I've wondered why he has been silent on this. It is a far great threat to liberty than the absurd pronoun police. Truly the fight of the century.
He is recently recovered from a grave illness and still seems a bit frail to me. And this is one hell of a fight. Perhaps that is a factor.
Regardless, I hope you and the good doctor are able to elicit his support. His audience is gigantic and it could really make a difference and we need all the help we can get.
Someone said that although JP is against mandates, he also said exasperatedly, “Just get the damn jab!”
I was giving him a grace period because of recent experiences, too, but he’s been back in the swing for a while and should of all people know better. That said, he didn’t make the best decision about his own medication last year, but given the traumatic results, you’d think he’d be even more cautious.
Agreed! Humor is our secret weapon. They own the culture, education, media, and corporations, but we have humor, wisdom, truth, integrity, and resilience, which gives us the edge in my mind :-)
Interesting—Jon Stewart had been showing some signs of rationality and appeared to be distancing himself from the growing insanity. Sad to hear he succumbed.
Just ordered the Charles Mackay audiobook as it sounds right up my ally! Just finished Gustave Le Bon’s “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” and am working my way through “The Psychology of Revolution” now.
Dave Smith had a Part of the Problem podcast on him awhile ago, eviscerating him.
MacKay is fantastic. One of the few the cliche "it should be required reading" is actually apropos.
Have not read Le Bon yet, but it is in the pile.
I recently managed to finally secure, at some expense, a copy of Walter B. Pitkin's *A short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity". Simon and Schuster 1932. Rather gratifying that it was stolen from Michigan State University, which used stolen money to publish it.
A quick killer read is Etienne de La Boétie's, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, 1548
A money shot:
Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books. Roman tyrants invented a further refinement. They often provided the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else.
The most intelligent and understanding amongst them would not have quit his soup bowl to recover the liberty of the Republic of Plato. Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, ‘Long live the King!’ The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”
I've wondered why he has been silent on this. It is a far great threat to liberty than the absurd pronoun police. Truly the fight of the century.
He is recently recovered from a grave illness and still seems a bit frail to me. And this is one hell of a fight. Perhaps that is a factor.
Regardless, I hope you and the good doctor are able to elicit his support. His audience is gigantic and it could really make a difference and we need all the help we can get.
Cause for celebration:
https://globalnews.ca/news/8346947/quebec-drops-vaccine-mandate-among-health-care-workers/
If we can win in Quebec, we can win everywhere.
Let's go Brandon.
Someone said that although JP is against mandates, he also said exasperatedly, “Just get the damn jab!”
I was giving him a grace period because of recent experiences, too, but he’s been back in the swing for a while and should of all people know better. That said, he didn’t make the best decision about his own medication last year, but given the traumatic results, you’d think he’d be even more cautious.
Here is the thread where we discussed the possibility of Dr. Yeadon engaging in a discussion with JP: https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-drug-testing-on-mancubs/comments
That is exhilarating news about Quebec—thank you so much for sharing it! We just need to keep tipping dominos …
Lovely. Not sure how I missed this.
Good on you.
It just occurred to me that perhaps we could trigger the lunatic left even more by using "LGB" as an acronym.
I mean, given they've added like 27 letters it should be back up for grabs, right?
*lol* I did have to look twice when I saw that acronym used for the first time and thought it might cause some amusing confusion!
I remain convinced we will prevail if we do not lose our sense of humor and instead use it to maximum advantage.
The left has become truly ridiculous.
That is their weakness.
Agreed! Humor is our secret weapon. They own the culture, education, media, and corporations, but we have humor, wisdom, truth, integrity, and resilience, which gives us the edge in my mind :-)
And they are utterly humorless. None of their comedians are funny. At all.
They've resurrected Jon Stewart, who was great when he was on Bush II back in the day, but even he has now devolved into an establishment mouthpiece.
Pathetic.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
~ Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841
;-)
Interesting—Jon Stewart had been showing some signs of rationality and appeared to be distancing himself from the growing insanity. Sad to hear he succumbed.
Just ordered the Charles Mackay audiobook as it sounds right up my ally! Just finished Gustave Le Bon’s “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” and am working my way through “The Psychology of Revolution” now.
Dave Smith had a Part of the Problem podcast on him awhile ago, eviscerating him.
MacKay is fantastic. One of the few the cliche "it should be required reading" is actually apropos.
Have not read Le Bon yet, but it is in the pile.
I recently managed to finally secure, at some expense, a copy of Walter B. Pitkin's *A short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity". Simon and Schuster 1932. Rather gratifying that it was stolen from Michigan State University, which used stolen money to publish it.
It is over 500 pages and was printed in 1932.
The second edition would probably be 5000 pages.
Move Le Bon to the top of the pile pronto! “The Crowd” is a quick read, and every sentence is chillingly relevant.
“A Short History” looks like quite a find—especially considering how much it’s going for at Amazon! You’re right about the 2nd ed. 😆
Will do.
A quick killer read is Etienne de La Boétie's, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, 1548
A money shot:
Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books. Roman tyrants invented a further refinement. They often provided the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else.
The most intelligent and understanding amongst them would not have quit his soup bowl to recover the liberty of the Republic of Plato. Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, ‘Long live the King!’ The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”
100% agreed re: “The Politics of Obedience”—which is why I featured it prominently in “COVID IS OVER! … If You Want It” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/covid-is-over-if-you-want-it) 😁