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Zia Sumone's avatar

I think it’s important to start acknowledging (we the people) participation in these atrocities. Let me explain, if the companies who were required to show proof of vaccination from a patron, all said, no, there would’ve been no mandates. If the people who proudly showed their vaccine passport to enter the restaurant, while an unvaccinated person stood outside said no, there would be no mandates. If every student held hands and walked off that school that day, there would be no mandates. We all applaud Rosa parks for independently standing up. Yet we bind together as scared little sheep in a corner shaking when the government tells us to do something and act as if we have no choice. I think if we start writing about we the people’s responsibility in this, we might see some change.

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

I understand your point and have boycotted companies that demanded vaxx papers/vaxxes for employees or espouse values antithetical to mine, but Rosa Parks was operating in a different world. America back then was a flawed, but fundamentally decent society that had a basic concept of right and wrong. Today's America bears little resemblance to that time.

That banks are refusing to do business with controversial figures tells me that something much bigger than boosting profits is the goal for them now.

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GenEarly's avatar

But, but .... "We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

I just wrote about this and used that quote as my opening: https://shethinksliberty.substack.com/p/how-naomi-wolf-got-it-wrong

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Tracy's avatar

Thank you for this. It upset me because I feel I caved in regards to masking. I am ashamed of myself. I knew it was ridiculous and illogical but I had to food shop didn't I? At least that's what I told myself. But each passing day I became more and more angry. Now when I hear them wanting to bring masking back I WILL NOT comply. I will refuse to go in any establishment that would require it. I just cannot do it again.

We do deserve everything we get when we follow the crowd and not stand up. Thank God I knew the jab was bad news. At least I did my homework on that one. Still, I could have done better. I will in the future.

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Renee Parcheta's avatar

Tracy please don't be hard on yourself. Sometimes we just want to go to the grocery store and be invisible. I started out angry and wore a mask with a Star of David on it to make a point and be allowed to get groceries. When people either became angry with my mask, or forgot their history, I decided it was easier to get my groceries and fight hard, in the legislative sessions, to save our kids in schools from being required to jab. Peggy Hall was awesome and I often watched her and listened to how the police would be called to the grocery store to harass her, or in our town the police were called when someone saw a beautician, through her window, in her own house, cutting someones hair during lockdowns. I have been fighting hard with the laws trying to be passed to mandate this jab to children, and allowing schools to do this without parent permission. I retired early when our school districts were promoting the jab to under 18 students and paying these kids in our inner city areas with Visa gift cards of 100.00. I was an administrator in one of the schools and was fighting the legality and ethics of that. I left when I could not stop this from happening....watching some district staff die after being jabbed, and the feds just kept throwing money and mandate threats at schools to do this. Sometimes you have to give yourself a break so your body can relax and not be angry and fighting 24/7. We all are picking our battles and knocking down the wall one pebble at a time.

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Tracy's avatar

Thank you for the kind words. It's funny you mentioned anger. I have had to ratchet down a bit. I'm just so mad all the time it seems so I do have to work on that. I do a lot of praying. I also have a few good friends who are totally with me on everything. They are a great source of support and strength and I for them. God bless. 😊

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Renee Parcheta's avatar

I saw a perfect page that had the phases of waking up. For some reason I can't get it in this blog but it goes from waking up to what is going on, to wanting to tell everyone, to freaking out and getting a gun, to living life with enlightenment and trying to make everyone's day you run into positive. I would like to say I'm in enlightenment but there are days I'm definitely not and running around very angry. I limit my news to covid and coffee these days because anything else sets me off and I feel that dark angry energy all day. Since we can actually go into stores now and not be "identified" as the "other" I try to get to know the service people and find something good to be in common with. I remember being in lock down and having Wallmart or McDonalds open but not our local small shops. I was mad but had to laugh at folks thinking the poor service teens at McDonalds are tired, scared, and angry. And you think they are not spitting in your food vs our local folks who care about each other who would fix food in a loving way....but they were too germy to be allowed to do that from the state? Oh we could go on and on with ridiculous stores of illogical mandates. As I sat in ICU in Colorado with my mom who was a competitive athlete and damage by the jabs with a stroke then a brain bleed, I talked with nurses who were so angry that they just had fired all the non jabbed staff, were short staffed, and then told to come to work with covid!!!! At the time our state was trying to pass the law in which students 5 years and older could get "medical treatment" at school without parent permission and parents would not be notified but their insurance companies would be. WTF!!!! I asked the ICU nurses if their hospital was filled with children with covid. They told me in 1.5 years of covid in all of the Colorado hospitals they had not had one child in the hospital with the primary diagnosis of covid. It just stirs up my anger all over again. I was please at covid and coffee today about going after these corrupt systems and I will definitely be on board to help with that. In the meantime I have to remember to pray/meditate/exercise/be outside/ etc everyday to keep a good attitude. Blessings to all of us that are trying to keep the light going in the world and make those who have destroyed it accountable for their actions. Peace for all of us as our warrior energy continues.

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Politico Phil's avatar

I had to back up your anecdotal story. Here in PC FL, a family friend is a long-time senior RN in one of our hospitals. When the Feds began pushing the kill shot for children, the hospital administration put out the word that the hospital was full of children with covid and this was broadcast on the local news. Even the front desk was telling people that the hospital was full of children. She told us that this was a lie and there were no children on any floor with covid! Fed money for death has been how the woke Feds have controlled the corrupt hospital administrations.

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Renee Parcheta's avatar

That is the exact time when all over the US and other places, I believe, that there was all the horror of poor children filling up the ICU hospitals with covid. So far with people I know who work at 5 different huge medical complexes they report the same thing as you did. They were confused (some of them being still on board with the covid adventure) and started questioning what really was happening when they didn't see any children in their hospitals with covid, but it was being reported on the local and national news that they were overflowing with sick children with covid. I saw a few hospital staff starting to wake up then. At our local mega hospital it was leaked that for every covid positive patient, the hospital receives 15,000 to 35,000 to help with that patient. We had a friend that had to test 4 times on the same night in ER because they were looking for a positive covid test. YET the medical staff left were required to come to work anyway with mild covid symptoms and testing positive. This gets me just screaming at the line of bureaucratic corruption! Let's see our system of government, corporate, state, education, science, and medical have all been inflitrated....I have screaming moments wanting to know why people can't see this!!!!!! And they are after the children which is chilling......

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Gabriella's avatar

I too wore the snot diaper for a year but then had had enough day before Mother’s Day 2021. I listened to Peggy Hall and others also. It was difficult

at first going into stores as some confronted me but then let me be. The places that refused to provide service to me I let them know they were discriminating against me and never went back to them. The difficult one now is medical settings. I avoid them as much as I can. I did have one issue where I needed to see my PC physician. She refused to see me without a snot diaper, so I let her staff know I’m done with her and will find a new doctor. I went and found two doctors and a dentist who saw me and my smiling face. I’m forgoing routine check ups now and only am going to see a doctor when absolutely necessary. And when I do, I will continue to challenge the medical community as long as this ridiculous policy continues. Oh, and I had to convince my husband to not wear one summer 2021. He didn’t want to be hassled and just wanted to get in and out of stores. He finally stopped wearing them after I kept after him.

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Tracy's avatar

Thank you for your response. I've been kicking myself and it's time to move on and do better. I'm with you on the not going to the doctor unless it's a true emergency. My clinic is still masked up as far as I know. My dentist though is great. Still has the sign on his door but he doesn't enforce anything.

It drives me crazy to still see people wearing masks. Talk about wanting to slap someone. Lol.

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Gabriella's avatar

Haha. I do everything I can to stop myself from blurting something out loud at the face diaper wearers. You can be in a store with young adults wearing them and at the same store same time 80-90 year olds are not. And then I keep seeing teens OUTSIDE in the parking lots wearing them collecting carts.🤦‍♀️

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

Couldn't help myself the other day at the Publix here in FL. Publix had had a "mask policy," which we ignored, of course. They have since dropped it for the public and their employees.

So to see this lovely young woman (late teens?) at the check-out wearing a snot pouch. At this late date? Making a hand gesture over my nose and mouth, I said, "Are you sick..?" She replies, "Oh, no...it's preventative. The flu's going around." I know she saw my reaction...She went on to say something about doing it for others...To which I said, "For me? Oh, no. No need. I prefer to let my immune system keep me well -- and it does." Conversation went "south" from there, or should I say, it ended. LOL!

It's been a long time since I've said anything to anyone because it's so rare here (NW FL), but my "evil twin" took over in this particular instance.

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Raptor's avatar

I am surprised Publix would put up with her having any negative comment to a customer. I worked there as a kid. That was a serious no-no.

Nov 21, husband and I were in FL visitng fam and looking for property. We passed/stayed in Crawfordville, Gainesville and Salt Springs. I was shocked at the sight of bare faces. Utterly bare, happy faces. it almost brought me to tears. Now we wait to see if DeSantis runs for Pres. before laying down the cash to move back home to FL. You were within inches of having Andrew Gillum as the gov. What a freaking disaster that would have been!

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

If anyone was rude, it was me. I really had no business asking if she were sick. It's just that in that moment seeing what I think of as idiocy (plus the annoyance I feel when unable to see the whole face of the person) I failed at containing myself and letting it go. I think the conversation went "south" because she may have felt "funny" has a result of my query and response.

The employees of Publix are, I have found, terrific. Truly pleasant and service oriented.

I do differ with that those who think DeSantis should run for President. I think that would be the worst possible thing in the world for any hope of restoring republic. His influence would be neutralized straight away. The best he can lead is from Florida.

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

"Talk about wanting to slap someone. Lol." OK, that's funny, Tracy! 😂

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Raptor's avatar

I admire your calling them out. I only did it once in a Walgreens. I was so pissed that I screamed at the clerk who refused to ring me up if I didn't put my mask on properly. I have a very loud mad voice. I was sure I was going to be on a "people gone mad" video on the internet. I never screamed again, but never wore the mask over my mouth again. And then stopped wearing them anywhere on my face, then, on top of my head as a bandana... then off and walked defiantly through walmart waiting for someone to talk to me. Which they did. Customers. I spoke in a low voice and a face I only drag out when I mean business - so says hubby. The chances of app people rising against the oppression is slim, but, I am happy beyond description there are people like you. Brings a smile and a warm heart.

An aside - at the hospital in July they were officially requiring masks STILL and everyone was masked except me (for a mammogram), they did not say a word at reception. BUT a little Chinese woman came up to me and started screaming. I ignored her. She did not relent. The receptionist asked me to mask. Just so happens I had my original mask that I made which had little portraits of chinese girls on it and I put a caption. "Sorry not sorry!" on it. I fished it out, stood up next to her and let her soak it in. That was the last time I wore a mask anywhere on me. But I still have the mask. Lest I forget what they did.

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

Oh, Tracy...:( Please go easy on yourself. I'm delighted to know you spared yourself that horrific needle.

If you're in the U.S. this applies -- I knew no lawful authority existed for a governor or anyone to order me or anyone to undergo a medical intervention, which wearing a mask 𝑖𝑠 if it is used as "source control." Part of this I learned through my nearly 20 years in HR, but thanks to my very good fortune, someone directed me to Peggy Hall's website, "The Healthy American." Through her content there and through her videos, I learned the statutes that protect our individual rights and became like a brick wall...:)

Further support for making a stand came from Allan Stevo. I read a number of his articles over at lewrockwell.com on how to righteously stand up to the mask police. As protected by the ADA, he advised to simply say to anyone pushing a mask or telling you you have to wear one, "I am unable to wear a mask safely."

It works most of the time...I bet nothing would have worked on that "manager" in the Nashua, NH coffee shop. Neither the angst of the young girl behind the counter nor their coffee was worth furthering upsetting her.

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Sarah Dee's avatar

I read this post yesterday and was inspired by your passion! Nice job!

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SadieJay's avatar

I am always inspired by her passion and eloquence and fire. Glad we are on the same team. ♥

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

You're a treasure, SadieJay. ❤️❤️❤️

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

Ohhhh...thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

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OnTheJump's avatar

THIS ⬆️⬆️ .......... a great quote.

To your point, just watched COUNTDOWN 2030 - PART 1

It is long, but really a "must watch" video presented by Children's Health Defense - stick it out to the end, when Yuval Harari tells us what he thinks of us - "what to do with meaningless and worthless people", to paraphrase.

https://rumble.com/v1ygtf0-countdown-20230-part-1.html?mref=22lbp&mrefc=2

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Politico Phil's avatar

If there is anyone that has my nomination for being an actual alien in a human skin suit, it is Harari. Either that or an actual demon from hell.

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OnTheJump's avatar

He is a piece of work, no doubt.

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Gaye's avatar

One huge goal most have missed is that they want genetic material. There will never again be the genomic diversity and the number of people available from whom to harvest it as now. They want it for AI development and they want it bad. Remember all that swabbing particularly in colleges?

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Politico Phil's avatar

True that John Henry!

1956 - fighting a social injustice.

Today - fighting a Marxist ideological movement that has captured our Gov'ts and corporate America.

Our situation today is much more akin to Solzhenitsyn's day. We haven't gotten to the kinetic violence stage yet - but it's coming.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Agreed!

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Dr Dennis Kinnane OMD LAc RPh's avatar

The “Problem” IS the Bankers! Theyve come to believe they OWN our money!! They have become so HUGE they forget that we EARN our money thru “labor” while they “earn interest” ie “Usury” and traditionally were “entrusted with OUR money” they NOW believe they OWN IT and in consequence they OWN our labor and taken to the Final Degree they OWN US! The banks have gone from being our servants to being our Masters!

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GenEarly's avatar

When you deposit money into a Bank it becomes the property of the bank. You are categoried as a "Lender" with Bank "stock" as collateral. FDIC is a JOKE, not even close to covering one large bank failure.

The Cyprus "Bail In" is the current USSA policy for deposits in troubled banks. Basically you are SOL.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

THIS☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

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SadieJay's avatar

John Henry Holliday DDS...You are a daisy. ♥

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

Excellent point.

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Cyn's avatar

Wholeheartedly Agree! We The People Are Weak! We The People Allowed This To Happen to We The People! We The People Are The Only Thing To Stop The Tyranny! So, When, If Not Now? Who, If Not Us? No One Is Coming To Save Us! It’s Up To We The People, People!

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Kat's avatar

Again I remember the story about Christians singing in churches during WWII, when train loads of Jews went by screaming on their way to the gas chambers. The pastors told the congregation to sing louder to drown out the screams!! We are the problem and the solution!!

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Natalie's avatar

Read Eric Metaxas's new book Letter to the American Church. He says the silence of the American churches is just like the silence of the German church in the 1930s.

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Kat's avatar

Many pastors actually endorsed the vaccine mandates!! Dr Collins from NAISD is a supposed evangelical, who called on many influential pastors to get them on board. They basically drug the flock to the wolf’s den! The Lord told us in the last days even the elect would be deceived!

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My daughter is not a Roman Catholic, but she attended a Christmas Eve service last December with her in-laws. The sermon was directed at children, and its main point was that, just like Mary and Joseph took care of Baby Jesus, your parents take care of you, and they do that by getting you vaccinated. My daughter (respectfully) gave the priest a piece of her mind on the way out of church.

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Natalie's avatar

Yes, I read an article yesterday about how Catholic Charities is one of the main culprits (with other NGOs) bringing in all the unaccompanied minors.

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Mrs. Miau Miau's avatar

“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24‬:‭24‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.24.24.NASB1995

Is that what you’re referring to?

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Lincoln's avatar

Albert Einstein: The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

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GenEarly's avatar

https://open.substack.com/pub/genearly/p/why-youweus?r=3ux2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

sElection Fraud 2020, 2022 ensures Deep Statist NWO democRat-rino Coup Feral & State-City Gov Tyranny. "When in the course of human events ....."

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J Boss's avatar

So here's the thing with that: GREAT high level strategy, very tough immediate response strategy in the heat of the overwhelming attack.

The problem is we're SUDDENLY forced to fight a GLOBAL EVIL FORCE that's been planning and scheming with huge amounts of our dollars for at least a generation, but more likely a century or two. We are Iraq in the '90's when Bush lied to get public acceptance of the U.S. invasion.

The shock and awe is paralyzing for 99% of the people.

They needed a complete victory as they imagined would occur in Iraq. What they got was exactly the same revolutionary defiance. Revolutions require only about 3%-5% of the people to refuse and fight back. We have 40%-60%, but they have 90% of the communication and control tools of government and media.

Mao Zedong took decades to use the people to revolution. To complete our revolution, it will likely take just as long. But we will win for the same reasons: a committed, belief- and principle-driven people can never be fully defeated once the people are willing to fight. And we are.

And the path out of this is exactly what Zia says above.

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Shawn Pitcher's avatar

I've read somewhere that less than 3% of the population grows all the food we eat. Most of that 3% are large corporations. It's interesting that Mao violently forced people into the country to farm. Perhaps, the American version will be voluntary. Bottom line is our Food and Money System are working against us.

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GenEarly's avatar

3% actively Fought in the 1775 Revolution. The food is produced in Rural Areas controlled by Patriots. We can control the Traditional Silver/ Gold money system by buying hard money Now. The Feral Reserve Fiat is trash, becoming worth less every day until worthless. Make Our Own System, Be Cause!!!

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RJ Rambler's avatar

But if you look at history and see that gov can and will kill farmers, animals, slaughter businesses, and crops or steal them then you will see that there can be no alternative but insurrection. The government military will have to turn on itself and that's highly unlikely with all the woke in charge.

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GenEarly's avatar

CW's are messy affairs. Jefferson's quote on watering the Tree of Liberty included Patriot & Tyrant blood. No one wants this as a "solution" except the Psychopaths ruling Us in the Feral Coup Gov.,who will avoid their personal endangerment unless We Win and Hang Them.

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Amuzed_Traveler's avatar

Provide another solution, then. The psychopaths in charge will stop at nothing to control, enslave or kill us. In fact, they cannot help it. As long as they breathe, they are an existential threat

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J Boss's avatar

I did not know this. Thank you for sharing it.

What I know about Mao is limited to information from the Air Command Staff College student report on "People's War: A Model for Insurgency" by Major David G. Lucas. The purpose of the document was to teach students (in the military) how insurgencies fight and win against much better equipped forces.

I liked the manual because it explains how the insurgency wins. I'm figuring we could need it soon.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA156176.pdf

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J Boss's avatar

"Bottom line is our Food and Money System are working against us."

Bottom line is our food and Money and energy systems are working against us.

FTFY

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CMCM's avatar

If they have 90% of the communication (and they DO), seems like a stronger emphasis should be placed on increasing our reach and influence in the areas of communication. Surely there are ways to do this more successfully than we have done.

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Lisa's avatar

Great post. I can tell you I attended the protest outside the New Jersey statehouse when they were trying to do away with the religious exemption for kids’ vaccines. They were waiting for the crowd to go home to pass it on the last day of the session. Instead everyone stayed, chanting in the dark, “We will vote you out!”, saying the pledge of allegiance and so forth. Del Bigtree led the crowd. It was extraordinary. People inside said they were trying frantically to get the votes to do away with the exemption but the representatives were wary of the huge crowd. At the end, they gave up, closed the session and went home. In the next election, some promoting the bill lost their seats. Right across the river in New York, a short while earlier, they got rid of the exemption with no one even aware of what was going down.

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Shelle's avatar

You brought this scene to life for me - thanks for participating in this!

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Grandma Bear's avatar

🎯 I remember back in 2020, on the elevator in my building, one woman among us was bemoaning the "pandemic" measures and said in despair, "How long is this going to last?" My response was, "Until we say NO." She just stared at me with deer in the headlights eyes, and everyone else shuffled uncomfortably. I might as well have been speaking Martian. A very depressing moment!

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Fortified City's avatar

That’s the way you gotta be, the other day while standing in a pharmacy line to retrieve a prescription. A elderly lady handed in her completed form to get vaccinated. There were many peoples around in the area who heard me tell the lady,

“I want you to know you’re fixing to get your death shot the one that causes all those blood clots that’s killing the young people”

Everyone just stopped frozen and the lady just looked at me

Pitiful, I got my prescription and promptly departed.

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J Boss's avatar

I hit a tipping point with my PPC for my annual physical. I don't trust the system or the doctors that follow "protocol" or CDC guidance anymore, so I was already primed to walk out. So the nice lady at the front desk showed me how to wear the new mask (really?). I looked at her, dead serious, so if I refuse to wear the mask, what then? She said you have to. I promised her I do not have to.

Eventually she says, "I'm just following rules." And I said what probably half or more of us hee on C&C have said. "That's exactly why this bull* continues. It doesn't stop until we say no. Stand up for yourself."

And I walked out the door. I forfeited $600 payback on my "health" insurance payments because I didn't get the physical (proof of good health). And that motivated me to find alternatives.

For me, it's done. I don't dwell on it. I do like Grandma Bear did. I just state the obvious. If you don't comply, it ends. If you roll over, the bully keeps kicking you.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Oh not only that! Start reading the small print they want you to sign when you go to a doctor. It is appalling! We’ve all signed away our medical privacy for years without reading. I read everything before I sign now.

And I have refused to sign at the last 6 doctor visits of various things. They still have to see you. They word things craftily to make you think if you don’t sign you’re out of luck. The women at the front desk of the allergist I had to take my daughter to didn’t even know what the paperwork said! I refused to sign because they wanted to release my daughters PMI to “protect the president of the United States, and any foreign heads of state”!!! I am not kidding!! It was real. I said no way am I signing that. Guess what? They manually checked me in and I consented to treatment only.

Not every office has you sign that garbage but even my primary care I no longer sign anything but consent to treatment.

They are accessing our medical information because we signed our rights away for years.

HIPPA now includes everything! Not just privacy from your doctor to someone else.

Start reading this stuff people! We have to stand up in every single area of our lives and say NO!

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Fortified City's avatar

Keep up the good work

Steve Bannon, always says “you doing the Lord's work, brother” 👍

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RandiG's avatar

Fortified City,

GOOD FOR YOU for speaking up. We need to do this more and more. People are scared and they need more of us to lead the way!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Courage can be very contagious!

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

In a way you’re preaching to the choir... this audience is generally already of the “standing up against tyranny” ilk. I don’t think you’re pointing in the right direction for a primary cause. I do agree that everyone must support standing against tyranny. That’s why we read C&C.... and do what we can in real life or social media.

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Zia Sumone's avatar

I fully agree I am preaching to the choir, I acknowledge this. Words are powerful just look at history to see the truth in that. Words can reach far distances. If just maybe my words get heard by three people outside the choir, and then three more... I read every single day about what governments, institutions, and other officials are doing. I sit every day feeling outraged frustrated. I write to my representatives in government. Then I woke up one day and said I’m ALSO going to write to we the people. I’m going to write about people’s responsibility in their own freedom. I’m going to write about peoples power to say no.

I am beginning to see how true those words were, united, we stand divided we fall. I believe we have to reach out across all people and agree on one thing, what freedom is to us. Maybe some who have forgotten will read one word I write and at the end of the day they’ll just think hmmmm.  And maybe the next day another word that somebody wrote in a similar way and they’ll think again. Hmmm

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J Boss's avatar

The biggest problem I see as that so many people don't even know they're not free. They have to wake up first before they can see why they should fight.

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RunningLogic's avatar

And also they have to WANT to be free. So many people seem quite content with having other people tell them what to do 🤷‍♀️

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CMCM's avatar

You are absolutely right. One thing I learned early in my career when I was in my 20's was that most people don't really want much responsibility, certainly not much extra responsibility. I found it surprising at first, but I've sure seen it a lot of places. People just want to do their thing and let others make the big decisions.

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STH's avatar

Yes this!! I got told to put on a mask in my health club and I told the manager “nope! You are the reason this shit doesn’t stop. Call the sheriff if you want. I’m not wearing a mask!” 🤛🏻 boom

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Based Florida Man's avatar

This is the way.

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Peace's avatar

Was there any recourse for not masking in this establishment?

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Amen Zia. Beautifully said

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

Oh, I pissed off a LOT of my friends by badgering them about their compliance. My annoyingly true catchphrase was "It's not like they're going to take you out back of the building and SHOOT you, like Nazi Germany".

I now have fewer friends.

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Lincoln's avatar

Laura-ann Knox…if anyone asks if I am vaccinated, I truthfully reply…yes. I am fully vaccinated with the 7 or so I received as a child (now up to 54 to 72, depending where you get your info). If pressed, I say the jab is NOT a vaccine, but an emergency approved bio weapon tested on, what…8 mice?

No badgering. You do you; I’ll do me!

But I did get some pushback from 2 of my 4 sisters who wanted our 92 year old mother jabbed. They said we were going to kill her by “denying” her the jab. I told them I chose NOT to kill her with the jab. She got Covid and survived…with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine…which really caused a ruckus!

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Christy's avatar

I def have a lot fewer friends. It’s so sad how many of them are getting sicker and don’t put two and two together!!

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Compliance Over Science.

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daverkb's avatar

Life is much easier with fewer friends, but better friends. And Truth is the best friend of them all.

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Rhonda Roland's avatar

I have been saying this since the beginning! I was ashamed of so many churches mine included for complying with these ridiculous mandates. A few churches and their pastors stood up and suffered because of it yet if we had all stood up and together what would they have done to us. You can’t lock up whole communities if they don’t help you by locking themselves inside their homes.

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this little authoritarian's avatar

Serious covid-19 became a much adopted boogeyman for the majority of people, and long covid, a back-up sidekick of sorts. To this day people still think it's either guaranteed to get either unless you're pumped full of boosters every 2 months (or whatever the current recommended timeframe is). Problem is they never talk to the actual, unvaxxed control group, who either never got infected, got infected without issue, got infected but received timely treatment (e.g. FLCCC) and recovered. The only group they focus on are the unvaxxed who got it bad (for a variety of reasons - comorbidities but also immunological allergic responses) and didn't get effective early treatment thus suffering death at the hands of terrible hospital protocols or going on to get protracted symptoms (long covid). They also like to include the vaxxed (maybe those not up-to-date) who got a bad case of covid (or injured by these terrible pro-drugs) in their assessment DESPITE the fact that this group is NOT in the real control group.

It's so myopic that it has warped their perception of the severity and prevalence of this viral infection and the availability of treatment options that actually work for those who developed a post infection, immunological overreaction.

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daverkb's avatar

And yet I'm hearing that vax-jab sales are way down. Hard to pin this all down, but it looks like folks are becoming more 'vaccine hesitant' to use their term. This, of course, will be noticed by the Vermin Ruling Class.

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this little authoritarian's avatar

That does appear to be the case but it may be more likely the result of 'pandemic fatigue' - a sort of numbness as opposed to a wholesale rejection of the approved narrative.

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daverkb's avatar

You are right ... and the American populace is severely dumbed down, much incapacitated as to where their real best interests lie. But nonetheless, there is only marching forward. And I don't know how things will turn out ... for better or worse? All I can say is: duty is ours, results are God's.

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

I love that -- "duty is ours, results our God's." Amen, my friend! Amen!

Even though I knew a crime unfolding when I saw one, my stance was, "OK, you wanna stay home because you're a-scared? Fine. Stay home. The rest of us will muddle through..." But to demand that businesses close and stay closed. So stunning...Then when the doofuses came out with their utterly stupid mask "mandates," it was yet again another instance of, "Fine...You wanna strap on that petri dish that achieves nothing? Fine, but you cannot demand that I do that same..."

What is so freakin' hard to understand about this, daverkb? This is part of the disgrace of the last now going on three years that I struggle with most -- the demand by the majority for accommodation to others' fears and beliefs. Very, very concerning and disheartening.

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daverkb's avatar

From a speech by Giorgia Melonis of Italy. You might like it!

Here's the Rumble video of her 2019 speech to the World Congress of Families. Dr Robert Malone is doing the voice-over translation.

https://rumble.com/v1lrjet-english-voiceover-of-italian-prime-minister-giorgia-melonis-speech-world-co.html

An extract of her speech near the end...

"Why is the family the enemy?" she asked. "Why is the family so frightening?" (She being the new Italian leader)

Answer: "Because family is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now the enemy for those who would like us to have no identity and simply be perfect consumer slaves. That's why they attack national identity, that's why they attack religious identity, attack sexual identity, attack family identity. I cannot define myself as Christian, Italian, wife, mother, no. I have to be citizen X, gender X, parent 1, parent 2. I have to be a number ...

That's why we cause so much fear ... Because we don't want to be numbers. We will defend the value of the human being ... We will defend God, country and family.

Yes. We are more than just automatons and QR codes. Our children are more than just advertising-coveted eyeballs and addicted mouse-clickers, more than data-mining sitting ducks and docile worker cogs in the globalist machine.

Our children are more than just bottomless receptacles for the next government-subsidized, billion-dollar experimental drugs from cradle to grave — be they puberty-blocking hormones, lifestyle vaccines (Gardasil, PrEP), ineffective and natural immunity-undermining flu shots, anti-anxiety and anti-depressant pills, or experimental bivalent COVID booster jabs that have only been tested on a handful of mice.

Moms and dads, you are more than a pesky nuisance to the architects and engineers of the Great Parental Replacement. You are a hindrance."

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

Thank you!

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Raptor's avatar

"f the people who proudly showed their vaccine passport to enter the restaurant, while an unvaccinated person stood outside said no, there would be no mandates. "

I love the sentiment and hold on to it as a sweet dream, but you know that in reality that is not what would happen. You know when John's "Imagine" happens? When Christ reigns.

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Raptor's avatar

You know how we the people might stand against the tyranny? If we are allowed all information regarding the virus and the jabs to be made public real time and people are allowed to freely discuss the findings. Then there is hope.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Zia, thank you for saying this. I wish people would understand that we do have the power to stop this. Do not comply with any of it...all of us, not just a few outliers. That’s the only way to stop it.

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Lincoln's avatar

Preach it, Sister. Bingo!

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Brian Lombardi's avatar

Agreed. It’s a bit frustrating that we have saved 400k+ jobs so far with our lawsuit, but only 10k have bothered to become members of our org. Imagine how much stronger our fight would be if all of us federal employees banded together. I mean, at least 400k+ refused to get vaccinated. But standing by on the sidelines does no good

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