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My wife works in the operating room at a major Boston Hospital. It’s incredible how leftist employees, you know the ultra tolerant, must bleed their political emotions into the work place. My wife is not one to run to the office and complain about blatant biases being spewed by uncontrollable Trump deranged psychopaths, she handles it in her own sledgehammer fashion. But this, as many conflicts, shouldn’t be left for an employee to have to deal with. Bias, any bias, racial, gendered, political is a problem and believe me it’s a challenge too management in a disciplined workplace. I’ve watched for decades, management does not want to deal with these types of problems.
All conservatives and for that matter all of America has had to deal with these bigoted political biases from the insane TDS left throughout the reign of Obama, Joe Biden and as we see it is only escalating.
Leftists are defined by their rude arrogant intimidation tactics, they’re psychological bullies. They push their liberal mental disorder agenda onto everyone around them, workplace or no workplace. It’s incredible to see these extremely educated coordinators and managers with much less OR experience come up against a tough 40 year experienced nurse with unique work and life experiences.
So here we are again, another treasonous futile plot to take down a duly elected president with their lies. They can’t accept the will of the people or the 2024 election results. They are incapable of living in an American style Free society. Notice and as usual, they have no plan to help Americans get ahead. They have no plans or ideas to fund Homeland Security. They have no ideas or plans to make things better for their constituents, they only have hate full plans to tear this great country, America, in half again and if they have their way sit back and watch as its once great cities are burnt to the ground again as good communists do. They have nothing at all to run on. God is watching, shame on all of you. J.Goodrich
We no longer have polite society but the rules at work used to have taboo subjects off office general talk: sex, religion, and politics. What your wife is working in is called a "hostile work environment" and, imho, she has a basis for complaint. Note that, in today's work places, there are a minimum of professionals who can actually comprehend the concept.
You will need a lot more proof and damages to affect any sort of winnable case when the leftists control all the levers. Having been the victim of a 5-year reign of terror by my liberal supervisor- I watched as they simply allowed her (friends, HR, co-workers) political intrusions and bias into my work life. We all know what it feels like to work in a hostile work environment but it's an entirely different animal to prove it and win.
It's like communism. They invite you in but you have to shoot your way out.
Oh, I remember it so well—bias, pronouns, gender propaganda & marketing, ageism, internally all day long! If you don't show at the Pride parade, you join the suspicious team, and that's not desirable. At times, they connive to get rid of conservatives and straights by using insubordination, but it never holds. They even go after the outsourced if they are not gay enough! I sure miss it all. :(
As I said, if you had read my comment fully, unfortunately we do not have professionals in management positions….If we did, allowing this to take place would not happen….There would be a staff directive that people need to keep their religion, their politics, and their sex lives out of the office…
Oh I'm not arguing, I am simply stating you will get nowhere when the entire system is biased for survival and cowardly employees with intact resumes- will simply side with the power or perceived winners. So I think the term professional(s) is a bit misleading although I get the conduct part of the term. Cowardice or more accurately fear will win the day. Not once did I ever see anyone put their career on the line and square up against a workplace bully over creating a hostile work environment. But I did see hundreds of cowards ignore it and turn a blind eye.
Your blog wouldn't let me post this comment. So I will do it here Franklin.
Loved the post. Love the ideas. Unfortunately, the 70's, 80's, and 90's aren't ever coming back. I'm ok with it. It's like being 65 and wishing you could be 30.
Last week I watched the first three episodes of the Andy Griffith Show. Filmed in late 1960, Ron Howard was 6 years old. It was delightful not because I hope to return to those simpler times and values- but because I remember it being that way. I lived it.
No one really warns you about this part of adulthood. The part where you feel homesick not for a home but for a moment in time. A version of life that doesn't exist anymore. A place you can't return to, and a feeling you didn't know you'd miss so much until it was gone.
I bet this very same thing was talked about around fires and teepees by the plains Indians.
Yes. As a Gen X, I am discovering that now, that the late 80's and early 90's are never coming back. To me, that was peak American civilization. Of course, if I look back at it with a more critical eye and suppress my nostalgia, I realize that it was really just the slow beginnings of what we are living through now (and plenty of bad things were happening then, but I was younger and more naive and hopeful). In any case, you are correct, we can't go back and we can't relive it and it can't be made to happen again. We can only move forward with the lessons learned (or not) from our past.
My early memories of France are treasures! Here in America we have a chance to actually make a beneficial new age, and it has started. We eyed the abyss Bidet tried to pull us into and resisted. For France, it's nearly too late: decoupling, disgrace, and denials of all that has gone wrong. Douce France: An indentured country infected by its politics. Lafayette must be turning in his grave!
This immorality is the result of the femlib movement of the 60/70s and the introduction of the concept of "rationalizing", as well as the black movement of the 80s timeframe and the concept of "entitlement"....the introduction of the term "African-American", which was introduced to give a sense of pride to blacks because of the background of many (but not all) of the ancestors having come here as slaves gave a sense, not of pride, but of entitlement and being different. I was an adult through it all and got to experience both movements as active duty...Social engineering never works....and that was what both were.
Lets cut to the chase shall we? All can agree that widespread fraud is rampant and revealed
JC likes volunteer he is "just" an attorney.
He regularly advances the concept of "virus" without question.
Mike Stone has an Open Challenge to Virologist with specific science based conditions.
He recently coaxed a couple top tier players into the arena. It is as comical as a C&C edition,
but also seriously pathetic.
Partial Replay below, For the full report Mike Stone Newsletter
Behold// Update 3: An Open Challenge to Virologists
==========================================
### A Game of Cat and Mouse
Mike Stone
Apr 10
In August 2025, virologist Ed Rybicki discovered ViroLIEgy.com after I cited one of his blog posts to provide historical context for my article on “Tobacco Mosaic Virus” (TMV). Rather than engaging with the data, Rybicki took umbrage at being linked and responded with a series of derogatory remarks. Despite my invitation for a professional discussion regarding the article’s merits, he chose to maintain this tone across multiple comment sections and his own blog, while systematically ignoring the core technical questions.
In light of this refusal to engage, I issued a formal challenge to Ed Rybicki—and by extension, the entire field of virology: Present the foundational evidence, derived through the scientific method and satisfying Koch’s Postulates, that proves the existence and “pathogenicity” of any “virus.”
At minimum, two straightforward questions must be answered:
1. Do you have verifiable evidence of particles—presumed to be “viruses”—that have been directly purified and isolated from the fluids of a sick human or animal, without the use of cell culturing, and then confirmed through electron microscopy and biochemical analysis?
2. Do you have evidence that these same purified and isolated particles have been proven “pathogenic” in a natural manner, through strict adherence to the scientific method and satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates?
I pointed out that if one wishes to directly prove the hypothesis that an invisible microbe within a host causes disease, the strongest scientific proof would require demonstrating that:
1. The microbe actually exists directly in the fluids of sick hosts but not in the fluids of healthy hosts.
2. The specific microbe is purified, isolated, and identified via electron microscopy as a valid independent variable prior to experimentation (known as time order: the cause must exist before the effect).
3. The microbe is introduced into a healthy host in the manner proposed by the hypothesis (via aerosolization, ingestion, etc.) as the mode of “infection.”
4. The specific disease associated with the microbe is reproduced following this introduction.
5. The disease is transmissible from a sick host to a healthy host in the hypothesized manner (e.g., through close contact, coughing, sneezing, etc.).
6. After transmission, the same microbe can be purified and isolated from the fluids of the newly sickened host and confirmed.
7. This process must be repeated with a large sample size with proper control experiments, and the results must be independently reproduced by other researchers.
This challenge has stood since August 19, 2025. While a few virologists surfaced in September and October, the results were underwhelming. Ed Rybicki eventually returned in the final update, yet he again bypassed the technical specifics of the challenge, offering dismissals rather than a logical counterargument.
After that, the trail went cold, as there had not been any serious contenders to write home about.
The closest was Kelly Goodman, PhD, a microbiologist who, along with providing her own commentary about me, claimed that she had “handled live virus,” and had “cultured it, isolated it, and watched it produce disease in cells.”
Despite her claims, when presented with the same challenge, the response was nothing but silence.
Thus, the trail went cold once again.
However, it did not stay that way for long. Just a few days later—on April 1st, to be exact—a new contender stepped up to the plate with a comment on my April Fools’ Day post on Facebook.
If I can toot my own horn for a moment, the joke was that virologists had finally purified and isolated a “virus” directly from human samples without culturing and confirmed it to be “pathogenic” in accordance with the scientific method and the satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates. Many people fell for it because the image was very convincing as a news story. While great for joking purposes, it also serves as a somewhat unsettling example of how easily AI can be used to fool us.
FOR THE REAL ENTERTAINMENT, CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLE
This will open some sleepy eyes... while poking large holes in World Views
You can say "The bully's shoelace was undone" meaning the shoelace belonged to that bully. But the plural of bully is bullies, as in families, cherries, and other nouns that end in "y".
In the last month, we saw a very frustrated President Trump, because the very slow process of getting justice, reconning, retribution, of the EVIL WORK, of some of our fellow Americans: political LIE/FRAUD, legal LIE/FRAUD, emigration LIE/FRAUD, financial LIE/FRAUD, COVID LIES/FRAUDS, climate change LIE/FRAUD.
As an expression of this frustration, he removed 2 cabinet Secretaries: Kristy Noem and Pam Bondi.
The President correctly responded to a real need. We have now, a government “DEPARTMENT OF FRAUD” and a “Czar of Fraud”, Vice president Vance. I know of no country with such determined approach.
We, the people, for the last 6 years, are also VERY, VERY, VERY, frustrated with the same issues.
But, most importantly, God Himself is frustrated for centuries with us, “because SENTENCE against EVIL WORK is not EXECUTED SPEEDILY”, AND, AS RESULT, THE EVEL WORK CONTINUES…….
Ecclesiastes 8:11 “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil”. This is cause and effect!
It is about time, the whole Administration and American Nation, to return to The Truth Himself, The Lord God Jesus Christ.
The nation is frustrated “because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily”, BECAUSE OF THE DELAY IN SERVING JUSTICE, RETRIBUTION. JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED.
This apply to all LIES/FRAUDS I mentioned above.
But 2 of them are TOTALLY ignored and outstanding: COVID LIES/FRAUDS, and climate change LIE/FRAUD.
COVID LIES/FRAUDS, are ignored, justice and retribution delayed AND NOT EXECUTED SPEEDILY, and treated with gloves, neglecting the estimated 31 million death worldwide, WHO CANNOT SPEAK, while the perpetrators continue to be vocal and insolent. THERE IS NO WORD OF REPENTANCE/CONTRITION/REMORSE FROM THE PERPETRATORS.
In 2020-2024 President Trump was lied to, by CDC, FDA, NIH, and the Americans were forced again into SLAVARY (as, correctly, attorney Childers, FIRST remarked), because of mandates.
CLIMATE CHANGE LIE/FRAUD, ignores as I speak, all President Trump’s public orders and statements, starting with USAF, who in Surprise and Buckeye, AZ, daily pollutes the sky, by spraying chemicals untested for safety, daily polluting in plain sight the air we breathe, and blocking the sun light we need, as retired people. We cannot move elsewhere as seniors!
In DC this does not happen, and in Florida and other 10 States, the Legislatures stopped this madness.
We are not killed now with the jab, we are killed now, slowly, by sky spraying daily, by USAF.
THIS DOES NOT MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN, Mr. President.
As AMERICANS, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I plead for your help, and NOW.
And, Mr. President, as Commander in Chief, please, please, order NOW, that USAF stop spraying the sky. It is in your executive power, and can be corrected with your written order, to Secretary Hegseth.
They are 100% spraying in Florida. Since November it’s been almost every single day!! Most people still don’t understand that these are not normal weather patterns. We voted to stop this, and DeSantis vowed to arrest any pilot spraying, but I’ve never seen so much spraying as I’ve seen since late last year continuing to today!!! It makes me so angry. I live in Central Florida. It would be nice if the governor tried to put a stop to it.
We were in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky last week. Chem trails every day. It seems that, whatever they’re spraying is causing it to NOT rain in its due season. I have a feeling a time of drought may be coming which may cause widespread famine. I pray not.
But we seem to be in the second half of the promises of God to a disobedient people talked about in Deuteronomy 28. It’s the ‘Find Out’ portion. The whole chapter is promises. Both the good and the bad.
As I remind God, perhaps He should have quit on the 5th day. Would have saved Him much grief and aggravation and then sweet Jesus would never had to be tortured and crucified.
They toe the WEF/Transnational gangsters agenda as witless and useful idiots and are totally oblivious to the damage they cause to this country. They worship the captured MSM and point to it as truth.
Some insane lefty docs and nurses openly suggest killing patients who say anything in support of DJT. For that and other reasons (including forced Vax) most hospitals are very dangerous...
This appears to be the exact same long comment that was posted on Malone News, by Goodrich this morning. It is somewhat generic and multi-purposed and that bothers me.
I do often share comments I write on different sub stacks I subscribe to, is there a rule against this? Saying my comment is generic is ridiculous also. I don’t think generically people here or any where on sub stack have an OR wife that worked in major hospitals for 40 years in the heart of medicine, my opinion, Boston. I could tell you a thousand non generic comments about things that happened at those hospital some throughout COVID and even the Boston Bombing. Let me ask you a question officer, why do you care if I share my written comment with other subscribers on different sub stacks? People I’ve known for years. I can never understand, with everything going on in today’s world, that someone would take time out of their life to criticize a single comment on a sub stack. Could you please post the sub stack rule book? I’ve never seen it.
Just to share another generic story with you Lori. The day of the Boston Marathon bombing, Patriots Day, I was working at a heath club in Dedham, just outside of Boston when the bomb went off. My wife was off that day but called me and wanted to go into work, so I drove her. She ended up operating on a little 7 year old girl that had shrapnel all blown into her legs. There were others there at the hospital that day including I believe Martin Richard, the little boy that was killed. I drove my wife to work every day through Covid for years. In my original comment I may have picked these couple of TDS nurses, the same ones that got so hysterical at work after Trump won, they had to leave work crying. But honestly in “general” these people create miracles everyday saving kids.
But would those nurses, had they known what parents were Repub or conservative worked so hard to save a child then? We see today nurses wishing Karoline Leavitt severe tearing during childbirth and those telling other nurses to put laxatives in conservative food/drink while in the hospital. Some are even calling to inject conservatives with poisons while in hospitals.
Clearly, All the Anti-Christian rhetoric comes from the Democrat Left. Therefore how can anyone that claims to be a Christian vote for a Democrat?? The Democrat Party is the Anti-Christ movement here in America.
She directly told the other nurse she doesn’t want to hear her Trump hatred. She said I shouldn’t have to listen to this when I’m at work, enough is enough. Let’s focus on the patient! Which she constantly says many times to the surgeons.
Lets cut to the chase shall we? All can agree that widespread fraud is rampant and revealed
JC likes volunteer he is "just" an attorney.
He regularly advances the concept of "virus" without question.
Mike Stone has an Open Challenge to Virologist with specific science based conditions.
He recently coaxed a couple top tier players into the arena. It is as comical as a C&C edition,
but also seriously pathetic.
Partial Replay below, For the full report Mike Stone Newsletter
Behold// Update 3: An Open Challenge to Virologists
==========================================
### A Game of Cat and Mouse
Mike Stone
Apr 10
In August 2025, virologist Ed Rybicki discovered ViroLIEgy.com after I cited one of his blog posts to provide historical context for my article on “Tobacco Mosaic Virus” (TMV). Rather than engaging with the data, Rybicki took umbrage at being linked and responded with a series of derogatory remarks. Despite my invitation for a professional discussion regarding the article’s merits, he chose to maintain this tone across multiple comment sections and his own blog, while systematically ignoring the core technical questions.
In light of this refusal to engage, I issued a formal challenge to Ed Rybicki—and by extension, the entire field of virology: Present the foundational evidence, derived through the scientific method and satisfying Koch’s Postulates, that proves the existence and “pathogenicity” of any “virus.”
At minimum, two straightforward questions must be answered:
1. Do you have verifiable evidence of particles—presumed to be “viruses”—that have been directly purified and isolated from the fluids of a sick human or animal, without the use of cell culturing, and then confirmed through electron microscopy and biochemical analysis?
2. Do you have evidence that these same purified and isolated particles have been proven “pathogenic” in a natural manner, through strict adherence to the scientific method and satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates?
I pointed out that if one wishes to directly prove the hypothesis that an invisible microbe within a host causes disease, the strongest scientific proof would require demonstrating that:
1. The microbe actually exists directly in the fluids of sick hosts but not in the fluids of healthy hosts.
2. The specific microbe is purified, isolated, and identified via electron microscopy as a valid independent variable prior to experimentation (known as time order: the cause must exist before the effect).
3. The microbe is introduced into a healthy host in the manner proposed by the hypothesis (via aerosolization, ingestion, etc.) as the mode of “infection.”
4. The specific disease associated with the microbe is reproduced following this introduction.
5. The disease is transmissible from a sick host to a healthy host in the hypothesized manner (e.g., through close contact, coughing, sneezing, etc.).
6. After transmission, the same microbe can be purified and isolated from the fluids of the newly sickened host and confirmed.
7. This process must be repeated with a large sample size with proper control experiments, and the results must be independently reproduced by other researchers.
This challenge has stood since August 19, 2025. While a few virologists surfaced in September and October, the results were underwhelming. Ed Rybicki eventually returned in the final update, yet he again bypassed the technical specifics of the challenge, offering dismissals rather than a logical counterargument.
After that, the trail went cold, as there had not been any serious contenders to write home about.
The closest was Kelly Goodman, PhD, a microbiologist who, along with providing her own commentary about me, claimed that she had “handled live virus,” and had “cultured it, isolated it, and watched it produce disease in cells.”
Despite her claims, when presented with the same challenge, the response was nothing but silence.
Thus, the trail went cold once again.
However, it did not stay that way for long. Just a few days later—on April 1st, to be exact—a new contender stepped up to the plate with a comment on my April Fools’ Day post on Facebook.
If I can toot my own horn for a moment, the joke was that virologists had finally purified and isolated a “virus” directly from human samples without culturing and confirmed it to be “pathogenic” in accordance with the scientific method and the satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates. Many people fell for it because the image was very convincing as a news story. While great for joking purposes, it also serves as a somewhat unsettling example of how easily AI can be used to fool us.
FOR THE REAL ENTERTAINMENT, CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLE
This will open some sleepy eyes... while poking large holes in World Views
Lets cut to the chase shall we? All can agree that widespread fraud is rampant and revealed
JC likes volunteer he is "just" an attorney.
He regularly advances the concept of "virus" without question.
Mike Stone has an Open Challenge to Virologist with specific science based conditions.
He recently coaxed a couple top tier players into the arena. It is as comical as a C&C edition,
but also seriously pathetic.
Partial Replay below, For the full report Mike Stone Newsletter
Behold// Update 3: An Open Challenge to Virologists
==========================================
### A Game of Cat and Mouse
Mike Stone
Apr 10
In August 2025, virologist Ed Rybicki discovered ViroLIEgy.com after I cited one of his blog posts to provide historical context for my article on “Tobacco Mosaic Virus” (TMV). Rather than engaging with the data, Rybicki took umbrage at being linked and responded with a series of derogatory remarks. Despite my invitation for a professional discussion regarding the article’s merits, he chose to maintain this tone across multiple comment sections and his own blog, while systematically ignoring the core technical questions.
In light of this refusal to engage, I issued a formal challenge to Ed Rybicki—and by extension, the entire field of virology: Present the foundational evidence, derived through the scientific method and satisfying Koch’s Postulates, that proves the existence and “pathogenicity” of any “virus.”
At minimum, two straightforward questions must be answered:
1. Do you have verifiable evidence of particles—presumed to be “viruses”—that have been directly purified and isolated from the fluids of a sick human or animal, without the use of cell culturing, and then confirmed through electron microscopy and biochemical analysis?
2. Do you have evidence that these same purified and isolated particles have been proven “pathogenic” in a natural manner, through strict adherence to the scientific method and satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates?
I pointed out that if one wishes to directly prove the hypothesis that an invisible microbe within a host causes disease, the strongest scientific proof would require demonstrating that:
1. The microbe actually exists directly in the fluids of sick hosts but not in the fluids of healthy hosts.
2. The specific microbe is purified, isolated, and identified via electron microscopy as a valid independent variable prior to experimentation (known as time order: the cause must exist before the effect).
3. The microbe is introduced into a healthy host in the manner proposed by the hypothesis (via aerosolization, ingestion, etc.) as the mode of “infection.”
4. The specific disease associated with the microbe is reproduced following this introduction.
5. The disease is transmissible from a sick host to a healthy host in the hypothesized manner (e.g., through close contact, coughing, sneezing, etc.).
6. After transmission, the same microbe can be purified and isolated from the fluids of the newly sickened host and confirmed.
7. This process must be repeated with a large sample size with proper control experiments, and the results must be independently reproduced by other researchers.
This challenge has stood since August 19, 2025. While a few virologists surfaced in September and October, the results were underwhelming. Ed Rybicki eventually returned in the final update, yet he again bypassed the technical specifics of the challenge, offering dismissals rather than a logical counterargument.
After that, the trail went cold, as there had not been any serious contenders to write home about.
The closest was Kelly Goodman, PhD, a microbiologist who, along with providing her own commentary about me, claimed that she had “handled live virus,” and had “cultured it, isolated it, and watched it produce disease in cells.”
Despite her claims, when presented with the same challenge, the response was nothing but silence.
Thus, the trail went cold once again.
However, it did not stay that way for long. Just a few days later—on April 1st, to be exact—a new contender stepped up to the plate with a comment on my April Fools’ Day post on Facebook.
If I can toot my own horn for a moment, the joke was that virologists had finally purified and isolated a “virus” directly from human samples without culturing and confirmed it to be “pathogenic” in accordance with the scientific method and the satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates. Many people fell for it because the image was very convincing as a news story. While great for joking purposes, it also serves as a somewhat unsettling example of how easily AI can be used to fool us.
FOR THE REAL ENTERTAINMENT, CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLE
This will open some sleepy eyes... while poking large holes in World Views
I have a feeling you and O’Kanu might enjoy a book based on the prophecies about terrorism. It is by a Rabbi based on current events and Biblical prophecies in the OT.
When he wrote it, he was not a believer in Yeshua. I pray that he has found Him in his studies.
Anyway, the name of the book is:
“Prophecies For The Era of Muslim Terror” A Torah perspective on world events by Rabbi Menachem Kohen.
It truly is an amazing perspective. Made me appreciate the Word even more.
I want to suggest that many times if the Big Blue City wasn’t squatting in a state, it would be red. Like my state. Don’t blame us all. I’m in a red county. Democrats get much of nothing in my county, but the GOP are nothing to brag about either.
Trust me when I tell you that there is a day of reckoning.
The God they don’t believe in will soon introduce Himself. I pity all of them. They grab for dust and maggots when they could have had eternal life and be loved forever.
If you’re going to be that standoffish then your proclamation really has no merit. It is when deviance is normalized/accepted among adults (responsible for all the moral underpinnings of civilization) that children are first sacrificed. I have gay relatives and I am loving and polite to them individually but they know I do not support for example, gay ‘marriage’ and in fact not many of our clan do, and so they co-habitate and leave it at that. They are demonstrably not hysterical about their sexuality; after a decades long relationship they are quietly living their lives and have earned a lot of respect for that.
Pathetic of you to include the “Mormon church.” Maybe actually look at their beliefs, and more importantly, the actual results of those that adhere to the beliefs. Nothing, and I mean nothing, could be less luciferian.
The Mormons I know in real life are kind and upstanding people. I think their belief system and practices are nuts but to each his/her own. Those belief/practices ain’t harming anyone. And they also help keep up America’s birth rate, which we need.
Yeah, kids can be cruel. Sorry to hear of Mormon children behaving so badly. I’m speaking about Mormon adults. Every group does have its cliques. The Mormon clique is benign IMO.
don't leave out the truth that mormon kids can only grow up to be those mormon adults you praise. Every one o those current adults were once mormon kids.
When I had rejected my childhood religious upbringing as being empy and vapid and useless, I, along with a couple I knew well and trusted, looked into mormonism. They gave me a copy o their book, telling me it goes along with the bible and completes it. Well, about the time I got to the bit about the angel explaining you need these holy glasses to read the tablet you discovered, I realised I did NOT knew what the bible says.. so I set down the blue book and picked up an old bible I had lying about. I read that cover to cover in a couple weeks. The blue book and all its pathetic wackiness ended up in the woodstove. I still read and study that bible, and live by it.
The main issue with the blue book and what results in reading and persuing it is that it centres upon DOING all these required things, and the organisation/heirarchy inside it. It maks its adherents human doings, rathr than yuma beings. It does NOT lead you into a relationwhip with the God who made us and desires a living relationship with us, and that we have the same with each other.
Matt—The LDS church has amassed a portfoilo in the Billions with investments in, among sevetal companies, war machine companies and pharmaceuticals. They are also acquiring land and plan to build their sanctuary city for the second coming. Fortunately, “man plans, God laughs”. So, in light of God’s sovereignty, Mormons are benign. You are correct.
Have you talked to people who work up the ladder into the upper echelons? I don’t think the majority of Mormons understand what goes in above them. People who leave those upper levels have information to share. The rank and file Mormons are good people, who think they are following the truth.
What exactly is the plan for the upper echelon? They want to worship Satan at night and then all day every day exhort people to follow Christ? Does that make any sense? For nearly 200 years those that become disaffected with the church have said innumerable inanities. It doesn’t make them true. Usually it’s just a sign they are bitter.
Also might want to update your anti-Mormon info, the church practiced it for 50 years and has not for over 130 years. Around a quarter of its current existence.
Yes. And it is still in practice today. Have you not seen the show Sister Wives? The Mormon leader is still in jail. He was a known child rapist and sickening individual.
You are wrong, Scott! Mormonism has pulled millions toward Hell. And only when the realization hits an LDS member, is there a chance that they might break free.
However, the chains are strong and many/most will not risk separation from ALL that has been their lives.
I absolutely LOVE my family. They are, for the most part, concerned, kind, funny and generous. They are loving and open-minded...until one addresses the demon, Joseph Smith and religious enslavement. People ( not just Mormons, but all uninformed people) hate it when LDS is called a cult; but if the "Doctrine & Covenants" fit...
I pray for them nightly, but I fear for them with every loving thought!
Joseph Smith was a young farmer in upstate New York who claimed that in 1820, at the age of 14, he began receiving visions from the spirit world. As a teen, he worked as a “treasure seer,” using a “seer stone.” He practiced astrology, dream interpretation, and herbalism regularly. He believed that “God” appeared to him during a time of great “religious confusion” during the Second Great Awakening to give him an important message.
Even Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light.
Sure, but people have been lying or telling partial truths about the church for nearly 200 years. It is lead on earth by humans, who will make mistakes. Like every other institution in history.
Maybe give a smidge of evidence besides the diatribes and anecdotal evidence?
So far you have spewed very dishonest and hateful rhetoric without substantiating any of it.
We are to believe that church leaders retire from their successful professions to do lay it very modestly paid work and then work until they die, so they can worship Lucifer in private while constantly and consistently exhorting all who will listen to believe in Christ, be peacemakers, love neighbors, etc? This makes sense to you?
Half-Jewish, raised Protestant, now Latin Rite Catholic (the ones the Biden admin investigated) here. Sounds like you've been taken in by SDA end of world "literature". While the Jesuits are nuts these days and Francis was a Jesuit and I did not like him, your misunderstanding of the Jesuits in general is misleading. For a better understanding read former Jesuit Malachi Martin's "The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church".
One would think that since you're an expert on Modernism in the Catholic Church you would equally know what "SDA" means. However your sights are set on defaming the Catholic Church, not any other. Sigh. Anyway, Modernism and VII (Vatican II) are the reasons I go to the Traditional Latin Mass of 2000 years, not the Novus Ordo Mass (Mass of VI...Vatican II).
There are yet more than a few good Jesuits following the rule of St Ignatius - - - as is told in the book I referenced above. You are confused by today's optics of sinners (some trying to do good, some doing evil) and the Divine Revelation of Christ to His Church. The Divine is always eternal while sinners (like you and I) run the Church. I try to escape the liberality of VII by going to the Ancient Mass which liberals for centuries have tried to ban. Why do you think the Biden Administration investigated people at the church with the very Mass that I go to? They didn't investigate Protestant Churches. Nor the VII Church.
I don’t know anything about Luciferians, but I am well acquainted with “the Mormons” better known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Please do not include us in your grouping of satanic churches we are separate and independent and as the name implies we are followers and believers in Jesus Christ.
Thank you, Janice, for the way you select a scripture that fits right in to what Jeff has just churned out. That is your beautiful way of commenting, and it is a blessing.
Shame, shame on those nasty folks and bots of yesterday with their thoughtless and rude comments.
Just recently, while experiencing a worrying and very painful condition, I decided to go to the ER. In the 4 hours I waited in the otherwise empty waiting room, the symptoms began to abate and by the time my number was called, they had resolved. I told that to the attending physician and left. Despite not being examined, diagnosed or treated, I got a bill for $750. I requested the medical record for the “encounter” and found that the doctor had entered a note for an examination that NEVER occurred. When I questioned the relevant administrator on how a fake examination could be entered into the records, the answer was essentially “Who cares? It’s paid by the insurance company.”
What are the chances that my episode just happened to be the rare one with “erroneous” records and billing codes? I strongly suspect that these kinds of shenanigans are routine.
Similar circumstance for me years ago. Billed for procedures that never occurred. When I called the insurance company to report the fraudulent billing, they stated it would cost more to fight the billing than pay it 🤦♀️.
SO short sighted…if you add up ALL of the fraudulent billings, it would be well worth the fight. Send a message to dishonest docs. And maybe stop the madness.
Nard, I'll go back 40 years. I remember Grandma was in the hospital constantly with Grandpa for a week (slept there.) After his death and receiving the bill from the hospital, she and I went through every charge and supposed procedure. 80% never happened. And the charges for simple medicines were outrageous. I'll never forget that and now it's probably much, much worse.
I received a statement from the hospital with the listed charges for the birth of my third child. (I don't recall receiving them for the older children.) Thankfully, I took the time to glance at the charges. I didn't know what most of the charges meant, but I noticed that I was being charged for a resuscitation of my baby. I called the billing department and objected to the false charge. Basically, the clerk said, "Oops" and removed the charge. No questions asked. I too expect that these erroneous codes are quite common. And sure, I had insurance. But my co-pay for the fraudulent charge was over a thousand dollars at the time.
Melissa, they probably count on people being too busy and not questioning the bill. But my thought here is, SOMEONE put in that code, and an "oops" doesn't cut it.
When my Mom was 92 (she’s 98 now), we went to a dermatology clinic for a skin check. Had quite a long conversation about how amazing it was that at her age she didn’t need anything removed from her skin. When the Medicare documentation arrived weeks later, it showed billing for removal of eight skin irregularities. We called, and the dermatology office insisted the removals had happened. We actually reported fraud to Medicare but never heard back from anyone.
Maybe the charge was DISCUSSING the removals that did not occur. Yrs ago, I was charged an additional $250 at a dermatologist appt when we did a review of my entire body. The explanation was that the automated system mined the doctor's notes for billable DIFFERENT topics.
Sent them a f.u. reply and never paid it. Sent a letter to the doc explaining I'd never come back and i'd tell people to avoid her.
About 15 yrs later, went in for some kind of carcinoma that pre-AI told me was common and mostly benign. I reminded her of the note mining/billing s/w, and asked her not to write anything down from our conversation other than the specific, ONE thing. Told her I didn't want to hear ANYTHING that would be billed additionally without prior warning and pricing. In the end, we repeated the entire "baselining" of my skin condition, same as before. This time, no additional billing attempt.
Entire system is rigged against the customers and exploits the docs to steal more money.
Bizarre! No, the bill clearly listed the growths “removed.” I’m entering the Medicare world myself in a few months. Seems I should verify everything before I leave a provider’s office. I bet they’ll say they can’t.
We have. And I videoed my hubby’s hospital visit for a heart ablation after his being asked by his admission nurse if he felt safe at home! He takes blood thinners and bruises extremely quickly and badly. Then when she asked if a blood transfusion was necessary did he give his permission. I immediately said no with his chiming in no and we would have to have our choice of donated blood but under no circumstances were they to do anything other than what was on our doctor’s order or our permission. I was not even allowed to touch his food tray to feed him lol! It was a circus in that hospital for a day surgical experience! I’m sure they didn’t like me taping and videoing all faces and machines!
Now, with the on vent of computers and copying and pasting, I noticed when I was working as a registered nurse that a lot of the doctors just copied and pasted notes into patients charts that didn’t have anything to do with the patients. I don’t know how many times I actually asked doctors to amend their charting. And that was over 10 years ago, so I’m sure it’s much worse now.
When I am able to sit down with a nurse practitioner for all of ten minutes - while never meeting the actual doctor - she spends the bulk of the time typing notes and diagnosis codes (for insurance) and not listening.
I started to talk their heads off making sure I get my money’s worth. 😆 If they are going to tune me out I’m going to trap them there to tune me out longer than they would like. Lol
That's because doctoring is done with software where the diagnostics are performed by a computer program. I noticed the same with my so called Family Physician around 2020, the doctor who I vetted profusely before choosing him as my primary was about as sensitive as a hammer. He asked questions while barely looking at me and typed in my replies.
I was so impressed with the dispassionate discharge of his duties I changed offices immediately disappointed that all of my investigative work choosing him was wasted. The medicare advantage plan network (Humana) of doctors were all about the same, no tangible humanity or care for their trade. Robots. I've yet to find a doctor inside my plan's network to use.
Brent her!! I had UGI & Colonoscopy couple years ago & NEVER met/ saw the doctor!For all I know the N. Practitioner did the procedures😱😱! I was and still am pissed off
I do record review for a law firm and the EMR is a source of much confusion. Auto-population of fields and lazy providers who can't be bothered to amend documentation day to day results in some serious legal difficulties.
Blame Obama. The first thing that Obamacare financed was a massive forcing of all medical providers to switch to computers.
No one liked it, but management had their hands out for their share of the spoils. And most EMRs have boxes to check which limits your ability to record the actual patient complaint, let alone record the symptoms.
Mrs. RW.. So that explains it. My physician who told me he hated computers and would never use one during an exam suddenly one day he had a computer in the exam room, typing away during most of our appointment, and he had it for every exam thereafter. I thought “How odd after what he told me before.”
Also in a candid moment my physician mentioned he was very concerned for the future of his daughter’s life because of the way American was headed. Not sure what he was alluding to exactly but he seemed quite bitter about it.
It makes for a terrible doctor-patient relationship. At my last office visit, the doctor asked me the same exact question - word for word - three times because he was prompted by the pre-scripted encounter form in the EMR. So frustrating.
yep, years ago when I was still getting mammograms, I saw in the radiologist writeup reference to the biopsies I had gotten. Never had a biopsy there... the entire report was likely copied and pasted and had to be rewritten (re-copied and pasted from a healthier or less-cut-up patient).
re: "“Washington is finally trimming a bloated, fraud‑ridden program, and 6% doesn’t sound like nearly enough.”
I do believe this is the beginning of the destruction of the "institutional democracy" these frauds, con men/women, and "elite" have built over decades to destroy the Constitutional Republic many of us hold so dear. And to steal trillions of dollars. THANK YOU GOD FOR SAVING PRESIDENT TRUMP!
And if that is not enough Good news, there is this to revel and delight in:
"BREAKING IMPEACHMENT NEWS: The Minnesota House Freedom Caucus has just announced that impeachment hearings for Tim Walz and Keith Ellison will begin next Wednesday, April 15."
Enough of the dems might see it as an opportunity to get clean at the expense of those two putrid sub humans? Probably not, but you never know. GAW.
From AI: "As of early 2025, the Minnesota Senate is controlled by the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). The DFL holds a narrow 34-33 majority. While control of the Minnesota House of Representatives is evenly split (67-67) between the DFL and Republicans. This creates a divided government, with the DFL holding the governorship."
And I'll betcha next year, the insane costs of medical care and insurance will be addressed by the administration, another important issue hinging on the midterms results.
The President is already working on it. Part of his plan is to redirect the funds from the grift operation between congress and insurance companies (under ovomit care) and instead give it directly to Citizens who can then use it to determine what kind of insurance they want. That is magnificent and will force insurers to fight to provide good insurance while ending the grifting between insurance and congress. whoomp whoomp!!
I can't wait! My COBRA benefits expire soon, and my new state "marketplace" plan will be almost $900/month, which is - believe it or not - a fantastic price. I'll be happy to see the core unAffordable Care Act repealed.
And please recall, it was the consummate RINO and deeply corrupt mccain ( i refuse to capitalize his name or refer to him as a Senator) who was the final vote for ovomit care... in effect a piece of shit voting for a piece of shit, not because it was good public policy but because it made him and the rest carry around fat wallets and huge bank accounts.
Yeah I had to do cobra & paid $700.00 a month, and than had to do obama care and got screwed single non ill female over $900.00 a month. I would have not used it at all, but than I would have had to pay a fine. Probably for life. Just like the medicare fine in part D if you don't sign up immediately.
My wife's 93 year old grandmother had a PREGNANCY test run or should I say billed by one of her Medicare providers some years ago... The attitude about (paraphrasing) "well, they'll pay for it" does not justify the theft.
Fish: you make an excellent point. When I began full-time employment with “Gold Standard” medical insurance (employer-paid premiums, no co-pay, no maximums) I was puzzled by the seemingly constant medical appointments my healthy colleagues had. It was a good way to ditch work and it was all ‘free’. But then, Obamacare eliminated the plan, premiums, co-pays, etc. entered the scene, and everyone wasn’t so eager to run off to the dr for a chat.
Thank you for sharing, MaryAnn! Prior to Obamacare, I had one of those gold standard plans on the private insurance side. It was affordable and required no preauthorizations, no referrals, no tiered prescriptions, and no preauthorizations for procedures. Best plan I ever had… I still had co-pays, but it was as good a plan as could be purchased.
We run into the opposite problem as well: not being timely billed for services that were provided. Yesterday at check-in for a routine visit the reception clerk threatened us with cancelling the appointment because her computer showed a past due balance. We bullied our way past her and then later in the day talked to their billing manager who confirmed that the amount due (from January) had never been billed (as of April), that's why it wasn't paid, duh. Left a very bad taste in my mouth to be treated like a deadbeat in front of a waiting room full of strangers.
I do hope you spoke with the Office Manager about how you were treated at check in and the details. If not, you could still call them and let them know how unprofessional the reception clerk was.
That reminds me of the time of being discharged after our second son was born, (having extremely good insurance through my husband’s work which we had already give to admissions office when going into the hospital for delivery) was wheeled into the business office; new mother with baby in arms and new dad who was asking why we needed to go to the business office. He was told we had a balance to pay before we could leave. He reminded her we had insurance that they would file and we would get a bill from our insurance stating what they payed and what we owed and then we send the balance in. They said we could leave until the balance was paid; the balance was $6.00! 😂 My husband asked the business manager if he could use her phone and she asked for what? He said, “I’m calling the police and telling them you’re holding my wife and son for a ransom of $6.00!!” They wheeled us out immediately after that.
Exactly. "We" are paying for it. Our premiums and deductibles are ridiculous because Obamacare (The Affordable Care Act - HAH!) mandates we cover items the vast majority of people will never utilize like: PrEP drugs for HIV prophylaxis or IUDs for birth control without any cost-sharing or co-pays. For context, PrEP drugs without insurance runs a person about $2000/month. It's just insane.
S&S, We payed our payments for the company insurance (which in the 60s was a different ‘animal’ and was actually part of his salary) so going by your statement, we paid twice for our coverage. It was not like insurance is today. No Obamacare.
There is a lot of built in fluff in Health Insurance. I am now on a Medicare Advantage plan. I get a quartely allowance of 60 USD to buy over the counter stuff health and safety stuff. Maybe that is intended as a diaper subsidy, but most of us are not in need of those yet.
I also get a yearly visit from a health professional. I did it my first year. It's just a checklist event, seems more like a data collection system and a reminder to do all your health screenings and vacinations.
To me it's nice but it's also fluff. Why should the tax payers have to pay for all of this and most of all who is getting this easy money?
I did one of those home health visits my first year on Medicare. The person who came gave off a vibe like she was ‘casing the joint’ as my dad would say. No more ‘home visits’ for me.
I’m on a high deductible plan. The insurance company won’t care.
But I probably should complain to that doctor’s certifying board.
When the administrator called me back they essentially said “The bill is canceled, bye” and hung up, obviously not wanting to hear more questions about how a fake examination was recorded.
A big savings would happen if Medicare with discontinue the "wellness exam" nonsense. It is pure data collection peppered with the nurse or med assistant doing two measurable things such as BP and weight. The doctor does no touching of the patient. There is no filling of necessary prescriptions. Just data collection of answers to inane questions that are many times, way inappropriate for a medical environment.
As part of this game, many doctors, after putting the patient through the annual humiliation of playing this game, then move on to maybe a regular doctor visit, if the doctor is kind enough to not make this doctor visit be a second appointment. The billing reflects both the "wellness exam" and the office visit.
It doesn't matter if the patient wants to forego the "wellness exam" and just get a regular physical and prescriptions filled. Nope, the Medicare patient MUST schedule and sit through the "wellness exam" first. 😡
Which consists of drawing the face of a clock and remembering 3 words give you verbally in the correct order when asked during other questions. I have to admit I do give them some unique clock faces 😂 - no numbers, just dots; Roman Numerals; Micky Mouse And his hands etc.
Last year I was billed for 2 bogus things which the insurance company didn't pay and that would have to come out of my pocket. I went to the doctor's office and told them to take the charges off my bill because I intended never to pay sham charges. Ever. They immediately knew that I knew the charges were not genuine and promptly removed them.
You went into triage and had vitals taken with one of the most experienced nurses in the ED, and you spoke to an attending MD. I’m not sure what he/she included in the note, but I can tell you as an ICU nurse that a simple conversation with a patient gives me a lot of information. In triage you stated one level of pain and with the doctor a different one. I get being irritated at being charged but the hospital has to pay all the bills to keep that ED open: security, admissions desk personnel, triage nurses, ED nurses, restrooms for the waiting room, cleaning personnel, the stocking personnel, and on down the line, not to mention the electric bill. I work at a mid-sized facility and our CEO recently shared that it costs $6.5 million a day to keep our doors open.
I don’t doubt there are places to trim money from our budget, there are everywhere.
I tripped and fell a few months ago and needed up in the ED to get a gash on my forehead checked, cleaned, and stitched. They did start an IV and send labs, too, as that is standard for every fall. I did not get a CT scan of my head done for various reasons. My part of my bill was over $2,000 plus another $1,000 for the ambulance ride.
The note said that the doctor performed an examination of my eyes, ears, nose and throat, determined that my pulse and heart rhythm was normal, that my breathing was regular and clear, that my abdomen displayed no irregularities but that I had diffuse mild discomfort in my lower abdomen. How they were able to know all this in less than the two minutes I spent in their presence without using any instruments or even touching me I guess is the miracle of modern medicine.
Well, your eyes were clear with no drainage (eyes with swelling and drainage are obvious, as well as redness and yellowing,) you were blinking normally during the conversation which means your reflexes are fine to your eyes. Your nose wasn’t draining and you had no cough. The doctor listened to and read what you told the triage nurse, too. Your respiratory rate is very obvious in casual conversation, plus you had a set of vitals taken in triage. They have those numbers. Believe me, when you see someone with increased work of breathing and severe congestion and wheezing, you can hear it and see it without laying a stethoscope to their chest. I still do, though, as it is part of my assessment of patient, and I have caught small changes in one area of a lung that have led to xrays and earlier interventions before things got worse. You reported to the triage nurse about abdominal stuff, I’m thinking, with your original reason for being there, and I would guess that triage nurse asked about bowel regularity/irregularity and location of pain and now you are improved. I hope the triage nurse did press on your abdomen in various places, as that simple exam can help begin a differential diagnosis of various causes of bowel pain and irritation. You told the MD that yourself that you had improved from severe enough pain that you came in to mild enough pain that you are leaving. We do tend to believe patients when they talk to us. A subjective exam listening to the patient is an exam. That experienced Emergency Medicine physician is an expert at very quick objective information collection with conversation, a history, and vitals. They have to be.
Triage nurse took temperature and blood pressure and asked my symptoms. That was all. No stethoscope, no touching. The doctor, in the note, got the symptoms wrong. It was completely fabricated.
Ugh! It makes my head want to explode. My nursing students know to do better than that! I am sorry for your crummy experience and then a huge bill to boot. Well, you will get a patient survey and if you really want to rock the boat, call and ask to speak with their Patient Experience team.
Carol, you make good points and clearly your experience as an ICU nurse gives you credibility. I would only add that from a legal perspective, the situation described by Lon would be sticky and that the emergency room doctor in a deposition would be challenged. Regarding the actual billing, I'm sure the coders saw a documented exam and billed accordingly.
Agree!!! 100%!!! I am thankful that I work with doctors that listen to the nurses and also physically assess the patients for themselves. He or she should have done it, as well!
You can also add that the patient here got up and moved, and presumably wasn’t guarding his abdomen, so seeing a patient get up and move is also an exam. There is a lot it all and I would say that a simple conversation doesn’t equate a simple physical exam…feel a pulse, listen to heart/lungs/bowel, and then palpate a bit to confirm nothing more serious may be hiding. I just wanted to point out that the doctor had a lot more information than you would think after a review of everything and a simple conversation.
Thanks for all of your wise and learned comments, Carol B. Sometimes the negative experiences get written but the positive ones do not. In addition, while it’s important to touch the patient so to speak, a lot of information can be gained merely by looking at them and listening to how they respond to questions.
04/10/26: Pure fraud, Lon. At least there was a point to the second ambulance that followed mine to the emergency room in 2023 (we were billed for both, and gladly paid for both). Glad that you ended up okay!
--- “Richard Hughes, a lawyer for the medical groups that sued to shut Kennedy’s committee down, called it ‘a calculated effort to shift the focus and balance of the committee to advance an anti-vaccine agenda.’ ”
Well, DUH.
--- “The Times’ foolish article … referred to “polio” four times… polio has nothing whatever to do with the vaccine committee’s purpose.”
Here it comes --- SURPRISE! --- Wuhan polio!
--- OGG! = “Oleaginous Governor Gavin.”
Reminder: The $37,000,000,000,000 (trillion) federal government red ink … how much of that was BORROWED money that promptly went to California and into OGG-Capone’s wallet?
Repeated for emphasis: The United States borrowed TRILLIONS of dollars, a significant percentage of which was then STOLEN (via financial fraud in California, Maine and Minnesota).
--- With all due respect to the First Lady, I’m not reading another single word about Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeff, the victims are rightfully called survivors because you will learn that many of the trafficked young women were killed. Pizzagate is real. Pedo networks are real and the people involved are sick twisted Satan worshipping freaks who delight in ritual torture and sacrifice. People like Liz Crokin who has been saying this for decades were called conspiracy nuts. But they were right about it all. Many did not survive and the perpetrators will not survive what's coming
There is at least one reputable Substack writer and book author who has been reading the released Epstein files who says there were artificially inseminated girls who had their babies removed at birth for “experimental” purposes. The details are grim beyond imagination. The ranch in New Mexico needs a thorough forensic inspection.
This is all why Congressional testimony is so important: they’re under oath.
Whomever does not testify, one can assume is not speaking the truth.
Those who decline were probably doing so for fame & clicks, because they all know “under oath” means prison time if they are untruthful & someone decides to go after them. The potential exposure is too real & serious.
Under oath does not mean a thing to Godless liars. Who are they swearing to tell the truth to? “So Help Me God” means nothing to people who don’t believe in God.
True, so far none of the perjurers of the Obama and Biden administrations have been indicted or sentenced. Its as if taking an oath is of no consequence at all anymore.
True Cookie Dee, but it is a deterrent to some. I don’t know why they bother with hearings where the witnesses and those testifying are not under oath. I guess much of it is political theater. A big waste of our time and money.
Because no one, on EITHER side wants the Epstein files released. There are major Democrats in those files.
So they waited until Trump was in office because Trump can NEVER release a complete Epstein file because his bro Jeff was the elite pimp to the Elites, and Trump had Mar-a-lago and the stable of beautiful young pageant girls, and all his Elite billionaire pedo buddies and Epstein was pimping girls to and from Mar-A-Lago (see Virginia Guiffre vs Prince Andrew, Duke of York),
And even with all the evidence of rape and sexual abuse of children, Jeffrey Epstein still got off with THE LIGHTEST SENTENCE in the state of Florida for sex crimes!
And what about Alexander Acosta, the corrupt State Attorney that let Epstein off, what happened to him???
Trump appointed him Secretary of Labor!
There will NEVER be a complete release of Epstein files
I’m still waiting to hear what was on Anthony Wiener’s laptop…doesn’t the fbi have it? I agree, all pedos should rot in hell, and anyone closely associated to them (Uma and Killary) must be held to account.
Can you imagine if Trump had a (D) behind his name and how the crowd here would be acting in this context? I'm so tired of double standards. All these people should be investigated, and those found guilty can rot in hell.
Wow, look at this. A tag-team of Proberta and Johnny-O. Two Bots Extraordinaire. Sent to Jeff's wonderful Coffee and Covid site every single morning to create hate and sow division amongst us conservatives who support our President. These two Bots come here and like each other's moronic comments that are the same everyday.
Block these Bots or just shake your head and know this, these Bots were sent here for a reason.
That reason is that the Evil forces that wish to control our every thought, our every action, continue to plot their destruction of our free society and make us bend a knee to their will.
This Evil, will if we allow it, bring back lockdowns, mandatory experimental injections, vaccine passports, CBDC, and more Hate and Division that is humanly possible.
A day or two ago I saw a couple of post on X claiming Bill Gates recently made the statement that it won't be long before "we" won't need humans. I can't verify he said it but it sounds like something he would say/think.
It was during some talk show type interview. He was asked whether we would even need humans in the future. He said no, then he said, well, we won’t need them for the things they do now.
Which makes sense as we learn more and more about how Obama holdovers were working to obstruct President Trump’s authority. It’s still going on today as they continue to weed out the obstructionists.
Trump's DOJ by the end of his 1st term were Obama holdovers? Sorry, that is just wrong, and additionally, Trump has now been president for over 5 years and had those files the entire time, and nothing has happened.
Neither party wants the files released. It has turned into a political football. Many on this forum were screaming about them during the campaign and as soon as the narrative shifted, all of the sudden those very same people don't care about it anymore. It's really sad to see how easily people get played. Release the files, investigate, and roll heads.
Yes Lone Star! Is anyone working on getting authorization for a detailed review and search, including excavation on that NM ranch? I rarely hear about it.
Thank you, PhillySpecial! Yes, I was rather appalled by this: "And, just a second. I’m sorry, but I must ask: what’s with calling them survivors? None of the victims died."
'Mere' molestation victims, children and even infants, don't have to be *cult* victims to qualify as survivors. Of course, some victims died! But those we do not call "survivors"! They're dead! As to the rest of us, sexual assault in childhood is horrifically common, and the stats you read are pathetically low. Pedo networks are quite real, but the lone opportunist is even more common. 'Sex' with children is rape, a fact we don't acknowledge as a society. And "mere" molestation is not just a crime, it impacts children for the rest of their lives. "Survivor" is a necessary and proud word.
I sincerely hope the perps don't survive what's ahead.
I was a bit surprised at this comment as well. I know Jeff never intends to intentionally hurt the innocent, so I'm just going to chalk this up to a thoughtless moment on his part - but ANYONE who has been through sexual abuse is absolutely a survivor. There's SO MUCH MORE than just the physical abuse that must be overcome. That aspect can heal rather quickly - it's the mental and emotional recovery that can take much longer (if full healing ever comes at all). Maybe survivors really DO need to speak out more so the regular public understands that "survivor" is absolutely the accurate term.
He’s an attorney!!! He knows full well the reasons for the use of the word “survivor” here….unless of course, he’s been living in a cave. And since so many look to him for his worldly and astute assessments, I hardly think that’s the case.
I give Mr. Jeff a pass on this too. Being a lawyer I figured he would be more careful but I feel he really has not been around sexual abused survivors which is almost foreign to his understanding. Unfortunately, he will learn more about their journeys to healing and realize how much these girls and boys suffered and how hard and intentional healing from such gross abuse and the depth of confusion it causes in growing up, besides being judged harshly or questioned if they caused it...Jeff will understand the raw pain of their stories. Most wish they would have died. You just don't know until you know. I'm kind of glad he innocently doesn't know. 🦋💜
“And, just a second. I’m sorry, but I must ask: what’s with calling them survivors? None of the victims died. The only person who died was Jeffrey Epstein. Is that how they’re survivors? They outlived Jeffrey? Oh, never mind.”
I would suggest Jeff is fully aware of why the term “survivors” is used. It is neither a new term or an inappropriate one. As an attorney who has represented women who have been sexually abused, harassed and discriminated against in a myriad of ways (in relationships, in the workplace, children sexually abused by priests, incest survivors, domestic violence, etc) I am disappointed that Jeff would try to get a laugh from his C&C readers at the expense of the victim of such abuse.
I wonder, would he be so callous and flippant about the term “cancer survivor”?
Seriously, his insensitivity or perhaps his mysoginistic mindset is apparent if not glaring….
Rest assured that sexual abuse is not a laughing matter for the women/men who endure it and somehow survive the physical, mental and emotional harm to fight/live another day. Mind you they do so with scars that are not always visible to the eye, but are very real and often debilitating.
It is important to recognize that even though Epstein is dead the nightmare for many of his victims will continue for their lifetime.
Would JC be happy to see the whole Epstein affair be dismissed as a product of the imagination of young women suffering from histrionics and bad manners (after all, not a crime to party with Epstein and weren’t these young women just asking for it)?
Given Jeff’s supposedly ill informed statement and caustic humor…is it any wonder why women/men who suffer such abuse at the hands of sexual and physical predators don’t come forward? After all, who doesn’t enjoy being mocked in this way…and no doubt told to “lighten up” if they object to being the butt of the joke.
The abused kid-I-was is very glad to have you on our side. Deeply appreciate your ferocity in this, especially given the words from others here about the ongoing work to stay in survivor mode even years after victimization. Thank you.
This is the first C&C I have not “hearted”. I was going to leave a very strong response to Jeff and his “joke”. Thanks for doing it for me. I absolutely SURVIVED childhood sexual, physical, psychological and emotional abuse. I almost did not, and even today at 60 there are moments where all I can do is cling to Jesus and pray I survive through the day while dealing with chronic PTSD and depression . It may have been an “innocent” mistake on Jeff’s part, honestly though it sounded like ugly ignorance. I was deeply disappointed. 🥺
Well I've followed Jeff for 4 years and have not read any intentional mocking of anyone's lot in life seriously. As a sexual abused survivor myself, I still suffer in ways I am surprised and challenged to not let it destroy my days now. But I re read his statements before responding. I gave grace to those that just don't know the deepest pain and long road of recovery it takes.
👉🏼 Mr. Jeff, did you mean to mock the sexually abused children or older ladies that were abused? I think many of us would like to know why you belittled abuses in this ? Maybe you could touch on this tomorrow? But truthfully I cannot expect everyone to understand this and grace is from my Father God's power so I don't get mixed up in others responses. It's more for myself to give the benefit of Jeff making a mistake. I'm ready to discuss it if you have questions. Some fokes really don't know out of innocence. 🦋
Thanks for this, too. I can elaborate a little, since I can see why "survivor" might seem like odd phrasing. (I'll use the context of a molested child, since that's the one I'm familiar with.)
1. It can be helpful in building a new and healthier self-image to not continue to identify as a "victim" of the abuse. "Victim" can feel like you'll never move beyond it or have any chance of healing, whereas "survivor" feels more like the abuse affects me, but doesn't get to define me.
2. It's not uncommon for victims of abuse to unalive themselves; those who manage to keep living have "survived" in that way. (This is an episodic ongoing willpower cost for me, for instance, even 30 years later.)
The way I read it is a sarcastic comment on the terminology. Admittedly, I agree. I'm 50, I've been abused and I'm still not comfortable with the recently established terminology, a predator (/s) abused me, I'm a victim of their preying on me. Sure, I survived it, but I personally feel that calling myself a "survivor" reduces my abuse to something that was survivable, hence excusable. It often wasn't and I hang up by my nails and teeth, and sometimes by intervention of friends and/or Universe. I'd much rather the world dropped euphemisms and called things for what they are.
Though, I can see your point in your preference for the terminology. I just don't see the same reasoning behind Jeff's comment.
Cathy Obrien just had a interview with Man in America about the CIA grooming her for MK Ultra and what they put her through and used her for and she named elite names. What she and others went through as children is beyond hellish.
Like the 'survivor' Lisa Phillips mentioned today who was 21 years old around 2007-09, an aspiring model when she met Epstein and didn't realize what had happened to her until a couple of years ago. These 'survivors' have received money from Epstein's estate and JP Morgan so why they are still bitching and moaning is curious. Hanging around Gloria Allred is my guess. I did see where 4 of the women who helped him and made a plea deal may be required to appear before congress. Regardless, Melania's statement of "under oath" and "sworn testimony" should weed out some if not all. And that's a good thing.
I have to agree with you. Surviving sexual abuse and its self-imposed shame means coming to grips with something inordinately emotionally painful while still being able to function in society.
PIzzagate is real, but you are not allowed to talk about it, at all. John Podesta was handed $370 billion under Biden, long after the accusations. Maybe throwing Julian Assange into a London dungeon, and kangaroo courting Alex Jones made people afraid to criticize Podesta's role in laundering clean energy and climate-related funding from the Inflation Reduction Act
You can talk about Epstein as much as you want. No one went to prison for publishing the Epstein files, and no one was accused of murder for talking about him.
The part I have a hard time with is how many of the “survivors” were actually part of the trafficking and are just as responsible for any deaths that occurred. I have a really hard time considering them survivors. They made a choice to do what they did to other girls - when they were over 20/21 yrs of age themselves. That’s old enough to know better.
Then, they took payouts, settlements, hush money, and signed NDAs, and suddenly call themselves survivors? They are political puppets and behave as if they are still being paid behind closed doors.
I don’t doubt some are authentic and deserve to sit before Congress and tell their story, and they deserves to be made whole and see their abusers face justice, but the others are the ones suddenly spinning the politics and saying they don’t want to. Gee I wonder why they stood behind MTG and in the background of other congressional sessions, but won’t stand in front of Congress?
There is a very fine line between willful and forced into agreement and likely hard to know the truth and genuine caught in the net then trying to get out and not able to. Victims can not rat. Their minds are so twisted especially if they have been abused mentally most of their lives. It takes years of building trust to unravel and untwist. We have a culture of these ppl.
Read up on MK Ultra and how they manipulate people into doing what they want. Most of the time, they were offered 2 bad choices and they chose the better of the two.
I’m sure something like that’s true of most of them - but there ARE some using this for political ends, and they chose to handle things dishonestly if it served their financial interests. Those are the ones I’m talking about. They are the ones that don’t want to testify now that a way is being made for them to legally do so. They can “imply” certain abusers, even Trump, all day long from behind senators and other politicians, but they can’t easily under oath in front of Congress. A true “victim” aka survivor would welcome the chance to be heard by Congress and get these evil people to face what they deserve.
Well... if you don't trust anyone... I would think that you must not be very well informed on anything... how could you form opinions if none of the data and opinions are trustworthy?
I don't see how Biden or his team of aholes had anything to do with Israel's security on Oct 7... and an "intelligence failure" sounds like total BS.
It is well documented that several countries warned Israel of an impending attack, they all were ignored... and an intelligence failure does not account for/explain the badly delayed response to the attack. And the border security of Israel is perhaps the best in the world... why was the response delayed?
“And, just a second. I’m sorry, but I must ask: what’s with calling them survivors? None of the victims died. The only person who died was Jeffrey Epstein. Is that how they’re survivors? They outlived Jeffrey? Oh, never mind.”
I would suggest Jeff is fully aware of why the term “survivors” is used. It is neither a new term or an inappropriate one. As an attorney who has represented women who have been sexually abused, harassed and discriminated against in a myriad of ways (in relationships, in the workplace, children sexually abused by priests, incest survivors, domestic violence, etc) I am disappointed that Jeff would try to get a laugh from his C&C readers at the expense of the victim of such abuse.
I wonder, would he be so callous and flippant about the term “cancer survivor”?
Seriously, his insensitivity or perhaps his mysoginistic mindset is apparent if not glaring….
Rest assured that sexual abuse is not a laughing matter for the women who endure it and somehow survive the physical, mental and emotional harm to fight/live another day. Mind you they do so with scars that are not always visible to the eye, but are very real and often debilitating.
It is important to recognize that even though Epstein is dead the nightmare for many of his victims will continue for their lifetime.
Would JC be happy to see the whole Epstein affair be dismissed as a product of the imagination of young women suffering from histrionics and bad manners (after all, not a crime to party with Epstein and weren’t these young women just asking for it)?
Given Jeff’s supposedly ill informed statement and caustic humor…is it any wonder why women who suffer such abuse at the hands of sexual and physical predators don’t come forward? After all, who doesn’t enjoy being mocked in this way…and no doubt told to “lighten up” if they object to being the butt of the joke.
Many women have been victims of one kind of sexual assault or another.
Even an obscene phone call can be a psychological or emotional assault, although it is not physical. Some are able to put it behind them, but they will never completely forget it.
Anyone who has been traumatized, and survives the incident, is a survivor.
Nice to see California cooperating in the arrests for fraud. Newscum should be worried, he headed it all. As for vaccines being "safe and effective", they never were, vaccines and viruses have been proven to be a total scam and fraud perpetrated by the corrupt medical establishment under the guise of "science".
Yes! He wasn't unaware, he was complicit and benefitting. He needs to be directed to the square big house instead of our Nation's most beautiful oval office, currently occupied by the greatest President in my lifetime.
I think the guillotine suits him better. Then his head can be mounted on a wall like a deer, install a mirror so he can stare at himself for all eternity and admire his hair.
Rob Bonta finally decided to do something other than his continual lawsuits against parents trying to keep schools from transing their children. He and Newsom are both useless.
Almost everyone in the California legislature is with few exceptions, like Carl DeMaio. He seems like one of the only ones doing anything. And don’t get me started on Scott Weiner. 🤮
I hope someone is looking into the SSI scandal i wirnessed, the autism diagnosis scandal. Schools facilitate autism diagnoses, or parents figure out, that a mere statement by a "professional" finding autism, means a supplemental check each month. I saw children "diagnosed" after a one page evaluation. A diagnosis is possible only after a very thorough evaluation covering multiple areas of a childs history and development. This was not that. Parents in urban areas caught on fast. Schools had no problem with it, even though it gummed up Special education even more and blew up caseloads. I had 9 year old perfectly typical kids tell me suddenly they had autism. We need to ask if this may be part of the astonishing rates of "autism" we have in our populations. How much of that is really parents profiteering after a fabricated or exaggerated diagnosis.
The autism landscape is so different than it was 27 years ago when I was first getting my son evaluated. Back then, it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to get a diagnosis. They had other labels like, "pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified". And without an "official" diagnosis, securing supportive services like OT and PT and speech in school was next to impossible. My husband and I spent thousands and thousands of dollars paying for those things out of pocket (not to mention becoming our own physical, occupational and speech therapists to help our son).
I am beyond grateful that we were in a position to help our son financially, academically, socially and emotionally, but now it seems like everyone is "on the spectrum." I don't want to deny care to those who need it, but I fear we may be overapplying the diagnosis and diluting out the true suffering of kids (and their parents) facing catastrophic, non-verbal autism with profound delays. It's one thing to be "quirky" and quite another thing to require constant supervision, toileting assistance and communication boards to get through a day.
I had three children with legitimate disabilities and autism spectrum, each with multiple diagnoses. I had to fight the district to provide the interventions they needed and never once received a dime from state or federal for any of them. However, the IRS did break their own laws when they tried to deny us medical deductions for special education. It cost us $7,000 (never reimbursed) to fight them off and prove they broke the law. Had I wanted to get back the $12,000 they fraudulently kept of our taxes, that would have cost me more stress and money. We just walked away. Why go through all that if we have to hand over the refund to attorneys?
I don’t know how these parents get any financial help from autism, because that’s not what we experienced. We were financially burdened for over 15 years, and eventually had to move our youngest two boys to private schooling to get them the environment they needed. We weren’t reimbursed for THAT either, because it would have cost us $40,000 in legal fees just the first year to fight the district to pay for it - and we had the best documentation that the two different attorneys we consulted ever saw. All said it was an open-shut case, but it would cost us up front and we wouldn’t be able to recoup attorney fees. In our state, less than 2% of all parents who go through Due Process without an attorney succeed. And when they try their child is left to languish while the school district draws out the case. It’s a sham and kids and their families are the ones hurt.
So I’m scratching my head how parents can commit fraud in this way. The fraud I ran into was the government against us!
Excellent points, Juju! When I hear stories about the challenges my sister has faced as a kindergarten teacher trying to get various children throughout the years tested and then directed to the appropriate aids and therapies, I don’t understand it either, and this is in CA. She really has to be a squeaky wheel and hammer away by calling and calling, scheduling appointments which are placed so far out on the calendar, then holding the often incompetent evaluator’s feet to the fire to not let your students fall through the cracks. That’s one of the reasons I do not believe these groups ( Somalians and other immigrant groups) have acted alone and of their own devices come up with these schemes, navigating the system and opening the spigot of flowing cash for years on end. They had to have help from the government or some middle management person who knew the system very well.
The attorneys I consulted are seasoned special education attorneys in our state. They provided the statistic to me and said it was well known by both the schools and all the attorneys. The total number of Due Process cases brought by parents without representation in our state and the amount of those that parents won was less than 2%. I was fighting an uphill battle.
I wish it were easier to get solid legal coaching and for pro se to be a viable option. I worked in family court for as time, and since have supported some families to do well, and Even have some well in traffic court, but I have no idea of the particulars that you've had to deal with. It sounds effectively prohibitive for regular families to address in courts. I hate that the legal system works to undermine justice in this way.
Don't believe everything you read here. There certainly has been some scamming going on with therapy centers in the Somali community in Minneapolis. But as far as I know it's still difficult to get a kid considered "disabled" for SSI purposes, and I don't think the schools get much extra money for special ed diagnoses or IEPs, because mine said flat out they didn't do diagnoses, and fought me tooth and nail for IEPs.
Which brings to mind the skyrocketing stats of autism diagnoses RFKJr keeps quoting. Looks like fraud inflated those numbers? 🤔Autism is big (fraud) business evidently, which gets in the way of those truly needing the assistance.
They keep changing the definition of autism, too. Several years ago, my SIL saw a news story about updated autism definition. According to that, I have autism because apparently it says that if you have any kind of “tick” or fidget then you have autism. Well, I have a bad habit of chewing my nails but apparently that means I have autism. It’s insane!
I have a strategy for VP Vance on his fraud task force. It's a way to find where fraud is occurring and it's really simple. Assume that every single dollar the government, State or Federal, pays to anyone is fraud! That's where you start. Then you go door to door confirming legitimate social security recipients and cross them off the list. Same with veterans benefits. Same with Federal retirement benefits.
And that's about it...every corporation left on the list, every LLC, is then checked. And the fair market value of what they provided is determined and compared to what they were paid. $10,000 hammers sold to DoD? $20M toilets sold to NASA (along with a $1M plunger to fix it "en route").
I might even go one step further and just suspect all such payments until the recipient can prove, in writing, with receipts and invoices, proof of products delivered, services rendered.
And why does all government spending involve fraud? Simple: the people signing the checks don't care. it's other peoples' money. Gotta change that too.
The people signing the checks also want their budget to increase next year and if they don't spend all of this years' money, that won't happen. The system is incentivized to spend, spend, spend! What gets delivered is not a measure of success, only spending is considered success. Gotta change that too.
That’s what we call accountability! Which has been missing forever and is what enables the fraud. My question is this - with real spending cuts, can I stop paying taxes? With the BILLIONS of fraud, it’s clear that our taxes are not necessary in the first place. Nor is the IRS.
Excellent point on the spending; which is true of many large companies. I was a subcontractor for the Water Company in CT for years, and toward the end of every year the Department that hired me would 'create jobs and/or overtime' to use up any remaining money... because, as you said; If they didn't use it they would get less the following year. I can only imagine how much this amounts to in a bloated and corrupt Government.
Maybe they should offer bonuses for departments that trim their budgets and find fraud and waste. They get a 5% bonus for what they save. Give a positive incentive for the people working there to find waste/fraud and cut it.
Good thought Carol. And btw, that should work in my line: government funded R&D. We submit a proposal with a budget request and then we work on the research until the money is gone. It's hard to estimate costs for a few people working for 2-3 years on a project. My attitude is "do good work, don't waste taxpayer money".
But if there was an incentive to get the job done for less, people would game the system: submit a budget that's 10% more than you need, then finish "under budget" and collect your 5%. I don't see how to get around that for anyone getting government money.
What might work is whatever you save doesn't go to you personally, but it goes to increasing your government budget next year. Again, people would game that, but at least the government gets its costs reduced. I'd split the cost savings 50-50: 50% goes back to the Treasury and 50% goes into your companies' bank for next year's government contract work. Above and beyond what the government already agreed to pay. There would have to be this catch: you then have to tell the government what wonderful new scope of work you did with that extra money. I would take that deal in a heartbeat.
Geez, I wish people wouldn’t try to game anything and just do good, ethical work. You have a great point! Maybe a bonus for finding fraud then! Whistleblowers would come out of the woodwork on that one.
I got the time! That means others do too. Make use of the senior citizens that are still sane patriots. They feel useful and meaningful and the country is protected by the elders.
This is the norm in business. I was a group unit manager in a high-tech company in the 90s, and I was shocked at budgeting time to discover "The people signing the checks also want their budget to increase next year and if they don't spend all of this years' money, that won't happen. The system is incentivized to spend, spend, spend!"
I think this will be a new fulltime job for those people with the skills to look for fraud. I believe there was a release of a huge dataset and the government said 'go find them'. Someone help me out here as I thought Jeff had an article on this a month or so ago, but I can't find that.
Same thought here…at least I hope they are on this task because no one is better at it than Elon’s kids (employees, not offspring, although some of them likely have such talents?)
That might be a good (though laborious) was to identify fraud paid to individuals, but something else will be needed for defense contractors and other corporations.
I’m a big fan of scare tactics: imprison and impoverish CEOs. Whether it’s <100 person company CEOs who hire illegals, or >$1B companies who defraud the government, or waste taxpayer’s lives (money!)
Re: Jay B. choppy-changeying the rules for ACIP makeup etc. and Bobby K. still on top: I kept telling people that appealing that stupid judge's ruling was NOT the way to go. A lot were devastated and crying, but I knew it wasn't the end, not nearly. And I'm not even a lawyer. I just think like one. I am certain that RFK and JB are going to find a way to get those Covid jab victims seen and heard and compensated too.
Maybe someday we will get off the plantation and realize we are playing right into their hands. We want compensation! I WANT THE JABS REMOVED so we quit poisoning our children who have no choice.
1] Simple: If these Epstein folks can take loot to go on live television, travel all around D.C. with government officials, and cash in on their story, they can just as easily testify under oath before Congress. If they refuse, well, you make the call.
The stage is being set for the reveal of the most heinous atrocities. Trickles will become floods and the people will wake up to what is being done to our children. Crimes against children will unite humanity. Have faith in POTUS, his team, and their Plan to save the country. HOWEVER, the evil will only be completely eradicated by our Lord and Savior King of Kings, Jesus. Come quickly, Lord.
Many arrests have already started. I know more were announced yesterday but the link isn’t coming up in my search. Here’s some from the beginning of April:
Unfortunately, dealing with these rogue judges is like playing "whack-a-mole." The next move by Judge Murphy will be to rule the HHS does not have the power to change the ACIP charter and that the old charter is still in effect. And round-and-round it will go.
Keep in mind, this Judge Murphy was the judge who wrote an opinion over-ruling a SCOTUS opinion that removed his deportation injunction. The SCOTUS responded in a scathing rebuke of Murphy, with Ellen Kagan (yes, that Ellen Kagan) labeling Murphy as a "lawless" judge. Yet, here he is again, unbowed and uncensured, still throwing sand into the gears.
Until these judges pay a price by losing their judgeships for acting as political activists instead of adjudicators, these intentional, "let's run out the clock until the Democrats take power again" tactics will continue.
We need a "3 strikes & you're out rule" for these lawless judges. Overturned? Strike 1, and the follow up; if they fight it, they get disbarred. And they should never be allowed to be a judge again, not even for a dog pageant.
The folks who do not support the demolition of the cruel Iranian regime are either uninformed, or they support radical Islamic jihad, including "death to America." We must understand that the Islamic revolution birthed a radical Shia ideology that seeks the final destruction of the world in order to expedite the return of their Mahdi, also known as the Twelfth Imam.
Iran and their terrorist proxies will never negotiate truthfully with the infidels. Per radical Islam, mankind's choice is convert to Islam or perish. Period.
NYT and WaPo editors would understand the evil of Khamenei regime and IRGC if only they read "All the Sha's Men," written by one of their own former foreign correspondents Stephen Kinzer.
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror https://a.co/d/050QFqZg.
Susie, that tierneyrealnews article is very good, thanks for the link. This stood out, and the young ones today need to know: “ Khomeini audaciously claimed that, in the Hidden Imam’s absence, top Shia jurists should rule in his name, exercising absolute control over the state, military, judiciary, and economy. In other words, he created a dictatorship where one cleric governed as God’s stand-in on earth. He made himself God.
In 1979, his version of Twelver Shia Islam toppled the Shah of Iran and President Jimmy Carter helped make it happen. Carter enabled Islamists, communists, and Western-educated radicals to consume Tehran and basically steal it from the West. Khomeini returned a conquering prophet, declaring the new Islamic Republic and setting in motion what would become the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.”
Margot, have you read about Operation Ajax? It was a covert CIA–MI6 operation in 1953 that toppled Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah—securing Western oil interests while entrenching decades of resentment toward the United States and Britain.
The way I conclude who the real terrorist are is I compare numbers. How many Americans has Iran killed in the US v how many Iranians has the US killed in Iran.
Not to mention, but I will, that the US encouraged Saddam Hussein to start a war with Iran AND provided him with chemical weapons to use against Iranians in that war.
So yeah, the Iranian body count is far higher than the American, including in the last 6 weeks.
"Death to America" is outrageous! Who cares that they said it after the US shot down a civilian plane, killing 290, and also after the US murdered widely admired Solemaini.
"We will destroy your civilization and you will never recover", on the other hand, is a rational and reasonable statement that is totally not threatening terrorism.
I ran across this substack post that explains it well.
''The American strategy, as articulated by various administration officials and as discernible from the pattern of operations, does not envision ground forces seizing and holding Iranian territory. What it does envision is something remarkably similar to the insurgent’s playbook, executed from the opposite end of the technological spectrum: make the Iranian regime’s existence as the governing authority of its own territory impossibly expensive; deny it the exercise of sovereign control over its own military and industrial assets; impose costs that accumulate faster than they can be absorbed; and through this sustained pressure, either compel behavioral change or create the conditions for the regime’s internal collapse......
Hegseth’s declaration that CENTCOM had been instructed to “dismantle the Iranian regime’s security apparatus” made the political objective explicit. This is not the language of limited military action. It is the language of a campaign designed to hollow out the Iranian state from the air.
This is the insurgency logic, but it is now applied by the kinetically stronger side. Where the classical insurgent is a fish swimming in the sea of the people, operating below the threshold of the occupier’s conventional military power, the American standoff campaign operates above the threshold of the defender’s conventional military power. The insurgent wins by making the cost of occupation unbearable. The standoff power wins by making the cost of resistance unbearable, and denying the enemy state the mechanisms and political cohesion needed to exert control over its own territory. The insurgent cannot be killed from the air because he blends into the civilian population; the standoff power cannot be exhausted by occupation if he does not care about the political end state. In both cases, the fundamental asymmetry of the conflict lies not in raw military power but in the asymmetric value of political authority. Neither a guerilla force nor the American air forces care much about exerting political authority of their own, because their paradigm of victory requires only that they deny that control to the enemy......
The American standoff campaign imposes costs that Iranian domestic politics cannot absorb, precisely because the economic and human devastation falls on Iran rather than on the United States. Fifteen American dead, if we take the casualty figures at face value, in forty days of war is not a political liability for the administration in Washington; it is practically a recruiting poster. This asymmetry of cost absorption is, in fact, the entire strategic premise of the standoff campaign."
I think that sums it up quite well, although Israel seems content to disprove this sentence by bombing everyone/everything; Gaza/Syria & now Lebanon, altho after 2+ years since October 7 they are still fighting the same opponent:
"The insurgent cannot be killed from the air because he blends into the civilian population; ...".
It's almost as though Iran is doing to Israel what the US is doing to Iran.
I have no specific numbers, I doubt anyone does. However, excluding the many Iranian leaders the US killed, let's use Trump's recent number when he claims Iran killed 45,000 people. I don't think it's a credible number but I'll use it.
Of the people Iran has executed, a large portion were people recruited by US ngo's & 3 letter agencies to act on behalf of US interest. Iran executed them for treason. That wouldn't have happened if the US was addressing its own serious issues at home instead of going 6,000 miles away to try and take another countries's mineral wealth.
As far as I know the Iranian government isn't responsible for any US citizen's deaths in the US. I may be wrong but if there are any, it must be very few.
If only people would educate themselves in factual history. Many people believe they are "well-informed" by following the media. What's disturbing is their lack of discernment, fact-checking, and common sense.
Most of that article is theory based on facts which are not in evidence. It's fear mongering and weak minds fall for it.
We will never know how accurate any of the theories are because there has been, and continues to be non-stop interference in Iran, by the US.
Apparently Tierney didn't want to mention events in Iran before the 1953 coup when the UK/US installed the shah in power. I wonder why those facts that are in evidence didn't receive any consideration.
You might reconsider judging other people's news gathering techniques when at least some of yours seem to conflate opinions for news. Just a suggestion.
I have two things that are still happening. Solar complexes and data centers are going full throttle across the Midwest farmlands backed primarily in states now run by Democrats. We all know these scams are coming out of the IRA’s, 1.3 trillion Congress approved in 2022. Biggest scam ever. Can we gut this?
And Lee Zeldin where is the EPA stopping chemtrails. We no longer have blue sky days. Stop it!
Yesterday was supposed to be a glorious sunny day here in the UK. I get up early, and when I went outside the sky was covered horizon to horizon. Some were being freshly sprayed, others already dissipating, and by around 11am the entire sky had become a haze to block the sun. If you say chemtrails, it's a conspiracy theory. But if you say Stratospheric Aerosol Injection for solar radiation management to mitigate climate change, then it's science! But... it's still a trail of chemicals.... I'm not sure we'll ever stop this attack on humanity and organic life on Earth.
Are you aware of apps that identify aircraft in real time? You point your phone at them and they ID the aircraft with the tail number, type, etc and even the airline flight.
I use Flightradar24, but there are many others.
The point is, you can point your phone at a plane emitting contrails and immediately identify it.
Wait, I used to use flightradar 24 to identify chemtrail planes as they went across my sky. But nowadays they don’t show up on that app. They always started and ended at an AF base in CA. I assumed the planes stopped allowing tracking. So what base/airport do your planes come from?
Just hit the AR (Augmented Reality) at the top left of the screen. You’ll be able to point at any plane (private, govt, or airline) crossing the sky and get its tail number, type, altitude, origin & destination.)
In 2010, I visited London, in April. We were surprised at the beautiful blue skies and sunny weather, expecting clouds and rain. Towards the end of our 8 day stay, while preparing to fly home, we were caught in the Icelandic volcano eruption. All flights in and out of the UK were canceled. Heathrow airport was completely shut down. We spent an extra 6 days under beautiful blue sky days, not a jet trail in the sky. We expected every morning to see some kind of ash on vehicles signaling the volcanic fallout, but nothing. I wonder now if that was a planned and coordinated shut down of air traffic.
Good point. Glad you had some blue skies. I doubt there was serious problem due to volcanoes. UK Govt likes to use a heavy hand when it comes to 'safety', which is not safety at all. When we DO have clear skies it's a wonder and I always cherish them. And then the trails and haze arrive... I long for the days when none of this happened.
"Yesterday, the New York Times alarmingly reported, “New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling.”"
It's funny, the NY Times.
JUST ONE DAY EARLIER they reported about Mirabelli in California (see Jeff's Substack here: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sinking-cred-thursday-april-9-2026), and NEVER, not even ONCE, wrote the words "despite court ruling" even though THAT court was the freaking SUPREME COURT of the United States of America, not some rinky-dink District Court, and at that just ONE rinky-dink District judge.
My wife works in the operating room at a major Boston Hospital. It’s incredible how leftist employees, you know the ultra tolerant, must bleed their political emotions into the work place. My wife is not one to run to the office and complain about blatant biases being spewed by uncontrollable Trump deranged psychopaths, she handles it in her own sledgehammer fashion. But this, as many conflicts, shouldn’t be left for an employee to have to deal with. Bias, any bias, racial, gendered, political is a problem and believe me it’s a challenge too management in a disciplined workplace. I’ve watched for decades, management does not want to deal with these types of problems.
All conservatives and for that matter all of America has had to deal with these bigoted political biases from the insane TDS left throughout the reign of Obama, Joe Biden and as we see it is only escalating.
Leftists are defined by their rude arrogant intimidation tactics, they’re psychological bullies. They push their liberal mental disorder agenda onto everyone around them, workplace or no workplace. It’s incredible to see these extremely educated coordinators and managers with much less OR experience come up against a tough 40 year experienced nurse with unique work and life experiences.
So here we are again, another treasonous futile plot to take down a duly elected president with their lies. They can’t accept the will of the people or the 2024 election results. They are incapable of living in an American style Free society. Notice and as usual, they have no plan to help Americans get ahead. They have no plans or ideas to fund Homeland Security. They have no ideas or plans to make things better for their constituents, they only have hate full plans to tear this great country, America, in half again and if they have their way sit back and watch as its once great cities are burnt to the ground again as good communists do. They have nothing at all to run on. God is watching, shame on all of you. J.Goodrich
We no longer have polite society but the rules at work used to have taboo subjects off office general talk: sex, religion, and politics. What your wife is working in is called a "hostile work environment" and, imho, she has a basis for complaint. Note that, in today's work places, there are a minimum of professionals who can actually comprehend the concept.
You will need a lot more proof and damages to affect any sort of winnable case when the leftists control all the levers. Having been the victim of a 5-year reign of terror by my liberal supervisor- I watched as they simply allowed her (friends, HR, co-workers) political intrusions and bias into my work life. We all know what it feels like to work in a hostile work environment but it's an entirely different animal to prove it and win.
It's like communism. They invite you in but you have to shoot your way out.
Oh, I remember it so well—bias, pronouns, gender propaganda & marketing, ageism, internally all day long! If you don't show at the Pride parade, you join the suspicious team, and that's not desirable. At times, they connive to get rid of conservatives and straights by using insubordination, but it never holds. They even go after the outsourced if they are not gay enough! I sure miss it all. :(
As I said, if you had read my comment fully, unfortunately we do not have professionals in management positions….If we did, allowing this to take place would not happen….There would be a staff directive that people need to keep their religion, their politics, and their sex lives out of the office…
Oh I'm not arguing, I am simply stating you will get nowhere when the entire system is biased for survival and cowardly employees with intact resumes- will simply side with the power or perceived winners. So I think the term professional(s) is a bit misleading although I get the conduct part of the term. Cowardice or more accurately fear will win the day. Not once did I ever see anyone put their career on the line and square up against a workplace bully over creating a hostile work environment. But I did see hundreds of cowards ignore it and turn a blind eye.
"Management" is the key word...."Professional" is the key adjective preceding the word.
Yeah, I get it.
Dancingtime, you may enjoy my article on how we need to bring back a positive culture as right now, our current culture is so immoral: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/we-dont-have-a-political-problem
Your blog wouldn't let me post this comment. So I will do it here Franklin.
Loved the post. Love the ideas. Unfortunately, the 70's, 80's, and 90's aren't ever coming back. I'm ok with it. It's like being 65 and wishing you could be 30.
Last week I watched the first three episodes of the Andy Griffith Show. Filmed in late 1960, Ron Howard was 6 years old. It was delightful not because I hope to return to those simpler times and values- but because I remember it being that way. I lived it.
No one really warns you about this part of adulthood. The part where you feel homesick not for a home but for a moment in time. A version of life that doesn't exist anymore. A place you can't return to, and a feeling you didn't know you'd miss so much until it was gone.
I bet this very same thing was talked about around fires and teepees by the plains Indians.
Yes. As a Gen X, I am discovering that now, that the late 80's and early 90's are never coming back. To me, that was peak American civilization. Of course, if I look back at it with a more critical eye and suppress my nostalgia, I realize that it was really just the slow beginnings of what we are living through now (and plenty of bad things were happening then, but I was younger and more naive and hopeful). In any case, you are correct, we can't go back and we can't relive it and it can't be made to happen again. We can only move forward with the lessons learned (or not) from our past.
I feel ya. Did not know how good we had it. 😔
My early memories of France are treasures! Here in America we have a chance to actually make a beneficial new age, and it has started. We eyed the abyss Bidet tried to pull us into and resisted. For France, it's nearly too late: decoupling, disgrace, and denials of all that has gone wrong. Douce France: An indentured country infected by its politics. Lafayette must be turning in his grave!
😢
"homesick for a moment in time"--beautifully put
“Cultural change starts at the individual level: how you live, what you consume, how you treat people.” This takeaway really rocks.
Yes, but do not underestimate the influence of entertainment.
It's not entertainment. It's programming.
More and more people are ditching the TV reading and curating what they watch online.
The brainwashed will stay brainwashed.
If convid didn't wake them up.
They will continued to be useful idiots and suffer for it.
Thank you!
So immortal, or so immoral?
Good catch, they do seem to be immortal… their concepts at least go on and on, and of course we know they are immoral.
Well…..the serpent was in the garden…..in the very beginning.
Fixed it! Thank you!
Freudian
Immortal or immoral?
Let's hope it's not immortal, lol.
This immorality is the result of the femlib movement of the 60/70s and the introduction of the concept of "rationalizing", as well as the black movement of the 80s timeframe and the concept of "entitlement"....the introduction of the term "African-American", which was introduced to give a sense of pride to blacks because of the background of many (but not all) of the ancestors having come here as slaves gave a sense, not of pride, but of entitlement and being different. I was an adult through it all and got to experience both movements as active duty...Social engineering never works....and that was what both were.
Lets cut to the chase shall we? All can agree that widespread fraud is rampant and revealed
JC likes volunteer he is "just" an attorney.
He regularly advances the concept of "virus" without question.
Mike Stone has an Open Challenge to Virologist with specific science based conditions.
He recently coaxed a couple top tier players into the arena. It is as comical as a C&C edition,
but also seriously pathetic.
Partial Replay below, For the full report Mike Stone Newsletter
Behold// Update 3: An Open Challenge to Virologists
==========================================
### A Game of Cat and Mouse
Mike Stone
Apr 10
In August 2025, virologist Ed Rybicki discovered ViroLIEgy.com after I cited one of his blog posts to provide historical context for my article on “Tobacco Mosaic Virus” (TMV). Rather than engaging with the data, Rybicki took umbrage at being linked and responded with a series of derogatory remarks. Despite my invitation for a professional discussion regarding the article’s merits, he chose to maintain this tone across multiple comment sections and his own blog, while systematically ignoring the core technical questions.
In light of this refusal to engage, I issued a formal challenge to Ed Rybicki—and by extension, the entire field of virology: Present the foundational evidence, derived through the scientific method and satisfying Koch’s Postulates, that proves the existence and “pathogenicity” of any “virus.”
At minimum, two straightforward questions must be answered:
1. Do you have verifiable evidence of particles—presumed to be “viruses”—that have been directly purified and isolated from the fluids of a sick human or animal, without the use of cell culturing, and then confirmed through electron microscopy and biochemical analysis?
2. Do you have evidence that these same purified and isolated particles have been proven “pathogenic” in a natural manner, through strict adherence to the scientific method and satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates?
I pointed out that if one wishes to directly prove the hypothesis that an invisible microbe within a host causes disease, the strongest scientific proof would require demonstrating that:
1. The microbe actually exists directly in the fluids of sick hosts but not in the fluids of healthy hosts.
2. The specific microbe is purified, isolated, and identified via electron microscopy as a valid independent variable prior to experimentation (known as time order: the cause must exist before the effect).
3. The microbe is introduced into a healthy host in the manner proposed by the hypothesis (via aerosolization, ingestion, etc.) as the mode of “infection.”
4. The specific disease associated with the microbe is reproduced following this introduction.
5. The disease is transmissible from a sick host to a healthy host in the hypothesized manner (e.g., through close contact, coughing, sneezing, etc.).
6. After transmission, the same microbe can be purified and isolated from the fluids of the newly sickened host and confirmed.
7. This process must be repeated with a large sample size with proper control experiments, and the results must be independently reproduced by other researchers.
This challenge has stood since August 19, 2025. While a few virologists surfaced in September and October, the results were underwhelming. Ed Rybicki eventually returned in the final update, yet he again bypassed the technical specifics of the challenge, offering dismissals rather than a logical counterargument.
After that, the trail went cold, as there had not been any serious contenders to write home about.
The closest was Kelly Goodman, PhD, a microbiologist who, along with providing her own commentary about me, claimed that she had “handled live virus,” and had “cultured it, isolated it, and watched it produce disease in cells.”
Despite her claims, when presented with the same challenge, the response was nothing but silence.
Thus, the trail went cold once again.
However, it did not stay that way for long. Just a few days later—on April 1st, to be exact—a new contender stepped up to the plate with a comment on my April Fools’ Day post on Facebook.
If I can toot my own horn for a moment, the joke was that virologists had finally purified and isolated a “virus” directly from human samples without culturing and confirmed it to be “pathogenic” in accordance with the scientific method and the satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates. Many people fell for it because the image was very convincing as a news story. While great for joking purposes, it also serves as a somewhat unsettling example of how easily AI can be used to fool us.
FOR THE REAL ENTERTAINMENT, CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLE
This will open some sleepy eyes... while poking large holes in World Views
https://viroliegynewsletter.substack.com/p/update-3-an-open-challenge-to-virologists/comments?publication_id=1054477&post_id=193101302&isFreemail=true&comments=true&action=post-comment&r=2kpb1z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
That was awesome. Thanks for posting it.
And....the nexus to this lengthy response to my comment is......???
TruthSeeker—thank you for sharing this. Mike Stone has the patience of Job in pursuing truth in virology. 🙏🏻
Great comment, but "bullies" not "bully's".
You can say "The bully's shoelace was undone" meaning the shoelace belonged to that bully. But the plural of bully is bullies, as in families, cherries, and other nouns that end in "y".
👍 I will fix TY!!
Also since we’re correcting mistakes it should be “duly elected” not “duelly”. :)
Maybe we should go back to duels😂.
😂
But James they do have plans; to ruin America, replace white Americans and celebrate fraud at every turn lining their pockets.
In the last month, we saw a very frustrated President Trump, because the very slow process of getting justice, reconning, retribution, of the EVIL WORK, of some of our fellow Americans: political LIE/FRAUD, legal LIE/FRAUD, emigration LIE/FRAUD, financial LIE/FRAUD, COVID LIES/FRAUDS, climate change LIE/FRAUD.
As an expression of this frustration, he removed 2 cabinet Secretaries: Kristy Noem and Pam Bondi.
The President correctly responded to a real need. We have now, a government “DEPARTMENT OF FRAUD” and a “Czar of Fraud”, Vice president Vance. I know of no country with such determined approach.
We, the people, for the last 6 years, are also VERY, VERY, VERY, frustrated with the same issues.
But, most importantly, God Himself is frustrated for centuries with us, “because SENTENCE against EVIL WORK is not EXECUTED SPEEDILY”, AND, AS RESULT, THE EVEL WORK CONTINUES…….
Ecclesiastes 8:11 “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil”. This is cause and effect!
It is about time, the whole Administration and American Nation, to return to The Truth Himself, The Lord God Jesus Christ.
The nation is frustrated “because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily”, BECAUSE OF THE DELAY IN SERVING JUSTICE, RETRIBUTION. JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED.
This apply to all LIES/FRAUDS I mentioned above.
But 2 of them are TOTALLY ignored and outstanding: COVID LIES/FRAUDS, and climate change LIE/FRAUD.
COVID LIES/FRAUDS, are ignored, justice and retribution delayed AND NOT EXECUTED SPEEDILY, and treated with gloves, neglecting the estimated 31 million death worldwide, WHO CANNOT SPEAK, while the perpetrators continue to be vocal and insolent. THERE IS NO WORD OF REPENTANCE/CONTRITION/REMORSE FROM THE PERPETRATORS.
In 2020-2024 President Trump was lied to, by CDC, FDA, NIH, and the Americans were forced again into SLAVARY (as, correctly, attorney Childers, FIRST remarked), because of mandates.
CLIMATE CHANGE LIE/FRAUD, ignores as I speak, all President Trump’s public orders and statements, starting with USAF, who in Surprise and Buckeye, AZ, daily pollutes the sky, by spraying chemicals untested for safety, daily polluting in plain sight the air we breathe, and blocking the sun light we need, as retired people. We cannot move elsewhere as seniors!
In DC this does not happen, and in Florida and other 10 States, the Legislatures stopped this madness.
We are not killed now with the jab, we are killed now, slowly, by sky spraying daily, by USAF.
THIS DOES NOT MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN, Mr. President.
As AMERICANS, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I plead for your help, and NOW.
And, Mr. President, as Commander in Chief, please, please, order NOW, that USAF stop spraying the sky. It is in your executive power, and can be corrected with your written order, to Secretary Hegseth.
They are 100% spraying in Florida. Since November it’s been almost every single day!! Most people still don’t understand that these are not normal weather patterns. We voted to stop this, and DeSantis vowed to arrest any pilot spraying, but I’ve never seen so much spraying as I’ve seen since late last year continuing to today!!! It makes me so angry. I live in Central Florida. It would be nice if the governor tried to put a stop to it.
Seeing the same thing here in California. Tons of lines in the sky all this year so far.
And in AZ
It's still going on in every state!🤨
Who is doing it? Never seems to an answer for this.
I believe it is DARPA, the feds, not the state.
We were in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky last week. Chem trails every day. It seems that, whatever they’re spraying is causing it to NOT rain in its due season. I have a feeling a time of drought may be coming which may cause widespread famine. I pray not.
But we seem to be in the second half of the promises of God to a disobedient people talked about in Deuteronomy 28. It’s the ‘Find Out’ portion. The whole chapter is promises. Both the good and the bad.
As I remind God, perhaps He should have quit on the 5th day. Would have saved Him much grief and aggravation and then sweet Jesus would never had to be tortured and crucified.
They toe the WEF/Transnational gangsters agenda as witless and useful idiots and are totally oblivious to the damage they cause to this country. They worship the captured MSM and point to it as truth.
Very well said and sadly, incredibly accurate, Mr Goodrich. May God help us to be wise and bold in declaring His truths. 🙏
Some insane lefty docs and nurses openly suggest killing patients who say anything in support of DJT. For that and other reasons (including forced Vax) most hospitals are very dangerous...
This appears to be the exact same long comment that was posted on Malone News, by Goodrich this morning. It is somewhat generic and multi-purposed and that bothers me.
I do often share comments I write on different sub stacks I subscribe to, is there a rule against this? Saying my comment is generic is ridiculous also. I don’t think generically people here or any where on sub stack have an OR wife that worked in major hospitals for 40 years in the heart of medicine, my opinion, Boston. I could tell you a thousand non generic comments about things that happened at those hospital some throughout COVID and even the Boston Bombing. Let me ask you a question officer, why do you care if I share my written comment with other subscribers on different sub stacks? People I’ve known for years. I can never understand, with everything going on in today’s world, that someone would take time out of their life to criticize a single comment on a sub stack. Could you please post the sub stack rule book? I’ve never seen it.
Out of all the things to be bothered by, this should not be one of them. Save your bother for the huge stuff.
Just to share another generic story with you Lori. The day of the Boston Marathon bombing, Patriots Day, I was working at a heath club in Dedham, just outside of Boston when the bomb went off. My wife was off that day but called me and wanted to go into work, so I drove her. She ended up operating on a little 7 year old girl that had shrapnel all blown into her legs. There were others there at the hospital that day including I believe Martin Richard, the little boy that was killed. I drove my wife to work every day through Covid for years. In my original comment I may have picked these couple of TDS nurses, the same ones that got so hysterical at work after Trump won, they had to leave work crying. But honestly in “general” these people create miracles everyday saving kids.
But would those nurses, had they known what parents were Repub or conservative worked so hard to save a child then? We see today nurses wishing Karoline Leavitt severe tearing during childbirth and those telling other nurses to put laxatives in conservative food/drink while in the hospital. Some are even calling to inject conservatives with poisons while in hospitals.
Clearly, All the Anti-Christian rhetoric comes from the Democrat Left. Therefore how can anyone that claims to be a Christian vote for a Democrat?? The Democrat Party is the Anti-Christ movement here in America.
On another note about TDS
Just sharing.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/i-will-beat-the-black-off-you
So how did your wife handle it in her own sledgehammer fashion?
She directly told the other nurse she doesn’t want to hear her Trump hatred. She said I shouldn’t have to listen to this when I’m at work, enough is enough. Let’s focus on the patient! Which she constantly says many times to the surgeons.
Lets cut to the chase shall we? All can agree that widespread fraud is rampant and revealed
JC likes volunteer he is "just" an attorney.
He regularly advances the concept of "virus" without question.
Mike Stone has an Open Challenge to Virologist with specific science based conditions.
He recently coaxed a couple top tier players into the arena. It is as comical as a C&C edition,
but also seriously pathetic.
Partial Replay below, For the full report Mike Stone Newsletter
Behold// Update 3: An Open Challenge to Virologists
==========================================
### A Game of Cat and Mouse
Mike Stone
Apr 10
In August 2025, virologist Ed Rybicki discovered ViroLIEgy.com after I cited one of his blog posts to provide historical context for my article on “Tobacco Mosaic Virus” (TMV). Rather than engaging with the data, Rybicki took umbrage at being linked and responded with a series of derogatory remarks. Despite my invitation for a professional discussion regarding the article’s merits, he chose to maintain this tone across multiple comment sections and his own blog, while systematically ignoring the core technical questions.
In light of this refusal to engage, I issued a formal challenge to Ed Rybicki—and by extension, the entire field of virology: Present the foundational evidence, derived through the scientific method and satisfying Koch’s Postulates, that proves the existence and “pathogenicity” of any “virus.”
At minimum, two straightforward questions must be answered:
1. Do you have verifiable evidence of particles—presumed to be “viruses”—that have been directly purified and isolated from the fluids of a sick human or animal, without the use of cell culturing, and then confirmed through electron microscopy and biochemical analysis?
2. Do you have evidence that these same purified and isolated particles have been proven “pathogenic” in a natural manner, through strict adherence to the scientific method and satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates?
I pointed out that if one wishes to directly prove the hypothesis that an invisible microbe within a host causes disease, the strongest scientific proof would require demonstrating that:
1. The microbe actually exists directly in the fluids of sick hosts but not in the fluids of healthy hosts.
2. The specific microbe is purified, isolated, and identified via electron microscopy as a valid independent variable prior to experimentation (known as time order: the cause must exist before the effect).
3. The microbe is introduced into a healthy host in the manner proposed by the hypothesis (via aerosolization, ingestion, etc.) as the mode of “infection.”
4. The specific disease associated with the microbe is reproduced following this introduction.
5. The disease is transmissible from a sick host to a healthy host in the hypothesized manner (e.g., through close contact, coughing, sneezing, etc.).
6. After transmission, the same microbe can be purified and isolated from the fluids of the newly sickened host and confirmed.
7. This process must be repeated with a large sample size with proper control experiments, and the results must be independently reproduced by other researchers.
This challenge has stood since August 19, 2025. While a few virologists surfaced in September and October, the results were underwhelming. Ed Rybicki eventually returned in the final update, yet he again bypassed the technical specifics of the challenge, offering dismissals rather than a logical counterargument.
After that, the trail went cold, as there had not been any serious contenders to write home about.
The closest was Kelly Goodman, PhD, a microbiologist who, along with providing her own commentary about me, claimed that she had “handled live virus,” and had “cultured it, isolated it, and watched it produce disease in cells.”
Despite her claims, when presented with the same challenge, the response was nothing but silence.
Thus, the trail went cold once again.
However, it did not stay that way for long. Just a few days later—on April 1st, to be exact—a new contender stepped up to the plate with a comment on my April Fools’ Day post on Facebook.
If I can toot my own horn for a moment, the joke was that virologists had finally purified and isolated a “virus” directly from human samples without culturing and confirmed it to be “pathogenic” in accordance with the scientific method and the satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates. Many people fell for it because the image was very convincing as a news story. While great for joking purposes, it also serves as a somewhat unsettling example of how easily AI can be used to fool us.
FOR THE REAL ENTERTAINMENT, CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLE
This will open some sleepy eyes... while poking large holes in World Views
https://viroliegynewsletter.substack.com/p/update-3-an-open-challenge-to-virologists/comments?publication_id=1054477&post_id=193101302&isFreemail=true&comments=true&action=post-comment&r=2kpb1z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Sustack is a linear comment format. It buries late comment, which means huge time differences in publication cause some to be buried...
Lets cut to the chase shall we? All can agree that widespread fraud is rampant and revealed
JC likes volunteer he is "just" an attorney.
He regularly advances the concept of "virus" without question.
Mike Stone has an Open Challenge to Virologist with specific science based conditions.
He recently coaxed a couple top tier players into the arena. It is as comical as a C&C edition,
but also seriously pathetic.
Partial Replay below, For the full report Mike Stone Newsletter
Behold// Update 3: An Open Challenge to Virologists
==========================================
### A Game of Cat and Mouse
Mike Stone
Apr 10
In August 2025, virologist Ed Rybicki discovered ViroLIEgy.com after I cited one of his blog posts to provide historical context for my article on “Tobacco Mosaic Virus” (TMV). Rather than engaging with the data, Rybicki took umbrage at being linked and responded with a series of derogatory remarks. Despite my invitation for a professional discussion regarding the article’s merits, he chose to maintain this tone across multiple comment sections and his own blog, while systematically ignoring the core technical questions.
In light of this refusal to engage, I issued a formal challenge to Ed Rybicki—and by extension, the entire field of virology: Present the foundational evidence, derived through the scientific method and satisfying Koch’s Postulates, that proves the existence and “pathogenicity” of any “virus.”
At minimum, two straightforward questions must be answered:
1. Do you have verifiable evidence of particles—presumed to be “viruses”—that have been directly purified and isolated from the fluids of a sick human or animal, without the use of cell culturing, and then confirmed through electron microscopy and biochemical analysis?
2. Do you have evidence that these same purified and isolated particles have been proven “pathogenic” in a natural manner, through strict adherence to the scientific method and satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates?
I pointed out that if one wishes to directly prove the hypothesis that an invisible microbe within a host causes disease, the strongest scientific proof would require demonstrating that:
1. The microbe actually exists directly in the fluids of sick hosts but not in the fluids of healthy hosts.
2. The specific microbe is purified, isolated, and identified via electron microscopy as a valid independent variable prior to experimentation (known as time order: the cause must exist before the effect).
3. The microbe is introduced into a healthy host in the manner proposed by the hypothesis (via aerosolization, ingestion, etc.) as the mode of “infection.”
4. The specific disease associated with the microbe is reproduced following this introduction.
5. The disease is transmissible from a sick host to a healthy host in the hypothesized manner (e.g., through close contact, coughing, sneezing, etc.).
6. After transmission, the same microbe can be purified and isolated from the fluids of the newly sickened host and confirmed.
7. This process must be repeated with a large sample size with proper control experiments, and the results must be independently reproduced by other researchers.
This challenge has stood since August 19, 2025. While a few virologists surfaced in September and October, the results were underwhelming. Ed Rybicki eventually returned in the final update, yet he again bypassed the technical specifics of the challenge, offering dismissals rather than a logical counterargument.
After that, the trail went cold, as there had not been any serious contenders to write home about.
The closest was Kelly Goodman, PhD, a microbiologist who, along with providing her own commentary about me, claimed that she had “handled live virus,” and had “cultured it, isolated it, and watched it produce disease in cells.”
Despite her claims, when presented with the same challenge, the response was nothing but silence.
Thus, the trail went cold once again.
However, it did not stay that way for long. Just a few days later—on April 1st, to be exact—a new contender stepped up to the plate with a comment on my April Fools’ Day post on Facebook.
If I can toot my own horn for a moment, the joke was that virologists had finally purified and isolated a “virus” directly from human samples without culturing and confirmed it to be “pathogenic” in accordance with the scientific method and the satisfaction of Koch’s Postulates. Many people fell for it because the image was very convincing as a news story. While great for joking purposes, it also serves as a somewhat unsettling example of how easily AI can be used to fool us.
FOR THE REAL ENTERTAINMENT, CHECK OUT THE FULL ARTICLE
This will open some sleepy eyes... while poking large holes in World Views
https://viroliegynewsletter.substack.com/p/update-3-an-open-challenge-to-virologists/comments?publication_id=1054477&post_id=193101302&isFreemail=true&comments=true&action=post-comment&r=2kpb1z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I have a feeling you and O’Kanu might enjoy a book based on the prophecies about terrorism. It is by a Rabbi based on current events and Biblical prophecies in the OT.
When he wrote it, he was not a believer in Yeshua. I pray that he has found Him in his studies.
Anyway, the name of the book is:
“Prophecies For The Era of Muslim Terror” A Torah perspective on world events by Rabbi Menachem Kohen.
It truly is an amazing perspective. Made me appreciate the Word even more.
Every blue state is a Luciferian stronghold. There is no other explanation for what goes on, is accepted and endorsed in those states.
I want to suggest that many times if the Big Blue City wasn’t squatting in a state, it would be red. Like my state. Don’t blame us all. I’m in a red county. Democrats get much of nothing in my county, but the GOP are nothing to brag about either.
I should have been more specific noting the blue sanctuary cities Janet. My bad:{.
Trust me when I tell you that there is a day of reckoning.
The God they don’t believe in will soon introduce Himself. I pity all of them. They grab for dust and maggots when they could have had eternal life and be loved forever.
I pray for their souls.❤️
Ugh bloomberg.
If you’re going to be that standoffish then your proclamation really has no merit. It is when deviance is normalized/accepted among adults (responsible for all the moral underpinnings of civilization) that children are first sacrificed. I have gay relatives and I am loving and polite to them individually but they know I do not support for example, gay ‘marriage’ and in fact not many of our clan do, and so they co-habitate and leave it at that. They are demonstrably not hysterical about their sexuality; after a decades long relationship they are quietly living their lives and have earned a lot of respect for that.
Pathetic of you to include the “Mormon church.” Maybe actually look at their beliefs, and more importantly, the actual results of those that adhere to the beliefs. Nothing, and I mean nothing, could be less luciferian.
The Mormons I know in real life are kind and upstanding people. I think their belief system and practices are nuts but to each his/her own. Those belief/practices ain’t harming anyone. And they also help keep up America’s birth rate, which we need.
Watch the Man in America with JR Sweet and his MK Ultra/Mormon circumstances. What was done to him was depraved or check his website.
https://mormonmonarch.com/
Most are very polite and respectable. That isn’t Christian however, but I’m glad they act nice.
They are just a tiny bit deceived and need truth.❤️
Yeah, kids can be cruel. Sorry to hear of Mormon children behaving so badly. I’m speaking about Mormon adults. Every group does have its cliques. The Mormon clique is benign IMO.
don't leave out the truth that mormon kids can only grow up to be those mormon adults you praise. Every one o those current adults were once mormon kids.
When I had rejected my childhood religious upbringing as being empy and vapid and useless, I, along with a couple I knew well and trusted, looked into mormonism. They gave me a copy o their book, telling me it goes along with the bible and completes it. Well, about the time I got to the bit about the angel explaining you need these holy glasses to read the tablet you discovered, I realised I did NOT knew what the bible says.. so I set down the blue book and picked up an old bible I had lying about. I read that cover to cover in a couple weeks. The blue book and all its pathetic wackiness ended up in the woodstove. I still read and study that bible, and live by it.
The main issue with the blue book and what results in reading and persuing it is that it centres upon DOING all these required things, and the organisation/heirarchy inside it. It maks its adherents human doings, rathr than yuma beings. It does NOT lead you into a relationwhip with the God who made us and desires a living relationship with us, and that we have the same with each other.
Matt—The LDS church has amassed a portfoilo in the Billions with investments in, among sevetal companies, war machine companies and pharmaceuticals. They are also acquiring land and plan to build their sanctuary city for the second coming. Fortunately, “man plans, God laughs”. So, in light of God’s sovereignty, Mormons are benign. You are correct.
Kids doing things against the teachings of their church are evidence of the church being bad? Or is that the fallen world we live in?
Wow
Have you talked to people who work up the ladder into the upper echelons? I don’t think the majority of Mormons understand what goes in above them. People who leave those upper levels have information to share. The rank and file Mormons are good people, who think they are following the truth.
What exactly is the plan for the upper echelon? They want to worship Satan at night and then all day every day exhort people to follow Christ? Does that make any sense? For nearly 200 years those that become disaffected with the church have said innumerable inanities. It doesn’t make them true. Usually it’s just a sign they are bitter.
One could say the same about Catholicism/Catholics vs the bad circle within the Jesuits. But the d infiltrates everywhere.
They are okay with polygamy. That is evil right there. Also, wasn’t their leader sent to prison for heinous crimes against women and children?
Was polygamy evil for Abraham? Jacob? King David?
Also might want to update your anti-Mormon info, the church practiced it for 50 years and has not for over 130 years. Around a quarter of its current existence.
Scott,
Yes. And it is still in practice today. Have you not seen the show Sister Wives? The Mormon leader is still in jail. He was a known child rapist and sickening individual.
Beg to differ, BIGLY.
You are wrong, Scott! Mormonism has pulled millions toward Hell. And only when the realization hits an LDS member, is there a chance that they might break free.
However, the chains are strong and many/most will not risk separation from ALL that has been their lives.
I absolutely LOVE my family. They are, for the most part, concerned, kind, funny and generous. They are loving and open-minded...until one addresses the demon, Joseph Smith and religious enslavement. People ( not just Mormons, but all uninformed people) hate it when LDS is called a cult; but if the "Doctrine & Covenants" fit...
I pray for them nightly, but I fear for them with every loving thought!
Joseph Smith was a young farmer in upstate New York who claimed that in 1820, at the age of 14, he began receiving visions from the spirit world. As a teen, he worked as a “treasure seer,” using a “seer stone.” He practiced astrology, dream interpretation, and herbalism regularly. He believed that “God” appeared to him during a time of great “religious confusion” during the Second Great Awakening to give him an important message.
Even Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light.
https://theseedwar.substack.com/p/mormon-prediction-end-of-the-world
Watch the Man in America with JR Sweet and his MK Ultra/Mormon circumstances. What was done to him was depraved or check his website.
https://mormonmonarch.com/
Sure, but people have been lying or telling partial truths about the church for nearly 200 years. It is lead on earth by humans, who will make mistakes. Like every other institution in history.
The link above is much worse than partial truths or lying.
One well known example: Mitt Romney.
Maybe give a smidge of evidence besides the diatribes and anecdotal evidence?
So far you have spewed very dishonest and hateful rhetoric without substantiating any of it.
We are to believe that church leaders retire from their successful professions to do lay it very modestly paid work and then work until they die, so they can worship Lucifer in private while constantly and consistently exhorting all who will listen to believe in Christ, be peacemakers, love neighbors, etc? This makes sense to you?
Watch the Man in America with JR Sweet and his MK Ultra/Mormon circumstances. What was done to him was depraved or check his website.
https://mormonmonarch.com/
agreed. it is all gut-wrenching.
You almost had me until you claimed they were actually able to complete a complex construction project in Boston, leave alone underground.
Lisa,
It would be impossible hide such a train from the public. Can you provide any proof of its existence?
She must be on a bunch of accounts on Telegram or something similar.
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You almost had me until this claim.
@Lisa- gurl....I'm thinking about you right now and wondering if you have met with your psychiatrist lately because DAYUM...
You must know someone who was trafficked. They are the ones who have been there.
Also the headquarters, is it not, of the ‘Christian Scientists’? Where it was founded?
Half-Jewish, raised Protestant, now Latin Rite Catholic (the ones the Biden admin investigated) here. Sounds like you've been taken in by SDA end of world "literature". While the Jesuits are nuts these days and Francis was a Jesuit and I did not like him, your misunderstanding of the Jesuits in general is misleading. For a better understanding read former Jesuit Malachi Martin's "The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church".
SDA = Seventh-day-Adventists
One would think that since you're an expert on Modernism in the Catholic Church you would equally know what "SDA" means. However your sights are set on defaming the Catholic Church, not any other. Sigh. Anyway, Modernism and VII (Vatican II) are the reasons I go to the Traditional Latin Mass of 2000 years, not the Novus Ordo Mass (Mass of VI...Vatican II).
There are yet more than a few good Jesuits following the rule of St Ignatius - - - as is told in the book I referenced above. You are confused by today's optics of sinners (some trying to do good, some doing evil) and the Divine Revelation of Christ to His Church. The Divine is always eternal while sinners (like you and I) run the Church. I try to escape the liberality of VII by going to the Ancient Mass which liberals for centuries have tried to ban. Why do you think the Biden Administration investigated people at the church with the very Mass that I go to? They didn't investigate Protestant Churches. Nor the VII Church.
I don’t know anything about Luciferians, but I am well acquainted with “the Mormons” better known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Please do not include us in your grouping of satanic churches we are separate and independent and as the name implies we are followers and believers in Jesus Christ.
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The words of the LORD are pure words;
As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
— Psalm 12:6
He who gives attention to the word will find good,
And blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.
— Proverbs 16:20
The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.
They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.
Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.
— Psalm 19:7-11
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My precious Mother used to quote this all the time when all of us girls (5 of us) would be doing chores. She would sing of His Greatness and His love.
Sigh
I miss her and Dad.
Beautiful. I have five girls. ❤️Maybe I should have sang to them more while they did chores. 😃
Words to live and die by.
Thank you Janice!
Thank you, Janice, for the way you select a scripture that fits right in to what Jeff has just churned out. That is your beautiful way of commenting, and it is a blessing.
Shame, shame on those nasty folks and bots of yesterday with their thoughtless and rude comments.
Off with their heads.
Amen!
Beautiful Janice!
Thank you, Janice! I look forward to your posts every morning. They are a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. God bless you. ♥
Thank you, Janice🩷
“Medicine” is rife with fraud.
Just recently, while experiencing a worrying and very painful condition, I decided to go to the ER. In the 4 hours I waited in the otherwise empty waiting room, the symptoms began to abate and by the time my number was called, they had resolved. I told that to the attending physician and left. Despite not being examined, diagnosed or treated, I got a bill for $750. I requested the medical record for the “encounter” and found that the doctor had entered a note for an examination that NEVER occurred. When I questioned the relevant administrator on how a fake examination could be entered into the records, the answer was essentially “Who cares? It’s paid by the insurance company.”
What are the chances that my episode just happened to be the rare one with “erroneous” records and billing codes? I strongly suspect that these kinds of shenanigans are routine.
Similar circumstance for me years ago. Billed for procedures that never occurred. When I called the insurance company to report the fraudulent billing, they stated it would cost more to fight the billing than pay it 🤦♀️.
SO short sighted…if you add up ALL of the fraudulent billings, it would be well worth the fight. Send a message to dishonest docs. And maybe stop the madness.
This very same circumstance has happened to me. I too was amazed that the insurance company had no interest in recovering its losses.
Probably because their profits are 100,000x their losses.
Well, it certainly contributed to their profitability.
Some insurance companies WANT people terrified of high medical expenses.
That's infuriating.
Also the state insurance commission. Although in some states they may not care either 😕
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Nard, I'll go back 40 years. I remember Grandma was in the hospital constantly with Grandpa for a week (slept there.) After his death and receiving the bill from the hospital, she and I went through every charge and supposed procedure. 80% never happened. And the charges for simple medicines were outrageous. I'll never forget that and now it's probably much, much worse.
I received a statement from the hospital with the listed charges for the birth of my third child. (I don't recall receiving them for the older children.) Thankfully, I took the time to glance at the charges. I didn't know what most of the charges meant, but I noticed that I was being charged for a resuscitation of my baby. I called the billing department and objected to the false charge. Basically, the clerk said, "Oops" and removed the charge. No questions asked. I too expect that these erroneous codes are quite common. And sure, I had insurance. But my co-pay for the fraudulent charge was over a thousand dollars at the time.
Melissa, they probably count on people being too busy and not questioning the bill. But my thought here is, SOMEONE put in that code, and an "oops" doesn't cut it.
I love this story! 😁
When my Mom was 92 (she’s 98 now), we went to a dermatology clinic for a skin check. Had quite a long conversation about how amazing it was that at her age she didn’t need anything removed from her skin. When the Medicare documentation arrived weeks later, it showed billing for removal of eight skin irregularities. We called, and the dermatology office insisted the removals had happened. We actually reported fraud to Medicare but never heard back from anyone.
Maybe the charge was DISCUSSING the removals that did not occur. Yrs ago, I was charged an additional $250 at a dermatologist appt when we did a review of my entire body. The explanation was that the automated system mined the doctor's notes for billable DIFFERENT topics.
Sent them a f.u. reply and never paid it. Sent a letter to the doc explaining I'd never come back and i'd tell people to avoid her.
About 15 yrs later, went in for some kind of carcinoma that pre-AI told me was common and mostly benign. I reminded her of the note mining/billing s/w, and asked her not to write anything down from our conversation other than the specific, ONE thing. Told her I didn't want to hear ANYTHING that would be billed additionally without prior warning and pricing. In the end, we repeated the entire "baselining" of my skin condition, same as before. This time, no additional billing attempt.
Entire system is rigged against the customers and exploits the docs to steal more money.
Bizarre! No, the bill clearly listed the growths “removed.” I’m entering the Medicare world myself in a few months. Seems I should verify everything before I leave a provider’s office. I bet they’ll say they can’t.
Dermatology is a fraud.
Removing things that are benign.
It’s almost like you have to record the visit in case you need to have proof of what transpired 😕
We have. And I videoed my hubby’s hospital visit for a heart ablation after his being asked by his admission nurse if he felt safe at home! He takes blood thinners and bruises extremely quickly and badly. Then when she asked if a blood transfusion was necessary did he give his permission. I immediately said no with his chiming in no and we would have to have our choice of donated blood but under no circumstances were they to do anything other than what was on our doctor’s order or our permission. I was not even allowed to touch his food tray to feed him lol! It was a circus in that hospital for a day surgical experience! I’m sure they didn’t like me taping and videoing all faces and machines!
Record away!!!
Oh wow 😮
Now, many doctors’ offices and hospitals have signs posted prohibiting the recording of hospital staff…
CYA as usual 😑🙄
The brazenness is something to behold. Wow.
Wow!
Music to my ears that your Mom is 98. What a beautiful number!
Now, with the on vent of computers and copying and pasting, I noticed when I was working as a registered nurse that a lot of the doctors just copied and pasted notes into patients charts that didn’t have anything to do with the patients. I don’t know how many times I actually asked doctors to amend their charting. And that was over 10 years ago, so I’m sure it’s much worse now.
When I am able to sit down with a nurse practitioner for all of ten minutes - while never meeting the actual doctor - she spends the bulk of the time typing notes and diagnosis codes (for insurance) and not listening.
I started to talk their heads off making sure I get my money’s worth. 😆 If they are going to tune me out I’m going to trap them there to tune me out longer than they would like. Lol
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That's because doctoring is done with software where the diagnostics are performed by a computer program. I noticed the same with my so called Family Physician around 2020, the doctor who I vetted profusely before choosing him as my primary was about as sensitive as a hammer. He asked questions while barely looking at me and typed in my replies.
I was so impressed with the dispassionate discharge of his duties I changed offices immediately disappointed that all of my investigative work choosing him was wasted. The medicare advantage plan network (Humana) of doctors were all about the same, no tangible humanity or care for their trade. Robots. I've yet to find a doctor inside my plan's network to use.
Indeed. This is the de facto experience across all medical clinics that I deal with.
Brent her!! I had UGI & Colonoscopy couple years ago & NEVER met/ saw the doctor!For all I know the N. Practitioner did the procedures😱😱! I was and still am pissed off
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I do record review for a law firm and the EMR is a source of much confusion. Auto-population of fields and lazy providers who can't be bothered to amend documentation day to day results in some serious legal difficulties.
Blame Obama. The first thing that Obamacare financed was a massive forcing of all medical providers to switch to computers.
No one liked it, but management had their hands out for their share of the spoils. And most EMRs have boxes to check which limits your ability to record the actual patient complaint, let alone record the symptoms.
Mrs. RW
Mrs. RW.. So that explains it. My physician who told me he hated computers and would never use one during an exam suddenly one day he had a computer in the exam room, typing away during most of our appointment, and he had it for every exam thereafter. I thought “How odd after what he told me before.”
Also in a candid moment my physician mentioned he was very concerned for the future of his daughter’s life because of the way American was headed. Not sure what he was alluding to exactly but he seemed quite bitter about it.
It makes for a terrible doctor-patient relationship. At my last office visit, the doctor asked me the same exact question - word for word - three times because he was prompted by the pre-scripted encounter form in the EMR. So frustrating.
yep, years ago when I was still getting mammograms, I saw in the radiologist writeup reference to the biopsies I had gotten. Never had a biopsy there... the entire report was likely copied and pasted and had to be rewritten (re-copied and pasted from a healthier or less-cut-up patient).
That’s crazy, and that would affect care and treatment too 😕
re: "“Washington is finally trimming a bloated, fraud‑ridden program, and 6% doesn’t sound like nearly enough.”
I do believe this is the beginning of the destruction of the "institutional democracy" these frauds, con men/women, and "elite" have built over decades to destroy the Constitutional Republic many of us hold so dear. And to steal trillions of dollars. THANK YOU GOD FOR SAVING PRESIDENT TRUMP!
And if that is not enough Good news, there is this to revel and delight in:
"BREAKING IMPEACHMENT NEWS: The Minnesota House Freedom Caucus has just announced that impeachment hearings for Tim Walz and Keith Ellison will begin next Wednesday, April 15."
praise God, now if only the criminals will find them guilty
I doubt that can happen since Dems are in control there, sad to say.
Enough of the dems might see it as an opportunity to get clean at the expense of those two putrid sub humans? Probably not, but you never know. GAW.
From AI: "As of early 2025, the Minnesota Senate is controlled by the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). The DFL holds a narrow 34-33 majority. While control of the Minnesota House of Representatives is evenly split (67-67) between the DFL and Republicans. This creates a divided government, with the DFL holding the governorship."
That’s great news!! I’d watch it just to see the facial expressions of those two lying slime bags.
They are despicable human beings, evil to their core, deeply corrupt and stone faced liars. I will pray for them...
to get the justice they have earned.
And I'll betcha next year, the insane costs of medical care and insurance will be addressed by the administration, another important issue hinging on the midterms results.
The President is already working on it. Part of his plan is to redirect the funds from the grift operation between congress and insurance companies (under ovomit care) and instead give it directly to Citizens who can then use it to determine what kind of insurance they want. That is magnificent and will force insurers to fight to provide good insurance while ending the grifting between insurance and congress. whoomp whoomp!!
I can't wait! My COBRA benefits expire soon, and my new state "marketplace" plan will be almost $900/month, which is - believe it or not - a fantastic price. I'll be happy to see the core unAffordable Care Act repealed.
And please recall, it was the consummate RINO and deeply corrupt mccain ( i refuse to capitalize his name or refer to him as a Senator) who was the final vote for ovomit care... in effect a piece of shit voting for a piece of shit, not because it was good public policy but because it made him and the rest carry around fat wallets and huge bank accounts.
Still waiting for the massive incomes of these lawmakers to be investigated.... I remember years (decades?) ago when I liked McCain.
Yes..good old no name. 🤮
Yeah I had to do cobra & paid $700.00 a month, and than had to do obama care and got screwed single non ill female over $900.00 a month. I would have not used it at all, but than I would have had to pay a fine. Probably for life. Just like the medicare fine in part D if you don't sign up immediately.
@Dan- and how many citizens will use that money for Gucci bags, nails, and trips to Disney then utilize the emergency department and not pay the bill?
I don't think they will get a chance to do that? Provisions in the legislation would mandate use to procure health insurance.
Still you can bet some will try to abuse and they will require prosecution.
Once you enter the billing factory once referred to as a hospital....all bets are off.
My wife's 93 year old grandmother had a PREGNANCY test run or should I say billed by one of her Medicare providers some years ago... The attitude about (paraphrasing) "well, they'll pay for it" does not justify the theft.
Well, Sarah in the Old Testament was 96...so maybe they were ready, just in case after a few centuries history would repeat itself?
Good one, Fran!
Fish: you make an excellent point. When I began full-time employment with “Gold Standard” medical insurance (employer-paid premiums, no co-pay, no maximums) I was puzzled by the seemingly constant medical appointments my healthy colleagues had. It was a good way to ditch work and it was all ‘free’. But then, Obamacare eliminated the plan, premiums, co-pays, etc. entered the scene, and everyone wasn’t so eager to run off to the dr for a chat.
Thank you for sharing, MaryAnn! Prior to Obamacare, I had one of those gold standard plans on the private insurance side. It was affordable and required no preauthorizations, no referrals, no tiered prescriptions, and no preauthorizations for procedures. Best plan I ever had… I still had co-pays, but it was as good a plan as could be purchased.
Large cardiology clinics are also billing factories.
We run into the opposite problem as well: not being timely billed for services that were provided. Yesterday at check-in for a routine visit the reception clerk threatened us with cancelling the appointment because her computer showed a past due balance. We bullied our way past her and then later in the day talked to their billing manager who confirmed that the amount due (from January) had never been billed (as of April), that's why it wasn't paid, duh. Left a very bad taste in my mouth to be treated like a deadbeat in front of a waiting room full of strangers.
I do hope you spoke with the Office Manager about how you were treated at check in and the details. If not, you could still call them and let them know how unprofessional the reception clerk was.
Yes I lodged a formal complaint.
One my complaints about insurance is it can literally take a year for them to process a bill. The minimum is three months.
That reminds me of the time of being discharged after our second son was born, (having extremely good insurance through my husband’s work which we had already give to admissions office when going into the hospital for delivery) was wheeled into the business office; new mother with baby in arms and new dad who was asking why we needed to go to the business office. He was told we had a balance to pay before we could leave. He reminded her we had insurance that they would file and we would get a bill from our insurance stating what they payed and what we owed and then we send the balance in. They said we could leave until the balance was paid; the balance was $6.00! 😂 My husband asked the business manager if he could use her phone and she asked for what? He said, “I’m calling the police and telling them you’re holding my wife and son for a ransom of $6.00!!” They wheeled us out immediately after that.
Great response!
Yeh, and who pays for insurance? *We* do. So much fraud.
Exactly. "We" are paying for it. Our premiums and deductibles are ridiculous because Obamacare (The Affordable Care Act - HAH!) mandates we cover items the vast majority of people will never utilize like: PrEP drugs for HIV prophylaxis or IUDs for birth control without any cost-sharing or co-pays. For context, PrEP drugs without insurance runs a person about $2000/month. It's just insane.
S&S, We payed our payments for the company insurance (which in the 60s was a different ‘animal’ and was actually part of his salary) so going by your statement, we paid twice for our coverage. It was not like insurance is today. No Obamacare.
There is a lot of built in fluff in Health Insurance. I am now on a Medicare Advantage plan. I get a quartely allowance of 60 USD to buy over the counter stuff health and safety stuff. Maybe that is intended as a diaper subsidy, but most of us are not in need of those yet.
I also get a yearly visit from a health professional. I did it my first year. It's just a checklist event, seems more like a data collection system and a reminder to do all your health screenings and vacinations.
To me it's nice but it's also fluff. Why should the tax payers have to pay for all of this and most of all who is getting this easy money?
Agree. Lots of unnecessary and costly things.
I did one of those home health visits my first year on Medicare. The person who came gave off a vibe like she was ‘casing the joint’ as my dad would say. No more ‘home visits’ for me.
Should be reported for insurance fraud.
I’m on a high deductible plan. The insurance company won’t care.
But I probably should complain to that doctor’s certifying board.
When the administrator called me back they essentially said “The bill is canceled, bye” and hung up, obviously not wanting to hear more questions about how a fake examination was recorded.
Report it to your state insurance commission then.
Color me not surprised.
A big savings would happen if Medicare with discontinue the "wellness exam" nonsense. It is pure data collection peppered with the nurse or med assistant doing two measurable things such as BP and weight. The doctor does no touching of the patient. There is no filling of necessary prescriptions. Just data collection of answers to inane questions that are many times, way inappropriate for a medical environment.
As part of this game, many doctors, after putting the patient through the annual humiliation of playing this game, then move on to maybe a regular doctor visit, if the doctor is kind enough to not make this doctor visit be a second appointment. The billing reflects both the "wellness exam" and the office visit.
It doesn't matter if the patient wants to forego the "wellness exam" and just get a regular physical and prescriptions filled. Nope, the Medicare patient MUST schedule and sit through the "wellness exam" first. 😡
Which consists of drawing the face of a clock and remembering 3 words give you verbally in the correct order when asked during other questions. I have to admit I do give them some unique clock faces 😂 - no numbers, just dots; Roman Numerals; Micky Mouse And his hands etc.
Last year I was billed for 2 bogus things which the insurance company didn't pay and that would have to come out of my pocket. I went to the doctor's office and told them to take the charges off my bill because I intended never to pay sham charges. Ever. They immediately knew that I knew the charges were not genuine and promptly removed them.
Bingo.
You went into triage and had vitals taken with one of the most experienced nurses in the ED, and you spoke to an attending MD. I’m not sure what he/she included in the note, but I can tell you as an ICU nurse that a simple conversation with a patient gives me a lot of information. In triage you stated one level of pain and with the doctor a different one. I get being irritated at being charged but the hospital has to pay all the bills to keep that ED open: security, admissions desk personnel, triage nurses, ED nurses, restrooms for the waiting room, cleaning personnel, the stocking personnel, and on down the line, not to mention the electric bill. I work at a mid-sized facility and our CEO recently shared that it costs $6.5 million a day to keep our doors open.
I don’t doubt there are places to trim money from our budget, there are everywhere.
I tripped and fell a few months ago and needed up in the ED to get a gash on my forehead checked, cleaned, and stitched. They did start an IV and send labs, too, as that is standard for every fall. I did not get a CT scan of my head done for various reasons. My part of my bill was over $2,000 plus another $1,000 for the ambulance ride.
The note said that the doctor performed an examination of my eyes, ears, nose and throat, determined that my pulse and heart rhythm was normal, that my breathing was regular and clear, that my abdomen displayed no irregularities but that I had diffuse mild discomfort in my lower abdomen. How they were able to know all this in less than the two minutes I spent in their presence without using any instruments or even touching me I guess is the miracle of modern medicine.
Well, your eyes were clear with no drainage (eyes with swelling and drainage are obvious, as well as redness and yellowing,) you were blinking normally during the conversation which means your reflexes are fine to your eyes. Your nose wasn’t draining and you had no cough. The doctor listened to and read what you told the triage nurse, too. Your respiratory rate is very obvious in casual conversation, plus you had a set of vitals taken in triage. They have those numbers. Believe me, when you see someone with increased work of breathing and severe congestion and wheezing, you can hear it and see it without laying a stethoscope to their chest. I still do, though, as it is part of my assessment of patient, and I have caught small changes in one area of a lung that have led to xrays and earlier interventions before things got worse. You reported to the triage nurse about abdominal stuff, I’m thinking, with your original reason for being there, and I would guess that triage nurse asked about bowel regularity/irregularity and location of pain and now you are improved. I hope the triage nurse did press on your abdomen in various places, as that simple exam can help begin a differential diagnosis of various causes of bowel pain and irritation. You told the MD that yourself that you had improved from severe enough pain that you came in to mild enough pain that you are leaving. We do tend to believe patients when they talk to us. A subjective exam listening to the patient is an exam. That experienced Emergency Medicine physician is an expert at very quick objective information collection with conversation, a history, and vitals. They have to be.
Triage nurse took temperature and blood pressure and asked my symptoms. That was all. No stethoscope, no touching. The doctor, in the note, got the symptoms wrong. It was completely fabricated.
Ugh! It makes my head want to explode. My nursing students know to do better than that! I am sorry for your crummy experience and then a huge bill to boot. Well, you will get a patient survey and if you really want to rock the boat, call and ask to speak with their Patient Experience team.
Carol, you make good points and clearly your experience as an ICU nurse gives you credibility. I would only add that from a legal perspective, the situation described by Lon would be sticky and that the emergency room doctor in a deposition would be challenged. Regarding the actual billing, I'm sure the coders saw a documented exam and billed accordingly.
Agree!!! 100%!!! I am thankful that I work with doctors that listen to the nurses and also physically assess the patients for themselves. He or she should have done it, as well!
You can also add that the patient here got up and moved, and presumably wasn’t guarding his abdomen, so seeing a patient get up and move is also an exam. There is a lot it all and I would say that a simple conversation doesn’t equate a simple physical exam…feel a pulse, listen to heart/lungs/bowel, and then palpate a bit to confirm nothing more serious may be hiding. I just wanted to point out that the doctor had a lot more information than you would think after a review of everything and a simple conversation.
Thanks for all of your wise and learned comments, Carol B. Sometimes the negative experiences get written but the positive ones do not. In addition, while it’s important to touch the patient so to speak, a lot of information can be gained merely by looking at them and listening to how they respond to questions.
They must be clairvoyant.
Are you doing ok since the fall Carol?
Yes! Just a lovely scar above my left eyebrow!!! And a few OT shifts to cover the bills.
As long as you are alright, that is most important. No internal head trauma!
Scars, our battle wounds:}
04/10/26: Pure fraud, Lon. At least there was a point to the second ambulance that followed mine to the emergency room in 2023 (we were billed for both, and gladly paid for both). Glad that you ended up okay!
--- “Richard Hughes, a lawyer for the medical groups that sued to shut Kennedy’s committee down, called it ‘a calculated effort to shift the focus and balance of the committee to advance an anti-vaccine agenda.’ ”
Well, DUH.
--- “The Times’ foolish article … referred to “polio” four times… polio has nothing whatever to do with the vaccine committee’s purpose.”
Here it comes --- SURPRISE! --- Wuhan polio!
--- OGG! = “Oleaginous Governor Gavin.”
Reminder: The $37,000,000,000,000 (trillion) federal government red ink … how much of that was BORROWED money that promptly went to California and into OGG-Capone’s wallet?
Repeated for emphasis: The United States borrowed TRILLIONS of dollars, a significant percentage of which was then STOLEN (via financial fraud in California, Maine and Minnesota).
--- With all due respect to the First Lady, I’m not reading another single word about Jeffrey Epstein.
No irony from the admin about how *just possibly* this is why health insurance cost so much, including her own?! 😳🙄
Jeff, the victims are rightfully called survivors because you will learn that many of the trafficked young women were killed. Pizzagate is real. Pedo networks are real and the people involved are sick twisted Satan worshipping freaks who delight in ritual torture and sacrifice. People like Liz Crokin who has been saying this for decades were called conspiracy nuts. But they were right about it all. Many did not survive and the perpetrators will not survive what's coming
There is at least one reputable Substack writer and book author who has been reading the released Epstein files who says there were artificially inseminated girls who had their babies removed at birth for “experimental” purposes. The details are grim beyond imagination. The ranch in New Mexico needs a thorough forensic inspection.
This is all why Congressional testimony is so important: they’re under oath.
Whomever does not testify, one can assume is not speaking the truth.
Those who decline were probably doing so for fame & clicks, because they all know “under oath” means prison time if they are untruthful & someone decides to go after them. The potential exposure is too real & serious.
Melania was brilliant.
Under oath does not mean a thing to Godless liars. Who are they swearing to tell the truth to? “So Help Me God” means nothing to people who don’t believe in God.
True, so far none of the perjurers of the Obama and Biden administrations have been indicted or sentenced. Its as if taking an oath is of no consequence at all anymore.
It means nothing to them morally, but Melania will be on Todd Blanche to indict them to the max if they lie.
No one likes federal prison, and most importantly, no one like the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to pay for defense at the federal level.
True Cookie Dee, but it is a deterrent to some. I don’t know why they bother with hearings where the witnesses and those testifying are not under oath. I guess much of it is political theater. A big waste of our time and money.
Sayer Ji did an in depth analysis of all pages released on Epstein. Check out his substack if interested to read it.
It's excellent. I highly recommend.
Agreed, Lori, and it contained a lot of information on Bill Gates and his employee. It was the most thorough analysis I have read so far.
Why did the Dems NOT release the Epstein files???
Because no one, on EITHER side wants the Epstein files released. There are major Democrats in those files.
So they waited until Trump was in office because Trump can NEVER release a complete Epstein file because his bro Jeff was the elite pimp to the Elites, and Trump had Mar-a-lago and the stable of beautiful young pageant girls, and all his Elite billionaire pedo buddies and Epstein was pimping girls to and from Mar-A-Lago (see Virginia Guiffre vs Prince Andrew, Duke of York),
And even with all the evidence of rape and sexual abuse of children, Jeffrey Epstein still got off with THE LIGHTEST SENTENCE in the state of Florida for sex crimes!
And what about Alexander Acosta, the corrupt State Attorney that let Epstein off, what happened to him???
Trump appointed him Secretary of Labor!
There will NEVER be a complete release of Epstein files
I’m still waiting to hear what was on Anthony Wiener’s laptop…doesn’t the fbi have it? I agree, all pedos should rot in hell, and anyone closely associated to them (Uma and Killary) must be held to account.
Can you imagine if Trump had a (D) behind his name and how the crowd here would be acting in this context? I'm so tired of double standards. All these people should be investigated, and those found guilty can rot in hell.
Wow, look at this. A tag-team of Proberta and Johnny-O. Two Bots Extraordinaire. Sent to Jeff's wonderful Coffee and Covid site every single morning to create hate and sow division amongst us conservatives who support our President. These two Bots come here and like each other's moronic comments that are the same everyday.
Block these Bots or just shake your head and know this, these Bots were sent here for a reason.
That reason is that the Evil forces that wish to control our every thought, our every action, continue to plot their destruction of our free society and make us bend a knee to their will.
This Evil, will if we allow it, bring back lockdowns, mandatory experimental injections, vaccine passports, CBDC, and more Hate and Division that is humanly possible.
May the Lord Bless each and every one here.
Except all you Bots.
I sow division among both parties. You partisans are part of the problem if we are going to be honest.
A day or two ago I saw a couple of post on X claiming Bill Gates recently made the statement that it won't be long before "we" won't need humans. I can't verify he said it but it sounds like something he would say/think.
It was during some talk show type interview. He was asked whether we would even need humans in the future. He said no, then he said, well, we won’t need them for the things they do now.
New Mexican authorities were investigating Zorro in 2019 and Trump's DOJ made them back off.
But I'm sure it's all part of this 10D chess.....
Which makes sense as we learn more and more about how Obama holdovers were working to obstruct President Trump’s authority. It’s still going on today as they continue to weed out the obstructionists.
Trump's DOJ by the end of his 1st term were Obama holdovers? Sorry, that is just wrong, and additionally, Trump has now been president for over 5 years and had those files the entire time, and nothing has happened.
Neither party wants the files released. It has turned into a political football. Many on this forum were screaming about them during the campaign and as soon as the narrative shifted, all of the sudden those very same people don't care about it anymore. It's really sad to see how easily people get played. Release the files, investigate, and roll heads.
Pitiful
Yes Lone Star! Is anyone working on getting authorization for a detailed review and search, including excavation on that NM ranch? I rarely hear about it.
Supposedly, that is happening now. The Huffines family is said to be allowing the search.
Thank you, PhillySpecial! Yes, I was rather appalled by this: "And, just a second. I’m sorry, but I must ask: what’s with calling them survivors? None of the victims died."
'Mere' molestation victims, children and even infants, don't have to be *cult* victims to qualify as survivors. Of course, some victims died! But those we do not call "survivors"! They're dead! As to the rest of us, sexual assault in childhood is horrifically common, and the stats you read are pathetically low. Pedo networks are quite real, but the lone opportunist is even more common. 'Sex' with children is rape, a fact we don't acknowledge as a society. And "mere" molestation is not just a crime, it impacts children for the rest of their lives. "Survivor" is a necessary and proud word.
I sincerely hope the perps don't survive what's ahead.
I was a bit surprised at this comment as well. I know Jeff never intends to intentionally hurt the innocent, so I'm just going to chalk this up to a thoughtless moment on his part - but ANYONE who has been through sexual abuse is absolutely a survivor. There's SO MUCH MORE than just the physical abuse that must be overcome. That aspect can heal rather quickly - it's the mental and emotional recovery that can take much longer (if full healing ever comes at all). Maybe survivors really DO need to speak out more so the regular public understands that "survivor" is absolutely the accurate term.
I believe Jeff has no daughters. He most likely would have stated that differently if he did.
He’s an attorney!!! He knows full well the reasons for the use of the word “survivor” here….unless of course, he’s been living in a cave. And since so many look to him for his worldly and astute assessments, I hardly think that’s the case.
Quiltlady, he does have a wife...
He mis-spoke! Women can attest to surviving a sleaze bag date!! Men cannot understand the shame we feel
I give Mr. Jeff a pass on this too. Being a lawyer I figured he would be more careful but I feel he really has not been around sexual abused survivors which is almost foreign to his understanding. Unfortunately, he will learn more about their journeys to healing and realize how much these girls and boys suffered and how hard and intentional healing from such gross abuse and the depth of confusion it causes in growing up, besides being judged harshly or questioned if they caused it...Jeff will understand the raw pain of their stories. Most wish they would have died. You just don't know until you know. I'm kind of glad he innocently doesn't know. 🦋💜
I was appalled by Childer’s flippant remarks….
“And, just a second. I’m sorry, but I must ask: what’s with calling them survivors? None of the victims died. The only person who died was Jeffrey Epstein. Is that how they’re survivors? They outlived Jeffrey? Oh, never mind.”
I would suggest Jeff is fully aware of why the term “survivors” is used. It is neither a new term or an inappropriate one. As an attorney who has represented women who have been sexually abused, harassed and discriminated against in a myriad of ways (in relationships, in the workplace, children sexually abused by priests, incest survivors, domestic violence, etc) I am disappointed that Jeff would try to get a laugh from his C&C readers at the expense of the victim of such abuse.
I wonder, would he be so callous and flippant about the term “cancer survivor”?
Seriously, his insensitivity or perhaps his mysoginistic mindset is apparent if not glaring….
Rest assured that sexual abuse is not a laughing matter for the women/men who endure it and somehow survive the physical, mental and emotional harm to fight/live another day. Mind you they do so with scars that are not always visible to the eye, but are very real and often debilitating.
It is important to recognize that even though Epstein is dead the nightmare for many of his victims will continue for their lifetime.
Would JC be happy to see the whole Epstein affair be dismissed as a product of the imagination of young women suffering from histrionics and bad manners (after all, not a crime to party with Epstein and weren’t these young women just asking for it)?
Given Jeff’s supposedly ill informed statement and caustic humor…is it any wonder why women/men who suffer such abuse at the hands of sexual and physical predators don’t come forward? After all, who doesn’t enjoy being mocked in this way…and no doubt told to “lighten up” if they object to being the butt of the joke.
The abused kid-I-was is very glad to have you on our side. Deeply appreciate your ferocity in this, especially given the words from others here about the ongoing work to stay in survivor mode even years after victimization. Thank you.
This is the first C&C I have not “hearted”. I was going to leave a very strong response to Jeff and his “joke”. Thanks for doing it for me. I absolutely SURVIVED childhood sexual, physical, psychological and emotional abuse. I almost did not, and even today at 60 there are moments where all I can do is cling to Jesus and pray I survive through the day while dealing with chronic PTSD and depression . It may have been an “innocent” mistake on Jeff’s part, honestly though it sounded like ugly ignorance. I was deeply disappointed. 🥺
You seriously think he did not understand the importance of his callous remarks?
Well I've followed Jeff for 4 years and have not read any intentional mocking of anyone's lot in life seriously. As a sexual abused survivor myself, I still suffer in ways I am surprised and challenged to not let it destroy my days now. But I re read his statements before responding. I gave grace to those that just don't know the deepest pain and long road of recovery it takes.
👉🏼 Mr. Jeff, did you mean to mock the sexually abused children or older ladies that were abused? I think many of us would like to know why you belittled abuses in this ? Maybe you could touch on this tomorrow? But truthfully I cannot expect everyone to understand this and grace is from my Father God's power so I don't get mixed up in others responses. It's more for myself to give the benefit of Jeff making a mistake. I'm ready to discuss it if you have questions. Some fokes really don't know out of innocence. 🦋
Thanks for this, too. I can elaborate a little, since I can see why "survivor" might seem like odd phrasing. (I'll use the context of a molested child, since that's the one I'm familiar with.)
1. It can be helpful in building a new and healthier self-image to not continue to identify as a "victim" of the abuse. "Victim" can feel like you'll never move beyond it or have any chance of healing, whereas "survivor" feels more like the abuse affects me, but doesn't get to define me.
2. It's not uncommon for victims of abuse to unalive themselves; those who manage to keep living have "survived" in that way. (This is an episodic ongoing willpower cost for me, for instance, even 30 years later.)
Came here to say this.
The way I read it is a sarcastic comment on the terminology. Admittedly, I agree. I'm 50, I've been abused and I'm still not comfortable with the recently established terminology, a predator (/s) abused me, I'm a victim of their preying on me. Sure, I survived it, but I personally feel that calling myself a "survivor" reduces my abuse to something that was survivable, hence excusable. It often wasn't and I hang up by my nails and teeth, and sometimes by intervention of friends and/or Universe. I'd much rather the world dropped euphemisms and called things for what they are.
Though, I can see your point in your preference for the terminology. I just don't see the same reasoning behind Jeff's comment.
Cathy Obrien just had a interview with Man in America about the CIA grooming her for MK Ultra and what they put her through and used her for and she named elite names. What she and others went through as children is beyond hellish.
Everyone (adult) should read her book Transformation of America
It will also separate the “I was a victim until I started working for him“ but now call myself a victim on every TV news show I can get myself onto.
Like the 'survivor' Lisa Phillips mentioned today who was 21 years old around 2007-09, an aspiring model when she met Epstein and didn't realize what had happened to her until a couple of years ago. These 'survivors' have received money from Epstein's estate and JP Morgan so why they are still bitching and moaning is curious. Hanging around Gloria Allred is my guess. I did see where 4 of the women who helped him and made a plea deal may be required to appear before congress. Regardless, Melania's statement of "under oath" and "sworn testimony" should weed out some if not all. And that's a good thing.
Getting money is small recompense for being farmed out.
Virginia Giuffre, for one. I guess Jeff forgot?
We really don't know how many died. Maybe we will after some of those code-words are clarified. Anyhow, none of those who died are able to testify.
I have to agree with you. Surviving sexual abuse and its self-imposed shame means coming to grips with something inordinately emotionally painful while still being able to function in society.
PIzzagate is real, but you are not allowed to talk about it, at all. John Podesta was handed $370 billion under Biden, long after the accusations. Maybe throwing Julian Assange into a London dungeon, and kangaroo courting Alex Jones made people afraid to criticize Podesta's role in laundering clean energy and climate-related funding from the Inflation Reduction Act
You can talk about Epstein as much as you want. No one went to prison for publishing the Epstein files, and no one was accused of murder for talking about him.
I am suspicious of why that is so.
Mrs. RW
The part I have a hard time with is how many of the “survivors” were actually part of the trafficking and are just as responsible for any deaths that occurred. I have a really hard time considering them survivors. They made a choice to do what they did to other girls - when they were over 20/21 yrs of age themselves. That’s old enough to know better.
Then, they took payouts, settlements, hush money, and signed NDAs, and suddenly call themselves survivors? They are political puppets and behave as if they are still being paid behind closed doors.
I don’t doubt some are authentic and deserve to sit before Congress and tell their story, and they deserves to be made whole and see their abusers face justice, but the others are the ones suddenly spinning the politics and saying they don’t want to. Gee I wonder why they stood behind MTG and in the background of other congressional sessions, but won’t stand in front of Congress?
A survivor is not like them.
There is a very fine line between willful and forced into agreement and likely hard to know the truth and genuine caught in the net then trying to get out and not able to. Victims can not rat. Their minds are so twisted especially if they have been abused mentally most of their lives. It takes years of building trust to unravel and untwist. We have a culture of these ppl.
Read up on MK Ultra and how they manipulate people into doing what they want. Most of the time, they were offered 2 bad choices and they chose the better of the two.
I’m sure something like that’s true of most of them - but there ARE some using this for political ends, and they chose to handle things dishonestly if it served their financial interests. Those are the ones I’m talking about. They are the ones that don’t want to testify now that a way is being made for them to legally do so. They can “imply” certain abusers, even Trump, all day long from behind senators and other politicians, but they can’t easily under oath in front of Congress. A true “victim” aka survivor would welcome the chance to be heard by Congress and get these evil people to face what they deserve.
Someone who was a POW is a survivor.
Someone who was traumatically abused is a survivor.
Prison walls still surround them, even after decades behind them.
You missed on this one, Jeff.
Small wonder... to my knowledge, Jeff has never mentioned, let alone discussed and condemned... Israel's genocide in Gaza.
That is a huge can of worms. C&C usually keeps to direct US involvement in things, and keeping Covid dominoes at the core - censorship, etc.
10/7 Israel’s 9/11. Atrocities on both sides. War crimes on both sides. (Using civilians as human shields…Disproportionate retaliation?... )
There is no good guy.
Other substacks discuss this issue.
10/7 was an IDF false flag. They let it happen, which to me, places all guilt for it on the shoulders of Israel.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/nc9LLHL3yd3F
War ion Iran? totally Israel and Trump's fault. Unprovoked, grossly illegal, even if our corrupt congress refused to uphold our Constitution...
Yes, other Subs address these appalling acts of the scumbags... I wish Jeff would read some... this one is good:
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/whats-actually-going-on-2?
After the USS Liberty, JFK murder and 911... you trust or support Israel???
I don’t trust anyone. The people always suffer as if they are non human pawns on the chessboard.
And it looks like the U.S. had a hand in 10/7 under Biden’s “watch.” Payback? Idk.
https://rumble.com/v3ou5rq-that-really-caused-israelis-catastrophic-intelligence-failure.html
Well... if you don't trust anyone... I would think that you must not be very well informed on anything... how could you form opinions if none of the data and opinions are trustworthy?
I don't see how Biden or his team of aholes had anything to do with Israel's security on Oct 7... and an "intelligence failure" sounds like total BS.
It is well documented that several countries warned Israel of an impending attack, they all were ignored... and an intelligence failure does not account for/explain the badly delayed response to the attack. And the border security of Israel is perhaps the best in the world... why was the response delayed?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1weoWFrfc95Q
BTW: Byrne seems to be a bit of a gibbering clown. JMHO
Rightfully called survivors... Because they? ... Did Not... Survive??? (Check your premise)
The statement was that ‘some’ did not survive.
I was appalled by Childer’s flippant remarks….
“And, just a second. I’m sorry, but I must ask: what’s with calling them survivors? None of the victims died. The only person who died was Jeffrey Epstein. Is that how they’re survivors? They outlived Jeffrey? Oh, never mind.”
I would suggest Jeff is fully aware of why the term “survivors” is used. It is neither a new term or an inappropriate one. As an attorney who has represented women who have been sexually abused, harassed and discriminated against in a myriad of ways (in relationships, in the workplace, children sexually abused by priests, incest survivors, domestic violence, etc) I am disappointed that Jeff would try to get a laugh from his C&C readers at the expense of the victim of such abuse.
I wonder, would he be so callous and flippant about the term “cancer survivor”?
Seriously, his insensitivity or perhaps his mysoginistic mindset is apparent if not glaring….
Rest assured that sexual abuse is not a laughing matter for the women who endure it and somehow survive the physical, mental and emotional harm to fight/live another day. Mind you they do so with scars that are not always visible to the eye, but are very real and often debilitating.
It is important to recognize that even though Epstein is dead the nightmare for many of his victims will continue for their lifetime.
Would JC be happy to see the whole Epstein affair be dismissed as a product of the imagination of young women suffering from histrionics and bad manners (after all, not a crime to party with Epstein and weren’t these young women just asking for it)?
Given Jeff’s supposedly ill informed statement and caustic humor…is it any wonder why women who suffer such abuse at the hands of sexual and physical predators don’t come forward? After all, who doesn’t enjoy being mocked in this way…and no doubt told to “lighten up” if they object to being the butt of the joke.
Jeff ignores Israel's genocide and massive land thefts too... always has.
More appalling than his minor "misogyny", IMHO.
Yes, Epstein and his "friends" (like Trump) are guilty as hell... but the girls are not all guilt-free. Maybe that's why they refuse to come forward?
Many women have been victims of one kind of sexual assault or another.
Even an obscene phone call can be a psychological or emotional assault, although it is not physical. Some are able to put it behind them, but they will never completely forget it.
Anyone who has been traumatized, and survives the incident, is a survivor.
Lawrence Gostin's claim that "vaccines are studied extensively & are safe & effective" is so easily disproven.
yup, guy is full of shite.
Nice to see California cooperating in the arrests for fraud. Newscum should be worried, he headed it all. As for vaccines being "safe and effective", they never were, vaccines and viruses have been proven to be a total scam and fraud perpetrated by the corrupt medical establishment under the guise of "science".
Maybe he and Walz can vaca and commiserate together…
Yes, vacay in prison as cellies.
One bald, one not. No fighting over the hair gel!!
Can you imagine both of their bat shit crazy wives hanging out together.
That’s a room I NEVER want to have to walk into. 😳
Yes! He wasn't unaware, he was complicit and benefitting. He needs to be directed to the square big house instead of our Nation's most beautiful oval office, currently occupied by the greatest President in my lifetime.
I think the guillotine suits him better. Then his head can be mounted on a wall like a deer, install a mirror so he can stare at himself for all eternity and admire his hair.
I like that...a trophy kill of one of the most corrupt, criminal animals in the kingdom, the greasy newscum.
100%!
Rob Bonta finally decided to do something other than his continual lawsuits against parents trying to keep schools from transing their children. He and Newsom are both useless.
Rob Bonta is disgusting.
Almost everyone in the California legislature is with few exceptions, like Carl DeMaio. He seems like one of the only ones doing anything. And don’t get me started on Scott Weiner. 🤮
Newsom is prosecuting fraudsters in California so they will get lighter sentences — he already said that Trump can’t do anything about state charges.
Thanks for linking the ACIP charter. None of the other "news" sources did.
I hope someone is looking into the SSI scandal i wirnessed, the autism diagnosis scandal. Schools facilitate autism diagnoses, or parents figure out, that a mere statement by a "professional" finding autism, means a supplemental check each month. I saw children "diagnosed" after a one page evaluation. A diagnosis is possible only after a very thorough evaluation covering multiple areas of a childs history and development. This was not that. Parents in urban areas caught on fast. Schools had no problem with it, even though it gummed up Special education even more and blew up caseloads. I had 9 year old perfectly typical kids tell me suddenly they had autism. We need to ask if this may be part of the astonishing rates of "autism" we have in our populations. How much of that is really parents profiteering after a fabricated or exaggerated diagnosis.
The autism landscape is so different than it was 27 years ago when I was first getting my son evaluated. Back then, it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to get a diagnosis. They had other labels like, "pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified". And without an "official" diagnosis, securing supportive services like OT and PT and speech in school was next to impossible. My husband and I spent thousands and thousands of dollars paying for those things out of pocket (not to mention becoming our own physical, occupational and speech therapists to help our son).
I am beyond grateful that we were in a position to help our son financially, academically, socially and emotionally, but now it seems like everyone is "on the spectrum." I don't want to deny care to those who need it, but I fear we may be overapplying the diagnosis and diluting out the true suffering of kids (and their parents) facing catastrophic, non-verbal autism with profound delays. It's one thing to be "quirky" and quite another thing to require constant supervision, toileting assistance and communication boards to get through a day.
I had three children with legitimate disabilities and autism spectrum, each with multiple diagnoses. I had to fight the district to provide the interventions they needed and never once received a dime from state or federal for any of them. However, the IRS did break their own laws when they tried to deny us medical deductions for special education. It cost us $7,000 (never reimbursed) to fight them off and prove they broke the law. Had I wanted to get back the $12,000 they fraudulently kept of our taxes, that would have cost me more stress and money. We just walked away. Why go through all that if we have to hand over the refund to attorneys?
I don’t know how these parents get any financial help from autism, because that’s not what we experienced. We were financially burdened for over 15 years, and eventually had to move our youngest two boys to private schooling to get them the environment they needed. We weren’t reimbursed for THAT either, because it would have cost us $40,000 in legal fees just the first year to fight the district to pay for it - and we had the best documentation that the two different attorneys we consulted ever saw. All said it was an open-shut case, but it would cost us up front and we wouldn’t be able to recoup attorney fees. In our state, less than 2% of all parents who go through Due Process without an attorney succeed. And when they try their child is left to languish while the school district draws out the case. It’s a sham and kids and their families are the ones hurt.
So I’m scratching my head how parents can commit fraud in this way. The fraud I ran into was the government against us!
Excellent points, Juju! When I hear stories about the challenges my sister has faced as a kindergarten teacher trying to get various children throughout the years tested and then directed to the appropriate aids and therapies, I don’t understand it either, and this is in CA. She really has to be a squeaky wheel and hammer away by calling and calling, scheduling appointments which are placed so far out on the calendar, then holding the often incompetent evaluator’s feet to the fire to not let your students fall through the cracks. That’s one of the reasons I do not believe these groups ( Somalians and other immigrant groups) have acted alone and of their own devices come up with these schemes, navigating the system and opening the spigot of flowing cash for years on end. They had to have help from the government or some middle management person who knew the system very well.
How did you find that 2% statistic for pro se? That is very interesting.
The attorneys I consulted are seasoned special education attorneys in our state. They provided the statistic to me and said it was well known by both the schools and all the attorneys. The total number of Due Process cases brought by parents without representation in our state and the amount of those that parents won was less than 2%. I was fighting an uphill battle.
I wish it were easier to get solid legal coaching and for pro se to be a viable option. I worked in family court for as time, and since have supported some families to do well, and Even have some well in traffic court, but I have no idea of the particulars that you've had to deal with. It sounds effectively prohibitive for regular families to address in courts. I hate that the legal system works to undermine justice in this way.
Autism code pays out bigly to schools.....
Wow - learned something today. Was entirely unaware of the autism diagnosis scam.
Thanks
Don't believe everything you read here. There certainly has been some scamming going on with therapy centers in the Somali community in Minneapolis. But as far as I know it's still difficult to get a kid considered "disabled" for SSI purposes, and I don't think the schools get much extra money for special ed diagnoses or IEPs, because mine said flat out they didn't do diagnoses, and fought me tooth and nail for IEPs.
Which brings to mind the skyrocketing stats of autism diagnoses RFKJr keeps quoting. Looks like fraud inflated those numbers? 🤔Autism is big (fraud) business evidently, which gets in the way of those truly needing the assistance.
They keep changing the definition of autism, too. Several years ago, my SIL saw a news story about updated autism definition. According to that, I have autism because apparently it says that if you have any kind of “tick” or fidget then you have autism. Well, I have a bad habit of chewing my nails but apparently that means I have autism. It’s insane!
I have a strategy for VP Vance on his fraud task force. It's a way to find where fraud is occurring and it's really simple. Assume that every single dollar the government, State or Federal, pays to anyone is fraud! That's where you start. Then you go door to door confirming legitimate social security recipients and cross them off the list. Same with veterans benefits. Same with Federal retirement benefits.
And that's about it...every corporation left on the list, every LLC, is then checked. And the fair market value of what they provided is determined and compared to what they were paid. $10,000 hammers sold to DoD? $20M toilets sold to NASA (along with a $1M plunger to fix it "en route").
I might even go one step further and just suspect all such payments until the recipient can prove, in writing, with receipts and invoices, proof of products delivered, services rendered.
And why does all government spending involve fraud? Simple: the people signing the checks don't care. it's other peoples' money. Gotta change that too.
The people signing the checks also want their budget to increase next year and if they don't spend all of this years' money, that won't happen. The system is incentivized to spend, spend, spend! What gets delivered is not a measure of success, only spending is considered success. Gotta change that too.
That’s what we call accountability! Which has been missing forever and is what enables the fraud. My question is this - with real spending cuts, can I stop paying taxes? With the BILLIONS of fraud, it’s clear that our taxes are not necessary in the first place. Nor is the IRS.
Right???
Excellent point on the spending; which is true of many large companies. I was a subcontractor for the Water Company in CT for years, and toward the end of every year the Department that hired me would 'create jobs and/or overtime' to use up any remaining money... because, as you said; If they didn't use it they would get less the following year. I can only imagine how much this amounts to in a bloated and corrupt Government.
Maybe they should offer bonuses for departments that trim their budgets and find fraud and waste. They get a 5% bonus for what they save. Give a positive incentive for the people working there to find waste/fraud and cut it.
Good thought Carol. And btw, that should work in my line: government funded R&D. We submit a proposal with a budget request and then we work on the research until the money is gone. It's hard to estimate costs for a few people working for 2-3 years on a project. My attitude is "do good work, don't waste taxpayer money".
But if there was an incentive to get the job done for less, people would game the system: submit a budget that's 10% more than you need, then finish "under budget" and collect your 5%. I don't see how to get around that for anyone getting government money.
What might work is whatever you save doesn't go to you personally, but it goes to increasing your government budget next year. Again, people would game that, but at least the government gets its costs reduced. I'd split the cost savings 50-50: 50% goes back to the Treasury and 50% goes into your companies' bank for next year's government contract work. Above and beyond what the government already agreed to pay. There would have to be this catch: you then have to tell the government what wonderful new scope of work you did with that extra money. I would take that deal in a heartbeat.
Geez, I wish people wouldn’t try to game anything and just do good, ethical work. You have a great point! Maybe a bonus for finding fraud then! Whistleblowers would come out of the woodwork on that one.
Hiring a lot of people to do that job would be cheaper than the fraud that is being stolen from us!
I would do it for our country for free.
⬆️ 100% Me too!!
I got the time! That means others do too. Make use of the senior citizens that are still sane patriots. They feel useful and meaningful and the country is protected by the elders.
This is the norm in business. I was a group unit manager in a high-tech company in the 90s, and I was shocked at budgeting time to discover "The people signing the checks also want their budget to increase next year and if they don't spend all of this years' money, that won't happen. The system is incentivized to spend, spend, spend!"
Yes, I worked for a corporation that did the same thing.
Mrs. RW
I think this will be a new fulltime job for those people with the skills to look for fraud. I believe there was a release of a huge dataset and the government said 'go find them'. Someone help me out here as I thought Jeff had an article on this a month or so ago, but I can't find that.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0394
I think this is the one you are looking for?
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/dog-the-fraud-hunter-saturday-february
I suspect AI and The Doge Boys programs are mining that data. 🙏🏻
Same thought here…at least I hope they are on this task because no one is better at it than Elon’s kids (employees, not offspring, although some of them likely have such talents?)
That might be a good (though laborious) was to identify fraud paid to individuals, but something else will be needed for defense contractors and other corporations.
I’m a big fan of scare tactics: imprison and impoverish CEOs. Whether it’s <100 person company CEOs who hire illegals, or >$1B companies who defraud the government, or waste taxpayer’s lives (money!)
Whoo-Hoo Here before all the negative Nancy’s! 😅
Well done, SS!
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That's a BIG DEAL!!!
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That’s quite an accomplishment! Well done.
You mean the Jew haters?
Jew haters... AKA "Truth-tellers".
Re: Jay B. choppy-changeying the rules for ACIP makeup etc. and Bobby K. still on top: I kept telling people that appealing that stupid judge's ruling was NOT the way to go. A lot were devastated and crying, but I knew it wasn't the end, not nearly. And I'm not even a lawyer. I just think like one. I am certain that RFK and JB are going to find a way to get those Covid jab victims seen and heard and compensated too.
Maybe someday we will get off the plantation and realize we are playing right into their hands. We want compensation! I WANT THE JABS REMOVED so we quit poisoning our children who have no choice.
1] Simple: If these Epstein folks can take loot to go on live television, travel all around D.C. with government officials, and cash in on their story, they can just as easily testify under oath before Congress. If they refuse, well, you make the call.
2] WE NEED ARRESTS ALREADY FOR ALL THIS FRAUD
3] The Left went from war crimes if he refused to negotiate with Iran to describing negotiating a cease-fire with Iran as “caving in.” https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/i-will-beat-the-black-off-you
Happy Friday.
Eric Swalwell is a pervert
The stage is being set for the reveal of the most heinous atrocities. Trickles will become floods and the people will wake up to what is being done to our children. Crimes against children will unite humanity. Have faith in POTUS, his team, and their Plan to save the country. HOWEVER, the evil will only be completely eradicated by our Lord and Savior King of Kings, Jesus. Come quickly, Lord.
Many arrests have already started. I know more were announced yesterday but the link isn’t coming up in my search. Here’s some from the beginning of April:
https://x.com/fbilosangeles/status/2039759782458847490
https://x.com/usattyessayli/status/2039740533543972945
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/fbi-announces-socal-arrests-in-major-hospice-care-fraud-bust-taxpayer-losses-exceed-50m/amp/
Unfortunately, dealing with these rogue judges is like playing "whack-a-mole." The next move by Judge Murphy will be to rule the HHS does not have the power to change the ACIP charter and that the old charter is still in effect. And round-and-round it will go.
Keep in mind, this Judge Murphy was the judge who wrote an opinion over-ruling a SCOTUS opinion that removed his deportation injunction. The SCOTUS responded in a scathing rebuke of Murphy, with Ellen Kagan (yes, that Ellen Kagan) labeling Murphy as a "lawless" judge. Yet, here he is again, unbowed and uncensured, still throwing sand into the gears.
Until these judges pay a price by losing their judgeships for acting as political activists instead of adjudicators, these intentional, "let's run out the clock until the Democrats take power again" tactics will continue.
We need a "3 strikes & you're out rule" for these lawless judges. Overturned? Strike 1, and the follow up; if they fight it, they get disbarred. And they should never be allowed to be a judge again, not even for a dog pageant.
Bingo!
The folks who do not support the demolition of the cruel Iranian regime are either uninformed, or they support radical Islamic jihad, including "death to America." We must understand that the Islamic revolution birthed a radical Shia ideology that seeks the final destruction of the world in order to expedite the return of their Mahdi, also known as the Twelfth Imam.
Iran and their terrorist proxies will never negotiate truthfully with the infidels. Per radical Islam, mankind's choice is convert to Islam or perish. Period.
Here is a fantastic round-up of that topic.
https://tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/twelver-doomsday-cult?r=h9rb1&utm_medium=ios
NYT and WaPo editors would understand the evil of Khamenei regime and IRGC if only they read "All the Sha's Men," written by one of their own former foreign correspondents Stephen Kinzer.
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror https://a.co/d/050QFqZg.
Susie, that tierneyrealnews article is very good, thanks for the link. This stood out, and the young ones today need to know: “ Khomeini audaciously claimed that, in the Hidden Imam’s absence, top Shia jurists should rule in his name, exercising absolute control over the state, military, judiciary, and economy. In other words, he created a dictatorship where one cleric governed as God’s stand-in on earth. He made himself God.
In 1979, his version of Twelver Shia Islam toppled the Shah of Iran and President Jimmy Carter helped make it happen. Carter enabled Islamists, communists, and Western-educated radicals to consume Tehran and basically steal it from the West. Khomeini returned a conquering prophet, declaring the new Islamic Republic and setting in motion what would become the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.”
Jimmy Carter was a terrible president.
Margot, have you read about Operation Ajax? It was a covert CIA–MI6 operation in 1953 that toppled Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah—securing Western oil interests while entrenching decades of resentment toward the United States and Britain.
The way I conclude who the real terrorist are is I compare numbers. How many Americans has Iran killed in the US v how many Iranians has the US killed in Iran.
Not to mention, but I will, that the US encouraged Saddam Hussein to start a war with Iran AND provided him with chemical weapons to use against Iranians in that war.
So yeah, the Iranian body count is far higher than the American, including in the last 6 weeks.
Mrs. RW
"Death to America" is outrageous! Who cares that they said it after the US shot down a civilian plane, killing 290, and also after the US murdered widely admired Solemaini.
"We will destroy your civilization and you will never recover", on the other hand, is a rational and reasonable statement that is totally not threatening terrorism.
Mrs. RW
I ran across this substack post that explains it well.
''The American strategy, as articulated by various administration officials and as discernible from the pattern of operations, does not envision ground forces seizing and holding Iranian territory. What it does envision is something remarkably similar to the insurgent’s playbook, executed from the opposite end of the technological spectrum: make the Iranian regime’s existence as the governing authority of its own territory impossibly expensive; deny it the exercise of sovereign control over its own military and industrial assets; impose costs that accumulate faster than they can be absorbed; and through this sustained pressure, either compel behavioral change or create the conditions for the regime’s internal collapse......
Hegseth’s declaration that CENTCOM had been instructed to “dismantle the Iranian regime’s security apparatus” made the political objective explicit. This is not the language of limited military action. It is the language of a campaign designed to hollow out the Iranian state from the air.
This is the insurgency logic, but it is now applied by the kinetically stronger side. Where the classical insurgent is a fish swimming in the sea of the people, operating below the threshold of the occupier’s conventional military power, the American standoff campaign operates above the threshold of the defender’s conventional military power. The insurgent wins by making the cost of occupation unbearable. The standoff power wins by making the cost of resistance unbearable, and denying the enemy state the mechanisms and political cohesion needed to exert control over its own territory. The insurgent cannot be killed from the air because he blends into the civilian population; the standoff power cannot be exhausted by occupation if he does not care about the political end state. In both cases, the fundamental asymmetry of the conflict lies not in raw military power but in the asymmetric value of political authority. Neither a guerilla force nor the American air forces care much about exerting political authority of their own, because their paradigm of victory requires only that they deny that control to the enemy......
The American standoff campaign imposes costs that Iranian domestic politics cannot absorb, precisely because the economic and human devastation falls on Iran rather than on the United States. Fifteen American dead, if we take the casualty figures at face value, in forty days of war is not a political liability for the administration in Washington; it is practically a recruiting poster. This asymmetry of cost absorption is, in fact, the entire strategic premise of the standoff campaign."
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-insurgent-empire
Mrs. RW
I think that sums it up quite well, although Israel seems content to disprove this sentence by bombing everyone/everything; Gaza/Syria & now Lebanon, altho after 2+ years since October 7 they are still fighting the same opponent:
"The insurgent cannot be killed from the air because he blends into the civilian population; ...".
It's almost as though Iran is doing to Israel what the US is doing to Iran.
Do you have the numbers?
I have no specific numbers, I doubt anyone does. However, excluding the many Iranian leaders the US killed, let's use Trump's recent number when he claims Iran killed 45,000 people. I don't think it's a credible number but I'll use it.
Of the people Iran has executed, a large portion were people recruited by US ngo's & 3 letter agencies to act on behalf of US interest. Iran executed them for treason. That wouldn't have happened if the US was addressing its own serious issues at home instead of going 6,000 miles away to try and take another countries's mineral wealth.
As far as I know the Iranian government isn't responsible for any US citizen's deaths in the US. I may be wrong but if there are any, it must be very few.
If only the media was real, skeptics all the way around.
If only people would educate themselves in factual history. Many people believe they are "well-informed" by following the media. What's disturbing is their lack of discernment, fact-checking, and common sense.
Most of that article is theory based on facts which are not in evidence. It's fear mongering and weak minds fall for it.
We will never know how accurate any of the theories are because there has been, and continues to be non-stop interference in Iran, by the US.
Apparently Tierney didn't want to mention events in Iran before the 1953 coup when the UK/US installed the shah in power. I wonder why those facts that are in evidence didn't receive any consideration.
You might reconsider judging other people's news gathering techniques when at least some of yours seem to conflate opinions for news. Just a suggestion.
The government needs to shoot missiles at the anifa bunkers here in the states too. The also chant death to America
I have two things that are still happening. Solar complexes and data centers are going full throttle across the Midwest farmlands backed primarily in states now run by Democrats. We all know these scams are coming out of the IRA’s, 1.3 trillion Congress approved in 2022. Biggest scam ever. Can we gut this?
And Lee Zeldin where is the EPA stopping chemtrails. We no longer have blue sky days. Stop it!
Yesterday was supposed to be a glorious sunny day here in the UK. I get up early, and when I went outside the sky was covered horizon to horizon. Some were being freshly sprayed, others already dissipating, and by around 11am the entire sky had become a haze to block the sun. If you say chemtrails, it's a conspiracy theory. But if you say Stratospheric Aerosol Injection for solar radiation management to mitigate climate change, then it's science! But... it's still a trail of chemicals.... I'm not sure we'll ever stop this attack on humanity and organic life on Earth.
Are you aware of apps that identify aircraft in real time? You point your phone at them and they ID the aircraft with the tail number, type, etc and even the airline flight.
I use Flightradar24, but there are many others.
The point is, you can point your phone at a plane emitting contrails and immediately identify it.
Wait, I used to use flightradar 24 to identify chemtrail planes as they went across my sky. But nowadays they don’t show up on that app. They always started and ended at an AF base in CA. I assumed the planes stopped allowing tracking. So what base/airport do your planes come from?
From all over, many airports many destinations.
Just hit the AR (Augmented Reality) at the top left of the screen. You’ll be able to point at any plane (private, govt, or airline) crossing the sky and get its tail number, type, altitude, origin & destination.)
Great, thanks!
PS: I caught a USAF KC-135R
Stratotanker in my sky today on Flightradar24.
No contrail though.
In 2010, I visited London, in April. We were surprised at the beautiful blue skies and sunny weather, expecting clouds and rain. Towards the end of our 8 day stay, while preparing to fly home, we were caught in the Icelandic volcano eruption. All flights in and out of the UK were canceled. Heathrow airport was completely shut down. We spent an extra 6 days under beautiful blue sky days, not a jet trail in the sky. We expected every morning to see some kind of ash on vehicles signaling the volcanic fallout, but nothing. I wonder now if that was a planned and coordinated shut down of air traffic.
Good point. Glad you had some blue skies. I doubt there was serious problem due to volcanoes. UK Govt likes to use a heavy hand when it comes to 'safety', which is not safety at all. When we DO have clear skies it's a wonder and I always cherish them. And then the trails and haze arrive... I long for the days when none of this happened.
It has been AWFUL here for the last week!! My allergies are so bad I can’t go outside and all I see are lines across the sky!!!
"Yesterday, the New York Times alarmingly reported, “New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling.”"
It's funny, the NY Times.
JUST ONE DAY EARLIER they reported about Mirabelli in California (see Jeff's Substack here: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sinking-cred-thursday-april-9-2026), and NEVER, not even ONCE, wrote the words "despite court ruling" even though THAT court was the freaking SUPREME COURT of the United States of America, not some rinky-dink District Court, and at that just ONE rinky-dink District judge.
What a trash outfit, the NY Times.
I wouldn't wipe my a** with the NYT as that would pollute my rear end. However, the content is much the same, so I'm on the fence.
We need a T-Shirt with this “I wouldn’t wipe my a** with the NYTimes as that would pollute my rear end” 🤣🤣🤣
LOL!
Nice subtle visual pun!
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