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What a thought!! Sometimes the male roles I see portrayed in TV commercials and programs are so limp-wristed, I want to puke. If I were to start a new family again (I'm 73), I'd move to an isolated rural home with no TV or any devices for the kids and home school (already did that).
Someone pointed out "hard times make hard men". I know hard times are coming - eventually - and nobody is ready for that.
Oh - on a personal note - I'd marry a woman who wanted six kids.
Great news. I’m so proud that my first grandbaby is vaccine free and my soon to be second is going to be too. Both my married sons aren’t falling down that hole but neither did I 32 years ago. Even back then we, in the vaccine safety movement,knew the CDC was lying and covering up the truth. Covid made it all come to light.
We had no idea til Covid, although I didn’t get my daughter the HPV vaccine when it came out so I guess I was suspicious even back then. But boy oh boy are we aware now.
My daughter was "advised" into taking the HPV when she was 18--I only learned later. I think of it as the slut shot (just this moment coined that--hope you like it). What point for a virgin determined on staying that way until marriage?
Yes! Love it! The “slut shot”! When my daughter was 12 or 13, the nurse asked me to leave the room for about 5min and I thought she was going to ask some mental health questions. Nope, she was trying to convince my daughter to get the “ slut shot” ! Thankfully my daughter declined saying that she’d want to talk to me about it first. On the way home we had a good talk about it. Don’t let the medical staff make you leave the room until they’re 18. By then you shouldn’t be taking them to the doctor anyway…they should be doing that- after you’ve taught them about how to say no to things you don’t want to happen to your body.
My SON was talked into by our doc!!!! He was maybe 14 and Oregon law said the doc didn’t have to consult ME THE PARENT! She was our family doc. At that point I had no reason to distrust her. Until my son came home and said he got the HPV shot. I was livid!!!! HE IS A BOY!!! I cannot tell you the immense betrayal I felt at that point. I was sick and still am about it. That was the downward spiral of me and doctors. That was over ten years ago too.
So thankful that you passed on the HPV vaccine for your daughter. Those commercials were highly propagandized just like COVID. Doctors pushed them the same way as the COVID vax.
They are being pushed heavily on media in Canada right now. Use the same propaganda as CoVid with impressionable young people- you’re doing it to “keep others safe”.
I don’t have any daughters, but I remember when that shot came out, thinking that if I had a preteen or child under the age of 18 who was sexually active, that I would have much bigger problems on my hands than worrying about them getting genital warts or eventually cervical cancer in their 50s.
Excellent point. At least one good thing that has emerged from the Covid-19 fiasco was to expose the corruption from top-to-bottom in the entire medical-industrial complex, of many government agencies, corporations, &c. In truth, the problems have existed for many decades. The malfeasance of the Covid-19 response, however, seems to be without historical precedent.
I wasn't as wise in my younger years but I surely "wised up" in the past 5 years!! I guess my critical thinking skills were not inherited by my two sons--they and their families have been jabbed (and my youngest was even boosted - which saddens me greatly). They won't even accept the worthy advice I gave to them from Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Joseph Mercola about how to "detox the spike protein from the 'virus' and/or the 'jab'!!
I caved to the HPV shot for my 13yo daughter after a friend of a friend got throat cancer. There aren’t Pap smears for that. Big regret knowing what I know now. But she’s currently pregnant with our first grandchild 🥳
I wanted the half dozen but got five amazing ones! The rural life is for me but hubby likes convenience so stuck in the ever over-crowding of a Houston suburb. I personally like a challenge and simplification and neighbors a LOT further apart! I did say I wanted six kids but God blessed me with five of the best. It was His plan. I am still keeping my eyes open for that house in the country…
Yes. I used to like that show Everybody Loves Raymond, then I stared noticing inept they made him look. Basically the whole show was about how dumb the man was. It got to me after a while and I stopped liking it.
This “dumb husband/man” has been going on for ages. Most TV shows have smart Alec kids and wimpy dads (if at all) and wonder mom. Just why I don’t watch TV
And yet, he seems a lot manlier than the new generations of young men nowadays. I say, Al should have married a good wife instead of Peggy - but that wouldn’t have been funny. The way zal looks up to John Wayne is.
It reminds me of Blast From The Past movie with Brenden Frasier. An innocent, mostly unworldly man (unworldly aside from the world education his rocket scientist father taught him) must go into the "world" more than 30 years after his birth--for the first time.
I've been thinking about it a lot lately--particularly the part where the father goes above ground and sees who he believes to be some sort mutant species from nuclear fallout! 😂
Brendan Fraser had a tough time of it after he was groped/molested by a Hollywood producer at one of their big parties. Not sure he ever said who it was, but it caused him to quit movies altogether for a time. Or maybe blacklisted, not sure.
I feel the same way. At 55 my one regret is that I only had the one. I would have loved to have had 3 or 4 but I didn't meet my current (wonderful) husband until I was 36 and he didn't want any kids so I just hung up my dream. He figured since I had the one I would be ok with no more and I was, I just wish I had had more that's all. Still not a grandma yet either, my son (34) was seriously watching the mistakes and is waiting for "the one" which he thinks he will never find because I ruined him for all other women with my competency and lack of overly emotional behavior. Poor kid. I'm sure there's some out there, he just works from home and doesn't go out much any more. He needs to go back to church!!
My son too. We have an intellectually disabled daughter and gave up the dream of a her having a family a very long time ago. All the eggs are in my son’s basket ( 😂 ) to give us grandkids and every year that goes by I have to give up that dream a little more of ever having any. It’s hard to watch all our friends and family members be grand parents with the more than likely chance now that we will never have that. My son is a very handsome (from what girls say) catch. Strong morally and ethically, hard worker. But just can’t find Mrs right. Maybe he’s being too picky. Idk. I’d rather him be picky than end up in a bad marriage too. So we wait and see.
I'm in his boat. More or less. And they don't exist at Church either. My choir director and I lament this regularly. The only women we see are married/pregnant, or wayyy too young.
Grew up on 78 acres in the 70's. Some "chores" to build a work ethic and being responsible, but a lot of play too! I wanted six kids also. But God granted me one! And I hope to find some acreage to let my daughter, SIL, and granddaughter experience life on a farm. Maybe I will be blessed with 6 grandkids!!! That would be awesome! Make today epic everyone!
Did that. It worked pretty well. But they have to make their way in an evil world and it's just the same no matter what era you live in. It's war. War is bad but it isn't hell. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own (family) soul" . -MyVersion
I'm right there with you! Even faith-based films do the same - like The Blind Side and others. Strong women characters with weak men counterparts does not honor God and his instructions for men to be the leaders in their homes (as well as the church, but that's another topic).
I told my ex-husband I wanted six kids. He didn’t run away, so I married him. I got four wonderful ones out of him before his father scared him into a vasectomy, which was the beginning of the end because it threw him into midlife crisis mode.
I'm 71. I wanted 6 but hubby wanted none, but he finally agreed to one. When I started praying for a sibling for my first son, God gave us another son despite the precautions we took, my miracle baby. Didn't get my 6, but I'm grateful for the two I have. They are amazing sons.
Funny in that my husband wanted 12 and I wanted none. That changed after we married. I wanted a couple and he wanted a couple. So we had a couple. Now, if I had it to do over again…I would’ve had the 12. 😂 My husband says never and he’s glad we stopped at two. But we both desperately want grandkids that we may never get.
Wish I'd met you 50 years ago!! LOL. I wanted six kids but only had 3. I was raised an only child and always loved visiting my friend's house which was filled with 9 kids! It was chaotic but wonderful.
Jeff, I don't get fooled often on April Fool's Day. But, because it was so likely to actually happen, I fell, hook, line, and sinker for your "Sniffy wandered off for ice cream" story yesterday! It was very believable indeed!
Yep! Got me too. Sad that Jeff’s story rang so true. There’s a reason for all the locked doors in dementia facilities, and local “silver alerts” at least once a week.
Except for me knowing that the SS has eyes on the president every second, which made me doubt the otherwise very believable story of Joe wondering off. Dementia causes people to wonder, so if it was anyone else, it could have been true.
I’m seeing in hazy memory an event with the Obamas where a couple gained access at the entrance by claiming they were the sign language translators for BO’s talk … it’s rare, but it happens. And with DEI and a general crumbling of competency everywhere, I totally believed yesterday’s Childers tale!
I was fooled, too. It was very plausible. My dad had Alzheimer's and had Sundowner's where he would wander off in the afternoons or evenings, so my guess is they have someone attached to Joe all the time to make sure he can't do that. I am convinced he has Alzheimer's. He shows all the symptoms my dad had.
Are we sure that was a prank? This is the man who held his cue-card the wrong way round during a conference. Or was it an advertorial for Alzheimer's care? They'll wander off, so be prepared ...... oh, no mention of the electronic tracker they're sure to have put on him for just such occasions. Yeah, prank. Good one, Jeff :D
This wouldn't have helped John in his case, but for all of us this video explains exactly why you don't talk to the police *ever* even if you're not guilty and a fine, upstanding citizen trying to do the right thing.
If Jeff watches it is hope he'd weigh in, as well. It's a law professor and police investigator both telling law students why not. How innocent people get snared. Don't do it. It's *never* in your best interest.
About 40 minutes. Best 40 minutes you'll spend on the internet.
Law professor talks fast, gotta keep up, but he's entertaining and informative. Detective's telling why he holds every advantage that jumping into the ring with him is foolish for anyone, even the completely innocent.
Thanks Yuri. I do pray for so many these days: including Biden, Wray, Garland--all those who have been put in places of power or authority. It's instructive to read Judges. There's a plan here.
i've heard him speak..a bit eccentric but harmless old guy who's NO Conspiratorial Insurrectionist, he's nothing like the Leftist everyday Joe or Jane that needs a visit from FBI about their hateful social media posts, or the Entire Leftist Media and Political class spewing hate every day
He’s a brilliant lawyer & was a popular professor at Chapman University in CA before being forced out. Lots of good background on his Give Send Go page. https://www.givesendgo.com/Eastman
hardly. Perhaps he was not bubbly and chatty due to a gout flare up or something. He wasn't boisterous, pushy, hateful or rabid, he IS elderly so what part is disrespectful? i didn't say those were his main or only features...just counter to the Leftist Media-S.S. portrayals of him. Ok he was entertaining and insightful and experienced and i enjoyed his public speaking and topical discussion. One person next to me labelled him a crackpot and i mentioned that i do not agree with that label.
Yes, if the penalty is years in jail for lying to them, the penalty they should face for lying should be ten fold. How did self-respecting free men ever countenance such idiocy in the first place?
Wouldn't that be nice. These days there aren't even any penalties for lying to a FISA court to get wiretaps on the Trump campaign.
Many powers were granted to the FBI with the understanding that they are only to be used against "terrorists" and serious crime. If they can't handle the responsibility they shouldn't have those powers. Other examples would be RICO or charges of "conspiracy" - as any viewer of corporate media knows conspiracies are entirely theoretical and don't exist.
That would really only apply when federal agents are lying to each other though? Or is it specifically forbidden for a federal agent to lie to a citizen?
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Thank you for the YouTube link. I heartily agree with everything said.
People today watch WAY too many movies. In the movies, people believe that they must let police search their car simply because the police have asked to. People in movies also feel obligated to pop the trunk when the police say something ridiculous like, "Well, if you have nothing to hide." It's also interesting that in the movies the police seldom have a warrant nor is the driver under arrest when they ask to look in the trunk or search the car.
It's shocking how Hollyweird influences people to do dumb things. Even more shocking is how people who are OBVIOUSLY influenced by Hollyweird deny it.....GEEZ!
Yeah, I agree. They can tell you anything, but if you say the sky is blue, when there are clouds in the sky (making it blue AND white), then BOOM! You're in deep doggy doo doo.
And once they got you convinced that they have you for lying or are just going to make your life difficult (the process is punishment enough as Jeff alluded to in the main article) they can then use this as leverage to get you to entrap someone else or become an informant or whatever. At the very least they can hit their quota for investigations.
In fact that's why they're there. To fully forcefully demonstrate that Their LIES will destroy you. Even truth and facts are provable lies with some minor shading or being asked to relate something 5 different occasions and relating it slightly differently, they WILL Catch 22 you and it's over. Winston and Julia are the example for us.
Look up "legal brothers". They do videos, notably one called "Shut the f*ck up Friday". Their specialty is DUI and their strongest advice is. ...."shut the f*ck up". They're pretty funny, a little blue.
Another tip: If someone you don't know comes to your door... Just don't answer it! I never open the door for anyone I'm not expecting. Just avoid the encounter altogether. They may come back again and again and finally leave a letter or something on your door and then stop coming. No... we do not have to interact with the gestapo at all. It's best to avoid them altogether and not put ourselves in a position where we will accidentally say the wrong thing when we are a nervous wreck.
Me too. I just look out the window and walk away. If they want me for something my landline number is easily available and they can leave a message. I don’t answer that either, though.
I don't even bother to look. If the husband is home he will open it but I think he is just looking to get his stateside hahaha. (JUST KIDDING FBI) Nobody smart just comes knocking on doors around here anyway. Small town, very conservative, military base attached to the town. Really only have issues here in certain locations. But nah, I never answer the door. Ever.
Maybe I should make a recording of a big dog barking in the background. Activate it behind the door and don’t open it. It could be on my phone. There was a great one on a police series yesterday. 🤔🤔. Or search “giant dog with vicious bark”
I think there really are mp3s of such sounds out there for your downloading pleasure. I always liked the sound of a shotgun shell getting jacked into the chamber but that’d escalate the FBI encounter in the wrong direction!! So the vicious snarling dog sound would be much better! LOL
Me too. One time I was being sued and a guy was trying to serve me papers. He kept knocking and leaving post-it messages on my door. I never answered the door or called him back, thinking he was a scammer. Eventually he staked out my house and caught me as I was coming in.
In 2010, I had a census taker continually knocking on my door, which I refused to answer. I had already filled out the census card (the real one, not the BS 27-page “how many square feet is your bedroom and what time of day do you leave for work” questionnaire). One night after dark, I left the house to walk the dog and that MFer was hiding in the bushes waiting for me. I was livid and chewed him out up one side and down the other. “I’ve filled out your stupid form, there is no other reason for you to to be creeping around my house, and if I ever see you on my property again, I’m calling the cops.” He didn’t come back again. I answer the door for no one except people I know are coming, or neighbors I trust (and sometimes not even them).
I must have been temporarily ? insane a few weeks ago when I opened the door to a woman and ended up letting her in, only to find out she was there to demonstrate a Kirby vacuum. I advised her very early on that I was definitely not buying, but she was determined to go through the entire spiel, which included a quick cleaning of my rug. (That part was nice.) I continued to tell her I was not going to buy and she finally said, "I know, you've told me a million times." When she left, both of us were annoyed.
I don’t know, maybe you should have bought the vacuum. :-). My mom had a Kirby vacuum back in the day and it was built of steel like an Army tank and it lasted for multiple decades. You couldn’t kill that thing. All the vacuums sold today at the big box stores are made of cheap plastic in some Godforsaken third world country and they invariably die within a couple of years. Into the trash they go. Then they sell you a new one that also breaks. It’s their business model.
Talk to an appliance repair man before you buy one. One told me how terrible new refrigerators are these days so when mine started making noise, I had him come out and repair something rather than have it go out and have to buy one of those unreliable new ones. Mine is still going strong after 20 years.
I certainly led the comments in a different direction. 🙂 It's tough buying appliances now. We got a new Samsung washer and dryer a few years ago. Shortly after the warranty expired we had to have a $450 repair done. Our repairman told us Samsung is not a good brand.
Wow...when I was a teenager, I did door-to-door sales for Kirby and they were built like tanks. So was Electrolux. If the house had one of them, I knew to cut the sales pitch short.
Six years ago, I bought a new washer and dryer set. Instead of buying the new, top of the line, electronic versions, I bought the bottom of the line "cheap" old-school version. My reasoning was that this is old technology and not rocket science so stick to the tried and true. Not one problem with them. My sister, however, bought the top of the line, expensive electronic front-loading versions and immediately had problems. Never worked right so she got rid of the washer and replaced it with another top of the line, top-loader. I could have bought two or three sets of the old-school versions for the money she has poured into them.
Dishwashers too. Ours is less than 5 years old and is currently a lovely stainless steel dish drying box. My husband is the "new" dishwasher since we are both too cheap to replace it. Pretty sure the motherboard is shot--he's only had it apart 7 or 8 times to fix it before it finally bit the dust (starting after the warranty expired of course). And the fridge has a bad bearing in one of the circulation fans that needs replacing too--same age. Ugh!!
Happened with my expensive front loader washing machine years ago. Repairman said it would cost more to replace the computer parts than to buy new. This happened to a few people I knew.
My dishwasher just died after 14 years. When I went out looking for a replacement, everybody said they may last 5, 6 or seven years at best so I bought one, but I also bought a five year warranty on it. My GE refrigerator lasted for 22 years! At year 20 my husband and I replaced some small things on it and got it running again properly but then it just died after 2 more years. I guess I got a pretty good run if it lasted 22 years. Then I got a Kitchen Aid one at 66% off because it was dented in the back. I bought it with a good price on a 5 year warranty. Someone told me that even the most expensive Viking refrigerator won’t last any longer than some of the cheaper ones.
Be aware new dishwashers do not have the same capability as old ones. TPTB have cut the allowable energy and water consumption ( you can do one, or the other , and not sacrifice performance ,but not both). We opted to spend $1500 to repair our Subzero refrigerator because new ones use benzene and are no where near as efficient or durable as new refrigerators.
Yes my sis told me always get the extended warranty on fridges and dishwashers. They break so easily now!
A service guy told us the popular French door fridges have a design flaw that causes a drainage tube to freeze so then water collects on the freezer’s floor but then as it warms when you open the freezer door it melts and leaks onto the floor.
But can you be sure Kirby vacuums are still being made as a quality device, or have they shipped manufacturing off to China? I don’t know, so just asking.
Almost every appliance and product today is made in China including many once highly thought of top of the line brands. Many say “designed” in the USA but the bottom line is they are made in China, and have a poor track record of longevity or quality.
I have an old Oscar mini food processor that I’ve had for ages that is still going strong; it says on the bottom “made in France” so I’m hanging onto it. So many reviews of products today people complain how they crap out in a matter of months. It’s sad.
Remember when toasters were built like tanks? My sister had a toaster that was passed down from grandfather that still worked great. Lord knows how old it was.
I am using a '50s Toastmaster 1B14 model I found in a thrift store. Cleaned it up, installed a new cord and it's great! There's a fellow in New York that rebuilds old toasters, the demand is strong. I hope Trump wins re-election and brings back appliance manufacturing to America!
I think my Oscar mini food processor is about that old too (40 years) but I can’t remember for sure so I didn’t date it. There are a lot of old appliances I WISH I HAD HELD ONTO.
I bought a Miele made in Germany. Love it. For about 25 years I had an Electrolux canister. Then I thought I wanted a Dyson because it was lightweight; didn’t even last eight years. The Miele is a canister and lightweight. I understand their products last a long time and the owner of the vacuum store, which is a very small independent shop in my small town, said she thinks it is the best vacuum. And she should know because she’s got a shop full of dinosaurs that mainly look like Dysons lol
DeWife got a Miele. And if you love it, I know why. They are really cool and built well.
I am still using my Simplicity vacuums bought in 2008 maybe. I had to replace the hoses and one wan which broke. The motors are really good. Replacing was cheaper than buying new. Vacuum cleaners must be one of the best inventions ever. And I wonder. What did people do before they were invented?
They swept their floors and took out rugs, hung them and beat them till the dirt came out. Also put them in the snow as it's a great cleanser. I use these methods myself!🤗
Yes ... that was how it was done and a big deal if one had large carpets. But I did not know about the snow. (Take good care of yourself because it is a mean, mean world out there.)
After doing tons of research I bought a cordless Dyson V11 about 5 yrs ago. I loved that think despite it's nearly $700 price.
Trouble was, it was constantly needing parts due to my using it every single day. (We have 2 hairy beasts.)
About 6 mos ago, I finally gave up on it after spending more on parts than the original purchase price. I still miss it - it vacuumed dog hair like no other vac.
We also got a robot vac a couple years ago. It was awesome too. But after 11 mos of daily use it finally refused to run any more and gave up the ghost.
Years ago, I used to clean houses and some customers had a Kirby to use, I used to joke that you needed to be a body builder to use it! It did clean pretty good though.
I've had one for many years, and know how good they clean. Unfortunately, now that I'm older I am finding it too heavy for me. I was just thinking the other day that I need a lighter weight one upstairs and another downstairs. LOL!
We bought an Electrolux sometime before 1977 and then got snookered into buying a Rainbow. It was okay, just a hassle to deal with the water. We later gave it to our son, who has allergies, and his then wife left the water in it and ruined it almost immediately.
Egad I had a Rainbow AND a kirby I was SUCH a sucker in the '80s & '90's and I couldn't even afford either one at the time. This is why I never answer the door!!! Lessons learned.
Same with your phone… don’t answer unknown numbers. Scammers out there. Also don’t return the call if they say they are law enforcement or a process server. Even if they are legitimate, you have no obligation to make their job easy for them.
A lot of us use this strategy. It’s usually a salesperson anyway. The only person for whom we open the door, is someone from our local sheriff’s department. They do a good job of protecting our neighborhood, and will sometimes stop to ask if we’ve seen anything that might help them.
That is unfortunate. At least you know not to open your door to him! Ours lives in a nearby neighborhood, across the street from a good friend from church. I almost feel like I know him personally because he’s so well known in the neighborhood and throughout the county. He’s solid as a rock and we are blessed to have him.
Ours is a she. Herself a longtime bureaucrat that donated to the head of our county council. Who picks the sheriff. Evidently the citizens voted to give up their right to elect a sheriff a few years ago. Not sure where the votes came from
I do my part SPH. Of course my vote doesn’t really count - I live in the bluest county (King) in a Blue state ( WA). Leadership is Filled with communists & people that work in tech, many who fit the above description & many who don’t pay attention but always vote D. WA state is known to cheat when it comes to counting votes. See Dino Rossi / Christine Gregorio governor race. These communists passed a bill last month requiring LGBTQ curriculum be taught in public schools. Most people are against it.
I'm a little down the road from you, on the outskirts of Jeff's favorite city, Portland. I understand the stolen vote, mail in balloting originated in Oregon in 1998. We've gone further left every election since. Speaking of great governors, ours just hired her wife as special assistant to the governor to the tune of almost 12K a month. Plus benefits, including a permanent police detail. Some speculate it is to keep her (the wife, it gets confusing) on a leash and in control as she supposedly is alcoholic and depressed.
”For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.“
speculating, repeating lies and misinformation, discourse are possible criminal conspiracy. Why even shutting down the government is Insurrection apparently that's why no one dares attempt it.
Speaking of hate crimes, Scotland just passed a new hate crime law that CJ Hopkins wrote eloquently about:
The Hate Police
CJ HOPKINS
APR 2
Scotland’s new “hate crime” law took effect today. It’s called “The Hate Crime and Public Order Act.” It criminalizes, not only the “expression of hatred,” but also the “stirring of hatred” against a range of “protected” groups defined by disability, age, faith, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and so on. From now on, any form of expression that the authorities consider “likely” to offend a member of one of these “protected groups” will be a “hate crime,” punishable by up to seven years in prison. According to the law, any form expression that “a reasonable person would consider threatening, abusive, or insulting” may be subject to prosecution.
In 2005, one of my plays — screwmachine/eyecandy: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Bob — was presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Scotsman “Fringe First” award for new writing.
Here’s one of the reviews (emphasis mine):
“The spectacle of international capitalism rolls on, an obscene parade of consumerism and greed, the insistent beat of its drum disorienting its willing victims – you, me, everybody. But how do you metaphorise something which is so total that our organic selves are concealed beneath a mound of consumer goods by an entire world view that has replaced the natural with something totally alien to human nature? A game show, of course. CJ Hopkins’ superb rendering of the monstrous alienation created by contemporary consumer society sees Big Bob (David Calvitto) shepherding a lower-middle class American couple Dan (Bill Colieus) and Maura (Nancy Walsh) on a bizarre retro 50s American set, through a succession of meaningless and increasingly sinister questions and activities. Meanwhile, the terrifying figure of Vera (Mike McShane), a gigantic and grotesque transvestite, awaits, punishing those who transgress the unstated, oft-changing rules of the game. This all gets increasingly gruesome, in John Clancy’s assured production, as the two contestants are first showered with contempt by Bob, whose achievement ethic is his only sustaining myth, then beaten by Vera. The idea that those who the gods choose to destroy, they first make mad pulses through the piece, as reality itself is surrogated by the media spectacle of the game show. The early tittering of the audience is transformed into a grim silence, for there is a recognizable truth at the bottom of this agit prop drama, and its about truth, which is generated not by rational observation, but hysterical ideology in our society. The direct confrontation with both philosophical and really quite everyday realities of Hopkins’ text is strong meat, and might not be to all tastes, but this is high quality, and genuinely thought provoking entertainment.” **** THE LIST
What do you think? Is my 20-year-old award-winning play likely to offend a member of one of those protected groups? If it were presented at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, what are the odds that someone would find it “threatening” and “abusive,” or even just “insulting,” and report it to the Hate Police?
Fortunately, that is not going to happen, because this play would never be produced nowadays. A producer would have to be professionally suicidal to attempt to stage a play like that in this cultural/political climate. Moreover, no playwright would write such a play, much less attempt to get it produced. Their agent would summarily fire them. Their publisher would dump them. Their career would be over.
Which is the point of all these new “hate speech” laws, and the “sensitivity readers” that aspiring young writers know are going to be meticulously scrutinizing their manuscripts for signs of “hateful” depictions of members of “protected” groups or “harmful” or “abusive” expressions. Can you imagine any of the big five corporate publishers releasing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer today? Naked Lunch? Gravity’s Rainbow? Or even Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian?
No, the primary goal of all this criminalization of speech is not to hunt down and arrest every individual “hate criminal.” It is to generate a climate of paranoia, and condition people to censor themselves, not just writers and artists, everyone, but, absolutely writers and artists, who are, after all, the producers of culture.
This conditioning doesn’t work on literary renegades like me who gave up on the mainstream decades ago, and it certainly isn’t working on J.K. Rowling, who just posted this “criminal” Twitter thread and invited the Hate Police to arrest her …
… which, I’m not a Harry Potter fan, but think I’m developing a crush on J.K. Rowling.
But seriously, those of us writers and artists who are either too rich and famous to be fucked with, like J.K. Rowling, who could probably buy Scotland if she had to, or who are well past the Age of Aspiration and so couldn’t give a shit, like me, need to set an example for all those young, aspiring writers and artists, who are being systematically creatively neutered and molded into boring, conformist, paranoid pussies.
Oh, and for the record, before anyone calls me a “transphobe,” I have nothing against “gigantic grotesque transvestites,” or dainty beautiful transvestites, or any other kind of transvestites, or transexuals, or any other variety of “sexuals.” I’ve spent a lot of my life working in the theater, which, in case you didn’t know, is just swarming with gay people, and other varieties of alphabet people. I like gay people. I like being swarmed by them. If I weren’t so straight, I’d gladly be gay, or non-binary, or whatever the kids are these days.
Oh, yeah, and about the “pronoun” thing. I was “using pronouns” in San Francisco in the 1980s before the dotcom boom, when most pronoun-Nazis hadn’t even been born. I was happy to do it. It just felt natural. But then, no one was threatening to arrest me for “misgendering,” or “stirring up hatred” with one of my stage plays, or prosecuting me for criticizing the government, or otherwise behaving like a bunch of brainwashed neo-Maoist cultural revolutionaries.
OK, I’m digressing, and it’s getting late here, so I’m going to wrap this rant up and go make dinner. I’ve written more extensively about The Criminalization of Dissent, and The War on Insensitivity, and the new Totalitarianism, and the Hate Police, and so on, for many years now. If you want to read that stuff, it’s here in the archives.
If you want to read my old “hate crime” play, you can purchase it from Broadway Play Publishing, or at your local drama bookstore, if you have one of those. Oh, and, if you feel like reading a novel that hasn’t been “sensitivity edited” or otherwise fed through the corporate-publishing machine … well, I think I’ve got one for you.
If you read it and enjoy it, maybe pass it on to any young aspiring writers you know. It won’t magically undo their paranoia and conditioning, but it might rattle their cages a little bit, especially if you let them know that it’s still selling steadily, seven years after it was published.
OK, one last thing, then I’ll let you go. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows J.K. Rowling, please give her my best regards, and tell her I said … well, basically, “Fuck the Hate Police!”
So, if someone in a foreign country puts something in writing that is published in their native land then read on a web forum (Substack, Le Monde, Hindustan Times) in Scotland, is that author subject to the Scots' law? Is the reader on Scotland soil subject to the law? Even if they never breathe a word about what they've consumed? Implying, since web content is being referenced in the example, the Scotland Hate Police are tracking your every click, or eye movement 👀. If someone unashamedly proclaims publicly they believe in God, which declaration may be offensive to atheists, or vice versa (among protected groups I read "faith") are they subject to the new law? All rhetorical. This is where the mind goes contemplating crazyland. Guess we'll be seeing the self-respecting, self-aggrandizing, sheep-brained Nazis show their colors in Scotland. Maybe a movement will be born, like the ULEZ dissidents in London. One can hope.
The regime (via the FBI) *really* wants to know what you think. Thankfully, we all jump on social media and tell everyone what we think on a daily basis. Sometimes it's what we say, other times it's what we don't say. Sometimes it's who or what we "like". Whatever the case, the sum total of all our published and knowable thoughts are being catalogued and analyzed, most likely by AI. A profile is being developed. Couple that with our location information (we carry location trackers [phones] everywhere we go) and purchases (Visa and Mastercard are happy to comply) and know that you are an open book.
So back in the early days of the scamdemic, both Google (Android, I believe) and Apple agreed to share location data with the government in the name of safety. They said it was voluntary and you had to opt in, but I don't believe them. I got rid of my not-smartphone and have zero regrets. Anyhow.... I don't know if that agreement was ever removed. I bet it was not.
I admit I've not verified this, but multiple times I've read that the location data your mobile phone provides is NOT protected personal data. As with certain other types of data, it can be sold (to anyone? not sure...) with few if any legal restrictions. Similar holds for your Internet searches.
As the old saying has it, the real crime is not what’s illegal, but what the law allows.
Actually I'm counting on that. When I'm arrested they will have everything they need to prove that I acted so ignorantly moral and Biblically that they'll want to crucify me. Lord help me to rejoice if or when. 🙏🏼 Hands and head in "prayer position".
The Muslim woman in this case should have toned down her rants on social media BUT the FBI also just targeted a woman (see my post below) who posted an angry tweet about her cousin being murdered and named the alleged suspect (w/ his picture) who got off easy (just charged w/ dumping the body) which probably pissed the DA off...:
FBIsteria: Best FBI Memes (Plus How to Handle FEDs When They Visit You!)
- Leaked FBI DEI-Pride Month memo thread (EXCLUSIVE!😉), FBI Masque of the Red Death or Eyes Wide Shut and more FBI memes + how to handle the FEDs & know your rights IF they pay you a visit!
If the woman's rants in no way violated the law, her "toning" them down would be self censorship, which is exactly what they want.
And if you or I were from a Muslim majority country, say in the Middle East where the US government has destablized the region for decades, with millions being displaced, maimed, and murdered, I'm guessing we may have a few rants of our own....
Yea I agree BUT she was almost asking for them to visit her or for someone to send screenshots to the ADL... She also used certain buzz words that Facebook probably monitors for and auto sends to the FEDs...
FBI may not like Jeff's substack. The FBI may conclude that anyone reading and/or commenting on Jeff's substack is doing "Wrong". You just did wrong things because you just did both.
Yes, we are all guilty and wrong is whatever they say it is and arbitrary progressive changes to that definition are insertable whenever it suits them. Nature and its' God are "wrong" as well, as might and cunning and other similar characteristics make "right".
You may think you are not committing a crime but the FBI thinks otherwise. Your definition of "Wrong" is not the same as the FBI's definition of "Wrong". Read the book "Three felonies a day".
The premise is that Orwellian overlords want to prevent "doing" wrong by identifying people who "think" wrong thoughts. Your social media posts betray your underlying ideology, and the Party might someday conclude that you are a precrime risk that needs to be addressed.
Occasionally, a Jehovah's Witness treks up my driveway and asks to tell me about their religion. I step outside and ask if I might pray with them. This usually causes them to immediately leave though that is not my intention. I really do want to pray with them. I wonder if this would work with the FBI.
FBI field report: "We noted the subject engaging in Christian nationalism, which we conveyed to the court and got a search warrant. We shot the dog as a precautionary measure."
I used to just tell 'em I am Catholic and they step away quickly but I am sure any other religion will do. They really just want people who are homeless as far as a church goes. I think the last time they came they got the aforementioned husband (armed) and have not been back. So.
Over a decade ago, my neighborhood was the frequent target of local Jehovah's Witnesses. On one visit I recall saying "Well an atheist and a Jew live here, so you've got a hard sell." ☺ Although my picker is broken when it comes to choosing a partner, I do like some of the interesting conversations. With the above-cited case, on another occasion we were dining in a local restaurant and the server made the inevitable inquiry if we'd like to order alcoholic beverages. I said, "Well, let me see, I'm a reformed alcoholic..." And "Anne" chimed in "...and I'm on psych meds..." and I concluded, "No, I don't think that'd be a good idea."
My doorbell is stuck. If someone presses it, it stays on the "ding" part and never makes it to "dong". The last time this happened, the cat started growling. He growls often. I waited to whoever was there was gone and then un-stuck it.
I refused to answer for the census, either. Luckily, this was 2020 when everyone was afraid of the air. Get off my lawn!
Why not answer the door for the census? It's about as fundamentally Constitutional as you can get.
I was a field enumerator in 2000 & 2020. A temp job, but I find it interesting and enlightening.
There have been multiple times that I walked around a house after no answer at the door, trying to figure out if anyone was likely living there. This was usually on my second or third visit and after I had left a preprinted note.
Just answer the door for the census and take a few minutes to answer the simple questions. As I said, the basics of it are in the Constitution.
It's pretty hypocritical to avoid the census while screaming about other aspects of the Constitution.
We got one, not an actual person but a packet of stuff. Too many probing questions they don’t need to know. I sat on it, then started getting threatening postcards that indicated I might get arrested for not filling it out.
So I basically filled it out with our name and number of people living in the house, sent it off and haven’t heard a thing since. Screw them, the definition of “census” is “an official count of a population.” I fulfilled my duty as a citizen.
Home code violation, fines to be assess with penalties and interest accrued over 40 years. The squatters won't be able to know it's you returning from a week away if the bell doesn't ring.
unless they implement the National Federal residential main automated entryway notification device Act. Don't worry, you have 4 years to reach compliance, there are grants, and Approved CRT-DEI certified doorbell contractors will be working in your area soon.
I see all sorts of these "investigations" that have absolutely nothing to do with shade. We have witch hunts and setups. Shady, to them, can be anything drummed up or imagined.
And it becomes even more evident when they can use the armed FBI thugs to take one out. As I see it, the entire legal works are being used to destroy free speech. Why? Because they cannot have anyone tell the truth about them. Think about the European laws for just criticizing the holohoax numbers. THAT is coming here.
"Do not let them into the house UNLESS THEY HAVE A WARRANT." Um, can't they fake one of those, too? Am I supposed to be a warrant authentication expert now, too? I'm literally never opening my door to anyone ever again. Hahahahahahahaha.
"My local sheriff , my priest, and my lawyer will be right over to meet with you wonderful hardworking gentlemen! May i see some proof of Vaxxination please? Lemonade while we wait for them to arrive?"
Just tell them to submit questions in writing via registered-certified mail OR to come back with a warrant - then get a laqyer... FOR MORE TIPS:
FBIsteria: Best FBI Memes (Plus How to Handle FEDs When They Visit You!)
Leaked FBI DEI-Pride Month memo thread (EXCLUSIVE!😉), FBI Masque of the Red Death or Eyes Wide Shut and more FBI memes + how to handle the FEDs & know your rights IF they pay you a visit!
Does anyone wonder why thru Holy Week Candace Owens was fired, Biden did trans day on Easter Sunday etc. well it's because they hate the Lord, Christians and the nuclear family. Satan is at the head of this snake, his demons are running amuck to destroy God's kingdom on earth. We are must stand in and with Christ, we all must proclaim Christ is King. Have a great day all.
Agree. The FBI is so thoroughly crooked now that it’s better to assume the worst. The ones with integrity have either retired or have moved on to more honest ways of making a living.
Nailed it. If an officer using the color of law comes to talk with me about anything, they are already my enemy, and the worst one there is. Because they have chosen to use that law as a shield. And that won’t fly with me.
Praise be to God! My daughter received a full ride collegiate offer at a school that does not require the covid jab (yes there are still a few ivy’s that do). I was so worried about that.
Wow. That’s nice news. Now hopefully they aren’t pushing DEI hard core and will corrupt her mind. Its amazing how the daily influence of pushing that will chip away at even the most strong and solid individuals belief.
Our son is finishing his freshman year, and our single rule was that he couldn’t go to a school that requires the Covid jab. He ended up in FL so it’s all good. Glad it turned out well for your girl!
So sad....pressure was intense at our highschool but fortunately no bullying. She's now glad she didn't get it as some of her friends are now regretting it.
We had that rule too...our daughter is at FSU and happy. Had it not been for covid, she would most likely would have been in the northeast but I'm glad she's in FL with a good governor.
I’ve said it many times lately- but the only thing that gives me peace is knowing 1) Christ is still on the throne 2) He WILL return again for his and SOON, 3) He WILL come again and reign with judgement against those who are evil and will bring real peace.
He is our rock and our fortress and our redeemer. Let not the goings on sway you or worry you. Trust in Him alone. Use discernment.
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men [be brave], be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
— 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 LSB
What a thought!! Sometimes the male roles I see portrayed in TV commercials and programs are so limp-wristed, I want to puke. If I were to start a new family again (I'm 73), I'd move to an isolated rural home with no TV or any devices for the kids and home school (already did that).
Someone pointed out "hard times make hard men". I know hard times are coming - eventually - and nobody is ready for that.
Oh - on a personal note - I'd marry a woman who wanted six kids.
My daughter and SIL are expecting their first and are pretty much headed down that path. Definitely no vaccines.
Great news. I’m so proud that my first grandbaby is vaccine free and my soon to be second is going to be too. Both my married sons aren’t falling down that hole but neither did I 32 years ago. Even back then we, in the vaccine safety movement,knew the CDC was lying and covering up the truth. Covid made it all come to light.
We had no idea til Covid, although I didn’t get my daughter the HPV vaccine when it came out so I guess I was suspicious even back then. But boy oh boy are we aware now.
My daughter was "advised" into taking the HPV when she was 18--I only learned later. I think of it as the slut shot (just this moment coined that--hope you like it). What point for a virgin determined on staying that way until marriage?
Yes! Love it! The “slut shot”! When my daughter was 12 or 13, the nurse asked me to leave the room for about 5min and I thought she was going to ask some mental health questions. Nope, she was trying to convince my daughter to get the “ slut shot” ! Thankfully my daughter declined saying that she’d want to talk to me about it first. On the way home we had a good talk about it. Don’t let the medical staff make you leave the room until they’re 18. By then you shouldn’t be taking them to the doctor anyway…they should be doing that- after you’ve taught them about how to say no to things you don’t want to happen to your body.
Ugh, annoying isn’t a strong enough word. I’m so sick of the medical profession only sticking to protocols and being afraid to use critical thinking.
My SON was talked into by our doc!!!! He was maybe 14 and Oregon law said the doc didn’t have to consult ME THE PARENT! She was our family doc. At that point I had no reason to distrust her. Until my son came home and said he got the HPV shot. I was livid!!!! HE IS A BOY!!! I cannot tell you the immense betrayal I felt at that point. I was sick and still am about it. That was the downward spiral of me and doctors. That was over ten years ago too.
I call it the promiscuity shot
They push it hard for college freshmen, males and females! Ugh!
So thankful that you passed on the HPV vaccine for your daughter. Those commercials were highly propagandized just like COVID. Doctors pushed them the same way as the COVID vax.
They are being pushed heavily on media in Canada right now. Use the same propaganda as CoVid with impressionable young people- you’re doing it to “keep others safe”.
I don’t have any daughters, but I remember when that shot came out, thinking that if I had a preteen or child under the age of 18 who was sexually active, that I would have much bigger problems on my hands than worrying about them getting genital warts or eventually cervical cancer in their 50s.
They are now pushing it for boys too.
Excellent point. At least one good thing that has emerged from the Covid-19 fiasco was to expose the corruption from top-to-bottom in the entire medical-industrial complex, of many government agencies, corporations, &c. In truth, the problems have existed for many decades. The malfeasance of the Covid-19 response, however, seems to be without historical precedent.
I wasn't as wise in my younger years but I surely "wised up" in the past 5 years!! I guess my critical thinking skills were not inherited by my two sons--they and their families have been jabbed (and my youngest was even boosted - which saddens me greatly). They won't even accept the worthy advice I gave to them from Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Joseph Mercola about how to "detox the spike protein from the 'virus' and/or the 'jab'!!
I caved to the HPV shot for my 13yo daughter after a friend of a friend got throat cancer. There aren’t Pap smears for that. Big regret knowing what I know now. But she’s currently pregnant with our first grandchild 🥳
Are you as excited as I am? It’s our first too.
Mine too Valorie 😊
I wanted the half dozen but got five amazing ones! The rural life is for me but hubby likes convenience so stuck in the ever over-crowding of a Houston suburb. I personally like a challenge and simplification and neighbors a LOT further apart! I did say I wanted six kids but God blessed me with five of the best. It was His plan. I am still keeping my eyes open for that house in the country…
I’m in that same area. Which suburb? I’m cypress/tomball.
Klein!
Me too !!! Katy suburbs.
Yes. I used to like that show Everybody Loves Raymond, then I stared noticing inept they made him look. Basically the whole show was about how dumb the man was. It got to me after a while and I stopped liking it.
This “dumb husband/man” has been going on for ages. Most TV shows have smart Alec kids and wimpy dads (if at all) and wonder mom. Just why I don’t watch TV
I was born a woman and will die a woman, but how badly I HATE those shows AND commercials that make men look inept.
The pinnacle of that was Al Bundy on "Married with Children"
And yet, he seems a lot manlier than the new generations of young men nowadays. I say, Al should have married a good wife instead of Peggy - but that wouldn’t have been funny. The way zal looks up to John Wayne is.
It reminds me of Blast From The Past movie with Brenden Frasier. An innocent, mostly unworldly man (unworldly aside from the world education his rocket scientist father taught him) must go into the "world" more than 30 years after his birth--for the first time.
That was a funny movie.
I love that movie!
I've been thinking about it a lot lately--particularly the part where the father goes above ground and sees who he believes to be some sort mutant species from nuclear fallout! 😂
Brendan Fraser had a tough time of it after he was groped/molested by a Hollywood producer at one of their big parties. Not sure he ever said who it was, but it caused him to quit movies altogether for a time. Or maybe blacklisted, not sure.
I feel the same way. At 55 my one regret is that I only had the one. I would have loved to have had 3 or 4 but I didn't meet my current (wonderful) husband until I was 36 and he didn't want any kids so I just hung up my dream. He figured since I had the one I would be ok with no more and I was, I just wish I had had more that's all. Still not a grandma yet either, my son (34) was seriously watching the mistakes and is waiting for "the one" which he thinks he will never find because I ruined him for all other women with my competency and lack of overly emotional behavior. Poor kid. I'm sure there's some out there, he just works from home and doesn't go out much any more. He needs to go back to church!!
My son too. We have an intellectually disabled daughter and gave up the dream of a her having a family a very long time ago. All the eggs are in my son’s basket ( 😂 ) to give us grandkids and every year that goes by I have to give up that dream a little more of ever having any. It’s hard to watch all our friends and family members be grand parents with the more than likely chance now that we will never have that. My son is a very handsome (from what girls say) catch. Strong morally and ethically, hard worker. But just can’t find Mrs right. Maybe he’s being too picky. Idk. I’d rather him be picky than end up in a bad marriage too. So we wait and see.
My spouse and I were both older when we finally met and got married. It was worth the wait!
I think it will be too. I just started kinda loosing hope. lol
I'm in his boat. More or less. And they don't exist at Church either. My choir director and I lament this regularly. The only women we see are married/pregnant, or wayyy too young.
Grew up on 78 acres in the 70's. Some "chores" to build a work ethic and being responsible, but a lot of play too! I wanted six kids also. But God granted me one! And I hope to find some acreage to let my daughter, SIL, and granddaughter experience life on a farm. Maybe I will be blessed with 6 grandkids!!! That would be awesome! Make today epic everyone!
Did that. It worked pretty well. But they have to make their way in an evil world and it's just the same no matter what era you live in. It's war. War is bad but it isn't hell. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own (family) soul" . -MyVersion
...but God can for His own glory alone.
Yeah but they'd be ready. Eighteen years of rural training.
I'm right there with you! Even faith-based films do the same - like The Blind Side and others. Strong women characters with weak men counterparts does not honor God and his instructions for men to be the leaders in their homes (as well as the church, but that's another topic).
I told my ex-husband I wanted six kids. He didn’t run away, so I married him. I got four wonderful ones out of him before his father scared him into a vasectomy, which was the beginning of the end because it threw him into midlife crisis mode.
I'm 73 also--we wanted seven, only got three.
I'm 71. I wanted 6 but hubby wanted none, but he finally agreed to one. When I started praying for a sibling for my first son, God gave us another son despite the precautions we took, my miracle baby. Didn't get my 6, but I'm grateful for the two I have. They are amazing sons.
Funny in that my husband wanted 12 and I wanted none. That changed after we married. I wanted a couple and he wanted a couple. So we had a couple. Now, if I had it to do over again…I would’ve had the 12. 😂 My husband says never and he’s glad we stopped at two. But we both desperately want grandkids that we may never get.
It's like playing the lottery...lol.
Wish I'd met you 50 years ago!! LOL. I wanted six kids but only had 3. I was raised an only child and always loved visiting my friend's house which was filled with 9 kids! It was chaotic but wonderful.
LOL....
Ha! Ha! Six kids! Yes! Little farm laborers!
Wow...seems I've struck a nerve here with the single men crowd of which I am a member. I've raised two boys but I've been single for 20 years.
76 here and agreeing COMPLETELY!!!! my kids and grandkids brains are STOLEN!
So would I. She doesn't appear to exist.
And give up all the estrogen injected food such as chicken breast & yogurt
Huh. Second time I’ve seen that verse today! Better be prepared to man up today!
It's so cool when God repeats a message to us.
Love these verses. Thank you for posting each day.
We all love Janice and her beautiful scriptural posts!
Well you just made my day, Julie Ann! Seems like something I am supposed to do.
LOVE (especially God's agape love) trumps FEAR each and every time. So...keep on LOVIN'!!
Jeff, I don't get fooled often on April Fool's Day. But, because it was so likely to actually happen, I fell, hook, line, and sinker for your "Sniffy wandered off for ice cream" story yesterday! It was very believable indeed!
I did too and was about to tell my family about sleepy Joe’s wild wanderings, when alas I found out I’d been perfectly pranked.
I actually jumped the gun and read it to my husband. Luckily he was already asleep on the couch 😂
Yep....because it was so PLAUSIBLE, it was MORE than believable!! Good one, Jeff!
Yep! Got me too. Sad that Jeff’s story rang so true. There’s a reason for all the locked doors in dementia facilities, and local “silver alerts” at least once a week.
Essence of a great Babylon Bee article!!
Which comes first? The Childers or the Bee?
Both are trendsetters of reality🤣
Jeff Childers is even before breakfast……
Just sayin…..
Except for me knowing that the SS has eyes on the president every second, which made me doubt the otherwise very believable story of Joe wondering off. Dementia causes people to wonder, so if it was anyone else, it could have been true.
I’m seeing in hazy memory an event with the Obamas where a couple gained access at the entrance by claiming they were the sign language translators for BO’s talk … it’s rare, but it happens. And with DEI and a general crumbling of competency everywhere, I totally believed yesterday’s Childers tale!
I was fooled, too. It was very plausible. My dad had Alzheimer's and had Sundowner's where he would wander off in the afternoons or evenings, so my guess is they have someone attached to Joe all the time to make sure he can't do that. I am convinced he has Alzheimer's. He shows all the symptoms my dad had.
It’s believable because it’s not too far from the truth 😅
Jeff got me with the knitting story and head of doj. To me that was super believable so I was ready this year! 😂
I still think it’s true
Same. There’s not a lot of things I wouldn’t believe about Joe
I did tell my husband about it & he googled & a bunch of REAL instances of him doing that came up, so totally believable.
Are we sure that was a prank? This is the man who held his cue-card the wrong way round during a conference. Or was it an advertorial for Alzheimer's care? They'll wander off, so be prepared ...... oh, no mention of the electronic tracker they're sure to have put on him for just such occasions. Yeah, prank. Good one, Jeff :D
Same here! It was sadly totally believable!
Even fooled my husband in the telling! 😂
Me, too!!
Lawfare is in full force. Pray for Trump lawyer John Eastman, who was disbarred. We must counter the 65 project and democracy docket: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/lawfare-65-project-democracy-docket-marc-elias
We should multiply him..................
Yes! Please do C&C!
This wouldn't have helped John in his case, but for all of us this video explains exactly why you don't talk to the police *ever* even if you're not guilty and a fine, upstanding citizen trying to do the right thing.
If Jeff watches it is hope he'd weigh in, as well. It's a law professor and police investigator both telling law students why not. How innocent people get snared. Don't do it. It's *never* in your best interest.
About 40 minutes. Best 40 minutes you'll spend on the internet.
https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?si=5lthsOtcaVpcj9_p
Wow...Brave browser is censoring me and shuts down when I click on certain links.
I use Brave, not censoring. Perhaps your VPN?
I know a lot of people are having trouble with Brave, yesterday and today. Not just me.
Thanks for this link...just watched the whole thing. Fascinating!
Law professor talks fast, gotta keep up, but he's entertaining and informative. Detective's telling why he holds every advantage that jumping into the ring with him is foolish for anyone, even the completely innocent.
Wow! That was great!
Here is his GSG page: https://www.givesendgo.com/Eastman
I think that would make a STATEMENT.
Here is his GSG page: https://www.givesendgo.com/Eastman
Thanks Yuri. I do pray for so many these days: including Biden, Wray, Garland--all those who have been put in places of power or authority. It's instructive to read Judges. There's a plan here.
Ugh that is completely disgusting!!
Also Fani and Nathan aren’t disbarred but Eastman and Giuliani were?? Clown world. 😡🙄
Upside down world where they call evil good and good evil.
Infuriating!!!
Not disbarred, Yet. 😊🙏🏻
Trying to, I guess I should had said! Thanks for the correction. I can see that it’s likely to happen though, unfortunately 😞
This is beyond the pale. Disbarring John Eastman. I hope lawyers across the political spectrum come out and renounce this tyrannical action.
Most lawyers should be disbarred today for enabling corruption.
i've heard him speak..a bit eccentric but harmless old guy who's NO Conspiratorial Insurrectionist, he's nothing like the Leftist everyday Joe or Jane that needs a visit from FBI about their hateful social media posts, or the Entire Leftist Media and Political class spewing hate every day
He’s a brilliant lawyer & was a popular professor at Chapman University in CA before being forced out. Lots of good background on his Give Send Go page. https://www.givesendgo.com/Eastman
‘Harmless old guy’, seems rather disrespectful to me.
hardly. Perhaps he was not bubbly and chatty due to a gout flare up or something. He wasn't boisterous, pushy, hateful or rabid, he IS elderly so what part is disrespectful? i didn't say those were his main or only features...just counter to the Leftist Media-S.S. portrayals of him. Ok he was entertaining and insightful and experienced and i enjoyed his public speaking and topical discussion. One person next to me labelled him a crackpot and i mentioned that i do not agree with that label.
Here's what I don't get, why is it illegal to lie to a federal officer? They certainly can lie to you.
“Hello, we’re with the government. We’re here to help.”
😱 Run for it
That's a lie!
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Yes, if the penalty is years in jail for lying to them, the penalty they should face for lying should be ten fold. How did self-respecting free men ever countenance such idiocy in the first place?
Wouldn't that be nice. These days there aren't even any penalties for lying to a FISA court to get wiretaps on the Trump campaign.
Many powers were granted to the FBI with the understanding that they are only to be used against "terrorists" and serious crime. If they can't handle the responsibility they shouldn't have those powers. Other examples would be RICO or charges of "conspiracy" - as any viewer of corporate media knows conspiracies are entirely theoretical and don't exist.
Under the color of law, the penalties are more severe. Unenforced, and pretty much useless, but they exist.
What are these laws exactly and why haven’t we built giant prisons to house all the agents that have violated them?
That would really only apply when federal agents are lying to each other though? Or is it specifically forbidden for a federal agent to lie to a citizen?
Don't Talk to the Police (12 years old by relevant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE NOTE: Its a lawyer and a cop giving a lecture to law students...
FOR MORE TIPS:
FBIsteria: Best FBI Memes (Plus How to Handle FEDs When They Visit You!)
Leaked FBI DEI-Pride Month memo thread (EXCLUSIVE!😉), FBI Masque of the Red Death or Eyes Wide Shut and more FBI memes + how to handle the FEDs & know your rights IF they pay you a visit!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/fbisteria-best-fbi-memes-plus-how-to-handle-feds
Thank you for the YouTube link. I heartily agree with everything said.
People today watch WAY too many movies. In the movies, people believe that they must let police search their car simply because the police have asked to. People in movies also feel obligated to pop the trunk when the police say something ridiculous like, "Well, if you have nothing to hide." It's also interesting that in the movies the police seldom have a warrant nor is the driver under arrest when they ask to look in the trunk or search the car.
It's shocking how Hollyweird influences people to do dumb things. Even more shocking is how people who are OBVIOUSLY influenced by Hollyweird deny it.....GEEZ!
Thanks just watched the video and ordered his book 👍
Yeah, I agree. They can tell you anything, but if you say the sky is blue, when there are clouds in the sky (making it blue AND white), then BOOM! You're in deep doggy doo doo.
And once they got you convinced that they have you for lying or are just going to make your life difficult (the process is punishment enough as Jeff alluded to in the main article) they can then use this as leverage to get you to entrap someone else or become an informant or whatever. At the very least they can hit their quota for investigations.
Like a car salesman at the end of the month.
For Muslims it's a religious requirement.
In fact that's why they're there. To fully forcefully demonstrate that Their LIES will destroy you. Even truth and facts are provable lies with some minor shading or being asked to relate something 5 different occasions and relating it slightly differently, they WILL Catch 22 you and it's over. Winston and Julia are the example for us.
Look up "legal brothers". They do videos, notably one called "Shut the f*ck up Friday". Their specialty is DUI and their strongest advice is. ...."shut the f*ck up". They're pretty funny, a little blue.
no talking...all lawyer
Hence the need to record…
Because it’s the government and because they can.
Another tip: If someone you don't know comes to your door... Just don't answer it! I never open the door for anyone I'm not expecting. Just avoid the encounter altogether. They may come back again and again and finally leave a letter or something on your door and then stop coming. No... we do not have to interact with the gestapo at all. It's best to avoid them altogether and not put ourselves in a position where we will accidentally say the wrong thing when we are a nervous wreck.
Me too. I just look out the window and walk away. If they want me for something my landline number is easily available and they can leave a message. I don’t answer that either, though.
I don't even bother to look. If the husband is home he will open it but I think he is just looking to get his stateside hahaha. (JUST KIDDING FBI) Nobody smart just comes knocking on doors around here anyway. Small town, very conservative, military base attached to the town. Really only have issues here in certain locations. But nah, I never answer the door. Ever.
Maybe I should make a recording of a big dog barking in the background. Activate it behind the door and don’t open it. It could be on my phone. There was a great one on a police series yesterday. 🤔🤔. Or search “giant dog with vicious bark”
Or even better, find one with hundreds of big, big dogs barking. Like a whole big barking Dog Army!
P.S. If you can find one where you can hear the patter of wildly frenzied dog feet, all the better!
You can see that this idea really got me excited. (Maybe it is the second cup of coffee?)
I think there really are mp3s of such sounds out there for your downloading pleasure. I always liked the sound of a shotgun shell getting jacked into the chamber but that’d escalate the FBI encounter in the wrong direction!! So the vicious snarling dog sound would be much better! LOL
lol. Yep.
Exactly my M.O.!
Me too. One time I was being sued and a guy was trying to serve me papers. He kept knocking and leaving post-it messages on my door. I never answered the door or called him back, thinking he was a scammer. Eventually he staked out my house and caught me as I was coming in.
Exactly!
If I didn’t invite you, the door stays closed.
I was told not to answer the door?
In 2010, I had a census taker continually knocking on my door, which I refused to answer. I had already filled out the census card (the real one, not the BS 27-page “how many square feet is your bedroom and what time of day do you leave for work” questionnaire). One night after dark, I left the house to walk the dog and that MFer was hiding in the bushes waiting for me. I was livid and chewed him out up one side and down the other. “I’ve filled out your stupid form, there is no other reason for you to to be creeping around my house, and if I ever see you on my property again, I’m calling the cops.” He didn’t come back again. I answer the door for no one except people I know are coming, or neighbors I trust (and sometimes not even them).
I must have been temporarily ? insane a few weeks ago when I opened the door to a woman and ended up letting her in, only to find out she was there to demonstrate a Kirby vacuum. I advised her very early on that I was definitely not buying, but she was determined to go through the entire spiel, which included a quick cleaning of my rug. (That part was nice.) I continued to tell her I was not going to buy and she finally said, "I know, you've told me a million times." When she left, both of us were annoyed.
I don’t know, maybe you should have bought the vacuum. :-). My mom had a Kirby vacuum back in the day and it was built of steel like an Army tank and it lasted for multiple decades. You couldn’t kill that thing. All the vacuums sold today at the big box stores are made of cheap plastic in some Godforsaken third world country and they invariably die within a couple of years. Into the trash they go. Then they sell you a new one that also breaks. It’s their business model.
I have one. The problem is it is so powerful you cannot use it on rugs. Most people now have tile floors with rugs.
When everything was carpet, they were the best. But you are right about the current crap. That goes for refrigerators also.
Talk to an appliance repair man before you buy one. One told me how terrible new refrigerators are these days so when mine started making noise, I had him come out and repair something rather than have it go out and have to buy one of those unreliable new ones. Mine is still going strong after 20 years.
I certainly led the comments in a different direction. 🙂 It's tough buying appliances now. We got a new Samsung washer and dryer a few years ago. Shortly after the warranty expired we had to have a $450 repair done. Our repairman told us Samsung is not a good brand.
Wow...when I was a teenager, I did door-to-door sales for Kirby and they were built like tanks. So was Electrolux. If the house had one of them, I knew to cut the sales pitch short.
Six years ago, I bought a new washer and dryer set. Instead of buying the new, top of the line, electronic versions, I bought the bottom of the line "cheap" old-school version. My reasoning was that this is old technology and not rocket science so stick to the tried and true. Not one problem with them. My sister, however, bought the top of the line, expensive electronic front-loading versions and immediately had problems. Never worked right so she got rid of the washer and replaced it with another top of the line, top-loader. I could have bought two or three sets of the old-school versions for the money she has poured into them.
My mother had an Electrolux that I inherited... probably lasted 75 years. Oh and her Frigidaire refrigerator about the same
Not to mention, mine is "high efficiency," which means I have to negate that by using the deep fill option in order to get the clothes clean.
Yes, when my front loader conked out I bought an inexpensive top loader. Been running great about 20+ years now.
The dishwashers are certainly crap. We had to replace the computer board after a year. Next time will go with a Bosch.
I have thought about that brand, but haven't really started looking yet. Thanks.
We LOVE our Bosch!! Best one we've ever owned.
Dishwashers too. Ours is less than 5 years old and is currently a lovely stainless steel dish drying box. My husband is the "new" dishwasher since we are both too cheap to replace it. Pretty sure the motherboard is shot--he's only had it apart 7 or 8 times to fix it before it finally bit the dust (starting after the warranty expired of course). And the fridge has a bad bearing in one of the circulation fans that needs replacing too--same age. Ugh!!
Happened with my expensive front loader washing machine years ago. Repairman said it would cost more to replace the computer parts than to buy new. This happened to a few people I knew.
My dishwasher just died after 14 years. When I went out looking for a replacement, everybody said they may last 5, 6 or seven years at best so I bought one, but I also bought a five year warranty on it. My GE refrigerator lasted for 22 years! At year 20 my husband and I replaced some small things on it and got it running again properly but then it just died after 2 more years. I guess I got a pretty good run if it lasted 22 years. Then I got a Kitchen Aid one at 66% off because it was dented in the back. I bought it with a good price on a 5 year warranty. Someone told me that even the most expensive Viking refrigerator won’t last any longer than some of the cheaper ones.
Be aware new dishwashers do not have the same capability as old ones. TPTB have cut the allowable energy and water consumption ( you can do one, or the other , and not sacrifice performance ,but not both). We opted to spend $1500 to repair our Subzero refrigerator because new ones use benzene and are no where near as efficient or durable as new refrigerators.
Yes my sis told me always get the extended warranty on fridges and dishwashers. They break so easily now!
A service guy told us the popular French door fridges have a design flaw that causes a drainage tube to freeze so then water collects on the freezer’s floor but then as it warms when you open the freezer door it melts and leaks onto the floor.
I have a nearly new Miele which, I hope, will last my lifetime (I'm 71 and ready to go and be with Jesus at any time. 😁)
But can you be sure Kirby vacuums are still being made as a quality device, or have they shipped manufacturing off to China? I don’t know, so just asking.
Almost every appliance and product today is made in China including many once highly thought of top of the line brands. Many say “designed” in the USA but the bottom line is they are made in China, and have a poor track record of longevity or quality.
I have an old Oscar mini food processor that I’ve had for ages that is still going strong; it says on the bottom “made in France” so I’m hanging onto it. So many reviews of products today people complain how they crap out in a matter of months. It’s sad.
Planned obsolescence...no longer about quality, just money
I have a Black and Decker toaster over that's around 40 years old that I still use nearly everyday. One those that you can hang under the cabinets.
Remember when toasters were built like tanks? My sister had a toaster that was passed down from grandfather that still worked great. Lord knows how old it was.
I am using a '50s Toastmaster 1B14 model I found in a thrift store. Cleaned it up, installed a new cord and it's great! There's a fellow in New York that rebuilds old toasters, the demand is strong. I hope Trump wins re-election and brings back appliance manufacturing to America!
You’re going to laugh at this, but my brother has a toaster collection… Cool, old toasters, and they all still work!
I think my Oscar mini food processor is about that old too (40 years) but I can’t remember for sure so I didn’t date it. There are a lot of old appliances I WISH I HAD HELD ONTO.
I have a Vitamix blender. It is now at least 15 years old and it works perfectly!
I bought a Miele made in Germany. Love it. For about 25 years I had an Electrolux canister. Then I thought I wanted a Dyson because it was lightweight; didn’t even last eight years. The Miele is a canister and lightweight. I understand their products last a long time and the owner of the vacuum store, which is a very small independent shop in my small town, said she thinks it is the best vacuum. And she should know because she’s got a shop full of dinosaurs that mainly look like Dysons lol
DeWife got a Miele. And if you love it, I know why. They are really cool and built well.
I am still using my Simplicity vacuums bought in 2008 maybe. I had to replace the hoses and one wan which broke. The motors are really good. Replacing was cheaper than buying new. Vacuum cleaners must be one of the best inventions ever. And I wonder. What did people do before they were invented?
They swept their floors and took out rugs, hung them and beat them till the dirt came out. Also put them in the snow as it's a great cleanser. I use these methods myself!🤗
Yes ... that was how it was done and a big deal if one had large carpets. But I did not know about the snow. (Take good care of yourself because it is a mean, mean world out there.)
After doing tons of research I bought a cordless Dyson V11 about 5 yrs ago. I loved that think despite it's nearly $700 price.
Trouble was, it was constantly needing parts due to my using it every single day. (We have 2 hairy beasts.)
About 6 mos ago, I finally gave up on it after spending more on parts than the original purchase price. I still miss it - it vacuumed dog hair like no other vac.
We also got a robot vac a couple years ago. It was awesome too. But after 11 mos of daily use it finally refused to run any more and gave up the ghost.
Sigh.
Can I get the Kirby sales lady's number?
Built in obsolescence.
Buy a meihle, made in Germany. Out of plastic. Survive a fall from aircraft. You get what you pay for.
Years ago, I used to clean houses and some customers had a Kirby to use, I used to joke that you needed to be a body builder to use it! It did clean pretty good though.
I've had one for many years, and know how good they clean. Unfortunately, now that I'm older I am finding it too heavy for me. I was just thinking the other day that I need a lighter weight one upstairs and another downstairs. LOL!
I don't think that there is anything lighter than a Mieli worth a hoot? Also, the wheel design is smooth, easy to use.
I bought an Electrolux from a door to door salesman back in 1986. That machine is fantastic. I only serviced it twice and it still works perfectly. So
We bought an Electrolux sometime before 1977 and then got snookered into buying a Rainbow. It was okay, just a hassle to deal with the water. We later gave it to our son, who has allergies, and his then wife left the water in it and ruined it almost immediately.
Egad I had a Rainbow AND a kirby I was SUCH a sucker in the '80s & '90's and I couldn't even afford either one at the time. This is why I never answer the door!!! Lessons learned.
The saleslady was going to take my new Miele and an old Oreck and the Kirby would have cost $1600.
Ugh, I hate when that happens!
But I must say it was a great buy, I’m still using it & it still works great
Same with your phone… don’t answer unknown numbers. Scammers out there. Also don’t return the call if they say they are law enforcement or a process server. Even if they are legitimate, you have no obligation to make their job easy for them.
A lot of us use this strategy. It’s usually a salesperson anyway. The only person for whom we open the door, is someone from our local sheriff’s department. They do a good job of protecting our neighborhood, and will sometimes stop to ask if we’ve seen anything that might help them.
Unfortunately our Sheriff is a DEI hire appointed, not elected, by a county leftist bureaucrat.
That is unfortunate. At least you know not to open your door to him! Ours lives in a nearby neighborhood, across the street from a good friend from church. I almost feel like I know him personally because he’s so well known in the neighborhood and throughout the county. He’s solid as a rock and we are blessed to have him.
Ours is a she. Herself a longtime bureaucrat that donated to the head of our county council. Who picks the sheriff. Evidently the citizens voted to give up their right to elect a sheriff a few years ago. Not sure where the votes came from
That's why there are elections Dena. Vote out both the sheriff and the county bureaucrat.
I do my part SPH. Of course my vote doesn’t really count - I live in the bluest county (King) in a Blue state ( WA). Leadership is Filled with communists & people that work in tech, many who fit the above description & many who don’t pay attention but always vote D. WA state is known to cheat when it comes to counting votes. See Dino Rossi / Christine Gregorio governor race. These communists passed a bill last month requiring LGBTQ curriculum be taught in public schools. Most people are against it.
I'm a little down the road from you, on the outskirts of Jeff's favorite city, Portland. I understand the stolen vote, mail in balloting originated in Oregon in 1998. We've gone further left every election since. Speaking of great governors, ours just hired her wife as special assistant to the governor to the tune of almost 12K a month. Plus benefits, including a permanent police detail. Some speculate it is to keep her (the wife, it gets confusing) on a leash and in control as she supposedly is alcoholic and depressed.
I feel like if they’ve captured your sheriff, you’re next in line.
Can’t like your comment.
They will wait for you to leave the house and walk to your car. They will confront you.
”For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.“
Hebrews 4:12-13 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/heb.4.12-13.NKJV
Ooooo good stuff !!!
NO creature hidden !! Exposed 🔦
Ehud's two-edged sword was certainly sharp and piercing.
I stand with Moms For Liberty.
Did I just make a hate crime?
I only share what others say. Those are not my real beliefs.
Same! My whole Twitter (X) feed is retweets — a timeline of “crazy” happenings but also the good news/ feel good stories too .
speculating, repeating lies and misinformation, discourse are possible criminal conspiracy. Why even shutting down the government is Insurrection apparently that's why no one dares attempt it.
Let’s go Brandon. How about that one?
The FBI are on the way.
Speaking of hate crimes, Scotland just passed a new hate crime law that CJ Hopkins wrote eloquently about:
The Hate Police
CJ HOPKINS
APR 2
Scotland’s new “hate crime” law took effect today. It’s called “The Hate Crime and Public Order Act.” It criminalizes, not only the “expression of hatred,” but also the “stirring of hatred” against a range of “protected” groups defined by disability, age, faith, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and so on. From now on, any form of expression that the authorities consider “likely” to offend a member of one of these “protected groups” will be a “hate crime,” punishable by up to seven years in prison. According to the law, any form expression that “a reasonable person would consider threatening, abusive, or insulting” may be subject to prosecution.
In 2005, one of my plays — screwmachine/eyecandy: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Bob — was presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Scotsman “Fringe First” award for new writing.
Here’s one of the reviews (emphasis mine):
“The spectacle of international capitalism rolls on, an obscene parade of consumerism and greed, the insistent beat of its drum disorienting its willing victims – you, me, everybody. But how do you metaphorise something which is so total that our organic selves are concealed beneath a mound of consumer goods by an entire world view that has replaced the natural with something totally alien to human nature? A game show, of course. CJ Hopkins’ superb rendering of the monstrous alienation created by contemporary consumer society sees Big Bob (David Calvitto) shepherding a lower-middle class American couple Dan (Bill Colieus) and Maura (Nancy Walsh) on a bizarre retro 50s American set, through a succession of meaningless and increasingly sinister questions and activities. Meanwhile, the terrifying figure of Vera (Mike McShane), a gigantic and grotesque transvestite, awaits, punishing those who transgress the unstated, oft-changing rules of the game. This all gets increasingly gruesome, in John Clancy’s assured production, as the two contestants are first showered with contempt by Bob, whose achievement ethic is his only sustaining myth, then beaten by Vera. The idea that those who the gods choose to destroy, they first make mad pulses through the piece, as reality itself is surrogated by the media spectacle of the game show. The early tittering of the audience is transformed into a grim silence, for there is a recognizable truth at the bottom of this agit prop drama, and its about truth, which is generated not by rational observation, but hysterical ideology in our society. The direct confrontation with both philosophical and really quite everyday realities of Hopkins’ text is strong meat, and might not be to all tastes, but this is high quality, and genuinely thought provoking entertainment.” **** THE LIST
What do you think? Is my 20-year-old award-winning play likely to offend a member of one of those protected groups? If it were presented at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, what are the odds that someone would find it “threatening” and “abusive,” or even just “insulting,” and report it to the Hate Police?
Fortunately, that is not going to happen, because this play would never be produced nowadays. A producer would have to be professionally suicidal to attempt to stage a play like that in this cultural/political climate. Moreover, no playwright would write such a play, much less attempt to get it produced. Their agent would summarily fire them. Their publisher would dump them. Their career would be over.
Which is the point of all these new “hate speech” laws, and the “sensitivity readers” that aspiring young writers know are going to be meticulously scrutinizing their manuscripts for signs of “hateful” depictions of members of “protected” groups or “harmful” or “abusive” expressions. Can you imagine any of the big five corporate publishers releasing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer today? Naked Lunch? Gravity’s Rainbow? Or even Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian?
No, the primary goal of all this criminalization of speech is not to hunt down and arrest every individual “hate criminal.” It is to generate a climate of paranoia, and condition people to censor themselves, not just writers and artists, everyone, but, absolutely writers and artists, who are, after all, the producers of culture.
This conditioning doesn’t work on literary renegades like me who gave up on the mainstream decades ago, and it certainly isn’t working on J.K. Rowling, who just posted this “criminal” Twitter thread and invited the Hate Police to arrest her …
… which, I’m not a Harry Potter fan, but think I’m developing a crush on J.K. Rowling.
But seriously, those of us writers and artists who are either too rich and famous to be fucked with, like J.K. Rowling, who could probably buy Scotland if she had to, or who are well past the Age of Aspiration and so couldn’t give a shit, like me, need to set an example for all those young, aspiring writers and artists, who are being systematically creatively neutered and molded into boring, conformist, paranoid pussies.
Oh, and for the record, before anyone calls me a “transphobe,” I have nothing against “gigantic grotesque transvestites,” or dainty beautiful transvestites, or any other kind of transvestites, or transexuals, or any other variety of “sexuals.” I’ve spent a lot of my life working in the theater, which, in case you didn’t know, is just swarming with gay people, and other varieties of alphabet people. I like gay people. I like being swarmed by them. If I weren’t so straight, I’d gladly be gay, or non-binary, or whatever the kids are these days.
Oh, yeah, and about the “pronoun” thing. I was “using pronouns” in San Francisco in the 1980s before the dotcom boom, when most pronoun-Nazis hadn’t even been born. I was happy to do it. It just felt natural. But then, no one was threatening to arrest me for “misgendering,” or “stirring up hatred” with one of my stage plays, or prosecuting me for criticizing the government, or otherwise behaving like a bunch of brainwashed neo-Maoist cultural revolutionaries.
OK, I’m digressing, and it’s getting late here, so I’m going to wrap this rant up and go make dinner. I’ve written more extensively about The Criminalization of Dissent, and The War on Insensitivity, and the new Totalitarianism, and the Hate Police, and so on, for many years now. If you want to read that stuff, it’s here in the archives.
If you want to read my old “hate crime” play, you can purchase it from Broadway Play Publishing, or at your local drama bookstore, if you have one of those. Oh, and, if you feel like reading a novel that hasn’t been “sensitivity edited” or otherwise fed through the corporate-publishing machine … well, I think I’ve got one for you.
If you read it and enjoy it, maybe pass it on to any young aspiring writers you know. It won’t magically undo their paranoia and conditioning, but it might rattle their cages a little bit, especially if you let them know that it’s still selling steadily, seven years after it was published.
OK, one last thing, then I’ll let you go. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows J.K. Rowling, please give her my best regards, and tell her I said … well, basically, “Fuck the Hate Police!”
So, if someone in a foreign country puts something in writing that is published in their native land then read on a web forum (Substack, Le Monde, Hindustan Times) in Scotland, is that author subject to the Scots' law? Is the reader on Scotland soil subject to the law? Even if they never breathe a word about what they've consumed? Implying, since web content is being referenced in the example, the Scotland Hate Police are tracking your every click, or eye movement 👀. If someone unashamedly proclaims publicly they believe in God, which declaration may be offensive to atheists, or vice versa (among protected groups I read "faith") are they subject to the new law? All rhetorical. This is where the mind goes contemplating crazyland. Guess we'll be seeing the self-respecting, self-aggrandizing, sheep-brained Nazis show their colors in Scotland. Maybe a movement will be born, like the ULEZ dissidents in London. One can hope.
Maybe a Muslim Moms for Mohammed chapter can get started now?
The regime (via the FBI) *really* wants to know what you think. Thankfully, we all jump on social media and tell everyone what we think on a daily basis. Sometimes it's what we say, other times it's what we don't say. Sometimes it's who or what we "like". Whatever the case, the sum total of all our published and knowable thoughts are being catalogued and analyzed, most likely by AI. A profile is being developed. Couple that with our location information (we carry location trackers [phones] everywhere we go) and purchases (Visa and Mastercard are happy to comply) and know that you are an open book.
So back in the early days of the scamdemic, both Google (Android, I believe) and Apple agreed to share location data with the government in the name of safety. They said it was voluntary and you had to opt in, but I don't believe them. I got rid of my not-smartphone and have zero regrets. Anyhow.... I don't know if that agreement was ever removed. I bet it was not.
I admit I've not verified this, but multiple times I've read that the location data your mobile phone provides is NOT protected personal data. As with certain other types of data, it can be sold (to anyone? not sure...) with few if any legal restrictions. Similar holds for your Internet searches.
As the old saying has it, the real crime is not what’s illegal, but what the law allows.
Actually I'm counting on that. When I'm arrested they will have everything they need to prove that I acted so ignorantly moral and Biblically that they'll want to crucify me. Lord help me to rejoice if or when. 🙏🏼 Hands and head in "prayer position".
The Muslim woman in this case should have toned down her rants on social media BUT the FBI also just targeted a woman (see my post below) who posted an angry tweet about her cousin being murdered and named the alleged suspect (w/ his picture) who got off easy (just charged w/ dumping the body) which probably pissed the DA off...:
FBIsteria: Best FBI Memes (Plus How to Handle FEDs When They Visit You!)
- Leaked FBI DEI-Pride Month memo thread (EXCLUSIVE!😉), FBI Masque of the Red Death or Eyes Wide Shut and more FBI memes + how to handle the FEDs & know your rights IF they pay you a visit!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/fbisteria-best-fbi-memes-plus-how-to-handle-feds
If the woman's rants in no way violated the law, her "toning" them down would be self censorship, which is exactly what they want.
And if you or I were from a Muslim majority country, say in the Middle East where the US government has destablized the region for decades, with millions being displaced, maimed, and murdered, I'm guessing we may have a few rants of our own....
Self censorship is still censorship.
yes it is - and the form the overseers prefer....
Yea I agree BUT she was almost asking for them to visit her or for someone to send screenshots to the ADL... She also used certain buzz words that Facebook probably monitors for and auto sends to the FEDs...
I ask all the time. Fuck em. They better send their best. They don’t, but I’m waiting.
why if you're NOT doing anything WRONG, what do you have to HIDE?
FBI may not like Jeff's substack. The FBI may conclude that anyone reading and/or commenting on Jeff's substack is doing "Wrong". You just did wrong things because you just did both.
Yes, we are all guilty and wrong is whatever they say it is and arbitrary progressive changes to that definition are insertable whenever it suits them. Nature and its' God are "wrong" as well, as might and cunning and other similar characteristics make "right".
You may think you are not committing a crime but the FBI thinks otherwise. Your definition of "Wrong" is not the same as the FBI's definition of "Wrong". Read the book "Three felonies a day".
The premise is that Orwellian overlords want to prevent "doing" wrong by identifying people who "think" wrong thoughts. Your social media posts betray your underlying ideology, and the Party might someday conclude that you are a precrime risk that needs to be addressed.
The Stasi would have loved it...would have saved them so much time from following people and opening their mail.
Yep. I download all the spicy memes I see and back them up to my Google cloud, so there is no question what I think.
I never open my door to strangers.
Heck, my doorbell hasn't worked in 40+ years.
Occasionally, a Jehovah's Witness treks up my driveway and asks to tell me about their religion. I step outside and ask if I might pray with them. This usually causes them to immediately leave though that is not my intention. I really do want to pray with them. I wonder if this would work with the FBI.
You'd get arrested for praying 😂
FBI field report: "We noted the subject engaging in Christian nationalism, which we conveyed to the court and got a search warrant. We shot the dog as a precautionary measure."
So instead, say "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet:" Illhan and Rashida will have to come to your defense.
Oh now you’re talking insurrection! Have you seen John Wick?
😢
They’d probably frisk you then if your hands are in prayer position.
Easier to cuff if they’re in the praying position.
True that. Yikes.
I love it!
“First, let’s bow our heads and pray…”
“Now, let me go get my recording device…”
I used to just tell 'em I am Catholic and they step away quickly but I am sure any other religion will do. They really just want people who are homeless as far as a church goes. I think the last time they came they got the aforementioned husband (armed) and have not been back. So.
Most definitely!
Over a decade ago, my neighborhood was the frequent target of local Jehovah's Witnesses. On one visit I recall saying "Well an atheist and a Jew live here, so you've got a hard sell." ☺ Although my picker is broken when it comes to choosing a partner, I do like some of the interesting conversations. With the above-cited case, on another occasion we were dining in a local restaurant and the server made the inevitable inquiry if we'd like to order alcoholic beverages. I said, "Well, let me see, I'm a reformed alcoholic..." And "Anne" chimed in "...and I'm on psych meds..." and I concluded, "No, I don't think that'd be a good idea."
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My doorbell is stuck. If someone presses it, it stays on the "ding" part and never makes it to "dong". The last time this happened, the cat started growling. He growls often. I waited to whoever was there was gone and then un-stuck it.
I refused to answer for the census, either. Luckily, this was 2020 when everyone was afraid of the air. Get off my lawn!
I refused to answer my door for the census and the pervert walked around the side of the house and was looking in my windows.
Oh not ok at all!
Why not answer the door for the census? It's about as fundamentally Constitutional as you can get.
I was a field enumerator in 2000 & 2020. A temp job, but I find it interesting and enlightening.
There have been multiple times that I walked around a house after no answer at the door, trying to figure out if anyone was likely living there. This was usually on my second or third visit and after I had left a preprinted note.
Just answer the door for the census and take a few minutes to answer the simple questions. As I said, the basics of it are in the Constitution.
It's pretty hypocritical to avoid the census while screaming about other aspects of the Constitution.
What about never having anyone come to ask?
That’s when the ball bat comes out, with both the pocket and holstered 45 ready. You don’t walk around my house. Ever.
Or you can do something really reasonable and just talk to the census taker, who is actually fulfilling an important Constitutional requirement.
Btw, the census taker does have the right to come on your property and visually attempt to confirm if the domicile appears to be in use or vacant.
LOL I disconnected ours for a few years then my wife complained it wasn’t working. So, I “repaired” it and soon it will break again.
In the last 47 years of house-ownership, we've never had even one!
We got one, not an actual person but a packet of stuff. Too many probing questions they don’t need to know. I sat on it, then started getting threatening postcards that indicated I might get arrested for not filling it out.
So I basically filled it out with our name and number of people living in the house, sent it off and haven’t heard a thing since. Screw them, the definition of “census” is “an official count of a population.” I fulfilled my duty as a citizen.
Home code violation, fines to be assess with penalties and interest accrued over 40 years. The squatters won't be able to know it's you returning from a week away if the bell doesn't ring.
Seriously? A home code violation?
Whatever happened to just having a door knocker?
I don't know about that. I worked for an HOA (it was hell) and they had stupid rules like that. Whatever. Mine is staying busted.
I just live in a regular house...no HOA.
unless they implement the National Federal residential main automated entryway notification device Act. Don't worry, you have 4 years to reach compliance, there are grants, and Approved CRT-DEI certified doorbell contractors will be working in your area soon.
And sleeping in your bedroom--but you get to wash the sheets weekly. Thanks.
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"Just don’t get involved in anything shady."
I see all sorts of these "investigations" that have absolutely nothing to do with shade. We have witch hunts and setups. Shady, to them, can be anything drummed up or imagined.
And 'shady' could mean 'spreading covid disinformation online'.
But I get the point.
Big Lie believing, Insurrection denying, anti-vaccine, horse paste eating, Bible believers ARE the GREATEST THREAT to their demoncracy!
Dear Lord, never mention the semites.
You find out who controls you when you can't criticize them.
And it becomes even more evident when they can use the armed FBI thugs to take one out. As I see it, the entire legal works are being used to destroy free speech. Why? Because they cannot have anyone tell the truth about them. Think about the European laws for just criticizing the holohoax numbers. THAT is coming here.
Or having a Trump sign on your lawn.
The Fed went after nuns for not wanting to support promiscuous sexual habits. Never forget.
https://www.catholic.org/news/national/story.php?id=53796
Prudecrime must be stopped, it cuts into the Cartel profits
"Do not let them into the house UNLESS THEY HAVE A WARRANT." Um, can't they fake one of those, too? Am I supposed to be a warrant authentication expert now, too? I'm literally never opening my door to anyone ever again. Hahahahahahahaha.
Never open your door unless you know someone is coming over after being invited.
"My local sheriff , my priest, and my lawyer will be right over to meet with you wonderful hardworking gentlemen! May i see some proof of Vaxxination please? Lemonade while we wait for them to arrive?"
Just tell them to submit questions in writing via registered-certified mail OR to come back with a warrant - then get a laqyer... FOR MORE TIPS:
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For the past three years!
Does anyone wonder why thru Holy Week Candace Owens was fired, Biden did trans day on Easter Sunday etc. well it's because they hate the Lord, Christians and the nuclear family. Satan is at the head of this snake, his demons are running amuck to destroy God's kingdom on earth. We are must stand in and with Christ, we all must proclaim Christ is King. Have a great day all.
Viva Christo Rey!
that's a Red Flag statement!
"Don’t assume the ones at your door are bad guys."
If they are there to talk about your first amendment protected activities they are bad guys.
Good guys would tell their bosses no and/or publicly expose that their bosses want them to go out and violate the rights of citizens.
Agree. The FBI is so thoroughly crooked now that it’s better to assume the worst. The ones with integrity have either retired or have moved on to more honest ways of making a living.
I agree. Sadly, I have lost all respect for any of the alphabet agencies.
100%
Nailed it. If an officer using the color of law comes to talk with me about anything, they are already my enemy, and the worst one there is. Because they have chosen to use that law as a shield. And that won’t fly with me.
Between lying to the FBI and telling my wife that the dress makes her look fat, I'd actually take my chances with the feds...
Praise be to God! My daughter received a full ride collegiate offer at a school that does not require the covid jab (yes there are still a few ivy’s that do). I was so worried about that.
Wow. That’s nice news. Now hopefully they aren’t pushing DEI hard core and will corrupt her mind. Its amazing how the daily influence of pushing that will chip away at even the most strong and solid individuals belief.
Sadly, public schools has already turned her into a socialist. 😢
Our son is finishing his freshman year, and our single rule was that he couldn’t go to a school that requires the Covid jab. He ended up in FL so it’s all good. Glad it turned out well for your girl!
My daughter knows how I feel about the jab and suffered bullying at her high school because she didn’t get it.
So sad....pressure was intense at our highschool but fortunately no bullying. She's now glad she didn't get it as some of her friends are now regretting it.
Have her friends developed health problems?
We had that rule too...our daughter is at FSU and happy. Had it not been for covid, she would most likely would have been in the northeast but I'm glad she's in FL with a good governor.
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Thank you! Besides being brilliant she is also a very hard worker!
I’ve said it many times lately- but the only thing that gives me peace is knowing 1) Christ is still on the throne 2) He WILL return again for his and SOON, 3) He WILL come again and reign with judgement against those who are evil and will bring real peace.
He is our rock and our fortress and our redeemer. Let not the goings on sway you or worry you. Trust in Him alone. Use discernment.
Amen! HE is my only hope. ✨🙌🏼
Amen.