I don't often disagree with you, Jeff, but I think I do today. The people around us (Austin, TX area) weren't afraid of the government. They weren't going along to get along. They were militantly following orders from their supremes. They refused to listen to any evidence, refused to do any actual research, and refused to allow others to…
I don't often disagree with you, Jeff, but I think I do today. The people around us (Austin, TX area) weren't afraid of the government. They weren't going along to get along. They were militantly following orders from their supremes. They refused to listen to any evidence, refused to do any actual research, and refused to allow others to disagree. They were ruthless in their demands that everyone shut up and do exactly what they were told to do. Our businesses were shut down. The unmasked were chased out of stores. They ran what can only be described as psy-op campaigns in our schools to frighten our children and they illegally forced them to wear masks. I agree that we will need the repentant to fix what happened, but I do not blindly give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's just me and I'm not there yet. Some might have been fooled but many were willfully ignorant and all too willing to deny their fellow citizens their rights.
I’m not there either. Willfully ignorant says it for me with people I know. I’m afraid I see no signs of “life” in any of them. Still willfully ignorant. To their graves.
Clue number 2471 was that they quickly recommended pregnant women get the vax. Even I (not a doctor) knew that was not very sciency. Having COVID does not provide sterilizing immunity, only the shot does? Where is that in the med texts? State medical boards removing specialty licenses for saying Ivermectin is a worthy treatment? C'MON MAN!!
People who were stupid and willfully ignorant lay people who bought that load of dung... doctors who repeated it to patients!
Regardless of why it happened, many people treated others as nothing more than disease-carrying vectors (like mosquitos or rats) due to their own fear. This is pretty ugly behavior any way you slice it.
I'll forgive anyone who genuinely asks for it as I know it's harmful for me to walk around with a chip on my shoulder. However, forgiveness doesn't mean amnesty, people who abused their authority should be punished (which they would agree with if they were genuinely repentant). In addition, though I may forgive others who acted vilely towards other people, that doesn't mean I'll forget it. When the chips were down these people treated others like dirt. Having done it once there is a good chance they will do it again and don't deserve trust unless they earn it back.
The phrase "forgive and forget" is thrown around all too often as if as part of forgiveness we are required to erase it from our memory banks. That's not how it works and it's frankly foolish to do so.
SO TRUE: "FORGIVENESS doesn't mean AMNESTY." Big difference! Forgiveness heals the aggrieved; amnesty harms justice, and allows the aggressor to escape without conversion.
I’ll never forgive my library where I was called literally a danger to them snd every one else for not wearing a mask once. They would not let me speak until I had clamped a tissue over my mouth and nose. It was humiliating and surreal.I felt assaulted. I had worked there with these people for over 10 years. I did threaten them with legal action later. I’m sure everyone was jabbed up by then also but I was still a threat. I just pop in now to pick up holds snd go out again while these ninnies are STILL wearing masks behind plexiglass fortifications. I will not forget. No respect for them.
Interesting that it’s a library thing. What is it with libraries now? I recently went to my city library and there was the plexiglass and masks thing. But the thing that really disgusted me was the bowl of buttons next to the help desk. A sign invited me to choose the one with “my” preferred pronouns. This makes me both angry and sad. What has happened to our country?
We need to picket the libraries and demand representational support. i.e 50% conservative topics. LGBT month? Oh, ok follow that with 'Abortion Takes A Life" month. It's our taxpayer money. We have to fight them and picketing is a good start.
Oh I would love to do that! I would do it in a heartbeat! If I had a couple other ladies for support I would do it. I can’t understand why there haven’t been people picketing at these events yet. Why are we so squishy?
I LOVE this idea. I am trying to figure out how to make this happen. Maybe start by proposing it to the local director (who I'm sure would recoil at the idea, but my tax dollars are supporting the library too!)?
Libraries used to be a "safe space" for me. If I was stressed, popping in and browsing through books was weirdly calming. That has been utterly destroyed for me.
I lost all my joy in libraries after that abuse. All of it. I don’t attend events nor even talk to a couple of the employees. It’s over but getting books. After my abuse I picked up my materials outside on a cart for 6 months. . Even during the winter. I refused to enter.
Same, Permie. I lived in our local library when my kids were younger - we could spend hours there. Then the whole COVID thing hit, masks slipped (or were applied) and now the trans agenda is in full gear. And I'm in a small, upstate NY town.
Agree. The way some people would scurry away when you approached on a sidewalk OUTSIDE was so creepy and dehumanizing 🤬
And I agree, the trust is gone with those who don’t truly understand or acknowledge the harm and vow to take action to prevent it from happening again. Words are not good enough.
I remember the time when a family saw me coming toward them on a trail and they immediately formed a small circle with their backs toward me. Strange, as though I were an alien, a threat of some kind. And this is how they are raising their children. I’ve no doubt that these same people would have no qualms about hauling us off to camps on the slightest pretext if they felt threatened.
Cross me once, shame on you. Cross me twice, shame on me. And yet, this scenario will be played out again, with the same bad actors clamoring to say how it’s “different” this time.
I don't see myself getting there either. I was shamed for my opinion. I was right all along and now I deserve some respect for my opinion. I need to hear some apologies or at least some acknowledgement that I was right. Let's talk about the elephant in the room.
I was told I should NOT be able to use ANY medical facilities if I got sick and should just die at home. These were friends I’ve known since I’m 14. 🤦♀️
That’s ok. I told them they were acting racist for telling everyone to stay at home (to work) but not letting black or brown people work because their jobs weren’t work from home jobs. [I really didn’t mean it. I wanted to get a rise out of them after they told me to die at home.]
I honestly don’t know if most of these people will ever get out of their covidcoma. 🤔
This, exactly. They were self-appointed mask enforcers.
I remember at a garden center getting confused while looking for kale & accidentally turning the "wrong" direction down an aisle, only to get screamed at by a couple coming the other way.
I also remember at the supermarket trying reassure a hysterical tourist, only to have her report me to a worker for being unmasked. The worker explained they weren't mandatory here. 2 weeks later, our cdc rep announced he was getting calls from visitors complaining, & if we didn't wear them they'd make them mandatory...which they did.
The saddest tweet I think I've ever read was the man coerced by his doctor & wife into getting jabbed. A few days later, he was in excruciating pain from multi-system organ failure. His final tweet of bitterness, being visited by groups of doctors talking about him as if he were a lab rat in an experiment, as he lay dying.
Austin is especially bad in this regard because Austinites form a mini-Silicon Valley. The rest of Texas was SLIGHTLY, but only slightly, less dictatorial, depending on location. For example, 100 feet west of the Tarrant/Dallas county line, I could go in almost any store unmasked, but thanks to the Dallas County Tin Pot Dictator, the gatekeepers (in Dallas County) wouldn't let me in without a muzzle (which usually got removed as soon as I was past them). I'm afraid said Tin Pot Dictator aka Clay Jenkins is going to be voted in again. My mistake was moving into Dallas County instead of staying in Tarrant (where I belong). Austin, for me, is a hostile foreign country.
It absolutely is a hostile foreign country down here. I'm here because of family and job situations. But I have become much more vocal over the last few years and I'm starting to see a lot of hidden conservatives coming out of the closet. They're still afraid and still outnumbered but they're here and are becoming braver.
I don’t even recognize the Austin I grew up and graduated high school in. Just the homelessness is outrageous and nothing like when I lived there. Mopac wasn’t a toll road is how long ago that was. It also ended on the south end at the entrance to the Travis Country neighborhood. My brothers are in Hayes County now but one works in Austin. Both sister-in-laws work for the same school and no matter how many times I tried to explain the numbers of vaxxed vs unvaxxed sick/hospitalized/deaths were intentionally misleading, even though Hayes County leans Republican, it was me who was labeled a conspiracy theorist. I don’t discuss Covid with my SILs anymore. Or even my best friend. It’s almost like a battlefield at times, except I’m the only one waiving the white flag because I’m done trying to help them see the truth. I know one of my brothers can see the truth because the first question he asked me upon learning of our cousin’s death was, “Was he vaccinated?”
My son was in Austin for an internship over the summer. I really enjoyed wearing my C&C shirts when going out. 🤓
Thankfully, he says when he graduates he will live outside Austin if hired by this company. It’s to liberal for him and he’s 20. Hopefully, many of his age are seeing “the light”.
Well, it's high time, and that's very good to know. I certainly intended no insult to you for living there; we can't always decide those things, especially if we've been somewhere a long time and it changes. I am happy to see that it is actually changing - for the better, however much that is. In the (translated) words of my very favorite musical group The HU, In Wolf Totem: be brave, and don't give up.
Omg... so spot on GH.... Austin.... Tin Pot Dictators and mask and distance bully gatekeepers.... plural.... everywhere, that was and is Austin and surrounding! At Salt Traders on I-35 Round Rock, venturing out for an anniversary celebration dinner, the overreaction overreach started literally at the door with the Gestapo Stasi hostess, YELLING at the four of us... “Pull your masks up over your nose!!!!” Admittedly, I uttered... “Bully oppression... nice touch” That resulted in an obvious target 🎯 on us that is inexcusable, and absolutely unforgivable! After over 30 minutes obviously with no waiter attending our table, while others around us seated after, we’re being served. Finally after requesting service a triple muzzled waitress came over ridiculously maintaining 6’ distance from the table! None of us could understand a word she uttered. We should have left, but the consensus was why ruin the occasion further, already past 8pm..... The ladies after dinner, prior to dessert walked unmasked to the restroom... o m g 🤯 we were literally screamed at inside the restroom by the hostess and an attendant, then arm ushered out the door.... and out of the restaurant! The Gestapo Stasi hostess said our husbands would be notified to leave after the bill is paid! By the time the men rejoined us on the restaurant front porch the police arrived!!!!! Kudos to the masked officers who pulled their masks and literally apologized, reassuring us “this is not law or violation in any way, sorry for the inconvenience, but once we are called to a situation, we have to respond.”
NO.... I WILL NOT FORGET OR FORGIVE, hope the biache was fired, and we will NEVER STEP FOOT IN ROUND ROCK’s SALT TRADERS RESTAURANT EVER AGAIN.... so Jeff, no, absolutely not... to forgive and forget is setting us up for all of this insanity to repeat, until we are exactly where they want us, “owning NOTHING to make them happy.”
Thank you for letting me know this. We're in Round Rock frequently so I'll be sure to avoid the Gestapo. We had a lot of stores in the Austin area treating us (and others) in a similar manner. Never forget.
G Harkness - out here in the boonies, we think of Austin as a wart on the backside of Texas. Sadly, all of the big cities are controlled by liberals…but Austin is over the top.
Agree. People were coerced in a variety of ways - whatever worked - everyone I know who got jabbed explained their reasons, such as: I needed to travel. I needed to keep my job. I needed to visit my elderly mom. I needed to attend a wedding. Etc. Never did they say they were afraid of the government. I think Jeff is off target on this one.
Well I guess in a way those things are being afraid of the government, because the government has the power to deny people the ability to travel, work etc through the mandates. However, I still agree that many people really enjoyed in some perverse way the power trip and social prestige they got from following the dictates and shaming those who disagreed.
This was beyond ignorance, beyond the lack of questioning, beyond the land of the sheep. This was a government-endorsed program that revealed Nazis among us. Sorry, not sorry; it's true.
We call some of them Karens but it is more than that. People showed how easily led they are and then how easily they can be converted into NKVD and yes, Nazis.
“Just kidding” will not do. It was a project in the works for years. When it hit…and 2 weeks shut in, I predicted it would be an interruption to election.
Our election output managed. Meanwhile, we are fossil fuel dept in others? We are going to starve? Money to Ukraine? Admit it, IF Trump were fairly re-elected.. we definitely would not be globally or economically in this space. Accountability.
When I read the event 201 planning guide (in my opinion, it wasn't a simulation it was a plan), I view what's taken place as more of a fact-finding mission, so the ultimate plan (globalism) can be achieved. Basically, unleash a set of plans to see what worked well and what didn't. A data collection exercise. Then they'll attempt to fix what didn't work well for the next time rinse and repeat until UN Agenda 2030 is achieved.
Compliance and the willingness for one human being to commit atrocities in mass has been proven many times in the past. It's not a question it's a fact.
As Yuri Bezmenov said in a Love Letter to America: "My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble"
I'd have to agree with him after seeing people I considered quite intelligent frothing with anger about anti-vaxxer's, not wearing a mask, hating Trump for no factual reason, etc. I have more questions than answers!
Willful ignorance is not at all unique to COVID ~ think election integrity, CRT, trans ideology, January 6, the war in Ukraine, etc. etc. Willful ignorance is part and parcel of the opposing mindset, promoted/encouraged in media of all genres and leaders on the left. Simplistically, any facts you present have already been debunked ~ end of story. And if you continue to try to engage, you are a conspiracy theorist, live in a bubble, and are being offensive. Overcoming the arrogance, emotionalism, and willful ignorance is totally up to the individual. I believe it can happen, but it will never happen until the faults cited are acknowledged. And the faults will never be acknowledged if there is an easy off ramp.
Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned through the school of hard knocks. I continue to try to engage and will be more than happy to forgive when their eyes and minds are open to the possibility that they might have been mislead...
Martha, you are exactly correct. Try to talk to a pro vax person about dangers, or masking, or the origins of the virus, they immediately discount your sources as fringe, kook, and they love the word "debunked". I have close family members who launch into laughter and ridicule. I don't expect any of them to change their tune and ask for amnesty. They still believe they are right.
Yes, in my experience and in my every day interactions, I encountered way too many willing foot soldiers for the narrative. These weren't people just trying to get by, they were committed fanatics with a new religion.
My mom talked to a 20-something during it all. He listened and respected her (she's a retired dr) but could not "believe" her because it meant all the institutions in the entire world were in on it and lying. That's a lot for a young person to wrap their head around. This operation was a "shock and awe" operation and it worked so well because it is easier to believe there are a few crazies yammering about things than to face that much of what you believed about reality is completely wrong--and in a deeply negative direction.
Definitely running into that with my own family. One family member will only believe "official" sources so I had trouble getting him to look at pretty much anything. Discouraging, but I completely understand why they feel that way!
PermieGeek - this is such a good point. The scope of what we’ve been up against is massive. For young people or anyone who hasn’t developed a skepticism gauge, it’s unbelievable. Not only are we telling them that the news and politicians are lying to them, but it’s doctors, teachers, community leaders…seemingly everyone! The gaslighting was so effectively done that it may well take a cataclysmic, life altering event in their lives to even begin the realization that they were lied to.
These are the Brown Shirts and the Witch Hunters and the Spanish Inquisition. The same evil of those times which flows through humanity is currently loose on our Earth again.
I actually had a reoccurring nightmare of my ex-best friend as a part of group of brown shirts pulling people out of their houses in my neighborhood. I always woke up before they got to my house. I called her upset and convinced her not to support vaccine passports, within a month she was supporting them.
I feel ya Jason. I too live in Austin and I essentially had to lie to my clients and to my own family about my vaccination status for over a year. I was protected by immunity from infection before the vaccine was available, but for some reason, everyone forgot medical science and thought literally everyone needed a jab.
I really didn’t feel like explaining what natural immunity was and why it meant I didn’t need the vaxx. they just couldn’t hear it.
since then I have been honest that I lied and most don’t care but a few family members and clients are very hurt that I lied, even tho I was RIGHT!
this has caused damage to my relationships even to this day...
I know Jesus wants me to forgive and I’m working on it...but I’m not there yet.
I can eventually forgive (not forget) non-medical people for being gullible & drinking the koolaid...maybe even the ones who were just plain disgusting to those of us who have a different opinion. However, forgiving my fellow healthcare professionals is a different story. If they want to take a chance with their own health, that’s their choice; but they KNOW how REAL science works, clearly never did their own research & some still pushed it on others & berated those who chose to decline the koolaid. There are many who STILL have a jab superiority complex this late in the game. I have 3 words for them: DO NO HARM!
Last year I had an office visit with my neurologist of 10 years. I told her that I had gotten Covid and got over it in a couple days. She then preceeded to tell me that I should still get the vaccine! For what purpose? I had natural immunity at that point and wouldn't have gotten it even if I didn't.
In my area of NY I think people were just really believing the media, their doctors and politicians. I found out years ago when people have no faith or relationship with His Son, they will find someone to worship. Entertainers, politicians, government regulatory agencies, Big Pharm, academia, so-called scientists or experts, doctors. And guess who was pushing the safe and effective clot shot? Democrats liberals are, studies shown, not of faith in God as evidenced by their life choices such as abortion and sex and drug extreme beliefs. They would be the ones to listen believe and trust those entertainers, Democrat politicians and their doctors etc. Many are dead now or differing sad to say. They trusted the wrong people. People are fallen sinful creatures that’s why they need a Savior.
Don’t forget, many of them ENJOYED the power they were wielding to kick you out of those stores, to close your businesses and keep your kids terrified. That’s my true feeling about all this. People literally wanted to see us die, shunned from society and no freedom to move about our own country and state and cities. I can forgive people that TRULY believed this was right and didn’t force anything or treat people like shit. But i think that is a very small number of people. And for the rest, I DEMAND accountability and will fight for it til I die.
I can do that but I forget what I posted in past posts and like to read them with the response. Sometimes they show up, sometimes not even when I click back to thread. Oh well. But thanks
As a grandmother I am very concerned about her future. I pray a lot. I see the ultimate goal is depopulation and control by rich psychotic demonic eugenics such as Gates with WEF and Planned Parenthood etc. . The pro choice abortion movement is demonic as is the sexual revolution of the 60s but it’s not new. America and most nations have strayed from fear of the Lord. We took God out of our schools with prayer and 10 commandments removed when I was a little girl. Our nation plummeted after that. Schools became cesspools of immorality and evil now indoctrination centers into AntiChrist religions such as the LGBTQ agenda and CRT which are occults in my thinking. All one has to do is see their books and goals. The activists are after unrestrained sex even with children as proven now with transgenderism going after kids in schools with freak shows. Disgusting what BIden did with Title 9 the pervert! Most of the occult members hate God and family. They murder their unborn and are proud (Pride bring the deadly sin of Lucifer) . These people hate children and care not about the future of our country. Communists in 1963 vowed to infiltrate one or both of the US political parties. It’s obvious they have succeeded.
I don't often disagree with you, Jeff, but I think I do today. The people around us (Austin, TX area) weren't afraid of the government. They weren't going along to get along. They were militantly following orders from their supremes. They refused to listen to any evidence, refused to do any actual research, and refused to allow others to disagree. They were ruthless in their demands that everyone shut up and do exactly what they were told to do. Our businesses were shut down. The unmasked were chased out of stores. They ran what can only be described as psy-op campaigns in our schools to frighten our children and they illegally forced them to wear masks. I agree that we will need the repentant to fix what happened, but I do not blindly give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's just me and I'm not there yet. Some might have been fooled but many were willfully ignorant and all too willing to deny their fellow citizens their rights.
I’m not there either. Willfully ignorant says it for me with people I know. I’m afraid I see no signs of “life” in any of them. Still willfully ignorant. To their graves.
Good point.
I also resent Emily's claim that we were "guessing."
No, we were not guessing. Some of us had healthcare training & knew. Others did research & learned.
And the inventors of the so-called "bleach treatment" did it with the intent to smear Trump & us.
100%. All of the available data was out there, particularly on masking. It’s intellectual laziness if you don’t go looking for it.
Ideally you should be your own advocate but most rely on others for that. Innocent ignorance may be forgivable but not forgotten.
Clue number 2471 was that they quickly recommended pregnant women get the vax. Even I (not a doctor) knew that was not very sciency. Having COVID does not provide sterilizing immunity, only the shot does? Where is that in the med texts? State medical boards removing specialty licenses for saying Ivermectin is a worthy treatment? C'MON MAN!!
People who were stupid and willfully ignorant lay people who bought that load of dung... doctors who repeated it to patients!
Yes! The information was out there, you just had to dig and work for it. They were content being spoon fed misinformation.
Regardless of why it happened, many people treated others as nothing more than disease-carrying vectors (like mosquitos or rats) due to their own fear. This is pretty ugly behavior any way you slice it.
I'll forgive anyone who genuinely asks for it as I know it's harmful for me to walk around with a chip on my shoulder. However, forgiveness doesn't mean amnesty, people who abused their authority should be punished (which they would agree with if they were genuinely repentant). In addition, though I may forgive others who acted vilely towards other people, that doesn't mean I'll forget it. When the chips were down these people treated others like dirt. Having done it once there is a good chance they will do it again and don't deserve trust unless they earn it back.
The phrase "forgive and forget" is thrown around all too often as if as part of forgiveness we are required to erase it from our memory banks. That's not how it works and it's frankly foolish to do so.
SO TRUE: "FORGIVENESS doesn't mean AMNESTY." Big difference! Forgiveness heals the aggrieved; amnesty harms justice, and allows the aggressor to escape without conversion.
I’ll never forgive my library where I was called literally a danger to them snd every one else for not wearing a mask once. They would not let me speak until I had clamped a tissue over my mouth and nose. It was humiliating and surreal.I felt assaulted. I had worked there with these people for over 10 years. I did threaten them with legal action later. I’m sure everyone was jabbed up by then also but I was still a threat. I just pop in now to pick up holds snd go out again while these ninnies are STILL wearing masks behind plexiglass fortifications. I will not forget. No respect for them.
Interesting that it’s a library thing. What is it with libraries now? I recently went to my city library and there was the plexiglass and masks thing. But the thing that really disgusted me was the bowl of buttons next to the help desk. A sign invited me to choose the one with “my” preferred pronouns. This makes me both angry and sad. What has happened to our country?
We need to picket the libraries and demand representational support. i.e 50% conservative topics. LGBT month? Oh, ok follow that with 'Abortion Takes A Life" month. It's our taxpayer money. We have to fight them and picketing is a good start.
Oh I would love to do that! I would do it in a heartbeat! If I had a couple other ladies for support I would do it. I can’t understand why there haven’t been people picketing at these events yet. Why are we so squishy?
I LOVE this idea. I am trying to figure out how to make this happen. Maybe start by proposing it to the local director (who I'm sure would recoil at the idea, but my tax dollars are supporting the library too!)?
Ugh! Even there.
Seriously. Do they get their marching orders from some big "public libraries advocacy group?"
Libraries used to be a "safe space" for me. If I was stressed, popping in and browsing through books was weirdly calming. That has been utterly destroyed for me.
I lost all my joy in libraries after that abuse. All of it. I don’t attend events nor even talk to a couple of the employees. It’s over but getting books. After my abuse I picked up my materials outside on a cart for 6 months. . Even during the winter. I refused to enter.
Another joy taken from us...but "Amnesty." Uh, NO.
Same, Permie. I lived in our local library when my kids were younger - we could spend hours there. Then the whole COVID thing hit, masks slipped (or were applied) and now the trans agenda is in full gear. And I'm in a small, upstate NY town.
This story makes my blood boil.
Agree. The trust is gone. I can't look at them the same. I might be superficially polite on the surface but no trust.
I will never trust the medical profession again. Utilize them yes, with caution and necessity, but trust: NO.
Agree. The way some people would scurry away when you approached on a sidewalk OUTSIDE was so creepy and dehumanizing 🤬
And I agree, the trust is gone with those who don’t truly understand or acknowledge the harm and vow to take action to prevent it from happening again. Words are not good enough.
I remember the time when a family saw me coming toward them on a trail and they immediately formed a small circle with their backs toward me. Strange, as though I were an alien, a threat of some kind. And this is how they are raising their children. I’ve no doubt that these same people would have no qualms about hauling us off to camps on the slightest pretext if they felt threatened.
That’s what I discovered, too. People on hiking trails treating you as diseased vermin.
Cross me once, shame on you. Cross me twice, shame on me. And yet, this scenario will be played out again, with the same bad actors clamoring to say how it’s “different” this time.
Just like an abuser.
I don't see myself getting there either. I was shamed for my opinion. I was right all along and now I deserve some respect for my opinion. I need to hear some apologies or at least some acknowledgement that I was right. Let's talk about the elephant in the room.
I was told I should NOT be able to use ANY medical facilities if I got sick and should just die at home. These were friends I’ve known since I’m 14. 🤦♀️
That’s ok. I told them they were acting racist for telling everyone to stay at home (to work) but not letting black or brown people work because their jobs weren’t work from home jobs. [I really didn’t mean it. I wanted to get a rise out of them after they told me to die at home.]
I honestly don’t know if most of these people will ever get out of their covidcoma. 🤔
And willful blindness. I work in the financial industry and you can't use the excuse of willful blindness to get out of being guilty.
This is training for those who will blindly worship the beast and take the mark. All this is preparation and training designed by the devil.
Willful ignorance / willful denial, is definitely a real phenomenon that I've witnessed/encountered many a time, since way before the Covid era.
This, exactly. They were self-appointed mask enforcers.
I remember at a garden center getting confused while looking for kale & accidentally turning the "wrong" direction down an aisle, only to get screamed at by a couple coming the other way.
I also remember at the supermarket trying reassure a hysterical tourist, only to have her report me to a worker for being unmasked. The worker explained they weren't mandatory here. 2 weeks later, our cdc rep announced he was getting calls from visitors complaining, & if we didn't wear them they'd make them mandatory...which they did.
The saddest tweet I think I've ever read was the man coerced by his doctor & wife into getting jabbed. A few days later, he was in excruciating pain from multi-system organ failure. His final tweet of bitterness, being visited by groups of doctors talking about him as if he were a lab rat in an experiment, as he lay dying.
No forgiveness here.
Ugh. The symptoms of mass hysteria. All done to us on purpose, by the way.
The horrors have been unimaginable.
Austin is especially bad in this regard because Austinites form a mini-Silicon Valley. The rest of Texas was SLIGHTLY, but only slightly, less dictatorial, depending on location. For example, 100 feet west of the Tarrant/Dallas county line, I could go in almost any store unmasked, but thanks to the Dallas County Tin Pot Dictator, the gatekeepers (in Dallas County) wouldn't let me in without a muzzle (which usually got removed as soon as I was past them). I'm afraid said Tin Pot Dictator aka Clay Jenkins is going to be voted in again. My mistake was moving into Dallas County instead of staying in Tarrant (where I belong). Austin, for me, is a hostile foreign country.
It absolutely is a hostile foreign country down here. I'm here because of family and job situations. But I have become much more vocal over the last few years and I'm starting to see a lot of hidden conservatives coming out of the closet. They're still afraid and still outnumbered but they're here and are becoming braver.
I don’t even recognize the Austin I grew up and graduated high school in. Just the homelessness is outrageous and nothing like when I lived there. Mopac wasn’t a toll road is how long ago that was. It also ended on the south end at the entrance to the Travis Country neighborhood. My brothers are in Hayes County now but one works in Austin. Both sister-in-laws work for the same school and no matter how many times I tried to explain the numbers of vaxxed vs unvaxxed sick/hospitalized/deaths were intentionally misleading, even though Hayes County leans Republican, it was me who was labeled a conspiracy theorist. I don’t discuss Covid with my SILs anymore. Or even my best friend. It’s almost like a battlefield at times, except I’m the only one waiving the white flag because I’m done trying to help them see the truth. I know one of my brothers can see the truth because the first question he asked me upon learning of our cousin’s death was, “Was he vaccinated?”
My son was in Austin for an internship over the summer. I really enjoyed wearing my C&C shirts when going out. 🤓
Thankfully, he says when he graduates he will live outside Austin if hired by this company. It’s to liberal for him and he’s 20. Hopefully, many of his age are seeing “the light”.
Well, it's high time, and that's very good to know. I certainly intended no insult to you for living there; we can't always decide those things, especially if we've been somewhere a long time and it changes. I am happy to see that it is actually changing - for the better, however much that is. In the (translated) words of my very favorite musical group The HU, In Wolf Totem: be brave, and don't give up.
No offense taken!
I wouldn't say we're in a major change yet but at least I have some hope. Never give up!
Omg... so spot on GH.... Austin.... Tin Pot Dictators and mask and distance bully gatekeepers.... plural.... everywhere, that was and is Austin and surrounding! At Salt Traders on I-35 Round Rock, venturing out for an anniversary celebration dinner, the overreaction overreach started literally at the door with the Gestapo Stasi hostess, YELLING at the four of us... “Pull your masks up over your nose!!!!” Admittedly, I uttered... “Bully oppression... nice touch” That resulted in an obvious target 🎯 on us that is inexcusable, and absolutely unforgivable! After over 30 minutes obviously with no waiter attending our table, while others around us seated after, we’re being served. Finally after requesting service a triple muzzled waitress came over ridiculously maintaining 6’ distance from the table! None of us could understand a word she uttered. We should have left, but the consensus was why ruin the occasion further, already past 8pm..... The ladies after dinner, prior to dessert walked unmasked to the restroom... o m g 🤯 we were literally screamed at inside the restroom by the hostess and an attendant, then arm ushered out the door.... and out of the restaurant! The Gestapo Stasi hostess said our husbands would be notified to leave after the bill is paid! By the time the men rejoined us on the restaurant front porch the police arrived!!!!! Kudos to the masked officers who pulled their masks and literally apologized, reassuring us “this is not law or violation in any way, sorry for the inconvenience, but once we are called to a situation, we have to respond.”
NO.... I WILL NOT FORGET OR FORGIVE, hope the biache was fired, and we will NEVER STEP FOOT IN ROUND ROCK’s SALT TRADERS RESTAURANT EVER AGAIN.... so Jeff, no, absolutely not... to forgive and forget is setting us up for all of this insanity to repeat, until we are exactly where they want us, “owning NOTHING to make them happy.”
Thank you for letting me know this. We're in Round Rock frequently so I'll be sure to avoid the Gestapo. We had a lot of stores in the Austin area treating us (and others) in a similar manner. Never forget.
Never... ever...
Holy moly, that's worse than even I thought! Hope your husbands didn't leave a tip! (and I NEVER say that.)
G Harkness - out here in the boonies, we think of Austin as a wart on the backside of Texas. Sadly, all of the big cities are controlled by liberals…but Austin is over the top.
"Austin, for me, is a hostile foreign country."
----- AGREED!! Until 1 year ago we lived smack dab between Waco & Austin.... The area is now "little Austin", and growing. It's horrible.
Clay Jenkins is a weasel and a power drunk dictator. I agree.
Agree. People were coerced in a variety of ways - whatever worked - everyone I know who got jabbed explained their reasons, such as: I needed to travel. I needed to keep my job. I needed to visit my elderly mom. I needed to attend a wedding. Etc. Never did they say they were afraid of the government. I think Jeff is off target on this one.
Well I guess in a way those things are being afraid of the government, because the government has the power to deny people the ability to travel, work etc through the mandates. However, I still agree that many people really enjoyed in some perverse way the power trip and social prestige they got from following the dictates and shaming those who disagreed.
This was beyond ignorance, beyond the lack of questioning, beyond the land of the sheep. This was a government-endorsed program that revealed Nazis among us. Sorry, not sorry; it's true.
We call some of them Karens but it is more than that. People showed how easily led they are and then how easily they can be converted into NKVD and yes, Nazis.
“Just kidding” will not do. It was a project in the works for years. When it hit…and 2 weeks shut in, I predicted it would be an interruption to election.
Our election output managed. Meanwhile, we are fossil fuel dept in others? We are going to starve? Money to Ukraine? Admit it, IF Trump were fairly re-elected.. we definitely would not be globally or economically in this space. Accountability.
When I read the event 201 planning guide (in my opinion, it wasn't a simulation it was a plan), I view what's taken place as more of a fact-finding mission, so the ultimate plan (globalism) can be achieved. Basically, unleash a set of plans to see what worked well and what didn't. A data collection exercise. Then they'll attempt to fix what didn't work well for the next time rinse and repeat until UN Agenda 2030 is achieved.
Compliance and the willingness for one human being to commit atrocities in mass has been proven many times in the past. It's not a question it's a fact.
As Yuri Bezmenov said in a Love Letter to America: "My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble"
I'd have to agree with him after seeing people I considered quite intelligent frothing with anger about anti-vaxxer's, not wearing a mask, hating Trump for no factual reason, etc. I have more questions than answers!
Willful ignorance is not at all unique to COVID ~ think election integrity, CRT, trans ideology, January 6, the war in Ukraine, etc. etc. Willful ignorance is part and parcel of the opposing mindset, promoted/encouraged in media of all genres and leaders on the left. Simplistically, any facts you present have already been debunked ~ end of story. And if you continue to try to engage, you are a conspiracy theorist, live in a bubble, and are being offensive. Overcoming the arrogance, emotionalism, and willful ignorance is totally up to the individual. I believe it can happen, but it will never happen until the faults cited are acknowledged. And the faults will never be acknowledged if there is an easy off ramp.
Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned through the school of hard knocks. I continue to try to engage and will be more than happy to forgive when their eyes and minds are open to the possibility that they might have been mislead...
Martha, you are exactly correct. Try to talk to a pro vax person about dangers, or masking, or the origins of the virus, they immediately discount your sources as fringe, kook, and they love the word "debunked". I have close family members who launch into laughter and ridicule. I don't expect any of them to change their tune and ask for amnesty. They still believe they are right.
Agreed ... but consider that a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, in this case, may come at the cost of our nation.
That is why those of us who recognize what is going on must continue to speak out and do what we can to save our nation...
Yes, in my experience and in my every day interactions, I encountered way too many willing foot soldiers for the narrative. These weren't people just trying to get by, they were committed fanatics with a new religion.
My mom talked to a 20-something during it all. He listened and respected her (she's a retired dr) but could not "believe" her because it meant all the institutions in the entire world were in on it and lying. That's a lot for a young person to wrap their head around. This operation was a "shock and awe" operation and it worked so well because it is easier to believe there are a few crazies yammering about things than to face that much of what you believed about reality is completely wrong--and in a deeply negative direction.
Definitely running into that with my own family. One family member will only believe "official" sources so I had trouble getting him to look at pretty much anything. Discouraging, but I completely understand why they feel that way!
PermieGeek - this is such a good point. The scope of what we’ve been up against is massive. For young people or anyone who hasn’t developed a skepticism gauge, it’s unbelievable. Not only are we telling them that the news and politicians are lying to them, but it’s doctors, teachers, community leaders…seemingly everyone! The gaslighting was so effectively done that it may well take a cataclysmic, life altering event in their lives to even begin the realization that they were lied to.
These are the Brown Shirts and the Witch Hunters and the Spanish Inquisition. The same evil of those times which flows through humanity is currently loose on our Earth again.
I actually had a reoccurring nightmare of my ex-best friend as a part of group of brown shirts pulling people out of their houses in my neighborhood. I always woke up before they got to my house. I called her upset and convinced her not to support vaccine passports, within a month she was supporting them.
I feel ya Jason. I too live in Austin and I essentially had to lie to my clients and to my own family about my vaccination status for over a year. I was protected by immunity from infection before the vaccine was available, but for some reason, everyone forgot medical science and thought literally everyone needed a jab.
I really didn’t feel like explaining what natural immunity was and why it meant I didn’t need the vaxx. they just couldn’t hear it.
since then I have been honest that I lied and most don’t care but a few family members and clients are very hurt that I lied, even tho I was RIGHT!
this has caused damage to my relationships even to this day...
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I know Jesus wants me to forgive and I’m working on it...but I’m not there yet.
I can eventually forgive (not forget) non-medical people for being gullible & drinking the koolaid...maybe even the ones who were just plain disgusting to those of us who have a different opinion. However, forgiving my fellow healthcare professionals is a different story. If they want to take a chance with their own health, that’s their choice; but they KNOW how REAL science works, clearly never did their own research & some still pushed it on others & berated those who chose to decline the koolaid. There are many who STILL have a jab superiority complex this late in the game. I have 3 words for them: DO NO HARM!
Last year I had an office visit with my neurologist of 10 years. I told her that I had gotten Covid and got over it in a couple days. She then preceeded to tell me that I should still get the vaccine! For what purpose? I had natural immunity at that point and wouldn't have gotten it even if I didn't.
That was my last office visit with that doctor.
In my area of NY I think people were just really believing the media, their doctors and politicians. I found out years ago when people have no faith or relationship with His Son, they will find someone to worship. Entertainers, politicians, government regulatory agencies, Big Pharm, academia, so-called scientists or experts, doctors. And guess who was pushing the safe and effective clot shot? Democrats liberals are, studies shown, not of faith in God as evidenced by their life choices such as abortion and sex and drug extreme beliefs. They would be the ones to listen believe and trust those entertainers, Democrat politicians and their doctors etc. Many are dead now or differing sad to say. They trusted the wrong people. People are fallen sinful creatures that’s why they need a Savior.
Don’t forget, many of them ENJOYED the power they were wielding to kick you out of those stores, to close your businesses and keep your kids terrified. That’s my true feeling about all this. People literally wanted to see us die, shunned from society and no freedom to move about our own country and state and cities. I can forgive people that TRULY believed this was right and didn’t force anything or treat people like shit. But i think that is a very small number of people. And for the rest, I DEMAND accountability and will fight for it til I die.
I have no clue. What post of mine are you commenting please? I don’t understand when I click on thread I can’t find what I wrote. SMH.
Also, when you click on the comment if you scroll to the top it says <—— Back to Thread. Click that and it takes you to the article it’s on.
I can do that but I forget what I posted in past posts and like to read them with the response. Sometimes they show up, sometimes not even when I click back to thread. Oh well. But thanks
It’s probably one of the early November posts as I catch up on C&C reading rn.
I’m still pissed off about them closing my church and terrorizing all of us. I want Justice.
As a grandmother I am very concerned about her future. I pray a lot. I see the ultimate goal is depopulation and control by rich psychotic demonic eugenics such as Gates with WEF and Planned Parenthood etc. . The pro choice abortion movement is demonic as is the sexual revolution of the 60s but it’s not new. America and most nations have strayed from fear of the Lord. We took God out of our schools with prayer and 10 commandments removed when I was a little girl. Our nation plummeted after that. Schools became cesspools of immorality and evil now indoctrination centers into AntiChrist religions such as the LGBTQ agenda and CRT which are occults in my thinking. All one has to do is see their books and goals. The activists are after unrestrained sex even with children as proven now with transgenderism going after kids in schools with freak shows. Disgusting what BIden did with Title 9 the pervert! Most of the occult members hate God and family. They murder their unborn and are proud (Pride bring the deadly sin of Lucifer) . These people hate children and care not about the future of our country. Communists in 1963 vowed to infiltrate one or both of the US political parties. It’s obvious they have succeeded.