Trump wants Iran's oil (since 1987) and talks ensue; No Kings protesters can't find a king, but really want one; NYT flips on FBI file releases; Jill Biden's Secret Service agent has a very bad day.
The cat (and her kittens) were fine. Getting mauled caused me to back off and rethink my strategy, which I should have done to start with. I then used a garden hose to break up the fight. Momma kitty was not completely fine, but fully recovered. Kittens untouched.
Jeff got stitches and some quality learing about thinking first, then acting.
Thank you 🙏🏻 for doing your Paul Harvey duty and telling the rest of the story. That was a cliff hanger I would be waking up wondering the outcome for months in future. And the garden hose strategy was brilliant! 😉
BTW, anyone hear about the 61-year-old housekeeping supervisor from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, was shot and killed in a downtown Madison parking ramp last week after being targeted by a former coworker for supporting President Donald Trump.
yes this is really disturbing. esp when Mockingbird media keeps telling us WHITE MEN are the most dangerous perps - and then MISCATEGORIZING LATINO AND BLACK MEN AS WHITE.
Grrrrr. People need to know. who is dangerous is DEMOCRATS of all colors, pronouns and sexual persuasions.
Leftists / Marxists / socialist /communist - these are essentially the same thing. They are not really Democrats, nor do they support actual democracy- as the tragic killing in Madison, Wisc. attests.
Ideology aside, we are generations into the masses being raised on inadequate nutrition for optimal human brain development & function. The government has warned us all against consuming the most nutritionally complete and digestible foods:
meats, eggs, and natural milk & foods made from milk.
Starches, sugars, and oils - from which manufactured food-like substances are profitably produced from government subsidized, mostly GMO/gene edited crops - all damage the brain.
Essentially all "mental" health issues improve on a ketogenic diet. Which makes sense, since brain health is "mental" health.
Dr .Georgia Ede, MD - a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychiatry, provides extensive information on the real science about food, health, and the brain.
Add to this injections of neurotoxins from birth, or before... other sources of heavy metals... thousands of man-made chemical contaminants in our air, food, water - and nearly every consumer product... infants bon with over 200 synthetic chemicals detectable in their cordblood...
...and 'social engineering' through entertainment and government-run schools...
'It's a wonder we can think at all' - to borrow an old song lyric.
I see it all the time. Maddening. And I always think of kids learning to read (NOT learing). These things matter. And they affect a lot of people, given the number of readers of news. When I clicked on the above link and read the piece, I found a question at the end: "Was this helpful?" I clicked on "NO" and was asked, "Why not?" My reply: "'They' was used improperly throughout, creating confusion rather than clarity."
However, "The first recorded use of singular they dates back to 1375..."
"While the use may seem like a recent development within the English language, the history of singular they is anything but new. In fact, singular they has been a feature of English grammar for centuries.
Using they as a gender-neutral singular pronoun is (and was) common, especially when the gender(/sex) of the person is unknown or irrelevant..."
Our children are being subjected to things far more confusing than the singular use of the word 'they' which English-speaking children have been dealing with for over 700 years.
Education is the key to reducing confusion.
Another example is the word 'man'. Depending on context, the words 'man' and 'men' refer not only to adult male humans, but to all people. They come from the Latin 'manus' for 'hand'- not another body part.
Therefore, all women ARE also men; but no man is a woman. Just as all drakes are ducks, but not all ducks are drakes. The word 'woman' refers to a specific, a special ind of 'man', aka 'mankind'.
There are several examples in English where the word for one particular sex of a species is also the word for the species as a whole.
We've all heard that 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander', as the gander is also a goose. :-) All bitches are dogs, but not all dogs are bitches, as any serious dog breeder or exhibitor knows. 'Horse' refers to any adult intact male - or to a horse of any of the three adult sexes - mare, gelding, or stallion, an alternate word for 'horse'.
Exposure to phyto-estrogens, especially from wheat or soy, or synthetic chemical endocrine disruptors or estrogen mimics or social factors could affect a male's subjective experience or 'self-identification', but that's another topic.
Yes, of course. Like all of us ~ I assume ~ I have been using the singular they all my life in spoken and written reference to any person whose sex is unknown or irrelevant, as have the cited users of English throughout centuries past. Completely unlike those circumstances, however, is publication of a report whose purpose is the dissemination of established facts concerning a local homicide in which the sex of both victim and suspect are neither unknown nor are they irrelevant.
I wonder if the Covid Brain Worm is in there just eating away at whatever there was for brain matter in these people's skull? This would also explain the number of people protesting.
Sharon, I suspect "But I have always been under the impression that the Secret Service is composed of highly skilled people who can hit a moving target from three miles away while reciting the Preamble to the Constitution backward in Old English." clicked on to the word processor without even thinking about it. LOL.
I'm just thrilled to have learned about Jeff Childers in the midst of the DEMONratic activity in late 2021. It has provided me with valuable info that I NEVER would have found on legacy media sources AND given me HOPE and JOY exchanging comments and information with fellow believers in Yeshua--the only begotten Son of YAHWEH!!! God breathed and the creation of what we know as "this world" began!! Think about that!!
Oh, John--this remark about my beloved grandSON, Christian, encourages me SO MUCH. I pray for him constantly - and am working on a birthday collage which I plan to frame in a 8" x 10" frame and send to him for his 22nd birthday. He is the "middle child" for my youngest son--and has always been a sweet person - I had NO IDEA he was being attacked by the "great deceiver" through the "gamers" that he has 'known' since he was about 7 or 8 years old (most of them are from Sweden - Christian adored the "Minecraft" video game and that was created by a Swedish game 'wizard' - you know, Sweden is the most "liberal" thinking country when it comes to sexual idealogue--I have always considered Sweden (based on their movies and books) to be very DEPRESSED people--but they think they are "happy". Irony at its worst--isn't it, John!!
Again...thank you for praying for Christian - he surely needs to turn AWAY from gaming and TOWARD Yeshua - the ONLY route to TRUE JOY is through His nail-scarred hands - reach for Him and leaving the 'old mindset and will' behind. Crucify self and find TRUE JOY AND LIFE ETERNAL!
I might add--if you haven't seen the post of mine from 2 weeks ago - the new movie "A Great Awakening" produced, directed and starring local actors from the Lancaster, PA area....and production of "Sight & Sound Productions" division of the "Sight & Sound Theatre". It is truly ENCOURAGING about the special friendship between PASTOR GEORGE WHITEFIELD and BEN FRANKLIN. Please check out your local movie theaters to see if its playing in your area - it will be playing AROUND THE COUNTRY THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK! I saw a "special screening" of it yesterday in Lancaster---here's the offiicial trailer. SHARE IT with your friends and family, por favor!
I tried a similar type heroic intervention when I was 12 but it was between my dog and a similar sized canine. Outcome? I can still see the bite scar on the back of my hand at 69 while the fight raged on despite my efforts. My dog Jake fared just fine however when they both finally tired of the fracas and called it a draw.
Well...that might just be a story to pump-up Jeff's PR profile. He knew how it would be interpreted, of course. This is a business, after all. And I wasn't born yesterday.
Aren't Christians supposed to be humble and not self-congratulatory?
What?! This is a very odd response. I find it sad that the negative, self serving spin is what anyone would focus on first, or are you getting some compensation for your comments?
You need to have professional medical testing, as your funny bone appears to be damaged, or missing entirely. I hope you can get the help you so desperately need.
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Six years ago today, my 53 year old brother was killed by the lockdowns. It was egregious medical neglect, and because of “keeping everyone safe”, no one was allowed to come in and help him or advocate for him. He died alone in awful circumstances. I will never forget what they did to my family 😡😡😡
And to those who are inclined to complain that this post isn’t relevant to Jeff’s roundup for today—go fly a kite, I don’t give a flying fig what you think. It will ALWAYS be relevant to post about the harm those monsters did using Covid as an excuse!!
I no longer work in clinical hands on/hospitals- but as a registered nurse when I saw that they left people ALONE with no family and TO DIE ALONE??? I got sick to my stomach. Makes me angry to think about what KIND OF SICK PEOPLE are living among us. Very sorry for your loss. Keep reminding everyone all the time. 👍
Tried to kill me too. 35 days on a ventilator, 2 months total in hospital. 2 days of Remdesivir, after which I refused more, and thankfully they listened. Made husband sign DNR before they would do tracheostomy. I was 49 at the time. Miracle by the grace of God that I survived. Praise God that you are still with us as well!
OMG! wow, God is watching over us Michelle. For me it was 1 day in a butcher shop hospital until I escaped via ambulance to a hospital where my wife works. Then 12 days in that hospital with a collapsed lung because my doctor refused to treat my " covid pneumonia " I got the old" go home til you can't breathe " advice. At least my wife and her colleagues were able to keep a eye out for me. But I have permanent lung damage. But hey! I'm still kicking at71!🤗
I have permanent lung damage as well as a result of treatment—fibrosis resulting in reduced lung capacity. Did your damage result in reduced lung capacity too? Do you need to use O2? I’m do glad you were transferred to a hospital where your wife could be watching. That probably made a big difference in your care! Once I was out of quarantine (19 days), my husband visited daily. I think that, and that two friends had sent balloons/flowers, and a local friend also visited, made a difference in my care. They knew people were watching.
Never stop telling your story Michelle. People consistently need to be reminded of the Covid Killer that was forced upon the world. Look what has happened in NYC now that people forgot 9/11. Yes, praise God you are still alive to tell your story as well!
RL, your hair would curl if you realized what is going on in Canada in terms of compassion-less "medicine" Both as unlimited abortion (to the moment of birth) since 1988, and as state-assisted suicide known as MAID. Both are eugenics programs.
MAID has reached over 100,000 victims now since 2016. In a population of under 40 million.
Whenever someone insists that "real communism hasn't been tried", point them to what Canada is doing with MAiD and the C9 bill. They've already extended advocating MAiD for "mental illnesses"; if they finish passing C9, what's to stop them from declaring those who violate that act as mentally ill, just like they did to dissidents in communist countries?
As it stands now you have to be 18 years or older for MAiD but they, meaning the Gov't, are in active discussion to include "mature minors" in their eugenics program. And even more shocking to me, is that there are citizens who think that this is a great idea. But then these are the same people who believe that children can decide what gender they want to be and are entitled to hormone blockers, ect., to realize this fantasy. And should they choose, the mutilation of their bodies. God have mercy on this nation. With regards to Bill C-9, it's interesting that it refers to "Scripture" only. Does that mean that quoting from the Quran is acceptable? I have my own ideas on this, as it appears that all Christ followers are considered enemy's of the Gov't now. But it did my heart good to see some MP's in the House of Parliament vote against this evil bill with their Bibles in their hands.
Of my local medical entities, two are ‘developing policies’ to comply with the new MAID law passed in IL. The third one is Catholic and stated publicly they have no intention of participating in assisted suicide as death, as is life, God’s realm. 🙏🏻
Yes, I lost a dear friend because she was "unvaxxed". They immediately put her on a ventilator, hooked her up to Remdesivir and left her to die. A friend's Mom left this world the same way for the same reason. We will not forget.
Same. My 1st cousin, my age, went to ER with omicron variant and low oxygen. They checked him right in. No immediate family could visit as they were unvaxed. Hospital had him on Remdisiver and ventilator within 48 hours. In the course of a week he went from healthy to dead.
As did I, Sue, when my mother broke her arm during the COVID debacle and she wasn’t vaccinated. I was there with her checking in to the ER, and saw the looks on the faces of the staff. Very unprofessional healthcare workers for sure. Then they wouldn’t let any family members back with the patient to advocate for them. That was a horrible policy. Extremely difficult for me not to create a scene. Instead I called frequently to get status updates.
All these health care workers who were okay treating people abominably and yet acted like they were saints for “protecting” people and being “essential workers.”
Id have been the nasty one creating scenes. the more attention, the more LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT> Being well behaved is a harbinger for disaster these days. check w the CANADIANS< some of the Best Behaved and most abused among us.
This happened to family friend too - the dad was a customer at my parents store when I was a kid, his daughter hung out with us in the old neighborhood. She posted on FB almost daily how cruel the whole ordeal was as her dad died under similar circumstances in PA under democrat rule with that tranny MFer Levin at the helm before SPOTUS (Supposed POTUS) Potato Brain put him/it/“her” in charge of everyone’s health.
I’m so sorry and angry this happened, not only to you, but untold thousands of people. It’s so far beyond inexcusable and evil, that I run out of words for expressing my disgust and anger. My daughter is a surgical RN. She had most of her hours cut during the C19 scam, as many surgeries were cancelled (putting her into debt - and, no, the hospital didn’t use any of their ‘extra Covid $’ intended for underemployed nurses; instead it went to executive staff). She was offered to work some hours ‘on the floor’ in the hospital, but she refused. She told me she wanted nothing to do with that, based upon stuff the other RNs were telling her about the ‘shit show’ in the ‘Covid wards’. My brother was murdered via being convinced to get the two shots. At least my sister and I were able to grant his one wish, of being able to die at home.
Thank you Suzy and I am so sorry for your family’s losses too 😞 It makes my blood boil to know the executives were all pocketing the extra Covid funds, there are so many people who were complicit with this evil and want us all to forget! Proud of your daughter for seeing through it all and keeping to her principles. You raised her well ❤️
Thank you. My daughter managed to avoid the evil shots via a religious exemption, though the bullshit she’s gone through has been horrendous. Re: being treated differently due to no shots (no eating with others in the break room, you leper!). Other crap like that. The agony of formulating the exemption form (4 pages long, detailing every aspect of one’s religious beliefs etc.), then waiting weeks to see if it was approved or denied. Her supervisor was denied his religious exemption (he was more devout than my daughter). He was very healthy, age 40, wife and two toddler sons. After they denied his exemption, he had the first dose. To keep his job as breadwinner. Then, they CHANGED THEIR MIND and approved his exemption (oops!) before he got the second dose. In other words, their lawyers figured out they might get into hot water, so they started approving the religious exemptions. He confided in my daughter that he felt something was seriously wrong with his brain, once he got that first and only shot. Lots of doctor Appts, tests; they said nothing is wrong. Then he was tucking his boys into bed one night, turned to his wife and said, ‘I think I’m having a major stroke’. Which he did, basically his brain exploded. Laid in a nursing home for over a year, only able to twitch one finger. Finally his wife agreed to let him go. Never again, folks! We all must push back completely and together next time they try this evilness!
Oh Suzy, that brought me to tears, I’m so very sorry, how absolutely heartbreaking and just wrong all that is!! I think pretty-red old guy’s suggestion of compiling a book of all of these experiences is a great idea. Seeing what I am sure amounts to millions of people went through because of the protocols and mandates would be so powerful!
Oh Suzy what a terrible nightmare for your family! I was recently diagnosed with (Covid caused) AFib. I was healthy for 70 years, took no shots, but did catch the virus. Now heart problems. I tell every single doctor I talk to that this is related to Covid and they say nothing. They know now.
Sorry, I can't "like" that story because of the tragic circumstances but, wondering. . . What do you think about adding this into the other stories in a compendium describing the shit show of covid and hospital protocol. This DOES fit since it IS about the harms of a protocol in a hospital simply not one that caused a direct death by ill treatment of Covid itself.
Anyway, if so, feel free to message me with this story, just paste it into your message please.
Right RL? And as I jump back on my phone and continue to read these comments when I get a few minutes throughout my busy day, emotionally, I'm back to 4 years ago. F Anthony. And F anyone who looks like him.
I am sadly in agreement... and baffled by the ongoing bovine excrement in the medical FIELD (and i mean "field" literally as a place for meandering aimlessly, spotting the occasional pretty butterfly... but mostly scratchy weeds, ankle turning rocks...and assorted wildlife scat.
And I agree about the “safety.” It was a lie and they used fear to control people! I understand so well now why “fear not!” or some version thereof is often repeated in the Bible!
The red flag is when the authority claims very nobly they are doing these things for "Public Safety". That is usually the code for...RUN! Because they have an agenda not in your best interest.
The "Died Suddenly" is only getting worse. The body count continues to grow as hearts are infected, cancers are growing at incredible speeds and once healthy body's are dying faster than ever.
It sickens me to think of the dancing nurses videos and the self serving selfies of them exhausted sitting on the floors. These are the nurses of today and the future. Gleefully self promoting while their patients died alone. Shameful
What you saw was Psychopathy in action. The Globalist Network counts on psychopathic senior leaders to carry out this type of conscience-less agenda.
Most people think of Psychopathy in the Hollywood version of Hannibal Lecter. However, the condition very seldom manifests that way, actually. It is more like the Henry Kissingers of the world.
May I offer a slightly different version of your very accurate comment?
What you saw was Satan in action. Satan counts on psychopathic senior leaders to carry out this type of conscience-less agenda.
Most people think of Satan in the Hollywood version of Hannibal Lecter. However, the condition very seldom manifests that way, actually. It is more like the Henry Kissingers of the world.
MOMinator, I try to steer clear of the "Satan" terminology because the religious cultists here scream at normal decent people daily that they are all supposedly Satan. They have worn-out that term by misapplying it so often. And trying to deflect from their own bad behaviour.
I am well aware that Psychopathy is a portal for evil into this world. I can even explain to you how the seeds of this condition are planted by adults into innocent children by messing-up the Attachment bond that supplies conscience and the ability for empathy. It is a very convoluted situation, therefore, and hard to apportion blame. I do expect responsibility from these damaged adults, however.
Except our enemy, the SPONSOR and aggravator of the harm perpetrated against us was literally Satan. Each nurse and doctor who shrugged the shoulders and walked away from the crying children trying to be with their dying parents … EVERY SINGLE ONE … was a little soldier working diligently for literal Satan. I imagine there were a few who refused to play along, I would like to hear their stories, because from where I sit it seems the entire industry politely looked the other way. I have no trust anymore. When I take myself or my children to the doctor (always when I unable to treat us myself), I know each time could end us on ruin. Medical kidnappings and arrogant applications of unwanted interventions … these possibilities haunt me. We do our best to STAY AWAY. Heck in Canada, your old dad who goes in for an antibiotic could be prescribed literal “assisted suicide” (which means MURDER the best I can figure it) and be dead in days. Yes we avoid the best we can.
I just don't use the continual "Satan" terminology, because it has been worn out on this C&C and normal people here now just roll their eyes at another cultist screaming that they are supposedly Satan. As they do here every day. For dramatic effect and attention to themselves.
I agree with your take, but I wanted to offer something to add to your something you added. 😁 I watch a brilliant lady on YouTube; her channel is called Craft2Christ, and she is a former witch who is sharing her faith journey and giving us a lot of insight on how witchcraft works so we can combat it. She said something very interesting in a recent video that I've been chewing on:
"Temptation is from the enemy, but giving into it is free will".
Some people are born twisted, but for the most part, the enemy can't act without free will and people accepting the temptation he presents (namely, power).
Thank you, though I look at evil more as a severe Attachment Disorder in innocent children which can grow into a severe Cluster-B Disorder as an adult. These disordered persons then seek vulnerable targets to play-off.
The trick is to develop a healthy sense of SELF and refuse to be a submissive victim. So you are not the prey to their predator.
That is hard to hear for most people. But hey....I did not design the system of human life. I just tell you how I think it works.
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
I think it is an excellent idea! A separate section or book about people whose family and friends suffered from jab issues would also be a good idea I think.
I'm in! Lost my husband, brother-in-law, sister-in law, a best friend, about 10 classmates (probably more if I really think about it) and now personally suffer from Covid AFib but was a healthy woman prior to 2020. Only sickness I have had in the past 6 years was 3 bouts (2020, 2021. 2022) with the freaking Covid virus. Zero shots!
My sister left nursing because of everything she experienced during this period. All the free homemade masks and pizza people sent to the hospital couldn't make up for seeing patients suffer and die alone. She uses the term "moral injury" to describe what you all went through.
Your story is going to make steam come out of her ears. We need to remind ourselves of what happened so we never forget. I am so sorry for what you went through.
In her section, the nurses were obedient for a while and then realized it was...not a pandemic, So they started to get creative, even literally sneaking loved ones up the back stairs (to say goodbye!! which previously happened on Facetime of all things). Then a manager figured out if they enrolled a patient in hospice, the patient could have in-room visitors (one at a time!!). So they did that, and then discontinued "hospice" as needed.
What a travesty. Several nurses my sister worked with have left the profession since all this.
Those who fought back and did the right thing in whatever way they were able have my gratitude. With all of the pressure and potential punishment, it surely wasn’t the easy path.
Kara, so I just have to tell you a story about a friend of mine. They were a nurse and refused to get vaccinated. They were then ostracized at work and had to stay in their office with the door shut. They did more phone work as a nurse. Anyway, maybe he came very depressed and I turned them on to C&C (Jeff) ❤️ & a pastor that I follow and listen to. One thing led to another, and it turned into a blessing. Like your experience, eventually the other nurses caught on and thought the whole thing was ridiculous and they would sneak in and see my friend. They even ended up feeling sorry for her and told her that they thought she was being treated unfairly. But she stuck it out.
My cousin, an MD, called Bovine Excrement early in the days of dancing “healthcare” workers. She said if you truly have multiple emergencies going on, like hospitals did on 9/11, you have no time or energy to choreograph and perform dances; you are mentally and physically exhausted.
Oh the hospital who had my daughter in law finally let us visit knowing she was never going to make it ( 3 weeks ). We got to hold her as they removed the ventilator. Will I always have nightmares I wonder.
Trojan Horse Trump's medicaid services paid out handsomely for administration of Remdesivir (run death is near) and ventilators, of course, as well as pushing the deadly clot shot.
You couldn’t just say “I’m sorry for your loss” Johnny O? 🙄 My brother wasn’t given remdesivir, it wasn’t even a thing at that point, he didn’t even have Covid, it was completely unrelated. But way to make the post about your agenda 🙄
You also made it about your agenda, RL. Just sayin. Sorry about your loss. I imagine every single person here has bad stories about the covid psyop. I know I do.
I still would like accountability so things like this don't happen again, and ignoring the fact that Trump also played a huge role in it won't help to get there.
No I didn’t. There was no “agenda” except to mourn the loss of my brother and give a reminder of why it happened. Thanks for stomping all over that though, and for showing the kind of person you really are.
Sorry, I'm not going to engage in your petty name calling and will stick to the big topics - like Trojan Horse Trump destroying the country. Big bad me, I know. Mine is somehow an "agenda" and your own personal commentary is not. Okay, if you say so.
I was thinking this morning about the irony of no kings marches and that whole cluster when under biden we were literally commanded to follow their fake lying orders because Science! And so many people died as a direct result of it. It will always be relevant. NEVER FORGET. Very sorry for your loss 🥲
We happened to drive through Gettysburg (Pa) Saturday, saw this crowd of people, wondered what on earth? Then saw the signs. Hadn't been aware that this was coming. Husband put his MAGA hat back on, but we aren't driving in a convertible, so no one could see it. There were several street corners, each with its own crowd of crazies. Today wondered about a possiblen correlation between No Kings participation and covid-jab uptake.
Our biblical homeschool news, World Watch, did a segment on the "No Kings" rallies this morning. My four kids, ages 8-16, all clearly saw how illogical the protestors' stance was. Sad that grown adults are so brainwashed (and likely jab-injured) that they can't think critically for themselves.
My favorite move when driving by the lunatics, is to hold my hand to the side of my face like a blinder. I do not even look at you. You are nonexistent to me.
I just shook my head as I drove by. The posters they held asked for drivers to honk in agreement with their protests….it was dead silent at the intersection where they congregated. Ha!
The irony abounds, Silent. The Left is absolutely blind to their own hypocrisy and ignorance.
When confronted by No Kings virtue signal goblin festivities, I always have to wonder how many of those fools celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk last September. These are not simply good people concerned about the well-being of democracy. These are self righteous idiots deeply involved in their TDS and making sure their cult sees their display of hatred.
But they have zero plans for repairing the damage that their permissive progressive policies have done to the country. They're drooling for their return to power and using other people’s money to get back to tearing it all down.
There’s that, but I know some of these people and they aren’t being paid. They're simply gullible and enjoy the opportunity to throw a tantrum because their stupidity has been challenged.
Take the time to know the truth and it shall set you free from such sins, disguised as good, which are mostly from the same City-of-London's evil playbook. (per John 8:32)
I didn’t know this about your brother (and I’m very sorry to hear it), but I do know that I will go to my grave angry about what happened during Covid, and I’ll be telling my grandkids about what happened so they can be historically aware. Because the worst thing would be when our generation is gone for the kids to think ‘meh, it wasn’t so bad,’ like they seem to be doing with the Holocaust. The real one, I mean.
I have an old coffee table with glass in top. We put cards and such under it to keep and look at. On my husband’s birthday after his heart surgery the grandkids drew pictures for him. Before his surgery he was put in the closed off scary covid floor. He was so angry about the idea of being there a week waiting that he pulled out his ivs and snuck down the back stairs in his green oregon ducks sweatshirt. I picked him up while the security was searching for him. Was an amazing feat. All the coffee table cards are pictures of his escape. #neverforget
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
Oh how I WISH we could post photos here to see. That’s an amazing story! Unbelievable that people actually had to try to ESCAPE hospitals!! And all the lawsuits to try to get a hospital to release a loved one. It’s mind blowing that anyone today would think this current administration is the authoritarian one after all THAT.
OK, so last year my wife was just leaving clinic; Picked her up after colonoscopy. Thought it was a great time to eat out at Olive Garden, right next door. So, I chowed down on the pasta Fagioli soup, and started in on multiple helpings of bread sticks. About half way through the huge plate of spaghetti and meatballs . . . uh, something(!) went south. Looked at the wife and said, I kind of feel faint, gonna' put me head down lower. . . next thing I knew I was waking up still in my chair (being held up by the folks behind our table and wife) and a minute later the paramedics show up.
Holy Crapp, did NOT like that.
Well they had the gurney there and my wife was lobbying for me to go to the ER; I said wellllllll, let's see here. . . maybe we can just go out and get some fresh air. . . still, I could not basically move but to the point: No pain, no heart jitterbuggin', no arm pain or chest pain. So, they scooted me out to the meat wagon and started me on oxygen and wanted in the WORST way to stick an IV in. (If the IV goes in they "get" to take me to the hospital, thems the rules.) I said well what's going on with my heart, is it bouncing the ball up and down correctly? Well, they tested me three times or so and said there was some kind of slight deal where the ball didn't quite make it all the way back to the starting line. . . long story short, suggestive of a heart attack(I learned later this was BS, they basically lied.) So, I let them take me. Got into the ER and within 20 min they got the high powered cardio pro from Dover and he acknowledged no heart attack.
The next FOUR hours they spend giving me test after test trying to find a way to keep me overnight. Round about 7 pm I had had enough. Sent the wife out to reconoiter the hospital hallways for a quick exit and when the last little RN bitch told me "No, that's not the way it works here" Waited 5 minutes and pulled out my IV and taped it up and walked "normally" out of the butcher shop. They called me 3 times on our half hour ride home in my Cadillac XT6 trying to get me to return, threatening me with cops and arrest since the idiots couldn't find my IV needle (in their hazardous waste bin).
So, that's my story! Screw hospitals, Screw doctors.
OK, the rest of the story, Paul Harvey was rolling over. . .
No, no heart attack, I have low blood pressure and all those carbs went to my gastric track and the blood followed, leave the heart somewhat shy of what it needed to pump enough to keep my head lolling around. . . I need to eat slower and not so much.
Wow. It really angers me that in a free country a hospital thinks they can force a patient to stay who clearly does not want to and can get the cops involved. What!!?!?!? Where is our freedom to choose for ourselves?
Give your husband a hug for me! Brilliant that he was of a mind to do so. Falls under the banner of “We will not comply!” How many would just sit there waiting…! I hope I would be of such a mindset. Never give up!
A former co worker had a similar situation where his wife went in for one thing and ended up captured and covid protocols. And neglected. His entreaties went unanswered. Finally he went in and physically escorted her out. The nurse called security. When he was confronted, he slowly pulled up his shirt. Security put up his hands and walked away. Sadly, the damage had been done, he put her in hospice, and his 60 year marriage was over. Sadly part 2, none of his friends, family, or former co workers, save me, believe they killed her.
I am so sorry about your brother. His circumstances are legion. Many people were left to die alone in cold and heartless hospitals. I am a retired RN and I was appalled at the treatment of the dear people in nursing homes as well and was grateful that my own mom had passed several years before this debacle. We were able to be at her bedside. I will never forget and I will be passing this on to my grandkids, as well.
In June of 2020, I was helping to circulate a petition to reign in Gov. Whitmer's overreach, so I met many people who were directly affected by what had been happening, including those who quit their jobs in nursing homes because they couldn't participate in the harms they were causing, and those who kept their jobs in order to be at least one caring soul in the lives of their unfortunate patients. Each person's situation was unique, and I appreciate those who did whatever they could do in good conscience to make things better, not worse, for those poor people.
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
Thank you Kathy ❤️ Yes it is such a horrible thing to leave people to die alone, on purpose!! You are right, we need to make sure no one forgets, even though lots of people would like to!
Covid has been added to the things not to be discussed like politics and religion. Thanks for letting us know about your brother's death. I know you have mentioned him before, and I too would be furious if that happened to any of my family. It was terrible enough to listen to the stories of those affected.
Now Finland and Canada have decided that the Scripture is hate speech and will no longer be allowed. So we can now add that to what cannot be discussed.
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
Please do so! I was relatively unaffected during shutdown which lasted 6 week in AZ. I spent it on vacation paddleboarding on the lakes here. I had no one ill so was not subjected to watching what some went through. I feel this could be a powerful statement for future generations. And also to be used as evidence against those that perpetrated such ideas.
I’m a massage therapist, I wouldn’t feel right about telling my clients stories. But I hear a LOT. Of all kinds of things, many of which I don’t want to know.
IF, by some chance, you find someone purely livid and wanting to tell the world, You could have them write it down, anonymize it, and send to me via DM.
Here is the way:
DM-- direct messaging-- via substack . . .
-- click on my user name: "pretty-red, old guy" and scroll down to messaging menu item. . .
Must jump in and honor your brothers memory with all herein along with Dr Linda who always offers the appropriate comment… very sorry not only for your brothers loss to you and your family, but that we all should never forget the terror and horror governments did to the very citizens that they exist at all… the safety of their citizens. Never forget Covid, an event and it’s collection of insane so called expert decisions should topple WW2’s description of Pearl Harbor as equal to the day that will be remembered as one of infamy… so too should Covid et al.,
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
Big hugs to you today. Just imagining it causes me to start crying with you. It’s heartbreaking anyone had to suffer like that, including the family members. I can’t imagine the agony you all went through at that time. A nauseous pinching in my gut just thinking about it gives me a teensy small taste of the helpless pain you went through.
These no kings rallies are the biggest slap in all our faces.
Thank you Juju for your kind words. It’s a terrible “anniversary” every year 😢 The one bright spot is that it served as proof that this whole saccharine drumbeat of “we have to keep people safe” was in fact doing the opposite. On purpose 😡
It’s heartbreaking 💔 I lost my Mom to Covid, locked down in the nursing home. She was ill for 9 days and died alone on Mother’s Day..5/10/2020… a Mom of 8 children.
I too will never forget 😢 and I am so sorry for your loss 😢
I am VERY sorry for your loss, RunningLogic! I lost my 37 yr old nephew - in January 2022 - and a brother in August same year. 😭 I feel your pain and loss! And NO! I will never forget either!
Thank you, and I am very sorry for your losses as well 😢💔
I also lost my mom to turbo cancer almost exactly two years after my brother, and then my dad to heart issues another year and a half later (I suspect that was jab related too, but it’s a little more ambiguous). Not to mention friends and colleagues 😞
I would have checked the heart on your post, but I cannot!
After my nephew passed, his mother died of cancer 18 months later and yes my Dad in 2024. We have parallels, my friend. I grief afresh!
BTW - I watched the trailer link you posted! Yes! I will NEVER forget the Covid LIES and the "cabbage" leadership and unelected enforcers of those years of nonsense!
I have continuing health issues from masking (forced to during flights to and from my family home as my Dad struggled through his end of life) The Lord will heal or strengthen and I rely on Him fully!
BTW - I read all the comments today - and I agree with your post of yesterday - the conversations on C&C have changed! 🥴
Yesterday I dialogued with "A" several times - definitely a bot or invader of some kind, the conversation was nonsense. "A" claimed to be called names and mistreated by we so called Christians.
I think some kind of battle has just ramped up in cyber realm!
Stay safe and may the Lord bless you and keep you! 🙏🏼
Thank you VelvetStitching ❤️🙏 Yes we have some sad and unfortunate parallels 😞
I got so angry all over again reading that article by the mom who wants to make this movie about the Covid evils!
Definitely can relate to all of the after effects from masking etc. My son (whose school actually tried to be as normal as possible) lost so much especially in reading level due to that whole BS (excuse the “language” but for once I think it’s not inappropriate). I have been homeschooling him and it’s been a struggle to figure out how to get him to the level I think he should be 😕
Agree with you about the comments and the battle. We need to be vigilant.
Check out the Wordly Wise program. I used it homeschooling and also helping other kids that were behind. It’s hard to find a curriculum that fits both teacher and student…. But I wish you luck in that endeavor. It’s horrible what they did to adults and families and I’m so sorry for all the losses you and your family experienced but what they did to our innocent children will reap the wrath of God.
I homeschooled for 26 years (5 kids). Just a suggestion - don't try to get your son to “level”!
Just read to him, pick subjects he is very interested in, his attention will be captured with interest which is where we all learn best!
I read to my last three children voraciously (what abig word!) and they all excelled! The first two I tried to “public school at home!” - it was stressful!
Yes - their education was also successful - but could have been so much more enjoyable!
“Wordly wise” is great vocabulary program.
Math U See good math program. (I tried many of them!)
Notgrass history was very good and “Understanding the Times” - worldviews vying for their hearts and minds. And best book:
The BIBLE - God's Word!
Find some friends who have kids abt the same age as yours and co-op together! Good fellowship and good learning together relying on each other's strengths, covering the weak areas together!
I know you didn't ask for the advice - but I sure could have benefitted from someone sharing with me in those difficult years!
And Apologia curriculum for Science.
I bought much of these books from Christian Book Distributors online.
I wish you the best!
Pray and God will give you the best guidance where to go with your son's education!
You are his parent - you love him the most - the education you give will be better than the indoctrination received at any “good” Government Schools!
Thank you VelvetStitching ❤️ I appreciate your kind and thoughtful suggestions. We are a little past that point for the most part as I started homeschooling him in middle school and there was a lot going on in our personal lives too so that just added to the difficulties. He’s in high school now it’s harder to make up for the lost time and development.
We are actually using Notgrass for history this year and we really like it (suggestion from our state homeschool association regional representative). We also are doing the literature component, but that has proven to be more challenging and less appropriate. He mostly dislikes reading and reads very slowly (I suspect because the time when he was supposed to have been learning how to read more quickly was right during all the Covid nonsense). So I’m trying to add some extra things before we finish the year to make up for that.
I only mentioned “levels’ because he is in high school and hopes to go to college. So that is the perspective I am coming from. He does need to have a certain level of reading and writing ability to make it to college and in college level courses.
He is actually involved in a co-op and takes a science class and a Bible study class as well as an art class there. It’s been very helpful but he hasn’t really made any friends there. He has neighborhood friends who share our values and friends from his sports team he interacts with, so that is good.
In any case I do appreciate your insights, support and encouragement, it means a lot ❤️🙏
The invasion is probably because Jeff has been on a few podcasts lately. You can usually tell who they are as they never quote scripture and never offer prayers either. And they tend to be fractious without cause; such as inserting something hateful into a feeling post.
Thank you SHug, I'm afraid I can't offer any scripture as I don't know any, to be honest. But I do pray and offer prayers. I'm sure getting tired of trolls and haters though! And at times get into it with them. Sometimes they just trigger me lol 😆 and I have been known to have a temper
Yes, so many people were told to orotect themselves, and in the way that meant only to harm them, but they trusted and lives were lost and ruined forever…a horrible “holocaust”. God bless you.
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
I am very sorry for what happened to your brother and your family, RL. Some atrocious things occurred due to the evil COVID Psy-Op. Which was basically due to psychopathic power-mongers playing God.
May I suggest the Wilma Derksen book, "The Way of Letting Go"? I found it helpful myself.
Thank you Lynne ❤️ It was especially devastating for my parents, who tried to get in the facility and help him but were rebuffed and then the shock at having things happen so quickly with such a tragic result 😞
I am so sorry for the loss of your brother. May he be resting in the arms of his savior. What they did was horrific and unfortunately we have many Americans who went along with it. May we continue to defend those who did the right thing in spite of the costs and let the light shine on all of the evil.
On the memorial of your brother’s passing, may you be comforted by the peace that surpasses all understanding.
I'm no medical anybody but i did attend three months in nursing school in 1980. I ranted my little scientifically wired brain half connected to my mouth about these atrocities to anyone who would hear!!! Wisdom crying and shouting to all who passed by.
I knew ppl were suffering and dying. I've been alone in a hospital too many times but I knew my ppl would come for me in the morning. I would NEVER leave a loved one alone if at all possible to keep guard today!!
I'm so very sorry for those who lost soldiers in that senseless battle.
So very sorry. So many were harmed by those in power at that time... their lies caused all this and still no one is being held accountable! I will say a prayer for you today.
—“This is a fascinating type of dictatorship. It is the kind of dictatorship where you can organize a massive, highly publicized public rally to yell at the dictator, and the dictator’s police force actually blocks off traffic so you can yell more safely. In historical dictatorships, like the ones run by actual kings, traffic control was generally handled by guys with halberds, and the penalty for yelling at the king was that your head was relocated to a spike.”
This paragraph and the ones following were pure gold!! 🤣🤣🤣
It's dark humor. Mr. Trump doesn't want to shed any more blood than he has too. Note the "we HAVE to blow them up".
We ALL wish there was a reasonable group of people that could step up to the table to negotiate. Unfortunately, the old ayatollah put out a fatwa to all the religious guard to fight on forever, and as I understand it, NO ONE can undo that fatwa, not even the new Ayatollah.
I think yes, because 'lie to me once, shame on you; lie to me twice, shame on me' and this is what Iranians do: they lie ad continuum. Has to stop at some point, so yes, keep your word or boom. Ponder this aspect first and then there'll be no chance for you to scold, Mr. Johnny-O.
Meaning like destroying Persia and making it Islamic by sword, not philosophy (which is what the Quran teaches). Liars, liars, liars for a very long time. Has to either keep their word or... live the fate they fated others.
I don't need my ego to be stoked by reading and engaging in echo chambers. Trying to warn the very same people who were cheering when Trump campaigned on no new wars for 10 years about this disastrous iran decision.
My favorite today: “I have always been under the impression that the Secret Service is composed of highly skilled people who can hit a moving target from three miles away while reciting the Preamble to the Constitution backward in Old English.” 🤣 🤣 I miss the days when the awe we had in some of these positions was fully warranted.
Not so much anymore Juju. I’ve lost so much respect for our government due to what they’ve done to us even before I was born. Waking up is/was painful.
Lol! I feed the birds and have been actively trying to get squirrels to come visit! Why? Because we dont have very many here. They are closely related to unicorns, it seems.
I have. I think the groundhog steals them before any squirrels get a chance. Oddly, we just really dont have many squirrels here. I saw one, but he disappeared. :( I’ll keep trying. :)
Ya ..I used to yell at the squirrels in Portland as there were an over abundance of them. They would dig up all my newly purchased and carefully planted garden. I read the coffee grounds stopped or supposedly slowed them down. Not in my case they got addicted to coffee and running around digging up everything for more caffeine. It was just crazy. Luckily no squirrels here but the sun and salty de-sal water is brutal.
I have to tell you the squirrels on caffeine were just nuts digging through the planters and garden. Very hyped up and the result was 20 times worse than without the coffee grinds.
For a more recent example of true dictatorship: the Iranian government killed over 30,000 of its own people who peacefully protested and hung an athlete. I really wish we could ship these protesters to a country like Iran or China and let them live their desired “freedom” from Trump.
The athlete they hung was hung along side two friends. They were protesting and got caught up in a fray with govt thugs... And, they hung an 18 yr old girl just the other day.🥺 She, too, was fighting against the govt.
While we justifiably make fun, it actually makes me sad to see how this is the plight of too many deluded, miserable folks. Have to ask how did they get to this much disrespect of self and others?
My favorite aspect is the sunburn. Longtime beach natives, my partner and I always laugh at sunburnt tourists. If a lesson is learned, well and good. If not, at least they've provided us a bit of entertainment.
My take on Jill Biden's Secret Service man who shot himself is that he found a way out of her detail. It was either kill himself or shoot his leg. Can you blame him?
Exactly! It must be insufferable what with her being a medical doctor and all. At least if you're on Joe's detail, you can occupy yourself with helping him up when he falls.
Yes, I'm aware of her so-called doctorate in education; those degrees are widely regarded as a joke in academia. They are SO easy to get. My favorite "doctoral thesis" in education was a gym teacher who wrote his thesis on the best way to store volley balls. That was at Penn State back in the 1980s.
What I said up there was a joke. There's a clip of Whoopie Goldberg of The View being all excited that Jill had a medical degree. I think a lot of libs might even still believe that an Ed.D. is an M.D. LOLOLOL
Somebody dug into the details of her thesis, it was about as poor as one might expect. I don't remember the details too well, but she sent out a survey to maybe 100 people and wrote up the results of the 20 or so people that returned the survey, along with some conclusions.
I read on X recently that the Univ of Delaware (or wherever she got the phony phd), said she was never awarded that doctorate... Now that will be a hoot if they really take it back!
I thought so. But nuance is hard to detect sometimes in comments
But I also remember a clip of some show talking about how great doctor she is and everyone was making fun of them because they believed she was a medical Dr.
Probably not a DEI doc because getting an Ed.D. is so freaking easy. My dogs could earn one, but I'd have to do the typing for them. LOL Sadly, it's the single most popular advanced degree that school teachers get when they long to be promoted to principle or school administrator.
"We've had all our rights taken away" was the reason one local protester here in El Paso, Texas gave for her participation in the "No Kings" event. Too bad the "journalist" didn’t ask the obvious follow-up question of "What rights, exactly, have been stripped from you by this administration?"
I note with irony that it was the previous "dictator" that made it unlawful to leave our homes and go to the beach because of a seasonal influenza-like outbreak.
Well....regarding covid as having been a seasonal flu....My position has not changed since that time and I was monitoring the "novel" flu since 2019...My position was and is that it was a flu with a designated target audience: the elderly and the unhealthy....a herd reduction....those are the members of any herd which needs culling. The de-populationists have been around for a long time....Bill Gates is one of them...Margaret Sanger was another, although she had a specialty of who to eliminate....My position is that not only did the people behind funding the creation of this virus want to reduce the world population in general but the Chinese, who revere their elderly, also needed to rid themselves of the "useless eaters"....it had been reported for some time that their overpopulation was with the wrong demographics: They needed more young males and the one child mandate hadn't worked out that well. (One Chinese friend had told me that the "one child" was not for the countryside farmers....it was more for the cities.) The virus would serve two masters: reduction in world population (remember Italy) and reduction of the revered Chinese elderly. I believe that its lethality was not finalized because....Trump....they had to get rid of Trump. I do not believe that it was a seasonal flu. It was a targeting flu for a purpose released (not escaped) from the lab before it was finalized.
I've unfriended almost all of my liberal friends on facebook (or they have unfriended me), but when I see a news organization post something about no kings, I might say something like:
And when he said, "The poster boards are being recycled," what he meant was that they were dutifully separated from the other trash, thrown in the correct bin, collected by additional trucks designated for paper and cardboard only, then thrown in the landfill with everything else, after all.
Oh, heck no. They’re “recycled “ for the next paid protest….dutifully collected and stored away to be brought out with the pallets of bricks or cinder blocks when needed.
As someone with an organizer in the family, recycling and upcycling protest signs is a thing. There are standard preparatory pizza party meetings where everyone can get to know each other and make signs and whatever I'm ignorant due to my family seeing clearly that I am not sufficiently outraged to be invited. I did get polled on messaging, though. They really really want to stick in the allusions to kings and how neighbors should behave, but they don't really want to understand why their messaging and branding is not winning over the people who inexplicably aren't already right there with them. I said, "you could always just try talking to your actual neighbors and try to understand them..." Broadcasting branding from afar is preferred to neighboring "those people." These protestor people that I know care deeply, but can't bear the stress of trying to talk to the people truly in their life. We've all been fouled by the successful behavioral conditioning of factionalization. Incongruent viewpoints trigger emotional overwhelm and programmed reactivity.
"Trump’s Truth Social post called the Affordable Care Act the 'Unaffordable Care Act' … and proposed replacing the whole thing with direct payments to Americans."
I think it would be hysterical if those who have been voting for Dems over the past decade so they could get their ever-elusive free healthcare would actually be able to afford healthcare thanks to Trump 🤯 But then TDS sufferers would refuse to get healthcare … because Trump 😆
This is a little off today's topic but I think I have discovered a superpower technique to eliminate all of those obnoxious political fundraising texts. You know, the ones from WinRed. If you respond with "stop," you immediately start getting texts from ten new sources. Rather than responding with "stop," I have been responding with "when SAVE ACT is signed," or simply "SAVE ACT." It's worked in glorious fashion for me. The obnoxious texts are almost gone. There are just enough for me to get the satisfaction of responding with my superpower text once a day or so. Whether or not it works, I feel that I've accomplished more for the day than most US Senators, Senator Lee excepted of course.
We give ONLY to the individual candidate- using their personal name on the check. I have absolutely no interest in the Retardican or the DemonRat parties on the whole.
So about the health insurance thing… if the federal government gives money directly to taxpayers to purchase insurance, which sounds on its face way better, won’t it actually just drive up costs by exactly that much?
Say the government gives $8k per year for a family of 4, the economics I’ve studied says that insurance companies will just raise their premiums for that insurance by that exact $8k. It’s why the government needs to stay out of the private market.
Yeah, I think they realize the delivery system is too complex to make specific changes to without leaving a short term mess. Providing a few points of patient leverage would move things at least a little on the same direction.
I would favor also allowing some degree of self insurance. And making it easier for small medical practices and hospitals to compete. Eg remove price fixing by big insurance payers etc.
Not certain how to make small hospitals and practices competitive. The only real solution, other than more government interference, is to somehow get those seeking insurance to come together as a purchasing cooperative and then negotiate with insurers to include exactly what they are wanting to purchase. Large insurance companies don't 'price fix' as much as they negotiate with providers for a discount on services and those discounts are based upon how many patients the insurer can potentially send to the providers. There are some provider networks e.g. Mayo that will negotiate very little if any discounts, because they can, and thus some of those provider networks end up being out of network for the insured. What I would like to see in the marketplace is the ability to purchase your insurance needs on an ala carte basis. That's not possible now because federal and some state laws require insurers to include services that the insured may not need or want e.g. maternity care for a single male. Those sort of laws drive up pricing across the board. Something like catastrophic medical coverage with a $10K out of pocket would be desirable to some people to just keep those really large events from causing lifelong financial ruin.
I thought in some cases people had very limited choices, depending on where they lived and other factors? But I might also be misinformed or misunderstanding, so I hope someone can clarify!
I think the problem with individual purchases of medical cost insurance is that some folks have serious expensive chronic conditions, so insurance companies would find them unprofitable. One way around this is to require companies to charge the same rate for everybody, but that makes the insurance too expensive for ordinary folks. Another way is to grant special subsidies to people with expensive conditions, but that would doubtless be abused. Another way is to count on private charity.
They could certainly do that, and perhaps could even do it honestly and effectively. But that doesn't address the problems of people who have chronic serious diseases for which there's no cheap effective cure.
The eugenics cabal is actively working to kill HEALTHY people, so why is so much money being spent on preserving the very ill? Don’t hate me! I’m just making an observation.
Yep. Our medical system today is a MARKETING system that has nothing to do with health or addressing root causes of problems. Diet is a huge contributor to poor health yet we continue to expand the fake and processed food “choices”. It makes me sick, pun intended.
It would give the family the ability to pay cash for their healthcare. So they would HAVE TO LOWER their prices and the hospitals and drs would actually have to ‘compete’ for everyone’s business.
If the money is in the system for healthcare, the healthcare system will suck it up. IMHO the only way for medical costs to go down is to make it a completely free market, like auto or homeowners.
Maybe I’m wrong. But I’m fairly well-read on economics. I would really like for some things to be actually improved rather than trading one problem for a different one.
Transparency in pricing would be helpful, I know there’s been work done on this but there is more to do imo. All of the things that help drive costs up need to be addressed.
Uffda. That is a very tall order. Just one case in point. The obesity rate in the U.S. is off the charts. Obesity contributes significantly to chronic disease. What contributes to obesity, big food. So now to address just obesity you are looking to make changes in big food. There are a lot of trickle down issues that would need to be addressed. Not saying that it cannot be done, but in this one single instance some degree of responsibility lies with individual choices also. And then you have that to address. If I had a magic wand.....
I am not disagreeing with your comment or thoughts. I had similar thoughts. However, I think it’s up to the individual. Flaws are sadly part of the process.
I get that. There’s no perfect system, but it can definitely be better. I hope you’re right, but I’m suspicious of any government involvement in a market, we have a lot of experience seeing what happens.
Don’t disagree. My comment was not to say that I am on either side.
I am not sure government can make much of anything better especially when lobbying is allowed, as well as the ability to alter bills as they go through committees.
Health insurance needs to be removed from the equation - just pay the doctor directly. Doctors could have non-insurance fees. Better yet, pay doctors that actually care about health more than pushing pharma meds.
How about if the government gets out of healthcare and DOESN’T steal our money to pay for a sick care system? The government has no more responsibility to pay for “healthcare” than they do for house or car insurance. Let the public keep our money and buy whatever insurance or medical care we desire. I don’t do doctors or drugs but crappy government insurance won’t pay for homeopathic or chiropractic health care OR diet programs to ward off illness.
Called competition. Imagine you have the choice ( I know, strange word these days) to purchase insurance from a choice of suppliers, who actually want your business.
Mixture of industry and powerful government bound tightly together. There's a name for that system of organization, rhymes with lascism.
They've just figured out over the last couple of decades how to take over and brand it with leftism. So they call the Right fascist due to outdated cultural stereotypes but advocate that system.
Jared Polis can keep transing kids as long as the trains run on time, and the media well celebrate him as a great governor.
I said it years ago, back in the early days of the Covid wars…Jeff’s commentary is like Dave Barry meets PJ O’Rourke, with the sharp wit and sarcasm of Rush seasoning it all. So. And yes, “The Pantaloons” would be an outstanding name for a folk band.
—“This is what professionals and experts call “Journalistic Consistency,” which is a highly technical term meaning, “We Make The Rules Up As We Go Along.”
UPDATE
I probably should have said it in the post.
The cat (and her kittens) were fine. Getting mauled caused me to back off and rethink my strategy, which I should have done to start with. I then used a garden hose to break up the fight. Momma kitty was not completely fine, but fully recovered. Kittens untouched.
Jeff got stitches and some quality learing about thinking first, then acting.
Thank you 🙏🏻 for doing your Paul Harvey duty and telling the rest of the story. That was a cliff hanger I would be waking up wondering the outcome for months in future. And the garden hose strategy was brilliant! 😉
I was raised on Paul Harvey, good day.
BTW, anyone hear about the 61-year-old housekeeping supervisor from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, was shot and killed in a downtown Madison parking ramp last week after being targeted by a former coworker for supporting President Donald Trump.
https://www.cityofmadison.com/police/incident-reports/2026-03-22/woman-killed-in-shooting-on-w-washington-ave
yes this is really disturbing. esp when Mockingbird media keeps telling us WHITE MEN are the most dangerous perps - and then MISCATEGORIZING LATINO AND BLACK MEN AS WHITE.
Grrrrr. People need to know. who is dangerous is DEMOCRATS of all colors, pronouns and sexual persuasions.
Leftists / Marxists / socialist /communist - these are essentially the same thing. They are not really Democrats, nor do they support actual democracy- as the tragic killing in Madison, Wisc. attests.
Ideology aside, we are generations into the masses being raised on inadequate nutrition for optimal human brain development & function. The government has warned us all against consuming the most nutritionally complete and digestible foods:
meats, eggs, and natural milk & foods made from milk.
Starches, sugars, and oils - from which manufactured food-like substances are profitably produced from government subsidized, mostly GMO/gene edited crops - all damage the brain.
Dr. Paul Mason - 'Reversing Dementia With Diet'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_xu2zLlQAs
Essentially all "mental" health issues improve on a ketogenic diet. Which makes sense, since brain health is "mental" health.
Dr .Georgia Ede, MD - a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychiatry, provides extensive information on the real science about food, health, and the brain.
https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/
Add to this injections of neurotoxins from birth, or before... other sources of heavy metals... thousands of man-made chemical contaminants in our air, food, water - and nearly every consumer product... infants bon with over 200 synthetic chemicals detectable in their cordblood...
...and 'social engineering' through entertainment and government-run schools...
'It's a wonder we can think at all' - to borrow an old song lyric.
Ugh! Is it normal practice now to use they/their instead of he/she… or is it just a Madison thing? (Madison=Red Square West)
I see it all the time. Maddening. And I always think of kids learning to read (NOT learing). These things matter. And they affect a lot of people, given the number of readers of news. When I clicked on the above link and read the piece, I found a question at the end: "Was this helpful?" I clicked on "NO" and was asked, "Why not?" My reply: "'They' was used improperly throughout, creating confusion rather than clarity."
Good idea! I just did the same.
Ditto!
Mrs. "the Knife"
A creative and constructive response!
However, "The first recorded use of singular they dates back to 1375..."
"While the use may seem like a recent development within the English language, the history of singular they is anything but new. In fact, singular they has been a feature of English grammar for centuries.
Using they as a gender-neutral singular pronoun is (and was) common, especially when the gender(/sex) of the person is unknown or irrelevant..."
https://linguisticsgirl.com/a-short-history-of-singular-they-from-medieval-times-to-modern-english/
Our children are being subjected to things far more confusing than the singular use of the word 'they' which English-speaking children have been dealing with for over 700 years.
Education is the key to reducing confusion.
Another example is the word 'man'. Depending on context, the words 'man' and 'men' refer not only to adult male humans, but to all people. They come from the Latin 'manus' for 'hand'- not another body part.
Therefore, all women ARE also men; but no man is a woman. Just as all drakes are ducks, but not all ducks are drakes. The word 'woman' refers to a specific, a special ind of 'man', aka 'mankind'.
man -an individual human
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man
There are several examples in English where the word for one particular sex of a species is also the word for the species as a whole.
We've all heard that 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander', as the gander is also a goose. :-) All bitches are dogs, but not all dogs are bitches, as any serious dog breeder or exhibitor knows. 'Horse' refers to any adult intact male - or to a horse of any of the three adult sexes - mare, gelding, or stallion, an alternate word for 'horse'.
The word 'human' is related to 'humus', or soil.
Isn't language fascinating?
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Exposure to phyto-estrogens, especially from wheat or soy, or synthetic chemical endocrine disruptors or estrogen mimics or social factors could affect a male's subjective experience or 'self-identification', but that's another topic.
Yes, of course. Like all of us ~ I assume ~ I have been using the singular they all my life in spoken and written reference to any person whose sex is unknown or irrelevant, as have the cited users of English throughout centuries past. Completely unlike those circumstances, however, is publication of a report whose purpose is the dissemination of established facts concerning a local homicide in which the sex of both victim and suspect are neither unknown nor are they irrelevant.
So a mentally ill person shot a woman because it disagreed with her politics.
Yikes… Democrats are dangerous! With a name like diamond… Was this a transgender killing again?
Or a stud stripper.
OK, now I want to dip my brain in bleach… Yucky, yucky, yucky! 🤢
Right?? 😝
I wonder if the Covid Brain Worm is in there just eating away at whatever there was for brain matter in these people's skull? This would also explain the number of people protesting.
Oh wow 😮😡 That is crazy!!
“Quality learing!” 😂😂😂You are on your A-game today!
I saw that, too. 😁
Your acerbic wit was at its ZENITH today - you actually had me hearty "har har'ing" throughout most of it, J. C.
DANKE - laughter is indeed the BEST medicine--and it's totally FREE!!
Glad the kitty kats survived without a scratch (probably not so much, YOU!!)
JEHOVAH JIREH--He HAD, He DOES, He SHALL!
Sharon, I suspect "But I have always been under the impression that the Secret Service is composed of highly skilled people who can hit a moving target from three miles away while reciting the Preamble to the Constitution backward in Old English." clicked on to the word processor without even thinking about it. LOL.
I'm just thrilled to have learned about Jeff Childers in the midst of the DEMONratic activity in late 2021. It has provided me with valuable info that I NEVER would have found on legacy media sources AND given me HOPE and JOY exchanging comments and information with fellow believers in Yeshua--the only begotten Son of YAHWEH!!! God breathed and the creation of what we know as "this world" began!! Think about that!!
Sharon, one of my favorite verses in the Bible, in the NLT (New Living Translation) is Psalm 33:6
"The Lord merely spoke,
and the heavens were created.
He breathed the word,
and all the stars were born."
AMEN!! He is the Word....
Amen, Sharon! Well said. By the way, I continue to pray for your grandson, Christian.
Oh, John--this remark about my beloved grandSON, Christian, encourages me SO MUCH. I pray for him constantly - and am working on a birthday collage which I plan to frame in a 8" x 10" frame and send to him for his 22nd birthday. He is the "middle child" for my youngest son--and has always been a sweet person - I had NO IDEA he was being attacked by the "great deceiver" through the "gamers" that he has 'known' since he was about 7 or 8 years old (most of them are from Sweden - Christian adored the "Minecraft" video game and that was created by a Swedish game 'wizard' - you know, Sweden is the most "liberal" thinking country when it comes to sexual idealogue--I have always considered Sweden (based on their movies and books) to be very DEPRESSED people--but they think they are "happy". Irony at its worst--isn't it, John!!
Again...thank you for praying for Christian - he surely needs to turn AWAY from gaming and TOWARD Yeshua - the ONLY route to TRUE JOY is through His nail-scarred hands - reach for Him and leaving the 'old mindset and will' behind. Crucify self and find TRUE JOY AND LIFE ETERNAL!
I might add--if you haven't seen the post of mine from 2 weeks ago - the new movie "A Great Awakening" produced, directed and starring local actors from the Lancaster, PA area....and production of "Sight & Sound Productions" division of the "Sight & Sound Theatre". It is truly ENCOURAGING about the special friendship between PASTOR GEORGE WHITEFIELD and BEN FRANKLIN. Please check out your local movie theaters to see if its playing in your area - it will be playing AROUND THE COUNTRY THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK! I saw a "special screening" of it yesterday in Lancaster---here's the offiicial trailer. SHARE IT with your friends and family, por favor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-rMC88ylQ
I tried a similar type heroic intervention when I was 12 but it was between my dog and a similar sized canine. Outcome? I can still see the bite scar on the back of my hand at 69 while the fight raged on despite my efforts. My dog Jake fared just fine however when they both finally tired of the fracas and called it a draw.
Thank you for the update and thank you also for including “learing time” in there, it made me laugh once more, which I especially appreciate today! 😊
Thank you. You know, Jeff, we were more concerned about the animals.
Norman Lear would make a TV series about this were he still living...
Yes! I can imagine Archie Bunker raging about wearing a mask! lol
You are a great man even more so for putting yourself between a mama and a large dog. So glad to hear the cat family made it through.
Well...that might just be a story to pump-up Jeff's PR profile. He knew how it would be interpreted, of course. This is a business, after all. And I wasn't born yesterday.
Aren't Christians supposed to be humble and not self-congratulatory?
What?! This is a very odd response. I find it sad that the negative, self serving spin is what anyone would focus on first, or are you getting some compensation for your comments?
It is not a business for him. He writes with heart and Soul, unlike you. Aren't cultists like yourself supposed to be humble and not full of hubris?
You need to have professional medical testing, as your funny bone appears to be damaged, or missing entirely. I hope you can get the help you so desperately need.
Thanks for the clarification. The Sharpie ink was drying on my protest sign when I saw your pinned update.
Typical cat person. Concern for cat, not so much Jeff or dog.😉
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Quality learing? ❤️
The phrase that is Minnesota’s gift to the decade. 😂
Nick Shirley sells t-shirts and sweatshirts with Quality Learing Center’s logo on them on his website, in case someone doesn’t know. All proceeds help support his mission.
Michelle, did you just send me a response about "oddness"? Your replies are unverified, so I was not sure whether it was actually you or not.
It could go down in the history books if we all play our cards right and VOTE for people with integrity, morals and values. Hope is always there!
Right??? 🤣🤣🤣
Jeff, just a note - do you realize your title still reads 2025?
Time for an updated date....
I missed the original story. I skim-read a second time, but missed it then, too. Glad the kitties are ok, tho!
But stitches?? They got you good! Dayyyum!!
yay thanks for that. it was disturbing me and probably many of us...
Learing. 😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
😅this has been bothering me all day- thankuuu
Six years ago today, my 53 year old brother was killed by the lockdowns. It was egregious medical neglect, and because of “keeping everyone safe”, no one was allowed to come in and help him or advocate for him. He died alone in awful circumstances. I will never forget what they did to my family 😡😡😡
And to those who are inclined to complain that this post isn’t relevant to Jeff’s roundup for today—go fly a kite, I don’t give a flying fig what you think. It will ALWAYS be relevant to post about the harm those monsters did using Covid as an excuse!!
I no longer work in clinical hands on/hospitals- but as a registered nurse when I saw that they left people ALONE with no family and TO DIE ALONE??? I got sick to my stomach. Makes me angry to think about what KIND OF SICK PEOPLE are living among us. Very sorry for your loss. Keep reminding everyone all the time. 👍
Thank you ❤️ And I appreciate your compassion as a nurse—I find it unconscionable, how many people in healthcare seemed to be perfectly ok with this!!
Sorry for your loss RL, they tried to kill me too. I'll never forgive or forget. May we please get some accountability.
Tried to kill me too. 35 days on a ventilator, 2 months total in hospital. 2 days of Remdesivir, after which I refused more, and thankfully they listened. Made husband sign DNR before they would do tracheostomy. I was 49 at the time. Miracle by the grace of God that I survived. Praise God that you are still with us as well!
OMG! wow, God is watching over us Michelle. For me it was 1 day in a butcher shop hospital until I escaped via ambulance to a hospital where my wife works. Then 12 days in that hospital with a collapsed lung because my doctor refused to treat my " covid pneumonia " I got the old" go home til you can't breathe " advice. At least my wife and her colleagues were able to keep a eye out for me. But I have permanent lung damage. But hey! I'm still kicking at71!🤗
I have permanent lung damage as well as a result of treatment—fibrosis resulting in reduced lung capacity. Did your damage result in reduced lung capacity too? Do you need to use O2? I’m do glad you were transferred to a hospital where your wife could be watching. That probably made a big difference in your care! Once I was out of quarantine (19 days), my husband visited daily. I think that, and that two friends had sent balloons/flowers, and a local friend also visited, made a difference in my care. They knew people were watching.
So glad you managed to escape! What a horrific experience! May you continue kicking for many more years! 🙏
Never stop telling your story Michelle. People consistently need to be reminded of the Covid Killer that was forced upon the world. Look what has happened in NYC now that people forgot 9/11. Yes, praise God you are still alive to tell your story as well!
Oh Michelle I am so sorry you went through that but glad you survived!
If you would like to add your story. . . please message me Michelle.
RL, your hair would curl if you realized what is going on in Canada in terms of compassion-less "medicine" Both as unlimited abortion (to the moment of birth) since 1988, and as state-assisted suicide known as MAID. Both are eugenics programs.
MAID has reached over 100,000 victims now since 2016. In a population of under 40 million.
Whenever someone insists that "real communism hasn't been tried", point them to what Canada is doing with MAiD and the C9 bill. They've already extended advocating MAiD for "mental illnesses"; if they finish passing C9, what's to stop them from declaring those who violate that act as mentally ill, just like they did to dissidents in communist countries?
As it stands now you have to be 18 years or older for MAiD but they, meaning the Gov't, are in active discussion to include "mature minors" in their eugenics program. And even more shocking to me, is that there are citizens who think that this is a great idea. But then these are the same people who believe that children can decide what gender they want to be and are entitled to hormone blockers, ect., to realize this fantasy. And should they choose, the mutilation of their bodies. God have mercy on this nation. With regards to Bill C-9, it's interesting that it refers to "Scripture" only. Does that mean that quoting from the Quran is acceptable? I have my own ideas on this, as it appears that all Christ followers are considered enemy's of the Gov't now. But it did my heart good to see some MP's in the House of Parliament vote against this evil bill with their Bibles in their hands.
I am with you, Maria. God have mercy on this nation. We are going where man should not tread.
I can tell you have seen behind the curtain, my friend. As I have.
Of my local medical entities, two are ‘developing policies’ to comply with the new MAID law passed in IL. The third one is Catholic and stated publicly they have no intention of participating in assisted suicide as death, as is life, God’s realm. 🙏🏻
War by any other name.
Oh believe me, they were much more than just ok with it when they realized the patient was "unvaxed😱". I saw it firsthand.
Yes, I lost a dear friend because she was "unvaxxed". They immediately put her on a ventilator, hooked her up to Remdesivir and left her to die. A friend's Mom left this world the same way for the same reason. We will not forget.
Same. My 1st cousin, my age, went to ER with omicron variant and low oxygen. They checked him right in. No immediate family could visit as they were unvaxed. Hospital had him on Remdisiver and ventilator within 48 hours. In the course of a week he went from healthy to dead.
SO SAD. STAY AWAY FROM HOSPITALS. they are so hazardous to your health. try everything else first!
I'm so sorry, Sue. I think many of us share the same story.
That’s horrible, I’m so sorry 😞
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Sue, If you would like to document either story please just message me and I will add it to the compendium.
I’m so sorry 😞 How awful 😞
If you would like to document either story please just message me Maria and I will add it to the compendium.
As did I, Sue, when my mother broke her arm during the COVID debacle and she wasn’t vaccinated. I was there with her checking in to the ER, and saw the looks on the faces of the staff. Very unprofessional healthcare workers for sure. Then they wouldn’t let any family members back with the patient to advocate for them. That was a horrible policy. Extremely difficult for me not to create a scene. Instead I called frequently to get status updates.
All these health care workers who were okay treating people abominably and yet acted like they were saints for “protecting” people and being “essential workers.”
Id have been the nasty one creating scenes. the more attention, the more LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT> Being well behaved is a harbinger for disaster these days. check w the CANADIANS< some of the Best Behaved and most abused among us.
It’s awful 😞
This happened to family friend too - the dad was a customer at my parents store when I was a kid, his daughter hung out with us in the old neighborhood. She posted on FB almost daily how cruel the whole ordeal was as her dad died under similar circumstances in PA under democrat rule with that tranny MFer Levin at the helm before SPOTUS (Supposed POTUS) Potato Brain put him/it/“her” in charge of everyone’s health.
That’s horrible, I’m so sorry 😞
So sorry for your loss💔
Thank you ❤️
Scary 😢😢😢
Exactly! Broke so many ethical rules. Why people could not pass with dignity. We will
never know how those people felt or what they thought in the moment. 😭🥹
I’m so sorry and angry this happened, not only to you, but untold thousands of people. It’s so far beyond inexcusable and evil, that I run out of words for expressing my disgust and anger. My daughter is a surgical RN. She had most of her hours cut during the C19 scam, as many surgeries were cancelled (putting her into debt - and, no, the hospital didn’t use any of their ‘extra Covid $’ intended for underemployed nurses; instead it went to executive staff). She was offered to work some hours ‘on the floor’ in the hospital, but she refused. She told me she wanted nothing to do with that, based upon stuff the other RNs were telling her about the ‘shit show’ in the ‘Covid wards’. My brother was murdered via being convinced to get the two shots. At least my sister and I were able to grant his one wish, of being able to die at home.
Thank you Suzy and I am so sorry for your family’s losses too 😞 It makes my blood boil to know the executives were all pocketing the extra Covid funds, there are so many people who were complicit with this evil and want us all to forget! Proud of your daughter for seeing through it all and keeping to her principles. You raised her well ❤️
Thank you. My daughter managed to avoid the evil shots via a religious exemption, though the bullshit she’s gone through has been horrendous. Re: being treated differently due to no shots (no eating with others in the break room, you leper!). Other crap like that. The agony of formulating the exemption form (4 pages long, detailing every aspect of one’s religious beliefs etc.), then waiting weeks to see if it was approved or denied. Her supervisor was denied his religious exemption (he was more devout than my daughter). He was very healthy, age 40, wife and two toddler sons. After they denied his exemption, he had the first dose. To keep his job as breadwinner. Then, they CHANGED THEIR MIND and approved his exemption (oops!) before he got the second dose. In other words, their lawyers figured out they might get into hot water, so they started approving the religious exemptions. He confided in my daughter that he felt something was seriously wrong with his brain, once he got that first and only shot. Lots of doctor Appts, tests; they said nothing is wrong. Then he was tucking his boys into bed one night, turned to his wife and said, ‘I think I’m having a major stroke’. Which he did, basically his brain exploded. Laid in a nursing home for over a year, only able to twitch one finger. Finally his wife agreed to let him go. Never again, folks! We all must push back completely and together next time they try this evilness!
Oh Suzy, that brought me to tears, I’m so very sorry, how absolutely heartbreaking and just wrong all that is!! I think pretty-red old guy’s suggestion of compiling a book of all of these experiences is a great idea. Seeing what I am sure amounts to millions of people went through because of the protocols and mandates would be so powerful!
Oh Suzy what a terrible nightmare for your family! I was recently diagnosed with (Covid caused) AFib. I was healthy for 70 years, took no shots, but did catch the virus. Now heart problems. I tell every single doctor I talk to that this is related to Covid and they say nothing. They know now.
Sorry, I can't "like" that story because of the tragic circumstances but, wondering. . . What do you think about adding this into the other stories in a compendium describing the shit show of covid and hospital protocol. This DOES fit since it IS about the harms of a protocol in a hospital simply not one that caused a direct death by ill treatment of Covid itself.
Anyway, if so, feel free to message me with this story, just paste it into your message please.
I am VERY sorry to hear it, Suzy.
I DO like your "name" Suzy Cue, loved that song!
Right RL? And as I jump back on my phone and continue to read these comments when I get a few minutes throughout my busy day, emotionally, I'm back to 4 years ago. F Anthony. And F anyone who looks like him.
As long as it doesn’t “affect them” most folks just don’t care. It sickens me to no end.
Yes that’s the way a lot of people seem to be 😞
Ditto!
I am sadly in agreement... and baffled by the ongoing bovine excrement in the medical FIELD (and i mean "field" literally as a place for meandering aimlessly, spotting the occasional pretty butterfly... but mostly scratchy weeds, ankle turning rocks...and assorted wildlife scat.
So sorry to read this. God bless you and your family.
A cautionary tale that we all give up a little more freedom with each mandate designed for our “safety”.
Never again.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
Benjamin Franklin
And I agree about the “safety.” It was a lie and they used fear to control people! I understand so well now why “fear not!” or some version thereof is often repeated in the Bible!
Amen! I believe “ fear not” (or something similar)is written 365 times in the Bible, once for each day of the year !
For good reason, clearly! God knows what we need!
Absolutely friend!
"And I agree about the “safety.” It was a lie and they used fear to control people!"
Yes. that is exactly what it was, RL. And that was not their first or last attempt at control.
The red flag is when the authority claims very nobly they are doing these things for "Public Safety". That is usually the code for...RUN! Because they have an agenda not in your best interest.
Reminds me of a famous quote by Ronald Reagan:
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help”
Yes, and the sleepy-eyed libtards chant—mantralike—“do it for THE GREATER Good.”
Thank you Mary 🙏
Fantastic quote, Mary H!
yep...NEVER forget what they did to us....not only here in the USA, but the world.....Fauci, Gates, their evil pals.....and their "superiors".....
Yes we can never let this be forgotten! We need to keep taking about it!
And also all the recent died suddenlies.
The "Died Suddenly" is only getting worse. The body count continues to grow as hearts are infected, cancers are growing at incredible speeds and once healthy body's are dying faster than ever.
Yes 😞
It sickens me to think of the dancing nurses videos and the self serving selfies of them exhausted sitting on the floors. These are the nurses of today and the future. Gleefully self promoting while their patients died alone. Shameful
Indeed 😞
And yet Fauci, Gates, and the rest are still living their best lives . . .
What you saw was Psychopathy in action. The Globalist Network counts on psychopathic senior leaders to carry out this type of conscience-less agenda.
Most people think of Psychopathy in the Hollywood version of Hannibal Lecter. However, the condition very seldom manifests that way, actually. It is more like the Henry Kissingers of the world.
May I offer a slightly different version of your very accurate comment?
What you saw was Satan in action. Satan counts on psychopathic senior leaders to carry out this type of conscience-less agenda.
Most people think of Satan in the Hollywood version of Hannibal Lecter. However, the condition very seldom manifests that way, actually. It is more like the Henry Kissingers of the world.
MOMinator, I try to steer clear of the "Satan" terminology because the religious cultists here scream at normal decent people daily that they are all supposedly Satan. They have worn-out that term by misapplying it so often. And trying to deflect from their own bad behaviour.
I am well aware that Psychopathy is a portal for evil into this world. I can even explain to you how the seeds of this condition are planted by adults into innocent children by messing-up the Attachment bond that supplies conscience and the ability for empathy. It is a very convoluted situation, therefore, and hard to apportion blame. I do expect responsibility from these damaged adults, however.
Except our enemy, the SPONSOR and aggravator of the harm perpetrated against us was literally Satan. Each nurse and doctor who shrugged the shoulders and walked away from the crying children trying to be with their dying parents … EVERY SINGLE ONE … was a little soldier working diligently for literal Satan. I imagine there were a few who refused to play along, I would like to hear their stories, because from where I sit it seems the entire industry politely looked the other way. I have no trust anymore. When I take myself or my children to the doctor (always when I unable to treat us myself), I know each time could end us on ruin. Medical kidnappings and arrogant applications of unwanted interventions … these possibilities haunt me. We do our best to STAY AWAY. Heck in Canada, your old dad who goes in for an antibiotic could be prescribed literal “assisted suicide” (which means MURDER the best I can figure it) and be dead in days. Yes we avoid the best we can.
I just don't use the continual "Satan" terminology, because it has been worn out on this C&C and normal people here now just roll their eyes at another cultist screaming that they are supposedly Satan. As they do here every day. For dramatic effect and attention to themselves.
Same!! Unbelievably eye opening... to the extent that they can never come back from that, as far as My view of it goes.
I agree with your take, but I wanted to offer something to add to your something you added. 😁 I watch a brilliant lady on YouTube; her channel is called Craft2Christ, and she is a former witch who is sharing her faith journey and giving us a lot of insight on how witchcraft works so we can combat it. She said something very interesting in a recent video that I've been chewing on:
"Temptation is from the enemy, but giving into it is free will".
Some people are born twisted, but for the most part, the enemy can't act without free will and people accepting the temptation he presents (namely, power).
Thank you, though I look at evil more as a severe Attachment Disorder in innocent children which can grow into a severe Cluster-B Disorder as an adult. These disordered persons then seek vulnerable targets to play-off.
The trick is to develop a healthy sense of SELF and refuse to be a submissive victim. So you are not the prey to their predator.
That is hard to hear for most people. But hey....I did not design the system of human life. I just tell you how I think it works.
Thank you. Kissinger was an absolutely horrible thing
Same. I moved to outpatient and accelerated my plan to retire. I am ashamed of what my profession did to people. Only 99 shifts to go.
Hang in there ❤️ Glad to have good ones like you though 🙏
100%
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
I think it is an excellent idea! A separate section or book about people whose family and friends suffered from jab issues would also be a good idea I think.
A book is a great idea and we at C&C could make sure it made to #1 Best Seller!Never Let Them Forget!!
OK, please remind me using DM-- direct messaging. I sent you one, you can reply. . .
I would love this as awful as it is. Its important we do not forget and our children know
OK, if you have a personal story, please DM-- direct messaging-- via substack . . .
-- click on my user name: "pretty-red, old guy" and scroll down to messaging menu item. . .
-- then, just Do It! Great.
https://www.anecdotalsmovie.com/
https://brownstone.org/articles/sharing-collecting-covid-stories-for-those-burned/
https://collateralglobal.org/article/covid-stories-webapp/
it appears none of those three do what I am considering so, I will stick with it for now!
Thank you though Barbls, all great links.
thanks, I will look those over. . . first maybe!
I'm in! Lost my husband, brother-in-law, sister-in law, a best friend, about 10 classmates (probably more if I really think about it) and now personally suffer from Covid AFib but was a healthy woman prior to 2020. Only sickness I have had in the past 6 years was 3 bouts (2020, 2021. 2022) with the freaking Covid virus. Zero shots!
😞😞😞
Great Debra. I replied to message.
I'm in!
OK, if you have a personal story, please DM-- direct messaging-- via substack . . .
-- click on my user name: "pretty-red, old guy" and scroll down to messaging menu item. . .
-- then, just Do It! Great.
Great idea
My sister left nursing because of everything she experienced during this period. All the free homemade masks and pizza people sent to the hospital couldn't make up for seeing patients suffer and die alone. She uses the term "moral injury" to describe what you all went through.
Perfect description- moral injury
I appreciate your sister ❤️
Aw, thank you--I will let her know.
Your story is going to make steam come out of her ears. We need to remind ourselves of what happened so we never forget. I am so sorry for what you went through.
In her section, the nurses were obedient for a while and then realized it was...not a pandemic, So they started to get creative, even literally sneaking loved ones up the back stairs (to say goodbye!! which previously happened on Facetime of all things). Then a manager figured out if they enrolled a patient in hospice, the patient could have in-room visitors (one at a time!!). So they did that, and then discontinued "hospice" as needed.
What a travesty. Several nurses my sister worked with have left the profession since all this.
Those who fought back and did the right thing in whatever way they were able have my gratitude. With all of the pressure and potential punishment, it surely wasn’t the easy path.
Kara, so I just have to tell you a story about a friend of mine. They were a nurse and refused to get vaccinated. They were then ostracized at work and had to stay in their office with the door shut. They did more phone work as a nurse. Anyway, maybe he came very depressed and I turned them on to C&C (Jeff) ❤️ & a pastor that I follow and listen to. One thing led to another, and it turned into a blessing. Like your experience, eventually the other nurses caught on and thought the whole thing was ridiculous and they would sneak in and see my friend. They even ended up feeling sorry for her and told her that they thought she was being treated unfairly. But she stuck it out.
Your friend is amazingly brave. Thank you for sharing this story.
Well they were busy dancing and posting videos. They didn’t have time for anything else.
My cousin, an MD, called Bovine Excrement early in the days of dancing “healthcare” workers. She said if you truly have multiple emergencies going on, like hospitals did on 9/11, you have no time or energy to choreograph and perform dances; you are mentally and physically exhausted.
They were busy doing something, but that something was definitely not taking care of patients 😡
Oh the hospital who had my daughter in law finally let us visit knowing she was never going to make it ( 3 weeks ). We got to hold her as they removed the ventilator. Will I always have nightmares I wonder.
There needs to be a better emoji for a warm hug 🫂
Right?
So sorry- absolutely heartbreaking and UNNECESSARY- just adds to the pain
Sorry for your loss Barbara.😐
So sorry for your loss. Prayers for your healing and comfort.
I’m so sorry Barbara 😞
Barbara, I'm soo sorry you had to experience that. No one should have to have that experience. My heart breaks for you. I can't imagine.😢
Yes it was an abomination what they did during Covid lockdowns. I know God will judge them.🙏🏻❤️🩹
Yes!
Those people are out trying to assuage their consciences (if they have any) at the No Kings rallies.
During CVD.. $$$$ was more important.
Trojan Horse Trump's medicaid services paid out handsomely for administration of Remdesivir (run death is near) and ventilators, of course, as well as pushing the deadly clot shot.
You couldn’t just say “I’m sorry for your loss” Johnny O? 🙄 My brother wasn’t given remdesivir, it wasn’t even a thing at that point, he didn’t even have Covid, it was completely unrelated. But way to make the post about your agenda 🙄
You also made it about your agenda, RL. Just sayin. Sorry about your loss. I imagine every single person here has bad stories about the covid psyop. I know I do.
I still would like accountability so things like this don't happen again, and ignoring the fact that Trump also played a huge role in it won't help to get there.
No I didn’t. There was no “agenda” except to mourn the loss of my brother and give a reminder of why it happened. Thanks for stomping all over that though, and for showing the kind of person you really are.
Sorry, I'm not going to engage in your petty name calling and will stick to the big topics - like Trojan Horse Trump destroying the country. Big bad me, I know. Mine is somehow an "agenda" and your own personal commentary is not. Okay, if you say so.
Trump 1.0 still believed the Obama administration gave a fig about citizens. He has since been disabused of that notion, thankfully.
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I was thinking this morning about the irony of no kings marches and that whole cluster when under biden we were literally commanded to follow their fake lying orders because Science! And so many people died as a direct result of it. It will always be relevant. NEVER FORGET. Very sorry for your loss 🥲
We happened to drive through Gettysburg (Pa) Saturday, saw this crowd of people, wondered what on earth? Then saw the signs. Hadn't been aware that this was coming. Husband put his MAGA hat back on, but we aren't driving in a convertible, so no one could see it. There were several street corners, each with its own crowd of crazies. Today wondered about a possiblen correlation between No Kings participation and covid-jab uptake.
100% because they are delusional
I’ve wondered about the same thing. But most of them were crazy before the clot shots.
True, they were leaving their groceries on the porch for a day, then wiping them off, then bringing them in. Same with Amazon packages. 📦
No more beach trips with the girls, and then 1 year after the vax came out, no girl trips for me ‘the great unvaxxed’.
Our biblical homeschool news, World Watch, did a segment on the "No Kings" rallies this morning. My four kids, ages 8-16, all clearly saw how illogical the protestors' stance was. Sad that grown adults are so brainwashed (and likely jab-injured) that they can't think critically for themselves.
Definitely brain damaged!
My favorite move when driving by the lunatics, is to hold my hand to the side of my face like a blinder. I do not even look at you. You are nonexistent to me.
I just shook my head as I drove by. The posters they held asked for drivers to honk in agreement with their protests….it was dead silent at the intersection where they congregated. Ha!
The irony abounds, Silent. The Left is absolutely blind to their own hypocrisy and ignorance.
When confronted by No Kings virtue signal goblin festivities, I always have to wonder how many of those fools celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk last September. These are not simply good people concerned about the well-being of democracy. These are self righteous idiots deeply involved in their TDS and making sure their cult sees their display of hatred.
But they have zero plans for repairing the damage that their permissive progressive policies have done to the country. They're drooling for their return to power and using other people’s money to get back to tearing it all down.
We must not mix up psyops and paid crisis actors.
There’s that, but I know some of these people and they aren’t being paid. They're simply gullible and enjoy the opportunity to throw a tantrum because their stupidity has been challenged.
Yes… same here. Friends that I didn’t expect were all in on the “virtue signal goblin festivities”.
Sorry Linda, I believe the word you meant instead of gullible was unhinged.
All of them for sure cheered the shooting if Charlie Kirk. We can be sure of that.
Sadly true, Cabo. It kills me to know that.
I had already spent several years moving away from the Left. But that single event and the response from the brain addled libs, locked it. I’m done.
I can be courteous to get by but I will never again believe that there is real humanity or ‘empathy' in their agenda.
I’ve lost friends. I don’t care.
Lost friends too. All older people
Yes! Strange how the demographics of TDS tend toward the aged and the female. I wonder sometimes if it’s a wish to remain relevant.
They truly are..
Yes!! So true. And thank you ❤️
Insider Realities = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpsunua7Bg
Take the time to know the truth and it shall set you free from such sins, disguised as good, which are mostly from the same City-of-London's evil playbook. (per John 8:32)
Not even tangentially relevant to my post, but thanks for making it all about your agenda 🙄
The no kings protest are mentally ill people, in my humble opinion 😵💫
I didn’t know this about your brother (and I’m very sorry to hear it), but I do know that I will go to my grave angry about what happened during Covid, and I’ll be telling my grandkids about what happened so they can be historically aware. Because the worst thing would be when our generation is gone for the kids to think ‘meh, it wasn’t so bad,’ like they seem to be doing with the Holocaust. The real one, I mean.
I have an old coffee table with glass in top. We put cards and such under it to keep and look at. On my husband’s birthday after his heart surgery the grandkids drew pictures for him. Before his surgery he was put in the closed off scary covid floor. He was so angry about the idea of being there a week waiting that he pulled out his ivs and snuck down the back stairs in his green oregon ducks sweatshirt. I picked him up while the security was searching for him. Was an amazing feat. All the coffee table cards are pictures of his escape. #neverforget
Love how he was able to sneak out! Good for him!
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
I can tell my Hailey Story. I’ll never stop telling it
send 'er over Barb.
Just message me please.
Be as detailed as possible too. thanks.
I have a story
got it down Porge, thanks!
Hey, can I send it to folks who message me as an example for how detailed to be??! Great job.
Absolutely!
Oh how I WISH we could post photos here to see. That’s an amazing story! Unbelievable that people actually had to try to ESCAPE hospitals!! And all the lawsuits to try to get a hospital to release a loved one. It’s mind blowing that anyone today would think this current administration is the authoritarian one after all THAT.
I have an escape story. . .
OK, so last year my wife was just leaving clinic; Picked her up after colonoscopy. Thought it was a great time to eat out at Olive Garden, right next door. So, I chowed down on the pasta Fagioli soup, and started in on multiple helpings of bread sticks. About half way through the huge plate of spaghetti and meatballs . . . uh, something(!) went south. Looked at the wife and said, I kind of feel faint, gonna' put me head down lower. . . next thing I knew I was waking up still in my chair (being held up by the folks behind our table and wife) and a minute later the paramedics show up.
Holy Crapp, did NOT like that.
Well they had the gurney there and my wife was lobbying for me to go to the ER; I said wellllllll, let's see here. . . maybe we can just go out and get some fresh air. . . still, I could not basically move but to the point: No pain, no heart jitterbuggin', no arm pain or chest pain. So, they scooted me out to the meat wagon and started me on oxygen and wanted in the WORST way to stick an IV in. (If the IV goes in they "get" to take me to the hospital, thems the rules.) I said well what's going on with my heart, is it bouncing the ball up and down correctly? Well, they tested me three times or so and said there was some kind of slight deal where the ball didn't quite make it all the way back to the starting line. . . long story short, suggestive of a heart attack(I learned later this was BS, they basically lied.) So, I let them take me. Got into the ER and within 20 min they got the high powered cardio pro from Dover and he acknowledged no heart attack.
The next FOUR hours they spend giving me test after test trying to find a way to keep me overnight. Round about 7 pm I had had enough. Sent the wife out to reconoiter the hospital hallways for a quick exit and when the last little RN bitch told me "No, that's not the way it works here" Waited 5 minutes and pulled out my IV and taped it up and walked "normally" out of the butcher shop. They called me 3 times on our half hour ride home in my Cadillac XT6 trying to get me to return, threatening me with cops and arrest since the idiots couldn't find my IV needle (in their hazardous waste bin).
So, that's my story! Screw hospitals, Screw doctors.
OK, the rest of the story, Paul Harvey was rolling over. . .
No, no heart attack, I have low blood pressure and all those carbs went to my gastric track and the blood followed, leave the heart somewhat shy of what it needed to pump enough to keep my head lolling around. . . I need to eat slower and not so much.
Wow. It really angers me that in a free country a hospital thinks they can force a patient to stay who clearly does not want to and can get the cops involved. What!!?!?!? Where is our freedom to choose for ourselves?
I love your story! Please compile an escape collection.
I suppose I could have a separate chapter for escape stories. . . I believe hospitals call them code GREENS! ha!
Lol, Paul Harvey 🤣
Wow that’s quite a story! I agree with Juju, it’s appalling that this kind of treatment exists!
Exactly!
Wow! That is truly amazing! Brave and bold!!!!
Give your husband a hug for me! Brilliant that he was of a mind to do so. Falls under the banner of “We will not comply!” How many would just sit there waiting…! I hope I would be of such a mindset. Never give up!
You are so right about waiting! It really was brave of him. because after major surgery you never know what kind of complications you will have.
i do wonder though hat did his doctor say afterward???? Do tell
Fantastic!!
A former co worker had a similar situation where his wife went in for one thing and ended up captured and covid protocols. And neglected. His entreaties went unanswered. Finally he went in and physically escorted her out. The nurse called security. When he was confronted, he slowly pulled up his shirt. Security put up his hands and walked away. Sadly, the damage had been done, he put her in hospice, and his 60 year marriage was over. Sadly part 2, none of his friends, family, or former co workers, save me, believe they killed her.
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Wow! That's awesome!! Good for all of you.
I’m surprised the nasty doctors did the surgery after he was “exposed” on the outside world to the “deadly cold virus”!
Thank goodness your dad snuck out. He’s alive and he wouldn’t have been. Can you imagine this even happening !?!?
Good for him. Might have saved his life.
That is an amazing story and he lived to tell the tale💪
Wow! Nice going!
Did he sneak out before his surgery? Or after?
What a great story. Love that.
Thank you Valerie ❤️ Too many people would rather have us forget!
I am so sorry about your brother. His circumstances are legion. Many people were left to die alone in cold and heartless hospitals. I am a retired RN and I was appalled at the treatment of the dear people in nursing homes as well and was grateful that my own mom had passed several years before this debacle. We were able to be at her bedside. I will never forget and I will be passing this on to my grandkids, as well.
In June of 2020, I was helping to circulate a petition to reign in Gov. Whitmer's overreach, so I met many people who were directly affected by what had been happening, including those who quit their jobs in nursing homes because they couldn't participate in the harms they were causing, and those who kept their jobs in order to be at least one caring soul in the lives of their unfortunate patients. Each person's situation was unique, and I appreciate those who did whatever they could do in good conscience to make things better, not worse, for those poor people.
We actually hired nurses who refused the jab and lost their jobs to help out when my mom got sick. So grateful for them!
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
That is an excellent idea. But I’m not so sure about ‘capping’ it at 100.
Thank you Kathy ❤️ Yes it is such a horrible thing to leave people to die alone, on purpose!! You are right, we need to make sure no one forgets, even though lots of people would like to!
Covid has been added to the things not to be discussed like politics and religion. Thanks for letting us know about your brother's death. I know you have mentioned him before, and I too would be furious if that happened to any of my family. It was terrible enough to listen to the stories of those affected.
Now Finland and Canada have decided that the Scripture is hate speech and will no longer be allowed. So we can now add that to what cannot be discussed.
Canada is in deep doodoo with Carney and his TDS.
Thank you Beckadee ❤️ Yes too many people don’t want to talk about it anymore.
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
Please do so! I was relatively unaffected during shutdown which lasted 6 week in AZ. I spent it on vacation paddleboarding on the lakes here. I had no one ill so was not subjected to watching what some went through. I feel this could be a powerful statement for future generations. And also to be used as evidence against those that perpetrated such ideas.
I’m a massage therapist, I wouldn’t feel right about telling my clients stories. But I hear a LOT. Of all kinds of things, many of which I don’t want to know.
WOW, I'll bet you hear some things!
IF, by some chance, you find someone purely livid and wanting to tell the world, You could have them write it down, anonymize it, and send to me via DM.
Here is the way:
DM-- direct messaging-- via substack . . .
-- click on my user name: "pretty-red, old guy" and scroll down to messaging menu item. . .
-- then, just Do It! Great.
I'll DM you with a story Red....ok?
Oh I know how to DM, I send my husband stuff all the time. 😂 I’ll let you know if I have that situation come up.
+1
100%!!
I am so sorry to hear this. Screw anyone who think it’s inappropriate.
Someday we all need to write our stories.
Thank you Dr Linda ❤️
Must jump in and honor your brothers memory with all herein along with Dr Linda who always offers the appropriate comment… very sorry not only for your brothers loss to you and your family, but that we all should never forget the terror and horror governments did to the very citizens that they exist at all… the safety of their citizens. Never forget Covid, an event and it’s collection of insane so called expert decisions should topple WW2’s description of Pearl Harbor as equal to the day that will be remembered as one of infamy… so too should Covid et al.,
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What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
#me too!!
We need to learn to listen too.
Lear to lisen
Will this joke ever get old? I’m thinking naah.
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Big hugs to you today. Just imagining it causes me to start crying with you. It’s heartbreaking anyone had to suffer like that, including the family members. I can’t imagine the agony you all went through at that time. A nauseous pinching in my gut just thinking about it gives me a teensy small taste of the helpless pain you went through.
These no kings rallies are the biggest slap in all our faces.
Thank you Juju for your kind words. It’s a terrible “anniversary” every year 😢 The one bright spot is that it served as proof that this whole saccharine drumbeat of “we have to keep people safe” was in fact doing the opposite. On purpose 😡
It’s heartbreaking 💔 I lost my Mom to Covid, locked down in the nursing home. She was ill for 9 days and died alone on Mother’s Day..5/10/2020… a Mom of 8 children.
I too will never forget 😢 and I am so sorry for your loss 😢
So sorry for your loss. 😔
Thank you ☺️
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Thank you Juju
I’m so sorry 😞 That’s truly awful 😢
And thank you for your condolences ❤️
I’m so sorry. What happened to your poor mother was inhumane.
It was pretty awful. Thank you
Oh my gosh no words 🙏😞
RunningLogic - I am very saddened to hear that, and yes, it is always relevant here. We must never forget.
Thank you Dave ❤️
I am VERY sorry for your loss, RunningLogic! I lost my 37 yr old nephew - in January 2022 - and a brother in August same year. 😭 I feel your pain and loss! And NO! I will never forget either!
Thank you, and I am very sorry for your losses as well 😢💔
I also lost my mom to turbo cancer almost exactly two years after my brother, and then my dad to heart issues another year and a half later (I suspect that was jab related too, but it’s a little more ambiguous). Not to mention friends and colleagues 😞
I would have checked the heart on your post, but I cannot!
After my nephew passed, his mother died of cancer 18 months later and yes my Dad in 2024. We have parallels, my friend. I grief afresh!
BTW - I watched the trailer link you posted! Yes! I will NEVER forget the Covid LIES and the "cabbage" leadership and unelected enforcers of those years of nonsense!
I have continuing health issues from masking (forced to during flights to and from my family home as my Dad struggled through his end of life) The Lord will heal or strengthen and I rely on Him fully!
BTW - I read all the comments today - and I agree with your post of yesterday - the conversations on C&C have changed! 🥴
Yesterday I dialogued with "A" several times - definitely a bot or invader of some kind, the conversation was nonsense. "A" claimed to be called names and mistreated by we so called Christians.
I think some kind of battle has just ramped up in cyber realm!
Stay safe and may the Lord bless you and keep you! 🙏🏼
Thank you VelvetStitching ❤️🙏 Yes we have some sad and unfortunate parallels 😞
I got so angry all over again reading that article by the mom who wants to make this movie about the Covid evils!
Definitely can relate to all of the after effects from masking etc. My son (whose school actually tried to be as normal as possible) lost so much especially in reading level due to that whole BS (excuse the “language” but for once I think it’s not inappropriate). I have been homeschooling him and it’s been a struggle to figure out how to get him to the level I think he should be 😕
Agree with you about the comments and the battle. We need to be vigilant.
Check out the Wordly Wise program. I used it homeschooling and also helping other kids that were behind. It’s hard to find a curriculum that fits both teacher and student…. But I wish you luck in that endeavor. It’s horrible what they did to adults and families and I’m so sorry for all the losses you and your family experienced but what they did to our innocent children will reap the wrath of God.
Thank you Gloria, I appreciate your suggestion and support!
I homeschooled for 26 years (5 kids). Just a suggestion - don't try to get your son to “level”!
Just read to him, pick subjects he is very interested in, his attention will be captured with interest which is where we all learn best!
I read to my last three children voraciously (what abig word!) and they all excelled! The first two I tried to “public school at home!” - it was stressful!
Yes - their education was also successful - but could have been so much more enjoyable!
“Wordly wise” is great vocabulary program.
Math U See good math program. (I tried many of them!)
Notgrass history was very good and “Understanding the Times” - worldviews vying for their hearts and minds. And best book:
The BIBLE - God's Word!
Find some friends who have kids abt the same age as yours and co-op together! Good fellowship and good learning together relying on each other's strengths, covering the weak areas together!
I know you didn't ask for the advice - but I sure could have benefitted from someone sharing with me in those difficult years!
And Apologia curriculum for Science.
I bought much of these books from Christian Book Distributors online.
I wish you the best!
Pray and God will give you the best guidance where to go with your son's education!
You are his parent - you love him the most - the education you give will be better than the indoctrination received at any “good” Government Schools!
Again, God bless and keep you!
John 14:27
Thank you VelvetStitching ❤️ I appreciate your kind and thoughtful suggestions. We are a little past that point for the most part as I started homeschooling him in middle school and there was a lot going on in our personal lives too so that just added to the difficulties. He’s in high school now it’s harder to make up for the lost time and development.
We are actually using Notgrass for history this year and we really like it (suggestion from our state homeschool association regional representative). We also are doing the literature component, but that has proven to be more challenging and less appropriate. He mostly dislikes reading and reads very slowly (I suspect because the time when he was supposed to have been learning how to read more quickly was right during all the Covid nonsense). So I’m trying to add some extra things before we finish the year to make up for that.
I only mentioned “levels’ because he is in high school and hopes to go to college. So that is the perspective I am coming from. He does need to have a certain level of reading and writing ability to make it to college and in college level courses.
He is actually involved in a co-op and takes a science class and a Bible study class as well as an art class there. It’s been very helpful but he hasn’t really made any friends there. He has neighborhood friends who share our values and friends from his sports team he interacts with, so that is good.
In any case I do appreciate your insights, support and encouragement, it means a lot ❤️🙏
Yes Velvet, agree. C&C seems to be invaded by trolls 🧌 lately. Somebody must be worried about something?
The invasion is probably because Jeff has been on a few podcasts lately. You can usually tell who they are as they never quote scripture and never offer prayers either. And they tend to be fractious without cause; such as inserting something hateful into a feeling post.
Thank you SHug, I'm afraid I can't offer any scripture as I don't know any, to be honest. But I do pray and offer prayers. I'm sure getting tired of trolls and haters though! And at times get into it with them. Sometimes they just trigger me lol 😆 and I have been known to have a temper
Yes, so many people were told to orotect themselves, and in the way that meant only to harm them, but they trusted and lives were lost and ruined forever…a horrible “holocaust”. God bless you.
Thank you 🙏 And yes, you are spot on.
What do you think about putting together a compendium of stories like your own? My thought was to be a gathering point for these stories so others, not aware in their ignorance of reality, can see real-life stories of how families and individuals suffered during this time. Without Re-telling it in your own words people won't believe it. I may cap it at 100 stories. . . So, what do you think?
I will also place this question to those who have responded to you indicating THEY also have stories.
I’m sorry, RL. It’s a painful thing you and your family were put through. Prayers for peace.
Thank you Connie ❤️
💔😭 I’m so sorry!
Yes! NEVER FORGET!
Thank you Susan ❤️
We should never forget…
I am very sorry for what happened to your brother and your family, RL. Some atrocious things occurred due to the evil COVID Psy-Op. Which was basically due to psychopathic power-mongers playing God.
May I suggest the Wilma Derksen book, "The Way of Letting Go"? I found it helpful myself.
Thanks for the condolences.
I am so, so sorry for not only your loss, but also the circumstance in which it occurred.
Thank you Lynne ❤️ It was especially devastating for my parents, who tried to get in the facility and help him but were rebuffed and then the shock at having things happen so quickly with such a tragic result 😞
Dreadful.
We need to support this film and see how we can get it in theaters!! Anyone here have connections to help make it happen??
https://substack.brownstone.org/p/the-reckoning-we-owe-generation-covid?r=kmvf3&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Dear RL,
I am so sorry for the loss of your brother. May he be resting in the arms of his savior. What they did was horrific and unfortunately we have many Americans who went along with it. May we continue to defend those who did the right thing in spite of the costs and let the light shine on all of the evil.
On the memorial of your brother’s passing, may you be comforted by the peace that surpasses all understanding.
Thank you Mo, I very much appreciate your kind words and prayers 🙏
I'm no medical anybody but i did attend three months in nursing school in 1980. I ranted my little scientifically wired brain half connected to my mouth about these atrocities to anyone who would hear!!! Wisdom crying and shouting to all who passed by.
I knew ppl were suffering and dying. I've been alone in a hospital too many times but I knew my ppl would come for me in the morning. I would NEVER leave a loved one alone if at all possible to keep guard today!!
I'm so very sorry for those who lost soldiers in that senseless battle.
I’m glad you tried to warn people about the costs and consequences! Too many with the ability to know better remained silent! 😕
So very sorry. So many were harmed by those in power at that time... their lies caused all this and still no one is being held accountable! I will say a prayer for you today.
Thank you Deb! Much appreciate the prayers 🙏❤️ Faith in God is what has helped me get through these tough times.
—“This is a fascinating type of dictatorship. It is the kind of dictatorship where you can organize a massive, highly publicized public rally to yell at the dictator, and the dictator’s police force actually blocks off traffic so you can yell more safely. In historical dictatorships, like the ones run by actual kings, traffic control was generally handled by guys with halberds, and the penalty for yelling at the king was that your head was relocated to a spike.”
This paragraph and the ones following were pure gold!! 🤣🤣🤣
My favorite today from Trump “you never know about Iran because we negotiate with them’ and then we always have to blow them up”. Hilarious
You think blowing up humans is hilarious? War is hilarious? Unpredictable madmen are hilarious?
It's dark humor. Mr. Trump doesn't want to shed any more blood than he has too. Note the "we HAVE to blow them up".
We ALL wish there was a reasonable group of people that could step up to the table to negotiate. Unfortunately, the old ayatollah put out a fatwa to all the religious guard to fight on forever, and as I understand it, NO ONE can undo that fatwa, not even the new Ayatollah.
Mr. Trump is a standup Christian and role model.
I think yes, because 'lie to me once, shame on you; lie to me twice, shame on me' and this is what Iranians do: they lie ad continuum. Has to stop at some point, so yes, keep your word or boom. Ponder this aspect first and then there'll be no chance for you to scold, Mr. Johnny-O.
You mean like lying during negotiations and bombing Iran, not once, but twice, which is a war crime in itself?
Meaning like destroying Persia and making it Islamic by sword, not philosophy (which is what the Quran teaches). Liars, liars, liars for a very long time. Has to either keep their word or... live the fate they fated others.
2 wrongs make a right. Got it!
And....AGAIN.....why do you read this blog?
BlueSky....GO!
I don't need my ego to be stoked by reading and engaging in echo chambers. Trying to warn the very same people who were cheering when Trump campaigned on no new wars for 10 years about this disastrous iran decision.
You are hilarious
better than maniacal or satanic
My fav was: “It’s like hiring a lifeguard who accidentally tries to drown himself during his lunch break.”
Trump the miracle maker has done more to get old fat ladies off the couch and burning calories than Jenny Craig could ever hope for
Young FAT ones too. !
Yes, you can always see the ones who are need of more "food stamps"...
MAHA!
My favorite today: “I have always been under the impression that the Secret Service is composed of highly skilled people who can hit a moving target from three miles away while reciting the Preamble to the Constitution backward in Old English.” 🤣 🤣 I miss the days when the awe we had in some of these positions was fully warranted.
I'm thinking the Trump admin sent the most DIEverse SS agents to the Biden's? One would hope anyway.
Well they DID do that to Trump first, right? Just returning the favor …
In all fairness.. if I was a secret service agent assigned to Jill Biden, I’d shoot myself in the leg to get replaced too 😂
Funny!
I wonder if we're being too harsh on the SS agent. I mean, what if the floor of the car was sloped like a roof?
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Good one
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Oh man 🤣🤣🤣
I am a very bad person because the whole Secret Service shooting thing made me laugh for ten minutes.
Just don’t blame SIG.
Not so much anymore Juju. I’ve lost so much respect for our government due to what they’ve done to us even before I was born. Waking up is/was painful.
I may have to use the 'yelling at squirrels' with a few here. Look for it. lol
I read this as I was actively yelling at the squirrel eating my tulips. 🤣
I just send my hunting poodle Rose after them.
I don’t have a dog anymore. When I catch them on the porch digging through my flower pots, I have to bark at them myself.
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Lol! I feed the birds and have been actively trying to get squirrels to come visit! Why? Because we dont have very many here. They are closely related to unicorns, it seems.
Peanuts. Buy peanuts. You will magically have squirrels.
I have. I think the groundhog steals them before any squirrels get a chance. Oddly, we just really dont have many squirrels here. I saw one, but he disappeared. :( I’ll keep trying. :)
lol
Grrrr! Thankfully the tree-rats leave my daffodils alone.
My dog yells at squirrels so I don't have to.
Outsourcing 😆
The dog doesn't think so.
Ya ..I used to yell at the squirrels in Portland as there were an over abundance of them. They would dig up all my newly purchased and carefully planted garden. I read the coffee grounds stopped or supposedly slowed them down. Not in my case they got addicted to coffee and running around digging up everything for more caffeine. It was just crazy. Luckily no squirrels here but the sun and salty de-sal water is brutal.
Oh no, caffeinated squirrels!!! 😳😆 I’m both horrified and laughing at the same time 😆
I have to tell you the squirrels on caffeine were just nuts digging through the planters and garden. Very hyped up and the result was 20 times worse than without the coffee grinds.
Almost seems like a cartoon 🤪😆
Right?? 😆
For a more recent example of true dictatorship: the Iranian government killed over 30,000 of its own people who peacefully protested and hung an athlete. I really wish we could ship these protesters to a country like Iran or China and let them live their desired “freedom” from Trump.
The athlete they hung was hung along side two friends. They were protesting and got caught up in a fray with govt thugs... And, they hung an 18 yr old girl just the other day.🥺 She, too, was fighting against the govt.
And here in USA are the ignorant and useful idiots helping usher in the government that these brave Persians are dying to eradicate. 🤦♀️
Only makes sense in this CrAzY world we are living in.
Undeniably absolutely!
I guess we like the kind of king who thinks other countries resources are ours to take?
Nothing says mentally ill with a side of demons than a scantily dressed large tattooed person in a wheelchair looking like a Mad Max extra...
That was a disturbing and revolting image.
I'm sure there was a gaggle of flies hanging out somewhere on that thing.
I saw an interview with that person explaining what she was supposed to represent. Definitely her own grandma
Gaggle of flies? Awesome mental picture of flies gagging on the ripeness they found!
“mentally ill with a side of demons” 🤣😆 Winner! spit my coffee on that one
Mad Max extra 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant!!!
It's kind of an artistic triumph to simultaneously look so ineffectual and so terrifying at the same time.
Exactly my thought. It’s kinda like a quad amputee murderer. You never know. 🤔
It’s the nails for me. Yuk.
I'll bet 'it' can clear a sidewalk and quick!
I’d run!
Yeah, thanks Jeff. Don't think I will ever be able to unsee that image. Had to do a double take to find out it was not a dude.
Agreed! I STILL can't get the image of Zylenskyy Jeff posted from the drag fest out of my mind....UGH! ROFL
you should have seen the video of him playing the piano with his Mr Happy.
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I enlarged that photo on my tablet and was STILL unable to determine it's sex-can only hope that it never reproduces...
I think male-trying-to-be-female. Most hormonally natural women who are obese have much larger breasts.
She/Them/It is the poster child of the Demoncrat Party.
They truly are the lowest common denominators in our country. Imagine if they did not exist. How much more wonderful the US would be.
I often think of that... but it seems not to be. The human journey together has been a constant Game of Thrones for millennia.
While we justifiably make fun, it actually makes me sad to see how this is the plight of too many deluded, miserable folks. Have to ask how did they get to this much disrespect of self and others?
Highly-developed big-budget psyops propaganda posing as 'news' and 'entertainment'.
Mad Max extra, extra-extra, and with a black leather bra (XXXXL) and tattoos to boot!!
I thought she was using a motorcycle racing tire as a bra.
😂😂😂
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You are too nice. How about morbidly obese and probably the reason she is in the wheelchair. Can't work but makes it to a No Kings protest.
Right. The great majority of the 400 pound plus people in those scooters CAN kind of walk. It's just a lot easier to use a scooter.
My favorite aspect is the sunburn. Longtime beach natives, my partner and I always laugh at sunburnt tourists. If a lesson is learned, well and good. If not, at least they've provided us a bit of entertainment.
She has a serious sunburn.
Ever see Ben Givr?
My take on Jill Biden's Secret Service man who shot himself is that he found a way out of her detail. It was either kill himself or shoot his leg. Can you blame him?
My thoughts exactly! Maybe he was assigned to her detail for another stretch of time and he decided shooting himself in the leg was a better fate.
Easier than trying to get a Section 8 apparently. Can you blame him? Getting stuck on the Jill detail...
Exactly! It must be insufferable what with her being a medical doctor and all. At least if you're on Joe's detail, you can occupy yourself with helping him up when he falls.
Jill is not a medical doctor, she has a doctorate in education I believe.
Yes, I'm aware of her so-called doctorate in education; those degrees are widely regarded as a joke in academia. They are SO easy to get. My favorite "doctoral thesis" in education was a gym teacher who wrote his thesis on the best way to store volley balls. That was at Penn State back in the 1980s.
What I said up there was a joke. There's a clip of Whoopie Goldberg of The View being all excited that Jill had a medical degree. I think a lot of libs might even still believe that an Ed.D. is an M.D. LOLOLOL
Somebody dug into the details of her thesis, it was about as poor as one might expect. I don't remember the details too well, but she sent out a survey to maybe 100 people and wrote up the results of the 20 or so people that returned the survey, along with some conclusions.
I found it online years ago. About as dumb as its author.
I got it!!! Being a doctor, and all…what a pathetic loser, Jill is.
Hmmmm....how DOES one store volley balls????
He designed a special closet for them. Personally I'd have put them in a giant net. But his committee approved his "dissertation."
The guy passed and can call himself "Dr."
I read on X recently that the Univ of Delaware (or wherever she got the phony phd), said she was never awarded that doctorate... Now that will be a hoot if they really take it back!
I had not heard that!
You do know she’s NOT a medical doctor, don’t you?
Ever since I can remember, I've been aware that an Ed.D. is NOT an M.D. and it's not even academic. What I said up there was a joke.
I thought so. But nuance is hard to detect sometimes in comments
But I also remember a clip of some show talking about how great doctor she is and everyone was making fun of them because they believed she was a medical Dr.
If memory serves, it was the ladies on The View.
I'm glad I searched the comments before I made the same joke!
she is probably an affirmative action or DEI doc. She was not bright enough to get through any kind of med school curriculum.
Probably not a DEI doc because getting an Ed.D. is so freaking easy. My dogs could earn one, but I'd have to do the typing for them. LOL Sadly, it's the single most popular advanced degree that school teachers get when they long to be promoted to principle or school administrator.
IDK. I was wondering if he was reacting to one of Jill's shower-curtain dresses.
That's funny! I always thought of her dresses more as resembling couch upholstery.
Scarlett’s drapery garment put Jill’s tablecloth frocks to shame 😍
Dang that was a funny show!
Ha Ha! Either or....
Brillant
Never thought of that
Maybe intentional for sure
Brilliant!
The alternative was to bribe Hunter to get him out... but that would've cost him an arm AND a leg!
Maybe he was aiming for her and misfired:{
There were No Kings protests in London. Let that sink in for a minute.
And ICE has been barred from operating in... Canada. The Bell Curve might have aomething to say.
I wonder what The King thought of that? 🤔
03/30/26: Charles III thinks of nothing. There's nothing between his ears but straw.
Clueless 🤣🤣🤣
And I do believe a real King is expected to visit the US soon. I hope the protesters save their signs.
That would be priceless. 😄
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣That’s priceless!
That was my favorite
No kings in London 😂😂😂😂
Ha.. also in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, mx. The place is loaded with rich libs.
It is illegal for ex pats to protest .. like protest anything. You can’t do it. Too bad they didn’t arrest and deport them.
LOL. Everyone got a prayer mat for attending.
"We've had all our rights taken away" was the reason one local protester here in El Paso, Texas gave for her participation in the "No Kings" event. Too bad the "journalist" didn’t ask the obvious follow-up question of "What rights, exactly, have been stripped from you by this administration?"
The right to protest? Nope
The right to freedom of speech? No! The right to leave your house? Still No. Definitely not the right to show yourself as a complete idiot.
I note with irony that it was the previous "dictator" that made it unlawful to leave our homes and go to the beach because of a seasonal influenza-like outbreak.
Yes, the video of the arrest of the paddleboarder should have made it clear to everyone that it wasn't about health or safety.
⬆️ RIGHT!!
Well....regarding covid as having been a seasonal flu....My position has not changed since that time and I was monitoring the "novel" flu since 2019...My position was and is that it was a flu with a designated target audience: the elderly and the unhealthy....a herd reduction....those are the members of any herd which needs culling. The de-populationists have been around for a long time....Bill Gates is one of them...Margaret Sanger was another, although she had a specialty of who to eliminate....My position is that not only did the people behind funding the creation of this virus want to reduce the world population in general but the Chinese, who revere their elderly, also needed to rid themselves of the "useless eaters"....it had been reported for some time that their overpopulation was with the wrong demographics: They needed more young males and the one child mandate hadn't worked out that well. (One Chinese friend had told me that the "one child" was not for the countryside farmers....it was more for the cities.) The virus would serve two masters: reduction in world population (remember Italy) and reduction of the revered Chinese elderly. I believe that its lethality was not finalized because....Trump....they had to get rid of Trump. I do not believe that it was a seasonal flu. It was a targeting flu for a purpose released (not escaped) from the lab before it was finalized.
So many lost freedoms😢. Wah, wah, wah…
Media isn’t going to ask questions the useful idiots can’t answer. That would be bad optics.
I've unfriended almost all of my liberal friends on facebook (or they have unfriended me), but when I see a news organization post something about no kings, I might say something like:
Go ahead and protest; it's a free country.
But you will look stupid. Why?
It's a free country.
—““No Kings” Protest weekend, otherwise known as International Poster Board Industry Support Day.”
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Thanks as always for the levity, Jeff, I needed that today 😊
And when he said, "The poster boards are being recycled," what he meant was that they were dutifully separated from the other trash, thrown in the correct bin, collected by additional trucks designated for paper and cardboard only, then thrown in the landfill with everything else, after all.
Oh, heck no. They’re “recycled “ for the next paid protest….dutifully collected and stored away to be brought out with the pallets of bricks or cinder blocks when needed.
Apparently, a Craigs List post was recruiting morons to sell merch for the protests in Phoenix. 20% commission.
https://t.me/TheOfficialSantino/96050
Makes me want to buy a t-shirt with a picture of Trump wearing a crown and grinning! (And I rarely wear t-shirts, but in this case I might!)
Yes that’s what I understood as well!
Yep. I told you it was paid for. It’s not oganic.
As someone with an organizer in the family, recycling and upcycling protest signs is a thing. There are standard preparatory pizza party meetings where everyone can get to know each other and make signs and whatever I'm ignorant due to my family seeing clearly that I am not sufficiently outraged to be invited. I did get polled on messaging, though. They really really want to stick in the allusions to kings and how neighbors should behave, but they don't really want to understand why their messaging and branding is not winning over the people who inexplicably aren't already right there with them. I said, "you could always just try talking to your actual neighbors and try to understand them..." Broadcasting branding from afar is preferred to neighboring "those people." These protestor people that I know care deeply, but can't bear the stress of trying to talk to the people truly in their life. We've all been fouled by the successful behavioral conditioning of factionalization. Incongruent viewpoints trigger emotional overwhelm and programmed reactivity.
They even rolled out the controlled opposition of the Vietnam War, Hanoi Jane Fonda and Joan Baez.
" if they want heroes
We give them heroes"
Albert Pike
Freemason
Yesterday was Vietnam Veterans Day. Some of us remembered.
My family and I did. Just lost another local hero to the effects of Agent Orange in January. We will never forget.
I also LOVED "Big Sharpie."
Me too 😆
I think it was far-levity.
Negligent discharge sounds more like how Hunter Biden came to be conceived.
Excellent!
Oh man!! 🤣🤣🤣
😂🤣😂😂🤣
My thoughts exactly.
LOL.
"Trump’s Truth Social post called the Affordable Care Act the 'Unaffordable Care Act' … and proposed replacing the whole thing with direct payments to Americans."
I think it would be hysterical if those who have been voting for Dems over the past decade so they could get their ever-elusive free healthcare would actually be able to afford healthcare thanks to Trump 🤯 But then TDS sufferers would refuse to get healthcare … because Trump 😆
How about we just get rid of the taxes that are collected rather than collecting it only to give some of it back to us?????
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Right.....and then go get another booster!
This is a little off today's topic but I think I have discovered a superpower technique to eliminate all of those obnoxious political fundraising texts. You know, the ones from WinRed. If you respond with "stop," you immediately start getting texts from ten new sources. Rather than responding with "stop," I have been responding with "when SAVE ACT is signed," or simply "SAVE ACT." It's worked in glorious fashion for me. The obnoxious texts are almost gone. There are just enough for me to get the satisfaction of responding with my superpower text once a day or so. Whether or not it works, I feel that I've accomplished more for the day than most US Senators, Senator Lee excepted of course.
I'm never doing the WinRed donation again! They are as guilty of smurfing donations as Act Blue.
I’ll try that! Thanks
Awesome idea, thanks for sharing!
I'll try that! The worst texts are the ones that start with "You are making a big mistake..."
That sounds threatening to me.
I agree. They are often offensive.
That's why I don't give. Back in the 2016 and 2020 election, I gave money to candidates only to find out later that it went to the RNC. No thanks.
We give ONLY to the individual candidate- using their personal name on the check. I have absolutely no interest in the Retardican or the DemonRat parties on the whole.
Wow! And I bought a blocking app.
with AI?
Of course progressives are against giving money to the individual for healthcare.
Progressives are not for individuals but rather commercial industry.
So about the health insurance thing… if the federal government gives money directly to taxpayers to purchase insurance, which sounds on its face way better, won’t it actually just drive up costs by exactly that much?
Say the government gives $8k per year for a family of 4, the economics I’ve studied says that insurance companies will just raise their premiums for that insurance by that exact $8k. It’s why the government needs to stay out of the private market.
This change would actually require insurance companies to compete for business.
Yeah, I think they realize the delivery system is too complex to make specific changes to without leaving a short term mess. Providing a few points of patient leverage would move things at least a little on the same direction.
I would favor also allowing some degree of self insurance. And making it easier for small medical practices and hospitals to compete. Eg remove price fixing by big insurance payers etc.
Not certain how to make small hospitals and practices competitive. The only real solution, other than more government interference, is to somehow get those seeking insurance to come together as a purchasing cooperative and then negotiate with insurers to include exactly what they are wanting to purchase. Large insurance companies don't 'price fix' as much as they negotiate with providers for a discount on services and those discounts are based upon how many patients the insurer can potentially send to the providers. There are some provider networks e.g. Mayo that will negotiate very little if any discounts, because they can, and thus some of those provider networks end up being out of network for the insured. What I would like to see in the marketplace is the ability to purchase your insurance needs on an ala carte basis. That's not possible now because federal and some state laws require insurers to include services that the insured may not need or want e.g. maternity care for a single male. Those sort of laws drive up pricing across the board. Something like catastrophic medical coverage with a $10K out of pocket would be desirable to some people to just keep those really large events from causing lifelong financial ruin.
Good points.
How is that? They technically have to compete now, there are multiple companies on the exchange.
To be fair, I don’t use the exchange, so I may not fully understand. My knowledge is from people telling me about their experiences with it.
They aren’t having to compete with anything. They’re being SUBSIDIZED.
I thought in some cases people had very limited choices, depending on where they lived and other factors? But I might also be misinformed or misunderstanding, so I hope someone can clarify!
You are correct. Available offerings can differ geographically.
Thank you for confirming, I appreciate that!
Obviously, something that completely escapes those whining about Trump getting rid of Obama"care."
In general subsidies drive up costs. In this case, there's already subsidies directly to the insurance companies, so it might improve things. Maybe...
I think the problem with individual purchases of medical cost insurance is that some folks have serious expensive chronic conditions, so insurance companies would find them unprofitable. One way around this is to require companies to charge the same rate for everybody, but that makes the insurance too expensive for ordinary folks. Another way is to grant special subsidies to people with expensive conditions, but that would doubtless be abused. Another way is to count on private charity.
Or they could directly help companies that actually make people healthier.
They could certainly do that, and perhaps could even do it honestly and effectively. But that doesn't address the problems of people who have chronic serious diseases for which there's no cheap effective cure.
The eugenics cabal is actively working to kill HEALTHY people, so why is so much money being spent on preserving the very ill? Don’t hate me! I’m just making an observation.
I suspect that live sick people are more profitable than formerly healthy dead people.
Yep. Our medical system today is a MARKETING system that has nothing to do with health or addressing root causes of problems. Diet is a huge contributor to poor health yet we continue to expand the fake and processed food “choices”. It makes me sick, pun intended.
I hope you’re right. An improvement is desperately needed.
It would give the family the ability to pay cash for their healthcare. So they would HAVE TO LOWER their prices and the hospitals and drs would actually have to ‘compete’ for everyone’s business.
If the money is in the system for healthcare, the healthcare system will suck it up. IMHO the only way for medical costs to go down is to make it a completely free market, like auto or homeowners.
Maybe I’m wrong. But I’m fairly well-read on economics. I would really like for some things to be actually improved rather than trading one problem for a different one.
Transparency in pricing would be helpful, I know there’s been work done on this but there is more to do imo. All of the things that help drive costs up need to be addressed.
Uffda. That is a very tall order. Just one case in point. The obesity rate in the U.S. is off the charts. Obesity contributes significantly to chronic disease. What contributes to obesity, big food. So now to address just obesity you are looking to make changes in big food. There are a lot of trickle down issues that would need to be addressed. Not saying that it cannot be done, but in this one single instance some degree of responsibility lies with individual choices also. And then you have that to address. If I had a magic wand.....
There are big differences in per patient charges if you don't have medical insurance.
I have read that many times it’s cheaper to pay cash.
You won't be able to if you have coverage.
The price is only for truly uninsured.
From my understanding, (and I may not have it right), that’s the whole point, isn’t it?
The taxpayer gets to keep the money and either buy insurance or pay cash .
I am not disagreeing with your comment or thoughts. I had similar thoughts. However, I think it’s up to the individual. Flaws are sadly part of the process.
I get that. There’s no perfect system, but it can definitely be better. I hope you’re right, but I’m suspicious of any government involvement in a market, we have a lot of experience seeing what happens.
Don’t disagree. My comment was not to say that I am on either side.
I am not sure government can make much of anything better especially when lobbying is allowed, as well as the ability to alter bills as they go through committees.
I’m sure there’s a way to make this better. A try is worth it for sure.
Health insurance needs to be removed from the equation - just pay the doctor directly. Doctors could have non-insurance fees. Better yet, pay doctors that actually care about health more than pushing pharma meds.
Some doctors do, and they are much lower than those insurance pays.
You are absolutely correct— long term effect is that prices increase.
I sure hope not.
How about if the government gets out of healthcare and DOESN’T steal our money to pay for a sick care system? The government has no more responsibility to pay for “healthcare” than they do for house or car insurance. Let the public keep our money and buy whatever insurance or medical care we desire. I don’t do doctors or drugs but crappy government insurance won’t pay for homeopathic or chiropractic health care OR diet programs to ward off illness.
Called competition. Imagine you have the choice ( I know, strange word these days) to purchase insurance from a choice of suppliers, who actually want your business.
I thought the money was to directly pay for care rather than insurance. I must be missing something.
Yes I was wondering about that too. It would be good to get some clarification.
Progressivism is merely the face of oligarchy. Follow the money, it never lies.
Mixture of industry and powerful government bound tightly together. There's a name for that system of organization, rhymes with lascism.
They've just figured out over the last couple of decades how to take over and brand it with leftism. So they call the Right fascist due to outdated cultural stereotypes but advocate that system.
Jared Polis can keep transing kids as long as the trains run on time, and the media well celebrate him as a great governor.
and lining their own pockets with kickbacks.
What's a progressive?
Sounds like a good name for an insurance company.
Someone who knows beforehand what all the solutions to the world's problems are.
I used the word from the article. Knit pick there. I understand your issue.
code for a bolshevik. Just like liberal
An auto insurance company fronted by creepy albinos plus one token black dude...
—“Actually, we’re not sure yet what exactly they were complaining about. Scientists continue to study it.”
They’re probably baffled 😑
Flummoxed.
Flummoxifen is a prescription for scientists and journalists.
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Good to see you channeling your inner Dave Barry with the band names. How about "Janet Yellen and the Treasuries" as a jazz quintet?
Janet Yellen and the
C Notes?
That would be the C word.
Oh I did not think of it that way. Well done! I love double entendre.
Wish I'd thought of that!
Good one!
"Janet, yellin'"
Jazz deserves better...
LOL
Or Yellin Janet and the treasurists?
Could be a rap name.
I said it years ago, back in the early days of the Covid wars…Jeff’s commentary is like Dave Barry meets PJ O’Rourke, with the sharp wit and sarcasm of Rush seasoning it all. So. And yes, “The Pantaloons” would be an outstanding name for a folk band.
"America has no kings but plenty of idiots. It’s like a free-range asylum out there. Why don’t they just name this no-brain day? "
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/no-kings-or-running-on-trump-derangement
My 80-year-old uncle was out there holding a sign in Seattle. Now you know why we call him “Butterfly Net Darryl.”
That's hilarious! Remember Daryl, Daryl and Daryl. The 3 brothers?
Oh yeah! 🤣🤣🤣
No kidding, I just had the Daryl x 3 conversation at work because one of our clients is named Daryl. Wykyk. Lol
True words!
—“This is what professionals and experts call “Journalistic Consistency,” which is a highly technical term meaning, “We Make The Rules Up As We Go Along.”
In other words, Calvinball 😆😁
miss Calvin. My favorite cartoon strip ever. He refused all offers to commercialize it, so any Calvin or Hobbes decals you see are rip offs.
Oh me too! They were the best!! 😍
They are consistently inconsistent, you see . . .