How USAID and the rest of the Deep State machine ruined the Millennium; the stratospheric stakes for all humanity; and what we must do NOW to fight back.
Jeff, if you haven’t yet, I recommend reading, “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream.” David McGowan brings out the military’s secret control over Hollywood, and how Charles Manson fits into all of that. My husband went to high school with one of Manson’s cult members, Susan Atkins, who died in prison in Chowchilla, which is just a few miles down the road from our home. From the back cover of the book:
“Many didn't make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would care to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians, and intelligence personnel - the same sort of people who just happened to give birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all of the canyon's colorful characters - rock stars, hippies, murderers, and politicos - happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon is the very strange, but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a hippie utopia.”
Speaking of Charles Manson, I'm reminded of an unusual book I read, called "Redeemed Unredeemable" which deals with killers who may have been converted to believers in prison and the cultic/occultic and MKUltra influences in their crimes.
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Being partial to redemption stories, I can accept that some who *I* would not "save," will be/have been saved, and restored. God knows who can and will be saved, and who is genuine in their declarations of faith in Jesus, for their salvation from spiritual darkness. Thank you, Jesus!
"For hardcore fans of The Doors, it’s relatively well-known that lead singer Jim Morrison‘s father was a flag officer in the US Navy. A lesser-known fact is that his father, Capt. George Stephen Morrison, commanded the Carrier Division during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which famously gave the Johnson Administration the justification it needed to escalate the Vietnam War."
As sharp and talented as Musk and his crew is, he desperately needs better and more positive PR at this critical moment. The deep state is already all over his every move and even Fox is mostly showing the "all over him" clips of the enemy. He needs to repeat at every chance that "all we're doing is revealing where the money is now that was once in YOUR wallet ----- robbed from you by the deep state and the IRS and given to all these worms we've uncovered. We're waiting for your thanks, middle America, and thank you very much.
FlatEarthFlyer , thank you for your comment. I was specifically told by our college coach, we were never to drive into those canyons . I always wondered why. ( mid 70’s)
I have just been directed to a pair off essays on <neofeudalreview.substack.com> from April 19, 2023, which detail a credible history and explanation for much of western experience over 500-1000 years. The past 125 years are quite familiar to us, and may be important through the next 5-10 years as the system either recovers or fails.
Thank you for your daily reviews, they are almost an "immunization" against the controlled narrative.
There's an interesting clip that may be similar to, or just like, the spam we keep getting. It may be of a different kind, but this is eye-opening to see the visual nevertheless, of what we're dealing with in this "Information War":
skip to the 1:01:35 mark, to get the lead-in, or to 1:01:45 to see the clip...
Jeff - THIS was truly your best ever! You have shed light on something we could sense, but not put a finger on. Those of us in our middle age could see it and knew something was not quite right.
And some of us who are in the seventh decade of earthly life - we who were alive, participating, observing when American society still functioned more or less as designed - KNOW from our own experience that this corrupt crap today is not right.
I am so thankful and so relieved and so proud of the work DOGE is doing —and for the first time ever, so filled with hope for my grandchildren’s futures.
and to think they have only scratched the surface - the level of corruption is truly breathtaking - heard a clip from a congresswoman about a finance agency similar to USAID that dispenses billions for leftists projects as well - like 40 billion for green energy in Africa - and here we thought communism died with the Soviet Union - nope it moved to the deep state
As Bill Rice, Jr wrote on his Substack, “Covid was not the story; it was the universally scripted compliance.” Pretty clear now, isn’t it? Everyone was pointing fingers at the WEF/WHO, diverting attention from our own USAID. When all the pieces fit…
My husband and I have been complaining for years now how American culture has devolved, how primitive, ugly and uncivilized America has become, and how unimaginative, vapid and downright evil Hollywood and the music industry has been in the last couple decades. Thanks for connecting the dots for us, Jeff!
You should see it in Music Conservatories. My son is a musician, singer and composer. He wrote a piece using Isaiah 40 and was told by a visiting professor that he would never be part of the Community. This Professor now teaches at Hillsdale of all places. “Classical Music” today is written to cause angst in the listener. Beauty is not tolerated.
And it should be mentioned that the frequency of musical instruments was changed by Goebbels from 432 to 440. The new frequency is much less harmonious.
Check out the choral compositions from Elaine Hagenberg for some relatively modern refreshing, uplifting music, especially the selection, You Do Not Walk Alone on elainehagenberg.com. There are audio files there to listen to.
Yet the arts are flourishing with beauty in Russia. A friend of mine who was born and raised in the former Soviet union, showed me a clip of a famous Greek born maestro in Russia. He was given the opportunity many years ago to continue his musical career in the US or Russia and he chose Russia. The clip showed him and a female violinist backstage before entering the Orchestra for Ravel's Bolero, and both he and she are shown doing the sign of the cross in the Orthodox fashion.
Another side news, about the Eurovision musical contest,which had censored Russia from participation. They have created their own, open to all countries,without perversion and lgbtq biases like woke Eurovision.
My mother used to say that where there is God, there is beauty everywhere: art, music, architecture.
i'm certain that you are right. we have a husband and wife russian symphonic musicians who stay at our house frequently. they are very traditional, family oriented and religious. russia is what USAID calls a "closed society" which means that they are closed to US funded groups going in there to stir up trouble. i suspect that is why they haven't descended into our insanity.
and why we had to attack them from ukraine.
meanwhile european countries, not the ones under the spell of the EU, are thrilled to be freed from our oppressive Empire.
How about this adorable little Russian prodigy, Elisei Mysin? I think he was 6 or 7 here, but he’s 14 now and has won most international competitions in recent years: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0Qz-y0Fn4
For the last decade or so I have described current pop tunes as “music to commit suicide by.” The lyrics are depressing and/or the same few words repeated endlessly. There is no creativity or joy. Also auto-tune should be illegal! Rap is not music. Techno is soulless. A sad state of affairs.
My daughters are outstanding artists but when they go to gallery shows or competitions the winner is usually some "abstract" piece that could've been done by a 4 year old! Just a bunch of paint thrown in.
Tell them to keep honing their talent. There are inklings showing that beauty is making a comeback. My son continues to compose beautiful music. It might not be published as of today, but one day his compositions will be discovered.
Oooooohhhh! This makes me so angry! Beauty is what our lives should be surrounded with in art, architecture, fashion, music, literature, etc! Of course, beauty is a reflection of and an acknowledgement of God's grace upon us all and wanting us to be happy. Angst, ugliness, and depression come straight from the devil and you see who has been running the world!!
Hollywood has helped American culture to devolve. Look at shows like The Kardasians. They’re disgusting, yet young people watch and emulate their behavior.
We used to plan big annual parties around the Oscars. Now we don’t even watch. Very very few new movies are worth the time. CGI and sequels run amok. Also graphic violence has been dialed up to desensitizing levels—on both movies and TV.
Exactly! There's new stuff out there in the Entertainment industry. It's loud, obnoxious, and vile. It erases the idea of morals and conscience. It's poison in the minds of youngsters.
I know the rock&roll age disturbed our parents. It seems like innocent fun these days. However!! Elizabeth Nickson, in her substack Welcome to Absurdistan, stated the rock&roll wave was a CIA contrived Entertainment.
Right now these lettered agencies are humanity's #1 Enemy.
Right after that's realized, then the next step is to wonder if the saying should be rewritten to "the enemy of my enemies, IS my enemy, too!!
women especially have fallen prey to this death culture. since women carry life forward, it's disturbing to see them rejecting their attractiveness in favor of dressing up like ugly sci-fi creatures. one wonders if we have a future as a species
women especially seem to have fallen victim to this. since women are the life force and seem stuck in the death spiral, seeing them trying to look like ugly sci-fi creatures is really disheartening
YES. THIS. I was an active Democrat. I almost ran for a local job. I went to peace marches, wrote letters to the editor, called congress. Made homemade signs with the number of American dead in the Iraq war 2, gave money. Then it all changed and i didn’t recognize the twisted deplorable thing it had become until Biden. Better late than never. My sister was even more dedicated than I was. She attended a Peace Group meeting every week. I wonder now what that Peace Group is celebrating or even seeing. I don’t know because my sister died after her first Covid jab. Hating Trump.
I'm so sorry about your sister, Janet. I have a half-sister twenty years younger than me, with whom I have never been close, but I am trying to advise her now that she has what I think is a covid vax induced cancer. It's a very rare and aggressive sarcoma. She's been having scans every two months and the last one indicated the cancer had metastasized to one lung. I have made her aware of Dr. William Makis.
Just a few days ago, a much loved pastor and seminary professor from my community died due to glioblastoma. He received several shots, including a covid booster, in late 2023 or early 2024, and was diagnosed soon after. It's painful to me that his ignorance or stupidity killed him.
So sorry! Adult daughter of a cousin battling Ewing’s sarcoma, normally seen only in the young. Glios used to be rare; claimed an uncle. Two (and maybe 3; one called a suicide) more cousins died suddenly this month. 💔🤬💔🤬
I went to four anti-war marches against what was happening in Iraq. But then the Dems embraced war. I was shocked at the turnaround. Also at the embrace of trans men in women’s sports. The clip of the guy’s rant today is exactly my feeling too.
Apparently yesterday, the day that Trump signed the EO, was National Girls and Women in Sports Day (i.e., the "perfect" day for the EO keeping men out of women's sports). Trump makes me smile!
I realized then during the Obama reign that nothing I had done made a tinkers damn difference. The economic crooks got away with death and destruction too. Only now do I see it might change.
I am nearing my 8th decade of earthly life and I concur with your assessment. The wisdom of us “old” people cannot be denied. Something has been rotting in our society for at least 20 something years. Onward!
No, 60 years, with the onset of "feminism" and then the Pill and then Roe v Wade, all of whichg gave my first love the notion of "open relationships" and everything was spoiled from there.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree! My childhood was stolen from me because of the 60’s and it got worse in the 70’s. “I am woman, hear me roar!” All those feminists didn’t even meow, while men were competing in women’s sports. Personally, I don’t care about sports, but I was absolutely delighted to see President Trump put an end to the madness!
Yes! I have always felt my childhood was stolen in the 60's. It was fine, as much as it could be with JFK being murdered by our Gov agencies, until 1967. Then it all went to hell.
In addition, I believe Rome, with infamous Vatican 2, had a great deal to do with families losing their Faith and culture being destroyed.
They also didn't make so much as a little "meow" at what Bill Clinton did to all his females--the rape, the affairs, the power-over- subordinate sexcapade in the White House with Monica Lewinsky, followed by the TRASHING of all the women who had been involved.
I agree with you. Born in 1950. Had a 3+ hour Skype on Tuesday with daughter in Japan---and pointed out that I was worth listening to, as at 74, I am actually a treasure trove of wisdom (besides, I was wise enough [really, blessed enough] not to take the shot--though I did not mention that).
Yes, indeed (May 1952 for me). Lucky your daughter will speak to you for three hours; mine won't, and still won't admit the lie of the "pandemic" and everything else.
My godmother who was in her 90's when she died would say it started in the 1920's with Dewey who took over the education system in this country. That's also when people in this country began to play with communism thinking it would be the best thing since sliced bread since everyone would be equal - no rich, no poor. Many found out the hard way that this wasn't true. There's a good book called Dancing Under the Red Star about a family who went to live in Russia when Ford was helping them start their first automobile factory. Mother, Father, and 2 daughters left. The youngest daughter was 8 when they left. The father was taken by secret police when she was 18 years old. She spend the next 40 years trying to get back to the United States. It's a harrowing story that should be required reading in schools. A reminder to all that "All that glitters is not gold." It may be a shiny fish hook.
Thanks for book recommendation. Wonder if you've read "Witness"? author Whitaker Chambers - Inspirational read. Insight about the left beginning to infiltrate our government and our culture "way back" in 1940's. Autobiography. Chambers was ex-communist operative who exposed Alger Hiss as a liar, spy and traitor.
So all of us who grew up drinking from the garden hose and feeling safe to play outside until dark. Know that those times were good, and feeling that things today just aren’t quite right. So how do we get back to that reality if things making sense?
I have for a very long time felt something was off. The lack of any new story lines had me thinking I must just be getting old; I've seen it all. I've also watched truly stupid and incompetent people prosper. What was I missing? Never in my wildest imagination did I see this coming! And to think thisis only the beginning!
I've noticed that all of the "reporters" are 20-something babes. Not the true seasoned professionals like Douglas Edwards, Eric Severiad, John Chancellor, David Brinkley, Charles Collingwood - I can go on and on.
I read this piece very slowly, trying to wrap my head around it all. I was hesitant to even make a comment. What can I say? The last clip of the black man telling it like it is - wow - that needs to be said, actually quite moving.
Thankfully, the majority of the American people are not falling for this crap anymore. We aren't falling for the fake staged protests.
Is this why ultimately the military will need to be brought in to make sure these changes are not preempted by civil unrest?
I read today's post slowly today as well. I'd never heard this idea of a freeze of our advancements being linked to the deep state wanting us easier to control.
They don't want a change agent like RFK Jr getting us off the food slop conveyor, as our crap diet helps keep us down.
We need to take it on ourselves to reverse a lot of these changes.
It all Really seemed to ramp up after 9/11. The evil state noted just how much control could be imposed on the masses after experiencing a real or manipulated fear event. So why not manipulate an event anytime one was needed to keep us in line? Of course that takes money - OUR money used for evil while the potential good works are ignored & stalled out. Example- How long has the fund raising using the pink ribbon been going on? Most of my life. Absolutely no results. Don’t ever give another dime, or energy to these corrupt organizations participating in the con. people suffer & die due to these traitorous, greedy evil participants saying good is evil & evil good.
I refuse to give a dime to most of these organizations. The goal of the S Komen org was to cure breast cancer. They get lots of $$. The admin makes lots of $$.. Guess what? They haven't cured breast cancer in nearly 40 years of supposed research. Don't even TRY to tell me that the cure isn't there. It's being suppressed & the dumb public keeps giving them $$.. The whole "pink ribbon" thing is one of the biggest scams out there. I'm hoping they will be exposed!
The Koman Foundation knows that abortion increases your risk for breast cancer, yet they fund abortion rights protests and Planned Parenthood. Seems kind of questionable, doesn’t it?
I'm a biologist. I've tried to wrap my head around "the stall" and got part way there trying to understand the control being imposed. This perspective really helps me get all the way there, big-picture-wise, and to see a way to push forward.
Just to follow up, I did some checking last night and found that the science agency that issued both consensus statements (AIBS) is an NGO funded by grants through the National Science Foundation. So, a similar influence pattern as seen with USAID: not the Gov't itself issuing science-censoring edicts, but the NGO
I have always thought the same as your comment. They both are a threat to the Deep State. Our Lord is allowing DJT to expose the evil. Let's all continue to pray for DJT, his family and all the cabinet and their families. Amen!
Just last night, my spouse asked me if I remember to pray every night for President Trump. (Just a little observation here, after I typed President, three names came up: Obama, Biden and Clinton…not Trump or Reagan…funny that! I’m on an Apple device. Tim Cook and Steve Jobs - all Left.)
It has been coming out different places lately that the CIA has orchestrated all of it. Rock and Roll. Hip Hop, Metal, shitty Country. II knew about the CIA control of movies and TV too . But I had not thought about the entirety of it all before though, and the fashion stagnation was an excellent catch. Every generation had a new look, but not this one, unless you count the extra appendage in their hands (phone) .
I have heard good things about it. I think Trump hosted a showing at Mar O Lago. Unfortunately, Netflix stopped shipping CD's , and we do not have sufficient internet speed to stream. And we do not use smart phones, so we pretty much are relegated to what we find on Direct TV.
“Shitty country” implies? Country has some great new names like Cody Johnson, Thomas Rhett, Jordan Davis, Riley Green…not at all “shitty”, unless you mean giving hip-hop Beyoncé a country award.
to each his own. There are no Ray Price's, Patsy Cline's, Vern Gosdin's, Charley Pride's, Johnny Cash's, Kris Kristofferson's, and dozens of others I could name today. No one I have heard is even in their league
Agree. I don't see mass conversions - BUT - nearly 25 years ago, I read The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell. Yeah he is a lefty hack but the book really did shape my thinking for a while, and I had kind of forgotten it but Jeff's analysis today resurrected it in my memory. Gladwell's thesis is that for things to 'tip' - there needs to be 3 things;
1. info/trend in the hands of the right influencers (connectors, information specialists - people we look to for good info - like Jeff and salesmen - people who are good at convincing others)
2. Stickiness - the thing has to be memorable, clear in such a way that people remember it easily
3. Context - conditions have to be right so that the recipient is ready to receive the message.
This is why going first after USAID is so brilliant - we have Elon as the influencer - huge # of twitter followers, including a lot of people who have trended left. Stickiness - nearly everyone I run into in person is talking about the '$20 million in condoms, Sesame Street in Iraq, and on and on and on. Context - here's where it gets dicey - for those of us who are awake - we were 100% ready to hear this - but for the sleeping and TDS patients, acknowledging this is a HUGE leap as if they question that, it will make them question everything. Time will tell. For now most of them have been diverted with the 'Elon has my information' outrage.
Yep. Seconding this with a somewhat too-long reply, but it is illustrative.
A conversation I had not 3 days ago, supermarket parking lot, with an acquaintance I had always been on friendly-chit-chat terms with about birds, we are both into them.
Him: "So, how are you dealing with all the bullsh**?"
Me: "What bullsh**?"
Him: "You know, all the bullsh**!"
Me (having an idea where he's gonna go with this...): "No, seriously, what bullsh** are you talking about?"
Him (exasperated with me): "You know TRUMP'S bullsh**!"
Me: "Oh, well, I VOTED for that bullsh**. Really, I thought Biden and Harris was the real bullsh**."
Him (eyes wide with horror, then pure CONTEMPT): "Oh." Turns on his heel, and leaves! (Like a huffy Karen!)
I put my groceries in the trunk, and was wheeling my cart back, when I crossed his path again and asked (with a big smile): "Need a cart?"
We moved from our blue state and one reason was because we could no longer stand being surrounded by neighbors like this. I can't say we had the courage to risk their rage, but we could sense how we must always stay in line and what lay beneath the surface if we did not. It felt so oppressive. When I hear anecdotes like yours--and there are a lot--it reminds me how real it was, that we weren't imagining that they would turn on us in an instant if they knew our views.
Michele - Thanks for the story. I had a similar experience the year that the Smollett hoax happened. An email conversation with an old high school friend at the time that incident was just being reported. I told him it was an obvious hoax, and Kamala Harris and Cory Booker were behind it, in an effort to smear Trump and his supporters. He responded with several memes of Trump in an orange jumpsuit behind bars. I haven't spoken to him since.
I lost a friend over the similar Althea Bernstein hoax (look it up - her story was incredibly stupid yet people believed it). Still pisses me off nothing happened to her and she cost a lot of law enforcement time and money.
I had almost the same conversation with an “acquaintance” back in 2016 when Trump won the first time! Oh my goodness! She was so disappointed in me. That I knew was the start of her TDS. Haven’t talked to her in years.
Yes, they are always "disappointed" in you. It's so weird, that kind-of snobby head space. The way they are always so "well, if people just had the KNOWLEDGE that I and my fellow indoctrinees have; it's so sad they are so UNEDUCATED they fall prey to MISINFORMATION blahblahblah...."
We are Americans, we used to respect the fact that we live in a country where we can have differences of opinion. But she didn’t obviously agree with that. And I find they just spout “talking points”. If you ask them for specifics, they can’t answer you. I love the Canadian politician, Pierre Poilievre who has a couple of videos where he tries to pin people down to specifics, and they just can’t give him examples. Its amazing. So I need to challenge people more on specifics.
I had a similar encounter. Her anger stayed directed to Trump and Co., but she wouldn’t stop ranting to let any other opinion to be heard. Some people are too far gone.
It really feels like a civil war is coming more now than pre-election. The only thing is their side is so small now. But they certainly are using rhetoric that will ignite a physical war quite easily just about anywhere in the streets today.
Disagree. Saw a short 1 minute video of a scheduled protest outside the capitol last night. It was cancelled because of cold. it was 36. They are pussies, and even if they have guns, most don't know which end the bullets come out. The right will always win, because we have God on our side, self discipline, toughness, resolve, and we still think. All they have is rage, hate, and talking points someone gave them. Still surprised they learned how to dress themselves .
I never said they would win or that we aren’t strong enough, but I do believe many of them are being radicalized to amass an amount of rage that is humanly impossible to keep contained and many are going to lash out. Maybe in small pockets, maybe in larger mobs, but they will engage. There are less of them than us, so yes - we will win easily against anything they bring us. However, if I’m attacked in a grocery store parking lot by a couple crazy libs, I don’t believe I could protect myself. It would end up on social media but I would still be significantly harmed. That’s a different kind of warfare - attacking us one on one apart from each other.
I do believe it’s coming if those that have raged at me are anything to judge by. They are like caged animals right now that truly believe they are fighting for their lives and survival. 🙄
Perhaps I am an optimist, but I think most of any real fights will be with the cabal and illegal invaders who were inserted for just such purpose. I don't think normie libtards have the backbone to fight anybody. And if they do, remember Mike Tyson's brilliant quote. "Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face".
I commented yesterday about a gentleman I know yelling at me for ten minutes about how horrible everything was and how it wasn't "godly" for these things to be happening (he is a reverend) he was HOPELESSLY confused as to what is happening. I couldn't honestly understand how he could only be getting this completely one sided idea as to what is occurring unless he ONLY listens to MSM. Or (unbeknownst to me) is beholden to USAID $ for his ministry. Who knows? Either way it caught me way off guard as I normally don't have those sorts of conversations at work but thought he was a conservative (godly) guy. Meh!
People who only listen to MSM have a totally different set of facts. They think they know what is going on because their MSM sources tell them what to think. And the many things that you and I hear and read about, they often know absolutely nothing about it other than the leftist spin. Even now with all the fraud exposed of what USAID is funding, you might assume that those people know about it too. They most likely don't. You simply can't break through that barrier with real facts. It is kind of like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. The good witch tells her should could have gone home all along, but she had to find it out for herself.
Correct, Melissa, and that's the reason we can't even have a rational discussion with them. The brainwashing runs deep. We are just talking past each other because we can't even agree on the basics about reality.
Melissa - yes, the curtain had to be pulled back all the way for Dorothy and her friends to see who was pulling the strings.
I have a dear relative who lives nearby, and she only believes what the TV tells her. I have tried to have serious conversations with her about things, but it's just not possible. She truly has TDS, with all it's accompanying symptoms.
As I read the Bible (up to Acts 16 this morning, only started this serious, continuous read in April '23), I have come to wonder how many pastors have never read the Bible in its entirety. That might explain this pastor's confusion.
There are lots of pastors out there who are more or less self made - non-denominational churches with a 'make it up as you go along' approach to doctrine, but they are charismatic, have good people skills, and build congregations around what I call 'cafeteria Christianity' - picking and choosing what to adhere to. Non denominational is the fastest growing segment, and I 'get' that many denominations have their issues, mine included, but there is something to be said for formal training, and some level of oversight that a formal denomination has.
I have been asking, for several months, daily, that those who don't know Him/don't love Him/hate Him may do a 180. Before it's too late for them. Before He exercises His justice.
Also from places like reddit, tiktok, etc. My daughter graduated HS as a conservative but had started going down rabbit holes on places like reddit and 4chan and who knows where else (we did monitor and control what they were doing online until they got to 17/18 and at that point it became a 'pick your battles' thing and decided that as long as they were getting good grades and staying out of trouble that they had good enough judgement) and started picking political fights with me in her early 20s' and is a full on TDS/Bernie bro adherent in her early 30's now. She was never one for watching TV other than she loves old movies and classics, she never watched the news shows. She's an introvert as is her hubby - they don't get out much so I think most of her radicalization came from online forums and such. However, lefty relatives my age or older (turning 60 this year) do watch MSM and use those talking points and share that crap on social media. So I think it's a little of both - we all have circled the wagons in our own little echo chambers and there are few common things that we can gather around.
It is stories like this that make me grateful for that baseball scholarship my son got from a catholic university. I was always grateful for it as it kept him here in town, local to me and able to go to many games, but I am fairly certain it helped him avoid the indoctrination that is so common these days in universities. They just don't do that there as the entire school is run by the Sisters of Charity, and is still to this day fairly conservative. He's 35 and probably worse than I am about conservatism. Grateful!!
BUT you eventually saw through it. We all have our 'wake up' stories (it was Ross Perot for me in 1992) so hoping and praying that more and more do have those wake up moments.
What this well-spoken man says NEEDED to be said. Now, itn needs to be heard - and judging by the number of 'likes', it is being heard. Will it be UNDERSTOOD? That's the question....let's hope so.
He said it was the only solution and I guess we have started seeing it, at least at the border but I can assure you that if the way it has been for the past three weeks…they are more than ready for what’s coming.
I hesitate to say it - still - but I wonder whether the majority of us did recognize something unusual was happening - that the world we grew up in (born in the 50s) was fading away, first slowly but in the past several years, much more rapidly. But we couldn’t put a finger on it, as has been said, and “they” made it seem we were the ones who were out of touch, stupid “old fogeys” hopelessly stuck in the past. That shut us up for a while but COVID was too much, and then normalizing pedos and LGBTQ+ and the trans cr@p they’ve been inflicting on our kids! We have all been being victimized, and then censored when we spoke out. Thank God there are still sane people - MANY more than they’d like you to believe - who want our Country, who want our world BACK! And who are willing to fight for it! God Bless America - let us be a bright, shining Light - a covenant Nation with the Almighty.
I definitely agree, we (me and my wife) have been reading C&C since the beginning and I can assure you that with out Jeff’s mental sanity and incredible sense of humor, we probably wouldn’t be living here anymore.
Just as a comment, yesterday my wife tells me,
“ If I would tough four years ago that I couldn’t wait to watch the daily briefing for the President press secretary, just to catch and confirm what I read at C&C in the morning “
Hah! I, too, have been checking the whitehouse.gov site several times daily, checking Karoline Leavitt's most recent expose, what Jesse Watters or Harris Faulkner (have you noticed how many of these public-face women are wearing a cross around their necks?) have to say, or listening to the Congressional grillings....in part to see what asses these Democrats are....
Lord, may thy will be done. And it appears that His will is being done! Now. Now--in our lifetimes. In our lifetimes? The Hebrews lived in Egypt 400 years. In the desert 40 years. Before the Messiah ~1000 years? All glory to our God. Thank you, Lord God. And thank you for your gift to us of your son, Jesus Christ.
Truth---I (brought up with classical music on my mother's stereo and under my own little fingers) happily listened to popular music from age 12-20. From then on, my junior year in college, classical only. Must confess that a change of boyfriend was part of that. Still with him.
I'm a boomer, but grew up hearing all these and they are my staples. Husband grew up with the Chieftans and lots of choral music--we never listen to "current" stuff. I have a lot of Christian music that I play when exercising, and there is some contemporary worship I like, but the choral stuff is so rapturous . . . hard to beat many voices in harmony. Even contemporary Christian music is kind of static . . . I still listen to Love Song and Maranatha Music. And Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell.
Heck, my dad had a reel to real tape recorder, and every Sunday, a local station would play a musical he would tape and replay over and over. How many kids have ever heard the soundtracks from the, "Oklahoma", 'Hello Dolly", "Flower Drum Song", "Desert Song", and one of my favorites that had an all too brief run because it came out in 1963, "Mr. President".
I bought a Time Life full set of Broadway musical soundtracks when I was a teenager, because in high school we sang all the scores you mention. I had the collection for decades. One of my favorites was "Lady in the Dark" with Gertrude Lawrence and Danny Kaye. <grin> Years ago I asked a young woman if she'd ever seen "The King and I" on TV. She was clueless. "Sound of Music"? Nope. I was floored.
Jeff, so well said! Thank you for piecing together the source of our discontent. It reminds me of Narnia when the frozen ice began to crack and the snow began to melt as the evil queen's spell was broken, and warmth and light and life began to flourish again. Life has slowly been being choked out, and now it's beams of light are starting to again burst forth! I can feel it too. I am finallybeginning to feel joy. What unprecedented times we are living in! And what grace God is shedding upon us!
My oldest, age 40, once remarked (when he was in HS) he only liked the music old dead guys played: Jimi Hendrix, SRV, etc. Now he can crank out Crazy Train with the best of them ❤️
Music is a huge part of my life. Music in the 80’s was a vast improvement over the acid rock of the 70’s. Much, if not most, of the new music today is terrible. Tyler Swift 🤢…. but there is really good Alternative Rock being release. I live outside of Chicago and we have a radio station called WXRT. They release new music every Thursday. We lived out of state for awhile and WXRT was one of the things we missed. You can find them online. Your children might like it. They feature a year on “Flashbacks” every Saturday, but if it’s from the 60’s-mid 70’s, I rarely listen.
Sorry, but I disagree. The'70's brought us David Bowie, and so many other greats. I think rock peaked in the '60's, and then each subsequent decade was slightly degraded, until by 2000, it was stable, and poor.
That’s okay. You can disagree. My husband constantly points out music from the 60s and 70’s that I like, but music triggers memories and much of the music brings about bad memories.
As a late boomer, we would never have considered listening to the music of our parent's generation (I remember my mother singing "Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom, my little heart goes boom", "Hi Lilly", "Abba dabba dabba said the monkey to the chimp" not to mention the music of the rat pack.). Now I go to the doctor or the dentist and get to tell the hygenist that the music they are playing was popular 50 years ago when I was in high school. One replied that they couldn't play modern music, that it wasn't "appropriate." I have been wondering what happened to creativity in music - how did it disappear? Then I remembered that they don't sing about love and marriage any more. Women's lib managed to ban it, along with having or caring enough about children to stay with them for a few months after they are born. Sad.
Not really, I know many original composers who have incredible songs that will never be heard. Today's music industry is beyond corrupt. Just look at " the best Country album" this year..
My young missionary son sent this to me “ check out Suzanne Ostler Shippen
she is our pianist for the mtc choir who creates gorgeous arrangment of the songs we sing including songs like how great thou are in which you can here the rolling thunder in song in the way she rewrote it. Also includes organ.”
But do you know where you WILL find new and vital and interesting modern music? In the Worship Music / Christian Music space. There is some really beautiful and inspiring music being written by young people right now
I find it sad. We have a library of tv shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s that my husband and I grew up on that we show to our sons aged 10 and under. They love them. We originally started it out of necessity when they were little due to the insidiousness of current children's programming but its turning into a way of life for them. The only saturday morning cartoons they watch are the old style ones on the old local channel (MeTV) but otherwise they stick in a TMNT disc or garfield, batman, etc. There is nothing good now. And we find out its not us, its the culture. That's kind of a relief.
MacGyver (original, duh) has been excellent. Theres a few that have a greenie message but we mostly avoid those, or we might watch them and critique it. But hes always the hero, he always helps others, he always uses his wits, the good guys always win, etc. Classic boy stuff. Our 9 yrold has a mullet because he wants to be MacGyver :)
Star Trek Next Generation is also great for similar reasons.
The Muppet Show from the 70s
Classic Looney Toons, Tom & Jerry, Superman/Batman (90s), Animaniacs, TMNT, Classic Scooby Doo (60-70s), Garfield (90s), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (a rare gem from 2000s)
Those are the ones off the top of my head. The great thing is most shows are completely out on dvd now and pretty cheaply. Animaniacs and looney toons are the ones that are a bit hard to find complete, but the volumes are cheap on places like thriftbooks. Happy viewing!
My granddaughter plays high school basketball. They were all warming up to MY music from the 80s. When I walked into the gym... Not looking too bad, the music playing was Back in Black. And I was rocking my black jacket. I even asked if they had permission from us to play our music... haha. But I also love Vivaldi.
You literally took the words right out of my mouth! I’m 60 and my husband is 70 and I read C&C out loud every morning. Today, I could barely get thru it as a lump in my throat grew. I have said many times that we (he and I) would be okay (though not the golden years we had dreamed of), but I had so much anguish and worry about our kids and their lives. I now have so much hope with President Trump at the helm! He kept saying (back when) that “…the best is yet to come!” …and maybe this is what he was talking about!
Exactly this! I had most of the parts in my head. Now I can see the web they create. I couldn't connect them all before this. Even the music part....my husband's band played locally. Cover songs from 70-2000's. We were always so intrigued that the 20and 30year old crowds knew all the 50 year old songs by heart! When we were that age, that would be like going to the bar to hear songs from the30's!!! To the point on fashion, we both still buy clothes that are basically the same as we wore in the 90's. There they are...in the store. I have known for decades about medicare/Medicaid payor mix because I managed an icu and dialysis unit. Private insurance bases their structure on it as well. Obamacare came in with other control metrics....payment was reduced if quality surveys fell below 97% ( questions like was your food warm, did the nurse answer your call bell fast enough,did you feel safe,was it quiet enough to rest). We are also docked if not enough staff are vaccinated for flu,or covid. We get docked if not enough nurses went back to get advanced degrees( titled the 80 x 2020 rule..meaning 20% of RN's refusing would work bedside care, the other 80% were intended to move to outside hospital and replace the doctor shortage with PA'S and nurse practitioners as they anticipated the influx of patients from age,chronic illness and immigration.( The hospital and the union have literally pushed me nearly weekly since Obamacare passed to go back to school. I am already past retirement age and no way I'm spending $25000 to get a 75 cent an hour premium for the next year or 2.) Everything is on line, virtually no clinical patient contact and consists of social construct management theory and statitistics. Bam you got your masters in a year or 2. You're only $50000 in debt.. I haven't seen a movie that's less than 20 years old except for a few Christian movies because 10 minutes in I'm disgusted. I can't listen to newer music because it's either the same electronic noise with some whining, rap or the lyrics are pure filth. The news is just the same fact less opinionated crap. The good news is it's lead me back to Christ, church, community and reading. And it lead me HERE. Jeff, you amaze me every day. I thank you for your insight and humor. You attract an equally amazing audience with insights I also enjoy and even cherish. As bad as everything seems, I find hope here every morning.
Yes! I tried to tell families during convid that they needed to fight the hospitals or avoid them entirely or their loved one would die. I had only one friend who actually believed me and avoided the convid protocol even though she had pneumonia and was an inpatient in a small hospital. It saved her life.
I am aware of the Medicare BS as I do the MC billing for the chiro office I work in. We are non-par so we and the patients get dinged and reduced coverage. Makes me angry.
I find the current medical system abhorrent and I avoid it. I am a very late boomer and I do not play any of their sick-care, BS yearly check games nor do I focus on disease.
I focus on health and positive mental attitude.
New movies mostly suck-way to much violence and sex (deviant stuff especially). New music, if you can call it that is awful. I listen to 70's and 80's stuff-many genre's.
This was a great stack! I feel completely vindicated for what I have been sensing/feeling/believing now for years. Way to go Jeff!
Interesting thing about Medicaid/Medicare that I found out in 2021: there is a regulation that says that nursing homes and hospitals cannot deny visitors for Medicaid/Medicare patients. (Obviously this rule was in place before covid, but it's a federal rule, and we were counting on staff not wanting to jeopardize their Medicaid/Medicare funding.)
My friends and I protested outside a facility that was forcing our elderly friend to wear a mask to visit her even more elderly friend in that nursing home. I wrote on my sign that they were breaking the law, and I listed the regulation. It worked for a while. Some of the staff said it was okay for her to visit without a mask. My other friend went along for moral support. But as soon as that other friend quit going, they started insisting on masks again for our elderly friend, and she just went along because she didn't want the hassle. 😢
The requirement for almost every profession to get advanced degrees is all about the money and additional indoctrination. The Democrats are in cahoots with the universities.
Right? I’ve complained that there is nothing creative in the movie world, just keep rehashing the same stories. I think this is why independent studios have suddenly taken off. Things like The Chosen have exploded.
Angel Studios is another investor owned studio that produces quality films. Most of us are small amount investors. We can rate trailers [actually longer than trailers] and watch movies when they are streamed or get cheaper tickets for the movies.
Probably 30 years ago, my mother gave me "Speed" on VHS as a gift. I remember looking at that box and I had no interest in watching it. I soon threw it in the trash. Why would anyone watch that crap, let alone want to own a copy? Then came the sequels . . .
I looked up the movies that came out in 1995 and was shocked, no wonder it seemed like we went to the theatres every weekend growing up! Even most of the crappy movies are a good time. We've not had that many decent movies come out in the last 10 years much less 1!
Sling blue is streaming Goonies on Feb 8 at 5 pm on E!. I have the DVR set up. My kids watched it almost every time it came on and I loved watching it with them.
We watched the movie Emilia Perez and it is so amateur-ish, the songs are so bad... and it occurred to me that USAIDS may have funded this film and also the money to push it on the public with 13 Academy Award nominations.. It never made sense that Hollywood would collectively say this film is "the best film of the year" and push it with marketing so hard. I'm thinking now that its funding must be from USAIDS, or another cut out of gvt. money and I REALLY want to see/hear that Columbian musical... heh The Bee should get recordings for us to enjoy.
Agree. I was just going to say the same, but you beat me to it. Jeff, I don’t know how you do it. I love the way you anchored this piece in the frozen state that has descended upon us since 9/11. The “arts” are dead, and so is journalism, “science”, and so many other fields.
I’m choosing hope. Will this clean up effort underway last? Will we prevail? We don’t know the answer, but the only thing we can try is to try our best.
Art and SCIENCE! Literature! ALL GONE! ALL DEAD! There's no love left! No truth! No loyalty! No trust! No Christ among the masses only dead oligarch idols.
And architecture - Tucker likes to rail that we don't make beautiful buildings any more. I frankly never really noticed, and now I can't 'unsee' it. Some of these apartment complexes going up all around look more like prisons than homes.
My husband was given a book called, “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon” by David McGowan. I haven’t read it, but it’s about the amount of people in the music industry in the 1960’s whose parent was in the CIA.
Also have read that. It fits well into the history of the CIA which concluded at some point in the 1950s that it had to find some way to prevent actual communism from coming to America. So, it decided to create a kind of cultural rebellion among young Americans that could absorb any real disruption to society by going to Hollywood and fostering music and film that only appeared to challenge the establishment , while also being part if it. And thus, the 60s happened. It was all part of a plan: long hair, sandals, free love, hatred of all things establishment, and hippies.
OMG-McGowan writes some bombshell truth about the music industry and how the hippie culture was co-opted into garbage like Charles Manson. There is a whole subject to study. So much CIA manipulation going on in the rock n roll industry in particular. McGowan will make your head spin!
I didn't like it and the whole first part and culture made me sick. I never thought our culture was getting better as I have aged and being "stuck", as I am a sixties child, had the best and worst and much seemed to get worse. I mean they really tried to sell US first paint for clothing without even one fig leaf! Nasty. The culture has moved... Naked and unafraid of Godly judgement in every arena. We ARE in a PIT and minds are so shrunken live with trauma cortisol that I can't see it's so dark, can't see my own hand in front of my face" dark. I do know this mental collapse. I'm living it. I don't care to exercise my creative instincts anymore.
I so agree. What a hugely important post. This sentence in particular is brilliant: “Morally worse, USAID is also the part that we inflicted on the rest of the world, a bureaucratic neurotoxin that has paralyzed global culture and science for a quarter decade now, a poison that killed, maimed, and destroyed — all in the name of virtue-signaling humanitarianism.”
Reminds me of The Matrix. Reading JEFF‘s analysis of the cultural stagnation and us being frozen in time is so eerily reminiscent of that movie. The brains of the souls in the matrix - set in the 80’s - when everything was comfortable and familiar. That movie aleays gave me chills.
Really a great article. I've suspected for years that almost everything that's defined our culture for the last 30 years (news, movies, TV, music, education, etc.) was propaganda. Actually, I just got into a "discussion" about it last night with a family member, lol.
As Jeff points out, it's all been one big "same" rehash. (My guess at a before-times date is around 2000.) But that is not how markets work. In a true free market, companies compete for customers, which means proliferation of different products. Options tailored to different segments of the market. There would never, ever be a sea of sameness without someone manipulating the market.
I didn't know the mechanism by which it was funded and controlled until this USAID exposure. USAID is the funding mechanism for the propaganda and the DOJ has been the enforcement arm. USAID pays organizations that craft or uphold the government's narrative, threatens to cut off anyone who won't comply, and pays others to squash the free thinkers. Those who don't acquiesce to the soft persuasion from USAID find themselves targeted by the DOJ.
And it's all ending. Imagine real creativity and innovation happening again. Combined with lower taxes and less regulation, we will see an explosion of productivity.
I think it is hilarious how some people are screeching about Elon and his DOGE team auditing the government but they had no problem whatsoever with hiring 87000 more IRS agents to audit normal Americans and get access to any financial transactions over 600 dollars 🙄 They’re such flaming hypocrites 🙄
She's like a dog who was thrown a big meaty bone. If I know Jess: Betting heavily that she's nowhere NEAR done with it. She's still connecting dots. Because? She's built that way.
Remember all the VAERS threads someone pulled apart within the data? DR. JESSICA ROSE did that!
Yep. She's just BUILT that way.
A very talented brainiac. A dot connector. Minutia oriented. Extremely curious. Certain data makes her brain go hmmm.
Which is why she earns her living practicing science instead of flamenco dancing or music, or surfing... But she does all that too. (A marvel of a human.)
They were for the 80,000 irs agents because they were supposed to be auditing the rich, not waitresses & other low-paid hourly workers. They've been conditioned to hate the rich, not the bureaucrats that are keeping them poor.
Just mind blowing… “flaming hypocrites” the other “F” word perhaps in this case more accurately defines their evil…. Jeff you certainly outdid yourself today, as every comment testifies and salutes you…
I can't get $10k of my own cash out of the bank without filling out a form, but millions can be move into and out of the country via wiretransfer by noncitizens and no one bats an eyelash.
You’re welcome! It’s not my original thought but it is certainly true. Also the screeching about unelected people running the country when they had no problem with whoever was standing in for The Cabbage doing it 🙄
In December 2024 Congress passed yet another Continuing Resolution, (CR) to keep government running/spending money. Many on the right were angry when President-elect Trump asked Speaker Johnson to get it passed, which the Speaker did; to many it seemed to be more of the s-o-s.
Here in early February 2025 many on the right have forgotten all about that and now are very supportive of President Trump's actions related to reducing the size of government. It is very telling as we watch the left as they react in very bizarre and angry ways. They were taken by surprise at the swiftness of President Trump's team as they work to dismantle agencies and freeze spending.
Now a few weeks have passed and the left is starting to regain their focus, and they are making attempts to block President Trump's efforts. One of their primary weapons is running to the courts where a number of their allies, leftist judges, are attempting to stop President Trump's directives via judicial edict. Some on the right are concerned about this, but they shouldn't despair, the Calvary is on the horizon and running at a full gallop toward us.
Which brings me back to last December's CR. It was good for only three months which means in a little over a month Congress will have to address the issue again. The timing couldn't be better. With the massive swarm of lawsuits filed by the left, intended to clog the court's calendars which would paralyze President Trump for four years, the left thinks they are creating a stalemate.
However, they seem to have overlooked the CR issue. If the courts are clogged and blocking the President's orders, all he has to do is shut the entire government down and the courts will become powerless, toothless, or fangless leeches. To the left my advice to you is, Beware the Ides of March!
I sure would like to shake President Trump's, and his advisor's hand!
You know, I caught the error, but I just smiled because I feel so very much that it IS Calvary that is saving us. HE is just using the "Calvary" to do it. Praise His Holy Name.
He always seems to be 5 steps ahead. I'm waiting to see what the Ellison/mrna cancer plan was as there seems to be a connection to the Blackhawk pilot they hesitated to disclose:
I think we are fooling ourselves if we think that government spending is actually going to decrease in a meaningful/substantial way. Trump only ran up the deficit by a record $8 trillion his first time around, which many seem to have memory holed. Time will tell.
It is a trustworthy saying and deserving full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost. Yet for this reason I was shown mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate all His patience as an example for those who are going to believe upon Him for eternal life. Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
We are seeing the veil of deception being torn and ripped to shreds! I just had an interaction with a lady online because she is one of the ones who wants Elon investigated for uncovering all this. 🤯
The stupidity rages on - but Trump is pulling out all the stops. He is the new ROCKY 2.0!
I so loved his message too - that if he is assassinated by Iran (or whoever else) he already has his backup plan in place and the fury of real retribution will be released! Contingency 2.0.
Go Trump and this new and improved administration. We. Are. With. You!
I manage to only keep up by reading C&C, Gato, 2nd Smartest Guy, EUGYPPIUS, Sasha, and a few others. As well as the comments. It’s a good thing I am effectively retired. This list doesn’t include the health research.
I have a pile of substacks I subscribe to and can never keep up, although the list changes - my only constants are C&C and el gato malo - some over time eventually annoy me, like Malone and I drop only to pick up another along the way.
Yes, I didn’t totally drop Malone, but the only thing I read is the Friday Funnies! But reading much beyond C&C and the comments can consume a huge chunk of your day!
I used to think waste fraud corruption was something on the margins, and it is truly heartbreaking to find out that it is not on the margin but it is the whole system
My daughter in law “I just fear for my daughters future” “I didn’t vote for Musk” (No she voted for Harris) You will all benefit from Trumps actions, you’re welcome!
I can’t keep up either!! I thought I was last week and felt hungry for newer news than I already knew about. But yesterday and today so far is like a tsunami over my brain. I can’t keep up!!
As for X, I too have been interacting with some delusional libs, but some are downright certifiably insane. I’ve noticed a surge of liberal defenders back on X in the past 6 days slowly rising until yesterday it’s now flooded. They have received their marching orders to curb the power of the right and control the narrative and how to frame things. The TDS is huuuuge. Most are attacking Trump again too, and today many are even regurgitating the “Trump staged his assassination” theories and claiming he intentionally allowed a supporter to be shot and killed and his plans for Gaza proves one human life is nothing to further his “dictatorship”. 🤣 I’m sorry, it’s like reading posts from 2-3 months ago. It’s so old and overly beaten and nothing rings true when you use your own God-given intelligence. You cannot reconcile that kind of man with who we are watching today.
Anyway, I’ve been called a fascist more times than I can count, a cult member, even the C word. They really came out of the woodwork in droves - I wonder what happened this week to cause that ? 🤔🤔🤔 🤣🍿
I left Facebook for that reason (and others, ie: data harvesting). The majority of my so-called friends and acquaintances started name calling and it got brutal. One even asked how I got radicalized. The general liberal consensus is tribal and violent. But then that's also how social media was set up to be, to provoke and amplify that.
I think you nailed it. They got their marching orders. Their heads stopped spinning long enough to take their dizzy brains to X and sore irrational junk 🙄.
I JUST got on X against my own will 😂 because last time I was on Twitter 8 years ago it was a cesspool. But, now I want to follow Elon to see exactly what he’s saying. It’s the only reason I did Truth Social…to know exactly what Trump said himself rather than someone’s interpretation of what he said.
Let the crazies crazy themselves into their own crazy world. Sanity has risen up and common sense has taken over. They will continue to wake people up with their crazy.
I just lurk on X but I get on a few times a day just to see what is trending, and noticed the same thing. It's like there was some kind of a plot launched on Blue Sky to flood the zone.
Honestly you can limit how much you see and your timeline eventually shows mostly only the people you want to hear from. So I see all the larger independent news, the best citizen journalists, other patriots, a lot of Christians, and those that follow my Keto/carnivore diet.
You can absorb the news without having to comment/reply ever, which is probably the safest way for anyone that doesn’t want or can’t handle an occasional leftist monkey pile. I’d say 80% of my engagement draws mostly patriots, 10% alternative opinions spoken without direct malice, and 10% nasty people. That’s about what we see here on our favorite Substacks. I’m slowly building a thick skin. (Slowwwwwly) That wouldn’t be possible in the days before Elon, but the voices of others like me are many now and that really helps. I’m glad I never used my account before last fall, but it was harder then because the spiteful and hateful libs were all over the place campaigning for Harris and it was like boot camp for a sensitive spirit. But I felt it important to let my voice for Trump be heard as one of my only ways to “make a difference” and help campaign, so I had to learn to deal with it.
I couldn’t have handled it at all pre-Elon when most conservatives were silenced. My hats off to those that remained on Twitter in those years. I hear it was awful and if last fall was just a taste (but with conservative support around you,) yikes! But life took me away and I was checked out in those years.
The past two weeks remind me of pre election night where there were just as many wackadoos as reasonable people. I’m pretty sure half the wackies were paid shills and the other half ran to Blue Sky but come back on occasion to try to influence opinion with insults. Lol.
I think it is important to keep this in perspective... The USAID is a CIA cutout. It is not the heart of the beast. The CIA must be destroyed as President Kennedy said and was then killed. And those responsible should be remanded to Guantanamo to rot for the rest of their lives........................................
USAID – A Criminal Organization Within the Deep State
Posted Feb 5, 2025 By Martin Armstrong
....I warned you that this is going to get much worse. I wrote a book, The Plot to Seize Russia, where I was asked to invest $10 billion to fund Hermitage Capital to implement a regime change in Russia. I refused. I was then held in civil contempt for seven years without charges until the Supreme Court ordered them to explain why I was being held. Then they released me.
I have had a front-row seat and seen far more than I ever desired.
USAID is the first battle and is fought for trust. The success of this takedown will create the foundation of trust among US citizens from which the bigger battles can be fought. It's actually pretty brilliant political strategy.
Yes, you are right on point. The crony cabal is falling deeply into the trap of focusing on inside baseball in DC, while most of the country is seeing for the first time the naked presumption of these awful people, that our money is their money to do with as they will. They are focused on USAID cover stories (saving babies) and not at all grasping how aghast 99% of Americans are, not only over the content & waste of these 'projects' but the duplicity & fraud of the mechanisms.
DeepState has insurance policy agencies globally too, to destroy the main nest is great but this will be protracted and diffiCULT to completely unravel and take apart. When we hear Soros is tied into USAID-CIA it makes sense...the Progressive Elitist Occult Robber Barons took over and incorporated all players most everything everywhere 1840s-1990s and the RESULTING Monoculture of Authoritarianism is where we are 1990s-present (A New World Order can emerge....meaning Full Control and Revealing Itself). The "Conspiracy Theory" origins is reality...but as i mention about the 2021 Jan 6th National Guard deployment in D.C.,
NOT even an internal debate or misstep other than deciding later to sweep Operation Pipe Bombs off the ledger. Someone IS already ominously running things 99% as a DICTATOR and the Leftist DeepState NeoCon Alliance formed in the 1930s til present follows Orders and the Plot of Death and Control nearly 100% as a CULT.
Who am I to disagree with a "Negotiations Professor", but I don't agree with this article. I probably am not articulate enough to summarize why, but saying Trump's negotiation tactics are wrong for leading the US on the global stage, and he must play nice (integrative bargaining, win-win), because the world is too interconnected and complicated, I don't agree with. We need someone to play win-lose for the US, because we have been playing lose-win for way to long.
Israel's Haaretz on the Trump-Netanyahu Press Conference
Two articles published in the Israeli opposition daily Haaretz shortly after the Trump-Netanyahu press conference take note of a number of features of the occasion that other media coverage ignored.
First: “The news was so shocking that it distracted from the fact that Trump said he would make a decision on Israel’s potential annexation of the West Bank within the next four weeks—a potential paradigm shifting event for the entire Middle East.”
Second: The widespread idea that Trump would pressure Netanyahu on Stage 2 of the ceasefire “went out the window after Trump quickly shifted the goalposts from focusing on the hostages to calling for a U.S. takeover of Gaza.”
Certainly Trump, et al., know this, probably from insiders who are helping them. It seems that the beast's work was accomplished in no small part through funding of their ears, eyes, mouth, and hands via USAID grants, so perhaps this will cripple the beast sufficiently, at least for a time, to allow a follow-on attack. (Trump did attend a military school.)
Investigate every single program and official involved in USAID for its history. JFK set up Peace Corps and other Fair Deal programs for Global "assistance" and curtailing USSR Communism; let's Finally see the entire who what when where why and how often of CIA end runs around Congress and Presidents (from 1940s-2020s) that only serve to obstruct their plans or are too friendly to the Commies to be in the know, but can be made compromised sufficiently to procure support.
The Leftist Media and Masses can only weakly "protest" and temporarily resist the Long Awaited (by Populists) dismantling of the official channels of corruption so entrenched in the Fedocracy. It is the first and ONLY opportunity we will ever be allowed to full throttle uproot, burn, and salt the soil this bad GMO seed has been sown, grown and methodically cultivated from. Don't let it stop, it shouldn't stop, it won't stop, we shouldn't stop! (Right KoupMala???)
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I am guilty of schadenfreude. And I’m not one bit sorry. The legions of leftist loonies, losing their ever loving minds over what doge is exposing makes me gleeful, ecstatic, happier than I’ve been in years. That these people, the people who wanted to lock us up in camps and take our children, muzzle us, and ban us from society, are now feeling the repercussions of their actions, gives me great joy. So I will accept responsibility for this sin, and I will ask for forgiveness. But I’m not one bit sorry. Must one be remorseful to receive forgiveness?
I am so thankful for Jeff Childers and Coffee & Covid for exposing these realities day after day after day after day. Thank you, Jeff!
Seriously, though, Nard, this is what I say when I go to Confession! In our Act of Contrition, we in part say, "I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to confess my sin, do my penance and to amend my life." I'm a work in progress.
And look at the deevolution in music and fashion. Rap has to be the nadir of music. And youngsters wore torn clothes until many of them realized it’s easier to just wear pajamas. Buildings are now just square boxes, aren’t there any architects left? We need to reenergize having pride in ourselves as higher beings and stop settling for whatever culture tries to shove down our throat. And can we please have another color besides gray?
Ha… I got the cherry red with white interior… they tried to sell me that hideous grey one with that blood colored interior. They finally found what I wanted 3 states away and I had it the following week. I have no regrets telling them what I wanted… it was my money after all! Glad your on Kathleen… always love your comments 😊
I HATE that color!! I told my husband the first time I saw it that it was the most drab look one could drive. Like what people would drive who were in an authoritarian, communistic country. And our clothes would match. 🤣 I don’t crave carnival orange, but I’ll never drive a pile of dead campfire ashes.
I remember going to look at cars during the pandemic and all the dealerships had new cars out front that were battleship gray or brown. It was so obviously staged. Who ever came up with those bland color choices knew something was up, since that color palette was planned years in advance.
All the gray CCP-looking cars on the road has been an annoyance to me for years now and lots of gray in new homes. I really enjoyed my bright blue climate-changing 🤪 vehicle that I had until recently.
I had a purple Firebird convertible from 95-2004. Still miss that car. Can't afford a new one now, and frankly, can't find anything I like that I can afford, so limping along in a 14 YO car for now. Bring back more muscle cars!!!
eh....my first car, a Chevy Nova had a manual, and after 3 months I still couldn't get the hang of it. I guess hand eye coordination is not my thing. Sold it and bought a (beat up old) Camaro with automatic.
My husband and I feel the same way. Why are all the cars the same look and your choice of black, grey, or white with an occasional red thrown in there? What happened to all the variety of the 70s ?
That’s how we both ended up with lime green cars, lol. We don’t love green in particular, just wanted something that wasn’t boring. (Mine is a Jeep Wrangler and his is an off road 4runner).
On the 101 freeway next to Oracle, the cars have been black and white and gray for years at the Mercedes dealership. It wasn’t long until I noticed 90 plus percent of the local cars driving around were white or black or gray. Visitors from other countries asked why!???? Mind control to Silicon Valley …!!!
It’s all part of the “You vill have nuzzing and you vill be heppy “. Runway models wearing eclectic thrift store mismatched old clothes, kids in their ripped, shoddy junk and t-shirts to weddings. We are not to have anything new or nice. They have been normalizing this old garbage fashion for many years so we get used to shoddy poorness.
I also think a lot of the cultural stagnation is rooted in a deep misanthropy. It's like our "elite" think we don't deserve beauty. Brutalist architecture is probably the best example of this. Why would you force people to live in these colorless boxes? It's demoralizing.
Do you ever go on vacation and see a building built hundreds of years ago and marvel a the beauty? And then come home and every building being built is steel and black and white? Just… ugh. Ick. Bring back beauty and creativity!
Fashion in the 2000s is multi-colored hair, major piercings, cross dressing, and raging in one’s car over perceived grievances. What a wonderful time to be alive.🙄😅
Pink/purple hair, and full sleeve/chest tattoos. In the context of this article, I could see that promoted to hinder relationship forming/reproduction.
I collected vintage clothing from the late 30s to the 80s. Hats, bags, jewelry too. The 40s women's suits were works of art, really. I then created vintage fashion shows that wove the history of that time with the characters I created who wore the garments. Sometimes I would close with the wedding gowns of a few that were in the group I was doing the show for. (Usually, someone else would have to wear it). I opened with a prom dress from 1939 worn by Mary and what was going on then. Then I would reveal that the dress was my mother’s and Mary Ann was going to her prom. I still tear up thinking about this. I eventually had to give it up as finding models to fit these garments even in the late 1990s was impossible.
I have a couple of those. I sold most of my other vintage bags but kept these. Those thousands of dollar designer bags now are actually boring along with obscene when you think of them and the costs. Suckers born every minute. Yeah, yeah. Investments —but one ink mark or makeup smear and you are carrying the equivalent to a Ford Pinto.
I have done that but the vintage garments are a no go. Women were much smaller and shorter. I’d probably need pre-teen girls now as models. But looking around now………🤔
I had a lucite purse as a teen. I also had an original Barbie doll and record players with 1,000 records. If I kept everything I ever owned I could sell it as vintage.
I had some crazy polyester pink dress that was all shirred up in strange places with elastic peek a boo spots . Very 80s. It looked like a twisted pink worm hanging off my hand. I would hand it to a skinny model to go back and put it on. Then we and the audience would time out how long until she came out CORRECTLY dressed. It was a hilarious moment as I picked different models each time. I would carry on and eventually she would come out. I had one model who admitted defeat. Such fun but very stressful to put together.
My mom had a leopard skin coat. It was her treasure from a by-gone era—1950’s— and she rarely wore it. Exquisitely crafted. I loved wrapping up in that amazing warmth and soft fur.
We just watched an explanation on music and a lot of it goes back to Cher's Do You Believe. They electronically corrected her voice because she could no longer hit some notes.. Since then, they electronically correct for everything and you lose the artistic elements of imperfection.
There's a pretty famous live recording of cellist Pablo Casals playing some concerto (I can't remember which one) but he was quite out of tune in one part. Today, that would have been corrected in post-production, but the tech wasn't available at that time so we have it as it was performed live. And the world survived. I think the post-production manipulation is one of the worst innovations to happen to music. Music is made by humans. It's okay if there are some imperfections.
Absolutely agree. I think most vocal tracks have autotune to some degree. And you can hear it, too. It's just too perfect. The subtle nuances of the voice are missing. I want to hear a human voice in all its imperfection, not a machine.
I recently put on led Zeppelin album as someone had it in a huge rack of CDs at work. Total garbage and unlistenable!! Seriously, just awful. This was my favorite band in high school? What was I thinking? I wasn't thinking actually, I was seventeen.
No our music wasn't good (aside from a few notable exceptions) but it was our music. Our clothing and hairstyles weren't good either, they looked absurd. My ninth grade school photo has hair to my shoulders, a Hawaiian shirt, and puka shells. Just absurd looking and embarrassing, did I really look like that?
But you bring up a good point. If we had been listening to Tommy Dorsey or Frank Sinatra in high school people would have thought we were insane. Same with wearing zoot suits, letterman sweaters, or fedora hats, it would have been unthinkable. Yet timewise, those were the rage only a few decades before. Now people from 2002 are indistinguishable from present.
But I think we are missing the big picture here, it's not that we were so great and trailblazers, we were awful. Typical self-centered Boomer mentality that somehow our rebellion against tradition was noble and upright. Just maybe it was the opposite, in fact that's a far more realistic explanation. Led Zeppelin really was a horrible band and a terrible influence.
We were encouraged to toss aside decades of tradition that had been the glue of society. We were encouraged to rebel and create a destructive counter-culture. Once the hedonistic counter-culture became the norm, the march of culture was frozen in place. That happened because that's what those in charge wanted. Continuous upheaval was no longer needed or even desired.
The true underground counter-culture is happening now but it doesn't make the news. It's people getting married earlier and having kids. It's reading the Bible. It's attending Traditional Latin Mass. In other words, all those things that were tossed aside back by the Boomers in the 1960's when this all pretty much really started.
We Boomers need to stop flattering ourselves that kids are listening to "our music". Our music was terrible, no one will be listening to it a hundred years from now. It was vulgar, simplistic, and it was the signature of a vapid culture that stood for nothing other than hedonism. Kids listening to it now is a bad thing, and if kids are listening to it it is because it serves a purpose of those calling the shots.
Zeppelin was just one genre from our era. I call them the stoner genre. Like Pink Floyd. A few talented pieces did come out of those kinds of bands, but that’s it. Most were just an empty, demonic trip. Except for one single song, I can’t stand listening to any other Zeppelin today. It leaves me feeling empty and icky. No thanks.
BUT there were a LOT of other genres in our time that ARE worth listening to these days. (Guardians of the Galaxy revived so many good songs. Lol.) So much I forgot about from the 60s and 70s that are really fun to listen to still.
But back in HS I was addicted to true golden oldies era (50s-60s) because my father played them all the time. And Elvis. These were ALL only 10-20 years prior to my school years and I was considered weird by my classmates for liking them. 😆 And … Bee Gees 🤣 I can’t help it, I liked bands that had talented, unique, and amazing voices.
The difference in the quality of the 50s-70s music to the 80s is a night and day difference. It all changed sooo fast. But the difference between the quality of the 2000s and today? It’s minimal, except for the rap which is unlistenable.
I do love a lot of cool Indy rock from the 90s and early 2000s, but I’ve not heard ANYTHING since then that has grabbed my interest at all. Last summer we just played the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtracks when floating in our pool. LOL
I know. The host venue suffers bigly from a standard of credibility. If you can overlook that and give the music a listen, there's nothing like live.
Just under a decade ago when visiting a college friend of 40 years I told I had a new favorite band. Of course the question came, Oh? Who? I'm With Her, said I and friend said, Oh! We have tickets to see them in a couple of weeks! Made me happy.
Don't know your taste so you might be bored. This is not rock; it's from the back porch, acoustic, updated. What does it for me, always has, is the blend of voices, the most beautiful of musical sounds - and material, that they write most of collaboratively, a throwback concept to the '60s-'70s.
I agree there are other bands/music from the '90s forward but mainstream exposure has not been theirs to enjoy, which in the end might be a blessing. Jeff Black, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mandolin Orange, Avett Brothers, Chris Stapleton (getting some recognition in recent years), Tift Merritt, Delta Rae, Kate Rhudy and lots lots more. Legit music is out there, never went away, just stayed somewhat obscured - popular culture having been carefully managed etc.
There used to be popular radio stations that people actually listened to that aired new music. Maybe that still exists, but I don't know. I listened to those stations in my car back when I drove.
I noticed the same thing, my ‘80s born daughter listened to the same music I grew up on. Pre-covid while I was still lefty I was listening to a radio station that played actual new music and it was great (not rap, although being part of npr they had to bend the knee and have some rap programs). When the op started they and all the “artists “ they played went full on shutdown followed by full vaxx crazy (“you will have to show proof of vax for the show “). At that point I was done and music is ruined for me, I don’t listen to anything. Music for me was always about freedom and expression, it was an illusion and once exposed there is no going back.
I broke down and got a family Spotify account so I could curate my music. Mostly I listen to renaissance choral music or instrumental compositions ranging from early baroque to the romantic period. I used to love listening to pop music, but I just can't stand being lectured by the artists. I know Vivaldi or Saint-Saens or Tchaikovsky won't be scolding me about anything :)
Fantastic read. I work as a high school teacher and we recently had a staff spirit day, "dress like you did in high school". It was meant to be silly and have all the generations of fashion visible and of course show how old we really are. I've been out of high school for 20 years (almost) and I didn't participate for one main reason... No one would know I was "dressed up". There's nothing distinguishable between 2005 and 2025 and I thought it was incredibly odd. This makes so much sense.
Please... let us go back to the 50s fashion... and 50s health. I was born in 1950 and if you saw pictures of my gorgeous mom, you would think today she must have been from eastern Europe or Spain or Latin America. My dad, a young man, also was trim and fit and wore simple, manly fashion. Today, not only are we physically fat and sick but it is reflected in our sloppy, unattractive fashion as well.
I know, I appreciate the beautiful styles of that era too! I tend to dress up more because I like to, and people always either compliment me almost in awe that I’m so dressed up or conversely, act like I’m trying to shame them or something 😕 Maybe it makes them feel bad about dressing sloppily, I don’t really know. Honestly I don’t care much about how other people dress but it’s weird how throwing on a dress and some nice shoes is seen as some amazing feat. It’s nice that we don’t have the pressure of always being dressed to the nines, with hats and gloves and so on, but somewhere along the line, that went waaaay to the opposite extreme.
I made a decision a few years ago to never again wear pants when going to church. It's just my thing. I saw all the gender blurring taking place in our culture and I thought, "I am going to dress in an unambiguous way when attending Mass." I bought several dresses and now I just rotate through them for Mass (I go to daily Mass frequently). Other Mass goers noticed and I frequently get asked if I have to go to work directly after church. I tell them my reasoning and it's a little surprising to hear the responses. Same as you, RL, some are complimentary and others accusatory as if I'm trying to shame them. Once I upped my game, so to speak, my husband - who has always dressed neatly for church - decided he was going to step it up too. It's been nice. It changes your mindset. P.S. I actually find wearing dresses to be the easiest option. Once piece and no thinking. I love it.
And the average shopper at Walmart has a pretty good chance of being "dressed" in pajamas! When I go to Walmart, I am in and out in lightening fashion.
I see that also. I’ve been to some really amazing performances and I’m shocked quite often by the lack of even trying. I get that everyone come from different economic situations but seriously sweats and even a few in Jammie bottoms… ??? 🤷♀️
I wear dresses and skirts a lot, especially in the summer. And almost every day someone (men and women both) will say something like ‘that’s a pretty dress’ . I honestly buy a lot of my clothes on Amazon so we aren’t talking about anything fancy, I think it’s just rare to see a woman wearing something feminine. And I’m in my mid 50s, so it’s not flirting, lol.
(Except the buying on Amazon part. I find it too hard to tell whether I will like the fabric or if the item will fit me properly and I hate bothering with returns).
For me it’s because of the lack of styles for those who are very short, well-endowed, and gain weight only in the gut. Unless you buy maternity clothes, nothing fits right and it ALL looks sloppy. If I’m going to be forced to look sloppy because of this, then I might as well just wear my leggings and a sweatshirt.
I set about to lose all my weight and I’m 4/5 of the way there. I look better in more things now but I have NO dress-up or professional clothing that fits (it’s all from 30 years ago when I was a Barbie doll size 4-6) and when I try to buy something new there is nothing out there that looks nice on me. Short people have it the worst. Dresses look awful if you don’t have a smaller waist. I could hide my gut and double D chest if I were 5’10” easy! But when you are 5’2” it’s near impossible. A tent thrown over my head looks better than what’s on the racks.
I know there is fashion out there that I could look good in, but it’s extremely expensive and only available to the very wealthy who can also afford the professional tailors needed to adjust for height.
So - I LOVE seeing others look classy and beautiful in dresses and suits, and I don’t begrudge them …. but I’m tired of feeling frumpy beside them or having them think less of me or judge me for my “sloppy attire”, which happens 9 times out of 10.
I used to go to church in jeans or sweats, and then I read someone say it was disrespectful to God. I remembered beautifully dressed tall women with nice figures looking down their noses at me, if they paid any attention to me at all. Guess what? I’ve been too afraid to step foot in a church ever since because I have nothing else to wear. And don’t think it’s easy to find at least one outfit. My last attempt took 6-1/2 hours straight and I came home with only tears in my eyes and frustration. It’s near impossible without a pleasant figure.
My goal to lose my belly was solely to be able to look nice enough to attend church once again, and then get a job. But at 59 my belly seems to have other ideas and is holding on as if I’m going to have to soon run from wild animals in subzero temps to survive.
It is NOT easy for some of us to “dress up”. And I loved to when I was younger, and had the most beautiful dresses you could find, and turned heads too, which is why 35 years later they are still in my closet. But I will never have that figure again. My only hope is to get rid of my belly fat. I’m working on it.
In the meantime I’m too uncomfortable to attend church.
I’m so sorry that people have been so awful to you 😞 In church no less!!! 😡 I would never say anything to anyone about their attire regardless of my opinion of it. You don’t know what someone’s story is and it’s also just not helpful.
As for the belly fat, I struggle with that too even though I run a lot. I tend to have an hourglass shape. What I’ve found helped was to up my protein by a lot. I still have a hard time reaching my goal in grams of protein per day but I try to get close. It’s definitely not easy as a woman after perimenopause/menopause age.
I’m sure there must be a style that would look flattering on you though! I wish I lived close enough to go shopping with you and help you find something!
Aw so sweet. I don’t think I could put anyone through that frustration. It really is an exhausting endeavor.
And yes to the protein! That’s how I lost my first 55lbs 💃 I chose a Keto diet and I’m mostly protein and fat. I have 20-25 more to go and it’s not as easy as the first chunk of loss. I joined a gym and hired a trainer since I have severe osteo (too young for my severity) and I need to be strong enough to handle long walks and to remain more active without injury. But I keep injuring myself. I fell on an uneven sidewalk taking a walk and cracked my knee one. I got severe tennis elbow in both arms planting flowers last spring and my arm days were off my routine ever since. Last fall I broke a rib doing the leg press! The rib fractured on both sides of the bone. I felt the snap. It’s finally fully healed this month. I was getting soooo strong and so fit too. I’ve been sidelined ever since and gained 5 lbs back. Now I’m getting ready to do PT to get back into things but I lost all the ground I had gained, AND now I’m scared I’ll break a bone doing simple things in the gym. I’m too scared to ride my bike. 🤣 I need to make clothes out of packaging air pillows. 🤣🤣
Anyway, I’m determined to get the belly off. I haven’t had a waist in many years and the last dress I wore looked so ugly on me because of my belly. Never again will I wear something that makes me feel so bad. Leggings for now. Lol
Same era here. I remember when going on an airplane (prop planes then) women had to wear nylons and dresses and men had to wear a suit and tie. The "stewardess" attire was very chic also. Much different today and verging on disgusting.
JW and Politico Phil! I agree. I look at the attire worn unapologetically and so sad. Back in the 50s, Mom patched my brothers jeans for every day wear not for some formal gathering..I. E. Funeral of a family member. We wore our best she and dad could get!! Yes we were poor but dad and Mom looked great in their Sunday best. I loved it and didn’t think it should be any different. People now deceased would be shocked!!!
Now I am aghast at what I see! My brothers would have been so embarrassed and shamed by their friends.
Jeff Childers, this was a great editorial and news all in one. Give us one more day of clean cut looking young men and women. Shine! To the glory of God our Maker!
I remember my first trip to Europe. I was about 5 or 6. I wore a grey double breasted wool suit with mother of pearl buttons from Best & Company. We travelled on one of the early 747s. Good memories!
Mac and cheese and some bologna 🤷♀️ what did we know… my mom was a single parent working several jobs and my dad didn’t participate… it was affordable and she could get it on the table fast at the end of a long day. We didn’t go hungry and the biggie treat was a trip to McDonald’s.. we thought we were rich on those nights
We even ate hot dogs and bologna straight from the package and we never got sick.We drank water from the hose, too. And I remember those special trips to McDonalds for a happy meal. Nowadays, the kids all have their Starbuck's specialty drinks and they are at restaurants we didn't see until we were almost adults.
Because my Italian just-off-the-boat mum mostly cooked from scratch? I craved the type of "Canadian" food my school chums all ate, but we never got at home.
Had my first Big Mac in the Big City, in 1974. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven...
Tang!!! Gosh how I hated it 🤣 And I was always the only kid at a sleepover or party that didn’t drink pop. I hated it. They couldn’t understand why and I was ruthlessly teased when I asked for water instead.
But I loved LOVED Wonder Bread and potato chips. That was the trigger for me to delve into more foods like that. Awful what it did to me. Changed my diet 3 years ago and so glad. But I still have a weakness for good, dense, sourdough bread. I treat myself maybe once a month.
Along with the virtual halting of Alzheimer’s research, it is the same for cancer. I lost my husband to the barbaric torture of treatments that are the only path given to sufferers of the dread disease. It’s still painful to think about, and I see people suffering to this day, not being able to afford treatments that actually work.
Back in the 1960’s, my aunt was treated & cured of cancer by a doc in Chicago. So many people went to him it drew attention from AMA. They shut him down, took his license and threatened his secretary. The secretary had to burn all files or the IRS would see her next. 💔😭
This is still going on. I was getting so much help from my naturpathic doc, but Medicare interfered by not allowing this licensed doc to refer patients to other docs. They would not even pay for standard labs if I was under this doc. I've had to go elsewhere, it breaks my heart for him and for all his patients.
My friends it is weaponization of Medicare and the health care system. AUDIT on Elon.
Hope RFK Jr can start getting these ineffective and harmful COVID shots banned in our country and world wide.
The tuning down on COVID vaccines and focusing only on food additives I hope is just to help sidestep all the big pharma pocket money dems and rhinos to get the votes for confirmation.
And get fluoride out of the water. I saw that Lee County just voted to remove it, with the help of our excellent Dr. Ladapo. Hoping that can be done statewide.
Recently a CTV or CBC story emerged (Can't find it... heard it blasting on my mum's TV) that Halifax Water had stopped adding fluoride to its water supply several years ago. Some people went BALLISTIC.
Covid shots are just the tail of the Lizzard: RFK Jr needs to ban gene therapy MRNA shots. This is what the awful naysayers are so afraid of because it will curtail their Pharma gravy train.
We are all part of helping to get rid of the covid shots. Being on social media and forwarding articles about studies showing its dangers etc. are part of The process: Public demands it. Government agency responds. This has become so vivid to me after watching the last 4 years.
I watched the Maha movement take shape on Twitter while getting informed about vaccines. And saw the photos circulated showing people on a beach in the 1970s and noticing that no one was obese.
I make my teenager very angry when I tell her that the "new" song she is listening to is just a remake of another older song!! And then I find the old song and play it for her! There is no new music anymore.
Same! Heard the Sabrina Carpenter song "Taste" on the radio yesterday with my teenage daughter in the car... blew her mind when I told her it was just sampling "Bette Davis Eyes."
Or the same recycled movies, and they think people don’t notice. As long as we’ve got Jayden Smith wearing a box on his head or Kanye’s spouse naked at the Grammy’s we’ll all be just fine, nothing to see here!
Some do notice that the redo of the redo of the redo though. There was a piece in the late 1990s about how there were only 7 plots for shows. Related, there was a plot generator for law & order. After that emerged, I have no idea how it continued, let alone have spinoffs.
Brilliant observation by Jeff Childers that our culture has not advanced, going on two decades. The Globalist Blob (led by the DS) has stolen our wealth, health, and pursuit of happiness. The Globalist Blob (GB) has claimed almost exclusive rights to new technology (AI, Nanotechnology, etc.). They use this Technology and our Tax Dollars to destroy “We the People”. No More! We are at the dawn of the Golden Age but, the GB will fight back.
This was demonstrated so vividly with the recent Grammy awards, the (attempted) steering of culture. The people, fans of music, we're overall furious by the nominees and winners. I'm a country music songwriter and performer, and let me tell you, precious few in any of the country music categories would be considered country by the fans, or even by country radio. Who is picking Beyonce for country album of the year?!?! Not the fans!
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— Claire Danes link added
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Jeff, if you haven’t yet, I recommend reading, “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream.” David McGowan brings out the military’s secret control over Hollywood, and how Charles Manson fits into all of that. My husband went to high school with one of Manson’s cult members, Susan Atkins, who died in prison in Chowchilla, which is just a few miles down the road from our home. From the back cover of the book:
“Many didn't make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would care to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians, and intelligence personnel - the same sort of people who just happened to give birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all of the canyon's colorful characters - rock stars, hippies, murderers, and politicos - happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon is the very strange, but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a hippie utopia.”
Chaos : Charles Manson, the CIA and the secret history of the 60s by Tom O’Neill also delves into that topic.
F*ck off, Tara/Sara/Kara/Kim, nobody's interested.
Speaking of Charles Manson, I'm reminded of an unusual book I read, called "Redeemed Unredeemable" which deals with killers who may have been converted to believers in prison and the cultic/occultic and MKUltra influences in their crimes.
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Being partial to redemption stories, I can accept that some who *I* would not "save," will be/have been saved, and restored. God knows who can and will be saved, and who is genuine in their declarations of faith in Jesus, for their salvation from spiritual darkness. Thank you, Jesus!
"For hardcore fans of The Doors, it’s relatively well-known that lead singer Jim Morrison‘s father was a flag officer in the US Navy. A lesser-known fact is that his father, Capt. George Stephen Morrison, commanded the Carrier Division during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which famously gave the Johnson Administration the justification it needed to escalate the Vietnam War."
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/jim-morrisons-dad-played-a-role-in-the-gulf-of-tonkin-incident.html
Disgusting. I was always repulsed by that world but didn't know why.
As sharp and talented as Musk and his crew is, he desperately needs better and more positive PR at this critical moment. The deep state is already all over his every move and even Fox is mostly showing the "all over him" clips of the enemy. He needs to repeat at every chance that "all we're doing is revealing where the money is now that was once in YOUR wallet ----- robbed from you by the deep state and the IRS and given to all these worms we've uncovered. We're waiting for your thanks, middle America, and thank you very much.
FlatEarthFlyer , thank you for your comment. I was specifically told by our college coach, we were never to drive into those canyons . I always wondered why. ( mid 70’s)
I have just been directed to a pair off essays on <neofeudalreview.substack.com> from April 19, 2023, which detail a credible history and explanation for much of western experience over 500-1000 years. The past 125 years are quite familiar to us, and may be important through the next 5-10 years as the system either recovers or fails.
Thank you for your daily reviews, they are almost an "immunization" against the controlled narrative.
I looked for the posts you referred to from April 19, 2023. The archive didn't go back quite that far.
I am not too swift at some of the internet things.
https://neofeudalism.substack.com/p/goals-motivations-and-strategies-1dc
See if that link works for the 2nd essay and the first is linked at the top. If I knew how to restack and had a site I might have tried that.
Tara, you are a fake. TROLL ALERT!
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C&C:
There's an interesting clip that may be similar to, or just like, the spam we keep getting. It may be of a different kind, but this is eye-opening to see the visual nevertheless, of what we're dealing with in this "Information War":
skip to the 1:01:35 mark, to get the lead-in, or to 1:01:45 to see the clip...
"bots"
https://rumble.com/v6gi1q4-episode-141-johnny-enlow-unfiltered.html
It also includes commentary that this (or something like it) is how the [mockingbird] media gets their talking points...
Pretty wild, right?
Jeff - THIS was truly your best ever! You have shed light on something we could sense, but not put a finger on. Those of us in our middle age could see it and knew something was not quite right.
And some of us who are in the seventh decade of earthly life - we who were alive, participating, observing when American society still functioned more or less as designed - KNOW from our own experience that this corrupt crap today is not right.
I am so thankful and so relieved and so proud of the work DOGE is doing —and for the first time ever, so filled with hope for my grandchildren’s futures.
and to think they have only scratched the surface - the level of corruption is truly breathtaking - heard a clip from a congresswoman about a finance agency similar to USAID that dispenses billions for leftists projects as well - like 40 billion for green energy in Africa - and here we thought communism died with the Soviet Union - nope it moved to the deep state
We knew they were all getting kickbacks. It was a circular-incestuous relationship.
Nobody had the records to prove it. Now, Trump has cracked the seventh lock of the Vault of Nakatomi Plaza.
Makes me wonder what the 3 letter agencies were really looking for in the Mar-A-Lago raid...
🤔
As Bill Rice, Jr wrote on his Substack, “Covid was not the story; it was the universally scripted compliance.” Pretty clear now, isn’t it? Everyone was pointing fingers at the WEF/WHO, diverting attention from our own USAID. When all the pieces fit…
My husband and I have been complaining for years now how American culture has devolved, how primitive, ugly and uncivilized America has become, and how unimaginative, vapid and downright evil Hollywood and the music industry has been in the last couple decades. Thanks for connecting the dots for us, Jeff!
You should see it in Music Conservatories. My son is a musician, singer and composer. He wrote a piece using Isaiah 40 and was told by a visiting professor that he would never be part of the Community. This Professor now teaches at Hillsdale of all places. “Classical Music” today is written to cause angst in the listener. Beauty is not tolerated.
And it should be mentioned that the frequency of musical instruments was changed by Goebbels from 432 to 440. The new frequency is much less harmonious.
I have noted for 25-30 years that the only new music of any value is sacred music.
And even much of modern Christian music is bland with endless repeats of a phrase. Not a fan.
It's sooooo boring!
And I’d love to abandon it for awhile and go back to the good old days
Check out the choral compositions from Elaine Hagenberg for some relatively modern refreshing, uplifting music, especially the selection, You Do Not Walk Alone on elainehagenberg.com. There are audio files there to listen to.
Elaine Hagenberg is amaaazing! It's tough to sing this one with dry eyes - O Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cqblTDR8w
Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen is a favorite.
My husband sang (in his chorus) a Morten Lauridsen—I found it ethereal
Good word for it. I'm in a community choir and one of our pieces this Spring is Sure On This Shining Night. Oh my god, it is gorgeous.
I’m a trained mezzo. I like Lauridsen too.
I especially like the Elgar Lux Aeterna.
My church still uses this type of anthem. I hope this endures.
Joanne - Hillsdale? I remember that they were also lauding Rumsfeld after he passed. I let them know he was not a friend of the Republic.
It's the Leo Straussian (a prominent Neo Conservative in the 1990's) influence.
I have a doctorate in classical music. You are absolutely right.
Indeed, says an old mezzo.
Yet the arts are flourishing with beauty in Russia. A friend of mine who was born and raised in the former Soviet union, showed me a clip of a famous Greek born maestro in Russia. He was given the opportunity many years ago to continue his musical career in the US or Russia and he chose Russia. The clip showed him and a female violinist backstage before entering the Orchestra for Ravel's Bolero, and both he and she are shown doing the sign of the cross in the Orthodox fashion.
Another side news, about the Eurovision musical contest,which had censored Russia from participation. They have created their own, open to all countries,without perversion and lgbtq biases like woke Eurovision.
My mother used to say that where there is God, there is beauty everywhere: art, music, architecture.
i'm certain that you are right. we have a husband and wife russian symphonic musicians who stay at our house frequently. they are very traditional, family oriented and religious. russia is what USAID calls a "closed society" which means that they are closed to US funded groups going in there to stir up trouble. i suspect that is why they haven't descended into our insanity.
and why we had to attack them from ukraine.
meanwhile european countries, not the ones under the spell of the EU, are thrilled to be freed from our oppressive Empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStZiLu_F_U
How about this adorable little Russian prodigy, Elisei Mysin? I think he was 6 or 7 here, but he’s 14 now and has won most international competitions in recent years: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0Qz-y0Fn4
For the last decade or so I have described current pop tunes as “music to commit suicide by.” The lyrics are depressing and/or the same few words repeated endlessly. There is no creativity or joy. Also auto-tune should be illegal! Rap is not music. Techno is soulless. A sad state of affairs.
Ugh. Contemporary music. You can’t even sing it. There’s no melody to follow. I can hum along to Nessun Dorma more easily.
Just like so called "art" these days.
The Art Institute in Chicago had a canvas painted white.
My daughters are outstanding artists but when they go to gallery shows or competitions the winner is usually some "abstract" piece that could've been done by a 4 year old! Just a bunch of paint thrown in.
Tell them to keep honing their talent. There are inklings showing that beauty is making a comeback. My son continues to compose beautiful music. It might not be published as of today, but one day his compositions will be discovered.
Oooooohhhh! This makes me so angry! Beauty is what our lives should be surrounded with in art, architecture, fashion, music, literature, etc! Of course, beauty is a reflection of and an acknowledgement of God's grace upon us all and wanting us to be happy. Angst, ugliness, and depression come straight from the devil and you see who has been running the world!!
What is his name and the name of his piece, and is it on YouTube? Spotify?
Hollywood has helped American culture to devolve. Look at shows like The Kardasians. They’re disgusting, yet young people watch and emulate their behavior.
We used to plan big annual parties around the Oscars. Now we don’t even watch. Very very few new movies are worth the time. CGI and sequels run amok. Also graphic violence has been dialed up to desensitizing levels—on both movies and TV.
My friends—aged 60s to 70s—love the dumpster fires called Real Housewives of … I have never watched any and never will. I cannot even…😖😖
I can’t watch commercial tv in Australia at all. Endless, endless stupid reality shows, lying documentaries and biased news media.
It’s absolutely disgusting.
I pretty much only watch old black and white movies since they rely on telling a good story without any of the indecent stuff that goes on today.
Television unplugged going on 5-6 years now. Haven't missed it a bit!
Exactly! There's new stuff out there in the Entertainment industry. It's loud, obnoxious, and vile. It erases the idea of morals and conscience. It's poison in the minds of youngsters.
I know the rock&roll age disturbed our parents. It seems like innocent fun these days. However!! Elizabeth Nickson, in her substack Welcome to Absurdistan, stated the rock&roll wave was a CIA contrived Entertainment.
Right now these lettered agencies are humanity's #1 Enemy.
Right after that's realized, then the next step is to wonder if the saying should be rewritten to "the enemy of my enemies, IS my enemy, too!!
women especially have fallen prey to this death culture. since women carry life forward, it's disturbing to see them rejecting their attractiveness in favor of dressing up like ugly sci-fi creatures. one wonders if we have a future as a species
women especially seem to have fallen victim to this. since women are the life force and seem stuck in the death spiral, seeing them trying to look like ugly sci-fi creatures is really disheartening
So true!
YES. THIS. I was an active Democrat. I almost ran for a local job. I went to peace marches, wrote letters to the editor, called congress. Made homemade signs with the number of American dead in the Iraq war 2, gave money. Then it all changed and i didn’t recognize the twisted deplorable thing it had become until Biden. Better late than never. My sister was even more dedicated than I was. She attended a Peace Group meeting every week. I wonder now what that Peace Group is celebrating or even seeing. I don’t know because my sister died after her first Covid jab. Hating Trump.
Janet - I'm so sorry to hear that about your sister.
I'm so sorry about your sister, Janet. I have a half-sister twenty years younger than me, with whom I have never been close, but I am trying to advise her now that she has what I think is a covid vax induced cancer. It's a very rare and aggressive sarcoma. She's been having scans every two months and the last one indicated the cancer had metastasized to one lung. I have made her aware of Dr. William Makis.
Just a few days ago, a much loved pastor and seminary professor from my community died due to glioblastoma. He received several shots, including a covid booster, in late 2023 or early 2024, and was diagnosed soon after. It's painful to me that his ignorance or stupidity killed him.
So sorry! Adult daughter of a cousin battling Ewing’s sarcoma, normally seen only in the young. Glios used to be rare; claimed an uncle. Two (and maybe 3; one called a suicide) more cousins died suddenly this month. 💔🤬💔🤬
It's heartbreaking, isn't it?
Sorry to hear it. Added these stories to the body pile:
https://patrick.net/post/1340336/2021-07-29-thread-for-vax-deaths-maimings-and
I went to four anti-war marches against what was happening in Iraq. But then the Dems embraced war. I was shocked at the turnaround. Also at the embrace of trans men in women’s sports. The clip of the guy’s rant today is exactly my feeling too.
Apparently yesterday, the day that Trump signed the EO, was National Girls and Women in Sports Day (i.e., the "perfect" day for the EO keeping men out of women's sports). Trump makes me smile!
I realized then during the Obama reign that nothing I had done made a tinkers damn difference. The economic crooks got away with death and destruction too. Only now do I see it might change.
I’m so very about your sister.
I am nearing my 8th decade of earthly life and I concur with your assessment. The wisdom of us “old” people cannot be denied. Something has been rotting in our society for at least 20 something years. Onward!
40 years
No, 60 years, with the onset of "feminism" and then the Pill and then Roe v Wade, all of whichg gave my first love the notion of "open relationships" and everything was spoiled from there.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree! My childhood was stolen from me because of the 60’s and it got worse in the 70’s. “I am woman, hear me roar!” All those feminists didn’t even meow, while men were competing in women’s sports. Personally, I don’t care about sports, but I was absolutely delighted to see President Trump put an end to the madness!
Yes! I have always felt my childhood was stolen in the 60's. It was fine, as much as it could be with JFK being murdered by our Gov agencies, until 1967. Then it all went to hell.
In addition, I believe Rome, with infamous Vatican 2, had a great deal to do with families losing their Faith and culture being destroyed.
Bingo. Vatican 2 was a major cultural destabilizer.
Unsurprisingly, it's starting to be revealed that US Intelligence has had a MAJOR influence since at least the JP2 papacy.
The POPE is probably on the CIA payroll.
We now know that the CIA paid Lee Harvey Oswald and then used him as a Patsy.
Not surprised!
They also didn't make so much as a little "meow" at what Bill Clinton did to all his females--the rape, the affairs, the power-over- subordinate sexcapade in the White House with Monica Lewinsky, followed by the TRASHING of all the women who had been involved.
I agree with you. Born in 1950. Had a 3+ hour Skype on Tuesday with daughter in Japan---and pointed out that I was worth listening to, as at 74, I am actually a treasure trove of wisdom (besides, I was wise enough [really, blessed enough] not to take the shot--though I did not mention that).
Yes, indeed (May 1952 for me). Lucky your daughter will speak to you for three hours; mine won't, and still won't admit the lie of the "pandemic" and everything else.
Turns out that lie was the one that cracked the cement covering all the other lies. Makes TFauxchi look like a pawn.
11/22/1963
You mean "femenazis"?
Rush knew what phonies they all were!
My godmother who was in her 90's when she died would say it started in the 1920's with Dewey who took over the education system in this country. That's also when people in this country began to play with communism thinking it would be the best thing since sliced bread since everyone would be equal - no rich, no poor. Many found out the hard way that this wasn't true. There's a good book called Dancing Under the Red Star about a family who went to live in Russia when Ford was helping them start their first automobile factory. Mother, Father, and 2 daughters left. The youngest daughter was 8 when they left. The father was taken by secret police when she was 18 years old. She spend the next 40 years trying to get back to the United States. It's a harrowing story that should be required reading in schools. A reminder to all that "All that glitters is not gold." It may be a shiny fish hook.
Thanks for book recommendation. Wonder if you've read "Witness"? author Whitaker Chambers - Inspirational read. Insight about the left beginning to infiltrate our government and our culture "way back" in 1940's. Autobiography. Chambers was ex-communist operative who exposed Alger Hiss as a liar, spy and traitor.
Thank you for the book recommendation!
Biographies are my favorite genre.
Since the 80's more like.
seems to me we all thought the best was when we were teenagers. Who knows?
No, it really was much better before with much more personal freedom. Far less government control over us.
I was about to comment the same
Your funding has been removed Mary- time to move on.
I think these bots like their own posts because they always have one heart. How lame is that???
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C&Cers--Mary has just been added to my list. Always offering https://t.co then letters/digits. All t.co
What does this have to do with our broken culture?
So all of us who grew up drinking from the garden hose and feeling safe to play outside until dark. Know that those times were good, and feeling that things today just aren’t quite right. So how do we get back to that reality if things making sense?
Answer: D.O.G.E.
I pray that’s correct!
I have for a very long time felt something was off. The lack of any new story lines had me thinking I must just be getting old; I've seen it all. I've also watched truly stupid and incompetent people prosper. What was I missing? Never in my wildest imagination did I see this coming! And to think thisis only the beginning!
Yes. And have you noticed how thin major media news coverage is these days?
It's obviously controlled by the military intel complex, AKA deep
I've noticed that all of the "reporters" are 20-something babes. Not the true seasoned professionals like Douglas Edwards, Eric Severiad, John Chancellor, David Brinkley, Charles Collingwood - I can go on and on.
Right is not the word to describe it…EVIL Is the only word.
Exactly how I feel Roger.
Precisely
Destroy us from within.
So happy "same ol, same ol" is DONE.
unfortunately, we ( 70 y.o.'s ) appear to be the majority
Quite right!!!
Exactly!
I read this piece very slowly, trying to wrap my head around it all. I was hesitant to even make a comment. What can I say? The last clip of the black man telling it like it is - wow - that needs to be said, actually quite moving.
Thankfully, the majority of the American people are not falling for this crap anymore. We aren't falling for the fake staged protests.
Is this why ultimately the military will need to be brought in to make sure these changes are not preempted by civil unrest?
I read today's post slowly today as well. I'd never heard this idea of a freeze of our advancements being linked to the deep state wanting us easier to control.
They don't want a change agent like RFK Jr getting us off the food slop conveyor, as our crap diet helps keep us down.
We need to take it on ourselves to reverse a lot of these changes.
Stuck in time. Like Cuba. Like East Germany. It's not necessarily the goal; rather, it's the natural outcome of totalitarian government control.
It all Really seemed to ramp up after 9/11. The evil state noted just how much control could be imposed on the masses after experiencing a real or manipulated fear event. So why not manipulate an event anytime one was needed to keep us in line? Of course that takes money - OUR money used for evil while the potential good works are ignored & stalled out. Example- How long has the fund raising using the pink ribbon been going on? Most of my life. Absolutely no results. Don’t ever give another dime, or energy to these corrupt organizations participating in the con. people suffer & die due to these traitorous, greedy evil participants saying good is evil & evil good.
I refuse to give a dime to most of these organizations. The goal of the S Komen org was to cure breast cancer. They get lots of $$. The admin makes lots of $$.. Guess what? They haven't cured breast cancer in nearly 40 years of supposed research. Don't even TRY to tell me that the cure isn't there. It's being suppressed & the dumb public keeps giving them $$.. The whole "pink ribbon" thing is one of the biggest scams out there. I'm hoping they will be exposed!
There’s a lot of this going on. I’m thinking Diabetes Foundation and Kidney Foundation. What are they really doing?
The Koman Foundation knows that abortion increases your risk for breast cancer, yet they fund abortion rights protests and Planned Parenthood. Seems kind of questionable, doesn’t it?
There you go, Tim. That’s it, in a nutshell. Moving toward total government control = communism.
Good examples.
You make a very good point.
I'm a biologist. I've tried to wrap my head around "the stall" and got part way there trying to understand the control being imposed. This perspective really helps me get all the way there, big-picture-wise, and to see a way to push forward.
In my line of work, the power brokers have used consensus statements to keep everyone in line, which I wrote about here https://open.substack.com/pub/susancrockford/p/consensus-statements-in-science-are
The “stall” as you call it is very pronounced and you may have been ahead of Jeff Childers in that very important analytical observation.
Just to follow up, I did some checking last night and found that the science agency that issued both consensus statements (AIBS) is an NGO funded by grants through the National Science Foundation. So, a similar influence pattern as seen with USAID: not the Gov't itself issuing science-censoring edicts, but the NGO
Did anyone wonder why they tried to treat DJT to the same fate as jfk?
I have always thought the same as your comment. They both are a threat to the Deep State. Our Lord is allowing DJT to expose the evil. Let's all continue to pray for DJT, his family and all the cabinet and their families. Amen!
It’s a miracle DJT is still alive. 7/13/2024 DJT SHOT. Joe Biden had said “time to put a target on Trump“ and then djt was shot five days later.
Just last night, my spouse asked me if I remember to pray every night for President Trump. (Just a little observation here, after I typed President, three names came up: Obama, Biden and Clinton…not Trump or Reagan…funny that! I’m on an Apple device. Tim Cook and Steve Jobs - all Left.)
It has been coming out different places lately that the CIA has orchestrated all of it. Rock and Roll. Hip Hop, Metal, shitty Country. II knew about the CIA control of movies and TV too . But I had not thought about the entirety of it all before though, and the fashion stagnation was an excellent catch. Every generation had a new look, but not this one, unless you count the extra appendage in their hands (phone) .
Watch the movie "Reagan".. They were in Hollywood a long time ago. Ronald Reagan did his best to get them out.
I have heard good things about it. I think Trump hosted a showing at Mar O Lago. Unfortunately, Netflix stopped shipping CD's , and we do not have sufficient internet speed to stream. And we do not use smart phones, so we pretty much are relegated to what we find on Direct TV.
Our newest fashion change is fat rolls. Those were rare through previous generations.
I don't even know what that is
“Shitty country” implies? Country has some great new names like Cody Johnson, Thomas Rhett, Jordan Davis, Riley Green…not at all “shitty”, unless you mean giving hip-hop Beyoncé a country award.
to each his own. There are no Ray Price's, Patsy Cline's, Vern Gosdin's, Charley Pride's, Johnny Cash's, Kris Kristofferson's, and dozens of others I could name today. No one I have heard is even in their league
Big Harma always spewing out their honest to God crap.
(I can openly use the word crap now because PS Karoline uses it)
The scales are beginning to fall from people’s eyes.
Not in my world. The Left is outraged and doubling down. They only listen to their own echo chamber and there is no piercing it.
Agree. I don't see mass conversions - BUT - nearly 25 years ago, I read The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell. Yeah he is a lefty hack but the book really did shape my thinking for a while, and I had kind of forgotten it but Jeff's analysis today resurrected it in my memory. Gladwell's thesis is that for things to 'tip' - there needs to be 3 things;
1. info/trend in the hands of the right influencers (connectors, information specialists - people we look to for good info - like Jeff and salesmen - people who are good at convincing others)
2. Stickiness - the thing has to be memorable, clear in such a way that people remember it easily
3. Context - conditions have to be right so that the recipient is ready to receive the message.
This is why going first after USAID is so brilliant - we have Elon as the influencer - huge # of twitter followers, including a lot of people who have trended left. Stickiness - nearly everyone I run into in person is talking about the '$20 million in condoms, Sesame Street in Iraq, and on and on and on. Context - here's where it gets dicey - for those of us who are awake - we were 100% ready to hear this - but for the sleeping and TDS patients, acknowledging this is a HUGE leap as if they question that, it will make them question everything. Time will tell. For now most of them have been diverted with the 'Elon has my information' outrage.
We may not convert the leftards, but we sure as h3ll will outnumber them, and soon.
Yep. Seconding this with a somewhat too-long reply, but it is illustrative.
A conversation I had not 3 days ago, supermarket parking lot, with an acquaintance I had always been on friendly-chit-chat terms with about birds, we are both into them.
Him: "So, how are you dealing with all the bullsh**?"
Me: "What bullsh**?"
Him: "You know, all the bullsh**!"
Me (having an idea where he's gonna go with this...): "No, seriously, what bullsh** are you talking about?"
Him (exasperated with me): "You know TRUMP'S bullsh**!"
Me: "Oh, well, I VOTED for that bullsh**. Really, I thought Biden and Harris was the real bullsh**."
Him (eyes wide with horror, then pure CONTEMPT): "Oh." Turns on his heel, and leaves! (Like a huffy Karen!)
I put my groceries in the trunk, and was wheeling my cart back, when I crossed his path again and asked (with a big smile): "Need a cart?"
Him (spitting with disgust): "NO!"
I guess THAT acquaintanceship is done....
No loss ... you don't need a boat anchor tied around your ideas.
Love the metaphor!
We moved from our blue state and one reason was because we could no longer stand being surrounded by neighbors like this. I can't say we had the courage to risk their rage, but we could sense how we must always stay in line and what lay beneath the surface if we did not. It felt so oppressive. When I hear anecdotes like yours--and there are a lot--it reminds me how real it was, that we weren't imagining that they would turn on us in an instant if they knew our views.
Yeah, I really do question staying here. Moving would take a miracle (or Kamala as gov) to achieve, though.
Michele - Thanks for the story. I had a similar experience the year that the Smollett hoax happened. An email conversation with an old high school friend at the time that incident was just being reported. I told him it was an obvious hoax, and Kamala Harris and Cory Booker were behind it, in an effort to smear Trump and his supporters. He responded with several memes of Trump in an orange jumpsuit behind bars. I haven't spoken to him since.
I lost a friend over the similar Althea Bernstein hoax (look it up - her story was incredibly stupid yet people believed it). Still pisses me off nothing happened to her and she cost a lot of law enforcement time and money.
Yep, the sickness runs deep, in some.
I had almost the same conversation with an “acquaintance” back in 2016 when Trump won the first time! Oh my goodness! She was so disappointed in me. That I knew was the start of her TDS. Haven’t talked to her in years.
Yes, they are always "disappointed" in you. It's so weird, that kind-of snobby head space. The way they are always so "well, if people just had the KNOWLEDGE that I and my fellow indoctrinees have; it's so sad they are so UNEDUCATED they fall prey to MISINFORMATION blahblahblah...."
We are Americans, we used to respect the fact that we live in a country where we can have differences of opinion. But she didn’t obviously agree with that. And I find they just spout “talking points”. If you ask them for specifics, they can’t answer you. I love the Canadian politician, Pierre Poilievre who has a couple of videos where he tries to pin people down to specifics, and they just can’t give him examples. Its amazing. So I need to challenge people more on specifics.
Love it. There I a right number of libtard friends and acquaintances , and I have them. It's called "Zero". You are on your way.
Sadly, this illustrates how so many people simply will.not.see. any of this until it affects them personally in a way they don't like.
I had a similar encounter. Her anger stayed directed to Trump and Co., but she wouldn’t stop ranting to let any other opinion to be heard. Some people are too far gone.
It really feels like a civil war is coming more now than pre-election. The only thing is their side is so small now. But they certainly are using rhetoric that will ignite a physical war quite easily just about anywhere in the streets today.
A fake civil war - paid for by leftist overlords.
Disagree. Saw a short 1 minute video of a scheduled protest outside the capitol last night. It was cancelled because of cold. it was 36. They are pussies, and even if they have guns, most don't know which end the bullets come out. The right will always win, because we have God on our side, self discipline, toughness, resolve, and we still think. All they have is rage, hate, and talking points someone gave them. Still surprised they learned how to dress themselves .
I never said they would win or that we aren’t strong enough, but I do believe many of them are being radicalized to amass an amount of rage that is humanly impossible to keep contained and many are going to lash out. Maybe in small pockets, maybe in larger mobs, but they will engage. There are less of them than us, so yes - we will win easily against anything they bring us. However, if I’m attacked in a grocery store parking lot by a couple crazy libs, I don’t believe I could protect myself. It would end up on social media but I would still be significantly harmed. That’s a different kind of warfare - attacking us one on one apart from each other.
I do believe it’s coming if those that have raged at me are anything to judge by. They are like caged animals right now that truly believe they are fighting for their lives and survival. 🙄
Perhaps I am an optimist, but I think most of any real fights will be with the cabal and illegal invaders who were inserted for just such purpose. I don't think normie libtards have the backbone to fight anybody. And if they do, remember Mike Tyson's brilliant quote. "Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face".
The left is going knucking futz! Of course there will be a big stink.
And their hold on the media which tried to convince us otherwise is imploding.
Is it because Left only get Main Stream Media news ?
Also, I believe, that Satan has a strong-hold on the Democrat Party. Pray for them!
I commented yesterday about a gentleman I know yelling at me for ten minutes about how horrible everything was and how it wasn't "godly" for these things to be happening (he is a reverend) he was HOPELESSLY confused as to what is happening. I couldn't honestly understand how he could only be getting this completely one sided idea as to what is occurring unless he ONLY listens to MSM. Or (unbeknownst to me) is beholden to USAID $ for his ministry. Who knows? Either way it caught me way off guard as I normally don't have those sorts of conversations at work but thought he was a conservative (godly) guy. Meh!
People who only listen to MSM have a totally different set of facts. They think they know what is going on because their MSM sources tell them what to think. And the many things that you and I hear and read about, they often know absolutely nothing about it other than the leftist spin. Even now with all the fraud exposed of what USAID is funding, you might assume that those people know about it too. They most likely don't. You simply can't break through that barrier with real facts. It is kind of like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. The good witch tells her should could have gone home all along, but she had to find it out for herself.
Correct, Melissa, and that's the reason we can't even have a rational discussion with them. The brainwashing runs deep. We are just talking past each other because we can't even agree on the basics about reality.
Melissa - yes, the curtain had to be pulled back all the way for Dorothy and her friends to see who was pulling the strings.
I have a dear relative who lives nearby, and she only believes what the TV tells her. I have tried to have serious conversations with her about things, but it's just not possible. She truly has TDS, with all it's accompanying symptoms.
Several liberal boomer women I know are enthralled by Heather.
https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-derangement-substack-profit-analysis
As I read the Bible (up to Acts 16 this morning, only started this serious, continuous read in April '23), I have come to wonder how many pastors have never read the Bible in its entirety. That might explain this pastor's confusion.
There are lots of pastors out there who are more or less self made - non-denominational churches with a 'make it up as you go along' approach to doctrine, but they are charismatic, have good people skills, and build congregations around what I call 'cafeteria Christianity' - picking and choosing what to adhere to. Non denominational is the fastest growing segment, and I 'get' that many denominations have their issues, mine included, but there is something to be said for formal training, and some level of oversight that a formal denomination has.
Cafeteria Christianity. That is a fine metaphor. Thank you; I intend to use it as needed.
The term "Cafeteria Catholics" has been around for decades....
What could be more schismatic than a denomination that only has one church congregation in it?
Looks like msm is already starting to crash without usa.i.d. bucks! 🤞
Please Lord, please help Trump's Adm. get the truth out.
I have been asking, for several months, daily, that those who don't know Him/don't love Him/hate Him may do a 180. Before it's too late for them. Before He exercises His justice.
I believe His justice is rapidly approaching us.
It's his party of demon-mongering useful idiots.
Also from places like reddit, tiktok, etc. My daughter graduated HS as a conservative but had started going down rabbit holes on places like reddit and 4chan and who knows where else (we did monitor and control what they were doing online until they got to 17/18 and at that point it became a 'pick your battles' thing and decided that as long as they were getting good grades and staying out of trouble that they had good enough judgement) and started picking political fights with me in her early 20s' and is a full on TDS/Bernie bro adherent in her early 30's now. She was never one for watching TV other than she loves old movies and classics, she never watched the news shows. She's an introvert as is her hubby - they don't get out much so I think most of her radicalization came from online forums and such. However, lefty relatives my age or older (turning 60 this year) do watch MSM and use those talking points and share that crap on social media. So I think it's a little of both - we all have circled the wagons in our own little echo chambers and there are few common things that we can gather around.
It is stories like this that make me grateful for that baseball scholarship my son got from a catholic university. I was always grateful for it as it kept him here in town, local to me and able to go to many games, but I am fairly certain it helped him avoid the indoctrination that is so common these days in universities. They just don't do that there as the entire school is run by the Sisters of Charity, and is still to this day fairly conservative. He's 35 and probably worse than I am about conservatism. Grateful!!
Same it seems in my world too. The left (a part of which I used to consider myself) is doubling down and seems blinder than ever.
BUT you eventually saw through it. We all have our 'wake up' stories (it was Ross Perot for me in 1992) so hoping and praying that more and more do have those wake up moments.
Same.
What this well-spoken man says NEEDED to be said. Now, itn needs to be heard - and judging by the number of 'likes', it is being heard. Will it be UNDERSTOOD? That's the question....let's hope so.
Can't drain a swamp without a fight...
Preempted by civil unrest, or undone when the pendulum swings the other way.
Elon has stated that making the changes permanent is on their minds; and I have learned that it is unwise to underestimate Elon and The Donald.
He said it was the only solution and I guess we have started seeing it, at least at the border but I can assure you that if the way it has been for the past three weeks…they are more than ready for what’s coming.
That last clip was great!
I hesitate to say it - still - but I wonder whether the majority of us did recognize something unusual was happening - that the world we grew up in (born in the 50s) was fading away, first slowly but in the past several years, much more rapidly. But we couldn’t put a finger on it, as has been said, and “they” made it seem we were the ones who were out of touch, stupid “old fogeys” hopelessly stuck in the past. That shut us up for a while but COVID was too much, and then normalizing pedos and LGBTQ+ and the trans cr@p they’ve been inflicting on our kids! We have all been being victimized, and then censored when we spoke out. Thank God there are still sane people - MANY more than they’d like you to believe - who want our Country, who want our world BACK! And who are willing to fight for it! God Bless America - let us be a bright, shining Light - a covenant Nation with the Almighty.
Are you sure the majority of people aren't falling for this? My husband and my relatives are still swallowing it hook, line and sinker.
Do you mean those “fake staged protests”? That’s sad.
My heart broke for him.
I suspect we are witnessing either the demise or re-imagining of the US. Perhaps a bit of both.. buckle up- either way we're in for a bumpy ride!
Seems like plenty are falling for warp speed 2.0, biometric surveillance grid, more support for the zionists, etc.
Exactly…this post is one of Jeff’s best. Truly exposes so many things
I definitely agree, we (me and my wife) have been reading C&C since the beginning and I can assure you that with out Jeff’s mental sanity and incredible sense of humor, we probably wouldn’t be living here anymore.
Just as a comment, yesterday my wife tells me,
“ If I would tough four years ago that I couldn’t wait to watch the daily briefing for the President press secretary, just to catch and confirm what I read at C&C in the morning “
I would think that I’m crazy.
Thank You Jeff and C&C Community.
GODSPEED.
Hah! I, too, have been checking the whitehouse.gov site several times daily, checking Karoline Leavitt's most recent expose, what Jesse Watters or Harris Faulkner (have you noticed how many of these public-face women are wearing a cross around their necks?) have to say, or listening to the Congressional grillings....in part to see what asses these Democrats are....
It is noticeable right, Christian everywhere now.
The DemonRats always lie to us about their numbers and supposedly we always were less than them…
I knew traveling around the USA back roads that that was a big big big lie.
No cabbage or tanmala flags in any regular home or farm.
They are done.
Lord, may thy will be done. And it appears that His will is being done! Now. Now--in our lifetimes. In our lifetimes? The Hebrews lived in Egypt 400 years. In the desert 40 years. Before the Messiah ~1000 years? All glory to our God. Thank you, Lord God. And thank you for your gift to us of your son, Jesus Christ.
This! I haven’t watched this many consecutively ever before. 🤣👍
Amen! My husband often complains that the younger generation is co-opting our generations music and asks them why they don't have their own.
My grandson only listens to Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Andy Williams,……my grandson is 17.
Once I played their music to him, it was over for his generations music. He says there’s nothing to compare it to.
And he’s right.
CStone - that's amazing, and quite astounding to me.
Classical music, I heard it everyday til I left home. It stuck.
Truth---I (brought up with classical music on my mother's stereo and under my own little fingers) happily listened to popular music from age 12-20. From then on, my junior year in college, classical only. Must confess that a change of boyfriend was part of that. Still with him.
I'm a boomer, but grew up hearing all these and they are my staples. Husband grew up with the Chieftans and lots of choral music--we never listen to "current" stuff. I have a lot of Christian music that I play when exercising, and there is some contemporary worship I like, but the choral stuff is so rapturous . . . hard to beat many voices in harmony. Even contemporary Christian music is kind of static . . . I still listen to Love Song and Maranatha Music. And Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell.
Heck, my dad had a reel to real tape recorder, and every Sunday, a local station would play a musical he would tape and replay over and over. How many kids have ever heard the soundtracks from the, "Oklahoma", 'Hello Dolly", "Flower Drum Song", "Desert Song", and one of my favorites that had an all too brief run because it came out in 1963, "Mr. President".
I bought a Time Life full set of Broadway musical soundtracks when I was a teenager, because in high school we sang all the scores you mention. I had the collection for decades. One of my favorites was "Lady in the Dark" with Gertrude Lawrence and Danny Kaye. <grin> Years ago I asked a young woman if she'd ever seen "The King and I" on TV. She was clueless. "Sound of Music"? Nope. I was floored.
Yul Brenner. Siam, before Thailand. Yeah, these kids have no clue.
Jeff, so well said! Thank you for piecing together the source of our discontent. It reminds me of Narnia when the frozen ice began to crack and the snow began to melt as the evil queen's spell was broken, and warmth and light and life began to flourish again. Life has slowly been being choked out, and now it's beams of light are starting to again burst forth! I can feel it too. I am finallybeginning to feel joy. What unprecedented times we are living in! And what grace God is shedding upon us!
What a lovely description of what most of us are feeling, Mazel Lee!
I hesitate to go out to eat in any restaurant anymore. They are usually 'blaring' current, horrible music. Makes one lose an appetite fairly quickly.
Yep. Stopped at a great local burger place last year. But the stupid 80's metal soundtrack ensured I would never do so again.
There's only so many million times I can hear the same ol' Bon Jovi or REO Speedwagon songs.
My oldest, age 40, once remarked (when he was in HS) he only liked the music old dead guys played: Jimi Hendrix, SRV, etc. Now he can crank out Crazy Train with the best of them ❤️
Our 20 something children all listen to our 80s classic music. They know today’s music is garbage.
Music is a huge part of my life. Music in the 80’s was a vast improvement over the acid rock of the 70’s. Much, if not most, of the new music today is terrible. Tyler Swift 🤢…. but there is really good Alternative Rock being release. I live outside of Chicago and we have a radio station called WXRT. They release new music every Thursday. We lived out of state for awhile and WXRT was one of the things we missed. You can find them online. Your children might like it. They feature a year on “Flashbacks” every Saturday, but if it’s from the 60’s-mid 70’s, I rarely listen.
Sorry, but I disagree. The'70's brought us David Bowie, and so many other greats. I think rock peaked in the '60's, and then each subsequent decade was slightly degraded, until by 2000, it was stable, and poor.
Don’t leave out the sixties with the Beetles and Motown, two extremely influential genres.
I think I said the '60's were the peak of rock and roll, in my humble opinion.
That’s okay. You can disagree. My husband constantly points out music from the 60s and 70’s that I like, but music triggers memories and much of the music brings about bad memories.
As a late boomer, we would never have considered listening to the music of our parent's generation (I remember my mother singing "Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom, my little heart goes boom", "Hi Lilly", "Abba dabba dabba said the monkey to the chimp" not to mention the music of the rat pack.). Now I go to the doctor or the dentist and get to tell the hygenist that the music they are playing was popular 50 years ago when I was in high school. One replied that they couldn't play modern music, that it wasn't "appropriate." I have been wondering what happened to creativity in music - how did it disappear? Then I remembered that they don't sing about love and marriage any more. Women's lib managed to ban it, along with having or caring enough about children to stay with them for a few months after they are born. Sad.
It’s all about vulgarity now.
Not really, I know many original composers who have incredible songs that will never be heard. Today's music industry is beyond corrupt. Just look at " the best Country album" this year..
My young missionary son sent this to me “ check out Suzanne Ostler Shippen
she is our pianist for the mtc choir who creates gorgeous arrangment of the songs we sing including songs like how great thou are in which you can here the rolling thunder in song in the way she rewrote it. Also includes organ.”
I am going to get her music.
That’s exactly what I meant though. If it’s actually creative and worthwhile, it doesn’t get any play or support 😕
You GOT THE TRUTH!! There's no love left! No truth! No loyalty! No trust! No Christ among the masses only dead oligarch idols.
But do you know where you WILL find new and vital and interesting modern music? In the Worship Music / Christian Music space. There is some really beautiful and inspiring music being written by young people right now
I find it sad. We have a library of tv shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s that my husband and I grew up on that we show to our sons aged 10 and under. They love them. We originally started it out of necessity when they were little due to the insidiousness of current children's programming but its turning into a way of life for them. The only saturday morning cartoons they watch are the old style ones on the old local channel (MeTV) but otherwise they stick in a TMNT disc or garfield, batman, etc. There is nothing good now. And we find out its not us, its the culture. That's kind of a relief.
Would you share favorites? We are doing something similar. No TV. Only carefully curated videos. So I'd love recommendations!
MacGyver (original, duh) has been excellent. Theres a few that have a greenie message but we mostly avoid those, or we might watch them and critique it. But hes always the hero, he always helps others, he always uses his wits, the good guys always win, etc. Classic boy stuff. Our 9 yrold has a mullet because he wants to be MacGyver :)
Star Trek Next Generation is also great for similar reasons.
The Muppet Show from the 70s
Classic Looney Toons, Tom & Jerry, Superman/Batman (90s), Animaniacs, TMNT, Classic Scooby Doo (60-70s), Garfield (90s), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (a rare gem from 2000s)
Those are the ones off the top of my head. The great thing is most shows are completely out on dvd now and pretty cheaply. Animaniacs and looney toons are the ones that are a bit hard to find complete, but the volumes are cheap on places like thriftbooks. Happy viewing!
Thanks so much, you've given me new ideas to look into!
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My granddaughter plays high school basketball. They were all warming up to MY music from the 80s. When I walked into the gym... Not looking too bad, the music playing was Back in Black. And I was rocking my black jacket. I even asked if they had permission from us to play our music... haha. But I also love Vivaldi.
You won't like it. They didn't like it!
You literally took the words right out of my mouth! I’m 60 and my husband is 70 and I read C&C out loud every morning. Today, I could barely get thru it as a lump in my throat grew. I have said many times that we (he and I) would be okay (though not the golden years we had dreamed of), but I had so much anguish and worry about our kids and their lives. I now have so much hope with President Trump at the helm! He kept saying (back when) that “…the best is yet to come!” …and maybe this is what he was talking about!
Exactly this! I had most of the parts in my head. Now I can see the web they create. I couldn't connect them all before this. Even the music part....my husband's band played locally. Cover songs from 70-2000's. We were always so intrigued that the 20and 30year old crowds knew all the 50 year old songs by heart! When we were that age, that would be like going to the bar to hear songs from the30's!!! To the point on fashion, we both still buy clothes that are basically the same as we wore in the 90's. There they are...in the store. I have known for decades about medicare/Medicaid payor mix because I managed an icu and dialysis unit. Private insurance bases their structure on it as well. Obamacare came in with other control metrics....payment was reduced if quality surveys fell below 97% ( questions like was your food warm, did the nurse answer your call bell fast enough,did you feel safe,was it quiet enough to rest). We are also docked if not enough staff are vaccinated for flu,or covid. We get docked if not enough nurses went back to get advanced degrees( titled the 80 x 2020 rule..meaning 20% of RN's refusing would work bedside care, the other 80% were intended to move to outside hospital and replace the doctor shortage with PA'S and nurse practitioners as they anticipated the influx of patients from age,chronic illness and immigration.( The hospital and the union have literally pushed me nearly weekly since Obamacare passed to go back to school. I am already past retirement age and no way I'm spending $25000 to get a 75 cent an hour premium for the next year or 2.) Everything is on line, virtually no clinical patient contact and consists of social construct management theory and statitistics. Bam you got your masters in a year or 2. You're only $50000 in debt.. I haven't seen a movie that's less than 20 years old except for a few Christian movies because 10 minutes in I'm disgusted. I can't listen to newer music because it's either the same electronic noise with some whining, rap or the lyrics are pure filth. The news is just the same fact less opinionated crap. The good news is it's lead me back to Christ, church, community and reading. And it lead me HERE. Jeff, you amaze me every day. I thank you for your insight and humor. You attract an equally amazing audience with insights I also enjoy and even cherish. As bad as everything seems, I find hope here every morning.
Yes! I tried to tell families during convid that they needed to fight the hospitals or avoid them entirely or their loved one would die. I had only one friend who actually believed me and avoided the convid protocol even though she had pneumonia and was an inpatient in a small hospital. It saved her life.
I am aware of the Medicare BS as I do the MC billing for the chiro office I work in. We are non-par so we and the patients get dinged and reduced coverage. Makes me angry.
I find the current medical system abhorrent and I avoid it. I am a very late boomer and I do not play any of their sick-care, BS yearly check games nor do I focus on disease.
I focus on health and positive mental attitude.
New movies mostly suck-way to much violence and sex (deviant stuff especially). New music, if you can call it that is awful. I listen to 70's and 80's stuff-many genre's.
This was a great stack! I feel completely vindicated for what I have been sensing/feeling/believing now for years. Way to go Jeff!
Interesting thing about Medicaid/Medicare that I found out in 2021: there is a regulation that says that nursing homes and hospitals cannot deny visitors for Medicaid/Medicare patients. (Obviously this rule was in place before covid, but it's a federal rule, and we were counting on staff not wanting to jeopardize their Medicaid/Medicare funding.)
My friends and I protested outside a facility that was forcing our elderly friend to wear a mask to visit her even more elderly friend in that nursing home. I wrote on my sign that they were breaking the law, and I listed the regulation. It worked for a while. Some of the staff said it was okay for her to visit without a mask. My other friend went along for moral support. But as soon as that other friend quit going, they started insisting on masks again for our elderly friend, and she just went along because she didn't want the hassle. 😢
The requirement for almost every profession to get advanced degrees is all about the money and additional indoctrination. The Democrats are in cahoots with the universities.
I've been saying for years that all they do are sequels, and all the old music is new again. And now we know why....
Right? I’ve complained that there is nothing creative in the movie world, just keep rehashing the same stories. I think this is why independent studios have suddenly taken off. Things like The Chosen have exploded.
Angel Studios is another investor owned studio that produces quality films. Most of us are small amount investors. We can rate trailers [actually longer than trailers] and watch movies when they are streamed or get cheaper tickets for the movies.
I can't wait for Speed 24....
lol
Probably 30 years ago, my mother gave me "Speed" on VHS as a gift. I remember looking at that box and I had no interest in watching it. I soon threw it in the trash. Why would anyone watch that crap, let alone want to own a copy? Then came the sequels . . .
I looked up the movies that came out in 1995 and was shocked, no wonder it seemed like we went to the theatres every weekend growing up! Even most of the crappy movies are a good time. We've not had that many decent movies come out in the last 10 years much less 1!
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1995-01-01,1995-12-31
Sling blue is streaming Goonies on Feb 8 at 5 pm on E!. I have the DVR set up. My kids watched it almost every time it came on and I loved watching it with them.
We watched the movie Emilia Perez and it is so amateur-ish, the songs are so bad... and it occurred to me that USAIDS may have funded this film and also the money to push it on the public with 13 Academy Award nominations.. It never made sense that Hollywood would collectively say this film is "the best film of the year" and push it with marketing so hard. I'm thinking now that its funding must be from USAIDS, or another cut out of gvt. money and I REALLY want to see/hear that Columbian musical... heh The Bee should get recordings for us to enjoy.
Emmies, Grammys, academys, Pulitzers- all bs.
I would love to see the Bee’s version!!
Agree. I was just going to say the same, but you beat me to it. Jeff, I don’t know how you do it. I love the way you anchored this piece in the frozen state that has descended upon us since 9/11. The “arts” are dead, and so is journalism, “science”, and so many other fields.
I’m choosing hope. Will this clean up effort underway last? Will we prevail? We don’t know the answer, but the only thing we can try is to try our best.
Art and SCIENCE! Literature! ALL GONE! ALL DEAD! There's no love left! No truth! No loyalty! No trust! No Christ among the masses only dead oligarch idols.
And architecture - Tucker likes to rail that we don't make beautiful buildings any more. I frankly never really noticed, and now I can't 'unsee' it. Some of these apartment complexes going up all around look more like prisons than homes.
My husband was given a book called, “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon” by David McGowan. I haven’t read it, but it’s about the amount of people in the music industry in the 1960’s whose parent was in the CIA.
Also have read that. It fits well into the history of the CIA which concluded at some point in the 1950s that it had to find some way to prevent actual communism from coming to America. So, it decided to create a kind of cultural rebellion among young Americans that could absorb any real disruption to society by going to Hollywood and fostering music and film that only appeared to challenge the establishment , while also being part if it. And thus, the 60s happened. It was all part of a plan: long hair, sandals, free love, hatred of all things establishment, and hippies.
YES! Have not read the book but someone in the C&C comments last year led me to his blog post https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/ The book is also available online at https://archive.org/details/weirdscenesinsidethecanyonlaurelcanyoncovertopsthedarkheartofthehippiedream2014b/page/n15/mode/2up Spent several nights last year reading through it randomly, books online is not really my thing. No idea if the book is still available to buy, but am constantly behind and have several others I have bought but not yet read. Fascinating stuff though.
OMG-McGowan writes some bombshell truth about the music industry and how the hippie culture was co-opted into garbage like Charles Manson. There is a whole subject to study. So much CIA manipulation going on in the rock n roll industry in particular. McGowan will make your head spin!
Dave McGowan went down a very dark and winding rabbit hole.
There's a lot of data out there now. Online. Truly "conspiratorial" stuff but very well documented.
(I went down there too. Read the book Joanne.)
Interesting...
I didn't like it and the whole first part and culture made me sick. I never thought our culture was getting better as I have aged and being "stuck", as I am a sixties child, had the best and worst and much seemed to get worse. I mean they really tried to sell US first paint for clothing without even one fig leaf! Nasty. The culture has moved... Naked and unafraid of Godly judgement in every arena. We ARE in a PIT and minds are so shrunken live with trauma cortisol that I can't see it's so dark, can't see my own hand in front of my face" dark. I do know this mental collapse. I'm living it. I don't care to exercise my creative instincts anymore.
Exercise your creativity. The world needs it!!
Yes!
I so agree. What a hugely important post. This sentence in particular is brilliant: “Morally worse, USAID is also the part that we inflicted on the rest of the world, a bureaucratic neurotoxin that has paralyzed global culture and science for a quarter decade now, a poison that killed, maimed, and destroyed — all in the name of virtue-signaling humanitarianism.”
Reminds me of The Matrix. Reading JEFF‘s analysis of the cultural stagnation and us being frozen in time is so eerily reminiscent of that movie. The brains of the souls in the matrix - set in the 80’s - when everything was comfortable and familiar. That movie aleays gave me chills.
That's exactly what Elon said...our world was like being in the Matrix.
Indeed!
Really a great article. I've suspected for years that almost everything that's defined our culture for the last 30 years (news, movies, TV, music, education, etc.) was propaganda. Actually, I just got into a "discussion" about it last night with a family member, lol.
As Jeff points out, it's all been one big "same" rehash. (My guess at a before-times date is around 2000.) But that is not how markets work. In a true free market, companies compete for customers, which means proliferation of different products. Options tailored to different segments of the market. There would never, ever be a sea of sameness without someone manipulating the market.
I didn't know the mechanism by which it was funded and controlled until this USAID exposure. USAID is the funding mechanism for the propaganda and the DOJ has been the enforcement arm. USAID pays organizations that craft or uphold the government's narrative, threatens to cut off anyone who won't comply, and pays others to squash the free thinkers. Those who don't acquiesce to the soft persuasion from USAID find themselves targeted by the DOJ.
And it's all ending. Imagine real creativity and innovation happening again. Combined with lower taxes and less regulation, we will see an explosion of productivity.
RU: I pray you are correct in that it is ending. If it is not then Jesus needs to bring it, asap.
Agreed. Excellent work 👏
I think it is hilarious how some people are screeching about Elon and his DOGE team auditing the government but they had no problem whatsoever with hiring 87000 more IRS agents to audit normal Americans and get access to any financial transactions over 600 dollars 🙄 They’re such flaming hypocrites 🙄
Armed IRS agents!!
Like Canadian politicians complaining about a 25% tariff from the USA when they say nothing about a YEARLY 20% increase in the carbon tax.
Precisely.
USAID or similar agencies poisoned Canada as well.
The good news yesterday: Dr. Charles Hoffe is off the hook in B.C.
The interesting news: Jessica Rose is on it and wonders: Hmmm... WHY NOW?
"All charges against Charles Hoffe suddenly dropped.
The timing is interesting..."
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/all-charges-against-charles-hoffe
She's like a dog who was thrown a big meaty bone. If I know Jess: Betting heavily that she's nowhere NEAR done with it. She's still connecting dots. Because? She's built that way.
Remember all the VAERS threads someone pulled apart within the data? DR. JESSICA ROSE did that!
Yep. She's just BUILT that way.
A very talented brainiac. A dot connector. Minutia oriented. Extremely curious. Certain data makes her brain go hmmm.
Which is why she earns her living practicing science instead of flamenco dancing or music, or surfing... But she does all that too. (A marvel of a human.)
Check her out.
👍Jessica Rose. Indeed, "A marvel of a human." Humble to boot. Exquisitely suited and situated for these times. I second your vote to check her out.
They were for the 80,000 irs agents because they were supposed to be auditing the rich, not waitresses & other low-paid hourly workers. They've been conditioned to hate the rich, not the bureaucrats that are keeping them poor.
but now the democrats are the party of the rich
Who are also rich, but exempt
Yeah the rich are totally doing 600 dollar Venmo transactions 🙄 Those people are so incapable of independent thought 🙄
Just mind blowing… “flaming hypocrites” the other “F” word perhaps in this case more accurately defines their evil…. Jeff you certainly outdid yourself today, as every comment testifies and salutes you…
I can't get $10k of my own cash out of the bank without filling out a form, but millions can be move into and out of the country via wiretransfer by noncitizens and no one bats an eyelash.
Right??? 😡
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ICYMI yesterday:
https://substack.com/@janicewordsbeyondme/note/c-91280615
Totally stealing this rhetorical statement to deploy on friends and acquaintances who are suddenly against government transparency. Thank you, RL!
You’re welcome! It’s not my original thought but it is certainly true. Also the screeching about unelected people running the country when they had no problem with whoever was standing in for The Cabbage doing it 🙄
Who do the protesters want looking into USAID? Politicians and their cronies?
First, who ARE the protesters?! Possibly the politicians AND their cronies?!!
Absolutely spot on!
Absolutely !
In December 2024 Congress passed yet another Continuing Resolution, (CR) to keep government running/spending money. Many on the right were angry when President-elect Trump asked Speaker Johnson to get it passed, which the Speaker did; to many it seemed to be more of the s-o-s.
Here in early February 2025 many on the right have forgotten all about that and now are very supportive of President Trump's actions related to reducing the size of government. It is very telling as we watch the left as they react in very bizarre and angry ways. They were taken by surprise at the swiftness of President Trump's team as they work to dismantle agencies and freeze spending.
Now a few weeks have passed and the left is starting to regain their focus, and they are making attempts to block President Trump's efforts. One of their primary weapons is running to the courts where a number of their allies, leftist judges, are attempting to stop President Trump's directives via judicial edict. Some on the right are concerned about this, but they shouldn't despair, the Calvary is on the horizon and running at a full gallop toward us.
Which brings me back to last December's CR. It was good for only three months which means in a little over a month Congress will have to address the issue again. The timing couldn't be better. With the massive swarm of lawsuits filed by the left, intended to clog the court's calendars which would paralyze President Trump for four years, the left thinks they are creating a stalemate.
However, they seem to have overlooked the CR issue. If the courts are clogged and blocking the President's orders, all he has to do is shut the entire government down and the courts will become powerless, toothless, or fangless leeches. To the left my advice to you is, Beware the Ides of March!
I sure would like to shake President Trump's, and his advisor's hand!
Excellent thought
Thanks, that means a lot; I attribute it to your high quality works which keeps all of us in good mental condition!
Trumps team has been planning this, and "wargaming" it for years. They are clearly abundantly prepared.
Trump knew what was behind the curtain and was determined to show everyone else.
And it's a glorious thing to behold!
The "Calvary" is in the rear mirror; it's the cavalry that is coming.
I was just testing you .... hahaha, thanks! 🤠
You know, I caught the error, but I just smiled because I feel so very much that it IS Calvary that is saving us. HE is just using the "Calvary" to do it. Praise His Holy Name.
Same!!
never could get those two straight
It's easy if you remember that the Lord comes first, so the 'l' comes first in Calvary.
"In the rear mirror"? I'm not following.
It already happened.
Or that you see it getting closer and closer coming up behind us to provide support
"Things in your rear view mirror are closer than they appear."
Good point! It will be interesting to see how this plays out!
He always seems to be 5 steps ahead. I'm waiting to see what the Ellison/mrna cancer plan was as there seems to be a connection to the Blackhawk pilot they hesitated to disclose:
https://open.substack.com/pub/georgewebb/p/black-hawk-take-down-part-three?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=z1r1u
I think we are fooling ourselves if we think that government spending is actually going to decrease in a meaningful/substantial way. Trump only ran up the deficit by a record $8 trillion his first time around, which many seem to have memory holed. Time will tell.
Very possible but our options seem to be a bit scant.
I agree. This is amazing.
Thanks, yeah, I have a lazy proofreader on my staff, tha bum!!! 👁👁
Bring in a DOGE team and purge those goof-offs!!
It is a trustworthy saying and deserving full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost. Yet for this reason I was shown mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate all His patience as an example for those who are going to believe upon Him for eternal life. Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
— 1 Timothy 1:15-17 LSB
I wonder if Timothy was about the same age as the Doge Boys? 😇
Probably
Amen.
(In humbleness to what the One True God is doing.)
His Word is true and there's nothing new under the sun.
I. Can’t. Keep. Up. 😂 😅
We are seeing the veil of deception being torn and ripped to shreds! I just had an interaction with a lady online because she is one of the ones who wants Elon investigated for uncovering all this. 🤯
The stupidity rages on - but Trump is pulling out all the stops. He is the new ROCKY 2.0!
I so loved his message too - that if he is assassinated by Iran (or whoever else) he already has his backup plan in place and the fury of real retribution will be released! Contingency 2.0.
Go Trump and this new and improved administration. We. Are. With. You!
I manage to only keep up by reading C&C, Gato, 2nd Smartest Guy, EUGYPPIUS, Sasha, and a few others. As well as the comments. It’s a good thing I am effectively retired. This list doesn’t include the health research.
Also for humor & truth read Jenna McCarthy.
She’s great!
That’s a lot of reading. I read most of the same, although C&C is #1, and if time allows some of the others. 2nd smartest has turned me off lately.
I have a pile of substacks I subscribe to and can never keep up, although the list changes - my only constants are C&C and el gato malo - some over time eventually annoy me, like Malone and I drop only to pick up another along the way.
Yes, I didn’t totally drop Malone, but the only thing I read is the Friday Funnies! But reading much beyond C&C and the comments can consume a huge chunk of your day!
It is a huge commitment to read the C&C comments. I try bur the days when there are 700 comments it’s tough.
He certainly give me more to think about. Sometimes i struggle with being too comfortable. I should have added MAA as well and Igor when he posts.
Great list, Doc. ty for sharing
I would include John Carter in that list for long-form essays. Astonishing reading.
Add in American Thinker and Lew Rockwell if you can.
I wish I had more time to read authors then write & read comments
Another recommendation: https://theharrumphsociety.substack.com/p/spy-vs-spy
Harrumph Society!
Yep. Pretty effective life insurance. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Iran actively protecting our President in the near future 🤣.
I used to think waste fraud corruption was something on the margins, and it is truly heartbreaking to find out that it is not on the margin but it is the whole system
My daughter in law “I just fear for my daughters future” “I didn’t vote for Musk” (No she voted for Harris) You will all benefit from Trumps actions, you’re welcome!
Well said
I can’t keep up either!! I thought I was last week and felt hungry for newer news than I already knew about. But yesterday and today so far is like a tsunami over my brain. I can’t keep up!!
As for X, I too have been interacting with some delusional libs, but some are downright certifiably insane. I’ve noticed a surge of liberal defenders back on X in the past 6 days slowly rising until yesterday it’s now flooded. They have received their marching orders to curb the power of the right and control the narrative and how to frame things. The TDS is huuuuge. Most are attacking Trump again too, and today many are even regurgitating the “Trump staged his assassination” theories and claiming he intentionally allowed a supporter to be shot and killed and his plans for Gaza proves one human life is nothing to further his “dictatorship”. 🤣 I’m sorry, it’s like reading posts from 2-3 months ago. It’s so old and overly beaten and nothing rings true when you use your own God-given intelligence. You cannot reconcile that kind of man with who we are watching today.
Anyway, I’ve been called a fascist more times than I can count, a cult member, even the C word. They really came out of the woodwork in droves - I wonder what happened this week to cause that ? 🤔🤔🤔 🤣🍿
I left Facebook for that reason (and others, ie: data harvesting). The majority of my so-called friends and acquaintances started name calling and it got brutal. One even asked how I got radicalized. The general liberal consensus is tribal and violent. But then that's also how social media was set up to be, to provoke and amplify that.
I think you nailed it. They got their marching orders. Their heads stopped spinning long enough to take their dizzy brains to X and sore irrational junk 🙄.
I JUST got on X against my own will 😂 because last time I was on Twitter 8 years ago it was a cesspool. But, now I want to follow Elon to see exactly what he’s saying. It’s the only reason I did Truth Social…to know exactly what Trump said himself rather than someone’s interpretation of what he said.
Let the crazies crazy themselves into their own crazy world. Sanity has risen up and common sense has taken over. They will continue to wake people up with their crazy.
I just lurk on X but I get on a few times a day just to see what is trending, and noticed the same thing. It's like there was some kind of a plot launched on Blue Sky to flood the zone.
Wow! I am sorry that people have been so abusive towards you. That’s a lot.
Honestly you can limit how much you see and your timeline eventually shows mostly only the people you want to hear from. So I see all the larger independent news, the best citizen journalists, other patriots, a lot of Christians, and those that follow my Keto/carnivore diet.
You can absorb the news without having to comment/reply ever, which is probably the safest way for anyone that doesn’t want or can’t handle an occasional leftist monkey pile. I’d say 80% of my engagement draws mostly patriots, 10% alternative opinions spoken without direct malice, and 10% nasty people. That’s about what we see here on our favorite Substacks. I’m slowly building a thick skin. (Slowwwwwly) That wouldn’t be possible in the days before Elon, but the voices of others like me are many now and that really helps. I’m glad I never used my account before last fall, but it was harder then because the spiteful and hateful libs were all over the place campaigning for Harris and it was like boot camp for a sensitive spirit. But I felt it important to let my voice for Trump be heard as one of my only ways to “make a difference” and help campaign, so I had to learn to deal with it.
I couldn’t have handled it at all pre-Elon when most conservatives were silenced. My hats off to those that remained on Twitter in those years. I hear it was awful and if last fall was just a taste (but with conservative support around you,) yikes! But life took me away and I was checked out in those years.
The past two weeks remind me of pre election night where there were just as many wackadoos as reasonable people. I’m pretty sure half the wackies were paid shills and the other half ran to Blue Sky but come back on occasion to try to influence opinion with insults. Lol.
I think it is important to keep this in perspective... The USAID is a CIA cutout. It is not the heart of the beast. The CIA must be destroyed as President Kennedy said and was then killed. And those responsible should be remanded to Guantanamo to rot for the rest of their lives........................................
USAID – A Criminal Organization Within the Deep State
Posted Feb 5, 2025 By Martin Armstrong
....I warned you that this is going to get much worse. I wrote a book, The Plot to Seize Russia, where I was asked to invest $10 billion to fund Hermitage Capital to implement a regime change in Russia. I refused. I was then held in civil contempt for seven years without charges until the Supreme Court ordered them to explain why I was being held. Then they released me.
I have had a front-row seat and seen far more than I ever desired.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/usaid-a-criminal-organization-within-the-deep-state/
The downfall of USAID is the downfall of neocon warmongers. Bill Kristol is raging in his bunker: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/downfall-usaid-bill-kristol-neocon-ngo
It's been a long time since anything made me feel that good!
USAID is the first battle and is fought for trust. The success of this takedown will create the foundation of trust among US citizens from which the bigger battles can be fought. It's actually pretty brilliant political strategy.
Yes, you are right on point. The crony cabal is falling deeply into the trap of focusing on inside baseball in DC, while most of the country is seeing for the first time the naked presumption of these awful people, that our money is their money to do with as they will. They are focused on USAID cover stories (saving babies) and not at all grasping how aghast 99% of Americans are, not only over the content & waste of these 'projects' but the duplicity & fraud of the mechanisms.
I agree. I see it as just the start and a strategic way of attacking all this.
Trump may get another term when this trash can is upended, though he may not want to run again.
DeepState has insurance policy agencies globally too, to destroy the main nest is great but this will be protracted and diffiCULT to completely unravel and take apart. When we hear Soros is tied into USAID-CIA it makes sense...the Progressive Elitist Occult Robber Barons took over and incorporated all players most everything everywhere 1840s-1990s and the RESULTING Monoculture of Authoritarianism is where we are 1990s-present (A New World Order can emerge....meaning Full Control and Revealing Itself). The "Conspiracy Theory" origins is reality...but as i mention about the 2021 Jan 6th National Guard deployment in D.C.,
NOT even an internal debate or misstep other than deciding later to sweep Operation Pipe Bombs off the ledger. Someone IS already ominously running things 99% as a DICTATOR and the Leftist DeepState NeoCon Alliance formed in the 1930s til present follows Orders and the Plot of Death and Control nearly 100% as a CULT.
Who am I to disagree with a "Negotiations Professor", but I don't agree with this article. I probably am not articulate enough to summarize why, but saying Trump's negotiation tactics are wrong for leading the US on the global stage, and he must play nice (integrative bargaining, win-win), because the world is too interconnected and complicated, I don't agree with. We need someone to play win-lose for the US, because we have been playing lose-win for way to long.
KILL THE DEEPSTATE (or it will kill anyone and everything it doesn't control)
I tend to agree which perhaps makes Trump's negotiation strategy of win-lose more appropriate than we realize.....................
Distributive Bargaining
Posted Feb 6, 2025 By Martin Armstrong
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/distributive-bargaining/
Israel's Haaretz on the Trump-Netanyahu Press Conference
Two articles published in the Israeli opposition daily Haaretz shortly after the Trump-Netanyahu press conference take note of a number of features of the occasion that other media coverage ignored.
First: “The news was so shocking that it distracted from the fact that Trump said he would make a decision on Israel’s potential annexation of the West Bank within the next four weeks—a potential paradigm shifting event for the entire Middle East.”
Second: The widespread idea that Trump would pressure Netanyahu on Stage 2 of the ceasefire “went out the window after Trump quickly shifted the goalposts from focusing on the hostages to calling for a U.S. takeover of Gaza.”
Criminal?
Like the "25% tariffs", I'm thinking this is but the Art of the Deal again. We will have to see how it plays out.
It’s not difficult to understand on a base level: JRK created it, the CIA killed him and took it over.
The files.
Those JFK files.
Certainly Trump, et al., know this, probably from insiders who are helping them. It seems that the beast's work was accomplished in no small part through funding of their ears, eyes, mouth, and hands via USAID grants, so perhaps this will cripple the beast sufficiently, at least for a time, to allow a follow-on attack. (Trump did attend a military school.)
Oh yes. This is but the opening phase of the war to destroy the NeoCons.
Investigate every single program and official involved in USAID for its history. JFK set up Peace Corps and other Fair Deal programs for Global "assistance" and curtailing USSR Communism; let's Finally see the entire who what when where why and how often of CIA end runs around Congress and Presidents (from 1940s-2020s) that only serve to obstruct their plans or are too friendly to the Commies to be in the know, but can be made compromised sufficiently to procure support.
The Leftist Media and Masses can only weakly "protest" and temporarily resist the Long Awaited (by Populists) dismantling of the official channels of corruption so entrenched in the Fedocracy. It is the first and ONLY opportunity we will ever be allowed to full throttle uproot, burn, and salt the soil this bad GMO seed has been sown, grown and methodically cultivated from. Don't let it stop, it shouldn't stop, it won't stop, we shouldn't stop! (Right KoupMala???)
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I am guilty of schadenfreude. And I’m not one bit sorry. The legions of leftist loonies, losing their ever loving minds over what doge is exposing makes me gleeful, ecstatic, happier than I’ve been in years. That these people, the people who wanted to lock us up in camps and take our children, muzzle us, and ban us from society, are now feeling the repercussions of their actions, gives me great joy. So I will accept responsibility for this sin, and I will ask for forgiveness. But I’m not one bit sorry. Must one be remorseful to receive forgiveness?
I am so thankful for Jeff Childers and Coffee & Covid for exposing these realities day after day after day after day. Thank you, Jeff!
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I wonder if we are to feel guilt or sorrow over our enjoying seeing a demon become defeated by God?
Definitely joy.
Seriously, though, Nard, this is what I say when I go to Confession! In our Act of Contrition, we in part say, "I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to confess my sin, do my penance and to amend my life." I'm a work in progress.
OMG...I find it so entertaining...
Thanks for the explanation on why culture is stalled.
Often wondered why kids were listening to the music I grew up with in the 70s and 80s.
Just thought it was because it was good music.
Loved the photos of fashions in the 40s and 50s. Such beauty.
And look at the deevolution in music and fashion. Rap has to be the nadir of music. And youngsters wore torn clothes until many of them realized it’s easier to just wear pajamas. Buildings are now just square boxes, aren’t there any architects left? We need to reenergize having pride in ourselves as higher beings and stop settling for whatever culture tries to shove down our throat. And can we please have another color besides gray?
I went to look at new Mazda vehicles. Apparently "machine gray" is the popular color for not only Mazda, but other carmakers also.
I told the Mazda guy, "I was stationed onboard a Navy ship and everything was painted gray. I hate gray."
Ha… I got the cherry red with white interior… they tried to sell me that hideous grey one with that blood colored interior. They finally found what I wanted 3 states away and I had it the following week. I have no regrets telling them what I wanted… it was my money after all! Glad your on Kathleen… always love your comments 😊
That cherry red color is beautiful...it has real depth to it.
I HATE that color!! I told my husband the first time I saw it that it was the most drab look one could drive. Like what people would drive who were in an authoritarian, communistic country. And our clothes would match. 🤣 I don’t crave carnival orange, but I’ll never drive a pile of dead campfire ashes.
I remember going to look at cars during the pandemic and all the dealerships had new cars out front that were battleship gray or brown. It was so obviously staged. Who ever came up with those bland color choices knew something was up, since that color palette was planned years in advance.
All the gray CCP-looking cars on the road has been an annoyance to me for years now and lots of gray in new homes. I really enjoyed my bright blue climate-changing 🤪 vehicle that I had until recently.
That blue color was safe from DEWs.
Kathleen I really like how you think.
Thanks! It is kind of weird how blue-colored items survived the fires in Maui and CA.
I had a purple Firebird convertible from 95-2004. Still miss that car. Can't afford a new one now, and frankly, can't find anything I like that I can afford, so limping along in a 14 YO car for now. Bring back more muscle cars!!!
My son in law collects the muscle cars of his youth (born in 1969). He does have one purple convertible with a white top. Idk if it’s a Firebird tho.
...and manual transmissions!
eh....my first car, a Chevy Nova had a manual, and after 3 months I still couldn't get the hang of it. I guess hand eye coordination is not my thing. Sold it and bought a (beat up old) Camaro with automatic.
Wall street. Same here.
Don't get a Mazda. Not well built. Many problems and they do not back it up well.
I have been driving Mazdas for 41 years.
The current two Mazdas I have were built in Japan.
You can check where you car was manufactured by the VIN number.
My husband and I feel the same way. Why are all the cars the same look and your choice of black, grey, or white with an occasional red thrown in there? What happened to all the variety of the 70s ?
That’s how we both ended up with lime green cars, lol. We don’t love green in particular, just wanted something that wasn’t boring. (Mine is a Jeep Wrangler and his is an off road 4runner).
Plus, that color is easier to be seen by other drivers.
The other ones blend in too much with the environment.
And me too! I never lose my car in a parking lot.
On the 101 freeway next to Oracle, the cars have been black and white and gray for years at the Mercedes dealership. It wasn’t long until I noticed 90 plus percent of the local cars driving around were white or black or gray. Visitors from other countries asked why!???? Mind control to Silicon Valley …!!!
It’s all part of the “You vill have nuzzing and you vill be heppy “. Runway models wearing eclectic thrift store mismatched old clothes, kids in their ripped, shoddy junk and t-shirts to weddings. We are not to have anything new or nice. They have been normalizing this old garbage fashion for many years so we get used to shoddy poorness.
Hey! I'm old and LOVE my vintage clothes. 😉🤣
Disclaimer: Purchased many of my cherished garments "new" in the 70's & 80's however still scour thrift stores for high quality vintage pieces.
Pret-a-porter garments "back in the day" were constructed so much better than the "branded" off-the-rack crap manufactured today, costing HUNDREDS.
Give me vintage pieces. Any day of the week.
I also think a lot of the cultural stagnation is rooted in a deep misanthropy. It's like our "elite" think we don't deserve beauty. Brutalist architecture is probably the best example of this. Why would you force people to live in these colorless boxes? It's demoralizing.
That’s a hallmark of totalitarian regimes too.
Kind of like China under Mao...the people wore those horrible plain clothes and rode bicycles.
Mussollini's Italy too.
And Austria... Small wonder I was depressed when I lived in Austria.
I'm always invigorated when visiting small towns that throw bright paint on their walls and houses and murals.
Do you ever go on vacation and see a building built hundreds of years ago and marvel a the beauty? And then come home and every building being built is steel and black and white? Just… ugh. Ick. Bring back beauty and creativity!
Exactly!
Renaissance here we come🙏
Yes a renaissance of creativity, beauty, workmanship that lasts for years...quality! Done by good hearted people, wow the mind boggles.
And what is with the new colors of cars coming out?
Fashion in the 2000s is multi-colored hair, major piercings, cross dressing, and raging in one’s car over perceived grievances. What a wonderful time to be alive.🙄😅
Or a cat suit.
Pink/purple hair, and full sleeve/chest tattoos. In the context of this article, I could see that promoted to hinder relationship forming/reproduction.
Ahh yes! Tattoos! I forgot about tattoos!🤦🏻♀️😅
It's very "interesting" to see what some of the young "ladies" wear to the gym these days. 🥺😵😳
I collected vintage clothing from the late 30s to the 80s. Hats, bags, jewelry too. The 40s women's suits were works of art, really. I then created vintage fashion shows that wove the history of that time with the characters I created who wore the garments. Sometimes I would close with the wedding gowns of a few that were in the group I was doing the show for. (Usually, someone else would have to wear it). I opened with a prom dress from 1939 worn by Mary and what was going on then. Then I would reveal that the dress was my mother’s and Mary Ann was going to her prom. I still tear up thinking about this. I eventually had to give it up as finding models to fit these garments even in the late 1990s was impossible.
I have a collection of lucite purses that were popular in the 50s.
They are so whimsical to me and think so many of them are works of art.
The first one I purchased was at the Eastern Market flea market in DC and I only paid $40.
...and some of them have become so expensive on Ebay.
Here's a link to folks who need a visual:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=vintage+lucite+purses&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311
I have a couple of those. I sold most of my other vintage bags but kept these. Those thousands of dollar designer bags now are actually boring along with obscene when you think of them and the costs. Suckers born every minute. Yeah, yeah. Investments —but one ink mark or makeup smear and you are carrying the equivalent to a Ford Pinto.
I used to "save" them from being used.
Now I use everything I own. No more keeping china in the cupboard. Now they are my everyday dishes. Crystal goblets to drink water.
Just wait until I start wearing my full rhinestone collections!
I have done that but the vintage garments are a no go. Women were much smaller and shorter. I’d probably need pre-teen girls now as models. But looking around now………🤔
Yep.
My mum is 92. I managed to fit into the dresses and suits she brought to Canada with her from Italy, via ship, in 1956, until I was about 18.
My goodness but her waist was bloody TINY!!! (She lived through WW2 though. Not enough food for a family of 10. Plus nonno.
I have saved many of those garments. As well as her 2 large (metal) trunks.
Mum's trousseau was mostly sewn by seamstresses. Remarkable workmanship.
Unapologetically: What a treasure! ❤️
I noticed how much smaller the sizes were when I visited a vintage clothing store.
Knew there was something extra special about you Kathleen.
"We vibin'".
I had a lucite purse as a teen. I also had an original Barbie doll and record players with 1,000 records. If I kept everything I ever owned I could sell it as vintage.
WOWSA!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Oh wow that sounds so cool!!! I would’ve enjoyed something like that so much! 😍
I had some crazy polyester pink dress that was all shirred up in strange places with elastic peek a boo spots . Very 80s. It looked like a twisted pink worm hanging off my hand. I would hand it to a skinny model to go back and put it on. Then we and the audience would time out how long until she came out CORRECTLY dressed. It was a hilarious moment as I picked different models each time. I would carry on and eventually she would come out. I had one model who admitted defeat. Such fun but very stressful to put together.
I love this comment thread Jane. (See mine I just posted before running across yours. You and I vibe... 😉... as all the cool kids say.)
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My mom had a leopard skin coat. It was her treasure from a by-gone era—1950’s— and she rarely wore it. Exquisitely crafted. I loved wrapping up in that amazing warmth and soft fur.
We just watched an explanation on music and a lot of it goes back to Cher's Do You Believe. They electronically corrected her voice because she could no longer hit some notes.. Since then, they electronically correct for everything and you lose the artistic elements of imperfection.
There's a pretty famous live recording of cellist Pablo Casals playing some concerto (I can't remember which one) but he was quite out of tune in one part. Today, that would have been corrected in post-production, but the tech wasn't available at that time so we have it as it was performed live. And the world survived. I think the post-production manipulation is one of the worst innovations to happen to music. Music is made by humans. It's okay if there are some imperfections.
Absolutely agree. I think most vocal tracks have autotune to some degree. And you can hear it, too. It's just too perfect. The subtle nuances of the voice are missing. I want to hear a human voice in all its imperfection, not a machine.
Precisely!
I like listening to "demos". That's when you find the good, authentic stuff.
Like Stevie Nicks' demos.
I saw that feature in a recording studio. It does mask poor vocals.
Good morning Kathleen. This was a good one, wasn't it?
It was excellent.
Right, I have 2 of my grandfather's hats hanging on my wall.
I tried keeping all my dad's 50's and 60's hats but one by one, they disappeared.
Doubtful they survived my nephews and son...
I recently put on led Zeppelin album as someone had it in a huge rack of CDs at work. Total garbage and unlistenable!! Seriously, just awful. This was my favorite band in high school? What was I thinking? I wasn't thinking actually, I was seventeen.
No our music wasn't good (aside from a few notable exceptions) but it was our music. Our clothing and hairstyles weren't good either, they looked absurd. My ninth grade school photo has hair to my shoulders, a Hawaiian shirt, and puka shells. Just absurd looking and embarrassing, did I really look like that?
But you bring up a good point. If we had been listening to Tommy Dorsey or Frank Sinatra in high school people would have thought we were insane. Same with wearing zoot suits, letterman sweaters, or fedora hats, it would have been unthinkable. Yet timewise, those were the rage only a few decades before. Now people from 2002 are indistinguishable from present.
But I think we are missing the big picture here, it's not that we were so great and trailblazers, we were awful. Typical self-centered Boomer mentality that somehow our rebellion against tradition was noble and upright. Just maybe it was the opposite, in fact that's a far more realistic explanation. Led Zeppelin really was a horrible band and a terrible influence.
We were encouraged to toss aside decades of tradition that had been the glue of society. We were encouraged to rebel and create a destructive counter-culture. Once the hedonistic counter-culture became the norm, the march of culture was frozen in place. That happened because that's what those in charge wanted. Continuous upheaval was no longer needed or even desired.
The true underground counter-culture is happening now but it doesn't make the news. It's people getting married earlier and having kids. It's reading the Bible. It's attending Traditional Latin Mass. In other words, all those things that were tossed aside back by the Boomers in the 1960's when this all pretty much really started.
We Boomers need to stop flattering ourselves that kids are listening to "our music". Our music was terrible, no one will be listening to it a hundred years from now. It was vulgar, simplistic, and it was the signature of a vapid culture that stood for nothing other than hedonism. Kids listening to it now is a bad thing, and if kids are listening to it it is because it serves a purpose of those calling the shots.
Zeppelin was just one genre from our era. I call them the stoner genre. Like Pink Floyd. A few talented pieces did come out of those kinds of bands, but that’s it. Most were just an empty, demonic trip. Except for one single song, I can’t stand listening to any other Zeppelin today. It leaves me feeling empty and icky. No thanks.
BUT there were a LOT of other genres in our time that ARE worth listening to these days. (Guardians of the Galaxy revived so many good songs. Lol.) So much I forgot about from the 60s and 70s that are really fun to listen to still.
But back in HS I was addicted to true golden oldies era (50s-60s) because my father played them all the time. And Elvis. These were ALL only 10-20 years prior to my school years and I was considered weird by my classmates for liking them. 😆 And … Bee Gees 🤣 I can’t help it, I liked bands that had talented, unique, and amazing voices.
The difference in the quality of the 50s-70s music to the 80s is a night and day difference. It all changed sooo fast. But the difference between the quality of the 2000s and today? It’s minimal, except for the rap which is unlistenable.
I do love a lot of cool Indy rock from the 90s and early 2000s, but I’ve not heard ANYTHING since then that has grabbed my interest at all. Last summer we just played the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtracks when floating in our pool. LOL
I'm With Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNmrsbu-hc
I know. The host venue suffers bigly from a standard of credibility. If you can overlook that and give the music a listen, there's nothing like live.
Just under a decade ago when visiting a college friend of 40 years I told I had a new favorite band. Of course the question came, Oh? Who? I'm With Her, said I and friend said, Oh! We have tickets to see them in a couple of weeks! Made me happy.
Don't know your taste so you might be bored. This is not rock; it's from the back porch, acoustic, updated. What does it for me, always has, is the blend of voices, the most beautiful of musical sounds - and material, that they write most of collaboratively, a throwback concept to the '60s-'70s.
I agree there are other bands/music from the '90s forward but mainstream exposure has not been theirs to enjoy, which in the end might be a blessing. Jeff Black, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mandolin Orange, Avett Brothers, Chris Stapleton (getting some recognition in recent years), Tift Merritt, Delta Rae, Kate Rhudy and lots lots more. Legit music is out there, never went away, just stayed somewhat obscured - popular culture having been carefully managed etc.
I don't know...Led Zep was incredible.
then there is the medical community - demonizing anything besides death jabs
There used to be popular radio stations that people actually listened to that aired new music. Maybe that still exists, but I don't know. I listened to those stations in my car back when I drove.
I noticed the same thing, my ‘80s born daughter listened to the same music I grew up on. Pre-covid while I was still lefty I was listening to a radio station that played actual new music and it was great (not rap, although being part of npr they had to bend the knee and have some rap programs). When the op started they and all the “artists “ they played went full on shutdown followed by full vaxx crazy (“you will have to show proof of vax for the show “). At that point I was done and music is ruined for me, I don’t listen to anything. Music for me was always about freedom and expression, it was an illusion and once exposed there is no going back.
I broke down and got a family Spotify account so I could curate my music. Mostly I listen to renaissance choral music or instrumental compositions ranging from early baroque to the romantic period. I used to love listening to pop music, but I just can't stand being lectured by the artists. I know Vivaldi or Saint-Saens or Tchaikovsky won't be scolding me about anything :)
Right?? They can’t just create and let you enjoy it, they have to lecture and posture and virtue signal 🙄
Exactly.
Fantastic read. I work as a high school teacher and we recently had a staff spirit day, "dress like you did in high school". It was meant to be silly and have all the generations of fashion visible and of course show how old we really are. I've been out of high school for 20 years (almost) and I didn't participate for one main reason... No one would know I was "dressed up". There's nothing distinguishable between 2005 and 2025 and I thought it was incredibly odd. This makes so much sense.
And the movies of the 30’s and 40’s! The best!
The fashion of the 40's and 50's! Elegance and style.
Makes one cry when we compare it to today.
Elegance!
I love watching movies from the 40s and 50s because everyone was so nicely dressed.
And thin...
"And thin"... lol.
Incredibly so.
Please... let us go back to the 50s fashion... and 50s health. I was born in 1950 and if you saw pictures of my gorgeous mom, you would think today she must have been from eastern Europe or Spain or Latin America. My dad, a young man, also was trim and fit and wore simple, manly fashion. Today, not only are we physically fat and sick but it is reflected in our sloppy, unattractive fashion as well.
I know, I appreciate the beautiful styles of that era too! I tend to dress up more because I like to, and people always either compliment me almost in awe that I’m so dressed up or conversely, act like I’m trying to shame them or something 😕 Maybe it makes them feel bad about dressing sloppily, I don’t really know. Honestly I don’t care much about how other people dress but it’s weird how throwing on a dress and some nice shoes is seen as some amazing feat. It’s nice that we don’t have the pressure of always being dressed to the nines, with hats and gloves and so on, but somewhere along the line, that went waaaay to the opposite extreme.
I made a decision a few years ago to never again wear pants when going to church. It's just my thing. I saw all the gender blurring taking place in our culture and I thought, "I am going to dress in an unambiguous way when attending Mass." I bought several dresses and now I just rotate through them for Mass (I go to daily Mass frequently). Other Mass goers noticed and I frequently get asked if I have to go to work directly after church. I tell them my reasoning and it's a little surprising to hear the responses. Same as you, RL, some are complimentary and others accusatory as if I'm trying to shame them. Once I upped my game, so to speak, my husband - who has always dressed neatly for church - decided he was going to step it up too. It's been nice. It changes your mindset. P.S. I actually find wearing dresses to be the easiest option. Once piece and no thinking. I love it.
I go to Mass wearing a dress and head veil. I usually attend FSSP TLM, but I do not change my dress or headwear for Novus Ordo.
I follow St. Padre Pio's instructions for Church clothes.
My youngest daughter veils at Mass, Pamela. She says it helps her focus more and keep distractions at bay.
I like that! And I love seeing others dress nicely! It is uplifting to me. Agree about the 1 piece easiness of dresses!
The last time I went to an off-Broadway show, a woman heaved into her seat next to mine wearing sweats!
And the average shopper at Walmart has a pretty good chance of being "dressed" in pajamas! When I go to Walmart, I am in and out in lightening fashion.
I avoid Walmart in general because I almost always have a bad experience there 😕
Same. It’s a terrible shopping experience.
It is torture to shop there.
Oh em gee...
Aww what a shame 😞
I see that also. I’ve been to some really amazing performances and I’m shocked quite often by the lack of even trying. I get that everyone come from different economic situations but seriously sweats and even a few in Jammie bottoms… ??? 🤷♀️
It’s all about “comfort” now 😕
Growing up in the '60s and '70s we always dressed nice for church. I still tend to do that. But I feel somewhat like an outlier for that now.
Ok. But consider yourself a trend-setter... 😉
Avant-garde!
And going out to restaurants!
I'm with you! I'm a scarf person and along with some of my jewelry, I love to be presentable! No apologies, no regrets!
I wear dresses and skirts a lot, especially in the summer. And almost every day someone (men and women both) will say something like ‘that’s a pretty dress’ . I honestly buy a lot of my clothes on Amazon so we aren’t talking about anything fancy, I think it’s just rare to see a woman wearing something feminine. And I’m in my mid 50s, so it’s not flirting, lol.
Same!!
(Except the buying on Amazon part. I find it too hard to tell whether I will like the fabric or if the item will fit me properly and I hate bothering with returns).
Oh I return tons of stuff. 😂 There’s a UPS store just down from my gym, so it makes it easy.
For me it’s because of the lack of styles for those who are very short, well-endowed, and gain weight only in the gut. Unless you buy maternity clothes, nothing fits right and it ALL looks sloppy. If I’m going to be forced to look sloppy because of this, then I might as well just wear my leggings and a sweatshirt.
I set about to lose all my weight and I’m 4/5 of the way there. I look better in more things now but I have NO dress-up or professional clothing that fits (it’s all from 30 years ago when I was a Barbie doll size 4-6) and when I try to buy something new there is nothing out there that looks nice on me. Short people have it the worst. Dresses look awful if you don’t have a smaller waist. I could hide my gut and double D chest if I were 5’10” easy! But when you are 5’2” it’s near impossible. A tent thrown over my head looks better than what’s on the racks.
I know there is fashion out there that I could look good in, but it’s extremely expensive and only available to the very wealthy who can also afford the professional tailors needed to adjust for height.
So - I LOVE seeing others look classy and beautiful in dresses and suits, and I don’t begrudge them …. but I’m tired of feeling frumpy beside them or having them think less of me or judge me for my “sloppy attire”, which happens 9 times out of 10.
I used to go to church in jeans or sweats, and then I read someone say it was disrespectful to God. I remembered beautifully dressed tall women with nice figures looking down their noses at me, if they paid any attention to me at all. Guess what? I’ve been too afraid to step foot in a church ever since because I have nothing else to wear. And don’t think it’s easy to find at least one outfit. My last attempt took 6-1/2 hours straight and I came home with only tears in my eyes and frustration. It’s near impossible without a pleasant figure.
My goal to lose my belly was solely to be able to look nice enough to attend church once again, and then get a job. But at 59 my belly seems to have other ideas and is holding on as if I’m going to have to soon run from wild animals in subzero temps to survive.
It is NOT easy for some of us to “dress up”. And I loved to when I was younger, and had the most beautiful dresses you could find, and turned heads too, which is why 35 years later they are still in my closet. But I will never have that figure again. My only hope is to get rid of my belly fat. I’m working on it.
In the meantime I’m too uncomfortable to attend church.
I’m so sorry that people have been so awful to you 😞 In church no less!!! 😡 I would never say anything to anyone about their attire regardless of my opinion of it. You don’t know what someone’s story is and it’s also just not helpful.
As for the belly fat, I struggle with that too even though I run a lot. I tend to have an hourglass shape. What I’ve found helped was to up my protein by a lot. I still have a hard time reaching my goal in grams of protein per day but I try to get close. It’s definitely not easy as a woman after perimenopause/menopause age.
I’m sure there must be a style that would look flattering on you though! I wish I lived close enough to go shopping with you and help you find something!
Aw so sweet. I don’t think I could put anyone through that frustration. It really is an exhausting endeavor.
And yes to the protein! That’s how I lost my first 55lbs 💃 I chose a Keto diet and I’m mostly protein and fat. I have 20-25 more to go and it’s not as easy as the first chunk of loss. I joined a gym and hired a trainer since I have severe osteo (too young for my severity) and I need to be strong enough to handle long walks and to remain more active without injury. But I keep injuring myself. I fell on an uneven sidewalk taking a walk and cracked my knee one. I got severe tennis elbow in both arms planting flowers last spring and my arm days were off my routine ever since. Last fall I broke a rib doing the leg press! The rib fractured on both sides of the bone. I felt the snap. It’s finally fully healed this month. I was getting soooo strong and so fit too. I’ve been sidelined ever since and gained 5 lbs back. Now I’m getting ready to do PT to get back into things but I lost all the ground I had gained, AND now I’m scared I’ll break a bone doing simple things in the gym. I’m too scared to ride my bike. 🤣 I need to make clothes out of packaging air pillows. 🤣🤣
Anyway, I’m determined to get the belly off. I haven’t had a waist in many years and the last dress I wore looked so ugly on me because of my belly. Never again will I wear something that makes me feel so bad. Leggings for now. Lol
Agreed!
Same era here. I remember when going on an airplane (prop planes then) women had to wear nylons and dresses and men had to wear a suit and tie. The "stewardess" attire was very chic also. Much different today and verging on disgusting.
JW and Politico Phil! I agree. I look at the attire worn unapologetically and so sad. Back in the 50s, Mom patched my brothers jeans for every day wear not for some formal gathering..I. E. Funeral of a family member. We wore our best she and dad could get!! Yes we were poor but dad and Mom looked great in their Sunday best. I loved it and didn’t think it should be any different. People now deceased would be shocked!!!
Now I am aghast at what I see! My brothers would have been so embarrassed and shamed by their friends.
Jeff Childers, this was a great editorial and news all in one. Give us one more day of clean cut looking young men and women. Shine! To the glory of God our Maker!
I remember my first trip to Europe. I was about 5 or 6. I wore a grey double breasted wool suit with mother of pearl buttons from Best & Company. We travelled on one of the early 747s. Good memories!
Although I'm not one for cleaning house in heels. 😜
How about ballet flats, I love those.
True, that is just highly impractical. Some of the changes have been for the better 😛
My feet are certainly thankful that I only wear sneakers.
But the pearls are necessary!
🤣
WE ate mostly real food and only soda as rare treat. WE did unfortunately have wonder bread and tang though.
Mac and cheese and some bologna 🤷♀️ what did we know… my mom was a single parent working several jobs and my dad didn’t participate… it was affordable and she could get it on the table fast at the end of a long day. We didn’t go hungry and the biggie treat was a trip to McDonald’s.. we thought we were rich on those nights
We even ate hot dogs and bologna straight from the package and we never got sick.We drank water from the hose, too. And I remember those special trips to McDonalds for a happy meal. Nowadays, the kids all have their Starbuck's specialty drinks and they are at restaurants we didn't see until we were almost adults.
Raw hot dogs! (Me too. Lived to tell.)
Because my Italian just-off-the-boat mum mostly cooked from scratch? I craved the type of "Canadian" food my school chums all ate, but we never got at home.
Had my first Big Mac in the Big City, in 1974. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven...
And even drank from the garden hose and did not die!
The beginning of fake, "processed" food.
Tang!!! Gosh how I hated it 🤣 And I was always the only kid at a sleepover or party that didn’t drink pop. I hated it. They couldn’t understand why and I was ruthlessly teased when I asked for water instead.
But I loved LOVED Wonder Bread and potato chips. That was the trigger for me to delve into more foods like that. Awful what it did to me. Changed my diet 3 years ago and so glad. But I still have a weakness for good, dense, sourdough bread. I treat myself maybe once a month.
Sourdough is one of the only breads I eat. So good for your gut health.
Remember Space Food Sticks? And Morningstar Farms fake bacon?
Yes. Many men in the past wore hats too. We are sloppy now by comparison.
Yes, just get on an airplane!
Along with the virtual halting of Alzheimer’s research, it is the same for cancer. I lost my husband to the barbaric torture of treatments that are the only path given to sufferers of the dread disease. It’s still painful to think about, and I see people suffering to this day, not being able to afford treatments that actually work.
Back in the 1960’s, my aunt was treated & cured of cancer by a doc in Chicago. So many people went to him it drew attention from AMA. They shut him down, took his license and threatened his secretary. The secretary had to burn all files or the IRS would see her next. 💔😭
Wow!
This is still going on. I was getting so much help from my naturpathic doc, but Medicare interfered by not allowing this licensed doc to refer patients to other docs. They would not even pay for standard labs if I was under this doc. I've had to go elsewhere, it breaks my heart for him and for all his patients.
My friends it is weaponization of Medicare and the health care system. AUDIT on Elon.
Yes. You can go to several countries and get alternative therapies for cancer and be well.
You can purchase FREQUENCY equipment in the USA that "knocks out" Cancer just lilke Dr.Rife did in 1934. see harmonicresearch.org.
Hope RFK Jr can start getting these ineffective and harmful COVID shots banned in our country and world wide.
The tuning down on COVID vaccines and focusing only on food additives I hope is just to help sidestep all the big pharma pocket money dems and rhinos to get the votes for confirmation.
And get fluoride out of the water. I saw that Lee County just voted to remove it, with the help of our excellent Dr. Ladapo. Hoping that can be done statewide.
It would be great if Leon County, home to our state's capitol, would set the example for the rest of the counties to follow.
WEEP for Canada... (DEI is alive and well here.)
https://globalnews.ca/news/7554338/petition-water-fluoridation-west-island/
Recently a CTV or CBC story emerged (Can't find it... heard it blasting on my mum's TV) that Halifax Water had stopped adding fluoride to its water supply several years ago. Some people went BALLISTIC.
Like... dentists. 🤬
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-water-has-not-added-fluoride-for-more-than-a-year-1.7393736
A Halifax Water official assured
the public it will advise customers once the "fluoridation process is restored".
Canada is the PITS and children's (and adult) teeth are FULL OF FLUOROSIS!! (Ah but that can be FIXED. By cosmetic dentists...)
I.Just.Can't.
#AccountabilityNotAmnesty
Chlorine in the water kills more people. It is the PRIMARY cause of heart disease...not cholesterol.
True. But fluoride is far more difficult to remove.
Set your water in a 2 or 3 gallon jar overnight. Open.
The chlorine mostly dissipates by morning. (Then I water my plants with it.)
I don't drink it or bathe in it. (Have a filter on my shower head )
It will dissipate into the air you breathe unless you put the water outside overnight. Shower filter helps.
Covid shots are just the tail of the Lizzard: RFK Jr needs to ban gene therapy MRNA shots. This is what the awful naysayers are so afraid of because it will curtail their Pharma gravy train.
Good luck with that since Trump is fully behind the mRNA platform.
We are all part of helping to get rid of the covid shots. Being on social media and forwarding articles about studies showing its dangers etc. are part of The process: Public demands it. Government agency responds. This has become so vivid to me after watching the last 4 years.
I watched the Maha movement take shape on Twitter while getting informed about vaccines. And saw the photos circulated showing people on a beach in the 1970s and noticing that no one was obese.
One of your very best columns.
The "good" USAID claims to do is almost all bad. Just ask almost any country in Africa.
There should be a massive sign at every protest now: "USAID is gone. You're not going to get paid. Go home."
“Your grift is over” 😑
I like that better than "You're not going to get paid."
May God bless you all today. Remember God is with us always! 🙂
I make my teenager very angry when I tell her that the "new" song she is listening to is just a remake of another older song!! And then I find the old song and play it for her! There is no new music anymore.
Same! Heard the Sabrina Carpenter song "Taste" on the radio yesterday with my teenage daughter in the car... blew her mind when I told her it was just sampling "Bette Davis Eyes."
Or the same recycled movies, and they think people don’t notice. As long as we’ve got Jayden Smith wearing a box on his head or Kanye’s spouse naked at the Grammy’s we’ll all be just fine, nothing to see here!
Some do notice that the redo of the redo of the redo though. There was a piece in the late 1990s about how there were only 7 plots for shows. Related, there was a plot generator for law & order. After that emerged, I have no idea how it continued, let alone have spinoffs.
My two daughters once asked how I could sing a song that just came out. LOL
—“a culture frozen in amber, a culture that has bafflingly and terrifyingly been wasting away for decades.
But at long last, our amber prison is cracking.”
I don’t think that’s amber… it’s something else that is brown colored 😑
Brilliant observation by Jeff Childers that our culture has not advanced, going on two decades. The Globalist Blob (led by the DS) has stolen our wealth, health, and pursuit of happiness. The Globalist Blob (GB) has claimed almost exclusive rights to new technology (AI, Nanotechnology, etc.). They use this Technology and our Tax Dollars to destroy “We the People”. No More! We are at the dawn of the Golden Age but, the GB will fight back.
This was demonstrated so vividly with the recent Grammy awards, the (attempted) steering of culture. The people, fans of music, we're overall furious by the nominees and winners. I'm a country music songwriter and performer, and let me tell you, precious few in any of the country music categories would be considered country by the fans, or even by country radio. Who is picking Beyonce for country album of the year?!?! Not the fans!
Agree! Very astute observation!
Skeptical statistician Briggs had a great piece about AI. He starts by renaming to what it is: a computer model. https://open.substack.com/pub/wmbriggs/p/putting-the-stargate-ai-hype-into?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3iv6q
As my husband the geologist would say, it's coprolite (fossilized doo-doo).
That sounds so much nicer 😆😁
And it smells very bad. 🤢
Stinks to high heaven even!!