A terrible time to copy the CCP instead of the other way around. Meanwhile NPCs at Michigan cheered on Dr. Fauci as he received an honorary degree for ruining their lives with "science".
Funny (not funny:-) anecdote from my life ... niece is graduating Rutgers and she thinks it is "pretty cool" that Fraudci is the speaker at grad ceremony ... upon hearing this, I threw up in my mouth a little bit and bit my tongue ... makes me sick/angry to imagine everyone there will be applauding the little evil man :-(
Isn't it horrible the amount of self-censorship we have to engage in just to maintain a relationship with our family? There are certain topics I simply will not discuss with my own kids (and they honor that, at least, thank goodness). Because my relationship with them is always more important than anything else, but damn. I want them and their kids to be safe and healthy too. And I'm scared to death they will (or they already have) fallen prey to the Narrative.
I let my family go, for now. All of them. I had to. Between the gaslighting, the over-the-top TDS (truly hateful sh*t, long, long after he was out of office), the adoration of that idiot Colbert, Trevor Noah and, so help me, Randy Rainbow, and the daily badgering to get my foolish, crazy, misinformed and unbelievably selfish butt vaccinated, I had no choice. I think of them every day, but I had to walk away. Thankfully, I have no children - that would be the worst. I'm talking about sisters. I am the youngest, and the lone conservative, so I don't get no respect. It's very sad, but I have found peace now. Is anyone else out there going through this?
Yep. I don’t live near them though. I think the last straw was when I asked my younger sister if she would have even allowed me in the house this past Christmas (in BC where Bonnie Henry, our ‘top Dr’ issued an edict telling people not to associate with the unclean over the holidays). Due to all the road washouts, driving from the Interior (no vax, no fly in Canada) was not an option, however. She wouldn’t answer my question and instead set my dad (recently had 4th shot) upon me to re-educate me. I chose not to respond.
I don't think there's any one of us who haven't had to break ties with some family and/or friends over this. I have had to choose some new family members. You are not alone. Some people just can't stand others who stand for something. People who stood on principle used to be respected, now they are considered outcasts. Amazing! I've never been a herd member and never will be. Herds go over cliffs. Together. We feel your pain and disappointment. Stay strong.
Fellow younger brother. I have done likewise with my eldest sister (she was a shit aunty anyway) .
My highlight was when she demanded a driveway socially distanced present swapping at Christmas and I walked behind her and fake-spat in her hair.
I have told her I will talk to her once she shows genuine contrition for supporting a post office worker that chased me out the shop for being maskless and beat my car (could have been me if not fleet of foot) and supporting vaccine apartheid on me and my unjabbed children (22,19,7)
This whole mess is nothing less than insane, and has most certainly highlighted those in need of some kind of therapy. Unfortunately, however, I think the lunatics are currently in charge of the asylum. Maybe we need dose them all with…? Mmmm…I could think of a few interesting things..ha! 😆
This would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. I wish that amongst the Babylon Bee's Christmas stuff they'd offered a catapult for delivering your gifts during the holiday season - after they were disinfected, of course.
OMG I can let anyone go except my kids. And of course THEY are the ones I am talking about. The rest? They can take care of themselves. You are fortunate in that regard.
Fortunately we respect each other enough to simply not 'engage" in the Covid discussion.
You are indeed fortunate, if your family respects you. Yes, I'd be heartsick if I had kids that subscribed to any of this mishegoss. I do have some goodhearted but naive young friends who live up in Portland, and a sweet but misguided niece in NYC (she stopped talking to me when I embarrassed her by questioning her FB cryfest over George Floyd). I don't ask about their activities. If they are part of Antifa I don't want to know about it. I pray for them.
I tried to save my sisters (all in Puerto Rico) and their adult kids by sharing all I had re: potential adverse events, the VAERS data on deaths and AEs, etc. Two of them were coerced to take the jabs or would lose their jobs. The oldest took the jabs and kept it from me for a long time. My 24 y.o. niece (mother of 2 little kiddos) also got jabbed voluntarily (she lives in FL but follow the Puerto Rican doctors and celebrities - all praising the clot shots. I'm heartbroken that I may lose one of them in the next 10 years. The oldest is dealing with uncontrollable blood glucose levels (post-mRNA jabs) despite diet and her pills. I don't have the heart to tell her about the possible link between jabs and spike in diabetes.
Currently not talking/shunned by 3 siblings and their adult kids, and my husbands sister and her family. They're all far too educated to put up with us questioning mask or vaxx efficacy... so we haven't seen them in 2 years. Much less stress, but i miss family parties, we used to have so much fun.
Exactly the same situation. Talking to my sisters at the beginning of the plandemic had smoke coming out of my ears - their uncritical acceptance of everything the “experts” fed them was more than I could take. Of course I was the one with the tinfoil hat and the condescension from my sisters (who are older, and much wiser in their estimation) was infuriating. I had to stop talking to them for about a year. We communicate after a fashion now, but only about things that don’t matter. I will never understand how they could be so stupid.
All my family (I don’t have children, thank goodness) is vaxxed, so I can’t help wondering how much longer they’ll survive. I’m hoping that some of them got placebos. And I wonder if they’ll ever see the truth.
talking "only about things that don't matter" ... this is what has the potential to drive me out of my mind, up a wall, around the bend and utterly crazy. and this is where I, too, am at with my older siblings (we should start a 'youngest and sanest' page). superficiality has become a strange manner amongst families thanks to the demons' influence. i remind myself to be prepared to forget all the low-density behavior they are engaging in during this covidiocracy because it is better for us all if i do. they won't but i will.
My old friendships with covidians have turned into the occasional text or email to say hello. Not much else. Perhaps a monthly brunch and "have a lovely weekend" type of convo. It's very hard for me to keep that up once we're done eating. So, 1x/month is all I can handle. Light convos are painful and take so much effort. UGH!
Remember that they are your family and love them anyway :-). Family is one of the things that "really matters". Even the part that drives you nuts.
Political parties exist to create a kind of blindness, a loyalty over sense kind of blindness. It seems to me it's gotten much worse in the last 2 decades but perhaps I've just better at seeing it as I've aged and learned. Separate the party from the person. It can be painful to watch people you care about, who you know have the "smarts" to do better, parrot things we know to be false because that is the belief they've chosen, because that is the belief the high priest of The Party has dictated to them. For me it helps to remember the "who I care about" ahead of the rest. And then I smile and change the subject ;-).
Thank you for the reminder, what you say is true, and I love them all more than words can say. But in my case there is stuff beyond politics; there is generational gaslighting, ancient role-playing and family baggage. But the current situation has brought matters into sharper focus, and also I somehow seem to have grown a spine sometime over the past 20 years, which my bossypants older sisters were not prepared to deal with. I've rocked our dysfunctional boat and it's created chaos and uproar. I hope in time we will achieve a new level of understanding, trust and respect, but for now what I most needed was to step back and let be, and wait upon the Lord and the Tao. And, like Jo, hope that we will all live to be reconciled.
In my case we worked hard to raise our child to be open minded, and most importantly, tolerant of other's with differing views. My son has a critical mind and thinks independently, rejecting party conformance. He also avoids certain topics around other family members who have let party loyalty overshadow their moral code (and tolerance is key to our moral code).
While me and my son are together, working on cars, frightening paper targets, or whatever, we can talk openly and freely. We need not agree (and often do not) but we converse and enjoy each other's views. But we understand that some people can not handle such open dialogue and have lost the ability to enjoy a challenge. Instead of being angry, we feel sympathy and compassion for their loss.
Aw thanks. I guess I've always been the black sheep, though I was at one time very liberal, like the others. Our family was true blue. Hell, my grandfather's cousin, Alben W. Barkley, was VP under Truman and led the first Democratic National Convention. Amy Goodman played an archival tape of his speech - you don't get more Yellow Dog Democrat than that (though he'd be rolling in his grave now, for sure). But I lived alone in the woods for 20 years, off grid, dirt road, no TV, no internet to speak of, living pretty close to the earth. I read and read - I've been a reader since I was four years old. I learned to think and act for myself. And what I'd always accepted started looking more and more crazy. More and more I began to challenge my old beliefs, and it helped that all my life I had always believed that it was okay to change my stance about things, and say "I was wrong about that". Thirteen years ago I started dating a man who was very eccentric and very independent in his ideas (like me, I guess, and yes we are still together). He never tried to change my thinking, but invited me to start questioning the whole "Global Warming" narrative (this is after I had worked for an environmental publisher, mind you). Once I was willing to set aside my liberal bias and really look with new eyes, I soon saw what an epic lie it all was. It had a domino effect, one cherished fiction after another began to fall, I swallowed the red pill, stepped through the looking-glass, and here I am. Pretty much lost my family, but I can never go back.
It sounds like your time off the grid and close to nature helped you see the world more clearly. Plus your smart man who respected you enough to let you come to your own conclusions. Plus your innate smarts!
I’m not sure I have an answer to that given I’ve never been politically driven one way or the other. I was raised, as an oldest of three girls, to set an example, but also put down when I tried to exert my rights (eg., sister runs by me, kicks me in the kidneys, got up to go after her, told to sit down, and when protesting ‘you always told me to fight my own fights,’ apparently that was the wrong answer). Highly dysfunctional my family was. What shocks me though is my father’s attitude now, given that I was also raised to think independently and to question everything (note: he is the partner of a now retired pharmacist, and they think that technology will save all, with which I strongly disagree, but I am a land dweller, as opposed to a city dweller). I’m not a conservative, nor am I liberal. I do not care about these nomenclatures. I am a free thinking human being and I do care about where we are headed (not a good place, in my mind). So, to this I say, no matter your race or creed, your politics or not, your gender (OMF, don’t get me started on that), your country, whatEVER…this is about HUMAN rights. Which, by the way, certainly does not mean obliterating the planet by way of PROFIT. We are currently all puppets in a grand puppet show. It is time to stop the madness.
please don't make the grievous error of placing causality of "Intelligence" with that of " Conservativism". i mean, many intelligent ppl voted for trump and Clinton and even biden, somehow. There are all kinds of levels of awareness, intelligence, in all all strata of society. , and as a side note, binary political thinking doesn't capture the richness of our social, political, philosophical, thoughts...in any one person.
I agree with most of this, Jon, and while my own views could be called liberal in the past, there were already areas in which I was conservative at that time. Just as some of my beliefs could be categorized as liberal now, for those people who like to pigeon-hole. And I have always been an unaffiliated, independent voter. Richness - well said.
Some of this is of course age old wisdom: politics and religion have always been wise to avoid in social contexts. My wife has had "the look" for all of our 35 years of marriage when I'm around certain family members and politics comes up...
You could get her a bobble-head Fauci for her dashboard. All over the internet. We love ours, only image of the despicable little garden gnome I can bear to look at, except, of course, for the dartboard. My game has really improved...
Wait - he has his OWN Fauci prayer candle?? His narcissism is so all-consuming he can't see the condemnation in that??? I know it's not his sense of irony, because he clearly doesn't possess one. He's just his own number one fan...Jesus wept...
Another way to look at it: this might be the first step in disillusion that spreads to skepticism which leads to awakening. Have you heard Fauci speak in public?
Realizing these "experts" can't construct coherent sentences might be enlightening....
That would be nice, but the ridicule for the KamelToe and The PedoPresident (both of whom cannot construct a reasonable sentence of once-syllable words) seems to be only voiced by Conservatives. Liberals seem to think there's "nothing wrong at all."
I think of the distinction not as "liberal" or "conservative" but only as "true believers" and those who are not.
Biden and Harris are a test of faith. You have to have absolute faith in the party to accept either as credible. Absolute, unwavering faith, unquestioning faith in a higher power that is The Party. See the irony?
When people refer to the absolute intolerance we're seeing as "liberal" that word has no meaning. When we talk about a judge ruling based on the law as anything "conservative" or "constructionist" or "originalist" or anything other than "what judges are supposed to do", the word "conservative" has no meaning. So I reject the use of these words in politics as it makes no sense.
Likewise "right" and "left" confuse me. I'm a simple axegrinder with my advanced degrees in easy subjects like physics and engineering, so I may be easily confused. But the very same faces (more wrinkled now) that were protesting government oppression and over reach in my youth are demanding government oppression and over reach. What was once left is now right and as far as I can see it's all wrong.
Similar experience with nephew at Colombia; Eric "Pardon's For Sale" Holder was the speaker. After I blurted that out, they decided we shouldn't attend:-) In case you're not old enough to remember my reference to "pardon's for sale;"
Holder made his bones with the Clinton Crime family a long time ago.
Just heard from a family member that Fauci is now NOT speaking at the Rutgers commencement (not sure any details) ... also heard that they are requiring vaccine cards for one of the smaller, breakout graduation ceremonies ... laughable!!!
I graduated from Michigan (MBA '79) and years ago, asked them to stop hitting me up for money after recognizing that they were becoming ever more left-activist. (Yes even more so than in the 60s...) Glad that I did, they are so far gone now that there's no hope. Perhaps not coincidentally, their ratings from what I can tell have gone down, down, down. B-school was tied for #3 rating in USA in '79, last I heard they barely make the top 20. Just desserts.
I remember the 60s (and early 70s which was actually what most people think of when they say "60s"). Much of what was "left wing" back then is largely "conservative" today (and banned from campus!). I mean, mostly we were protesting "the man" and authoritarian rule thereof. "The man" was big, centralized government.
A colleague of mine (very "left wing" loyal to The Party BTW) who is a very well respected leader in both academic and industry circles, with many significant accomplishments and contributions, and how is a frequently sought after speaker at such events, was told by a university he had been "dropped" from the speaking program. He asked why and was told "to meet our goals for inclusiveness". Probing further, he had been replaced on the program by a person with decades less experience, far less qualifications, very little life experience to share, but who was female and "of color" (he did not inquire what color but assumed "not white"). So to be "inclusive" we must exclude you because otherwise we'll exceed our quota for inclusion of old white guys. Which was sort of funny since my friend and colleague is not white. But he is old and male. Which apparently is now enough to be excluded in the banner of 'inclusiveness'....
MichiganA^2 EE and CS through terminal; law. Tail end 80's and after. All they want from me is money and DIE job placements. I eff my school over at every possible opportunity -- I hate alma mater.
I don't understand how nobody in our government has called out the obviously staged videos of people dropping dead in China. This isn't something that happens on accident. What was the goal? Get the US to shotgun itself in the face. Mission accomplished.
Our current government is obsessed with—and extremely hostile to—Russia and is basically friendly to China. It focuses its enmity on the small threat, while it brownnoses the big one.
Think for a sec. Remember how BIden left behind a couple billion dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, for the Taliban to share with China and Pakistan? I think that Biden, or more likely, whoever makes his decisions for him, wants us to use up as much military equipment in Ukraine in this war with Russia, so that we are left with as little as possible. Apparently we have been sending a lot of equipment to Ukraine. Some people think that part of the reason Biden is so focused on a war in which seemingly there is little reason for the US to be involved is that perhaps someone actually wants to deplete our military supplies - supposedly it will take some years for us to replenish the items we are using up / giving away in Ukraine. Since apparently there is a shortage of computer chips, could be a good long while before some things get replenished, and we will be lacking in how we are able to defend ourselves from a real threat.
And I think this may be a second level issue. If you could find the previous DOD medical data for post-vaxx morbidity, and see the number of service members who have quit rather than take the clot-shot, it would be interesting to determine if the US could field any combat capable formations.
I also fear that a "couple of billion dollars worth" is off by one or two orders of magnitude.
You think the military is depleted because of the clot shot mandates, try looking at the "merchants of death" (military contractors). Since the start of the mandates, my ex-company where I was tossed out for being a leper, now has 83 job openings for a company that only employs 300. They make radars. I bet they are just pumping out those radars with that staffing.
Serves them right. Hope they go out of business for good.
Well the chip issue is not straightforward in military equipment. True all the newer chips come from Asia, but a lot of the military equipment uses decades old chip technology and there has been a spare parts issue getting these chips for quite a while. Maybe we are getting rid of obsolete equipment that we can no longer maintain? (Although that sounds too logical but could be a side benefit of the protection racket.)
All that "obsolete equipment", paid for with money stolen from you, was gifted to your local police, so they can even more impressively pretend to Serve and Protect™.
Bush did the same thing with/in Iraq. Out with the old. Brand new military budget for squeezing more taxpayer $$$ out of the already starved public for some newer technologically advanced bullish::t that will become obsolete, as you say, once the microchips become no longe available. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Some say that they're doing it to get the "defence industries" flourish. Idk but, leaving behind so much of high grade, top quality equipment to the value of several bln $ does seem like "accidentally on purpose". And now depleting it even further... Isn't it after all, part of the strategy to keep the war machine going? Together with preserving the idea of ever present enemy, to keep the "war industry" in good business.
You just have to look at how that withdrawal was executed - midnight desertion of Bagram - to know that the Manchurian was paying his dues. Whether it was China or Raytheon doesn't matter. Enemies and cronies alike benefitted.
I don't disagree that the administration will continue to soak the taxpayers to fund the MIC - it's become a tradition. And that we left tons of equipment behind in Afghanistan, and that we are pumping it into Ukraine now.
But I don't think it's accurate to think it is such "high grade top quality equipment". So much of what is fielded is OLD tech though still used. It takes years just to design, develop, test, manufacture, and field a new component in an old airframe or vehicle. We don't see much of the new high-tech equipment and most of that would be classified/export controlled.
I'm certainly not an expert o the military, so it's just my opinion, but I had read a report in which someone was analyzing what was going on with the military equipment to the Ukraine who reported it was excellent equipment that would take us years to replace. Since all the mdia lies all the time, one never knows who to believe, but the thurst of the article was that we were getting rid of equipment we were likely to need for ourselves, getting rid of good stuff in Ukraine that would - reportedly - take years to replace. Since everything Biden does seems calculated (by someone - I know his brain is no longer functioning, but calculated by someone) to destroy our country, the report made sense to me. The report I read was pointing out in so many ways, China is the much bigger threat to us, but if we give everything away in Ukraine.... I don't know. I guess we'll find out some time.
Forbes lists detailed equipment lists. They are generally priced at replacement costs - for equipment that is mostly decades old and was sent there over time since 2003. The largest number of ground vehicles left behind is 42,604 light tactical vehicles - Ford Ranger pick-ups and cargo trucks. Next are HMMWVs (post Vietnam), 5 ton cargo trucks, 928 MWRAPS (ambulance, mine-protected HMMWV), then a few dozen large and small aircraft of old but still fielded vintage, and some drones. The helicopters are Mi-17, a Russian helicopter, and MD-530 - a McDonell-Douglas helicopter. McDonell-Douglass was bought by Boeing in 1997 and a few Blackhawks of unknown generation, several 2-seater Embraier "light attack aircraft". The list goes on. It was sent there over the last 20 years and very little is recent technology, with the exception of drones and updated instruments or radios in older equipment, and cell phone detectors. I AGREE it was a criminal US exit, but a lot of that equipment would be more expensive to ship home and refurbish than to leave there. Besides, who will maintain it and keep it operational? Satellites will see it there rusting for a long long time.
The real crime is the Americans and support personnel we left behind. Why do the articles focus on the equipment? Justifying an ever-bigger defense budget?
'BREAKING: Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike turns down a meeting with Biden. Asked why, they said “If I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would’ve came in second!'
There's a rumor going around that Rich Strike (80:1 longshot) was the only unvaccinated horse in the field. Lol. I have no idea if it's true, but it's one of those rumors that's too good to check. Don't want to ruin it by finding out it's likely made up.
I was terrified!! I was STILL frightened a year later and very on the fence about getting vaxxed. Thank God I never went over that fence!! But I confess I was that close. Fortunately the only thing I was more afraid of than covid was Pharma.
I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but if not, seriously what was there to be terrified about? It's a cold virus. Sure made by the chi-coms in a lab and God knows what they did to it. But just looking at the Diamond Princess data, this was absolutely nothing to be terrified about. People should be more terrified about driving on the street every day, which has much higher mortality odds.
It was okay to be nervous, the problem is that we knew there was no way to not eventually be exposed (even if masks and lockdowns did slow the spread) so what was the point of all the idiotic bullshit?
Making everyone stay home and be afraid of catching disease caused the US to change voting regulations so that there was a huge amount voting by drop box rather than in person. There is a new documentary about the drop box voting with new information that many people have not yet seen. If you watch the movie 2000 mules, I think it is very possible that you will know exactly why we had all the masks and lockdowns - agree with RD below that it was to get Trump out of office, but not simply by getting people not to like Trump, but by creating a system that was much more user-friendly for the party that especially wanted Trump out of office. You can buy the DVD of 2000 mules here https://2000mules.com/ but you really have to see it to fully appreciate how the drop-box ballots really worked out, then you can see why the lockdowns were necessary - the movie does not explicitly connect those dots all the way back to lockdowns, but IF there had been no Covid, we would not have had lockdowns - IF no lockdowns, you know we would not have had drop-box voting. And one party had a really great system to make that drop-box voting work really well for them. See the documentary, and you will understand.
Sure, the political criminals used the virus as a way to rig the election and that was pretty obvious (even before 2000 Mules) but that doesn't hold for numbnut doctors who should have known better.
Doctors who knew better or did better, lost their jobs, and/or hospital formulary committees refused to let them prescribe things that worked. There was some massive funding scheme whereby hospitals got paid a gazillion dollars per patient if everyone in the hospital all got the same protocol, mainly remdesivir and nothing else. Dr. Marik in Virginia resigned from the hospital where he was doing critical care after he was forbidden to give Covid patients Vitamin C, Vitamin D, or other meds that had been working. Most patients going into ICU had already been given regular hospital treatment without success till they crashed, and then when remdesivir didn't work, Dr. Marik was following his own protocol which included Ivermectin, Vitamin C, Vitamin D - and he was saving lives until the hospital forumulary committee said the only thing he could give was remdesivir, and he was absolutely forbidden from even using vitamins. So he did file a court case, but it looked like the judge was siding with the hospital; the hospital had lied in court about something; he ended up resigning from that hospital. But this stuff has happened at many hospitals to many good doctors. The federation of state medical boards agreed a while ago that any MD that does not go with the government Covid narrative should lose his or her license. If we don't have a license, we can't treat any patients. Many doctors have used protocols in which Dr. Marik was a major contributor as well as many of his colleagues in the FLCCC (FLCCC.net) and those who use these protocols instead of "stay home till you turn blue and then we put you on a vent" protoco, do so quietly rather than advertising on you tube because, again, if we lose our license, we can't help anyone. Yes, some in health care have been idiots in just believing unquestioningly what they were told, some have been greedy and were paid well by pharma for their role in this - but many have worked hard and have saved lives. I have posted accurate health information on Facebook numerous times, but Facebook has always taken it down and said it was "false information." Their fact checkers are journalists, and they know more medicine than someone who actually went to madical school and had add research training after residency? But anything I posted about Covid was taken down. Telling people to take Vitamin D, like Dr. Fauci himself does, is false information because the CDC says that the evidence for Vitamin D is inconclusive - CDC did not review all the literature, they cherry pick studies and then conclude what they want. This has been a very tough time to be an MD. If you have a brain and use it, you risk losing your license. I read about one doctor who treated 150 cases of Covid in a jail or prison, no one died, everyone recovered nicely, and he was being investigated because he had used Ivermectin. Horrors!
Interesting data point: my GP was pushing the jab all fall and winter. I refused it politely. Then this spring I had an appointment and he said at the conclusion: "There are no recommended vaccinations for you at this time." Hmmm....awakened?
You didn't ask? Sheesh, that would have been a great time for you to have pinned him to the wall! (Note that I have never and will never say "I would have...." whatever. ) Probably I am meeker than most in personal discussions, so no shade to you for not engaging further, but that for sure could have been fun!
PS about election, sure, many people knew right away what happened, but with 2000 mules they have tons of video evidence and tons of cell phone data, and it's hard evidence one could go to court on, or so it would seem, and it might be convincing to get more of the public to see what happened and how it happened. I think the movie is valuable, but sure, many of us could see - but having really solid evidence as in 2000 mules is quite worthwhile, I think. But it was not all the local family docs who made policy - it was so-called scientists who were politician than scientist, at the CDC and NIH and FDA making all the decisions, state government and Secretaries of State at the state level who controlled elections (who had been funded by Soros) who created the situation that gave us the drop-box elections. It was not any local family doc who said "This is so dangerous all my patients must vote by mail," it was Democrat state governors and Democrat state legislators who wanted vote by mail or vote by drop-box. At the level of the individual patient, some doctors simply believed that the CDC and NIH would tell the truth and never imagined that the CDC, NIH and FDA were all run by politicians masquerading as scientists. Some doctors believed that their corporation knew what it was doing when they said "don't treat outpatients" or to do one thing and not another - and some physicians used their brains to give good treatment - and in many case, got a lot of grief because of it.
“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”-Friedrich Hayek
It’s very clear that this is what is going on. Those who wish to accumulate more power manufacture “emergencies” to convince people to surrender their liberties and vest all power in these purported experts.
The "emergency" was not just a health emergency, and the liberties lost included free and fair elections. Covid precautions was the reason we had drop-box voting intead of live in person voting, and drop-box voting helped all those who wanted to get rid of Trump. View the DVD "2000 mules" to see how drop-box voting worked in the 2020 election to turn the vote against Trump. You have to see it to understand - DVD at https://2000mules.com
I never though ANYONE's response could be dumber than ours (US), Canada's, Australia's, or NZ's. But spraying disinfectant randomly into open air? Is it possible that anyone is truly that dumb?
I remember a video of a woman on line at a store, armed with a can of spray disinfectant. Each time the line moved forward she would spray the newly vacated area and then pull her cart--with her toddler in it--forward into the space. My partner saw, IRL, a couple in masks and gloves completely spray down a grocery cart with spray disinfectant before going into the grocery store. Wheels and all. What a circus this has been.
It's what he's paid to do. And he doesn't have a choice - he is a peon, as are the next few levels of bureaucracy above him. And/or it is a little theater for our consumption.
I was reading Scott Atlas' memoir about what went on in the white house. Trump promised them powers to help determine Covid policy. Instead, Brix and Fauci took control with the lockdowns, masks which pretty much destroyed the economy. I think that there were oligarchs that liked to bankrupt small businesses and buy them up, consolidating power and money with the elite. Trump never returned power to Atlas or Paul Alexander or backed them up because his advisors told him he would lose the election if he tried to oppose Fauci. Makes me sick. Except that I'm unvaccinated and following FLCCC's protection protocols. I haven't gotten sick. (I'm 79 years old and calmly relying on prevention (D3, etc.) and early medical treatment. What's all the fuss?
Diana, I wholeheartedly agree. I wrote something similar on Alex Berenson's Substack months ago and the Always Trumpers vehemently disagreed. I agree with pandelis and Napoleon below - beyond with them both.
Could you say more? I don't think Trump consciously aligned himself with big Pharma. He is vulnerable to getting manipulated by anyone who offers him money or promises him the election, etc. He falls easily for such threats or promises and doesn't pay attention and follow through. He basically has a lot of good ideas--a lot. He contradicts himself. So if he says vaccines are safe--he might also say we have to wait to see the adverse reactions. He is like Fauci. Contradicts himself. It's not so much contradicting--it's confusing. It's as if he wants to promise everything to everyone so that he attracts more supporters because he is a narcissist and basks in the adulation of his followers. Fauci flip flops. Trump promises all things to all people. And doesn't follow through. So when Pandelis writes "Trump is not done with us," I don't see Trump having an agenda, like Fauci who profits from big pharma drugs. I just think Trump wants to be reelected because it helps him get more money, privilege, and evade punishment for grifting, etc.
You provide an interesting perspective on his character. And your last sentence makes sense to me as to his current motivations. What is concerning me is his endorsements. The primary results in Ohio and Indiana have made him a kingmaker according to some news reports. My opinion is that his endorsements are all based on (and I quote you) "the adulation" those endorsed provide him. To complicate this, I wholeheartedly agree with some of the endorsements (J D Vance) and wildly disagree with others (Dr. Oz). Repubs lose control of the Senate mainly because of Trumps behavior and statements before the Georgia run off in January. Will history repeat, crushing the expected Red Wave?
fate? biden? you still believe he knows what's going on?
if this so-call vaxx is a deployed bioweapon, doubt any nukes can come even close. she is a good MIT researcher, and pretty much lots of people are saying same things.
I agree, masks and lockdowns set the stage for drop-box voting instead of voting in person. Drop-box voting was needed in order to get Trump out of the way. WIthout all the "mail in" and drop-box voting, Trump probably would have won by a landslide - the drop-box set up made it possible for massive fraud that got Trump out of office. If you have not yet seen the documentary 2000 mules (order at https://2000mules.com/ ) - there is video footage of many people visiting multiple drop-boxes in the middle of the night with multiple ballots for each box, plus cell phone GEO-data showing how one "mule" (with out of state license plates) might visit 20 or more different drop-boxes to drop off ballots that came from non-profit organizations.
Still think Trump was in the way. He hadn’t been read into the plan. Not a politician. He was played by Warp Speed, he still has to answer for that. US was moving away from globalization before Covid. A self sufficient, independent US likely destroys globalization plans. Not saying plandemic wasn’t in the plan, but timing changed because of Trump.
trump was picked since he was a young man, for his acting role today. there are videos of him in 1980s asking if he wanted to be president. basically a golden boy, bailed out by wilbur ross etc. etc.
to understand trump look at roy cohn and understand who he was. he picked both trump and that other chump working for trump campaign etc. etc.
My sister is. She visited mom for Mother's Day today- and is still masking to "keep mom safe"- such theater that she can't let go of! (Gives her life meaning I guess...)
I really don't think it's real, but just some photo op reel.
Stay in fear, or maybe they're trying to make Covidian logic look crazy, have issues spring up.. Like food delivery.
Cmon, China has a huge army and incredible internal distribution system and stockpiles of food, but they're messing up in shanghai?
If they wanted to promote lockdowns they would have leaked out videos of good things like deliveries getting done, somehow we don't see those... Despite the great wall of the Internet, only the bad stories leaked out lol.
A terrible time to copy the CCP instead of the other way around. Meanwhile NPCs at Michigan cheered on Dr. Fauci as he received an honorary degree for ruining their lives with "science".
Funny (not funny:-) anecdote from my life ... niece is graduating Rutgers and she thinks it is "pretty cool" that Fraudci is the speaker at grad ceremony ... upon hearing this, I threw up in my mouth a little bit and bit my tongue ... makes me sick/angry to imagine everyone there will be applauding the little evil man :-(
Give her a copy of RFK Jr.'s book and ask her to have him sign it.
and have someone film his facial expressions when the book is handed to him
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Won't let me like. Really like!
Internet winner today. Epic.
Isn't it horrible the amount of self-censorship we have to engage in just to maintain a relationship with our family? There are certain topics I simply will not discuss with my own kids (and they honor that, at least, thank goodness). Because my relationship with them is always more important than anything else, but damn. I want them and their kids to be safe and healthy too. And I'm scared to death they will (or they already have) fallen prey to the Narrative.
I let my family go, for now. All of them. I had to. Between the gaslighting, the over-the-top TDS (truly hateful sh*t, long, long after he was out of office), the adoration of that idiot Colbert, Trevor Noah and, so help me, Randy Rainbow, and the daily badgering to get my foolish, crazy, misinformed and unbelievably selfish butt vaccinated, I had no choice. I think of them every day, but I had to walk away. Thankfully, I have no children - that would be the worst. I'm talking about sisters. I am the youngest, and the lone conservative, so I don't get no respect. It's very sad, but I have found peace now. Is anyone else out there going through this?
Yep. I don’t live near them though. I think the last straw was when I asked my younger sister if she would have even allowed me in the house this past Christmas (in BC where Bonnie Henry, our ‘top Dr’ issued an edict telling people not to associate with the unclean over the holidays). Due to all the road washouts, driving from the Interior (no vax, no fly in Canada) was not an option, however. She wouldn’t answer my question and instead set my dad (recently had 4th shot) upon me to re-educate me. I chose not to respond.
My siblings have had their teenagers vaxxed…breaks my heart.
heartbreaking
My nephew was first in line to vax his 6 year old. And proud of it. Idiots.
how can otherwise intelligent people be so damn ignorant?
That hurts just to read, Jo. I'm sorry.
I don't think there's any one of us who haven't had to break ties with some family and/or friends over this. I have had to choose some new family members. You are not alone. Some people just can't stand others who stand for something. People who stood on principle used to be respected, now they are considered outcasts. Amazing! I've never been a herd member and never will be. Herds go over cliffs. Together. We feel your pain and disappointment. Stay strong.
Thank you, Rob. The support I'm finding here is so helpful; bringing balm to my aching heart.
Fellow younger brother. I have done likewise with my eldest sister (she was a shit aunty anyway) .
My highlight was when she demanded a driveway socially distanced present swapping at Christmas and I walked behind her and fake-spat in her hair.
I have told her I will talk to her once she shows genuine contrition for supporting a post office worker that chased me out the shop for being maskless and beat my car (could have been me if not fleet of foot) and supporting vaccine apartheid on me and my unjabbed children (22,19,7)
This whole mess is nothing less than insane, and has most certainly highlighted those in need of some kind of therapy. Unfortunately, however, I think the lunatics are currently in charge of the asylum. Maybe we need dose them all with…? Mmmm…I could think of a few interesting things..ha! 😆
Most would suffer a bad trip, I'm afraid.
This would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. I wish that amongst the Babylon Bee's Christmas stuff they'd offered a catapult for delivering your gifts during the holiday season - after they were disinfected, of course.
OMG I can let anyone go except my kids. And of course THEY are the ones I am talking about. The rest? They can take care of themselves. You are fortunate in that regard.
Fortunately we respect each other enough to simply not 'engage" in the Covid discussion.
You are indeed fortunate, if your family respects you. Yes, I'd be heartsick if I had kids that subscribed to any of this mishegoss. I do have some goodhearted but naive young friends who live up in Portland, and a sweet but misguided niece in NYC (she stopped talking to me when I embarrassed her by questioning her FB cryfest over George Floyd). I don't ask about their activities. If they are part of Antifa I don't want to know about it. I pray for them.
I tried to save my sisters (all in Puerto Rico) and their adult kids by sharing all I had re: potential adverse events, the VAERS data on deaths and AEs, etc. Two of them were coerced to take the jabs or would lose their jobs. The oldest took the jabs and kept it from me for a long time. My 24 y.o. niece (mother of 2 little kiddos) also got jabbed voluntarily (she lives in FL but follow the Puerto Rican doctors and celebrities - all praising the clot shots. I'm heartbroken that I may lose one of them in the next 10 years. The oldest is dealing with uncontrollable blood glucose levels (post-mRNA jabs) despite diet and her pills. I don't have the heart to tell her about the possible link between jabs and spike in diabetes.
Currently not talking/shunned by 3 siblings and their adult kids, and my husbands sister and her family. They're all far too educated to put up with us questioning mask or vaxx efficacy... so we haven't seen them in 2 years. Much less stress, but i miss family parties, we used to have so much fun.
Just all soooo much BS. Divide and conquer BS. Time to find our new families, and create new communities.
True. Coasting, for now is OK. Much less drama.
Sad. Perhaps the real purpose of mask mandates - to separate the true believers from the presence of doubt.
I know the feeling, it sucks when it's everyone else against you.
Exactly the same situation. Talking to my sisters at the beginning of the plandemic had smoke coming out of my ears - their uncritical acceptance of everything the “experts” fed them was more than I could take. Of course I was the one with the tinfoil hat and the condescension from my sisters (who are older, and much wiser in their estimation) was infuriating. I had to stop talking to them for about a year. We communicate after a fashion now, but only about things that don’t matter. I will never understand how they could be so stupid.
All my family (I don’t have children, thank goodness) is vaxxed, so I can’t help wondering how much longer they’ll survive. I’m hoping that some of them got placebos. And I wonder if they’ll ever see the truth.
talking "only about things that don't matter" ... this is what has the potential to drive me out of my mind, up a wall, around the bend and utterly crazy. and this is where I, too, am at with my older siblings (we should start a 'youngest and sanest' page). superficiality has become a strange manner amongst families thanks to the demons' influence. i remind myself to be prepared to forget all the low-density behavior they are engaging in during this covidiocracy because it is better for us all if i do. they won't but i will.
My old friendships with covidians have turned into the occasional text or email to say hello. Not much else. Perhaps a monthly brunch and "have a lovely weekend" type of convo. It's very hard for me to keep that up once we're done eating. So, 1x/month is all I can handle. Light convos are painful and take so much effort. UGH!
My God, you could be my twin soul, Jo.
I feel the same way.
Remember that they are your family and love them anyway :-). Family is one of the things that "really matters". Even the part that drives you nuts.
Political parties exist to create a kind of blindness, a loyalty over sense kind of blindness. It seems to me it's gotten much worse in the last 2 decades but perhaps I've just better at seeing it as I've aged and learned. Separate the party from the person. It can be painful to watch people you care about, who you know have the "smarts" to do better, parrot things we know to be false because that is the belief they've chosen, because that is the belief the high priest of The Party has dictated to them. For me it helps to remember the "who I care about" ahead of the rest. And then I smile and change the subject ;-).
Thank you for the reminder, what you say is true, and I love them all more than words can say. But in my case there is stuff beyond politics; there is generational gaslighting, ancient role-playing and family baggage. But the current situation has brought matters into sharper focus, and also I somehow seem to have grown a spine sometime over the past 20 years, which my bossypants older sisters were not prepared to deal with. I've rocked our dysfunctional boat and it's created chaos and uproar. I hope in time we will achieve a new level of understanding, trust and respect, but for now what I most needed was to step back and let be, and wait upon the Lord and the Tao. And, like Jo, hope that we will all live to be reconciled.
Sad. But I understand.
In my case we worked hard to raise our child to be open minded, and most importantly, tolerant of other's with differing views. My son has a critical mind and thinks independently, rejecting party conformance. He also avoids certain topics around other family members who have let party loyalty overshadow their moral code (and tolerance is key to our moral code).
While me and my son are together, working on cars, frightening paper targets, or whatever, we can talk openly and freely. We need not agree (and often do not) but we converse and enjoy each other's views. But we understand that some people can not handle such open dialogue and have lost the ability to enjoy a challenge. Instead of being angry, we feel sympathy and compassion for their loss.
Curious what made you the lone conservative, besides inheriting all the smarts?
Aw thanks. I guess I've always been the black sheep, though I was at one time very liberal, like the others. Our family was true blue. Hell, my grandfather's cousin, Alben W. Barkley, was VP under Truman and led the first Democratic National Convention. Amy Goodman played an archival tape of his speech - you don't get more Yellow Dog Democrat than that (though he'd be rolling in his grave now, for sure). But I lived alone in the woods for 20 years, off grid, dirt road, no TV, no internet to speak of, living pretty close to the earth. I read and read - I've been a reader since I was four years old. I learned to think and act for myself. And what I'd always accepted started looking more and more crazy. More and more I began to challenge my old beliefs, and it helped that all my life I had always believed that it was okay to change my stance about things, and say "I was wrong about that". Thirteen years ago I started dating a man who was very eccentric and very independent in his ideas (like me, I guess, and yes we are still together). He never tried to change my thinking, but invited me to start questioning the whole "Global Warming" narrative (this is after I had worked for an environmental publisher, mind you). Once I was willing to set aside my liberal bias and really look with new eyes, I soon saw what an epic lie it all was. It had a domino effect, one cherished fiction after another began to fall, I swallowed the red pill, stepped through the looking-glass, and here I am. Pretty much lost my family, but I can never go back.
It sounds like your time off the grid and close to nature helped you see the world more clearly. Plus your smart man who respected you enough to let you come to your own conclusions. Plus your innate smarts!
I’m not sure I have an answer to that given I’ve never been politically driven one way or the other. I was raised, as an oldest of three girls, to set an example, but also put down when I tried to exert my rights (eg., sister runs by me, kicks me in the kidneys, got up to go after her, told to sit down, and when protesting ‘you always told me to fight my own fights,’ apparently that was the wrong answer). Highly dysfunctional my family was. What shocks me though is my father’s attitude now, given that I was also raised to think independently and to question everything (note: he is the partner of a now retired pharmacist, and they think that technology will save all, with which I strongly disagree, but I am a land dweller, as opposed to a city dweller). I’m not a conservative, nor am I liberal. I do not care about these nomenclatures. I am a free thinking human being and I do care about where we are headed (not a good place, in my mind). So, to this I say, no matter your race or creed, your politics or not, your gender (OMF, don’t get me started on that), your country, whatEVER…this is about HUMAN rights. Which, by the way, certainly does not mean obliterating the planet by way of PROFIT. We are currently all puppets in a grand puppet show. It is time to stop the madness.
please don't make the grievous error of placing causality of "Intelligence" with that of " Conservativism". i mean, many intelligent ppl voted for trump and Clinton and even biden, somehow. There are all kinds of levels of awareness, intelligence, in all all strata of society. , and as a side note, binary political thinking doesn't capture the richness of our social, political, philosophical, thoughts...in any one person.
I agree with most of this, Jon, and while my own views could be called liberal in the past, there were already areas in which I was conservative at that time. Just as some of my beliefs could be categorized as liberal now, for those people who like to pigeon-hole. And I have always been an unaffiliated, independent voter. Richness - well said.
Some of this is of course age old wisdom: politics and religion have always been wise to avoid in social contexts. My wife has had "the look" for all of our 35 years of marriage when I'm around certain family members and politics comes up...
You could get her a bobble-head Fauci for her dashboard. All over the internet. We love ours, only image of the despicable little garden gnome I can bear to look at, except, of course, for the dartboard. My game has really improved...
Great idea! Probably much more coherent than the real thing ;-)
Maybe get her a Fauci prayer candle for grad.
OMG!! Had not seen them. Perfect gift for the crazed sister-in-law. "Oh I just LOVE him!".
Comrade Fauci actually has one behind his desk in multiple interviews.
The narcissism of our mandarins truly knows no bounds.
Wait - he has his OWN Fauci prayer candle?? His narcissism is so all-consuming he can't see the condemnation in that??? I know it's not his sense of irony, because he clearly doesn't possess one. He's just his own number one fan...Jesus wept...
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/05/anthony-fauci-memorabilia-tucker-carlson-tonight/
I'd wager he only lights it up down in the basement right before he cuts the chicken.
Another way to look at it: this might be the first step in disillusion that spreads to skepticism which leads to awakening. Have you heard Fauci speak in public?
Realizing these "experts" can't construct coherent sentences might be enlightening....
That would be nice, but the ridicule for the KamelToe and The PedoPresident (both of whom cannot construct a reasonable sentence of once-syllable words) seems to be only voiced by Conservatives. Liberals seem to think there's "nothing wrong at all."
Well it is being rather hopeful and optimistic.
But talking about the BiHarris Fiasco....
I think of the distinction not as "liberal" or "conservative" but only as "true believers" and those who are not.
Biden and Harris are a test of faith. You have to have absolute faith in the party to accept either as credible. Absolute, unwavering faith, unquestioning faith in a higher power that is The Party. See the irony?
When people refer to the absolute intolerance we're seeing as "liberal" that word has no meaning. When we talk about a judge ruling based on the law as anything "conservative" or "constructionist" or "originalist" or anything other than "what judges are supposed to do", the word "conservative" has no meaning. So I reject the use of these words in politics as it makes no sense.
Likewise "right" and "left" confuse me. I'm a simple axegrinder with my advanced degrees in easy subjects like physics and engineering, so I may be easily confused. But the very same faces (more wrinkled now) that were protesting government oppression and over reach in my youth are demanding government oppression and over reach. What was once left is now right and as far as I can see it's all wrong.
FWIW I'm not cat, just a struggling human.
Similar experience with nephew at Colombia; Eric "Pardon's For Sale" Holder was the speaker. After I blurted that out, they decided we shouldn't attend:-) In case you're not old enough to remember my reference to "pardon's for sale;"
Holder made his bones with the Clinton Crime family a long time ago.
The Pardon, Marc Rich Pardon: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102403.html
Whoever wants to protest, e-mail me at forechckk32@ g mail
Just heard from a family member that Fauci is now NOT speaking at the Rutgers commencement (not sure any details) ... also heard that they are requiring vaccine cards for one of the smaller, breakout graduation ceremonies ... laughable!!!
was it a degree in flip flopping or straight up lying?
No - Pure and Applied Evil
Biggest Scam ever.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/the-corona-overreaction-has-been?s=w
He minored in "how to become perfectly possessed."
https://dwightlongenecker.com/hostage-to-the-devil/
Applied convolutional logic ;-)
Dog torture
I graduated from Michigan (MBA '79) and years ago, asked them to stop hitting me up for money after recognizing that they were becoming ever more left-activist. (Yes even more so than in the 60s...) Glad that I did, they are so far gone now that there's no hope. Perhaps not coincidentally, their ratings from what I can tell have gone down, down, down. B-school was tied for #3 rating in USA in '79, last I heard they barely make the top 20. Just desserts.
I remember the 60s (and early 70s which was actually what most people think of when they say "60s"). Much of what was "left wing" back then is largely "conservative" today (and banned from campus!). I mean, mostly we were protesting "the man" and authoritarian rule thereof. "The man" was big, centralized government.
A colleague of mine (very "left wing" loyal to The Party BTW) who is a very well respected leader in both academic and industry circles, with many significant accomplishments and contributions, and how is a frequently sought after speaker at such events, was told by a university he had been "dropped" from the speaking program. He asked why and was told "to meet our goals for inclusiveness". Probing further, he had been replaced on the program by a person with decades less experience, far less qualifications, very little life experience to share, but who was female and "of color" (he did not inquire what color but assumed "not white"). So to be "inclusive" we must exclude you because otherwise we'll exceed our quota for inclusion of old white guys. Which was sort of funny since my friend and colleague is not white. But he is old and male. Which apparently is now enough to be excluded in the banner of 'inclusiveness'....
I graduated from the University of AZ in 1980 & it is the same - not a dime to those woke assholes
MichiganA^2 EE and CS through terminal; law. Tail end 80's and after. All they want from me is money and DIE job placements. I eff my school over at every possible opportunity -- I hate alma mater.
That’s MR. Science, to you Yuri 😂
He belongs in prison away from society where he can’t harm another soul.
So many more than just him
Sad and appalling. 2022 alums failed independent though & criminal thinking - maybe thinking period.
Yuri you still on Twitter?
I don't understand how nobody in our government has called out the obviously staged videos of people dropping dead in China. This isn't something that happens on accident. What was the goal? Get the US to shotgun itself in the face. Mission accomplished.
Our current government is obsessed with—and extremely hostile to—Russia and is basically friendly to China. It focuses its enmity on the small threat, while it brownnoses the big one.
Think for a sec. Remember how BIden left behind a couple billion dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, for the Taliban to share with China and Pakistan? I think that Biden, or more likely, whoever makes his decisions for him, wants us to use up as much military equipment in Ukraine in this war with Russia, so that we are left with as little as possible. Apparently we have been sending a lot of equipment to Ukraine. Some people think that part of the reason Biden is so focused on a war in which seemingly there is little reason for the US to be involved is that perhaps someone actually wants to deplete our military supplies - supposedly it will take some years for us to replenish the items we are using up / giving away in Ukraine. Since apparently there is a shortage of computer chips, could be a good long while before some things get replenished, and we will be lacking in how we are able to defend ourselves from a real threat.
And I think this may be a second level issue. If you could find the previous DOD medical data for post-vaxx morbidity, and see the number of service members who have quit rather than take the clot-shot, it would be interesting to determine if the US could field any combat capable formations.
I also fear that a "couple of billion dollars worth" is off by one or two orders of magnitude.
You think the military is depleted because of the clot shot mandates, try looking at the "merchants of death" (military contractors). Since the start of the mandates, my ex-company where I was tossed out for being a leper, now has 83 job openings for a company that only employs 300. They make radars. I bet they are just pumping out those radars with that staffing.
Serves them right. Hope they go out of business for good.
Well the chip issue is not straightforward in military equipment. True all the newer chips come from Asia, but a lot of the military equipment uses decades old chip technology and there has been a spare parts issue getting these chips for quite a while. Maybe we are getting rid of obsolete equipment that we can no longer maintain? (Although that sounds too logical but could be a side benefit of the protection racket.)
All that "obsolete equipment", paid for with money stolen from you, was gifted to your local police, so they can even more impressively pretend to Serve and Protect™.
Bush did the same thing with/in Iraq. Out with the old. Brand new military budget for squeezing more taxpayer $$$ out of the already starved public for some newer technologically advanced bullish::t that will become obsolete, as you say, once the microchips become no longe available. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Some say that they're doing it to get the "defence industries" flourish. Idk but, leaving behind so much of high grade, top quality equipment to the value of several bln $ does seem like "accidentally on purpose". And now depleting it even further... Isn't it after all, part of the strategy to keep the war machine going? Together with preserving the idea of ever present enemy, to keep the "war industry" in good business.
You just have to look at how that withdrawal was executed - midnight desertion of Bagram - to know that the Manchurian was paying his dues. Whether it was China or Raytheon doesn't matter. Enemies and cronies alike benefitted.
I don't disagree that the administration will continue to soak the taxpayers to fund the MIC - it's become a tradition. And that we left tons of equipment behind in Afghanistan, and that we are pumping it into Ukraine now.
But I don't think it's accurate to think it is such "high grade top quality equipment". So much of what is fielded is OLD tech though still used. It takes years just to design, develop, test, manufacture, and field a new component in an old airframe or vehicle. We don't see much of the new high-tech equipment and most of that would be classified/export controlled.
I'm certainly not an expert o the military, so it's just my opinion, but I had read a report in which someone was analyzing what was going on with the military equipment to the Ukraine who reported it was excellent equipment that would take us years to replace. Since all the mdia lies all the time, one never knows who to believe, but the thurst of the article was that we were getting rid of equipment we were likely to need for ourselves, getting rid of good stuff in Ukraine that would - reportedly - take years to replace. Since everything Biden does seems calculated (by someone - I know his brain is no longer functioning, but calculated by someone) to destroy our country, the report made sense to me. The report I read was pointing out in so many ways, China is the much bigger threat to us, but if we give everything away in Ukraine.... I don't know. I guess we'll find out some time.
Forbes lists detailed equipment lists. They are generally priced at replacement costs - for equipment that is mostly decades old and was sent there over time since 2003. The largest number of ground vehicles left behind is 42,604 light tactical vehicles - Ford Ranger pick-ups and cargo trucks. Next are HMMWVs (post Vietnam), 5 ton cargo trucks, 928 MWRAPS (ambulance, mine-protected HMMWV), then a few dozen large and small aircraft of old but still fielded vintage, and some drones. The helicopters are Mi-17, a Russian helicopter, and MD-530 - a McDonell-Douglas helicopter. McDonell-Douglass was bought by Boeing in 1997 and a few Blackhawks of unknown generation, several 2-seater Embraier "light attack aircraft". The list goes on. It was sent there over the last 20 years and very little is recent technology, with the exception of drones and updated instruments or radios in older equipment, and cell phone detectors. I AGREE it was a criminal US exit, but a lot of that equipment would be more expensive to ship home and refurbish than to leave there. Besides, who will maintain it and keep it operational? Satellites will see it there rusting for a long long time.
The real crime is the Americans and support personnel we left behind. Why do the articles focus on the equipment? Justifying an ever-bigger defense budget?
China could bankrupt the USG and tank the USD in a heartbeat by dumping its treasuries.
It could also destroy Comrade Brandon's presidency in short order by revealing the true scale of he and Hunter's grift.
As long as these two things remain true, the USG won't do anything beyond a bit of lip-flapping when it comes to the CCP.
that would also seriously damage their domestic economy
Given what they are doing in Shanghai, economic damage would appear to be a secondary consideration.
After all, like here in the US, the people doing the damage are completely insulated from it.
Seems the mRNA jabs retroactively legitimated those videos.
Read the SPARS Pandemic Exercise document (Johns Hopkins).
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/completed-projects/spars-pandemic-scenario.html
Research the World Economic Forum.
https://www.academia.edu/35846430/The_Fourth_Industrial_Revolution_Klaus_Schwab
Research Transhumanism.
Ask yourself: Does the chinese state need all these human assets in the near future?
Do any of these transhumanists need the human assets in the near future?
What are the (tried and tested) causes for population reduction?
Draw your own conclusions.
Here's two fun videos to hammer my point home: Yes, they are serious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNyhLNWPm4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hbkh4hXEk
O/T but this guy wins the internet today:
'BREAKING: Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike turns down a meeting with Biden. Asked why, they said “If I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would’ve came in second!'
https://twitter.com/MajorMarc5/status/1523262259413524481
There's a rumor going around that Rich Strike (80:1 longshot) was the only unvaccinated horse in the field. Lol. I have no idea if it's true, but it's one of those rumors that's too good to check. Don't want to ruin it by finding out it's likely made up.
Glorious!
Love it!
It would be an insult to clowns to call these damaged people clowns.
perhaps "payasos del culo?"
We say; those that suffer from “cranial rect-a-myosis”. In other words; “head frequently occupying space where the sun don’t shine.”
I believe the clinical term is PCRIS, the acronym for progressive cranio-rectal inversion syndrome.
Now THAT is what I call a global pandemic.
Esperemos que se lastimen gravemente el trasero.
¿Fauci? ¡Puede apostar su gordo culo de payaso!
😂😂
I agree, and I loathe clowns.
Sorry… but why, on any topic other than industrial espionage and violating human rights, would anybody take guidance/ leadership from the Chinese??
Tom, Because “Presidentish” Bite-me, his family & powerful politicians on both sides of the aisle are in bed w/ them & making millions
SPOT ON, Cindy!
I’ll admit it, I was nervous till around the end of April 2020 then started to have questions
I was terrified!! I was STILL frightened a year later and very on the fence about getting vaxxed. Thank God I never went over that fence!! But I confess I was that close. Fortunately the only thing I was more afraid of than covid was Pharma.
Dude, get a grip.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/the-corona-overreaction-has-been?s=w
I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but if not, seriously what was there to be terrified about? It's a cold virus. Sure made by the chi-coms in a lab and God knows what they did to it. But just looking at the Diamond Princess data, this was absolutely nothing to be terrified about. People should be more terrified about driving on the street every day, which has much higher mortality odds.
It was okay to be nervous, the problem is that we knew there was no way to not eventually be exposed (even if masks and lockdowns did slow the spread) so what was the point of all the idiotic bullshit?
That’s an easy one - el diablo naranja - they were more than happy to let people drown in lung fluid to get him out of office
Please, masks did not slow anything.
Oh, I know. I was just saying that even if they did (and they don't) then there was no point.
Making everyone stay home and be afraid of catching disease caused the US to change voting regulations so that there was a huge amount voting by drop box rather than in person. There is a new documentary about the drop box voting with new information that many people have not yet seen. If you watch the movie 2000 mules, I think it is very possible that you will know exactly why we had all the masks and lockdowns - agree with RD below that it was to get Trump out of office, but not simply by getting people not to like Trump, but by creating a system that was much more user-friendly for the party that especially wanted Trump out of office. You can buy the DVD of 2000 mules here https://2000mules.com/ but you really have to see it to fully appreciate how the drop-box ballots really worked out, then you can see why the lockdowns were necessary - the movie does not explicitly connect those dots all the way back to lockdowns, but IF there had been no Covid, we would not have had lockdowns - IF no lockdowns, you know we would not have had drop-box voting. And one party had a really great system to make that drop-box voting work really well for them. See the documentary, and you will understand.
Sure, the political criminals used the virus as a way to rig the election and that was pretty obvious (even before 2000 Mules) but that doesn't hold for numbnut doctors who should have known better.
Doctors who knew better or did better, lost their jobs, and/or hospital formulary committees refused to let them prescribe things that worked. There was some massive funding scheme whereby hospitals got paid a gazillion dollars per patient if everyone in the hospital all got the same protocol, mainly remdesivir and nothing else. Dr. Marik in Virginia resigned from the hospital where he was doing critical care after he was forbidden to give Covid patients Vitamin C, Vitamin D, or other meds that had been working. Most patients going into ICU had already been given regular hospital treatment without success till they crashed, and then when remdesivir didn't work, Dr. Marik was following his own protocol which included Ivermectin, Vitamin C, Vitamin D - and he was saving lives until the hospital forumulary committee said the only thing he could give was remdesivir, and he was absolutely forbidden from even using vitamins. So he did file a court case, but it looked like the judge was siding with the hospital; the hospital had lied in court about something; he ended up resigning from that hospital. But this stuff has happened at many hospitals to many good doctors. The federation of state medical boards agreed a while ago that any MD that does not go with the government Covid narrative should lose his or her license. If we don't have a license, we can't treat any patients. Many doctors have used protocols in which Dr. Marik was a major contributor as well as many of his colleagues in the FLCCC (FLCCC.net) and those who use these protocols instead of "stay home till you turn blue and then we put you on a vent" protoco, do so quietly rather than advertising on you tube because, again, if we lose our license, we can't help anyone. Yes, some in health care have been idiots in just believing unquestioningly what they were told, some have been greedy and were paid well by pharma for their role in this - but many have worked hard and have saved lives. I have posted accurate health information on Facebook numerous times, but Facebook has always taken it down and said it was "false information." Their fact checkers are journalists, and they know more medicine than someone who actually went to madical school and had add research training after residency? But anything I posted about Covid was taken down. Telling people to take Vitamin D, like Dr. Fauci himself does, is false information because the CDC says that the evidence for Vitamin D is inconclusive - CDC did not review all the literature, they cherry pick studies and then conclude what they want. This has been a very tough time to be an MD. If you have a brain and use it, you risk losing your license. I read about one doctor who treated 150 cases of Covid in a jail or prison, no one died, everyone recovered nicely, and he was being investigated because he had used Ivermectin. Horrors!
Interesting data point: my GP was pushing the jab all fall and winter. I refused it politely. Then this spring I had an appointment and he said at the conclusion: "There are no recommended vaccinations for you at this time." Hmmm....awakened?
You didn't ask? Sheesh, that would have been a great time for you to have pinned him to the wall! (Note that I have never and will never say "I would have...." whatever. ) Probably I am meeker than most in personal discussions, so no shade to you for not engaging further, but that for sure could have been fun!
PS about election, sure, many people knew right away what happened, but with 2000 mules they have tons of video evidence and tons of cell phone data, and it's hard evidence one could go to court on, or so it would seem, and it might be convincing to get more of the public to see what happened and how it happened. I think the movie is valuable, but sure, many of us could see - but having really solid evidence as in 2000 mules is quite worthwhile, I think. But it was not all the local family docs who made policy - it was so-called scientists who were politician than scientist, at the CDC and NIH and FDA making all the decisions, state government and Secretaries of State at the state level who controlled elections (who had been funded by Soros) who created the situation that gave us the drop-box elections. It was not any local family doc who said "This is so dangerous all my patients must vote by mail," it was Democrat state governors and Democrat state legislators who wanted vote by mail or vote by drop-box. At the level of the individual patient, some doctors simply believed that the CDC and NIH would tell the truth and never imagined that the CDC, NIH and FDA were all run by politicians masquerading as scientists. Some doctors believed that their corporation knew what it was doing when they said "don't treat outpatients" or to do one thing and not another - and some physicians used their brains to give good treatment - and in many case, got a lot of grief because of it.
It was understandable in the beginning. Now, doctors and nurses that don’t speak out are complicit in crimes against humanity. There are NO EXCUSES!
It NEVER made any sense.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/the-corona-overreaction-has-been?s=w
I knew from Day 1.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/the-corona-overreaction-has-been?s=w
“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”-Friedrich Hayek
It’s very clear that this is what is going on. Those who wish to accumulate more power manufacture “emergencies” to convince people to surrender their liberties and vest all power in these purported experts.
The "emergency" was not just a health emergency, and the liberties lost included free and fair elections. Covid precautions was the reason we had drop-box voting intead of live in person voting, and drop-box voting helped all those who wanted to get rid of Trump. View the DVD "2000 mules" to see how drop-box voting worked in the 2020 election to turn the vote against Trump. You have to see it to understand - DVD at https://2000mules.com
I never though ANYONE's response could be dumber than ours (US), Canada's, Australia's, or NZ's. But spraying disinfectant randomly into open air? Is it possible that anyone is truly that dumb?
I remember a video of a woman on line at a store, armed with a can of spray disinfectant. Each time the line moved forward she would spray the newly vacated area and then pull her cart--with her toddler in it--forward into the space. My partner saw, IRL, a couple in masks and gloves completely spray down a grocery cart with spray disinfectant before going into the grocery store. Wheels and all. What a circus this has been.
Can you imagine what those dopes were all inhaling w/ their “disinfectants”?
But enough about my sister!
Ha ha - mine too. For the first year she had her groceries delivered and quarantined them in the garage for 3 days.
Wow.
It's what he's paid to do. And he doesn't have a choice - he is a peon, as are the next few levels of bureaucracy above him. And/or it is a little theater for our consumption.
The China Syndrome turned out to be a global intelligence core meltdown.
Operation Warp speed will be remembered as the Worst Presidential decision EVER !!!
I was reading Scott Atlas' memoir about what went on in the white house. Trump promised them powers to help determine Covid policy. Instead, Brix and Fauci took control with the lockdowns, masks which pretty much destroyed the economy. I think that there were oligarchs that liked to bankrupt small businesses and buy them up, consolidating power and money with the elite. Trump never returned power to Atlas or Paul Alexander or backed them up because his advisors told him he would lose the election if he tried to oppose Fauci. Makes me sick. Except that I'm unvaccinated and following FLCCC's protection protocols. I haven't gotten sick. (I'm 79 years old and calmly relying on prevention (D3, etc.) and early medical treatment. What's all the fuss?
the fuss is trump is not done with us. if he is still hanging around, and fraudci too (approaching 90s mind you) i suppose there is lots more to come.
Yeah, I wish they would both go and never return.
Diana, I wholeheartedly agree. I wrote something similar on Alex Berenson's Substack months ago and the Always Trumpers vehemently disagreed. I agree with pandelis and Napoleon below - beyond with them both.
Could you say more? I don't think Trump consciously aligned himself with big Pharma. He is vulnerable to getting manipulated by anyone who offers him money or promises him the election, etc. He falls easily for such threats or promises and doesn't pay attention and follow through. He basically has a lot of good ideas--a lot. He contradicts himself. So if he says vaccines are safe--he might also say we have to wait to see the adverse reactions. He is like Fauci. Contradicts himself. It's not so much contradicting--it's confusing. It's as if he wants to promise everything to everyone so that he attracts more supporters because he is a narcissist and basks in the adulation of his followers. Fauci flip flops. Trump promises all things to all people. And doesn't follow through. So when Pandelis writes "Trump is not done with us," I don't see Trump having an agenda, like Fauci who profits from big pharma drugs. I just think Trump wants to be reelected because it helps him get more money, privilege, and evade punishment for grifting, etc.
You provide an interesting perspective on his character. And your last sentence makes sense to me as to his current motivations. What is concerning me is his endorsements. The primary results in Ohio and Indiana have made him a kingmaker according to some news reports. My opinion is that his endorsements are all based on (and I quote you) "the adulation" those endorsed provide him. To complicate this, I wholeheartedly agree with some of the endorsements (J D Vance) and wildly disagree with others (Dr. Oz). Repubs lose control of the Senate mainly because of Trumps behavior and statements before the Georgia run off in January. Will history repeat, crushing the expected Red Wave?
Begone NOT beyond. My spell checker acting up again
Don't tempt fate. Neocons want "limited" nuke war against Russia.
Biden could make the last 2 years...the last 2 years.
fate? biden? you still believe he knows what's going on?
if this so-call vaxx is a deployed bioweapon, doubt any nukes can come even close. she is a good MIT researcher, and pretty much lots of people are saying same things.
https://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/rense/special/rense_050622_hr3.mp3
"doubt any nukes can come even close."
The US & Russia each have enough nukes to eradicate life on earth several times over.
"you still believe he knows what's going on?"
Of course he doesn't. You don't think that's part of the problem?
It was all about getting Trump out of the way. New world order takeover obviously can be done in 4 years
To be clear, Republicans were in on it.
I agree, masks and lockdowns set the stage for drop-box voting instead of voting in person. Drop-box voting was needed in order to get Trump out of the way. WIthout all the "mail in" and drop-box voting, Trump probably would have won by a landslide - the drop-box set up made it possible for massive fraud that got Trump out of office. If you have not yet seen the documentary 2000 mules (order at https://2000mules.com/ ) - there is video footage of many people visiting multiple drop-boxes in the middle of the night with multiple ballots for each box, plus cell phone GEO-data showing how one "mule" (with out of state license plates) might visit 20 or more different drop-boxes to drop off ballots that came from non-profit organizations.
Watch it here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/NDtBoPTjfw4X/
Thanks very much for this link. I will share with others. Thank you.
trumpy is a good actor.
Still think Trump was in the way. He hadn’t been read into the plan. Not a politician. He was played by Warp Speed, he still has to answer for that. US was moving away from globalization before Covid. A self sufficient, independent US likely destroys globalization plans. Not saying plandemic wasn’t in the plan, but timing changed because of Trump.
trump was picked since he was a young man, for his acting role today. there are videos of him in 1980s asking if he wanted to be president. basically a golden boy, bailed out by wilbur ross etc. etc.
to understand trump look at roy cohn and understand who he was. he picked both trump and that other chump working for trump campaign etc. etc.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship
My sister is. She visited mom for Mother's Day today- and is still masking to "keep mom safe"- such theater that she can't let go of! (Gives her life meaning I guess...)
Jesus H. Christ
Monty Python? Please make it so. 😵💫
Please don’t. Use any other epithet. Just asking for this respect and courtesy to those of us who call Jesus Lord.
Looks like propaganda to me.
I really don't think it's real, but just some photo op reel.
Stay in fear, or maybe they're trying to make Covidian logic look crazy, have issues spring up.. Like food delivery.
Cmon, China has a huge army and incredible internal distribution system and stockpiles of food, but they're messing up in shanghai?
If they wanted to promote lockdowns they would have leaked out videos of good things like deliveries getting done, somehow we don't see those... Despite the great wall of the Internet, only the bad stories leaked out lol.
The real problem is that this was the response that was funded with massive govt spending in US.
Is that Silicon Valley or China?
NYC. Broadway!