Would add that the fight should include not just political but also "health care." If this wasn't a wakeup call that many (most?) providers dole out treatments that result in higher financial benefit for the beast, not better health outcomes for the patient, than we as a species are toast.
For all of you who still "trust" your doctor to make the right decision, remember how many of them refused to offer early treatment for a virus and were first in line for an experimental drug.
Just as politicians are willing to throw their constituents in the gulag, until the possibility their future may include a noose, the same weak human character flaws are found in medical professionals.
Yep. I'm sure I'm not the only conventional, middle of the road person who's ended up thinking, "Hey, maybe those hippies and alternative medicine folks had a point?"
Amen! Sounds exactly like my *former* PCP. 21 months in, refusal to treat but she was first in line to get the jabs and was still double masking afterward. Insane.
Yep. I rarely go to the Dr these days. Last time I did, he was still wearing a mask and made me wear one. That ended it for me.
That was just the last of a series of events that totally put me off doctors. I don’t think it’s just coincidence that I seem to have had such a long series of quacks and muppets.
The hospitals, especially the corporate ones, were put into a corner by government banning all of their normal business (preventative, elective) and then incentivizing finding COVID and treating it the wrong way. Schreibtischtater!
I worked for one of the largest hospital systems during SARS (managed UC). The people who occupy management positions have the same level of "competence" as exhibited by CDC and other bureaucrats.
They weren't put into a corner, they willing ran to the corner because they didn't know what to do and needed someone to "show leadership" (while also providing cover).
You know why flu vaccines are mandatory? It isn't because of effectiveness, it was because it was a financial losing proposition.
Big pharma made clinics order the vaccines in advance, once the order was in they could INCREASE but not DECREASE the order. Once the vials were received, there was no refunds if unused. Add to that, most office personnel did not get vaccinated as we all saw the patients return within 10 days, sick. Usage started dropping as patients saw the same pattern.
Enter the medical industrial complex's marketing departments who decided that by making the vaccine mandatory for staff, it will nudge up the compliance of the patients. Win-win as all vaccines bought will be injected (and paid for) and look at that, office visits post vaccination will increase due to illness.
Sorry, been in too many marketing meetings with head honchos to give them any cover.
And therein lies your answer. Those things, like term limits, are never going to happen while the people in those positions make the rules. The fox will never take himself out of the henhouse. Are the chickens organized well enough to take him down?
"MD"s should be ripping up their "licenses" and simply stop treating Federal Citizens. Important note: under Title 37 of the "US Code" (which is not "Law," but simply a "private employee code" for Federal Citizens), any "Licensed" medical practitioner ("M.D." or "Registered Nurse") is considered a "Uniformed Military Officer," and must follow orders (in the case of the past 22 months, the orders were to commit mass murder). There is -no- requirement to hold a "State of State" license to be a private physician or a private nurse.
The requirement comes because the Foreign Occupying Government (FOG) demands it in order to treat their property (U.S. Citizens in the British Territorial "U.S. Military" and citizens of the United States, functioning as Federal Civil Service workers and their dependents), or to treat within the Municipal United States ("the" United States as defined by Title 26, 7701 is -only- Washington DC, a foreign independent City State Nation) or Puerto Rico (which is one of the 6 insular "states" of the British Territorial "United States of America." Obama wasn't an idiot when he admitted to 57 "states," he just didn't specify which ones he meant.
Nobody and nothing can force average people to obtain permission to engage in an occupation of right within the 50 states.
The most important thing to do is to correct the presumption that you are a foreigner in your own country (are you an American or a foreigner, which is what a "U.S. Citizen/citizen of the United States" is)? You have been seized upon as a baby, kidnapped, and press-ganged. This fraud has gone on for 160 years. If you continue wandering around in a daze, there is no hope. "Voting" happens once- at the time you "register." After that, you have consented to whatever the "electors" decide is best. Stolen election? You consented to it by registering as a voter.
There's a solution, and it does not have to involve violence. But it does involve looking hard at how far you have been conned.
This will certainly motivate them to hang onto power until the bitter end. Like a dictator who clings onto the futile hope of surviving a revolution because he knows that surrendering would guarantee death.
Sorry, but this is a rare instance where I'm going to have to disagree with you. The click-feedback-loop was part of the problem, but it went beyond that. The censorship is evidence that powerful and wealthy people were actively trying to set up a narrative, one that would lead to the implementation of a social credit system and total control over the population. This was done by people convinced of their own ability to centrally plan and who believe that transhumanism really is the best future for our species.
Still, how do we roll this back? I think Jesse Kelly is right on this one. Balkanize. Retreat to a defensible position and fortify it. Run for office and get into a position of power in your community. Do not let communist and globalist schemes into your community. Have children and raise them to have your beliefs on freedom and personal responsibility. Be a gun owner. Get yourself into peak physical shape. Be more self-sufficient. It's not enough to be the change you want to see in the world. You're going to have to make the change, too.
this impulse has been there all along. they have been trying to do this since the 30's.
they are always there and always plotting this.
perhaps instead ask the interesting question of "why now?"
it happened because we got scared. society broke, we lost our nerve, we lost our immune system, and this ever present opportunistic infection jumped us.
this fascism dates back a century.
it's never going to go away, so we must become resistant to it.
We keep hearing about the imminent collapse of the financial systems. Is that real? Is it part of the psy-op? Are they tenderizing the meatple for the next big crisis now that the viral pandemic and the climate change hype appear to have failed to corral the masses?
We have all been subject to a 24-7-365 psychological operation for decades. The people who want to do this are the same people who control media. They've been distracting and confusing us...putting us on our back foot...for years. Cable, the internet, and social media have only thrown gas on a fire.
Speak truth. For example, Lia Thompson is a man who has no right to compete on a women's swimming team. Bruce Jenner did not magically become a woman by changing his name, taking hormones, and having plastic surgery. Drag Queen story hour is an abomination. Pedophilia is not just another way of being.
Fight back against the psy-op.
Stop caring what the media and lunatic left says about you.
They are doing this on purpose for a purpose...and it isn't because they want "marginalized" people to feel included.
I've been joking for years now that we are Rome and Rome is burning.
If we want to succeed, we must stop feeding the beast...even if they say mean things about us.
Because enough of the population has been infected via injection. What is not being said (and should be!) is that the injection is sexually transmitted.
Which means if you avoided the jab but your spouse got it...too bad. The intent was to sterilize in the first round, and then get incrementally more lethal with each subsequent round (since only the least intelligent would continue to seek injections, thus being a selection process to week out the low IQ sooner).
There is a huge need going forward for a simple test to test the genetic integrity of any prospective spouse- any exposure to the injection, either primary (injection) or secondary (STI) needs to be available to those who care about preserving their unaltered DNA. This is the world we live in now.
The "pandemic" is over because enough goals of the psychopaths that thought they were our "rulers" were met. Now things get bad.
Yeah, I agree, authoritarians have always been around. And the societal wide fear this time was worse than in previous scares, such as swine flu. This was likely enabled by how plugged in everyone is to social media. Alternative platforms (like this one) are certainly one solution, but perhaps another is habitual in-person gatherings where people can speak freely? I feel like this used to be church, the local bar, or other community gathering places. Maybe we should start a religion that worships freedom and demands in-person worship.
I love my country and want it to be around for my descendants. The actions by the US government made me start rereading the Federalist Papers. Our original limited Federal government is what I working toward.
I think I would rather shoot all the socialist's, communists and globalists and be done with it. I don't want my kids to have to fight again because we didn't finish it. Nothing short of executing all of them will never make them stop trying again and again and again. They all need to die, right along with their families and take their fortunes. You leave loose ends, their children, they will seek vengeance later on in life. If we end up in civil war or revolution my group is not taking prisoners or treating wounded except for a bullet to the brain. I'm not leaving some one to fight another day and kill me or my family later on.
That is suicide. If they are going to do litteral war crimes (and they are) on me and my family then killing in self defence is valid. I don't care if 90% of society says it's okay to do war crimes. I'm not going to do them and I'm not going to allow others to do it to me and mine.
While options exist I will move and do what I can to protect my family non-violently but I will not eschew violence when the other side is doing litteral war crimes.
The Irishman, Michael Collins, was a huge influence on a lot of resistance movements and leaders including Shamir & Mandela. His tactics work against a much larger opponent.
I can not tell you how many friends I lost when they were fine with, let's shut down for 2 weeks and I wasn't. I argued logic with them, but fear won the day. That's the problem with this entire thing, fear motivates like nothing else.
Fortunately for me, my entire family of 5 was on the same page (2 college kids and 1 high school plus hubby). We managed to convince extended family that we shouldn't do this and so we have been living for 2 years about as normally as possible within the confines of the current situation...
My kiddos tried to rally their peers, in my red state, to no avail. I found that so sad. I wonder if that generation NOW sees the problem with the taking of liberties without a fight, but I fear not. And THAT gives me great pause because these young people are tomorrow's leaders.
Sadly, they do not. Living in a deep blue state with the most consistently strict covid policies in the country we still managed to keep our high schooler on a logical footing with regards to lockdowns, etc, throughout the last half of his junior year and his entire senior year. One semester away at college and he is all of a sudden not bothered by the restrictions, tells us that his life "didn't really change that much from them" (this from an state champ athlete that was not allowed to compete for his final two years), and that "all that was asked was that we wear a mask to help a public health emergency." I nearly wept. And this from a young man majoring in a hard science. I can only remain consistent in my messaging and hope that his pre-frontal cortex develops quickly enough that begins to wake up before the brain rot completely consumes him.
The saddest part to me is the kids at the elite colleges who are tolerating restrictions that are even worse than what the general population has endured. Their lockdowns are so draconian that it seems that students are more prisoners than paying customers. These kids are still allowing these unbelievably arrogant institutions to dictate the fine details of their lives (shots, boosters, masks, distancing, constant testing, no dining in cafeterias, online classes, no social gatherings, and in some cases, rat out your neighbor, no leaving the county, no dining at restaurants - its absolutely insane). I've seen parents slobber all over themselves because they truly believe this is protecting their precious kid and they are just so happy that their kid got in that they would never question the policies or the damage it does to their kid. And since these are our elite institutions, our future leaders are now already conditioned to obey any and all insane totalitarian mandates. It is terrifying to think these are our future leaders.
Just a thought: It may bother him more than you think but he doesn't want you to worry while he is away at college. What he is saying may be more of an, "I'm okay Mom and Dad. Don't worry I can deal with this."
I don't know. I don't know your boy but I do know that it's typical for kids to not want their parents to worry about them when they go off to college. Sometimes that means they paint the picture more rosey than it actual is. Not wanting his parents to worry or become upset about what he is going through may be the reason he minimizes it. That would be coming from a place of love. Think about it.
Thank you, those are kind words. He definitely does like to think he has everything all figured out. He IS a 19-year-old boy, after all, if you don't think that they know everything, just ask them. 😄
LOL I remember when my son was 3 and a toy had broken in many, many pieces. I was at work and he insisted to my wife that, "Daddy will fix it. He knows how to do everything."
Fast forward to when he was 16 and discussing something: "Dad you just don't know anything about this."
Fast Forward to 25: "Dad, I really need to talk to you. I need your advice on something."
Interesting about your son. What does he say when confronted with the truth? That he lost two valuable years of his life - teen years that he will never get back all for something that has almost zero chance of hurting him. That we deprived him of a full life for nothing. What is his answer going to be if they require vaccination for college?,
Now is the time to hammer home critical thinking. The logic side of the brain can be used IRL, not just in theory.
He hates talking about it now. He actually asks not to discuss it because he says we won't agree and won't change one another's mind. We keep telling him that he needs to get used to talking about his beliefs and backing them up when people question him about them, and that not all discussions have to end in agreement, sometimes just ending in thought is enough.
I point out that his dad and I don't agree on all topics we discuss, nor do my friends and I, and that if you live in an echo chamber, you never even have a chance to evolve and grow.
I think a lot of that "don't talk about it" bent comes from the current craze for cancelling and no-platforming. It is, sadly, doing exactly what it is designed to do - shutting down people's comfort with healthy debate.
IMO what you said to your son was the exact right thing. People can have honest disagreement on things. Totally agree the cancelling is doing just what they want it to. I took a debate class in college. It really prepared me to defend my positions, understand opposing positions and shake hands at the end knowing I was better for having the experience and knowledge. That wasn't a think in my house growing up. Your son is lucky to have parents that talk issues out well. Best wishes as navigates these bumpy roads ahead.
I don't know. He may be wiser than you think. Probably surounded by people at college who he knows he would be wasting his time trying to see a different perspective. And again, he may not want to discuss/debate it with you because he agrees with you and doesn't want you to worry about him.
The first piece may be true, but I don't think that second posit is. If he agreed, he wouldn't specifically say that he doesn't want to discuss because we don't agree and won't agree.
You know your boy. I have two children. Daughter 25 who was vax questioning before covid came along. She isn't vaxxed. Son 30 got the initial 2 shots but recently decided to not get the booster. Of course I have been swamping him with info for quite awhile and that may have had an impact. He has been opposed to mandates all along.
I countered with logic, that was my mistake, too... because I have never sought to instil fear, people like you and me are too optimistic and free-thinking to do that. The b*stards who planned this, knew this very well...
It's impossible to win an emotional argument with facts, logic, and reason. It's two sides of the magnet fighting against each other.
To really get through to the emotionally damaged person not operating in reason, the first thing is to make sure you have some remains of a real relationship, even if it's currently on the wrong footing.
Second, we need to join them where they're at. Knowing what an emotionally unhealthy person is living in (fear, guilt, shame, bitterness, etc.) is vital. Acknowledge the terror, the confusion, the whatever you deduce it to be. You yourself might be very emotionally damaged, but if you want to make any progress at all, you need to deal with your own emotions, your own feelings of being alone, misunderstood, before you can begin the process of knowing where they're at.
This takes a while, but be persistent in joining them. If they won't let you, if you can't even play on that ballfield, then there's not a lot you can do. But if you see cracks, patiently continue to help them realize you're not the enemy, and that you're wading out into their waters so that they don't feel alone out there.
Third, as you find some common ground, you can begin the honest conversation from a place where you're at least both at the table.
The only thing you can control is your commitment to understanding yourself and your own emotional needs. Once you've begun that, then it's a commitment to being consistent to that person you're trying to reach. Only then can you start to discuss the facts, logic, and reason.
One small example of this, that actually may have worked: my healthy, varsity athlete, 21 year old son is a Covidian, set to line up for his booster for fear of contacting Covid. ( arghh, It sounds even more absurd when I write it) Anyway, he all but outright calls me a lunatic for my "antivax" views. After our last argument, I told him that before he gets he booster, he must present me life insurance and disability insurance polices, because if he has an adverse reaction, I will be the one looking after him possibly for the rest of my life, given there is no liability on the part of the jab manufacturers. I added he would then be on social welfare and sent him the article on the French man who died of a vax injury recently, and whose insurance company refused to pay out his life insurance benefits because he had taken an 'experimental' product- which is not a covered risk. My son literally blanched as he read it and has cancelled his booster appointment for now "as he looks into this".
The bulk of people want to be told what to do and what to think so they can absolve themselves of responsibility for their lives. This is why we have so many victims in society.
These folks were happy to buy into a global excuse and the feedback loop with them, the media and the political leadership just took off over this. Probably because many of the political and media class are just as bereft of independent thought. Pols wanted someone to pass the buck too and hide from all the real issues they face. Media feeds the beast that sells more soap.
Our education systems no longer teach critical thinking and 90% of society no longer want responsibility (and thus accountability) for their lives.
We were ripe for this. And remain so. And while I agree with the bulk of this post, I feel you’re preaching to the 10% that care and tried to stop this and I have no idea how to convey your message to the 90% who don’t want to think or be accountable.
at the end of the day, these fights are always going to be small group vs small group over who can get the massive beach ball of the middle rolling and push it over a goal line.
this is why small organized groups can be so societally dominant.
and it is why we need to be ready to push back and to push forward from there once we do.
once the middle is in stampede, it's to late to look for the brakes.
We, the 10% as you say, need to take the vital information that el gato malo and others provide to us and turn the snark and sarcasm into educational material. Use the mess to teach others not to fear but to think through problems. No small feat but if the 10% do what they can local to themselves, I believe, I hope (because being without hope is too much to comprehend right now) that the message will be multiplied.
I have no forgiveness for those who perpetrated this upon the world but those who blindly followed, thinking those in authority had their best interests at heart can, again I hope, be taught and can be part of the answer.
Taking down the MSM outlets should be a major part of the re-education of Americans. There is plenty of material (or lack of it) to make the case that they have been manipulating the population. We must take the opportunity to change the existing power structure.
I’ve been attempting this since the beginning. And thank god for the el gatos, the Berensons, the gummi bears, the GBD docs, etc. where I’ve been able to find additional source data beyond what I could find in my own analysis.
But I was at a party (before our most recent LDs here) and talking with a very intelligent engineer friend. And there was nothing I could show him, no logic I could use, to convince him what’s he’s read in the NY Times or heard on CBC Radio was wrong.
My dad is an engineer, diehard believer of all this crap who has full trust that the doctors, government and Pfizer are the “experts” and are doing what’s best. We’ve had numerous very heated discussions about this. Surprisingly when I sent him the movie “Covid Chronicles”, he watched it. Followed that up with the recent Ontario study regarding booster effectiveness (at 37%) and then the Swedish ACM up to 2021. It rocked his belief system enough for him to say, “you have to stop sending me this stuff”. I know he wants to crawl back into his little hole of believing all is right with his experts, but I also know some doubt was planted in his head, and with a little luck some light will shine through.
I'd say a good route might be to go with mainstream media sources that report on pharma profits and wrongdoing, and let him come to any conclusions himself. That's the approach I take, though I can't claim any great success.
This url should take you to the results of a search on New York Times website for articles containing the words "pharmaceutical" and "fines" since Jan 1990. 2,540 hits; you can apply different sorting criteria to the list:
It has been an amazing (not in a good way!) eye-opener to discover how many otherwise intelligent people have so completely bought into this. However, I have to note that most of these people are liberal/left types whose smug worldviews have been the gasoline which allowed this fire to consume the whole society.
I live in downtown Toronto and am surrounded by these people. They were just so sure that they were correct and good and noble. Now that reality is finally making small inroads into their bubble-world and they are finding out first-hand that these jabs are neither safe nor effective, I fear for their mental stability. The truth isn't just hurting, it is causing an internal crisis that will be both epic and dangerous when it finally surfaces.
I am of the opinion that this societal catastrophe is just getting started - and that's without the predicted die-off.
Thank you for posting this link. I've been trying to follow the Corona Ausschuss group the whole time, but their material is not organized in a way that facilitates keeping track of it, so it gets away from me.
This discussion you link is one of the very best I've seen the past couple years that I think could have a chance of helping people to snap out of the hypnosis.
I've been on the naughty list there for a couple months, so I'm out of touch. Seems someone in Cambridge, MA "public health" circles took issue with me posting a Nuremberg gallows pic and telling them that's where people who perform medical experiments on children end up.
Sadly, thinking for oneself is scary for many. It requires that you accept the responsibility for your thoughts and opinions, and cannot foist your errors onto someone else. If "an expert" gives you wrong advice, well, it's not your fault. You are absolved, go forth and sin no more.
I tested the waters with my NextDoor ap, asking if anyone was planning to go to the bipartisan pro-choice, "Defeat the Mandate" march in D.C. I got one message: "No, because I am not a moron," before being taken down. Family are basically on board, but I am not allowed to discuss because in-laws are not; two friends are also. I wish I had not retired, as my university students would have welcomed discussion (even if the university would have restricted it.)
I'd really think twice about encouraging people to take part in public protests. It may all be very well for you, being retired, but there are a lot of people who probably should not. This isn't the 1960's where one could protest publicly and remain relatively anonymous. Look at what happened a year ago January. Those people are still locked up. Now, what happens in the meantime? Do their bills stop? No. And then what happens when they get out? Will they have jobs, will they even be able to find jobs other than the most menial? Let's say your students go to this march and nothing happens. Ok, down the road they are applying for a job, and guess what comes up when their prospective employer does a search? Because not every employer is ok with this sort of thing. My previous employer definitely was not--and they did do random online searches of their employees. I have learned to keep a very low profile when it comes to public protests.
People that understand where this is heading if it's not stopped, should have slightly larger concerns than the possibility that future employers will not welcome them due to participating in a protest.
I did not “encourage,” but informed, with no regrets. Despite my “retirement,” I remain active internationally in writing and presentations and perhaps have the privilege of saying what I think. But I always did, and accepted the risks; I could mot live otherwise. Still, everyone must assess those risks according to their situation. So sorry you suffered for yours.
Nextdoor is a leftist/Marxist organization and the people who are on the site/app are either disconnected from what is happening outside of their "neighborhood" or they are leftists themselves. There are a few exceptions (myself included) who try to open the eyes of those who live in fear, but fear is very, very powerful. Don't stress about Nextdoor, just move on to another opportunity to spread the gospel of sanity and reason.
Sorry, Brian, but you are thinking sanely and logically. 80% of people are neither. They go with whoever shouts loudest and longest. They won't see the light until they feel the heat. Personally.
Gato, I fought since the start - since before the start. I sent email after email after email to the CEO of my 70,000 employee strong global company, and copied in every regional head and chairman of the whole place, demanded to know their rationale for shuttering their offices, encouraging their employees to "get vaccinated", and the rest. I demanded phone calls, asked awkward questions in "Town Hall" meetings, made a bloody nuisance of myself to my manager, my manager's manager, my manager's manager's manager, and the rest. I like to think I made a difference. Perhaps I did. I held my line. In my way. I continue to hold the line, in my way. My way has changed and adapted to be more loving, less confrontational. We learn. We adapt. We live. Feline love and warmth. Vorlic
Who ARE you?? Can I vote for you?? So much of what you write is exactly right. This was a stampede; I felt it from the start. I refused so much, but was nearly alone. “The People” were a bitter disappointment. I am trying to forgive them as they wake up to what has happened. The Libertarians were an even more bitter disappointment. The first Facebook friend to “unfriend” me claimed to be libertarian. I said I would not wear a mask, and doubly so if it were required. He called me evil. I wish I could find that secret gulch to hide from the world with the likeminded, but truth is that we have to claw back our freedoms here in the real and imperfect society we are in. I am grateful for these spaces, and for true leader like you. We’ll keep fighting.
We simply have to offer incentives that no Gato could refuse:
If we furnish him with an underground HQ in a hollowed-out volcano, an orbiting platform with shuttle rockets launched from the crater, a good supply of baby bunnies, and a personal bathosub in which to escape in case Z.O.W.I.E. attacks, I'll bet he goes for it.
hmm... a little harsh on those of us who never went along with any of this bs, my friend, but i get your point. one big takeaway for me is that the old normal was even more in need of serious repair than perhaps I realized.
And what's coming next may not be in the area of "health." The exercise wasn't really about health in the first place; it was about conditioning people to obey even senseless orders -- the more senseless, the better, because obeying sensible rules (e.g., traffic lights) doesn't condition the obedience reflex itself or the panic reflex that drives the obedience. Now that the reflex has been conditioned, the stimulus may take a different shape.
Definitely round one. They've already stated what's next. Either small pox/marburg or the 'pandemic of the internet' talked about by the James Bond villain. The sheep will once again beg for rights to be taken away. El gato malo, I admire your optimism, but I do wonder when you'll start feeling like Charlie Brown with the football being taken away, it's only a matter of time. Hopefully you have a separate email list of your subscribers because it's only a matter of time until Substack clamps down and starts censoring.
Sharp thinking, Birdingmom. The largest clinical trial in world history is coming to an end. What was learned that will be incorporated into the next virus or worse the next "vaccine"?
I suggest and I hope that most people will take the call to strengthen their own immune system and improve their individual health so that the fear factor can be held off long enough to mount an offensive when a government, global health club or wannabe world dictator unleashes the next COVID weapon.
As I mentioned in my response to Birdingmom, it may be better not to keep our focus so much on health as part of our resistance to the next offensive. In fact, the assumption that the next offensive will involve a virus or "vaccine" may keep us from noticing a different kind of "crisis" that will be used to keep the herds obedient. It may even be starting now, while we're still preparing -- as the old adage would have it -- to fight the previous war instead of the current or impending one.
Great point, Phoebe. In addition to healthcare, access to banking, food, housing, information and each other are control points that have been lightly touched in recent times but seem ripe for further manipulation.
If I'm doing this right, hopefully everyone in this thread will see my response! I get no credit for my "sharp thinking" as it's not original. Many others have been pointing this out the whole plandemic - this was their dry run to see how far they could get people to comply. I'd say they were pretty successful.
I wish as Brian says that the largest human experiment is coming to an end, but I believe based on all I read medically that the aftermath is going to be much more serious. If this was designed as a genocidal/depopulation event, we have seen nothing yet. Will we ever know how many people die from the jabs in the future? As much as data has been manipulated from the start, it's unlikely we will ever know.
I agree with Phoebe that our resistance needs to be multi-faceted, but our immune systems and general health are really important as we've learned through this. Getting more educated about how our immune systems are designed and how amazing they are is one thing I am thankful for as I've had immune issues most of my life. Our medical establishment is trained for disease and dysfunction, not to promote health. And Big Pharma is right there to ensure that all the disease they create, they have another drug to fix it.
All that to say that the globalist cabal is not going to give up so easily on their agenda to rule the herd. They are likely to double down if they believe they are losing this battle. I have to wonder if the latest narrative of "switching jerseys" is the calm before the storm. I'm not going to be lulled into complacency.
yes, we need to work on strengthening our immune systems but also on our overall systems. The more we're dependent on the current educational system, the food and supply systems, etc the more vulnerable we are to whatever the next plan is. There's a huge homesteading movement right now, but even small steps toward independence go a long way.
And what about those who are not in a position to do homesteading? People on limited incomes? People who don't own property and never will be able to own property? Are we simply to be written off? This is what turns me off about the whole homesteading/prepper/survivalist mentality; those that can afford to do it probably don't need to, and those that need to do it probably can't afford to.
Yeah, that's what my last sentence was about: I think any small steps toward independence (and interdependence within a community) are really important.
"if the mob surges through us, this is what happens." no argument there - but it's exactly the argument that I (and many others here, i bet) were making right from the start.
I'm standing up to it now - even to the point of learning to file my own lawsuits (highly recommend!!)- but gato's points above apply to me in the early days and definitely pre-pandemic. Before covid I knew corporations were corrupting our government AND I held a vague sense of the benevolence of government. Looking back, I don't know how I reconciled those two beliefs, but I do know why - it was convenient. Not proud of that :(
Look, there are plenty here (including my 19 year-old self) who believed the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" crap. I've pretty much woken up about the causes of 9/11, too.
I was never fooled by the HIV/AIDS scare, though. I give my fourteen year-old self a lot of respect for that!
Thank you for having the critical thinking to change your mind and for having the courage to admit it. I truly hope there are a lot more out there like you!
Yes, who's he writing this to?! Good for forwarding if you want some more "I told you so" ammo, but to be honest most people are just about half-waking up and not even thinking there's a society-wide problem to fix. If anything they're still taking their cue from the media, and it's mainly because the media have turned the tides to arse-cover themselves that articles are hitting the still-compliant populace.
I do wonder how I could have played it better with 2 year's hindsight?? The answer ElGato mentioned before is you will always get runover by the truck of media-Gov-institution. We're heading to Mexico which was more insanity-resistant than nations nearer the poles. And I can't be bothered to try and fix the society I grew up in, because it's no longer there... as Heraclitus said "no man can cross the same river twice"... the man isn't the same and the river doesn't remain the same either.
I've seen a range of emotions from "we can't move on until Nuremberg 2.0" to mine "I'm escaping to paradise somehow somewhere".
I'm into Joel Garreau's 'Prevail' hypothesis at the moment, so I think biding time in another locale and waiting for sanity to regain it's foothold is a valid process. And it might be something I need to lead my wife and kids more than once per lifetime... I'd much prefer roots, but I haven't been given strong ones to start and fowl winds like this means I'm more adept to flow away than stand and fight.
Voting with your feet is a valid type of resistance. If 10% did move away from madly locking down nations to more sane place, the narrative would have collapsed more easily. They need your labour/service to keep it all running.
It's not the government, and it's not really the media, Gato points out.
It's the people who give power to both.
We have fetishized "dEmoCRaCy!" where 50%+1 justifies anything, so now all of our public policy debates revolve around getting to that point where the slimmest majority can justify ANYTHING. No checks on the scope of the decision, no checks on the will of the majority, and no rights for the minority.
People have been taught and led themselves to believe that the only real thing that matters is the will of the majority. 50%+1 means absolute power with absolute moral authority, so that's all politicians care about.
The bad news is that it's a recipe for tyranny, the good news is that it's very easy to turn the tables.
democracy is a god that has failed...we should all embrace the non-aggression principle and anarchocapitalism...they must be the guiding principles or you are just squabbling over who gets to tell you what to do
As a Canadian I got to see 90% of the population goosestep (with denial) in lockstep with this insanity. Despite losing my job over the shot without sympathy, much less praise. I saw Canadians bury their heads in netflix and amazon while local businesses got destroyed and regular people were robbed.
Are the public to blame? Absolutely. Are they solely to blame? Absolutely not.
This was a pre-planned agenda that includes state-sponsored mass murder. The public still has no clue about treatments that were suppressed. Nobody clamored for them to suppress life saving medicine.
It's also worth mentioning that this mass psychosis was the desired outcome of the Canadian military using psychological warfare tactics against the public. The disasterous COVID-19 response wasn't a cute accident of polling, but was a deliberate anti-human agenda.
Downplaying this only helps those trying to carry out genocide-by-lottery.
I'd be interested to see an analysis of whether the left's movement to change the governmental institutions to 'help' people have falsely given them the view of government as a saviour and protector, rather than something that should not be trusted and must be vigilantly watched.
Because I do personally believe that the major problem we had here was trust in institutions - both government and media - that should never have been trusted to begin with, that never had out best interests at heart.
There is a huge difference in the US between the Democratic Party and the "left." The Dems are not remotely liberal; in fact, not one of the candidates in 2020 except Sanders were even slightly left. Biden is very close to Trump in his policies and rhetoric. Democrats are, yes, very likely to switch on and off depending on which party has power. They are completely clueless about corruption in government in their own party, and have a very childlike, simplistic view of how politics works. The actual "left" detests the Democrats just as much as conservatives do, and the libertarian left is just as appalled as the right at the censorship, propaganda, corruption and anti-science agenda of the Biden administration. No journalist ever mentions this of course, because that would interfere with the narrative that dissent is coming from the "ignorant" right.
As a Canadian, I concur with all you have said. I am appalled and ashamed by this country and the people who live here. I was never a Canadian nationalist type but now I will work for the break-up of this rotten entity. Canada is an insignificant player in the world but if the break-up of the money and power centres here can be shown to weaken TPTB perhaps it can spread to the US, the EU and elsewhere. Maybe then we can regain some of our rights and freedoms in our smaller, weaker and more localized political units.
For the first time, I'm going to disagree with you about something. The public did not panic and force the government to be draconian. The government/5 eyes deliberately stoked panic through health agencies and the media with the full knowledge of what that does to a population. THEN they became draconian as a result of what they had pushed on people. That is behavior modification 101, and we already know they deliberately used those propaganda tactics "for our own good." This is made manifestly clear in Laura Dodsworth's book A State of Fear. So no, it's not the public's fault, unless you think they should somehow have overcome their genetic programming. Those of us temperamentally inclined to be suspicious and rebellious HAVE been fighting back, from the moment of our awakening.
I would also add that the images and reporting out of China in the beginning were terrifying, and reports were often portrayed as coming from secret reporters that the CCP would torture if they caught them. In the beginning I supported lockdowns because I really believed we were all gonna die because everyone in Wuhan was dying. All of that changed when they told us that you can't get covid from a mostly peaceful protest. I'm embarrassed to admit that the Chinese propaganda worked on me. And now I am embarrassed to admit that I trusted our health agencies in the beginning. Never again.
Says the anonymous person with a cat avatar. "We" are waging whatever small fights we can in our families, jobs, friend groups, etc. WTF else are we supposed to do - show up to a protest and get set up by the FBI? Wait for the next rigged election? Did protest end the Iraq war or get to the bottom of 9/11? This was not an organic response to clickbait pressure - it's a depopulation conspiracy waged by the same crew who start world wars. I wouldn't say the situation is hopeless, but the bad guys built the infrastructure, and 90% of people on earth are pathetic. We're doing what we can and hoping for the best.
you're supposed to not comply and to urge others to do the same.
we're supposed to get unified and hold the line from the beginning.
if we all had just gone into work, out to eat, ignored these ridiculous edicts, and stopped surfing panic porn, this could have been stopped.
if we had not, en masse, fallen for the "two weeks to flatten the curve" ruse that put the thin end of the wedge irrevocably in and instead said "no" in any meaningful numbers, this would not have happened.
perhaps we were not sufficiently organized last time.
but we are now and we need to stay that way.
protests are just energy sapping pressure releases if you then go home and submit. you seem to be jousting with a straw man there.
not sure what you're so angry at, but i doubt it's really me.
you sound like the kind of guy who has already packed it in and expects to lose.
perhaps if you were not, you might be less touchy...
i mean, look, if you won't, you won't. but grandstanding about conspiracies we cannot oppose is not going to solve anything.
My objections are against: 1) victim-blaming and moralizing, and 2) any notion of some decisive victory.
On a personal level, I fell for "2 weeks to flatten the curve," but was fully out of the trance by about April 2020 and have done everything I know how to enlighten people around me and online. How many people fell for (and still fall for) 9/11, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, etc. etc? History is a parade of big lies that enable world-transforming events. We're not going to protest our way out of a conspiracy this huge. It will eventually fade due to various entropic pressures (including resistance), and we'll be left with a big fucking mess. Either way, I'll be first in line to vote R across the board, pull my kids out of school when needed, quit my job, etc.
After decades of attempted political organizing and electioneering, or wallowing in the muck and mire of conspiracy culture, the pill gets pretty black. The only successful revolutions post-1776 were the Lincoln Republicans and FDR Democrats, both of which required widespread economic misery and institutional collapse to become possible.
this is not victim blaming. this is teaching people how to not get fooled again.
once we fell for "2 weeks to drive in the wedge" it was already over.
that's the lesson. it was not some surprise attack. they told us it was coming and they asked us to comply.
calling this "pearl harbor" is inapt. (and the lusitania, interestingly enough, was actually a fort sumpter type event. it was full of munitions.)
the lincoln republicans and the FDR democats were both fascist in inclination. if i had to point to the two presidents that have done the most damage to america, it would be those two. no one else is even close.
we're entering a new age of organization and communication and where many forms of rollback are becoming possible. and the economic misery and intuitional/societal collapse are getting pretty plain to see.
like it or no, this is going to be a pivotal period and we can come out on a path to liberty or heading down a totalitarian drain.
which will depend on how WE behave.
we already know what the lizard people want and what they will do. they're going to act like they always do. so that's not the question.
the question is "what are we going to do about it?"
"the lincoln republicans and the FDR democats were both fascist in inclination. if i had to point to the two presidents that have done the most damage to america, it would be those two. no one else is even close."
Woodrow Wilson is offended that he didn't even get an honorable mention.
And there's the big reveal - "liberty" as defined by Thomas DiLorenzo, Anthony Sutton and the rest of the right-libertarians. If Lincoln and FDR were fascists so were the (Hamiltonian) founders. Hamilton > JQ Adams > Henry Clay > Lincoln > FDR > JFK is the direct line of ideological succession. Note how every presidency ended with a bullet was a "big state" federalist. The permanent enemy is non-state "imperialism" which today is centered in London, Tel Aviv, Blackrock, the WEF, Swiss banks, etc.
Today a revolutionary movement, oddly enough, would look something like Trumpism without all the stupidity and jingoism - end free trade with tariffs, nationalize the Fed to build infrastructure (ie nuclear power plants, huge water projects), support farm prices (as FDR and Lincoln did), expropriate land from monopolists like Gates, redistribute it to family farmers, and a series of legal measures to protect the sovereignty of the individual - medical freedom, limits on corporate use of the "commons" (ie to smother the "internet of things" in its cradle). It's not goofy self-organizing internet collectives. Go look at the Podemos movement to see how that all works out.
The only hope for humans is to shave off the sharp edges of "imperial" power with state power, and it only works until it's so successful that everyone gets lazy and drops their guard.
Maybe someone like DeSantis will seize the moment and advance the ball down the field a bit. My big gripe is that "we the people" play the same role in all these processes that waves play in the ocean - we don't have much control over the consequences of our actions, especially when we don't have simple, shared goals. My source of hope is that discontent creates institutional failure, which creates a vacuum into which rapid change can take place. I'm voting for Lincoln (economic development) and not Andrew Jackson (false "liberty" in the service of British imperialism).
And how are going to oppose from the start a cyber pandemic or a systemic bank collapse?
You can take some steps to insulate yourself from the effects but unless we, as a whole, prepare for this and have a strategy and a plan, it's pointless to just say hold the line. If a cyber pandemic hits, we will be so disorganized that there won't be much we can do. If coupled with banks collapses/runs, other than having stockpilled food and be independent water and energy wise and hope for the better, what can you do? Do you think starving masses will listen to you instead of the authorities in charge? Do you think you have the ability to redirect mob fury where it should be directed in the first place? We are in very precarious position and there's not much we can do unless a very high percent of the people(I'd say 40-50%) truly understand what we are dealing with and are willing to not tolerate it all. That's not the case. We don't have these numbers. Even on our side there are prominent people with large followings, see Alex Berenson, who don't want to understand this is not incompetence. What the powers that shouldn't be are doing now by stepping back is just consolidating and giving the ones in the middle, who might go fully skeptical if the nonsense keeps going, the illusion that things are normal, the system is working and even if the decisions in the last 2 years weren't ideal, the illusion that the system works for them and that it can heal itself. It won't happen but the veil over the deceit will remain for longer. And soon we will be hit with another crisis. Very probable a cyber pandemic which will root the opposition as we have no plan on how to keep the communication going in such a case. That will dissolve any questioning voices from reaching the masses that are on the edge and might lean our way.
Take a listen to Brendon O'Connell on YouTube, who deals with issues like this in depth. Covid in part is about reshaping the balance of power - depopulating/de-industrializing the west and strengthening China's "Belt & Road" with the City of London banks and Israeli intelligence at the helm. We should probably be focusing all energy on "waking up" the US military and hoping to God not all decent, effective people have been purged from its leadership.
IMHO the only sources of hope are: 1) "Black swan" events like the Epstein network getting exposed, 2) The possibility of authoritative action by a future US president and military - this would involve expelling/detaining many dual citizens working as spies in the US, and possibly a period of isolation from the global economy where we shut off digital communication with the outside world and rebuild critical industries (this was the core purpose of the North in the Civil War), or failing all, 3) total collapse where those of us who know how to grow food have some hope of reconstituting a pre-industrial standard of living.
frankly it is not about educating or enlightening the people around. rather it is about every single person in the know to not comply...ever...with government, corporate, etc edicts that go against personal freedom
it does not take that many to not comply to prevent these things from happening
as el gato is pointing out though, the problem is we almost all fell two weeks to stop the spread. we need to take that lesson and never comply with anything like that again.
This is only "victim-blaming" in the same sense that teaching women self-defense and concealed-carry skills so they can fight back against rapists is "blaming the victim." (Which is an accusation that is often lodged against organizations that go around doing anti-social things like teaching women how to fight back and shoot.) Sure -- in a just and perfect world our rights would be respected by default and defended by social consensus. That ain't the world we live in.
We aren’t organized. And we’re very small. I have lost many friends/associates by failing to fall into the orthodoxy and trying to, very rationally, explain the true data-driven reality.
But I fear 90% don’t care and, worse, don’t *want* to care. Most of us are here because we care that the last 22 months has been fundamentally and criminally wrong.
But most people don’t think critically. Most don’t want to take responsibility for even themselves.
I don’t know how we proceed in this environment.
It’s a trend I’ve been observing for most of my 30 adult years.
Personal responsibility, owning your actions and your intent, doing the right thing that’s hard instead of the wrong thing that’s easy - the percentage of society that lives that seems smaller and smaller all the time.
I believe the first thing we do - and as quickly as possible (and many of us have been) - is to know our Enemy. To understand the Evil at work, truly down to the bedrock.
We need as many people to continue researching these hydras and screaming out the truth that they've found from the rooftops. We can't fight properly if we don't know who, what, and where to truly pick our battles.
We also move forward with faith, hope, and love. That might sounds idealistic, and some of us might not be able to. We've been scarred for life. Bells have been rung all over the universe that will never be unrung. But if we start out from any other mental and spiritual standpoint, we have no chance and might as well pack it up and head for the hills.
Hear me, I'm not an idealist. I'm a realist. I'm in no way into the froo froo woo woo, an approach like "if we just love our enemy, they'll put down their weapons and pack it in." That might work in some scrums, but it's not going to work in this endgame.
Our ally is and always has been Truth. We all need to hit the mines, as our Gato Pal has been doing for the last two years, and dig out as much truth - and state is as clearly, passionately, and purposefully - as we possibly can.
There's no way to see the big picture in this without Truth. And there's no movement if we have no hope. And there's damn sure no real world results if we aren't united.
We all have MANY differences of opinion. We all bring a unique perspective to this fight. We're going to have to extend MUCH grace to ourselves and the networks we're creating, because the Enemy wants us to feel incredibly ALONE. Divided. Out on an island of anger, regret, self-condemnation, guilt, and fear. It wants us hopeless, broken, wallowing on our knees.
I'm not willing to give the enemy that satisfaction. I'm going to play my own little part. The most unlikely things shift the outcome of great battles. Help often comes from the least expected places, never planned for or previously known.
If we go down, we go down digging - and then SHOUTING - Truth, using the systems in place against them, creating alternative systems as fast as we possibly can, and moving forward relentlessly.
Otherwise, let's pack it in. Each one of us needs to decide right now:
Fight or Flight? is this worth it, despite the costs, despite the odds?
I hate that I have to type this, because I know these words are going to come back to challenge me at some point. Yet if they do, so be it.
I would fight if it were just me. But I have a son and daughter, both under 15. I look in their innocent faces and groan and cry, knowing that if I don't stand for them right now, and stand with all I've got, they won't know a world that has any Light. They will be oppressed, treated like cattle.
Infiltrate and take over the teaching profession and academia. Same with news, entertainment, and social media, and all levels of government. Change the culture back.
It will take generations because the folks who train the teachers (university profs) and the teachers’ unions are all really, really terrible right now.
GETTR is the best glimmer of hope for real networking I see at the moment. Substack is fine for what it is, but it's not the same thing. And both are terribly vulnerable.
It is tempting to despair, but despair is wrong. Please keep up the good work.
I am a firm believer in geographic proximity. I am a member of an online Druid order and this has been an issue and discussion topic with my religious mentor for some time. While I understand the practical limitations (a small number of like-minded people spread across North America and beyond) and give everyone involved full marks for all the good work they do, there are logical limits to what can be achieved. You need physical contact in order to build the trust that is necessary for any social group to function successfully. Only after you have that trust can you build real community.
And real communities will be necessary to affect real change.
Do not comply with any of their BS. That is a start. Are you ordering from Amazon, watching the NFL or using a fake Covid test to get into places? Not striking when some company asshole makes you wear a mask? Then you’re feeding the Beast.
As for me-I will be at the rally in DC with bells on. I HAVE A RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE AND PROTEST.
No - I've resisted in every way I can find, have never taken a covid test, and have burned a lot of bridges in the last 2 years. Just objecting to the idea of this article, which is "our" collective responsibility for the actions of tyrants. Good for you - I hope a lot of people show up. 1776 was fought with cannons, not protests.
Civil rights were also a convenient opportunity to break up Catholic neighborhoods and labor unions for the benefit of big auto, steel, etc. Covid will end when it's profitable to change the narrative.
It is our fault. As a people we have allowed our children to be indoctrinated. We have not been active and discerning in the way we elect our officials. We have bought into the Regressive’s premises.
Yes, some of us figured out that what they called "challenging authority" and "thinking critically" in the schools was actually challenging parental authority and criticizing American ideals while requiring obeisance to the ideologies of one's teachers, many of whom didn't even realize how their beliefs were being manipulated by people for whom "freedom" and "equality" were NOT the end goals.
Look at the headlines about decreases in public school enrollment, increases in homeschooling, and reduced number of college applications. I don't know to which generation you belong, Cbdavis, but I believe you are probably right and also wrong-- this WAS (partially) the fault of people who didn't realize they were pawns in a larger game (I prefer not to place 100% of the blame on them, because: pawns), but many parents have been fighting back, and our movement is growing to include those I never would have expected...
I fought it from the beginning, but there's not much a then-78yo retired woman (now 80yo) can do except harangue people -- as I kept doing, mostly by reminding them of how we'd all come through bad epidemic seasons in the past without destroying our economy and entire culture. I especially harangued our pastor when our bishop closed down all our churches, reminding him that Christians shouldn't be terrified of germs or of each other, and that Christians are supposed to run toward each other in a crisis, not away from each other. I reminded a (former, now) friend who was afraid to be around people and wouldn't even leave his house that he'd helped me during the terrible 2018 flu season by bringing me food when I had the 3-week flu -- but all that happened was that he stopped speaking to me. And how could I "refuse to comply" and go to the restaurants when the restaurants were shut down?
In my city, the mayor has decreed another mask mandate. On the whole, I do not comply, except in the case of my hair salon, where my stylist will be evicted if her customers aren't masked. I hold the mask an inch in front of my face. I have been refused service at my favorite locally owned grocery for not wearing the mask, and I've told them I won't be back. (This is extremely inconvenient for me, since the next nearest food store is 4 miles away and my driving is becoming more difficult as my vision worsens.) Everywhere else, I just walk in without the mask and no one says anything to me. Exception: at the Post Office the other day, the clerk asked me whether I had a mask, and I just said, "I can't wear them." He got nervous, but he sold me my stamps. I've become accustomed to the idea that I have no access to medical treatment unless I agree to wear the mask and take the jab, and even then my quack "doctor" isn't interested in anything except covid and trying to pressure me into taking the jab, as I discovered when I tried to talk to her about my newly erratic blood pressure.
I've tried. I've done what I can. All I can do is more of the same, and keep repeating to myself that wonderful passage from e.e. cummings' "i sing of olav": "there is some sh*t I will not eat."
I live in a much freer place, for which I am grateful. The one danger I find is of growing bitter. At the beginning of this, I felt sympathy and a bit of empathy. I'm not known for being particularly brave or particularly optimistic, so I understood how people could panic, especially with the media running "death counters" and all the hyperbole. But the longer it's gone on the angrier I've grown with those around me who still run around with masks on their faces, yammering on about getting vaccines, and a medical system that's literally been leaving people to die alone because of something with an at worst 95% survival rate. I've grown angry that now the media is changing the narrative and these people are blaming others for having been "tricked." All I can think is you were only "tricked" because you didn't listen to those of us who were screaming at you to wake up. And in my darkest moments, I conclude (this is the bitter part) that perhaps this "plague" wasn't quite bad enough because I'm quite tired of humanity as a whole and think it could use some weeding through.
The cynic might say that the sudden media shift is in response to President Brandon’s dismal poll numbers. $5 gets you $20 if Brandon doesn’t declare “the Covid crisis is over” at the SOTU.
The reason it was delayed to March is to give some time for the new messaging to work.
The Fauci leaks are probably designed to take out Tony Baloney who is starting to look like a liability.
The change is because the holy vaxxed are getting Omicron, which has two impacts: 1) they realize the vax wasn’t was advertised, 2) they aren’t dying and the bulk of their friends aren’t dying.
This has made them more skeptical. That is being reflected in the polls. That is scaring the Dems. That is shifting the media.
I doubt Tony gets thrown under the bus. He knows where every body is buried. You don’t last that long that high up in the federal bureaucracy without some serious CYA insurance.
Interesting prediction .... how does the up-coming SCOTUS ruling on the OSHA vax mandate play in here? - anyone? - is it an open secret in DC that it will be struck down? (I think it could go either way) If this "it's over" thinking is correct, perhaps "they" want it to be struck down ... it can't be "over" if OSHA goons spread out throughout the land with their six figure fines in hand.
The "Supreme" Court will sit on the fence and issue a mixed opinion - reinstall the stay for the private businesses and not for the CMS businesses. Because science. The virus only attacks health care workers and not private non-health care workers.
There will be two majority opinions, two concurring opinions and one dissenting opinion. And it will be all gobbly-gook. Because law.
thanks - perhaps the safest bet is if the decision is not what the NYTimes wants and if it not unanimous, the court will be said to be "deeply divided".
I suspect they *knew* they’d fail, but would provide bullying coverage for all the private corps to do their own policies in the meantime while the actual mandate weaved its way through court.
I had that feeling as well. And it’s interesting that SCOTUS is sitting on it until after the mandate effective date. So the bullying can go on, but then the mandate will be struck.
The new normal needs to start with accountability & liability. The players who orchestrated this must be stripped of all their assets. Ill-gained + everything. Including their freedom. This was mass murder on an unknown scale, given we don't know the long term effects of the jabs. And unforeseeable costs of care for the jab-damaged.
Until they are in prison, where they will own nothing, have zero privacy, zero control over their own lives & be miserable, they will continue to plan away.
Last evening was my 1st gun class. My 1st step into my new normal.
We’re not even at the beginning of the end. At best, we’re approaching the end of the beginning, the first phase. If I were among the crooks, I’d long ago have anticipated a “moment” like this, and calibrated what % vaccination will permit me to push on with VaxPass, which has currency in more places than it doesn’t.
If the numbers were ok, I’d move ahead with VaxPass.
If the numbers are low to vulnerable, I’d hasten up Plan B.
If yet another new virus shows up, we all know what to do.
I’m not convinced society would react very differently.
Much of Europe is in the toilet, certainly for the unvaccinated. VaxPass is only just getting it’s legs in England, but much more developed in Scotland, Wales & NÍ.
There are no legislative methods for unwinding it.
I also remain anxious about the financial system instability. Anytime they want, they can trigger a mess.
And yet, with negative vaccine efficacy, none of this is at all defensible! Complete insanity!
I feel so exhausted after a year of being on high alert. With your message, Dr. Mike, there's no break in sight, even as the clouds seem to be parting now.
Would add that the fight should include not just political but also "health care." If this wasn't a wakeup call that many (most?) providers dole out treatments that result in higher financial benefit for the beast, not better health outcomes for the patient, than we as a species are toast.
For all of you who still "trust" your doctor to make the right decision, remember how many of them refused to offer early treatment for a virus and were first in line for an experimental drug.
Just as politicians are willing to throw their constituents in the gulag, until the possibility their future may include a noose, the same weak human character flaws are found in medical professionals.
Yep. I'm sure I'm not the only conventional, middle of the road person who's ended up thinking, "Hey, maybe those hippies and alternative medicine folks had a point?"
You definitely are not! I now know what the label "Functional Medical Doctor" means, and more importantly, plan to see one...tie-dye T-shirt and all.
Amen! Sounds exactly like my *former* PCP. 21 months in, refusal to treat but she was first in line to get the jabs and was still double masking afterward. Insane.
Yep. I rarely go to the Dr these days. Last time I did, he was still wearing a mask and made me wear one. That ended it for me.
That was just the last of a series of events that totally put me off doctors. I don’t think it’s just coincidence that I seem to have had such a long series of quacks and muppets.
The hospitals, especially the corporate ones, were put into a corner by government banning all of their normal business (preventative, elective) and then incentivizing finding COVID and treating it the wrong way. Schreibtischtater!
I worked for one of the largest hospital systems during SARS (managed UC). The people who occupy management positions have the same level of "competence" as exhibited by CDC and other bureaucrats.
They weren't put into a corner, they willing ran to the corner because they didn't know what to do and needed someone to "show leadership" (while also providing cover).
You know why flu vaccines are mandatory? It isn't because of effectiveness, it was because it was a financial losing proposition.
Big pharma made clinics order the vaccines in advance, once the order was in they could INCREASE but not DECREASE the order. Once the vials were received, there was no refunds if unused. Add to that, most office personnel did not get vaccinated as we all saw the patients return within 10 days, sick. Usage started dropping as patients saw the same pattern.
Enter the medical industrial complex's marketing departments who decided that by making the vaccine mandatory for staff, it will nudge up the compliance of the patients. Win-win as all vaccines bought will be injected (and paid for) and look at that, office visits post vaccination will increase due to illness.
Sorry, been in too many marketing meetings with head honchos to give them any cover.
Thanks for that firsthand experience. Those of us who are cynical already appreciate knowing there's a reason for it!
I won't be satisfied with normality or some new normal unless the new normal includes regular trials for the people that did this.
And summary executions.
And therein lies your answer. Those things, like term limits, are never going to happen while the people in those positions make the rules. The fox will never take himself out of the henhouse. Are the chickens organized well enough to take him down?
Maybe el gato will lead the charge - a cat leading a chicken army!
Or threatened MD's license when they dared to tell the truth or tried to prescribe life saving drugs!
I also wonder how the scientist from UNC whose name escapes me cuz I am old.
"MD"s should be ripping up their "licenses" and simply stop treating Federal Citizens. Important note: under Title 37 of the "US Code" (which is not "Law," but simply a "private employee code" for Federal Citizens), any "Licensed" medical practitioner ("M.D." or "Registered Nurse") is considered a "Uniformed Military Officer," and must follow orders (in the case of the past 22 months, the orders were to commit mass murder). There is -no- requirement to hold a "State of State" license to be a private physician or a private nurse.
The requirement comes because the Foreign Occupying Government (FOG) demands it in order to treat their property (U.S. Citizens in the British Territorial "U.S. Military" and citizens of the United States, functioning as Federal Civil Service workers and their dependents), or to treat within the Municipal United States ("the" United States as defined by Title 26, 7701 is -only- Washington DC, a foreign independent City State Nation) or Puerto Rico (which is one of the 6 insular "states" of the British Territorial "United States of America." Obama wasn't an idiot when he admitted to 57 "states," he just didn't specify which ones he meant.
Nobody and nothing can force average people to obtain permission to engage in an occupation of right within the 50 states.
The most important thing to do is to correct the presumption that you are a foreigner in your own country (are you an American or a foreigner, which is what a "U.S. Citizen/citizen of the United States" is)? You have been seized upon as a baby, kidnapped, and press-ganged. This fraud has gone on for 160 years. If you continue wandering around in a daze, there is no hope. "Voting" happens once- at the time you "register." After that, you have consented to whatever the "electors" decide is best. Stolen election? You consented to it by registering as a voter.
There's a solution, and it does not have to involve violence. But it does involve looking hard at how far you have been conned.
theamericanstatesassembly.net
This will certainly motivate them to hang onto power until the bitter end. Like a dictator who clings onto the futile hope of surviving a revolution because he knows that surrendering would guarantee death.
Yes, I agree absolutely. Of course, we must all realize that this effectively means civil war. I suppose that was the only viable outcome of all this.
Sorry, but this is a rare instance where I'm going to have to disagree with you. The click-feedback-loop was part of the problem, but it went beyond that. The censorship is evidence that powerful and wealthy people were actively trying to set up a narrative, one that would lead to the implementation of a social credit system and total control over the population. This was done by people convinced of their own ability to centrally plan and who believe that transhumanism really is the best future for our species.
Still, how do we roll this back? I think Jesse Kelly is right on this one. Balkanize. Retreat to a defensible position and fortify it. Run for office and get into a position of power in your community. Do not let communist and globalist schemes into your community. Have children and raise them to have your beliefs on freedom and personal responsibility. Be a gun owner. Get yourself into peak physical shape. Be more self-sufficient. It's not enough to be the change you want to see in the world. You're going to have to make the change, too.
this impulse has been there all along. they have been trying to do this since the 30's.
they are always there and always plotting this.
perhaps instead ask the interesting question of "why now?"
it happened because we got scared. society broke, we lost our nerve, we lost our immune system, and this ever present opportunistic infection jumped us.
this fascism dates back a century.
it's never going to go away, so we must become resistant to it.
I agree. That is the question. Why now?
We keep hearing about the imminent collapse of the financial systems. Is that real? Is it part of the psy-op? Are they tenderizing the meatple for the next big crisis now that the viral pandemic and the climate change hype appear to have failed to corral the masses?
We have all been subject to a 24-7-365 psychological operation for decades. The people who want to do this are the same people who control media. They've been distracting and confusing us...putting us on our back foot...for years. Cable, the internet, and social media have only thrown gas on a fire.
Speak truth. For example, Lia Thompson is a man who has no right to compete on a women's swimming team. Bruce Jenner did not magically become a woman by changing his name, taking hormones, and having plastic surgery. Drag Queen story hour is an abomination. Pedophilia is not just another way of being.
Fight back against the psy-op.
Stop caring what the media and lunatic left says about you.
They are doing this on purpose for a purpose...and it isn't because they want "marginalized" people to feel included.
I've been joking for years now that we are Rome and Rome is burning.
If we want to succeed, we must stop feeding the beast...even if they say mean things about us.
Speak truth. Now.
Because enough of the population has been infected via injection. What is not being said (and should be!) is that the injection is sexually transmitted.
Which means if you avoided the jab but your spouse got it...too bad. The intent was to sterilize in the first round, and then get incrementally more lethal with each subsequent round (since only the least intelligent would continue to seek injections, thus being a selection process to week out the low IQ sooner).
There is a huge need going forward for a simple test to test the genetic integrity of any prospective spouse- any exposure to the injection, either primary (injection) or secondary (STI) needs to be available to those who care about preserving their unaltered DNA. This is the world we live in now.
The "pandemic" is over because enough goals of the psychopaths that thought they were our "rulers" were met. Now things get bad.
Yeah, I agree, authoritarians have always been around. And the societal wide fear this time was worse than in previous scares, such as swine flu. This was likely enabled by how plugged in everyone is to social media. Alternative platforms (like this one) are certainly one solution, but perhaps another is habitual in-person gatherings where people can speak freely? I feel like this used to be church, the local bar, or other community gathering places. Maybe we should start a religion that worships freedom and demands in-person worship.
I love my country and want it to be around for my descendants. The actions by the US government made me start rereading the Federalist Papers. Our original limited Federal government is what I working toward.
Please read ''An open letter to open minded progressives''. I think your instincts are correct but you're missing a few pieces of the puzzle.
I think I would rather shoot all the socialist's, communists and globalists and be done with it. I don't want my kids to have to fight again because we didn't finish it. Nothing short of executing all of them will never make them stop trying again and again and again. They all need to die, right along with their families and take their fortunes. You leave loose ends, their children, they will seek vengeance later on in life. If we end up in civil war or revolution my group is not taking prisoners or treating wounded except for a bullet to the brain. I'm not leaving some one to fight another day and kill me or my family later on.
I categorically disavow all forms of political violence and you should, too.
That is suicide. If they are going to do litteral war crimes (and they are) on me and my family then killing in self defence is valid. I don't care if 90% of society says it's okay to do war crimes. I'm not going to do them and I'm not going to allow others to do it to me and mine.
While options exist I will move and do what I can to protect my family non-violently but I will not eschew violence when the other side is doing litteral war crimes.
The Irishman, Michael Collins, was a huge influence on a lot of resistance movements and leaders including Shamir & Mandela. His tactics work against a much larger opponent.
I can not tell you how many friends I lost when they were fine with, let's shut down for 2 weeks and I wasn't. I argued logic with them, but fear won the day. That's the problem with this entire thing, fear motivates like nothing else.
Fortunately for me, my entire family of 5 was on the same page (2 college kids and 1 high school plus hubby). We managed to convince extended family that we shouldn't do this and so we have been living for 2 years about as normally as possible within the confines of the current situation...
My kiddos tried to rally their peers, in my red state, to no avail. I found that so sad. I wonder if that generation NOW sees the problem with the taking of liberties without a fight, but I fear not. And THAT gives me great pause because these young people are tomorrow's leaders.
Sadly, they do not. Living in a deep blue state with the most consistently strict covid policies in the country we still managed to keep our high schooler on a logical footing with regards to lockdowns, etc, throughout the last half of his junior year and his entire senior year. One semester away at college and he is all of a sudden not bothered by the restrictions, tells us that his life "didn't really change that much from them" (this from an state champ athlete that was not allowed to compete for his final two years), and that "all that was asked was that we wear a mask to help a public health emergency." I nearly wept. And this from a young man majoring in a hard science. I can only remain consistent in my messaging and hope that his pre-frontal cortex develops quickly enough that begins to wake up before the brain rot completely consumes him.
The saddest part to me is the kids at the elite colleges who are tolerating restrictions that are even worse than what the general population has endured. Their lockdowns are so draconian that it seems that students are more prisoners than paying customers. These kids are still allowing these unbelievably arrogant institutions to dictate the fine details of their lives (shots, boosters, masks, distancing, constant testing, no dining in cafeterias, online classes, no social gatherings, and in some cases, rat out your neighbor, no leaving the county, no dining at restaurants - its absolutely insane). I've seen parents slobber all over themselves because they truly believe this is protecting their precious kid and they are just so happy that their kid got in that they would never question the policies or the damage it does to their kid. And since these are our elite institutions, our future leaders are now already conditioned to obey any and all insane totalitarian mandates. It is terrifying to think these are our future leaders.
And the kids love it. They lap it up.
Even before Covid, they gave up their privacy, data, and right to express individual opinions to be able to hang out with friends on social media.
Just a thought: It may bother him more than you think but he doesn't want you to worry while he is away at college. What he is saying may be more of an, "I'm okay Mom and Dad. Don't worry I can deal with this."
I don't know. I don't know your boy but I do know that it's typical for kids to not want their parents to worry about them when they go off to college. Sometimes that means they paint the picture more rosey than it actual is. Not wanting his parents to worry or become upset about what he is going through may be the reason he minimizes it. That would be coming from a place of love. Think about it.
P.S.-- The world needs more parents like you.
Thank you, those are kind words. He definitely does like to think he has everything all figured out. He IS a 19-year-old boy, after all, if you don't think that they know everything, just ask them. 😄
LOL I remember when my son was 3 and a toy had broken in many, many pieces. I was at work and he insisted to my wife that, "Daddy will fix it. He knows how to do everything."
Fast forward to when he was 16 and discussing something: "Dad you just don't know anything about this."
Fast Forward to 25: "Dad, I really need to talk to you. I need your advice on something."
The stages of parenthood.
Mark Twain said "When I was 14 I thought my father was the dumbest person around. When I was 21 I was amazed at how much he'd learned in 7 years".
The arrogance of youth. Queen has a song "We want it all" that sums up youth perfectly. Ah the good old days, long, long ago for me.
Exactly!
Totally agree. Good parents for sure.
Interesting about your son. What does he say when confronted with the truth? That he lost two valuable years of his life - teen years that he will never get back all for something that has almost zero chance of hurting him. That we deprived him of a full life for nothing. What is his answer going to be if they require vaccination for college?,
Now is the time to hammer home critical thinking. The logic side of the brain can be used IRL, not just in theory.
Blessings on your family.
He hates talking about it now. He actually asks not to discuss it because he says we won't agree and won't change one another's mind. We keep telling him that he needs to get used to talking about his beliefs and backing them up when people question him about them, and that not all discussions have to end in agreement, sometimes just ending in thought is enough.
I point out that his dad and I don't agree on all topics we discuss, nor do my friends and I, and that if you live in an echo chamber, you never even have a chance to evolve and grow.
I think a lot of that "don't talk about it" bent comes from the current craze for cancelling and no-platforming. It is, sadly, doing exactly what it is designed to do - shutting down people's comfort with healthy debate.
IMO what you said to your son was the exact right thing. People can have honest disagreement on things. Totally agree the cancelling is doing just what they want it to. I took a debate class in college. It really prepared me to defend my positions, understand opposing positions and shake hands at the end knowing I was better for having the experience and knowledge. That wasn't a think in my house growing up. Your son is lucky to have parents that talk issues out well. Best wishes as navigates these bumpy roads ahead.
Thank you.
I don't know. He may be wiser than you think. Probably surounded by people at college who he knows he would be wasting his time trying to see a different perspective. And again, he may not want to discuss/debate it with you because he agrees with you and doesn't want you to worry about him.
The first piece may be true, but I don't think that second posit is. If he agreed, he wouldn't specifically say that he doesn't want to discuss because we don't agree and won't agree.
You know your boy. I have two children. Daughter 25 who was vax questioning before covid came along. She isn't vaxxed. Son 30 got the initial 2 shots but recently decided to not get the booster. Of course I have been swamping him with info for quite awhile and that may have had an impact. He has been opposed to mandates all along.
I countered with logic, that was my mistake, too... because I have never sought to instil fear, people like you and me are too optimistic and free-thinking to do that. The b*stards who planned this, knew this very well...
It's impossible to win an emotional argument with facts, logic, and reason. It's two sides of the magnet fighting against each other.
To really get through to the emotionally damaged person not operating in reason, the first thing is to make sure you have some remains of a real relationship, even if it's currently on the wrong footing.
Second, we need to join them where they're at. Knowing what an emotionally unhealthy person is living in (fear, guilt, shame, bitterness, etc.) is vital. Acknowledge the terror, the confusion, the whatever you deduce it to be. You yourself might be very emotionally damaged, but if you want to make any progress at all, you need to deal with your own emotions, your own feelings of being alone, misunderstood, before you can begin the process of knowing where they're at.
(I have an article on understanding this process)
https://bherr.substack.com/p/why-have-people-gone-insane
This takes a while, but be persistent in joining them. If they won't let you, if you can't even play on that ballfield, then there's not a lot you can do. But if you see cracks, patiently continue to help them realize you're not the enemy, and that you're wading out into their waters so that they don't feel alone out there.
Third, as you find some common ground, you can begin the honest conversation from a place where you're at least both at the table.
The only thing you can control is your commitment to understanding yourself and your own emotional needs. Once you've begun that, then it's a commitment to being consistent to that person you're trying to reach. Only then can you start to discuss the facts, logic, and reason.
They'll sheepishly all come crawling back now and pretend they weren't livid with you for arguing against this whole thing.
Maybe we should try countering with equal fear? Fear of gov overreach fear of no future for your kids etc. Meet hyperbole with hyperbole....
One small example of this, that actually may have worked: my healthy, varsity athlete, 21 year old son is a Covidian, set to line up for his booster for fear of contacting Covid. ( arghh, It sounds even more absurd when I write it) Anyway, he all but outright calls me a lunatic for my "antivax" views. After our last argument, I told him that before he gets he booster, he must present me life insurance and disability insurance polices, because if he has an adverse reaction, I will be the one looking after him possibly for the rest of my life, given there is no liability on the part of the jab manufacturers. I added he would then be on social welfare and sent him the article on the French man who died of a vax injury recently, and whose insurance company refused to pay out his life insurance benefits because he had taken an 'experimental' product- which is not a covered risk. My son literally blanched as he read it and has cancelled his booster appointment for now "as he looks into this".
The bulk of people want to be told what to do and what to think so they can absolve themselves of responsibility for their lives. This is why we have so many victims in society.
These folks were happy to buy into a global excuse and the feedback loop with them, the media and the political leadership just took off over this. Probably because many of the political and media class are just as bereft of independent thought. Pols wanted someone to pass the buck too and hide from all the real issues they face. Media feeds the beast that sells more soap.
Our education systems no longer teach critical thinking and 90% of society no longer want responsibility (and thus accountability) for their lives.
We were ripe for this. And remain so. And while I agree with the bulk of this post, I feel you’re preaching to the 10% that care and tried to stop this and I have no idea how to convey your message to the 90% who don’t want to think or be accountable.
at the end of the day, these fights are always going to be small group vs small group over who can get the massive beach ball of the middle rolling and push it over a goal line.
this is why small organized groups can be so societally dominant.
and it is why we need to be ready to push back and to push forward from there once we do.
once the middle is in stampede, it's to late to look for the brakes.
We, the 10% as you say, need to take the vital information that el gato malo and others provide to us and turn the snark and sarcasm into educational material. Use the mess to teach others not to fear but to think through problems. No small feat but if the 10% do what they can local to themselves, I believe, I hope (because being without hope is too much to comprehend right now) that the message will be multiplied.
I have no forgiveness for those who perpetrated this upon the world but those who blindly followed, thinking those in authority had their best interests at heart can, again I hope, be taught and can be part of the answer.
Taking down the MSM outlets should be a major part of the re-education of Americans. There is plenty of material (or lack of it) to make the case that they have been manipulating the population. We must take the opportunity to change the existing power structure.
I’ve been attempting this since the beginning. And thank god for the el gatos, the Berensons, the gummi bears, the GBD docs, etc. where I’ve been able to find additional source data beyond what I could find in my own analysis.
But I was at a party (before our most recent LDs here) and talking with a very intelligent engineer friend. And there was nothing I could show him, no logic I could use, to convince him what’s he’s read in the NY Times or heard on CBC Radio was wrong.
And he was one of so many. :(
My dad is an engineer, diehard believer of all this crap who has full trust that the doctors, government and Pfizer are the “experts” and are doing what’s best. We’ve had numerous very heated discussions about this. Surprisingly when I sent him the movie “Covid Chronicles”, he watched it. Followed that up with the recent Ontario study regarding booster effectiveness (at 37%) and then the Swedish ACM up to 2021. It rocked his belief system enough for him to say, “you have to stop sending me this stuff”. I know he wants to crawl back into his little hole of believing all is right with his experts, but I also know some doubt was planted in his head, and with a little luck some light will shine through.
I'd say a good route might be to go with mainstream media sources that report on pharma profits and wrongdoing, and let him come to any conclusions himself. That's the approach I take, though I can't claim any great success.
Some links:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/06/from-pfizer-to-moderna-whos-making-billions-from-covid-vaccines
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-raises-estimates-2021-sales-covid-19-vaccine-335-bln-2021-07-28/
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/business/03health.html
This url should take you to the results of a search on New York Times website for articles containing the words "pharmaceutical" and "fines" since Jan 1990. 2,540 hits; you can apply different sorting criteria to the list:
https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&endDate=20220112&query=pharmaceutical%20fines&sort=best&startDate=19900101
It helps to apply the good ol' "cui bono" here.
It has been an amazing (not in a good way!) eye-opener to discover how many otherwise intelligent people have so completely bought into this. However, I have to note that most of these people are liberal/left types whose smug worldviews have been the gasoline which allowed this fire to consume the whole society.
I live in downtown Toronto and am surrounded by these people. They were just so sure that they were correct and good and noble. Now that reality is finally making small inroads into their bubble-world and they are finding out first-hand that these jabs are neither safe nor effective, I fear for their mental stability. The truth isn't just hurting, it is causing an internal crisis that will be both epic and dangerous when it finally surfaces.
I am of the opinion that this societal catastrophe is just getting started - and that's without the predicted die-off.
Yeah. I’m in Halifax and a lot of similar folks here.
This video was the best explanation for the frustration we have experienced trying to talk sense to the deluded. https://brandnewtube.com/watch/reiner-fuellmich-speaks-to-psychologist-meredith-miller_h7e25NttyWwoi1B.html
Thank you for posting this link. I've been trying to follow the Corona Ausschuss group the whole time, but their material is not organized in a way that facilitates keeping track of it, so it gets away from me.
This discussion you link is one of the very best I've seen the past couple years that I think could have a chance of helping people to snap out of the hypnosis.
JKP, do you know if Gummi Bear went over to Gettr? I searched there to no avail.
He has a substack here but hasn’t posted much. Also on Gab but hasn’t posted since 2021.
Not to my knowledge. Hopefully Twitter never cancels him.
Oh, I thought he was long gone from Twitter.
I've been on the naughty list there for a couple months, so I'm out of touch. Seems someone in Cambridge, MA "public health" circles took issue with me posting a Nuremberg gallows pic and telling them that's where people who perform medical experiments on children end up.
Sadly, thinking for oneself is scary for many. It requires that you accept the responsibility for your thoughts and opinions, and cannot foist your errors onto someone else. If "an expert" gives you wrong advice, well, it's not your fault. You are absolved, go forth and sin no more.
I tested the waters with my NextDoor ap, asking if anyone was planning to go to the bipartisan pro-choice, "Defeat the Mandate" march in D.C. I got one message: "No, because I am not a moron," before being taken down. Family are basically on board, but I am not allowed to discuss because in-laws are not; two friends are also. I wish I had not retired, as my university students would have welcomed discussion (even if the university would have restricted it.)
I would have been tempted to reply: "That sounds like an oxymoron."
I'd really think twice about encouraging people to take part in public protests. It may all be very well for you, being retired, but there are a lot of people who probably should not. This isn't the 1960's where one could protest publicly and remain relatively anonymous. Look at what happened a year ago January. Those people are still locked up. Now, what happens in the meantime? Do their bills stop? No. And then what happens when they get out? Will they have jobs, will they even be able to find jobs other than the most menial? Let's say your students go to this march and nothing happens. Ok, down the road they are applying for a job, and guess what comes up when their prospective employer does a search? Because not every employer is ok with this sort of thing. My previous employer definitely was not--and they did do random online searches of their employees. I have learned to keep a very low profile when it comes to public protests.
People that understand where this is heading if it's not stopped, should have slightly larger concerns than the possibility that future employers will not welcome them due to participating in a protest.
I did not “encourage,” but informed, with no regrets. Despite my “retirement,” I remain active internationally in writing and presentations and perhaps have the privilege of saying what I think. But I always did, and accepted the risks; I could mot live otherwise. Still, everyone must assess those risks according to their situation. So sorry you suffered for yours.
Nextdoor is a leftist/Marxist organization and the people who are on the site/app are either disconnected from what is happening outside of their "neighborhood" or they are leftists themselves. There are a few exceptions (myself included) who try to open the eyes of those who live in fear, but fear is very, very powerful. Don't stress about Nextdoor, just move on to another opportunity to spread the gospel of sanity and reason.
Well I gave the link to those willing to view it, and did get a couple glances before dissolution.
Sorry, Brian, but you are thinking sanely and logically. 80% of people are neither. They go with whoever shouts loudest and longest. They won't see the light until they feel the heat. Personally.
Well, Steghorn, let's make sure we are the ones shouting the loudest.
Gato, I fought since the start - since before the start. I sent email after email after email to the CEO of my 70,000 employee strong global company, and copied in every regional head and chairman of the whole place, demanded to know their rationale for shuttering their offices, encouraging their employees to "get vaccinated", and the rest. I demanded phone calls, asked awkward questions in "Town Hall" meetings, made a bloody nuisance of myself to my manager, my manager's manager, my manager's manager's manager, and the rest. I like to think I made a difference. Perhaps I did. I held my line. In my way. I continue to hold the line, in my way. My way has changed and adapted to be more loving, less confrontational. We learn. We adapt. We live. Feline love and warmth. Vorlic
PS I was made redundant. God knows why.
Who ARE you?? Can I vote for you?? So much of what you write is exactly right. This was a stampede; I felt it from the start. I refused so much, but was nearly alone. “The People” were a bitter disappointment. I am trying to forgive them as they wake up to what has happened. The Libertarians were an even more bitter disappointment. The first Facebook friend to “unfriend” me claimed to be libertarian. I said I would not wear a mask, and doubly so if it were required. He called me evil. I wish I could find that secret gulch to hide from the world with the likeminded, but truth is that we have to claw back our freedoms here in the real and imperfect society we are in. I am grateful for these spaces, and for true leader like you. We’ll keep fighting.
I suggested him to be our world leader. But he refused.
We simply have to offer incentives that no Gato could refuse:
If we furnish him with an underground HQ in a hollowed-out volcano, an orbiting platform with shuttle rockets launched from the crater, a good supply of baby bunnies, and a personal bathosub in which to escape in case Z.O.W.I.E. attacks, I'll bet he goes for it.
Do you blame him?
hmm... a little harsh on those of us who never went along with any of this bs, my friend, but i get your point. one big takeaway for me is that the old normal was even more in need of serious repair than perhaps I realized.
i think we all need a little wake up call.
all of us, me included, while perhaps we called BS early on, did not start fighting early enough.
i do not use "we" to exclude myself.
i had never been run over by a mob like that before. i did not really understand what happens once you let it start moving, how helpless one becomes.
this is all won or lost right at the beginning which is why next time, all of us, you me, everyone, needs to dig in INSTANTLY and push back.
if the mob surges through us, this is what happens.
And you are correct. This is merely the first round for something else they have planned.
And what's coming next may not be in the area of "health." The exercise wasn't really about health in the first place; it was about conditioning people to obey even senseless orders -- the more senseless, the better, because obeying sensible rules (e.g., traffic lights) doesn't condition the obedience reflex itself or the panic reflex that drives the obedience. Now that the reflex has been conditioned, the stimulus may take a different shape.
Definitely round one. They've already stated what's next. Either small pox/marburg or the 'pandemic of the internet' talked about by the James Bond villain. The sheep will once again beg for rights to be taken away. El gato malo, I admire your optimism, but I do wonder when you'll start feeling like Charlie Brown with the football being taken away, it's only a matter of time. Hopefully you have a separate email list of your subscribers because it's only a matter of time until Substack clamps down and starts censoring.
Sharp thinking, Birdingmom. The largest clinical trial in world history is coming to an end. What was learned that will be incorporated into the next virus or worse the next "vaccine"?
I suggest and I hope that most people will take the call to strengthen their own immune system and improve their individual health so that the fear factor can be held off long enough to mount an offensive when a government, global health club or wannabe world dictator unleashes the next COVID weapon.
As I mentioned in my response to Birdingmom, it may be better not to keep our focus so much on health as part of our resistance to the next offensive. In fact, the assumption that the next offensive will involve a virus or "vaccine" may keep us from noticing a different kind of "crisis" that will be used to keep the herds obedient. It may even be starting now, while we're still preparing -- as the old adage would have it -- to fight the previous war instead of the current or impending one.
Great point, Phoebe. In addition to healthcare, access to banking, food, housing, information and each other are control points that have been lightly touched in recent times but seem ripe for further manipulation.
If I'm doing this right, hopefully everyone in this thread will see my response! I get no credit for my "sharp thinking" as it's not original. Many others have been pointing this out the whole plandemic - this was their dry run to see how far they could get people to comply. I'd say they were pretty successful.
I wish as Brian says that the largest human experiment is coming to an end, but I believe based on all I read medically that the aftermath is going to be much more serious. If this was designed as a genocidal/depopulation event, we have seen nothing yet. Will we ever know how many people die from the jabs in the future? As much as data has been manipulated from the start, it's unlikely we will ever know.
I agree with Phoebe that our resistance needs to be multi-faceted, but our immune systems and general health are really important as we've learned through this. Getting more educated about how our immune systems are designed and how amazing they are is one thing I am thankful for as I've had immune issues most of my life. Our medical establishment is trained for disease and dysfunction, not to promote health. And Big Pharma is right there to ensure that all the disease they create, they have another drug to fix it.
All that to say that the globalist cabal is not going to give up so easily on their agenda to rule the herd. They are likely to double down if they believe they are losing this battle. I have to wonder if the latest narrative of "switching jerseys" is the calm before the storm. I'm not going to be lulled into complacency.
You understand there is a threat and given that most people don't see it, that is sharp thinking. Keep it up, stay active.
yes, we need to work on strengthening our immune systems but also on our overall systems. The more we're dependent on the current educational system, the food and supply systems, etc the more vulnerable we are to whatever the next plan is. There's a huge homesteading movement right now, but even small steps toward independence go a long way.
And what about those who are not in a position to do homesteading? People on limited incomes? People who don't own property and never will be able to own property? Are we simply to be written off? This is what turns me off about the whole homesteading/prepper/survivalist mentality; those that can afford to do it probably don't need to, and those that need to do it probably can't afford to.
Yeah, that's what my last sentence was about: I think any small steps toward independence (and interdependence within a community) are really important.
"if the mob surges through us, this is what happens." no argument there - but it's exactly the argument that I (and many others here, i bet) were making right from the start.
I'm standing up to it now - even to the point of learning to file my own lawsuits (highly recommend!!)- but gato's points above apply to me in the early days and definitely pre-pandemic. Before covid I knew corporations were corrupting our government AND I held a vague sense of the benevolence of government. Looking back, I don't know how I reconciled those two beliefs, but I do know why - it was convenient. Not proud of that :(
Look, there are plenty here (including my 19 year-old self) who believed the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" crap. I've pretty much woken up about the causes of 9/11, too.
I was never fooled by the HIV/AIDS scare, though. I give my fourteen year-old self a lot of respect for that!
There's plenty more just like those!
Thank you for having the critical thinking to change your mind and for having the courage to admit it. I truly hope there are a lot more out there like you!
Actually, I think there are! a LOT of people are paying attention in a new way
Yes, who's he writing this to?! Good for forwarding if you want some more "I told you so" ammo, but to be honest most people are just about half-waking up and not even thinking there's a society-wide problem to fix. If anything they're still taking their cue from the media, and it's mainly because the media have turned the tides to arse-cover themselves that articles are hitting the still-compliant populace.
I do wonder how I could have played it better with 2 year's hindsight?? The answer ElGato mentioned before is you will always get runover by the truck of media-Gov-institution. We're heading to Mexico which was more insanity-resistant than nations nearer the poles. And I can't be bothered to try and fix the society I grew up in, because it's no longer there... as Heraclitus said "no man can cross the same river twice"... the man isn't the same and the river doesn't remain the same either.
I've seen a range of emotions from "we can't move on until Nuremberg 2.0" to mine "I'm escaping to paradise somehow somewhere".
I'm into Joel Garreau's 'Prevail' hypothesis at the moment, so I think biding time in another locale and waiting for sanity to regain it's foothold is a valid process. And it might be something I need to lead my wife and kids more than once per lifetime... I'd much prefer roots, but I haven't been given strong ones to start and fowl winds like this means I'm more adept to flow away than stand and fight.
Voting with your feet is a valid type of resistance. If 10% did move away from madly locking down nations to more sane place, the narrative would have collapsed more easily. They need your labour/service to keep it all running.
I've been thinking about this myself.
It's not the government, and it's not really the media, Gato points out.
It's the people who give power to both.
We have fetishized "dEmoCRaCy!" where 50%+1 justifies anything, so now all of our public policy debates revolve around getting to that point where the slimmest majority can justify ANYTHING. No checks on the scope of the decision, no checks on the will of the majority, and no rights for the minority.
People have been taught and led themselves to believe that the only real thing that matters is the will of the majority. 50%+1 means absolute power with absolute moral authority, so that's all politicians care about.
The bad news is that it's a recipe for tyranny, the good news is that it's very easy to turn the tables.
when 70% of the polity are engineered half wits democracy becomes a menace.
When Dominion runs most of the voting machines, we don’t even have that.
democracy is a god that has failed...we should all embrace the non-aggression principle and anarchocapitalism...they must be the guiding principles or you are just squabbling over who gets to tell you what to do
I agree with Linda.
As a Canadian I got to see 90% of the population goosestep (with denial) in lockstep with this insanity. Despite losing my job over the shot without sympathy, much less praise. I saw Canadians bury their heads in netflix and amazon while local businesses got destroyed and regular people were robbed.
Are the public to blame? Absolutely. Are they solely to blame? Absolutely not.
This was a pre-planned agenda that includes state-sponsored mass murder. The public still has no clue about treatments that were suppressed. Nobody clamored for them to suppress life saving medicine.
It's also worth mentioning that this mass psychosis was the desired outcome of the Canadian military using psychological warfare tactics against the public. The disasterous COVID-19 response wasn't a cute accident of polling, but was a deliberate anti-human agenda.
Downplaying this only helps those trying to carry out genocide-by-lottery.
I'd be interested to see an analysis of whether the left's movement to change the governmental institutions to 'help' people have falsely given them the view of government as a saviour and protector, rather than something that should not be trusted and must be vigilantly watched.
Because I do personally believe that the major problem we had here was trust in institutions - both government and media - that should never have been trusted to begin with, that never had out best interests at heart.
There is a huge difference in the US between the Democratic Party and the "left." The Dems are not remotely liberal; in fact, not one of the candidates in 2020 except Sanders were even slightly left. Biden is very close to Trump in his policies and rhetoric. Democrats are, yes, very likely to switch on and off depending on which party has power. They are completely clueless about corruption in government in their own party, and have a very childlike, simplistic view of how politics works. The actual "left" detests the Democrats just as much as conservatives do, and the libertarian left is just as appalled as the right at the censorship, propaganda, corruption and anti-science agenda of the Biden administration. No journalist ever mentions this of course, because that would interfere with the narrative that dissent is coming from the "ignorant" right.
As a Canadian, I concur with all you have said. I am appalled and ashamed by this country and the people who live here. I was never a Canadian nationalist type but now I will work for the break-up of this rotten entity. Canada is an insignificant player in the world but if the break-up of the money and power centres here can be shown to weaken TPTB perhaps it can spread to the US, the EU and elsewhere. Maybe then we can regain some of our rights and freedoms in our smaller, weaker and more localized political units.
For the first time, I'm going to disagree with you about something. The public did not panic and force the government to be draconian. The government/5 eyes deliberately stoked panic through health agencies and the media with the full knowledge of what that does to a population. THEN they became draconian as a result of what they had pushed on people. That is behavior modification 101, and we already know they deliberately used those propaganda tactics "for our own good." This is made manifestly clear in Laura Dodsworth's book A State of Fear. So no, it's not the public's fault, unless you think they should somehow have overcome their genetic programming. Those of us temperamentally inclined to be suspicious and rebellious HAVE been fighting back, from the moment of our awakening.
I would also add that the images and reporting out of China in the beginning were terrifying, and reports were often portrayed as coming from secret reporters that the CCP would torture if they caught them. In the beginning I supported lockdowns because I really believed we were all gonna die because everyone in Wuhan was dying. All of that changed when they told us that you can't get covid from a mostly peaceful protest. I'm embarrassed to admit that the Chinese propaganda worked on me. And now I am embarrassed to admit that I trusted our health agencies in the beginning. Never again.
Yes, that is absolutely true.
I agree but it's the public's fault too. We lack virtue.
Yes, but think how hard the CIA has worked for decades to make sure that is true.
Sorry for the harshness...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSz73-iz6s
This just was published today, and discusses one of the propaganda techniques used by the UK. https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-the-government-abused-nudge-theory/
Says the anonymous person with a cat avatar. "We" are waging whatever small fights we can in our families, jobs, friend groups, etc. WTF else are we supposed to do - show up to a protest and get set up by the FBI? Wait for the next rigged election? Did protest end the Iraq war or get to the bottom of 9/11? This was not an organic response to clickbait pressure - it's a depopulation conspiracy waged by the same crew who start world wars. I wouldn't say the situation is hopeless, but the bad guys built the infrastructure, and 90% of people on earth are pathetic. We're doing what we can and hoping for the best.
these blackpill excuses ring pretty hollow.
you're supposed to not comply and to urge others to do the same.
we're supposed to get unified and hold the line from the beginning.
if we all had just gone into work, out to eat, ignored these ridiculous edicts, and stopped surfing panic porn, this could have been stopped.
if we had not, en masse, fallen for the "two weeks to flatten the curve" ruse that put the thin end of the wedge irrevocably in and instead said "no" in any meaningful numbers, this would not have happened.
perhaps we were not sufficiently organized last time.
but we are now and we need to stay that way.
protests are just energy sapping pressure releases if you then go home and submit. you seem to be jousting with a straw man there.
not sure what you're so angry at, but i doubt it's really me.
you sound like the kind of guy who has already packed it in and expects to lose.
perhaps if you were not, you might be less touchy...
i mean, look, if you won't, you won't. but grandstanding about conspiracies we cannot oppose is not going to solve anything.
My objections are against: 1) victim-blaming and moralizing, and 2) any notion of some decisive victory.
On a personal level, I fell for "2 weeks to flatten the curve," but was fully out of the trance by about April 2020 and have done everything I know how to enlighten people around me and online. How many people fell for (and still fall for) 9/11, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, etc. etc? History is a parade of big lies that enable world-transforming events. We're not going to protest our way out of a conspiracy this huge. It will eventually fade due to various entropic pressures (including resistance), and we'll be left with a big fucking mess. Either way, I'll be first in line to vote R across the board, pull my kids out of school when needed, quit my job, etc.
After decades of attempted political organizing and electioneering, or wallowing in the muck and mire of conspiracy culture, the pill gets pretty black. The only successful revolutions post-1776 were the Lincoln Republicans and FDR Democrats, both of which required widespread economic misery and institutional collapse to become possible.
this is not victim blaming. this is teaching people how to not get fooled again.
once we fell for "2 weeks to drive in the wedge" it was already over.
that's the lesson. it was not some surprise attack. they told us it was coming and they asked us to comply.
calling this "pearl harbor" is inapt. (and the lusitania, interestingly enough, was actually a fort sumpter type event. it was full of munitions.)
the lincoln republicans and the FDR democats were both fascist in inclination. if i had to point to the two presidents that have done the most damage to america, it would be those two. no one else is even close.
we're entering a new age of organization and communication and where many forms of rollback are becoming possible. and the economic misery and intuitional/societal collapse are getting pretty plain to see.
like it or no, this is going to be a pivotal period and we can come out on a path to liberty or heading down a totalitarian drain.
which will depend on how WE behave.
we already know what the lizard people want and what they will do. they're going to act like they always do. so that's not the question.
the question is "what are we going to do about it?"
"the lincoln republicans and the FDR democats were both fascist in inclination. if i had to point to the two presidents that have done the most damage to america, it would be those two. no one else is even close."
Woodrow Wilson is offended that he didn't even get an honorable mention.
alexander hamilton would like a word
Hamilton was never president. And "1776" is a better musical.
I was thinking the same thing. :)
And there's the big reveal - "liberty" as defined by Thomas DiLorenzo, Anthony Sutton and the rest of the right-libertarians. If Lincoln and FDR were fascists so were the (Hamiltonian) founders. Hamilton > JQ Adams > Henry Clay > Lincoln > FDR > JFK is the direct line of ideological succession. Note how every presidency ended with a bullet was a "big state" federalist. The permanent enemy is non-state "imperialism" which today is centered in London, Tel Aviv, Blackrock, the WEF, Swiss banks, etc.
Today a revolutionary movement, oddly enough, would look something like Trumpism without all the stupidity and jingoism - end free trade with tariffs, nationalize the Fed to build infrastructure (ie nuclear power plants, huge water projects), support farm prices (as FDR and Lincoln did), expropriate land from monopolists like Gates, redistribute it to family farmers, and a series of legal measures to protect the sovereignty of the individual - medical freedom, limits on corporate use of the "commons" (ie to smother the "internet of things" in its cradle). It's not goofy self-organizing internet collectives. Go look at the Podemos movement to see how that all works out.
The only hope for humans is to shave off the sharp edges of "imperial" power with state power, and it only works until it's so successful that everyone gets lazy and drops their guard.
Maybe someone like DeSantis will seize the moment and advance the ball down the field a bit. My big gripe is that "we the people" play the same role in all these processes that waves play in the ocean - we don't have much control over the consequences of our actions, especially when we don't have simple, shared goals. My source of hope is that discontent creates institutional failure, which creates a vacuum into which rapid change can take place. I'm voting for Lincoln (economic development) and not Andrew Jackson (false "liberty" in the service of British imperialism).
And how are going to oppose from the start a cyber pandemic or a systemic bank collapse?
You can take some steps to insulate yourself from the effects but unless we, as a whole, prepare for this and have a strategy and a plan, it's pointless to just say hold the line. If a cyber pandemic hits, we will be so disorganized that there won't be much we can do. If coupled with banks collapses/runs, other than having stockpilled food and be independent water and energy wise and hope for the better, what can you do? Do you think starving masses will listen to you instead of the authorities in charge? Do you think you have the ability to redirect mob fury where it should be directed in the first place? We are in very precarious position and there's not much we can do unless a very high percent of the people(I'd say 40-50%) truly understand what we are dealing with and are willing to not tolerate it all. That's not the case. We don't have these numbers. Even on our side there are prominent people with large followings, see Alex Berenson, who don't want to understand this is not incompetence. What the powers that shouldn't be are doing now by stepping back is just consolidating and giving the ones in the middle, who might go fully skeptical if the nonsense keeps going, the illusion that things are normal, the system is working and even if the decisions in the last 2 years weren't ideal, the illusion that the system works for them and that it can heal itself. It won't happen but the veil over the deceit will remain for longer. And soon we will be hit with another crisis. Very probable a cyber pandemic which will root the opposition as we have no plan on how to keep the communication going in such a case. That will dissolve any questioning voices from reaching the masses that are on the edge and might lean our way.
Take a listen to Brendon O'Connell on YouTube, who deals with issues like this in depth. Covid in part is about reshaping the balance of power - depopulating/de-industrializing the west and strengthening China's "Belt & Road" with the City of London banks and Israeli intelligence at the helm. We should probably be focusing all energy on "waking up" the US military and hoping to God not all decent, effective people have been purged from its leadership.
IMHO the only sources of hope are: 1) "Black swan" events like the Epstein network getting exposed, 2) The possibility of authoritative action by a future US president and military - this would involve expelling/detaining many dual citizens working as spies in the US, and possibly a period of isolation from the global economy where we shut off digital communication with the outside world and rebuild critical industries (this was the core purpose of the North in the Civil War), or failing all, 3) total collapse where those of us who know how to grow food have some hope of reconstituting a pre-industrial standard of living.
You left out woodrow wilson. I think he did more damage than either if those. But those are my top 3 rounded out by buden and carter....
frankly it is not about educating or enlightening the people around. rather it is about every single person in the know to not comply...ever...with government, corporate, etc edicts that go against personal freedom
it does not take that many to not comply to prevent these things from happening
as el gato is pointing out though, the problem is we almost all fell two weeks to stop the spread. we need to take that lesson and never comply with anything like that again.
This is only "victim-blaming" in the same sense that teaching women self-defense and concealed-carry skills so they can fight back against rapists is "blaming the victim." (Which is an accusation that is often lodged against organizations that go around doing anti-social things like teaching women how to fight back and shoot.) Sure -- in a just and perfect world our rights would be respected by default and defended by social consensus. That ain't the world we live in.
Top comment, obviously. Meow.
Are we sufficiently organized?
a good question.
i'm not sure. let's see how we do in the coming months.
if nothing else, we're sure well networked now.
this fight is about to move to new fields.
whether we can take our network with us to join them will be the true test.
We aren’t organized. And we’re very small. I have lost many friends/associates by failing to fall into the orthodoxy and trying to, very rationally, explain the true data-driven reality.
But I fear 90% don’t care and, worse, don’t *want* to care. Most of us are here because we care that the last 22 months has been fundamentally and criminally wrong.
But most people don’t think critically. Most don’t want to take responsibility for even themselves.
I don’t know how we proceed in this environment.
It’s a trend I’ve been observing for most of my 30 adult years.
Personal responsibility, owning your actions and your intent, doing the right thing that’s hard instead of the wrong thing that’s easy - the percentage of society that lives that seems smaller and smaller all the time.
How do we address this root cause?
I believe the first thing we do - and as quickly as possible (and many of us have been) - is to know our Enemy. To understand the Evil at work, truly down to the bedrock.
We need as many people to continue researching these hydras and screaming out the truth that they've found from the rooftops. We can't fight properly if we don't know who, what, and where to truly pick our battles.
We also move forward with faith, hope, and love. That might sounds idealistic, and some of us might not be able to. We've been scarred for life. Bells have been rung all over the universe that will never be unrung. But if we start out from any other mental and spiritual standpoint, we have no chance and might as well pack it up and head for the hills.
Hear me, I'm not an idealist. I'm a realist. I'm in no way into the froo froo woo woo, an approach like "if we just love our enemy, they'll put down their weapons and pack it in." That might work in some scrums, but it's not going to work in this endgame.
Our ally is and always has been Truth. We all need to hit the mines, as our Gato Pal has been doing for the last two years, and dig out as much truth - and state is as clearly, passionately, and purposefully - as we possibly can.
There's no way to see the big picture in this without Truth. And there's no movement if we have no hope. And there's damn sure no real world results if we aren't united.
We all have MANY differences of opinion. We all bring a unique perspective to this fight. We're going to have to extend MUCH grace to ourselves and the networks we're creating, because the Enemy wants us to feel incredibly ALONE. Divided. Out on an island of anger, regret, self-condemnation, guilt, and fear. It wants us hopeless, broken, wallowing on our knees.
I'm not willing to give the enemy that satisfaction. I'm going to play my own little part. The most unlikely things shift the outcome of great battles. Help often comes from the least expected places, never planned for or previously known.
If we go down, we go down digging - and then SHOUTING - Truth, using the systems in place against them, creating alternative systems as fast as we possibly can, and moving forward relentlessly.
Otherwise, let's pack it in. Each one of us needs to decide right now:
Fight or Flight? is this worth it, despite the costs, despite the odds?
I hate that I have to type this, because I know these words are going to come back to challenge me at some point. Yet if they do, so be it.
I would fight if it were just me. But I have a son and daughter, both under 15. I look in their innocent faces and groan and cry, knowing that if I don't stand for them right now, and stand with all I've got, they won't know a world that has any Light. They will be oppressed, treated like cattle.
Fuck that.
Infiltrate and take over the teaching profession and academia. Same with news, entertainment, and social media, and all levels of government. Change the culture back.
It may take some time...
It will take generations because the folks who train the teachers (university profs) and the teachers’ unions are all really, really terrible right now.
GETTR is the best glimmer of hope for real networking I see at the moment. Substack is fine for what it is, but it's not the same thing. And both are terribly vulnerable.
It is tempting to despair, but despair is wrong. Please keep up the good work.
Totally vulnerable in case of a cyber pandemic. And that it's coming. We need real world connections first and foremost.
... and do we need a common geographical location to place our headquarters, or is it now "online"?
I am a firm believer in geographic proximity. I am a member of an online Druid order and this has been an issue and discussion topic with my religious mentor for some time. While I understand the practical limitations (a small number of like-minded people spread across North America and beyond) and give everyone involved full marks for all the good work they do, there are logical limits to what can be achieved. You need physical contact in order to build the trust that is necessary for any social group to function successfully. Only after you have that trust can you build real community.
And real communities will be necessary to affect real change.
Thank God you weren’t around in 1776. Geez.
Do not comply with any of their BS. That is a start. Are you ordering from Amazon, watching the NFL or using a fake Covid test to get into places? Not striking when some company asshole makes you wear a mask? Then you’re feeding the Beast.
As for me-I will be at the rally in DC with bells on. I HAVE A RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE AND PROTEST.
No - I've resisted in every way I can find, have never taken a covid test, and have burned a lot of bridges in the last 2 years. Just objecting to the idea of this article, which is "our" collective responsibility for the actions of tyrants. Good for you - I hope a lot of people show up. 1776 was fought with cannons, not protests.
it is out collective responsibility to resist tyrants. they will always be there.
no one is coming to save us from them.
we must do it ourselves.
Yessss! 💯💯💯
Civil rights were secured with civil disobedience, not cannons. But ready if this is the way we must go.
Civil rights were also a convenient opportunity to break up Catholic neighborhoods and labor unions for the benefit of big auto, steel, etc. Covid will end when it's profitable to change the narrative.
So true. Follow the money. Always.
I'm going to knit a hair-shirt and buy more Bitcoin.
Make sure it's BSV and not BTC!
It is our fault. As a people we have allowed our children to be indoctrinated. We have not been active and discerning in the way we elect our officials. We have bought into the Regressive’s premises.
We own this 100%.
Some of us have been working very hard to raise kids that can think critically. It’s a challenge, for sure.
Yes, some of us figured out that what they called "challenging authority" and "thinking critically" in the schools was actually challenging parental authority and criticizing American ideals while requiring obeisance to the ideologies of one's teachers, many of whom didn't even realize how their beliefs were being manipulated by people for whom "freedom" and "equality" were NOT the end goals.
Look at the headlines about decreases in public school enrollment, increases in homeschooling, and reduced number of college applications. I don't know to which generation you belong, Cbdavis, but I believe you are probably right and also wrong-- this WAS (partially) the fault of people who didn't realize they were pawns in a larger game (I prefer not to place 100% of the blame on them, because: pawns), but many parents have been fighting back, and our movement is growing to include those I never would have expected...
I fought it from the beginning, but there's not much a then-78yo retired woman (now 80yo) can do except harangue people -- as I kept doing, mostly by reminding them of how we'd all come through bad epidemic seasons in the past without destroying our economy and entire culture. I especially harangued our pastor when our bishop closed down all our churches, reminding him that Christians shouldn't be terrified of germs or of each other, and that Christians are supposed to run toward each other in a crisis, not away from each other. I reminded a (former, now) friend who was afraid to be around people and wouldn't even leave his house that he'd helped me during the terrible 2018 flu season by bringing me food when I had the 3-week flu -- but all that happened was that he stopped speaking to me. And how could I "refuse to comply" and go to the restaurants when the restaurants were shut down?
In my city, the mayor has decreed another mask mandate. On the whole, I do not comply, except in the case of my hair salon, where my stylist will be evicted if her customers aren't masked. I hold the mask an inch in front of my face. I have been refused service at my favorite locally owned grocery for not wearing the mask, and I've told them I won't be back. (This is extremely inconvenient for me, since the next nearest food store is 4 miles away and my driving is becoming more difficult as my vision worsens.) Everywhere else, I just walk in without the mask and no one says anything to me. Exception: at the Post Office the other day, the clerk asked me whether I had a mask, and I just said, "I can't wear them." He got nervous, but he sold me my stamps. I've become accustomed to the idea that I have no access to medical treatment unless I agree to wear the mask and take the jab, and even then my quack "doctor" isn't interested in anything except covid and trying to pressure me into taking the jab, as I discovered when I tried to talk to her about my newly erratic blood pressure.
I've tried. I've done what I can. All I can do is more of the same, and keep repeating to myself that wonderful passage from e.e. cummings' "i sing of olav": "there is some sh*t I will not eat."
I live in a much freer place, for which I am grateful. The one danger I find is of growing bitter. At the beginning of this, I felt sympathy and a bit of empathy. I'm not known for being particularly brave or particularly optimistic, so I understood how people could panic, especially with the media running "death counters" and all the hyperbole. But the longer it's gone on the angrier I've grown with those around me who still run around with masks on their faces, yammering on about getting vaccines, and a medical system that's literally been leaving people to die alone because of something with an at worst 95% survival rate. I've grown angry that now the media is changing the narrative and these people are blaming others for having been "tricked." All I can think is you were only "tricked" because you didn't listen to those of us who were screaming at you to wake up. And in my darkest moments, I conclude (this is the bitter part) that perhaps this "plague" wasn't quite bad enough because I'm quite tired of humanity as a whole and think it could use some weeding through.
The cynic might say that the sudden media shift is in response to President Brandon’s dismal poll numbers. $5 gets you $20 if Brandon doesn’t declare “the Covid crisis is over” at the SOTU.
The reason it was delayed to March is to give some time for the new messaging to work.
The Fauci leaks are probably designed to take out Tony Baloney who is starting to look like a liability.
The change is because the holy vaxxed are getting Omicron, which has two impacts: 1) they realize the vax wasn’t was advertised, 2) they aren’t dying and the bulk of their friends aren’t dying.
This has made them more skeptical. That is being reflected in the polls. That is scaring the Dems. That is shifting the media.
I doubt Tony gets thrown under the bus. He knows where every body is buried. You don’t last that long that high up in the federal bureaucracy without some serious CYA insurance.
It was delayed until March because spring works every time.
Interesting prediction .... how does the up-coming SCOTUS ruling on the OSHA vax mandate play in here? - anyone? - is it an open secret in DC that it will be struck down? (I think it could go either way) If this "it's over" thinking is correct, perhaps "they" want it to be struck down ... it can't be "over" if OSHA goons spread out throughout the land with their six figure fines in hand.
The "Supreme" Court will sit on the fence and issue a mixed opinion - reinstall the stay for the private businesses and not for the CMS businesses. Because science. The virus only attacks health care workers and not private non-health care workers.
There will be two majority opinions, two concurring opinions and one dissenting opinion. And it will be all gobbly-gook. Because law.
The SCOTUS is there to give legal cover for whatever policy preferences the “justices” vote they want.
thanks - perhaps the safest bet is if the decision is not what the NYTimes wants and if it not unanimous, the court will be said to be "deeply divided".
I suspect they know the mandates will fail.
I suspect they *knew* they’d fail, but would provide bullying coverage for all the private corps to do their own policies in the meantime while the actual mandate weaved its way through court.
I had that feeling as well. And it’s interesting that SCOTUS is sitting on it until after the mandate effective date. So the bullying can go on, but then the mandate will be struck.
The new normal needs to start with accountability & liability. The players who orchestrated this must be stripped of all their assets. Ill-gained + everything. Including their freedom. This was mass murder on an unknown scale, given we don't know the long term effects of the jabs. And unforeseeable costs of care for the jab-damaged.
Until they are in prison, where they will own nothing, have zero privacy, zero control over their own lives & be miserable, they will continue to plan away.
Last evening was my 1st gun class. My 1st step into my new normal.
We’re not even at the beginning of the end. At best, we’re approaching the end of the beginning, the first phase. If I were among the crooks, I’d long ago have anticipated a “moment” like this, and calibrated what % vaccination will permit me to push on with VaxPass, which has currency in more places than it doesn’t.
If the numbers were ok, I’d move ahead with VaxPass.
If the numbers are low to vulnerable, I’d hasten up Plan B.
If yet another new virus shows up, we all know what to do.
I’m not convinced society would react very differently.
Much of Europe is in the toilet, certainly for the unvaccinated. VaxPass is only just getting it’s legs in England, but much more developed in Scotland, Wales & NÍ.
There are no legislative methods for unwinding it.
I also remain anxious about the financial system instability. Anytime they want, they can trigger a mess.
So, stand firm AND very watchful.
And yet, with negative vaccine efficacy, none of this is at all defensible! Complete insanity!
I feel so exhausted after a year of being on high alert. With your message, Dr. Mike, there's no break in sight, even as the clouds seem to be parting now.
Find a good pace for you to continue to be alert and fight the fight as best you can. The key is to victory is to never, ever quit.