The Congress hearings are incredible. The Democrats (which I considered myself to be until around two years ago) are batshit crazy. They are outraged, livid, beside themselves that "so-called journalists" had the gall to expose an all-encompassing government censorship and propaganda machine. The lack of introspection is astounding. They…
The Congress hearings are incredible. The Democrats (which I considered myself to be until around two years ago) are batshit crazy. They are outraged, livid, beside themselves that "so-called journalists" had the gall to expose an all-encompassing government censorship and propaganda machine. The lack of introspection is astounding. They are caricatures of every villain we were trained to identify as evil in our fancy liberal schools. And they cannot see it at all.
The battle between good and evil in the real world is generally ambiguous. But a pretty solid rule of thumb, perhaps the most solid rule of thumb, is that the guys suppressing speech and spreading propaganda are the bad guys, and the guys exposing and trying to stop the suppression of speech are the good guys. I mean, this was hammered into me in my many years of education in liberal spaces. How are these people so oblivious to the fact that they've become the censors and propagandists, and that the censors and propagandists are the bad guys?
"an all-encompassing government censorship and propaganda machine."
"How are these people so oblivious to the fact that they've become the censors and propagandists"
We know they have virtually unlimited funds, and we know their methods. They have perfected the manipulation skills over the decades, and if you study one area of their success, like "Global Warming" you see this... ( CAGW is global warming, yet just insert COVID in its place and you will see how it flows and applies equally well.)
""Yet these proposed CAGW (COVID) remedy laws do greatly increase government power and wealth for some international bodies, some nations, as well as individual wealth for some corporations. However this increase in wealth for some is at great expense of many more. (One to two trillion dollars a year) Energy tax is always a tax on the poor. And it is this lure of global political power that is so seductive to souls in delusion seeking power. Does Power Corrupt (link)
Political proponents of CAGW (COVID) clearly state, in their own words, their political motivation. That motivation is support for socialism and by extension, statism and world government. While many are influenced to support the CAGW (COVID) agenda by different factors, the proposed solutions ALWAYS engender the political goals of statists, while having an immeasurable effect on atmospheric CO2 concentration and G.A.T. (immeasurable effect on preventing viral spread, or actually a negative effect)
Beyond political power objectives, the disparate factors which influence many to accept CAGW (COVID policy) are well studied social phenomena such as; personal wealth, and Institutional wealth. Researchers in many fields know that funding is available for their department if they can attach theoretical CAGW (COVID) harm to a paper. (There is hundreds of billions of dollars a year available for research and industry) As often quoted Upton Sinclair said “'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Other known and studied bias factors are peer pressure, social and professional shadow-banning, confirmation bias, noble cause corruption, misuse of the precautionary principle, and effective propaganda of repeated and false warnings of doom by many CAGW (COVID) proponents.
“The terrible truths of these experiments in human compliance and propensity to be beastly stand testament to the nature of the problem.”
milgram showed us how people will harm people if pressured by authority
asch showed us that people will ignore their own senses and perceptions when pressured by peer group
stanford showed us how easily humans can be egged into abuse of power”
As the world grows ever smaller via human technology, human systems and corporations grow ever more global. It is logical therefore that systems of human corruption can and would also became more pervasive and global in scale. The merge of One world Government and international business is not to be trusted. These people endlessly proclaim how they are doing this for the good of the world."
I was just reading about the Milgram experiments yet again in the context of this Covid mess and how it was the gov't that actually paid for those studies so they could study human behavior and see how many of us would comply. I remember thinking in my freshman college psych class if I would be one of the 30% of people who stood up and walked out. Now thanks to Covid I know I am. But the part I really wasn't prepared for was how incredibly disgusted I would be with the other 70%. I never thought I would have to see that nasty side of humanity. I guess it was very naive of me, huh?
I used to think the "narrow gate" was more of a metaphor in the Bible. No it's literal. And it's painful. Humans are herd creatures and we find it tough to go against the crowd. But Jesus knew what it meant to be outcast, to be shunned. He came to show us. I've never thought I was strong enough. But I don't need to be, that's the true gift.
You are so right...I started attending church regularly again about 6 months ago and it's been the one thing I think is really helping me. It helps me to see that we need not despair, we have our heavenly father and He is with us. This is too big for us, but not for Him.
Amen Jen! Praise God. I have been dry for the Lord a long time (like 8 years) and this too has been a gift to me. Reading my bible near daily now. Our home is in heaven not this world!
Also for any fearing global warming- scripture says he will NEVER flood the earth again. This is the promise of the rainbow. But he WILL burn the world up in the very very end after his reign here. ❤️
Me too! And the surprise of my life how literal some of these things are! And we see it now ... starkly, vividly. Here's another. "The wages of sin are death." And in a round about way, it full circles back to the 'the was is straight and narrow.'
And fudge it a little here and there, and eventually ... fudge all over the face!
IMHO, this was a major reason behind the push to vaccinate as many people as possible. It was a massive experiment in confirmation bias and the power of social pressure. The more people who were vaccinated, the less people there were to care about the mandates (because people are self interested and aren't going to fight other people's battles for the most part). It had the added benefit of further ostracizing those who didn't go along, to the point that more people caved (thus reinforcing the narrative). And finally it gives great cover to the "long covid" and "sudden death" narratives. They can always blame covid rather than the vaccines. This blame is possible because there's not a huge unvaccinated control group (though I am N=1 ha ha).
I actually agree with you that the reported numbers don’t match reality. Nevertheless it’s enough to provide cover to the powers-that-be because it probably is a majority (anything over 50%).
One of my biggest hints that the numbers are ‘juiced’ is that the cruise lines have all mostly dropped their vax requirements (notwithstanding a couple regions who still have them). The cruise lines can’t afford to give up 40% of the population in the US who are unvaxed or partially vaxed). I get flyers almost every day begging me to book a cruise.
G Gently, I’m not buying into that control group. With so much conversation about not trusting people and things…this site sends up red flags for me. It looks like a government sponsored tool for identifying the unvaxed. It shows 35% for the US and 65% for the UK…seriously? NOT joining on that.
For anyone else who is interested there is information about the origin of the group. There are hundreds of thousands of participants. I'm a retired Canadian RN of 35 years and I've been a member since Oct. 2021. Canadians must fight our totalitarian government and refuse mandates. I got this info while at a Canadian protest. I have an ID that states I must not be vaccinated and I fill out out a short health record every month. Data is needed from the unvaccinated because people we care about who are vaccinated are getting sick. The government knows I'm not vaccinated according to my health records. Faith over fear. Honk Honk.
Knowing about these, which used to be Cold War 101 requirements in the social sciences---my friend was at University of Detroit designing spin offs of this for an M.A.---can make people recognize the pattern when it hits. They teach DEI now in the social sciences, so no one has the pattern. Chinese immigrants in Sunnyvale, near Apple and Google and Facebook in Silicon Valley, stood up against school DEI because they'd been there and done that.
Darkness kind of creeps in and I think it is both overt and subtle. In this other post on my "not a news feed" site, I examine the question, "Does power corrupt? " The answer I found may surprise you as it did me.
David & David A, Both comments are thoughtful. How I see it:
The good/evil battle is ambiguous because it is mostly spiritual. We see the evidence in the actions of people and how they change/manipulate generations a little bit at a time, chipping away at our rights and ethics.
David A gave just a few examples of how "they" (the invisible top exec. & minions) work. In a nutshell and layman's terms, "they" take our money by creating a problem (real & fake), and then, give a solution for us to pay for by taking our money and/or rights.
If the Bankster Gangster Environmental Global Warming Climate Change Experts are so concerned, where are they in East Palestine?
Who believes our gas stoves and cow flatulence is damaging the climate instead of all the accidental toxic chemical spills and fires? Have you noticed "they" always blame others for what they did themselves?
"They" have studied the mind and manipulate us on every front (TV, health, school, history, mind, financially). I doubt projects like Paperclip and Monarch etc. have ceased. We are dealing with power hungry wealthy narcissistic psychopaths that pass on these family traits and values.
Hegelian Dialect - Create Problem -Get reaction - "Provide solution". And use the NUDGE theory to make you believe it was YOUR decision that you changed your behavior. The number and depth of psychological manipulations that have been used on the "common man" are unfathomable.
Dawn says, "they" take our money by creating a problem (real & fake), and then, give a solution for us to pay for by taking our money and/or rights." Not a bad summation.
I'm working on rereading 2 of your articles for understanding. They are heavy and over my head with some things. I can't say that I disagree with anything... Yet. LOL, but I will reply with my thoughts.
Hi Dawn, thank you for your kind attention. I really doubt they are "over your head" or anybody else, LOL. I am more than happy to hear your thoughts, and respond to any questions. If you happen to subscribe to my "always free, not a news feed" substack called "A New Dawn..." you will be a new Dawn, HA. (Reply here, or to the posts as you wish.)
“They are caricatures of every villain we were trained to identify as evil in our fancy liberal schools. And they cannot see it at all. “ Indeed. And they were the first “friends” to kick us to the curb and gleefully wish us death based on jab status. I recently reconnected with my Ivy League educated friend from childhood who initially chastised me and gaslit me when the jabs rolled out. I laughed, showed myself out, and moved to the free state of FL. 2 years later she’s texting me that it’s “been way too long that we haven’t gotten together” and she’d love to visit me. Yeah, no. Tone deaf doesn’t even begin to describe these people who have ironically and hypocritically overplayed their hand.
Good for you. I'm in the same boat...you can't un-see what you've seen once you see this side of a person. I don't know how to come back from that. For me it's not even about forgiving or any of that...it's a genuine disgust and a concern for what they could be talked into doing to us in the future.
They haven't learned a thing. I had a similar situation where someone who banned me from attending a social function wanted to come visit. Seriously??????
Same here with my family but I think they are regretting it now. I begged and cried for them not to get it. My aunt disinvited us, the unvaxxed, to Christmas dinner we have gone to since 1987 and then died a month later with turbo cancer. Surreal.
She isn't the only one getting rare sicknesses either with lots of medications for them.
I'm going to love them and not live in fear. This is probably going to get worse.
It just so happens Fauci stepped down right before the leak and gain of function became mainstream? He needs to be put in Epstein's cell.
...depends on how they see themselves, and how introspective —And if they imbibe NPR/PBS. And who their friends are. And what they’ve personally witnessed. Many have a dawning sense of unsettled confusion and distrust but don’t know what it is or what it means. They will. Those who easily rationalize their errors and sins will be the toughest nuts.
Be gentle with your conscientious, honest people. Forgive them for they knew not what they did. The con wave was big and wide and very difficult to resist. Unless, that is, one was already prone to be something of a nutcase — oops — I mean to be a discerning INDIVIDUAL.
" I don't want to talk politics " - it's really just code for:
" I don't want to talk YOUR politics ".
And quite honestly? I gave up long ago - and a couple have recently seen at least a bit of "the light" - and now I really prefer to not deal with them.
When you see FB posts, for example, suggesting DEATH TO THE UNJABBED -
By their fruits we shall know them (and choose to avoid some of 'em). We can choose to follow the Lord's instruction and forgive ... and at the same time follow Paul's guidance and avoid those who bring dissension into the community.
Well said and yes I forgive her. I just don’t want to spend any more time with people who are philosophically opposed to my basic views anymore. I spent decades being scolded by this bunch- intimidated by their credentials. It’s liberating to know I can finally just walk away guilt free and surround myself with people that share my values. They will continue to claim that it’s “unhealthy” to live in an “echo chamber.” I reject the premise that it is an echo chamber-- they really are tone deaf. And stupid.
Our politics has been inverted in the past five years. Up is down and left is right. Insane times. I just hope enough can see that both parties are shysters and we need to dump them both.
Yes! The same here. And so very important to discern the 'US versus THEM' distinction.
I was the Constitution Party in Virginia, and I worked with a lot of Tea Party Republicans back in the day. And gradually, I came to see how much most of the Establishment Republican orchestraters were really THEM. And a huge part of it was 'what they would not do'. Like being silent and refusing speak against and to stop all the import of UN communist agenda into the country. And refusing to stop Fed/State law harmonization in bills being 'promoted' in Virginia's General Assembly. And this is pretty starkly shockingly horrible, most of legislature elected officials were being played most of the time. That is, a lot of the delegates and senators swallowed wholesale the Big Lie being sold to us all.
I remember one time I testified in committee that a 'stream' (springs, streams, rivers) bill did not give Virginia sovereignty over all 'stream' like the bill purported and that it was really a Fed/EPA/States law harmonization bill (think Unistate incorporation). The committee chairman (a Republican as it happens) looked around the room and singled out a man (probably a lawyer/lobbyist) and asked, "Is he right?" And the guy said, "Yes." This happened at the time I was beginning to catch on that a lot of these elected people really don't know what the deuce is going on. Yes, they know the Narrative, the words, the dog and pony show but not the truth about what is going on behind the curtain.
US and THEM! Highly important! And the who, what, when and why of it that makes the difference.
Agreed. I have watched local hearings during the covid era-usually vaccine or covid policy related-and would realize that these politicians did not completely understand the subject matter or they would accept the mainstream narrative without any critical thought.
Yeah! It's like the plane is flying on autopilot ... mindless, not brains ... and all reflexive narrative. It all a bad, maybe worse than ... Drag Queen Story Hour (aka Fairy Land).
Infiltrated? It's a murky word these days and how it's approached shades any derived contextual meaning. The short answer is that everything is penetrated and watched these days. As to the Tea Parties, the state and local elected officials had the Tea Parties under a microsope. Also ... Lois Lerner's, director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, attack on the Tea Parties told us that Federal derived power wanted the Tea Parties destroyed. In fact, it was both wings of the Uniparty which wanted the Tea Parties gone. Republicans played a double game. They pretended to be friends, but worked against the Tea Parties behind the scenes in usually non-obvious ways. And really, it has been 5th Generation Warfare against the people, all of us, and all along. Looking back to the time when I was chairman Constitution Party locally and vice-chair of the Constitution Party of Virginia, roughly 2008 to 2013, I would say that this was the case ... only we did not fully understand the full extent of what we were against.
The Tea Parties were their own best worst enemies. They had no idea of what they were against nor how things really worked ... and they were fooled all the time. This, of course, doesn't mean their efforts were worthless, just ultimately highly ineffective. They did not know whom to attack or how to frame the attack. They were continually caught in the snare of that fake 'I'm a conservative' or he's a 'conservative' candidate syndrome. During the time I was active, the Tea Parties people had in fact captured control of three quarters of the Republican county committees up and down the western Valley of Virginia and this alarmed the Republican elites. Yes, the Tea Parties actually controlled the base party but did not, could not parley that new power base into candidates counter the Deep State/Central Banking/Foreign sources of control which were day and night doing us in. Thus, the Tea Parties were like cats in a wet paper bag who could not fight their way out. As to all of this, 'my people perish for a lack of knowledge' is as true today as when uttered thousands of years ago ... and as we read in Scripture.
Incompetence by source is multi-faceted. First, there is knowing competence (according to the beholder's grounding), knowing incompetence ... and plain full throttle getting duped and/or played. I'll only say that most people live continuously in The Matrix (to varying degrees) ... and therefore continuously get play (to varying degrees). But it is also true that a lot of us in the Western populations now have a much higher degree of awareness today than say anywhere from three to ten or more years ago. Let's just hope its enough to save the ship from running into the shoals and floundering. And yes, the Walk-Away of upwards of three quarters of the non-Western world is a new factor in the equation and bears close consideration, study and watching. Already, Walk-Aways has altered the planetary chessboard in way barely imagined two, three or so years ago. Walk-Away and changes in the monetary system of trade/exchange settlement may do more for us than we might be able to do for ourselves and/or offer new opportunities to push back against the Terror States now pushing the jackboot down upon our poor little necks.
What is agin us is Epic Evil, potentially destructive and evil in ways truly staggering and yet still under appreciated by the general run of Mankind. There is much on our plates.
Following those hearings, I think it's now clear: after decades of liberal rule and the left/liberal "long march through the institutions" the US has become a Fascist state. The liberals/leftists have captured every agency of the government, as well as every meaning-making institution in our country, and large parts of the private sector. We now have private entities openly doing the government's (sometimes illegal) bidding for a favored seat at the table with those who write the laws, interpret the laws, enforce the laws, and have a monopoly on the legal use of violence. This is Fascism.
While the MSM refers to Fascism as "right-wing," as Thomas Sowell has written, it is far more accurate to say it is of the Left, serving the goals of the Left. It was created by a Socialist after all. It's defined not by "nationalism" or even authoritarianism, but by what the media and our schools would generously call "public-private partnerships." That term itself, it seems, is propaganda. Not surprising, since at the time Fascism was created, it was roundly applauded by Western media and intellectuals as the perfect "third way" between capitalism and socialism. The media and intellectuals have always loved their secular authoritarianism, no matter the name it goes by.
The Establishment elites forgot a few important items, however: we have strong States rights in the US; we still have the 2A; and we (sort of) still have the 1A, as well as a communication platform that really didn't exist until very late in the 20th century; and the judicial branch has not been completely captured.
I've debated this for years in my mind. Fascist? Communist? And I have settled on it is all a Hybrid Marxist Model. To characterize it all by singularity is a mistake. In reality it is all Marxism, and a blend of all of these labels (Socialist, Communist and Fascist) and very hard to tell where one label begins and another leaves off. I further believe that the end goal can be accurately be described as being a Communist Totalitarian Techno-State (a Techno-Tyranny for short). 1984 on steroids.
The Public/Private Partnership is certainly Fascism. But during the Covid Health Terror operation? During all the coercion and mandating, the Public/Private Partnership really began to take on the look and color of Total Communist Control. Again, where does one thing begin and the other leave off? To THEM, however, it does not matter. It is the END which counts. The Means are just the Means as qua instrumentality.
The constitutions have not been abrogated. Most of them are not the original constitutions, and there is a whole history there. But none the less, the constitutions existing have not been abrogated even though they are largely ignored. Still, we should continually refer back to them in our 'conversations' with Officialdom. And folks, it's still God-given Rights of the constitutions over Civil Right state grants under whatever illegitimate administration we are now operating under.
I read this linked to article ... and gave up mid-way. The analysis does not seem to help me in the understanding of realpolitik as practiced in the complexity of the real world. But thanks anyway.
Hi Dave, thank you for your reply and comment. You stated.. .
".. and gave up mid-way. The analysis does not seem to help me in the understanding of realpolitik as practiced..."
Well I do understand and agree, as the first half is identifying the universal essence of the problem irrespective of any political solutions. There is a reason 100 percent of every culture, every society has failed, and it is not political.
From the post...
" So in this sense we see that both the desire to have power, and the desire to achieve personal gain are not inherently evil. It is the desire to exercise tyrannical power over others in connection with the desire for personal gain (even if one portends it is only for the protection of the less fortunate) that may be fundamentally immoral or dishonest, and which is often evil and destructive to a society. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." (Plato)"
"Almost always the manifestation of seeking power in an immoral way involves exercising a form of tyranny, however brutal or petty it may be, over someone else or some other group. Most all actions declared as illegal crimes which are common to societies, are a reflection of this fundamental abuse of power, which can manifest in either a personal or group expression." (The dark side of human nature, manifest in every culture)
Dispersed in the middle somewhere is a discussion on what system best limits this universal failure. (A return to our US foundational principles)
The second part of the post identifies some fundamental solutions that, regardless of the "social system" chosen, must happen to enable any culture to thrive.
And I agree, it is NOT an attempt to outline the many practical real-politic solutions, such as the legal system our host talks about, or election reform, or de-centralization, or state rights, or same day in person voting, etc... Instead it is an address articulating the cultural qualities and developed wisdom which are necessary if one hopes that any success derived from those real-politic enacted ideas, is to endure and thrive.
And, if you had read, you may also find that "philosophy" impractical, although I address that in the post here...
"This philosophy of happiness, is not impractical imagination. Everybody is a philosopher in that one’s ethos, emotions and desires, are inevitably and always one’s philosophy lived. What works can rightly be called wisdom. Giving in to undisciplined unwise desires, or “getting what you want”, has ruined countless lives and cultures." (“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” ~~George Washington) "
As the Ds become increasingly communistic and some Rs are holding onto the dream of our founding fathers these hearings are going to be hyper polarized as are many sectors of general American public life. There isn't a coexist sticker on peoples’ cars anymore. Either we peacefully divorce or it gets very ugly in next 2-6 years.
I think it will probably get quite ugly if they continue on with the game plan...15 minute cities, taking our cars, coming for the guns, coming after the kids, etc. All of these things are going to provoke major conflict. This is not going to be a fun time in history.
Jen - I'm not so sure anymore that anything will provoke major conflict. I would've predicted that forced/mandated vaccination of an experimental drug would have been the one thing that people would have stood up against and provoked major conflict. After that, taking our cars seems almost petty.
You would think, right? Well we did have some anti vax moms from the left join our cause, but by and large they did throw bodily autonomy right out the window. That said, I will be stunned if they agree to start walking everywhere. Most of the liberal moms around here won’t even walk to their mailbox.
And they had better not even CONSIDER outlawing gas stoves ☠️ War!! But if we don’t stop them, it will be just like incandescent lightbulbs. How I loathe those LED lights 🤬
I agree about the gas stoves. We recently bought a house that has an electric cooktop and after cooking on gas for 20 years, I would like to take a sledgehammer to it. Whoever invented the electric cooktop should be tortured and then burned at the stake. My gas cooktop is on order and can't get here fast enough. I have a hard time believing they will get far with outlawing them. Hopefully every chef in America will be chaining themselves to their gas stove as the fascists try to drag them out of their restaurants and homes. Then again, we've seen in the last three years how easily people cave.
Ugh. I can’t imagine going to electric after 20 years of gas! Thing is, it’s VENTILATION that’s key, but they don’t say that 😒 They’re just looking for excuses for asthma other than the insane shot schedule for little babies/kids. And I’m with you. The lunatics say “here’s what we’re going to do,” and normal people say “oh, they can’t/won’t POSSIBLY do THAT. Then they do it, and then we say, “I can’t believe they did that!” Again and again. We have become subjects, not citizens 🤬
To many of these folks, fascism, like socialism, has failed in the past only because "the wrong people" ran the governments. "This time" our home-grown geniuses will do it up proper!
“ “This time" our home-grown geniuses will do it up proper!”
That was probably the SAME talking points that all the past “failed” socialists, fascists, and communists spewed during their era as well. I never thought I’d see this in America, yet here it is. And the blind just nod their heads and cheer them on.
CaplT, you say, "Power corrupts the mind" I thought the same, then did a deep dive into the question, "Does Power Corrupt" To my surprise I came up with a different perspective; from the "always free, not a news feed, never clutter your in-box", substack
I agree. Our oppressors know exactly what they are doing. Usually evil people operate in the darkness but this crises is forcing them to show their true colors.
Our First Amendment rights are fundamental . Without free speech , we have no rights.
Our first president, George Washington, warned that if Americans are not free to offer their thoughts on matters “which may involve the most serious and alarming of consequences … then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
But, as before, will ANYTHING come from these hearings?? Just revealing more and more corruption with no action against the perpetrators just leads to more dissatisfaction from the public. Congress doesn't have the power to do anything but make recommendations to the DoJ. And with a captured DoJ...🤷♀️
How many of them believe they're doing a good thing? They're not targeting "good speech", they're protecting Americans and saving lives by censoring hate and misinformation... only they're the ones defining what "hate" and "misinformation" mean. Even before 2020 they got this attitude that some legal speech is "dangerous", people should be punished for saying anything interpreted as "racismsexism" and Twitter already censored accounts for saying that man can't be a woman. Government censorship in co-operation with Twitter in the past 2 years is only a natural extension of this extremely patronizing attitude. But the question is also how many of their constituents want government "parental controls" in place.
The only people supporting this are the ones not mature enough to read a history book and understand that just because you don't like someone saying something that "offends" you, it's critically important that the right to do so be maintained, else it leads to tyranny and then all of our lives are in danger. It always surprises me though when they want people shut down because it's like "really? You don't have enough humility to foresee a situation where you might ever disagree with your government overlords and like to retain the right to speak out against it?"
David I couldn’t agree more! It is appalling. I attribute it to the constant victim mentality that is pushed by the left. I believe first becoming popular among blacks regarding discrimination and slavery…. applying it to every circumstance they live in. Then it spread to other groups. *Disclaimer, this is not all blacks.
The Congress hearings are incredible. The Democrats (which I considered myself to be until around two years ago) are batshit crazy. They are outraged, livid, beside themselves that "so-called journalists" had the gall to expose an all-encompassing government censorship and propaganda machine. The lack of introspection is astounding. They are caricatures of every villain we were trained to identify as evil in our fancy liberal schools. And they cannot see it at all.
The battle between good and evil in the real world is generally ambiguous. But a pretty solid rule of thumb, perhaps the most solid rule of thumb, is that the guys suppressing speech and spreading propaganda are the bad guys, and the guys exposing and trying to stop the suppression of speech are the good guys. I mean, this was hammered into me in my many years of education in liberal spaces. How are these people so oblivious to the fact that they've become the censors and propagandists, and that the censors and propagandists are the bad guys?
David you say...
"an all-encompassing government censorship and propaganda machine."
"How are these people so oblivious to the fact that they've become the censors and propagandists"
We know they have virtually unlimited funds, and we know their methods. They have perfected the manipulation skills over the decades, and if you study one area of their success, like "Global Warming" you see this... ( CAGW is global warming, yet just insert COVID in its place and you will see how it flows and applies equally well.)
""Yet these proposed CAGW (COVID) remedy laws do greatly increase government power and wealth for some international bodies, some nations, as well as individual wealth for some corporations. However this increase in wealth for some is at great expense of many more. (One to two trillion dollars a year) Energy tax is always a tax on the poor. And it is this lure of global political power that is so seductive to souls in delusion seeking power. Does Power Corrupt (link)
Political proponents of CAGW (COVID) clearly state, in their own words, their political motivation. That motivation is support for socialism and by extension, statism and world government. While many are influenced to support the CAGW (COVID) agenda by different factors, the proposed solutions ALWAYS engender the political goals of statists, while having an immeasurable effect on atmospheric CO2 concentration and G.A.T. (immeasurable effect on preventing viral spread, or actually a negative effect)
Beyond political power objectives, the disparate factors which influence many to accept CAGW (COVID policy) are well studied social phenomena such as; personal wealth, and Institutional wealth. Researchers in many fields know that funding is available for their department if they can attach theoretical CAGW (COVID) harm to a paper. (There is hundreds of billions of dollars a year available for research and industry) As often quoted Upton Sinclair said “'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Other known and studied bias factors are peer pressure, social and professional shadow-banning, confirmation bias, noble cause corruption, misuse of the precautionary principle, and effective propaganda of repeated and false warnings of doom by many CAGW (COVID) proponents.
“The terrible truths of these experiments in human compliance and propensity to be beastly stand testament to the nature of the problem.”
milgram showed us how people will harm people if pressured by authority
asch showed us that people will ignore their own senses and perceptions when pressured by peer group
stanford showed us how easily humans can be egged into abuse of power”
As the world grows ever smaller via human technology, human systems and corporations grow ever more global. It is logical therefore that systems of human corruption can and would also became more pervasive and global in scale. The merge of One world Government and international business is not to be trusted. These people endlessly proclaim how they are doing this for the good of the world."
Link to the post https://open.substack.com/pub/anderdaa7/p/global-warming?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I was just reading about the Milgram experiments yet again in the context of this Covid mess and how it was the gov't that actually paid for those studies so they could study human behavior and see how many of us would comply. I remember thinking in my freshman college psych class if I would be one of the 30% of people who stood up and walked out. Now thanks to Covid I know I am. But the part I really wasn't prepared for was how incredibly disgusted I would be with the other 70%. I never thought I would have to see that nasty side of humanity. I guess it was very naive of me, huh?
I used to think the "narrow gate" was more of a metaphor in the Bible. No it's literal. And it's painful. Humans are herd creatures and we find it tough to go against the crowd. But Jesus knew what it meant to be outcast, to be shunned. He came to show us. I've never thought I was strong enough. But I don't need to be, that's the true gift.
You are so right...I started attending church regularly again about 6 months ago and it's been the one thing I think is really helping me. It helps me to see that we need not despair, we have our heavenly father and He is with us. This is too big for us, but not for Him.
Amen Jen! Praise God. I have been dry for the Lord a long time (like 8 years) and this too has been a gift to me. Reading my bible near daily now. Our home is in heaven not this world!
Also for any fearing global warming- scripture says he will NEVER flood the earth again. This is the promise of the rainbow. But he WILL burn the world up in the very very end after his reign here. ❤️
"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
Ice would suffice"
Amen.
Me too! And the surprise of my life how literal some of these things are! And we see it now ... starkly, vividly. Here's another. "The wages of sin are death." And in a round about way, it full circles back to the 'the was is straight and narrow.'
And fudge it a little here and there, and eventually ... fudge all over the face!
Yes. Wow. So so true.
Pilgrims Progress
AM, sometimes I read a comment that makes me really wish I could hug the writer…yours is like that. I can’t express how much I love what you said! ❤️
Wow, thank you Freebird! This touches my heart.
Milgram showed us how people will harm people if pressured by authority
Asch showed us that people will ignore their own senses and perceptions when pressured by peer group
These experiments from Stanford were rolled out nationwide during Covid and
demonstrated us how easily humans can be egged into abuse of power.
It's interesting that the Blue Strongholds were the biggest abusers and authoritarians.
I don't have digust or anger for them...we all take different roads to truth...many get detoured and just take longer to get there.
IMHO, this was a major reason behind the push to vaccinate as many people as possible. It was a massive experiment in confirmation bias and the power of social pressure. The more people who were vaccinated, the less people there were to care about the mandates (because people are self interested and aren't going to fight other people's battles for the most part). It had the added benefit of further ostracizing those who didn't go along, to the point that more people caved (thus reinforcing the narrative). And finally it gives great cover to the "long covid" and "sudden death" narratives. They can always blame covid rather than the vaccines. This blame is possible because there's not a huge unvaccinated control group (though I am N=1 ha ha).
N = 1. Think I might commission myself a tee with that in red boldface type.
Love this idea and I’d buy one! 😍
I actually agree with you that the reported numbers don’t match reality. Nevertheless it’s enough to provide cover to the powers-that-be because it probably is a majority (anything over 50%).
One of my biggest hints that the numbers are ‘juiced’ is that the cruise lines have all mostly dropped their vax requirements (notwithstanding a couple regions who still have them). The cruise lines can’t afford to give up 40% of the population in the US who are unvaxed or partially vaxed). I get flyers almost every day begging me to book a cruise.
AM, but there is an enormous worldwide vaccine control group of the unvaccinated. Please feel free to join. 🌎https://www.vaxcontrolgroup.com/
G Gently, I’m not buying into that control group. With so much conversation about not trusting people and things…this site sends up red flags for me. It looks like a government sponsored tool for identifying the unvaxed. It shows 35% for the US and 65% for the UK…seriously? NOT joining on that.
For anyone else who is interested there is information about the origin of the group. There are hundreds of thousands of participants. I'm a retired Canadian RN of 35 years and I've been a member since Oct. 2021. Canadians must fight our totalitarian government and refuse mandates. I got this info while at a Canadian protest. I have an ID that states I must not be vaccinated and I fill out out a short health record every month. Data is needed from the unvaccinated because people we care about who are vaccinated are getting sick. The government knows I'm not vaccinated according to my health records. Faith over fear. Honk Honk.
Nudge is too kind.
An abusive gaslighting psychic assault against humanity is how I would describe it.
Read about the "NUDGE" Theory. It's another way of psychological manipulation. Making you change your behavior by making you think it's your own idea.
They have the funding to commit to many disparate kinds of attacks.
Nudge? How about a kick in the family jewels.
Also the Stanford Prison experiment https://www.verywellmind.com/the-stanford-prison-experiment-2794995
Knowing about these, which used to be Cold War 101 requirements in the social sciences---my friend was at University of Detroit designing spin offs of this for an M.A.---can make people recognize the pattern when it hits. They teach DEI now in the social sciences, so no one has the pattern. Chinese immigrants in Sunnyvale, near Apple and Google and Facebook in Silicon Valley, stood up against school DEI because they'd been there and done that.
A lot of creepy stuff coming out of Stanford for decades. FTX, The Virality Project just outed by Dr. Meryl Nass https://merylnass.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
Yep...
Milgram showed us how people will harm people if pressured by authority
ASCH showed us that people will ignore their own senses and perceptions when pressured by peer group
STANFORD showed us how easily humans can be egged into abuse of power”
all in the above post... https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/times-and-curses-friday-march-10/comment/13477431
This is so so so sad to me. After the holocaust shocking so many complied.
Darkness kind of creeps in and I think it is both overt and subtle. In this other post on my "not a news feed" site, I examine the question, "Does power corrupt? " The answer I found may surprise you as it did me.
https://open.substack.com/pub/anderdaa7/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Jen, the 30% vs 70% just makes me think…There but for the Grace of God, go I.
David & David A, Both comments are thoughtful. How I see it:
The good/evil battle is ambiguous because it is mostly spiritual. We see the evidence in the actions of people and how they change/manipulate generations a little bit at a time, chipping away at our rights and ethics.
David A gave just a few examples of how "they" (the invisible top exec. & minions) work. In a nutshell and layman's terms, "they" take our money by creating a problem (real & fake), and then, give a solution for us to pay for by taking our money and/or rights.
If the Bankster Gangster Environmental Global Warming Climate Change Experts are so concerned, where are they in East Palestine?
Who believes our gas stoves and cow flatulence is damaging the climate instead of all the accidental toxic chemical spills and fires? Have you noticed "they" always blame others for what they did themselves?
"They" have studied the mind and manipulate us on every front (TV, health, school, history, mind, financially). I doubt projects like Paperclip and Monarch etc. have ceased. We are dealing with power hungry wealthy narcissistic psychopaths that pass on these family traits and values.
Hegelian Dialect - Create Problem -Get reaction - "Provide solution". And use the NUDGE theory to make you believe it was YOUR decision that you changed your behavior. The number and depth of psychological manipulations that have been used on the "common man" are unfathomable.
Dawn says, "they" take our money by creating a problem (real & fake), and then, give a solution for us to pay for by taking our money and/or rights." Not a bad summation.
Merchants of F.U.D. (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)
most CEO's are narcissisticc psychopaths
Thank you for this substantive piece on the effort to destroy capitalism (global warming).
Thank you Marsha, it has been an effective red pill for those that only hear the MSM.
The substack is always free, and not a news feed, so it will not clutter an in-box at all.
I'm working on rereading 2 of your articles for understanding. They are heavy and over my head with some things. I can't say that I disagree with anything... Yet. LOL, but I will reply with my thoughts.
Hi Dawn, thank you for your kind attention. I really doubt they are "over your head" or anybody else, LOL. I am more than happy to hear your thoughts, and respond to any questions. If you happen to subscribe to my "always free, not a news feed" substack called "A New Dawn..." you will be a new Dawn, HA. (Reply here, or to the posts as you wish.)
Have just subscribed. Many thanks for your work!
Just subscribed to the substack linked. Thank you.
“They are caricatures of every villain we were trained to identify as evil in our fancy liberal schools. And they cannot see it at all. “ Indeed. And they were the first “friends” to kick us to the curb and gleefully wish us death based on jab status. I recently reconnected with my Ivy League educated friend from childhood who initially chastised me and gaslit me when the jabs rolled out. I laughed, showed myself out, and moved to the free state of FL. 2 years later she’s texting me that it’s “been way too long that we haven’t gotten together” and she’d love to visit me. Yeah, no. Tone deaf doesn’t even begin to describe these people who have ironically and hypocritically overplayed their hand.
Good for you. I'm in the same boat...you can't un-see what you've seen once you see this side of a person. I don't know how to come back from that. For me it's not even about forgiving or any of that...it's a genuine disgust and a concern for what they could be talked into doing to us in the future.
They haven't learned a thing. I had a similar situation where someone who banned me from attending a social function wanted to come visit. Seriously??????
I was banned from the family Christmas dinner table last year.
This year we hosted. All are jabboosted except me.
What time and purposeful forgetfulness does ...
I’m glad you had them over. I still maintain good contact with my jabbed family. We just don’t talk about it anymore.
Same here with my family but I think they are regretting it now. I begged and cried for them not to get it. My aunt disinvited us, the unvaxxed, to Christmas dinner we have gone to since 1987 and then died a month later with turbo cancer. Surreal.
She isn't the only one getting rare sicknesses either with lots of medications for them.
I'm going to love them and not live in fear. This is probably going to get worse.
It just so happens Fauci stepped down right before the leak and gain of function became mainstream? He needs to be put in Epstein's cell.
Do you think they've learned anything?
...depends on how they see themselves, and how introspective —And if they imbibe NPR/PBS. And who their friends are. And what they’ve personally witnessed. Many have a dawning sense of unsettled confusion and distrust but don’t know what it is or what it means. They will. Those who easily rationalize their errors and sins will be the toughest nuts.
Be gentle with your conscientious, honest people. Forgive them for they knew not what they did. The con wave was big and wide and very difficult to resist. Unless, that is, one was already prone to be something of a nutcase — oops — I mean to be a discerning INDIVIDUAL.
God Bless
lol. THAT's rich !
Agreed
“you can’t un-see”
So true !! And in fact, you may just start believing in grey aliens 🤣
p.s. don’t listen to Blurry Creatures podcast 😉
I have found that when family, or "friends", say
" I don't want to talk politics " - it's really just code for:
" I don't want to talk YOUR politics ".
And quite honestly? I gave up long ago - and a couple have recently seen at least a bit of "the light" - and now I really prefer to not deal with them.
When you see FB posts, for example, suggesting DEATH TO THE UNJABBED -
yeah. Not for me, thx.
You've noticed this too? One of my mother's friends used to do that. She would make a jab at conservatives, and then say how she didn't talk politics.
that meant "shut up, I don't want to hear from you."
Yes go on and on about their jabs and boosters and if say anything counter to it they are not going to talk about it.
By their fruits we shall know them (and choose to avoid some of 'em). We can choose to follow the Lord's instruction and forgive ... and at the same time follow Paul's guidance and avoid those who bring dissension into the community.
Well said and yes I forgive her. I just don’t want to spend any more time with people who are philosophically opposed to my basic views anymore. I spent decades being scolded by this bunch- intimidated by their credentials. It’s liberating to know I can finally just walk away guilt free and surround myself with people that share my values. They will continue to claim that it’s “unhealthy” to live in an “echo chamber.” I reject the premise that it is an echo chamber-- they really are tone deaf. And stupid.
Those communists were big mad yesterday
When communists are mad it’s always a good day
Our politics has been inverted in the past five years. Up is down and left is right. Insane times. I just hope enough can see that both parties are shysters and we need to dump them both.
Pretty sure that it is just US versus THEM. They had everyone confused about who “US” is. But I think Substack is helping “US” figure that out.
BTW, I lean Republican and I am uncertain of many of those politicians lately. Maybe this red pill is for all of “US”?
Yes! The same here. And so very important to discern the 'US versus THEM' distinction.
I was the Constitution Party in Virginia, and I worked with a lot of Tea Party Republicans back in the day. And gradually, I came to see how much most of the Establishment Republican orchestraters were really THEM. And a huge part of it was 'what they would not do'. Like being silent and refusing speak against and to stop all the import of UN communist agenda into the country. And refusing to stop Fed/State law harmonization in bills being 'promoted' in Virginia's General Assembly. And this is pretty starkly shockingly horrible, most of legislature elected officials were being played most of the time. That is, a lot of the delegates and senators swallowed wholesale the Big Lie being sold to us all.
I remember one time I testified in committee that a 'stream' (springs, streams, rivers) bill did not give Virginia sovereignty over all 'stream' like the bill purported and that it was really a Fed/EPA/States law harmonization bill (think Unistate incorporation). The committee chairman (a Republican as it happens) looked around the room and singled out a man (probably a lawyer/lobbyist) and asked, "Is he right?" And the guy said, "Yes." This happened at the time I was beginning to catch on that a lot of these elected people really don't know what the deuce is going on. Yes, they know the Narrative, the words, the dog and pony show but not the truth about what is going on behind the curtain.
US and THEM! Highly important! And the who, what, when and why of it that makes the difference.
Agreed. I have watched local hearings during the covid era-usually vaccine or covid policy related-and would realize that these politicians did not completely understand the subject matter or they would accept the mainstream narrative without any critical thought.
Yeah! It's like the plane is flying on autopilot ... mindless, not brains ... and all reflexive narrative. It all a bad, maybe worse than ... Drag Queen Story Hour (aka Fairy Land).
Do you think it was just incompetence, of that possibly the Tea Party was infiltrated , like possibly Project Veritas, or Front-line Doctors?
Infiltrated? It's a murky word these days and how it's approached shades any derived contextual meaning. The short answer is that everything is penetrated and watched these days. As to the Tea Parties, the state and local elected officials had the Tea Parties under a microsope. Also ... Lois Lerner's, director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, attack on the Tea Parties told us that Federal derived power wanted the Tea Parties destroyed. In fact, it was both wings of the Uniparty which wanted the Tea Parties gone. Republicans played a double game. They pretended to be friends, but worked against the Tea Parties behind the scenes in usually non-obvious ways. And really, it has been 5th Generation Warfare against the people, all of us, and all along. Looking back to the time when I was chairman Constitution Party locally and vice-chair of the Constitution Party of Virginia, roughly 2008 to 2013, I would say that this was the case ... only we did not fully understand the full extent of what we were against.
The Tea Parties were their own best worst enemies. They had no idea of what they were against nor how things really worked ... and they were fooled all the time. This, of course, doesn't mean their efforts were worthless, just ultimately highly ineffective. They did not know whom to attack or how to frame the attack. They were continually caught in the snare of that fake 'I'm a conservative' or he's a 'conservative' candidate syndrome. During the time I was active, the Tea Parties people had in fact captured control of three quarters of the Republican county committees up and down the western Valley of Virginia and this alarmed the Republican elites. Yes, the Tea Parties actually controlled the base party but did not, could not parley that new power base into candidates counter the Deep State/Central Banking/Foreign sources of control which were day and night doing us in. Thus, the Tea Parties were like cats in a wet paper bag who could not fight their way out. As to all of this, 'my people perish for a lack of knowledge' is as true today as when uttered thousands of years ago ... and as we read in Scripture.
Incompetence by source is multi-faceted. First, there is knowing competence (according to the beholder's grounding), knowing incompetence ... and plain full throttle getting duped and/or played. I'll only say that most people live continuously in The Matrix (to varying degrees) ... and therefore continuously get play (to varying degrees). But it is also true that a lot of us in the Western populations now have a much higher degree of awareness today than say anywhere from three to ten or more years ago. Let's just hope its enough to save the ship from running into the shoals and floundering. And yes, the Walk-Away of upwards of three quarters of the non-Western world is a new factor in the equation and bears close consideration, study and watching. Already, Walk-Aways has altered the planetary chessboard in way barely imagined two, three or so years ago. Walk-Away and changes in the monetary system of trade/exchange settlement may do more for us than we might be able to do for ourselves and/or offer new opportunities to push back against the Terror States now pushing the jackboot down upon our poor little necks.
What is agin us is Epic Evil, potentially destructive and evil in ways truly staggering and yet still under appreciated by the general run of Mankind. There is much on our plates.
Following those hearings, I think it's now clear: after decades of liberal rule and the left/liberal "long march through the institutions" the US has become a Fascist state. The liberals/leftists have captured every agency of the government, as well as every meaning-making institution in our country, and large parts of the private sector. We now have private entities openly doing the government's (sometimes illegal) bidding for a favored seat at the table with those who write the laws, interpret the laws, enforce the laws, and have a monopoly on the legal use of violence. This is Fascism.
While the MSM refers to Fascism as "right-wing," as Thomas Sowell has written, it is far more accurate to say it is of the Left, serving the goals of the Left. It was created by a Socialist after all. It's defined not by "nationalism" or even authoritarianism, but by what the media and our schools would generously call "public-private partnerships." That term itself, it seems, is propaganda. Not surprising, since at the time Fascism was created, it was roundly applauded by Western media and intellectuals as the perfect "third way" between capitalism and socialism. The media and intellectuals have always loved their secular authoritarianism, no matter the name it goes by.
The Establishment elites forgot a few important items, however: we have strong States rights in the US; we still have the 2A; and we (sort of) still have the 1A, as well as a communication platform that really didn't exist until very late in the 20th century; and the judicial branch has not been completely captured.
I've debated this for years in my mind. Fascist? Communist? And I have settled on it is all a Hybrid Marxist Model. To characterize it all by singularity is a mistake. In reality it is all Marxism, and a blend of all of these labels (Socialist, Communist and Fascist) and very hard to tell where one label begins and another leaves off. I further believe that the end goal can be accurately be described as being a Communist Totalitarian Techno-State (a Techno-Tyranny for short). 1984 on steroids.
The Public/Private Partnership is certainly Fascism. But during the Covid Health Terror operation? During all the coercion and mandating, the Public/Private Partnership really began to take on the look and color of Total Communist Control. Again, where does one thing begin and the other leave off? To THEM, however, it does not matter. It is the END which counts. The Means are just the Means as qua instrumentality.
The constitutions have not been abrogated. Most of them are not the original constitutions, and there is a whole history there. But none the less, the constitutions existing have not been abrogated even though they are largely ignored. Still, we should continually refer back to them in our 'conversations' with Officialdom. And folks, it's still God-given Rights of the constitutions over Civil Right state grants under whatever illegitimate administration we are now operating under.
I like to simply as much as possible, There are statists - ever more central control, and anarchists - zero government, and everything in between.
This post somewhat covers my attempt to find the right balance, and why every culture has failed.
https://anderdaa7.substack.com/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt
I read this linked to article ... and gave up mid-way. The analysis does not seem to help me in the understanding of realpolitik as practiced in the complexity of the real world. But thanks anyway.
Hi Dave, thank you for your reply and comment. You stated.. .
".. and gave up mid-way. The analysis does not seem to help me in the understanding of realpolitik as practiced..."
Well I do understand and agree, as the first half is identifying the universal essence of the problem irrespective of any political solutions. There is a reason 100 percent of every culture, every society has failed, and it is not political.
From the post...
" So in this sense we see that both the desire to have power, and the desire to achieve personal gain are not inherently evil. It is the desire to exercise tyrannical power over others in connection with the desire for personal gain (even if one portends it is only for the protection of the less fortunate) that may be fundamentally immoral or dishonest, and which is often evil and destructive to a society. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." (Plato)"
"Almost always the manifestation of seeking power in an immoral way involves exercising a form of tyranny, however brutal or petty it may be, over someone else or some other group. Most all actions declared as illegal crimes which are common to societies, are a reflection of this fundamental abuse of power, which can manifest in either a personal or group expression." (The dark side of human nature, manifest in every culture)
Dispersed in the middle somewhere is a discussion on what system best limits this universal failure. (A return to our US foundational principles)
The second part of the post identifies some fundamental solutions that, regardless of the "social system" chosen, must happen to enable any culture to thrive.
And I agree, it is NOT an attempt to outline the many practical real-politic solutions, such as the legal system our host talks about, or election reform, or de-centralization, or state rights, or same day in person voting, etc... Instead it is an address articulating the cultural qualities and developed wisdom which are necessary if one hopes that any success derived from those real-politic enacted ideas, is to endure and thrive.
And, if you had read, you may also find that "philosophy" impractical, although I address that in the post here...
"This philosophy of happiness, is not impractical imagination. Everybody is a philosopher in that one’s ethos, emotions and desires, are inevitably and always one’s philosophy lived. What works can rightly be called wisdom. Giving in to undisciplined unwise desires, or “getting what you want”, has ruined countless lives and cultures." (“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” ~~George Washington) "
All the Best...
As the Ds become increasingly communistic and some Rs are holding onto the dream of our founding fathers these hearings are going to be hyper polarized as are many sectors of general American public life. There isn't a coexist sticker on peoples’ cars anymore. Either we peacefully divorce or it gets very ugly in next 2-6 years.
I think it will probably get quite ugly if they continue on with the game plan...15 minute cities, taking our cars, coming for the guns, coming after the kids, etc. All of these things are going to provoke major conflict. This is not going to be a fun time in history.
It is up to us to thwart those plans at the ground level, up to the state and national representative levels.
Wringing hands does no good.
Pray and ask “what do You want me to do?” for direction to make the changes needed to re create elections having integrity.
Jen - I'm not so sure anymore that anything will provoke major conflict. I would've predicted that forced/mandated vaccination of an experimental drug would have been the one thing that people would have stood up against and provoked major conflict. After that, taking our cars seems almost petty.
You would think, right? Well we did have some anti vax moms from the left join our cause, but by and large they did throw bodily autonomy right out the window. That said, I will be stunned if they agree to start walking everywhere. Most of the liberal moms around here won’t even walk to their mailbox.
And they had better not even CONSIDER outlawing gas stoves ☠️ War!! But if we don’t stop them, it will be just like incandescent lightbulbs. How I loathe those LED lights 🤬
LEDs are horribly unhealthy, too. Not surprising, tho.
I know! And no one seems to care about that! Ugly and unhealthy.
I agree about the gas stoves. We recently bought a house that has an electric cooktop and after cooking on gas for 20 years, I would like to take a sledgehammer to it. Whoever invented the electric cooktop should be tortured and then burned at the stake. My gas cooktop is on order and can't get here fast enough. I have a hard time believing they will get far with outlawing them. Hopefully every chef in America will be chaining themselves to their gas stove as the fascists try to drag them out of their restaurants and homes. Then again, we've seen in the last three years how easily people cave.
Ugh. I can’t imagine going to electric after 20 years of gas! Thing is, it’s VENTILATION that’s key, but they don’t say that 😒 They’re just looking for excuses for asthma other than the insane shot schedule for little babies/kids. And I’m with you. The lunatics say “here’s what we’re going to do,” and normal people say “oh, they can’t/won’t POSSIBLY do THAT. Then they do it, and then we say, “I can’t believe they did that!” Again and again. We have become subjects, not citizens 🤬
I fear you are right. Yesterday I was talking to a friend and we both wondered if this country would make it through a 2024 election.
The invisible bumper sticker is your vote.
Make sure it does not get ripped off again.
Well said Cap !
I wonder this myself constantly. How can they not see that they are the fascists? Just wearing a different hat now?
To many of these folks, fascism, like socialism, has failed in the past only because "the wrong people" ran the governments. "This time" our home-grown geniuses will do it up proper!
“ “This time" our home-grown geniuses will do it up proper!”
That was probably the SAME talking points that all the past “failed” socialists, fascists, and communists spewed during their era as well. I never thought I’d see this in America, yet here it is. And the blind just nod their heads and cheer them on.
Power corrupts the mind
CaplT, you say, "Power corrupts the mind" I thought the same, then did a deep dive into the question, "Does Power Corrupt" To my surprise I came up with a different perspective; from the "always free, not a news feed, never clutter your in-box", substack
https://anderdaa7.substack.com/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt
Because they DO know. They're all being mightily pressured thru blackmail, pay offs, etc.
I agree. Our oppressors know exactly what they are doing. Usually evil people operate in the darkness but this crises is forcing them to show their true colors.
Our First Amendment rights are fundamental . Without free speech , we have no rights.
Our first president, George Washington, warned that if Americans are not free to offer their thoughts on matters “which may involve the most serious and alarming of consequences … then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
But, as before, will ANYTHING come from these hearings?? Just revealing more and more corruption with no action against the perpetrators just leads to more dissatisfaction from the public. Congress doesn't have the power to do anything but make recommendations to the DoJ. And with a captured DoJ...🤷♀️
How many of them believe they're doing a good thing? They're not targeting "good speech", they're protecting Americans and saving lives by censoring hate and misinformation... only they're the ones defining what "hate" and "misinformation" mean. Even before 2020 they got this attitude that some legal speech is "dangerous", people should be punished for saying anything interpreted as "racismsexism" and Twitter already censored accounts for saying that man can't be a woman. Government censorship in co-operation with Twitter in the past 2 years is only a natural extension of this extremely patronizing attitude. But the question is also how many of their constituents want government "parental controls" in place.
The only people supporting this are the ones not mature enough to read a history book and understand that just because you don't like someone saying something that "offends" you, it's critically important that the right to do so be maintained, else it leads to tyranny and then all of our lives are in danger. It always surprises me though when they want people shut down because it's like "really? You don't have enough humility to foresee a situation where you might ever disagree with your government overlords and like to retain the right to speak out against it?"
David I couldn’t agree more! It is appalling. I attribute it to the constant victim mentality that is pushed by the left. I believe first becoming popular among blacks regarding discrimination and slavery…. applying it to every circumstance they live in. Then it spread to other groups. *Disclaimer, this is not all blacks.
welcome aboard
Very well written. You nailed it.
Well-said!
Me too, years ago.