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Bones's avatar

OK all these exposures of the inefficacy of the vaccines and the damages that they cause seems like it’s a major win. When big tobacco was facing similar issues of exposure, it had enough financial power to manipulate things in scientific literature, and in public policy to maintain their market share. Bill Gates and the WHO treaty are our biggest obstacle to having any long-term benefit from all the work we’re doing trying to expose the lies and put forth the truth. The WHO treaty basically creates public health martial law worldwide, and it’s slipping in as we look at other things, we need a multiplier that activates some significant resistance to the WHO treaty, and all the crap Bill Gates is dreaming up beyond this.

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Agree. The other hurdle being the massive PsyOps fear campaign that has quite literally brainwashed vast amounts of people. From the beginning, February 2020, I started noticing coordinated messaging and was incredibly suspicious (may have something to do with being married to a military officer with years of 'planning' experience..).

Regardless, I suggested this covid crap would become a new 'religion' for some. Walking around Central FL witnessing masked up fools, and hearing otherwise intelligent people still lamenting about getting tested, etc., it seems the COVIDIAN religion has a stronghold and is alive and well.

That being said, I am SO grateful for Mr. Childers and the C&C crowd!!!!

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Paris's avatar

I saw the switch happen right before my eyes, and it was like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" or "Stepford Wives." What happened to "Question Everything?" Especially from the Government and Big Pharma? If you watch any docu about the opioid epidemic they talk about "Breakthru Pain." Sound familiar? I feel like people have lost their minds. Mass psychosis. Luckily I had the smart advice of John Ioannidis, and I don't watch TV much. I knew something was amiss when they closed the Chicago beaches for a year. I took a red eye from LA last week and like 70% of the people in the airport were masked (young people!) Thank goodness for Jeff C. to keep our spirits up and our sanity intact.

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Bingham22's avatar

I have noticed that a commonality among those who were able to see through this malignant psyop from the beginning, is that we don’t watch tv and obtain our news from multiple alternative sources.

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Dan McDunn's avatar

Here in Berkeley, CA most people read the New York Times and take it as Gospel Truth. NPR is their staple radio program and holds a similar place in their minds. Those are the most beautifully orchestrated state propaganda outlets in the history of humanity. 80%+ of shoppers will still be masked everywhere you go here. It’s absolutely unreal. Very hard to keep living here behind the Iron Curtain!

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daverkb's avatar

When I am in the car riding about (which is not too often!), I tune into NPR. Totally bizarre manufactured nonsense! And in this senselessness, I hear the sounds of collapsing civilization.

The people you speak of are Bubble Humanity! And almost always ... totally insane.

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mimi's avatar

I gave up on NPR a number of years ago. The Newshour too, although I remember it being less horrible when Gwen Ifill was still alive.

I live in San Francisco and there are plenty of people here who are still masked up. But it sounds like things are really, really impossible in Berkeley.

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Cathy Vanley's avatar

As we read the Bible we realize that “America” is never mentioned. We think it will be gone soon and are curious as to how. Nuclear, Chinese overtaking U.S. or??

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I couldn’t live in a place like that. It would be depressing and make me angry at the same time! God bless you for being a beacon of sanity among the brainwashed idiots!

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Ripple's avatar

I live in Berserkeley too. 80% is a bit of an exaggeration, at least where I shop, but yes there is still a lot of mask wearing here, even outside.

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Grateful Body's avatar

The capture of NPR was one of the most brilliant and effective moves of the ReSet. That, along with Mother Jones, Rolling Stone mag and the Atlantic. As a recovering California demo-liberal, I, and most of the left, still can't comprehend that NPR is a mouthpiece of the psyop. Why, if you can't trust Amy Goodman, who can you trust? Well, the answer is NOBODY at NPR, they have their own misinformation department and full staff of rabid jab promoters who mostly only gaslight and shame . As an original but now ex-Berkeley-free-rights-democrat, I'm still blown away that the most accurate and true information is coming from Tucker Carlson! This man, who we all thought of as the anti-christ, shows us recovering libs the extent of the brainwashing we were under. I can tell you that even now the masking, social distancing and vax virtue signaling is the still dominant feature of Berkeley, San Francisco and the Bay Area.

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Dan McDunn's avatar

Truth. Many of my friends kids have been sick for months on end and not a lick of curiosity as to why!

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Ripple's avatar

Mother Jones and Rolling Stone were always far left. The Atlantic was once fairly sane center-left and I suppose NPR was once upon a time.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Actually how have you lasted this long in Berkeley? It’s been a bit of a ‘hell hole’ for many years now, way before the Scamdemic ! (I live in Commifornia, too, only way down south next to the border!)

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Dan McDunn's avatar

Until a few years ago all the BS was just fun and games. I actually imagine it could wake up at some point. We are giving it another 6 months or so, but still might leave.

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Ripple's avatar

It's a pretty pleasant place to live despite certain shortcomings. The climate can't be beat for one thing, and now we're getting plenty of much-needed rain. I don't watch/listen to/read mass media. The University may have led the way when it comes to left-wing radicalism but every other major college and university has long since caught up and and many have surpassed it.

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CaplT's avatar

Drive through the tunnel to the hinterlands. It’s much better in CoCoCo. Still blue but a little more sane except in places like Whole Foods.

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daverkb's avatar

And I notice that people tend to get smarter in inverse relationship to the time they are unplugged from TV, the corporate media, and so forth.

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Absolutely agree. We haven't had 'cable' for years and find most 'local' stations useless. Can't stand carefully crafted quips of information being parroted to me - so shallow and obvious.

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ES's avatar

I find the news insulting to my intelligence. I do occasionally watch Tucker Carlson on Youtube, which is at least somewhat reliable.

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InquizitiveOne's avatar

You are exactly right! I decided to drop the cable TV about eight years ago and switch to streaming such as Hulu. I was highly addicted to Facebook, so I got most of my news there, & I also work in healthcare and interact with many people daily. I noticed right away that the media was spreading fallacies, and I wondered why? Then I noticed that anyone who dared to speak up and question the science was smeared and ruined. Definitions of words were changed, which simply isn’t done in the medical field! The medical side of things with Covid is what brought me into the political side of things such as working towards an article 5 convention of states.

Prior to March of 2020, although I am a veteran, I had no interest in politics. My libertarian viewpoint Had me voting Democrat down ticket for 20 years. Covid woke me up to Pres Trump. When I discovered that I wasn’t the only one noticing this dystopian nightmare starting to occur, it felt like an awakening. I think we in these circles are awakened, but not woke. 

I hope we will out wit our enemies using our Constitution and laws. With clever leaders like Jeff, we are sure to prevail!

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

Amen. It's hilarious (among other adjectives) that I can tell what's on tv by the behaviour of the majority around me. Makes me laugh (when I'm not groaning or cursing) every time I go out and see the percentage swings in masking, e.g.

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CaplT's avatar

We do watch some tv but not for news. We always read the newspaper, which by the last paragraph usually gives a nod to the “other side.”

I didn’t know about alternative news until the Epoch Times came around in paper form to the whole neighborhood in around 2917(?), about 4 pages long. Everyone said it was trashy Chinese communist propaganda, but I actually read it, and started to see two sides to the “news.”

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daverkb's avatar

Most amazingly, these same folks don't consider even the faintest whiff of the possibility that there might be such a thing as American, Canadian or EU propaganda. They are not trained to know about or spot the methods by which propagandists traffick their wares.

Interestingly, the word 'propaganda' comes from the Latin work to propagate. In the Roman world, it was that which should be propagated, promoted. In the West the word has, of course, a negative sense to it.

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LS Woodruff's avatar

The Epoch Times and NTD can be great resources to get you started thinking outside of the parroted narrative of the MockingBird Media. Also, listening to great, diverse podcasts that Jeff talks about are also helpful in uncovering other news sources.

Additionally I have an app called 'Conservative News'. You will quickly find 'news' that is very different than the government controlled and taxpayer funded narrative.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

That’s my observation as well.

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No Communism Here's avatar

Correct

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Annie's avatar

Tell them if one mask is good, two would be better. 😉 Masking now is a sign of mental illness. Like a warning sign telling you to avoid the traffic accident ahead.

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Ahh, Stepford Wives!!! Watched that in April 2020 and was totally weirded out!!! When you consider that Mockingbird was never stood down it makes sense all of the whacky messaging we have had thrust at us through 'entertainment'...

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Dani M's avatar

Did you see the 1970s original or the later Nicole Kidman campy version? The seventies film scared me as a child; the later one was more funny than frightening. There was a sequel (1980) called “Revenge of the Stepford Wives” which wasn’t frightening at all; more like a “B” made for TV flop.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Between the time the original Stepford Wives was released, and the time that the later remake was released (which I had absolutely no idea even existed) I stopped watching television and going to movies.

I too have noticed that the degree of Branch Covidian insanity is directly correlative to the amount of mass media one consumes.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

But that's not all - the whole everyone has a smartphone thing is part of something very dark and nasty.

Got rid of mine in 2021.

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Dani M's avatar

Yes, I once consumed more movies than I currently do - however the recent “Everything Everywhere all at Once” with a very frumpy Jamie Lee Curtis was delightfully twisted. Also “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” with the grandmother (voiced by Isabella Rossellini) was so touching it nearly brought me to tears. I say “nearly” as I rarely cry; many people have reported actually sobbing. There ARE some wholesome and worthy options out there but they must be searched for diligently as the MSM buries them.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

I rarely waste my time trying to convince others. Sure there are some truths. But when trying to validate official claims, whether of the vaxx or (in my most recent case) study about the true history and efficacy of statins, I feel a lot like the scene below from the horror movie "The Shining." (for those unfamiliar with the plot, the wife sneaks into her author husband's office to see what manuscript he's been working on for so long and discovers that things are not what she expected them to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lQ_MjU4QHw

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Janet's avatar

It’s a cult. Complete with child sacrifice.

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nancy knox-bierman's avatar

I lawyer on the border under #operationlonestar, a dragnet, money-laundering scheme using humans as commodities. All my clients are males. Females are never processed. Rather they are turned over to CBP and sent "elsewhere". I think we are starting to know exactly where "elsewhere" is, sadly.

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Janet's avatar

Horrifyingly true. 😱

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RunningLogic's avatar

Ugh that is horrible, though unfortunately not surprising 😕

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Nazi Germany!!

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John Bugni's avatar

LS Woodruff, Yes! Jeff and you fellow followers and commenters are my ray of sunshine.

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Agree!! I look forward to the analysis, comments and discussions from C&C so much!! Such a thoughtful, informed, caring group of people.

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Cindy's avatar

YES!!! A worldwide, well planned and effective Psyop!!

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InquizitiveOne's avatar

Where AMERICA goes, so goes Europe

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David A's avatar

True, yet of a real virus with a CFR like the flu, but far more morbidities. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/ineffective-thursday-december-29/comment/11470874

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Tim R's avatar

I spent much of the holiday driving (2000 miles from FL to PA and back) and listened to various sirius xm channels (nfl, comedy, etc) and almost every single ad was for c19 medication or boosters. Then watching some bowl and pro games while visiting family, almost every commercial was the same. Pharma has literally taken over the airwaves.

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Gabriella's avatar

I notice this too. Makes me so disgusted and angry! They need to STOP!!!

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daiva's avatar

Yeah? Go make 'em! 😤 Stop, I mean 🙃

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CaplT's avatar

They can buy ads everywhere because we taxpayers are paying them to.

We funded the bioweapon development in China. (DOD DARPA doc Aug 2021)

We funded Warp Speed.

We bought 600 million doses that we already funded - one for every man woman and child in the US to get two shots.

We paid in advance for the bivalent shots which almost no one is taking except 8 mice and those in the grip of Covidian primal fear, thereby “wasting” whatever is in it according to Covidiams and lefty needle pushers.

We (US) are over $3QUADRILLION in debt and continuing. (Daily debt tracker)

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Gabriella's avatar

True. Sickening!

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whyrikkfre's avatar

$$$ talks..

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Annie's avatar

And they are brainwashed. #ABV all the way! I spoke with several co-workers who are part of the cult and they think eating insects is okay and cows cause a lot of greenhouse gas problems. I said there are plenty of bugs so have at it. Not me. These fools are beyond help and are a danger to the rest of society with their stupidity.

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No Communism Here's avatar

Actually they are a danger to you and to me because they want us to be like them and they will do anything within their power to make that happen. The Borg is alive and well, assimilating anyone they can.

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daiva's avatar

I'd surmise the brainwashed to be too reductionist a moniker: some sure are simpletons, but many are anything but, more of too clever by half 😏 And it's closer to religion proper than cult, for encompasses the majority(*) 😟

Anywhoo, #ABV (anything but vaxxes, for ya uninitiated 😝) does deserve the honour of HotY (hashtag of the year) 😶

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(*) An afterthought: doesn't matter a byte, won't argue about definitions which vary 🙂

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Willing Spirit's avatar

But you do have a point. If 80% of the country (the world?) have bought into it, that’s beyond a cult. I think it is a religion and their God is SCIENCE. False science.

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daiva's avatar

A major correction: $cience™ or scientism is their false god, not the science proper 🙂 ‘Tis a distinction *with* difference. In sage words of Archdruid, rather famous in not-so-narrow circles, ↓↓

🗨 Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other. ~~John Michael Greer

If I were given my druthers, the world would care to differentiate between these disparate concepts 😊

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

You'd be dismayed how little true science actually gets done. I've done quite a bit of reading that describes in unflattering terms what goes on in drug development, regulation, funding, and so forth. The entire system, from drug discovery to trials, to approvals, advertising and marketing to consumers, is all corrupt of course, entirely profit-driven. The current pandemic shows its worst excesses and even some new ones, like Deep State involvement (e.g. government direct investments in dubious research, involvement in companies, and even directly profiting from products through fees and patent royalties.) What dismayed me is that the "corruption" goes way back (decades). Deciding who gets funded for what probably has more to do with protecting and extending existing market share, taking priority over anything htat might challenge it. That factor alone almost guarantees that potentially revolutionary research will not get funded. If a scientist somehow does manage to get results, he faces a difficult battle getting published. He also has his present and future career prospects to mind. All told, the entire system is stacked against innovation and the advancement of science. To some degree these problems are probably inevitable in any system, but it is an eye-opener to see the extent to which money and power has compromised the system. Of course, it's pervasive, not just in health/medicine, all the sciences really. It's about protecting egos and careers. The advancement of knowledge is incidental.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

😱🤕

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CMCM's avatar

The worldwide coordination of messaging and nearly identical official response and actions was so painfully obvious and so highly suspicious, it's a mystery to me that virtually everyone didn't notice it straight away. Unless one was watching non-corporate-government media, you wouldn't see the total uniformity of TV and radio messaging with completely identical terminology and adjectives used in each report. It was astounding to see, and it was impossible to not conclude that they were all acting in lockstep with directions from some single entity directing it all and sending them a script of what to report each time.

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Scott Kinghorn's avatar

The was talked/planned in the documentry Plandemic. Event 201 where the need was to try an suppress or counter info that went against the narrative. I'm sure they've learned from their mistakes from the first attack.

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Annie's avatar

Exactly. This kind of response takes time and thought. At work memos would come out daily, covid hotline etc. It's as if they went to their covid narrative source and it was all ready to go.

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Donna  P's avatar

Love to hear someone else call it "covid crap" 😆 I've been calling it that since the very beginning 😆

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LS Woodruff's avatar

That is my more family friendly description! 🤣🙃

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Novaxforme's avatar

I have a friend whose children made her do a COVID test before they would get together with her for Christmas THIS WEEK!! I wanted to ask her when she stops complying and the tyranny on their part ends...

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Elaine H's avatar

I will be watching when I return to central florida. Had not seen a lot of masks when we left prior to Christmas.

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Karole (with a K)'s avatar

In SWFL I've seen more masked people as they return for "season." Sad to see masks on even while outside in our beautiful weather, and it was a mix of older and younger.

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David A's avatar

The scenario has changed…

Covid, despite 2020 exaggeration, is real and not a flu

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/ineffective-thursday-december-29/comment/11470874

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daiva's avatar

💬 From the beginning, February 2023

Whence your unsated hurry to live the future comes, me humbly wonders 😏 Srsly, must be from overwhelming desire to see the covidian religion rip 😊

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Sorry, quite a few grammar errors too! Lol.

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daiva's avatar

Meh to your sorry & edit: where's all the fun then? 😭

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Maureen ODH's avatar

I thought you were clearly speaking/writing in old English... 😉🙃

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daiva's avatar

Meh again 🤦 Thou shalt not pronounce the obvious silent part out loud; 'tis a lousy habit to rain on other peeps' parades 😜

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LS Woodruff's avatar

😩😉🤣

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Paris's avatar

Bones, My hope for humanity was returned when I saw the responses to a painful tweet/ad from the WHO penned by Peter Hotez on Twitter. The volume of angry push back on him and WHO was a beautiful thing to witness. I hope "they" read the comments.

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Jeff C's avatar

There's an old saying that you can't judge a book by its cover. Wrong. Everything about Hotez screams blowhard buffoon. He can't be bothered to exercise proper grooming and always looks like he just got out of bed. He has apparently never discovered the hair brush and his mustache probably traps food for weeks. His bow tie is absurd. Last off he lectures others as a "health expert" but is severely overweight.

I would never make fun of someone's appearance based on the accidents of birth, some people are just born worse-looking than others, that's not their fault. But Hotez, either through intent or just laziness, can't be bothered to make himself look presentable. A decent haircut and some grooming, coupled with grown-up clothes, would at least make him look like a serious person. Instead he intentionally looks like a goofball that telegraphs to the world that he does not care.

He's the Sam Bankman-Fried of the medical world.

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Roger Beal's avatar

More like the still-male twin of Doctor Rachel Levine.

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mimi's avatar

I was astounded to learn that Hotez has a daughter with severe autism and he still peddles the crud. He even wrote a book saying that there was no possible way that vaccines made his daughter ill. Had to be something she was born with.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

I believe my daughter was vaccine injured. I saw the change in her face as soon as she was given that MMR, her entire demeanor changed. We spent huge amounts of hard earned (not insurance covered) money for PT, OT, speech therapy and more! She is now 28 years old, works but doesn’t drive, communication is still challenging BUT she is a wonderful person thru and thru. If I could change things I would but for her not me, she’s a blessing no matter what. AND no neither she or I have taken the gene therapy....

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Truthseeker's avatar

My two boys were vaccine injured by the pediatric schedule… and what I now realize is this was likely God protecting them and our whole family from this covid vaccine …what we learned through that initial vaccine injury nightmare/experience made it clear to us that no one in our family should ever take another vaccine… I really think the covid vaccine could kill my boys (or even me) like it has so many others- because of our particular genetic vulnerabilities.

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AngelaK's avatar

I am telling my daughter not to do mmr. I dont know what will happen when she goes to register her in school. I have heard it is safer at older age than age they give it. I think I am slowly becoming an anti vaxxer...God bless you and your daughter.

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Lisa's avatar

There was an mmr study some time back which showed drastically fewer reactions in the group receiving the mmr after age 2, I believe. I can’t remember the details but the gist was older is better as far as reactions go.

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Peace's avatar

Hopefully they live in a state that allows exemptions from vaccines.

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AngelaK's avatar

Not now. Her lunatic governor just passed a law disallowing religious exemptions. Hopefully she will move to Florida by that time. Hopefully Florida will stay sane. She loves the NE as do I, but it has gone full on insane these days.

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Annie's avatar

I wish the best for her. ❤

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Janet's avatar

Plus he and his daughter share a love for junk food and both regularly eat it. Well, it’s pretty obvious looking at him.

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mimi's avatar

Yes, I saw that piece of the interview with Rogan. Hotez is a weird guy.

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Ontological Shock's avatar

And he's a terrible liar. Makes you uncomfortable just watching him squirm and try his best to verbalize a catchy untruth.

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J Kaz's avatar

He brought her to the dr or gave those vaccines to his daughter so he cannot deal w the fact it might be his fault she has autism

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Peace's avatar

This is the issue with most parents who have vaccinated an autistic child.

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AngelaK's avatar

Do not blame the parents!

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Peace's avatar

I was meaning that most parents of vaccinated, autistic children do not want to entertain the thought that they presented their child to be vaccinated and that the vaccine could possibly be the cause of their child's autism.

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Annie's avatar

But let's compound the problem with bad food choices etc. No way they are only occasionally eating junk food. His daughter should say to him "thanks dad." 😝

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

That his daughter has autism - that his pro-vax advocacy likely caused - is directly linked to the strength of his vouching for vaxxes.

To do anything less would be to have to face the horrible fact that he played a part in his daughters disability. The psychology of it would never allow him to question that.

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TT's avatar

Complete cognitive dissonance and reaction formation.

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Annie's avatar

These people have a form of munchausen disease. So many of the parents in my area wear "having a special needs child" like a badge of honor. Really!? Maybe they failed to protect their children. It's nothing to be ashamed of but not something to define yourself as. Like "I am a single parent. " Meh. How are you helping your child. All about drama and getting attention for themselves.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

Please don’t link us all in a group. I always say, “there but for the grace of God go I” the incredible challenges of having a child with “special needs” is not something I would wish on anyone. I consider myself lucky because my daughter basically has become self sufficient...to the point she could possibly live on her own some day. Many aren’t that lucky...sometimes you have no choice but to become who your child is. I would suggest embracing a family or two who have special needs kids, many of us have VERY small groups of friends because of our children. Sooooo we are always looking for people who want to understand our challenges. You may be surprised what you learn...

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daverkb's avatar

Sometimes it's hard to be 'rational' and 'reasonable' with all this damnable virtue signaling and the whole unquestioning accommodation of all of this by design ruination of humanity going on. It makes some of us very angry ... and to use a totally Commie word, 'challenges' our ability to sympathized with the general cussedness afflicting us, so to speak. (And I am not speaking directly to you here, but of the whole machinery which lies behind the purposed ruination of our lives and our family life.)

When I was in grade school in the 1950's, let it be said, there was virtually zero screwed up kids. Yes, there were smarter kids and less smart kids, but no 'challenged' kids. We all had small pox vaccination, and later the polio vaccine. Apparently, and as I am lead to believe ...The Science had not yet 'improved' to the point of wholesale chaos and runination. I am, of course, glad that your daughter is doing so well. And yes, you are right to say what you have said. And I am glad you thought to do so.

BUT! In a sanely run non-collapsing civilization, what happened to you should NOT HAVE HAPPENED AT ALL! Nor to anyone else! And the hardest thing to get one's head or hands around is that all of this evil going on all about us is deliberately done in a meticulously thoughtful orchestrated war against the great many of us 'regular' folks. From this spring the ambiguities.

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CMCM's avatar

I was also in grade school in the 1950s and my observations are the same. I remember getting sick with measles when I was about 5, and later I also got mumps and chicken pox. When I was a bit older but still in grade school, I distinctly remember getting the polio vaccine on a sugar cube. I remember how horrible and bitter it tasted. Meanwhile, my older brother (born in 1945) has/had what I have come to believe is a condition somewhere on the autism spectrum. He is high functioning, graduated from college, but his various personality oddities are explained by autism...and his condition manifested early and was not caused by vaccines. Something else perhaps, or just something unknown completely. But throughout my grade school and high school I never heard anything about autism. I also don't remember seeing serious behavioral issues in kids nor were kids overweight. Some boys were a bit rambunctious but they grew out of it.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

In some ways it was a simple time. Yet in that era the CIA had no problems dosing people unawares with LSD, spraying live bacteria in cities to test the risks of biological warfare and so on. Who knows what other more evil things were going on? And now we live in a world where on the one hand an ethics panel will not approve a study to test, say, a new LDL lowering drug against placebo because it would be "unethical" to not treat patients "at risk" of heart disease when we all "know" that high cholesterol is a risk factor in such diseases, yet emergency and even later official approval is made of a mRNA gene therapy based upon dubious testing over a period of weeks, and even no human testing at all, and the product is recommended or even mandated for hundreds of millions. "Ambiguities" -- damned right!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I started first grade in 1957 (kindergarten was a private enterprise for kids in town, whose parents could afford it.). My observations were very similar. I had one classmate who had asthma. Other than that, no one had medical issues and no one was overweight.

Likewise, families were healthy and certainly in far better shape than this awful time we’re currently experiencing. I remember three children who had came late in my 5th grade school year and hearing that they had come to live with an aunt and uncle, which seemed a very curious thing. They were only there for a few weeks and one day their mom and her boyfriend came to the school and took them away. I had become friends with one of them and was playing with her when the mom arrived so I witnessed their departure. It left me with a hollowed out despondency and I cried. I just couldn’t imagine how they lived with such uncertainty.

Soon after that, a divorced woman, who had relatives in our community, moved in from Chicago and put her 3 children in my school. And they had obvious emotional issues. The teachers could be seen putting a lot of effort into trying to help them. Far more than any teacher could today, when probably the majority of children come from broken homes. This was my first exposure to divorce.

So more than physical health has dramatically declined. Soon my generation will be gone and we won’t be here to say, it has not always been like this. It used to be so much better before we rejected the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.

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Lisa's avatar

In many cases the friend group disappears. But through engagement with special needs issues, I was aware of the problems with vaccine safety so I count friends who didn’t disappear as lucky because I warned them.

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Annie's avatar

I get it but in my area this is how they lead the conversation. I know of people who like you try your very best to help your children. This is not the case here. Their children's special needs are exacerbated by the parents.

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Having worked with ‘special needs’ children and interacting with the families, I certainly saw very good parents who did all they could for their children. I also saw those who exhibited Münchausen syndrome. They’re obvious. Also obvious was another group who seemed to want their children to be labeled with severe impairments because of the SSI (Supplemental Security Income-same source as Social Security, I believe.) and probably other benefits from other sources. These were mostly low income single parent (or grandma raised) households and generally the family unit had more than one child they got checks for monthly. They didn’t appear to do much more than provide a place for their children to sleep. It was difficult to get them to attend meetings. Many we never or very rarely saw. And they needed major support from the educational system in terms of keeping school available year round. I thought a lot about them, when schools were closed due to Covid. I suspected, but never confirmed that they were still being allowed at school. (I’m retired for a few years now.) Otherwise, I can’t imagine how they coped.

I do not want to hurt any parents with my observations. I know the good parents are there. I see them. You deserve all the support you can get. You are not the problem, but some others definitely are.

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Oh Susanna's avatar

Sorry for the grammar nitpick, but it's "peddles", as in sells, what a peddler does.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

While we’re on the subject of grammar, I’m puzzled. I’m seeing educated people using ‘lead’ as the past tense for the verb lead. I was taught the past tense is ‘led’. Has that officially changed?

And don’t get me started on the use of subjective pronouns in the objective instance. Everyone apparently decided the word ‘me’ is just improper in any setting. Hence, they say, “John gave the book to Mary and I.” I hear this everywhere and it is so annoying.

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Oh Susanna's avatar

You're correct in both instances. "Lead" is another one that frequently annoys me. One I hear all the time now is "tenant" when people mean "tenet". I get the idea that grammar and spelling training isn't as rigorous as it should be in public schools.

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mimi's avatar

Yeah, I fixed it. It's not always easy to get the spelling right when typing away for some reason

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Hope springs eternal - but "they" (sheeple) are oblivious because of what I term "willful ignorance". Even my two otherwise what I thought were productive, intelligent sons will not listen to me when I share what I have learned about the evil manipulation of world governance, technocratic tyranny, and WHO/deep state nefarious plans for humanity. They believe their Mom who loves them always and raised them to "question authority" has gone off her proverbial rocker. Both of them are vaxxed and my youngest (he's now 50) is even boosted and believes it is protecting him. I weep inside!!!

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mimi's avatar

Encourage them to listen to part of The Highwire from last week. Del explains how they found out through using FOIA that they gave up testing on all vaccines after the 1986 law that gave drug companies immunity on vaccine injuries. Just facts we're talking about here....harder to accuse people of believing conspiracy theories.

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Maureen ODH's avatar

FACTS! Now documented in a grocery cart full of well authored new books, which validate authors that were exposing the dangers of what amounts to toxins injected sold to the public as life saving vaccines for nearly a half century, dubbed quack science, especially after the open free for all granted pharmaceutical companies after 1986.

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Kimber's avatar

and what about all the cancer cells that were found to be in 1/3 of the polio vaccines, causing the cancer issue we have today.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

If only it were that simple - you see..."Mom" doesn't have all the "facts"--they have deluded themselves to "believe the lie" - and that is what saddens me most of all, Maureen and Mimi.

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mimi's avatar

Yeah but you've gotten them confused with the stuff about evil intent and all that. I'm not saying that presenting simple facts will persuade them but it has a better chance than trying to explain about the WEF.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

😢I’m so sorry...my son and fiancé are jabbed as well. I lost it! Told them both to STOP! No more jabs! At least they haven’t been boosted but the docs are still pushing!

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mimi's avatar

Do they have a medical reason to keep talking to the docs? My husband always talks to his doctors at Kaiser, even though it is more and more clear that they don't know anything. He had to insist on getting a Vit D test from his doctor who was sure that he couldn't be deficient. Then he talked to a family practice doctor who told him that all his problems had to be in his head. He upped his magnesium and D supplementation and now he's fine.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

They have a daughter (my youngest grand) who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was only 7 (this is over 8 years ago now) and we almost lost her to this pernicious disorder that "mimics" so many others. So my DIL influences my son now--not me--and I guess that is the "natural order" of things in life. She is ALL IN on "consulting with doctors", especially because she delayed taking Audrey to any doctor in 2014--thinking her issues were "just a stomach flu"--but the child lost nearly TWENTY POUNDS in less than a week....my other granddaughter (Audrey's older sister) kept telling her parents "this is more than just a flu" for several days--but then..."what does a child know"--Hannah was "correctemundo"!! I have no influence anymore--except "maybe" through Hannah...she still somewhat "hears" me and know that I do my research and that I LOVE THEM UNCONDITIONALLY--that is NOT what our Federal government is doing. They don't even "like" us!!

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mimi's avatar

The doctors don't monitor blood sugar when somebody comes in with symptoms like that? 100 years ago they would have known right away.

A friend of mine has a niece who has Addison's disease. When she first got it, the doctors couldn't figure it out. My friend recognized it right away because a darkening of the skin is one of the symptoms. How did she know? Because somebody in a soap opera she had watched came down with it. She finally persuaded the doctors to check for Addison's.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Many of today's university-trained medical practitioners neither believe in, nor understand anything about, natural and herbal remedies. I delight in reminding them, when the opportunity is presented, that said remedies have been used for thousands of years by every culture that has not put $$$ ahead of health.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

How do these "medical experts" respond to your reminders, Yinzer? I have a chart on the kitchen wall titled "Celestial Botanicals" that lists about 30 different herbs, their botanical genre/classification/common name/usages and it is amazing to me that we could be HEALING our bodies instead of pumping them full of nasty chemicals in order to achieve OPTIMUM HEALTH!

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Yes, Gigi--I am crying along with you and many of my friends who are awake but their loved ones are sheeple!!

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Lisa's avatar

A Letter to Liberals, a new book by Robert Kennedy Jr., takes on the whole Covid narrative in a short, readable and interesting form well documented with footnotes. I gave it to a few borderlines for Christmas hoping for possible enlightenment.

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CaplT's avatar

I am so sorry, and feel your pain. Mine are only in their 20s and 30s, but jabbed and boosted and boosted. It’s so sad to think our children may not outlive us.

They don’t get it.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I am thinking the "younger people" are already under the control of the "mass suppression hypnosis" because of "staring at the small screen" day in and day out. They are SO IN TOUCH VIRTUALLY--that they have become MINDLESS AUTOMOTONS!!!! It's truly SAD and somewhat SCARY--but I have turned ALL OF THIS SORROW over to JESUS CHRIST THE LORD. He knows our END from our BEGINNING and we who trust Him must continue to HOLD TIGHT TO "THE ROCK" (and I don't mean the actor/former wrestler guy!!)

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LS Woodruff's avatar

You don't weep alone, I assure you.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

The Lord Jesus is my Rock and My Salvation - in Him alone do I trust! Thank you for sharing my profound sorrow, LS!

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Amen. My mother's heart is weary too sweet sister. Our first born and SIL chose to get the jabs and told us afterwards... We can only trust Jesus to protect them.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

That is my prayer as well, LS. Do you know about the series called The Chosen directed and partially produced by a young moviemaker named Dallas Jenkins? I found out about it through an online friend--and have been watching Seasons 1 & 2 online for the past several months. Season 3 just premiered in real theaters (I went to see it at our local cinema) Episodes 1 & 2 in November. Nove the rest of Season 3 will be "crowdfunded" on YouTube (as was done for Seasons 1 & 2). It is true to Scripture and the actors are incredibly authentic. Here's a link to it if you don't already know about it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBXOFnNTULFaAnj24PAeblg

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John Bugni's avatar

Can you direct us to the ad and the pushback?

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Paris's avatar

I hope this works, I reported the tweet. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1602991915808456705

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John Bugni's avatar

Thank you, Paris. I'll take responsibility for the fact that my blood pressure is up and Im feeling nausious. :(

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Peace's avatar

Agree! Hoping someone can figure out who can influence the U.S. to stay completely away from the WHO treaty!

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Ontological Shock's avatar

Can't imagine DeSantis playing along.

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Maureen ODH's avatar

It’s already signed, thank you 🤔 Biden... https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/05/17/multiple-governments-commit-to-signing-who-pandemic-treaty/

... author Matt Ridley acknowledges that the pandemic treaty poses an immense threat to democracy and would possibly give China, through its control over Director-General Tedros and the WHO, unprecedented power over nation-states, he thinks that it won’t be able to pass the US Senate, and that China would never agree to possibly being superseded by its own “pet international agency.”

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Roger Beal's avatar

Ridley believes such a treaty would not pass our Senate? Where, pray tell, has Ridley been living these past few years? In a cave in the high desert?

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mimi's avatar

Tedros thinks that sanctioning countries for not following the treaty is a good idea. Yeah, that will probably work as well as the EU sanctions against Russia.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Trump will reprise his WWE role of "Spoiler" when millions of us who have seen through his con refuse to vote for him, handing the 2024 election to the Democrats.

It's a massive setup - heads they win, tails we lose.

I deeply regret my wasted votes for Trump and will never make that mistake again.

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Kimber's avatar

so you think 2016 was a setup also when Trump won? and they all went crazy trying to impeach him for years? That was all a setup?

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Fred isn’t worth responding to. He is laser-focused on hating Trump.

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SA's avatar

I agree it has similar product issues to tobacco, but the real problem is how involved our governments are in producing, mandating, and misinforming on the covid vaccine. They are guilty of directly making and supporting this harmful product. We need a police to police the rogue government. I am not sure any amount of money will fix it, but we should all be contacting our representatives and protesting. Peacefully demonstrate (don’t want to be called an insurrectionist!) at Capitols across the US monthly, on the same planned day.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

After what I have learned about our government - I consider the Feds most of all to be MY ENEMY!!

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mimi's avatar

Seriously? Protesting won't do **** if you want my opinion. Writing letters won't help either. What does help is lawsuits and boycotts. They can barely give the bivalent booster away. And parents are starting to question all vaccines for their children. True that we aren't winning every lawsuit but we have won some good ones. And keep getting that information out there.

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SA's avatar

I am serious! Being able to read serious comments vs satire is kind of an essential skill for C&C ;). We protested mask mandates in our county and it worked. Then we voted off the leftist board members in the following session and our voices were heard. We put boots on the ground and got off of our computers. It doesn’t work all the time, but don’t be so defeatist. We have to work with what we have and do the best we can. Lawsuits are good, too (also not 100% effective). It’s a corrupted system and we have to combat these issues on several fronts. Best of luck!

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mimi's avatar

Protests and letters have never done much in California, I can tell you that. I've participated in protests, I've written letters. I haven't just been sitting around on my duff.

Now, voting people out, yes, that will work.

And don't call me defeatist. I'm sorry, but that's very annoying.

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Roger Beal's avatar

What you said, AND finding ways to cut off their revenue stream.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I couldn't agree more, Mimi - I belong to a local freedom group and for 2 1/2 years we have been writing letters, calling our legislators about dangerous "bills" in the hopper--and most of our protesting and please have gone unheeded. The horrible bills become laws and they are KILLING OUR COUNTRY!! Time for STRONG ACTION that hurts them in the POCKETKBOOK. How about a moratorium in the paying our taxes arena??? If even 8% of us would cease to pay our taxes--that would wake them up big time that WE THE PEOPLE are fed up with self-serving sycophants who are career politicians and have little regard for our Divinely-inspired U S Constitution!

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mimi's avatar

The problem with not paying taxes is that you can end up in prison for it. There are other things that can be done without risking that.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

You can do this "en masse"--they cannot lock up hundreds of thousands of us...it has to be an intelligent, well thought out action to take back control of our governance!

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LizardFro's avatar

I said that about masks but ended up looking like Will Ferrel “Going streaking!” by myself. If people can’t push back on masks, they won’t quit paying taxes. Plus that whole “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” verse in the Bible justifies paying unjust taxes 🙄

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CMCM's avatar

But hundreds of thousands would never join to do that.

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Jenifer's avatar

I absolutely agree!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes there was never any tobacco mandate, although it was certainly pushed and promoted in many other ways.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Your comments seem accurate enough. Big Tobacco had great influence yes, but it pales in comparison to what the mRNA "vaccines" have. It's not just Big Pharma either. Major media and many other corporations too that profit in sundry ways. It is billionaires like the cited Gates, but also their foundations, affected institutions (e.g. WHO and many more),many Federal agencies not just the usual suspects like FDA and CDC, but also less obvious like DoD, intelligence and who knows what else? Alas, the enemy is far, far bigger than Tobacco ever was. I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but that is the situation as I see it.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

"Big Tobacco" is kindergarten shit compared to the "PhD" level of the current threat.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

You know, Nostradamus named the last anti-Christ "Mabus". Of course, his predictions were made well before divorce was acceptable. What do the two have to do with each other, you ask?

Melinda (now divorced from Bill Gates)

and

Bill

United

States

Mabus...it's as good a guess as any!

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daverkb's avatar

I agree. Bill the Beast and the WHO may be just a proxy fronts for even the bigger controllers of The Show. BUT! Bill and the WHO are significant. Taking down the biggest front runners of the Biggest Crime in History would give the criminal movers and shakers much pause!

If you cannot directly cut off the head of the snake, aim for right behind the head. Well! You know what I mean!

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Charles Gay's avatar

Hi Jeff - love your blogs. I am a Southwest pilot. Just to se the record straight:

1) crew staffing has not been the issue this past week. There have been plenty of bodies in the system and available, the entire time.

2) the issue that caused the meltdown is multiple faceted:

a) the storm significantly impacted two crew bases, MDW and DEN

b) SWA does not run a traditional “hub and spoke” network, and cities impacted by such an event, including several “mega” cities, generate a much greater system wide dilemma than a traditional “hub and spoke” system would feel.

c) the antiquated software that SWA uses to put the puzzle together wrt crew placement is woefully inadequate to handle the scenario that occurred. Our pilot union has been screaming this from the mountain tops to our company leaders for a number of years. THIS is the primary reason for our incredibly delayed recovery from this event, NOT lack of crew bodies.

d) realizing where we were at as the meltdown began, SWA intentionally throttled the schedule back through the 29th (today) to about 1/3 of the original schedule (roughly 1500 flights). This is what the company felt was needed just to stabilize the situation. The schedule should resume to normal as of the 30th (tomorrow).

This has been very embarrassing for all who work at Southwest Airlines. The hope, going forward, is that this will light a match under the butts of leadership to make serious IT changes/updates to our operation, and do it with a much greater sense of urgency than has been placed on this issue to date.

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Danny's avatar

I read C&C daily but have never been to the comment section. I was going to to also try and put to rest some of the guesses to why SWA had an epic meltdown this past week. I’m a pilot for SWA as well and can verify Charles response. Once crews and planes are out of position on our point to point network there’s no easy recovery. Back on Columbus Day weekend we had a similar issue and the media made it out to be pilot shortages and vax mandate walkouts. That wasn’t the case, it was crews and planes being out of position as well. As an unvaccinated pilot I will give SWA credit on not firing or furloughing anyone over the jab. They pushed it like every other corporation in the country but didn’t fire anyone over it.

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Elizabeth Reeves's avatar

The comments are always great. Enlightening and amusing. I love the entire package!

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Susan In Kansas's avatar

Just got off an Orlando to Kansas City SWA flight and there were at least 10 pilots and crew along for the ride getting “repositioned”. Smooth flight and I was happy to be on it.

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Steelhands's avatar

How does this compare to the zero hedge email stating that there was an emergency shortage of staff?

I don't know what happened, and I'm not trying to contradict you. Maybe many things but the email looks legit.

As the other person said, thank you for standing up and giving us another view.

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Charles Gay's avatar

I think the lame stream media has alluded to rampers walking off the job in Denver. Not totally sure, but the company claims this is false.

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Danny's avatar

Rampers in Denver were facing frostbite conditions and had to get off the ramp and inside. Around 30 of them headed inside which slowed aircraft movement. Then the following morning our aircraft were literally frozen and even more delays occurred. Then the whole system fell off the wagon. I’m Denver based, I can confirm it was cold. -30 degrees with windchill.

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Freebird's avatar

Charles Gay - thanks for your input on the SWA debacle. I live in the southwest so SWA has always been OUR airline. We’ve used SWA for many years and preferred it to others for many reasons, not least of which is the ease of navigating Love Field as opposed to DFW.

However, one beef I’ve had recently was reading an article in The Epoch Times about how very Woke SWA had become. That was a huge disappointment. Here in Texas we still like to believe in the rugged individualism that’s part of our heritage, rather than succumbing to the crazy political correctness of the day.

We hope and pray for the recovery and return to sanity of this once great company.

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Charles Gay's avatar

Yes, SWA has definitely put way too much emphasis on wokeness (incusivity, saving the environment, threatening job loss for those not vaxxed, and on and on). The company has made a big deal about hiring transexuals and has actually had pronoun pins made for its employees to wear. I personally believe that the central theme to this is kow towing to the government. I have said, more than once, in he past, that this all has been to the detriment of what actually matters in running a good company, because the focus is in the wrong place. We are the airline version of Disney. In normal America, that would be a good thing. In today’s clown show America, it is sad.

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Roger Beal's avatar

"Pronoun pins"? Really? If I worked for SWA, my pronoun pin would read "brass and lead".

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WendeAnne's avatar

47! That’s polite! I’d be fired for my pronouns.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Didn't know this. Will stop flying SWA immediately - just like I haven't seen the inside of a Starbucks in 4 years.

Goodbye SWA. Go woke, go broke. Screw you

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Danny's avatar

It’s an industry problem, not just SWA.

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Freebird's avatar

Guess you’ll be driving - yes, it’s gone Woke but certainly no more so than all of the other airlines. They all get funding from the federal government, hence the kow-towing to the fed.

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Freebird's avatar

Very sad indeed.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Thanks for being so honest. Now that’s another reason why SWA will be my last choice when I’m choosing an airline. As a conservative Christian I will not support any work companies.

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LizardFro's avatar

I’m pretty sure ALL the airlines are WOKE. SW still seems like the least annoying to deal with though in the way they allow flight changes & 2 bags. 4 different trips were cancelled for our family on the 26th but we’ll live. Here’s hoping they upgrade that system! 🥂

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Julie Ann B's avatar

They cancelled 60+% of their flights during Christmas weekend. That was more than double any other airline. Inexcusable! And I don’t like their boarding system, their packed flights and how rude and nasty they were during the mask mandate.

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CynicalCuteness's avatar

Thank you for this explanation! Whenever I see the media pushing a “pilot shortage” narrative I get skeptical. One day there will be a push for pilotless flight and it will start with the media convincing people that there are not enough pilots.

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crystal01681's avatar

TY for your response! What is Corporate’s excuse for not up-dating to the 21st century?

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N Springer's avatar

My SWA pilot friend says leadership was more focused on finances and not so much on operations since the original CEO. The brand new CEO is supposed to be back to operations focus but it won’t be an overnight fix.

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Barney Rubble's avatar

Can't fix the software/process issues brought to light by the pilots here overnight. I mean is new software even being considered at this moment, much less implemented? Furthermore, would the software have alleviated the issue of 2 crew hubs affected? I used to be turned off by the flight attendant's irreverent attitudes but have grown to appreciate the levity. I avoid woke as much as possible but I'm still flying Southwest for now, in part because they didn't fire employees for the poison shot refusal. Probably won't check a bag until shit calms down. May even drive pretty far for my next trip West not too far in the future.

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Freebird's avatar

Barney, that’s my attitude as well. I don’t like supporting woke companies either but sadly, that’s where we are as a nation- they’re all woke!

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Charles Gay's avatar

Concur. We’ll see how it plays out.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

What's the CEO's background? A beancounting #s guy?

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Charles Gay's avatar

I was an AirTran pilot. SWA purchased us in 2010 (we integrated 2012-2014). Southwest’s answer to every question that was along the lines of the one you asked has always been ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it.’

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tjsplace's avatar

Many businesses strangely lag behind the rest of society in tech. It is quite noticeable when one moves from, say, a college environment into a job out there in the real world. Oftentimes the software on the new job is older than what the college student is used to. Just an observation.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Because colleges can get the latest and greatest technology since they are awash with funds. They also use that to attract students. If a private company doesn’t have the money, it often has to make do with what it has until it can get the money for an upgrade, even if what it is using is far from optimal.

For very large companies like Southwest it probably comes down to making certain choices about where they invest their money though. Smaller companies might not have that option.

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J Kaz's avatar

We have son who is interested in flying... military not really an option.. don’t trust government...lol....jab not an option.. have airlines listed the mandate? Can you recommend any good flight schools? Thanks

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Charles Gay's avatar

Many options for learning to fly. Don’t discount military. I am ex Navy. All other routes will be very costly, especially schools like Riddle. If you are in central Florida. Sanford has a great flight school. Plan to spend $100k, minimum, to get the requisite ratings. If you go Riddle, or any other 4 year school, to include flying, you are likely at $300k for the four years. Major airlines, including Southwest, now have their own ‘flight school’ programs that do not require up front money, but draw the training cost from future paychecks should they hire you once you complete the training. Not sure what happens if you are not hired after training.

Regardless of the route, it is definitely a commitment, one way of the other. I would suggest a couple of familiarization flights just to make sure your son really wants to go for it.

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J Kaz's avatar

Thanks. Have several in the military one even a pilot. The state of our woke country is awful and the military doesn’t seem to be any better.. sad....

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Raptor's avatar

Embry-Riddle. Best in the country.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

Lewis University in IL.

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Tory's avatar

Ty for sharing. Safe Travels. I had read it maybe sw cyber security breach. Praying for safety in our skies!

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mimi's avatar

Do you think the CEO will survive this?

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N Springer's avatar

Seeing as how the current CEO has only been there since this spring and inherited this mess, I hope he does. I don’t think this is the sort of thing that gets fixed quickly and it seems this was a “perfect storm” sort of situation.

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mimi's avatar

Probably depends upon the shareholders. You're right, he probably doesn't deserve it but he's still the one who has to take the blame.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Maybe this new CEO can follow the Biden path. The buck NEVER stops on his desk.

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Charles Gay's avatar

Jordan is new to the position. I’m quite certain his job is secure 😊

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Susan In Kansas's avatar

Hopefully we get to leave Orlando for Kansas City on SWA today. We did get out after 2 canceled flights on 23rd. So far our flight today is still scheduled to fly.

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Charles Gay's avatar

If you weren’t already cancelled, then your flight should go as scheduled (although there are never any guarantees in aviation). Good luck and safe travels!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you for your perspective! I read something similar on a friend’s FB page earlier today. I hope SW can get its act together, I much prefer them to other airlines!

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Charles Gay's avatar

Me too! I tend to be glass half full, and do believe that Southwest will get through this and come out much for the better on the other end, through the coming weeks, months and years.

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space's avatar

Jeff, I can't stress enough just how much C&C helped me hang onto my sanity when feeling isolated and alone about the nefarious goings-on throughout the pandemic. Your blog has honestly been a life-line. And thanks once again for allowing us free subscribers to be able to comment, it's very generous of you. I had asked my family for $ towards a C&C subscription rather than Christmas gifts. Seeing as they all still buy into the narrative, my requests were denied. :( I happily donated to the LOTT multiplier!

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Jacquie's avatar

“A critic recently commented that Coffee & Covid was spreading vaccine hesitancy. I sure hope so, or what am I even doing here?” ~ Keep it up, Jeff, you are saving lives!! 👊

Could you warn us next time before showing the necrosis? Choked a little on my tea. 🤢 Sorry can’t do coffee...🥴

Off to multiply!

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Amen Jacquie!!!

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Naomi's avatar

I admire Libs of TikTok. She is a courageous woman with character. Glad to support her. FYI she has a Substack too. I subscribe to it.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I love that Gov DeSantis offered to allow her to stay at the governor’s mansion if she felt unsafe and needed a secure place to stay!

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Naomi's avatar

Me too. Doesn't surprise me too much because he's the genuine article.

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Loving Mom's avatar

Jessica Rose is really diving into the IgG4 driven diseases now… fascinating line of inquiry. Aortic ruptures … Placental abruptuons… both resultant from fibrosis (scarring) thanks to the ‘tolerance’ afforded by the wrong antibodies. Dr Ah Kahn Syed added Jikkyleaks allegations that it has been known for some time that flu jabs during pregancy cause increased IgG4 which crosses the placental barrier… thereby making babies/kids more succeptible to severe outcomes from influenza, as well! 💔

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Annie's avatar

I never realized how many different types of antibodies there are and what their primary function is. The human body is a wondrous being. My mind was blown. God is indeed great in His creations. ❤🙏

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LizardFro's avatar

Yeah but unfortunately the CDC still doesn’t understand antibodies. Natural immunity doesn’t exist to them. The bureaucracy with the most power is the most ignorant 🤬

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David A's avatar

link?

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Roger Beal's avatar

Is there any God-given natural cellular construction and natural organ function that is NOT damaged by this multistage bioweapon?

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David A's avatar

Thanks

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Grandma Bear's avatar

You couldn't look for Jessica Rose on Substack yourself? Or at least ask politely?

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David A's avatar

Well as I was helping my 96 year old dad to a doctors appointment, and finding this particular comment again would possibly be problematic, I asked for a link in the most expedient way possible. ( neither rude or skeptical, it just looked like good information to have. )

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Loving Mom's avatar

I'm glad you asked, in whatever way possible for you at the moment. I get it. Much of my comms ocur at red lights. (sorry!) I'm happy to share Dr. Jessica Rose's work any chance I get -- same for C&C. ❤

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Peace's avatar

Re your response to David A - the original post made no

mention of finding Jessica Rose in a Substack, so anyone not familiar with this (including me) would not be able to find it without a link. Thus his/our dilemma.

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Grandma Bear's avatar

Okay. But an abrupt comment “Link?” implies skepticism or doubt about the comment’s validity. It may not be what was meant, but just phrasing it more politely doesn’t take a lot of effort. Those of us who’ve had unpleasant experiences on social media may be a little too sensitive to things like that, but that’s frequently a hostile comment.

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Peace's avatar

I can see that! I've never experienced that so I'm not quite so sensitive:)

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Gotmoxie's avatar

Search for “Jessica Rose” interviews and videos on Rumble. Pick one or two...

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Andrea Sisco Pike's avatar

Our family is devastated right now. Our "daughter of choice" and her family immigrated to the U.S. legally from Africa. We just discovered that in order to obtain their green card and eventual citizenship, they are required to get the Covid jab. This, after we fought and won a religious exemption for the eldest son from a major university. They've been healthy throughout this covid mess and see no reason to poison themselves. If they'd only entered illegally, they wouldn't be required to have any shots. This is what we've come to in the U.S. Right now, as a family, we are praying... Would love to see a legal challenge to this...

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IR's avatar

“Individuals may also apply for individual waivers based on religious beliefs or moral convictions by submitting Form I-601, Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility.“ https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/covid-19-vaccination-required-for-immigration-medical-examinations

Maybe try this especially if the religious exemption for the University was approved, maybe include that fact in the request. Better to consult with the lawyer though but I believe there will be a challenge to this ridiculous requirement. Hopefully soon.

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Andrea Sisco Pike's avatar

Thank you so much for this info.

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Barney Rubble's avatar

Religious exemption with a good lawyer should be tough for the other side to defeat but it may cost money. Ironically, I bet she can get Ivermectin.

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IR's avatar

https://www.sirillp.com/vaccination-waiver/

I think this firm is somewhat pricy but they have a lot of experience fighting and winning major cases including the military. Aaron Siri.

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Therese Monroe's avatar

Really terrible situation.

By the way, when I went for my medical stuff for the green card (prior to Covid), I showed the doctor some photos of my Swedish vaccine card of all the childhood vaccines I had gotten, which was all in Swedish and somewhat illegible. I told the doctor what it said and he just took my word for it and checked those boxes in the papers.

Just saying... if she goes to the "right" doctor and has some sort of "proof" of her getting the shots (maybe like a photo of "her" vaccine card from her home country", wink wink), that might work.

Worth a try, the worst that can happen is that the doctor doesn't accept it as proof and she has to either get better proof or go to a different doctor.

For the most part, I think the doctors that do the medical exam for the green card are just happy to push people through. It must be very easy money for them and they don't have to do much.

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

I'm so sorry. Working in a pharmacy, I saw a woman come in for her first jab just yesterday. She drove quite a ways to get the J&J brand. When asked why she was getting it now, she replied "immigration". She was not happy and neither was I.

I think I'd fly to Mexico and drive across the border and just take my chances at not being found. . ..

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RunningLogic's avatar

Maybe contact Liberty Counsel for help? I’m so sorry you are all dealing with this and pray for a solution 🙏

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Oh Susanna's avatar

Yikes, that's disturbing. We've been thinking about applying for a green card for my husband, but that puts it out of consideration. Is there any way to appeal it? Legal action definitely needed - against the idiotic rule against allowing unvaccinated travellers to enter the US as well.

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Andrea Sisco Pike's avatar

They tell them that they can appeal, but they will have to go to the back of the line for several years and then they will deport them when their case comes back around. Right now we're on our knees praying. Dad is still in Africa and we would love to have them all here. The power of prayer...

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Oh Susanna's avatar

Ugh I'm so sorry. I pray your prayers may be heard and answered.

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Andrea Sisco Pike's avatar

Thanks.

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LizardFro's avatar

I’d like to see them try to deport them! Ice isn’t doing such a hot job of that lately!

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IR's avatar

Right? When vaccinated people are getting covid left and right. What a heck? Abuse and control. Zero science.

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Jon Stephenson's avatar

Covid And Coffee: Proudly promoting vaccine hesitancy and saving lives since 2021

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Cynthia's avatar

Multiplier done!!

I couldn't stop laughing over your comment about the critic accusing you of "spreading vaccine hesitancy." Providing facts and encouraging people to think for themselves...how outright dangerous!! Keep up the good work, Jeff!!

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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen. — Galatians 1:3-5 NASB1995

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Harold Saive's avatar

$22.22 is my donation today. I also talked my neighbor out of getting a 4th Moderna JAB

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Jeff Childers's avatar

👏

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

You rawk!!! Keep up the great work!

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steve's avatar

Southwest knew about the problem it was facing before all the cancellations began. The company went into a state of operational emergency on Dec. 21 because they had an unusually high number of employee absences.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/leaked-southwest-memo-reveals-state-operational-emergency-christmas-storm

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CC's avatar

“Personally, I am waiting for this headline, which feels like it must be coming soon: “It’s Time to Face Facts: The Vaccines Failed.”

On one hand the vaccines did fail. But they were not designed to succeed beyond the delivery of a spike protein and the resulting plethora of vaccine induced illness and death. In that they are a success by those whose worldview is depopulation and social control of civilization.

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Peter Schott's avatar

You missed the next part ... "but that's not a reason to not get them" ;)

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D&R’s Gma's avatar

“Causing vax hesitancy” “I hope so or what am I even doing here” best reply ever! Bravo!

I just can’t start my day without my C&C fix…

multiplier completed! Can’t wait to hear the final totals! You give us a voice with these multipliers! Thank you Jeff!

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B S's avatar

I realized today that it’s mildly ironic that the vaccines are harming those that are most likely to conform, perpetuate the narrative, and be controlled by government edicts. It’s the same people who wished harm on skeptics and independent thinkers. You’d think they would be working fast to preserve these people physically and ideologically for the next “pandemic”.

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Gotmoxie's avatar

If those who promote the va$$ were really interested in health and safety, we would never be where we are now. They are preparing us for the next “pandemic.” The first was the test run. Just look at the number of “congregants” (ha, great term taken from a comment above) who are still wearing masks--outdoors, in cars, all alone with no one near to infect them.

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Pecos Bill's avatar

Glad I set up a Gargle Voice phone number; the phone # request usually stops me.

Libs Of TikTok is more than worthy. She is fearless. $22 donated.

She is exposing our sickest fvcks AKA "public school" "teachers".

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

I just always give a fake phone number, I’m very protective of it.

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