Media's controlled demolition of Joe Biden rages; Missouri sues N.Y. over Trump case for election interference; British conservative party meltdown shows promise; first post-Chevron decision; more.
ā A number of British C&Cers have chimed in over their dismay at the Labour election, for which I do not blame them. Many have pushed back on today's post arguing that Labour opposed mandates. A couple clarifications are in order:
1) Labour's electoral landslide is almost certainly bad news for Britain, from a conservative perspective. It'd be like a Democrat party takeover here.
3) The best comparison to U.S. politics would be to say the Republicans opposed vaccine mandates. That is true, but the GOP was on board to start, and most of the opposition was never a formal part of the party platform but came most strongly from Freedom Caucus "rebels."
I suspect a lot of folks would be irritated if I ever wrote "the Republican party opposed mandates." So I don't blame our British cousins. I should have been more nuanced.
4) My point, however, stands. Though it might be more accurate to say the election was less about rewarding Labour than punishing the Conservatives, who were indisputably responsible for Britain's over-reaction. In fact, it makes me (partly) happy the Republicans were in the wilderness during Biden's first two years.
The Labour party stood for locking down earlier, harder and longer. They are not a party who opposed vaccine mandates - with this majority they will be an authoritarian nightmare. If you think Biden has done a bad job in relation to individual freedom, immigration, energy policy and the economy, the labour party have just said āhold my beerā.
Agree, he's taking over a country in shambles and will UP immigration, further deindustrialize manufacturing and cancel coal altogther. I weep for my ancestrial country.
My first response when one of my friends posted about Labor winning was āsh**.ā Then I read Jeffās newsletter and thought perhaps I was wrong. Now, youāve confirmed my earlier response as being correct. This makes me very sad.
Whenever I tell people that socialism is the first step towards communism and totalitarianism, they have always pooh-poohed me. As we watch Europe fall (although the continent is rising up), I am sadly being proven right.
unfortunately in that sense an absolute majority of Labour or Democrats is an "oh sh**. " At least here we can count on the Republicans to somewhat hold it together, though we will need to kick out some of the RINOs.
Kier starmer is a member of the WEF. Why is he allowed membership to this radical group, as prime minister. A conflict of interest. Kier starmer never apologised to the British people for his aggressive stance on lockdowns. He is a massive danger to the Uk. To say otherwise is to ignore the harm he caused the British people for the past four yrs. a WEF puppet.
Agree 100% - it will be a nightmare..... authoritarianism on steroids š they will erode our national identity further and aim to oversee more immigration. Extremely concerning.
Further clarification: Labour has appointed Patrick Vallanceā¦heās akin to a British Fauci, so I think we can guess how flip flop wind sock Starmer is blowing. Take your places for the Birdie-flu dance.
Jeff, thanks for clarificationā¦butā¦i also read that Barak Obama has been āmentoringā the new PM as to how to deal w Trump. Hoping the new PM is his own man and will steer clear of partisan advice.
Obama showed up here giving Rishi his walking papers a month ago. What is he doing over here. He us no longer president of the USA, a named cabinet member. Why canāt he just go away. Dusaspear to his multi million mansion. Hasnāt he done dnoughndamage?
I must sadly inform that in this case, hope does not spring eternal. Maybe infernal. Starmer is a windsock. Empty, blowing all over the place, full of hot air. He is called Capitan Hindsight and Wibble Wobble.
In my opinion the election results in France and the UK are more of a protest vote against the ruling party than support for the opposition party's platform. Sort of like voting against your current representative than in favor of the other side
I saw an interesting post on X where Reform + Con= 38% of the votes, Labor =34%. So still mostly right leaning and this was a spanking of the Davos influence on the Con Party (we know that group, the Champagne swilling, mandate making, sneering and patronizing, war hungry, corporation lovers).
As an American that closely follows British politics (I've spent alot of time over there), the large Labour victory is not good but it's not a large approval of the Labour Party itself. Labour's victory of ~9m votes is less than they lost with during the last election. Their victory is a product of the First Past The Post system and a rejection of the Globalist Tories who have done nothing for 14 years, though the manner in which they rejected them is a bit non-conventional.
The UK doesnt have the money to implement the type of policies Labour would want to enact. Labour is also fractured, not unlike liberals in the US, between hard left and more moderate liberals. Starmer also has no real plans or policy that he's campaigned on so with no policies, no money and divisions among the party, it's not quite the slam dunk some are fearing. Some are even saying it's unlikely he lasts the 5 years.
For the follower of Christ Jesus who has been born again and renewed by the Holy Spirit, the yoke of God's commandments and law is a light burden and a guide for life to lead us beside still waters.
For the reprobate, they chaff at the yoke and cannot tolerate the light of God's law meaning to destroy us as testimonies to His grace and faithfulness. Gird up your loins. The worst is yet to come.
Yup. You could be interested enough to do your own research.
Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Genesis 42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
Exo 9:30
But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear Jehovah God.
Lev 19:14
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
The Economist, a once great publication to which I subscribed dating back to college. The encroaching TDS and its changed world view were there fairly soon after Trump took office. I cancelled my subscription permanently when the editorial board endorsed Biden in 2020. I haven't read it since. I wonder whether their hearty Biden endorsement is mentioned in the referenced article?
And you can say the same thing about the WSJ - cancelled my subscription after 50 years when they started censoring any and all anti-left wing comments - they too have been infected with TDS
Cancelled mine when it became painfully apparent that Jon Hilsenrath was nothing but a mouthpiece for the Fed. The old WSJ was a part of my life-I read it as a teenager and later, loved to see the deals I was working on in the newspaper (long time ago). It's sad, but it is what it is.
Me too, although they HAVE published a number of "edgy" Opinions in the past year that align much more closely with general C&C takes on pandemic+, so there's that...
And itās not just political journals that are captured. As we have seen, JAMA and other scientific journals are equally as snared. Wonder what their subscribers, and worseācontributorsāthink.
Their subscribers: a small minority (including me) are appalled at the JAMAās (NEJM is even worse, if possible) descent into woke leftist pseudo scientific blathering about topics that physicians and medical scientists have no particular expertise in but not surprised, as we have seen it coming & gathering steam since the R v W now extinct decision; the large majority of docs are OK with it, as they have been indoctrinated into wokeness from undergrad school at least & the push to feminize the profession has had the med school faculty and admissions committees and administrators all singing leftist feminazi chorus (at least until transgender medicine became a thing and was found to be profitable.). Oh Lord, how I grieve for my once honorable (though always imperfect and conflicted) profession.
The contributors donāt think, most write whatever the drug company reps tell them to & tweak their study designs to make the results look better than reality.
The profession needs to be taken down to the studs, if not the foundation and rebuilt (The FLCCC Alliance & others are attempting that even now in the wake of the Fauci treason against the profession, the country, and humanity.)
I hope many of us have sought out thinking doctors rather than corporate/Pharma doctors. I certainly have. Donāt trust the āestablishmentā status quo docs anymore.
Dr. Kimber, you obviously fit in the category of thinkers rather than followers. Thank you.
Check out Concerned Doctors of Alabama.
Awesome group; actually treat people who are cv19 damaged either by virus or injections or both. Heroes all.
Dr Kimber, one of my daughters is a first year OBGYN resident (actually now 2nd year, technically). She was the only one of my kids who seemed to listen to me and/or decide on her own no clot-shot. As a medical student they were recruited to administer that poison at mass-shot set ups. Last I spoke with her regarding the matter she said sheād had intense pressure put on her to acquiesce. Iāve been afraid ever since to ask if she relented (my other 2 kids did, sadly). Sheās a very bright, good hearted soul. Any sage ābeen-thereā advice I can convey to her? Her original intent was to do a reproductive endocrinology fellowship in order to āhelp people have babies who canāt otherwiseā.
I can give you all kinds of substacks where mother and babies are dying from the jabs! When I was pregnant in 90 and 93, we were advised not take anything since it could hurt the baby. I developed a rare liver issue where my liver quit processing correctly because of the pregnancy. It lasted until the moment I delivered and started in the beginning of my second trimester. It got worse the closer I got to my delivery date.I could not take the medication as advised by the doctors, my OBGYN! Now with all the incentives from insurers they only care about the money. She needs an honest discussion about this, otherwise she will be forced to push these deadly jabs! So why join the other murderers! Sorry to be blunt, but this is where we are now.
I cannot think of too many other publications more in sync with wishes of the Money Power ( the cental banking establishment) than the Economist. And that the Economist would deem it necessary to propagandize with such a flagrant cover from the other side of the pond says a lot about the Money Power and its reach, its ubiquitous all-encompassing penetration of control.
It is the starkness of the image which lunges and grabs ahold of the mind. And it is a graphic reminder that what is at stake and what is being orchestrated throughout the entire Collective West is far greater than just national politics in isolation.
The one thing I have always said is that The Money Power cannot and will not tolerate the 'employees' taking over the company store.
It was even before that. I got my husband subscriptions to it for several years and then purchased occasional issues here and there for him but every time I read it, it seemed more and more like all they could do was bash American conservatives š
Did you see how āelite New York Magazineās Intelligencerā contrasts the political divide? On one hand, ācocktail parties on the coastsāāthe uber-cool, clean, and āenlightenedā kids. On the other, āMAGA rallies in Middle Americaāāgrandmas, grandpas, and (God forbid!) sweaty rubes gripping beer cans in calloused hands. Our self-absorbed āelitesā truly admire themselves with their effete noses up each otherās in the air. Marie Antoinette at least had a passing thought about feeding the people. Marthaās Vineyard will give you a cookie and a drink box, tell you to get lost, and expect you to genuflect. Nobody resents cocktails on the coasts, but if you donāt love your neighbor, āyou won't know what hit you.ā Thatās a promise: āPride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fallā (Proverbs 16:18).
Democrats new tactic: Convincing the American people that they did not see what they saw during the first debate. Even the Dems and MSM were very vocal about it saying Biden should drop out. Now in their panic they are back peddling, but Americans have seen the truth!
That's why I often wear this "I identify as non Bidenary" tshirt š š¤£
Friends and family have commented on how FINALLY, the left is āseeing the lightā about O'Biden. To which I respond, āStop. If you think the left is doing anything OTHER than gaslighting you into believing they are simply hapless, youāre delusional.ā This is plannedā¦.in itās ENTIRETY. We're watching a play and this is Act 2024.
I keep wondering if the only reason his courtiers allowed Brandon to debate was because they were planning the palace coup and this was the easiest way to bring it about without losing their cushy jobs (at least they get to keep their heads)
They hoped for the maniac Joe to show up like at his Hate of the Union speech...did they not medicate him sufficiently? Were they afraid that the juice would Michael Jackson him? It was a roll of the dice...but they always have other options at the ready...a major stroke may be in the offing where sympathy and admiration will rise for the Old GOAT, and CowMala will suddenly become who America needs. Harris-Butijudge 2024!
Yes, and George Step-on-all-of-us may have been selected by deep state to administer the euthanasia shot in today's interview. Rest assured, it will be spun. Which direction they spin it is anyone's guess ("everything is fine" or "we are so screwed"). My bet is that George has his orders and Joe will be wheeled away from the interview on a gurney.
Exactly. But which way will the sword go? One side helps him, the other kills him. To whom is George beholden? I know he maintains contact with Carville, so I'm leaning kill.
Prepare to exit joe and raise up cameltoe so they can keep their dnc blood money - then enter their real selection via a VP appointment and then watch how they quickly remove cameltoe so they now have their unelected selection of Newscum or Big Mike???? I think itās big Mike. He would be the only one to garner millions of supporters of all the Obummer worshippers who will be fine with the unelection and placement without an actual vote. Think like a criminal. Itās possible. But I think their plan is what we havenāt even thought of yet. š¤·āāļø
They can select whomever they want as veep, but the senate needs to approve it without Kamala's tie-breaking vote. The plot thickens. It's fun to see the whole "turnabout is fair play" thing playing out. This will dominate the news cycle for weeks and weeks. Deliciously so.
It's being me why they didn't push old Joe under the rug LONG ago. They could have. š Either I'm smarter than they are or they've got something much more nefarious than imaginable planned... But God is still in control and the ppl get what they deserve while they slept. There's more to come unless ppl pull their kids out of the clutches of the DoE.
I've seen a couple of people now backtracking with a "oh, maybe Joe looked better than I thought initially" mindset - gaslighting themselves. Too many "I watched it again, and yeah - Joe was sharp, yeah, that's the ticket" responses. :(
dear woke dumbocrats: keep telling yourselves any asinine excuse you want about your beloved Brandon's decline. Then don't complain about Rome burning while the emperor plays with his fiddle
As long as THEY arenāt feeling the effects they simply donāt care. Other Americansā needs and problems be damned, as long as their side keeps power šš”
Sort of like all the ridiculous excuses for all the unusual sudden deaths and illnesses. It is NOT the jab though. Funny how it might be every other "reason" EXCEPT the jab. Remember the mantra. It is not ever the vaccine and Biden has Not aged out!!!
One of my friends was saying how they saw a recording of him at the after party where he made some speech and he was coherent. She said, āSee, heās not failing.ā Why couldnāt he have been that way during the debate?ā Someone responded that he was just nervous. I remained silent for fear of what would come out of my mouth.
Did they see the after party with Nurse Ratchet. aka: his deplorable wife? That was even sadder! She praised him like he was a toddler (" Good job, you answered all the questions!"), but what was SAD was how he was staring at her blankly like he was a toddler. Seriously unbelievable; even more so than the debate, if possible. It was seen (in disbelief) around the world.
I am now convinced that Jill is actually CRUEL in how she is subjecting him to ridicule.
I really don't want to be mean spirited, because I was raised to respect the elderly, but in a way he deserves the ridicule because he has been so mean spirited to Trump, and because he is an angry bully.
When I see Biden raise his fists in the air with that evil furious expression, I (seriously) am reminded of Hitler's style.
I've heard that too--and I said, "Yeah, my dad had some pretty lucid days too." He was in Alzheimer's assisted living for a couple of years and died there.
I've seen so many posts by democrats now saying if DJT wins, he'll institute the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 & destroy democracy. They all claim they've read ABOUT it. I READ it & it sounds great to me!!!
Have you seen Trump's post that says he has nothing to do with Project 2025? I was surprised by that. But then, wouldn't it be better to make the bench much much smaller (shades of Milei's chainsaw?) than to fill it with 100's or 1000's of people that are announced in advance? The latter paints a picture of same-o same-o to come. I find that it's all very troubling to contemplate. Leviathan must go!
The petulant pernicious Elitists who run the Media and the DNC are beside themselves at having gotten egg on their faces after Whisperin' Joe appeared Too Frail, Too Weak, Too Old, Too near his deathbed to punch and counterpunch the Felonious DJT at his debate and stridently lie to viewers about his great Pro-American accomplishments. I say that Old Sick Joe is the PERFECT representative and chief messenger for the America Last Policies of the Progressive Left. Why should America resemble anything other than what its' current Executive and Commander in Chief is? Masking the engineered decline with a strident strong convincing liar who can make one's leg quiver in heightened arousal like the Obamas and the 2019-20 Crafty Joe Biden were able to do is what the Shallow Vapid, greedy and hateful American Left want...their glands and neurons cry out for a celebrity dictator-socialist who'll perpetuate the deterioration of America with acclaim 2024 and beyond. Sickly Joe, please DON'T GO! Make them smother you with a pillow or mercifully inject you with heart-stopping juice (Like they did to Scalia 2016). Joe and his closest puppeteers need to dig in and vow to Never be pushed aside...not by Anti-Zionists, not by Clintons or Obamas, Not by a Billionaire Donors' Cabal, Not even by CowMala Harris and her Non-Toxic Man. This is JOE's Presidency and he should NEVER step aside, even if Trump landslides him he can maintain that HE alone can defend democracy against the Great Insurrectionist and Felon, and do what he must to keep the MAGA-Fascists out. Don't Give Up the Ship Joe! You've come too far and too long and given too much to be kicked to the curb for one less than stellar primetime performance. You've nearly completed the job, and with another 4 years you can make America and the World how they should be. Only then will you be sufficiently appreciated and praised for your lifetime of cunning accomplishment and graft.
āFelonious DJTāā¦love that oneā¦total ThugLife handleā¦and may Justice Scalia haunt the halls of the White House (and maybe CIA HQ in Langley, VA) until his death is avengedā¦ā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøš”
I figure he should own that street cred name and leverage it against his detractors and bad actors. Straight Outta NYC--the Felonious DJT, 2024. M(Black)AGA so we all can see, take Authority and send Phony Joe to the retirement home by the sea.
This was so perfectly stated by a billionaire Republican donor, that I have to share it (and a link to the article from the Gateway Pundit (Google calls it a far right conspiracy news site, so that should tell you that it is good! lol):
**"What democracy really means to them is permanent rule by the Democratic Party, just like communism used to mean permanent rule by the Communist Party. Theyāre perfectly willing to disenfranchise their voters if it means staying in power."
Hereās to hoping they continue to do that and get back on the Biden train. While it is deeply unsettling to have him as the āCommander-in-Chiefā (even though everyone should know by now he isnāt). It is absolutely abhorrent to contemplate Kackling Kamala as the first female President of the US. What does it say about the state of womankind in the US that at one point Biden led with women voters 58% to 36%. Unfortunately, nothing good. Please Democrats, remain loyal to Uncle Joe. Any new candidate is likely to infuse the Democrats with a new sense of enthusiasm especially if the new candidate is a women, because the mentality of liberal women is that, even if a woman candidate is unqualified, you MUST vote for her because she is a woman and if you donāt youāre a traitor to the sisterhood! Although if Kamala Harris is the candidate hopefully that would be a bridge too far, but you never know.
The Democrats are a circus of DEI unqualified persons. A few years ago Kamala was on covers as America's first Indian American VP. Now she has morphed into 'black'. Less than a quarter of her blood is, she is very mixed.
Qualifications for Democrat positions in high gvt: lesbian, transgender. cross dresser. gay, black.
Being a woman won't cut it anymore, unless you are a black, lesbian or transgender woman.
Read Kathy Barnette's book if you want to know what REAL black former DEMONrats are thinking these days. It's entitled, "Nothing to Lose....Everything to Gain"....insightful and inspiring read!
My guess is tonight Peter, this pre-recorded "interview" will be done in the morning, with ear monitors, highly edited and everyone will say, oh yea he was just having an off day during the debate. The grifters (including his horrible family) want him right where he is....
I use the term loosely - whoever it is, not actually engaging with the family of readers other than attempting to gain sales..,...but yes, clever of "him/her" to post a relevant comment inducing a "click".
Have to get that shirt, JP (are you by chance, J. P. Sears?) If you are...I've purchased quite a few of your 'pithy statement' tees over the past 4 years.
It's called gaslighting , and they have been doing it nonstop for at least 4 years. We don't really have high inflation, the jabs are actually safe and effective, the Ukraine is winning, Russia's invasion was unprovoked, you really can change your sex, on and on. Unfortunately for them, most normies are finally waking up to this.
Only now do they come forward with it... (even though it applied in 2019-2020) both to nudge Joe out and to BASH Trump with.
So the natural conclusion that anyone with half a brain can come up with is.....we NEED a president who's under 65 years of age BUT who's got experience to deal with the complicated world of Climate Crisis, Refugee masses, AI and de-Industrialization, Mental health crisis, Resurgent Russia, curbing free speech-curtailing violence, gender inclusion, reproductive justice, digital currency and employer oversight/security, etc etc. Who would AI select for us under the circumstances?
Mean but the truth. For once they accidentally reported a nugget of truth. But I wonder who is actually reading these useless magazines and newspapers?
El Rushbo spoke frequently about "the daily narrative" and often read examples of identical MSM commentary on his radio show. "The drive-by media" has not changed.
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Just a friendly warning, if your doctor uses Quest, donāt sign a new document that says you will pay for tests that may not be covered by insurance. They are doing this for tests that they have a contracted rate with insurance companies (like bc/bs) of $0 (or potentially less than they want reimbursed). They code it as having a signed waiver and then bill you for the test, even when your insurance says you owe $0. Most people probably donāt dig far enough down and pay the bill. This is an unethical scam theyāve got going. Beware.
When a medical service provider agrees to become part of an insurance network, they also agree to charge only the contracted rate that service provider has negotiated. That's a benefit of using an "in network" provider. (It's not the case for an out of network provider that you reimburse.) That's the deal, service providers cannot charge you more and be part of the plan. In fact on my insurance company EOBs it shows the contracted price and plainly states "your provider should not charge you any more than what is allowed".
Not only should you not pay it, but you should file a complaint with the insurance carrier if "in network" providers are pulling this stunt.
or better yet - quit going to drs. quit taking tests designed to convince you that this pill or that procedure is necessary. have you not yet learned that the whole industry is a scam?
update: the whole rockefeller model, ama strong armed, insurance skimming industry. they do ok body work ie. set bones. the answer (see below) is personal pro active responsibility ie. food and exercise.
I agree in general but saying "the whole industry is a scam" is over the top. There's nothing wrong with getting one's blood work done and trending it over time. In fact, more people should do it, as they'd find out much sooner they are on the road to diabetes. What's wrong is thinking a pill will fix things rather than getting some exercise and eating real food (instead of processed garbage).
There is a place for medicine. Hip replacements for eg. But I am personally leery of anything that offers a drug as the answer. Many stories to tell there, but a recent one is high blood pressure. "Drugs! You need drugs!" they all chirped. Instead, I went to a naturopath and using herbs, celery (a natural diuretic ) and getting more consistent with exercise and voila! Normal blood pressure once again.
As a personal opinion based on the people I happen to know, there are more hip and knee replacement that go wrong either immediately or in less than 3 years than people realize. Most of these are classed as "successful" (because the patient didn't die? Because they can walk, but in excruciating pain? I don't know, but it doesn't feel like a "success" to them). I, also personally, took my advanced arthritis to mild arthritis in my hip, which I was told was impossible. My point being, be wary of EVERYTHING and do your own research. Just because a person who could afford a degree in medicine says something is so, that does not mean it is so, or that they were top of their class.
I see an integrative medicine doctor, he gave me quality of life again after years of neglect and gaslighting by insurance dictated disability doctors. I am dependent on thyroid hormone medication, so Iām not ditching the entire system. I have to pay out of pocket for the office visits, he works with my insurance.
God bless her. Make sure you ask her about things relating to the family tree and take notes. Both me and my wife are kicking ourselves now for not having done that while we could. You might also want to tape her answers, so you can have her live.
My father in law feels the same way. Hates having to go to the doctor. Same kind of thinking: if you give them a chance, they'll find something or invent it... He is presently 101!
Food is medicine. But there is no money to be made if we eat real food. When I say real food, I mean grass fed beef and butter, pasture raised chickens, organic fruits and vegetables, etc. People need to wake up and realized that the SAD is making them sick. Seed oils and sugar are poison.
and there you have it. no need for bloodwork if you get plenty of exercise and eat real food. you'll get a lot of your exercise trying to find real food.
Way too limited. It's not the sugar, specifically. It's the foods you eat that convert to glucose to burn. If you are a long distance runner every day, eat what you want, you'll burn it off. If not, a calorie is not a calorie. Who here thinks if you only eat 800 calories of pasta a day, you'll lose weight or keep your blood sugar level? It's not sugar, after all. But a simple carb calorie is not a complex carb calorie is not a fat calorie is not a protein calorie. Each body reacts differently to each of these and to different foods within each of those (honey is not like high fructose corn syrup, don't let anyone tell you different)
Very little is "easy". Most things are varying levels of complicated. Find what works for your own body (the generic you), and start there. I know my good place is Protein and veggie carbs. But that doesn't make it "easy".
True, but in general., avoiding "sugar" (simple carbs) is a great start.
You're absolutely correct - 800 cals of pasta is not the same as 800 cals of protein and fat. Calories are not the cause of diabetes. Prolonged over consumption of insulin raising food is, because diabetes is caused by insulin resistance.
As you probably know, certain foods are highly insulin stimulating, e.g. sugar, fructose, certain starchy carbs.
The medical establishment starts from an incorrect assumption, in that high blood glucose (sugar) is due to insufficient insulin production. So they prescribe more insulin.
But treating insulin resistance by adding more insulin assures that the patient will get even more insulin resistant.
What most lay persons don't know is that everytime you eat, your body immediately stops burning calories, and starts storing fat due to the body's production of insulin hormone.
Some foods are worse (more stimulating than others.)
I eat a very low carbohydrate diet, with meals well-spaced out in order to let my insulin levels fall between meals.
Exercise is great because it can burn the glucose in your blood, which eventually decreased your insulin resistance.
Jeff, did you know that in the early 1900's cholesterol levels were fine at around 300 but then, no one then needed statin drugs, thus the industry lowered the "acceptable levels" to the 100's and voila! now half the world needs statin meds! Our bodies need and make cholesterol for many functions, including our brain functions. Since these changes, more and more ppl have Alzheimer's and it's connected to the lowering of their cholesterol...??? hmmm
So why go get blood work done to enable them to "treat" you for something that's not broken?
My husband's cholesterol levels were deemed "high" by their standards, even though he's a marathon runner, eats fairly well, and is always training or running a marathon. When he agreed to go on statin drugs, within a week, he looked jaundiced, had an unhealthy coloring to his face. His liver was going haywire! And the doctor suggested another medication to counter that...
Thank God we came upon this knowledge and he stopped taking their poison!
Depends on the doctor you have and also doing your own research, advocating for yourself and not always doing what they tell you to do. Having autoimmune thyroid is one very good reason to go because it is in my best interest that I stay healthy. But I have turned down meds/treatments that I believed were not in my best interest. Like the poison Covid vax.
A reasonable answer ASK! People need to think. Ask questions and dig deep for your answers. For me, all these new blood thinners is a āhootā! Iām on a thyroid medication because I had a real problem back in 1997. By the way, runs in the family genes! 2013....cholesterol levels up....problem? Weight! Refused medication and lost weight. In a year, all was back down under control. Now they say we need cholesterol! So take control of your health. I think this was a wake up call for the medical field especially those who care. Nothing wrong with getting a second opinion and changing Drs if need be. 45 years a working RN and we never quit thinking medical!
Thanks for the good post today!! By the way, a lot of medical journals are very liberal thinking. I donāt subscribe!
Nancylee, Yes, it is a Scam! From the moment we are born, with their myriads of jabs. They've sickened us, they've caused our bodies, or minds to start breaking down much sooner than intended...and then they want to "treat" us for the rest of our lives!
This has happened to me repeatedly. My last dermatologist required full payment before I even went back to see the doctor. When I pushed back and told them they were charging $165 when my insurance would only cover $68, they shrugged and said they would reimburse me. Of course, that never happened.
Agree. I got whacked on my Harley by a pickup. Got airlifted by helo to MUSC (medical university of SC) The first thing they wanted to know was "if I had insurance". After they learned I was retired military w/ Tricare, they operated 12 times before my brother said STOP. Lost my left leg and got over a million dollar hosp. bill. No shit.
I started getting on to my former PCP with stuff like that. "We want to run this test" - but I'd push back with a "how much is this going to cost" and the more important "is this test necessary". I know I also used to get too many prescriptions written for "the new latest drug" (usually for blood pressure or maybe an antibiotic) - the out of pocket costs were insane. I started pushing for generics because the costs were just too insane. The same started going for tests.
And yet it is like pulling teeth to get an actual full thyroid panel (TSH, FT4, FT3, rT3, and both thyroid antibodies). But itās probably because 99.9% of doctors, including and especially endocrinologists, have NO CLUE what to do with the extra information. Which leads people like me to order my own meds from an overseas farmacia in order to actually hope to feel like a human being.
Iām still searching for an actual health care provider that isnāt in the medical complex club. Ugh. The one Iām seeing currently at least doesnāt push any āvaxxesā but she also doesnāt even call me with blood work results. I look them up and ask questions if I canāt figure it out and I tell her if I need anything or not. Sheās letting me call the shots. Itās probably better that way. Iām in control this way. But I also wouldnāt trust her with an emergency at this point š
I have an Integrative Medicine MD I go to in NH. I recently learned the reason there are fewer of them in MA - and probably many other states - is that they are not licensed to prescribe in MA. In NH they are.
Really shouldnāt need a full panel except in a few very rare cases (and then only once). The TSH signals whether the pituitary perceives enough active thyroid hormone. The bottom line, so to speak. That being said, you want your TSH midrange; the upper limits of ānormalā are way too high. If you have evidence to the contrary, please share. š
I actually function better when my numbers are more toward the hyperthyroid range. Less symptomatic in that range. Took a while to help my pcp to understand ānormal rangeā means jack of you are symptomatic. At the same time I have started using organic and natural thyroid/adrenal topical drops which is slowly bringing me closer to reducing the thyroid pill crap. Hoping to get off it all together and this is helping so far. Itās my last big pHARMA pill and then I will be free from their jaws of death! š
I also understand overall TSH isnāt indicative of how your thyroid is functioning and what it needs. Getting more in depth blood work including T3/T4 and other markers is much more definitive. But try getting a normal ādocā to be willing to even look at it?? They donāt understand it. I found a lot of endocrinologists donāt even pay attention!!! Itās horrible. So much about the thyroid is misunderstood/a scam for more pills.
IDK what you mean by āquite high,ā but being chronically hypothyroid is more dangerous (heart and brain, among others) than any pharmaceutical IMHO. I like to remind folks to analyze for themselves and not to āthrow the baby out with the bath water.ā Although it now pains me to say this, there still is a place for conventional medicine.
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Parathyroid is not related to thyroid. The parathyroids are just located on the thyroid. Vitamin D can affect parathyroid as far as I know as D has an effect on calcium which the parathyroid regulates. But I donāt know the details, just that they say surgery is the only option for hyperparathyroidism.
Well feeling like crap on a āfull replacement doseā of NDT seems like a good reason. And it turns out my rT3 is high and my FT3 and FT4 are barely in range. I have defects of deiodinase enzymes so I donāt convert T4 into T3 very well so when drs only check TSH or TSH and FT4 things look fine. I can assure they are not.
I prefer my TSH to be close to 1, at the lower end of the range.
Fredā you are completely right to say that not treating thyroid issues can cause bodily damage, especially for autoimmune. It stresses the body because the thyroid is working overtime to keep the hormone levels ānormalā and can damage your organs. Many doctors will do thyroid panels, but never test for antibodies which is the only way to diagnose for autoimmune thyroid. 20+ years ago it was estimated that 13 million have a thyroid condition, 8 million donāt know they have one.
Thank you! Just watch your bone density, and if you ever start feeling sluggish regardless of whatever you do, might be worth letting your TSH drift up to 2-3 and see. Patients who over-medicate with their thyroid report feeling better (and I believe them) when they back off (possibly akin to the stimulant abusers who start feelng worse and worse instead of better with increasing doses). Just something to keep in mind. :)
This is incorrect. The TSH is not a thyroid hormone and a poor indicator of thyroid health. Itās only a small piece of the puzzle and the full thyroid panel as stated above is whatās important
WADR, it is the best indicator of thyroid function because of the pituitary feedback loop. Itās produced by the pituitary (āmaster gland) and is the ābottom lineā that can detect a deficiency even when the actual thyroid tests are normal.
and the beauty is if there is a specific test YOU want them to look at, the answer is I cannot get approved, or we need to wait for approval or some other malarkey. My brother's doctor found his pancreatic cancer when he did an ultrasound for his prostate, a procedure he was doing every six months! The doctor immediately sent him to the hospital for further investigation, where they found cancer and removed the pancreas. He lived a further six years, only because of what my doctor thought was "unnecessary" ultrasound!
Told my new NP that no I wasn't going to get dexascan because I wasn't going to go on prescription med no matter the results. I didn't even get into the risks of these drugs as she seemed at a bit of loss for words.
Agreed. Read up on boron. Just for fun, read the earlier good studies on strontium ranelate before tptb decided it caused heart disease (in old sedentary women; whoād a thunk? /s). I might try it in the -porosis vs -penia range. India is the only place to get it, and ānot for human consumption.ā
This thread is making me appreciate our non-insurance taking D.O. all the more. They keep paper records and insist on doing bloodwork in house because they have seen how often standard labs don't follow orders properly. They also use natural methods first, and meds only as appropriate.
lol, LIKE. Haven't see one in years don't worry about my BP, glucose, cancer or anything else. I know my body. If I'm sick I know it. My body will normally heal itself. Boken bone-going to a doc.
you'd think that after the last 4 years this group would finally understand that all this medical bs is: only about the money, the drs dont know jackshit, its a massive ponzi scheme actively devoted to depopulation.
Is this now a standard form they put before you whenever you have a blood test? If you don't sign it, does Quest refuse to do all blood tests ordered by your doctor?
My guess is yes. You no sign then no test. Going to need to find an alternative. I was wondering why my last labs were $250 when normally itās $45-$50. Since I signed the waiver I really didnāt have a gripe. My own fault. Sigh. Any ideas of other labs with less predatory practices? Local I would guess. Might have this discussion with my pcp that I never see except for occasional need. But I get labs done twice a year from my naturopath who doesnāt take insurance and doesnāt have a lab on board anymore due to these same predatory practices. Maybe they will let me use their lab at the pcp.
Check you insurance plan to see if Quest is considered "in network". If not, take the doctor's order to lab that is in network. The doctor cannot force you to use an out of network lab. These labs all do the exact same thing, they are interchangeable.
As I mentioned above, in network providers are contractually obligated to only charge you the price negotiated with the insurance company.
They are in network which is why I questioned it because it didnāt make sense. Spent about 6 hours one day getting to the bottom of it, spoke to insurance, the doctors office, Quest, multiple times and although I now have a clear understanding of what happened, it is still not resolved. Waiting for the Quest rep for my doctors office to call. I did put in a complaint to BC/BS with their fraud department. Also have the paper work for state complaints for multiple departments. The longer Quest waits to handle this, the more pissed I will get, along with more complaints and warnings to others that will happen.
Your insurance should tell you what is covered and / or the reimbursement rate for the tests and what your owed amount is. I think they are using this form to skirt their contracted amounts and I was told I donāt have to sign when I told the doctors office I will refuse in the future. They have tried to balance bill me for a thyroid panel that they know they are contracted at a paid rate of $0. So that is what the insurance will pay by contract and I owe nothing. I questioned it, because I have NEVER had one of those tests NOT covered in 20+ years. I think it is not only unethical, but most likely illegal, and they are probably violating their contracts as well, or skirting around them.
Irunthis1, check WalkIn lab. No hidden costs and you can choose either Quest or LabCorp (and see how they do the test). Idk if you can use their prices to contest; guessing not. Always order panels if youāre having a bunch of tests; almost always much cheaper.
Just for fun, check your Quest cost against walkinlab.com Quest cost. I ordered 3 tests directly from LabCorp thinking that they couldnāt be more expensive with a middle man (walkinlab). Boy was I wrong! About $220 vs 475! š”š”š” Called LabCorp to ask (complain nicely), and they insisted that was the correct price and had not idea why WIL offered their own test, done in their own lab so much cheaper. Itās all a gameā¦
I was told by the office administrator that they cannot refuse to do the tests the doctor orders because of the form. Your insurance will normally send you an EOB Explanation of Benefits that will tell you what you owe, above what they have covered.
So there is actually a purpose in doing that. When you bill Medicare as a provider, you know they will only cover X for a payout of $Y. So you have to bill at a higher rate than $Y, because if you bill $Y, they will pay less. Itās a very screwed up system.
I have done that test twice (in lieu of getting a camera shoved up my ā¦) as prescribed by the doctor and never had a problem getting it reimbursed by bc/bs insurance 100%.
I was told that some plans were grandfathered in so they didn't have to do the $0 copay, and lucky us, my husband's plan is one of them! I suppose we could have been lied too, but that never happens, right?
Iām perpetually confused by the Eurotrash definitions of political parties. How is this āconservativeā? What is conservative about more government and entitlement and taxes? What they describe as āleft wingā and āright wing ā is inconsistent with most peoples understanding. I think they just use these words to confuse and obfuscate their plans and do whatever the hell they wantā-much like our own system of governance. Itās just so frustrating the whole damned mess. Vote them all out! And Farage āwonā but has already conceded he wonāt be in leadership because heās so ācontroversialā. Like, what? Stupid.
I think what they mean by left is just shy of communism and what they call right more socialist than anything. Anything truly conservative they call fascist or extreme right. But I live in the free state of Florida, so what do I know?
Oh, there is NO WAY they would allow Farage anywhere near a leadership position. The Reform Party, despite winning a larger percentage of total votes then Sinn Fein, won 5 fewer seats than SF. Exit polling showed a potential pick up of 13 seats for Reform but at the end of the day, only secured 4 seats. The Tories (i.e. "conservatives") lost a total of 251 seats in a year which saw the lowest turnout in 20 years, I think. The Substacker, Morgoth, does a great job covering the political and cultural scene in Britain:
They are both the same (just like the U.S.). Geez, 5 yrs of Labour is going to be distastrous for the UK. More unlimited immigration, more taxpayers paying for "refugees" to be on the dole w/ 5 bedroom houses for 4 wives/ 1 husband (who doesn't work), more wind mills/solar panels, more SMART "heating scams", more deindustrialation, sending jobs abroad...etc
I hope that Reform UK can scoop up all the disaffected voters (Conservative or otherwise) so that in the next election (if the UK Survives that long), Reform can take over the government.
There was a movement to so decimate the Tories that they would be left with Zero Seats. That didn't come to fruition, but the loss was significant. I think the most seats lost in about 100 years.
And labour will stop anything the tories did? I think they will up immigration, kill small businesses with ramped up taxes, reinstate the 2030 cut off for sales of ICE vehicles, punish the motorists with pay per mile and increased vehicle insurance and tax, keep sending money to Ukraine and definitely Israel (his wife is Jewish). Inflation will increase, interest rates will increase. We really are fckd
Yup, Labor will only make it worse. My main point was that the Conservatives are actually left-wing but just a little less so than Labor. Yet they lie and pretend they are conservative. For that they were rightly punished.
Labor is awful but at least they are (generally) honest about who they are.
Scary! If that is what āconservativesā supported, what do the āliberalsā support? Concentration camps for anyone who disagrees with their agenda (said only half in jest)!
Whatās sad is there are people who think Bidenās dementia is something new and what they previously vehemently denied as farāright-wing conspiracy talk is now true just because the media is saying it now.
And then theyāre going to gleefully grasp at whatever tattered lifeline the Hegelian propagandists toss at them, no matter how slimy, greasy, and sleazy. Theyāre like tantrum-throwing toddlers whose toy has been taken away but who are easily palliated with a shiny new one.
Of course he will not loose...Just the same way he WON last time, they will stuff the ballots again and win it for him. Remember the "win one for the Gipper" for Reagan? It will be "win one for the Sleeper" for Brandon
Biden's dementia is either the problem for which they already have a solution, or it's part of another "unveiling" for the sake of driving a bigger, global narrative. A world war "justifying" narrative.
This is not the first time that an invalid has occupied the Oval Office...
....Notwithstanding Marshallās status as a second term almost-president, Edith Wilson was having none of a succession plan. And thatās despite the fact she did not have a degree in āeducationā nor did she answer to the āDr. Edithā title.
But she had proven herself around Washington as no mean hostess when she slipped into the First Lady role during and/0r after (itās disputed!) the illness and death of Wilsonās first wife in 1915. Either way, Edith Wilson was not about to disembark from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue solely because her husband was virtually paralyzed on the entire left side of his body.
Indeed, the extent of her intrigues and deceptions designed to hang on to power are now legendary...
....As it turned out, the immobilization of the presidency during the last 18 months of Wilsonās term was one of historyās great serendipityās. Absent Wilsonās tireless promotion, the abominable League of Nations Treaty died aborning. America was thus given one more chance to return to its ways as a peaceful Republic untroubled by the petty intrigues of nations beyond the great Atlantic and Pacific Ocean moats.
Needless to say, that reprieve has long since been kicked away. America is now a dangerous Empire and its president is virtually the helmsman of the planet. So the fact that Jill Biden has apparently read and copied the entirety of professor Markelās account of Americaās first Spousal Regency is troubling indeed.
It was evident beyond a shadow of a doubt last Thursday night that a second Spousal Regency is now underway. āJoe Bidenā would have received his gold watch from Washingtonās grateful ruling apparatchiks long ago, save for the obvious fact that Jill Biden has said that absolutely ānyet means nyetā...
....That is to say, Jill Jacobs Giacoppoās tribal ferocity did not originate from the bucolic hills of Willow Grove Pennsylvania or the classrooms of Upper Moreland High School or even the instructors at Brandywine Junior College. Her fatherās family had emigrated from the Sicilian village of Gesso, losing the āGiacoppoā part within days of passing Lady Liberty, but hanging on to the blood loyalty part even unto the present fraught hour.
That is to say, Edith Wilson Biden is a clear and present danger to the American Republic. She has spent the last 47 years marinating in the self-righteous hypocrisies, follies and evil-doings of the Washington ruling classāwithout ever once have been called to accountability by any kind of electorate at all.
Like Edith Wilson, she was apparently an able spouse and hostessāwho taught classes at Northern Virginia Community College on the side and was pleased to call herself ādoctorā owing to a quasi-honorary degree from the Biden familyās political sinecure at the University of Delaware.
And yet and yet. Jill Giacoppo is an utterly unqualified usurper, who has even less excuse for her blatant power grab than did Edith Wilson back in the day. At least in Edithās time there was no 25th Amendment to regularize, organize and legitimize the transfer of power to the constitutionally prescribed role of Vice President...
In a moment the Deep-State owned and controlled Media decides that Mal-information should suddenly be transformed into genuine, honest mother's milk for their controlled Cult of conformity. Where's Biden's Truth Tsarina when he needs her?
Biden āappears to be battling the entire deep-state media complex.ā Really? I wonder if thatās ever happened before, seems so strange for a sitting President. ššš
There are a lot among the masses who blindly trusted the media for far too long. Now that those gloves are off, they're seeing what has been hidden from them for all that time. Of course, they're also jumping on the "I believe whatever the media tells me today" bandwagon - so I fully expect those people to just pivot to whatever they're told to believe next. :(
a friend has bought into the propaganda. Whenever I ask him what HE thinks he grows silent. Whatever, I don't mind, but come on man I know you are woke, so WAKE UP!
Agree šÆ they are trying to control the narrative. Fact is biden is not a capable functioning adult and anyone shocked by that news is not a capable functioning adult either. Avoid these empty vessels of humanity as they are a big part of the problem.
How many venerable "Journalists" and "Editors" will be jumping ship over this overweening falsity of fabrication that they've arduously participated in since 2019? NONE. Suckling upon the teats of the Deep State provided sow is too comfortable. Should Biden recover and delivers for them at the Dem Convention and they reverse course yet again, these saps and simps will latch their lips on and squeal as required of them. Saving democracy by weaponizing a malleable truth
I'm a UK based reader of Coffee & Covid and whilst I agree the existing Conservative government were ejected on the basis of their handling of the past years (and their optics) I have to disagree that Labour have got in due to going against vaccine mandates. Labour are the more totalitarian of the two and wanted to push harder and faster on the lockdown and supported vaccine mandates as far as I am aware. Liberal Democrats have also done well in the election and they too supported the lockdowns and mandates. We have a Uniparty and narrow Overton Window here too alas.
Thanks for the local insight. I should have been more nuanced. I would probably offend just as much had I claimed the Republican Party opposed mandates. The GOP's good fortune was mainly not being in power when mandates happened.
Yup. Labor wasn't rewarded but the Conservatives were punished. They've been in power for ages and didn't govern "conservative" in the least. They are globalist puppets and sell-outs doing the bidding of their paymasters. The typical voter may not understand the nuances of political platforms, but they do understand that under Conservative rule things got worse by just about every metric and that Britain has lost much of its national identity.
Labor will make it worse for certain, and you are right that vax mandates had almost no impact in the vote. This was a repudiation of Conservative mismanagement and their seemingly outright hostility to the average UK subject. And who can blame the voters?
āPerhaps even more tellingly, now-dominant Labour was the only major British party to oppose vaccine mandates and most of the vaccine passport rules during the pandemic.ā
How soon will it be that cracks in the armor of this new party control start to show. I can hear it now, āWith this new bird flu, it might be better to āemphasizeā to the folks this great v@x. After all, itās for the greater good.ā
TDS was the greatest brainwashing tool ever. As long as Trump never becomes President, liberals are OK with WW3, a collapsing economy, pandemics and mRNA jabs, 15 million illegals, a brain dead President and the list goes on and on.
Liberals likely believe a CCP style Technocracy is a far better future, than life under another Trump presidency.
They may simply accept their loss to Trump as inevitable and go into obstruction phase II against him, push to hold the senate and minimize damage in the House. This is going to get VERY Ugly, they'll perform scorched earth far beyond what we witnessed from 2016-2021.
Do they though, or are they just afraid that the reforms he has talked about will bring down their globalist dreams so the actual devil has less power? I agree MSM has done everything they can to convince average Americans he is the devil, but I donāt for a second believe the Talking Heads actually believe that.
I seriously wonder ? I had a conversation yesterday with a Democrat . This is their quote ā Iāve got a choice between two Dās , vote for the Dementia patient or the Devil ! ā
Out of curiosity, do they tell you what they think he has done or will do (other than say mean things on Twitter/X) to put him in the same category as the devil?
I tried to have a discussion in another Substack the other day with someone who declared she had PTSD from always wondering what Trumpās next horrific act was going to be and how she can identify someone as evil just by looking at them and Trump was the epitome of evil. I tried to get her to expand on what evil acts he had committed but she refused, saying I was trying to trap/bait her, but I really wanted to understand what acts she views as horrific. I guess to her credit, she doesnāt support Biden either.
Oopsies but seriously, exactly right, which is what makes me doubt some coordinated effort of some deep state cabal. I mean, really, some group of people somewhere close to Biden had to have been sounding the alarm for awhile? IDK, I did speculate a week ago that the left may have been banking on the fact that they thought everyone hated Trump as much as they do and would vote for Biden no matter what but again, I'm not sure anyone that inept at reading the room is in any situation to take over the world?
The Biden news will be interesting. I'm saddened that so many otherwise rational people have their top priority as a candidate "someone who can beat Trump" rather than "someone who will make our country better". I'm not really surprised by that, but still sad.
I read the nationwide stay against the crazy Title IX changes, but missed the bit where it was tied to the Chevron reversal. That _is_ great news and hopefully a sign of times to come. I saw RFK Jr lamenting that Chevron reversal - that it will cause more red tape. He seemed to be missing the bigger picture of unelected people making _huge_ rules up that affect normal people in all sorts of ways. The small number of times Chevron was helpful as opposed to the vast number of times new rules were created out of thin air by some petty bureaucrat ... I'm glad it is gone. But another reason why I can't support RFK Jr as a candidate. I appreciate his calling out the pharma companies, but most of his positions are just crazy to me.
The essence of RFK Jr. is being revealed more and more everyday. He's good on the medical freedom issue - which I admit is very important to me - but terrible on many of the other issues I value highly too. It does seem that at the end of the day, he's okay with a technocracy of his own making. I want the technocrats OUT.
problem with RFK jr is his uber liberal stand on most other issues. He is GREAT for medical freedom issues but otherwise? Of course if it is a choice between FJB and RFK, then RFK all the way. But there is also Orange man in the mix
RFK Jr is a New Dealer, Great Society, Progressive Socialist. He throws a few bones to populist working class issues and feels he's done with the masses, much like Obama--say some things that sound good but backstab the common folks and offer them public assistance for the wound.
I am anxiously awaiting tonight's influential interview with Snuffleupagus to count how many edits there will be. It will be a sort of a Wheres Waldo test.
Maybe we could reduce profligate federal spending if we made all the remaining days that aren't federal holidays, federal holidays. It would also reduce the number of anticonstitutional decisions by federal bureaucracies and courts.
The appropriate way to celebrate Juneteenth would be that any income earned on that day is entirely exempt from federal taxes. I suppose we could extend that to all of the other days, too.
That one still kills me. I'd never _heard_ of Juneteenth until I moved to Texas. And even then - it was ... just a day. You might get a lesson or something on it in public school, but it was never any sort of holiday. Still crazy that it's a federal holiday now and people are acting like it was always some huge event.
Well, Kwanzaa earns a lot of money and social cred for the flubadub who invented it, and for the greeting card makers who jumped on that Fweedom Train.
The Juneteenth malarkey has gone too far: I read that in CA they will pay reparations to any person whose ancestors were slaves. Hmmm does that include Koreans who were enslaved by Japanese or Greeks who were enslaved to Ottoman Turks as well?
It would be easier for a more enlightened SCOTUS to revisit UNITED STATES v. BENSON (2009) and make a correction similar to that applied to Roe v. Wade.
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CLARIFICATION/ERRATA:
ā A number of British C&Cers have chimed in over their dismay at the Labour election, for which I do not blame them. Many have pushed back on today's post arguing that Labour opposed mandates. A couple clarifications are in order:
1) Labour's electoral landslide is almost certainly bad news for Britain, from a conservative perspective. It'd be like a Democrat party takeover here.
2) Labor party members āidentified as suchā did oppose NHS mandates in Britain, although it is a generalization to say the party opposed mandates. That was not its official platform. E.G.: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/vaccine-passports-nhs-vote-labour-rebels
3) The best comparison to U.S. politics would be to say the Republicans opposed vaccine mandates. That is true, but the GOP was on board to start, and most of the opposition was never a formal part of the party platform but came most strongly from Freedom Caucus "rebels."
I suspect a lot of folks would be irritated if I ever wrote "the Republican party opposed mandates." So I don't blame our British cousins. I should have been more nuanced.
4) My point, however, stands. Though it might be more accurate to say the election was less about rewarding Labour than punishing the Conservatives, who were indisputably responsible for Britain's over-reaction. In fact, it makes me (partly) happy the Republicans were in the wilderness during Biden's first two years.
Post updated to include this errata.
The Labour party stood for locking down earlier, harder and longer. They are not a party who opposed vaccine mandates - with this majority they will be an authoritarian nightmare. If you think Biden has done a bad job in relation to individual freedom, immigration, energy policy and the economy, the labour party have just said āhold my beerā.
Prayers for our British brothers and sisters to get through this nightmare. Out of the pan and into the fire.
Agree, he's taking over a country in shambles and will UP immigration, further deindustrialize manufacturing and cancel coal altogther. I weep for my ancestrial country.
š¢ caring hugs. My SIL, while a USA citizen, has maintained her home-country citizenship. All her family still resides there.
Stammer is going to ruin an already wrecked country. He's the wef stooge that the UK really doesn't need.
My first response when one of my friends posted about Labor winning was āsh**.ā Then I read Jeffās newsletter and thought perhaps I was wrong. Now, youāve confirmed my earlier response as being correct. This makes me very sad.
Whenever I tell people that socialism is the first step towards communism and totalitarianism, they have always pooh-poohed me. As we watch Europe fall (although the continent is rising up), I am sadly being proven right.
unfortunately in that sense an absolute majority of Labour or Democrats is an "oh sh**. " At least here we can count on the Republicans to somewhat hold it together, though we will need to kick out some of the RINOs.
Kier starmer is a member of the WEF. Why is he allowed membership to this radical group, as prime minister. A conflict of interest. Kier starmer never apologised to the British people for his aggressive stance on lockdowns. He is a massive danger to the Uk. To say otherwise is to ignore the harm he caused the British people for the past four yrs. a WEF puppet.
Pig, Iām a Brit & I agree.
Labourās going to be a nightmare, as always.
Remember when they last left office & left that disgraceful gloating note: Ā«Ā thereās no money left.Ā Ā»
They delight in causing ruin & chaos.
Just like the Dems.
The Dems left the Obama WH and removed all the "W"s from the typewriters. So mature!!!
I believe that was the Clintons.
You are right, thatās for the correction. I guess maybe it was orchestrated by their spokesman Snuffalopagus?
Agree, I remember when they turned over .gov and left that note. One of the most childish and insulting acts EVER.
Agree 100% - it will be a nightmare..... authoritarianism on steroids š they will erode our national identity further and aim to oversee more immigration. Extremely concerning.
Further clarification: Labour has appointed Patrick Vallanceā¦heās akin to a British Fauci, so I think we can guess how flip flop wind sock Starmer is blowing. Take your places for the Birdie-flu dance.
Jeff, thanks for clarificationā¦butā¦i also read that Barak Obama has been āmentoringā the new PM as to how to deal w Trump. Hoping the new PM is his own man and will steer clear of partisan advice.
Obama showed up here giving Rishi his walking papers a month ago. What is he doing over here. He us no longer president of the USA, a named cabinet member. Why canāt he just go away. Dusaspear to his multi million mansion. Hasnāt he done dnoughndamage?
didn't the dumbocraps complain when Trump made phone call to Putin before he was sworn in? Why aren't the Republicans doing the same with Obama?
Is Obama the puppeteer?
Close but not on top.
YES!
Yessirree, along with Soros $$$
Ah but he IS still president. Who do you think is running the Biden husk?
The deep state.
I must sadly inform that in this case, hope does not spring eternal. Maybe infernal. Starmer is a windsock. Empty, blowing all over the place, full of hot air. He is called Capitan Hindsight and Wibble Wobble.
Wonāt be in the job long?
Starmerās a thorough mediocrity.
Just a typical political puppet.
Heāll follow instructions from the WEF.
you mean like Brandon? A pure mediocre political puppet following the WEF instructions (among others)
The new PM IS obama-just the wrong color
In my opinion the election results in France and the UK are more of a protest vote against the ruling party than support for the opposition party's platform. Sort of like voting against your current representative than in favor of the other side
I saw an interesting post on X where Reform + Con= 38% of the votes, Labor =34%. So still mostly right leaning and this was a spanking of the Davos influence on the Con Party (we know that group, the Champagne swilling, mandate making, sneering and patronizing, war hungry, corporation lovers).
yes, but its not like here where seats are allotted proportionately
Yes, but I think they were just trying to demonstrate that at the last election, Con won with 44% of the vote, so not so far off, actually.
As an American that closely follows British politics (I've spent alot of time over there), the large Labour victory is not good but it's not a large approval of the Labour Party itself. Labour's victory of ~9m votes is less than they lost with during the last election. Their victory is a product of the First Past The Post system and a rejection of the Globalist Tories who have done nothing for 14 years, though the manner in which they rejected them is a bit non-conventional.
The UK doesnt have the money to implement the type of policies Labour would want to enact. Labour is also fractured, not unlike liberals in the US, between hard left and more moderate liberals. Starmer also has no real plans or policy that he's campaigned on so with no policies, no money and divisions among the party, it's not quite the slam dunk some are fearing. Some are even saying it's unlikely he lasts the 5 years.
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
ā Hebrews 13:8 LSB
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..."In the beginning Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
They will perish, but You remain;
They will all wear out like a garment.
You will roll them up like a robe,
Like a garment they will be changed
But you remain the same,
And your years will never end!
Heb 1:10-12 NIV
āHe has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?ā
āāMicahā¬ ā6ā¬:ā8ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
https://bible.com/bible/114/mic.6.8.NKJV
And how do we walk humbly with God?
Ecclesiastes 12
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
āTake My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.ā
āāMatthewā¬ ā11ā¬:ā29ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.11.29.NKJV
For the follower of Christ Jesus who has been born again and renewed by the Holy Spirit, the yoke of God's commandments and law is a light burden and a guide for life to lead us beside still waters.
Amen!
For the reprobate, they chaff at the yoke and cannot tolerate the light of God's law meaning to destroy us as testimonies to His grace and faithfulness. Gird up your loins. The worst is yet to come.
The worst is yet to come for them. We gird our loins and happily accept their attacks when we see they are panicking for good reason
..."because although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God,
nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts,
and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Professing to be wise, they became fools"
Romans 1:21-22
"Your word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light to my path"
Psalm 119:105
This world is not my resting place. It is my testing place. In whom do I trust? I am nothing.
āFear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.ā
Absolute failure in heeding Godās Words. Why our world and nation is in the dark pit.
Totally agree!
**BOOM** š„ š«”š„
Who can do it? None but those He has given to. All others are but selfish imitators and wise guys.
šššā”ļøš„ā”ļø excellent choice of scripture for these times, Phil. š«”
Jesus said to love God, not to fear Him.
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom" Prov 9:10
The "fearing God" means to be in complete reverence and awe of Him, not to fear Him as a child fears the dark...
He said to love God. He did not say do not fear God.
Yes He did.
Ok, and? Should be easy to quote.
Yup. You could be interested enough to do your own research.
Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Genesis 42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
Exo 9:30
But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear Jehovah God.
Lev 19:14
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
There many many more.
My Father's favorite Bible verse!
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15
This scripture has been my front door knocker for 35 years. :)
With covers like The Economist, who needs mean tweets? šš
The Economist, a once great publication to which I subscribed dating back to college. The encroaching TDS and its changed world view were there fairly soon after Trump took office. I cancelled my subscription permanently when the editorial board endorsed Biden in 2020. I haven't read it since. I wonder whether their hearty Biden endorsement is mentioned in the referenced article?
And you can say the same thing about the WSJ - cancelled my subscription after 50 years when they started censoring any and all anti-left wing comments - they too have been infected with TDS
Cancelled mine when it became painfully apparent that Jon Hilsenrath was nothing but a mouthpiece for the Fed. The old WSJ was a part of my life-I read it as a teenager and later, loved to see the deals I was working on in the newspaper (long time ago). It's sad, but it is what it is.
Me too, although they HAVE published a number of "edgy" Opinions in the past year that align much more closely with general C&C takes on pandemic+, so there's that...
I cancelled mine when Bob Bartley left
His early death was a terrible blow.
We will soon have the commentariat providing us with abundant examples of FDS no doubt, Farage Derangement Syndrome.
And itās not just political journals that are captured. As we have seen, JAMA and other scientific journals are equally as snared. Wonder what their subscribers, and worseācontributorsāthink.
Their subscribers: a small minority (including me) are appalled at the JAMAās (NEJM is even worse, if possible) descent into woke leftist pseudo scientific blathering about topics that physicians and medical scientists have no particular expertise in but not surprised, as we have seen it coming & gathering steam since the R v W now extinct decision; the large majority of docs are OK with it, as they have been indoctrinated into wokeness from undergrad school at least & the push to feminize the profession has had the med school faculty and admissions committees and administrators all singing leftist feminazi chorus (at least until transgender medicine became a thing and was found to be profitable.). Oh Lord, how I grieve for my once honorable (though always imperfect and conflicted) profession.
The contributors donāt think, most write whatever the drug company reps tell them to & tweak their study designs to make the results look better than reality.
The profession needs to be taken down to the studs, if not the foundation and rebuilt (The FLCCC Alliance & others are attempting that even now in the wake of the Fauci treason against the profession, the country, and humanity.)
I hope many of us have sought out thinking doctors rather than corporate/Pharma doctors. I certainly have. Donāt trust the āestablishmentā status quo docs anymore.
Dr. Kimber, you obviously fit in the category of thinkers rather than followers. Thank you.
Check out Concerned Doctors of Alabama.
Awesome group; actually treat people who are cv19 damaged either by virus or injections or both. Heroes all.
Dr Kimber, one of my daughters is a first year OBGYN resident (actually now 2nd year, technically). She was the only one of my kids who seemed to listen to me and/or decide on her own no clot-shot. As a medical student they were recruited to administer that poison at mass-shot set ups. Last I spoke with her regarding the matter she said sheād had intense pressure put on her to acquiesce. Iāve been afraid ever since to ask if she relented (my other 2 kids did, sadly). Sheās a very bright, good hearted soul. Any sage ābeen-thereā advice I can convey to her? Her original intent was to do a reproductive endocrinology fellowship in order to āhelp people have babies who canāt otherwiseā.
I can give you all kinds of substacks where mother and babies are dying from the jabs! When I was pregnant in 90 and 93, we were advised not take anything since it could hurt the baby. I developed a rare liver issue where my liver quit processing correctly because of the pregnancy. It lasted until the moment I delivered and started in the beginning of my second trimester. It got worse the closer I got to my delivery date.I could not take the medication as advised by the doctors, my OBGYN! Now with all the incentives from insurers they only care about the money. She needs an honest discussion about this, otherwise she will be forced to push these deadly jabs! So why join the other murderers! Sorry to be blunt, but this is where we are now.
Yes the medical industrial complex is corrupted beyond repair! Dismantle the whole system and start over! Keep the government out!
could it be that JAMA relies too much on pharmaceutical donations?
JAMA has been crooked for a LONG time...
Decades.
And the ACOG
I cannot think of too many other publications more in sync with wishes of the Money Power ( the cental banking establishment) than the Economist. And that the Economist would deem it necessary to propagandize with such a flagrant cover from the other side of the pond says a lot about the Money Power and its reach, its ubiquitous all-encompassing penetration of control.
It is the starkness of the image which lunges and grabs ahold of the mind. And it is a graphic reminder that what is at stake and what is being orchestrated throughout the entire Collective West is far greater than just national politics in isolation.
The one thing I have always said is that The Money Power cannot and will not tolerate the 'employees' taking over the company store.
They don't think.
They know exactly the evil they are doing.
It was even before that. I got my husband subscriptions to it for several years and then purchased occasional issues here and there for him but every time I read it, it seemed more and more like all they could do was bash American conservatives š
It is definitely a socialist rag.
Itās hilarious in a way that socialists think they can be the authority on the economy š
Did you see how āelite New York Magazineās Intelligencerā contrasts the political divide? On one hand, ācocktail parties on the coastsāāthe uber-cool, clean, and āenlightenedā kids. On the other, āMAGA rallies in Middle Americaāāgrandmas, grandpas, and (God forbid!) sweaty rubes gripping beer cans in calloused hands. Our self-absorbed āelitesā truly admire themselves with their effete noses up each otherās in the air. Marie Antoinette at least had a passing thought about feeding the people. Marthaās Vineyard will give you a cookie and a drink box, tell you to get lost, and expect you to genuflect. Nobody resents cocktails on the coasts, but if you donāt love your neighbor, āyou won't know what hit you.ā Thatās a promise: āPride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fallā (Proverbs 16:18).
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ditto on the Economist subscription.
Avoid all msm. Radio, tv, newspapers, magazines. They serve no purpose.
Its a 21% Rothschild-owned publication.
The Economist is The mouthpiece of the Rothschilds, above all others they control or own.
AGREE
Owned by a Lady Rothschild. 'Nough said!
Sharp comment! A direct pipeline to The Money Power. And that's what that cover is really all about.
Interesting video from this week: The increase of journals and pressure for academia to subscribe to them in order to have "complete libraries" -https://twitter.com/Rothbard1776/status/1808549395912147303
Democrats new tactic: Convincing the American people that they did not see what they saw during the first debate. Even the Dems and MSM were very vocal about it saying Biden should drop out. Now in their panic they are back peddling, but Americans have seen the truth!
That's why I often wear this "I identify as non Bidenary" tshirt š š¤£
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You saw the truth because the deep state fully PLANNED this to the tiniest detail. This is theatre.
Friends and family have commented on how FINALLY, the left is āseeing the lightā about O'Biden. To which I respond, āStop. If you think the left is doing anything OTHER than gaslighting you into believing they are simply hapless, youāre delusional.ā This is plannedā¦.in itās ENTIRETY. We're watching a play and this is Act 2024.
And, I feel the same way about the reporting that O'Biden says he WILL. NOT. GIVE. UP. Act 2024.1.
agree, totally. MSM has 4 more months to gaslight the public-depend on it.
I keep wondering if the only reason his courtiers allowed Brandon to debate was because they were planning the palace coup and this was the easiest way to bring it about without losing their cushy jobs (at least they get to keep their heads)
Of course! Even his supporters knew that he was in no condition to debate, despite ear pieces and pre-provided questions. š¤”
They hoped for the maniac Joe to show up like at his Hate of the Union speech...did they not medicate him sufficiently? Were they afraid that the juice would Michael Jackson him? It was a roll of the dice...but they always have other options at the ready...a major stroke may be in the offing where sympathy and admiration will rise for the Old GOAT, and CowMala will suddenly become who America needs. Harris-Butijudge 2024!
Lord, have mercy on us all!
Harris - Butijudge ticket??? God SAVE the USA from such a fate
lol, can't even imagine the DNC trying to pull THAT off. Even they're not that insane.
OK, maybe they are but they'll have SOME relatively sane people that could say "maybe not a good idea".
Yes, and George Step-on-all-of-us may have been selected by deep state to administer the euthanasia shot in today's interview. Rest assured, it will be spun. Which direction they spin it is anyone's guess ("everything is fine" or "we are so screwed"). My bet is that George has his orders and Joe will be wheeled away from the interview on a gurney.
Cut and splice is easy to do in a prerecorded interview.
Exactly. But which way will the sword go? One side helps him, the other kills him. To whom is George beholden? I know he maintains contact with Carville, so I'm leaning kill.
perzactly, Biden will come across as a wise leader with a good sense of humor-138 splices later.
Prepare to exit joe and raise up cameltoe so they can keep their dnc blood money - then enter their real selection via a VP appointment and then watch how they quickly remove cameltoe so they now have their unelected selection of Newscum or Big Mike???? I think itās big Mike. He would be the only one to garner millions of supporters of all the Obummer worshippers who will be fine with the unelection and placement without an actual vote. Think like a criminal. Itās possible. But I think their plan is what we havenāt even thought of yet. š¤·āāļø
They can select whomever they want as veep, but the senate needs to approve it without Kamala's tie-breaking vote. The plot thickens. It's fun to see the whole "turnabout is fair play" thing playing out. This will dominate the news cycle for weeks and weeks. Deliciously so.
It's being me why they didn't push old Joe under the rug LONG ago. They could have. š Either I'm smarter than they are or they've got something much more nefarious than imaginable planned... But God is still in control and the ppl get what they deserve while they slept. There's more to come unless ppl pull their kids out of the clutches of the DoE.
I've seen a couple of people now backtracking with a "oh, maybe Joe looked better than I thought initially" mindset - gaslighting themselves. Too many "I watched it again, and yeah - Joe was sharp, yeah, that's the ticket" responses. :(
Statements I have seen or heard still supporting Biden:
"He had a cold."
"Maybe he was on cold medicine."
"At least he's a caring and decent person."
"I'd rather have his cabinet members running the country than that dictator Donald Trump."
Pedo Joe was never a caring, and far from a decent person (showering with his pre pubescent daughter, being exhibit 1).
"Forget about the debate performances, which have zero to do with being president"
dear woke dumbocrats: keep telling yourselves any asinine excuse you want about your beloved Brandon's decline. Then don't complain about Rome burning while the emperor plays with his fiddle
As long as THEY arenāt feeling the effects they simply donāt care. Other Americansā needs and problems be damned, as long as their side keeps power šš”
Here is the thing: when you ask them to explain how any of the things he has supported are a good thing, they do not have any answers.
If it is online, they just insult you or Trump.
If they really believed that, then Trump's words and performance don't matter either.
Great point to throw back at them!
As if it was just poor performance rather than the exposure of his advanced dementia.
Not caring and decent at all! I am not stating this out of political motivation, or emotions, but out of sheer observation.
āHe was confused because liar orange man was gaslighting him so hard.ā
Biden's first comment about his performance was "It is hard to debate with a liar".
I am so disgusted with that projection tactic of theirs. It is so unethical.
Pot calling the kettle black!!
Joe is the worst most prolific liar in politics!
Sort of like all the ridiculous excuses for all the unusual sudden deaths and illnesses. It is NOT the jab though. Funny how it might be every other "reason" EXCEPT the jab. Remember the mantra. It is not ever the vaccine and Biden has Not aged out!!!
Or Bill Mahr (before the debate); āIād vote for Bidenās head in a jar of blue liquid before Iād vote for Trump.ā
One of my friends was saying how they saw a recording of him at the after party where he made some speech and he was coherent. She said, āSee, heās not failing.ā Why couldnāt he have been that way during the debate?ā Someone responded that he was just nervous. I remained silent for fear of what would come out of my mouth.
Did they see the after party with Nurse Ratchet. aka: his deplorable wife? That was even sadder! She praised him like he was a toddler (" Good job, you answered all the questions!"), but what was SAD was how he was staring at her blankly like he was a toddler. Seriously unbelievable; even more so than the debate, if possible. It was seen (in disbelief) around the world.
And then he was more coherent! I think there were concerns about the cocktailās side effects and how 90 minutes was just to long to avoid them.
He got something after the debate.
Jillie is a ludicrous example of what a First Lady SHOULDN'T be!!
I believe thatās the party they were talking about. I didnāt watch any of it. Well, bits and pieces of the debate. Itās truly despicable.
I am now convinced that Jill is actually CRUEL in how she is subjecting him to ridicule.
I really don't want to be mean spirited, because I was raised to respect the elderly, but in a way he deserves the ridicule because he has been so mean spirited to Trump, and because he is an angry bully.
When I see Biden raise his fists in the air with that evil furious expression, I (seriously) am reminded of Hitler's style.
Am I the only one who has ever seen that?
I've heard that too--and I said, "Yeah, my dad had some pretty lucid days too." He was in Alzheimer's assisted living for a couple of years and died there.
I watched my MILās decline. She had Parkinsonās and dementia. There was a point when most days she was completely out of it.
More ššš for you as well. š°
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As someone (sorry, forget who) so humorously commented :
"What happens when the meds kick in a bit too late " (paraphrased)
Who needs the govt when the people will gaslight themselves!
Like a trained monkey.
Very sad for our country to see the "brain dead elitists" calling the "shots" in our governance!
šÆ. Itās also very sad to see how brain dead the populace is to blindly follow them.
BEST response!
I've seen so many posts by democrats now saying if DJT wins, he'll institute the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 & destroy democracy. They all claim they've read ABOUT it. I READ it & it sounds great to me!!!
Have you seen Trump's post that says he has nothing to do with Project 2025? I was surprised by that. But then, wouldn't it be better to make the bench much much smaller (shades of Milei's chainsaw?) than to fill it with 100's or 1000's of people that are announced in advance? The latter paints a picture of same-o same-o to come. I find that it's all very troubling to contemplate. Leviathan must go!
The petulant pernicious Elitists who run the Media and the DNC are beside themselves at having gotten egg on their faces after Whisperin' Joe appeared Too Frail, Too Weak, Too Old, Too near his deathbed to punch and counterpunch the Felonious DJT at his debate and stridently lie to viewers about his great Pro-American accomplishments. I say that Old Sick Joe is the PERFECT representative and chief messenger for the America Last Policies of the Progressive Left. Why should America resemble anything other than what its' current Executive and Commander in Chief is? Masking the engineered decline with a strident strong convincing liar who can make one's leg quiver in heightened arousal like the Obamas and the 2019-20 Crafty Joe Biden were able to do is what the Shallow Vapid, greedy and hateful American Left want...their glands and neurons cry out for a celebrity dictator-socialist who'll perpetuate the deterioration of America with acclaim 2024 and beyond. Sickly Joe, please DON'T GO! Make them smother you with a pillow or mercifully inject you with heart-stopping juice (Like they did to Scalia 2016). Joe and his closest puppeteers need to dig in and vow to Never be pushed aside...not by Anti-Zionists, not by Clintons or Obamas, Not by a Billionaire Donors' Cabal, Not even by CowMala Harris and her Non-Toxic Man. This is JOE's Presidency and he should NEVER step aside, even if Trump landslides him he can maintain that HE alone can defend democracy against the Great Insurrectionist and Felon, and do what he must to keep the MAGA-Fascists out. Don't Give Up the Ship Joe! You've come too far and too long and given too much to be kicked to the curb for one less than stellar primetime performance. You've nearly completed the job, and with another 4 years you can make America and the World how they should be. Only then will you be sufficiently appreciated and praised for your lifetime of cunning accomplishment and graft.
āFelonious DJTāā¦love that oneā¦total ThugLife handleā¦and may Justice Scalia haunt the halls of the White House (and maybe CIA HQ in Langley, VA) until his death is avengedā¦ā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøā”ļøš”
I figure he should own that street cred name and leverage it against his detractors and bad actors. Straight Outta NYC--the Felonious DJT, 2024. M(Black)AGA so we all can see, take Authority and send Phony Joe to the retirement home by the sea.
I wish I could post the Wolf of Wall Street GIF of Jordan Belfort applauding (Leo DeCaprioās character)
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This was so perfectly stated by a billionaire Republican donor, that I have to share it (and a link to the article from the Gateway Pundit (Google calls it a far right conspiracy news site, so that should tell you that it is good! lol):
**"What democracy really means to them is permanent rule by the Democratic Party, just like communism used to mean permanent rule by the Communist Party. Theyāre perfectly willing to disenfranchise their voters if it means staying in power."
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/billionaire-trump-backer-david-sacks-what-democracy-really/
the voters are perfectly willing to disenfranchise themselves
Hereās to hoping they continue to do that and get back on the Biden train. While it is deeply unsettling to have him as the āCommander-in-Chiefā (even though everyone should know by now he isnāt). It is absolutely abhorrent to contemplate Kackling Kamala as the first female President of the US. What does it say about the state of womankind in the US that at one point Biden led with women voters 58% to 36%. Unfortunately, nothing good. Please Democrats, remain loyal to Uncle Joe. Any new candidate is likely to infuse the Democrats with a new sense of enthusiasm especially if the new candidate is a women, because the mentality of liberal women is that, even if a woman candidate is unqualified, you MUST vote for her because she is a woman and if you donāt youāre a traitor to the sisterhood! Although if Kamala Harris is the candidate hopefully that would be a bridge too far, but you never know.
The Democrats are a circus of DEI unqualified persons. A few years ago Kamala was on covers as America's first Indian American VP. Now she has morphed into 'black'. Less than a quarter of her blood is, she is very mixed.
Qualifications for Democrat positions in high gvt: lesbian, transgender. cross dresser. gay, black.
Being a woman won't cut it anymore, unless you are a black, lesbian or transgender woman.
Read Kathy Barnette's book if you want to know what REAL black former DEMONrats are thinking these days. It's entitled, "Nothing to Lose....Everything to Gain"....insightful and inspiring read!
My guess is tonight Peter, this pre-recorded "interview" will be done in the morning, with ear monitors, highly edited and everyone will say, oh yea he was just having an off day during the debate. The grifters (including his horrible family) want him right where he is....
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Wanna bet those same people have been boosted a dozen times? And still harbor a disgust for you, you dirty ol' unmasked super-spreader peasant? HA.
It would be nice if you could just comment without the pandering link to merch youāre peddling. Itās justā¦.annoying.
That's nothing more than a bot - if you "clicked" , the bot scored.
Would not could not click that link.
I donāt think itās a bot. His replies are not canned. They are responsive to the comment under which they are nested.
I use the term loosely - whoever it is, not actually engaging with the family of readers other than attempting to gain sales..,...but yes, clever of "him/her" to post a relevant comment inducing a "click".
Itās called capitalism
It's like a giant billboard placed alongside a scenic wilderness highway.
There are appropriate places for merchandising. C&C comments section is not one of them.
Agree.
Have to get that shirt, JP (are you by chance, J. P. Sears?) If you are...I've purchased quite a few of your 'pithy statement' tees over the past 4 years.
I adore JP Sears!
It's called gaslighting , and they have been doing it nonstop for at least 4 years. We don't really have high inflation, the jabs are actually safe and effective, the Ukraine is winning, Russia's invasion was unprovoked, you really can change your sex, on and on. Unfortunately for them, most normies are finally waking up to this.
There seems to be two tracks; one wants to keep Biden and one is frantically looking for an out.
Wow! A meme cover on The Economist!
Thanks for the laugh!
š I know.
Only now do they come forward with it... (even though it applied in 2019-2020) both to nudge Joe out and to BASH Trump with.
So the natural conclusion that anyone with half a brain can come up with is.....we NEED a president who's under 65 years of age BUT who's got experience to deal with the complicated world of Climate Crisis, Refugee masses, AI and de-Industrialization, Mental health crisis, Resurgent Russia, curbing free speech-curtailing violence, gender inclusion, reproductive justice, digital currency and employer oversight/security, etc etc. Who would AI select for us under the circumstances?
meme entrapment. the D's deserve this own goal.
And lefties can't meme because it requires an awareness and an ability to laugh. Both not included in a leftist mind and personality.
it seems you cannot be aware of jokes and laugh at them AND be WOKE at the same time. You can either appreciate comedy or be woke but not both
Well said
agree
Amen
Ain't that the truth? Kinda weird if you think about it.
Very weird, like they're sense of humor/sarcasim (sp) is, somehow, missing.
Not sure itās really a meme, since it has explanatory text for lefties. š¤
I questioned that as well. I immediately thought about FDR.
Mean but the truth. For once they accidentally reported a nugget of truth. But I wonder who is actually reading these useless magazines and newspapers?
Funny how they are ALL suddenly speaking truth at the same time - or is it?
Pathetically obvious someone (or tptb) gave the "go-ahead" .š¤
El Rushbo spoke frequently about "the daily narrative" and often read examples of identical MSM commentary on his radio show. "The drive-by media" has not changed.
0400 daily CIA e-mails on talking points works really well. They used to be fax's.
I remember when I subscribed to about a dozen different magazines and newspapers
Now? Not a single one - and don't even own a single working television.
F you, major media!
But I sure appreciate substack!
lol, LIKE, same!
Check out the Dec 22 2012 Economist cover. Some weird dead on predictions.
Insulting to the elderly that are not senile criminals and just have some mobility issues.
I feel that. And I think thatās perhaps the best comment all day.
No kidding! LOL
I saw that earlier and thought it was a memeš³
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Happy good morning! šāļø . Mr. Childers, you were front page news today in my local News Journal.
Fantastic work Sir! ššš
Great article!
https://www.citizensjournal.net/leading-covid-issues-legal-activist-writer-jeff-childers-speaks-in-nassau-county-fl/
Authorās note: I could spend hours more mining the content of this extraordinary individualās accomplishments and insights in this presentation, but must look at the cost/benefit ratio. If I see more thirst for knowledge, Iāll write more. Otherwise, these were key highlights- G.M.
George Miller is Publisher and Co-Founder of Citizens Journal Florida, based in Fernandina Beach. He is a āretiredā operations management consultant, manufacturing management professional, software and publishing executive (10 years).
I say we all write GM and say we want more!
Does he moonlight on another blog, under the pen name "Sundance"?
Thanks for the link
Thanks for the link! š¤
Thatās awesome, thank you for sharing!
The money quote from that article:
"Mr. Childers is known for his Churchillian biting sarcasm (snarkiness, according to one of his fans)" .... BOOM!
Thanks for sharing! Iām going to do the same:)
Good morning! And good for Jeff!
Cool
Just a friendly warning, if your doctor uses Quest, donāt sign a new document that says you will pay for tests that may not be covered by insurance. They are doing this for tests that they have a contracted rate with insurance companies (like bc/bs) of $0 (or potentially less than they want reimbursed). They code it as having a signed waiver and then bill you for the test, even when your insurance says you owe $0. Most people probably donāt dig far enough down and pay the bill. This is an unethical scam theyāve got going. Beware.
Thanks for pointing this out.
When a medical service provider agrees to become part of an insurance network, they also agree to charge only the contracted rate that service provider has negotiated. That's a benefit of using an "in network" provider. (It's not the case for an out of network provider that you reimburse.) That's the deal, service providers cannot charge you more and be part of the plan. In fact on my insurance company EOBs it shows the contracted price and plainly states "your provider should not charge you any more than what is allowed".
Not only should you not pay it, but you should file a complaint with the insurance carrier if "in network" providers are pulling this stunt.
or better yet - quit going to drs. quit taking tests designed to convince you that this pill or that procedure is necessary. have you not yet learned that the whole industry is a scam?
update: the whole rockefeller model, ama strong armed, insurance skimming industry. they do ok body work ie. set bones. the answer (see below) is personal pro active responsibility ie. food and exercise.
I agree in general but saying "the whole industry is a scam" is over the top. There's nothing wrong with getting one's blood work done and trending it over time. In fact, more people should do it, as they'd find out much sooner they are on the road to diabetes. What's wrong is thinking a pill will fix things rather than getting some exercise and eating real food (instead of processed garbage).
There is a place for medicine. Hip replacements for eg. But I am personally leery of anything that offers a drug as the answer. Many stories to tell there, but a recent one is high blood pressure. "Drugs! You need drugs!" they all chirped. Instead, I went to a naturopath and using herbs, celery (a natural diuretic ) and getting more consistent with exercise and voila! Normal blood pressure once again.
As a personal opinion based on the people I happen to know, there are more hip and knee replacement that go wrong either immediately or in less than 3 years than people realize. Most of these are classed as "successful" (because the patient didn't die? Because they can walk, but in excruciating pain? I don't know, but it doesn't feel like a "success" to them). I, also personally, took my advanced arthritis to mild arthritis in my hip, which I was told was impossible. My point being, be wary of EVERYTHING and do your own research. Just because a person who could afford a degree in medicine says something is so, that does not mean it is so, or that they were top of their class.
I see an integrative medicine doctor, he gave me quality of life again after years of neglect and gaslighting by insurance dictated disability doctors. I am dependent on thyroid hormone medication, so Iām not ditching the entire system. I have to pay out of pocket for the office visits, he works with my insurance.
my father used to avoid doctors: he said they just want to start testing and treating everything they can think of just to milk you. He lived to be 90
My mom's 97, she doesn't go to DRs for shit. She's healthy, articulate, works 3 days a week. Doesn't trust em, never has.
God bless her. Make sure you ask her about things relating to the family tree and take notes. Both me and my wife are kicking ourselves now for not having done that while we could. You might also want to tape her answers, so you can have her live.
My father in law feels the same way. Hates having to go to the doctor. Same kind of thinking: if you give them a chance, they'll find something or invent it... He is presently 101!
Food is medicine. But there is no money to be made if we eat real food. When I say real food, I mean grass fed beef and butter, pasture raised chickens, organic fruits and vegetables, etc. People need to wake up and realized that the SAD is making them sick. Seed oils and sugar are poison.
and there you have it. no need for bloodwork if you get plenty of exercise and eat real food. you'll get a lot of your exercise trying to find real food.
lol. true
Anyone can easily avoid Type 2 diabetes: stop eating sugar.
Way too limited. It's not the sugar, specifically. It's the foods you eat that convert to glucose to burn. If you are a long distance runner every day, eat what you want, you'll burn it off. If not, a calorie is not a calorie. Who here thinks if you only eat 800 calories of pasta a day, you'll lose weight or keep your blood sugar level? It's not sugar, after all. But a simple carb calorie is not a complex carb calorie is not a fat calorie is not a protein calorie. Each body reacts differently to each of these and to different foods within each of those (honey is not like high fructose corn syrup, don't let anyone tell you different)
Very little is "easy". Most things are varying levels of complicated. Find what works for your own body (the generic you), and start there. I know my good place is Protein and veggie carbs. But that doesn't make it "easy".
True, but in general., avoiding "sugar" (simple carbs) is a great start.
You're absolutely correct - 800 cals of pasta is not the same as 800 cals of protein and fat. Calories are not the cause of diabetes. Prolonged over consumption of insulin raising food is, because diabetes is caused by insulin resistance.
As you probably know, certain foods are highly insulin stimulating, e.g. sugar, fructose, certain starchy carbs.
The medical establishment starts from an incorrect assumption, in that high blood glucose (sugar) is due to insufficient insulin production. So they prescribe more insulin.
But treating insulin resistance by adding more insulin assures that the patient will get even more insulin resistant.
What most lay persons don't know is that everytime you eat, your body immediately stops burning calories, and starts storing fat due to the body's production of insulin hormone.
Some foods are worse (more stimulating than others.)
I eat a very low carbohydrate diet, with meals well-spaced out in order to let my insulin levels fall between meals.
Exercise is great because it can burn the glucose in your blood, which eventually decreased your insulin resistance.
Jeff, did you know that in the early 1900's cholesterol levels were fine at around 300 but then, no one then needed statin drugs, thus the industry lowered the "acceptable levels" to the 100's and voila! now half the world needs statin meds! Our bodies need and make cholesterol for many functions, including our brain functions. Since these changes, more and more ppl have Alzheimer's and it's connected to the lowering of their cholesterol...??? hmmm
So why go get blood work done to enable them to "treat" you for something that's not broken?
My husband's cholesterol levels were deemed "high" by their standards, even though he's a marathon runner, eats fairly well, and is always training or running a marathon. When he agreed to go on statin drugs, within a week, he looked jaundiced, had an unhealthy coloring to his face. His liver was going haywire! And the doctor suggested another medication to counter that...
Thank God we came upon this knowledge and he stopped taking their poison!
Depends on the doctor you have and also doing your own research, advocating for yourself and not always doing what they tell you to do. Having autoimmune thyroid is one very good reason to go because it is in my best interest that I stay healthy. But I have turned down meds/treatments that I believed were not in my best interest. Like the poison Covid vax.
A reasonable answer ASK! People need to think. Ask questions and dig deep for your answers. For me, all these new blood thinners is a āhootā! Iām on a thyroid medication because I had a real problem back in 1997. By the way, runs in the family genes! 2013....cholesterol levels up....problem? Weight! Refused medication and lost weight. In a year, all was back down under control. Now they say we need cholesterol! So take control of your health. I think this was a wake up call for the medical field especially those who care. Nothing wrong with getting a second opinion and changing Drs if need be. 45 years a working RN and we never quit thinking medical!
Thanks for the good post today!! By the way, a lot of medical journals are very liberal thinking. I donāt subscribe!
Every nurse I know says they donāt go to doctors!
Including the one I'm married to.
This one doesnāt, either. š
Agree. Haven't seen a DR in over 10 yrs. If I break a bone-OK That's it.
Nancylee, Yes, it is a Scam! From the moment we are born, with their myriads of jabs. They've sickened us, they've caused our bodies, or minds to start breaking down much sooner than intended...and then they want to "treat" us for the rest of our lives!
BINGO. WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!
This has happened to me repeatedly. My last dermatologist required full payment before I even went back to see the doctor. When I pushed back and told them they were charging $165 when my insurance would only cover $68, they shrugged and said they would reimburse me. Of course, that never happened.
There's a reason the first thing you do is fill out insurance paperwork when you go to hospitals/doctors.
That's the only thing they have to "think" about now.
Agree. I got whacked on my Harley by a pickup. Got airlifted by helo to MUSC (medical university of SC) The first thing they wanted to know was "if I had insurance". After they learned I was retired military w/ Tricare, they operated 12 times before my brother said STOP. Lost my left leg and got over a million dollar hosp. bill. No shit.
Oh my. I am so sorry Carily!
I started getting on to my former PCP with stuff like that. "We want to run this test" - but I'd push back with a "how much is this going to cost" and the more important "is this test necessary". I know I also used to get too many prescriptions written for "the new latest drug" (usually for blood pressure or maybe an antibiotic) - the out of pocket costs were insane. I started pushing for generics because the costs were just too insane. The same started going for tests.
And yet it is like pulling teeth to get an actual full thyroid panel (TSH, FT4, FT3, rT3, and both thyroid antibodies). But itās probably because 99.9% of doctors, including and especially endocrinologists, have NO CLUE what to do with the extra information. Which leads people like me to order my own meds from an overseas farmacia in order to actually hope to feel like a human being.
Functional medicine doctors and NPs will do this. My NP does.
Iām still searching for an actual health care provider that isnāt in the medical complex club. Ugh. The one Iām seeing currently at least doesnāt push any āvaxxesā but she also doesnāt even call me with blood work results. I look them up and ask questions if I canāt figure it out and I tell her if I need anything or not. Sheās letting me call the shots. Itās probably better that way. Iām in control this way. But I also wouldnāt trust her with an emergency at this point š
Itās difficult and frustrating to try to find someone š
AMEN
I have an Integrative Medicine MD I go to in NH. I recently learned the reason there are fewer of them in MA - and probably many other states - is that they are not licensed to prescribe in MA. In NH they are.
Some ODs (doctors of osteopathy) also do this, in our experience.
My integrative medicine Dr does too
Really shouldnāt need a full panel except in a few very rare cases (and then only once). The TSH signals whether the pituitary perceives enough active thyroid hormone. The bottom line, so to speak. That being said, you want your TSH midrange; the upper limits of ānormalā are way too high. If you have evidence to the contrary, please share. š
I actually function better when my numbers are more toward the hyperthyroid range. Less symptomatic in that range. Took a while to help my pcp to understand ānormal rangeā means jack of you are symptomatic. At the same time I have started using organic and natural thyroid/adrenal topical drops which is slowly bringing me closer to reducing the thyroid pill crap. Hoping to get off it all together and this is helping so far. Itās my last big pHARMA pill and then I will be free from their jaws of death! š
I also understand overall TSH isnāt indicative of how your thyroid is functioning and what it needs. Getting more in depth blood work including T3/T4 and other markers is much more definitive. But try getting a normal ādocā to be willing to even look at it?? They donāt understand it. I found a lot of endocrinologists donāt even pay attention!!! Itās horrible. So much about the thyroid is misunderstood/a scam for more pills.
"So much about the thyroid is misunderstood/a scam for more pills."
More wisdom that bears repeating.
Would you mind sharing the organic thyroid drops you take? My last TSH was quite high, but I refuse to take prescription meds.
IDK what you mean by āquite high,ā but being chronically hypothyroid is more dangerous (heart and brain, among others) than any pharmaceutical IMHO. I like to remind folks to analyze for themselves and not to āthrow the baby out with the bath water.ā Although it now pains me to say this, there still is a place for conventional medicine.
Itās a sister owned company out of Texas called rowecasaorganics.com
I use many of their products and was sold when I tried their menopause relief drops. Took away 95% of my hot flashes/nightsweats. From there Iām now using their shampoo & conditioner bars and soaps. If you go to their website you can browse their products and see reviews from actual users. They will list all the ingredients as well. Their customer service is top notch too!
This person has greatly helped a couple of friends with hashimotos....
https://amandawikan.com
Can you suggest any good sources to read up? Especially about hyper parathyroid?
Parathyroidism is one condition where you want to watch your Vit D levels, esp if you take extra. :)
I canāt. Sorry. Not familiar with that.
Parathyroid is not related to thyroid. The parathyroids are just located on the thyroid. Vitamin D can affect parathyroid as far as I know as D has an effect on calcium which the parathyroid regulates. But I donāt know the details, just that they say surgery is the only option for hyperparathyroidism.
Well feeling like crap on a āfull replacement doseā of NDT seems like a good reason. And it turns out my rT3 is high and my FT3 and FT4 are barely in range. I have defects of deiodinase enzymes so I donāt convert T4 into T3 very well so when drs only check TSH or TSH and FT4 things look fine. I can assure they are not.
Exactly; that conversion defect is one of the fairly rare conditions.
I prefer my TSH to be close to 1, at the lower end of the range.
Fredā you are completely right to say that not treating thyroid issues can cause bodily damage, especially for autoimmune. It stresses the body because the thyroid is working overtime to keep the hormone levels ānormalā and can damage your organs. Many doctors will do thyroid panels, but never test for antibodies which is the only way to diagnose for autoimmune thyroid. 20+ years ago it was estimated that 13 million have a thyroid condition, 8 million donāt know they have one.
Thank you! Just watch your bone density, and if you ever start feeling sluggish regardless of whatever you do, might be worth letting your TSH drift up to 2-3 and see. Patients who over-medicate with their thyroid report feeling better (and I believe them) when they back off (possibly akin to the stimulant abusers who start feelng worse and worse instead of better with increasing doses). Just something to keep in mind. :)
This is incorrect. The TSH is not a thyroid hormone and a poor indicator of thyroid health. Itās only a small piece of the puzzle and the full thyroid panel as stated above is whatās important
WADR, it is the best indicator of thyroid function because of the pituitary feedback loop. Itās produced by the pituitary (āmaster gland) and is the ābottom lineā that can detect a deficiency even when the actual thyroid tests are normal.
and the beauty is if there is a specific test YOU want them to look at, the answer is I cannot get approved, or we need to wait for approval or some other malarkey. My brother's doctor found his pancreatic cancer when he did an ultrasound for his prostate, a procedure he was doing every six months! The doctor immediately sent him to the hospital for further investigation, where they found cancer and removed the pancreas. He lived a further six years, only because of what my doctor thought was "unnecessary" ultrasound!
Told my new NP that no I wasn't going to get dexascan because I wasn't going to go on prescription med no matter the results. I didn't even get into the risks of these drugs as she seemed at a bit of loss for words.
Agreed. Read up on boron. Just for fun, read the earlier good studies on strontium ranelate before tptb decided it caused heart disease (in old sedentary women; whoād a thunk? /s). I might try it in the -porosis vs -penia range. India is the only place to get it, and ānot for human consumption.ā
Same here.
This thread is making me appreciate our non-insurance taking D.O. all the more. They keep paper records and insist on doing bloodwork in house because they have seen how often standard labs don't follow orders properly. They also use natural methods first, and meds only as appropriate.
Have a great way to get around this.
STOP GOING TO THE DOCTOR.
lol, LIKE. Haven't see one in years don't worry about my BP, glucose, cancer or anything else. I know my body. If I'm sick I know it. My body will normally heal itself. Boken bone-going to a doc.
you'd think that after the last 4 years this group would finally understand that all this medical bs is: only about the money, the drs dont know jackshit, its a massive ponzi scheme actively devoted to depopulation.
Is this now a standard form they put before you whenever you have a blood test? If you don't sign it, does Quest refuse to do all blood tests ordered by your doctor?
My guess is yes. You no sign then no test. Going to need to find an alternative. I was wondering why my last labs were $250 when normally itās $45-$50. Since I signed the waiver I really didnāt have a gripe. My own fault. Sigh. Any ideas of other labs with less predatory practices? Local I would guess. Might have this discussion with my pcp that I never see except for occasional need. But I get labs done twice a year from my naturopath who doesnāt take insurance and doesnāt have a lab on board anymore due to these same predatory practices. Maybe they will let me use their lab at the pcp.
Check you insurance plan to see if Quest is considered "in network". If not, take the doctor's order to lab that is in network. The doctor cannot force you to use an out of network lab. These labs all do the exact same thing, they are interchangeable.
As I mentioned above, in network providers are contractually obligated to only charge you the price negotiated with the insurance company.
and the beauty is they have a LOOONG two page list of what you are agreeing to with a simple box to tick that you agree...
They are in network which is why I questioned it because it didnāt make sense. Spent about 6 hours one day getting to the bottom of it, spoke to insurance, the doctors office, Quest, multiple times and although I now have a clear understanding of what happened, it is still not resolved. Waiting for the Quest rep for my doctors office to call. I did put in a complaint to BC/BS with their fraud department. Also have the paper work for state complaints for multiple departments. The longer Quest waits to handle this, the more pissed I will get, along with more complaints and warnings to others that will happen.
Your insurance should tell you what is covered and / or the reimbursement rate for the tests and what your owed amount is. I think they are using this form to skirt their contracted amounts and I was told I donāt have to sign when I told the doctors office I will refuse in the future. They have tried to balance bill me for a thyroid panel that they know they are contracted at a paid rate of $0. So that is what the insurance will pay by contract and I owe nothing. I questioned it, because I have NEVER had one of those tests NOT covered in 20+ years. I think it is not only unethical, but most likely illegal, and they are probably violating their contracts as well, or skirting around them.
Maybe a good idea to make a complaint with the state insurance board or AG.
Irunthis1, check WalkIn lab. No hidden costs and you can choose either Quest or LabCorp (and see how they do the test). Idk if you can use their prices to contest; guessing not. Always order panels if youāre having a bunch of tests; almost always much cheaper.
Funny, because the price they quoted on the form was slightly lower than the bill (less than a dollar), but they lied there too.
I never get my labs done at the hospital. I use Quest labs and pick which blood tests I need and pay the cheaper price.
Just for fun, check your Quest cost against walkinlab.com Quest cost. I ordered 3 tests directly from LabCorp thinking that they couldnāt be more expensive with a middle man (walkinlab). Boy was I wrong! About $220 vs 475! š”š”š” Called LabCorp to ask (complain nicely), and they insisted that was the correct price and had not idea why WIL offered their own test, done in their own lab so much cheaper. Itās all a gameā¦
I was told by the office administrator that they cannot refuse to do the tests the doctor orders because of the form. Your insurance will normally send you an EOB Explanation of Benefits that will tell you what you owe, above what they have covered.
what I find odd is when I look at the EOB Explanation how much overcharge is done vs how much insurance approves and how much I am required to pay!!!
So there is actually a purpose in doing that. When you bill Medicare as a provider, you know they will only cover X for a payout of $Y. So you have to bill at a higher rate than $Y, because if you bill $Y, they will pay less. Itās a very screwed up system.
I use Labcorp for my thyroid test , question for everything else.
* Quest
True ASK !!
Cologuard, the test for colon cancer that advertises on TV all the time, runs about $500. We learned the hard way, and have Blue Cross.
I have done that test twice (in lieu of getting a camera shoved up my ā¦) as prescribed by the doctor and never had a problem getting it reimbursed by bc/bs insurance 100%.
I was told that some plans were grandfathered in so they didn't have to do the $0 copay, and lucky us, my husband's plan is one of them! I suppose we could have been lied too, but that never happens, right?
Here's what the "Conservatives" in Britain supported:
- Unimpeded illegal immigration
- Freebees to illegals
- Racial set-asides and a spoils system
- Hate speech laws
- Social media censorship
- Gay/trans agenda
- Criminalizing traditional Christian beliefs
- Lockdowns
- Billions to vax manufacturers and de-facto vax mandates
- Billions to Ukraine and overt warmongering towards Russia
- and on and on
They deserved to be wiped out and good riddance. They are the epitome of the uniparty, even worse than here if you can believe it.
The hypocrisy and projection is breathtaking.
Same thing in the US.
Here are the 8 steps in a totalitarians playbook:
1. Politicizing independent institutions
2. Spreading disinformation
3. Aggrandizing executive power
4. Quashing dissent
5. Marginalizing specific groups
6. Corrupting elections
7. Stoking violence
8. Make absurdities reality
Does any of this sound familiar?
YES
Jeff C - thank you for the list.
Iām perpetually confused by the Eurotrash definitions of political parties. How is this āconservativeā? What is conservative about more government and entitlement and taxes? What they describe as āleft wingā and āright wing ā is inconsistent with most peoples understanding. I think they just use these words to confuse and obfuscate their plans and do whatever the hell they wantā-much like our own system of governance. Itās just so frustrating the whole damned mess. Vote them all out! And Farage āwonā but has already conceded he wonāt be in leadership because heās so ācontroversialā. Like, what? Stupid.
I think what they mean by left is just shy of communism and what they call right more socialist than anything. Anything truly conservative they call fascist or extreme right. But I live in the free state of Florida, so what do I know?
Oh, there is NO WAY they would allow Farage anywhere near a leadership position. The Reform Party, despite winning a larger percentage of total votes then Sinn Fein, won 5 fewer seats than SF. Exit polling showed a potential pick up of 13 seats for Reform but at the end of the day, only secured 4 seats. The Tories (i.e. "conservatives") lost a total of 251 seats in a year which saw the lowest turnout in 20 years, I think. The Substacker, Morgoth, does a great job covering the political and cultural scene in Britain:
https://morgoth.substack.com/p/the-labour-archipelago
They are both the same (just like the U.S.). Geez, 5 yrs of Labour is going to be distastrous for the UK. More unlimited immigration, more taxpayers paying for "refugees" to be on the dole w/ 5 bedroom houses for 4 wives/ 1 husband (who doesn't work), more wind mills/solar panels, more SMART "heating scams", more deindustrialation, sending jobs abroad...etc
This is going to be bad.
Gotta love the way things are named - double-speak style. I fully agree - they deserved to lose in a huge way.
Much like Macron in France and Mitsotakis in Greece who were both likewise recently shellacked during their respective elections
I hope that Reform UK can scoop up all the disaffected voters (Conservative or otherwise) so that in the next election (if the UK Survives that long), Reform can take over the government.
There was a movement to so decimate the Tories that they would be left with Zero Seats. That didn't come to fruition, but the loss was significant. I think the most seats lost in about 100 years.
Agree. I thought they were going to get less seats.
Agree. It seems very far from the party of Margaret Thatcher in that way.
in a way just like the current crop of RINOs vs the Republicans of Ronald Reagan
And labour will stop anything the tories did? I think they will up immigration, kill small businesses with ramped up taxes, reinstate the 2030 cut off for sales of ICE vehicles, punish the motorists with pay per mile and increased vehicle insurance and tax, keep sending money to Ukraine and definitely Israel (his wife is Jewish). Inflation will increase, interest rates will increase. We really are fckd
Yup, Labor will only make it worse. My main point was that the Conservatives are actually left-wing but just a little less so than Labor. Yet they lie and pretend they are conservative. For that they were rightly punished.
Labor is awful but at least they are (generally) honest about who they are.
Scary! If that is what āconservativesā supported, what do the āliberalsā support? Concentration camps for anyone who disagrees with their agenda (said only half in jest)!
Whatās sad is there are people who think Bidenās dementia is something new and what they previously vehemently denied as farāright-wing conspiracy talk is now true just because the media is saying it now.
And then theyāre going to gleefully grasp at whatever tattered lifeline the Hegelian propagandists toss at them, no matter how slimy, greasy, and sleazy. Theyāre like tantrum-throwing toddlers whose toy has been taken away but who are easily palliated with a shiny new one.
Very true. We should just keep telling them that he is fine - not to worry - he will not loseā¦ā¦
Of course he will not loose...Just the same way he WON last time, they will stuff the ballots again and win it for him. Remember the "win one for the Gipper" for Reagan? It will be "win one for the Sleeper" for Brandon
Don't look now but ...
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/05/nx-s1-5030231/wisconsin-ballot-dropboxes-ruling
Getting ready for the fix!
Can't wait for the "water pipe burst", the cardboard over the windows, the 0400 vans showing up-2024's gonna be lit.
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lol. like
Biden's dementia is either the problem for which they already have a solution, or it's part of another "unveiling" for the sake of driving a bigger, global narrative. A world war "justifying" narrative.
AGREE
I showed my 87 year old friend some older clips of Biden, he was shocked.
Why wasnāt this on my cable tv? He said.
š¤£ That's called Plato's Propaganda Cave. Maybe he'll work up the courage to spelunk out.
as a cave explorer for over 30 years in the long deep caves of mexico I will tell you that we say cavers rescue spelunkers.
Edith Wilson Biden (Nee Jill Giacoppo)
By David Stockman
This is not the first time that an invalid has occupied the Oval Office...
....Notwithstanding Marshallās status as a second term almost-president, Edith Wilson was having none of a succession plan. And thatās despite the fact she did not have a degree in āeducationā nor did she answer to the āDr. Edithā title.
But she had proven herself around Washington as no mean hostess when she slipped into the First Lady role during and/0r after (itās disputed!) the illness and death of Wilsonās first wife in 1915. Either way, Edith Wilson was not about to disembark from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue solely because her husband was virtually paralyzed on the entire left side of his body.
Indeed, the extent of her intrigues and deceptions designed to hang on to power are now legendary...
....As it turned out, the immobilization of the presidency during the last 18 months of Wilsonās term was one of historyās great serendipityās. Absent Wilsonās tireless promotion, the abominable League of Nations Treaty died aborning. America was thus given one more chance to return to its ways as a peaceful Republic untroubled by the petty intrigues of nations beyond the great Atlantic and Pacific Ocean moats.
Needless to say, that reprieve has long since been kicked away. America is now a dangerous Empire and its president is virtually the helmsman of the planet. So the fact that Jill Biden has apparently read and copied the entirety of professor Markelās account of Americaās first Spousal Regency is troubling indeed.
It was evident beyond a shadow of a doubt last Thursday night that a second Spousal Regency is now underway. āJoe Bidenā would have received his gold watch from Washingtonās grateful ruling apparatchiks long ago, save for the obvious fact that Jill Biden has said that absolutely ānyet means nyetā...
....That is to say, Jill Jacobs Giacoppoās tribal ferocity did not originate from the bucolic hills of Willow Grove Pennsylvania or the classrooms of Upper Moreland High School or even the instructors at Brandywine Junior College. Her fatherās family had emigrated from the Sicilian village of Gesso, losing the āGiacoppoā part within days of passing Lady Liberty, but hanging on to the blood loyalty part even unto the present fraught hour.
That is to say, Edith Wilson Biden is a clear and present danger to the American Republic. She has spent the last 47 years marinating in the self-righteous hypocrisies, follies and evil-doings of the Washington ruling classāwithout ever once have been called to accountability by any kind of electorate at all.
Like Edith Wilson, she was apparently an able spouse and hostessāwho taught classes at Northern Virginia Community College on the side and was pleased to call herself ādoctorā owing to a quasi-honorary degree from the Biden familyās political sinecure at the University of Delaware.
And yet and yet. Jill Giacoppo is an utterly unqualified usurper, who has even less excuse for her blatant power grab than did Edith Wilson back in the day. At least in Edithās time there was no 25th Amendment to regularize, organize and legitimize the transfer of power to the constitutionally prescribed role of Vice President...
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/david-stockman/edith-wilson-biden-nee-jill-giacoppo/
Great analogy!
Yes. the almighty media god has spoken, so it must be true.
LOL
In a moment the Deep-State owned and controlled Media decides that Mal-information should suddenly be transformed into genuine, honest mother's milk for their controlled Cult of conformity. Where's Biden's Truth Tsarina when he needs her?
Biden āappears to be battling the entire deep-state media complex.ā Really? I wonder if thatās ever happened before, seems so strange for a sitting President. ššš
When you have served your purpose and they are done with you , they will discard you like trash . The liberals eat their own .
agree
ā¦said in the best C&C sarcastic tone. Not enough optimism though. š
I did my best with the sarcasm, apparently I still have more to learn from Jeff. š
I am weary and leery of all of these dangerous, two-face people. Suddenly they āseeā? Baloney!!
I agree! Suddenly and unexpectedly the rose colored glasses just fell off?
lol, agree. Poor people just now saw something they NEVER knew. Geez, how stupid do they think we are?
There are a lot among the masses who blindly trusted the media for far too long. Now that those gloves are off, they're seeing what has been hidden from them for all that time. Of course, they're also jumping on the "I believe whatever the media tells me today" bandwagon - so I fully expect those people to just pivot to whatever they're told to believe next. :(
a friend has bought into the propaganda. Whenever I ask him what HE thinks he grows silent. Whatever, I don't mind, but come on man I know you are woke, so WAKE UP!
Drop all your woke friends
Weāve been together since grade school and again halfway through our careers ā¦ too late for that. We have agreed to disagree on politics
I guess, that unfortunately makes sense
common sense has left these people, much like their sense of humor and laughter
Orders from Langly
or maybe Soros? or Obama?
Same people, just in different offices.
One can make a reasonable argument that The Lightbringer is a CIA construct.
agree
Agree šÆ they are trying to control the narrative. Fact is biden is not a capable functioning adult and anyone shocked by that news is not a capable functioning adult either. Avoid these empty vessels of humanity as they are a big part of the problem.
How many venerable "Journalists" and "Editors" will be jumping ship over this overweening falsity of fabrication that they've arduously participated in since 2019? NONE. Suckling upon the teats of the Deep State provided sow is too comfortable. Should Biden recover and delivers for them at the Dem Convention and they reverse course yet again, these saps and simps will latch their lips on and squeal as required of them. Saving democracy by weaponizing a malleable truth
Agree. I don't buy any of their BS for a minute. It is all calculated and evil.
You nailed it: evil.
Since last week when videos were āclipped and manipulatedā to make him look bad. Karinge Jan-Pierre š
I'm a UK based reader of Coffee & Covid and whilst I agree the existing Conservative government were ejected on the basis of their handling of the past years (and their optics) I have to disagree that Labour have got in due to going against vaccine mandates. Labour are the more totalitarian of the two and wanted to push harder and faster on the lockdown and supported vaccine mandates as far as I am aware. Liberal Democrats have also done well in the election and they too supported the lockdowns and mandates. We have a Uniparty and narrow Overton Window here too alas.
Thanks for the local insight. I should have been more nuanced. I would probably offend just as much had I claimed the Republican Party opposed mandates. The GOP's good fortune was mainly not being in power when mandates happened.
Yup. Labor wasn't rewarded but the Conservatives were punished. They've been in power for ages and didn't govern "conservative" in the least. They are globalist puppets and sell-outs doing the bidding of their paymasters. The typical voter may not understand the nuances of political platforms, but they do understand that under Conservative rule things got worse by just about every metric and that Britain has lost much of its national identity.
Labor will make it worse for certain, and you are right that vax mandates had almost no impact in the vote. This was a repudiation of Conservative mismanagement and their seemingly outright hostility to the average UK subject. And who can blame the voters?
I can blame the voters for deciding that socialists have the golden remedy for what ails England. Fools.
I think on the immigration issue, the Tories were particularly feckless.
maybe that's why Farage got in?
You just said what I was about to say. Labour are WAY worse
āPerhaps even more tellingly, now-dominant Labour was the only major British party to oppose vaccine mandates and most of the vaccine passport rules during the pandemic.ā
How soon will it be that cracks in the armor of this new party control start to show. I can hear it now, āWith this new bird flu, it might be better to āemphasizeā to the folks this great v@x. After all, itās for the greater good.ā
āFor disgruntled Democrat donors, Bidenās only crime is not being able to beat Trump.ā
Maybe these intellectual giants should have thought of that sooner. I hope itās too late
TDS was the greatest brainwashing tool ever. As long as Trump never becomes President, liberals are OK with WW3, a collapsing economy, pandemics and mRNA jabs, 15 million illegals, a brain dead President and the list goes on and on.
Liberals likely believe a CCP style Technocracy is a far better future, than life under another Trump presidency.
Don't forget that they're OK with the baffling increase in "all-cause" mortality.
All-cause in quotes, because we know that the cause is Munchausen-by-Fauci.
Munchausen-by-Fauci
That right there is genius.
Fred, where have you been? Have I just missed your posts?
I comment most days. Guess we haven't been on the same schedule.
I guess our paths havenāt crossed then. When there are 600 or posts I miss a few.
And who/what stokes such beliefs? The corporate media, social and legacyā¦
They may simply accept their loss to Trump as inevitable and go into obstruction phase II against him, push to hold the senate and minimize damage in the House. This is going to get VERY Ugly, they'll perform scorched earth far beyond what we witnessed from 2016-2021.
Spot on ! Liberals truly believe Trump is the Devil .
Do they though, or are they just afraid that the reforms he has talked about will bring down their globalist dreams so the actual devil has less power? I agree MSM has done everything they can to convince average Americans he is the devil, but I donāt for a second believe the Talking Heads actually believe that.
I seriously wonder ? I had a conversation yesterday with a Democrat . This is their quote ā Iāve got a choice between two Dās , vote for the Dementia patient or the Devil ! ā
Seriously these people have been brainwashed.
Out of curiosity, do they tell you what they think he has done or will do (other than say mean things on Twitter/X) to put him in the same category as the devil?
I tried to have a discussion in another Substack the other day with someone who declared she had PTSD from always wondering what Trumpās next horrific act was going to be and how she can identify someone as evil just by looking at them and Trump was the epitome of evil. I tried to get her to expand on what evil acts he had committed but she refused, saying I was trying to trap/bait her, but I really wanted to understand what acts she views as horrific. I guess to her credit, she doesnāt support Biden either.
Not Karen - I would like to know this as well - what, exactly, are they claiming is so eveil about Trump?
I struggle with very serious PTSD; I hate to hear say things like that. They have no idea
Kinda like thinking Ukraine can defeat Russia.
Touche!!
Trump is the standard they wish they could achieve, but their ladder has no rungs.
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Oopsies but seriously, exactly right, which is what makes me doubt some coordinated effort of some deep state cabal. I mean, really, some group of people somewhere close to Biden had to have been sounding the alarm for awhile? IDK, I did speculate a week ago that the left may have been banking on the fact that they thought everyone hated Trump as much as they do and would vote for Biden no matter what but again, I'm not sure anyone that inept at reading the room is in any situation to take over the world?
The Biden news will be interesting. I'm saddened that so many otherwise rational people have their top priority as a candidate "someone who can beat Trump" rather than "someone who will make our country better". I'm not really surprised by that, but still sad.
I read the nationwide stay against the crazy Title IX changes, but missed the bit where it was tied to the Chevron reversal. That _is_ great news and hopefully a sign of times to come. I saw RFK Jr lamenting that Chevron reversal - that it will cause more red tape. He seemed to be missing the bigger picture of unelected people making _huge_ rules up that affect normal people in all sorts of ways. The small number of times Chevron was helpful as opposed to the vast number of times new rules were created out of thin air by some petty bureaucrat ... I'm glad it is gone. But another reason why I can't support RFK Jr as a candidate. I appreciate his calling out the pharma companies, but most of his positions are just crazy to me.
The essence of RFK Jr. is being revealed more and more everyday. He's good on the medical freedom issue - which I admit is very important to me - but terrible on many of the other issues I value highly too. It does seem that at the end of the day, he's okay with a technocracy of his own making. I want the technocrats OUT.
problem with RFK jr is his uber liberal stand on most other issues. He is GREAT for medical freedom issues but otherwise? Of course if it is a choice between FJB and RFK, then RFK all the way. But there is also Orange man in the mix
RFK Jr is a New Dealer, Great Society, Progressive Socialist. He throws a few bones to populist working class issues and feels he's done with the masses, much like Obama--say some things that sound good but backstab the common folks and offer them public assistance for the wound.
If their priority was "who will make our country better" that would make them sound ... heavens forbid... like MAGA!
I am anxiously awaiting tonight's influential interview with Snuffleupagus to count how many edits there will be. It will be a sort of a Wheres Waldo test.
It will surely be edited rendering it nothing but an ABC sponsored campaign ad.
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Excellent comment! Made me laugh
Perfect description!
Maybe we could reduce profligate federal spending if we made all the remaining days that aren't federal holidays, federal holidays. It would also reduce the number of anticonstitutional decisions by federal bureaucracies and courts.
The appropriate way to celebrate Juneteenth would be that any income earned on that day is entirely exempt from federal taxes. I suppose we could extend that to all of the other days, too.
That one still kills me. I'd never _heard_ of Juneteenth until I moved to Texas. And even then - it was ... just a day. You might get a lesson or something on it in public school, but it was never any sort of holiday. Still crazy that it's a federal holiday now and people are acting like it was always some huge event.
Well, Kwanzaa earns a lot of money and social cred for the flubadub who invented it, and for the greeting card makers who jumped on that Fweedom Train.
The Juneteenth malarkey has gone too far: I read that in CA they will pay reparations to any person whose ancestors were slaves. Hmmm does that include Koreans who were enslaved by Japanese or Greeks who were enslaved to Ottoman Turks as well?
Ancestry.com says I'm 0.03% West African. Can I get in on the money for nothing scam?
Daddy wants a Chris Craft real bad.
I still donāt know or want to know what it is ā¦
And, please donāt enlighten me. š
It would be easier for a more enlightened SCOTUS to revisit UNITED STATES v. BENSON (2009) and make a correction similar to that applied to Roe v. Wade.
I like it what the hell. a sort of jubilee, long overdue, of no government
A true jubilee would be an improvement over the status quo.
Haha, excellent idea!
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