird) is in the public square (though not usually mentioned by the mockingbird media) whose sole purpose was to have the cia infiltrate the U.S. media news & entertainment FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTROLLING PUBLIC OPINION
There are other secret fed govt covert operations regarding u.s. fed govt intentionally endeavoring to specifically LIE TO U.S.
mislead, mis-educate, dumb down, distract, pervert &
yes, even brain wash the entire u.s. population...
They’ve had 75 years (at least) of brainwashing mind control with the TV -they don’t call it “programming” for no reason...
Movies & the silver screen were even around before tv full on indoctrination every single one and worse every year.
TV shows
music videos
Concerts
advertisements
documentaries... ALL ARE CALIBRATED TO GIVE U.S. SUBTLE
“programming” “indoctrination”
the music is even set to a frequency Hz that they’ve known causes disharmony in the mind and the body...
yes,
Of course
there are healing frequencies
BUT Rockefeller SPECIFICALLY CHOSE THE INJURIOUS FREQUENCIES BAND TO BROADCAST THE MUSIC TO THE MASSES
They fluoridated our water 💦 hitler did that to the water in his ‘work’ camps, too... DYK that?
Those chem trails in our Air are real -it was never a “conspiracy theory” it has always been yet another
Unconstitutional secret u.s. federal govt operation
GMOs by Monsanto are also real... they’ve been poisoning our food supply for over 50-60 years, now, too.
Glyphosate - yeah look that up that’s a ‘fun’ read🙄
Public schools became formally State indoctrination institutions under the Carter Administration with the creation of the unconstitutional federal Dept of education... the schools weren’t that great before
but after the state got the power to write the curriculum it was basically OVER for our kids back in the 1970’s
Even before the evil feds were writing their statist curriculum
Rockefeller(yeah the same piece of shit who chose the music broadcast band frequency, that bastard) based the original public school operating system on a 200 year old Prussian system designed to dumb everybody down to being soldiers and factory workers. “We are not creating men of letters here” he said & echoed the Prussian system intention as his intention for U.S.Citizens.
(No, silly, not HIS CHILDREN!! His kids were educated in a manner designed to raise their consciousness and teach them common sense and critical thinking skills HE WANTED HISKIDS TO TAKE OVER RUNNING THINGS WHEN HE DIED.)
it was just our kids he wanted so stupid we couldn’t even think for ourselves & if it occurred to u.s. to do so?
Well... there is always THE COMMON GOOD to throw in the face of the one who won’t comply & the demands to GO ALONG TO GET ALONG- because he never wanted Any of U.S. citizens to forget OUR PLACE=slaves to him/Rockefeller
& the rest of the self-appointed Elite, Globalist Filth
I COULD GO ON. How about DYK “conspiracy theory” the term & all of its variants was promoted heavily by the cia during the jfk assassination investigation PURPOSE - TO MALIGN ANYONE WHO QUESTIONED THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE & mitigate any fallout from such questioning...
that was back in 1963- almost 3 years before I was even born.
for my self?
I’ve been retired & out of the rat race for over a decade & life is definitely different when you’re not racing to catch your own tail 8 days a week... there’s a lot of time for one thing & it’s quiet here at home alone out in the woods.
Plus I’m not surrounded by other people and their interpretations needs comments etc...
I turned off my 🛰 satellite tv 5 years ago last month so the brainwashing programming is severely limited in my home.
Of the many and varied things about me, personally, that may have set me apart from the rest of my fellow Americans
I CANNOT BE HYPNOTIZED... idk 🤷♀️ why but I guess a very small percentage of human beings just can’t be hypnotized. I’ve tested this as I tried to get hypnotized as a therapeutic several years ago but it didn’t work. The suggestions were helpful but I was never hypnotized 😵💫 I was conscious cognizant and fully aware
No perceptible shift in my mind of any kind no matter what the guy did...
Finally? My mom educated me in addition to my public schooling she taught me & she also took me to private classes.
Finally, the answer to my prayers came and that is the reason I’m writing this follow up though no one may read such a long & winding ...
“FEED MY SHEEP” Jesus said
“FEED MY LAMBS” Jesus said
“FEED MY EWES” Jesus said
3 Times He told those of us who would follow Him & attempt to live The Way he taught was “A More Excellemt Way To Live” 3 TIMES He Told us HOW TO DEAL WITH IGNORANT, SELF DESTRUCTIVE other people...
Yes, I cried when I realized MY ERROR. Whatever the Truth may be? If all the people are asleep to it?
But IF WE ARE SO BLESSED (or cursed)
TO SEE IT?
Then there is only ONE THING WE ARE TO DO
Find a way to feed our fellow human beings our brothers and our sisters-
Find some way to reach them and wake them up...
Feed the Sheep 🐑
Jesus said nothing about the rams, however😎
but this is much too long as is...
Hey people🙏🏼🌹thank you for reading if you’ve come this far I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH but I decided I would try to explain my change of mind and change of heart.
“Thank You Dear Lord for your forgiveness & Grace, for always answering my prayers
even when the answer is ‘no.’”
🙏🏼
-kk
Give that baton to God - He is using your race in amazing ways. Thank
You for your talks, warnings, admonitions & enlightenment. This is a verrrry tough war - the likes of which boggle the mind & challenge the soul.
Wonderful comment. At some point, it's all we can do, while continuing forward...
💕🙏to God the Glory
After people go through a traumatizing experience like you say in 2020,
one unexpected benefit is that the intuition and emotional senses become so sharpened to the good people surrounding us. The goodness and kindness are poignant and powerful, and the inner compass is very well-tuned. This stays with you.
The strength that you gain by coming through this goes on to empower countless others in the future.
2 years is still acute. The lost self will reemerge after some time, complimented by added depths.
It happens in families as well. Trying to call out and clean up toxic or dishonest behavior can get you nothing but grief.
However, I still find accepting it impossible.
Leaving is usually an option.
But in the mess we are in today I believe must each find the place where we can serve the best and move forward.
Lately I have been putting together lists of all the Freedom Fighters, individuals and organizations, who are actively in this battle for humanity. Together we and those who tune in to us make up a rather large population.
: ))
I am getting the idea that if we could all act in concert, this awake contingent, we could leverage some power.
Shake up mainstream, including Media, Medicine, Government, etc.
Get the Corporations on their "back foot!"
The various organizations and their leadership, plus top individuals, substack writers & researchers, CHD, ICAN, plus, plus, plus, need a brainstorming and organizing session, and an action plan/ platform to come out of their work together.
We still have time to act, it appears, but that window is closing fast, imho.
Must leverage every asset we have now.
God Bless all the Freedom Fighters!
Especially you, Dr. Yeadon. Thank you for telling the truth as you saw it. That action took courage, and witnessing it in others makes it easier to find in ourselves. 💙
As to the baton, well, hang on to it for now. It may become a torch!
I will never second guess another persons decision to walk away from a fight. The level of intolerance and vindictiveness has in deed escalated. And it's been institutionalized and rationalized and even labeled "liberal" and "inclusiveness". The sheer mass of insanity would justify walking away.
Every experience, good and bad, changes us. It may not seem like we can choose how. We can choose what we do next. We can choose how we use what we learned from the experience (when we survive). Key to finding a productive path forward is finding people you can trust while learning to recognize those you can not trust.
Prayers you find your next path and it surrounds you with people of honor and trust.
❤️🪓pass on the wisdom and
Keep going. This race ain’t over
Drive a few spikes through the baton and use it where you think it will make the most difference. Start on a small government doctor perhaps.
Hmmm...and who could that cesspool govt Dr be? 😉
I’m glad you didn’t stop
not alone. Thank you for sharing your personal view.
I truly understand and I am where you are. I am no longer who I was. For better or worse, I don't know. Sometimes I think it depends on the day. --- I'm so sorry this happened in your life in any way. God bless you, Dr. Yeadon.
Thank you for not caving in to the propaganda & letting them inject you🙏🏼
In addition to your own body All of the rest of us who didn’t “cave” thank you for not caving
The experiences that people describe here are absolutely classic for workplace bullying dynamics: there are characteristic targets -- people with high integrity who don't grasp for power, are kind to others, and simply there to do excellent work. And these people are subjected to classic group mobbing dynamics that 80% of the time end in job loss and changes to health (PTSD, heart issues...).
It is helpful to be aware of what those patterns are so as to depersonalize the experience. This place presents good summaries in some of their informational videos: https://workplacebullying.org/
AskReddit is also a great source for people reporting mobbing or toxic workplace experiences. Anyone going through that needs to know that they're not alone. Exit the toxic environment and invest your talents somewhere worthwhile.
In my various experiences, I've seen a lot of this. I've left jobs or refused them because of my ethical standards. I've felt the pressures and rather than being bullied into submission I have evaluated the options and made personal choices. It's cost me a lot of $$ over the years. But I have found, eventually, opportunities to do good (and have fun) finding people of substance and honor, with high moral and ethical standards, with whom I can work. More than once I had to start my own business to do it.
I admit a negative reaction to the term "toxic environment" as this is currently being used frequently to label those who simply won't conform to the BS. One of my tech clients has an environment where expressing negative thoughts is disallowed. If someone presents a design that is fundamentally broken, pointing out the flaws is "toxic". Another example of false equivalences. Really, suppressing inquiry and open debate is toxic to finding good solutions to practical problems. Look kids, I know some people are better than others at being nice when pointing out the negatives. I myself have gotten a lot better over the years and finding a nice wayto say "sorry Bubba, that just ain't gonna work!". But I've observed that sometimes the person without the social skills to come across as cheerful and positive is still right. If you really want to be enlightened, look beyond the delivery and find the information content. That ahole coworker who always seems negative might a valuable member of the team who, if you take the time to understand, will save you much failure. Just sayin'.
My brother is an architect who teaches a university course on construction techniques. On the first day of the course, he tells the students, "You are going to give me your designs and I will tell you if they are going to fall down."
I think this is useful.
You're right about the word 'toxic' -- it has been usurped by toxic people driving that toxicity. What's a good alternative? 'Acidic'?
❤️
And thank you for speaking out. And no apologies as that is a correct use of the word "toxic" as the attitudes and environments you describe poison the entire system, doing real harm. I didn't mean to suggest "toxic environments" do not exist, just hat so many times the term is not used correctly. But I suppose that too is a matter of perspective.
When I was involved with the US "military industrial complex" (back in the 1980s) there was a term "career limiting decisions" often used to refer to the decision to take actions which might be viewed as a threat (or simply annoying) to those in power. While often used in jest, it was a very real thing and we al know what it meant when used seriously. For many people it was an effective form of suppression. For others it drove them out of the system completely.
Environments where there's no way out to the normal world can be the most harrowing.
I don't know what a "cluster C disorder" is. I do know what a "cluster F disorder" is, and 2020 was definitely full of cluster-fs. Is there a relation?
;-)
That was priceless - absolutely 2020 was full of cluster-fs, and 2021, and 2022 as well. The rest of the decade isn't looking so great right now either....
❤️🤍💙👍
Thanks for the informative explanation.
To expose my ignorance (and hope to cure some of it), what does "Borderline" mean?
Tnx
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I totally sympathize with that decision and understand everyone needs to do what’s best for their psychological and physical well-being.
The opposing argument (which I’ve made previously myself) is that all the competent people leaving these organizations will cause them to implode, so let’s hope that’s what occurs.
I definitely wouldn’t think anyone who resigns from these positions is weak but rather has the strength to overcome the fear associated with losing a stable income. In any case, congrats on being terrifying 😆💪
We need a lot more terrifyingness like that :-)
As to what can you do? Mentor the next generation, please! Model and encourage that same "terrifying" behaviour in as many as you possibly can! We need much more, not less, of all that.
In my own way, I’m the same. As mentioned, I didn’t have “presence”, but people did like to work with me on difficult stuff, because I was relentless in thinking about how best to use a situation, I didn’t care for credit & I would courteously do outrageous things if I thought I might pull it off. Frankly, it was fun.
One event was to persuade a huge drug company with a massive department of patent experts & legal people, who’s very lifeblood was patent-protected drugs, to agree to a ten year plan to build a generic drug (as part of a 15 year plan to join GSK as top respiratory house).
At the time, GSK’s biggest selling drug, Advair (asthma & COPD) was also the worlds #2. The franchise went over $10B.
We realised its patents would expire & there’d be no generics, because the twin drug / formulation / device mix made it “too hard” to copy EXACTLY. Not exact? You can get approved, but crucially, it’s not “substitutable”. You’ll get zero sales unless you promote the hell out of it. Impossible to make RoI.
But we knew of a small device engineering house filled with former respiratory company technical people, and they’d designed a patented device which operated in the same way (open, prime, inhale, close so the dose counter decremented). Uniquely it had twin discs for premetered doses, so it could do things GSK’s device couldn’t, like triple combos, generics of moisture sensitive drugs & more.
The plan cooked up by my commercial colleague, me & the expert in our inhaled drug formulation unit was
-acquire said device company
-fund final development of automated assembly to launch scale
-do our R&D on how to get around trade secret methods for micronising & formulating the components of the combination separately.
-run bio equivalence in vitro & clinical PK studies while liaising with FDA.
No other company could do this. We’d share the market & both do very well, while later adding new treatments, same device.
While we ran out of time, the whole thing got acquired by Mylan. That was an interesting experience.
They opened a UK facility on the strength of the potential of this kit of parts & hired many former colleagues. They’re still there & they did gain approval. I’ve no idea what sales they made.
But looking back, I must have been even more crazy or persuasive than I recall, because it looks utterly bonkers.
Yet it happened, and we built a core of half a dozen Mavericks cutting across “functional lines” & got it done.
Technically I am not the expert, but dreaming the concept, finding ways around objections & sheer belief that the goal was doable and worthwhile, I’m good at explaining that.
When I heard they were to close my therapy area, I asked no permissions, but arranged to visit the CEO in NYC. This was the predecessor of Bourla. I got my meeting & explained why carving this out in some way was a valuable business imperative.
I got a roasting back in UK, but they didn’t break up the unit, and it was ticking over, on budget fumes, when Mylan acquired it.
On that occasion I didn’t bother salving bruised egos. I remember picking up my coat the last time & driving home through dessicated cornfields in blazing sunshine, to begin a new life as a biotech consultant.
This post, as so many of yours do, generates a few ideas in my brain!
First, that whole creative, out of the box thinking which can see a) what would be exciting, or needed, or profitable, ie, the "possible!" in any situation, b) especially when others don't perceive it, or believe it's achievable, or worth the effort, and c) find the path that gets to the goal!
This type of mind and personal focus is over and over again, creates those who achieve unusual successes!
And it's fun, exactly as you've said!
I've pulled off similar accomplishments a couple of times myself, though not in the corporate universe!
I think you have just described the reason the baton may not get passed, lol. We need you, and exactly that sort of mind set, working with all the other men and women of intelligence, out of the box thinking and courage, to come up with a creative Game Plan to deal with this Nhilism and Insanity that has attacked us.
After all, how difficult can it be to deal with "Dr. Evil and his minions??"
Joking aside, these people are genuinely caricatures of human beings, and as such are twice failed. We humans are very imperfect, but we do have compassion, humor, love of family and friends, and occasionally, genuine greatness.
Sociopaths, Narcissists, and Psychopaths are so very limited in comparison.
We need genius ideas as to
a) expose them, show them up as wicked and incompetent.
b) "pull their plug," remove their power sources
c) build and support parallel systems to meet human need.
I cannot believe we, and by that I mean all the brightest minds and most courageous hearts in this movement plus the millions that are awake now, are unable to pull it off!
As MAA says, we need to see the battlefield clearly, even to overwhelming odds, yet KNOW we can WIN!!
Blessings to all the Freedom Fighters!!
Today & Always
Oh, and the other thought is: did you know CHD and Bobby Kennedy came to the conclusion that pharma knew all along that their vaccines created the asthma that became the root cause of all their profits on Adavair?
They wrote a wonderful article entitled: "Vaccines, Gateway Drugs by Design?"
It was/is all intentional.
I am so sorry to say. Those of us who are "normal" don't see The Dark Triad because it's impossible, nearly, for us to believe someone who looks "human" functionally is not.
I've done a lot of looking since "normal" childhood vaccines almost killed my only child. It's a dark, dark reality...
But that's exactly why we just keep pushing!
I’ve just posted an appeal. I hope it will encircle the world.
I’ve added to the top here.
If everyone would repost it, how many millions can be reached before its censored?
Dr. Yeadon !
What a fascinating, intriguing, interesting story of your life experience.
What a book you could write !
Meantime, you have been integral to untold many people’s good decision to abstain from this so called ‘vaccine’ and we thank you profoundly everyday for that.
Please sleep well at night, at least with this knowledge.
Your integrity is exceptional.
People with strengths are specifically targeted by those group dynamics / mobbing, as this post writes about. (Which has one of the best titles yet, I must add.)
They are already drowning in short term and long term disability payments for the compliant who stayed. Have fun paying those premiums from now on.
10 year active, tech part of cold war. 20 years reserve. stayed bc they would need me if the war went to hell!
too old is a fair excuse?
I am in violent agreement with you.
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the media are to blame, turn them off!
I did April 2020. Maybe I saved my life. It’s still off.
T shirts anyone?
havnt you joined my 'stack yet? :(
Years ago, a fellow I knew gave me a huge compliment of sorts: He admired me because I was the only person he knew with a "Kill your TV" bumpersticker that actually did not own a TV or watch television. Decades later, I can see how corrosive media narrative is and I love hearing when others decide to break free from it.
I have been keeping my health through alternative methods for years. My distrust of the medical system was high. When I turned it all off I was free to hear what was really going on with others watching and collating the true facts. So I made an informed choice early. Not without severe pushback and some losses. I’m retired so I honor those who have lost or risked their jobs. The hard job of protecting their children from rapacious criminals disguised as politicians, doctors, and everyone pushing this genocide. They are not done. We will stand up. I may make a sticker like that. I saw a good one/-Fauci for Prison 2024. 👍🏻💪🏻
The media and government together create the psyop we call politics. The whole point of it is to keep us from realizing that the USA is a foreign corporation that is privately owned. The company does the will of its owner, not us. We are not the owner. Politics is the TV show that keeps the grift and graft going and growing. It's amazing how cheap and tawdry the show of politics is, how effective it has been, and how long it has worked.
Is it media or social media? Has the traditional media had the power to cancel in the past or is it the collective power of social media that allows it to occur? I’m leaning towards social media…
i'd say both
Social Groups. Doesn't matter which group, which organization, which country or point in history....
There's ~1% psychopaths who will search out the competition (integrity, talent, strength) and mob them.
There's ~ ?? % of people who are prone to being targets thanks to their integrity, character, skills.
Then there's the massive herd, vulnerable to being directed by whichever voice is most persuasive. Psychopaths are master manipulators. People with integrity generally have no interest in manipulating, gossiping, etc. They lose if we don't help each other out.
its not just psychopaths that manipulate, you have to include a growing number of narcissists in there too
It seems to me that psycopaths and narcissists are the most rapidly growing segment of the population...why is that? Are they? Or am I just noticing them more?
I believe social media has played a big role on its growth 🙄
Yep, I already did about 15 years ago.
Inevitably they will end up cancelling each other. We are already seeing evidence of this where feminists and lesbians - accomplished cancellers in their time - are being ostracised for insisting they are women, contrary to the ‘transgender’ orthodoxy.
that is the net effect of the purity spiral.
aggrievement based status is, at best, zero sum. in reality, it's deeply negative sum.
and if you keep "elevating the most marginalized" you end up with people who are deeply mentally ill at the top of the pecking order.
and then the circus music REALLY starts.
I don't know about you, but I am hearing the circus music already.
The Polish expression is appropriate here as well as at the last workplace that I left to marinade in its own nonsense:
"Not my circus, not my monkey"
My new quote....
Maybe it's time to start dancing.
And the clowns have already been sent in.
Exactly - Psychopathic & Ready and Salivating to Literally Kill.
Surely the people at the top of the regional, national, or global pecking order are those that can 'read the game' better than the rest? Make alliances better than the rest, and treat the rest like lambs either fleecing us or taking us to the slaughter as they see fit?
And they just *act* like they're marginalized and make all these destabilizing decisions for their own individual gain.
I just think it's dangerous to under-estimate them. Why are all of us who can see the wood and the trees scrabbling for a foothold, a say in the matter, or any kind of real influence and power?
Uh oh! But ...Very perceptive. The cat sees thru the darkness.
Maybe we can hope that China, which has been doing "cancel culture" forever, with the past 70-80 yrs being the climax, has reached this kind of incompetence internally without displaying it to the rest of the world. Of course, if they do collapse somehow with their nukes, etc. intact, it could be a real nightmare.
How fitting that this will end where it started.
Reality-denying feminists tearing themselves apart as girls who play with trucks are given hysterectomies and young women are destroyed in sports.
Orwell warned that "two legs good, four legs bad" eventually turns into "four legs good, two legs bad", but he was pale, male, and stale, so....
Yes, they will inevitably turn on their own. The Night of the Long Knives will come. 'Twas ever thus.
All true, except consideration for the circle of life. If we hold the space for 20 years, the kids not destroyed by Covid, drugs, and idiotic provably false social “theories” will rise to the top over the children of these weak fools creating unnecessary chaos. If we don’t hold the space it could take much longer, or the strong who rise could be much more terrifying.
Either way - hard times make strong men - strong men make good times - good times make weak men - weak men make hard times............. and so the cycle continues.
It seems like Europe is ahead of us on this cycle. This winter weak men making very very hard times will be inescapable. Let’s hope the strong who rise are on the better half of humanity. It might be a peak into our own future here.
My sister lives in Ireland. She’s worried about winter. Very low income. Health problems. But she has fallen for the con from the beginning and cannot connect any dots. Took me to task in her usual imperious tone. Not hearing that much lately.
Sad, but I think actual suffering will wake at least some people up. Right now life is uncomfortable. Real suffering isn’t here yet. There are fears - Covid, “climate change,” freezing and starvation this winter. Only one of those - freezing and starvation this winter - are based in actual data (less food, way less energy). But to the brainwashed, they are all similar fears. It will take actual suffering for them to figure out which is the real threat. Some will suffer in endless confusion. Others will gain clarity. It’s sad the clarity will come from completely predictable and avoidable decisions of politicians, but historically that’s most often the case. Our best hope is enough wake up from being woke before we are all condemned to what they demand for generations.
On Covid I’ve seen lots of people get vaccine harmed or have a love one die or a child destroyed with useless “mitigation” and they still deny or more often these days downplay it. I’ve seen at least as many wake up though.
There is actual suffering, but not yet widespread enough to cause change, yet. All the businesses forced to close because of the lockdowns, never to reopen. Vacant storefronts, dreams and family wealth destroyed. The effect of (unnecessary) inflation and energy prices on so many businesses and families. The zoom class isn't suffering and are gaslighting those who are. Remember this when you vote in November.
You’re right. There is already a lot of suffering. It just hasn’t hit the woke urbanites....... yet.
Republicans up and down the ticket for me this fall. Let’s hope enough wake up by November. It’s going to be a very nasty next year if they don’t.
Ah, Janet, the sorrow of pushing away from family just to survive and not go mad...I know.
Is she a member of any church? I think churches and eleemosynary organizations will be very active this winter. There will be a huddling together.
You would think the master's of blarney would be able to identify it early and often.
You’d think wouldn’t you. ☘️ kissing that stone didn’t help me much.
My brother kissed it. I was too chicken to do it myself, as I didn't like the idea of hanging upside down. Besides, I am pretty much "full up" on blarney.
Good idea. I heard from an Irish guy that the locals pee on the stone at night. I'd prefer to go blarneyless, thx.
Natural Blarney is the best. ☘️
It's definitely a peek into our future:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/for-a-glimpse-of-the-future-look-b37
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst....Are full of passionate intensity."
Yeats was right.
and now is the time to make damn sure that this center loses its hold.
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
-- C.S. Lewis
Yah, it has a name too, the Dunning Kruger effect. If you're ignorant enough, you can convince yourself that you are a mega-genius. Just take a look at the "e133tz". Pathetic.
Anyone who calls themselves a retard is immediately above average for me (at least they are aware).
We're all dealing with lowest common denominator levels in our society now. All part of the plan...
The collapse of character is a problem, but be even more concerned by the collapse of competency. The woke movement is about a generation old now, and with each generation, we will enjoy the work of doctors, pilots, engineers, and government officials who are hired, retained, and tenured based on their ability to swim with the commissariat.
We're on that train in Atlas Shrugged, the "smoker" -- and we're going through that long tunnel through the mountain. Men of gross incompetence were in charge, and it wasn't clear whether the air would remain breathable to the passengers throughout the whole length of the tunnel.
Exhaust fumes cannot replace clean and breathable air -- but those on the train bet their life on it.
What hope? I asked a philosopher (a good one, not a prestigious, conventional one) a similar question decades ago. He replied: Only the kind of abstract hope due to the human potential. Until inroads are made in private education, I don't know that significant change for the better is possible. "Give me the child until the age of seven, and I will give you the man," as Ignatius Loyola allegedly wrote. Too many people have too many investments (including psychological) in the statist quo and don't understand they would be better off in a rational culture with free countries (and human centric, reasonable private schools). Until then, I hope we can continue to coast without economic cataclysm while tiny (but hopefully significant) inroads are made. More minds need to change, and I don't know that that's possible when too many people are told what to think (and not taught how to think).
oh, there remains great hope for civilization.
but its realization must commence with the overthrow of this tower of babblers and their cancel culture threats. it is only fear of them that makes them fearsome. learn to laugh at them and call them by name (tyrant, narcissist, bigot, coward, fool) and their power evaporates like mojave dew trace at sunrise.
They are ridiculous. I like to take the Mencken approach of sardonic ridicule when I can (his name was in the title of my old weblog), but so much (and so little) has changed so fast. (Even Bono made similar comments about "laughing at the devil" in one of his better speeches.) Your work and the minds that have found it and engage with it is another source of hope. Thank you for that.
people underestimate the therapeutic value of cats
I suspect that if cats understood their therapeutic value, the game would be up.
Yes, they do, but, that does not deter the cat 🐈⬛
I learned a lot from my two feral cats. A lot of these bullies are feral people.
My cat brings me joy every day.
I have been very slow to call them names, I find that continued efforts to question their rationalizations and to expose their logical fallacies leads to the same. They usually end up ignoring or blocking me, which is where I knew it would end anyhow. In essence they removed themselves from my presence...which I consider to be them cancelling themselves. The more we can get them to remove themselves from us, the more they will realize it is they who are being canceled.
Cancel culture stems from commissar grooming, just like the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-groom-commissars
Yes, Mao tactics. Your Red Violin clip says it all. I also recommend the biography by Jung Chang--which lays out his early and often deliberate strategy of repeatedly culling out the independent thinkers, paid and directed by Stalin. Thanks.
Ask Ted Wheeler how controlling the New Red Guard worked for him:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-is-forced-to-move-after-rioters-nearly-burn-down-his-condo-home/
I suppose we ought not be surprised that the generation born with a Fb page, who grew up with a phone attached to their hand, on soft and safe playgrounds, taught to reject name-calling and/or bullying of others, and, heaven-forbid, ever seeing others as distinctly different individuals, now as "adults" simply feel threatened by words they don't like. I grew up with "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me." We know that's not true, but it was the mentality that made for resilient achievers. The pendulum has swung way too far and it will never create health in this cancel culture.
Cancel culture is to social media as vax mandates and DEI training are to the military.
This is "The Emperor's New Clothes" writ large. The little boy who points out the obvious-- in our tale is accused of disinformation. In some versions of the story, the crowd laughed at the king when their self-deception was un-masked. I think laughter combined with a deeply serious approach to the issues that face us is the way forward.
Bill Mahre is not a match with me ideologically. But I respect that he is willing to call out the lack of clothing when he sees it. We need more of this.
In other words, weak men produce hard times.
It nothing new. The tactic of authoritarians /bullies/ the left has always been to call the other side names. They have no arguments and no real Ability other than to inflame the mob
Determined to have a nation of safe space seeking SJW soy boys and girls.
Fear is a luxury. Cowardness is an indulgence.
Both were incentivized during the pandemic. The former as a weapon. The later as a way to inoculate against empathy.
The truth is always the truth no matter how much these brain-washed cancel-culture folks try to deny it.
When I was a teenager I recall reading here and there the saying "the meek shall inherit the earth"
I had no idea it would turn out the way it did