I think it's gonna look like that old Tom Petty song "Won't Back Down."
Then I saw my friend Tombstone Crow and he knows a Mama Bear who's a wayshower for the Garden Of Eden that's being installed/revived to replace the prison planet. RIDE WITH THE TIDE
When the truth rolled out they were thunderstruck
People with their hair on fire running amok
But she won't be a captain who goes down with the ship
Going to ride with the tide, going to write a new script!
People were attracted, ones who been on the fence
They loved the way her faith gave her confidence
Without God in their life, they had floundered around
But faith in the creator helped them find solid ground.
The coming misfortune didn't catch her by surprise
Because at the very top is where the cream will rise
So when the flood of pure evil came to sweep her away
With the spirit she rose and love carried the day!
Their mask will no doubt protect them from the bear spray, you know, because it also protects against viruses.
Seriously though, there is a non aggression principle, but like everything else, there needs to be a great questioning of the laws they enforce. Cops enforcing mask mandates, vaccine passports? Or cops protecting groups allowed to peacefully assemble to protest things others disagree with. My guess is you only want cops enforcing causes you believe in like protesting the color orange.
I wonder too. Genuine brainwashing, or fear? Or apathy? Imagine being an artist during this time and NOT wanting to howl your goddamn fucking lungs out in any way you could? Where ARE the artists? The comedians? Musicians? My guess is they are waiting for some more brave ones, then they will all follow suit with “ I always knew it was bad…”. Well, fuck you. Except aforementioned artists and Rob Schneider. Yes, he’s my hero now. The star of The Hot Chick is my hero. Lordy lou…
Comedian Jim Bruer (?) came out last year with a hysterical bit on Fauci and coofid. I think he’s also touring with a freedom group. Left NY and now resides in FL.
I think that was Born in the USA if you are thinking early 1980’s. I was in DC my first year in law school when his Born in the USA tour came to town. Couldn’t afford it and not yet a fan. Moved to NJ with a classmate later who was a huge fan, even friends with Max Weinberg and Steve Van Zandt, and he shared his love of NJ rock with me. I was introduced to Steve Earle’s music while living in NJ and saw him many times in concert. To see those two fall so completely for the Covid BS really saddened me. I was once a “Progressive.” I get it—but to double down and refuse to see what is plain and clear before one’s eyes is myopic and ignorant. Not only that, but all those big name musicians who got on the Covid bandwagon, showed the rest of us they are owned by something - Big Pharma? I just shake my head. I remember hearing a long time ago, “Every person has a price.” That is, what they would sell their soul for. Fame, money, power are big incentives. Dylan admitted he sold his soul to the devil in an interview. Shilling for Covid was just a requirement, one of many, to stay in the Club. It takes a lot of courage to walk away from the Club. Ask Mel Gibson. Talk to Donald Trump. See what is happening to RFK, Jr. “You want to be a famous, rich, rock and roll star? We can help you but from now on, you are ours.”
There are voices. Adam Corolla spoke out against it. He is also friends with Jimmy Kimmel who had what appears to be a complete break from reality and ensnared in the narrative,
Adam did Not speak out as early as some, but he did. There are artists and patrons of artists who spoke out as well, but the voices were discarded, fact checked into obscurity, and silenced. Others had not much to lose and didn’t have much of a voice or reach to begin with.
But the inter webs is far bigger than government overreach and despite the hurricane of fear, voices did speak out and the thing is, we have the truth with us and so it can’t be drowned out and silenced forever.
Each day as the fear recedes and the masks come of we are seeing the true amount of the move along to get slingers and those who are truly devout.
RE: Kimmel... it's easy to believe the narrative when your income depends on believing the narrative.
I know. I have a friend who works for Pfi$er who is in the same place. Trump in office? Skeptic on vaxx. Biden in office, gets job with big pharma, loves the narrative.
There are so few because they are all owned by the same group, the same recording studios, managing directors, etc. They are told what to sing and what to say. And they are popular because they have no problem towing the line and doing what they are told. It’s for money, not self expression.
There's plenty more. Harder to find but out there. Some in their 20s. Met one in Germany last week. Writes about life, about struggles to find ourselves (which is what we struggle with at 20 - at 60 we struggle just to remember why we walked into this room ;-).
Yep came here to say the same thing. They are out there, they are just not getting traction. Which isn’t hard to explain as this current reaction shows. Let’s hope that it all pans out just as EGM purrfectly predicts in this piece. First link of my favorite!
I go old school and pick musicians who complied to the very mess they were against, two of my anthems are “My Life” by Billy Joel and “someone Saved My Life Tonight “ by Elton John.
Such a shame. Neil Young and Rage Against the Machine belong in that list. Great anti-establishment anthems and the creators just caved. Meanwhile, Roger Waters is walking the talk like a boss.
Wow, cleaning out my inbox I had missed this message. Very interesting ha ha, but I'll take it! We need representation in all genres. Gawd the angst in this video, you can cut it with a butterknife!
Yeah Dawg! This one needs to be at the top of the list! Not in current rotation over here with the kiddos, but I saw them in concert a few times in the 90s. Love. Where are all these middle aged punks now??
I don't know where you are, but out here in flyover country it was the millennials wanting to mask and vax everyone.
We had groups of white haired little old ladies wearing COME AND TAKE IT t-shirts on the local news saying, "If you want to vaccinate me you better bring a swat team."
The key is staying out of the bigger cities. Though in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, etc, even in the bigger cities one is never far from farmland. This changes EVERYTHING 😉.
Exactly. These “glorious rockers” from the 70s and 80s were then angry, entitled rebels hellbent on tearing down society. Why should we be surprised when now, in their 60s and 70s they are still angry, entitled, and hellbent on tearing down society? “Freedom” for them, for everyone else, apologies for being alive.
As a classical musician growing up at that time, outside of that former mainstream of popular rebel rock, I never understood the appeal. There was more to life than rebelling against authority, and that garbage (sorry) might have felt good to angry young people, but it only added ugliness. Because I and my nerdy friends were so separate from this dominant Pink Floyd culture, we learned independence. That is why we now see the whole covid garbage for the psyop that it is.
Well I came of age listening to the mindless, glorious hair bands of the 80's. Rock was an escape. No one was 'making a statement' or 'pushing back against The Man' Oh there were bands with thoughtful lyrics and making statements if you looked, Rush (Free Will) and Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime) and such, but for me in that era, I listened to music to escape, not to navel gaze. Yes, I love some of the protest songs and albums that have come out of late, but my hubby and I still go to music festivals and concerts with the bands of our youth, just to remember that there was a time when life was reasonably carefree and we were blissfully ignorant of the evil in our world.
I'm still surprised that we saw the same behavior from Tom Morelllo and Rage Against the Machine, who became Rage for the Vaccine.
And i don't really think it's about cash, they are all pretty rich already, there is/was just such enormous social pressure to go along with tribal dogma, to always be signalling your anti-Deplorable status, and the cost of being hated and banished by your own people—friends, family, wives, etc—is too high for most people to willingly pay, despite their professed principles, which can always be twisted to rationalize anything.
Personally, I think many of these rich musicians (Springsteen, dudes from KISS, etc) really think they're smarter than everyone else and that we should do what they say.
As for the $$$, back in the day, musicians made money from albums. Now, the ONLY real way for them to make $$$ is touring. Couldn't tour unless everyone was vaxxed.
And... they may make $$$ but they could very well spend $$$$$.
Unhealthy people aren’t supposed to get vaccinated. That was one of the arguments to get vaccinated, to protect the vulnerable, but apparently those people are the very graves your dancing on, so which is it?
No state figured out how to protect nursing home patients until the vaccines became available…and nursing home patients are the most vulnerable population.
Me too. Sickening, frankly. Class of ‘72 here. I am still questioning authority after all these years. Amazed at all the ones, who I thought knew better, who drank the MRNA KoolAid.
Most of the musicians in the Laurel Canyon scene of the 60's &70's came from northern Virginia, home of the Pentagon and CIA, whose parents worked in military intelligence.
"And so it is that, even while the father is actively conspiring to fabricate an incident that will be used to massively accelerate an illegal war, the son is positioning himself to become an icon of the ‘hippie’/anti-war crowd. Nothing unusual about that, I suppose. It is, you know, a small world and all that. And it is not as if Jim Morrison’s story is in any way unique."
Thanks for this, I really a dose of catittude today. As the releases from Racket and Public remind us that we’re in a world of politicized untrustworthy drones running things and running us into the ground, it’s nice to have el gato remind us of what we’re all about. muchas gracias gatito 😃
But this song is about most music performers and actors. Problem is, they weren't as good as Johnny. They made their deal with the Devil to make it. And when the Devil comes a calling for their souls they lost...:
I thank God Above the Devil never dared me on anything. I was an idiota at that age, never could resist a dare. At least I was smart enough to run with a good crowd.
All so true. The left actually jumped Eric Clapton Van Morrison and others over vax protest songs. That would be the same crowd that prior to Covid were anti GMO, Big Pharma, born to be wild. Amazing how fast the became obedient Gato’s.
The “ but my opinion must come out of your mouth” is something I’ve been thinking about lately. Why would anyone insist anyone agree with them if it’s forced? It’s so creepy.
London Calling is probably the last of the many, many great albums that come out of the 1970's. Clampdown is my personal favorite, and certainly rang many bells during the lockdown bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lt4O-EHNnw
oddly enough, it's the people in my life UNDER 30 who are the most censorious, judgmental, and quickest to police and correct my thoughts and speech in the name of sensitivity and protecting the "marginalized"...remember, they didn't recruit the Red Guard from old folks' homes.
yes, Yes, and YES! Did I say yes? Same where I am, and to ge precise: It's NOT the boomers and genx. It's the millennials and genz.
And no matter what the era, place, time, issue or anything else you can ALWAYS tell the difference between the authentic people and the ones that have swallowed a bunch of slogans and ideology. Fake bullshiters.
Agree. One basically can’t say anything to them. We have a generation that actually PREFERS “safety” to freedom; that doesn’t yearn to get out there and experience life (the good, bad, and ugly), but would rather stay in their room at mom and dad’s, scrolling on their phones.
I’m feeling pessimistic these days, but I hope gato is right; we could use another punk era!
Biggest surprise in my old age is the appreciation for the freedoms of my youth as part of the culture of an entire generation captured by el gato favorite.. in praise of lawn darts!
“they failed to form the full individual identities needed to resist such predation” Exactly! They’ve never fully developed adult psyches, and are developmentally stuck in their mid-teens, forever dependent on the opinions of others to validate their sense of self-worth.
Until they quite literally grow up (mentally, regardless of physical age) they won’t change.
Now they go to GSA in middle school and get new names. I grew up a card carrying member of the Mormon church. I’m not saying it’s a cult, but.... this is basically step number one.
Oh, but it is. I grew up in that cult too. Five Gen family, BYU, and temple marriage, no less. Sonia Johnson said, “The religion that has all the answers will not allow any questions.” I left in 1984 officially. No “Jack Mo” for me. No regrets. It has been very easy to spot cults since then.
Well said Sonia! You have a head start on me then--I didn't give in to the misgivings until covid woke me up. Strange how that back and forth operates. But yes it is serving me well now!
crybullies indeed. I raised my daughters to stand tall on their own.
Sadly, my youngest married a crybully. Anything we say or do is disgusting and intolerant
He, however, can tell us how wrong we are all day, all night.
We are so done with that. What a silly game. I truly do hope he gets it right in the teeth when his three adorable children (we are estranged from them for over a year now) grow up and
teach him how selfish and hard headed he really is.
I do not recall ever everrrr treating my parents like this. It is mental
It definitely is mental. And a lack of respect. No matter how crazy my CNN and The View watching my mother was, I still treated her with respect and took care of her in her old age. This younger generation believes they don’t owe their parents anything.
My father barely spoke to me and my mother had borderline personality disorder. After my father had a horrific car accident when I was 18, he suffered tremendously with a traumatic brain injury and many broken bones and was never the same. He died 20 years later and my mother went into a deep depression. I could go on and on about the the next 20 years and what she went through but I will spare you and just say that she did the best she could within her capabilities. I had to forgive her and move on and treat her more like a friendly neighbor than a parent. She remained in my and my kids life until she past away suddenly after an emergency surgery. It was rough, heartbreaking, but I do not regret my part in assisting her and being there for her while I got very little in return.
Grief, sadness can overwhelm you. It is better to just continue to be a good person and have contentment.
I emailed my daughter a few days ago, and my son in law telephoned my husband and screamed at him.
We are living among extremely selfish people
I am suffering greatly from the sudden (?) loss of my 99 year old father. Yes, I knew he would go one day, but every day I spent with him, which was every day, was a great and fun time.
His heart just kept beating, with love but his bodily organs could not compete.
I loved him so much. We disagreed on a lot of things, but we agreed on happiness always and gratitude
I agree with you. Better to do things wholehearted than half ass. I am so sorry for your loss. My own sister couldn’t deal with our mother and treated her with contempt. As the older sister I had more empathy and compassion to a fault probably. But I would rather know I did my best and was there for my mother in her end of life. I couldn’t live with myself otherwise. I don’t know how my sister justifies her behavior. She is selfish IMO and holds many grudges. I can’t live that way. God Speed 🙏
what will rebellion against the wokester warrior diversity crybully self hatred cult look like?
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If we're lucky, the most libertarian generation in a long, long time.
I had begun to fear that the Enlightenment was dead but your comment gives me hope. Thanks!
I think it's gonna look like that old Tom Petty song "Won't Back Down."
Then I saw my friend Tombstone Crow and he knows a Mama Bear who's a wayshower for the Garden Of Eden that's being installed/revived to replace the prison planet. RIDE WITH THE TIDE
When the truth rolled out they were thunderstruck
People with their hair on fire running amok
But she won't be a captain who goes down with the ship
Going to ride with the tide, going to write a new script!
People were attracted, ones who been on the fence
They loved the way her faith gave her confidence
Without God in their life, they had floundered around
But faith in the creator helped them find solid ground.
The coming misfortune didn't catch her by surprise
Because at the very top is where the cream will rise
So when the flood of pure evil came to sweep her away
With the spirit she rose and love carried the day!
... because, as we know, if truth is the first casualty of war, then surely humor is the second.
And we have to battle the possible black-pilling going on in spite of our best intentions.https://veilofreality.com/2023/07/20/the-blackpilled-matrix-mind-trap-and-the-antidote-tcm-112-part-1/?vgo_ee=753PBF1GDrrc%2B1hHKhuh6CFOc1DijYGWyXQotdaZ8EjKJCs%3D%3Aio5Yqr7Ihu6XjYrq33XHqkG0msngtvGY
There's but one solution: keep pushing the joy button!...at KPJB radio!
Feel free to spray cops with bear spray in DC though, right?
Their mask will no doubt protect them from the bear spray, you know, because it also protects against viruses.
Seriously though, there is a non aggression principle, but like everything else, there needs to be a great questioning of the laws they enforce. Cops enforcing mask mandates, vaccine passports? Or cops protecting groups allowed to peacefully assemble to protest things others disagree with. My guess is you only want cops enforcing causes you believe in like protesting the color orange.
Your mask protects others against Bear spray.
If you really want to change the world, share the beer instead ;-)
Look up Van Morrison's recent protest albums and the songs by Clapton and Five Times August.
We have 3 Singer-Songwriters who are still human. And properly Rebellious in the face of insanity and inhumanity. Why so few? Is my question!
I wonder too. Genuine brainwashing, or fear? Or apathy? Imagine being an artist during this time and NOT wanting to howl your goddamn fucking lungs out in any way you could? Where ARE the artists? The comedians? Musicians? My guess is they are waiting for some more brave ones, then they will all follow suit with “ I always knew it was bad…”. Well, fuck you. Except aforementioned artists and Rob Schneider. Yes, he’s my hero now. The star of The Hot Chick is my hero. Lordy lou…
Comedian Jim Bruer (?) came out last year with a hysterical bit on Fauci and coofid. I think he’s also touring with a freedom group. Left NY and now resides in FL.
He’s on Gutfeld! tonight.
JP Sears was a comedic rebel from the very beginning. Provided some much needed comic relief from all the BS in 2020.
Yes! I love his stuff
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Sellouts for money. See also Bruce Springsteen. Or Steve Earle. Neither one has awakened from their corporate stupor.
that is for sure! Springsteen... Born to be Wild came out my freshman year of college. Such a great album. Now he makes me ill. Such a sellout!
I think that was Born in the USA if you are thinking early 1980’s. I was in DC my first year in law school when his Born in the USA tour came to town. Couldn’t afford it and not yet a fan. Moved to NJ with a classmate later who was a huge fan, even friends with Max Weinberg and Steve Van Zandt, and he shared his love of NJ rock with me. I was introduced to Steve Earle’s music while living in NJ and saw him many times in concert. To see those two fall so completely for the Covid BS really saddened me. I was once a “Progressive.” I get it—but to double down and refuse to see what is plain and clear before one’s eyes is myopic and ignorant. Not only that, but all those big name musicians who got on the Covid bandwagon, showed the rest of us they are owned by something - Big Pharma? I just shake my head. I remember hearing a long time ago, “Every person has a price.” That is, what they would sell their soul for. Fame, money, power are big incentives. Dylan admitted he sold his soul to the devil in an interview. Shilling for Covid was just a requirement, one of many, to stay in the Club. It takes a lot of courage to walk away from the Club. Ask Mel Gibson. Talk to Donald Trump. See what is happening to RFK, Jr. “You want to be a famous, rich, rock and roll star? We can help you but from now on, you are ours.”
Yes, Born in the USA. Not enough coffee. It was 1975. Agree with your comments
There are voices. Adam Corolla spoke out against it. He is also friends with Jimmy Kimmel who had what appears to be a complete break from reality and ensnared in the narrative,
Adam did Not speak out as early as some, but he did. There are artists and patrons of artists who spoke out as well, but the voices were discarded, fact checked into obscurity, and silenced. Others had not much to lose and didn’t have much of a voice or reach to begin with.
But the inter webs is far bigger than government overreach and despite the hurricane of fear, voices did speak out and the thing is, we have the truth with us and so it can’t be drowned out and silenced forever.
Each day as the fear recedes and the masks come of we are seeing the true amount of the move along to get slingers and those who are truly devout.
re: "..the voices were discarded, fact checked into obscurity, and silenced."
No kidding! I only learned a moment ago that Rob Schneider blasted the vaxxes back in July 2021.
He’s been a good voice in all of this. I think he even went on the Tom Woods show.
RE: Kimmel... it's easy to believe the narrative when your income depends on believing the narrative.
I know. I have a friend who works for Pfi$er who is in the same place. Trump in office? Skeptic on vaxx. Biden in office, gets job with big pharma, loves the narrative.
I bet Carolla and Kimmel have an agreement not to talk about it.
There are so few because they are all owned by the same group, the same recording studios, managing directors, etc. They are told what to sing and what to say. And they are popular because they have no problem towing the line and doing what they are told. It’s for money, not self expression.
You beat me to it.
There's plenty more. Harder to find but out there. Some in their 20s. Met one in Germany last week. Writes about life, about struggles to find ourselves (which is what we struggle with at 20 - at 60 we struggle just to remember why we walked into this room ;-).
Yep came here to say the same thing. They are out there, they are just not getting traction. Which isn’t hard to explain as this current reaction shows. Let’s hope that it all pans out just as EGM purrfectly predicts in this piece. First link of my favorite!
https://youtu.be/HHCQ1I_TgPE
https://youtu.be/hHxk1Mg5n7I
https://youtu.be/b_sEYlTwi54
https://youtu.be/kyFnLqJx-uU
I go old school and pick musicians who complied to the very mess they were against, two of my anthems are “My Life” by Billy Joel and “someone Saved My Life Tonight “ by Elton John.
Such a shame. Neil Young and Rage Against the Machine belong in that list. Great anti-establishment anthems and the creators just caved. Meanwhile, Roger Waters is walking the talk like a boss.
This song from the eighties also resonates. High Time by Styx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vGE-FM-BDg
Swingin'! And here we are 40 years later with nothing to show for it.
Warning!
https://youtu.be/9yD3IqrLtPk
Wow, cleaning out my inbox I had missed this message. Very interesting ha ha, but I'll take it! We need representation in all genres. Gawd the angst in this video, you can cut it with a butterknife!
Nice list! I like this one too:
Pennywise "Fuck Authority" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5arZGgyGSc
Yeah Dawg! This one needs to be at the top of the list! Not in current rotation over here with the kiddos, but I saw them in concert a few times in the 90s. Love. Where are all these middle aged punks now??
Hi-Rez!!
Also, Ice Cube and Joe Rogan saw through the lies. And Tucker Carlson plus Jim Carrey, it seems. There are more.
But Rock n Roll has died, that's for certain.
Resurrection time, perhaps?
; ))
Forgot Hi-Rez!!!
Because musicians like everyone else are blinded by consensus, implicit trust in institutions, and susceptible to mass formation.
Implict trust in institutions??
JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcom X?
Watergate?
Vietnam?
Pentagon Papers?
All the problems surrounding Sept. 11?
Neocons?
Afghanistan?
Iraq?
Syria?
Libya?
Ukraine?
Autism?
Glysophate?
DDT?
Wall Street Bailouts?
Banking Bailouts?
The crash of 2008?
Biden's Laptop?
Really???
Who doesn't know that that our institutions are hacked??
The walking dead?
Dee Snyder went from "we're not gonna take it" to "everyone's gotta take it" when the vax rolled out.
Frankly, I've found myself very disappointed by how so many of these "rebellious" rockers of old just fell right in line with the covid tyranny.
I don't know where you are, but out here in flyover country it was the millennials wanting to mask and vax everyone.
We had groups of white haired little old ladies wearing COME AND TAKE IT t-shirts on the local news saying, "If you want to vaccinate me you better bring a swat team."
I want to move there.
The key is staying out of the bigger cities. Though in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, etc, even in the bigger cities one is never far from farmland. This changes EVERYTHING 😉.
I can second that emotion😉
I wouldn't live anywhere else for love or money 😊🌻.
Me either 👍
agree with that ! Love living in flyover country
Exactly. These “glorious rockers” from the 70s and 80s were then angry, entitled rebels hellbent on tearing down society. Why should we be surprised when now, in their 60s and 70s they are still angry, entitled, and hellbent on tearing down society? “Freedom” for them, for everyone else, apologies for being alive.
As a classical musician growing up at that time, outside of that former mainstream of popular rebel rock, I never understood the appeal. There was more to life than rebelling against authority, and that garbage (sorry) might have felt good to angry young people, but it only added ugliness. Because I and my nerdy friends were so separate from this dominant Pink Floyd culture, we learned independence. That is why we now see the whole covid garbage for the psyop that it is.
Well I came of age listening to the mindless, glorious hair bands of the 80's. Rock was an escape. No one was 'making a statement' or 'pushing back against The Man' Oh there were bands with thoughtful lyrics and making statements if you looked, Rush (Free Will) and Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime) and such, but for me in that era, I listened to music to escape, not to navel gaze. Yes, I love some of the protest songs and albums that have come out of late, but my hubby and I still go to music festivals and concerts with the bands of our youth, just to remember that there was a time when life was reasonably carefree and we were blissfully ignorant of the evil in our world.
You’re remarks reminded me of the song “Angry Young Man” by Billy Joel.
Ha! I’ve never heard that song, so I looked it up and Billy Joel nails it.
Everyone's a rebel until the corporate machine starts waving the $$$ in their faces, in any artistic business?
I'm still surprised that we saw the same behavior from Tom Morelllo and Rage Against the Machine, who became Rage for the Vaccine.
And i don't really think it's about cash, they are all pretty rich already, there is/was just such enormous social pressure to go along with tribal dogma, to always be signalling your anti-Deplorable status, and the cost of being hated and banished by your own people—friends, family, wives, etc—is too high for most people to willingly pay, despite their professed principles, which can always be twisted to rationalize anything.
I don't think it was ALL about the cash.
Personally, I think many of these rich musicians (Springsteen, dudes from KISS, etc) really think they're smarter than everyone else and that we should do what they say.
As for the $$$, back in the day, musicians made money from albums. Now, the ONLY real way for them to make $$$ is touring. Couldn't tour unless everyone was vaxxed.
And... they may make $$$ but they could very well spend $$$$$.
Disinformation about Covid vaccines mostly killed white trash Trump supporters…so keep spreading it!!!
In case you're not so good at keeping up on current events... more people will die from the vaccine than died of the plandemic.
Coo coo
Coo coo
The vaccinated now account for a majority of COVID deaths.
Thanksgiving for Fauci's exit.
https://substack.com/profile/26447884-techno-fog?utm_source=author-byline-face
Techno Fog
Vaccinated Americans a majority of COVID deaths: Washington Post
https://yournews.com/2022/11/23/2459736/vaccinated-americans-a-majority-of-covid-deaths-washington-post/
New England Journal of Medicine: Unvaccinated COVID Patients Are Contagious for LESS Time Than those Vaxed or Boosted. (NEJM)
https://www.disclose.tv/id/1551907875525730304/
Cleveland Clinic Publishes Study Showing that mRNA Jabs INCREASE Covid Risk with Each Subsequent “Boost”
https://www.newswars.com/cleveland-clinic-publishes-study-showing-that-mrna-jabs-increase-covid-risk-with-each-subsequent-boost/
Amazing how Covid intentionally kills conservatives and yet masks are ineffective for everyone.
It killed older and unhealthy people that inexplicably didn’t get vaccinated.
Unhealthy people aren’t supposed to get vaccinated. That was one of the arguments to get vaccinated, to protect the vulnerable, but apparently those people are the very graves your dancing on, so which is it?
No state figured out how to protect nursing home patients until the vaccines became available…and nursing home patients are the most vulnerable population.
Me too. Sickening, frankly. Class of ‘72 here. I am still questioning authority after all these years. Amazed at all the ones, who I thought knew better, who drank the MRNA KoolAid.
Class of 70; same
We know why now. Pfizer and Moderna paid them to fall in line. The love of money.
Gene Simmons also was all in on the vaccine. I wish they would have done a “We Are The World” of vaccine efficacy so we could call them out.
Thank you for helping to kill white trash Trump supporters…Xi and Putin also thank you.
Rage For the Machine was my biggest disappointment... 😔
Rage Against The Machine was the worst
There’s something happening here
and what it is is entirely clear.
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the men come and take you away
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
Carry on love is coming
There’s a man with a gun over there.
Most of the musicians in the Laurel Canyon scene of the 60's &70's came from northern Virginia, home of the Pentagon and CIA, whose parents worked in military intelligence.
"And so it is that, even while the father is actively conspiring to fabricate an incident that will be used to massively accelerate an illegal war, the son is positioning himself to become an icon of the ‘hippie’/anti-war crowd. Nothing unusual about that, I suppose. It is, you know, a small world and all that. And it is not as if Jim Morrison’s story is in any way unique."
Interesting read. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream, David McGowan. https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/laurelcanyon/
Oh no, it’s clear.
“Step out of line, the MAN come & take you away”
Yes! And Stephen Stills’ dad was part of the MIC...allegedly
So was Jim Morrison's Dad IIRC.
Thanks for this, I really a dose of catittude today. As the releases from Racket and Public remind us that we’re in a world of politicized untrustworthy drones running things and running us into the ground, it’s nice to have el gato remind us of what we’re all about. muchas gracias gatito 😃
^needed
I'm Free - Soup Dragons (1990)
https://youtu.be/PwhO7xGsfQg
Don't be afraid of your freedom
Freedom
I'm free to do what I want any old time
I said I'm free to do what I want any old time
I say love me, hold me
Love me, hold me 'cause I'm free
To do what I want any old time
And I'm free to be who I choose any old time
I say love me, hold me
Love me, hold me 'cause I'm free
I say love me, hold me
Love me, hold me 'cause I'm free
To do what I want to be what I want any old time
And I'm free to be who I choose to get my booze any old time
I say love me love me forever
Hold me and love will never die
Love me, hold me 'cause I'm free
Do you hear what the man say?
These are the words me hear from my grandaddy
Come on!
These are the words me hear from my grandaddy
He would say nothing in this world like when a man know he free
Free from the lock up me say free from the debt
Free like a butterfly free like a bee
These are the words me hear from my grandaddy
Said it's nice to be free nice to be free
Free from the lock up, me say free from the debt
Don't be afraid of your freedom
'Cause I'm free to do what I want any old time (I'm a new creation)
'Cause I'm free to do what I want any old time
Don't be afraid of your freedom
I said I'm free to do what I want to be what I want any old time
(I'm free, I'm free, I'm free)
boom!
i LOVE the soup dragons.
"These are the words me hear from my grandaddy
He would say nothing in this world like when a man know he free"
i damn near wore out my lovegod album.
But this song is about most music performers and actors. Problem is, they weren't as good as Johnny. They made their deal with the Devil to make it. And when the Devil comes a calling for their souls they lost...:
The Devil Went Down to Georgia (1979)
Charlie Daniels Band
https://youtu.be/7PJazBnbrDc
The Devil went down to Georgia. He was lookin' for a soul to steal.
He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal
When he came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot.
And the Devil jumped upon a hickory stump and said, "Boy, let me tell you what."
"I guess you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player, too.
And if you'd care to take a dare I'll make a bet with you.
Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the Devil his due.
I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul 'cause I think I'm better than you."
The boy said, "My name's Johnny, and it might be a sin,
But I'll take your bet; you're gonna regret 'cause I'm the best there's ever been."
Johnny, rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard.
'Cause Hell's broke loose in Georgia and the Devil deals the cards.
And if you win you get this shiny fiddle made of gold,
But if you lose the Devil gets your soul.
I thank God Above the Devil never dared me on anything. I was an idiota at that age, never could resist a dare. At least I was smart enough to run with a good crowd.
All so true. The left actually jumped Eric Clapton Van Morrison and others over vax protest songs. That would be the same crowd that prior to Covid were anti GMO, Big Pharma, born to be wild. Amazing how fast the became obedient Gato’s.
Rock on, Gato Malo! Rebel rock and roll is as American as apple pie.
We have become a country of apathetic and fearful people; these will not ensure us a free future.
The “ but my opinion must come out of your mouth” is something I’ve been thinking about lately. Why would anyone insist anyone agree with them if it’s forced? It’s so creepy.
It’s like a forced apology, and about as sincere.
Jason has it right and then some - which is why I recently moved from Washington, D.C. to small town Idaho. Come try that stuff here
London Calling is probably the last of the many, many great albums that come out of the 1970's. Clampdown is my personal favorite, and certainly rang many bells during the lockdown bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lt4O-EHNnw
Never trust anyone over thirty. Question authority. Although I’m on three far side of 30, I still do both and have added in, follow the money.
oddly enough, it's the people in my life UNDER 30 who are the most censorious, judgmental, and quickest to police and correct my thoughts and speech in the name of sensitivity and protecting the "marginalized"...remember, they didn't recruit the Red Guard from old folks' homes.
Yes, I spent 13 years in education and I can tell you discernment is not a skill most young people have. They believe the lies of the most convincing.
yes, Yes, and YES! Did I say yes? Same where I am, and to ge precise: It's NOT the boomers and genx. It's the millennials and genz.
And no matter what the era, place, time, issue or anything else you can ALWAYS tell the difference between the authentic people and the ones that have swallowed a bunch of slogans and ideology. Fake bullshiters.
Agree. One basically can’t say anything to them. We have a generation that actually PREFERS “safety” to freedom; that doesn’t yearn to get out there and experience life (the good, bad, and ugly), but would rather stay in their room at mom and dad’s, scrolling on their phones.
I’m feeling pessimistic these days, but I hope gato is right; we could use another punk era!
God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the queen
She's not a human being
and There's no future
And England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need
There's no future
No future
No future for you
Oh when there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers
In the dustbin
We're the poison
In your human machine
We're the future
Your future
Follow 3 things: money, power & control
The far side, damn autocorrect
Biggest surprise in my old age is the appreciation for the freedoms of my youth as part of the culture of an entire generation captured by el gato favorite.. in praise of lawn darts!
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-lawn-darts
I was just talking about this one! It’s simply the best ever.
“they failed to form the full individual identities needed to resist such predation” Exactly! They’ve never fully developed adult psyches, and are developmentally stuck in their mid-teens, forever dependent on the opinions of others to validate their sense of self-worth.
Until they quite literally grow up (mentally, regardless of physical age) they won’t change.
Now they go to GSA in middle school and get new names. I grew up a card carrying member of the Mormon church. I’m not saying it’s a cult, but.... this is basically step number one.
Oh, but it is. I grew up in that cult too. Five Gen family, BYU, and temple marriage, no less. Sonia Johnson said, “The religion that has all the answers will not allow any questions.” I left in 1984 officially. No “Jack Mo” for me. No regrets. It has been very easy to spot cults since then.
Well said Sonia! You have a head start on me then--I didn't give in to the misgivings until covid woke me up. Strange how that back and forth operates. But yes it is serving me well now!
crybullies indeed. I raised my daughters to stand tall on their own.
Sadly, my youngest married a crybully. Anything we say or do is disgusting and intolerant
He, however, can tell us how wrong we are all day, all night.
We are so done with that. What a silly game. I truly do hope he gets it right in the teeth when his three adorable children (we are estranged from them for over a year now) grow up and
teach him how selfish and hard headed he really is.
I do not recall ever everrrr treating my parents like this. It is mental
It definitely is mental. And a lack of respect. No matter how crazy my CNN and The View watching my mother was, I still treated her with respect and took care of her in her old age. This younger generation believes they don’t owe their parents anything.
Weeeeell.... some of us were royally screwed over by our parents so there is that.
My father barely spoke to me and my mother had borderline personality disorder. After my father had a horrific car accident when I was 18, he suffered tremendously with a traumatic brain injury and many broken bones and was never the same. He died 20 years later and my mother went into a deep depression. I could go on and on about the the next 20 years and what she went through but I will spare you and just say that she did the best she could within her capabilities. I had to forgive her and move on and treat her more like a friendly neighbor than a parent. She remained in my and my kids life until she past away suddenly after an emergency surgery. It was rough, heartbreaking, but I do not regret my part in assisting her and being there for her while I got very little in return.
That's lovely that you could do that. Circumstances do vary of course--I ended up on the other side of the world and it's not a bad thing in my case.
absolutely correct.
Grief, sadness can overwhelm you. It is better to just continue to be a good person and have contentment.
I emailed my daughter a few days ago, and my son in law telephoned my husband and screamed at him.
We are living among extremely selfish people
I am suffering greatly from the sudden (?) loss of my 99 year old father. Yes, I knew he would go one day, but every day I spent with him, which was every day, was a great and fun time.
His heart just kept beating, with love but his bodily organs could not compete.
I loved him so much. We disagreed on a lot of things, but we agreed on happiness always and gratitude
I agree with you. Better to do things wholehearted than half ass. I am so sorry for your loss. My own sister couldn’t deal with our mother and treated her with contempt. As the older sister I had more empathy and compassion to a fault probably. But I would rather know I did my best and was there for my mother in her end of life. I couldn’t live with myself otherwise. I don’t know how my sister justifies her behavior. She is selfish IMO and holds many grudges. I can’t live that way. God Speed 🙏
Thank you. You are a good person as well. We are trying.
it is too much for me to look at my family, my daughters and siblings and judge.
They are their own being and yes, they disappoint me but that is just the way life is. It is best to try to keep your head up, and live the good life
Exactly! Lead by example is my new motto! Enjoy your life!
How does it feel. To be on your own. Like a complete unknown. With no direction home. Like a rolling stone. - Bob Dylan
Now you don’t walk so proud
Now you don’t talk so loud
Where did you go Bob when we needed you?