Governor DeWine defends Haitian Invasion, badly; pervert Dr. Varma gets corporate media's attention, a little; Routh reporting still raising eyebrows; two great last-minute election changes; more.
But, but, but, he's a Republican in good standing! Haha. Remember when being a Republican once meant you favored free markets rather than being a crony capitalist whose business was dependent on the government dole?
This is where we all owe Trump such a debt of gratitude. He exposed how the Paul Ryan /Mitt Romney/Mitch McConnell GOP was just a corrupt racket.
Can we please believe our own eyes again? I don’t mean never give the benefit of the doubt or always judge on 1st impressions. I mean if that pic of DeWine was the first I’d seen, I’d note the rug, garage sale glasses, constipated squint, pervy smirk, indigent-corpse grade shirt, tie, and jacket, and my radar would suggest I watch my back. Instincts are God-given for good reasons, which is why progs tell us to judge only MAGA Republicans.
Every word of it. However, we have been programmed for the last sixty years to ignore our own God-given intuition and that being judgmental in any form is a sin. Of course that's a complete twisting of the Gospel as it says no such thing.
Very often (in fact usually) you CAN tell a book by it's cover, and people who ignore it are fools.
Everybody in and around the Biden admin has an impure vibe that feels pretty specific, and I'd rather not ask anybody, “So, you’re a lying creep, right?” They'll usually prove it anyway. There’s never been a better time to fine tune our spiritual discernment.
But…I’ve been over that barrel a time or two. We have a name you can add to that corrupt list here in Texas, where I’ve held my nose and voted for John Cornyn. But the choice was either him or his Democratic opponent. The lesser of two evils? IDK
John Cornball is safely entrenched for another two years and knows it too well. I hope and pray he just retires and doesn't sneak into McConnell’s shoes. If not, the lesser of two evils won’t be so clear. He and the increasingly comfortable Cruz are making me rethink term limits. The Texas GOP is in favor of recall referendum, but we’ll need lots of luck getting politicians to support that bill.
This is just disgusting how they’re selling out their own people.
HHS along with Homeland Security needs to come in and bust them and the landlords; it’s called “single family housing” for a reason! These property owners — the mayor included —who are kicking out Americans so they can charge rent by bodycount are nothing but greedy, selfish criminal scam artists.
I recall that several other cities have done exactly the same thing, evicting impoverished citizens and handicapped US military veterans from Section 8 housing, so that migrants could come and squat in those homes.
I wonder how they are kicking out tenants? Has anyone read about that? Do they raise the rent to a level they can get for illegal tenants and then people have to move out because they can't afford it? I haven't seen information on this yet.
In the article that Kathleen posted above 👆, they interviewed people in Springfield and one resident was quoted as saying: “You've got landlords right now that's kicking the tenants out,” Clos said. “They say, 'look here, we're raising rent up to $1,500 a month.' They say, 'I can't afford it.' 'You can't afford it, there's the door we'll bring somebody else in.' It's all about the mighty dollar now…”
So yes, sounds like they just raise the rents to an unsustainable level for the Americans living there.
Of course the Mayor does! And none of us are surprised! I hope Ohio voters figure it out regarding DeWine and thd Springfield mayor. As time goes on I have no doubt other facts will come to light.
Also a native Ohioan and registered Republican. My family has never voted for DeSwine and neither have any of my friends. Pretty sure he was selected rather than elected. His term runs until 2026, which seems lightyears away. We've GOT to get him out but, then, there's always the chance someone worse like a full-blown Democrat could end up as Gov.
I think he's at term limit in 2026, Ohio only allows two consecutive terms at governor I believe. But that means we have to make sure to be involved in the primary, or else this state GOP is going to find someone just as bad.
Has anyone else looked at their summer stats from Substack? Apparently C&C isn’t in my top 3 even though it’s the only one I read every single day.
I’ve also noticed that occasionally when I use the search to find C&C, it won’t come up until I’ve typed out the whole title, but several others that aren’t that close are suggested.
This is weird. Is Jeff not impressing the right people? Anyone else notice this? Just something random I noticed.
Thank you, I kind of I assumed that it was content based. It’s also strange to me that he’s listed under ‘health’ stacks when he mostly does US and world news, but that could be because of his title. On the plus side, he was numbers 1 and 2 in ‘health’ articles yesterday (Thursday’s and Friday’s).
CS - Thank you for this comment. I went to my dashboard and realized that I didn't choose categories for my stack back when I created it this past May. I write about the white fibrous clots that embalmers have been finding.
I chose "Health and Wellness" and "Science" for a secondary category. It will be interesting to see if my subscriber base increases. I'm over 1,000 right now.
You are, I assume, aware of John O'Looney, funeral home director, and his published clot findings? And of Substack authors Dr. Philip Macmillan, Linda Lazarides, Laura Kasner, and the standalone website "Totality of Evidence"? You are not alone in tracking down the facts about clots.
CS - I'm also having an issue with Substack no longer sending me email notifications when someone replies to my comments. I only receive "like" notifications. I can get around it by going to "activity", but this is very cumbersome and easy to miss comments - which can be pure gold!
I started having the same issue. AND, when I click to look at my own comment to read replies it will no longer take me to my actual comment but make me sift through all the other comments in the thread to find mine. It’s cumbersome and I can no longer quickly converse with the ones replying to my original comment. So many people are not getting replies from me anymore. I wondered if this was on purpose.
I noticed that too! So annoying but then I also found that I can get directed to the actual new comment response from my desktop. I usually read C&C on my iPad. Try a different device, see what happens
I’ve been noticing that also… I post a comment and when someone posts back, I don’t get a notification… I used to be on Parlor, and then they took it down! 🔥🔥🔥 Where will we all go if Substack gets taken down?
The comment trail works properly for me in the Substack Android app, but not on my Win11 PC. Since both are configured with the same notification settings, this is (as Spock would say) illogical.
I went in and checked my settings for notifications on my computer and they are all set to notify me correctly. So it makes me think “they” are pulling strings on this platform too. Ugh 😣
I was recently in my Substack account on my computer instead of the app, and there is an option to turn off notifications specifically for likes. Maybe they did an update and turned that off for content providers? Might be worth rechecking.
Me, too. Still get notifications of likes. So what I'm doing is opening the like notification and clicking on "your comment", which takes me to my comment and all replies. Irritating, though.
I no longer get email notifications either. However, I don't depend on those anyway and I just use my browser to go the sub stacks I want to read each day.
Its might be a setting under notifications for writers BUT for readers it must be somewhere else - they have changed things around.... But I get emails for likes and replies... MAYBE SOMEONE KNOWS WHERE THE SETTING FOR THAT IS LOCATED NOW....
also alot of pubs are probably in the news categories BUT his should be appearing high in the rankings given the # of subscriber BUT paid subscribers might be what Substack pushes...
CS - I don't feel right opening my stack to paid subscriptions since what I write about could possibly save lives by causing "vaccine hesitancy". No one can accuse me of being a grifter.
I'm sure that hurts me since Substack can't make any money off of my writings.
100%. And comments are not out there as well. I used to get many notifications on responses and now there are practically none. And...Laura, have you checked your settings on your publishers dashboard? Because there is one on there that is super creepy and by default it is set ON. "Allow AI training
Allows platforms like ChatGPT and Google Bard to train on your content. Disabling may limit your discoverability on these platorms."
Oh, and THAT is not my typo!! I just copied and pasted from my dashboard.
It’s happening to me too! I was frustrated by it but now hearing it’s happening to all of us makes me realize they either did it on purpose or…..they did it on purpose. 😉
Publisher settings, I assume, are if YOU publish your own Substack. Since you don't have a Substack listed beside your name, I assume you probably don't publish. So maybe won't see/have access to those settings.
I’ve noticed that too, even just on their weekly recommended stacks. Sometimes a topic will look interesting but once I get into it it’s always left. And they ALWAYS have E Jean Carroll at the top of the recommended list. Ewwww Absolutely no.
Yes this is what I see. An unbalanced push to leftist propaganda. I started sending people actual hard links to my favorite Substacks like C&C so that I can bypass any search engine corrupting their efforts to find them.
I think they are shadow banning or have manipulated the algorithm e.g. search for memes and I don't show up - a leftwing Substack does BUT I also don't have meme in my Substack title BUT my meme posts should be showing up more in their searches... Also, don't forget that Twitter is largely shadow banning Substack links...
I was taken aback at how much I’ve read - word count was over 1 million! However, when I think about the fact I essentially get allllll my news and info from substack, it starts to make sense.
This happens to me with The Naked Emperor stack, to which I’m a paid subscriber. I have to search for it every single day. El gato 8m a free subscriber and it always shows up in my feed, lol.
When I saw the “summer stats” it reminded me of when Facebook would get everyone to upload an old photo or something as stupid…it seems like a waste of time to me, and a tad suspicious..I know what I read.
I get an email every Mon-Sat and click on the little "LIKE" heart if I want to read it on substack, but I usually just read it in the email, then pop into substack for the comments section.
Oh I turned off email long ago, I don’t need one more thing in my email. I use the app, and the things I subscribe to are at the top of the list. The issue happens when I’m already in the app and get a notification that c/c has posted and I can’t get it to pop up.
I'm just the opposite, I don't need one more app, lol. I stopped putting apps on my phone, because I refuse to upgrade to 5G, and my phone doesn't work with many of the new apps out there either, even if it had lots more storage capacity to load it up with apps.
I check my email every morning and leave that window open, and drink coffee and play The Epoch Times Games/Puzzles on another window, and check out a few headlines while I wait for my email from C&C. I get a kick out of bouncing around between tabs and windows.
I'm on my desktop computer sitting in my comfy office chair at home with a "real" keyboard, lol. I've only been "retired" since January and have had only 5 months getting used to living in a new state, so I like my "old" tech that I'm familiar with, and I know how to work around glitches that happen on my familiar set up.
I only subscribe to a few things like C&C, and visit everybody else sporadically based on the topic of interest.
So, I am sorry you have this frustration and I'll just pop out of the conversation now, because I am not helpful for your particular difficulties.
I have an IPhone 8 Plus that won't do 5G either, but I suspect we will all eventually have no choice. My husband and I had a second phone, and were using a much older iPhone SE that only went to 3G. One day a totally free iPhone (the Xr model) arrived in the mail, and ATT said it was because 3G no longer worked and we needed to have a 4G capable one. They had previously tried to get us to upgrade using their usual enticements to get an expensive new phone, but we never did that. Rather than lose our monthly phone payments for that phone, they sent out the free phones. I think eventually they will make the 4G phones useless.
When I go to my reading list on my phone, he’s in the top three and it’s the only post I read daily. On my computer, he’s dead last because he’s the first Substack I subscribed to. What I’ve noticed is that my email from him doesn’t come in and when I come to Substack and refresh my inbox or his page, nothing happens. Yesterday, I refreshed his page and my email every five minutes. I finally got his stack at about 9:50. I saw in the comments that people had been making comments since at least 9:25. According to my email account, that email came through at 8:58. But it didn’t. I know because I kept checking.
Today I came on the app and refreshed his page; nothing. I then went directly to my email and there it was. This happens consistently on my computer at work, as well, where either the stack or the email appear eventually, but very delayed.
I read on the app but this happens to me sometimes too. I’ll get the notification that C&C has posted, but when I click it won’t be there. I’ll go to inbox and my front page and refresh… nothing. Hence why I’m sometimes having to search for it.
Why don’t you have Coffee & Covid on your Home Screen or Favorites? I just open that every day and everything is immediately there. No typing or searching.
Nor in mine. I'm a non-paying customer here, so thought that's why C&C wasn't listed. I also read Racket News (Tiabbi) - every post. I pay for it; it was not listed. Alex Berenson's Substack is shown as my top, even though Alex has apologized to subscribers several times for his sporadic posting due to working on his federal case. Fishy!
You probably commented enough that the algorithm decided you wanted your own stack. Too bad that same algorithm can’t figure out what type of information I’m interested in. 🙄😂
It’s something that just popped up on my home page, I don’t know how to go find it. If you scroll down through ‘explore’ it’s a post that will pop up and say something like ‘see what you read this summer, click here to see your summer stats’.
"I’ve been holding off calling this out, since everybody makes mistakes, especially me, but I can’t just stand it anymore. Since early summer, I’ve been seeing a disquieting trend of basic grammar and spelling mistakes creeping into top-tier corporate media stories."
These cretins are the face of affirmative action, DEI and too big to fail.
A place where you are encouraged to use large type and double spacing.
A place where creativity can be created by emancipating it from someone who did the work.
A magical utopia where parentheses can walk off pages, free of their shackles!
Or it may be simply that schools haven't focused on spelling and grammar for years now, instead instructing students to rely on spell check and suggested words. "Diffuse" is not misspelled, so it would not have prompted a writer to check. But I have noticed lots of spelling and grammar errors too, and it drives me nuts.
My high school son is taking a composition course through our local community college. The instructor actually advises students to run their essays through AI chat to see if it suggests word changes or finds grammatical errors.
More troublingly, a focus on correct grammar and word choice is seen as......(wait for it...) racist, white supremacy, neo-Colonialism.
Please understand that racist, white supremacy, Neo-Colonialism, and almost everything else they call us are all code words for one thing that must be destroyed: CAPITALISM. That is why BLM burned black-owned businesses in the 2020 riots, because those owners were capitalists (aka, the black face of White Supremacy). When you understand this, a whole lot more makes sense.
And where did ‘have ran’ (as in “I have ran into him at church.”) come from? I hear some otherwise eloquent speakers use this and it makes me shout “have run” out loud. My mother was 1st gen Italian (bullied, called ethnic slurs, etc) and would correct my grammar every time, all day long. She worked hard to make sure her children were well-spoken.
I mentioned this too before I read your comment! It drives me crazy, but while the past participle is being lost in constructions that require a past participle, those same past participle forms are being used as a simple past tense. It's crazy....I don't think kids are taught grammar at all in schools any more.
My response is, "how many are you?" Our house is divided on this one because, while we both believe in two sexes and that the current lexicon accounts for this, I would allow for some new word(s) -zee/zim for example - over misusing existing words. One of the questions around this whole kerfuffle is: how often does one use a third person pronoun when in that person's presence anyway? Has anyone heard of an alternative for "you"? Other than thou, of course!
Ryan, at least you are trying! It seems as though most people do not even care to try anymore. I do try to offer a measure of grace to those for whom spelling, grammar, and punctuation is difficult, as I would like the same grace back when dealing with math! 😆 However, I have no patience for "professional" writers for news, magazines, etc. who publish articles with typos in them. It is their job to produce clean, clear copy for the reading public!
Public schools teach nothing nowadays. Before I had to give up my college teaching job b/c of mandates, I taught First-year Writing at a CA State University, and got to see first hand the extent of the disaster that is K-12 public education.
And even among the kids who know better --were home- or private-schooled and have proper spelling and grammar chops-- there is still that "I would never call it out because that would be making another person feel bad" attitude.
Having worked on the admin side of things and spent years correcting documents for engineers, I can always tell when someone used SpellCheck to "proofread" their document, or was just too lazy to do even that!
The past participle forms are being lost....I cringe when I hear things like "I should have went" etc. Ugh! And it's often from seemingly educated people that should know better.
The diffuse/defuse example is one of my pet peeves as well. Another is "reign" as in "Biden is trying to reign in inflation." (It must be nice to be the king.)
You can always tell who is relying on spellcheck and who actually knows how to write.
I don't remember where I saw it, but someone recently made the argument that cursive is no longer taught because the flow of writing in cursive supports the process of putting maturing thoughts from brain to paper - and "they" don't want that!
I used to give riding lessons during the 80s and 90s, and in our tack room was an old rotary dial phone. After a lesson, a young girl about 8 or 9 years old asked me, "What is that?" I replied, "What is what?," not knowing to what she was referring. She touched the phone and asked again, "What is this?" I told her it was a phone. She replied, "No, it isn't. It doesn't have any buttons!"
I guess I am still a bit anachronistic, because my cell phone is a flip phone that has buttons, whilst most people have smart phones that no longer have buttons!
That's great! And instructive. My first instinct is to shake my head at their struggle but then I realize that I did not come by my knowledge of rotary phone usage by intuition, but instead by instruction and/or observation. I am reminded of playing Mario Bros. on the first generation Nintendo with my much younger cousins. I would just move along until one told me to crouch down and slide under a block then stand up whereupon a power up would appear. Without their knowledge I would never have known that power up was there or how to get it.
My pet peeve with language is… when did the word ‘whoa’ become ‘woah’? That doesn’t even make sense if you’d were taught phonics. Probably white supremacy.
My daughter was born in 1970, and by the time she was going into kindergarten I was aware that schools were abandoning the phonics that I learned to read with. They had latched onto "word recognition" as a method of reading rather than sounding out letters. Kids would look at a picture of a horse with the letters "horse" under it and pronounce it as "pony". Yikes! So we taught our daughter to read using phonics well before she went to school.
I’m the same vintage as your daughter but I learned phonics. My kids didn’t and none of them can spell. Worse, they don’t teach or expect cursive writing. Had to teach that one ourselves.
For awhile I have noticed what I call "word inflation" where a verb is followed by totally unnecessary words. "Revert back" is one example. "Revert" means to go back, and doesn't need a redundant "back" to follow. It is not possible to "revert forward" which I guess one could think is the opposite. Here are some more:
Lower down, raise up
Return back
Revert back
Splice together
Combining them together
Ensued thereafter
Merge together
I think this may have started as a way for media people to try sounding more intelligent or hip and then caught on with the public ("granular" and "my bad" come to mind).
And one more while I'm in a whiny mood -- using "There's" to refer to a plural noun instead of "There are...". "There's many ways to speed up your PC."
I would add that people don’t know how to correctly use the verb form of words. For example, “Setup your computer and then login.” should be typed “Set up your computer and then log in.”
Industry jargon with acronyms results in a lot of that kind of thing, especially as what words are represented by the acronym are forgotten. Ask a youth what ATM stands for and wait for hilarity to ensue.
I am all for an expansive lexicon and prefer to be as precise as practicable and practical but there are certainly those who use longer words only in an attempt to sound more knowledgeable or intelligent than they are. Our current VP springs to mind.
Daily Mail went from using the interns to using AI, they have huge grammar error now and even unfinished sentences. It’s pretty clear they must have fired the editors.
I just saw a group email from someone who resembles a potential DIE hire at my workplace, a very large hospital, requesting to “please excuse any spelling or grammar errors.” I guess that request takes the place of actually learning basic spelling and grammar these days. Embarrassing and sad.
A pet peeve is when a local online news organization includes a request at the end of every article to report any spelling or grammar errors. Isn’t it their job to do that?! Our society has fallen so far, smh.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
By faith, turning to God in repentance, and the obedience that follows, the church is a rebuke to the principalities that rebelled!
Ephesians 3:9-10
". . . to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places."
NPR whined that, according to experts, hand-counting is slower and less reliable than electronic tabulation. " Do they mean like when they take weeks to 'count' the electronic votes to determine how many midnight one party only delivered votes they have to use to overcome Trumps winning number of votes? That kind of time delay? As for 'experts'. exactly who or what is an expert in vote counting? Do they offer degrees in counting votes? What college provides that? What qualifications does a vote counter actually have? Are they licensed?
Also their stupid steal tactic of Vote by Mail takes too long. We should have a Winner declared on Election night and not try to rewind the Football game to see if they can get a different outcome. Also, “tabulators” take too long on Election Day when it causes the Polls to shut down?
Here in Oregon we had Komrad Kate Brown as gov, her term was up so they selected Komrad Tina Kotek. More of the same. Gee, could it be because we’ve had mail-in ballots for 35+ years??? Gee, and dems for that long too? 🤷♀️🤬
Jesse Kelly talks about this very situation in his recent appearance with Tucker and he says it is the fault of the primary voters. First, most people don't show up to vote in the primaries so the person who ends up representing the ticket is chosen by the very few, likely incentivized voters who choose the guy who rewards them. It's a sad but true state of affairs.
I don't know about that. I volunteered in 2016 on election day keeping my eye out for shenanigans and I didn't see any. And I volunteered in Cuyahoga county.
Ohio has gone for Trump every time and has a mostly Republican Congress. I just wish we had a better Republican gubernatorial candidate during this time. My whole life Ohio was a swing state and now it isn't even considered that. Which is nice since I don't have to hear election commercials on the radio.
It's not always physically at the polling places. They are inserted through the electronic machines. There is an algorithm for each state. For example 90% of the 65 year olds voted in Cuyahoga County. 90% of the 65 years olds voted in Summit. 90% in Medina, etc. But go into a county in PA and 80% of the 65 year olds voted in every county there. Michigan, it may be 85% of 65 year olds in every county.
Look into Dr. Corsi, Dr. Frank, Election Integrity Network. It starts with cleaning the voter rolls.
Full on cheating. No one watches the down ballot races and part of that is because of 2020. This year you watch trump win by a landslide, yet all the conservative tickets fail. Every last one.
He came to my company once. I could feel his aura. He radiated disdain and borderline evil. I also don't know why Ohio keeps him in there. I've voted against him every time.
The teacher unions got Beshear elected. (If you believe that he actually won.) So many people were fooled by his “aw..shucks” demeanor. He CARED SO MUCH during Covid.
I'm in Ohio. And I'm not sure DeSwine was "selected" instead of elected.
The reason I say that? This spring I started working part-time for a school system. It has been an eye-opener to say the least. Doesn't matter how bad things get financially, or how frequently they get sick thanks to 6+ boosters, they STILL hate Trump. All of 'em. TDS is the disease to beat. And I don't see us beating it without prying mainstream media from the grips of evil. THEY GET ALL THEIR NEWS AND OPINIONS from television!!
How bad is it? I have a friend in another state who grew up in WWII. She is from Germany ... fled the nazis. She can't stand Trump because "of the way he talks about women, and he's a convict." (Ya can't make this shit up ... she immigrated here and has had a good life thanks to America, but can't recognize propaganda even though she lived through it... and will likely help the communists with her vote because she is brainwashed.)
I have a friend who started working for a local school district right before COVID. She was generally pretty conservative in her views. That is no longer the case. The indoctrination in school systems is overwhelming. I have a neighbor who is a teacher in our school district and she was one of only 4 teachers who said no to the vax. She is also very awake about all the issues discussed here. I don't know how she has managed to remain unprogrammed, but I do think there are some people who are built differently.
That's really depressing about your friend from Germany. But even there, they have done an incredible job brainwashing Germans to loathe their country and denounce everything about it.
Yes, I think lots of us underestimate the influence and reach of people employed by the school systems and the government as a whole. These people all have a vested interest in more government and more spending.
Running Logic my thoughts on the schools and society in general is this. The radical “ hippies” of the 60’s saw that blowing up buildings and the like weren’t working so they became teachers, journalists, lawyers, judges, politicians, newscasters, etc. change the way of thinking and you’ve captured a generation and beyond. Jimmy Carter started the dept. of education and our test scores are way down but our stupidity is off the charts. How else can we explain the alphabet groups supporting hamas?
Teachers are the worst. My good friend watches NPR for her news! I shouldn’t have been shocked, but I bet she doesn’t support them financially and get her free Downton Abby mug! 🤣
I'm originally from Ohio and still have some family there. They are *all* brainwashed dems. My brother and I both escaped Ohio years ago and are both conservatives.
They dont like dewine, but dont do anything about it. And they all think Trump and Vance are racist bigots.
MAGA needs to take over the Rep party in Ohio. It's the only way to get a good governor. DeSwine is very good at riding the line at being barely tolerable.
Here's a thought: if cheating is accepted as being rampant in the last Presidential election at the very least, why would or should we believe that it doesn't occur at other times, and in other than blue states?
If a government clearly and consistently lies to the populace, weaponizes various agencies to conduct lawfare against dissent, breaks or sidesteps the law to further its own goals, and more/worse, then would it be difficult to believe that the citizenry is not allowed the power to significantly change the system...?
It is so easy to quickly count the number of anything. As ballots are handed in, they are placed in batches of some count (10, 20, 30, pick one). When voting is over you count the number of batches + the last few ballots. During the vote each batch count is double- or triple-checked. You can announce the ballot count in about 10 minutes after voting is completed.
you also have to have someone else count the batches again and see if the person who originally counted them into the batch was honest, unfortunately, because there were a lot of mislabelled batch sheets in 2020
either that or have 2 people count them the first time, one from each party, like with poll watchers
It's easiest to boil issues like Springfield down to one thing. Cui Bono? Who benefits? What did Gov. DeWine get in the Haitian deal? What did the local government officials get? Which NGOs got deals? What do those deals look like? Who runs those NGOs? What do they do with the money they're paid?
Again, I recommend Tucker Carlson’s “Live Cities” Tour. 16 cities in a month. The guests have been fantastic. Jesse Kelly was so good. I listen to them on podcast.
I thought about going to one of the Pennsylvania events too, Dr. Linda, but decided against it. They are both about 5 hours from me, one way, so that would make for a long, long day.
I am a retired middle school English teacher. Students do not know how to spell or use grammar correctly because schools are too busy teaching critical race theory and other “feel good” subjects. It was amazing to me how the students’ skills plummeted by the end of my career.
Yes. I also wonder if it has to do with not physically writing in cursive?
I mean there's something to be said about coordinating your thoughts and your hands in terms of remembering the relationship between an idea and grammar.
I can't like this comment enough. Kids aren't really even expected to write by hand at all, past a certain age. When I taught at the college and had students write in-class essays by hand, I was roundly excoriated by the students and by some fellow teachers for "disadvantaging" (another great word lol) the students who "performed better writing on a laptop." I was like, it's basic writing, if you can't do this you are in for a world of hurt out there IRL.... Some of the kids' writing though.....whoooboy. There is just such a drop off in spatial relationships and kinesthetic confidence among the youngsters now, b/c their lives are not 3-D & tactile enough. It's so sad.
No fan of cursive here. Having graduated with an engineering bachelor's degree in 1969, my preference is block lettering - all caps - just as we used to do on the drafting table.
Always legible and not subject to misunderstanding, that's the plus to block caps!
I’m sure others herein wonder if the plummeting of student skills is not directly associated with the excessive numbers of “vaccines” forced on children to attend schools… it utterly astonishes me that the one natural control group in our failing at healthcare country is the Amish… just compare their unvaccinated health, their children’s unvaccinated skills and abilities to our nationwide public school children…
The downward trend started decades ago. My wife graduated public high school in 1971; her favorite teacher told her that Wife was lucky she was getting out when she did, because, according to Teach, the schools were going to crap.
Regarding Jeff Childers comments on story typos, there is definitely something happening with general cognitive ability, I see it everywhere. From people being baffled by how a traffic signal works to highly technical tasks, something is very off.
I work almost exclusively with very smart people being in a highly technical engineering environment. What I've noticed over the past four years is that people seem to have lost the basic ability to get organized, prioritize important tasks from trivial ones, and follow through on execution. It's not like people forgot how to do calculus, but that their thinking is disorganized, irrational, and chaotic. It's alarming as the key to a functioning highly technical society is not having a bunch of Albert Einsteins around, but people who can think in a systemic manner, recognize patterns, and evaluate/mitigate risk. We are fast losing that capability.
From a purely personal perspective its been good for me as I retain these skills (not sure why, maybe being unvaxxed, good genetics, or just God's grace) so I'm in high demand professionally. But it's terrible for society as it's what caused Europe to develop so prosperously while Sub-Saharan Africa was (and remains) a basket case. That's the difference between an intelligent, organized society that values competency, and one that doesn't. That's where we are heading with this, and it's not just caused by uneducated illegal aliens swamping the country and DEI promotions. The smart people are losing their ability to logically think, and it's getting worse.
Read Michael C. Nehls book, "The Indoctrinated Brain." It explains so much of what we are seeing. Forgive me - I know I sound like a broken record as I've recommended this book several times over the past week.
I'm going to have to break down and finally buy that book. I've seen him on several interviews and agree his explanation is the most plausible one out there.
Jeff C., those skills you listed are executive functioning skills and include the ability to set and achieve goals, which requires the ability to plan, prioritize, initiate task completion, manage time, complete tasks, regulate emotions, etc. Most of my mental health clients present with executive functioning skills deficits. The reasons for their poor ability to learn and retain these skills vary and include trauma, chronic stress, and maladaptive coping strategies like substance use, especially marijuana and alcohol. Nearly all of my treatment plans include objectives to improve executive functioning skills and emotional intelligence skills, which is the ability to manage one's own emotions and understand the emotions of others.
Bryn Cannon, don't get me started! lol I definitely have strong beliefs about daycare and the education system. They produce lots of anxious kids from my perspective.
When I was pregnant the first time, a coworker’s wife had just had a baby and they put him in daycare. I asked if they were worried about his level of attachment to them when most of his waking hours were spent with a rotating staff. His response was “There’s something to be said for the people who tuck you in at night.” Um…..”night nurse”? How is a 4-month-old supposed to know that “his own bed” is his home and the people he sees for only an hour or two are the most important in his life?
Your last sentence nails it and I've harped on this endlessly. People are slaves to their emotions thus most decisions are driven by instant gratification. And virtually every aspect of popular culture reinforces this as a good thing. Alcohol/drug abuse, gambling, infidelity, consumerism, debt, and on and on. And it's getting worse as they are being promoted more than ever. All of these cater to our base hedonistic desire for immediate pleasure. All of them are also specifically condemned in the Bible in one way or another, all for good reason.
I don't view it as a mental health issue though, but a spiritual deficiency. Poor mental health may follow, but that's not the root cause (AA's founders realized this a hundred years ago). Accountability to God is crucial. Here's what's really interesting, If one follows the morality of the Bible (and I mean are serious about it) they can't help but be successful in every aspect of life even if they don't believe in God! It lays out behavioral guardrails for life that *always* make better people. This obvious fact is one of the reasons I'm confident it's the inspired Word of God.
Speaking from experience here as I was an alcoholic/drug addict that got sober by the Grace of God when I was 23. I've been on both sides, and this side is infinitely better. And I don't just mean avoiding the deleterious effects these substances, but the spiritual change that took place. Trust God and do not fear are powerful words, when one truly believes that God is in control then fear loses all (and I mean all) of its power. It is life changing.
The amazing thing is how my perspective completely changed, and this is common. When I was living a hedonistic lifestyle, internally I thought I was a piece of garbage (low self esteem) but a mighty important piece of garbage (huge ego). It was exactly backwards. In reality, I am loved by God which gives me indescribable worth. But at the same time He also loves eight billion others as much as me, and I need to always keep that in perspective.
But here's the question, why have we seen such a rapid deterioration in the last five years? Why does it seem to be accelerating so rapidly? I personally think it's multiple contributors that have all been ramped up: 1) a cultural moral inversion that portrays Christian ethics as harmful/evil and resulting in hedonism 2) a "therapy" culture that has people dwell on their problems rather than rise above them 3) constant fear-mongering in the media as a means of emotional control and debasement 4) psychotropic drugs as "treatment" rather than a temporary tool if even used at all and 5) serious mind-altering side effects of the mRNA injections.
All of this has exploded recently, and it's not a coincidence IMO. It's a multi-fold increase in the ongoing spiritual warfare around us.
We outright reject all of these in our household and things are going well. Yet most people accept this stuff without even a hint of critical thought. Then they wonder why they have "mental health" issues, financial problems, infidelity, fights among family members, and whatnot. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Saying "congratulations" in acknowledgement of your accomplishments seems trite, Jeff C. Please know that I realize what it took for you to get to where you are today. And as for the rest of what you wrote, I agree with you, except that since I don't ask about my clients' mRNA status and it's rare that it's revealed by the client, I can't speak to #5 on your list.
I live in Ohio and am a registered Republican. I didn't vote for DeSwine. He's a disgrace to our state.
The mayor of Springfield, OH owns properties that rent to Haitians.
Here is the link:
https://buckeyereporter.com/stories/664310242-special-report-renting-apartments-to-haitians-is-big-business-for-springfield-mayor-rob-rue-others
But, but, but, he's a Republican in good standing! Haha. Remember when being a Republican once meant you favored free markets rather than being a crony capitalist whose business was dependent on the government dole?
This is where we all owe Trump such a debt of gratitude. He exposed how the Paul Ryan /Mitt Romney/Mitch McConnell GOP was just a corrupt racket.
Can we please believe our own eyes again? I don’t mean never give the benefit of the doubt or always judge on 1st impressions. I mean if that pic of DeWine was the first I’d seen, I’d note the rug, garage sale glasses, constipated squint, pervy smirk, indigent-corpse grade shirt, tie, and jacket, and my radar would suggest I watch my back. Instincts are God-given for good reasons, which is why progs tell us to judge only MAGA Republicans.
Lordy, but you win todays prize for most vivid word picture of a person and a wardrobe!
Every word of it. However, we have been programmed for the last sixty years to ignore our own God-given intuition and that being judgmental in any form is a sin. Of course that's a complete twisting of the Gospel as it says no such thing.
Very often (in fact usually) you CAN tell a book by it's cover, and people who ignore it are fools.
Now please describe Walz. You can include the ‘pervy smirk’. Tucker is in agreement with that. Skin-crawl creepy.
Creepy for sure, but he just comes across as a total idiot.
Some kids reportedly liked Coach Walz, but athletes do love attention. Maybe they didn’t notice how attentive he was.
He coached because that was where the kids were. 😖
He reminds me of Merrick Garland for some reason.
Everybody in and around the Biden admin has an impure vibe that feels pretty specific, and I'd rather not ask anybody, “So, you’re a lying creep, right?” They'll usually prove it anyway. There’s never been a better time to fine tune our spiritual discernment.
Free money to the corrupt politicians that own the properties.
But…I’ve been over that barrel a time or two. We have a name you can add to that corrupt list here in Texas, where I’ve held my nose and voted for John Cornyn. But the choice was either him or his Democratic opponent. The lesser of two evils? IDK
I saw Tucker's interview with Jesse Kelly and he talked a lot about what a scumbag Cornyn is.
He is a known RINO, but when you have someone like him with the establishment behind him and name recognition, it’s tough to get them out of office.
I saw that interview as well, it was good!
John Cornball is safely entrenched for another two years and knows it too well. I hope and pray he just retires and doesn't sneak into McConnell’s shoes. If not, the lesser of two evils won’t be so clear. He and the increasingly comfortable Cruz are making me rethink term limits. The Texas GOP is in favor of recall referendum, but we’ll need lots of luck getting politicians to support that bill.
He sure did! Wait until we see how small our Government will be very soon!!
ALWAYS follow the money. Kathleen Janoski, always on top of the story!!! Thank you Kathleen!
As I said when this hit, these cretins in these small towns are being grifted by the Feds, and they love it!
Of course, just another grifter taking advantage of the taxpayers.
This is just disgusting how they’re selling out their own people.
HHS along with Homeland Security needs to come in and bust them and the landlords; it’s called “single family housing” for a reason! These property owners — the mayor included —who are kicking out Americans so they can charge rent by bodycount are nothing but greedy, selfish criminal scam artists.
I recall that several other cities have done exactly the same thing, evicting impoverished citizens and handicapped US military veterans from Section 8 housing, so that migrants could come and squat in those homes.
I wonder how they are kicking out tenants? Has anyone read about that? Do they raise the rent to a level they can get for illegal tenants and then people have to move out because they can't afford it? I haven't seen information on this yet.
In the article that Kathleen posted above 👆, they interviewed people in Springfield and one resident was quoted as saying: “You've got landlords right now that's kicking the tenants out,” Clos said. “They say, 'look here, we're raising rent up to $1,500 a month.' They say, 'I can't afford it.' 'You can't afford it, there's the door we'll bring somebody else in.' It's all about the mighty dollar now…”
So yes, sounds like they just raise the rents to an unsustainable level for the Americans living there.
and yet there are people on this thread who still hate and trash talk the HOMELESS. do we ever wonder how they got there?
THIS IS ONE BIG REASON.
Of course the Mayor does! And none of us are surprised! I hope Ohio voters figure it out regarding DeWine and thd Springfield mayor. As time goes on I have no doubt other facts will come to light.
...which means he's on the federal government NGO grift....
Of course he does 😡
Also… https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/375011/feds-and-state-ag-investigate-an-alleged-human-trafficking-empire-run-in-springfield-ohio/
Excellent article.
wow
this trafficking is never ending
What.a.joke.
So no wonder he won't kick them out.
Wow!!
Surprise surprise 😑🙄
stealing for facebook. thanks.
Who is paying the rent?
Taxpayers.
As usual.
FYI - THE CORRUPT STAFFING AGENCY BEHIND THE INVASION :
Exclusive: Feds and State AG Investigate an Alleged Human Trafficking Empire Run in Springfield, Ohio, for Years by ‘King George’
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/375011/feds-and-state-ag-investigate-an-alleged-human-trafficking-empire-run-in-springfield-ohio/
Thanks for posting this! This story needs a LOT more attention and spotlighting! Another "follow the money" truth expose'.
Follow the $$$$$$$$
EXCELLENT FIND! thank you!
Sorry… didn’t see you posted this article first… quite long, but a worthwhile read
Great article and shared all over!!
DeSwine. That’s even better than DeWhine. When is his term up…can’t be too soon.
He and JB Pritzker should take a cruise to, oh, maybe Mars, together. Miss Whitmer could pilot the rocket.
Take KS gov Laura Kelley along...and all those RINOS that got her elected.
Give them all some of those special pagers.
Sadly, not until 2026
I like to see that I'm not the only one who calls him DeSwine!
Without a doubt
Also a native Ohioan and registered Republican. My family has never voted for DeSwine and neither have any of my friends. Pretty sure he was selected rather than elected. His term runs until 2026, which seems lightyears away. We've GOT to get him out but, then, there's always the chance someone worse like a full-blown Democrat could end up as Gov.
I think he's at term limit in 2026, Ohio only allows two consecutive terms at governor I believe. But that means we have to make sure to be involved in the primary, or else this state GOP is going to find someone just as bad.
My Ohio family has certainly not voted for him in any primary.
Yeah same here, have left the governor blank since the Dems also only nominate psychopaths. Can't wait to get DeWine out.
❤️
Jeff, please check your headline. It’s spelled “RELATABLE.”
You got that right sister!
🛎🛎🛎‼️🎯🎯🎯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Has anyone else looked at their summer stats from Substack? Apparently C&C isn’t in my top 3 even though it’s the only one I read every single day.
I’ve also noticed that occasionally when I use the search to find C&C, it won’t come up until I’ve typed out the whole title, but several others that aren’t that close are suggested.
This is weird. Is Jeff not impressing the right people? Anyone else notice this? Just something random I noticed.
Valerie - I'm a Substack author too. Substack is compromised or hacked. Most likely, both.
Because this is where people read the truth and "they" want none of that.
Thank you, I kind of I assumed that it was content based. It’s also strange to me that he’s listed under ‘health’ stacks when he mostly does US and world news, but that could be because of his title. On the plus side, he was numbers 1 and 2 in ‘health’ articles yesterday (Thursday’s and Friday’s).
Jeff can change what categories his pub appears to on the dashboard - I think you only get a couple of options...
CS - Thank you for this comment. I went to my dashboard and realized that I didn't choose categories for my stack back when I created it this past May. I write about the white fibrous clots that embalmers have been finding.
I chose "Health and Wellness" and "Science" for a secondary category. It will be interesting to see if my subscriber base increases. I'm over 1,000 right now.
Thank you for your work Laura… I read your Substack as well. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
God bless you, God Bless America!
You are, I assume, aware of John O'Looney, funeral home director, and his published clot findings? And of Substack authors Dr. Philip Macmillan, Linda Lazarides, Laura Kasner, and the standalone website "Totality of Evidence"? You are not alone in tracking down the facts about clots.
Roger. Yes. My partner, Tom Haviland and I talk to
John O’Looney often.
Tom has been interviewed a couple of times on Dr. Philip McMillan as well as Dr. John Campbell.
I have links to these interviews on my stack:
https://laurakasner.substack.com/p/embalmer-blood-clots
CS - I'm also having an issue with Substack no longer sending me email notifications when someone replies to my comments. I only receive "like" notifications. I can get around it by going to "activity", but this is very cumbersome and easy to miss comments - which can be pure gold!
I started having the same issue. AND, when I click to look at my own comment to read replies it will no longer take me to my actual comment but make me sift through all the other comments in the thread to find mine. It’s cumbersome and I can no longer quickly converse with the ones replying to my original comment. So many people are not getting replies from me anymore. I wondered if this was on purpose.
I noticed that too! So annoying but then I also found that I can get directed to the actual new comment response from my desktop. I usually read C&C on my iPad. Try a different device, see what happens
I’ve been noticing that also… I post a comment and when someone posts back, I don’t get a notification… I used to be on Parlor, and then they took it down! 🔥🔥🔥 Where will we all go if Substack gets taken down?
BTW, Parler is back. Tucker advertised it and said that they have their own server platform now.
FYI: https://substack.com/settings and its the under notifications heading:
Likes
Notify me when someone likes my notes or comments.
Replies
Notify me when someone replies to my notes and comments.
Telegram or Signal or Discourse?
Same
I have been having the same issue! So frustrating 😕
The comment trail works properly for me in the Substack Android app, but not on my Win11 PC. Since both are configured with the same notification settings, this is (as Spock would say) illogical.
I went in and checked my settings for notifications on my computer and they are all set to notify me correctly. So it makes me think “they” are pulling strings on this platform too. Ugh 😣
I was recently in my Substack account on my computer instead of the app, and there is an option to turn off notifications specifically for likes. Maybe they did an update and turned that off for content providers? Might be worth rechecking.
Thanks Valerie, but I’ve checked this setting. Argh!!!!
https://substack.com/settings and its the under notifications heading - on a computer:
Likes
Notify me when someone likes my notes or comments.
Replies
Notify me when someone replies to my notes and comments.
Me, too. Still get notifications of likes. So what I'm doing is opening the like notification and clicking on "your comment", which takes me to my comment and all replies. Irritating, though.
https://substack.com/settings and its the under notifications heading - on a computer:
Likes
Notify me when someone likes my notes or comments.
Replies
Notify me when someone replies to my notes and comments.
I no longer get email notifications either. However, I don't depend on those anyway and I just use my browser to go the sub stacks I want to read each day.
Its might be a setting under notifications for writers BUT for readers it must be somewhere else - they have changed things around.... But I get emails for likes and replies... MAYBE SOMEONE KNOWS WHERE THE SETTING FOR THAT IS LOCATED NOW....
This is so interesting to me, thank you.
also alot of pubs are probably in the news categories BUT his should be appearing high in the rankings given the # of subscriber BUT paid subscribers might be what Substack pushes...
CS - I don't feel right opening my stack to paid subscriptions since what I write about could possibly save lives by causing "vaccine hesitancy". No one can accuse me of being a grifter.
I'm sure that hurts me since Substack can't make any money off of my writings.
Good point. I am enjoying the info y’all are giving me so much… I’m overly analytical so you’re are making me happy explaining how SS works. 😂
100%. And comments are not out there as well. I used to get many notifications on responses and now there are practically none. And...Laura, have you checked your settings on your publishers dashboard? Because there is one on there that is super creepy and by default it is set ON. "Allow AI training
Allows platforms like ChatGPT and Google Bard to train on your content. Disabling may limit your discoverability on these platorms."
Oh, and THAT is not my typo!! I just copied and pasted from my dashboard.
Exactly. I never get my "replies" anymore.
So it's hard to keep a dialogue.
Sorry if I haven't responded to you Sadie.
It’s happening to me too! I was frustrated by it but now hearing it’s happening to all of us makes me realize they either did it on purpose or…..they did it on purpose. 😉
Thanks Ryan…I don’t think you have left me hanging. I always appreciate your responses. ♥
Miss you, Ryan. Now I get why.
I don't see that on my settings dashboard. Where is it?
UPDATE: Ah, I found it, it's on the publisher settings (I was looking on my subscriber settings).
Thanks!
Is the publisher settings on substack? I'm not that tech savy.
When you're logged in, go to your own publisher dashboard, and then look under settings there. That's where it is. Hope that helps.
Publisher settings, I assume, are if YOU publish your own Substack. Since you don't have a Substack listed beside your name, I assume you probably don't publish. So maybe won't see/have access to those settings.
SadieJay - I just looked at that setting. And yes, it's of course set to "on".
However, this may not be as bad as we think it is. At times, it may even be helpful.
I just think the worst of everything. I am so jaded NOW. Thanks Covid!
There’s a spot on the dashboard where you can send feedback to Substack.
Except ‘they’ call the truth ‘mis/dis information’. I think they would start screaming HELLLP I’m Melttttting if they uttered the truth.
Hmmm, this is something....
Boo. That's very disappointing to read.
Which is why we should all note that Childers Law has its site at https://smartbizlaw.com/
If Jeff gets suppressed on substack I trust he'll post something there.
C&C is over the target.
Representing James Okeefe.... and winning has undoubtedly garnered all sorts of attention.
I do daily meme posts https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/great-reset-meme-index
- try searching Substack for Memes and see what comes up... HINT: Its not me, its a leftist publication that you will get...
I’ve noticed that too, even just on their weekly recommended stacks. Sometimes a topic will look interesting but once I get into it it’s always left. And they ALWAYS have E Jean Carroll at the top of the recommended list. Ewwww Absolutely no.
Yes this is what I see. An unbalanced push to leftist propaganda. I started sending people actual hard links to my favorite Substacks like C&C so that I can bypass any search engine corrupting their efforts to find them.
Same for me
I delete the weekly recommendations in my email.
I have lovingly commandeered your memes.✌️
Valerie, I too am an author and I wrote about this last year: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-subtle-yet-coordinated-attack
and great timing because I have another one I wanted to release on the topic!
Your linked post is behind a paywall though :( ... I have an unorganized list of many 100s of resources in my community resources' comments sections: https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/community-covid-resources/comments
Just updated it so you can read it!
I think they are shadow banning or have manipulated the algorithm e.g. search for memes and I don't show up - a leftwing Substack does BUT I also don't have meme in my Substack title BUT my meme posts should be showing up more in their searches... Also, don't forget that Twitter is largely shadow banning Substack links...
I was taken aback at how much I’ve read - word count was over 1 million! However, when I think about the fact I essentially get allllll my news and info from substack, it starts to make sense.
Same problem here but with el gato malo. Paying subscriber but never in my feed. WTF substack?
This happens to me with The Naked Emperor stack, to which I’m a paid subscriber. I have to search for it every single day. El gato 8m a free subscriber and it always shows up in my feed, lol.
Same here for NE.
Don't you get NE posts in your email? I do. As far as I know, all of them. And I am not a paying subscriber.
I have emails turned off
Turn them back on. I started using the app 10 days ago and disliked it so deleted the app and am back to email.
I'm not getting replies to my comments at EGM's board.
It just started happening about 2 weeks ago.
Hmmm... I see posts in a feed here on a laptop BUT I dont use the app: https://substack.com/inbox
When I saw the “summer stats” it reminded me of when Facebook would get everyone to upload an old photo or something as stupid…it seems like a waste of time to me, and a tad suspicious..I know what I read.
Well fb uploading old photos was all about creating a database of you throughout your life for facial recognition…
Obviously… I’ve been off social media for about 7 years, best thing I ever did. Sad that Substack has some of the same traits
Are you subscribed to his free subscription?
I get an email every Mon-Sat and click on the little "LIKE" heart if I want to read it on substack, but I usually just read it in the email, then pop into substack for the comments section.
Oh I turned off email long ago, I don’t need one more thing in my email. I use the app, and the things I subscribe to are at the top of the list. The issue happens when I’m already in the app and get a notification that c/c has posted and I can’t get it to pop up.
Valerie,
I'm just the opposite, I don't need one more app, lol. I stopped putting apps on my phone, because I refuse to upgrade to 5G, and my phone doesn't work with many of the new apps out there either, even if it had lots more storage capacity to load it up with apps.
I check my email every morning and leave that window open, and drink coffee and play The Epoch Times Games/Puzzles on another window, and check out a few headlines while I wait for my email from C&C. I get a kick out of bouncing around between tabs and windows.
I'm on my desktop computer sitting in my comfy office chair at home with a "real" keyboard, lol. I've only been "retired" since January and have had only 5 months getting used to living in a new state, so I like my "old" tech that I'm familiar with, and I know how to work around glitches that happen on my familiar set up.
I only subscribe to a few things like C&C, and visit everybody else sporadically based on the topic of interest.
So, I am sorry you have this frustration and I'll just pop out of the conversation now, because I am not helpful for your particular difficulties.
Blessings,
Anita
"A real keyboard" .... my Number One reason for reading and commenting on a PC and not on the phone. Fat fingers!
I have an IPhone 8 Plus that won't do 5G either, but I suspect we will all eventually have no choice. My husband and I had a second phone, and were using a much older iPhone SE that only went to 3G. One day a totally free iPhone (the Xr model) arrived in the mail, and ATT said it was because 3G no longer worked and we needed to have a 4G capable one. They had previously tried to get us to upgrade using their usual enticements to get an expensive new phone, but we never did that. Rather than lose our monthly phone payments for that phone, they sent out the free phones. I think eventually they will make the 4G phones useless.
I still have an Android. Never had an iPhone. :)
When I go to my reading list on my phone, he’s in the top three and it’s the only post I read daily. On my computer, he’s dead last because he’s the first Substack I subscribed to. What I’ve noticed is that my email from him doesn’t come in and when I come to Substack and refresh my inbox or his page, nothing happens. Yesterday, I refreshed his page and my email every five minutes. I finally got his stack at about 9:50. I saw in the comments that people had been making comments since at least 9:25. According to my email account, that email came through at 8:58. But it didn’t. I know because I kept checking.
Today I came on the app and refreshed his page; nothing. I then went directly to my email and there it was. This happens consistently on my computer at work, as well, where either the stack or the email appear eventually, but very delayed.
I read on the app but this happens to me sometimes too. I’ll get the notification that C&C has posted, but when I click it won’t be there. I’ll go to inbox and my front page and refresh… nothing. Hence why I’m sometimes having to search for it.
Same here. I thought it was strange. C & C was at least my top
Even though I subscribed, I still have to type in “Childers” every morning to find it.
Why don’t you have Coffee & Covid on your Home Screen or Favorites? I just open that every day and everything is immediately there. No typing or searching.
Sometimes it’s not there, especially if I was already reading in the app when it was published. That was my point.
So ‘weird’! All of these random things...
I’m assuming Jeff had bought a Bible or two and is on the watch list.
Nor in mine. I'm a non-paying customer here, so thought that's why C&C wasn't listed. I also read Racket News (Tiabbi) - every post. I pay for it; it was not listed. Alex Berenson's Substack is shown as my top, even though Alex has apologized to subscribers several times for his sporadic posting due to working on his federal case. Fishy!
Ok ok! Same for me. Berenson listed first, and I do read him but not every single article. Same for Taibbi too… I smell shenanigans.
Yes, I’ve noticed this. I’ve never checked my stats (not sure how lol), but it has seemed odd to me when I have to go looking for it…
Well somehow I ended up with my own stack...but I never set it up.
And I'll never intentionally have one because I'm a horrible writer.
You probably commented enough that the algorithm decided you wanted your own stack. Too bad that same algorithm can’t figure out what type of information I’m interested in. 🙄😂
Algorithms are eventually going to eliminate agency
It’s something that just popped up on my home page, I don’t know how to go find it. If you scroll down through ‘explore’ it’s a post that will pop up and say something like ‘see what you read this summer, click here to see your summer stats’.
"I’ve been holding off calling this out, since everybody makes mistakes, especially me, but I can’t just stand it anymore. Since early summer, I’ve been seeing a disquieting trend of basic grammar and spelling mistakes creeping into top-tier corporate media stories."
These cretins are the face of affirmative action, DEI and too big to fail.
A place where you are encouraged to use large type and double spacing.
A place where creativity can be created by emancipating it from someone who did the work.
A magical utopia where parentheses can walk off pages, free of their shackles!
Or it may be simply that schools haven't focused on spelling and grammar for years now, instead instructing students to rely on spell check and suggested words. "Diffuse" is not misspelled, so it would not have prompted a writer to check. But I have noticed lots of spelling and grammar errors too, and it drives me nuts.
My high school son is taking a composition course through our local community college. The instructor actually advises students to run their essays through AI chat to see if it suggests word changes or finds grammatical errors.
More troublingly, a focus on correct grammar and word choice is seen as......(wait for it...) racist, white supremacy, neo-Colonialism.
Literally everything is white supremacy. I had waffles for breakfast, probably white supremacy.
Only if you used Aunt Jemimah syrup!
Now called Pearl Mill Baking Company. Sigh.
Pearl Mill? Like, grinding up white things?
😂
No. It's much more complicated than that, Valerie!
We are "far-far-far right" super-duper-ultra-maga election/science denying racist insurrectionist!
… who are almost always proven right, but the correction is on the back page of the NYT so no one notices but us.
Exactly.
It's sucks being "wrong" because you're RIGHT 3-6 months before the lemmings.
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I’m sure someone out there could find a way to make it about white supremacy… or maybe the patriarchy… or even both! 😑🙄
If it's white, then it must be white supremacy!
You had breakfast--THAT'S white supremacy!!
Please understand that racist, white supremacy, Neo-Colonialism, and almost everything else they call us are all code words for one thing that must be destroyed: CAPITALISM. That is why BLM burned black-owned businesses in the 2020 riots, because those owners were capitalists (aka, the black face of White Supremacy). When you understand this, a whole lot more makes sense.
100%--if you are a stickler for grammar and spelling you are uptight (aka white) and not taking racial trauma into account 🤣
OK now I can't stop thinking of all the other word usage errors that bug me.
Discreet/discrete
Site/cite/sight
And don't even get me started on apostrophes!
Past participle use seems to have disappeared: sank / sunk; sneaked / snuck. In usage, "snuck" is replacing "sneaked", which just sounds wrong!
When I was in school I was taught that snuck was not a word.
Correct: He SNEAKED in the house.
Incorrect: He SNUCK in the house.
It floors me how many articles and people inappropriately use the words ‘then’ and ‘than.’ ‘Then’ is something that follows. ‘Than’ is a comparison.
He ate an apple and THEN a pear.
He would rather buy an apple THAN a pear.
Also driving me nuts in writing is how they use it's instead of its, there for their, things like that.
And where did ‘have ran’ (as in “I have ran into him at church.”) come from? I hear some otherwise eloquent speakers use this and it makes me shout “have run” out loud. My mother was 1st gen Italian (bullied, called ethnic slurs, etc) and would correct my grammar every time, all day long. She worked hard to make sure her children were well-spoken.
I mentioned this too before I read your comment! It drives me crazy, but while the past participle is being lost in constructions that require a past participle, those same past participle forms are being used as a simple past tense. It's crazy....I don't think kids are taught grammar at all in schools any more.
I’ve noticed that too and it saddens me 😞
Now correct grammar is racist, doncha know!
Don't get me started an weary/wary/leery....
They/them for an individual person really bothers me.
My response is, "how many are you?" Our house is divided on this one because, while we both believe in two sexes and that the current lexicon accounts for this, I would allow for some new word(s) -zee/zim for example - over misusing existing words. One of the questions around this whole kerfuffle is: how often does one use a third person pronoun when in that person's presence anyway? Has anyone heard of an alternative for "you"? Other than thou, of course!
Be kind. I'm terrible with grammar...but I try to do my best.
Ryan, at least you are trying! It seems as though most people do not even care to try anymore. I do try to offer a measure of grace to those for whom spelling, grammar, and punctuation is difficult, as I would like the same grace back when dealing with math! 😆 However, I have no patience for "professional" writers for news, magazines, etc. who publish articles with typos in them. It is their job to produce clean, clear copy for the reading public!
Mrs. "the Knife"
I'm really good at math.
So we can help each other!...;]
Deal!! 🤣
Mrs. "the Knife"
Ugh, yes!!! Right there with you!!! 😩😩😩
Exactly
Or history!
There is no better cautionary tale than history.
That's exactly what they want; they want to hide the two most important lessons from history:
1. The enigmatic lesson that people forget history
2. That the only true law of history, is the law of unintended consequences.
Why?
So they can do the same shit that didn't work before....AGAIN.
Oceania has always been at war with East Asia.
They've adopted that old line of "If at first you don't succeed, try try again."
Plus: Whatever happened to the subjunctive tense? If I were an editor you would see it more.
I see what you did there!
Learned these things only when I homeschooled my kids.
No one knows what that is anymore. Not taught, never learned.
Nice one!
I learned about the subjunctive when I took German in Jr. High school, not in English class for a few years more.
But I can't imagine a public junior high school offering German now. Seems you get Spanish (admittedly vital here in CA) and Chinese only.
Exactly. There are so many examples everywhere of those kinds of errors, and it drives me nuts too 😡
Public schools teach nothing nowadays. Before I had to give up my college teaching job b/c of mandates, I taught First-year Writing at a CA State University, and got to see first hand the extent of the disaster that is K-12 public education.
And even among the kids who know better --were home- or private-schooled and have proper spelling and grammar chops-- there is still that "I would never call it out because that would be making another person feel bad" attitude.
sew, sow, so?
Having worked on the admin side of things and spent years correcting documents for engineers, I can always tell when someone used SpellCheck to "proofread" their document, or was just too lazy to do even that!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Me, too.
The past participle forms are being lost....I cringe when I hear things like "I should have went" etc. Ugh! And it's often from seemingly educated people that should know better.
You are so right. It's as if educators assume we are all too stupid to learn our own language properly.
The diffuse/defuse example is one of my pet peeves as well. Another is "reign" as in "Biden is trying to reign in inflation." (It must be nice to be the king.)
You can always tell who is relying on spellcheck and who actually knows how to write.
This is exactly why I taught my kids to write in cursive.
I tell my kids that cursive will be a secret code soon.. even AI won’t be able to read it
Lolol. I told mine it'll be pig Latin for freedom "speak easys".
My kids never did get “Ix-nay on the oopid-stay” as said by the warthog in the Lion King. Still makes me LOL.
I don't remember where I saw it, but someone recently made the argument that cursive is no longer taught because the flow of writing in cursive supports the process of putting maturing thoughts from brain to paper - and "they" don't want that!
I drive a stick shift, it’s also a declining skill. Btw, only one of my 3 adult kids can drive it. 🙄
Bring out the ole rotary phones and have them try.
It's like watching chimpanzees with the monolith in the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey
I used to give riding lessons during the 80s and 90s, and in our tack room was an old rotary dial phone. After a lesson, a young girl about 8 or 9 years old asked me, "What is that?" I replied, "What is what?," not knowing to what she was referring. She touched the phone and asked again, "What is this?" I told her it was a phone. She replied, "No, it isn't. It doesn't have any buttons!"
I guess I am still a bit anachronistic, because my cell phone is a flip phone that has buttons, whilst most people have smart phones that no longer have buttons!
Mrs. "the Knife"
P.S. I still have that old rotary dial phone! 🤣
https://youtu.be/1OADXNGnJok?si=GqQ8TRGBr66PPQVC
Hilarity ensues!
That's great! And instructive. My first instinct is to shake my head at their struggle but then I realize that I did not come by my knowledge of rotary phone usage by intuition, but instead by instruction and/or observation. I am reminded of playing Mario Bros. on the first generation Nintendo with my much younger cousins. I would just move along until one told me to crouch down and slide under a block then stand up whereupon a power up would appear. Without their knowledge I would never have known that power up was there or how to get it.
I wonder when they stopped teaching cursive. Kids used to get books to practice cursive, and that was at a fairly young age, perhaps 2nd or 3rd grade.
My pet peeve with language is… when did the word ‘whoa’ become ‘woah’? That doesn’t even make sense if you’d were taught phonics. Probably white supremacy.
My daughter was born in 1970, and by the time she was going into kindergarten I was aware that schools were abandoning the phonics that I learned to read with. They had latched onto "word recognition" as a method of reading rather than sounding out letters. Kids would look at a picture of a horse with the letters "horse" under it and pronounce it as "pony". Yikes! So we taught our daughter to read using phonics well before she went to school.
I’m the same vintage as your daughter but I learned phonics. My kids didn’t and none of them can spell. Worse, they don’t teach or expect cursive writing. Had to teach that one ourselves.
Woe is me....
"What differance doe's it macke". Hellary Clinton
Exactly!!!!! Sooooooo annoying!!! 😡
"Lose" versus "loose" is another one. If one looses an arrow in the woods he is likely to lose it among the trees.
For awhile I have noticed what I call "word inflation" where a verb is followed by totally unnecessary words. "Revert back" is one example. "Revert" means to go back, and doesn't need a redundant "back" to follow. It is not possible to "revert forward" which I guess one could think is the opposite. Here are some more:
Lower down, raise up
Return back
Revert back
Splice together
Combining them together
Ensued thereafter
Merge together
I think this may have started as a way for media people to try sounding more intelligent or hip and then caught on with the public ("granular" and "my bad" come to mind).
And one more while I'm in a whiny mood -- using "There's" to refer to a plural noun instead of "There are...". "There's many ways to speed up your PC."
Ok, rant finished. My apologies...
Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer
I would add that people don’t know how to correctly use the verb form of words. For example, “Setup your computer and then login.” should be typed “Set up your computer and then log in.”
Straight from the Department of Redundancy Department!
Mrs. "the Knife"
…after visiting the ATM machine!
Industry jargon with acronyms results in a lot of that kind of thing, especially as what words are represented by the acronym are forgotten. Ask a youth what ATM stands for and wait for hilarity to ensue.
I like that lol!
Ahhh, one of my fellow Bozos On This Bus!
Love it--it's the old "Think I'll say 'utilize' instead of 'use'" trick.
I am all for an expansive lexicon and prefer to be as precise as practicable and practical but there are certainly those who use longer words only in an attempt to sound more knowledgeable or intelligent than they are. Our current VP springs to mind.
Daily Mail went from using the interns to using AI, they have huge grammar error now and even unfinished sentences. It’s pretty clear they must have fired the editors.
very diffusive subject
I resemble that remark
Lolol
😂😂
I just saw a group email from someone who resembles a potential DIE hire at my workplace, a very large hospital, requesting to “please excuse any spelling or grammar errors.” I guess that request takes the place of actually learning basic spelling and grammar these days. Embarrassing and sad.
A pet peeve is when a local online news organization includes a request at the end of every article to report any spelling or grammar errors. Isn’t it their job to do that?! Our society has fallen so far, smh.
Yeah, it's like 'crowd-sourced' everything these days, or 'citizen science.'
I'm like, "I will help you edit your writers when you start paying me some editor's wages, how 'bout that?"
My guess is dictation and spell-check, combined with no actual proofreading. Besides, grammar is racist!
Talk-to-text is full of errors. So distracting.
"FWEEDOM!", to quote Kamalama Ding Dong.
Did you see what Jeff did there with relatable? 😉
Damn I missed that completely. Genius stuff, Jeff!
I hate (!) to do this, but isn't it "parentheses"? Plural?
Yes. And don't hate doing it. I could use all the help I can get.
Plus I misspelled it.
Part of that has to do with my eyes going bad, and fat thumbs....while I'm driving...CRUNCH
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
By faith, turning to God in repentance, and the obedience that follows, the church is a rebuke to the principalities that rebelled!
Ephesians 3:9-10
". . . to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places."
Well connected
I love that this gets quoted more days than not here, in the comments. Thank-you for the reminder!
NPR whined that, according to experts, hand-counting is slower and less reliable than electronic tabulation. " Do they mean like when they take weeks to 'count' the electronic votes to determine how many midnight one party only delivered votes they have to use to overcome Trumps winning number of votes? That kind of time delay? As for 'experts'. exactly who or what is an expert in vote counting? Do they offer degrees in counting votes? What college provides that? What qualifications does a vote counter actually have? Are they licensed?
I had the same thoughts about their “it takes too long” whine.
Also their stupid steal tactic of Vote by Mail takes too long. We should have a Winner declared on Election night and not try to rewind the Football game to see if they can get a different outcome. Also, “tabulators” take too long on Election Day when it causes the Polls to shut down?
Not sure if it's just an Ohio thing, but some are wearing "Vote Amish " T-shirts. I think that term was coined by Dr. Frank
I fail to understand how DeWhine is still in office.
What a despicable human
As a former Ohioan, DeWine was Selected, not Elected, just like Biden. Ohio hates DeWine.
Thanks for the info.
Is the citizenry still able to remove him?
Here in Oregon we had Komrad Kate Brown as gov, her term was up so they selected Komrad Tina Kotek. More of the same. Gee, could it be because we’ve had mail-in ballots for 35+ years??? Gee, and dems for that long too? 🤷♀️🤬
Isn't it crazy how he retains power in the Ohio GOP?
And nearby Kentucky is even more conservative, yet managed to elect a Dumbocrat.
How we get in these positions?
Jesse Kelly talks about this very situation in his recent appearance with Tucker and he says it is the fault of the primary voters. First, most people don't show up to vote in the primaries so the person who ends up representing the ticket is chosen by the very few, likely incentivized voters who choose the guy who rewards them. It's a sad but true state of affairs.
Primaries have incredibly low turnout.
BSM - because of the algorithm found in the voter roles. Dr. Jerome Corsi has been making the rounds talking about this. Ohio is investigating.
https://godsfivestones.com/
Yikes!!!!!
What happened in 2020? Did it only happen on the national level? I don’t think our elections have been on the up and up for a long time.
I don't know about that. I volunteered in 2016 on election day keeping my eye out for shenanigans and I didn't see any. And I volunteered in Cuyahoga county.
Ohio has gone for Trump every time and has a mostly Republican Congress. I just wish we had a better Republican gubernatorial candidate during this time. My whole life Ohio was a swing state and now it isn't even considered that. Which is nice since I don't have to hear election commercials on the radio.
It's not always physically at the polling places. They are inserted through the electronic machines. There is an algorithm for each state. For example 90% of the 65 year olds voted in Cuyahoga County. 90% of the 65 years olds voted in Summit. 90% in Medina, etc. But go into a county in PA and 80% of the 65 year olds voted in every county there. Michigan, it may be 85% of 65 year olds in every county.
Look into Dr. Corsi, Dr. Frank, Election Integrity Network. It starts with cleaning the voter rolls.
They certainly are NOT in my state of California. And this is despite California being a solidly Democrat dominated state.
Well, I would posit that it's why California is a solidly Democrat dominated state...
Cheating.
Full on cheating. No one watches the down ballot races and part of that is because of 2020. This year you watch trump win by a landslide, yet all the conservative tickets fail. Every last one.
May Our Merciful God forbid.
Same with Sherod Brown... that one still amazes me too.
That one is so crazy. Ohio has kept him in his Dem senate position since 2007. Even as he promotes legislation that's bad for Ohio.
He came to my company once. I could feel his aura. He radiated disdain and borderline evil. I also don't know why Ohio keeps him in there. I've voted against him every time.
The teacher unions got Beshear elected. (If you believe that he actually won.) So many people were fooled by his “aw..shucks” demeanor. He CARED SO MUCH during Covid.
Follow the money.
Always!
I'm in Ohio. And I'm not sure DeSwine was "selected" instead of elected.
The reason I say that? This spring I started working part-time for a school system. It has been an eye-opener to say the least. Doesn't matter how bad things get financially, or how frequently they get sick thanks to 6+ boosters, they STILL hate Trump. All of 'em. TDS is the disease to beat. And I don't see us beating it without prying mainstream media from the grips of evil. THEY GET ALL THEIR NEWS AND OPINIONS from television!!
How bad is it? I have a friend in another state who grew up in WWII. She is from Germany ... fled the nazis. She can't stand Trump because "of the way he talks about women, and he's a convict." (Ya can't make this shit up ... she immigrated here and has had a good life thanks to America, but can't recognize propaganda even though she lived through it... and will likely help the communists with her vote because she is brainwashed.)
I have a friend who started working for a local school district right before COVID. She was generally pretty conservative in her views. That is no longer the case. The indoctrination in school systems is overwhelming. I have a neighbor who is a teacher in our school district and she was one of only 4 teachers who said no to the vax. She is also very awake about all the issues discussed here. I don't know how she has managed to remain unprogrammed, but I do think there are some people who are built differently.
That's really depressing about your friend from Germany. But even there, they have done an incredible job brainwashing Germans to loathe their country and denounce everything about it.
Yes, I think lots of us underestimate the influence and reach of people employed by the school systems and the government as a whole. These people all have a vested interest in more government and more spending.
Running Logic my thoughts on the schools and society in general is this. The radical “ hippies” of the 60’s saw that blowing up buildings and the like weren’t working so they became teachers, journalists, lawyers, judges, politicians, newscasters, etc. change the way of thinking and you’ve captured a generation and beyond. Jimmy Carter started the dept. of education and our test scores are way down but our stupidity is off the charts. How else can we explain the alphabet groups supporting hamas?
Teachers are the worst. My good friend watches NPR for her news! I shouldn’t have been shocked, but I bet she doesn’t support them financially and get her free Downton Abby mug! 🤣
I'm originally from Ohio and still have some family there. They are *all* brainwashed dems. My brother and I both escaped Ohio years ago and are both conservatives.
They dont like dewine, but dont do anything about it. And they all think Trump and Vance are racist bigots.
TDS is real. It's irrational. It's seemingly incurable.
MAGA needs to take over the Rep party in Ohio. It's the only way to get a good governor. DeSwine is very good at riding the line at being barely tolerable.
I really think that is his secret.
Here's a thought: if cheating is accepted as being rampant in the last Presidential election at the very least, why would or should we believe that it doesn't occur at other times, and in other than blue states?
If a government clearly and consistently lies to the populace, weaponizes various agencies to conduct lawfare against dissent, breaks or sidesteps the law to further its own goals, and more/worse, then would it be difficult to believe that the citizenry is not allowed the power to significantly change the system...?
It is so easy to quickly count the number of anything. As ballots are handed in, they are placed in batches of some count (10, 20, 30, pick one). When voting is over you count the number of batches + the last few ballots. During the vote each batch count is double- or triple-checked. You can announce the ballot count in about 10 minutes after voting is completed.
you also have to have someone else count the batches again and see if the person who originally counted them into the batch was honest, unfortunately, because there were a lot of mislabelled batch sheets in 2020
either that or have 2 people count them the first time, one from each party, like with poll watchers
And actually, I probably should have said, like with adjudicators
and the vids of "ballot handlers" tearing up Trump votes
Springfield, Ohio mayor owns properties that rent to Haitians.
Follow the money. Here is a link to the dirty details:
https://buckeyereporter.com/stories/664310242-special-report-renting-apartments-to-haitians-is-big-business-for-springfield-mayor-rob-rue-others
i wonder by what percentage of voting the CITIZENS of Springfield, OH decided to bring in 20,000 Haitian Newcomers?
Zero.
Uber them to the capital of Ohio. Then we’ll see how that works out for DeWine.
DeWine lives very near Springfield. His private residence is in Cedarville. I think he works mainly at his home office whenever possible.
Remember this, O Yahweh, that the enemy has reproached,
And a wickedly foolish people has spurned Your name.
Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
Look to the covenant;
For the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Let not the oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.
Arise, O God, and plead Your own cause;
Remember how the wicked fool reproaches You all day long.
Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,
The rumbling of those who rise against You which ascends continually.
—Psalm 74:18-23 LSB
It's easiest to boil issues like Springfield down to one thing. Cui Bono? Who benefits? What did Gov. DeWine get in the Haitian deal? What did the local government officials get? Which NGOs got deals? What do those deals look like? Who runs those NGOs? What do they do with the money they're paid?
Was it Jeff who mentioned DeWine has a charity in Haiti?
Yes.
Did DeWine buy its assets, at a discount, from the Clinton Foundation?
Ohio is one of the worst states for child trafficking. I'll just leave it there.
I think I remember that as well
Mayor of Springfield, OH owns properties that rent to Haitians.
Follow the money.
Clinton Foundation
King George Owns everything and everybody , including the board and the crazy , greedy mayor
Steal it. No oversight. Just doing the Feds dirty work, semi- legally.
We`ll never know
Again, I recommend Tucker Carlson’s “Live Cities” Tour. 16 cities in a month. The guests have been fantastic. Jesse Kelly was so good. I listen to them on podcast.
Jesse was fired up!
The podcasts are excellent!
I thought about it, however it was just too expensive. Plus 3 hours each way on a Thursday night. : (
I thought about going to one of the Pennsylvania events too, Dr. Linda, but decided against it. They are both about 5 hours from me, one way, so that would make for a long, long day.
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I am a retired middle school English teacher. Students do not know how to spell or use grammar correctly because schools are too busy teaching critical race theory and other “feel good” subjects. It was amazing to me how the students’ skills plummeted by the end of my career.
Yes. I also wonder if it has to do with not physically writing in cursive?
I mean there's something to be said about coordinating your thoughts and your hands in terms of remembering the relationship between an idea and grammar.
I can't like this comment enough. Kids aren't really even expected to write by hand at all, past a certain age. When I taught at the college and had students write in-class essays by hand, I was roundly excoriated by the students and by some fellow teachers for "disadvantaging" (another great word lol) the students who "performed better writing on a laptop." I was like, it's basic writing, if you can't do this you are in for a world of hurt out there IRL.... Some of the kids' writing though.....whoooboy. There is just such a drop off in spatial relationships and kinesthetic confidence among the youngsters now, b/c their lives are not 3-D & tactile enough. It's so sad.
I was teaching at a community college when I learned “conversate” was a word used as a verb that means the same as ‘converse’ 😂
No fan of cursive here. Having graduated with an engineering bachelor's degree in 1969, my preference is block lettering - all caps - just as we used to do on the drafting table.
Always legible and not subject to misunderstanding, that's the plus to block caps!
Well I'm certainly glad engineers use block letters. Can't make mistakes in engineering.
Otherwise bridges, etc. would collapse!...:]
I’m sure others herein wonder if the plummeting of student skills is not directly associated with the excessive numbers of “vaccines” forced on children to attend schools… it utterly astonishes me that the one natural control group in our failing at healthcare country is the Amish… just compare their unvaccinated health, their children’s unvaccinated skills and abilities to our nationwide public school children…
Add in the whole "social-emotional learning" aspect and we have a perfect recipe for creating non-thinking, compliant automatons.
My husband had a small business and hired some people who couldn’t spell the name days of the week.
The downward trend started decades ago. My wife graduated public high school in 1971; her favorite teacher told her that Wife was lucky she was getting out when she did, because, according to Teach, the schools were going to crap.
Good Glorious morning!! ❤️
Good morning from cheating Pennsylvania.
Hiiiii Pensy!! From Corrupt Chica!
How is it looking in PA now? Following Scott Pressler, it looks like his group Is swinging the voter base GOP.
The western part of the state - Pittsburgh and Allegheny County - is full of crooks and election stealers.
Reading “glasses” and “Cheatng” glasses Pennsylvania😆
What is with Jill Biden taking over the latest cabinet meeting?
- the excuse was that it was about women's health,
didn't Hillary try to take over healthcare during Bill's first term?
That's what came to my mind when I saw the clip of Joe introducing Jill, who was at the head of the conference table, so she could take over...
it's a safe bet that a lot more goes on behind the scenes once those cameras are off
Oh yes. I saw that! All I could say is obviously his brain is fried and can’t hold a meeting thus she had to! Smh!
Interesting
Regarding Jeff Childers comments on story typos, there is definitely something happening with general cognitive ability, I see it everywhere. From people being baffled by how a traffic signal works to highly technical tasks, something is very off.
I work almost exclusively with very smart people being in a highly technical engineering environment. What I've noticed over the past four years is that people seem to have lost the basic ability to get organized, prioritize important tasks from trivial ones, and follow through on execution. It's not like people forgot how to do calculus, but that their thinking is disorganized, irrational, and chaotic. It's alarming as the key to a functioning highly technical society is not having a bunch of Albert Einsteins around, but people who can think in a systemic manner, recognize patterns, and evaluate/mitigate risk. We are fast losing that capability.
From a purely personal perspective its been good for me as I retain these skills (not sure why, maybe being unvaxxed, good genetics, or just God's grace) so I'm in high demand professionally. But it's terrible for society as it's what caused Europe to develop so prosperously while Sub-Saharan Africa was (and remains) a basket case. That's the difference between an intelligent, organized society that values competency, and one that doesn't. That's where we are heading with this, and it's not just caused by uneducated illegal aliens swamping the country and DEI promotions. The smart people are losing their ability to logically think, and it's getting worse.
Read Michael C. Nehls book, "The Indoctrinated Brain." It explains so much of what we are seeing. Forgive me - I know I sound like a broken record as I've recommended this book several times over the past week.
https://www.amazon.com/Indoctrinated-Brain-Successfully-Global-Freedom/dp/1510778365
Dr. Nehls' interviews have been fascinating.
Explains so much on what is going on with the military and government covid psyops.
I'm going to have to break down and finally buy that book. I've seen him on several interviews and agree his explanation is the most plausible one out there.
Great book. And he recommended low dose lithium, 1-5 mg a day to decrease neuroinflammation.
Jeff C., those skills you listed are executive functioning skills and include the ability to set and achieve goals, which requires the ability to plan, prioritize, initiate task completion, manage time, complete tasks, regulate emotions, etc. Most of my mental health clients present with executive functioning skills deficits. The reasons for their poor ability to learn and retain these skills vary and include trauma, chronic stress, and maladaptive coping strategies like substance use, especially marijuana and alcohol. Nearly all of my treatment plans include objectives to improve executive functioning skills and emotional intelligence skills, which is the ability to manage one's own emotions and understand the emotions of others.
Trauma, chronic stress, maladaptive coping strategies? Sounds like being raised in a daycare center instead of at home with mom or dad.
Bryn Cannon, don't get me started! lol I definitely have strong beliefs about daycare and the education system. They produce lots of anxious kids from my perspective.
When I was pregnant the first time, a coworker’s wife had just had a baby and they put him in daycare. I asked if they were worried about his level of attachment to them when most of his waking hours were spent with a rotating staff. His response was “There’s something to be said for the people who tuck you in at night.” Um…..”night nurse”? How is a 4-month-old supposed to know that “his own bed” is his home and the people he sees for only an hour or two are the most important in his life?
Your last sentence nails it and I've harped on this endlessly. People are slaves to their emotions thus most decisions are driven by instant gratification. And virtually every aspect of popular culture reinforces this as a good thing. Alcohol/drug abuse, gambling, infidelity, consumerism, debt, and on and on. And it's getting worse as they are being promoted more than ever. All of these cater to our base hedonistic desire for immediate pleasure. All of them are also specifically condemned in the Bible in one way or another, all for good reason.
I don't view it as a mental health issue though, but a spiritual deficiency. Poor mental health may follow, but that's not the root cause (AA's founders realized this a hundred years ago). Accountability to God is crucial. Here's what's really interesting, If one follows the morality of the Bible (and I mean are serious about it) they can't help but be successful in every aspect of life even if they don't believe in God! It lays out behavioral guardrails for life that *always* make better people. This obvious fact is one of the reasons I'm confident it's the inspired Word of God.
Speaking from experience here as I was an alcoholic/drug addict that got sober by the Grace of God when I was 23. I've been on both sides, and this side is infinitely better. And I don't just mean avoiding the deleterious effects these substances, but the spiritual change that took place. Trust God and do not fear are powerful words, when one truly believes that God is in control then fear loses all (and I mean all) of its power. It is life changing.
The amazing thing is how my perspective completely changed, and this is common. When I was living a hedonistic lifestyle, internally I thought I was a piece of garbage (low self esteem) but a mighty important piece of garbage (huge ego). It was exactly backwards. In reality, I am loved by God which gives me indescribable worth. But at the same time He also loves eight billion others as much as me, and I need to always keep that in perspective.
But here's the question, why have we seen such a rapid deterioration in the last five years? Why does it seem to be accelerating so rapidly? I personally think it's multiple contributors that have all been ramped up: 1) a cultural moral inversion that portrays Christian ethics as harmful/evil and resulting in hedonism 2) a "therapy" culture that has people dwell on their problems rather than rise above them 3) constant fear-mongering in the media as a means of emotional control and debasement 4) psychotropic drugs as "treatment" rather than a temporary tool if even used at all and 5) serious mind-altering side effects of the mRNA injections.
All of this has exploded recently, and it's not a coincidence IMO. It's a multi-fold increase in the ongoing spiritual warfare around us.
We outright reject all of these in our household and things are going well. Yet most people accept this stuff without even a hint of critical thought. Then they wonder why they have "mental health" issues, financial problems, infidelity, fights among family members, and whatnot. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Saying "congratulations" in acknowledgement of your accomplishments seems trite, Jeff C. Please know that I realize what it took for you to get to where you are today. And as for the rest of what you wrote, I agree with you, except that since I don't ask about my clients' mRNA status and it's rare that it's revealed by the client, I can't speak to #5 on your list.
I see it too. Do you think this could have something to do with the COVID vaccine?