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Two years too late Ben. How many people succumbed to these planned death shots because of your inability or unwillingness to seek the truth on this matter? Being research impaired has its consequences. I'm dumber than a box of rocks, if I can figure this out ANYBODY can. You and your PR agent need to coordinate your "Apology Tour" post haste. Oh....and hire a bodyguard or six. (Trust me, you're on a whole new list now.) Regardless, we've got a spot for you here on Team Sanity.

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What seems odd to me is that all it took for Ben to change his mind was an admission from a Pfizer exec? Really? There's been so many highly reputable and credentialed doctors & scientists that have been sounding the alarms for at least the last 18 months. He's known for deep dive investigating but somehow completely ignored the ton of evidence that he could have easily attained? His wife is a doctor, which he touts frequently, so I'm left to assume he followed her lead since we know most medical folks bought it hook, line, & sinker. And, many still do!

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Even someone I personally know and talked to recently, with special needs and cognitive impairment, at 32 years old, told me she did not take the jab and will not. I was shocked! Her entire family was trying to force her to. Told her she needed to trust them because she isn’t able to know what’s best for her. She was shown graphs of all the people dying because they wouldn’t vaccinate 🙄. She was told she was disappointing them. She refused against immense pressure! When I asked why she refused she said - “I just felt like it was wrong to put that in my body and God wouldn’t want anyone forcing me to do something I didn’t want to do.” She remains unjabbed! I was giving her high 5’s for 15 minutes while she beamed from ear to ear because someone had finally told her she did the right thing! Wow.

And Ben didn’t know? He was lied to? Pppffft. Take personal responsibility! I have zero respect for him.

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This is beautiful!!! God bless that beautiful lady!

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I know of a young woman in Holland with special needs who refused the jab. She could no longer accompany her family members on outings like to the cinema or restaurant because she had no jab passport. Just appalling.

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It is appalling. And it just reiterated to me how God can speak to anyone willing to listen. And that using common sense, even with her cognitive inability to research, she knew not to take it. Something as basic as, no one should be able to force her take something she doesn’t want, was heed by even the most innocent people.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

Sunnydaze - I have multiple medical issues…Crohn’s, Mast cell disorder, Dysautonomia/POTS, asthma to name a few. I’m also immunocompromised from my Crohn’s treatments and my disorders cause me to have pretty significant cognitive dysfunction. The rhetoric being fed to most immunocompromised early on and, that quite a few people still believe, is that we would have a 100% death rate if we got COVID. That shot was to be our only savior and hope for survival, to the point that our survival also depended 100% on everyone else getting the shot too. I’m sure you remember the narrative and were likely guilt tripped at some point about “protecting the immunocompromised”. I even had one of my specialists lie to my face and tell me that if I caught COVID there was nothing that could be done for me, despite the fact that monoclonal antibodies were readily available at this time and even if I personally would never take them, hospitals were using Remdesivir, steroids, and other things too. I made my decision from day 1 that I was not comfortable getting the shot with anaphylaxis and then as time went on, aside from the data coming out, it was every lie, every misinterpretation of fact, every guilt trip that just helped solidify my reasoning against it more and more. The more your friends family tried to coerce her, the more her subconscious was able to catch on that something was not quite right about their motives and the behavior which was good. Ben Shapiro definitely has had ample access to the studies and data all this time and I agree, he should have been red pilled way before Pfizer made that admission!

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She is a beautiful example of the God given gift of discernment .

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. . . and self-preservation.

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You should share your little thread here. We join you in a big cheer for her resolute determination not to become another experiment for Big Pharma. God bless her!

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Exactly! Share it

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022Liked by Jeff Childers

I agree with you. I suspect he changed his mind a while ago and I’m thinking he knows at least one friend or family member who was jab injured. I guarantee his wife has seen hundreds of Injured at this point, and to save face Pfizer’s admission gave him the exit ramp he needed.

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My husband insisted on the first shot not really believing me that he should wait but he was a little overweight and had high blood pressure so I think he worried about it and I did too. In the early days you had doubt on certain days with the PR machine in full force “what if I am wrong about ivermectin and HCQ ad these studies say I am. It was early on. So he go the shot and developed numbness in his legs that happened within a week of the shot. At first he had a hard time walking right when he got up each day but all is ok now (he has some permanent numbness) but it scared him so badly and never got another shot. He’s one of the lucky ones. His doctors said he should get his second one and I believe he would be paralyzed if he did. He just “no way” and join our “anti-Mnra team”.

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My FIL got the first round of shots. He is old and his wife was petrified that he would die without the shot so he took it. He now has shingles. Not a passing rash, but a rash and a rash and a rash... very debilitating. The good news is that neither have boosted and his doctor (whom is in Florida) said it was most likely from the shot and recommended he not boost. God bless the sensible doctors. So few these days. A hospital gave my MIL Remdesevir. Not all that sick when she was admitted. She dies soon after. Also Florida. It's a mixed bag it seems.

I send well wishes to you and your husband. I hope he regains the feeling in his leg. Someone might be able to sort out the problem. So glad for him he joined Team Truth.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 28, 2022

Thanks for the telling ... and God be with you all.

From personal experience, it was difficult to insulate from the constant barrage of fear and panic, and remain constant to what I was seeing as reasoned truth (really a ferreting out of what makes sense from what can't possibly make sense). It's very hard to cut oneself out from the herd and stand alone.

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I hope he investigates possible "circulation issues" and pursues remedies.

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I'm thinking Ben isn't stupid and can sense the wind has changed directions in the form of subscriber counts, views etc etc....

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If you change your opinion based upon changing winds shame on you.

If you change your opinion based upon the data and realizing you were wrong, well that’s not as bad.

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And then there is the standing and reputation of the wife. Wouldn't do to have your very public husband out there causing trouble.

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Probably.

Also watching people drop from

The clot shot and folks looking around as the media influencer isn’t picking it up will not help his ratings.

Israel is the most vaccinated country on earth and still had a higher case rate than any one else.

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It's obvious we can't depend on Ben Shapiro to give us truly 'independent' news if it took this long for him to see past the lies.

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He followed her lead. It’s the old, “my doctor said” belief system. In a conversation I had with someone about the jabs her argument was, “My husband is a physician and he says....” The biggest mental block they have to get past is it’s all a lie. Everything has been taught by Big Pharma.

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We all had a feeling this 'onion' was going to take a long time too peal. One layer at a time and its happening

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You articulated my thoughts exactly! I didn’t know his wife is a doctor because I’m not a follower of his, except in very limited snippets. But what you say makes perfect sense. Our Pastor’s wife is a nurse and they were “all in” on the scam. Many medical folks were duped as much as anyone.

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I can't remember who said it, but they described it basically as an unearned and inordinate trust in human secular systems ("modern medicine") over God.

Pastors should have been tipped off as soon as churches were shut and people were not allowed to be with their dying loved ones, or with their family members during funerals, or fathers not allowed to attend the birth of their children.

God created us to live in community. Pastors should have known that those who were trying to isolate us were not the good guys.

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The clergy who saw through this scamdemic and were either ousted, ostracized or even arrested, are the ones I now follow closely. In Chicago, where you could go to the liquor store and pot shops, and still get an abortion but couldn't go to Church... we all knew this was a crock of crap and made no sense at all, except to try to keep us drugged out, drunk and scared, eating processed take out to further sicken us. As an American I was so incredibly embarrassed for our citizens that we didn't push back, and I wholly blame the churches who participated in this charade.

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I don’t wholly blame the churches. There’s plenty of blame to go around and they certainly deserve their fair share. But I’ve often said that I place blame first and foremost on doctors who were entrusted with our health care. They’ve been put on a pedestal and treated like gods for a long time. And many of them have a ‘god complex’; they won’t tolerate a mere mortal questioning their opinion, their knowledge, their expertise. And most of them are still entrenched in that fatal error.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

You are so right Tonya! I lost a lot of respect for our Pastor because in my mind he was following the mandates of the CDC, & medical establishment, rather than God’s word.

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Our pastor is extremely overweight. He was in the icu for a month with Covid. It convinced him to lose weight.

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He was probably a virgin when he met her.

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I share your thoughts. Apparently he needs to widen his circle a bit. His wife and him. A circle of two.

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Yes! THIS! Thanks for saying it. I can forgive but I can’t forget. The LEAST he and the rest of them can do is come out with their apology tour. We need headlights and megaphones coming from these supposed intelligent people. The truth needs to be blast from one end of the earth to the other. After all, they blasted their support for it. People are dead. People are dealing with lifelong injuries now. People are still getting jabbed with this poison. If Ben really understands he was lied to by everyone then he needs to first take responsibility for NOT researching, for NOT being skeptical when it was obvious we should have been given the climate and the motive with the election issues, and for NOT using his brain about this (like the rest of us uneducated people did) and then follow up with his apology tour. And I’d like an acknowledgement that us un-injected people were right all along, and that we were NOT the idiots they made us out to be. That would go a long way.

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Agree. I will never forgive or forget. I do feel bad for people who naively took the shots based on misplaced trust in the cdc, medical community and the government. It sucks. But the point is few if any said or did nothing against the unprecedented and unlawful mandates that were forced, coerced etc. Why was that not a problem!? So actions or lack of action has consequences. Ben and all in his position need to think on that.

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My friend proudly told me he took the jab again. This after he's been jabbed before caught Omicron and was very sick. Pointed out that each time he took the jab he got very ill (first with a bad flu and then Omicron). He looked very surprised that I asked, "You haven't figured it out yet. You're damaging your immune system."

He takes it as a point of pride not to read or look into anything I've mentioned and to obey the State. I've made more than one joke that yes I know "Ignorance is Strength."

While many have backed away from the jabs, other regard taking them as a badge of courage in obedience to the party. Children have been offered up to the altar too. It's beyond sad. Geert Vanden Bossche who has been correct to date sees a dark winter ahead for these people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5_oYF_WZRI

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Good Read: http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/integrity/sh9_5.htm

And/Or/But... I would not rub any more about the jabs into people faces. Just pray!! That there is a bell that can't be un-rung!

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Disheartening how the habit of virtue signaling controls some ppl.

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It’s disgusting.

He should have known better.

And even worse He shamed the name.

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That's sad. I have people like this too. I just don't get it.

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Wrong! He never said YOU MUST get it. He has always believed in Freedom to chose. He chose and we chose. He made the mistake. We should have pitty and support his freedom loving ideals. There is NOTHING to forgive. Those were his opinions and beliefs.

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I think the point is that a person in his position who understands how government functions could have figured out - by simply doing a modicum of research - that the shots have nothing to do with preventing the spread of a virus. This was, and is, a well orchestrated criminal event.

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Ben is a garden variety establishment conservative. He has repeatedly demonstrated an inability to analyze the political reality on the ground and invariably makes the wrong call. His wife is a doctor, and still he couldn't figure out that all drugs come with side effects and no drug is indicated for the entire population. And here we had an experimental drug and an experimental technology seemingly produced in record time. A person who considers himself as smart as Ben does, should have seen the red flags.

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Hell, you can go on mainstream Wikipedia and see the multi billion dollar judgments against the pharmaceutical companies.....including hiding safety data. And how about Pfizer...."We're going to release all of the data in 75 years!" C'mon already.....wake up and smell the coffee and covid! If it walks like a duck.......

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He should have, could have and would have if it hadn't been in what he thought was in his interest to not see them. Willful blindness is not a defense. It's not as if the information wasn't out there, in the open, easily available (especially and above all to someone in his position) and it was certainly not the case that there weren't many voices, with many of the most highly qualified scientists, doctors, and experts in all pertinent fields among them, crying out with the facts and evidence.

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Amen.

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Amen, LOL!

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They still left us who stood alone against the vaxx to fight the battle.

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I disagree. Ben Shapiro is an INFLUENCER. People relied on his opinion. His hubris in encouraging people to take a medication to protect others is immoral.

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Does Ben Shapiro claim to be an investigative journalist, or did that just get pinned on him?

If he does, yep, he was responsible to report his investigations.

But if not, he's just a political commentator that anyone follows at their own peril.

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I have no idea. I have never listened to him. If you are out there saying it, especially on a public platform, people listen. Right or wrong.

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I can tell from what you're saying that you've never listened to him. Thanks for being honest about it.

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He can't apologize people back to life or sound health.

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https://voxday.net/2022/10/27/the-rehabilitation-of-ben-shapiro/ here's a post on how they're trying to rehabilitate Ben. He is and was controlled opposition. So now it's ok to admit vaxx regret. We should have never had to have vaxx regret.

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I agree. So-called Vax regret is incredibly fake and self-serving. Has he asked for forgiveness? I haven't heard him do so. He clearly doesn't have any shame for influencing millions to get jabbed. He is in self-preservation mode.

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"My unborn children and grandchildren and discontinued family line forgive you."

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I’ve rarely listened to Ben - he talks too fast and I can’t keep up. But would you put him in the same category as Dan Bongino? He’s another one who took the jab and now regrets it. Although I think he saw the light quite some time ago. It seems that for such a (so-called) intelligent guy, Ben was unusually SLOOW on the uptake. I’m not saying there’s no forgiveness for that, but should he been listened to as an oracle on medical advice? I don’t think so.

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Ben was too fast, too packaged. I rarely listen to these guys. Especially to those who appear to make a god out of 'smart reasoning' whether left or right, or even center. As with Ben, and a whole lot of others of the type, where was the thinking?

The Fake Pandemic showed us that a whole lot of folks really don't think at all. And that Man truly is a herd animal susceptible to lunatic stampeding. Not only this, that Man is also prone to creating false gods (media, government, ideology, and you name it). Without a spiritual rudder, such as Biblical Scripture, Man is pretty much a lost cause left to his own devices and sinful desires unrestrained.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

Well said Dave! There were many, including Franklin Graham, who promoted the shots. It boils down to an individual who thinks for themselves, based largely on their core values (spiritual), and life experiences. Example- I as so many others, had already learned to mistrust the medical establishment. And media personalities, left or right are simply a talking head. What they say has zero impact on my decisions. The rush to the cliff (as in lemmings) shows that herd animal aspect.

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Ha! Ha! Ha! We got rid of a lot of doctors for strictly following the mandates. We finally found one who did not require mask wearing but urged us to get jabbed up. We asked about this and the guy assured us that he had thoroughly researched all of this out. The shots were safe and effective. I guess the single thing he overlooked was that the entire Fake Pandemic was ... erh, well ... totally cooked up. And I guess he did not stop to wonder where normal flu season went starting 2020. These guys are really pieces of work. (The main reason why we bothered at all is that my wife wanted to get some blood work done.)

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Yep, most doctors were running along with the rest of the herd. Thank God there were a few speaking truth!

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No, Bongino was in a special category: someone with cancer. He speaks with great regret that he took the jab but he says that having cancer made the decision much more difficult and bad medical advice under those circumstances didn't help.

Bongino is not the issue; Ben Shapiro has a lot to take issue with and he's not even a quarter down the rabbit hole. He's playing victim. What a lout.

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Plus, Dan came out against the shots MONTHS ago. He saw it way before Ben did.

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And I don't recall ever hearing Bongino encouraging people to get it.

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He fought against the mandates from the get-go, to the extent he dared (Cumulus Media?) his company to fire him.

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Yes, I was thinking that too. Dan was always in the personal decision camp.

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Bongino took the jabs (initial 2 only) due to his medical situation. He never promoted them, encouraged people to get them, or criticized people who didn't. He only ever talked about them as his personal decision and told listeners to make their own decision. Big difference between him and those like Shapiro, or Trump for that matter.

Bongino for several months now has made a major point of saying he now regrets taking the shots and considers it the biggest misjudgement of his life. He says he got caught up in fear due to his cancer and didn't research the shots enough beforehand.

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^^^ This ^^^

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At some point you realize that conservatives have the wrong ideology and that's why they were wrong.

Conservatives largely trust our governmental institutions and federal agencies. They think that the agencies can be redeemed by simply reducing the influences of liberal ideology - the agencies just need some tweaking. I don't know how a conservative knows that global warming is a scam and that NOAA/EPA and federally funded scientists have lied to us about it for over 2 decades but somehow miraculously think this corruption in science/academia wouldn't also occur in medicine and other areas of science, but they do.

The Big Pharma corruption of NIH, CDC, FDA is a situation that plagues all other federal agencies and departments. DC literally is a swamp, and you can't just drain it by replacing some Democrats with Republicans. These agencies and departments have to be eliminated. If you like podcasts, I'd suggest No Agenda.

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With the slew of Stasi-FIB raids and arrests, think everyone has woken up to the truth on that front. But we're not there yet on the Big Pharma ownership over related federal agencies.

That's concerning too as we don't have any window on putting a stop to it.

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I don't have your optimism on the FBI - nothing will change on that front. We saw the same if not worse in the early 90s (Waco, Richard Jewell) and nothing changed. Maybe a raid on a former president was too much...

You have a really good point on the Big Pharma problem, and it's bigger than that. If you've seen videos on 'Rockefeller medicine', you know it's the entire practice and teaching of allopathic medicine. I think Steve Kirsch and people like him are the solution. There has to be an alternate source for funding and publishing studies. How hard would it have been to get data from private outpatient/primary care clinics to see if people who took HCQ for rheumatoid arthritis or other condition were getting covid to a lesser degree than non-HCQ patients? Is taking vit D more effective at warding off the flu than the flu shot? These studies simply aren't funded. If we have a Steve Kirsch for every Bill Gates, I think things will change for the better over time.

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I have been taking megadoses of Vitamin D since early 2020. Since then, I have had no respiratory infections. No covid, no flu, no colds. Nothing.

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Not optimism so much as a distinction between FIB and the agencies overseen by Big Pharma as it stands.

There is some political will (after November) to tackle FIB. No one solution will happen overnight but IMHO, cutting the funding is what gets their attention. That coupled with a demand that the FIB Dir. resign.

Short of that, I agree on the FIB problem not going away. To start, there must be hearings on the raids and Merrick Garland must be held to account. He must be impeached even if there is no vote for removal in the Senate.

As for Big Pharma, not sure what solution will work when most of Congress is getting cash from their lobbyists.

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My thoughts exactly. I had always liked Ben, but I truly couldn't figure out how someone as seemingly smart as he is could be so utterly obtuse about the increasingly apparent realities about the whole covid show and the dangerous vaccine damage going on. Because of this at an early point I lost most respect and all interest in him, there was just no excuse for his ignorance about it all. I do hope he now becomes very vocal about his erroneous opinions and talks loudly about the truth about vaccines.

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We had kind of a similar discussion about Dr. Drew a short time ago. Let’s hope and pray all of these people with a public forum use it to speak truth!

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PREACH

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Absolutely all of this!!!

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I came here to say this and am happy to see others already discussing it.

Yes, I'm willing to forgive and welcome Ben back to Team Reality. However, he first needs to offer a real apology. So far, I've only seen him paint himself as a victim in claiming that we were all lied to. No Ben, a lot of us smelled a rat years ago. No, we didn't have data yet, but we could sense something was amiss--and you called us "dopes".

Secondly, Ben needs to explain how he got this so wrong. If we are ever to trust him again, he needs to do some soul searching and figure out why he didn't smell the rat that so many of us did.

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He has always been a supporter of all vaccines, I heard him once discussing childhood vaccine schedule with a woman on one of his shows and he was very condescending towards her and felt there was no reason for anyone to have any type of exemption for any of those vaccines either. I personally don’t think anything should be mandated if you are not free to choose what gets injected into your body you’re a slave

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Yes, and he should see this.

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but we did have the data.

right from the start we had the data.

not all of it, but enough of it to not only smell the rats but to also point them out.

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Not only the data. Like I said from day one… do the math…..99.7 % survival rate. It was always just a cold….

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99.7 % survival rate?

from day one?

that is what you said?

really?

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Even if we didn’t have the data, we should have had the intuition and the instinct to know something was up.

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Discernment. That's what he was lacking.

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And the best part about it is he can learn and change. It’s Not too late

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all we had to do was look up the wiki page on the billion dollar fines pfizer et all have paid for breaking the law.

they all are criminals and have been so for a very long time.

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Exactly.

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The LACK of data was the major factor in my distrust of the jabs.

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Agreed

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BINGO

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Makes me wonder if we follow the money, would any lead back to Ben? Idk. I haven’t followed the money back to him. But I can’t help but wonder because he went off the rails, against all common sense and against all scientific data available….all motives available that we could see plain as day…. did he get paid to jump on board?

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

Could be just intellectual arrogance coupled with his wife's opinion which he defaults too cuz she's a doctor. Arrogance is prolly his blind spot. Maybe pride is a better word than arrogance now that I think about it.

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"Ben's a smart guy" does not jive with "Ben trusts big-pharma's $cience".

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But you know what?

How many "smart people" do WE ALL know, who 'fell for it', and wanted to TRUST their respective governments?

Misplaced trust, as many knew THEN, and more and more are beginning to realize NOW.

Trust is going to be harder to come by, going forward. I HOPE.

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My doctor son-in-law and nurse daughter pushed this crap on half the family. My son-in-law's father just passed-a horrible death from Prion Disease. When people (like my son in law) realize what they did, to themselves and their loved ones, I pray their rage will be a whirlwind

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My doctor brother-in-law has been one of the worst advocates for masks and jabs. I’ve watched, in horror, as he persistently pushed ‘this crap.’

My beloved sister and I no longer communicate.

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I am so sorry. That is so sad.

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Wow. I would advise you to check out Steve Kirsch if you have not already done so.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/post-jab-prion-disease-case-history/comments

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Thank you. It's worse than I thought.

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That's been sort of my mantra for years. Intelligence does not necessarily equate to common sense, logic and/or reason. My daughter's finally getting it.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 28, 2022

A group of our, what use to be friends, all who have PhDs, ridiculed and ostracized us for putting "them" at risk for not taking the poison. All 5 of them are still taking the boosters and still buying the narrative 100%. One is a pharmaceutical attorney! I do not wish any of them harm but secretly hope one day to hear remorse. All Californians by the way.

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My experience is that just the process of earning a PhD makes one blind-sided with arrogance. Add in the fact that these ppl live in an echo chamber makes it very difficult to get an original thought accepted.

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When I was in college, one thing I realized was that most people getting a PhD were going down a narrow rabbit hole of specialization to focus on a particular very narrow aspect of a specialized subject, and they ended up knowing more than others about their chosen subject but not necessarily a single thing outside that subject. In no way does it mean the person knows anything at all about a broad range of subjects as so many people seem to automatically think.

I always figured the main value of college was to learn HOW to learn, to be a lifelong learner, to become a seeker of information. This was true for me, but judging from the last couple of years, it sure doesn't seem to be true of all highly educated people. Arrogant and narrow minded know-it-all defines rather a lot of them. And they often forgot to learn critical thinking. Sad.

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Spot-on observation ... when I was an undergrad, we defined the various degrees as: BS (bullshyt); MS (more of same); PhD (piled higher and deeper).

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To earn a PhD, one must convince those already in the field that they have something unique to contribute. But if it is so unique that it threatens the presuppositions of those in the field, they will be turned down. So they have to stick to the established ideas. Then, to convince themselves that their PhD is well-earned, they have to convince themselves that they believe those ideas.

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California... not another country but another planet in the distant Galaxy of Dumbitude.

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I wish my daughter did. She is the most educated one of the kids and still believes everything she reads. Typical democrat!!!

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Indeed, intelligence (particularly the look-at-me-I-am-sooo-smart variety) often flies directly in the face of common sense.

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I’m glad to hear it. I am waiting for my 25 year old to get a clue.

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I think this is a key. From kindergarten up, we're trained to obey, respect authority, and do what's right for others. This military operation exploited that across all areas of influence where we have life long deference.

In the end, one of the stack cats (gato mal, not sure which) got it right: ALL the corruption is enabled by huge gov't bureaucracy, most of which makes rules and laws that help big donors. We have to close down all these agencies and remove money from politics.

Do that, and even the blind trusting folks won't have evil temptations to lead them astray.

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I have to disagree with the first part of your reply. You and I may have been raised to respect authority, but most kids today do not. My liberal snowflake daughter (her friends’ description of her) who has been at least triple jabbed has never respected or obeyed or even politely listened to us. The schools taught her the opposite. Brainwashed in my opinion…

I am rethinking my habit of looking up to certain people I considered smart. Just because they have a near-perfect photographic memory and can remember trivia and quote facts does not make them smart. I’ll take common sense and a B student any day…

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Funny how kids are brainwashed not to respect authority, then respect authority to their detriment when something like this comes up!

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That IS what must happen.

But - $$$

How do we battle THAT?

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I’ve known some incredibly stupid book smart people, including in my own family.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

Only my thoughts. Regarding the pandemic hoax and ensuing vax crime, I want to comment with two posits - personal experience + media bombardment. What I saw from people (family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances) was sheer FEAR. They expressed fear and fear was tantamount to their reasoning ability. None of my attempts succeeded with asking folks to consider some facts about the pandemic and my plea for them to investigate the vax contents before lining up to get injected. Early on, I was castigated, harassed and bullied for my stand against wearing a mask. I subsequently learned to stay in the background and tearfully watch the on-going horror show. I could not understand their fear. To this day, I still do not understand why they are so fearful. But fear was the driving force that these folks displayed and to this day, that fear remains true for them and their decisions. These same people never acknowledge the vax as responsible for each time they claim to test positive for “covid”. These same folks have a love affair with the swab test. They also have a plethora of health problems - kidney, lungs, liver, heart. They make lots of trips to emergency centers and subsequent hospitalizations. A lot have died. Their beliefs are strong - they feel safe because they are vaxxed and boosted. And the circle continues. Fear, I tell you, is alive and real. Yet, God said - Fear not. Kudos to those who ‘fear not’ and to those who employ discernment.

Media bombardment was fierce. The world was bombarded 24/7 with the ensuing pandemic. My first clue of a possible hoax was the unexpected demise of the Chinese whistle-blower doctor who tried to warn us. Then we got newsfeeds from China about people dying in the streets and apartments being totally sealed with the supposedly infected residents inside. The effect was chilling and meant to instill fear/horror but what I saw was “bad theater.” Each and every day, global governments, the medical industry + ‘the experts’ bloviated to the masses. My circle was indeed small with like-minded souls. There were less than ten folks with whom I could speak frankly about what I was thinking and feeling about SARS-CoV-2. In my mind, it seemed simple. If you have flu or cold symptoms, you got OTC meds plus prescribed treatment. So I began researching and going-down-rabbit-holes to find truth and validation as to why I was not accepting what I viewed as propaganda being fed to the masses. Early on, certain tidbits were oozing into some of my feeds and I began deep-diving rabbit-holes in the Fall of 2019. It was the best solution for me because I found answers and peace with my decisions. God protected me. He has made a decision for my life but I have the gift of discernment. We all do. The threads are unraveling now on the crimes against humanity. What cannot be undone is the fear which some people have - it is alive and real for them. In my small world, these fearful folks have not changed their belief in the pandemic, masks or vax+boosters. These same folks are tuned into corporate media as their source of news. I can only speak from my world of experience. So for Ben to finally acknowledge his awakening, my respect for him is in the lower quadrant. He has the same gift as I do - discernment. As for corporate media - my opine is the media is complicit. Harsh judgement? I think so because accountability and responsibility are needed to justly right the crimes against humanity.

One day very soon, we will live in harmony on this planet Earth and be good shepherds of what God has blessed us with. Kudos to Jeff Childers - a genuinely great leader with forbearance + wisdom and who perpetually entertains us with his zany wit. And many thanks to everyone in the C&C Army - I appreciate each and every patriot.

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Very well said.

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exactly! And thank you Jeff, for being the crazy beacon o' light that you were back when each of us thought we were the only one.

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I know quite a few people who weren't afraid but took it mindlessly and injected their entire family "to travel". In my highly masked area 70% took off their masks once the mandates were lifted. The majority didn't live in fear but in compliance.

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Absolutely agree - since the shot roll out, I preface discussions about those I know who took the shot with "people I once thought were smart..." One of our sons, who is probably the least intelligent of our kids, had to make a decision very early about the shot for work and he was able, just using his gut, to cover his tracks and avoid having to take the poison while still keeping his job. Thankfully none of our kids took the poison which I will not attribute to their intelligence but merely lack of trust in government and common sense - something that is definitely missing in many of these "smart" folks. Just as the left absconds with words definitions to suit their purpose, maybe it is time for us to return to a true definition of smart...

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I think part of it is the arrogance that can go hand in hand with the knowledge that a person has (or believes him/herself to have), a certain level of intelligence. They assume things and trust people they believe are like them without having any afterthoughts about it.

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Misplaced trust is right. So WHY was his trust misplaced? That's what he needs to figure out and fix. And it seems like intellectual hubris could be the answer. Will he humble himself, or not?

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He's really quite a humble guy...just young, right out of med school and deeply in debt. He does what he is told, because he NEEDS to believe it, in order to square it all. I love him dearly. The loss of his father is terrible. We need offer understanding.

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Smart enough to know if his subscriber count and views are falling... Maybe he has also taken some big pharma $?

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Yea, I'm not a genius but I certainly knew they were lying. I'm an RN and will never work in this mandating lying field again! Where's my money Joe to pay off my worthless piece of shit degree. Oh wait, nurses aren't educated said Governor Kim Reynolds.

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Not sure if you’re interested in moving but Nevada hires RNs in positions within the State all the time. I work for Medicaid, my department enrolls providers in the program so they can see Medicaid recipients in their practice. The Surveillance and Utilization Review (SUR) unit has a few RNs and they look for providers committing fraud, waste and abuse of Medicaid funds. We don’t have a vax mandate and haven’t been testing for at least 6 months. We are still working from home, though. That may change after the PHE ends, though. The SUR unit has people in Carson City and Las Vegas. Just a thought. We need more conservatives to help make us a red state again.

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Interesting option. I assume private hospitals still have jab mandates? Any idea if Nevada is part of the nursing license compact?

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Its such a tragic thing thats happened in our current medical systems.. Hold on new and better ways for you to do the work you love are coming..

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Can you find work in one of the telemedicine companies that didn’t sell out their soul?

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I was done with Shapiro when he made the comment that the J6 prisoners “could rot in hell forever” for all he cared.

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Yeah a lot of the so-called conservatives’ attitudes regarding Jan 6 really ticked me off 😡

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The 2020 election is much like the jabs, in my opinion: a real world intelligence test. I can't trust the judgement of anyone, regardless of politics, who can't recognize the 2020 election was highly questionable.

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That's even worse than his 'I don't give a good damn about the so-called "browning of America." Color doesn't matter. Ideology does' as if the Somalis being used as shock troops in the Great Replacement contain admirers of T.S. Eliot.

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Well said! Ben Shapiro is smart sure I may have an IQ of 80 but even I can figure out that getting irreversibly injected with a liability-free pharmaceutical product because the .gov and D-list tiktokers told you to is dumb

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Liability ‘free’ was the first red flag for me!!!

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That and all of the incentives. It was weird how they were giving out free stuff and doing lotteries for jab takers. Then when that didn’t work well enough, the threats and coercion started. All huge red flags for me.

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No liability and enticement with food! I was way skeptical before this though. Hubs just got word that his company has not changed their shipyard rules in 2.5 years. Still subject to testing before going on the boat, no leaving shipyard to eat (fenced in) and must be current on all shots and boosters. Seattle, so being locked in might not be bad? Seriously draconian. I want him and his fellow workers to boycott this hellhole and tell them to shove it. Oh, and they have to be masked on the boat all the time too. This news is from yesterday. Is it wrong that I am praying the company heads have strokes?

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You're exactly right. Make the company feel the heat. Funny how things change when it affects their profit margin. My PhD son works for a pharma company and he told his company to pack sand when they mandated the shot. Said he would go work in retail in a hick-town if he had to before he or his family have to take the shot. They immediately backed of when they figured out that his operation was their biggest profit center.

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Oh wow. That is awful and so extreme!! 😮😡

(Not your last sentence but the conditions at work)

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The first red flag that went up the pole and stayed at the top is the fact that the jab was EXPERIMENTAL. I'm never taking any experimental drug unless I am dying.

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Being book and fact smart doesn't mean you have one iota of common sense real world intelligence. As we've seen on full display the last 2 years!

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

Shapiro's being suckered is especially egregious in that in the fall of 2020 it was easy to find that the shot manufacturers claimed only that their concoction would reduce symptoms. That being the case, it was obvious way back then that any contention that it stopped spread was a lie. If I could find and interpret that information, Shapiro, whose job it is to research and interpret, should have done so, too.

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Shot manufacturers did claim their stuff would reduce severity! Combined with the fact that they were shielded from liability should have been enough to alert anyone. But Ben is under the influence, apparently, of his doctor wife.

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Yes....they were claiming all sorts of things and feeding it to the supine media about reduced severity, preventing hospitalization, etc. And in the early days they implied and media interpreted what they said as you couldn't get sick, you wouldn't spread it, "the disease stops with you." I haven't heard any media apologies or corrections yet. Of course, as time went on, the narrative subtly changed along the way and they hoped the public wouldn't notice.

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I don’t really care. I feel bad for them. I am glad I scathed thru sans jab. If you are in florida don’t vote for Annette Tadeo I called her to support the florida law against mandates she called me told me I should lose my job for not taking the jab. I am happily awaiting her loss for position into the state legislature. I am lighting candles. At this point these poor people are just stupid or on Pharma payroll. I survived! Live and let die in the words of Albert broccoli. Nothing to be done now but hope they don’t too bad of reaction to those EUA vaccine.

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Is she a republican or democrat?

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Demorat. I went to someone’s house the other day had her signs all over her lawn. I wanted to vomit.

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"It is now perfectly clear that we were lied to."

No, Ben. It was perfectly clear before the shots even came out. Your blind belief in "modern medicine" led to your failure to thoroughly investigate. How many of your followers sent you information that you ignored because of your intellectual hubris?

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And they don’t get to walk away and pretend they aren’t responsible for this shit show. Which is what they are hoping. They are hoping they can quietly say oops. Then walk away. I’ll personally never listen to Shaprios show again. He lost this one person. Mistake or not. He was “smart” enough to know better. He chose not to be smarter than the shot.

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There is a long list of intellectual pinheads who missed this one big time!

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Who could live through 2020 and not feel like we were being lied to constantly? About almost everything. Pandemic. politics. election results. If you weren't skeptical by the time the jabs rolled out, you werent paying attention!

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Exactly. It is one thing to advocate the shots when you are telling a few, but when you have an audience of many, then your responsibility becomes very great. They will follow your lead. People trust those with platforms to which they concur, the majority of people anyway. Me, well, everybody lies. Even if the mouth that proclaims unknowingly lies because they listen to lies and re-spout. Very dangerous.

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I agree. And yet, people are responsible for themselves and their own decisions. Those of us who did not inject, did our research and looked at factual data from the beginning. I agree a lot more has come out, however, from the beginning we knew that it was 98% or better that it would not kill us. Common sense kicked in where lack of data was present. We took responsibility for our own selves. People who relied on the govt and big pharma and their doctors without batting an eye are still responsible for their own choices. They chose not to investigate or use common sense.

While I also agree that someone like Ben who has millions listening, better make damn sure what they are advocating someone inject into themselves is safe beyond any reproach, and yet the people who blindly follow his advice are still responsible for their own choice.

I say the same thing about Trump supporters. Of which I am one. But, I cringe when I hear someone say Trump endorsed so-and-so and they vote for that person just because trump said to. Or anyone who took the jab just because trump said to. They are the same as all the other sheep who did what they were told. It doesn’t matter who is telling you to do something. You are responsible for your own choices. Period. None of us will stand before God one day and get to say “well trump said to” or “Ben said it was ok” or “I did what the govt told me to”. We stand before God alone with no excuses.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

When I think of MSM willingly and resolutely still preaching the government and Big Pharma’s lies, leading by nose, all the gullible people (most of my relatives) to sickness and/or death and causing hatred and disruption of family/friends, I want to weep. Those responsible carry a heavy burden of sin that requires much more than just a mea culpa.

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At least he is starting to see the truth. An apology tour might be asking too much for now (as much as that would be welcome). I would offer an open door and help educate him ASAP. Once eyes are opened it’s hard to shut them again!

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it makes me sad to see so many hostile views here about Ben Shapiro because I have experienced him as a powerful voice for the conservative cause.. Yes he kept saying he got the shot and so did his wife and his parents, and that people should look into getting it. But he also kept saying that it is a personal decision and that no-one should make you get it. Actually, he and his company with their lawyers spent millions joining the fight against vaccine mandate for employees of companies with over 100 people - and they won. So, actually, he and the Daily Wire may have saved more people from the jab than were maybe persuaded to take them.

I have listened to him every day for the past two years, I like a lot of what he has to say, I also disagree with a lot, and at no point did I feel even tempted to get vaccinated.

I think maybe Jeff could explain and give more information about that law-suit which kept so many from having to make the choice between getting vaxxed or losing their job.

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Oct 28, 2022·edited Oct 28, 2022

Ty! It makes me sad to see throngs readily and even gleefully distributing blame to ill-conceived targets 😟 It’s never a good idea to outsource one’s thinking, whatever dear media personality, smart pundit or institutional entity claimed the honour. Especially in matters of literally life and death. Which is our responsibility to recognise as such 🤷

It’s been a monumental betrayal of trust from all quarters, this whole covid debacle. Many got duped (still are), disproportionally many among the heavily credentialised whose peculiar susceptibility is quite well-conceptualised by now. ‘Sure they should have known better!’—the righteous critics keep exclaiming. Well, they could. Or maybe not. Should we tar & feather them and drag through town for their failings? I don’t think so. So. 😉

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I can forgive Shapiro, and I hope he is helpful to the cause of getting justice, but I won't trust his judgment. He failed in a critical moment.

I don't think he's controlled opposition. I think he's cocky. He is incredibly smart and his debate skills are off the scale. His intelligence has usually put him on the right side of issues, but he also probably thinks a little too highly of himself and isn't often into self-doubt. He made his mind up early on jabs, and ran with it assuming those who disagreed with him were just too slow to get it.

I hope this has been a humbling experience and makes him more wise rather than just smart.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

Think he can be good in debate moments but I find Ben Shapiro overrated as this ugly experiment of the poison clot shots reveal determinedly. I'd debate him on the topic. But I get turned down by these Big Pharma dupes who think so highly of themselves. I challenged one of them not long ago to do so at a local university where they continue to insist on jabbing students.

The Big Pharma devotee who apparently wrote some kind of paper another colleague noted to him he had read was quite condescending and it was a volley he got in return he won't forget I'm sure.

He had disappeared off the radar and surfaced on the local government Theftbook page announcing availability of the new jabs. Every time they do it, I hammer them. A woman turned up asking if she should get it. The BP devotee said yes. I said no and linked to the study released on Monday and highlighted on Alex Berenson's stack:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.22.513349v1.full.pdf

The BP devotee who always replies with condescension ridiculed Berenson but said not a word of the study, which I noted to his utter silence.

The woman then returned to say her daughter had gotten the jab and she was most unhappy about it since she was now sick.

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Honestly full disclosure I thought Shapiro was a liberal. I listened to one YouTube video and he didn’t strike me as a conservative. Maybe it was INE he was pushing jabs but I honestly thought he was a democrat. So I don’t have to miss him never followed him.

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I was introduced to him by my then-18 YO nephew 5 years ago, who listened faithfully to his podcasts, and he was/is a big phenom in helping young conservatives find their voice. Most of the conservative voices on talk radio are 'old' and not appealing to the younger audience. Shapiro's book, The Right Side of History, which I read in 2019, does a beautiful job of laying out how moral decline and political decline go hand in hand, and how the left has been orchestrating this from behind the scenes for a long time. So yes, agree with commenters saying he may be a little too ego driven to have seen the truth, but he has done some good over the years. When I used to listen to his show on the radio, A LOT of his callers were college students and young people dealing with the cancel culture, and he would give them encouragement and perspective to deal with detractors. Which is why his pushing the jab is even more odious since it's likely some of his audience respected him enough to take his advice.

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Spot on! Anyone who was reading about these shots and looking at the trial data when they came out (early 2021) knew this claim was pure horseshit, not to mention the potential dangers of mRNA technology/previous attempts to develop vaccines for coronaviruses.

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How many people? Probably not many. Unlike the sheep, we make our decisions based on our own research; not based on propaganda-driven testimonials. It's the same argument for why people showed up at the capital on January 6th: it wasn't because they are Trump sycophants as the media would have you believe.

Ben made a mistake and admitted it. Last I checked his podcast wasn't sponsored by big-tech or Pfizer. He made his own decision and now has to live with the consequences. I have family in the same boat. Do I sink the ship and gloat over their demise? Do I tell them how foolish they were? Certainly not.

Do we hold Trump to the same standard for Operation Warp Speed? He was only doing what he thought was best at the time given the information he had.

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💬 Do I sink the ship and gloat over their demise? Do I tell them how foolish they were? Certainly not.

I second Jennifer, earnestly: ty an umptillion for your based voice of calm reason❣ So many—way too many—would-be gloaters & name-callers on this thread, eager to serve just(?) deserts the ship be damned, comeuppance über alles 🤦

I can understand the emotional intensity, it's hard to think clearly when wounds bleed. And yet... Relegating mental faculties to passenger seat doesn't bode well for the prospect of societal healing 😳

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Who underwrites Ben Shapiro?

President Trump can't be held to the same standard. He was being betrayed the entire way of his Administration and then by Dr. Fallacy, Scarf Lady and the entire crew and worse they were undermining his efforts intentionally to be reasoned in how to handle the ChiCom virus.

President Trump had to keep fighting uphill to support states to move forward and open up, to allow schools to be open, to have businesses of all sizes big and small function. Every time he'd say something positive and encourage that action, Tony Fauci would go out and publicly undercut and contradict him. The Dem Media played along.

President Trump turned to someone for support in Dr. Scott Atlas to try and push back against these people. Similarly, Dr. Atlas had to fight against their efforts to undermine his sole voice of reason. He wrote a book about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Upon-Our-House-Destroying/dp/163758220X

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I agree Trump should be help responsible for his part in this fiasco. He should also be held responsible because even after the truth came out in bigger and bolder letters he still pushed it. Trump doesn’t get a pass either.

Ben made a mistake, yes. But when you are speaking to millions of people and they are listening to you - you better make damn sure you are right. He wasn’t asking them to vote for someone. He was telling them to inject themselves with experimental ingredients that had never been tested. He’s accountable for that. So is Trump.

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Well said. Thanks for this.

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I'd forgive Trump if he came out with a real Mea Culpa. He has invested so much energy in pride abiut his vaccine "accomplishment". I think he is too vane, though, to admit he was wrong. Maybe even to himself.

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Neither Ben nor Trump were doing the best they could with the information they had.

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Don't lump Shapiro in with President Trump who had to fight Big Pharma vampires and worse around him as Dr. Scott Atlas recounts.

https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Upon-Our-House-Destroying/dp/163758220X

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We have to welcome the vaccinated who have now turned to our side. It’s probably the most important part of todays post. We win when a majority of the vaccinated wake up because major legislation has to happen to prevent so much of what has gone down over the last two years. We also need to limit the executive branch overreaching powers of late. Apologies will be appreciated though.

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Oct 27, 2022Liked by Jeff Childers

I completely agree with you. We can't win this war without the support of those who took the jabs and now regret it or at least realize that the vaccine mandates were an egregious overreach of government.

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I'm happy to forgive, if and only if, they apologize first and seek forgiveness. I think the public health community, CDC, FDA, medical schools, local hospitals and the entire medical community who looked the other way, have a lot of soul searching to do.

I find myself much more often asking people why they are still wearing masks. I asked a pharmacy the other day "why are you still giving these shots to people when we know they are neither safe nor effective?" I get a lot of blank looks.

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Nice! We should be more confrontational with CVS/Walgreens/etc as they push these Stroke Pokes on people.

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At the orthopedist with daughter, they require masks. I made a big show of telling them that all my used dirty masks were in my other car and I refuse to buy any, so if they wanted me masked, they'd have to provide them. If I'm playing along, it's grudgingly.

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At least where I live, the doctors offices that still have the "masks required" signs don't even REALLY require it. I had to get bloodwork a few months back, and after seeing the "masks required" sign I politely asked at the desk for a mask when I was checking in, since I haven't carried masks for over a year now. She seemed surprised but did look around and find one for me. Then I turned around and noticed nobody else in the waiting room was wearing one. So, I really think -- at least where I live -- even when they're in an environment where they're supposed to require them, they're making it clear by their actions they actually respect your choice to wear or not wear one. I do, however, feel horrible for the employees who are sometimes still required to wear masks all day at their jobs.

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The vaxxed need us as well, to ensure this doesn't happen again. I won't forget what they did. At least Ben wasn't pushing mandates, but his critical thinking lapse is staggering.

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‘I have not previously reported on the trial, as curious as it was, because I immediately saw what Brooks was up to, and wanted to avoid any possibility, however slim, of helping him win a mistrial.’

Now that’s what I call Responsible Journalism (and Substackism!).

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When the CDC analysis of the Pfizer and Moderna trials came out, they were publicly available. They showed extremely clearly that there was less than 1% difference in the infection rate in the Pfizer trials between the jabbed and the unjabbed. For Moderna it was between 1.2 and 1.3% difference. They showed that there was.02% difference in asymptomatic “infection“ between the jabbed and unjabbed. This made it obvious that it made no difference in transmission. It was all completely obvious. It was public and online before the vaccine rollout. I even sent it to my virologist niece and asked her to help me in case my math was incorrect. She read it and said no my math was correct. She went and got the shots for herself and her nine-year-old son anyway. It’s like no one could absorb any information other than what the MSM was saying. Even the official government analysis of the actual drug trials.

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And the censorship of any who asked questions or pointed out an opposing view. That should have been the Big Red Flag! When did blatant censorship become okay? Willful blindness.

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Yes! That censorship was one of my two “pillars” on which I rested my belief that something was very very wrong. The other was VAERS. As I was gaslighted for months on end, I returned often to these two to steady myself. To this day, if open discussion was taken up by those in charge and if a plausible explanation for VAERS data was offered, I would need to consider stepping off my platform.

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Plus the fact any and all alternative medicine was completely deemed wrong and outlawing any prescriptions to be made . And one trait I’ve kept from my 70’s rebellious youth is a distrust of the government.

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Exactly. So who exactly were/are the idiots? They willingly chose to obey their masters without questioning any of it. Blindly inject themselves with poison, happily while telling everyone else to join in. Without so much as giving two shits to doing any logical research or listening to any logical research done by others. They CHOSE to stick their heads in the sand. They CHOSE to be blind and follow like sheep. People make CHOICES everyday. By CHOOSING not to look at they obvious they CHOSE to stay ignorant and inject themselves with an experimental poison designed to kill them. Hard to be empathetic.

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I still see them lined up in the pharmacies of the big chain grocery stores, contently taking their dose of poison.

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Me too. Lines out the door and full parking lots at vaccine centers. My one girlfriend who has pulmonary embolisms just got her booster.

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Not just that, every time as long as I can remember, there are long long lines in the pharmacy as people get their many medications. We are a pill based society, a pill is the solution for so many things. Take a pill for symptoms, never look to eliminating the cause.

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My late mother-in-law (born in 1922) was an example of how many people viewed things: If something was printed in a newspaper or said on network TV news, it was unquestionable truth. Doctors were viewed as little gods, and not to ever be questioned. I guess a lot of people still think that way.

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Interesting. My 96 year old mother was immediately very suspicious telling me vaccines take 10 years to come to market. She and my father, in her words, agonized for a year and half abt vaccinating me for polio in the ‘50s.

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I like to think my own mother (died in 2016 at 95) would have been suspicious too. She had bad experiences with the medical profession....she almost died at age 46 from undiagnosed celiac disease. Doctor after doctor told her that her symptoms were "all in her head", ignoring the fact that her weight had gone from 120 to 85. She was only saved by the good fortune of finally encountering a doctor who was actually familiar with celiac disease at that time (1967). She never trusted doctors or the medical professional very much after that.

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In effect, they were ‘idiots.’

‘ The interesting fact is that in antiquity, writers used the word as it is used in English and not in modern Greek.

Historian Xenophon, for example, considered the word “idiot” to mean an individual who is inexperienced, uneducated, ignorant, not qualified to participate in political affairs or hold public office. It seems that this ancient derogatory meaning was adopted by modern Europeans to come to the notion of stupid.

This derogatory meaning stems from the ancient Greeks’ perception that all citizens should actively participate in political and public life. Those who did not want or were not able to do so were considered second-class citizens.’

https://en.protothema.gr/idiot-what-does-the-word-mean-and-how-it-has-changed-from-ancient-greece/

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The phrase, "useful idiot" comes to mind.

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I don’t know why but people were blind to what seemed to me, to be an obvious truth. That mass formation psychosis took over so many. Like they didn’t want to be an outlier, that would mean they weren’t cool or something. I have pushed back my entire life, not always for the best results but I’m very glad I stood my ground this time.

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Same here. And I was shocked at the level of indifference towards these mandates. They complied willingly on various levels. And I had friends who spewed hate towards me for my beliefs. I would never presume someone had to take something they didn't want just to please me or to go to school or keep their business open or keep their jobs. THAT is what gets me! I will never forgive or forget this.

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As one who’s worked in healthcare for 30 years, I was suspicious early on in 2021 when I began seeing free stuff for getting jabbed. It became clear to me that they were “incentivizing” the shots and that is something I’ve never seen before. I still remember thinking that if you have to bribe people to take it, they must not want it! Then the mandates and punishments were doled out, and my best friend lost her job over it last Nov.

What stands out to me the most was the acceptance of medical tyranny.

If we have no say over what food we eat and what medications we allow into our bodies, we are truly enslaved by the government!

I’m a patriot, and a veteran, and I fought for our freedom and bodily autonomy!

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Exactly. You summed it up perfectly.

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022

I was told sometimes that I didn’t know because I “wasn’t watching the news”. Right. Maybe I knew exactly what was happening because I wasn’t watching propaganda? People were glued to TV or were addicted to incessant manipulative fear mongering. There is definitely some psychological aspect to it

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We’re so uncool we’re cool—around here anyway. 😀👍🏻👋

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They used trial figures like this to pump the relative effective rate to 95%. How they got millions on statins too. The Absolute Risk Reduction is where you and I live and was 1% or less for all of them. This was in the documents as well and pointed out to me by seekers early in 2021. I still have the note I made on that hidden in plain sight revelation. After getting info on mRNA jabs, and getting a minor cold Covid in February 2021 I knew was going to refuse them. On principle and health reasons.

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I think our society taught us that we have to be experts in a field to understand it. Take engineering for example - I can’t build a huge bridge or dam. My son can. 🤷‍♀️ There is no way to know everything.

But I came back to earth when I saw the word experimental and dusted off my research hat… pulled out my shovel, and dug deep…

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I think people naturally choose the way of the least resistance. Doing otherwise requires more time, commitment, discernment, taking responsibility, courage and a certain level of intelligence.

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