Aug 7, 2022·edited Aug 7, 2022Liked by el gato malo
Im an MD in private practice since 1999 in NJ. I also consider myself a libertarian in the style of Rothbard
The NIH has always been a corrupt illegitimate organization. There is no legal justification in the US constitution for its existence. Mixing politics and science/medicine/ health is doomed for disaster which is why the US constitution doesnt mention medicine science or health. Ive known my whole adult life that these orgs like NIH /CDC are political groups. They gave us the diastrous food pyramid in the 1970s and many other debacles scandals and failures
fauci heads the NIAID and yet during his tenure the prevalence and incidence of allergies and inflammatory conditions has skyrocketed. Fauci and the NIAID is a failure by every reasonable medical metric . But from a political standpoint these orgs have been sucessfull. The medical and pharm industry has been consolidated into larger and larger crony government controlled and financed cartel like arrangements. Costs have exploded, innovation stagnated. But the protected companies are happy. The incumbent pols and permanent bureacrats like fauci have profited. Its a example writ large of the failure of the merchantilist agenda first propounded by the likes of Hamilton and the federalists.
It’s completely naïve for anyone to assume that just because the NIH employees a bunch of scientists and doctors that they would be any less political or corrupt bankrupt and failed than Amtrak or Social Security, The post office, the federal reserve system or any other of a host of federal agencies even the supreme court
This stands opposed to the Jeffersonian tradition of maximum liberty.
At the root of all of this is the federal tax system: income , payroll, social security and The federal reserve system. All the money to fund these organizations comes from these two illegitimate areas. If we want medical and health freedom, innovation, and lower costs we have to eliminate the government bureaucracy involved in controlling these organizations. And the first step is to drastically cut back on federal taxes, government spending and eliminate the federal reserve system
and let us not forget the extent to which these agencies have, by monopolizing the funding of science, subverted science driving it into narrow precedents and fiefdoms to the exclusion of all else.
they have shaped the paradigms that have become ascendant, peddled fraud, and prevented its identification.
they have cost us decades of development and alternatives and driven us into blind alleys of ill conceived research while preventing the emergence of better.
government funded science is the death of science.
We ought to have had a clue when they couldn’t even manage the post office. I mean, since the days of the Pony Express, all they’ve had to do was to get this letter/package to that place. Not rocket science, kids. I swear, they were more efficient when horses were the vehicles and bandits were the norm. But yeah, let’s let the government try its hand at medicine.
Remember when the USPS sent a memo to all their employees, imploring them to rise up and fight the electronic options which were making their services obsolete? They sent it by email....
And we’ve had our thing with the VA. HORRIFIC! We took in my “dad” (I use the term loosely. Mom left him when I was 4, with good reason.) He was a navy vet, had advanced COPD and was a wreck. He came for Thxgiving and stayed 8-9 months, during which time we called/wrote and smoke signaled the VA for help paying his medical bills, etc. They had us jump through all KINDS of hoops— several times for every department (like, do y’all not OWN a copier????) and finally awarded us $17,000. We had probably spent close to $40,000+ if you include handicap-friendly renovations to our home, food, medical, and all, but we were elated! BEAR in MIND, had he lived anywhere else, like a nursing home, it would have cost the VA $30,000 a MONTH. SO, after nearly a year of back & forth with VA, they awarded us $17,000 which never appeared. I continued inquiring as to its whereabouts. Dad died in the interim. Little publicized fact: IF YOUR VET DIES BEFORE YOU GET YOUR CHECK, they don’t care that you already spent that much and more, caring for the person they promised to help care for. They just stop payment, too bad so sad, tough titty, said the kitty. Word to the wise…
I'm sorry for the double loss of your dad; first the emotional loss, then the physical loss. The military industrial complex is a huge, corrupt machine, which I believe is the natural end result of anything under government control long enough. The military just had a head start over education, the post office, "health care", etc...
As a participant in the culture; what a disaster. I swear the VA hospital employees actually hate Vets. It’s disgusting and laughable simultaneously. Don’t even let me start on their ridiculous “evidence based” PTSD protocol.
"...and when I was a little girl, children, the Post Office delivered our mail twice a day! And it got to us, every one, before anybody'd ever thought of ZIP Codes..."
When I talk to a Government supporter who claims these letter agencies are doing a great job I ask them ‘When was the last time you went to a government department for anything? Was it a good experience?’ It never is. Then I ask ‘when was the last time you used a private business for something? Was that a good experience?’ It always, or almost always is, which is why they go to that business. ‘Have you ever dealt with a government agency in which the experience is satisfactory? Why do you think any agency is doing a good job?’
Mystic, several years ago in my state of WA, the DMV/DOL was a typical government-run disaster; painfully slow and inefficient. At some point they decided to contract the work out to private parties. It's been awesome ever since: fast, accurate and efficient.
We actually had a government service in BC that ran well. It flabbergasts me. It is the BC Ferry service. But....COVID has messed it up. It is now a typical mess.
And it seems the middle-aged and seniors are as feeble at mustering outrage over the debacle of Alzheimer's research as everyone else has been about, you know, everything else.
What *will* set off the dynamite? So far all of the fuses have been duds.
Part of the problem has been the poison affects so many people differently. It isn’t as if everyone has a stroke. Or everyone has a heart attack. They’ve really spread around the pain. Very few parents have signed their under 5s up. Which is really good.
I falsely held hope that kids would be the line. Sadly I was wrong. So many gladly offered and continue to offer their children up to the pharma and health bureaucrats altar.
That should educate all of us as to the futility of respectful conversations. It's going to take relentless fighting back on every front because a generation is already lost, and considering what's infesting public education right now, another generation is being destroyed.
Have you listened to the frantic dad whose wife had their child vaxxed against his wishes? The child has myocarditis & is in hospital. He is calling to ask the pharmacist whether they properly told her the possible
adverse events/did the informed consent. It’s heart wrenching.
I agree with most of this comment, but perhaps it goes a bit too far? Surely *some* government funded science in *some* fields has yielded, and will continue to yield, accurate results, real insights, new understanding?
I thought we were worried here about the corruption caused by the unholy marriage of corporations and unaccountable government agencies.
If you do nothing else, please read The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK, jr. Just reading the prologue will get you riled.
It’s a best seller, but of course, Main Stream Misleadia has been 100% crickets abt it (WHEN have your known any bestseller to get ZERO recognition???) It’s more informative than all my college texts put together. There are even QR codes at the end of every chapter, enabling you to get the latest updates on stats and findings. I’ve never seen that before and love that it makes the book fully dynamic. RFK and his many supporters are bastions of inside information.
Whenever I hear GOP legislators say they're going to investigate Tony when they take the house, I want to scream. The prima facie case against Tony and a bunch of them can be drawn from existing published works, including JFK Jr's, Scott Atlas's, Peter Schweitzer's, and Humphries & Bystrianyk, among others. How about getting some smart lawyers on this right now and have some impeachment and/or criminal cases ready to drop on day one. The "investigations" have been done. I bet JFK jr, a lawyer, could write up an excellent brief for them. PS: Take it to a court where the judge knows what a woman is.
I read RFK’s book and was aghast to find out how utterly worthless CDC, NIH, and the other so called health agencies are. And the billions wasted!! I want to scream every time I think about Fauci and his PIs doing so much harm to real research.
Your assumption that some government funded science has yielded positive results reflects the common fallacy of ignoring the hidden opportunity cost whenever private resources are coercively diverted for a mandated purpose. In sum, anything short of fighting all out wars, and I do mean anything, is more efficiently and effectively done through private market forces and genuine competition. Our esteemed host has made this fundamental point so many times that it occurs to me you must be new here.
Most folks learn at an early age that “you can’t have your cake and eat it too.” The lesson is easily forgotten, though, when it becomes depersonalized. It doesn’t help that over the last century economics has shifted away from its central purpose of analyzing how best to allocate scarce resources to how best to justify runaway government spending.
Yes, but it took some years for me to grasp the depth of the implications of opportunity cost vis-a-vis government spending and market interventions. There is simply no way to estimate the aggregate cost of any 'policy', but we can see in countless examples how the regime doesn't even consider costs.
What was the cost of lockdowns? Or what was the cost of the so-called 'War on Terror'? By some estimates we could have built space elevators with the money.
I watched my former spouse struggle for years to be a member of the granting agency club. It was heart breaking to watch. But he made it. Now he is incapable of independent thought because he could lose his funding. Be careful what you wish for.
The conference on vitamin c (cant remember which medical group hosted it) they had in the last couple of years was another eye opener for me re how they discredit natural remedies by bastardizing the parameters of the experiments.
"they have shaped the paradigms that have become ascendant, peddled fraud, and prevented its identification."
They've been going at full speed on that road in anything related to autism -vaccine link. Concealing, ignoring, obfuscating data. The revolving the door btw gov health agencies and the pharma to make one's head spin.
Dante's Inferno type corruption.
I'm amazed that you have convinced yourself all is fine, nothing to see. Go talk to Del Bigtree.
the exact same can be funded for military funding. think how much money and time has been wasted in increasing the knowledge of how to destroy life instead of that money and time going to improve and enhance life.
someone (Robert Malone?) said that their personal contacts - researchers, MDs, scientists - within these agencies had privately said they strongly disagreed with the decisions and guidance handed down by the agency's leaders, but were afraid to speak out, to disagree publicly. these agency rank and file employees were hanging on a couple of years until they could retire, presumably with a full package of benefits, including health care.
i find this curious. these same people have been instrumental in distorting and damaging the entire US health care system from the top down, but they're afraid to lose their health care benefits. one day, when they get a serious illness, this same corrupt research and health care complex will feed and inject them with drugs of unknown safety and efficacy. and they know that. they cling to the very ship they are sinking.
I believe it was Dr. Paul Alexander, he has mentioned it in his substack several times recently. Could've been Malone, too. I was at a dr appointment recently and the physician said he had several patients who worked at NIH and FDA, I asked do you think they support what their agencies are doing? He said no, they don't. Pensions and benefits are powerful.
And why are the DOCTORS raising the issues? Medical boards? Recently went to a "biological dentist" and when they said "It's the law that we take your temp" I said "WHAT LAW" (yes they are still doing it as of 2 months ago). They said Am dental Assoc. I said "they don't make laws". Wouldn't do it. THEN I researched more and found out only 73% of dentists belong to that anyway. It's all a scam. THIS whole thing has made me "TRUST NO ONE"!!
“Yes, it’s true I’m doing my part to kill young people and infants. But only for two more years. Only until my pension kicks in. Then, I’m outta here. Because I have integrity.”
Excellent point. I don’t think I could look myself in the mirror if I had a hand in giving a 7 year old
myocarditis, or injuring all the others, in order to keep my
retirement plan.
I’ve read that many CDC & alphabet employees are running away, whistleblowing on their way out. One guy said he used to be so proud to work there bc he believed he was helping people. Now he is mortified. I checked the NOW HIRING listing on a couple of them. Seems accurate— like there are lots of job openings.
Like elephants tied to a stake with a thin rope. They’re all captive. To speak up would stop the funding. It’s a pernicious system even for those who are still awake.
Exodus from CDC, particularly since Wollensky arrived has been significant. Losing health care benefits usually results in immediate dissolution of assets as hospitals will lien assets if no health care policy, and will lien assets if run up huge bills. Also, care is based on reimbursement so if the money runs out, so does the treatment although it will be carefully disguised as "We have done everything we can do." Not uncommon to discharge to the streets for low income/homeless.
For most things that USAmericans go to the doctor for, that is true. If I break bones or need stitches, I'll be happy for a doctor or PA. My appendix burst many decades ago; the surgeon saved me. But for organic illnesses, treating oneself at home seems a lot safer than a clinic or hospital these days.
Yes, Barbls, I agree. I wasn't thinking about broken bones or appendix when I made the comment. As you say, organic illnesses, etc., treating at home is best.
Claims of carcinogenicity are notoriously difficult to quantify, and thresholds of risk are inherently subjective. (consider Alcohol, Smoking, Driving a Car etc)
I'm on the fence with glyphosate, and that's not due to any residue of trust in Monsanto.
We're full of chemicals. We're made of chemicals. The fact that glyphosate is a chemical is completely irrelevant to the question of carcinogenicty. If you review the literature on the subject objectively you will conclude that the jury is still out on glyphosate, with most evidence weighing against significant carcinogenicity.
These questions are difficult ones to answer conclusively, especially for the edge cases.
Additionally a more weed-free field reduces risk of grain contamination by weeds containing carcinogenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Does a glyphsate-treated weed-free yield a less carconigenic product? Could well be. Hard to quantify. But let me ask:
Do you refuse to eat corn or peanuts because they contain carcinogenic alfatoxins?
Do you refuse to eat sausages, tinned meat or fried foods because they contain carcinogenic nitrosamines?
Should those... be... banned?
If you'd like to pay more for grains sourced from weed-laden fields, I emphatically support that, but it's not your perogative to ban technologies that lower cost of nutrition to poor people. As consumers we need choice, and both cartelized agribusiness and government bureaucracies increasingly impair our ability to choose. Only way out is to eschew the convenience of the supermarket and obtain more of your nutrition from producers you know and trust.
Yes. In addition to military industrial complex, Eisenhower also warned of the influence of federal funding of scientific research, and how this could unjustly influence public policy:
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
This idea that research has become more complicated or costly because of technology it’s just a rationalization and an excuse. There’s no reason why scientific research can’t be conducted by private interests. If all of the money in capital was left in the private sector instead of taxed away by these large political bureaucracies all over the world the private sector we have plenty of money and resources and freedom to invent in innovate. And in fact our technological progress would be much greater than it is now had the government never got involved
When Fauci's NIH gutted cancer funding in favor of the AIDS lifestyle disease, we went to the Council for Tobacco Research for funding. Their commercial interest in fixing cancers incentivized them to focused and effective funding.
It is time to gut Fauci's ability to control money. Not just him, but the whole NIH. Somehow there has to be some way to convince REPUBLICAN legislators that HHS (and its spawn) is an unconstitutional behemoth that sucks value out of the economy and redistributes and/or devalues private wealth. There is nothing they do that cannot be handled by the States.
PS: They're creating another Fauci in the person of Mayor Pete, who has been given discretion in a different arena to distribute billions of dollars to entities that will be beholden to him.
Of course, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, et al are private sector masters of the universe, who pull political puppet strings. The enemy is tolerance of the erosion of the only thing that has kept us prosperous and relatively safe until recent times: The US Constitution. Our willingness to allow robber barons and politicians to soften its edges and distort its clear meaning have led us to where we are now.
This idea that research has become more complicated or costly because of technology it’s just a rationalization and an excuse. There’s no reason why scientific research can’t be conducted by private interests. If all of the money in capital was left in the private sector instead of taxed away by these large political bureaucracies all over the world the private sector we have plenty of money and resources and freedom to invent in innovate. And in fact our technological progress would be much greater than it is now had the government never got involved
The military has been deeply involved in the "medical" part of this, including gain of function research and Gates-driven pandemic role plays over the past several years. It's in the latter part of JFK Jr's book. Alarming.
If people would do nothing other than simply look at what responsibilities Fauci was tasked (like lower childhood illness and disease) and just how exponentially he did the exact opposite, (like skyrocket allergies, autism and childhood disease) there would be a reckoning. All of the alphabet agencies may have begun with noble intentions but they have evolved into “you scratch my back & I’ll scratch yours”. You rubber stamp this new drug and I’ll be sure you get that $3 million dollar grant you need. Who looses? The public they are tasked to protect, the children have far more and worse diseases (thanks, experts!) and the health of the entire nation is largely abysmal.
Good comment. Your most cogent thought is that the Federal Tax System is at the root of virtually ALL of this horribleness. If we as a group are going to fight anything, that is it. It is no coincidence that with probably their final act in complete control, the Democrats have added 80,000 IRS agents -- their job is to make sure they bleed everyone to death -- what else do they have to do?
This is like stopping all doctors from giving pain meds to those in pain by blaming overdoses on doctors. (Yes, there were a couple bad apples -- irrelevant). Now 99% of overdose deaths are unrelated to prescriptions (they always were), the numbers are far higher than ever (they ARE related to the porous southern border) and lots of old and infirm are now non-functional (or committing suicide) from pain when they used to be totally functional with pain under control.
Everything the government gets to do is soon contaminated -- giving them more money under any rubric is the root of the problem. The Founders understood this -- somehow we need to get back there.
The US government used to be funded by Customs House revenue. I don’t see how the source of funding makes a whiff of difference for these problems. The root problem imo is losing sight of conservative principle of limited government - allowing the federal government to grow and extend tentacles and make us all dependent sothat many don’t want to bring it back in check.
Absolutely. Murray rothbard and hans hermann hoppe have written eloquently about the need for gold backed money and separation of money and state. We have separation of church and state, speech and state… lets take the principle to its logical end. Separation of everything and state
Interesting thought and area to explore more for me. I’m not up on the Fed Bank history and reason for being, esp since I don’t remember reading about it in the constitution. Historically money and nation states have had an intimate relationship, if not one being an outright intrinsic property of the other. States in the past have raised revenue by minting new currency and I suppose also by devaluing it and making more. Somehow, a legit government needs funds to operate and fulfill its role. Would be interesting to see how it would work for money to be divorced from political/economic entities.
We were on a gold standard really until 1971. Inflation really started in 1971. That was the year Nixon was in and severed the link between the dollar and gold and the dollar became a purely fiat money. That was when the real trouble started
Dear MiFly, I would like permission to send your comment to my governor, senators, and representative - in a midwest mostly GOP state that nevertheless is ruled by a couple of huge health systems whose names are on pretty much everything everywhere in the state, whether it's "healthcare" or sports complexes or theaters or news outlets or myriad areas that have nothing to do with medical care - except spending the enormous amount of cash they rake in from the schemes you describe.
Agree 100%. Three things that need to happen: 1. Repeal 17th amendment, to re-enfranchise the state governments by returning senate elections to state legislatures. 2. Repeal 16th amendment, to return people to free citizens not the subjects we are now. 3. Abolish the federal reserve, so we are not slaves to private banks.
Now, none of this will happen without violence. We are to far down the road to serfdom, as by 2030 we will own nothing and be happy. And we know the “powers that be” have no problem using murder to get what they want, and will do it in front of everyone in broad daylight. (Unless you believe a cheep Italian rifle can fire bullets that defy the laws of gravity).
I agree with most of your comment. However, the 16th Amendment is not the problem most Americans think it is. The Supreme Court made it clear in 1916 that the Amendment did not create a new class of taxation as many of us where taught. Unsurprisingly, the US Government has been misleading people for over 70 years about the Amendment and its nature and scope and making bank on it annually. It is an excise tax and entitled to be enforced as such. An excise tax has a very specific legal meaning and a very limited scope.
If you want to understand taxation in America and make sure you are NOT committing perjury when you file your return go here:
Take the time to read the actual law, legal definitions and Supreme Court decisions. You may find that you actually do not owe what you think you do and maybe your CPA is not as well informed as you thought. I came to that conclusion in 2006 and have kept a lot more of my property as a result. I also stopped funding the criminals in DC with the fruits of my labor.
Or we could just use our economic power to refuse to support any corporation that supports, by its lobbying and its discretionary funding, of policies antithetical to our freedom.
Of course that takes conscious consumerism and perhaps curtailing a lot of our own discretionary spending. Sort of a test of will.
I question whether re-enfranchising state legislature to elect state senators such a good idea. A party with a majority in the state legislature will then get to pick their party for the US Senate. Enabling a double-down by one party.
Understand your point and that could be a problem. My larger point is we are a republic not a democracy. I would rather have senators responsible to the state government and have state governments have a say at the federal level. Have we really solved the corruption problem (and taken money interest out) by having the people vote for senators?
your proposal wouldn’t do that either, but the people can be a check. i’m aware we are a republic btw but that doesn’t mean letting one arm of power elect another arm of power.
BTW the states (and people) are the superior power except in matters that they collectively agreed to explicitly assign to the fed gov.
The reason State legislatures selected the Senate was to prevent an all-powerful Federal government (think George III). Of course in 1787 we did not have political parties per say. The idea was for the States to check the Federal government. Once the Federalists and the Republicans (Jeffersonian republicans) squared off and especially after the Jackson presidency the point was moot…damn shame, we could have been so much better than we are.
I believed in the competence and integrity of the FDA/CDC so much back in early 2021 that I urged some of my loved ones to get vaccinated and got vaccinated myself.
How do I like the those agencies now? I will never trust the FDA/CDC again.
It’s “cultural marxism”, a few have covered it, I first learned of the origins of the “march through the institutions” from a minister’s talk to his congregation. Since then others have filled in some gaps. Here’s the one I watched:
I wish I could find the video that covered in detail the origins of antifa; Jack Posobiec did a brief overview in 2020. That is also interesting. I view antifa/blm as the brownshirts of our time, paid by the left occupying positions of power in all those institutions they marched through and now control.
I particularly liked gato's point with the Toronto star saying that if you aren't vaccinated i don't care if you die. But it is too much to ask people to stop going to orgies. This is a crisis!
This is the essence of what the effort is all about. Not directed so much at favored groups, but simply an all out effort to constantly distract and encourage division amongst one another. Then in true Alinsky fashion, accuse those who refuse to participate as being "the problem." Meanwhile more and more of our freedoms are being stripped from us with each passing day as too few notice.
'There is no slippery slope to loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders'
- Alan K. Simpson
What's worse now, is virtually all the "leaders" want this because it gives them more power, at the expense of the middle class.
Agree about the debasement of the middle class. Unlike the lower classes which are dependent upon subsidies from the government or the oligarchs who depend on the government to help secure their wealth and protect them from the torches and pitchforks of the unwashed masses, the middle class has long represented true independence. They do not need nor want a government beyond the basics of securing the borders, keeping the peace, and ensuring economic opportunity -- all of which they continue to fail at, with no government in modern history more so than the current one.
Knocking the middle class down into a more dependent class, eroding the entire education system from preschool through post doc thereby assuring a more easily manipulated and uninformed populace, bombarding us with endless misdirection, petty, divisive culture war squabbles, contrived victimhood, baseless fear of the weather, and, now, seemingly perpetual pandemic "crises" has been largely successful.
Please consider putting the definition at the top of the comments. For whatever reason, I'm familiar with ESG, but had to look up DEI. My guess is it would be helpful to remind others as well.
I worked in a Fortune 500 (100?) company in early 1990s when the diversity fad was implemented in corporate world (along with the nonsense about “corporate values/culture”). Of course I had zero idea where it would lead, and found the principles laudable, it made sense to my gullible mind. I was also quite involved/supportive of the push for “people, profits, planet” - ie “sustainability” - in early 2000s, again as a gullible idealist. Never saw the two trains hitching up and turning into DIE.
I applaud and admire those of you who think independently. Using logic and reason ought to be taught from Grade 1 (I reject the notion of kindergarten).
I don't know about Science, Tech, or Math positions, but there is not a single humanities, literature, history, or writing position at a college that you can apply for without submitting a "Diversity Statement" in which you must explain how you are going to promote DEI. Most of the ads, regardless, also specifically say something along these lines: we are especially seeking candidates who can, by way of background or experience, contribute to the university's diverse culture/relate to the university's diverse student body/mentor students from underrepresented and marginalized communities."
I'm all for diversity and inclusion, but not in the "let's hire this wheelchair-bound AAPI trans PTSD survivor who knows nothing about 18th Century lit (but *loves* Bridgerton!), to teach 18th Century lit, just so our faculty meetings will be, you know, a little more colorful, and well also then we can tick those boxes on those forms HR/admin keeps sending us, and keep getting our university funded." And equity can go suck eggs.
I wrote one of these statements once saying I promote diversity and inclusion by sticking to the topic I've been hired to teach. LOL. Didn't get that job.
Thanks for sharing. It really hits home when someone is actually experiencing what you have to go through in the Colleges today. I love you saying it like it is... :-)
Will Stancil tweet is undisguised misogyny. "Mom" is an epithet. Obviously wealthy indicates she has housing, a car and most probably a job since it is financially impossible to raise kids in this country without two incomes, as well as two health insurance policies. Most moms and most dads were rightfully concerned regarding the negative impact of school closures, move to the nearly worthless distance learning (for which teachers were given few resources and even less training), which had severely deleterious effect on learning, socialization and cognitive development. To say nothing of those "wealthy Moms" in service industries or small business who saw their jobs evaporate. Or who were subject to vaccine mandates by conjoined requirement of employer and state health department - or otherwise lose job, health insurance (in a pandemic!). DeSantis, while not perfect, was a stand out in defying the diktat - kept schools open, opened extensive clinics for monoclonal antibody treatment (as opposed to simply sending the infected home until the infection was fulminant, untreatable and then hospitalized on vents) until Biden health advisers purchased all the supplies in service of "equity".
These moms kept the lights on, supported/educated their kids and provided advice and counsel to extended family members, innovated distance holiday celebrations that obviated stay isolated diktats., protested at being locked out of nursing homes/hospitals which were treating elder relatives.
These "moms" and, dads too, should be celebrated for their steadfastness in the face of unyielding political, media and health authority harassments. Smears like those of Mr. Stancil should be called out by the fact checkers at Twitter - but as a sign of the times, such tweets are celebrated by the wokerati.
In Washington state, schools were essentially closed for 18 months. While teachers/specialists worked from home! or worked in child/adolescent free school spaces. All the while collecting salary. Much of distance learning in this state was "autonomous" learning nothing much happening, no instruction. No requirement to have camera on, so most kids turned on the computer and went back to sleep, played Fornight or surfed Tik Tok, You tube. Parents got a good look at what was being (or not being) taught. When these kids returned to school the proposal was to hold everyone back one year - did not fly with teachers unions. Kids went from mid first directly to third grade; worse from mid fourth (elementary) to sixth grade (middle school) or from mid seventh to ninth grade (1st year high school). All academic expectations were modified so everyone passed - but for high school students, they were totally unprepared for the rigor of college. Moms and dads were furious - anyone who could possibly afford to essentially moved to private school (mostly parochial and Christian since stand alone private school tuitions were out of slight - they moved to home school. Seattle Times article on the fact that the disappearing students are creating serious financial loss for Seattle Public Schools.
Elephants are tied to a stake with a small rope. That same elephant uses its enormous strength to raise a circus tent. We are the elephant. The woke DEI crowd believes they have us tethered. We are waking up from our cognitive slumber.
The DEI pandemic only works if we let it. Check your investment portfolios. If they brag about DEI, move your funds. If you spend money with a company that values DEI, stop spending money there. Stop using credit cards and online merchants that “are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If you do nothing, we’ll all be eating the fucking bugs by 2030.
After 2 years still no word from "public health" about losing weight, Vit D, boasting your immune system ..you know the stuff that helps you avoid ANY virus. Doesn't make any money
Your Local Epidemiologist substack covered the evidence of surface spread. She, of course, believes it happens. And the proof are two hospital studies of monkeypox.
Two studies that found ZERO secondary transmission. Two studies that couldn’t find a single live virus that could grow in any samples they studied. Just two samples where they maybe might have seen some evidence of DNA replication-- but again, no growth and no transmission.
THAT is the evidence of surface and air transmission. Two studies showing it didn’t happen and not even the minimal activity that would be required for it to happen.
I’d have to go back and verify, but yes, I’m pretty sure it was quantitative PCR. Which is why they did the culture tests as well; they knew you can’t rely on quantitative PCR alone. If you see signs of DNA replication but nothing else that goes with the DNA replication, it’s mostly likely contamination or other error.
"...the “i should be allowed to live a life free of consequence while public health officials cheer-lead for me” is not really a valid framing."
Left-wing politics is all about shielding people from the consequences of their behavior.
Can't be bothered to work or graduate? No problem, here's your Universal Basic Income. Don't feel like providing for your own health coverage? Cool, national healthcare to the rescue. Got caught shoplifting? We'll just release you back into the community, sorry for the inconvenience. Got sick from promiscuous sex? Whoops, my bad, I forgot I can't point that out.
We see the same clamor for Brittany Griner being imprisoned in Russia, but silence for the scores of Americans left behind in Afghanistan. She belongs to the “protected class.”
or for the millions of americans arrested and incarcerated for non-violent drug possession and the outrages of rights and safety driven by a needless and fruitless war on drugs that does nothing but generate violent black markets and unsafe products.
it's a classic "no one wins by the tyrants" scenario.
Or the Californians incarcerated BY KAMALA HARRIS for non violent drug possession. Or the Americans serving long sentences for non violent crime thanks to Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill.
It wasn't all that long ago that people who looked like Brittany Griner were locked up here. In fact, the current President and Vice President made their career on locking up people like her for weed.
If only these people had been as outraged then..............
Im an MD in private practice since 1999 in NJ. I also consider myself a libertarian in the style of Rothbard
The NIH has always been a corrupt illegitimate organization. There is no legal justification in the US constitution for its existence. Mixing politics and science/medicine/ health is doomed for disaster which is why the US constitution doesnt mention medicine science or health. Ive known my whole adult life that these orgs like NIH /CDC are political groups. They gave us the diastrous food pyramid in the 1970s and many other debacles scandals and failures
fauci heads the NIAID and yet during his tenure the prevalence and incidence of allergies and inflammatory conditions has skyrocketed. Fauci and the NIAID is a failure by every reasonable medical metric . But from a political standpoint these orgs have been sucessfull. The medical and pharm industry has been consolidated into larger and larger crony government controlled and financed cartel like arrangements. Costs have exploded, innovation stagnated. But the protected companies are happy. The incumbent pols and permanent bureacrats like fauci have profited. Its a example writ large of the failure of the merchantilist agenda first propounded by the likes of Hamilton and the federalists.
It’s completely naïve for anyone to assume that just because the NIH employees a bunch of scientists and doctors that they would be any less political or corrupt bankrupt and failed than Amtrak or Social Security, The post office, the federal reserve system or any other of a host of federal agencies even the supreme court
This stands opposed to the Jeffersonian tradition of maximum liberty.
At the root of all of this is the federal tax system: income , payroll, social security and The federal reserve system. All the money to fund these organizations comes from these two illegitimate areas. If we want medical and health freedom, innovation, and lower costs we have to eliminate the government bureaucracy involved in controlling these organizations. And the first step is to drastically cut back on federal taxes, government spending and eliminate the federal reserve system
and let us not forget the extent to which these agencies have, by monopolizing the funding of science, subverted science driving it into narrow precedents and fiefdoms to the exclusion of all else.
they have shaped the paradigms that have become ascendant, peddled fraud, and prevented its identification.
they have cost us decades of development and alternatives and driven us into blind alleys of ill conceived research while preventing the emergence of better.
government funded science is the death of science.
We ought to have had a clue when they couldn’t even manage the post office. I mean, since the days of the Pony Express, all they’ve had to do was to get this letter/package to that place. Not rocket science, kids. I swear, they were more efficient when horses were the vehicles and bandits were the norm. But yeah, let’s let the government try its hand at medicine.
Remember when the USPS sent a memo to all their employees, imploring them to rise up and fight the electronic options which were making their services obsolete? They sent it by email....
And don't get me started on the VA....
I didn’t know that! Hilarious…
And we’ve had our thing with the VA. HORRIFIC! We took in my “dad” (I use the term loosely. Mom left him when I was 4, with good reason.) He was a navy vet, had advanced COPD and was a wreck. He came for Thxgiving and stayed 8-9 months, during which time we called/wrote and smoke signaled the VA for help paying his medical bills, etc. They had us jump through all KINDS of hoops— several times for every department (like, do y’all not OWN a copier????) and finally awarded us $17,000. We had probably spent close to $40,000+ if you include handicap-friendly renovations to our home, food, medical, and all, but we were elated! BEAR in MIND, had he lived anywhere else, like a nursing home, it would have cost the VA $30,000 a MONTH. SO, after nearly a year of back & forth with VA, they awarded us $17,000 which never appeared. I continued inquiring as to its whereabouts. Dad died in the interim. Little publicized fact: IF YOUR VET DIES BEFORE YOU GET YOUR CHECK, they don’t care that you already spent that much and more, caring for the person they promised to help care for. They just stop payment, too bad so sad, tough titty, said the kitty. Word to the wise…
My dad got sepsis at a VA hospital and could never get rid of it completely. Led to his death down the line.
I'm sorry for the double loss of your dad; first the emotional loss, then the physical loss. The military industrial complex is a huge, corrupt machine, which I believe is the natural end result of anything under government control long enough. The military just had a head start over education, the post office, "health care", etc...
Honestly, it’s a nightmare.
The VA: How our government does healthcare.
As a participant in the culture; what a disaster. I swear the VA hospital employees actually hate Vets. It’s disgusting and laughable simultaneously. Don’t even let me start on their ridiculous “evidence based” PTSD protocol.
"...and when I was a little girl, children, the Post Office delivered our mail twice a day! And it got to us, every one, before anybody'd ever thought of ZIP Codes..."
And newspapers ( with actual professional journalism) came morning and night
I wouldn't get over-sentimental about that, except for the funnies and the sports section.
They been rigging the news for a long, long time.
True
and way quicker !
Go figure, huh?
When I talk to a Government supporter who claims these letter agencies are doing a great job I ask them ‘When was the last time you went to a government department for anything? Was it a good experience?’ It never is. Then I ask ‘when was the last time you used a private business for something? Was that a good experience?’ It always, or almost always is, which is why they go to that business. ‘Have you ever dealt with a government agency in which the experience is satisfactory? Why do you think any agency is doing a good job?’
Mystic, several years ago in my state of WA, the DMV/DOL was a typical government-run disaster; painfully slow and inefficient. At some point they decided to contract the work out to private parties. It's been awesome ever since: fast, accurate and efficient.
We actually had a government service in BC that ran well. It flabbergasts me. It is the BC Ferry service. But....COVID has messed it up. It is now a typical mess.
THAT is a terrific idea!
it is like stepping on a horse backwards
🤣👏👏
And it seems the middle-aged and seniors are as feeble at mustering outrage over the debacle of Alzheimer's research as everyone else has been about, you know, everything else.
What *will* set off the dynamite? So far all of the fuses have been duds.
Part of the problem has been the poison affects so many people differently. It isn’t as if everyone has a stroke. Or everyone has a heart attack. They’ve really spread around the pain. Very few parents have signed their under 5s up. Which is really good.
I falsely held hope that kids would be the line. Sadly I was wrong. So many gladly offered and continue to offer their children up to the pharma and health bureaucrats altar.
That should educate all of us as to the futility of respectful conversations. It's going to take relentless fighting back on every front because a generation is already lost, and considering what's infesting public education right now, another generation is being destroyed.
Have you listened to the frantic dad whose wife had their child vaxxed against his wishes? The child has myocarditis & is in hospital. He is calling to ask the pharmacist whether they properly told her the possible
adverse events/did the informed consent. It’s heart wrenching.
Yes, let’s talk more about the opportunity costs of the bloated overweening fingers-in-every-pie-always STATE! Astronomical and also incalculable.
Working hypothesis:
Given enough time, government ruins everything that it touches.
as evidenced by the fraudulent 2006 paper in nature leading g researchers down a blind alley.
the nih/nia is still funding the lead author of that paper and a coauthor is austin yang, now a program director at nia ...
"most of government is fraud" Robert Higgs
I agree with most of this comment, but perhaps it goes a bit too far? Surely *some* government funded science in *some* fields has yielded, and will continue to yield, accurate results, real insights, new understanding?
I thought we were worried here about the corruption caused by the unholy marriage of corporations and unaccountable government agencies.
If you do nothing else, please read The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK, jr. Just reading the prologue will get you riled.
It’s a best seller, but of course, Main Stream Misleadia has been 100% crickets abt it (WHEN have your known any bestseller to get ZERO recognition???) It’s more informative than all my college texts put together. There are even QR codes at the end of every chapter, enabling you to get the latest updates on stats and findings. I’ve never seen that before and love that it makes the book fully dynamic. RFK and his many supporters are bastions of inside information.
Whenever I hear GOP legislators say they're going to investigate Tony when they take the house, I want to scream. The prima facie case against Tony and a bunch of them can be drawn from existing published works, including JFK Jr's, Scott Atlas's, Peter Schweitzer's, and Humphries & Bystrianyk, among others. How about getting some smart lawyers on this right now and have some impeachment and/or criminal cases ready to drop on day one. The "investigations" have been done. I bet JFK jr, a lawyer, could write up an excellent brief for them. PS: Take it to a court where the judge knows what a woman is.
I’m betting if it ever starts looking like Tony “the Science” Fauci is truly
going to be investigated, he will turn up “Epsteined”, one way or another. Teflon Tony knows too much.
Totally agree it should already be in the works. Impeachment hearing day one.
I read RFK’s book and was aghast to find out how utterly worthless CDC, NIH, and the other so called health agencies are. And the billions wasted!! I want to scream every time I think about Fauci and his PIs doing so much harm to real research.
I had the same reaction, but was r that THE most informative book???
Your assumption that some government funded science has yielded positive results reflects the common fallacy of ignoring the hidden opportunity cost whenever private resources are coercively diverted for a mandated purpose. In sum, anything short of fighting all out wars, and I do mean anything, is more efficiently and effectively done through private market forces and genuine competition. Our esteemed host has made this fundamental point so many times that it occurs to me you must be new here.
And are we really sure about fighting wars anymore? The military command has become captured by politics as well
The concept of opportunity cost must be taught and learned. It's not inborn, as obvious as it might seem once you've learned it.
Most folks learn at an early age that “you can’t have your cake and eat it too.” The lesson is easily forgotten, though, when it becomes depersonalized. It doesn’t help that over the last century economics has shifted away from its central purpose of analyzing how best to allocate scarce resources to how best to justify runaway government spending.
Yes, but it took some years for me to grasp the depth of the implications of opportunity cost vis-a-vis government spending and market interventions. There is simply no way to estimate the aggregate cost of any 'policy', but we can see in countless examples how the regime doesn't even consider costs.
What was the cost of lockdowns? Or what was the cost of the so-called 'War on Terror'? By some estimates we could have built space elevators with the money.
I could almost get cynical.
The infection is always invisible at the start.
I watched my former spouse struggle for years to be a member of the granting agency club. It was heart breaking to watch. But he made it. Now he is incapable of independent thought because he could lose his funding. Be careful what you wish for.
The conference on vitamin c (cant remember which medical group hosted it) they had in the last couple of years was another eye opener for me re how they discredit natural remedies by bastardizing the parameters of the experiments.
"government funded science is the death of science."
I am not sure that I agree with that... this is just when the government is corrupt, under the influence of copro-rations...
Just check the hypersonic missiles developed in Russia and China, government funded...
I don't think the government per se is a problem; the corruption is.
Governments are more results-oriented when it comes to killing people, and maintaining their power...
"they have shaped the paradigms that have become ascendant, peddled fraud, and prevented its identification."
They've been going at full speed on that road in anything related to autism -vaccine link. Concealing, ignoring, obfuscating data. The revolving the door btw gov health agencies and the pharma to make one's head spin.
Dante's Inferno type corruption.
I'm amazed that you have convinced yourself all is fine, nothing to see. Go talk to Del Bigtree.
the exact same can be funded for military funding. think how much money and time has been wasted in increasing the knowledge of how to destroy life instead of that money and time going to improve and enhance life.
None of the anglosphere has fought a defensive war in the past century. If reality contradicts your belief, it's time to rethink it.
"We could defend this country with a few good submarines." - Ron Paul
someone (Robert Malone?) said that their personal contacts - researchers, MDs, scientists - within these agencies had privately said they strongly disagreed with the decisions and guidance handed down by the agency's leaders, but were afraid to speak out, to disagree publicly. these agency rank and file employees were hanging on a couple of years until they could retire, presumably with a full package of benefits, including health care.
i find this curious. these same people have been instrumental in distorting and damaging the entire US health care system from the top down, but they're afraid to lose their health care benefits. one day, when they get a serious illness, this same corrupt research and health care complex will feed and inject them with drugs of unknown safety and efficacy. and they know that. they cling to the very ship they are sinking.
I believe it was Dr. Paul Alexander, he has mentioned it in his substack several times recently. Could've been Malone, too. I was at a dr appointment recently and the physician said he had several patients who worked at NIH and FDA, I asked do you think they support what their agencies are doing? He said no, they don't. Pensions and benefits are powerful.
And why are the DOCTORS raising the issues? Medical boards? Recently went to a "biological dentist" and when they said "It's the law that we take your temp" I said "WHAT LAW" (yes they are still doing it as of 2 months ago). They said Am dental Assoc. I said "they don't make laws". Wouldn't do it. THEN I researched more and found out only 73% of dentists belong to that anyway. It's all a scam. THIS whole thing has made me "TRUST NO ONE"!!
“Yes, it’s true I’m doing my part to kill young people and infants. But only for two more years. Only until my pension kicks in. Then, I’m outta here. Because I have integrity.”
Excellent point. I don’t think I could look myself in the mirror if I had a hand in giving a 7 year old
myocarditis, or injuring all the others, in order to keep my
retirement plan.
I’ve read that many CDC & alphabet employees are running away, whistleblowing on their way out. One guy said he used to be so proud to work there bc he believed he was helping people. Now he is mortified. I checked the NOW HIRING listing on a couple of them. Seems accurate— like there are lots of job openings.
I’m grateful there are some speaking out.
That's the way, uh-huh uh huh I like it.
Sorry, I couldn't resist ;-)
Like elephants tied to a stake with a thin rope. They’re all captive. To speak up would stop the funding. It’s a pernicious system even for those who are still awake.
Frog in the pot!
Exodus from CDC, particularly since Wollensky arrived has been significant. Losing health care benefits usually results in immediate dissolution of assets as hospitals will lien assets if no health care policy, and will lien assets if run up huge bills. Also, care is based on reimbursement so if the money runs out, so does the treatment although it will be carefully disguised as "We have done everything we can do." Not uncommon to discharge to the streets for low income/homeless.
Best not go to hospital or allopathic MD.
For most things that USAmericans go to the doctor for, that is true. If I break bones or need stitches, I'll be happy for a doctor or PA. My appendix burst many decades ago; the surgeon saved me. But for organic illnesses, treating oneself at home seems a lot safer than a clinic or hospital these days.
Yes, Barbls, I agree. I wasn't thinking about broken bones or appendix when I made the comment. As you say, organic illnesses, etc., treating at home is best.
Same with those that make/sell chemicals like Round Up. Still going on. Sad. How do they sleep at night?
they probably don't use their own product
Well of course--they're paid well enough to shop organic everything.
Or just like simeine else said. They can't AFFORD to speak up.
On a bed of dollars made courtesy of the free market, what else?
Claims of carcinogenicity are notoriously difficult to quantify, and thresholds of risk are inherently subjective. (consider Alcohol, Smoking, Driving a Car etc)
I'm on the fence with glyphosate, and that's not due to any residue of trust in Monsanto.
So you are on the fence about a chemical that can kill weeds that gets into the soil, can be washed by rain and evident in every part of our being? Ok
We're full of chemicals. We're made of chemicals. The fact that glyphosate is a chemical is completely irrelevant to the question of carcinogenicty. If you review the literature on the subject objectively you will conclude that the jury is still out on glyphosate, with most evidence weighing against significant carcinogenicity.
These questions are difficult ones to answer conclusively, especially for the edge cases.
Additionally a more weed-free field reduces risk of grain contamination by weeds containing carcinogenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Does a glyphsate-treated weed-free yield a less carconigenic product? Could well be. Hard to quantify. But let me ask:
Do you refuse to eat corn or peanuts because they contain carcinogenic alfatoxins?
Do you refuse to eat sausages, tinned meat or fried foods because they contain carcinogenic nitrosamines?
Should those... be... banned?
If you'd like to pay more for grains sourced from weed-laden fields, I emphatically support that, but it's not your perogative to ban technologies that lower cost of nutrition to poor people. As consumers we need choice, and both cartelized agribusiness and government bureaucracies increasingly impair our ability to choose. Only way out is to eschew the convenience of the supermarket and obtain more of your nutrition from producers you know and trust.
It’s cowardly. I guess they somehow think they will survive. Bummer
Eisenhower was spot on
Yes but its the medical industrial complex
Yes. In addition to military industrial complex, Eisenhower also warned of the influence of federal funding of scientific research, and how this could unjustly influence public policy:
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
--
paraphrase and quote from here: https://www.americanexperiment.org/president-eisenhowers-farewell-address-warned-about-science-as-an-appeal-to-authority/
This idea that research has become more complicated or costly because of technology it’s just a rationalization and an excuse. There’s no reason why scientific research can’t be conducted by private interests. If all of the money in capital was left in the private sector instead of taxed away by these large political bureaucracies all over the world the private sector we have plenty of money and resources and freedom to invent in innovate. And in fact our technological progress would be much greater than it is now had the government never got involved
exactly
the issue is centralized control in government of what research gets done
When Fauci's NIH gutted cancer funding in favor of the AIDS lifestyle disease, we went to the Council for Tobacco Research for funding. Their commercial interest in fixing cancers incentivized them to focused and effective funding.
It is time to gut Fauci's ability to control money. Not just him, but the whole NIH. Somehow there has to be some way to convince REPUBLICAN legislators that HHS (and its spawn) is an unconstitutional behemoth that sucks value out of the economy and redistributes and/or devalues private wealth. There is nothing they do that cannot be handled by the States.
PS: They're creating another Fauci in the person of Mayor Pete, who has been given discretion in a different arena to distribute billions of dollars to entities that will be beholden to him.
Of course, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, et al are private sector masters of the universe, who pull political puppet strings. The enemy is tolerance of the erosion of the only thing that has kept us prosperous and relatively safe until recent times: The US Constitution. Our willingness to allow robber barons and politicians to soften its edges and distort its clear meaning have led us to where we are now.
This idea that research has become more complicated or costly because of technology it’s just a rationalization and an excuse. There’s no reason why scientific research can’t be conducted by private interests. If all of the money in capital was left in the private sector instead of taxed away by these large political bureaucracies all over the world the private sector we have plenty of money and resources and freedom to invent in innovate. And in fact our technological progress would be much greater than it is now had the government never got involved
The military has been deeply involved in the "medical" part of this, including gain of function research and Gates-driven pandemic role plays over the past several years. It's in the latter part of JFK Jr's book. Alarming.
Having looked into Eisenhower's career I'm not giving him a pass based on one good speech. James Bacque's "Other Losses" is worth a read.
Fne. But that’s irrelevant to his warning, which can be of benefit if we choose to heed it.
Jefferson had a far more effective method of reform.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
I fear it is going that direction. Mainly because I have zero faith in the republican party
PREACH!
If people would do nothing other than simply look at what responsibilities Fauci was tasked (like lower childhood illness and disease) and just how exponentially he did the exact opposite, (like skyrocket allergies, autism and childhood disease) there would be a reckoning. All of the alphabet agencies may have begun with noble intentions but they have evolved into “you scratch my back & I’ll scratch yours”. You rubber stamp this new drug and I’ll be sure you get that $3 million dollar grant you need. Who looses? The public they are tasked to protect, the children have far more and worse diseases (thanks, experts!) and the health of the entire nation is largely abysmal.
Good comment. Your most cogent thought is that the Federal Tax System is at the root of virtually ALL of this horribleness. If we as a group are going to fight anything, that is it. It is no coincidence that with probably their final act in complete control, the Democrats have added 80,000 IRS agents -- their job is to make sure they bleed everyone to death -- what else do they have to do?
This is like stopping all doctors from giving pain meds to those in pain by blaming overdoses on doctors. (Yes, there were a couple bad apples -- irrelevant). Now 99% of overdose deaths are unrelated to prescriptions (they always were), the numbers are far higher than ever (they ARE related to the porous southern border) and lots of old and infirm are now non-functional (or committing suicide) from pain when they used to be totally functional with pain under control.
Everything the government gets to do is soon contaminated -- giving them more money under any rubric is the root of the problem. The Founders understood this -- somehow we need to get back there.
The US government used to be funded by Customs House revenue. I don’t see how the source of funding makes a whiff of difference for these problems. The root problem imo is losing sight of conservative principle of limited government - allowing the federal government to grow and extend tentacles and make us all dependent sothat many don’t want to bring it back in check.
Absolutely. Murray rothbard and hans hermann hoppe have written eloquently about the need for gold backed money and separation of money and state. We have separation of church and state, speech and state… lets take the principle to its logical end. Separation of everything and state
Interesting thought and area to explore more for me. I’m not up on the Fed Bank history and reason for being, esp since I don’t remember reading about it in the constitution. Historically money and nation states have had an intimate relationship, if not one being an outright intrinsic property of the other. States in the past have raised revenue by minting new currency and I suppose also by devaluing it and making more. Somehow, a legit government needs funds to operate and fulfill its role. Would be interesting to see how it would work for money to be divorced from political/economic entities.
Read "the creature from Jekyl Island"
https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/dp/091298645X/ref=sr_1_1
There was no central bank until 1914.
We were on a gold standard really until 1971. Inflation really started in 1971. That was the year Nixon was in and severed the link between the dollar and gold and the dollar became a purely fiat money. That was when the real trouble started
What has government done to our money
https://cdn.mises.org/What%20Has%20Government%20Done%20to%20Our%20Money_3.pdf
Economics in one lesson by Henry hazlitt
https://fee.org/resources/economics-in-one-lesson/amp
and here: https://www.liberalstudies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Economics-in-One-Lesson_2.pdf
and :
the Inflation crises and how to resolve it by Henry Hazlitt
https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Inflation%20Crisis,%20and%20How%20To%20Resolve%20It_3.pdf
And of course no list would be complete with the incomparable Ludwig Von Mises
one of my favorites is his "Bureaucracy"
https://cdn.mises.org/Bureaucracy_3.pdf
We are being destroyed by an overextended imperialist, bankrupt bureaucratic state
read "what has government done to our money?" by rothbard
read "money, bank credit and economic cycles" by jesus huerta de soto
G edwad Griffen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95kzylLu_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7BWBxY7KU
thanks for all the links
Dear MiFly, I would like permission to send your comment to my governor, senators, and representative - in a midwest mostly GOP state that nevertheless is ruled by a couple of huge health systems whose names are on pretty much everything everywhere in the state, whether it's "healthcare" or sports complexes or theaters or news outlets or myriad areas that have nothing to do with medical care - except spending the enormous amount of cash they rake in from the schemes you describe.
Yes send it
Agree 100%. Three things that need to happen: 1. Repeal 17th amendment, to re-enfranchise the state governments by returning senate elections to state legislatures. 2. Repeal 16th amendment, to return people to free citizens not the subjects we are now. 3. Abolish the federal reserve, so we are not slaves to private banks.
Now, none of this will happen without violence. We are to far down the road to serfdom, as by 2030 we will own nothing and be happy. And we know the “powers that be” have no problem using murder to get what they want, and will do it in front of everyone in broad daylight. (Unless you believe a cheep Italian rifle can fire bullets that defy the laws of gravity).
I agree with most of your comment. However, the 16th Amendment is not the problem most Americans think it is. The Supreme Court made it clear in 1916 that the Amendment did not create a new class of taxation as many of us where taught. Unsurprisingly, the US Government has been misleading people for over 70 years about the Amendment and its nature and scope and making bank on it annually. It is an excise tax and entitled to be enforced as such. An excise tax has a very specific legal meaning and a very limited scope.
If you want to understand taxation in America and make sure you are NOT committing perjury when you file your return go here:
https://losthorizons.com/Newsletter.htm
Take the time to read the actual law, legal definitions and Supreme Court decisions. You may find that you actually do not owe what you think you do and maybe your CPA is not as well informed as you thought. I came to that conclusion in 2006 and have kept a lot more of my property as a result. I also stopped funding the criminals in DC with the fruits of my labor.
Or we could just use our economic power to refuse to support any corporation that supports, by its lobbying and its discretionary funding, of policies antithetical to our freedom.
Of course that takes conscious consumerism and perhaps curtailing a lot of our own discretionary spending. Sort of a test of will.
I question whether re-enfranchising state legislature to elect state senators such a good idea. A party with a majority in the state legislature will then get to pick their party for the US Senate. Enabling a double-down by one party.
Understand your point and that could be a problem. My larger point is we are a republic not a democracy. I would rather have senators responsible to the state government and have state governments have a say at the federal level. Have we really solved the corruption problem (and taken money interest out) by having the people vote for senators?
your proposal wouldn’t do that either, but the people can be a check. i’m aware we are a republic btw but that doesn’t mean letting one arm of power elect another arm of power.
BTW the states (and people) are the superior power except in matters that they collectively agreed to explicitly assign to the fed gov.
The reason State legislatures selected the Senate was to prevent an all-powerful Federal government (think George III). Of course in 1787 we did not have political parties per say. The idea was for the States to check the Federal government. Once the Federalists and the Republicans (Jeffersonian republicans) squared off and especially after the Jackson presidency the point was moot…damn shame, we could have been so much better than we are.
100%
I believed in the competence and integrity of the FDA/CDC so much back in early 2021 that I urged some of my loved ones to get vaccinated and got vaccinated myself.
How do I like the those agencies now? I will never trust the FDA/CDC again.
I hope a most earnest hope your name is Jill.
“Elite” colleges are the wuhan labs of DEI: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-groom-commissars?r=12n5dp&utm_medium=ios
This is the most pressing viral pandemic of our time, the DEI Hive Mind Virus.
I believe it's called Marxism. They talked DEI as Marxism on Infowars months ago.
It’s “cultural marxism”, a few have covered it, I first learned of the origins of the “march through the institutions” from a minister’s talk to his congregation. Since then others have filled in some gaps. Here’s the one I watched:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GRMFBdDDTkI
I wish I could find the video that covered in detail the origins of antifa; Jack Posobiec did a brief overview in 2020. That is also interesting. I view antifa/blm as the brownshirts of our time, paid by the left occupying positions of power in all those institutions they marched through and now control.
Starts in K-3. Don't kids yourself.
I particularly liked gato's point with the Toronto star saying that if you aren't vaccinated i don't care if you die. But it is too much to ask people to stop going to orgies. This is a crisis!
I didn't see this gem from the covid experts: "we all need to lockdown until there is a vaccine avaliable".
I blame Trump.
LOLOLOLOL
And we already PAID for it!!
"all this morality is tactical"
This is the essence of what the effort is all about. Not directed so much at favored groups, but simply an all out effort to constantly distract and encourage division amongst one another. Then in true Alinsky fashion, accuse those who refuse to participate as being "the problem." Meanwhile more and more of our freedoms are being stripped from us with each passing day as too few notice.
"Squirrel!!!"
Well said.
'There is no slippery slope to loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders'
- Alan K. Simpson
What's worse now, is virtually all the "leaders" want this because it gives them more power, at the expense of the middle class.
We are in a class war.
Great quote. IOW, don't look down.
Agree about the debasement of the middle class. Unlike the lower classes which are dependent upon subsidies from the government or the oligarchs who depend on the government to help secure their wealth and protect them from the torches and pitchforks of the unwashed masses, the middle class has long represented true independence. They do not need nor want a government beyond the basics of securing the borders, keeping the peace, and ensuring economic opportunity -- all of which they continue to fail at, with no government in modern history more so than the current one.
Knocking the middle class down into a more dependent class, eroding the entire education system from preschool through post doc thereby assuring a more easily manipulated and uninformed populace, bombarding us with endless misdirection, petty, divisive culture war squabbles, contrived victimhood, baseless fear of the weather, and, now, seemingly perpetual pandemic "crises" has been largely successful.
100% agree.
I only wish more people would open their eyes and see the obvious.
What do the initials DEI stand for?
"diversity, equity, inclusion"
it's the new woke mantra.
Jordan Peterson has improved it with a simple swap. DIE. much better IMHO.
Or, in Latin, "dei," "gods" -- which the wokemasters imagine themselves to be.
Please consider putting the definition at the top of the comments. For whatever reason, I'm familiar with ESG, but had to look up DEI. My guess is it would be helpful to remind others as well.
I think it had its roots in boycotting anything Israeli...
That's BDS. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions. From the same woke crowd but different meanings.
Of course you're correct. Almost as hard as keeping up with the latest LGBTQ incarnation...
Impossible
I worked in a Fortune 500 (100?) company in early 1990s when the diversity fad was implemented in corporate world (along with the nonsense about “corporate values/culture”). Of course I had zero idea where it would lead, and found the principles laudable, it made sense to my gullible mind. I was also quite involved/supportive of the push for “people, profits, planet” - ie “sustainability” - in early 2000s, again as a gullible idealist. Never saw the two trains hitching up and turning into DIE.
I applaud and admire those of you who think independently. Using logic and reason ought to be taught from Grade 1 (I reject the notion of kindergarten).
Delusional Educational Indoctrination
Divide.
Exclude.
Incite.
I don't know about Science, Tech, or Math positions, but there is not a single humanities, literature, history, or writing position at a college that you can apply for without submitting a "Diversity Statement" in which you must explain how you are going to promote DEI. Most of the ads, regardless, also specifically say something along these lines: we are especially seeking candidates who can, by way of background or experience, contribute to the university's diverse culture/relate to the university's diverse student body/mentor students from underrepresented and marginalized communities."
I'm all for diversity and inclusion, but not in the "let's hire this wheelchair-bound AAPI trans PTSD survivor who knows nothing about 18th Century lit (but *loves* Bridgerton!), to teach 18th Century lit, just so our faculty meetings will be, you know, a little more colorful, and well also then we can tick those boxes on those forms HR/admin keeps sending us, and keep getting our university funded." And equity can go suck eggs.
I wrote one of these statements once saying I promote diversity and inclusion by sticking to the topic I've been hired to teach. LOL. Didn't get that job.
Thanks for sharing. It really hits home when someone is actually experiencing what you have to go through in the Colleges today. I love you saying it like it is... :-)
I'm for Unity, Property Rights and Exclusion.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.
Thanks....wouldn't want to miss those initials..
Too much Diversity can destroy a whole lot of things.
Equity, too, when it means redistribution of wealth. Obama's
favorite words.
I’m not the only one! Thx ☺️
Thank you! I was wondering the same thing.
Thank you!
Will Stancil tweet is undisguised misogyny. "Mom" is an epithet. Obviously wealthy indicates she has housing, a car and most probably a job since it is financially impossible to raise kids in this country without two incomes, as well as two health insurance policies. Most moms and most dads were rightfully concerned regarding the negative impact of school closures, move to the nearly worthless distance learning (for which teachers were given few resources and even less training), which had severely deleterious effect on learning, socialization and cognitive development. To say nothing of those "wealthy Moms" in service industries or small business who saw their jobs evaporate. Or who were subject to vaccine mandates by conjoined requirement of employer and state health department - or otherwise lose job, health insurance (in a pandemic!). DeSantis, while not perfect, was a stand out in defying the diktat - kept schools open, opened extensive clinics for monoclonal antibody treatment (as opposed to simply sending the infected home until the infection was fulminant, untreatable and then hospitalized on vents) until Biden health advisers purchased all the supplies in service of "equity".
These moms kept the lights on, supported/educated their kids and provided advice and counsel to extended family members, innovated distance holiday celebrations that obviated stay isolated diktats., protested at being locked out of nursing homes/hospitals which were treating elder relatives.
These "moms" and, dads too, should be celebrated for their steadfastness in the face of unyielding political, media and health authority harassments. Smears like those of Mr. Stancil should be called out by the fact checkers at Twitter - but as a sign of the times, such tweets are celebrated by the wokerati.
I can't believe all these 'moms' who are worried about the disastrous effects of school closures!
In Washington state, schools were essentially closed for 18 months. While teachers/specialists worked from home! or worked in child/adolescent free school spaces. All the while collecting salary. Much of distance learning in this state was "autonomous" learning nothing much happening, no instruction. No requirement to have camera on, so most kids turned on the computer and went back to sleep, played Fornight or surfed Tik Tok, You tube. Parents got a good look at what was being (or not being) taught. When these kids returned to school the proposal was to hold everyone back one year - did not fly with teachers unions. Kids went from mid first directly to third grade; worse from mid fourth (elementary) to sixth grade (middle school) or from mid seventh to ninth grade (1st year high school). All academic expectations were modified so everyone passed - but for high school students, they were totally unprepared for the rigor of college. Moms and dads were furious - anyone who could possibly afford to essentially moved to private school (mostly parochial and Christian since stand alone private school tuitions were out of slight - they moved to home school. Seattle Times article on the fact that the disappearing students are creating serious financial loss for Seattle Public Schools.
"orgy injured" is pretty funny.
Elephants are tied to a stake with a small rope. That same elephant uses its enormous strength to raise a circus tent. We are the elephant. The woke DEI crowd believes they have us tethered. We are waking up from our cognitive slumber.
The DEI pandemic only works if we let it. Check your investment portfolios. If they brag about DEI, move your funds. If you spend money with a company that values DEI, stop spending money there. Stop using credit cards and online merchants that “are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If you do nothing, we’ll all be eating the fucking bugs by 2030.
Amen
ROAR! I mean YEP!
After 2 years still no word from "public health" about losing weight, Vit D, boasting your immune system ..you know the stuff that helps you avoid ANY virus. Doesn't make any money
If the goal was public health, they'd be all over it. Public health is clearly not the goal.
Sadly!
Word
A friend told me she heard you can "also get it from doorknobs." Yeah, at the sex club. SMH. Damn media.
Your Local Epidemiologist substack covered the evidence of surface spread. She, of course, believes it happens. And the proof are two hospital studies of monkeypox.
Two studies that found ZERO secondary transmission. Two studies that couldn’t find a single live virus that could grow in any samples they studied. Just two samples where they maybe might have seen some evidence of DNA replication-- but again, no growth and no transmission.
THAT is the evidence of surface and air transmission. Two studies showing it didn’t happen and not even the minimal activity that would be required for it to happen.
Hmm, thanks. By "DNA relication" do they mean using the notoriously unrelaible PCR tests?
I’d have to go back and verify, but yes, I’m pretty sure it was quantitative PCR. Which is why they did the culture tests as well; they knew you can’t rely on quantitative PCR alone. If you see signs of DNA replication but nothing else that goes with the DNA replication, it’s mostly likely contamination or other error.
too bad Cary Mullis died....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ73NKS3B1c
lol--yep!
"...the “i should be allowed to live a life free of consequence while public health officials cheer-lead for me” is not really a valid framing."
Left-wing politics is all about shielding people from the consequences of their behavior.
Can't be bothered to work or graduate? No problem, here's your Universal Basic Income. Don't feel like providing for your own health coverage? Cool, national healthcare to the rescue. Got caught shoplifting? We'll just release you back into the community, sorry for the inconvenience. Got sick from promiscuous sex? Whoops, my bad, I forgot I can't point that out.
Rectal coitus is extremely unsafe and leads to bad outcomes.
Reuters factcheck: TRUE
No, it's not a moral position, just science. Although, ain't it funny that all the world's religions condemn it too.
when an emergency became just another thursday
it lost its power
We see the same clamor for Brittany Griner being imprisoned in Russia, but silence for the scores of Americans left behind in Afghanistan. She belongs to the “protected class.”
or for the millions of americans arrested and incarcerated for non-violent drug possession and the outrages of rights and safety driven by a needless and fruitless war on drugs that does nothing but generate violent black markets and unsafe products.
it's a classic "no one wins by the tyrants" scenario.
Or the Californians incarcerated BY KAMALA HARRIS for non violent drug possession. Or the Americans serving long sentences for non violent crime thanks to Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill.
Or the Jan 6 political prisoners.
🎯
It wasn't all that long ago that people who looked like Brittany Griner were locked up here. In fact, the current President and Vice President made their career on locking up people like her for weed.
If only these people had been as outraged then..............
"Stupid can't last forever" - the handling of Monkeypox is the final nail in the coffin for these agencies who are currently eating their own tail.
The problem is that bureaucracies don't need your approval or voluntary purchases to grow and metastasize.